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The Frontier
V0L- LI1-_ O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932 No. 46
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“W hen a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.”
TUESDAY’S ELECTION RESULTS
Mayor Stout
RETURNED FOR FOURTH TERM
Mayor C. E. Stout was elected for
the fourth time to that office at Tues
day’s election, with a majority of 56
votes over L. G. Gillespie who was
second in a three cornered contest.
John Kersenbrock was third with a
total vote of 208.
City Clerk Ed Campbell was re
elected over Ed Quinn by a majority of
134. Councilman Johnson defeated
Clarence Zimmerman in the Third
ward. There were no contests on
other offices. The complete vote fol
lows:
For Mayor—
1st 2nd 3rd Total
Gillespie 83 63 176 322
Kersenbrock 86 43 79 208
Stout _ 156 115 107 378
For City Clerk—
Campbell 194 141 175 510
Quinn_ 122 76 178 376
For Treasurer—
Hancock __ 261 173 284
For Police Judge—
Enright . 258 166 243
For Council—
Harty 261
Brennan _ 144
Seybold _ 72
Johnson _ 213
Zimmerman _ 134
Board of Education—
Downey._ 189 129 207
Shoemaker _ 227 144 218
Fire Truck Bonds—
For 194 116 179
Against 98 79 145
The total vote for the bonds is 811.
The majority favoring the bonds is a
few votes over the 60 per cent re
quired by statute. The mail vote is
expected to change these figures some.
Teeth of Aluminum
A discarded aluminum teakettle has
found its way into the mouth of Ogda
Wood of Ewing, unemployed jeweler,
auto mechanic, plainter and inventor,
whose latest role is that of dentist,
according to a story in an Omaha
paper.
When Wood was compelled to have
his teeth extracted, he eliminated the
cost of further dental work by shap
it|g a set of aluminum teeth which, he
declares, fit comfortably. The tea
kettle and other discarded aluminum
utensils were used to make the plate.
The process was not without its ob
stacles. During the making, Wood
said, he poured the melted aluminum
into a damp mold which caused an ex
plosion, covering the walls floors and
ceiling of the work shop with metal.
A second attempt was successful.
In making the plates, Wood obtained
some dental wax and took his own
impression for both uppers and lowers
before beginning the work of grind
ing and polishing.
A man giving his name as Tom
Jensen, age about 30, was found by
Stanley Lewis Monday evening beside
the highway a quarter mile west of
Danceland. He was unconscious. The
sheriff’s office sent out a deputy to
bring the injured man to town. Mean
while R. J. Marsh came along and
stopped to examine him and was wtih
him when the sheriff came. He was
given medical attention after being
brought into Itown. His story was
he was hiking west for Hot Springs
to obtain medical care at the soldiers’
hospital. At the turn in the highway
going out from O’Neill west, two men
came along and offered him a ride.
He got in the back seat and one of
the two in front also got into the
back seat. The next thing he was
conscious of he was being cared for
at a hotel. His money was gone,$3.
His condition indicated he had been
slugged, then robbed. He was looked
after by Sheriff Duffy and Dr. Brown
and furnished transportation to Hot
Springs.
Seed Potatoes
We have a carload of No. 1 Red
River Valley seed potatoes and also a
car of Idaho table potatoes. Are also
going tocarrya line of staple groceries
and fresh fruits. Come in and get our
prices. We buy eggs.
O’Neill Fruit Center
First door west of O’Neill Creamery.
Notice to Milkers
We desire to notify our customers
to not in any case use the cream cans
for kerosene. It spoils an entire can
of cream if the can has been used!
for oil.
Farmers Union Co-Op Creamery Co. j
The jury was to have reported for i
duty Monday for the other Flannitran
case but was notified not to come in {
until called by the court. Attorney ]
Stahl muster, assisting County Attorn
ey Cronin, could not come at this time
to proceed with the case.
Editor Coats of Stuart was in the
city Monday. We missed a fraternal
call by being out at the time. His
printer is away on tho laudable mis
sion of taking a bride and Mr. Coats
is having to do double duty in getting
out his paper.
E. J. Mack and Fred Swingley, re
presenting the two Atkinson banks,
and Mr. Dailey of the Emmet bank,
were in the city yesterday negotiating
with the county board over county de
posits. They are asking a service
charge on the deposits that reduces the
interest rate from two to one per cent
on county funds, the same as paid by
O’Neill banks. Members of the board
say the deposits in the O’Neill banks
are checking accounts and those in the
other banks are in the nature of time
deposits, hence there should be no
service charge. The bank at Ewing
and Stuart are paying two percent on
county funds.
