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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1924)
FOR SALE OR TRADE. 1800 acres in Holt County, Nebras ka, about twenty miles south of At kinson, Nebraska, known as the Guy Fetterly Ranch. Ben Fidler 408, F. L. Bldg., Sioux City, Iowa. 3-3 IRON HOSE. Best on earth for the money. 2-if O’Neill Variety Store. (mamma— NEBRASKA CULVERT AND MFG. CO. Al^STIN-WESTERN ROAD MACHINERY ARM CO CULVERTS Everything In Road Machinery Western Representative v L. C PETERS O’Neill :: Nebraska _" Q DR. L. A. CARTER Physician and Surgeon Glasses Correctly Fitted. Office and Residence, Naylor Blk. -Phone 72 O’NEILL :: :: NEBRASKA W. F. FINLEY, M,!)* { Phone, Office 28 | O’Neill Nebraska THE O’NEILL ABSTRACT COMPANY —Compiles— “Abstracts of Title” THE ONLY COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACT BOOKS IN HOLT COUNTY. I M ■ r - OR. J. P. ©ILLIGA*^ Physician and Surgeon Special Attention Given To , DISEASES OF THE EYE AND CORRECT FITTING OF GLASSES H. L. BENNETT GRADUATE VETERNARIAN Phone 304. Day or Night. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. O’NEILL CONCERT BAND. Meet Monday night of each week at band hall at 8:00 o’clock. Clifford B. Scott, Leader. E. D. Henry, Secretary-Treasurer. PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS. The Public Library will be open each day except Sunday and Monday, from 2:00 until 6:00 p. m. MARY McLAUGHLIN, Librarian. STJPATRICK’S CHURCH CATHOLIC Sunday Services: First Mass 8 a. m., Second Mass 9 a. m., High Mass at 10.30 a. m. Vespers 7:30 p. m. Daily Mass 8 a. m. Catechetical Instruction for First Communicants 3 p. m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Confession, Saturday from 8 p. m. to 6 p m. and from 7 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. Children’s Confession, First Thursday every month at 1:30 p. m. Very Rev. M. F. Cassidy, Pastor. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Sunday Morning Service, 10:00 a. m., Sunday School 11:00 a. m., Young People’s Service 7:00 p. m., Evening Service, 8:00 p. m. Midweek Services: Tuesday, 8:00 p. m.; Young People’s Prayer Ser vice Wednesday 8:00 p. m., Regular Prrayer Meeting, Thursday, 8:00 p. m. Rev. J. A. Hutchins, Pastor. -,-— FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SERVICES: Sunday School at 10 o’clock. Preaching service at 11 o’clock. Sunday evening at 8 o’clock. Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock bible study. You are welcome to all of these services. Please note the change of time and change in the order of the services. GEO. LONGSTAFF, Pastor. • /■...11 11 * PAID LOCALS. Paid announcements will ap pear under this head. If you have anything to sell or wish to buy tell the people of it in this column. Ten cents per line first in sertion, subsequent insertions five cents per line each week. FARM LOANS—R H. PARKER.37U RABBITS FOR SALE—John Fox. 4-2 KODAKS, FILMS, KODAK FINISH ing.—W. B. Graves, O’Neill. 30-tf FOR SALE OR RENT—240 ACRES choice hay land.—A. T. Whelan. 5-1 FOR SALE—HOUSE AND EIGHT lots. One or all.—Harry L. Page. 29-tf FOR SALE—MY RESIDENCE Prop erty in west part of town.—Pat O’Donnell. 6-8 FOR SALE — 8-ROOM^ MODERN house, cash or terms.—A. T. Whe lan. 5-1 FOUND—TIRE AND RIM—OWNER may have same by proving property and paying for ad at this office. 6-1 I HAVE SOME CITY PROPERTY and 2 Automobiles'and $3,000.00 in cash to trade for a good farm.—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebraska. 3-tf I WANT SOME FARM AND RANCH loans. If you want money come in and see John L. Quig. 32-tf THE BRIGHT RESIDENCE FOR sale; also the Furniture. See me at once.—C. L. Bright. 4-1 I WILL HAVE READY FOR DE livery July 10—150 Buff Orphington and Rhode Island Red baby chicks at 10c each.—Mrs. G. A. Fox. 4-2 6% INTEREST AND NO COMMIS sion. I am now loaning Money on Farms and Ranches at 6% interest end no commission to pay. New Loan Company I just got.—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebraska. 3-fcf FOR SALE CHEAP — LARGE round dining table with four leaves. Six leather heated chairs to match if desired. Call 71. 48-tf FOR SALE— SLIGHTLY UESD, 3 burner, hooded New Perfection Oil Stove. See Catherine Cox at Mrs. Ella Riley’s, Friday or Saturday morn ing. 5-1 IF YOU NEED THE OLD LOAN ON your farm renewed for another 5 or 10 years, or if you need ®*larger loan I can make it for you.—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebraska. 