The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 23, 1937, Image 1
The Frontier - 1 '• ■■ - VOL LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937. No. 19 DEMONSTRATION TEAMS GET THREE RIBBONS AT FAIR Marjory Rees' and Vera Grutsch Get Blue Ribbon On Quality Egg Demonstration. Demonstration teams from Holt county brought back three ribbons from the state fair and members of the teams will receive substan tial cash awards. In judging the demonstrations, the teams were rated into groups, the best ones given blue ribbons, the next red ribbons and the bal ance no mention. The poultry team, consisting of Marjory Rees and Vera Grutsch, won a blue ribbon rating on their demostration of quality eggs. The forestry team, Donald Scott and Dick Shearer, were awarded a red ribbon for their demonstration of how to plant a tree. The 4-H club booth prepared by the Holt county members illus trating lamb production and care, won 6th place in competition with 18 other county booths. We feel that this is a very good showing for the county and the members are to be congratulated on the results of their efforts. Leona Ann Pribil Wed To Russell Shoemaker Last Tuesday Morning A pretty fall wedding took place at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning at St. Patrick’s church, O’Neill, when Miss Leona Ann Pribil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake B. Pribil, became the bride of Russell J. Shoemaker, son of Mr. George Shoemaker. Rev. Msgr. J. G. McNamara per formed the ceremony. The bridal attendants were Miss Loretta Pribil, a sister of the bride, and Leonard Shoemaker, a brother of the groom. The bride wore a daytime dress of spruce green crepe with ac cessories conforming and she wore a shoulder corsage of Aaron Ward Roses. The bridesmaid was attired in a stone blue dress with black accessories. Her shoulder corsage was of Braircliff roses. Following the church services a three course wedding breakfast was served at the Golden hotel for the wedding party, members of the immediate families and the clergy. The bride is a graduate of St. Mary’s academy and Wayne state teachers college, and has been a teacher in the Ewing public school the past three years. The groom is a graduate of O’Neill high school and attended the University of Nebraska. • Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Shoe maker left for a months motor trip thru the east. The bride chose for her traveling ensemble a two-tone gray wool suit wiih black access ories. On their return they will reside on the groom’s farm south of O’Neill. O’Neill friends of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker tender congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life. 4-H Calf Show and Sale Will Be Held In October Monday, Oct. 18, the first Holt county calf show and sale will be held at the O’Neill sale pavillion. The show will be in three divi sions. One division will take care of the 4-H club boys and girls who have raised a stocker-feeder calf this year. Another will be com mercial feeder cattle consigned by leading cattlemen all over the county, in lots of single, five, ten and twenty head. The other will be a purebred Hereford show where leading purebred breeders will ex hibit their show herds. Immediately following the show, at eleven o’clock,‘the club and com mercial calves will be sold at auction. Joint Club Meeting The Willow Lake Girls Room club and the Inman Calf club met Thurs day evening, Sept. 16, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brunck horst. Each member invited a guest, forty-four being present at the meeting. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. Mem bers and guests were as follows: Marjorie Rouse, Arvilla and Meryl Keyes, Virginia Hopkins, Elaine Retke, Dolores Clark, Marjorie Moore, Alice Brittell, Helen and Doris Appleby, Opal Hokum, Cleta McNichol, Doris Gannan, Marvin and Walter Rouse, Dale Lines, Nor bert Clark, Donald Moore, Donald Keyes, Bill Jensen, Lorin and Er mond Keyes, Pat Brittell, Merle Caster, George Gallagher, Gerald Sobotka, Donald Jacox, Mrs. Louis Kopecky and son, Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Man and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brunekhorst and family. Holt County Corn Crop Is Estimated At 48 Per Cent Normal This Year According to the United States Department of Agriculture and Ne braska Department of Agriculture and Inspection, the condition of the corn crop in this county on Sept. 1, 1937, is given as 48 per cent of normal. In the sixteen districts that comprise the northern dis trict of the state but two, Keya Paha and Wheeler, exceed the average corn crop given this county. Keya Paha has a fifty seven per cent of normal crop while Wheeler is listed at fifty-two per cent. But the acreage in both counties is very small. There are but sixteen counties in the state that are listed in this report with a higher average than this county. ScottsblufF, an irri gated county, is at the top of the list with the condition at eighty nine per cent the first of Septem ber. The average for the entire state is placed at twenty-eight per cent of normal. One Hundred Present At Dinner Given For Country Club Ladies One of the nicest parties of the year was the one held at the country club Tuesday evening when the men gave the ladies a dinner in appreciation of the many given by the ladies the past summer. While the general chairman ©f the event, J. D. Cronin, was not present, be ing in attendance at federal court in Norfolk, everything went off in apple pie order and the dinner was pronounced a success. At former dinners at the club the ladies, or a number of them, were busy waiting on the men folks. At this gathering every thing was changed and the ladies were the guests of honor, while Col Walling, Bill Hammond, Frank Biglin, Ed Campbell, Cletus Sul livan and other masculine members of the club were busy catering to the wants of the ladies. The latter were of the opinion that such an event be made an every month affair during the next summer. About 100 guests were present and the committee on food had their guage