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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1937)
The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. One Year, in Nebraska - $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. Distplay advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. Can't You Get It Right? Last week’s issue of the Holt County Independent contained a letter from Dean Selah, from which we print a couple of paragraphs: “By early records, historical data, and knowledge; my {pther, Judge Selah, having been one of the pioneers that worked, thru his newspaper. The Ewing Item, of Ewing, Nebr., together with personal expenditures of time and money to make the county seat at O’Neill and have the old court house fcuilt—end, being born in 188G in this county and having collected much informa tion about the history of not only the county but also about many pioneers personally; I feel qual ified to correct some of the er roneous statements that have been made by giving the true proven facts." The Ewing Item was established at Ewing and the first issue print ed the first week in January, 1884. As the election which located the county seat in O’Neill was held in December lSTD, over four year be fore the Item was started, it could not have very much influence in the election. And Judge .Selah was not a resident of the county until a couple of months before the es tablishment of the paper. As to working for the court house, that is the old one. It was built on bonds voted by the people of Center precinct and we fail to see what influence the Item, then published at Ewing, could have on the taxpayers of Center precinct, three-thirds of whom never knew such a paper was published in the county. At the special election on De cember 27, 1876, Paddock was made the county seat by three fifths majority. This election gave great dissatisfaction to many people on account of it being on the extreme northern boundry of the county and so far to travel, so it was resubmitted in an election on May 12, 1879. Out of a total vote polled of 891, O’Neill, located on northwest quarter section 25, township 31, range 13 west, received 289 votes and in August 1879 Sanford Parker, clerk, moved the records to O’Neill.” Dean may feel himself qualified, to set at rest some of the erroneous statements made about the early history of Holt county, but we have seen no statements made more in correct than the two above pro duced. Section 25, township 31, range 13 west, is in Ilo^k Palls precinct and we have great doubts that the people of the county ever voted to locate the county seat there. Better post up a little. Dean. THE NEBRASKA SqENE By the Lowell Service The sudden death of Senator Joe Robinson, senate majority leader, postponed a blowoff in the demo cratic political row in Nebraska. Postmaster General Farley, sched uled to stop at Omaha last week, cancelled all his dates and returned to Washington. Recently, Editor J. E. Lawrence of the Lincoln Star, anti-Burke leader in Nebraska, spent a con siderable part of his vacation in Washington. Lawrence’s visit to the national capitol was followed by the appearance of National Committeeman Judge Quigley. The latter had a conference with the President. Editor Lawrence has been in direct contact with Presi dent Roosevelt since the summer of 1932. Mr. Farley, according to inside information, had summoned a few democrats of the state to meet him in Omaha. To these men it is reported that he meant to leave certain recommendations relative to democratic political activities in Nebraska. Ostensibly, his visit had to do with other matters. Democrats who claim to have special information assert that Farley, Mullen and the organized workers of the party mean to sup port the President in his “court re form” fight. It is also expected that all party workers interested in patronage will be contacted and that the confusion which has ex isted in the democratic party with respect to leadership will be elim inated by a new division of forces with Senator Burke as the storm center of the fracas. During the last few weeks Dem ocratic politicians have been puz zled by the maneuvers of Charley Bryan and Governor Cochran. Bry an gave Cochran his first appoint ment and paved the way for the governor to enter public life. In 1934 Mr. Bryan, serving his third term as governor, assisted mater ially in the campaign which result ed in Cochran's nomination. “Charley is preparing for a statewide campaign,” said a prom inent Richardson county democrat. “What can he be 3fter next year unless it is the governorship? “The recent speeches of Govern or Cochran show that he intends, in my opinion, to seek a third term. Will we have Charley out for a fourth term, and Roy running for a third ? “This would make a real fight with 1 erry Carpenter an active candidate and with Senator J. N. Norton as a dark horse." A red hot press row broke out at the state house last week. The incident, according to the gossip of the newspaper reporters, led to a crisp telephone conversation be tween Editor Lawrence and Gov ernor Cochran, «,The governor called a meeting of the interested parties in the Omaha bridge tangle. He attempt ed to iron out and settle claims against the Farnam street bridge board. Present were the reporters from the two Omaha papers. Not present and entirely oblivious were the Lincoln newspaper people. Lawrence held to the view that the Omaha bridge matter interest ed all the people of the state. Coch ran intimated that he, Cochran, was running the governor’s office. “Hysteria for some reason, has developed against