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VOL. LIV. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933. No. 32
CORN-HOG PROGRAM
WILL BE EXPLAINED
AT FRIDAY MEETING
Working of Corn-Hog Program To
Be Discussed In Full For The
Benefit of Committeemen.
Holt county corn and hog growers
are asked to meet Friday, Dec. 2'J at
O’Neill to elect from three to five
members of a county corn-hog com
mittee and to hear a general discus
sion of the corn-hog program as it
has been outlined by the federal man
at Washington and the state corn-hog
committee. The meeting will be held
at the K. C. Hall and begin sat 1:30
o’clock, James W. Kooney, Emergency
Agent says.
John A. Robertson, one of the state
corn-hog committee members who lives
at Joy, will be at the meeting in
O’Neill next Friday to give the views
of the state corn-hog committee and to
help in the selection of the Holt
county corn-hog committee. He will
discuss what the state committee feel
are qualifications of the county coin
miteeman, laying particular emphasis
on the choice of men who are well
acquainted over the county, who arc
wholeheartedly in sympathy with the
emergency programs, and who have
the time and ability to* put upon the
work at hand. These committeemen
must be able to present the corn-hog
plan to other men in the county at
community meetings, must be able to
help the Emergency Agent in estab
lishing policies and setting up the
county organization to sign up con
tracts. The committee which is chosen
will pick three men in each precinct
to act as the local corn-hog committee.
A representative of the extension
service at the agricultural college in
Lincoln will also be at the meeting to
explain in a general way the corn-hog
plan. He will probably not go into
as much detail as Mr. Rooney will in
the community meetings. This man
will, however, be able to answer gen
eral questions for farmers and give
them an idea about the first of the
official rulings that have come out
from Washington.
Use of Contracted Acres
“What can I do with the land taken
out of wheat and corn?” has been one
of the most common questions farmers
ask about the wheat and the corn-hog
adjustment plans. As they make plans
for 1931 crops, farmers are becoming
more anxious every day to know what
they can do with the ground.
In most cases farmers have ad
mitted that the government was pay
ing them a good return for the land
and they could afford to leave it lie
idle or seed it down to improve the
fertility of the soil. Thousands of
farmers over the corn belt are now
thinking about the future productivity
of their farms than they have thought
in the last 20 years. They want to
use the money for the benefit pay
ments to help finance a soil improve
ment program.
Rulings on what may be done with
the land taken out of wheat are:
1. Plant it to permanent pasture,
including alfalfa and clovers, with or
without a nurse crop.
2. Planted to a soil improvement
crop like sweet clover. The crop can
not be pastured or cut for hay.
3. Fallowed to store moisture or
kill weeds.
4. Planted to farm wood lots.
These points and many others will
be taken up at community meetings
at school houses and other meeting
places in the next few weeks. Farmers
will have a chance there to ask more
questions and get each other’s ideas.
Yesterday under direction of Rev.
F. J. Aiicock, of the Boy’s Honor club,
the following were to go out on an
all day hike, cooking dinner and sup
per under cover of the blue sky: Ger
ald Leach, Donald and Pat Mitchell,
Ralph and Ned Porter, Marvin Van
Every, Harold McCleese, Eldon Har
bottl^, Robert and Berwyn Shave
Maurice Kirkpatrick, Harold and
George Dahlstein, Donald Bowen, La
verne Lynch, Junior Harris, Junioi
Vanderlinden and Norman Slopover
Archie Bowen is manager of this club
Father Clement Ryan, S. J., oi
Creighton University, Omaha, son oi
J. B. Ryan, arrived here last Saturdaj
ar.d left for Omaha Tuesday morning
Father Ryan assisted in celcbratinj
the several Christmas Masses here a<
St. Patrick’s Catholic church.
James Robertson and his wife camt
Christmas and visited at the home oi
Mr. Robertson's father, John A. Rob
ertson, of Joy. The Robertson son an«
daughter-in-law reside at Sioux City.
Bey Seriously Injured
In Fall From Pony
Junior, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Allen, suffered a broken elbow when
Carol Hunt, 9, and Junior decided to
jump off a pony they had been riding
last Friday afternoon about 3:30 in
the northeast part of O’Neill. Hunt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hunt, landed
on junior. The break was considered
very serious and he was taken to
Norfolk.
Junior is at the home of Mr. Allen’s
parents in Norfolk, and doctors there
are waiting until the swelling goes
down to determine if an operation
must be performed or the bones may
be set.
Faculty Leaves Town
For Holiday Season
The faculty of the public school
here, not including those who reside
here, are out of town during the
Christmas vacation to enjoy visiting
in old home towns or with home folks.
