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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1925)
The Frontier. VOLUME XLV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925. NO. 47. ♦ ■ _________ For the Highest Price for Eggs, Poultry and Cream Oyster Shell, per 100-lbs. $1.50 Chick Feed, 25-lbs.. $1.00 Chick Feed, 50-lbs.-...$1.95 Omar Flour, 48-lbs.$2.60 Egg Cases, 12-doz. size... 75c ' We pay the highest cash prices for Eggs, Poultry and Cream every day in the week. Complete line of Staple Groceries. Zimmerman & Son Phone: Office 118. Residences 233 and 179 “l“ ttuuxtutittutmtutttuumttttiiintititmti Surveyor M. F. Norton was in At kinson, Friday. L. R. Dillard and E. C. McElhany were up from Page last Thursday. Wild plum trees are in bloom along the several streams near the city. Mrs. Georgia Rasley and daughter, Miss Dorothy Hall, were in Norfolk Wednesday. Dr. Lubker of this city has con sented to instruct the new band which is being organized at Page. A light frost was reported Satur day night. It was not of sufficient intensity to injure vegetation. A daughter was born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ernst, who reside over the Abbott Variety store. Clarence Wrede was quite severely injured with a drag when a team ran away with him last Monday evening. L. W. Arnold returned home Mon day evening from Scotts Bluff, Ne braska, where he was looking after cattle interests. Mrs. J. M. Seybold and daughter ar rived home Tuesday evening from a month’s visit with her four sisters at Kearney, Nebraska. Clarence Hicks is suffering with a broken collar bone which he received Sunday when he came in contact with a heavy object. Rev. George Longstaff went to Nor folk and points east last Friday. He will attend presbytery at Pender be fore returning home. Mrs. Wm. Meyer has been suffer ing with flu and pneumonia; she is re covering nicely at the home of her parents, southeast of O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. John Linehart went down to the home of their son, Ray and family near Chambers, last Tues day where hey will visit for a short time. The team driven by Chas. Cole on the medicine wagon ran away Tues day and scattered the wagon over the street near the Seth Noble lumber yard. Tilden Hardisty and family moved onto the Tim Harrington farm north cast of O’Neill last Saturday. Mr. Hardisty and family formerly resided eleven miles north of Long Pine. Dodge Brothers Set New Record Deliveries and Production Exceed Best Previous Week in History. Dodge Brothers have been establishing new high records continuously for several months, as com pared with similar periods for previous years, but the record of the week ending April 11 is the best in the company’s history. With retail deliveries aggregating more than 7,000, an average of more than 1,300 each production day, the best previous week was surpassed by several hundred cars. New retail orders exceeded the corresponding week of 1924 by 1,000, or approxi mately 19.7 per cent. . Although Dodge Brothers Motor Cars are now be ing built at the rate of 1,100 a day, both deliveries and new orders are some 200 a day in excess of production. “Had dealers’ stocks permitted, the number of deliveries for the record week would have been even ^r^?Ler’ said John A. Nichols, Jr., Vice-President in Charge of Sales. “It is not a spurt, but a steady, healthy climb.” Those wanting new cars better place their order | at once. J. M. Seybold, O’Neill The O’Neill and Ewing high schools will play a game of base ball at the O’Neill ball park Friday, April 24th. The Holt county track meet and base ball games will be held in O’Neill, Friday, May 1st. Most all of the town schools of the county will be represented. Miss Mary Joyce returned to her duties in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fri day morning. Miss Mary has been visiting her parents here since early in the winter. Mrs. James Connolly accompanied by her son, John, and Mrs. James McPharlin, drove to Omaha, Saturday to be with her daughter, Mrs. Helen Bridges, who is ill. The Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church are meeting at the home of Mrs. J. A. Hutchins this afternoon. Mrs. Hutchins and Mrs. Ray Eidenmiller are hostesses. L. E. Crawford received a fractur ed left leg while moving a stove the first of the week. Mr. Crawford fell backward while carrying one end of the stove, and the stove fell upon his leer. Art Wilson arrived Monday morn ing from his home at Owen, Wis consin, and will spend some time on his ranch south of Emmet and in look ing after his other property interests in Holt county. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Weekes and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell drove to Norfolk Wednesday morning in the former’s new Buick brougham sedan, where they attended the convention and banquet of the bankers of Group “3.” Carl, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gokiee, residing seven miles northwest of O’Neill, captured an oposum in a cornfield last Friday. Carl is quite a naturalist; he is the young man who brought down the eagle a few weeks ago. Wednesday was Arbor Day. About the only outward demonstration con nected with the day is the closing of the banks and county offices. Every one who contemplates planting trees have done so before the day set apart for this purpose arrives. Art Brazell cranked up the old jitney Sunday morning and started for Casper, Wyoming, where he has several important land deals on. He will stop off enroute to visit friends at Hot Springs and expects to be back by Friday or Saturday. • Grand Master IJ. R. Dickson and Past Grand Master Lewis E. Smith of the Nebraska Masons were the guests of honor at a reception tendered by the Masonic fraternity of Ainsworth Monday evening. Delegations from a number of neighboring lodges were present. J. C. Harnish received a few lc, 2c and 5c postage stamps of the Lexing ton-Concord issue which have just been printed. Only a few of the stamps were issued and they are con sidered to be quite rare. Mr. Harnish has a number of rare stamps which he ptizes quite highly. Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Hutchins, daughter Esther May and son Good sell, and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Curtis drove over to Ponca last Sunday afternoon where they spent the evening and following morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Menden hall, relatives of both families. The Hanfoi'd Produce Company are making extensive improvements at the local creamery and ice cream plant. They are installing a new boiler and other equipment. The in terior of the cooling part of the plant has been entirely remodeled and when completed will be one of the best in this part of the state. The members of the I. O. 0. F. and Encampment will publicly celebrate the 106 anniversary of the founding of the order, by attending services,in a body, at the Methodist church Sun day at eight o’clock. Rev. J. A. Hutch ins will deliver a special address at that time. All members of the order and their families and friends are re quested to attend the services. A number of small tornados did considerable damage to towns east and south of us Wednesday evening about eight o’clock. At Royal and Brunswick a number of roofs were blown from railroad cars and a number of out buildings were blown down. The most severe storm seem | ed to be in the vicinity of Pierce where numerous barns were destroy ed and several horses were killed. Norfolk, Battle Creek, Fullerton, El gin and various towns in their vicinity were visited by twisters. No loss of life or serious injury to persons is reported. George A. Miles has been ill with an attack of the flu for the past week. Dan Flaherty departed for Fuller ton, Nebraska, last week where he will reside in the future. W. R. Meyer is quite ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Pruss, in the southeast part of the city. John Valla returned Monday, from Lincoln, where he has been with his daughter, Miss Helen, who has been seriously ill, and who underwent a mastoid operation, at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, where she is in training. The Omaha Chamber of Commerce are touring the trade territory and will visit O’Neill with thcr special train Friday, May 15th. They will perhaps reach O’Neill during the late afternoon. They will spend the night at Neligh. Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Keefe, of Den ver, Colorado, who were called here about a month ago by the death of Mrs. Keefe’s father, John Dwyer, and who have since been visiting at the H. E. Coyne home, departed this morning for a trip through the west in search of a location. This part of Holt county has re ceived two nice rains during the past week. Last Friday night .48 of an inch of rain fell during the night, and again Wednesday evening a heavy shower brought .49 of an inch. Notwithstanding the fact that the old timers are predicting a dry year everything at this time points to an early spring and a big crop during 1925. Dr. T. V. Golden, of Creston, Iowa, a former O’Neill resident, has receiv ed notice from the war department of his appointment as a lieutenant colonel in the medical section of the officers reserve corps. Dr. Golden, who served with distinction with the 345th Field Artillery in France and Germany during the world war, ad vancing to the rank of major, is the sen of John Golden and a nephew of T. V. Golden of this city. George Bradt received a sprained anise and a severe bump on his head wh' Ji rendered him unconscious for som£ time, when a team of young horses ran away with him Tuesday afternoon, while he was moving a load of household furniture to his farm northeast of O’Neill where he is going to make his home. Irwin Simonson came along soon after Mr. Bradt was thrown from the wagon, and brought him to town where he received medical attention. Ralph Hudgins, the young man who was sentenced to serve a term in the men’s reformatory at Lincoln, for passing a forged check, succeeded in making his escape from the jail Thursday evening while Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom was getting some fuel with which to build a fire in the jail. The deputy sheriff did not lock the jail door while he went to the -.bed nearly for the fur’, in the mean time the prisoner took his departure. He was apprehended at Inman late that night. Constable George Bay went to Inman on the early