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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1937)
‘Veb- State Historical Society ^ _ , _ _ The Frontier i VOL. LVIII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1987. No. 10 ONE INDIAN FOUND TO BE DEAD WHEN FOUR STOP HERE Companions of Dead Man Can Throw No Light On Death. Had Tho’t Him Asleep. Four Indians from the Rosebud reservation arrived in tHe city from Omaha about 7 o’clock this morn ing on their way home and stopped here for breakfast. After stopping here they discovered that they had a dead man in the party. The dead man was Arthur David, 29 years of age who had been in Omaha with Quickbear and Blackhorse as wit nesses before the federal grand jury. County officials were notified of the death, the body remaining in the car until the officials had been notified. The rest of the party were questiond about the death but all insisted they knew nothing of it until they reached the city. The Superintendent at Rosebud was notified and he wired that he was on his way here to investigate the case and that he would send a truck for the body. The other three Indians in the car with the deceased were Phillip Quickbear, assistant to the federal special officer at Rosebud, and James Blackhorse, night policeman at Rosebud. The other Indian in the party was Collins Jordan, a student, who was a passenger with the other three riding to Rosebud. Jordan and David W'ere in the back seat, the other two being in front. Jordan said that David got sick on the way here and threw up a couple of times, but they thought nothing of it and he went to sleep. He thought David was asleep and was astounded when they discov ered upon their arrival here that he was dead. Physicians who examined the dead man here said that he had been dead about 4 hours. Whether an autopsy will be held to deter mine the cause of death will not be decided until the arrival of the superintendent sometime this af ternoon. Cattle Market Braces On A Light Supply At The Atkinson Sale Ring Atkinson, Nebr., July 20.—A bet ter feeling stimulated by recent rains over a wide territory did much to lift prices at the local live stock auction here Tuesday. Best fat butcher stock and good quality stockers shared in the advance of 25 cents or more a hundred, while canners and cutters and heavy steers sold on about steady basis with a week ago. Cattle were bought for shipment as far east as Wisconsin, ^lightly over 600 head were offered for sale. Representative sales: Best Heavy steers 8.00 to 9.35 Fair to good steers. 6.75 to 7.75 Good yearling stock steers at .5.75 to 7.50 Yearling heifers at 6.00 to 7.50 Fair to good heifers .5.50 to 6.00 Best fat cows at_6.00 to 7.50 Good butcher cows at 5.00 to 6.00 Canners and cutters .3.00 to 4.50 Bulls at . .5.00 to 6.00 Only 125 hogs were offered for sale with a very good demand for all kinds. Market 50 cents to as much as 1.0Q a hundred higher on lightweights. Best butcher hogs at 11.35 to 11.65; fat sows at 10.50 to 10.75; wet sows at 9.25 to 10.00; pigs all weights at 12.00 to 13.00 a hundred. Thirty head of horses were dis posed of at prices on a parity with the past several weeks. Next auction Tuesday, July 27, at 12 o’clock. Marriage Licenses Ray M. Proctor of Royal and Miss Lucille L. Coon of Neligh, were granted a marriage license in county court last Wednesday and were then united in marriage by County Judge Malone. James W. Sobotka and Miss Neva M. Stark, both of Inman, were granted a marriage license in county court Wednesday morning. Niobrara River Dam North of Here Sold To St. Paul Trust Firm The property of the Northern Nebraska Power company, located on the Niobrara river north of this city, was sold at sheriff’s sale last Monday to the plaintiffs in the action, The First Trust Company of St. Paul, Minn., and Louis S. Had ley, Trustee, of the same city, for the sum of $50,000.00 and the sale has been confirmed by the district court. # Suit was brought in the district court by the purchasers to collect from the Power company the sum of $218,398.58, which was the principal and interest on same up to the date of sale. Reports were current a few weeks ago that the Interstate Power company was in the market for the plant and they may purchase it from those who purchased it Monday and have same repaired so that it could pro duce power for the Interstate com pany in this section of the state. This plant was at one time bonded for over $1,000,000. STUNTED SUDAN GRASS MAY PROVE DANGEROUS FEED Drouth Hit Sudan and Sorghums May Produce Prussic Acid Poisoning In Stock. — At this time of year farmers are urged to use caution in turning livestock on fields of Sudan grass and sorghums for pasture. The past few years have shown that stunted Sudan may be dangerous. Losses seem to occur after extended periods of drouth. In most cases of sudan grass poisoning it is thought it is caused by inferior seed having some cane seed mixed in but this cannot be proved. Dr. L. Van Es, chairman of the animal pathology department at the Nebraska college of agricul ture, suggests that before chances are taken with a greater number of valuable animals that safety of the field