Included are, H. L. Beals, Washington,
Iowa; Miss Catherine Lawler, Lincoln,
Miss Neva Wolfe, Lynch, Nebr.; Elmer
and Helen B. Stolte, Atkinson; Mrs.
Lillian Barker, Lincoln; Miss Betty
Jones, Randolph, Nebr.; Miss Ruth
Kraemer, Neligh; Miss Vera O’Neill,
Dunbar, Nebr.; Miss Hilda Zimmer
man, Nelson, Nebr.; Miss Ella McCaf
frey, Orleans, Nebr.; Miss Wilma Dell
Smith, Chadron, Nebr.; Loretta Shaw,
south of O’Neill.
Roy W. Carroll, superintendent,
Harold M. Denny, principal, and Miss
Mary Horiskey, eighth grade teacher,
reside here in O’Neill.
Base Ball Played
Late In December
Last Saturday afternoon on Mullen
field east of here the South Minor and
East Sluggers, boy’s baseball nines,
crossed bats, the result being a victory
for the lads on the east side.
South battery was Ralph Porter and
William Maxwell. East battery was
Jiggs Van Every and Richard Loy.
Home runs—Richard Loy and Wil
liam Maxwell, one each.
Three-baggers—R. Loy, 3; D. Mitch
ell, 1; J. Van Every, 2; R. Porter, 2;
W. Maxwell, 2, and P. Mitchell, 1.
Casualties—Bernard Edwards was
struck in stomach by baseball. Ber
nard was water carrier.
Dog fights—one.
Attendance—three.
Old Batteries Are
Dangerous As Fuel
Those in the habit of burning old
storage batteries to obtain heat or
clean chimneys have been warned in
various parts of the country that bat
tery cases, either of wood or composi
tion, emit a gas that is deadly to
human beings. From 15 to 20 per
sons die annually in large cities after
inhaling the gas, one report indicated.
Many persons in O’Neill have burned
batteries without suspecting they en
dangered the lives of those outdoors.
HOLIDAY BIRTHDAYS
It came near being unanimous in
the George Mitchell family. The birth
days are almost all on holidays or
outstanding dates.
Mr. Mitchell was born on April 1,
Mrs. Mitchell on July 1, Margaret on
Thanksgiving day, Merle on March 17,
Donald November 4 and Phyllis on
Christmas day. Mr. Mitchell is host
ler here for the Burlington railway
and the Mitchell home is in southeast
O’Neill.
Wednesday, Roy Johnson and Chest
er Calknis opend a fire plug in south
east O’Neill and released enough city
water to place fresh water in the
mains in that part of town. It was
thought the water may have been
slightly impregnated with rust. Thru
an idea originated by Levi Yantzi the
water was spilled in a huge “buffalo
hollow” in the southwest corner of
Mullen field where it was expected the
children of the east side should find
good ice skating in a few days.
Last Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Harry Bowen, federal weather ob
server here reported his thermometer
registered 72 above zero, breaking all
previous December records. Twice be
fore, he stated, a temperature of 6fi
was attained here in December. There
i was no wind and light clouds Friday
Animals and humans seemed to suf
fer from the "heat."
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George- Van Every, foreman on a
i; road project in Wheeler county, spent
r Christmas Hay with his family here
He returned Christmas night. Georgf
11states the project there was of wonder
jful benefit to farmers in that section.
BRIEFLY STATED
William Mitz, of Sioux City, Iowa,
was in O’Neill on business last Friday.
Hugh McLeod, student in engineer
ing at the University of Detroit, Mich.,
came and remained during the holidays.
Mrs. Bessie Baker and son, John
Lee, arc here from their home at
Omaha visiting friends and relatives
in O’Neill and Chambers.
Mrs. Hans Egger, of Columbus, ar
rived in O’Neill Monday night to spend
a week visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Goldie Liddy.
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Mrs. Larry Coleman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Enright, went to
Omaha Wednesday and is expected
home the first of next wr<5ek.
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Mrs. Anna Kirwio left by train last
Thursday for Sioux City whefe she
planned to spend a week visiting rela-;
Roy Oberholzer, for' a week.
Harlan Agnes, who a'ttcnds Wayne
normal college, is spending the holi-j
days here at the home of his* parents',
Mr. and Mrs. George Agnes.
According to Max Johnsori, relief
work manager for Holt county, the
recent zero weather did not halt road
nor other work he is directing.
J. J. McDermott and family, now of
Rising City, Nebr., spent a night last
week at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Fernholz southeast of Emmet.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dauer drove
to Mankato, Minn., last Saturday
morning to spend the holidays with
relatives. The returned Tuesday.
