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VOL. LIII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932. No. 12
ASSESSED VALUE
OF HOLT COUNTY
LANDS REDUCED
Decreased Land Valuation
Makes Slight Increase
In Levy Necessary
TAXES TO BE LOWER
The County Board, in session the
forepart of the week, made the levy
for the ensuing year. There is a re
duction of $2,905,399.00 in the as
sessed valuation of the county for
this year and while the levy is six
tenths of a mill more than it was last
year, there will be a slight reduction
in taxes of about fifty-one cents on
the thousand valuation.
In determining the new valuation
each fund was cut to the minimum.
It was thought for a time that it
would be possible to entirely eliminate
the special emergency bridge levy, but
the storm of last week, which took
out dozens of bridges in the northeast
part of the county made that im
possible and the Special Emergency
Bridge levy for the coming year, in
stead of being eliminated, as had been
thought possible, had to be increased
slightly to take care of the bridges
that were taken out. The levy for
the county, as based on the new val
uation, will raise for the general fund,
provided taxes are paid 100 per cent,
$48,384.00, while the general fund levy
for last year raised $54,085.00, mak
ing a saving in the amount of taxes
to be paid by the taxpayers of this
county, for the year 1932, in the Gen
eral Fund alone, of $5,701.00.
Here is a comparison of the new
levy with that of last year:
1932 County Levy
General _-2-^b
Bridge and Prior Indebtedness_1.00
Road- -10
Mother’s Pensions —-- .07
County Fair- .04
Coyotes Bounties__— .01
Repair and Improvements-.02
Special Emergency Bridge- .23
Total_3.73
1931 County Levy
General _2.08
Bridge _1.00
Road- .10
Mother’s Pensions- .13
County Fair_.08
Soldier’s Relief_ .02
Bounties_.05
Repairs and Improvements - .04
Special Emergency Bridge -.16
Total_3.66
The state levy was also slightly in
creased this year, on account of the
reduced valuation made on the farm
lands and improvements and city
property and improvements in the
several counties of the state. Last
year the levy for state purposes was
2.04, while for 1932 the levy is 2.37.
The county and state levy for 1931
was 5.70, while for 1932 it is 6.10, an
increase of forty mills in the state
and county levy.
ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES
AWAY
Horace Henefin died at the home of
his son, Madison, ner Agee, last
Monday evening about 8:30 from par
alysis, at the age of sixty-eight years,
four months, and one day. The funer
al was held yesterday afternoon from
Marquette Chapel at Meek, interment
in Marquette cemetery.
Deceased was born at Eldora, Iowa,
on April 8, 1864, near where he re
sided until he grew to manhood. In
1884, when he was twenty years of age
he came to this county anl located in
Steel Creek precinct and he has been
a resident of Holt county ever since.
On February 20, 1887, he was united
in marriage to Miss Rosa Record at
Niobrara, Nebraska, who with eleven
children and several grand children are
left to mourn the death of a loving
husband and father. The children are:
Elba and Elwin, of Atkinson; Lester,
Madison, Mrs. Mary Hasen, and Mrs.
Myrtle Johnson, of Agree; Edward
and Arthur of Spencer; Calvin, George
and Fred of Meek.
Miss Genevieve Biglin and Master
Robert Biglin went down to Sioux
City Tuesday morning where they
met Sister M. Calixta, of Sinsinawa,
Wisconsin, and Sister M. Eugene of
Sioux City and brought them back to
this city Tuesday night for a visit at
the home of their mother, Mrs. O. F.
Biglin, and with other relatives here.
BRIEFLY STATED
John Honeycutt left this morning
on a business trip to Omaha.
Lee Adams, of Chambers, was trans
acting business in the city last Mon
day.
Jack Arbuthnot and Harlan Agnes
drove to Burwell this morning to take
in the rodeo.
W. N. Jochum visited friends and
acquaintences at Petersburg the latter
part of last week.
James C. Parker made a business
trip to Geneva the latter part of last
week, returning Sunday.
Mrs. M. R. Sullivan left Tuesday
noon for Omaha, to be with her sister
who is in a hospital there.
Miss Beryl Winchell went down to
Wayne the first of the week for a
few days visit with friends.
Mrs. J. P. Brown went up to Stuart
last Monday evening for a few days
visit with relatives and friends.
Fred Cronk, one of the pioneer resi
dents of Page township, was transact
ing business in this city last Monday.
Mrs. John McNulty, of Atkinson,
is in the city for the week visiting
with her daughter, Miss Margaret
McNulty.
C. J. Gatz, accompanied by Mrs.
Mary McLeod, went down to Omaha
Wednesday morning to bring back
Mrs Gatz and son.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Streeter and
Miss Dorothy Collins drove down to
Brunswick last Sunday for a visit
with relatives and friends.
John Kersenbrock was on the sick
list for a couple of days the first of
the week, but is again able to be
around attending to business.
