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VOLUMN XLIV. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1924. NO. 48.
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of officers or stockholders.
Resources over $600,000.00
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O’Neill National
Bank
LOCAL MATTERS.
Ralph Phillips was in from Star
Tuesday.
Mrs. S. J. Weekes returned home
Saturday evening from a visit wifi?
relatives in Omaha.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Horndorf, residing north of
Opportunity, last Sunday.
Homer Mullen came up from West
''Point the first of-the week for a short
visit with O’Neill friends.
Wm. Fallon came up from Omaha
Saturday evening for a visit with his
many old time O’Neill friends.
Miss Mary McLaughlin has pur
chased the Con Keys residence east of
the Galena Lumber Company.
The Woman’s Working Society of
the Presbyterian church will meet on
Thursday, May 8th, with Mrs. A. L,
Cowperthwaite.
Lawrence Chapman came up from
Omaha the first of the week for a
short visit with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Chapman.
R. M. Sauers enjoyed a visit from
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sauers,
of Hooper, who drove up Friday and
remained until Tuesday.
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John Walmer, formerly of this city,
and Heath Pugh, of Orchard, have
opened a modern bakery in the Wal
mer building in Orchard.
Mrs. Kathleen (Stannard) Jones left
for her home in Denver this morning.
She has been visiting O’Neill relatives
and friends for the past two weeks.
Mrs. T. D. Hanley suffered a stroke
of paralysis on the right side while
attending mass at St. Patrick’s church
last Sunday morning. Her condition
has somewhat improved during the
past few days.
Miss Edna Barnard and her mother
Mrs. Sam Barnard, are expected home
the latter part of this week from a
two weeks’ visit with relatives in
Casper, Wyoming.
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*> Mrs. C. A. Shay returned to her
home in Gregory, South Dakota, last
Sunday following a two weeks’ visit
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N.
Purcell and family.
The medals which will be awarded
in this district in the citizenship con
test which is being conducted by the
state bar association, are on display
in the show window of W. F. Willging.
. Atkinson .Graphic: Mrs. Cecelia
Kane, Mr. and Mrs. E. Tomsik and
Mrs. Clarence Parker went to Wisner
Monday to attend the funeral of a
relative, Mrs. John Sweeney, whose
death occurred the 20th inst.
Past Grand Master J. C. Harnish,
accompanied by C. P. Hancock, J. H.
Meredith, A. H. Corbett and W. C.
Templetion visited the Odd Fellows
lodge in Page Monday evening in the
interest of the Encampment.
The pupils of St. Mary’s Academy
will give an operetta at the K. C. opera
house, Friday evening, May 9th, be
ginning at 8:00 o’clock. A matinee
will be given in the afternoon at 2.30,
for an admission of 15c and 25c. Re
served seats for the evening perform
ance are on sale at Reardon’s drug
store.
The Oakdale Sentinal, which has
been owned and operated for the past
nineteen years by Charles H. Frady,
has been purchased by Leonard Ellis,
who has been publishing the Bruns
wick Independent for the past two
years. Mr. Ellis is a hustling young
man and has been giving the people
of Brunswick a neat and newsy paper.
It’s Odd,ButTrue
While merchants and professional
people like to receive cash in currency
and silver for their goods—While they
welcome the “change customer” who
comes in on payday and settles up with
dollars and treasury notes—
They rate highest the man who
pays by icheck.
Open a checking account here to
day.
The Nebraska State Bank
Mr. and Mi's. J. M. Hayden, of Red
Bird, were looking after business mat
ters in the county hub Tuesday.
Those who believe that if it rains
on Easter Sunday that it will rain for
seven Sundays, were somwhat disap
pointed last Sunday when the looked
for rain failed to appear. Some say
that it is an indication that this will
be a dry year.
Lincoln Star: Car is Stolen—W. T.
Spencer, 1208 North Thirty-seventh
street reported to police Saturday
night that his new Ford sedan, license
number 2-8547, had been stolen from
Twenty-seventh and Y streets, where
he had parked it.
