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VOLUME XLI.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921.
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NO. 18.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
A band has been organized at
Neligh.
Evangelist Green is holding forth
down at Inman.
Ira Watson of Inman, has gone to
Lincoln to attend the state university.
The county board concluded its reg
ular monthly session Friday after
noon.
T. V. Golden left Monday morning
for a visit with relatives at Creston,
Iowa.
Chris Olson and family left Inman
last week by auto for California, to
reside.
O’Neill and Long Pine highschopls
will clash On the local football field
Friday.
Lyle Roberge has purchased the
Snyder barbershop at Page and taken
charge,
Miss Elizabeth Donohoe left Tues
day morning for a visit with relatives
in Omaha.
District Judge Button of Fremont,
has held the foreign language law un
constitutional.
Joe Gallagher has succeeded his
sister, Helen, as bookkeeper in the
Inman state bank.
Selah Hunter of Page, has returned
from Upton, Wyoming, where he has
been homesteading.
St. Mary’s Academy football team
defeated the public school team last
week by a score of 15 to 6.
The Redbird baseball team Sunday
of last week defeated the Lynch team
by a score of nine to eight.
F. E. Cowden of Corning, Iowa, was
in the city the first of the week, look
ing after his, local interests.
Hugh Bittner of Inman, has dispos
ed of his meat market and will re
turn to farming in the spring.
The installation of officers of the
Knights of Columbus will occur this,
Thursday, evening, at the lodge
rooms.
Walter O’Malley was on the Omaha
market with a load of hogs the first
of the week, returning home Tuesday
evening.
Arnold Longstaff left Wednesday
morning for Lincoln, where he is en
gaged as vocalist with the Powell sax
ophone orchestra.
J. C. Donahoe of the Omaha street
department, came up Saturday to look
after his Holt county holdings, return
ing home Sunday.
A drop in the price of “shine” need
not be loeked for as long as the state
and federal boozehounds are operat
ing iij the community.
Mike Higgins of Inez, while on a
visit to his brother-in-latw, George Mc
Nally of Inman, broke his arm while
teasing a Ford last week.
Mr. and Mrs. James F. O’Donnell
and daughter Grace, and Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Mellor left Thursday morning by
auto for a short visit in Omaha,
Edward Frienchere, the human fly,
was taken to Lincoln Friday to begin
serving his penitentiary sentence for
the theft of an auto belonging to Walt
Wyant.
James F. O’Donnell returned Wed
nesday of last week from a- meeting
of state bankers held in Omhaa to dis
cuss relief aftd aid for farmers and
stockmen.
Hylas Farrier, Bernard Newhouse
and Ed Horacek of Chambers, went
down to Burwell last week to put on
the rough riding contest for the
county fair.
L. S. Kelly and family of Page, who
left recently on an auto trip to Cali
fornia, arrived at Whittier, that state,
Sepember 23, according to advices re
ceived by friends.
Mrs. M. H. McCarthy was hostess
at a shower in honor of Miss Lottie
McNicflols, whose marriege to Mr. P.
V. Hickey will take place in the near
future, Tuesday evening.
Dr. Jack Dwyer, Mrs. Dwyer and
little daughter, Virginia, came up
Saturday from Omaha for a Sunday
|FRESH^RUIT^|
AND VEGETABLES |
Everything
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Steeple
! and Feeney
Groceries
[ Ben Grady, Grocer |
visit with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Coyrn
returning home Monday.
Frank Sobotka received a sever
cut over the eye last week when hi
horse slipped and threw him while h
was driving cattle from the ranch o
George Herald, to Inman.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. O’Mally o
Chambers, are the parents of a twelv
pound son, bom to them while Mrs
O’Mally was visiting her parents ii
South Dakota, September 16.
Mrs. David Yantzi and daughter
Miss Magdalene, of Slayton, Minne
sota, who were called to the city b;
the illness of Conrad Wettlauffer, re
turned home Saturday otf last week.
Mrs. Martha Bailey, who has bee,
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Georg
Longstaff, returned to her home a
Crookston, Minn., Wednesday mom
ing.
