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MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Miss Catherine Dillon returned
'home Tuesday evening from Omaha.
J. B. Mellor went to Omaha Wed
nesday to visit the auto show.
John Berrigan, of Ewing, came up
from Omaha, Tuesday evening.'
Mrs. Miles Finley, of Norfolk, spent
several days last week visiting with
O’Neill friends.
The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian
church is meeting at the home of Mrs.
J. M. Hunter this afternoon.
Wm. Welsh went to Omaha last
Friday to resume his work in the
freight house at the Northwestern
depots after a two months vacation.
S. J. Weekes as administrator for
the estate of the late Moses P. Kin
kaid, has recently paid into the county
court an inheritance tax amounting to
$1,337.79.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Clauson enter
tained Rev. and Mrs. George Long
staff and Miss Elsie and Lieutenant
J. B. Longsbaff at a seven o’clock
dinner at their home last Friday even
ing.
The Omaha World-Herald of Tues
day contained the following item:
Mrs. B. J. Grady, of O’Neill, Nebraska,
is visiting her sister, Miss Margaret
Donohoe. A number of events are be
ing given in her honor.
Harry LePage and family have
moved to Lincoln where Mr. LePage
will have a fireman job on a {passenger
run from Lincoln to Omaha. Mr. Le
Page had been firing on the freight
between O’Neill and Osmond.
Melvin Backes, who was sent to the
penitentiary some time in 1922 from
this county, has been granted a parole.
Backes was convicted of child steal
ing when he eloped with the pretty
young sister of his wife. His home
was in the northern part of Holt
county.
Grand Officer Lock, of the Encamp
ment, was in O’Neill, Wednesday
evening meeting with the local I. O.
O. F. lodge. Mr. Lock made a talk on
Encampment line. The members of
the local Camp decided t» take on new
life and will begin putting on work
again in the near future. A large
class have signified their willingness
to join and arrangements are being
made to continue the work.
•
Your eyes will not trouble you
after you see Perrigo Optical Co, at
Golden Hotel, O’Neill, Monday, March
3rd.
Closing Out Sale
Have leased my store building, will
close out my stock of goods at re
duced prices.
Ed. Eager
FROM MRS. GOODENBERGER.
Shanghai, China, October 7, 1923.
My dear Father and Mother:—
It's only a week since I wrote, but
so much has happened in that time
that it seems like a month. Monday
I nursed a cold, that seems the thing
to do when you first arrive,but the
rest (put in the day very profitably
visiting St. Lukes hospital and the
Baptist college. This college is on a
lots bigger plan than Hastings and of
course it is much better equipped in
buildings etc. From all that they
have told me it’s even superior to the
Nebraska University.
Early Wednesday morning Dr.
Lowrie sent word that we were to pre
pare to take our trip to Soo Chow and
Nanking that day. This was about
7:30 a. m. and we were to pack all our
baggage, eat breakfast and be at the
missionary home by 9:10, which we
did, (so now we are living in the mis
sionary home) we bought a second
class ticket and went to SooChow the
first day. We traveled through rice
fields most of the way. The fields
were being flooded for the new crop.
And such primitive methods of irriga
tion as they have the waterways or
canals are very numerous and some
of them ar dedp enough for house
boats and sail-boats to travel up and
down. I may have told you in the
previous letter about the tiny fields.
They are very small, not any larger
than Mrs. Linehart’s garden, around
each field is a curling of dirt, of course
when the fields are flooded this curl
ing serves as a wall to keep the wat
er in and also as a path or runway
between places. There is no ground
wasted (unless it contains a grave
which I will describe later), now the
water has to be lifted from the canal
into these fields, this is done by water
buffalo or man power. They have a
trough through which a chain of wood
en paddles are run, and if done by
buffalo it is attached to a cog-wheel
around which the buffalo walks at a
very slow gait. If by man power
from three to five men or boys carry
it up by a sort of tread mill. At one
place where the ditch was of a higher
level than the pond, men wer stand
ing diplping the water from the pond
to the ditch by wooden pails. Through
out all of China one is impressed by
the primitive means by which they
do things. In excavating, the dirt is
dug and carried out by men a little
bit at a time. Time means nothing
here, and we are slowly learning not
to be in a hurry.
