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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1937)
Xeb. State Historical Society The Frontier VOL. LVIII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1937. ' No. 16 YOUTH HAS A CLOSE CALL WHEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING BOLT Edward Young, 14, Found In An Unconscious Condition A Mile And A Half From Home. Eward Young, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young living northwest of this city, had a narrow escape from death last Sunday morning when he was struck by lightning. He was found lying in a muddy pool about a mile and a half west of his home by Anton Jirak and Joe Soukup who were on their way home from eight o’clock mass in this city. He was unconscious when found and was brought to this city to the office of Dr. J. P. Brown for med ical attention. He had partially regained consciousness when he reached the city but could not tell just what happened. He was quite badly burned on the body but the physician is of the opinion that no permanent injury will result. * The muddy pool where he was found wTas close to a gate in a fence and the supposition is that he had just closed the gate when lightning struck the wire fence following it along to the gate, catching him. It was a narrow escape. Gokie-Boyle Nuptials At St. Patrick’s Thursday A very beautiful wedding cere mony took place at St. Patrick’s church Thursday morning, Sept. 2, at 8 o’clock when Miss Elizabeth Goldie Boyle became the brjfle of Clarence Gokie. Msgr. J. G. Mc Namara officiated. The attendants were Miss Mary Gokie, a sister of the groom and Joe Boyle, a brother of the bride. The bride wore a flowered chif fon dress with matching access ories, and carried a bouquet of red roses. The bridesmaid wore a suit of navy blue crepe and white ac cessories and carried a bouquet of yellow roses. Mrs. Gokie is the youngest daughter of Patrick Boyle of Cham bers, and is well loved by all who know her. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gokie and is a respected young man in his com munity. Immediately after the wedding a breakfast was served for twenty five of the relatives of the bride and groom in the Blue room at the Bakery. The Frontier joins with the many friends of this couple in wishing them a long and happy married life. Men Will Entertain Country Club Ladies The male members of the country club have kind of got their foot into it. Altho the poor men have to bear the expense of the various entertainments given there they were stuck for another Tuesday evening, that was rather unexpect ed, but the pi-omoters say they will go thru with it. They are going to entertain the ladies with a spread and trimmings at the club some evening, the date not yet having been announced, provided the com mittee on ari-angements does not fall down on their assignment. Mrs. J. J. Schweitzer Mrs. J. J. Schweitzer, who has been ill for the past several months passed away at her home Monday. Funeral services were held Thurs day in the A. M. chui-ch conducted by Rev. W. A. Eicher. Inter ment in the chui-ch cemetery. Sarah Ann Allen Schweitzer was born May 4, 1876, on a farm near Baden, Ontario, Canada, and passed to her heaveningly reward at hex home in Milford, Nebraska, August 23, 1937, at the age of 61 years, 4 months and 19 days. She was feeling well Friday morning but at noon she suffered a stroke of par alysis of the blood stream and drifted into a coma from which she never awakened. At the age of nine she moved to O’Neill, Nebraska, with her mother and spent her girlhood days on a farm near there. On February 1, 1892, she was joined in holy matrimony with Jacob J. Schweitzer. To this union were born seven children. Three children, Margaret Loretta, and two infant sons and her father, Adam Allen, preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn her husbahd, Jacob J. Schweitzer; her mother, Margaret A. Allen of O’Neill; two daughters, Martha of Lincoln, and Marie of Carpenter, S. D..; two sons, Ralph of Milford and Jay at home; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives and friends. In 1894 she was baptised and received into the Amish Menno nite church at O’Neill, Nebraska, by Bishop Joseph Schlegel. In this faith she remained until death. She liked nothing better than to give and make others happy, even though it was to her own discom fort. She loved things of nature and nothing gave her more enjoy ment than to work in her garden and flowers and watch the wild life in the trees and on the ground. —Milford Review. Quality of Cattle Best of Season In A Heavy Run At Atkinson Sale Atkinson, Aug. 31.—A heavy run of cattle, slightly over 1100 head, the quality the best of the season was on hand for todays auction. The bulk of the offering was made up of two and three year old steers that sold from 8.00 to 10.20 a hund red. Most of the fleshy cattle with kill were bought by packing house representatives for immediate slaughter. The general market was about steady on all classes ex cept cows that ruled generally 25 to 35 cents lower on all kinds except canners. Considering the size of the offering the auction moved along rapidly selling being con cluded by 8:30 p. m. Representatives sales: Heavy feeding steers - 9.00 to 10.20 Good two year old steers at _8.00 to 9.00 Fair to good two year old steers _7.00 to 8.00 Best yearling steers _7.00 to 8.00 Fair to good yearling steers _6.00 to 7.00 Good feeding heifers ... 