BRIEFLY STATED
F. G. Schmidt was up from
Ewing last Monday.
Arthur Ryan is able to be about
again after a two-week tussle with
the flu.
Fred Watson and family, of
Amelia, were transacting business
in this city last Saturday.
Judge Dickson and Reporter Mc
Elbaney were holding court in Rock
county the forepart of the week.
Sheridan Simmons has been con
fused to his room for the past two
weeks with a severe attack of the
flu. 7
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz went
down to Omaha last Sunday for
a few days visit with relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Golden went
•down to Omaha last Wednesday
morning, where Max will attend a
convention of hotel men.
Mrs. Edward Gatz entertained
the Delta Deck Club at her home
lost Wednesday evening. A very
aatjoyable time is reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Filsinger ex
pect to leave the latter part of the
week for Oregon where the expect
to make their future home.
Wililam Turner has purchased
Che Clarence Wyant barber shop at
Chambers and left for there Wed
nesday morning to take possession.
Rev. and Mrs. O. A. Fortune, of
TUden, were in the city last Friday
attending the Rebekah convention
wed visiting their many friends in
this city.
J. B. Mellor was up town last
Wednesday for the first time in a
meek, having been compelled to re-(
main at home and nurse an attack
nd the flu.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Morrison and
Mrs. Harry Reardon went down to
'Omaha Wednesday morning, on a
kmincss trip and for a short visit
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. John Horn, who
irac south of Emmet, expect to
bne the latter part of the week
"week for Oregon where they expect
■Make their future home.
L*?s Huff, Harold Lindberg and
JL C. Baker, of Chambers, left last
Sonday for Wyoming where they
«il pm in a week hunting big
jpune, and incidently look over the
■rountry.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hitcher and
«fc«Uren of Spalding, came up last
Sontlay morning and spent the day
visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Todson. Mrs. Hitcher
is a sister of Mr. Todsen.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Stannard
and daughter arrived in the city
last Friday evening from their
home in San Diego, Calif., and will
spend a couple of weeks visiting
relatives and old friends here.
The annual county convention of
the Holt county Women's Christian
Temperance Union will be held at
Page, in the Methodist church, to
morrow, Sept. 28. Delegates are
expected from all the towns in the
county.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Jones,
of Schuyler, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Jones, of Neligh, Mr. and Mrs.
John Walmer, of Orchard and Mrs.
Blanche Brittan, of Crookston, were
in the city last Thursday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Emrna B. Jones.
S. J. Weekes went down to Om
aha last Sunday night, where he
was-to put in a few days serving on
the loan committee of the Agricul
tural Credit Corporation. Mr.
Weekes has been a member of this
committee for nearly two years
and is said to be one of the best
posted men on stock values serving
on the committee, which is a trib
ute to Holt county, where John
received his schooling and experi
ence.
Twelve or fifteen couples gath
ered at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Pilger last Wednesday even
ing for a farewell party for Mr.
and Mrs. Pilger who expect to leave
the latter part of the week for
Oregon, where they expect to make
their future home. A nice time
was had by all, and the wish was
expressed that Mr. and Mrs. Pilger
would have an enjoyable trip to
their new home and enjoy properity
and happiness there.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Vail arrived
home last Saturday evening and
have gone to housekeeping in rooms
in the Dauer home, in northeast
O’Neill. Mr. Bruce and Miss Phyl
lis Lovelace were married at Bis
mark, N. D., last Tuesday morning
ut 7 o’clock. Mr. Vail has made
many friends during his residence
in this city and they extend to him
and his bride hearty congratulations
and best wishes for a long and
happy journey thru life.
POLITICAL NEWS
OF NEBRASKA
By James R. Lowell
Diogenes, philosopher of Ancient
Greece, once said: “The foundation
of every state is the education of
its youth.” In view of the fact
that this bit of philosophy has been
attested as correct thru the cen
turies intervening since Athens and
Corinth were the intellectual and
cultural centers of civilization, it
behooves Nebraska to sit up and
take inventory of its school situa
tion as the state enters upon what
promises to be one of the most
trying for its financial and social
structure in history.
The school population in Nebras
ka this year, ranging from wee
tots in kindergarten to young men
and women in the higher institu
tions of learning, is 419,400. This
is a slight increase over last year.
Incidentally there has been a slight
increase in the school population of
the state every year since the days
of pioneer settlement, despite the
drouth and hard years.
Approximately 171,000 young
sters now' are attending rural
schools which number 6,040. There
are 868 graded schools to accom
odate the rest of the school pop
ulation.
