Nebraska Newspapers

    VOL. I,VI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1986. No. 15
REQUEST FOR PWA
GRANT ON PAVING
MADE BY COUNCIL
Also Asking For A Forty-Five Per
Cent Grant For Construction
of Community Building.
The city council met in special
session last Wednesday evening in
the council room. This meeting was
called for the purpose of putting in
an application for a federal grant
of forty-five per cent of the cost
of the paving on north Fourth
street.
The Council also decided to put
in an application for $25,000 for
the erection of a comunity hall in
the city, forty-five per cent of this
to be donated by the federal gov
ernment. Both applications were
prepared and mailed to Omaha.
Nothing definite has been de
cided about the community building
but as the time for filing applica
tions for grants for public improve
ments is getting short, the Council
decided to make the application and
if same was granted then the mat
ter of the building could be taken
up and submitted to the voters.
A comunity building that would
provide offices for the city council
and other city officials, as well as
to take care of any public gather
ings in the city would be an added
asset to the city.
Bill For Control of
Potato Production Is
Passed By Congress
By Congressman Karl Stefan
All of the amendments to the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration Act were passed in the
house without much opposition.
However, the so-called Potato Bill,
H. R. 8819, to amend the AAA by
making all varities of potatoes a
basic agricultural commodity, and
to raise revenue by imposing a tax
on the first sale of these potatoes,
met with much opposition, but this
bill passed by only eight votes.
Many congressmen from farm
states voted against this amend
ment. Their objection was on the
ground that the scheme of the bill
was inappropriate and unjust to an
overwhelming percentage of the
people who raise potatoes.
There are but few commercial
potato growers who will be helped
by this bill as compared to many
millions of our population- who
plant potatoes and who sell them
as occasion requires or as results of
the yield may determine. The hear
ings showed that there are only
about 30,000 large potato growers
who may be called commercial
growers, while there are some 3 or
4 millions of people that raise po
tatoes and want to sell any pro
duction the harvest will bring them.
Under this bill, only a few are
benefited but many are forced to
withdraw from growing the most
common of all vegetables.
It is a compulsory plan, not a
voluntary one. Every woman who
has a small garden will be compel
led to pay 45 cents per bushel for
any excess above her allotment
that she may desire to sell or trade
to the corner grocer. These is a
free allotment of 5 bushels only,
but she cannot sell or trade even
this 5 bushels without first going
to the trouble and expense of estab
lishing a quota based on her past
experience. She will be required
to go to the county seat or some
other central location in order to
establish her allotment, and in do
ing so present by affidavit or in
some other way the evidence show
ing her past experience in potato
growing. She will have to put all
of her potatoes in packages and
put stamps and tags upon them.
She will have to put “exempt”
stamps on the 5 bushels free allot
ment. So it will be also with near
ly every other farmer in America,
almost all of whom raise a small
amount of potatoes.
Of course, nobody believes that
such a tax will be paid by anyone.
This bill is not designed to raise
revenue, because it is plain that no
one can afford to raise potatoes and
pay 45 cents per bushel for selling
them. The bill is for the purpose
of curtailing production. Common
sense shows us it is not a revenue
measure. There is no adequate
showing in the hearings that such
a bill is needed; it isn’t fair to sub
ject 3 to 4 millions of our citizens
to regimentation loss, and expense
in order that a few thousand of our
people shall be privileged and giv
en a practical monopoly to raise
potatoes and market them at ex-;
travagant prices.
The 125,000,000 consumers of po
tatoes in this country have an in
terest in this question. The house
wives in the towns and cities will
not be satisfied to pay the price it
is designed to impose upon them
by those who sponsor this bill.
The Department of Agriculture
will be given thousands of field
men to traverse the country from
Maine to California and to ascer
tain facts concerning individual po
tato growers, land thousands of
clerks in Washington to apply the
formula to the facts and then al
lotments will be made to farms.
If you have a 5-bushel farm only,
then your allotment will not be
cut down under 300 pounds. The
scheme is not workable. Potatoes
will be bootlegged everywhere.
Many of our peole sell their po
tatoes without putting them into
commercial channels. These folks
sell them directly to their neigh
bors; deliver them to grocery
stores in exchange for commodi
ties; distribute them as hucksters
in cities and towns; by roadside
stands, etc. In this respect the
business of selling potatoes is
practiced by many hundreds of
thousands of our people is unique
and is not comparable with other
basic agricultural crops. These
people should not be interfered
with by such regimentation and
compulsion as this bill exacts.
When the people learn about this
bill, a vast amount of explanation
will be necessary by those who are
responsible for taking away from
American citizens the right to raise
and trade a few Irish cobblers.
The potato crop is regional and
the bill arrays the producers of po
tatoes jn one section against the
producer in other sections; it takes
away the rights of local producers
in local markets, but does not cor
respondingly take away the ad
vantages the big growers have by
way of relative production capacity.
And the cost of administration will
be enormously higher relatively
than in case of any other control
program.
Married At Rising City
The Methodist church was the
scene of a pretty wedding, when
Olive Mary, daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. F. J. Aucock became the bride
of Fredrick N. Anderson, of Lin
coln, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. F.
Anderson of Wilsonville. The cere
mony took place at 10:30 o’clock,
Tuesday morning, August 20, the
brides father and Dr. Roy N. Spoon
er officiating.
Miss Francis Aucock, sister of
the bride, played the wedding
march as the bridal party took their
places before the altar which was
banked with greenery and flowers
and a seven branch candelabra at
each side. William Timm, of Lin
coln, accompanied by Miss Virginia
Cotton, sang “Oh Promise Me” and
“I Love You Truly.”
The bride wore her mother’s
dress of white lace and a white
organdy jacket and carried a bou
quet of sweet peas and roses. Miss
Ethel Aucock, sister of the bride,
wearing a frock of pink organdy
and carrying a bouquet of gladoli,
and Rev. Almon Moon, of Valpar
iso, were the attendants. A color
motif of pink and white was used.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion and luncheon was held at the
brides’ home at which 24 guests
were present. Mrs. Laurence Hurn
er, assisted by Mary Louise Bates,
Francis Aucock and Mrs. G. A.
Shrader served.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson will
be seniors in the Wesleyan Uni
versity this fall. Mr. Anderson is
a member of Kappa Sigma Pi
fraternity, and is pastor of the
Lakeview and Ashbury Methodist
churches.
Immediately following the recep
tion the young people left for Ep
worth Lake Park where they will
spend their honeymoon. — Rising
City Independent.
NOTICE
If you have any clothing, furni
ture, magazines or anything which
might prove useful to others which
you wish to dispose of, will you
please call the Relief Office, No. 47
at O’Neill, and they will tell you
where to take these things.
We shall appreciate everything
collected before the tenth of Sep
tember so that we may take them
to the Sewing Centers for repair
ing before distribution which we
hope to finish before cold weather.
This year we intend to try to dis
tribute everything in another part
of the county than the one in which
it was received so that the used
clothing will not be so obvious.
Your assistance in-this drive will
be greatly appreciated.—Sincerely,
Roberta Arbuthnot, Relief Director.
Grand Island Business
Man Don’t Know What
To Do About Tickets
Mayor John Kersenbrock re
ceived the following letter from a
business man of Grand Island this
morning:
Grand Island, Aug. 26, 1935.
Mayor, O’Neill, Nebr.
Dear Sir:
“We are wondering just what had
become of the party who placed the
O’Neill Derby Day Tickets in our
place of business. We have sold
the tickets to numerous ones, and
are asked just what was what. Will
you please advise ju3t when we
may expect a representative to
chick up on this.”
As far as we have been able to
learn no person or persons here
have made any arrangements for
a race meet in this city, or if they
have they have managed to keep
the affair from general knowledge.
It might be well for the city of
ficials to look into this piatter.
