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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1928)
Lt® The Frontier. VOLUME XLIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928. NO. 12. Come To The Boone County Fair ALBION, NEBR. August 27-28-29-30-31 5-BIG DAYS-5 WONDERFUL EXHIBITS ON DISPLAY RUNNING RACES MOTORCYCLE RACES AUTO POLO AUTO PUSH BALL STUNT FLY ING AIRPLANE WING WALKING 5,000-FOOT PARACHUTE DROP I LACKMAN-CARSON CARNIVAL SHOWS Base Ball Daily Contortion Acts I Foot Jugglers Pavilion Dance Band Concerts Acrobatic Stunts Gold Dust Twins Big Night Show 4 LOCAL NEWS. Ira H. Moss is visiting at Amelia today. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mis. P. V. Hickey last Friday morn ing. The Burlington are arranging to erect a new three stall round house in O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zimmerman left for their home in Hutchinson, Kansas, last Tuesday. J. M. Seybold has sold and deliver ed a new Dodge sedan to Leonard Hess of Page. The Zimmerman family spent Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. An ton Nemic in Spencer. John Foresyth, a member of the Knox county board of supervisors was an O’Neill visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Wilson, of Niobrara, a cousin of Mrs. John A. Robertson, is spending this week at the Robertson home. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Warner last Monday. The young man tipped the scales at 7% pounds. Mrs. Wm. Meyers returned from Norfolk Tuesday where she has been in the hospital recovering from an operation. Prof. E. H. Suhr is in town today preparing to truck his household goods to Beatrice where he will teach the coming year. Miss Geraldine Cronin, of Omaha, is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. B. Harty and getting acquainted with little Miss Beatrice Ann. A son was born last Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hough, of Valentine, last Monday. The young man weigh ed 7% pounds. Clyde L. West, of Humphrey and Miss Mildred Kaplan, of Norfolk, were married August 15th, by County Judge C. J. Malone. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Christenson, son Everet and daughter Miss Betty Ann, drove up from Omaha Wednesday for a visit with a cousin, Morris Johnson and family. Mr. Christenson is man ager of the Piaso hotel in Omaha. 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 Tom Howard, of Scranton, Pennsyl vania, came Wednesday night for a visit with his uncle, P. J. Biglin and other relatives in O’Neill. Judge and Mrs. Robert R. Dickson, daughters Miss Marian and Miss Nancy, left today for Des Moines, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. Miss Florence Malone is expected home from Omaha Saturday to spend a ten days’ vacation with her parents, Judge and Mrs. C. J. Malone. Mrs. Earl Carnes, who has been visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harnish, returned to her home in Neligh Saturdy. Joseph Sladek, of Verdigris, and Miss Anna Dvoak, of Atkinson, were married by Father Bernard Wester mann at Atkinson, on August 15th. Scott Hough is arranging to erect a new, modern residence on his lots east of the Art Cowperthwaite resi dence in the southeast part of O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Jame3 Parker drove to Lincoln Wednesday, where Mrs. Parker will attend a Parent-Teacher convention which is being held Thurs day and Friday. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Carter, daughter Miss Marjorie and Mrs. J. C. Smith, and three children returned Tuesday evening from a trip to the Black Hills and Sheridan, Wyoming. Dr. John Gilligan and wife, of Ne-| braska City, came Wednesday, for a1 visit with home folks, and to attend the wedding of the sister, Miss Miriam to Dr. Ted Riddell Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Yantzi, of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker, of Stnton, Nebraska, returned the first of the week from a visit with rela tives at Red Lake Falls, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Yantzi and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stein drove to Omaha Tuesday returning Wednesday with a new Studebaker Royal Dictator, which Mr and Mrs. Yantzi have recently purchased. Dr. Margaret Frost has recently submitted to an operation and will be absent from O’Neill for some time. She has secured the services of Dr. Snyder who will conduct her office un til her return. Miss Mona Melvin went to Omaha last week where she is visiting an aunt, Mrs. John A. Frenking. She