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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1925)
THE FRONTIER I), n. CRONIN, Publisher. W. C, TEMPLETON, Editor and Easiness Manager. Entered at the postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. The Good Old Days. If yon sit down with a group of men past fifty, it won’t be long until you hear something about “the good old days,” But nothing is said about the hotel room with bowl and pitcher and slop jar, a dirty piece of soap, a hairbrush on a chain, a roller towel, and a sink that stinks. When you hear some of these old moss-backs talking about “the good old days” just remind them of the time when someone had to keep the old fly-brush going during meal time and the white-winged brigade follwed the horses on the streets with shovels and push carts. When every home had a fence around it and the husband came home at night with his breath reeking with stale beer, limburger cheese and onions. *When you read your book at night beside an ill smelling coal-oil lamp and had to take off the chimney and trim the wick at intervals. When you heated a kettle of hot water on Saturday night and took your bath on a rubber mat on the kitchen floor. When the picturos on the parlor walls were •rude crayon portraits of stern men with long beards and shriveled wo men In lace caps. "Good old days” Indeed! When you never saw an orange except al Christmas time and never tastod ice cream except on the Fourth of July, •r at some grand social affair. When the county fair was the one big thing) of the year and the little children played with empty spools and corn cobs. Why, we live more in one glad week today than we did then in a whole year. We have oranges for breakfast almost the entire year round. We have hot running water upRtairs and down, and we bathe in clean porce lain tuba and tiled showers. We throw away beautiful calendars with colored pictures that people would have been proud to hang in the par lors in “those good old days.” We drive twenty miles of an evening ovei | paved roads, in soft cushioned cars to see a moving picture that takes us around the world and come back to a home that is warmed by furnace heat We step to a little instrument upon a stand in the hall and talk to our distant friends instantly. We tune in •n the radio and listen to a band play ing hundreds of miles away. We go out on the front step an pick up the Ci'cning paper and read a full account of an earthquake disaster in Japan that happened that Barae day. We read of a big ship In mid-ocean that Is in distress and learn that other vessels are steaming to her aid. We press a button and the house !s flooded with light, we turn a little dial on the wall and know that though the ther mometer falls below aero, the home will have a temperature of seventy when we awake in the morning. Wo drop our soiled linen Into a clothes ehute in the wall and it goes to the laundry in the cellar, where an elec tric washing machine awaits it. Frigid air in the ice chest keeps the food fresh and the housewife touches a match to the burner under tho oven on the kitchen range, adjusts a heat rogulator, puts in the meat for sup . per, and goes away to spend the af ternoon while the eveneing meal is cooking, Our window^ are screened against flies and bugs in the summer and weather stripped against snow and wind in the wnter. We go far ther, stay longer and get back quick er than we ever did before. Don’t let the old fellows deceive you, my son, about “the good old days.” This picture may be slightly over drawn, but a possibility with all of u« in these dayB of swift living. Who would be willing to go back to the se-callod “good old days.” Not I. Ain't it The Truth? There are showier towns than our little town, there are towns that are Mgger than this. And the people who live In the quieter towns don’t miss what excitement we have. There are things you see in the wealthier towns that you don’t see in a town that’s small; and yet up and down, there id no town like our little town after 4R. In the glittering streets of the glu tting town, with its palace and pave wfeat and thrall, in the midst of the throng you will frequently long for jdmr own little town after all. If you lire and you work in your own little tflfwn, in spite of the fact that it’s af&all, you’ll find in the end that our X little own is the best little town r all. MObraska lloasts 4,000 Lady Farmer*. Nebraska boasts 4,000 lady farmers according to data analyzed by the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. Of this number over 2500 operate farms, 2,000 their own, 6 as managers and not quite 500 as tenants, the data disclosed. Dairying, poultry and hog raising are some of the branches of agricul ture in which the women farmers of tlie state specialize, the analysis re vealed The land under cultivation by the feminine agriculturists is ciose to 675,000 acres, of which 360,000 acres are improved. Th* value of these farms is 60 million dollars, figures further revealed that wo-. r cultivate 1.9 per cent of all the IP arms In the state and 1.6 per cent f the total acreage, the value hr>!