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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1928)
_ J 9 B ^ ■ dll I HI BilffaBIBrH I 111 if 11 1 VOLUME XLIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928. NO. 10. I i Big Double Bill Sunday and Monday Sunday—A1 Iossi and his 8-Piece Band will play the show. LAURA LA PLANTE —in— “Finders Keepers” (Mary Roberts Rinehart story) MONDAY HAROLD LLOYD’S DOUBLE IN PERSON ON STAGE (Coolest Place In Town) The Royal Theatre DAVIDSON-SLXSMITIl. John Davidson and Miss Edith Sex smith quietly drove over to Yankton, South Dakota, on October 9, 1927, and were married. The event was kept a secret until they left for the Black Hills on a belated wedding trip, only two or three intimate friends knew of the wedding until the news was released last Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are among O’Neill’s most popular young people. The bride is the present deputy county superintendent; she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sex smith, who reside north of the city. Everyone in O’Neill knows “John ny;” he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Davidson of this city; he has been connected with the plumbing shop with his father for a number of years J and is a hustling young business " man. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are anxiously awaiting their return when they will be given»a big charivari. The Frontier extends congratula tions and wish Mr. and Mrs.Davidson prosperity. DRY CREEK TEAM DEFEAT THE SHAMROCKS 4 The Dry Creek ball team won from the Shamrock team with a score of 13 to 8. This fast game of ball was played on the Dry Creek diamond seven and a half miles southwest of O’Neill, Sunday, July 29. The Sham rock team has only been beaten twice so far this season, once by Swan Lake and again by the Dry Creek boys. The Shamrock team played good ball Sunday but not good enough for the Dry Creek boys. Battery for Dry Creek: Shoemaker and Shoemaker; Shamrock were Cav anaungh and Woods. Dry Creek also won the game from the Crumley team, Sunday, July 22, with a score of 19 to 6. i LOCAL NEWS. Mrs. Lewis E. Furnish and children, Agatha and Bobby Lou, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, arrived here Saturday night for a two weeks’ visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fur nish. S. L. Berry received a letter the first of the week announcing the death of Frank C. Babcock, in the sanitarium in Philadelphia, on July 7th. It will be remembered that Mrs. Babcock spent considerable time in O’Neill during the war in the opera tion of her 640 acre farm two miles north of O’Neill. Mrs. Babcock was quite prominently identified with na tional Red Cross work during the World War and was sent to France or England as a delegate to a nation al Red Cross convention following the war. Free! During the month of August ■ we will give a pair of rubber heels FREE with every pair of : half-soles. O’Neill • Electric Shoe Shop L. L. CORNELL, Prop. 9-tf ---- — - - -I O’NEILL TEAM LOSES TO INDIANS AND CREIGHTON The Nebraska Indian ball team de feated O’Neill 8 to 6 last Saturday afternoon. The game belonged to O’Neill until the fatal seventh when the Indians enjoyed a batting rally which netted them three scores. The Sunday game with Creighton was a good one. Up until the seventh inning O’Neill claimed the only score. A couple of costly errors gave Creighton three scores in the seventh inning, with no earned runs. The final score was Creighton 5, O’Neill 1. O’Neill ...... _ AB R H PO A E Cuddy, ss- 5 1 2 0 4 0 Harrington, cf_ 4 2 2 1 0 0 ’' J. Martin, rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Rencowntre, 2nd . 4 0 0 3 2 11 Schollmeyer, c _ 4 1 2 7 1 lj' T. Troshynski, 1st 3 1 0 11 0 0, H. Martin, 3rd'_ 5 112 3 0 Carney, If _ 3 0 2 3 0 0 Tomlinson, p .. 