The Frontier
VOL. Lin. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932. No. 19
ONE TAX LIEN CASE AND
ONE DAMAGE SUIT IN
DISTRICT COURT
Paul H. Gillen has filed suit in the
district court to foreclose a tax lien
against Belle N. Minnick et al., and
the south half of sectoin 30, township
33, north of range 12, west of the 6th
p. m., in the first cause of action. In
his petition he alleges that I. Y. Gillan
& Co. purchased a tax certificate to
the land on November 11, 1927, for de
linquent taxes for the year 1926 and
that they subsequently paid the taxes
thereon for the years 1927, ’28, ’29, and
’30. That said tax sale certificate had
been sold and assigned to the plainitff
who is now the owner and holder
thereof. That the amount due the
plaintiff is $416.70.
As a second cause of action he al
leges that on the above date he also
purchased tax sale certificate on the
northwest quarter of section 31, town
ship 33, north of range 12, west of the
6th p. m., for delinquent taxes for the
year 1926 and that he subsequently
paid taxes thereon for the years 1927,
'28, ’29, and '30. He alleges that there
is due on the second cause of action
the sum of $201.70. He asks that a
decree of foreclosure be entered and
that defendants be required to pay
the same and that in case of failure
that the land may be sold to satisfy
the amount found due.
Lawrence H. Snell has filed suit in
the district court against William
Mlinar, Arthur Humpal, Chance Cox
bill, doing business under the name
of Humpal & Coxbill, and Mrs. Wil
liam Mlinar. In his petition he alleges
that the defendants, Coxbill & Hump
al, had a contract with the state high,
way department for graveling a
stretch of road on highway number
20, between Stuart and Atkinson. That
while thus engaged that they were
guilty of gross negligence, as they
failed to have warning signs on the
highway to show that same was under
repair. That on May 21, 1932, while
the defendant was driving west on
said highway, about 4:30 on the above
afttemoon, in his 1930 Model Buick
Sedan, when four or five miles west
of Stuart that the defendant William
Humpal was unloading gravel on the
highway. The plaintiff said that he
saw the truck at work and when he
got close to the same he honked his
horn and pulled to the left to pass
the truck. That just as he came op
posite the truck the driver started up
and pulled sharply to the left and
into the car of the plaintiff, hitting
him in the side and upsetting the car.
That as a result of the gross careless
ness of the driver of the truck the
car of the owner was badly wrecked
and the defendant seriously injured.
That he suffered intense pain from the
injuries received and that he has since
been unable to work at his trade and
that he has lost in wages alone since
the date of the injury the sum of $600.
That he has expended for surgical and
medical attention since that date the
sum of $99. That all or said injuries
are permanent and he asks judgment
in the sum of $15,000.00 and costs
of suit.
WOMAN’S CLUB NOTES
The opening meeting of the Wo
man’s Club will be held at eight
o’clock, October fifth, at the home of
Mrs. F. J. Dishner. The following
program will be given:
Part I. Review—“The Royal Fam
ily” by Geo. S. Kaufman and Edna
Ferber—Mrs. Gaius Cadwell.
Part II. One Act Play—Direction
of Mrs. Dishner.
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Mildred McNulty visited rela
tives in Atkinson over Sunday.
Clarence Tenborg, of Emmet, was
looking after business matters in this
city Wednesday.
J. A. Donohoe left Tuesday morning
on a business trip to Des Moines and
other Iowa cities.
M. R. Sullivan came over from Hart
ington last Saturday and spent Sun
day with his family here.
Miss Vera Baker has returned from
Denver and will again w-ork in this
city as a beauty operator.
Mrs. James Davidson went down to
Sioux City this morning to spend a
couple of days visiting relatives.
Miss Bernadette Brennan spent the
week-end in Hastings visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zimmer
man.
Dick Cromwell, who has been visit
ing his sister in Laramie, Wyo., for
the past summer, has entered the
university there.
Mrs. J. P. Ryan, of Bonesteel, S. D.,
who has been here visiting her sister
Mrs. Tom Donlin for the past week,
returned home Monday evening.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor M. F. Cassidy,
Rev. B. F. Leahy and F. J. Biglin
drove down to Omaha Tuesday for a
few days visit in the metropolis.
