The Frontier
VOL. LV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934. No. 15
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FREE DAY WILL BE
HELD IN O’NEILL ON
18TH OF SEPTEMBER
Funds For Entertainment Have Been
Raised, And A Hay With Plenty
Of Entertainment Assured
J. A. Mann and Thomas Mains made
a tour of the city the latter part of
the week and raised the money nec
essary for the Free Day celebration,
and it is now a sure go.
At a meeting of the committee on
arrangements, held Wednesday even
ing, Sept. 18, 1934, was fixed as the
day for the celebration. A splendid
program is being arranged for that
day and the people of this section will
be assured an enjoyable time if they
come to O’Neill on September 18th.
A complete program of the days
events will be printed in next weeks
paper. Get ready for the big day;
cast all care aside and come to this
city and participate in a good real
old fashioned good time.
Proof Of Compliance Will
Entitle Contract Signers
To Second Benefit Check
Corn-hog supervisors have now
checked about 30 per cent of the con
tracts signed by Holt county farm
ers in order to determine compliance
at this time of the year. The work
will progress steadily for the next
few days until all of the contracts
have been checked.
Proof of complinace at this time
will entitle the contract signers to
their second installment of about 15
cents per bushel on their corn and $1
per head on their hogs. A final check
on compliance on hogs immediately
after December 1, will entitle the
signers to their last installment of
about $2 per head on their hogs if
they show that they have fulfilled their
contract. Costs of local administra
tion of the corn-hog association will
come out of the last 15 cents on corn
and the last $2 on hogs, and probably
will amount to 1V4 cents per bushel
on corn, and 25 cents per head on
hogs in this county.
Because of the drouth, several modi
fications have been made in the origi
nal plans to check compliance. Very
little, if any, of the corn will be meas
ured in this county, and recent rulings
have modified the restrictions on feed
er pigs to some extent. Supervisors
will be able to get the job done at
one-fourth to one-third of the expense
that wuld have been incurred by the
local association if crops had been
good and all of the rulings had been
followed without modification. Every
effrt is being made by the county al
lotment committee and the state corn
hog administration to hold the expen
ses of the compliance program to a
minimum.
In many cases farmers who can
not definitely show compliance at this
time may be able to clear up the prob
lems within the next few weeks so
that their blanks can be approved
and sent to Washington. In all cases
farmers have until the end. of the
year to finally prove their compliance
on hogs. Any signer with a particu
lar problem will be taken care of in
dividually by the allotment committee
and every effort will be made to help
all contract signers with the compli
ance.
Charles Russell, of Page, and Miss
Marjorie Ethel Siders, of Opportunity,
were united in marriage by County
Judge Malone at the county court
last Tuesday afternoon, in the pres
ence of relatives of the contracting
parties. These young people are
members of prominent families in
the easter part of the county and. have
a host of friends who wish them a
long and happy married life.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mellor returned
the first of the week from a five
weeks trip in Colorado and. Wyoming.
They visited relatives for a time in
Denver and then went to Lusk, W yo.,
where they also visited relatives and
friends, and from there to Hat Creek,
Wyo., where they also visited relatives.
Jess said that they had an enjoyable
trip and that he enjoyed a real vaca
tion.
Mrs. Rummel and sons, Julian, A1
and Gene and Mrs. Larry Snell drove
down to Grand Island Tuesday and
took in the sights of the Legion con
vention in that city, returning home
that evening.
Mr. and Mrs. James Oppen are re
joicing over the arrival of a six-pound
daughter at their home last Tuesday.
Hospital Notes
Wanda Spangler had her tonsils re
moved Monday morning, August 27.
Keith Vincent had his tonsils re
moved Tuesday morning, August 28.
George and "Howard Dahlstein had
their tonsils removed Wednesday
morning, August 29. They also had
teeth extracted.
Genevieve Evans, of Atkinson, was
operated on Wednesday evening for
Acute appendicitis. She is doing
nicely.
Miss Alice Anderson, of Page, went
home Sunday afternoon, August 26.
Mrs. Garret Kallhotf, of Ewing,
went to the home of her parents, in
O'Neill, Monday morning, August 27.
John McCalester, of Bartlett, is get
ting along nicely at present.
Daughter Of S. M. Ohmart
Dies At Ponoma, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Ohmart, living
northwest of this city, are mourning
the loss of their daughter, Mrs. C. N.
