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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
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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
