Over the County MEEK AND VICINITY Leonard Iverson, of Naper, visited with his friend, Charles Fox, on Thurs day while enroute to his home from Norfolk. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ross on Sunday, May 13. All concerned are doing nicely. A. L. Rouse and daughter, Miss Maude, of O’Neill, visited at Rouse Brothers home on Thursday. Lawrence Rouse spent Thursday night at the home of his grandfather in O’Neill. Chester Ross and sons called at the Charlie Ross home Wednesday even ing. Word was received by relatives on Wednesday of the death of Charles Benton at his home in Fremont. The Benton’s were former residents of this locality, Mr. Benton being a brother-in-law of Mrs. E. H. Rouse and Mrs. Orville Harrison. He had been a partial invalid for years. Mildred Hansen had the misfortune to nearly sever one of her toes last week. A party was held at the Bob Worth home on Friday evening in honor of the teacher, Miss Barbara Mitchell, who closed her second term of school at Joy on Friday. The Leonia school closed on Friday with a picnic. Miss Lavina Shiveley was the teacher. Mrs. Sam Robertson entertained the young married folks class at a supper on Saturday evening, in honor of her husband, who is teacher of the class. Guests at the Frank Griffith home on Sunday were, Mr. and Mrs. How ard Rouse and sons, Lawrence, Lloyd and Delbert, Mr. and Mrs. Maridey Hubby and son, Bruce and daughter, Bonnie, and Arthur Rouse. After noon callers were, Paul Nelson, Mary, Leone and LeRoy Spindler. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johring and children, Bennie, Donald and Shirley, were guetss at the Frank Nelson home on Sunday. Felix Hostynek, Melvin and. Velma Johring motored to Page on Sunday afternoon, Miss Florence Hostynek re turned with them for a visit with home folks. The Sain Robertson -family visited at A. L. Borg’s on Sunday. Mrs. Edwin Hull and. children of Sioux City, are visiting relatives here and at O’Neill. Little Bonnie Hubby was an over night guest at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bog on Satuday. Several from here attended the Bac calaueate semon in O’Neill on Sun day evening. This territory was visited by a nice shower of rain on Sunday evening, but we could use a great deal more. Some from this vicinity attended the funeral of Mrs. Capley at Scott ville on Monday. Neva June Schelkpof spent some time visiting at the home of her cousin and family Mr. and Mrs. George Weldon, in O'Neill, last week. Melvin and Velma Johring and Felix Hostynek called at the R. D. Spindler home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hansen called on Mrs. Henifin and son, Les, on Sunday. Decoration Day will be observed at Paddock Union as usual with songs, flag drill and readings. Rev. Johnson, of O’Neill, will deliver the address. Cecil Griffith is listing corn for Roy Spindler this week. INMAN NEWS Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Abrahams, of Omaha, are here for an indefinite stay at their summer home. Velna Williams and Elinor Trow bridge, of Page, were week-end. guests of Miss Ardith Smith. A “Griswold for Governor” club is being formed in Inman. The first meeting will be held soon. Rev. Paul Hillman, superintendent of the Norfolk district of the M. E. church, was here Tuesday evening of this week and held, the quarterly con ference of the church. He also de livered a splendid sermon prior to the conference. Mrs. Walt Jacox and daughters, Jennie and Donna and sons, Donald and Darrell spent Sunday in Norfolk visiting Mr. Jacox, who is an inmate of the State hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ticknor drove to Artisan, S. D., Saturday, returning Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Anspach ami sons, Richard and Keith, and daughtei Junita, of Page, were here Sundaj visiting at the John Anspach home. Coach Lawrence Jones, Curtis Smith and Walt Fick droVe to Wayne Fri day where on Saturday Curtis took part in the track and field events. He scored seven points in the events. Miss Arlene Scott, of Plainview, is here visiting friends this week. Miss Corita Gifford was a week-end visitor with relatives at Wayne. Mrs. C. J. Malone, of O’Neill, and Mrs. Elmer Spann, of