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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1936)
-~r______ Over the County i | EEK AND VICINITY Edith, Hazel, Leonard and Mar tin Devall spent Friday afternoon at the Preston Jones home helping Ava celebrate her twelfth birth day. Mrs. Jones served a delicious ^luncheon crowned writh a lovely ^Birthday cake, which completely ^Janished. frank Nelson, who had been vis iting relatives in Omaha for several days, returned to O’Neill Monday liight. Congressman Karl Stefan, .tcho is traveling through this part Kf his district, took Mr, Nelson Bhome on Tuesday. P A daughter was horn to Mr. and [ Mrs. Oliver Ross last week. All [ concerned are getting along nicely. I Mrs. Ross was formerly Agnes f Swanson. Those who enjoyed an ice cream and cake feed at A. I>. Borg’s on Monday evening were, R. D. Spind ler son and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffith and son. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Arrison and children motored up from Plain view Sunday for a visit at the Or 1 ville Harr son home, returning f home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Will Devall and children spent Sunday afternoon there also. Supper guests at the Griffith home on Sunday were, Frank Spindler and daughter, Helen, Bill Fosburg, of O’Neill, R. D. Spindler Leone and Leroy and Ralph Raused Mr; and Mrs. Sam Robertson, Miss Rachel Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. George Robertson motored to Homer Sunday to attend the fun eral of a relative. Lois Jean and llene Robertson remained at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Sundal, of Wakefield for a few days visit. (Too late for last week.) Betty Jane Puckett celebrated her 12th birthday last Tuesday. Those who enjoyed a dinner with her were Opal Jean Griffith, La verne and Helen Borg and Lois Jean and Ilene Robertson. . Quite a crowd of friends and Keighbors gathered at the John A. Robertson home on Tuesday even ing to charivari Mr. and Mrs. Dick Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hoyer and grandson, Merle, of Wyoming, have been visiting relatives in this lo cality for the past week. They report crops in about the same condition as they are here. Mrs. Ben Freeburg and sons^ f Lawrence and Clarence, of Mead, , came up for a visit with homefolks last week. On Wednesday about 60 friends and relatives planned a surprise on Will Harvey, as it was his birth day. It was also the birthday of Clyde Hull and they celebrated to gether.' It was a complete sur prise to Will as he was working in the field when the crowd gathered. I The by the Ladies ek school house on Friday night was a suc cess both as to entertainment and from a financial standpoint. Be sides the play ice cream was sold and other articles which were do nated afnd some of the. trticles made by members of the society were also sold. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lowery, who operate the Midway store, motored to Ponca on Sunday for a visit with relatives. They return ed on Thursday and report that it is dryer and that crops look much worse around Ponca than here. Mrs. C. E. Griffith and daughter, Opal Jean, of North Platte, who have been visiting relatives here for the past few weeks, spent the first part of the week at the How ard Rouse home. Leone and Leroy Spindler were supper guests at the Griffith home on Sunday. Threshing has begun in this neighborhood. It will be a short job this year as the grain for the most part is not so good. Mrs. George Weldon and son came from Alliance last week on a visittoher sister, Mrs. Orville j Hartland and other relatives and j , friends. PLEASANT DALE Men from this community res ponded to the line call Saturday night tto tight fire that had broken out on Andrew Johnson’s hay meadow southwest of Emmet. Eight stacks of hay were destroyed and the school house near by was in danger for a time. Everyone is rejoicing over the rain that came Sunday and the I cool wave that has followed . I Lionel and Edwin Bald spent ) several days last week with their jaunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Poe : Pongratz. The boys returned home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilkinson and little son returned to their j home in Chad.ron Wednesday after visiting relatives and friends here for the past three weeks. Merle and Jimmie Foreman re turned to their home in Emmet Sunday after enjoying several days visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoehne. Fred Austiss brought his two children to their grandmother, Mrs. Vera Hickman. Mr. Austiss re turned to his home at College Vjew last Sunday. Mary and Helen O’Connor were guests at the James O’Connor home in Emmet Saturday afternoon and helped their cousin celebrate her fourth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lorenz en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Verne Beck jwith and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leidy and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilkinson and son at their home last Tuesday evening. Re freshments were served by Mrs. Lorenz later in the evening. I Arlene Beckwith spent Friday and Saturday with her cousin, My rlen Beckwith. INMAN NEWS — Mrs. George Laney , who has been quite ill at her home here, is ! considerably better at this time. George Colman, who has been a patient in a Norfolk hospital for a week, is reported as being a little better. He is expected home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dorlin Lockman were here from Stuart Monday looking