Boys Gather Up Relics
Of An Early Day Here
Following a heavy rain in the
vicinity recently Robert, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Reece, looking over
caving canyon banks picked up two
well finished stones shaped like
pears and William Grutch recover,
ed an extra large sledge hammer
head and a tusk of an elephant.
The tusk is about 18 inches long
and is fairly well preserved.
The pear shaped stones were used
by Mound Builders and Indians as
net sinkers, fastened to the bottom
to hold it to the lower rim of the
water in seining fish. These are
well known objects to those who
collect artifacts. Mr. Grutsch has
a collection of flaked stone pro
jectile points, knives, scrapers and
ornamental stones he found on his
farm.
He found a 10-pound sand stone
ball having two holes, like a bowl
ing ball, left by the Cupstone clan,
worshippers of the sun and moon.
These people may have been pre
decessors of the Mound Builders
and they are recognized by some as
the first (human culture known.
Their cupstones, some flat and with
numerous cupholes, are found
where you find them, all over the
earth, wherever, there is land. The
ball Grutch had accidently was
broken. As far as known the ball
was the only similar one to be
found in Nebraska. Many have
been recovered in Iowa. Several
years ago Henry Tomlinson came
in here with an elephant tusk many
feet long. It was found northeast
of Page. Both Grutch and Reece
live about 17 miles northwest of
O’Neill.
George, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Edwards, farmers about
20 miles east of here, visited last
week here at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Edwards. George, about
three weeks ago, hopped on the
same mule that threw R. M. Sauers
here in a donkey ball game. Mr.
Sauers suffered a dislocated left
shoulder; so did Mr. Edwards.
George was playing donkey ball at
Orchard and he still has his left
arm in a sling.
The government has again
changed the date for receiving ap
plications for PWA work. Accord
ing to a message received by this
office last Tuesday application must
now be in Omaha not later than
Tuesday, Sept. 3, if they are to
receive consideration at the hands
of the board.
Owen McPharlin, of Omaha, ar
rived in the city this morning on
an inspection tour of the various
barber shops in this section of the
state. While in this section he will
make O’Neill his headquarters and
will spend a little time visiting at
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. McPharlin.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Campbell, W.
J. Froelich and J. B. Ryan went
up to Rochester, Minn., last Mon
day morning, where they all ex
pect to go thru the Mayo Clinic.
WIFE OF COUNTY’S
FIRST CLERK DEAD
AT OMAHA HOME
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Fall Into Alley Back of Her Home
Believed Cause of Death of
Mrs. Sanford Parker.
The following notice of the death
of Mrs. Sanford Parker, a former
resident of this city, is taken from
the last Saturday edition of the
Omaha Bee-News:
“Mrs. Ida Parker, 73, widow of
the late Sanford Parker, South Da.
kota pioneer and first clerk of Holt
county, Nebraska, was found dead
in the alley back of her home at
614 No. 40th St., Friday at 7:30
a. m.
“She had been dead several hours.
She is believed to have fallen off a
4 Vi foot retaining wall at the rear
of her yard into the alley shortly
before 11 p. m. Thursday.
“The body was discovered by
Florence McGough, 615 No. 41st
St., who notified Mrs. R.E. Cateron,
613 No. 41st St. Mr. Cateron then
notified Don C. Lamoureaux, a
nephew of Mrs. Parker, who, with
his wife, lived in the Parker home.
“Near the body was a torn brown
paper sack containing garbage.
The garbage can sits at the edge
of the retaining wall.
“Mrs. Parker is believed to have
gone into the back yard to put the
garbage in the garbage can, to
have misjudged the position of the
wall in the darkness, and stepped
off into the alley.
“Mrs. Parker occupied a base
ment apartment in the house. Her
nephew and his wife lived on the
first floor and Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Hewitt occupy an upstairs apart
ment.
“When Mr. and Mrs. Lamour
eaux returned to the house about
11 p. m. they saw a light in Mrs.
Parker’s room. They called to her
but, receiving no response assumed
she was upstairs with Mrs. Hewitt.
“Mrs. Parker’s husband died in
1931. In addition to her nephew,
she is survived by two sons, Clar
ence of Minneapolis, and Arthur,
of Valentine; two brothers, George
H. and W. N. Lamoureaux of Val
entine; two sisters, Mrs.. K. L. Sop
er of Bruno, Nebr., and Mrs. Lillian
King of Gregory, S. D., and a
granddaughter, Louise Tinsley, an
airplane pilot now flying some
where in Wyoming. Mrs. Lorraine
McCord, the first wife of Jimmy
McCord, is a niece.
“Her late husband came to Ne
braska with his parents in 1876
and settled near O’Neill, Nebr. He
participated in the South Dakota
gold rush in 1877.”
Hazel McOwen Show
At O’Neill Next Week
To Open Sunday Night On Corner
2nd & Douglas Streets With
New Plays And Vod-Vil.
This year the Hazel McOwen
Players have spared no expense to
bring you the best talent money
can buy. Yes, that funny couple,
Ruth and Cecil, as well as Max
Johnson, the boy with educated
feet, are with the show, and our
handsome leading man, Mr. Herb
ert Clark. New faces are Miss
Lillian Joley, the girl with the
never-wear-off smile (you’ve seen
her in pictures), little Miss Ruth
Helt, the singing and dancing com
edienne, and many others, includ
ing the ever popular Ralph and
Hazel.
The opening play, “He Got What
He Wanted,” a three-act comedy,
with five big vodvil specialties be
tween the acts, and the prices are
only 10c for the kiddies and 25c for
the adults. One lady admitted free
on Sunday night with one paid
adult ticket.
Doors open 7:45, curtain 8:30.
Don’t fail to take advantage of
the big bargain on Sunday night
when a lady and gentleman are ad
mitted for only 25c, or two ladies
for one ticket.
Tells of Pleasure of A
Drive To O’Neilll
Some day when you want to take
a drive of a couple of hundred
miles just start out on highway
No. 281 and go north until you
reach O’Neill. When you get there
you will have covered a little over
one hundred miles and you will
have traveled over some of the best
road in the state. It is not paved,
although there are two stretches
of oiled road that are wonderful.
One stretch that has been down 1
for several years is not as smooth j
as the oiled road they put in at
present, but it is a fine road just
the same. Last year, or the year
before, they completed a new
stretch of oiled road from Bartlett
northwest and it certainly is a
peach of a road. It is so good that
we were able to drive home Sunday
evening in one hour and forty
seven minutes, a distance of 102
miles according to our speedometer.
You will get a lot of kick out of
a trip over that highway. If you
go soon you will see a lot of good
corn fields in the southern part of
Holt county, and you will see
thousands of hay stacks up in the
hay country, as south of O’Neill
is known.
The hay has been put up this
year in dry weather so every bit of
it is in good shape and will be in
demand in some parts of the Un
ited States during the winter
months. Met a cousin of ours who
resides in the hay country; he told
us he had a lot of hay this year,
but did not know if it was going
to be worth much this year.—St.
Paul, Phonograph.
Intersection At Fifth
and Douglas Ripe For
A Good Auto Accident
Some of these days there is go-1
ing to be a real automobile accident
at the corner of Fifth and Douglas
street. Day after day drivers go |
to Fifth and Douglas to turn a-1
round and they are all armless, giv
ing no indication to the driver on
the highway behind them of what
they are going to do. Of course,
if they had arms, they would ex
tend them showing the person be
hind what they intended to do so
the latter could pull to the right
and go around them, but as they
do not give sign of their intention
we presume they are armless. Driv
ers be careful! Give the person
behind you an indication of what
you intend doing and you will save
yourself grief and trouble later on.
Three Large Land
Holders Pay Taxes
The office of County Treasurer
Winchell was a very busy place the
first of the week as three of the
large land owners of the county
paid the last half of their 1934
real estate taxes. The companies
paying and the amount each paid
are as follws: Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company, $1,607.82; Lin
coln Joint Stock Land Bank, $500;
Travelers Insurance Company, $3,
277.14. As a receipt has to be
made out by the county treasurer
for each parcel of land paid on it
will take a good many receipts to
take care of this $5,394.96 worth
of tax money that was paid in
Monday.