bank nights,” declares former Attorney General Wright in a brief recently present ed to the Nebraska Supreme court. “The plan does not constitute a lot tery, because no charge is made for participation. An effort has been made to make it appear that this j plan, innocent in itself, is a dire threat to the welfare of the state. Many courts of other states have permitted this hysteria to influence their opinions.” He claims that theater bank nights, as operated by the Fox Theater company of Heat rice was not a lottery and should not have been stoped, and that the same is true in regard to Omaha theaters where bank nights have been stopped by temporary injunc tion until a hearing can be held next fall. William E. Norris of Eagle, jus tice of the peace, is to be charged with malfeasance in connection with the docketing of 400 civil cases brought by former officials of the Lincoln Hail Insurance com pany, T. P. Johnson and W. R. Linch, according to information from the office of Attorney General Richard C. Hunter. It is alleged that Norris charged excessive fees against the defendants in the ac tion, and charged no costs to the plaintiffs, the costs to be depend ent upon the winning of the suits. C. W. Eubank, member of the state board of control, while in con ference Thursday with fifty state assistance workers from southeas tern Nebraska, said that fourteen of the thirty counties that have completed their assistance rechecks will not have to make reductions in payments on revised July assist ance budgets. Six other counties— Richardson, Saline, Madison, Gos per, Cuming and Arthur—will be able to make July payments with out reductions. A similar confer ence of central Nebraska assistance workers was attended by Director Neil Vandemoer at Grand Island. An earnest search for oil seems to be in progress in practically all sections of Nebraska. A number of leases have recently been nego tiated with the state board of edu cational land and funds for oil leases on schools lands. At its last meeting the state board made a mineral lease to the Midcontinent Oil and Gas company on f>00 acres of land in Jefferson county, not far from the Kansas state line, on which the state secures a bonus of $005 and fifty cents per acre. Oil leases were ulso made with Harold P. Sutton of McCook on land in Red Willow county, and with Robert A. Scheper of Denver and J. C. Mat teson on several pieces of school lund in McPherson county. Social security account numbers are being assigned at the rate of 200 a day at present, according to Leo Smith, director of the field of fice. Numbers were given to 21,606 employees during June and by July 1, 185,199 social security account numbers had been assigned. Decided reduction in the admin istrative personnel of the Lincoln regional office of the Resettlement administration is predicted upon the return from Washington of Di rector Cal A. Ward. Consolidation of the four state offices of Nebras ka, Kansas, North and South Da kota is rumored, their functions to be taken over by the regional head quarters. Farm security and the tenancy problem will be the main activities of the administration. Charles G. Nowacek of Platts mouth has been appointed as chief statistician for the state assistance board by State Assistance Director Vandemoer. Nowacek, who is 26 and recently married, succeeds Van L. Taylor of Lincoln, who, Van demoer claims, “fails to meet the qualifications.” Nowacek, who is a graduate of the University of Ne braska, was recently a special con sultant for the social security board in Washington, and has conducted a number of statistical surveys for the economics department of the university. From 1930 to 1932 he was a public accountant in Platts-' mouth. His salary will be $175 a month. Attorney General Hunter’s re quest for transcripts of convictions in muneipal court for drunken driv ing has met with a refusal from the city attorney’s office. The city attorney states that since such transcripts are not required by Jaw, and since no provision has been made for the expense of the trans cripts, which amounts to $1.25 each, he cannot furnish them. He says that members of the city’s legal department will appear at any time, however, since hearings are provided for. The transcripts were wanted for use in revocation of licenses over which the state high commission has jurisdiction from April 8 to Sept. 1. Bids for printing 716,000 new drivers’ licenses and for 716,000 examiners’ certificates were asked for early last week by J. R. Ferris, state purchasing agent, in antici pation of the new law which goes into effect Sept 1, requiring all automobile drivers to obtain li censes. New drivers must pass re quired tests and pay $1 for their licenses, which will be good for two years. Licenses will cost present holders 75 cents each. W. G. Lewis is not to be allowed to give all his real and personal property and the property of the Lincoln Hatchery, amounting to some $150,000 to the Christian and Missionary Alliance, which has headquarters at New York City, if his 'wife, Mrs. Ethel M. Lewis, can prevent it. She has filed an action in the District court asking that a declaration of trust to that effect, dated March 24, 1937, be canceled and declared void. She has also filed suit for separate maintenance for herself and her five children and has been granted a restraining order preventing her husband from making any such future gifts. Mrs. Lewis claims that all their property is the result of their joint work, that she has worked outside the home to pro vide additional funds for the fam ily, and asks a half interest in the property. A