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Prominent Montana
Doctor, Formerly of
This County Is Dead
The following article is clipped
from the Butte, Montana Standard
tad gives an account of the death
«n that city on Sunday morning,
Dec. 21,1936, of Dr. J. L. McCarthy
of a sudden heart attack.
Dr. McCarthy came to this coun
ty with his mother as a boy and
grew to manhood on a farm about
four miles northeast of this city.
He attended the country schools
and later the O’Neill high school.
ITe later attended Creighton uni
versity where he graduated from
the medical college. He practiced
his profession for a time at Gretna,
Nebr., then went west where he re
sided up to the time of his death.
He had many friends among the
old timers in this section who will
regret to learn of his passing at the
height of his professional career.
“Dr. J. L. McCarthy, prominent
Unite physician, died early yester
day morning (Dec. 20) at his home
1212 Steel street, the victim of u
heart attack. He had been ailing
•dightly the past week but went
about his regular duties. Saturday
night he retired at his usual hour.
About 4 o’clock he complained of a
pain in his chest. A few minutes
later he remarked to his wife that
be felt better but “very tired’’ und
asked that he not be distrubcd.
When Mrs. McCarthy again visited
his room she found him dead.
“Dr. McCarthy was widely known,
net only in Montana but in Nevada
where he practiced his profession
and was active in politics, serving
several years as Democratic nation
al committeeman, was ai close
friend of Key Pittman and one of
the chief factors in bringing about
the latter’s election to the United
States Senate.
“He came to Butte following his
graduation in medicine and asso
ciated himself with his brother, the
late Dr. P. H. McCarthy. They were
kaown to their friends as Dr. “Jim”
wad Dr. “Pat.” In 1907 he moved
to Goldfield, Nev., where he re
mained until the death of his
brother. He then returned to Butte
and took over his brother's prac
tice and had befth a continuous
resident here since.
“Known to thousands, his death
was a distinct shock. Word of his
passing spread rapidly about the
city. Only Saturilqy, he was ap
pointed for the eighth consecutive
term as county health physician.
Friends recalled having seen him
about his office that afternoon. As
big in spirit as he was in physical
frame, he was typical of the old
West. Possessed of the traits that
drew men to him, he was loyal to
the core with those who proved
worthy of his friendship. For these
there was no limit to his deeds of
kmdness. His charities were abund
ant. Many a poor patient that
came to his office for treatment left
with money in his pocket. It was
a csmon thing for him to pay the
cost of a prescription.
“In addition to his practice, Dr.
McCarthy was always interested in
the mining business and followed
the fortunes of that industry with
keen interest. He regarded it as
the major industry of the West and
the ‘backbone’ of prosperity in this
section of the country.
“James Lawrence McCarthy was
bom at Hancock, Mich. His father
died when he was five months old
and his mother moved to O’Neill,
Nebr., where her five children re
ceived their schooling. ‘Jim’ attend
ed the public schools and entered
Creighton University where he
graduated from the medical depart
ment. He served his interneship
at Omaha hospitaland entered upon
his profession at Gretna, Nebr.
Shortly after he came to Butte.
“Fraternally he was a fourth-de
gree member of the Knights of
Columbus, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and Modern Wood
men of America.
“Surviving relatives include his
widow, Mrs. Margaret McCarthy; a
■on, James Patrick McCarthy; a
sister, Mrs. May me Leary; a niece,
Mrs. C. E. Huff, both of Los Ang
elcs; a niece, Mary Catherine Mc
Carthy, Butte; a brother. Dr. R. J.
Hanley, Billing*; a sister, Miss
Genevieve Hanley, Deer Lodge;
brothers, Jerry and Will Hanley,
and a sister, Abbie Hanley, all of
O’Neill, Nebr., and a cousin, Janies
McCarthy of Butte,**
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by Janies R. Lowell
Before another New Year rolls
around, the residents of more than
118,000 Nebraska farms will be en
l .ioymg the countless benefits of
electricity. Almost that number—
to be exact, 17,781 contracts—have
already been signed.
Down in Gage county fifty miles
of line placed by the Southeastern
Nebraska Public Power district is
already in use. Out in the vicinity ;
of ScottsblufT, the Gering Valley j
Rural Public Power district and
the Roosevelt Rural Public Power
district expect to get power to ap
provimately 500 customers during
January. Starting from Tecumseh,
the Eastern Nebraska Public Power :
district expects 100 miles of line to j
be in use by P'eb. 1. The Iowa- j
Nebraska Light und Power com
pany has 2,510 rural customers, 3G0
of whom were added during 1036
on 182 miles of line. Forty addition
al miles have been contracted, and
lines are in course of construction.
