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VOLUME XLIX.
The Frontier.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
NO. 40.
LOCAL NEWS
Several inches of snow fell over this
part of the state last Sunday.
Mrs. R. M. Sauers was visiting
friends in Lincoln, over the week end.
Tom Donlin came over from the
ranch near Gross, Nebraska, the first
of the week.
August Troshynski, residing north
of Emmet, was transacting business
matters in O’Neill Tuesday.
Mrs. Harry Bowen left on Tuesday
morning for Chicago where she was
called by the death of her mother,,
Mrs. Marie Bergmark.
The ladies aid society of the Metho
dist church will hold a food sale in the
Ross E. Harris grocery and meat mar
ket next Saturday, March 2nd.
Peter Reifers returned from Seattle,
Washington, last Friday and is busy
looking after a number of pieces of
real estate owned by him and Mrs.
Reifers.
Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy have
purchased the residence occupied by
Grant White in the western part of
town and will make it their home in
the near future.
Mrs. Anna Auten has closed the
Keen cafe which she conducted for
about a month. She and her children
are again occupying the roomsover the
J. L. Quig office.
Grandpa Coldiron, of Brunswick,
died at his home last Thursday. He
would have been 100 years old on Feb
ruary 26th. He was a relative of
Dean Streeter of this city.
Mrs. N. Surber received a message
Tuesday announcing the death of her
husband at Decatur, Illinois. Mrs.
Surber and her daughter were unable
to attend the funeral services.
Grant White has purchased the Har
ry Madison residence in the eastern
part of the city and will move thereto
about March 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Madi
son expect to move to a farm.
Edward Coffey, of Wichita Falls,
Texas, but who is attending Creigh
ton College, in Omaha, came Thurs
day and visited until Sunday at the
home of his aunt, Mrs. P. J. Biglin.
Tom Crow residing near the Red
bird postoffice, is in Chicago with seven
carloads of fat cattle that will aver
age about 1400 pounds each; he expects
to receive $12.00 per hundred for the
shipment.
The south garage at Ewing was
badly damaged by fire last Saturday
night. Several cars were removed
from the building after the fire was
discovered; one car was somewhat
damaged by fire.
The M. M. Club very agreeably sur
prised Mrs. Clarence Zimmerman last
Monday evening when they gathered
at her home where a very pleasant
evening was spent. The occasion was
a birthday anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Allinger de
parted for Chattuck, Oklahoma, Mon
day, in response to a message that the
former’s mother was very ill. No in
formation has been received from them
since they arrived in Oklahoma.
P. H. McCarty, auditor at the In
terstate Power Company office in this
city, departed for Excellsior Springs.
Missouri, today where he will seek l
relief from rheumatism in the hot
baths for which that place is noted.
D. Stannard, accompanied by Mrs.
Stannard and son, George, drove to
Norfolk last Sunday where he submit
ted to an operation for strangulated
hernia. Mrs. Stannard and George
came home Tuesday and report that
Mr. Stannard is recovering nicely.
Regardless of the shortage of feed
throughout the county, we understand
that 15,000 head of cattle are being
wintered in the Inez neighborhood
southwest of O’Neill. We are inform
ed that the cattle are doing nicely and
have withstood the severe cold weath
er in fine shape. %
The new boiler for the court house
arrived Tuesday afternoon and is be
ing assembled by James Davidson.
Considerable inconvenience was expe
rienced by the occupants of the various
offices who were trying to keep warm
with oil stoves and other forms of
heat during the past week.
The electric machine owned and
operated by the Interstate Power
Company has been working overtime
during the past month in an effort to
keep the people of Atkinson and
O’Neill in water. The apparatus was
taken to Lynch the first of the week
where is is being used to thaw out the
water at the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zimmerman1
and children drove over to Spencer
last Sunday for a visit with Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Zimmerman and Mr. and
Mrs. Anton Nemic. Mr. and Mrs. H.
J. Zimmerman expect to go to Hast
ings, Nebraska, Friday with their son,
Harold, who is now traveling for the
David Cole Company and makes this
territory regularly.
A case that attracted considerable
attention was heard in Justice Camp-|
bell's court the first of the week where
in Joseph Michels sued Swift & Com
pany for $200, claiming that amount
for breach of contract, unpaid com
missions and moving expenses. The
case was tried to a jury of four men
who returned a verdict for the plain
tiff in the sum of $.'{5.01. L. C. Chap
man was attorney for Mr. Michels and
Julius D. Cronin represented Swift &
Company. Mr. Michaels was the man-i
ager of the local Swift cream station
for a short time.
