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VOL. LVII O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29,1937. No. 50
i ROBERT BIGLIN IS
FIRST IN ORATORY
AT CREIGHTON UNI.
Hibernian Medal In Annual Contest
Goes to Son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. J. Biglin of O’Neill.
Robert Biglin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. J. Biglin of this city, won
fame and honor at Omaha last
Monday night. It was in Creigh
ton University's annual oratorical
contest, when; he carried off the
honors and was awarded the Hib
ernian medal in oratory, as the
best orator of the year. An Omaha
young man was second in the con
test.
The Frontier tenders Robert con
gratulations on his signal success
which will be gratifying news to
his many friends in this city and
county. To be champion orator in
a school the size of Creighton is an
honor to be prized by any young
man and his success brings honor
and credit to his home town and
county.
District Lumbermen
Have A Meeting Here
Lumbermen of this district of
W the Nebraska Lumbermen’s assoc
iation met in this city last Thurs
day evening with a dinner at the
Golden, after which they listened
to an address by Prof. Ivan D.
Wood, extension specialist in agri
cultural engineering at the Nebras
ka Agricultural college, on the
value of pump irrigation,
k The attendance at the meeting
f was not as great as had been hoped
for and those present said that
those not attending missed a
splendid address by Prof. Wood on
the value of pump irrigation.
The latter was of the opinion that
there would be hundreds of pump
f irrigation plants installed in this
section of the state during the next
year. He gave figures and data of
the rainfall in Nebraska, every
section thereof, for the past sixty
years, and basing his findings on
past history he was of the opinion
that Nebraska would have ample
moisture this season.
Lumbermen were present at the
meeting from Stuart, Atkinson,
Emmet and O’Neill.
Opens Internal Revenue
Collector's Office Here
Richard A. Bishop of Omaha, ar
rived here Sunday and has opened
an internal revenue office in the
new court house building. Mr.
f Bishop has charge of this district,
but says that he will always be in
his office in this city on the last
day of the month to assist any
taxpayer needing assistance in
making out remittance papers for
any money due the government.
Taxpayers can make their pay
ments direct to Mr. Bishop, who
I will in turn mail them to the office
in Omaha. Mr. Bishop is married
and has a son. His family will
move to this city as soon as the
present school term is over in
Omaha.
Internal Revenue Collector Tan
ner of Omaha, was in the city
Tuesday assisting in getting the
O’Neill office started. Mr. Tanner,
a son of Doc. J. M. Tanner, for
many years a Nebraska publisher
and former state senator for years,
has been in the collectors office in
Omaha for over twenty years and
is now considered an expert on fed
eral taxes. He returned to Omaha
Wednesday.
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Achievement Day
for Project Clubs
The Woman’s Project Clubs of
this community will hold their local
achievement day Friday, May 14.
The work which has been done the
past year will be exhibited and a
program which starts at 1:30 will
be given by the local clubs. Visitors
are welcome as it is desired to have
them become acquainted with pro
ject work and know what is being
done.
WOODMEN CIRCLE
The Woodmen Circle met with
Miss Beryl Winchell Thursday
evening. There were quite a few
present, regardless of the high
wind and disagreeable dust.
A delicious lunch was served at
the close of the meeting by the
hostess and assisting hostesses,
Mrs. Yarnell and Vim Eidenmiljer.
| All reported having a good time.
The Weather
The past week has been a good
one for this section, as far as mois
ture was concerned. During the
week we received .71 of an inch
of moisture, rain falling on three
of the six days and the other three
there was a trace. Following is the
tabulation of weather for the week:
High Low Mois.
April 23 65 36 T
April 24 _ 39 27 .29
April 25 37 26 T
April 26 _ 39 28 T
April 27 42 37 .24
April 29 . 40 .18
Hearings on Road
Are Continued
A large delegation of the citizens
of Dustin and Cleveland precincts
were in the city Tuesday, appear
ing before the county board on a
petition asking for the opening of
two miles of road in the northwest
ern part of the county. Practically
all day was spent in the hearing
and continued until next week in
the hopes that the people could
get together and agree on an am
icable settlement.
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Floyd Adams has invested in a
new coupe with which to traverse
his mail route.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Saunders and
little son visited in the southwest
last Sunday.
The funeral of Grandma Fix, a
pioneer of this community, was
held at Amelia Friday last.
