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, VOL. LVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936. No. 45
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O’NEILL PCA STOCK
HOLDERS RE-ELECT
A.U. DIX PRESIDENT
E. R. Heaton, Production Credit
Corporation Head, of Omaha.
Adresses the Meeting.
Holding their annual meeting
Thursday in the K. C. Hall, farmer
stockholders of the O’Neill Produc
tion Credit association elected D. C.
Schaffer of Emmet and E. W. Moss
of Burwell to the board of direct
ors for a term of three years. Mr.
Schaffer and Mr. Moss will serve
on the association’s board thruout
1936, along with the following hold
over directors: A. U. Dix of Butte,
Frank Kaiser, of Spalding, and R.
B. Geary of Inman.
Mr. Dix was named president
and Mr. Schaffer vice president.
The directors re-elected James W.
Booney as secretary - treasurer.
About 150 farmers and stockmen
attended the annual session of the
association, which provides short
term credit for livestock and farm
ing operations in Holt, Boyd, Gar
field and Wheeler counties.
Addressing the borrower-stock
holders, E. R. Heaton, president of
the Production Credit corporation
of Omaha, commended the associa
tion management on its progress
during 1935. He pointed out that
the association, having built up a
good volume of loans, stands in a
firm financial position.
He emphasized that by keeping
the association sound, farmers and
stockmen in this vicinity will con
tinue to obtain interest rates com
^ parable with those enjoyed by in
dustry and will have at their com
mand a credit machine which en
ables them to complete their oper
ations in an orderly way.
Loans of the O’Neill Production
Credit association are discounted
by the Federal Intermediate Credit
bank of Omaha, it was explained
by L. N. Birch, a representative of
the Intermediate Credit bank. Thus,
l he pointed out, the association in
no sense lends government money,
for the bank obtains its funds by
selling debentures to private in
vestors.
The Intermediate Credit bank, he
added, has been wholesaling agri
cultural credit for 13 years and is
now passing along to Production
Credit associations the benefits of
its experience in the granting of
farm credit.
Two Candidates For the
Council In Third Ward
Make Election A Contest
The city election will be held a
week' from next Tuesday. At the
election the electors of the city will
elect a mayor, city treasurer and a
city clerk, as well as three aider
men, one from each ward in the
city. Tomorrow is the last day for
those having political aspirations
to file for city office, but there are
no rumors of any other candidates
entering the field, the citizens of
the city being pretty well satisfied
with the present administration.
So far the only opposition in the
election will be in the Third ward,
where Eli Hershiser will contest
for the post with Levi Yantzi, one
of the present representatives of
that ward on the council. The tick
et so far is as follows:
Mayor, John Kersenbrock.
City Clerk, Chauncey W. Porter.
City Treasurer, Edward Quinn.
Councilman, First Ward, Francis
Bazelman.
Councilman, Second Ward, Har
old L. Lindberg.
Councilman. Third Ward, Levi
Yantzi and Eli Hershiser.
Will O’Connor, who has been in
Denver for more than a year, is
taking up his residence again in
Holt county on the farm three
miles west of Emmet. Mr. O Con
nor was in O’Neill last Friday. He
reports conditions in the Colorado
metropolis about the same as the
country over, little or no industrial
activity and many idle. There are
some 40.000 employed on federal
jobs that are of no consequence
with nothing accomplished after
the workers pass on.
Alpha Club
The Alpha Club met at the home
of Mrs. Helmer Widtfeldt Wednes
day, March 18. Nine members re
sponded to the Voice of the Street
for roll call. Three guests were
present. One new member w-as
taken into the club. After the
business meeting, during which a
new secretary was elected, the en
tertainment took place. It con
sisted of a book review by Mrs.
j Vinton Simonson and readings by
Mrs. Aaron Boshart and by Miss
Hazel MacDonald, which were en
joyed by all. Luncheon was served
by the hostess, after which all
departed.