Garfield Lodge No. 95 A. F. & A
M. will entertain representatives of
Masonic Lodges in this section of Ne
braska during a Central School of In
struction to be held March 5, 6 and 7.
There will be three sessions each day.
Frank H. Woodland, Grand Master and
Lute M. Savage, Grand Custodian, of
Omaha, will be in charge.
C. R. Pettijohn came down from the
ranch near Stuart, the first of the
week and is assisting Mrs. Pettijohn
in the publication of the daily mort
gage record. Mrs. J. H. Wise, who is
also interested in the publication, has
been confined to her home for several
weeks as a result of n fall she suffer
a number of years a?o. Mr. Wise has
also been on the sick list this winter.
Neil Ryan departed for Sioux City,
Iowa, the first of the week where he
will operate an eighty acre farm five
miles northwest of that city; they will
be about one mile from a paved road.
Mr. Ryan held a public sale of per
sonal property a short time ago at his
former home fifteen miles south of
O’Neill where he has been raising cat
tle and farming extensively for sev
era! years.
O’Neill perhaps has one industry
that only a comparatively few resi
dents of the city know exists within
the city; it is a Flemish Giant hare
farm which has been operated for the
past fifteen months by G. A. Mitchel.
Mr. Mitchel has developed a small be
ginning into a fairly good sized profit
able industry. Rabbits are shipped all
over the country and interested pur
chasers come here to select their choice
of the pens.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons ar
rived home Tuesday afternoon from
an extended trip to points in England
and France. Charles does not seem
very enthusiastic about the foreign
lands either as a dwelling place cr
from a sightseeing view point. Mr.
and Mrs. Simmons drove home a new
Chrysler “75” which they purchased
in Detroit. They say they had a very
enjoyable trip although they encoun
tered a three day storm on the At
lantic on the return trip; it was re
ported to have been the most severe
storm during the past five years.
J. B. Ryan received a telegram an
nouncing the death of his uncle, Rody
J. Hayes, who died in Anaconda, Mon
tana, last Friday. Mr. Hayes was a
pioneer of Holt County, coming here
in 1874. He held the position of
deputy clerk here under John McBride.
He moved with his family to Anaconda
in 1896, where he resided until the
time of his death. He was police
judge there for a number of years.
He leaves his* wife and two children,
Mary and Frank, the latter residing
in Los Angeles, California. Mrs.
Hayes will still reside in Anaconda.
The Masonic order of this city
sponsored a “George Washington”
program at the Methodist church last
Friday evening, which was enjoyed by
a large number of Masons, their
families and invited guests. Rev.
David Simpson, of Craig, Nebraska,
delivered the address of the evening
A sextette composed of Messrs R. M.
Sauers, E. V. Jones, D. H. Clauson, C.
E. Yantzi, Guy C. Miller and George
Bay, rendered two numbers and Miss
Opal Turner sang a selection during
program. Later in the evening a
luncheon was served in the basement
of the church.
A number of changes will take place
in the next few days on the farms in
this locality. Henry Buttjer, of Dows,
Iowa, has moved to the Ira Smith
place, 14 miles northeast of Atkinson;
Henry Heiser, of Hamilton county, is
moving to the Mlinar farm, 15 miles
northeast of Atkinson; Ben Wayman
will occupy the G. C. Maryott farm 6
miles northeast of O’Neill; Gus An
derson, of Knox county, will move to
the A. M. Ferguson place, 3 miles east
of O’Neill; G. A. Seger, who has resid
ed southwest of Atkinson, will move
to the Quigley farm two miles north
east of Emmet; Herman N. Medlenof
near Amalia, will occupy the S. L.
Berry farm 5 miles northeast of
O’Neill; H. R. Lamphear will move to
the Parker place which he purchased,
three miles southeast of O’Neill; D.
B. Hynes will farm the Henry Losher
place this year.
O'NEILL SHOEMAKER
BOY’S COUNSELOR
(Norfolk News.)
O'Neill, Feb., 21: Eli Hershiser, 66,
pioneer shoemaker of O’Neill, declares
"all that he live* by in his awl." He
came with his parents from Waterloo,
Iowa, to Holt county, nearly tlfty
years ago when this city was “new."
His brother, Edward, was one of Holt
county’s early sheriffs nnd Eli, as
deputy, was Initiated into pioneer life
at an early aue.
Mr. ilershi*er was acquainted with
many desperate characters and stood
iruard over more than one cattle
rustler in O'Neill’s first courthouse.
For many years Mr. Hershiser has
| had1 a shoe repairing shop, and in his
little shop youngsters repair their
skate straps or belt or fix a loose shoe
that just needs a tack, ask informa
tion on any subject, from how Mr.