3 0 1 0 3 0 Honeycutt, p _ 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 6 11 27 13 2 Nebr. Indians AB R H PO A E Dermit, 2nd_ 5 1 0 2 5 Or Wolfe, 3rd_ 5 0 1 1 2 0^ Huelata, cf_5 1 1 3 1 0 Wonders, ss_4 1 2 1 5 1 ' Blue Jacket, 1st _ 3 1 1 13 0 1 Grant, rf 411100 Bercum, c ... . 2 1 1 6 1 0, Lemmere, If_ 4 1 2 0 0 2 ' Mack, p .. _4 1 0 0 1 0 36 8 9 27 15 4'1 Score by innings: R H E j1 O’Neill _ 104 100 000—6 11 2 < Nebr. Indians 004 100 300—8 9 4 ! Struck out by Mack 4, hit 4 and ‘ walked 1; struck out by Tomlinson 6, | hit 2 and walked one; struck out by ( Honeycutt in two innings 2. Hits off Tomlinson 7. Honeycutt 1. ( Off Mack 6. Three base hits Blue ( Jacket; two base hits H. Martin and . Leo. Carney. ( Umpire—John Carson. 1 Creighton AB R II PO A E Horstman, 1st_4 1 2 12 1 O' Holiday, 2nd_ 5 1 3 2 2 1 1 Ferris, c_ 5 0 0 10 0 0 ( V. Johnson, 3rd_4 0 1 1 1 0 « Quincy, p-3 1 1 0 4 1 1 Kain, ss_4 0 O 0 3 1 ( I. Johnson, cf_ 4 1 1 2 0 0 | Thompson, rf- 4 1 0 0 0 0 [' G. Johnson, If_ 3 0 0 0 0 01 < 36 5 8 27 11 3 ' O’Neill _ -AB R H PO A E ! Cuddy, ss_ 4 0 0 1 2 2,, Harrington, lfcf_4 0 0 1 0 0, J. Martin, rf_4 0 1 1 1 01 Schollmeyer, c - 2 0 0 9 0 0 j , T. Troshynski. 1st 4 1 0 12 0 0, ' Bnzelman, 2nd_ 4 0 0 0 2 1 , H. Martin, 3rd_ 4 0 2 1 3 0 Enright, If_ 2 0 1 1 0 0. Honeycutt, p- 3 0 0 1 3 1, Carney, If- 1 0 0 0 0 0 •' 32 1 4 27 11 4 j Score by innings: i R H E , O’Neill _ 010 000 000—1 4 4 i Creighton_ 000 000 311—5 8 3 i Struck out by Honeycutt 8, Quincy j 10; walked by Honeycutt 4, hit 2; and ’ walked by Quincy 2 and hit 17. Three base hit Holiday. Umpires Earl Hat-j ton and Roy Karr. ( With the gamo Sunday O’Neill has t played 13 games, winning nine and j losing four, making their percentage | in games .693. * < - -- - 1 Hatting Average*; AB H Pet. , Hanley ... 4 2 .500 J. Martin 88 16 .485 | ; Schollmeyer 49 19 .388 ( Harrington — 46 15 ,325 j Cuddy_ _ 44 13 .296 | I Enright 88 8 .888 i Rnzelman _ 23 6 .217 i I Carney . ... _ 41 8 .195 j H. Martin „ 39 7 .180] I Honeyeutt . 37 6 .162 i IT, Troshynski 50 8 .160 < LOCAL NEWS. The first issue of the Plainview Mail came to our desk last week. It is a very attractive, newsy sheet and has every indication of being a success from a financial standpoint as it is filled with advertising of the local mercahnts. The publishers are A. E. Smally & Son. A. E. Smalley is the editor. Twenty-four first class Boy Scouts of Omaha, arrived in O’Neill Saturday evening in a Douglas six-wheel truck, on their 650 mile tour of 29 counties ir. northern Nebraska The purpose of the trip is to brinj; the advantages of scouting before youths of the principal towns on the route and they will stop at practically all of the county seats. The trip will last two weeks. They left Omaha July 23rd. Attorney W. J. Hammond, accom panied by his son, Billie, and his \ mother, Mrs. A. J. Hammond, drove to Denver last week, leaving O’Neill; Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hammond will visit with the D. J. Carlon family and the Grady sisters, Master Bobbie will continue with his father to Pueb lo, Colorado, where he will visit his junt, Miss Grace Carlon, while W. J. will go to Texas for a two weeks’ jusiness trip. Rev. and Mrs. Guy W. Ballard and j son, Max, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, stop-! sed in O’Neill and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Gillespie Wednes iay night. They ane enroute home from an auto trip to Portland, Ore gon, where they visited with Mrs. Ballard’s brother. They also made an extensive tour of the western part of ;he United States. John Harbottle I iccompanied them home and will ?pend a couple of weeks with his old' ml, Max Ballard. I he Bible school conducted at tnei 3resbyterian church closed last Fri lay with a picnic for the children on he church lawn. A program was ?iven by