The Nebraska Power company lias
2,200 rural customers, 535 having
been added during 1936.
“There is a new spirit in the
rural electrification movement,''j
recently declared John A. Baker,
acting director of Stale Rural Elec
trification Coordination for Wis
consin. “It is true that some exist
ing utilities have extended, their
lines as fast as they could, but I
think all will agree that many of
them have not, partly because of
bad times, had financial conditions,
and partly because of sheer neglect."
“In response to the stimulus
given by the Government program,
thousands of miles are being built
thruout the country by private fin
ancing. Many utilities have re
duced their rural rates and liber
alized their rural extension terms.
And in the midst of all this activ
ity a factor looms that we must
not forget—and that is planning
for intelligent and abundant use of
electricity.”
Nebraska farmers arc showing
themselves quick to realize the fact
that electricity is cost saving, as
' well as a labor-saving servant, and
they are making plans to use
enough of it to take away the
drugery from their daily lives and
to make their farm homes models
of convenient efficiency. Officers of
the various public power districts
are finding to their surprise that
their loan departments are not
nearly so busy as they expected.
The cost of installing electricity on
a farm runs from $300 for the
simplest equipment to $2,000 for
large and elaborately equipped
places. In the large majority of
cases cash is heing offered, for in
stallation.
The REA projects in Nebraska in
which construction specifications
have been approved and lines are
under construction or completed
are as follows: The Eastern Ne
braska Public Power district, with
a government loan of $366,000, has
380 miles of line under eonsruction
and 1,200 customers. The South
eastern Nebraska Public Power dis
trict, with a loan of $140,000, has
450 miles under construction and
1,117 customers. The Lancaster
County Rural Public Power district,
with a loan of $3.*6.000, has 354
miles under construction and 900
customers. The Roosevelt Rural
Public Power district, w h .t loan
of $196,000 has 161-5 miles under
construction and 446 customers.
The Gerinjr Valley Rural Power j
district, which was ' ced $ 15.0(H),
has 38.4 mtle* ursi. construction j
and 126 customers.
i
The REA proj«fU for which al
lotments have b**n approved at
Washington are as follows: South
iern Nebraska Rural Public Power
district, loa":, $428-000, miles to be
constructed 331. customers 950;
Loup River Public Power district
loan $391,000. miles 35-1.3, custom
ers 815; Elkhorn Valley Rural Pow
er company loan $171,900, miles
179.1, customers 422; Chimne; Rock
Public Power district loan $250,250,
miles 218, customers 612; Howard
County Rural Public Power district
loan $400,000, miles 392.7, custom
ers 1,135; Polk County Rural Public
Power district loan $367,500, miles
350, customers 800; and Burt
County Rural Public Power district
loan $275,000, miles 250, customers
608.
Allotments are also being con
sidered for two additional projects
that have been planned by the
Eastern Nebraska Public Power
Charter No. 5770 Reserve District No. 10
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The O'Neill National Bank
of O’Neill, in the State of Nebraska, at the close of business on
December 31, 1936.
Published in response to call made by Comptroller of Currency, under
Section 5211, U. S. Revised Statutes.
ASSETS
Loans and discounts - — $ 89,655.98
Overdrafts_—--- - 39.64
United States Government obligations, direct
and-or fully guaranteed 196,041.00
Other bonds, stocks, and securities ... . 94,301.76
Banking house, $3,000.00. Furniture and
fixtures. $1,000.00___ $4,000.00
Real estate owned other than banking house ... _ 1.00
Reserve with Federal Reserve Bank_ $111,023.87
Cash, balances with other banks,
and cash items in process of collection 191,331.71 302,355.58
Other assets 819.14
Total Assets ..—.. $687,214.10
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations_ $319,088.60
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations . 117,581.35
State, county and municipal deposits_ 66,627.23
United States Government and postal
savings deposits_ 1,310,38
Deposits of other banks, including certified and
cashiers’ checks outstanding. . 44,179.10
Total of above five items:
(a) Secured by pledge of loans
and-or investments _ — .$ 39,288.50
(b) Not secured by pledge of loans
and-or investments ___ . _ 509,501.16
(c) Total Deposits _ . $548,789.66
Capital Account:
Common Btock, 600 shares, par $100
per share --- 50,000.00
Surplus .— 50,000.00
Undivided profits—net_ — 38,424.44 138,424.44
Total Liabilities $687,214.10
MEMORANDUM: Loans and Investments Pledged to Secure Liabilities
United States Government obligations, direct
and-or fully guaranteed $ 30,000.00
Other bonds, stocks, and securities 18,000.00
Total Pledged (excluding rediscounts) $ 48,000.00
Pledged:
Against State, county, and municipal deposits 48,000.00
Total Pledged $ 48.000.00
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss:
I, S. J. Weekes, President of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief. S. j. WEEKES, President.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of January, 1937.
