The Frontier
VOL. LVI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1936. No. 37
SUB-ZERO WEATHER |
HAS HAD A GRIP ON
COUNTY FOR 15 DAYS
Low For Month is 22 Below; Rising
Temperature and Snow Are
On Weather Forecast.
For the ninth consecutive night
the thermometer in this city regis-,
tered below zero, the reading this
morning, according to Weather Ob
server Bowen, leading 10 below
zero. But one day during the nine,
however, it failed to warm up dur
ing the day forcing it above zero,
the exception being last Saturday
when the highest temperature of
the day was 4 below zero.
January, 1936, will go down in
history as giving us more sub-zero
weather than we have had in any
month for many, many years. In
cluding January 30 we have had 14
days when the thermometer regis
tered below zero, the lowest being
22 below last Monday night. The
first sub-zero night was January 7
when it registered 12 below. We
were then given a breathing spell
until January 16 when the present
eold wave hit us and for fifteen
days it has registered below zero
every night but two, the exceptions
being January 17 and 21.
The following gives the tempera
tures for the last fifteen days of
the month:
Jen. 16 13 —7
Jan. 17. 9 5
Jan. 18. 6 —12
Jan. 19 2 —10
Jan. 20 15 —14
Jan. 21 -. 38 1
Jan. 22 33 —18
Jan. 23 — 9 —17
Jan. 24 9 —7
Jan. 26 — . —4 —17
Jan. 26 .. 4 —19
Jan. 27 7 —22
Jan. 28 12 —2
Jan. 29 ..— 14 —16
Jan. 30_1- — —1°
According to the weather report
it will moderate some today and
there will be more snow tonight
and tomorrow.
Civil Service
a la Roosevelt
From the United States Civil
Service Commission comes a notice
to this office that an open competi
tive examination will be held for
the purpose of providing post
masters for twenty-nine Nebraska
towns, including Battle Creek,
Bloomfield, Greeley, Hay Springs,
Naper, Randolph and Stuart in
this section of the state. Applic
ations for these positions must be
received in Washington on or be
fore February 7, 1936.
The notice says: “At the request
of the Postmaster General, the
United States Civil Service Com
mission announces an open compet
itive examination to fill the posi
tion of postmaster at each of the
offices named in the list. It is ex
pected that appointments will be
made as a result of this examina
tion unless it is found in the inter
est of the service to fill any vac
ancy by transfer or promotion
This is not an examination under
the Civil Service Act and rules, but
is held under an Executive Order
of July 12, 1933, providing for such
procedure. The date for assembl
ing of competitors will be stated on
the admission cards sent applicants
after the date for the close of re
ceipt of applications, and will be
about fifteen days from that date.”
“In Nebraska examinations will
be held only at the following
places but a competitor for any
office may be examined at any of
the places named. O’Neill, Ord,
Schuyler, Scottsbluff, Sidney, Te
kamah, Wayne and West Point.”
Will Give Prizes For
Best 4-H Farm Records
Encouragement of rural boys and
girls belonging to 4-H clubs in
keeping farm records is to be given
in 1936 by the International Har
vester company, Agricultural Ag
ent F. M. Reece was informed this
week. County, state and national
awards will be made to the 4-H
clubbers making the best showing
in the farm record contest.
To the county winner, where five
or more records are completed,
goes a $10 merchandise certificate.
The Nebraska champion gets a
merchandise certificate worth $100,
the section winner a $225 certific
ate and the national champion a
well known make of truck or trac
tor. Records must be started be
tween January 1 and February 29.
Interest in the national 4-H farm
record contest in Nebraska has in
creased rapidly since Ogden Riddle,
Frontier county, won the national
title in 1934.
Farm record keeping is a pop
ular 4-H project with many clubs
organized over the state. The first
year work consists of a model farm
account record. Second year work
deals with an actual record while
during the third year the farm
record work plus study on farm
credit is given the 4-H clubbers.
Any 4-H club member may take
farm account work as additional
club work or a 4-H account club
may be organized. Anyone inter
ested should get in touch with the
agricultural agent as soon as pos
sible since accounts should be start
ed. before March 1.
Over 250 Thousand Due
Holt County Veterans
On Service Certificates
Congress passed the bonus bill
over the veto of the President and
it is now the law of the land. It
will take $2,491,000,000 to pay the
bill and it will be paid by the is
suing of $50 bonds, which can be
cashed. The bill provides full pay
ment of the bonus nine years in ad
vance of the 1945 maturity value of
the twenty year adjusted World
war service certificates.
