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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1925)
Whatever the Emergency Telephone Service Must Not Fail Long before the flood waters recede, the tele phone men hasten to re pair the crippled wires. Regardless of their per sonal safety they may need to cross the swollen stream in order that the telephone will respond to your command. Mile after mile of tele phone poles and wires may be tom down by sleet storms. Tornadoes may snap off poles like so many matches. But whatever the emer gency, hardy telephone men get on the job with out delay. When your telephone is out of order you can rest assured that somewhere telephone men are at work bending every effort in order that service may be restored at the earliest possible moment. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. BELL SYSTEM One Policy - One System - Universal Service EASTER SERVICES AT THE M. E. CHURCH The Easter services at the M. E. church were of more than usual in terest last Sunday, and were attend ed by large audiences. The Sunrise service, at which the Sacrement of the Lord’s Supper was observed, was something of an experiment at this ehurch, being held at that hour for the first time. However, it was well attended and will probably be a custom from this time forward. At 10 o’clock a short program was given by the primary and junior pupils of the Sunday school con sisting of appropriate songs and reci tations, each and every number be iag well rendered and greatly enjoyed by the large audience. The attend ance at the Sunday school was the largest recorded for some time, reach ing the figures of 260. „ At 11 o’clock, the regular church service was held and the building was crowded to its fullest capacity. Spec ial Easer music was rendered by the choir as follows: Processional—The Church’s One Foundation—Choir. Chorus—Easter Dawn, with Con tralto Solo by Mrs. L. B. Parkinson. Duet—=The Saviour Liveth—Ash ford—by Mrs. J. R. Veach and Mrs. Pete Hereford and Violin obligato by Ruth Scott. Double Quartette—Praise To Our Risen King—Lorenz—with Soprano Solo by Mrs. Pete Hereford and Ob ligato Solo by Mrs. J. R. Veach. All of these numbers were exceed ingly well rendered and evidenced much careful preparation on the part of the choir. Archie Bowen rendered his usual good service at the piano. The evening services were given over to the senior and adult portion of the Sunday school pupils, and they presented pageant entitled “The King Called Jesus." This pageant very vividly portrayed the healing of Bar timeus the blind man; the cast of characters were as follows: Blind Bartimeus—Archie Bowen. Phillip—Harry DeLand. Nathan—Charles Hancock. Benjamin—Edwin Hull. Ruth—Mrs. Blanche Parkinson. Rebecca—Faye Dodd. Annunciator—Margaret Hough. The Twenty and Easter Centurys— Miss Esther Pine and nineteen young girls hold aloff lighted candles. The Pageant opened with a quar tette “Ring Easter Bells" sang by Misses Amolia Merrell, Lona Crom well, Ruth Scott and Grace Hancock. It is sufficient to say that this Pa geant was excellently and express ively rendered, stage settings were perfect and the costumes were in keeping with the period at which the events portrayed in the story took place. The capacity of the church was wholly inadequate to accommo date the people desiring to attend the Pageant, and many were turned away. The day will long be remembered by the pastor and members of this church as one of the very best and profitable in its history. A great many strang ers were present and enjoyed the services, new acquaintances were formed, and the very atmosphere seemed to be charged with the true Easter Spirit. *** CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks for the help and sympathy from our neighbors and friends dur the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. Sarah Pinkerman, and family. FOUR-YEAR-OLD PREVENTS FIRE (Norfolk News.) Red Bird, Neb., April 14: A very bad fire was prevented a few days ago on the farm of John Asmussen, four miles west ofRedbird, when little Es ther, 4-year-old daughter of the As m-ussens, ran into the house scream ling: “Oh Look, Mamma; come look!” ) Mrs. Asmussen on investigation found a strong blaze in the banking of manure put about the house to keep out the cold. The flames had made headway enough to ignite the side of the house and had the child not discovered them when she did they would have caused great damage to the house. The fire evidently was started by sparks being carried by the breeze when the morning fire was built. Mrs. Asmussen soon extinguished the blaze. The incident is taken as evidence of the value of teaching children fire prevention. mxtitnttmttmtttmmtmtitmttntnmm LOCAL