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VOL. LIV. 0’NEILL„NERRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934. No. 35
HOME BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSN MAY BE
STARTED IN O’NEILL
Samuel N. Reep,of Minneapolis, Minn.,
Looking Over Prospects In This
City for Federal Government.
Samuel N. Reep, field organizer for
the Federal Home Loan Board, Wash
ington, I). C., was in the city today
and favored this office with a short
call.
Mr. Reep is the president of the
Home Building and Loan Association,
of Minneapolis, Minn., and is in the
employ of the government temporarily
in assisting in the organization of
Federal Savings and Loan Associa
tions, and it was for the purpose of
looking over this city with a view to
the establishment of an association
here, that Mr. Reep visited the city.
The establishment of federal savings
and loan associations were provided
for in the Home Owners Loan Act,
passed by congress in 1933.
Mr. Reep was very favorably im
pressed with this city as a business
center and. believes that this would be
a splendid point for the establishment
of a loan association. He pointed to
the fact that this city has no loan as
sociation and that funds for building
purposes had to be procured in other
cities and that the money paid in on
these loans had to be sent out of the
city.
In order to secure a charter for an
association it is necessary to secure
thirty subscribers, subscribing to at
least $25,000 par value shares, and
must pay in cash, upon the grant of
the charter, at least $2,500. Officers
of the association, including president,
secretary, treasurer and members of
the board of directors, will be selected
from among those who subscribe to
rtoek in the association.
Mr. Reep left the city this afternoon
for the eastern part of the state, but
ixpects to return here in a week or ten
days and interview the people of the
city with a view to the establishment
of an association and if our residents
are desiring the organization of such
an association here, it will be organ
ized.
State Relief Officers
Here For Meeting
Six persons from the state relief
bureau at Lincoln were in the city
last Thursday afternoon and evening
and held meetings with the relief
workers from the counties of Holt,
Boyd, Keya Paha, Rock, Cherry,
Brown, Garfield and Blaine counties
as announced a couple of weeks ago.
Those in the party were: Harry D.
Elmore, state relief officer for Ne
braska; Margaret Anderson, aupervis.
or for family relief in the state;Thelma
Barr, from the book-keeping depart
ment of the state relief board; Ella
B. Grimstead, field nurse from the
state relief office; Jack Woods, field
director for the CWA who spoke on the
CWA at the meeting.
Public meetings were held and pri
vate interviews were had with the re
lief workers from the different count
ies represented. The director of fedr
eral relief, who was to have been pres
ent was unable to come on account of
illness.
Corn-Hog Meeting Schedule
Corn-Hog educational meetings will
be held at the following places in Holt
county. The corn-hog organization
and contracts will be taken up in de
tail at these meetings. A great deal
of information has been circulated coir
cerning the corn-hog program. Come
to your nearest meeting place ant
find, out the details of the plan.
The place and time of the meeting*
follow:
Paddock Hall, Friday, January 19.
Stuart Theater, Monday, January 22
Scottville Hall, Tuesday, Januarj
23.
Page High School Building, Wednes
day, January 24.
Ewing Sale Pavillion, Thursday
January 25. „ „
Atkinson .Memorial Hall, Friday
January 26.
Dorsey School, Sutunlay, Januarj
27.
Phoenix Store, Monday, Januury 29
Cleveland Church, Tuesday. Jan
uary 30.
Amelia Hall, Wednesday, Januarj
31- .. .. L
Chambers Hall. Friday, February 2
O’Neill High School Building. Sat
urday, February 3.
All of the above meetings an
scheduled for 1:30 p. in.
J. J. Schweitzer, now living at Mil
ford, who left the north country hen
about twenty year* ago, one day la*
week received a wire stating a siste
died in Omaha. That day aiiothe
sister died at Milford.
Local Lions Club
Surrenders Charter
The local Lions Club have surrend
ered their charter, but will continue
their organization as a booster club
for the city of O’Neill. They have
not yet selected a name for the new
organization, into which they expect
to enlist all the business men of the
city. The members of the club de
cided that during these times, especi
ally, the $4.50 annual dues for each
member that had to be remitted to
headquarters could be used to benefit
the people of our own community and
for that reason decided to surrender
their charter.
ST. MARY’S DEFEATS
SPALDING IN THREE
BASKETBALL GAMES
Spalding Teams Are Unable To Pull
One (iame Out of the Fire
In Three Starts.
Last Sunday afternoon the St. Mary’s
academy basketball players had a sort
of field day here on the academy
gymnasium floor. Three teams from
the academy at Spalding, Nebr., were
defeated as fast as they could, get on
the floor and go thru their motions.
In first team play the local academy
boys defeated Spalding academy 35
to 17. In this contest Peter Price, of
St. Mary’s, piled up 11 scores without
overdoing himself.
Second teams then took the floor
and when the final whistle sounded the
score was 9 to 4 in favor of St. Mary’s.
Francis Price, a brother to Peter,
proved himself another scoring mach
ine at work for St. Mary’s.
Alumni teams of both schools took
the floor and the result placed another
feather in the caps of the St. Mary’s
players; St. Mary’s 31, Spaulding 24.
At Chambers last Friday evening
Chambers and St. Mary’s basketeers
matched skill at basketball and the
St. Mary’s athletes won, 24 to 10.
One cf First White Women
In County Still Living Here
There is, living in southeast O’Neill
| today, a woman who once had a hard
time finding what is now the county
seat. She is Mrs. Caroline Stebner,
I 78. In the year 1856 she was born
in Marquette county, Michigan, and
in the year 1881 she started driving
a yoke of oxen from Wisconsin to the
promised land, Holt county.
Due to one of her oxen becoming
lame at Sioux Falls, she says, she
failed to carry out her plans. A team
of mules was hitched in place of the
oxen and the determined driver
cracked her whip until most of the
1 Eagle valley resounded with the echo.
Near Niobrara City, one day was
| required in crossing the Missouri. Sho
was in Holt county six months before
she saw another white woman.
In order to have John Smoot take
her picture here, she rode an Indian
pony and finally found the town by
following an Indian path. She was on
her way from morning until evening.
Mrs. Stebner experienced many very
unusual happenings, but the one out
standing to her still is the long and
tiresome pony ride across bleak prairie
to reach the magical John Smoot.
R. J. McAllister Dead
At California Home
E. J. McAllister, one of the pioneer
residents of this county, died at Com
pton, California, last week, following
a paralytic stroke. He was about 65
years of age and had been a resident
of this county for over 50 years, form
erly living north of this city, but for
several years having made his home
in Atkinson, where he was engaged in
the real estate business.
“Radio” Brown To Be Here
Rev. R. R. Brown, of Omaha, who
lias become known throughout the west
as “Radio” Brown, on account of his
| association with WOW at Omaha
where he broadcasts a religious ser
vice every Sunday morning, will be
in O'Neill on Monday and Tuesday,
January 22 and 23 and will apeak at
the K. C. Hall on Monday and Tuesday
nights. The services will commence
at 7:30 with a musical program. On
Tuesday afternoon he will conduct a
service at the Episcopal church. Fol
lowing these services Rev. Paul Berg,
pastor of the Christian Missionary Al
liance of Norfolk, will begin a series
of spiritual meetings in the Episcopal
church to continue every night and on
• Sunday afternoon and evening,
t -
Shobert Edwards went to Plainvicw
r I Sunday to visit friends and relative
I for several days.
Mrs. Clark Young; Early
Pioneer, Passes Away
Mrs. Clark Young, G8, one of the
pioneers of the Mineola country, died
at her home northeast of this city at
noon today, after an illness of three
weeks. The funeral will be held Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist
church in tiiis city and burial will be
in the cemetery at Mineola. Obitu
ary notice next week.
Must Continue Farming
To Receive Benefits
The corn-hog contract does not re
quire that the signer raise any corn
or hogs in 1934, but he must continue
to farm the land he signs up. He can
not quit farming and draw benefit
payments for corn and hog reduction.
Few farmers will go completely out
of corn or hogs even though the corn
hog contract permits them to do so.
They may need the acreage or the hog
numbers for a base in signing up
future contracts.
A retiring hog producer, one who
will not farm at all in 1934, can assign
his hog base to a beginner starting to
farm in 1934. The new ^ian must
live in the same county and must farm
as large a farm as the retiring pro
ducer farmed in 1932-33. Neither the
retiring nor the new producer gets
benefit payments on the hog base, but
the new producer can raise hogs up to
75 per cent of his assigned base, and
then take advantage of the corn part
of the corn-hog contract.
The man who started to farm for
the first time in 1933 may use the
one year for his hog base. If he
farmed before but had hogs only one
year of the two, 1932 and 1933, he
must divide his number of hogs by
two to get his base.
Corn Loan Applicants Must
Sitfn Corn-Hog Contract
W. H. Brokaw, state corn-hog ad
ministrator at the agricultural college
in Lincoln asked agricultural ag^nt
Booney to caution all farmers in th;
county who are thinking of taking
out the corn loans between now and
the first of March to make sure that
they can comply with the corn-hog
contract. Sample copies of the con
tract are now available and some of
the administrative rulings have come
into the agricultural agent’s office.
In signing up the corn loan note,
the farmer agrees to enter into the
corn-hog contract and to reduce his
corn acreage at least 20 per cent and
his hog numbers 25 per cent below the
average of the last two years.
Landlords and tenants who rent for
share rent should each make certain
that the other party is willing to sign
the corn-hog contract before anything
is done to get a corn loan. All farm
operators should look over the corn
hog contract and make sure that there
is nothing irregular in their own per
sonal cases to keep them from sign
ing up the contract before they take
out the corn loan.
In signing the corn loan the farmer
accepts the money under the condition
that the government will take over the
corn on August 1, providing the mark
et price of corn is less than 45 cents
and also providing that the farmer
signs the corn-hog contract and com
plies with its regulations. If the
farmer cannot sign the corn-hog con
tract, the government may require him
to pay back the money or to turn the
corn and make up the difference be
tween the open market price and 45
cents per bushel. Should the price of
corn go up above 45 cents on the
market, the farmer of course, can pay
back the money and, keep or sell the
corn.
Give Shower and Dance
A shower, card and dance-to-mid
night was held last Saturday evening
for an enterprising young couple who
may be among the married coupler
soon. The alfair was at the home of
! Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McNichols, north
west of town. Among those present
| were the following and their wives:
P. V. Hickey, James Fleming. Jack
(Juig, James McDermott, John Hickey,
| J. H„ T. J. and T. F. Do nohoe. Martin
Stanton, Thomas Edwards and Frcc
1 man Arbo.
Also present, James Carney, Emmet
and Jimmy Soukup. Peter Donohoe,
John McNichols, Catherine Stanton,
Hn*el Rreederhaft, Art Doody, Mrs.
Jo-uph Cuddy. Mrs, Mary Za trow and
daughter, and Mr-. Esther Cole Harris,
There were about 70 pre ent, a great
number being children of high school
age.
The St. Patrick's Catholic church
Sodality society is ottering a dance and
card party at tin Knight of Coluinbu
ball tomorrow evening.
ENTERTAIN THREE
PIONEER MOTHERS
AT AFTERNOON TEA
Mrs. O. F. Biglin, .Mrs. J. I*. O'Donnell
and Mrs. J. J. Met'afferty Enter
tained By Their Daughters.
A very unique and pleasant after
noon was spent at the home of Mrs.
0. F. Biglin last Thursday when three
pioneer mothers and their daughters
met for a pleasant hour. The mothers:
Mrs. O. F. Biglin, Mrs. J. P. O’Donnell
and Mrs. J. J. McCafferty. The
daughters: Anna O’Donnell, Gene
vieve Biglin, Mrs. F. N. Cronin and
Mrs. R. E. Gallagher.
A delightful three course luncheon
was served by Mrs. Biglin’s daughters
during which Mrs. Cronin slipped
quietly from the room, returning short
ly arrayed in her mother's wedding
gown, a gorgeous midnight blue taffeta
affair of bosque style waist and
gathered skirt, with double knife pleat
ed flounce around the bottom, crinoline
lined, so that when it touched the
floor it stood by itself, a marvel of
workmanship in design and antiquity.
Over a half century old and yet as
fresh as as it came from its bed of
tissue as though it had been assemb
led a week ago.
So great was the admiration and
delight of the guests that she again
disappeared and came back into the
room* this time modeling a frock of
her grandmother’s, a beautiful deep
royal purple of Victorian Imperial
style, of rare lovliness and charm
breathing of the long ago—reminding
one of gossamer and old lace.
Many interesting tales of the rough
frontier of civilization were related by
these three pioneer women as they
gazed across the tea cups into tne
space of yesterday, recapturing in
memory many instances long since
thought forgotten.
To Mrs. O’Donnell goes the prize
for outstanding memory as she recalls
back to the time when O’Neill was
just a whistling post along a wagon
trail to the hills and there was but
one well to supply the town’s demand
and also the terriffic prairie fire that
came roaring and sweeping down on
them from across the river, eating
acre after of acre of the best grass
land, leaving nothing in its wake but
dust, smoke and cinders and yet how a
handful of grim, undaunted settlers,
by their courageous, industrious work
and toil, saw raised from the waste
land this prosperous little city of
O’Neill, with its flourishing ranches
and farms outlying, second to none
for its size in any land, with its
schools, its churches and. its splendid
citizens.