According to the list the follow
ing amount will be paid to veterans
in counties in this section -Of the
state:
Holt County, $261,205; Boyd
county,$113,427; Rock county, $52,
256; Brown county, $91,324; Keya
Paha county, $50,677; Knox county,
$302,358; Antelopecounty,$240,589.
Congressman Stefan
Files For Re-election
Karl Stefan, of Norfolk, now
serving his first term a3 Congress
man from the Third Nebraska dis
trict, filed this week as a candidate
for re-election to that office. From
Washington, where he is attending
the second session of the 74th Con
gress, Congressman Stefan gave
out the following statement:
“In 1934, when I first became a
candidate for office, I told my
friends in northeast Nebraska that
if elected I would give them vig
orous and honest representation;
that I would work and vote for
those things which seemed of vital
importance to our agricultural dis
trict, without any regard to par
tisan politics.
“In asking for re-election, I can
only say that I have done my best
to carry out that promise. I have
tried to keep the people of the dis
trict informed about what was go
ing on here in Washington and
what I was trying to do. The
press and radio have helped wond
erfully in giving out this informa
tion and I want to express now my
deep gratitude for their many
courtesies.
“Right now I am terribly busy.
We from the farm districts are
trying to get the Frazier Bill for
lower farm interest rates before
the House. We are preparing for
a battle with the powerful lobby
which wants to take the three cent
duty off df cocoanut oil and thus
furnish worse competition for Am
erican dairy farmers. Then there
must be some program to take the
place of the AAA and we are study
ing that closely.
“Next summer I hope to visit
around the district, meet old friends
and talk things over. In the mean
time, let us hope for better crops,
improved-conditions,and that every
thing is going to be all right.”
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E.
Yantzi superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“The
Christian’s Delight.”
Evening Service 7:30—“Freely.”
In a day of confusion of tongues
it is well that we hear the word of
God. The choirs will lead the sing
ing. H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Rev. A. J. May, Pastor
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Morning Worship at 11 a. m.
Special music by the choir. Serm
on subject, “Walk to be Worthy."
Epworth League at 6:30 p. m.
Evening Worship at 7:30. Serm
on subject, “A Talking Beast."
Special music by the Junior choir.
Think of a good reason why peo
ple do not go to church on Sunday
nights.
Two good sayings: A man of
snow is soon dissolved and so is
a man of flesh.
The reward of one duty is the
power to do another.
Dr. U. S. Conn, 80, for 25 years
head of the Wayne Normal college,
died last Tuesday night in his home
in California, from a stroke of par
alysis on Dec. 5. Many former
students of Wayne college in this
county will regret to learn of his
death as he was dearly beloved by
every student who ever attended
Wayne college.
L. L. Cambre, manager of the
Hatchery Department of the Arm
our Creameries, made a business
trip to Sioux City last Monday, re
turning home that evening.
Will Get 10 Thousand
From State School Fund
The 93 counties in Nebraska
share in the apportionment of
$578,818 school funds. This is the
largest amount apportioned to the
several counties in several years.
The funds are derived from interest
on school bonds, school land leases,
liquor licenses and other sources.
Of the amount apportioned Holt
county schools receive the sum of
$10,700.84, which will be divided
among the various schools of the
county according to the number of
pupils in the district.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by Janies R. Lowell
Three questions in state politics
have developed unusual interest in
the past week or so—what sort of
legislative body will be presented
by the unicameral law-making as
sembly; what chance has a third
party movement to prosper in the
Cornhusker state; and what will
prohibition do in the coming elec
tion?
The latest figures show that ap
proximately 100 men and women
have filed for the 43 places in the
one-house assembly. There are 133
members in the present senate and
house, and more than half of them
have filed for the unicameral posi
tion. Senator Norris, father of the
one-house plan, expressed the hope
when he was stumping the state
for his brain-child that the new
legislature would attract experts
who hitherto had refrained from
entering the law-making business
because of the low salaries attach
ed thereto.
The voters are discovering that
the candidates for the unicameral
are, for the most part, members of
the two-house bodies, and. therefore
they see a toppling of their fond
hopes. A growing number are
fearful that the next legislature
will develop into a sort of “every
man for himself and devil take the
hindermost” affair.
