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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1924)
I « * . I j w- 5jJ| I Frontier. _ ,v „_»> , „ _ ■ • VOLUMN XLIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924 ~ N0~60 I Little Things Make Bi$| Things Many customers do not realize how many different things we do, to give them what we term service. If you will think this over a little, you will be surprised how few of our daily transactions really mean profit to the bank but nevertheless we are glad to do them. This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders. Resources over $600,000.00 15he O’Neill Natiorval Bank LOCAL MATTERS. R. I/. Drayton and W. E. Wanser v/eie up from Page Monday. A. E. Holcomb and family, who re cently purchased the Mike Holland residence, in the southeast part of the city, shipped their household goods here from Neligh last week and are now comfortably located. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kaup, of Stuart, on Tuesday, May 6th. A son was born on May 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McClurg, of Stuart, on May 8th. / A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Galligan, of Atkinson, on Monday, May 2nd. H. B. Hubbard drove to Lincoln last week where he spent several days looking after his farm land. Andrew Schmidt came home from Norfolk Friday where he had been visiting'with John Bellar who is con fined in the hospital. John s slowly improving. George Howarth, of near Cook, in Johnson county, has been visiting for a week at the home of his uncle, A. C. Morton, and family. He returned home Wednesday mprning. Mx\ and Mrs. M. Martin and Miss Meta Martin went to Neligh Thurs day Ho attend the Senior play of the Neligh high school. Their grandson and nephew, Graydon Templin, is lead ing man in the play and will be re membered as a student in the grades of the O'Neill public school. Dick Knight, of Omaha, was visit ing O’Neill friends over Sunday. The Catholic Daughters of America held their regular monthly social in the club rooms of the K. C. hall Tues day evening. Dr. J. -P. Gilligan went to Omaha Tuesday morning to attend the meet ing of the Nebraska Medical society which has been in session there dur ing the past few days. J. B. Ryan returned home last Fri day from a week’s business and pleasure trip to Omaha and Columbus, Nebraska. Mr. Ryan encountered muddy roads upon reaching Fremont and left his auto there until last Mon day when Clement Ryan went to Fre mont and drove it home. Roy Parker, of Page, sold two loads of fat Hereford steers at $10.70 per hundred weight, within a nickle per hundred of the top price at the Sioux City market May 6th. Mr. Parker, who is one of the big feeders of this county, purchased the steers in Cher ry county last fall. The 35 head sold averaged 1,085 pounds each. John Moler returned early last week from Marshalltown, Iowa, where he was called by the death of his brother, Mark, who resided between Marshall town and Lamoille, Iowa. Mr. Moler enjoyed the pleasure of eating dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hough, who were residents of O’Neill about twenty-five years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Hough are comfortably located in Marshalltown and have enmassed considerable of this world’s goods and are enjoying life. Send if i to me >d(gu ndnj ©TMI A. C . M CO. Curtains Washed , 'V. Send your curtains to us this spring and we will cleanse and finish them for you in a way that will bring delight. Any kind of lace or washable cur tain—we take them all—wash each daintily in sweet pure water, and then finish them exactly to measure, without pins or hooks. Your curtains will come back as fresh and beautiful as you could wish. Just use the phone. O’Neill Sanitary Laundry Progress and Satisfaction Streets * - — ■■ The Presbyterian Ladies Workinj society will meet with Mrs. J. J. Thomas on Thursday, May 22nd. Miss Louise Cable, who has been as sisting her uncle V. B. Jones in the office of the O'Neill Grain Company, returned last week to her home In Hudson, South Dakota. A. H. Polk received a serious injury to his back when he fell while walking in his yard Monday evening. Mr. I’olk has been in poor health for the nost few years, the result of a para lytic stroke. Frank Biglin and son, Bobbie, and Miss Genevieve Biglin, returned home Tuesday evening from Hastings, where they had been visiting with their brother, John Biglin and family, for several days. Rev. E. W. Nye, of Spencer, was visiting O’Neill friends Wednesday. Rev. Nye has arranged to hold a big evangelistic meeting in Bpencer in June and Rev. J. A. Hutchins, pastor of the Methodist church of this city, will do the preaching. The Senior Class of St. Mary’s Academy will present “The Heirs of at the K. of C. opera house on Monday evening, May 19, at eight o clock. Tickets 50 cents. Seats re served at Readrons’. Matinee at 2:30 o clock. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Annual Formal Opening of the O Neill Country Club was celebrated Wednesday evening with a dance at the club house. Powell’s Peerless Piayers furnished the music. The annual afternoon picnic was dispensed with on account of the high school field meet. C. T. Simonson and William Eisele have the distinction of carrying away the trophy for the east side for the individuals killing the most crows during the recent crow shoot. Mr. Simonson won the honors for the hunters residing in the country and Mr. Eisele received the honors for the most crows by a huntter residing within the city limits. Mr. Simon snn i killed 194 and Mr. Eisele 171. The recent democratic convention in Lincoln discloses the fact that in order for the affairs to make a credit able showing the services of the en tire Holt county delegation and many former Holt county citizens had to be pressed into service, and were other wise recognized by the convention. Hon. J. A. Donohoe, one of the princi nal democratic leaders of the county, was given a place upon the platform jommittee; Hon. John- A. Harmon, another old wheel horse of the party, was recognized by the convention and placed upon the committee to select eight presidential electors and as a result Hon. T. V. Golden was chosen as one of the electors; J. F. O’Don nell was re-elected state central com mitteeman from this county. Hon. Arthur F. Mullen, formerly of O’Neill, of course, was the principal manipu lator of the party machinery and had much to do with the actions taken by the gathering. J. H. Hanley, of Omaha, another former O’Neill man, and the manager of the campaign of the “square six” commissioners who were recently elected in Omaha, was also an active worker in the con vention. MOTHERS’ DAY WAS OBSERVED IN O’NEILL Last Sunday was Mothers’ Day, The day was duly observed by each of the churches with special programs or special sermons to “Mother.” This is the eleventh year that a nation-wide observance of Mothers’ Day has taken place. In 1913 congress formally pro claimed the second Sunday in May as the day when American men publicly observed tihe memory of Mother. Each year since then, in most com munities of this country, increasing thought and attention has been given Mother’s day until it has assumed a much larger significance in the cal endar of events. In many of the larger cities of the country, special programs have been arranged, while in every pulpit of the land, reference is made to the crowning glory of womanhood. Miss Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, originated Mother’s day. Her mother died in May, 1906, and the following year in June, 1907, she and a friend observed Mother’s day. From that humble beginning has come one of the finest traditions of the American people. Throughout this country last Sun day millions of men paused from their activities of the day in reflection and grateful appreciation of the memory of mother. There is no sweeter word in the English language than mother. Time adds to its beauty. Only the years can give it the poignant sweet ness of its magical echo. LARGE CROWD ENJOYS SUNDAY BALL GAME AT FAIR GROUNDS A large and enthusiastic crowd en joyed the ball game Sunday afternoon at the fair grounds between Manager Kersenbrock’s Shamrocks and the Guy Cole professional team. The score, as was to be expected, resulted eight to one jn favor of the visitors. The game had been scheduled be tween O’Neill and Atkinson, but owing to the scarcity of baseball players in the city__ to the west the latter com munity accepted the offer of Mr. Cole to furnish a substitute team which he had gathered together from various noints in the state, his Emmet team having suffered a severe drubbing at the hands of the Shamrocks several weeks ago. Members of the team came from Norfolk, Wayne, Pliger, Eassett and several other seaports JjQBSE OTHERS TOURING CAR _ $1,010 F. O. B. O’Neill „„ .‘nhafe just a shipment of Dodge Brothers lubricating oil, made es your money "retone^816 This is *uaranteed- Satisfaction or Dodge Dealer—J. M. Seybold, O’Neill, Nebr. and proved to be a most likely aggre gation. Manager Kersenbrock, al though aware that his boys would stand no chance of winning against the visitors, gladly welcomed the op portunity to give the Shamiocks a little valuable practice and experience ir, inside baseball as he had at Nor folk a week before. The game was fast and snappy from the start and the home run by Angst of O’Neill proved to be the star feature of the program. Had it not been for several unfortunate and unavoidable enrors due to spectators crowding upon the diamond. O’Neill at least would have t.’ed the score and might have de feated her opponents, O’Neill’s bat ‘“’•v. Persons and Ford, in the judg ment of the crowd, proving superior te Bender and Curtis who officiated for the visitors. The game was most immensely enioyed by the vast throng nresent and bore out the declaration mad® by tbe Norfolk Daily News the dav after tbe game at Norfolk, that rvN~;,i has fhe fastest amateur team N®-*-b Nebraska. Next Sunday O’Neill is scheduled to mix with At 1 ■■n'-'m at th-f place if that town can secure som® ball players sufficiently "needy to mate the game interesting. O’NFTIT WILT. CELEBRATE SEMI-CENTENNIAL WITH HOME-COMING AND RACE MEET O’Neill is going to celebrate the semi-centennial of its settlement and founding with a monster home-com ing celebration and three days run ning' race meet July 3, 4 and 5. The celebration will be the largest ever staged by the community, which means that it will be some affair, and a program of entertainment is being ai ranged which will afford enjoyment practically every hour of the three day period. Details were completed at an enthusiastic meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the office of C. M. Daly Monday evening which was presided over by President Clifford B. Scott. The dates of the home coming and race meet are fortunate, as they come the week following the conclusion of the spring race meet at Omaha in June and assure the presence of some of the fastest running horses in the country among the entries. Already more than one hundred horses are as sured for the race program, which will comprise six races each day of the three, with the famous O’Neill Derby on the last afternoon. Some substantial purses are to be hung up and Sheriff Peter W. Duffy and J. J. Thomas, O’Neill’s two wildest racing bugs, have been delegated a committee to go to Omaha to confer with the owners of the many stables already there for the Omaha meet, to invite them to ship to O’Neill immediately at the close of that affair. Before the establishment of the Omaha meet, the summer running meet at O’Neill long was considered by racing men as the biggest and best of any in the state. It is proposed that the one this year will eclipse all former ones. The program for the home-coming feature of the entertainment will be in the morning of each day and will include parades, addresses, reunions and street attractions. A decorated automobile parade, which will be in charge of the Womens Club, will be the feature of the morning celebration on the Fourth of July. For the even ings entertainment of the visitors a big dance platform, extending from curb to curb on Fourth street between the First National bank building and the Hotel Golden, is to be erected, and in addition there will be shows, con cessions and other attractions so that ' no one will have an excuse for not living a good time. The O Neill colony in Omaha, which now runs that city and which inci dentally numbers enough people to make a fair-sized country town, piactically all have signified their in tention of being here for the semi centennial and the race meet and a special train service is being arranged for. In addition Mayor Dahlman is coming along and a lot of other dis tinguished dignitaries with him, and Governor Charles Bryan possibly will bo among the guests of honor. Now is the time to write to absent relatives and friends and to tell them all about the good time the old town is pre paring for them on July 3, 4 and 5, when the semi-centennial of the found ing of the city will be celebrated. The following committee chairmen have been announced by President Scott to have charge of arrangements for the celebration: Concessions, Phil Zeimer; Races, Peter W. Duffy; Finance, Hugh J, Birmingham; Publicity, W. C. Temple ton; Dancing, Edward M. Gallagher, “AIN’T NATURE WONDERFUL" (By Uncle Pete in Omaha Bee) O’Neill, Neb., May 11.