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The Frontier.
VOLUME L. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1930. No. 43
O’NEU I TELEPHONE EX
CHANGE CUT OVER TO
COMMON BATTERY SYSTEM
O’Neill telephone service changed
from local battery operation to the
new common battery system March
15th, 1930 at 3:15 p. m. The actual
cut-over operation took less than
twenty seconds and was completed
with practically no service interrup
tion. While actual work of conversion
took but a few seconds, months of
preparatory work was necessary.
To properly house the new central
office equipment a new building was
constructed. After the building was
completed it was necessary that all
telephones in O'Neill be connected
both with the new office and the old
office. This required the placing of
certain outside pole plant and cable
so that numerous construction men
and cable splicers were kept busy in
order that this outside work might
be completed. Switchboard installers
have been working for a number of
months, installing the new equip
ment. In order that continuous ser
vice could be given, certain changes
in the local instruments were neces
sary. Operators had to be instructed
in handling the service on the new
basis. All of these details had to be
completed and checked so that ser
vice could be transferred without in
convenience to the people of O’Neill.
This preliminary work was finally
completed so that the actual change
in service could be accomplished.
To effect the actual transfer, an
observer was placed both in the new
office and the old office. At 3:15
there was a quiet calling period. The
observer in the old office gave this
information to the observer in the
new office. Orders were issued to
proceed with the conversion and the
old office was cut from service and
calls were transferred to the new of
fice and equipment. Mayor Stout, W.
C. Templeton, Geo. A. Miles and Dr.
W. F. Finley, president of the Com
mercmi t.iuD, were in tne new omce
at the time of transfer and assisted
in placing the new equipment in ser
vice by pulling the plugs on their
own individual lines.
With the completion of this con
version, O’Neill has one of the most
modern telephone plants for a town
of its Size. The day of turning the
crank to signal the operator is past;
all old instruments will be replaced
with that of the new, common bat
tery type as quickly as possible.
With the placing of this new office
in service, O’Neill now becomes an
important link in long distance ser
vice. A new pole line was placed be
tween O'Neill and Spencer during
the fall of 1929 and with the com
pletion of this lead, all business for
Winner from Norfolk and points
east has been routed through O’Neill.
Located in the new office are six
new toll repeaters which will be used
in improving transmission on both
the long distance calls originating
in O’Neill and on through connec
tions to other points.
The new office is equipped with a
booth for customers w’ho care to go
to the office to place their long dis
tance calls. A room has also been
provided for traveling salesmen in
placing their calls. This room is com
fortably equipped so that the travel
ing salesmen desiring to place a
number of calls to adjoining towns
can be comfortable while placing
their calls and have their catalogues
and work before them without being
cramped.
Arrangements are being made to
hold an open house on April 4th and
5th, so that everyone will have an
opportunity to see the new telephone
quarters and equipment and become
acquainted with the equipment in op
eration.
Telephone officials present were:
W. S. Woodward, Plant Supervis
or, Omaha.
Milt Yerak, Outride Plant Super
visor, Omaha.
E. A. King, Equipment Supervis
or, Omaha.
R. S. Webster; Western Electric
Foreman, Omaha.
J. H. McAlpin, Dist. Plant Supt.,
Norfolk.
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I H. J. Gibbs, Dist. Traffic Supt.,
i Norfolk.
E. M. Hiebenthal, Dist. Manager,
j Norfolk.
i H. L. Dowd, Dist. Com’l Supv.,
I Norfolk.
F. A. Shade, Dist. Inspector, Nor
folk.
The telephone officials mentioned
above, R. I. Jordan, local manager,
Mayor C. E. Stout, Dr. W. F. Finley,
i president of the Commercial Club,
G. A. Miles, editor of the Independ
ent and W. C. Templeton, editor of
the Frontier, enjoyed a dinner at 6:30
Saturday evening at the Golden
which was followed by a smoker at
which n number of talks were enjoy
ed. Mr. Woodward, plant supervisor,
during his talk said that the O’Neill
cut-over was the 196th that he had
witnessed and that it was without
doubt the most successful; he also
stated that this w'as the first day
light cut-over that he had attended;
they are practically all made at night.
