— The Frontier
VOL. LII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932. No. 45
“ALL WE ARE IS THE RESULT OF WHAT WE HAVE THOUGHT; IT IS FOUNDED ON OUR THOUGHTS, ANI) IT IS MADE UP OF OUR TH OUGHTS.”
Briefly Stated
Sheriff Duffy went to Omaha
Wednesday.
Mrs. Velder was over from Bone
steel Tuesday.
Clerk of the Court Ira Moss re
turned Tuesday from a trip to Omaha.
The Catholic Daughters entertained
at a card party at the K. C. hall Mon
day evening.
There will be Lutheran services
Tuesday, April 5. Rev. Vahle, will
conduct the services.
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J. S. Stuart of Fairbury has been
in the city and adjacent territory the
past week buying horses and mules.
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Mrs. Brooks of Atkinson assisted
at the Chapman Style Shop during
the busy week end period last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Reed and child
ren, of South Sioux City, Spent Easter
Sunday at the home of Mrs. J. C.
Carney.
Thos. Thompson, of Amelia, was in
O’Neill Monday afternoon on business,
and called to take a subscription to
The Frontier.
Mrs. Luella Parker is able to be at
her office today after nearly two weeks
at home because of injuries from be
ing in an automobile upset.
Mr. Snell, formerly of the Inter
state, is arranging to open in a day
or two an electric shop two doors
south of The Frontier.
Fred J. Cole of Omaha, an account
ant, was in the city the past week
interviewing the supervisors on the
matter of experting the county rec
ords.
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
Supervisors Sullivan, James and
Steinhauser went to Lincoln today to
confer with the state engineer on the
contracts for the letting of some grav
eling jobs in this county.
Executioner: “Is there anything you
want to say before I turn on the
juice?”
Condemed: “Yes, loosen the strap
on my right foot; my corn is aching.”
Raymond R. Steven and Tillie
Roades, both of Page, took out a
marriage license yesterday. They
were married during the afternoon at
the Methodist parsonage by Rev.
Kuhler.
Henry Weber and Mildred Homo
lka, both of Chambers; John A. Ross
of O’Neill and Mollie Brown of At
kinson, obtained licenses and were
married Monday at the county judge’s
office.
Mrs. Meer and Miss Lorencia Hal
ey of Valentine were in the city a
short time last Wednesday. Miss Mary
Ann Meer, attending St. Mary’s
academy, went to Valentine with them
for the Easter vacation, returning to
O’Neill Monday.
The Frontier learns of the death at
her home in Alabama of Mrs. Harry
Spindler, mother of Roy Spindler of
Meek. Mr. and Mrs. Spindler were
early settlers in this county, Roy now
living on the old home place. They
went to Orange Beach, Alabama, in
1909, where they have since resided.
Charley Spangler expects to leave
soon for Canada to adjust his business
there so he can return to Nebraska.
He feels at home here but not in
Canada and he observes that Ameri
cans arfe “bobbs” to go there as
settlers, saying that when their money
is all spent Canada has no further use
for them.
The county board convened Tuesday
for the month end session. In the
afternoon the board accepted an in
vitation to join a meeting of the Econ
omy League, which convened in the
court room. Some resolutions were
presented asking the board to adopt
certain measures which it was thought
would reduce expenses in certain lines.
Inman Leader: The personal dam
age suit of Moses P. Trussel against
Harry Ferguson, in which Trussel won
a judgment in the district court at
O’Neill, and which resulted in an order
for a retrial, has been settled out of
court by Ferguson paying Trussel
$3,000 and costs. A year ago Fer
guson’s automobile collided with a
farm mower hitched to a the rear of
Trussel’s wagon.
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No definite information has been
received of the whereabouts of Edwin
Korab, who left his home in the
Turkey creek country four weeks ago.
A truqk driver from the Rosebud
country has reported picking up a
wafarer and giving him a ride west.
