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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1934)
Over the County PLEASANT DALE Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Keeney and daughter, Shirley, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Seger and daughter, Phyllis, of Norfolk, visited relatives in this locality Sunday. Mrs. S. M. Ohmart came home Thursday after a three weeks visit at the Fred Lindberg home. Myrlen Beckwith is visiting her aunt Mrs. Verne Beckwith in O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoehne were charivaried Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Frohard.t and family, of Atkinson, called at the Gus Seger home Sunday evening. Quite a number from this vicinity attended the wedding of Walter Rics and Miss Cecilia Bruder Saturday morning at Emmet. Mrs. Joe Winkler spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Joe Pongratz. Darwin and Henry Seger returned from Lincoln Friday evening. They said the rains were much heavier at Norfolk, but Lincoln had not received any rain yet up to Friday. A pair of little visitors from the south have been making themselves at home at the Ralph Beckwith farm and Ralph came to the conclusion that the birds were mockingbirds. They are known as the king of song and rarely come as far north as this. They are about the size of the well known king bird and are slate black with white on the crown, wings and tail. INMAN NEWS Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach and daughter spent Sunday at the John Conard home at Emmet. Anella Lou Butler, of Neligh, was here over the week-end visiting with relatives. Elder Levi Garnet, of Independence, Mo., arrived here Saturday to spend the summer with his daughter, Mrs. Murett. Harvey Tompkins, who has been at tending school at Nebraska Wesleyan university, is here spending the sum mer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins. Mrs. Carl Wilcox and daughter, Emma Jane, and son, Billy, are visit with relatives in Wayne. Miss Mildjed Keyes and Mrs. Karl Keyes visited in Stuart one day last week. Attorney John J. Hancock, of Casp er, Wyo., came Friday for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary M. Hancock, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Chase and family and Miss Helen Harte arrived here from Sheldon, Iowa, for a visit amon£ relatives. Miss Harte will spend the summer here with her parents, Mr. and. Mrs. Wililam Harte. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph bholes and family and Mrs. John Hawk and daughter, Lois, of Ewing, were week end visitors at the Fred Sholes home. Miss Lois Moor left Monday for California where she expects to spend a month visiting and sight seeing. Miss Helen Moon Shelby accompanied her. The Epworth League will present a three act play at the M. E. church on Saturday, the 16th, entiled “Mrs. Had ley goes to Institute.” The play is written and directed by Miss Gladys Hancock. Miss Dorthy Wilcox, who has been teaching in the Lincoln schools came Monday night for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Jennie Wilcox. Miss Mary Ruther, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the O’Neill hospital, is getting along fine. A Tompkins family reunion was held at Stout’s Park at Albion Sunday at which time all the Tompkins rel atives who live in Nebraska were present. A basket dinner was served at noon and the day was spent in visit ing. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Tompkins and son, Leon, of Albion; Mr. and. Mrs. L. R. Tomp kins and son, Dr. Charles and Harvey; Miss Carita Gifford; Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith and daughter, Doritha, of In man; Dale Tompkins and family, of Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Wag ner and family, of Fairbury; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Romig and daughter, Dor othy, and son, Robert, and George Keefer, of Wilcox. The big surprise of the day came when Mrs. Elmer Kruse, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Tompkins, of Kelso, Wash, ap peared. Her coming came as a com plete surprise to all except her father, who had planned the surprise at the close of the day. The relatives re turned to their various home all hoping to meet again next year. EMMET ITEMS Father M. F. Byrne made a business trip to Omaha Sunday evening. Merrill Allen went to Springview, Nebr., last week to visit Wayne Hind mand there. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Luben and child ren called at the Bob Gardner home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Dailey and son, Arthur, made a business trip to Omaha last week. Faye Sesler and Mathel Allen spent Sunday afternoon visiting at the home of Dorothy Luben. The Sunshine class of the Method ist church held a picnic at the river Tuesday. The Emmet baseball team went to Page Sunday where they defeated the Page team with a score of 6 to 4. Agnes Vogel was a Sunday dinner guest of Dorothy Luben. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fritton were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. James Shorthill and children. The annual school meeting was held at the Emmet school house Monday. Mrs. James Shorthill was reelected moderator. Mrs. Frank Foreman and rons are visiting at the home of Mrs. Fore man’s parents north of O’Neill this week. John Bonenberger was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Conard Bonen Tuesday. Selma Banks returned from Atkin son Monday after spending a two weeks vacation with relatives there. A wedding dance was held at the Monohan home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bill O’Connor and. children visited at the James O’Con nor home Monday. Miss Maxine McConnell spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Eli Mc Connell in Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. James Regal and children were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mullen. Mrs. Mary Plant spent the week-end at the Clarence Farr home north of O’Neill. MEEK AND VICINITY George Hansen did some listing for Arthur Auker Thursday. The Ladies’ Aid met with Mrs. Charlie Hoyer on Thursday. A large crowd attended. Mrs. Hoyer served a delicious lunch. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Dan Hansen. Arthur Rouse called at Frank Grif fith’s on Thursday evening. Elmer Devall shelled, corn for the Rouse brothers Friday. Sam Robertson’s family and Arthur Rouse called at the A. L. Borg home Tuesday evening. Mary Emma Spindler returned Sat urday for a weeks visit with her brother, James, and other relatives in Omaha. Bernard Rouse, who has been quite ill is somewhat better at this writing. The Children’s Day program at the Paddock Union church was largely attended, there being 114 present. It was a joint program, Joy and Pad dock joining together. Miss Gertrude Bedford came from South Dakota on Friday for a visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Albert Kaczor, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Johnson, and Raymand and Hazel Johnson, and Mary Emma Spindler were dinner guests at the Frank Griffith home Sunday. 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The oats were too far gone for the rain to be of any help. Leroy Spindler has been helpin with corn plowing at Frank Griffith’s the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Will Walters called at the Ralph Young home Sunday afternoon. Lois Woods, eldest daughter of Mrs. Luella Woods, was taken to an Omaha hospital for treatment last week. The Woods family formerly lived in this neighborhood but Mrs. Woods and her daughters now live at Spencer. Mr. Woods passed away several years ago. Mrs. Roy Spindler and son. Leroy, called at the Frank Griffith home Monday eevning. Cecil Griffith is helping lioy Spind ler plant corn this week. Helen Larson came up from Mead with Mr. Freeburg and remained in O’Neill for a visit at the Ed. Burge home while Mr. Freeburg was out in this locality. Mrs. Dan Hansen, Mrs. Ed. llenifin and Harold Crawford called at the Floyd Crawford home Sunday after noon. Word was received here the first of the week that Mrs. Oscar Lindberg, who is at the Methodist hospital at Omaha, is improving rapidly. The many friends of the family will be pleased to learn of her recovery. Some in this locality are replanting corn where it was washed out and where it was covered so deep under dirt that it cannot come up. Neva June Schelkopf called at the Spindler home Sunday. Wallace Gets Them •Coming And Going Chicago Tribune: Secretary Wal lace’s explanation of his connection with the affairs of the Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, la., is an extraordinary document. It was intended to clear him. In fact, his own words have fortified the concision that our gen eration has seen no more shocking example of official misconduct than hist Mr. Wallace is responsible for the Government’s corn program, the a vowed purpose of which is to reduce the production of corn and thus raise the price. Mr. Wallace has imposed a tax upon consumers of corn and its products. The money collected by the Government from this tax is distrib uted among farmers provided they sign contracts with the Government to plant fewer acres of corn. The Hi-Bred Co. has advertised to farmers that the corn which it sells is so much more productive than ordinary seed that the farmer who plants it can sign the Government’s contract, share in the tax distribution, and still grow as much corn as he did before. It has been estimated that the Wallace seed will produce 5,000,000 more bushels of corn in Iowa than would otherwise have been produced. Needless to say, if these claims are at all true, they should assure the sale of all the seed that the Hi-Bred Co. can offer and the seed company can make its own price. Hi-Bred seed sells for from $6.50 to $7.60 a bushel. Ordinary seed corn brings from $1 to $2.50 a bushel. Mr. Wallace’s explanation is two fold. He says in the first place that he is no longer the principal stock holder in the company. His wife is now the principal stockholder. That is the kind of explanation which some of Mr. Wallace’s associates in the new deal have scorned when it was offered in defense of the transfer of securities to a wife for income tax purposes. The attorney for the Grain Futures Administration, one of Mr. Wallace’s bureaus, is presently en gaged in asserting that