Over the County
MEEK AND VICINITY
Mrs. E. H. Rouse spent Wednes
day at the home of her son, Horace
and family.
Lois Jean and. Ilene Robertson
spent se\reral days the past week
with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Ernst.
Dr. Finley was called Sunday
morning for Mrs. Prichett. At the
last report she was some better.
Mabel and Mildred Hansen spent
Sunday with Marjorie and Lois
Lindberg.
The young people’s class of Pad
dock Union held a class picnic at
the Mart Schelkopf home Sunday,
after Sunday school. Several of
the class were absent but those
who attended reported a good time.
Sam Robertson is the teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Borg called at
Fred Lindburg’s Sunday afternoon.
Clarence Deval] has been helping
Albert Kaczor make hay th« past
week. He is helping Mr. Nolie at
this time.
Mrs. A. L. Borg helped Mrs. Sam
Robertson cook for the threshing
crew the past week.
William Hubby has been helping
A. L. Borg the past few days.
Howard Rouse and family called
Friday evening at the Eric Borg
home.
An inch of rain fell in this local
ity last Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wyant and
children, of O’Neill, were guests at
the home of Mrs. Wyant’s mother,
Mrs. E. H. Rouse on Sunday.
Leone Spindler spent Saturday
night with Neva June Schelkopf.
Muriel Graham, Leroy Spindler,
Neva June Schelkopf and Walter
Devall were supper guests at the
home of Grandma Graham Sunday
evening near O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rouse and
sons and Arthur Rouse, also A. L.
Rouse, of O’Neill, were guests at
the Henry Walters home Sunday.
Florence Walters, who has been
visiting relatives here returned
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nelson and
Paul were guests at the Levi Hull
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson and
children, Wilma and Richard spent
Sunday with Mrs. Nelson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Walters.
The two small sons of Harold
Lindberg, of O’Neill, are visiting
at the Fred Lindberg home.
Miss Tena Kaczor has been stay
ing at the home of her brother,
Albert, while Mrs. Kaczor is away
on a visit to South Dakota.
The small son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Wells, fell, striking his
head and cutting it quite badly.
First aid was resorted to as it
happened just before the hard rain
Saturday evening and the storm
was too severe for a trip for help.
The little fellow is getting over it
nicely.
Mr. and Hansen and
children and Mrs. Clifford Wells
and children drove to the Ed Heni
fin home on Sunday. Mrs. Wells
and children remained there for a
longer visit."r „•
Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson
came up from Sioux City last Sat
urday for a weeks visit with the
John Robertson and J. K. Ernst
families, and with other relatives.
Miss Rachael Robertson left on
Thursday for Mitchell, Neb., where
she will teach school the coming
year. Miss Robertson taught there
last year.
Felix Hostynek, who has been
working at Page for some time is
home again.
INMAN NEWS
Jack Lewis, who has spent the
summer with his mother in Mem
phis, Tenn., and with relatives in
Mississippi, returned Sunday to
the home of his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Goree.
Regular Services will be held at
the M. E. church Sunday. The
Pastor, Rev. Mertie E. Clute, has
been taking her vacation the past
three weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Fowler left
Monday for their home in Sioux
City after spending a week here
with relatives.
John Anspach went to Emmet
Tuesday of this week for a visit
with his daughter, Mrs. John Con
ard, returning Wednesday.
Mrs. Forest Smith entertained at
breakfast Friday morning for her
brother, Elton Trowbridge and
family of Bostwick, Nebr. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Smith and daughter, Doritha.
Mrs. John J. Hancock and sons,
Jack and Billie, and Floyd Miller
and Clifford Hansen were here from
Newman Grove Wednesday even
ing visiting at the Mary M. Han
cock home. They were enroute to
Casper, Wyo.
Mrs. E. R. Riley visited her
daughter, Mrs. Emmett Bartsch
and family at Royal a few days the
latter part of the week.
Mrs. George Wilcox is moving to
Lincoln this week. Mr. Wilcox is
ill in a veterans hospital at that
place. Mrs. Wilcox and the child
ren will leave Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Flora and son, Leland,
who have spent the summer with
relatives in Arizona, returned home
last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Paxon and
two daughters, of Valentine, Nebr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cart
wright and son, Neal, and Mrs.
