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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1928)
» VOLUME XLIX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1928, NO. 18. Car of Early Ohio Potatoes on Northwestern track Monday, Oct. 1 $1*75 per Sack Sacks contain approximately 2 bu. John Ernst LOCAL NEWS. Mrs. E. J. Velder went down to Greeley Monday for a visit with rela tives. D. G. MeGaffey, representing the State Savings and Loan Association, was in O’Neill Tuesday. Ray Zimmerman, of Colchester, Illinois, was looking after business matters in O’Neill last week. Miss Geraldine Cronin returned to Omaha Sunday where -she will resume her studies in Duschene College. Duck hunters have been having fairly good luck hunting along the Elkhorn river during the past week. J. B. Mellor and son, Ralph, went to Omaha Monday. Ralph returned the following day with a new Ford sedan. A marriage license was issued on Monday to Clarence F. Turner, of Omaha, and Katherine Burk, of Ew ing Dr. C. H. Lubker has filed a peti tion for divorce from his wife, Minnie Lubker. The action was filed on Sep tember 24th. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McElvain were among those who attended the water melon festival at Ewing on Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Timlin and family drove up from Broken Bow, Nebraska, and spent Sunday with relatives in O’Neill. L. C. Chapman is repairing the laundry building preparatory for winter. The laundry will open soon under new management. Charles Pettijohn came down from the ranch near Stuart, Nebraska, last week and visited with Mrs. Petti john and O’Neill friends until Tuesday Miss Luella Lewis enjoyed a visit over Sunday from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lewis, and her sister, Miss Lavonne, of Crofton, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Will Turner drove up from Orchard, Nebraska, Sunday for a short visit at the home of the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson. The Frontier and the Independent were designated as the papers in which the delinquent tax list will be published during the first three weeks of October. Supervisor L. C. McKim received three boxes of cigars recently from his son, Verl C. McKim, who with Mrs. McKim, are teaching in Manila, Philippine Island. The Texaco filling station being erected on the corner south of the present Texaco station is going to be an elaborate affair—something new in the way of filling stations. Richard L. Metcalfe, democratic candidate for the United States Senate against the able and efficient repub lican senator, R. B. Howell, spoke at the K. C. hall Wednesday evening. Kenneth Templeton came up from Hastings Monday for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Temple ton. Kenneth is employed in the ad vertising department of the Hastings Daily Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johring and children drove to Martin, South Da kota, Wednesday morning where they will visit relatives. Henry Losher is looking after the stock on the farm during their absence. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shaw and sons, Francis and Dwain, of Valentine, were guests of Mr.and Mrs. D. H. Clauson and the former’s mother, Mrs. Della Shaw, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Della Shaw drove to the W. R. Shaw home at Tonawanda, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clauson drove to Tona wanda Sunday and accompanied Mrs. Shaw to O’Neill. Mrs. L. A. Carter, president of the O’Neill Woman’s club, was chosen to represent tthe club at the state con vention to be hpld in Omaha the lat ter part of October. Mrs. A. L. Cow perthwaite is alternate. Julius D. Cronin has been appointed chairman for the organization of Hoover-Curtis clubs in Holt County, by Samuel R. McKelvie, former gov ernor and present State chairman of the Iloover-Curtis clubs. The weather man has been giving us a light touch of what we may soon expect as a regular diet. The mercury dropped to .29 Monday night. The | gardens were pretty badly damaged, ice was in evidence Tuesday morning., E. F. Porter, C. W. Porter, of O’Neill, Ben and Hiram Hubbard, of j Chambers, returned home last Thurs-' day from a few days hunting and. fishing trip to Marsh lake in Cherry; County. They report fairly good luck. Buster Miller and Cleo C. Mills, both of Ewing, Nebraska, were mar ried at the Methodist parsonage in Winner, South Dakota, last Monday. They were enroute to visit relatives of the bride in Stanley County, South Dakota. , Nettie I. Mills, representing the Palmer Penmanship method has been in O’Neill during the past few days.! She and Mrs. Luella Parker, the county superintendent, were old schoolmates so they have enjoyed the j time discussion schol days. William Lawnmower suffered a number of bruises and a skinned