Hansen, of Ponoma, Calif., who passed
away August 16. Her death followed
a major operation to which she sub
mitted August 3 at Garfield Hospital,
Monterey Park. Following is the
obituary notice taken from the Pon
oma News:
“Mrs. Erma L. Hansen, wife of C.
N. Hansen, 1369 W. Grand avenue,
passed away at 1 o'clock Thursday
afternoon at the Garfield hospital,
Monterey Park, after an illness of
several months.
“Mrs. Hansen was born in Rodney,
Michigan, January 13, 1898. She
came to Ponoma from O’Neill, Ne
braska, and has lived here the past
ten years. She was a member of
the First Full Gospel church.
“Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Ohmart, of O’Neill, Nebraska,
and four sisters, Mrs. Alfred Bradley,
Elsa Ohmart, and Merle Ohmart, of
O’Neill, and Mrs. William Crawford,
of Ponoma.
“Funeral services will be held at
the Todd and Reeves chapel Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. Ar
thur V. Huntley officiating. Inter
ment will take place in Ponoma ceme
tery.”
Receive First Cattle Checks
Checks totaling $1,300 were re
ceived by County Agent F. M. Reece
as payment for the first cattle pur
chased by the government at Atkin
son on August 11. Receipts will be
mailed to each individual selling cat
tle and the check sent out upon its
return. Holt qounty farmers have
sold over $13,000 worth of cattle to
the government up to August 25.
Hundreds of applications are coming
in daily but it will be impossible to
take^a very large number of cattle
from any one precinct until our quota
for the county is raised.
After a visit to his farm northeast
of Meek, Fred Bazelman is convinced
that there will be some corn in Holt
county. On his farm, which is farm
ed by Preston Jones, is a field of 40
acres that Fred says will yield 30
bushels per acre. He brought some
of the stalks to town to show the
doubting Thomases and now has them
on exhibition in his store. The stalks
measure nine feet four inches and
has one good large ten inch ear on
each stalk, well filled, and some of
the stalks have a smaller ear on each
stalk also.
The Frontier is in receipt of a card
announcing the wedding of Karl Mc
Koewn Bausch to Miss Mary Evelyn
Pettingill on Sunday, August 12, 1934,
at St. Paul’s Episcopal church at
Burlingame, California. The groom
was born in this city, where he re
sided for a number of years, the son
of Mrs. Rose Bausch. His many
O’Neill friends tender congratula
tions and good wishes for a long and
happy journey on the matrimonial
seas.
The city has a force of men fixing
the gutters on east Douglas street and
putting cross walks over them, getting
ready for the approaching winter.
Cross walks will he placed over the
I ditches, with hand rails on each side,
! where the ditches are deep, to prevent
pedestrians from stepping off the walk
; and into the ditches.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buell, of
Tekamah, were here last Sunday visit
ing at the H. W. Tomlinson home.
Mrs. Buell is a niece of Mr. Tomlin
son and stopped here on their way
home from a tour of ten states, from
Nebraska to the coast, and they visi
! ted relatives in nearly every state.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mrs. Edward Gatz entertained the
Delta Deck Club at her home Wednes
day evening.
Miss Grace Huigins returned last
Sunday morning from a ten day visit
in the Black Hills.
Will Farrand and family, of Dorsey,
left the latter part of last week for
a visit with relatives at Dickinson,
North Dakota.
Mrs. Dave Powell, of Loretta, arrived
in the city the first of the week for
a weeks visit at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Clark Hough,
Mr. and Mrs. Lod Janousek, of
Omaha, were dinner and supper
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Vic Halva Wednesday.
Mrs. W. J. Biglin and children went
down to Jackson this morning to
spend a week visiting relatives, prior
to the opening of school.
Mrs. Nelson and daughters returned
last Saturday from Winner, S. D.,
where they had. spent the past three
months visiting relatives.
Rev. R. R. Brown, radio pastor, of
Omaha, will speak at the Christian
and Missionary Alliance tent on Friday
afternoon and Friday evening.
Miss Lydia Halva returned to her
home in this city from a five weeks
vacation spent with her aunts and
uncles at Verdigris and Walnut.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted McElhaney and
children drove to Sioux City last
Tuesday and visited, there and at Or
chard, returning home Wednesday
noon.
Mrs. F. M. Brennan, Miss Berna
dette Brennan, Mrs. P. B. Harty and
Mrs. F. N. Cronin drove down to
Sioux City last Friday, returning that
evening.
