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VOLUME LI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930. No. 4.
HOLT COUNTY GRADUATES FROM
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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LOCAL NEWS.
John C. Gallagher has filed for
County Clerk on the Democratic
ticket.
Miss Corrine and Miss Sabanna
Smith are visiting with friends at
Fremont, Nebraska.
Miss Elizabeth Henry is visiting at
the Sam Arnold home in Hastings,
Nebraska, this week.
Wm. Cronin returned home Wed
nesday from a two week’s visit with
his sister, Mrs. Dennis Hunt, in Lin
coln.
J. B. Mellor and John Kersenbrock
drove over to Fairfax, South Dakota
and watched Fairfax win from Red
bird, 1 to 0, last Sunday.
Mrs. Ed Williams went to Hastings
Nebraska, last Sunday for a week’s
visit with her daughter, Miss Gladys
who is employed as a stenographer.
Mrs. H. E. Coyne and daughter,
Miss Verne came home from Omaha
the first of the week where Miss
Verne underwent an operation for
appendicitis a short time ago.
Mrs. Hugh J. Birmingham enter
tained a number of little folks at a
party Tuesday afternoon from four
until six o’clock, celebrating the
third birthday anniversary of her lit
tle daughter, Lou.
Mrs. C. E. Zimmerman returned
home last Sunday from a week’s vis
it at the Harold Zimmerman home in
Hastings, Nebraska. Miss Betty Jane
Zimmerman came home with her for
a visit with O’Neill friends.
A light rain fell in the vicinity of
O’Neill, Wednesday night; three
miles north of O’Neill a half inch of
rain fell Thursday morning. The vi
cinity of Page reports a nice rain
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning.
Rev, Father Isadora, C. P., of the
Passionist Order, of Chicago* came
Monday and has been holding Forty
Hour Devotion at St. Patrick’s chur
ch this week. He expects to return to
Chicago, Friday. Father Isadore is
a brother of Mrs. C. E. Stout of this
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hammond of
Omaha spent Sunday with O’Neill
relatives.
Miss Grace and Miss Agnes Loy
and Miss Margaret Honeywell spent
Wednesday shopping in Sioux City.
Miss Hazel Nelson, of St. Edwards
Nebraska, came Monday for a couple
week’s visit at the Fred McNally
home.
A. V. Virgin has been quite ill for
the past ten days or more; he is
somewhat improved as we go to
l-ii c»a.
C. D. Keyes, county assessor, went
to Lincoln, Thursday where he will
attend a meeting of the assessors of
the state.
A daughter was born Tuesday
evening to Mr. and Mrs. Joe McNam
ara, at their home in the northern
part of the city.
The American Legion members of
this city held a dance at Ewing Tues
day evening; a large crowd from
O'Neill attended.
Erwin Cronin came home from
Omaha, Monday and will spend the
summer vacation in O’Neill. Erwin is
attending the Creighton law college.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Beha drove to
Omaha the first of the week and ac
companied their son William to
O’Neill where he will spend the sum
mer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gatz and Mr
and Mrs. Andy Morton left Sunday
for Gordon, Nebraska, where they
will visit with Mr. and Mrs. John
Honeycutt. They will also tour the
Black Hills before they return.
The Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union will hold a County Insti
tute on Friday, June 27th, at the
Presbyterian church in O’Neill The
program will start at 10 o’clock a.
m. A cordial invitation is extended
to everybody.
The members of the County Board
of Supervisors went to Lincoln, Ne
braska, today in order to be present
at the opening of the bids and letting
of the contracts for the construction
and work on Highways No. 13 and
No. 54 which will be disposed of on
Friday.
COMING!
International Motor Truck
Caravan
A FLEET OF INTERNATIONAL MOTOR
TRUCKS will arrive in O’Neill at 1:30 P. M., on
Wed., June 25th
and remain until 2:30 o’clock.
BE ON HAND to inspect the latest models of motor
trucks equipped with various body styles for all pur
poses. A parade of these trucks through the
streets of O’Neill will be an attractive and interest
ing event.
DEMONSTRATIONS
of the Six-Speed Special carrying a 3600 pound load
up a 50 per cent grade will he held on the street in
front of our store.
REMEMBER THE DATE
O’NEILL—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH
O. F. Bij’lin
IMPLEMENTS AND TRACTORS
O’Neill -::- Nebraska
John McDermott, John Sullivan,
Dan McCarthy, Henry Schacht and
John Martin attended the K. C. initia
tion at Valentine, Sunday.
Miss Marguerite Hatch, who has
been visiting Miss Edna Simonson
, for the past week, returned to her
home at Lincoln, Monday.
Mrs. F. E. Harrison and daughter
I Leone, of Norfolk, arrived Thursday
for a few days’ visit with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Benson.
Mrs. Emma Bartlett and son Ar
thur, of Yankton, South Dakota,
spent Sunday at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. George Crellin and family,
in this city.
