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. Bring your eggs Sat
urday or Sunday.—Atkinson Hatchery.
39tf
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