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AROUND NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA
With Your Congressman
Atkinson had an unusually large
crowd at their Free Day last week.
Business men were kept busy all
day long making bun sandwiches
which were given away to ail vis
itors. Atkinson is one of the lively
cities in the district and business
men there are hopeful that some
day new improvements will be
made in that enterprising commun
ity. —
People from every part of Boone
county co-operated in making their
fair successful and it bids again to
be one of the leading county fairs
of the state, a record which it had
for years. On Thursday afternoon
it was estimated that 10,000 people
attended the fair and that same
evening at least 15,000 people were
on the grounds. Osborne Patter
son, a pioneer of Boone county who
attended the first fair fifty-two
years ago and at that time won a
-even dollar premium and turned it
back for the second annual fair,
was present last week. Among
the other pioneers were Frank
Mansfield, Bert Mansfield, Maricle
Bros., add Ed Woodworth, who has
been in charge of the baby show
every year. He was in charge of
one hundred babies this year which
was the real attraction of the fair.
Letters are coming in now from
farm loan associations indicating
that many of the borrowers will be
unable to pay the principal and the
interest on their loans in the next
twelve months, due to the drouth.
Many foreclosures are pending and
delinquencies are increasing rapidly.
In the closing session of the Inst
Congress, an amendment was
passed to extend the 3*4 emerg
ency interest rate to June 30, 1037
and providing that after that date
the rate would revert to the orig
inal contract rate which in most
eases will amount to 5'/r, 5 Vi
and even 5 Vi'A . The farm group
in Congress is determined that the
lower interest rate must be ex
tended as long as these emerg
encies exist, and this perhaps will
be one of the first pieces of legis
lation to be taken up in the first
session of the 7»Hh Congress.
The Athletic Club, which in
reality is the Community Club of
Osmond, Nebr., gave their annual
Colt Show on Sept. 22. One of the
largest crowds that ever attended
the Osmond celebration wa* pre
sent at this year’s event.
People in Osmond missed the
late Colonel Welch, who for forty
years was the Marshal of the Day
for the parade. Nearly 600 school
children were represented in the
parade. The Colt Show attracted
unusual attention.
Mrs. Moore, who is eighty-six
years old and blind, met many of
her old friends in the crowd which
packed the beautiful Osmond park.
Some pieces of winter wheat are
coming up in fine shape in Dodge
county, and also in Merrick and
Nance counties. On Wednesday,
Sept. 23, a terrific wind was blow
ing on the way from Fremont to
Scribner and it was accompanied
by considerable dust. Only the rain
of recent days kept the dust from
blowing. More rain is needed for
the winter grain.
Some of the farmers are predict
ing an early frost—others predict
a late frost. Those who' say we
will not have a frost for some time
say that is because the cockleburrs
arc not yet ripe. They believe the
frost will not come until these
cockleburrs ripen. However, the
tumbleweed is beginning to blow
over the roads, and fall weather is
general over the Third Congres
sional District. Farmers are be
ginning to plan for the winter sup
ply of meat.
Everbearing strawberries are
said to be sweeter this year than
they were last year. Some of
these berries grown on the Glat
felter ranch in Merrick county are
among the prize winners in the
district this year.
People who <Lrive between Ful
lerton and Central City are point
ing with pride to a field of corn on
the west side of the highway which
is said to yield 45 bushels to the
acre. This is one of the most un
usual fields in the district because
generally speaking, there is no
corn to speak of in our district.
Up in the Devil’s Nest, north ol
Bloomfield, Alfred Hahn will har
vest 1,000 bushels of corn. Farm
ers agree that whatever corn there
is will make unusually fine seed.
The concensus of opinion among
farmers the district over is that
they would be in fairly good shape,
notwithstanding the drouth, and
the loss of the corn crop, would it
not be for the high taxes and in
debtedness. Of course, the farmer
with a hundred head of hogs on
hand and no feed would, be a heavy
loses. But if he did not owe
money, and if he did not have to
pay a tremendous high interest
rate, he could get thru. Interest
and taxes are what is hitting the
farmer today according to this dis
cussion among many farmers.
Many of the sales pavillions are
doing a fairly good business. On
Thursduy and Friday nights the
roads are well filled with trucks
loaded with livestock for the fol
lowing day’s sales. The managers
of the pavillions state that while
many farmers are selling off live
stock to balance their feed supply,
the recent moisture has resulted in
more spirited buying and selling.
