s.®
AC®'
The
Frontier.
VOLUME LII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. JULY 23, 1931.
No. 9
TOM SULLIVAN SERIOUSLY
INJURED WHILE DIVING!
Tom Sullivan, of Merna, Nebras
ka, son of Supervisor John Sullivan,
of near this city, suffered a broken
vertebrae in his neca and is partially
paralyzed as the result of diving
from a tree that was overhanging the [
waters of the Middle Loupe river j
north of Broken Bow, Nebraska, last |
Friday afternoon. He is in a very |
serious condition at this time in a ;
hospital in Broken Bow.
Tom and a party of young folks
were picnicing on the Loupe river;
Tom had previously dived from the1
tree into about seven feet of water;
it seems that the sand had filled ■
part of the hole and was only about:
fifteeen or eighteen inches deep i
where Tom landed. Friends were ]
present when the accident happened
and assisted him from the water; he
was taken at once to Broken Bow
where he is apparently recovering
slowly.
John Sullivan, accompanied by his
son Harry, drove to Broken Bow,
Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hines, Mrs
Margaret Donohoe, Dan, John and
Frank Sullivan, brothers and sisters
of the injured man, drove to Broken
Bow Sunday and returned home that
evening. Will Sparks, a cousin, ac
companied them.
Tom has suffered at least four ser
ious accidents during the past five
years. The first of the series occurr
ed soon after the county garage was
erected about five years ago; the
patrolmen were eating their noon
luncheon; someone had a can with
gasoline in it; it became ignited and
the party who was holding the can
threw the can and burning gasoline;
Tom happened to be in line and the
gas and can lit in his lap; he was
quite seriously burned. The next ac
cident happened some time later
when a car driven by Engineer San
ford collided with another car about
eight miles north of O’Neill on No.
8; in this accident Tom suffered a
broken jaw and other injuries; ab«ut
a year later he received a broken
nose and injuries to an eye when a
wheel came off the car he was driv
ing; Tom was in another accident in
Spencer about that time but was not
badly injured when the car he was
driving collided with a tree; he was
in the Spencer hospital for only a
few hours.
The many O’Neill friends of Tom
are anxiously awaiting the news of j
his recovery from the most serious of
the series of accidents that has been
his lot.
12 RECEIVERSHIPS
GIVEN TO LUIKART
District Judge Clinton Chase, of
Stanton decided here today to trans
fer twelve state bank receiverships'
from Clarence G. Bliss to Secretary
E. H. Luikart of the state trade and
commerce department.
Luikart’s application for the trans
fer was one of several filed in district
courts over the state. Today’s trans
fers made a total of forty-nine for
the state, leaving Bliss with about
150 receiverships still in his posses- j
sion.
Judge Chase substituted for Judge
R. R. Dickson. I. D. Beynon was at
torney for Bliss and Arthur Mullen,
of Omaha and F. C. Radke, of the
trade and commerce department ap
peared for Luikart. Both sides pre
sented testimony and arguments.
KARL SIEMSEN, ATKINSON,
SUFFERS BROKEN NECK
The Atkinson Graphic in substance
has the following to say about the
accident suffered by Karl Siemsen;
In a hospital at Ainsworth, fully
conscious and able to converse with
those about him, yet with a hopeless
chance of recovery from a broken
neck which has paralyzed his whole
body, lies Karl Siemsen, 17, son of
Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Siemsen, of At
kinson.
A week ago, while swimming in a
pool at Long Pine, the young nian
slipped, lost his balance and fell off
a diving board into eighteen inches
of water, lying helpless under the
water until friends who were with
him realized that something was
seriously wrong with him.
Completely paralyzed from the
shoulders down, he was carried from
the pool and rushed to a doctor, then
taken to the hospital in Ainsworth,
where x-ray photographs revealed a
fracture of the fifth cervical verte
brae. The accident happened Thurs
day evening, last week. An Omaha
specialist who was called to Ains
worth last Friday for consultation
advised thut to perform an opera
| tion in an attempt to improve the
lad’s condition would be useless.
Physicians rater decided to operate
and several vertebrae were removed
from the neck; it was found that
the spinal cowl was about three
fourths severed. The young man has
practically no chance for recovery.
