We Wish You A ^ ~. ‘ V We wish to thnnk our many customers and friends and wish them a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous and Happy New Year. We greatly appreciate the business we have received during the past year and trust that we may continue to receive a generous portion of your business during the coming year. Respectfully, Warner and Sons O’Neill, Nebraska. THE FRONTIER I>. H. CRONIN, Publisher. W. C. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager. Entered at the postoffice at O'Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. THE FRONTIER WILL SOON HAVE NEW HOME The Frontier has arranged for the Use of the basement of the Royal theatre where we will be located for a few months or until a new building can be erected in the spring. New equipment is being ordered and the office will be in working order very soon. Mr. Miles and the Independent force are very kind to use and are assisting us in every way possible to issue our paper. We will ask our readers to be as lenient with us as they can in re gard to news matter. Both the Inde pendent and the Frontier will use the same local reading matter for a few weeks until our linotype arrives. This will be a little unusual and perhaps be a duplication for a few who are sub scribers to both papers, but we assure you that we will soon be able to issue separate editions. V . .—.. NEW YEARS’ EVE. Good-bye Old year—The days with you arc treasurers Stored up in little heaps, within my heart, For while of smiles you gave me double measures I've wove unto my Past, Part by Part. Aye; Wove of strands, far softer than the spiders, So fine they are unseen, to another’s eye; Yet woven so they make a mental picture, That I shall carry with me 'til I die. ’Tho some are eager now, for thy suc cessor. And even I, will give him welcome too; These moments are ours, for retro spection That I may walk, the Paths of Past, with you. Each day you’ve added greatly to my pleasures; Taught me to know the finest from the droll. Guided by hand, to make the picture, That has stamped a lasting joy upon my soul. You’ve led my thru success and direst } failures; Turned my bluest moments, to sheer delight. Brought me safely thru to thty suc cessor Who is knocking for admittance here tonight The clock is even now slowly strik ing; Tls the signal for the gates of past to close. X leave you but to trod in newer path ways. Yet I wonder what the future will disclose. *Tho my right-hand Is extended to the stranger. My left can yet safely go to you. Yet, not for long dare either of us linger So again Good-bye and Adeaux. —F. O. HA ZEN RICHARD P. EVERY. (Page Reporter., Dec. 18) Richard P. Every was born in Cana da, July 12, 1847, and died at Page Ne braska, December 14,1924, at the home •f his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. O. Blain, where he and Mrs. Every had been visiting since Thanksgiving. He suf fered a stroke of paralysis about six jwars ago and had been in poor heajth since, a week ago last Thursday he became worse and gradually grew weaker until the end came at 8:30 last Sunday morning. ‘ Mr. Every came to the U. S. A. when a boy, and in 1870 he moved to Madi son county and took a homestead. In 1902 he removed to Kingfisher, Okla homa. Mr| Every leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his loss, his wife, two sons and one daughter were with him during bis last ilness. They left for Kingfisher, Oklahoma, where in Acnnent was made. I*. J. McMAMS GIVES FIREMEN A BANQUET Members of the O’Neill Fire De partment were the guests of P. J. McManus at a banquet at the Grand Cafe Sunday evening. The delicious spread prepared in the best style of I the cafe was complimentary to the he- j roic efforts of the firemen in proven- j ting the spread of the flames from the | burning Frontier and Biglin build-: ings last Thursday evening to the. other valuable properties in the busi- [ ness section of the city. Over the ci-1 garB and coffee at the conclusion of the feed details of the fire and other similarly large conflagrations with which the department had success ful coped were discussed. Mr. P. J. McManus will be master of ceremonies and chairman of the committee on arrangmnts for the Firemen’s Ball, which is to be held sometime in January at the K. C. Hall. The Ball which will be the real social event of the winter season, will be a decidedly brilliant affair with music' by a noted orchestra and the proceeds will go to furnish details of equipment for the members of the department i which they at present are required J to furnish individually. The ball is to be given by the business men of the city and the members of the commit tee who will assist Mr. McManus in preparing for the event are Messrs. H. J. Reardon, C. P. Hancock, George Bowen and others to be named by Mr. McManus later. , Invitations to the banquet were ex-1 tended to all members of the depart-: ment, but owing to the isclement weather several were unable to be present. However twenty-eight mem bers of the department, and friends, partook of Mr. McManus’ hospitality, as folows: E. D. Henry, Geo. Bo'wen, Claude, Hancock, Donald Cole,-Cole, Clar-1 encc Sauser, Glen Lewis, Jim David