Xeb. State Historical Society
The Frontier
VOL. LIII O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23,1932.___ _No. 5
HUGH O’DONNELL IS WINNER OF
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
OF THE O’NEILL COUNTRY CLUB
The Eleventh Annual tournament of
the O’Neill Country Club came to a
very successful close last Tuesday
afternoon with Hugh O’Donnell of this
city winning the championship for the
second time, Hugh having won the
title the first time in 1929. Harry
Huston was the runner up and the
championship finals were witnessed
by a large gathering and it was a
splendid contest being nip and tuck
from the first tee to the end.
The visiting ladies were entertained
at the Club house with bridge parties.
On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Ed. M.
Gallagher won tne nign score ior iuwn
ladies and received first prize, a small
electric clock. Mrs. Hastings of
Meadow Grove won the high score for
visiting ladies and received as a prize
a brass lamp. Mrs. D. H. Claussen
•won the door prize, an electric toast
er. Mrs. Hugh Coyne won the all
cut, a five pound box of bon bons. Miss
Besack won the first prize given for
the lady having the first 100 aces and
making a grand slam, a box of im
ported perfume and a box of powder.
The consolation prize was won by Mrs.
William Morgan of Atkinson, a white
hand bag.
On Monday afternoon Mrs. William
Wagner won the high score for visit
ing ladies, a box of maderia napkins.
Miss Bernadette Brennan won the con
solation, a relish dish. The door prize
was won by Miss Ava Donohoe of
Bonesteel, a bed set, sheet and pillow
cases. Mrs. Lund won the all cut,
a silver make up box.
On Monday evening they were all
entertained with a dancing party at
the Club House, music being furnished
by Stamford's Orchestra and an en
joyable time was had by all.
The were 105 entries for the tourna
ment this year, and while not as many
as there have been in former years,
all say that it was one of the most
successful ever staged by the local
club, the visitors being especially loud
in praise for the splendid entertain
ment furnished and the hospitality ex
tended by the members of the Country
Club.
Following is a list of those register
ing, with their post office addresses,
for the eleventh annual tournament of
the O’Neill Country Club held in this
city Sunday, Monday and Tuesday:
L. A. Burgess, F. N. Cronin, George
Agnes, Harlan Agnes, Ed T. Camp
bell, R. R. Morrison, Ralph Oppen,
J. A. Donohoe, Fred McNally, William
Griffin, D. H. Claussen, W. H. Harty,
P. B. Harty, E. L. O’Donnell, H. E.
Coyne, E. M. Gallagher, R. F. Griffin,
H. J. Birmingham, W. J. Biglin, J. F.
Gallagher, P. C. Donohoe, J. B. Ryan,
F. J. Dishner, R. R. Dickson, W. J.
Hammond, G. Cadwell, G. G. I5erg
strom, Ira H. Moss, Ted McElhaney,
J. B. Mellor, Ralph Mellor, B. J.
Grady, H. J. Reardon, J. D. Cronin,
C. E Stout, Jim Toor, J. J. Harring
ton, Max Berger, P. J. O’Donnell,
D. C. Cook, Art King, Arthur Ryan,
Stanley Lewis, J. F. O’Donnell, John
McCarthy, Hugh O’Donnell and Max
Golden, O’Neill; W. J. Froelich, J. P.
Mann and J. J. Murphy, Chicago;
W. Webster, Brook Tillsworth, Bill
Wagner, Dr. Tipton, Dr. G. G. O’Con
nor, Dr. Frank Lund, George Whitney,
J. H. Holland and John Mace, Omaha;
Earl C. Harp and G. F. Miner, Long
Pine; Earl Christensen and Ed. Mc
Donnell, Council Bluffs; George Light
ner, St. Edwards; F. K. Dutton,
Scotts Bluffs; H. R. Roberts and L. L.
Cook, Spencer; L. G. Nelson, Du
Wayne Stockwell and Robert Huston,
Bassett; Carl R. Green and E. H.
Lott, Niobrara; R. E. Kritz, Lynch;
S. B. Shively, Harry Houston, Lee
Amm, J. A. Middleton, H. H. McKin
ney, L. G. Baber and J. Wade, Plain
view; W. C. Hastings, Newman Grove;
Alfred Calvert, F. E. Alder, Verne
Alder and C. H. Chilvers, Pierce;
W. W. Mahnnah and E. J. Statesman,
Butte; John Robinson, Hartington;
Joe Maas, Norfolk; Frank O’Donnell,
Dallas, Texas; Pat Stanton, Roy Ash
burn, Tom Hanson, C. E. Larson and
Ray Potts, Tilden; William Mclnery,
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Dr. B. F. Gleason,
Randolph; R. H. Martin, Albion; Edw.
