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Columbus, Neb., Dec. 28, 1936.—
We drove from Norfolk thru a
heavy fog. Some rain falling. Met
several farmer friends here who
say the fog makes traveling incon
venient but they feci the fog and
light rain is welcome. The ground
is very dry. Mrs. Massey, of the
Evans hotel, is worried over her
husband who is driving home 'to
night from Omaha. The pavement
is very slippery and many car ac
cidents have been reported. Colum
bus is beautifully lighted. Christ
mas trees in the park decorated
with colored lights shine a wonder
ful welcome thru the mist. Four
big trains arrive in Columbus each
evening around six o’clock. One is
the Oveland limited, one is the
(First publication Jan. 7, 19.77.)
SHERIFF’S RALE
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of an Order of Sale issued to
me by the Clerk of the District
Court of Holt county, Nebraska, in
an action pending in said Court
wherein Frank Nelson is plaiiitifF
and Viola L. Hull, M. C. Hull, John
Dot. real true name unknown, and
Mary Doe, his wife, real true name
unknown, are defendants, I will sell
to the highest bidder for cash at
the front door of the court house in
O’Neill, Nebraska, on the 8th day
of February, 19.77 at 10 o'clock
A. M., the following described
premises in Holt county, Nebraska:
The southwest quarter and
the south half of the southeast
quarter and lot four of sec
tion three; and the northeast
quarter of the southeast quar
ter of section four; all in town
ship thirty-two north, range
eleven, W'est of the 6th P. M.,
Holt county, Nebraska,
to satisfy the sum of $3,881.86
found due plaintiff and Interest
thereon and $.70.60 costs of suit
and accruing costs.
Dated this 6th day of January,
1937.
PETER W. DUFFY,
Sheriff of Holt County,
34-6 Nebraska.
Nonce
Notice is hereby given that the
relationships between the under
signed and George S. Agnes for the
operation of n lumber yard at
O’Neill, Nebraska, under the name
of “Seth Noble’’ have been by
mutual consent dissolved.
Dated this 15th day of April,
1935.
32-4 SETH NOBLE.
MISCELLANEOUS
THIRTY years successful practice
is your guarantee that I’errigo
Optical Company will make your
glasses right, Sep their repre
aentutfve at the
Golden Hotel in
O’Neill, Friday,
Jan. 15. .14-1
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I HAVE eastern money to loan on
farms and ranchos. I also loan
money on city property.—R. H.
Parker, O’Neill, Nehr. 2tf
WANTED TO BUY
WHEN you have butcher stuff,
either hogs or cattle for sale, see
Barnhart’s Market. 48-tf
FOR SALE
BALED HAY.—R. H. Parker,
O'NeiU, Nebr. 12-tf
HOME LOANS
FARM LOANS
RANCH LOANS
I Am No w Making Loans
JOHN L. QUIG
j Dr. J. L. SHERBAHN
Chiropractor
Phone 147
| Half liloek South of the Ford
! Garage—West Side of Street
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Expert Watch Repairing
O. M. Herre—Jeweler
In Ileardon Drug Store
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Phone, Office 28
O’Neill
Nebraska
DR. J. P. BROWN
Office Phone 77
Complete X-Ray Equipment
Glasses Correctly Fitted
Residence Phone 223
Challenger, one is a train with all
mail cars and the next one is the
Portland Rose which we board.
Lots of activity around the depot.
Railroad men working for the
Union Pacific say business is good.
Men working for the Northwestern
say it is bad. No stock or grain or
farm products to haul—that makes
bad business for railroads. Em
ployees on the Northwestern tell us
they haul more into the district
than they take out.
Fremont, Neb.—Our train reach
es Fremont—on the border line of
the Third district. Ft is still very
foggy and a light rain is falling.
Passengers on the train look down
Fremont streets from the ear win
dows or from the platform and
wonder at the beautiful lighting
system.
Chicago, Dec. 29, 8:15 a. in.—The
fop was general all the way from
Norfolk and Chicago is enveloped
in it. Light rain is falling and
crowds leaving the trains at the
Union station here carry umbrellas
and rain coats. A cold wind is
blowing from the lake. Lots of
people boarding other trains. Going
home to celebrate the New Year.
Chicago, Dec. 80—We visit a lot
of stores and talk to the clerk’s
and proprietors. They tell us busi
ness is better than last year. Somo
stocks all sold out. But we notice
that a lot of Christmas goods are
still on the unsold counters. Clerks
are busy taking inventory and
marking down goods which go on
sale for the January sale days.
Dressed chickens sell for 20 cents
to 80 cents a pound. We tell mer
chants that in north Nebraska
farmers had to sell off their chick
ens at fi and 7 cents a pound be
cause they had no money to buy
feed for their poultry. Merchants
here can’t believe our stories of the
feed siuation.
