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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1925)
ASK REHEARING IN ROAD CASE State Claims Allowance Giv en Contractor Establishes Bad Rule _ Lincoln, Neb.,^ ~~ (Special)— The elate hae asked for a rehearing ct the case In which the supreme court held It liable for $33,000, claimed by Petereon, Shirley A Gun ther, highway contractors, for re moving solid and loose rock on a Sioux county contract. The etate asks the court, In view of the Impor tance of the matter and the large number of road contracts being made, that It lay down a rule for future guidance. This rule, the at torney general says, should be that a contractor cannot ask for any com pensation for work that Is not cov ered by his contract unless, when he encounters material unexpectedly that will cost more to remove, he must notify the etate. The contention la that If a con tractor who has a contract to grade a roadway at a certain price for earth removed goes ahead and blasts out solid rock that he encounters without notifying the highway de partment and then claims extra pay for It, this opens the door of op portunity to all sorts of fraud. The stute also contends that the court was wrong In holding that the state must pay Interest on the claim, because there is no law that author lees thin to be charged and the state Is immune from the general Interest law. It Is also claimed that the •vldence does not Justify the amount awarded as It Bhows that the amount of explosive used ould not move the amount of rock claimed. The court held that the state having hnd the benefit of the work done must pay for tta reasonable cost. OFFER LOWER RATES BETWEEN ZONE TOWNS Lincoln, Neb., * r (Special) —The Northwestern Beil Telephone company has made application for authority to decrease message rates from 10 to 6 cents between the towns In the various cones which are now being offered a choice of sene service or local service. Hitherto all towns In a zone, usually three to five, had to pay the zone rate and take zone service. Under the schedule filed by the company under authority of the federal court these are now given the privilege of continuing the zone service at teh Increased rates or of taking their own exchange only and paying 5 cents every time they call some other fown In the zone. VACATION CAMP FOR FARM BUREAU WOMEN Battle Creek, Neb., (Spe cial)—A Woman’s vacation camp will be sponsored by the farm bureau the third week of August. This camp will be opened to farm women of the county. O. A. Sunderman, president of the farm bureau, and Mrs. Cleo Pender, county chairman of the wom an’s work, together with a represen tative of each of the organized groups of women In the county will make up a committee to work out details and plans for this vacation camp. A similar camp was agitated two years ago by the Jefferson group of women but dropped Inter. Tills was revived again at the time of Miss Easley’s last visit on clothing work. Plans have not been completed as to the details. PONCA PREPARE8 FOR CELEBRATION OF FOURTH Ponca, Neb., » f— Arrange ments for one of the most elaborate Fourth of July celebrations ever held tn northeast Nebraska are being com pleted here and will bring together about 10 towns In this part of the state lor the day of addresses, songs, music, ball games and other features. The town of Wakefield and Its fa mous band have accepted an Invita tion to assist In the celebration.^and Ponca's band also will play. Newcastle, Maskell, Allen, Water bury. Concord, Stlvar Creek, Dally, Dixon and Martlnsbury have been In. vlted to celebrate with Ponca and large delegations from these towns an? planning to be here. In the forenoon the addresses will be given and In the afternoon there will be two ball games one between Ponca and Newcastle and the other between Maskell and Silver Creek. Free show attractions and a balloon ascension will be features In the af ternoon. Besides the band music, a chorus choir of 50 voices will sing several selections with Mrs. William Auge as director and Mrs. F. R. Kingsbury as pianist. FINDS OWNING A CAR IS EXPENSIVE Scribner, Neb., * j, (Special) —It costs $712 a year to operate a $2,000 coupe, according to Wilhelm Bolts, of Scribner, who has kept a careful account of expenditures for the last five years. He used the car for business and pleasure and listed the money actually paid out, with no consideration for his own time used In tire patching and other repair work. FAMILY OF THREE DIE ON RAIL CROSSING Grand Island. Neb., ; . (A. P.)