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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1924)
»' >v The Frontier. * - • ? ^""—■**•»——MMMMMMMMmOTMMMOT«aw>_>«MM. m mi »ii him ii . ——^pi———————— VOLUMN XLIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1924. NO. 49. LOCAL MATTERS. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McDermott on Sunday of last week. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Sholes, of Inman, Wednesday of last week. The Stuart high school ball team de feateu the Inman high at Stuart last week, twenty-six to one. John W. Hiker sold his residence property in the southwest part of the city to E. 33. Carter last Thursday. Mike Holland has sold the Holland residence property in the southeast part of O’Neill to Asher Holcomb. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Stanton, of Bono steel, South Dakota, came over Sat urday to visit Mr. Stanton’s parents a few days. J. R. Ryan and daughter, Miss Clare came over from Bonesteel, South Da kota, for a few days visit with friends returning home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wertz drove over from the ranch near Star last Friday, and met Mrs. Wertz’s brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, of Des Moines, Iowa. D. H, Clauson entertained a num ber of friends at a dancing party at the country club as a surprise on Mrs. Clauson on their wedding anniversary last Thursday evening. Claude Wade came up from Sioux City the first of the week for a short visit with friends at Page and O'Neill. Mr. Wade is associated with a com mission firm in Sioux City. The base ball enthusiasts of Stuart, have organized a ball team, and have purchased suits for them be sides having considerable money in the treasury. They expect to have all heme players in their team. Mrs. Phil Ziemer is enjoying a visit from her mother, Mrs. E. J. Rocko fellow, of Tilden, who came last Thursday. Mrs. Rockofellow is re covering from a recent illness and will remain in the city for some time in an effort to regain her health. Jap Kitts has just completed a new modern residence and a full set of out buildings upon a quarter section of land about eight miles northwest of O’Neill. His son Lloyd has moved onto the place and will farm it in the future. Mr. Ritts now has three well improved farms. Mrs. J. O. Hargesheimer went up to Hot Springs, South Dakota, on Wednesday evening of last week where she will visit with old time friends for a couple of weeks. Mr. Hargesheimer expects to also go to Hot Springs and will return with Mrs. Hargesheimer. The base ball game here next Sun day between Atkinson and O’Neill promises to be a good one from the fact that Atkinson and O’Neill are contending for the championship of Holt county. Atkinson has an excell ent team and, we understand, they are arranging for some outside help for the O’Neill game. The Shamrocks are playing good ball and will give At kinson a real game Sunday. A large number of enthusiasts ac companied the O'Neill Shamrocks to Norfolk last Sunday where they met the tri-state league team of Norfolk, The O'Neill boys put up a good game and feel proud of the fact that they were able to score against the Nor folk team which is an aggregation of the best players that Norfolk has been able to hire this year. The O’Neill team was handicapped to some extent by the fact that Norfolk used four pitchers and three catchers dur ing the game while Persons and Ford did the pitching and catching for O'Neill throughout the game. Some of the fans that accompanied the team are under the impression that O’Neill did not get an even break from the umpire. However, the game ^a§ thoroughly ppjoyed by all that were permitted to witness it. Manager JCersenbrock is trying to arrange a retjurn game with the Norfolk team the latter part of the month. '.yrgij MARRIAGE LICENSER Sioux City, Iowa, May 5th: Frank Solfermosen, Inez, Neb., 87. Mrs. Lily Schrader, Atkinson, Neb. 8" O'Neill, May let: Erwin D. Vargason, Inman. Stella A. Crosser, Inman. NORTH NEBRASKA GOLF TOURNAMENT DATES FIXED FOR JUNE 8-9-10 _ The dates of the North Nebraska Invitation Gqjf Tournamept, the |tn jiuaj tburnhmenl of the O’Neill Counlf y Club arid incidentiaHy thti biggest affair of its kind outside of Omaha, will be June 8-9-10 this year, The affair will be the largest ever staged by the local club and the list of prizes the finest yet offered. A program of entertainment which will include dancing in the evening, is be ing arranged and will be all the more pleasing because of the completion of the new cl'ub house last summer which will enable club members to extend inbsv extensive hospitality to the visiting golfers at the course. The formal opening date for the club this year was fixed for next Wed nesday, May 14, at the annual meet ing Monday evening. The program for opening dqy includes a picnic and golfing in the afternoon and dancing in tho evening, with the famous Powell orchestra furnishing the music. Stockholders of the club, at the an nual meeting Monday evening, unani mously re-elected the old board of directors as an expression of their ap proval of the conduct of the business affairs of the organization by its officers the last year. Announcing* An Unusual Sale of the Famous A WONDERFUL DISPLAY OF THE NEW SPRING STYLES AND COLORS AT PRICES WHICH INSURES YOU OF EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS * A .fortunate purchase from the manufacturers enables us to offer these famous wash dresses and aprons at very low prices. mm paiiWMHm,mm m rn —---y-TT B , , m m mmmmmmmmmmmmm_M Special For Four Days Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10, 12, 13, 14 GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP A B C D E 79g 93e 1.49 1.98 2.49 GROUP GROUP GROUP F G H 3.98 1.98 5.19 “AINT NATURE WONDERFUL” (By Uncle Pete in Omaha Bee.) O'Neill, Nebr., May 4.