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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1931)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, Publisher W. C. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager _ Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska as Second Class Matter. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on Pages 4. 6 1 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 86 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 Hst at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber ■net understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be twaen publisher and subscriber. EARNING TO REPRE SENT SERVICE That for which we work hardest we cherish most; that which comes to us without an effort on our part is usually lightly held. This seems ap. plicable to the present school system of today. Haven’t we made a mis take of impressing upon the minds of children the idea that they ought to acquire an education so they would not have to work for a living? What the public school curriculum needs is not further expansion but a sharp contraction. The constant cry is for more money for schools, and it is an appealing cry. All wish to do the best possible by their children. Per haps less would prove of actual bene fit to them. The point is that it costs1 a great deal of money to tench field meets, glee clubs and scores of other things to obtain credits until we won der that a student has time even to recite, let alone study. Today, in or der that we may make school life at tractive to the children, they have more things in a week to detract their attention from their studies than we had during a term. The Fri day afternoon recitations, the month ly spelling bee and a week of singing school held in the evenings were the only things to detract from the busi ness of going to school and we never lacked for the want of exercise cith er. Some improvement added to this would not do any harm, but the mul tiplicity of extras that are attached nowadays to prolong an education. There seems to be no limit to ex travagance. It is not organized to socialize the fruit of men’s labor, but to create a toll upon society, unequal , distribution of the wealth which all have helped to create. If all govern ment, state, county and public em ployees within the state volunteered to make a cut in salaries, it would help materially all along the line. Let us have a true spirit—equal rights for all, special privileges for none. Edward 0. Earley ACCIDENT STATISTICS FOR STATE OF NEBRASKA Compiled by the Nebraska Press Association and the Rehabiliation Division of the State Department of Vocational Education. Report for Two Week Period Ending May 5. 1931. No. of Accidents Deaths Inj. Tot. Motor vehicle 168 5 198 203 Other public 74 3 71 74 Agriculture „ 64 1 63 64 Industry 33 2 32 34 Home . 68 7 63 70 Total 407 18 327 445 Sixteen small children were injur ed while playing at school. Sports were responsible for injuries to 13 older children. During the last two weeks, 30 in dustrial workers were injured; 2 were disabled and 2 were killed. To tal industrial accident casualties since January 1, 1931 are 217, Sixty-four accidents on the farm were responsible for 62 injuries; 1 disability and 1 death. Farm animals injured 34 people; 11 were injured in ranaways; 10 were kicked by horses or cows; 6 were trampled by enrag ed bulls and 7 were injured in other ways. Accidents in the home caused 60 injuries; 3 disabilities and seven deaths in two weeks. 23 reckless drivers caused acci dents in which 36 persons were injur ed. 17 drivers lost control of their cars and 28 persons were injured. Speed was the cause of all accidents; drunken drivers caused 3 accidents. Of the 17 pedestrians struck by cars 8 were children and 8 were adults. Cause of No. of Accident Accidents Dths Inj. Motor Vehicle Report for 2-Week Period Knding May 5, is.il Skids 23 0 32 Tire blows out 7 0 5 Mechanical defects 1 0 1 Loses control 17 0 28 spied II 0 13 Passing car struck car passed -- 10 0 Passing car struck oncoming car. 2 0 0 Collision _ 27 0 29 Struck obstruction 6 0 3 Struck pedestrian 16 3 14 Struck bicycle 2 0 2 Driver drunk 3 0 1 Driver asleep 2 0 0 Passing signals . 1 0 1 No lights _2 0 4 Ditched by pass’g car 1 0 0 Blinding lights _5 0 11 Reckless driving 23 0 35 Miscellaneous —.19 2 19 Total _168 5 198 The laf.t legislature passed 3 bills designed to make Nebraska's streets and highways safe. Undoubtedly the widespread publicity accorded to Ne braska accident information by the press of the state for the past two years has done much to show the ne cessity for better regulation of traf fic on our streets and highways. S. F. 33 regulates weight, height, length, speed and loads of trucks and provides protection to our highway system against excessive loading as well as protection for life and limb. S. F. 34, its framers tell us, will ultimately remove the reckless and irresponsible driver from our high ways. It is based on the Safety Re sponsibility Act sponsored originally by the AAA. S. F. 40>0 (signed May 7 by Gover nor Bryan) “the Lap Driver’s Bill,” was amended before final passage to include S. F. 181, The Uniform Act regulating traffic on streets and high ways. This bill and the big Truck Bill combined give to Nebraska the major recommendations of the last National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. "Uniform Highway Regulation” is a wonderful machine and can save hundreds of lives in Nebraska if fed by fuel of “public opinion” and driv ELECTRI SERVICE For Hot Water Your Electric Welter Heater can Heat All the Water Needed for An Average Family at a Cost of Ten to Fifteen Cents Per Day. Isn’t It Worth a Good Cif^ar? ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS are economical and trouble free. Your hot water troubles are ended when a beater is Installed. ' , ^ Drop Us a Card for Information On Electric Hot Water Heaters • ., Interstate Power Co. en by “adequate enforcement.” Accident Cansalties since Jan. 1, 1931 Tot. Inj. Dis. Dths Cas. Motor vehicle 1478 49 78 1605 Other public 444 14 19 477 Agriculture 423 46 15 484 Industry _ 193 12 12 217 Home . 376 16 32 424 Total 2914 137 156 3207 CREDLE—O’DONNELL M iss Irene O’Donnell and Mr. Wii-1 liam Credle, both of Chicago, were united in marriage in that city last Satruday; the ceremony was per formed by a priest in the parish home. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell of this city; she is a graduate of St. Mary’s Acad emy; she attended St. Mary’s College at Notre Dame; for the past four years she has been employed as stenographer in a railway office in Chicago, where she met the gentle man she has just wedded. Mr. and Mrs. Credle will reside at Evanston, Illinois, where Mr. Credle is employed. The many O’Neill friends of Mrs. Credle will extend to her a full meas ure of joy and happiness. FULLERTON—PRUSSA Harry Fullerton and Miss Bessie Prussa were joined in holy wedlock by County Judge C. J. Malone at his office in the court house last Satur day. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Prussa who reside near Atkinson; the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Full erton who also reside near Atkinson. The Frontier joins their many friends in extending congratulations. PONGRATZ—HEEB Joseph Pongratz and Miss Irene A. Heeb were united in marriage at Em met, Nebraska, last Tuesday by Rev. Father M. F. Byrne. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heeb, of near Em met; the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G eorge Pongratz, who also reside in the vicinity of Emmet. The Frontier extends congratula tions. LIKES—HARRINGTON Jasper P. Likes, of Jordan, Mon tana and Nettie B. Harrington, Rose, Nebraska, were married by County Judge C. J. Malone in his offices this morning. MINIATURE GOLF COURSE OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT Miss Helen and Miss Ann Clark came from Omaha last week and have been quite busy remodeling and improving their miniature golf course. The ladies expect to open the golf course on Friday evening, May 15th. FRIENDS SURPRISE t. j. donohoe: About seventy friends and rela tives gathered at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. T, J. Donohoe, seven miles northwest of O’Neill, last Tues day evening for the purpose of as sisting Mr. Donohoe to properly cele brate a birthday anniversary. The evening was spent at cards, dancing, and social intercourse. A luncheon was served during the late evening. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jensing and daughter Annie; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Donohoe and family; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Donohoe and family; Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Nichols and family; Mr. and Mrs. John L. Quig; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McDermott; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Matthews; Mr. John T. O’Malley; Mr. and Mrs. Walter O’Malley; Mrs. Mamie Wilson and son George; Mr. and Mrs. Walt McNichols and fam ily; Mrs. Peter Donohoe and son Rob ert; Mr. and Mre. Jim Fleming; James Fleming; Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Hickey; Mr. and Mrs. John Hickey and family; Ed Menish; Mr. and Mrs. Mart Stanton; Muriel Murphy; Mr. and Mrs. John Carney and family; Miss Mary Brown; Gene Gaddie. LOCAL NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McElvain have purchased the Sisco property in the western part of the city, where they have resided for the past two years. The congregation of the Methodist church was greatly pleased Sunday morning with a ’Mother's Day’ read ing given h> Miss Fern Hubbard. Ernest Young, who has been em ployed in the mechanical department of the Mellor Motor Company, has accepted a position at Winside, Ne braska. BOY SCOUT CAMP The annuual camp for the Boy Scouts of this North Central District will be held at the Spencer Darn for one week during the month of June. The camp will open on Wednesday, June 17th and close on the following Wednesday. This should be a week crammed full of interest and value for any boy who can attend. It will be the finest kind of recreatiori, with organized games and various physic al activities; it will be an education in the ideals of scouting in general, with emphasis on several of the com mon (or perhaps uncommon) vir tues, such as obedience, courtesy, control of temper, and so forth. All this will be under the direction and