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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1928)
Dti A\T'T'TT7 tl i lv * / V I ,4 1 11V. VOLUME XLVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 192* NO. 44. _* The O’Neill High School Admitted To North Central O’Neill High School received noti fication of having been accepted as a member ef the North Central As sociation of Collegee and Secondary Schools. Application for membership was made last spring and was acted upon by the Association last week. As a member of the Association the O’Neill High School must observe cer tain regulations and standards as pre scribed by the North Central Asso ciation, such as modern, well equip ped and sanitary school buildings, adequate library and laboratory fa cilities, higher standards of scholar ship, and raises the qualifications of teachers. Students who graduate from a North Central Association High School may enter any college or university of the North Central Asso ciation without entrance examina tions. The O’Neill Board of Education should be commended for taking this forward step, placing our schools among the foremost schools of Ne braska. The North Central Member ship includes all of the larger cities of Nebraska, Northern Nebraska, at present, has few schools who main tain the standards required for mem bership in the North Central Asso ciation. LOCAL NEWS. The interior of the K. C. opera house is being refinished. A son was born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barnes of this city. A spare tire was stolen from the L. C. Chapman sedan last Monday evening. V When cleaning house save the things you’re tired of for the Rum mage Sale. Frd Spires returned home from Nor folk last week where he had been re ceiving treatment. Mrs. Joseph Schollmeyer and daughter, Mrs. Arthur Tomlinson, of Scottville, have been spending the past week at the H. W. Tomlinson home, while they are receiving treat ment. The Fordson Crawler demonstra tion last Saturday afternoon given by the Mellor Company was a success from every’ angle. A large number of interested spectators saw the crawler do its work and as a result some sales have already been made. Fire of undetermined origin destroy ed the barn, double corn crib and other outbuildings on the J. F. Saly ars farm, better known as the Oscar Newman farm near Dorsey about eleven o’clock Saturday night. No one was at home when the fire started. The Omaha Cold Storage Company closed their cream station in O’Neill last Tuesday night, and have shipped their equipment to Omaha. The sta tion has been doing business for sev eral years in O’Neill and have enjoy ed a good trade during most of the time. Mrs. Cecil Brown entertained a number of little boys at her home in the west part of the city last Satur day afternoon from 2:30 until 5:00 o’clock, the occasion being the sixth birthday anniversary of her son, Ralph, The little folks enjoyed a pleasant time. Feed McNally has purchased the O’Neill Gas & Oil Company filling station of George McNally and took possession Wednesday morning. Fred will move his family to O’Neill at once and will personally conduct the filling station. George McNally may decide to operate one of his ranches during the coming year but has not fully decided. Fred will retain his in terests in the wholesale bakery in Omaha. The “Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra’’ composed of the Methodist congrega tion at Meadow Grove and under the guidance of Rev. J. A. Hutchins, gave a 'vefry enjoyable program in the Methodist church in this city last Thursday evening to a fairly good sized audience. There was around forty people in the cast, under the leadership of Evangelist H. T. Taylor. Many of the scenes and climaxes were very amusing and brought forth much applause. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Frenking, ac jcompanied by the latter's mother, Mrs. •T. J. McCatTerty, drove up from Oma i ha last Friday and spent Sunday in I O’Neill. Mrs. McCafferty has been visiting in Omaha for the past two months. James Davidson says that the Oil omatic heating plants are beginning to sell for next winter's use; Dr. F. J. Kubitschek is the latest to purchase! one of the plants which will be in stalled in his home between now and next fall. We understand that Miss Rose Fal-1 Ion is again singing in grand opera j and is quite successful. Mlfcs Rose i has an excellent voice and no doubt! will become quite prominent. She is an O’Neill girl and all are interested in her future. The Frontier is one day late this week on account of printing the pri mary election ballots. A copy of the ballot for each political party as well as the non-political ballot will be pub lished in The Frontier next week. The primary election will be held on Tuesday, April 10th. Miss Katheryn Murray, who has been at the heme of her aunt, Mrs. Roy Hemmingway, at Chadron. Ne braska, was taken to a hospital in Hot Springs, South Dakota, last week where she submitted to an operation for appendicitis last Thursday. Her mother, Mrs. Lawrence Murray went to Hot Springs last Friday to be with her. Passenger train No. 14 east bound, due to arrive in O’Neill at 2:40 a. m., was wrecked about three miles west of Emmet Wednesday morning. A broken rail was the cause of the acci dent. The smoker and one chair car left the track and the trucks were buried in the right-of-way. The cars remained in an upright position. No one was injured although there were about twenty passengers in the coaches. J. M. Seybold, the popular local Dodge Brothers dealer of this city, has been the center of much merri ment among his many friends this week all because the judge down at Pierce, the first of the week, fined Jim for contempt of court when Jim and a number of others clapped their hands after the jury in the John Ker senbrock case returned a verdict of “not guilty.” The judge, however, remitted the fine after Jim made a voluntary speech to the court. n^Eventuaily^^Iiy^or"! NOW? | I Avoid the Hot Summer Rush I Drop in and let us jl explain . kgmsas how you can save money over a term of years You will be sur prised how big a saving we can show you $45.00 allowance for old ice boxes ON MODELS S-5. S-7 and 7-10 I Small down payment balance I I monthly with light bill. I * I Interstate Power Co. I f Merchandise Department I Prepare Early For Your I Easter Dinner I • Quantities of New Fancy Good Things coining in every day, to assist in j| jjgj making vour Easter Shopping a greater pleasure. ^ ■ jl Hams. Handy Weight Armour’s Star, this week .2Z2 lb I Cocoanut, Fancy Shredded.