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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1929)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher W. C. TEMPLETON. Editor and Business Manager Entered at tin- postoffice at O’NeiU, Nebraska, as second-class matter. ---— ] ADVERTISING RATES; Display advertising on Pages 4. 6 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 25 cents an inch (one column wide) per week; on Page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Local ad vertisements, 10 cents per line first Insertion, subsequent insertions 5 cents per line. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of sub scribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for. if publisher Bhall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be tween publisher and subscriber. MRS. GLADYS W. SIMMONS WRITES ON TRAVEL TOUR In the last letters 1 told something of historic Fredericksburg, especially of its association with the Washington family. Of the Washington farm, across the Rappabanock, where George lived from boyhood until he was grown; of Kenmore, home of his only sister, Betty; of his mother’s home, from the time she left the farm until her ceath just after Washington be came President; of the Masonic lodge where he was made a Mason. Other places in the proud old town are closely associated with Washing ton and Revolutionary times. One of these is the Rising Sun Tavern, which was built and owned by George’s brother Charles about 1760. It is the usual type of old colonial house, wood en, with*windows of tiny panes and lit tle dormers to light the low second story. Within are the “cross” doors, and “H and L” hinges described at Kenmore. The caretaker said that the original plaster is still on the walls, made with hog bristles to help hold it together. There was the room where the firBt postoffice of Fredericksburg was kept—a very hotbed of patriotic meetings and plottings before the Revolution. In other rooms was held a big reception in honor of Washing ton and Lafayette after the Battle of Yorktown. Here Washington proud ly introduced his mother to those for eign and American officers who were so favorably impressed by her. Here many famous men were entertained, among them Washington, Lafayette, Madison, Monroe, John Marshall, George Mason. Up the street from the “Rising Sun” is a similar old house (it seems that almost half of Fredericksburg’s houses are colonial!), which is the “oldest apothecary shop in America.” Here General Hugh Mercer practiced medi cine and sold drugs from 1763 until he went to war in ’76. Here still stand the queer, huge, old bottles. Another colonial home near the bank of the river is called “the Sentry Box.’’ It was used during the Revo lutionary, 1812 and Civil Wars as an outpost to watch for enemy ships on the Rappahanock. There was an un derground passage to the river Here General Mercer’s widow lived. Then there is the house (now a cor ner grocery store) which was the only home in America of John Paul Jones, father of the American Navy. From this place he went to offer his services to the Continental Congress, and was made a lieutenant in the American Navy. St. George’s Church was built orig inally in 1732, and must have been often attended by Washington. Its THE ROYAL THEATRE’ Home of Good Pictures - Thursday, Jan. 31st ——— Dolores Del Rio in "THE GATEW AY OF THE MOON" The beautiful Dolores Del Rio in the most enthralling role of her career as a half caste girl of the Amazon jungle. - Friday, Feb. 1st - Dolores Del Dio in THE GATEWAY OF THE MOON” The beautiful Dolores Del Rio in the most enthralling role of her career as a half cast girl of the Amazon jungle. Bargain Night—Ten Cents Will Ad mit Any Person. - Saturday, Feb. 2nd - Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon in •THE V ALLEY OF THE GIANTS" (Peter B. Kyne Story)—She loved him as no girl ever loved, but fate made him her enemy. Though he risk ed his life to save hers, she could never tell him how much she cared! — Sunday-Mondav, Feb. 3-4 - Billie Dove and Donald Reed in ‘THE NIGHT WATCH” Tremendous sets. Big scenes. Great cast. All as a background for Billie's exquisite beauty. - Tuesday. Feb. 5th -- Karl Dane and George K. Arthur in "BROTHERLY LOVE" If it’s laughs you’re looking for, you’ll find them in this grand and glo rious film. - Weddnenday, Feb. 6th — Hoot Gibson in "KING RODEO” Here’s the big