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VOL. LIV.
The Frontier
O’NEILL, NEHRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934.
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No. 38
MULLEN FIELD IS
REJECTED AS SITE
OF LOCAL AIRPORT
Federal Airport Inspector Selects
Hickey Meadow West of Dance
land As Best Location.
A gentleman named Wait, of Wash
ington, D. C., federal supervisor of
airports, was in the city last Thursday
and Friday. Mr. Wait refused to ap
prove of the proposed location of the
O’Neill airport, on Mullen field just
east of the city limits for the reason
that it was too close to the city, and
in bad weaher planes would not be
able to gain sufficient height before
they got over the city proper.
He spent most of the day visiting
prospective sites for the airport and
decided that the Hickey meadow, just
west of Danceland, was the best field
in the immediate vicinity of the city
for the location of the airport, and the
city is trying to make arrangements
with Mr. Hickey for the lease of this
ground.
South of this city several tracts
were looked at and three were*selected
as second choices, if arrangements
could not be made to secure the Hickey
place. Any of the other three places
would be acceptable to the government.
About $1,500 of the appropriation for
the airport has been expended on the
Mullen location, but the officials will
permit the city to spend the balance in
the appropriation on the new field, and
it is thought that here is ample in
the fund to finish up the new site.
Nebraska Wheat Acreage
Is Reduced 17 Percent
Twenty-five hundred Nebraska farm
ers who served on the local and county
wheat committees and the agricultural
agents who helped them out are to be
congratulated upon the record made
by Nebraska on the Wheat adjustment
program, W. H. Brokaw, state wheat
and corn-hog administrator said at
Lincoln today.
Kgures compiled by A. E. Anderson,
slate and federal statistician, show
that Nebraska farmers planted 13 per
cent less wheat last fall than they did
in the three year average, and 17 per
cent in the five year average consid
ered in the wheat adjustment program.
The farmers made this reduction in the
face of more encouraging wheat prices
and ideal seeding season in practically
all parts of the state. Had there
been no wheat adjustment program,
authorities estimate that the winter
wheat acreage would have been three
and one-half million acres compared
with slightly over three million acres
which were planted last fall.
Quite a number of western Nebras
ka wheat growers who have some
spring wheat are planning to take all
of their contracted acreage out of their
spring wheat crop. This will further
reduce the total wheat acreage seeded
in the state for 1934 harvest.
Compared with a reported seven per
cent decrease for the country as a
whole, the showing of Nebraska farm
ers is particularly gratifying to the
state wheat adjustment administration.
That quite a number of farmers stayed
out of the program and increased
acreage is readily admitted. It is more
important, however, Mr. Brokaw de
larcd, to commend the ones who
entered into the contract and reduced
their acreage than it is to worry about
the men who stayed out and increased.
They only helped out with the corn-hog
program since they now have less land
for corn and the feed crops.
Politics Stirring Up
Things politically show signs of tak
ing on a little life in the county. Last
week Tom Troshnyski, of Pleasant
view township, filed as a candidate for
the democratic nomination for super
visor from the First district, now rep
resented by J. C. Stein, republican.
Wednesday Frank P. Murphy, vil
lage marshal of Stuavt, filed as a can
didate for the democratic nomination
for sheriff. Mr. Murphy has been
marshal at Stuart for several years
and is said to have a good deal of
political strength in the western part
of the county.
The O’Neill Woman’s Club met at
the home of the president, Mrs. A. L
Cowperthwaite. Wednesday. There was
a discussion of current events, which
was very interesting. -After this dis
cussion, some of the poems of Long
fellow from “Tales of A Wayside Inn’
were read and discussed. Following
the meeting the hostess served a de
licious lunch.
Miss Mary Sullivan ami Miss Jear
McCarthy spent the week-end with
Miss Adris Fairbanks at Stuart.
Santee Indians Scalp
O'Neill High Cagesters
Thursday night of lust week the
Indians came to town and massacred
the whites, judging from results of a
game of basketball played jn the public
school gym here. The results of this
was the Santee Indian school players
39, O’Neill public school team 7. No
second team game was on the pro
gram here.
CORN-HOG CONTRACT
SIGNING BEGINS ON
FRIDAY, THIS WEEK
Nearly 2,000 Holt County Farmers
Have Been Present At the
Corn-Hog Meetings.
The educational meetings held in
Holt county were attended by 1947
persons. The places and numbers
present were: Paddock 110, Stuart
225, Scottville 60, Page 375, Ewing
300, Atkinson 300, Dorsey 92, Phoenix
80, Cleveland 75, Amelia 85, Chambers
225, O’Neill 225.
