Frontier
I_, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937. No. 36
1 SURVEY OF SEED
CORN SHOWS WE
HAVE ENOUGH
County Has Enough Seed Corn for
Its Own Needs. Oats and
Barley May Be Short.
Early reports of the seed corn
survey now being conducted by
Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece,
are that there is sufficient corn in
the county for olcal needs. Oats
and barley may be somewhat short
as well as sweet clover or alfalfa.
•All farmers either needing seed or
having seed for sale are urged to
return the report cards so that an
accurate estimate of the seed situa
tion can be determined. Lists of
producers of seed will be mailed to
those wanting seed and \ice versa.
It is hoped that two or three seed
shows can be held in the county in
February in cooperation with local
community clubs but weather and
roads will largely determine the
practicability.
The agricultural agents office
will start testing seed corn for
Holt county producers free of
charge about Feb. 1. Anyone want
ing seed tested is urged to send in
, a pound sample at their earliest
* convenience.
Roads Again Blocked
By Snow and Wind
Roads in the county were again
blocked Wednesday by the heavy
snow fall Tuesday night and Wed
nesday. Highway No. 20 west of
here is open this morning as far
•f as Stuart, very little snow falling
west of here. According to State
Engineer Osenbaugh they will have
the highway east open as far as
Ewing by 2 o’clock this afternoon.
The highways north and south are
blocked but the road officials are
of the opinion that they will be
able to get the highway south open
aa far as Chambers some time to
day. The highway north will prob
ably not be opened until Friday or
Saturday.
A real old time blizzard raged
here all day Wednesday, the ther
mometer remaining a little below
zero all day. Six or seven inches
of snow fell and the high wind
kept the air full of snow flakes all
day long. The storm abated late
in the afternoon and the mercury
went down, registering 15 below
zero during the night.
High Low
Jan. 17 .... __ 21 —6
Jan. 18 — 14 —11
Jan. 19 _ 14 0
Jan. 20 13 —8
4 Jan. 21 --- —15
It Is Cold Because
It Is Warm!
It is strange what intensive study
reveals and regarding the weather
alone there are undoubtedly thous
ands of believe-it-or-nots which
might make good reading. For in
^ stance, when snow falls there in
variably is a raw, cold nasty breeze
or wind in its wake—or at the wake
of some late citizen—and weather
men say this is caused by the snow
warming the earth. The heat thus
generated brings down cold air as
the warm air ascends and there
you havef it—it is cold because it
is warm.
Another strange one has to do
with lightning. When that streak
strikes a tree and it flies to pieces
it is because the heat turns water
therein to steam which explodes
and throws the wood to slivers.
Feb. 1 Is Deadline
On Auto Licenses
February 1 is the deadline on
automobile license buying. Like
last year, most of those who call
for the new licenses are reminded
that the personal taxes must be
paid on their cars first. The law
says you must present a receipt for
your taxes on the family hack be
fore you even dare to look like you
want a license. The tax bill on a
1934 Ford adds up to about $10, and
around $25 for the newer models
of Ford, Plymouth, Chevrolet and
l slightly larger cars. On top of
that comes the $3 or $5 fee for the
new license itself. A brief checkup
reveals that all of the 1937 Fords
come under the 2,800-pound limit
in the $3 class. The heavier sedans
in the 1935 and 1936 models were
just over the weight limit and their
licenses still cost $5. A list of
weights on other cars reveals some
what the same situation with Ply
r mouths and Chevrolets this year.
Most of the models of those two
makes fall into the $3 class, but
deluxe and town sedans slip over
into the $5 bracket.
The old belief that if you didn’t
buy a new car until after April 1,
you would have to pay no taxes for
that year on the basis of the as
sessment of your old car does not
hold true. If you buy a new car
any time before July 1, you will
pay taxes on it instead of on the
old car. There has been no change
in the law. It has been that way
for a number of years, but now
the county officials have a better
chance to check up on you than
they had before. They do it.