And now about the graves. When a
person dies his family may keep the
body in a coffin in the house or near
it for a year or more, but eventually
it finds its place in the field. Now
these coffins are not buried but are
covered with rice straw to shed the
rairT and the ground where they stand
is holy ground. That coffin must nev
er be moved. The ground is plowed
around it until after a decade or more
the coffin is covered. A mound is now
formed in the rice field which signifies
that one has an ancestor buried there.
Sometimes a stone is put in the ground
at the base of the mound, grass and
even trees start there unmolested. If
the-mound is large enough a goat is
allowed to (picket there and so keep it
trim and clean. If a mans widow has
remained faithful and doesnotremarry
when she dies a stone arch is erected
for her faithfulness by loving friends.
The arches we saw were all in decay
so that custom must have passed out
We were in SooChow just one day
from noon to noon but in that time w
saw many things. The missonariei
met us and entertained us and escor
ted us over the city. It is a iplace of
125,000 so it is quite a city. The
Presbyterians there have a good boys
school from the primary through col
lege, but they have the girls only in
the lower classes. The boys were
learning to play volley ball, so you
know atlethics are very new in China.
The men think it below their dignity
to be seen running etc. But that is
slowly being worn down. Well these
Our Next Big Combination Sale
Saturday, March 8th
If you have anything to sell oome in
and list It.
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boys were kicking the ball and running
after it with their long coats on, it
did look funny, some of them were
ungenteel enough to take their coats
off when they played. In this com
pound they are just finishing two
missionary homes, they are large, airy
and comfortable, there are many other
homes there but these were the latest
things. We visited a temple that
contained 500 different gods and oh!
if you could have seen the expressions
on those gods faces. To be sure there
is a god for every ailment and every;
wish, there is a hole in the back of
each god where a live spirit is put in,
this may b a spider, bird, snake or any
animal. Then we saw the priests at
worship, at least they were singing.
We visited a garden that belonged to
a late R. R. magnate, it was laid out
in a maze design and was of the sunk
en type. There were tearooms and
arbors scattered all over. It was too |
late to see many flowers but we were
told that in the spring'and summer it
is beautiful.
In the afternoon we went to the M.
E. compound on the other side of the
city and visited a big new hospital
they have just completed. Thy have
a wonderful University there too for
both boys and girls. At tea time we
dropped into the home where some of
the language students stay (mission
aries learning the language) and
there found a young woman we had
met at the conferance and another who
was on our ship. They were so pleas
ed to see us and said it was like see
ing folks from home. At night we
visited their community center and
saw what they were doing in a social
way. The next morning we visited
the schools, hospital and chapel on
the Presbyterian compound, for the
twenty-four hours we were there we
saw a great deal.
And then we went on to Nanking,
what used to be the southern catpitol.
Peking was the northern one. The
missionaries here being on the main
line out from Shanghai and Pekin
and just for the fact that they are
working in a historical place, they are
worn to death by sight-seers and so
they didn’t have much time for us.
We were cared for by Miss Walmsley
and Miss Wright while Curtis and
Mabel went to the Reulin’s. We
visited Nanking language school and
met more of our aquaintances from
the conference, then we rode out to
Ginling college for girls, t wish you
could see that, it is a union intitution
but it is doing a great work, just this
year they have erected a new plant
of six buildings, dormatories, chapel,
teacher’s hall and administration build
ings, it is a sister school to Smith
college in the United States and has
been maintained in a large measure
by gifts from that school.
On Friday afternoon we girls were
taken to a tea given in honor of Mrs.
Coulter and when we arrived I found
to my pleasure and surprise that she
was my Mrs. Coulter from Chicago,
the lady with whom I was to do my
corresponding for the Chicago pres
byterial. She was as pleased to see
me as I her. Her husband is travel
ing through China giving lectures
under the auspices of the Chicago
University, as we understand it, and
she and her daughter are traveling
with him. Then when we met the Ru
iand’s found he was a McCormick
man and knew many men Ernest
knew, he had also worked on the invi
tation committee for two years with
Dal. Can you you imagine such a small
world ?
