Frontier
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The Days of Long Ago
Frank Campbell, Bernard Mullen,
W. Canton. 1891—Mayor, O. F.
Biglin; City Clerk, Thomas Camp
bell; Treasurer, Dave Adams;
Councilmen: C. C., Millard, Bar
rett Scott, Dave Stannard, Fred
Gatz, J. C. Harnish, Ben De Yar
man. 1892—Mayor, O. F. Biglin;
City Clerk, Thomas Campbell; City
Treasurer, Dave Adams. The water
works were put in this year. 1893—
Mayor, R. R. Dickson; Clerk, N.
Martin; Treasurer, Dave Adams.
Councilmen: Ben De Yarman,
Dave Stannard, Fred Gatz, Jacob
Pfund, S. M. Wagers, John C.
Smoot. 1894—Mayor, R. R. Dick
aon; Clerk, N. Martin; Treas
urer, John McHugh; Councilmen:
John McBride, Ben De Yarman,
Jacob Pfund, F. C. Gatz, S. M.
Wagers, Elmer Merriman. 1895—
Mayor, O. F. Biglm; Clerk, N.
Martin; Treasurer, John McHugh;
Councilmen; H. C. McEvony, D. H.
Cronin, Jacob Pfund, Alex Mar- <
low, Elmer Merriman, Charles
Davis. 1896— Mayor, H. E. Mur
phy; Clerk, N. Martin; Treasurer,
John McHugh Councilmen: C. W.
Hagensick, D. H. Cronin, Alex
Marlow, W. T. Evans, C. L. Davis,
E. J. Mack. Curfew ordinance
passed in 18Q6. 1897—Mayor, B.
fi. Gillespie; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, Bernard McGreevey.
Councilmen: C. W. Hagensick, Dr.
Trueblood, W. T. Evans, E. S
Kiuch, E. P. Hicks, Emil Sniggs.
'Ringing of curfew discontinued.
1898—Mayor, C. L. Davis Clerk,
N. Martin; Treasurer, B. Mc
Greevey. Councilmen: Tim Han
ley, Tom Tierney, E. S. Kinch, W.
T. Evans, Emil Sniggs, John O.
Olson. On August 8, 1898, H. M.
Bradstreet was appointed as a
member of the council to succeed
John C. Olson, who resigned, hav
ing enlisted. C. E. Hall, who was
water commissioner also resigned
to enter the army and Bennett
Martin was appointed to fill the
•'-vacancy. 1891—Mayor, John A.
Harmon; Clerk, J. F. Gallagher;
Treasurer, Bernard McGreevey. j
Councilmen: Tim Hanley, R. H.
Jenness, O. O. Snyder, Neil Bren
nan, Jacob Pfund, Emil Sniggs, A.
B. Newall. 1900—Mayor, Ed. F.
Gallagher; Clerk, J. F. Gallagher;
Treasurer, Bernard McGreevey.
Councilmen: R. H. Jemess, O. O.
Snyder, Neil Brennan, Jacob
Pfund, Emil Sniggs, A. B. Newell.
The marriage of Miss Nellie
Daly and James F. Gallagher was
solemnized at the Catholic church
in this city on Tuesday morning.
Thirty Years Ago
The Frontier, April 27, 1911
Miss Lizzie O’Malley hast re
signed her position in Skirvings
store and has accepted a position
as “hello girl” at the telephone
office.
A.
Last Monday Mrs. Sarah Cott
ereU purchased the A. F. Mullen
residence in the western part of
the city. Mr. Mullen expects to
make his future home in Omaha.
Ivan G. Bain, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Bain of O’Neill, was
married at Springview, Nebr., on
Monday, April 17, to Miss Lola
jWakeman of Springview. They
I will reside in Tripp county, South
Dakota.
Twenty Years Ago
The Frontier, April 28, 1921
Hundreds of crows were killed
along Eagle Creek and perhaps a
thousand nests and eggs destroy
ed in the big crow hunt around the
Arnold ranch last Sunday. Thirty
five hunters participated in the
hunt.
The county loader was moved
four miles east of town, on the
state east and west highway Tues
day morning and work on claying
the highway through the sandy
section between O’Neill and Page
will begin at once.
Ten Years Ago
The Frontier, April 23, 1931
The mercury dropped to 28 de
grees above zero Sunday night
the age of 73 years, seven months
Many feared that fruit was ser
iously damaged.
David Stannard, an old time
resident of O’Neill, passed away
at his home in this city on Wed
nesday of last week, after an ill
ness of ten days of pneumonia at
the age of 73 years, seven months
and twenty-six days. He came to
tie county in 1879 and lived for
time on a farm northeast of this
rity.
Nobert Uhl and Mis sLouella
Kozda were united in marriage
list Monday morning at 7 o’clock
in St. Patrick’s church by Rev. B.
J. Leahy.
The Frontier, April 30, 1931
Eight thousand trees were plan
ted at Goose Lake last week by
Clearwater tree planters. The trees
were all native grown.
The new Downey building west
of the Royal Theatre is nearing
completion.