The O’Neill cut-over was an experi
ment which may become the general
rule in the future.
MR. AND MRS. M. F. EVELAND
CELEBRATE THEIR SIXTIETH
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Sixty years is a long time for one
couple to live happily together, but
that is what Mr. and Mrs. M. F.
Eveland have accomplished. They
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Eveland
celebrated their sixtieth wedding an
niversary last Tuesday at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Sherman
Ennis, on west Douglas street. A
number or friends called upon them
during the day and evening and
many useful presents were given
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Eveland were united
near Monroe, Wisconsin, March 18,
1870; they continued to reside at
Monroe for about ten years;,, they
moved to Delaware, Iowa, where they
truck farmed and followed the well
digging business for a few years;
they moyed to Woodbury county,
Iowa; later to Thurston county, in
1898; Mr. Eveland was justice of the
peace in Thurston county for several
years. After about four years resi
dence in Dakota county, Nebraska,
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ANNOUNCEMENT
We wish to announce that we are now
prepared to buy CREAM and PRODUCE
in the building formerly occupied by the
O’Neill Tire Company, with Ray Martin as
Operator.
Mr. Farmer—this is your station. We
invite your patronage.
Farmer’s Union Co-Op
Gas, Cream and Produce
Station
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REMINISCENCES FROM JACK
GRAHAM. FORMER O'NEH.LITE
San Jose, California,
i Editor Frontier: March 10, 1930
Just received a copy of your paper
from Washington, 1). C., same being
sent from Miss Mary McGee of the
Census Bureau of that city and she
evidently got it from Robert G. Sim
mons, who has his name on it as
coming from your office. The idea of
sending it was the story by Doc
Matthews of the big blizzard of 1888.
j Gee but it was interesting and
brought back many memories of the
j past.
Had I known Doc was living in
i Memphis, I would have called on him
when 1 stopped there for a couple of
days two years ago. Great old Doc
' he was, founder of The Frontier,
with it’s slogan, “God’s Own Coun
I try.”
Might say that many of the old
J timers will remember me as “Sambo
Sunflower,” the non de plume I wrote
I under for the papers there when the
I Populist party was first formed.
1 Have been away 37 years today.
Remember when Doc Matthews
came to town and of he having the
first celebration of a wedding anni
versary. A “Tin Wedding." Remem
ber Jim Riggs and Clyde King, the
printers, and all the others and then
some, of whom Doc speaks in his ar
ticle.
rcecau vividly me grassnoppers
i that ate up our crops, and the many
hardships we went through in 1879.
Corn bread with the meal like saw
| dust, as the hoppers had ate all the
: substance out of it. Graham bread
the next couple of years, sod houses,
straw burners, “buffalo chips,” ox
teams, blizzards, hail storms, wind
storms, under fed and under clothed,
I and the suffering that the pioneers
went through. 1 wus a child, but
every child had to work. Was born in
1872 in Wisconsin, but 1 was driving
bull team to Fort Niobrara before
the railroad of which Doc speaks of
was built, in 1881. Tom Kearns, Jack
Crogan and my brother, the late Ed
Graham, were with me. Kearns later
became United States Senator from
Utah. We went without water for
days, and oxen died on the way.
When Doc speaks of the number
I he remembers, he mentions Pat Hag
1 erty. Pat had the only store in town
• when the Graham family arrived in
; O’Neill. He sold everything from
i groceries, clothing, hardware, etc..
I and also had the Posto/fice. The store
was packed on Sundays so one could
hardly move in it. McCafferty, was
Brennan and McCafferty, hardware
dealers and later they separated and
run different establishments. McCaf
ferty, when he came to town, was
driving a cow and an ox for a team.
