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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1919)
Supervisor’s Proceedings. O’Neill, Neb., June 10, 1919, 19 a. m. Board met and called to order by t 'hairman and upon request of State Engineer, Chairman appointed Hub ' ard and Rotherham as committee to ,.ieet with State Engineer at the Red Bird Bridge to inspect same. Balance of board including County Assessor and County Clerk met as a Board otf Equalization. At 12 o’clock, noon, on motion Board adjourned until 1 o’clock p. m. k W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 10, 1919, 1 p. m. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment. Continued equalization. At 5 o’clock p. m., on motion ad journed until June 11, 1919. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 11, 1919, 9 a. m. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment, and continued equalization. At 12 o’clock, noon, on motion board adjourned until 1 o’clock p. m. W. T. HAYES; Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 11, 1919, 1 p. m. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment. Continued equalization. At 5 o’clock, p. m., on motion board adjourned until June 12, 1919, at 9 o’clock a. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment. All members present but Hub bard and Rotherham. Mr. Chairman: I would respectfully """ move that a committee of three, in cluding County Assessor, be appointed to investigate and report on the schedules of the various banks of the county. T \r TmjnorwT JOHN SULLIVAN, Motion carred. Chairman appointed Johnson and Sullivan and B. T. Winchell County Assessor, as committee. At 12 o’clock, noon, on motion board adjourned until 1 o’clock p. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 12, 1919, 1 p. m. Bard met pursuant to adjourn ment. All members present but Hubbard and Rotherham. Mr. Chairman: We, your com mittee to investigate and report on the bank schedules, would respectfully f submit the following report: That we found the valuations differ consider ably as compared with Capital stock and other assets, and that we equal ized the total valuation to a fair amount basing it on the Captal stock and other assets. And we would re commend that if this board finds said equalization fair and just that the clerk be instructed to notify an officer of the different banks of the total as sessed valuation found. Also on setting a date whereon they can file a com plaint if said valuation is not satis factory. J. V. Johnson, B. T. Winchell, John Sullivan. Report accepted. First National, O’Neill .$86,210.00 O’Neill National, O’Neill .... 35,655.00 Farmers Bank, Page . 10,370.00 Pioneer Bank, Ewing . 16,160.00 ^ ■' Emmet State Bank, Emmet 12,545.00 First National, Atkinson .... 67,965.00 Farmers State Bank, Inman 13,135.00 Nebraska State, O’Neill .... 16,565.00 Chambers State, Chambers.. 13,440.00 Citizens Bank, Stuart . 35,655.00 Inman State, Inman . 12,130.00 Security State, Atkinson .... 46,685.00 Page State Bank, Page . 9,355.00 First National, Stuart . 18,840.00 Ewing State, Ewing ,. 17,945.00 South Fork State, Chambers.... . 10,400.00 Chairman set the date of June 24, 1019, for the different banks to make appearance and instructed clerk to so notify them. At 5 o’clock p. m. on motion board adjourned until June 13, 1919, at 9 o’clock a. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. _ ,—E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb,, June 13, 1919, 10 a. m. County Board met pursuant to ad journment. All members present but Rotherham. Board devoted the fore noon to hearing argument on the petitions for and agaainst the location of the Federal Aid Road from O’Neill to Spencer. At 12 o’clock, noon, on motion, Board adjourned until 1 o’clock p. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 13, 1919, 1 p. m. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment. All members present but / Rotherham. /The following claims were audited and on separate motion were allowed on road Dragging Fund: John L. Judge . $6.40 John L. Judge. 26.25 John L. Judge . 31.00 John L. Judge . 25.35 Fred Jensen . 36.60 Joe Bradshaw . 20.00 „ L. H. Hirsch. 14.00 James Dolan . 5.00 B. H. Bessey . 10.00 Frank Stanek . 12.00 C. M. Hammerburg . 9.37 P. V. Hickey . 