NEWS. The eleven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Kaczor, of Meek, fell from the running board of a car this morn ing and is suffering from concussion of the brain. The Woman’s Working society of the Presbyterian church will meet Thursday, April 23rd, with Mrs. J. H. Meredith. NOTES FROM THE NORTHEAST. Arthur Wertz drove to Martin, South Dakota, last week, expecting to locate there if conditions are favor able. Precinct Assessor August Smith, of Opportunity, was in this vicinity Fri day, assessing, and called at the home of your correspondent. Miss Mabel Bush visited with her parents Saturday and Sunday, return ing to her school near Ewing Sunday evening where she is teaching. Dale Stukey, of Norfolk, who was a visitor at the Wertz home, is now at Battle Creek, Nebraska, where he has accepted a position as salesman with the Ford people. Edwin Castle No. 174 Royal High landers at a recent meeting elected Mrs. Frank Hunter and Mrs. Alex R. Wertz as delegates to the district con vention May 9th, at Tilden, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Revelle, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Revelle, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Coffman and Mr. and Mrs. AW Wertz attended the funeral of Will J. Gray at his home near O’Neill, Ne Authorized Ford Dealers An Authorized Ford Dealer has too much at stake to sell a car which will prove a disappointment. Therefore, he will sell you a good used car carrying the same guarantee as a new car. His investment in garage and service equipment, the good , will he has built up and his connection with the Ford Motor Company are assets too valuable for him to jeopardize with one unsatisfactory sale. j That is one very good reason why you can buy a used Ford car with full confidence that it has the value claimed for it SEE THE NEAREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER braska, on March 29h. Farmers are improving the time while the weather conditions are fa vorable. As it nppears now the acreage of oats will be above normal. Average of sweet clover normal or possibly above normal. C. J. Taylor is again a resident of Willowdale township leasing what is known a3 the Albert Theirolf farm. Mr. ' iylor owns and operated a farm here for several years before moving to O’Neill, renting his farm to his son, Lee Taylor. Ralph Phillips and family of Knox ville, Floyd Wertz and family of Page, Lysle Phillips, who is teaching the Mineola school and Vernon Wertz who is teaching in Knox county, were Easter Sunday visitors at the Wertz home. PLEASANTVIEW ITEMS. James Mullen was on the sick list last week. John Steskal called on John Con ley Sunday. Henry Colsmith called on Henry Smith Wednesday. r-ir-i Honne is assisting Joe Winkler with his farm work. Wm. Evans called on Charley Richards Wednesday. Aca Worley and family called at the O’Donnell home Sunday. Miss Francis Elder returned to her school work after a week’s illness. John Ford delivered hogs in Em met Wednesday for D. M. Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wright spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Seebert. Mr. and Mrs. Iienry Smith called at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Orville Siebert, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steskal and family are sporting a new Ford tour ing car with balloon tires. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steskal and Pearl and Elmer called on their daughter, Mrs. Alvin Walnofer Sunday. Miss Dorothy Bruder of near Phoenix spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bruder. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klingler were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. August Brinkman and family Sunday even ing. Otto Clausson has bought the business of Garrat Jenzing, in Em met, and will welcome new and old customers. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Siemson and family, of Atkinson, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wink ler Sunday. Mrs. Martha Murphy and eon, Gerald Francis, and MrB. Dell John son called on Mrs. Joe Brudder Mon day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler and daughter, Dorothy, were dinner guests of her parens, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lessamon, of Atkinson. Pleasantview school pupils gave a good program at their school house i Wednesday evening, instructed by their teacher, Edward O’Donnell. Miss Helen Troshinski, of St. Mary’s academy, of O’Neill, is spending her Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Troshinski, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Linville and grand children, Roy Dickerson and Bettie Linville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Miller