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N<*' State Historical Society „ The Frontier VOL. LIII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4,1932. No. 11 TREPPISH BOUND » . OVER TO THE DISTRICT COURT Held Without Bail County Attorney Cronin filed a com plaint in county court last Tuesday against Earl Treppish charging him wiht the murder of Clarence Coy on or about the first day of April, 1932. The complaint alleges that Earl Treppish did, on or about the first day of April, 1932, in the county of Holt and state of Nebraska, then and there being did then and there feloniously purposely and of his deliberate and premediated malice, with and by means that are unknown to this com plainant and county attorney, did kill and murder one Clarence Coy. The defendant, Earl Treppish, thus com mitting murder in the first degree, contrary to the form of the statutes in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the state of Nebraska. Treppish was taken before the county court last Wednesday and ar raigned. He waived preliminary ex amination and was bound over to the district court without bail. Pauline Treppish, of Milwaukee, wife of Earl Treppish who is held in the county jail without bond on the charge of murdering Clarence Coy last April, arrived in the city last Sunday night to see her husband. IN DISTRICT COURT William J. Hammond has filed suit in the district court against Ina P. Worth, et al. to forclose a mortgage on the northwest quarter and north half of the southwest quarter of sec tion 30, north of range 11, west of the 6th p. m. in Holt county, Nebraska. In his petition he alleges that on August 28, 1928, Charles Fremont Karr gave his promissory not to R. H. Parker of O’Neill and gave a mort gage on the above land as security for the loan. Charles Fremont Karr has since died and his heirs are named as defendants in this action. The plaintiff further alleges that he is now the owner of the above notes and mortgage and that the defendants failed to pay the interest note due on March 1, 1930, nor have they paid any interest since that date. They also have failed to keep up the insurance on the buildings on the property, nor to pay the taxes for the years 1930 and 1931 which plaintiff had to pay in order to protect his interest in the property. He asks for an accounting as a gainst the defendants and that they be required to pay the amount found due or that the property be forclosed and sold to satisfy plaintiff’s claim against it. John Schmohr, one of our energetic and hustling farmers was a caller last Saturday extending his subscription to this household necessity. Mr. Schmohr has just had an unusual ex perience as he has planted three dif ferent crops in one field, in one season, and without harvesting any. Last spring he sowed a twenty acre field with barley. The hail storm of June 12th wiped it out and at the time of the hail storm it was one of the most promising fields in this locality. After hail had destroyed it he planted it to corn, and this crop he laid by the fore part of last week and it promises a splendid yield. Then, after laying the corn by, he sowed rye in the corn field, so that he has planted three crops in the same field in the same season, without harvesting any. Ed Asher, of Page, was in the city Wednesday. Mr. Asher says that he recently threshed a field of oats on his ^ place near Page that yielded fifty bushels per acre by measure and sixty bushels per acre by weight. This is the best oat yield that we have heard of so far, but there are many fields that have turned out from forty to fifty bushels per acre. A party of ladies, under the leader ship of Mrs. J. P. Brown, entertained the members and their wives with a party at the Country Club last Mon day night. About thirty couple were present. The evening was pleasantly spent playing auction bridge. Miss Genevieve Biglin won the high score prize for the ladies, while Ben Harty captured the honor for the men, and Ben Grady was the winner of the door prize. According to state and federal sta tistics farm wages are the lowest they have been in thirty years. With the supply of farm laborers nearly twice as great as the demand, wages are • down. Nebraska shows an average wage of $22.25 per month with board, or $1.10 a day with board. The scale I is 29 per cent under that of a year ago and 13 per cent under prewar levels. .— ■ Floods Caused By Heavy Rain Kill Live Stock We understand that Charles Richter lost forty head of hogs and seventy five chickens, as well as a barn and cattle shed, that was washed away by a wall of water that came down the little creek near his home. The creek is a branch of the Blackbird. Water also entered his house. Our infor mant says that they had seven inches of rain south of Richter’s and that a a wall of water came down the little creek, sweeping everything before it. This section was visited by three nice rain falls within the last week. Last Friday night forty-one hun dredths of an inch fell here, and Sun day morning thirty hundredths of an inch. The rainfall west, east, narth east and northwest of here was much greater on Friday and Sunday than it was here. Wednesday afternoon another rainfall visited this section that covered most of the county. The rainfall here was 1.19 inches. North east of here, in the vicinity of Joy the rainfall amounted to two inches. We understand that they had about four inches to the wrest, around Atkinson and Stuart and that hail did conside able damage south of Stuart, but the area covered by the hail storm we have been unable to ascertain. This last rainfall practically insures a corn crop in this section. We understand that they had a