6.60 to 7.25 Common to fair heifers at _5.50 to 6.00 Choice heavy cows_6.50 to 7.15 Good butcher cows_5.00 to 6.50 Canners and cutters 3.25 to 4.50 Butcher bulls . —5.00 to 5.75 In the hog department some 400 head were on sale made up largely of lightweight pigs that looked fully 50 cents and in some instan ces 1.00 a hundred lower than last week. Sows and fat hogs ruled fully steady at 11.50 for tops and 8.50 to 9.40 on sows depending on condition. Pigs sold mostly at 9.50 to 12.30. Next auction, Tuesday, Septem ber 7, cattle, hogs, sheep, at 1 p. m. French Bros. Make Good Record With 4-H Sheep Dean and Thane French of Page, purchased three ewes last fall at $7.25 each and enrolled in the Roaming Ranchers Club of Page, with Luke Rakow and H. G. Ken nedy as leaders. Dean is nine and Thane seven years old, so they were considered associate members. Last spring they cleared $7.00 for their wool after paying clipping and marketing expense. The three ewes raised five lambs which were sold in Sioux City Monday, for $10.05 cwt. Their records show this will leave them a nice profit after paying feed expense. The boys still have the three old ewes and are now looking for some good grade, or purebred ewes to add to their flock. BUSY HOUR CLUB The Busy Hour Club met with Mrs. Gray Thursday afternoon in Atkinson. All members were pre sent except four. Mrs. Lizzie Pel cer and Mrs. Jim Rooney were visi tors. The afternoon was spent in playing games and visiting, after which a delicious lunch of cake, ice cream and iced tea was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Will Schmohr. Ted Happe, the efficient and ac commodating night clerk at the Golden Hotel, left last Monday morning for Chicago where he will spend a couple of weeks visit ing with Ed Malm, a member of the Chicago police force and a brother-in-law of Mrs. Harry Bow en of this city. Ted is on his vaca tion of two weeks and expects to spend most of that time in the windy city. Mrs. Margaret Posvar and family left Wednesday morning for Nor folk where they expect to make their future home. The Weather The past week has been fair, but unduly hot for this season of the year, away above the normal tem perature. Last Thursday the ther mometer registered 98 degrees; Friday, 102; Saturday 101 and Sun day 99. Early Sunday morning we had a light shower that registered .08 of an inch. Later in the day we had several showers that totaled nearly one-half inch and then Sun day night another shower that brought the rainfall to 1.02 inches for the twenty-four hours. This cooled the weather off somewhat and Monday the highest tempera ture recorded was 72 degrees, but Tuesday it climbed back to 93 and Wednesday to 94 degrees, and it was very humid. Not so hot this morning but it will probably climb to the middle nineties before the day is over. Following is the chart for the week: High Low Mois. Aug. 26 . 98 66 Aug. 27 _.- 102 65 Aug. 28 _101 77 Aug. 29 .. 99 68 .08 Aug 30 . 72 59 .94 Aug. 31 - 93 65 Sept. 1 _ 94 68 Total for the month of August 1.64 inches; total for the year to date, 18.95 inches. While we have had enough rain in the county to make a splendid corn crop the excessive heat during the month of August has just about ruined it. Last week was especial ly hard on the corn crop and many fields that had successfully with stood the heat during the forepart of the month fell by the wayside last week. It is hard to estimate the damage done but conservative estimates place it at at least 75 per cent. ACP Fall Seeding Holt county farmers are being advised this week by the Agricul tural Conservation Association of rules covering the seeding of al falfa, clover, brome grass and pas ture mixtures this fall for payment under the 1937 ACP program. Each individual farmer expecting payments for participation in the program is being urged to care fully study his own farming oper ations in connection with the farm allowances set up on the farm and building practice payments already earned. This part of the program works like a checking account in the bank, Fred Beckwith, chairman of the county committee, explains. The farm allowance is like money on deposit in the bank and is built up by certain acreages on the farm such as conserving acreages, com mercial orchards, plowable pas tures and go-back land. • None of the farm allowance is paid to the farmer unless he adopts building practices such as seedings of legumes or grasses or clean summer tillage which earn soil building payments. As in the case of a bank account and check book, the practices such as seedings and tillage will not draw payment un less the farm allowance is large enough to cover the .amount of practice payment earned. In other words, if a farmer by making ad ditional seedings overdraws his farm allowance, he will get only the amount of his farm allowance. Different kinds of farm allow