THE FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Pohtiaher
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Basinets Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill,
Nabraska aa Second Claaa Matter.
THE STATE BOARD
FIXES STATE TAX LEVY
The State tax levy for 19?1 has
been fixed by the State Bos rd of
Equalization and Assessment, at 2.04
mills on the dollar valuation. This is
equivalent to $2.04 on each $1,000.00
of taxable valuation.
Holt county, on this basis, will be
charged with $63,045 in State taxes
in 1931, as compared to $70,903 in
1929.
The total State taxes levied
throughout the state in 1931 is $<>,
213,419.16, as compared to a total of
$7,879,328 charged to the counties in
1929.
Of the state levy made in 1931,
1.93 mills is for general fund purpos
es and .11 mills is for the Capitol
Fund.
The total assessed valuation of the
state in 1931 is as follows:
Tangible property ... $3,045,793,706
Class A Intangibles 87,990,379
Class B Intangibles 118,331,009
The law provides that emergency
appropriations made by the Legisla
ture shall be provided for in the
first levy after the adjournment of
the session, hence the comparison of
1931 with 1929, as both levies pro
vide for the emergency appropria
tions of the two sessions.
FAULHABER—ZABTROW
Last week The Frontier mentioned
that these two young people were
married recently but we were not in
possession of any of the facts at that
time; they returned home a few days
ago from a wedding trip into Can
ada.
Sidney J. Faulhaber and Miss
Catherine Mary Zastrow were mar
ried in Fairfax, South Dakota, on
Monday, Aug. 10th, by Father Dube,
in the priest’s home.
The bride was attired in e brown
silk crepe dress with accessories to
match.
Mrs. Faulhaber is the daughter of
Mis. Mary Zastrow of this city; she
is a graduate of St. Mary’s Acad
emy; for the past eighteen months
she has been employed in the office
of John L. Quig. . ;
Mr. Faulhaber is -one of the busy,
hustling young men, of O’Neill; he is
employed by the county as the driv
er of one of the maintainance trucks.
Following the ceremony they drove
to Minot, North Dakota, then north
into Canada and on to Winnipeg.
They were away for about a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Zastrow will muke
their home for the present with Mrs:
Zastrow in the northern part of the
city.
MR. AND MRS. MAORI.
CELEBRATE THEIR
GOLDEN WEDDING
Although the fiftieth anniversary
of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Magirl occurred on the twentieth
of last April, their sonB and daugh
ters gathered at the old home last
Saturday and on Sunday a fitting
celebration was held in honor of the
event. The occasion was a complete
surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Magirl; the
children so timed their arrival that
they gathered at the home at the
same time Saturday, and it was sev
eral minutes before the mother fully
realized just what was taking place.
Those who were present and took
part in the happy occasion were Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Head and children,
Robert Vincent, Janet Ann and Ru
dolph, Randolph, Nebraska; Dr. and
Mrs. R. F. Magirl and children, Rob
ert, Peggy, Mary Helen, Jack, Cath
erine, Tresa Marie, Jackson, Nebras
ka; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Daugherty
and daughter, Miss Mary, Clearfield,
South Dakota; M. J. Neustrom, son
Bobby and daughter Mary Pauline,
Mobile, Iowa; John Magirl, Woon
socket, South Dakota.
Each of the children brought bas
kets of good things to eat. The party
went to the Dishner grove a short
distance from the Magirl home where
tiie dinner was served and the after
noon spent in the shade of the trees;
the young folks enjoyed swimming
in the Elkhorn river which runs
close to the grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Magirl were married
in Manchester, Iowa, by Father Far
ley, on April 20, 1881. They made
their home in Iowa for about ten
years; they came to O'Neill about
forty years ago where they have con
tinued to reside. They have raised a
large family and have managed to
give each of their children a good
education. Mr. and Mrs. Magirl are
listed among the very few old timers
of this community who came here in
the very early stages of O’Neill; they
can tell of many interesting events
that have occurred throughout this
community and recount with zest the
many happy days they have spent
rearing their family and doing their
part in building a community that
will stand as a monument to the
memory of those who labored so dili
gently to establish a home for their
posterity.
