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NOTICE OF FIN AL SETTLEMENT Egtate No. 2594 In the County Court of Holt county. Nebraska. July 2(5, 1937. In the matter of the Estate of Sarah E. Flickinger, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that the Administrator of said estate has filed in said court his final report and a petition for final settlement and distribution of the residue of said estate; and that said report and petition will be heard August 18, 1937, at 10 o’clock A. M.. at the Co&nty Court Room in O’Neill, Ne braska, when all persons interested may appear and be heard concern ing said final report and the distri bution of said estate. C. J. MALONE. County Judge. KCounty Court Seal) 11-3 Hittler and Mussolini may not be officially taking part in the Spanish civil war but the scrap gives them a fine opportunity to try out the latest thing in mu nitions. It is said that the administration in the interest of economy, has glowed down plans for building the Jefferson Memorial. Well, Jeffer son always did believe in economy. Mount Pavlov in Alaska, a real volcano, has become active again. Maybe Secretary Wallace can hire it to quit working. MISCELLANEOUS \VE repair electric motors and fans. —Vic Halva Shop. 12-2p WANTED—Mowing, per acre, 30c. Power machinery.—Ray Jensen, Royal, Nebr. 12-2p IF you need Better Glasses, Per rigo Optical Company can make them. See their representative at uoiaen itotei, in O'Neill, Mon day, Aug. 9th. 11-2 yOU may now own twenty volumes of the greatest literature the world has ever known. One book each week for 39c. Read today’s OMAHA BEE-NEWS for com plete details. 47tf I HAVE eastern money to loan on farms and ranches. I also loan money on city property.—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebr. 2tf LOST AND FOUND TAKEN UP on my place in Inman precinct on or about June 10, 1937, one yearling White Face heifer. Owner can secure same by prov ing property and paying expenses. —W. G. Sire, Inman. 11-5 STRAYED—During the months of April, one bay gelding, 4 years old, weight about 1000. Please notify Dr. L. A. Carter, O’Neill. lOtf WANTED TO BUY JWIIEN you have butcher stuff, either hogs or cattle for sale, see Barnhart's Market. 48tf FOR SALE CAR RADIO—1935 RCA-Vietor, in A-l condition.—Cletus Sullivan. 11-2 ■. ... •" — THE Redbird Store and Garage, together with my other property here at Redbird.—-John Wrede 9-4 FRESH vegetables.—Call 171-J. 6tf FOR SALE—6-room house, has bath room, and lights and water, nearly modern, close in. $1250 will buy it.—See R. H. Parker. 6tf HOME LOANS FARM LOANS RANCH LOANS I Am Now Making Loans JOHN L. QU1G mtm Dr. J. L. SHERBAHN j Chiropractor Phone 147 Half Block South of the Ford • Garage—West Side of Street I mwmmntmmtmmmwmmtmS Diamond—Watches—Jewelery Expert Watch Repairing 0. M. Herre—Jeweler In Reardon Drug Store 1 W. F. FINLEY, M. D. § j Phone, Office 28 j I O’Neill :: Nebraska I DR. J. P. BROWN Office Phone 77 Complete X-Ray Equipment :: Glasses Correctly Fitted Residence Phone 223 twttwwiwttuij^ajmmwaaai (First publication August 5, 1937) NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate No. 2616 In the County Court of Holt county, Nebraska, July 29, 1937. In the matter of the Estate of Jennie L. Crawford, Deceased. CREDITORS of said estate are hereby notified that the time limited for presenting claims against said estate is November 26, 1937, and for the payment of debts is July 29, 1938, and that on August 26, 1937, and on November 27, 1937, at 10 o'clock A. M., each day, I will be at the County Court Room in said County to receive, examine, hear, allow or adjust all claims and ob jections duly filed. C. J. MALONE, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 12-3 J. D. Cronin, Attorney (First publication, July 8, 1937.) SHERIFF'S SALE. Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Holt County, Nebraska, in an action pending in said Court, wherein J. R. Gallagher is plaintiff and John Maybury and others (this being'case No. 13265) are defend ants, I will sell to the highest bid der for cash at the front door of the Court House in O'Neill, Ne braska, on the 9th day of August, 1937, at 10 o’clock A. M., the fol lowing described premises in Holt County, Nebraska: Lot 6 in Block 35 in the Or iginal Town of O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, to satisfy the sum of $14.22 found due the plaintiff and interest there on and $14.43 costs of suit and ac cruing costs. Also, Lot 20 in Block “A” in O’Neill & Hagerty’s Addition to the City of O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, to satisfy the sum of $35.97 found 1 due the plaintff and interest there- i on and $16.61 costs of suit and ac cruing costs. ( Also, West half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 29, in Township 30 north, of Range ( 10 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Holt County, Ne braska, to satisfy the sum of $106.28 found due the plaintiff and interest there- i on and $23.62 costs of suit and ac- j rruing costs. , Dated this 7th day of July, 1937. PETER W. DUFFY, Sheriff of Holt County, ■ 8-5 Nebraska. j NOTH hi OT HEARING In the County Court of Holt ' county, Nebraska. In the Matter of*the Estate of Jennie L. Crawford, Deceased. ( To all persons interested in the Estate of Jennie L. Crawford, De ceased, both Creditors and Heirs: You, and each of you, are hereby < notified that on the 4th day of , August, A. D., 1937, Joseph L. | Crawford, surviving spouse of the 1 deceased, Jennie L. Crawford, filed petitions in this Court asking for a monthly allowance to him from the assets of this said estate for the expense of his maintenance during the progress of the settlement of the estate but for no longer period than one year or until his share in said estate shall be assigned to him, and for assignment to him of personal property allowed him by law and exemptions allowed hiln by law. That said petitions have been set for hearing and will both be heard at the County Court Room in said County on Thursday, August 2fi, 1937, at the hour of ten o’clock A. M. By the Court: C. J. MALONE, 12-1 County Judge. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday morning service at 11 o’clock will be in charge of Mr. Doughtee and his gospel team of Kellar church, Chambers. Sunday School at 10 o’clock. C. E. Y'antzi, superntendent. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES Special Notice: • 9 a. m.—Sunday morning regular worship service. Special music— “The Holy City,” Clarence Selah. 10 a. m. — Sunday school for every boty. 7 p. m.—Epworth League. 8 p. m.—Special evening service on the lawn by the church. The high school band under the direc tion of L. M. Durham, will play and a public speaking system will be used for the sermon, thru the courtesy of Mr. Durham. Drive your cars up and enjoy the pro gram. Everybody welcome. Don’t forget, we are trying the early service at 9 a. ni. next Sun day morning. Sermon subject— “The Greater and Lesser Things of Life.” THE NEBRASKA SCENE By the Lowell Service Lincoln, Nebr.—Furore over the increased state tax levy will ultim ately uncover one of the hidden reasons for the boost and a poten tial cause of higher taxes in the future. Bureaus, commissions and de partments of government have mul tiplied with amazing rapidity at the state house in the last four years. The expense of these mush room departments, hidden for a time, eventually reach the auditor’s office. There is no check on these duplications of state expenses. A chart of the various commis sions and an outline of their al leged duties would be more intric ate than a play-by-play diagrarr of a football game. The taxpayers’ legues have de voted their major efforts to check ing and studying the expenses ol county and local government. They have taken slight interest in the duplication of state activities. In fact, the representatives of the leagues actually helped in the crea tion of some of the tax-eating com missions. Almost a mill higher than last year is the new state levy for Ne braska. To be exact, it is .88 of a mill higher than the 1.76 rate of 1936, or 2.64 on $1,000. One reason given for the raise is that all liquor taxes now go to the state assistance fund, while last year the taxes on 3.2 beer went into the general fund. The new levy is calculated to raise $6,433,713.91 for the expenses of the state government. In the increase in the levy, the politically skeptical see a return to the policy that caused embarass ment more than a decade ago. The levy was reduced by the governor as a prelude to his candidacy for a second term. A committee of the legislature found that the admin istrations of McKelvie, the first Bryan administration, and the two terms of McMullen set the state in the red to the tune of five millions. Art Weaver levied a special tax to pay the deficit. The high tax argument was used to defeat him in 