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Frontier. i _____ _ . VOLUME XLJX. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928. NO. 4. Hoover and Curtis Are Choice of Convention RUNNING RACE MEET AN UNUSUAL EVENT With fair weather during the three days of the Running Race Meet, July 3, 4, and 5, O’Neill will have the larg est crowd that has ever gathered within her gates for a similar affair. The program is one of the best and includes horses from all of the sur rounding states, and from the big western circuit. Some of the fastest races are run over the O’Neill track and some of the fastest gallopers of the country come to O’Neill because they always receive the best of treat ment from the racing management. The down-town attractions will be another big drawing card. The Mc Clellan Shows, of Kansas City with four riding devices, eight shows, thirty other concessions, a caliope, over two hundred people are among the concessions; Goldie Meek and her 49 show and other shows will also be here; Phil Ziemer, who has charge of the concessions says that there will be a large number of other shows and places of amusement along the streets from the Burlington depot to the court house. An airplane will be here and will carry passengers. Plenty of fun for everyone. HOOVER AND CURTIS. The following editorial appeared in the Saturday issue of the Omaha World-Herald, a democratic news paper: If the Kansas City convention has done nothing else for us it has empha sized the shining truth that America is a land of miracle and romance, of opportunity and high adventure. Its nominee for president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, was born in a cabin on an Iowa farm, edu cated in California, and became, as a mining engineer, a nomad on the face of the earth. After attaining to pre eminence and great wealth in his pro fession he maintained an office in Lon don where he established his residence, and, until he entered upon a public career, he spent more of his life in England, continental Europe, Asia and Africa than in the United States. A valued and trusted lieutenant of Presi dent Wilson during the world war, he i announced himself a republican only | eight years ago, since which time he has served under President Harding j and Coolidge as secretary of com merce, in training for the presidental nomination that now has come to him. The jiominee for vice-president whose grandmother was a Kaw Indian was born in an Indian camp, wore a government blanket, susisted on gov ernment rations as a youth, became then a horse jockey, later a hack driver, then a self-made lawyer, and rose at length to be the leader of his party in the United States senate, from which post he advances to the vice-presidential nomination. For pure romance, for striking at I testation of the possibilities and op portunities that confront the Ameri can boy whether of high or lowly lineage, these nominations leave little to be desired, whatever may be deem ed lacking in other respects. Herbert Hoover’s dame, since he started feeding the Belgians early in the world war, has been a household word in America. Excepting only the name of his one-time chief, Woodrow Wilson, it is probably the best known American name in Europe and other foreign lands, as befits one who has sometimes been sneered at as “an internationalist” and “international minded.” Every housewife every farmer, gained what seemed to be an intimate if not always congenial fa miliarity with him when, as food ad ministrator, he was trying desperately to keep down the price of wheat and limit our food consumption, for the benefit of the allied forces and peo ples, after our own entry into the war. By his admirers, who are numer ous, especially in the business world, he is esteemed an administrator of superlative rank, and his technical knowledge of the details of the feder al government and broad grasp of its problems no one questions. Politically Mr. Hoover identifies him self—if he needed identification—in his message to the convention that nominated him: “I stand upon that platform. If elected I shall give the best within me ... to uphold the tra ditions of the republican party, so effectively exemplified by Calvin Coolidge.” He is Coolidge’s fit and logical successor, as he has been his trusted adviser and loyal discipline since the death of Warren G. Hard ing. William Allen White speaks of the platform as “conservative to the point of reaction,” and Mr. Hoover, without qualifications or mental res ervations, can stand, consistently and conscientiously, upon it. ^ Phone Market 47 • We deliver. 8 | Quality Foods | Marked Especially Low | (FOODS of recognized purity and goodness are offered at prices no thrifty housewife should overlook. For instance: jj Peanut Butter in fancy Sherberts...15c Heinz Apple Butter, 2-lb. jar .......47c iii Kre-Me-Kuts Macaroni, package ...... 6c Campfire Marshmallow Creme___ 23c Pathfinder Rolled Oats.......21c Krafts Chocolate Malted Milk, 5-oz. Jar, 15c—1-lb can_35c j |! Bananas, Another Old Fashioned Sale Saturday Afternoon. Get in on it. | Ross E. Harris Food Market -Phone 17 1 _ _ Hoover Receives The Nomination For President On First Ballot Both Men Receive a Great Ovation ___ The Republican National convention assembled in Kansas City nominated Herbert Hoover, of California, for president of the United States on the first ballot late Thursday night of last week. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, was the choice of the convention for vice-president. The convention met in Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday of last week and organized with Simon D. Fess as tem porary chairman. Senator George H. Moses, of New Hampshire, was chos t 1 ■ JL——!'M11 ■a.'l... ■ ■ ' ■ ' J .