Hospital Notes
Miss Grace Pribil went home
Monday evening feeling fine.
Stuart Hartigan, of Inman, came
in Monday evening. He was in
jured in a run-away and was oper
ated on Wednesday morning for
severed and torn muscles of the
left arm. He is resting comfort
ably at present.
Oscar Aim, of Manhatten, Kans.,
arrived in the city last Thursday
night for a few days visit with his
mother and sister, Mrs. Bessie and
Clara Aim, of this city, and broth
er, Arthur, living northeast of here.
Prof. Aim is an instructor in the
Kansas State college at Manhat
tan. He left for home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond
and daughters, Mary and Harriett,
returned Tuesday night from an
auto tour of three weeks, during
which they visited the west coast
and visited with friends and rela
tives in Los Angeles and other
California cities. W. D. Hammond
accompanied them to the west but
remained in California where he
will attend the University of
Southern California for the next
year.
Mr. and Mrs. George VanEvery
and son, Dean, went to Ainsworth
Tuesday and returned Wednesday,
accompanied by Mrs. O. O. Bradley
and son, John, who will visit here
for several days.
S. J. Weekes returned last night
from Omaha, where he had been
the past three days looking after
his duties with the Agricultural
Credit Corporation.
NOTICE
Tickets are being sold designated
0 Neill’s Free Day Derby Ticket.
You are hereby notified that the
sale of these tickets is not spon
sored by the City of O'Neill, Ne
braska, nor by the merchants, or
any local civic organization. That
no definite arrangements have been
made for holding a free day.
JOHN KERSENBROCK,
Mayor.
The Weather
Temperature Mois
High Low ture
Aug. 23 90 65
Aug. 24_ 93 67
Aug. 25 92 66 .78
Aug. 26 78 62
Aug. 27 76 42
Aug. 28 69 49
Aug. 29 .... 60 .14
Nearly 250 Have Asked
For Old Age Pensions
In This County To Date
There have been 242 applications
for old age pensions filed with the
county board from the 28th day of
June, the date that application
blanks were available, up to and
including the 28th day of August.
From the number now on file it
would appear as if there would be
around 500 applications for pen
sions in this county by the time the
list is complete.
The question of just when the
pensions will be available is rather
hazy, as the various laws on the
subject cause different readers to
place different interpretations upon
them.
Holt County Pheasant
Season Open 10 Days
The Holt county hunters will be
able to enjoy only ten days of
pheasant hunting this year, from
October 20 to October 29, inclusive.
In 21 counties there will be no open
season on pheasants this year, and
j in thirteen counties they will have
two open seasons, from October 20
| to October 29 and from November
17 to November 21. The counties
of Antelope and Knox are listed in
the latter class, so fhat Holt county
hunters will not have far to go if
they wish to get pheasants in
November.
THe daily bag and possession
limit has fyeen raised this year and
each hunter is entitled to. five birds,
two of which may be hens.
Escape Serious Injury
In Headon Auto Crash
The cars of Dick Jordan and
Fred Ernst had a head-on collision
on the highway about three and a
half miles north of this city last
Sunday evening about 8:30 p. m.
Mr. Jordan suffered a skinned nose,
but was otherwise uninjured. The
other driver escaped with a few
scratches. Both of the cars, how
ever, were badly damaged.
Judge and Mrs. C. J. Malone
drove to Grand Island Sunday
where on Monday they met their
son, Lawrence, of Los Angeles, and
their daughter, Florence, of Oma
ha, who came home with them that
afternoon for a short visit with the
home folks. Lawrence is now en
gaged in the practice of law in
Los Angeles, where he has had an
office for six years, and is meeting
with marked succes in his chosen
profession. He expects to visit
here for about ten days, as this is
his first visit home in six years.