Signs to date point to a unicam
eral legislature that will be no bet
ter and no worse than the two
house legislatures which have pre
ceded it. There is a chance, how
ever, that with the old controls of
party loyality, fidelity to plaforms
or susceptibility to leadership by
the governor, thrown overboard,
there will result a rather chaotic
condition when the 1937 legislature
convenes.
During the past few days two of
the principal democratic legislat
ors of the 1935 sessions have cast
their hats into the unicameral ring.
Joh* Callan, of Odell, democratic
floor leader in the senate, who has
been mentioned prominently as a
gubernatorial candidate, has de
cided to run for the legislature, as
has W. F. Haycock, Callaway, dem
ocratic floor leader in the house.
A number of prognosticators
over the state have predicted that
a third party would manifest itself
in Nebraska, but to date nothing
unusual in this score has arisen.
True, a farmer-laborite party has
been organized in South Dakota,
and state democratic leaders are
worried by the threat of a third
party sponsored by the Townsend
plan in Nebraska, but political
soothsayers around the capitol say
that the third party movements
will not trouble Nebraska this year.
Dr. Lane W. Lancaster, Univer
sity of Nebraska political science
professor, declares that a third
party movement uniting the
country’s farmers is a distance pos
sibility in the 1940 election, bat
hardly to be anticipated this year.
“The republican party,” he as-,
serts, “has long been a partnership
between eastern industrialism and
the western farmer. The business
of keeping these two strange bed
fellows between the same pair of
sheets has continually taxed the
statemanship of the republican
high command, and on some oc
casions proved beyond its re
sourses.”
He points to the progressive and
farm-labor movements in Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and South Dakota,
the farm bloc of the Coolidge era,
the chronic insurgency of Borah, i
Norris and Nye, and recent flirta
tions with the “Kansas Coolidge
Landon,” as stresses on the party
organization.
The democratic party, which hai
as its nucleous a combination of
northern industrialism and south
ern farmers, has not been without
worry. Internal strife is indicated
by the split between the gold dem
ocrats and the Bryan wing in 1896,
the clash of the Clark and Wilson
forces at the Baltimore convention
in 1912, and the present hostility
of such democratic leaders as Cart
er Glass, the late Huey Long, Gov
ernor Talmadge, and the silver sen
ator toward their party leader.
Dr. Lancaster thinks that the po
(Continued on page 8, column 3.)
ONGRESS
AS SEEN
BY A NEBRASKAN
By Karl Stefan
The 1935 corn-hog checks will be
paid somehow notwithstanding the
decision of the supreme court on
the AAA. This was indicated yes
terday when the house committee
on agriculture voted out a bill for
$296,000,000 to take care of the
1935 payments. This will go to
the appropriations committee. The
bill does not suggest “how” this
money is to be secured and the ap
propriations committee and con
gress will have to work that out.
This indicates general feeling
among congressmen that the gov
ernment took on an obligation and
must pay it.
There are many married cuples
in Washington today, each holding
a good government job, and a ter
rific fight is being waged in the
House right now on a bill to allow
married couples to hold govern
ment jobs. With over 11,000,000
people out of jobs in the country,
many Congressmen fell that one
government job for the breadwin
ner of a family should be enough,
especially if he receives enough
money to keep that family in com
fort. However, the Washington
City organization is making an un
usually hard fight to save those
jobs for these husbands and wives
of one family. The lobby of these
jobholders is so strong that predic
tion is that their bill will carry in
spite of the efforts of those who
are trying to spread these jobs out
to a greater number of bread
winners.
The sub-committee of the prairie
farm group on investigation of im
ports and reciprocal trade agree
ments held a busy meeting and de
cided to hear from experts within
the next few days so they can re
port to the main committee on how
imports of foreign farm products
are affecting the products of Am
erican farmers. Many complaints
have come in from farmers who
say that lowering the duty on Can
adian farm products is hurting the
American farm business. The com
mittee has been told of thousands
of head of beef cattle coming into
the United States from Canada be
cause the duty has been lowered
on Canadian beef cattle; dairy men
are complaining because Canadian
milk cows are coming in. The com
mittee also wants to find out what
affect on American graiu is the
presence in this country of mil
lions of bushels of foreign grain.
