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VOL. LIV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934.
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No. 47
HAY SALES A LARGE
FACTOR IN INCREASE
IN TAX PAYMENTS
Taxes Paid In During First Three
Months Of 1934 Exceed 1933
Total By $79,223.30.
The amount of money received in
this county for the sale of hay, and
the corn loans is partly shown in the
receipts of the county treasurer’s
office during the past three months.
A year ago there was no demand for
hay and the price of corn was so low
that not many farmers disposed of
this crop. While the price of corn is
not much better this year, many of
the farmers took advantage of the
corn loan and received 45 cents per
bushel for their cribbed corn, less the
expense. The drought in South Dak
ota made a ready market for all the
surplus hay. in the county and many
farmers sold off from their meadows
three years crops, receiving a fairly
good price for the hay, thus enabling
them to pay up their taxes.
During the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, 1933, there was
paid into the office of the county treas
urer in taxes the sum of $49,419.17,
divided as follows: January $21,203.67;
February $12,360.11; March $15,855.39.
During the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, 1934, the county
treasurer’s office received the sum of
$128,642.47 in taxes, divided as fol
lows: January, $22,586.85; February,
$37,021.47; March, $69,034.15, or an
increase in the amount of taxes paid
in the first three months of this year
of $79,223.30 over the amount paid in
the same three months of last year.
Of the amount of taxes paid in the
first three months of 1933 $18,707.47
was back taxes and the sum of *31,
711.70 was current taxes.
During the same months of this year
the amount of back taxes paid in was
$44,375.58 and the amount of current
taxes paid was $84,266.89.
Now, if the price of cattle and hogs
would go up to where they should be
it woul not be long untH the county
treasurery would again be in good
financial condition.
Holt County Holds
Thirty-fifth Place
In the year 1933 the residents of this
county paid into the county treasury
the sum of $15,814.13 for automobile
licenses on their cars and trucks.
Thirty-four counties in the state paid
more than did this county, which
ranked thirty-fifth in the state in the
amount of money paid for this purpose.
Hospital Notes
Mrs. Helma Widtfeldt and baby are
doing nicely.
Mrs. Carl Dahlstein was operated
on for a tumor on Wednesday. Dr.
Wilson, of Stuart, helped with the
operation.
Dr. W. J. Douglas was re-elected
mayor of Atkinson and only a few
wrote in names against him. The
doctor received 279 votes and his near
est opponent received 39. Fred H.
Swingley was elected treasurer, Harry
A. Snyder clerk and Wr. S. Morgan
police magistrate. The successful
candidates for places on the board of
education were E. V. Hickok and Otto
Gloor, while I. R. Dickerson was de
feated. The vote was Gloor 332, Hick
ok 248 and Dickerson 218. About half
the Atkinson electors cast votes and
there were no red hot issues.
More than 5,000 crows in a com
pact mass flew over this city last
Tuesday evening and nature students
surmised the birds were elcctricnlly
agitated because of some strange be
havior of the weather to prevail with
in the next few days. The weather
was somewhat rampagious at that.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gallagher came
up from Lincoln last Friday afternoon
for a few days visit with relatives and
friends. Mrs. Ed. F. Gallagher, who
had been visiting at the Gallagher
home in Lincoln for several weeks, re
turned home with them. Mr. and Mrs.
Gallagher returned home Sunday.
Sunday a great number of young
sters splashed in the Elkhorn, believed
the earliest swimming on record in
Holt county. Do you know anyone
swimming here any year before April
8? The bathers reported the water
cold when first encountered and that
the hot atmosphere made the plunge a
pleasure after the first wetting.
Railway crossings on highway No.
281 have been widened to correspond
to the new grade south of town.
Selections Made For
City Appointments
Mayor-elect John Kersenbrock has
made his selections for three of the
appointments to be made by him
after he takes over the reins of city
government, early next month. The
men that he has selected for these
three positions are substantial men
and their selection for the positions
they have been selected for, will, we
believe, receive universal approval from
the people of the city. John Martin
will be the new chief of police; Emmet
Harmon will be the city attorney and
Jess Scofield will be the engineer at
the pump station.
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Political Pot Warming Up
The coming political battle in this
county gave evidence the latter part
of last week of showing some signs of
life, four filings being made last Sat
urday for county offices, two of them
being for the office of county superin
tendent, one for county treasurer and
one for sheriff. Henry D. Grady, form
er sheriff of this county, cast his hat
into the ring as a candidate for the
republican' nomination for sheriff. Mr.
