The Frontier JDl 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 mbecribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub fiaher 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 26c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10* per line, first insertion, subse quent insertions, 6c per line. THE DAYS OF LONG AGO _ j ■ ■— Fifty-Five Years Ago The Frontier, July 16, 1885 Somewhat dry. Senator Kinkaid received a tele gram the first part of the week giving the population of Holt coun ty. It is 20,396. This is some better than we expected and quite a showing for the county. Quite a contrast with 1880, when the popu lation was 3200 in round numbers. It has not yet been fully decided where the new court house is to be located. P. Fahy offered the commissioners three acres east of the Methodist church and they about decided to put it there, when citizens got up a remonstrance praying that it be built on the lots donated to the county for that pur pose and there the matter rests. The Frontier, July 23, 1885 This issue of The Frontier is Volume 6, Number 1. The school board selected as teachers for the coming year, Prof. Bland, Miss Kate Mann; and Miss Sadie McNichols. Fifty Years Ago The Frontier, July 17, 1890 The contract for the brick and stone work on the McEvony-Mc Bride buildipg has been let to Clark & Hunt and they will begin work in the near future. Sunday, O’Neill and Sioux City were linked together with bonds of steel. O’Neill is happy and we presume Sioux City people are re joicing too. Regular trains will be started on the line about Aug ust 1. The Frontier, July 24, 1890 A stock train can be run from here to Sioux City in four hours and thirty minutes over the Pa cific Short Line. The hard fin ish is being put on the new depot today. The siding and roof are on, the brackets are in place and the building will be completed the last of the week. Forty Years Ago The Frontier, July 19, 1900 The operations of the dog catch er has materially decreased the canine herd. Work on St. Mary’s convent is progressing with all speed. The basement and first story are about completed, except the finishing j touches. The Frontier, July 26, 1900 Mrs. Anna Carney, wife of Thom as Carney, died at her home south of O’Neill on Tuesday and was buried yesterday, the funeral be ing held from the Catholic church. The republicans of the city had a meeting last Saturday night and organized a McKinley and Roose velt club. The following officers were elected: R. R. Dickson, presi dent; J. J. King, vice-president; Clyde King, secretary; James Stout, treasurer. One of the real sporting events of the season was a ball game be tween the fats and the leans. The line up of the teams was as fol lows: Leans: James Triggs, catch er, Joe Horiskey, pitcher; E. R. Adams, first base; John Lens, sec ond; Joe Meredith, third; Ed Eves, short stop; Pat McManus, right field; Walt Keeler, center field; O. F. Biglin, left field. The Fats: R. J. Marsh, catcher; D. H. Cronin, pitcher; George Triggs, first; Frank Campbell, second; Jerry McCarthy, third; T. V. Golden, short stop; S. F. McNichols, right field; John A. Harmon, center field; M. M. Sullivan, left field. Um pire: S. J. Weeks, Score, 5 inn ings: Fats, 28; Leans, 29. I _ r Thirty Years Ago The Frontier, July 21, 1910 Contractor Donohoe arrived from Omaha yesterday afternoon with a gang of men to work on the sewer system. Following is the list of candi dates filed for the several offices to be voted on at the primary election to be held on August 16: For Rep resentatives Fifteenth District, two to be nominated and two to be elected: H. A. Allen and D. H. Cronin, republican; T. J. Wilburn, Atkinson, and T. V. Golden, O’Neill, democrat and people’s Independent. For County Attorney: J. H. Mere dith, republican; E. H. Whelan, democrat. The Frontier, July 28, 1910 The O’Neill baseball team went up west last week for a series of four games. They won two and lost two. They lost to Newport 10 to 2 and defeated Valetltine ttAo games with a score of 4 to 2 And 10 to 1. . J. A. Donohoe left last Sunday for New York City where he will join a delegation of the Knights of Columbus from the several states and they will go on a tour of Europe. Twenty Years Ago The Frontier, July 16, 1920 The Farmers State Bank of O’Neill was closed Monday and the banking board requested to take charge. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Weekes. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and Senator James A. Donohoe went up to Long Pine Wednesday to attend the meet ing of the Northwestern District Bankers Association. Joe Mann arrived from Chicago this week and will spend a few A BANK account is one of the few things that can be bought that will not depreciate in value. The O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital. Surplus and This Bank Carries Ns Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers 1140,000.00 or Stockholders. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ;|,j i week? visiting relatives and old friends. Ten Years Ago The Frontier, July 17, 1930 The P. J. McManus store was broken into last Saturday night and robbed of about $2500 worth of men’s suits and ladies silk hose. The O’Neill Creamery, under the management of Thomas Bren nan, opened for business Saturday. Daniel J, Sullivan and Miss Gladys Ridgeway were united in marriage in St. Patrick’s church Wednesday morning, Monsignoi Cassidy officiating. The Frontier, July 24, 1930 (Threshmg is under way all over the county. Oats are yielding up to 24 bushels, rye 10 to 15 and bar ley 22. Pearl S. Clevish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Clevish, passed away last Sunday afternoon in the general hospital at Grand Island, where she had been since the pre vious Tuesday, having submitted to an operation for appendicitis while on an auto trip with her par ents. She was nearly 18 years of age. i • i • A Candidate Accepts At one point President Roose velt’s speech of “reluctant” accept ance voiced an eternal truth: “Whatever its new trappings and slogans, tyranny is!the oldj est and most discredited rule known to history. And wher ever tyranny has replaced a more humane form of govern ment it has been due more to internal causes than external.” Right on the nose! In Germany, Hitler arose after the mark fell. Jn France, two premiers warned: "That everyone should work more and that the state should spend less—for ourselves we see this as the only formula for salvation; it is elementary but it is inescapable.” The warning came too late for France. In the United States the private activities of the people have been dwindling while the activities of the government have been growing by great and costly leaps. Our public debt is passing the 50 billion dollar mark. Economists know it cannot be paid in kind. Ahead of us lies some kind of internal dis aster. The degree of it j will de pend upon how long we persist in following suicidal policies. “Humane government’’ may be destroyed by “internal causes.’’ Right, Mr. President. - On one point the speech was most illuminating. It did not men tion the democratic party or its officials by name. That seemed to signalize the completion of the purge. The Old Democrats, like Russia’s Old Bol sheviks, won the early battles but they lost their political lives. The staunch Americans who be lieve in the party principle have been replaced by thin-lipped young , men who believe in the leader prin ! ciple. * * ' • At one point the speech carried la grave warning. Listen: “In the face of the danger which confronts our time, no individual retains or can hope to retain the right of personal choice which free men enjoy in time of peace." Is this not a time ot peace in the i United States of America? Where are our declared enemies? We resume the quotation; “He (the individual) has a first obligation to serve in the defense of our institutions of freedom—a .first obligation to serve his country in whatever capacity his country finds him useful.” Is this a declaration of regimen tation? It can hardly be interpreted oth erwise. Plainly the president be lieves that the emergency of 1940 