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The Frontier # I VOL. LVII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936. No. 1 Mrs. Lillie Nichols Dies At Her Home Following A Stroke of Paralysis Mrs. Lillie Nichols passed away at her home southeast of this city last Saturday afternoon, from a paralytic stroke suffered on Fri day, at the age of 65 years, 1 month and 26 days. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the Methodist church in this city, Rev. A. J. May officitaing and bur ial in Prospect Hill cemetery. Lillie Bitney was born at Madi son, Wisconsin, on March 3, 1871, and moved with her parents to An telope county, Nebraska, in 1879. In 1889 the family moved to this county, locating southeast of this city. In 1890 she was united in marriage to Michael Sullivan, a member of one of the pioneer fam ilies of the Michigan settlement. Ten children were born of this union, five of whom with the father have passed away. Five children, four daughters and one son survive and all were present at the funeral. The children are: Lawrence Sullivan, Mrs. Loren Menuey, Mrs. Luther Pierce, Mrs. Glen Johnson and Miss Mary Sul livan, all of Omaha. Mr. Sullivan passed away in February, 1911 and the family continued to make their home on the farm southeast of this city. A few years ago Mrs. Sullivan was united in marriage to James Nich ols, a neighboring farmer, who with a son by a former mar riage, are left to join with her children in mourning the passing j of a kind and loving wife and fmother. In addition to her immed iate family Mrs. Nichols is sur vived by three brothers, Lemuel Bitney, O’Neill; Charles Bitney,; Qowners Grove, Illinois; William Bitney, Auburn, Washington. Lansworth-Grutsch Harry Lansworth and Miss Marie Grutsch were united in mar ^ riage at the Catholic rectory on Thursday, May 14, at 8 o’clock p. m., by Rev. P. F. Burke. The groom is the son of Mrs. P. J. Lansworth and has lived all his life on a farm north of O’Neill. Harry is a hustler and has a host of friends in this city and county. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Grutsch and has for the past five years been teach ing school in northern Holt county. She is a charming young lady with a very pleasing person ality and has a host of friends in the northern part of this county as well as in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Lansworth will make their home on a farm 12 miles north of this city. The Frontier joins the many friends of this estimable couple in wishing them a long and happy journey on the matrimonial seas. ATTEND FUNERAL OF DAVID RISER AT MILFORD Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Ernst, Mrs. Frank Kubicheck and Mrs. Henry Rosier left this morning for Mil ford, Nebraska, to attend the fun eral of their brother-in-law, David Reiser, which will be held there to morrow. David Reiser had been in poor health since last fall and passed away Wednesday at the age of 78 years. For many years Mr. Reiser was a resident of this county, liv ing a few miles northwest of this city and was known as one of our most substantial citizens. In the boom days of 1918 he disposed of hi* fann here and moved to Mil ford, where he had since made his home. He is survived by his wife and an adopted son. PERIPATETIC JIM Most traveled Cabinet member is James A. Farley, Postmaster Gen eral. Big Jim hops around like a flea, so actively that it is almost impossible to tell where he is at any given date. He ranges from the Rockies to the New England seaboard, from the Canadian bord er to the deep South. Gum-chewing Jim is almost ub iquitous. Wherever he goes there is a welcoming group of postmast ers and Democratic politicians. In his brief-case the Postmaster Gen eral carries speeches prepared in Washington and rushed to him. The Democratic National Commit tee, of which Farley is chairman, foots the travel bill.—John WT. Kelly in the Portland Oregonian. Marriage Licenses Louis Brockmuller, of Neligh, and Miss Teresa Hemmingway, of Ew ing, were granted a license on May 16. Edward L. Porter, of Newcastle, Wyoming, and Miss Josephine P. Lewman, of Orchard, were granted a marriage license in county court on Wednesday afternoon. Work Begun on Court House Construction Work was started on the new court house last Monday morning. Workmen have been busy all week excavating for the footings of the building and those in charge are of the opinion that they will be able to pour some cement for the footings on Friday of this week, but the real work on the building will not get to going until the first of the week. Mr. Farrell, who had charge of the Inman school build ing for the government, is on the job looking out for the interests of Uncle Sam and the architect will also have a man on the job. Looks as if Holt county should get it’s money’s worth. SEED CORN TESTING SUCCESSFUL j With the assistance of more than ! 