heavy downpour of rain northeast of this city last evening, on the Black bird, about fifteen miles northeast, and that many of the bridges across this creek in Willowdale, Scott and Paddock townships have been washed out. Supervisors Sullivan and McKim went out there this after noon to estimate the amount of dam age done to county bridges. It is said that the rainfall out there amounted to five inches and that some hogs and chickens, belonging to farmers living along the creek, were drowned. ROSE WILL OPERATE BUS LINE Last wreek the State Railway Com mission granted permission to James H. Rose to operate a bus line between Grand Island and this city, for thirty days, during which time the commis sion will attempt to decide whether to make it permanent or not. Rose and T. H. Barnes have been running a bus line between this city and Grand Island, but they dissolved partnership when their permit ran out. Both wish to continue, each for himself, but ad mit there is not enough business for two. They have been running opposi tion for several weeks, under old per mits. Barnes claimed, at the hearing held at Grand Island, that Rose was not a proper person to drive a bus, and one witness testified that he had seen him light a cigarette while driving. A party of Burlington railroad officials were in the city last Tuesday night, going east the next morning. They were on their semi-annual in spection trip of the B. & M. lines in this state. Those in the party were: Superintendent S. L. Lee, of Lincoln; Assistant K. W. Fischer, of Omaha and Roadmaster C. N. Johnson, of Sioux City, Iowa. The local Lions Club are sponsoring an O’Neill Booster day over the air at WNAX station at Yankton, South Dakota, for Sunday afternoon, August 14th. This station has been giving all towns, in which they are operating j stores, thirty minutes over the air at their station and the date a week from \ Sunday has been selected as O’Neill day. The local Lions Club have ap pointed a committee on program and they will line up the advertising that will be given over the air on this date for the city and county. It is expected that a good sized delegation of busi ness men from this city will visit Yankton on this date and arrange ments are being perfected to take the band along and they will be heard over j the air. Valuation of Holt County Real Estate Reduced 17 Per Cent The State Board of Equalization, at their meeting in Lincoln last week, re duced the valuations of a number of the counties of the state and raised others. The valuation of the farm land and improvements in this county was reduced seventeen per cent over what it was assessed at. City real estate and improvements were reduced fifteen per cent. The assessed valuation of the county, as returned by the board of equaliza tion this year was: $17,443,636. The assessed valuation of the farm land and improvements of the county, as equalized by the state board, is $14, 479.120.00, or a reduction of $2,905, 399.00, The assessed valuation of the county,; on city property and improvements was: $2,149,840.00 and as equalized by the state board of equalization $1,827, 304.00, or a reduction of $322,476.00. If the county will be able to get along with the same size levy for the coming year, as they did the past year, there will be a material reduc tion in taxes for the coming year. BRIEFLY STATED Harry Lee, of Chambers, was trans acting business in the city last Tuesday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz at an Omaha hospital last Monday morning. — Mrs. R. E. Calvert left Tuesday for a protracted visit with relatives in several cities in Eastern Ohio. Fred Cronk, one of the hustling farmers of Verdigris township, was looking after business in the city today. Mrs. C. R. Mullen returned last Tuesday morning from Gordon, where i she had been visiting her sister for' the past ten days. ■ W. H. Stein and George Savage left1 Wednesday morning for South Bend, Ind., and will drive back a Rockne Six that Mr. Stein has sold here. M. R. Sullivan was down from Hart ington Sunday. He returned Monday morning accompanied by Mrs. Sullivan who wdll spend a week at that place. F. E. McMillian returned the first of the week from Rochester, Minn., where he had been for the past three weeks receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic. J. Molstad, of Omaha, representing the claim department of the Travelers Insurance Co., was looking after busi ness for his company in the city last Tuesday. We understand that a contract has been let for the repairing of the oiled road south of this city and that work will commence thereon within the next ten days. William Hammond, Jr., went down to Omaha last Saturday and is now enrolled as a member of the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Crook, Nebraska. The first of the week Charles Bausch purchased from Ed. Gunn a couple of lots in the eastern part of the city and Charley will erect a residence there on at once. Mr. and Mrs. Atlee Graves, of Oma ha, arrived in the city last Saturday evening for a w'eeks visit at the home of Mr. Graves’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Graves. Mr. Cecil Sponheim and Miss Lola Bailey drove down from Platte, S. D., last Friday, obtained a license and were married at the Methodist Par sonage by the Rev. Benj. Kuhler. Fred Spires, who was a resident of this city for several years while he covered this territory for Armour & Co., is moving back to this city today, having rented the Ed. Porter home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Chapman drove up from Omaha Saturday after noon and spent Sunday visiting at the home of Mr. Chapman’s mother, Mrs. L. C. Chapman, returning to Omaha Sunday evening. D. A. Bland, Jr., manager of the local Hanford division of the Borden Produce Company, drove to Sioux City last Sunday morning and spent the day writh his family, returning Mon day afternoon. Mrs. J. B. Mellor, Mrs. Robert Ar i buthnot and Mrs. Frank Hanson, of I Hat Creek, Wyoming, returned last week from a two weeks visit with rel | atives and friends at their old home, | Winona, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Gatz went down to Lake Ericson last Sunday and spent J a few days fishing there, returning Wednesday evening. Ed. says they had good luck, catching a lot of blue gills and croppies. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller and sons, Jerry and Kenny, of North Platte, arrived in the city last Mon day for a visit at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Burgess. Mrs. Miller is a sister of Mrs. Burgess. Miss Mary McLaughlin went down to Sioux City the latter part of last week to receive treatment for an old eye trouble. Miss Madeline Ullom is j filling her place as librarian of the Grattan library during her absence. Bert Hubbard left last Sunday for Lincoln. He went from there Tuesday to report at the Nebraska National Guard camp for duty during the two weeks encampment. He is a second lieutenant in the reserve officers corps. - . . I Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Quig, Miss Dorothy Collins and Mrs. James Pace drove down to Plainview last Sunday. Mrs. Pace remained there for a few weeks visit with her daughter, while the others returned home Sunday night. L. A. Jones, for the past year man ager of Armour Creameries, pur chased the Idle Hour Cafe, taking charge of the same last Saturday evening. The Frontier is pleased that Mr. Jones has decided to remain in O’Neill. Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek en tertained six couple with a six o'clock dinner at the Grand Cafe last Thurs day evening. After dinner they all returned to the Kubitschek home where a pleasant evening was spent with cards. We understand that Sam Weller, of Ord, who was here last week inter viewing some of the business men re lating to the establishment of a sales pavillion here, has decided to locate in Atkinson and will put up a pavillion there. The Frontier acknowledges receipt of a letter from Donald Gallagher, of Lincoln, enclosing a check for sub-■ scription to this disseminator of cur rent events. Thanks, Donald, for the kind words annent the present ap pearance of The Frontier. Mrs. Florence Jensen, of Omaha, State Manager of the Woodmen Circle, was in the city Monday visiting with local members of the order. She left for Valentine Monday night and re turned today and will meet with the local lodge at their regular meeting tonight. Frank Gallagher went up to Val entine this morning and will return tomorrow with his father, J. P. Gal lagher, who has been visiting relatives there and enjoying himself angling for the finney tribe in the numerous lakes of that section, for the past three weeks. Dan F. and John Foley, of Detroit, Michigan, arrived in the city this afternoon for a couple of weeks visit at the home of the editor and wife. They say that business conditions are very poor in Detroit, most of the auto mobile companies working their force only part time. William and C. J. Gatz returned from Omaha Wednesday night. They were accompanied back by their fath er, F. C. Gatz, who went to Omaha about two weeks ago to have cat aracts removed from his eyes. The operation was successful and Mr. Gate’s eyesight will soon be normal. Mrs. Frank Hanson, of Hat Creek, Wyo., who has been visiting her sisters, Mrs. J. B. Mellor, Mrs. Robert Arbuthnot and Mrs. David Stannard, here for the past several weeks, and who accompanied the two former on a trip to Minnesota, left for her Wy oming home last Monday morning, be ing driven home by Miss Roberta Ar buthnot, who will visit there for a few days before returning. William Grothe Has Enormous Barley Yield William Grothe was down from Emmet today and was a pleasant cal ler at this office. Bill finished thresh ing last week and he had an acre of barly that produced a record yield. This acre, which was threshed separately, turned out ninety-four and one half bushels of barley by machine measure and Bill says that it would weigh out more than that. This bar ley was raised on an acre of ground that is planted every other year to potatoes and it raised a good crop of potatoes last year. If you know any better grain yields than this report it. In addition to the above acre Mr. Grothe had seventy acres of barley that yielded forty-three bushels per acre His oats averaged forty-three bushels; rye twenty-two and barley twenty. In addition to his small grain crop Mr. Grothe says that he has corn that he is convinced will yield forty five bushels to the acre or better. _ GAS TAX RECEIPTS According to the report of State Treasurer Bass the collection of gas taxes for the month of July, 1932, was $887,914.00, the largest ever received for the month of July. In July, 1929 the total received was $684,098.00 and in the same month in 1930 it was $786,153.00. The May collections this year totaled $786,540.00 and the June collections $698,236.00. Among the social events of the week was a no host treasure hunt held Mon day night by the younger set. The out of town hunters were: Jean Jan sen, Chicago; Ruth Scott, Atkinson; Howard Oermire, Chicago; Frank Se her, Chicago; Otto Eilering, Chicago; Cedric Drew, Los Angeles, Calif., and Peter Mohr, Spencer. Others were: Bernadine Protivinsky, Grace Quilty, Helen Sulivan, Dorothy Morrison, Mary Morrison, Bennett Grady and Leonard