Nebraskan’s on the whole, are
fighters, as they have demonstrated
in the past by keeping their schools
in operation, but this year, due to
the drouth, the situation is more
serious than usual. The following
telegram recently sent by State
Superintendent Taylor to the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administra
tion at Washington summarizes
this situation:
“Two to four thousand rural
boys and girls in drouth areas in
Nebraska unable to avail them
selves of free high school tuition
because they have no means of
transportation and no funds for
board and room. Is there possibil
ity that relief funds may be made
available? Immediate action im
perative. Later action useless.”
Chancellor Burnett of the state
university also has appealed to fed
eral authorities for greater relief
for students. The FERA is plan
ning to spend about $17,000 a
month to supply approximately
1,200 part-time jobs for college and
university students in the state who
without such assistance could not
attend school, but Mr. Burnett is
trying to get the state university
allotment of 545 such jobs raised to
around 1,000 and the monthly wage
increased from $15 to $25 a month.
Rowland Haynes, federal repre
sentative and state administator
for the FERA in Nebraska, says
that requests for school aid have
been pouring in on the FERA at
Washington from all sections of
the country. About 60 unemployed
teachers are serving as instructors
now in Nebraska, but many country
school districts, depending on prop
erty taxes dwarfed by depression
and drouth, contend their school
doors cannot swing open at all this
fall unless the federal government
comes to the rescue, and most state
legislatures which might provide
additional state aid are not sched
uled to meet until January.
Last winter the FERA expended
about $200,000 in Nebraska on an
emergency rural education relief
program. More than 500 teachers
were given employment. This
winter, about $23,000 a month will
come from the FERA to support
an emergency educational program
but the rural part of it is being
left out. Instead adult education
classes and nursery schools are be
ing formed, and unemployed diet
itians and nurses will be employed
thru the program as well as teach
ers. This leaves the rural educa
tional problem, which is especially
acute as concerns high schools,
up to the state and local commun
ities.
The educational program in Ne
braska owes much to the Emerg
ency Relief Administration, how
ever, despite the curtailment of
rural education aid. The 1,200 col
lege students would not be able to
attend school were it not for FERA
funds. More than 300 school houses
have been repaired, painted or
provided with additions. Dozens of
new school houses have been built
with work-relief labor thru the
FERA, and the sod high school
building which was recently dedic
ated in Brown county was made
possible thru the use of such labor.
In the same category with the
school program is the CCC in the
state. The transfer of eight CCC
camps from South Dakota, Min
nesota and Arkansas to this state
early next month will bring the
total number of camps to 25 with
an enrollment of about 6,000, most
of whom are Nebraskans and come
from families that are on or near
relief. While the educational phase
of these camps is mainly physical
and moral, opportunities are avail
able to improve the mind in libra
ries and thru regular courses of
instruction.
Employment in Nebraska is
somewhat improved over last year
at this time, due mainly to expan
sion of the wprk-relief program of
the State Emergency Relief Admin
istration. About 22,000 persons are
employed on work relief including
“white collar” projects, but this
employment represents relief only
so that the income from employ
ment now is less than last year.
F. V. Cornell, director of the na
tional re-employment service in Ne
braska, estimates that around 5,000
people will have been placed on
jobs at the end of this month,
chiefly on public works. There are
now 67,800 men and women seek
ing employment thru the bureau,
and 4,928 men were placed on pub
lic works projects last month,
while 1,036 women were placed
with private employers.
Mr. Cornell is hoping for an ex
pansion of work on the Missouri
river so that the 14,586 unemployed
in the state in counties bordering
the Big Muddy might benefit. High
way jobs in these counties can
give only about 2,000 men jobs at
the most, and about 3,000 of the
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14,586 unemployed are registered
as farm laborers with no chance of
employment except on river work.
An additional $15,000,000 allotment
from the federal government for
such work is now being sought.
Out near Sutherland, work has
begun on the six and a half mile
dam of the Sutherland Reservoir,
first unit in the big irrigation and
power project. A young city is
growing up on the dam site and
about 100 men are already at work.
Contract for this dam was awarded
a Lincoln construction firm on a
bid of $248,491. Incidentally plans
have been approved for raising the
height of the dam 9.3 feet to pro
vide for impounding an additional
38,000 acre fee of storage water,
or a total of 174,000 acre feet. The
dam will form a lake about two
miles long behind it,
A San Francisco firm has been
awarded the contract for excavat
ing 10 miles of the Columbus-Gen
oa power canal, as the first step of
construction on the $7,300,000 pro
ject. The bid was $152,852. Pre
liminary excavation was started
late in August with a small force
of men with teams and scrapers.
