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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1936)
(First publication Dec. 10, 1936.) LEGAL NOTICE All persons interested in the estate of Edith Prouty Prichard, Deceased, both creditors and heirs, are notified that on December 8, 1936, Helen Prouty Adamson filed a petition in the County Court of Holt County, Nebraska, alleging that Edith Prouty Prichard, a resident of the county of Jackson, State of Missouri, died intestate on December 6, 1934, seized of an estate of inheritance in the follow ing described real estate; The Southeast Quarter of Section 9, Township 31, Range 9, situated in Holt County, State of Nebraska; that no application has been made for the appointment of an admin istrator for her estate; that Ira C. Prichard, the husband of said de ceased, is the sole heir of said de cedent; that the prayer of the petition is, “Your petitioner there fore prays that a decree of said court be made and entered determ ining that said Ira C. Prichard is the sole heir of said Edith Prouty Prichard; that the degree of kin ship is that of husband, and that the above described estate of in heritance shall descend to him." You are notified that said petit ion will he heard December 31, A. D., 1936, at !« o’clock A. M., in the County Court Room in O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal.) 30-3 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the relationships between the under signed and George S. Agnes for the MISCELLANEOUS YOUR FAVORITE NEWSPAPER AND FOUR FAMOUS MAGA ZINES AT AN AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE -The WORLD HERALD Daily and Sunday for six months, with Better Homes and Gardens, Pictorial Review, Screen Play and IVue Confessions, all for only $4.70. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! thru this office. 31-2 THE greatest family of “funnies” folks ever assembled—30 comics in full colors; “Popeye—Skippy— Maggie and Jiggs"—Road them all, in the Sunday OMAHA BEE NEWS. Subscribe TODAY! thru this office. 28tf I HAVE eastern mancy to loan on farms and ranches. I also loan money on city property.—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Ncbr. 2tf LOST AND FOUND REWARD for return gray men’s leather gloves (Gift) left on sta tionery counter BenBranklin store Tuesday afternoon.—B. II. Graff, or this office. 32-1 LOST—Box of baby cloths 6 miles northeast of O’Neill on Opportun ity highway, on Dec. 10.—Peter Weber, Sunset Lodge, O’Neill. Ip LOST. Pair gold rimmed glasses in green case, fitted,by Dr. French, Page. Reward. Leave at this office. 31-2p FOR RENT ROOMS, Unfurnished. — Maude Rouse, O’Neill. 31-2p WANTED TO BUY WHEN you have butcher staff, either hogs or cattle for sale, see Barnhart’s Market. 48-tf FOR bale; WHITE Enamel kitchen Cabinet, good condition.—Ten McElhaney. HOUSES AND LOTS—Phone 82.— C. F. McKenna. 31-2p BALED HAY.-tK. H. Parker, O'Neill, Nebr. ?> 12-tf HOME LOANS FARM LOANS RANCH LOANS I Am Now Making Loans JOHN L. QUIG Dr. J. L. SHERBAHN | Chiropractor Phone 147 | Half Block South of the Ford : Garage—West Side of Street Diamond—Watches—Jcwelery jj Expert Watch Repairing O. M. Herre—Jeweler 1| In Reardon Drug Store W. F. FINLEY, M. D. Phone, Office 28 j O’Neill :: Nebraska ij mwncmimmmnmttfflmmmmi naxxtxmxxmmtmmmmmmttmtt” DR.J.P. BROWN j Office Phone 77 Complete X-Ray Equipment Glasses Correctly Fitted Residence Phone 223 i mawmmtwammmawmmmtffl operation of a lumber yard at O’Neill, Nebraska, under the name of “Set<h Noble” have been by mutual consent dissolved. Dated this 15th day of April, 1935. 32-4 SETH NOBLE. (First publication Dec. 10. 1936.) LEGAL NOTICE All persons interested in the estate of J. N. Prouty, Deceased, both creditors and heirs, are noti fied that on December 8, 1936, Helen Prouty Adamson filed a pe tition in the County Court of Holt County, Nebraska, alleging that J. N. Prouty, a resident of Hum bolt County Iowa, died intestate on December 28, 1915, seized of an estate of inheritance in the follow ing described real estate; The Southeast Quarter of Section 9, Township 31, Range 9, situated in Holt County, State of Nebraska; that petitioner is an heir at law of deceased; that no application has been made for the appointment of an administrator for his* estate; that his heirs are your petitioner, Helen Prouty Adamson, Florence Prouty Wykes and Edith Prouty Prichard, his children; that the prayer of the petition is, “Your petitioner therefore prays that a decree of said court be made and entered determining that said petitioner Helen Prouty Adamson, Florence Prouty Wykes and Edith Prouty Prichard are the sole heirs of said J. N. Prouty, deceased; that their degree of kinship is that of children, and that said above described real estate descend to them in equal shares.” You are notified that said petition will be heard December 31, A, D., 1936, at 10 o’clock A. M„ in the County Court Room in O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal.) 30-3 American Boy Offers World of Adventure During the coming year AMER ICON BOY stories will take read ers into thundering transport planes, into Annapolis and thru the Caribbean with the Navy, into the soundless tangles of Georgia’s Okefenokee swamp, and even into an imaginary future of space ships, strange machines and science. All are swift-moving, instructive and gripping. There’ll he stories of the true ad ventures of David Irwin, the young man who, for four years, alone wandered across