—Joeph E. Kozina, a school teacher of Boulder, Colo., his wife and an 8-year-old daughter were killed by a Union Paoific passenger train at a grade crossing on the Lin coln highway near Clarks, Neb., Monday afternoon. A 4-year-old child escaped Injury. Mrs. Kozina's people I've In South Dakota. The family was enroute to Iowa where Kozina waa to take a new teaching Boeitlon, letters 1*4 lea ted. I ENOUGH MONEY AND TO SPARE Nebraska Banks Claim Abili ty to Finance Handling of Big Crop IAncoln, Neb., • (Special*— Nebraska bankers say that there la so much mono/, sither idle In th* banka or out on loans that can b* oalled at any time, that it will not necessary to draw upon th* federal reserve bank for cash to finance the harvesting and movement to market of crops. Tears ago th* eastern money centers were called on yearly to carry this load. After the federal reserve system was organized, th* banks at Kansas City and elsewhere In that system In the agricultural districts furnished the money. This Is the first time In history that the local banka have money enough to care for this task. Bankers also say that a great deal of Nebraska money Is just now being loaned on Wall Street In the stock market. Many of the banks In the state that are making these loans found this to be the most profitable lino of paper to secure, and tnany of them are making this sort of loans for the first time tn their his tory. They said some of ths western big city bank* hav* been doing this, and they were assured there was money and no risk In It. SHEPURCHASED FROM TWO MEN Now Widow Must Pay for Both Tombstones, High Court Says Lincoln, Neb.,v .(Special)— Mrs. Myrtle Lewis, ffebraska City widow, finds herself, as the result of a supreme court decision, legally In possession of two well-lettered and imposing tombsones, testifying to her regard for her deceased husband. The first one was ordered through a traveling agent of an Omaha monu ment house, which order the widow was Induced to cancel by a local doal er, who offered to sell her one for $509, which Is $150 less than the other. The Jury said the widow, who claimed falHe representations, need not take the one first ordered, but the supreme court says that she has no power to repudiate the contract. The widow says that the local dealer promised to stand back of her In her refusal to take the other, and the court says this Is understandable when the evi dence discloses he was making SO per cent, and the other man only 38 per cent. HIGH TEMPER ATU RE8 PREVALED IN NEBRASKA Omaha, Neb., ^ ' —Hot winds from the southwest; Wednesday, brought temperatures that shattered heat records In many Nebraska lo calities for July 1. No prostrations were reported from any point, how ever. At Lincoln, 103 was registered at 4 p. m. At Beatrice 104 ^ was the maximum. Omaha had a high of 104, the hottest for July 1 ever re corded here and within 8 degrees of the highest mark on record, 110 In August, 1918. PONCA HA8 A BIG FOURTH OF JULY PROGRAM Ponca, Neb., >_j ^ ^ (Special) — Ponca la preparing to make Inde pendence Day a big day. A full pro gram Is planned consisting of music furnished by Ponca’s band of 80 pieces, speaking by a prominent speaker and a free act, in the fore noon; two ball games, Sllvercreek vs. Maskell and Ponca vs. Newcastle, bal loon ascension, a free act In the after noon; a chorue of 50 voices directed by Mrs. Wm. Auge and Mrs. P. R. Kingsbury, and a band concert In the evening. RUSTY NAIL WOUND CAU8E8 GIRL’S DEATH Grand Island, Neb., v_ .-lock jaw resulting from injuries' suffered when she stepped on a rusty nal! about a week ago, caused the death of Miss Clara Stenka, 16 years old, of Burwell. HUNDREDS OF INDIANS TO BE AT CELEBRATION Port Thompson, S. D., Hundreds of Sioux Indians n*f>m the Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies will participate In a Fourth of July celebration at this agency, which is better known as Crow Creek agency. Sioux warriors of three reservations, the Yankton, Crow Creek and Lower Brule, will compete in a broncho “busting” contest, with the cham pionship of the three reservations as the stake. This Is expected to he one of the greatest contests of Its kind ever staged in South Dakota. In addition there will be Indian dances, various sporting events and others features going to make up a rousing celebration of Independence Day. TABERNACLE MEETING ATTRACTING CROWDS Castana. Ia.. r (Special) — Large crowds a.« attending the tabernacle meetings being conducted here by W. E. Purdy, evangelist, t HEIGHT OF COURTE8Y Bath. Eng.