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VOL. LV.
The Frontier
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O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934.
No. 2
Mrs. Charles E. Martin,
Long Time Resident Of
Holt County, Is Dead
Mrs. Julia Luclla Martin died at her
home, about 43 miles south of this
city, last Friday afternoon at 5:30
after an illness of several months of
an affliction of the diver, at the age of
61 years, 4 months and 15 days.
Julia Luella tJones was born on j
January 12, in Ohio. When
she was 12 years of age her parents
moved to this county, settling south
of this city in the Chambers valley,
where sW had made her home ever
since. £*ii September 19, 1892, in this
city :slhe was united in marriage to
Charles E. Martin. Six children were
feioani to them, 'wo boys and four girls,
Twho, with their father are left to
.mourn the death of a kind and indulg
ient wife and mother. The children are:
Mrs. Ben F. Jones, Ekalaka, Mont.;
Walter P.Martin, House, New Mexico;
Mrs C. R. Elkins and William E.
Martin, O’Neill; Mrs. F. L. Knight,
‘Opportunity, and Mrs. W’alter Jutt,
Chambers, Nebr., all of whom were
present at the funeral. In addition
to her immediate family she is also
survived by two brothers, C. C. Jones
and Edgar Jones, of Chambers.
In the death of Mrs. Martin Holt
county loses another of her old pi
oneers, a woman who had been a
resident of the southern part of the
county for nearly half a century. As
a young girl and woman she endured
all the hardships of the early settlers
in this section of the west. She was
a splendid example of the pioneers
mothers whose entire time and devo
tion was expended in the care of her
loved ones and her home. She was an
exceptional neighbor and friend and
her passing will be sincerely mourned
by a large circle of friends and ac
quaintances in the southern part of
the county.
The funeral was held last Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 in the Baptist
church at Chambers, Rev. Sawtell of
ficiating and interment in the Cham
bers cemetery. The funeral was one
of the largest seen in the southern
r part of the county for several years,
many people from this city attending,
to pay their last respects to their de
parted friend. The Frontier joins the
many friends of the family in ex
tending its condolence to the sorrow
ing relatives.
Grasshopper Poisoning
Program Is Effective
The grasshopper control program
has been well received according to
County Agent Frank Reece. Many
farmers have already poisoned their
fence rows, etc., are very enthusiastic
with the results obtained. Relief
workers have assisted several pre
cincts in a general control campaign.
While the best time to poison will
be passed by June 1 effective control
may still be obtained by spreading the
poison within the next few days. Ten
pounds of poison will cover an acre
effectively now and will do the work
of 100 pounds three weeks from now.
It should be spread between 4 A. M.
till 9 A. M. as poisoning after this
time is useless.
The poison bran now on hand is
also effective in controlling cutworms.
Cutworms feed mostly at night and the
poison should be spread after 4 o’clock
in the afternoon for the best results.
Where the pests are working in row
crops the bait may be spread along
the rows at the rate of 4 or 5 pounds
per acre.
Chinch bugs are reported doing con
siderable damage in the southern part
of the state. Any one in Holt county
who notices a large number of these
bugs present should consult the
County Agent for effective control
measures.
For effective control of grasshop
pers, cutworms, or chinch bugs, it is
always more effective to take control
measures during the forepart of the
growing season.
Will Ship South Dakota
Cattle Into Nebraska
The latest plans for handling strav
ing cattle of South Dakota call for the
moving out of the state of about 500,
000 head within HO days. The state
has 2,414,000 head of cattle. The
federul government was expected to
buy cattle in the regions hardest hit
by the drouth. Finnl plans have not
been announced. One plan called for
the purchase of the cattle hy the ted
eral bureau of animal industry, the
diseased stoek to be destroyed and the
remainder to be canned for relief pur.
poses.
A definite nlan of action is expected
to be announced within a few days.
Previous announcements indicated the
South Dakota stock would be moved
to the sand dune region of Nebraska.
The situation is rather complicated in
that mortgages held by bankers and
others must be satisfied before either
slaughtering or moving can be accom
plished.
According to Governor Tom Berry,
the efforts of the relief administration
will be concentrated on the live stock
industry of South Dakota and he is
certain his state will be the first to
receive attention. Tom, a Holt county
boy, has been flying around night and
day in effort at getting relief for his
stricken people.
Receives Penitentiary
Sentence For Auto Theft
A complaint was filed in district
court Tuesday alleging that John W.
