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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1921)
The Frontier. _____ Volume xli. . . O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921. NO. 34. ^ • LOCAL MATTERS. * N. S. Hendrick visited friends ai Orchard last week. Miss Grace Hammond visited at At kinson Monday, returning home Tues day, morning. Harold Michel of Chambers, fell while ice skating iast week, suffering a fractured skull. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Horiskey left Sun day for Excelsior Springs, Mo., where they will spend the week. Ted Gannsway of Stuart, suffered a crushed ankle while playing basket ball at Grinnell, Iowa, last week. Miss Beatrice Cronin was hostess to the Martez club Tuesday evening. Miss Cora Meredith won the honors at cards. Ira Moss, clerk of the district court, returned Monday morning from a Sunday visit with relatives at At kinson. Miss Anna Waters spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. William Biglin, returning to her home at Jackson, Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Smith of Ewing, were visiting at the home of their daughter, Mrs. E. D. Henry a few days the first of the week. James Crowley jr., is going to farm for himself, north of this city, this year, and rumor has it that Jim isn’t going to batch it either. One lone coyote was the total bag at the big Chambers wolf hunt last week, the animals having received ad vance notice of the event. C. J. Carrig, M. W. Cahill and Dan Cahill of Columbus, last week pur chased six hundred head of cattle from various ranchmen in southern Holt. An eight and one-half pound baby boy arrived at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ballagh of southern Holt county Wednesday of last week. Miss Julia Fitzsimmons, who is teaching school at Brunswick, spent Saturday and Sunday at home, re turning to Brunswick Monday morn ing. The board of county supervisors ad journed Saturday afternoon until February 1, when they will continue the work of checking up county of fices. The Norfolk hooch makers are using a new receipt now and the Nor folk papers report that orioles and blue jays are being seen in the vi cinity. The fire department was called to fVin mei/Jonno fiam Tnmnenn in fVta southeast part of town Sunday night by the burning out of a chimney. No damage resulted. Judge J. J. Harrington went to Val entine the first of the week, where he is engaged in several cases as counsel before the session of the Cherry county district court. The new supply of fish and game license blanks has been received at the office of County Clerk Porter, and Deputy Hanley is busy issuing them to devotees of the rod and gun. Among the bills killed off in the legislature last week was one to re duce the exemption of married men from $500 to $200. A teacher’s pen sion measure also was laid to rest. Copies of the journals of the daily proceedings of the house and senate of the state legislature now are being received by County Clerk Porter and are on file at the county clerk’s office. Charles Pruss' shipped six loads of hogs to market last week and had two left over to start this week on. Mr. Pruss had shipped fourteen cars of hogs in January up to and including Saturday. Raymond Williamson of Atkinson, accompanied by his sister, Miss Grace Williamson, left last week for Los Angeles, where he will enter the bank of his uncle, A. C. Stewart, and also will attend university. “Is Society Deteriorating?” will be the subject of the paper to be read by Mr. Thomas Griffin at the weekly meeting of the O’Neill Philosophical society. Mr. M. H- Horiskey will lead the discussion at the round table. Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Irwin arrived the first of the week to visit their son Clyde Irwin, manager of the Western Union up-town office. Mr. Irwin left for the west Tuesday and Mrs. Irwir will remain until the end of the week The citizens of Norfolk evidentlj are not yet ready to accept the citj managership scheme of administra tion. The plan was defeated by DOC votes at a special election held Satur day at which a very large vote was polled. Capital punishment will not be abolished in Nebraska by the present legislative session. The -state senate Thursday of last week handed the bill to abolish the death penalty a K. O. in the session of the judiciary com mittee. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Erb of Hadley, Minn., who removed from Holt county a year ago, brought the body of their four weeks old baby to O’Neill last week, for burial at the Mennonite cemetery north of the city. The lit tle one died, at Hadley, Friday, Jan uary 14, after a short illness. Burlington freight service between O’Neill and Sioux City was returned to the old schedule Monday morning. Instead of running through to Sioux City the morning freight now runs to Osmond and turns around, getting back to O’Neill some time in the afternoon. Mike Ford again presides at the throttle. Mrs. William Biglin left Monday morning for a visit with relatives at Jackson, Nebraska, where Monday will .occur the wedding of her sister, Miss Margaret J. Waters and Mr. Michael R. Boler, one of the leading young business men of Jackson. Mr. Biglin will leave Saturday to be present at the wedding. Aji eastern aeroplane company has announced that in the future it will charge passengers according to weight, the fat man paying more than the thin one. The same principle should be applied in other lines. It has never seemed right for Frank Phalin to charge Mike Horiskey as much for a haircut as he does other people. The following officers were elected at the annual' meeting of the South Fork Fair association recently: Presi dent Glee Grimes, vice president T. E. Alderson, treasurer W. S. Grimes, secretary J. W. Holden, general super intendent H. J. Porter, superintendent of sports W. O. Jarman. Directors: Thomas Osborne, Ray Linehart, Ed. Dexter. A minimum of $50 for each soldier is provided in the bonus bill introduced in the legislature by Representative Brantley Sturdevant, of Atkinson, in stead of a maximum of $50 as first re provides a bonus of $15 per month and that no soldier in the world war, how ever short his service, shall receive less than $60. Lloyd Gillespie is displaying to his friends a handsome gold watch pre sented to him at the meeting of the Nebraska National Fire Insurance company in Omaha last week. Mr. Gillespie stood third in the list of agents of the company writing the most business Jn Nebraska last year and the watch'is a testimonial of ap preciation from the company officials The O’Neill and Bassett basket ball teams will mix it Thursday night on the local floor and the game promises to be one of the best of the season as both teams are in fine fettle. Last Friday the O’Neill and Atkinson teams met on the Atkinson floor. The re sult is in dispute, Atkinson contending that they were the victors by one point and O’Neill insisting that the game was a tie. The misunderstanding was over a foul. Music lovers of O’Neill were afford ed an opportunity to hear one of the greatest contraltos of the age Monday evening at the recital given at St. Mary’s academy, by Miss Edna Swan son, famous Swedish singer. She is an artist of rare talent and of Wonder ful range of voice, as demonstrated by the several numbers of her pro gram, and in addition is one of the most beautiful women of the day. The academy auditorium was filled to ca pacity. Blasting crews of the state highway department are at work on the bluffs on the north side of the Niobrara river, at the McLain bridge site north of Long Pine, improving the ap proaches to the bridge from the north “Together We Win” Labor is Organized. i Manufacturers are Organized. Farmers of other States have their organizations well under way. Thousands of Nebraskans are Farm Bureau Members. Hundreds are joining each Week. We want every Farmer in the State a member of Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation to help us obtain: 1. Better Marketing Conditions. | 2. Better Legislation. 3. Better Business Methods. 4. Better Co-Operation among Farm Organizations. Will you help us put this program through ? The Holt county membership campaign will be held the week of February 7th. It will start with two big Kick-off meetings with good speakers present. One meeting will be held at O’Neill immediately after noon, February 7th, and one at Chambers the same time. N. W. Gaines will talk on Federation work at the following places next week: Thursday Evening, February 3rd.Inman Opera House Friday Afternoon, February 4th...Ewing Opera House Friday Evening, February 4th.Page Methodist Church Saturday Afternoon, February 5th.Stuart Auditorium Saturday Evening, February 5th.Emmet Hall HOLT COUNTY FARM BUREAU FEDERATION. NEBRASKA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION. table. The work is being done on the federal highway between Springview and Long Pine, and when completed will eliminate the long, winding and dangerous roadway now leading from the river bottoms to the high lands Large quantities of TNT are being used. J. E. Wilson, a