This is called “show case” grain be
cause it can come in from foreign
countries and be held a year with
out payment of duty. The com
mittee also will-try to find out if
so-called “feed wheat’’ from Can
ada iB sometimes used, for making
flour, etc. Practically every mem
ber of the committee (and some are
free traders) are agreed that it
does not benefit American agricul
ture to ship into this country for
eign farm products if and when
we have enough of our own farm
products on hand.
The Secretary of Commerce to
day sends to the desk of every
member of Congress the report of
the census enumeration of agri
culture for 1936. This shows that
on January 1, 1935, Nebraska had
a total of 133,618 farms as com
pared with 121,417 in 1920 and
129,878 in 1910. The value of farm
lands and buildings in Nebraska in
1935 is $1,562,812,974, as compared
to $3,712,107,760 in 1920 and $1,
813,346,935 in 1910. This report
shows that on January 1, 1935,
there were 1,905,111 head of swine
on Nebraska farms with a value of
$11,049,644. In 1910, there were
3,435,724 head of swine on Nebras
ka farms with a value of $29,649,
482. -
Members of the House were told
today that the President and his
advisers may change their origina.
plan for a farm program and that
instead of an amendment to the
soil erosion act, a new bill will be
in'roduced in the Senate and a sim
ilar one in the House. After dis
cussing the information received
from the White House conference
today, it looks like the new pro
gram embraces these items: 1. An
expenditure amounting to about
$5,000,000,000 to carry out new leg
islation expanding the Soil Con
servation Act to the extent neces
sary to conduct a national farm
program. 2. The sum of $237,000,
000 to fulfill the government’s mor
al obligations to farmers who sign
ed the 1935 contracts in good faith.
3. About $2,000,000,000 to compen
sate for processing taxes impound
ed in the lower courts. This new
administration plan for quick leg
islation on the new farm program
was apparently changed at the last
minute in order to meet objections
to the manner in which the intro
duction of the bill was planned.
Members on both aides of the
house are now waiting for these
bills to come up. Naturally they
will be given their regular hear
ings in committees on both sides,
with probably a majority and min
ority report on both, and then they
will come on the floors of both
houses for the usual debate.
Some members now say that
with the Bonus out of the way, and
the farm program fairly well lined
up, there will be an effort made
somewhere in the next month to
work out a program for early ad
journment of this session of Con
gress. Many members on both
sides are already accepting speak
ing engagements from the cam
paign leaders of both parties and
at every opportunity they have
they seem to inject considerable
partisan political talk in their ap
pearances on the floor. Much ob
servation is made on both sides
[that this is campaign year.
Many temporary employees of
the AAA have received letters say
ing that their services would, nr
longer be needed after February 1
and as a result many of them have
gone to the offices of the Bureau
Unions asking for help. Every one
of these bureaus is now organized
with a president, secretary and
other officers whose duty it is to
keep these employees on the job.
These union officers say they are
almost certain that they will find
work for' these people who are
threatened with unemployment.
With over 110,000 people here draw
ing money from the taxpayers,
these unions have become very im
portant among those who want to
keep these government jobs.
Certified Seed Lists
At Ag. Agents Office
Efforts to overcome severe losses
dealt to crop improvement during
the past two unfavorable crop
years are to be doubled this year,
the Nebraska Crop Growers’ as
sociation announced this week.
Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece
received word of the plans from P.
H. Stewart, extension agronomist
at the Nebraska college of agricul
ture and secretary of the crop
growers. Certification of small
grains and other crops will be car
ried on in an effort to keep var
ieties pure and hold gains already
made by experimental means.
"The drouth caused the shipment
of more than 750,000 bushels of
spring grain into Nebraska last
year,” Stewart said. “Some of this
was not pure and presented a ser
ious problem to growers. In view
of this situation, crop certification
is more important than ever before
if losses of the past 2 years are to
be wiped off the books.”
Simultaneously the certified seed
list for 1936 planting of spring
grains w.as released to the crop
growers. Copies are in the hands
of Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece.
It lists all growers of certified seed.
A total of 2,600 bushels of certi
fied Trebi barley is held by grow
ers. Glabron barley growers have
775 bushels of certified seed. Spar
tan, a variety which has outyielded
common 6-row barley 24 per cent
in tests at the Nebraska station, i ;
listed with 4,400. A liberal amount
of Nebraska 21 oats is listed. Io
gold oats are also included in the
report.