Carrol Simonson is visiting at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clamer Simonson, of Agee. Carrol
teaches school at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Bill lleese, of Colome. >S. D., br-otJrw
of Mrs. Joe Fernholx, Emmet, visited
his sister last Thursday afternoon,
then returned to his South Dakota
home.
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Thomas Edwards, of the Seth Noble
force, and his family, left early Mon
day by automobile for the home of his
brother, Bill, a farmer living cast of
Orchard.
The municipal skuting rink was
given a good test by youthful skaters
the past few days and has been found
one of the best investments made here
in a long time.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Shaver and child
ren went by automobile to their old
home, Winner, S. D., Sunday. The
family planned to visit there several
days or a week.
Wednesday evening at the Ed.
Campbell home Mrs. Frank Froelich
and Mrs. Edward Campbell enter
tained for Mr. and Mrs. William Froc
lich, of Chicago.
Cecil Hunt, his wife, and his brother,
Earl, sons and daughter-in-law of
Doug Hunt, came from Sidney, Nebr.,
to spend the holidays at the Doug
Hunt home here.
Mrs. John Karl, of the Dry creek
section, who was operated on for re
moval of the appendix a week ago, is
much better Thursday, hospital at
tendants reported.
Dr. C. H. Lubker was at Fremont
to celebrate Christmas at the home of
his brother. When he returned he
found his office flooded, due to frost
broken water pipes.
Bruce Nance, International Har
vester company representative of this
community, was called to Oklahoma
City Wednesday morning, because of
illness of his father.
Miss Catherine Cox is here visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McKenna. Miss Cox lives in Virgina.
She arrived Friday night on the Bur
I Iington passenger train.
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| Miss Nancy Dickson, youngest
] daughter of Judge and Mrs. R, R.
Dickson, returned from Wayne normal
college to be at home during the holi
day season. She is to go to Wayne
I next Tuesday to resume her studies.
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It ia believed a greater number of
O’Neillites now living elsewhere are
here for the holiday period than have
come home in several years. The
Frontier wished to chornide the re
turn of everyone and regrets any
names inadvertently omitted.
Holt County Schools
Scheduled For Aid
C. W. Taylor, state superintendent
of schools, has approved relief work
funds for 19 teachers and the C'VVA
commit tee ha* allowed the allotments.
There is hut $1,600 a month available
for educational work and of this $1*00
is available for work relief of rural
teachers, but it is expected that $18,
500 a month should be available soon.
It has been proposed to pay the
teachers $50 a month.
Holt county approvals named are:
District 160, Martha Kaup, teacher;
District 171, Mrs. Pnuline Napier,
teacher; District 63, Helena Hiscocks,
teacher; District 13, Marjorie Knoll,
teacher.
Seasonal conditions and realization
that work actually may be obtained
has caused increase in Nebraska em
ployment registrations within a week
front 77,000 to 03,418 for CWA and
t’WA jobs. Last week 42,463 were
given jobs; the week before, 31,000.
Atkinson Man Injured
When Car Turns Over
Sunday afternoon about 5 o’clock a
car driven by Fritz Green failed to
take the corner one mile west of the
Dr. H. L. Ben net residence in west
O’Neill and Ted Green was catapulted
thru the glass of one of the automobile
doors. Ted received many cuts about
his head and face. He was attended
by Dr. L. A. Carter who had to make
three efforts at halting a hemmorhage
caused by an artery cut. His lower
lip was peeled down, breaking and
exposing an artery which is close to
the bone and very difficult to reunite.
Ted lives at Atkinson and Fritz on
Eagle creek. The brothers went to
their home after receiving medical
treatment.
Old Timers Are Right
In Regard To Weather
Once more the old timer has been
corrobrated in an assertion frequently
h^»ard regarding the weather. He had
been telling us a long time that the
climate is changing, that the winters
are not what they used to be. For a
long time weather experts said such
talk was due to the man exaggerating
youthful recollections. Now comes
J. B. Uincer, chief climatologist of the
federal weather bureau, who recently
told the Associated Press:
“Grand dad was not so far wrong
in his statements about the exit of the
old fashioned winter of his boyhood
days.”
The country generally has been
having a cycle of mild winters since
a series of seasons colder than normal
around civil war days.
That of 1855-56 was the coldest on
record for more than a century. The
warmest in more than 100 years in
Washington was that of 1931-32.
Grand dad, or even dad, probably re
calls winters of the cold cycle, officials
say, when he says they are not what
they used to be.