—■» HERBERT HOOVER, OF CALIFORNIA en the permanent chairman. Much time was taken up in select ing a platform but the one selected is sound and conservative and will meet the approval of the party generally. With Hoover and Curtis the west will have an opportunity to place western men in the white house this fall for the first time in the history of the United States. Both are very ble men and if they are elected presi dent an-' vice-president we are as sured of an administration that will be conducted along conservative lines — 11 -i—mm* in in - - 11■■ ■ SENATOR CHARLES CUR TIS, OF KANSAS and in a businesslike way that will not bring humiliation to our country. The ovation given each of the chosen candidates was one that will be long remembered by those present and was, perhaps the greatest ap plause ever given to any nominee for a like office. Much could he said about the con vention and their choice of candidates. The Nebraska State Journal tells the story very nicely and we publish it below: HERBERT HOOVER. The republican national convention, following the clearly-expressed man date of the members of the party or ganisation, has nominate*! Hrrbert Hoover for president of the United Htatea. In spite of the opp<> iti n of the great moneyiei interests of the country and of the radical elements as expressed in the agitation fur a cer tain type of farm relief, Mr. Hoover, sheer force of the demand for his serv ices, has triumphed. The people of the country are to be congratulated upon the opportunity to secure a man of his type for the position of chief executive. Mr. Hoover is not a politician in the sense that we have all com-* to understand i the term, a man alert to sense what , the public wants and then push it as I a leader. He is not a statesman of the type that has been engaged upon the task of building safe and secure the liberties which a democratic form of government premises. He is a big, constructive force who*« leadership is, available Just at the time when ser i vices such as he can perform better ’ than any man in public life are most necessary for the public weal. No fact is more evident than that the political era in America has ended, and the economic era has begun. The demand of today Is for the politician | 1 to Sake to the rear and the man who , I 1 can do the big things in an economic, or, if you please business way, to take hold. Doing big things in a big and successful way have been Mr. Hoover’s task for more than a dozen years. What these were will be de tailed in the campaign to come. Henry Ford recently said that he was for Hoover for president because he has shown that he can size up any job, pick the right men and direct it thru to success. A column of panegyrics could not more clearly describe Hoover’s qualifications for the leader ship for which the nation pauses. What is uppermost in the mind of the men and women of today? Their respective jobs, their perman ency and their promise of rewards. We have as citizens of the republic won our political independence; we need now to grasp the economic in dependent of the individual that is present today. The organizing abili ties that Mr. Hoover has shown in his leadership of business as secretary of commerce, when placed at the com mand of agriculture, will gain for that industry what it most needs and de sires. His past record as builder and administrator is a guarantee of this accomplishment. Mr. Hoover is personally dry and he is pledged, as head of the law en forcement department of the govern ment, to a policy that should appeal to every other dry. President Cool idge’s policy of economy in govern mental expenditures will be Mr. Hoover’s policy. The mounting cost of government is one of the menaces to the prosperity of the individual, and a strong man unafraid of the politicians alone can halt it. We face a campaign in which pas sion, prejudice and partisanship threaten to obscure the real issues and the real good of the people, but we repeat that the opportunity is present to select as president a man remark ably well equipped for a gigantic task. CHARLES CURTIS. The selection of Senator Curtis of Kansas for second place on the repub lican ticket gives the west, whether one considers Hoover an Iowan or a Californian, entire control of the situa tion. After all the talk about the po litical power of the industrial east, the republican party, through which it has funcitioned in more ways than one, turns to the middle west and chooses both its candidates from this side the Missouri river. The fact that Senator Curtis was the one candidate for president upon whom the experts had picked as the man who would be nominated if the others reached an impasse in their candidacies is the best testimony of his fitness for the second place. While a member of the old guard, he has never been a slavish follower of any political machine, and his inde pendence and abilities won him the leadership of the senate republicans. He has served for thirty-three years in the house and senate, convincing proof of his integrity and ability as a public man. This service has made him familiar with all the complexities of government, an able counsellor and a wise leader. The agriculaurel west will have in him a spokesman who knows its needs and desires. He is a good campaigner, and a man whose personality and speech will be a strength to the ticket. GOLF TOURNAMENT WILL START SUNDAY MORNING AT COUNTRY CLUB The annual golf tournament will start Monday morning at the O’Neill Country Club with the prospects very bright for one of the most successful gatherings of its kind yet held by the Club. Some of the out-of-town players who expect to tee-off Sunday are A. W. Breyer, Harold McKinnon, Nor folk; Wm. Sheehan, Winner; Thomas A. Hanson, Tilden; Bobby Reickhoff, Orange City, Iowa; John Mann, Chi cago; George Swingle, Lincoln; John Hopkins, Omaha; Joe Leonard, Bas sett; Joe Baldwin, Ainsworth; Harry Snyder, Atkinson; Parnell Golden, Casper, Wyoming. The dance will be held at the Coun try Club Monday evening. The banquet will be at the Golden hotel Tuesday evening. From 125 to 150 entries are ex pected. BRIDGE TOURNAMENT FOR LADIES DURING TOURNEY A bridge tournament will be held at the Country Club during the Golf Tournament which will begin next Sunday. The bridge tourney will last Sunday and Monday. All members of the Country Club and all out-of-town guests are cordially invited. BLUE GRASS HARVEST BEGAN WEDNESDAY The Nebraska Seed Company rep resentatives arrived in O’Neill the first of the week and under the di rection of Paul Schwisow who is superintending the work, began the harvest of the blugrass crop in this locality. Thirty-two strippers began taking the seed Wednesday morning on the Ditch Camp ranch, Cottonwood ranch and on the Paul Schwisow farm. Only a small amount of seed can be taken this year on account of the under growth of the clover and other grass which make it difficult to get clean seed. Mr. Schwisow says that the work will perhaps be discontinued in a few days. The blue grass seed obtained from Holt county is rated as the best on the markets and that is why the seed companies are anxious to get all the seed that they can at this time. wjwww -u4Vik vmiiMK DRESS AND HAT SALE Beginning Saturday, June 23rd FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS Better Dresses Priced Astonishingly Low at $6.75 $10.75 $15.75 High Grade Spring and Midsummer Hats $1.00 $2.50 $3.75 Exclusive Pattern Hats at Hail Price CHAPMAN’S STYLE SHOP O’Neill, Nehraska ----- - -