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BOWEN’S
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STORE
MOKE LOCAL MATTERS.
Miss Maxine O’Donnell went to Lin
coln this morning and will enter the
state university.
John Phalin and James McPharlin
went to Omaha this morning where
they will enter Creighton college.
Miss Marie Brugeman, the steno
grapher in the office of the county
agent, is taking aHwo weeks' vacation
and is visiting at her home at Bristow.
CLARK-BERGER.
(Inman Leader, Sept. 4.)
Gene Clark, of Inman, and Miss
Ada Berger, of Stanton, were married
Thursday, August 28, at Council
Bluffs, Iowa. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Higganbothem, pastor
of the Congregational church, at the
home of the groom’s sister, Mrs. R. E.
Moor, at Council Bluffs. The wedding
took place at 5 o’clock followed by a
six o’clock dinner. From Council
Bluffs they drove to Lincoln where
they spent a few days at the Ne
braska state fair, arriving home Wed
nesday. They expect to make their
home temporarily on a farm south of
town. The happy couple have a large
circle of friends who join in extending
congratulations and best wishes.
FRADY-GRUBB.
(Chambers Sun, Sept. 4.)
A pretty wedding was solemnized
at tiha Methodist church at Chambers,
Wednesday noon, September 3rd, when
Miss Florence Grubb, of Oakdale,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Grubb, of Chambers, became the beau
tiful bride of Mr. Ned Frady, of Oak
dale. The wedding knot was tied by
Rev. F. R. Davis, grandfather of the
bride in the presence of a large num
ber of friends. The church was pret
tily decorated with flowers and ferns.
The bridal pair were attended by Miss
Helen Hermann and Robert McKee
han, Elvira Sasse and Muriel String,
fellow were the bridesmaids and
groomsmen. Following the ceremony
a wedding dinner was served to about
forty guests in the church parlors.
The tables were daintily decorated
in pink and white.
The bridal party left shortly for
Oakdale, their future home, where the
festivities extended ’till the wee small
hours of the morning.
Florence is one of beautiful Cham
bers Valley highly esteemed young
ladies while the groom is a worthy
young man of Oakdale and holds a
position in the mill of that city
* A. T. HART.
(Atkinson Graphic, Sept. 5.)
A. T. Hart, 08, Atkinson’s pioneer
clothing merchant who has been in
the men’s furnishing business in this
city for nearly forty years, was
stricken with embolism of the heart
Tuesday afternoon and died instantly
while at his regular work in the store.
Mr. Hart had been in appearently
good health with the exception of com
plaining now and then of a pain in his
chest. This he had looked after, and
he was taking treatment for it but the
malady overtook him in spite of his
precautions.
Funeral services were held this
morning at the Presbyterian church
in Atkinson, the Rev. Longstaff of
O’Neill, assisted by Rev. Prather, of
Atkinson, officiating. Burial was made
in Woodlawn cemetery. To pay trib
ute to Mr. Hart all business in Atkin
son was called to a halt about 10:30
this morning while the funeral proces
sion wound its way slowly to the
cemeterv. <
A. T. Hart was born in Indiana,
Pennsylvania, April 25, 1856. He
grew to manhood at his birthplace in
Pennsylvania where he took a course
in the Elders Ridge Academy and was
later employed by the mercantile firm
of Marshall and Kline for fourteen
years before coming west. He came to
Atkinson in 1887, opening a store in
partnership with his brother, the late
Robert N. Hart, in the place at present
occupied by J. T. Bauman.
He later engaged in business with
his brother-in-law, Arthur C. Cross
man on his present business site.
After a time he purchased the entire
stock and conducted a men’s furnish
ing store. Several years ago he erect
ed the present building which he oc
cupied at the time of his death.
For a period of thirty-seven years
Mr. Hart was actively identified with
the business and other laudable in
terests of the town and will be great
ly missed on every hand. In business
he was not only a successful merchant
but a fair competitor. He was genial
and obliging in manner and charitable
in every worthy cause.
He was a member of Atkinson
Lodge No. 164 A. F. & A. M. of which
he was a Past Master and of the I. O.
O. F. in which he was a Past
Noble Grand; a member also of the
Highlander and Woodman fraternal
orders.
He has at different times been a
useful member of the town board and
the school board and has performed
the secretary’s work of the cemetery
association, laid down by his brother
Robert, who preceded him in death
just ten months ago.