The Knights of Columbus will cele
brate Columbus Day next Wednesda;
evening, with a program, dance an<
open social session at the club rooms
The ladies probably will serve lunch
Mrs. Charles F. McKenna wai
hostess to the Martez club at the resi
dence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J
H. Meredith, Monday evening. Miss
Mae Hammpnd won the honors ai
auction.
The Neligh high school footbal
tfeam defeated the O’Neill team ai
Neligh last Friday by a score of 41
to 6. The Neligh team was several
pounds heavier per man than the
home one.
Mrs. John A. Ryan, who has been the
guest of her son, Arthur Ryan, for
several months, left for her Missouri
home Saturday morning. She was ac
companied as far as Omaha by Mrs
Arthur Ryan.
Chief Game Warden Koster is re
cruiting a bunch of Omaha adven
turers to assist him in the huat foi
the prehistoric whale which is keeping
the duck hunters off the lakes south
of Hays Springs.
Dr. T. J. Dwyer stopped off Mon
day morning, enroute back to Omaha
from a professional visit to Valentine,
and visited for a few hours wity
O’Neill relatives, going on to Omaha
Monday afternoon.
Sparks from a Northwestern loco
motive are supposed to be responsible
for a pasture fire Monday afternoon
which burned over considerable of the
Quilty and Carlon pastures and
meadows just south of town.
The fall term of district court in
Keya Paha county lasted but two
days, Monday and Tuesday of last
, and gun. Several good kiils were
made, but the chickens are extreme
, ly wild, owing to the fact that they
, hatched a month earlier last spring
, and are fully developed,
f L. I Mayfield of the Louisville
Courier, and Mrs. Mayfield, and E. O.
f Mayfield of the Omaha World Her
> aid, ar.d Mrs. Mayfield, who drove up
' Thursday of last week to be the guests
| of their son and nephew, Eugene May
field, returned home Sunday. L. J.
and E. O. with Eugene enjoyed an
; outing of several days fishing and
‘ hunting down around Cottonwood
Lake where they secured1 the limit on
fish and game despite the prairie fire
which swept the country Wednesday
1 night of last week.
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t BANKERS IN GROUT 6
TO AID FARMERS
Permannent organization for the
' financial relief of the stock-raising and
1 agricultural industries of the state will
• be perfected at a meeting of the banks
■ of Group 6 of the Nebraska State
Bankers association to be held at Val
i entine Thursday morning of this Iweek.
The group comprises the banks of
Holt, Rock, Brown, Keya Paha, Cher
ry, Sheridan, Dawes and Sioux coun
ties and the new organization which
will be known as the Northwest Ne
braska Agricultural Loan association,
will function solely in these counties,
which comprise 90 per cent of the
great livestock industry of the state.
Plans for the organization, which
will be along the line of the federal
land banks, were discussed and agreed
upon at a meeting of the bankers in
Omaha last (week and Bankers E. C.
Cole of Cody, C. A. Minnick of Craw
ford, J. M. Flannigan of Stuart, O. J.
Schweiger Of Chadron, and N. J. Uck
of Wood Lake were appointed a com
mittee on permanent organization to
report a 'constitution, by-laws and
scheme of operation to the meeting
Thursday.
The purpose df the organization is
to permit of the financing of the cattle
and agricultural industries under the
relief plan of and with the funds of
the War Finance Corporation through
its agricultural loan agency. Indi
vidual banks under the law only may
loan to an individual or firm 10 per
cent of the capital and surplus, which
in many instances does not enable an
individual bank to take care of the
vital needs of its customers. The or
ganization of the Northwest Nebraska
Agricultural Loan association over
comes this in that when a member
bank receives an application for a loan
that it is not permitted to carry alone
the loan is taken by the loan aasocia
week. Judge Robert R. Dickson and
Court Reporter C. B. Scott this?" week
are holding court at Bassett.
The state fish and game department
will seine a number of the shallow
lakes and bayous in northern Nebras
ka this fall and transfer the game fish
to the deeper waters which are not so
apt to freeze solid during the winter.
The ba7,aar at the public rest room
Saturday afternoon and evening, for
the benefit of the rest room service,
was well attended and many took ad
vantage of the excellent bargains of
fered. Tea was served during the
sale.
A blazing gasoline stove called the
fire department down to the A. L.