The James family are enjoying a
visit from a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James, who, with her little
son, arrived last week from Min
neapolis.
About one-half of one per cent
of the 'human mass gets an idea
that contributes something to a
world’s need. The rest of us trail
along doing ou>" little stuff with the
tools forged and furnished for us.
In 1920 democracy garnered
slightly more than 30 per cent of
the country’s vote and was pro
nounced a defunct political party.
For all intents and purposes so it
is. The Franklin D. party is a
separate and distinct thing, though
! clinging assiduously to the long
eared emblem of honored and his
toric memory. The G. O. P. has its
period of “defunct” well wishers,
but a bunch that musters seventeen
million votes under the most ad
verse conditions can scarcely be
counted out.
It was soon after arriving to be
turned.loose to the new and wild
freedom of Holt county’s endless
miles of sod. The wind had fanned
furiously all that day and for two
days previous from the southeast.
Night began to close in on us with
an ominous cloud gathering to the
•northwest, stabbed at intervals by
streaks of lightning. Two long
timbers lay beside the house, a
story and a half building yet in tVe
course of completion. These, father
stood on end and leaned up against
the building just under the eastern
eaves. I suggested that they be
taken to the other side. But dad
knew what he was doing. We all
retired for the night, some of us at
least unmindful and unaware of
danger lurking in that omnious
cloud. An hour before midnight I
was awakened by a crash and the
house going as the storm struck
with wild furry. Frightened not so
badly that I couldn’t scream I got
out of bed and down stairs where
a light had been struck. The house
was all together but sat on an angle
of several degrees, leaning against
the storm of wind and rain. Milk
from pans on a table spilled to the
floor and meandered in white lines
across the room. The building had
rested on two large timbers, one
under the sill on the west and one
under the sill on the east. The
broadside of the storm rolled the
house off the west timber and up
over the one on the east side. What
part those props played in prevent
ing us from being upset father
knew better than I. Something of
an early day tradition in Holt
county was three days wind and
then a rain. And it could rain, with
dashing storms that tumbled home
stead shanties about and set village
shacks over on the next lot.
Mrs. McMahon Reelected
Chairman Project Clubs
Mrs. James McMahon of Inman,
was reelected county chairman for
the Woman’s Project clubs of Holt
county for the year 1937-38. The
group at Stuart reelected Miss
Teresa Levi for their group chair
man and the Chambers group re
elected Mrs. Bulah Grimes as group
chairman.
The lessons for the coming year
should prove valuable, practical and
interesting to every homemaker.
They are as follows: “Developing
Personal Charm,” “Christmas Gift
Suggestions,” “Satisfying Meals,”
“One Dish Meals,” and “Decorative
Objects One Can Make.”
Cattle And Hogs Show
Price Improvement At
Atkinson Sale Market;
W ith supplies of cattle showing a
sharp decrease all classes of cattle
got good action at Tuesday’s
auction. Slightly over 300 head
were on sale. Best cows and heif
ers looked fully 50 cents higher
with the more desirable steers 25
to 35 cents a hundred higher than
a week ago. Again this week
cattle were bought for shipment
into Wyoming and the Black Hills,
where it is reported that grass is
good. The balance of the cattle
went to Iowa and Northeast Ne
braska feed lots.
Best quality steer calves brought
7.00 to 8.00; fair to good ones at
6.00 to 7.00; stocker yearling steers
at 7.25 to 8.00; fair to good ones at
6.00 to 7.00; some fleshy feeder
steers at 8.00 to 8.45; heifer calves
and yearling heifers at 6.00 to 7.00;
some real fleshy ones at 7.75 and
8.00; red and roan heifers on the
stocker order at 5.50 to 6.25; choice
fat cows at 7.00 to 7.90; good cows
at 5.00 to 6.60; canners and cutters
at 3.35 to 5.00.
Feeder and light weight pigs
were in demand at the best prices
of the sason bringing from 8.00 to
10.50 a hundred—fat hogs at 9.45
to 9.55; sows at 8.85 to 9.35. Four
packer buyers were present and
seemed to have their pockets full
of orders for all weights.
Only eight head of horses were
sold and the market on them was
fully steady with a week ago.
Next auction Tuesday, May 4,
starting at 1 p. m.
