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VOL. LIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1934. No. 45
PETER EGGAR DIES
AT ROCHESTER, MINN.
Had Been A Resident Of Holt County
Since 1911, Farming North
Of O’Neill.
Death came to Peter Eggar suddenly
while at Rochester, Minnesota, Tues
day morning, March 27. Mr. Eggar
went to the medical center to receive
treatment for a condition known as
coronary scelerosis and this malady
was the cause of his death. The body
was shipped to this city, arriving here
Wednesday night.
Peter Eggar lived on a farm 16
miles north of O’Neill since moving
here from Belden in 1911. He was 69
years, 4 months and 7 days old. at the
time of his death. His wife died in
1908.
Deceased leaves five children to
mourn the death of a kind and indul
gent father. The children are: Mar
garet, William, John and Walter, of
O’Neill and Ernst of Roy, Montana.
First information to reach here that
the end might be near was contained
in a telegram received Monday night
by John Eggar. A second message
Tuesday morning announced the death.
On receipt of the first message William
and John started for Rochester, but
did not arrive there until after their
father had passed away.
Deceased leaves five brothers and
three sisters. His funeral will be
held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock
and the services are to be in the Pres
byterian church here in charge of
Rev. William G. Vahle, of the St.
John’s Lutheran church, Atkinson.
Burial is to be in Prospect Hill ceme
tery at O’Neill.
Peter Eggar was a man of sterling
integrity and one of our most success
ful farmers and stockmen. He will be
missed not only by his relatives and
immediate neighbors but by a large
number of people over the county,
who knew' him as a stalworth and
worthy citizen, with friends by the
hundreds in all walks of life.
Kite Flying In Town
Might Prove Disasterous
W’ith spring kite flyers having their
ups and downs it is astonishing how
many boys fly their products in town
where a maze of electric wiring holds
instant death for anyone monkeying
with harnessed lightening. A wet
string might send dwrn a charge of
sinko and there wouud be regrets but
not on the part of the victim.
If there is one thing there is plenty
ef out here it is space, and right on
the edges of town.
Will Sign 800 CCC
Recruits In April
Eight hundred CCC recruits in Ne
braska are to be signed up in April.
Nebraska now has about 2,800 in
camps. The 800 recruits are to gath
er as follows:
Sector No. 7—Fremont, April 2,
from 9 to 10 o’clock a. m. Counties:
Dodge, Saunders, Burt, Colfax and
Cuming. .
Sector No. 10—O’Neill, April 3, 8 to
2 p. m. Counties: Holt, Boyd, Keya
Paha, Brown, Rock, Wheeler.
Sector No. 9—Norfolk, April 8, 8
to 9 a. m. Counties: Madison, Boone,
Antelope, Knox, Pierce, Stanton,
Wayne, Cedar, Dixon, Dakota and
Thurston.
Judge R. R. Dickson and court re
porter Ted McElhaney went to Ains
worth Tuesday morning where a hear
ing was to be held for Michael J. Flan
nigan to determine if he is to have a
new trial on his conviction there some
time ago on a banking violation charge.
Judge Dickson denied the request for
a new trial. They returned home
Tuesday evening.
Interstate Will Make
Patrons An Easter Gift
Commencing April 1st the Inter
state Power Company are putting into
effect a reduction in light and power
rates in this city, which will be cheer
ing news to the patrons of the corn
pan in this city. It is a real Easter
gift to the consumers of electrical cur
rent.
A letter was received by federal
officers at Sioux Falls from a clerk
claiming to be the man who sold Verne
Sankey the necktie with which he hung
himself in ieh he asked the big re
ward offer for the apprehension of
United Sta; public enemy No. 1.
I ■*. N'-llie Fnielich, who has been
111 of pneumoria, has recovered and is
up and around. She suffered single
pne .-uonin with heart complications.
Suit Arises Out Of Alleged
Incorrect Abstract On Land
Last Monday afternoon there was
concluded all but the hearing of argu
ments by attorneys J. J. Harrington
and D. R. Mounts a district court case*!
here wherein Charles H. Morley, Oma-1
ha attorney, is suing for damages M. j
H. McCarthy and others, a bonding!
company, for alleged failure of an ab
stract concern to mention in an ab
stract the fact the taxes for the years
1920-1 remoined unpaid at the time
Morley purchased the land.
Morley and Mounts were the attor
neys for Morley and J. J. Harrington
was the attorney for McCarthy and
those impleaded with him. The argu
ments were to be made Wednesday.