21-tf THE NEBRASKA STATE BANK IS the only bank in O’Neill operating under the Depositors Guaranty Fund of theState of Nebraska. Avail your self of this PROTECTION 8-tf WE HAVE IN YOUR VICINITY A high grade piano on which party is unable to continue pnyr ents. You can own this piano by pa ng the unpaid balance, either cash c payments. If interested write A. Hospe Co., Omaha, Nebraska. ' 4-3 Trappers Make Money In the little Island of Tasmania trap ping is a very profitable business. The trappers supply a mnrket that used to look to America and Siberia with skins of the humble rabbit, the wallaby, the kangaroo and the opossum. Inexperi enced trappers earn $125 a week and the old hands enrn as much as $300, according to the Washington Star. One of the leading fur exporters of Hobart states that this sum Is a fair average with many of his customers. The trappers are sought after. Cara vans go out into* the bush for weeks buying up skins. Before the advent of this Industry lnmlnwners were glad to have trappers to keep down the gnme that devastated their runs, but skins have now become so valuable that they lease the trapping rights for big sums and there are many applicants. The state government has followed their lead In respect to crown lands. Options nre jiow held for two seasons abend over the trapping country. Made It Fifty-Fifty A case was recently brought Into di vorce court, In which both parties charged desertion, but finally made up their differences and agreed to try double harness for a while longer. It developed that the husband had for years been a golf fiend, and be cause he did most of his work at night and played golf all day, lie became al most a stranger to his family. % Nevertheless, he took it for granted that when he did get home, he’d find his wife there, and a meal ready, and in fact, thought of nothing else until one night—she wasn’t there. After searching the house he found a note on his bureau which was short and sweet. It read: _ "Dear husband, I have learned tfl play mah-jongg.” Explaining the Sexton Schoolboys in a Munich suburb were instructed recently to write a composition about the sexton in the local church, and the following effort attracted so much attention that it is being reproduced in many Bavarian newspapers: “The seston is a useful man. lie rings the bells at five o’clock in the morning so the people know they may sleep two hours longer. At eleven o’clock he rings the bells again, indi cating to the farmers in the field that they should become hungry. In the evening tlncre is more bell-ringing, which indicates to small children they will get their ears boxed if they do not run home rapidly. Sometimes the sexton is very troublesome, especially when he rings at night to announce a fire. The sexton thrives on weddings, christenings and the dead. He earns the most money through death. There fore he is glad when many people die.” | He Chose | | to Drink a | | Cup of Tea J ^ . . . . . •' .-t-.--.-f. ........... .^ X By MORRIS SCHULTZ X v »J> 0MX*,XMI**H**i,,XHX**X*****X*4X,*X**XHX* (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) uVOU win,” said Sotherby at the club. “1 was sure tlie income tax would be reducer! before tlie end of the financial year, and I lose. Nifflie tlie forfeit!” Briggs smiled sarcastically. “Seems to me, Sotherby, you’d better go a little slower on that betting propensity of yours in future. You can either pay me tlie five thousand or—“ He paused and looked about him at the expectant circle. “Or sit down in the middle of Fifth avenue at three o’clock In tlie afternoon and drink a cup of tea.” “I’ll drink the tea,” said Sotherby. “You're crazy,” answered Briggs. “On Friday afternoon at three o’clock. Have your witnesses.” " Anybody who lias not seen Fiftli avenue at three o’clock in the after noon can form little Idea of the mag nitude of Sotherby’s undertaking. Four lines of motorcars, crawling at^a snail’s pace, omnibuses, taxis and other ve hicles; in the center towers of direc tion at intervals, policemen Holding up their bands and Wowing whistles to stop tlie trailic east and west or north and south to permit swarms of pedestrians to pass. Order out of con fusion, multitudes of human beings— a veritable hive. Into this confusiortrnt half-past two on Friday afternoon, a burly Irishman st-alks, followed by a gang of Italian laborers with shovels and pickaxes and ropes. A Utter to tlie police officer on duty at tlie Intersection of Thirty-fifth street, a hurried consultation, a walk to the street telephone box. At the city hall a ’phone girl’s run ning her switch to the empty office of incumbrances—the head was away