At some of the sules pavillions hay
is being sold for from eighty to
eighty-five cents per bale to those
holding stock at the pavillion until
sale is made.
One farmer who has lost his crop
in the drouth has undertaken to
keep together a flock of 250 laying
hens. Unless he received some as
sistance, he would be forced to sell
the flock, which, until another crop
can be raised, appeared to be the
source of living for himself and
family of four. He applied to the
resettlement administration for an
emergency loan with which to buy
feed for the hens. He has been
OLD FARMER HUBBARD
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Keproduccd by courtesy oi vbe Los Angeles Timet
■ told that the Resettlement Admin
istration deems it inadvisable for
him to make any large investment
in the flock of hens and that he
will be better off to sell the flock
down to not over three dozen of
the best pullets.
KARL STEFAN.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by James R. Lowell
The month of October brings to
the foreground the problems of
government finance in Nebraska,
both state and county, and as bud
gets are being tentatively lined up,
ideas on increasing efficiency are
cropping up.
State Auditor Fred C. Ayres has
been studying the accounting sys
tem of the state for several years.
In his forthcoming biennial report
he will recommend modification of
the system so that the state audit
or will be in fact what the law now
provides for, “the general account
ant of the state and keeper of all
public account books. ’ Contracts
of the state, and its debt, revenue
and fiscal affairs not required by
law would be assigned to some
other office.
Ayres says he will ask for such
changes as will permit a thoro ex
amination of all state offices and
county treasurers and, possibly, all
county offices. Cities will not be
included.
“The suite auditor now has one
state accountant and two examin
ers of county treasuries,” says
Ayres. “He has a fund of $10,000
for the biennium to pay out for
this work. I think a thoro exam
ination of the state treasury, for
instance, would be a good thing
for the sUite, the treasurers and
{heir bondsmen.
“The last legislature appropri
ated $10,000 as a special fund for
an examination of the treasury
farther back than 1927, he further
states. “It cost the state $7,500
for an examination for a period of
four years. The auditor can make
an examination of the state treas
ury yearly for $500, There never
had been an examination of the
state treasury before, and years
ago it was not even conceded that
the state auditor had authority to
inquire into the state treasury and
all other state offices and institu
tions.”
Ayres says that whatever recom
mendations he makes he will ask
that the cost of the examination of
county and state offices and institu
tions shall be paid for out of the
! funds of the various offices ex
amined.
The state auditor’s office will
have the same amount of money
available during the next biennium
as it had for the current one, if
Aytes recommendations 'are fol
lowed. They are: Salaries and
wages, $28,000; maintenance, $10,
000; auditing county treasurers and
county offices, $10,000.
Biennial budget requests also
have been filed with the state tax
commissioner by Treasurer George
K. llall, Land Commissioner Leo
N. Swanson and Secretary of State
Harry R. Swanson.
Hall, who retires from office in
January after serving the maxi
mum two consecutive terms, asks
that salaries and wages for the
office be increased from $14,000 to
$16,000 and general maintenance
be raised from $3,500 to $4,000 for
the biennium.
The land commissioner requests
an increase from $70,000 to $80,000
in wages of capitol employees. He
suggests a $10,000 contingency
fund, none of which can be used
for wages, be cut to $5,000.
The secretary of state wants his
$11,450 fund for salary and wages
increased so that he can pay his
corporation clerk $175 instead of
$150 a month.
The secretary’s office mainten
ance fund allowed him two years
ago was $5,000. It was not enough
pay for printing in pamphlet form
the vote cast at the last statewide
primary election, and Swanson
asks that the next legislature al
low his office $1,500 additional for
election expenses.
Swanson asks for no other
changes in appropriations. The
last legislature made the secretary
of state real estate commissioner
to license real estate brokers. All
fees collected annually were ap
propriated to maintenance and op
eration of the office of real estate
commissioner.
I he big 5th district will go for
Landon for president, and prob
ably will give Dwight Griswold a
majority for governor, according
to a recent survey made by the
Lowell Service.