-' .6 per cent of the whole. The aver ge value of the land and building: n farms operated by women wa wnd to be in excess of $26,000. Commenting on the large percent ge of women who go in for dairying nd poultry raising, the Institute seer v peculiar adaptation of these occu mtions to the feminine nature. From arly times, it says, the average fa r, .voman has had to care for the milk and act as dairymaid, too. And milk ng cows and selling butterfat with ta requirements of olose attention to details seems to be a type of work that woman naturally take to. The same appears to hold true for poul try raising. For pin money for the thousand and one items needed in the home, the sale of eggs and poultry and cream has ever been known as a sure means. Many a woman in need of more money has almost instiictive ly turned to milking cows and keep ing bens. January 28, 1025. Dr. L. A. Carter, Medical Adviser, City Board of Health, O’Neill, Nebraska. I Dear Doctor: I have been thinking over your re cent inquiries in regard to my inter pretation of the State Quarantine Reg ulations. There has always been con siderable confusion In regard to health regulations here. To the average citi zen, our handling of health matters must be amusing. We arc very arbi trary. I realize that you have been rather unsupported in the past but I feel that now your support may be belter. The inrlety expressed by the Chairman of tiie Board of Health at two recent f meetings of the City Council would ndicate that wo are going to expect nwclf more law enforcement. It is rue this anxiety about the apparent llsrespoct of law-abiding citizens for he enforcement of a certain Federal iw, but if we are anxious about the nforcement of Federal law, how inch more keen should we bo for egulations regarding our health? There has been diptheria in our .idst for several months. Word omes to me that this is a "peculiai ore throat going around.” Not so pe uliar to a Doctor when he sees it allowed by paralysis. I also hear iiat some of these cases do not prove 0 be diptheria when cultures are sent 1 the State laboratory at Lincoln re we to deny what we see with ou; ves, because the laboratory man ii nuoln does not find the diptheirr orm? I havo taken care of at lean: ' :e case here, who was satisfied he ad diptheria without sending cultur i, and he demanded, at once a large *e of antitoxin. Are we to quibble x>ut what the report is from Lincolr t the risk of spreading the disease ? losing the patient’s life? Now, in regard to quarantine of ptherla contacts and patients, the iw is very/distinct. It reads: "Until vo cultures from the*nose and two om the throat, twenty-four hours part and at least eight hours after ha use of an antiseptic, prove nega Ive”. Where do we get this right that Hows us to give a dose of antitoxin ad turn the rest of the household ee? It is a good sample of our ieal4h regulations. i very near caused the death of a >ung woman here by a small dose { antitoxin, which was given because lie had been unnecessarily exposed to ptherla. A mail carrier was allowed o leave his home where his wife and aild had diptheria. He was allowed . go to the post office and carry mail. 0 contracted the disease, of course, nd exposed the entire office force, to had not even been vaccinated. \\pa if he had the law would not ul w him to leave his house. Do we think we are fooling the peo le we are dealing with, when we realt these regulations? We know ve are not. Now, further, what is the use of ailing a pox-disease, chicken pox. /hen we know smallpox is all about is. What is the use of calling scarlet . ver, scarlatina, when we know it is jrohably the former. Still another uestkm tlio City Marshall Is a very ;ood officer, I will .admit. None bet er, but ho is not able to diagnose .isoase. I think he will tell you so. .'he Doctor in charge should know , vhat his patient is suffering with. 1 realize, as I said before, that you