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VOL. LIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934. No. 42
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CONTRACTED CORN
ACRES RELEASED
FOR FALL SOWING
Farmer May Plant Wheat Next Fall
On His Contracted Acres At The
Normal Planting Time.
Administrative Ruling No. 43 of the
corn-hog section at Washington re
leases contracted corn acreage for the
seeding of fall wheat next fall instead
of on December 1, 1934, the end of the
present contract.
The ruling reads as follows: “Crops
for harvest in 1935 may be planted in
1934 on the contracted acres after the
date that 1934 corn acreage on the
farm on which the contracted acres
are located, or 1934 acreage in the
locality of such farm, is actually plant
ed to a crop for harvest in 1935.”
This means, Nebraska corn-hog
interpreters believe, that a farmer
could plant wheat next fall on con
tracted acres at the normal time for
planting wheat in corn stalks in that
locality. Since the time of seeding
wheat in corn-stalks, and of seeding
wheat in plowed land or stubble is
practically the same, the ruling means
that farmers can seed winter wheat on
contracted acres at the normal time
for seeding next fall.
The definite ruling will be welcome
news in western Nebraska where much
of the corn contracted acreage will be
fallowed this summer and then seeded
to wheat next fall. This news will en
courage sign-up of corn-hog contracts
materially in the southern and western
parts of Nebraska.
Organize Junior
Ep worth League
A local organization of the Junior
Epworth League was organized here
last Sunday by Ellen Cole, of Emmet,!
at the Methodist church. Among i
those who joined the league are:
Shirley Nelson, Donna Clark, Marjorie
Aucock, Mildred and Eldon Harbottle,
Pat and Donald Mitchell, Edwin and
Ralph Porter,- Gerald Leach, Marvin
Van Every, George and Howard Dahl
stein, Dwain Abbott, Junior Vander
linden, Beatrice and Marie Harris,
Beleimer and Howard Coats, Junior
Harris, Lucille Pcniand, Alice Rieken,
Doris Scofield, Marion Olson, Wanda
Spangler and Helen Hagensick.
Monday evening a party was tend
ered the members of this organization
by Mrs. F. J. Aucock in the basement
of the Methodist church. Mrs. Au
cock was named as superintendent of
the unit at O’Neill.
Seed Loan Office Opened
The Frontier has just received
word that an emergency crop loan
office has been opened at O’Neill, and
farmers desiring loans should apply to
J. C. Walker, Feld Inspector.
According to the regulations under
which the crop loans arc to be made
this year, any farmer who secures a
loan must obtain a statement from
the county production council, where
one exists, that he does not intend, to
increase his acreage or production in
violation of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration program.
In counties where a county produc
tion council has not been set up, before
any application for a loan will be
considered the farmer who is apply
ing will have to give satisfactory
evidence that he is cooperating with
the production control program of the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra
tion.
The maximum amount of an emer
gency crop loan that may be obtained
by any one individual is $250, the
minimum is $25. „
Applications for loans in any amount
from $25 to $150 may be accepted by
the emergency crop loan office pro
vided the farmer does not have suffici
ent security to obtain a loan elsewhere.
A farmer applying for $150 or more
must first make application to the
Production credit association for a
loan from it. Rejection of this ap
plication by the Production credit as
sociation will be considered sufficient
evidence that other credit is not avail
able and the applicant may then make
application to the emergency crop
loan office.
CARD OF THANKS
Wr wish to thank all our neighbors
and friends for their kindness during
the illness and death of our husband
and father. We also wish to let Mr.
md Mrs. Willard Clyde and daughter
know how we appreciated their ser
vices in singing the beautiful songs.—
Mrs. M. A. Summer and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Todsen and child
ren pent Sunday with relatives and
friends at Grand Island.
High School Gridstcrs
Start Spring Practice
A call was issued to football field
braves by Elmer Stolte, public school
coach Wednesday after school hours.
Depending on weather, practice for
this spring was to start Thursday af
ternoon and it was expected 11 to 20
gridstcrs should turn out for work tow.
ard pegging places on the regular goal
galloper unit of this school. Accord
ing to the raw material in brawn and
brain, and any seasoned timber here
available, the pigskin jugglers of this
section might as well run up the white
flag before next falls games get under
way.
Conditions Under Which
Tenant May Rent Con
tracted Acres For Cash
Under certain conditions, tenants
who have been renting for share rent
now have permission from the Corn
Hog Section at Washington to rent
contracted acres in 1934 for cash rent.
