The Frontier.
VOL. LII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1931. No. 24
“THERE’S NOTHING AGREES WORSE THAN A PROUD MIND AND A BEGGAR’S PURSE.”
O’NEILL WILL GET NO
Fire Equipment
BY RULING OF COURT
By a recent ruling of the supreme j
court, O'Neill is deprived of the new
fire equipment, bonds had been voted
to purchase. The court holds that
the bonds are not legally issued and
i.re therefore void.
At the spring election last April,
$7,000 of bonds were voted for the
purchase of new fire equipment. As
City Attorney W. J. Hammond viewed
it there were two provisions of the
statute under which the bonds could
be drawn up and proceeded to make
them up payable in seven years, in
preference to another statutory pro
vision making them payable in twenty
years and optional after seven years.
The state auditor declined to accept
the bonds. Mandamus was brought
by the city in the district court of
Lancaster county to compel the aud
itor to accept the bonds. The district
court sustained the validity of the
bonds. It has now been reversed by
the supreme court.
FOOTINGS OF THE TAX LIST
HOLT COUNTY
As reported to the State Tax Com
missioner by the County Clerk.
Tax 1931 1930
State $ 54,386.83 $ 63,176.80
County 96,483.40 97,929.45
School 265,236.68 288,953.68
City and
Village 34,867.80 31,012.89
Railways
Terminal __ - 1,654.25
Township - 51,150.93 56,220.77
Poll 6,251.00 6,195.00.
Miscellaneous 3,169.00 3,795.26
Total $511,545.64 $548,938.10
♦Includes Railway Terminal Tax.
Methodist Church Notes
Benj. Kuhler, Pastor.
Sunday school at 10:00 A. M. The
Teacher will be looking for the class
members and the class will be looking
for the teacher.
Preaching hour 11:00 A. M. Next
Sunday is “Peace” day. “My Peace
I leave With You. Not as the World
Githeth.” What kind of pease did the
world ever give?
Epworth League at 6:30. A fine
attendance last Sunday. Come again.
Evening preaching hour, 7:30. Spec
ial singing at these services by both
choirs.
Thursday evening prayer service at
7:30. Because folks have lost faith
irf God, and therefore in prayer, has
not waived its necessity nor effective
ness.
The ladies express their thanks for
the generous patronage and contribu
tions given them in their work.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the friends and
neighbors for their kindness and
sympathy in our late bereavement,
and for the lovely flowers.—Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Throckmorton, The Alvin
Nelson family, The William Derick
son family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith
and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Throckmorton.
O'Neill Mention
Petersburg Index: Mrs. Tom En
right of O’Neill arrived Wednesday
morning and accompanied her daugh
ter Miss Loretta to Omaha where the
latter is attending Teachers’ Con
vention.
Teachers’ Examinations
The Nebraska State Teachers’ Ex
aminations for the year will be giver
in Atkinson, Ewing and O’Neill on
November 21, 1931, January 16, 1932,
and April 16, 1932.
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John Grutsch, a pioneer of the
Honey Creek country northwest of
O’Neill, was found dead at his home
last evening. He had been living
alone. His son John lives just across
the road and his father had been
there in the morning. The body is at
Biglin's awaiting arrangements for
burial. Mr. Grutsch was 80 years of
age, one of the best known and most
substantial citizens. This near to go
ing to press we are unable to give
an obituary.
A pile of haled hay near the pump
ing station was upset and strewn a
bout and some bales broken by the
boys out for fun Saturday night. Per
haps they did not know the tragedy
of that particular prank. The scat
tering of the bales destroyed the
warm and cozy lodging place of one
of the city’s homeless citizens who
had found a refuge and a friendly
shelter in a nook far back under the
bales.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Noble were in
the city over night Tuesday on their
way from Plankinton, S. D., to Sioux
City. They have recently returned
from Los Angeles. In comparison
with the industrial situation where
they have been this community im
pressed them as considerably ahead
of the rest.
Services at the First Presbyterian
Church
Sunday School, 10:00—Mr. Geo. C.