The senatorial race is a tough
one to figure out, but with both
Simmons (R) and Carpenter (D)
rating high in the 5th district, it
appears the petition candidate,
Senator Norris, will take enough
democratic votes away from Carp
enter to give Simmons the lead.
PROMISES and *
Promise
Gold Clause
“The businessmen of the country
. . were told in blunt language in
Des Moines, Iowa (by President
Hoover), how close an escape the
country had some months ago from
going off the gold standard. This
as has been clearly shown since
was a libel on the credit of the
United States. . . . Senator
Glass made a devastating challenge
that no responsible government
would have sold to the country se
curities payable in gold if it knew
the promise, yes, the covenant, to
pay interest and principal in gold
of specified weight and fineness per
dollar embodied in these securities
was as dubious as the President
of the United States claims it was.
. . . ”—Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Brooklyn, November 4, 1992.
f.f *4 * '
Performance
Gold Clause
“The notes will be dated May 2,
1933 . . . the principal and in
terest of the notes will be payable
in United States Gold Coin of the
present standard of value,” —
(Printed on face of $500,000,000
Government securities offered April
24, 1933)
Forty-two days later, June 5,
1933, President Roosevelt signed a
joint resolution of Congress abro
gating the Gold Clause in all exist
ing and future public and private
contracts.
In rendering its decision, Su
preme Court, Feb. 18, 1935, said:
“The United States are as much
bound by their contracts as are in
dividuals. If they repudiate their
obligations, it is us much repudia
tion, with ail the wrong and re
proach that term implies, as it
would be if the repudiator had been
a state or a municipality or a
citizen.”
Congressman Harry Coffee (D) and!
Cullen Wright (R) are running aj
neck-and-neck race for congress
man. While Coffee received about
5,000 more votes than Wright in
the primary, the prognosticators
say there has been a sizeable swing
to the republican ranks in the past
few months.
Other candidates are picked to
win in the 5th as follows: Jurgen
sen (D) for lieutenant governor;
Harry Swanson (D) for secretary
of state; Marsh (R) for state aud
itor; Leo Swanson (R) for land
commissioner; Bass (R) for treas
urer; Johnson (R) for attorney
general; and Good (D) for railway
commissioner.
In the first district, E. B. Perry,
republican opponent of II. C. Luc
key for congressman, is building
up votes on a “common sense”
platform which is making a hit in
the republican 1st district. Mr.
Perry declares that Nebraska will
not escape its share of payment of
the national debt created by the
new deal because eastern corpora
tions will include their taxes in
the price the farmer pays for what
he buys.
Another candidate for congress
man in the 2nd district is U. S.
Renne of Ft. Calhoun, who filed by
petition. He has long been a lead
er in farm holiday and taxpayer’s
league activities, and is trying to
get the endorsement of the Union
party.
The political tempo is reaching a
high pitch as October comes in.
Self-styled Jeffersonian democrats,
those who are going to vote for
Landon, have come more definitely
into the political scene. A nation
al organizer is due to arrive in Ne
braska soon. William Ritchie, Jr.,
Omaha lawyer, has been asked to
head the organization. He pledged
support to Landon when the latter
visited Omaha recently.
The Nebraska Roosevelt all
party agriculture committee also
decided to step at a faster pace,
and is organizing a unit in each of
the state’s 93 counties. Public
meetings will be held “to tell farm
ers and merchants the truth about
the smoke screen that is being
spread to deceive them about the
true conditions.” F. L. Robinson
of Kearney is state chairman of
the group.
Subdivisions of the state of Ne
braska have reduced their bonded
debts $11,068,035 in the past two
years, according to figures compil
ed in the auditor’s office. This does
not include an item of $6,578,000
of the bonded debt of the Omaha
metropolitan utilities district, for
the reason that the district has a
sinking fund of $4,084,131 to pay
off bonds and is paying them off as
they fall due.
Including the district debt makes
a reduction of $4,490,035 in the
debt of the state’s subdivisions in
the past two years. This debt in
1934 was $93,095,800 and has been
reduced to $82,027,765, not includ
ing the metropolitan utilities dis
trict debt. Nearly half of the bond
ed indebtedness is in Omaha and
Douglas county,
—
The increasing practice of birth
control is held responsible for a
large drop in Nebraska’s birth rate.