picture that was film ed during the famous Chicago rodeo. ——- Thumday. Feb. 7th ■■■ TAKE A CHANCE NIGHT’ ■ — "■ Friday, Feb. 6th Wm. Boyd ami Jarquelin Logan In THE COP" Thrills aplenty in this amatlnr pic-i tur* story of the underworld of New York. Bargain Night—Ten Cents Will Ad mit Any Person. - I first rector was the uncle of Patrick Henry. Under its steps was buried Colonel Fielding Lewis, Betty Wash ington’s husband, and in the church yard lie William Paul, John Paul Jones’ brother, and John Dandridge, father of Martha Washington. Fredericksburg was for years the home of another of our Presidents, James Monroe. Two buildings are closely associated with his life. One, old and tumbleddown and now occu pied by a colored family, his wealthy uncle presented to him so that he could run for the Virginia Assembly, according to the requirements of law. He never lived there, however The other is a one-story, brick building of original room and wing on each side, where he had his law office. About a year ago one of Monroe’s decend ants bought the building, has restored it, and made of it a most interesting museum of Monroe’s life and times. There is his flintlock musket which he carried in the Revolution at the age of eighteen, “J. M.” carved on it (he and Washington were the only Presi dents who fought in the Revolution); part of his library; his huge umbrella which weighs seven and a half pounds; court dress of his and Mrs. Monroe’s, worn at the Court of Napoleon when he was negotiating the Louisiana Pur chase; Mrs. Monroe's spinet and music book dated 1786; his cup and saucer, made to hold the same amount as the cup so the coffee could be poured into it to cool; a ribbon badge of the French Revolution, the only one in ex istence, presented to him in 1791 when he was Minister to Franco; several pieces of mahogany furniture which he bought in France in 1802, supposedly for the Government, but for which Congress later refused to pay. This furniture was moved into the White House when he became President. On the desk of the set he wrote the Mon roe Doctrine. Fifty years later, his granddaughter, who had inherited the desk, called a locksmith for repairs. He discovered a secret chamber in the desk, and in it were found two hundred Monroe letters. We were so interest ed in the secret, compartment that we looked the desk over carefully, and found that there seem to be compart ments at both ends of the desk. Our fingers fairly itched to discover whether they held more valuable let ters and papers, but the caretaker told us that “the descendant who owns the desk hopes sometime to investigate those compartments.” So our curi osity will not be appeased immediately, I judge. Fredericksurg again came into his toric prominence in the Civil War. It was the scene of two bloody battles and a bombardment. Two cannon balls are still in a column of the Pres byterian Church, and there is a big dent in the brick wall of Monroe’s lawnffice where one hit—testimony as to the solidity of those slave-built walls. Another witness of the times is the stone slave-block on one of the street corners where slaves were sold. A few miles from town are the battle fields of Salem Church, Chancellors ville. Wilderness and spottsylvania. Near Chancellorsville Stonewall Jack son fell mortally wounded. So Fredericksburg has given much to our country, and has much to teach us of history and patriotism. As she increased in the prosperity wh’ch she is just regaining after her sufferings in the Civil War, may she never cease to be proud of her historical relics and guard them for her and our inspira tion. GLADYS Wr. SIMMONS. MAGNETOMETER SURVEY OF GHOST LIGHT FIELD • _ Work on the Ghost Light Oil well proposition seems to be progressing nicely. Harry T. Osborne arrived in O’Neill last Tuesday evening accom panied by W. W. Vaughan of the Geo physical Exploration Company, Okla homa City, and H. W. Evenden, a civil engineer of Sioux City, Iowa, who are making a survey with a magnetometer verifying the findings of the geologist Mr. Murphy, who made his findings some time ago. The magnetometer is a new instru ment in the prospecting field and elimi nates a lot of the chance in locating the structure; the little machine was patented in Germany and has been in use in the United States only a little over two years. Mr. Osborne has control of all of the leases on the proposed field and is promoting the