be tested by turning into it one or more animals of inferior quality. South African investigators pre sent evidence indicating sulphur is apparently a preventative against prussic acid poisoning. There, farmers are advised to combat the poisoning by mixing sulphur with salt licks, adding from 5 to 5.7 per cent of the sulphur. Full grown cattle may be dosed with two table spoonsful of sulphur daily over un limited periods. However, they should not be dosed continuously for more than a month when they already have access to sulphur salt licks. PEOPLE YOU KNOW — Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hickey of Los Angeles, Calif., left Wednesday morning for their home after a few days visiting with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Hickey had been a delegate to the national conven tion of Catholic Daughters in New Hampshire. She met Mr. Hickey at Detroit where they purchased a new car for the trip home. They were accompanied to Los Angeles by their daughter, Patsey, and Mr. Hickey’s sister, Winifred Hickey who had been visiting here for the past two weeks with the J. W. and P. V. Hickey families. Ira H. Moss, H. J. Hammond, John and W’illiam Martin, E. M. Gallagher and M. H. Horiskey re turned last Saturday from a two weeks fishing trip to the lakes in northern Minnesota. The boys say they had a splendid time on the trip and had a lot of good fishing. In fact the fishing at one lake was so good that Eddie Gallagher was seriously tempted to buy the lake, so he would be sure of a good fishing spot every year. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bergstrom, son and daughter, of Deadwood, S. D., were in the city last Monday and visited at the home of Mr. Bergstrom’s brother, C. C. Berg strom. Mr. and Mrs. Bergstrom were on their way home after a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Cullen, at Page, and with Mr. Bergstrom’s mother at Ewing. The Misses Marjorie and Marion Dickson entertained at the country club last Saturday night for K. A. Wehl and Arthur King and Miss Geneva Grady with a steak supper and later with cards. An enjoy able time is reported. C. P. Hancock came up from David city last Saturday evening and spent Sunday visiting relatives and friends in this city, returning home Monday morning. LUBEN RITES TO BE HELD AT ATKINSON SATURDAY MORNING Mrs. William E. Luben, 75’ of Emmet, Dies Following A Stroke Suffered Sunday. Mrs, William E. Luben died at her home in Emmet Wednesday evening at 11:30 after an illness of several weeks, at the age of 75 years, 1 month and 15 days. The funeral will be held Saturday morn ing at 10 o’clock from the Lutheran church in Atkinson, Rev. Wm. G. Vahle officiating and burial in the Atkinson cemetery. Bertha M. Ranes was born in Berlin, Germany, on June 6, 1862. In 1891 she came to the United States and settled at Clearwater, Nebraska, where on August 19, 1891, she was united in marriage to William E. Luben and they moved to this county in 1901 and settled near Emmet where she had made her home since. She leaves to mourn her passing two step-sons and one step-daughter, besides her husband and eight grandchildren. The children are: William and Louis Luben, Emmet, and Mrs. Emma B. Smith, of Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Luben had a host of friends in the Emmet neighborhood and had always taken an active inter est in the civic and social affairs of that progressive little village and her passing will be mourned by all. First Material And Child Health Meeting Is Held The first meeting of the Material and Child Health refresher courses was held in this city last Tuesday afternoon and was addressed by Dr. Frank P. Murphy. There were about forty at the meeting, which was held in the auditorium of the court house Tuesday afternoon. Among those in attendance was Mrs. Hines of Spencer, chairman of the Boyd county association, and also two health nurses from that city and the three physicians of this city. Following is a synoposis of the talk by Dr. Murphy: “It should be the right of every expetant mother to be able to have her baby safely and with a mini mum of discomfort. Unfortunately experience has taught us that such an outcome is not to be expected in every case. Due to racial mixtures, unhygenic living, constitutional diseases and the scars of previous ill-health, some women are bound to invalidism, loss of their babies or even death. “Every year in the United States some 15,000 women die from causes connected with pregnancy or child birth. Seventy-five per cent of these death are now preventable in the light of our present medical knowledge. “The whole country is shocked now and then by an airplane ac cident with an occasional total loss of all on board; or recoils with hor or when it reads about the bus that ran into a canal in Florida with the loss of thirteen lives. Again, if some catastrophe should wipe out a whole city the size of this one, the whole world would read about it. The whole world is reading about the loss of life in the flood region along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and sympathiz ing with the unfortunate people of those areas. Yet the loss of life under