the arctic barrens by dog team, going months without seeing a human being and eating only frozen fish. And there’ll be Roseoe Turner’s inside story of the famous London-to-Melbourne air race, There’ll be advice on hobbies, sports tips from famous coaches and players, suggestions on njoney earning and low-cost travel, and articles on dog training, nature’s oddities and tomorrow’s airplanes. There’ll be stories about the favorite characters of a million hoys—Bonchead Tierney, detective; Square Jaw Davis, engineer; Hide rack, the red-gold collie; Alan Kane, scientist; and Lee, midship man. THE AMERICAN BOY costs only $1 a year, or $2 for three years, foreign subscriptions 50 cents a year extra. Send your name, address and remittance to THE AMERICAN BOY, 7430 Sec ond Blvd., Detroit, Mich. Service will start with the issue you specify. On newsstands, 10 cents a copy. Plan New Farm Program The first step toward putting the 1937 federal agricultural conserva tion farm program into operation in Nebarsku was completed in Lin coln last week when Claude R. Wickard, director of the north cen tral region, conferred with AAA fieldmen and district extension sup ervisors. It was indicated that county conservation associations will hold reorganization meetings in January to start the program. Wickard said the 1937 program is so devised that all farmers, no matter how small their farms may be, will have the opportunity to benefit by the plan. The 1937 goal is to achieve a better balance be tween those crops that conserve the soil’s fertility and those that deplete or eventually destroy it— a balance that will maintain and improve the nation’s agricultural ^plant. Of particular interest to Holt county was the fact that Wickard announced that farmers who will not have their usual acreages of soil conserving crops in the spring of 1937 because of the 1936 drouth will he permitted to substitute for age crops for the soil conserving crops which they lost. The principal payments in 1937 will be made as this year for re placing crops which deplete the soil with those that restore its. fer tility. The payments, Wickard said, for this replacement will vary from the average of about eight dollars per acre for Nebraska as soil productivity varies thruout the states, counties and on individual farms. The maximum acreage to which these payments will apply will be 15 per cent of the usual acreage of soil depleting crops. THE NEBRASKA SCENE (Continued from page 4.) best during the past two years." A number of bankers committed to penal institutions during depres sion years are now being liberated on parole, and the consensus is that justice is being seived. An investigation of Nebraska penal institutions has disclosed a need for a more intelligent class ification of criminals and a better parole system, according to Dr. James M. Reinhardt of the univer sity of Nebraska. The results of an eastern penol ogist are the basis of I)r. Reinr hardt’s deductioins. During the recent political campaign, Gov. Cochran was accused of withhold ing this report for political reasons. The report, according to Dr. Rein hardt, is most critical of the wo men’s reformatory at York, while the state penitentiary “makes the best impression and with the facil ities available appears to be well administered.” John R. Granor, Baltimore of ficial who summed up the investiga tion, said: "The penitentiary has in its population young first-offenders who should be in the reformatory; the reformatory has a number of repeaters who ought to be in the pententiary.” The critic asserts that the state does not have an effective parole system, and that “the state needs also a prison farm or colony for many inmates.” Salary scales for both the peni tentiary and reformatory are low, according to Cranor, and the guard turnover is high. There is no re tirement plan for employees in either institution. What will become of Leo Swan son, elected land commissioner but kicked out by the same electorate, remains in the hands of the gods. Swanson has brought a law suit to determine his right to a second term to which he was elected the same day the voters were adopting the constitutional amendment that abolished his office. Swanson’s present term expires Jan. 7, altho Attorney General Wright has ruled that abolishment of the office was effective election day. Governor Cochran and Swanson reached an agreement for a temp orary solution of the problem by which Swanson continues to dis charge the duties of the post as the governor’s agent for the expira tion of the term. Swanson is asking the supreme court for two specific judgments: 1. To rule unconstitutional the legislative act submitting to a vote of the people the constitutional amendment abolishing the state land commissioner’s office. 