200 young people whose services were made possible through the ' National Youth Administration, Nebraska’s seed testing campaign i has come to a successful close. County Agricultural agents in 71 Nebraska counties supervised the work. Under the supervision of the agents, the NY A workers were able to make germination tests by use of the rag doll testers. Not only did this help the individual farmer by determining the condi tion of the seed but it also made known the areas in the state where the best seed was available. Youths engaged in the work were between the ages of 16 and 25 and were not attending school. They worked 46 hours per month for which they received one-third of the WPA security wage, a salary of from $13 to $17 monthly. In Holt county, a total of two youths were employed in the work which was supervised by Agricul tural Agent Reece. They com pleted 314 tests which showed an average germination of 85%. “This proved to be a very popu lar and worthwhile project and | helped avert a crisis in the seed j corn situation,” declares P. H. j Stewart, extension agronomist at! the University of Nebraska college of Agriculture. “Farmers eagerly ! took advantage of this service and kept the testing crews busy.” CONGRESS WOULD ADD MILLIONS TO ALREADY TOP -HEAVY BUDGET The President insists he will I sanction no new appropriations not included in the budget, unless congress simultaneously provides additional taxes ample in amount to pay the cost. There is tremenduous pressure in Congress right now for a num ber of costly programs not includ ed in the budget, any of which may be put up to the President without accompanying taxes. It remains to be seen what the President will do if these bills are passed. The outstanding proposals are: 1. An omnibus flood control bill, calling for expenditure of between $600,000,000 and $1,000,000,000, 2. The Wagner slum clearance bill, asking for $876,000,000 in four years in loans and grants, of which $51,000,000 would have to be added to the current budget in grants. 3. A proposal, fostered by Har old L. Ickes, PWrA administrator, for a new appropriation of $700, 000,000 for public works over and above the $1,500,000,000 “relief” fund already asked by the Presi-I dent. 4. The $50,000,000 which the President vetoed may be enacted notwithstanding the veto. -- The Democrats are making quite a lot of noise because the Repub licans have set up a Brain Trust. But the Republicans may have wanted to show them what a ridic ulous thing one is, when you are far enough away to get a good look at it. ___ The rich young New York girl who married her chauffer is said to have lost her social security. CONGRESS—AS SEEN BY A NEBRASKAN By Karl Stefan Future Road Program. The new road bill which passed the house some time ago and which contains a provision for the first farm to market roads has been passed out of the senate commit tee favorably with some new amendments. However, the farm to market road item remains in the bill. The bill will now go to con ference and will soon become a law'. Under the section for elimin ation of grade crossings, Nebraska will get approximately $890,000. Under the regular federal aid ap portionment for the regular road w'ork, Nebraska will get about $2, 581,663.0ne section of the bill pro vides for an authorization for the appropriation of $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1938, and June 30, 1939. The policy of the federal aid is' to be continued at the same rate which has been in effect since 1931, except for the two years 1934 and 1935, when no federal aid allot ment was made because of the large emergency grants of pubilc works funds for highway purposes which amounted to $400,000,000 in the fiscal 1934 and $200,000,000 in the fiscal year 1935. The bill carries an additional $25,000,000 for secondary or feeder roads known as farm to market roads, and under this section Ne braska will get about $520,000 in the regular road fund. This amount does not effect the amount w-hich the WPA will use to put un employed men to work on farm to market roads, and which organiz ation works independently of the regular federal-state road organ izations. More Land—More Buildings. The buildings and grounds com mittee was asked today to hold hearings on a bill which would give the interior department the power to buy more land close to the new twelve million dollar interior de partment building which is now under construction. The Department says Uncle Sam wants this land before the price gets higher. It is owned by pri vate parties. Discussion on this bill indicates that the Departments are after this land in order to have a place to build another build ing. It will be the Army-Navy Building. The War and Navy de partments share the present histor ical old War-Navy and State I building. Under the planning pro gram, this would indicate that eventually the State Department will have the old building all to itself and that it is planned to spend millions more for a new “future-building program.” At the committee meeting the other day members were told that the War Department is now located in seventeen different buildings in this town, and a site has been pur chased to build a new building to house these employees. The build ing and site will cost about $22, 000,000. At the same time the Navy De partment is also marking time for a new Navy building. It w-as I stated at this meeting that the government pays in rent for pri vate buildings in this tow-n, approx imately $2,600,000 a year, and that more space is needed every year. Appropriate Eight Billion. Members are beginning to tabu late the appropriations of this sec ond session of the 74th Congress, and the totals are dizzy. Here is one estimate of the ap propriations of this session, which has made an important item for the record: Independent offices $,889,791,905.00 Independent offices reappropriations 45,000,000.00 Supplemental deficiency 368,234,514.10 Legislative 23,314,428.00 Agriculture 165,873,147.00 Dist. of Columbia 42,573,283.00 Interior .