Mis. P. J. Head, of Randolph, Ne
braska. mother-in-law of -a. 3. C, M.
(Magirl) Head, and an old school
mate of Mrs. Robert Magirl, baked
the wedding cake which was a crea
tion that drew much praise from the
gathering.
A number of the children and their
families returned to their homes on
Monday.
The Frontier wishes to congratu
late Mr. and Mrs. Magirl on having
had the privilege of living together
far fifty years, and to express the
wish that they may continue to en
joy the companionship of each other
for many years to come.
Consult The Frontier about your
Printing before you send your work
out of town.
COLONEL NEIL BRENNAN
AND GEN. JOHN O’NEILL
San Diego, California,
August 15, 1931.
The article by Will Maupin in a
recent issue of The Frontier, was
read with much interest by many
residents of San Diego, California.
The article was written in the right
spirit, yet I read between the lines
that Mr. Maupin was not personally
acquainted with Colonel Brennan or
General O’Neill.
Colonel Brennan was one of the
best personal friends this writer ever
had. The article in question illus
trates his kindly heart and well
known public spirit. The only fault
1 have to find with the account con
cerns the dialect attributed to Col
onel Brennan, who nevpr would or
did say “What koind uv a bell was
you thinkin’ of gettin’ for the
church?” The Colonel was not that
kind of an Irishman. He was an Uls
terman and such accent as he had
was the Ulster burr. Being an Uls
terman, he was well acquainted with
Presbyterians in his native land and
also in Scotland, where he spent
many years of his youth and he knew
from experience that they are good
citizens, good friends and good neigh
bors. That is no doubt why he was
ready and willing to contribute free
ly to the purchase of a bell for the
Presbyterian church. He was an out
standing example of the better type
of Irishman—truthful, honest, ener
getic and patriotic in every sense of
the word. He believed that Irishmen
should own land and stick to it
through thick and thin and drouths
and grasshoppers. The man who held
on would win out in the end. Under
great difficulties he planted and rais
ed to perfection a beautiful park in
his adopted city and built a fine resi
dence therein. Some day I hope the
citizens of O’Neill will raise a monu
ment to two of the men who were in
a high degree responsible for its ex
istence and prominence, Colonel Neil
Brennan and Genera! John O’Neill.
The mose serious mistake in Mr.
Maupio’s article as regards General
O’Neill is the statement that when
he invaded Canada at the head of a
Fenian army he was “repulsed.”
Such is fame! The truth is that
General O’Neill became famous in
his invasion of Canada on account of
the victory he achieved over Can
adian-British troups at the Battle of
Ridgeway. During the remainder of
his life he was known as the “hero
of Ridgeway.” His withdrawal from
Canada was brought about not by any
repulse of Canadian or British
troups, whom he did not fear, but
because he was still a reserve officer
in the army of the United States,
and as such he was ordered by Presi
dent Grant to desist from invasion
of a “friendly” nation.
In October, 1919, the writer was
chairman of the unveiling committee
of a monument erected in Omaha, to
General John O’Neill, where an ad
dress was delivered by President
Eamon de Valera, president of the
Irish Republic. The monument was
erected at the expense of the Robert
Emmet societies of Nebraska, most
of which are located in Omaha. I
thought at the time and will always
think that that monument or a bet
ter one should have been erected in
O’Neill, the town thut bears the
name of this patriotic general. It is
encouraging to know that the virile
patriotic strain typified in General
John O'Neill will endure. For ex
ample, his beautiful grand-daughter,
Helen O’Neill, became the wife of
Nicholas J. Martin, oldest son of the
late Hon. Patrick Martin, of San
Diego, California, who until his death
was the outstanding Irishman of
Southern California, his aforesaid
son, Nicholas J, Martin, being one of
San pi ego'a prominent young attor
neys.1 Well,- the oldest son of these
young people has been named O’Neill
Martin, in honor of his distinguished
great grand-father.
