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Supervisors’ Proceedings
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. S, 1936, 10 A. M.
Holt County Board of Super
visors met as per adjournment.
All members present. Meeting
called to order by the Chairman.
Board spent forenoon in auditing
and approving road claims.
12:00 noon, on motion, Board ad
journed until 1:00 P. M.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 3. 1936, 1:00 P. M.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by the Chairman.
The following claims were audit
ed and approved and on motion
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn on Road Fund in payment
of same:
L. A. Schlotman_$ 84.20
J. H. Gibson_63.20
Chas. L. Beebe_108.16
Dept, of Roads and Irri- i
gation_ 9.62
John R. Ruther__ 6.96
John R. Ruther. 1.26
Gurtie Minnahan_ 8.60
Floyd Sanders_z_19.20
Irvin Jensen_2.00
Georgo Cubick_41.20
.Toe Cubick_41.20
C. E. Linn_7.00
Art R. Sanders_12.00
L. A. Whaley_ 10.40
B. B. Thomas _ 9.66
John Cleveland _ 4.00
P. J. Hickey _ 3.20
John Schmidt_12.76
Mervin Butler -_ 6.00
Continental Oil Co._ 26.08
Alfred Walter_ 3.40
John Callelly_ 6.04
Alex Frickel_ 7.00
Hewitt Bros._23.69
Dens Oil Co._63.86
Ed J. Matousek_ 10.00
John A. Carson_10.00
Ed Sparks_3.00
Claude Miller_28.00
Wm. L. Ulrich_ 66.40
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Island Supply Co._7.66
Island Supply Co._ 36.03 ]
Arbuthnot & Reka__ 39.38 <
Arbuthnot & Reka_ 4.60 <
Arbuthnot & Reka_89.80
The following claims were audit
ed and approved and on motion
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn on Unemployment Relief
Fund in payment of same:
Interstate Power Co._$16.00
Roberta Arbuthnot_16.00
William Gats_31.00
N-W. Bell Telephone Co._64.04
The following claims were audit
ed and approved and on motion
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn on County Poor Fund in
payment of same:
Elva Bogue_$16.00
Mrs. Anna Sauser_8.16
Greenstreet Bros._16.31
Mrs. E. J. GUI_11.08
Casper Wagman_21.00
Ed F. Quinn_16.00
6:00 P. M., on motion, Board ad
journed until January 4, 1936. at
9:00 A. M.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 4, 1936, 9 A. M.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman. Minutes of
previous meeting were read and
upproved as read.
The following claims were audit
ed and approved and on motion
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn on the General Fund in pay
ment of same:
John A. Carson _$23.00
Ed J. Matousek_22.16
Louis W. Reimer - _ 16.60
John Steinhauser_18.00
J. C. Stein_16.50
John Sullivan_82.00
Mrs. O. M. Sanders _ 31.25
J. W. Walter_26.00
Mr. Latenser, the architect on
the new court house building, was
present at this meeting and sub
mitted floor plans and specifica
tions of the proposed building and
the Board spent the balance of the
day examining and making suitable
changes in Bame.
4:00 P. M., on motion, Board ad
journed until Saturday, January
11, 1986, 10:00 P. M.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 11, 1936, 10 A. M.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman. Minutes of
previous meeting were read and
on motion approved as read.
Mr. Latenser, the architect on
the court house building, was pres
ent at this meeting and presented
revised plans and office arrange
ments and Board spent day in ex
amining and checking plans.
4:00 P. M., on motion, Board ad
journed Sine Die.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 14, 1936, 10 A. M.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met on this date as required
by Statute for the purpose of or
ganizing board for ensuing year.
Members present, Sullivan, Carson,
Matousek, Reimer, Stein, Stein
houser and alter. Meeting called
to order by the County Clerk.
Board proceeded to the election
of a Chairman for the ensuing year.
Motion by Walter, and seconded by
Sullivan, that nominations for
Chairman be made by ballot. Car
ried.