the children attending at the •hurch service hour Sunday morning vhich consisted' of two songs by the' runior department under the direction >f Miss Elizabeth Henry, a review of | he bible study lessons, by Mrs. R. j VI. Sauers, a pantomine and two short uble play:; under the direction of Miss Fern Hubbard. The Holt County Old Settlers picnic vill be held in the Morrow grove six- j ;een miles north of O’Neill on August ?th and 9th. A big program of! speaking and outdoor sports including ihree good ball games will be enjoyed' luring the celebration. Phil Ziemer] las charge of the concessions and he :ells The Frontier that he has more j han a dozen concessions lined up for he two days, that will form a midway vhere everyone can enjoy themselves] vhen the programs are not taking dace. Harry T. Osborn and George Mc Nally spent Tuesday and1 Wednesday if this week in the western part of the fate in the interest of the proposed. Irilling for oil in the territory north-! vest of O’Neill. A rig is being ar- j anged for and will be brought to VNeill in the near future either form he western part of the state or from )klahoma and work will begin soon hereafter. A' number of local people ire considerably interested in the | Irilling prospects and are assisting in he preliminary work. Hastings Tribune: Mr. and Mrs. Cniil Suhr, who have been visiting at he J. R. McCreary home, departed to lay for Lincoln, where they are guests if the former’s mother while the for ner is taking post-graduate work at he state university. For the past hree years Mr. Suhr has been super ntendent of schools at O’Neill, but he family will move soon to Beatrice, vhere he wili be principal of the Ju lior High School. They were accom >anied on their visit by their small ons, Billie and Bobbie. Mrs. Suhr ind Mrs. McCreary are sisters. Mrs. J. J. Harrngton and Mrs. Clf- j ord B. Scott entertained the Martez dub and1 a few invited guests at the lome of Mrs. Harrington Tuesday wening. The early part of the even- j ng was devoted to bridge, at which drs. Hugh Birmingham was given irst honors. Mrs. J. A. Fenking the ill-cut, and Miss Mariam Gilligan the ruest prize. At the luncheon which ollowed each guest was given a ;mall envelope, which, to the great lurprise of everyone contained the mnouncement of the engagement and ipproaching marriage of Miss Mariam lilligan to Dr. Ted E. Ridell, which vill take place August 18th. E. E. Hardy, the gentleman who hns >een entertaining rndio listeners over he country with his musical saw, is n O’Neill today, tuning piunos. Mr, lardy has traveled all over the ountry entertaining people with rarious musical instruments of his iwn making. His first experience was vith a dulcimer which ho made from in old wagon Imx when he was a roung man. The musical saw is his atest musical invention. Mr. Hardy ‘xpccts to visit a few days at the •awrence Murray home while here; le nays that ho worked for Mr, Mor ay's father many years ago when he family lived at Leigh, Nebraskn. dr, Hardy Is a brother of Captain lardy the crack shot who has given in.ny exhibit* over this part of the ountry. THIS IN A HOME OWNED STORE IN YOUR OWN HOME TOWN ® Flour—Frost King 1 GO ^ SATURDAY ONLY ■ Fancy Family Patent__ I iilO Tomatoes—Arkansas Fancy 1{)p m No. 2 full pack, can _ I UU 5—10c Packages Kre-Me Q Q * BR Hei-fer—The New Malt QQa Cut Macaroni_ fcww K Syrup with Sugar added _ uQU X Fly Spray—Kip FlyrTox- Flit 3’lbs- McLaughlin’s Coffee A Spaghetti—Campbells 1C* Tangle Foot from our Kept Fresh 101 Hf Fancy Cooked, per can_IJu Coffee Service_I «U I H Phone 47 Ross E. Harris Food Market Phone 47 I I Hugh T. O’Connor and wife, of Omaha, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. < Ray Griffin the first of the week. Mr. < and Mrs. Griffin accompanied them ] home. 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