[Seal] MARJORIE DICKSON, Notary Public.
My Commission expires June 5, 1941.
Correct—Attest: Emma Dickinson Weekes, E. F. Quinn. F. N.
Cronin, Directors.
(This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders.)
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
district. For Project No. 2 contracts
have been made by 1,510 customers.
For Project No. 3, 2,530 customers
have been signed up.
Out in the North Platte Valley,
C. B. Turner, manager of the
Roosevelt Public Power district,
said recently, “It is gratifying to
note that the rank and file of farm
families, both renters and land
owners, are to have electricity at a
cost that is low enough for them
to pay. We have tried to cover
every farm home not being served.
There are a few farms that are
not closely connected with the ma
jor part of the district. We will
no wcomplete the lines under con
tract, and then the district will take
up these matters of extensions as
fast as possible.”
A secondary, but vastly import
ant objective of rural electrification i
is the night-lighting of the high- j
ways. There is no doubt but that i
this accomplishment will do much
to lessen appreciably the appalling
number of automobile accidents.
Statistics show that accidents that
occur at night have been cut to
one-half where roads are lighted.
With rural electrification there is
no reason why the highways of the
nation may not he as safe and de
lightful by night as by day.
A committee composed of Sheriff
George II. Little of Schuyler, Sher
iff John Harr of Clay Center, and
Sheriff John Hopkins of Omaha,
and representing the Nebraska l
State Sheriff’s association, appear
ed before Governor Cochran, at his
office in the state capitol recently,
to present a plan for a state-wide
police radio broadcast system, re
] newal fees from drivers’ licenses to
finance the scheme.
Attention was called to the fact
that Iowa, which has a police
broadcast system, recovers twice as
many of cars stolen as does Ne
braska, and that Iowa has only
one-half as many car thefts as
Nebraska. Estimates have been
; made that the cost of such a system
; for one year would be about $100,
000. Two plans, the details of
neither having been completely
worked out, are being considered;
one, to arrange with commercial
broadcasting stations to send out
police bulletins at regular inter
vals; the other to have a state
short-wave broadcasting station.
Among the new industries of the
| state is a necktie factory, which is
i to be started in St. Paul early in
| January. Albert Albertson of Cedar
I Bluffs, formerly of St. Paul, has
decided to move back to his home
town and expand a business which
he already has well under way. For
the last year he' has been manu
facturing a fine line of silk neckties
which he began by selling himself
to leading merchants in Nebraska,
South Dakota and, Iowa. Soon he
found it necessary to employ five
helpers. Now he has rented the
Kotik building on Sixth street in
St. Paul and plans to begin by em
ploying fifteen persons.
N . —
Governor Cochran has stated his
intention to oppose personally any
efforts to create new forms of taxes
in case such attempts should be
made during the sessions of the
unicameral legislature. He has also
expressed his belief that non-parti
sanism should be adhered to strict
ly. Said the governor:
“The people voted, for a non
partisan legislature. The constitu
tion now provides that the legisla
ture i's non-partisan. I certainly
will make no attempt to override
the constitution. So far as I have
talked with members of the coming
legislature, they seem to plan to
observe non-partis&nism. If any
party caucuses are planned, I in
tend to discourage them.
“Non-partisanism is not coming
to the Nebraska legislature for the
first time,” continued Governor
Cochran. “On the major bills in
1935—the liquor law, the sales tax,
the income tax, the one-cent gaso
line tax, and others—party lines
were shattered. Many good demo
crats differed with me and voted
against my recommendation. On
the other hand, some good repub
licans sided with me and voted for
my recommendations.”
The short ballot question is now
squarely before the legislature.
Governor Cochran led off with a
proposal to abolish the office of
attorney general and the office of
land commissioner, making both'
positions appointive. Short ballot
radicals suggest that the governor
be elected for a four year term and
a comptroller be selected for ten'
years, neither officer to be eligible
for reelection.
In his report Attorney General
Wright endorses the appointment
of the attorney general but says
the selection should be made by the
judges of the supreme court.
Hard work and no play, may crer
ate a dull boy but, very likely he
will have some moneyinthebank.
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