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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1932)
A* AP SF The Frontier -i VOL. LII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932. No. 34 ~---1- -ij-i-j “A CHEERFUL TEMPER. JOINED WITH INNOCENCE. WILL MAKE BEAUTY ATTRACTIVE. KNOWLEDGE DELIGHTFUL, AND WIT GOOD-NATURED.” 5 COUNTIES UNITE ON Relief Work ARE ACTIVE IN CEDAR >f-1 Organization of a central executive committee of the drought and grass hopper stricken area of Nebraska was perfected at Creighton last Sunday afternoon at a meeting attended by nearly 75 representatives of the seven Nebraska counties generally included in the above territory. The executive committee was organized for the pur pose of co-ordinating the agiencies already at work, to direct a general appeal to the more prosperous parts of the state for feed for live stock and to discover other means of securing additional supplies. Distribution of such help as will be secured will be in the hands of the various local com mittees as at present. Mayor Saunders of Creighton ar ranged for the use of the city audit orium. The meeting was called in order by J. P. O’Furey, who breiefly reviewed the effort of Senator Howell, who had secured an amendment to the joint resolution providing for the appropriation of 40,000,000 of wheat for the needy, which amendment pro vided for the appropriation of 5,000, 000 bushels additional for stock feed. Congressman Howard had also pledged his help to hurry adoption of Howell amendment. Urging the need for a central agency in the territory he called on B. Ready to act as chairman. Mr. Ready explained that the pre sent effort was to so organize that an accurate survey of the entire territory could be made quickly so as to get full advantage of the help of the na tional government and to cooperate more fully with Governor Bryan in a canvass of that part of the state which enjoyed good crops. The central com mittee was to aid in getting more help, he said, the distribution to be made thru existing organizations or commit tees. Need for a central committee was indicated by fact that so few out side of the territory really appreciated the need for help if the economic life of the people of the territory was to be maintained. rermanem organization was com pleted by the election of Mr. Ready as permanent chairman and a decision that the committee should be com posed of two representatives of each county, to be selected by the county delegations present. Members of the committee elected were: Antelope, M. M. Mitchell, Or chard and A. J. Celery, Neligh; Boyd, Chris Anderson, Britow and W. T. Wills, Butte; Cedar, George Beste and J. P. O’Furey, Hartington; Holt, John Sullivan, O’Neill and Dr. W. J. Doug las, Atkinson; Knox, J. D. Forsythe, Niobrara, Ralph Emmons, Center; Keya Paha, M. M. Wood, Burton and Roscoe Buck, Springview and Rock, M. Fredrickson and Charles Riley, Bas sett. Brown county is expected to be represented at the next meeting. By vote of the meeting L. W. Scheibel purchasing engineer of the Interstate Power Co. was made a member of the executive committee at large, in ap preciation of his cooperation. The central executive committee elected J. P. O’Furey, Hartington, as secre tary and Ralph Smith, also of Hart ington, was named assistant. It was decided that an accurate survey be made in each county in order that the needs of each section may be definitely ascertained so that the committee may function for the general good, having in mind par ticularly the needs of the samll farmer who will be driven from the farm if not materially assisted. iuemuers ui tue cuiimuucc that they would have this survey com pleted in each county within a weak, so the committee decided to meet again next Sunday at Creighton to consider the problem further. Those attending the meeting were: Antelope county—M. M. Mitchell, Or chard, A. J. Celery and H. S. Cole, Neligh and John Forbes, Brunswick; Boyd county—W. T. Wills, J. T. Seiler, A. B. Wallace and W. S. Crouch all of Butte. Cerad county—B. Ready, L. W. Scheibel, Geo. Beste, R. J. Rich ards, Ralph Smith, J. P. O’Furey and A. Hirschman, Hartington. Holt county—John Sullivan, O’Neill, Dr. W. J. Douglass, Hugh L. James and C. N. Gonderinger, Atkinson, John Steinhauser, Stuart. Knox county— W.W. Walton, Center, Ralph Emmons, J, H. Reifenrath, Crofton, E. H. Ma son, P. H. Pterson, Wausa, J. D. For sythe, Niobrara. Those from Creigh ton included Mr. Effie Metteer, Mrs. Erik