Kilmurray, Atkinson; J. M. Lannigan
and Rev. M. Feeney, Greeley; Dr. M.
M. Sullivan, Spaulding; Martin, Win
ner, S. D., and Dr. W. F. Finley and
L. C. Walling, O’Neill.
The qualifying rounds were played
Sunday and Mr. Webster of Omaha
was the medalist with a score of 71
for the eighteen holes. The following
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BRIEFLY STATED
John Miskimmons and Tom Joyce
were Atkinson visitors last Sunday.
M iss Margaret Ryan, of Creighton,
is visiting at the home of Mrs. Ellen
O'Donnell.
Hugh McKenna left last Friday for
Norfolk, where he goes to receive med
ical treatment.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Whitney, of
Omaha, were in the city for the golf
tournament and incidently visiting
friends.
Bert Hubbard, who has been at
tending the state university the past
year, rturned home the latter part
of last week.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Max F. Powell, of Opportunity,
on June 7th. The little lady will be
known as Neva La Verne.
Mrs. James Moore, who has been
seriously ill the past six weeks, was
taken to Omaha for medical treatment
the latter part of last week.
Ava Clare Donohoe, of Bonesteel,
S. D., arrived in the city last week for
a couple of weeks visit at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell.
Mrs. Ivan Kinsman, of Columbus,
arrived in the city the latter part of
last week for a visit at the home of
her sister, Mrs. F. J. Dishner.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Larson, of
Pilger, came up last Saturday to at
tend the golf tournament as the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mellor.
The Holt county Economy League
will have a meeting in O’Neill, on
Saturday, June 25th at 2 o’clock p. m.
Martin Conway, Secretary.
The O’Neill Country Club will enter
at the Club grounds on the Fourth.
There will be sports for the kiddies in
the afternoon and fireworks in the
evening.
Miss Rose Marie O’Donnell, of
Omaha, arrived in the city last week
for a visit at the home of her grand
mother, Mrs. Ellen O’Donnell and
other relatives here.
Mrs. J. A. Devine, of Cheyenne,
Wyo., arrived in the city last Sat
urday for a few days visit with rela
tives and old time friends. She left
for home this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and
daughter, Grace, left this morning for
Chicago, via auto, where they will
attend the democratic national con
vention.
John Harrington fo Hartington,
Nebr., came over the latter part of
last week and attended the golf tour
nament being a guest at the home of
Miss Marion Golden.
J. H. Holland, of Omaha, arrived in
the city last Saturday to visit at the
home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. P. C. Donohoe and incidently to
take part in the golf tournament.
Miss Genevieve Biglin and Miss
Mary Sauser will leave tomorrow
morning for Chicago, where they will
visit relatives for a couple of weeks
and incidentally attend the democratic
national convention.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Tipton and son,
Jack, Mr. and Mrs. William Wagner
and son, Bill, and Miss Elsie Boyden,
of Omaha came up last Saturday to
attend the golf tournament and to visit
relatives and friends.
Miss Louise Mohr, who has been at
tending school at Ames, Iowa, the
past year, arrived in the city the
latter part of last week and will spend
a few weeks visiting at the home of
Miss Marion Golden.
Superintendent Pangle, of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad com
pany of Norfolk, accompanied by R.
W. McGinnis, of Lincoln, were O’Neill
visitors last Thursday and were pleas
ant callers at this office.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donohoe will
leave tomorrow morning for Chicago,
where Mr. Donohoe will represent the
democrats of the Third congressional
district in the democratic national con
vention to be held in that city next
i week.
M. F. Har
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M. F. Harrington passed away at
his home in this city at 6 p.m. Wednes
day evening, after an illness of a little
over two months, of heart disease.
The funeral will be held Saturday
morning at U o’clock from St. Patrick’s
church, interment in Calvery cemetery,
M. F. Harrington was born at Lind
say, Ontario, Canada, on November 7,
18G0, and was seventy-one years and
seven and a half months of age at the
time of his death. Mr. Harrington’s
folks were farmers and he attended
the country schools in Canada and
then taught school there for a few
terms, then studied law. On February
8, 1887, he was united in marriage at
Cornwall Canada, to Miss Margaret
McEnnery and shortly thereafter they
came to O’Neill, which has been his
home continuously since that time.