In 1888 Mr. Hart returned to his
hiome in Pennsylvania where on Sep
tember 5th he was united in mar
riage to June W. Wherle, the devoted
wife, who, with their daughter Grace,
survives him. His sudden death which
came as a shock to the community is
proportionately greater ta his faith
ful companion who has been so close
ly associated with him in business as
well as in the home.
In eai’ly life Mr. Hart became a
member of the United Presbyterian
church, transferring his membership
later to the Presbyterian church in
Atkinson of which he was still a mem
ber, and where his funeral service was
held at 10 o’clock this morning. A
prayer service at the home preceded
that at the church.
Besides the wife and daughter who
mourn the loss of a kind and thought
ful husband and father, thejre are
left of the immediate family, a broth
er, James G. Hart, of Moline, Illi
nois; two sisters, Mrs. Clara S. Cross
man, of Omaha, and Mrs. C. J. Wilson
of this city, all of whom were here
for the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Williams, the son-in-law and daughter
of the deceased, whose home is in
Omaha, arrived Wednesday morning
in response to a telegram bearing the
'ad news.
Many beautiful floral pieces ex
pressed the sympathy and respect of
friends.
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER.
---
The appearance of Dan Butler and
a third party state ticket, displeasing
as it is to the democrats, comes within
the republican open-house attitude of
crowd on closing day at the state fair,
_VEGETABLES!
Fine selected potatoes. Only nice ones sold.
Cucumbers for pickling.
Tomatoes and sweetcorn for canning.
Deliveries every day.
The Sanitary Dairy
Phone 84. F. H. LANCASTER, Owner
I Dr. J. S., Rogers, Specialist I
DISEASES OF CHILDREN AND MATERNITY CASES (
ASSOCIATED WITH HOT SPRINGS CLINIC I
HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA |
MEDICINE, SURGERY, EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
oncer HOT SPRINGS CLINIC »“s
CLINICAL Specializing in OF CHILDREN
LABORATORY HOT SPRINGS, SO. DAK. TUBERCULOSIS
opportunity to make a showing. In
view of the fact that the Norton fol
lowers have endeavored to suppress
Mr. Butler, whatever Butler gains will
quite naturally be a dead loss to Nor
ton.
With the Dawes reparation plan now
in effect. President Coolidge will call
another international conference for a
further reduction of armaments.
Adam McMullen, addressing a big
crowd on closing day at the state fair,
confined himself to agriculture, the
subject with which he is most familiar.
“Agriculture has had too much polL
tical organizing and not enough busi
ness organizing,” he said. “It has too
many alleged leaders who talk and
lecture and thepH-e—men who do not
get down to brass tacks or to prac
tical and tangible things.
“Legislation is not the all-important
thing with agriculture. Business action
is what counts. Legislation can help
the farmer to help himself and that
is as far as it can go. Wonderful
progress has been made in the past
thirty years along agricultural lines.
This has been due to intelligent effort
and diligence on the part of the
farmer.”
“The taxation problem in Nebraska
is closely identified with agriculture
because 73 per cent of revenue raised
by taxation comes from real estate
and 77 per cent of this real estate tax
is levied on farm property. This places
on the farm a tax burden out of pro
portion to income. The only way in
which this burden may be lessened is
through economical management of
public (.flairs not alone in the state
government but in all subordinate
units of government. Money should
be spent only for necessaries and we
should see to it that every tax dollar
purchases 100 cents worth of value.”
The most vital word reaching re
publican state headquarters from all
sections of the state is that the farm
er is satisfied. He is paying his debts
and getting back on his feet. A signi
ficant fact is taken from the small
number of newspapers in Nebraska
supporting LaFallette. There probably
are less tnan a half dozen of them.
LOUSE CREEK NAMED
AFTER “COOTY” BATHS
* _ **
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6.—How did
Louse Creek cut in Holt county get
its name Why, of all possible names,
did early pioneers call one small Ne
braska stream, Stove Creek
To such intriguing questions the
answers have been unearthed by the
research Professor J. T. Link of the
Conservation and Survey division of
the University of Nebraska who is
contemplating four years of investi
gation on place-names in Nebraska.
Running down rumor, analyzing
fabulous tales woven into the oral
history of tlhe state—this has been
involved in the immense investigation
to determine the names—present and
past—of the state, counties, cities,
towns, postoffices, topographic and
geographic. For accuracy each place
name had to be checked, the testimony
of persons and publications corrobor
ated, before final judgment could be
determined.
In Professor Link’s files are the rec
ords of ten thousand Nebraska place
names, secured through investigation
of records which sometimes antedated
the purchase of the Louisiana territory
from France. In the case of other
names the problem was solved more
readily by reference to newspaper files
and clippings, personal interviews, and
to letters of which he has received
thousands. At old settlers’ reunions
names-sources from early residents
Professor Link plans to publish this
he has found a fertile field to ascertain
information soon as his thesis for the
doctorate of philosophy in the con
servation and survey division.
“Origin of names in Nebraska,” he
says, “may trace to numerous sources.
Many are monuments to public serv
ants, from president down to post
master. The Indian, the discoverer,
explorer, surveyors, soldier, pioneer
and early settler, founders of towns,
railroad men, authors, clergymen, his
torians have left their names on the
map of Nebraska Topography, geolo
gical structure, the soil, streams,
springs, animals, native vegetation,
historical events and location have
contributed hundreds of names to the
geographical nomenclature of the
state.
Trival circumstances gave rise to
names. When Surveyor Robert Har
vey came to that creek in Holt county,
he found that the clothes of his group
had become infested with “cooties”
and he ordered a general cleanup at
this steram,which has ever since been
known as Louse Creek. Jn another
instance one of the surveying party
shot a red deer on the banks of a lake
in Cherry county and the name of Red
Deer was given the lake. The finding
of a stove in a creek, supposed to have
been dropped by Mormons in fording
the stream, induced the settlers to call
the waterway Stove Creek.
Adams, Madison, Lincoln, Wash
ington, Pierce, Grant, Arthur and
other presidents have furnished names
for counties and towns. Franklin,
Webster, Blaine, Douglas and Hamil
ton are names that commemorate
statesmen of national renown. Terri
torial governors—Burt, Richardson,
Cuming. Furnas, Thayer and others—
have been honored. The names of men
who distinguished themselves on the
field of battle—such as Sherman,
Sheridan, Custer,. Logan—have been
perpetuated in town and county
names.
“Dawson, Sarpy, Scottsbluff, Bara
da, St. Heroin, Friends and other per
petrate the names of early trappers,
fur traders and pioneers. Deuel, Per
kins, Holdredge, Blair and scores of
others are monuments of railroad
men.
The buffalo, antelope, beaver, praK
rie dog, coon, deer, otter, elk, dtftk,
goose, crow, eagle and practically
every native animal has left, its name
on the map. The same ma^ be said of
every tree native to the state—especi
ally in the naming of Streams. Topo
graphical features,, have given us such
names as Rock^eounty, Valley county,
Box Butte coflnty and Round Valley.
Such names as Central City, Center,
Milford and Plattsmouth point out lo
cation. From the Indians we have
picked up names like Otoe, Omaha,
Nemaha, Ogallala, Sioux, Cheyenne,
Brule and Osceola
Foreign counties have contributed
I the names of Warsaw, Tarnov, Breslau
and Dannebrog. From eastern states,
Nebraska pioneers brought not only
their household goods and families but
also a fondness for the names of their
forrtler homes — Fairbury, Aurora,
Bloomington and Lexington.
LOCAL YOUTH WINS
AWARDS AT OXFORD
FOR SCHOLARSHIP
(Daily Times, El Paso, Texas.)
M. J. Garrett, father of Milan Way
ne Garrett, formerly lived in Holt
county, and taught school at Inman,
Middlebraneh and near Kennard.
He still owns NEVi of Section 34,
in Township 30, Range 9 West.
Mr. Garrett, after leaving O’_eill
in 1886, graduated from Des Moines
University, married, was a city super
intendent of schools in Montana and
member of state board of education
for four years. Then spent seven
years in the Philippine service; made
a tour of the world, and is now a cot
lion grower down on the Rio Grande
in New Mexico with headquarters at
El Paso, Texas.
As the result of his work as a
Rhodes scholar, Milan Wayne Garrett,
whose parents reside at 619 North
Ochoa street, has won the higher
honor of a research fellowship at Ox
ford and Cambridge for two years,
granted by the International Educa
tion board of the Rockerfellow Foun
dation, with a more ample allowance
tiiat the Rhodes scholarship, Mr. Gar
rett is only 22 years old.
