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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1924)
VOLL'MK XLIV. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1924. ~ NO. 33. GRADY’S GROCERY Phones--68~126 O’Neill, Nebraska LOCAL MATTERS. J. K. Aaberg drove over to Creigh ton Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Strube were in Norfolk Saturday. Pat Welsh went to Casper, Wyom ing, Tuesday morning. Hugh Boyle was up from Norfolk Monday looking after business mat ters. The two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gunn has been quite ill dur ing the past ten days. Leonard Soukup has puchased the east pool hall of Glen Anderson and took possession last Monday. The two and one-half year old child of Dr. and Mrs. Wilkinson has been on the sick list during the past week. Mrs. Ed Lpy and sqn, 9f BruJgeMrt, Nebraska, arb visiting at the N. F. Ldy home. They * arrived here last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. G, W. Myers went to Omaha Sunday where on Monday Mrit Myers submitted to an operation at gt. Joseph’s hospital, Mrs. Paul L. Henry and daughter, Miss Patritia Jane, came up from Geneva, Nebraska, last Saturday even* Ing for a visit with her husband, Misses Dorothy and Frances David* son were the hostess of a skating party Monday evening. Just a few were present but all had a good time. Atkinson Graphic:?. Mrs. Ada Saunders was called to Litchfield, Illinois, Friday of last week by the '"illness of a brother-in-law, who later suocumbed to the malady. John Crandall, who resides in the northern part of Holt county, expects to leave today for Los Angeles, Cali fornia, and points in Canada. He will be absent about two months. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Sullivan were visiting friends in Norfolk last week S. F. McNichols was in Omaha sev eral days last week attending a state meeting of an insurance company which he represents. The price of gasoline was advanced two cents per gallon in O’Neill last Saturday. The tank wagon price is 16c and the price at the filling sta tions is 18c. The price of gasoline in O’Neill is two cents per gallon lower than at many of the towns of the state. Hugh O’Neill of Ancar was in ONeill several days last week. Hugh says that the announcement that he has moved to Chadron is a gross error and that he is still a resident of this county. However, Mrs. O’Neill and daughter have teirtporarily moved to Chadron. The county board have been in ses sion the past ten days, tyosi qf the time has been spent settling with the different eounty officials. A hearing was held Monday upon a proposed road from Emmet to Amelia. A re monstrance asking for a change was filed against the proposed road and after the board had heard the argument they continued the hearing to a latter date in order that they might view the road, Inman Leader; The infant baby girl of Mr. end Mrs, Sherman Grazier born Wednesday morning died Thurs day morning at 3 o’clock. The funeral will probably be held Friday, Mrs. Grazier has been here for the past couple of months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Coventry. Mr. Grazier who is working for the railroad com pany at Tipton, Mo., is expected here tonight (Thursday) and the funeral arrangements will then be made. The syfflbathy of the community goes out to the bereaved family in the loss of their first baby. To The Depositor NATIONAL BANKS FAIL. When they do depositors lose heavily. Why? Because deposits in Natipnal Banks are not guaranteed. STATE RANKS FAIL. When they do depositors are paid in full. Why? Because deposits in State Ranks are protected by the Depositors Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. THE NEBRASKA STATE BANK OF O’NEILL is the only Bank in O’Neill which offers you this pro tection. You will protect yourself and please us by depositing your money with us. 5 per cent paid on time deposits. -, v. I ’ - 1 1 ' .. Nebraska State Bank of O’Neill, Nebraska M. V. Lewis, accompanied by George Davis, was in O’Neill Tuesday put ting up bills for his sale which will be held on January 22nd, at his place, four miles east and three miles south of O’Neill. Mr. Lewis has decided to quit farming. An advertisement of the sale appears in another column. In another part of The Frontier will be found the report of the “big bliz zard” of January 12, 1888, just as it appeared in th issue of January 19, 1888. Many of these who were in that terrible biizzard are still living in this locality and will recall the suffering and sorrow that was caused by the storm. The Powell’s Pearless Players were broadcasting through the Hast ings Broadcasting station last Monday evening from 9:30 to 11:60. Verne Powell,formerly of this city, is man ager of the orchestra. A number of his Holt county friends enjoyed “listening in” on their excellent program. County Attorney Julius D. Cronin returned Wednesday morning from a business trip to Washington and other points east. While in Washington Mr. Cronin was admitted to pratice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, his admission |being upon motion of Congressman Robert Simmons. Mrs. J. M. Sturdevant and children, of Spencer, spent the holidays at Hie home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zimmerman. The children have all returned to their school, Master Jack went to White River, South Dakota, where