The canal is to be 35 miles long.
At Omaha several hundred Ne
braskans are at w-ork on the bridge
across the Missouri at South Om
aha, while bids have been taken on
a similar structure across from the
downtown section of the city. It
will be known as the Farnam Street
span. The low bid made was $2,
075,000.
Backers of the Middle Loup pow
er and irrigation project which was
approved by the state PWA advis
ory board but has been hanging
fire with authorities at Washing
ton, retain strong hope that this
project may yet get underway. It
would cost about $2,000,000 and
w-ould irrigate 40,000 acres of Cust
er, 'Valley and Sherman county
lands, as well as develop 10,000,
000 kilowatt hours of electricity
annually. Congressman Edward R.
Burke, of Omaha, is trying to push
thru this project.
Returning from Washington a
short time ago, Mr. Burke said:
“I am confident that by making
necesasry changes, we can get both
the North and Middle Loup pro
jects thru. Secretary Ickes told
me that he favored continuing the
PWA program for two more years,
with additional appropriations of
at least $500,000,000 a year in ad
dition to repayments of earlier
loans. If that policy is followed
1 believe that not only the Loup
valleys but many other sections of
Nebraska will benefit.”
Highlights on the political front
include an agreement between Rob
ert G. Simmons, republican nom
j inee for United States senator, and
Congressman Burke, democratic
nominee, to stage a series of joint
discussions of campaign issues at
Various points over the state. Sim
mons will lambast the New Deal
and Burke will uphold it.
Senator Norris is back in Ne
braska to devote his entire time |
while here campaigning for his)
unicameral plan which will be
voted on as a constitutional amend
ment in the coming election. He
says: “It isn’t an experiment—it’s
a dead certainty the one-house leg
islature would improve our legis
lation.” An organization to aid in
putting across the plan has been
formed with C. A. Sorensen as
chairman.
The county manager form of
This signature is familiar to
you if you follow the cartoons
that appear regularly in this
paper and if, by any chance,
you are not following them,
you are missing something.
Kettner ranks as one of the
great cartoonists of the coun
try. His cartoons reflect an
unusual insight into human
nature and an extremely keen
sense of humor. There is never
a sting or an unpleasant sug
gestion in any of them, but
there is always an idea or a
thought that is worth while.
• • •
W« are fled to be able to
give our readers this splen
did feature. We know that
you always find it pleasintto
spend e minute or two with
K E T T N E R
government which was made pos
sible by state legislation passed in
1933, will be voted on in Douglas
county in November as the result
of the filing of petitions carrying
more than 12,500, signatures. A
special election will be held at Nor
folk November 27 on a propo^l
for a city manager plan of local
government.
Attorney General Good has given
an opinion that a candidate de
feated in the primary election is
disqualified to have his name ap
pear on the ballot at the general
election for any office. Secretary
of State Swanson refused to accept
a petition filing by C. H. Driscoll
of Lincoln for state auditor. Dris
coll was defeated in the democratic
primary for the secretary of state
nomination. A mandamus suit to
require acceptance of the petition
filing may be filed but the attorney
general is of the opinion that any
such action in the courts would
result in a decision that such peti
tion filings are not legal.
Meanwhile, Eugene D. O’Sullivan,
Omaha attorney, who has an
nounced that he might be a peti
tion candidate for United States
senator after having been beaten
for the democratic nomination for
governor in the primary election,
says that the attorney general is
wrong and that he (O’Sullivan)
cannot be barred from the senator
ial race if he sees fit to run.
Disagreement with the attorney
general’s ruling also is expressed
by Election Commissioner McHugh,
of Omaha, who accepted a petition
filing for a Douglas county man
who now would run for the state
senate after having been defeated
for the nomination in the primary
race for state representative.
Gist of the Capitol News
Governor Bryan has ordered the
work of painting murals at the $12,
000,000 capitol deferred until times
improve. He also may call off the
proposed dedicatory ceremony for
the edifice, and disband the capitol
commission.
A move to restore the party circle
to the ballot at the general election
has begun with the acceptance by
the state supreme court of an or
iginal action in mandamus brought
by a Wahoo democrat. It is ex
pected that the question will be ar
gued during the first week in Oc
tober.
The state supreme court over
ruled the motion of Attorney Gen
eral Good for a rehearing of the
action he brought to oust State
Land Commissioner Conklin. The
court held that the only remedy is
impeachment, and that the legisla
ture alone could authorize such pro
ceedings.
Warrants issued in August to
pay expenses of the state govern
ment totaled $2,010,200. The
amount was $1,783,804 in July.
The state railway commission
will request $116,080 from the leg
islature to operate the next two
years. The amount represents a
$10,000 boost in wages and, $5,000
increase for extra help and travel
ing expenses.
Under the state and federal road
building program, more than 100
miles of concrete paving have been
completed during the spring and
summer. The longest stretch was
9.8 miles between Kearney and
Gibbon. About 26 miles of paving
was finished last fall.
_
In the old days it was just the
chain stores that used, to worry
the corner grocery. Now, with the
government raising the H.C.L. and
engaging in the food business, the
groceryman is learning something
about cutthroat competition,
(First publication September 20)
LEGAL NOTICE.
Thomas Watt, Henry Hastings,
Alexandre Watt, Michael Cavan
augh: The heirs, devisees, legatees,
personal representatives and all
other persons interested in the es
tate of Thomas Watt, deceased,
real names unknown; The heirs, ;
devisees, legatees, personal repre- ;
sentatives and all other persons in- j
terested in the estate of Alexandre
Watt, deceased, real names un
known; The heirs, devisees, lega
tees, personal representatives and
all other persons interested in the
estate of Michael Cavanaugh, de
ceased, real names unknown, and
all persons having or claiming any
interest in a tract of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at a point
693 feet north of southwest corner
of Northwest Quarter of Section 29
Township 29 North, Range 11 West
6th Principal Meridian in Holt
county, Nebraskn, running thence
cast 2640 feet; thence north 1947
feet; thence west 2247 feet; thence
south 740.8 feet; thence east 14
feet; thence south 746.2 feet;thence
west 407 feet; thence south 400
feet to place of beginning, real
names unknown, defendants, are
notified that on September 15. 1934,
Mary A. Kelly as plaintiff filed a
petition and commenced an action
in the District Court of Holt county,
Nebraska, against you, the object
of which is to have the plaintiff
decreed to be the owner of the
real estate above described, to have
the title to said premises quieted
in plaintiff; to have you decreed to
have no title to, or interest in, said
premises and to remove the clouds
cast on plaintiff’s title by reason of
your claims.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before October 29,
1934.
W. J. HAMMOND,
18-4 Attorney for Plaintiff.
(First publication Sept. 6, 1934.)
LEGAL NOTICE
Harry M. Burgess, Charles A.
Stillman, Joseph A. Treat and all
persons having or claiming any
interest in North Half and South
east Quarter Section 24, Township
31 North, Range 13 West 6th Prin
cipal Meridian in Holt county, Ne
braska, real names unknown, de
fendants are notified that on Sep
tember 4, 1934, David G. Vequist,
Henry Vequist, Lewis Vequist,
Charles Vequist and Albert Widt
feldt, plaintiffs, filed a petition and
commenced an action in the Dis
trict Court of Holt county, Nebras
ka, against you the object of which
is to have plaintiffs decreed to be
the owners of the real estate above
described; to have the title to said
premises quieted in plaintiffs; to
have you decreed to have no title
to or interest in said premises and
to remove clouds cast on plaintiff’s
title by reason of your claims.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before October, 15,
1934,
W. J. HAMMOND,
16-4 Attorney for Plaintiff.
WANTED TO RENT
WANT Listings—Have cash rent
ers for Holt county farms and
ranches for reasonable rentals.
Call at residence 1% block east of
telephone office, north side of the
street. P.O. Box 473.—Charles
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LOST AND FOUND
FOUND—Ladies’ hand bag, owner
may have same by paying charges
at this office. 19-1
HELP WANTED
HOUSEKEEPER for a motherless
home—Inquire this office. 19-lp
MAN WANTED for Rawleigh
Route of 800 families. Write im
mediately. Rawleigh Co., Dept.
NBI-96-SA, Freeport, 111. 19-lp
FOR SALE
SEED RYE, $1.00 per bushel.—
Fay A. Puckett. 19-lp
BOWEN’S VARIETY has put in a
magazine counter. Now on sale:
Liberty, Dream World, True Rom
ances, Master Detective, Movie
Mirror, Radio Mirror, Love Mirror.
FOR GLASSES to suit your purse
as well as your eyes see the Per
rigo Optical Company represent
ative at O’Neill,
Saturday, Octo
ber 8. 19-1
MILK COWS—Eight or ten head
of Shorthorn cows, roans and reds.
Some giving milk now, others to
be fresh later.—Martin Conway.
Q’S QUALITY Milk and Cream.
The best by test, at John Kersen
brock’s, or phone 240.—John L.
Quig. 40tf
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