He and Brennan were square shoot
ers and deserved all they ever got.
Tom Hynes was a sort of a real es
tate man and in some way represent
ed the U. S. Land Office. John Daley
ran a store and later a hotel in
O’Neill. It was in this hotel that Bar
ney Kearns, brother of the late Sen
ator Kearns, was shot and killed by
a cowboy named Reed. Ed Conley, his
deputy, was wounded, but the cow
boy wras set free.
Mike Sullivan later started a store
and Tim Hurley and others worked
for him. Johnny O’Neill, son of the
founder of the town, worked many
years in a drug store there. On one
occasion O’Neill had a narrow escape
from burning to death in a prairie
fire, but he beat it to the Elkhorn
river, laid under the bank w'hile the
flames swept across the river and
came near burning up the town.
There were hardly any fire breaks
I then as the whole country was one
l vast prairie.
jonn rurceu later started a store.
John P. O’Donnell later ran a board
ing house. Doggett ran a restaurant.
| “Toughy” Evans started the first
real hotel; he was a one-armed man
j and wa$ known by everyone.
When he speaks of the Cronin’s, I
recall our family first landing north
of O’Neill; they lived in a log house
north of town and their name was
always connected with the best fam
ilies of the county.
The Tierneys, Gallaghers, McDon
oughs, Fallins, John and Tom. Ka
| vanaughs, who started the first dairy
! in the town. Jess Mellor, who started
the first draying. Father Smith, who
built the first frame house. McCoy
lived in a log house west of town, as
did Pat Hughes, Judy Malloy, whose
• place later became Emmet. It was a
J great stoping place for the freight
ers and their hull teams, whose
whips could be heard cracking u half
mile away when one of their trains
jeame to town.
I could name the O'Malleys, Men
. isheSj Armstrongs, Marsh’s, Ten
! nings, McGreevey, the “Three Chris
tian Brothers,” Madden, Murray and
! Naughtons who batched together and
held down homesteads. Saw T'gnmy
Naughton in Oakland a year ago.
Then there ' Were the big h>>rse
thieves times when Doc Middclton
ruled and everything was blamed on
Doc, who was a great friend to the
settlers and who saved Hag iy’.
store from being robbed. Doc wa?
Inter captured after a false n don
wu- presented to him by tw . ! ect
ives who had lured him into ; bush
and shot him clear through th ■ body
Doc slipped off his harse, tool: :■ "hot
at the man that led him info ambush
but missed him; he then tuned or
the other fellow that shot him and
i sent .seven bullets through h> lungs
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New Rates for
Improved Telephone Service
Effective April I
Replacing the former magneto telephone equipment, the new common
battery telephone system was placed in service for O'Neill subscribers
March 15. Charges for telephone service beginning April I will be based
on the rates approved by the people of O’Neill and authorized by the
State Railway Commission as follows:
Gross Discount if Paid Net
Class of Service Rate on or Before 15th Rate
Business One-Party Line 4.25 .25 4.00
Business Two-Party Line 3.75 .25 3.50
Residence One-Party Line 2.75 .25 2.50
Residence Two-Party Line 2.25 .25 2.00
Residence Four-Party Line 2.00 .25 1.75
Rates for Rural Residence Service Remain Unchanged as Follows:
Metallic Lines 2.50 .25 2.25
Grounded Lines 2.00 .25 1.75
The Service Station Rate also remains unchanged. It is
$6.25 per year, payable annually in advance with a discount
of $1.00 if paid within the first two months of the year for
which the bill is rendered.
The new telephone equipment provides a more convenient service in keep
ing with the expressed desires and requirements of the people of O’Neill
and we appreciate the opportunity of furnishing you at all times with satis
factory telephone service.