ances and soil-building practices have been explained to farmers at meetings. Those who are in doubt regarding the matter should get in touch with community and county committeeman of the con servation association. Farmers should not be misled by a statement; that they always get $2.50 per acre as a practice payment for seeding alfalfa. This amount is paid onlyj when the farm allowance is large enough to cover the building prac tice adopted. Schools Open Next Week Most of the young folks of the 1 city have been going around with long faces the past week. Reason, school opens in the O’Neill public j schools next Monday morning, and j in St. Mary’s academy on next Tuesday morning. Then nine long months of school with a few vaca- j tions in between, to break the steady grind. Frank Hunter was in from the j Star countiy last Tuesday. Frank | says they will have quite a little’ corn in his section, but a lot of it | is badly burned. 1-11 CLUB LAMBS BRING TOP OF 10.75 AT IOWA MARKET Howard Holliday of Page, and Mildred Marcellus of Stuart, Top 4-H Lamb Sale. Howard Holliday of Page and Mildred Marcellus of Stuart top ped the 4-H Club sale of 70 lambs at Sioux City Monday at $1Q.75 per hundred. Howard had four lambs that he had raised on alfalfa pasture and which were in excellent condition which brought this figure. Mildred had one lamb that nlso sold at this high price. Sixteen lambs sold for $10.66, 12 for $10.50 and the balance for slightly less. Thirty-nine members and leaders accompanied the shipment to mar ket. While there they watched their sheep sorted and weighed and sold. After w'atching the sheep sorted members were conducted on a tour of the stock yards by C. H. Robinson, of the Stock Yards com pany. After inspecting the cattle and hog pens they visited the mounted patrol horse barns where they were treated to an hour’s show of trained horses which was of very high quatliy. Following this they were given a lunch by Swift and Company and conducted on a tour of their packing plant. The mem bers returned * Monday evening, tired but well pleased with their trip. BRIEFLY STATED Leo Adams, the popular young banker of Chambers, w-as looking after business matters in this city Tuesday forenoon. Lutheran services will be held at the Epicopal church Wednesday, Sept. 8th, at 8 p. m., by Rev. Vahle of Atkinson. The Misses Lo lise O’Donnell and Dorothy Reard- \ entertained 22 young folks last Wednesday even ing with a dinner at the Bakery and a show afterward. The young folks are said to have had a de lightful time. Mrs. Nels Stone, of Minneapolis, Minn., who had been visiting rela tives and friends here for the past three weeks, left for home last Saturday. She was accompanied by her brother, William Cook, who will spend a few weeks visiting there. Miss Mary Lou Hammond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hammond, has been appointed deputy county clerk to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of Miss Phalin and entered upon her duties Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Biglin and family and Mrs. F. J. Biglin and son, Joseph, drove to Jackson Tues day morning, where Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Biglin will visit relatives for a few days. Mrs. F. J. Biglin and son went on to Omaha where Joe will receive medical treatment the balance of the week. The last of the weekly dinners given at the country club for the members and their families was held Tuesday evening and like those that preceded it, was a very enjoy able affair, and many of the mem bers have been heard to express their regret that it was to be the last feed given there this year. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Gillespie left last Sunday morning for South Pasadena, Calif., where they will spend a couple of weeks visit ing at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wood. Mrs. Charles Davis, who had been visiting here for the past two weeks, and her son, Mentor1 Davis, who has been employed in this city since the removal of his parents to the west coast, accom panied them as far as their home, Santa Anna, Calif. Mrs. John McCaffrey and daugh ter, Miss Frances, left last Satur day night for their home in Pitts burgh I1a. Mrs. McCaffrey had been here for six weeks visiting at the home of her brothers, Thomas Donlin of this city and John Don lin on Eagle Creek, and with other relatives and old friends here. Miss Frances came out three weeks ago for a visit here with relatives and to accompany her mother on her journey home. SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Darrold Carpenter was up this way from Burwell Sunday. Miss Cuttler has gone to Cham bers where she will attend school this fall and winter. Tom Baker took a load of Short horn heifers to the Sioux City market Tuesday night of last week. George Holcomb of Amelia, greeted former neighbors in Swan a day last week on a trip around with the mail carrier. We have no one pound peaches down this way but the garden plot is yielding one pound pink tomatoes in goodlly quantities. {Continued on page 6, column 4.) Billy McBride Is Dead In Idaho A copy of the Idaho Evening News, of Twin Fails, Idaho, of August 27, 1937, was received by this office this morning from Frank Daley of Jerome, Idaho. From that paper we clip the following announcement of the death of a native of this city: “William F. McBride, 64, resi dent of Twin Falls for the past two years, died yesterday afternoon at the hospital where he had been a medical patient since Tuesday. “He was born at O’Neill, Nebr., and later moved to Nevada. He made his home in that state until coming here. “His only immediate relative is a niece, Mrs. C. J. Cannon, Twin Falls.” In a letter Mr. Daley says that the Mrs. Cannon mentioned is the daughter of Billey’s sister, the former Kitty McBride, now de ceased. Billy McBride was the son of John McBride for many years one of the most prominent residents of this city. He served this county as clerk of the district court in the early days and Billy worked in the office in his school days as a clerk. The family left here in the nineties, moved to Salt Lake City, and ac cording to the article above Billy was the last member of the family, i Billy had many friends in this city and county who will learn with regret of his death. Word Received of Death of Sol Gallentine At His Norcatur, Kans. Home Relatives in the Meek neighbor hood received word Monday of the death Monday of Sol Gallentine at his home at Norcatur, Kansas. The funeral is being held at Nor catur today. Mr. Gallentine was a resident of this county for many years being a pioneer in northern Holt, having filed on a homestead west of the present location of mid way in the early eighties. He was a resident of the county until about twenty years ago when he moved to Norcatur, Kansas, where he had since made his home. Mr. Gallentine was about 90 years of age at the time of his death. He was a prominent figure in the early days of Holt county and for many years had mail con tracts on several star routes out out of this city. While here he always took an actice interest in civic affairs and had a host of friends in various parts of the county. Mrs. Charles Clouse, liv ing in the Meek neighborhood, is a daughter of Mr. Gallentine and she, with her husband and family, left for Norcatur Monday to at tend the funeral. At the time of his death Mr. Gallentine still owned his old homestead in this county. _ Will Hold Picnic At Ry The Way Ranch There will be a picnic at By The J Way Ranch. The date is Sunday, Sept. 19. The purposes are two- j fold. First, we want to meet our \ neighbors in the sandhills. Bring j your lunch baskets and in the cot tonwood grove south of L Lake we 1 will break bread together. We will furnish the coffee and lemonade. After the eats there will be some speakers of note. Then we want to present ranchers the facts re garding the big calf sales and shows to be held at O’Neill Oct. 18, Bassett Oct. 19, and Valentine, Oct. 21. Local managers and county agents join especially in that part pf the invitation. Mark the date and be there by 12 o’clock noon, or before, as we want to get tffe pro gram started by one o’clock. Fol lowing it we will be pleased to show our visitors a few of our cattle and premises. Town folks are included, of course. Tell your neighbors. By The Way Ranch is located 18 miles west of Wood Lake and 25 miles south of Valentine. The road is marked from both places. Sam and Martha MeKelvie. Members of 1-H Clubs Selected To Represent County At State Fair Members from thirty of Holt county’s thirty-nine 4-H clubs com peted for premiums awarded by merchants and business men of O’Neill ait their second annual county-wide Achievement Day at O’Neill Saturday. As a result the following members were selected to represent the county at the State Fair: Demonstration team; Poultry—Margery Rees, O'Netill and Vera Grutsch O’Neill; Live stock—Marie Hynes and Demaris Benson, O’Neill; Forestry—Don Scott, Stuart, and Dick Shearer, Atkinson; Clothing—Ella Eiscrt and Leone Belzar, O’Neill; Judg ing: Poultry— Madelyli Hynes Joe Curran and Marvin StaulTer, all of O'Neill; Style Show—Hen rietta Schrier, O’Neill. Health Contest—Healthiest girl, Inez Benson, O’Neill; Healthiest boy, Maurice Grutsch, O’Neill. Live stock judging team—Jack Alder son, Chambers, Marie Hynes and DeMaris Benson, O’Neill. Winners of first prize in the var ious contests were: Learning to Sew—Judging, Annie Ramold, Atkinson; Dust cloths, Helen Peter, O’Neill; Holders, Mat ilda Peters, O’Neill; Aprons, Anna Peter, O’Neill; Towels, Suzanne Mudlotf, Star. Summer Clothes— Judging, Evelyn VanEvery, O’Neill; Princiss Slips, Anna Peter, O’Neill; Sleeveless Dress, Henrietta Sch rier, O’Neill; Dress with set in sleeves, Evelyn VanEvery, O’Neill; Winter Clothes—Coat, Henrietta Schrier, O’Neill. Learning to Sew—Laundry Bag, Elsie Peter, O'Neill. Girl’s Room—Pillows, Bertha Bruckenhorst, Inma n. Learning to Cook—Cookies, Kath ryn Funk, Clearwater. Girl’s Room—Judging, Marjorie Rouse, O’Neill. Poultry— Judging, Dale Stauffer, Page. Learning to Cook — Judging, Betty Lou French, Page. Forestry—Exhibits, Laura Allyn Dustin. Livestock — Judg ing, Boyd Ressel, Chambers. Farm Account—Helen Wilkinson, Atkin son. Mrs. Corrigan’s Will Leaves $10,000 For A Home For Aged Poor