—A motor car knocked down an old man In Bath street and spectator* feared he had been killed. To their surprise. he jumped up Quite unhurt and raising hie hat, apolo gised to the driver for the inconven ience he had oaueed him. CAN’T PRACTICE S PROFESSION H&rtington Veterinarian Is Suspended by Secretary Frost Lincoln. Nob., , ^ (Special)— Dr. R. W. Heckert, a veterinarian of Hartlngton, has been suspended for 90 nays from the practice of his profes sion by Secretary Frost of the de partment of public welfare, which Issues licenses to veterinarians. Heckert had been authorized to make tests for bovine tuberculosis. The testimony was that he had re ported one cow In a herd of four that he inspected for the Ursullne Sisters, an organization at Hartlngton, to bs infected, sjid was asked to take It away. Then he made a second test of the animal, found it showed no trace of tuberculosis, and traded It for a horse. Later the new owner sold It for $35. The secretary held that it was mis conduct on Heckert's part not to have reported to the Sisters the re sult of the second test. DENIES STATE MADE PURCHASE Owners of Goose Lake in Holt County Must Pro duce Water First Lincoln, Neb., , (Special)— Secretary McLaughfin denies the printed story that the state has bought Goose lake in Holt county. He and Game Warden Jenkins have returned from a tour of Rock, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Sheridan, Box Butte, Dawes and Garden counties inspect ing lakes that are offered for sale. The legislature of 1923 appropriated 150,000 for this purpose, the object being to provide lakes that could be thrown open to the public for hunt fc» and fishing purposes. Governor Bryan declined to follow the Instruc tions of the legislature. He spent $12,000 of it for land near the Benkle man fisheries, and the Izaak Walton league of the state is urging that the remainder be expended for the Orig inal purpose. Mr. McLaughlin says that Goose lake was offered for $12,000, but the owners will first have to prove that flowing wells can be sunk in It. The lake consists of 400 acres. DENIES GIRL’S CLAIM v AGAINST MAN’S ESTATE Seward, Neb., .-The plea of Alby Vajgrt, 17 yeaVs old in behalf of her fatherless child, for $10,000 against the estate of her betrayer, Anton I>ana, has been denied by County Judge Bek. The girl, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Vajgrt were Jointly ac quitted December 8, 1923, on a charge tf murdering Lana. At the time Lana was killed, the girl named him as her betrayer. He had been living at the Vajgrt home a i one of the family. The baby was born after the murder trial had been held. " Lana’s estate is not worth In ex cess of $1,500, it is estimated. Judge Bek allowed the claim of Mrs. Vajgrt, asking $220 for a board bill against Lana. A claim of Mr. Vajgrt for $34, claimed for work done by him and his children on a melon patch, plants^ ov Lana, also was al lowed. SUPERIOR, NEB., ASKS FOR GRAIN RATES Lincoln, Neb., , ^ (Special)— The city of Superior, through Its traffic association, is making a fight before Interstate Commerce Com mission Examiner Witters to secure rites that will establish It as a ter minal grain market that can compete cn equal terms with other cities in the W'est. It is asking that the com mission order joint rates on ship ments of wheat, corn, oats, barley and other grains from Nebraska points through the Superior gateway Into Oklahoma and Kansas, where there is a good market for these i mmodities. This will mean lower rates, nnd will enable the establish ment there of grain dealers who can benefit, the producers of the state by offering competitive prices in order to draw grain that way. The city Ms relying heavily upon the fact that the interstate com merce commission recently authoried joint rates from South Dakota points on shipments of oats and corn into Iowa, and argued that if a Joint rate is justified on notice from a state that produces little of these grains into one that produces a great vol ume of both, it is justified where the movement, as asked for in this case to be recognised by lower rates, is from a great producing state into states that have no surplus of either. HOLD FUNERAL OF PIONEER OF PONCA Ponca, Neb., ^ (Special)— William Davis Befier, 76 years old, who has resided at Ponca since 1899, died suddenly of heart disease. Fun eral services were held at the Pres byterian church Tuesday afternoon. DOUBLE WEDDING AT NORFOIK, NEB.. TUESDAY Winside, Neb., . (Special)— Tuesday morning at fit. .Caul's Luth eran parsonage, at Norfolk, occurred the double wedding if Miss Minnie Loebsack to Otto Graef. both of Win side, and Miss Anne Graef to Loren Tappert, both of Norfolk. Kev. Meyer officiating. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Gnvnf left by auto for Winner, S. D. to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Trap pert will spend a couple of weeks with relatives at Burlington, la., Mrs. Trappert and Mr. Graef are sist*r and brother. A NOBLE LIFE. Goethe. VVeuldst shape a noble life? Then cast No backward blances toward the past; And though somewhat be lost and gone Yet do thous act as one new born. What each day needs, that shalt thou ask; Each day will set Its proper task. Give others' *ork Just share of praise; Not of thine own the merits raise. Beware no fellow man thou hate; And so in God’s hand leave thy fate. No Man Shortage in Europe. Garet Garret in Haturday Evening Post. There is the fallacy that Europe suffers deeply from the loss of man power in the war. That is not so. How can it be so when the most vivid economic symbol of Europe is still the supernumerary hand? Whether It Is tying up a ship or un loading a cart of bricks, there will be one, two, three pairs ©f hands more than are really needed. How can it be so when Italy's def inition of her problems Is how to find work and food for 600,000 more Ital ians each year? How can Europe say It is so while complaining bitter ly at the same time that the Ameri can outlet of her excess population has been closed by the new Immi gration laws? How car. It be so when In Great Britain the number of un employed, supported by doles. Is nor mally 1,125,000 to 1,250,000? If it were bo, would England be assisting her people to emigrate? France Is the only country where there is a deficit of native man pow er. She is importing population. But she was doing it before the war. In Europe as a whole there is a great surplus of man power. No Foods Heat the Blood. From Motive Magazine. One of the foolish fallacies preva lent among even the widely lead and well Informed Is that there arc cerlaln foods which "heat the blood," and others which "cool the blood.” Alfred VV. McCann, In his “Science of Eating," specifically declares there are no foods capable of lnci easing the heat of the body above the con stant normal or 98.4 or decreasing It below that same figure. He says: "Foo<Js are neither heating nor cooling. No food has the power of raising the temperature of the body to a point higher than ths normal constant, 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit. No foods are cooling in the sense that they can reduce the temperature of the body to a point lower than this same normal constant." This fallacy is close kin to that In definite thing known as "light” food or "heavy” food. They all show how utterly Ignorant humanity is of why It eats. It is utterly astounding how many people Implicitly believe that In the summer tlm3 they must avoid cer tain foods because they are "heating’' and must use others because tbev ura “cooling” to the blood. The Old Room Queer old room with your red carpet and blue painted walls. There will never be any room so dear to me as you. There was a water stain on the celling where It slanted—that was like a dragon, I remember how I could lie and look at Its colling shape— The wash stand was propped at one corner. And nothing matched with anything else, And the kitchen table was the writing table And the reading table and the dining table— The books at with me, sitting In a pleasant row'; The vine on the brick wall opposite my window Looked over on summer afternoons twinkling Its leaves. O high-up room! I The steep stair, the landing with Is linoleum floor and piled boxes Were entrance to paradise for me; lofty, separate, private kingdom. Many a dance I danced on the red carpet between the mirror and bed. The bed with Its ugly twirled Iron and kind arms, The w’hlte bed with Its lonely pillows; Against whose side at night so often I cried my desire; Where at night I dreamed; sleeping of walking, dreamed. —Helen Hoyt In The World Tomorrow. -- Reputation signifies little. The stork raises a small family at home. —Vancouver Sun. Worry Is about the only thing that can make most of us think.—Kalama zoo Gazette. Doubtless there are some who think mashle Is the feminine term for a masher.