Mr. Harrington leaves to mourn the
death of a kind and loving husband,
father and brother, his wife, and two
daughters, Mrs. Constance Wattles,
of Hot Springs, S. D., and Mrs. Cleta
Percer, of Chicago; three sons, Gerald,
of Oakland California; Frank of
Seattle, Wash., and George of this
city. One brother, J. J. Harrington
of this city and one sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Morrow, of Omaha.
Shortly after Mr. Harringtons ar
rival in this city he entered the law
office of the late Congressman, M. P.
Kinkaid, where he studied law and
perfected himself in his chosen pro
fession. At that time Judge Kinkaid
was recognized as the leading lawyer
in this section. Shortly thereafter
Judge Kinkaid w-as elected to the state
senate and Mr. Harrington started
in the law business for himself. He
was unusually successful in his chosen
profession. He was recognized as one
of the most resourceful attorneys who
ever practiced before the courts of this
state. In his early years in practice
he successfully defended several per
sons charged with murder and his
success gained him not only state wide,
but national prominence, and the de
mand for his services constantly in
creased, until he was on one side or
the other in about each important law
suit tried in this state for several
years.
For years he was a thorn in the
sides of railw-ay and other corpora
tions as he successfully prosecuted
damage suits against them, in the Ne
braska, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming,
Kansas and Missouri courts. He was
generally found on the side of the
poor man as against the corporations,
and alway willing to take their case
and fight for them through every
court, if he was convinced that they
had a just cause.
Hhe was an indefatigable worker
and during terms of court and prior
thereto, in preparing a case for trial,
would spent most of the night in his
office marshalling his facts and the
rington
sses Away
law applicable to the case and then
appear in court bright and early in
the morning ready to match intellect
with the brightest attorneys in the
state or nation. The men, often high
salaried attorneys of the big corpora
tions, recognized in Mr. Harrington a
foeman worthy of their best efforts
and many compliments has the writer
heard, during the past twenty years,
given him by these representatives of
big business on his legftl accumen and
his magnetic personality before a jury.
As a trial lawyer he was recognized
as without a peer in this state or any
of the adjoining states.
Several years ago Mr. Harrington
was offered a splendid salary to repre
sent one of the big corporations of
the state. In those days the salary
offered was a princely one, but Mr.
Harrington turned it down without
any qualms stating that he much
preferred to represent the plain people
and that by fighting their battles
through the courts he got his greatest
enjoyment from life.
A quarter of a century ago he was
a power in the political life of the
state. At least one governor owed his
nomination and election to that office,
to him. Gov. Poynter, of Boone county,
who was elected in 1898. About that
time the populist party was at the
height of its power and Mr. Harring
ton could have had any office within
the gift of the representatives of the
people of that party in convention as
sembled, but he declined all offers of
political office for himself, but was
always untiring in his efforts on be
half of his friends. In later years he
has not been as active politically as
in former years, but during the cam
paign of two years ago was very ac
tive in that campaign in behalf of
Senator Norris’ campaign for re-elec
tion and no man in the state secured
more gratification over the election of
a candidate than he did over the re
election of the senior senator from
this state. He was always ready and
willing to spend money in a campaign
to assist his friends. He did it be
cause he valued the friendship of his
friends and thought but little of
money. Many a man in this county
and state have been assisted political
ly by him and there will be many eyes
that will grow dim when they learn
of the death of their loyal friend and
benefactor.
As a citizen of this city he was al
ways found in the front ranks as a
booster for the city and county. His
geneial greeting will be sorely missed
by his many friends and acquainten
ances in this city and county for they
can truthfully say a loyal friend and
brilliant man has passed away.
The Frontier joins the many friends
of the family in extending them its
sincere sympathy in their hour of be
reavement.
Joe Ryan returned home last Friday
evening from Prairie du Chein, Wis.,
where he has been attending school
the past year. On his way home he
tarried in Sioux City long enough to
submit to a tonsilotomy operation.
Mrs. Mary Massie and Miss Chelsea
Besack, of Omaha, arrived in the city
the latter part of last week for a visit
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. J.
Dishner and to attend the social doings
in connection with the annual golf
tournament.
M. F. O’Donnell, of Dallas, Texas,
arrived in the city the latter part of
last week to visit the home folks and
incidently participate in the annual
tournament of the O’Neill Country
Club. He left for his southern home
this morning.
Mrs. Cecilia Balch, of El Paso, Tex.,
arrived here this week to spend a few
weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Jenkins, who reside north of
O’Neill. Mrs. Balch visited the Mesa
j Verde National Park, Colorado, en
| rounte to O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Froelich and
! children arrived in the city last Sat
urday for a few days visit with rel
atives and friends here. They left
| Wednesday morning for Chicago,
! where Mr. Froelich is now stationed,
j and were accompanied by Mrs. C. E.