Laura Paxon, of Ebson, Kans.,
were week-end visitors at the Art
Renner and George Kivitt homes.
Ruth Jeannette Watson spent
several days of last week in Nor
folk with her little friend, Mildred
Doughty.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins and
son, Harvey, and Miss Lois Cald
well drove to Norfolk Sunday and
visited at the C. E. Doughty home.
Seth Mossman, of Creighton, and
daughter, Mrs, Ed. Kell, of Carrol,
Iowa, visited here Friday with Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Watson and other
relatives.
Miss Gayle Butler left Monday
for Sioux City for a short visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fowler,
prior to going to Independence,
Mo., where she will resume her
nurse training.
Stuart Hartigan met with a very
painful, if not serious accident
Monday when his team ran away.
He was thrown from his machine
and his right arm was badly crush
ed. He was taken to the hospital
at O’Neill where an operation was
performed on his arm Wednesday
morning.
Virginia, 11-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hopkins, met
with a serious accident Sunday
evening when she was thrown from
a horse. Her shoulder was dislo
cated and the shoulder joint badly
injured. At the advice of a local
physician she was taken to hospit
al at Omaha where her injuries
were cared for.
Judge and Mrs. C. J. Malone, of
O’Neill, Miss Florence Malone, of
Omaha and L. H. Malone, of Los
Angeles, Cal., were here Tuesday
afternoon visiting their mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Mary M. Han
cock.
PLEASANT DALE
Maurice Winkler is spending a
week visiting at the Joe Winkler
home.
Little Duane Pongratz is visiting
his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
John Babl and family.
Mr. and Mrs. George Webber, of
Long Pine, were visiting at Joe
Winkler’s Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. John Babl and
family were dinner guests at the
Joe Pongratz home Sunday.
Raymond Winkler is helping
Grandpa Weber with his haying
this week.
Mrs. Frank Kasda, Jr., is visiting
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Young.
Pleasant Dale school will open
Monday, September 2.
Miss Minnie Seger is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Seger and son,
Gearld, and Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Seger at Chester, Nebr., this week.
Mrs. Ada Stahley and Mrs. Otto
Hoehne visited Mrs. Guy Beckwith
Thursday afternoon.
L^ona Fern Beckwith was a
guest Thursday of Myrlen Beck
with.
Clement Cuddy, of O’Neill, is in
this locality this week helping Leon
Beckwith in the hay field,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roseler and
daughter, Doris, were Sunday visit
ors at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Roseler of O’Neill.
Mrs. I. R. Dickerson, of Atkin
son, visited Friday at the home of
Mrs. Dickerson’s mother, Mrs. L.
G. Linville.
Dean Beckwith has sold his
transfer line to the Tenborg Bros.
They took over the business Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Janzing,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pongratz and
Miss Edna Heeb made a business
trip to Nelig'h Tuesday of last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winkler and
family spent Sunday afternoon at
Henry Shaaf’s near Atkinson.
Friends and neighbors charivar
ied Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spangler
Monday evening. Before her mar.
raige Saturday, Aug. 24, Mrs.
Spangler was Mrs. Ada Stahley.
George Weber and daughters,
Vtillia and Pauline, Lillian Shald.
and James ReHawk, of Stuart,
called at the Joe Winkler home
last Sunday eevning.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Seger and Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Beckwith and fam
ily were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Verne Beckwith Sunday.
The Snappy Mixers 4-H Club
meeting was held at the home of
Helen Marie Mullen Tuesday, Aug.
20. All members were present.
Demonstrations were given on
meal planning and. baking sugar
cookies. Miss Crandall was a vis
itor. After refreshments were
served, Helen Marie and Jimmie
and Jeania played several selec
tions on the guitar.
Mrs. Andrew Johnson is caring
for her newly arrived grandson at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Osborn. The baby was born Mon
day, August 19.
A straw stack on the Peter Ram
old place was struck by lightning
and burned Saturday evening.
The Emmet ball team and fans
are looking forward to a good, game
Sunday afternoon when they meet
the O’Neill team.
