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Over the County
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
March 1 was shirt sleeve weather
in the southwest.
A neighbor reports he paid 30
cents a pound the other day for a
cut of beef he had sold on the hoof
for five and a half cents.
A friend in need but not among
the fortunate ones is led to wonder
what the system is that gives the
conservation checks to some in a
community, omitting others who
thought they had complied with all
requirements. Equality before the,
law doesn’t seem to imply equality
in government conservation mat
ters. —
The wee brown birds, necks con
tracted to their little bodies and
huddled in sheltered places about
the barns for two cold months,
have sprung to gay activity and
flit blithely from beam to beam
with gladsome chirps. Beast*? aijd
birds, and we lordly bipeds, take
heart again as spring approached.
Lloyd James held a sale Friday
last at the place occupied the past
year by D. L. Withers. Something
over 100 head of cattle and some
horses were offered for sale. Bid
ders werd few as those present
were mostly neighbors who them
selves had stock to sell. A part of
the offering was sold and went to
the Petersen ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker had some
of their Shorthorns on the Atkin
son market last week.
Archie Reed expects to have a
sale along the middle of the month.
He says he has become weary of
hauling hay all winter to a mob of
hungry White Faces that are not
worth the value of the hay and has
his eye on a fruit growing section
out in Washington. One discourag
ing aspect of cattle ranching for
Archie this winter was the loss of
over a score of his herd.
The southwest has been on the
mail routes the past two weeks
after being snow bound since Jan.
1. Our fairly reliable government
weather men tell us the winters
are getting warmer and summers
cooler. Who’d have thunk it?
It is claimed of a Chinese citizen,
now living with his twenty-fourth
wife, that he was born in 1676. The
automobile has not replaced the
wheel barrow in China. A Cali
fornia woman has a little more
astonishing matrimonial record
than the aged celestial. At 50 she
claims to have had 12 husbands,
all living.
Neighbors are relaxing from the
strenuous cattle feeding program
and are out repairing fences that
fared rather badly this winter at
the hands of travelers wending
their baracaded and frost-tinged
way across country. No rancher
objects to wires being let down to
permit going ahead but they see
little excuse for cutting the wires.
E. E. Young was up town Tues
day. —
The Methodists at Amelia had a
full attendance for ihe service
Sunday, the first since the forbid
ding weather encompassed the
southwest in an icey grasp.
An airplane droned liesurely
across toward the northwest Mon
day afternoon just back of our
buildings and at a sufficient alti
tude to miss the fence posts. Per
haps a hunter who had taken to the
air in search of prairie' wolves. The
throbing of an airplane motor came
with a mighty roar across the
calm Tuesday far to the southwest.
I have been singularly honored
of late by two communications
from Washington with a volum
inous address of the honorable at
torney general in behalf of the
president’s court program. One
package, under the government
frank known as “official business,”
contains this letter:
“Mr. R. Saunders, Atkinson,
Nebr.—Dear Sir: The attorney
general has asked me to acknow
ledge receipt of your recent letter
in connection with the president’s
proposal for judicial reorganiza
tion, and to express his appre
ciation of your friendly interest.
“In accordance with your re
quest a copy of the attorney
general’s radio speech of Febru
ary 14, 1937, is enclosed. Yours
sincerely, Ugo Carusi, Ex. As
sistant to Atty Gen.”
Rather remarkable. I have sent
no such letter or made any request
for the attorney general’s speech.
The other package was quite sim
ilar but postage had been paid. It
contained a letter identical to the
above only addressed to another
person. This sort of a muddle only
confirms my views that the Capitol
Hill crowd should keep impious
hands off of the supreme court.
PLEASANT DALE
Miss Geraldine Dusatko visited
school Friday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. Jouie Palmer and
daughter, Joan Kay, spent Satur
day at the John Gallagher home in
Atkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mulligan of
Wood Lake, visited relatives and
friends at Atkinson Saturday.
Naydene Kee visited Sunday af
ternoon with Arlene Beckwith.
Mr. and Mrs. George Babl and
family moved to the farm vacated
by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pongratz.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and
family called at Jake Ernst’s Fri
day evening.
Phillip Keating of Atkinson, was
out in this neighborhood on busi
ness last Friday.
Miss Aladene Kee returned to
O’Neill Sunday afternoon iaftef
spending the week-end at home.
Mrs. Guy Beckwith and Daryl
called on. Mrs. William Schmohr
Friday afternoon.
Miss Angela Pribil spent the
week-end at her home near O’Neill.
Mr; and Mrs. Joseph Pongratz
moved to the Dane Heeb farm last
week.
Conie Gokie and son, Donnie,
Mrs. Ed Heeb, Velma Johnson and
Mike Bonenberger visited Mrs.
Conie Gokie Tuesday at the Stuart
hospital. Mrs. Gokie underwent
an appendix operation. She is
getting along fine.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Waymen
moved to the John Robertson farm
east of Midway garage Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Schmohr
and Gladys and Walter spent
Thursday evening at Carl Lorenz’s.
Miss Pauline Dusatko was home
over the week-end.
Ralph Beckwith called at the
William Luben home Monday on
business.
Casper Winkler was in O’Neill
Monday to attend the livestock
sale there.
MEEK AND VICINITY
Clyde Thompson arrived in this
section for a visit with his folks in
Boyd county a few weeks ago and
spent the past week visiting in
Holt county at Horace Rouse’s.
Frank Griffith’s, Howard Rouse’s
and Mrs. E. H. Rouse. He also
called on several relatives and
friends in and near O’Neill. He is
working at Grand Coulee and likes
the country very much. He says
he wouldn’t care to live in Nebras
ka again, especially on account of
the wind here.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Borg and
children and Mrs. Viola Searles
spent Saturday afternoon at Frank
Searles.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall moved
to the Orville Harrison place re
cently. The Ray Kurtz family are
moving onto the Lindberg place
formerly occupied by the Devalls.
Floyd Luben, Howard Rouse,
Cecil Griffith, Roy Spindler, Mart
Schelkopf, and Walter Devall, help
ed A. L. Borg put up ice last Tues
day.
Some of the young folks of the
community spent Friday evening
at the Gus Karel home.
Mrs. Schelkopf of Geneva, moth
er of Mart Schelkopf, is visiting
here with her son.
Word was received recently of
the birth of a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Lindberg at Los
Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Lindberg was
formerly Mary Heminway of Ew
ing.
Miss Velma Joining spent the
week-end visiting with friends at
Lincoln, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Borg and
Marvel called at the Fred Lindberg
home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffith and
Cecil called at Roy Spindlers Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Haines who
came from their home at Parmalee,
S. D., to attend the funeral of Mr.
Haines’ sister, Mrs. Claude Hull,
returned home Thursday.
Several neighbors were invited to
a party at the Mart Schelkopf home
Saturday evening. Among those
who attended were Mrs. Morris
Graham, Muriel, Darold, Russel,
Reta and Mary Graham, Mr. and
Mrs. Preston Jones and Mabel, Lu
cille, Morris, Asa Edwiiia and
Genieve, Mr. and Mrs. Kus Karel,
Cecil Griffith and Walter Devall.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rouse and
family were guests at the Morris
Graham home Saturday evening.
The Luber family have been busy
moving from the Noel Hamper
place to the George Hansen place
the past few days.
The Fred Johring family were
guests at the Virgil Hubby home
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Slate and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Rouse and sons called at Eric
Borg’s Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Howard Rouse, Mrs. Herb
ert Rouse, Mrs. Ralph Young, Mrs.
Henry Walters and Mrs. Carl Lor
enz and Mrs. Frank Griffith spent
Monday with Miss Maude Rouse in
O’NeilU
INMAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. George Kivitt have
moved to the residence in the
southwest part of town that they
recently purchased from Stuart
Hartigan. Mr. and Mrs. P. D.
Hartigan have moved to the farm
vacated by the Kivitts.
Several Inman people attended
funeral services for “Grandma’’
Lamason at Page Tuesday.
The Stuart Hartigan family
moved into rooms at the Lee Con
ger residence this week.
Allen Miller- of Norfolk, was
looking after business in Inman
Tuesday.
The Inman Workers club met
with Miss Gladys Hancock Wednes
day. After the covered dish lunch
eon the lesson, “When I Go Shop
ping” was discussed, and business
was taken care of. The next meet
ing will be held at the home of
Mrs. Earl Watson.
Mrs. Etta Trowbridge and son,
Ernest, and Mrs. John Nickol and
daughter, Anna Mae, of Page, were
visiting here Sunday with then
daughter and sister, Mrs. Earl
Stevens and family.
Keith McGraw was home from
Lincoln over the week-end visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
McGraw.
Otto Rectke is moving to the
Elmer Killinger place. Elmer Kil
linger and family are moving to
California. Chet McCellahan and
family of Chambers, are moving to
the farm vacated by Rectkes.
Mrs. Grant Randall, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Rix and Mrs. William
Meyers of Norfolk were guests at
the Ivan Cone home one day last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and daught
er of Bassett, were her Sunday
visiting her sister, Mi's. Walt Jacox
and family.
Miss Lois Moor who teaches at
North Bend, was here over the
week-end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Moor.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Morsbach and
son, Harland, went to Newport
Sunday to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Brittell.
Mrs. Sarah Sholes and son James
moved into the Baker building this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dorlin Lockman
and son went to Orchard Friday
evening to visit friends.
Miss Ellen Hopkins, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Hopkins and Harold Maxcy, son
of Rev. E. B. Maxcy were married
Monday of this week at the M. E.
parsonage.
EMMET ITEMS
John Conard was an Atkinson
caller Thursday.
Ed Evans and Bill Callahan were
in Emmet Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Morrison and
son, Jimmy, of Orchard, were Em
met callers Thursday.
Mrs. William Luben, jr., spent
Thursday in Emmet helping care
for Mrs. William Luben Sr., who is
ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allen went
to Ewing Thursday to attend the
funeral of a friend. Joe Sesler
was in charge of the filling station
during Mr. Allen’s absence.
Kathleen Cadman and Gus Thal
lis, of O’Neill, visited relatives and
friends in Emmet Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Farr were
in Emmet Thursday calling on
relatives and friends.
W. R. Tenborg was a business
caller in Atkinson Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Sesler made a busi
ness trip to Newport Thursday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mlinar of At
kinson were Emmet callers Tues
day evening.
Frank Sesler, Ed Evans and Bill
Callahan were in O’Neill on busi
ness Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wolfe, of
O’Neill, were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allen.
Helen Anspach returned to Em
met Saturday after having spent a
week with her parents at Inman.
C. E. Tenborg and son, Francis,
went to the livestock sale at the
new pavillion in O’Neill Monday.
Virginia Bauman of Atkinson,
Dorothy Lewis, Gus Thallis, Kath
leen Cadman and Doris Rekan of
O’Neill and Joe Sesler, Earl Farr,
Herman and Louise Grothe and
Francis Tenborg were guests at
the Cadman home Sunday after
noon.
Guy Cole and brother, Arthur,
attended the livestock sale at At
kinson Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kloppen
borg were Emmet callers Wednes
day.
Garrett Jarrzing was in Emmet
on business Monday morning.
SOUTH SIDE
IMPROVEMENT CLUB
The South Side Improvement
Club met at the home of Mrs. Alex
McConnell on February 25, 1937.
The lesson, “When We Go Shopp
ing” was given by Mrs. McConnell.
The next meeting will be an nil day
meeting to be held at the home of
Mrs. Ben Brockman on March 18,
1937.
—
BUSY HOUR CLUB
The Busy Hour club met Thurs
day, Feb. 25 at the home of Lizzie
Schmohr. All members were pre
sent except Mrs. Giey. Alma
Schmohr, Bessie Waymnn and
Gladys Schmohr joined the club.
The afternoon was spent in work
ing on games and doing embroidery
work. A delicious lunch was served
by the hostess. The next meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Henry Wayman March 25.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E.
Yantzi, superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Fu
ture Life."
Evening Service 7:30—Orchestra,
Choir and Gospel message. We in
vite you.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
A. J. May, Pastor
March, Loyalty month. Sunduy,
March 7, Communion Sunday.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning Worship 11a. m.—Spec
ial music by the choir. Meditation
and Communion service.
Epworth League fi:30.
Evening Service 7:30—A pre
sentation of a series of pictures of
the Holy Land by Prof. L. M. Dur
ham. This will be appropriate at
this time and very interesting.
March 22 the Nebraska Wesley
an A Capella Chorus will present
an unusual musical treat.
EFFORTS TO BRING
CONVENTIONS BACK
TO NEBRASKA FAIL
(Continued from page 1.)
state hospitals and the average cost
of caring for them. The county is
then to figure the amount of tax
needed on its valuation to meet
the total, and that amount is added
to the state levy for the taxpayers
of that county. The bill carried no
emergency clause.
Action on the bindweed eradica
tion bill, though it seems to meet
with general approval, has been
postponed by the agriculture com
mittee until a number of proposed
amendments can be made ready.
The idea is to form bindweed eradi
cation, districts similar to drainage
districts, and to assess the farmers
in each district for the cost. Ar
rangements for the acceptance of
federal loans are provided.
LB14, a bill to establish a state
licensing board for engineers and
architects, has been advanced to
the general file. An amendment has
been added excluding all reference
to engineers connected with rural
electrification or irrigation.
All present county elective of
ficials, state railway commission
ers, town clerks, town treasurers,
justices of the peace, road over
seers, district supervisors and pre
cinct assessors are to be elected by
nonpartison vote if the Howard
bill is passed by the legislature.
It passed the committee of the
whole with little opposition. Thirty
three years a,;o a similar bill could
How long
should a
man’s legs
be?
Lincoln had a good answer.
“Long enough,” he drawled,
“to reach from his body to the
ground.”
That seems like a good rule
to apply to a business. It
ought to be big enough to do
the job it is intended to do.
Have you ever thought about
the size of a company, what
makes it big or small?
It isn’t the directors and it
isn’t the stockholders—but the
public. No business grows—
and keeps on growing—unless
it meets the people’s needs and
provides a worth while service
at a fair price.