Robertson, Superintendent.
Morning Worship, 11:00—Dr. R. W.
Taylor will speak on the subject
“Family Vows”.
C. E’. Prayer Meeting, 6:45—Grace
Loy, Leader.
Evening Service, 7:30—Dr. R. W.
Taylor will show pictures of his trav
els in New England an Bahamas.
He will bring a short Gospel message.
Every night during the week Dr.
Taylor will be with us to preach and
show pictures of his travels. No ser
vice Saturday night.
You are invited to attend.
H. D. Johnson, pastor.
Halloween Party
Mrs. Margaret Brennan’s grand
children, living in town, invited a few
friends in on last Saturday evening
to help spend Halloween.
About five o’clock, into a setting
very suggestive of the season came
a clown with a bat. Barnacle Bill the
Sailor with a ghost, a gypsy with a
cowboy, a small clown with a witch,
the Spirit of Halloween with a cow
boy, the younger gypsy with an In
dian, Madame Queen and Andy, Amos
grieving over the fact that Ruby Tay
lor was suffering with the Flu, Ruby
in private life being Lau Birmingham.
Later on a small but important clown
waddled in.
After supper and a few games, the
forrest beyond the house was the
scene of a wierd parade, dotted with
Jack-O-Lanterns Ghosts and Bats and
each member of the party doing stunts.
The guests were, Margaret Ham
mond, Catherine Finley, Dorothy Jor
dan, Dona Gallagher, Corrine Kubit
scheck, Ann Harty, Bob and Junior
Shoemaker.
Acting as hosts and hotess were
Bob Ryan, Jerry, Bice, Gene, Neil,
John, Bert, and Mary Devine Brennan.
Deciding the day had been cele
brated in a most fitting manner, the
guests left for their homes,wishing
Halloween came oftener than once a
year.
OBITUARY
Mabel Marie Thrackmorton was
born at Guilford, Missouri, on June 3,
1910.
She moved with her parents at the
age of one year, to Dorsey, Nebraska,
where she lived the rest of her life.
She was a member of the Dorsey
Sunday School. She graduated from
the Lynch High School with the class
of ’29.
Mabel was united in marriage to
Clayton Miller, on February 20, 1930,
at Yankton, S. D. She was a victim
of diabetes since the summer of 1929,
which caused her death on the 29th
of October, 1931.
She leaves, besides her husband, a
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. El
mer Throckmorton, and a sister, Edna,
Mrs. Alvin Nelson, of Barnard Mis
souri; a sister Cecil, Mrs. William
Derickson, of Dorsey, Nebraska; an
other sister, Iva, Mrs. Harry Smith
of Walnut, Nebraska; and one brother
Albert Thrackmorton of Lincoln, Ne
braska, be sides a host of friends.
Her funeral was held at the Dorsey
church, Sunday afternoon, November
1, 1931, Rev. Kerber of Bristow, Neb.
officiating. Music was furnished by
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cole, Mrs. Frank
Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Grant, Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Newman, and Hal
Rosenkraus, singers, and Mrs. Lee
Brady, pianist. Tall bearers were
Claud Pickering, Ronald Carson, Lee
Brady, Jr., Roger Rosenkrans, Forrest
Farrand, and Lyle Nightengale.
Her parents and sister and brother
in-law, Mrs. and Mr. Alvin Nelson,
and an uncle, Leroy Beck of Barnard,
Mo., and her brother Albert and wife
of Lincoln, came for the funeral.
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The Nebraska Industrial
and Construction Review
The following record of industrial
activity lists items showing invest
ment of capital, employment of labor
and business activities and opportun
ities. Information from which the
paragraphs are prepared is from local
papers, usually of towns mentioned,
and may be considered generally cor
rect.
Broken Bow—Bids asked for con
struction of proposed post office build
ing.
Ogallala—Sibal and Son sold 63
head of hogs during recent day.
Scottsbluff—B. Davis purchased the
McLoud Toggery Store.
Hay Springs—local potatoe harvest
completed.
Red Cloud—Bridge on Highway No.
