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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1933)
w* Oo OM MT VOL. LIV. The frontier O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1988. No. 31 EFFORT BEING MADE TO REMOVE POLITICS FROM CWA PROJECTS Purpose of CWA Is To Provide AVork For Those In Immediate Need Regardless of Political Faith. The office of Max Johnson, county employment manager and payroll cer tifying officer, is one of the busiest places at the court house and has been for the past six weeks. Last week Mr. Johnson received a letter from his superior, George Hodge, state director of national re employment service, from which we take the following paragraph: “From now on we want every re employment manager to hold a tight rein on the matter of registrations, classifications, selection and referrals for jobs and not be influenced by any committeeman, city or county official. If National Reemployment Service is going to be responsible for proper selection of people for work projects, then we must not stand for any further interference by people who want to use that method of political patron age, and that gees regardless of whether or not they are republican or democrat. The entire recovery pro gram’s success depends upon the wholehearted cooperation of every American citizen and it is no time to permit politics of any description to enter into the picture.” Acting under the above the number registered upon the Holt county list, 2,006, have been classified into three classes, as follows: Class 1—Those absolutely in need of work to buy provisions for present need. Class 2—Those who will probably be in need of assistance before the winter is over. Class 3—Those who are not consid ered as coming under this form of relief. A committee had been selected to make the classifications. They class ified every one on the registered list and under that classification the local office is now working. The member ship of this committee has not been divulged. After the classification had been completed Mr. Johnson sent out the following letter of instructions to all foreman and timekeepers on CWA projects in this county: 1. Get you list of eligible men in1 your territory from this office. 2. Do not put other men to work ex cept on a written order from me. .1. Find out from the employment office how many men you arc entitled to use on each project. 4. Start your crews as nearly as possible on Tuesday mornings and Friday mornings. 5. Close your payroll on every Thursday night and get it to me as early as possible the next day. 6. Be sure to have your payrolls signed by three persons, Timekeeper, Foreman and Supervisor before turn ing it in to me. If Timekeeper and Foreman are the same man, sign on both lines on the back of each white sheet. 7. I’lease call my attention to any man in your community who needs work, but whose name does not ap pear on our list of registered unem ployed men. 8. If any man who is assigned to J your project is not in good physical, condition, pick out work for him that1 he can do. Give him a chance to sup port his family. 9. If more than 2 men out of the same family are assigned to you, please call my attention to it and put only two of them on your payroll. 10. Remember, CWA work is only for men who need money with which to pay current living expenses for himself and his dependents. 11. Whenever an employee sustains an injury, even though slight in character, he should immediately re port it to his Foreman. 12. Any man found squandering any part or all of the money earned by CWA work on liquor or at gambling etc. will be stricken from the CWA pay roll at once. Then, last Saturday, the following letter of instructions was sent out to the various members of the county board, foreman and timekeepers: You are herewith furnished a class ified list of registered men in your territory. You are requested to put all number one men to work first and then draw from the list of number two men. Please make every effort to locate the men on your list and if it is found that any of them should work in some other district than yours, kindly notify me to that effect. I will then inform such men that they are authorized to report to those in charge of the projects nearer to where they live. Every man. not on your classified list, must get a written order from me before you can put him on your pay rolls. Orders from Lincoln are that pay rolls ought to be made out either on a typewriter or with a sharp indelible pencil. Foreman and timekeepers must be chosen from class numbers one and two. As the list now stands, on Tuesday of this week, there were 812 men on the number one classified list, whose applications for work will be the first given consideration. There are 22 CWA projects in this county. On these various projects there are 636 men working this week; two shifts of 318 men on each shift, each shift working three days per week. These men work from seven and a half to nine hours per day and receive 40 cents per hour for their work. If this nice weather continues it will be necessary to provide other work, if those on the list are to be kept employed thruout the winter, as the present projects will soon be com pleted. Mrs. Anna A. Carman Mrs. Anna A. Carman died at her home 10 miles northeast of this city Wednesday morning*, December 20, 1933, after a long illness of heart trouble, at the age of 75 years and two days. The funeral will be held from the home Friday afternoon at 1:30, Rev. Yost, of Page officiating, and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery in this city. Anna McKenzie was born in Han cock county, Illinois, on December 18, 1858. When she was a little girl her parents moved to Nebraska and located in Johnson county where, on February 23, 18£5, she was united in marriage to James A. Carman. To this union one child was born, a daughter, now Mrs. Ed. Sterner, of Page, who with her husband are left to mourn the death of a kind and loving wife and mother. In May, 1911, the family moved to this county and have resided on their farm east of this city since that time. For several years Mrs. Carman has been suffering with heart trouble, but her condition did not be come serious until the past few weeks. She was a splendid wife and mother and a kind neighbor, and took an ac tive part in the church affairs of her community. She had many friends who will regret to learn of her passing. Joe Mann Is Named County CWA Chairman Joseph Mann of this city has been named chairman of the Holt county CWA committee. The other members of this committee are Dr. W. H. Briggs, of Ewing; D. A. Criss, of Stuart, and George A. Miles, O’Neill. Joseph's Mann’s brother, J. P., is chairman of the N. R. A. Compliance Board for the city of O’Neill. Used Candy As Means To Assure His Safety When R. J. Marsh was but eight years of age his parents decided they could do no better than file on a Holt county homestead which they did, se lecting a homestead north of here. Mr. Marsh experienced hardships which to a boy were most desirable ad ventures. With his brothers he cut wood on Eagle creek and during nights camped there, it was necessary to keep a roar ing campfire to hold off packs of wolves which gathered in anticipation of something good to eat. When Mr. Marsh was but 16 his father consented to his freighting car goes of groceries west from here to be sold to widely seperated ranchers. Oxen drew his wagon. His experi ences on the trips would fill a large book. Always he carried candy to appease savages who hated the whites like poison but who proved fair enough to permit a boy to go un harmed. The Sioux used to laugh at the nerve of Marsh as they ate his candy. Later he became a plasterer and still later he became postmaster here, serving eight years, and it was under his regime the office was raised from third to second class. Mr. Marsh used to chase “ghost lights’’ before he knew what they were. By his own calculations he found they are gases from decaying bones, causing gaseous lights when the ground is wet. Bones were everywhere, he says, at the time j and nature’s “electric lights" fascin-; ated and mystified first settlers. Mr. and Mr*. George Agnes drove over to Elk Point. S. D.. la*t Friday : afternoon to attend the funeral of Mrs. Simoen Mclncrny, who died Thursday at Sioux Fall*. Services were held at Elk Point and burial was in the mausoleum in Mount Calvary at Sioux City. Mr*. Melnerny was an aunt of Mr. Agne*. They returned home Sun day afternoon. |St. Mary’s Wins Both Games With Chambers In St. Mary’s academy gymnasium here last Friday evening, Chambers and St. Mary’s basketball players played two games, the academy first team winning 35 to 5, and the academy second team winning 23 to 6. In the first contest the stars were Mike Harty and Francis 1‘rice, and in the secondary tussel the leading players proved to be Francis Soukup and Hugh Ryan. ATTENDS MEETING TO GET FACTS ON CORN AND HOG REDUCTION James W. Rooney Spends Week In Lincoln Getting Full Infor mation for Farmers. James W. Rooney, emergency agri cultural assistant, is spending this week in Lincoln at a conference and school regarding the corn-hog reduct ion plan of the federal government. The conference, originally set for last week was postponed a week to make certain that important rulings and in terpretations would be available from the corn-hog section at Washington. Mr. Rooney expects to return with most of the essential information about the corn-hog plan and to start immediately to explain it to farmers of this county. Just Avhat the pro cedure will be, Mr. Rooney did not know when he left for Lincoln. He expected to talk over his tentative plans with other agents in the state meeting and follow general directions of W. II. Brokaw, state director of the agricultural extension service and state corn-hog administrator. Information to be given out at the Lincoln conference will all be official direct from Secretary Wallace and his assistants in Washington. It will un doubtedly answer a lot of questions which farmers are asking. As sooB as possible after this week, Mr. Rooney expects to hold a series of neighborhood meetings at which he can talk the plans over and answer questions of farmers. Like the wheat plan, the corn-hog program will be offered to every grow er of corn and hogs in the county. Each man can decide for himself whether or not he will sign up the con tract. It will pay him at the rate of $15 per head for the hogs he agrees not to produce, and at the rate of 30 cents per bushel yield on the particular land he takes out of corn, plus the use of the land for soil building purposes and some other uses. Whole-hearted cooperation on the part of the farmers of the corn belt will adjust the supply of corn and hogs more nearly to the present demand and may be expected to raise prices. Students of St. Mary’s Give Xmas Program The pupils of St. Mary’s academy presented a Christmas program at the academy auditorium last Wednesday afternoon and evening to large aud iences. They presented a little playlet “When Toys Come to Life” and sev eral of the little folks taking the parts displayed real ability and dis closed that they had had careful train ing in the preparation of the various parts. Following is the east of charcters in the playct and the program rend ered: Tell Us A Story Man ... — The children’s favorite Child .. - A curious little Miss Dr. Toybones Cures everything Nurse sunshine Always smiling and helpful Sawdust Doll Often loses her stuffing Turtle ..Cmbbedy, crochety and rheumatic Solider... Brave, though armless Clown With a twisted leg Angel Where is her missing wing? Twins . Having craeked voices Ragged Boy Who can he be? Doctors, Nurses, Christian Angels Synopsis: Prologue Before Curtain Scene of Story Christmas Eve in Toy Hospital Carlos: “Shepherd’s Carol” "The First Noel”! “Silent Night” “Hear the Joyus Bells” High School Chorus “Christmas Bells are Ringing’’ Christmas Tableau The Virgin's Lullaby "All My Heart This Night Rejoices”] Chorus William, brother of Georjre Mitchell, stopped here on his way to his home at Burke, S. D., Saturday, after at tending the funeral of a ulster, Mrs. Mary Grant, at Hooper, Nebraska. WILL HOLD MEETING TO EXPLAIN DETAILS OF CORN-HOG PLANS Meeting To lie Held Next Friday For Giving Full Details of the C'orn-llog Program. A county wide meeting of Holt county corn and hog growers will be lield in the district court room, at the court house in O’Neill, Friday afternoon, December 29, 1933, at 1:30 I’. M., at which time a full explanation of the corn-hog reduction plan will be made to farmers. John A. Robertson, James W. Rooney and a specialist from the Ex tension Service of the University Ag riclutural College will be present. A temporary committee of five men and five alternates will be elected to start the work of administration in this county. Santa Treats Holt County Children Last Saturday forenoon work of installing the municipal Chritsmas tree was undertaken and completed before evening by the following work men: Lew Wyant, Mr. Spry, l’etcr Certson, Bobert Calvert, "Happy" Miles, Chester Calkins, Roy Johnson, Roy Warner and Norbert Uhl. The Lions club is sponsoring the tree. At four o’clock Wednesday, De cember 20, Santa Claus arrived here from Northland with treats for every Child in Holt county. In his honor, Mrs. Georgia Rasley is offered the children with a freed moving picture show after Santa had set-’em-up for the youngsters. BRIEFLY STATED Something hit the hog market be low the cornbelt. The condition of Mahlon Nuttlcman, about 35, who suffered a concussion of the brain on the morning of December H, was reported as satisfactory by his physician, Dr. W. F. Finley. The Burlington has reduced the working days of section laborers to two days a week on the line out of here. Maurice Johnson and Clarence Cunningham now care for 31 miles of track. Mrs. Neil Brennan and daughter, Bernadette, left last Friday morning for Fort Meade, Maryland, where they will spend the winter visiting at the home of her son, Major Francis Brennan. Thursday was another day like June with flies, boxelder bugs and other in sects flitting about. Those who have to bo outdoors deeply appreciate this brand of weather and do