Mrs. John D. Kelley returned home
last Saturday afternoon from a two
weeks visit with relatives at Omaha,
Columbus, Norfolk and Wisner.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donohoe left for
Des Moines, Iowa, last Tuesday morn
ing were Mr. Donohoe will spend a
few days looking after legal matters.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Griffin and Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Harty entertained
seven couples with a seven o’clock
dinner at the Golden last Sunday
evening.
George Sinnett, of Lincoln, a rep
resentative of the Capitol Fire In
surance Company, was looking after
the interests of his company in this
city last Tuesday.
M. H. Horiskey, J. D. Cronin, Gus
Cadwell, John Sullivan and Max Gold
en were among the O’Neill people that
went down to Burwell this morning
to take in the rodeo.
Miss Nora Cronin, of Omaha, ar
rived in the city last Saturday for
a couple of weeks visit at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
Cronin, north of O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hamond and
son, of Omaha, arrived in the city last
Saturday and spent Sunday visiting
relatives and friends in this city, re
turning to Omaha Monday.
Mrs. L. C. Chapman left last Sat
urday for Minneapolis, Minn., where
she will purchase her fall stock of
merchandise. She expects to return
home the first of next week.
The Lions Club have a force of
eight men checking up the city today
and marking the street and number
ing the houses. This is a move that
has been in contemplation for some
time.
H. B. Miller, of Linsay, Nebr., re
presentative of the Central Catholic
Casualty Company, of Columbus,
Nebr., arrived in the city yesterday
and will spend a few days here in the
interest of his company.
Allie Carney, son of Mr. and Mr-.
John Carney, who live north of this
city, returned home the last of last
week for a months visit with the
norne folks. Mr. Carney is in the
navy and came up on a months
furlough.
Duke Kersenbrock returned Tuesday
from a weeks visit with relatives and!
friends in Sioux City. He was ac
companied on his return by John
Clemens, of Sioux City, who will spend
a couple of weeks visiting at the I
Kersenbrock home here.
W. J. Biglin went down to Jackson
last Friday and visited relatives there
until Monday when he returned home,
being accompanied back by Mrs. Big
lin and the children who had been
visiting relatives and friends there
for the past three weeks.
The local camp of the American
Legion and the local Lions Club, joined
by several of the friends of both or
ganizations, enjoyed a picnic at Shoe
maker’s grove, south of this city last;
Tuesday evening. From what we can
learn everyone had a perfectly “de
lightful time.’’
H. J. Hammond, F. J. Dishner, Ira
Moss and P. C. Donohoe drove up to
Cherry county the fore part of the
week and spent a few days fishing, re-!
turning Wednesday night. We have
not heard any big fish stories since
their return, so presume they only had
the average luck.
The city has started the annual
cleanup by mowing the weeds along
the streets and the officials urge all
city residents to mow all the tall weeds
along their lots, so that it will make
the city present a more creditable ap
pearance, as well as eliminate one of
the most persistent hay fever breeders. ■
Romaine Saunders was up from his'
ranch in the southwestern part of the
county last Monday. He says that
everything is going nicely in his sec
tion and that all the stockmen are
busy putting up the best crop of hay
they have had in that section for
several years.
I
H. E. Coyne, James F. and Hugh O’
Donnell, D. A. Bland, Max Golden and
; Gus Cadwell drove down to Spaulding
j last Sunday to attend the one day golf
j tournament they were holding in that
city, returning home the same even
ing. The boys say they had an en
joyable time, but did not break any
records on the golf course.
Rev. G. W. Bruce, former pastor
of the M. E. church here, accompanied
by his wife, will stop here for the j
| noon hour, Monday, August 15th. Mr.
Bruce would like to meet all his old
friends at that time. The ladies have
arranged a covered dish luncheon fof
the occasion, 12 o’clock, August 15th,
at the church basement.
I -
Roy Angus, of Ewing, who was sen
tenced last January to six months in
the county jail and a fine of $250 and
costs, for contempt of court in con
nection with the jury bribing charges
growing out of the Flannigan trial,
was released from the county jail
| Wednesday, having completed his1
1 sentence. The fine of $250 was paid as
was also $55.55 costs.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Conklin and
j daughter, who had been visiting rela
tives and friends here for the past
I month, as well as looking after busi
, ness, returned to their home at Lincoln
last Monday. Mr. Conklin is a field
man for the Ohio National Life In
surance Company and, while his family
were visiting here, Cecil was looking
after the business of his company in
this and adjoining counties.
The three splendid rains of last
week will make the largest corn crop
this county ever produced, provided j
we have favorable weather for the
next month. It is believed that the
rainfall is’now sufficient to mature'
the crop. With a bumper crop of
wheat, rye, oats, barley, hay and corn
the farmers of this county are sitting
on top of the world for the coming
winter.
