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.
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NEBRASKA CULVERT AND
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Al^STIN-WESTERN ROAD
MACHINERY
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O’Neill :: Nebraska
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DR. L. A. CARTER
Physician and Surgeon
Glasses Correctly Fitted.
Office and Residence, Naylor Blk.
-Phone 72
O’NEILL :: :: NEBRASKA
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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(©. 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 ;
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(©. 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. ‘
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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
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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.
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