Pointer did on May 24 steal and take
from the streets of Atkinsoln one Ford
automobile the property of A. J. At
kins, of Atkinson. When the car was
taken Pointer headed east with it and
when near Emmet burned out a bear
ing and he was hoofing it east when
he was picked up and brought to this
city and confined in the county jail.
He was arraigned oeiorc juage
Dickson Tuesday morning, plead giulty
to the complaint against him and was
sentenced to not less than one nor
more than two years in the state pen
itentiary, and to pay the costs of the
prosecution, assessed at $8.75 He
was taken to Lincoln by Sheriff Duffy
Tuesday afternoon.
Prior to sentence when Judge Dick
son asked him if he had anything to
say why sentence should not be pro
nounced against him lie said that
dope and trouble with his wife was
the cause of his trouble.
The penitentiary sentence will en
able him tft get off the dope habit, if
he is so disposed.
Heavy Run Of Cattle
On Sioux City Market
Tuesday, last week, the heaviest run
of truck transported cattle on record
was received at the Sioux City stock
yards, 5,366 head. The high truck
mark previously was made May 1,
1934, when 4,435 head were moved to
the Sioux City market by trucks.
One cause of the big movement was
the Chicago stockyards fire. Another
is the prolonged drouth all over the
Sioux City stock producing territory.
The railways Tuesday brought Sioux
City 780 head of live stock.
A feature of the days sales at Sioux
City was 100 head of choice 1.118
pound steers that sold at $8 a hun
dred. The big run however pounded
prices down 15 to 20 cents a hun
dred pounds.
Blame For The Drought
Has Been Planted On
Brow Of Pete Duffy!
The true cause of the wide spread
drouth has been revealed.. It is
caused by Peter W. Duffy, sheriff of
Holt county. Yes, there’s going to be
an investigation.
Last January 4 Mr. Duffy went out
to interview a so-called “wild man”
neighbors said had some chance of
freezing to death the way he lived on
lower Eagle creek. The sheriff looked
around and found a man giving his
name as Bert Olds, about 62, no ad
dress, and with only a camp fire,
slender shreds of shelter, a police
dog and more hope than an elephant
might carry on its back.
A second trip was made for the pur
pose of bringing the man here and
later the placing of him in a federal
transient shelter at Omaha. The
man did not like anyone disturbing
him and said so. He told of putting
down barrage curses on other localit
ies where officers bothered him and
then and there he set down a double
strength curse on Holt county and am
plified that to include other places
where he had been antagonized.
“The good Lord is going to punish
whoever is responsible for this some- |
thing awful," Old said, “I don’t know i
if Duffy is to blame or not, I hope he ;
is not, but there'll be no rain und much !
suffering I can tell you." So if Duffy
had not ‘‘bothered" things might have
been different.
Barn Destroyed By Fire
At Old Majfirl Place
Wednesday forenoon at 11:65 fire
was discovered at the southwest cor
ner of the two-story barn at the old
Robert Mngirl place just west of
town by the tenant, Hilbert Chaney.
The loss on the barn was estimated
by firemen at about $250. Chaney
did not know if the building was in
sured. He had hosehold goods valued
at about $100 stored in the barn and
these were lost, without insurance.
The structure was lost when firemen
arrived and no pipe water was used.
A high south wind prevailed at the
time and it Avas about 100 in the shade.
The origin of the blaze is unknown.
The structure was erected about 40
years ago.
Mrs. Christina Fritton
Dies Of Heart Ailment
Mrs. F. A. Fritton died at her home
near Emmet last Sunday morning at
1 o’clock, after an illness of several
months, of leakage of the heart, at
the age of 65 years, 11 months and
6 days.
Christina Heiman was born in St.
Louis, Mo., on June 21, 1868. When
she was a little girl her parents moved
to Iowa and she was united in mar
riage to F. A. Fritton at Tabor, Iowa,
in 1890. Ten children were born to
them, eight of whom, with their fath
er, are left to mourn the death of a
kind and indulgent wife and mother.
The children are: Mrs. Anna Wolk
en, Leigh, Nebr.; Mrs. May Wolken,
Chicago; Ralph Fritton, Emmet; Mrs.
Irene Odenreidcr, Leigh; Alloysius
Fritton, Atkinson; Mrs. Edith Callies,
Leigh; Frank Fr£ton, Emmet and
Mrs. Christina Crawford, Emmet, all
of whom were present at the funeral,
many of them being accompanied by
their children, grandsons and grand
daughters of the deceased.