that day. The girl got a cool thou sand for her services, the clerk In the office fifteen hundred—he valued his Job, but was quite willing to start for Hawaii on the night train with fifteen hundred, to learn to grow pineapples. An answer to the sergeant who had reinforced the patrolman at the tele phone box. A call to headquarters. A brief consultation. Then— Whistles are blown. Patrolmen sta tion themselves at the four corners of Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth. Curs ing taxi drivers and protesting chauf feurs are shunted around four streets' A block of Fifth avenue grows bare ns the pedestrians scurry out of the way. Hopes are strung across Fifth ave nue at Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth. The intervening space is empty. A gang of laborers strings itself out in single file In the middle of the road. Pickaxes descend into the asphalt. The burly Irishman shouts violent com mands. “Fer the love of Mike what they ’oing? Rulldlng a new subway here?” “Yaw* taking up the drain pipes.” “You’re dippy. They’re laying a i.'\v transmarine cable!” Spectators press against the ropes. V squad of police comes up at the double. They form a thin line about jhe excavators. The work proceeds. The asphalt flies up In greasy chunks. From the windows of the club P.riggs ajtd his friends watch in growing nmv/.ement. They cannot believe their eyes. “If Sotlverhy worked that trick it’s going to cost him fifteen or twenty thousand in damages alone, not to speak of a few years to cool his heels In the pen.” “Rail, It isn t Sothcrby. They re re pairing an underground wire.” The work proceeds. It Is three o’clock. The burly Irishman strides from curb to curb, lie measures the distance. He draws a yard-measure from is pocket and measures otY half the distance. He takes a soap-box and sits down on It In the middle of the street and in the middle of the gang. From a pocket of his capacious overcoat he draws a vacuum bottle. From another pocket he takes a cup of granlteware. He tills the cup from the thermos bottle. It contains ten. lie rises to his feet, bows to the club window, and drinks. “Ry God, It’s Sothcrby 1” Sotlierby, having finished his tea, dips under the ropes and disappears. Once out of sight he takes a taxi to the pier. » An excellent time for that long projected trip to Japan and the Phil ippines. Their Occupation A wild yelling caused u4motorlst In the Rumpus Ridge region to hasten iround the next bend in the road. He beheld a pack of children, composed >f parts of the Johnson, Glggery and Ynwkey families, jumping up and lawn and beating their bosoms with their clenched fists, while they howled with great vigor. “What’s the matter?” asked the trav eler. “Are you in trouble?” “No!” they shouted In unison. ‘We’re looking for it 1”—Kansas City Star. Precisely “I have been writing to a matrl noninl agency. They offer to lntro iuee me to lady with a million dol ars. I asked for a photograph, but Hey declined to furnish one. I think I’ll marry bet, though, if I can.” “But you don’t know what she looks ike.” “True, but I know what a million lollars looks like.” | Why She . I Refused to i Marry Him ; I.—----: | By JAMES BLACK ! M-X-X-XXX^X-X-XK-X'X^X"!' (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) XX7ARD seven had Just one empty * * bed, and that was not likely to remain empty long. The big hospital was generally overcrowded. Nurse Bascombe moved from bed to bed on night duty, speaking a few words to the patients, smoothing their bed clothes, turning the helpless ones on their other side. The senior surgeon, Gerald W!ck ham, watched her ns she moved. At thirty-five Nurse Bascombe was as graceful as a girl. Next in line for matron. He had known her for sev eral years. There had been u time, two years before, when be bad asked her to marry him. He had felt almost confi dent of success, but she had refused him as gently as she did everything. “Is it hopeless?” he asked. “I’m afraid so.” “You cun never care?” Somehow she escaped answering that question. A wonderful woman, with a mystery In her life, every one agreed. Something unusual ,had brought that gentleness, that poise lo her. Never rutiled, never upset, site was a tower of strength to the senior surgeon. He watched her. They had re mained good friends since she had re fused him—good friends, but nothing more. Very tactfully she had let him see that his hope was destined never to be fulfilled. Her whole life was given up to her work. He had ac cepted her decision. . . . A stir without. They were bringing