Risness, Mrs. W. A. Meserve, Mayor H. F. Saunders, Richard Steel, R. L. Rice, B. J. Huigens, J. Collen, J. M. Jackson, J. J. Kennedy, Wr. C. Lovejoy, J. P. Ryan, J. V. Peck, E. E. Jacobs, P. B. Crew Dent Vanderer and Wr. W. Fickling. Edward Kirkpatrick, 15, and Mar vin Van Every, 12, skated from O’Neill to Emmet and back in six hours. They made the trip on poor ice, which there and back by way of the Elkhorn is about 32 miles. BOARD ORGANIZES The county board convened Tuesday and affected their organization for *Si*32 ,by re-electing John Sullivun I chairman and the following com mittees: Court House Committee—James, McKim and Root. Finance Committee—Skidmore, Mc Kim and James. Printing and Supplies — McKim, Stein and Root. Tax Committee—Steinhauser, Skid more and Stein. Bond Committee—Root, Steinhauser and James. Bridge Committee-Skidmore, James and McKim. Settlement of County Offices— Stein and entire board. Claims—James and entire board. Another Pioneer Passes Away Mrs. Augusta A. Welton died at her home in this city Thursday, Jan uary 7, after a protracted illness, at the age of nearly 83 years. Mrs. Welton had a continuous residence in O’Neill of nearly fifty years. She was born at Plymouth, Ohio, April 9, 1849, being the daughter of Ludwig and Augusta A. Huntley. Her father was a native of Ohio and her mother a native of Conneticut. She was mar ried to Barnabus Welton in 1804 at Cleveland, Minn., and was the mother of four sons and four daughters. In 1880 the family came to Holt county and settled near Brush creek but a few years later moving into O’Neill, Mr. Welton being elected sheriff, succeding I. R. Smith in that office. Mr. Welton was also police judge in O’Neill for some years and at one time operated a bakery here. He died in the early nineties. The surviving children are Ed Wel ton of Holt county, Mrs. Alta Gun thorpe of Denver, Mrs. Ada Gaffer of Mankato, Minn., and Mrs. Etha Pilger of O’Neill. Deceased was the grand mother of Ross H. Welton, editor of the Hooker County Tribune, which was founded by her son John Welton, who I acquired his trade as a printer in The Frontier office. The devotion which has been shown their mother in her declining years and 'vfailing helth by children and grand children has been noticed and remarked upon by those of the neigh borhood. They have left their own homes to come here to minister to her comfort. The funeral was conducted Sunday by Rev. H. D. Johnson at the Presby terian church and interment made in Prospect Hill cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Downey went to Inman Tuesday to attend to a few business matters. _ Mrs. Gene Sanford has been at Inman visiting with her sister Mrs. E. J. Enders and other relatives. Oscar Dixon was taken into county court Saturday last on a charge of possession of moonshine liquor. He pleaded guilty and was fined $100 and costs by Judge Malone. January weather can go to excesses. Tuesday the streets were flowing with water and yesterday it was frozen solid. The morning record was 7 above with some two or three degrees colder by evening. L. 0. Chapman is able to be back in his office again after a spell of illness which at one time became serious. His many friends are glad to see Lew around again after some weeks of being kept in. Under the auspices of the Ameri can Legion a play will be given the evenings of January 21 and 22 at the K. C. Hall, with the somewhat fear some title, “Ghost House.” Local talent will be on exhibition and is said to be worth more than the price of admission. According to an item from Burwell sweet clover poisoning is claiming much livestock in that vicinity. Dr J. Gaukel, veterinarian, says the trouble does not yield to the usual treatment for poisoning. He has is sued a general warning against feed ing sweet clover without a balanced ration. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vitt went to Omaha Wednesday upon 'receiving word of the death of their little 4 year-old grandson, Jimmie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vitt. jr., who live in Omaha. He had been operated on earlier in the week for the removal of the tonsils and died Wednesday. The funeral will be held Saturday at 10 o’clock at Elkhorn. Supervisor Rodell Root of Chambers is able to be in attendance at the meeting of the county board after a few weeks being laid up at home nursing a mild case of the mumps. Mr. Root says there have been many cases of this supposedly juvenile mal ady in his community. Infants, child ren, youth and those of mature years have been alike affected. It has been for the most part not severe. Drouth Victims Not Beggers No head of a family in the drouth and grass- j | hopper affected district of this county should deprive j I himself and family because of personal feeling. An I { individual is in no sense humiliating himself, tlis- { ! gracing his family nor bringing reproach on family } * traditions by going to the supply station nearest j | him and making his needs known. Or if it is im- { ! possible to get to that supply station tell somebody. If it were a matter of shiftlessness, lack of frugal- j { ity and industry the situation would be different. { ! No one is responsible for the devastation of grass- { hoppers and the withering work of drouth. Men » { and families have done the best they knew how. j ! That the stark necessity for supplies for the house J hold and also for the barnyard faces some, is no * } fault of theirs. They should make their need known j I as a legitimate right of a citizen. There is a strong » j and robust citizenship of Nebraska that will supply j { that need. The committee here at O’Neill has had to draw ! } the line on some maintaining commercial dairy herds { { who have been taking feed intended for other pur- } } poses, but no needy one will be denied. C. A. Strong and his son Robert returned last Thursday from a ten day trip to Bloomington, 111. They took Mrs. C. A. Strong to Dr. B. H. Pick ard of that city, where she will be under his care for about three months. Mrs. Albert Klingler returned with them. She has been under the care of Dr. Pickard for the past six months. Dr. Pickard is a brother of Mrs. Kling ler. She reports an improvement in her health. Jack McKabe died Monday at the ! Beha hotel where he has been as a { county charge for some time passed. 1 The remains were taken charge of by Biglin’s and funeral was held yester day morning at 9 o’clock at St. Pat rick’s church. There were no sur viving relatives in this section. He was born in Chicago in 1801. The family were early settlers a short : distance east of town, and later came to O’Neill to reside. The Beha boys write their parents here of seeing the latest army of jobless to move upon Washington as it passed through Ilarrisburgh, Pa., some 12,000 strong. They were well treated by the governor and given a j meal at his expense. A few required hospital care at Harisburgh. They traveled on the rubber tires. The army was graciously received at the White House but President Hoover doubtless felt his inability to put 12,000 men to work as much as any of us vtould. We had the pleasure of meeting in the city Tuesday, A. T. Crumley of Page. He has come to the county in recent years, that is to say, some ten or twevle years ago, coming here from the Texas gulf coast region. He has the rare gift of vivid description and can talk entertainingly of the country and personal experiences. He likes Holt county to the extent of adding quarter section to quarter section un til he has three of them in a row in a splendid neighborhood beyond the wilderness east of here. The past season has been a trying one but Mr. Crumley managed to raise corn and other grain which he is finding a ready market for now, right at home. The Scout Officers F. J. Sexsmith, O’Neill, was elected chairman of the North Central dis trict of the Covered Wagon Area council, Boy Scouts of America, at the annual district meeting at Creighton recently. Other officers are: Scout commis sioner, Dr. Jerome Pucelik, Spencer, and finance chairman, H. B. Burch, i O’Neill. Scout towns comprising the North Central district are: Lynch, Atkin son, Bristow, Stuart, Gross, Center, Brunswick, O’Neill, Spencer, Orchard, Page, Ewing, Creighton and Butte. Scouters of the Covered Wagon area, Boy Scouts of America, will hold their annual meeting in the gymnas ium at the State Teachers’ colleg, Wayne, Neb., Friday evening, Jan. 20. The Covered Wagon area, comprising northern Nebraska from Iowa to Wyoming, takes in 84 towns and cities, i including O’Neill. Between .