Assessment of your car is no
longer dependent upon how much
you argue with the assessor. Val
uations are all fixed according to a
set figure for your car, depending
on its year and model. These facts
are gleaned from license records.
Demand and Quality
Poof and Prices Down
At Atkinson Auction
Demand and quality of cattle
offered at Tuesday sale in the ring
at Atkinson were only fair. Cat
tle prices were weak to 25 cents
lower and hogs 50 cents to 75 cents
lower than the previous week.
Upward of 300 cattle and a like
number of hogs met with a rather
indifferent reception at Tuesdays
auction. With prospects for an
other blizzard in the offing buyers
were rather reluctant to buy, for
fear they might not be able to move
their stock for several days. With
out exception the quality of the
offering was not as good as recent
ly. Best yearling steers sold at
5.75 to 6.50; yearling heifers main
ly around 5.00 to 6.00; stocker
heifers at 4.50 to 6.00; steer calves
at 6.00 to 7.50 depending on the
quality; heifer calves at 5.50 to
6.00; canner cows at 2.90 to 3.20;
cutters at 3.36 to 4.00; best fast
cows lit 5.00 to 5.50; bulls at 4.50
to 5.25.
Hog receipts 335 head. General
ly 50 to 75 cents a hundred lower
than a week ago. Best fats at
9.16 to 9.25; sows at 8.26 to 8.80;
feeder pigs all weights at 6.25 to
8.50.
Horse receipts 145 head. Mon
days horse auction brought out a
good offering of quality horses.
Plenty of buyers were present,
however flood conditions in the
Ohio valley tended to restrict the
eastern shippers from taking hold
as they ordinarily would this
season of the year. Prices gen
erally ruled about steady with the
recent decline and it looked as tho
the buyers were making some
splendid buys.
Next livestock auction Tuesday,
Jan. 26, at 12:30 p. m.
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This Is The Kind of
Subscriber To Bring
Joy To Any Editor
Tuesday night this office received
a letter from our old friend E. E.
Cole, of Star, enclosing a money
order for a year’s subscription to
this household nevessity. Mr. Cole
is a reader every newspaper likes
to have on its list. His subscrip
tion is always paid in advance.
Shortly after Jan. 1 of each year
we always receive a money order
from Mr. Cole extending his sub
scription and now Mr. Cole takes
the honor list on our subscription
list, being paid ahead farther than
any of our readers. Mr. Cole had
not received the last issue of The
Frontier and did not know that the
reduced rate was again in effect
this year and we have credited his
subscription up to August, 1939,
which places him eight months
ahead of any of our readers. Many
thanks E. E. and we hope that
many of our readers will emulate
your example and ease the financial
stringency around these headquart
ers.
In his letter Mr. Cole, who has
been postmaster at Star for many
years, says that mail arrived at his
office on Jan. 13 for the first time
since Jan. 1. He says that the
Lynch carrier has not been at Star
since the fourth of January, so
they are hard up in that section for
reading matter. He says the farm
ers in that section get out and
clear the roads but they are filled
up again and made impassible in a
day or so by the strong winds.
Here’s hoping E. E. that the weath
er will be better the balance of the
winter.
TWO FACTIONS AT
WAR OVER CHANGE
IN ST ATE’S SET-UP
Exclusive of Members Salaries the
Legislature Will Cost Tax
payers $300 A Day.
by James R. Lowell
With the permanent organization
of the unicameral legislature ef
fected, two divergent forces in Ne
braska state government become
apparent. While these clashing ele
ments are non-partisan the contest
on the floor of the legislature will
furnish the issues for the party
candidates in 1938. In fact the
state legislature, with pitless pub
licity prescribed, will be the train
ing school for Nebraska states
men of the future.
One party will advocate simpli
fication of state government, a
short ballot, the cutting out of
boards and bureaus and centrali
zation of the powers of govern
ment in few hands. The close scru
tiny of state and local government
will be an issue.
On the other hand a group will
decry the cutting down of the
number of officials; they will dc
siro “representative government”
close to the people. Favoring them
will be the party organization men
who now bitterly resent the disap
pearance of legislative candidates
from the party ticket.
The. clash in the legislature over
the form of the rules started this
cleavage. Norton, Wells, Von Seg
gern and a number of others rep
resent one school of thought E ar
ner, W. R. Johnson and the conser
vative element of the republican
party stand by the opposition.
Complete publicity is possible for
all legislation under the rules out
lined by Chairman Norton and the
rules committee. Norton and Von
Seggern fought to scrap the com
mittee of the whole as a useless
piece of machinery. Warner, W. R.
Johnson and Strong favored re
taining the committee of the whole.
Then Norton insisted on the recog
nition of the constitutional provis
ion in the one house amendment
which permits one member to de
mand a roll call and have the roll
call included in the daily journal.
It takes time to get a bill through
the one house. The normal course
is fourteen days. With suspension
of the rules a bill can be passed
in five days. In the two house set
up bills were often passed by both
houses in a single day.
The biggest innovation is in
committee work. Public hearings
must be held. Five days notice of
the hearing must be given. Any
two members of a standing com
mittee may demand a roll call of
the committee. The committee
must return a synopsis of every
bill when a favorable report is
made. Final action on bills can
only be taken as scheduled meet
ings.
There is a thirty day limit for
the introduction of bills. The legis
lature meets at 9 a. m. each day
except Saturdays and Sundays.
Legislative Bills and Legislative
Resolutions are the titles. After a
bill has been referred to third
reading two days must elapse be
fore it can be passed. Only one
day was required under the bi
cameral.
It requires a two thirds majority
to amend and a three-fifths ma
jority to suspend the rules.
The members of Nebraska’s uni
cameral legislature have decided to
call themselves “Senators.” Only
four members, Dafoe, Diers, Nor
ton and Wells voted against the
resolution proposed by P. L. Cady
of Arlington and W. F. Haycock of
Callaway, making the legal title of
the one-house legislature the “Sen
ate.” _
In the 1936 Nebraska Blue Book,
which is printed by the Legislative
Reference bureau, the picture of
R. M. Howard of Flats, who was
a member of the house in 1935,
appeared in both the senate and
in the house sections. Mr. Howard
told the unicameral legislature
that while he considered it an
honor to appear twice in the Blue
Book, still he thought something
ought to be done about it. The
legislature agreed with him and
approved a motion to substitute
the picture of A. T. Howard, for
mer state senator from Scotts
bluff, in the senate group in the
book.
According to the estimates of
the appropriation* committee, the
average cost per day of the legis
lature, exclusive of the salaries of
the members, will be $300 per day.
The eleven members of the ap
propriation* committee are plan
ning to visit the major state insti
tutions to investigate needs, and
will probably divide the inspections
into three week-end trips.
Dean Louis J. Tel’ocl of the Law
school of Creighton University, and
Robert Van Pelt ®f Lincoln were
chosen as legal advisors for the
legislative session, and Milton C.
Murphy of North Platte as bill
drafter, by the adoption of the re
port of the judiciary committee.
The three men Will each receive
a salary of $26 per day when work
ing.
“Five cents per mile each way,
but the most direct route” is the
interpretation agreed upon by the
appropriations committee for the
constitutional provision that legis
lators shall be paid actual cost for
mileage.
The shortest session of the uni
cameral legislature to date was
that of Wednesday, January 13,
when t^ie session lasted just thirty
five minutes. Committee meetings
however, were long and strenuous.
A mimeographed copy of the new
rules, which show great simplifi
cation of precedure, was placed in
the hands of each legislator last
week. The rules feoinmittec has the
veteran John N. Norton of Polk as
chairman. The other members are
C. J. Warner of Waverly, W. R.
Johnson of Omaha, E. M. Von Seg
geren of West Point, and Allen A.
Strong of Gordon.
In a recent letter to President
Roosevelt, Governor Cochran re
fused to recommend ratification of
the proposed Federal child labor
amendment to the Nebraska uni
cameral legislature. He explained
the action by saying that he made
it a practice to confine his recom
mendations to those matters re
quiring the approval of the gover
nor in order to become effective.