Miss Anna Clark came up from
Omaha last Thursday night and will
spend a couple of weeks visiting at
the home of her sister, Mrs. M. R.
Sullivan.
J. B. Mellor, Mrs. Thomas Mains,
Robert and June Mains left this morn,
ing for Omaha where they expect to
spend the balance of the week visit
ing relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cernousek
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Cernousek and
daughter, Phyllis, of Walnut, were
visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Halva last Sunday.
Miss Marjorie Dickson is enjoying
her annual vacation from her duties
in the office of the county attorney and
left Monday morning for Omaha for
a few days visit with friends.
Leo Carney, Ira Moss and P. B.
Harty went down to Grand Island
Tuesday morning to attend the Ameri
can Legion state convention. They
returned home Wednesday night.
Jack Arbuthnot, Gerald Phalin,
Freddy Saunto, Louis Zastro and John
Robert Gallagher drove down to
Grand Island, last Sunday to witness
the preliminaries of the American
Legion convention.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tuor, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Syverson and son, Billy
Allen, and Miss Grace Tuor, of Madi
son, South Dakota, arrived, in the city
last Sunday for a short visit with
their son and brother, James Tuor.
They retrned home Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lod Janousek and
children came up from Omaha last
Tuesday for a few days visit with old]
friends here. Mr. Janousek has been
engaged in the restaurant business in
Omaha for the past year and a half,
hut disposed of his business there the
first of the month.
Pat Boyle, who has been employed
in the McPharlin barber shop for the
past three years, retired from his po
sition there the latter part of th*
week and opened a shop of his own j
in the Western Hotel. Don Mc-Clel
lan has taken the position Pat vaca
ted in the McPharlin shop.
Those that visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Chudomclka at In
man Wednesday evening were: Mr
and Mrs. Lod Janousek and family, of
Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kopesk>
and son, I^tuis Jr., of Inmun; Mr. and
Mrs John Valla and Mr. and Mr*. Vic
Halva and family, of O'Neill,
ANEMIA IS FATAL
TO MRS. F. LORENZ
Funeral Held Wednesday Afternoon
At Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Frederick Lorenz died at her
home west of this city last Monday
morning after an illness of several
months of pernicious anemia, at the
age of 59 years, 6 months and 9 days.
The funeral was held from the Pres
byterian church in this city Wednes
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, Kev. S. M.
Ohmart officiating, burial in Prospect
Hill cemetery.
Fredericks Dickmann was born in
Germany on February 18, 1875, and
when a little girl came to the United
States with her parents and they lo
cated in Hamilton county, Nebraska.
On February 3, 1893, she was united
in marriage to Frederick Lorenz, the
ceremony being performed at Aurora,
Nebraska. Nine children were born
of this union, seven sons and two
daughters, of whom five sons and two
daughters survive and with the hus
band are left to mourn the passing of
a kind, affectionate and loving wife
and mother. The children are: Fred,
Mrs. William Ernst, Carl, Otto, Mrs.
Clarence Ernst and Elmer, of O’Neill,
and William, of Hay Springs, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz came to this
county in 1909. For a few years
they resided northwest of this city and
then purchased the farm four miles
west of town, where they have since
resided- Mrs. Lorenz had been ailing
for several months and a few weeks
ago she submitted to a couple of blood
transfusions, in an attempt to halt
the spread of the disease, but the aid
given by the transfusions was only
temporary and she kept gradually
sinking until she passed away Mon
day. She was a splendid wife, mother
and neighbor and her death will be
sincerely mourned by a large circle of
friends and neighbors.
Hold Family Reunion
At A Norfolk Park
■ The Carson, Brady and McWhorter
reunion was held, Sunday, August
26 at one of the many beautiful parks
in Norfolk. Fifty-two relatives were
in attendance. Everyone brought well
filled baskets and all enjoyed a pleas
ant day. Fifteen or more of the Nor
folk friends visited, the picknickers in
the afternoon.
The relatives in attendance were:
Mr. and Mrs. William Carson, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Wickham and son,
Donald, and Woodrow Von Boskirk, of
Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc
Whorter and, two daughters, Lois and
Helen and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Mc
Whorter and daughter, Blanche, of
North Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Lester
McWhorter and three children of
Osmond; Mrs. James McWhorter, Mr.
and Mrs. William McWhorter, Mrs.