—-"Sliver” Triggs has begun an action for dam ages against Doc Wilkinson in Judge Kirwin's court at Beaver Flats, seek ing to recover the value of onr> pet bull snake which passed away from an attack of influenza last week con tracted while the snake was attempt ing to devour one of the fur-bearing frogs which had strayed from the Wilkinson ranch, just north of the Flats, onto Mr. Trigg's snake farm adjoining. The frogs, which the doctor per fected several years ago in an ef. fort to replenish the fasti failing wild fur market, propagate much earlier m the year than a common frog, ow ing to the protection from the ele ments furnished by their heavy hairy covering and the one to which is at tributed the demise of Sliver’s snake is supposed to be the offspring of on#* which escaped and stole her nest away while Doc was exercising the nocks on the open range last January, Mr. Triggs, who has the only snake farm along the Calamas, is engaged in raising snake skins for the theat rical customers who supply hat K^s to the wild movie actors. The dead snake was noted far and wide for its beautiful colorings and markings and had been the head of the Triggs herd for several years. Mr. Triggs had refused several very attractive offers from snake lovers for his pet. According to the petition filed in Judge Kirwin's court it seems that Mr. Triggs had turned his snake herd out to browse about the frog pond he maintained upon his place for their benefit, being unaware that one of the fur-bearing creatures was about. The big snake was unfortunate enough to catch the latter and at tempted to swallow it. Owing to the dental structure of the bull snake, its teeth all sloping backward, it is unable to eject any pray it once takes into its mouth, and the fur pf the frog set tickled its throat that it was unable to complete the process or swallowing. It lay, for several hoim* in a oold and damp northwest wind, with jaws extended, before it was discovered by Mr. Trigg?, and later contract*) the illness from a sore throat following the exposure. Efforts to save it proved futile. Mr. Triggs, and later contracted the gation because he and Mr. Wilkinson were unable to agree upon the value of the dead snake. BASEBALL HOLDS CHIEF INTEREST HERE ON SUNDAY (Norfolk News, May 6.) Ideal weather hired humanity out of-doors Sunday and baseball, golfing and hiking were on the day’s program. The great national sport held premier attention, however, and more than 6,000 fans went to the municipal park and witnessed the exhibition game be tween the Norfolk tri-state league team and the fast O’Neill amateur chib which resulted in a victory of 12 to 1 for the professionals. This game developed .the fact that O’Neill has a mighty fast amateur nine brought to Tight the probable line-up which manager Lane will start next Thursday at Beatrice in the offi cial opening of the league. The game also gave some good indications as to who will stay with the Norfolk club and who is going elsewhere. The O'Neill ball players ere fast and have material for one of the fastest amateur teams in North Ne braska. Person pitched a good game and finished the nine innings with Ford behind the home plate. Man ager Lane sent his regular slugger* against the Holt county battery which allowed eleven hits. The O’Neill team had but two errors which is the same number of errors registered by the professionals. The professionals allowed one hit. It was made by McDonald in the seventh when errors on the part of the professionals resulted in the O’Neill score. Willging played short for the visitors; Angst was on second; Mc Donald played first; Butterfield, third; Beha, centerfield; Carney, left field. Bazelman, right, and Enright was on utility. Hyland, Lane, Thomas, and Hilton did the pitching for the Elk Horns. Honkamp, Frederie and Phral are the other available pitchers. The rest of the line-up in Sunday’s game was: Aijherton, second; Wall, short; Weid ell, left; Bruski, center; Johnson, first; Gilpin, third; Morrin, right; Murphy, Mercer and Clark, catch. STUART ORGANIZES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION The sportsmen of Stuart have re cently organized a “Rod and Gun" club and are arranging to protect the waters of the west end of the county from the ravages of the netter and the game poachers who seine out the game fish from the lakes and streams and kill the young chickens, before Whey are able to fly. D. A. Criss ia taking an active part in the associa tion, and with the assistance of R. S. Waterbury, who is president of the organization, and a corps of willing assistants, they propose to provide plenty of game wardens to protect the game birds and lish in their terri tory. If more such, clubs were formed in different parts of the county it would not be long before the streams would be well stocked and the fields covered with chickens, grouse, quail and pheasants. A numbr of the young people at tended the wedding dance at Emmet Wednesday evening given by Mr. and Mrs. John Babl following their wed ding which occurred at eight o'clock | that morning*