general denial of the allega tions made in an injunction suit by George J. Baumann of Hall county, a policy holder, is made in an answer filed in District court by attorneys for the Royal High landers society and its officers. Dis missal of the suit is asked. It is claimed that there has been no dis solution of the society and that none is intended. It is also claimed that at least $2-1,000 a year could be saved by changing the society from a fraternal to a mutual plan. The department of state assist ance has been working overtime, according to Director Neil C. Van demoer, in preparing plans on the state biennial assistance and child welfare program for submission to Washington. The plans which are already two weeks late, are re garded as a contract that must be fulfilled since the federal govern ment matches funds with the state. This overtime is the cause of a complaint recently received from the state labor commissioner stat ing that the employees of the as sistance department are working longer hours than allowed by law. It is all right to follow the advice of the optimist to keep you chin up but don’t stick it out too far. If some men spoke the truth and nothing but the truth they would have to keep silent most of the time. BRIEFLY STATED It is said that the modern trailer was invented by a man who was getting tired of back seat driving. William Finicle, sheriff; Elmer Rakow, county attorney, and Carl Hemingway, county treasurer of Antelope county, were in the city last Tuesday morning visiting the officials at the court house, return ing home that afternoon. Vincent Meier a nephew of P. V. Hickey, and son, Francis Hickey, left last Thursday for Detroit, Mich., where they go to join Mrs. Louise Meier and return with her by auto. They intend to visit in Kansas before returning. Major and Mrs. Francis Brennan and family of Fort Leavenworth, Kans., arrived in the city last Thursday evening for a few weeks visit at the home of Mr. Brennan’s mother, Mrs. Neil Brennan, and with other relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Campbell and son lef last Monday for Yel lowstone Park and from there they will go to Cheyenne, Wyo., where they will visit at the home of Mr. Campbell’s sister, Mrs. Devine. They expect to bo absent two weeks. Mrs. Lyle Curtis and children of Sioux City, came to this city last Thursday for a visit at the home of her sister, Miss Mary Carney. They returned home Sunday with Mr. Curtis who stopped for a visit here on his return from a road trip for Tolerton & Warfield. Four auto loads of Gypsies ar rived in the city Wednesday after noon and were getting ready to ply their trade when spotted by Policeman Lewis who immediately ordered them out of the city. Some of them strenously objected to their banishment but they left. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Gillespie drove to Grand Island last Friday taking their daughter, Mrs. W’ood and little daughter, to that city so they could take the train for their California home, after a two months visit here. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie returned home that even ing. Mrs. Irving Johnson leaves in the morning for Omaha. She will be accompanied by he sister. Miss Gwendolyn, who has been visiting here the past three weeks, and is returning home. While in Omaha Mis. Johnson will attend the wed ding of a very dear friend who is to be married in that city next Sat urday evening. Rev. and Mrs. A. J. May returned Tuesday night from a two weeks vacation trip to the Black Hills, which included a visit with Mrs. May’s brother, Wayne W’hitlock and family at Spearfish, S. D., and a sister, Mrs. Grant Tigue at Belle Fouehe. They had a cabin in Spear fish canyon for a week and Rev. May says they had a delightful outing. Eirne Nelson has filed suit in the district court asking for a divorce from Kenneth Nelson on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment and nonsupport. In her petition she alleges that they were married in this city on January 25, 1936. That shortly after their marriage the defendant left her and moved to Chesterfield, Mo., where he still resides and that he has continually refused to support her. Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Brein innger and family of Easton, Mary land, were in the city last Saturday as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harnish, while on their way to visit j relatives in Wyoming. Mrs. Bre ininger is the daughter of Mrs. Belle Anthony, formerly Belle Parker a sister of the late Sanford Parker, and she and Mr. Anthony were married at the home of her j parents at Paddock in January, 1886. Mr. Anthony died a couple of years ago but Mrs. Anthony is still living and enjoying good health. S. Hallgrimson of the American Sunday School union announces that the thirteenth annual Holt county Union Sunday School group gathering will be held Sunday, July.25, in the grove on the Mrs. Mattie Johnson place twelve miles north of O’Neill and one mile east of the Spencer higrway. The morn ing session begins at ten o’clock and the afternoon session at 1:30. A basket dinner will be served at noon. District Superintendent Harry E. Udd of Omaha, will give an address at 2:30 p. m. 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These regular brief visits to fictionland will prove a delightful interlude from your work a-day activities. And it will make us happy to know that you are getting enjoyment from them. The Frontier “CHEVROLET USES LESS OIL” FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION I i*** — MILLER BROS. CHEVROLET CO. Phone 100 Open Evenings