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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1935)
N>b. State Historical Society The Frontier ____ _ . _* [ VOL. LV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935. No. 49 HOLT COUNTY TO • HAVE A JUNIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE Schedule Calls For Ten Games Per Team; Five Away From Home And Five Home Games. At a special meeting on Junior baseball in Holt county, held in this city last Sunday afternoon, it was decided to organize a county league. The following towns were select ed to have Junior baseball teams; Stuart, Atkinson, Ewing, Chamb ers, O’Neill and either Page or In man. A schedule of ten games has been drawn up, each team to play five games at home and five games away from home. Playing of the games is to start April 28 and end on June 30. The first games, on April 28 are as follows: Stuart at O’Neill; At kinson at Ewing; Page at Chamb ers. All proceeds of the 49 show being staged at Atkinson on April 26 and 27 will be used for Junior baseball in the county. New uniforms will be ordex-ed and each team will be properly equipped to play each game. A trophy will be pui’chased and it will be presented to the team winning the league championship for their keeping until it is won by a competitive team. The winner will also be allowed to compete in the district tournament, if that team so desires. This is not a one year program, but will continue every year. ^ A schedule will be printed next week and distributed throughout the county and printed in all the papers, so that everyone will know when and where the remaining games will be played. Mr. Business Maix co-operate with your local legion post and back this worth-while program. A. C. MILLER, t County Commander. 4-H Clubs Interested In Wild Life Conservation Four-H club boys and girls are doing their bit to conserve and restore wild life in Nebraska. Planting of trees and shrubs in ravines, gullies and other waste land is occupying their attention. Some rural youth are transplant ing choke cherries and buffalo ber ries to the gullies. Others are going along the streams and rivers and getting seedlings for plantings. Some 4-H clubbers are planning gathering seed for choke cherries this summer, planting in the gard en and then transplanting next year. Earl G. Maxwell, extension for ester at the Nebraska college of agriculture says, elderberries are satisfactory shrubs for conserva tion purposes in eastern Nebraska for waste places. They give pro tection to wild life and also pro vide a great deal of food for birds. Increased emphasis on conserva tion comes from a statewide restor ation of wild life project. Holt county club members are compet ing in the event which will termin ate in a state conservation camp at Seward late in the summer. Wheat Referendum To Be Taken In May Wheat allotment committees of Nebraska met as Sidney, Kearney and Lincoln the first of this week to discuss plans for taking of a referendum vote of wheat growers regarding the possibilities of a fu ture wheat contract. The follow ing men attending the conference from this section: James D. Beck and F. M. Reece from Holt county and A. U. Dix, Earl Davis and ^ AVillis Thruber from Boyd county. The referendum will probably be taken in Nebraska during the lat ter part of May and will be com pleted by May 25. Previous an nouncements indicated that every one would vote on that day, but allotment committeemen of Ne braska feel it may be advisable to conduct the referendum in Nebras ka a few days before the 25th, ^ In casting their ballots, wheat growers will be deciding whether or not they want the leading wheat producers in the country and the Wheat Section in Washington to work out a proposed contract that can be offered to growers for their voluntary consideration this sum mer. Since the present wheat con tract ends with the harvest of this year, the new contract must be ready within the next three months if it is offered at all. Plans already submitted and under consideration include a pos sibility of a contract which in ac tual effect will be two 2-year con tracts extending from 1936 to 1939. If such a contract is worked out, it will be possible for the producer who signs it to cooperate for the first two years and then drop out of the program. Several minor changes may be made in the contract, but the same base period is likely to be used in the future, and in actual effect the 1936-37 contract will probably be a continuation of the one which the wheat‘growers have signed for the past three years. Warren S. Gilman Dies After Several Months Of Illness Warren Gilman, one of the pi oneers of southwestern Holt county died at his home near Amel ia last Saturday, after an illness of several months, at the age of 72 years, 11 months and 15 days. Warren Gilman was born at Waukon, Iowa, on May 5, 1862. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Ft. Dodge, Iowa, where he resided until the spring of 1885 when he came to Holt county and located on a farm near Amelia, where he made his home up to the time of his death. On March 3, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Smith. To this union were born eleven children, nine of whom are left, with their mother, to mourn the passing of a kind and indulgent husband and father. The children are: Sam and Mable, of Douglas, Wyo.; Gertrude, William, Mary, George, Stella, Levi and Harold, of Amelia. Besides his wife and children he leaves 23 grandchild ren and two sisters, Elisa Brown well and Mrs. D. 0. Jones, of Sioux Falls, S. D. Warren Gilman was one of the real old timers of southwestern Holt County. Coming to that sec tion of the county in the spring of 1885, he lived for a half century there and was recognized as one of the leading ranchmen of the county and one of the county’s most sub stantial citizens. His passing will be mourned by a host of friends and neighbors, who extend their sympathy to the bereaved family. Funeral services were held at the Amelia Hall on Monday after noon, Rev. D. S. Conrad, of O’Neill, officiating and burial in the Cham bers cemetery. WHAT’S DOING IN THE LEGISLATURE By James R. Lowell Legislators are now working on the general appropriations bill which is overshadowing liquor and, unicameral legislation. The house finance committee cut $83,610 from Governor Cochran's recommenda tions for expenditures from tax funds during the next biennium, setting the total at $11,532,454. This is about a third of the cost for state government for the two-year period, the remainder coming from fees, et cetera. Educational institutions bear the brunt of the reduction, along with salaries of state employees. Ap propriations for state institutions under the board of control are in creased. The budget as represented by the house committee’s action, is $520,287 above the appropriations from tax funds in 1933. The house committee cut $220, 088 from the governors recom mendation for wages and, salaries among the state employees; $127, 420 from the state university; and $08,964 from the state normal schools. Increases over the governor’s recommended budget include $40, 200 for the state fair board; $202, 160 for improvements and new buildings at state institutions; and $45,000 for eradication of bovine tuberculosis. A stipulation is made that $375, 000 of the university appropriation be set aside for opening all wards now closed at the university hospit al in Omaha. The house recently passed and sent to the senate the general sal ary bill appropriating $854,740, or $42,440 less than the 1933 appro priation . H. R. 629, carrying emergency deficiency appropriations amount ing to $23,817 for the care of the | capitol, printing supreme court re ports, travel expenses for district judges and maintenance of the gov ernor's mansion until July 1, has been passed by both houses and sent to the governor who attached his signature. The 50th legislature obviously is economy-minded, but the cost of state government during the com ing biennium is certain to be con siderably above the figure for the past two years. The total appro priations, including approximately $25,000,000 of special, cash and federal (non-property-tax) funds, will be in the neighborhood of $3G, 500,000 or about $3,000,000 more than called for in the governor’s budget. The one-cent hike in the gasoline tax for relief purposes ac counts for this increase. The state tax rate is now 2.1 mills per $1 valuation, and, a slight increase is predicted. Reasons for an increase in the state tax in clude the cost of fixing up and maintaining the Genoa institution; the new law putting the state in the bonding business which sets up a $100,000 fund; the cost of setting up a state liquor commission which will require about $100,000; and another independent appropriation in the neighborhood of $50,000 to be used as the state’s share in maintaining a state-federal employ ment bureau. Governor Cochran has signed the bill carrying an emergency ap propriation of $10,000 for immedi ate use by the attorney general’s office in fighting for water rights of North Platte valley irrigators against Wyoming. A bill appro priating an additional $45,000 for this purpose is scheduled to be passed by the legislature in the near future. The senate discarded everything in the house liquor control bill ex cept the designation, H. R. 128, while the house pruned down the senate’s unicameral bill to provide for 43 members nistead of 48. The smaller membership plan gives the western part of the state more equitable representation, it was said. The liquor bill as it is now being debated in the upper chamber em bodies plan drawn up, for the most part by Sullivan of Omaha. It pro vides that every municipality in the state shall have liquor both by the drink and by package unless peti tions signed by 30 per cent of the voters are filed within 30 days after the act becomes effective, to force an election. The senate measure provides lower fees than the discarded house bill. It also makes vendors of liquor liable for damages suffered because of sale (an echo of the Slocunib law in effect in Nebraska from 1881 to 1917), and sets up a liqdor comission of three instead of five members. Political prognosti cators say that the senate is cer tain to change the bill materially before passing it on to the house. Governor Cochran vetoed his first bill, giving Scottsbluff county the right to sue the state for $112, 000 on a bridge claim, and when the introducer of the bill atttempt ed to get the senate to over-ride the gubernatorial veto, he met with failure by a margin of 18 to 7. Caution against any large exten sion of the state highway system as proposed by an omnibus road bill proposing to add more than 1,500 miles to 99 roads, was urged of the bouse by the governor in a special message. The governor said he wants the highway needs of all sections of the state taken into account, but he thinks it is best to keep expend itures along a line which will meas sure continuity of routes, with em phasis on the main highways carry ing the heaviest traffic, as well as feeder roads leading to these trunks. Governor Cochran feels that when 500 miles or less of the pre sent 9,700 miles of Nebraska main highway and state feeder roads re main to be improved, it will then be time to start designating addi tional state highways. Legislators said the governor’s wishes would be respected in the matter. Holders of hunting and fishing permits from now on will be re quired to wear identification badges. The governor has just signed a bill to that effect. It is planned to make the badges at the state reformatory. A state income tax bill intr|)-i duced by Cushing (R) of Ord, was given the axe in the house just a week after a sales tax measure by the same author was put to death. The house labor committee also put the skids under a senate bill regu lating wages on public works. Both houses have indicated they will pass without argument a bill providing for a 10 per cent exemp tion on motor fuel containing a blend of 5 to 20 per cent of alcohol manufactured in Nebraska from Nebraska farm products. This measure is along the same line as resolutions passed by the legisla ture two years ago, memorializing congress to pass a law requiring the use of corn alcohol in motor fuel, altho this year’s proposal is more specific and stands a better chance of getting somewhere. It is hailed as the entering wedge for the establishment of a huge new industry in Nebraska. The house has voted to refund $200,000 in the capitol building fund to the counties. Refunding of this amount would leave enough in the fund to cover existing con tracts and, perhaps, pay for flood lighting the capitol tower. Gov ernor Cochran had recommended that all this money be used to im prove the capitol grounds. After one of the bitterest fights staged this session in the house of representatives, S. F. 25, enabling municipalities to buy, or construct, power plants and distribution sys tems financed out of revenue, was passed and sent back to the senate for concurrence in amendments. Considerable opposition to the bill was attributed to the “power trusts," and an amendment was of fered by power lobbyists (thru legislator friends) to compel mun icipalities to purchase existing private facilities. It was defeated. Friends of the bill proper declared the amendment was designed to hamper the two big power projects in the state and enable the power interests to defeat the cheap power program as sponsored by the president. Enemies of tt\< bill said it is sponsored by the Fairbanks-Morse Co. to increase the market for the company’s product in Nebraska. Young Republicans To Meet At Hastings The Young Republicans of Ne braska will meet in Hastings, Thursday, May 2, at 11 o'clock A. M. to organize a permanent Young Republican Organization. All Republican young men and wo men within the age group of 19 to 35 are requested to attend this convention and take an active part in the proceedings. Please, send, your reservations to Lester Stein er, Hastings, or to the 3rd district delegates, H. D. Hunter, Columbus, and Quentin R.Enochson, Schuyler. Radio Station WJAG will fea ture a half-hour program Sunday, April 28, from 4:30 to 5:00 P. M. This program is sponsored by and dedicated to the Young Republic ans of Nebraska. Tune in for fur ther information in regard to the convention. METHODIST CHURCH A. Judson May, Pastor 10 a. m., Sunday School. 151 last Sunday. Keep it up. 11 a. m., Morning Worship. Two special numbers by the choir. Ser mon—The Hope of Immortality, j 7 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Union evening service at the Presbyterian church. Thursday at 4 p. m., Prepara tory Membership class meets at the church basement. Thursday 7:30 p. m., Junior choir at the church. A large attendance enjoyed a fine evening together at the church basement Tuesday evening when the church honored the choir with a banquet. Mr. H. B. Burch was toastmaster. Rev Paul Riggs of the United Brethern church at Orchard was the guest speaker. Mrs. Donald Van Dahl, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. May, gave three readings. Rev. May, the pastor gave some words of appreciation to the members of the choir and led in some old time songs. Last Sunday night the Paga choir, of the Methodist church, consisting of 25 voices, gave their Easter cantata to a large crowd in the Methodist church here. It was much appreciated and we say— Thanks. Pat Boyle went down to Arling ton last Saturday night to spend Easter with his family. ATLAS SORGO IS SUPERIOR AS A FODDER CROP Seed Supply Is Short And Hegari Is Regarded As A Good Substitute For Atlas. In an effort to help fanners reach a decision as to which crops should be grown this year for roughage and ones which should have their seed supply increased for future use, the