It was alleged, the oversight clouded
the title and made the abstract defect
ive.
Planting To Fit Corn-Hog
Program Will Take Burden
From Permanent Pasture
Many run-down weedy permanent
pastures may have a year of rest in
Nebraska in 1934. Planning of crop
seedlings to fit the corn-hog reduction
programs will leave a few acres on
some farms for the forage crops like
sudan, cane, and sweet clover.
A few acres of sweet clover for
spring and fall pasture, supplemented
with a few more acres of sudan for'
July and August would take the bur
den off the old permanent pasture
and give it a chance to stage a come
back. Mowing the rag weeds, vervain,
sunflowers, buck brush, etc. would give
the native grasses another chance to
goin some strength and claim the land
again.
Probably nothing has been so badly
neglected in the past on many Ne
braska farms as the permanent past
ure. As soon as the ground looks
green in the spring, the livestock be
gin to nibble away at the grass. When
it burns brown in mid-summer they
eat it into the ground and when the
fall rains come, the grass roots again
are robbed of their chance to store up
some food for next year’s growth. A
year’s rest would do wonders to such
a pasture.
Forslund Refuses To
Vacate His Homestead
Last week there was concluded an
unusual case at law in the court of
County Judge C. J. Malone. The
First Trust Company, of Lincoln, was
plaintiff in a forcible detention suit
against Andrew Forslund, 87 years of
age, who took a homestead long ago
in the extreme southeast township of
Holt county, Deloit, and he flatly re
fused to get off the land. Forslund
wrote President Roosevelt in effort at
obtaining the president’s aid in holding
his homestead and although the pres
ident did not write Forslund direct, a
letter was in court from a government
land department as an indirect reply
to his message to the President of the
United States. The letter was in pos
session of J. J. Harrington, Forslund’s
attorney.
The lawyers for the Trust company
were Julius D. Cronin, O’Neill, and R.
M. Kryger, Neligh.
According to the rules and regula
tions of law, Judge Malone found
against the defendant, Forslund, but
the judge granted Forslund the priv
ilege of giving bond toward holding
his homestead. According to Judge
Harrington the bond is to be drawn up
according to stipulations.
Tie This One If You Can!
By mistake an Omaha store shipped
Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes, ranchers,
Albion, Nebr., two instead of one
baby mattress. The next day Mrs.
Barnes gave birth to twins.
H. M. Perkins, of Inman, one of the;
pioneers of the southern part of the j
county, was a pleasant caller at this!
office last week and extended his sub
subscription to The Frontier. For
many years Mr. Perkins was a resi
dent of Conley and Lake precincts,
but several years ago moved to his
farm in Inman precinct southeast of
this city. He retired from active
work on the farm a year ago and
moved to Inman where he now makes
his home.
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Numerous cases of measles are re
ported and the disease is said to be in
a very mild form. To those who have
it, unless it has them, it may be re
peated the affliction is a measly in
fection and one has to scratch for a
living here just the same.
Edward Adams, the Chambers
banker, was looking after business
| matters in this city last Tuesday.
Byron Clute Dead At Inman
Wednesday morning at Inman at
the home of his daughter, Rev. Mertie
E. Clute, pernicious enemia caused
the death of Byron Henry Clute, who
was born July 8, 1851, at Homer, N.
Y.
Mr. Clute leaves his widow at Inmon
and children, Mertie E., I. M. Clute, of
Omaha and Earl A. Clute, of Missoula,
Mont.
The burial will be at Garrison, Ne
braska, and at this writing the time
hod. not been set because of an expect
ed message from the son at Missoula.
Morticians of the Biglin funeral home
here prepared the body for interment.
Activities Preceding City
Election Are Quiet
Although the city election will be
held next Tuesday politics are unusu
ally quiet, the voters apparently re
fusing to become excited, over the mat
ter. Following are the candidates to
be voted on in the election, all candi
dates having filed by petition:
For Mayor: Chorles E. Stout and
John Kersenbrock.
For City Clerk: Ed. T. Campbell
and C. \V. Porter.
For City Treasurer: E. F. Quinn.
For Police Magistrate: M. J. En
right.
For Councilman First Ward: W.
H. Harty and Francis J. Bazelman.
For Councilman Second Ward:
Thomas J. Brennan.
For Councilmon Third Ward: M.
Johnson ond Levi Yantzi.
For Membres of the Board of Edu
cation: Anna O’Donnell and H. L.
