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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1935)
Neb. State Historical Society The Frontier VOL. LV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935. No. 50 | ANCIENT SCHOOL BOND OF DUSTIN PRECINCT SENT IN -*~ Has Accumulated Over $100 In Interest Since Last Payment On It Was Made. A relic of the early days of this county was received at the office of the county treasurer last Wednes day. It was a bond for $390 is sued by School District No. 10, in northern Dustin precinct, on No vember 1, 1889. The bond was voted for the pur pose of building a school house and was due and payable in ten years after date. Payments were made on the bond at various times, the last payment being made on No vember 11, 1916, leaving a balance due of $78.41. Interest on the bond, which draws 7 per cent, from the date of last payment is now over $100. The bond was sent here for col lection by a resident of Pennsyl ania. It is evident that the bond had been misplaced and that the officers of the school district were unaware that the bond was outstanding as there has not been a bond levy in that district for many years. The officers of the district will now have to make a levy to take care of the bond. SCHOOL NOTES By C. J .McClurg Their are still a large number L of teachers in the county who have not secured their exhibit mounting boards for next year. Teachers should call for these any time be fore school closes. We are not sure as to whether we will conduct another study cent er institute or not. There has been some dissatisfaction with the pre sent set-up. It is quite likely that I it will be conducted in the same manner as it was last year. There is a strong possiblity of several study centers thruout the county. We will hold our annual Eighth grade graduation exercises on Sat., June 1. It is impossible to hold the exercises sooner this year due to the fact that the last Eighth grade examinations are two weeks later than usual. It will be im possible for us to get the grades out sooner. We are making ar rangements for a suitable program, and are not sure at the present time just who the speaker will be. I want to again call the Directors attention to the legal sets. Either you must call for them or we will have to mail them to you. We could cut our postage expense half in two if folks could be made to realize this. The date of the annual school meeting will be Monday, June 10th. All books should be balanced be fore that time so that it will not delay the regular meeting. May the 17th is the deadline date for mailing cards for school transfers to remain in force. If you have not mailed in your card please do so at once, so that you may continue school privileges j where you are. City Again Covered With Southern Dirt This section of the state suffered from a combination of (lust and rain again last Wednesday. In this vicinity the air was filled with dust most of the day, but it was not nearly as bad here as was the storm of a week ago, nor as bad Wednesday as it was in other parts of the state, according to radio reports. It rained a little here Tuesday night and again this morning, .7 of night and Wednesday morning, .07 of an inch falling in both rains. Nearly all the windows down town were coated over this morning with a coat of dust, that evidently came from the plains of Kansas, as there was no local dust blowing. Imperial was plunged into utter darkness at 2 p. m. by billows of dirt. Big Spring was eclipsed at 5:30 p. m. and by 6 o’clock was in f the throes of a moderate rain and a thick dust. Heavy grit clouds also were reported from Grand Island, Cozad and North Platte. Sidney was being dampened by scattered showers. Other points along the airlane reported clouds and overcoats. Visibility in North Platte and Big Spring was zero. Light to moderate rains fell at intervals Tuesday in McCook, Lin i coin, Grand Island, Kearney, Hast I ings, Central City, Sutton and I Seneca. Sand and dust were re ported from York, Alma, Keene, Hastings and Seneca. The forecast for Wednesday was for showers with warmer weather in the east and north portions of the state and lower temperatures in the west. Year’s Rain Record At O’Neill Is High For Nebraska Towns Heavy rains and snow of the past several days have given many sections of the state far more pre cipitation to date than for the same period during a normal year. A study of the weather bureau’s re port, a daily chart showing amounts of moisture in twenty different towns over Nebraska,disclosed that ten localities out of the twenty to date have received normal precip itation. Only three places of this twenty, however, have received less rain so far this year than last, and in the most of these cases the difference is slight. O’Neill and Valentine show greatest amount “above nor mal.” Lincoln, while more than inch to the good this year so far, is about two inches behind in comparison with figures for a normal year. Rain began falling in central and west central Nebraska Tuesday morning. Mail pilots said they were flying thru showers in the vicinity of Central City at 10:15 a. m. Tele phone company reports showed, rain at Grand Island, Hastings and other points to the west. Burling ton officials also reported rain at Hastings and Sutton Tuesday morn ing with a shower, followed by a dust storm at Seneca, Nebr. The storm had worked its way east so that a sprinkle fell in Lin coln about 12:20 p. m. It ceased shortly after, however. Low here during the night was 36 degrees, but bureau officials said the air was too dry for a damaging frost. The weather man promises rain here Tuesday night and Wednesday with warmer weather in the offing. Following is the report of the weather bureau: PRECIPITATION This Last Normal Year Year May 1 Alliance _ 7.94 2.18 3.84 Auburn .. 