Contract signing will begin on Fri
day of this week when the temporary
county and community committeemen
will sign their contracts at O'Neill.
On Saturday Inman and Antelope
townships will sign contracts at the
Inman town hall and Prill school.
The schedule for the week of Febru
ary 12 is:
iuuiiuay, ruuruwry J£, oiuau luwii
ship, Town Hall. Cleveland, Dustin,
Cleveland church.
Tuesday, February 13, Stuart town
ship,Town Hall. Sand Creek, Celia
school.
Wednesday, February 14, Atkinson
township, Memorial Hall. Emmet,
Pleasantview, O’Connor Hall.
Thursday, February 15, Sheridan
township, Atkinson Memorial Hall.
Emmet, Pleasantview, O’Connor Hall.
Friday, February 1(5, Grattan town
ship, Golden Hotel. Shields, Shields
Town Hall.
Saturday, February 17, Grattan
township, Golden Hotel. Shields,
Shields Town Hall.
The schedule for the following weeks
will appear in the county papers next
week. If weather makes it impos
sible to sign in any township, that
township will be given an opportunity
to sign at a later date.
A few things that Contract signers
should do before they sign are:
Fill out Producers Statement of Evi
dence and have two neighbors count
your hogs and sign statement.
Fill out Work Sheet and draw map.
No contracts will be made out until
these forms are filled in.
Bring all the corn-hog papers you
have received with you to your filing
day meeting.
Page C. L. C. Club
Holds Antique Show
Down at Page recently members of
the C. L. C. club staged an antique
show in connection with an antique tea
and everyone was astonished at the
large number of curiosities brought
out. Among the rarities on display
was a chair shown by Mrs. J. G. Ken
nedy which had marked on it the fol
lowing:
“This chair is one of a set of six
and a rocker that belonged to my great
grandfather, Phillip Henry Gortner,
and his wife, Barbara. They have
been in the Gortner family since 1780.
My brother Harvey has one, and Ross
has the other four and. the rocker.
This grandfather was killed by the
Indians in 1837 in his own yord.
"Neighbors hid the body in a creek
until after the raid, when he was
buried in the Imanual church yard
near Muncy, Pa. The church is still
standing. It was built in 1791.”
Mrs. Robert Gray, now close to 90,
exhibited bed coverings she made
about 74 years ago. Mrs. Mary West
displayed a coin bearing date of 1818.
A plate owned by her is 225 years old.
Mrs. Mary Braddock had a bible there
which is 118 years old. One of the
rarest and most interesting things
shown is a sort of yoke people used
long ago to carry two pails of water.
’ not putting all of the weight on the
arms. This article was found in an
old barn in the state of New York.
A side-saddle, now a curiosity, was
among the antiquities. There was a
wax-box 200 years old and a very old
, copy of Robert Burns poems.
Petrified potatoe , old guns, powder
horn and shot pouch, old dishes and
licaded collar were among half a
hundred other old articles on display.
Lust Thursday night about midnight
a Northwestern freight pulled out with
20 carloads of Holt county wild hay
(which was consigned to South Dakota.
Holt County Spelling
Contest To Be In Mareh
The Annual Holt county Spelling
Contest will be held in the O’Neill
high school auditorium on Friday
evening, March 16th, at 7 o’clock. The
local preliminary contests will be held
on Friday evening, February 16th, at
7:30 o’clock at Stuart, Atkinson, Em
met, O'Neill, Page, Inman, Ewing,
Chambers, Amelia, Deloit No. 18Mi,
Dustin No. 218, Meek No. 27, Scotville
No. 38 and. Gibson No. 122. Schools
should enter the nearest local.
Locals finding it necessary to change
the time and date of their contest
should advertise the change to all
surrounding schools at least one week
prior to the contest. Every school in
the county should have one or more
representatives in each group. Each
teacher should hold a contest in her
own school to choose representatives
in each group. Please notify the
teacher or superintendent of the local
you wish to enter as soon as possible,
giving names of contestants you are
bringing. Contests will be organized
and conducted as formerly.
Mrs. Henry Losher
Mrs. Henry Losher died at her home
in this city last Friday morning at
12:12 after an illness of several months
of chronic Brights disease, at the age
of 70 years, 1 month and 8 days. The
funeral was held last Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock from the Presbyter
ian church in this city, Rev. H. D.
Johnson officiating, and burial in the
Pleasant Valley cemetery at Meek.