prominent ranchman residing near Alliance, was struck and seriously injured by an automobile driven by his son, last week, while walking to his ranch. After knocking the old man down the son continued on his way without stopping to ascertain the extent of the father’s injuries. His excuse when notified of the accident was that he didn’t know that the man he had struck was his father. Drivers should be careful to avoid running down relatives when speeding. Others don’t matter so much. The storm of Monday and Tuesday played havoc with telephone and tele graph lines in Nebraska, according to the storm reports of the Northwestern Telephone company. This vicinity, fortunately however, was not in the district effected. The telephone dam age is estimated at more than $250, 000. Transcontinental lines were wrecked in several places and more than 3,000 poles went down in Ne ! braska alone. The damage x’apidly is being repaired and telephone traffic by now is almost back to normal. Eighteen were present at the initial meeting of the neKv troop of boy scouts at the Presbyterian church last Wed nesday evening and a similar number at the meeting Monday evening of this week. Under the direction of : Scout Master Hamilton Monday even ing was devoted to drill in knot tying, in which the boys are making excellent progress. The new troop expects to receive its charter in the near future and is outlining an extensive program of training and pleasure for this year, included in which will probably be an extended camping trip this summer. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. LaRue and family and Mrs. John Winchell and children of southern Holt county will leave this week for Flagstaff, Arizona, where Mr. LaRue will be associated with Mr. Winchell in a garage pur chased by the latter several months ago. A farewell reception was ten dered the LaRues, Winchells, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moore and Mr. and Mi*s. < xvxinxeei-s ax xne a. xj. uruwie rancn 1 last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Moore ; will spend sometime in travel before i deciding upon their future location. I Mr. and Mrs. Minteers are removing to Iowa. The Frontier while regret- ' ting to see these estimable families 1 leave Holt county, joins their many 1 friends in wishing them health ana I prosperity in their new homes. 1 THE OLD GUARD RELINQUISHES TO THE NEW t A simple ceremony, sad, and im pressive because of its momentous im- , port, was that at Atkinson last week , when the members of the Grand Army J of the Republic post turned over the , instruments of its once famous martial j band to John Farley post of the ( American Legion, also of Atkinson. , It wasn’t much of a band as bands go , nolwdays, perhaps, only three old bat- ; tered drums, a base and two snares, , and a couple of dented fifes, but it ] and others of its kind played the kind ] of music that has stix-red the hearts of j men for ages and caused them to , march fearlessly, even cheerfully, to ( their deaths. The Grand Army vet- j erans surrendered the instruments be- . cause there are not enough of the old , comradesteft to play them any more. , The men who once thrummed the drums and thrilled the fifes are mostly , gone, and in a very few years taps ! will be sounded over the last member ' of -the G. A. R. and veteran of the j civil war. The drums and fifes ari symbolical of the things for which the members of the Grand Army fought ; and for which they stand. They are symbolical of the things for which the members of the American Legion ( fought and for which they stand, and it is fitting that the old soldiers should LUX ll biiesrc uiuma aim mao u vci ih« new. The old guard is relieved and the new mounts guard over the destinies of the republic. “At one time,” said Commander Greeley, in the presentation, “there was a full drum corps of Post mem bers. But that is no more, and the old boys feel that with these young warriors of today they have an herit age in common and that they must carry on where they leave off and lay down the glory of devotion and the burden of sacrifice. “This body of younger men realize what this sentiment embodies, this disposition on the part of the greatest pariotic organization to turn over to them the task of carrying on. “They have pledged themselves to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the auto cracy of both the classes and the mas ses; to make right the master of might, to promote peace and good will on earth, to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify comradeship by