Mrs. Henry Bruhn nnd son Henry
Jr., came up from West Point, Ne
braska, Sunday for a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlin
son of this city.
A daughter was born Monday even
ing to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Smith, of
Opportunity, at the home of Mrs.
Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
j Oberle in O'Neill.
The Ladies Guild of the Presby
j terian church will meet with Mrs. J.
D. Osenbaugh, on Thursday, June 2C,
with Mrs. Walter Warner assisting.
Lunch will be served at 4:45 p. m.
Mrs. Emerson Devine and daugh
ter, Miss Martha, returned to their
home in Tooele, Utah. They have
been visiting at the home of their
parents and grand-parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sheridan Simmons.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Anderson,
their son Norman and daughter Miss
Irene, who have been visiting » in
O’Neill with their parents and other
relatives, returned to their home in
Colon, Nebraska, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Crosser, of
Inman, were guests at the family
reunion of the Sheridan Simmons
family at the Bryan Simmons home
last Sunday. Covers wrere laid for
twenty-four at the dinner.
The Camp Fire Girls’ Sunday
School class of the Methodist church
returned home from a few' day’s out
ing at the Amusement Park at Long
Pine, Saturday evening. The girls
say that they enjoyed a wonderful
time.
TWO HUNDRED STRIPPERS
GATHER BLUE GRASS SEED
Almost two hundred blue grass
strippers are working out of O’Neill
gathering Holt County’s large crop
of blue grass seed.
Four seed companies are represent
ed. The Central Seed Company, of
David City, Nebraska and the Rudy
Patrick Seed Company, of Kansas
City are working together and have
a battery of sixty-two strippers
which are drawn by teams; they are
working in the vicinity of Chambers,
Inez and O’Neill and on the Eagle,
twenty miles north; they are con
centrating their seed and drying it
at the John Dumpert farm just west
of O’Neill. In talking to a represen
tative of one company we learn that
| they are handling 30,000 to 40,000
I pounds of seed per day; four days
are required to cure the seed, which
is done by turning and working it
over and over; the seed is sacked
I just as it comes from the strippers
and is shipped to Kansas City where
lit is threshed and cleaned; this com
pany expects to ship from eight to
ten cars of seed from O’Neill this
! year from the work of the sixty-two
I machines. Taking these sixty-two
i machines as a basis, one can readily
' figure what a large amount of seed
will be gathered in the county this
year by the two hundred strippers.
We are informed that the quality of
the seed is the very best obtainable.
Jim McKnight, of Kansas City, is
concentrating the seed from his bat
tery of thirty machines at the Frank
Kutichek residence in the western
part of town.
The Nebraska Seed Company, the
pioneers in the seed gathering busi
ness in this county, is again drying
their seed at the Paul Schwisow
place in the southwestern part of
O’Neill under the personal direction
of Mr. Schwisow, who has handled
the work for years.
A Mr. Hubbell is drying at the
Mullen place, east of O’Neill.
The McKnight strippers are pulled
by Ford cars converted into power
trucks with iron drive wheels; two
strippers are attached to each truck.
The companies pay $1.00 per acre
and up for the privilege of taking the
seed. The grass is not injured in the
process of removing the seed.
The seed must be removed when it
is ready; the weather condition must
be perfect if the work can be carried
on for more than ten day3.
O’NEILL CREAMERY HAS
INSTALLED NEW EQUIPMENT
The new equipment is being instal
led in the new O’Neill Creamery and
within a very short time the plant
will be ready for business. A gang of
men have been busy for several
weeks getting the building and plant
in shape for the proper handling of
the creamery and dairy business and
Mr. Brennan has spared no expense
in supplying the proper machinery to
meet these ends. The Creamery when
completed will contain a 1,000 lb.'
churn; a 300-gallon pasteurizer and
a 400-gallon pasteurizer and a start-!
er can; a Baker Ice machine which
; will accommodate two refrigeration:
boxes; one of the boxes will be used
in the Dairy department and the
other in the Creamery end of the
business where it will be required to
hold 25,000 lbs. of butter; a 25 h. p.
boiler; a well has been sunk in the
I basement for local use.
Mr. Brennan tells us that the plant
| when completed will be one of the
I most modern in this part of the
; fate. Mr. Brennan will assume the
j management of the dairy and milk
route on July 1st. He also states that
| he will start buying cream on Satur
day, June 28th.
Mr. Hickey, of Dennison, Iowa, has
I been employed as butter maker.
THE ROYAL THEATRE
GIVEN AWARD OF MERIT
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The Royal Theatre in this city
i stands in the front rank of theatres
j for be«t sound and for the produc
S tion of the best pictures. As a fitting
reward for the superiority in these
j lines the Exhibitors Herald-World
(designated the Royal as one of the
| very few theatres in Nebraska to re
ceive one of the Awards of Merit
which they are presenting to the bet
ter class picture houses.