If you wish for a pleasant after
noon just try grouping a few people
of different generations. It will prove
entertaining and educational. xxx
County Fair Board
Elect New Officers
The Holt County Agricultural So
ciety and Fair Association re-organ
ized at the regular meeting January
15th, with the following line-up:
George H. Coleman, Inman, president;
Joe McNiehols, O’Neill, vice president;
John L. Quig, O’Neill, secretary-treas
urer; Fred Robertson, George Agnes,
Margaret Davidson, Ray Calvert, all
of O'Neill, and William Graver, of
Ewing, directors.
The dates for the 1934 fair were set
for September 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th.
Mashes Finger Piling Logs
Last Thursday afternoon while
Charles and Ray Lawrence were blast
ing giant cottonwood trees apart for
use as fuel, Ray suffered a mashed
finger on his left hand. In piling a
length of tree the lug slipped, landing
on the finger, which he may be unable
to use for several weeks.
The Lawrence brothers, operators of
the Thomas Carlon homestead just
south of town, say they have one pile
of cottonwood logs they estimate at
a weight in excess of lt>0 tons. After
seasoning one year, the fuel is to be
sold to fuel consumers here next
winter.
NUPTIALS
Ti miner man-Singlr man
Fred Timmerman, 27, son of Mr. and
Mrs, (Jus Timmerman, and Ciretu
Single man, 2t». daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph SingUman, were married
here last Saturday afternoon by Rev
H. D. Johnson, of the I’resbyterim
church. Thi* couple will make a hom»
oa a farm eight miles northwest of
Royal, Nebraska.
Kdward Adam*, the Chamben
banker, wa - looking after husim >* ir
this city lu*t Saturday.
O’Neill High Cagesters
Take Two From Butte,
Losing One To Spencer
The first ami second basketball teams
of Butte came to O’Neill Wednesday
evening und when the smoke of battle
had cleared it was found O’Neill had
won both games, the first 11 to 10 and
the second team contest 16 to 8.
Spencer took the O’Neill public
school basketball team to a cleaning
last Friday evening on the O'Neill
floor, to the tune of 27 to 11. Reserve
teams of the public school and St.
Mary's academy here helped entertain
the spectators, the academy team
winning.
Conditions Don’t Show
Improvement for Farmer
We read continually in the daily
press that times are improving for
the farmers thruout the country and
that they are much better than they
were a year ago, but many farmers
in this section fail to see the im
provement. One in particular is ol
the opinion that times are a long way
from being as good as they were a
year ago, as far as the farmer is
concerned.
This particular farmer, living north
of this city,about ten days ago shipped
21 head of hogs to market. They were
all good clean Poland China shoats
and weighed 2,170 pounds, or an
average of 103% pounds each. These
hogs sold on the Sioux City market
for $2.25 per hundred, or a total of
$48.82. Out of this total he had to
pay $6.51 for trucking; yardage, bed
ding, at 42 cents, etc., including one
bushel of corn at 00 cents, $5 4J; com
mission $5.25, or a total of $17.17.
leaving him a balance for his hogs
of $31.65, or a little less than $1.51
for each hog.
During the time that this particular
farmer hud these hogs on feed he fed
them 200 bushels of corn, which at the
local market price, was worth $0H
in addition to the other feed he fed
them, so he received $34.35 cents less
for the hogs than he hart expended in
j raising them, to say nothing about his
labor. It is easy to see that the farm
ers of the country will not even be
able to exist, let alone pay off their
indebtedness, unless price conditions
increase materially.
That the farmer is worse off today
than he was a year ago is proven by
the fact that the above mentioned
farmer could purchase nearly twice as
I much with his $31.05 a year ago as
| he can today, the price of everything
j that he has to buy having greatly in
j creased in value, while thnt which he
! has to sell has been decreasing.
O’Neill (Jets Organization
of Holt County Ited Cross
At the annual meeting of the
members of the Red. Cross, held at At
i kinson last Thursday afternoon, Dr.
I L. A. Carter, of O’Neill, was eleceted
! president; George A. Miles, of O’Neill,
| secretary and F. N. Cronin, of O’Neill,
j treasurer. The headquarters of the
I .organization will be in this city for
! the ensuing year.
The following were elected as direct
| ors for the ensuing year: M. Hunter,
Page; D. A. Criss, Stuart; Mrs. Alma
Farrier, Chambers; Elwin Smith, In
man; James Butler, Ewing; Mrs. D.
Stannard, O’Neill; H. A. Snyder, At
kinson.
Broken Elbow Mending
Junior, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Allen, was removed from Norfolk last
Monday to his home here and he is at
tending school. His arm, broken in
the elbow joint in a fall off a pony
here December 22, is encased by a
steel splint that permits moving the
arm joint daily to prevent permanent
1 stiffness and to allow adjustments.
For days it looked like junior might
have a stiff arm or lose part of the
member, the break was so serious.
