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VOLUME WAX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928. No.
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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.
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