Only a small amount of certified
atlas sorgo is included in the re
port. A considerable amount of
certified hybrid corn is available
for spring planting. Copies of the
certified seed list for 1936 planting
can be had at the county agricul
tural agent’s office.
Owen McPharlin Is
Married In Iowa
Owen McPharlin, son of Mrs. J.
H. McPharlin of this city, was mar
ried to Miss Marjorie Wright, of
Omaha, at Glenwood, Iowa, on
Monday morning, Jan. 20, 1936.
Another Omaha couple accompan
ied them and were married at the
same time and place. Mr. McPhar
lin is a member of the State Barber
board, having been re-appointed to
a three year term a few months
ago.
O’Neill friends teniler congratu
lations and best wishes to the new
ly wed?.
Bot Fly Control
The next two to four weeks are
the best time to treat horses for
bot flies. Horses should be kept
off feed 18 hours before the treat
ment is Riven. Horses will not
only fatten up but much of the
trouble in the summer will be elim
inated. Where entire communities
will treat very little trouble is ex- j
^erienced with bot flies, more com
monly known as nose flie3.
Hospital Notes
Max Wolfe went home last Sat
urday feeling fine.
Madelynti Haynes went home
Saturday evening after having an
attack of pneumonia.
Donna Fae Myers had her tonsils
and adenoids removed Monday aft
ernoon and went home Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. Maurice Cavanaugh is still
improving slowly.
Darrel Johnson, the little boy
that was scalded the 11th of Jan
uary, went home Wednesday after-1
noon.
Edward H. Whelan, A
Former Attorney of
Holt County Is Dead
O’Neill relatives received a tele
gram Sunday morning announcing
the death in a hospital at San
Diego, Calif., of Edward II. Whel
an, of pneumonia. He was about
G3 years of age. Funeral services
were held Tuesday.
Edward II. Whelan was a resid
ent of this city for many years and
held several positions of trust and
honor during his residence here.
He came here as a young man and
for a few years was superintendent
of the O’Neill public schools. Re
tiring from teaching he went to
law school and was admitted to the
bar, coming back to O’Neill to
start the practice of his profession.
He served as county atornoy of this
county and later was Mayor of this
city. After the United States ent
ered the war he enlisted and served
during the war. His service was
confined to the United States as
he did not get to cross the water.
At the conclusion of the war he
came back to O’Neill and in 11)20
went to California and opened a
law office at San Diego, where he
was eminently successful in the
practice of his profession. In later
years three of his sons, who were
also admitted to the bar, were as
sociated with him in the practice.
For several months Mr. Whelan
had been in poor health, according
to word brought here by O’Neill
residents who had been on the
eoast. Just before Christmas hr
entered the hospital there for med
ical treatment and was getting
along nicely until a week before
his death when he contracted pm
monia, which was the cause of hi.
death. He leaves his widow, a
former O’Neill girl, five sons and
one daughter to mourn the passin : I
of a kind and indulgent husband j
and father.
Ed. Whelan had many friends in
this city and county who will re j
grot to learn of his death.
Farmers Ask Large
Number of Trees
Interest in Nebraska's farmstead
tree planting program continues to
mount as applications pour into the
office of Earl G. Maxwell, extension
forester at the Nebraska college ol
agriculture. Indications point to
ward an all-time record in numbers
of seedlings and transplants dis
tributed with applications now on
file for 447,000 in contrast to 240,
000 at the corresponding time one
year ago.
Holt county farmers are show
ing renewed interest in the Clarke
McNary tree planting program al
so. They have now made applica
tion for 13,600 trees.
Scotts Bluff county took the lead
in the state wide tree planting pro
ject this week. Farmers there
have made application for 19,400
seedlings thru their agricultural
agent. Previously Adams county
led the state but this week was
forced to drop back to third place.
Fillmore county is now in second
place with orders in for 18,700
trees. Adams county applications
ask for 17,900 thus far.
It is advisable for anyone wish
ing to secure Clarke NcNnry trees
to make application as soon as pos
sible in order to avoid disappoint
ments. Application blanks may be
secured at the office of the agricul
tural agent, F. M. Reece, in O’Neill.
RESETTLEMENT APPLICATION
“The aplications for Resettle
ment Loans and Assistance must
be made at once,” says Ray L. Ver
zal, resettlement supervisor, “if as
sistance will be needed by any
farmers for seed, feed, livestock or
equipment.”