Recent winters are in marked con
tiast to those of early days. Of those
from 1854-55 to 1872-73, 14 were cold
er than normal.
In New Haven, where records run
back to Revolutionary war timer, the
last 10 have averaged above normal,
as have 18 of the last 21, and the last
33 of the last 45. Thirteen of the
last 15 in St. Louis have averaged
above normal. Weathermen figure
December 1 and ends March 1.
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Marriage Licenses
Howard E. Pcttijohn, 34, and Nettie
L. Jackson, 21, of Stuart were licensed
and married by Judge C. J. Malone
here December 23.
On December 26 Judge Malone is
sued a marriage license to Raymond
j Johnson, 26, Morrill, Nebr., and Soph
i ia Siemsen, 25, of Atkinson.
Fred Enquist, over 21, Wausa, Nebr.,
and Alma C. Lindberg, over 21, of
! O’Neill, were licensed to wed here on
December 23.
Wednesday evening a winter party
I gathered at the George Van Every
home and went to the Elkhnm river
and roasted wienies over a campfire.
Those comprising the party were,
Harvey Weyman, Dick Robertson,
Levi Fuller, Ray Weyman, Bessie Ful
ler, LaV'erne Hartford, and Stellu and
Cleta Van Every.
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Roy Goree and family, Long Pine;
Lorena McManus, Casper, Wyo,, and
Edna Simonson, of Stuart, ure here
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Loren Simonson. Lorena is a teacher
in the Casper schools.
Ralph Mellor is up and around
: again this week after an attack of flu.
Perry Elijah Chase
Perry Elijah Chase, highly respected
resident of Page, died Wednesday,
December 27, 1933 at the age of 78
years, seven months and 11 days, of
angina pictoris.
Mr. Chase was born in Dane county
Wisconsin on May 16, 1866. lie went
from there to Blunt, S, D., from that
place coming to this county in the
spring of 1890, where he lived the
remainder of his life.
He was married November 1, 1876
to Delphine Hadley, at Nevada, Iowa.
He survived his first wife, and was
married a second time, to Ida Sten
nenberg at Kansas City, Mo., who
with two children, one son and one
daughter, are left to mourn the pas
sing of a kind an affectionate husband
and father. The children are: Mrs.
Ruby Skelton, of Spencer, Nebr., and
Raymond Chase, of Denver, Colo.
Mr. Chase had been principle of the
schools at Page and Inman for many
years and was a leading educator. A
great many of the people of eastern
Holt county had attended schools di
rected by him, among them being,
Judge C. J. Malone, Leonard Hess,
John Gray, and all those of that gen
eration who lived in this county at
that time. He had been postmaster
at Page for 21 years.
The funeral is to be held ut the
Methodist church at Page, the time
having not been set, but it is supposed
it will be Saturday.
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Windows Broken In
Buildings At Emmet
At Emmet Christmas night, un
known vadals smashed glass in the
windows of the James O’Connor hall,
the postoffice building, the entire west
side of the Nye-Schneider building,
the Methodist church, and other build
ings, That night a car trailer was
stolen from the J. B. Ryan ranch
seven miles west of here.
Collects Specimans of
Cactus As A Hobby
One of the most unusual collections
in this city is that of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Lowery, attendants at the
service state and cabin camp on the
south side of O’Neill. As a hobby, the
Lowery’s started making a cacti gar
den and they now have about 30 dif
ferent kinds of this plant.
There is cactus from Texas, Cal
ifornia, and one which originated in
Africa, some from the vicinity of
Long Pine, and some from nurseries.
A thorny variety the past summer
grew almost 18 inches high.
Some kinds thrive during dry weath
er and other kinds do best when there
is an abundance of moisture. As near
as possible, the plants are put in soils
like from which, the originally came,
sand, gravel, clay loam loess or mix
tures, perhaps rock predominating
for some rare cactus.
Perhaps the most prized specie in
this collection is one found after tour
ists left the station. It is known to
grow only in Colorado.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Last Saturday afternoon at four
o’clock, an invitation birthday party
was held at the home of George
Mitchell in honor of Phyllis Mitchell’s
seventh birthday. Her birthday is on
Christmas, Children who attended:
Jack Dempsey, Marvin Leach, Jean
and Harold Calkins, Jacqueline and
Eldon Abbott, Millicent Simmons,
Marion and Sonny Boyle, Leah Brug
geman, Maxine Wilkinson, Lois Lee
Olson, Vincent Cunningham and Jun
ior Johnson.
Dr. J. H. McPharlin and wife, of
Salinas, Calif., Mrs. Hazelle Seversen,
and son, Bobby, of Salida, Colo., Mr.
and Mrs. James Chapman and daught.
er, Phyllis Dean, of Omaha, Owen
McPharlin, of Omaha, and Eldon Mc
Pharlin, of Iowa City, la., sons and
daughters, and sons and daughters -in
law of Mr. and Mrs. James McPharlin,
spent Christmas at the McPharlin
home here. They will go to Omaha
to spend New Year’s with Mr. and
Mrs. McPharlin’s daughter, Agnes.
Wednesday, December 20, J. F.
Glaze, farmer north of Page, made out
his papers and became eligible for a
loan on 6,000 bushels of corn. Mr.
! Glaze still has 6,000 bushels of corn
which may be security for an addi
tional loan later if her cares to re
quest it.
Enard Leach and family left early
Sunday morning by automobile for
Forest City, Mo., where the family
planed to spend a week visiting rela
tives in the old home town.
NEW FUNDS ALLOTED
TO HOLT COUNTY FOR
MORE CWA PROJECTS
O’Neill Street Projects Have Ileen
A Noted An Additional $600.
Funds For Chambers.
According to Max Johnson, relief
worker and payroll certification officer
for Holt county, this is the second
week of CWA operations under new
classifications of unemployed men de
signed to give the men actually in
need of work help. The new plan is
working out in fine shape. AN ap
plications for work are passed on by
Mr. Johnson.
During intensely cold weather there
will be fewer jobs, but as soon as the
weather permits the CWA program is
to be pushed forward at top speed.
At this time there are about 600
jobs available in Holt county. In the
county arc 28 approved projects.
None call for more than 18 men,
per shift, two shifts, employing about
36 men.
A new project is that of street
work at Chambers, to consist of grav
eling and repairing.
The O’Neill street project has been
alloted an additional $600 to be used
to rtppair the east-west street one
block south of highway No. 20 here
for a detour while paving No. 20 next
spring.
Mr. Johnsons chief aim now is to
stand pat on classifications, many in
sisting on getting jobs who arc evi
dently not greatly in need of them. At
the same time it is realized some arc
in need who not long ago were well
fixed. Mr. Johnson was sent here to
do relief work and he does not favor
extending relief to those who can get
along without it.
At the present time, Johnson states,
there are less than 100 families in the
county receiving direct relief. This re
duced number is a result of all able
bodied men having been given CWA
jobs. Before the advent of the CWA,
over 200 families were receiving aid
thru Mr. Johnson’s office, so it is ap
parent that over 100 men in Holt
county have in recent weeks been
pluced on jobs and thus given a chance
to support themselves and their de
pendants.
George Bay Goes To
An Omaha Hospital
Tuesday night George Bay, 61, form
er federal prohibition ugent here, who
had been ill, was not feeling as he
should and he took a train for Omaha
where he entered the Methodist hos
pital. He was accompanied by Dr. J.
P. Brown. No late reports from his
bedside huve been received here.
Muss and Fuss Taken
From Flue Cleaning Job
Those who stage free exhibitions
while taking down and setting up
stovepipe to remove soot might be
interested in knowing how a few
householders do this irksome task.
When a very hot bed of coals lies on
the grate, common salt in generous
portions is sprinkled on the fire, sev
eral pounds to a furnace, and every
draft on the heating plant is left open
| for .'10 minutes or longer. Several re
sult satisfactory.
AT THE HOSPITAL
At the O'Neill hospital today, Dr.
J. P. Brown removed the tonsils from
Bernard McNamara, aged six, and the
boy withstood the operation in grand
fashion.
An emergency appendictomy was
performed on the person of Harold
Lindberg Wednesday night at the
hospital in this city, by Dr. J. P.
Brown, O’Neill, and Dr. F. L. Wilson,
Stuart. Mr. Lindberg is resting easy.
Harry Bowen, federal weatherman,
here, gave everyone a Christmas pre
sent when his thermometer registered
one below Sunday, three Monday,
Christmas, and 12 below Tuesday, the
morning after Christmas, with nice
white frosting Christmas afternoon
one inch deep in the shape of a snow
that was more frost than the genuine
article. Thanks, Harry, come again,
with some more of that California
weather.
Billy Lynam, of Omaha, grandson
of Mrs. Ellen O’Donnell; Mr. and Mrs.
Z. W. Credle, of North Carolina, and
Frank O’Donnell, Dallas, Texas, are
here visiting the O’Donnells. Mrs.
Credle is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James F. O’Donnell.
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Mrs. Thomas Quinn left Saturday
for a 10 day visit with her daughter,
i Mrs. R. J. Regan, at Creighton, Nebr.
