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VOL. LVHI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937. No. 17
| Holt County 4-H Club
Teams Make A Good
Showing At State Fair
Fifteen 4-H club members were
taken to the state fair to compete
with the largest group yet to as
semble at the 4-H club building.
Henrietta Schrier of O’Neill, was
high individual in the clothing
judging contest and her team of
two members placed fifth out of
twenty-five teams.
Inez Benson placed well up in
I the girls’ health contest. Final
f results of all contests were not
available when the members left
Tuesday but sponsors were well
pleased with their showing.
Members making the trip were:
Henrietta Schrier and Ella Eisert,
O’Neill, clothing judging team;
Henrietta Schrier, style show; Joe
Curran, O’Neill, Marvin Stauffer,
Page, and Madelyn Hynes, O’Neill,
poultry judging team; Jack Alder
son, Chambers, Marie Hynes of
O’Neill, and DeMaris Benson of
O’Neill, livestock judging team;
Donald Scott, Atkinson, and Dick
Shearer, Stuart, forestry demon
stration team; Vera Grutsch and
Margery Rees, O’Neill, poultry
demonstration team; Maurice Gru
tsch and Inez Benson, O’Neill,
health boy and girl; Ella Eisert,
O’Neill and Leona Belzer, Page,
clothing demonstration team; Ma
»rie Hynes and DeMaris Benson of
O’Neill, livestock demonstration
team.
Mrs. Edgar Stauffer, Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Hynes and County
Agent F. M. Reece accompanied the
members.
Boelter-Hull
A beautiful wedding was solemn
nized Sunday morning, Sept. 5, at
the Methodist parsonage in O’Neill,
when Miss Mary Ellen Hull became
the bride of Wayne Boelter.
Rev. A. J. May officiated, using the
double ring ceremony.
The bride was beautifully at
tired in an ankle length white taf
feta gown, with white accessories.
She carried a bouquet of white car
nations. She was attended by Mrs.
Harold Hull, a sister-in-law. Mr.
Harold Hull was best man.
Following the ceremony the
bridal party attended a bounteous
wedding dinner given at the home
of the bride’s parents. The dining
room was decorated in pink and
white. The wedding cake which
centered the table was baked by
Mrs. Augst Trinese, a friend of the
bridal couple and was decorated
with pink and white frosting. Close
relatives of the bride and groom at
tended the dinner.
Mrs. Boelter is the only daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hull of
Dorsey. She grew to womanhood
in that vicinity and is a graduate of
the Verdigre high school with the
class of 1934. She holds a good
name as a friend by all who know
her.
Mr. Boelter is the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Art Boelter of
Walnut, Nebr. He grew to man
hood in the Walnut vicinity and
graduated from the Verdigre high
school in 1933. He is well known
in the northeastern part of this
county and has taken an active
part in social functions.
The young couple will make their
home on his father’s farm near
Walnut as his parents will leave
for Washington in the near future.
Their many friends and relatives
extend best wishes for a happy
wedded life.
Public School Enrollment
Not Up To 1936 Figures
The O’Neill high school opened
last Monday morning. The enroll
ment is not complete in either the
elementary or the high school at
the close of the second day of
school. The registration in the
high school is 183 and it was 204
one year ago, but Superintendent
Carroll says there are many more
students yet to register.
The enrollment in the grades at
the close of the second day of school
was 234 and it was 270 one year
ago. Following is the number of
pupils attending in the various
grades of the elementary school at
the close of the second day with the
number in the various grades one
year ago:
1937 1936
Kindergarten - 17 26
First grade __ 29 17
Second grade- 20 33
Third grade _ 28 31
Fourth grade_ 32 35
Fifth grade- 28 25
Sixth grade . 23 42
Seventh grade _ 36 29
Eighth grade_ 21 32
234 270
Ted North Players Here
The “Ted” North players, who
used to play O’Neill at least once a
season for several years, but who
have been away from this territory
for about six years, returned last
Wednesday night opening in a fine
comedy drama, entitled “Girl
Meets Boy” and pleased the big
audience which nearly filled the
tent on Wednesday night.
