The Frontier in
VOL. LIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933. No. 26
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CORN ANI) HOG PLAN
SEEKS PARITY PRICE
FOR THESE PRODUCTS
Hope To Get Same Katio of Prices
With Farm And Retail Goods, A$
Existed Before The War.
The main object of the corn-hog ad
justment plan will be to restore parity
price on the two crops for farmers
who sign the contracts to reduce their
production, A. G. Black of the corn
hog section cf the agricultural adjust
ment administration in Washington
says. He believes the goal can be
reached by adjusting the supply of
corn and pork to the present demand.
“The real task we face today,” Dr.
Black says, “is one of striking a new
balance of supply and demand. When
this new balance is finally struck, the
disparity between farm prices and the
prices of other things will disappear.
Once the real trouble itself is removed
the symptoms of low prices will no
longer exist.”
By parity price on hogs, the econ
omists mean a price per hundred which
would make it possible for a farmer to
buy about as many overalls, husking
mittens, wagons, harness, radios, etc.,
with his hog crop as he did during the
five years from 1909 to 1914. All
farmers would like to have that fair
exchange value restored as it was be
fore the war.
The corn-hog adjustment plan is a
chance for corn belt farmers to co
operate with one another in reducing
the supply to the present demand. No
one farmer can afford to cut down his
own operations while the others raise
all the corn and hogs they possibly
can raise, but if the majority of corn
and hog producers stand with their
neighbors in favor of trying to solve
the knotty problem, it will be solved.
Since the corn-hog combination pro
duces the major cash income of corn
belt farmers, the proposed corn-hog
adjustment plan is likely to be the
greatest cooperative undertaking
farmers of any nation have ever con
sidered.
Former O’Neillites Climb
California Political Ladder
One of the most frequently men
tioned Californians for the democratic
nomination for governor of that state
is William J. McNichols, son of the
late Stephen McNichols.
William was very prominent in this
state before he became a citizen of
the orange state. He was secretary
of the blue sky department of the
bureau of securities and was then the
youngest state commander of the
American Legion in this country, and
he was the youngest state deputy of
the Knights of Columbus order. He
came very close to being lieutenant
governor of Nebraska the first time
Charles W. Bryan was elected to the
office of governor. His home now is
in Los Angeles. He is an attorney
having a large practice.
The magnitude of the district at
torneyship of San Diego county, f al
ifornia, now held by Thomas (Anselm)
Whalen, son of Edward Whalen, form
er mayor of O’Neill, is not realized
according to M. F. O’Sullivan, visiting
briefly here from California.
Mr. Whelan has under him 12 dep
uties, six investigators, and about 35
office workers, he says. The nearness
of Tejuana, Mexico, with its racing,
gambling and rough element, causes
the district attorney a great amount
of work which is very efficiently
handled by Mr. Whelan and his staff.
Vincent Whelan works with his
father and Edward, Jr., with his
brother, Thomas, or Anselm as he was
known here.
Give Armistice Day Party
Saturday evening at 7:30 a dinner
sponsored by Mrs. John Weekes, Mrs.
Edward Campbell, Mrs. Hugh Birm
ingham and Mrs. Charles E. Stout was
served in the dining room of the
Golden hotel in honor of Mrs. William
Froelieh, of Chicago, daughter of
Mayor and Mrs. C. E. Stout. In con
tract play Mrs. John McManus won
high score, Mrs. M. F. Harrington
second high, Mrs. William Biglin low.
and Mrs. Ira Moss the all-cut. Colors
used in decorations were armistice
hues and flowers also were of red,
white and blue.
George Bay became seriously ill
last Thursday of a stomach ailment he
has suffered some time and he has
been in hia bed under the care of Dr.
J. P. Brown and nurse Velma Sex
smith. His condition was reported by
Mrs. Bay as satisfactory and it is
expected he will be entirely recovered
within a few weeks.
High School Football
Star Breaks Shoulder
Beachey Medlin, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Medlin, broke a shoulder
bone while practicing football Wednes
day afternoon, which will prevent the
morning star of the local eleven play
ing again this season.
Beachey, a year or so ago, suffered
a shoulder injury and the recent ac
cident broke the bone completely. He
is mending up under the attention of
Dr. J. P. Brown.
Shells Corn With A
Small Grain Thresher
John Dankert, farmer near Cham
bers, was in O’Neill Thursday, and
reported his neighbor, Andrew Ander
son, was threshing 20 acres of corn
with a small grain threshing machine
and found that a satisfactory method
of shelling corn. Mr. Dankert said
he planned on having his own corn
shelled with the threshing machine.
SUNDAY DUST STORM
AND WIND DAMAGES
CROPS AND PROPERTY
Storm Which Was Thought Here To
Be Local, Covers Most of The
Middle Western States.
A dust storm, stirred up by a 60
mile gale roared across the city last
Sunday morning, temporarily displac
ing the mild weather with clouds and
cooler temperature. The force of the
wind did some damage around town,
cracking a window in the Biglin fur
niture store. The awning was torn
from the Kinsman building north of
the post office and blown thru one of
the windows.
Plaster was shaken from the ceiling
of the Ernest Harris home on east
Douglas street.
The high wind Sunday afternoon
blew off part of the roof of the Bazel
man lumber yard causing a loss of
about $200, according to Martin Baz
elman.
Dust filled the windows and west
and north entrances of business es
tablishments and was cleaned out by
the bushel.
The dust in the air was so heavy
that during most of the afternoon,
lights were necessary in homes.
The barn on the Joyce farm, about
five miles north of town, was twisted,
breaking the roof in two. The place
is occupied by Morris Graham.
Reports from out in the county
indicate that much of the winter
wheat was destroyed by the wind. The
ground is so dry that wheat which
had sprouted was blown out. Corn
stalks were laid down flat, making
the picking of corn still in the fields
rather difficult.
Some telephone and power lines
around the state were temporarily dis
abled, though no serious damage has
been reported.
The dust storm last Sunday, be
lieved a local phenomenon, extended
over most of the middle western states
and caused much damage in destroy
ing fall planted grains, windows, signs,
unroofing small buildings and forcing
a film of dust into stores and resid
ences. Everywhere in the affected
area meterologists pronounced the
storm the worst of its kind experi
enced since the country was settled.
The velocity of the hurricane was 60
miles an hour. Here the wind came
from the northwest. From 2 o’clock
p. m. until evening, lights were neces
sary. In O’Neill, as elsewhere, many
windows, including plate glass, were
cracked and many limbs wrenched off
trees. One meterologist said: “There
has been nothing to compare with it
in my 41 years. It covered the entire
middlewest.” There was no snow or
rain and the temperature remained
fairly high until well after dark.
JUDAS ISCARIOT TO BE IMPER
SONATED IN A LOCAL CHURCH
Judas Iscariot is to be impersonated
by Miss Beryl Decker at the Presby
terian church Sunday night, November
28. Miss Decker is a graduate of the
College of Fine Arts of Nebraska
Wesleyan university, holding the de
gree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from
| that institution. She has spent some
| time traveling with the Redpath Cha
! tauqua and Lyceum bureau. She has
given this impersonation of Judas
1 Iscariot a number of times in churches
of Lincoln, Norfolk and surrounding
towns. The public is invited. A free
will offering will be taken to help pay
I expenses.
Glenn Saunders went down to Lin
coln last Friday afternoon and spent
a couple of days visiting relatives and
i friends, returning horn • Sunday night
BRIEFLY STATED
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Born Wednesday morning at their;
home here, a 10 pound son to Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Denny. All those in
volved were reported as recovering.
Mr. Denny is principle of the O’Neill
public schools.
Mrs. Henry Lozier, 60, ill of heart
and dropsical condition since last Feb
ruary, was reported no better Wednes
day at the home in southeast O’Neill.
The attending physician, Dr. L. A.
Carter, with Dr. Neil P. McKee, of
Atkinson, recently performed an op
eration on Mrs. Lozier.
J. B. Mellor, Ralph Mellor and
Clarence Stannard went down to Oma
ha last Friday to take in the Ak-Sar
Ben show. The went over to Lincoln
Saturday to attend the Nebraska
Kansas football game, returning to
Omaha after the game. They re
turned to O’Neill Monday afternoon.
Mrs. D. H. Cronin entertained 12
ladies at her home last Thursday even
ing with a dinner party and pinochle
after the dinner, honoring her sister,
Mrs. F. II. Butts of Nebraska City,
who is visiting here. Mrs. J. F.
O’Donnell won the prize for the high
score and Mrs. H. J. Hammond the
all cut.
Monday evening the Martez club
members gathered at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles McKenna. Chief
entertainment feature was card play
ing, a prize being offered the winner
at each table. The winners were:
Margaret Joyce, Mrs. Frank Froelich,
Mrs. Ira Moss, Mrs. Max Golden and
Mrs. Edward Gatz.
Mrs. Mary Reider, of Gregory, S. D.,
arrived here Sunday evening on the
Velder bus and is staying at the
apartments of Mrs. Patrick Hughes in
the Harry Starlin rooming house. Mrs.