Frances Plessel was born in Ger
many on December 24, 1803, and when
a little girl she came to America with
her parents and they located in Min
nesota. In 1878 she came with her
parents to this county and they located
northwest of this city, where they re
sided for several years. On February
20, 1888, at BulFalo Gap, S. D., she'
was united in marriage to Henry
Losher. To this union four children
were born, all of whom arc left with
their father to mourn the death of a”
kind and loving wife and mother. The
children are: Samuel J., of Dearlwrn,
Mich.; George H., O'Neill; Dewey P.,
of Chadron, and Mrs. Lilly Peterson,;
O’Neill, all of whom were present at
the funeral.
Mrs. Losher was the daughter of |
pioneer Holt county settlers, and her
self a pioneer of the county as she was
but fifteen years of age when she came
to this county. For a few years after
her marriage they lived in the Black
Hills- of South Dakota, where Mr.
Losher was employed in the gold mines
of that section, working for several
years in the Holy Terror gold mine.
The family came to this county in
1900 from the Black Hills and for
several years lived, on a large ranch
12 miles north of this city, until they
moved to this city about fifteen years
ngo, where they have since made their j
•home. Mrs. Losher was a splendid |
woman, a loving wife and mother and
a good neighbor and had many friends
in this city and. vicinity who will re-1
gret to learn of her death.
Hospital INotes
Charles Fleming was dismissed from
the hospital Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. E. E. Summers, of Page, was
admitted to the hospital Friday, Feb
ruary 2 and gave birth to a five-month
infant on Monday the 5th. The baby
died at birth. The mother is doing
well and will leave the hospital on
Thursday.
Virginia Burley, of Spencer, who
was operated on Monday night, Janu
ary 22, for ruptured appendix, is gett
ing along nicely and will leave for
home this week.
Mrs. Lloyd Brittell, of Inman, was
operated on for a major operation
Wednesday morning.
Edna and Lucille Smith, of Page,
had their tonsils removed Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Keenan, of
Lincoln, arrived here Saturday and
visited at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. John Kersenbrock. The couple
returned to Lincoln Sunday via auto
mobile. John Kersenbroek’s new car
was pronuonced superb by his father
I and mother-in-law.
The Library circulation for Grattan
township ami O’Neill fiir the month
of January was books, of these
being checked out one afternoon.
Nineteen new readers were added dur
ing the month of January.
Mr. and .Mrs. Thomas Johnson, of
Omaha, arrived in the city iost Thurs
day evening and spent a couple of days
visiting relatives nnd friends here, re
turning home Saturday afternoon.
SAYS POLITICS HAVE
BEEN KEPT OUT OF
C.W.A. WORK HERE
Roosevelt Orders Politics Must Be
Kept Out of Relief and CWA
Work At All Costs.
Max Johnson, who several months
ago, was appointed by federal auth
orities, to administer the relief pro
gram in Holt county, recently received
the following bulletin from Rowland
Haynes, Federal representative and
state administrator for Nebraska:
“President Roosevelt last Friday in
a talk in Washington to workers con
nected with part of the Relief and Re.
covery Program, said:
“ ‘This work has nothing to do with
partisan politics—nothing at all. We
ore not the least bit interested in the
partisan side of this picture.
“‘We do want you to be absolutely
hard-boiled if you find any local person
within your own states who is trying
to get political advantage out of the
relief of human needs, and you will
have the backing of this Administra
tion one thousand per cent, even if
you hit the biggest political boss in
the United States on the head in
carrying out this general program.’
“This states precisely the attitude
we wish to take in the administration
of relief and CW'A in Nebraska. It is
only fair to say that neither the Gov
ernor nor any member of the State
Relief and CW’A Committee has ever
asked me to appoint anyone to any
job in connection with relief. Knowing
the experience of federal representa
tives in certain other states, I feel
that we are fortunate that we have
had no political interference in this
state from the top.
i nave nuu luuit/iaiuvo vnuc pauionn
politics has crept into the handling of
relief and CWA placements in certain
parts of the state. Some of the re
ports which we have run down are un
true, but I am not so innocent or ig
norant of human nature as to believe
that there may not be local places
where politics has been an interference.
“The purpose of this bulletin is to
let you know that, just as the Presi
dent is backing us up, so we will back
you up in keeping partisan politics out
of relief and CWA.
“In giving relief there are just two
questions to be answered: Does the
person need it—and how much ? In
giving CWA and. CWS jobs there are
two questions: Does the person need
the job, and can he do the work as
signed? In appointments for admin
istrative positions there is only one
question to be asked: Is the person the
best equipped to do the job that we
can get for the money we can pay.
Mr. Johnson, commenting on the
above bulletin said: “I have not in any
instance inquired into the political
affiliation of any person whom I have
assigned, or recommended for any
CWA job in Holt county. I decide
entirely on the qualifications and need
of each individual."