March Snows Amount
To Nearly Three-Fouths
of An Inch of Moisture
This section was visited by a
slight snow storm last Monday
night that for a time threatened
to be a real March blizzard. The
snow added .16 hundreths of an
inch to the moisture received so far
this year. The storm lasted until
after midnight when it cleared up
and the sun came out the next
morning and the snow passed away
during the day.
Wednesday night it rained a
little about 8:45 which soon turned
to snow and it snowed and blew
all night and until about 2:45 this
afternoon. Weather Observer
Bowen says there was a snow' fall
of five inches and that it added .56
hundreths of an inch of moisture.
The snow was very wet and while
the wind blew hard most of the
night and drifted the snow quite
badly highways were blocked for
only a few hours when they were
opened by the highway department.
The snow fall this week adds about
three quarter of an inch of moist
ure to the precipitation for the
year.
It cleared up late this afternoon
and the indications are that this
March blizzard is over and the
snow w'ill not last over a couple of
days.
High Low Mois.
March 20 20 59
March 21 57 22
March 22 ... 62 40
March 23 . 56 35 T
March 24 . 38 23 .16
March 25 „ 39 20
March 26 39 22 .50
Play To Raise Funds
For the Tennis Courts
On April 15, 1936, the O’Neill
Dramatic Club, under the direction
of Mrs. F. J. Kubitchek will pre
sent a three act comedy drama en
titled “Here Comes Charley.” The
proceeds of the play will be used to
defray the expense of putting the
City Tennis Courts in condition for
the summer. Reserve your seats
early as the play is an excellent
one and will be presented at one
performance only.
Bids for Court House
According to a notice in The
Frontier bids are asked for the
construction of the new court house
building, and for the plumbing,
heating and wiring of the building,
to be submitted not later than 1:30
p. m. on April 9, 1936. With the
erection of the new court house and
the new federal building this sura
mrer there will be considerable
activity hereabouts during the next
eight months.
The Editor Is Home
The writer returned last Monday
night from a two weeks visit to
Rochester, Minn., where he went
thru the Mayo Clinic for a thoro
check-up and the adjustment of
minor ailments. The Mayo Clinic
is one of the greatest institutions
of its kind in the world and people
go there from all over the world.
An idea of the magnitude of the
institutions can be gleaned from
the fact that there are 500 physic
ians under this one roof and they
have over 1,000 nurses under their
direct control. Some of the opera
tions performed there are wonder
ful and are taken as a matter of
course in the every day life of the
physicians and surgeons attached
to the clinic. It is a wonderful in
stitution and has been a boon to
mankind in all parts of the world.
John J. Harrington left for
Washington, D. C., Monday, where
jhe has accepted a temporary posi
tion with the Railroad Retirement
Board. John will not be a stranger
1 in Washington as there are a large
j number of O’Neill and former
j O’Neill residents now in the capitol
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Owens, of Phoenix,
were in the city Friday, Mr. Owen
, having business at the court house.
Many, snowed in all winter, ate
getting in now to pay taxes.
PAGE WOMAN WHO
WAS NEAR THE 100
YEAR MARK DIES
Funeral Services Held Sunday For
Emeline Stevens Who Was
Over 95 Years Old.
Emeline Stevens, one of the pi
oneers of the eastern part of the
county, died at her home in Page
last Friday, at the ripe old age of
95 years, 8 months and 16 days,
after an illness of a few months of
ailments incident to old age. The
funeral was held, at 2:30 last Sun
day afternoon from the Gospel
Mission church in Page, Rev.Geidel
officiating and burial in the ceme
tery at Page.
In the spring of 1884 Mrs. Stev
ens came to this county from Gib
son county, Indiana, and had been
a resident of this county for nearly
52 years. She had a large circle of
friends in the eastern part of the
county who loved and admired her
for her many sterling qualities.
She leaves to mourn her passing
four sons, Gharles Grosh and Ben
Stevens, of Page, Earl Stevens, of
Inman, and Logan Stevens, of
Bridgewater, Nebr.