Dan McCarthy, assisted by a cousin,
D. A. McCarthy and Bert Shoemaker
drove in a carload of hogs from his
ranch on Dry Creek last Tuesday,
which he shipped to the South Omaha
markets. The hogs seemed to stand
the drive nicely.
John Beller was brought to the home
of his mother, Mrs. Andrew Schmidt,
in this city last Tuesday morning.
John is slowly recovering from a re
cent operation on his •'side. Another
operation will be necessary soon for
his ultimate recovery.
Mrs. C. M. Daly went to Alliance
Monday evening where she will rep
resent the O’Neill Woman’s club at
the Sixth District convention of the
Federated Woman’s Club, of Nebras
ka, which are being held in that city
April 29, 30th and May 1st.
Mrs. Naylor, Mrs. Sivesind and
Mrs. Pine were guests of honor at a
W. C. T. U. party at the home of Mrs.
Pine, Tuesday, April 27th. A three
course luncheon was served to twentiy
two guests. An enjoyable time was
reported by all.
bred J. Waugh, of Ewing, was be
fore the county judge last Monday, on
complaint of his wife, who charged
that Fred had made threats upon her
life. The judge placed him under an
$800 peace bond which he was unable
to furnish; he is now confined in the
county jail.
George Mellor, of Red Bird, was
visiting with his brother, J. B.t in
O’Neill, during most of last week. Mr.
Mellor underwent an operation upon
his head at a hospital in Norfolk early
last week and came to O'Neill to re
cuperate. J. B. accompanied him home
last Sunday.
Representatives from the several
towns between O’Neill and Ainsworth
will meet at Atkinson tonight for the
purpose of perfecting1 the organiza
tion of the Elkhorn Valley base ball
league which has been in the making
for the past few weeks Manager
Kersenbrock and a number of these in
terested in the promotion of the enter
prise will attend from O’Neill.
The Frontier failed to mention last
week that Miss Iola Purcell won
second in the Northeastern Nebraska
Declamatory Contest held at Wayne
the previous week. Miss Purcell was
entertained in the humorous class and
came within one point of winning the
first prize; the judged deliberated for
some time before making the award.
The first prize was won by a contest
ant from Pender.
Another little touch of winter made
its appearance early Saturday morn
ing. A mixture of rain and snow fell
during the forenoon. The weather in
general has been cold and disagree
able during the past week. Many of
the early gardens are coming through
the ground as are also the spring bulbs
and early flowers, and the fruit trees
are beginning to bloom; they will all
meet disaster if the weather condi
tions don’t improve soon.
COUNTY TRACK MEET
EARLY NEXT MONTH
The members of the Holt County
Track Association met at O’Neill last
week and arranged the track meet
schedule. The schools present were
Stuart, O’Neill, Inman and Chambers.
They decided to hold the field meet at
O’Neill early in May. In the forenoon
will be played the baseball games for
the championship of the county, and
in the afternoon will be the track and
field events. There will be a silver
loving cup awarded to the winner of
the meet, and a baseball banner to
the winner of the base ball games.
Norris Coats was chosen as referee of
the meet and the subordinate officers
were also decided upon.
The order of events for the field
day will be as follows:
100 yard run, discus, 1 mile run,
shot put, 220 yard race, high jump,
120 yard hurdles, running broad jump,
440 yard run, pole vault, Vt mile run
and relay race.
The individual winning the largest
number of points is to receive a medal
or award.
The baseball schedule is as follows:
In the one division, Chambers plays
Ewing and the winner plays O’Neill,
the winner of this game will play field
day. In the second division Stuart
plays Inman and Atkinson plays Page,
the winners of these play and the
winner plays at the meet.
NEW TIME CARD
ON NORTHWESTERN
Several of the passenger trains on
the Northwestern changed time last
Sunday. Following is the new sched
ule at O’Neill:
East Bound—
No. 6. Leaves at 3:30 A. M.
No. 22. Leaves at 10:00 A. M.
No. 2. Leaves at 2:00 P. M.
West Bound—
No. 13. Leaves at 7:16 A. M.
No. 11. Leaves at 4:20 P. M.
No. 3. Leaves at 11:25 P. M.
REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS HOLD
COUNTY CONVENTION
Each Party Adopt Resolutions And
Elect Delegates To State
Convention.
Resolutions deploring the deaths of
President Harding and former Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson were adopted
by both. Republican and Democratic
county conventions of Holt county in
sessions at O’Neill Thursday. The
resolutions of both conventions also
deplored malfeasance in office ai^d
about the only difference in them was
that the Democratic convention blamed
most of the crooked work on the Re
publicans. The Democratic resolutions
complimented the administration of
Gov. Charles Bryan, while the Re
publicans criticised him for not co
operating on bax reduction with the
Republican legislature and also criti
cised his road program and his op
position to livestock health protective
measures. The administration of
President Coolidge was heartily en
dorsed by the Republican convention
6nd as heartily condemned by the
Democrats.
Ira Moss presided as chairman and
C, P. Hancock as secretary of both
tb° temporary and permanent organ
izations of the Republican convention
and Charles Daly as chairman and
George Miles as secretary of the
Democratic gathering. Julius D. Cro
nin was elected chairmen and C. P.
Hancock secretary of the Republican
county central committee and Charles
Daly chairman and George A. Miles
secretary of the Democratic county
central committee. All four reside at
O’Neill.
Following are the delegates to the
state conventions selected by both
conventions:
Kepubncan—w. L. Fhilley, of Ew
ing: Carl Grant, Star; J. R. Marsh,
0?Neill; IV^ss Maud Johnston, Atkin
son; Harry Kopp. Stuart; W. W.
Bethea, Ewing: Mrs. Ben Farner,
Stuart: Mrs. C. W. Robertson, Cham
bers; J. D. Cronin, O’Neill; C. P. Han
cock, O’Neill; Albert Parnell, Atkin
son- John Hubbard, O’Neill; Mrs. B.
B. Adams, Atkinson.
Democrat—Clifford B. Scott, J. A.
Donohoe. George A. Miles, T. V.
Golden. C. M. Daly, John A. Harmon,
Toe McNichols, Mrs. T. D. Hanley,
Mrs. Cora Hiber. James F. O’Donnell,
oil of O’Neill; John A. Robertson, Joy;
Georc-e*Holcomb. Chambers; A. Chen
oweth. Stuart: J. N. Reiser, Saratoga;
Mrs. M. J. Lydon, Ewing.
O’NEILL TO HAVE COM
MERCIAL FLOWER GARDEN
Many Beautiful Varieties To Be Rais
ed At Seventh And Douglas.
One of the beauty spots of O’Neill
when spring and summer arrive this
year will be the O’Neill Dahlia Gar
dens which are being established at
Seventh and Douglas streets by E. N.
Purcell and Ed O’Donnell. The gar
dens will comprise two full lots and
will be the largest in the state outside
of the plants of the professional
florists of Omaha and Lincoln. The
gardens now are being prepared and
planted under the personal supervision
of Mr. Purcell, who is a floriculturist
of note.
The gardens are named after the
principal flowers to be grown, the
dahlia, of which there will be five
hundred plants and two hundred and
fifty distinct varieties. The dahlias
will be spaded four feet apart each
way. Around the north and west
sides of the gardens will be a border
of cannas, and the remainder of the
space not given to dahlia propagation
will be devoted to asters, Japanese
tassel plants, cosmos, Shasta daisies,
snap dragons, scarlet sage ,zeifcia8
and gladiolas. Of these the several
varieties of asters and gladiolas will
be the most prominent.
This project of Messrs Purcell and
O’Donnell will be the first of its kind
in north Nebraska, and as such will
be of inestimable value to the com
munity as one of the show places of
the state. Passed as it will be by
thousands of tourists during the sum
mer and fall its beautiful appearance
with all of the many varieties of
multicolored blossoms in full bloom
will impress itself upon the memory
of each visitor and do much to spread
the fame of the city about the entire
country.
