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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1925)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, Publisher W. C. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager Entered at the postofTiee at O'Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. Entered at the post office at O’Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. One Year .. .. - $2.00 Six Months__— $100 Three Months-$0.60 ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on Pages 4. 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 25 cents an inch (one column wide) per week; on Page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Local ad vertisements, 10 cents per line first insertion, subsequent insertions 6 cents per line. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of sub scribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be tween publisher and subscriber. O’NEILL AGAIN VICTORIOUS AT BAKER SUNDAY O’Neill again was victorious over the fast Baker baseball aggregation at that place last Sunday. The score was 16 to 7 and undoubtedly would have been much more decisive had it not been for the umpires who throughout the game handed down decisu as somewhat biased to s ty the least. Three home runs by O Neill _were the features of the game. One, 'as usual, was by Emmet Doyle and the others by Messers Crann and Bazelman, the one by Crann being one of the longest hits ever made in baseball. Mr. Crann completed the circuit of the bases before the fielder had reached the ball and easily could have made another round before it finally was returned to the diamond after being relayed four times. Three baggers by the O’Neill players were so common that they became monoto nous and every player that wanted one took it. Baker also made two. The game started with Axberg and Axberg as the battery for Baker and with Allen and Doyle officiating for O’Neill. Pitcher Axberg soon was re tired from the box and succeeded by Harding, a southpaw, whom Bishop of O’Neill welcomed to the game by hitting a three-bagger on the first ball pitched. Twenty hits were scored off the Baker pitchers and ten off Al len. Strikeouts were eleven and eleven for Allen and Harding, Ax berg getting none. A big crowd of local boosters accompanied the boys across the river to lend moral support to the affair. Following is the cas ualty list: O’Neill— AB R II PO A E F. Doyle, lb. 5—3—3—7—1—0 E. Doyle, c . 6—4—4-11—1—0 Crann, rf .. ....... 0—3—3—0—0—0 Holiday, ss ... . 4—1—1—0—4—1 Allen, p — - 4—2—3—0—1—0 Bishop, 3b... 5- -0—3—1—2—1 Beha, cf ___ 5—0—2—4—1—0 Bazeiman, 2b — 4—1—2—3—2—2 Totals _ 43 15 20 27 11 5 Baker— AB R R PO A E Thiel, cf _ 4—0—0—0—0—0 Gus Bentz, ss_4—2—2—1—0—1 Wm. Ambrose, If 5—1—2—4—0—0 Ed Axberg, c_4—2—3-16—2—0 P. Harding, 3b 4—1—0—0—1—0 J. Brophy, lb — 4—0—1—3—1—0 H. Ambrose, 2b 4—2—0—2—0—0 Oliver, rf — 3 '0— —Q.-’-0 0 ■ -0 M. Axberg, p _ 4—1—0—1—5—0 Totals _ 38 7 10 27 9 1 O’Neill _ 22200204 0—15 Baker_ 00203010 1—7 Batteries: O’Neill, Allen and Doyle, Baker, Axberg, Harding and Axberg; Three base hits, Bishop 2, Bentz 2; base on balls, off Axberg 2, off Harding 4, off Allen 3; two base hits, E. Doyle, Beha; home runs, E. Doyle, Crann, Bazeiman; struck out by Allen 11, by Axberg 0, by Hard ing 11; double plays, Allen to Bazei man to F. Doyle, Bishop to F. Doyle to E. Doyle; hit by pitcher Axberg 1, by Alleh 2; Axberg pitched 2 innings ind Harding 7. SCRIPTER-ANDRUS. Joseph M. Scripter and Miss Flor ence Andrus, both of Atkinson, Ne braska, were united in marriage by County Judge C. J. Malone, at his office in the court house last Monday. JAMES CONNOLLY TRUCK OVERTURNS ON HIGHWAY A truck loaded with hogs and driven by James Connolly ran off the grade six miles north of O'Neill about eleven o’clock last Saturday morning. Mr. Connolly was looking for some thing in the bottom of the truck cab, and when he realized that the truck was leaving the road it was too late to stop it. Mr. Connolly received a broken left shoulder blade and some broken ribs on the right side. His son, Medard, and John Madsen, who were riding with him were uninjured. CORRESPONDENTS MUST SIGN THEIR NAMES TO ARTICLES SENT IN The Frontier is in receipt of a cor respondence from someone in the vicinity of Opportunity but we can not use the article for the reason that no name was signed to the corres pondence. We wish to impress upon those who send in communications of any kind to the Frontier that your name must accompany the article sent or we cannot use it. We will not publish the name of the sender but we insist upon knowing the source' of the article. MRS. MICHAEL D. MURPHY. Mrs. Hanora Murphy died at her home in this city last