Shoemaker. The hunt was won by Grace Quilty, Dorothy Morrison, Mary Morrison and Peter Mohr. Counting the 1.90 inches of rainfall that fell here the past week this local ity is stil considerably short of the average moisture for the first seven months of the year. According to ob server Harry Bowen the total amount of rainfall for the year 1932, up to 6 a. m. on August 4, 1932, is 12.57 inches, which is considerable short of the average but greater than has fal len in this section for several years.' Most of this rainfall has come in the months of May, June, July and Aug ust, which accounts for the bountiful crops we have in this section of the state. In a golf game at the Country Club last Sunday afternoon Max Golden downed old man par, shooting the course in thirty-four, one under par. This feat has been accomplished only a few times and Max is about the second member of the local Club that has accomplished the feat. The mem bers of the local club say that Max is shooting an exceptionally strong game thi^, summer, getting better every day and if there are a few golf tourna ments later in the fall that he will make any of the boys watch their drives and puts to keep him from run ning off with the bacon. An oil stove in the kitchen of the M. H. McCarthy residence went on the rampage at an early hour last Monday morning and the fire whistle got most of the inhabitants of the city out of bed, along about 6:45. The fire de partment rushed to the scene but the flames had been extinguished when they arrived, as they had taken theh stove out of the kitchen and smothered the flames with some blankets and guilts. It was tought on the bankets 1 and quilts, Mike said, but also tough on the fire. The damage resulting from the blaze was blackened walls j and burned blankets and quilts. ANTHRAX KILLS 3 HEAD OF CATTLE ON A. FINK PLACE Disease Is Spreading Dr. Bennet says that he discovered a case of anthrax on the farm occupied by Andrew Fink, about five miles southeast of this city last Wednesday. He says that Mr. Fink had twelve milch cows. That he milked them all Monday morning, but when he went out to milk them that evening one of them was dead. The next morning he noticed that two more of his cows were sick. At noon he sent the hired man out to look at the cattle to see how they were getting along and he came back and reported that one was dead. Mr. Fink then went out to the herd in the pasture and found that the dead cow w’as not one of those he had noticed as not feeling well that morning, but another one. He then came to town after Dr. Bennett who went out there, took a blood test, had it analized and found to be anthrax. He then went back and gave all his herd a big dose of anthrax serum Wednesday evening. He was back there this morning and says that one of the cows that Mr. Fink noticed as sick on Tuesday had died, making three head in all, but that the others appeared to be all right and he be lieved he had it under control in this herd. Dr. Bennett says that all along the Niobrara river, from Springview east to Crofton, is infected with anthrax and he is urging the state to take hold and attempt to eradicate the disease. According to the state veterinarian, thirteen more anthrax quarantine cases have been reported in the past few days, bringing the total of live stock in the state that is under obser vation to about 2,500 head. The thirteen new cases, affecting 832 cattle, hogs and horses, are in the vicinity of Butte, Crofton and Verdel, Nebr., and south of Carlock, S. D. The state veterinarian, Dr. H. L. Festner, has two deputies on the ground and through them is urging the farmers to vaccinate the stock. The worst handicap is the lack of funds, although federal agencies have indicated a willingness to advance fur ther live stock loans to meet the need. Vaccination should have been done in the spring, according to Dr. Festner. The cost of vaccination ranges from seventy-five cents to $1.00 per head. Last year 10,000 head of livestock in this state was under quarantine for anthrax. TO FINANCE STOCK FEEDERS A company has been organized in Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Co., and the Omaha Live Stock Exchange, called the Omaha Feeders Finance Corporation, with a capital of one mil lion for the purpose of loaning the money to farmers and live stock feed ers in the Omaha territory. Loans will be made only on livestock purchased in Omah and inspected and fed in Omaha territory. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donohoe returned last Saturday from an extensive trip through the east, where they went for a visit with relatives after the ad journment of the democratic national convention at Chicago, which Mr. Don ohoe a'tended as one of the delegates from the Third Congressional district. Conard and Lowery, who have a filling station and tourist camp, on Fourth street just south of the North western depot are erecting another cabin to accommodate their increasing patronage. They already have three cabins and are erecting a double cabin, 12 by 18 feet, which is twice the size of any of the others. John Robert Gallagher and Eugene F. Gallagher went down to Omaha last Sunday morning and Monday en tered the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Crook for one months training. Hugh Ryan, who has been visiting at Amazonia, Mo., for the past six weeks, arrived in Omaha Sunday and is also attending the train ! ing camp. * CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks to the kind friends for their assistance and sympathy during our recent bereavement, the death and burial of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. John H. Meredith and Family.