Friday night they offer another
new play, “Petticoats and Politics”
which is brand new to this territory
and a lot of fine vaudeville is in
troduced each evening. Saturday
night the feature comedy of the
companies engagement here, will
be presented “In the Wrong Bed” a
late comedy success that is said to
be the best play in the North reper
toire of fourteen different plays.
Sunday two different show-s will
be presented, a special matinee at
3 p. m, presenting the play, “The
kittle Hitch Hiker” a story of a
girl and the open road. On Sun
day night the North players offer
“Her Gypsy Lover” featuring Foy
Witherspoon,/he leading man in a
romantic Gypsy lead.
MONEY IN BANK HERE MEANS
YOU HAVE CASH FOR INSTANT
USE AT ANY TIME, WHILE WE
ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR KEEPING IT SAFELY IN
THE MEANTIME.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This Bank Carries No
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
Holt County Drivers Are
Obtaining License At The
Rate of About 350 a Week
R. E. Gallagher, county automo
bile drivers’ examiner, has been j
quite busy the past week examin
ing applicants for drivers’ licenses.
Up to 9:30 this morning 360 ap-j
plicants had been issued licenses
and seven applications had been j
rejected. Those rejected were on (
account of defective vision.
Those applicants rejected can
have glasses fitted anil then take
another examination and all of
them will probably be able to pass ,
the vision test. Automobile driv
ers will have to speed up securing
their licenses if they wish to get
under the wire before the last day
of Novmber. The new safety pa
trol will go on the highways about
October 1, and after that date they
will probably ask most of the driv
ers they meet on the highways of
the state for a glance at their driv
ers license.
While drivers have until the last
day of November to secure a new
license it would be to their advant
age to get them early, while the
officer is not so busy and they will
not have to wait in line.
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Romaine Saunders, Jr,, left
Thursday of last week for Lincoln,
and Monday of this week going
from there to Shelton, Nebr., where
he will be a student at Shelton
| academy. ^
Most of the schools out this way
opened for another period of in
struction on Monday—Labor Day.
This particular holiday has no sig
nificance in the ranch country and
few recall there is such a day.
The recently appointed supreme
court justice goes into action with
a background of a decided White
House flavor. This is unfortunate.
Not that the question of the right
or wrong of New Deal proposals is
involved, but a justice sitting with
the high tribunal should be free
from the strings of any administra
tive god.
Community telephones have been
badly haywire for some days, not
only interfering with the daily
run of gossip but affecting more
serious matters. Among such was
a fruitless effort to get a call thru
to the Warner home to notify Mrs.
Warner that her mother had sus
tained a broken hip in a fall at
her home over at Sioux City.
Up on the gravel flats the corn
growers have again been bereft of
the poetry and profit which is the
rightful heritage of the men and
women of the farms. Long ago
their fields were turned to Novem
ber yellow and as the season for
corn harvest draws on there is
nothing in the fields but fruitless
fodder. You can’t pay many debts
nor buy new automobiles nor vaca
tion to far places out here in the
southwest, but you can have a de
cent livelihood and stand on your
own. It’s about the next best to
being on the government payroll.
The rodeo season reminds the old
timers of an earlier period. The
Frontier editor, John Weekes, Tom
and Mike Enright, the Connolly
boys and a few others are about all
that survive the day when the cor
ral at Ward’s barn was the scene
of everyday rodeoes. The little
brown broncs were brought in by
the herd from the open plains and
sold one by one to incoming set
tlers. This involved the roping,
throwing, cinching on of saddles,
blindfolding, brideling and riding
by the numerous Buffalo Bills that
then hung around O’Neill. In a
corral just east of where Tom
Quilty now lives was another show
that interested the kids. Ab Wil
cox and Mike Flannigan fequently
ran in a bunch of wild steers to be
branded. Two men on horses did
the roping and others handled
branding irons, and those bucko
reo made for the tops of the high
fences when a freshly branded
critter got to its feet. Judge Kin
kaid was a regular patron of the
horse ring. If he fancied one he
would buy and get one of the Buf
falo Bills to train it to the saddle.
