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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1932)
Set). State HUtorlcil So.l*>» I _____ .VOL, LII. The Frontier O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932. No. 44 “YOU CANNOT DREAM YOURSELF INTO A CHARACTER; YOU MUST HAMMER AND FORGE YOURSELF ONE.” JAMES FLAN NIC AN SENTENCED 5 TO 10 YEARS APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT Judge Dickson Tuesday sentenced James C. Flannigan, convicted a month ago, to not less than five nor more than ten years in the peniten tiary on each count, running concur rently. An appeal bond in the sum of $5,000 has been furnished and accepted by the court and Mr. Flannigan’s case goes to the supreme court. The de fense allege numerous errors. Ques tions arose in the trial of the case that have never been passed upon by the supreme court and Judge Dickson interpreted the law with no supreme court rulings as guide. It is upon these that the defense hangs a hope. No ruling can be had in supreme court before next fall. Judge Dickson expects Friday to sweep the platter clean with decisions covering all the cases tried so far that have been a product of the Flannigan bank failure. Harry Kopp and Joe Juracek will be sentenced at that time and the preferred claim suits all dis posed of during the day. EDUCATIONAL NOTES County Superintendent, Luella A. Parker and Miss Lucy Perry, Red Cross Nurse, visited District No. 27 and 80 on last Friday, where Miss Perry examined the pupils of the schools. Mrs. Parker took the Normal Train ing students of St. Mary’s Academy to visit in the rural schools on Wednesday. Plans are being made for the Nor mal Training students of the county to do their practice teaching in the rural schools soon. The pupils of the O’Neill Public School will go out on next Monday for one week of prac tice teaching. Preliminary Spelling Contests are biing held over the county on Friday, March 18th. EASTER CANTATA A Cantata, entitled The Song of Redemption, will be rendered by the combined choirs of the Presbyterian Church, assisted by Mr. Weingartner. Solo parts will be taken by Roy Sau ers, C. E. Yantzi, Mrs. Hereford, Mr. Clauson, Loree Sauers, Mary Haffner, Florence Leamy, and Mrs. Hiatt. The two choirs, Junior and Senior, form a chorus of thirty-five voices, which is directed by Mrs. Jeanne Scott. There will be special music also at the morning service, “Angels Rolled the Stone Away,” by Wildermere, and “He is Risen,” by Holton. MEETING It has been arranged for the Tax payers League of Holt county to meet with the board of Supervisors in the afternoon on March 29, for the pur pose of discussing propostions that are of vital importance to the people of the county. We would like to have everybody present that is interested in our public affairs, will have some good speakers present. Holt County Economy League. By S .0. Campbell Paul Young Weds Schuyler Girl Miss Albert Heckman, only daught er of Mr. and Mrs. S. JR. Heckman of Schuyler, became the bride of Paul Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Young of O’Neill, at Schuyler Method ist parsonage on Monday, March 21. This young couple were accompan ied by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Heckman, brother and sister-in-law of the bride. The couple will make their home on a farm near Opportunity. Spring Cleaning Take Advantage of our 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT on Curtains, also on Blankets Sealed in Moth - Proof Bags Ladies’ Spring Coats cleaned & pressed $1 Dresses . . • $1 and up HARTY CLEANERS A sale of assets of the Inman bank was held Tuesday at the court house. The bank building, carried as an asset at $2,500, with two dwelling houses in Inman sold for $G70. They were bought by an Inman resident, Mr. Watson. Other real estate held as assets sold for a similar amount and an insurance company is said to have taken over the notes. Briefly Stated John Demining of Dustin was in the city Saturday. I Tom Donlin was in from the ranch at Gross Wednesday afternoon. Dick Morrison is back home. He has been in Omaha and Kansas City. Feme Hubbard is expected home for a vacation. She teaches in Lincoln. John McCarthy is back to work at the corner store after a few days ab sence. Tresa Conley is back to work in the Bakery after a week’s vacation in Omaha. The vacation at the academy start ed Wednesday noon. They will go back Tuesday of next week. Johnny Horisky from Orchard was in town on business Tuesday. He went back Wednesday morning. A $9,500 mortgage covering farm property in the northwest corner of the county was recorded at the court house the past week. Two pounds and seven ounces is the weight of a potato on exhibition at the Morrison store. It was in a lot of cobblers that came