—Muncle Star. Fashion Plaques The latest In acarfa Is one of chif fon or net edged with Insertion and lace. It Is effective with both the light and the dark gown, and is a most feminine and fetching accessory to own. The Qreat American Impulse. From the Washington Star. "Do you ever think of retiring from pollticsT” "Why should IT” rejoined Senator Sorghum. "I have no wish to be unique, and there isn't a man. woman or child in the United States of Amer ica who is not either openly or secretly aspiring to some kind of an office.” The world's largest locomotlvs, an •IjCtric giant 153 feet long, weighing 1.275,000 pounds, and with a rating of 7,125 horse power, - recently passed suc cessful testa In Pittsburg, Pm. Ths lo comotive Is built In three secUoas, ee that It may pass safely areund curve*. FOSSILS FOUND IN GRAVEL PIT Bones of Long Extinct Ani mals Found Near Town Of Hartington Hartington, Neb., _ (Special) —Some valuable prehistoric finds have been made In a gravel pit by Anton Wortmann on the George Dettmer farm, north of Hartington. The Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C., has asked for more fossils, following the sending of the tooth of an extinct animal be longing to the pig family. Its closest living relatives are the peccaries of Mexico, of Central and South Amer ica. , | Other finds by Wortmann have been the lower Jaw tooth, lower hind leg bone. Upper tooth of one of the later extinct species of three toed horses known as protohlppus; part of toe bone of extinct kind of camel; a vertebra of large extinct species of crocodile and a few pieces of petrifred wood. SIMMONS CASE UP NEXT MONTH Board to Hold Hearing July 10—Other Convicts Ask Freedom Lincoln, Neb.,. ^ , (Special) — The state board *of pardons and paroles has fixed July 10 for a special meeting to consider the application of Walter Ray Simmons for a commu tation of his death sentence to one for imprisonment for life. Simmons awaits electrocution for killing Frank Pahl in Boyd county. The board, early this month, granted his plea for a rehearing, but is still to pass on the question of whether there Is enough merit in his alleged abilicy to establish an alibi to warrant a commutation. July 14 the board will hold another meeting to consider the applications of 22 inmates of the state peniten tiary and statere formatory for paroles or commutations. Among those ask ing parole Is Peter E. Nelson, former Thedford banker, who is serving a sentence of one to five years on con viction of falsifying the books of the bank, which was closed shortly after he is alleged to have fled to New Mexico. Another parole applicant is George W. Gregory, who was pastor of a Methodist church at Stuart, Holt county. He was convicted of unlaw ful relations with four girls. In his application he admits his guilt, but asks for mercy on the grounds that his family needs him. He came to Nebraska from Sidney, la., and is 45 years old. He has a wife and three children. His sentence was for 18 yeai s. BUNGLING JOB BY LAWMAKERS Attempt To Amend Divorce Laws Results in Tangled Mess Lincoln, Neb., _ —Attorney General Spillman has been asked by a Lincoln lawyer to pass on the ques tion of whether Perry Reed’s amend ed divorce law Is valid. Mr. Reed se cured the passage of an amendment which forbids the courts from hear ing a divorce case until six months after service has been had or per fected on the defendant. In drafting the bill he made it an amendment to section 1520 of the compiled statutes of 1922. Now the lawyers have dis covered that at the 1923 session this particular section vras amended In a minor particular with relation to» service on non-resident defendants. This fact seems to have been over looked by the last legislature, which amended and repealed the law as it was in 1922, thus leaving the law as fixed up by the 1923 session neither amended or repealed. The lawyers say that as it amended and repealed a law that did not exist, it is useless as a statute. LAD IS DROWNED IN SWIMMING POOL Holdroge, Neb., (Spe cial)—Raymond O. Bergstrom, 1G yeiti/i old. was drowned In the Ber trand swimming pool, after the pool had been closed to the public. Young Bergstrom with three companions ar rived Juat as the pool was closing. They urged the caretaker to allow them to onto!, hut he refused. Two of the boys scaled the fence and went in. despite his orders. The caretaker returned and his flashlight frightened the youths. They fled to the car, but when they reached it they missed Bergstrom. His body was found in three feet of water. He could not swim and it is thougv. he was taken with cramps. PLAN DRILLING FOR OIL AT CHADRON, NEB. Chadron, Neb., , t -Providing that a few landowners in the Chad ron oil field will lease their holdings to a drilling corporation now formed in this vicinity, drilling will be start ed within a few weeks. For several years C. M. Valentine has been tire less in his eTorts to interest capital In the Chadron field. F. J. DuthK', of Seattle; John H. Merrill, Mr. Culhrle’s Wyoming man ager, and Albert Boumnlts, hie pri vate secretsry. have surveyed the territory. FIND NEBRAS*' A~ SEED IS GOOD Potato Experiment in Louisi ana Is Given Close Inspec tion Recently