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V0I LVII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937. No. 52
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Legislators Pass Bill for
Appropriations That Is
Over 54 Million Dollars
The legislature has set a goal of
May 12 as the date for adjourn
ment, but many are doubtful as to
■whether the necessary work that
must be done can be accomplished
by that time.
Governor Cochran's veto of the
air fuel refund bill has received the
support of the legislature. Frank
Brady moved to pass the bill over
the governor's veto, but the motion
was lost.
With almost unbelievable celerity
the legislature worked on the morn
ing of May 4, and succeeded in
passing eighteen bills. Of these,
one of the most important was
LB 367, the revision of the blue sky
law. By its provisions, all dealers
and brokers in securities, and all
corporations, except those whose
stock is to be retained by the in
corporators, are required to obtain
permits to do business from the
buerau of securities of the state in
surance department. This bureau
must pass upon securities before
they can be offered for sale in Ne
braska. Securities coming under
blue sky provisions and those ex
k empt are more clearly defined than
they have ever been before.
The speed possible to the uni
cameral was also shown May 3
when in five hours and 40 minutes
the more than 54 million dollars
budget bill was advanced to select
file. Bicameral legislatures have
taken from three to five days to
accomplish as much. The budget
► total is $54,064,201, the highest
ever known in Nebraska, four mil
lion dollars more than Governor
Cochran’s budget, which was fig
ured on a four-cent gasoline tax.
The appropriations committee has
recommended a total of $3,772,660
for the University of Nebraska.
This allows no building program
and no increased salaries for the
faculty, but is $307,660 more than
Governor Cochran recommended.
Building programs for state hos
pitals for the biennium will involve
$1,109,000, and will cover only ex
treme emergencies. Only twelve
million dollars is to be raised by
property tax.
Governor Cochran’s twelfth veto
for the unicameral legislature ses
sion fell on LB 53, the measure
appropriating $53,000 for establish
ing a trades school at Broken Bow.
He explained that he was in sym
pathy with the idea of providing
education in the trades, but object
ed to the expense. He believes that
^ trade education should be provided
under present education facilities.
In Nebraska, proposed amend
ments to the United States consti
tution are to be submitted to the
people for an advisory opinion,
according to the provision of the
bill, sponsored by John N. Norton,
which was passed by the legisla
a ture Tuesday by a vote of 31 to 4.
* Ten thousand voters, scattered in
two fifths of the 93 counties of the
state may petition the secretary of
state to place the proposed amend
ment on the next election ballot.
A rural fire district measure
passed the legislature unanimously
Tuesday, but did mot carry the
emergency clause. It provides that
51 per cent of the voters in one or
more townships may establish a
rural fire fighting district, author
ized to levy one-tenth of a mill to
finance protective operations, in
cluding equipment. Its sponsors
claim that the new law will reduce
materially the damage toll of farm
fires.
Among the recent bills passed by
the legislature and sent to the
governor for signature is LB 405,
which reuced the annual license
fees of chiropractors, chiropodists,
embalmers and veterinarians from
$2 to $1.
The maximum salary of the ex
ecutive secretary of the state li
brary commission is increased from
$2,000 to $3,000 per year by tho
provisions of LB 461, passed by the
legislature last week.
State assistance activities will be
7 under the charge of the state board
of control instead of the board of
educational lands and funds, ac
cording to the provisions of a bill
passed Wednesday.
By a vote of 34 to 0, LB 522,
introduced by Charles A. Dafoe of
Tecumseh, and John N. Norton of
Pc-lk, has been passed by the legis
, lature. It enables directors of power
t districts to add territory without
/ forming new districts; provides
that district property shall never
pass into private control; permits
the formation of irrigation districts
and provides that the state railway
commission shall have no jurisdic
tion over district matters.
Cattle Prices Lower At
Atkinson, Particularly
On the Poorer tirades
Atkinson, Nebr., May 11.—Al-:
tho the days receipts of cattle
totaled slightly over 600 head,
nothing really toppy in quality was
included. Some very good steer
calves reached 8.00 with quite a j
sprinkling around 7.35 to 7.75, the j
best yearling steers here stopped!
at 7.50 with the bulk at 7.00 to 7.26,
with plainer kinds at 5.75 to 6.50. j
Best stocker heifer calves sold at
7.00, yearlings of the same brand at
6.55 while plainer and commoner
1 kinds sold on down to 6.00 and
below. Fat cows, and butcher
cattle reflected a break of 25 to
75 cents from a week ago and it
took mighty good cows to bring
6,50 to 7.00. Canners and cutters
sold from 25 to 35 Cents off from
last week in a range of 3.25 to
5.00. Bulls at 4.75 to 5.75. Most
cattle were bought for shipment
to eastern South Dakota and Iowa,
one load going to Minnesota.
The hog market was a brisk af
fair from start to finish. Best fats
at 9.70 to 9.85; sows at 9.20 to
9.45; feeder pigs all weights at |
8.00 to 10.50.
Not enough horses on sale to i
test the market. I
Next auction Tuesday, May 18,
at 1 p. m.
Esther Sexsmith Wed
Monday to John Selders
On Monday morning, May 10,
the local Methodist church was the
place of a beautiful ceremony when
John Selders and Esther Sexsmith
were joined in holy wedlock. At
10 o’clock Miss Alice Sexsmith, a
sister of the bride, played a piano
selection, “Sabbath Chimes” which
was followed by “I Love You Truly”
sung by Miss Ruth Kraemer. Then
to the strains of the Lohengrin
wedding march, the bridal couple
marched down the asile attended by
Miss Velma Sexsmith and Mr.
John Davis. The marriage lines
were read by Rev. D. S. Conrad of
O’Neill, the ring ceremony being
used. After the benediction Rev.
Conrad introduced the newly mar
ried couple who received the good
wishes and congratulations of their
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Selders left
for their farm home near Griswold,
Iowa, immediately after luncheon
which was served at the home of
the bride’s mother, Mrs. Letta Sex
smith.
| Esther is a graduate of the
O'Neil! high school and early last
fall completed a course at the Cal
ifornia Beauty school of Omaha.
The past few months she has as
sisted in the work "t the Modern
Beauty parlor..
Mr. Selders is the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Selders
of Griswold, Iowa, and has made
many friends here in his few visits
to our city in the past year.
Out of town guests at the Sex
smith home for this occasion were:
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Selders of
Griswold, la., Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Elliot and two daughters, Edith
Mae and Mary Louise of Ralston,
Nebr., Miss Velma Sexsmith, sup
ervisor of nurses at the University
hospital of Omaha, and Miss Betty
Morgan of Bassett, Nebr.
Owing to the thoughtfulness of
Mr. and Mrs. George Zink the
church was very nicely decorated
with cut flowers, potted plants and
ferns. xxx
NW Nebraska Creighton
Alumni Meet at Spencer
The North Central Nebraska
Creighton Alumni association held
their annual meeting at the new
city auditorium in Spencer Tues
day evening, May 11. A banquet
was served by the Methodist Ladies
Aid of Spencer to about 85 memb
ers and guests. The principal ad
dress of the evening was delivered
by Rev. Bowdern, S. J., Dean of
the Graduate School of Creighton
University. Father Bowdern is
considered one of the best speakers
in the Jesuit order and the entire
audience was inspired by his re
marks.
John Murray, attorney of Spen
cer, acted as chairman of the meet
ing and brief remarks were given
by James P. Matron, attorney of
O’Neill, who served u^itil this meet
ing as the first president of the
Association. Frank Pellegrin,
secretary of the National Creighton
Alumni association., spoke briefly
and then showed moving pictures
of the Creighton campus and of
various football games of the 1936
season.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year are as follows: President,
Elven A. Butterfield of Neligh; j
Vice president, Dr. L. A. Burgess
of O’Neill; Secretary, N. P. McKee,
M. D., of Atkinson; Treasurer,
J. Earle Harper of Spencer.
Cards and dancing were indulged
in after the showing of the motion I
pictures and everyone reported j
having had a very good time.
Those present from O'Neill were:
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Marron,
Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Kubitchek, Rev.
Peter F. Burke, J. D. Cronin,
Eugene O’Hearn, C. A. Bergstrom,
Cletus Sullivan, Dr. and Mrs. L. A.
Burgess, Elmer Stolte, R. R. Mor
rison, J. J. Harrigton and M. H.
McCarthy. Also present were four
members of the O'Neill High school
football team, LeRoy and Allen
Spindler, Leonard Bergstrom and
Willard J. Kubitchek.
Boy, 20 Months Old,
Dies of Strangulation
Harry Dwayne Fox, the twenty
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Fox, of Meek, chocked to
death Friday morning on a bean
that lodged in his throat, as he was
being rushed to Norfolk by Dr.
