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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1928)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher W. C. TEMPLETON. Editor and Business Manager Entered at the postoffire at O’Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on Pages 4. 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 26 cents an inch (one column wide) per week; on Page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Local ad vertisements, 10 cents per line first insertion, subsequent insertions 6 cents per line. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of sub scribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated •nbecription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be tween publisher and subscriber. FAMILY REUNION AT THE ZIMMERMAN HOME The home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Zimmerman was the ecene of a mar ry time last Tuesday evening when ail their children gathered at their home for a reunion. This was the first time that all of the children had been at home at the same time for more than fifteen years. A seven o’clock dinner was served to the sixteen members of the family. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zimmerman and daughter, Miss Ruth, Hutchinson, Kansas. Dr. John Zimmerman, and daughter, Miss Frances, Chicago. Harold Zimmerman, daughters, Patsy and Betty Jane, and son, Bob by, Hastings, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Nemic and son, Robert, Spencer, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zimmerman, daughters, Lois Jean and Shirley Ann. Ann. Pictures were taken of the family during the evening. OLD SETTLERS PICNIC. The Holt County Old Settlers picnic in the Morrow grove has been in pro gress yesterday and today. A large crowd of O’Neill people as well as people from over the county have been fi: attendance. Arthur F. Mullen delivered an ad d-ess at one o’clock. The remainder of the afternoon was occupied with a base ball game between Redbird and Lynch which was won by Lynch; other minor sports wore enjoyed by those who did not attend the bal' game. The O’Neill band furnished the nrihic. I O’NEILL BLANKS REDBIRD AT REDBIRD, SUNDAY One of the best ball games of the (season was played at Redbird last I Sunday when the O’Neill boys shut ! out the Redbird team 2 to 0. Honey icutt allowed two hits for O'Neill while ! Tomlinson submitted to three safe tones. A large and enthusiastic crowd [witnessed the game. Redbird AB R H PO A E | A Bolder, 3rd_ 4 0 0 0 3 0 | L. Bolder, ss- 4 0 0 1 2 3 1C Wolfe, 1st - 3 C 0 7 0 0 | Vo iseck rf ..._ 3 0 0 1 0 0 G. Barta 2nd __ 3 0 0 1 0 2 A Borg, c - 3 0 0 1 0 2 Alder, ll_ 3 0 0 4 0 0 Schollmeyer, cf 3 0 0 2 0 0 Tomlinson, p__ 3 0 0 2 3 0 ' 29 0 0 27 8 5 O’Neill AB R H PO A E Cuddy, ss . 2 0 1 0 2 1 Harrington, cf_ 2 0 0 0 0 0 J. Martin, rf- 4 0 0 0 0 0 Schollmeyer, c —~ 4 0 0 11 1 0 Bazelman, 2nd — 4 0 0 2 2 1 H. Martin, 3rd- 4 1 0 0 3 0 Troshynski, 1st — 3 1 1 12 1 0 Carney, If- 2 0 0 2 0 0 Honeycutt, p ,—,— 4 0 0 0 3 0 Enright, lf„ .,200000 31 2 3 27 13 2 Score by innings: R H E O’Neill _ 000 000 101—2 3 2 Redbird_ 000 000 000—0 0 5 Batting Averages: Hanley_ 4 2 .500 J. Martin-- 27 16 .432 Schollmeyer - 63 19 .358 Harrington _ 48 15 .313 Cuddy _ 46 14 .304 Enright- 38 9 .237 Carney ___— 13 8 .186 Bezelman-- ?’< 5 .185 Tom Troshynski — 52 9 ,1 70 BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT SUNDAY O'Neill and Crighton will play in the baseball tournament at Bruns wick Friday. Atkinson and Neligh will play Saturday and the winners will play Sunday at Brunswick. If O’Neill does not win Friday they will play either Atkinson or Neligh in O’Neill next Sunday afternoon. Watch for hand bills Saturday morn ing. BIG AUTOMOBILE CAPITALIAZATION The General Motors company is in corporated for more than a billion dol lars; next eomes the Ford plant worth $750,000,000. The Chrysler—Dodge consolidation represents if completed a capitalisation of $246,000,000 and the merger of the Studebaker—Pierce Arrow automobile companies will make a capital pool of $160,000,000. WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, D. C. August 7. The; I spontaneous sentiment for Hoover j and Curtis visible in every direction; during the first month of the national; I presidential campaign has surprised; even Republican leaders at the party j I headquarters here. Not only has the I ; ticket stirred up an unusual degree of I j enthusiasm among Requblican voters! ! for this stage of the contest, but the j ! number of Democrats who are leaving! ! their party to declare allegiance to the Republican candidates is unprece dented. The combined popularity of Mr. ! Hoover and Senator Curtis seems to have a nation wide appeal to voters of all parties. This is said to be par ticularly true in the middle west, ■where voters are inclined to view the record of Tammany Hall as an out standing issue of this campaign, ac cording to every visitor from that section. Reports to that effect have been brought to Washington by call ers from Iowa, Minnesota, South Da kota, Indiana, Illinois and a number of other states. One of the leading Democrats to endorse the Hoover-Curtis cause has been former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, author of the federal reserve act and of the farm loan act, who announce that he would support Mr. Hoover for president, because of the Republican candidate’s monu mental record in preserving human life, during and after the war. “Herbert Hoover in my opinion, is the best qualified man ever presented by any party in America for the presidency during my lifetime,” de clared Senator Owen. , He asserted that Tammany is the only issue of the campaign as between the candidates, and urged his fellow Demo crats to join him in the fight to pre vent “the Tammanyizing of the gov ernment of the United States.” Another nationally-known Demo crat who followed Owen’s lead was Vance C. McCormick, of Harrisburg, Pa., national chairman of the Demo cratic party in 1916. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University, one of the country’s best known economists, who supported Woodrow Wilson in both 1912 and 1916 and has voted for Democratic K residential candidates since, came out with a ringing statement for Herbert Hoover, in which he emphasized the various counts on which the Republi can candidate deserves the nation’s support. The resignation of Senator F. M. Simmons, veteran Democratic leader of North Carolina from the Democrat ic national committee, on which he has served for 30 years, is regarded by political observers as one of the most severe thrusts yet made at the Demo cratic national ticket. 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The country had a bitter experience! with Democratic promises on the tariff when it elected Grover Cleve land president, Senator Smoot re called. AL SMITH REPUDIATES EQUALIZATION FEE OF McNARY-HAUGEN BILL The friends of A1 Smith who have been dtepending on him for farm relief through the McNary-Haugen bill are going to be sadly disappointed in their man. The Omaha World-Herald of last Saturday in an interview carries the following, in part: “Governor Smith put his foot down today on the equalization fee feature of the McNary-Haugen farm bill, de claring that it was unacceptable to him. “The democratic presidential nomi nee reiterated that he recognizes the principle of controlling the sale of ag ricultural surpluses, the cost to be borne by the group benefitted, but he has no definite plan in mind for carry ing out that principle. “Smith was led into a brief discus sion of his farm relief views today by newspaper men who sought more light on his statement issued yester day after his conference with George N. Peek, Illinois farm leader, who has swung to his support. “* * * One reporter asked whether in stating ‘control of the sale of the agricultural surplus is recognized by our platform as an essential need, cost to be imposed on the unit benefitted,’ he had indorsed tne equaiioaunn tee proposition, which President Coolidge contended was unconstitutional. “The lead editorial in this morning’s New York World sums up my views correctly,” Smith responded. A repor ter furnished him a copy and the nominee read aloud: “ ‘We take it that Governor Smith’s declaration comes down to this: “ ‘(a)—That the democratic party is committed to the principle of con trolling the sale of agricultural sur pluses, the cost to be born by the group benefitted' “ ‘(b)—That the plan for applying this principle contained in the Mc Nary-Haugen bill is not acceptable to him. “ ‘(c)—That he has no plan of his own for carrying out that principle.” BLANCHE MOHR. Blanche, the fifteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mohr, residing a few miles southwest of O’Neill, dropped dead Monday after noon about three o’clock while as sisting her mother in driving some cows into a lot near the homo Blanche had apparently been enjoy ing good health and her sudden death jCame as a shock to her parents and ifriends who had known her as an ap parently healthy girl. Blanche was bom October 28, 1912, on a farm six miles ro> ‘hwest of O’Neill, and has spent nil of her life in the vicinity of O’N 111, two years of which was in O’Nei’' prior to two years ago; she whil a resident of O’Neill the family t sided in the northern part of the r ty. Last win ter she attended schc in Atkinson and was a member of be girls glee club of that city; sbr va a young lady who enjoyed a h< of friends. Besides her parent •ho deceased leaves two brothers obnnie and Francis, and three tors, Doris, Lois and Alice. The funeral servk were held Wednesday morning 10:00 from the Methodist church r Atkinson, con ducted by Rev. S. M ; art; burial was in the protestan metery at Atkinson. The pall bearers six girl friends from Atkinson. Riglin Bros., undertakers, had charge of the funeral. E. S. NICKERSON WRITES. Papillion, Neb., July 8, 1928 Mr. J. B. O’Sullivan, O'Neill, Neb. Dear Sir: I was much interested in your article appearing in the Bee Nows, of July 1, •Jes,rbing an ancient nil age of the Piwnee* in Holt county, particularly as to >he pottery frag r.ents discovered. I do not profess either very exten or intensive study of the Pawnees, but did some 30 years ago make some study of the pottery found on the Upper Loup site, along the Cedar and me oKiucf Mica. A considerable part of the collect ion made at that time by myself, Mr. William Brown, of Fullerton, are now at Lincoln, in the museum of the His torical society, and which we turned over to Mr. E. E. Blackman in May, 1899. The fragments of pottery as I re call them now after these many years, were mostly black, a few specimens of gray and of redish gray. Many showed the impressions on the outside grass lining to keep the clay from sticking to the wicker work. fa no cas* wav it elated, ihe bak ing J.ot being sufficient ?a fu<e the sand. Other Specimens gave the appear ance of having moulded 'n a hcliowcdi out stump, and most of the spo il .liens i were without handles, appearing to* have been o.i tie bowl. Several pieces showed attempts at decoration, but the ornamentation be-' ing very simple, some with several straight parellel lines apparently run ning around the top of the vessel, others ornamented with short slant-i ing parellel lines as | | |. A few fragments showed design quite ar tistic. J The composition or peculiarities of the*e fragment* showed they con tained sninll quaifj pebbles, mica ami tempered with fine sand. 1 wa* also interested in the de (Continued on page five.) ■■■■HHHiHBHinHHnHnnHHB EDWARD GATZ, Manager, O’Neill, Nebraska. 5 Just Across the Street from J. B. Byars Store. fj BUILDING FRIENDSHIP—We desire to render every accommoda tion possible within our power to our patrons. We believe that friend ship should be a part of every business transaction. We desire to give the most kindly service with every purchase. WE WANT TO BE WORTHY OF YOUR CONFIDENCE—In our store 1*5 ounces is a pound and 100 cents one dollar. We endeavor to give exact weight and measures at all times. We will thank you to call our attention to any mistake or error. You must be satisfied with every purchase you make in our store. FLOUR—Wheat market lower, buy old wheat high grade C 1 "7 A flour for less. 48-LB. SACK PANTRY PRIDE FLOUR _ 111 MALT—Why pay more. 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