Over the County INMAN NEWS A number of Inman ladies at f tended the Achievement day pro gram of the project clubs Thurs day at O’Neill. Quite a number of Inman folks drove to Emmet Friday afternoon to attend funeral services fpr little John Patrick Conard who passed away at the O’Neill hospital Wed nesday of last week. Mrs. Conard, mother of the child, was formerly r Miss Emma Anspach of Inman. Miss Lois Killinger went to O’Neill Sunday to accept a posi tion in the A. E. Bowen home. Vince Roe is very ill at his home here with dropsy and heart trouble. Vince had just recently recovered from a severe seige of pneumonia. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Davis on Easter Sunday, April 21, a baby girl. A meeting of the Holt County Sunday School Council was held here Saturday afternoon for the purpose of planning for the Annual Sunday School convention to be held here May 24th. Out of town members of the Council present were, Fay Puckett, Meek; Rev. H. D. Johnson, O'Neill; Miss Helen Murry, Atkinson, and J. K. Ernst, of O’Neill. The illustrated lecture which was postponed several weeks ago on account of the rains and, subsequ ent road conditions, was given Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the M. E. church by Rev. Priest ly, of Emmet. The Senior play, “A small Town Romeo,” which was postponed last week, because of a death in the family of one of the members of the cast, will be presented at the I. 0. O. F. hall Friday night. William Harte, who entered a Sioux City hospital a week ago, submitted to an operation several days ago, and his condition is re ported as fair. M. H. Claridge \Vho has been em ployed on the C. & N. W. section here the past several months left ^ for Stuart Tuesday of this week where he will be section foreman. Mr. and Mrs. John Anspaeh and Helen and Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Anspaeh attended funeral services at Emmet Friday for their little grandson and nephew, John Patrick Conard, who died last week as a result of sulphuric acid poisoning. I Mr. and Mrs. John Anspaeh re mained in Emmet to spend the week with their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Conger and son, Bobby Dale, of Elgin, spent Easter here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Conger. R. G. Goree and daughter, Helen, were here from Long Pine Sunday visiting at the W. S. Goree home. Mrs. Etta Trowbridge spent sev eral days of last week here with her daughters, Mrs. F. Smith and family, and Mrs. Earl Stevens and family. Stuart Hartigan went to Tilden this week to see about some pros pective employment. The gravel pumping project is on in full swing at present. Two shifts are working daily, each one working seven hours a day. The work is being supervised by J. W. Wilson of the Inland Construction company. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Killinger drove to Ewing Monday on busi ness. They were accompanied by Rev. Mertie E. Clute, who had dental work done while there. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sire and son, Jimmy, and Mrs. E. E. Sire went to Auburn, Nebr., last week where Mrs. E. E. Sire was called on account of the death of an aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sire and son returned home Friday, but Mrs. E. E. Sire remained for a longer visit with relatives. L. R. Tompkins received word this week that his neice, Miss Mildred Louchs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Louchs, of Long Beach, Cal., had finished her law course and has been admitted to the California bar. PLEASANT DALE Quite a number from this com ^ munity enjoyed the play given by the Emmet high school Friday evening. Darwin and Henry Seger, of Bellville, Kans., spent the week end at the Gus Seger home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pribil and. family called at Joe Winkler’s Sun day afternoon. A dance was given Friday night at the Ed Heeb school house. Music k was furnished by Albert Rosier and Mino Bellar. Miss Evangeline Pribil signed a contract to teach the Pleasant Dale school next term. Mrs. Ralph Beckwith and child ren rpent Saturday at the Gus Seger home. James Carney supervised the grading of three miles of wad Friday and Saturday east of Em met on the mail route. Miss Loretta Flannery spent Saturday and Sunday at her home near Atkinson. A large number of trees are being planted out this way this spring. MEEK AND VICINITY District 27 school closed Satur day, April 27, with its annual pic nic. A fine time was enjoyed by those who attended. The young folks had a ball game in the after noon. Miss Dorothy Harrison was the teacher. Helen Spindler, of O’Neill, spent Friday night with her cousin, Le one Spindler, and Saturday night with Neva June Sche'.kopf. Elmer Devall and Cecil Griffith spent Friday evening at the Will Devall home. Mr.and Mrs.Orville Peterson and children, of O’Neill, spent the week end at the Orville Harrison home. Lois Jean Robertson spent Fri day night with Laverne Borg. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kar£l, of Greg ory, S. D., spent Saturday night at the Gus Karel home, and on Sun day Mr. and Mrs. Gus Karel went with them for a visit at the How ard Oberle home. Rudolph Johnson is quite ill at the Spencer hospital with pneu monia. Mr. ana Mrs. nowara emu Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters and sons, Lawrence, Lloyd and Delbert, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters and Florence, Lavone and Allen were guests Sunday at the Ralph Young home. Eric Borg has been quite ill for several days, but is somewhat im proved at this writing. His many friends in this locality are hoping for his speedy recovery. Laverne and Helen Borg spent Sunday with Lois Jean and, Ilene Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. William Hubby and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hubby were guests Sunday at the Eric Borg home. Mildred Hansen visited Sunday at the Fred Lindberg home. Arthur Devall called at Frank Griffith’s and Roy Spindlers Sat urday afternoon. Mrs. Ray Prouty underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Lynch hospital a few days ago. We have not heard of her condition in the last couple of days. Arthur Devall left Saturday evening for Scottsbluff, Nc-br., ex pecting to reach there by Sunday evening. We rather expect he made a longer visit than that length of time would allow, at Alliance, as he took a load of goods for the Gus Johnson family. Fred Johring recently purchased a Chevrolet truck of Frank Spinar. Orville Harrison and daughter, Dorothy, and Ed Thomas made a business trip to Page Monday. At the meeting at Paddock Union church Monday evening Frank Nel son was re-elected treasurer. May 16th was decided on as clean-up day at the cemetery. On Tuesday, April 30, occured the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edson Sargent. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent came to our community in 1879 and filed on a homestead where they lived until 1917. when they moved to O’Neill, and have resided there since that time. About fifty friends and rel atives called during the afternoon and evening, enjoying a pleasant call. They were glad to see the couple as well as they are. EMMET ITEMS Quite a number of students took Seventh and Eighth grade examin ations here last Thursday and Fri day. Miss Dorothy Sesler returned home Friday from the Sam Thomp son home in O’Neill, where she has been employed. Miss Luree Abart and Miss De Loma Scott, who attend school at Wayne, spent the week-end at the Abart home. C. F. Abart and sons, Gail, Keith and Percy, and Misses Luree Abart and DeLoma Scott went to Orch ard Sunday. Several cases of measles and small-pox have been reported in this community. Miss Margaret Cuddy, of O’Neill, is employed at the McGinnis store. Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach, of Inman, spent the week-end with relatives here. The streets of Emmet are being graded this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Newton and family are moving to the farm formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mating. Mrs. Walter Puckett is on the sick list this week. James O’Connell came home from the Atkinson hospital Mon day feeling some better. Mrs. Sam Banks returned to her home Monday after spending a week at the Jim Banks home. The play* “The Dutch Detective,” was presented by the Emmet High school at the O'Connor hall last Friday. The amount of $16.50 was taken in. CREST TIRES AT GAMBLE STORES! Just forget about Inner Tubes when you buy Crest Tires—but, re member, when you compare Crest prices with others, every Crest Pas senger Car Tire is priced with the tube. 30x3 Vi Tire and Tube, $5.95 —4.40-21, $7.95. National Educational Better Housing Contest Contest is open to all undergrad uate high school students in public, private and parochial schools. Subject: “Better Housing and the Home.’’ (a) The Modern Home. (b) The City Apartment Home. (c) The Farm Home. (d) New Homes for Young Am erica. (e) The Scope of the National Housing Act. Dates of Contest: Contest opens, April 1, School contest closes, May 3, County contest, May 17, State contest closes, May 25, National semi-finals close June 4, National contest, June 15. Conditions of the Contest: 1. The contest is open to all und ergraduate high school students in public, private and parochial schools. 2. The contest is based on a six hundred word essay written in speech form which should not take less than five minutes nor exceed six minutes to deliver orally. 3. All speeches must be the orig inal work of the students offering them. Copies of the speeches of the school winners must bear an affirmation that the speech is his or her own original work and be countersigned by the principal or teacher. Copies of the speeches must be filed with the district chairman before the first inter school (county) contest under his direction. All speeches should bear the home address of the student. 4. Each school is responsible for its school winners. One boy and one girl in each school will be elig ible to enter the district or county contest. In cases of schools which are attended only by boys, one winner will be selected. The same ruling applies to girl schools. 5. The school winners will com pete orally in the district or county contest. The written speeches of the boy and girl county winners will be sent to a state board of judges. 6. Each state will have two win ners—a boy and. a girl. Written speeches only will be judged in the state contest. 7. The speeches of the two win ners from each state will be for warded to a National Board of Judges who will select the eight national finalists. 8. Oral competition will be re quired in the county contest and in the national finals. Written speeches only will be judged in the state and national semi-finals. To the boy and girl winning the first prize in the national finals will go $1,000 each in cash and handsome gold medals. Winners of the second prize, also a boy and a girl, will receive $500 and gold medals. To those capturing third prize will go $250 in cash and gold * medals. Fourth prize winners are to be given $100 and gold medals. In each ease the awards are to be made to a boy and a girl winner. In places where pupils are not per mitted to receive cash prizes the award will be put into a scholar ship. There will also be awards of silver medals to winners of each state contest. In addition to these prizes, the Federal Mousing Ad ministration announces that it will present a Certificate of Merit to each school winner. Busy Hour Club The Busy Hour club was held at the home of Mrs. John Miller on Wednesday, April 24th. All mem bers were present except Mrs. Ed. Wayman and Mrs. Victor Johnson. The visitors were Mrs. Lowell John son, Mrs. Harold Hough and Mar tha Boldfa. The afternoon was spent in entertaining. Mrs. Ralph Ernst was elected secretary in place of Mrs. Charles Vorce who has moved away. A delicious lunch of cake, fruit salad and coffee was served by the hostess. The next meeting will he held at the home of Mrs. Clyde Hershiser. Nebraska Boy Scouts To Hold Circus At Lincoln Lincoln will take on a gala air and get a chance to take an inside look at the business of character building when a large share of the 3,500 Boy Scouts in 55 Nebraska counties descend on the capital city to stage a “circus.’ This will be the third such event held in Lincoln, the last having been staged in 1931. The circus will be held at the university stadium and a young city of council tents will spring up shortly prior to Friday evening, the time of the event, to accommodate boys from out in the state. BETTER ORDER NOW! The close of the season is tearing along like a motor cycle! Better order now. Order chicks (from your choice of sevenleading breeds) and poults bearing the fam ous Armour “Cloverbloom" brand. I’lay >afe— but be quick! Send postal for free folder and low prices or call the next time you are in town. L. L. Cambre, Manager Hatchery Department ARMOUR CREAMERIES 4th St. & N. W. tracks O’NEILL, NEBRASKA HOPE at tlie bottom of the heart—Determination in the top of the head—have resulted in making many wealthy. Wl\Z (0 ileill ITctiiomtl 23cink Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stockholders. O A prologue preceeding the grand entry will be put on when a group of Scouts and their leader come onto the field and establish a camp as for overnight. As soon as they are settled there appears in the distance an old buckskin pioneer who approaches the camp and hails the Scouts. After an exchange of greetings he questions the right of boys to call themselves Scouts and is told by the Scout leader that he will be shown just what these lads can do. From then on there will be action, fun and demonstrations of skill galore. There will be all kinds of scout games, out-of-doors skills, signal ling in the form of picturesqque and dramatic exposition of the history of communication, ranging from the pounding on hollow logs by cavemen to heliographs and flares such as used for distress signals by ships today. A safety first tableau will include the wrecking of a village by an aftificial storm,after which a group of Scouts will dash on the scene, render first aid to the unfortunate inhabitants, set up a soup kitchen, etc. Other tableaus will include a “Story of the Stars,” “Types of Fires,” “Sea Scouting,” and “Pi oneering.” All troops will have entries in a “Parade of Wonders” calculated to put the audience in stitches and give the Scouts a chance to exercise their originality and imagination to the Nth degree. METHODIST CHURCH A. Judson .May, Pastor 10 a. m.—Sunday School. 11a. rn.—Worship Service. Ser mon, "TheArtof Christian Living.” Epvvorth League, 7 p. m. Evening service 8 p. m. Rev. D. S. Conrad will preach. Junior choir practice each Thurs day at 7:30 p. m. Preparatory membership class j Saturday at 10 a. m. at the church j basement. Lunch at the park at | noon. George Barnhart, of Ewing, was transacting business in this city last Wednesday. _____ They’re Worth More WHITE ROCK CHICKS from Iowa—