after business interests. Mr. and Mrs. John Conard and Miss Helen Anspach were here from Emmet Sunday visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ans pach. Lloyd Brittell was in Neligh on Thursday attending the funeral of an uncle. Mrs. E. R. Riley was called to O’Neill Sunday on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Sena Naylor. Miss Kathryn Schmidt and neph ews, Jack and Billie Hancock, drove up from Newman Grove Saturday and visited until Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. Mary Han cock. Mrs. John J. Hancock, who had visited here the past two weeks returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Perkins and children, of Lincoln, are here visit ing at the H. M. Perkins home. Mrs. Walt Jacox, who has been in an Omaha hospital for the past week, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Jacox had her tonsils removed and is wearing a plaster paris cast in an effort to correct a back ail ment. Keith McGraw has gone to Lin coln prepatory to attending school i at the state university. Keith is looking after a position which will 'enable him to work while attending 1 school. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Van Valk enburg and children, of Peetz, Col jorado, were in Inman Sunday visit ing among friends. Clifford was a former Inman resident, having grown to manhood here. Mrs. Ed Chudmelka was a Clear : water visitor Monday, going there to transact business. Miss Lois Caldwell, of Utica, | was a week end guest in the home For BEST RESULTS CONSIGN AND BUY THROUGH THE Atkinson Livestock Market ■——ggggg—gg “Your nearest and best market.” Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Fat & Stock Hogs Auction Every Tuesday starting at 12:30 p. m. Our selling charges are very moderate. If we do not sell your livestock, we charge you nothing. Send your next shipment of livestock to Atkinson. And Now He Is the Remembered Man! 1 Copyright 1936, New Yorlt Tribune, Inc., f Reproduced by courtesy ot Washington Star of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Tompkins. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mossman and children went to Norfolk Tuesday to look after business. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jackson, of Dow City, Iowa, were here Satur day visiting among friends. Miss Lucille Stevens, who has been working in O’Neill, came home Tuesday for a rest and vaca tion. # ____ REUNION OF CLASS OF '26 The class of 1926 of the O’Neill High School held a reunion on Wednesday evening, July 29th at the home of a former classmember, Mrs. George McCarthy of this city. After a lapse of nine short years only eleven of a class of forty were able to be present. We find the class has scattered widely during this time. One member is in Colo rado, one in Oklohoma, one in North Dakota, one in Missouri, three in Iowa, two in Oregon, three in Texas, two in California and the rest scattered over the state of Nebraska. Thirty of the class are married and we learned that we have thirty-six nieces and nephews. We find that we have among our members one lawyer, two doc tors, one nurse, three farmers, sev eral salesmen, clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers and a number of housewives. There are no teachers left. When we had our last reuni left. When we had our last reunion in December, 1929, we had eight teachers, but they have all given up this vocation for homemaking. Those in attendance at this gath ering were: Margaret Leach Weingartner, Houston, Texas; Margaret Rhode, Omaha; Ruth Parker Kemper, Page; Russell Shoemaker, Alvin Winchell, Louis Zastrow, Francis Welsh, Ruby Morton, Martha Lawrence Wrede, Lillian Simonson McCarthy, and Edith Sexsmith Davidson, all of O’Neill and vicinity. We also had as our guest Eflie Butterfield, Reed, of Venus, who was a member of our class for three years, but who left us at the end of our Junior year and graduated from the Verdigre High School. The entire evening was spent in reminiscing over high school days and visiting about happenings since that time. At midnight a delicious lunch was served and at a late hour we departed homeward, with our only regret that more of our class and our sponsor, Mrs. Martina Dishner, »ould not have been with us. BOB SIMMONS SAYS “Talk of drouth inevitably leads these days to a discussion of the policy of crop restriction. The plan as introduced was a temporary emergency expedient, to help corn, wheat, hogs and cotton only. The first year, 1933, 10 million acres of growing cotton were plowed under, 6 million pigs killed. During 1934, the drouth increased the planned reduction of wheat from 20% to 40%, of corn from 15 to 50%, of hogs from 25 to 50%. In 1935 a reduction of 10% in hogs, 10% in wheat, 10 to 20% in corn, 20 to 40% in cotton was carried out, largely as planned. In 193(5, the planned reductions of a number of crops were stopped by the supreme court decision. Later the soil con servation law was passed which continued the principle of crop re striction, now on a dozen or more different crops. And again along comes drouth, which brings home to us the fact that so long as man cannot control the weather, he cannot control the size of his crops. Secretary Wal lace is reported to have said that his crop control plan has not had a fair trial because of the bad weather conditions. Surely none would say that any plan is practical which has no chance of working except under ideul weather condi tions. Undoubtedly, the crop re striction plan aggravated the scar city caused by the drouth. “For every man displaced on the farm by