Reider is here for a visit with her son,
Michael F., field manager of a Calif
ornia life insurance company, and her
son John, of O’Neill.
Misses Marion Dickson, Marjorie
Dickson, Grace O’Doimell and Max
Berger drove to Wayne last Friday
evening where they witnessed the
football game between Southern Norm
al, of South Dakota, and Wayne. Sat
urday, accompanied by Miss Nancy
Dickson they drove to Lincoln for the
Nebraska-Kansas football game. They
returned home Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kent, he presi
dent of the Consumer’s oil company
of Dubuque, Iowa, visited here Tues
day and Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.
John L. Quig. Mr. Kent is looking
for a location on highway 281 for a
cabin and camp site which he may
construct. The Kents said they were
greatly pleased with the schools and
churches and the people of O’Neill.
Two trucks, of 10 and 12 animal
capacity, from Wabash, Ind., were in
O’Neill Tuesday morning for two
loads of horses from this county. The
drivers report that there is always a
demand for horses in the east during
the winter, and that they are kept
fairly busy hauling horses from South
Dakota and northern Nebraska to
points in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana.
H. B. Hubbard was quizzing sports
men Wednesday about a peculiar wild
duck found dead on an O’Neill street
by Jack Dcines, Mr. Hubbard reported.
The bird was described as being
marked with a blue-gray body, white
bars on wings, brown head, narrow bill
lined with saw edges, and the bird
was of medium size. What is the
proper name of this duck? Mr. Hub
bard wants to know.
Ray Linehart, who lives out near
Chambers, lost a number of his tur
keys, of which he hail nearly 400.
Investigation on the part of Dr. H. L.
Bennett revealed the birds died direct
ly thru eating nothing but gravel,
their crops being crammed beyond
normal size. The birds lacked lime
and phosphorous, the doctor stated,
and a ration now is expected to halt
the once mysterious deaths.
Dan P. O’Sullivan, now in a Na
tional soldier’s home, West Los
f Angeles, Cal., writes that he met Wil
liam J. Canton, who was in partnership
with Thomas J. Carlon here about
1800. and that Mr. Canton wanted to
be informed as to the movements of
all old timers at O'Neill. His wife
has been dead some yearn. He is a
Spanish war veteran. He was a law
partner of Mr. Carlon'* here and his
home was just east of the water tower.
Mrs. Laura Ann Schclkopf
Laura Ann Gallentine, daughter of
jiS. 1). and Martha Gallentine was born
hear Maple Grove, Nebr., April 25,
1893, and died at her home near Meek,
Nebr., on November 10, 1933, aged
40 years, 6 months and 15 days. She
spent her entire life in this com
munity.
On May 8, 1918 she was united in
marriage to Martin A. Schelkopf at
her father’s home at Maple Grove,
Nebr. To this union was born one
daughter, Neva June, now 13 years
of age. Besides her husband and
daughter she is survived by her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Gallentine, of
Norcatur, Kans., who were unable to
attend the funeral on account of the
condition of her fathers health.
' She also leaves the following broth
ers and sisters, all of whom were pre
sent at the funeral: William Gallen
tine of Spencer, Mrs. Jessie Gallentine
of Clayton, Kans., Mrs. Della Forbes
of Brunswick, Mrs. Leah Clouse of
Maple Grove, John Gallentine of New
Castle, Wyo., and Mrs. Gertrude Haw
thorne of Fairburn, S. D. One sister,
Mrs. Alice Mitchell preceded her in
death.
Laura, as we all knew her had been
an invalid for several years, sulFer
ing from cancer but was patient and
cheerful until the last.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. II. 1). Johnson, of O’Neill, from
the Presbyterian church near Meek,
and burial in the cemetery there. The
funeral was attended by a very large
number of sympathizing friends and
neighbors.
O’Donnell, Birmingham and
Gradys, Have High Scores
Friday night the third series of
games in the Contract Bridge Tourna.
ment was held at the Golden Hotel.
Nine tables of players participated.
J. F. O’Donnell and Hugh Birming
ham, with a score of 99 and one-half
points were high for the north and
south group. Mr. and Mrs. Ben J.
Grady with a score of 91 and one-half
points were high for the east and west
group. In the north and south group
M. J. Golden and Mrs. Ira Moss won
second place; Mrs. W. F. Froelich and
Mis. C. E. Stout won third place;
Misses Grace and Margaret Joyce won
fourth place. In the east and west
group Mrs. J. J. Harrington and Mrs.
Frank Biglin won second place; Mr.
and Mrs. Irl Hicks won third place;
Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and Mrs. It. R.
Morrison won fourth place.
Scout Executive to Speak
Here Next Tuesday Night
John W. Wright, Scout executive of
the Covered Wagon area, will hold
Court of Honor for the North Central
district next Tuesday night at the
Presbyterian church. A scout pro
gram is being planned. The scouts and
scout leaders of the surrounding
towns will be present to take part in
the program, and Mr. Wright will
address the audience. Mr. Wright is
an able speaker and knows the boy
problem. Every parent and person
interested in the adolescent boy should
be present. The meeting v. ill be called
at eight o’clock.
Last Sunday afternoon during the
hurricane out on Liddy hill on Eagle
creek the automobile of Hugh Birm
ingham, also containing Mr. and Mrs.
Hoy Griffin and James O’Donnell
struck loose earth and lurched over on
one side ip a ditch, slightly damaging
the automobile and merely shaking up
all four of the passengers. Mr. Birm
ingham stated he saw the loose earth
hazard, set the brakes which seemed
to grip on but one side, causing the
machine to swing violently into the
ditch.
The next scheduled football game
here is against Lynch November 17.
Suffering a few defeats but enjoying
many wins, the local physical prowess
machine has made a fine showing
under the generalship of Coach Elmer
Stolle. Half of the winning requisite
in football seems to be sufficient en
j couragement represented by little
I pasteboards which swing the gridiron
I gate.
CARD OF TH ANKS
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the kind friends and neigh
| hors for their many nets of kindness
and sympathy during the sickness,
death and burial of our dear wife,
mother and sister, Mrs. M. A. Schel
kpof.—M. A. Schelkopf and daughter
Neva June, Mr. and Mrs. George Wel
don, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Gallentine
W. M. Gallentine, Jessie Gallentine
Della Forbes, Leah Clouse, John Gal
lentine and Gertrude Hawthorne.
Condition of Monsignor
Cassidy Is Serious
Wednesday morning, it was reported
from the bedside of Right Reverend
Monsignor M. F. Cassidy, at Omaha,
that his condition was critical. An
other report at 1:30 Thursday after
noon, stated that he was sinking.
First Major Operation
At Shoemaker Hospital
The first major operation at the
new Shoemaker Sisters hospital estab
lished here but recently, was that of
Mrs. George Bowden, 70, who under
went an operation there for the re
moval of a large tumor on Wednesday.
Dr. J P. Brown, of O’Neill, and Dr.
S. A. Campbell, of Norfolk, were the
surgeons working over the operating
table.
EXPERIENCE WITH
WHEAT TO SPEED
CORN - HOG WORK
Much Rod Tape Will Be Done Away
With As Result of Experience
Gained On Wheat Plan.
The proposed corn-hog adjustment
plan will be very workuble in Nebras
ka, W. II. Brokaw, director of the Ex
tension service said Wednesday morn
in on his return from a conference
with Washington officials and other
representatives from other states at
Kansas City. Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas were represented at the meet
ing.
Dr. Black and his assistants in
charge of the corn-hog section of the
adjustment administration at Wash
ington returned to Washington this
week-end with suggestions from four
conferences held in the corn belt since
last Friday, Brokaw said. The Wash
ington men plan to whip the corn-hog
contract and their administrative rul
ings into final form and get them
printed as quickly as possible. The
contracts and other details of the plan
will be available to farmers at the
first community meetings.
In the meantime, the Nebraska Ex
tension Service will proceed as rapidly
as possible to cooperate with county
officials in setting up offices of emer
gency agricultural assistants in coun.
tics without extension agents. Bro
kaw plans to call conference of the
emergency agents and of the Nebras
ka county agents as soon as more com
plete information is available from the
Washington corn-hog section.
Valuable experience in the wheat ad
justment program has led the men in
charge of the corn-hog plan to com
bine the application for the contract
and the contract itself into one simple
brief form which will be given to the
farmers at the start of the educational
program. More emphasis will be
given on the importance of these com
munity meetings where farmers can
get together to learn the details of the
corn-hog plan. Both corn and hog ad
justment agreements will be signed up
on one contract rather than two as
previously announced. The producer
of both corn and hogs who signs con
tracts must sign up for both unless
he raised less than four litters or grew
less than 10 acres of corn in the years
1932 and 1933, which will be consid
ered as the base years for both corn
and hogs.
The farmers who sign contracts will
form a corn-hog production control
association in their county to admin
ister the plan in a similar way to the
wheat adjustment plan. This control
association will arrange for the pub
lication of names in the local press of
those who sign up the corn-hog con
tracts. They will make a budget to
cover other local expenses of the ad
ministration of the plan. The cost of
the administration is to come out of
the 30 cents per bushel benefit pay
ment on corn and the $5.00 per head
benefit payment on hogs.
Several other details of the plan will
be announced as quickly as the sug
gestions given the Washington men
' at Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Paul,
and Chicago are included in the tent
ative plan which is being discussed at
the four regional meetings.
A letter was received by Rev. H. D.
Johnson from Dr. Margaret M. Frost.
Dr. Frost states that she is pleasantly
| located in Jerome, Idaho, and is be
ginning the practice of Osteopathy
again. Jerome is situated in a scenic
part of the country and affords great
[natural beauty.
Misses Teresa Connelly, Grace
Huigens, Helen Givens, Catherine
Lawlor and Mrs. Ralph Oppen drove
to Lincoln Friday night to attend the
i Nebraskn-Kansas football game.
WORK IS EXPECTED
TO BEGIN ON O’NEILL
PAVING NEXT WEEK
Contract Goes To Roberta Construc
tion Company. Council Agrees
City To Pay For Curbs.
Rids upon the mile of paving thru
this city were opened at Lincoln last
Friday and the Roberts Construction
company was low bidder with a bid
of $1.89 a yard, or a total of $48,029.
This is $1,975 lower than the estimate
that had been made on the work by
the state engineers office. The con
tract will probably be let this week.
A letter received Thursday morning
by Mayor Stout, from A. T. Lobdeli,
chief of the bureau of roads and
bridges, states that the contract will
be completed with the Roberts Con
struction company. The text of the
letter, under date of November 14th,
is as f< s:
“This Knowledges receipt of your
telegram of Nov., 13, 1933 as follows:
“ ‘By resolution of Council, City
of O’Neill gurantees to pay for
curbs with city funds wire if ac
ceptable, C. E. Stout, Mayor.’
i his is to advise that this guaran
tee is satisfactory to the department,
and the contract will be completed
with Roberts Construction company.
“We arc assigning Project Engineer
S. R. Gilbert, who is just finishing a
paving job at Columbus to go to
O’Neill to handle the engineering work.
He will get in touch with you upon
arrival in O’Neill, which will be about
the first of the week.
“This work will be under the gen
eral supervision of M. B. Jones, Pro
ject Engineer, R. F. Weller, District
Engineer and S. R. Gilbert. The con
tractor advises that he will start on
this work the first of next week.”
Try Possibilities of
Unusual Bridge Hands
Wednesday evening at the H. J.
Birmingham home, J. F. O'Donnell,
H. J. Birmingham, Mrs. J. J. Harring
ton and Mrs. F. J. Biglrn were dealt
unusual and interesting contract bridge
hands, previously received in play to
determine what the result would be.
O’Donnell and Birmingham had
won in tournament play making al
most perfect scores, and the women
had won at a preceding match.
The unusual hand dealt Wednesday
evening had been held by Mrs. H. J.
Birmingham, Mrs. Edward Campbell,
Mrs. C. E. Stout and Mrs. William C.
Froelich, the latter, now of Chicago.
Playing the four u: usual contract
bridge hands Wednesday, the men
claim the women were defeated.
Wood Is One of Holt
County’s Large Assets
Here in Holt county it has been
estimated 15,000 persons or 3,000
families, burn each winter at least
15,000 cords of wood, which, valued at
only $3 u cord amounts to $15,000, a
nice sum to with hold from the pros
pective dividend account of the coal
and oil barons.
Not all Holt countyans burn wood,
yet it would seem that trees are one
of the most valuable resources in the
county.
Pay Out $50,000 In Two
Months To Borrowers
J. F. O’Donnell, secretary and treas
urer of the O’Neill national farm loan
association, says that $50,000 had been
paid to borrowers in the past two
months, and that within the next 30
days there will be approved, without
doubt, loans amounting to $285,000,
that nmount having been applied for
and may be in the hands of borrowers
[ within 30 days.
A grayish blue bird near the size
of the robin has appeared here again
apparently to spend the winter. Two
years ago this bird to the number of
about 100 came here and remained all
winter. Bird lovers dusted books and
scratched heads but as far as is known
the name of this bird is still unknown
here. The bird is noisy and its call
is pleasing, somewhat like the blend of
a whistle and the cry of the common
domestic cat. On warm days the bird
j is shy but on cloudy and cold days
! the bird becomes slow of movement
and may be approached within a few
yards. Who can supply the proper
name for this mysterious visitor?
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D. II. Cronin went down to Omaha
last Monday night to serve on the
Federal grand jury. The Omaha
papers report that he has been selected
as foreman of the jury. In his ab
] sence, J. B. O’Sullivan is helping in
I the issuing of The Frontier.