1930. “The 1.76 levy,” declarded a stu ent of government, “was merely an overdraft. The levy should have been 2.29. Then the levy this year could have been 2.32. As it is, the taxpayers must take the hike on the nose the first year after the election.” Citizens interested in the enforce ment of the law in the 1)2 counties of the state other than Douglas look askance at the attempt of cer tain ministers and others to divert the energies of the attorney gen eral’s office to a purely local scrap in Omaha. Some time ago the attorney gen eral was assailed because of the activities of bookies in Omaha. Ministers wanted action—action at once. Investigation indicated that a local ordinance had been passed, designed to legalize race track gambling, and that the sum of $500 each had been paid as an occupa tion tax by seventy establishments? It was claimed that the pari-mutuel was the only form of legalized gambling in Nebraska. Bets must be placed at the race track. “Some time ago,” said an Omaha lawyer, “some metropolitan papers in the east began furnishing the| race track news. The attempt to legalize this form of gambling fol lowed. Why bother the attorney general ? He has less men and less money at his command than the county attorney of Douglas county. Why not demand action of the city and county officials? Why not ask the governor to remove any official who is not doing his duty?" Ope of the most active and in dependent members of the Nebras ka Supreme Court seems to be Justice Edward F. Carter, 40, of Gering, according to a synopsis of supreme court activities recently compiled. Justice Carter dissented seven times from the majority opin ion since last September and wrote 35 opinions, more than any other member of the high court. Justice L. B. Day, 48, of Omaha, came next with five dissents and 26 opinions; next, Justice W. B. Rose, 76, of Lincoln, three dissents, 25 opinions; Justice B. H. Paine, 65, of Grand Island, two dissents, 25 opinions; Justice George Eberly, 66, of Stan ton, one dissent, 30 opinions; and Justice E. E. Good, 75, of Wahoo, one dissent, 26 opinnions. Chief Justice C. A. Goss, 73, of Omaha, wrote 33 opinions and disagreed with none of his six colleagues. Judge C. E. Eldred of McCook and Judge Edward P. Clements of Grand Island, two of the 17 district judges assisted at various times, each registered one dissent. On July 24, five more persons had been killed by automobile ac cidents in Nebraska in 1937 than in 1936. The record then totaled 152; last year it was 147. Only about a million seedling trees are to be distributed to the farmers of Nebraska this year as compared with 1,660,000 last year, according to Clayto’, W. Watkins, extension forester at the University of Nebraska college of agriculture. Not more than 600 will be fur nished for any one demostration, FOUR but farmers of the state will con tinue to pay only a cent each for the trees. Methods are to be put into use which he thinks wifi result in increased survival. After August 16, adminstrators and executors of estates involving personal property will be paid on a higher scale, according to the pro visions of a law amended by the last legislature. County Judge Reid points out that the change does not apply to real estate and applies only to persons appointed after Aug. 16. Director Louis Bueholz of the de partment of agriculture has issued a bulletin classifying Diesel fuel oil and relieving this class of fuels from taxation. The Diesel fuels have a boiling point in excess of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, he rules. Nebraska citizens, purchasing non taxable fuels for their own use out side the state, do not have to pay taxes. If the fuel is to be resold the tax is 25 cents a barrel, if less than 10 barrels is inspected at one time. If the ten barrels, or more, be inspected, the fee shall be 1% cents a barrel. In the same bulle tin, transport drivers are exhorted to “have a little pride” and keep “transported washed and clean.” Former Director W. B. Banning has intimated to friends that his disconnection with the department of agriculture was most unexpected. “I spent more than an Hour with the governor,” he confided, “re viewing my plans for increasing the efficiency of the department. About ten minutes after I got back to my desk, the Associated Press called me up and asked for a state ment. Evidently the governor had given out the appointment of my successor before I went to his of fice