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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1925)
NEW RULE FOR GAS EXEMPTION Nebraska Agriculture De partment Sets Out Who May Escape Tax Lincoln, Neb., May ^ (Special)— The state department of agriculture has received 100 claims for refunds for gas taxes paid based on the con tention that the gasoline bought was used for exempted purposes. This has caused the department to make a new ruling. It is that a refund will be allowed only for tractor use when the machine has been employed in plowing, harrowing, disking, listing, seeding or harvesting. These are agricultural purposes. If the tractor is used for threshing, sawing wood or shelling corn or any other purposes not mentioned in the ruling the gaso line must be taxed. This also in cludes threshing by stationary gaso line engines. The ruling makes a distinction between threshing done with a combine and when done by a tractor that is standing still DIVORCES HIS SAMOAN WIFE Nebraskan Who Was Once A Sailor Is Given Court Decree York, Nob., May *\ (Special)—A Polynesian-York romance ended here this week when Mrs, Caroline Ship man and her 3-year-old daughter, Mary Jane,' departed for Samoa, leaving behind Hubert Shipman, the former husband and their 11-monthe old baby, Alice May. Shipman recently divorced Mrs. Shipman, who is tho daughter of a Polynesian mother and English fath er. They had met at Samoa when Hubert was a sailor. Three years ago they came here, but things did not go smoothly. Last year, shortly after the birth of the second child. Ship man asked for a divorce which Judge Hastings refused to grant This week the case was taken up again and the decree granted. Mrs. Ship man was given permission to return to her native homo and given the j custody of the other girl. The baby J was given to her father’s slBter, Ar lene Shipman. Adoption papers were filed in the county court and both father and mother gave up all claim to Alice May. At the railway station here, Mrs. Shipman wept at leaving her babj behind. A father and two brothers await her at Tutuiia, to which pas sage money was allowed her. RAILROAD ASKING HUGE CUT IN VALUES Lincoln, Neb., Mar (Special)— The Minneapolis ana Omaha rail road, by its attorney, has asked the state board of equalization to re duce Its valuation for taxation pur poses from $13,000,000 to $8,000,000. 1 The latter valuation represents what the federal court recently placed on the property In litigation over past assessments. This Is on a 60 per ceitt. basis, which the road says Is the average for other property in tns state. Hugh LaMastcr. special attorney general In charge of taxation matters, advised the board that it has no real concern with whether the North western railroad is making money or losing It, since its duty is confined to finding out the physical worth ot the property in use. He said that the fact that the road Is paying $13, 000,000 In taxes and making only $7,000,000 cuts no figure In the mat ter of valuation, and that the board can no more use this as a basis foi reduction when returns are Inade quate than It could raise the valua tion because the road, perforce, was making big money. PONCA 8CHOOL8 GIVE DIPLOMAS TO 2ft Ponca, Neb., May f*' (Special)— Commencement exercises were held In Ponca at the high school auditor ium Thursday night. Diplomas were given to 25 graduates. Dean P. M. Buck of the University of Nebraska delivered the address. SEEK CO-OPERATION IN IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS Emerson, Neb., Mai (Special)— A number of business and profes sional men here, who are Interested In sever™', good road projects in Dix on and Dakota counties, went to Ponca and had a conference with the board of supervisors of Dixon county which resulted in an agreement to eo-operate In the road Improvement of the two counties. The Emerson party conferring with the Dixon county supervisors consisted of the following: Senator Wllkens. Dr. Tighe, Dr. Cornell, J. M. Ll'iwer, William Jensen, H. J. Lenderlnk, J. H. Bonderson, I. A. Olrnatead, F. F. Haase, E. C. Carhart, E. Enke and C. H. Dobbs. OLD CIRCUS RIDER E88AY8 TO COME BACK Omaha. Neb, May - (Special)— In a tent of a circus which Is organ ising here Is a little grey-halred woman who after a retirement of •even years has come back at the call of the sawdust ring where she •pent more than half a century as a horseback rider and trapeze per former. She Is Rose Laretta, to the circus world, but In private life she Is Mrs. Rosie M. Gerber, of Leaven worth. Kan, M years old and a WAYNE NORMAL HAS BIG CLASS Former Congressman St©« vens Scheduled To Deliver Commencement Address Wayne, Neb., May (Special)-—A class of 176 will complete tbs regular normal course here this spring. This is e record sized clase. Twenty eight will receive A. B.’s and two others will flnlfdi four year# of work In special lines. Sixty will receive elementary state certificates and IS rural state certificates. Baccalureate services will be held Sunday evening, May 24. Rev. Ben jamin Nyce, of Lincoln, will