shin when he was run over in south O’Neill by a Ford driven by Wilton Wyant last Saturday evening. Wyant evidently lost control of the car as it left the road and ran down the sidewalk run ning into Mr. Lawnmower. Mr. and Mrs. John Coakley of near Redbird postoffice in the northeastern part of the county were pleasant callers at the Frontier office Wednes day. Mr. and Mrs Coakley were old time friends of the editor and family twenty some years ago when they lived at -Fullerton Nebraska. John B. O’Sullivan enjoyed a short visit last Saturday from his mother, Mrs. G. Reider, of Gregory, South Dakota, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Phil J. Kirwin, of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The party were enroute from Gregory to Glenwood Springs via Denver where they will visit for a short time. Mr. Kirwin is now the mayor of his home town; dur ing the early days he operated a photograph gallery in O’Neill and will be remembered by the old time resi dents. Dr. C. H. Lubker drove to Falls City, Nebraska, Tuesday, where he is defendant in a divorce action brought by his wife. H. M. Uttley and Sheridan Simmons accompanied him. Mr. Uttley will represent him as at torney and Mr. Simmons will appear as a witness, ."his divorcb action attracted considerable attention over the state last spring when the sheriff of Richardson county came to O’Neill, kidnapped the doctor and whisked him away without allowing him to even get his hat or lock his office, and took him handcuffed to Falls City where he threw him in jail without giving him a chance to communicate with anyone. O’NEILL WOMAN’S CLUB MET WEDNESDAY EVENING The O’Neill Woman’s club held their first meeting of the fiscal year in their club room in the library building Wednesday evening. Mrs. L. A. Car ter, the newly elected president, pre sided. The lady teachers of the public school and some of the newcomers were guests of the club. A program was presented as follows: | Piano Solo—Miss Elizabeth Henry Vocal Solo—Miss Mary Haffner. Musical Reading—Miss Ruth Scott. t Vocal Solo—Miss Amolia Merrell. A social hour followed; punch and wafers were served. THE HOLT COUNTY FAIR ENJOYS GOOD ATTENDANCE The Holt County Fair this year en joyed a good attendance Wednesday and again on Friday; no program was held Thursday on account of the rain that fell almost all day. The agri cultural section of the exhibit was nicely filled with farm products that would be hard to beat any year; the displays by Wm. Grothe, Emmet, and Louis Kopecky, Inman, were excellent; each exhibitor listed about one hun dred articles. The exhibits in other department 1 were excellent. The president, F. J. Dishner and | Secretary, Peter W. Duffy are en j titled to the commendation of every one interested in the fair for the businesslike way in which they hand led the fair and made it a success so I eially and financially. Dan Desdunes band furnished the music each day. The large crowds seemed to enjoy the program of songs, , dances and instrumental music fur j nished by the colored people. The Toby Wells Trio, collegiate ac robats entertained with their free acts as did also a gentleman and lady with a gun and knife throwing act. The races were very good and a number of them extra fast. The Frontier is unable to publish the result of the races this week ow ing to lack of space but will publish them next week. THE J. B. MELLOR LINCOLN STOLEN THURSDAY NIGHT Automobile thieves made O’Neill a visit last Thursday night and stole the 1927 Lincoln car belonging to J. B. Mellor. The car was in the garage at the rear of the Mellor residence; the thieves entering the garage by springing the doors and breaking the lock. The car was located near Bellwood, Nebraska, a short distance south of Columbus, last Tuesday. The thieves had been endeavoring to pull a large Cadillac with the Lincoln and burned out the bearings. It is reported that the bandits then stole a new Victory Six Dodge sedan from a Bellwood dealer. A large Master Buick was burned about nine miles east of O’Neill the night that the Mellor car was stolen. It is thought that the thieves took the Mellor car and then burned t|ie Buick to cover up possible clues. The Mellor car was covered by in^ surance. DIRECTOR PRAISES THE CHAMBERS RED CROSS The Chambers branch of the Holt County Red Cross, Mrs. R. J. Graves, chairman, has received a complimen tary letter from Miss Ora A. Kelley, director of chapter service, in regard to the work being done by the Cham bers organization. The letter, which is self explanatory, follows: “The twelve Christmas bags have reached our office and we have for warded them to San Francisco. “We greatly appreciate the re sponse made this year by the Cham bers branch, and we are sending a copy of this letter to the chapter chairman, so that he will know that the bags have been