—Professor M. H. Horiskey of Beaver Flats, one of the leading ornithologists of nortih Nebraska, will ship a car load of his trained haying sparrows to Falls City this summer to assist the farmers of Richardson county in puilting up their winter's forage. The professor gained some little notoriety several winters ago when he discovered the hibernating caves, on Whiskey creek, of the Great Plains man-eating mosquito, and introduced therein a number of bats. Through his efforts the mosquito has been entirely exterminated in northern Nebraska for some time and since then the professor has devoted his energies to finding employment for the immense flocks of idle sparrows which have invaded the rural districts since the advent of the automobile on the streets of The Flats. Observing the rapidity with which the sparrows formerly assembled spears of straw and hay above the doorways and in the awnings of the business buildings about The Flats and how they refused to desert al thoug each morning the results of their previous labors were destroyed. Professor Horiskey erected a large hay barn on his estate just west of town, with numerous orifices in its walls, each just large enough for a bird to enter. The birds were quick to take up oc cupancy of the building and until they had acquired an affection for the place they were allowed bo proceed with their nest building in its interior un disturbed. Then, after a time the nests were torn down each morning and the sparrow’s shooed outside to gather more material from the neighboring hay meadows being harvested. An abundance of feed was provided for them about the building and only withheld on days when they didn’t gather much hay. They gradually came to understand what was expected of them and worked willingly. From the last of the harvest they were permitted to build nests and raise a brood or two of young, that the species might not become extinct. For a considerable time Professor Horiskey refused to sell any of the trained birds, fearing that they might fall into the hands of unscrupulous persons who would use them to sbeal hay from their neighbors, but he at least has succeeded in so developing the homing instinct of the birds that each flock stays pretty well to its own hay barn and vicinity and so has de cided to accept the offer of several Falls City residents for a car load of the sparrows, the latter having ob served them at work while visiting relatives at The Flats last year. CHAMBERS ITEMS. Mrs. W. B. Cooper is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Burrel motored to O’Neill Tuesday. Rev. and Mrs. Carlyon were O’Neill visitors Wednesday. Mrs. Genevieve Grimes is ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cooper. J. B. Maylard, of Norfolk, was transacting business in Chambers a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gibson, of O’Neill, spent Sunday with Mrs. Gib son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Clanahan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, of Gables, are the happy parents of an eight pound baby boy, l»m Saturday, May 10th. Craig Baker, who has been teaching school near Douglas, Wyoming, the f>ast eight months, returned to his home in Chambers Friday. Mrs. Zada Shrier and little daughter, Henrietta, are spending this week at O’Neill with Mrs. Shrier’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McEl vain. D. R. Burrel left Chambers Tues day. He will visit his sister, who is in the Lutheran hospital at Norfolk, after which he will return to his home at Verdel. Mrs. W. H. Russ was hostess at a miscellaneous shower Wednesday evening, in honor of Miss Dora Russ whose marriage will be solemnized some time this summer. The Baccalaureate sermon was preached Sunday evening, May 11th, by Rev. Schleef to a large and ap preciative audience that filled the town hall to capacity. Rev. Hamlyn and H. F. Dyke delighted the audience with a violin duet accompanied by Mrs. Zada Shrier at the piano. The Methodist male quartette sang “Sail ing On,” which was well received as was also the number by the Lutheran mixed quartette. Mrs. T. E. Newhouse and Miss Vada Grimes entertained Friday even ing at a miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Blanche Seid, of At kinson, whose marriage will be solemnized in the near future. Miss Seid received many beautiful gifts prevented to her in pretty May bask ets. A dainty luncheon was served. The color scheme was pink and white. This romance began while the bride to be was teaching school in Cham bers a few years ago and her many friends will welcome her back. WHAT IS A BANK? A modern bank is more than a de pository for money; more than a place upon which to issue checks. A modern bank is an institution of helpfulness to its depositors and cli ents. It is interested in seeing that they are prosperous and successful in their financial ventures. Depositors who let us help them with advice born of long experience, can testify to the value of our service. Let Us Serve You. The Nebraska State Bank