son, W. J. Hammond, H. J. Hammond, J. J. McManus, Win. Gatz, Ben Harty, H. J. Reardon, W. F. Willging, Glen Tomlinson, L. C. Peters, Leo Mullen, John Kersenbrock, Clarence Zimmer- j man, Dean Selah, Morris Downey, G. E. Burge, Frank Howard, G. E. Miles, P. J. McManus,, Paul Beha and John ! Nolan. — Sleet Storm Damage* A thousand telephone llinemen arc still fighting the sleet storm damage in Iowa and Nebraska. In the 100 mile strip across the two states lay 10,000 broken poles and 100,000 miles of wire out of service because of tens of thousands of wire breaks. Con siderable headway was made Tues day toward restoration of service a long important lines. About 75 per cent of the ice Its still on the wires east of Seward in Neb raska and a heavy coat of It still lin gers to the wires north of Des Moines, Iowa and west to Mlissouri Valley. Additional damage resulted to the transcontinental lead between Omaha and the Plette river when 70 poles went down Monday. iLinemen patroll ing the lines from Omaha to Valley Monday, were unable to put up the wires as fast as they broke. There were times when a circuit would work for a few minutes and then go dead. Five crews, or about 76 men are at work on the transcontinental lead be tween Omaha and Ashland. Specially 1 prepared insulated wire is being strung to span the breaks. Cresoted pine poles will be set in place of the broken poles in this line. I It is expected that there will be 50 per cent service on the transcontinen tal lead west out of Omaha Monday 1 night and practically complete service , to Fremont and Norfolk. Local trouble i in Omaha is expected t» be fairly well cleared by Thursday night. An idea of the wire damage can be gotten from the line from Iowa Falls to Mason Oi*y, Iowa, a distance of 48 miles, which carries an average of 14 wires. There are about 2.800 wire : breaks in this line. ‘'Long Distance” > service in Iowa will be available to | all point3 by Wednesday night, and . will l>e practically normal by tlia end of the week. HOLD HACK YOUR HOGS Farmers should hold back their hogs< They are now too cheap to feed them corn, and they are almost sure to advance. May corn in Chica go is selling at about $1.20 per bu.: In order to make feeding profitable in accordance with the old rule of 13 to 1 feeding basis, hogs should sell at $15.00 per cwt. Hogs are now selling at about $9.00 per cwt. In our opin ion hog prices will advance to a parity with corn prices and they may even surpass this parity, because when their scarcity once becomes known prices may advance beyond their com parative basis. It looks a little hard to feed $1.20 corn to $9.00 hogs, but we believe it will pay, as hog prices are almost sure to advance. In addition to that it will have the effect of consuming corn on the farms and thus assist in maintaining a good price for corn, which is a desirable thing for the farmer. Why Prices of Hogs are Low Hog raisers have had a panic. Prices of corn are high and the crop very scarce. It does not pay to feed corn to hogs. Therefore, many far mers have done the natural thihg and rushed their undersized half-fat hogs to market. As many as 95,000 a single day came to Chicaga market the last week of November. Records were broken in the number of hogs, received at western markets. Is it small won der that prices have continuped low in face of such phenominal receipts?. As a matter of fact it is a remarkable j thing that prices have stayed up as ' high as they have. Pig Crop Light. The department of Agriculture at Washington say that the 1924 spring crop of pigs was much less than the previous crop and that a much small er number of sows are bred for fall! farrowing. If one takes into considderation the j large "panicky” receipts of half-fat hogs together with the short crop of pigs both for spring and fall of 1924, j and then considers the short crop of, corn of poor feeding value, the con clusion is inevitable that the country is being drained of hogs. Prices. Wheat is 60 cents per bushel higher than a year ago. Corn is 50 cents higher than a year ago. Stocks in Wall Street are breaking all previous rec ords. Everybody is optomistic about future business, meanwhile hogs are j only 1% cents per pound higher than ' one year ago. In ether words, wheat j prices are 60 per cent higher than a year ago. Corn is 70 per cent higher than a year ago, while hogs and pork products are only about 18 per cent higher than a year ago. Therefore.we say hogs are too cheap and that they are sure to advance. We advise that corn should be fed to hogs sparingly at first so that the hogs can j be held back untiil a little later in the season than usual; then they should reach a price that will compensate the farmer for feeding his high priced ! corn to them.