shipped." ATTEMPT MADE TO ROB LYNCH BANK, WEDNESDAY An unsuccessful atttempt was made early Wednesday morning to rob the State Bank of Lynch operated by Bert Harris. We understand that the yegs were at work on the vault when sur prised by Mr. Harris, who attacked them; he was badly beaten with a revolver in the mixup that followed. The bandits escaped in a green sedan with an Iowa license without any of the bank funds. They are believed to have driven west as far as Bristow where they turned north. The men are thought to be young men, not more than twenty-five years of age. MRS. E. J. VELDER FLIES TO GREGORY. S. I) Mrs. E. J. Velder of this city flew to Gregory, S. D., Saturday, in the Ryan monoplane, piloted by Ed Kelly, accompanied by Joe Hafley and Pale Weeks, mechanics and student Avers, both of Rapid City. They were forty minutes in making the trip against a strong head wind. Mrs. Velder says that the trip was wonderful and re ceived a thrill during each of the forty minutes. Mr. Kelly carried passengers and did commercial flying during the last day of the fair. BRIDGE COLLAPSES BOY SLIGHTLY HURT Clarence Focken, son of Henry Focken, living twenty-five miles north of O’Neill, while riding home from the field on horseback recently started to cross a six-foot bridge, the horse step ped in a hole and the bridge caved in. The boy after a little struggle freed himself from the horse. With the aid j of a brother and neighbors he got the horse out of the quicksand to safety. The boy was but slightly injured. PARENT-TEACHERS. The regular monthly meeting of the Parent-Teachers will be held at the auditorium of the school house Tues i day evening. October 2nd. The meet ing has been arranged for the evening I in order that the men may attend. ROBERT «. SIMMONS. Will visit the following towns in Molt county on October 1st and 3rd at which time he will be pleased to meet his friends; especially those who wish to talk to him on any matter re lating to his office; or anyone who wishes to meet him. October 1— Inman—10:30 a. m. Ewing:—1:00 p. m. Page—3:30 p. m. O’Neill—Evening. October 3— Emmet—10:30 a. m. Atkinson—1:00 p. m. Stuart—3:00 p. m. HOLT CO. WOMAN, AGE Hfi, VISITS HER SEC OND FAIR Mrs. Liza Swadley Won't Relieve Modern Girls Go Stockingless. (Norfolk News.) Mrs. Liza Swadley, aged 86, a pio neer of South Holt county, came to O’Neill for the fair Friday the first she has visited in forty-three years and the second she has seen in her life, the first being just prior to her coming to Holt county from her home near Peoria, Illinois. But she de clares that she will return next year again as she is not so rushed with work now as she was in former years. However, she says that times have changed since she was a girl, all wo men look like girls, and the mothers who used to let the hem down in the girl’s dress so she could wear it an other season now takes it up so that she will be in style. Mrs. Swadley says that from the color of the girls’ stockings they might as well be wearing none, but when told that some of them didn’t wear any, she laughed and thought it a huge joke, but discredited all accounts of this being true. “Why,” she said, “when I was a girl we lived on a hill-side Illinois farm and raised sheep, when we wanted stockings we had to shear the sheep care for the wool, spin and color the yam from which our stockings were knit." Mrs. Swadley says that if a girl had two pairs of red woolen stockings, a linsey petticoat and two calico dresses, one for Sunday and one for every day, she was fixed. When asked if they painted their faces in those days she declared she remembered when the girls applied glycerine to their face and hands, then prepared chalk and maybe a suspicion of pink would ap pear. She laughed in relating how she went so far when she was sixteen as to pluck a red petal from a bright “posey” on her hat, dampened it andj touched her cheeks up, but after view ing herself in a cracked mirror she decided that was going too far and rubbed it otf before any one could see it. “Those were the days," said Mrs. Swadley, “when men wore boots, and the women often gave them boot jacks for Christmas presents. If the jack was not handy the women or children often had to help relieve the feet of their gear.” She then went on to tell how the youngsters had the job of turning the grindstone for “pa" while he sharp ened the ax. Women in those days wore riding skirts and mounted on side saddles and took the butter and eggs to market wl ^re they received from f> to 8 cents per pound in trade, and when they wanted to get on the horse they led the animal up to a stump, raised their riding skirt slightly and looked all around for fear some one would see their ankles. “How times have changed,” she sighed, “they were too much that way then and too much this way now.” When asked if she expected to vote she thought she would but wrould not divulge for whom, and when asked she answered. “I’m like the Missouri Negro—I’ll vote for the one that is least corrupt.” She is very active for her age and says she never tires ro. lating the old fashioned ways. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. W**— Tho following instructors have been | obtained for the Holt County Teach ers’ Institute which will be held on; I Thursday and Friday, October 4 and I 5, 11*28 at the O’Neill Public School: i ('. W. Taylor, State Superintendent! Professor F. M. Gregg, Nebraska Wesleyan University will speak j on Character Education. Malvina Scott, Kearney State Nor- 1 mal, instructs in Primary and In termediate work. Royal Theatre O’Neill, Nebraska Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Sept. 30th Oct. 1st Oct. 2nd School Children’s Matinee, Monday, 4 P. M. Matinee Prices, 10—25c wOl laugh at TOPSY will cry with LITTLE EVA wiU hate SIMON LEGREE wiU uitv UNCLE Tf " vision uic jbwN’S CREAIEST DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT T the greatest human drama ever written DfOl esul int tW( entertain you ught to life through the magic of the screen the result of two years ot creative effort in the worlcrs largest studio how two million dollars were spent to thrill and Carl Laemmles supreme achievement in 22 years . ; of furnishing entertainment to the American public.' UNIVERSAL’S MAMMOTH MOTION PICTURE/ Uncle Tom s Cab>n -A>iARRY_ POLLARD^PRODyCjnOjN// Otley D. Campbell, Omaha Public Schools, Music. Joseph G. Masters, Principal Oma ha High Schools, High School In structor. The law requires that each school in the county be closed during these sessions and that all teachers now teaching or those who expect to teach in the county during the year, attend this Institute. No teacher may be excused. Anyone who is interested is cordially invited to attend one or all of these meetings. EDWARD ALVIN WILLIAMS. A pall of sadness spread over this community last Friday morning when it became known that Ed Williams had been electrocuted in his basement about ten o’clock the preceding even ing. Ed had been enjoying the best of health up to the time of his death. He, had been working in the basement that evening and had used a light bulb from one of the bedroom sockets in an extension cord; about ten o’clock that evening he returned to the basement to get the bulb; as some time had elapsed and he had not returned, his wife and daughter went to the base ment to see what he was doing and found him lying across the extension cord still grasping the wire shield around the bulb with both hands; death had probably come within the first few' minutes; he was barefooted and had been standing on the damp ground; no doubt there was a short circuit; the voltage on the line was only aboutllO but the amperage would run quite high due to the damp ground. His hands were badly burned as was also his body where he had lain upon the bulb guard. The deceased had been employed on the county tractor and had been work ing with Dick Minton in the con struction of roads in the northeast Bank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stockholders. part of the county. He was a hard working man. For a number of years he worked at the carpenter trade. Edward Alvin Williams was born December 2, 1890, near Sioux City, Iowa. He was married to Christene McWilliam in Sioux City, Iowa, No vember 24, 1909, and moved to O’Neill, Nebraska, the following spring where he resided until his death. He is sur vived by his wife and two daughters, Glady Mae. aged eighteen years and Constance Louise, aged five month. His father and mother, five sister and two brothers. Those present at the funeral were the father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams; two sisters, Mrs. Will Lounsbury and Mrs. Gelmer An derson, and two brothers, Frank Wil liams and E: rl Williams, all living near Sioux City. Three sisters, Mrs. Elsie McWil liams living at Kelso, Washington; Mrs. Ethel Christianson, Vesper, Kan sas; Mrs. Bertha Johnson, Los An geles, California, could not be present at the funeral. The funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon; conducted by Rev. H. H. Beers; burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery. The funeral was one of the largest that has been held from that church. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to "express our sincere thanks to the many kind friends in O’Neill for their assistance and sym pathy following the death of our dear husband and father, Edward Williams. Mrs. Edward Williams and Children. We desire to also express our heart felt thanks for the many acts of kind ness extended to the family of our dear son, Edward, following his death and for the many beautiful floral of ferings. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams.