FACTS ABOLT NEBRASKA
Nebraska was admitted as a state
in 1867 as the 37th state.
The word means “flat water” and
is an Indian description of the Platte
river.
This state is the central one of the
United State*.
The south and eastern parts are
covered with Loess soil, the richest on
earth.
There is more river mileage in this
state than in any other.
There are 1,200 natural lakes in
Nebraska.
The state population is close to 1 ,
500,000.
About 4,000 Indians live in Nebras
ka and nearly all are engaged in
farming.
In the state are 513 cities and towns.
Lindberg was taught flying at Lin
coln, Nebraska.
Nebraska supports about 6,000 miles
of railway.
There arc close to 800 postoffiees
in Nebraska.
There are about 400 weekly news
papers.
The physical valuation of the Uni
versity of Nebraska plant is $10,000,
000. Not long ago the faculty num
bered 600 and the student 12,000.
In Nebraska are 427 varieties of
birds.
The largest potash deposits in the
United States are in Nebraska.
IN DISTRICT COURT.
Isabel G. Aldridge has filed suit in
the district court asking for a decree
of divorce from Ray C. Aldridge. In
her petition she Hlleges that they were
married in O’Neill on or about August
2b, 1909, and that ever since she has
been a resident of this county. She
is the mother of six children, two of
whom have reached their mapority.
She alleges that she has always con
ducted herself as a chaste and obied
ient wife. She alleges that the de
fendant has been guilty of extreme
cruelty and has repeatedly remained
away from home for weeks at a time
and refuses to come home for his
meals; refuses to do the farm work
and refuses to sleep in his own home,
but prefers to and does stay at a
neighbors less than half a mile from
his own home.She further alleges that
he has refused to contribute to her
support and has refused to buy cloth
and the necessities of life. She asks
that he be restrained from selling any
of the personal property and from
molesting her in the possession of
same and of the real estate. She
further alleges that the defendant is
an unfit person to have the custody of
the minor children and she wants them
awarded to her and such other relief
as the court may deem equitable.
NATION NEEDS
REAL TEMPERANCE
In a recent statement to the press,
Seton Porter, president of National
Distillers’ Products Corporation, said
that his organization would stand for
temperance as opposed to excess, and
added, “We clearly recognize that the
American people are not voting liquor
in; they are voting prohibition out.”
The eighteeth amendment was not
repealed in order to provide the means
for a legal national drunk—it was re
pealed because the great bulk of
American citizens had come to believe
that it was inimical to the cause of
temperance. They had seen political
corruption arise under it, which was
as bad and often worse than that of
the old days. They had seen an un
precedented increase in crime, made
possible by the vast amounts of money
that illegal liquor brought into under
world pockets. They had seen the
speakeasy flourish, to the point where,
in most large cities, it ran almost as
openly as the legal saloon once did,
and was even less subject to social
control.
The National Distillers have been
running newspaper advertisements
asking the public to cooperate with
the manufacturers and sellers of liquor
Let I
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the car speak
for itself
HUNDREDS of thousands of people now own
and drive Ford V-8 cars. Some neighbor or
friend of yours has one. If we told you what we
think of the car, you might say we are prejudiced,
so we let the car and its owner tell you.
Economy of operation is one of the first points
they will emphasize—the owner will boast of it
and the car will prove it.
The 1934 car is even better than the 1933—
and that was our best car up to its time. The new
car is more beautiful — faster — more powerful
— gives more miles to the gallon — better oil
economy—is easier riding—cheaper to own and
operate than any car we ever built.
You owe it to yourself and your pocketbook to
ask our Ford Dealer to let you see this car, and
let you drive it for yourself. At the wheel of the
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car you will be sure to reach a right decision. The
Ford V-8 will tell you its own story.
NEW
FORD V-8
for 1934
to prevent rowdyism and to promote
common sense. If the public fails in
that, or if the liquor manufacturers
and sellers fail in their duty of keep
ing the goal of temperance everlast
ingly in mind, repeal of prohibition
will be a poor victory indeed. The
solid citizens of this country demand
that ^he age-old alliance between
politics and liquor be broken, that the
law control the liquor business and
not the liquor business the law. Every
patriotic and thoughtful manfuacturei
should be the first to echo those de
mands—every retailer should work tc
keep his end of the business above re
proach.
The United States has tried “wide
open” liquor policies, and they have
failed. It has tried absolute prohibi
tion, and it has failed. Now it is at
tempting to steer a middle course that
avoids excess on the one hand and
fanaticism on the other. ^Whether it
is to fail or succeed, depends entirely
on the public, which decides all great
questions.