The judge had the carriage of a
Virginia gentleman as he sat on a
horse, but never acquired the easy
swagger of western horsemanship.
His last purchase injured one hind
ankle, which started the horse to
kicking until he had kicked the
foot about off and had to be shot.
The judge then retired. Those
were days when superb horseman
ship was not contined to a few pro
fessionals following the rodeo
circuits.
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Loreta Enright returned to
Petersburg, Nebr., last Friday to
resume her duties as one of the
instructors in the public schools of
that city, after spending the sifm
mer at her home here.
Mrs. Mary Raider of Gregory,
S. D., was in the city for a short
time Tuesday visiting her son, J.
B. O’Sullivan, while on her way
home from Albion, where she had
attended the wedding of a relative.
Miss Florence Malone came up
from Omaha last Saturday evening
and spent Sunday and Monday
visiting at the home of her parents.
Judge and Mrs. C. J. Malone. She
returned to Omaha Tuesday morn
ing. *
Last Monday was Labor day, but
most of the business places of the
city were doing business as usual.
I The general mercantile stores
j closed during the afternoon, but
| all grocery stores remained open
during the day.
Hugh O’Donnell and Miss Doris
Waterman came up from Omaha
last Saturday evening and spent
the week-end at the home of Mr.
^O’Donnell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. O’Donnell, returning to Oma
ha Monday afternoon.
Miss Inez O’Connell was back at
her desk in the office of the clerk of
the district court last Tuesday, re
turning last Friday from a two
weeks visit with relatives and
and *friends in Wyoming. Miss
Inez says she had a delightful trip.
Attorney James P. Marion moved
his law offices last week from the
rooms over the Interstate Power
company offices to the new building
erected by the Downey Photo com
pany on Fourth street, and he is
now comfortably located in his
new quarters.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thomas, Mr.
and Mrs. James Carpenter and Mr.
and Mrs. F. H. Butts came up from
Nebraska City last Friday night
and spent the week-end as guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
Cronin. They left for their homes
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. John Kersenbrock and Jack
drove to Osmond last Saturday and
brought Duke home with them. He
had been visiting relatives there
for the past two weeks. Jerry Kra
tovil of Osmond, who had been
visiting at the Kersenbrock home
the past two months, returned
home with them.
About eighteen members of the
local Rebekah lodge were in Inman
last Friday attending the District
meeting of the Rebekah lodges of
this section of the state. The local
members are unanimous in stating
that the members of the order in
the hustling little town of Inman
are royal entertainers.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Herrc expect
to leave O’Neill the first of the
month for Olympia, Wash., where
they expect to make their future
home. Mr. Herre is well satisfied
with this city and business here,
but most of the members of his
family are now living in that vici
nity and have been urging him to
join them and he finally decided to
do so. Mr. Ilerre is having a
special sale of his jewelry stock.
See his advertisement in another
column.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Seybold left
here last Saturday afternoon for
Spokane, Wash., near where they
will make their future home. For
for a time he will be stationed at
Spokene and later will have his
headquarters either at Walla Walla
or Wenatche. He will continue
writing life insurance for the Om
aha company. Mr. and Mrs. T'ey
bold had been residents of this city
for over seventeen years, and their
friends Wish them good luck and
prosperity in their new home.
Mrs. Julia Welsh, Emmet
Pioneer Dies In Hospital
At Council Bluffs, Iowa
Mrs. Julia Welsh, one of the
pioneer residents of Emmet pre
cinct, died at a hospital in Council
Bluffs last Monday morning, after
an illness of several months, of j
hypostatic pneumonia, at the age of
70 years. The body was shipped to
this city Monday evening and was
taken to the home of her daughter |
in Emmet Tuesday morning by
Biglins. The funeral was held
Wednesday morning at 9 a. m. from
the Catholic church in Emmet, Rev.
M. F. Byrne officiating and burial
in Calvary cemetery in this city.
Julia O’Connell was born in
county Cork, Ireland, in 1867. Her
family came to the United States
when she was a young girl and
lived for a time in the state of New
York and came to this county in
1885 and settled ne%r Emmet. On
June 28, 1886, she was united in
marriage to Anthony O’Donnell,
the ceremony being performed in
the Catholic church at Atkinson.