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Judas trees are in full bloom
here. So are Cherry, Japanese,
tulip, plum, and apple. The pink
and white varities of dogwood are
just blooming. It is very pretty
around here now. The spring sea
son is very short. Soon the terrif.
jc K»»t of summer will arrive, hut
in spite of that, Washington will
be crowded throughout the year.
Flowers are not the main attrac
tion.
Although strikes are holding up
progress in industry, confidential
information is that less than 35,
000 men are idle daily because of
strikes in plants engaged in act
ual national defense work. The
defense experts except coal min
ing from the pure national de
fense industries. Believe it or
not, members are told that labor
troubles in England are as serious
as they are in the United States.
Major Frank O’Connell of Lin
coln and Captain Carroll Evans of
Columbus have been in town get
ting new Information about the
selective draft work. These offi
cers are connected with the draft
board in Lincoln and are taking
home a lot of new information.
Major O’Connell has leave of ab
sence from hi* work as State Game
Warden. In private life, Captain
Evans is a medical doctor.
What to do with draft evaders; j
what to do with criminal aliens;
and what is going to happen to
some aliens who ignored the re
cent alien registration law; are
questions .requiring the attention
of the Department of Justice now.
Foreign countries, in some cases,
won’t take aliens that we have or
dered deported. Lack of transpor
tation precludes other deporta
tions. Prison space is crowded.
Uncle Sam now faces the possi-1
bility of concentration camps. The
word “concentration” is frowned
upon here so some nicer name will
be invented.
The Senate put an even 100
amendments in the 1942 agricul
ture appropriation bill which now'
goes to conference and it will be
some time before the conferees
finally get together on the De
partment of Agriculture supply
measure for the next fiscal year.
Congressman Copeland came
back from his district with the
news that folks back home are
still against getting into foreign
war. He also states that few
people seemed interested in the
new tax bill upon which the Ways
and Means Committee is now
working.
Is it going to be a long war?
That question comes in many let
ters now. No one can answer it.
Army and Navy officials here say
it will last until one side or the
other is defeated. The big ques
tion is which side will suffer ex
haustion in men, money and mater
ial first.
News events are occuring so rap
idly now that some members of con
gress have asked that the House
and Senate be furnished with the
same kind of news ticker service
that is furnished to newspaper
offices. Then we will know what is
happening instead of having to
wait for the newspapers to come
out, say some of these legislators.
A lot of things happen in the gov
ernment these days which legis
lators know nothing about until
they read the apers.
More ship sinkings are accred
ited to submarines than to aircraft.
During the last war, about 22,000
tons of allied shipping were sunk
per week. Now the sinking is at
the rate of 60,000 tons per week.
Colonel Art Harris who went to
West Point years ago from Nor
folk, Nebraska, and who is now
army liaison officer between the
army and foreign diplomats, is
leaving Washington soon to take
command of a regiment at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
There’s an army intelligence
office in the war department where
most of the secret reports are
scanned. One of the officers work
ing in that office is Captain Clark
Galloway of Nebraska. Only a
few months ago Captain Galloway
was the Associated Press reporter
who covered Washington News for
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O’Neill Hatchery
Nebraska newspapers. His chief
is Colonel Riley who recently came
back from Europe where he had a
vast amount of experience in the
early days of Warld War No. 2.
There is an organization here to
promote permanent union with
Great Britian. There are other
“Union Now” advocates and small
groups are forming throughout our
country for the purpose of estab
lishing a union of democracies based
upon the Constitution of the Uni,
ted States. The real trouble is that
there are so few democracies left.
The state department wanted1
the house to spend about $20,000
to send fish and fish eggs to South
America to help with the good
neighbor problem. The House
committee killed this item. Some
members thought American tax
payers wouldn’t approve of any
thing like that.
Editors and publishers of daily
newspapers from all parts of the
country held meetings here last
week. They heard a lot of “off
the record” talk-' from prominent
officials and diplomats. They re
presented the “power of the press”
and were shown an unusual amount
of courtesy. Many doors closed to
general public were wide open to
these visitors. Lord Halifax and
“Wild Bill” Donovan were among
those who talked to these publish
ers. What they saw and heard and
how things here impressed them
will be reflected in editorials which
are now being written. Official
Washington admits that American
newspapers ^re still powerful
molders of public opinion.
Edward RilV of Fremont atten
ded these pu^kiher’s meetings. He
tells friends he has just purchased
another daily at Jamestown, New
York.
When the National Park Service
wanted to move their Omaha re
gional headquarters to St. Louis,
almost the entire Nebraska dele
gation swooped down on Horold
Ickes, Secretaiy of the Interior,
and protested. The Nebraskan’s
argued that Nebraska was in the
center of the region and St. Louis
at the extrepjtj southeast corner. |
At this time it eems the Nebras- j
kans have won their battle; Mem
bers of the Nebraska delegation
may diffeT politically but when it
comes to a question of Nebraska's
interest—thqy work as a unit.
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Nebraskans are numerous a
mong the large numbers of offi
cers in the War Department here.
Whenever Nebraskans meet there
is a reunion. Major Miller who
came originally from Elgin, asks
Nebraska friends how he may pro
cure his birth certificate.