proposed well himself at this time; he has succeeded in in teresting a number of Sioux City capi talist whom Mr. Evenden represents. Everyone in northeast Nebraska is wishing Mr. Osborne success in his proposed well and are willing to give it all the support possible. An oil well within a few miles of O’Neill wouldn t be a bad thing to have in our midst. The following letter from Dr. Con tra. director Conservation and Survey Division addressed to an interested capi talist in Sioux City tells an interest ing story about the Holt county con ations and also tells more about the magnetometer: Dear Sir: Mr. Harry T. Osborne has asked that 1 write you in regard to the geological conditions and oil] and gas possibilities in the vicinity of Holt County. Nebraska. Several yenrs ago I did the geolo gical w<>rk in that part of the State for the United States Geological Sur vey. The formations were run in hut no special attention was given at that time^ to structure and to oil and gas possibilities. Since then we have wrnrked the area rather closely and have mapped Ihe distribution of form ations and members of the formations, and have studied these In connection with their distribution in South Da kota, \\ vnming, Kansas ami other States. There are present in the area a number of formations that produce oil in yarning. Their succession named inoHer downward, starting be low the Tertiary beds is as follows: I. Fierce. 2. Niobrara chalk. 1. Cab bie shale, 4 Greenhorn I.ime*tone, 8. Granero* .Shale 6 Dakota rroup of 7, Fenntylvarua formations. Be low the latter you soon pass into the Pre-Cambriam formations. There is a regular succession of ex posures of the beds between Sioux City and points on the Niobrara in the northern part of Rock, Holt, and Brown counties. This succession is from the Dakota to the Pierre, i. e. it is a section of the Cretaceous forma tions below which are older beds. In general the beds dip westward, at places southward and there is evidence of some deformation but it is difficult, on account of the deep cover of Ter tiary and1 more recent deposits to de termine fully and completely the out line of the deformations. This means that they cannot, always, on the basis of geology, work out the structure satisfactorily. Other means, if they can be found, must be resorted to inorder to prove the outline of these structures and the oil and gas possibilities. The most re liable means in this connection is by drilling, which is quite expensive. An other means which offers some guid ance, and is now resorted to by the big oil companies is by Magnotometer readings. These two methods sup ported by our geology should prove the area satisfactorily. The Magnoto meter is manufactured in Germany. It costs about $1200 and is difficult to secure because the oil companies have placed orders far ahead. There are now only a few of these instruments in the United States but it is possible to secure the use of one of them at an expense of $50.00 or more a day. This year a number of Magnetometer sur veys have been made in different parts of Nebraska with the result that deep tests are to be made at the places where Highs were found. Although we are not absolutely positive of the outline of structures in that part of the State we do know that some of the formations which pass under there carry gas and oil in Wyo ming and other places. This is a fa vorable condition. The depth will not be as great as some have supposed. The test should be extended to the different members of the Dakota group and to the Pennsylvania horizons. We are not sure of the exact sequence of beds below the Pennsylvania. I refer, in this connection, to some of the horizons in which they have found oil in Kansas. There are no deep tests in that part of the State to prove that these lower horizons extend there. I anPinformed that Mr. Osborne has had successful experience with cable tool drilling. This means that he would know how to complete the test at a much less expense than by some one who does not know this work. We will' be glad to extend to the people of Holt and' other counties any infor mation we may have regarding the geology and oil and gas possibilities. Also under the statutes of the State it will be our duty to keep a careful record of the progress of the test and to assist those in charge in determin ing the nature and age of the forma tions and beds penetrated. This work is not