3, three miles east of here, completed.
Trenton—Fred Swartz plans mining
operations on farm.
Beverly—Road between this city
and Trenton being graded.
Preliminary work on Goldenrod
Highway link between Reynolds and
Hubbell to start soon.
llarbine—$10,000 school building
dedicated.
Daykin—Gravel hauled from two
pits south and east of this city to be
used on county road projects.
Road from Butte to Naper to be
graveled.
Butte—Distribution system being
rebuilt by Interstate Power Co.
Beatrice—Contract let for construc
tion of girls dormitory at institute for
feeble minded, to cost $48,336.
Paving between Scottsbluff and
Mitchell completed.
Sidney—Local streets improved.
Verdel—New school building com
pleted.
McCook—Diamond Engineering Co.
received $55,067 contract for construc
tion of bridge over Republican.River
south of this city.
Helvey—Road in this vicinity being
graveled.
Bloomfield — Center road being
graveled.
Beemer—Main Street under con
struction.
Homer—Local streets graveled.
Beatrice—Home for aged opened in
South Beatrice.
Routing of Elwood-Eustis Highway
definitely decided.
Coleridge—Construction of sanitary
sewer system progressing.
Brock—Local streets graveled.
Seward—Rotary Club opened new
club rooms.
Norfolk-United Farmers Insurance
Co. filed articles of incorporation.
Anoka—River road from Sioux City
to this place practically assured.
Scottsbluff—Local offices of North
Central Gas Co. moved to building in
which headquarter offices have been
maintained on First Ave.
Wymore—Bass planted in streams
in this vicinity.
Blue Springs—Street leading west
from Highway No. 77 graveled.
Creighton—Pantorium moved to
new location.
Pender—This city now served with
natural gas.
Highway No. 91 between Howell
and Lincoln graveled.
West Point—Moran Construction
Co. submitted low bid of $40,629 for
construction of 1.3 miles of highway
north of city.
McCook — Congregational church
edifice to be remodeled.
Trenton—plans being made by
Judge A. McCoy for erection of brick
business building.
Niobrara—J. C. Frieburghouse pur
chased 80-acre farm near here.
West Point—Gravel pit discovered
on Paul Brockman farm.
Grading on Highway No. 50 south
to county line progressing rapidly.—
Palmyra Items.
Brock—Second floor of “Brock Bul
letin” home improved preparatory to
installation of light housekeeping a
partmcnt or individual rooms.
McCbofc—Western Bridge Co. of
Omaha, received $19,706 contract for
graveling 13 miles of Highway No.
183 south.
Dawson County Irrigation Co. seek
authority to issue $95,000 in stock to
hook up chain of eight lakes in Garden
county as nucleus of irrigation system
to be used in Dawson county.—Bridge
port, News Blade.
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City Clerk Ed Campbell was a;
Grand Island visitor last week.
There will be Lutheran service
next Tuesday night at T:30 o’clock,
conducted by Rev. Vahle.
Mrs. Parker, county superintendent,
was in the south part of the county
yesterday visiting schools.
Mrs. M. R. Sullivan and Mrs. Helen
Simar left Thursday morning by train
for Omaha on a week end trip.
Mrs. Ralph Mills, accompanied by
her father, came up from Fullerton
Friday to spend a few days here.
Mrs. John McManus was hostess to
sixteen guests at a 7 o’clock dinner
at the Idle hour last Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donahoe have
spent the week in Lincoln and Omaha.
Mr. Donahoe had a ca^e before the !
supreme court the foi’c part of the j
week, after which they went to I
Omaha.
Charles Petijohn has been down
from the ranch in the northwest part
of the county the past week to see
the home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Allinger en
tertained six couples at a 7:00 o’clock
dinner at the Idle Hour Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. William Stevens died i» a
hospital at Omaha Tuesday from an
operation. The remains are to be
brought here for burial.
A new house at John Clarey’s and a
large new barn at Tom Gallagher’s,
farmers residing north of town, are
reported by the Seth Noble lumber
yard as now under construction.