Receives Checks For
Boyd County Farmers
Agricultural Agent J. W. Rooney
has received 92 checks, totaling
$3,311.00 which he will distribute to
farmers of Boyd county, who signed
the wheat reduction program, at Butte
and I.ynch next Saturday. This is the
first payment, (’hecks for the Holt
county farmers, who signed the wheat
reduction program have not been re
ceived yet. but they are expected any
day.
Tildcn Bake Shop Closed
The Tildcn bake shop, which has
been operated tn this city for the past
year, closed up last week. Miss Harti
gun, who had charge of the bake shop,
ha* gone to Tilden where she has a
> position in the bakery.
ESCAPE FATAL INJURY
AS CAR DEMOLISHED IN
COLLISION WITH TRUCK
John Kersenbrock and Family Have
Lucky Escape In Accident 20
Miles South of O’Neill.
Miraculously, the John Kersenbrock
family and an 18 year old niece, Miss
Ruth Kratavil, of Osmond, escaped
instant death last Sunday night at.
11:30 at a point about 20 miles south
of here and a few miles south of the
Edward Porter filling station on high
way 281.
The Kersenbrock car, a Studebaker
eight sedan, on which was registered
21,000 miles, costing $1,657, was re
duced to worthless junk in a collision
with a truck.
Kersenbrock and his family had been
to Lincoln and were traveling north
and toward, O’Neill. The machine was
making about 40 miles an hour.
A truck traveling south hugged the
left side of the road, when he should
have been over on the other side, and
Mr. Kersenbrock endeavored to make
a quick swing around it. His machine
struck or the truck struck his machine,
tearing through it. The truck swerved
went into a ditch, through a fence and
into a pasture where it was halted.
The name of the driver is believed
to be Robert Schurscht and his home
is said to be at Spalding.
Mr. Kersenbrock said he was told
the trucker had been about £0 miles
west of Valentine and had no sleep
Saturday night, Sunday nor Sunday
night, apparently leaving him in an
extremely drowsy condition. On the
truck was a tractor, disc and harrow.
John says he awoke to find blood
gushing from a forehead cut. He pro
nounced himself dead and again be
came unconscious, awakening to find
himself the coldest he had ever been.
I’assersby gave the five injured per
sons a ride to the Porter station.
Girls with basket ball players from
Spalding, who played three games
1 here at St. Mary's Academy Sunday,
noticing lights and much activity at
the station as they traveled south,
stopped and. at once rendered first aid
to the injured.
Mr. Kersenbroek says the work of
the girls is something he shall re
member with pleasure as long us he
lives. He added that he plans to make
a special trip to Spalding, identify
each of the girls and thank them.
Those in the automobile were John
Kersenbroek, his wife, two sons, Dale
and Jack, about 12 and 14 years old,
and. Miss Ruth Kratavil, 18 of Os
mond. All were shocked and all suf
fered cuts and bruises and wrenched
muscles.
John and his son, Dale, were cut on
the forehead; the muscles on John’s
left arm from elbow to wrist
wrenched loose; Mrs. Kersenbrock was
cut slightly and Ruth Kratavil suf
fered. a bruised forehead; Jack received
an injured leg and is in his bed until
the extent of his injuries can be deter
mined. He may be injured internally.
The injured were placed under the
care of Dr. W. F. Finley as soon as
they were brought to town.
The wrecked machine was brought
here by the Mellor Motor Company
wrecker and hundreds who have seen
the car admitted it the most complete
ly ruined machine they have seen.
All admit there rwust have been a
miracle to permit five persons to live
after riding in a car so twisted and
skeletonized.
After the wreck John found the key
of the car in a pants pocket. He does
I not know how it got there. In a shirt
; pocket he found two pieces of glass.
He cannot explain how they got there
! through a sweater and overcoat.
About the time the girl nurses from
I Spalding were dressing and washing
the wounds of the injured, at the Porter
! station, another type of human being
I was working on the wreckage. The
heater, horn and brass shift-gear
knob was stolen and an effort at re
; moving the three tires was not suc
, cessful only because the unknown
could not muster enough power.
Mr. Kersenbrock said he carried in
surance on his car. He said that he
I had passed thousands of cars between
Lincoln and (Irand Island without
danger, then smashed on one of the
lonlient stretches of highway in Ne
braska.
Hundreds of persons called Monday
to offer John and family cm grain
lations on their escape from death,
His telephone kept him on Ihe jump.
Farmer* telephoned congratulation#.
| John says that "the Lord must have
t had His arms around me that time."
Ash Wednesday falls on February
14, Palm Sunday on March 25, and
i Faster Sunday on April L