tare not been consulted as you should n your office as the City Health Ad isor, but I feel now there is going o be more strict and more common onse enforcement of health regula tions. I will try to co-operate with you in ?very way. Sincerely, W. F. FINLEY, M. D. WFF:fR BONUS REGULATIONS FOR DEPENDENTS OF DECEASED WORLD WAR VETERANS New bonus regulations have been gotten out by the Veterans’ Bureau ac cording to word received to-day from /ashington. These regulations are o help the dependenf parents, widows \nd children of deceased World War veterans in filing their applications for the bonus. The first and most important thing according to the regulations, is to send in a certified copy of the veter an’s death record unless the veteran a^ed in the service. The affidavits to accompany the death record vary ac cording to whether the claimant is the wife, mother, or child. The mother and father of a deeeas ed veteran must send in a sworn statement of dependency accompanied by the affidavits of two disinterested persons who personally knew the claimant at the time of the veteran’s death and who swear to the truth of the claimant’s statement. Evidence of whole or entire dependency is not re quired. The establishment of the fact that a mother or father of a deceased veteran did not have sufficient means, from all sources, for a reasonable live lihood without help from the veteran at the time of his death and that the veteran did contribute to the support of his parents, will be considered suf ficient dependency to entitle the moth er or father to the bonus. The term "mother" and "father" in cludes stepmothers, stepfathers, moth ers and fathers through adoption, and persons who, for a period of not less than one year, have stood in the place of a mother or father to the veteran at any time prior to the beginning of his service. The claim of a stepmother or stepfather should also be supported by evidence of marriage to the natural parent of the veteran. The claim of a mother or father through adoption should be supported by a certified copy of the court record of such adoption. The claim by a person who claims to have stood in the place of a mother or father should be supported by an affidavit giving the details of the relationship. It must also be accompanied by affidavits giv ing the details of the relationship. It must also be accompanied by affidav its of two competent witnesses to whom claimant was personally konwn at the time of veteran’s death. These affidavits must swear to the truth of' the claimant’s statement. It is taken for granted that the wid *w or widower of a deceased veteran /as dependent and they are entitled o the bonus If still unmarried. How ever, proof of the marriage to the vet )ran must be sent in as well as proof hat they were living together as man ind wife at the time of the death of he veteran. If they were not living ogether then proof of dependency oust be sent in. All marriages shall be proved as alid according to the law of the place -vhere the marraige was performed, .'he fact of living together as man and vife can be established by a state aent to that effect showing the places nd approximate time of such resi lence. A statement from two compe ent persons swearing to the truth of he claimant’s statement is also re .uiyed. The child of a deceased parent does lot have to submit proof of depend ncy when applying for the bonus, but .nisi submit proof of ago by one of ae following methods: a—Certified copy of public record >f birth. b—Certified copy of church record f baptism. e—When unable to obtain either of hese, the affidavit of the physician nesent at the birth, or the ^affidavit f the legal guardian or of Javo disin ' erested parties stating the reasons be records cannot be obtained and giving the age of the child as near is possible. The term "child” includes: a—:A legitimate child. I. A child legally adopted, c—A stepchild, if a member of the /eteran’s' household at the time of the death of the veteran. d—-An illegitimate child, but as to ‘he father only, if acknowledged in ■writing signed by him or if decreed by the court as to the putative father >r ordered by law to contribute to the :hild's support. Purebred Pig Rivals Mythical Goose. The goose that is alleged to have laid a golden egg every day has a close rival in pesent-day purebred livestock, judging from a report from a pig-club boy in South Carolina. “Five years ago last March,” he states in a letter to the United States Department of Agriculture, “I joined a pig club That our county agent or ganized in this county. I had a pure bred pig eight weeks old. Since that timo she has farrowed about 100 pigs. She paid for my clothes three years in high school and gave me spending ^noney also. I am now in my second year in college and she is still doing the same.” Sea Encroaches on Town A disappearing town Is worrying ♦he authorities in Scotland. Ac an inquiry at Edinburgh into the pro posed extension ef the boundaries of Bnckliaven, a Fifeshire const *ewu. it who atated that in 1000 tne town area was enlarged to 657 aenw. Stow tnen, bewe-er, 85 acres bad dump peared hr the eueroachtnen* ef the sen and another 119 acres went now below high-water level. History in Horns The horns of the first cows used by Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, have come to light. The shield on which they are mounted bears the Inscription: "The horns of the cow from which the matter was first taken for vaccination. Stepn. Jenner.” Stephen Jenner was the grandnephew of Dr. Edward Jenner.— London Times. Full Meal in Mushroom A giant mushroom was tound near Boston, and to remove It from the toot of an old oak tree It was neces sary to nsed a pickle nnd a hig carv ing knife. The mushroom weighed 48 pottods and measured 3? by 41 incites. It looked like a mass of coral or sea shells. _— 1 — . . Applying Drastic Methods By EDGAR T. MONFORT •§>— , . .. . (Copyright.) SHE had such a gay little way with her, always a smile or a laugh, a bit of sunshine or a Joke. So happy, untouched by life’s troubles, Philip Wninright thought ns he watched her flitting around his room. “You’ll soon be up,” she smiled as she stopped In her work of arranging the things on his dresser. “I heard Doctor Mnxton say he might let you sit up a few minutes tomorrow If you have a good night and don’t run a tem perature this afternoon.” “That will be great. Miss Taylor. PH be glad to get my clothes on again, but even that has Its drawbacks.” Elizabeth Taylor laughed. “Draw backs! You’re a funny patient. Most of them have fits of Joy at the very Idea of getting dressed again, and you’ve had such an extra long siege, too.” “I know, but we can’t always judge from appearances. There are worse things than being sick In a hospital with a dear little nurse to take care of you.” Miss Taylor looked at him In amazement. “Yon mean you’d rather be sick than well?” sh'e asked, her ^es wide with astonishment. “No-o—not exactly that That would be rather an exaggerated statement of my state of mind; but I’m bordering on that, and If you look nt me once more with that absurd little eap on your head and your big blue eyes drilling through me, why I’ll never leave the place as long as I live. But I do wish you’d wait until I get fixed up before you look at me so hard. Really, I’m not half bad when Pm dressed and shaved." “You’re getting flirty now." Her voice was reproachful and she turned back to her work. “No, really I’m not. Please tnrn around again. Hang it, a fellow’^ at such a disadvantage when he’s tied by the leg in bed." Miss Taylor obeyed. “Yet not a minute ago yon weren't sure you wanted to get well so fast.” “Thnt’s true, too. I’m not. Oh, If you only understood." There was real distress in his. tones, and Elizabeth stopped her teasing. "Well, I’m sorry. I wish I could do something to help you.” “No one can, I’m afraid.” A silence fell between them. “Want to tell me?" she invited at last. “Shame to bore gou with my wor ries, but it would do me good to talk it over. It’s a situation that’s come up at the office. Whei^ I got my pro motion there were seven other men who had their eyes on my Jdfc. Nat urally they are disappointed and dis gruntled, and now they are under me they are trying to make it Just as un pleusant as possible." “Sillies,” said the gir). “They must have known that all of them couldn’t have had it, anyway." “Yes, but each one thinks he was the man fer the job, and that gives me seven enemies, although in truth I 1 should have only one at most." “How do they worry you?" “Oh, they almost mutiny at times, j and are surly and unwilling to carry out my orders." “I’m going to the mountains for a slit weeks rest after I leave here, and then if they try any foolishness I’ve a mind to test your prescription. I’ve always been opposed to such methods, but sometimes It seems the only way.” Walnwright, on the theory that ab sence makes the heart grow fonder, had secretly hoped that he would be welcomed back after his long Illness, mid that the old jealousies and an tagonisms would be forgotten. But