‘100 and 500 men are expected to attend the meeting. A pageant depicting work of the area for the last year, election of officers, reports of committees, and an address bya nationally known scout official to be sent out by the New York office will be highlights of the meeting. Chapman’s January Clearance Sale! Sacrifice of BETTER Dresses and Hats DRASTICALLY Reduced for Immediate Clear ance. Without exception these dresses are of the type that ordinarily sell in the higher price range. . . . Dresses for all occasions, Flat Crepe,CantonCrepe and Sheer Woolens—sizes rang ing from 14 to 46. Dresses Lj Dresses Values to $19.75 Values to $13.75 $11.00 $7.00 Closing out a line of wool and silk dresses as low as $2.00. CHAPMAN’S STYLE SHOPPE HYGIENE CLASS ORGANIZED The class for adults in Home Hy giene and Care of the Sick was organ ized Monday evening, January 11, at the public schools. The class met from 7 to 9 P. M. and will meet a gain Thursday evening, January 14, at the same time. Those who have enrolled are Mrs. C. J. Davis, Mrs. Iola Lowery, Mrs. J. W. Hickey, Mrs. William Welch, Miss Mave Welch, Mrs. Ed Olson, Mrs. W. A. Jochum, Mrs. Wm. Hershiser, | Mrs. E. M. Harris and Mrs. Edith Davidson. All those who are expecting to en roll in the class are asked to be at the next session so that they will be able to get in the required amount of work. Death of Mrs. Warner Mrs. Zeb Warner passed away on Sunday after a lingering illness and much suffering. Her devoted hus band and family ministered to her throughout the weeks of sickness and were with her as the end came. Deceased was born as Mason City, I III., on February 19, 1870. She came to this county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Johring, from Lancaster county, Nebraska, in 1884. On Sep tember 1, 1890 she was married to Zeb Warner, an early rancher of this county and now a resident of O’Neill. Mrs. Warner was the mother of seven children, five sons and two daughters. They are Walter B., Charles R., Elmer and Elizabeth Wurner of O’Neill, Mm. Fannie Stevens of Sioux City, John F. Warner of Atkinson and Fred A. Warner of Lincoln. These, with her husband, her mother and other rela tives survive. The funeral was held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, conducted by Rev. H. D. John son. It was very largely attended, man attending from Atkinson and vicinity where the family formerly lived. Burinl was in Prospect Hill cemetery. HEALTH CONTEST A health contest under the auspices i of the American Red Cross is to be held in the O’Neill schools for child ren in the grades. Those children who meet the re-1 quirements of the contest will be pres ented with buttons at the Achievement Day program to be held the last of March and will be designated as five point perfect children. The five points upon which the con test is based are named weight, hear ing, vision, teeth, and throats. If in addition the children are keeping the health rules they are eligible for the five point buttons. The health rules consist of taking care of the teeth, keeping clean, getting 10 to 12 hours of sleep at night with windows open, eating the proper foods, drink ing at least 2 glasses of milk daily and getting out door exercise. If the children are found to have defects, notification slips will be sent home to the parents. These slips have space on them for the physician or dentist to sign when the child is brought to him for examination. If these slips are signed and brought back to the nurse or teacher the child will be given credit and will be eligible for the five point button. Unless the slip is returned, the child cannot be counted as having ihe examination. About the Hoppers Those investigating in .he grass hopper districts claim that millions of grasshoppers which hatched during balmy December days have since been killed by cold sleet and snow. Thous ands of newly hatched hoppers sunned themselves last month in warm and sheltered spots. Farmers around Bassett claim that little red lice grew on many grass hoppers last summer and apparently attacked them. They have wondered why state and federal entomologists have not discovered an eiTective pra-j site to control the grasshopper, just as parasites have been discovered to control other pests. Objections have been raised to feed ing poisoned bran to grasshoppers. Farmers say it is hard to handle, hat it has to be applied under ideal weath er conditions, with numerous follow up doses, that the cost has prevented use except in limited areas, and that as a result of its use whole flocks of turkeys and chickens have been wiped out. A grasshopper stupefied wi*h poison bran may live several days, the farm ers. assert, and in the meantime be come easy prey for fowl. Too many such ’hoppers prove fatal to the bird. A Little Girl's Poem The following verse was written by Doris Carpenter, age 