CONGRESS—AS SEEN
BY A NEBRASKAN
By Karl Stefan
The ways and means tax sub
committee which has been meeting
behind closed doors for several
days working on the administration
tax program, removed the so-called
gag rule following a very exciting
showdown between members and
reporters in a eapitol corridor yes
terday. While there are various
interests watching the activities of
this committee, the central western
bloc of house democratic members
are meeting to combat proposals
which they charge may seriously
injure constituents’ interests. Most
of these come from Rocky Moun
tain states and western mining
states. The tax subcommittee
which is charged with formulating
the general nature of the new
corporation earning tax, spent all
day yesterday trying to plug pos
sible revenue “leaks” in the pro
posed tax bill, with much attention
to the methods of reaching divi
dends. Members say these divi
dends must be taxed at the source,
but the problem is how to tax them.
The Rocky Mountain house bloc is
against the processing tax on beef
and mutton. So some of the mid
western congressmen have decided
to take a stand opposing the pro
cessing tax against meat animals
raised in their state. Altho re
ports are printed in the news
papers here that the committee is
making progress rapidly, members
of the committee tell other con
gressmen that they are still far
away from a complete tax bill.
Those who want a change in the
federal land bank, claimed that the
management of these federal land
banks is in the hands of a few bur
eaucrats, and that the manage
ment of them has been taken away
from the farmers with the result
that the bank is more expensive
now than it was under the old
plan, to which they want to return.
They plan for reorganization so
that the stockholders, the farmers,
in the federal land bank, can have
more to say about it. Quite a fight
developed between the Iowa and
Nebraska representatives. How
ever, a motion got thru so that a
committee will \>e appointed and
charged with the task of finding
out from Governor Myers, head of
the bank, all of the information
needed regaining profit and loss of
the federal land bank during the
past five or six years. They want
to find out whether or not it was
more economical to run the bank
under the old organization than it
was under the newr plan. Members
of the prairie states group are in
terested in getting a bill passed to
continue a 3% per cent rate for
farm loans. Most of the members
present were in favor of the Fraz
ier-Lemke refinance bill for a still
lower rate for refinancing farm
mortgages. A new name has ap
peared on the petition which now
has 211 names. Two hundred and
eighteen are need to bring the bill
out on the floor of the house for
consideration.
You may be interested to know
that at the present time, the gov
ernment is building a settlement of
houses for relief workers, some of
which will probably never be used.
You will also be interested to know
of the plans for furnishing these
homes for these workers. The
specification read that the furnish
ings are to be in colonial style, the
| furniture to be of dull and unfin
i ished maple, and the all-wool
| blankets on the beds must be pastel
' green with wide taffeta rayon bind
! ings 80”x60” and weighing 2 Mb
pounds each. The puffs ta go over
the blankets must be of down of
ducks covered with sunfast rust
sateen. The fireplaces must har
monize with the colonial style of
furniMhingis. In every reception
room there must be two grand
father clocks with dials of silver,
striking chimes On the hour, half
hour and quarter hour. The love
leats, davenports, wing chairs, cof
fee and card tables, tilt top and
butterfly tables must be in colonial
style, and there must be old fash
ioned pewter candle sticks. The
floor lamps must be of Cape Cod
styple with soft yellow shades and
the paintings on the walls must be
by recognized masters. These are
being built for the relief workers
on the Passamaquoddy project in
the state of Maine. The working
men and women of the country do
not live in surroundings like these,
but for generations to come they
must earn by the sweat of their
brow the money to repay in taxes
the money thrown away.
Those who voted against the leg
islative bill calling for $23,294,568
to run the legislative establishment
here for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1937, are starting to find out
that a lot of the things they en
deavored to find out on the floor
are really hidden in the bill itself.
The bill was passed without a rec
ord vote as are many of the appro
priation bills. Old timers say that
if record votes were taken on all
legislative bills there would be a
good chance to ‘acire about a bil
lion dollars a year. One new mem
ber who went to the committee
meetings stated that he had heard
that congressmen have free barber
shops, free lunches and free baths.
He found out that not only does
the government run a restaurant at
the expense of the taxpayer, but it
runs a barber shop, shoe shining
parlor, and steam baths, but he
could not find any such information
in the bill. So that committee
member told this inquiring con
gressman that barber shops and
shop keepers are carried on the
payroll as clerks and janitors. So
are the shoe shiners and the men
who run the lobby lunch room and
so are the masseurs in the bath
rooms and the waiters in the res
taurant. These employes who are
recorded as janitors and clerks get
from around $115 to $140 a month
and work the year around, but this
congressman also found out that
members of congress pay 60 cents
for a haircut and $2 for a steam
bath, and 10 cents for a shine, and
all the way from 45 cents to $1 for
a lunch. New members who knew
very little about this are told that
time was once when members didn’t
pay for a steam bath or a haircut
or a shine. While they are not
honor bound to pay for these
things, the “tip” custom came in
and they pay the regulation union
prices for such services. While the
public eats in the regular mem
bers’ restaurant, both the public
and the members of congress pay
the regulation prices for food. Old
timers say it used to be the res
taurant didn’t pay out, but now it’s
different. Over on the senate side
they have free gingerale and car
bonated water, but new members
are told it is impolite for members
of congress to say anything about
the activity of the senate. It isn t
done. Once in a while, newspaper
men irritate the congressmen by
calling attention to these things,
which do not make common sense.
Happy Adair, about 40, who for
several years has been a resident
of the Amelia neighborhood, was
before the insanity commission last
Monday afternoon, adjudged insane
and as the asylums of the state are
full he was committed to the care
of Sheriff Dutfy. The Sheriff took
him to Council Bluffs Tuesday
morning where he was committed
to a hospital.
The third paragraph of Karl
Stefan’s column for this week, con
tains a description of one of the
major pieces of New Deal folly.
SOIL CONSERVATION
PLAN TO BEGIN SOON
ON COUNTY’S FARMS
Elections Will lie Held In County
To Elect Committeemen To
Handle Administration.
Full speed ahead will be the key
note to the new farm program in
Nebraska as temporary committees
and agricultural agents hold com
munity educational meetings and
complete registration of farmers
wishing to participate in soil-con
servation program.
Final and definite plans for the
farm program were given more
than 600 farm leaders who gath
ered in Grand Island on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week for a
two-day conference. These details
will be made public at community
educational meetings. Those at
tending from this county were R.
H. Lienhart, Fred. Beckwith and
F. M. Reece.
As rapidly as possible elections
will be held thruout the county to
elect precinct committees who will
handle the local administration of
the program. The chairman of each
precinct committee will automatic
ally become a member of the board
of directors of the county soil con
servation association which will be
set up as soon as possible.
Holding of elections, explaining
of details of the program to farm
ers and getting land appraised will
be the big tasks facing the Holt
county soil conservation associa
tion during April.
Temporary soil conservation
committee and agricultural agents
will begin a series of community
meetings throughout Nebraska
this week end. They will discuss
with farmers the general principles
in the recommendations for the new
soil conservation program.
Very briefly these principles are
as follows: Land will be divided
into crop and non-crop land. Crop
land will be classified into two
groups. One will be called “soil
conserving crops and practices’’and
the other, “soil depleting crops and
practices.’’
The percentage of crop land in
soil conserving crops and practices
in the years immediately before
the Triple A began will be deter
mined by counties and a county av
erage percentage figure used in the
1936 program. Each farmer will
start figuring with the acres of
crop land in his farm. Using a list
of the soil conserving crops and
practices, he will figure up the acre
age on his farm which was in this
classification at harvest time in
1935.
Those farms with a percentage
of soil conserving crops and prac
tices below the county average
will be in one group. Other farms
where the percentage of soil con
serving crops and practices is above
the county average will be in an
other group.