Myrlen Beckwith came home
Wednesday after a visit of three
days with her aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. Verne Beckwith.
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
John Bower had business the
past week in Colfax county.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Berry were
Sunday afternoon visitors at the
Riley Ranch.
John Baker made a business trip
last week to Burwell and Broken
Bow.
We have noticed no items of
printers or farmers going on a
vacation. The farmers corn field
can burn to a frazzle just as well
without him around but what would
become of the breezes if the print
ers went on a vacation?
Haying is pretty well wound up
in the southwest,with stacks stand
ing thick upon the meadows.
A two-hour rain Saturday even
ing soaked the ground in good
shape, insuring a fair harvest of
corn. Most fields were damaged
some by prolonged hot weather.
Glenn Saunders, of O’Neill, spent
the night Sunday with dad at the
home place, others of the house
hold being away.
Mrs. Carpenter and the girls are
moving to Atkinson this week-end
for the girls to attend school there
this year.
Tom Baker has had a very sick1
horse for a week, symptoms similar
to that of apoplexy in humans. The
horse has been down since Satur
day, unable to get up.
Mildred Whitcomb visited rela
tives in northeast Swan precinct
the past week.
A new use has been found for the
discarded inner tuber. If you see
an old scout with sagging overalls
attached to a pair of “galoushes,”
the like of which is not on sale at
any gents’ furnishing store—that’s
it.
Mr. and Mrs. Roblyer, of Atkin
son, were with friends in the com
munity Sunday, Mr. Roblyer as
sisting Mr. Baker administering to
a sick horse.
Senator Norris reminds us that
we had been outraged, in his op
position to the release of Vic Sey
mour. It was never clear to this
writer why a sovereign citizen of
Nebraska should be debarred from
being a candidate for any office be
cause his name was identical with
that of the incumbent seeking re
election. R. S.
EMMET ITEMS
Guy Harris, of O’Neill, who was
visiting relatives here last week,
had the misfortune to have his
arm seriously broken at the elbow
last Friday. He was taken to Om
aha for treatment.
Bill Tenborg trucked cattle to
Omaha for William Luben, Jr.,
Sunday. Carl Luben accompanied
him.
Misses Dorothy and Eugenia
Luben, Faye Sesler and Joe Sesler
spent Saturday visiting in O’Neill.
Jerry O’Connell, Louise Grothe
and Joe Luth spent Sunday at
Butte, Nebr.
Quite a number of farmers from
this locality attend the anniversary
celebration of the Atkinson Live
stock Market.
Anna May Dill spent last week
with Mrs. Luben and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wills and Ro
land returned just recently from a
trip into Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. James O’Connor
and daughter, Mary Belle, went to
Ainsworth Tuesday to attend the
fair there.
The Ladies’ Aid of the Methodist
church met Wednesday in the base
ment of the church for a business
meeting.
Mrs. Dugal Allen took her grand
children to O’Neill Wednesday to
do their school shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. William Luben, Jr.,
and son, John, Mrs. Nora Luben
and William Luben, Sr., went to
Clearwater Thursday to attend the
funeral of a relative.
Honey Creek Turkey Club
The regular meeting of the Hon
ey Creek 4-H Turkey club was held
at the home of Vera and Joe Grut
sch on Monday, Aug. 26. All mem
bers were present and there were
several visitors. After the regular
business meeting a short program
was given. A team demonstration
on judging standard varities of
turkeys was given by Margery and
Bill Rees. The next meeting is to
be at the home of Joe and Dale
Curran Sept. 23.—Robert Rees.
HUNTERS!
There’ll be ducks in every slough
this year—and not far off a Gamble
Store to save you money on shot
gun shells. Complete stock of sizes
and loads.—Adv.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
(Continued from page 4.)
ents by the state is assessed to
the various counties.
A fund of $80,000 is available to
create a system of employment in
the penal institutions of the state.
The goods manufactured are to be
used by the board of control in
maintaining state institutions, and
not to be sold under any condition.
The law is now in effect to put
the proposal to abolish the office
of state commissioner of public
lands and, buildings to a vote of the
people at the November, 1936, elec
tion.