4.74 2.23 7.39 Broken Bow_ 6.19 1.51 4.52 Columbus _. 5.54 2.05 5.14 Culbertson . 2.77 3.06 4.16 Fairbury .. 4.38 1.59 6.05 Fairmont . 2.77 2.84 5.32 Grand Island 3.13 1.73 5.36 Hartington _ 7.69 4.11 5.92 Holdrege 2.01 1.82 5.04 Lincoln . 3.45 2.18 5.39 North Loup . 5.50 1.72 5.08 North Platte ... 4.96 1.55 3.84 Oakdale .. 6.13 2.24 5.09 Omaha . 2.97 2.45 5.47 O’Neill .. 8.24 3.12 5.45 Red Cloud . 1.80 3.22 4.52 Sioux City _ 7.41 2.59 5.01 Tekamah 4.67 2.70 5.96 Valentine . 6.58 2.61 3.90 —Nebraska State Journal. Attend Founders Day Meeting At Wayne J. D. Cronin, Ira H. Moss, H. D. Grady and D. H. Cronin drove down to Wayne last Friday and at tended a meeting of the Founders Day Organization for the Third Congressional district. The meet ing was a decided success, nearly every county in the Third district being represented and many repub licans from other parts of the state being present to assist in the pro gram of entertainment. A meet ing was held in the afternoon at the opera house where a round table discussion of conditions was indulged in and much enthusiasm prevailed. One thing the meeting disclosed and that was that the re publicans of the Third district have many able and entertaining lady orators in the party, many of whom undoubtedly will be heard upon the platform during the next presi dential campaign. Wheat Meetings To Be Held Next Week The wheat allotment committee w'ill sponsor a series of meetings in Holt and Boyd counties for the purpose of explaining the coming referendum. Meetings will be in charge of the local committeemen chairman in each district who will explain the benefits of the past program and how the program is to be handled in the future. The future of the wheat program will depend entirely upon the way the wheat producers vote at the coming referendum. The wheat section is very anxious to obtain as nearly a 100 per cent vote as possible and those who vote should clearly understand what they are voting for. Meetings in Holt county will be held at the following places, to which anyone interested in wheat work is invited: Ewing Tow'n Hall, Monday, May 6, at 8 p. m. Scott Town Hall, Tuesday, May 7, at 1:30 p. m. Stuart Library, Wednesday, May 8, at 1:30 p. m. R. H. Parker Will Erect A New Business Block R. H.,Parker has decided to build on his lot just east of his office and the work of excavating for the building is expected to commence this week, or not later than next Monday. The building willbe of brick and tile, 22*6x80 feet, with a 12-foot ceiling and built up roof, and a modern up-to-date store front. Mr. Parker says that work on the building will be rushed and completed as soon as possible, as there is a tenant waiting to move in as soon as the building is ready for him. Lumber dealers are figuring on several other buildings in this city this spring and it begins to look as if the year 1935 was going to be a good one for this city. Several new residences are contemplated, some by prospective owners and others by some of our financial giants, who will build them as in vestments. Give Dinner For St. Mary’s Cardinals The Tigers Club last Tuesday evening entertained the St. Mary’s basketball team with a dinner at the Bauman cafe. The Cardinals made a splendid record for them selves on the floors of the different teams in this section of the state and the Tigers thought they were entitled to a little recognition from the businessmen of the city, hence the feed which was thoroughly en joyed by all the members of the team as well as the others present. Pioneer Lady Nears The Century Mark Mrs. Anna Kubichek, of Harold, S. D., mother of Frank Kubichek of this city and Mrs. Mary Winkler of South Dakota, and great grand mother of Miss Catherine Timlin, of Casper, Wyo., and Barbara Ann Hancock, of O'Neill, celebrated her ninety-seventh birthday anniver sary on March 3rd of this year. The aged lady is still in very good health and her numerous friends and relatives wish her many more happy returns. The Nebraska House of Repre sentatives pased one liquor bill and sent it over to the senate. The senate discarded it and passed one of their own and sent it over to the house. The house promptly re jected the senate bill and a confer ence committtee was appointed in both branches to draft a new liquor law. Senator Frank Brady, of At kinson, is a member of the confer ence committe from the senate and with him on the committee are Senators Ragan of Platte and Sen ator Sullivan of Omaha. The con frees are now busy drafting a new liquor bill and whether it will be more successful in mustering enough votes in either branch to pass, re mains to be seen. Residents of this community who have attended the successful run ning races held in Walthill during previous seasons, will be interested in knowing that the fourth annual season will open there with a