the reduced, acres to farm, there are others waiting in vain for his products to work with and who accordingly is thrown out of work by this restricted production program. During 1935, the reduct ion in hog production in the United States caused a loss of 35,000 jobs in meat packing alone.” NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD AT ASHLAND. Nebraska’s National Guard has been encamped at Ashland re cently. They were already in good raining after their ex perience in Omaha a short time ago, when GoVernor Cochran called them out and spent consid erably more than $30,000 of public funds to “settle” a strike which hasn’t been settled yet. Accord ing to many of the boys at the camp, however, in> Governor and his staff had a line party during their military campaign. In fact, they liked it so well that they called out the guard again to sup press another ‘Vtofc” at Scotts blutf, w’here a grand army of four teen people were found to be assem bled. Of these, several were ladies and the balance were there to see the troops. Governor Coch ran evidently never got enough of playing soldier when he was a small boy. JOHNSON MAKES FRIENDS Richard 0. Johnson, of Lincoln, republican candidate for attorney general, is in great demand as a public speaker and is having con siderable difficulty in tilling all of his engagements. “Dick” John son is a product of the Burlington railroad shops at Havelock, where he worked to finance his education and incidently received a serious injury to one hand. He is espec ially popular among laboring people for he knows their problems first hand and has tried to help in solv ing their difficulties. EMMET ITEMS George O'Connell returned to his home near Emmet Saturday after spending the winter in Iowa. Mr. and Mr* Uaiff Cain and daughter returned to their home in Chicago, after spending a few weeks at the C. E. Tenborg home. A1 Grehn, of Fremont, is visit ing at the Cadman home this week. Dan Kahler, who is employed at the Ben Bachman home, spent the past week end at his home near Atkinson. Bobby Pease, of Atkinson, is vis iting with his grandparents,, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pease, this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Conard and Helen Anspach spent Sunday in Inman visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach. Miss Marjorie Butler returned home with them. Jerry O’Connell has purchased a new Plymouth coupe. Frank Ses ler purchased his old one. Tom Perkins is on the sick list thw week. O'Neill Girl Mar ried at Anoka A Pentecostal wedding was sol emnised at the home of Rev. Chest er Anderson in Anoka at high noon Wednesday, August 5, when Merle Ohmart, of O’Neill, and Arthur Rosenkrans, of Dorsey, were unit ed in marriage. The wedding rites were read by Rev. Chester And erson assisted by Rev. Elmer Swick, of Naper. The single ring ceremony was used. Mrs. Rosenkrans is the daughter of Pastor and Mrs. Ohmart, of O’Neill. Mr. Rosenkrans is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs H. Y. Rosenkrans, of Dorsey, The bride was attired in nile green silk net over green taffeta. Vera Pickering, of Red Bird, as bridesmaid wore white with brown accessories. The groom wore a suit of the conventional blue and was attend ed by Foster Farrand, of Dorsey. Darlene Anderson acted as ring bearer. The bridal party entered to the strains of the "Heavenward March" played by Miss Norine Armstrong. After a sumptuous wedding din ner served to about fifty guests by Mrs. Chester Anderson and ladies of the Full Gospel church of Anoka, the bridal couple left for Gothenburg, Nebr., where they will assist in the state camp meeting of the Assemblies of God of the state of Nebraska. The out-of-town guests were: Mr, and Mrs. H. V. Kosenkrans and family, of Dorsey; Foster and Norman Farrand, of Dorsey; Mrs. Charles Hicks and children, of Newport; Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Swick and son, Naper; Miss Veru Pickering, of Red Bird; Mrs. Fred Broderson, of Stuart;the Misses Maxine and Verna Nordquist, of Butte. The congratulations and best wishes of their many friends are extended to the happy couple. The bride will be greatly missed by the Anoka Assembly as she has been helping Rev. Chester Ander son in his evangelistic work the past year. xxx Hospital Notes Mrs. Jane Petr, south of town, was in the hospital for a few days the lust of the week for treatment. She went home Saturday morning. Mrs. Jim Gallagher and baby are leaving the hospital Friday. Mrs, Gallagher will visit her sister here in town for a few days before going to her home in Inman. Fore Knight, of Opportunity, underwent a minor operation Wed nesday. He went home the same day. Miss Bernice Scofield, night nurse, spent the week end in Omaha, visiting relatives and friends. Miss Clare Coday, of Atkinson, who has been in the hospital for a couple of weeks for rest and special diet, returned to her home Friday evening. THE FIRE OF AUGUST I. While the Department of Agri culture designated 31 additional counties in 17 different states, 111 of them in Nebraska, several hund red motorists were furnished the spectacular midnight sight of about a dozen big stacks of burning hay, and the illuminating background that goes with a Holt county fire. There was about 135 stacks of hay on the two sections. The fire started on the south section, with a good south wind, and jumped the section line. Owing to telephone calls and trucks loaded with sacks and water we were able to confine the fire to a strip three quarters of a mile long and a half mile wide, and saved some of the