made public during the progress of the test. As I see it the people of Sioux City and for that matter the people of northeast Nebraska should be more interested than they are in drilling for oil and gas. We are too largely agri cultural and like the methods pursued in business, we should, if possible, set aside a fund for exploration and in vestigation work. This is exactly what the Omaha Chamber of Com merce is doing and also the leading men of Omaha where they have in augurated the plan of investigation relating to the underground resources and possibilities of the trade area. Believing that this statement will present the facts of the case, and hop ing that it may be of some assistance to you, I am Very truly yours, G. E. CONDRA, Director Conservation and Survey Division. I HAMHKKS ITEMS. Donald Remington is limping around with an infected knee. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Jordan is ill with an attack of Flu. Little Robert Farrier is ill at the borne of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Farrier. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gumb Monday, January 28. weight 8^ pounds. The new Legion Hall is nearing completion and will make a comfort able home for the boys. A delegation of Chambers business men braved the below zero weather last Monday evening to attend a good roads meeting at Ewing. Such efforts should bring results. Mrs. Fred McCarrol was success fully operated on for goitre, at the Lutheran Hospital at Norfolk. Mon day. January 21. Latest reports are that she is getting along nicely and will be able to return home in a few days. A box social was held at the school house Monday evening. January 28, under the auspices of the Chambers Parent-Teachers association for the purpose of raising funds to wire the school house for electric lights. De spite the unfavorable weather a fair sized crowd was in attendance. Col, H. C. Cooper kindly donated his serv ices as auctioneer. The sale of the boxes netted a neat sum of I40.<)0. An attractive program nrrainged by the P. T. A. program committee, was given and was greatly enjoyed. PLEASANT VALLEY NEW*. Charlie Kohler is driving a new car. Hamid Grass fa spending his win ter in California. Wayne Henderson bought a couple of hogs at the Hollidav sale. Peter Zeller passed away Sunday j morning after a short Hines*. Several of the Pleasant Valley men took In the llolllrlay *ale at Orrhnrd Saturday. Several of the neighbors have had Uieir wePt and water pipes fraeaa _______9 " Land of the Rising Sun Beckons Winter Travelers I 0-,-:-_---—I -cJapanese Ma west S' _ < / ‘ • Ge/M* \ 'x* Q/RL9, 1 <Japan j HW » \ 4 - -KLJ* y?hen the festivities of Christmas and New Year's are over, and people settle down once more to routine ex istence through the long winter, many would give almost anything to “get away from it all” and visit far off places—China, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands—anywhere so long as it is "off the beaten path.” A delightful trip to make during the winter is to board one of the great White Empresses of the Pacific at Vancouver, British Co lumbia. for a 10 days' voyage to • o FiMJi , S'/tc&cv Mountain,<Ja*» a Japan, the land of the Rising Sun, a country situated at the cross-roads of world traffic, and intellectually at the cross-roads of two civilizations; a country of picturesque kimonos, of cherry blossoms and geisha girls, wis tarias and Joyful festivals. Japan Is so small that one could “do” it en tirely in a comparatively short time, yet so different that one could spend a considerable period in a place with out suffering from boredom. Half an hour from Yokohama, Japan’s chief port, is Kamakura, where a great bronze Buddha, or Daibutsu, sits, peacefully receiving pilgrims as he has done for some six ! hundred years. It is difficult to say which is the more Interesting. Buddha or the quaint country one traverses to reach him. Toklo, little more than a trolley ride to Yokohama, is as full of life and color as a Japanese garden. Rick shas—queer rolling chairs drawn by coolies—are always at the disposal of the visitor, and can be hired by the hour for a trifling fee. Another attraction in Japan Is Fujiyama, an extinct volcano situated on Lake Hakone, not far from Yoko hama. To gaze on this Inspiration of Japanese art at sunset Is to feci an intense longing to climb it, and view from its summit the fascinating land