Poor old George is getting quite
angry. That is evident in his latest
effusion printed in the last issue of
the cellar sheet. He says “the
Independent wrote the truth.” Well,
ore thing is certain, the Independ
ent could possibly write it as good
as its editor and not make any
more gramatical errors, and then
he would not have to call on the
Judge to help him out.
At the card party and two ball
foursome at the Country Club on
Tuesday Mrs. L. A. Burgess won
the high score at bridge and Miss
Marjorie Dickson the second prize.
The prizes for the two ball four
some were won by Hugh Coyne and
Miss Rita Reardon, and Dr. L. A.
Burgess and Miss Geraldine Cronin.
Harry Reardon returned Wed
nesday night from Miles City,
Mont., where he was called by the
serious injury of his uncle, Ed.
Reardon, who was struck by a
freight train Friday of last week.
HOLT COUNTY MAN
FOUND DEAD FROM
MONOXIDE POISON
Lloyd Kaiser, 32, Commits Suicide
By Piping Car Exhaust Into
Driver’s Compartment.
—
Lloyd Kaiser, a resident of the
southwestern part of the county,
was found dead in his car last Wed
nesday morning about 8 o’clock by
his brother, about a mile from the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Kaiser, pioneer residents
of the southwestern part of the
county.
Sheriff Duffy and Deputy County
Attorney Erwin Cronin went out
there Wednesday morning and they
are convinced that it was a case of
suicide and deemed that no inquest
was necessary. They found that
the hose on the exhaust had been
put thru the back of the seat, the
engine kept running and the deadly
monoxide gas permitted to enter
the car, causing death in a short
time.
Sheriff Duffy says they figure he
had been dead about seven hours
when the body was found.
He was about 32 years of age,
was married and the father of a
son about five years old, but he and
his wife had not been living to
gether for several months.
Mr. Kaiser was in this city Tues
day and called at the local federal
relief office and applied for aid,
stating that he and his wife were
living at the home of his parents.
He was informed by the director,
Miss Arbuthnot, that she would go
out there the next day and investi
gate the case, which she did, reach
ing there only to learn of his death.
From what we have been able
to learn he went from here to the
home of his wife’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Hamer, who live about
fifteen miles from where the body
was found, where she had her son
had been living since last March.
There he asked to have his little
[ son accompany him to the home of
his parents for a few days, but the
mother thought it too late for the
little lad to go that night. He left
the Hamer place about 11 o’clock
that night and they figure from
this that it was about 1 o’clock
when he ended his life.
Kaiser had been in poor health
for several months and spent some
time in the University hospital at
Omaha, returning the first week in
August.
Some Corn Near O’Neill
Holds Up In Face Of
The Prolonged Drouth
All of us have heard recently
that corn ’n’everything had been
withered to wisps of nothingness
within a radius of a few miles of
this city. It actually had been a
little dry around here while wet in
the rest of Holt county but the
farmers around O'Neill just wanted
it that way. Why? So com
stalks might tighten up to prevent
the kids jack-knifing them for use
as fish poles.
If you don’t believe that go down
and look at the corn one mile south
of here, just west across the high
way from the farm of James Mc
Dermott. Get out of your car and
walk through the cornfield, on the
south edge of the Thomas Brennan
farm. The stalks are away above
one’s head and as green as grass
and the ears are more than one foot
long and must have growing pains.
The field runs east and west. It
looks narrow from the road but to
walk through it indicates it several
blocks wide and it is about half a
mile long. If this field does not
make 60 bushels per acre, it’s a bad
guess.
On the McDermott farm, just
east, there is a field east of the
buildings, in very sandy ground and
in spite of the long spell of rainless
weather with temperatures asleep
at the 100 degree station for weeks
this field is green and promising
40 or more bushels per acre.
The corn on the Brennan place is
extraordinary and if you look at it,
do so in the field and not from the
highway. Get a closeup of this
corn and you will be astonished.
Congress finally adjuorned last
Sunday night. In the closing hours
the Louisiana Kingfish, Huey Long,
held the center of the stage and
prevented the senate from voting
on a deficiency appropriation bill,
by staging a one man filibuster for
five and one-half hours.