Mrs. Arthur Cutten’s busines arrangements cannot be distinguished from Arthur Cutten’s. At the same moment Mr. Wallace asks the country to believe that Mrs. Wallace’s business affairs are of no concern to him. The performance is not wholly convincing! Mr. Wallace goes on to say that the Hi-Bred Co. produces so little seed corn as yet that all of it planted in Iowa this year will account at most for only 1% per cent of the total corn yield of the State. It is truly aston ishing that Mr. Wallace can regard this statement as an answer to any thing. Mr. Wallace, as Secretary of Agriculture, has initiated and put into effect policies of acreage reduction which cannot fail to stimulate the de mand for the product which he, or, as he would say, Mrs. Wallace has to sell. The fact that the profits might be larger (and no doubt will be larger if the acreage control is continued) does not obscure the fact that the private fortune of the Wallaces is benefiting from the public acts of Mr. Wallace. His positition morally is indis tinguishable from that of a hypothet ical Secretary of the Navy who might initiate a policy of naval construction at the moment when his wife was a principal stockhoder in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; or from that of a sup positional Secretary of the Interior who might order the construction of immense reclamation dams at the moment when his wife happened to be a principal stockholder in strategic ally placed cement mills. Mr. Wallace was under no obliga tions to become Cecretary of Agri culture and under no obligation to re main in office if he believed it the duty of the Secretary to institute policies which would prove of peculiar benefit to him as a private citizen. His endeavor to gloss over the gross im propriety of his conduct is almost as shocking as the impropriety itself. HERE’S AN ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR THAT "CAN TAKE IT!" Stanaard 1 year warranty plus 4 more years for only 15 GENERAL 0 ELECTRIC ALL-STEEL REFRIGERATORS • Look lo the mechanism No other refrigerator ha* a of the refrigerator you performance record equal buy. It represents 70% of ling that of the famous G-B your investment and deter* Monitor Top ... iti» uni mine* how long and how ver*ally recognized aa the well your refrigerator will standard of emcellencc and serve you. lowest io ultimate cost. A. V. VIRGIN O’NEILL, NEBRASKA COUNTY CORN-HOG FIGURES RECEIVED FROM LINCOLN The Holt county corn-hog allotment committeemen have had as diagree able a job in the last ten days as any three men in this county ever tackled, individually or as a commit tee. They have been cutting out over statements in corn-hog contracts and reducing the county total figures to the level of the county quotas turned out by the statisticians. When the corn hog program began last fall, the total figure citc*d for the country as a whole was about 54, 000,000 head of hogs. Nebraska’s share of the national figure was a little less than 0,000,000 head. These figures represented the year, 1932. The corn-hog program set out to reduce the number of hogs 25 per cent to about 40,000,000 head. No one questioned the figures for the nation and the state at that time. As the work on the individual con tracts and in the county office pro gressed, everyone forgot about the re duction goal and shoved it into the background. Announcement of the county hog quotas was a jolt on the chin to the allotment commitees who have been working hard to get the county figures right. In their work of the last ten clays, the Holt county allotment committee have been first taking out hogs which were probably farrowed before the base period began and sold in 1932, hogs which were bought as feeder pigs and fed out and marketed with those farrowed on the farms, old sows marketed along with the light pigs, hogs entered in the contract without supporting evidence of sales, and any other overstatment they could find. They have assumed that the overstatement was unintentional and have tried to be fair with every one. Because of lack of supporting evidence they have probably taken out some hogs which were actually raised and marketed by the farmers, but the total figures had to come down to the county quota. BENEFITS OF SUNSHINE With the advent of summer, pru dent housewives bring their murky, yellowed household linens out for ex posure once more to the bleaching, whitening influence of the sunshine. Scientific study has proved that the direct rays of the sun’s light exert a beneficial effect on fabrics that can be obtained in no other manner. Drying away from the influences of open air and sunlight lacks the value to be had from simmertime, outside drying. “Wind and sun are the final two im portant factors in the correct cleansig of clothes,” says a home economic expert, who adds: “Correct sorting of articles and cleansing of the var ious lots at the right temperature for each in the family washing machine are the necessary first steps. “Direct sunshine fades non-fast fab rics, but it is beneficial except for that. Uncolored table linens, bedding and other white goods are fresher and sweeter through open-air , drying. 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