Grady made a splendid record as
sheriff and will prove a strong con
tender for the nomination and election.
Ben T. Winchell, former register of
deeds of this county and for several
years an employee in the court house,
filed for the democratic nomination for
county treasurer.
Miss Grace Joyce, of O'Neill, filed
for the nomination on the non-politi
cal ballot for the office of county super
intendent.
Miss Frances Tomjack, of Ewing,
filed for the non-political nomination
for the office of county superintendent.
This makes three filings for this office:
Mrs. Parker,the incumbent, Miss Joyce
and Miss Tomjack.
Minnie Parks, Of Page,
Dead From Pneumonia
Mrs. Minnie Grace Parks, wife of
Harold J. Parks, of Page, died Wed
nesday of an attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. Parks was born near Page May
24, 1004. She married on Christmas
day, December 25, 1921. Her father
was William Park, and when she mar
ried she changed her name only to the
extent of adding one “s.”
Mrs. Parks leaves her husband, her
mother, three brothers and. si xsons
to mourn her sudden death. The sons
arc: Harold H., Homer L., Wayne G.,
Robert L., Maurice C., and Merwin
L.
The funeral of Mrs. Parks will be
held Friday, April 1J, at 2 o’clock with
services at the Page Methodist church
and burial is to be at the Page
cemetery.
Boys’ Honor Club Party
The Boy’s Honor Club of the Meth
odist church, under the direction of
Archie Bowen, attended a party in the
basement of the church Wednesday
evening. A great variety of good
things to eat was on hand, but not for
long after the call to lunch sounded.
The following boys have joined this
club: Donald and Pat Mitchell, Ralph
and Ned Porter, Gerald Leach, Martin
Van Every, Harold McCleese, Eldon
Harbottle, Herbert and Berwyn Shav
er, Morris Kirkpatrick, Howard and
George Dahlstein, Donald Bowen, La
vernc Lynch, Junior Harris, Norman
Slopover, Junior Vanderlinden and
Frankie Pettijohn.
Rev. F. J. Aucock is the leader and
Archie Bowen the manager.
There was a meeting Wednesday
afternoon at the K. C. hall here of
the extension project clubs and James
W. Rooney, retiring extension agricul
tural agent, there made a farewell
speech and introduced F. M. Reece,
who came here from Valentine to be
come Holt county agricultural agent.
Mr. Rooney recently was named as
secreatary-treasurer of the O’Neill
Production Credit association and re
signed his position as Holt county
farm agent.
Jeremiah Murphy, who would have
been 94 years of age had He lived one
more day, died at the home of a son
near Stuart. He landed in the United
States when but 11 years old and in
1875 he married Bridget O’Neill, of
Toronto, Canada. In 1880 he came to
O’Neill and the next spring he home- j
steaded four miles south of Stuart. He
lived in Atkinson and also at Miami,!
Folrida, for some years.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Ashton, of Neligh,
visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Wyant Sunday. Sunday was
the thirty-first anniversary of the
Ashtons. Mr. Ashton is proprietor of
the Westland Studio at Neligh.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mrs. Frank Froelich made a trip
to Norfolk last Monday, returning
home that evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sholes and child
ren, living southeast of this city, were
here shopping Saturday and visiting at
the George Van Every home.
John Tomjack, of Ewing, and Miss
Regina Kellhoff, of Clearwater, were
granted a marriage license in county
court last Thursday afternoon.
John Johnson, Burlington section
foreman at Plainview, his wife and
son, Charles, spent Sunday here visit
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Edwards.
James Rika, of Bonesteel, South
Dakota and MisB Bertha Dawson, of
Spencer, were granted a marriage
license in county court last Saturday
afternoon.
A flock of sandhill cranes numbering
100, noisly passed this point last Sat
urday evening, trumpeting their joy at
sight of Holt county under a low hung
April sun.
Kid. fisherman tried their luck Sat
urday at various fishing holes along
the Elkhorn and some brought home
big catches and others big stories of
the ones that got away.
The rural school taught by Bessie
Fuller, daughter of Levi Fuller, near
the Chester Ross farm near Red Bird,
closed last Friday with a cake and ice
cream treat for everybody.
Box car homes of workmen of the
Burlington department of bridges and
buildings were sidetracked here Mon
day. The men are rebuilding the Bur
lington stockyards cast of town.
A country visitor said there is to
be a picnic for pupils of the John Bel
lar school six miles west of here, on.
