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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1928)
Frontier. VOLUME WAX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928. No. —m *A m *_■■■> ■— >■— n ■■■■ iw u 11 i the INTERIOR OF THE Bl'ILDING WHERE THE REPl'BLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS BEING HELD. At the time of going to press this Thursday afternoon no nominations for president or vice-president have been made. As we go to press the indications are that Herbert Hoover will receive the nomination for president on an early ballot. Much time has been takn up in discussion of a plank of the national platform relative to farm relief but definite action has yet been reached. LOCAL NEWS. Wanted a baby buggy. Apply at this office. Sam Thompson is having the in terior of the Coffee Shop redecorated. John O’Malley shipped a car of hogs to the South Omaha market Wednes day. Harry Bowen reports .8.‘» of an inch of rain over this vicinity Mon day night. Mr. and Mrs. John Lienhart went to Bristow Wednesday to visit their son, Frank and family. Mrs. Flora B. Lewis is home from an extended visit with relatives in the southern part of the state. Neil Ryan is home for the summer vacation from St. Mary’s, Kansas, where he has been attending school. Erwin Cronin and James McPhar lin are home from Omaha where they have been attending Creighton Col lege. Mr .and Mrs. Forest Smith and children returned home the first of the week from a visit with relatives at Arcadia. Nebraska. Attorneys M. F. and George Har rington returned home the latter part of last week from Rushville where they had been attending court. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Porter. C. W. Porter and sons, Ralph and Ned, spent Saturday and Sunday at Lake Andes, South Dakota. They report very good luck. Mrs. Miles Finley and son, Danny, ol Norfolk, are expected Friday even ing and will spend the week-end with M iss Mae Keys. Carroll Templeton, of Hastings, and Miss Marie Tippen, of Ord, are visiting at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. VV. C. Temple ton. this week. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Carter accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mere dith, drove to Kansas City Sunday and Monday and are enjoying the Repub lican national convention. J. C. Harnish went to York, Nebras ka, last Sunday where on Monday he attended a meeting of the Home Board of the Odd Fellows Home. He return ed home Monday evening. The J. P. Gallagher store has been repainted and redecorated and now has the appearance of a new place. Mr. Gallagher expects to rearrange the store in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Planck and daughter, Donarae. of Atkinson, were guests of the former’s sister, Mrs. R. M. Sauers and family, Tuesday even ing. Miss Loree Sauers returned home with them for a visit. Bert Powell, proprietor of the Op portunity store, was arrested and fined $10 and costs in county court to day for paying too much for cream to his customers recently. Bert paid the fine. Miss Helen and Miss Hilda Gal lagher urrived home from l,oretta Heights, Denver, Colorado, last night. Miss Helen was recently graduated from Loretta Heights, and won the scholarship in a class of seventy-five. Anita Liddy and Opal Boshart went t< Hastings Sunday to visit their uncle und aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Widtfeldt. Mr. and Mrs. Boshart, Mrs. Liddy, and Miss Grace Lans worth, took them as far as Albion. Mr. and Mrs, Klmer Surber r*» I turned home the first of the week from u visit with relatives at Water bury, Nebraska, last week. Mr. Sur ber :il o attended the session of the Masonic grand lodge in Omaha, last week. i The Catholic Daughters held a class ; initiation Sunday with a banquet and program at the Golden hotel in the evening. Miss Mildred Timlin, who is a student at Wayne Normal, spent the week end with her parents. She also attended the Catholic Daughters ban quet at the Golden Hotel Sunday evening and took part on the program. Mrs. Michael Gallagher and daugh ter. Mrs. Edward Driscoll, of Phoenix, Arizona, with whom she has been visiting for several months are ex pected to arrive tonight. Mrs. Dris coll will visit O’Neill relatives for several weeks. The Nebraska Securities Corpora tion are rebuilding and repairing the buildings on their Holt county farms and ranches. A gang of fourteen men under the leadership of their building superintendent Walter Dou thit are doing the work. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Seybold and lit tle daughter, drove to Newman Grove, Nebraska, last Sunday where they spent the day with relatives. Mrs. Seybold and little daughter accompa nied relatives to Kearney, Nebi'aska, where she will visit with her parents and other relatives for some time. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Duffy and sons, Pat and Bobby, drove up from Emer son, Nebraska, last Saturday. Mr. Duffy returned home the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond and children accompanied Mrs. Duffy and children home today. Mrs. Duffy will be remembered as Loretta Car Ion. Willard Arnold, accompanied by the members of his Nebraska Nighthawk orchestra, comprised of Dick Munthoff. Dubby Cromwell, Emmet Rosier, “Rosey” Flowers and Mr. Chapman, left Monday morning for Sargent, Ne braska, where they were to play for the first engagement on a series of dances throughout the western part of the state. They expct to be away about two weeks. Mrs. J. A. Naylor is enjoying a visit from a brother, John F. Wien gartner and Mrs. Wiengartner, Rock ford, Illinois, who arrived here on Wednesday of last w’eek; and from a niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pulfrey, and' daughters, Mildred and Genevieve, Claremont, South Dakota, who came Sunday. Mrs. Pulfrey will be remembered here as Nina Winter who a number of years ago made her home with Mrs. Naylor. PIONEER BLS LINE O’NEILL TO BARTLETT The Pioneer Bus Line has started between O’Neill and Bartlett. William Meyer is driving the route and will make three trips each week leaving O’Neill at 7:00 o’clock every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and returning before noon of the same day. Mr. Meyer will leave at four o’clock each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for Randolph, returning the same night. Mrs. Ida Bartunek, of Bartlett, was in O’Neill Wednesday arranging for tht bus line to Hot Springs, South Dakota, from O’Neill: this bus line will connect Grand Island, Nebraska, with Hot Springs. HOLT COUNTY PAIR IN CENTER JAIL (Norfolk News) Verdigre, Neb., June 12: Saturday night two young men, Arthur Ellis and Willard Smith of Holt county were arrested by the city marshal and lodged in jail for racing their auto mobile through Main street at a high rate of speed while under the in fluence of liquor. They also had entered a place of business and used vile language. The marshal search »d their car and found two bottles of liquor. After their night's rest in the city jail they were turned over to the county authorities the following morning. Sheriff Schoer and his deputy took them to Center and placed them in the county jail Sunday. TOKNAIM) PASSES THROUGH HOl.T COUNTY, MONDAY A tornado that entered Holt county southwest of Chambers late Monday evening did considerable damage to trees, barns and other outbuildings as it crossed the county in a north easterly direction. The funnel shap ed cloud seemed to dip down at inter vals and destroyed trees and scatter out huildThgs and other property and then ' leave the ground for several miles before incurring more damage. Near Chambers the storm struch the Asher Holcomb farm two miles north of Chambers, where it uprooted thirty-five large trees, blew in a win dow and tore off the barn doors; the Dike place nearby was also visited by the storm. At the Harry Appleby place eight miles south of O’Neill all of the out buildings were destroyed, the wind mill and a load of hay near the barn vere not molested by the gale; a son of Mr. and Mrs. Appleby was stunned but not seriously injured; a cow suf ft red a broken leg and had to be kill jed. The big cattle barn on the Frank Pribil farm six miles south of O’Neill was blown down and a number of trees were uprooted. Casper Wagman residing five miles ' southeast of O’Neill reports the loss of a garage, a number of large trees, a chicken house. Mr. Wagman says that some of the large trees on the river north of his place were pulled up leaving holes “as large as a house.” The big burn on the Case place southeast of O’Neill was blown down as was also the granary and1 chicken house; some old buildings that were apparently about to fall down of their own accord were left standing. The outbuildings on the Parker place east of O’Neill were destroyed as was also many large trees. The house on the Nichols farm east of O’Neill was badly damaged as was the outbuildings. At the Tim Harrington farm occu pied by J. W. Wilkinson and family, six miles northeast of O’Neill, the storm seemed to increase in volumn; about forty large trees and a barn 70x1)0 feet were destroyed1; some live stock was in the barn at the time but the only thing ' urt was a small calf that was hit and killed. Mr. Wilkin son says that the storm struck at his place at 11:30 Monday night; a large boxelder tree that stood in the pasture was uprooted and carried out into the coin field some distance away. On the Parham