VOL. LIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934. t ' No. 36
CORN-HOG GROWERS
TO SIGN CONTRACTS
DURING FEBRUARY
Board of Directors for the County
Will Be Selected When All
Contracts arc Signed.
Corn-hog growers in Nebraska will
be signing a eorn-hog adjustment con
tract the month of February, according
to a tentative schedule drawn up and
approved by the state corn-hog com
mittee. In submitting this schedule
to each county, the state committee
asks that the county temporary com
mittee and the agricultural agent be
gin to hold contract signing days as
soon after the first of February as the
local schedule permits.
Experience with the wheat contracts
indicates that it is best to fill out every
contract accurately and according to
directions from the Washington office.
. In order to do this, the state corn
hog committee believe it advisable for
each county to organize their work
systematically and to train a few men
very thoroughly in the details of the
corn-hog reduction plan. These men
will then help farmers to make out
their blanks correctly on the contract
signing days. Doing each step of the
corn-hog program thoroughly and ac
curately will speed up the date when
the benefit payment checks will ar
rive in this county.
Selection of men to form the board
of directors in the county corn-hog
production control association will fol
low immediately after the sign-up
days in this county. As soon as the
permanent organization is complete
they will arrange for a check up of
all non-signers in the county and for
corn. This work and the summary of
appraisel of the land taken out of
corn. This work and the summary of th
figures on the contracts must be done
before the contracts can be sent in to
Washington to be approved there for
the benefit payments.
It is to be expected that several
farmers will not be ready to sign the
contracts until after the first of March
and thut individual men in the county
will want to fill out their blanks at
the county office after the schedule
of sign-up days. No closing date for
contract signing has been announced
yet cither at Washington or at the
office of the state corn-hog adminis
trator.
“GO SLOW, MARY.”
Last Monday and Tuesday nights
the young people of the Presbyterian
church gave the three act play, Go
Slow, Mary, at the Presbyterian
church to large and highly pleased
audiences both evenings.
In this delightful play a young mar
ried couple worked through their early
domestic difficulties in a most amusing
and unusual manner. The young hus
band took over the house duties, while
the wife went out to earn the living
in the hard and wicked world. After
a few days of trying experiences both
agreed to return to their proper po
sitions. These two leading roles were
ably taken by Melvin Pilger and Myrle
Burge. They were supported by a
very talented cast.
The success of the play was largely
due to the naturalness with which
each took the part and made it live.
Before the end came the audience were
well acquainted with the gallant Eng
lishman, the hurley ice man, the smil
ing grandmother, beautiful Sally Car
ter, the t wo restless children, the
earnest but stupid policeman, the dutch
maid, and the wealthy Harry Stevens.
Much credit is due to Miss Beryl
Winchell and Miss Helen Toy who di
rected the practice and managed the
staging. All gave freely of their
time and energy to make it a great
success.
The Young Men's Quartette, Donley
Fedderson, leader, Melvin Pilger, Gar
Innd Brevier, Donald Pilger and Helen
Toy accompanist, furnished a number
of line musical numbers.
The seating capacity was filled both
nights and from all reports everybody
was well satisfied. The proceeds will
go toward the benevolent fund of the
young people and much needed equip
ment for the church.
Wild hay is moving out of the Elk
horn Valley from Long Pine to Ewing
to the drouth areas of South Dakota
in greater volume than this commodity
has developed in several years. “It is
an ill wind that blows no one good”
the hay producers say. The price paid
is fair enough, considering the glutted
market and other conditions.
Last Saturday at least 15 jiersons
inquired of agents for vacant resilien
ces in O’Neill with a view to renting.
O’Neill High Nips Lynch
For A Pair Of Victories
Last Friday evening at Lynch both
the first and second basketball teams
of the public school here trimmed
teams of the Lynch school. The first
teams game resulted in a score of 18
for O’Neill and 15 for Lynch. The
second teams score was O’Neill 15 and
Lynch 10. A big crowd saw the con
flicts. Basket shooters reported there
was nothing very exciting during the
plays and that the teams seemed even,
ly matched.
Is Given Surprise Party
On His 75th Hirthday
!
Frank Bain celebrated his 75th birth
day last Sunday and he was tr-eated to
a genuine surprise party by his child
ren. To properly celebrate the event
all of his children, except his daughter,
Maude, who is in Arizona, were pres
ent and helped him enjoy his anniver
sary. Those present were: Mr. and
Mrs. 1. G. Bain and children, Gregory,
South Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. William
Nelson and children and Charles Mans
field, of Spaulding; Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Matthews and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Wolfe and children and Mrs.