will also visit an aunt, Miss Anna Stanton, at Tilden, Nebraska, before returning home. Miss Florence Clevish returned Wednesday from Grand Island where she had been for several weeks on a visit with Miss Eva Kellogg; on her return home visited with friends at Spaulding, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wrede returned home last week from a ten days trip to Hot Springs, South Dakota, and ac companied their daughter, Gertrude home. Miss Gertrude has been em ployed in a hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harnish and s^n Frank James, left on Wednesday of last week for their home in Omaha. They expected to visit at several points enroute. They had been the guests of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harnish for ten days. Prof. Miller and family, of Walnut, Iowa, came the first of the week to prepare for the opening of school. The Uhl Brothers trucked their house hold goods here and they will occupy the new house being erected by Joel Parke:.- in the east part of the city as soon as it is completed. John Laird, chairman of the county board of Knox county, was in O’Neill Monday conferring with the Hoit | county Board of Supervisors in regard , to a couple of county line bridges that were recently damaged by water, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Leach and daughter. Miss Margaret, drove to i Colome, South Dakota, Monday, where ; they were joined by Mr and Mrs Chris Manzer, of Colome, and Miss Opal j and Miss Alda Lackas, of Randolph, and together they will drive to the Yellowstone Park. They expect to be away about two weeks. Victor Beddow, of Detroit, Michi [gan, was given a sentence of one to three years in the state reformatory for n-fen at Lincoln, by District Judge Robert R. Dickson last Wednesday. Beddow plead guilty to the theft of the Nash car that was stolen from in front of the Golden hotel a couple of w'eeks ago, which was owned by E. G. Shephard. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ziemer accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pilger, expect to leave Friday for Orange City, Iowa, where they will conduct the “Bell Hotel” at the annual fair in the city. They wil continue making fairs for the new few weeks but will return in time for the Holt county fair, September 18, 19, 20 and 21. They expect to tour Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska. A treasure hunt was held Sunday evening by thirty-five couples which started from the home of Miss Berna dette Brennan. Ten clues wers out in the territory of O’Neill and Emmet. The first prize was found by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Griffin, Burnadette and Miss Miriam Gilligan, while the second was found by J. D. and Francis Cro nin, Miss Genevieve and Miss Irenaeia Biglin. Randolph and O’Neill will meet on the O’Neill diamond next Sunday afternoon at three o’clock. The O'Neill team lost to Randolph here last July 4th in the last fewr innings after they had the game in a sack; they do not propose to repeat the mistake of that game. Come out and see one of the good games of the season. O’Neill is playing excellent ball this year and a little support will do them a lot of good. A rain amounting to .28 of an inch fell over this part of the state last night which will be worth considerable to the corn and hay crops. Rain be gan falling in O’Neill again soon after noon today and is still at it as we go to press. The weather for the past month has been very hot and dry; the thermometer reached as high as 104 last week; the average for the past week has been a little more than 101 in the shade; many fields in the county are burned up; some fields will make a half crop others say that a good rain will give them a good crop. The rain last night and today seemed to be quite general over this part of the state. Miss Cleta Van Every entertained the members of The Loyal Temperance Legion at her home Monday evening, August 13th. The following were guests: Elva Fortune, Charles For tune, Muriel Brittell, Jean Selah, Oe oelia Edwards, Beatrice Dempsey, Grace Loy, Nona Bressler, Brice Bres sler, Francis Youngkin, Elva Stauffer, Opal Harbottle, Eleanor Youngkin, Agnes Loy, Magel Harbottle. fillm Stauffer, Richard Loy, Lola Stauffer, Andrew Youngkin, Wilma Loy, Davine Loy, Mrs. Uttley and Mrs. Dave Loy. The festivities consisted of a program of singing and games from 7:30 until 10:30. The guests pronounced Miss Cleta a very original and capable en tertainer. Business wras cleared up at this party in preparation for the county convention which was held at Page last Wednesday. ROBERTSON PICNIC. The editor and family enjoyed the pleasure of attending a picnic of the John A. Robertson family last Sun day, which was held on the banks of the Eagle east of the bridge nineteen miles north of O'Neill in the beautiful timber on the 700 acre tract belonging to Mr. Robertson. Relatives of the Robertson family were present from Yankton South Dakota, Niobrara, Emerson, Plainview, Page, Dakota City, Wakefield, and O’Neill. All of the children were present excepting two, John A. Robertson, Jr., Chicago, Mrs. Harry Anderson, Wakefield. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Barker and daughter Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Meredith, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McKenna and family and Mr. "and Mrs. E. D. Henry and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, were the only other guests who were not rela tives of the family. The picnic was an entire success from every angle; the dinner consist ed of almost everything one could think of including spring chicken, and ice cream and cake. During the afternoon the writer ac companied Mr. Robertson and other. to the big spring that gushes from the hillside a half mile west of the high way and is north and west of the Liddy residence. The spring flows from the hills about 100 to 150 feet above the creek level and trinkles dowr the gully in a good sized stream which, by-the-way would afford a wonderful place for a nursery pond for young trout as a large open space is available for a pond west of high way No. 8. Mrs. J. C. Harnish,daughters, Miss Ruth, Miss Naomi, and Miss Della, left last Saturday for Galesville, Wisconsin, for a ten days visit. Gales ville was the former home of Mrs. Harnish, a number of years have passed, however, since she has seen the old home and its surroundings. BURLINGTON TO ADD MOTOR CARS TO THIS LINE The Burlington has purchased twenty-six new motor cars which they will add to their equipment in Ne braska. One of the motor cars will run from O’Neill to Sioux City daily. The cars are expected to be distribut ed some time during the next few months. This will be an added service and will be much appreciated by the traveling public. MISS MIRIAM GILLIGAN TO BECOME BRIDE OF DR. TED RIDDELL SATURDAY (The Lincoln Star) An out of town wedding of more than the usual interest is that of Miss Miriam Estelle Gilligan, daughter of I)r. and Mrs. J. P. Gilligan of O’Neill, to Dr. Ted Eugene Riddell of Scotts bluff, which will be solemnized Satur day, August 18, at the home of the bride’s parents in O'Neill. The mar riage lines will be read at 11 o’clock ! in the morning by Dean T. J. Thomas | of Valentine, in the presence of | twenty-five guests. Baskets of white daisies, ferns and ! summer greenery will form a back j ground for the improvised altar. Preceding the ceremony, Mrs. Hugh j J. Birmingham and Mrs. William J. Froelich will sing “ Love But Thee,” Grieg, accompanied by Mrs Clifford B. Scott. They will also sing the bri ; dal chorus from “Lohengrin” for the j entrance of the bride, who will be un attended. Miss Gilligan will wear a lace frock of rose beige shade, and will carry an arm bouquet of Ophelia roses and I valley lillies. During the period of congratultions, i Mrs. Scott will plav the Mendelssohn wedding march. Immediately followr ing the service a wedding breakfast will be served, after which Dr. Rid dell and his bride will leave for a motor trip taking them to Colorado for several weeks. They will be at A MAN doesn’t have to plead with creditors for extension of time when he has established credit at his hank by maintaining a substantial account The O’Neill National Bank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stockholders. home in Scottsbluff after October 1. Miss Giiligan was graduated from the University of Nebraska in the class of 1924 and is a member of Delta Gamma sorority. Dr. Riddell was graduated from Nebraska uni versity in the class of 1918 and re oeived his degree of doctor of medi cine in 1923. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities. During his years at Ne braska university Dr. Riddell was a member of the football team and also participated in other athletics. Base Ball Sunday August 19 O’Neill VS. Randolph At the O’Neill Ball Park Randolph defeated O’Neill at the Race meet here on July 4th in a closely contested game. The O’Neill team are prepared to win the Sunday game. Come and see it. Admission 35c. Game called at 3:00 P. M.