Nebraska Newspapers

    VOL. LV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934. No. 9
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O’NEILL RECEIVES
NEW ALLOTMENT
FOR CITY PAVING
Planned To Pave Fourth Street From
Douglas To Railroad Tracks And
To Widen Douglas Street.
Last Friday the Governor and State
Engineer announced the location of
approximately $3,000,000 of the $4,
000,000 federal road funds allotted to
Nebraska under a program worked
out by the state engineer and himself.
Of this amount he assigns about
$2,000,000 to federal system work and
$1,000,000 to work within cities and
villages. The allocation made takes
in practically all sections of the state.
In this program O’Neill is allotted
$30,000 for widening the paving on
highway No. 20 to 18 feet and the
curbing—the latter to be paid for by
the city or the property owners—
making the highway, outside the four
blocks that is paved clear across, 40
feet wide. Also paving on highway
281 from highway No. 20 south to the
Northwestern railroad tracks. When
here Governor Bryan said that this
program, as far as this city was con
cerned, was tentatively agreed to by
the federal engineer and it was hoped
that this work could be commenced
soon.
The second road program to be an
nounced within the week was announc
ed Wednesday. This is the secondary
road program and entails the expendi
ture of $1,300,000 of state and federal
funds. There was $1,000,000 of the
federal funds left over from the for
mer designation and to this is to be
added $300,000 of the state gasoline
tax money. In this later appropri
ation Atkinson is allotted $30,000 to
be spent on the county highway north
from that city, approximately seven
miles of grading and structures..
Corn-Hog Association
Expenses 3*/2 Percent
Expenses of the Holt County Corn
Hog Association up until July 1st, will
amount.to 3% per cent of the benefit
payments which farmers of this
county will receive on their contracts,
Frank Allen, Treasurer of the associa
tion says. He based the figures on
the benefit payments at 30 cents per
bushel on corn and $5.00 per head on
the hog allotment, compared with the
budget turned in by the association
for expenses up to July 1.
Books of the association are open
to all men who sign contracts, and
will show actual expenses of the as
sociation from the time activities
started last January until June 30th.
The facts of the case contradict rum
ors which may have been going around
about the excessive expenses of the
association.
Practically all of the money spent
will go to local people, most of them
membfers of the association, who have
done the work. A little money has
been spent for office equipment and
supplies, and the remainder has gone
for services and mileage of associa
tion committeemen and employees.
A new budget will be drawn by the
directors of the association to cover
the period from July 1 until the close
of the year. This budget is not likely
to be as high as the one for the organ
ization period. In other words, the
total expense of the corn-hog associa
tion will likely not be more than 6
per cent of the benefit payments. This
means that farmers receiving benefit
payments will pay in association ex
penses about 6 cents out of each dol
lar of total benefit payments.
The average corn-nog association 01
the state has drawn up contracts cov
ering 350 thousand dollars in benefit
payments. Had a commercial corpor
ation attempted to set up and mange
an organization handling one-third of
a million dollars in a year, the corpor
ation would have deducted about 25
per cent for organization expenses,
and then probably have employed a
manager with a salary of from five to
10 thousand dollars per year, to handle
the business of the organization. In
the case of the corn-hog associations,
the members themselves have man
aged the organization of the associa
tion, and have not only been econ
omical, but have spent practically all
of the money within the county.
Alpha Club
The regular meeting of the Alpha
Club was held Wednesday, July 11th
at the John A. Robertson home, with
Miss Rachel Robertson as hostess.
Ten members responded l<> roll i«*h
Other guests: Mrs. Sam Robertson,
Mrs. L. A. Ott, Mrs. Ralph Ernst,
Miss Doris Robertson, Miss Dorothy
Ott and Miss Mary Luber.
The following program was given:
Roll Call, Memory Gem; Piano Solo,
“A Curious Story,” by Curieuse His
toric—Miss Hazel McDonald; Book
Review, “Anthony Adverse,” by Henry
Allen—Miss Carol Simonson.
The club will meet August 8 with
Miss Grace Lansworth.