devotion to mutual helpfulness, to preserve the memories and incidents of their association in the great war. “Surely the Grand Army is putting on capable and worthy shoulders the tasks they surrender.” The American Legion at their last meeting, on motion incorporated in their minutes sincere thanks to the G. A. R. for the gift of the fifes and drums, and instructed their Adjutant to see that the same was acknowledged publicly.” WILBUR LEE EPPENBAUCH Wilber Lee, the ten month old in fant of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eppen baugh, died Monday after an extended illness. Burial was at Ewing, the funeral being Tuesday. VIVISECTING THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT When the inhabitants of the Mis souri river and Salt Creek bottoms o: southeastern Nebraska are not regu dating the spiritual and physical wel fare of the people of the producing section of Nebraska they generally an engaged in tampering with its po litical divisions and attempting t< jerrymander them into annexes oi southeastern sections so that none ol the west or of the north mav have s voice in the government. The con gress has defeated a bill to increase the membership of the national house of representatives to conform to the increase in population of the country officially recognized by the last census, which means that instead of the peo ple having more congressmen to rep resent them the congressmen are each going to have more people to repre sent. It also means that Nebraska is to have but five congressmen where formerly six grew and flourished. With that acumen a natural pos session of graduates of the state uni versity and Peru normal school the statesmen of the south and east sec tions of the state were quick to per ceive that the old congressional dis tricts must be wrecked and five new i nes builded from the wreckage of the six. Who more fitted to build them than they? And Echo answers dam firo. Accordingly Representative W. R. Mellor of Lincoln, who is one of the holy city’s statesmen in the lower house of the legislature, has presented i tentative draft of the proposed five lew congressional districts. The legis lative directory gives Mr. Mellor’s oc • ,-upation when he is not legislating as ‘retired.” The population of Lincoln nostly is made up of the “retired.” In Lincoln are to be found retired farm ?rs, retired merchants, retired bank ers, retired secretaries of the state air board and retired office holders,but here are no retired politicians. Aftei \ man V»o<rinc livinn* in T.i nn/Vln hrv lever i-etires from politics. He retires ’rom everything else to stay in poli ces. He is retired in the same sense ;hat an auctioneer is a colonel. The dan of redistricting proposed by Mr. del lor is very simple. It lines the five iew districts so that the centers of opulation of all of them will be east >t the west line of Hall county, of Jrand Island is the county seat, and ;ractically provides that Nebraska’s ve congressmen shall come from the owns of Lincoln or Falls City, Omaha, Fremont, Kearney and Grand Island. Phis will bring them directly within he zones of influence of the Burling on and Union Pacific railroads, the •ig banks and public service corpora ions and those whose welfare is of ar more importance than is the wel are of the farming, dairying and live stock sectionsof the state. Incident rrfy- c-Jicrry, Holt, Brown, Rock, Key a 3aha and Brown counties are taken >ut of the old Sixth congressional dis rict by Mr. Mellor’s plan and located n the Third congressional district vhose congressman then will come rom Fremont or vicinity. The rest f the Sixth is made into the new Fifth listrict, with Kearney the congres ion seat of government. The old J’ifth is annexed to a few counties of he old Fourth, so that the congress nan must hail from Grand Island, /incoln and Omaha will look after the ilher two congressmen. The fact that he jerrymandering of the old Sixth iistrict is going to leave practically lali’ of the state, and the half which iroduces 85 per cent of the wealth of he state, without any real representa ion in congress, seems to worry Mr. dellor, and those who prepared his rheme of redistricting for him, not at ill. But fortunately Mr. Mellor’s plan s not final. Even though it is the roduct of that “retired” master mind t still must run the gantlet of the egislature, after which it may look •■'ther the worse for wear Following is Mr. Mellor*-: scheme of •rjil tw’f iro rr n<a niihHciVmH in thf* T in ■oln Journal of Sundayrtssue: “The proposed redistricting plan 'ollows railroad