any of these circumstances is but a small fraction of the pre ventable maternal deaths in our country, year in and year out. “Nothing need be said of the un known number of women, who be come invalids every year as a re sult of childbearing, nor of the enormous sacrifice of infants every year, or even of the economic loss thereby to the nation. “We need to face hard facts, such as these. “I certainly do not want to make it appear that such women are taking undue risks in having babies. There is a certain risk connected with every act of our daily lives, even inside our homes. Among other things, the bathtub is posi tively an instrument for maiming or crippling its users, or even a death-trap, if an electric fixture is within easy reach. If we go out in a car on a main-traveled road on Sundays or holidays, we definitely take our lives in our hands. Yet, we think little of such risks as these. “To go back to our subject, what are we going to do about the 12,000 unnecessary and preventable deaths among our prospective mothers? Nebraska’s contribution amounts to about 125 of that number. There is only one answer. We must get the prospective mother to her phy sician during early pregnancy. She must be educated as to what the medical profession can and will do for her, if she asks for it. But it is definitely up; to her to see that she gets what she needs. The physician cannot force the patient to come to his office. She must go of her own accord and go early during pregnancy. She must learn what can be done for her and take more than a casual interest in what may well prove disasterous for her or her baby, or both.” Geneva Grady Becomes Bride of Arthur King At Ceremony Held Tuesday Married, at the Catholic church in this city last Tuesday morning, July 20, 1937, Arthur M. King and Miss Helen Geneva Grady, Rev. Monsignor McNamara officiating in the presence of a large number of the relatives and friends of the con tracting parties. i The bride wore a suit of white sharkskin, with accessories in white and a corsage of roses. The brides maid, Miss Mary Lois Hammond, a cousin, also whole white with white accessories. Jack Grady, the bride’s brqther, was best man. After the wjedding ceremony the bridal couple and their immediate relatives sat down to an excellent wedding breakfast served at the Bakery. Shortly thereafter they left for a short wedding trip to the Iowa and Minnesota lakes, expect ing to be gone until the end of the week. The groom is the son of Clyde King and is one of the city’s most estimable young men. Like his bride he is a native of this city and has spent most of his life here and has a host of friends in this city and vicinity. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grady and is one of the city’s fairest young daugh ters. Mrs. King is a charming young lady, with an agreeable per sonality and has been one of the most popular young ladies in the city. This happy young couple have hundreds of friends in the city and county who jojn The Frontier in wishing this estimable young couple a long, happy and prosperous wed ded life. BRIEFLY STATED Mrs. Ralph McElvain returned last Friday from a three weeks vis it with relatives and friends at Casper, Wyo. Mrs. Arthur Duffy and son, Jack, of Petersburg, arrived in the city Wednesday for a visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. P. C. Donohoe. John Protivinsky, accompanied by his son-in-law, Claude Johnson, drove down to Norfolk Wednesday morning where Mr. Protivinsky will receive medical treatment. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith of Coleridge, stopped in the city for a few hours this morning visiting relatives on their way home from a ten day vacation trip in the Black Hills section. ( E. P. Gaines of Omaha, Nebraska Superintendent of the real estate division of the Travelers Insurance company, was in the city Wednes day looking after business mattere and visiting his many friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Noble drove down to Grand Island this morning where Mrs. Noble will board a train for Los Angeles, where she will spend a couple of weeks visit ing at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Trenham. John Connolly and sister, Miss Theresa, and their cousin, Edward O’Donnell of Emmet, will leave Friday morning for Los Angeles, Calif., where Mr. Connolly and Mr.' O’Donnell expect to remain, while Miss Theresa, will visit for ten days. They are making the trip by auto and via Casper, Wyo., where they will visit relatives for a day. SEVERE HAIL HITS STRIP IN EASTERN PART OF COUNTY - Hail Storm East of Here Last Sunday Also Brings A Good Supply of Moisture. Northeastern Holt county and the eastern part of the county was visited with a heavy rain last Sun day, and a severe hail storm that covered a stretch of country about six miles wide and twelve miles long on the eastern edge of Holt county, the western edge of Ante lope and the western edge of Knox county. The rainfall in the Dorsey coun try, which had only a little shower a week ago Tuesday, received bet ter than an inch, while Ewing, which received 4.25 inches a week ago Tuesday received 1.59 inches, making 5.18 inches of rainfall in that section of the county last week. Ray Leinhart was in from the south country Monday and he said he received two inches at his place Sunday, but that it did not extend very far east of there. Where there was no rain Sunday corn is still looking fine but in need of a good soaking rain w'ithin the next few days in order to insure a bumper corn crop. Weather report this morning was to the effect that northwestern Nebraska was due for some showers Friday. Let us hope we have a good heavy one in this county. Following is the weather chart for the past week: High Low Mois. July 15 _. 