Friends point out that the success
achieved by Mr. Garrett during the
three years of his Rhodes scholarship
at Oxford reflects credit on the state
of New Mexico, which he represented,
as well as the preparatory schools
which he attended.
A recent scientific work published
by Professor Soddy makes special
mention of the research work contri
buted by Mr. Garrett as being of dis
tinctive value.
The London Times of July 8 gives
the results of Oxford honor examina
tions, from which it appears that Mr.
Garrett made a “first” in physics, the
highest credit attainable.
One of his Oxford friends, an Eng
lishman, who made “first” in chemis
try, wrote of him: “His success has
been less of a surprise to others than
to himself—he always was a marked
man.”
After the honor examinations Mr.
Garrett was one of a party of 25
American students of science in Brit
ish universities selected to visit the
universities and science laboratories of
Holland as guests of the Netherlands
American Foundation.
After the Netherlands tour Mr. Gar
rett came to America and has spent
several weeks visiting with relatives
and making a canoe and fishing trip in
Canadian lakes with his father and
brother-in-law, Dr. Grumer, of the
University of Minnesota.
He will return to Oxford, sailing
from New York on September 6, and
will take up his work under the guid
ance of Professor Lindemann, the cele
brated physicist.
Mr. Garrett is linguist of conspic
uous ability, an extensive traveler and
an enthusiastic devotee of grand
opera.
Last March he built for himself a
radio outfit with which he could not
only distinctly hear grand opera, ad
dresses and such pograms from all
parts of Great Britain and France, but
was among the first to clearly record
messages from the stations in
America. His instrument picked up
messages from Schenectady, N. Y.,
and Pittsburgh, Pa.
In recognition of this achievement
the postal department of the British
government granted Mr. Garrett a
special dispensation to carry on experi
mental work with radio, as the law
restricts licenses to British subjects.
Mr. Garrett attended El Paso High
school four years, graduating in 1916.
He did two years undergraduate work
at the University of New Mexico, and
two years at Stanford university, win
ning Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
honors at the age of 19. At the age
of 20 he took his A. M. in chemistry
at Stanford and was elected to the
Rhodes scholarship from New Mexico.
His parents own farming lands in the
Upper valley near Canutillo and La
Union, Dona Ana county, which con
stitutes their legal residence. Hence
his election from that state.
SUPERVISORS’ PROCEEDINGS.
(Continued from page eight.)
The following claim was audited
and on motion allowed on the State
Highway fund:
Carl R. Miller Tractor Co.,
balance due on tractor .... $1,600.00
The following claims were audited
and on separate motion allowed on
the General fund:
Joe Welsh, assessor claim .... $140.00
C. R. Welton, assessor claim.. 85.00
Sterling P. Wanser,
assessor claim . 300.00
Joe Thramer, assessor claim.. 100.00
L. E Skidmore, board session 14.20
M. F. Stanton, assessor claim 240.00
F. P. Snyder, assessor claim ... 65.0fr
A. E. Sutton, assessor claim ....22&00
Harvey W. Smith, assessor
claim . 95.00
Wm. Storts, assessor clajjrf . 105.00
E. W. Richter, assessor claim 120.00
V. V. Rosenkrans, assessor
claim .s'-. 25.00
C. B. Nellis, board session .... 28.00
Frank Nelson, assessor claim 10.00
J. C. Nelson, assessor claim.... 105.00
Otto Nilson, assessor claim. 105.00
Henry Mullen, assessor claim.. 90.00
M. J. Minahan, assessor claim.. 160.00
H. J. Lienhart, assessor claim 155.57
M. C. Lewis, assessor claim ... 287.00
J. B. Long, assessor claim . 1.00
Frank LeMunyan, assessor
claim .„. 103.00
A. E. Lee, assessor claim . 95.00
Frank Kaup, assessor claim.... 246.62
Geo. W. Holcomb, assessor
claim . 160.00
John W. Hiber, assessor claim 245.00
John M. Grutsch, assessor
claim . 150.00
A. W. Good, assessor claim .... 110.00
T. J. Donohoe, assessor claim 170.00
A. J. Davis, assessor claim .... 186.00
FOR SALEM
As I am agent for the Standard Oil Co., in O’Neill, I will |f
sell my tire shop if taken at once.