lines. Generally speaking, the North Platte country would have three districts and the ■South Platte country two. Following s a summary of proposed changes as iffecting the several districts: “First district—Retains all present territory and takes in Gage, Butler, Seward, Saline and Jefferson counties now of the Fourth. “Second District—Takes Saunders from the Fourth and retains Washing ton, Douglas and Sarpy counties. The initial plan was to swing Burt county from the third into the Second but op position on the part of Representative Webster of Tekamah, knocked that plan in the head. “Third District—Would lose Merrick county to the Fourth, retains Burt, Dakota, Thurston, Dixon, Cuming, Dodge, Colfax, Stanton Wayne, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Madison, Platte, Nance, Boone and Antelope. Swings far into the western country to include from the present Sixth district, Cherry Brown, Rock, Holt, Keya Paha and Boyd counties. “Fourth District—Would lose Saun ders to the Second district and Butlei Seward, Saline, Gage and Jefferson tc the First. Would retain Thayer, Fil more, York, Polk, Hamilton and tak( in all of the present Fifth swinginj to the lower western boundry of th< state. The Fifth would be lost en tirely in the shuffle. The eighteei counties which it would give to thi Fourth are Clay , Nuckolls, Hall Adam, Webster. Franklin, Kearney Phelps, Harlan, Gosper, Furnas, Fron tier, Red Willow , Hayes, Hicthcock Chase, Dundy and Perkins. The Fourtl also would get Merrick from th< Third. “Fifth District—Loses every!him it had and takes over the followim counties of present Sixth district Sioux, Scottsbluff, Banner, Kimbal Dawes, Box Butte, Morrill, Cheyenne Sheridan, Garden, Deuel, Grant, Ai thuh, Keith, Hooker,- McPhersoi Thomas, Logan, Lincoln, Blaine, T oui I Custer. Dawson, Buffalo, Shermai , Howard, Valley, Greeley, Garfield Wheeler. “If such a plan is followed, Repre ; sentative McLaughlin of the Fourth ; be left in a peculiar predicament His residence is in York county, which is not one of the six counties lost by the Fourth. As congressman elected from the Fourth he would remain of the Fourth but the five old counties re tained in his district represent a popu lation according to the 1920 census of 70,000, in round numbers. “On the other hand, here would come Congressman Andrews of the Fifth into the Fourth with his eighteen counties compact. He would bring a population of nearly 200.000 or ap proximately four times that of the counties retained by Congressman Mc Laughlin. “Which of these men shall be the congressman of the new Fourth if the lines are finally drawn as proposed ? “Congressman Reavis will not be disturbed in the First. There’s no in vading congressman to divide the honors with Congressman Jefferis in the First. Congressman Moses Kin kaid does not take enough of his old territory into the Third to disturb Con • gressman Evans, Congressman Kin kaid is, in fact, clearly out of it under this plan unless he should be selected for the new Fifth. It has been sug gested that the Joseph G. Cannon of Nebraska pick up his bed and baggage and move into that great portion of the Sixth which now is proposed for the Fifth. 'Although the member from the Sixth has threatened for eight or ten years to drop out of it he still is in the ring. Each time he has piled up a bigger majority over his oppo nent than the time before. “While the plans submitted by Mr. Mellor are expected to furnish founda tion for congressional redistricting, they are offered largely for the guid ance of the committee and are subject to change. The matter will again be taken up when the committee meets at 10 0. m. Monday. census, the several districts as tena tively proposed, would have the fol lowing approximte populations: First District . 265,413 Second District . 246,663 Third District . 274,797 Fourth District . 262,720 Fifth District . 246,809 “Using the 1920 census figures, the first district now has a population of 173,458. Annexation as , would give it the jV>n---mg a““Jtional population bv -^unties: Gage, 29,721; tuti«r, 18,823; Seward, 16,867; Saline, 16,514; Jefferson, 16,140. A total in crease of 91,965 and a grand total population of 265,413. “The Second district now has a population of 226,074, according to the 1920 census. Annexation of Saun ders would add 30,589 or boost the total to 246,663. “The Third district would lose Mer rick with its population of 10,763. It would gain Holt, 17,161; Rock, 3,703; Brown, 6,749; Cherry, 11,753; Keya Paha, 3,594, and Boyd, 8,243, total gain, 51,193. Deducting Merrick leaves a total net gain of 40,430 or a grand total population under the pro posed draft of 274,797. “The Fourth would lose 112,554 in population in the loss of six counties and would gain the entire population of the present Fifth plus Merrick from the Third. The population of the pro posed new counties for the Fourth: Merrick, 10,763; Clay, 14,486; Nuckolls 13,236; Hall, 23,733; Adams, 22,621; Webster, 10,922; Franklin, 10,067; Kearney, 8,583; Phelps, 9,900; Har lan, 9,220; Gosper, 4,669; Furnas. 