supervision of trained leaders w'ho ure interested in the future of man- \ hood of our country; leaders w ho are i interested in the really big job of in- j stilling within the rising generation | of young people high ideals of life. You may well expect that your boy will have a really “good time” if he is able to attend the camp for a week or for a shorter period of time; in and through these enjoyable exper-j iences he will have opportunity to; learn some of the biggest and most valuable lessons of life; lessons that! will tend to lead him on to the high- i est and best that life has to offer for j him. A uniform camp fee of one dollar a day foi each boy has been estab-! lished throughout this entire Boy! Scout Area. Kindly consider serious ly the advisability of allowing your boy, if he is a Scout, to attend this camp. It should not be necessary for you as his parent to furnish the mon- j ey to meet his camp fee; but to en courage him to earn that fee for him self. Perhaps you eari suggest to him some means by which he can earn the necessary funds and there by assist toward one of the “moun tain top” experiences of his life. F. J. Sexsmith, District Chairman EDUCATIONAL NOTES I am again making a plea to the members of rural school boards to give the preference to our own coun ty girls and boys when choosing their teachers. Many of our districts have already hired teachers for the coming year and we still have a large number of teachers who are quali fied and must teach. We owe our home teachers this courtesy and dis tricts are taking far bigger chances of disappointments when hiring for eign teachers than in hiring our own girls since each county tries to keep its most desirable teachers at home. Our Holt county teachers are just as well qualified as any in the state and better than some. This problem is more serious than ever this year due to the stress of economic conditions in general. Be fair to our own home boys and girls. A strenuous effort has been made during the past few years to eradi cate the Common Barberry Bush, which is responsible for the develop ment of rust in fields of small grain, thus causing great damage to crops. Bulletins have been sent free of cost to the rural schools of the state by the Extension Service of the Nebras ka State University and medals and certificates have been offered to any school pupils in the state who might find one of these growths. Marion Yount, a representative of the Uni versity visited this office recently and informed us that barberry bush es had been found in Holt county near Middle Branch by two sisters, Wilma and Clara Clyde, school dis trict No. 50. These bushes are not plentiful since Mr. Yount informed us that these were two of the seven bushes found in Nebraska during the past year. Since an award is given for only one plant on a farm, W’ilma Clyde will be the one honored with the medal. This will be presented to her at the Eighth Grade Commence ment exercises at O’Neill on Friday afternoon. Approximately three hundred 8th grade pupils have successfully pass ed the examinations and will receive diplomas t+iis year. Due to the cour tesy of the O’Neill Lions Club, we are able to offer the eighth grade graduates a chance to see the talking picture, “Father’s Son" at the Royal Theatre, free. The Lions Club has generously offered to share the ex penses with us. CHAPLIN BRINGS HOUSE DOWN WITH LAUGH HIT “City Lights,” awaited by the film colony for three years as a defiant gesture against talking pictures by Charlie Chaplin, the last of the sil ent stars, comes to the Royal The atre May 21, 22 and 23. “City Lights” Chaplin himself des cribes as a romantic comedy in pan tomine. To the public he is the same tragic little tramp with the typical Chafdin appeal and he is the same uprorious comic whose gags seem to be without equal in the world of the cinema. Always an individualist, Chaplin has made ‘City Lights’ with out the sound of a single human voice, though sound is used with striking effect. “City Ligts”, opens with a typical comedy scene in which Chaplin is found sleeping in the arms of a sta tue when it is unveiled. The speak ers addressing the crowd are mimick ed by squawking orchestration, per fectly synchronized with lip move ments of the talkers. Romance comes into Charlie’s life when he meets a blind flower girl, who, hearing a limousine door close, thinks he has left his car. Sensing the situation, Chaplin allows the de ception to exist by parting with his last dime for a flower. The masquerade goes on. The girl knows Chaplin only by touch. When she becomes ill he goes to work as a street cleaner, tries boxmg in which the referee becomes the loser, be comes a home companion to an ec centric millionaire through whose bounty he raises money so the girl can undergo an eye operation. Virginia Cherrill, a newcomer, who plays the blind girl, gives a remark ably well-poised and convincing per formance. Harry Myers is superb as the tippling Croesus. COUNTY AGENT NOTES James W. Rooney. Holt County Agent The Homemaker Herself The second series of meetings of woman’s project club leaders will be held in the county on May 21st and 22nd. The meeting on Thursday, May 21 will be held in the band hall, over the First National Bank