The Frontier
No. 38
VOL. LIII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
, HOLT COUNTY IN GRIP
7 OF SEVERE COLD WAVE
Sub-Zero Temperatures Prevail For
An Entire Week.
For the past five days this territory
has been suffering from a spell of real
winter weather; cold snappy weather
that makes the old timers recall many
a morning in the good old days that
was as cold, if not colder, than it was
Wednesday morning, when the gov
ernment thermometer registered 31
degrees below zero.
After an exceptionally fine January,
February started in last Friday to
make up for the nice weather we have
been having and is doing a good job
of catching up and breaking records
that have stood for some time. Thurs
day night it went down to zero; Fri
day night it was 15 below; Saturday
night 11 below; Sunday night 8 below;
Monday night 23 below and Tuesday
night it went down to 31 below and
on Wednesday night to 27 below.
Harry Bowen has been keeping the
weather record here for the past
seventeen years and last Tuesday
night was the coldest it has been here
for that length of time, and possibly
for some years before that. The cold
est night prior to Tuesday was on
January 10, 1918, when it went
down to 30 below zero, and that wTas
fifteen years ago last month. The
next coldest day, within that time, was
on January 5, 1924, when it went
down to 29 below.
County Treasurer Conklin, who
came to this county forty-six years
ago, says that he remembers two dif
ferent occasions when it was colder
than it wras Tuesday night. Once he
says was in January, 1902, when it
registered 42 below and then again
in the late nineties when it again
registered 42 below zero.
We remember that the morning of
January 13, 1888, the thermometer got
down as far as it could go and stayed
there. It registered up to 40 degrees
below zero and how much colder it
got on that occasion is all conjecture.
This was the morning after the great
blizzard that took many lives in this
section of the state and caused the loss
of thousands of dollars worth of live
stock.
As to the old time winters we used
to have in this section the following is
taken from the files of The Frontier
in the issue of January 18, 1912:
“Last Friday night was the coldest
experienced in this city for years.
Different thermomters registered from
38 to 40 below zero. As this made the
third straight week in which it regis
tered from 15 to 40 below, people be
gin to think they are having an extra
hard winter. On Saturday it warmed
up however and a Chinook wind helped
thaw out some of the frozen ones* It
turned cold again however that even
ing and Sunday and Monday it was
again below zero about 20 degrees.
It warmed up again Monday night and
Tuesday was a very pleasant day and
the opinion seems to prevail now that
the backbone of winter, if not broken,
is badly shattered.
LONG PINE WILL RECEIVE
FEDERAL AID
To develop a new source of water
supply at the city of Long Pine, Nebr.,
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion will purchase $15,000 worth of
5% per cent bonds, to make the de
velopment possible.
It is estimated that forty men will
be employed on the project for sixty
days on a 30 hour week basis and
about $0,000 worth of material will be
used. The project will consist of a
concrete reservoir to collect water
from springs, a pumping plant and a
pipe line 2,800 feet long.
Miss Helen Murphy, who has been
visiting relatives here for the past ten
days, left Wednesday for her home in
Omaha.
Mrs. Glenn Saunders went down to
Lincoln last Sunday to visit with her
sister. She will go from there to
Wahoo to visit relatives living there.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. Geo. C.
Robertson, Superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Becoming
the People of God.”
C. E. Prayer Meeting 6:45—Grace
Loy, Leader.
Evening Service 7:30—“Going Our
Own Way.”
We invite you to worship with us.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
FLANNERY IS CONVICTED
OF MANSLAUGHTER
The trial at Pierce of William O.
Flannery who was charged with the
murder of Paul Lowery, while the
latter was assisting the sheriff of
that county in towing Flannery’s car
to Pierce, was finished last week and
he was found guilty of manslaughter.
On Wednesday he was sentenced to
eight years in the Nebraska state
penitentiary.
NEW STATE WAGE
REDUCTION LAW
State Journal: A wage cutting bill
applying to all state employees in all
departments except the courts, intro
duced by Welch and McCarter as S. F.
428, is making a stir at the capitol,
where officers and employes, largely
democratic, helped elect a democratic
legislature which now hold the state
purse strings and can pull them or
open them at will.
The bill makes a 20 per cent cut on
all employes’ salaries, fixed by law or
not fixed by law, on ajl salaries ex
ceeding $1,000 a year. Where the
cut would reduce a salary below $1,000
a year, it is not to apply.