11, 657; Frontier, 8,540; Red Willow, 11, 434; Hayes, 3,327; Hitchcock, 6,045; Chase, 4,939; Dundy, 4,869; Perkins, 3,967, a total of 192,978. Deducting the population of the lost territory leaves a total net gain of 80,424 for (he proposed new Fourth. “The Fifth as proposed, would have the entire Sixth district population minus 51,193 proposed for transfer to the Third or a grand total population of 246309. “The national congress defeated the bill to increase the total number of congressmen by a vote of 436 to 483. It decided that states appointment should be in accord with population. Some of the states have gained more rapidly than Nebraska. Putting two and two together, Nebraska legislators assume that this state will be cut down to five congressional representa tives at Washington.” O’NEILL FISHERMEN _TAKE NOTICE Lynch Herald: Tourists and others who have occasion to cross the Mis souri river at old Ft. Randal will have use of one of the best ferries in the state. County commissioners of of Charles Mix county have just let a contract for five years for operating a ferry and holds a government li cense. The new operator is in Omaha buying the machinery for the special boat planned to be ready to launch as soon as the river breaks up. woodXear Neligh Leader: Chas. Henry Wood and Miss Kathryn Fern Lear, were married at the Congregational parson age on Monday evening. Miss Lear’s home is at Springview, where she is well and favorably known. Mr. Wood was formerly a resident near Neligh, where he and his brothers engaged in extensive farming and his many Neligh friends join in hearty congratulations on their now venture in life. Mr. Wood is now located near Ew ing on a large farm and to this home already prepared, the young people repaired. The good wishes of their many friends accompany them in se- - tablishing their home life. STUART LOAN ASSOCIATION OFFICERS The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Stuart Federal Farm Loan association, serv ing the territory comprised of western Holt and eastern Rock and Keya Paha counties, at Stuart recently: Leonard Roberts, president; JU* * Direct: ^ Richard Moon, Leonard Roberts, Ferdinand Kaup,An ton Wallinger, George Weber, Lonis Dvorak. Local Loan Committee—John Brau, William Wilson, Richard Moon. Local Loan Committee, Substitute Members—Charles Cook, William Schom, Henry B. Pence, Samuel Smith, Fred Besmer, Joseph Brent, Fritz Vogel, Joseph Ramm, George Weber, William Krotter. 0 ■ — - -. ONE KILLED, THREE HURT, WHEN AUTOS CRASH Atkinson Graphic: Word was re ceived by relatives Thursday of the death of Oscar Obannon, a former resident here, and who was killed in an auto accident at Alliance Wednes day. No further particulars were stated in the message, but the dis patches in the dailies of yesterday has the following: Oscar Obannon, 46, wealthy oil man and land owner, was killed almost instantly and three other men seriously injured when the auto mobile in which they were riding was struck by another driven by Ray As pen, rancher, living seven miles east of here, on the outskirts of town at 11 Last night. The injured: Tom Beal, right eye gouged out, internal injuries; may die. Ray Aspen, severe cuts and bruises about face and head. Whitney H. Terrell, Wilcox, Mont., dislocated shoulder, bruises and cuts on body and head. Richard Kniest and Wade Gras, Alliance youths, who were rid ing with Obannon, escaped uninjured.’’ Mrs. Obannon’s mother, Mrs. Cch rader and other relatives reside in Atkinson. — PUSHING AHEAD. ^ It did not take us long to I show the world that our boys I were fighters, as well as farm- I ; ers and business men. I America’s way in war, farm- [ ing or business is to push for- ; The O’Neill National Bank I believes in going forward to * I success and invites your ac- I count, believing that we can * 1 push forward together better jj THE O’NEILL NATIONALBANK I O’Neill, Nebraska. 1 This Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers I 1 Or Stockholders. i __ Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $130,000