An Invitation To
Old Time Friends
This office received a letter, en
closing a remittance for another
years subscription to this household
necessity from Mrs. H. H. Mitchell
of Jeffers, Mont. Mrs. Mitchell will
be remembered here by the old
timers as Katie Sullivan, a daugh
ter of the lat^ Mr. and Mrs. Florry
Sullivan of the Michigan settle
ment. He aunt, Nora Sullivan, for
many years a resident of this city,
makes her home with them and
Mrs. Mitchell says that she looks
eagerly forward every week to the
arrival of The Frontier so she can
find out what is going on in the
“old home town.” Mrs. Mitchell
says they enjoyed a visit last sum
mer from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Birm
ingham and J. D. Cronin, who were
on a tour of the west and visited
them for a few hours. She says
they are on the best highway be
tween Butte and the Park and
would be pleased to see any of
their old friends who visit that sec
tion of the country.
New Bakery Opens
The O’Neill Bakery opens its
doors for business Saturday morn>
ing. A. E. Kiehl, owner of the new
bakery, says that he expects to
have his bread on sale in a major
ity of the grocery stores of this
city on that date. See his adver
tisement in another column.
The Stannard building is begin
ning to look like a new modern
building. New floors have been
laid therein, redecorated and reno
vated getting ready for the new
counters and fixtures that will soon
arrive. The front of the building
will receive a coat of stucco and
when the job is completed this will
be one of the best looking buildings
on Fourth street.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse James and
son, Hugh, and daughter, Mrs. Re
vard, the latter two of Minneapolis,
Minn., were in the city for a few
hours Tuesday visiting friends and I
looking after business matters.
DISTRICT FUNERAL
DIRECTORS HOLD A
MEETING IN O’NEILL
Undertakers of Sixth District Meet
To Discuss Changes In Laws
Effecting Morticians.
The undertakers and funeral di
rectors of the Sixth district, of the
Nebraska Funeral Directors assoc
iation, held their regular quarterly
meeting in this city Tuesday even
ing in the Biglin mortuary. The
sixth district comprises the funeral
directors in the following six coun
ties of the state: Holt, Boyd, Rock,
Brown, Keya Paha and Cherry.
Those present at the meeting
were: Jake Slonaker, Naper; D. B.
Raymer, Butte; R. P. Jonea, Spenc
er; E. J. Kilmurray, Atkinson; N.
W. Coats, Stuart; H. N. Jessen and
R. E. Seyfert, Ainsworth; Frank
Fisher, Valentine; Walter Korisko,
Omaha, secretary of the Nebraska
Funeral Directors association; F. J.
Biglin and William J. Biglin of
O’Neill.
The session was a protracted one,
lasting until nearly midnight. The
present legislature amended the
laws governing funeral directors
and most of the meeting was taken
up in a discussion of the amend
ments to the law, which was ex
plained by Mr. Korisko, secretary
of the Nebraska association. After
the meeting- the members present
were guests of the Biglin boys at
late luncheon at the bdkery.
Ainsworth Couple
Married In O’Neill
Jerome A. Bejot and Miss Stella
D. Jones, both of Ainsworth, were
granted a marriage license in the
county court Wednesday. This
young couple were united in mar
riage at high noon at the Methodist
parsonage, Rev. A. J. May officiat
ing. They were attended by Emil
Bejot, father of the-gi.com, and F.
G. Clift and daughter. Miss Meta,
of this city, old time friends of the
bride and groom.
4-H Sewing Club Formed
Six girls met at Herman Eiserts
home near Opportunity last week
and organized the “Opportunity
Designers” 4-H sewing club with
Miss Emma Berglund as leader.
Ella Eisert was selected as assist
ant leader and was also elected
president. Other members and of
ficers are: Wanda Spangler, vice
president; Leone Belzer, secretary;
Suzanne Mudloff, news reporter,
and Verna Zakrzewski and Dorothy
Young additional members.
GRATTAN PROJECT CLUB
The Grattan Project club met at
the home of Mrs. George Weingar
tner April 20. Twelve members
and one visitor, Mrs. Taylor, were
present. A delicious dinner was
served at noon. New club officers
and leaders were elected as follows:
Mrs, E. Wolfe, president; Mrs. C.