The Presbyterian Ladies Guild will
meet with Mrs. Roy Sauers Thursday
afternoon, October 6th, at 3 o’clock.
Mrs. L. A. Burgess will be assistant
hostess.
L. A. Jones, who has operated the
Idle Hour Cafe the past two months,
has retired from the management and
Mrs. Burke is again in charge of this
popular cafe.
Little Donna Gallagher entertained
about twenty of her little playmates
with a party at her home last Friday
afternoon, it being her sixth birthday.
Needless to say the little folks had a
very enjoyable time.
No matter how much you earn,
unless you accumulate some of it
in bank you will remain poor all
your life.
The O’Neill National
Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
Profits, $125,000.00.
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
YANKS TRIM THE CUBS.
The New York Yankees took the
Chicago Cubs to a cleaning in the first
game of the 1932 world series played
at New York Wednesday afternoon,
with a score of 12 to 6. Chicago used
three pitchers in an attempt to stop
the Yankee sluggers, but to no avail.
Ruffing was in the box for the Yanks
throughout the contest. Bush, Grimes
and Smith were in the box for the
Cubs, Bush, starting pitcher, losing the
battle. Local Cub followers still have
faith that their team will come
through the series victorious.
The Yankees also won the second
game of the series played at New
York this afternoon, with a score of
5 to 2. Vernon Gomez was the Yan
kee pitcher while Wearne was on the
hill for the Cubs. It begins to look as
if the Yanks were going to make it
four straight. The next game will be
played at Chicago Saturday after
noon.
Emmet Harmon went down to Sioux
City Wednesday morning to take in
the sights of the city and incidently
to pay his respects to the democratic
presidential nominee.
Charles A. Goss, of Lincoln, chief
justice of the Nebraska supreme court,
was in the city last Tuesday visiting
among the electors promoting his can
didacy for reelection.
Highway number 13 was opened to
traffic again last Monday, the repair
work and the new graveling on the
road having been completed and the
road is now in fine condition.
This section was visited by a light
frost last Monday night. Close ob
servers say that no damage was done,
but that the frost was a good thing as
it would help to ripen late corn.
Fred Richter, one of the prominent
farmers of northeastern Holt, had the
misfortune to have his left collar bone
broken last Friday, when he fell from
a hay stack, landing on his left
shoulder.
An overflow crowd was in the city
last Tuesday night. All the hotels
were full and some transients were
looking for sleeping quarters in
private homes. This is the first time
for several months that this has hap
pened.
Complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Stafford, of Scottsbluff, Mrs. R. E.
Gallagher and Mrs. H. E. Coyne enter
tained a dozen couples with a dinner
at the bakery last Monday evening,
after which they adjourned to the
Gallagher residence for a pleasant
evening at cards.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stafford, of
Scotts Bluffs, Nebr., arrived in the
city last Sunday night for a few days
visit with old time friends. Mrs. Staf
ford, as Dorothy Testman, was a resi
dent of this city for many years and
she had an enjoyable visit here with
her old school mates and girlhood
companions. They left for home
Tuesday.
The state engineer announces that
bids will be received on October 6th
for 197.3 miles of maintenance gravel
on state highways in addition to three
construction projects previously an
nounced. The graveling is the largest
maintenance letting since early in the
spring. Among the projects included
for graveling is 15.8 miles from Neligh
to Ewing.
Candidate Palmer Visits O’Neill.
Harry O. Palmer, nominee for Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ne
braska, and Arthur L. Palmer, his
aviator-lawyer brother, spent Tuesday
night and Wednesday in O’Neill, call
ing on the voters and visiting old
friends. The Palmer brothers were
college mates at Nebraska Wesleyan
University twenty-five years ago of
Dr. Leroy A. Burgess, and Arthur L.
Palmer and Edward M. Gallagher and
Hugh J. Birmingham were college
friends and fraternity brothers in Beta
Theta Pi at the University of Ne
braska. Both are graduates of Har
vard University Law School, and Harry
0. Palmer was two years editor of the
Harvard Law Review. They speak
German, Swedish, and the Scandin
avian tongues, as well as French,
Spanish and Modern Greek.
