Nebraska Newspapers

    (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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AT this season of the
year we pause to thank
our patrons for their assist;
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ance in the pursuit of our
successful business and to
wish them all A MERRY
CHRISTMAS.
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RALPH TOMLINSON
Proprietor
A Merry Christmas
to ALL—is Our Sincere Wish
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