A review of state history reveals
that newspapermen without excep
tion have been above the average
in performing the duties of high
governmental offices in Nebraska.
A glance over the present state
roster reveals six exnewspaper
men who have made good. Fred
C. Ayres, former deputy state aud
itor, who was appointed auditor
last week to fill the vacancy
caused by the sudden death of
State Auditor W. B. Price, has been
in the weekly newspaper business
in Upland, Eagle, Seward, Holbrook
and Holdrege. He entered the ser
vice of the state government as
food inspector in 1913 under Gov
ernor Morehead.
Deputy Secretary of State Ira
Tolen, who last week was chosen
by the board of educational lands
and funds to fill the newly created
position of secretary of the state
bonding commission at $3,000 a
year, ran a paper for a number of
years at Ord.
State Tax Commissioner W. H.
Smith is still the owner of a news
paper at Seward. Deputy Secre
tary of Agriculture McGaffin and
State Railway Commissioner Mau
pin are veterans of the newspaper
business in Nebraska. State Pur
chasing Agent Ferris worked for
W. J. Bryan’s Commoner and once
ran a weekly in the western part of
the state.
The state fairboard finally cast
political caution to the winds and
decided to permit pari-mutuel bet
ting at the state fair next month.
This was done in the face of much
church opposition, and was for the
purpose of saving the financial hide
of the fair, according to Secretary
Perry Reed.
The fair week horse racing pro
gram will be extended into an eight
day meet, and the pari mutuel
machine will be entirely under the
control of the fair board with no
outsiders musceling in.
As a concession to the antibet
tors, the cashiers’ windows for
placing bets will be “hidden from
the grandstand view and the eyes
of the 4-H youth assembled.”
State Auditor Price who died
from heart trouble last week “with
the harness on,” was the third Ne
braskan for whom the state capitol
was the scene of the last rites. A
similar tribute was paid to Col.
John M. Stotensburg, commander
of the 1st Nebraska volunteers,
who was killed in the Philippines
during the war with Spain.
The first such rites held in the
present state house were for State
Representative Trenmor Cone who
passed away during the 1935 leg
islative session.
One thing is sure. If you buy
an article labeled “Made in Japan”
or made in Czecho-Slovakia you
may rest assured that the money
for the cost of its production did
not go to American workers.
There is one thing we need not
be afraid of. The AAA will never
pay Santa Claus to plow under
every third present on Christmas
Eve.
A beauty specialist authority
says that blondes are becoming ex
tinct. Oh, yes? Go to any bathing
beach and you will find them more
in evidence than ever. The same
thing is true of brunettes.
Well, maybe if the processing
tax is declared unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court the government
can pay the farmers for not rais
ing crops out of the $4,800,000,000
fund—if it has any money left. I
Bat Not Rodent
The hat, though It somewhat re
sembles rats and mice In appear
ance and Its nocturnal habits, does
not belong to the order of rodents
which Includes them. Bats form an
entirely separate order of mam
mals, the Chiroptern. distinguished
by the wing or membrane which ex
tends from the body to the ends of
the feet. Our bats are all InsecU
vora, while many species of the Old
world feed on fruits.
Number Thirteen
Vurious theories of the origin of
the superstition surrounding the
number thirteen are advanced, but
probably the one most widely cir
culated Is that It arose from the
fact that thirteen persons sat down
to the last supper with Christ, just
before the betrayal by Judas. The
superstition that Friday the thir
teenth bodes evil to mankind Is ex
plained by the fact Friday became
feared as the day of the crucifixion.
THE HOLE IN YOUR POCKET
PressK dispatches from Washing
ton state that in the last twelve
months $7,376,000,000 has been
spent, which, with the $7,100,000,
000 that was spent the preceding
year, makes a total peacetime rec
ord spending of $14,475,000,000 for
the past two years. Money has
been spent twice as fast as it has
been collected from the taxpayers.
But all the spendings and. all the
borrowed money must eventually
be extracted from the taxpayers’
pockets.
At the end of the new fiscal year,
it is estimated the national debt
will be approximately $35,000,000,
000, or a per capita debt of $270 on
every man, woman and child in
the country.