morning passenger train and got the young man as he was getting on the “head end” of the train, and returned him to the jail. The chances are that he \v'!l he given no further privileges .luring his stay in O’Neill. FRANK DANIELS, 23, RESIDING NEAR EWING FOUND DEAD IN CAR Nebr., April 21st: Frank Daniels was found dead in his auto* mobile one mile from home at 11 o’clock Monday morning. He had ap parently shot himself with an auto matic revolver which was found lying at his feet. Mr. Daniels had sfient the after noon in Ewing Sunday and was seen driving towards home at about 6 o'clock that evening. He had evi dently been shooting at jack rabbits •along the road as one rabbit was in the back of the car with a bullet hole through its body. Perry Saiser, mail carrier, while making his rounds saw the car stand ing in the road with a man lying in the front seat as if asleep. Upon investigating he ascertained that he was dead. Saiser immediately tele phoned from a neighbor’s to Dr. Briggs of Ewing, who at once drove to the place of the accident. It was Dr. Briggs’ opinion that Daniels had been dead at least twelve hours and that death had been caused by a bullet passing through his brain. Frank Daniels was a young man of excellent habits, 23 years of age living with his mother, Mrs. John Daniels, on a farm ten miles south west of Ewing. He was a brother of Gus and John Daniels both well-to-do farmers of this community. The Daniels family have resided here since 1900. County Attorney Julius D. Cronin APPAREL and ACCESSORIES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Space ia not provided here to accommodate the mnnv items of Merchandise we are carrying in our store. However, we know our lines include everything in apparel and piece goods for men, women and children. Which also means footwear and ull tho other small articles that are essential to the complete outfitting of every member of the family. If you need anything, come to our store. We handle it at the price you will be glad to pay. Anton Toy viewed the body Monday afternoon and after a careful examination of the remains and interviewing those who knew the young man, gave out the information that apparently death had been caused from the accidental discharge of the gun. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Issued by the county judge, at O’Neill: April 23rd— Albert J. Krysl, Stuart, Nebraska. Mary C. Ziska, Stuart, Nebr. April 7th— John J. Ramm, Stuart, Neb. Anna Ackermann, Stuart, Neb. Married by Ft. J. W. Jungles, on April 21st.% April 16th— Myron R. Collmer, Atkinson, Neb. Catherine I. Wedige, Atkinson, Neb. April 20th— Gilbert Campbell, Stuart, Neb. Anna Shane, Stuart, Neb. April 21st— Edwin John Engler, Stuart, Neb. Agnes Josephine Simons, Stuart. mSKuoTKOM-U UNN. S. M. Bergstrom and Miss Florence Gunn drove over to Yankton, South Dakota, on Wednesday, April 15th, and were united In marriage. The bride is the daughter of A. W. Gunn, formerly of this city, and was born and raised in O’Neill. She was graduated from the O’Neill high school last year. Mr. Bergstrom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Bergstrom of near Staf ford, and is also well known in O’Neill where he/has made his home a part of the time during the past few years. JOSEPH KEITH FLAHERTY. Joseph Keith, the two months’ old baby boy of Dan Flaherty, died at the home of Miss Nell Flaherty, near Fullerton, Nebraska, Tuesday, and was buried Wednesday in Riverside cemetery beside his mother, who pass ed away a few weeks ago. THE FRONTIER CANNOT USE OLD MAGAZINES The Frontier has been asked several times if they can use old magazines and clean sorted news papers. We cannot use them for the reason that we have no paper baler and have no way of putting them on a market where they would bring any returns for the trouble of handling. THE CHARITY BALL FRIDAY EVENING Local society is all aflutter in pre paration for the Charity ball to be given by the Catholic Daughters of America at the Knights of Columbus hall and opera house Friday evening, April 24. A noted orchestra has been engaged for the affair, which will be one of the most elaborate of the social season. The chapter also an nounces the organization of a sym phony orchestra, under the leadership of Miss Rose Taylor and of a glee club under the direction of Mrs. H. J. Reardon. _________ I I FISH HOOKS J. P. Gallagher and son, Frank, en joyed their first fishing excursion of the year to Cherry county lakes last week. They were the guests of Dr. Matt Meer, of Valentine. Mr. Gal lagher reported the bass as biting good and brought back eight which weighed from two and one-half pounds to five pounds each, dressed. He also secured the limit in perch. D. H. Clauson, S. J. Weokes and Tom Hanson drove over to Swan lake Friday and relieved the lake of a couple of nice pickerel. .Tom was unable to land the larger one that as sailed his hook but D. H. brought home a 9-pounder and S. J. claims one somewhat smaller. Ira Moss, Herb Hammond and Ben Grady visited Swan Lake Monday. They brought home a small bass and several large stories. NewTaxiLine I have started a new taxi line with a new sedan. I will give you day and night service. Headquarters at Crystal cafe. Phone 315. Stanley Soukup