Nebraska experiment sta tion has recently published a os cular which describes the results of tests with annual fodder and also silage crops. W. E. Lyness and T. A. Kiesselbach are the authors. In a six year test Atlas Sorgo has proved superior to other var ities of Sorghum and to corn when grown in normal cultivated rows. Its yield of cured fodder was 5.54 tons per acre compared with 2.32 tons for corn. The corresponding silage yield calculated on the basis of 75 per cent moisture content were 18.84 tons for Atlas and 7.89 tons for corn. “Because of the shortage of Atlas Sorgo seed the seed supply 1 should be greatly increased in 1935” the authors say. “Much of the seed sold in 1934 as Atlas was mislabeled and consisted of Hegari and other grain sorghum varities. Unusual care must therefore be exercised in buying seed if true Atlas is desired.” Hegari is regarded as a good substitute for standard forage sor go varities under present condi tions of limited seed supplies. It has yielded four tons more silage and a ton more cured fodder per acre in a 3-year test. It, however, has no relationship to the true Atlas variety. Thruout a 14-year period four varities of .sorgo or cane have been compared also for yield of cured forage with Sudan grass and two standard millet varities. In this test the three kinds have been sown with the grain drill at the respective rates of 95, 25 and 32 pounds of seed per at re. The Kansas Orange and Honey Sorgo with respective yields per acre of 4.8 and 5 tons, averaged about two weeks later ripening than Black Amber which yielded 4.2 tons. Early Sumac Sorgo was intermed iate in time of maturity and yielded 4.6 tons per acre. The tests in dicate that late ripening varities yield most in southeastern Nebras ka where the growing season is relatively long. Northward and westward within the state the in termediate and early varities be come more dependable. Marriage Licenses Thomas Hill, and Mrs. Anna Shoemaker, both of Atkinson, were granted a license on April 23. Andrew R. Mueller, and Miss Leona E. Schi, both of Clearwater, were granted a marriage license on April 23. Eugene C. W. Poessnecker and Miss Doris A. Facker, both of At kinson, were granted a license on April 23. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School at 10:00—C. E. Yantzi, superintendent. Morning Worship at 11:00—“On the First Day.” Evening Service at 8:00. Mr. E. G. Nelson will be with us to speak for the Gideons. The Gideons is an international organization of Christian Commercial men. Their objectives include all types of Christian service, with special em phasis upon placing Bibles in hotel guest rooms. Forty-six Bibles were recently placed in the Golden hotel. The Methodist congregation will join us in this service. The choirs will be prepared to lea l us in the singing. H. D. Johnson, Pastor. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Johnson left the first of the week for Bone steel, S. D., where they will make their future home. Mr. Johnson has been with the Interstate here for several years and has been transferred to Bonesteel, where he will have charge of the company’s business. Mrs. Donald Van Dahl, of Hold rege, Nebr., arrived Wednesday of last week and has spent the past week visiting at the home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. J. May. She expects to return home the latter part of the week. Hospital Notes \V. J. Kennedy went home on Tuesday of last week. Harold Wilson, of Emmet, was dismissed Saturday afternoon. Pete Duffy came in Friday even ing for medioal .treatment. At present he is very much better. Anna and Francis Pribil had their tonsils removed Wednesday of last week. Little John Conard, 19 months old sou of Mr. and Mrs. John Con ard, of Emmet, was brought in Tuesday evening suffering from sulphuric acid burns. He died Wednesday evening at 9:15. Mrs. Arthur Wertz was brought in Monday evening and was oper ated on at once for acute append icitis. She is convalescing nicely. Over One New Car Per Day Since January 1st In the face of the figures on file in the office of the county treasur er it is hard for the average per son to believe that times are hard in this county. Since the first, of January, 1935, there has been reg istered in that office 116 new auto mobiles, or in round numbers, $90, 000.00 worth of automobiles. The registration of new cars by months, since January 1, was as follows: January, 26; February, 27; March, 23; April, up to the 23rd of the month, 40. This makes an average of a little more than one new car a day since the first of the year. Hopeful Signs For Recovery In Nebraska By James R. Lowell Despite the fact there are more people on relief in Nebraska than a year ago, and in spite of dust storms and a deficiency of moisture in sections of western and southern Nebraska, there are a number of hopeful signs in evidence this spring. ’ A survey just completed by the Lowell Service shows that 6,146 new automobiles have been regis tered in the state during the past three months, against 3,657 for the same period a year ago. Registra tion of new commercial cars stands at 1,379 as compared with 1,143 for the three-months’ period in 1934. Incidentally, Ford leads the field by a wide margin, while Chevrolet and Plymouth are about even for second