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VOLUME XLVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 192* NO. 44.
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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.
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and let
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explain
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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.
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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.
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