Brown and his parents for emer
gency medical treatment. The
little lad passed away when
they were about 22 miles southeast
of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Fox
have the sympathy of their many
friends in this city and vicinity in
their bereavement.
OBITUARY
Harry Dwayne Fox was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox August
17, 1935, at Meek, Nebr. He died
May 7, 1937, at the age of one
year, 8 months and 22 days, enroute
to Norfolk in a final attempt to
save his life.
He leaves to mourn his death
his father, mother and one brother,
Harold Wallace; his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fox and Mr.
and Mrs. John Day. Also three
uncles and three aunts and a host
of relatives and friends.
Little Harry Dwaynes sweet
smile will be a hallowed memory
to many in the community in which
he spent the few short months of
his life.
Baby dear has left us
But his memory lingers here
God has called our little darling
Heaven’s gates to us seem near.
XXX
Lions Club Entertains
Thursday for Ladies
The local Lions Club entertained
for their ladies at their regular
meeting last Thursday evening.
Twenty-six Lions and their ladies
were present together with twenty
other guests.
Ira D. Kyle, district governor,
was chief speaker of the evening
and gave a very interesting address
on “Lionism.” L. P. DeWitt of
Lynch demonstrated his ability as
a ventriloquist to the delight of all
present. Mrs. Vesta Van Dahl of
Hartington entertained with sever
al readings which were very well
received. The ladies trio composed
of Mrs. Harold Lindberg, Miss Ruth
Kraemer and Mrs. Ted McElhaney
sang two excellent selections.
This meeting was the first meet
ing of the attendance contest which
is captained by Pete Todsen and
Pat Myhre, and both sides emerged
with thirteen present on each side.
Jack Kersenbrock
Is Holding His Own
John Kersenbrock drove down to
Lincoln last Sunday morning and
spent the day with his wife and
son Jack. John, says that Jack is
doing as well as could be expected,
considering the seriousness of his
case. The long strain has had its
effect on Mrs. Kersenbrock and she
was under the weather a couple of
days last week.
The Methodist Ladies’ Aid will
meet at the home of Mrs. Harold
Lindberg Thursday, May 20. Each
member is asked to bring their
mother or a guest.
O’Neill High Wins In
Niobrara Valley Track
and Field Meet Here
The O’Neill High School won the
Niobrara Valley High School Field
and Track meet here last Monday,
rolling up a total of 71 points.
The atheletes representing the
Lynch school was second with a
score of 33 and Chambers settled
neatly in third place with a score of
27. Spencer got lf> points and
Butte <J.
SOUTHWEST BRE E Z ES
By Romaine Saunders
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Bud Warner spent the evening
Monday at the Riley home.
Bernard Kennedy is putting out
a few acres of cottonwoods on a
shelter belt contract.
It might help some if congress
and the various state legislatures
would adjourn For a period of five
years.
Mrs. Baker and Mrs. William
son went to Atkinson Tuesday, the
latter on the interesting expedition
of a trip to the dentist.
Mrs. George Cutler was quite ill
last week, being threatened with
pneumonia. H^r mother, Mrs.
Snelson, came over to care for her.
Returning from a business trip
to a Chambers blacksmith shop
Monday evening, John Bower spent
the night with his friend Tom
Baker.
A snake is supposed to be valu
able to destroy rodents. I find the
latter preferable to reptiles drag
ging their ugly lengths around
the place.
Several herds « ' White Faces
have been moved to summer ranges
the past week. Grass is unusually
slow reaching the desired pasture
development this spring.
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This neighborhood did what it
could to help fill the churches at
Amelia last Sunday. Miss Holbert
was out from Emmet and preached
to an audience which filled the
Methodist churci.. The usual Sun
day devotions were held at the
Catholic church with a large at
tendance.
The closing of school in the Wat
son district was the occasion for a
picnic Monday. A similar observ
ance in the Berry district, with a
program, was held Saturday. Mrs.
Plank, drove to her home in east
ern Wheeler county, returning a
few days later with a trailer to
convey her things home.
Anxiety ran high at E. E.
Young’s a day last week. Little
Sarny was missing. A little more
than a baby but able to get around
just the same, the little boy was
eventually sighted on the hills, fad
to the east with “Buster,’’ a great
Newfoundland dog belonging to
the family. The child explained
his wanderings on the grounds
that “Buster was going away with
Sarny.”