Mrs. Welsh was the mother of six
children, five sons and one daugh
ter, of whom four sons and her
daughter are left to mourn the
passing of a kind and affectionate
mother. The children are: John,
O’Neill; Thomas, Joe and Walter,
Emmet; and Mrs. Martha Wells,
Emmet. Her husband passed away
July 19, 1919.
Mrs. Welsh had been a resident
of this county for over fifty-two
years, living within a few miles of
Emmet. She always enjoyed good
health until several months ago,
when she began failing. Her
children sent her to a hospital at
Council Bluffs last June for med
ical treatment, where she passed
away Monday morning. She had
a host of friends in the Emmet
neighborhood and among the older
residents of the county who will
learn with regret of her death.
(Children of M. F. Norton
Here At Family Reunion
A family reunion was held at the i
home of County Surveyor M. F.
Norton on Sunday, August 29, 1937,
at which twenty-two relatives of
Mr. Norton were present. This was
the first time the entire family
had ever been together as the eldest
had left home long before the
youngest daughter was born, and
it is needless to say they had a
delightful time at this family
gathering.
Those present at the reunion in
cluded his three sons and two
daughters, all that are living of a
family of twelve children. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Norton, Salt Lake City, Utah; Mr.
and Mrs. 1. E. Norton and family
of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs.
Hay Norton, Elgin, Nebr.; Mrs. F.
A. Peterson, Moline, 111.; Mrs. A. J.
Bowman, Tampa, Fla., sons and
daughters; Mrs. A. W. Norton,
Elgin, Nebr.; daughter-in-law; Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Short, Elgin, Nebr.;
Miss Sarah Short, Elgin, Nebr.;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maben and
son, Glenn Tee, Clearwater; Mrs.
Mary Adaire and daughter, Irene,
Clearwater, Nebr.; Mrs. Jennie
Twiss and son, Walter, Clearwater,
Nebr.; Mrs. Minnie Bowen, O’Neill.
He also has seventeen grandchild
ren and fourteen great grandchild
ren.
M. F. Norton was born at Salem,
Mass., on May 1, 1847, and cele
brated his ninetieth birthday on
the first of last May. He came to
this county June 3, 1871), and has
been a resident of this county ever
since, or fifty-eight years ago last
June. Mr. Norton, on his arrival in
the county homesteaded in the
southern part of the county where
he resided for many years, until
after his election to the office of j
county surveyor of the county when 1
he moved to this city. Mr. Norton
has a unique record as an office!
holder as he has held the office of
county surveyor since 1K94, or
forty-three years. In addition to
the record of his long tenure of
office he has another record and
that is that he has been the nomi-1
nee of all the politcial parties that |
have been in the county and elected
on all tickets, which goes to prove
that he has been and still is some
politician.
Although he has passed his
ninetieth milestone he still read<
without glasses and writes a fine
clear hand. One of his hobbies is
walking and running and he says
that he can still walk fifteen miles
per day and does it frequently for
exercise and occasionally sprints
for half a mile or so. He is very
active around his home and has a
sunken garden back of his resi
dence where he can be seen almost
any evening with a spade or hoe,
taking care of his shrubs and flow
ers and doing work that would be
an extreme hardship for men less
than half his age. His friends
thruout the county hope that he
will live to enjoy many more happy
birthdays.
Prices On Heavy Cows;
Heavy Feeding Steers
Show Further Weakness
Atkinson, Sept. 7.—The cattle]
market generally displayed very
little change from a week ago altho
some further weakness was evi
dent in the price of heavy cows
and heavy feeding steers. Slightly
over 900 cattle were on sale, the
big end of which was cows and
steers weighing from 800 to 1000
pounds. What few yearlings und
calves were included looked fully
steady and in some instances dis
played a little prict improvement
over a week ago.