They come from pioneer Nebraska
stock. Their grandmother settled in
Nebraska more than seventy years
ago, and their grandfather was a bull
whacker and oxteam freighter to Pikes
Peak before the railroads. Their
father was a merchant and farmer at
Louisville, Nebraska, where their uncle
still publishes The Courier, and where
they still have their farming interests.
During the war Harry 0. Palmer was
executive officer to the Judge Advocate
General of the army, and he was
judge advocate of the China Expedi
tion, and served in China, Siberia,
Japan, and the Philippines. His
brother served in the navy, and both
are foreign war veterans, and Legion
naires. Judge Palmer carried fifty
nine counties in the primary, including
Holt county, and after campaigning
in eighty-two counties he says that his
election seems to be generally conceded.
GUILTY OF PETTY LARCENY
The case of the State of Nebraska
vs. Scott Howard, who was charged
with petit larceny, with have stolen,
on or about September 3, 1932, certain
goods and chattels the property of
Aloys Kaup, of Stuart, was before the
County Court for trial last Monday,
being tried to the Court. The state
was represented by Deputy County
Attorney Erwin Cronin while Attorney
Elain A. Butterfield of Neligh, repre
sented the defendant. After the wit
nesses had testified and the attorneys
had made their arguments the Judge
found the defendant guilty as charged
in the complaint and he ordered the
defendant to return the goods stolen
and to pay a fine of $10 and costs of
suit, taxed at $63.90 and that in de
fault of payment that he be committed
to the Holt county jail.
ALONG THE WAYSIDE
The political public forum opened on
Douglas street this week, with the re
publicans and democrats alternating
nights, but there will be no Jerry
Howard to liven things up this time.
Just orators.
Plot for a mystery story—Omaha
cops blocked traffic one recent after
noon when they picked up a man tear
ing down the alley behind the World
Herald building in high. He was at
tired only in a cap, a fur-collared
overcoat, B. V. D.’s, socks, shoes, and
nothing more. The newspapers never
did say w'hy so write your own.
Doc Brinkley, the Milford, Kansas
goat-gland specialist, is getting the
goats of both the republicans and dem
ocrats down there. As a petition can
didate for governor, gamblers odds
are two to one in Topeka that he will
poll more votes than both the other
candidates. It isn’t politics, the voters
merely thinking that he was not given
a square deal when he was counted
out two years ago.
There is considerable opposition in
southeastern Nebraska Missouri river
counties to the proposed deepening and
stablizing of the Missouri river chan
nel. Its opponents declare the scheme
to be merely a reclamation one and
not so much for navigation purposes
and say that financial interests back
ing the movement are taking options
at very nominal figures on river bot
tom lands subject now to flood and
erosion and owned mostly by poor
farmers. These options to be taken
up after a permanent channel has been
constructed and the bottom lands made
safe from floods. The lands then will
be very valuable. A river island
owned by Falls City Capital, now
comprising several thousand acres of
very rich corn land, will be doubled in
size when the river is confined to one
of its sides and the added land will
automatically become the property of
the present island owners, who own
frontage on both sides of the river.
A California oil producer and refin
er, who in his younger days was a
stockman in Kansas, visited the Om
aha stock yards last week. Attracted
to the truck docks where several
hundred truckloads of stock were be
ing unloaded, he and several of the
shippers in discussing trucking agreed
that they would prefer shipping by
railroad if the railroads would let
them. “Our concern,” he said,
“trucks the bulk of our products to
Arizona and New Mexico points al
though it costs less to move a tank
car of oil or gasoline by rail than it
does an equal amount by truck, every
thing considered. The reason is that
i the truck lines are up to the minute
while the railroads persist in anti
quated practices and are still all bound
up with red tape. We receive an ordei
from Arizona or New Mexico at oui
Los Angeles office in the morning
trucks back up to our tanks the same
day, are filled and start on their waj
that day, arriving at their destination*
(Continued on page 4.)