address the graduates. The seniors will present their play, May 26. The day following will be May Festival day. Commencement exercises will be held May 28. Dan V, Stephens of Fremont will give the address and President U. S. Conn will present the diplomas. OMAHA’SMAYOR COWBOY AGAIN Rides Pony and Ropes Calf At American Legion Rodeo _ Omaha, Neb., May ~ - (Special)— "Bad Jim" Dahlman, late at Slippery Gulch and Powder River, and later •till, mayor of Omaha City, drove up to the American Legion, “loaned” a likely lookin’ cayuse, drapped a leg across the mldde, and rope In hand reared forth to get himself a calf. It’s been goln’ onto thirty yeat since "Bad Jim" Dahlman rode the range, but yesterday his tastin’ hand demonstrated before thousands of madly cheerin’ populnco that It halnt lost none of Its cunnln'. In the old days “Bad Jim" rode 'em hard, shot straight and drank his llkker strong and frequent. Yesstldy he ambled after a racin’ calf, and af ter misstn’ one cast, bein’ as a moat flew In his eye, he pursued his prey with grim and unrelentln’ determina tion, took three rousin’ swings around his neck—and Mrs. Noose set tled over said calf’s neck as slick and neat as an Arrow collar on the neck of a Douglas street tenderfoot. Even Stakes a Handicap Speakin’ of collars, Jim, Just to show a handicap, wore a high whito one with a big black bow, bis dark trousers were encased in black leather legglns, and on his head he wore a close-fittln* Stetson borrowed from a puncher from down New Mexico way. “In fact,” says Jim as he opened overtures for the hat, ’’seein’ as how your goln’ to end It to me, I’d like to loan your hoss, as well." "Sure, pardner," drawls Bob Cresby from Kenna, New' Mexico, " ’Mack,’ here, makes noble ridin’ and he'll take you where you want to go." DRUGGISTS ORGANIZE DISTRICT ASSOCIATION Norfolk, Neb., Bay fe* -Represen tative druggists from Madison county and adjacent territory met here and organized the Norfolk District Phar maceutical association. A constitution and bylaws were adopted and the following officers elected: Charles A. Sheeler, Norfolk, president; Albert F. Gaeth, Newman Grove, vice president; J. Roy Carter, Norfolk, secretary-treasurer; Fred J. Creutz, AVausa; Rome Keleher, Tll den, and N. W. Herrington, Newma* Grove, members of the executive committee. BRIDE-TO-BE WOULD NOT BE FLEECED Omaha, Neb., May ^ —A corres pondence club acquaintance which was scheduled to end in a wedding, led the two principals and the min ister who was to have married them into police court, the woman charg ing her Intended husband and the clergyman with Intent to defraud her of 116,000. The woman is Anna EUgnsh, of Newcastle, Pa., hotel proprietor. Mise Eilgash told police her corres pondence with Oscar Newman of Omaha culminated in her coming here a week ago^ to marry him. When he appeared at the fiouse where she had taken a room, she Bald, he re BELIEVE DEATH DUE TO ALCOHOLIC POISONING Concord, Neb., May >" (Special)— Henry Echtenkamp. a young farmer five miles south of here, died in the Dixon county jail at Ponca. He was taken there by the sheriff who took him into custody on an insanity charge. It is said that Echtenkamp had been in Sioux City where he drank very heavily. Returning to his farm, his wife and daughter be came alarmed at his actions and the sheriff was notified. Shortly after he was placed in the county Jail his condition grew worse and the coun ty phyelctan, Dr. J. M. O’Connell, was summoned, who treated the man but to no avail as be was beyond medical help. FORT DODGE WOMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY Ft. Dodge, la., May t -Mrs. Al bert Hepperle has been acquitted by a district court Jury nere of a charge of aiding a prisoner to escape from the county Jail. The Jury of 10 men and two women reached a verdict af ter one and one-half hour’s delibera tion. Mr?. Hepperle was charge.! with smuggling a gun to her broth er, Frank Clayton, who used the weapon in making his escape from the Jail and who was killed In a gun fight with cmstjr efficers. Unknown” Shades of Dead Soldiers— A Memorial Day Vision By Bruce Barton. From the grave of the un known soldier the crowds melt ed away. The great men of the nations, who had stood there baieheaded, stepped into their cars and were whirled back to town. The music of the bands grew faint and ceased. All afternoon little parties of curious, reverent folk came and stopped, and went on again, un til finally only the guard re mained. The day ended. Night came silently and threw over the grave the healing mantle of dark ness. Then a strange thing happen ed. Throe dim figures from no where gathered and 6tood un covered beside the tomb. No word of greeting passed between them; they seemed to know each other well. Slowly, one after another, they stooped and read the freshly-carved inscription. Then the oldest spoke. “Things are improving a bit for us unknowns,” he said. “I fought with Leonidas at Ther mopylae. We fell side by side, we and the other 299. Our bones are mingled with the dust and rocks. No one marked our rest ing place. Our names have per ished but we held the pass. “My mother wept when I fail ed to return," he continued. “Night after night she waited at the window, until it was fool ish to hope any longer. Then she, too, wanted to die. But the neighbors came in and cheered her. ‘You have given a son to save your country/ they cried. “Hie Persians are driven back, and Greece is freed. He died, but he left us a better world 1’ “So my mother took courage and held her head high. It was fine to have given a son to make the world a better world . . ." The unknown paused' for a moment, his voice grew' dull and hard. “The Romans swept over the Greece that I died for,” he said. “The barbarians swept over Rome. I sometimes wonder whether it was worth while to die at 28—to sleep at Thermo pylae, unknown." “I fought with Charles Martel at Tours," the second soldier said. “We turned back the the Arab hosts; we saved Eu rope from Mohammedanism; we kept it a Christian continent. “ ‘It is splendid/ they said' to my mother, ‘splendid to sacrifice a son on the altar of peace and good will/ “That was 1200 years ago,” the second soldier said. “And where is the peace that we died fort Where is the faithT The good will! The third unknown had stood with Wellington at Waterloo. It was a high enthusiasm that had carried him there—the vision of a world free from tyranny and wrong. He fell and was buried in a trench, under a rude cross marked “Unknown.” “ We thought it was to be the world’s last great battle,” he said. “There would be no more wars, no more youthful lives snuffed out, no more mothers waiting and weeping at home. “But a century went by, and there came a war beside which ours seemed a little thing. Our friend ove- whom the hands played today was one of mil lions who gave their lives. Men have heaped honors on him such as we never had. Do the honors mean that the hearts of men have changed, I wonder ? They broke faith with us; will they keep faith with him ? The three dim figures disap peared. The moon stood guard above the silent grave. In the East the first rajas of the morn ing crept into the t»ky. They reached out vaguely, hesitating ly, touching the city of Wash ington where men were to gather that day to speak of peace— touching an inscription which a nation had cut in the stone above Worse, From the Christian Register. As the rich man was motoring through a country district, he noticed an old man seated outside a cottage with all his furniture around him. “Poor old soul,” the visitor said, stop ping his car and giving the old gentle man a banknote. “What’a your trouble —evicted, I suppose?” "No. sir." waa the mournful reply. *lt e Just my old woman whitewashing.” Easy. From Doys' Life. the body of its unknown soldier. A solemn inscription; a na tion's promise that he who lies there dead shall not have died in vain. The world has made that prom ise before; all its unknown dead have died in that faith. And the promise has died with them. Will*it die again! That is the question for you and me to ask ourselves »beside the soldier graves on this Memorial day. •We told that boy when he marched away that he was fighting a war to end all wars. He fell, believing; and we have buried him and carved an in scription over his tomb. But the real inscription will not be written on any stone; it will stand in the dictionaries of the future. Only by writing it thus can the world keep faith with the long, sad procession of its unknown heroes whem it has lied to and cheated and fooled. This will be the inscription :—• WAR An armed Contest Between Nations—Now Obsolete UNKNOWN. (Reprinted from June Good HOUSEKEEPING THE BLUE AND THE GRAY By Francis Miles Finch. By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one the Blue; Under the other the Gray. These, in the robings of glory, Those, in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet; Under the sod and the dew; Waiting the judgment day; Under the laurel, the Blue; Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers ^ Alike for the friend and the foe; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the roses, the Blue; Under the lilies, the Gray. So with an equal splendor, The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Broidered with gold, the Blue; Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So, when the summer calleth, On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur‘fallcth The cooling drip of the rain; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Wet with the rain, the Blue; Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not with upbraiding The generous deed was done; In the storm ef the years that are fading, No braver battle was won; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue; Under the garlands, the Gray. No mori shall the war-cry sever. Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray. Forgetfulness. From the Toronto Globe. The great musician had been enter taining his gueets, and as he rose from the piano a gushing youth approached him. “What a wonderful piece of music!" he exclaimed. “Will you tell me the name of It, please T" “It was an Improvisation," replied the musician. “Ah, of c6ursel" said the youth. "An old favorite of mine, but for the mo ment I had forgpttea its name." For the purpose of preserving and propagating Christian chareter and the fundamentals of Christianity, a relig ious fraternity, the Delta Phi Alpha, has been organised at Mount Union college. Alliance, Ohio. Collage men who give evidence of possessing a Christian character; who abstain from the use of tdbacco, drugs, and alcohol ic beverages; who show hlrJ» ethical standards of honesty In their academic work, and who have successfully com pleted one semester's work, are eligi ble to membership. It Is expected that chapters will be established la ether colleges. DISTRICT MEET FOR SO. SIOUX Odd Fellows of Northeast Nebraska To Do Snappy Degree Work Emerson, Neb., May t. , (Special)— The annual meeting of the North east Nebraska Odd Fellows’ associa tion, which includes the lodges of several counties in> this part of the state, will be held at South Sioux City, Tuesday afternoon, and evening, May 26. The meeting, which will con sist of business, social functions and degree team work, is scheduled to extend into the morning hours and plans are being made by the South Sioux City lodge to take care of 300 or 400 guests. Tlhe degree team work will be put on by four of the best drilled teams in the district, Emerson lodge giving the initiatory degree; Bloomfield lodgw, the first degree; Randolph lodge, the second degree, and New castle lodge, the third degree. This distinction was given to the New castle degree team at the annual, meeting of the association at Laurel last year and as this team Is con sidered one of the crack teams in the state, It Is expected to carry off honors again this year. F. D. Fales, of Ponca, is the dis trict president and George Sheets, of South Sioux City, the district secre tary. LOAN ASSOCIATIONS HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY Lincoln, Neb., May (Special)— An increase in capital and resource of 65 per cent, in the last five years while the population of the state was Increasing only 15 per cent., has given the building and loan associa tions of the state more money than they know what to do with, according to reports of officers at the annual state convention. Most of the speeches made were in the form of warnings that too much money pressing for investiment made for excessive loans and taking extra hazardous risks. The associations were warned that their Job was to supply the necessary sums for home building, and not to offer a safe In vestment at good interest for idle money. Competition for mortgages on homes is growing livelier each year, the reports said, one life Insur ance company having put $75,000,000 into the business during the year. President Adair, of the national as sociation, told the delegates that Ne braska is only one of a large number of states that have been inundated by a great wave of saving. He said that the shortage in housing condi tions that existed following the war has been about wiped out, and that the next year will see a return to nor mal activities. Association President Matthews recommended that no more than 4 per cent, interest be paid on deposits or investment money, when the state banks reduce their deposit interest rate next April, and President Bur kett of the Nebraska Central of Lin coln suggested the advisability of all the associations joining into one big association covering the entire state. RAILROAD WANTS ITS » TAX MATTER SETTLED Lincoln, Neb., May f- (Special)— The Northwestern railroad lias made a proposition to the state board of equalization that it would quit fight ing the state if the board would ac cept the valuations as determined by the federal circuit court and let that be the basis for taking it in the future, subject to additions and bet terments being added from time to time. The road urged this as the certain result of the litigation, and said that it would pay $2,030 court costs now assessed against the state in the tax suits now pending, and would not ask for any refunds for taxes paid in excess of the valua tions found by the court. The re fund, the attorney said, would amount to $206,000. The attorney general’s office ad vised the board, however, that It has no legal authority to make any such settlement of taxes, and that it should permit the cases to go to final judgment. They said that there can be ro refunds anyway, because the tax paid in has been distributed among the various political subdi visions and spent. SAYS COUNTY RECORDS NOT PROPERLY CARED FOR Hartlngton, Neb., May v'. (Spe cial)—The crowded condition of rec ord vaults in the court house here and the careless manner in which Menno, S. D., May 21. (Special)— The Menno High School orchestra has made a record this year that is hard to beat. In the fall it was organized for the first time in the history of the school under the direc tion of Prof. A. Koch. From that time it had had practices twice a county records are handled in the basement were criticized by George Anthes, state examiner of county treasurers, representing the state auditor. He critized members of the I'oard of county commissioners at a special meeting, maintaining it was their duty to give all records adequate protection. PRESHO SCHOOL TO GRADUATE CLASS OF 10 Presho, S. D., May •» (Special)— The local school has secured Rev. Hans Wold, of Witten, to give the baccalaureate sermon Sunday night, May 24. Dr. Brown, of Canton, will give the commencement addrejj, Friday evening. May 29. One of the outstanding features of this year’s class is that every one of the 10 graduates are definitely planning tf enter some institution ot h'ghe* learning. ASKS BIDS ON Highway work Nebraska to Gravel 333 Miles and Grade 44 Miles Lincoln, Neb., May - (Special) —Secretary Cochran, cf the depart ment of public works, has fixed May 28 and 29 as dat* s to receive bid* for construction of 233 miles of gravel surfacing and 44 miles of grading on Nebraska roads. The total work Is estimated to cost 21, 250,000. The project includes the following counties in northeast Ne braska: Seven miles of gravel surfacing three inches deep In Pierce county, from Pierce to the south lino of Pierce county. Six miles of gravel surfacing, three Inches deep, In Madison county be tween Madison and the south l‘ne of county. i Thirteen miles of gravel surfacing, three Inches deep. In Burt county, from the Washington county lino through Tekamaha to Craig. Eleven and one half miles of gravel surfacing, three Inches deep. In Stanton countv, from Stanton through Ptlger, to the east line of Stanton. Eleven and one-half miles of gravel purfacing, three Inches deep. In Wayne county, from Wayne to the south line cf Wayne county. Eight and three fourths miles of gravel surfacing, three ‘riches deep, in Stanton county from Stanton to Madison county line. Eight miles of gravel surfacing, three inches deep, in Washington county, from Blair to Douglas county line, north of Omaha. FEAR ALLIANCE BOY MURDERED His Abandoned Car and Clothing Found Near Seneca, Neb. Alliance, Neb., May ■*' (Special) —Mystery surrounds tne finding of a sedan deserted on a lonely road between Thedford and Seneca. Garments were found in the car. There was no gasoline in the tank. A Red Willow license tag gave a clue to Its identity and the owner living at Anselmo appeared to claim it. He safd his son had started out a few days ago to take a drive and had not returned. There was nothing to Indicate foul play except the finding of the garments. This week a California, sheriff wired the Broken Bow sheriff that he had a Nebraska murderer in charge and asked what to do with him. The Nebraska office!- asked for further information, but it has not been received. It is feared that the Anselmo man picked up a stranger and they started on a trip. The stranger, officers believe, disposed of the owner, and drove alone until he ran out of gas, then continued on his way to California. SHERIDAN COUNTY TO PROSPECT FOR OIL Gordon, Neb., May t (Special)— Considerable excitement Is In evi dence In Sheridan county over the prospect of oil. For a year Dr. C Henry Cook and T. E. Rodebough, geologists, have been making inves tigations in this county and in Shannon county, South Dakota, to the north, and at this time have nearly all the land in north Sheri dan county and south Shannon county under lease. Numerous lo cations have been marked and at this time Dr. Cook Is In Tusla. Okla., where he Is endwivoring to Interest oil men In making several tests. Two years ago a well was sunk a little over 1,000 feet on a location north of Rushvllle on the Pine Ridge reservation. At a depth of 1,096 feet it was reported that oil had been discovered. Work was discontinued and a contract was made with the Midwest Refining company of Casper to finish the hole. It was cemented off and a few weeks later Midwest drillers drove it down another hundred feet. They reported that the hole was dry and left it. However, since the lease had been assigned lu them, no fu 'ther development was made until Dr. Cook and his associates took up the matter. In case out side capitalists cannot be interested. It is planned by local men to or ganize and make a test on one of the mast favorable looking locations that have been designated by the geolog ists. AGED MAN HIKES FROM LINCOLN TO NEWMAN GROVE Newman Grove, Neb., May (Special)—George Johnson, 85 years old, has arrived here from Lincoln, having walked a good share of the way. The aged man had only a dol lar wtth him, when he appeared at the farm home of C. J. Risson, near Columbus, and was given a meal. ORDER OF THINGS IN AUTO ACCIDENTS REVERSED I tncoln, Neb., May • (L N. S.> —An automobile accident with un usual feature* was reported to the po’lce here when a motorist struck an elderly woman pedestrian cross ing a downtown Intersection, knock ing her tc the pavement. Instead ol driving on, the driver stopped to ascertain the injuries of his vic tim. The victim, however, scrambled to her feet and ran away and dis appeared down an alley befor* aha could he Identified. •