—W. E. Gould, Vice ! President Savings Bank of Kewanec, jKewanee, Illinois. WHY DELAY THE BONES! The national bonus, that political battledore and shuttlecock of both par ties has died down now that it has be come a law. Men who fought for it have forgotten even to apply for it, and so the blank oppllcations are pil ed in Washington and more tax money is necessarily wasted. The Adjusted compensation law, pAs sed last May gave the time limit in which to apply for the bonus as 1928. Congress arranged for a new depart ment under the Veteran's Bureau with clerks sufficient to handle the ruBb j of the work, but *he applications have j * been lagging. To keep this dep&rt j ment open until 1928 will result in a | material increase in the cost of ad administration, and Congress and the I Veterans' Bureau are anxious to finish : the work. The tax-paying public, many of them ex-service men, should also be anxious to speed up the work. The Legion posts and Red Cross of j fices, in co-operation with the Vet eran’s bureau, have urged and aided the filing of application blanks, and yet the figures given out in Washing ton show that nearly 3 million men have yet to apply. The veteran himself is taking a I chance in delaying his application. Take the case of John Doe. John was twenty and nevee though* of dy ing, so he put off filing his applica tion. His dependents got *25 in 10 quarterly payments. Had he gone to the trouble of sending in his applica tion he would have left tn his family $15 > 00 payable in a lump sum. » Delay in sending in the bonus blank l is deoidely costly to the government I hut it may he even more so to the de pendents of cx-service men. Applica tion bmr.' are available at the office oi 1 e ’e third city of the country. It didn’t impress me as being busy at all, after seeing Chicago and the traff ic on Michigan Boulevard. But it contains one thing which Chicago can’t equal—the Ford factory. I should say “the parent plant,” for I believe there aie three. This one we visited, and it was a wonderful ex perience. Wo wore ushered into the factory along with fifty or more others. There were men—65,000 of them, in most places as close together as they could stand. Each man had his work car ried to and from him by great moving chains, above or below. And these moved fast enough so that one could not do much resting between jobs. | Mysterious looking pieces of machin-! ery they worked on which meant noth-1 ing to me., but as we followed the1 chain, gradually they grew. One tiny piece of iron, or one new screw added by each man handling it. Finally it became an engine. Then on to a wheel-base which gradually acquired wheels, engine, battery, and the num erous other parts. Then a body (which I believe is manufactured elsewhere) was lifted on, fastened, spots touched with paint, lights and engine tested, and behold, the finished car driven off and into the freight cars for shipping! One had to marvel at | the genius of the man or men who j planned it all—it looked like efficiency to the nth degree. We often think of housework as monotonous, but it is indeed full of the spice of life by con trast to that where one spends 8 or 10 hours a day just tightening the same bolt in the same piece of iron, i From Detroit we drove on through Ohio, with its prosperous looking farms, at least, judging so from the size of houses and barns. I wondered if the large houses are not remainders from the time of large families, and when traveling was difficult and slow, where every farm-house had to be equipped to care for travelers. ; In Marion we drove by the Harding home, which is such as any of us can i hope to own, homey and comfortable | looking; by the Star building, dingy and unattractive; then to that tempor ary resting place which has been visit ed by many thousands of people, great and ordinary. It is indeed inspiring to see the places which have known a great man so intimately, and have seen him rise by his own efforts from a youth of poverty and few advantages to the greatest in the world. From Marion we drove through country becoming increasingly hilly, to Canton. There we saw places of the life of McKinley, and the great memorial, with its most wonderful tribute *o him. And from Canton on one knew he was getting near Pennsylvania—in creasing height of the hills, beautiful i wooded slopes, villages built almost entirely along the street of the high way, houses opening on the sidewalks, then gradualy mines, coke ovens, great steel and iron works, air which was hazy with smoke, ravines and wooded spots, which had been beautiful, but which were full of immense, ugly piles of black waste. Through cities which show the greatest contrast in manner of life, magnificent homes with im mense grounds—mile after mile mani festing great wealth. Then to dingy, tumbled-down, smoke stained houses,! dooryeards (where there were any) full of dirty children and covered with cin ders, where no sprig of green could possibly1 live. South from Pittsburg the great steel mills became less and less frequent, and coal mines and coke ovens more so. At Uniontown, we saw the outside of a coal mine and coke ovens. They told us that nearly all of the coal mines about there convert their entire out put into coke. The more up-to-date ovens are "by-product” ovens—where not onlly coke, but benzol, tar, oil and other things of value are produced. But there are innumerable “bee-hive” ovens where only coke is produced, which are most effective at night with their brilliant fires coming through holes in the tops. At umontown we entered me moun tains, not cheerfully, but at least well warned. Our