Sunday, Aug ust 16th, following an illness of about four weeks. The cause of her death w*s given as ailments due to old age. She was born in County Cork, Ire land, March 14, 1840. She was mar ried to Michael D. Murphy on Jan uary 11, 1861, and to this union were born nine children, J. M. Murphy, of Washington; Mrs. Margaret Shau ghnesy, of Carter, Washington; J. T. Murphy, of Omaha; Mrs. M. P. Sull ivan, David and Thomas, of O’Neill; Mrs. C. 0. Tucker, of Haxtum, Colo rado; Joe C. Murphy, of Kansas City. Mrs. Humphrey came to Holt county with her husband and family in 1907 and located upon a farm about six miles northeast of O’Neill, where they resided until about six years ago when they came to O’Neill. She is survived by her husband and children. The children who reside elsewhere who were here to attend the funeral services were Mrs. C. O. Tucker, J. T., and Joe C. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning from St. Pat rick’s church conducted by Rev. M. F, Cassidy. Burial was made in Calvary cemetery. WILLIAM LAVIOLETTE. Word was received by friends in O’Neill Wednesday announcing the death Tuesday night of William Laviolette at his home in North Bend, where he has made his resi dence since leaving O’Neill about fifteen years ago. Mr. Laviollette has been in failing health for several years. ■> 'X Sr i i » * Enjoy the Best Time of the Year Now come rile most glorious days of ail—late August, September amd 0;n October! Days meant to be out-of-doors—when the road sides are ablaze with flowers, and the woodlands a riot of color. Take a Ford Car and strike out from the crowded highways. Ex Elore the side-trails that lead to the est fishing, the loveliest spots of natural beauty. There is no going too hard for your Ford; nothing at which its willing f>ower will balk. And its control s so simple, so easy that you can venture where you will on un known dirt roads, with the same confidence with which you set out on the paved highway. The best vacation daysof all are still ahead, the weather is less change able now and roads are in better condition. Get a Ford Car and revel in the finest time of the year. n Touring Car - 290 For dor Sedan - 660 On open tare demountable rims and starter are $85 extra Full else balloon tire# $25 extra. Ail prices f. o. b. Detroit SEE ANY AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER OR MAIL THIS COUPON toupe •520 F. O. B. Detroit i.\ • Please tell me how I can secure a Ford Car on easy payments: • • Naina _________________________________________ | S Addrru_ ; : c«y___stmta_ : Mellor Motor Co. Authorized Dealers FORD - LINCOLN - FORDSON O’Neill 1*hone 16 Nebraska GIVES UP FORTUNE TO WEI) DR. STEVENS Love was put before money when Mr?. Nelle Ziebert Wilson of Omaha and Dr. George A. Stevens of Sioux Falls, S. D., were married Friday in “The Little Church Around the Cor ner” in New York. Announcement of the wedding re vealed in Omaha that the widow of the late Shirley H. Wilson, Omaha business man, chose Dr. Stevens as her husband in preference to an an nual income of $7,500, which was pro vided for her in the will of her former husband, who died February 4, 1923. Wilson left an estate valued at $200,000. The estate was left to his wife and daughter, Maurice, who was present at the wedding in New York, and a son, Emil, of Omaha. Maurice is 11 and Emil 19. There was one important provision in the will. That was, Mrs. Wilson would receive the $7,500 if she did not marry again. In the event of a second marriage, the rental thous ands were to be paid into the estate trust fund. It was recalled Saturday that Mrs. Wilson recently sold her home at 5046 Chicago street, fashionable resi dential district, to F. E. Weather of the Fairmont Creamery company for $27,500. Dr. Stevens and his bride and little Maurine will sail next Wednesday on the American for a several weeks tour of Europe. Dr. Stevens, a physician of only moderate circumstances, is rather well known in Omaha. He graduated from Creighton Medical college. After his graduation, he went abroad for several years and then began the practice of medicine at Sioux Falls. He is a member of Phi Rho Sigma fraternity. They will make their home in Sioux Falls. Dr. George A. Stevens was a resi dent of O’Neill before taking up the study of medicine. While a resident of this city he will be remembered as a clerk in the J. P. Gallagher store. HANDY WITH CHECK BOOK. (State Journal, Aug. 13.) J. C. Oswald, imaginative and free with pen and check pad, served thirty minutes of a thirty-day sentence in the Lancaster county jail and was then whisked away by the sheriff of Seward county to face a bad check charge there. According to the county attorney’s