Four of the club members leave this
week for their vacation. Misses Carol
and Mamie Lou Simonson will visit in
Council Bluffs and. go to the World’s
Fair in Chicago. Miss Hazel McDon
ald will visit her sister in Los Angeles,
Calif. Miss Dorothy Simonson will
visit friends in Erickson.
mrs. McDermott dies
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Funeral Services Held From Catholic
Church Tuesday, With The Rev.
B. J. Leahy Officiating.
Mrs. James McDermott died at her
home just south of this city last Sun
day afternoon, after an illness of sev
eral months of cancer, at the age of
46 years, 6 months and 26 days.
Alice Theresa McNichols was
born on a farm northwest of this city
on December 19, 1887, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. McNichols. She
grew to womanhood in this section and
was for several years one of Holt
county’s most successful rural school
teachers. On September 13, 1913, she
was united in marriage to James W.
McDermott and since her marriage
has lived on a farm just across the
river south of this city. She leaves
to mourn her death her huband, her
mother, five brothers and three sisters
besides a host of friends in this city
and vicinity. Her brothers are: Frank,
of Seattle, Wash.; William, Butte,
Mont.; John, Joe and Walter, of this
city, and her sisters, Mrs. J. B. Dono
hoe, Mrs. T. F. Donohoe and Mrs. P.
V. Hickey, of O’Neill.
Mrs. McDermott was the daughter
of one of the pioneer families of this
county. She was a splendid woman,
of pleasing personality and enjoyed
the friendship of all her acquaintances.
For the past couple of years sha has
not been in very good health, submit
ting to an operation a little over a
year ago. For a time she seemed to
gain, but the disease had obtained such
a foothold that it was impossible to
check it and she passed peace
fully away a little after noon last
Sunday.
The funeral was held Tuesday morn
ing from the Catholic church, Rev.
B. J. Leahy officiating, and the esteem
in which the deceased was held was
shown by the large crowd that attend
ed the funeral, it being one of the
largest seen in this city for some time.
The Frontier joins the many friends
of the family in tendering the be
reaved relatives its sympathy in their
hour of sorrow.
A number of friends gathered at the
John McNally home Sunday afternoon
and enjoyed a feed of fried chicken,
ice cream and cake, it being a two
fold even in honor of Mrs. Lillian
Murphy,of Seattle, Wash., and Tommy
and Eddie Ring, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Murphy is visiting relatives here,
and has been a life long friend of the
McNally family. Tommy and Eddie
Ring are relatives of the Corrigan
family, and they departed for their
home Sunday nighV Tommy has been
in Nebraska and Oregon for the past
two years. When the first call was
made for the CCC work he went with
the first squad to Oregon, serving his
full time there. He was accompanied
home by his brother, Eddie, who
spent the winter here. They went from
here to Sioux City where they will
visit with relatives, and will stop at
the Exposition in Chicago before go
ing home. The boys made many
friends who wish them a safe journey
home.
IN DISTRICT COURT
The Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank
has filed suit in the district court to
foreclose a mortgage given by Emily
N. Allen on September 18, 1925, for
$6,000.00 on the east half of section
17, township 30, range 14, west of the
6th P. M. ' They allege in their peti
tion that she failed to pay coupons
No. 14, 15, 16 and 17, due on Sept. 1,
1932, March and September 1, 1933,
and on March 1. 1934, and that she
also failed to pay the taxes due on the
property for the years 1931, 1932 and
1933, and that there is now due and
unpaid the sum of $6,633.30. They
ask the court to determine the amount
due nnd that if not paid in a reason
time that the land be sold.
Christ Anderson was over from
Bristow last Tuesday looking after
his political fences in this section.
Nebraska Candidates
Seeking Nomination
List of primary filings for all Con
gressional and State offices with the
exception of the State Seriate and
House of Representatives, as compiled
by the Lowell Service, Box 84, State
House Station, Lincoln, Nebraska.
United States Senate.
Republican—Robert Smith, Omaha;
Robert Simmons, Lincoln; Kenneth L.