The will of Mrs. Bridget Cor rigan, filed in the county court of Douglas county, contained a be quest of $10,000 to aid in the erect ion of a home for the aged poor. The money is directed to be given to the Bishop of the Omaha Catho lic diocese, upon the condition that the unit or part of the home when built shall be designated Patrick C. Corrigan, in honor of her late husband. The estate is estimated at $35,000. Mrs. Corrigan was a resident of this city for several years, her husband operating a drug store in the building now oc cupied by Reardon Bros, drug store. Mrs. Corrigan was buried in the Catholic cemetery here las^ Friday. J. P. Protivinsky Lip And Around Again J. P. Protivinsky was down town Monday for the first time in six weeks. John has been on a diet for that time, acting under orders of his physician, and was com pelled to stay away from business. John certainly looks good and he says he is feeling fine and expects to be back in the harness within ten days or so, which will be grati fying news to his many frieds in this city and vicinity. Fay Miles and family moved to this city Sunday from Chadron, Nebr., where they have lived for the past fifteen years, Mr. Miles being employed there at the office of the Chadron Journal. He began work here Monday morning at the office of the Holt County Indepen dent. R. E. GALLAGHER IS DRIVERS’ LICENSE COUNTY EXAMINER Tests Include Eye and Traffic Law Examinations and Drivers Test On New Licenses Issued. Ninety-three examiners, one in each county in the state, began work yesterday, with helpers in some cases, examining automobile drivers, both old and new for li censes to drive automobiles under the new law passed by the last legislature. Examiners have been appointed by the chief of the driv er’s license division of the state engineer’s department. Robert E. Gallagher has been appointed for Holt county and he has an office in the supervisor’s room at the court house. These jobs will last three months, September, October and November. It is estimated that it will cost the automobile drivers $50,000 for these examinations and the issu ance of the licenses. The examin ers in Douglas and Lancaster counties will draw $150 per month for three months. All other coun ty examiners will receive $125 per month, except those in the smaller counties, whose pay will average $85 per month. Those who have their old driver’s licenses will pay a fee of 75 cents for a renewal. The county treasurer will receive 5 cents of this for issuing the license and the state will get the balance of the 75 cents. The fee for new drivers’ license is $1.00 and most of this will go to the support of the state safety patrol. Eye tests will be given present drivers and eye and driving tests and examination on traffic laws will be given all new applicants. While business was rushing in the offices of the examiners in Omaha ond Lincoln, according to the daily press, there was no undue ! rush at the office of the local ex aminer, R. E. Gallagher. Sixty examinations were made yesterday and licenses issued. It is estim ated that nine or ten thousand drivers’ licenses will be issued in this county, and while they have three months to secure them they will have to come in a lot faster than they did yesterday in order to take care of all applicants be fore the deadline is reached. The state safety patrol will prob ably go on the highways about Oct. 1, and it will be necessary for all drivers of an automobile to have a drivers’ license or they will be taken in charge by the patrol. While the number of licenses ex pected to be issued in this county is in excess of the number of cars and trucks registered it should be borne in mind that several per sons in one family drive the same car, and each driver will have to have a license before he is permit ted to operate a car. Lack of en forcement of the old law is re sponsible for the fact that there are hundreds of automobile drivers in the state that have not and never did have a license to drive. The present law was passed with the intention of outlawing from the highways all those who had no li cense to drive and make the high ways of the state safer for those who were licensed drivers and had the right to use the highways of ' the state. Be on the safe side and get your license. Father P. F. Burke Transferred To Omaha Father P. F. Burke, who has been the assistant pastor of St. Pat rick’s church here for the past year and a half, will leave the middle of the month for Omaha, where he has been transferred. Father Flynn, who has been in Omaha for several years, but who is now enjoying a vacation in Ireland, will succeed Father Burke as the assistan pas tor here. During his short resi dence here Father Burke has made many friends who will regret to see him leave O’Neill, but wish him success and happiness in his new location. Miss Loretta Phalin, who has been deputy county clerk for the past three years, resigned her position, effective September 1st and left Thursday morning for Chicago, where she expects to at tend school the coming year. Miss Loretta was a genial and accom modating official and her friends will miss her at the court house.