Hershiser built his beautiful fish pond
with a big truck wheel from a dump,
to how he used to play marbles. The
; youngsters enjoy being with Eli as
much as they do companions of their
i own age. and one frequently hears one
1 small boy call to another, “Come on
! let's piny” and the answer is “I don’t
want to, I’m goin’ down to Eli’s,” and
the parents of the boys wonder how
1 Mr. Hershiser can turn out such satis
factory work surrounded by the
; “gang.”
Mr. Hershiser gives boys instruc
| tion, be it in mending a ball mitt, base
ball or what not. Small boys are one i
of his “hobbies” he says, but he has;
others, such as collecting relics, of j
' which he has a valuable number,
among them a peace pipe given him
by an Indian chief in the early days,
land twenty-seven buffalo horns for
which he has refused' money, prefer
ring to fashion them into a unique
j bat rack which he has just finished.
1 Mr. Hershiser hopes that this rack
will be handed down from generation
: t o generation as he says it will be
' a worth-while relic of the pioneer days
in Holt county.
Mr. Ted Hershiser, nephew of Mr.
Eli Hershiser of O’Neill, who was one
of president-elect Hoover’s body
guards on his good will tour through
South America, was born in O’Neill
! in 1895.
FACTS ABOUT NEBRASKA
Nebraska’s electric consumption for
December was 41,694 thousand kilo
watt-hours, slightly higher than for
October but a considerable increase
over the November output. It was 7
per cent increase over the same month
of 1927. Water power afforded 2,409
thousand kilowatt-hours, or less than
6 per cent of the total.
The Nebraska State Board of Agri
culture was incorporated in 1858, nine
years before statehood. It is the old
est semi-official, state-wide organiza
tion and has carried on practically
without changer in general plan.
Nebraska produced 464 million kilo
watt hours of electricity in 1928. An
increase of 7.7 per cent. Kansas in
crease in output was 6.8 per cent,
Missouri 3.4 per cent, and Iowa 6.8
per cent.
POULTRY DAY, MARCH IS.
Everyone interested in better poul
try will be benefitted in attending the
afternoon and evening sessions of in
structive talks on Poultry Day, March
13th, Wednesday, at O’Neill, Nebraska.
This instruction is under the aus
pices of the Extension Department of,
the Agricultural College. Mr. J. R.
Redditt of the Poultry Department
will go into a discussion on the rear
ing of checks and poultry management
in general. He is a specialist in his
line and will be remembered from his
previous visits here.
Dr. W. T. Spencer, former State
Veterinarian, will talk on poultry
diseases in general and especially
tuberculosis. He will take up prob
lems of sanitation which is so import
ant in successful poultry raising.
The afternoon session begins at 2:00
o’clock, and the evening session at 8:00
o’clock. Several local poultry people
will be asked to give advice and tell
of their experience in poultry raising.
Hound table discussion will be in
vited and an effort will be made to get
an instructive film for the movies.
All will be free. Place of meeting
will be in the hall.
Tours of inspection will be made
through the Armour plant and through
the O’Neill Hatchery. This is a new
institution where two sixteen thousand
incubators are installed and in opera
tion. Everyone is invited to attend
A CHILD’S VACATION
BILL OF RIGHTS
The following child’s vacation creed
is quoted from the Des Moines Trib
une:
“I am a small child. This is my
vacation time, for school is out. As
an American citizen I have these
things which are my postive and in
alienable rights.
I have the right to a clean home.
I have the right to three square
(very square) meals each and every
day at certain definite and specified
hours.
I have the right to several hours of
free and unhampered play with other
of my fellow citizens each and every
calender day of the week.
I have the right to spend the twi
light hours of this playtime in my
own dooryard, playing ball with my
dad or hide and go seek with my
mother.
I have the right to go to a clean and
comfortable bed, out of deference to
which, as my mother directs, I will
wash my feet.
I have the right to a bedtime story,
and evening prayer and a goodnight
kiss.
And I have a right to sheltered and
peaceful dreams.
HIJRTIG-PETERSON.
Theodore Hurtig and Miss Edda
Peterson, both of Chambers, were
united in marriage last Tuesday by
Rev. H. H. Beers, pastor of the Pres
byterian church of this city.
NOTICE TO FEDERAL
INCOME TAXPAYERS
For the convenience of those who
are required by law to file Federal In
come Tax Returns, a Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue will be at O’Neill
Nebraska, on March 9 and 11, 1929, to
assist taxpayers in preparing their re
turns. No charge will be made for
this service. The matter of filing your
Income Tax Return should be given
immediate attention, in order to avoid
penalty and interest.
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