Kimball, Neb., ^ _ (Special) —A report has just been made of the spring Louisiana potato tour, In which the Nebraska college of agri culture and the Nebraska certified potato growers association sent a representative of the certification committee of the college to Baton Rouge and the Louisiana fields. Nebraska seed showed up well in comparison with the seed obtained from other northern states. The test plot consisted of 162 rows of potatoes of 210 hills, planted from samples submitted by northern growers. Two thirds of the test samples were grown from Nebraska seed. Only 1.4 per cent, of the total number of plants from Nebraska seed showed mosaic and only ,2 per cent, was of a serious type. In contrast with this the Louisiana station has reported that 48 lots of seed from other north ern states showed an average of 16.6 per cent, of mosaic and half of this, was of the serious type which causes the greatest reductions in yield. The Nebraska record was due to the drastic elimination of mosaic in fected seed in this state several years ago. bellcompany MAKES REPORT Shows Large Increase in Revenues and Profits in Five Months Lincoln, Neb.* -The North western Bell Telephone company* which recently raised rates In Ne braska, filed with the state railway commission today Its report covering the first five months of the year for the entire system, which operates in the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Min nesota and the two Dakotas. The company increased its exchange rent als a total of 5.22 per cent, during that period as compared with the corresponding period of 1921, while toll revenues increased 13.32 per cent. Total revenues for the five months were $10,898,232 and expenses $8,455, 895. Adjustments of revenues made the total net earnings In excess of $2,819,000. By exchanging stock for a large amount of the notes held by the parent Bell company, which now owns all of the stick save a few shares held by officers for qualify ing purposes, the interest account was cut $433,000, while the dividend account was raised $655,000. Divi dends are being paid .at the rate of 7 per cent., which is the exact amount the net earnings were on the basis of the property investment. On the basis of total net revenues to capital obligations the per cent, earned was 9.64 per cent. Net profits were In creased over 60 per cent, during this period. The company operates 550, 219 stations, an increase of 4,817 in five months. It h,as filed no separate report for Nebraska yet. SEARCH FOR RELATIVES WORLD WAR VICTIM Alliance, Neb., ,. (Special> —Representative*. the Veteran’s Bureau were here this week, looking for heirs of Harry Gavelick, who en listed at Alliance, September 23, 1917, and was killed In action in Prance, July 15, 1918. He had a war risk in surance policy, but designated no ono to whom it was to be paid. He had worked for the railroad for a year and a half as a laborer in the water department before his army service. A brother, Leo, and a sister, Mar garet, were also in Alliance at the time, but have disappeared. A search is being made for them. OMAHA ROAD HAS ITS VALUES CUT Lincoln, Neb., . . * (Special) —The Minneapolis and Omaha and the Kansas City and Northwestern were the only railroads in the state to secure a reduction In taxable values at the hands of the state board: of equalization. The Omaha road had its valuation cut $1,239,320 from the old figures of $12,392,904, and the other from $247,000 to $01,000. The latter road has not been operated for five years, but plans are under way for reopening it, and for that reason a tax cut was desired. The road runs from Kansas City to Virginia, Neb. The valuations of all the other roads remain as before. The total a year ago was $314,569,000 as com* wed with $313,143,000 this year. The principal roads are valued a* follows: Burlington, 137 millions. Union Pacific, 98 millions, North western, 39 millions, Omaha road, 11 millions, Missouri Pacific, 12 millions. Rock Island, 10 millions, St. Joseph and Grand Island, 4 millions. The board decided that it had no power to assess a franchise value to the American Telephone and Telegraph company, because It is a domestic corporation. CORN BURNED IN MYSTERIOUS MANNER WInside, Neb., ' Special)— A queer freak of a recent storm is reported on the Peter lversen farm, southeast of here. A J0-acre strip of corn was burned, as if a blazing brand had been passed over it. The night had been hot and windy with flashes of lightning and rainfall at Intervals. It Is supposed that a sheet of electricity scorched the tender plants. They are recovering however, and seem almost back to normal.
