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The Frontier. VOL. LII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1931 No. 21 “GOOD LUCK WILL HELP A MAN OVER THE DITCH IF HE JUMPS HARD:_ GO TO PASTURE FOR FRESH VEAL ARE UNDER ARREST C- .. “•-> The preliminary hearing is set for Monday in county court in the case of the state vs. Iiay Augus, Roy Nor wood and Frank Morris. The former is out on bond and the two latter in the county jail pending the hearing in county court. The three men are charged with butchering a calf and making away with the fresh veal on October 2 in a pasture belonging to a man by the name of Miller four miles south of Ewing. The calf was the property of Edna Lafquest of Antelope county, a niece of Mr. Miller. The hide and other trimmings from the calf were found in the pasture. According to an account related by Clarence Hahlbeck, one-half mile west of Ewing to officials here, the three men charged with butchering the calf, came to his house about 10 o’clock in the evening and a drinking party en sued until around 2 o’clock w'hen the three left. About 5 they returned with a quantity of freshlydressed veal. Fred Sisson, another resident of that community, adds some informa tion to the details county officials are splicing together. At 15 minutes be fore 5 that morning he heard some one call outside and say that they were out of gas. Morris was outside and wanted to get gasoline. Mr. Sis son tells officials he offered to take him to the Tahlbeck place but was told they were having a little party and so took him to the vicinity of the car the three men were using, notic ing as he left Morris that there was blood on his clothing. CONSTITUTION OF THE HOLT COUNTY ECONOMY LEAGUE ARTICLE 1. Name. The name of this organization shall be “The Holt County Economy League.” ARTICLE 2. Objects. The objects of the organization shall be as follows: 1st. To form a body of men and women, property owners in Holt county, who will work individually and collectively in conserving for its pro per use the money paid by the tax payers of Holt oounty, Nebraska or received from any other source to the officers of said County for the main tenance of our governments, State, City, Township, County, School and Road Districts. 2nd. To confer with the County and Precinct Assessors as to irregular and disproportionate assessments of the property, real and personal, in the county. 3rd. To confer, by its officers and committees with the County Board of Supervisors or any other officers of the county of Holt or its subdivisions, to the end that our money shall be economically and wisely expended. 4th. To urge, the County Board to make as low a levy as possible for the various funds and to use no portion of any fund for the payment of an indebtedness against any other fund excepting where such fund may be and is legally transferred. 5th. To use every effort and lawful means to reduce taxation and relieve the people from the present intoler able burden. BY LAWS 1st. All men and women tax pay ers in Holt county, Nebraska are elig ible to membership in this body. 2nd. The officers shall consist of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by one person. The duties of such officers are such as are usually performed by like officers in similar organizations. Officers shall be elected at the first meeting after the adoption of this Constitution and By-Laws. 3rd. Meetings shall be held every two weeks on Saturday at such places in the county as may be selected by the chairman upon motion and vote of the members present. The annual meeting at which time officers shall be selected for the ensuing year shall be the first Saturday in September at O’Neill, Nebraska. 4th. Any tax payer shall become a member by signing the Constitution and By-Laws. Methodist Church Notes Benj. Kuhler, Pastor Sunday school at 10 A. M. Classes for all ages and good teachers. Preaching at 11; theme—“In the Cross of Christ I Glory.” Epworth League services for young people 6:30 and evening preaching services at 7:30 There was a good response to rallly day last Sunday—keep com ing_and a good response to the morning message. Some of The Frontier’s mailing list was delayed last issue, partly be cause of a large amount of type to set in getting up the tax list, but more particularly because of having to overhaul some of the equipment. We are getting things in condition as fast as possible to avoid delays in the future. Seventy-five Dollar Robbery John P. Protivinsky’s grocery store was robbed last Saturday night, cases of canned goods, sacks of flour and potatoes being taken. The plundering was done from the rear of the build taken and a larger haul was evidently in the original plan as some goods were stacked out to be loaded another trip. Sheriff Peter Duffy and City Marshal Scott Hough have been co operating in an effort to apprehend the theives and were making satis factory headway at last reports last evening. Booher-Hough On Sunday, September 27, Kenneth Booher of Long Pine claimed the hand of Miss Phyllis Hough. The marriage ceremony took place at Ainsworth, the county judge of Brown county officiating. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hough of this city. She has attended school and grown to young womanhood in O’Neill, where she has made and kept a wide circle of friends. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Booker of Long Pine. He came to O’Neill in the fall of 1929, as an employee of the Council Oak Store, where he worked until two months ago. He accepted a position at Long Pine where they will make their home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Booher are well known here and their many friends join in extending them every wish for a long, happy and prosperous wedded life. Tom Morris Laid to Rest This brief obituary is found in one of the state papers. Tom Morris was probably as well known and univer sally liked as any one ever to make their home here. Associated with his father, they conducted what is now the Stout drug store. The elder Morris died back in the nineties, Tom and his mother soon after removing to Meadow Grove. “Thomas M. Morris, 72, a pioneer resident of Battle Creek, but for the past fifteen year a resident at Obert, died at 3:40 Thursday morning at his home at Obert. He operated a drug store at Battle Creek. “He is survived by his wife and one son, Thomas J. Morris, who lives at Sioux City, la. “Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Saturday morning at Obert. The body will be brought to Battle Creek for burial at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. There will be only brief rites at the grave.” Eductational Notes (By the County Supt.) All the accredited High Schools in the State have been invited by the American Legion to participate in the Young Citizen’s contest. The County Elimination Contest will be held in O’Neill at the Public School Building at 9:30 Saturday morning, October The winners will enter the State con test which will be held during the first week of November during the Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha. President Hoover, in a recent pro clamation calling for the celebration of the One Hundred Fiftieth Anniver sary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorkton, Virginia, recommended that Monday, October 19th, be fitting ly observed in schools and other suit able places in commemoration of the American victory at Yorktown. The United States-Yorktown Ses quicentennial Commission respectful ly requests that all institutions of learning be urged to celebrate the anniversary of the surrender and as semble at the hour of President Hoover’s address, beginning at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, eastern standard time, or 10 o’clock central standard lime. We urge that , if possible, facilities be provided in your schools for the children to hear the President’s ad dress during which President Hoover will extend a special greeting to the school childr en of America . We further request that at the con clusion of the President’s address which will be about 10:35 central standard time, all school children salute the flag and join the thousands gathered at Yorktown in singing America. Every school in Holt county should acceed to this request at this time and join in this celebration. As recorded in a Sioux City paper, Joe Pyle, remembered by many here, has just been sentenced in the Mus catine, Iowa, district court to twenty five years in the penitentiary, being convicted on a charge of robbery. Dashing Young Chap Lands in the City Jail Sheriff Peter Duffy took a young man giving his name as Harold Baughmann into custody Monday morning. He was wanted for steal ing a watch from a lady at Atkinson. He purported to he from Indianoplis, lnd., and was something of a dashing young chap, apparently quite popular with the ladies. He had visited the larger towns between here and Chad ron and had autographs and photo graphs and cards from many ladies along the way. The card of a socially prominent lady of Atkinson was a mong the collection the sheriff found on him. One photograph he said was of a teacher at Chadron. His feminine conquests at O’Neill may not all have been disclosed. Mon day morning he was found with an O’Neill girl, both fast asleep in a car belonging to the Linotype operator at The Frontier. The car had not been driven, they simply taking up quarters therein. There not being room in the county jail for an additional prisoner, Eauh mann was locked in the city jail. Here another chapter was added. Chair man John Sullivan of the county board passing in the vicinity of the jail was seen by Bauhmann, who beckoned him to the window and asked if he would do him a favor. The favor was a request that two hack saws be passed into the jail. The watch was restored to its owne at Atkinson and she not caring to appear as a witness against him the young man was turned loose with official instructions to “beat it.’’ iBcnnc 31'o l Us ■' Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Morrison left yesterday for a motor trip to Omaha and Kansas City. ..... Mrs. J. L. Shanner and son Paul, Will Decker and Ray Lamison were a party over from near Page yesterday. Charles Kohler of Page, was at The Frontier offiice this morning to re new his subscription. He reported frost in that neighborhood. _ - D. E. Alder of Star was in the city Tuesday and called, renewing his allegiance to The Frontier in a sub stantial way. Mrs. Thomas Quilty represents the local Degree of Honor at a district meeting of the order in Omaha Wed nesday and Thursday. — Mrs. Luella A. Parker, county sup erintendent, was in Chambers and vicinity Tuesday and Wednesday in the interests of the schools. L. M. Merriman of the O’Neill pop factory, went to Sioux City yesterday with two truck loads of empty cases, returning with loads of near beer. L. G. Gillespie, the hustling in surance agent, was at Chambers and Amelia Thursday looking after affairs pertaining to his large list of clients. Bob Arbuthnot and son Jack de parted Monday for a visit with Mr. Arbuthnot’s brother Arthur, who lives near Cedar Rapids, and incidentally to bag a few pheasants. The Ladies of The Presbyterian church will give a chicken pie dinner on Thursday, October 22, in the church parlors. Will begin serving at 5:30. Everybody come. Adults fifty cents. Arbuthnot .