■James Kelley and children, of O’Neill.
Twenty-nine relatives sat down at
the dinner table and partook of the
tempting viands that had been pre
pared for them. Mr. Bain says that
it was a real surprise party as far
as he was concerned. He said that
he knew that it was his birthday, but
he did not think anyone else thought
about it and he was agreeably de
lighted to find that his children had
hot forgotten the day. Mr. Bain has
been a resident of this county for
forty years, coming here from Wheeler
county in 1894. Since that time he
has lived in this city or on his farm,
a half mile north and a half mile
east of town.
All Farmers Asked For
Production Information
Regardless of whether they sign
the corn-hog contract, every farmer in
the county who has produced corn and
hogs in the last two years, will be
asked to furnish certain information
to the county corn-hog control asso
ciations. Those farmers who are not
interested in the program can be
neighborly to the men who are inter
ested by filling out and sending in the
information called for on the prelimi
nary work sheet for the corn-hog con
tract.
Information desired regarding corn
includes the total acres of land in the
farm, the total number of crop acres
on the farm, and the total acres that
has been in corn in 1932 and 1933.
Farmers are also asked to turn in the
number of acres of corn harvested for
grain. On hogs, they are asked for
the number of litters produced, number
of hogs raised from these litters, the
number of hogs butchered for home
use or on hand to be butchered for
home use, and. the number of hogs
which have been purchased as stockers
or feeders and which are now on
hand on the farm.
Immediately after the permanent
corn-hog production control associ
ation is formed by the farmers who
sign up contracts, members of the as
sociation will be appointed to canvass
all of the non-signers in the county
to obtain this information. Should
any refuse to give the information,
the man doing the canvassing will
make the best estimate he can from
his own observation and. by question
ing the neighbors.
livery tanner wno turns in tne in
formation without being visited by the
committee will be saving his neighbors
who are in the production control as
sociation some expense, since the can
vassing will cost money which is tie
ducted from the benefit payments
coming to this county on the corn-hog
contracts. Farmers who have had
less than four litters of hogs per year
or less than ten acres of corn, or those
who for other reasons feel it inadvis
able to enter into the corn-hog con
tract, are urged to turn Jn their infor
mation as soon as possible after they
receive their sample work sheets and
cointracts. They can put the figures i
on the work sheet and return it to
the office of the agricultural agent at !
O’Neill. The information may also
be turned in at the community meet
ings or at the sign-up day.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
a notice of a public sale being held by ]
Earl Wrede on February 7, 1934, on
the old Charles Wrede ranch 14 miles
northeast of this city. Mr. Wrede i
going to i|uit farming and has taken
this means of disposing of his cuttle,
horses and machinery.
Roosevelt Birthday Party
Will Be Given Tuesday
A Roosevelt Birthday Party will be
given at Danceland on Tuesday even
ing, January 30, 1934. The proceeds
of the party will go toward the fund
to raise an endowment for the Warm
Springs Foundation for infantile par
alysis. A series of these balls are be
ing given over the country and it is
expected that a large fund will be
raised by this means.
Peter Greeley
Wednesday news was flashed here
that deuth had removed Peter Greeley,
about 92, who has been making his
home in recent years with one of his
sons, Howard, who resides at Weston,
Nebraska. Mr. Greeley died Tuesday,
January 23, of a condition brought on
by old age.
Peter Greeley and his wife occupied
a homestead north of Atkinson about
half a century. At one time there was
a postoffice on the homestead and it
bore the name of Greeley. Lack of
business caused the office to be closed
a good many years ago.
Besides the son, Howard, there are
three other children, all living in the
state of Washington, Mrs. Emma
Moore, Spokane, Mis. Bertha Brown
and Warren Greeley, of Seattle. It is
believed the children all plan to at
tend the funeral which is to be held
at Atkinson next Sunday at 2 o'clock,
the service to be read in the Methodist
church and the funeral to be in charge
of Atkinson members of the American
Legion.
Mr. Greeley was a veteran of the
civil war. His wife died at Weston
May 30, 1032. She was buried at At
kinson and the remains of her hus
band will be placed beside her resting
place there. Mrs. Greeley was 88
years of age when she died.
It is doubtful if any other Holt
county homesteader became as well
known as Peter Greeley. His reputa
tion, and that of his wife, among early
settlers, was one of hard and fast
honesty, intense industry and a firm
belief that everything in the end must
come out in a way pleasing to every
one.