stacks in the burned over strip. The hay belonged to Andrew and Sewell Johnson and Leon Beckwith. xxx The annual meeting of the O’Neill Women’s Christian Temp erance Union was held Tuesday afternoon, August 3, at the home of Mrs. Flank Oberie. Officers elected for the coming year were, President, Mrs. Elsie Johnson; vice president, Mrs. Mary Uttley; sec retary, Mrs. Lila Roy; treasurer, Mrs. R. B. Burch; corresponding secetary, Mrs. Lucy Leach. Declaring the repeal of the 18th amendment and the temperance program conducted by the wet ele ment a complete failure in all res pects, this group are renewing their pledge, “to never quit until the liquor traffic quits,” and $5.00 was forwarded to the Frances E. Willard Educational fund, to assist in the education of the youth of our nation in the evil effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotic drugs. PROMISES mt ■ PROMISE BFREACRACY. “We are attempting too ninny functions of government and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.” “I accuse the present adminis tration of being the greatest spend ing administration in peace times j in all our history- one which has; pilcil bureau onbureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the tax payer.”—-Franklin I). Roosevelt, Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 29, 1932. “The people of America demand a reduction of federal expenditures. It can be accomplished not only by reducing the expenditures of exist ing departments, but it can be done by abolishing many useless com missions, bureaus and functions, and can be done by consolidating many activities of the govern ment.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1932. Performance. BUREAUCRACY. Before the Roosevelt Adminis tration there were ten agencies dealing with the production and distribution of power. In 1935 there were twenty-three agencies concerned with it. TWO agencies of the govern ment were primarily concerned with the settlement of labor dis putes in 1932. Four years later TWELVE agencies are interested in the settlement of labor disiputes. Housing problems were being considered by FOUR agencies of the government before the Rose velt administration. In 193(5 FIF TEEN agencies are dealing with the problem. In 1932 there were SIX agencies of the government to which foreign trade was a major concern. Today there are TWELVE agencies con cenred with this activity. FOUR government agencies were making loans to farmers four years ago. Today there are THIRTEEN agencies engaged in making such loans. EIGHT agencies of the Federal government exercised control over the public lands. In 193(5 such con trol was being exercised by FIF TEEN different organizations in the Federal government. FARM SLAVERY SEEN BY REED Agriculture would be the first to suffer if the country should re elect President Roosevelt, in the opinion of former Senator James A. Reed,, democrat, of Missouri. Senator Reed, giving vent to his [feelings about farm policies, said: “The democratic platform, taken with the keynote speeches of the | convention, makes it perfectly plain that the policies heretofore insist ed upon by Roosevelt are to be carried out if the democratic party succeeds at the election. “Among these policies are the regimentation of agriculture—that is, the control and dictation to the farmers of the United States, which embraces the Roosevelt-Wal laee policies of dictation to all of the farmers of the United States— what they shall plant and harvest, what they shall sow and >eap, what kind of livestock they shall raise, and when and how they shall market their produce. “These policies necessarily carry with them the fixation of prices to the fanner and producers and the fixation of prices to the con suming public. In other words, no matter how disguised by soft phrases or by doubtful terms, the farmer is to be reduced to a con dition bordering upon serfdom. “The pill may be sugar-coated with the assurance that vast sums of money will be distributed to the farmers, but in the end, those moneys must be collected from the people of the United States, and in the finality the farmers of the United States will be compelled to bear a large part of the burden. “Disaster to the country is in evitable, for, as Jefferson wisely remarked: ‘When agriculture is regulated from Washington the people will want bread-* ” O’Neill, like many towns, is on the highway for traffic heading for mountain resorts. Unlike many other points of lesser note, however, few tourists pass on with out stopping. Just about every day some from far distant points east roll in and turn their front wheels to the curb. Speaking with a lady and gentleman from Boston yesterday after they rolled up to the curb at Fourth and Douglas and stopped they told us they were on the way to the Yellowstone. It has been very hot at Boston and vicinity this summer though tempered somewhat by the Atlant ic ocean. Business interests of the east are openly opposing the New Deal administration. Guests at the Frank Peter home on Sunday were, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Peter and daughters, Eksie and Lillian, Grandma Peter and Mr. and Mrs. John Peter and child ren and Vine Zrust, all of Chamb ers. CANNING SUPPLIES Mason Jars, qts., 58c doz— Jar caps, 19c doz.—Cold Pack Canners, 87c—45 carload purchase makes these low prices possible at all Gamble Stores. nphe ability to make money belongs to all. The strength of will to accumulate it belongs to few % The O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders. 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