The Hell System has grown
as the nation has grown. It
has to be big to provide effici
ent, adequate service to 127,
000,000 people.
NORTHWESTERN BELL
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muster but one vote. Now it is
generally admitted that this bill is
a long step in the direction of more
efficient government.
Liquor must not be sold to In
dians in Nebraska, according to
the provisions of LB39, which the
legislature passed with a unan
imous vote. The bill will go into
effect ninety days ufter the close
of the legislative session.
At the,, request of many residents
of the western part of Nebraska,
who wished to avoid a conflict with
the date of the Denver Livestock
show, the legislature has passed a
measure which changes the date of
the annual meeting of the state
board of agriculture from the third
to the fourth Tuesday in January.
By the passage of LB84, the
Omaha Grain Exchange and other
boards of trade are permitted to
make their own rules on weighing
grain. The bill carried the emer
gency clause and went into effect
immediately after the signature of
the governor.
After a non-resident of Nebraska
is missing for seven years, he is
considered dead in this state. A
law passed in 1935 makes this same
provision in regard to Nebraskans,
and now by the passage of LB57,
all missing men come under the
•same time limit.
“Possibly by late this fall, cer
tainly within a year, the Missouri
river will be made navigable as far
as Omaha and Sioux City,” de
clared Daniel Baum of the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce, speaking
before the government committee
of the legislature in favor of LB95,
the bill which seeks to allow cities
and villages to elect dock boards to
build and manage public wharves.
The government construction of
the Fort Peck reservoir in Montana,
it was stated by Mark Woods,
makes certain an adequate supply
of water in the Missouri river to
accommodate river shipping, even
in dry years. An amendment was
added to the bill protecting railroad
right of ways against use as dock
locations. During the discussion
a prophecy was made that river
shipping will later on. be done upon
both the Platte and the Elkhorn
rivers.
The incurably and painfully ill
are not to be put out tf their suf
fering in Nebraska, according to
the decision of the legislative com
mittee on public health, which un
animously killed the bill for legal
ization of euthanasia, sponsored by
Dr. Inez C. Philbrick and introduced
by John H. Comstock of Lincoln.
Dr. Philbrick, who has been a prac
ticing physician for forty-three
years, advocated the bill as a mercy
measure, telling of several hope
less cases in which she had been
forced to refuse the supplications
of the suffering for release. She
asked why human beings should be
refused that which we freely grant
to incurably suffering animals. The
bill provided that the courts might
allow a painless death on the rec
ommendation of two doctors and a
lawyer.
A Reliable Market
A market where you find and meet buyers.... A .Market
where you find a demand. ... A market where the year thru
you get service. ... A market devoted exclusively to the
sale of livestock—we have no other line of business. Better
Service . . . More Money . . . Prompt Accounting . . . Hand
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week after week and sale after sale—
CONSIGN AND BUY THRU
THE
Atkinson Livestock Market
“Home Market for North Nebraska”
OIL FILTER
10,000 mile guar
antee. Reg. price
93c. Special Price
79*
CATTLE
KNIFE
3 blade, tempered
steel. Reg. price
49c. Special Price
39*
2GAL.100%PURE
pc KIN oil sPeci*' off«r
rtnn V/ll.forad«y«only
Keg.
price
$1.29
2
GAL.
1
Includ
ing can
and
Fed. tax
HAND SAW
26-inch 8 point.
A Real Bargain
Sale Price
75*
CLAW
HAMMER
16 oz. Chrome
Vanadium Steel.
Sale Price
69*
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ELECTRICITY
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ASK ABOUT IT!
Our electric system must be designed to carry the
maximum load which occurs during the winter months.
This load drops off sharply in the spring due to chang
ing seasons with the result that we have considerable
excess capacity in plants and lines in the period from
March 16th to July 15th inc. Therefore, during these
four months we propose to pass on to our customers
the use of this excess capacity, by selling half of the
electric energy used in excess of the Kilowatt Hours
consumed during the corresponding month in 1936,
at 2c per Kilowatt Hour. Each month’s consumption
of the four months period in 1937, will be compared
with the corresponding month in 1936 to determine
the number of Kilowatt Hours to be charged for at 2c.
EXAMPLE:
$
If in March, 1936, you consumed 30 Kilo
watt Hours and in March, 1937 your con
sumption amounts to 50 Kilowatt Hours,
Ten (10) Kilowatt Hours, or one-half of
the increase, will be charged for at 2c per
Kilowatt Hour.
This new Low Rate Shall Apply, During These Four
Months, to Residence, Rural and Commercial Light
and Power Customers.
Ask Any Employee How You Can
Purchase This 2c Electricty
Electricity is Cheap and Dependable
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