requires, -not only the continuing and eqdless leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt,'but also the unreserv ed and unquestioning followership of every man and woman—without regard for the rights “which free men enjoy.” That is a strange, an aminous, in terpretation of the national de fense crisis. At one point the speech was con temptible. That is a word which this news paper would not wish to apply to an action of the president of the United States. It is applied ih this case to an action of a candi date for president, It is used be cause no other word is adequate. We refer to Mr. Roosevelt’s us age of the words ♦♦appeaser fifth columnist,” and “appeasement,” in referring to those who have op posed his policies in the past or may oppose them in the future. That type of argument is inap propriate and offensive in a com munication coming from the White House. * * At other points the speech wras a little hysterical. In his description of the strange still draft which swept him into the third term race, in his ap praisal that this country now fac es the choice of “freedom versus slavery,” in his morbid dwelling upon the awful days which are at hand, the president appeared to be a tired and jittery man. On one point his friends and those who oppose him will agree: He has giveii nimself unselfishly to his job. It hgs taken a heavy physical and nervous toll. He deserves » good, restful va cation.—Omaha World-Herald. ATE The democratic delegates at Chicago did rifet want Mr. Wallace for their vice-presidential candi date. That wil very evident. But they4»cg«ipU!d him, more tha^ a little reb«!l|*>U8ly, because Mr. Roosevelt had picfrad him. He i» ,MoK,jR6©sevelt’s, not the convention^ nominee. . * The convention, had it been free, would have nominated a democrat, which Wallace has never been. He was a republican before he became a new dealer and fellow traveler. A nice man, distinctly of the poet type, who JrAms dreams and sees visions. And for that reason also, we think, the convention accepted him very reluctantly. For Mr. Roosevelt is a very tired man. The enormous burden of i responsibility that rests upon him will become increasingly heavy, his task more onerous with every ! passing day. In the event of his re-election to serve another four i years there are few who believe he ! could endure and carry on to the end of a third term. And if he could not—what then? Henry Wallace for president of the United States! The poet type, the dreamer type, taking over Big Government, di recting and organizing the busi ness, the industry, the finances of this republic in the period of its greatest peril and most portentious problems. It is not strange that the dele gates wished in their hearts that Mr. Roosevelt had given other or ders. But Mr. Roosevelt himself is precisely the kind of man to whom Henry Wallace appeals. He be ■ lieves in him, as he believed in Prof. Wallace and Prof. Tugwell; as lit believes in Tommy Corcoran and Benny Cohen and Madame Per kins. And that has been one of the great troubles, if not the greatest trouble, with Mr. Roosevelt’s ad ministration. It is what has prostrated Ameri can enterprise to the extent that only the threat of going to war and the building of enormous war in dustries serves to revive it. That trouble will continue if Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wallace are elected. And the democratic convention, we suspect, for all its tame sub mission, sensed the fact.—Omaha World-Herald. Official Proceedings of the Holt County Board t t, Ir (Continued) Island Supply Co. 26.51 Island Supply Co. .63 Island Supply Co. 20.38 Island Supply Co. 3.56 Island Supply Co. 53.00 Island Supply Co. 150.00 Island Supply Co. 200.00 Island Supply Co. 200.00 Interstate Oil Co. 20.14 C. T. Isgrid . 171.45 Independent Lumber Co. 54.55 Jeff’s Service Station . 10.41 Lowell Johnson . 47.00 Oliver Jenkins . 18.75 Wrn. E. Kelley 61.25 Henry Kloppenberg .. 25.00 Oscar Kiethley . 45.25 Wm. Krotter Co. 29.77 Lohaus Motor Co. 16.00 Lohaus Motor Co. 62.07 Forrest Slack . 56.66 John Sullivan . 