Atkinson, were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. Mary Hancock. Eunice Chudomelka, Bonita Rei tners, Donna Hutton and Grace Pea cock were among the eighth grade graduates at O’Neill Monday. Donald Moor, Marjorie Rouse, Walter Rouse, Gerald Sobotka and Norbert Clark, of the Willow Lake district, and Evelyn Moor from the Hopkins district received their eighth grade diplomas at O’Neill Monday. The Baeculaurette service was held at the M. E. church last Sunday even ing. The Rev. Mertie E. Clute, pastor of the church, preached the sermon and F. H. Outhouse, of the L. D. S. church, offered the prayer. The pro cessional and a piano solo were played by Pntrica Watson. The chorus, all of whom were members of the gradu ating class, sang a special number. The members of the class are: Lois Killinger, Lucille Retke, Gertrude Young, Dolores Young, Joyce Out house, Gayle Butler, Curtis Smith, Billy Harte, Lee Conger and Cecil Keyes. The church was beautifully decorated for the occasion. EMMET ITEMS The pupils of Miss Evelyn Pruss gave a music recital at the Sherman Allen home Friday evening. Those in the recital were: Dorothy Luben, Anna Rose O’Donnell, Olive Beckwith, Mathel Allen, Shirley Bates and, Carl Luben. Miss Evelyn Tom jack and Miss Geraldine Harris were rehired to teach the high school and primary rooms for the coming year. Miss Theresa Pon gratz was hired to teach the inter mediate room, taking the place of Miss Evelyn Pruss who has taught in this school for the past five years. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Luben and. Dor othy and Mrs. Charles Vogel and Ag nes were shopping in O’Neill Wednes day. A picnic dinner was held last Sat urday afternoon to close the term of school. A ball game was played in the afternoon. The pupils of the intermediate and lyn Pruss with a beautiful little gift high school rooms presented MissEve lat Friday afternoon as a rememb rance. A number of children in this vicin ity have been quite ill with the meas les. Ewing defeated Emmet on the Em met diamond Sunday with a score of 11 to 5. A shower was given for Miss Mary O’Donnell at her home ,Sunday. Miss O’Donnell became the bride of Ray Pettinger on Tuesday, May 22. The pupils of Geraldine Harris and Evelyn Pruss held a weiner roast at the river last Thursday. Dorothy Luben, Agnes Vogel, Faye Sesler, Alvin Cadman and Merrill Al len attended the eighth grade gradua tion exercises at O’Neill Monday. The Misses Evelyn Tom jack, Evelyn Pruss and Geraldine Harris and Otto Hoehne were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Luben, Jr., Friday even ing. Ed. Roth, Mrs. William Fuhrer and daughter and Mrs. Mary Martin, of Lincoln, are visiting relatives here. Elmer Stoh.e and Fred Cole, of O’Neill, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Luben, Jr., Friday even ing. Zane Cole, Frankie Sesler, Arthur Jurgensmeir, Monica Shorthill, Tres lyn Vogel, Shirley Bates and Esther Luben were awarded prizes for not being absent from school the past term. Ray Pittinger and Miss Mary O’Donnel were united in marriage by Rev. M. F. Bryne at the Catholic church last Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Roth, Fritz Roth, Carl Baumann, Junior Baumann, Sam Banks, Harold Wilson, Herman Grothe, Paul Hoehne, Guy Beckwith and Wil liam Sehmohr were fishers at the Niobrara Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Roth and child ren called on relatives in Atkinson on Monday evening. Miss Virginia Baumann, of Atkin son, spent the week-end with her sister Mrs. Fritz Roth. Tom Perkins, of Springview, is visiting his sister, Mrs. James O’Con nors. Joe Sesler is spending this week visiting his cousin, Earl Farr of O’Neill. Mrs. James O’Connur and daughter is visiting her sister at Springview this week. Miss Dorothy Sesler is rapidly re covering from a bad case of the mea i les. Miss I-ouise Grothe spent the week end in Emmet with her lister, Mrs. Sam Banks. Ray Waldo, of Amelia, spent tin week-end ut the Lawrence home. Dr. George, of Atkinson, is spend ing a few days repairing his build ings in Emmet. Alice McCaffery is spending this week with her cousin, Monica Short hill. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Banks and child ren spent Sunday at the Grothe home Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foreman and children were visiting relatives ai Ewing Sunday. Mrs. Thaine Humphrey and son called on Mrs. John Bonenberger Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. John Bonctnberger and son and Marion Peterson were visiting at the home of John’s parents at Atkinson Sunday. A wedding dance was given by Mr and Mrs. Ray Pittinger at the Crystal ball room at Atkinson Wednesday evening. PLEASANT DALE Miss Helen Hoehne spent several days at the home of her sister, Mrs. George McNair, last week. James Harvanek, from near Atkin son, purchased some seed corn from Ralph Beckwitfi Saturday. Little Duane Pongralz spent last week with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Heeb. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weber and children, of Long Pine, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winkler last Wednesday. Miss Edna Kee, of O’Neill, attended the picnic at the Standard, school Fri day. There are several cases of measles in this vicinity. Those receiving perfect attendance awards at Pleasantdale for this month are Gladys and Walter Schmohr.Myr len Beckwith and La Verne Stahley. Miss Fay Roth, of Tekamah, came up Tuesday for a weeks visit at the Robert Fullerton home. Nebraska News Items Villages and trade centers in the vicinity of Bassett have banded to gether baseball nines to form what is to be known as the Bassett Trade Ter ritory baseball league to be composed of nines of Duff, Davids, Cams, New port, Fish Lake and Bassett. The playing season, is to run from May G to September 2, with each nine play ing 15 games and having three open Sundays. There has never been a ball league in the vicinity of Bassett. About 60 miles west of here houses of sod are being built in considerable numbers on homesteads, many of which have been abandoned, for years. High cost of lumber and scarcity of money is believed the reason builders are turning to sod homes, which are said to be very warm in winter and cool during summer, and. stand up in violent windstorms, need no fire in surance nor painting, and may be constructed with only common labor. A sod, house is being built near Rose, out from Bassett, two were construct ed south of Long Pine, and others have been planned. One of the blows struck at tax payers of Nebraska by numerous dust storms this spring is the filling of roadside ditches, in the eastern part of the state. Drainage ditches also may have to be dug a second time, the damage being estimated at thousands of dollars.. Just as Oscar Challman is about to to present a drouth survey of South Dakota and Nebraska to FCA officials at Washington, heavy rains fell in sections of those states. Challman is agent for the Farm Credit association. He reached Washington s*bout the time rains changed the situation in the two states. Several tornados appeared in the vicinity of Petersburg at the same time, doing considerable damage. Biudings on three farms, destroyed three years ago by a tornado, were badly damaged. Horse thieves made off with two teams of horses valued at $500 at the farm of J. F. Dancer, of Sutherland. The thieves made two trips with a truck and there is no clue. When Pinneo, 18, dived, dislocated a neck vertebra and. William Becken bauer dived, crawled on the bottom of u sand pit water hole near Fremont and brought Pinneo to the surface. He was under water five minutes and re vived. Fifty years ago W'illiam Bossbarger, John Hanlen, William Cunningham and A1 Hopkins, of Neligh, went to Tilden and while there Hopkins cut a potato in four pieces and each man kept a piece. Three of the men are dead now' and Hopkins still is carry ing his piece of potato which has turned to stone. Hopkins made the first homestead filing in Antelope county. A $5,000 farm residence was des troyed and Mrs. Conrad McNertney, bride of but two \veeks, seriously burned about her face and hands when friction of cloth caused a cleaning fluid to flame. In a bed in the resi dence, owned by the bride’s mother, was $400, which was burned. There was some insurance on the house. Neighbors saved some furniture. The farm, owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Shank line, is near Broadwater. The first consignment of cattle, 41 head, from the grass and