In 1920, the Nebraska rate was
23.7. Now it is 17.1 and has de
clined almost to the point reached
in some European countries where
the population has been stabilized
as to numbers.
An interesting sidelight is the
fact that the birth rate is 50 per
cent higher among families sup
ported totally on relief than among
other groups. The estimated cost
to the community of delivering and
caring for every baby born to a
relief family is $40. To this amount
must be added many dollars for
care by the community in succeed
ing years.
The only way to realize the Uni
versity of Nebraska's building pro
gram is to persuade the state leg
islature to make a small definite
levy over a period of six or ten
years, according to Chancellor E.
A. Burnett.
HpHERE is no greater
grief than to recall
the dollars you once
wasted but now need.
4m
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital. Surplus and This Bank Carries No
Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers
$125,000.00 or Stockholders.
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
In pointing out the need for new
buildings, Burnett says the 40
year-old library is not fireproof
and is only about one-fourth the
necessary size. He mentions the
decapitation of the university hall
as materially reducing the school’s
housing capacity. The electrical
engineering building was erected
36 years ago, he says, altho “since
then a whole new' science has been
developed.”
The chancellor also expressed
hope funds will be provided to keep
the best qualified teachers at Ne
braska.
World war veterans in Nebraska
have cashed approximately $11,
300,000 of adjusted compensation
certificates thus far.
In June, the first week’s total
was $6,352,200 at Omaha and $635,
450 at Lincoln. Payments have
been made only at Omaha since
August 15, and have been dwind
ling rapidly since then, says Post
master Harley G. Moorhead, of
Omaha.
Thirty-eight prisoners at the ’
state penitentiary have received
bonus bonds, but the number of
prisoners entitled to the bonus is
estimated at about 100.
Several inmates, it is understood,
have paid over their bonus bonds
to attorneys in advance, but have
not been successful in getting their
freedom.
A short time ago the state par
(Continued on page 8, column 2.)
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plate surface in our Super
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Be ready for hard starting—
Install a Super-Active Bat
tery—51-plate, $6.98. Others
as low as $3.19 exch. price.
I I
FARMERS ...!
New SENTINEL RADIO
6-volt, No “B” Batteries
only $29*^at
GILLESPIE RADIO CO.
Phone 114 O’Neill, Nebr.
WANTED Scrap Iron
HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR
SCRAP IRON
Hides, Batteries, Radiators, Brass, Copper and
Aluminum
See O. R. SLACTER
At C. & N. W. loading dock near Farmer’s Union elevator
For BEST RESULTS
CONSIGN AND BUY THROUGH THE
Atkinson Livestock Market
“Your nearest and best market.”
Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Fat & 4
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.
YOUR FRIEND AT MEALTIME
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCT. 2 AND 3
Pumpkin Pie!
Pumpkin Pie is again in season. Serve pumpkin pie
topped with whipped cream for Sunday dinner.
“Morning Light” is a “dry pack” pumpkin and
makes the finest pies. Large No. 2l/2 can for only 9c
during this sale.
Sandwich Cookies
Dainty Chocolate and Vanilla Sandwich Cookies with
a Vanilla Creme Filler. Deliciously good with ice
cream or gelatine dessert. For the week end a special
price of 2 lbs. for 25c.
Council Oak Peaches
Stock your fruit cellar with this well known brand of
Peaches at our special price of 15c for the large No.
2i/2 cans. Same price on both the sliced and the large
luscious halves. Inexpensive table sauce.
Tomatoes
Meaty, red ripe hand picked tomatoes of superior fla
vor. Stock your fruit cellar at the sale price. 2 regu
lar No. 2 cans for only 17c.
Kellogg’s Products
KELLOGG’S ALL-BRAN, Large Pkg.. 19c
KELLOGG’S PEP, Package.10c
KELLOGG’S RICE KRISPIES, pkg. . 10c
KELLOGG’S SHREDDED WHOLE
WHEAT BISCUIT, pkg.10c
KELLOGG’S KAFFEE HAG, pound .. 39c
Council Oak Coffee
Our "Always Fresh" blend for those who demand a
high grade coffee in the whole berry. We grind as you
like it. Try a pound at our special price of 25c per lb.
The empty bag can be exchanged for fancy chinaware.
„ Blue Barrel 4* Pound 4 _
009P Petrolene 4m Bars ...loC