The approval of these loans by
the Lincoln office will take from
three weeks to a mon.h so it is im
perative that they be started at
once. These applications must be
made at the FERA office when the
inspection will be made and re
ferred to the county resettlement
office.
News, like everything else, has
its ups and downs. There is a time
after New Years when it is mighty
scarce. Those knowing of news
should never hesitate to call their
local paper and give the details.
ACADEMY PUPILS
GIVE A FAREWELL
TO FATHER LEAHY
Program Given Tuesday Afternoon
Uy The Pupils of St. Mary’s.
Given Trophy and Purse.
The pupils of St. Mary’s Acad
emy gave a program Tuesday aft
ernoon for Rev. B. J. Leahy who
left the city Wednesday for his new
pastorate in Omaha. The program
was a splendid one especially pre
pared for the occasion and partic
ipated in by all the students of the
higher grades.
A basketball trophy was pre
sented to Father Leahy by Francis
Soukup on behalf of the pupils. A
short address wus delivered by
Monsignor McNamara, and J. D.
Cronin presented Father Leahy
with a purse on behalf of the mem
bers of the congregation, to which
Father Leahy feelingly responded,
and he imparted his blessing on the
students of the school and the
members of the congregation.
Rev. B. J. Leahy left Wednesday
about noon for his future post of
duty in Omaha. He carries with
him the best wishes of a host of
friends in this city for his future
welfare and happiness.
Former O’Neill Merchant
Dies At His Lincoln Home
Jacob Pfund, Sr., 86, died at bis
home in Lincoln, Nebr., last Satur
day morning, after a short illness.
Mr. Pfund was for many years a
resident of this city where he op
erated a grocery store for a num
ber of years. He built the brick
block on west Douglas street now
occupied by Peterson’s beer parlor
and liquor store. After retiring"
from the grocery business ho went
into the southwestern part of the
county where he too', a homestead
and resided for several years.
The following obituary is taken
from the Sunday issue of the Lin
coln State Journal:
“Jacob Pfund, Sr,, 86, retired
merchant, died at 12:02 a. m. Sat
urday at his home, 91!’ O. P.om
in Switzerland, be came to Amer
ica at. the age of 9, living in Oh it;
and in Wisconsin for several years,
and in Omaha a short time. lie
came to Lincoln fifty-five years age,
then spent several years iri Colo
rado, and homeateadc 1 in licit
county, farming and operating a
general store at O’Neill for 25
•years. He returned to Lincoln
eight years ago. He and Mrr.
Pfund celebrating their golden
wedding anniversary last March 19.
He was a member of the Nvangel
ical Lutheran church in Wisconsin.
“Besides his wife he leaves four
daughters, Lurie Pfund, Gladys
Wrede and May Fauth of Lincoln,
and Grace Dawson, of Wayne;
three sons, Jacob, William and Mil
ton, all of Norfolk; sinter, Mrs.
Kate Gerber, and brother, Fred
Pfund, both of Monroe, Wis., and
sixteen grandchildren. The body
is at Umberger’s, where funeral
services will he held at 2 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Presidential Campaign
Is On In Full Swing
The 1936 presidential campaign
is on in earnest. The president
started it in his speech to congress
on the state of the union. He was
followed by A1 Smith in an address
to the Liberty League in Washing
ton last week when he severely
criticized the administration for
failure to carry out the democratic
platform of 1932. Senator Robin
son of Arkansas tried to answer
Smith last Tuesday night but failed
dismally as far as many of the
main points of Smith’s speech were
concered.
On Wednesday a mass conven
tion of southern democrats was
held in Macon, Ga., where dozens
of democrats severely criticized the
administration for its policies and
its communistic attitude. They en
dorsed Governor Talmage, of
Georgia, as a candidate for the
democratic nomination for presid
ent. Things will probably grow
warmer until after the general
election next November.
To Make Corn Loans
Com loans are still being made
but anyone interested should make
application as soon as possible. Ap
plications and information may be
obtained at the agricultural agent’s
office.
S. J. Weekes went down to Om
aha Wednesday night to attend the
annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Occidental Building & Loan
association of that city, Mr. Weekes
being a member of the board of
directors.
Attorney George Famtm, of
Ainsworth, was looking alter legal
matters in the city last Tuesday.