88 64 July 16 87 61 July 17 _ 81 57 T. July 18 86 60 T. July 19 89 58 July 20 94 62 July 21 .. 99 67 Gustav Voight of Stuart, A Bachelor, Takes His Own Life With A Pistol Gustav Voight, 52 years of age, bachelor, shot and killed himself last Wednesday morning at Stuart, while riding in a truck with Wil ford Seger, an employee of William Krotter. Voight shot himself in the right temple, the bullet passing thru and slightly injuring the driver of the truck. Voight lived three miles east and one mile south of Stuart, with his mother, 87, and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kaiser, Mrs. Kaiser being a niece of Voight's. He was well fiixed financially but brooded over the loss of money in the Stuart bank a few years ago. Sheriff Duffy went to Stuart early Wednesday morning to in vestigate the case. From his in vestigation we find that Voight had a spell about 4 o’clock that morn ing and announced his intention of killing himself and his mother. Mr. Kaiser talked him out of it and tried to get the gun, but Voight re fused to give it up. He had sold a load of corn to William Krotter and the latters truck went out to the farm after the corn and Voight rode into town with them. When they were on the edge of Stuart, he drew his revolver and killed himself. Hazel McOwen Flayers to be Here The public has been looking for ward to the time when the Hazel McOwen players would make their visit to O’Neill, and an ad on an other page will tell of their coming. Hazel and her gang will play a three day engagement in O’Neill, starting next Monday night. The opening play will be “Stepping Sisters.” It is a real play protray ing real life and the theater going public will enjoy every minute of it. High class vaudeville between the acts and a red hot orchestra means entertainment every minute. On the opening night, next Mon day, July 26th, one lady will be admitted free with a paid adult ticket. Don’t fail to take advant age of this offer. The prices are children 10 cents, adults 15 cents. The tent will be located on * the same lot as in past years. Don’t fail to see the opening play next Monday night. Meet Ralph and Hazel in their big tent. Soil Conservation Work of checking compliance on Holt county farms will start around the first of August. Prospective reporters have already taken their examination for the position and those accepted will be notified in the next few days. It is hoped that the work may be completed and final compliance reports sent into Lincoln much earlier than last year. Practically all of the 1936 pay ments have been received by Treas urer Ed Murray. This includes the small 6 per cent payment made to those who received their first check before May 1, 1936. Those who have received their checks since May 1 will not have a second check coming because the additional 6 per cent was already added to their payment. MRS. PONI) WHO WAS HERE FOR FUNERAL OF A BROTHER, DIES Sistor of John Crandall Dies At The Home of A Nephew Near Spencer Monday Evening. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Pond, wife of R. D. Pond, died at the home of her nephew, Joe Miller, two and one-half miles west of Spencer last Monday evening about 9:15 of a heart attack. The funeral will be held at Long Beach, Calif., prob ably next Monday as Mr. Pond left Wednesday morning with the body for the coast. Mr. and Mrs. Pond came here a little over a week ago from their California home to attend the fun eral of her brother, John Crandall, who died in a Lynch hospital two weeks ago today, and they remain ed here for a few days visit with relatives and old friends. Monday Mr. and Mrs. Pond spent the after noon driving over northern Holt county visiting the scenes of her childhood, covering about 75 miles during the afternoon. They had returned fo the Miller home only a short time before her death. Mrs. Pond was partaking of a lunch when seized with the attack and she was dead before Mr. Pond came into the house. Her health had not been very' good for the past couple of years but her con dition was not considered serious. Elizabeth Crandall was born near Boone, Iowa, July 4, 1872. When j she was three years of age her par ents moved to this county and settled in the northern part of the county where she grew to woman hood. On March 29, 1888, she was united in marriage to R. D. Pond, the ceremony being performed in this city. At the time of their marriage Mr. Pond was employed in the Northwestern depot here. In the fall of 1889 he was transfer red to Stafford and after a short time there he was transferred to Omaha. He left