„. 81,221,330.05 State, Justtice, Com merce, Labor .... 115,012,400.00 Treasury-Post Office .. 989,673,829.00 War _ 545,226,318.00 Navy (Budget estimates, as bill not yet reported) _549,591,299.00 Subtotal _ 8,315,472,453.151 Plus one-half the senate’ increases: Agriculture . 16,000,000.00 Interior _ 31,000,000.00 War __........ 33,000,000.00 Total . 8,395,472.453.15 Make Political Speeches. After the senate passes the tax bill, it will go to the conference of both houses. The guess is that it will be some time before the nation, knows just exactly what the new tax bill will look like. Letters arriving in Washington are asking how’ much the new bill produce and it is estimated that it will produce around |630,000,000. Taking advantage of the time given them in general debate in the tax bill, leaders of both the republican and democratic parties are making political speeches for the record and many of these will be used in the campaign. Imports of Farm Products This report for the months of January and February, 1936, shows that we have imported from for eign countries: January February Corn, bu.1,868,798 583,372 Wheat, bu.2,231,000 2,398,104 Barley . ...... 13,822 72,494 Flaxseed, bu. .. 8^5,666 1,414,239 Potatoes, bu. 2,lf3,645 1,837,255 Beef, lbs 212,843 325,678 Pork, lbs . 672,718 888,006 Between 8:30 a. m., and between 4 p. m. and 5 p. m., the streets of this city are crowded with young men and young women going and coming from the thousands 6f gov ernment offices. Street cars which are almost empty during the mid dle of the day are crowded to ca pacity during these rush hours. Very short hours for employees in government offices here, and long hours in the grocery stores. The young men and women have a lot of idle time on their hands here. That’s why the crowds of young people attend cocktail parties every afternoon and evening. These ■young people tell us that nobody in their groups ever goes to bed before midnight or one a. m. Opening Draws Crowds E. J. Ramold, owner of the O’Neill Food Center, was over from Gregory Wednesday. Mr. Ramold was here last week and remained in the city during the four days opening sale and said that he was more than pleased with the success of their opening days. Their vol ume of business for the four days was more than double what they they had anticipated for the open ing and naturally he was well pleased. W'arren N. Morris, the manager, who has had several years experience in the grocery business, is of the opinion that O’Neill is one of the greatest trad ing points in the state, or any of the adjoining states, and says that he will be on his toes all the time in an endeavor to give the people of O’Neill a first class grocery store and one that will draw, not only the residents of the city, but of the country for miles around. CARD OF THANKS. For thoughtfulness shown in every way and for sympathy ex pressed by friends and neighbors in the hours of bereavement occas ioned by the death of our beloved wife and mother, the late Mrs. Lillie Nichols, we desire to extend our heartfelt thanks. Your kind ness will ever be gratefully re membered.— James Nichols and son; Mr. and Mrs. Loren Menuey, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Johnson, Miss Mary Sullivan, Lawrence Sullivan. Military experts say that the Ethiopians were routed because they couldn’t stand up against mustard gas. Why don’t our board of strategy organize politicians for military purposes? A Kansas woman has worked 8,000 crossword puzzles in seven and a half years. Why not put her to work trying to solve the new tax bill? A bill has been introduced in Congress to give freedom to Puer-1 to Rico. As the Democratic plat- j form writers promised the island ultimate statehood, this latest ac tion is consistent, if nothing else. , NEWS OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW George B. Clark and wife, Dr. Freeda M. Clark, formerly of Til den, purchased the Peter Neilson ranch six miles south and three quarters of a mile west of Chamb ers, taking possession a couple of weeks ago. Mr. Clark is a lawyer and was following his profession while a resident of Tilden, while Mrs. Clark is a graduate physician and will practice her profession in Chambers, with an office in the Lee hotel for the present. Her professional card appears in an other column of this issue. Harry Spencer, manager of the real estate and loan departments, and Mr. Baker, treasurer of the Travelers Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., were in the city last Sunday