Members of the legislature can
only draw a single year’s salary,
$872 in 1937. The amendment fixes
the salary limit at $37,500 a year.
Senator J. D. Reynolds has in
troduced and the legislature has
passed a resolution urging con
gress to make available immediate
loans for seed and feed for farm
ers.
The state of Nebraska owns 1,
700,000 acres of school land. It is
unplatted, underscribed and, Secre
tary of State Swanson maintains,
an unknown portion has been lost
to the state. The county treasurers
collect the lease fees; they remit
to the state treasurer. In the his
tory of the state there has never
been a trial balance nor can there
be. It is impossible to check the
state treasurer's books with the
county treasurers or with the of
fice of the land commissioner who
still inhabits the offices across the
hall from the state treasurer.
When the suit against ex-State
Treasurer Bass was settled several
days ago, the state treasurer re
ceived about $2,100 as the proceeds
of a verdict cut down from $5(5,000.
In a suit to recover this money
it was shown that the original
memoranda of the purchase of se
curities had disappeared from the
land commissioner’s office.
The latest disagreement of the
state railway commission was over
protests filed by Commissioner
Maupin with the commission, with
the state auditor, and with the
secretary of state against expense
claims amounting to $129 filed by
Commissioners Good and Bollen.
Mr. Maupin claimed that the com
mission had not authorized the in
curring of these expenses, as has
been the custom, and that the ex
penses were incurred befor Mr.
Good has succeeded Mr. Drake as
a member of the commission.
The comission approved the
claims over Mr. Maupin’s objec
tions.
Editor J. P. O’Fury of Harting
ton has done a wonderful job of
selling the advertising possibilities
of the country press. His recent
address before District 8, American
College Publicity Association drove
hon e an idea that was fast erys
talizing as a result of the last
RE-ORGANIZE TO
FURNISH COUNTY
OFFICE SUPPLIES
Holt County Publishers Meet In
O’Neill Tuesday Evening And
Retain Old Organization.
All the members of the Holt
County Publishers association, ex
cept E. C. Hammer, of Chambers,
were in the city Tuesday evening
for the annual meeting of the as
sociation. The visiting editors
were entertained at a dinner at the
bakery as the guests of D. H.
Cronin of The Frontier and after
the dinner the meeting was held at
the office of The Frontier.
Those present at the dinner and
meeting were: D. T. Murfin of the
Page Reporter, Ralph Kelly of the
Atkinson Graphic, R. B. Crellin of
the Ewing Advocate, Norris Coats
of the Stuart Advocate, George A.
Miles of the Holt County Independ
ent, and D. H. Cronin of The
Frontier. At the business meeting
held after the dinner the old of
ficers, who have conducted the af
fairs of the association for the
past year, were reelected for the
ensuing year. The officers are:
D. T. Murfin of Page, president;
D. H. Cronin of O’Neill, treasurer;
Ralph Kelly of Atkinson, secre
tary.
The members of the association
were well satisfied with the report
of the officers of the business for
the past year. A complete report
of the same will be submitted to the
Holt County Board of Supervisors
at their meeting the latter part of
the week, after which it will be
published in the various papers of
the county so that the taxpayers
of the county can see for them
selves the savings made the tax
payers by this local association of
publishers. The organization was
made possible by the active co
operation of the members of the
county board and a renewal of
their contract for another year will
make possible greater savings in
the ensuing year.
Two Men Are Taken
To State Penitentiary
Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom, ac
companied by Ed Hancock, went
down to Lincoln last Sunday taking
James Wilson and John Carter to
the state penitentiary where they
will be confined for the next three
years. They were sentenced by
.lodge Dickson last week for break
ing into and burglarizing the office
of Dr. W. F. Finley of this city.
On their way home they visited
with Ed Hancock’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Hancock at David
City, returning home Sunday even
ing.