office. Oswald also is wanted in Butler county in connec ion with check passing and while he was being arraigned in municipal court Wednesday, there came a call from Fremont authorities. He is wanted there for the alleged passing of a worthless check for $126. The local authorities beat the Seward sheriff to it early Tuesday. A warrant was issued here some days ago but Oswald could not be located until he called the police late Tuesday with a bang-up story of highway rob bery, which story he later admitted was imaginative. He told the officers that a youth by the name of Alvin Thomas held him up at the point of a gun and took his automobile and $50 in money. He said that he was about to sell the car to Thomas for $37. Under questioning by state officers he admitted that the story was framed. He also admitted that he is wanted in Seward and other places for check transactions. State officers communicated with Sheriff Scott of Seward who came to Lincoln for his man. The state of ficers, however, were not apparently acquainted with the fact that the county attorney’s office here had been on Oswald’s trail. When Prosecutor Young learned that the Seward offi cial was about to remove Oswald, he requested that the local complaint be produced. The prisoner was hurried to the court room and admitted guilt to a charge of cashing a bad check for $7.95 at the store of Gold & Co. The check was drawn on the Firsf National bank of David City. The warrant was under date of July 28, “This is but one of four similar bad check transactions in Lincoln,” said Mr. Young. “The one will hold him until we can ascertain what cer tain other authorities have on him.” According to the officers, Oswald jumped his bond in Sew’ard. Deputy County Attorney Max Towle stated that Oswald was re leased to the Seward authorities be cause of a bigger check transaction in that county. “We believe,” he said, “that we can send him to the penitentiary on a $200 bad check transaction. If he is not sent to prison from Seward, we will bring him back to serve out his sentence here.” TO STOP CRIME. (Albany News-Jburnal.) The United States does not need more laws to reduce murder. It needs the one significant fact that confronts the wouldbe murdered in England: “If I kill I will be hanged.” It needs an uprising of sentiment for obedience to and respect for all law. It needs swift sureness of jus tice, the elimination of court delays, sweeping aside of a thousand legally tolerated/ tricks and pleas that one loopholes of escape for the criminal, have now became great holes in the Jegal procedure in criminal cases. Crime is costing this country $10, 000,000,000 a year and 12,000 lives a year. Richard Washburn Child in his Saturday Evening Post article quotes an organizer of a crime ring thus: Murder is cne of the safest crimes. “Ain’t Nature Wonderful” 1 By “UNCLE PETE,” O’Neill, Nebraska. (Courtesy St. Louis Post Dispatch.) jj O’Neill, Neb. Doc Wilkinson of Beaver Flats has filed a complaint in the court of Judge Kirwan at the Flats, asking that Sliver Triggs be restrained from per mitting the snakes from his bull snake ranch in the Calamas Valley to trespass upon the lands of the doc tor’s furbearing frog farm which ad joins the Triggs place. The action is the outgrowth of several disputes be tween the two ranchmen because of the forays made by the stock of each upon the other. Triggs is accredited by Eastern commercial agencies as the largest bull-snake rancher in the Middle West, and for a number of years has been raising snakes and putting the tanned skins on the mar ket for hatbands and neckties, the same finding much favor among Wild West movie actors and rodeo per formers. Dr. Wilkinson, after a number of years of experimentation, succeeded in producing a strain of furbearing frogs, by wintering the common va riety in cement-lined pools. The cement lining prevented the frogs from burrowing into the bottoms for protection against the cold, and nature soon remedied the matter by growing a fine and delicate fur upon them. The fur is of a dark green color and in much demand for fine trimmings in the garment and glove trades. The fact that the frog sheds his skin a number of times during the spring, summer and fall enables the doctor to supply the demand with out diminishing the numerical strength of his herd. Frogs are a favorite article of diet of the bull snakes, and when the frog ponds in the Calamas, Valley dried up this summer, Triggs’ snakes be gan invading the Wilkinson frog farm. Attempts to swallow some of the larger frogs proved disastrous to the bull snakes, because of the heavy fur of the adults, but the young ones present no such difficulty and as a re sult the doctor’s supply of