The figures disclose that the G. O.
P. got 36.6 per cent of the popular
vote last November with many sec
tions going much in excess of that
for their candidate for governor
and other local offices. Of the
three successive democratic defeats
of 1920, 1924 and 1928 the lowest
ebb in the popular vote was 29 per
cent. The knockout blow of 1936,
overwhelming as it was, so far as
the failure to win office stands for
defeat of the republican party was
not as bad as more than one exper
ience at the polls of those tenac
ious adherents of a political theory
embodied in a donkey.
The national W. C. T. U., which
organization had more to do with
shaping sentiment that forced the
adoption of the late lamented
Eighteenth amendment than is
generally conceded, professes to
see again a swing of public fancy
in that direction. Omaha started
two years ago with between 800
and 900 saloons and no reduction in
number since. Little country
towns are adding to the amber flow
with ten to fifteen licensed places
for quenching of a mighty thirst
that is never quenched, so we seem
to not be in the reckoning of the
ladies. So far as Nebraska is con
cerned the sow that was washed
has definitely returned to her wal
lowing in the mire.
You fellows that roll out of free
trade blankets in time to slouch
down to a stuffy office by 9 or 10
o’clock are missing the allurements
of nature that comes only with the
early dawn out on the far-flung
open spaces. In the calm of morn
ing’s brief period, the sky touched
with the first pink tints of a new
day, meadow and field lying wet
under the nights’ dew and mists
hanging low along the valley its a
hit of fun that even all men cannot
resist to swing into the saddle and
ride out over the range to round in
the milk stock. The profusion of
floral bloom in enticing robes of
blue and yellow and red winking
up at you from the sod add color and
fragrance to this commonplace
morning chore that begins the
day’H activities at this season in the
southwest.
Speaking of sit-down strikes, the
fellow who has the> hardest time
pulling one is the tight rope walker
in the circus.
Who remembers when wearing
silk stockings made one and aris
tocrat ?
The mighty power of
the dollar is back of a
man just as long as he
keeps it in bank.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surpluri and
Undivided Profit#,
$125,000.00
This I lank (Carries No
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
The Weather
We have hud nearly all kinds
of weather in this section during the
past week. Last Friday we receiv
ed a nice rain that amounted to .48
hundreths of an inch. During the
night .4 of an inch was added,
which made a totul of .52 hundreths
of an inch for Saturday and Sun
day and on Tuesday wre had .2 of
an inch, making .54 of an inch
since last Friday morning. This
gives us a rainfallduding the month
of May of 1.28 inches, up to 4
o’clock this afternoon.
Following is Observer Bowen's
weathed tabulations for the past
week:
High Low Mois.
May 6 77 46
May 7 77 50 .48
May 8 - 64 50 .04
May 9 69 39
May 10 74 52
May 11 77 56 .02
May 12 69 46
May 13 65 41
Dishner Is Appointed
Receiver of Northern
Nebraska Power Corp.
A couple of weeks ago a suit was
filed in the district court by the
First Trust & Mortgage eompany
6f St. Paul, Minn., seeking to
foreclose a mortgage given by the
Northern Nebraska Power Corpor
ation, owners of the Spencer dam.
According to their petition the
Power Company is indebted to the
Trust Company in the sum of $214,
250, the mortgages being given to
secure bonds for that amount issed
by the Power company. The pe
tition contains two counts. In the
first count they sue for $114,500
and in the second cause qf action
for $05,750, the latter loan being
received by the Power Company in
February, 1936. The dam went
out last September and since that
time no effort has been made to
repair the damage and the com
pany is said to be broke. The
petition asked that a receiver be
appointed to conserve the property
and they suggested that Frank J.
Dishner be appointed as such re
ceiver.
The cause came on for hearing
last Tueesday oh the application for
a receiver and the,court granted
the prayer of the petitioners and
M. Dishner was appointed receiver
for the Northern Nebraska Power
company.
Connolly Boys Celebrate
Fathers Arrival In O’Neill
Wednesday the Connolly boys
were celebrating the sixty-third
anniversary of the arrival of their
father in O’Neill. Mr. Connolly
and his wife were members of the
original General John O’Neill col
ony that came to this city on May
12, 1874, and founded O’Neill.