from Hay Springs. C. L. Benson was up from Norfolk, accompanied by Mrs. Roberts, who had been there visiting. He visited his parents northwest of here before returning. The Campbell building, damaged by fire early in the winter is being repaired. A new roof will be laid, a new front and necessary repairs made throughout. Wanted—Names of witnesses to the will of Anne B. Patterson, written by Clifford B. Scott, witnessed in 1925. Please communicate with Orville Van Conett, Page, Neb. 44-3p Mr. Brady of Dorsey, candidate for county judge, asks The Frontier to correct an error appearing in these columns recently as to his initials. His initials are W. L. and not W. T. John Addison, in Friday from north east of Opportunity, reports having lost four head of cattle during the storm a week previous. They are desperately short on feed in his neigh borhood. Charles Manson sustained a broken shoulder when a car in which he and Ralph Mel lor were riding overturned at a bad spot in the road a few’ mile east of town. The upset was unavoid able but none the less real. The Ladies Guild of the Presbyter ian church will meet with Mrs. H. D. Johnson on Thursday afternoon, March 31. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Bur gess, Mrs. Burge and Mrs. Meredith are hostesses. A good attendance is desired. Last Thursday night there was a St. Patrick’s dance at Danceland. The mud outside caused sand to collect on the floor quite rapidly, but no one seemed to let a little sand spoil their fun. The music was furnished by a Fremont orchestra. O’NEILL GROCERY MAY HAVE FOUND CLUE TO THE NOTABLE KIDNAPPING o..—| Morrison’s grocery has a Lindbergh baby clue. Some duys after the kid napping was proclaimed abroad two; strange milk bottles were discovered, among the “empties" at the store, j The one connecting the incident with the notable kidnapping has on it the name and address, Welsh Farm, Long Valley, N. J. The other was from the ! John Murphy dairy of Chicago. In-, cidentally, it is learned, this is the John Murphy that lived at one time three miles west of O’Neill. No one in the store recalls when the' bottles were left there. Constructing a theory on the line of deduction a conclusion is reached that a car passed through town with people from the | east with a child. They stopped for1 milk. The bottle from the New’ Jer sey dairy suggests the possibility that j the abductors of the Lindburgh baby! have been in O’Neill. It is not known: whether the bottle from Chicago and the one from New Jersey were left at the store by the same person. By W. J. Hammond and F. C. Rad ke, attorneys, another suit has been filed in district court involving cred itors of the defunct state bank of this city. The suit is brought in the name of E. H. Luikart as receiver against Bazelman Lumber Co. for a total of $7,213.15. Mrs. Luella Parker, county super intendent, is confined to her home by reason of injuries sustained in an automobile upset that happened last Sunday thirteen miles south of O’Neill. The extent of the injuries have not been determined, but she is not able to be up. An ouster case brought by Lena Park against Lyman Park was heard in county court Friday last. It was a case of Mrs. Park seeking relief in court in an effort to get her son off of the farm and put the manage ment of the same into other hands. The was dismissed. There have been forty-eight bona fied land sales in Holt county since April 1 last. There have been num erous trades and transfers of one kind or another but the actual sales were just forty-eight in number. This does not take into account the trans fers of towrn properties. Charley Pettijohn was in the city Monday from the ranch southwest of Dustin. Mr. Pettijohn says every body is “pulling through” the winter in his neighborhood without losses of stock above the ordinary, but all will welcome the spring sunshine and show ers. There has been little or no relief work necessary in Dustin precinct. Mr. Harold M. Denny was elected principal of the O’Neill High School for next year at a meeting of the Board of Education, March 19th. Mr. Denny, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, is now finishing teaching his fifth year at Hebron, Nebraska. He will have charge of the mathe matics and science in O’Neill. Frank Froelich was severly burned about the knees and lower limbs Tues day morning. He went to the base ment to encourage a better fire in the furnace with a dash of kerosene which proved to be gasoline. A flame burst out and well nigh enveloped him. He is now confined to his bed and Dr. Finley says unless infection develops the injuries will heal. Official relief agencies do not have a monopoly on charitable work. Every day local business concerns contribute something to the needy. It remained, however, for