& Reka report the sale the past week of a new special Chev rolet sedan to George Whitney, local representative of the Cudahy Packing Co., a new DeLuxe coach to I)r. Brown and a 1928 model to Theo Moss of Chambers. Marked and circled, scored and und er scored, penciled and notated, pap ers come to Charley Stout from his wife in Chicago giving details in story and picture of the Capone trial. Mr. Stout’s son-in-law, William Froelich, an O’Neill boy, is one of the govern ment attorneys. Many lads go out from O’Neill that are heard from in one way or another. William Beha. son of Mr. and Mrs. Beha in the hotel business here, is coming to the front at Marshall col lege at Huntington, W.V., where he is studying journalism. He is en the staff of the Parthenon, a fine college publication. County Attorney J. D. Cronin was in Butte most of last week assisting in the prosecution of the case of the state against Ernest Coleman, trial on a charge of causing the death of his brother, Albert, in an affair some month’s ago which the coroner’s jury described as a “drunken brawl”. The jury found him guilty of manslaught er. The 4-H clubs in various localities of the county have been having some interesting and profitable programs the past week. The clubs in Sand creek, Cleveland, Celia, Chambers, Amelia and Ballah gave programs Monday and Tuesday evenings.^ Last evening at the court house, Emmet, O’Neill, Page and Opportunity clubs got together in a program. Newton W. Graves of the Extension Service at Lincoln was the principal speaker at these programs. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS I « CHOICE BEEF STEAK, Per lb..17'/2c ] CHOICE YOUNG VEAL ROASTS, per lb.15c j FRESH GROUND HAMBURGER, 2 lbs.25c j FRESH PORK LIVER, 2 lbs...19c j SUGAR, 10 lbs__—.-.-.57c j APPLE BUTTER, Qt. Jar.17c j PEANUT BUTTER, Pt. Jar.17c j RICE—FANCY BLUE ROSE, 3 lbs.19c j R. R. MORRISON Groceries ...Mea ts M. A. Whaley was a pleasant, as well as profitable caller last Friday. Mr. Whaley is one of the early set tlers in the north Holt country, home steading thirty-six years ago and has been a continuous reader of this pap er since those early days. His visit was cut a bit short as Mr. Whaley had to hike along home and see after the milking of twenty-four head of cows. .. Falls From Train George Scott, a brakeman on the Burlington freight, fell from his train Monday between here und Page. He had noticed an unusual pounding of I the train and went to the platform! and leaned out to see what he could discover. It was a wet, soggy morn ing and he slipped and fell from the train. He was not injured. George Mitchell and another man were in the vicinity hunting pheas ants. They saw Mr. Scott hoofing it toward Page, but supposed him to be an early morning hunter that had be come disgusted and thrown away his gun. Discovering w-ho it was picked lum up and took him on to Page. Legion Elects Officers The local post of the American Le gion, Simonson No. 93, elected officers last night as follows: Leo Carney, present adjutant was elected Commander; Howard Bauman, 1st Vice-Commander and Levi Yant zie, 2nd Vice-Commander. These three are all O’Neill men. Executive Committee: Joseph Gallagher, Inman; John So hotka, Inman; Bernard Naughton, O’Neill; George Urlauh, O'Neill; and Richard Minton, O’Neill. The adjutant and service officer are appointed by the commander and he has not yet made these appointments. _____ PUBLIC SALE—Cattle, including good milk cows, horses, hogs, farm machinery, grain and hay and house hold goods, at 12:30 Tuesday, Oct. 20, 3 miles west of Emmet, 6 east of Atkinson on highway 20. — Mrs. Clara Jennings Local sportsmen were on tSie road early Tuesday morning to get out where the gay-feathered pheas ants strut, the brief season opening ithat morning. Birds .are reported rather plentiful and most of them going out are getting their share. No accidents with the shot gun, fatal or otherwise, have been reported in this county. The report of one such comes from Knox county. Sam Wheeler of near Creighton was in stantly killed when the gun he was carrying was discharged as he was going through a fence. Army Officer in Berlin This story from the Rocky Mount ain News is of a nephew of R. H. Mills: A Denver man, Lieut. Walter N. Clinton, was one of the first detach ment of American troops to enter Berlin after the armistice. He is still there and is acting as head of the American military mission, charged with the return of allied prisoners held in German prison camps. Lieutenant Clinton’s experience in the army has been about as full of high spots as anybody’s who hasn’t been filled with shrapnel three or four times and had a leg or two blown off. He was in line in the Argonne for