The conditions, however, are so re
stricted as to make the use of the
plan very limited.
In the first place, the change in the
lease from 1933 would be subject to
approval of the county corn-hog al
lotment committee who must satisfy
themselves that the rate of cash rent
is a fair rate for the land involved,.
This will keep landlords from demand
ing a high cash rent before allowing
tenants to put the farm under the
corn-hog contract.
Secondly, the landlord of the place
must either have all of his land hold
ings under the corn-hog contract, or
he must have become a party to at
least one corn-hog contract as a pro
ducer or as a landlord on a share rent
farm.
Most of the requests for this per
mission to rent contracted acres for
cash had come from large holders of
land who wanted to help tenants on
some of their farms without the land
holders theselves becoming parties to
the contract. If they sign up all their
farms or enter into a contract on any
one of them on a share rent basis,
there would be little object in the land
holders shifting any contracted acres
to cash rent on any farms.
A landlord who has only one farm
may prefer to take cash rent for the
contracted acres instead of signing the
contract as landlord on land rented
for a share of the crop.
Revival Meetings At
The Methodist Church
Beginning next Tuesday, March 13,
special meetings will be held in the
local Methodist church, which will con
tinue until Easter Sunday. The meet,
ing the first week will be in charge of
the Rev. Lawrence Yost, who will
preach from Tuesday until Friday. On
Sunday, March 18, the Rev. E. W. Nye,
of Lincoln, will be here and will have
charge for the two weeks preceding
Easter Sunday. These meetings are
open to everybody and your cooper
ation is invited.
The two local Protestant churches, the
M. E. and Presbyterian, are cooperat
ing as much as possible in the church
loyalty campaign which is in operation
among a thousand churches in Nebras
ka. Both churches urge sacrificial at
tendance at all regular church meet
ings during the next three weeks. Both
churches are rejoicing in increased
interest thruout the winter, but feel
the need of a yet deeper loyally. Go
to Sunday School and church next
Sunday. Support the plans which the
pastors and their helpers have so care
fully and prayerfully made.
Rev. F. J. Aucock.
Hospital Notes
Alice Sexsmith was operated on
Monday night for appendicitis.
Mrs. A. T. Crumley, of Page, was
dismissed from the hospital Wednes
day afternoon.
Baby Kenneth Wrede, who has been
critically iill for the past week, is
much improved and will go home the
last of the week.
Here is another town bidding for
winter resort business. Six miles west
of Custer, South Dakota, Mrs. Mar
garet Fox grew fine Irish potatoes
outdoors and she dug some February
17, kept them until a few days ago
and cooked them. Some of the spuds
measured three inches around. If
anyone in Holt county has raised any
thing this winter save Cain and a
moustache The Frontier would like to
hear about it.
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Weatherman Harry Bowen’s rain
catcher at the court house Saturday
morning registered a rainfall amount
ing to .no of one inch, every drop of
which entered the ground where it fell.
Filing: For County Offices
Several candidates for county office
have submitted their filings within the
past week, as follows:
Thomas Hanrahan, of Atkinson,
democrat, for supervisor from the
Seventh district.
Ezra W. Cooke, of Chambers, filed
for the republican nomination for sup
ervisor from the Fifth district, now
represented by Rodell Root, republican.
Rodell Root filed for the republican
nomination for supervisor from the
Fifth district, to succeed himself.
G.S. Withers, of Wyoming township,
filed for the republican nomination for
supervisor from the Fifth district.
J. J. Krska, of Atkinson, filed for
the republican nomination for county
treasurer, a place now filled by W. E.
Conklin, republican.
Edward O. Dibble, of Atkinson, filed
for the democratic nomination for
supervisor from the Seventh district.
Mrs. Luella Parker filed for renom
ination to the office of county super
intendent, a position she has filled for
several years.
Judge Dickson Addresses
Lancaster County Bar
State Journal: District Judge Rob
ert R. Dickson, of O’Neill, addressing
Lancaster County Bar association Sat
urday night at the Cornhusker hotel,
declared “the country needs more
sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the
caliber of J. E. Lancaster of Platts
mouth.” His statement was one of a
scries of suggestions for the better
ment of crime conditions.
“If we had more officers like Lan
caster, it would put the fear of God
into more of those who disrespect the
law. Then you could rest in peace
with the assurance that your property
and home would be safe.”
In the early part of his address,
Judge Dickson said he came as a
"plain spoken American citizen be
lieving in the fundamental principals
of the government as it had. been
established.” He said warnings of our
fathers had been left behind and the
nation had embarked upon strange
waters in a strange craft. He ex
pressed the hope, however, that the
country was embarking upon a new
era of prosperity and surpassing any
previously known.
Recognizing the “crime wave” and
disregard for law, he said a number of
factors had been blamed, among them
lax marriage and divorce laws, the
automobile, mental defectives, pro
hibition and others. Since all these
combined had brought about the pre
sent state of affairs, he recommended
several changes. He said:
“Give the judge on the bench the
right to believe and disbelieve and let
him express his convictions.
“Remove from him the shackles of
legislative enactments and strained
judicial interpretations and you will
banish from the halls of justice per
jurers, suborners of perjury, jury
fixers and alibis.
“Judges and. juries should not be ex
pected to believe when as citizens they
would ^iot. Give trial judges and
juries credit for having common sense.
Place the responsibility where it be
longs, on the trial judge and jury. If
the trial has been fair and the record
is free from error, keep hands off the
jury’s verdict. To set aside such a
verdict causes disregard for law and
constituted authority. Men become
desperate and take the law into their
own hands.
“There will be no material change
until there has been a revision of our
general and. criminal statutes and pro
cedure to meet present day conditions.
Such changes will not come overnight.
“Judges should not be compelled to
sit gagged, blindfolded and tied hand
and foot in fear of being reversed or
criticized if they dare be more than
referees.
“If executive and legislative bodies
want to do something for law enforce
ment let them repeal every statutory
law, rule and regulation that is out of
tune and does no respond to the heart
beats of the decent citizenship of the
state and the people will see that those
remaining on he statutes are enforced
and the guilty punished.”
Judge Dickson gave reminiscences
of his law practice in the early part of
his experience. He said that often he
was glad to accept a fee of only $5
but that the sum then would buy con
siderably more. Office rent, he said,
was $.'! per month.
Mr and Mrs. .1. G. Lydon mude a
business trip to Omaha last Saturday
morning,returning that evening. While
jin the city they purchased complete
beauty shop equipment and Mrs.
Lydon will open and maintain and op
erate a beauty parlor in her home in
i the eastern part of the city.
Entire Teaching Staff Of
Public School Elected To
Serve For Another Term
The public school board, of O’Neill j
met Monday evening and re-elected!
the entire teaching stall to serve an
other term. Those re-elected and j
their salaries as announced at the j
beginning of this term and the po
sitions they hold in the school follow,
as well as their place of permanent
residence:
Roy W. Carrroll, superintendent,
<2,2,50, O’Neill; Harold M. Denny, I
principal, $1,670, O’Neill; Hubert L.
Beals, commercial, Washington, Iowa.1
$1 ,297; Catherine Lawler, English,;
Lincoln, $1,067; Neva Wolfe, 7th grade j
Lynch, $870; Elmer Stolte, coach and
teacher, $1,318; Mrs. Lillian Barker,
5th grade, Lincoln, $870; Betty Jones,
6th grade, Randolp, $870; Ruth Kram
er, social service and language, Neligh,
$1,146; Hilma Zimmerman, 4th grade,
Nelson, $870; Ella McCaffery, 2nd
grade, Orleans, $870; Wilma Dell
Smith, music and kindergarten, Chad
ron, $1,067; Mary lloriskey, 8th grade,
O’Neill, $950; Loretta Shaw, 1st grade.
O'Neill, $870; Helen B. Stolte, normal
training, Atkinson, $870; Hilda Gal
lagher, 3rd. grade, O’Neill, $870, with
a slight reduction for the third grade
teacher the first year.
Following is the personal of the
school board, with one vacancy: Dr.
11. L. Bennett, president; Mrs. Ethel
Hubbard, vice presiednt; Anna O’Don
nell, secretary and H. J. Birmingham
and Lee Downey.
Sate Highway Department
Will Erect Garage Building
The State Highway department pur-1
chased an acre and a half of ground off
the Jap Kitts farm, on the southwest
corner, just west of the city limits,
and will erect thereon a garage for
the maintenance of their highway
[equipment and an office for their em
ployees.
I The building will he 6Gx60 feet,
^built of lumber with concrete founda
tion and floors. The building will cost
about $2,000. The biulding will be
erected by local people and local firms
will furnish the material. They will
also maintain a machine shop in the
garage for the repair of their equip
ment. It is expected that work on the
construction of the biulding will com
mence within a week, and will be rap
idly rushed to completion.
CWA Information On
Holt County Employment
It is our belief that at this time
most of the people in Holt county are
familiar with the drastic cuts thruout
the state of Nebraska in CWA work.
