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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1934)
BRIEFLY STATED Donna Marcellus was reported ill of a light attack of the measles. Golfers say high winds tend to make big scores and ruins clear visibility. C. E. Cronin returned last Sunday night from a week’s visit in Omaha. Garter snakes were seen in several sections of O’Neill last Sunday after noon. Thursday and Friday are patron’s days at the public school, a student reported. Baseball players were out at prac tice here at the fair grounds Tuesday afternoon. Harry Shinkle, of Norfolk, a high way builder, visited friencLs here last Sunday afternoon. Francis Howard, J. Savage and J. Davidson went to Valentine Saturday and ieturned Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Hayno, of Page, visited here Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Koy Johnson. Almost every day a carload of heavy machinery arrives for use in paving east-west main street. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Bollcn, of Stuart, were visiting friends and rela tives here last Thursday. James Kerns, of Valentine, who has been here a week on business, went back to Valentine Thursday. Judge Dickson and Reporter MeEl haney were holding court in Rock county the first of the week. Vivian Clouse taught the sixth grade of the public school several days last week. Vivian is a normal trainer. August H. Brown, of Hastings, rep resentative of a fire insurance comp any, was in O’Neill on business Mon day. Every day strangers hunt around for vacant residences and without suc cess because there is none available here. A pupil reported that Betty Jones, i sixth grade teacher, was called to at tend the funeral of her brother-in-law, returning here Sunday evening. John, Ralph and Lloyd Davidson went over to Center, Knox county, where a big plumbing contract got under way Tuesday morning. John Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Abbott, who has been ill of some childhood stomach ailment several several days, is reported, as recovered. The condition of Mrs. J. K. Ernst, mother of Jack, was reported by Jack to have been rather critical the last few nights at her home in southeast O’Neill. Joseph Cuddy, truck driver for Arm our Creameries, went to Wolbach, south of Ord, and to Ainsworth to bring loads of fowl here Tuesday and Wednesday. J. Reid Green, of Kansas City, mem ber of the United State Department of Justice, was in the city Wednesday and made a pleasant call at this office renewing old acquaintance. Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Porter, went over near Chambers Fri day afternoon to visit his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Porter. He returned Monday morning. Judge A. C. Epperson, of Omaha, assistant United. States Attorney, was in the city Wednesday appearing in the county court in a case in which the government was interested. Hoboes report bundle stiffs taking to the road in great numbers as the weather warms, from concentration camps in cities and farm and city homes of friends and relatives. A nice tabbycat in southeast O’Neill, one of “those cute kind” that never kills birds, was found guilty of de vouring 1J chickens and was sentenced to swallow about a pound of shot. Bennett, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hawley (Pete) Heriford, who con tracted pneumonia March 21, has en tirely recovered from the effects of the malady and. is his old self again. The Holt county board of supervis ors, seven members, are in session as this is written, but one member said nothing out of the ordinary was under consideration, just routine business. Circumstantial Evidence There are those who believe in and those who do not believe in circum stantial evidence in our courts of law especially where a life is placed in jeopardy. No effort at showing the fallibility of this type of evidence is made here, merely circumstances which occured, and, if you do not believe they occured, we can and will show you the very places where all this happened. In a village, let us say Hay Point, having a population of about 160, not counting fence posts over 30 years of age, a little girl of about 56 years sat down to inveigle the white fluid from a certain part of a certain cow in a very uncertain manner. As she milked the girl thought of her sweet heart. The cow was engaged, ah, hem, not to anyone, but in cudding her chew, meaning of course, chewing her cud. Cows, it may be explained, delight to chew their cuds. To chew that of an other is considered, extremely ill bred manner by the producers of milk. Without thinking much about it the milk maid jumped up, grabbed a milk stool by a hind leg and swung it vic iously at a yearling mosquito that had set up an oil derrick on the south forty of the cow. The girl missed the mos quito and, struck the cow on what is known to us students in Latin as cab ooseieus rumpicus. Suddenly the cow elevated her tail, jumped a three-wire fence, entered the kitchen of a nearby residence, made a new frontdoor, went accross the street, and on the way humped, into a sleepy team of horses hitched to a load of loose hay. The horses lurched, upset the hay on a leading citizen who hap pened to be lighting a cigaret, the hay caught fire, the fire siren