Another slight discrepancy in Mr.
Maupin’s article was calling Senator
John Robertson “John Robinson.”
On the whole, however, the article
was of the type that some of us old
timers like to read even if the O’Neill
Irish did not speak the kind of
brogue that Mr. Maupin imagines.
1 fact I think O’Neill would be a
mighty good place for a student of
English To come to improve his style
and he might learn n few other
things also.
Very truly.
E. H. WHELAN.
O’NEILL FARMER SEARC H
EI) FOR THAT TOWN
BEFORE IT WAS BUILT
(Sioux City Journal)
Walking up the Elkhorn valley
with Mrs. Nell Brennan, Sr., to look
at a town yet unbuilt, fell to the lot
of Con Keys, 70, now farming west
of O’Neill.
Keys says they met Gen. O’Neill,
founder of the town, on the prairie.
“Stranger,” Keys asked, “where may
we find O’Neill city?”
“Haven’t started it yet,” O’Neill
replied. Keys says he was near
O’Neill city three years before a
mass was said in the viciaity. Rev.
Father Medard, a missionary, spoke
the first sermon in the city.
Keys says the country had as
much food in it as any other raw
country, but that it was mighty hard
to find it at times. This was back in
1870.
One of Keys’ companions went to
Cheyenne, Wyo», to search for gold.
The man walked there and back to
the “Lore Tree” near Emmet, and he
subsisted on nothing but grass and
water during the entire journey. .
Mr. Keys says he staged an early
endurance contest when he lived as
frugally as he coaid one year and
the end of fhnt time found his charf^,
ed grocery account totalled only $23.
Keys says he raised tobacco in
Holt county that stood seven feet
high. Winds and hailstorms made it
unprofitable here, he said.
In 1870 Keys assisted Patrick Mc
Coy at breaking iod' p^gii :e.t Keys’
vest, holding $124, was left on a
small cottonwood tree, near which
dozens of children and men played
and worked. Keys went to the J. B.
Ryan ranch, was absent days, return
ed and found his money intact in the
vest. He told this to show the hon
esty prevailing at the time.
Today another type of man—or
beast—is killing calves and cutting
fence at night on the Keys farm,
“merely for the sport of it,” he
thinks, for he is sure he has no
enemies.
Keys said he thought Mrs. John
O’Fallon, John Enright, Mrs. Neil
Brennan, Sr., and himself are all who
are living of those first people who
located on the upper Elkhorn river
valley.
WILLIAMSON—PEARSON
Lynn Williamson, of Page, and
Eda Pearson, of Lona, South Dakota
were married by Rev. Samuel Mc
Keown, in Page, Nebraska, last Sun
day.
VONASEK—PROKOP
Mr. Ben Vonasek and Miss Wilma
Prokop were united in marriage at
the Methodist parsonage, Tuesday
morning by the pastor, Rev. Benj.
Kuhler. The groom gave his address
as Verdel and the bride as Verdigre.
Their future home will be on a farm
near Walnut, Nebraska.
LOCAL NEWS
The Catholic Daughters will hold
their annual picnic next Thursday.
Mrs. David Robar, Salix, Iowa, is
visiting at the Tony Dressick home.
Charles McGrane and Pat O’Gor
man, of Norfolk, spent Sunday with
Dan McCarthy.
Rutland Crellin went to Neligh,
Sunday for a few days visit with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Tilsworth, of Ew
ing were visiting at the A. D. Palmer
home Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Beryl Winchell returned home
the first of the week from a vaca
tion trip to points in Colorado.
Jeffrey and Donald Smith, of Page
Nebraska were guests at the A. D.
Palmer home in O’Neill last week.
L. C. Walling, district manager of
the Interstate Power Co., left for
Chicago this morning, on a business
trip.