Congressman Simmons was in O’
Neill yesterday morning ar,d went to
Boyd county in the afternoon. He
returned to O’Neill today to fill a
speaking engagement here this even
ing.
An appeal from the findings in
justice court at Ewing has been filed
in district court in the case of John
Latzel vs. Otto Lorenz. Latzel claimed
damages in the sum of $41.25 for de
I struetion of corn in his field by cattle
; belonging to Lorenz, He was a
warded S20 and costs by Justice C.'W.
! Lee of Ewing.
J. D. Cronin has been away during
the week on professional business in
the eastern part of the state, and at
the state capitol, where he went to
attend a law suit before the supreme
court.
Mrs. Mike Gallagher and grand
daughter Miss Hilda Gullagher ex
pect to leave Monday for a month’s
visit in Casper, Wyo., at the home of
Mrs. Gallagher’s daughter, Mrs. A.
Baker.
George Agnes is spending the week
at Peoria. 111., in attendance at a
nation wide convention of dealers in
the Firestone fencing, who have been
brought together at the expense of
the manufacturers at factory head
quarters.
Mrs. Gannon, widow of the late
William A. Gannon of Inman, died
Tuesday at a hospital at Rochester,
Minn. The remains were received at
the family home last evening. Fun
eral is to be held at the Methodist
church in O’Neill.
The Ladies’Guild of the Presby
terian church will hold a business
meeting on Thursday, November 12,
at the home of Mrs. Wise from 2 to
4 F. M. Agood attendance is desired
as important business will be tian3
acted. No lunch.
Harry Requartte of the state fire
department at Lincoln and Tom Car
roll, former state sheriff, were in the
city Tuesday. Their visit to this part
of the state was for the purpose of
making some investigations of fires
that have destroyed farm buildings
in recent weeks.
Dr. J. F. Gallagher of St. Louis and
Dr. E. E. Gallagher of F^a Cross, Wis.,
sons of Mrs. Mike Gallagher, arrived
here last Saturday for a visit. Ac
companied by their brother J. FJ. Gal
lagher they have been spending a
few days in the hunting and fishing
territory of Cherry county.
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Considerable hay is being trucked
north to Boyd county from the hay
meadows of southern Holt. The hay
is bought on the meadows baled at
$7.50 a ton. A transportation charge
of $3 per ton makes it $10.50 at Bris
tow where several loads—six tons to
the truck—have been hauled by the
Uhl Transfer this week.
Miss Gertrude Connolly entertained
twenty guests at a dinner and bridge
party at the Idyl Hour cafe last
Thursday evening. The party was a
Halloween affair and decorations were
in orange and black. Mrs. McKinley
Simonson bad high score, and Edna
Simonson took the doar prize. Mary
Morrison received the consolation
prize.
The Frontier learns of the death1
at Dorsey, Saturday last, of Mrs.
Alder, widow of the late William L.
Alder. They were old settlers of that
community. She was born in Polk
county, Iowa, January 24, 1871. The
family came to this county m 1901.
Mrs. Alder was the not her of nine
sons and two daughters. \1! except
one son are living.
A pretty thorough job of messing
up the glass fronts was in evidence
the morning after hallowc'en. Those
whose pressure of business delays the
removal of the crude and unsightly
markings will find it is merely soap,
which adds a bit to the completeness
of a job of window washing. It would
not be a bad idea to brighten up the
o!d windows and take off the accum
ulations of weeks or months or years
and start in the winter fresh and
clean.
W. F. Crothe was down from Em
met Tuesday, bringing Mrs. Crothe to
the excruciating mission of having
dental work done. Mr. Crothe is in
the midst of his corn husking. The
crop is light but ho : ays he will have
feed enough except that he may buy
j sonic hay. Speaking of the taxation
question that is now being discussed
! to some extent, he thinks the agitation
i to collect the considerable sums of
| personal tax of long years funding
1 is a move in the right direction.
Mr. and Mrs. William Froelich of
Washington, 1). C., are guests at the
| home of Mrs. Froelich's parents. Mr.
j and Mrs. C. E. Stout. Mr. Froelich
i expected to relax a bit from the siren
i uous and nerve straining labor of
! prosecuting the case against Capone,
l the Chicago gangster chief, but was
called back today to Chicago on some
' important government case. Mr. Froe
lich did not get away fiom O’Neill
until a bit of courtesy was shown
j him. A party was given fo>' them
Tuesday evening at the Golden in
I which their more intimate friends in
j the city participated.
half breed rustlers
Hung to a Tree
IN AN EARLIER DAY
e
Modest, taciturn, impervious to
praise or criticism you never would
suspect that Frank Dishner had spent
some of his young life out among
the range riders and half breeds of
the upper Niobrara region—had fol
lowed the lone cow trail with the
best of them on the weary search for
scattered remnants of the stampeded
herd.
Frank does not often indulge in a
story of his youthful experience,which
most of us like to recite. One experi
ence tood out so vjvid, so shocking,
so horrifying, so hair raising that he
is just beginning to get over it.
That was years ago. As a boy
of seventeen Ke had gone with his
father, who followed the cattle trade
to move some cattle from the ranges
on the Niobrara in Keya Pahu. They
were camped along the river. Dur
ing the night a severe hail storm broke
on the camp and stampeded the herd.
All hands took the trail next morn
ing on the roundup.
rrariK iook a course that led him
through a clump of brush and trees,
lie had not ridden far from camp
when he came upon two dead half
breed Sioux hanging from a tree
with the noose about their necks. He
was so parnlized with fright that
he nearly fell from the saddle, but
managed to turn his horse around
and scamper back to camp to tell his
father what he had run into.
The dead Indians were the grew
some and tragic evidence of the cow
boys’ method of dealng with the cat
tle rustlers. Frank suspected that
a party of herders from their camp
had done the hanging. There were
two less rustlers in that community
thereafter.
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The National Association of Real
Estate Boards, advising purchase of
real estate now “when prices are low
and uncertainty is in the air,” cites
the story of one of the great Roths
child bankers who lived in 1871.
It is told of this Baron Rothschild
that, in the days following the defeat
of France in the Franco-Prussian war,
when the mob ruled Paris, a friend •
went to him and said: “Baron, what
are you going to do to protect your
interests in this dreadful hour?” And
the baron replied: “Well, if the truth
must be told, I am protecting myself
by buying real estate.”
His friend said: "Do you mean to
say that you are buying real estate
with the gutters of Paris running with
blood and the city in the hands of a
mob”? Rothschild answered, “Yes,
my friend, I mean that very thing.
That is the time that you can buy
real estate at 50 cents on the dollar.”
And now is the time to subscribe for
the home paper.
Sentenced and Fined
David Armstrong, arrested a month
ago on a liqquor charge, got his in
district court last Saturday. Judge
Dickson sent him to the penitentiary
for one year and assessed a fine of
$1.1/00.
He had previously treed a jail
sentence, making this his second
offense. He was taken to the pen
Monday.
Royal Theater
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O'NEILL NEBRASKA
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
November 5-6
Nancy Carroll in
“Personal Maid”
With Pat O’Brien, Gene Raymond and
George Fawcett.
Admission 10-40c.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7
“A Lady Surrenders”
from t'ne story “Sincerity” by John
Erskine. With Conrad Nagel. Gene
vievc Tobin, Ba-il Rahbone, Ro e Ho
b rt, Carmel Myers, Vivian Oakland
and Franklin Pangborn.
• 10c. Matinee 2.30, 10-25c.
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
November 8-9
Surprise Novelty Smash of the Season
“Traveling Husbands”
with Evelyn Brent, Constance Cum
:.ings, Frank Albertson, Dorothy Pet
j erson and Hugh Herbert.
Admission 10-50c. Matinee Sunday
j at 2:30, admission 10-35c.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
November 10-11
Richard Barthelmess in
“The Finger Points”
With Fay Wray and Regis Toomey.
Adm. 10-40c. Wed. family night.