His description answers fairly well to
that of Korab. He said he was trying
to get to the soldiers’ hospital at Hot
Springs. Korab is an ex-service man.
Two classes of hungry men visit
the tow'ns—those who will work for
a meal and those who will not. One
of the latter class called at the home
of a householder this morning and
asked for breakfast. He was handed
a spade and asked to turn over a bit
of garden spot and a good breakfast
would soon be ready for him. He start
ed in but after a brief exertion drop
ped the spade and left.
Mrs. Levi Ahn arrived in the city
yesterday from a protracted visit in
Pawnee county ,her former home. She
spent a few days here looking after
business interests and expects to go
on to her home at Ainsworth Friday.
She has a farm seven miles northwest
of O’Neill where she went Wednesday.
The Frontier was remembered by a
pleasant visit while Mrs. Ahn was in
the city.
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After a half century of growth, the
large cottonwoods a half mile west
of town are being converted into fire
wood. A cottonwood log cannot be
split by a simple blow with an ax. It
requires an explosive to do the work.
An opening is made with an iron
wedge sufficient to insert another
wedge containing a charge of powder.
A fuse is attached by which the charge
is exploded, and the log is split up into
desirable sizes in this way.
The Lions Club is backing a move
ment to secure mail delivery service
in the city. The adoption of free de
livery of mail involves the marking
of streets and numbering the build
ings. This is now before the city
council. A number of towns through
out the state with a population below
that of O’Neill have mail delivery and
its inaugeration here would be a step
forward. The Club is also studying
the matter of irrigation wells and are
hoping to develop something worth
while in that line. There are some
energetic young business men giving
of their time to promote community
interests along these and other lines
that should receive the encouragement
and help of all.
Frank Biglin had something of a
“tough time” driving home from Sioux
City Sunday. The weather took on
some unusual freak aspects even for
March. A cold wind with a driving
rain would prevail for a few minute:*
and then the sun burst out with the
promise of clear sailing when another
storm would break. Frank heaved a
sigh of relief when he got out of the
hills and struck the level country over
this way. They were our first spring
showers, accompanied by an occasional
flash of lightning, but old man winter
did not want ot let loose and the in
tervening blasts from the north were
fringed writh refrigation fresh from
the artic circle, while a parting shot
was taken by a brief hail storm.
Interesting word comes from Mr.
and Mrs. Ben F. Jones in a letter re
newing their subscription. They are
ranching near Ekalaka, Mont. Mrs.
Jones is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charley Martin of the South Fork.
“This has been a severe winter here
owing to the shortage of feed for the
stock,” writes Mrs. Jones. “Follow
ing two years of exceptional drouth
conditions, however the Red Cross
Relief have done wonderful work and
all have been cared for in a very
efficient way, considering the distance
of nearly fifty miles from a Railroad
and in a country where there are no
telephones only from town to town.
We had more rye hay and alfalfa
than we needed so traded it to ranch
ers for yearling calves."
The ladies are turning from the
slow and easy games about the bridge
tables to the more vigorous and thrill
ing sport of bowling—a game that
has survived since the day3 of Rip
Van Winkle. It appeals to ladies and
gents alike and is a happy medium to
chase away the gaunt and hollow-eyed
specter of industrial worries. But the
ladies turn to this new thing not with
out their causalities. Reports come
from behind closed doors at the allies
on “ladies day” of wrenched wrists,
black eye and hard falls. A refrac
tory ball fails to release from the
grip of a fair bowler and stately mat
ron goes sliding down the ally, to get
up with rumpled attire and shattered
dignity, if nothing worse. It is not
all disaster. Some championship rec
ords are posted on the bulletins from
time to time. Mrs. Frank Dishner \
has the honor of high score for the
week for the ladies, 151. Henry Mar-,
tin’s name is posted with a score of
246. A prize of $2.50 is awarded win
ners of the high score.