The Fritton family moved to this
county in 1919, coming here from Col
fax county and locating near Emmet,
where they have since made their
home. She was a splendid, wife and
neighbor and had a host of friends
in the Emmet neighborhood, where she
was well known.
The funeral was held from the Cath
olic church at Emmet last Wednesday
morning. Rev. M. F. Byrne officiating
and burial in Calvary cemetery in
this city.
Hold Drouth Meetings
In Farm Communities
In response to a request issued by
W. H. Brokow, extension service hdad
of the Nebraska university, meetings
of farmers will be held this Thursday
evening at 8 o’clock in every school
house in Holt and Cedar counties to
sign drouth survey blanks for benefit
of farmers and state administration
heads who may be called on to secure
aid for them. It will be very advan
tageous for farmers to fill out drouth
survey blanks as quickly as possible,
F. M. Reece and M. L. White, agri
cultural agents of Holt and Cedar
counties said.
Try This One On
Your Pet Bugologist
Some specie of snake or animal in
southeast O’Neill, of nocturnal hab
its, makes a hole about the size of
a half dollar and the strangest fact
is that as far as can be determined,
no earth is brought to the surface.
In one of the holes, four buckets of
water were poured in rapidly and the
water went down out of sight in a
jiffy, giving the impression the holes
go down to water. The borings are
almost straight down.
Another strange fact is the absence
of tracks about the holes. Weasels,
bull and garter snakes have been sug
gested as residents of these inverted
tunnels, yet no sign of these has been
reported in the neighborhood. Traps
might reeval the identity of the
mysterious diggers but it is feared
they may be something beneficial to
man and it is desired to give them the
benefit of the doubt until they are
proved otherwise.
In all, there are about six holes,
close together, at the foundation of a
building. Dogs and cats give the
place a wide berth. There is some
possibility, us happened in western
Nebraska recently, that extinct species
of snakes have hatched under an ab
normally hot sun and have been com
pelled to burrow for a drink of mod
ern water.
The members of the school board,
parents, pupils, teacher and residents
of District No. 15, and many friends,
gathered together on May 19 to com
plete a very successful term of school
with a picnic. A very delicious din
ner was served at noon, after which
ice cream and cake were served. The
ice cream was furnished by the dis
trict and very liberally served by the
director, Mart Stanton. Dinner was
served in the basement which proved
to be a very appropriate place for the
occasion, the day being so warm.
The day was very well spent and much
praise given to Mr. Rotherham, the
teacher who will teach *he ensuing
term.
Nebraska Has Received
Over Thirty-one Millions
Of Federal PWA Funds
Following a conference with Public
Works officials, Congressman Edward
K. Burke, of Omaha, stated that Ne
braska has received a total appropria
tion of $31,071,737 from the Public
Works Administration during the first
year of its existance. This is 140
per cent of the state’s quota and is
considerably more than any of the
other states surrounding Nebraska
have received.
For instance, Iowa has received only
$28,860,937; Kansas, $20,627,332; and
Colorado, $24,486,665. All three states
are more thickly populated than Ne
braska although the allotments are
made on a basis of 75 per cent pop
ulation and 25 per cent unemployment.
South Dakotahas received $11,794,732,
while Wyoming has received $21,989,
462.
Nebraska, with a federal and non
federal per capita appropriation of
nearly $25 ranks sixteenth of all of
the states. On non-federal projects,
the per capita appropriation is $10.50.
Here Nebraska ranks fourth in the
entire country.
The principal non-federal appropri
ations which Nebraska has received
include $7,500,000 for the Suitherland
and Columbus power and irrigation
projects; $1,650,00 for the South
Omaha Bridge; $906,000 for the Om
aha Sewer project; $216,000 for the
Lincoln waterworks project; Arcadia
School $74,000; York School $15,000;
Trenton sewer $74,000; Eddyville
School $30,000; Wahoo School $23,000;
Hartington Sewer $20,000; Columbus
Sewer $75,000; Scottsbluff Street Im
provements $65,000. Besides these
projects, there are over a hundred
others scattered over the state which
have received lesser amounts from the
PWA.
Of the 32million odd dollars granted
Nebraska, only approximated 12 mil
lion need be repaid, the remainder be
ing outright gifts to the various com
munities as the government’s contri
bution to help solve the unemploy
ment problem, etc.