Every week of our total number of
employees there is being made a ten
per cent reduction. This takes in a
large territory and many people who
are taken off wonder why. They feel
that they arc not being given a square
deal. I wish to assure you at this
time that careful consideration is giv
en when reductions are made.
At a Regional meeting held at Nor
folk on February 28, all these things
were considered and the following
solution was offered. Private industry
was to absorb all men taken off CW'A
payrolls. It is realized that Nebraska
is not an industrial state and so co
operation is requested, from all mer
chants, farmers, ranchers, hay-balers
and any person hiring men. By the
above statement is meant that when
ever you are in need of help, regard
less of what type, we would appreciate
it if you would call on us. We have
complete lists of registrations in this
office and can refer to you various
persons with or without experience,
and with references.
Should any business men hire help
without calling on us for referals we
should appreciate being notified so
that if the person is registered, we can
cancel the registration.
W'e trust that cooperation from all
the business men can be expected.
L. B. Youngworth, Manager,
National Reemployment Service.
Judge and Mrs. K. R. Dickson went
down to Lincoln last Thursday after
noon, where on Saturday evening the
Judge addressed the Lancaster county
bar association, at their annual ban
quet. According to the Lincoln Star,
Mrs. Dickson was a guest of Mrs.
Charles W. Bryan at the executive
mansion last Friday. They returned
home last Saturday evening.
Rev. J. G. McNamara, assigned here
from Bloomfield as pastor of St. Pat
rick's Catholic church by Bishop Rum
mel, is expected to arrive here Friday.
Tentatively, a reception is planned
for him in the gymnasium of St.
Mary’s Academy on March Id.
Fire Destroys Old Ice
House South Of Town
At 11:30 last Friday night the fire
siren sounded and the red flare of the
fire demon on the southern horizon
drew a large crowd to watch the end
of the huge Gatz Brothers icc house
south of the John L. Quig residence.
According to Edward Gatz the
structure was valued at around $1,000
and there is no insurance. It has not
been determined as to the probable
cause of the fire.
When the blaze was discovered the
building was doomed and while firemen
quickly appeared with two trucks they
were powerless as the scene of the
blaze is about a quarter mile out of
town.
The ice house was constructed by
Thomas Donlin about 1908 and later
Frank Valla became the owner. The
Gatz Brothers bought it about 1917.
No ice was placed in it for the past
three years. The lumber was part of
the large frame Catholic church that
stood on the site of the present brick
about 1910, or about that time.
The ice house measured about 50
by 50 feet with 20 foot walls and a
high roof. A great number of people
gathered near the Northwestern depot
and watched tired-shingles ride above
and drop in the eastern part of town.
Hitfh School Holds
Declamatory Contest
The High school declamatory con
test was held at the High school in
this city lust Saturday evening, com
mencing at 7:.'H). Sixteen contestants
participated, with the following re
sults:
In the oratorical section Ralph John
son won first with “The Unknown
i Soldier” and Marvin Kee was second.
In the humorious Margie Hunt won
first place with “The First Day at
the Kindergarten” and John Luben
was second.
In the dramatic section Max Hough
won first with “No. 1627" and Nila
Renner was second.
In the extemporanious Wallace Pow
{ell won first witn “U. S. Security for
Feace.”
The winners in the several divisions
will represent the O’Neill high school
at the district contest, to be held at
a time and place to be designated
later.
CITY POLITICS WARMING UP
City politics give evidence of warm
ing up the past few days. Today a
petition is in circulation placing in
nomination John Kersenbrock for the
office of mayor. C. E. Stout, the pres
ent mayor, is a candidate for reelection.
Petitions are also in circulation for
Levi Yantzi for councilman from the
Third ward, a place filled for several
years by Mike Johnson, who is a can
didate for reelection.
So far there has been no opposition
to W. H. Ilarty, councilman from the
First ward and a candidate for re
election and Thomas Brennan, coun
cilman from the Second ward and also
a candidate for reelection.
Ed. Campbell is a candidate for re
election as city clerk and Ed. Quinn
for election as city treasurer, a posi
tion to which he was appointed a
couple of months ago, upon the resig
nation of C. P. Hancock. So far no op
position is in the field against them.
For the school board, as far as we
have heard, there are but three candi
dates: Dr. H. L. Bennett is a candi
date to succeed himself and Anna
O’Donnell is also a candidate to succeed
herself. There is one vacancy, caused
by the removal of George Shoemaker
from the district and for this vacancy
Ben Winchell is a candidate.