The Polling Places
The city election will be held next
Tuesday, April 5. The hours of e-;
lection are between nine o’clock in the j
morjiing and seven o’clock in the
evening. The polling places this year
are at Warner’s store for the vuters
in the First ward; at the office of
Berry & Hancock in the Second ward
and at the Fireman’s Hall in the Third
ward.
Besides the usual election of city
officials there will be voted on a pro-1
position to issue bonds for purchase
of a fire truck and other apparatus. |
The cost to the individual taxpayer
on these bonds is small. On a valua-1
tion of $1,000 assessed against prop-'
erty of the amount required to take
care of these bonds will be about 50;
cents a year. Members of the fire
department feel that new equipment
is badly needed and the added pro
tection thus afforded property owners
would be worth much more than this
small amount per year.
I. W. Barr of Spencer, candidate
for the) republican nomination for
state senator in this district is in
the city today and expects to visit
other points in the county in the in
terests of his candidacy.
Cities and villages will be enliven
ed with three election this year. Next
week is the annual municipal elect
ion, the week following comes the
primary for selecting candidates and
then in November comes the general
election.
The annual Holt county spelling
contest will be held at the O’Neill
high school auditorium on tomorrow
evening, April 1, and promises to
be an interesting event as many
contestants will participate. A list
of these was furnished us too late
for publication..
Harry Kopp and Joe Juracek were
not sentenced in district court Friday
last. It had been announced that
sentence would be passed at that time.
A. C. Flannigan, convicted in the dis
trict court of Rock county on charges
similar to those under which James
C. Flannigan has been convicted in
this county, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for from one to ten
years. The preferred claims cases
disposed of here last week resulted
in finding for the bank receiver in all
but one of the suits, that against
Bertha Wise. It is understood the
supreme court is to finally rule upon
most of the cases.
Betty Sterner, age 9, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sterner, died Tues
day morning from a fractured skull
sustained when hit by an automobile
driven by Evelyn Mains. It occui'red
on the street a block north and two
blocks west of the business center
of town early Monday evening. An
inquest was held and the facts deter
mined there exornerated Miss Mains.
According to the testimony she was
driving past the Sterner home when
the child unexpectedly appeared in the
street. Miss Mains and several com
panions writh her in the car had a
moment before seen the child on the
sidewalk. They were driving leisurely
along at the time. Funeral services
were conducted at the home at 2
o’clock yesterday, Rev. Kuhner offici
ating. Mr. Sterner is employed on
the state highwas driving one of the
maintainers.
To Start Road Work.
Mr. Bryan writes from the execu
tive office to The Frontier as follows:
Last fall I transferred $200,000 of
road funds from other parts of Ne
braska to the nine drouth stricken
counties of northern Nebraska and
provided hand and team work build
ing roads for 1600 men and 500 horses
to enable those good but unfortunate
people to earn some money to sup
port their families during the winter.
This work was continued until freez
ing weather and deep snows put a
stop to the work. I am receiving
large numbers of letters from the
people in your county requesting me
to give them an opportunity to again
earn some cash to buy the necessaries
of life for their families.
This letter is to advise them that
I will start this hand and team work
building roads in your country rgain
just as soon as the weather and the
conditions of the roads will permit.
Your people may also be interested
to learn that our State Relief Com
mittee has already shipped seven hun
dred and fifty carloads of food, cloth
ing and feed to the nine drouth af
fected counties and that I am urging
the good people of Nebraska to con
tinue their donations until the spring
vegetables and pastures make their
assistance no longer necessary.
Expressing the sincere hope that
your section of the state has abundant
crops this year and that all traces of
the drouth will soon disappear, I am
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES W. BRYAN,
Governor of Nebraska.
Annual Program
The annual Achievement Day pro
gram was held Wednesday evening,
March 30, at the public school aud
itorium.
The purpose of Achievement Day is
to honor those wTho have accomplished
something along health lines.
Demonstrations were given by the
students in Home Hygiene and Care
of the Sick and health plays and dia
logues further emphasized the import
ance of health in every day life.