Deputy state officials, including sec
retary to the governor, whose pay is
fixed by statute at $2,640 a year are
marked for slaughter at the rate of
20 per cent and the bill specifically
states that they shall receive $2,112 a
year.
To clinch this salary for assistants
of the attorney general who are not
designated now as_ deputies, the bill
provides that no assistant attorney
general shall receive in any one year
an annual salary exceeding the $2,112
fixed by the bill for the one assistant
who is designated in the bill as deputy
attorney general.
The bill amends the present laws
applying to various departments
where salaries are fixed by law. It re
duces the pay of the adjutant general
of the Nebraska national guard from
$4,200 to $3,200 and the assistant ad
jutant general from $2,700 to $2,160
and the United States disbursnig and
property offiecr from $1,500 to $1,200
per year. The assistant quarter
master is cut from $1,200 to $1,000.
The bill re-enacts the manner in which
the adjutant general is appointed and
holds his office.
The secretary of the railway com
mission drops from $2,640 to $2,112.
The secretary of the board of control
drops to the same amount.
The bill provides that all employes
of the game department, stenograph
ers, janitors watchmen and employes
of all state officers and departments
one month after the passage of the
bill receive only 80 per cent of the
wages received for the month of Jan
uary, 1933, if the salary exceeds
$1,000 a year.
FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME
Melvin Wright, aged about 74, was
found dead in his home in the south
eastern part of the city, about 6:30
last Wednesdayevening, having passed
away sitting in a chair in front of
the stove. When examined later by
Dr. Brown the latter stated that he
had been dead about three hours.
The body has been prepared for
shipment and will be shipped to his
old home at Springfield, Ohio, tomor
row morning, where the body will be
buried, he having a brother living in
Springfield, who ordered the body for
warded there.
Mr. Write came to this county
twenty-five or thirty years ago. For a
time he worked in a livery barn run
at that time by Mellor & Quilty.
Later he took a homestead southeast
of this city, where he resided for sev
eral years. About sixteen years ago
he went to work for J. B. Ryan and
managed his ranch near Emmet, re
maining with Mr. Ryan for fifteen
years. About a year ago he retired
and for the past year he has been a
resident of this city.
Mr. Wright has always enjoyed
good health and has been around town
about every day, several times a day
dropping into George Mellor’s place.
He failed to put in an appearance
Wednesday and when on his way to
supper, Mellor looked in and saw Mr.
Wright sitting in a chair in front of
the fire. Mr. Mellor failed to attract
his attention when he rapped on the
door and after supper he went back
to the house and again tried to attract
his attention, but getting no response
he called Dave Loy, who lived near
by, and they called Deputy Sheriff
Bergstrom who came down and forced
the door open, when they found that
he had passed away sitting in front
of the stove. There was a fire in the
stove and the room was not cold.
So far as known Mr. Wright had
no relatives in this section.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Brown, formerly
of this city but now living at Hold
rege, arrived in the city the latter part
of last week for a few days visit with
friends.
J. B. Mellor and son, Ralph, drove
down to Omaha last Tuesday to spend
a couple of days at the automobile
show, which is being held there this
week.
Ralph Millard, who has been on the
coast for the past few months, re
turned home last Thursday evening,
being called home on account of the
seriousness illness of his father, C. C.
Millard.
Fred Spires, who had been a resident
of this city for several months past,
and who represented Armour & Co. in
this section of the state, has been re
tired on a pension and left the latter*
part of last week for Clarks, Nebr.,
where he expects to engage in
farming.
In a business way this has been the
quietest week seen in this city for sev
eral years. It has been so cold that
not many people have been in the citjT
and most of the traveling men who
arrived here the first of the week have
been content to stay here, pending the
passing of the cold wave.
The O. F. Lindberg sale, held last
Tuesday near Meek, was successful,
everything sold bringing good prices,
considering the times. Mr. Lindberg
is quitting farming to move to Fage
where he will take over the manage
ment of Lindy’s oil station that is
owned by him and his brother, H. L.
of this city.
S. J. Weekes returned last evening
from Omaha, where he had spent the
past week sitting as a member of the
loan committee of the Agricultural
Credit corporation. Mr. Weekes say“
that it had been very cold in Omaha all
week, so cold in fact that business was
almost at a standstill in most business
places in the city.
Hog prices reach a peak of $3.60 on
the Omaha market last Wednesday,
but trading was very uneven. In
fluenced by light receipts, shippers
were in the market at the outset and
initial sales showed further gains. Out
let on shipper account' was narrow,
centering on 210 pounders and down.