Celebrate Their Golden
Wedding Anniversary
Half a century of married life of
Mr. and Mrs. V. Kryal, Sr., of Stuart
was celebrated one day last week.
Many friends and relatives called on
the couple to tender congratulations
and take part in card games. A fine
lunch was served after the games and
just before departure of guests for
their homes.
W .N. Coats
W. N. Coats, editor of the Stuart
Advocate and a prominent merchant
of Stuart, passed away at the hospital
at Stuart last Thursday afternoon,
after an illness of about three weeks.
His entire family was at his bedside
when the end came, and he was con
scious until a short time before the
end.
Mr. Coats was a resident and active
business man at Stuart for 42 years,
He always took an active interest in
civic affairs of his home town, the
county and state, and represented this
county in the state legislature in the
sessions of 1 !MK1 and lit06. Thereafter
he refused to again enter the list
of candidates for office, preferring tn
devote his energies upon his various
business enterprises, in which he wa>
very successful. We understand that
he had planned on retiring from activi
business life when seized with his last
illness.
The funeral wu held Sunday after
noon at 2:.'t0 from the Preshytoriar
church at Stuart, with Rev, II .(
Maraten. pastor of the Stuart Method
ist church delivering the sermon. Thi
funeral was very largely attended
many business men from this city at
!»riding the services.
Merchants Report Better
Business For Past Month
O’Neill merchants, almost without
exception, report a very good business
during the month of January. Mana
ger Todson, of the J. C. Penney Com
pany, says that their business for the
month of January, 1934, showed, a 75
per cent increase over January of a
year ago and 10 per cent over any
January since the store has been open
ed here. This proves that the busi
ness is here for the merchant who
goes after it by the persistent use of
the advrtising columns of the news
papers to inform the people what they
have to sell and the price they want
for the different articles.
(give new rulings
ON AGRICULTURAL
ADJUSTMENT ACT
Use of Corn Land, Making of Silage,
and Transfer of Hog Base
Included In Killings.
New administrative rulings for the
corn-hog sectioa at Washington deal
with corn for silage, hog benefit pay
ments for small producers, the crops
which can be grown as permanent
pasture, transfer of hog base by de
creased producer to an heir, and prob
able developments should beef cattle
and sheep be included as basic com
modities in the agricultural adjust
ment act.
Administrative ruling rso. io, wmcn
required a farmer to fill his silo as
full in 1934 as he did in 1932 and 1933
now offers considerable flexibility in
that he may deduct the number of
acres required to fill the silo in 1932
and 1933 from the corn base in case
he does not wish to fill the silo in 1934.
Farmers who have produced less
than three litters of pigs on the aver
age in the last two years can now
get hog payments if they reduce their
litters and pigs in 1934.
The list of pasture grasses now in
cludes several grasses, of which crested
wheat grass and slender wheat grass
are the ones most adaptable to Ne
braska. Sweet clover is now taken
out of the list of “additional perman
ent pasture” grasses.
If a producer who has operated a
farm and raised hogs in 1932 and 1933
or either of the years has died and an
heir is now handling the hog product
ion, he is entitled to the hog base.
If Congress should put beef cattle
and sheep into the adjustment act as
basic commodities, those farmers who
sign corn-hog contracts will have to
keep the number of beef cattle and
sheep on their farms equal to the
highest number they had in either
of the two years, 1932 or 1933. This
would apply only from the date Con
gress declares beef cattle and sheep
basic commodities, until December 1,
1934, if Congress takes such action.
Mrs. xMary Cole
Mrs. Mary Cole passed away at St.
Vincents hospital in Sioux City, la.,
on January 29, 1934, following an
operation.
She is survived by three daughters
and three sons, Mrs. Frank Schneider,
Stuart; Mrs. George Babl, O’Neill;
Miss Margaret Cole, O’Neill; Charles
Cole, Jr., Atkinson, and John and Wil
liam of O’Neill. She also leaves 19
grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs.
Alex B. Beauline, Hinton, la., and Mrs.
John J. Finnegan, Fairmont, Minn.,
and one brother, Edward Kavanagh,
of Leed, Iowa.
Mary Murphy was born in County
Kildare, Ireland, on August 9, 1867.
After the death of her father, she
and her mother came to Canada and
later to Sioux City, Iowa.
On February 6, 1894 she was united
in marriage to Charles G. Cole, ol
Sioux City. Her husband preceded her
in death on October 1, 1932.
The funeral was held from St. Fat
rick’s church. O’Neill, and interment
was in St. Boniface cemetery at Stuart
by the side of her husband. May she
| rest in peace. **•
Several hide and fur buyers have
been here recently and trucks hauled
out many skins of animals which one
of the buyers said are i ngood demand
with prices showing signs of going
up to one of the highest tops reached
in years. Trappers were reported busy
everywhere.