Bennett.
For Member Board of Education to
Fill Vacancy: B. T. Winchell.
For city treasurer Ed. Quinn has no
opposition. Councilman Brennan in
the Second ward is unopposed for re
election. For members of the school
board there is but one ticket, all three
candidates being unopposed.
A Case of Doubles
The appearance here of Neil Ayl
worth, son of Mrs. Phil Ziemer, caused
much confusion in several quarters. A
newspaper worker met Neil and shook
hands. Later John Grutsch walked up
to «him and told of finding a peculiar
arrowhead and Grutsch was believed
to be Aylworth. It did look strange;
Aylworth said: “Found it out on the
farm.”
Notes were compared and a relative
of Aylworth called and asked if Ayl
worth was in town. He was. And
the relative admitted she could not
tell Grutsch from Aylworth. If the
movies want two men so much alike
their relatives cannot distinguish one
from the other, we have them. If
the two, Aylworth and Grutsch, dres
sed alike they could crawl in each
other’s beds and might never know the
difference.
A great black river of crows steadily
oozing from the north, unusual south
ern movement for spring, continued
all day Sunday and most of Monday.
It started, or first was noticed Satur
day. The birds appeared on the hori
zon at the gravel pits east of town
and winged over the Timmerman farm,
flying straight south. It was esti
mated one million birds passed here.
Here and there the birds stopped to
feed, then joined the procession again.
It was suggested shortage of feed or
very bad Canadian w’eather may have
started the hegira. Who knows the
cause of the movement?
Frank Nelson, one of the energetic
farmers and stockmen of the Meek
neighborhood, returned Sunday night
from Omaha, w'here he had spent
several days visiting relatives and at
tending the annual bull sale held at
the South Omaha stock yards. While
there he purchased a two-year-old
pedigreed bull to head his herd and he
is now offering for sale the old head
of his herd, as well as several younger
animals. See his adv. in another
column.
Bennett, 15, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Hawley (Pete) Heriford, went down
with one lung pneumonia a week ago
Wednesday, on March 21. The lung
first infected is in satisfactory con
dition and the other lung is infected
but Bennett is withstanding his ordeal
like a general.
Mrs. Alice Marshall, her son, Volney,
and daughter, Viola, moved Friday
from the John Abbott residence in
southeast O’Neill to rooms in the Mrs.
Patrick Minton residence.
Cleto and Marvin Van Every are
fighting off an attack of Germar
measles—and in an Irish town at that.
Butler, Of Omaha, Likely
Republican Candidate For
The United States Senate
Hugh A. Butler, of Omaha, head of
| the Butler-Welsh Groin Company of
that city, is being prominently men
tioned as a candidate for the republi
can nomination for United States sena
tor. Mr. Butler has been for years
one of the prominent residents of the
metropolis. He has served the people
of that city as a member of the Board
of Education, the only official position
he ever held.He is the district gover
nor of the 19th District, International
■Rotary, with all of the state under
his jurisdiction. He has an extensive
acquaintance in the southern part of
the state, being part owner of a large
Hereford cattle and Hampshire hog
ranch near Cambridge. His many
friends in Omaha, as well as over the
state, have been urging him to enter
the race and if he decides to do so
he will make an aggressive campaign
for the nomination and election. The
republicans of the state would be as
I sured of a good, clean and able can
j didate in the coming battle, if Mr.
1 Butler should enter the race.
Pork And Chickens Stolen
From Joe Jereskie Farm
A son of Joseph Jereskie, farming
the Michael Gallagher place two miles
east of town, told of a series of at
tacks which should cause every farmer
to be on his guard night and day.
About three years ago, the young
man said, 200 turkeys and several dogs
were poisoned when the family lived
north of town. It was believed the
| poisoners intended getting only the
! dogs in preparation for a raid.
Not long ago, at the present home,
j chickens were stolen. About three
weeks ago, the matter being kept quiet
in hope of picking up evidence, the
| night of a violent dust storm, about
five gallons of lard and 200 pounds of
! meat was taken from a milk shed that
; is only about 100 feet from the farm
j house.
! Tracks of automobile tire3 were
noticed within a few feet of the shed.
It had been planned to fry down the
meat the next day and when it was
sought there was nothing there but
space and nothing to fry.
A strange thing about this last deal
is that the house has no telephone and
apparently no one knew the hog had
been butchered outside members of the
family.