Where quality and weight were suit
able sales were made at prices 10 to
20 cents higher than on Tuesday. This
is the highest price brought on the
Omaha mraket for several months.
Frozen water pipes have been caus
ing several of the residents of this city
a good deal of trouble the past few
days. The stove in the Martin Cronin
house, on east Douglas street, now oc
cupied by Cap. Uhl, blew up last
Tuesday morning breaking out two
windows and destroying the stove. It
was caused by frozen water pipes.
Likewise the stove in the home of
Tom Hanneberry blew up the same
day, breaking several windows in the
house. It was also caused by freezing
of the water pipes.
“Sound Your Horn,” a comedy drama
in three acts, will be presented by local
talent at the K. C. Opera House next
Tuesday afternoon and evening. Loc
al talent, under the supervision of
Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek, have been pre
paring this play for several weeks ar.d
its presentation promises to develop
some real histronic ability among the
young people of the city. The matinee
in the afternoon promises to be well
attended by the little folks and the
admission for the matinee has been set
at 10, 15 and 25 cents, while reserved
seats for the evening performance can
be procured for 35 cents.
Last Monday Judge Dickson and
James A. Donohoe started for Ains
worth where the Judge was to open
a term of court. When they got about
a mile out of town they had a flat
tire, and as it was several degrees
below zero, it was a rather cold job
changing the tire, but they finally
succeeded in doing so. When that was
completed the Judfce said that he
noticed another tire was rather low
and he suggested tha$ the trip be
called off, as he did not relish the job
of assisting in changing another tire
in sub-zero weather, so they came
back to town. Judge Dickson had in
tended going to Ainsworth this morn
ing but as it was about 22 below zero
about 8:30 he postponed the trip until
the weather moderates.
OMAHA HOTEL BURNS, SEVEN
FIREMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
The Millard Hotel in Omaha was de
stroyed hy fire last night and seven
members of the Omaha I iie Depart
ment lost their lives and 21 firemen
were injured, many of them seriously.
The fire started at 10 o’clock last night
and raged until about three o’clock this
morning before it was brought under
cpntrol. *
The Millard hotel was one of the
[pioneer hotels of the metropolis and
fifty years ago was the leading hotel
in the west. The building of many
new hotels in the city forced the Mil
lard from its position as leading hotel
but it still operated and did a fairly
good business. So far as w'e have
been able to learn there were no guests
injured in the fire. The fire, so far
as the loss of life is concerned, was
the most disastrous in the history of
Omaha.
[ST. MARY’S DEFEATS HIGH
SCHOOL BY SCORE OF 18 TO 2
The St. Mary’s Cardinals took the
local high school team to a trimming
In the high school gymnasium last
evening, with a score of 18 to 2. St.
Mary’s second team also defeated the
second team of the high school with
a score of 8 to 2. Then the alumni
of St. Mary’s and of the high school
staged a game that resulted in a
13 to 13 tie.
JOHN FLANNIGAN FILES BRIEF
WITH SUPREME COURT
State Journal: John M. Flannigan,
former president of the state bankers
association, declared in a brief filed
with the supreme court, where he has
appealed from a conviction on the
charge of receiving deposits while the
Citizens bank of Stuart, of which he
was president, was insolvent, that the
evidence fails to show any criminal act
on his part but does show that he acted
at all times in the belief that the
bank would be able to pull thru. He
cites the fact that his brother, also an
Officer, had his mother sell some prop
erty and place the $5,000 in the bank.
He says that every reputable authority
including the president, believed the
bottom of the depression had been
reached and that prosperity was just
around the corner. He says the bank
commissioner knew the bank's con
dition and advised that it be kept open
because of the possibility of improved
conditions. He declares that if the
penalty put upon him was exacted of
every banker who did as he did, the
prisons would be full, but that only
those have been punished where other
criminal acts were involved. He
charges the assistant attorney general
inflamed the jury unjustly.
The International Harvester Com
pany entertained all their dealers in
this territory, that is the block pre
sided over by Dave Gemmil of Ewing,
with a luncheon at the Golden last
Wednesday afternoon. The meeting
was addressed by representatives of
the company from Omaha and business
conditions for the coming year were
discussed. During the past year pat
rons of the Harvester company were
guaranteed a certain price for their
corn, and that price was the unit upon
which they settled their account for
machinery purchased last year. They
are to have a similar plan in operation
during the coming year, but the set
price for corn will not be quite as
large as last year, but nealry so.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM
“I tell you how it is,” said the mild
eyed patient to the asylum doctor. “I
met a young widow with a grownup
step-daughter and I married thq
widow. Then my father met our step
daughter and married her. That made
my wife the mother-in-law of her
father-in-law, and made my step
daughter my step-mother, and my
father became my step-son. See?
“Then my step-mother, the step
daughter of my wife, had a son. That
boy was, of course, my brother, be
cause he was my father’s son; but he
was also the son of my wife’s step
daughter and therefore her grandson.
That made me grandfather to my step
brother. Then my wife had a son, my
brother-in-law.
“The step-sister of my son is also
his grandmother, because he is her
step-son’s child. My father is the
brother-in-law of my child, because his
step-sister is his wife. I am also the
brother of my own son, who is also the
child of my grandmother.
“I am my mother’s brother-in-law,
my wife is her own child’s aunt, my
son is my father’s nephew, and I am
my own grand father, and I can’t
I stand it.”
FARM HOLIDAY GROUP
ORGANIZE AT INMAN
Inman Leader: The meeting of the
Holiday Farm group was held at the
hall last Monday evening. A good
sized crowd was in attendance and an
organization was perfected with a
membership of about twenty-five for
Inman township. The officers elected
were as follows: President, Joe Wag
man; secretary and treasurer, Stanley
W’ytoske. Earnest Knoll of Clear
water was the principal speaker of the
evening.
MERCURY HITS A NEW
LOW IN THE STATE
According to official reports the little
town of Verdigre, northeast of here,
was the coldest spot in Nebraska last
Tuesday night, the thermometer reg
istered 41 degrees below zero. Neligh
reported 30 below.
At Lincoln it was 18 below at 8
o’clock Wednesday morning and re
mained below zero during the day.
This was the lowest in Lincoln since
January 6, 1924, when it registered
19 below. The coldest in the history
of the Lincoln weather bureau was 29
below on January 19, 1892.
According to the Lincoln Journal,
subzero weather was general in the
entire state,as well as adjoining states.
The following is taken from the Thurs
day morning issue of the Journal:
“From the extreme eastern end of
the state to as far west as Sidney the
weather was clear and calm, but at
Sidney a light snow was falling and
the temperature was 24 below. There
was also a light snow at Pine Bluffs,
Wyoming.
“Lowest temperatures reported thus
far in Nebraska are 28 and 27 at
Norfolk and West Point. Cozad hqd a
temperature of 25 and Big Springs
24. All plane traffic was going thru
after being held up by snow and
clouds.
“No low temperature higher than
14 below had been noted Wednesday
morning:
Temperatures by the unitea Air
Lines:
Omaha .. —18
Grand Island _ —23
North Platte ...- —18
Pine Bluffs_ —16
York . —22
Cozad --—-.—. —25
Big Springs ..... --- —24
Chyenne —14
“Temperatures by the telephone
company:
Beatrice
Falls City .
Hastings --~
Gregory, S. D-- -
Broken Bow ...
West Point
Omahn .
Plattsmouth ---
Tecumseh --- -
Seward _
Fairbury ---—
St. Joseph, Mo.-.
Sidney .
Wakefield, S. D. ..
Fullerton .
Norfolk -
Nebraska City .-..
Auburn
Ashland
“The United Press reports:
Burwell -
Aurora
Wilcox - -
Dorchester ..-.
“First signs of the predicted abat
ment in the wipter’s worst storm were
seen Tuesday night when the snow
ceased falling, the sky began clearing
and the wind, which reached gale pro
portions Monday, subsided noticeably.
“Wind velocity ranged from 3 miles
an hour at Cozad and North Platte to
12 miles an hour in Lincoln. Omaha
had an 11 mile breeze, Grand Island
7 miles, while most other points re
ported about a 10 mile velocity. The
wind was still strong enough to blow
snow and cause small drifts on th?
highways.”
—20
—15
—16
—20
—15
—28
—18
—22
—16
—22
—18
—15
—24
—22
—14
—27
—16
—18
—20
—20
—20
—20
—20
KILLS HIS YOUNG STEPMOTHER
The wedding celebration of John
Coyne, 66, and his young bride, Irene
Carbert, 20, at Pittsburg, Pa., was in
terrupted by the bride-groom’s 22
year old son, who shot and killed the
bride and beat his father unconscious
with a hammer.