First informal ballot resulted as
follows:
Louis W. Reimer . 3
John Sullivan - 2
John A. Carson —. 1
First formal ballot resulted ns
follows:
Louis W. Reimers _ 4
John Sullivan - 3
Motion by Sullivan, seconded by
Stein, that vote for Louis W.
Reimer for Chairman for the en
suing year be mado unanimous.
Motion carried.
Thereupon Louis W. Reimer was
declared elected Chairman for the
ensuing year.
The newly elected Chairman de
ferred naming his committees until
the afternoon session.
12:00 noon, on motion, Board ad
journed until 1:00 P. M.
Louis W. Reimer, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O'Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 14, 1936, 1 P. M.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by the Chairman.
The Chairman presented the fol
lowing standing committees for the
year 1936:
Court House—Sullivan, Matou
sek and Walters.
Finance—Carson, Stein and
Steinhauser.
Printing—Stein, Matousek and
Sullivan.
Tax—Steinhauser, Carson and
Stein.
Bond—Carson, Sullivan and
Walter.
Bridge—Walter, Steinhauser and
Matousek.
Settlement with County Officers
—Sullivan and entire Board.
Claims—Matousek and entire
entire Board.
Board proceeded to prepare the
Annual Estimate of expense for
the year 1936.
Motion by Stein and seconded by
Matousek that The Frontier be
designated as the official paper for
the year 1936. Carried.
Motion by Carson and seconded
by Sullivan that floor plans and
office arrangements of the new
court house building as submitted
by the architects, John Latenser
and sons bo approved and accepted.
Carried.
5:00 P. M., on motion, Board ad
journed until January 16, 1936, at
9:00 A. M.
i Louis W. Reimer, Chairman,
i John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
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THE NEBRASKA
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by James R. Lowell
Just three more weeks and the
curtain will go up on Nebraska’s
biennial “big show," which this
year will have the largest east in
history with plenty of amateur tal
ent, according to present indica
tions. March 6 is the date on which
all filings must be in, while the
“professionals," or those holding
an office who desire to run for an
other post, must pick their part ir
the "melodrama” on or before Feb
24, as required by a new state law
The contest for a seat in tht
state railway commission which ap.
pears to be dragging will havt
considerable new life injected intc
it in a few days when Warren R
Pool of Lincoln, steps into the ring
At present only three men havt
filed for this office—Hugh Drakt
(R), incumbent; Harry L. Scotl
(R), Lincoln; and George L. Gooc
(D), Bridgeport.
Pool, the newcomer, who lef1
state university to fight overseas
went to work in the Havelock rail
road shops upon his return in ordei
to finish university, took two en
gineering degrees, and is now ar
employee of the state highway de
partment, hag it figured out that
the railway commission can use ar
engineer to good advantage aftei
many years of almost complett
domination by lawyers.
John S. Jones of Wymore, is tht
fourth man to file for state treas
urer. He is a republican.
The latest to hitch his wagon tc
the congressional star is Lloyd E
Chapman (R) of Lincoln, an at
tomey, who hopes to represent tht
1st district on an anti-new-dea
platform. He declares that “il
the government’s stranglehold or
j business and industry is removed
they will revive and prosperity will
Inevitably follow.”
Another 1st district republican
who is likely to run for congress is
Harry E. Sackett of Beatrice, an
attorney and well known in state
republican circles. In the 6th dis
trict, Cullen N. Wright, Scotts
bluff, another well-known repub
lican figure is fidgeting with his
hat with congressional intentions,
while in the 2nd district Ted Met
calfe of Omaha, third place man in
the republican primary for govern
or two years ago, is spoken of as
a congressional possibility.
Candidates for a seat in the uni
cameral legislature are breathing
easier since Assistant Attorney
General Murphy has submitted an
opinion that the unicameral redis
tricting act is valid, despite the
claim of Jack Chase, of Omaha
that several localities in the Ne
braska metropolis were left out in
the cold. Murphy said there were
“careless errors” in the act, but
that the intent was clear and there
Is no need to call a special legisla
tive session.