Congressman Burke stated that
after his interview with the PWA
Nebraska could expect approval of
several additional projects sometime
in the near future as a result of new
appropriations. Among the projects
which have passed preliminary exam
inations and have excellent chances
of approval are the Peru School $45,
000; Cedar Bluffs Water Works $12,
000; Alma Water Works $26,000;
Stuart Sewer $52,000; Exeter Water
Works $4,700; Callaway Sewer $24,
900; Saunders County Drainage $60,
000; Roca School $4,200; Elba School
$14,100; Ansley School $40,000; Ingle
side Hospital, Lincoln, $3,900; Daykin
School $16,000; Mason City School
$46,400; Pender Water Works $2,400.
Hospital Notes
Miss Audine Cork, of Page, was ad
mitted to the hospital Friday evening,
May 25, for examination and obser
vation. She went home Wednesday
morning, May 30.
Miss Laverne Nissen, of Page, was
operated, on Saturday evening, May 26,
for acute appendicitis. She is con
valescing nicely.
Ilenry Monahan, of Amelia, was ad
mitted to the hospital Monday morn
ing, May 28, in a critical condition,
suffering with carcimona of the head
and face. He died Wednesday even
in, May 30, at 6:45.
W. J. Kennedy, of Inman, went
home last Friday, May 18.
W. F. Harris was in the hospital
from Monday morning, May 28, until
Tuesday morning, May 29, for exam
ination and observation.
The Roberts Construction company,
having the contract to lay down ce
ment paving on the main streets here,
that are parts of highways Nos 281
and 29, found while mixing cement
for culverts, that the city water barely
supplied their wants, so a 2-inch pipe
line was laid on the ground from cast
west main street to the Elkhorn river,
a distance of one mile.
Boys Call On Mayor For
Completion Of Dam
The great drouth, as far as it affects
the young fellahs, has been knocked
galley west by a single stroke by
Mayor John Kersenbrock. Boys have
been after the mayor about ten days,
asking that he send city workmen
down to the holding dam they had half
finished and make the place more than
ankle deep. The mayor scratched his
head, went down, in six inches of
water, noticed the river raised a foot
but went right down to six inches
when he climbed out to sec if the river
was still running.
Kersenbrock hopped in his automo
bile, went back to town and hired
about twelve men to finish the dam
boys started a month ago. The dam
is an idea generated by members of
the O’Neill Tigers Club. Broken
slabs of concrete, hauled out of town
to make way for paving, is the mater
ial used. The boys succeeded in
coaxing the Elkhorn to gouge out a
hole four feet deep but there has been
standing room only there this week.
It is planned to fix the hole so it
shall be the finest, wettest and deep
est between here and the next ones
east and west, believed by historians
to be the Pacific arid Atlantic.
To Have Re-check Of
Wheat Compliance
Plans are being completed in Ne
braska this week for a re-check of the
work of wheat supervisors and the
completion of the check of compliance
on the 35,000 wheat contracts held by
farmers in the state. Only a small
percentage of each wheat supervisor’s
work will be rechecked by the repre
sentatives of the agricultural admin
istration.
The federal men will start work
the latter part of this week in coun
ties where the wheat compliance pro
gram began first. They will move
rapidly from county to county in the
next three or four weeks and complete
all their work within a few days
after the supervisors are done.
The re-check is being made by the
administration in Washington for the
sake of uniformity over the entire
wheat belt and for the sake of ac
curacy of the work in each county.
The re-check will include examination
of the system used in the county office,
the equipment used by the men to
measure land, the methods of measur
ing, the accuracy of results, and the
completeness of the required forms
which are filled out and turned in.
Compliance with the wheat allot
ment contract to date will entitle the
farmers to the second installment of
the 1933 payments and also the first
installment of the 1934 payments.
These two checks for each of the Ne
braska contract signers is likely to
bring about five of six million dollars
in benefit payments into the state
this summer and fall. When the
farmers get these two checks they
will still have three more checks com
ing for compliance with the wheat
contract in 1935, provided wheat does
not go up to parity price. Should
wheat go to parity farmers will get a
higher price for their wheat and be
happier than if they received a low
price for the wheat plus the benefit
payments.
Local Thermometer (*oes
To Record Height, Hut Is
Considered Inaccurate
A large and supposedly reliable
thermometer hanging on the west
side of the Stout drug store here
went haywire last Tuesday afternoon,
registering up to 140, its limit, then
the indicator, like the hand of a clock,
went on until it was halted by the
rim of the instrument box, bending
and making every effort at spinning
around like the propeller of an air
plane.
Those who had been fairly cool un
der the official 107 at the courthouse,
sweltered, gasped, staggered and felt
that the end of the world surely
must be in line to be burnt by fire ard
right away that afternoon at that.
Those looking at the thermometer
immediately perspired and became
the hottest they had ever been. Prev
iously bearing a good reputation the
thermom is not blamed so much for
trying to fly but it may not be for
given for stretching 107 in the shade
to 180 against the wall.
Tommy Thompson, Phil Dempsey
and Shobert Kdwards spent Wednes
day night fishing for ratfish at the
dam on the Niobrara river north of
here. Friends reported the three were
seen buying beef steak in a local
butcher shop after they came hack
j from the dam.
COMMENCEMENT FOR
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
HELD AT K. OF C. HALL
Diplomas Presented To Twenty-Six
High School Students And Twenty
Eight Eighth Grade Graduates.
Last Thursday evening at eight
o’clock at the Knights of Columbus
hall the eighth grade and high school
graduating classes at one of the most
glamorous commencements held here
received diplomas and heard speeches
that promised little and emphasized
the fact there are more than two mil
lion graduates in the United States
without anything to do, a carryover
accumulating since 1930.
Myrtle Burge played a march. The
invocation and address were by Rev.
F. J. Aucock and the sa' titory by
Vivian Clouse. Junior girls sang
“Summer Time” and “The Old Re
frain.” The valedictory was deliv
ered by Pearl Burge. Roy W. Cai roll
presented the eighth grade and Dr.
H. L. Bennett, president of the O’Neill
board of education, presented the
senior diplomas. The benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Aucock .
Twenty-six seniors and 28 eighth
graders graduated. The friends and
relatives attending the exercises com
prised one of the largest crowds ever
to assemble in the K. of C. hall.
Following is the list of graduates:
Vivian Clouse, John Michael Deines,
Margaret Tehla Honeywell, Robert
William Cook, Loraine Alice Ennis,
Luella May Hartford, Ruth Leach,
Opal Leone Harbottle, Hazel Leone
Johnson, Gladys Ruth Evans, Fred
George Cole, Nona Ina Bressler, Pearl
Evelyn Burge, Hazel Gertrude Ander
son, Birdie Carolyn Doolittle, Grace
Loy, Dora Elizabeth Medcalf, Elva
Marie Stauffer, Geneva Amelia Wilk
inson, Nornian T. Medcalf, Nila Ren
ner, Arleen Mabel Page, Bennett C.
Saunders, Willa Wilma Wilson, Cleta
Jane Van Every and Mary Emma
Spindler.
Tuesday Breaks May
All-Time Heat Records
Nebraska all-time record fqr heat
during the month of May has been
broken in practically all parts of the
state during the past week. The ther
mometer started climbing in this city
Monday and finaly registered 101
along in the afternoon. Tuesday it
started climbing early and at 3:15 it
had reached the unheard of record of
107 degrees, after that it dropped a
few degrees. Wednesday started as
if it was going to ease from the ex
cessive heat, but it started climbing
shortly before noon and kept going
until it finally registered 105 degrees.
This morning there was a little breeze
blowing, but it changed to a warm
wind shortly before noon and it will
probably reach better than 100 today.
Showers are forecast for certain sec
tions of the state for today, but it
will take a general rain to dispel the
excessive heat wave.
Fresh Cows Draw Bid
Of $3.00 Per Head
A man from Vivian, S. D., called on
a resident of Grattan township a few
days ago and wanted to sell him 40
head of cows at $8.00 per head. The
man approached said that he would
pay him the $8.00 per head for the
cows and their calves. Then the other
told him that he hat been compelled
to kill the calves in order to try and
save the cows. With the present out
look for feed and forage the man
approached said that he would give
him $3.00 per head for the cows. The
South Dakota man did not accept the
offer on the spot, but said that he
would let him know later. Just think
of it, $3.00 per head for cows, and in
what they tell us are good democratic
times.
Marriage Licences
Edward L. Pavlik and Miss Char
lotte Dobrichovaley, both of Verdigre,
were united in marriage by County
Judge Malone at the country court
j room last Tuesday afternoon.
Freeman Beebe and Misj Leona
' Smith, both of Atkinson, were granted
a marriage license in county court
last Monday.
Edward E. Niemand and Mis* Ag
j no* M. Belik, both of Chambers, were
granted a marriage license in county
! court last Saturday.
Harry Clemens, who lives on the
old Rudybusch place southeast of this
| city, was a pleasant caller at this
j office this morning and ordered Th»
Frontier sent to his address for the
ensuing year, so that he could keep
j posted upon Holt county happenings.