Last Saturday at the south J. B.
Ryan ranch, a spike-head, struck with
| a claw hammer, broke off striking
James McDermott, .'50, son of Mrs.
Dominick McDermott of O’Neill, in
one eye, and it is feared the eye-ball
may have to be removed at Norfolk,
where he was rushed. McDermott was
treated here by Dr. J. I’. Brown who
advised the patient to go to Norfolk
j for treatment by specialists.
A shower was tendered Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Strong, who were married at
the Gospel Mission at Long Pine Feb
ruary 20, at their farm home north
west of here Tuesday evening. One
who attended said there were more
than 70 persons in the gathering at
the farmstead. Before her marriage,
Mrs. Strong's name was Helen Cole
and she is a daughter of Mr. anil Mrs.
Roy Cole of O’Neill.
The condition of Mrs. Ratliff, who
suffered n stroke about a week ago,
is about the same according to the ut
j tending physician, Dr. Brown.
535 CARLOADS OF WILD
HAY SHIPPED OUT OF
O’NEILL IN 2 MONTHS
Some Of Those Doing The Buying
Believe llay Will Be Sought
I'p To .May 1.
The business of handling wild Elk
horn Valley hay in Holt county is
forging ahead by leaps and. bounds.
In the month of January 184 car loads
went out of O’Neill over the North
western railway while during Febru
ary the record shows 351 car loads
went out, most of them to points in
South Dakota,
Federal government agencies are
buying most of this hay and paying
an average of $5 a ton for it.
Within the sixty day period, from
January 1 to March 1, the total number
of car loads pulled out of O’Neill were
535. In each car there is about thir
teen tons and the average price is*
$5 a ton. About 6,955 tons is the
O’Neill hay shipping record for Jan
uary and February and the money
paid to the haymen amounts to about
134,775.
There are seven towns on the North
western railway in Holt county and it
is assumed the hay record, there is
equal to that of O'Neill. If this as
sumption is correct, 3,745 car loads
of wild hay went out of the county
in the sixty days and the wild hay
producers were paid the considerable
sum of $245,425.
As far as can be learned, at this
time there is no glutted murket so far
in the South Dakota area where most
of this hay is being consigned.
Some of those doing the buying
here believe the hay will be eagerly
sought up to May 1. There has been
talk of a price rise but nothing
definitely can be ascertained regard
ing this.
There has been considerable hay
trucked out of here and there is no
way to obtain anything like exact
figures on the amount of such ship
ments. Also, there is shipments of
wild hay from north Holt county
from Spencer and Lynch on the North
western and this outlet has removed
an amount of hay that is not added to
the Holt county shipments enumera
ted above.
Chain Hardware Store
Expected To Open Here
From present indications this city
will have another chain business house
about the first of the coming month.
A national hardware and automobile
accessory supply house has been dick
ering for a location in this city for
several months and we understand that
arrangements are expected to be com
pleted within the next ten days for a
very desirable location and if the deal
is finally consumated the new estab
lishment will open for business about
the first of the coming month. The
new store will be a valuable addition
to the business interests of this city,
which is recognized as the best trad
ing point in this section of the state.
—
Rob Rank At Sioux Falls
Tuesday morning robbers entered
the Security National Bank of Sioux
I Falls, S. D., scooped up $46,000 in cash,
loaded the teller, bookkeeper and two
stenographers into an automobile with
the loot and escaped. A motor cycle
policeman, who investigated the bar
racade of machine gon bulled that the
bandits discharged to awe the people
who had gathered around the bank,
was shot by one of the bandits and will
probably die. Although pursued for
a while by officers they made their
escape.
Arthur F. Mullen has tendered his
resignation as democratic national
committeeman from Nebraska, and the
: vacancy will be filled by the democratic
state committee at a meeting to be
held on March 17, according to an an
nouncement made by State Chairman
Thomas in Washington.. There prom
ises to be a lively scrap between the
Bryan and anti-Bryan forces for the
control of this committee and the
naming of the new committeeman.
The St. Mary’s Academy basketball
team at the district tournament closing
at Neligh Saturday gave the enemy a
working out until Saturday afternoon
i when it was defeated by Oakdale 36
to 20. Thursday this team trimmed
Page, Friday it beat Johnstown and
Saturday Oakdale defeated it 30 to 20.
The basketball tournament of the
! local high school ended last Thursday
| night when the Juniors took the fresh
| men into camp with a score of 26 to
i 11 und became the champions of the
j High school.