his father is con-! ducting a drug store, and Miss Erma and Master Oliver went tQ Lincoln. Ed Larson, of Meek, returned from Omaha a few days ago where he had been on business. The Larson Broth ers, Edward, Andrew and Charles, have rented their farm at Meek to Axel Borg and expect to move to their 120 acre farm two miles west of Mead, Nebraska, which they purchased sev eral months ago. They expect to leave about March first. The employes of the Bell Telephone Company at Omaha furnished the radio program at WOAW, the Wood man of the World broadcasting Sta tion at Omaha, Nebraska, last Friday evening. Miss Esther Peters, sister of L. C. Peters of this city, whistled two selections which came through clear and distinct according to several who were listening. Some of the receiving sets in O’Neill, however, were unable 'o pick up WOAW clearly on account of a station whistle which greatly in terfered with the reception of the pro tram. Miss Peters is supervisor of ecreation at the headquarters bulld og. The whistling numbers rendered by Miss Peters were an experiment in broadcasting. At a recent meeting of the school board it was decided to add a com mercial course to the present course of study in the public school. The course will consist of bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting, commercial arithme tic and commercial English. John H. Porter has been employed to teach the subjects and will be on hand at the be ginning of the next semester. The addition of the course will be of wonderful advantage to those who wish to take a business course and who are unable to go away to school to get it. It has become almost a necessity to teach good business methods in the town schools. The school board should be commended for their action in this matter. The new marriage law which went into effect in Nebraska on the second day of last August does not seem to have performed its mission. The in tent of the law is not being satisfied. The law as passed seems to be good and sound and the requirement of a physical test of each applicant for a marriage license is, perhaps, a good thing. But does the law oper ate to any advantage in O’Neill or in any other town in the state of Ne braska ? The law- only drives people to the adjoining state to procure their marriage license and get mar ried. Those who go to other states to marry do not dq so tq dodge the phy sical examination required in the Ne braska law, but because they epn en joy a little trip and get married with out the tedious wait of ten days. The law should be abolished as a state law and the congress of the United States should pass a law that could be en. forced in every state in the union. During 1923 ninety-seven marriage licenses were granted to applicants in Holt eeunty. Eighty-one of these li censes were granted before August first and only sixteen have been issu ed since that time. This conditon ex ists all over the state and is quite a loss in dollars and centq, tp e$ch county. LIST 6F JURORS. Jurors drawn January 16th., 1924, for the February 18th., 1924 term of the District court of Holt county, Ne braska, Max Golden, Ewing. M. F. Torojaek, Ewing. B. B. Thomas, Dorsey. Frank Dyson, Atkinson. Frank Cronk, Page. J. H. McKim, Opportunity. Rafe Shaw, Tonawanda. L. A. Whiting, Martha. Martin Conway, O’Nei’l, O. W. Baker, Amelia. H. E. Hershberge, Atkinson. Andrew Schmidt, O’Neill. Elmer McClurg, Dustin. Arthur Wertz, Star. Frank Anderson, Ewing. Wm. Crippen, Inman. Louis W. Barthel, Josie. Alva Good, Ewing. J. F. Johnson, Ewing. M. B. Miller, Meek. Charlie Grimes, Chambers. Chas Dobney, Stnart. George Shoemaker, O’Neill. Henry Kruger, Stuart. Jus Foi All Steaks - 20c Pork Chops; - - 20c Beet Roast - 13c Pork Roast - • - 13c WALL LAKE, IOWA MAN WANTS THE TRUTH OF THE STORY FROM O’NEILL Rev, J, A. Hutchins, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city, has been asked by a man ip Wall Lake, Iowa, to pass upon the truth fullness of an article appearing in the Monday issue of the Omaha Bee. Following is the letter from the Iowa gentleman: Well Lake, Iowa, January 14, 1924. “Dear Sir; We would like to knot? if the statement taken from the Omaha Bee is true or not, and would like to have a correct answer so am writing you. Yours resp,. KEITH WAY, Wall Lake, Iowa. Inclosed hnd stamp. Please return clipping. t r . Following is the clipping to which Mr. Way refers: Smart Carp in Holt County Migrating Fom Frozen Lukes Into Deeper Water, Moisture to Lubricate Gills Taken From Snow Through Which Thej Must Flounder in Their Ccld Winter Journey. O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 13.—Driven to seek deeper waters, that they may sur vive the winter, carp from Goose and Chain lakes, south of Chambers in Holt county, are migrating up the deep snow-dried valleys to the wastward, toward Swan and Whipple’s lakes, which are Of sufficient depth that they never freeze over entirely. The ex treme cold weather of the last several weeks has frozen many of the sha^ lower lakes entirely over and some of them into solid bodies of ice. Goose and Chain lakes are among the latter, The carp evidently possessed of some unknown sense which enables them to fortell the weather, began their mi gration several days before the last extremely cold period apd natives esti mate that several weeks will be re quired fqr the/p to make the journey of twenty miles or more to their desti nations, The carp, according to local authori ties, is the intellectual of the > fish family, ani is possessed of a much higher mentality that the game fishes such as th-j ba.