Mrs. Clark Young
Mrs. Clark Young died, at her home
northeast of this city at noon last
Thursday after an illness of three
weeks, at the age of 08 years and 14
days. The funeral was held at the
Methodist church in this city last Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 Rev. Aucock
officiating and burial was in the ceme
tery at Mineola. The funeral was
very largely attended, practically all
the people living in that neighborhood
paying their last respects to their de
parted friend and neighbor.
Maggie B. Long was born in Illinois
on January 4, 1860, and when a little
girl her parents moved to Iowa. In
the spring of 1884 they came to this
county and settled northeast of this
city, in the neighborhood in which the
deceased, thus lived ever since. On
October 17, 1886, she was united in
marriage to Clarkson Young, at In
man, Nebraska. To this union seven
children were born, all boys, six of
whom, with her loving husband, two
sisters and a brother, are left to mourn
the death of a kind and loving wife,
mother and sister. The children are:
Orton, Ralph, Paul and. Walter, O’Neill,
Guy, of Winnetoon, Nebr.; Robert,
Woodbine, Iowa. Her brother, J. B.
Long, of Opportunity, and her sisters,
Mrs. S. L. Creamer, of Elmwood, Nebr.
and Mrs. W. E. Dimmitt, of Long Pine.
Mrs, ioung had been a resident oi
this county for fifty years, being
among the pioneer settlers in the
country northeast of this city, where
once stood the flourishing little town
of Mineola. Like all the pioneers she
endured all the hardships of the early
days, hardships that would cause the
present generation to give up in des
pair, but not the hardy pioneers of
those days; they persevered and fin
ally seen their efforts crowned with
success and their final days passed
in peace and contentment. She was
devoted to her home and family and
had many friends in the eastern part
of the county who will regret to learn
of her death.
CARII OF THANKS.
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many kind friends and
neighbors for the kindness, sympathy
and assistance rendered during the
sickness, death and burial of our be
loved wife and mother.
C. I. Young and Family.
James Seybold has opened up a gar
age in the Gulden building north of
the post office, where he is prepared to
take core of automobile repairing.
NEBRASKA SHOWS AN
INCREASE IN CATTLE
ON FEED THIS YEAR
t orn Belt As A Whole Shows Decline
In Cattle On Feed For First
Part of the Year.
There are about three per cent more
cattle on feed in Nebraska on January
1, 1934, than on Junuary 1, 1933, ac
cording to E. V. Jones, Assistant
Agricultural Statistician. There were
about 8.5 per cent fewer cattle on feed
in the eleven Corn Belt states this
year than last with only Nebraska and
Iowa showing slight increases.
All indications point to a small in
crease in the number of cattle on feed
Mn Nebraska as compared to a year
ago. Records of cattle shipped thru
markets into Nebraska, railroad rec
ords and returns from a large number
h)f feeders show that Nebraska farm
ers had slightly increased operations
|iy January 1. With plenty of hay and
torn on hand and with feeder cattle
felling at extremely low prices, cattle
feeders are carrying on with opera
tions despite advanced corn prices and
Sow fat cattle prices.
lhere was a decrease ot about n.5
per cent in the number of cattle for
market in the eleven Corn Belt states
on January I, 1934 over the number on
January 1, 1933, according to the
cattle feeding estimate of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics. There
were decreases in all states except
Iowa and Nebraska, where small in
creases are estimated. The decrease
in the area east of the Missippi river,
where cattle feeding had. been increas
ing for several years, amounted to 17
per cent. In the area west of the Mis
sissippi the decrease was only 6 per
cpnt in spite of a decrease of 50 per
cent in South Dakota.
In the Western states the number of
cattle on feed January 1, 1934 was not
greatly different from the number a
year earlier, a small decrease being
indicated. In Texas and Oklohoma,
1 However, the number on feed this year
I was sharply reduced with the estim
I ated number this year for the two
| states combined one-third less than a
| year earlier. Shipment of feeder cattle
into the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, feed
ing area also indicate a material re
duction in feeding from last year.
Reports from a large number of
feeders as to the weight of cattle on
feed January 1, this year, showed
larger proportions of cattle over 1,000
pounds and of light weight feeders
(under 750 pounds) and of feeder
calves and a smaller proportion of
medium weights than did similar re
ports of a year ago. These reports
agree with the records of shipments
from 4 leading markets except in the
case of heavy feeders, the proportion
of which was considerably smaller in
the shipments during the last six
months of 1933 than for the same
months in 1932. Reports from feed
ers, however, indicated that there were
still a considerable number of long
fed cattle still in feed lots that normal
ly would have been marketed before
January 1, but which had been held
in the hope of price improvement.