water de ficiency district of South Dakota has been moved into Nebraska and from unofficial sources it was estimated that if conditions do not improve 125,000 head of stock may be moved to the Nebraska sand dune country by the national farm credit administration. An overturned oil truck near Clay Center caught fire and burned to death Bob Sautter, 18, and Jack Lewis, 20, both of Grand Island. It was sur mised the driver of the truck fell asleep and that the truck ran into the ditcjh. The Wise Oil company owned the truck. Mrs. Paul Patrick, 63, fed her chick ens some medicine containing some acid, for treatment of disease, 25 of the flock died, then, after realizing she had sold eggs and her family ate one of the treated chickens, she committed suicide by drowning in a water trough on her farm near Randolph. She feared that those who ate the eggs and chicken would die of poison. The wheat crop of Nebraska was pronounced practically ruined by drouth by several experts who looked fields over a few days ago. BRIEFLY STATED The public school closes its doors this Friday and the boy pupils can see nothing sad about that. Blankets and comforters were nec essary for sleep Monday night when the thermometer went the other way so far one could imagine fall was en veloping the outdoors. Horse sleeping sickness, which it was feared might break out this spring because of the late start the sickness got last fall in Holt county, has not, as far as knowm, attacked any horses in the county. Mutiny at the CCC camp five miles east of Valentine resulted in black eyes and hard feelings. Enlisted men asked for leave of absence, were re fused, and one Stevens beat up Capt. H. C. Harper, of Lincoln. Stevens was discharged. Daniel, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Page, farmers situated three miles north of O'Neill, was taken to Norfolk or Omaha for hospitalization following an appendicitis diagnosis by Dr. L. A. Carter several days ago. It was expected and operation would be performed on the boy. Joe and John Petr, Ralph Mills and Tom Edwards got together Sunday night at the Edwards home and made music of a grade rarely heard here. Joe Petr was trying out a new high priced accordian and the others ac companied him. Edwards plays a guitar, Mills a saxophone and John Petr the violin. _ M, F. Tom jack, one of the pioneers of Deloit township now residing in Ewing, was an O’Neill visitor Monday and made this office a pleasant call, ordering his name enrolled on The Frontier’s subscription list for the ensuing year. Mr. Tom jack recently made a trip to counties to the east of us and he said that conditions there were much worse than they are here, on account of lack of moisture. In many places, even in Antelope county, the ulfalfa is turning brown from a lack of moisture. E. E. Cole, who has been post master at Star for the past 20 years, was a pleasant caller at this office last Saturday, advancing his subscrip tion to The Frontier. Mr. Cole was on his way to Grand Island, where he was to attend the annual meeting of the association of Nebraska Post masters, which was held in that city last Monday and Tuesday. It is doubtful if any of those in attendance at that meeting can equal the record for length of service of the Holt county man. AUCTION AT ATKINSON, NEBR. EVERY TUESDAY CATTLE - HORSES HOGS-SHEEP Offering liroadraal from WJAii (Norfolk) Kvery Monday Noon. ATKINSON LIVESTOCK MARKET (Political Advertisement) I wish I might be able to go home and campaign a little for the approaching Congressional pri mary, but the call of public duty must be superior to the call of politics. Duty impels me to re main in Washington as long as the Congress shall remain in session. How long that will be no man knows. Those of my home folks who approve my work In Washing ton will find my name on the Democratic primary ballots. Of course, 1 would like to be nomi nated and re-elected. My record is my only campaign argument. 1 leave the result with my home folks, Rnd will cheerfully abide by their decision. Sincerely. Limited Supply! / 1%^* ^V\ Every Day Supplies /«*$$* $C I , ,, / ' OUTSIDE HOUSE PAINT Per Gallon $1,19 SCREEN PAINT /)0a 1 Quart JLUO • _ CREAM CAN CQp 5 Gallon . UJu I POULTRY NETl’ING m $1.38 44.95 EXTRA II. I).