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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1931)
A.® & itfi & v1 The Frontier. VOLUME LII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931. No. 4 BERTHA LUCILLE STRONG Bertha Lucille Strong met a trag ic death on Highway No. 20, thirteen miles southeast of O’Neill about five o’clock last Monday morning when the Model T Ford car in which she was riding ran off the highway and turned over, pinning her body under the car. Bertha, in company with Miss Ma bel Beck, of Ewing, was returning from Ewing, Nebraska, to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strong, ten miles north of Page. Miss Beck states that she was driv ing the car at the time of the acci dent; she says that undoubtedly she fell asleep for an instant, the car crossed the road and left the grade; the tracks show that the driver made a desperate effort to bring the car onto the grade again but it turned over, causing the death of Miss Ber tha. The remains were brought to the Biglin undertaking parlors in O’Neill where the body was prepared for burial. Funeral services were held in the Biglin funeral parlors Tuesday fore noon; the remains were shipped to Norfolk, Wednesday morning where they were interred in the Norfolk cemetery. Six little girls from Emmet were the pall-bearers: Lulu Beebe, Laura Abart, Maxine McConnell, Dorothy Sessler, Thelma Dellegge and Lucille Lowery. Bertha was born May 5, 1916, at Pierce, Nebraska; her parents later resided at Emmet, Ewing and Nor folk, coming to Holt county about two years ago and located at Ewing where they made their home until thi3 spring when they moved to their present home twelve miles east of O’Neill. The deceased leaves her parents and four brothers, Leo, Robert, El win and George to mourn her early death. ^-|r ' « r * f j -- Mrs. Roy Warner, accompanied by her son Delbert, and daughter, Miss Dona Rae, went to Stanton, Nebras ka, Wednesday for a visit with rela tives. Her mother, Mrs. Ed Wells, who was at the Warner home visit ing for several days, accompanied Imr. THE REDBIRD-O’NEILL BASEBALL GAME SUNDAY The O’Neill ball team drove to Redbird last Sunday where they were scheduled to meet the Redbird team. Everything went well until the lat ter half of the first inning when some of the O’Neill team took exceptions to a decision made by Chas. Richter, the umpire for Redbird and corrobor ated by Jack Waldron, the O’Neill umpire. At this stage of the game the O'Neill captain refused to con tinue the game, picked up the bats and called his team from the field; five of the players quit but the bal ance remained and recruited their team and continued to play ball; seven of the team that continued to play were employes of the Interstate Power Company. It is deeply regret ted by the people of O’Neill that the eruction occurred and that the team did not finish the game as begun. Baseball is supposed to be a friendly pass-time between teams; difficulties such as occurred Sunday could and should be ironed out without bring ing undue censor upon the entire populace of O’Neill. The people of O’Neill deeply regret the unpleasant situation that has arisen and would ask the people of Redbird to overlook the incident and not censor the whole town for the action of the few play ers that quit the game. COMPLETION OF HIGHWAY NO. 13 IS ASSURED Word has been received from State Engineer Cochran that contracts will be let on July 9th for completion of portions of Highway No. 13. When these contracts are let, all of this highway will be constructed or under contract of construction. In addition to the work on No. 13 seven miles more of grading and sur facing on Highway No. 54 between Atkinson and Burwell will be .con tracted for at the same time. We understand these contracts are all that will be let this year for new construction. Contract for re-oiling of about a mile and one-half of No. 13 between Chambers and O’Neill will be award ed at the same time as the two con tracts mentioned above. Clarence Rasley came up from Nor folk Monday for a visit with friends. CELEBRATION CALLED OFF; The Fourth of July celebration ad vertised last week to be pulled off in O’Neill this year has been called off. The committee in charge of arrange ments held a meeting Tuesday and decided that the interest taken in the celebration would not justify further effort. The business men were interviewed quite generally last week by a com mittee consisting of Dr. C. H. Lub ker, L. A. Jones and Peter Todsen; they reported that they met with practically no opposition from the business men until after the list of committees were appointed when many of the appointees refused to function. Many excuses were advanced this week why a celebration should not be staged this year. The principal reason was the lack of time to prop erly prepare the event; another reas on was the cost; many merchants are of the opinion that the money that would be spent for arrangements and entertainmenl should be conserved for other purposes owing to the crop outlook, the dopressin, etc., all of which has plenty of merit. Many places in this part of the state are going to celebrate so our people will have no difficulty in find ing a suitable place to spend the day. FISHING PARTY WILL GO TO MINNESOTA LAKES A fishing party consisting of Geo. Harrington, Ira Moss, H. J. Ham mond, M. H. McCarthy, M. H. Horis key and Wm. Martin