2. If the act is held valid, to fix the time of the amendment’s valid ity and to determine the legal stat us of Swanson and the appropria tions made for the office. The election-period sentiment to correct the primary system in Ne braska has a number of advocates, and a law will be introduced to “eliminate the nomination of in competent and unqualified candid ates.” It is suggested that the primary election date be changed from June to September and that a system of “party choice” be designed on the party ballot. Names should be designated by a party star, is is claimed, and this would help vot ers who wish to vote for the party’s choice to find them easily on the ballot. L. E. Aysworth of the University of Nebraska, has a carefully pre pared amendment to the existing statutes which he will seek to have passed by the coming session of the legislature. He would do away with the present system of casting the electoral vote. In regard to the direct primary nominating system, J. H. Agee, manager of the Lincoln telephone company and active proponent of aggresion in the university educa tional system, asserts that it is now time to restore the party conven tion to power to avoid the complica tions that have arisen from the present primary system. The Nebraska Anti-Saloon league is asking decentralized administra tion and wider local option in the state liquor law, while various in dividual groups are asking them selves whether the present state system is functioning as it should. Taid dry leaders attempted sum mer before last to force a vote on local option but gave up the ship when they discovered state senti ment against such action. In con sequence, dry action will be temp ered for abolishment of hard liquor in local communities first, and later for local abolishment of beer. What the Anti-Saloon league will fight for in the rapidly approaching i session of the legislature is loca option which would he automata every two years. Enactment by the group is urgec of the civil liability feature of the old Slocumb law, which permittee realtives and even neighbors ol drunken persons to sue saloon keepers for damages. Prohibitior of sale by the drink also is a para mount issue in the Anti-Saloor league drive. A 2-cent tax on cigarets is being framed for presentation to the uni cameral legislature, to help sup plant the 1-cent gas tax. --- Brother Miles, in his last issue, says he has traveled over the city und counted sixty-two new houses that were built during 1930 and still there is not a house to rent. When George was doing the count ing he must have been using trip licatingd magnifying glasses an then some. Lumber dealers would like to know where the new houses are and who sold them the lumber, for a careful survey of the yards yields the information that there have been 16, not 62, additions to O’Neill residences during 1936. Economic Highlights Business Week has published an interesting chart showing the busi ness record state by state—compar ing the first nine months of 1936 to the same period last year. Biggest improvement in passen ger motor car sales—38 per cent— occurred in the Pacific Coast states, with the Mountain group running a close second with 35 per cent. In commercial car sales, however the East South Central states were first, up 37 per cent, with second place shared by the East North Central and West South Central states—which chowed an advance of 31 per cent each. The Middle Atlantic common wealths led by far in heavy con struction, with nn improvement of 121 per cent. Second was the East South Central group, advancing 81 per cent. Biggest gain in electric power output, 21 per cent, occurred in the South Atlantic group, with the mountain group second, up 19 per cent. Farm income gained most in New England, 23 per cent, with Moun tain states, West North Central states and East North Central states, all show’ing a 16 per cent jump. Value of checks drawn—one of the most accurate of business bar ometers—increased 19 per cent in the Pacific states, the largest gain. Second with 18 per cent were the East North Central states. New Books In the Library Drums Along the Mohawk, Yang and Yin, An American Doctor’s Odyssey, Westward from Rio, Un common Knowledge, The Flower ing of New England* This Way to the Big Show, Return to Malaya, U. S. Camera, Live Along and Like It, The Corpse With the Floating Foot, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Prayer for My Son, South Wind, Enchanted Voyage, The Hurricane, Great Laughter, American Acres, Of Lena Geyer, Three Worlds, Lady in Morgues, A Star for Hansi, Five Little Raccoons, The Book of Cowboys, Billy Butler, Our Navy, Indian Boyhood, Child Life in Other Lands, Japanese Fairy Stor ies, Trees Evey Child Should Know, Dusty Star, Merry Lips, The Slow Coach, Widow Callahan’s Boys. In addition to the above there are about fifty new children’s books. BRIEFLY STATED Owen McPharlin of Omaha was in the city over the week-end visit ing with his mother, Mrs. J. H. McPharlin. Bunny McNally, who is attending Creighton university, came up last Saturday to spend the holiday with the home folks. Rev. William Vahle and Luther Larson, both of Atkinson, were transacting business at the court house last Monday. Harry Carney and Miss Lucille Striefvater, both of Niobrara, were granted a marriage license in county court last Saturday. Mary Jo Finley, student at Du achene College in Omaha, arrived in O'Neill last Saturday to spend the holidays with the home folks. Mrs. J. H. McPhurlin went to Omaha Tuesday night where she will spend the holidays visiting at the homes of her son and daughters. M. A. Whaley and son, L. A., liv ing northeast of this city, returned Tuesday night from a ten day visit with relatives at Marshaltown, la. Robert Biglin, who is a studgnt at Creighton University, came up last Sunday and will spend the : Christmas vacation with the home 1 folks. E. J. O’Hern 1 eft Wednesday morning for Barnum, Iowa, where he will spend Christmas with the home folks. He expects to return Sunday. Francis Soukup, who is attending the state university at Lincoln, came up last Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays with the home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Linnigan