three day meet on May 23, 24, and 25. Walthill will be the first town in Nebraska to offer a program of running races under the new pari mutuel law and it is said that most of the well known horsemen of this and neighboring states are mani festing an interest in the coming meet. During the month of April lic enses were obtained in the office of the County Treasurer for forty eight new cars, making 124 new automobiles that have been regis tered there since January 1, 1935. It begins to look as if this was going to be an exceptionally good year for automobile dealers. I WHAT’S DOING IN THE LEGISLATURE By Janies R. Lowell An air of solemnity pervaded the state house last week after the sudden death of the veteran legis lator, Trenmore Cone, of Valley, stormy petrel of the house of rep resenatives in which he had served five terms and was going on his sixth. He was 67 years of age. This was the first funeral ever held at the capitol. Records show that death is no stranger in legislative circles dur ing the biennial sessions. In 1933 two legislators were called by the grim reaper. James E. Qinn, Elk horn farmer, has been named as Cone’s successor in the house, Quinn’s being the second new face this session. Just recently N. J. Ludi, veteran Wahoo editor, was selected to finish out the senate term of Dr. Joseph F. Kasper of Prague, who was convicted of re ceiving stolen property. The house got back in the har ness last Friday and is now work ing on the liquor bill passed last week by the senate. The lower chamber is expected to do consider able plastic surgery on the maasure which Governor Cochran asked the senate last week to junk in favor of the bill worked out by the house and sent to the senate several weeks ago. The senior law-makers turned down the governor’s sug gestion in no uncertain manner. The bill, as it passed the senate, provides that sale of liquor is to be legal in all cities and villages except where 30 per cent of the voters sign a petition within 30 days after the bill becomes a law, requesting the matter be submit ted to a vote of the people. The various phases to be voted on include sale of beer, either by the drink or package without dis tinction; sale of hard liquor by the drink; sale of hard liquor by the package. Any or all of these pro posals can be voted on at the one election providing that a separate petition is submitted for each pro posal to be voted on. A three-member commission would administer the law, but a license could not be granted until the applicant had first obtained a permit from local authorities. There would be no liquor sold on Sundays or during polling hours on election days. No licenses would be granted to establishments sit uated outside of a town or city. This feature is intended to keep the sale of liquor away from roadhouses on the outskirts of a town which had voted dry. A re tail license would cost $50. The house boosted the ante in the unicameral bill and is now houlding out for 50 members, the maximum number under the pro-, posal voted on by the people last fall. The senate had set the num ber at 48, but the unicameral com mittee of the house put it down to 43, only to have the representatives vote 64 to 25 to hike the number to the limit. In the 50-member ar rangement, Douglas county gets eight members and Lancaster county four. Each would have had one less under the 43-member plan. The average population of the 50 districts would be 27,066, altho Otoe county would rate a repre sentative with only 19,696 popula tion, Districts which would have more than 32,000 population but only get one representative include the following groups: Stanton, Cuming and Colfax; Seward and Saline; Nuckolls* Webster and Franklin; Gosper, Phelps, Kearney and Harlan. Counties aside from Douglas and Lancaster which would constitute single districts include Otoe, Dodge, Saunders, Gage, Madison, Adams, Hall, Custer, Buffalo, Lincoln and Scottsbluff. The house made up somewhat for the time it wasted on the liquor bill by shoving thru the budget bill in near-record time. The sen ate is expected to show speed in handling this bill also, as when it gets the gubernatorial signature the end of the session is not far distant. The general budget outlined in the bill is approximately $37,000, 000, including $11,539,454 from property tax funds. The house added only $7,000 to the allotments recommended by the finance com mittee, and knocked $76,610 from j Governor Cochran’s recommenda • tions. The claims and deficiencies bill has been reported out on general I file in the house. It totals only $50,000 considerably less than two years ago, and $20,500 of it will go to newspapers of the state to cover the cost of printing the three constitutional amendments approv ed by the voters in last fall’s election. The board of control predicts that some real trouble is going to start popping if work is not found for inmates of penal institutions, particularly the penitentiary and the men’s reformatory. Egged on by this threat, the house is show ing favorable attention to a bill proposing to create a state prison industries fund, of $280,000. Sug gested plans for creating work in clude setting up shirt and shoe factories. With the coming of the NRA, factories in which inmates were formerly employed were discontin ued. — Remindful of the good old days of 