Wherry, Pawnee City; Barton Green,
Lincoln; U. S. Kenne, Fort Calhoun j
Democratic—Edward R. Burke, Om-!
aha; Lloyd L. Bollen, Friend; Charles [
W.Bryan,Lincoln;Charles Bryan Mor-j
earty, Omaha; William E. Reed, Mad
ison; Anthony T. Monahan, Omaha.
Short Term
Republican—J. H. Kemp, Fullerton;
A. A. Rezac, Omaha; Dana B. Van
Dausen, Omaha; J. S. Kroh, Ogallala.
Democratic — Richard C. Hunter,
Omaha; Albert W. Weichel, Lincoln.
Governor
Republican—Theodore W. Metcalfe,
Omaha; Dwight Griswold, Gordon; C.
A. Sorensen, Lincoln; George B. Clark,
Tilden; George W. Sterling, York.
Democratic—R. L. Cochran, Lincoln;
Terry Carpenter, Scottsbluff; Frank
J. Flopping, Wayne; Eugene O’Sul
livan, Omaha; W. B. Banning, Union;
J. G. Strobble, Nebraska City; W. F.
Porter, Lincoln; Mrs. Maude Nuquist,
Osceola; John F. Rohn, Fremont.
Lieutenant Governor
Republican—C. A. Green, Lincoln;
Harvey L. Webster, Tekamah; Lewis
C. Westwood, Tecumseh; C. W\ John
son, Potter; Stanley Wright, Alliance.
Democratic—Walter H. Jurgensen
(incumbent), Lincoln; T. A. Guttery,
Lynch.
Secretary of State
Republican—rrank Marsh, worioiK;
Ralph S. Smith, Lincoln; George C.
Snow, Chadron; Charles B. McMahon,
Stanton; Charles W. Hill, Kearney.
Democratic—Harry R. Swanson (in
cumbent), Omaha; Charles H. Dris
coll, Lincoln.
Auditor
Republican—A. D. Spencer, Barnes
ton; George W. Marsh, Lincoln; Harry
L. Babcock, Lincoln.
Democratic—William B. Price (in
cumbent), Lincoln; O. H. Olson, Hast
ings; C. A. Frost, Omaha; Paul F.
Halpine, Omaha.
Commissioner of Public Lands
Republican—Gernie B. Thomas, Lin
coln; J. A. Axtell, Fairbury; Harvey
H. Walker, Omaha; A. J. Morris, Lin
coln; Leo N. Swanson, Omaha; Dan
Garber, Red Cloud; George L. Wil
liams, Lincoln; Leo Lowenberg, Albion.
Democratic—Harry P. Conklin (in
cumbent), Scottsbluff; Harry E. Reav
is, Battle Creek; C. A. Lord, Lincoln;
John W. Tillman, Osceola; George
Jackson, Nelson; Arnold J. Lillie,
Plattsmouth; George Werner Deshler;
Thomas J. Walsch, Stanton; Walter
H. Jensen, Lincoln; Archie S. Gilland,
Kearney.
Treasurer
Republican—T. W. Bass, Lincoln;
L. B. Johnson, Omaha.
Democratic—George E. Hall (in
cumbent, Lincoln.
Attorney General
Republican — Don Gallagher, Lin
coln; George Heinke, Nebraska City;
Jackson B. Chase, Omaha; Lee Basye,
Lincoln; Ernest F. Armstrong, Au
burn; C. P. Anderberg, Minden; Rich
ard O. Johnson, Lincoln; H. B. Reyn
olds, Lincoln; Henry S. Payne, Omaha.
Democratic — William H. Wright,
Scottsbluff; Raymond McNamara,
Hartington; Francis V. Robson, Lin
coln.
naiiway commissioner
Republican—Harry A. Foster, Om
aha; Arthur B. Walker, Lincoln; Bert
M. Hardenbrook, Ord; James F. Miller,
Orleans; Robert J. Marsh, O’Neill;
George L. Jackson, Litchfield; R. H.
Sawyer, Lincoln; Alvin C. Smith,
Scottsbluff; J. L. Kizer, Lincoln.