The farm in the group with less
than the county average of soil
conserving crops and practices will
begin with the percentage which it
had in 1935. A farm in the group
with more than the county average
percentage of soil conserving
crops and practices will begin at
the county average.
The secretary of agriculture will
request a percentage change from
soil depleting to soil conserving
crops and practices. Farmers who
make this change will be paid at a
rate per acre determined for the
county and verified by appraisal of
the community committee. The
maximum payment will be the per
centage of change requested by the
secretary times the rate of pay es
tablished by the committee.
The farmer who is above the
county average and who maintains
his acreage in 1936 will also receive
a payment for continuing his good
farming practice. Details of these
! payments will be explained at the
| community meetings.
As soon as the county average
figure is announced, the percentage
of change is requested by the sec
retary, and the list of soil conserv
ing crops and practices is available,
each individual farmer of tHe
county can figure up what the pro
gram means to his farm, and plan
his 1936 crops accordingly if he
I wants to take part in the program.
Postoffice In Sight
A representative of the govern
ment was to have been in the city
this morning to pay the money and
j take possession of the ground on
which the new postoffice building
will be erected. They had not ar
rived at 2:45 so they probably have
been delayed by the storm, but
will undoubtedly be here shortly.
It now begins to look as if some
action would be taken soon and that
work on the new structure would
get under way before June 1.
O’Neill High “O” Club
Sponsoring A Boxing
Tournament This Week
The first chapter of an amatuer
boxing tourney was held Monday
evening in the public school gym
nasium. A fair sized crowd saw
the exhibitions. The outcome of
the matches follow: Brown and
Wilkinson, draw; Wyant and
Chmieal, lightweights, draw; Yar
nall and Kellar, draw; Yarnall and
Schott, featherweights, Yarnall
winner; Ott and Young, light
weights, Ott winner; Strong and
Wilkinson, draw; Calvert and Jur
acek, light heavies, Calvert winner;
Mitchell and Brittell, bantams,
Brittell winner; Gunn and Shoe
maker, feathers, Gunn winner;
Hunt and Cole, welters, Hunt win
ner; Mains and Luben, welters,
Luben winner; Randall and Spind
ler, welters, Randall winner; Stuart
and Kellar, draw.
Populist Congressman
Made The Job Pay Well
Many residents of Holt county
in the 90’s will be interested in this
bit of information obtained from
the Valentine Republican:
Old time Big Sixth District pol
itics are recalled by reading in the
Custer County Chief a story writ
ten by Omer M. Kem about his
early days in that county. O. M.
Kem was the first and onjy popu
list congressman from the Big
Sixth, elected in 1890 when that
political movement was at its
height. He represented this dis
trict for six years. He took to
Washington as his private secre
tary his oldest daughter, they lived
in a cheap boarding house on her
salary of $1,200 per year, and at
the end of his six years in office
he had most of his $.10,000 salary.
The rest of the family had remain
ed in their sod house in Custer
county. It was said of him that
during his term of office the only
bills he succeeded in passing were
his salary claims. As soon as he
left congress Mr. Kem bought an
irrigated farm in Colorado and
moved there. Now at 80 years of
Grove, Ore.
Applications Now Being
Received For Crop Loans
Application for emergency crop
loans for 1936 are now being re
ceived at the County Agents office,
O’Neill, Nebraska, by J. O. Walker,
field supervisor for the Emergency
Crop and Feed Loan Section of the
Farm Credit Administration.
The emergency crop loans will be
made only to farmers who cannot
obtain credit from any other
source, as provided by regulations
issued by the Governor of the
Farm Credit Administration. The
money will be limited to the farm
er's immediate and actual cash
needs for growing his 1936 crops
and in no instance may exceed $200
to one farmer.
Farmers are not eligible for
emergency crop loans if they can
borrow from an individual, product
ion credit association, bank, or
other concern. Farmers will also
be considered ineligible if they
have an application pending with
Resettlement Administration, have
received assistance from that or
ganization this year or are indebted
to the Resettlement Administration
for an unpaid loan.