Fantastic ideas sometimes pet into
the minds of young people respecting
the sacrament of matrimony. A couple
secured a license at the county court;
last Saturday, cautioned the judge j
clerk to not let it be known; went to
the home of a gospel minister and
induced him to accompany them down
to the crystal flowing Elkhorn and
there upon a sandbar to the ripling
of the waters and the romance of
nature’s own surroundings the nuptial
rite was solemnized. Their names are
on the public records at the court
house and are—but they obligated the
judge and the preacher to secrecy and
why should a mere editor give it all
away.
THRILLS APLENTY GETTING A
Bootlegger
A JOB FOR THE VENTURESOME
At one time officers got their thrill
cornering cattle rustlers. Whether
cattle rustling is unprofitable or gone
out of fashion, the thrill comes now
to the prohibition agents. A good
story teller like Constable H. W. Tom
linson can relate the details, of a raid
until you just about envy his experi
ence. One of the latest to be brought
to boots for liquor violation is a wo
man at Atkinson, Mrs. Rose Barrett
who was fined $ 100 and costs in justice
court after seven gallons of moon
shine whiskey and thirty-one bottles
of beer were retrieved from the Bar
rett home. Protesting innocence and
declaring there was “not a thing in
the house,” Mr. Tomilson and his
chief, George Bay, went ahead with
their plans to investigate and found
“the goods.”
Locating the bottles of beer was a
simple matter. The stronger fluid was
not so easily found. A siphone hose
in the basement smelling strongly of
liquor was the first clue. A hole in
the wall cleverly contrived and cov
ered was found through which the
poteHt liquid could be drawn by ap
plying the siphone. The next step
was to discover the “supply tank,”
which was got to from the outside by
removing some floor boards from the
porch.
Over on the river, that was tne
borderline in the long ago of horse
thief and desperado, the scene of trag
edy and mystry, and still a rendezvous
in certain spots for those disposed to
unlawful pursuits, they had another
thrill. Under instructions from head
quarters at Omaha, Mr. Bay went to
a shack just across the river in west
ern Boyd county. He took the Holt
county constable with him. Two men
were at the place and no demurrer
was entered to the officers making a
search. In the face of very convinc
ing denial of any liquors or stills on
the premises a tub of mash, a coil and
a still were found by little effort in the
one-room shack occupied by the men.
The equipment with a sample of the
mash was set outside and the rest of
the mash dumped in a nearby spring.
But they came very nearly loosing
their evidence. Mr. Bay went back
across the bridge to bring their car
over while Mr. Tomlinson stayed in
the house. One of the men, a small
man which officers understood did not
make his home there, went out. When
Mr. Bay got back still and coil and
mash were gone and the little man
was disappearing on a run up the
river. They gave pursuit and retrieved
the still and coil from the river where
they had been thrown and then went
back to the spring and got a sample
of the mash.
In county court at Butte this offend
er faces the serious charge of being
a manufacturer of moonshine whisky
involving a $500 fine.
An eastern publication of reputable
keen political docernment forecasts
Mr. Hoover’s re-election as an as
sured fact. We fear O’Neill demo
crats have been slighted in taking the
poll
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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
O’Neill Boy Is Champion
Holt county’s Annual Spelling Con
test was held in O’Neill on Friday
evening, April 1st with 139 contest
ants from all corners of the County
competing. At the same time Francis
Soukup won the County Champion
ship and will represent Holt county in
the World - Herald spelling bee on
April 30th. Francis is 13 years old
and an Eighth grade student of St.
Mary’s Academy, O’Neill. As a sev
enth grader, last year Francis was a
Holt county Champion and took part
in the World-Herald Spelling Bee.
where he was a close runner-up of the
winner. Francis also won First Place
in the Oral Spelling in the Seventh
and Eighth Grade Group of the County
Contest.
Following are the reuslts of the
contest:
Fifth and Sixth Grade Group—Oral
Rural—First, Esther Kranig, Dist.'
No. 4; Second. Lillian Thiele, Dist.!
No. 46.
City — First, Edward Quinn, St.
Mary’s Academy. O’Neill; Second,
Edward Stein, St. Mary’s Academy.'
O’Neill.
Written
Rural—First, Doris Parks, Dist. No. j
97; Second, Anna Montgomery, Dist. j
No. 86.
City—First, Nondyce Hunter, Stu- j
art; Second, Harriet Hammond. St.
Mary’s Academy, O’Neill.
