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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1921)
/k~, The Frontier. ..it.uv VOMFM® XLI. t __ O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921. NO. 39. ,. LO^AL MATTERS. John Robertson of Stuart, was an O'Neill visitor;. Wednesday. Mr* and lilfetSteiSe Q. McMillian left iVoriday;for £*|btslor;Springs, Mo. . Oav;<* Stakrt" of Stuart, circulated among O'Neill friends Wednesday. Mrs. Wijlcox was hostess to the Block 18<lnb Saturday evening. Willikhi Kfotter of Stuart, had busi ness beferb $jhe county board Wednes Mose Erb left Tuesday for Seward county, where he will make his future home. ^ ' ' Mrs. Olive Killoran and Mrs. Wilson Bitnerof Inrnati, Visited O’Neill friends .Monday..r •• The county board-of supervisors is holding its regular: tndnthly session this week. ! J Miss Martha Hanley went to Oma ha Wednesday for an extended visit with relatives and friends. Miss Genevieve Biglin, who is tak ing a course in nursing, at Sioux City, is visiting. O’Neill relatives this week. “Sandy” Kirwin, who is railroading out of Chadron, came down Monday for a short visit with his father, M. F. Kirwin. Mrs. Jack bwvcr of Butte. Mon tana, formerly Miss Grace Gordon, will arrive the last of the rweek for a visit with O’Neill,relatives. Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and daughter, Miss Grace, returned from Omaha, where the latter has been undergoing treatment, Tuesday evening. Hery Longbein, residing west of Venus, lost a couple of fingers last week when his right hand became en tangled in a com shelter. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Jordan left Sun day for New York, after a several weeks? visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Carr, parents of Mrs. Jordan. Levi Ahn, who resides northwest of this city, made this office a pleasant call and renewed his subscription to this family journal, while in the city last Friday. The honors at Bridge were won by Miss Florence McCafferty at the meet ing of the Martez club Monday even ing. The cldb was entertained by Mrs. Charles F. McKenna. Oscar Newman tired of city life after but one short year of it and the first of the week moved out to the J. K. Aaberg place near Opportunity, which he will farm this year. Mrs. Eltha Sivesind, who held a farm sale at the Sivesind place near Star several weeks ago, has decided to become an O’Neill resident and this week moved into the Oswald property. Mrs. Clara Cole of Emmet sustianed severe injuries last week when the , door of the coal shed at the Cole resi dence was blown against her, fractur ing several ribs. A government announcement? states that headstones for deceased'soldiers of the world war now may be procured by the same proceedure as are those for veterans of the civil and other wars. Mrs. C. A. Ives of Bridgewater, S. D., arrived the first of the week for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Yantzi, who visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Ives at Bridge water. Mrs. Isaac Peterson of Long Pine, sister of Mrs. Margaret Schroeder of this city, passed away at that place on February 18, after a lingering ill ness. The funeral was held Sunday, February 20. Robert Taylor has leased the D. D. Miles place and this week moved from the Parham ranch northeast of the city, to his new location. Harry Tay lor has leased the Jake Hoteling ranch northeast of Page. Champ Clark of Missouri, former speaker of the national house of rep resentatives and one of the most prominent statesmen of the last thirty years, died Wednesday afternoon at tit_l:_i_„ i-— j_ _ John J. Harrington, who has been home to visit his mother, Mrs. Anna Harrington, and other relatives for the past two weeks, returned Satur day morning to Dallas, South Dakota, where he is working for the Chicago & Northwestern railway company. W. L. Kirk, owner and publisher of the Spencer Advocate, has acquired the Bristow Enterprise, purchasing the same from Milo E. Taylor, who will remove from Bristow. Miss Fern Rundall will be the associate editor and will maintain the Bristow office. The candidacies of A. R. Honnold of Scottsbluff for commissioner of the general land office, and Will Geddes of Srand Island for auditor of the United States treasury, have been endorsed by the Nebraska congressional delegation at a caucus held in the office of Sena tor Norris Sunday. Get in your ap plications early. Inman Leader, Feb. 24: Ed Green, i former Inman resident but now en gaged in the barber business in Dmaha, was married in that city last Sunday to Lillie F. Hall, a popular ,’oung lady of the metropolis. They irrived in Inman Monday evening for i few days visit anfong relatives after which they will return to Omaha where they will make their home. Ed’s many friends here extend con gratulations. Omaha World Herald, March 2: 3tto C. Jorgenson, clerk at the Horse nan hotel, 1421 Dodge, was given a :hirty-day jail sentence by Police fudge Dunn today on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. Jorgenson was arrested yesterday morning upon complaint of relatives of an O’Neill, Neb., girl. The girl, it is said, had been living at the Horseman while at tending business college in Omaha. “She had never been in the city before ir. her life,” the girl’s sister declared. The fine dairy herd being assembled by John T. Biglin of Hastings, for merly of O’Neill, and Kirk Griggs, at their dairy farm near Hastings, Ne braska, is attracting much favorable comment in the agricultural press of the country. A recent item in the Omaha papers states that they re cently have purchased two car loads of pure bred Holstein cows from one of the famous herds of Wisconsin, on recommendation of the dairy exten sion department of the state univer sity. The Rev. W. A. Render of Eagle Lake, Texas, will be the new pastor of the local Eposcopal church. Word has been received from Bishop Beecher that the Rev. Render has been ap pointed to the deanery of the Valen tine church, which includes the church here and at Ewing. The Rev. Render assumes his new position today, Thursday, and will hold his first service in Nebraska at the Valentine church Sunday. The Rev. Render’s family, consisting of his wife, a son 17 years of age and a daughter aged 12, win remain in lexas until the close of the school year. Just to keep the record straight Weather Observer Robins of Omaha, who makes the weather for Nebraska, says that this has been the mildest winter since 1890. The mercury has been 8V2 degrees above normal and February was very much out of the ordinary. He warns that the cold weather danger is not entirely past, hcwever. The winter of 1911-1912 was a comparatively mild one but March of 1912 holds the record for the coldest weather since 1899. Nineteen and two-tenths inches of snow fell that March, so don’t put on the b. v. d.’s just yet. Eugene Henry won first prize in the bird house building contest conducted by the Boy Scouts organization and which concluded with the awarding 01 prizes at the Methodist church Mon day evening. Elmer Bowen was awarded second prize, Willard Arnold and Albert Herrirk third. The prizes, $3, $2, and $1, were given by the local: Masonic lodge. Ten scouts entered ■ the contest. Following the awarding [ of prizes a farewell banquet was given! in honor of Jack Cooper who with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Cooper, de parted Tuesday for Pilger, where they will make their future home. The bird houses are on display and for sale at Grady’s grocery. federal farm loan act HELD CONSTITUNITAI Means Immediate Resumption ofLoan. ing and Will Force Private Rates Down. Washington, Feb. 28.—The federal farm loan act was held constitutional today by the supreme court. This is the act under which land banks were established to extend loans to farmers. Millions of dollars in loans to farmers have been held up pending a decision of the court in this case, which 'was brought by Charles W. Smith, a stockholder in the Kansas City Title and Trust company, who sought an injunction to restrain that institution from investing its funds in bonds issueu by the farm loan banks. The court, in sustaining federal cour decrees dismissing injunction proceedings brought by Mr. Smith, also held that congress had the au thority to exempt the bonds of the bank from taxation. The court divided, 6 to 2 Justices Holmes and McReynolds dissenting. Justice Brandeis took no part in con sidering the case. Justice Holmes and McReynolds held that the “cause” should have been dismissed by the court as being solely within the scope of the Missouri courts. Farm loans ae-e-reeatimr more than $50,000,000 have been held up since May, 1920, as a result of the suit in stituted by Charlesi E. Smith, a stock holder in the Kansas City Title and Trust company, to test the valadity of the federal farm loan act. Applica tions to this amount were pending when Commissioner Lobdell announc ed at a conference of farm loan offi cials here that official approval would be withheld pending a decision of the court. , Officials placed the total amount of loans to farmers held in abevance by the suit at many times $50,000,000, however, the receipt of applications having stopped with Commissioner LobdelTs announcement. On March 1, 1920. the farm loan board reported that $182,897,000 had been advanced Lo 75.394 farmers and that applica tions from 179,734 presons then pend ing totaled $471,000 000. The suit in the supreme court was ;p the form of an appeal from lower' 'ourt decisions refus ng to issue an injunction to restrain the Kansas City Title and Trust company from in. nesting its funds in bonds issued by the farm loan banks. The govern, nent. the Federal Land Bank of IVitchita, Kan., and the First Joint ■tock Lank Bank of Chicago, on their nvn applicatipn, were made defend mts in order that the entire question night be settled finally in one suit. Counsel for Mr. Smith asserted in substance that the farm loan act was an exercise of power which congress did not possess under the constitution. Further ground for attack was found in the exemption of the farm loan securities from taxation, as “instru mentalities of the government.” William (J. McAdoo, former secre tary of the treasury, submitted the government brief as special assistant to the attorney general in the argu ment of the case. He asserted that the banks were created as “fiscal agents” of the government and that congress had the clear right to set up such institutions. Since assistance to agriculture pertains to the general welfare, it is argued, congress could have made direct appropriations for the purpose in view, but chose to cre ate these special agencies to provide the necessary funds. With regard to the tax exemption feature Mr. McAdoo contended that it was “simply a question for congress to determine (when the usefulness of its agencies would be enhanced by exemption.” Decision of the United States su preme court, upholding the validity of the federal farm loan act, is of vast importance to farmers of Nebraska and Iowa, and indirectly to all busi ness interests of agricultural sections. The Omaha farm loan bank, or ganized under the act, loaned oven $20,000,000 to farm owners in its dis trict before the attack upon the law made it impossible to sell bonds with which to finance further loans For more than a year no applications for 1/xnn.o knvn Ixnrm nnnnnl-n/I «»/l T„... have depended entirely on private sources. This, in the opinion of farm loan bank officials, has been one reason why it has not been possible to relieve the financial stringency sooner. Under today's decision the federal farm loan bank expects to start loans within 60 days. Officials declare that this will permit the farmers to pay off loans now held by banks and make money “easier” in general. The court decision, /while a victory for the federal farm loan banks, is a sharp defeat for the American Farm Mortgage Bankers’ association, which instituted the proceedings. Members of this association have loaned millions on Nebraska land in past years. Right to organize private joint stock farm loan banks is also confirmed by the court decision. One such bank now exists in Nebraska, the Fremont Joint Stock Land bank, a consolidation of a former corporation of the same name with the Peters Joint Stock Land bank of Omaha. This institution now ranks among half a dozen of the largest in the country. It. like the government bank, has had to suspend proceedings while the law has been in court. “This decision means the world to us,” said E. D. Morcom, treasurer of the Omaha Federal Land bank. “L i means that iwe can now sell our bonds and within six weeks we will be able to loan money in unlimited quantities, subject only to the giving of proper security. The demand is great. The agricultural interests are straining at the leash and this means life to them.’’ MRS. JOHN ADDISON. Mrs. John Addison of Mineola, died Monday afternoon at Orchard, follow ing an operation for goitre. The funeral was held Wednesday, burial being in Mineola cemetery. Her hus band and twelve children survive her. MRS. CATHERINE PURCELL. The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Pur cell of Clearwater, who died at that place Wednesday of/last week, was held Friday, burial being at this place beside her husband, who died four years ago while the family resided at O’Neill. DISTRICT COURT JURORS FOR MARCH TERM Frank Urban. Lew Knapp. Fred Vitt. C. Johnson. A. T. Hart. Tom Roche. Frank Bigiow. E. J. Grenier. C. A. Auten. Wm. Mather. Mels Nelson. A. C. Chenoweth. Wm. Gleed. Chas. Goree. E. A. Graham. Frank Barrett. Geo. Post, Sr. W. T. Boaworth. Grant Alder. J. D. Kelley. Jim Crowley. Frank Bain. Fred Dobrovolny. J. H. Simonson. MISS GEORGIA HALL MAKES BIG HIT IN EAST Most flattering are the dramatic •riticisms of Miss Georgia Lee Hall. Former O’Neill girl, now leading wo man with William Collier, in “The Hottentot” which is making a big hit n the east, and the comments are not ill flattery either but true commen tation of real artistic talent accord ng to Nebraskans whp have enjoyed he privilege of seeing Miss Hall this (eason. “You can imagine my sur prise,” says Arthur Mullen in a letter from Washington to James F. O’Don nell, “when I saw Georgia Hall walk in from the wing of the stage last night as the leading lady in ‘The Hottentot.’ She looked about the same m the stage as she formerly did when »t O’Neill. Collier is a wonder—So is liis company and an O’Neill girl is right at the top. She plays a very important part and does it well. I (now the folks around O’Neill will be nleased to know that another O’Neill te is getting some place out of the >rdinary.” I MARCH CLEARING SALEI Our Annual Clearing Sale Opens Saturday, March 5th. All Our Well Known Standard Shoes Included In This Sale. Many Priced Below Present Replacement Costs. % ■ ■ ■ ■ . 1 "HI LADIES’ SHOES Patent Cloth Top .$7.00 now $3.95 Gun Metal, Cloth Top $7.00 now $3.95 Patent Pump .$6.50 now $3.85 Black Low Heel Oxford $6.50 now $4.95 Brown low heel Oxford $6.50 now $4.95 i Black Kid Louis heels .$8.00 now $5.35 Black Colonial.$10.00 now $7.85 Patent Oxford.$7.50 now $4.95 ] Gray Top .$10.50 now $4.95 ! One Lot Black Laces, ... .Worth to $14.00 now $5.95 | Ladl s’ Patent Shoe.$10.00 now $3.95 MEN’S SHOES Men’s Gun Metal, button.$10.5045.85 Men’s Gun Metal Bluchers $7.00 ...now $3.95 Mens’ Gun Metal Shoes $9.00 now $5.25 Men’s Gun Metal English Last ... $9.00 now $5.95 Men’s Outing Bals.$6.50 now $3.95 Men’s Gun Metal English Last ...... $7.50 now $4.95 HOSIERY All Ladies’ Silk Hosiery, worth . to $4.00 now $1.95 Men’s Silk Hose, Were $1.50 now 2 pair for......$1.50 j Mercerized Hose, One-Half off Regular Price. j I NO CREDIT NO APPROVALS NO RETURNS ]|| I