A. Hoxsie, project leader A; Mrs.
Albert Miller, project leader B;
Mrs. Ed Matthews, secretary-treas
urer; Mrs. Chas. Lawrence, news
reporter; Mrs.Ray Lawrence, music
leader. The leaders gave a very
interesting lesson on "Planning the
Leisure Hours." Plans were made
for achievement day to be held at
the home of Mrs. Albert Miller.
Bill Hammond, Jr., On
Staff of Winning Paper
Los Angeles, April 24.—William
Hammond, resident of O’Neill,
Nebr., who is a reporter on the
staff of the Daily Trojan, campus
newspaper at the University of
Southern California, was being
congratulated today by student and
faculty friends for sharing in hon
ors accompanying designation of
the publication as one of four All
American collegiate dailies for
1937.
The Daily Trojan shares the
superior rating with student pub
lications of the Universities of
Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon
sin. The award was given by the
National Schoolastic Press assoc
iation.
In considering tlhe merits of
the hundreds of newspapers en
tered in the annual competition,
judges based their decision on news
values, news sources, writing and
editing, headlines, typography,
makeup, department pages, and
special features.
This is the second time in the
history of the Daily Trojan that it
has won the All-American title, the
only other time having been in 1934.
The Daily Trojan is written and
edited entirely by students in the
U. S. C. School of Journalism. A
staff of 100 young men and women
participates in the work of publish
ing the paper each day of the school
year.
Rug Cleaner Installed
The Harty Launderers and Dry
Cleaners have installed new rug
cleaning equipment in their plant.
The machinery was installed Tues
day and on Wednesday a represent
ative of the company was here to
give the employees instructions on
its operation. Mr. Harty figures
that the installation of this mach
inery will permit them to handle a
lot of work in the local plant that
had heretofore been sent out of the
city.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our heart
felt thanks to the manly kind
friends and neighbors for their
many acts of kindness during the
sickness, death and burial of our
beloved mother, the late Mrs. J. P.
Mullen. Your many acts of kind
ness and expressions of sympathy
will ever be held in grateful re
membrance.—The Mullen children.
iSeLF-DENIAL may
be disagreeable now—
but Poverty in the fu
ture will bedisasterous.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This Bank Carries No
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
BRIEFLY STATED
Ben and George Winchell of Ver
digre, were business visitors in this
city Wednesday.
Jerry Halva of Lynch visited at
the home of his brother, Vic Halva,
in this city Tuesday;.
Mrs. Larry Cain and two sons,
Robert and Fred, returned Sunday
from Omaha where she had been
the past three weeks visiting at the
home of her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur George of
Rscondido, Calif., are the proud
parents of twin boys born April 22.
Mrs. George will be remembered
here as Sara Simmons.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Wanser of
Page, are rejoicing over the ar
rival of a son at their home last
Sunday night. Mrs. Wanser is the
daughter of the late John Carr and
Mrs. Carr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chudomelka and
family of Inman, Mr. and Mrs. John
Valla and Mr. and Mrs. Vic Halva
and family of this city, drove to
Verdigre last Tuesday night to at
tend a Bohemian movie.
Ray Osborne has had the interior
of his beer parlor repainted and
the fixtnres revarnished and it now
presents a much improved appear
ance. A coat of paint on the ex
terior of the building would help
a lot.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Moore left
last Saturday for Friend, Nebr., to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Moore’s
sister, Mrs. Mamie Nelson, who
died at her home there Friday. They
returned home Wednesday after
noon.
* L. C. Walling, division manager
of the Interstate Power company,
and K. D. Fenderson, division sup
erintendent manager of operation
and maintenance, of the Interstate
Power company, went to Laurel
and Wausa last Monday to super
vise the repair of their lines in that
section.
Pittsburg, Pa., was threatened
with another flood last Monday
night, the third major flood in
thirteen months. Thirty hours of
continuous rainfall raised the Al
legheny and Monogahelia rivers to
a flood of 36 feet, almost equal to
the historical flood of 1907 and 11
feet over flood stage.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bro of Ne
braska City, arrived in this city last
Saturday afternoon for a visit at
the home of their daughter, Mrs.
R. E. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
were out of the city attending a
funeral but Mr. and Mrs. Bro re
mained and visited with the child
ren until Monday when they re
turned home.
Word was received the first of
the week by friends of Eliza Bigler,
who lived id O'Neill for several
years with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Moler, that she was
seriously ill in a hospital at Mit
chell, S. D. Later reports are to
the effect that she is slightly im
proved, which will be pleasing
news to her many friends in this
section.