six weeks without rest, led his company into the famous town of Sedan on the day the armistice was signed, after having previously helped to rescue the celebrated “lost battalion" in the Argonne. Clinton is a graduate of East Den ver High school He served on the border with the Colorado National gard and won a medal for being the best drilled soldier in the state. He was made a second lieutenant while on the border and when war was de clared he received a promotion. He sailed for France Aug. 12, lbl8, as a member of company B, 157th in fantry. The unit landed first in Eng land, but got over to France in time to see plenty of fighting. When the Fortieth division was broken up to supply replacements to the combat divisions Lieutenant Clinto was transferred to the Seventy-seventh division of New York. That division brought up the left flank of General Pershing’s drive thru the Argonne and saw some of the hardest fight ing of the war in the tangled under growth of the dense forest of Ar gonne. When Major Whittlesey’s battalion was cut off from the rest of the divi sion Lieutenant Clinton’s battalion was called upon to rescue them. After several days of terrific fighting, the marooned warriors were reached. Mr. Clinton married Miss Martha Arnett of Denver as the culmination of a romance which began in High school. He writes to his wife from Berlin that prices of food are very high and that the first American to arrive there had great difficulty in getting bread tickets. 5 0 YEARS IN ONE Sunday School DORSEY MAN’S RECORD ■■ 'Mi——— (Special correspondence) On October 4, 1931, V. V. Rosen krans of Dorsey, had the honor of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of his being associated with the Dorsey Sunday school. He has been super intendentent of the Sunday school the greater part of these years, but not all of them, but being with the same Sunday school for fifty years is an honor not many can boast of, and the Dorsey Sunday school is very proud to be able to still have him for their superintendent. They showed their appreciation by having a special program for the day. On October 4, 1881, he first attended Sunday school at Dorsey. It was then held in a log building on the creek near where the town of Dorsey was. Later a church was erected where the school is still held. He has attended Sunday school each Sunday unless sickness or some other good reason prevented his going The Dorsey Sunday school owes a great deal to him as there have been times when the Sunday school might not have gone on had it not been for his faithfulness in going and leading the small band who came. Though seventy-six years of age he is still active and scarcely ever misses being at Sunday school, not only be ing superintendent, but filling any vacancy as a teacher and always helping with the singing. Nothing he enjoys better than a few neighbors getting together and hav ing a good old fashioned sing. Only one other person, Mrs. Sam Derickson, had the honor of being present for the program that attended Sunday school at Dorsey on October 4, 1881. og-L vbgk vbgk cmfw cmfw shrd w Service it the First Presbyterian Church Sunday School 10:00—Mr. Geo. C. Robertson. An effort is made to keep this work up to date and effec tive. Morning Worship 11:00—Theme, “A Spiritual, Fruitful Life.” Young People’s C. E. Meeting, 6:45 Leader, Pearl Burge. Evening Service, 7:30—Do you waiit help in these days of disappoint ment and depression? A series of sermons are being preached in the evening services on the general sub ject “Undergirding Life in the Time of Depression”. The subject next Sunday night will be, “The Prayer Answering God.” We invite you. H. D. Johnson, Pastor. In District Court Action has been started in district court on behalf of the state against Albert G. Black, on complaint of Al bert Gibson. Complaint to keep the peace. James B. Meyer is held to trial in district court on a ilquor violation charge. NOTICE Holliday’s Poland China Boar sale at the farm, 6 miles south-east of Page, Wednesday, October 21. Sell ing 40 head of Boars. We expect these Boars to sell in line with con ditions and pork prices. So don’t think they will sell too high. John D. Holliday. A drizzling rain most of the day Monday showed a total for the day of .80. This makes 1.45 inches with in a week. Rev. Benj. Kuhler drove to Gordon with a friend, Lewis Burleigh, Wed nesday, for a visit with his daught er and sister, planning to return Fri day. Obtaining the license in county court Wednesday of last week, the marriage of Archa Crawford of Em met and Christina Fritton of Leigh, Neb., was solemized last Sunday by Rev. M. F. Byrne, pastor of the Cath olic church at Emmet. Mr. and Mrs J. M. Horisky arrived in the city Saturday from Cody, Wy., and will visit relatives here for a time. Jack, as Mr. Horisky is familarly known here, says that the closing of the wells in the oil field at Cody has left that city rather flat, industrially speaking. Operations in the oil field have been suspended because unpro fitable. Many counties show a large de linquent tax list this October. Cherry county leads them all with five news paper pages of descriptions. It is by far the largest county in the state, which explains to some extent its supremacy in delinquent taxes. Holt has about three pages while Knox and Antelope, two smaller counties have each about two pages.