It was suggested some one concealed
•in an automobile in river brush or
otherwise may have watched the butch
ering through field glass lens. Jeres
kie may hold a little surprise party
for midnight visitors sometime, the
3on said.
Stamp Club Holds Meeting
Members of the O’Neill Stamp Club
met at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles McKenna last Friday evening
and the following members were pres
ent: Edward Stein, Hugh McKenna,
Ray and Junior Toy, Elmer Bowen,
Ralph Johnson and. Fred Halva.
Elmer Bowen exhibited some rare
cachets and Ray Toy spoke on counter
fits and how to detect them through
examinations of perforations, stating
that every stamp has its own indi
vidual pecularities, number of hole
to the measure and so on. R. W. Car
roll is president; Ray Toy vice presi
dent, and Hugh McKenna is secretary
treasurer of the club. It was planned
to hold another meeting either Wed
nesday or Thursday, this week.
Given One Year In Jail
Warren Sparks was arrested last
Saturday on the charge of adultry.
He was taken before Judge Dickson,
plead guilty to the charge, the Judge
deferring the sentence and Sparks was
placed in the county jail. On Wednes
day he was again taken before the
court and Judge Dickson sentenced
him to one year in the county jail.
Sparks, who is married but separ
ated from his wife, has been living
with another women here for some
time. The women in the case is a
divorcee. She gave birth to her second
child in the past three yeors a few
days ago, which prompted the action
against Sparks, who is alleged to be
the father of the two children.
Filings For County Offices
A. D. Palmer, an employee of the
county treasurer’.* office, ha* filed for
the republican nomination foa county
treasurer.
Sam G. Coover, an old*time resident
of Puge, ha* filed for the democratic
nomination for county a*.*e*»or.
Marguerite Zemig went to her home
| near Norden to »pend Easter vacation.
Fund For Grasshopper
Poisoning Approved
President Roosevelt has approved
the $2,340,000 fund for the grasshop
per poisoning campaign in central and
northern states. The bureau of en
tomology is to supervise expenditure
of the fund. More thon 13,000,000
acres is to be poisoned. In North
Dakota, 5,577,520 acres; Minnesota,
279,834; Nebraska, 200,000; South
Dakota, 2,567,396 acres and many acres
in other nearby states will be poisoned.
There is to be about 10 local distribut
ing groups in each of the eight states.
John Flannigan Taken
Friday To Penitentiary
Last Friday Peter W. Duffy, sheriff!
of Holt county, returned James C.
F'lannigan to the state penitentiary
where he is serving a sentence on con
viction here about a year ago of hav
ing received deposits at the Citizen’s
bank at Stuart when that bank was in
solvent.
The sheriff went by way of Stuart
and picked up John M. Flannigan,
James’ brother, and took him to the
penitentiary where he is to serve three
years on the same charge. John was
prsident and James vice-president of
the failed bank which closed November
30, 1930, with deposits said to have
totalled $300,000.
James had been serving his sentence
and was brought here on court order
by the sheriff as a witness in a law
suit instituted by E. H. Luikart, re
ceiver of the state banking depart
ment, against the American Surety
Company on three bonds of $5,000 each
made out to John and James Flanni
gan and Thomas Mains. Mains was
the cashier of the bank.
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Covered Wagons May Still
Be Seen Occasionally
A gentleman of the old school ar
rived from the west by mule team and
covered wagon and. remained billited
here at a leading tavern until Monday
at noon when he hitched up and pulled 1
out with smoke pouring from the stove
pipe that protruded through the canvas
roof, much to the wonderment of a
generation used to pressing buttons
for everything from information to the
undertaker.
The mules made about six miles an
hour. The name of the “pioneer" was
was not learned but it is supposed he
is on his way to Mississippi to take a
second homestead as homesteading is
likely to start all over again when the
loan companies find their millions of
“achers” are painful possessions and
not so profitable.
Whalens Doing Well As
Attorneys In California
In a letter from a mutual friend in
San Diego, California, the fact is men
tioned that the Whelans are going
like wild fire as attorneys in San Diego
county. Tom is rounding out his first
four year term as district attorney
and is reported as standing “Ace A-l
high' as to being re-elected.
“Edward Jr. is the only non-attorney
of the men folks and he is a valuable
worker in Tom’s office. Edward Sr.
has been on the sick list a few days,
but is O. K. again. There are four
attorneys in this family and there will
soon be five; the young lad is studying
law at Loyola at L03 Angeles.”
Hospital Notes
Jess Yeaver wos dismissed from
the hospital Friday evening.