place occupied by F.d. Morton, two barns were blown down. The large cattle barn on the place formerly owned by Harry Page was | badly damaged and stands on an angle of about thirty degrees. The school house in District G4 was unroofed and badly damaged. The school house in District 171 ; was somewhat damaged and the out buildings were blown away. £§ The house on the Richards place occupied by Andy Wetlaufer was damaged and the outbuildings blown around. The barn and windmill on the H. R. Henry estate were somewhat dam aged. The corn fields suffered considerably in the path of the storm; the listed corn was buried in the ditches and much of the checked corn was cut off The hay stacks were blown over and m^ch hay is scattered over the prairies. | ROYAL AND O'NEILL WILL BATTLE SUNDAY The crack base ball team from Royal, Nebraska, will meet the O’Neill team on the O’Neill diamond next Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, when all lovers of good base ball will i>e treated to a real game of ball. The Royal team is a goqfi one this year and every indication points to an in teresting match. The O’Neill team are getting lined up, the diamond is being put in tip top shape and everything will be in readiness by Sunday afternoon. Get behind the O’Neill boys and boost. O'NEILL DEFEATS NELIGH IN GOOD GAME SUNDAY The high powered Neligh team came to O’Neill last Sunday with plenty of confidence and pep but they lost it all before the contest was over at the ball park last Sunday afternoon. The O’Neill team won their game in the first inning when they contract ed four scores. A large and enthusiastic crowd wit nessed the game. Following is the line-up: Neligh R H E Kumedy, 1st .... 110 Thomsen, ss _ .010 Rencontre, 2nd „. .0 3 1 Butterfield, 3rd.. 0 1 0 Tilton, c __ 1 2 0 Lewis, cf ___ 0 10 Manzer, rf . .2 2 0 Bliss, If 12 1 Wilgocki, p 0 0 0 Peterson, cf _ 0 0 0 O’Neill R H E h. Murtin, 3rd 3 2 1 Cuddy, ss _ .0 0 2 Bazelman, 2nd.. 0 2 1 Beha, 1st __ _ 10 1 Harrington, cf _. 1 2 0 Enright, rf . 2 2 0 Carney, If . 0 2 0 Schollmeyer, c 0 10 Honeycutt, p 0 0 0 Troshinski, 2nd . 0 0 0 Batteries: Neligh—Wilgocki and Tilton; O’Neill, Honeycutt and Scholl meyer, Summary: Home runs: Manzer. Tilton, H. Martin. 3-base hits—Man zer, Bazelman 2, Schollmeyer. Strike outs by Honeycutt 6; by Wilgocki 5. Walked by Honeycutt 2. MRS. SCOTT PRESENTS PUPILS IN RECITAL Mrs. C. B. Scott presented! about twenty of her music pupils in piano recital Tuesday evening at eight o'clock in the auditorium of the Pres hyterian church. A large and ap preciative audience was present and enjoyed the entire program. Those taking part were: Anna Toy, Florence Surber, Eleanor Youngkin, Lester Shoemaker, Robert Calvert, I)i nald Shoemaker, Loree Sauers, Doris Robertson, Elizabeth Graves, Lois Templeton, Merle Arnold, Caro lyn Beers, Helen Hancock, Corinne | Smith, Dorothy Youngkin, Jack Crom , well, Frances Youngkin, Norine Bar ker, Lena Cromwell, Helen Toy, Elizabeth Henry, Miss Ruth Scott was accompanist. MON OH AN HOST BAND AND ORCHESTRA COMING The thirty-seven piece Monohan Post band and their ten piece orches tra will entertain the people of this part of the state during the. three days’ running race meet in O’Neill, July 3rd, 4th and 6th. The Monahan Post band is the best American Legion band in the world. They won the first prize at the na tional convention in Paris last year against strong competition; the have won the same honors in the national conventions of 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926; they contracted to record a number o< pieces for the Victor Talking Ma chine Company October 14, 1926. People from all parts of the county have been attracted to Sioux City to hear this wonderful band when they make their appearance. Everyone should arrange to hear this organiza tion of high class musicians; it is very unusual that a town of this size are in a position to contract for a band of this magnitude. The orchestra is composed of ten musicians from the personel of the band; they will fur nish the music for the American le gion dance each evening. The races are going to be the best ever. The streets down town will be filled with concessions of all kinds; the McClellan shows, of Kansas City, con sisting of four rides, eight shows, 30 other concessions, and carrying 250 people, are ordy a part of what will be on the mid-way. i'-'Jmi- rifl l *mF«i ** •°®»? » We are * w *-• jAjj still doing A big job on washers This is when you will appreciate owning a model 20 automatic washer To hot to use the old way— Let us explain how easy it is to have | one I $89.50 $5.00 down Balance with light over a period of time to suit —See us now I Interstate Power Company I Mdse. Department ! .mmmimw .