O’NEILL TEAM WINS
FROM EMMET COLTS
Manager Kersenbrock’s O’Neill
Shamrocks celebrated the opening of
the baseball season Sunday afternoon
by defeating Cuddy’s Colts, of Emmet,
at the Emmet ball park, by a score
of 5 to 1. Considering that it was the
first game of the season the affair was
remarkably free from errors on both
sides and was an exciting battle until
the last ball was pitched. Until the
first half of the eighth inning the
score stood 2 to 1 in favor of O’Neill,
at which time the Shamrocks secured
their additional lead of three scores.
The battery for O’Neill was Pierson
and Ford and for Emmet, Snider and
Farr. But two hits were allowed by
either pitcher. Pierson had eighteen
strike-outs to his credit and Snider
nine. The game was witnessed by an
extra large crowd of enthusiastic
fans from O’Neill, Emmet and Atkin
son, the latter town turning out
practically enmasse to see what the
Atkinson'team will have to contend
against when it meets the Shamrocks
at that place in the near future. Next
Sunday the O’Neill team will play
Norfolk at Norfolk.
Members of the team and their
ladies were tendered a banquet by
We now have fhe .very best
Window Shades at
65c each,
Bowen’s
Racket
Store
Manager Kersenbrock at the Golden
Wednesday evening and following the
spread dancing was indulged in until
a late hour.
At least two hundred fans are pre
paring to accompany the team to
Norfolk next Sunday for the game
with the tri-state league team and if
the weather is agreeable there prob
ably will be many more.
Following is the lineup of the Sham
rocks at the Emmet game; the same
line-up will participate in winning
from Norfolk next Sunday:
Ford, catcher.
Snider, pitcher.
McDonald, 1st base.
Angst, 2nd base.
Willging, short stop.
Butterfield, 3rd base.
Carney, right field.
Bazelman, left field.
Beha, center field.
Enright, sub.
O’NEILL TEAM TO
PLAY ELK HORNS
* NORFOLK SUNDAY
(Norfolk News, April 80.)
The O’Neill, Nebraska, baseball
team will play an exhibition game
here next Sunday afternoon with the
Norfolk Tri-state league team, accord
ing to announcement made by Presi
dent Carter of the local club. The
O’Neill team is one of the fastest
amateur aggregations in thp state
and the professionals are expected to
have a hard game. It is planned to
start play promptly at 8:15.
Manager Lane will have his team
pretty well organized by Sunday and
the team which the O'Neill aggrega
tion meets will be practically the one
which will open the official Tri-state
league season for Norfolk on May 8.
“AIN’T NATURE WONDERFUL”
(By Uncle Pete—In Omaha Bee)
O’Neill, Neb., April 27.—Politieans
and local savants of Beaver Flats are
considerably worked up over the
proper interpretation of what they
consider an omen of the coming
democratic national convention. The
discussion has become so heated that
several of the leaders on both sides
have offered to financially back their
reading of the sign of nature respon
sible for the uproar.
Residents of the flats were attract
ed to a field just north of the muni
cipal limits the other evening by the
hysterical chatterings ami dartings
about a clump of weeds of very
much agitated flock of field sparrows.
Investigation disclosed that the
cause of agitation was a cow bird’s
egg which had been surreptitiously
depsotted in the nest of a pair of the
sparrows and indignantly ejected .
therefrom by them. The egg, . ,un
tyroken, lay just fbeneath the ueet,
upon the grass, and on its upturned
w^BrfSr^g* “PeU*d °ut **
The more radical member* of the
community at once declared the omen
to be a sign that either Charles or
William Jennings will be the demo
cratic presidential nominee this year,
while the more conservative element
is just as confident and insistent that
the action, of the nesting sparrows is
more interpretative of the course of
the convention than the markings on
the egg. Outside seers may b# called
in to settle the argument.
Miss Gladys Miles and Bernard
Kiltz, who are attending the skate
university are each serving on im
portant committees in the interest of
making the Farmer's Fair at Iiacoln,
the greatest event of the year.
Springtime is Overland
time—with lots of places
to go and healthful
pleasure in going. Big
power to take you. Big
comfort to rest you. Big
reliability. And the ex
tra pleasure of econo
my. Ride to good times
in an Overland! Cham
pion now $655, Sedan
$795, f. o. b. Toledo.
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Walter Stein
O’Neill, Nebraska