James Tuor went to Madison, S. D.,
to spend Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. O’Donnell spent
Christmas in Omaha.
Dan Siewert, of Naper, was here
on business last Friday.
Peter Todsen and family celebrated
Christmas at Grand Island.
Groll Quilty went to Sioux City on
Wednesday to do shopping.
Mrs. C. B. Seott went to Lincoln
by train Wednesday morning.
Louis Brennan, son of James Bren
nan, was home for Christmas.
James Sinnus, of Spencer, was in
O’Neill a few hours last Saturday.
Larry Kane and wife spent Christ
mas visiting at Creighton, Nebraska.
Frank Dishner went to Omaha to at
tend the State Bar association jn<M>t.
George Stanek, of Amelia, frequent
visitor in O’Neill, was here Saturday.
Thomas Jordan, brother of Richard,
left for New York city Wednesday to
reside.
The Martez Club met Thursday
night at the home of Mrs. George
Agnes.
Dr. W. F. Finley and daughters,
are in St. Paul Minn., during the
holidays.
J. D. Cronin is attending the meet
ing at Omaha of the State Bar as
sociation.
John Lydon, wife and daughter,
spent Christmas with relatives at
Plainvicw.
Alberta Van Every spent Sunday
visiting in Page. She returned Sun
day evening.
Wann Lukcr, of Page, spent part of
last Saturday in the county seat of
Holt county.
Walter Warner and wife are here
from Buffalo county visiting friends
and relatives.
Miss Nellie Toy is home from
Wayne, where she attends the state
normal school.
William Shafer and his wife were
in O’Neill last Friday from Burke,
South Dakota.
Richard Bowden, of the CCC camp
at Alma, Nebr., spent Christmas with
relatives here.
Laverne Hartford, of Middle Branch,
went to Sioux City Christmas evening
to visit friends.
Lucille Hough, daughter of Scott,
teacher, is home from Pawnee City for
a few days visit.
Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Froelich entertained 12 couples
at the Idle Hour.
Donald Snell arrived here from
Creighton, Nebr., Sunday to visit hjs
father, Larry Snell.
Edward O’Donnell, now working out
of Lincoln, was here to spend the
Christmas vacation.
James Seybold is back from Wayne,
Nebr., where he has been on business
the past few months.
The courthouse thermometer slipped
down to two degrees below zero again
this Thursday morning.
Attorney Emmet A. Harmon was a
passenger on Northwestern train No.
12 Wednesday morning.
Frank O'Donnell, prominent attorney
at Oklahoma City, Okla., is spending
a week here at the home of his mother,
•Mrs. Ellen O'Donnell.
Rev. Frnzelle, now stationed at
Cody, Nobr., passed thru here on his
way to Ewing Wednesday.
Hugh Coyne captured high honor in
the cribbage tournament held at the
K. C. Hall Tuesday evening.
Jack O'Donnell, of Omaha, spent
Christmas here at the home of hi3
mother, Mrs. Ellen O’Donnell.
Mrs. Goldie Liddy and son, Thomas,
spent Sunday and Christmas at the
home of Aaron Bushard, near Joy.
Paul Montgomery, Gerald Phalin,
Dorothea Grady and Loretta Phalin
went to Creighton, Nehr., Sunday.
A birthday party was held in honor
of Gerald Phalin Wednesday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Phalin
Levi Fuller, Sr., Levi, Jr., Stella
Van Every and Bessie Fuller went by
automobile to Norfolk last Saturday.
Ray Verzal, of Atkinson, is the
deputy in the office here of emergency
agricultural assistant James Rooney.
Mrs. Maurice Norton, of McGrew,
Nebr., spent Christmas at the home of
her mother, Mrs. J. A, Harmon here.
D. H. Cronin and family went, last
Friday, to Nebraska City, to spend
the holidays with relatives and friends.
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Mrs. Alice Marshall and children
spent Christmas at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Mike Piclapp, of Dorsey.
Attorney W. J. Hammond and Dis
trict Judge R. R. Dickson went down
to Omaha by train Wednesday morn
ing.
Dorothy Fernholz went to Emmet
Christmas to spend the day with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fern
holz.
Clarence Sauinto |s spending his
Christmas vacation with his parents
in O’Neill. He is attending Wayne
normal.
William Gatz and his wife, Anna,
went to Omaha by automobile Sat
urday to spend the holidays with
relatives.