visiting their local representative, R. E. Moore, and inspecting some of their real estate holdings in this section. It was Mr. Bakers first trip to this sec tion and, he and Mr. Spencer are making an inspection trip through the west inspecting some of their holdings in the various states. Under date of May 12 the gov ernment is asking for bids for the construction of the postoffice building in this city. Bids are to be received and publicly opened in Washington at 1 o’clock p. m., on June 17, 1936, for furnishing all labor and materials and perform ingall work in connection with the construction of the postoffice. If the contract is let on the above date work should probably com mence on the construction of the building on or about July 1. Edward Leonard Porter, of New Castle, Wyo., and Mis3 Josephene Pearl Lewman, of Orchard were united in marriage at the Method ist Parsonage on Wednesday at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. They were accompanied by the bride’s mother, Mrs. Nellie Lewman, and Mrs. Edith Allen, also of Orchard. The young people expect to make their home in Rapid City, S. D. Mrs. R. R. Morrison returned from Rochester, Minn., last Sun day night, Mr. Morrison, remaining there for another week. She re ports that Bob is getting along nicely and that his arm, which was badly smashed in the elbow when he slipped on an icy sidewalk some months ago, will soon be well. He is expected home the etui of the week or the first of next week. Sheriff John Hopkins and Police Sergeant McMahon, of Omaha, arrived in the city Moday for a days visit with friends. John Hop kins was raised a few miles north of this city and when he desires a good old-fashioned visit he has to come to O’Neill and vicinity and visit with hi3 ’many old boyhood chums. They returned to Omaha Tuesday afternoon. Bert Murphy, of the firm of An drew Murphy & Son automobile dealer* of Omaha, came up Tuesday afternoon and spent a few hours in the city Wednesday visiting his many fnends here. He left Wed nesday afternoon for Winner, S. D., and will go from there to the Elack Hills and home through southern Nebraska. This city received .11 hundreths of an inch of rain last Monday night, while in the northern and northeastern part of the county the precipitation amounted to an inch and more. Weather is cloudy this afternoon and looks as if we might have rain before morning. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brush, of Tecumseh, Nebraska, were in the city Wednesday on their annual tour to inspect thir real estate holdings in the eastern part of the county, and to visit many former Johnson county residents now re siding in eastern Holt. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bro, of Ne braska City, returned to their home last Friday after a few days visit at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. R. E. Moore.. Herb Bitney, of Atkinson, was in the city Monday, coming down to attend the funeral of his cousin, Mrs. Lillie Nichols. Hospital Notes Mrs. G. W, Graver, of Ewing, went home Wednesday feeling fine. Miss Dorothy Lewis went home Sunday afternoon. Roy Miller, of Chambers, was dismissed Sunday. Mrs. Lewis Sobotka, of Inman, came in Wednesday evening, and submitted to a minor operation on Thursday morning. Dance Opens Country Club Season of 1936 The O’Neill Country Club was formally opened for the season, of 1936 with a grand ball at the Club house last Monday, which was par ticipated in by 50 couples and a very enjoyable time was had. New members of the Club during the past week are Mayor John Kersen brock and Representative Lloyd Gillespie. Members of the Club, who are on various committees are busy getting ready for the annual tournament, which is to be held next month. Many of the memb ers, who have been prominent in tournament activities during the past few years, believe that this year w'ill see the greatest tourna ment in the history of the Club. RANGE CONSERVATION MEETING SET FOR STATE Cattlemen of the sand hill and hard land range territory of Ne braska have been invited to attend meetings at Ogallala May 25, Al liance May 26, Gordon May 28, and Ainsworth May 28 to discuss the conservation of grass land and whether or not there is a need for a conservation program suited to range territory. Anyone interest ed in the consideration of such a program is invited to attend. Each meeting will begin at 9:30 a. m. What the cattlemen say at these meetings will influence what the Nebraska state conservation com mittee may do regarding a special program for the range areas. The agricultural conservation program as worked out for the cornbelt fits only where a good share of the land is under plow. Fred Wallace, chairman of the state conservation committee, W. H. Brokaw, director of the agri cultural extension service of the state and member of the state con servation committee, S. K. War rick of the state committee, P. H. Stewart and W. W. Derrick of the extension service will attend the meetings. They are asking for a frank, open meeting and discussion of the questions by all those who care to speak. No program, other than in discussion is being planned. Reduced