Little 7-year-old Dick Richards, who
suffered a fractured leg Saturday af
ternoon while playing, was brought
to the hospital where the little fellow
was put in an extension, preparatory
to having a cast put on the leg the
latter part of the week.
John Carr, who has been ill with
pneumonia, suffered a relapse and was
brought to the hospital Saturday after
noon in a serious condition, but is con
valesing nicely at the present.
Experienced householders, those who
have successfully lived through the
first thousand years or so, say tin cans
and other hard refuse may be done
i away with by digging a hole below the
plow line and burying it. One who
-ays h« tried It advises any wells to
be sunk be planned before burying the
! junk.
In the western part of Holt county
->ome ore started a contest to see who
Hu th“ most grandchildren and so far
Loui*e Pettinger, of Stuart, holds
the lead with 4<» grand children and
nine great-grar.d-children, O’Neill,
can’t you beat that?
The graduate grabs the world by
' its tail as the aged off its horns.
NO RESTRICTIONS ON
MILKING FOR THOSE
FARMING FIRST YEAR
Two New Corn-Hog Rulings De*l
With The New Producer Who
Wants A Dairy Base.
Two new corn-hog rulings deal with
the new producer who wants a dairy
base and with the man who does not
continue to farm throughout the year
the land on which he signs a corn-hog
contract.
The man who did not farm or have
any interest in dairy cattle in 1932 or
1933 and who w-ants to sign the corn
part of the contract on the land he
farms in 1934, can milk as many dairy
cows as he wants to milk, according
to the latest ruling of the corn-hog
section. This takes care of many new
producers who wanted to make part of
their living this yeor from the cream
checks.
The man who moves after August
1, 1934, off the place on which he signs
the corn-hog contract must take all of
his hogs with him and complete his
compliance on the farm to which he
moves, the new man on the place must
complete compliance on the corn part
of the contract, the landlord regardless
of how the land is rented must sign
the corn-hog contract to insure com
pliance, and a statement regarding
the move must be filed with the county
allotment committee.
Corn-Hog Figures
Will Be Published
The Holt county corn-hog control
association will publish names and
basic corn acreage and hog numbers
of contract signers soon after the pre
cinst committees have finished check
ing the contracts, the allotment com
mittee has decided.
Printing the list at that time will
make it possible to make all the nec
essary corrections at one time, they
believe. This will tend to avoid errors
and save a lot of extra work*
Any person may make a confidential
.report, oral or written, to the county
allotment committee or to his commun
ity committee if he finds any state
ment in the publication which he be
lieves to be inaccurate. The purpose
of the publication is to help distribute
the amount of benefit pjayments allott
ed to this county fairly among the con
tract signers. Any over-statement
by one party means that others get
less than they are entitled to receive.
Arrangements will be made with
the editors of the county within the
next few days to publish the list ac
cording to directions of the Corn-Hog
Section at Washington.
High School Athletes
Begin Track Practice
According to a high school student
the football boys at the public school
turned in their football suits last Mon
day when track suits were given out
and Tuesday a preliminary track train
ing was engaged in at the fairgrounds.
The annual inter-scholastic meet, ac
cording to this young man, is to be
held here the forenoon of April 28
and in the afternoon there is to be a
track contest with jumpers, runners
and valuters in action.
Prairie chickens have pulled thru
the winter in wonderful shape. Ralph
Beckwith, of near Emmet, reported a
flock of about 200 wintered in his
vicinity. If everything goes right
with them there should be 1,000 chick
ens in this bunch next fall. A great
effort is being made to save the wild
chicken, emblematic of the Indian anj
pioneer.
The next court of honor of the dtv
trict boy scouts may be held at Creigh
ton some date in May, according to
scouts here. It is expected that from
15 to 20 scouts will go from here to
Creighton to receive various badges.
Rev. H. D. Johnson, of the Presby
terian church here, is scoutmaster of
the troop here, No. 170.
John E. Kearns, one of the old-time
newspaper men of the state, now re
siding in Omaha, was an O’Neil! visi
tor the first of the week. Mr. Kearns
is looking over the political field and
sounding out politicol sentiment. He
has covered several counties in the
state and is of the opinion that there
will be a lot of republican votes at
the election this f
Carp“nter’a nn icrs are beating a
merry I n several ections of town
land it i. .‘port'd othi. buildings are
j planned lor late sp ing or early sum
. mer. Stucco finish seems the popular
| mode ** "o .struct .on at the moment.