informer told us that it was pretty bad, especially for those who didn’t know the roads—that not only was it very steep, but the curves so bad that you would meet yourself coming back—that many cars turned over on the curves, and that there was very sure to be snow in the mountains. With all this reasuring information, at the first turn on the way up we saw the signs, "Prepare to meet they God.” It was all true, but after we got over a little of our nervousness, it was perfectly beautiful. A light snow which became heavier as we climbed I higher, covered every leaf and twig— a real fairy land—every turn a new view of beauty. We passed the site of old Fort Necessity where Washington l had to surrender, the only time in his I life. And we saw General Braddock's | grave, all of it making more vivid the | impressions of the struggles of those days. We were in mountains, for many miles, though they gradually grew less high. In western Maryland was little evidence of progress. Everywhere rail fences, land absolutely waste, with i stumps, occasionally a man plowing with a hand plow, little schools which would scarcely be fit for coal sheds at home. But everywhere the beautiful wooded slopes, and no longer marred by smoke or piles of waste. And so on (through gradually more familiar, but THE FERNANDEZ ENTERTAINERS Hawaii—that happy land of romance, music and of gorgeous sun shine has an ever present appeal and there is always a popular de mand for our friends from this little sister republic in the Far Pacific, and for the sweet melodies they bring. To meet this demand St. Mary’s Academy has engaged a companv of three native Hawaiian singers and players, the Fernandez Entertainers, for January 16, 1925. Watch for further announcements. still beautiful country, finaly to Wash ington and the place we shall live in for a few months, but which will not be home. GLADYS W. SIMMONS. New Train Schedule. A new time card went into effect on the Northwesttrn Sunday that will effect the traffic in and out of O’Neill to some extent. The details of the new time card are as follows: Train No. ,11, the O’Neill-Winner passenger, will leave Omaha at 6:50 a. m., fifteen minutes later than at present, will connect with train 111 at Fremont and will arrive at Norfolk at 11:20 a. m., 25 minutes earlier; will make connection with No. 32 from Sioux City due in Norfolk at 12:20 p. m. and No. 422 from Winner due in Norfolk at '12:45 p. m. Train No. 11 will leave Norfolk at 12:55 p. m. and arrive in O’Neill at 3:25 p. m., connecting with train 63 for Long Ptae. Train No. 411 will leave Norr f«R at 1:26 p. m., arriving in Winner at 9:05 p. m., same as the present. The passenger equipment will be op erated between Omaha and Winner and passengers for the west of Nor folk will change cars there. Train No. 12 to run later: On the return movement train No. 12 (old No. 2) connecting with train 64 from Long Pine will leave O'Neill at 3:50 p. m. arrive in Norfolk at 6:25 p. m., connecting with train 412 (old No. 402) from Bonesteel due to arrive in Norfolk 5:55 p. m. Train No. 12 will leave Norfok at 6:40 p. m., arrive in Omaha at 11:16 p. m. 46 minutes later tnan tne present time. The passenger equipment in train 512 will run thru to Omaha in train 12 and passengers from the west will change cars at Norfolk. Train 22, Omaha and Chicaga pass enger, will arrive in Norfolk at 12:55 p. m. and depart at. 1.10 p. m. five minutes earlier and will arrive in Omaha 5:35 p. m. as at present. This train connects at Fremont with train 125 leaving Fremont at 6:10 p. m. arriving in Lincoln at 7:50 p. m. daily except Sunday. Oji Sunday, Decem ber 21, Dec. 28 and Jan. 4, a special passenger train will be operated Fre mont to Lincoln on the time of train 125 for the accommodation of stu dents and other holiday travel. Train No. 14 (old No. 6) will leave Long Pine at 11:30 p. m., arrive in Norfolk 4:45 a. m., depart at 5:05 a. m., arrive Omaha 9:50 a. in. Royal Theatre The Home of Good Pictures -■ FRIDAY . Gloria Swanson and Tom Moore in “MANHANDLED” Comedy -SATURDAY -- Viola Dona, Alen Forest in “DON’T DOUBT YOUR HUSBAND” Riddle Rider and Comedy -SUNDAY AND MONDAY Jackie Coogan in “BOY OF FLANDERS” Comedy and News. -* TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY — “HOLLYWOOD” All Star Cast Comedy -THURSDAY and FRIDAY Viola Dona, Monte Jllne, Lew Cody Marjorie Daw in “REVELATION” Coming— “Peter Pan.” “Hunch Back of Notre Dame.” NEW FEED STORE at the Robert’s Barn We will have all kindg of feed and will deliver. Phone, Office $86—Residence 270—303 ROBERTS & HOUGH Spinal Analysis Physical Diagnosis DR. C. H. LUBKER . Chiropractor PHONE 316 O’NEILL, NEW?. DR. L. A. CARTER rSl'SIClAN AND SURGEON Glasses Correctly Fitted. •ftlce and Residence, Naylor Block. Phone 72. DR. H. L. BENNETT GRADUATE VETERINARIAN DAT AND NIGHT Phone 304 9’NEIIjIj, ts tf NEBRV .4 SR A T this joyous holi day season, as well as throughout the entire vear, even the humblest American home enjoys con venient contact with the out side world over the nation wide telephone lines of the Bl'U System. Our country has two-thirds of the earth’s telephones and the most extensively used service in the world, v A