64.00 O’Neill, Nebraska, June 13, 1919, 9 o’clock a. m. Board of Equalization met pursuant to adjournment. All member present except Rotherham. On motion the assessment in the different townships was equalized a follows: The following is the average values of horses, mules and cattle tabu lated by precincts in Holt County for the year 1919 as returned by th< precinct sssessors showing the percentage of increases and decreases foun< necessary by the County Board of Equalization: Precinct Horses Inc. Dec. Mules Inc. Dec. Cattle Inc. Dec Value Value Value Atkinson . $ 9.55 10 $12.00 10 $ 7.11 15 Chambers . 10.07 5 17.14 20 8.00 Cleveland. 8.44 20 12.73 5 8.67 < Conley . 10.67 8.72 50 8.62 ! Coleman . 9.82 5 14.31 5 7.80 5 Deloit . 9.60 10 11.32 10 7.28 10 Dustin . 9.48 10 14.83 10 8.68 f Emmet . 13.76 20 14.34 5 7.74 5 Ewing 10.36 15.04 10 7.38 10 Francis . 7.08 40 8.00 55 6.49 30 Fairview . 9.40 10 14.92 10 7.86 5 Green Valley . 11.47 10 17.38 15 10.74 2: Golden . 12.85 15 15.41 10 9.77 11 Grattan . 9.80 5 11.34 15 7.07 15 Inman . 11.18 5 12.36 10 8.39 Iowa 11.52 5 12.46 10 8.23 Josie ... 10.72 9.00 40 6.54 20 Lake . 10.86 17.06 20 8.40 McClure . 10.56 11.61 20 7.12 10 Paddock . 12.46 15 11.63 20 8.73 1 Pleasant View . 12.29 15 24.16 35 8.74 1 Rock Falls . 7.20 45 11.47 20 6.51 25 Swan 6.55 50 11.25 20 5.54 40 Stuart . 13.61 20 15.86 15 8.26 Sand Creek . 10.36 13.22 7.36 10 Sheridan .*. 12.14 15 15.48 15 8.40 Shamrock . 9.10 15 11.37 20 8.22 Shields . 9.94 5 10.24 30 7.37 10 Saratoga . 10.14 5 12.74 5 7.12 15 Steel Creek . 9.98 5 10.50 30 6.96 20 Scott . 11.51 10 12.67 5 8.25 Verdigris . 13.81 20 17.60 20 8.91 E Willowdale . 12.55 15 17.92 20 10.87 2( Wyoming . 9.20 5 11.46 20 7,39 10 Average . 10.55 13.43 8.00 Atkinson . 10.41 20.55 15 7.14 15 Chambers . 9.60 10 12.43 30 7.39 10 Emmet ... 9.29 10 8.75 Ewing . 9.55 10 21.66 20 8.36 O’Neill . 9.06 15 13.66 25 8.72 Page . 13.77 20 10.21 IE Stuart . 10.66 16.60 5 8.70 Inman . 11.09 5 18.88 5 9.35 1C Avprflo-p 10.43 17.29 8.58 John O’Neill . 20.00 G. L. McCarthy . 12.50 R. Moon . 47.75 Fay A. Puckett . 6.00 Clyde Babcock . 40.00 W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 14, 1919, 9 a. m. Board met pursuant to adjourn ment. All members present but Rotherham and Schollmeyer. Meeting called to order by Chair man. Minutes of meetings held May 6, June 2, 3, and 4, 1919, read and ap proved. O’Neill, Neb., June 5, 1919. To the Honorable Board of Supervi sors of Holt County, Nebraska. We, the undersigned moderator and director of school district No. 39, of Holt County, respectfully ask you to order the County Treasurer to trans fer all money in the bond fund of dis trict No. 39 to the General fund of said district, all bonds and coupons for which this levy was made having been fully paid. Respectfully submitted. H. J. STEVENS, Moderator. E. M. BRUCE, Director. On motion petition was granted. On separate motion the following official bonds were approved: Road Overseer— C. C. Jones.District No. 70 Martin Miksch . District No. 60 Justice of the Peace— Chas. P. Buckman .Francis Twp. Treasurer— G. I. Kellogg . Josie Twp. On motion Chairman appointed Hub bard and Watson as committee to in vestigate and locate a road covering the line between a point at the south east corner of Section 28, Township 26, Range 14 and south-west corner of Section 31, Township 25, Range 14, to connect the Federal Aid road project from Bartlet, Wheeler County thence through Garfield County to Ballagh and thnce through Swan to a line south of Amelia. At 11:30 a. m., on motion, Board ad journed until 1 o’clock p. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Nebr., June 14, 1919, 1 p. m. Board met pursuant to adjournment with all members present, except Rotherham. Meeting called to order by the chairman. O’Neill, Nebr., June 14, 1919. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Holt county, Nebraska: Bid submitted for work on the At kinson, Inez and Amelia road, for grader work. One dollar and twenty five cents per rod ($1.25 per rod); embankment work forty cents per cubic yard (40 cents per cubic yard.) T. J. Murphy. On motion the above bid was re jected and committee instructed to re advertise the same. Bids to be opened at 12 o’clock, noon, June 30, 1919. At 4 o’clock p: m. on motion Board adjourned to the call of the clerk. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, Clerk. At 10 o’clock a. m., on motion Board of Equalization adjourned until June 24, 1919, at 10 o’clock a. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., June 24, 1919, 10 a. m. Board of Equlization met. No quorum. E. F. PORTER, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebr., June 24, 1919,1 p. m. Board of Equlization met and called to order by the chairman. Members present: Hayes, Johnson, Sullivan, Schollmeyer and B. T. Winchell, County Assessor and E. F. Porter, County Clerk. At 5 o’clock p. m., on motion Board of Equlization adjourned. E. F. PORTER, Clerk. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebr., June 25, 1919, 9 a. m, Board met pursuant to call. Nc quorum. O’Neill, Nebr,, June 25, 1 p. m. Board met pursuant to adjournment giiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiiiiii | Holt County Fair Dates ( Jj September 10-11-12, 1919 The premium books will be out soon. Send a i jjj card to the Secretary asking for a primium book. j|§ We may unintentionally miss you in our mailing jjj list. The management has raised our premiums jjj on all live stock about 100 per cent. No county jj in the state offers better premiums than Holt jj County. We especially call your attention to jj our Special premiums donated by our citizens. U The total offerings in this line will at least be * jj double any county in Nebraska. The single jjf donation of the Atlas Land Company (Mr. Mc H Killip, Mgr.) of several hundred dollars as j§ jj special premiums for liberality and enterprise |U has no parallel any where we know of. We are jjj jj going to give the public something startling in §§ the amusement line. This will be advertised J \ later. | ■ Frank Campbell, Secretary ..nr All members present but Rotherham. ! The following claims were audited . and allowed on the general Fund: B, T. Winchell, express postage, etc .$ 32.55 | E. F. Porter, postage, etc. 14.75 H. J. Hammond, insurahce 56.40 . Harry Bowen, February Juror 16.00 John Horiskey, Feb. Juror. 16.00 L. W. Bergstrom, care of R. I. , Dixon, etc. 143.00 i Peter W. DufFey, postage, etc 6.28 Anna Donohoe, postage, mil., etc. 34.19 John Sullivan, Supervisor ses sion and mileage . 29.00 Jos. Schollmeyer, Supervisor session and mileage . 37.60 , F. C. Watson, Supervisor ses sion and mileage .. 32.00 J. V. Johnson, Supervisor session and mileage . 47.00 W. T. Hayes, Supervisor session and mileage . 32.50 ' L. W. Bergstrom, salary June. 83.33 Opal Ashley, salary June . 70.00 Anna Donohoe, salary June 116.00 Margaret Donohoe, salary June 70.00 P. W. DufftFey, salary June .. . 150.00 Lottie McNichols, salary June 65.00 Elja McCullough, salary June 70.00 E. F. Porter, salary June . 137.50 B. T. Winchell, salary second 1 nr A A Harry Bowen, salary June ... 100.00 The following claims were audited and allowed on the Road Dragging Fund: C. W. Jury .$10.80 C. L. Kiltz . 29.50 Richard Kiser . 6.00 Nebraska Culvert & Mnfg. Co... 42.50 Daniel Sullivan . 20.50 Joe McNichols . 12.00 The following claim was allowed on the Emergency Bridge Fund: Western Bridge & Construction Company .$165.14 Mr. Chairman: The several members of the County Board in company with the Highway Com missioner having inspected the var ious locations in their respective dis tricts, I move you that the Western Bridge i. Construction Co. is hereby ordered to proceed under their con tract to repair and rebuild said bridgs. John Sullivan F. C. Watson. Motion carried. At 5 o’clock p. m., on motion Board adjourned until July 15, 1919, at 10 o’clock a. m. W. T. HAYES, Chairman. E. F. PORTER, Clerk. BIG SURPRISE TO MANY IN O’NEILL People are surprised at the IN STANT action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Ad ler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL flushes the ENTIRE bowel tract so com pletely it relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas or constipation and pre vents appendicitis. The INSTANT pleasant action of Adler-i-ka sur- • prises both doctors and patients. It removes foul matter which poisoned your stomach for months. Gilligan & Stut, Druggists. ■ N6 Why the McCormick Mower is Dependable considerable loss to you. It may delay your cutting so that your hay becomes over-ripe and loses part of its nourishment, or it may prolong the haying season until wet weathei destroys a part of its feeding value. 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