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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1934)
BRIEFLY STATED Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sholes, of near Inman, visited here Saturday, Gravelling of highway No. 281, south of town, was commenced Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Halva and family spent Memorial day at Pishel ville and Lynch. Mrs. Frank Muret and small grand son, of Inman, called on friends and relatives here Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edwards and daughter, Cecilia, took in the dance at Oak View Park Tuesday evening. Dinner will be served at the Pres byterian church parlors Thursday, June 7, at 6 p. m. Price 35 cents. Mr. and ,Mrs. Thomas Jensen, of Omaha, were in the city the first of the week visiting relatives and friends. Tuesday afternoon an official temp erature of 107 was registered, in the shade, here by the federal thermom eter. Dave Loy was hanging paper Mon day and Elmer Hagensick plastering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ed wards. Donald, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Loy, accidently was struck near one of his eyes one day last week by a baseball bat. It was 101 in the shade here last Monday. It felt so much hotter Tues day that about all that was registered was complaints. Mrs. P. C. Corrigan came up from Omaha last Tuesday for Decoration day and will spend a few days visiting old friends here. A letter from California, the south ern part, indicates rain is badly needed and millions of dollars worth of crops hang in the balance. Mrs. Wilton Hayne, of Page, was in O’Neill and visited at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Johnson, last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Glenn Saunders left last Sat urday evening for Lincoln where she will spent the next ten days visiting relatives and friends. Through a typographical error, the Sioux City Journal’s Thursday, a week ago, issue gave the Nebraska weather forecast as :“General!y fair Thursday although probably unsettled at times; warmer Thursday in extreme PEST portion." Life Protection At Cost $1,500 Mutual Life Protection for $7.00; approximate total cost $13.00 per year; non-med ical, ages 5 to 75; all races; dues waived after 15 years. Strictly mutual, non-profit Life Protection at cost. Write for particulars. Dept. A, FAMILY MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION Heard Bldg. Phoenix, Arizona Beatrice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harris, is spending part of her school vacation at the home of relatives near Emmet. Roving cats in several parts of town have raided small chick coops and it may be disproved that cats have nine lives before long. ■ Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson, of Sioux City, returned home Sunday after a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Robertson, of Joy. Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs, Dave Loy, left last week for Nelight where he plans to spend the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Jones and family. A few patches of potatoes in town show signs of lacking water and un less rain comes within a few days the spud harvest may be sharpley cur tailed. Newly hatched robins have been seen flying here this week, believed the earliest wildbird reproduction on record and likely caused by the record May heat. Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Downey and Mrs. Cora Fitzpatrick went to Omaha on business last Sunday morning. They are expected to return home next Sunday. Miss Nellie Toy, who graduated from the Wayne Normal last week, has been selected to teach the commerce de partment in the Herman high school the ensuing year. Mrs. Anna McKenna, of Sioux City, arrived in the city last Monday for a few days visit with relatives and friends and to look after some busi ness matters here. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson and son, Tommy, and daughter, Mavis, went to Omaha Sunday morning and planned to visit one week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry LePage. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Maxwell, of Scotts Bluffs, Nebr., arrived here Mon day for a visit at the Mrs. Minnie Maxwell home. The family planned to return home about next Sunday, Mrs. Henry Zimmerman, of Spen, ces; Clarence Zimmerman, of Norfolk and Harold Zimmerman and family of Kansas, were in the city for Decor ation day and for a short visit with friends! Several persons reported recently a great number of pheasants out north between the Elkhorn and the Eagle. The fowl are believed to have migrated from drouth stricken sections of South Dakota. M. L. White, Cedar county agricul tural agent, was in O’Neill last Sun day in conference with F. M. Reece, Holt county agent, on angles of the eradication campaign against grass hoppers. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. White and daughter, Lettie, of Primrose, Nebr., visited here Saturday of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Calkins. The Whites are mother, father and sister to Mrs. Calkins. The three left for Chadron for a visit with relatives there. THIS MOTOR WAS PROTECTED FOR OVER FOUR THOUSAND MILES BY A DOLLAR AND A HALF WORTH OF NEW AND IMPROVED CONOCO GERM PROCESSED MOTOR OIL GET FULL DETAILS AT THE SIGN OF THE RED TRIANGLE Contrantil 0 a Company Piosonts Ora N. I. C. Hairy Rickman John B Kennedy Jack Denny i Made Eetry Wednesday Nl.ht Sold By ARBUTHNOT & REKA and A & R Service Station It has been annuonced that the truckers of Holt and Boyd counties will meet here at the Golden hotel June 13 ar.d 14 to iron out code mat ters in connection with the trucking industry. Mrs. Peter Liska and daughter, Marvel, of Norfolk, visited friends and relatives here last week. Mrs. Liska is a sister of Bert and Edward Gunn. They returned home the forepart of the week. One of the largest hatches of prairie chickens on record is imminent those in several Holt county sections re ported, believed to have been a result of the ideal bird hatching weather this spring. G. A. Fox and son have rented the new Joel Parker building on the west side of Fourth Street, just south of the Grand Cafe, and will open a beer parlor therein shortly after the first of the month. Several O’Neill dwellers have been sleeping outdoors on account of hot days and evenings but all report they were chased indoors before morning by false notions of Jack Frost along toward morning. Students of the four grades of the O’Neill public high school went to Oak View park last Friday for the annual picnic. John Abbot, a student re ported, transported the picnicers to and from the park. D. L. Spellman and son, John, of Omaha, came up last Saturday and spent a few days in the city visiting relatives and friends and looking after their real estate interests in this vi cinity. They returned home Monday. Anton Sagel, of Lincoln, one of the staff of the state auditors county treasurer examiners, arrived in the city last Sunday night and is check ing the office of county Treasurer Conklin. The work will probably take ten days. A traveler returning from South Dakota, north of Dallas, reported the pastures there are buried under sand from fields and that fencing is under four feet of dust and sand. He said the farmers there are becoming dis couraged. E. C. Weller, proprietor of the At kinson Livestock Market, announced that sales at the market will be dis continued because of conditions brot about by the drouth. As soon as conditions improve, sales will be held at the pavillion. W. J. Froelich came out from Chi cago last Thursday afternoon, being called here by the serious illness of his mother. Her condition improved considerably the latter-, part of the week and Tuesday Bill returned to his home in Chicago. James C. Harnish returned last Sat urday night from Savanah, Mo„ where he had been receiving medical treat ment for the past two weeks. Mr. Harnish says that it is just as dry down in that section of Missouri as it is in this section of the nation. Guy Miller and his sons, Kenneth and Burdette, now of Lincoln, a|t tonded the commencement exercises here for the twelfth and eighth pub lic school grades the evening of May 24. Mr. Miller was superintendent of the public school here and. he is now the proprietor of a store at Lincoln. William and Mary Mitchell, of Burke, S. D., relatives of George Mit chell, arrived here last Saturday, went on to Hooper, Nebr., and returned in company with Martha Bromfield and Jake Dale and after a breif visit at the Mitchell home here, the four went to Burke. According to one of the public school boys the seventh grade pic niced at the old “haunted house” be tween the Shaughnessy and Timmer man farms, east of town, the second grade at the city tourist park, the sixth at the Edward Leach farm and others at various points of the com pass. The state veterinary, Dr. Festner, said, according to the daily papers, there is more anthrax in Nebraska now than there was at this time last year. Feistner is the man who last year said that, in his opinion, the anthrax spores has lain dormant irt the ground since buffalo swarmed over the United States. Ralph and. Ned Porter, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Porter, have gone on an annual vacation, Ralph going to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Porter, his grandparents, at the oil station five miles east of Chambers, and Ned to his uncle, Ace Hubbard, of Cham bers. The boys pulled stakes here last Friday and will be back before snow flies. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Wolken and. son, Victor, and daughter, Margaret, of Leigh, Nebr., were in the city Wed nesday having come up to attend the funeral of Mrs. Fritton, of Emmet, Mrs. Wolken being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fritton. Frank and Mar garet are employees of the Leigh World and made this office a short call while in the city. John Pinkcrman, of Dorsey, was a pleasant caller at this office last Sat urday and had his name entered upon the ever increasing list of Frontier readers. Mr. Pinkerman says that they had a nice rain out in his section of the county a little over a week ago and that crops are looking very good in that section, considering the ab normally dry spring. Reports from out north indicate the grasshopper called, melanoplus differ entialias, and worse names at times, has completed hatching and in one in stance ate a rod-wide swath of corn around a field. County Agricultural Agent Frank M. Reese stated that un less poisoning is done at once man may loose his battle against the grass hopp«jr.s.lo.Tr..tlm season. Lorenze Wulf, one of the pioneers of Deloit township, was a pleasant caller at this office last Saturday and extended his subscription to this dis seminator of current events of this section of the state. Mr. Wulf says that it is very dry down in his section of the county, but he is hopeful that we will have rain within a few days and make a good corn crop. Last Saturday a large truck and an assorted load of fruit was reported en tirely destroyed by fire at a point three fourths of a mile east of the J. K. Ernst farm and several miles west of Danceland. No one here could be found who knew much about the inci dent but it is presumed the truck and cargo was owned by a Sioux City firm. The driver was said to have returned at once to Sioux City and he is the only one known to have definite infor mation about the matter. CRACKERS ^Tobbo«?ra„am _ 21c RAISINS ... 16c SOAP FLAKES SCE- 8c SUGAR ,o pounds 52c BEEF ROAST SHORT RIBS HAM HOCKS Choice Graded Beef Per pound _ 10c 6c 10c CHOICE—LEAN Per pound OR Bl'TTS Lean—Meaty, per lb. R. R. MORRISON (Jroceries and Meats Phones 23 & 24 We Deliver The Farmers Union picnic for Local No. 269 will be held June 6 at the Gerald Dusatko grove. Speaking at 1 o’clock after which there will be all kinds of sports, including horseshoe pitching, foot racing and two big ball games. The main game will be be tween Red Bird and Center Union. Everybody welcome. All for fun and fun for all. Don’t forget the date, June 5. Fred H. Butts came up from Ne braska City last Saturday morning. He left for home Sunday noon, being accompanied by Mrs. Butts, who has been visiting at the home of her sister here for the past five weeks. They were also accompanied by Mrs. D. H. Cronin, Miss Marjorie and Richard, who will spend several weeks visiting at the Butts home in Nebraska City and with friends in Omaha. Mrs. Nellie Stevenson and her son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coburn, of Valentine, came down Wednesday morning for Decor ation day and to visit relatives. MrsJ Stevenson was formerly Nellie Har rison of the Meek neighborhood, and they were to visit at the home of her brother, Orville Harrison, in the neigh borhood of the old family home, be fore returning to Valentine. Mrs. Fred Degman, who was Doro thy Davidson, arrived here Monday night from Buffalo Gap, South Dokota, went to bed at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Davidson, and surprised the family Tuesday morning when she got out of bed. On hearing her enter the home, the other members of the family thought Mrs. Degman one of the children who stay at home. She plans to visit here for one week. According to Dr. C. J. Drake, Iowa State Entomoligist, 200 tons of grass hopper poison is to be rushed to that state at once. An assistant to Drake reparted the grasshopper outbreak in Iowa is worse than it was three years ago. In Nebraska it was reported the drouth is causing one of the greatest grasshopper hatches on record for this time of year. Chinch bugs in Iowa have destroyed thousands of acres of corn. While changing a tire at his place of business last Monday evening J. C. Parker met with a painful accident. The tire tool he was using slipped, the pressure of the tire causing it to fly up striking Mr. Parker on the chin, splitting his lip and jarring loose three of his front teeth. He has not been able to attend to business since the accident, as his face is badly swollen, and the injury is causing him much pain. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pilger and son, Melvin, returned Tuesday night from a business and pleasure trip to Hyan nis and Mullen, Nebr. Mr. Tomlin son says that crop conditions south west of here are much worse than they are in this county, on account of the prolonged drouth. He says that even the grass in the pastures in Cus ter county is as brown now as it is generally in December. Robert Marsh received word the first of the week from his brother-in law, John Hunt, formerly <Tf this city, announcing the death of his son, Lawrence Hunt, who passed away at a government hospital at Sawtelle, Calif., on May 14. Larry was 41 years of age at the time of his death. He had been confined in the hospital at Sawtelle for nearly a year, suffering from paralysis. Lawrence was born in this city, where the family lived until about 15 years ago, when they moved to Omaha, later going to California. Dr. Quigley and J. Sullivan, of Om aha, were in the city this morning interviewing local democrats in the interest of Eugene O’Sullivan for the democratic nomination for governor. Mr. O’Sullivan is one of the stalwart democrats of the eastern part of the state and has quite a following out in Nebraska and is liable to put a spike (First publication May 24, 1934.) NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO AR TICLES OF INCORPORATION. This is to certify that at the annual meeting of the stockholders of NE BRASKA INVESTMENT COMPANY of Dorsey, Nebraska, held at its Branch Office, in the City of Omaha, Nebraska, on the 4th day of Sep tember, 1933, Article V of the articles of incorporation was amended and made to read as follows and not otherwise, to-wit: Article V. The corporate existence of this corporation shall begin on June 15th, 1909 and ter minate on June 15th, 1959. S. S. WELPTON, President. D. B. WELPTON, (Seal) Secretary. Subscribed to in my presence and sworn to before me this 4th day of May, 1934. Roscoe C. Alexander. (Seal) Notary Public. My commission expires April 28, 1940. 1-4 in the democratic state machine at the primary election. He is an able lawy er, independent in thought and action and if he should be elected governor of the state he would be the governor and not a figurehead. (First publication May 17, 1934.) NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate No. 2392. In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, May 17, 1934. In the Matter of the Estate of Mattie Schmidt, Deceased. CREDITORS of said estate are hereby notified that the time limited for presenting claims against said estate is September 7, 1934, and for the payment of debts is May 17, 1935, and that on June 7, 1934, and on Sep tember 8, 1934, at 10 o’clock A. M!L„ each day, I will be at the County Court Room in said county to receive, ex amine, hear, allow, or adjust alk claims and objections duly filed. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal.) 52-3 Emmet A. Harmon, Attorney (First publication May 10, 1934.) LEGAL NOTICE. Thomas Rusler, and The heirs, dev— isees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in the estate of Thomas Rusler, de ceased, real names unknown and all persons having or claiming any inter est in the West Half of the Northwest Quarter and the West Half of the Soufhwest Quarter of Section Eighteen (18), Township Thirty-one (31) North of Range Ten (10) West of the 6th P. M., in Holt county, Ne braska, real names unknown, defend ants, are hereby notified that Grace L. Badgley, as plaintiff, on the 5th day of May, 1934, filed her petition against you in the District Court of Holt county, Nebraska, the object and pur pose of which is that she may be ad judged and decreed to be the owner in fee simple of the real estate hereto for described, to have plaintiff’s title to and. possession of all of said real estate, determined, established, con firmed and quieted in the plaintiff, her heirs, successors and assigns, against all adverse claims upon the part of each and all of the defendants, to have all clouds upon plaintiff’s title to said real estate now and forever removed and that the defendants be forever estopped from having or claiming any right or title in or to said premises adverse to plaintiff. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 4th day of June, 1934. GRACE L. BADGLEY, 51-4 Plaintiff. - George M. Harrington, Attorney for Plaintiff. 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