Plymesser, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Skog
iand and two children, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Waining and Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Van Buskirk and son, Willis, of Fos
er; Mrs, Irma Sorenson, of Laurel;
Mr. and Mis. James Carson, of Page;
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brady and two
^ons, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brady and
four children, of Dorsey; Mrs. Harry
Johnson and Mrs. Effle Brady, of
Walnut; Mr. and Mrs. John Carson
and daughter, Miss Lizzie, of Red
Bird; and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter
r>f Star.
These are the decendents of the
James Brady and John McWhorter
families who moved to Holt county
nearly fifty years ago. The only one
[>f the John McWhorter children left
is James McWhorter, of Foster, who
attended the picnic and there is a
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Mc
Whorter, of Omaha, who was not
able to attend the reunion. There is
only one of the James Brady children
left, and that is Mrs. Newton Carson,
who is reasonably well for her 82
years, but who did not feel able to
go and there is also a daughter-in
law in this family, she being Mrs.
Eflie Brady.
They expect to meet again next
year in August ami hope more of the
relatives will get to attend, as there
were only about half of them there
this year.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Gillespie received
a telegram this morning announcing
that their daughter, Mrs. E. R. Wood
and little daughter, would arrive here
Friday from Ponoma, Calif., for a
visit at the old family home.
A shower was given nt the home of
Mrs, James Connolly last Tuesday
evening for Miss Gertrude Connolly,
niece of Mrs. Connolly, who is to be
married the forepart of next month.
(Two Injured When
When Auto Wrecked
About 10 o’clock this morning a
Chevrolet Sedan, with a Kansas license
number, went into the ditch about 5 j
miles east of town. The car contained
five men and two of them received
more or less serious injuries. One of
them had a bad cut on the head and
the other had a broken nose. They
were taken to the hospital and their
injuries attended, to. Physicians are
of the opinion that the injuries are
not very serious. The car was badly
smashed.. They are unable to account
for the accident.
Wheat Contracts Call For
A 10 Per Cent Reduction
Wheat contract signers will be
asked-to lay out of production ten per
cent of their base wheat acreage as
determined on their contracts. They
can plant up to 90 per cent of their
wheat base for the harvest of 1935.
This announcement was made last
weekend by Secretary Wallace follow
ing the failure of the London confer
ence to come to any agreement satis
factory to the major wheat growing
countries. Wallace had previously
announced that the acreage reduction
might be as high as 15 per cent.
County allotment committees in Ne
braska counties will notify their con
tract signers regarding the official
figure.
Modifications due to the drouth per
mit wheat and corn-hog contract sign
ers to plant as much wheat and rye
this fall as they wish to plant for pas
ture or to hold the soil from blowing.
If moisture conditions are favorable
between now and the middle of Octo
ber, thousands of acres of land in the
drouth territory will probably be seed
ed to prevent wind from blowing the
top soil away. Rye and wheat are
the best crops for this purpose.
Under the rulings of the corn-hog
and wheat programs, signers of these
contracts can not save the extra acres
of wheat for harvest in 1935. Under
the wheat program they can plant up
to 90 per cent of their base acreage
and under the corn-hog program' they
can plant as much as their wheat con
tract permits, or if they have no wheat
contract, as many acres for harvest
as grain in 1935 as they planted in
the fall of 1932 or 1933, whichever
acreage was higher in those two years.
Mrs. Bartley Blain
Mrs. Bartley Blain died at her homo
in Page last Saturday afternoon, after
an illness of several months, at the
age of 87 years, 8 months and 29 days.
The funeral was held Monday after
noon burial in the cemetery at Plain
view, former home of the deceased.
Mrs. Blain had been a resident of
this county since ^ier marriage to
Bartley Blain in November, 1909.
Prior to her marriage she had been a
resident of Plainview'.
Mrs. J. P. Gilligan and son, Ben,
came up from Omaha last Sunday
evening for a couple of days visit
with relatives and friends here. Miss.
Marjorie Cronin, who had been visit
ing her aunt at Nebraska City for
the past three months, returned home
with them. Mrs. Gilligan and Ben
returned to Omaha Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. D. H. Cronin and Miss Bee
O’Donnell accompanied them as far
as Omaha, where they will visit
friends for a few days and Mrs. Cron
in will also visit her sister at Nebras
ka City before returning home.
Painters are now employed marking
ing parking lanes on Douglas street
and autoists are warned that they will
have to park within the lines drawn
on the pavement, so as to escape the
penalty for wrong parking. By care,
fully observing the parking lanes
many more cars can be parked on the
street, making it more convenient for
everyone.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Pfeiler, of Hot
Springs, S. I)., arrived in the city Inst
| Thursday afternoon for a short visit
with relatives. They left for home,
Saturday, being accompanied home by
j their son, Janies, who had been visit-1
ling ut the home of his grandmother.
Mrs. Margaret Brennan, for the past |
: two months.
John Protivinsky, Norh Uhl anti,
I Thomas Brennan drove down to Grand
Island last Monday to look after bus
iness matter and ineidently take in
the sights at the Legion convention.
Last Sunday Red Bird took Kmmet
to a cleaning on the Kmmet diamond
1 with a score of 19 to 3.
CONVENTIONS OF
BOTH PARTIES ARE
HELD IN O’NEILL
Fifteen Delegates Selected To Attend
State Republican Convention To
Be Held At Grand Island.
The republican and democratic
county conventions were held in this
city today, the democratic convention
in the K. C. Hall while the republi
cans met in the Odd Fellows hall.
Considering the fact that this is an
off year, politically, there was a great
deal of interest manifested in the con
ventions and they were both well at
tended.
D. H. Cronin was elected chairman
of the republican county convention
and Garry Benson, of Ewing, secre
tary and the usual committees were
appointed, after which adjournment
was taken until 1:30. At the after
noon session I). H. Cronin was elected
chairman of the county central com
mittee and Dr. L. A. Carter, vice
chuirman. An executive committee,
consisting of the following, were
selected: Ralph Kelley, Atkinson;
Leo Adams, Chambers; D. W. Gemmill,
Ewing; Fred Cronk, Page; G. E. Moor,
Inman; Art J. Runnel], Stuart, Fred
Beckwith, Emmet..
Members of the county central com
mittee were selected from the various
townships, after which fifteen dele
gates were selected to the state con
vention, which will be held in Grand
Island next Thursday. The following
delegates were elected:
L. G. Gillespie, O’Neill; G. E. Moor,
Inman; N. G. Miller, Page; E. J.
Collins, Atkinson; A. J. Runnells,
Stuart; F J. Brady, Atkinson; D. W.
Gemmill, Ewing; Robert J. Marsh,
O’Neill; C. W. Kirkland, Dustin;
Ralph Prill, Page; H. W. Tomlinson,
O’Neill; C. P. Hancock, O’Neill: Fred
Zink, Stuart; B. C. Engler, Stuart;
John A. Carson, Red. Bird.
A full account of the convention will
appear in the next issue of The Fron
tier.
At the democratic convention Dr.
N. P. McKee, of Atkinson, wes elected
chairman and W. II. Holliday, of
Stuart, secretary. M. H. McCarthy
was again selected as chairman of the
county central committee and dele
gates to the state convention were
selected. One noticible thing in the
democratic convention was the ab
sense of the Bryan wing of the party.
As George would say the "Washington
Politician” was in complete control,
although he was many miles away.
Interesting Facts
On Corn And Hogs
A summary of the official figures in
the state corn-hog administration
office in Lincoln show that Nebraska
farmers have filled out 92,419 con
tracts. Practically all of these con
tracts are now being signed.
Total benefit payments for the 92
thousand contractors will be over 30
million dollars. Of this amount ap
proximately 13% million will represent
corn benefits and almost 17 million
the hog benefit payments.
The average benefit payment per
contract is $328.00. In many cases
this money will be practically all that
will be received from the 1934 corn
crop and in some cases will represent
most of the returns for the farm
family to live on during the coming
winter.
The value of the 1934 corn crop
which will be harvested as grain is now
estimated at less than lO million dol
lars. This is the gross return from
70 to 80 per cent of the corn land
which was planted and intended for
grain. The other 20 per cent of corn
land laid out of production as con
tracted acres will return over 13 mil
lion dollars.
As in the case of wheat, the corn
benefit payments will represent the
greatest crop insurance payment Ne
braska farmers have ever had.
So far in 1934 the price of corn has
been too high to allow many hog pro
ducers to realize a profit on hogs
marketed this year. This means that
the 17 million dollars of hog benefit
payment may be more than the net
profit on all of the hogs produced in
the state in 1934. A radical change
in the corn hog ratio which would
make it profitable to feed corn to hogs
might change this statement before the
■year is over.
H. J. Birmingham, J. D. Cronin, AI. .
Sauser and William Fallon drove down
1 to Crand Island last Sunday t < mingle
with the Legionaries attending the
Legion state convention. They re
I turned home that evening.