Seventh and Eighth Grade Group
Oral
Rural—First Mildred Taylor, Dist.
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No. 122; Second—Eileen Leisge, Dist.
No. 72.
City—First, Francis Soukup, St.
Mary’s Academy, O’Neill; Second, Joy
Custer, Stuart.
Written
Rural—First, Mildred Taylor, Dist.
No. 122; Second, Mary Porter, Dist.
No. 241.
City—First, Joy Custer, Stuart;
Second, Eileen Traner, St. Joseph’s
Hall, Atkinson.
Finals, Seventh and Eighth
Oral
First, Francis Soukup, St. Mary’s
Academy, O’Neill; Second, Mildred
Taylor, Dist. No. 122.
Written
First, Joy Custer, Stuart Public
School, Stuart; Second, Mary Porter,
District No. 241.
High School Contest
Oral
First, Eugene F. Gallagher, St.
Mary’s Academy, O’Neill; Second,
Rosalie Alder son, Chambers Public
School, Chambers.
Written
First, Helen McCaffrey, St. Mary’s,
Academy, O’Neill; Second, Angela
Mullen, St. Joseph’s Hall, Atkinson. |
The county board convened yester* i
day to finish the work of the regular
monthly session which was laid over
when adjournment wux taken last
week owing to three of the members
of the board going to Lincoln. The
Frontier will have a complete official
report of the regular and adjourned
session at an early date.
Kind old lady: “Did you say you
lost both legs in the war, my poor
man?"
Mendicant: “I’ll be honest—I lost
one in the war and I wore out the
other looking for work."—Pathfinder.
Mrs. R. H. Mills arrived home Sat
urday from Omaha where she had
undergone operations for a complica
tion of disorders from which she had
suffered for some time. She is now
very much better.
Miss Frona Robinson of the Chap
man Style Shoppe was at Parsons,
Kan., last Saturday to attend the
funeral of her grandfather, Joseph
Naegele, age 86. Miss Robinson ac
companied her mother, Mrs. M. C. Rob
inson, and brother Ora, of Page. The
deceased was a Union soldier, having
enlisted at the age of 14 as u drummer
boy. He was accorded a military fun
eral with six Grand Army men, all
past 86, as honorary pall bearers.
Orville A. Andrew and W. W.
Hughes both of Lincoln, were in O’
Neill Monday on their way home from
a trip across the state south of the
Platte and back home through the
northern counties. Mr. Andrews is a
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for railway commissioner. We
know him to be a gentleman of in
tegrity and ability well worthy of the
confidence of the voters. Mr. Hughes
is seeking for the first time the re
publican nomination for secretary of
state. He impresses one as being pos
sessed of rare good sense, with a
frankness of expression that com
mends itself.
OFFICERS ROUNDUP BUNCH OF
Thieves
ONE WOMAN, FIVE MEN TAKEN
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Judge Dickson, Judge Malone,
County Attorney Cronin, Sheriff Duffy
and officials in Boyd county have made
a cleaning of a bunch that have oper
ated for a long time in the vicinity of
Spencer and south from there across
the river, the finger marks of one
reaching into O’Neill stores.
One woman and four men have been
caught in the toils of the law. Some
thing of an organized band has been
broken up.
Tina Calwell, living on the Holt
county side of the Niobrara, entered
a plea of guilty in county court last
Friday to a petti larceny charge and
was fined $100 and costs. She was
charged with shoplifting at the J. C.
Penney Co. and Golden Rule stores
in O’Neill, the plunder consisting
principally of stockings and wash
clothes. Sheriff Duffy found the ar
ticles upon searching the Calwell place.
Mrs. Calwell’s husband, Orlow Calwell,
is now serving a sentence in the pen
itentiary for receiving stolen harness.
One hundred gallons of paint and
a quantity of linseed oil was stolen
from Boyd Sims of Spencer. This was
found buried at the Calwell place this
side of the river. Two Spencer men,
Ted Smaltz and Roy Carlson, were
charged with stealing the paint. They
admitted stealing twenty gallons of
paint and trading it for two gallons
of whisky at Calwell’s. Smaltz ent
ered a plea of guilty to a charge of
burgulary and Carson to a charge of
grand larceny. Judge Dickson sen
tenced them each to one year in the
state reformatory.
A mower belonging to a farmer in
Boyd county was also found at the
Calwell place. The mower was stolen
in 1930. For this job Charley Mc
Millan was sentenced in district court
in O’Neill last Friday to the peniten
tiary from two to seven years, and a
second man, Adkins, is in jail in Boyd!
county for his part in the theft of the
mower.