May 11. Helen O'Connell is the
teacher’s name, the informant *akl.
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Gerald, 22, sbn w/t Mrs. T. F. Dono
hue, north of this city, came home to
see his father who was seriously ill
from an attack of pneumonia. Gerald
has been in an Oregon CCC camp.
James Payne, of Sheridan, Wyoming,
formerly a resident of this county, ar
rived in the city the first of the week
for a few days visit with his cousins
the Shoemaker boys south of this city.
George Urlaub has been somewhat
under the weather the past week from
a peculiar affliction wherein the saliva
ducts on one side of his checks failed
to function, causing a swelling on one
side of his face.
Mrs. Edward Campbell entertained
the Martez Club at her home last Mon
day evening. Mrs. C. F. McKenna,
Mrs. Ed. M. Gallagher, Mrs. Ivan
Kinsman and MNu F. B. Harty were
the prize winners.
Following a little north wind the
other day, “Big Hank" Tomlinson re
marked that if this thing kept on, the
assessors of South Dakota may have
to come to Nebraska to assess South
Dakota real estate.
Members of the Nebraska State
banker’s association will meet at Nor
folk in annual convention April 23.
Only members of Group No. 3 are to
gather there. Several prominent
bankers are to speak.
With the finding of about 4,00(1
machine gun cartridges near Yankton
by a boy it was believed Clyde Barrow,
much sought bandit, had passed thru
Nebraska early this week and may be
in South Dakota in some hideout.
It is reported in other papers that
Harry L. Hopkins and 200 railroads
have agreed that after January 1,
1935, there is to be no more free rid
ing on trains, flitch hiking in to be
stopped also, the report indicates.
Mrs. E. J. Velder, of Bonesteel, S. D.,
was in the city last Friday evening1
on her way to Washington, D. C., j
where Mr. Velder has been for the,
past six weeks working in the interest;
of the star route carriers of the.
country.
Hikers Sunday reported a gold col- j
ored bug, shaped like a potato bug,
stung them like mosquitos do, only
the wounds burned more intensely, i
The bug was descrilwd as a little smal
ler than a Lady bug and numerous.!
What is the name of this insect?
BONUS SUGGESTED TO
REDUCE DAIRY STOCK
Would I'se Some Method Of Persuad
ing Dairymen To Reduce
Their Herds.
Nebraska dairymen will find it easy
to reduce the amount of dairy pro
ducts marketed if the tenative dairy
adjustment program goes thru. The
plan, as announced at regional con
ferences, is based on the amount of
milk marketed, rather than the amount
produced.
M. L. Flack, extension dairyman of
the Nebraska college of agriculture,
says the plan gives housewives an op
portunity to help out. Most farm
families in Nebraska use about all the
milk and cream and butter they want
on the table but all could use a little
more if they felt they were getting
paid to do it.
Thousands of cans of cream in Ne
braska come from red cows that have
been milked during the “depression"
in order to supply the farm family
with a little spending money. It will
be no trouble at all to put a couple of
calves on each of the red cows to be
taken out of production in 1934, under
the tentative proposal.
Some poorer producing cows may be
culled from the dairy herds and sent
to market. Some fair producers may
move into areas where families need a
cow apice to produce milk and butter
for home use. Good dairy breeders, it
is thought, will delay breeding their
heifers for a few months and possibly
I sell their old cows a little sooner than
usual. Both of these practices are
good dairy herd management, anytime.
The federal dairy adjustment pro
gram, however, awaits final decision of
dairymen convening in regional con
ferences. Nebraska was represented
at the Kansas City meeting last week
where several changes in the tentative
plan were proposed. One would in
clude the paying of a bonus on cows
sold above normal culling in order to
reduce the surplus.
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I Federal Farm Bonds
Selling: Above Par
James F. O’Donnell, secretary
treasurer of the O’Neill national farm
loan association of O’Neill, recently
received word from the Governor of
the Farm Credit Administration Wm.
I. Myers, telling him of the ready
reception which farmers and their
creditors are giving to the bonds of
the Federal Farm Mortgage Corpor
ation which are now being tendered
by the Federal Land bank of Omah
in place of cash in settlement of
farmers’ debts.
“These bonds have been selling in
the large markets at a little above
par, indicating a ready market ior
them. Just a week after the banks
began using bonds instead of cash, the
first bonds to be sold on the New York
market were purchased at 10014. We
anticipated these bonds which bear
314 per cent interest per annum would
sell at par or above at the time we set
the interest rate, for government bonds
maturing in 1941, bearing the same
rate were selling above par.”