L. E. Joy of Dustin precinct, was
in the city Tuesday with other
residents of that precinct appear
ing before the board on a road peti
tion now pending before the county
officials. Mr. Joy informs us that
he will have a sale Friday of this
week and will soon leave1' for the
state of Washington, where he ex
pects to make his future home. An
other good Holt county farmer
listens to the call of the western
slope.
Mrs. D. Stannard returned last
Sunday night from a three months
visit with relatives and friends in
California and Denver, Colo. She
put in about two and a half months
visiting her son and daughter in
California and on her way home
stopped in Denver for a two weeks
visit at the home of her sister and
with other relatives in Denver. Mrs.
Stannard says that she had a very
enjoyable visit and met many form
er O’Neill people in California who
were glad to welcome to Calif
ornia people from the old home
town.
ELECTRIC SERVICE
CRIPPLED BY SNOW
AND ICE STORMS
Continuous Service Restored T®
O’Neil! Wednesday Evening
After Four Days Work.
Nebraska was enmeshed in freak
weather last week. It started blow
ing hereslast Thursday night and
kept it up until some time Sunday
night when the wind moderated. At
times during the 9(5 hours of blow
ing the wind velocity reached 40
miles per hour. Friday night we
had a little rain, which was fol
lowed by snow, but the latter was
very light. The precipitation re
ceived during Friday afternoon and
night was registered by Observer
Bowen at .29 of an inch.
East of us, however, commenc
ing about Randolph, they had a
very heavy snow, which carried by
a very heavy wind filled cuts and
blocked Highway 20 from Laurel
to Sioux City. Large rotary snow
plows were used Saturday after
noon to clear the highway from
Randolph to Sioux City. The snow
was very wet and heavy, causing
telephone and electric light wires,
to sag and break and many poles
went down with the heavy weight
of the ice and snow. O’Neill peo
ple, who happened to be in Sioux
City during the storm, said that the
snow drifts in the vicinity of Laurel
were higher than automobiles.
The Interstate Power company,
of this city, was one of the heavy
losers as a result of the storm. Part
of their power is received from
Sioux City and part of it from
Sioux Falls, S. D. In the vicinity
of Sioux Falls the storm was very
severe and the town was isolated
for several hours, in fact the dam
age to the light and power lines
are not yet completely repaired.
The break in the Sioux City and
Siou£ Falls lines put the company
up against it for power to furnish
their many customers in tBis sec
tion with the necessary juice, so
that this city took on the appear
ance of olden days most of the time
the past week. In these days, when
most machinery is run by electric
ity, many of the local business
places that require electricity were
idle most of the time.
The Interstate owns the light
plants at Neligh and Elgin and
juice from these plants was switch
ed to this city, so we had electricity
during the afternoons most of the
time but when the heavy load came
on in these towns in the evening,
we were out of luck. Many a home
owner hunted thru the attic trying
to dig up an old lamp to replace the
Edison light. We will venture the
opinion that more candles have
been burned in the city during the
past week than in any like period
for a quarter of a century.
An official of the power company
informs us that the whole line from
Belden to Sioux City was in trouble
and from Dixon to Sioux City, a
[distance of thirty-five miles, every
thing was shot. The company had
a line from Wausa to Dixon and on
this line there were two breaks.
As soon as the storm abated
workmen started the job of repair
ing the damage done. Company
officials say the damage on the
South Dakota line was so much
heavier than on the Nebraska line
that they decided to get the Ne
braska line repaired so they could
take care of the needs of their
customers in this section and the
work on this line was rushed, and
at 6:30 Wednesday evening the
damage was repaired between
O’Neill and Sioux City, and elec
tricity was again flowing uninter
[ ruptedly into the homes and manu
facturing plants of the city.
The financial loss to the Inters
state Power company will run into
thousands of dollars, in lines and
poles broken and ‘the loss to the
company in not being able to sup
ply the needed electric energy de
manded by their patrons.
The blizzard seemed to follow
highway No. 20 across the northern
part of the state, the snow being
light twenty miles south of Ran
dolph. The Burlington passenger
did not reach this city either Fri
day or Saturday, resuming service
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gaddis of
Grand Island, stopped for a short
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Vic Halva Wednesday, while oit
their way to Idaho.