THE FRONTIER
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Editor and Business Manager
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Washington, D. C., April 13: Since
the bringing into being of the Fed
eral Intermediate Credit Banks there
has $60,835,421 of government money
been loaned to farmers throughout
the United States. During the month
of January the direct loans amounted
to $4,206,931 and the re-discounts ag
gregated $2,688,046. Six out of the
twelve banks did not make any direct
loans in January. This means that
commercial, not government, loan
agencies are supplying the greater
amount of funds needed. Louisville,
Ky., had no discount operations in
January.
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RAINS OF LAST WEEK
START GRASS GROWING
The ground was placed in excellent
condition for spring planting of small
grains in north Nebraska by the rains
ef last week and early sowings are
expected to be completed within the
next few days. The soil never was in
better condition and the subsoil has
an abundance of moisture to carry the
young crops well into the spring, ac
cording to the farmers.
The young grass crop in the hay
meadows and immense pastures of
the cattle country also is starting
well, with indications that the hay
crop will be a good one providing a
normal rainfall is had during the
summer. Commercial hay now is
bringing $6 on the' track and ship
ments are nearly normal with those
of last year. Preliminary reports of
damage to the range and the hay
meadows and consequent injury and
loss to many cattle men in the prairie
fires of a couple of weeks ago have
proven greatly exaggerated. Investi
gation discloses that there were no
serious or heavy loesos and cattle in
the burned district had to be movied
but a few miles to where an abun
dance of feed was found. Cattlemen
point out that there is far more un
used range and feed than cattle in
the district at present and that the
bigger portion of the strip burned
over was not even being pastured and
had not been cut for several years.
This all will be grassed over agayi
within he next five weeks. The dairy
farmers also report that they are not
materially injured by the fires and
that they are not asking for charily.
The raising of the embargo on Ne
braska poultry in the east has re
sulted in a bettering of the local mar
kets and the O’Neill Produce company
reports that it now is shipping an
average of a car of poultry from its
local plant weekly and similar
amounts from its western stations.
Local concerns also are shipping an
average of two and three carloads of
eggs a week.
IIASZARD-SHAW.
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Harry Guy Haszard, of Sybrant,
Nebraska, and Miss Lenore Shaw, of
Tonawanda, Nebraska, were united
in marriage by County Judge Malone
at his office in the court house, Mon
day, April 6th.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Shaw, of Tonawanda,
and haB grown to womanhood in that
locality where she enjoys a wide
circle of friends.
Mr. Haszard is a young rancher
who resides in the vicinity of Tona
wanda although his postoffice is in
Rock county.
Mr. and Mrs. Haszard were enter
tained at a six o’clock dinner at the
home of the bride’s grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Wolf, southeast of
O’Neill, Monday evening, and at a
twelve o’clock dinner Tuesday at the
home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. D. H.
Clauson.
The Frontier extends congratula
tions,
CLOSSON-BOWDEN.
Paul E’iworth Closson and Miss
Susie Belle Bowden were married at
four o’clock Wednesday afternoon at
the Methodist parsonage in the city
by Rev. J. A. Hutchins, pastor of the
Methodist church.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Bowden. The bride
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
W. Closson, who resided in Clearwater
a few years ago. He has no imme
diate relatives in this vicinity at this
time. The newly weds will make
their home upon a farm near Oppor
tunity.
DELONG-MEYER.
Floyd DeLong and Miss Estella
Meyer were united in marriage at the
Methodist parsonage Wednesday at
eleven o’clock, by the Rev. J. A.
Hutchins.
The contracting parties are from
near Inman. They will reside on a
farm north of Inman.
James F. Boyle and Miss Alice
Meyer accompanied the wedding
party.
The Frontier wishes the newly weds
a long and prosperous married life.
TWO EMMET BOY8 ENTER
FATHER FLANNIGAN HOME
Tom Strong, of Emmet, Nebraska,
stopped in O’Neill, a short time Wed
nesday, accompanied by his son,
Thomas, Jr., and James Porter, also
of Emmet, who are on their way to
Omaha where they will enter the
Father Flannigan Home For Boys.