Sunday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gettert and son, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klingler spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pelcer and family in At kinson. Mrs. Hannah Richards returned home from Omaha Sunday where she was under the care of Dr. Gifford for a growth on the eyelid. She reports improvement. A number of neighbors and friends sprang a surprise on Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Miller at their home Tuesday evening. Luncheon of sandwiches, cake and coffee were served, all re turning home at a late hour wishing for many returns. The Frontier, $2.00 per year. CHAMBERS ITEMS. — Elmer Michaelis is suffering with an attack of flu. Walter Ruden, of Croften, spent the week-end at Chambers. Otto Greenstreet, of Oakdale, visit ed his brother, Oscar, a few days last week. Mrs. R. Horacek attended Easter services at the Catholic church at O’Neill Sunday. Edward and Harry Fleek are ill at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rube Fleek. Elmer Myers and Edwa Dexter, high school students are the latest victim of the “flu.” Floyd and Vernie Cooper left for Powder River, Tuesday, to spend the summer on their homesteads. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tibbitt and Ray Diabetes The cause of DIABETES is not well known. It is often associated with disorders of the Pancreas, Liver or Kidneys. We have had remarkable huccees in the treatment of this dis ease and will be pleased to have you call and let us decide if we can help you. DRS. LUBKER Chiropractors Prone 316 : O’Neill, Nebraska “Ain’t Nature Wonderful” By “UNCLE rETE,” O’Neill, Nebraska. (Courtesy St. Louis Post Dispatch.) O’Neill, Neb. Ranchmen and farmers of the Cala mas Valley, just across the river, south from Beaver -flats, have declared war on a scourge of redheaded wood peckers which are setting fire to their hay meadows, and the Beaver Flats Fish and Game Association has been asked to aid in either exterminating or driving away the little misguided pests. The usual course of migration of the pileated woodpecker is a little further east and for this reason it is thought that the unfamiliarity of the birds with the nature of the vege tation in some sections of the valley is responsible for their unwitting de vastations. For several miles on the south bank of the river, just below where Skull and Bloody creeks unite to form the stream, the heavy timber and small brush all is petrified. The petrifica tion, according to local scientists oc curred gradually years ago and was due to some unknown minerals in so lution in the waters which trickle down through the grove from the springs of the hills just beyond it. The mineral laden water absorbed by the roots of the vegetation gradually was carried to the utmost branches and leaves, until growth was arrested, and even the insests and borers which preyed upon the trees were likewise petrified from drinking of the sap. No trouble has been experienced from the petrified forest until the mi gration into the locality of the wood peckers this year. But since their ad vent prairie fires began to break out in the valley and investigation dis closes that they are due to the efforts of the birds to pick the petrified in sects from their petrified prisons; their vigorous but vain pecking against the fiint-like trunks causing the latter to emit sparks which readily communicate to the dry tumbleweeds drifted up in the grove and from them to the grassy meadows adjoining. ■---............... ... ' V • O’Neill, Neb. Mrs. Charley Laughing Horse, wife of a half-breed rancher living up in the Skull and Bloody creeks country west of Beaver Flats, was severely bitten and clawed about the person last Friday when a pair of rabbi cats which she was attempting to frighten away from the Laughing Horse orchard became enraged and attacked her. So furious was the on slaughter of the pests that she was unable to beat them off and she was compelled to take refuge in a corn crib, where she remained until late, in the extreme cold, until her husband returned from running his trap lines and frightened the animals away with his shotgun. The rabicat is a hybrid, the result of the crossing of some pet rabbits and wildcat kittens tamed by the children of a ranchman over on the Niobrara river several years ago. They seem to have inherited the bad characteristics and qualities of both sideR of the ancestral stock, have the rubbit face and ears, but the feet and claws of the wildcat, and are possess ed of both carniverous and herbivor ous appetites. They were protected for quite a while, because of theij; trait of turning on and rending the coyotes who