1928 and 1929 when every vil lage was acquiring an airport and a number of aircraft maufacturing | plants had sprung up in the state, is the aeronautics bill just passed, by the senate. The measure would establish an aeronautics commission of five members appointed by the govern or to supervise flying facilities and enforce rules and regulations per taining to aviation in the state. It would license airports and air schools at the annual rate of $2 a year. Four cents of the per gallon state tax would be transferred, to finance the commission, from all gasoline bought by airplane com panies and other plane owners for use in the ships. The committee would be permitted to purchase a plane for the state. The secretary of the commission would be an ex perienced flyer. Governor Cochran says he thinks the bill is deserving of passage but he has his doubts as to what the house may do to it, especially in view of the opposition of good road, enthusiasts who don’t want to see the four cent tax converted from roads to flying. United Air Lines is objecting to the tax on aviation gasoline and has threatened to move its Omaha terminal across the river to Coun cil Bluffs. Friends of the aero nautics bill hope to be able to amend the measure in the house so as to tax aviation gasoline only two cents a gallon. Another indication that the leg islature is becoming air-minded was the action of both houses in passing resolutions asking Presi dent Roosevet and Secretary of War Dern to give favorable con sideration to Nebraska for one of the contemplated new interior base stations for development of mili tary aviation. Senators and. con gressmen from this state have been furnished with copies of the resolutions and requested to use their influence in securing one of the new air bases. Governor Cochran has signed S. F. 78, requiring the licensing of real estate dealers and agents, establishing uniform regulations and practices in the buying and selling of real estate for commis sions, fixing annual fees at $5 each for brokers and $2 apiece for ag ents, and making the secretary of state the real estate commissioner of Nebraska. The bill goes into effect January 1, 1936. Other bills signed by the gov ernor include one appropriating $10,000 for an investigation and audit of the state treasrer’s office, one permitting counties to levy up to one-half mill for blind pensions, one removing discrimination against Negroes and Indians as court wit nesses, one assessing the cost of a trial held under a change of venue against the original county, one permitting the incorporation of commerce as non-profit organiza tions, and a bill to permit guard ians to refinance mortgages on the homesteads of incompentent per sons. A legislative investigation finally accomplished something, when the investigating committee prying in to the conduct of the secretary of state’s office found that the office is passing up considerable revenue for the state by failing to properly assess non-profit corporations hav ing capital stock, lack of adequate supervision of loan companies, et cetera. Much of the blame was placed on poor record keeping and on the lack of a sufficient field force. Hospital Notes Mrs. Ed Cornelus of this city, came in Tuesday morning and was operated on the same afternoon for ruptured appendix. She is conval escing nicely. Mrs. Arthur Wertz, of Oportun ity, who was operated on for acute appendicitis a week ago Monday, is leaving for her home Friday. Pete Duffy went home last Sat urday. John Lynch, who has been in the hospital since last November, left for his home in Boyd, county Wed nesday morning. Mr. Lynch will be greatly missed by the hospital staff. The hospital will again celebrate National Hospital Day May 12th. Watch for program next week. Alice Sexsmith And Clarence Selah Win In Medal Contests The Historical medal contest was held at the Presbyterian church last Monday evening, the contest being engaged in by members of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches of this city. The contest was won by Alice Sexsmith. Other contestants were: Rebecca Haskins, Ruth Evans, Ruth Leach, Adalene Kee and Maxine Barnes. A Patriotic Medal contest was held at the Methodist church on Tuesday evening, by the younger members of the same congrega tions. Clarence Selah was tne win ner of this contest. Other contest ants were: John Luben, Mervin Kee, Ralph Johnson and Max Hough. Those taking part in the pro grams in connection with the con tests were Myrle Burge, Rev. A. J. May, Melvin Pilger, Betty Harris, Maude Henderson, Clara Cole, Mrs. C. Johnson, Archie Bowen, Rev. H. D. Johnson and Louis Cambre, and members of the choirs of both congregations. Will Return Here To Enter Business I.od Janousek came up from Om aha last Sunday and spent a couple of days looking after business mat ters and visiting old-time friends. Mr. Janousek wasa resident of this city for about five years, leav ing here two years ago this spring and moving to Omaha. He engaged in the restaurant business in Omaha for a year and a half, disposing of his business there last fall, since which time he has been taking things easy and looking for a possible location to re-enter business. He says that he has visited many towns in different sections of the state but says that he found none of them that he thought business was