Democratic—Andy Welsh, Milford;
Philip Kohl, Wayne; H. L. Challberg,
Potter; Lynn C. Roberts, Omaha; Fred
A. Good, Lincoln; J. C. McReynolds,
Lincoln; Hugh La Master, Lincoln;
Frans Johnson, Wahoo; L. C. Oberlies,
Lincoln; James A. Slaughter, Omaha;
K. C. Knudson, Omaha; Will M. Mau
pin, Lincoln; Horace M. Davis, Lincoln.
Non-Political
Supreme Court
Second District—L. B. Day (incum
bent,) Omaha.
Fourth District—Edward E. Good
1 (incumbent), Wahoo; J. A. Brunt,
Fairbury.
Sixth District—E. F. Carter, Gcr
1 ing, Edwin E. Squires, Broken Bow;
James L. Tewell, Sidney.
State Superintendent
J. A. Jimeraon. Auburn; Charlr ■ W
Taylor (incumbent), Lincoln; Miss,
Caroline Rcngton, Hastings; Lulu S.
Wolford, Lincoln.
(Continued on page 4, column 1.) j
WHEAT PROGARM
FOR COMING YEAR
HAS NO CHANGES
Unless Otherwise Notified Wheat Con
tract Signers Must Lay Out 15
Per Cent Of Base Acreage.
No change was made in the benefit
payments, reduction pequired, or pro
cessing tax of the wheat adjustment
program for 1935. Secretary Wallace,
in making the announcement, said he
might change the amount of reduction
to a percentage below 16 per cent
during the next six weeks if he thot
it wise to do so.
Unless otherwise notified, wheat
contract signers will be required to lay
out 15 per cent of their wheat base
acreage as rented or contracted acres
for 1935, the notice to the Boyd-Holt
county allotment committee said. If
the secretary should change the re
duction to 10 or 12 per cent before the
first of August, farmers can easily
prepare a little more ground and seed
the wheat.
Contract signers may seed up to 85
per cent of the base acreage on their
contracts again this fall and next
spring for 1935 harvest. Nothing was
said in the announcement about the 54
per cent minimum requirement, but it
is assumed that this requirement will
be in force during the coming year.
Benefit payments will be the same
as last year. Farmers who show com
pliance by turning in the compliance
blanks now will automatically get the
first installment of 20 cents per bushel
of the 1934 payment in October of this
year. Another nine cents less ex
penses of the county association will
be paid when the farmer has complied,
next spring. When the contract sign
er receives his October check this year
he will be half thru cashing wheat
payment checks for his two years of
reduction.
Processing tax of 30 cents per bush
el on wheat used for human food will
continue. The tax to date has paid
for dll the benefit payments due farm
ers up to this time.
Francis Flood To
Speak In O’Neill
Wheat and corn-hog allotment com
mittee members of this county are
urging all members of the associations
to hear Francis Flood discuss the
Triple A program on August 3 at
O’Neill. Flood is to talk at a series
of 21 district meetings all over the
state from July 23 to August 4.
The general public as well as mem
bers of the control associations is in
vited to attend the meeting at O’Neill.
The program will start at 2 p. m.
The effect of the drouth on the
Triple A programs, the results of the
first year of the wheat program, the
next six months of the corn-hog pro
gram, and the policies behind all the
adjustment plans will be among the
points emphasized by Flood in his
talk.
After visiting practically every
country in the world in his travels,
Flood has spent the past year and a
half in Washington with Secretary
Wallace and the adjustment admin
istration. He says he has been in
the most fascinating activity in the
whole world—an atempt to recover
from national depression. If he runs
true to form, his talk will be sprinkled
with wit and humor about brain
tnustors, base figures, hog evidence,
use of contracted acres, excess pigs,
and some of the other items of the
programs which have caused no end
of discussion during the past six
months.
Each meeting will also include a
question box period handled by county
and state officials of the adjustment
administration. Those who attend
will be asked to write down their
questions during the first part of the
meeting in order to handle the ques
tion box in an orderly manner.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many kind friends and
neighbors for their assistance and
the kindness shown us during the
sickness and following the death of
our beloved, wife, daughter and sister,
and for the many beautiful floral trib
utes.—James W. McDermott and Mrs.
P. H. McNichols and family.
Miss Marion Golden announced her
approaching marriage to John Robin
son, of Hampton, Iowa, at a party
given in her honor at the Golden hotel
last Monday rveiling. There were 15
guests present, including Miss Dorothy
Blodgett, of Lincoln, nnd Mrs. Irl
flicks, of Norfolk. Mrs. Froelich and
Mrs, R. B. Mellor &on the prizes.
THE WEATHER
All O’Neill heat records were broken
jjast Monday when the thermometer
| climbed to 111. There was only one
| other place in the state as hot that
day, and that was Grand Island, where
it was also 111. Geneva has the rec
ord for the state as the thermometer
touched 118 there on Wednesday.
Temperature Precip
High Low itation
Fri., July 13_ 99 68
Sat., July 14 —1Q3 64
Sun., July 15_102 68
Mon., July 16.Ill 67 .07
Tues., July 17 107 66 .37
Wed., July 18 104 68
Thurs., July 18 108 70
All records for continued heat have
been broken in this section during the
past week. The thermometer from
Friday, July 13, up to an including
Thursday, July 19, has averaged just
a fraction less than 105 for each day
of the week. Above table tells the
record. Corn has been standing it
fairly well, despite the intense heat,
but some farmers are now afraid that
the early corn has been damaged be
yond redemption.
From Sunday, July 8, up to and in
cluding Saturday, July 14, the temp
erature averaged 100 for each day
of the week.
Children Should Be
Taught To Swim
On last Saturday a tragic accident
happened at Lake Okaboji, an Iowa
summer resort. Five girls, the young
est 17, and the oldest 28, were wading
along a rock reef that extended out
into the lake. One of the girls slipped
off into deep water. The other girls
came to her rescue, floundered in, and
all five girls were drowned. Not one
of the girls could swim. The Omaha
Bee-News in comenting editorially on
the tragedy says in part: “One lesson
is clearly and poignantly emphasized
by this sorrowful happening. Every
child should be taught to swim at an
early age. Children will swim as
naturally as puppies, if given the op
portunity. Swimming pools shotild. be
provided in every community where a
river or lake does not furnish oppor
tunity to swim. To be able to take
care of oneself in emergency is just
as essential to know as any other
branch of knowledge in which children
are given instruction. It should never
be necessary to record of a group of
girls ranging from 17 to 28 years of
age that not one of them knew how
to swim.”
The above is well worth consider
able thought on the part of the par
ents and other citizens of O’Neill, and
of other communities of Holt county
where they do not have an adequate,
safe and sanitary place for the child
ren of the community to learn this
most important art, swimming.
For the past six or seven years, due
to the lack of water in the Elkhorq
river, the children of O’Neill have not
had the opportunity of learning to
swim, and as a result we have a num
ber of young men and women and
more growing to manhood and woman
hood each year, who are unable to
swim.
Let us hope that an adequate, safe
and sanitary place for the children of
O’Neill to learn to swim will soon be
provided. We can then be assured
that the daily papers will not carry
the sorrowful and tragic account of
the drowning of any of our children,
as they did of those of Orange City,
on last Sunday.
Mr. and Msr. F. M. Daley, of Jer
ome, Idaho, arrived in the city last
Saturday morning for a few days visit
with relatives and friends here. They
left home about three weeks ago and
visited relatives at Deadwood and
other points in South Dakota, and then
made a visit to the World’s exposition
at Chicago, and visited, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. P .J. Biglin in this
city, Mrs. Biglin being a sister of Mr.
Daley. They also visited with his
brother, William Daley, at Emmet.
They left Tuesday morning for home,
going by way of Denver. Mr. and
Mrs. Daley had an enjoyable visit
j here with their many old time friends,
j as they were both resident in this
j city until about 1894, when they
moved west. They are now living in
an irrigated section of the country and |
Mr. Daley says they do not have to
worry about any rain.
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J. H. McPharlin received a telegram
last Thursday giving him the news
that he was again a grnndfather, a
son having been born to Dr. and Mrs.!
.1. H. McPharlin, of Salinas, Cnlif. Dr.
and Mrs. McPharlin visited here short
ly after their marriage, a little over a
year ago,* |
GOV. BRYAN SPEAKS
TO CROWD HERE ON
AFFAIRS OF STATE
Governor Reviews His Record, Taking
Credit For All Good Legislation
Passed In Recent Years.
Governor Charles W. Bryan arrived
in the city last Tuesday afternoon, a
little late for his meeting, which was
caused, he said, by locking himself out
of his automobile at Norfolk and being
forced to have a new key made before
he could gain entrance thereto. But
although a title late he talked for
nearly two hours to a crowd of be
tween 400 and 600 people on the court
house lawn. The governor was in
good form and gave no evidence that
his serious illness of last fall and
winter had in any way impaired his
ability as a stump speaker.
He was introduced by Judge J. J.
Harrington, and he at once launched
into an attack on political attorneys’
meaning, of course, our former fellow
citizen, Arthur F. Mullen, although he
was not mentioned by named. He said
he drew the line on political attorneys
who were employed to thwart the will
of the people at so much per.
As usual, in all his addresses, he
took credit for all the good state legis
lation that had been enacted during
the past dozen years or more and
said that he had saved the people of
the state from having any bonded in
debtedness, by refusing to call the
legislature in session three years ago,
when petitioned by the members to do
so.
He claimed that during the first
three months in office he had saved the
people 32 per cent in the amount they
were paying for roads in the state of
Nebraska, by preventing collustion in
bidding on roads. Bryan went into
office in 1931 the last time and that
was after the price of everything had
commenced to come down, and it was
the times, more than any act of Bry
an’s, that caused, a reduction in the
bids on road contracts in the state.
He ran true to form all thru His1
address. He came out flat footed for
Ihe immediate payment of the sold- ;
iers bonus and an inflated currency.
He referred to the O’Neill paving and
said that we had gotten it from the
government, but that we did not get
any more than we were entitled to.
After the talk some one remarked that
while O'Neill got one mile of paving
wonder what Plainview had done that
:hey received over five miles.
Taken all in all, Bryan made a good
appeal for himself, and while he said
Lhat he was supporting the New Deal
tie believed that the Square Deal was
the best one for the people and he
<aid that he had always been for the
:ommon people, and would continue to
De for them.
McOWEN COMPANY TO
BE HERE NEXT WEEK
The Hazel McOwen stock company,
long-time favorites of the O'Neill
Lheater-going public, will be here next
Monday, July 23rd. for a week stand.
They will appear in their new tent
theater.
The bill for the opening night will
be “Smart Women.” One of the fea
tured plays of the company this year
is “She Done Him Right.”
The cast headed by Ralph and
Hazel Moody, who will be supported
by a group of players selected for
their ability to portray the parts in
the McOwen repertoire. Five vaudevile
acts will be presented each evening.
Women patrons of the show will be
admitted free on the opening night.
One lady free with each paid adult
ticket next Monday night at popular
prices, 10c for the kiddies and only
25c for adults.
Don’t fail to take advantage of the
bargain prices on next Monday night,
when two go for the price of one, and
that price just one-half of past years,
10c and 25c.
H. L. Webster, of Tekamah, repub
lican candidate for the nomination for
lieutenant governor, is in the city to
day getting acquainted with the re
publican voters in this city and vicin
ity. Mr. Webster is one of the most
successful farmers in Burt county,
where he has resided for 47 years.
The writer served in the state legis
lature with Mr. Webster and can
recommend him to the voters of Holt
county as a man well qualified for the
position to which he aspires.
Harvey Edward Glatfelter. of Cen
tral City, one of the republican candid,
ates for congress from this district,
was in the city this morning posting
advertising literature and geting ac
quainted with the voters.