WOMAN’S CLUB ACTIVITIES.
Calendar For April.
April 22—General Club.
April 29—Literary Department.
Leader—Mrs. Lola Carter.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our sincere ap
preciation and heart felt thanks for
the many acts of kindness shown us
during the death of our beloved son
and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ullom
and family.
CARD OF THANKS.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gaughenbaugh
wish to thank their many kind neigh
bors and friends who assisted them
during their recent bereavement, the
death of their daughter.
If Saving
Were All
s
If just the putting away of money
in a savings bank were the only ob
ject of saving, it would be of little
benefit. The depositor would be
simply a miser.
Monday is meant to be used, wisely
and with regard to real needs and
wants. Wise investments can be
made only with ready money and a
savings account furnishes ready
money.
We stand ready aid eager at all
times to advise our depositors of
good investments—places for the
money they have saved. Open your
account here today. We pay 6 per
cent interest on savings.
The Nebraska
State Bank
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- FRIDAY --
Warner Baxter, Douglas Fairbanks
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- SATURDAY -
Tom Mix in
“OH YOU TONY”
Comedy
“Great Circus Mystery.”
-SUNDAY & MONDAY
Harold Bell Wright's
“RE-CREATION OF BRION KENT”
—with—
Kenneth Harlin and Helen Chadwick
The greatest living author gives
screen another Masterpiece.
Comedy and News.
— TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY -
James Kirkwood and Mae Bush in
“BROKEN BARRIERS”
Comedy
-THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore in
“NARROW STREE|”’
Coming—
“Black Oxen.”
“Dixie Handicap.”
“Little Robinson Crusoe,
“Abraham Lincoln.”
This Coupon is good for Thursday
Only, if used with one paid admission.
Chauncey Porter holds the cham
pion fishing *record to date for this
season. Mr. Porter annexed a nice
eight pound pickerel down at Swan
lake last Sunday and also caught a
fair-sized bass and a number of bull
heads. Several other pickerel almost
as large were taken at the lake the
same day and County Clerk Porter
reports that his spoonhook was
seriously threatened several times by
a pickerel bigger than the one landed
by his son. Chauncey’s pickerel was
eaught with a Shannon spinner decorat
ed with pork rinds, which caused “77"
Wade to buy a bottle of pork rinds
Monday.
Just about the time Chauncey Por
ter was catching the big pickerel down
at Swan lake last Sunday Frank Bar
rett was fanning the river below
town with a spoon hook. He collided
with a four pound bass, the largest
taken from the river this spring. Both
big fish were weighed on scales tested
by the state weights and measures
department and consequently the
weights are authentic.
J. M. Hunter, M. H. Horiskey and
Herb Hammond saw several trout
while out on Steel Oreek Tuesday.
MRS. MAHALA E. McGOWAN.
Mrs. Mahala Emmaletta McGowan
died at her home at Blackbird, eigh
teen miles northeast of this city,
Thursday morning, April 9th. The
announcement of her death appeared
in last week’s issue of The Frontier.
The deceased was born in Fayette
ville, New York, April 1, 1838. At
the age of thirteen years she became
a member of the Wesleyan Methodist
church at Fayetteville. At the age
of sixteen years she moved with her
parents to Fondulac, Wisconsin, where
she made her home for two years
then locating in Fairmont, Martin
county, Minnesota, where she filed
upon a homestead.
In March of 1865 she was united in
marriage to George McGowan. In
November 1879 she came to Holt
county with her husband and family
and located with them upon the home
stead that remained her home until
her death. Her husband passed to
the great beyond on October 26, 1894.
Mrs. McGowan was a lady who look
ed upon the bright side of life shar
ing her happiness with those around
her.
She leaves to mourn her death, her
daughter, Miss* May, and a sister,
Mrs. Emma Goldsmith, of Yakima,
Washington, besides a number of
nieces and nephews and large circl?
of friends.
During her early life she was an
active member of many social circles
and took a leading part in the social
life of the community in which she
lived.
The funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at two q’dock at
Marquette chapel, conducted by Rev.