There are few congregating
places too lowly to harbor a politic
al confab of some sort these days.
Two of the larger fetes scheduled
for the near future include a speech
by Governor Alf Landon of Kansas,
Feb. 28, and a speech by Senator
Black of Alabama, Feb. 22—both to
be at the university coliseum.
Landon’s speech will be a high
light of the second annual Repub
lican Founders Day celebration of
the republican party in Nebraska.
Mrs, George B. Simmons of Mar
shall, Mo., who has been busy tos
sing bombs into the new deal camp
during the past year will also be a
speaker, and the republicans will
work on their plans of political
strategy the same day.
Senator Black, a strong new
dealer and labor champion, will ap
pear under Nebraska labor and
farm auspices.
Nebraskans may be casually in
terested in the fact that the valua
tion of the state, as returned by
local assessors and as equalized by
the state board, is $2,030,243,633.
or a decrease of $29,000,000 from
the 1934 valuation, and that the
tax bill for 1935 totaled $43,878,947,
or nearly $2,000,000 more than the
year before, but they will be more
interested in knowing what their
neighbors are doing as regard
bushels of grnin, livestock, radios
and diamond rings.
The folks over in Cherry county
have the largest number of cattle
—210,262 head—and Kimball coun
ty folks have the least with 9,041,
but the average value is highest in
Dixon county. There are only
2,488,476 head of cattle in the state
Tax Commissioner Smith’s figures
show, compared with 3,029,487 in
1934, but the total valuation is
$68,182,223 as against $46,726,457
in 1934.
Custer county has the largest
number of horses—19,177—while
Deuel has only 1,366, but Otoe
county steeds are worth the most
per head. The same county has
tho largest number of mules with
2,396, but York county mules are
the best.
Burt county farmers are tops
when it comes to tho total valua
tion of their hogs—$286,940—altho
the farmers of Cuming county have
1 tho largest number of hogs of any
1 county In the state, a total of 34,
.
369, and Douglas county hogs are
worth the most per head. Saline
county folks have $78,178 worth of
poultry, high for the state, but
the flocks in Hooker county are few
and far between. Lancaster county
leads in dogs which are valued at
$66,435, while the ranchers out in
Hooker county must struggle along
with only $1,240 worth of dogs.
Dawes county has 13,971 sheep
and goats and leads the state, but
Scottsbluff county has the record
for bees with 1,291 stands. Grant
county hasn’t a single bee, so far
a3 the assessor could And out.
Gage farmers have the most
wheat on hand to the tune of 257,
813 bushels, but the assessors fail
ed to uncover any grain in Arthur,
Blaine, Dakota, Garfield, Grant,
Holt, Loup, McPherson, Rock or
Thomas counties. Every county
but Arthur had some corn on hand,
while Saundera led with 792,720
bushels. Madison county appar
ently has a corner on oats, and the
spuds are piled highest in Kimball
county.
The average Nebraskan would
think that the Platte river coun
ties in the irrigated section would
have the most hay and alfalfa on
hand, but the honors go to Cuming
county with 4,905 tons.
Platte county farmers have the
most invested in farm machinery
and were assessed on more than
half a million dollars worth of
plows, manure spreaders, etc., but
Cheyenne county has the most
tractors, threshing machines and
combines.
Douglas county naturally has
the most automobiles and house
hold goods. Hooker county has the
fewest cars and Banner county
folks have little inside their homes
but drygoods boxes, if the assessor
was correct. McPherson hasn’t a
single electric refrigerator, while
Douglas has 6,456 of them.
Strangely enough, however, Lan
caster county has more electric
washers than Douglas.
Believe the assessors or not, but
in 1935 there was only one camera
each in Arthur, Blaine and Greeley
counties, while the folks of Arthur
county had to walk miles to find
out what time it was, for their were
only 7 watches and clocks in the
county.
One would naturally think that
Douglas with the largest popula
tion would have a corner on the
diamonds and jewelry, but Lan
caster county, the home of so many
public officials, was way ahead with
$208,866 worth. What jewelry the
Banner countyfolks possessed must
must have come from the dime
store, as the assessor lumped it off
at $15. Every county was well
supplied with radios, Douglas
county leading with over half a
million dollars so invested.