A short talk was made hy the chair
man of the Holt County Chapter of
the American Red Cross, Dr. W. J.
Douglas, on the disaster relief work
that has been done in Holt county
during the past winter.
Certificates were presented to the
members of the three classes by Mrs.
Edith Davidson, chairman of the nurs
ing activities committee.
Those receiving certificates are as
follows:
Adult Class
Mrs. Iola Lowery
Miss Marie Welch
Mrs. Norp Hishiser
Mrs. Gladys Cunningham
Miss Marguerite Welch
St. Mary’s Academy
Pauline Dusatko Anna Neyens
Edna O’Malley Maybelle Buckhill
Florence Breakhill Helen McCaffrey
Eileen O’Malley Lucille Veenker
Cleta McNichols Evelyn Mains
Harriet Whiting Leona Hicks
Helena McGaa
O’Neill High School
Charlotte Kurtz Helen Murray
Elsa Lou Ohmert Carinne Smith
Nila Renner Margaret
Eileen Renner Honeywell
Mary VanEvery Elva Stauffer
Hazel Anderson Willa Wilson
Rita Knapp Nona Bressler
Following presentation of certific
ates, five point health buttons were
given out to 105 grade pupils of O’
Neill. These children had qualified
for them by being normal in vision,
hearing, teeth, throat and weight and
by observing health rules.
In the Days that Wuz
O. W. Baker, formerly of O’Neill,
but now of Casper, W.vo., writes of
“tough times’’ of an earlier day in
comparison with the present as fol
lows:
In these days of so much talk about
hard times, I want to say that the
people do not realize that times have
been harder. I have lived for over
a half century and have seen lots
worse times way back in the eighties
and nineties, when we made our own
clothes, shot wild game for most of
our meat, raised beans for $1 a bushel,
potatoes for 15 cents a bushel, wheat
for 25 cents, corn for eight and ten
cents, pork at two cents and eggs at
five cents a dozen, and butter six cents
a pound. I have loaded grain all day
from sun-up ’till dark for 50 cents a
day, played for a dance all night for
$1, danced on a dirt floor with girls
that were barefooted, and we enjoyed
ourselves too. We would all go in
lumber wagons with ox teams, and
some had horses, no cars or buggies
in those days.
I remember being in a settlement
one dayand they had no fiddler around.
They wanted me to stay that night,
and they would have a dance. That
was down on the Calimus river in
Nebraska. I promised to play. That
was early in the morning. They
started five boys out to get up a crowd.
Well, by sundown they were there
for 25 miles around, pitched their
tent, possibly 125 people big and little.
Did they have a time? Well, I won
der! They were dancing when the sun
came up the next morning. Maybe
I was not tired of playing. They
raised $5 for the fiddler. That was
some money those days. Now they
spend $1 to dance, 50 cents for gas
oline, $1 for fire water, and still holler
hard times. I remember my mother
saved enough eggs at 5 cents a dozen
to get me a new suit of clothes that
cost $5, and I do not mean maybe. I
was the best dressed “guy” around.
Did I feel proud! It was about the
first all-ready-made suit I ever had.
Then $1.25 bought a good pair of cow
hide shoes. People would laugh at
that kind now, but we were satisfied.
Those times we did not hear people
standing around talking hard times.
People seemed to be happy, friendly
and satisfied.
I went to school on foot, two miles,
never knew what an overshoe was.
We tied grain sacks around our feet,
sat by a fire on a wooden bench and
burned corn for heat.