and family, of Chadron, were in the city last Saturday for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Kersenbrock. The county board of supervisors met in their regular monthly ses sion Tuesday and expect to finish the business of this meeting by Wednesday night. K. A. Wehl left Wednesday for Beloit, Kans., where he will spend Christmas at the home of his par ents. He expects to return to his duties here the end of the week. W. J. Froelich came out from Chicago last Sunday afternoon for a couple of weeks visit with his family and other relatives here. He came up from Sioux City with F. J. Biglin. Charles Mitchell, one of the pioneers of the Niobrara river country, was looking after business matters in the city Monday. Char lie says that everything is okey in his neighborhood. Miss Nellie Toy, who is teaching at Herman, Nebr., arrived home Wednesday night to spend the Christmas holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Toy and other relatives here. F. J. Biglin drove to Sioux City last Saturday where he met his daughter, Miss Betty, and son, Joseph, on their return from Rochester, Minn. They returned home Sunday afternoon. Miss Marie Biglin is expected to arrive from Salt Lake City Thurs day evening to spend the holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Biglin and with other relatives and friends here. R. J. Rohde, one of the pioneer residents of Coleman precinct, was an O’Neill visitor last Saturday and favored this office with a pleas ant call, advancing his subscription to this household necessity. Mary Jean Hammond came up from Omaha the end of the week to spend the Christas holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond, and wTith other relatives and friends here. The ladies employed in the var ious offices of the court house held their annual dinner Tuesday night. It is said that they all had an en poyable time. Mrs. Glenn Saunders entertained the EOT club with bridge Thurs day evening last. Mrs. Ralph Mc Elvain, Mrs. Larry Cain and Mrs. Rruce Rummel were the prize win ners. Lunch was served at the hakery. Miss Grace O’Donnell who is at tending the University of Chicago, arrived in the city Saturday night to spend Christmas at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and with other relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. John Kersenbrock and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Protivinsky and daughter, Miss Bernadine, drove to Niobrara Sunday morning and visited several towns in that sectiion of the state, returning home that evening. Miss Dorothy Morrison, who is attending college at Winona, Minn., came home Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Morrison and with relatives and friends in this city. John Robert Gallagher who is attending Washington university at St. Louis, Mo., came home last Friday night to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gallagher, and with other rela tives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Connolly, of Casper, Wyo., arrived, in the city last Monday evening to spend Christmas at the home of his mother, Mrs. Teresa Connolly and with his brothers and sisters and other relatives and friends here. Henry Grady, who had been re ceiving medical treatment at the Veterans hospital at Lincoln for the past month, returned home last week. Hank is looking fine and hopes to be able to get around as good as usual after he gets a little stronger. Ted McElhaney is carrying his arm in a sling this week. Last Saturday night he stumbled on the steps of his new home and fell, lighting on his right shoulder, loos ening the shoulder socket. While a little painful it is expected the arm will be all right in a few weeks. Mrs. D. H. Cronin and daughter, Marjorie, and son, Richard, left last Thursday night for Omaha and they will visit friends there and relatives at Nebraska City until after New Years. Mr. Cronin ex pects to leave tonight and will join them at Nebraska City for Christ mas. Supervisor-elect Smith, of Stu art, who succeeds John Steinhauser \ on the county board as the mem M her from the Sixth district, was m” j the city Tuesday and Wednesday j and attended the meetings of the county board, getting a line on his new duties. Mr. Smith is a pleas ant appearing gentleman and we predict will make a valuable mem ber of the county board. The Martez Club held their a» nual Christmas and gift-gix . ing party last Monday night. The ' dinner held at the Goldba Hotel, after which the members of the dub repaired to the home of Mrs. P. B. Harty where the gifts were distributed and then bridge became the entertainment. Mre. F. N. Cronin won high score, Mrs C. F. McKenna second high, Mrs. John McManus consolation aid Mrs. H. F. Mullen the all cut. Miss Mary Kathryn Coyne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Coyne, has returned to her home for the holidays from Rosary Col lege, River Forest, 111., where she is a member of the Freshman class. ^ The Christmas holidays were in augurated at Rosary with a dinner party at which the students ■yvere guests of the faculty. A Christmas program followed, consisting of carols sung by the Glee Club of which Miss Coyne is a member, and the presentation of four tableaux after famous masterpieces, the “Isaias” of Michaelangelo, Dona tello’s “Annunciation,” Albertip elli’s “Visitation” and the “Nativ ity” of Federigo Baroccio. r ..- I* .. 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