Everyone knows that Cherry
county is the largest in Nebraska.
It has 3,462,084 acres, but the land
has nn average value per agre of
only 83.08, whereas Douglas county
land is worth $92.40 an acre. For
total valuation of land, however,
Lancaster conies first—$33,118,000.
The total valuation of Nebraska
lands is $1,140,719,997, or about I
$160,000 above 1934.
Motor vehicles registered in Ne
braska last year totaled 431,494, or
about 6,000 more than for 1934.
according to the registration divi
sion of the state road department.
This includes passenger cars,
trucks, trailers, busses and motor
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cycles. Passenger cars alone to
taled 347,311 or nearly a thousanc
over 1934. Total fees paid amount
ed to 81,988,640 compared with SI,
867,063 the year before.
Figures compiled by the Lowell
Service reveal that there were
34,227 new passenger cars regis
tered in Nebraska in 1936 as
against 21,778 in 1934. Trucks
totaled 6,297 and 6,411.
Ford led in passenger car sales
with 11,713 of this make delivered
to Nebraskans. Chevrolet which
was high in 1934 took second place
with 9,204. Plymouth continued
in third place with 4,986.
In commercial car sales, Ford
jumped from second to first place
with 2,447, and Chevrolet dropped
to second with 1,927, or about 400
less than 1934. International
placed third with 936.
Sales of life insurance in Ne
braska totaled $52,372,000 in 1936
compared with $51,353,000 in 1934.
. . . While Nebraska’s general fund
reached an eight year low late last
year, it managed to increase its
cash balance in January from
$146,286 at the beginning of the
month to $178,068 at the close. Ex
traordinary appropriations made
by the legislature, together with
delayed jjayments of taxes under
the new law, caused the fund to be
unusually depleted in the latter
part of 1936, but from now on it
will go a-kiteing.
Approximately $10,960,0000 will
be invested in highways in Nebras
ka in 1936. About $7,750,000 will
be for construction, while $3,200,
000 is earmarked for maintenance.
Last year approximately $7,714,000
worth of work was done on high
ways.
The 1935 law making a differ
entiation between types of arson
cases has helped the state fire mar
shal to do a better job of prosecut
ing that offence. Of 20 investgia
; tions made Into suspicious fires last
year, 13 made confession of their
guilt. Eight were convicted and
sent to the penitentiary or a re
formatory, five were paroled after
conviction, one was sent to a priv
ate hospital, three had charges dis
missed, and three are pending.
Bloodhounds were used in three
cases, with success in one of them.
BRIEFLY STATED
Doc. Green, of Lincoln, was look
ing after business in this city last
Tuesday and incidently boosting
his candidacy for the republican
nomination for lieutenant governor.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Blain, of
Grand Island, who came up a week
ago Saturday for a few days visit
at the home of their daughter, Mrs.
Peter Todsen and family, left for
home Wednesday morning but
could get no farther than Bartlett,
and had to return, the roads south
of there being impassable. j
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Frank Johnson, brother to Mike
here, section foreman at Belden,
with crew of three men rolled in
here one night last week on snow
plow- work. All spent the night at
the Johnson home here.
Francis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Matthews, was operated on
for an attack of appendicitis in (
Sioux City the middle of last week.
He is getting along nicely and is
expected to return home the end
of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry DeVoro, of
Dubuque, Iowa, arrived in the city
last Tuesday evening and will make
this city their future home. Mr.
DeVore has been transferred hero
from Dubuque as maintenance man
for the Interstate Power company,
filling the position formerly held
by Lester Vance, who has been
transferred to Clinton, Iowa.
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our offer of $1.00 a year for new and re
newal subscriptions to Saturday, Febru
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main highways may have an opportunity
to use this reduced rate.
The dollar-a-year subscrip
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counties and only on paid in advance sub
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the first of the year must be paid at the $2
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