A truck belonging to Bob Carr of
Atkinson was overturned at the Shaun-!
nesy corner east of town Sunday night. |
Riding in the truck were Carr, Henry
Winkler and another man. The truck
overturned when the driver attempted
to pass Floyd Pilger, both coming
west, and ran into a car coming around
the corner in which two boys, Ruko
and Wanser, were returning to Page.
None of the occupants of either truck
or car were hurt seriously. Ralph
Mellor went out with the wrecker at
midnight and brought the truck and
car into town. Considerable damage
was done both machines.
An upper corner broken off of a
78x86 inch plate glass at the Mor
rison store front involved the care
ful work yesterday of replacing the
broken plate with a new one. Hugh
Coyne furnished the glass and super
vised the installing of the same
yesterday.
For Rent—8 room house. Inquire
at The Frontier.
THREE ROAD AND BRIDGE JOBS
AWARDED
NO FUNDS TO COMPLETE NO. 15
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At the state house last Friday con
tracts were let for road and bridge
work at a much lower figure than in
the past, Chairman John Sullivan of
the board of supervisors says. He and
Mr. James and Mr. Steinhauser were
present when the contracts were let.
There were three contracts let for
work in Holt county. A strip of
graveling of 5.5 miles this side of
Orchard was let to S. N. Einung for
$2,81>9.63. Part of this is in Antelope
county. The same contractor was a
warded the contract ofr 2fi.l miles of
graveling on the O’Neill Clearwater
project at § 13,745.05.
The call for bids included four
bridges on what is known as the
Devere-Atkinson project.
Mr. Sullivan says they were in
formed at the state house that the
work of finishing the graveling on
highway 13, including the five mile
grade into Chambers, cannot be re
sumed before June from the present
outlook. Funds have run low and
gasoline tax receipts have greatly
fallen off the past few months. The
situation is about the same with re
spect to highway 11, though Mr. Sul
livan says something will have to be
done soon to save the grade in the
hills near Swan lake as spring winds
are raising havoc with the loose sand
at that point. He says it is probable
that the remainder of this highway
will be finished with oil as no clay
is available in the neighborhood. This
will furnish a surface the same as
on No. 13 north of the South Fork.
No. 11 is graveled to a point twenty
and one-quarter miles or a little over,
south of Atkinson.
Library Notes
Reference books on Nebraska, re
cently received at the library, “Ne
braska the Land and the People,” the
author is Addison Erwin Sheldon,
author of “History and Stories of Ne
braska.” This is a three volume book;
the first voulme is history and con
tains new material on Nebraska, be
fore the coming of the white man, and
brings the history up to the present.
The second and the third volumns are
biographies of citizens of the state
selected and prepared by a special
staff of writers.
The corculation for the month of
March was 1,345, of which 1,089 were
adult and 128, junior.
Jeannette Rourke, niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Mullen is visiting at their
home.
Mrs. Tomsik, formerly Margarette
Hough, from Omaha, is here visiting
her parents.
Margaret Donohoe has filed a peti
tion in district court for divorce from
Peter W. Donohoe.
Mrs. Donald Enright and baby of
Omaha are visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. M. J. Enright.
Mr. James F. Gallagher, who has
been very ill for a time, was at the
bank again Wednesday.
Mrs. Emory Peterson spent last
Friday in Inman with her parents ,Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Conard.
Quality Milk and Cream at lower
prices. Milk 8c per quart. Cream
10c per half pint.—Hickey’s Dairy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Streeter went
to Brunswick Sunday to see Mr.
Streeter’s father, who is ill.
She: “You remind me of the seas.1'
Me: “Wild, restless and romantic?*'
She: “No, you just make me sick.*'
Roy Townsend of Page was in the
city yesterday, on his way home from
a trip to his ranch southwest of Cham
bers.
Mrs. C. P- Hancock and son, Mrs. J.
Edmund Hancock and Mrs. Kubitschek
visited with Mrs. Mary Hancock ia
Inman last Thursday afternoon .
Mr. and Mrs. Eveland departed
Tuesday night for the home of their
son in Sheridan county, where they
expect to reside in the future.
The many friends of Judge Chap
man will he glad to learn that he ia
greatly improving since being sud
denly taken quite seriously 111 laat
Saturday evening.
Leo Hintz of Clearwater and Leota
Tomjack of Ewing were granted a
marriage license Friday. Monday
Lloyd Smith and Ida Michaels, both
of Stafford .took out a trarriaga