young stock has become much diminished.. He asks the Court to either require Triggs to build a snake-tight fence around his ranch or else remove it to some other part of the valley. Chances are even you won’t be brought to trial. The chances are nearly 100 to one that you won’t be executed. Chances are five to one that if you get into the pen you’ll be out in five years. And chances are you don’t get into the pen. You’ll go to an insane asylum on the testimony of bought doctors. It’s not the police, it’s the law and courts what does it. There’s testimony from a leader in crime. In this country the murderer knows that the chances that he will not pay the death penalty are greater than the chances that he will. He knows that he can be proved insane or that chances are against his conviction, lie knows that if he is sentenced to prison for burglary or robbery that he can be parolled. He knows that before a state hangs or electrocutes him he may have several trials. He knows that juries forget that a man is murdered and they are sorry for the murderer and his family. He knows that there is a superabundance of maudling sentiment about the criminal in this country. He knows that in Chicago in 225 murder cases only six men were hanged and more than 150 paid no penalty. He knows that the chances that he will be put to death for his crime are only one in 100. The movement to reduce crime will have to confront the situation that now favors the criminal. It will have to reverse that situation. When crim inals know that they will suffer, that neither money nor insanity pleas nor friends nor influence can keep them away from prison or chair or gallows, they will be less willing to kill. Eng land knows how to deal with the mur derer and it has fewer murders than Chicago. The commission to study crime pro posed by Governor Smith of the state and proposed national commission ought to arouse public sentiment for respect for law. And these commis sions should work also to simplify court procedure and at least give honest men as great a chance for life as they now give the murderer. CHAMBERS ITEMS. Audrey and Pauline Wilcox, of Gib bon, are visiting relatives at Cham bers. Miss Pearl Carlyon, of Ishpaming, Michigan, is visiting her brother, Rev R. E. Carlyon. The home of P. Hansen, of Amelia, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday. The loss is covered by insurance. Edna Hansen, of Amelia, who has been a patient at the hospital at Stuart, returned to her home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Davis returned Tuesday from Milligan, after a two weeks’ vacation spent with their daughter, Mrs. Ruth Mehuron. Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Carlyon and son, Donald, returned Saturday from Loe’s Lake, Stanton, where they at tended the Epworth League Institute. Prof. Thompson drove up from St. Edward, Tuesday, and spent a few days at Chambers, getting ready for the coming school year. School will start August 31st. Professor and Mrs. Clarence Rich ard, who have been spending part of their honeymoon at Chambers, left Sunday for Magnet, where they will teach school the coming year. Miss Ida Craig, who has been visit ing her brother, Oscar Craig, will leave for Sacramento, California, this week, where she has a position to teftch music in the public school. John Kellog, of Amelia, met with a painful aceident Monday when some acid that he was using for sold ering purposes got into his eye. He came to Chambers for medical ai tention. One of the happiest social events of the season was a miscellaneous shower given in honor of Miss Mil dred Locke at the J. A. 0. Wood's home Friday afternoon, August 14th; Miss Wayve Woods and Miss Vada Grimes acting as hostesses. The rooms were beautifully decorated in the colors of the rainbow, and this color scheme was also carried out in the dainty refreshments which con sisted of ice cream and cake and candy bouquets. In the living room was a large rainbow and Miss Mil dred found her “Pot of Gold” at the end of the rainbow. In it she found many beautiful and useful presents Miss Locke, whose marriage to Ray' Hoffman will be solemnized in the near future, is one of Chambers most popular young ladies. The afternoon was spent in giving advice to the bride. Miss Edyth Hoffman sang “Let Me Call You Sweet-heart” and “Our ■ Yesterdays.” Miss Mayve Woods accompanied her on the piano. The guests numbered about forty. - r STATEMENT. The Old Line Bankers Life Insur- - ance Co., of Nebraska, have no other agents in this territory than R. J. Marsh and J. F. O’Donnell. Any other statement to the contrary is untrue. (12-lp) R. J. MARSH, General Agent. 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