O’Neill will be well represented at
the Burwell Rodeo next Friday. A
large delegation from this city have
chartered one of the busses now used
on the O'Neill-Norfolk bus line and
will make the trip to Burwell Friday
morning and spend the day attending
the rodeo performance in that city.'
The following will make the t ip via
?: Mayor C. E. Stout, Mr. ar 1 Mrs.
E Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grif
fin. Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Brown, ■ and
Mrs. J. A, Donohoe, Mr. and M -• Ben
Harty, Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Burg' s and.
Mr and Mrs. S. J. Weekes.
PRECIPITATION FOR 1932
Last week, Harry Bowen, the local
weather observer, handad us a list
showing the rainfall in this city, ac
cording to his records, for the first
six months of this year. His figures
were 12.57 inches for the first six
months. As this is considerably short
of the average rainfall for this sec
tion, we published that fact in this
family journal and then things started.
Several were skeptical of the figures
presented and Harry made another
check and discovered that he had made
an error in his first computation and
that, instead of the rainfall for the
first six months being but 12.57 inches
it was 17.38 inches as follows by
months:
January__.60
February_1.21
March..78
April_1.83
May_3.19
June_ —_—6.81
July_2.96
August, to the 5th_2.72
f Total _20.10
Mr. a*d Mrs. E. P. Gaines and
daughters, Helen and Amelia, of Des
Moines, Iowa, arrived in the city last
Sunday for a couple of days visit with
friends here. They left Wednesday
for Huron, South Dakota, where they
will spend a few days visiting at the
home of their son. Mr. and Mrs.
Gaines were former residents of this
city, Mr. Gaines being the local repre
sentative of the Nebraska Securities
Corporation.
John Bierney, of Bartlett, editor of
the Wheeler county Independent, was
a pleasant caller at this office last
Monday, having come up to advertise
the Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo,
which will be held in that city from
August 16th to 20th inclusive. In ad
dition to being editor of Bartlett’s
only newspaper Mr. Bierney is also
the county judge of that county, a po
sition he has held for upward of a
quarter of a century.
Those who wish to be members of
the Woman’s Club for the ensuing
year please notify either Mrs. Sauers,
the secretary or Mrs. Cowperthwaite,
the president, before August 15, 1932,
in order to have your name in the
Club Book for this year. The meet
ings will be in the home on Wednes
day afternoons, on the first Wednes
day of each month us has been the
custom.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hyde and two
children, of Omaha, and Parley Hyde,
of Chadron, stopped in the city for a
few hours Tuesday and visited at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin.
i They were on their way from Omaha
to Chadron, where Mrs. Hyde and
children will visit for a few days,
while Mr. Hyde will look after busi
ness matters in the western part of
the state.
A large delegation of O’Neillites left
for Burwell this morning where they
will attend the rodeo. We understand
that Sheridan Simmons went along
and Sherd will be able to give a good
account of the performers ability on
bucking bronchos in these days, when
riding horseback is almost becoming
a lost art, as compared to the days
when Sherd was young and a rider of
the range.
O’NEILL COUNTRY CLUB HAS AN
EXCELLENT YEAR
Despite the general depression this
year the O’Neill Country Club is in a
prosperous and healthy condition and
growing in membership. They now
have seventy-one paid members, the
largest membership roll since the Club
was started. During the past summer
they have been having semi-weekly
parties, given by the wives of the
members of the Club at the Club
house. It is the intention to continue
these parties during the winter months,
holding them down town after the
Club house is closed. These social
parties will add much to the social life
j of the city during the coming winter.
ANTHRAX KILLING
MORE CATTLE IN
HOLT COUNTY
Two More Farmers Re
port Losses Caused By
Dreaded Disease
Two more eases of Anthrax were
discovered in this county last Monday.
The first case was on the farm of Joe
Singleman, 22 miles northwest of this
city. Mr. Singleman has a herd of
nineteen cows and found one of them
dead when he went to milk them Sun
day night. Dr. Bennett was called and
pronounced it anthrax. He vaccin
ated the balance of the herd Monday.
The next case was discovered on the
farm of Conrad Goeke, five miles north
and five miles west of this city. He
had sixteen cows and found one of
them dead Monday morning. Dr. Ben
nett was called and pronounced it an
thrax and vaccinated the balance of
the herd. He has hopes that he will
be able to check the spread of the dis
ease in these herds.
Andrew Fink, living five miles
southeast of this city, on whose farm
the first case of anthrax in this im
mediate vicinity was discovered, as
mentioned in these columns last week,
lost three more head of cows, so he
has lost half his herd of twelve cows.
All of the cows that have died were
sick at the time they were given the
serum. The other six seem to be get
ting along all right.
Several farmers in different sections
of the county have been having their
cattle vaccinated during the past week,
in an attempt to check the inroads of
the disease.
Mr. and Mrs. James Chapman and
daughter, of Omaha, arrived in the
city Wednesday for a few days visit
at the home of Mrs. Chapman’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McPharlin.
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