People do not realize nowadays j
what hard times are. Of course, some j
are hungry nowadays, but everybody
flocks to town now. They drive big
cars, go to movies, card parties, dances
and pay big prices for it, and then
cry hard times.. I remember we used
to go about once a year to the school
house and pay ten cents to see a magic
lantern show and talk about it for
weeks afterward. We thought it fine
then. Once in a while If we had 50
cents we would drive a team 12 to 15
miles to see a circus, then the talking
machines came in, and we would go
to a school house and pay 10 cents to
hear it screech and howl, and thought
it wonderful. Now the radio, airships,
automobiles, movies, something going
on all the time, and calling for 50
cents to $1, and we think it is just
simply awful if we cannot go. Now
we have thebussesto haul the children
very fine, furnish 25 cent a piece for
lunch at school, which is fine. Then
we walked and ate bread with it
soaked in sorghum molasses.
Eradicating T. B. in Cattle
Nebraska cattle men throughout
the grazing belt are vigorously op
posed to the program of the veterin
arians for tuberculosis eradication.
Earl Monahan of Hyannis expresses
the cattle man’s position in the Hook
er County Tribune.
He says:
Cattlemen all over the west are in
favor of stamping out T. B., but they
are not in favor of testing millions
of cattle to find out if they have T. B.,
when they believe that there is a
better way and a much cheaper one,
and that is by post mortem in packing
houses, which is already being done,
and could be very easily traced back
to the owner by the brand, which
would save the rancher from rounding
up his cattle, testing them and hold
ing them for seventy-two hours, when
he would have to run them through
the chute again. This would not be
much of a job for a man with a few
cattle, but for the rancher with hun
dreds of head it would be no small
task.
If cattle were to be tested it would
take a large army of veterinarians,
which of course are paid out of county,
state and federal funds, which cer
tainly would not help reduce taxes.
In the first place, ranchers do not
believe they have any T. B. among
range cattle, but in case this disease
is on the range in some herds it could
be traced from the packing house
and those herds tested.
Thecattlethat would go for slaught
er would be at least ten per cent of the
breeding herds, including a number of
old cows and bulls that no doubt
would be more .likely to have T. B.
than the cattle kept on the range.
For the year ending June 30, 1931,
of the 2,015,440 cattle slaughtered at
Denver, Ft. Worth, Kansas City and
Omaha, only 0.034 per cent were con
demned, and for Ft. Worth and Den
ver, where the range cattle per cent
was greater, only 0.019 per cent were
condemned. And the per cent of range
cattle that are condemned is so email
that no separate account is kept.
The United States Livestock San
itary Association (an organization
composed largely of vererinarians)
is responsible for getting this rule
of testing cattle adopted by the United
States Bureau of Animal Industry.
Of course they would get a long
time job, while the taxpayers and
cattlemen get the expense and the
grief. Do you blame the cattlemen
for their attitude in this case?
Methodist Church Notes
Benj Kuhler, Pastor
Sunday School at 10:00—Classes
for all ages.
Next Sunday is District Day. An
exchange of pastors for the morning
service is arranged. Rev. I. G. Hop
kins, Chambers pastor will preach in
O’Neill in the morning and your pas
tor will go to Chambers.
In the evening we will have a page
ant, ‘‘The Challenge of the Cross"
given by the young folks, at the reg
ular preaching hour, 7:30. Baptismal
service and reception of new members
at the close of the service.
Prayer and Bible study service
Thursday evenings at 7:30.
Feeding of Wheat
Farmers who are planning to feed
cracked wheat to livestock might do
well to exercise care in feeding it.
Wheat is a concentrated food and
should be fed sparingly to animals
that are not accustomed to it.
Wheat should be fed with especial
care to horses. If fed heavily at
first it may cause digestive troubles
and may even result in the death of
the horse. Start your horses on a
small amount of the wheat and feed
some other grain with it if possible.
Services at the First Presbyterian
Church
'Sunday School 10:00—Mr. Geo. C.
Robertson, Superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Making
Your Church Your Own.”
C. E. Prayer Meeting 6:46.
Evening Service 7:30 — “Finding
God in the Beautiful.”
We invite you to the above services.
Every person at times realizes the
fact of God. Worship is the quest for
God who will help in the great moral
struggle. This struggle becomes fierc
est when we least expect it.