chased them under the mistaken idea that they were ordi nary jackrabbits. But when in addition to the rab bit’s habit of girdling the trunks of fruit trees they acquired a taste for fruit and developed the habit of climbing the trees to strip them of their yield, they were driven out by the inhabitants of the Niobrara valley. They have remained unmolested in the valley of the Calamas and its trib utaries for several years and have gradually been becoming bolder. Since they have begun preying on domesic fowl in the winter and de stroying fruit in the summer, in ad dition to attacking humans when an gered, the Beaver Flats Commercial Club has decided to stage an exter mination drive in the near future. White left for Omaha, Monday, to drive up three new Fords for the Tib bitt garage. A fine baby by named Lyle Floyd, weight 714 pounds, arrived Friday, April 10th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cooper. The M. E. ladies aid served supper for the crow hunters, Saturday even ing at 8:30 which was greatly enjoy ed by those present. C N. Thompson living fourteen mild nuthwest of Chambers, had the to fall f. om a load of hay Saturday. His body struck a feed rack causing a fractured rib. Mr. Thompson is seventy-nine years of age. At the annual Easter egg gather ing four crates of eggs were donated by the people of Chambers and vi cinity. Three crates were sent to the Methodist hospital at Omaha; one crate together with some canned fruit was sent to the Crowell pome nt Blair. Easter was fittingly observed in the various churches Sunday with specially prepared services. Pro grams were given by the children in the morning. In the evening a mu sical program was given at the Metho dist church by the members of tha choir and a pantomime by the high school students beautifully rendered under the direction of Miss Mildred Stanton. Fred Kiltz, liv df seven miles north east of Chambers, mot with a very painful accident Tuesday. He was driving a team of horses under a barb wire that was stretched between two posts when the wire struck him in the face tearing three ugly gashes which required several stitches to close. He was brought to Chambers where he was given the required medical attention. Charter No. 5770. Reserve District No. IQ REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF The O’Neill National Bank At O’Neill, in the State of Nebraska, at the close of business on April 6, 1925; RESOURCES Loans and discounts, including rediscounts- $306,145.99 Overdrafts, secured, NONE; unsecured _ 318.51 U. S. Government securities owned: Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bonds par value)_$50,000.00 All other United States Government securities__ 40,850.00 90,850.00 Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc.:_ 42,039.50 Banking House, $2,788; Furniture and fixtures, $1,680 4,468.00 Real estate owned other than banking house_ 8,233.20 Lawful reserve With Federal Reserve Bank__— 28,$20.11 Cajih in vault and amount due from national banka-231,046.93 Amount due from State banks, bankers, and trust com* panies in the United States (other than included in Items 8, 9, or 10)_ 3,800.97 Checks on other banks in the same city or town as re porting bank (other than Item 12)_ 650.99 Miscellaneous cash items_:— 104.00 263,923.00 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer_ 2,500.00 Total_$718,478.20 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in_ $ 60,000.00 Surplus fund_ 60,000.00 Undivided profits -.- 17,046.09 Reserved for taxes and interest_ 10,965.85 Circulating notes outstanding- 49,600.00 Amount due to State banks, bankers, and trust companies Amounts due to national banks-$18,824.39 in the United States and foreign countries (other than included in Items 22 or 23)- 79,782.27 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days:) Individual deposits subject to check-194,876.85 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed) _____ 39,500.00 State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or surety bond_ 17,668.95 Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice, and postal savings): Certificate of deposit (other than for money borrowed) .190,314.80 540,967.26 Bills payable_ NONE Notes and bills rediscounted____, NONE Total_ $718,478.20 State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss: I, S. J. WeSkes, President, of the aboye-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. S. J. WEEKES, President, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April, 1925. (Seal) JULIUS D. CRONIN, Notary Public. My Commission Expires August 14, 1926. Correct—Attest: C. P. Hancock, J. P. Gilligan, H. P. Dowling, Directors. (This Bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders.)