The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the postoffice at O'Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall 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 between pub lisher and subscriber. Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, subse quent insertions, 5c per line. THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Fifty-Five Years Ago The Frontier, June 4, 1885 P. J. McManus is a new clerk at Mann & Hecker’s. The O’Neill Gun Club organized for the season of 1885 with the fol lowing officers: President, W. D. Mathews; secretary, 0. F. Biglin; treasurer and custodian, C. W. Cook. Regular shoots every Wed nesday evening at grounds near the depot. The Decoration exercises by the G. A. R. on last Saturday were very good and largely attended, nothwithstanding the unpropitious ness of the weather on Friday. Contractors were asked to sub mit bids for the erection and com pletion of a brick school building, size 32x60, two stories high. Bids were to be opened June 15 and the building to be completed by Nov ember 1. The Frontier, June 11, 1885 Married, on Thursday,' May 28, at the residence of Judge Roberts, that gentleman officiating, Fred J. Herre to Miss Susie Crone, both of O’Neill. The village jail now has four occupants, the last one being a tramp, who was taken in Sunday by Sheriff Hushiser. It seems he had been loafing around the jail for some time and was caught in the act of placing a bottle of acid, oil of vitro], through the outside window of the jail, to be used in cutting through the bars. Fifty Years Ago The Frontier, June 5, 1890 That it never rains but pours down has been clearly demon strated the past week. Miles Gibbons has returned from Notre Dame, Ind., where he has been attending school. He has been suffering from nervous trouble for the past couple of months and was obliged to leave school. Romaine Saunders, one of The Frontier force, has been sick with neuralgia and something very much resembling inflamatory rheuma tism the past two weeks and ha§ been quite ill, but at present is im proving. 1i EVERY time a dollar wast ed it means also a wasted man — wasted future — wasted op portunities. The O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $140,000.00 Thin Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The State Bank of O’Neill open i ed its doors Monday morning and thus far has been highly gratified with the business transacted. The following were students in the O’Neill High School, in the re port of Principal John Bland for the month ending May 30: Etta McAllister, Matilda McClure, Mer rit Martin, Kora Brown, Maude Chisholm, Kittie Dwyer, Mamie Mc Cutcheon. The Frontier, June 12, 1890 Edward Adams is erecting a bank building at Page and will open up a bank at that place soon. Forty Years Ago The Frontier, June 7, 1900 The rainfall on last Thursday evening amounted to 1.42 inches; .12 of an inch fell on Tuesday and everything is fine. The deadlock of the school board over the principalship was broken at the meeting of that body last Saturday evening and O. W. Ow ens of Omaha, was elected to the position. The Frontier, June 14, 190# C. A. Meals departed Tuesday morning for West Point, N. Y., where for the next four years he will pursue the studies of a cadet at the United States Military Academy. One of the prettiest home wed dings that has taken place in this city for many years was the one at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Skirving at 8:30 o’clock this morning, when their eldest daughter, Miss Mae, was united in marriage to R. R. Dickson, Rev. E. T. George of Ne ligh officiating. Thirty Years Ago The Frontier, June 9, 1910 Another good heavy rain visited this section Monday night and small grain can almost be seen growing these days. Splendid rains visited this county last Thursday night, Fri day, night and Saturday. About two inches of water fell and it placed the crops in splendid con dition and prospects are very bright now. Mrs. Dan O’Donnell, of Staf ford, one of the pioneers of the county, died at a hospital in Hot Springs, S. D., last Saturday af ternoon, where she had been re ceiving treatment for dropsy for several • months. The funeral was held Monday morning from the Catholic church in this city. The contract for the addition to St. Mary’s Academy was let last Saturday to B. J. Joabst of Omaha. According to the contract the build ing is to be completed by April 1, Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you puffer from rheumatic, arthritis or neuritis pain, try this simple inexpensive home recipe that thousands are using. Get a package of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It’s easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 tablespoonfuls two times a day. Often within 4H hours— sometimes overnight—splendid results are obtained. If the pains do not quickly leave and if you do not feel better. Ku-Ex will cost you nothing to try as it is sold by your drug gist under an absolute money-back guaran tee. Ru-Ex Compound is for sale and recommended by JOHNSON DKUGS 1911. The Frontier, June 16, 1910 F. J. Biglin left for Grand Is land last Monday to attend the meeting of the Nebraska Under takers association. He will also visit at the home of his brother, John, at Hastings before returning home. The excavating for the addition to St. Mary’s Academy has been completed and several car loads of brick are now on the ground and it is expected work on the building will start next week. Twenty Years Ago The Frontier, June 10, 1920 Miss Etta Froelich and Miss Cleeta Harrington left last Fri day morning for a few days visit in Omaha. William Froelich, Homer and John Mullen returned Friday from Lincoln, where they have been at tending the state university the past year. The first cutting of Holt Coun ty’s immense alfalfa crop began Monday and will continue for sev eral weeks. The yield this year will be heavier than ever as will the prairie htty crop. The O’Neill Race Meet starting next week promises to be one of the largest racing events ever held in the west. More than 200 horses are already here and more coming every day. . Times have changed in Holt county since Ben Pastlewaite from northern Holt was defeated by his’ fellow fanners because he had joined the O’Neill Shakespeare Club. J. M. Hunter, president of the Holt County Farmer’s Union, Wednesday afternoon won the tournament of the O’Neill Country Club by defeating Parnell Golden one up at the eighteenth hole. The Frontier, June 17, 1920 Forty-one students, seventeen members of the senior class and I twenty-four members of the[ eighth grade, received diplomas at I the twentieth annual commence ment exercises at St. Mary’s Acad emy Wednesday evening. The fol lowing were the seniors of 1920: Clare Biglin, Helen Biglin, Grace J Campbell, O’Neill; Bertha Calome, Calome, S. D., Catherine Donlin, Miriam Gilligan, Eva Harmon, O’Neill; Alice Howard, Hubbard; Margaret McCarthy, Atkinson; Anna Rysavy, Lynch; Anna Steck er, Dodge; DeMaris Stout, O’Neill; Irene Sutherland, Montezuma, Colo.; Agnes Tierney, Frances Tierney, O’Neill; Margaret Uffing. Hubbard; Marie Wirer, Phoenix, Ariz. Crowds from all parts of the county were flocking into the city to attend the annual race meet. Ten Years Ago i The Frontier, June 5, 1930 On June Jit, Mildred Marine Grandorf and James Charles Op pen were united in mai-riage at St. John's Lutheran church in At kinson by Rev. Vahle. Bennie Frieborg of Yutan, Nebr., and Miss Nellie Kaczor, of near Meek were united in marriage by County Judge Malone Wednesday afternoon. Glen Tomlinson and Mahlon Nuttleman purchased the Rapid Transit Bus Line operating be tween O’Neill and Norfolk and took possession Monday. i. ' ( The preliminary count in the 1940 census shows that rtiobt of the counties in Nebraska have sustain ed a loss in population. Holt County being one of the five of the forty AUTO LOANS Quickly — Conveniently and Without Endorsers If you need cash in a hurry, to borrow on your car is the fastest way to raise money. 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