NORTHWESTERN BELLTELEPHONE COMPANY
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WORLD’S LARGEST BANK
FORMED IN NEW YORK
John McHugh. Former Nebraskan,
Is Among Executive Officers
(Omaha World-Herald)
New York, March 18 (A. P.)—
Creation of the world’s largest bank
with resources approximating
?2,800,000,000, to he known as the
Chase National Bank of the City of
New York, was announced today.
The institution is to be formed,
subject to routine aprovel of stock
holders, through the merger of the
Chase National Bank, now the third
largest bank in the country, with the
Equitable Trust Company, which in
turn is absorbing the Interstate
Trust Company.
Directors of the Chase and trus
tees of the Equitable approved the
consolidation at meetings this after
noon and stockholders will vote on
ratification at special sessions April
24.
Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the
Chase National, will be the senior
executive officer of the new bank
which gives the United States the
largest financial institution in the
i world for the first time in history.
Mr. Wiggin will be chairman of a
1 newly created governing hoard, with
j Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of
the Equitable and a brother-in-law of
John L>. Rockefeller, jr., as the pres
ident of the bank.
The new Chase National will be
| capitalized at 148 million dollars,
j with an equal amount in surplus, and
a reserve of 72 million dollars. Its
capital assets will be increased to a
total of 493 million dollars through
j associated securities companies. Com
bined deposits will total $2,073,644,65G
| and resources $2,814,535,635.
This will make the new bank lar
jger than the National City bank of
j New York, which has been the na
j lion's greatest for 33 years, and the
! Midland Bunk of London, for many
I years regarded as the largest in the
j world. The Chase has been the sixth
■ largest in the world and the third
| largest in the United States, and the
| Equitable was ranked twelfth in the
(world. The combined hank will have
1 52 offices in Greater New York and
seven foreign offices.
I Under the proposed plan of con
solidation the capital stock of Chase
i will be increased from 105 million
(dollars to 148 million dollars. Tin
(5 250,000 shares outstanding wil
j continue in the hands of the present
1 shareholders. An additional jivo mil
lion shares are to be allotted pro rata
(to the .shareholders of the Equitable
1 on tlie ha•!- oi four -Tares of Chrs:
'for five of Equitable. A. total oi
115.019 shares are to he pro rated, t
shareholders of Interstate on thi
| basis of thirty-two one hundredths oi
a share of Chase for each share oi
; Interstate.
In addition to there of Mr. Wig
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THE ROYAL THEATRE
TO GIVE BENEFIT FOR
FATHER FLANNIGAN HOME
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Mrs. Georgia O. Rasely has been
successful in securing a benefit show
for Father Flannigan’s Home For
Boys. Due to fire, which destroyed (
much property and material, it has
been necessary to raise an immediate
subscription so that replacing and
rebuilding may begin at once.
The picture to be shown is donat
ed by Warner Bros, and Vitaphone.
The Royal Theatre is donating all
expenses in putting on the show.
The feature picture is “The Glad
Rag Doll,” a 100'/r all talking Vita
phone production featuring Dolores
Costello.
All proceeds will be turned over to
Father Flannigan. A full amount of
your money’s worth, and for a good
cause—either way, you can’t loose.
Don’t forget the date, Thursday,
March 27th. Two shows, at 2:00 and
4:00 p. m. Matinee only. Prices 10c
and 40c.
I)KS. GILLIGAN & BROWN
INSTALL NEW EQUIPMENT
Mr. H. L. Kirk, representative of
the General Electric X-Ray Corpora
tion of Chicago, arrived in O’Neill
on Wednesday of last week to install
the new equipment recently purchas
ed hy Drs. Gilligan & Brown. lie
was here until Saturday night, in
stalling and checking the equipment.
The new equipment, which is the
latest in X-ray, is complete in every
detail. It enables the doctors to do
all types of x-ray and fluorscopic
work. Formerly it was necessary to
go to Omaha or Sioux City to have
this class of work done. The equip
ment is complete in every respect
and is superior to any in this part of
the state at this time.
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