he was wrong, they were more hostile than ever, and Foster, who had substi tuted for him whHe he was away, was the most disgruntled of all. “All right, Foster, he said, “I guess I’B take hold now.” Foster rose from Wainwrlght’s desk. “I guess you’ll have a hot-—" Wainwrlght’s fist landed square ©n the big man’s chin, causing him to sit down cuddenly in the middle of the floor, a ridiculous locking object with a bloody Up. "Anybody els* want some of the same medicine?” Wain right invited, but Fester’s friends made n* effort to cent* te his rescue. They burned buck to their desks and want »n aa If noth ing had happened. That was the end ef the mutiny. Watarlght wee treated wtth respect and hfc» word was law in his depart ment. and when he Jeyfally told Mias Taylor about It that evening She was radiant with Joy. 'You’re an awfully atever little gtad.*’ he told her warmly, “hut new I’m up against another preUam." “What ht it?” she asked. "Maybe 1 can help solve It, tee." “i want te knew whether you’d rath er be kidnaped, or dragged te my wig wam by the hair, er exactly what Is your preferred method?” A fltilck flush spread ever her face, bat she was soon herself again, and a Hash of mischief came Into her eyes us she answered: “You might try a little gentle coax ing first, followed by just a dash of cave-man stuff." He followed her advice to the letter, and won. Familiar Type of Car “Selling a fnmlly heirloom?" “Heirloom nothing 1 This car's only been driven 5,000 miles.” "How fur has It been towed?" All Art Combination of Hands, Brain, and Heart In one of Ruskin’s essays he talki about art, and points out the differ ence between manufacture, craft and art. How would you define them! What does “manufacture” mean? You know from your music lessens as well as from your Latin lessons, that “manus” means liund, and “facto” means do, or make. Therefore, manu facture Is to make with the hands, says a writer in the London Times. Nowadays, however, machines have been invented to help the hands, and thus more can be made In a given time. The fine work of the brain Is not required but is left to others who show the workers what to d<r. Craft, he tells us. Is anything that Is done with the hands and'the brain; so more mental control is required, and skill results. Thus each worker depends upon his own brain and In vents his own methods of producing results, and executes his own Ideas. Art, he asserts. Is that which Is produced by the - hands, brain and heart. Thus, painting, sculpture and music, are on a higher plane because they require the co-operation of the head and heart (soul or spirit, some may prefer to call it). Nothing can be called real art which is produced only by the hand and head; although It may be very clever, precise or skill ful. It lacks the inner appeal—the appeal of the heart. _ j Many Ingenious Ways of Ascertaining Time, In the Sixteenth century, in polished Parisian society, there came into vogue the etiquette ef the watch. One of the rules was that it should not be consulted la the salon, such an act beiag takes as an indication that the owner was tired of his company. An ingenious watchmaker therefore brought out a watch with raised fig ures and a fairly solid hand. When the owner wished to know the time he slipped a surreptitious finger into his pocket, passed it along the pointer and read the hour as the blind man reads Braille. The watch with the luminous dial, from which the time may be told in the dark, had a number of strange prototypes. One of the most curious was the timekeeper invented by a celebrated member of the French academy, if. de Villayer. He ^ad constructed a dock which, face up wards, was attached to the head of his bed. In the place of the figures marking the hours, there were small cups vfhieh sunk into the dial, and were filled with 12 kinds ef spices. In the night M. de Villayer would moisten a finger, pass It along the pointer, dip it Into the cup to which Vi pointed and taste the spice. The cinnamon might stand for three o’elock, nutmeg for four o’clock and so on.