And so we arrived in Shanghai
fler dark last night and were met
with the news that Mr. Beebe had
arrived just that day. Really our joy
was hardly controlled we didn't get
to see him until this morning and then
for just a brief time but we will soon
have some news for you. We are to
leave here on Friday that is almost
certain. vMr. Beebe thinks that event
ually we will have to learn tffe two
languages but the council havn’t given
their word on that. He also says it
will be better in his estimation to buy
our supplies in French Indo-China
and save the customs and thereby
make friends with the French as all
our goods from America come through
their territorv.
They are very crewded for mission
ary homes in Mosha. They have some
native mud houses where one family
lives and another lives upstairs over
the chapel. These two families already
have extra missionaries living with
them so when five of us get in the
conditions will be crowded indeed.
But new houses are to be built as soon
as we can do it.
Ernest just brings the news that
we will eventually be sent .to Chien
grung the farthest away station.
But we can’t go without the language
so that will mean quite a while in
Mosha.
Wednesday is a holiday here, that
being republic day. There are so many
holidays, Budda’s birthday etc., that I
can’t keep track of them.
Today we went to South Gate chap
el and attended a Chinese service.
But it really wasn’t Chinese, altho it
was conducted in the Chinese language.
The pastor wore a robe and the choir
wore white surplices and sang an an
them in English. The choir leader
stood out in front and then they pass
ed the collection plate, so they have
been influenced by American customs.
We will be busy the rest of the week
visiting places of interest in Shang
hai. They have an American school
here for missionary children that we
want to visit. They say that children
who graduate from this school are
well equipped for any college in
America.
Now that there is so much to write
about, we don’t have time to write
many letters. And anyway we are
caught, up on the correspondence until
we get to Kowloon or Yunnanfu. I
was the only one of the qourett to get
a letter here.
Everybody is well and we play
tennis when we can to get the requir
ed amount of exercise.
MRS. E. C. GOODENBERGER.
I HAVE SOME PRIVATE MONEY
to loan on farms and ranches, so if
the old mortgage on your farm comes
due on March 1st, it might be well to
come in now and make a new loan and
pay the old one off.—R. H. Parker,
O'Neill, Nebraska. 37-tf
MORE LOCAfe MATTERS.
Chauncey Keyes was up from In
man today looking after business
matters at the court house.
The O’Neill Legion basket ball team
defeated the Stuart “bearcats” 38 to
14 at the high schooi gym, Monday
evening.
Thomas Quinn returned from
Mapleton, Iowa, Tuesday evening. He
reports that his son, James, is much
improved from a recent illness.
LOST — A POCKETBOOK CON
taining a $10 bill. Finder leave at
this office and receive a reward. 38-tf
LOST—ROSARY—A SILVER CHAIN
with lavender beads. Leave at this
office. 38-1
WANTED TO RENT—A SIX OR
7-room house with barn. Inquire
at this office. 38-1
CHAMBERS ITEMS.
Lee Sammons, of Amelia, is On the
sick list.
Wilson Smith transacted business
in Bartlett Monday.
J. H. Hertle, of Martha, is suffer
ing with an attack of the “flu.”
May Holcomb is ill at her home,
north of Chambers, with an attack of
tonsilitis.
Chas Dailey, who has been visit
ing his parents the past two weeks,
I returned to his home near Douglas,
Wyoming^ Friday.
F. A. Bower, of Chambers, had the
misfortune to fall on the slippery
pavement Saturday. He sustained an
ugly cut on his head.
O. C. Sammons, of Amelia, aecom
painied by his daughter, Miss Eiea
nore, left for Omaha, Wednesday, to
visit with his son, Neal, of Chicago,
who is in Omaha on business this
week.
The Chambers basket ball teams,
both boys and girls, were the winners
in a game played with O’Neill on the
Chambers^ficor Wednesday, February
l?th. The scores were, boys game,
10 to 27 and the girls game, 11 to 27.
The fire aarm was sounded Monday
evening. It proved to be the Ford
coupe, belonging to Will Alderson,
which was on fire in front of the Mc
E'vain garage. Prompt work with
a fire extinguisher saved the car but
the upholstery was damaged.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A, Ballagh, Jr., of
Ballagh, are the happy parents of an
8 pound baby girl, born February 17.
Rev. Hamlyn received word Mon
day that his brother-in-law, B. L.