<s, pickerel aV* trout, his intellectuality io.r\g demonstrated by the fact that he is not to be lured by artificial oaJts. Neither is he at tracted by bait in whidh tl.e hook is the least oxpossf or me line at all visible as connected thereto. He feeds in shallow waters, most frequently with his back and gills partially posed to the air and can live indefi nitely with barely sufficient moisture to kep his gills lubricated/ This he is, able to secure from tfie snow through which he flounders in his winter mi gration. f he migration while uncom mon, is not unusual in severe winters, according to corn fishermen, and al most always indicates a prolonged spell of very cold weather. Swan lake toward which the migrat ing fish are progressing a few miles each day, formerly was one of the extremely thickly Ipopulated carp lakes of the state. Several years ago the fish were seined from it under the supervision of the stgto fifth and gome department, and it Was then restocked with bass gpd other game fish. Unless the migration ox the carp can be di verted to some other body of water it is feared that the work of establishing the game fish in Swan lake will come to naught, O’NEILL AMERICAN LEGION TO MEET STUART HERE -•— Saturday night will be the big night at the high school gymnasium when the local American Legion team will meet the Stuart “Bearcats” at basket ball. The local fellows would ap-» predate it if everyone would eeme out and see the gam®. They promise that they will ©ptertaln you with a good game, MARSHAL CRONIN TALKS WITH ‘CAL’ (Omaha Daily News). United States Marshal Dennis Cro nin is back form an official trip to Washington after an interview with President Calvin Coolidge. “The President is greately interest ed in agricultural conditions out here,” Cronin said, “and he appeared well posted on the situation. Coolidge asked many questions and said he felt that improvement in farmers' affairs would eontnuc.” Marshal Cronin said he found Pres ident Coolidge quite cordial and that he had a way of making his visitors feel at home. His son, Julius Cronin, county attorney of Holt county, and Congressman Robert Simmons, rep resenting the Sixth Nebraska dis trict, were with the marshal during the interview. JUDGE W. V. ALUEN DIES IN CALIFORNIA i... William V. Allen of Madison, Ne braska, died at Los Angeles, Cali fornia, last Saturday following an operation on his throat for cancer. He was born in Midway, Ohio, Jan uary 28, 1847. He came to Madison, Nebraska, in 1884, where he since re sided. He was admitted to the prac tice of law in 1869, at West Union, Iowa. He was appointed judge of his dis trict, to fill a vacancy, by Governor Foynter,.a number of years ago, which position he has since held. Judge Allen was elected United States senator during the Populistic days in the 90’s and held that posi tion until 1899. The speech of Senator Allen during a filibuster is said to still stand as the record as a matter of time. Judge Allen has occupied the bench in O’Neill on several occasions and is quite well known throughout the :ounty, • Funeral services will be held Friday at Madison, Nebraska. STUART PEOPLE HATE BEEN SEEING THINGS (Stuart Advocate.) Tuesday morning a scene unpar alleled in the annals of Stuart was viewed by many of our townmen. A magnificent mirage made plainly visi ble the Rocky Mountains hundreds of miles away. They appeared 00 natural that it seemed that one had hot go to the west edge of town to start climb ing. This was no cloud formation—no fake. It was a real mirage and the . actual image of the stately Rockies appeared in the sky. A train pulling '• into Newport was plainly visible. On the south Burwell could be seen in the sky. Such mirages are very rare and ac company peculiar atmospheric condi tions when the light, temperature and humidity must be in a certain proper balance. FILES $51,500.90 SUIT FOR PERSONAL INJURIES Walter Spangler, through his attor ney, has brought suit against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail road, for damages received to the amount of $50,000,00 for injuries re ceived and for $1,600.00 for loss of sal ary resulting from said injuries. In his petition Mr. Spangler states that on July 19, 1928, while inspecting an engine in the round house at Lincoln, Nebraska, in the discharge of his du ties, he stepped npcm a plank over a pit, which broke and caused him to fall into the pit where he received per sonal injury. The petition recites that th plaintiff was at that time drawing $250.00 per month. The case was filed January 3rd. Harry Dick, residing at the home of his brother one mile north of O'Neill, is confined to his home with frozen feet which he received daring the ex treme cold weather about two weeks ago. •:> Marie GaskiU, of this city, ami Harry M. Denny, of T3den, were mar ried in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a couple of weeks ago. Your Bright Future Doubts on many questions may be removed by your connection with this bank. You must give us a trial to appreciate the far reaching benefits of our helpful ser vice. This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders. Resources over $600,000.00 . O’Neill National Bank