a patient into the ward. The matron came In advance, came up to Wick ham. An accident. A man badly crushed by a truck. There was no hope, no use to think of operating. They were bringing him in just as. he was. A filthy tramp, exhaling the odor of bootleg whisky. A low, degraded face which yet bore the stamp of former breeding and decency. Better that such a creature should pass out in that unconsciousness which had al ready mercifully supervened. The screen was drawn. The order ly was stripping the rags off the new comer. A flannel nightgown was put over the mangled body. He was lifted into the bed. Nurse Bascombe turned back the sheets. She folded them over again. A sudden indrawn hiss of her breath. The senior surgeon looked at her In surprise. Her face was deathly white, her body rigid. Only for a moment Next instant she was herself again. “Nothing can be done for him,” said Wickham. “He won’t live through the* night. You’ve been overdoing It, nurse. Better let Nurse Braham watch by him.” “No, I’ll stay here,” she answered. Ills duties called him away. He was gone an hour when the word came that the bed In ward seven was likely to be empty soon. He went back. Nurse Bascombe still sat by the dying man. She was bending over him, looking into hla face. Wickham came and stood silently beside her. It was a matter of min utes now. The breath was hardly per ceptible, the pulse Imperceptible. Sud denly, however, the dying man opened his eyes. He seemed to recognize them, the eyelids fluttered, the lips parted—then (lie head fell back on the pillow. The senior surgeon stooped over him, and then drew the sheet over his head. “Is he Identified?” he asked. “Nothing lias come about him." An orderly came forward. Behind him walked a policeman, treading the floor uncomfortably. The orderly whispered to the surgeon, who drew hack the sheet-for a moment. “That’s him.” The policeman nod ded. “Guess that’s the best thing could have happened to him." “You wanted him?” "Wanted him for months. Seven years ago he killed and robbed an old man and got away with It. We got on his trail again. I guess that’s the best thing." When he was gone Nurse Bascombe stripped the surgeon’s wrist fiercely. ‘H was—my husband," she said In a ierce, strained voice. “Do you under stand—everything?" And with a little sigh she collapsed nto his arms, unconscious. But a great happiness was being >orn In Wickham’s heart. That Quieted Them The only son had just announced his engagement to his family. “What? That girl! She squints!" •emarked his mother. “She has absolutely no style," added ids sister. “Bed-headed, isn't she?" queried tils aunt. “She’s fidgety," said grandma. “She hasn’t any money," put In his ancle. N “She doesn’t look strong!” ex claimed his first cousin. “She’s stuck up!" asserted his sec >nd cousin. “She’s an extravagant thing!” inter posed his third cousin. “Well, she has one Redeeming fea ;ure,” said the son thoughtfully. "And what's that?” asked the fam ly in chorus. “She hasn’t any relations,” was the lulet reply.—Pittsburgh Chronicle j telegraph. ‘ ttr-rja. -- .. " ... . ' ^.jap o s i Farm Loans; Fire, Lightning, Tornado, Wind storms, Cyclone, Hail, Auto, Compensation, Public Liability, Property Damage, Collision, Accident, Health and Life Insurance, see Phone 9. L. G. GILLESPIE, O’Neill, Neb. LIVED LONG ON HOPE AND WATER But Entombed Miners Did Not Establish Record .. _. Surprise has been expressed that the men rescued from the flooded pit near Falkirk, Scotland, were able to exist for nine days “on hope and water.” In point of fact, it Was Just because these men had fresh water and did not abandon hope that they not only sur vived their horrible imprisonment, but were actually able to crawl down to the shaft bottom, unaided, to join their rescuers. For a healthy man a nine days’ fast is, in itself, no very dreadful ordeal. There are indeed plenty of people who habitually fast at intervals for from three to seven days simply for health’s sake, observes Henri Pickard in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Not, of course, that there is any com parison between lying comfortably in bed without food and existing in the pitch darkness of a flooded coal pit, brenthing bad air and always under the hideous uncertainty of whether you will ever get out or not. Even so, these miners were not so badly off as a shipwrecked crew in an open boat. The mere fact of having water all around you, yet none to drink, is literally maddening. Yet the survivors from the Medusa, wrecked in the year 1870, managed to live