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[ 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.