—Kansas City Times. NEBRASKA. Nebraska is a state of youth, when land and climate and appearances are young and where newness and color and action prevail. It is noticeably different in this respect than its neighbors to the east, especially those a little further east than Iowa, Illinois for example where homesteads were * aken nearly a hundred years ago and where the years in passing have left marks that cannot be seen as yet by the casual traveler through Nebraska. The villages, the small towns, the hriving little cities, those in the Mis sissippi valey states are like, yet un like those in Nebraska. There one sees old ’ mills with the crumbling water wheels, old houses which lack saint and which generations have seen unchanged from one decade to the next. The old log fences, the quaint old time towns with shady lanes and leepy, funning little stores, all these hings are not fofind in Nebraska, the tate of youth and of color and of modernity. There are attractions of course in ’he old settlements, touches of history ! and reminders of other days that one enjoys but after all it leaves the feel ing of creeping years, of advancing age, of inevitable death. We like Ne braska best and all the great stretch of country to the west of it, which is too new to be old and to young to be drab. Life and youth and love are the three greatest gifts to mankind. No where can one enjoy them more than here. LEGISLATORS ARE YOUTHFUL. Old men for counsel, young men for war, the old saying goes. But nowa - days the young men not only fight their country’s battles but bid fair to displace their elders in the field of civic affairs. The present Nebraska legislature has a larger proportion of youth in it than any one which has gone before. No fewer than twelve house members are under thirty years of age. Two of the senators likewise still linger in their 20’s. Douglas county contributes a very large proportion of the legislative “kids.” Among its house delegation of thirteen, there are seven men who have not yet attained their 30th birth days. Representative H. P. Caldwell of Omaha is the youngest man in the wholef legislature. He was born in August, 1901, and is therefore twenty three years of age. Representative Robert E. Hines, another Omaha man, is his closest competitor, having been born in July of the same year. Here are the other Douglas county men who belong to the extreme junior division in the house: R. F. Wood, twenty-five years old; Walter R. Johnson, twenty-seven; Fay H. Pollock, twenty-eight, and V. Tesar, twenty-eight; Walter Korisko, twenty nine. Sarpy county’s lady legislator, Mrs. St, — - .— „ J Mable A. Gillespie, is also catalogued with those who have not yet reached the age of thirty. Henry F. Schepman of Johnson county, the tall representative from Lancaster, was twenty-four years old on November 4, last, the day he was elected to help make laws. Berne R. Coulter of Morrill is twenty-nine. The two state senators who still have some distance to go before they get to tthe thirtieth milestone ef life are Emil F. Luckey of Platt county, aged twenty-seven and L. H. Laugh lin of Gage, twenty-eight. A number of the young members have already come to the front and others give promise of making their mark during the session. Senator Laughlin is chairman of the senate committee on constitutional amend ment and federal relations, while Sen ator Luckey heads the drainage com mittee. Representative Wood is chairman f the house committee on medical soc ieties, while Mr. Munn heads insur ance and Mr. Coulter is head of the labor committee. The BULL’S EYE Editor and QeneraiManaqer WILL ROGERS 7 f Will Rogers. Ziegfeld Follies and screen star, and leading American humorist, announces a series of‘Bull’ Durham advertisements. They are worth watching for. If you want the real truth about why I - signed up to write a lot of Eieces for these people, it’s ecause I love animals. Have you ever studied that picture of the ‘Bull’ care fully? . . . have you ever seen such a kind-looking animal? I thought this:— certainly no one who cares as much about dumb crea tures as they do would put out anything but the best smoking tobacco possible— so I said all right, I’ll write your stuff. Honestly, the money part of it didn’t have much to do with it. That is, not very much. Seriously, though, out where I come from, unless a male member of the population has got that ‘Bull’ Durham tag hanging from the shirt pocket, he’s liable to be arrested for in decent exposure. And, you believe me, you can’t sell those western hard-boiled eggs much and keep on sell ing them unless it’s got class. P. S. I’m going to write some more pieces that wili appear in this paper. Keep look ing for them. MORE OF EVERYTHING for a lot less money. That’s the net of this ‘Buil’ Durham propo sition. More flavor— more enjoyment—and a lot more money left in the bankroll at the end of a week’s smoking. TWO BAGS for 15 cents 100 cigarettes for 15 cents ✓"V ‘Bull Durham Guaranteed by IhCORrORATID <«—