place, and Dodge comes next. Re-employment in the state dur ing the past month was at a rate nearly three times that of the pre vious month,the federal re-employ ment office at Lincoln announces. Approximately 3,500 men are now working on river projects in the Omaha district, a material gain over the number at work a year ago, and the Platte Valley and Loup River power and irrigation projects are steadily increasing their number of employees. More than 1,000 men are now working on these two projects. Recent progress on these jobs includes letting a contract for $316,409 to a Sioux City firm for installation of a river siphon on the South Platte section of the Sutherland-North Platte project; adoption of plans to build a net work of high voltage lines over the state and a power house, near North Platte, to be 80 feet high plus lateral dimensions of 110 by 60 feet; and the approval of con tracts on the Columbus-Loup Riv er porject for the installation of electric generators at a cost of more than $578,600, one contract to a Milwaukee firm for installing a generator at the Columbus pow erhouse, and the other to a Pitts burgh firm for putting in a gener ator at the Monroe powerhouse. The latest word from Washing ton reveals that $630,606,962 had been paid out to Nebraska farmers under the AAA up to March for Corn-hog and wheat reduction. Re duction benefits on this year’s crop are expected to be even greater. Pasture Notice The Federal Livestock Feed Ag ency, 755 Livestock Exchange Building, Kansas City, Mo., will resume for a short time the service to owners of livestock who are in need of pasture or owners who have pasture to lease for grazing. Persons desiring to list their live stock with the agency or wish to obtain pasturage thru the agency should get in touch with them at the above address or thru the agri cultural agent’s office. APRIL RAINFALL FOR THIS YEAR NEARS A RECORD A Total Of 2.68 Inches Of Rain Falls Here In A Period of Twenty-Four Hours. Practically all sections of Ne braska have received coupious rains the past couple of days, being especially heavy in this vicinity. Tuesday night we had .62 of an inch and from 6 a. m. Wednesday morning to 6 a. m. this morning the rainfall measured 2.06 inches, making 2.68 inches in two days. This morning heavy clouds are still in the air and it is misting a little, so the rain is probably not all over yet. With the rain fall of the past two days, 5.92 inches of moisture has fallen here during this month, according to the records kept by Harry Bowen. With the exception of April, 1927, the moisture this month is the heaviest recorded in this city during the month of April, in the past thirteen years, and there is still a chance for April of 1935 to make an all time record for the month of April. Following is the rainfall for the month of April for each year since 1923: April, 1923 ..... 2.05 “ 1924 .79 “ 1925 2.22 “ 1926 .13 “ 1927 7.00 “ 1928 .02 “ 1929 3.82 “ 1930 4.14 “ 1931 ..... .61 “ 1932 1.83 “ 1933 ..„...1.24 “ 1984 .06 “ 1935 5.92 Celebrate Fifty-second Wedding Anniversary Last Monday evening a party of friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bauman to as sist them in the proper celebration of their fifty-second wedding anni versary. Their anniversary came on April 18, but as that was during Lent, their children merely gave them a dinner party that day and put off the real celebration for a later date, and that date happened to be last Monday evening. About thirty-six were present and they all thoroly enjoyed them selves tripping the light fantastic to the melodious music furnished by“Hank”Ritts’ old time orchestra. They say that Mayor Kersenbrock was one of the star performers in executing the “old time” dances. The party lasted until a very early hour in the morning when the guests all departed for home, wish ing Mr. and Mrs. Baumann many more happy and pleasant wedding anniversaries. Buy Harty Building For Farmer’s Union Station C. E. Yantzi last week purchased the Ben Harty building on Fourth street, formerly occupied by the Vorce market. A3 soon as the building has been remodeled and some needed repairing made, the Farmers Union Gas and Oil com pany and the Farmers Union Pro duce station will move their head quarters therein. This will make a much better location for their business than the old location on Douglas street, as in the new loca tion they will have the use of the alley on the south side of the building. Grattan Project Club The Grattan Project club met at the home of Mrs. Ed. Leach Friday afternoon, April 19th, electing of ficers. The officers elected are: Mrs. Leach, president; Mrs. Elmer Wolfe and Mrs. Larry Barrett as project leaders; Mrs. George Wein gartner, secretary, and Mrs. Will Wolfe, news reporter. Demonstrations were given this new club by Mrs. Casper Prible and Mrs. Harry Bowen. A delic ious lunch was served by the host ess, and a very enjoyable time was had by all. ** Representative L. G. Gillespie came up from Lincoln last Saturday for a cotrple of days with his con stituents. Lloyd is of the opinion that they have been making better progress the past couple of weeks than they had before during the session, but he was unable to pre dict a date for final adjournment. He returned to Lincoln Sunday af ternoon.