Our American farmers are in
danger of being “ruinously squee
zed” in the present confusion and
changes which are being wrought.
Foreign markets for our products
have disappeared. New and heav
ier taxes face the farmers. There
is no escape from these taxes. New i
competition has been created in
the labor market. The farmer has
to meet that. It means increased
pay for farm labor and increased
cost of production. Higher wages
and shorter hours in industry
mean higher prices for what the
farmer has to buy. Scarcity of
farm labor because ®f movement
to factories and cities and because
of military service adds to the far
mers’ troubles. That is why the
farm district group in the House
has organized again and is hold
ing weekly meetings.
Although the Administration
has emphatically denied that we
are already convoying, the gen
eral concensus of opinion in Wash
ington is that we may start con
voying just as soon as the general
public is “softened up” sufficiently
to accept the convoying program.
According to that same opinion,
convoys mean convoying America
into Europe’s war, and that the
real question is not “Shall We Send
Convoys,” but “shall we send
millions of American Boys?”
The third District office repre
sented Governor Griswold at the
Ninth Annual National Traffic
Safety Council dinner where awards
were given to winning states and
cities. Nebraska came in second
in our region, having been edged
out by Minnesota. Beatrice and
Hastings were given honorable
mention among the cities. The
token of Nebraska’s second place
awar dis a plaque that has already
been delivered to the Governor.
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BRIEFLY STATED
Next year they threaten to tax
our shirts off our backs. The New
Deal may become the Nude Deal.
One of the main streets in Ath
ens has been renamed “Roosevelt
Avenue.” Wonder where it leads?
E’aster dresses the gals wore
were shorter than ever this year—
but not because of a scarcity of
dress material.
The baseball season has started
with every big league city hopeful.
By the Fourth of July most of the
managers wil be putting Vitamin
B-l in the club’s drinking water.
It is said that practically every
:heese we formerly imported can
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-and they lived
more happily
ever after/
A telephone in the home will bring
news, invitations, visits with friends and
make life more pleasant in many ways.
It costs only a few cents a day.
If you do not have telephone
service, why not order it today? '
northwestern bell telephone company ''
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now be produced in Wisconsin. It’s
our opinion that some of them
ought not be produced anywhere.
They make a lot of fun about
the Horse and Buggy Days but
we still think bock beer and green
onions were a better spring diet
than shrapnel.
A woman preacher in New Eng
land says she will not give up her
profession after she is married
but will continue to preach. Just
like a woman.
Out in a California jail a prison
er was discovered unscrewing elec
tric light bulbs and eating them
with his dinner. Wonder which is
his college alumni?
Eight Holt County volunteer
draftees left on the early morning
train on Tuesday for Omaha, where
they were all accepted by Army
headquarters for a years training.
The boys were, George Wettlau
fer, O’Neill; Fredrick Krugman,
of Opportunity; Herbert Stevens,
Paul Judge, Frank Wondercheck,
Robert Wondercheck, Robert Mc
Caffery and Charles Weller, all
of Atkinson.
A benefit food and bake sale,
with lunches, will be served at
the Golden Hotel corner next Sat
urday starting at 11:30 a. m., May
3, 1941. The proceeds of this sale
will be used to help defray the ex
penses of sending the O’Neill stu
dents, of both schools, who won a
superior rating in the recent musi
cal contest, to the National contest
at Minneapolis Minn. A very
worthy cause qnd the sale and
lunch room should be liberally
patronized.
The employees of the North
western Bell entertained at a par
ty on Monday evening, honoring
Mrs. Mildred Davis, who leaves
on Sunday for Grand Island, to
which place she has been trans
ferred by the telephone company.
Mrs. Davis’ two sons, Dick and
Jack, will remain in O’Neill until
school is out, at which time they
wilt Join their mother ia Grand
Island.
Charles Stout, who has been in
a hospital in Sioux City for the
past three weeks recovering from
a serious operation, is expected to
come home Saturday. He has
been getting along fine, but natur
ally is anxious to get back to the
old home town.
On Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.
m., in the new high school audi
torium will be held a style show,
sponsored by the beginning and
advanced Home Economic’s classes.
They will model everything from
housecoats and pajamas to party
dresses. Everyone is invited to
attend.
8 OUT OF TOWN A
PRINTERS PAY !
NO TAXES HERE
LET US DO YOUR
PRINTING
CASH at Once
We advance money on all
makes of cars—without delay
or bothersome details—and
without co-makers or en
dorsers. The most conven
ient way to get cash in a
hurry and at low rates. If
your car isn’t paid for, ask
about our thrifty refinancing
plan. Usually we can re
duce payments as much as
one-third to one-half and pro
vide extra cash besides.
For Quick Convenient Loans
Central Finance
Corporation
Prompt Courteous Service
1st Nat’l Bank Bldg. O’Neill
C. E. Jones, Mgr,
Loans made in nearby towns.
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have moved two doors west
of their old location.
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--We tap Storz Beer
FREE LUNCH
served to our Customers all day
Saturday, May 3
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The new place will be known as
Stanley’s Manhattan Bar
WORK plus saving will
never mean living minus
money.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Froflta,
$140,000.00
This Bank Carries Ns
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation