Nebraska Newspapers

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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.
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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.