Forest Smith I
————i——/
Chas. Crosser, assessor claim 235.00
Ray Cunningham, assessor
claim . 125.00
Geo. Crawford, assessor claim 170.00
W. B. Cooper, assessor claim.. 140.00
Calvin Allyn, assessor claim.. 110.25
S. M. Aldridge, assessor claim 120.50
Arthur Burge, assessor claim 130.00
E. J. Beeney, assessor claim .... 125.00
Jesse Briles, assessor claim .... 95.00
At 5 o’clock p. m. on motion board
took a recess until 8 o’clock p. m.
L. C. McKIM, Chairman.
E. P. PORTER, Clerk.
O’Neill, Neb,, Aug. 13, 1924, 8 p. m.
Board met pursuant to motion of
recess. All members present. Board
called to order by Chairman.
To the Hon. Board of Supervisors of
Holt County, Nebraska.
Gentlemen: After a special in
spection thereof I find the, following
described County Bridges either im
passable or in a very dangerous con
dition and hereby request your hon
orable body to immediately take
measures to repair or replace the
same.
First Bridge is on the section line
between Sections 26 and 35, Township
31, Range 12. __ A 2-span 16 feet each
>vith approaches 12 feet each.
Second Bridge located between Sec
tions 30 and Section 31-31-12. One
span 32 feet, 13 joists, 4 small piles
at each end. Creek runs around west
end.
Third Bridge No. 348. 32-feet long
by 16 feet wide, 2-spans, 3 piles to
each span. Joists 7 to span.
Fourth Bridge in NW^4 Section 4,
Township 31, Range 12. 76 feet long
and 14 feet wide 6 bents, one pile
gone, in very bad condition Should
be moved west 150 feet or more
Fifth Bridge is between Sections 16
and 21, Township 31, Range 13, an 8
foot bridge Should be 24-feet to
meet the requirements. One cap and
some plank are good.
Dated August 13, 1924.
M. F. NORTON,
County Highway Commissioner.
We, the undersigned members of the
County Board on the 30th day of July
and 13th day of August inspcted the
following bridges after complaint as
to their dangerous condition had been
made to the County Board and we re
port as follows:
We inspected the bridge known as
the Richardson bridge located between
Sections four and five, Township
Thirty-two, Range Twelve, and found
that it is in an unsafe and dangerous
condition.
The piling are badly rotted and are
too small to hold up the bridge, load
ed. One of the piling is completely
washed out. The caps are badly rot
ted and have worked to one side evi
dently caused by pressure from flood
trees. The floor is badly worn and
rotted. The guard rails are partly
gone; those remaining are rotten.
None of the present material is fit
for further use.
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It is our opinion that the defects
above set out makes this bridge
dangerous to travel and unsafe. We
do not think it can be repaired. It is
our opinion that a new bridge should ,
be built to replace the present danger
ous one. This bridge is on a main
traveled road and we recommend
jhtompt action before some serious
accident occurs.
With reference to the Vequist
bridge located between Sections
Twenty-five and Thirty, Township
Thirty-one, Range Twelve and Thir
teen we found it to be unsafe and
dangerous.
The piling are badly rotted* small
and some of them have been pushed
out of place; on the south side they
are two feet out of place. Caps are
bent over and badly rotted. Floor is
rotted and badly worn except some
few plank. Guard rail almost com
pletely gone. Back plank on south
side rotted out and dirt approach
(Continued next week.)
INTERSTATE FAIR
Opening September 14th with a pro
gram of Automobile Races with World’s
Champion Drivers. Following five days,
Harness and Running races with
$7,500.00 offered in purses. Five,Big Cir
cus Acts, the Chicago Cadets Band and
other features every&fternoon. Satur
day afternoon Automobile Races.
y
Commepdng Monday night, the Big
Fireworks Spectacle, Mystic China,
carrying two baggage cars of scenery
apd using 150 people in its presentation.
/Vaudeville, band and other features
nightly.
Sept.'14-15-16 -17-18 • 19 -20
Live Stock Show; Boys* and Girls*
Club work and exhibits of Merchery
and products of the Farm and Home.
Baby Health Contest. Horseshoe pitch
ing Tournament. Team pulling Contest.
The program for the entire week is one
of Education and Clean Amusemept.
The Rueben and Cherry Shows on
the Mid-way.
Sio\ix City