Heavy rain followed the fog here.
There are a dozen hospitals in the
neighborhood where we are stay
ing. Every one is fdling with
pneumonia and influenza patients.
Nurses from hospitals say the flu
epidemic here is serious. Doctors
are hopeful for cold, clear weather
to wipe out the influenza germs.
One report is that there are more
than 10,000 cases of flu here and
that the death rate has increased.
Warnings are given out how to pre
vent the flu.
Lots of Loggers on the streets of
this big city. One young man
about 15 years old asks for money;
says he can get food but money ia
hard to get. Merchants say the
beggars are about as numerous
here as during the days before
government relief. Scores of WPA
Players! I,earn With
The American Boy
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improve their crawl stroke, their
basket shooting, their hurdling,
their tennis backhand, or their bull
carrying, can enlist the aid of tho
nation’s foremost coaches and play
ers by subscribing to THE AMER
ICAN BOY magazineand following
the sports interviews and fiction
stories that appear each month.
For the coming year stuff writers
have gone to two of the greatest
football teams in the country—
Minnesota and Southern Method
ist—for first hand tips on strategy,
blocking, ball carrying, passing,
and the fine points of line play.
They have written the story of
Bobbie Wilson, All-American half
back.
They have interviewed famous
track coaches like Bernie Moore and
Bob Simpson. Have gone to the
University of Oklahoma to learn
how college champions wrestle, to
Notre Dame for the story of the
building of a great basketball team.
They have sought out famous base
ball players, swimmers, tennis
champions and All-American bucks,
to get their story of how to play
the game.
AMERICAN BOY fiction is
jammed with instructive back
ground details telling how to play
a better game. And the rest of the
magazine is jammed with adven
ture, exploration, vocational help
and articles vital to boys.
Ohio State University’s track
head, coach of the famous sprinter
and low hurdler, Jesse Owens, and
himself a former hurdling star,
first learned to hurdle from articles
in THE AMERICAN BOY. “I used
to cut out hurdling pictures and
duplicate them in front of a mirror.
Then on the track I’d follow that
form.”
Today thousands of future cham
pions are just as eagerly following
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and address $1 for a year’s sub
scription, $2 for three years, and
add 50 cents if you want the sub
scription to go to a foreign address.!
On newsstands, 10 cents a copy.
workers huddle under shelters in
Lincoln park. People here from
Nebraska hope the rain will reach
drouth stricken Nebraska.
Lots of sales managers are in
town. They are talking with rep
resentatives of advertising agen
cies for the 1937 selling programs.
They look for better business and
big advertising programs to mold
public opinion. Traveling mer. at
home for the holidays can look for
some pretty stiff programs from
their sales managers.
Dec. 31.—It’s New Years eve in
Chicago. Looks like the entire
town has moved to the Loop dis
trict. It costs about tw-elvc dollars
just to get into some of the more
pretentious cafes where there is a
floor show. Cost $5.00 to $7.50 just
to sit in a pretty vile smelling place
with a jaz band and a crowd of
hundreds of celebrants. Midnight
brings darkness into these places
and the band plays “Auld Lang”
and everybody wishes everybody
else a Happy New Year. Talked to
several hotel and cafe men. They
say the New Year's eve business
beat last year. They admit that
Champagne flowed more freely but
most people here are on a spending
spree arid apparently do not feel
so depressed as they did a year ago.
One proprietor says, “They are not
drinking to drown their troubles—
tut are drink'ng and celebrating
like old times.” Chicago people
don’t seem surprised at the wild
spending hero but coming from
drouth stricken Nebraska at a time
like this makes one feel that maybe
the Third district has missed some
thing. We know that if we had
raised only half a crop things
would be better at home. Young
people seem the biggest spenders.
One young man with a party of six
pays the waiter $40.00 for his
dinner and tips the waiter $5.00.
No depression in Chicago on New
Year’s eve. But we can’t forget
that back home there are farmers
who live on $2.50 a week—money
which their rapidly thinning milk
cows bring them.
Jan. 1, 1937.—It’s New Year’s
day in Chicago. The town is very
quiet. Morning newspapers print
black faced type stories telling
celebrants what to do to allay the
headache from the mistakes of the
night before.
Jan. 3.—We boarded the B. and
O. for Washington yesterday and
“got here all right” this morning.
The third congressional office force
is complete. The office has been
moved from the old House building
to 1017 new House office building.
Letters can reach the office by
merely sending them to Room 1017
House Office Building. The service
has been complete as the office here
has been open for the past month
and the district has been in con
stant touch with the capitol. Ray
Nedrow, the secretary, is on the
job. He spent a few days with his
folks at Fairmont, Nebr., and then
came directly to Washington.
Ethel Smersh of Fremont, Nebr.,
is added to the staff as stenograph
er and Ramona Stewart of Norfolk,
will be temporary stenographer.