of plum-blossoms far below. the past week. Miss Lura Grass came home from Wayne Friday, returning to Wayne Sunday evening. Mrs. Ralph Prill and children went to Creighton, Nebraska, last Wednes day and spent the week end with her father and sister. Mrs. Prill came home Sunday. SURROUNDING AND PLEASANTVIEW ITEMS 1 - .Mrs. Ralph Ries was in O’Neill Fri day. Mrs. Ivan Cone is home from the hispital, and some better. Rev. Hiser, of Atkinson, called on Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Miller Tuesday. Mrs. Joe Kubik, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Roth were shopping in Emmet Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Cone entertained Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Miller at their home Sunday. Elmer Warner, Wm. Steskal and Joe Kubik were callers of Charley Richard’s last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Rossman and sitter, Opal and Johny Soupskt were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs, John Warner. falter Butts, of near Plainview, spent the week end at the home of C. A. Strong, Herman Klingler and Rosslers. Mrs. McConnell, of near Emmet, re turned to her home after a few days stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mullen. Robert Moors and family entertain ed the families of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ries, Mr. and Mrs. August Brinkman, Mr. and Mrs. Ravo on Friday evening. Insist en The Frontier printing Your Sale Bills. BOOK EXCHANGE. Buy one book at 76c, read it and bring it back and exchange it for another for 10c. 27-tf W. B. GRAVES. 5% INTEREST NOW. I have private money for choice farm loans at 5% interest. 5% R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebr. 6% HOTEL WELLINGTON, OMAHA { ROOMS WITH BATH—$2.SO 1 Free Garage I I er—■—■————————^ (Photos from Wide World Photos) TAKE PHOTOS OF EARTH 7'i MILES UP IN THE AIR Dayton, Ohio.—Capt. A. W. Stevens, army photographer at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, (left) and Capt. St. Clair Street, pilot, dressed for the flight in which they established a new record for aerial photography when Captain Stevens “shot” pictures of the earth from an altitude of 37,854 feet with results as clear as though the photos had been taken a distance #f a few hundrd feet. Their two oxyge* tanks and cemera are shown in front. Service on Sale Bills—The Frontier. ----4 Flu's Deadly Enemy Discovered By Americans >----3 \ ACGX/.S CARAfL / i Q WHO vy/TH OR.HtnR y Ck' \ O OAK IN DISCOVERED f 1 TMB CARRBL-OAK/N I \soix/r/OAi I vr 4TAVtf seoacs5 ASASQMAL AUT^fC/AH . _ chjctoh c/ONBc WN/TBY TMB BAC TEH fOLOB AS T WHO *AOG A BLOOO-TYST y iwn icjemuiM, ooui mcmoere ox the Rockefeller Institute, are directly reeponJble tor the prolongation of the lUe of King On ,g During the World war. Dr. A texts Cyrrl and Dr. Henry Drywlale Dakin *Honeod«d In developing a solution for the treatment of aounda Tito •oJnu.'ii was non-poiaom>m and non wnettc, yet poaeeaued high getuiidtoal pow^r ). This remarkable antiseptic solution had cme fault. It would not keep.1* ikli day It had to be frailly made C experts. Its use therefore, was re tried to baeplUls and to the medical profeaelon. In the practice ef’ofaderu preventatiree against die MUM. It was necessary to nnd a way to prearrvo or stabilise the Carrel-Dak In solution. The public know* the stabilised form of the Carrel-Dekln solution aa Zonite. Lord Dawaon of Pena, physician to Kin* Oeorye. was saaoclated during £» war with Dr. William O'Neill erman. chief euryson for the Car negie Steel Company, of PUUburyh. Pa. When the wound folk)winy the operation on King Oeorga failed to heal, and the royal patient became weaker day by day. the Carrel-Dakin solution was suggested to the King's physicians. Tbs war-born antiseptic made by the electrolytic process of Its manufacture, fa meed in the United States, was twnt by Dr. Sherman d tbs royal patient by special messed kct. Tbs application to tbs wouJ was made by the King's physician* kil Immediately an tmprorrnwnt w3 noted in tbs condition of His Oort Highness. Tbs deadly germs of U.fluensa, thj dreaded dlssaes now c——'J throughout tbs United a completely annihilated when u3 owns In contact with Znntte, *H stablltaed Parrel-Danin solution Cod centra ted It has twice tbs sUengtJ of caiboUc acid. Is healing am i.oif poisonous and the deadly rnrmyj all germs, including those cf rnaa. _.