! Stout who will visit with them in
i Chicago for several week3.
Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Gleason and
daughter, Georgia Belle, of Randolph
came up last Saturday for the golf
tournament. During their stay in the
city they were guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Harty. They re
turned home Tuesday evening.
M. H. Horiskey, Herb Hammond,
William Martin and George Harring
ton left last Saturday morning for the
Minnesota lakes on a fishing trip,
making the trip in Horiskey’s new
Chrysler. There will be some great
fishing stories on tap when the boys
return.
Mrs. J. S. Ennis infurms this office
that they have quite a novelty in their
yard. It is a cherry tree on which one
crop of cherries has ripened and been
picked and the trees are again in full
bloom. It would appear as if this
tree was trying to do its share in dis
pelling depression.
H. D. Grady went down to York last
Sunday morning to attend the state
convention or encampment, of the
Spanish War Veterans. Geo. R. Lunn,
the national commander of the organ
ization, of New York, was present and
addressed the veterans. Henry says
that he was agreeably surprised to
find that Commander Lunn had been a
member of his regiment, the Third
Nebraska, during the war. Henry
says that he had an enjoyable time
visiting with the veterans. He re
turned home Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mclnery, of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, arrived in the
city last Saturday for a visit at the
home of Mrs. Mclnery’s mother, Mrs.
Ellen O’Donnell and other relatives
here and incidently to take in the
golf tournament. They left for ther
Wyoming home this morning.
Mr. and Mrs, J. J. Murphy and
daughter, Josephine, of Chicago, ar
rived in the city last Saturday evening
and are guests at the home of Judge
and Mrs. J. J. Harrington. Mr. Murphy
was a former resident of this county,
living on a farm about three miles
west of the cemetery, where the family
remained for several years, then moved
to Chicago.
L. C. McKim received a letter from
his son, D. Calvin, the first of the
week informing him hat he is now
teaching summmer school in the Uni
versity of Ohio, at Athens, Ohio. For
the past three years Mr. McKim has
been an instructor in the A. M. C.
College at Bryant, Texas, and he has
been reemployed there for another
year, his employment in Ohio being
for the summer months.
The O’Neill and Walnut base ball
teams played a very interesting game
on the O’Neill diamond last Sunday
afternoon. It was a splendid game
and was won by O’Neill with a
score of three to two. Fox and Farr
were the battery for O’Neill. The
O’Neill boys are playing especially
good ball now and a great game is
looked for at Long Pine on July
Fourth, when the local boys cross bats
with the Winner, South Dakota team
for a $150 purse.
J. 11. Ryan accompanied by his sons,
Joe and Bobbie, left Wednesday after
noon for Alliance, Nebr., where they
will visit at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Godding; from Alliance they will
go to Gillette, Wyo., where they will
visit with Mr. Ryan's brother, John,
then to Sheridan where they will visit
another brother, M. F. Ryan. From
there they will go to Denver, Colo.,
where they will visit a sister of Mr.
Ryan’s, Mrs. Ed. O’Connell. Then to
Ogallala, Nebr., where they will visit
at the home of another sister, Mrs.
Thomas Nolan. They expect to be
absent about two weeks. They are
making the trip in a new Chevrolet
sedan that Mr. Ryan has just pur
chased.
Emmet Squires, who about forty-!
seven years ago, drove the mail
from Niobrara to O’Neill, and who
lived in the Mineola neighborhood, was
in the city the latter part of last week
looking over the scenes of his early
labors. Mr. Squires left this county
forty-five years ago and has been a
resident of Wisconsin for several
years. The urge to come back and see
the scenes of his early labors was so
great that he made a trip here just for
the purpose of looking the town and
country over. For several days, while
in the city, he entertained the younger
generation with tales of his exploits
while driving the mails nearly a half
century ago, but he did not find very
many who remembered him.
When driving along the highways
these days you run into a good many
road hogs, but the greatest hogs that
we have encountered are the ones who
are driving trucks now graveling the !
highway east of this city, between
Page and Ewing. These hogs will get
in the center of the toad with these
big trucks and will not move over
an inch to let a car by, although there
are several feet on his side of the
road. We encountered one of these
on our way home from Omaha last
Monday night. We were both travel
ing north. At that particular part of
the road the gravel was on the west
side of the road. We followed this
truck for about a mile trying to get
him to move over so we could get by,
but we might as well have been honk
ing at a cement post, for all the at
tention he paid. Then we pulled up
and tried to pass him with one wheel
running through a pile of soft gravel
and we went into the ditch. But he
1 did not care, he was all hog and
seemed to glory in it. We would liked
' to have had a big war tank so that
we might have been able to attempt
to give him a lesson in road courtesy.