25.00 Miller-Hasselbalch. Qo- * 57.88 Miller-Hasselbalch Co. ........ 80.50 Miller-Hasselbalch Co. 8.66 L. W. Reimer . 25.00 Walt Richards . 8.00 Elvin Rubek . 70.65 John Sobotka, Jr. 2.10 Standard Bearing Co. 9.06 Chas. Wheeler . 20.50 Thos. Slattery . 43.63 Ed Thorin .. 27.15 2 TYPICAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE FREE MILE-DIAL CAREFUL SHOPPER type tells you: " I'm driving the car all day while my hus band's at toork, so I really buy most of the family gasoline out of my own bud get. If I can get even 2 or 3 miles more to a gallon I want to know it. That’s why 1 went to a Conoco station for my Mile-Dial—not just because it’s free, but because it really lets you know your true mileage, exactly as a woman wants to really know about anything she pays for. 1 like buying tested things—the same as any up-to-date consumer—and this cer tified Mile-Dial is like giving us con sumers our own easy way of testing Conoco Bronz-z-c for mileage. "Anyway, it’s almost like a game, dial ing your correct mileage on the Mile-Dial —awfully clever. My husband says so, too. By the way, my driving is just as economical as his, the way it proves out on our Mile-Dial. Isn’t that interest ing? And we’re keeping on dialing to make sure of our average in all different driving. Right now, after 61 gallons of Bronz-z-z in all, we’re a good 200 miles ahead of what we used to expect from that much gasoline." i “DIDN’T CARE” type of driver says: " I didn't much care what gasoline 1 bought as I went along. But this Mile-Dial being free, and really daring you to keep your own close tabs on Conoco Bronz-z-z gas oline, I went for it. And now I know why they’ve got the gimp to let the Mile-Dial tell all. For you can see by my Mile-Dial right on the dash that I’ve gone 633 miles on 37 gallons of Conoco Bronz-z-z. "Now if you’ll watch this smart Mile-Dial work—next to automatic— you’ll see it giving the answer:... above 17 miles to the gallon of Bronz-z-z in this big eight, around town here. But I’m leaving for about a 700-mile trip— mostly open country. So don’t be sur prised if I even get better mileage. And don’t say that’s a brag, because you can’t help believing the Mile-Dial. Be sides settling the economy of Conoco Bronz-z-z it’s sort of swell fun dialing your honest mileage. The Conoco boys must know what their gasoline’s got, to give you a Mile-Dial free. I’ll bet you would like one yourself and they’re free as air, around a Conoco station. You t ought to go quick and get yours.” ! ▼ GASOLINE C. E. Tibbets . 307.25 John J. Turner . 5.00 J. W. Walter . 80.00 R. M. Pease . 30.00 Chas. Wheeler . 16.00 Oscar Kiethlev 22.25 Herbert Pfiel . 27.75 Walther Prance . 68.80 J. C. Stein . 15.00 Harry Sullivan . 116.50 W. A. Smith . 70.00 O. B. Stuart ..._ 28.80 Walter K. Smith . 40.00 Theo Scheuth . 20.00 John Sullivan . 10.00 W. E. Wulf .. 50.00 On motion, the petition of Anna Bauer, Ewing, Nebraska, for re fund of auto tgx paid.-erroneously in the amount of $6.45 was granted. The following claims were aud ited and approved and on motion ! were allowed and warrants order ' ed drawn on Road-Dragging fund j in payment of same. Calvin Allyn . 16.90 F. S. Brittel . 1.60 F. S. Brittell . 5.10 John Callely . 27.00 Elmer Devall . 12.00 Fred Ernest . 6.90 Fred Eppenbach . 2.75 Homer Ernest ...'.27.50 (Continued on Page 5) IN WEST O'NEILL Wholesale Prices for the Haying and Threshing Season BUTTERNUT OR FOLGER’S COFFEE C1 Aft 4— 1-Lb. Cans .) 1 lUU PAXTON COFFEE *4 (If) 5— 1-Lb. Glass Jars y liUU Cream Corn, Tomatoes, Red Beans, Red Kidney Beans, Hom iny, Kraut—Standard Grade— No. 2 Cans 2 Cans ... □ CANS ' FOf .:.. PEAS—Early June—Standard Grade—No. 2 Cans ii rs.$i,bb Fruits and Vegetables of every kind. FRESH TOMATOES C Pound . JO NEW POTATOES—Fancy No. l-15Lb. 4Q Pecks . 13b 100-Lb. Cl 1R GOOD NO. 2 POTATOES Pecks...10c 4C 100-Lb. Bags . 4dC LEMONS—Large (14 Dozen ..._....,. WATERMELONS „ : , 4 ^ _ Pound ... ... I 2b CANTALOUPES 4T Large—2 For ..| «)C APRICOTS T Dozen .f b DILL TICKLES 4 <4 Quart Glass Jars . tdw MATCHES 4« 6-Box Carton IdC CANNED MILK