These figures are so staggering
in size that one cannot grasp them.
But the individual tax bills of var
ious kinds that will soon be coming
due, can be readily understood by
every taxpayer whose pockets will
be emptied in order to pay them.
Colonel Robinson, of the Yakima,
Wash., Republic, in answering a
“reactionary” citizen who asserted
that taxpayers should have a voice
in how their money is spent and
that it should be spent as econ
omicajly as possible, said:
“The idea that tax money should
be spent economically is just as
far out of date as the other. If
tax money were spent economical
ly, there wouln’t be more than half
of it spent, and that fact alone is
sufficient to condem the idea. The
prevailing thought is to spend pub
lic funds uneconomically, so that
more fundscan be raised and spent,
thus putting more money into cir
culation and increasing the pur
chasing power of the people.”
Sarcastic as is this paragraph of
the Colonel’s, it states a distres
singly plain truth. Its lucidity is
positively flawless. Some day the
people will wake up to the fact
that they pay the bill for all the
“political presents” that are given
to them.
BRIEFLY STATED
Elvin 0. Alton, of Atkinson, and
Miss Loretta Schrunk, of Emmet,
were granted a marriage liecnse in
county court last Monday. They
were married by Rev. A. J. May in
the Methoidist parsonage that af
ternoon.
A prairie fire north of the North
western stockyards here caused «*.
run by the fire trucks at 3:40 p. m.
Monday. It was suggested sun
rays focused by glass may have
caused the fire. Damage was in
tonsequental.
Major and Mrs. F. M. Brennan
and children have returned to Fort
Leavenworth, where Major Bren
nan is stationed, after spending
the summer here as guests of Maj
or Brennan’s mother, Mrs, Mar
garet Brennan.
Mrs. Esther Cole Harris went
down to Omaha last Monday, tak
ing her little son down there for
medical treatment. Miss Grace
Joyce is looking after the business
in the office of the register of deeds
during her absence.
W. J. Biglin drove down to Jack
son last Monday and spent a few
days visiting relatives there and
returned home Thursday after
noon, bringing back his children,
who had been visiting reltives
there the past two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Todsen re
turned last Thursday evening from
a ten day visit with relatives in
Grand Island and vicinity. Pete
says that crops around Grand Is
land have been hit very hard with
the drouth and extreme heat.
Playing here at the fair grounds
Sunday before a fair sized crowd
the baseball nine of Atkinson tasted
defeat by a score that left the game
in doubt until the last inning had
been finished. The final count
gave O’Neill 17 and Atkinson 15.
Nebraska counties received dur
ing the fiscal year, ending June 30,
1935, $3,111,947 as their share of
the state gasoline tax, according to
a recent report of the state treas
urer. Of this amount Holt county
is listed as having received $31,484.
Mrs. John Riddle and daughter.
Miss Gladys, of Onawa, Iowa, stop
ped in the city last Saturday for
a few hours visit at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin while on
their way to Brown county to visit
at the home of a brother of Mrs.
Riddle.
Lester Shoemaker returned last
week from Norfolk, where he was
working in the Hotel Norfolk dur
ing the summer months. He left
Thursday for Hastings, where he
enters the Hastings Business Col
lege to complete a full business
course.
Duke Kersenbrock celebrated his
twelfth birthday last Monday and
that evening a large party of his
young playmates gathered at his
home to help him properly celeb
rate the event. It is needless to
say that the young folks had an
enjoyable time.
Romaine Saunders and his son,
Ned, were up from their south
country ranch last Monday. Ro
maine says that most of the people
of the south country have much
more hay this year than they pos
sibly can use and they do not know
what to d,o with the surplus.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Schildts and
son, Robert, of Rock Rapids, Iowa,
were in the city over the week-end
visiting friends, leaving for home
Monday noon. Mr. Schildts was
formerly foreman of the Armour
Creameries here but is now man
ager of their plant at Rock Rapids.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Birmingham
and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Froelich
returned last Friday from a ten
day trip thru Yellowstone Park
and points of interest in the Black
Hills. They had intended going on
to the coast, but lack of time pre
vented them from making the trip.
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