Congress opens for business at
noon on Jan. 5. Lot of committee
meetings being attended before
that hour. But the grind of legis
lation has started and we hope that
“everything will be all right.”
Tied Knots, Clues That
Often Help Solve Crimes
Mysterious crimes are full of
knots for Investigators seeking their
solutions, and it is knots, but of a
different kind, that often old In
clearing up these mysteries, espe
cially If there is a “string" to them.
Criminologists have found that
knots In rope, cord or string con
nected with a crime furnish such
valuable clews to the identity of
criminals that such evidence is as
carefully preserved as fingerprints.
Persons in such occupations as tex
tile workers, sailors nnd bundle
w rap pers, as well ns those in other
vocations, from force of habit, tie
knots of a particular kind. Not
only can an expert tell an occupa
tional knot, but he can also tell
something of the person who tied
it. lie knows If the knot is right
or left-handed, and he studies It for
I additional kinks or twists often put
in by force of habit by the person
making the knot In such instances,
a detective may build a conclusive
case against a suspect by merely
asking him to tie a knot In a piece
of twine.
Cattlemen and those accustomed
to horses, for example, often use the
Texas bowline; lumbermen ar.d
truckmen, the timber hitch; physi
cinns, the surgeon's knot; farmers,
ti>e Tom Fool’s knot, nnd seamen
use several distinctive kinds of
knots. The textile worker ties a
still different kind of knot which is
called the weaver’s knot
A little boy in Altoona said to
his mother the other day: “Ma,
am I a decendent of a monkey?”
“I don’t know,” replied the mother,
“I never knew any of your father’s
folks.”
Murder of Famous Chief
Resulted in Many Deaths
One of the most inexcusable mur
ders in the history of our contact
with the Red race, cites n writer in
the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer,
was the killing of the famous Chief
tain Cornstalk, Having gone to the
American camp at Point Pleasant
in West Virginia on a friendly visit
to bring about peace between the
two races, lie was held prisoner by
the officers. While thus detained, a
prowling Indian in the vicinity
killed a white irnin. The soldiers,
hearing this, rushed upon Cornstalk
—also his son lilliuipsico and Black
Hawks, who were imprisoned there—
and in revenge cruelly murdered
them. This destroyed the only hope
of reconciliation and peace lio
tween the white settlers south of
tiie Ohio river god the Indian tribes
north of it. Occurring in 1777, this
was followed by a succession of
wars, forays, and murders down to
the battle of Fallen Timbers in 17!H,
during which many thousands of
while men, women and children,
and many thousands of the Red
race perished at each other's hands,,
all of which might have been avert- j
ed by peace had not the beloved j
Cornstalk been murdered.
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Famous Russian Library
The famous and magnificent state
library at Leningrad which was
founded In 1814 and early became
one of the great treasure houses of
the world has not lost much of Its
magnificence and value since the
revolution. It still contains most
of the valuable collections for which
It was noted, Including Voltaire’s
library, which was bought intact
by Catherine II, many of the most
celebrated copies of the Bible >and
the Koran, rare Hebrew manu
scripts of the Pentateuch and the
famous Codex Slnnitleus, which
next to the one in the Vatican, Is
♦he oldest Greek manuscript In ex
istence of the New Testament, hav
ing beon found in an nnclent mon
astery on Mount Sinai.
Height of Hemlock Trees
The hemlock commonly attains a
height of about 75 feet and a trunk
diameter of 2 to 3 feet. Very old
trees in good soil may reach up 160
feet and attain a diameter of 5 to
6 feet. The hemlock Is a sturdy
tree. It Is valunble for lumber and
an Important source of wood pulp.
The hark Is extensively used in tan
nerles.
BRIEFLY STATED
Ed Gunn has been laid up with
the flu all wdek.
Mrs. J. H. McPharlin is confiied
to her home suffering an attack of
the flu. . •
Archie Bowen has been confined
to his home all week with a severe
attack of the flu.
The O’Neill Woman’s Club meet
ing which was to have been held
Wednesday afternoon was called
off indefinitely on account of the
storm.
Supervisor John Sullivan has
been missing from his usual haunts
all week. Reason, John is con
fined at homc' with an attack of
the flu.
During the year 1936 there were
twenty divorce actions filed in the
district court of Holt county. This
is a few less thin has been filed in
previous years.,
Robert Biglin, who had been
visiting the home folks during the
holiday vacation, left Sunday for
Omaha to resume his studies in
Creighton University.
Harry Blain of Grand Island,
came up a week ago Sunday for a
visit at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Pete Todsen. He left for
home Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Loretta Enright returned to
Petersburg, Nebr., Monday after
having spent the Yuletide holidays
here at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Enright.
F. J. Biglin was confined to his
home tho first three days of the
week suffering from an attack of
the flu. He made his first appear
ance since Sunday this noon.