Accident Record
Total accidents in the state dur
ing the week ending Jan. 2, 1937,
numbered 296, in which 216 people
were injured, five disabled and fif
teen deaths. Motor vehicle accid
ents again led the list by a wide
margin, 138 of the 296 accidents
being motor vehicle. In these ac
cidents 134 people were injured,
four disabled and nine deaths. Sec
ond in the list for this week were
other public accidents of which
there were 76, in which 33 were in
jured and one death. Home ac
cidents are next on the list with a
total of 39, in which 24 people
were injured. Agriculture em
ployment is next with 29 accidents
in which 19 people were injured
one disabled and four deaths. In
industry employment there were 14
and one death.
During the week ending Jan. 9,
1937, there were 311 accidents in
which motor vehicle accidents took
second place. In these accidents
154 people were injured, one dis
abled and seven deaths. Other
public accidents led the list for the
week with a total of 143, in which
59 people were injured, no deaths.
campaign. The rural people, as a
result of the depression, no longer
maintain adequate contact with
the daily press. Every line in the
local weekly is read. Manufactur
ers, especially in rural electrifica
tion lines, are seekingfi advertising
contacts with the country press.
Governor Cochran, in confer
ence with Leslie Haker and A. E.
Mac Kinnon, commissioners of the |
1939 New York Worlds Fair, ex- j
pressed the hope that Nebraska
might be able to have an exhibit.
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There were 79 motor vehicle ac
cidents in which 54 were injured
and four deaths. In agriculture
employment there were 30 accid
ents in which 17 people were in
jured, no deaths. In industry em
ployment there were nine accidents
in which five people were injured
and one disabled. There were fifty
home accidents during the week in
which 19 people were injured and
three deaths.
The above fiugres are furnished
by the Nebraska State Press As
sociation and tho state superin
tendent of public instruction.
Large Number Takes
Advantage of $1.00 A
Year Subscription Offer
Despite the condition of the roads
a large number of Frontier readers
were in the city last Saturday and
called at this office and extended
their subscription to this house
hold necessity for another year.
One of our readers who has been a
subscriber for over forty years and
whose father was a subscriber for
years before his death, was among
the callers. He said he did not see
how we could publish a paper the
size of The Frontier at $1.00 a year.
We assured him that we could not
do it if it were not for the loyalty
of our readers. Like this reader
we have many in the county who
began reading the paper as soon as
they were able to read and have been
reading it ever since. These read
ers, aB a rule, are the children of
our old time settlers and they are
prompt in the payment of their
obligations to the editor as well as
to the grocer. When that is done
the editor can make reductions in
times or distress like the past few
years, he can take part of the loss
and give his readers the benefit of
securing their reading matter at a
fraction of its actual cost. This
we have done the past four years,
but we are hoping that this is the
last year that we will have to make
this rate to assist our readers in
getting their favorite newspaper.
You want to remember friends
that The Frontier prints eight more
columns of reading matter each
week than does the other O’Neill
paper, or 416 more columns per
year. In other words you would
have to receive the other O’Neill
paper fourteen and a half months
to receive the amount of reading
matter that you get in The Frontier
in one year. In addition to this
you have the opportunity to read
about the doings of your neighbors
in the various parts of the county
as reported by our correspondents
in the various sections. If you are
not a Frontier subscriber you should
have your name enrolled with our
vast army of readers while the
price is at $1.00 per year.
SPIRITED SIX CLUB
The roll call was answered by
the members giving their favorite
hobby. The minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.
The OK cards in the English con
test were counted and also the
Good Deeds. Because Bonnie Heni
fin and Bernadine Langan did not
inspect every morning, they had to
straighten the kindling in the barn.
The rest of the school is going to
stand Melvin Gelster in the Eng
lish contest because he always gets
more OK cards than the rest of the
children. Donald has charge of
the tidy and untidy sign. An Es
kimo scene is going to be fixed
on the sand table. Each one is to
read a book and tell of its contents.
The Page pins were given out at
the last meeting.
Soil Conservation
Meetings Postponed
All soil conservation meetings as
scheduled throut the county have
been postponed until further notice.