Mayor Stout, in a few well chosen
rema; k \ presented Mrs. Rasley with
the plaque last Sunday evening dur
ing the intermission between the
first and second shows. Mrs. Rasley
accepted the token by saying that
I she deeply appreciated the honor
conferred upon her by the Exhibitors
Herald-World, but wished to express
her sincere appreciation to the people
of this community for their liberal
patronage for only through them and
sible for her to win the trophy,
their hearty co-operation was it pos
Mrs. Rasley is arranging to give
her patrons bigger and better pic
tures just as fast as the opportunity
permits. She is showing a class of
pictures that are much above those
shown in most towns of this size and
show's them while they are new'.
OAKDALE GUN CLUB
DEFEATS O’NEILL CLUB
A Blue Rock shoot was held last
Sunday between the Oakdale club
and O’Neill at the O’Neill Gun Club
grounds east of O’Neill. The teams
consisted of five men to the side;
fifty rocks were shot which resulted
in Oakdale breaking sixteen more
than O’Neill. Twenty-five rocks were
shot at each round. Following is the
score:
Oakdale
1st 2nd
Round Round
Wilcox _22_20
Martin _19_23
Barrett _18
Sherman _15_
Fleharty_14_ 19
Sassie _22_ 25
92 105
O’Neill
Bert Gunn __._..21_16
Morris Graham _17_25
Jesse Scofield _22___18
Ed Burge _14_
A. E. Stevens . ...__.11
J. M. Seybold _17. ....18
93 88
Totals—Oakdale 197; O’Neill 181
The O’Neill club expects to go to
Oakdale on Sunday, June 29th for a
return shoot. A large delegation is
planning on accompanying the shoot
ers to Oakdale.
FIRST NEBRASKA TRUCK
CARAVAN TO STOP HERE
Demonstration of International Mod
els To Include Climbing
50 Percent Grade.
The first Nebraska motor truck
caravan will come to O’Neill on Wed
nesday, June 25th, sponsored by the
International Harvester Company of
America, so that an actual demonr
stration of modern truck transporta
tion can be brought to the doors of
truck users. The demonstration will
be held at 0. F. Biglin’s Implement
Store.
This caravan will cover 125 Ne
braska towns. It’s first stop was in
Ralston, June 2nd, and it’s final stop
will be at Weston, July 18th. Mean
while. it will cover all towns from the
Missouri River west to the Wyoming
line, and from Oakland, Nebraska,
south to Ashland and the Platte.
A. W. Calhoun is tour manager
and E. A. Miller, tour demonstrator.
G. L. Tracy, advertising manager for
the Omaha branch of the Internation
al Harvester Company, is in charge
of arrangements in all towns where
stops will be made.
The chief feature of the caravan’s
coming here will be a public demon
stration of a Six-Speed special truck
carrying a 3600 pound load up a 50
percent grade. This truck has two
complete power ranges and is adapt
ed for hauling through soft ground
and tough places, as well as for
speedy hauling.
The trucks in the caravan have
been equipped with various body
styles for all purposes. Two recent
models are the A-4, a two-ton model
! with grain body, and the A-5, a 3
ton truck with five speeds ahead and
i one reverse. This A-5 will carry a
j stock hauler’s body and is also equip
' ped with a special ramp that will
permit the 50 percent grade demon
stration to be shown at a moment’s
notice.
Another Six-Speed Special which
the International Harvester Company
: is featuring as adapted to farm pur
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U OUR out-of
town friends and relatives feel the human
touch of your message that comes to them
. . . clearly . . . quickly . . . understandably
.. . over the long distance telephone. • •
It puts you in personal contact. . . keeps
friendships alive . . . saves time . . . gets
things done! • • There's a lightning fast
voice highway from your telephone to the
telephones of your out-of-town friends and
business associates. Just lift the receiver,
calCLong Distance" and tell her where you
want to go. Rates are small wherever you
call.
NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
poses and general hauling under
strenuous conditions, because of its
six speeds forward and two in re
verse, is equipped with a combination
stock , and grain body.
This is the first time in Nebraska
that a Motor Truck Caravan, fully
equipped for demonstration purposes
has toured the state. It has been
sponsored by the International Har
vester Company to permit Nebraska
farmers and motor truck operators
to see this line of trucks, outfitted for
actual service, and performing under
actual conditions.
The towns in this territory to be
visited by the truck caravan and the
schedule include:
Wednesday, June 25, 1930
Atkinson _1..8:00-10:00 A. M.
Emmet ...11:00-12:00 A. M.
O’Neil! . 1:30-2:30 P. M.
Ewing ___3:30-4:30 P. M.
Clearwater _6:30-7:30 P. M.
Neligh ... Night Stop
Personnel
E. A. Miller, Demonstrator
A. W. Calhoun, Tour Manager
D. W. Gemmill, Blockman
L. R. Syfert
P. E. Skillman
A BOOK is not judged by its
cover, nor a man by his appear
ance. The one is weighed by its
contents—the other by his bank
account.
The O’Neill National
Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
Profits, $125,000.00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.