Gunn shop Wednesday afternoon. No
damage was donen but for- a time it
was feared that the grandstand at the
horseshoe pitching park would be de
stroyed.
Two prairie fires broke out last
Wednesday evening in southern Holt
county during the high Wind. One
was near Cottonwood lake and the
other east of Chambers. Both were
subdued before they had done much
damage.
Howard Baldwin and family of In
Wood, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Williair
Every of Kingfisher, Okla., and Mr
and Mrs. Ed. Hilbourn of Duff, Neb.
Were the guests of their aunt anc
sister, Mrs. Hnery Michaplson of
Page, last week,
Mr. and Mrs- Charley Cooper of
Pilger, wno "were the guests olf Mr
Cooper’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H
Cooper, returned home Saturday. Thej
were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs
Ted Cooper, who will go on fron
Pilger to Omaha for a brief visit.
The bazaar given by the community
ladies at the public rest room Satur
day for the benefit of the rest room
was a success both financially an<
socially and the ladies have decided t<
give a series of them during thi
winter, dates to be announced later.
Chief Game Warden George Kosta
and a corps of assistants were in Hoi
county this week with the state fisl
car. They were engaged in sjeimnj
the gufqe fish put of the shallow lake
and bayous and removing them fc
deeper waters before the freeze-up.
The first of the monthly open socia
sessions of the Knights of Columbu
for the fall season was held Tuesdft
evening at the club rooms. Pat Pupo
hoe made the coffeo, and Art Rya
and Jud Cronin the sandwiches, de
spite which everybody had a goo
time,
Saturday, the opening day of th
prairie chicken season, called man
O’Neill nlmrods to the fields with do:
tion which will have a capital stock of
$200,000 divided into 2,000 shares of
stock at a par value of $100 each, a
majority of which are to be held by
the member banks. The association
is to begin business as soon as 1,000
shares of stock, or $100,000, is sub-'
scribed and paid in.
Under the scheme the notes of thN;
borrower will be endorsed by the bank
or bank officials to which the applica
tion is made and by the loan associa
tion. They will draw 8 per cent and
will be rediscounted by the loan as
sociation to the agricultural loan
agency of the war finance corporation
at 6 per cent. The 2 per cent differ
ence will be split fifty-fifty, 1 per cent
being retained by the loan association
amf other 1 per cent by the mem
ber bank which originally received the
application for the loan.
The purpose of the association is
declared in the articles of incorpora
tion as now drafted not to be for
profit, but for relief of the suffering
industries. The articles provide that
stock only may be sold to stockholders
of the banks of the group and to bor
rowers. Stockholders of a bank, may
not purchase a less amount of stock
than the quota provided for their
bank. Borrowers, ag under the fed
eral land bank plan of operating, are
required to take out stock to the
amount of 5 per cent of the loan
sought and extended. The association
is given first option on any stock for
sale by a stockholder. The lonas will
be six months ones. Regular quar
terly meetings of the directors of the
association, in addition to the regular
annual meeting, are provided for.
The funds of the association, with
the exception of the Working fund, are
required to be deposited in the mem
ber banks in proportion to the amount
, of stock held Dy the bank stockholders.
1 AMERICAN LEGION
STATE CONVENTION
; Fremont, Neb., Oct. 8.—William
, Ritchie, Jr., pf Omaha, was elected de
f partment eomnrender of the Ameri
i can Legion, of Nebraska, at their an
, nual business session here.
Other officers named included: Vice
, commander, H. H. Ellis, Holdrege;
5 vice commander pf the army, Arthur
’ Bell, York; vice commander of the
navy, Lester L. Dunn, Lincoln; chap
j lain, Ray S. Strue, Syracuse.
Delegates to the national conven
1 tion, who are under instruction to vote
for Earl M. Cline, of Nebraska City,
as national commander, included
3 Charles Reed, Lincoln; F. W. Aslhton,
f Grand Island, and Frank D. Connelly,
t Madigon, Mr. CUne was named Ne
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'••ft :
braska member of the national execu
tive council.
York was selected as the next meet
ing place.