Representative sales:
Steers 800 to 1000
pounds at 7.50 to 9.40
Good choice yearling
steers at 6.75 to 8.00
Common to fair
yearling steers at 5.00 to 6.25
Best feeding heifers 6.60 to 7.50
Fair to good
yearling heifers at 5.00 to 6.00
Very best fat cows <5.00 to 7.50
Good killing cows at 5.00 to 5.50
Canners and cutters 3.25 to 4.25
Bulls all weights at 5.00 to 6.00
Calves, heifers and
steers at 6.50 to 8.25
In the hog division slightly over
200 head were offered for sale. No
doubt the heavy rain made it im
possible for a lot of trucks to get
in for the sale. The demand for
all kinds of hogs was real good
with prices fully steady to strong
er. No real choice fat hogs were
offered. Best here sold at 10.85;
sows at 8.00 to 10.00; pigs all
weights at 10.00 to 11.50.
Next regular auction Tuesday,
September 14, at 1 o’clock.
Big special auction, of 900 choice
feeder steers, for M. B. Higgins,
Friday, Sept. 10, at 1 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Smith
and duugther, Mrs. Wyoma Saylor,
of Washington, D. C., were in the
city last week for a couple of days
visit at the home of Judge and
Mrs. C. J. Malone, while on their
way home from a visit with rela
tives in Wyoming. Mr. Smith is a
native of this county, being born
near Ewing. His father, Gilbert
Smith, at one time represented this
county in the state legislature. Mr.
Smith is an employee of the interi
or department at Washington, a
position he has held for over twenty
years. Mrs. Smith is also a native
of this county, born in the vicinity
of Ewing.
City Council Votes To
Erect Building At New
Well; To Use Electricity
At the regular meeting of the
city council last Tuesday evening
the council decided to erect a build
ing over the new well on lower
Fourth street. The building will
be 20x30 feet, with 10-foot posts,
running to a peak in the center.
The building will be of tile, with
stucco covering. In addition to
housing the new well it will also be
fitted with a room for the council
to use as a council chamber. The
estimated cost of the building is
$400. Bids are now being asked
for its construction and the of
ficials figure that the contract will
be let Monday and the building
completed as soon as possible.
At a special meeting of the city
council Wednesday morning they
entered into a contract with the
Interstate Power company for elec
tric energy to pump water from the
new well on lower Fourth street.
The water in the old wells is being
pumped by the city with gas en
gines.
The Weather
The weather the past week,
starting with Saturday, has been
quite seasonable. Thursday and
Friday of last week the thermo
meter was up in the nineties, 97
Thursday and 92 Friday. Then it
cooled off and has been seasonable
weather since that time.
Tuesday morning this section was
visited by a nice rain that meas
ured .61 hundreths of an inch here
and was much heavier in the north
ern and northeastern part of the
county. In the vicinity of Meek,
Supervisor Stein says they had
about 1.50 inches and north and
east of there, according to infor
mation received, the rainfall
amounted to 2 inches. While it is
a little late for corn, except in a
few localities, it will be of immense
benefit to the pastures and will
put the ground in fine condition
for the seeding of wheat and rye.
Following is the weather chart
for the week:
High Low Mois.
Sept. 2_ 97 69
Sept. 3_ 92 73 T.
Sept. 4 85 59
Sept. 5 _ 80 53
Sept 6 .. 84 57
Sept. 7 _ 79 58 .61
Sept 8 _ 85 60
Total rainfall for the month of
September, .61 inch; total for the
year to date, 19.56 inches.
Rev. A. J. May left last Tuesday
afternoon for Fremont, where he
will attend the annual Methodist
Episcopal conference for the state
of Nebraska, which convenes in
that city Tuesday morning and will
continue until next Monday night.
As he will be away from home next
Sunday there will be no services in
the local M. E. church next Sunday,
either morning or evening. Sun
day school will be held as usual.
Jewelry Sale
Closing Out
ENTIRE STOCK at
25% to 50% Discount
WATCHES — DIAMONDS — JEWELRY
SILVERWARE — CLOCKS
Buy Your Xmas Gifts
NOW!
| ^Meas^CalKoi^iniepaiMVorl^^Sept^^J
I have decided to locate in the State of Wash
ington and am offering my Entire Stock at a Big
j Discount. Also household goods, furniture, etc.
O. M. HERRE
JEWELER j
In Reardon Drug Store