This situation, and the reduced sup
plies and relatively higher prices of
feeds, were reflected in the reports on
the months of probable marketing.
These showed increases in the propor
tions of the cattle on feed to be mark
eted in January, February and March
over the proportions shown by similar
reports received a year earlier.
The estimated rummer ot came on
feed January 1, 1934 as a percentage
of January 1, 1933 for the different
Corn Belt states is as follows:
Ohio, 80 percent; Indiana, 82 per
cent; Illinois, 80 percent; Michigan,
92 percent; Wisconsin, 95 percent;
Minnesota, 8(5 percent; Iowa, 103 per
cent; Missouri, 98 percent; South Da
kota, 50 percent; Nebraska 103 per
| cent, and Kansas, 85 percent. Corn
Belt (weighted), 91.5 percent.
A wedding dance was held at a local
dance hall last Monday night for Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Fleming, whose mar
riage was solemnized at the Catholic
church here by Father B. J. Leahy last
Monday morning, Mrs. Fleming was
Mary Brown before marriage and she
is a daughter of Mrs. Blanche Brown.
Mr. Fleming is a son of James Flem
ing. Both the principals of the wed
ding gave O’Neill as their home town.
Mrs. F. J. Dishner, Mrs. R. R. Mor
rison and Mrs. J. J. Harrington were in
Omaha last week. Mrs. J. F. O'Don
nell returned home with them.
James Brown, now of Omaha, was
attending to business here last Friday
, and incidently visiting old time friend--.
St. Mary’s Cardinals Take
Two From O’Neill High
A packed house at the O’Neill public
school gymnasium Wednesday evening
wittnessed twoof the liveliest basketball
games played here this season. The
games were between the first and sec
ond teams of the public school and St.
Mary’s Academy, both of O'Neill.
The result of the senior team’s game
was 10 to 7 in favor of the Academy
players and the second teams game
also was won by the Academy perfor
mers, 9 to 8.
Organize Star Route
Mail Carriers Association
The star route mail carriers of the
country have formed an organization
which they call the National Star
Route Carrier Association, of which E.
J. Voider, who carries the mail on the
Bonosteel route north from here, is
vice president. The members of this
organization are petitioning congress
to have the bids that were recently
submitted for carrying mail on star
routes in different parts of the country,
set aside for a year or six months and
let the present contractors continue to
carry man on tneir present contracts.
In their petition, or letters, they al
lege that a number of bids have been
submitted to the department by men
who have no idea of the operating costs
of a car on a regular schedule. They
claim that for the past four years
most of the star carriers have barely
made expenses, and they say that in
Order to retain their routes some of
the present carriers are bidding as low
as fifty per cent below their present
contract. They claim that the present
method of biddig on star routes is not
in keeping with the times. They say
the law under which these bids are
asked was enacted in 1874 and they say
let at this time, under the bids recent
ly submitted, that it will make paupers
out of practically all the successful
bidders.
They say that if the contracts are
that the advancement made in trans
portation since that time makes this
j method of proceedure unfair.
Neighbors Join In
Helping Sick C'ouple
In these days of adversity, when
everyone is struggling to get enough
together so that he can furnish the
necessities of life to his dependents,
it is fine to note that the old-time spirit
of neighborly interest in each other
still lives in the hearts and minds of
our people. This was brought to light
last week when twenty men, friends
and neighbors, went to the home of
Lynn Cams, living twenty miles south
of this city, to haul hay and alfalfa,
cut, saw and split wood and pile it up
nicely near the kitchen door, so that
Mr. and Mrs. Cams could keep the
fires burning. Mr. and Mrs. Cams
been sick for several weeks and unable
to work and the neighbors saw to it
that they were provided for. The
ladies helped Mrs. Cains with the din
ner, furnishing part of it.
Conditions Show Large
’Hopper Crop In 1934
The northern part of Holt county is
included in a map of a great area
in which heavy grasshopper infest
ation has been forecast through great
numbers of egg ponds found in the
ground by experts. Grasshopper
trouble is said to be a serious threat
against the 19114 crops.
John G. Kennedy, of Page, an old
time Frontier reader, was a pleasant
caller at this office last Monday morn
ing. Mr. Kennedy has been a resident
of Verdigris township for fifty-two
years, coming here when a young man,
two years after his father located
there in 1880 and he has been a resi
dent of the county ever since. Mr.