Condition of the roads makes any
kind of travel nearly impossible
and some can only get away from
home on foot or by horse-back.
According to recent figures given
out by the management of the Fed
eral Land bank of Omaha the farm
sales of the bank reached an all
time high last year. During the
year they sold 468 farms, for the
sum of $2,692,000. The bank op
erates in Nebraska, South Dakota,
Wyoming and Iowa. While the
bank makes sales on a down pay
ment of twenty per cent the cash
paid on the land before possession
averaged 33 per cent of the 1936
sales.
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DEATH TAKES AN
AGED HOLT COUNTY
MOTHER TUESDAY
Funeral Services Held at the Hmp
of Her Son This Morning, and
Burial at Stuart.
Mrs. Margaret Mains died at the
home of her son, T. S. Mains in this,
city last Tuesday afternoon about
2:30 after an illness of three weeks
of ailments due to advanced years
at the age of 82 years, 8 months
and 1 day.
Margaret Adams was born at
New Lexington, Ohio, on May 17,
1854. She grew to womanhood in
her native state and there she was
married on May 17, 1881, to John
H. Mains. To this union five child
ren were born, four sons and one
daughter, three of whom survive
and are left to mourn the passing
of a kind and affectionate mother
and advisor. The children are:
Thomas S. Mains of this city, Mra.
Florence Johnson of Grand Island,
Robert A. Mains of Humphrey,
Ncbr., and several grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Mains lived in
Ohio for sevral years after their
marriage and then moved west,
settling in Iowa where they resid
ed until the spring of 1902 when
they came to Holt county and set
tled near Stuart. Mr. Mains died
in May, 1912, and Mrs. Mains main
tained her residence at Stuart until
six years ago when she came to
this city and has since made her
home with her son, Thomas Mains.
Mrrs. Mains was a pioneer in
Mrs. Mains was a pioneer in
western Iowa when she moved to
that state with her husband a few
years after their marriage and she
again pioneered in Nebrasku when
they moved to Stuart shortly after*
the beginning of the century. She
was a loveable woman and had
hundreds of friends in the western
part of the county where she re
sided for so many years. Like ail
pioneer mothers she cared naught
for splendor or the frivolities ©f
life but was content to devote her
entire lifetime to the care and
attention of her loved ones and in
their welfare and well being she
was content and happy. The child
ren will miss her and her many
friends will miss from their ranks
another pioneer of the earlier years
in the county.
Mrs. Mains was a life time mem
ber of the Methodist church and the
funeral was to have been held in
the Methodist church in this city
on Wednesday at 11 o’clock, but on
account of the storm it was post
poned. Reverend May, of the local
M. E. church will officiate and bur
ial will be in the cemetery at Stuart
at the side of her husband who died
in 1912.
Funeral services were held at the
home of her son in this city this
morning and the burial will be at
Stuart this afternoon.
Evergreens Survive
Dry Weather Well
Given careful attention, planted
and protected from the hot, south
ern winds, evergreen trees can be
planted thruout Nebraska success
fully. Such was the essence of a
survey report received by the Holt
county farm bureau this week.
Thirty tree planters from all
parts of the state replying to a
survey made by the Nebraska col
lege of agriculture reported an
average survival of 62 per cent in
11)26 despite the unfavorable
weather conditions. Of the 15,500
trees planted by these individuals,
a total of 9,608 grew successfully.
These facts were called to the
attention of local farmers this
week as they were encouraged to
make applications for Clarke-Mc
Nary seedlings and transplants
thru the farm bureau office for
spring planting. Interest in tree
planting is increasing each week
and to date local farmers have
made application for 9,600 trees.
O’Neill Livestock Sale
Postponed To Feb. 1
On account of the condition of
the roads the first sale, which was
to have been held at the O’Neill
Sale Pavillion next Monday, has
been postponed for one week and
will now be held on Monday, Feb
ruary 1.
It is said that Governor Landon
is going to buy himself a farm but
he isn’t picking it out in Maine
or Vermont.