expect to leave next Saturday morning for the lakes in north central Minnesota. The first stop will be made at Park Rapids, where the “large” ones are supposed to have made reservations for the season. FARM RESIDENCE BURNED LAST MONDAY EVENING The farm residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chase, residing north of Op portunity postoffice was destroyed by fire last Monday evening between seven and ten o’clock. The family left home about seven o’clock and returned about ten to find their home in ashes. We did not learn the cause of the fire. A MILLION IN USE and now selling still faster IOdown makes you a General Electric owner.. FOR a cash deposit of only $10 down we will install any model General Electric Refrigerator in your kitchen. You begin immediately to enjoy its many econ omies and conveniences. Balance is covered by small monthly payments. New low prices—new refinements—now maketheGeneral Electric an even greater value. You get new sliding -shelves—that pull forward easily, eliminate stooping—an exclusive General Electric feature. All-steel cabinets have finger-tip latches and are lined with special acid-resisting porcelain. 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Leach, of | Stuart, about 12:15 o’clock last Sun-: i day morning when the officers nam- j ed entered the residence of Mr. Campbell at Stuart and found about fifty quarts of beer, ten gallons of beer mash, four and one-half pints of shine and 1 pint of alcohol. For some time the officers have had j Mr. Campbell and his son William under observation and were await ing their time to grab them. The of- , fleers learned that William was go- | ing to Pony Lake in Rock County , Saturday night where a dance was > to be held; it was arranged between j Officer Bay and Joe Leonard, the | sheriff of Rock county, that Leonard was to superintend the taking of William while Officer Bay would see that Andy was cared for. Everything seemed to work out as planned; Officer Bay and party went ■ to the Campbell home in Stuart ' about midnight just in time to see several customers enter the house; the official party discovered that they were compelled to pass the in spection of a couple of large dogs i which were chained near the en- , trance; it seems that the dogs could not distinguish the difference be tween the officers and the regular , customers and did not make any noise when they entered the shed over the rear door; when the officers entered the kitchen the visitors were in the act of drinking what was sup posed to be beer from vessels which resembled tomato cans; there was some change on the bar as the result of the recent purchases. Soon after the entrance to the kit chen, Mr. Tomlinson escorted Mr. Campbell to an inner room where he began reading the warrant to him; about this time the other officers dis covered that Campbell had secured a thirty-two revolver and might at tempt to use it; Mr. Bay managed to get to Campbell and pin his arm while the other officers succeeded in getting the gun from him before it was discharged. A short time later it is alleged Campbell offered the officers from |100 to $150 if they would let him go; he seemed to be considerably dis turbed to think that the officers in sisted on taking him to the county jail. The party arrived in O’Neill about four o’clock Sunday morning. When the officers entered the Campbell residence three citizens of Stuart were guests of the place. After searching the house the offi cers discovered that a young lady from Los Angeles, California, occu pied a bedroom and was apparently asleep during the excitement. Camp bell is a widower and his son is a single man. One or two of the visitors stated ,, that “this was my first trip to the | place,” that “I just came for a cup , of coffee;” the Campbell’s operate a “Coffee Shop” according to a sign that hangs in the south gable of the i residence. i The Campbells came to Stuart last 1 fall and purchased the stuccoed resi- j: dence in the southeastern part of the i village on Highway No. 20; we under-1 stand that they came from Omaha where they are known by federal of- ! ficers; the people of Stuart are high ly elated that the place has been cleaned up. Campbell was arraigned in county court Tuesday where he plead guil ty to the possession of intoxicating liquor, resisting an officer and at tempt bribery. On the liquor charge he was fined $100 and costs, or a to tal of $118.50; for resisting an offi cer the fine and costs were $53.25; the penalty for attempting to bribe was placed at $300 which is the min-1 imum; the costs were $3.25. He was unable to raise all of the money forj the fines at this time but expects to do so soon. He is boarding for the present with the sheriff. Federal Officer George Bay and H. W. Tomlinson were in Ainsworth to- i day; they report that Wm. Campbell is in a very critical condition. The following story taken from the Sioux City Journal explains what happened to William Campbell when he went to Pony Lake last Saturday night: ALLEGED SELLER OF RUM BATTLES WITH PURSUERS Ainsworth, Neb.