Drivers of his character are a menace
on the highway and the sooner these
road contractors will eliminate this
' class of drivers from their pay rolls
the sooner these companies will get
; into the good graces of the traveling
j public.
SEVERAL NEW CASES FILED
IN DISTRICT COURT
MOSTLY FORECLOSURE SALES
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Thomas Richards has filed suit in
the district court to foreclose a mort
gage given by Lawrence Bruder on the
southwest quarter of section eighteen,
township thirty, range thirteen west
of the Sixth p. m. The mortgage was
given on March 24, 1027, to secure the
payment of a note for $3,200.00. Plain
tiff alleges that the interest due on
September 24, 1030, was not paid and
that the taxes for the years 1026 to
1030 inclusive, were not paid by the
defendant, but were paid by the plain
tiff. He alleges that there is interest
and taxes due him, that he has paid
the sum of $358.45, and that there is
due on the mortgage up to June 15,
1032, the sum of $3,880.45, for which
he asks u decree and that the land be
sold to satisfy the amount found due.
He also alleges that the state of Ne
braska has a lien on the defendant’s
premises by virtue of a judgment
rendered against him but that the
lien is subsequent, junior and inferior
to the plaintiff’s mortgage.
Samuel G. Coover has filed a jeti
tion in the district court, as adminis
trator of the estate of Nelson B. Coov
er, deceased, for license to sell real
estate.
Charles Wrede and John Wrede,
executors of the estate of Charles
Wrede, Senior, has filed suit in the
district court to foreclose a mortgage
on lots thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and
sixteen, block forty-two, Riggs’ ad
dition to O’Neill to satisfy a mortgage
in the sum of $1,000.00. Plaintiff al
leges that they failed to [Jay interest
due on October 20, 1931, and that the
principal was due on April 20, 1932,
and that same has not been paid.
They ask for a decree and sale of the
property to satisfy the amount found
due.
Paul H. Gillan has filed suit in the
district court asking that a tax lien
that he secured against the southwest
quarter of section twenty-one, town
ship twenty-nine, range ten, for the
taxes levied against said premises for
the years 1926 and the subsequent
taxes on said premises paid by him
for the years 1927 to 1931 inclusive,
amounting to $318.94 and that a de
cree be issued and the land sold foa*
the an /»t found due the plaintiff
and an .attorneys fee of ten per cent
be taxed as costs. He further alleges
that the title to the real estate above
described stands in the name of Dan
Holland and J. N. Sutherland. That
Dan Holland is deceased and that he
does not know the names or residence
of his heirs or personal representa
tives.
E. H. Luikhart, as Receiver of the
Citizens State Bank of Stuart has
filed suit against Stanislaus Hytrek
and Mary Hytrek to foreclose a mort
gage given by them to the Citizens
State bank on lots fifteen and sixteen,
block eighteen, in Kimball and Blair’s
addition to the town of Stuart for
$080.00. Plaintiff alleges that the
mortgage was given on August 29,
1929, and subsequently renewed. That
on June 15, 1932, there was due
on said mortgage the sum of $805.80
with interest at ten per cent from
that date for which amount they ask
that it be declared to be a first lien
on said premises, subject only to the
balance due the Occidental Building &
Loan Association of Omaha. They
ask for a decree of foreclosure and
sale.
MULLEN-CURRY
Miss Mary Curry, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Patrick Curry of Spencer,
S. D., became the bride of William
Mullen, of Emmet, son of Mrs. J. P.
Mullen, at 8:30 o'clock, Wednesday
morning, June 15th, at the St. Mary’s
church in Spencer, S. D. Father
Scvheier read the marriage lines.
The young couple were attended by
Miss Dorothy Cool, of Merriman, S.D.,
and Ben Curry, brother of the bride.
The bride was dressed in a dress
of peach colored satan, and carried
a boquet of yellow rose3.
A wedding breadfast was served
after the ceremony at the home of the
bride’s parents, for relatives and close
friends.
After a short wedding trip through
South Dakota, they will be at home
to their friends on the farm four miles
north of Emmet.
J. P. Mann arrived in the city last
Saturday evening from Chicago to
participate in the golf tournament and
will remain for a couple of weeks
visiting relatives and old time friends.