Knowles, had passed away in New
York, Thursday, February 14th. Mrs.
Knowles visited in Chambers a few
weeks ago and made many friends
during her stay here.
Chas. Allen was the victim of
accident that happened about six
o clock Tuesday mdrning. He was
hauling baled hay to O’Neill, and the
rough roads caused some of the bales
to Slip and Mr. Allen was thrown to
J.e giound where he was picked up
;n an unconscious' condition by his
■: c-ther-in-law Mr. Disney. How
ever, he soon regained consciousness
and came to Chambers for medical at
tention. He was badly bruised about
the body and face but fortunately no
bones were broken.
Card of Thanks.
\V e wish to thank the many friends
and neighbors who so kindly helped
and sympathized with us during our
recent bereavement in the sickness,
death and burial of our beloved hus
band and father.
Mrs. Otto Hoehne, and Family.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our sincere
thanks to the many kind friends and
neighbors for their help and sympa
thy during the sickness and death of
our beloved mother and sister.
We will ever remember them and
our wish is that when trouble is
yours that you wilL be surrounded
with friends as kind.
John P. Jennings.
Richard Jennings.
George Jennings.
Annie Kelly.
Chicago & North Western System
C. & N. W. Ry C. St. P., & a. Ry.
The Transportation Act Does Not Guarantee the Railro&ds Any Returns
TP he Interstate Commerce Commis- 'T'he Interstate Commrece Commis
■ sion in 1921 (64 I. C. C. Rep., 95) ■ sion shows that the net return of
‘ and again in 1922 (6S I. C. C. Rep., 681) Class 1 railroads on the value of their
said: property used in transportation ser
vice was as follows:
“Determination of the percentage For the 12 months ended
implies or carries with it no guar- * , ~
anty. Read in connection with the August 31, 1921 - 2.88%
provision for recapture of one-half of August 31, 1922 „ 4 19%
the excess above six per cent it is, A ° , 0., ir*oo ...r
instead, a limitation.” August 31, 1923 . 4.90%
''phe Commission has decided that a
P resident Collidge, in his message * fair return is 5%%.
■ to Congress on December 6th, said: ''phe difference between the forego
■ ing returns and a fair return is
.hasA been erroneously assumed the loss of the railroads,
that the Act undertakes to guarantee
railway earnings.” Tmere is no guaranty.
'"phe railroads admit that failure to
* earn a fair return is their loss and
that the United States is in no sense
liable to reimburse them therefor.
PUBLIC SALE!
As we are going to quit farming we will sell at the Nick Hirsch place,
occupied by us, 3 miles west and 8 miles north of the O’Neill cemetery,
1 mile south of the Mennonite church, beginning at one o’clock, on
Thursday, February 28th
7 Head o! Horses
1 gray team, weight 2500, coming 11 and 12 years old; 1 bay team, weight
2700, coming 7 and 8 years old; 1 bay mare, weight 1350, coming 7 years old;
1 black gelding, weight 1350, coming 9 years old; 1 saddle horse, smooth
mouth.
100 Head of Hogs
100 head of Duroc hogs. These are fairly good shoats ranging from 75 to
150 pounds.
Farm Machinery, Etc.
1 MScCormick, 8-foot binder; 1 McCormick 6-foot mower; 1 peering 6-foot
mower; 1 McCormick 12-foot rake; 1 Moline disc; 2 Moline listers; 1 Rock
Island two-row eli; 1 Canton two-rojv eli; 2 riding cultivators; f 4-section
harrow; 1 hay stacker; 1 nearly new hay sweep; 1 hay rack and trucks; 2
good 3-inch wagons; 1 endgate seeder; 4 sets of work harness; 1 good saddle;
1 4-bottom breaking plow with engine attachment; 2 scoop boards; some good
hog troughs; hug schute; wire cribbing, heating stove, cook stove,
table.
About 600 bushels of good Kherson oats; About 30 tons of prarie hay; About
3 bushels of old seed corn.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON. - BRING YOUR TIN CUPS.
TERMS OF SALE—Nine months time on sums over $10,00 with approved
security and 10 per cent interest. $10 and under cash. No property to be
removed until settled for.
Jack & Ed Ernst, Owners
COL. JAMES MOORE, Auctioneer. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Clerk.