10. a pnnil in district No. 243 in Swan township: 1 love the summer time so fair, With all her flowers and trees, The yellow fielcts of waving grain, Her butterflies and bees. The cows stand in the laughing brook, The lambs play on the hill, The morning glories nod at us, From out the window sill. The winter is a season gay. The fall is gone too soon. But nothing is so dear to me As those pleasant days in June. $4,000.00 FOR JOHNSON Convict Morris LANGE CASE TO JURY .v-» “The* mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.” A large grist is coming from the “mills of the gods" in district court here. The jury in the case of Johnson vs. North Nebraska Power company brought in a verdict for the plaintifT for $4,000 and interest for three years. Frank Morris was found guilty. With three others he was charged with butchering and stealing a calf in a pasture in the Ewing neighbor hood. One of the three, Roy Norwood, had previously plead guilty and re ceived a sentence of three years in the penitentiary. The third, Ray Angus, is yet to go to trial. Morris has not been sentenced. Atkinson, Stuart, and Ewing are prolific sources of litigation this ses sion of court. The trial of a personal injury case from Atkinson is drawing a crowd to the court room every day. Vivian Lange was injured on the high way a mile east of Atkinson when her buggy was crashed into by an auto mobile driven by Adolph J. Kubitschek. It happened at night. Through Sam Lange suit is brought for $20,000. A Maryland insurance company is in volved as a defendant. They are rep resented by Story & Thomas of Oma ha and J. I). Cronin of O’Neill. D. R. Mounts of Atkinson represents the plaintifT. Many witnesses are brought into court from Atkinson. A human skeleton suspended from a step lad der also figured in the case. The jury went to Atkinson yesterday to look over the scene of the crash. The Lange case went to the jury at noon, today. James B. Meyer, residing eight miles northeast of town, plead guilty to a charge of “possession of a still, mash and liquor” and was sentenced last Saturday by Judge Dickson to 30 days in jail and to pay a fine of $500. Serving of sentence is deferred until April 1, 1932. FINANCED MUCH RELIEF What the County Huh Done the Past Year in Aid Work and Bounties Under the classification of appro priations, donations and relief for the po>or there was paid from county funds last year $25,642.69. Of this sum $15,554.69 was used for food supplies and fuel for county depend ents or partially dependent. Mother’s pensions were paid to the amount of $2,988. Other items were such as med ical and hospital expenses and numer ous miscellaneous items. Bountines were paid as follows: Crow heads, 10c per head $1,273.00 Crow eggs, 5c per egg 658.25 Coyotes, $2 per head 554.00 Total $2,485.25 While bounties and aid for the needy have no connection as to classification, there was paid for these two groups a total of $28,127.94. Methodist Church Notes Benj. Kuhler, pastor Sunday School at 10:00 A. M. Keep ing on fine notwithstanding winter and roads. The morning theme will be taken from the Sermon on the Mount. What Christ has to say about divisions, cause, cure, etc. The evenig service will be in union with the Presbyterians at their church. This service will be under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. which is their an nual Victory Service. Several short talks will be given. The Epworth League will meet at 6:30 as usual. Their motto is “Oth ers” rather than self. They are earn ing their credits for both Bible and Mission study. And they have already paid one third as much on World Service as the rest of the church. TERMS OF COlTRT Dates for holding court in the var ious counties of the Fifteenth judicial district arc as follows: Boyd county—Equity: June 13, Sent. 8, Dec. 15. Jury: March 7, Oct. 3. Brown county—Equity: Feb. 4, June 15, Sept 10. Jury: April 18, Oct 81. Holt county—Equity: June 20, Sent 12. Jury March 21, Nov. 14. Rock county—Equity: Feb. 4, June 15, Sept 10. Jury: April 4, Oct. 17. Keya Paha county—Equity: Feb. 4, June 15. Jury: April 25, Sept. 19. O’NEILL LOSES TO BASSETT The O’Neill high school team lost to the Basse'.t five by a score of 12-6, in last nights game. Lucy of Bassett made ten of his teams points. Bress ler. Hunt and Sander played* good basket ball, but they could register on the loop. The O'Neill second team lost to the Bassett seconds 24-4. Tom Campbell of Atkinson was in the city Monday.