H. D. Johnson, pastor.
COUNTY AGRICULTURE
James W. Rooney
County extension Agent
Temporary Pasture Crops
For temporary pasture this spring
the University of Nebraska Agricul
tural College recommends seeding of
oats early this spring and then later
the seeding of a field of sudan grass.
The oats will give early spring pasture
and will last up to about the first of
June. Sudan grass should be seeded
about corn planting time and will fur
nish pasture during the hot summer
months and until frost in the fall. Fall
rye seeded next August or September
will furnish a lot of fall pasture.
A small field of sweet clover seeded
early this spring will furnish a little
pasture late this fall and considerable
pasture during the summer months
next year. Two bushels of oats, six
pecks of rye, or JO pounds of sudan
grass seed per acre are about the a
mounts usually recommended.
Poultry Culling on New Basis
Producing eggs at one cent and sel
ling them at a half cent each is the
same as swapping dimes for nickels.
At present poultr; and egg prices
there is little excuse to keep more old
hens thnn are needed to supply eggs
and poultry meat for home use. Poul
try quarters are over crowded on
many farms. Older hens are more
often responsible for disease outbreaks
in the flocks than young hens. The
sale or disposal of one-third of the
hens in Nebraska today would do more
toward disease control and the estab
lishment of healthy profitable flocks
than all the remedies ever sold in the
state.
Poultry culling is now on a differ
ent basis. The extension service of
the College of Agriculture used to
recommend that only the poorer hens
be culled out and disposed of. The
recommendation is now that only the
best hens be kept and that all of the
poorer hens be culled out and dis
posed of. The recommendation is that
only the best hens be kept and all of
the poor and medium-good ones be
disposed of.
Food for Low Cost Meals
Home economics girls in the Uni
versity of Nebraska foods classes
have worked out low-cost meals for
a week, and recipes to go with the
menus. The information is contained
in circular 913, “Some suggestions to
the homemaker for putting variety
and palatability into low cost meals.
The circular includes a page of ex
amples of low cost foods suitable for
main high protein dishes. The menus
are separated into breakfast, dinner
and supper meals each of the seven
days of the week. The latter part
of the circular contains 29 recipes with
many variations. All of the recipes
will help the home maker work out
the suggested.
Crop Production Loans
One hundred and sixty men had
made application for crop production
loans on Tuesday of this week. Ap
plications can be made at the First
National Bank at Stuart, C. E. Haven
office at Atkinson, A. C. Townsend’s
store at Page, Farmers State Bank at
Ewing and the Farm Bureau office at
0 Neill.
Tree Applications Due April 10
Applications for seeding trees will
be filed until April 10th. Trees or
dered in applications already received
are to be shipped to Holt county on
March 31st.
Varieties which are still available
are: American elm, cottonwood, green
ash, catalpa, caragana, Scotch pine,
Austrian and Jack pines. Trees or
dered after shipping starts will be
sent immediately following the regular
schedule. Application blanks may be
secured from this office.
Grasshopper Report
O. S. Bare, extension service en
tomologist, discusses another angle
of the grasshopper situation in the
weekly report. Bare writes about the
crops that are grasshopper resistant
or, in other words, less popular with
the grasshoppers.
No common farm crop is wholly im
mune to grasshopper attack. Some
crops, however, are eaten by the pests
only when other food plants are very
scarce or not obtainable. When the
food supply become low the hoppers
will eat any crops that they can find.
Of the crops that are partially im
mune from the grasshopper, cane and
sudan grass rank first, Bare believes.
Both of these crops grow well in hot
weather and very well under drouth
conditions. Cane has a disadvantage
of producing a poison which is danger
out to livestock. This is particularly
noticable when rains produce a second
growth after a dry period, or when
new growth comes up from a crop
damaged by hail storms or frost. Cane
should not be used for pasture, but
produces an abundance of safe dry
forage when well cured.
Sudan grass is one of the best
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