grazing, seeding of leg ume mixtures in suitable meadows, planting of trees, control of blow outs, and restoration of broken land to grass have been mentioned by some of the cattlemen as lead ing topics for the discussion. CANNING DEMONSTRATION WILL BE HELD JUNE 5TH Miss Margaret Murphy will hold a public canning demonstration on June 5 in Chambers at 10 a. m., and in O’Neill at 1:30 p.m. The meeting in Chambers will be held in the basement of the Methodist church. The one in O’Neill will be held in the High School gymnas ium. Miss Murphy gave a cann ing demonstration here last year and several have been interested in having her return again this year. TODAY’S BEST LAUGH Speaking over a nation-wide hook-up, Chairman James A. Far ley of the democratic national com mittee, on the night of November 9, 1932, the night after the presi dential election, said: “You may be sure when Frank lin D. Roosevelt makes a prom ise to an individual or a nation, that promise will be fulfilled, for he makes none beyond his power to make his pledges come true. ***** “He is pledged to an economi cal and an efficient manage ment of our national affairs. He will chose nobody incap able or unwilling to conduct the government on that basis.’’ The new British King is to be given $200,000 if he marries. What price liberty? Nothing is more sensative than the old-fashioned sweet girl grad uate except the stock market. Forger Draws Sentence of Two to Five Years In the State Penitentiary Lafe Lewis, 20, a resident of At kinson, was before Judge Dickson in the district court last Tuesday charged with forgery, plead guilty and was sentenced to an indeter minate term in the state peniten tiary of not less than two nor more than five years. He was taken to Lincoln Wednesday morning by Sheriff Duffy to begin his sentence. Lewis was arrested some time ago charged with forging cream checks ami was in the city jail here in default of bond. On the night of May 7, he broke out of jail and was at liberty until Tues day when he was apprehended by Sheriff Duffy working on a ranch north of Ainsworth. He was brot to this city, and, manifesting a desire to plead guilty, was taken before the court at once. In ad dition to his penitentiary sentence he will have to pay the costs of the case amounting to $72.40. The way of the transgressor is hard. Grady Bros. Announcing Opening of Meat Market Grady Brothers, Ben J. and Henry, will have their Grand Open ing of their grocery and meat mar ket Friday of this week and the sale will continue until the end of the month. The boys had anticipa ted having this sale a couple of months ago, but the weather con ditions and then the sickness of the man who was manufacturing their refgrigeration plane delayed them, but they are now going on high and re ready for their many old customers and new ones to call and give their store a thoro inspection, including their new re frigeration system, one of the lat est models in this section of the state and of which the boys are justly proud. Read their large opening announcement in this issue of The Frontier. House Warming Party Friday night, May 15, was a big night for Charles and Mary Flem ing at their home on the Charles Baker farm northwest of town. On this night more than one hunti red friends and relatives assembled to help them celebrate a house warming party. The crowd was there from all points of the com pass. Dancing, pitch and Buck euchre were the principal entertain ment. About 12 o’clock a non-de pression luncheon was served, cof fee, sandwiches, cake and every thing that goes with it. About 2 o’clock the guests left for home after wishing their host and host ess many, many more house warm ing parties. It was a very enjoy able affair and everyone, big and little, old and young, went home well pleased with the party. SEEDING RYE QUALIFIES FOR CONSERVATION PAY There are several practices that will entitle a producer to enter into the new- soil conservation plan. One of these that will apply to this county at this time is the seeding of rye to get marginal land back into permanent pasture. Rye seeu ed for this purpose within the next few w'eeks will qualify for the larger soil conserving payment and will earn the soil building pay ment at the rate of 30c per acre. Rye planted for this purpose is not to be pastured or harvested in any manner, but was granted this sec tion for the purpose of furnishing a quick cover crop to protect natur al grasses where they would nat urally come in. This acreage is supposed to be land that is to go back to permanent pasture or hay lands. If the acreage seeded to rye in this manner is not intended to go back to permanent pasture it could be used, as a green manure or nurse crop for sweet clover or alfalfa. The practical way to use it as green manure would be to blind list the land before June 15, cultivate sufficiently to keep weeds down until time to seed fall rye or wheat. This practice would earn the large soil conserving payment. When we have'to draft candid ates wre seldom have any difficulty with draft resisters. Burglars broke into a New Eng land store and stole a dozen alarm clocks. Time marches on!