Leo Farrell came up from Oma
ha Sunday night, where he had
been spending the-New Year’s holi
day with his family and visiting
other friends and relatives there.
The various county officials are
busy on their annual reports which
will be made to the county board
after their reoranization for the
ensuing year, on Tuesday, Jan. 12.
Lewis Cambre left Tuesday af
ternoon for Simpson College near
Des Moines, Iowa, where he will
renew his college work after a two
weeks vacation with the home folks.
j An interesting discovery was
made as a result of Friday and
Saturday’s blizzard. Humanity
can survive without the daily re
ceipt of mail and the big city
papers.
C. J. Barnum, undertaker and
furniture dealer of Neligh, was in
the city Wednesday night, being
stalled here with his hearse, on
account of the blockade of the high
way east of town.
There are more cases of flu in
this city now than there have been
since the great epidemic of 1918.
Physicians, not only in this city,
but practically over the entire state
have but little rest these days.
The fire department was called
to the residence of Ausby William
son, in southwest O’Neill about
11:30 Monday forenoon. An oil
stove had overflowed and was burn
ing. The fire was quickly exting
uished without damage.
Mayor John Kersenbrock took
the “steering wheel’! of a road
grader Sundaj', and, attached to a
powerful caterpillar, opened up the
city streets to traffic. The mayor is
a disciple of the motto: If you want
a thing done, do it yourself.
Lewis and Peggy Cambre enter
tained thirty of their high school
friends at a dancing party at the
new Hatchery building last Mon
day evening, with Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Cambre as chaperons. All
the young folks present report hav
ing had an enjoyable time.
Lloyd Gillespie is among the
few lucky dogs to have an Eskimo
outfit to crawl into when the Arctic
Circle expands into this territory.
In coon skin cap and brown fur
coat he got out and hurled defiance
at '37’s introductory storm, so to
speak.
Paul Mintken, an employee of
the Interstate Power company, re
is Average Starting Time of
TAILOR-MADE
SHELLY AROM AX
"READY-MADE” (refinery) gasoline is
pretty much alike. Weather isn't. It
changes in each community. So Skclly
"tailors” Virgin gasoline into refinery
gasoline to give the same fast start
everywhere. Get a faster start in the
morning. See for yourself.
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«*c IS FFHMf, COMMUNITY
FARMERS UNION CO-OP GAS, CREAM
& PRODUCE COMPANY
Arlo Hiatt, Mgr. O’Neill. Nebr.
ceived word Wednesday morning
of the death of his stepfather at
Hooper early that morning. Mr.
Mintken at once started for Hooper
to attend the funeral but was
forced to turn back when he reach
ed the vicinity of Page on account
of the drifted roads.
Henry Moberg, general superin
tendent of construction of the
court house, was taken to his home
in Omaha Wednesday of last week.
Mr. Moberg had been ill for a few
days and deemed it better to get
home where he could receive med
ical attention in home surround
ings. He is expected to return the'
first of next week prepared to stay
until the job is finished.
Mrs. Stuart Moech left last Mon
day for her home in Chicago, after
a three weeks visit here at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. O’Donnell and with other rela
tives and friend* here. She was
accompanied by her sister, Mia*
Grace O’Donnell, who will resume
her studies in the Chicago univer
sity after having spent the holidays^
visiting at the home of her parents
here.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin and
daughter, Marjorie Joan and son,
Richard Dwight, returned Sunday
night from Nebraska City where
they had spent the holidays with
relatives and friends. It rained
hard in Nebraska City on New
Year's morning, over half an inch*
falling, and later on in the evening/
another shower fell. Very little
snow visited that section of the
state and roads north and south of
there were open as usual. They
have had a good deal of moisture in
that section of the state during the
past three months and people are
very confident of having a boun-,
teous crop the coming year.
FROZEN FISH
We are again handling Fresh Frozen Fish from
Northern lakes. P'W this week we have—
YELLOW PIKE—Per Lb. 22c
PICKEREL—Per Lb... ^|7C
OYSTERS—Solid Pack, per pint...... 30c
Get Our Price on Fish in Quantities
JUST RECEIVED
Truck Load of Boxed Apples
ROMAN BEAUTIES and
WTNESAPS—Per Box.S2.25
BARNHART’S
O’Neill and Atkinson
JANUARY SALE
ALL WINTER COATS must go!
SPORT COATS and FUR TRIM
40% reduction in Price!
ALL MY STOCK OF
LeVine Dresses
Are Now Offered at 20% to 40% Reductions!
BIG DISCOUNTS ON
SWEATERS GLOVES DRESSES HATS
SEE US BEFORE BUYING!
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
GRIFFEN SMART SHOPPE
HpHE entry in a bank
book is often the
epitome of a life em
braced in a line.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This Bank Carries Ns
indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
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