through 13 days on a raft, without food or water, exposed, too, for much of the time, to a burning sun. Of miners the longest entombment of which we have any record is that of the last survivor from the Courrieres mine in France, after the awful explo sion of Mureh 6, 1906. He was, in all, 26 days below ground before being rescued. But he had food for the first week of his imprisonment. Doctors are divided as to how long a man can exist without food. Profes sional fasters, such as Doctor Tannef and Sued, have abstained for 40, even 50 days on end, and there Is a case re-^. ported in the Lancet of 1853 of a of sixty-two who refused food for f/ur months and recovered. The period of fasting before death ensues varies with different indlvld* als. Generally speaking, a healthy per son can go without food until he or she has lost one-third of the bodily weight. But different people do not lose weight at the same rate. Sued, for instance, lost 34 pounds 3 ounces dur ing a 40 days’ fast, but Jacques, the champion faster, lost only 28 pounds 4 ounces in the course of his record fast of 50 days. Medical Jurisprudence assumes that a fat person will live longer without food, than a thin one, for, like the hi ber'iiating bear, a fasting man con sumes his own fat. The muscles, too, lose much weight; even the skin and hd!r decrease in weight during the fast. The only part of the body which loses nothing is the heart. « The Frontier, only »u.00 per year. STOCK FARM FOR SALE. 320 acres, well improved. Located 11 miles east of O'Neill, the county seat of Holt County. 180 acres under plow, balarfPe pasture and hay mead- _ ow. Fenced and crossfenced. Price $85.00 per acre. ANTON SOUKUP, 18-tf Page, Nebraska. SCENIC CIRCLE TOURS TO BLACK HILLS VIA CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RY. Everybody can not go to California, Yellowstone Park or the Atlantic Coast but the folks in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska should enjoy the scenic attractions of our own Black Hills, reaching there practically over night. A land of great natural beauty, tree-clad hills,, rugged can yons, tumbling water falls, beautiful lakes and streams, excellent trout fishing. Make this a Black Hills Sum mer and enjoy a rare scenic treat. I Daily during the Summer months, the Chicago & North Western Ry. will sell excursion tickets to the Black Hills, including grand scenic circle tour at fares which are a real bargain. Ask any Ticket Agent for illustrated booklet and further particulars. 4-4 (First publication June 5.) NOTICE OF REFEREE’S SALE. By virtue of an order of coupe di rected to me by the District Cjj'urt of of Holt County, Nebraska, on'the re port of the Referee appointed by said court, in the case wherein Anna B. Schmidt is plaintiff, apd Anna E. Newman, Nee Schmidt, et-al are de fendants, to sell at Public Vendue at the Front door of the Court House in the City of O’Neill, Holt County, Ne braska, the following described real estate, to-wit: The South 45 feet of Lots 9, 10, 11 I and 12 in Block 17 of Hazeletts Ad dition to O’Neill, also beginning at a point 35 feet South and 45 feet East, of the S. W. corner of Block 17 of Hazeletts Addition to O’Neill, Ne braska, Thence South 225 feet, thence West 45 feet, thence South 203 feet more or less to the section line on the .South side of Section 30, Township 29 North Range 11 West 6th P. M., thence Easta along said Section line 602 feet, thence North 428 feet, thence West 557 feet to the place of begin ning, being a part of the W% of the S. L V, of the S. W. Y< Section 30, Township 29, North Range 11 West 6th I’. M. being all of Blocks 19 and 20 of Hazeletts Addition to O’Neill, except Lot 8 of said Block 20- as sur veyed and recorded, for cash, and in compliance with said order I will offer said real estate as above described for sale and will sell the same to the highest bidder for cash in hand on the 9th day of July, 19€4, at the hour of ten o’clock A. M., at the front door of the Court House in the City of O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned sole referee. Dated this 5th day of June, 1924. Matters having arisen which make it practically impossible for the referee to attend the sale on the date above fixed, the same is continued until Julp 15, 1924, at the same hour. STEPHEN J. WEEKES, 1-5 Sole Referee. f Send if ■ LET US DO YOUR DRY CLEANING -■- . GOOD SERVICE PRICES REASONABLE QUALITY THE BEST WE COLLECT AND DELIVER -■ You are as near as your phone. Phone 209. O’Neill Sanitary Laundry Progress and Satisfaction Streets