Ralph Oppen, medical student at the
university of Nebraska, at Lincoln,
is spending his Christmas vacation in
this city.
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In the absence of Ruth Leach, vaca
tioning in Missouri, Miss Lola Stauffer
is handling the John L. Quig milk
route here.
Gaius Cadwell and family went to
Broken Bow Christmas. Gaius re
turned, Mrs. Cadwell remaining for
a longer visit.
Mrs. A1 Goding, of Alliance, was
here Christmas, visiting friends and
relatives. Before her marriage she
was Helen Ryan.
Mrs. Alice Marshall and children re
turned after visiting Christmas day
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mike
Piclapp, of Dorsey.
Kenneth Rhodes, who worked for
the Oldsmobile garage in the old Bres
sler building, left for his home at
Stuart last Saturday.
Nebraska News Items
In 1927 the city of Burwell had an
indebtedness of $66,000 and a village
tax levy of 11 and one-half mills which
has been reduced to four mills while
the village accounts not long ago
showed a cash surplus of $8,000, the
change apparently due to earnings of
a municipal light and power company
there. Not long ago Burwell erected
a new power and light housing plant
and installed three Diesel engines of
75, 180 and 240 horse power. The
plant manager is Elfie Hanson. It is
believed this plant in time will re
sult in a taxless city.
A jury at Falls City, Nebr., last
Friday brought in a verdict of guilty
against Son Salvadore ‘“Sam” Martin,
78, accused of slaying J. T. Margrave
and his two sons near there last
Armistice day.
Up to a few days ago the State
railway commission had approved
3,027 corn loans and had on file 4,442
applications. A total of $23,326 had
been paid in fees.
Near Springview, Keya Paha county,
a wild mallard drake duck calmly
waddled to the poultry house on the
ranch of Charles Peterson and was
there at last reports, apparently sat
isfied to slay there all winter. The
duck eats with its domestic cousins.
Sunken treasure, the kind that
makes one smack lspe, envision sabre
bedecked pirates yo-homg around
blood splotched decks, is reported at
Ponca to lie in the Missouri river near
that town. In 1866 the Leodore car
good with tobacco and barreled whis
key, sank and had been believed to
lip on the South Dakota side. Now a
shift of current, the report indicated
showed the craft lies on the Nebraska
side. High water stopped workers one
spring when they had part of the
Leodore uncovered. A new effort at
recovering the whiskey is to be made
soon, it was reported.
Down in Nance county Phillip Cuba
opened a sand pit a few months ago
and found Indian remains. Since then
about 40 skeletons have been recovered
and also many beads, utensils and
other things that evidently had been
buried with their owners. Settlers
remembered that some Indians had a
village near the cemetery about 1850.
Fifty-three men of the Catholic
faith at Verdigre, using three power
saw outfits, in seven hours sawed 60
loads of wood to be used to warm the
Catholic church there this winter.
Harry Dahm, of Laurel, has started
suit against the federal government
on a $10,000 insurance policy he held
while a soldier. He is affected with an
illness said to be incurable. If he
wins his suit he will receive as back
pay $57.50 a month since June, 1919,
amounting to $9,000 and $57.50 a
month for the balance of his life.
William Rettig, farmer near Dodge,
Nebr., raised an ear of Mexican corn
which almost gives huskers the night
mare when they examine it. Beside
having a general husk, each kernel is
covered by a husk that is not easily
removed.
Pierce county has granted 19 old
age pensions after going over 26 ap
plications. It costs that county $2,690
a year. A tax is assessed on all per
sons in Pierce county between 21 and
50 which raises about $4,000 a year
for old age pensions. A board to look
after old age pensions was appointed
by the Pierce county supervisors.
EXCAVATION SHOWS HOLT
COUNTY WAS ONCE THE
HOME OF MANY INDIANS
By J. B. O’Sullivan
It is a strange fact that while Ne
braska long has been rated one of the
best fields for finding valuable relics
of the past, both of animals and man
who flourished from hundreds to
thousands of years ago, it had been
accepted until recently that in Holt
county there was little of importance
in this line. It so happens that when
settlers first came here few Indians
inhabited Holt county. Why this was
so never has been fathomed.
Holt county is thought of as a new
land settled and farmed and ranched
about 60 years. It is certain now it
was farmed many hundreds of years
before Columbus landed and it may be
proved people lived here as long as
five, ten or even 50,000 years ago.
An ancient village site on the banks
of the Elkhorn river here long had
been skipped over as a camping, fish
ing or battle ground of little import
ance. Thousands of arrowheads had
been picked there, leaving hundreds
of pounds of scrapers, knives, awls,
hammers,tomahawk heads, ornaments,
ceremonials of stone, and pieces of pot
tery and bone tools certainly in the
amount of 1,000 pounds. The finest
of this material now is in Hastings
museum. A great amount has been
sold elsewhere and to inspect what
remains here would require an en
tire day. Most of what is known as
buffalo hollows were partly under
ground residences, some were corn
cache holes and others were used to
conceal refuse. In a corner of the
east James Moore farm are about 50
newly discovered ancient home hol
lows. The earth scooped out to make
them still lies there in piles. Plowed
fields have undoubtedly ruined sev
eral hundred more nearby, but in the
Timmerman pasture is a network of
hollows astounding to the student of
ancient lore. In the Mullen pasture
just east of town are others, among
them one great hollow about 80 feet
long and 40 feet wide. Three of these
large ones lie on the Cronin farm
northeast of the fairgrounds. The
large ones may have been “kivas,"
ceremonial chambers, or communal
dwellings, or they may have been
made by ancients digging out the
dark brown gumbo found here and
used in roofiing their dewellings, for
floors, when mixed with grease and
ashes, or again they may have been
catch basins to hold water. There are
many more of these north of here.
In the Mullen pasture adjoining the
town on the east, southwest corner,
is a series of small “buffalo hallows”
resembling a man standing or per
haps, some animal, the work being in
distinct but certainly suggestive of
an effigy dug out instead of the usual
built-up style found east of here.
In the old Dr. J. P. Gilligan cow
pasture of a few acres in the west
part of town are three hollows the
edges of which line straight to the
North Star. The ground there fa im
pregnated with alkali and the houses
are exceptionally well preserved. Lead
ing to each straight from the east, is
a footpath several inches deep. Just
north of each a pile of »oft Elkhorn
river limerock protrudes from the
ground. A short distance to the west
are three very small hollows. These
hollows are deep and should be ex
plored. Addison E. Sheldon, when
here, advised that they were well
worth digging out.
The Mound Builders, who scientists
now believe were the forefathers of
the Indian, buried their dead under
rock. They lived in underground
houses, were intelligent and arc be
lieved to have cultivated ground and
to have led a generally sedentary life.
Some believe they planted trees, made
dams for irrigation purposs and raised
garden stuff, as well as large amounts
of cereals. The farthest west they
have been known is around Sioux City
and Omaha. In most of the houses
excavated there was found in the
center of the room a cache place, deep
down, where bits of copper, bone
needles,>uvls and the like gave an all
too brief account of the people. It is
a mystery why the Mound Builders
left so few artifacts. It is surmised
here that they used bone extensively
and this material has decayed away.
They are believed to have disappeared
about 2,000 years ago.
(Continued next week.)
NOTICE
The parties who took the trailer
from my ranch west of town Monday
night are known to me. If they will
return it, there will be nothing said or
done. J. B. RYAN.
(First publication Dec. 28, 1933.)
ORDER OF HEARING OF FRO
BATE OF FOREIGN WILL
The State of Nebraska |
[ ss.
Holt County j
In the Probate Court of said County.
In the matter of the Estate of Ed.
Lehan, Deceased.
On this 21st day of December, A. D.,
1933, Elizabeth H. Lehan filed her
petition in this court, and presented
an authenticated copy of the last Will
and Testament of Ed. Lehan, deceased,
late of Dunlap, county of Harrison,
State of Iowa, the prayer of said peti
tioner being that a day be fixed by
this Court for the purpose of approv
ing and allowing said last Will and
Testament, and causing the same to
be filed and recorded in this office. It
is therefore hereby
ORDERED, That the 18th day of
January, A. D., 1934, at 10 o’clock
A. M. be fixed for hearing said peti
tion, when all persons interested in
said matter may appear and show
cause why the prayer of said petition,
should not be granted; and that notice
of the pendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof, be given to all
persons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in The
Frontier, a weekly newspaper printed
in said county, for three weeks prior
to said day of hearing.
C. J. MALONE,
County Judge.
[County Court Seal]
32-3 Geo. M. Harrington, Attorney.
FOR RENT
Apartment, cast of Mrs. Zastrow’s.
—Emily Bowen. 31-2
LOST AN1) FOUND
Strayed from my place in O'Neill,
Hampshire sow, wt. about 180.—Frank
Connelly. 32-lp
Lost—Sorrel colt, coming year old,
white hind legs, bald face.—A. Ileeb,
Atkinson. 31-2p
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