build ing in Atkinson. The second meeting will he held at the District Court room in O’Neill on Friday, May 22. Miss Leona Davis, State Extension Specialist, will conduct the meetings. She has asked the leaders to meet promptly at 10 o’clock in the morn ing. Two lessons will be covered in each meeting. The lessons are “The Homemaker’s Personality’’ and “The Homemaker’s Standard of Health.’' | Tress Distribution Total Announced 38,100 trees were distributed to! Holt county farmers according to figures released from the State Ex-j tension Forestors office at Lincoln.! The Scotch Pine heads the 1 -X with 14,700 trees. The other three leading’ varieties were 8,500 Jack Pine, 4,000, I IRENE RICH ..NEIL HAMILTON and NORMA SHEARER in * STRANGERS MAY KISS' Sunday, Monday and Tuesday May 17, 18 and 19 Chinese Elm and 3,300 Austrian Pines. These seedling trees are dis tributed to farmers under the Clarke McNary act. The cost of $1.00 per hundred covers digging, packing and transportation charges. Trees will be available next spring and applica tion blanks will reach this office next December. Rodent Control The striped ground squirrel, or gopher, as he is sometimes called, may be controlled by the use of stry chnine. Directions for mixing the poison may be secured from this of fice. A supply of ready mixed poison oats is available also. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES Sunday School 10 a. m. Mr. George Robertson, Supt. Morning Worship 11 a. m. Thome, “Christ Crucified by the Church.” Evening service 8 p. m. This is to be the Baccalaureate service. It will be in the Methodist church. We cannot measure the import ance of Worship in one’s life. The best motives are inspired by it. We invite you to the above services. H. D. Johnson, Pastor. INMAN ITEMS Will Thompson went to O’Neill on Monday afternoon, returning Tues day. Ed VanValkenburg, of St. Joseph. Missouri, is here visiting among friends. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Conard, of Red bird were here Sunday visiting at the R. M. Conard home. Mr. and Mrs. Fay Brittell, of New port were here Sunday visiting at the Chas. Crosser home. Mrs. Bridget Swanson and child ren of O’Neill visited at the R. M. Conard home here Sunday. Mrs. Emory Peterson, of O’Neill, was here Sunday visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Conard. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Anspach and two children, of Page were here vis iting at the John Anspach home Sun day. Miss Elsie Mulford went to Stuart Friday for a visit with home folks; she returned to her duties here Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Vargison and two children were here from Bassett Sunday visiting Mrs. Chas. Crosser and family. Helen Ticknor, who attends school in O’Neill spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Har old Ticknor. Mrs. E. R. Riley went to O’Neill, Thursday where she spent the bal ance of the week with her sister, M;s. Naylor. Mrs. Thomas Colman and daughter Mercedes went to Bancroft, Nebras ka, Saturday to spend Mother’s Day with her mother, Mrs. Hruby. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crosser and baby, of Sioux Falls, S. D., came | Announcement | OPENING | —of the— | MINIATURE | GOLF COURSE! | FRIDAY, MAY 15th :! Latest in Greens, and H Many New Improve ments. —Under— New Management It Open Day and Night | CLARK SISTERS Saturday for a short visit with his mother, Mrs. Chas. Crosser and fam ily Harold Ticknor went to Sioux City Wednesday. He drove the big bus and took 22 members of the Page Senior class to that city, where they spent the day. Elmer Crosser, Sr., is nursing a broken collar bone as a result of an accident which occurred last week. Mr. Crosser was crowded against the stall by one of the horses. Chester Fowler, who teaches in the Sioux City schools, came Saturday for a visit among relatives. He was accompanied home by Arthur Lyons and Joyce Kuhler, both of whom are also teachers in the schools at Sioux City. John J. Hancock, of Casper, Wyo., came Saturday for a brief visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary M. Hancock. John J., who is an attorney, was on his way to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with some clients whom he will defend in a law suit in that city. Special Mother’s D a y sen#t«s were held at the M. E. church, Sun day. There was special music appro priate for the day, and a splendid Mother’s Day sermon. Special recog nition was given to the oldest moth er in the congregation, as Mrs. C. D. Keyes and Mrs. A. P. Carpenter were the oldest mothers and both the same age. They were both given rec ognition. There was also a special program in the evening. The old hymns that were loved and sung by the mothers of long ago, were used throughout the service. The Booster chorus also sang and dedicated their 1 numbers to their mothers. Miss Gladys Hancock and Miss Esther Fraka gave leadings. » A DIRECT-BY-MAIL advertising, teaching a selected list, can be a wonderfully effect ive adjunct to your newspaper advertising. A color job, made doubly attractive, trebly punchy by The Frontier typography and layout, will pay for itself tenfold in added sales. We’M gladly estimate costs for you. Phone No. 51 The Frontier