an O’Neill merchant of long years experience to do consider able more, one day recently, than the customary pittance. He gave to a needy family goods from his stock to the amount of $67. S. Evan Davies, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Davies of O’Neill, was one of six seniors and two faculty mem bers elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honor ary fraternity, announced Friday at Nebraska Wesleyan University, at Lincoln. This honor is earned by making a high average in grades dur ing the four year term. A graphic diagram measuring the length of the width of one of the large show windows at the Interstate Power and Light company’s show rooms conveys at a glance the in dustrial history of the country. The diagram tells the reader in large let ters that “depressions don’t always last.” It depicts in clear cut line the “ups and downs” of industry from back in the fifties. The longest stretch of depression is shown to be This label in a suit at $25— speaks a volume Hart Schaffner & Marx are the world’s foremost clothes makers—have been for 50 years. All of their designing skill, tailoring ability and buying re sources have gone into the job of producing the best suit money can buy at $25. BETTER MADE CLOTHES AT THE PRICES OF 16 YEARS AGO P. J. McMANUS The Home of Good Merchandise from 1874 to and including 1870. An other hard protracted period was 189.1 1898 with brief intervals of pros perity. For a period of 80 years there has been a regular rise and fall of industry. Prosperity has come and gone at stated intervals. The original of the diagram comes from Chicago and is regarded as authorilive. Wilton Wyant was sentenced yester day to sixty days in the county jail on a charge of vagrancy. He visits O’Neill periodically, probably because it is his childhood home and seems to be perpetually in trouble. This time he attempted the biggest thing that any "vag” has ever undertaken here—starting away with an engine and railroad train. It happended Mon day noon. A “split” freight train stood on the Northwestern tracks. The engineer, fireman and all the train crew but the conductor were up town getting lunch. Young Wyant with a companion was loitering about. Wy ant mounted the engine and pulled a lever. Puff, puff, puff—and the loco motive .started (eastward with two or three freight cars. The conductor heard the engine and ran to catch the moving cars, which he did. By ap plying the airbrakes it was brought to a stop before getting under way. Meanwhile Wyant abandoned the en gine. His incarceration followed Kirwin at Boulder Dam Some months ago The Frontier pub lished a list of notables that were the products of the early settlement at O’Neill. One which should be added to this list is John S. Kirwin, now at 70 years of age superintending con struction on the big Boulder dam in Nevada. His parents homesteaded a few miles west of O’Neill at a very early period. John grew up her but has been in mining and construction work in the Rocky mountain states for many years. He is an unde of J. B. O’Sullivan of this city, a brother of Mr. O’Sullivan’s mother. Two broth ers, Edward and Jerry, live over at Gross, a sister, Mrs. Mary Reider, at Gregory, and another brother, Mike, who is known to nearly everyone here. Writing to Mr. O'Sullivan of the dam, he says: “I am superintendent of railroad construction, but have had a hand in all other work here so far. We have constructed 22 miles of railroad, cut two tunnels 56 feet in diameter and 4,000 feet long, and boring two more, put two bridges across the Colorado river, built a cement mixing plant costing $:?90,000, and many other big things. “Briefly, this job is too big to write about it. We are nine months ahead of our schedule, yet work on the dam itself is not to start until one year from now. “When I go back to the Morrison Knudsen company, I am to resume my old position of traveling superin tendent, and I expect to travel as much straight up and down as sidewise. “The walls here at Black canyon arc more than 1,200 feet high. We have moved camp three times and soon must move again. The Six Com panies employ 2,650 men. Persons not employed are not allowed in Boul der City.” Clyde King of the Galena Lumber company thinks all records for quick delivery of a car of coal has been broken in one they just received from a point in central Wyoming. Monday night he sent a telegram ordering the car of coal and Wednesday after noon it was on the Northwestern track here. Many farmers are making applica tion for government seed loans. A MARVELOUS NEW LINE OF EASTER FROCKS & HATS Now on display. Never have we shown greater values at these extremely low prices. ■DRESSES 3 [ ■HATS All Silk. IN PRICE RANGE IN PRICE RANGE $5.75-$18.75 $1.50 - $1.95 Chapman Style Shop