Mrs. Martha Lichty has hied an
action for divoroe from her husband,
James P. Lichty. The Lichty’s reside
in the eastern part of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Holman, of
St. Joseph, Missouri, visited for a
short time Tuesday with Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Manson, enroute to the
Black Hills.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Streeter went
to Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, where
they will visit friends; they will also
visit points in South Dakota before
returning home.
Peter W. Duffy, secretary of the
Holt County Fair, was in Atkinson
and Stuart last Monday putting out
advertising for the Fair, which will
be held September 1-2-3-4.
Mrs. R. L. Arbuthnot, Mrs. J. B.
Mellor, Miss Roberta and Miss Mar
ion Arbuthnot returned home Friday
from an auto trip through the Black
Hills and points in Wyoming.
Mrs. J. W. Holden and son Percy
and little daughter stopped in O’Neill
a short time Wednesday. They' had
been visiting with old friends in the
Chambers vicinity and were enroute
Miss Alice. C,olson, of Los Angeles,
California, is visiting at the home of
her niece, Mrs. R. B. Mellor.
The band contest advertised to be
held at Ewing, Nebraska, last Sun
day, did not take place for the reason
that the competing bands failed to
put in their appearance. The Ewing
band entertained the large audience
that had gathered to listen to the
music, so the visitors were not alto
gether disappointed. Quite a number
from O’Neill were present.
A nice rain is reported to have fal
len today at Page and the eastern
part of the county. About .29 of an
inch fell In O’Neill Tuesday night;
reports from the western part of the
county show that no rain fell in that
locality; the country north of O’Neill
got but little moisture at that time
bu in the eastern part of the county
the rain was on the hit and miss or
der; Mrs. Faulk reported a near
cloudburst about two miles north of
Page, while Page got a sprinkle.
Not much rain fell south of O’Neill.
The Neligh, Nebraska, Legion
baseball team defeated the Chey
enne, Wyoming, team 28 to 0, Tues
day, in the Rocky Mountain regional
championship of the American Le
gion baseball tournament. Neligh
will meet Albuquerque, New Mexico
team today for the all-western cham
pionship.
The Holt County friends of Cass
Moore, of Ainsworth, Nebraska, will
be grieved to learn of his death,
which occurred last Friday as the re
sult of injuries received earlier in
the week at the intersection just
south of the viaduct, south of Neligh
j Nebraska, when the car in which he
was riding was hit by another ear.
Mr. Moore was a county commission
er of Brown county and mayor of
Ainsworth. He was born in Salem,
Nebraska, and lived there twenty
three years. A. L. Baldwin, Ains
worth, member of the state game
commission, was driving the car
when Moore was injured. Baldwin
was not hurt.
Mrs. L. A. Van Hove and daugh
ter Helen, of Bristow, Nebraska, are
guests at the P. J. Lansworth home
fifteen miles northeast of O’Neill
this week; they also visited with
friends in O’Neill this week.
The Fair grounds are being pre
pared and the building put in proper
condition for the big Holt County
Fair that will begin Tuesday, Sep
tember 1st as entry day. The first
day of entertainment will be Wed
nesday, September 2nd, which is
Children’s Day when all school child
ren will be admitted free.
O. E. Buckley and three daughters
Miss Frances, Miss Lois and Miss
Dorothy, of Winnebago, Nebraska,
accompanied by Mrs. Jane Buckley,
of Lyons, Nebraska, spent Sunday
and Monday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Graves. Mr. Buckley is
a brother and Mrs. Jane Buckley is
the mother of Mrs. Graves.
Mrs. L, C. Chapman returned home
Tuesday from Omaha where she pur
chased a nice line of new fall hats
and dresses for her Style Shop. Mr.
Chapman accompanied her to Omaha.
They were guests of their son Lawr
ence and family for a couple of days.
Mrs. Luella Brook, of Atkinson, was
in charge of the Style Shop during
Mrs. Chapman’s absence.
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