as good in as in this city, and he decided to move back to O’Neill. He entered into a contract with R. H. Parker while here and will be the tenant of the new building that Mr. Parker is going to con struct on Douglas street. Lod’s many O’Neill friends will be glad to see him return to this city. This morning H. F. Beckman, of the A & B drug firm, purchased from the Home Savings & Loan Association of Lincoln, the resid ence on the corner of Frst and Seventh streets, now occupied by William Cuddy. As Henry is still single it looks as if he might be contemplating taking on a life part ner, but he insists that he has faith in the future of this city and that ho purchased the house as an in vestment and not because he had any serious matrimonial intentions. Representative L. G. Gillespie was up from Lincoln last Saturday looking after business matters and interviewing his constituents. He says that they have fixed the date of adjournment as May 8. The legislature has now been in session four months and none of the major problems before the session have been taken care of, so if they com plete their labors by May 8 they I will have to move a lot faster than they have the past four months. Miss Ruth Hoffman, who has been bookkeeper for the O’Neill Production Credit corporation for the past year, tendered her resig nation effective May 1st. ! O’NEILL PAIR HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR HALF A CENTURY _ 1 Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sargent Hold Open House For Friends At Their Home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sargent, of this city, held open house last Tues day afternoon and evening to their many friends in celebration of their Golden Wedding anniversary. Hun dreds of their friends from this city and the northeastern part of the county, where they made their home for many years, called dur ing the afternoon and evening to pay their respects to these Holt county pioneers. Edson W\ Sargent and Mrs. Rhoda Dartt were united in mar riage in this city on April 30, 1885, Rev. Bartley Blain officiating. At the time of their marriage Mr. Sargent had a farm northeast of this city, near Meek, where the newly weds took up their residence and lived for many years until they moved to this city in the spring of 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent are the parents of three children, one son and two daughters. The children are: Leon M. Sargent and Mrs. G. E. Burge, O’Neill, and Mrs. B. C. Shove, Adrian, Mich. Mrs. Sargent was the mother of two sons by a former marriage, Ed. Dartt, of Wall, S. D., and Will Dartt, of Bend, Ore. In addition to their immediate family they have 24 grandchildren and 14 great grand children. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent are among the real old pioneers of this county, Mr. Sargent coming here in 187'J and locating in the northeastern part of the county, Mrs. Sargent coming to the county a short time afterwards. During their married life in this county they have seen the county blossom and bloom with bountiful crops; seen the county fill up with thriving and industrious people until the plains were dotted w'ith little homes. They also passed thru the drouth and hot winds of the nineties when many of the early settlers left that portion of the county and moved to other sections. Then after the drouth and hard times came years of peace and plenty. During the hard times, they, like the other old timers of those early days, did not sit down and wait for someone to hand them some thing, but they persevered, worked hard and finally success crowned their efforts when nature smiled again upon the land and the country was blessed with bountiful crops. The people of those early days endured hardships that would crush the spirit and the hopes of the present generation. They looked upon hard times as a matter of fact and tried faithfully, during the prosperous years, to provide for the lean ones that were sure to come, and in most cases they suc ceeded. How much better the pre sent generation would be if they emulated the example set by the early day pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent have many friends in this city and county who extend greetings on their Golden anniversary and wish for them con tentment and happiness for many years to come. CARD OF THANKS To our friends and neighbors, and all of those who assisted us in any way, we express our sincere appreciation for your kindness, sympathy and beautiful floral trib utes to our dear son and grandson. John Pat.—Mr. and Mrs. John Con ard, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. McGinnis. Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach and Mrs. Clara M. Cole. The Gatz Brothers are building an addition to their ice and storage plant just south of the Burlington tracks that will better enable them to take care of their increasing business. The addition is 18x30, with 20 foot posts, and it will be used as a storage house for beer. The addition will be to take care of two carloads of beer and was made necessary on account of their increased sale of this beverage. The Lepco company, which op ened an auto supply store on Doug las street in the building formerly occupied by a grocery store, closed up Wednesday night and the owner left for his former home in Pierce.