James P. Dolan Passes Away.
The following article on the death of
James P. Dolan, formerly a resident
of this city, is taken from the last
issue of the Riverton Review-Chron
icle:
“James Patrick Dolan, 37 years of
age, son of James P. Dolan of this
city passed away at Rapid City, South
Dakota, Sunday, September 11th, fol
lowing a sudden attack of cerebral
hemorrage, passing away within a few
hours, before medical aid could be
summoned. Funeral services were held
in this city this morning at nine o’clock
from the Catholic church, Rev. Zuer
cher of St. Stephen’s Mission having
charge of the services. Interment was
in Mountain View cemetery where the
members of the local Legion Post con
ducted military burial services at the
grave.
“Deceased was born in Walnut, la.,
Mareh 29, 1895. He served in the
army during the World War, but never
saw service overseas, as he was one of
the late draft members of the army.
He was a single man, residing at
Rapid City, South Dakota for the past
number of years. Some seven or eight
years ago he was a resident of River
ton for a time while employed in a
local garage. Foui^ years ago he
again came to Riverton for a brief
visit with his parents and brothers and
sisters, all of whom then resided here.
“Following his death at Rapid City
the body was brought to Riverton, ar
riving here on Wednesday evening’s
train. The Altar Society of St. Marg
aret’s Church of this city held the
Rosary Service over the body at the
Davis Mortuary last night.
“The funeral this morning was at
tended by a large group of friends of
deceased and his family, and many
beautiful floral offerings were in evi
dence. Members of the family present
were James P. Dolan, father of de
ceased; George, of this city; Ted of
Douglas; Leonard of Casper, all broth
ers of deceased; Mrs. Frank Gill of
Lander and Mrs. Grace Campbell, sis
ters of deceased. One other brother
and a sister were unable to attend the
funeral.
• “Funeral arrangements were in
charge of the Davis Mortuary of this
city.”
Ernest Richter went down to Kans
as the first of the week, where he will
consult physicians regarding the con
dition of his health. His many friends
in this city and county hope that the
trip will be beneficial.
GREEN BERET CLUB HAS
LARGE MEETING ON
WED. EVENING
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The members of the Green Beret
Club held a large and enthusiastic
meeting at the K. C. Hall last evening
where arrangements were completed
for the Free Day Celebration to be
held in this city on Wednesday, Oc
tober 12th. The committees reported
progress that had been made on the
program and said that it woul be com
pleted today. It was also announced
that a booster trip would be made
next week, the definite date not as yet
decided. Peter Duffy has been ap
pointed chairman of the booster trip
and a definite date will be selected for
the trip before the end of the week.
It is hoped that there will be at least
seventy-five cars on this trip and
every business man that can possibly
get away should make the trip. The
Atkinson, Ewing and O’Neill bands
will be present and plenty of music is
assured for the day.
Plan now to be in O’Neill on Oc
tober 12th and enjoy the hospitality
of this city and see the entertainment
put on for you enjoyment.
Lloyd Gillespie, who has been at- s
tending federal court at Norfolk for
the past two weeks as a juror, came
home Wednesday, having been excused
until next week. He said that Oscar
Dixon of this city, who was in court
there charged with the sale of intox
icating liquor, plead guilty to the
charge and was fined $200 and in de
fault of payment was committed to
the Madison county jail. A Mrs. Han
son, who gave her address as O’Neill,
was sentenced to jail for sixty days
on the charge of violating the national
prohibition act.
Pete Duffy, Pat Harty, Howard
Bauman, William and Clinton Gats,
George Bowen, Phil Ziemer and Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Saunto went down to
I Sioux City this afternoon to take in
the Roosevelt meeting there this even
ing. The boys are planning on re
turning tonight on the special train
that leaves there at 10 p. m.
Mrs. George Agnes and Mrs. Ben
Grady entertained forty ladies with
dinner and cards at the Golden Hotel
last Tuesday evening. Mrs. J. A.
Donohoe won the first prize for high
score. Mrs. L. A. Burgess and Mrs.
D. H. Clausson won the other prizes.
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she will—
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