Of the original colony that came
here with General O’Neill in 1874
there are the descendents of of but
three of the original colonists left
in the city or county. They are
the children, of the late Col. Neil
Brennan, Thomas and Miss Berna
dette, who are still residents of
the city, and the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Connolly, who
came here from Patterson, N. J.,
with the colony. There are three
of his sons living, and all are resi
dents of O’Neill. They are Pat
rick, Francis and Thomlas and
Pat’s family. There is also the
family of their eldest brother,
James, who passed away several
years ago. They are all direct
descendents of the original colon
ists.
After sixty-three years the
descedents of but three of the orig
inal colony here. It is evident that
the children of these pioneers had
faith in the selections made by their
parents when Nebraska was young
and we hope that they will reside
here and be happy for many years
to come in the city that was started
by their forefathers.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our heart
felt thanks to the many kind
friends and neighbors for the beau
tiful floral offerings and also for
their many acts of kindness and
sympathy during the death of our
beloved son and brother.—Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fox and Harold.
Mrs. G. J. Hess of Wayne, ar
rived in the city last Saturday to
spend Mother’s Day and the week
following with her mother, Mrs.
Alice M. Benson, and with other
relatives and friends here.
One of Two Sentenced
Here On Shoplifting
Charges Makes Escape
Two tourists arrived in the citjr
some time last Saturday. That
owning one of them was caught
getting away with three hats front
the J. C. Penney store. He wasi
captured by Manager Pete Todsort
and was thrown in the city jail. Av
little later his partner was also
picked up and in his room was.
found a couple of jackets that
George Fox recognised as having
been taken from his store.
They were arraigned before'
Judge Bay on Monday and were
given thirty days in the "Hoose
gow” at hard labor, the labor to be
performed upon the streets of the
city. They gave their names asr
W. A. Harrison of California, and
Ed P. Settle of Colorado, the form
er being the one that was captured
by Todsen.
Harrison was taken out on the
streets for work Tuesday, under the
street man, and he got away, and
has shaken the dust of the city
from his feet. The other man. is
still confined in the city jail. Local
officials say that the two men are
“dope heads.”
Continental Oil Co. Finds
Newspaper Advertising
Is Best Sales Promotion
Convinced that newspaper space
represents the most advantageous
medium for merchandising its pro
ducts as evidenced by substantial
increases in sales of Conoco germ
processed motor oil following past,
newspaper advertising campaigns*
Continental Oil company is again
launching a large-scale advertising
campaign in some 1,400 carefully
selected papers in all sections of the
nation. The campaign will con
tinue into September and will be
distinguished by the fact that it
will feature the local dealer as well
as the company’s oil. \
Surveys conducted by Continents
al’s advertising department showed
two factors which decided the n*«
ture of the forthcoming campaign.
First, it was ascertained that tlra»
best sales results followed the use
of newspaper advertising;-and sec
ond, that the average motorist is
far more concerned with the mile
age he obtains from his motor oil
than any other single factor.
Correlating this information with
the fact that Continental distribu
tion is now conducted entirely thru
local Independent dealers, the ad
vertising campaign will stress that
each dealer is a “mileage merchant”
who, in order to retain his custom
ers and gain new ones, must sell
mileage in the form of a motor oil
which will give efficient service.
Rev. Markey Gives His
First Mass Here Sunday
Rev. Francis Markey arrived
here last Friday night from Santa
Fe, N. M., whfere on last Thursday
he. was ordanined to the priesthood,
and celebrated his first high mass
in St. Patrick’s church last Sunday
morning at 9 o’clock. Rev. Markey
is a nephew of Mrs. F. E. McMillan
and Miss Markey and John Markey
and has visited on various occasions
here during the past ten years. He
left here Thursday morning for his
old home town, Stockton, CaL,
where he will visit relatives and
friends until June 1, when he will
report for duty at Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
Twelve Coyote Cubs
Dug From One Den
E. A. Steskal, living northwest
of this city, was in town last Mon
day having with him the scalps of
twelve little coyotes that he had
dug out of one hole on the Ed
Early farm adjoining his place.
These pups were all of one litter,
so it can be seen that they multi
ply very rapidly. As their scalps
are worth $1.00 a piece, it was a
good morning’s work.
Attend Kentucky Derby
Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Birmingham
and Mrs. W. J. Froelich drove to
Sioux City last Thursday afternoon
where they took the night train
for Chicago. At the latter city
they were joined by Mr. Froelich
and all left that afternoon for
Louisville, Ky., where they at
tended the great Kentucky Derby
race on Saturday afternoon. They
are expected to return home the
end of the week.