George Bressler, of O’Neill. Burial
was made in the Blackbird cemetery
A very large attendance was present
to pay their last respects to their de
parted neighbor and friend.
EIGHTH GRADE.
Miss Meta Martin visited the
Eighth grade Tuesday.
Bennett Gillespie, Charles Han
cock and Velma Clevenger received
Improvement Certificates a short
time ago. These certificates being
for penmanship.
The class received a letter from
Greece in response to one they had
written there.
The class was given a test in music
Tuesday by their music director, Miss
Gilligan.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
The O’Neill High school will present
a High School Carnival to the public
Thursday, April 23rd. Everyone is
invited to come. We guarantee abso
lutely nothing but a good time for
everyone. The teachers are all busy
working on the evening’s entertain
ment, and plan to do their best to
please those who attend. There will
be everything from a Jananese Tea
room to a Country store. Also, Ham
burger stand, doll racks, a fortune
teller, and everything. Be sure that
you don’t miss it. It’s bound to be
the best entertainment O’Neill High
ever gave to it’s town.
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
(By Holt County’s Poet Laureate.)
When reading my paper of recent
date,
I noticed something strange to re
late.
That made me heave a piteous sigh,
And stop to ponder the reason why.
I noticed here and there an ad,
Most of them good but some were
bad,
But what I noticed most of all
Was, that the average ad was far
to small.
Merely a corner or an inch or so
With a proprietor’s name down just
below
As tho his conscience hurt to tell
About the stuff he had to sell.
Do you proprietor’s solely rely
On those who happen to pass by?
Or haven’t you learned that it is wise
And profitable too, to advertise?
Explain by ads what you have to sell,
Don’t shy at the price, explain it
well.
Tell all the world what you will do
And business will pick up for you.
Tell ’em your silks are all marked
down
Cheaper than cotton in China-town
Or the finest Organdie now on sale
Is the same price now'as was per
cale.
Tell ’em you sell the hole-proof hose
Or the finest shoes with reinforced
toes
The latest in suits that are fit to wear
Or the freshest fruits sold any
where.
Tell ’em Tell 'em! Don’t be afraid
Tell fathers, mothers, youth and
maid
I wish for the moment I were you
I’d show you just what I would do.
Possibly as you read this now
You confess to yourself that you
don’t know how
So whether its good or whether its
bad
Next week I’ll run a sample ad.
I'll run it for E. N. Purcell
Who is anxious that the firm do well
And as it might help you a bit
You better watch this space for it.
—F. 0. HAZEN.
THE PRARfE FIRE.
(By Holt County’s Poet Laureate.)
‘Twas not such a greatly distant day
That the demon in freedom rushed
away;
Hissing its warning of destruction
and death,
Hurtling its hot smoke-laden breath
Over the prairies of grasses dry;
Over the meadows and up to the
sky;
Searching for more on which to feed
Its rapidly growing, glutinous
greed.
Out went a call for volunteers,
Answered by youths and men of
years;
Leaving their labors of desk or field,
Hastening a circle of death to wield,
And vainly contested its right of way
Until blistered and stifled by flame
and smoke
The valient line of fighters broke,
And staggering blindly back enmaas
To let the roaring monster pass.
Off like a swiftly flying steed
Reeking its havoc, gathering speed,
Hurling its death-dealing embers be
fore,
Sending its challenge in a mighty
roar
Over the meadow, field and dell;
Casting by magic, a fearsome spell,
And leaving behind a desolate track
Of smoking heaps on landscapes
black.
Fearless men were stricken with
fright
Women were weeping and praying
that night:
All was chaos within and without,
Prayers were answered by warning
shout;
Wearied fighters ran to and fro
Powerless all to stay the foe
Who in defiance reared its head
And teurned the sky to a murky
red.
Onward; onward, mile after mile
Taking the homes, the stock, the
stile,
Answering with hisses the loiters
prayer
Jumping the plowmens’ furrows
bare,
Reducing to naught the labor of years
And adding the burden of bodily
fears,
Until men murmered as they ran
Alas: the punie strength of man.