—William Camp bell, of Stuart, is in a hospital in1 Ainsworth suffering from three bul let wounds he received in an ex- [ change of shots with Sheriff Joe Leonard and Deputy Will Page, near Pony lake, southeast of here. According to Sheriff Leonard, the Campbell family, living at Stuart, has been operating a bootlegging business and the sheriff and federal agents decided to “clean them out.” The federal officers went to the j Campbell place at Stuart and arrest ed the elder Campbell, taking him to jail in O’Neill. Sheriff Leonard and Deputy Page went to Pony lake where they report ed that they found William Campbell dispensing beer and liquor at a dance hall, from ice chests in his automo bile. Young Campbell made his es cape in the car and refused to sur I render to the officers. They chased HOLT COUNTY GRADUATED THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Xhy>no>uiColl{nS ATKIWSOM £bllanc(Bxtdu ATKINSON J Phyllis Phodes STUART Cfaekce$b&stn*i atkiwscm Five Holt county students grad uated from the University of Ne braska, Lincoln, at the annual com mencement exercises held June 6th. They are: Clarence Silverstrand, Raymond E. Collins and Rolland Brady, from Atkinson; Phyllis Janet Rhodes, of Stuart, and Velma Lucy Sexsmith, from O’Neill. A picture of Miss Sexsmith was not available. Miss Rhodes received her degree from the College of Pharmacy. She was a member of Kappa Epsilon and Iota Sigma Pi, honorary societies. him until Campbell’s car stalled. Campbell then began shooting at the officers, they said, and they returned the fire. Campbell was hit three times, in the left side, the left shoul der and the right arm. THE BOY SCOUTS ARE CAMPING OUT Twelve of the O’Neill Boy Scouts departed by truck for the camp on the Niobrara river near the power dam last Tuesday afternoon where they become part of a group of about fifty Scouts from over the North Central District which com prises Holt, Boyd, and a part of An telope and Knox counties. The camp is under the direction of Superintendent Crow of Pender, Ne braska and will continue for eight days. The following Scouts from O’Neill are attending the camp: Bennett Heriford Francis Soukup Thomas Liddy Burdette Miller Hugh Ryan Jo Willis Cadwell Leonard Bergstrom Robert Calvert Rolland Crellin Garland Bressler Gene Rummel William Lubker O’NEILL WINNER OF SUIT INVOLVING $7,000 BONDS The City of O’Neill was winner in its suit brought to force State Aud itor Marsh to register the $7,000 in bonds voted by its citizens. The state will appeal the decision of District Judge James Chappell at Lincoln. The state auditor held that O’Neill did not have a right under the sec tion of the statutes under which it issued fire department bonds. It was contended by the auditor that bonds cannot be issued by a city of the sec ond class excepting where permis sion is specifically given in the stat utes. JUVENILE SOCIETY NOTES Miss Harriet Hammond entertain ed at a birthday picnic on June 17th. Miss Lou Birmingham entertained at a dancing party at the Idle Hour, Wednesday afternoon, in honor of her fourth birthday. Her guests were Misses Donna Gallagher and Lor raine Agnes and Masters Joe Biglin, Jimmy Golden and Jerry Brennan. Bert Shoemaker, of Stuart, trans acted business in 0’Npil1; Monday. I She was also a member of the Phar I maceutical Club. Mr. Brady graduated from the College of Medicine. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi, and Phi Chi. Mr. Collins graduated from the Teacher’s College. Mr. Silverstrand graduated from the College of Business Administra* tion where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary society. Miss Sexsmith completed her course in nursing at Omaha. AMERICAN LEGION ENTER TAIN STATE OFFICERS Simonson Post of the American Legion entertained at an 8 o’clock dinner at the Golden Hotel, Friday evening, honoring their State Com mander, Marcus L. Poteet and State Adjutant Hank Dudley, both of Lin coln. The affair was a success from every angle; everyone present thor oughly enjoyed the talks made by the state officers and others. A num ber of business men were guests at the dinner. Legionairres were present from the various posts in this part of the state. HIGHWAY LETTING SET FOR JULY 19; SUM $1,050,000 (Lincoln State Journal) Lincoln, Neb., June 15.—Plans for the fourth highway letting of the current year to be held here July 9 were outlined today by Governor Bryan. The tentative program provides for additional expenditures of f 1,050 000. Of the total, 650 thousand dol lars will be spent on federal aid pro jects, and 400 thousand dollars on state-aid developments. Governor Bryan said the letting would bring the total of improve ments under contract to about $8, 650,000, that another letting would be held the latter part of July or the first of August. The July 'J letting will he for 350 miles of highway, including 178 miles of new grading, small struc tures and 14 bridges; eight miles of paving from Fort Calhoun to Blair, and 14G miles of gravel, most of it on highways already brought up to grade. The Fort Calhoun-Biair project was offered last year, Bryan explain ed, but the bids were rejected be cause of federal objection to width of bridges. Eighteen miles of oil and sand surfacing in the sandhiil district will be awarded. Governor Bryan said that the let ting had been delayed about a month because of the enormous amount of work required of the engineering de partment in conducting field work and in the preparation of the pro jects. Mr. and Mrs. Hiltabrand left for their home in Boston, last Friday. Mrs. Hiltabrand has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mere dith for several weeks. PERMANIZE —WITH— Perma . 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