Mr. Myers pointed out that these
bonds were not only exempt from local,
state and federal taxation with the ex
ception of the surtaxes, inheritance
and gift taxes, but that they arc as
readily salable as government securit
ies. He said they are being (pioted
in the metropolitan papers but if such
quotations are not available readily to
farmers that they will be given quota
tions if they will write to the Federal
land bank of their district.
Sunday several boys said they picked
up a bottle and were preparing to fire
a .22 caliber rifle at it when it was
noticed there was a piece of paper in
the bottle. The note was said to hold
the legend: "Lloyd Davidson, O’Neill.,
July 1, 1932.” It may have been
hoped the note should be read in the
vicinity of the South Sea islands, but
we are sorry to have to report, the
bottle made just exactly one half mile
since July 1, 1932.
Spring burst to full glory here last;
Saturday and Sunday when summer j
temperatures prevailed and all of;
nature’s sleeping children awoke and t
stirred about. The fine weather isj
still with us although there are slight
variations of breezes and temperature
drops.
Kric Borg, one of the energetic
farmers of the Agee neighborhood,
was a pleasant caller at this office last
Monday afternoon and advanced his
subscription to this disseminator of
the news of Holt county and this sec
tion of the state.
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Holt County Has 1,396
On Corn-Hog Contracts
The Corn-Hog reduction sign-up was
completed Saturday, April 7th, with
1396 contracts signed in Holt county
The total corn base which is under
contract is 106,922.2 acres, or 75 per
cent of the total corn acreage in the
county. The hog base under contract
is 72,042.5 or 82 per cent of the total
hogs raised and marketed, in the
county. According to these figures
approximately $110,000 will he paid
to Holt county farmers as a result of
the corn-hog reduction program.
Seventeen Regional Offices
Assigned for Reemployment
Seventeen regional offices are to
have dominion in Nebraska over re
employment, Francis Cornell, state
re-employment director reported. He
added that twenty-six counties have
been closed to re-employment because
no public works are planned in them.
In the new regional offices will he
members of a stalT of 136 persons and
the offices are to function at the ex
pense of the federal government until
July 1, 1934. Aftr that date the offices
may function on a dollar matching
basis if this is agreed to by the state.
Offices now established and the
counties under their dominion arc:
South Sioux City: Cedar, Dakota,
Dixon.
Fremont: Saunders, Dodge, Burt
and Washington.
Norfolk: Antelope, Knox and. Mad
ison.
Columbus: Butler, Platte, Boone,
Nance and Colfax.
O’Neill: Keya Paha, Wheeler, Boyd
Cherry and Holt.
Nebraska Hay Has Aided
People Of South Dakota
An elevator company with head
quarters in South Dakota set up an
organisation of offices in this vicinity
January 1, for the purpose of purchas
ing hay for relief districts of South
Dakota, and a few figures released by
this firm will indicate the gigantic
turnover hay underwent since the date
mentioned.
This firm alone has sent to South
Dakota 730 box cars of hay from the
following points: Bassett, Stuart, Em
met, Lynch, Anoka, Bristow', Plain
view, Neligh, Creighton, Humphrey,
Clearwater, Ewing, Inman, Stafford
and O’Neill.
One contract represented 1,276 tons
Of wild hay, the product of the Pat
O’Connor acreage on upper Dry creek.
A representative of this firm said
they desired to thank the people of the
O’Neill vicinity and the Northwestern
railway company for satisfactory ser
vices and the thanks was offered on
behalf of the destitute people of sec
tions of South Dakota.
Hering-Kee
Theordort Hering, of Omaha, and
Miss Wilma Kcc, of O’Neill, were
united in marriage at the Presbyteriaft
Manse at 10 o'clock last Monday morn
ing, Rev. II. D. Johnson, officiating, in
the presence of a few relatives and
friends of the contracting parties.
Miss Kee is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Kee, living northwest of
this city, and is a young lady of
charming and agreeable manners and
personality, having a host of friends
in this city and vicinity who wish her
and the man of her choice a long and
happy journey on the matrimonial sea.
The potato hug found a week ago
at the Mike Johnson home is in a sorry
plight. It ate a hole in a piece of raw
potato, crawled in and continued a
winter sleep. Now the potato is shrunk
about him and is as hard as flint. The
insect is to he watched to see if it can
cut its way out of prison when it is
time to eat some potato plants next
June.
A meeting of the Holt County Base
! ball League will he held at O'Neill,
Thursday, April HI for the purpose of
arranging a schedule, hearing appli
cations for admittance of new memb
ers and any other business that may
properly come before the meeting.
John J. Harrington. President.
At many points crow hunts are
j being planned so as to give chickens,!
pheasants, ipiail ami other feathered |
i creatures half a chance this nesting
season. Holt county literally is teem- [
ing with the craven right now. Why
1 not choose up sides and give the crows i
the outside ?
The highway running west thru
here. No. 20. again looks like a length |
of front line trench with machinery
and works in preparation for paving. |
THOMAS DONOHOE IS
DEAD FOLLOWING A
TWO WEEKS ILLNESS
Had Hern A Resident Of Holt County
Since 1879, Coming Here When
But A Small Boy.
Thomas Francis Donohoe died at his
home, eight miles north of this city,
last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock
after an illness of two weeks of pneu
monia, at the age of 61 years, 10
months and 26 days.
Thomas F. Donohoe was born at
Beaver Meadows, Penn., on May 12,
1872, and his parents moved to this
county in the fall of 1879 where he had
made his home ever since. On May 1,
1906, he was united in marriage to Miss
Elizabeth McNichols, daughter of one
of the pioneer families, who, with three
sons, Joseph, Gerald and Clarence
and one brother and three sisters are
left to mourn the death of a kind and
indidgent husband, father and brother.
His brother is P. J. Donohoe, of Bone
steel, South Dakota, and his sisters
are: Mrs. Catherine Matthews, Miss
Anna, for many years county superin
endent of this county, and Miss Agnes,
all of this city and all of whom were
present at the funeral.
Mr. Donohoe was one of the out
standing citizens of this county, where
he had resided for fifty-five years,
nearly his entire lifetime. He was held
in high esteem by everyone who had
the honor of his acquaintance. At the
time of his death he was the precinct
assessor of his precinct, Shields, and
had held various offices in that town
ship where his sterling integrity, loy
alty to his friends and any trust re
posed in him and his love and devotion
to his family and home life was known
and recognized. As a boy and young
man he endured all the hardships and
vicissitudes of the pioneers of this
county, but by untiring labor he sur
mounted all difficulties and was in a
position to take life easy and enjoy the
fruits of his labor, when he was
called. He had been in failing health
for the past three or four years, hav
ing an affection of the heart, but he
was able to attend to his daily avo
ations until seized with an attack of
pneumonia about two weeks ago, and,
although he made a gallant fight, the
condition of his heart made recovery
impossible, >
The funeral was held last Tuesday
morning from the Catholic church
Rev. B. J. Leahy officiating arid burial
in Calvary cemetery. The funeral
was one of the largest seen here in
several months, which attested the
esteem in which the deceased was held
in this city and vicinity.
The Frontier joins their many
friends in tendering the immediate
family and other relatives its heartfelt
sympathy in their hour of sorrow.
Sometimes nature puts boys to work .
without their knowing they are having
anything but fun. In southeast O'Neill
a huge cave was dug and when the
roof caved, neighbors found the cave
an ideal place to dump refuse, cans,
wire, dead cats, and what have you
you would rather not have. It was
estimated the neighborhood has saved
$25 that would have gone to refuse
haulers.
JohnMcNulty, of Atkinson, was an
O’Neill visitor last Saturday and fav
ored this office with a pleasant call.
Mr. McNulty owns the old O’Brien
ranch northwest of this city, but is
making his home in Atkinson. He has
been a resident of the county for about
18 years and "is one of the candidates
for the democratic nomination for sup
ervisor from District No. 7.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Osborn, of Gordon,
Nebraska, visited here last week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Clevish.
Mr. Osborn went to Omaha to obtain
storage tanks. A friend said he un
derstood the Osborns were importing
crude oil to Gordon from Wyoming
and refining it for distribution in Ne
braska.
George Van Every, state highway
foreman, is operating on Highway No.
281, at a point near the Danzberger
ranch three miles south of here, this
week. Crews are placing a clay sur
facing on the highway and oiling will
be done later.
Tuesday afternoon looked like a
dust storm here. It was not. Only
a South Dakota zephyr cajoling the
meteorlogical eomponent* of lower at
mospheric stratifications.
Gardens are being plowed to right
and, left of us and chickens are doing
the harrowing free of charge.