Kennedy has a distinct recollection of
the old times in this county, when such
a thing as a horse and buggy were al
1 most unknown, farmers going to town,
, to church or to visit their neighbors
i in lumber wagons, horseback or walk
ing. Now we have the automobile and
places that were considered inaccess-'
able years ago, on account of their dis
. tunee, are now only a few hours drive.
What a change there has been in this
* country the past half century! Will
the next half century bring about as
great changes as the last half? Time
alone can tell.
Bert Shoemaker is the first candi
date to cast his hat into the political
arena for the 19.‘14 primary campaign.
Bert filed a couple of weeks ngo for
the democratic nomination for super
visor of this disthict, a position
held for several years hy John Sulli*
I van, chairman of the board.
NO DEDUCTION FOR
DEATH LOSS WILL BE
MADE ON FALL PIGS
Due To Delay In Getting Contracts
Heady, Pig Death Loss Clause
Should Be Ignored.
Farmers who sign up the corn-hog
contract will not have to deduct any
thing for death loss on fall pigs which
they have on hand at the time they
dgn the contract. They need not pay
any attention to this item on their
work sheet or contract, according to a
recent announcement from the corn
hog section in Washington.
When the contract form was drawn
up, the Washington office explains, it
was thought that some of the contracts
might be signed before the first of
January 1984. Since farmers are al
lowed to include in their hog base all
pigs farrowed up to December, 1933,
the provision was put into the contract
for a 15 per cent deduction for death
loss on these late pigs.
Many of the 1933 fall pigs will be
marketed by farmers of this section
before they sign the corn-hog contract.
In practically all cases the pigs will
be weaned and large enough so that
figuring a 15 per cent death loss on
them would be excessive. The corn
hog section at Washington has there
fore announced that no one need, pay
any attention to item number 4, table
5, in the con-hog contract and on the
work sheet for the contract. This news
will probably answer several puzzling
questions which farmers have boon
facing in connection with the deduction
for death loss.
No provision has been made to make
up for abnormal death loss due to
cholera or other causes. The actual
number of litters farrowed and the
number of hogs marketed from those
litters make up the base for the in
dividual farmer. The period of time
over which the average is taken is
from December 1, 1931 to November
.30, 1933. All pigs farrowed in that
24 months period and marketed or still
on hand to be marketed are included
in the farmer’s hog base upon which
his benefit payments are made.
Wild Hay Business Not
Free From Depression
One of the hardest hit industries
during the late financial debacle was
the wild hay business and any develop
ment that would move this commodity
had been eagerly awaited. The long
hoped for stimulus seems to have
started about January 1st when agents
began buying hay here for shipment
to South Dakota points in need, of
stock feed.
J. B. Ryan reports that since Janu
ary 1st his firm here has loaded and
shipped about 100 large box cars of
wild hay. The shipments represent
about 2,000 tons. This firm also ship
ped hay from Emmet.
The price paid producers range
from $5 to $5.50 a ton, not as high,
perhaps as it should be, but enough to
give the man having hay a fighting
chance. Most of the producers figure
this better than having the hay in the
stack and no market at all.
On the Northwestern railway here,
locomotives have been working night
and day at switching great strings of
cars which have taxed the side tracks
to capacity.
The movement of this hay has
aroused a sagged industry and put
many men at work.
GOSPEL CRUSADE
The Gospel Crusade in O’Neill was
opened Monday night by the Radio
Minister of Radio station WOW, Rev.
R. R. Brown.
The Rev. Brown spoke at the K. C.
Hall Monday and Tuesday nights to
representative audiences from the fol
lowing towns and. communities: Lin
coln, Norfolk, Ainsworth, Bassett, At
kinson, Creighton, O’Neill, Brunswick,
Spencer, Butte, Chambers, Stuart,
Page. Inman, Paddock and Opportun
ity.
Evangelist Paul E. Berg is the
second speaker in connection with the
crusade and will speak each night at
7:45 at the Episcopal church.
The services are interdenominationl.
Everyone is welcome. All seats are
free.
John A. Robertson, of Joy, now a
member of the Nebraska coifrt-hog
committee, returned form a huaincs*
trip to Lincoln and many other Ne
braska point* la*t Tuesday night.
Wherever corn-hog meeting* were held
intense interest was shown hy farmers
in the corn-hog branch of the industry.
Frank Dishner made a business trip
to Omaha the latter part of la*t week.