sounded, the fire truck slammed around a corner, crashed into a truck loaded with fowl, and there was cackling, quacking and gobbling and domestic birds flopping and running all over the village. Wilbert Adkins glanced out a win dow. There w-as a bank robbery, he thought, so he picked up a shotgun raised a window and succeeded in decorating Silas Dawn, president of the Fi»*t Rational bank of Hay Point. Silas did not think there was a bank robbery; he knew it, and in a few seconds the burglar alarm bell on top of the building pounding call to arms and men came from this and that direction. Near-sighted Ed. Petersing saw a stranger carrying a gun and he let him have a free sample of No. 10 shotgun slugs only to find out later there is no open season on preachers carrying a cane. The preacher started running toward a doctor’s office and while going around a corner collided with Sarah Short waddle, superintendent of his Sunday School, /The ./yv'onpiu went down al most at the fegt, of, her husband who, certain now the,hunk was being robbed and still more certain there is a hell of flaming brimstone, angrily beat a retreat and came back with his old goose gun which had been guaranteed to stop anything and everything with in sight of the man behind the butt plate. Heavy firing now was shaking the atmosphere of every part of town. The eashier of the bank madly dashed a eross Squirrel Squeak avenue and he was roundly peppered by his best friends. This man thought it about time to become excited so he clumsily swung his gun around to g<?t quick action, the thing went off and so did one of his best great toes. This is a strange world and strange things occur. A band of seven trfie bank robbers came around a corner and looked and wondered if another gang had outguessed them and secured the loot they had counted on getting. Silas Dawn painfully mounted a barrel, loving hands placed in the mid dle of the street, and asserted in his sugar coated yet thunderous voice that there was no bank robbery. “The bank is not being robbed,” he assured the astonished populace, “it is not—” “Come on in here, old bay window!” There was nothing else to do. “Now open the vault and do it quickly!” A robber heaved a smoke screen bomb to the street just before the fire truck rolled around a corner. The fire siren sounded a second time and soon two sets of hose were forcing water into the bank building; the chief not knowing they were all but drown ing the leading citizen, ordered a third line laid. Quietly the robbers left thru a rear door and the bank president again mounted his barrel and told a crowd there had been a robbery and that the loss was all of f 10,000. An automobile swung around a corner near the town, struck a cow concealed in flying dust, the machine jumped, turned over and four men lay dead and three wounded and in need of first aid. The milk maid came and looked at t’ ■ wreckage. A question she could not answer is this: "Was it thru the girl’s being unkind to dumb animals that men lay dead and dying?” Legally she felt herself not liable, but morally, she was in doubt. The bank recovered its money and the populace went hack to the ways of civilization. Not one of the people of the village died. This question still confronts the woman: “Did I. thru an act of carelesaneas or anger, directly or indirectly, cause the deaths of hu man beings?” THE GOVERNMENT HOG PROGRAM Nebraska Farmer: In a speech on the floor of the senate, Senator Carey of Wyoming opposed a processing tax on cattle. Among other arguments he pointed out that such a tax on hogs had not worked to the benefit of grow ers. During a six months period prior to the first of March $45,000,000 had been spent in one way and another to bolster the hog market. Despite these large outlays and. the destruction of 6,000,000 little pigs and many thous ands of piggy sows, the market had not been able to add the accumulated processing tax of $2.25 to the retail price of meat. While sheep had ad vanced from $6.08 to $9.36 per hundredweight and cattle had nearly held their own at $6.75 compared with an earlier price of $7.35 (tops)— neither of these being taxed—hogs had declined from $4.75 in October to^$4.44 in late February; and declined nearly another cent after that, while cattle prices continued to rise. Among the unprejudiced it has been generally admitted that the hog pro cessing tax has been taken out of the grower. But there is more to the story than that. What might have happened to the price of heef had the same amount of money been spent in bolstering it up? The implication is very clear that the determination to make the hog experiment look good resulted in a larger expenditure there than was justified compared with what was done for other equally important meat products. Tall man: “'Are you married, my friend ?” Short man: “No, I am merely suff ering an ulcerated tooth.’’ (First publication April 2b, 1934.) NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL Estate No. 2392 In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, April 20, 1934. In the matter of the Estate of Mattie Schmidt, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that petition has been filed in said court for the probate of a written instrument pur porting to be the last will and testa ment of Mattie Schmidt, Deceased, and for the appointment of J. K. Ernst as executor thereof; that May 17, 1934, at 10 o’clock A. M., has been set for hearing said petition and proving said instrument in said. Court when all per sons concerned may appear and contest the probate thereof. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 19-3 Emmet A. Harmon, Attorney. (First publication April 12, 1934.) . NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate No. 23W1 In the County Court of Holt county, April 9, 1934. In the matter of the Estate of Ed. Lchan, Deceased. CREDITORSof said estate are here, by notified that the time limited for presenting claims against said estate is August 3, 1934, and for payment of debts is March 22, 1935, and. that on May 3, 1934, and on August 4, 1934, at 10 o’clock A. M., each day, I will be at the County Court Room in said County to receive,examine, hear, allow, or adjust all claims and objections duly filed. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 47-3 Geo. M. Harrington, Attorney. (First publication April 12, 1934.) NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate No. 2383 In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, April 12, 1934. In the matter of the Estate of Flor ence J. Ratliff, Deceased. CREDITORSof said estate are here by notified that the time limited for presenting claims against said estate is August 3, 1934, and for the payment of debts is April 12, 1935, and that on May 3, 1934, and on August 4, 1934, at 10 o’clock A. M.. each day, I will be at the County Court Room in said County to receive,examine, hear, allow, or adjust all claims and objections duly filed. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 47-3 C. E. Cronin, Attorney. (First publication April 12. 1934.) NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, April 10, 1934. In the matter of the Estate of Mich ael Coleman, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that the admin istratrix of said estate has filed in said court her final report and a petition for final settlement and distribution of the residue of said estate; and that said report and petition will be heard May 3, 1931. at 10 o'clock A. M., at the County Court Room in O'Neill, Ne braska, when all persons interested may appear and be heard concerning said final report and the distribution of said estate. C. J. MALONE, County Judge (County Court Seal) 47-3 W, J. Hammond, Attorney. Scores of south Holt county flowing wells, long dry, arc now flowing. ORDINANCE NO. 146A An ordinance repealing and declaring null and void Ordinace No. 145A of the City of O’Neill, Nebraska. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAY OR AND COUNCIL OP’ THE CITY OF O’NEILL, NEBRASKA: Section 1: That ordinance No. 145A of the City of O'Neill, Nebras ka, as passed and approved April 9, 1934, be, and it hereby is, repealed. Section 2: This ordinance shall be in force and take elfeet from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law. Passed and approved April 24, 1934. C. E. STOUT, Mayor. Attest: Ed. T. Campbell, City Clerk. (First publication April 12, 1934.) NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Estate No. 1156 In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, April 6, 1934. In the matter of the Estate of Gar. ence J. Simonson, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that the admin istrator of said estate has filed in said court his final report and a petition for final settlement and distribution of the residue of said estate; and that said report and petition will be heard May 3, 1934 at 10 o'clock A. M., at the County Court Room in O’Neill, Ne braska, when all persons interested may appear and be heard concerning said final report and the distribution of said estate. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 47-3 W. J. Hammond, Attorney. LOST ANI) FOUND LOST: One smooth wire stretcher with five pulleys. Liberal reward if returned to Ryan’s hay office. 49-1 LOST: Saturday morning a black kid glove with perforated top. Re ward.—Phone 71. 49-1. FOR RENT Good house, partly modern.—See R. H. Parker. 47-tf FOR SALE Two-row power lift McCormick Deering lister with tractor hitch or tongue.—Max Powell, Opportunity. JOY TRANSFER—207 So. 4th St., O’Neill, Nebr. Local and Long Dis tance hauling. Potatoes for sale. The price is right. Phone 182-W.—F. L. Stewart, Prop. 48-lp Eight room modern house. Make offer to Geo. Bay, O’Neill, or Geo. Bressler, Middlebranch, owner. This house must be sold at once. 48-tf A good two wheel trailer; ti-h. p. motor; two good batteries; gasoline lantern; Ford generators exchanged for $2.25, Chevrolet for $2.50; one good tractor magneto at Viv Halva’s Shop. Ten head of good work horses, rang ing from 1200 to 1400 pounds.—C. H. Feezer, 1 mile east and 1 mile south of Kilgore, Nebr. 4&-tf. Store Fixtures: one 10-foot display case; one 10-foot counter; one cookie display case; one cash register.—No. 6, care of this office. 46-tf. R. C. R. I. Reds hatching eggs 2 cents above market.—Mrs. Frank Prib. il, Jr., O’Neill, Phone 3F210. 43-8 Q’s Quality Milk and Cream. The best by test, at John Kersenbrock’s, or telephone 240.—John L. Quig. 40tf BABY CHICKS hatched every Mon. day. We do Custom Hatching, $2.25 per 100 eggs. 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