for the friendly chat.” When the new trucking bill, LB 178, goes into effect August 16, there will be an entirely new set of regulations to govern the industry. An effort is being made to condense the rules regulating the trucking industry into concise language. Railway Commissioner Maupin has been scanning the regulations from other states. Suggestions from the commissioners are being sent to B. L. Knudsen, the railway commis sion expert, who will outline the regulations in final form. At the request of Neil C. Vande moer, director of state assistance, an opinion has been rendered from the office oi[ Attorney General Rich ard C. Hunter on what legal restric tions there may be to prevent counties from making a levy for relief, under the bill passed by the last legislature permitting such a levy up to one mill. The opinion states that in no case can the total levy for all county purposes, in cluding relief, exceed five mills. Inheritance taxes may be used for relief purposes, and a tax of one mill for relief may be levied, re gardless of any other statutory provision. District Judge Broady is delib erating over the case of Swanson vs. Swanson. Shall Secretary of State Harry Swanson have an air ‘cooling system in his office at the expense of the state? Land Com missioner Leo Swanson says he shan’t, that as custodian of the capitol, he has cut the water pipes once, and that he'll do it again if necessary. Atorneys for that sec retary of state point out that a similar system is used in the office of the governor, without objection from the land commissioner; also that the cost of the water that runs it is very little, anyhow. Attorneys for Leo claim that it starts a bad precedent, and that if Harry’s office is air cooled, every other office in the capitol will be demanding sim ilar privileges. The governor’s office, Leo asserts, is in a class by itself. BRIEFLY STATED Born Saturday, July 31, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers. Judge Root of Omaha, is looking after legal business in this city today. Miss Ua Anderson of Norfolk was visiting here over the week end with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Streeter vis ited relatives and friends at Bruns wick last Sunday. The M. E. Ladies’ Aid will held their regular meeting Thursday, August 12, in the church basement. Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson went to Norfolk last Friday for a weeks visit at the home of her brother, Zack France. % John Dailey of Winner, S. D., came over last Monday for a few days visit with relatives and friends in this city. Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Bennet and family returned Wednesday even ing from an extended tour thru the western states. They had been gone for the past month. Hugh 0 Donnell came up from Omaha last Saturday and will spend his two weeks vacation with the home folks. Miss Nancy Dickson returned last Friday from a two months visit with relatives and friends on the Pacific coast. Miss Louise O’Donnell left Wed nesday afternoon for Tilden where she will spend the balance of the week visiting friends. Maurice S. Archer of Ewing, and Miss Vera Dell Bowers of Neligh, were granted a marriage license in county court last Monday. T. J. Graham was in from the Dorsey country last Monday. Mr.' Graham says prospects for a bump er crop are great in his section of the county. Mrs. A. J. Connery of Toronto, Kansas, who had been visiting at the home of her brother, H. W. Tomlinson, for the past two weeks left last Friday for her Kansas home. Lightning struck an out building on the Caroline Wytaska farm Sunday night and destroyed the building and contents, consisting of an automobile and some harness. Rev. B. J. Leahy of Genoa, who came up last Monday evening for a few days visit with his many friends in this city and vicinity, left for home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Irving Johnson returned last Friday from a weeks visit with relatives and friends in Omaha. Her sister, Miss Rita Sundberg, returned with her and will visit at the Johnson home for a couple of weeks. O’Neill friends received word the latter part of the week that Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Pilger of Port land, Oregon, are the parents of a nine-pound boy. Mrs. Pilger was formerly Miss Nina Renner, living in the Opportunity neighborhood. • • • {jive/t me SnerCjLj f Get the Habit! 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