As in the past, the security for
an emergency loan will consist of a
first lien on the crop financed.
Landlord or others having an in
terest in the crop to be financed will
be required to waive their claims in
favor of a lien to the Governor of
the Farm Credit Administrate!
until the emergency crop loan is
repaid.
Checks in payment of approved
loans will be issued by the Region
al Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Office at Omaha, Nebraska.
Mayor and Mrs. John Kersen
brock and children drove down to
Osmond last Sunday and spent the
day visiting with relatives and
friends, returning home that even
ing.
MRS. STORJOHANN
DEAD FOLLOWING
A SHORT ILLNESS
Services Will Be Held Next Sunday
Afternoon at the Home and
Burial At Phoenix.
Mrs. Marie Storjohann died at
her home east of Phoenix at 2
o’clock this morning after an ill
ness of but a few days of a para
lytic stroke, at the age of 76 years,
6 months and 26 day's. The funeral
will be held next Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock, with services at the
residence and burial in the ceme
tery at Phoenix at the side of her
husband who passed away last
August.
Marie Steinbock was born at
Hamburg, Germany, on August 30.
1859. When a young lady she came
to America with her parents and
they located near Minden, Iowa. On
Jan. 24, 1883, she was united in
marriage to Claus Storjohann at
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Six children
were born of this union and they
are left to mourn the passing of a
kind and affectionate mother. The
children are:
Henry, August and William, of
Spencer; Mary Devall, Meek; Mar
tha Johring, Redbird; Mrs. Rose
Goeke, Atkinson. She also leaves
a sister, Mrs. Hans Storjohann, of
Spencer.
Mrs. Storjohann was one of the
real pioneers of the northern part
of the county. In March, 1884, the
year following her marraige she
came to this county with her hus
band and they located north of the
Eagle, a few miles east of Phoenix,
where she had made her home for
over half a century. Mr. and Mrs.
Storjohann were recognized as
among the stalwart citizens of the
county and had a host of friends,
not only in the immediate neigh
borhood but in parts of the county
where they were well known.
When Mrs. Storjohann came to
the county and they settled on the
farm on the hills north of the
Eagle there were very few settlers
in that part of the county. He filed
on a quarter section of fertile land
and assisted by his faithful wife it
was only a short time until they
had one of the nicest and best im
proved farms in the entire county,
with abundant shade trees and
fruit trees of almost every descrip
tion. The orginal homestead grew
until at the time of his death last
August, Mr. Storjohann and his
wife were the owners of a couple
of sections of fertile Holt county
soil. A new home had been erected
a few years ago across the road
from the old homestead, equipped
with all modern conveniences and
they spent their declining years in
peace ana comiori.
With the passing of her loving
companion of over half a century ,
in August of last year, she appear
ed to lose much of her interest in
life, not being nearly as active as
she had been before his dlath. But
she was in fairly good health until
a few days before her death. Not
withstanding that all that could be
done by medical aid and careful
nursing was done, she passed peace
fully away early this morning.
Another old timer, who played an
important part in the development
of this section of the state, has
passed from our midst and her
passing will be mourned, not only
by her immediate relatives but by
a large circle of friends thruout the
county.
Grattan Project Club
The Grattan Project club met at
the home of Mrs. George Weingart
ner Wednesday, March 11. for an
afternoon meeting. Ten members
were present. Mrs. Robert Lamh
and daughter were visitors. Mrs.
L. Barrett and Mrs. E. Wolfe gave
a very interesting lesson on “Flow
ers for Every Yard.” A lunch was
served at the close of the meeting.
There has been a good deal of
petty theiving going on in the city
the past few weeks. Clothes have
been stolen from wash lines, milk
from porches and groceries taken
from cars parked on the streets of
the city. City authorities have an
idea of who the guilty parties are
and they had better cut out their
pilfering, as they are being watch
ed and, if caught, will be prosecut
ed to the full extent of the law.
Ed Rathovic, of Omaha, visited
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Lod
Janousek, over Sunday.