not want any substitute. About 15 close friends of Greta Singleman gave her a farewell party Wednesday night at the Dr. L. A. Burgess home. The party enjoyed cards, games and at midnight a lunch was served. A nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilson, of Maple Grove, last Sun day fell on the ice near his home and broke his left leg. The boy is in the O’Neill general hospital and is getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Juracek and daughter, Anna, of Opportunity, were shopping in this city last Tuesday afternoon and stopped for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Halva. Olive Mary, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Aucock, of the Methodist j church, arrived here Wednesday even i ing to spend the holidays with her parents. She is a student at W'esleyn University, Lincoln. __ Everyone was greatly pleased Wed nesday to see Mrs. Susie Horiskey down at her store here after a long siege of illness. Mrs. Horiskey looks fine and says she is gaining weight and strength daily. The teaching staff of the public school, with the exception of those who ' live here, will be out of town during , the Christmas vacation. Roy W. Car roll, Harold M. Denny and Miss Mary Horiskey live in O’Neill. According to Archie Bowen hi# racket #torc easily will have done the greatest volumne of Christmas busi ness since 1929. The big year had been 1990, part of it pianos and radios, i none of which have been sold this year. Warehouse At Amelia Robbed Monday Night The warehouse of Tom Salem, who operates a good-sized general store at Amelia, was robbed last Monday night and several hundred dollars worth of merchandise taken. Following is a list of the goods taken, as near as could be ascertained: One case of Prince Albert smoking tobacco; one box of Days Work chewing tobacco; one case of Stud smoking; one case of Velvet smoking tobacco; 50 pounds of bacon; tw*o 30-pound cases of candy; two pails of candy; tw’o 6-pound cans of Nash’s coffee and a number of pound cans of Butter-Nut coffee. Mr. Salem is offering a reward of $25 for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the thieves. Lamb-Anderson Miss Violet Anderson and Robert H. Lamb, both of this city, were united in marriage at 6 o’clock p. m. on De cember 6, 1933, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mtb. Gus Anderson, living east of O’Neill, Rev. W. B. Lamb, father of the groom offi ciating, in the presence of a few of the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. Tbe bride was accompanied by Miss Ethel Admanson as maid of honor and Melvin Pilger served as best man for the groom. A bountiful wedding din ner was served at the home of the bride’s parents immediately after the ceremony. The bride is a charming young lady and has a host of friends in this city and vicinity. The groom is a promis ing young man, a graduate of the O’Neill High school and has a host of friends among the younger people of O’Neill and vicinity. The newly wedded couple expect to make their home on a farm near this city. The Frontier joins the many friends of this estimable couple in wishing them many years of happiness and prosperity. Sharp Cuts Will Be Made In Rail Fares It appears that the railroad officials have finally began to realize that they must reduce rates in order to compete with the automobile and the buss. The Northwestern has now announced that the coming year they will introduce a new 1.8 cent per mile each way daily round trip coach ticket, a 50 per cent reduction over the 3.(5 rate that was in effect up to November 30, 1933, and a ten per cent reduction over the two cent basic rate that has been in effect since December 1. The new rate will go into effect on January 2, 1934, the tickets having a ten-day re turn limit.. According to railroad officials there has been quite a spurt in railroad travel since the new rate went into effect on December 1 and they figure that the new low rate will further increase this method of travel. Funeral Services Held Monday for G. R. Slocumb The funeral of G. II. Slocumb, who died at Valentine last Thursday even ing, after being injured in an auto mobile accident west of Ainsworth last Sunday afternoon, was held from his home at Long Pine last Monday after noon. The services were conducted by Rex. M. A. Frazell, pastor of the Episcopal church at Cody, Nebraska. The remains were brought to this city and interred in Prospect Hill cemetery. The following O’Neill people went to Long iPne and attended the funeral: Gaius Cadwell, H. J. Hammond, W. J Hammond, C. C. Bergstrom, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Donohoe, Mrs. Ira Moss, J. D. Cronin and Roy Griffin. Wednesday afternoon Drs. S. A. Campbell, of Norfolk, and J. P. Brown of this city performed an operation here at the O’Neill General hospital on Mrs. John Karl for the removal of her appendix. The operation was suc cessful and Mrs. Karl is resting easily today it was reported from the hospi tal. Dr. Campbell came here by air plane which carried him home after he had been here a little more than an hour. As the machine circled to leave the pilot banked time and again, turning the wings straight up and down, delighting several hundred young air enthusiasts. Jack Evans Vincent owns an an tique gun that must be one of the i oldest in Holt county. The piece is a muzzle loading shot gun, about 12 gauge. It bears the date 1825 and the word “Neifse.” The barrel is about ' four feet long. The gun is rusted from its 108 year life and additional ! information may be thus concealed. HARVESTABLE CROP NOT TO BE PLANTED TO USE CORN LAND Crops Not To Be Harvested First Year On Land Taken From Corn Production. Land taken out of corn under the corn-hog reduction contract in 1934 may be sown to additional permanent pasture, planted to soil improving and erosion preventing, crops not to be harvested, allowed to rest in summer fallow, cultivated to kill weeds or planted to farm woodlots. This administrative ruling just re leased in connection with the corn hog reduction contract is interpreted by the Nebraska administrative offi cials to mean that farmers will be al lowed to seed alfalfa or clover on the land taken out of corn. The only string attached is that no crop can be harvested from the first year alfalfa or clover in 1934. Some farmers will take advantage of the weed control provision by going after patches of morning glories, tan weed, and similar weeds with duck foot shovels or cultivators. Benefit payments from the corn-hog con tracts will help finance the weed con trol measures. What to do with land taken out of wheat and corn under the wheat and corn hog reduction contracts has been puzzling Nebraska farmers for some time. Cox, in charge of that problem for the Triple A organization in Wash ington, has been asked to discuss the topics Wednesday afternoon, Jnnuary 3, at organized agriculture. He will speak at a joint session of crop grow ers and livestock breeders associations meeting at the agricultural college. One important question which will be put to Cox while he is in Lincoln will be what a man can do with land on which wheat winter kills. Such land generally goes into corn late in May. Cox will be asked if a farmer who plants corn on winter killed wheat ground, which js already signed up under a wheat contract, violates his corn-hog reduction contract by thus increasing his corn acreage. Suffers Injuries To Hand While Sawing Firewood While feeding the last stick of wood of a long and hard day at a buzz saw on the farm of Edward Leach, three miles east of here last Saturday. Clarence Hicks, about 36, suffered badly cut fingers on his right hand when contract was made with the saw. Mr. Hicks was brought here and treated by Dr. J. P. Brown. Hicks lives on the east James Moore farm, and is married and has several small children. SHORTAGE OF READING MATTER AMONG FARMERS There is the greatest want imagin able in rural sections right now for newspapers. A great number of farm ers cannot afford to take any paper and in many cases papers city relatives and friends have done with go to the country and are eagerly read, then passed on to others. There are in stances where eight families read each addition of a daily, eight farmers be side the original town reader. A man hates to ask any but close friends or relatives for something to read. Would it be practicable if stortjs kept a news paper box from whicff a man could select old papers for some friend in the country ? Miss Helen Sullivan and her cousin, John Sullivan, of Laramie, Wyo., ar rived in O’Neill Wednesday night to spend the holidays at the home of Helen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Sullivan. They came as far as Grand Island by train, and were met there by her mother, her sister, Mary, and her brother, Cletus, who drove down Wednesday afternoon, bringing them to this city by automobile. Helen is attending the University of Wyoming at Laramie, where she is a freshman in the college of Arts and Sciences and a pledge of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Frank L. Saunders, a brother-in law to J. P. Protivinsky, died at Stan ford, Montana, Tuesday. His funeral and burial will be at Stanton, Ne braska, next Sunday. Mr. Protivinsky and family plan to attend. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to the many neighbors and friends for their expressions of sym pathy and assistance rendered during the death and burial of our beloved mother. TIIK BARRETT FAMILY.