the employ of the railroad and in 1911 they moved to Long Beach, Calif., and made their home at the former place and at Colinga, Calif,, since. She leaves to mourn her passing besides her husband, two daughters, Miss Neva Pond of Long Beach, and Mrs. Carrie Koons of Pismo Beach, Calif., her daughter-in-law, widow of her son who passed away in 1924, six nieces and six nephews. ALPHA CLUB The Alpha Club met at the home of Hazel McDonald Wednesday, July 14. Twelve members answer ed to roll call, which was to give the name of their favorite painting and the artist. Three guests, Miss Winifred Hickey of Los Angeles, Calif., Mayme Lou Simonson and Carol Simonson of Council Bluffs, Iowa, were present. After the business meeting a program was given. A report, Beauty Spots in the United States, was given by La Verne Robertson; three short readings were given by Lillian Drayton, and a musical reading was given by Maude Auker and Evelyn Simonson. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. The annual club picnic was held at Hunter’s grove Sunday, July 18. The ladies brought well filled bas kets of fried chicken and other good things. After dinner the ladies presented a play to their husbands and guests. Then the ladies chal lenged the men to a kitten ball game, the men to play left-handed. After a few other games, supper was eaten and all returned to their homes reporting a fine time and plenty to eat. Mrs. J. O. Moeller and children of Leigh, Nebr., came Sunday for a visit with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Enright. ROADMASTER ON BURLINGTON DIES OF BROKEN NECK Derailment of Motor Car Causes Injury Resulting In Death To Wayne Norman. Wayne Norman, 35, roadmaster of the Burlington railroad on this division, was instantly killed last Tuesday evening about 7 o’clock when the motor car he was driving was derailed a little this side of the railroad crossing just south of the Leach farm, two miles east of this city. Mr. Norman was thrown from the car onto the track and his neck was broken. He was on his way to this city when the ac cident occurred. County Attorney Cronin, ex-of ficio coroner of the county was called to the scene of the accident and after viewing the body it was brought to the Biglin mortuary in this city where it was prepared for shipment and Wednesday morning was taken east on the Burlington billed to Denver, his former home, where he will be buried. Norman leaves a wife and daughter. His home was at South Sioux City. Mr. Norman was superintending the burning of weeds along the right of way and was on his way to this city when his car left the track. Section foreman Johnson was on his hand car and was some distance behind Norman and did not see the accident. When he came within a couple of hundred feet of the crossing he noticed the roadmasters car up against the fence north of the track and a few minutes later saw the body lying on the rails. He called this city and informed officials of the ac cident. When the coroner reached the scene the Assistant Superintend ent E. C. Hale of Omaha, and P. F. Kuchera, master carpenter, also of Omaha, arrived at the scene of the accident, being on an inspection tour of the line. Mr. Norman had been roadmas ter on this division for about three years, coming to Nebraska from Denver, Colo. William Hammond Is Wed At Los Angeles, California, Last Sunday William D. D. Hammond, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond of this city, was married last Sunday morning at San Juan Capistrano Mission, San Jaun Capistrano, Cal., to Miss Leonor Elisa de Urquidi de 4Jaez, a member of a prominent family of Los Angeles. Mr. Ham mond’s father and mother and two sisters were present at the wed ding as were a number of the rela tives of the bride from Los Angeles and a large number of the friends of both the young people. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond and is a na tive of this city. He has been at tending school in Los Angeles for the past two years and expects to make that city his future home. The bride is unknown to the grooms relatives here, but she is said to be a very charming young lady and a member of one of the old families of Los Angeles. The many friends of the groom, in this city wish for him and his bride many years of wedded happiness and prosperity. Four From Holt County Honored At Long Pine 4-H Club Encampment Four Holt county 4-H club mem bers were among the five honorec in the closing ceremonies of the club camp at Long Pine whicl ended last Saturday. It is customary at the close of the club camps to select the campers who have been most punctual in attendance, helpful whenever they could and cooperated with leaders to the greatest extent. Those hon ored were Donald Scott, Atkinson; Lois Jean Robertson, O’Neill; Bob bie Cole, Emmet, and Madelyne Hynes, O’Neill. Evelyn Clark frorr Brown county was the other mem ber to receive recognition. Guy Davis from the 4-H clul office at Lincoln, who was in charge of the camp, was w'ell pleased witl the entire group at Long Pine anc felt it was one of the most sue cessful camps held so far this year Born Saturday, July 10, to Mr and Mrs. Herbert Ellis, a baby girl