A score of guests helping the couple
celebrate their marriage fled from the
house in terror as a rifle, that ended
young Mrs. Coyne’s life, rang thru
the spacious house, located in a well
to do neighborhood. Police Captain
Barry, who arrested John Coyne, jr.,
said the son came by airplane from
Detroit, hoping to arrive in time to
halt the wedding. The elder Coyne
and his bride, a former domestic, had
known each other for three months,
friends said. Captain Barry said
Coyne owns considerable property.
The city of Norfolk had a milk war
on last week. Last Friday milk was
selling there for one cent per quart.
ROBBER OF CHAMBERS
BANK GETS 15 YEARS
Taken to State Penitentiary Sunday.
Seventy-two Hours After Robbery.
James L. Boyle, who last Wednesday
afternoon made an unsuccessful at
tempt to hold up the Chambers State
bank, was arraigned in district court
last Friday morning, pled guilty to the
charge filed against him and was sen
tenced to fifteen years in the state
penitentiary. He was taken to Lincoln
last Sunday by Sheriff Duffy and that
evening, seventy-two hours after the
attempted robbery he was confined in
the state penitentiary.
When arraigned before Judge Dick
son last Friday Boyle looked anything
but a hold-up man. With tears in his
eyes he told the court that alcohol was
the cause of his downfall and asked
the court to be as lenient with him as
possible. He said that he had no
animosity against Mr. Adams, presi
dent of the bank who was responsible
for him being in court, and said that
the only person he had a grude against
was himself.
He said that he was divorced from
his wife about a year ago. She and
their three children are living in Col
umbus. He said that he had not
planned the hold-up. He said that he
had been drinking and driving and did
not even know he was in Chambers.
Holt county is gaining a reputation
that will cau'pe men seeking easiy
money by foul means to fight shy of
this county. Capture of the criminals
and speedy punishment of the offend
ers will cause others to ponder long
before entering this county to com
mit crimes of violence, thus making
the county safer for law abiding cit
izens who live here.
Following is a copy of the complaint
filed by the county attorney, to which
Mr. Boyle plead guilty:
“Ttat James L. Boyle did on the
first day of February, 1933, in the
county of Holt and state of Nebraska,
then and there being, then and there
in a certain building, situated in
Chambers, in the county of Holt, and
state of Nebraska, occupied and used
as a bank and depository by the
Chambers State bank, a corporation,
organized and existing under and by
virtue of the laws of the state of Ne
braska, then and there intending by
violence and by putting in fear to
steal, take and carry away from said
Chambers State bank, a corporation
and a bank depository, certain money,
goods, chattels and other property be
longing to said bank and depository,
did then and there unlawfully, felon
iously, forcibly and by violence put
in fear one Edward Adams, president;
one Leo Adams, cashier, and one John
Adams, assistant cashier, all then and
there being in said bank and depository
in charge of and connected with said
bank and depository as officers, as
aforesaid, and the said James L. Boyle,
then and there being in said Chambers
State bank, a corporation, and a bank
and depository, did unlawfully, felon
iously, forcibly by violence put fear
in the said Edward Adams, president;
Leo Adams, cashier, and John Adams,
assistant cashier, with the intent of
him, the said James L. Boyle, in so
doing, unlawfully, feloniously, forc
ibly and with violence to steal, take
and carry said property away, con
trary to the form of the statute in
such cases made and provided and
against the peace and dignity of the
I state of Nebraska.
MRS.C.E.DOWNEY PASSES AW AY
Lee Downey received a message last
Tuesday night announcing the death of
his mother at Independence, Mo., that
evening. Mr. Downey left the next
day, driving to Grand Island, from
where he would take the train for In
dependence to attend the funeral,
which was to have been held this
afternoon. His brother, S. A. Downey,
of the O’Neill Photo Company, is out
in Wyoming and is said to be stalled
there on account of the storm and will
be unable to attend the funeral.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Downey were
residents of this county for many
years, until their removal to Missouri
about 1924, where they have since
made their home. Mr. and Mrs. Down
ey lived *in this city for years,
Mr. Downey being engaged in the in
I surance business and the family had
an extensive acquaintenance in this
and surrounding counties. Mrs. Down
ey had many friends in this city and
county who will regret to hear of her
death and extend sympathy to the
I husband and children of the deceaseds