— -29c lb. || ]V Cocoa—Hersheys, Vi-tb. Can ...-..17c |§ Honey—Fancy Comb .- -..- - - 14c lb. ge I R. E. Harris Food Market, Phone 47 I Mrs. T. M. Harrington has recover ed from a nine weeks’ siege of the flu and is again able to do her house work. Mrs. Thomas Quinn returned home Monday from a few days spetit with her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Ragan and family at Creighton. Mrs. Addie Bowden was granted a divorce from Elvin E. Bowden the first of the week. She was given the custody of the two children. Miss Marjorie Dickson and Miss Ruth Barnard are assisting in the of fice of the Interstate Power Company taking care of some extra work. Ralph Phillips, of Star, drove to Grand Islam), last Friday, returning home Saturday with Mrs. Phillips who has been receiving treatment in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Cross came over from Creighton Sunday for a visit with the Carl Oppen family. Mrs. Cross remained for a longer visit with her parents, Mrs. :J. H. Meredith. Dr. Margaret Frost and Miss Edith Sexsmith ac companied Mrs. II. W. Hereford and sister, Mrs. George Henry to Omaha last Friday. They returned home the first of the week. T. F. Birmingham and Attorney L. C. Chapman enjoyed the experience of spending several hours extracting their car from a ditch Wednesday afternoon while enroute to the Span gler sale northeast of O’Neill. Due to the “greasy” roads the car skidded from the road and rested against the embankment for a few hours while the occupants rounder! up “old dob bin” plus numerous neighbors, fence posts, etc. The party arrived home for supper a little chilly but without injury. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Cowperth waite returned home last Friday evening from u four months sojourn in the vicinity of Tampu. Florida. Art says that they had a nice visit with Lawrence Malone, who is a prominent attorney at Bradenton, Florida, and a couple of nice visits with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Adams, former O’Neill residents, now at Bradley Junction, Florida, where Mr. Adams is in the employ of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Mr. Cowporthwaite brought home a number of grape fruit and oranges picked from Mr. Adams' or chard which Art says, consists of ten acres of the finest trees in Florida. Mr. Adams broke up the ground about fourteen years ago and set out the oichurd himself; he takes cart* of the treee and has a personal pride in making the grove the l*e»t in the southland. The orchard la located near Haynes City, which is about twenty-five mile* from Bradley June* Unit. There are two residence* no the ten acre*, one is occupied by a sister, while a tenant reside* in the other. Mr. and Mr*. Adams still have an in terest In O'Neill and the pki»time« a* will ba notim-d by another article else where in this issue, written by Mr. Adam*. The grape fruit and oranges brought from Mr, Adam*' orrhards may be seen at the O’NciU National bank where Mr. Cowperthwatte be* left them. Gerald Schultz is a new employee in the service department of the Inter state Power Company office in this city. The first division of the ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a rummage sale in the near future. Watch for place and date. The Interstate Power Company connected Burke, South Dakota, to the high line last week. Lynch. Nebras ka, will be connected up this week, Allen B. Barber, formerly of this city, who is now traveling for the Pioneer Paint & Glass Company, was shaking hands with O’Neill friends todiay. Why not let the ladies of the first division of the Presbyterian church bake that cake for you? Phone the captain No. 234 and she will place your order. Waiter'Stein went to South Bend, Indiana, Wednesday, and will drive home a new Studebaker hearse for the O. F. Biglin furniture and under taking establishment. James Connolly was in O’Neill last Friday for the first time for several weeks. Along about Christmas time Mr. Connolly suffered a broken blood j vessel in the right leg which has con ! fined him to his home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zimmerman and son, Billie, drove up from Hast ings, Nebraska, last Saturday and are spending the week with O’Neill rela tives. The Combination Sale held at the John L. Quig farm south of the North Western depot last Saturday was a .success. Everything sold high; a large crowd was present. Frank Biglin returned home last Friday from Rochester, Minnesota, where he submitted to an operation some time ago for goitre. Frank is looking fine and is getting fat, Ernst Wells, a construction engin eer for the Interstate Power Company has been headquartering in O’Neill for the past week and; has been inspecting the company’s properties in this vi cinity. Master Lane Griffin is carrying his left arm in a sling all because his brother, Billie, taused him up in the air and failed to catch him when he came down. One bone in the left arm was fractured. Rev. and Mrs. Guy W. Ballard and son Max, returned home Saturday from Iowa Falls Iowa. They drove home a new Standard “6” Buick which they purchased in Omaha through A. Marcellus of this city. 's G A r] 15 lbs. for .... $1.00 j 100 lbs. for . . . $6.45 MMMMwrauwavianH» — BBTOMMywMWMW "■■■■ ■ —■—— «** ! D. Abdouch a ■ -™='— ■ 1 ";==^s y—1 ■" ..111 North Nebraska is Kntitied to a U. S. Senator < Vote for Your Neighbor Attorney General O. S. SPILLMAN of Pierce Spillman is one of the common folk*. He ha* made the Attorney General** Office a power for the protection of the people and will ably serve the people in Washington if elected 1”. S. Senator. «■ .. --J