The resolutions on the language
subject, which were submitted by Earl
M. Cline, past state commander, ap
proved the actioq of the legion com
mittee that appeared in court during
trial of the language case and com
mended the efforts of the state’s at
torney. Strong declarations were
made in favor of the English lang
uage being exclusively used in Ameri
can schools. The special language
litigation committee was continued in
office.
The convention adopted a resolution
calling for continuation of the Ameri
can committee and urging special at
tention to history in the American
schools.
Following a discussion of the federal
hospital proposition, the convention,
by resolution, expressed disfavor with
the plan of centralized training for
disabled men and urged the establish
ment of a well equipped federal hospi
tal in the state. Members of the
committee discussing the subject fa-,
vored the Grand Island Soldiers Homo
as a probable location.
Other resolutions adopted pledged
devotion to the dependents of the sol
dier dead, recommended passage of
the Sweet bill and urged elimination
of government red tape; called for a
“respect-the-flag-week” between the
birthdays of Washington and Lincoln;
instructed delegates to the national
convention to urge a speedy enact
ment of the four fold adjusted com
pensation plan; requested posts to re
frain from athletic events on Memorial
day and urged the government to speed
up the publication of slacker lists.
Delegates to the national conven
tion were instructed to present the
name of Earl M. Cline of Nebraska
City for national commander. Among
speakers before the convention were
G. H. Rauschkolb of St. Louis; Father
John of Stanton; Humphrey Sullivan,
representing the national commander
of the legion, and Charles H. Beck of
Omah. Six hundred veterans par
ticipated in the annual grand parade,
at 5 o’clock Friday alfternonon. All of
Fremont turned out for it. The Lin
coln American legion band which came
over in automobiles driven by state
university professors this afternoon
participated, as did the Fremont legion
band.
APPLE BLOSSON TIME
IN HOLT COUNTY
It is apple blossom time in Holt
county. The orchards are in bloom,
the young twigs are tilled with tender
HARVEST TIME!
IS HERE I
* Deposit the proceeds of
your grain and cattle in the
Nebraska State Bank, where ■
all depositors are protected |g
by the depositors guarantee
fund of the State of Ne- |
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offers this protection.
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buds and the sc nth wind which has
been sighing through the bows and
branches for sometime now is a cure
harbinger of spring. Spring is com
ing, as the poet says, but it is just as
well not to expect it too soon. It may
be several weeks before it arrives, and
perhaps several months, because, as
is customary, it will probably be pre
ceded by several months of winter.
But spring is coming. The advance
notice is in the shape otf a .small
branch of an apple tree filled with
blossoms and it was brought in by
Mail Carrier H. B. Burch, who got it
from the apple orchard of John Ples
sel, north of O’Neill, last Saturday
morning, October 1. Although sev
eral frosts occurred in September the
entire orchard is in bloom, just as in
the springtime. A like phenomenon
has been reported from several locali
ties in southern and eastern Nebras
ka, but it is believed that this is the
furthest point north in the state or any
other in which it has been noted. Why
talk of spending the winter months in
California or Florida, when apple
blossoms now are in bloom here?
HOLT COUNTY’S FAME
AS WINTER RESORT
SPREADS OVER NATION
Holt couny’s fame as the ideal place
in which to seek refuge from the rig
ors of winter is spreading over the
nation. Colorado citizens soon may
be spending their winters in Holt
county to avoid the wintry blasts so
common in the mountain states, as is
evidenced by the following extract
from a letter received by S. F. Mc
Nichols from J. F. Edmonds, secretary
of the Commercial Union Insurance
company of Denver, and which refers
to the apple orchard on the John
Plessel ranch, now in full fall bloom:
“The writer noticed in passing “The
Denver Post” that at this time otf the
year yop are having apple trees in
full bloom, and we congratulate you
on living in such a section of the
country where this could happen at
this time of the year. We assume
that we will read more about this
when we receive the evening paper.”
HOLT COUNTY HERO’S BODY
RETURNING FROM FRANCE
The body of Roy C. Ross, Holt
county hero who gave his life hi the
great world war, is being returned to
O’Neill. Mrs. Susie Ross Sparks, hia
mother, Wednesday received a tele
gram from Washington, announcing
that the body was expected to arrive
at Hoboken, N. J., Thursday. Ar
rangements for the funeral, which will
be under the auspices of the American
Legion, will be announced later.