BANK AT LYNCH
FAILED TO OPEN
The Bank of Lynch failed to open
its doors last Saturday. U. H. Harris
was president and Lois Harris was
vice-president of the bank.
BOUND OVER FOR TRIAL AS
CAUSING BROTHERS DEATH
(Omaha World-Herald, July 22)
Butte, Neb.—Ernest Coleman, 40.
of Spencer, was bound over to dis- j
trict court on a second degree mur- ]
der charge at the close of his prelim-1
inary hearing before County Judge
Adamson here this afternoon. Cole-;
man is held in connection with theI
death July 14 of his brother. Albert,;
45.
The defendant pleaded not guilty \
when arraigned on the charge earlier i
today and demanded the preliminary
hearing. His bond was reduced from j
five thousand dollars to four thous-j
and dollars. Coleman has been held
in jail. He was arested last Friday
after his brother’s funeral.
Mrs. Alice Coleman, widow of Al
bert, and Mrs. Thomas Coleman,
daughter-in-law of the deceased were
the only witnesses this afternoon.
Mrs. Alice Coleman testified she was
certain the brothers were intoxicat
ed when they engaged in a fist fight
in the lane at Albert’s home near
Spencer.
Physicians who testified said evi
dence showed Albert came to his
death by compression of the head.
The doctors attached little import
ance to injuries suffered by Albert
when he was accidentally run over
after the fight by an auto driven by
Tom Coleman, his son.
There was a conflict in the testi
mony relating to who started the
fight that ended in the death.
B, , >>m ■
e sure
mm
ihe cabinet
■ ♦< xi
':W»
IS
w ■
ALL- STEEL
H You will want these General
Electric advantages . . . Monitor Top
mechanism ... new sliding shelves ...
all porcelain SUPER-FREEZER ... acid
resisting interiors ... finger-tip latches.
Newlowprices and a 3-Year Guarani ee.
$
iod
OWN
MONTHS TO PAY
Join us in the General Electric Program, broadcast every Saturday etwning, ona ruition-u/ide \.B.C.network.
GENERAL
ALL■STEEL
ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATOR
DOMKSTlC. APAKTMENT HOUSE AND I1K> Hit.KM MOHS — ELECTRIC WATER COOLKBS
A. V. VIRGIN, O’NEILL, NEB.
W. E. Brooks.... .Elgin, Neb.
R. L. Johns._.~.- _ _Atkinson, Neb.
M. & R. Service Station------ Ewing, Neb.
Village of Stuart ...Stuart, Neb.
FEDERAL AND STATE
ENTOMOLOGISTS VISIT COUNTY
Several state and federal entom- j
; niogiats visited Holt county last
week. Dr. J. R. Parker, federal en-1
tomologist from Bozeman, Montana;
j O. S. Bare, Extension Entomologist
! and L. M. Gates, state entomologist,
made up the party. Monday after
| noon they accompanied the county
agent on a trip to Atkinson, Stuart,
Cleveland and Dustin. All three men
talked to a group of forty men who
| met at the Cleveland church that j
evening.
Bare and Gates said that the situa
tion in Holt county is serious. Dr.
Parker said that north Nebraska’s
condition is similar to the South Da
kota situation last year. He said that
efforts should be made to control the
hoppers by poison and cultural prac
tices. It was his opinion that a fav
orable winter, for hoppers, would
mean that our infestation next year
will be much worse.
The use of a poison bran mash has
been the most effective means of con
trol. Where directions for mixing
and application are followed the re
sults from poisoning are good. Two
or three applications or even more
will be necessary to control the pest.
A survsy of grain and alfalfa fields
in the Cleveland community indicat
ed that the most of the large yellow
hoppers have moved into the corn
fields. They are the ones which are
doing the most damage.
The hoppers which are found in
hay fields and pastures are mostly a
smaller sort which do not ordinarily
damage much corn. It was the opin
ion of the state men that there would
not be much danger from these hop
pers. As long as there is feed in the
pastures and hay fields they won’t
do a great deal of damage to the
corn.