Miles ahead; to the south and east,
Men intent on slaying the beast
Worked like mad in their frenzied
haste
Getting their trap for the demon
placed,
And e’re they hardly had it right
The shadows melted in a blazing
Let Us
Assure You
Your daily decisions are most im
portant part of your life.
The right banking connections
means much more to you than merely
a place to keep your money
This bank carries no indebtedness
of officers or stockholders.
Resources over $600,000.00.
The
O’Neill National
Bank
light
As an avalanch of flames leaped high
To, shudder a moment and slowly
die.
Dead, in the midst of the havoc
wrought,
Dead, but what of the lesson taught;
Three hundred square miles of black
ened waste
Three little towns from the map
defaced.
Homes lost there to be built no more,
Hearts without hope, at futures'
door.
Surely in all there’s a lesson to learn
Before another page of Life we
turn,
And searching we find there is seldom
need
To loosen this demon of wanton
greed.
Carelessness on the part of man
May loosen another to roam again,
For every person from west to east
Is re$ly a'keeper of this beast,
Who, tho in duty light a match
On the demons cage do lift the latch,
So pledge yourselves when at the door
He shall not pass, nor roam no
more.
—F. O. HAZEN.
GLOOM IN CIDERVILLE.
There was sorrow in the household
an' dismay about the street—
For out-an-out discouragement you
never seen the beat!
We could feel the gloom possess us,
as the shadders settled thick—
The best of us felt shaky-like, when
Dock took sick!
There ain’t no jedgment keener than
the one that carries dread
An’ leaves a feller with a sort of buz
zin’ in the head;
But the fact that seemed to paralize
the feelin’s of the town
And hold ’em in suspension was—when
Dock took down!
We hadn’t seemed to realize that, he,
like other men
Was subjeck to infirmities that might
attack him when
He braved the pesky weather-moods,
an’ went on double-quick,
An’ it mighty nigh kerflummixed us
—when
Dock took sick!
The blacksmith an’ the post-master,
an’ justice of the peace,
(Old Jasper Hawks was all of ’em—
and chief of the po-leece!)
He tried to bear up mightily, but the
whole' dern town
Could read despair all over him—when
Pock took sick!
Our gineral fund of helplessness was
mountin’ toward the sky—
The thirst was so oppresif that it
choked us, mighty nigh;
The corner druggist ketched our wink,
but met it with a frown,
And the rattlesnake quit bitin’ us—•
when
Dock took down!
—“Uncle John” of Missouri (Dr.
John J. Gaines) in The Water Witch.
The Hugh Stephens Press, Jefferson
City, Mo.
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Lincoln Man Tells of
Amazing Results He
' Received From Karnak
Stomach Troubles Of 30
Years Standing Ended,
He Is Like A New Man
From Head to Foot
Amazing reports of remarkable
benefits after taking Karnak are
reported daily. One of the latest
U S. C. Quick, 1040 Q St., Lincoln,
who says:
“YeB, indeed, 1‘Tl gladly verify
what L say about Karnak to any
one, for money couldn’t buy the
good this medicine did me. I suf
fered so from stomach and liver
troubles for 30 yean that I often
thought my and was near.
"1 had sharp pains all through
my back, and many times, when I
would bend over I could hardly
straighten up again. Gas pains,
biliousness, headaches, weak soella.
►'-—;-—
poor appetite and poor sleep. All
these things kept me miserable for
years. Why, I just'got so I dreadt
ed to see night come, I suffered so
and couldn’t sleep.
“I tried most everything without
any benefit, but I could just feel
the good of Karnak to my finger
tips. My stomach now feels like a
new one. And eat—why you never
saw such an appetite, and nothing
disagrees with me. I sleep fine, J
feel like a different man all over
and my work is a pleasure. All
my pains, aches and distress gone.
"Yes, sir, Karnak is the only
medicine I ever saw that does just
what they say it does, and I think
people are foolish to go on suffer
ink like I was when they can get
Karnak."
Karnak is sold in O'Neill exclu
sively by Chas. E. Stout, and by
the leading druggist in every town.