Robert E. Tomlinson, of Opportunity,
one of the members of the committee
of action of the Holt county Farm
Holiday association, was in O’Neill
lust Saturday.
Oral Rieken went to Noriolk Sat'
urday to visit his sister, Dorothy, at'
j tending Norfolk business college.
HEADQUARTERS OF
CREDIT ASSOCIATION
WILL BE IN O’NEILL
Association Organized Thursday, For
Four Counties, At Meeting
Held In O’Neill.
The O’Neill Production Credit Asso
ciation, which will serve the farmers
and stockmen of Holt, Boyd, Wheeler
and Garfield, counties, was organized
at a meeting in the court house in this
city this afternoon. A. L. Bishop, of
Bartlett, acted as temporary chair
man and Frank Kaiser, of Spaulding,
as secretary of the organization meet
ing. The following directors were
elected to serve until the first annual
meeting, which we understand will be
in January, 1935:
George Weber, Stuart, Holt county;
A. U. Dix, Butte, Boyd county; Frank
Kaiser, Spaulding, Wheeler county;
E. W. Moss, Burwell, Garfield county;
R. H. Lienhart, Chambers, Holt county.
The group today requested Gover
nor Myer of the Farm Credit Admin
istration in Washington to grant them
a charter for the Association, which
will serve all of the farmers and stock
men in this district. When such
charter is granted officers and a per
manent secretary-treasurer will be
elected by the Board of Directors and
hendquarters will be established in
O’Neill. A meeting for the selection
of the officers will probably be held
within the next two weeks.
i lie auuiuiitfu eu|jiv«iA«nvii ui
new Association is $120,000.00. Three
fourths of this amount will be sub
scribed for by the Production Credit
Corporation of Omaha. The remain
ing one-fourth can be subscribed only
by eligible borrowers at the time of
borrowing. With this amount of
capital the discount privilege with the
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of
Omaha will make available to farmers
and stockmen borrowers in the district
about $600,000.00.
The Production Credit Association
is a new method of financing short
term agricultural loans. This is a
locally owned and locally controlled
co-operative agricultural credit insti
tution. This method of financing is
made possible through the enactment
of the Farm Credit Act of 1933.
The following incorporators repre
sented their respective counties in this
district in perfecting the organization:
John Schmidt A. J. Fink, W. J. Fus
sulman, Anoka; J. B. Ableidinger,
Spencer; Frank P. Weber, A. U. Dix,
Butte; E. A. Clifton Fairfax; E. W.
Moss, H. H. Fransen, Frank Stenek,
Ray E. Nelson, A. B. Jenks, Burwell;
Gerald T. Nye, Ericson, Richard F.
Lehman, Leo Clouse, Ericson; George
Weber, Stuart; D. C. Schaffer, Emmet;
Warren Gilman, Amelia; Harry Ressel,
R. H. Lienhart, Chambers; J. A. Beck,
Atkinson;Andy Clark, Emmet; Frank
Kaiser, Warren C. Savage, Spaulding;
H. C. Nignery, Elgin; Charles C. Bar
tak, Niobrara; A. L. Bishop, Bartlett.
C. B. Main, of Washington, D. C.,
C. G. Hendrix, of Lincoln, and Y. B.
Holland, of Omaha, treasurer of the
Eight District Associations, were in
the city and assisted in getting the
organization started. The Eight Dis
trict comprises the states of Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyom
Ulg.
As soon as the charter has been
granted the directors will meet and
elect a secretary-treasurer and also
select loan appraisers or inspectors.
Our understanding is that this organi
zation, after it commences functioning,
will take over all the live stock, feed
and seed loans that the government
has in this territory and look after
the collection of these loans. We un
derstand that there are several appli
cants for the position of secretary
treasurer, who will probably be the
managing officer of the Association.
Injures Hand In Buzz Saw
Last Thursday afternoon at his farm
a few miles northwest of here, a buzz
saw blade brushed against the left
hand of J. K. Ernst, almost half sev
ering the hand in the vicinity of the
thumb. About half an inch of the
bone of several fingers was ground
awuy, as well as lengths of the cords,
leaving a very serious wound and one
that possibly might incapacitate the
hand. He was placed under the care
of Dr. L. A. Carter and at last report
the injured hand was in satisfactory
condition.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their many acts of kind
1 ness and sympathy during the illness
and death of our mother, grandmother
and sister, Mrs. Mary Cole.- The Cole
i family; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Beaulieu.