The Board of Supervisors have
ordered a carload of poison which |
will be on track at O’Neill on Friday |
of this week. This poison will be dis
tributed to farmers at $1.00 per sack.
This will be two thirds of what the
poison bran costs. The supervisors
will order more poison as it is need
ed.
GRASSHOPPERS HAVE ONLY
ONE BROOD A YEAR
Grasshoppers, contrary to the be
lief of many, have but one brood a
year, says A. L. Ford, extension en
tomologist at the South Dakota
state college. Sometimes, when tiny;
grasshoppers appear in the latter!
part of June or the early part ofj
July they are thought to be part of!
a second brood.
They are in reality the result of a
delayed hatch, the egg having been j
laid the previous fall and having
j been prevented from hatching earlier1
because of being protected from the!
heat by bunches of tumble weeds or j
other material. Eggs laid on north j
slopes where the sun’s rays do not'
strike them, often hatch late.
The female hopper lays her eggs
in the fall, punching them into the
sod ground, as a rule. At the same
time she secretes a sticky substance
which solidifies, and with the egg, t
forms a pod. These pods are to be
found just below the surface of the
ground, in the grass roots. Since
the grasshoppers are usually congre
gated in cultivated crops in the fall,
most of these eggs are laid in sod
ground close to cultivated fields. The
pods are fairly waterproof and freez
ing and thawing will kill some of the
eggs. Each pod.jwntains about 100
eggs, and when kept under observa
tion in cages, female hoppers have
been known to lay as many as 13
pods, which would total 1300 eggs.
These eggs, when exposed to a suf
ficient interval of warm temperature
will hatch. During this period of
development the grasshoppers shed
their skins from five to seven times j
depending upon which species they;
are. Their skins are hard, and in or
der for them to grow it is necessary
for them to shed their skins, im
mediately after they shed they will
grow rapidly for a few hours and
then their new skins will harden,
after which they cease growing until
the next time they shed. These cast
off skins, or molts are often mistak
en for dead hoppers since the legs
are shed with the skins. At the time
of the last molt the hoppers get
their wings.
FORMER FRONTIER EMPLOYE
KILLED AT HAY SPRINGS
Orin J. Rockey, 31, fell between!
two freight cars and was instantly j
killed last Monday. He was west
bound from Hay Springs and was sup
posed to be headed for Seattle, Wash- j
ington, where he expected to find!
work at the printing trade.
Mr. Rockey was employed at The;
Frontier office during the summer
of 1929 for a few weeks. His home j
was in Lincoln where his mother re-!
sides. A brother, Ransom Rockey, j
is one of the proprietors of the M. &
R. filling station at Ewing.
The remains were taken to Lin
coln where funeral services were!
held.
CORN MI ST HAVE RAIN
SOON TO RAISE CROP
The mercury crawled up to 105
above, Wednesday. The farmers say
that the corn is burning up. A large
amount of the corn over the county
is in tassel and unless a good rain ar
rives soon much of the com will be j
seriously damaged.
AUTOMOBILE
INSURANCE
The new law making it most essential that
everyone carry Public Liability and Prop
erty Damage Insurance takes effect August
1st. Now is the time to get this protection.
I write this and all classes of Insurance, at
lowest rates.
Charles P. Hancock
S. L. Berry Office.
Phone 180
July Clearance Sale
PRICES SLASHED ON ALL
DRESSES — HATS — CORSETS — AND HOSE
DRESSES
$22.50 values ... $17.75
$19.75 values....$10.75
$12.75 values.$ 7.95
$ 6.75 values......$ 3.95
Chapman Style Shop
WOOr
STOP!
READ!
A Sale offering wonderful
values at a small price you
will gladly pay.
COME
10c Sale!
Sale Starts Sat., July 25
SUCH WORTH WHILE ARTICLES AS:
Window Shades,
Pillow Cases,
Fine Dressing Combs,
Photograph Albums,
Ladies’ Bandeaux Bow
Ties,
V ases,
Ladies Hand Bags,
Market Baskets,
Corn Cake Pans,
Fly Sprayers,
Inflated Play Balls,
Hack Saws,
And countless other bar
gains at
10 c
Bowen’s Variety Store
O’Neill, Nebraska