set high for there was plenty of food and some left which was donated to a local organization that is doing much for the unbuilding of the younger generation of our citizens. Eminent Physicians To Attend Omaha Clinic One thousand physicians from half a dozen states will gather in Omaha Oct. 17 to 22 for the fifth annual assembly of the Omaha Mid-west Clinical society. During the week-long post graduate course the doctors will listen to nearly two score lectures, view dozens of scientific exhibits and attend num erous clinics. Among nationally-known medi-1 cal men who will lecture are: Dr. W. L. Benedict of the Mayo founda tion, Rochester, Minn.; Dr. J. L. Bollman, Mayo foundation, Roches ter, Minn.; Dr. W. D. Catch, In dianapolis, Ind., dean of Indiana University school of medicine; Dr. | Arthur B. Gill, Philadelphia, Pa., | professor of orthopedic surgery, j University of Pennsylvania school i of medicine; Dr. L. E. Holt, Jr.,; Baltimore, Md. associate professor pediatrics, John Hopkins univer sity school of medicine; Dr. T. Leon Howard, Denver, Colo.; Dr. Win. J. Kerr, San Francisco, Cal.; Dr. Thomas Parran, Washingto, D. C., surgeon general, U. S. public health service; Dr. Hans H. Reese, Madi son, Wise., professor of neurology and psychiatry, University of Wis consin medical school; Dr. Edward A. Schumann, Phildelphia, Pa., pro fessor of obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Owen H. ■Wagensteen, Minneapolis, Minn., professor of surgery University of Minnesota medical school. STATE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION TO BE ON SHOW HERE Collection Contains Reproductions And Originals of Paintings, And Some Etchings. The children of St. Mary’s academy and O’Neill public schools will have the privilege of seeing the finest exhibit of paintings in the state of Nebraska. Parents, patrons and friends are invited to come during the day and view this fine exhibit. The University of Nebraska ex tension art exhibit, which will be in the O’Neill high school auditor ium Sept. 29, consists of more than thirty pictures representing the widest possible types of pictorial art. There are full color reproduc tions of paintings which the whole world acclaims as masterpieces of European art, from the German Holbein’s portrait of a merchant prince to the Spanish Coya’s mag nificant grandee, Don Manuel de Zuniga. The lovely Italian Madonna of Cimbue and Rembrandt’s “Christ at Emmaus” breathe forth the spirit of Christ’s birthday. The French moderns are represtened by a typical colorful landscape by Cezanne, and the French classic ists by Corot’s study of a “Young Girl.” The established American paint er, Winslow Homer, is presented by three paintings. The delicate art of the Chinese Rung Chi, who lived nearly a thousand years ago, is shown in a little pastoral en titled “Three Rabbits.” There is also a collection of orignal drawings and etchings owned by the university, including Lionel Barrymore’s “Quiet Wat ers.” When Mr. Barrymore learned that his etching had been pur chased to hang in the Nebraska art gallery, he could not wait to write of his pleasure, he tele graphed it from Hollywood. But the unique feature of this exhibit is the collection of original oil paintings which are being loaned, paintings by American artists, who have achieved distinc tion in their several fields, Botke, Curran, Parker, Pleissner, Savage, Stoll and Wood, are names that mean fine achievement in the world of painting. Of all these Wood is perhaps the most famous. Grant Wood is a middle western er, now in residence at Iowa City, in the magnificent new art center dedicated just last fall. His picture, “Arnold Comes of Age,” which is included in this exhibit, has been loaned for the exhibition to the Whitney galleries at New York, and to the San Diego Exposition, and points in between. The Uni versity of Nebraska has refused $1500 for the canvass. This is not a large nor startling picture. It is just a portrait of a boy who has reached that moment where h<? accepts the respons ibilities of manhood; a fine clean youngster whose idealism is as yet untried, whose courage is high, and who is ready to take up his part in the making of a better world, j In the background other young- [ sters are at play in a gay land scape; “I have become a man, I have put away childish things.” It is a picture to be looked at again I and again, not so much for the ar rangement of light and color in it, i but*for the spirit which the artist 1 has somehow caught on the canvas. -- GRASS FAT STEERS BRING $10.10 AT O’NEILL Some 1,000 pound steers out of a consignment of twenty-enght head j sold at the O’Neill Livestock Mark et Monday, bringing a price of $10.10 per hundred. They were, grass fat steers. Cooperation Asked By Burlington For Safety “With the resumption of school days, the Burlington railroad is j seeking the support of school auth orities, school children and their parents in its campaign against trespassing upon railroad pro perty,” according to II. A. Yocum, agent of the Burlington in this city. As a part of their safety drive railroad officers and employees will appear before school assemblies, • at teachers’ meetings, before meet-' ings of parents and teachers groups and kindred societies, in an effort to bring to the attention of pupils, members of school faculties and parents alike, the hazards attend ing those who tresspass upon rail road tracks and yards. The Burlington railroad has been unusually successful in re ducing personal casualties among its employees and is making an equally strenuous effort in the na tion-wide war against accidental deaths and injuries among the general public. Mrs. Carrie Cronk Dies After Illness of Nearly Two Years Duration Mrs. Carrie M. Cronk died at her home northeast of Page last Sat urday morning at 1 a. m., after an illness of nearly two years oj' heart trouble, at the age of 52 years and three months. The funer al was held Monday afternoon from the Methodist church at Page, Rev. F. A. Carmony officiating and burial in the Page cemetery. Carrie Finch was born at Spring field, Nebr., on June 18, 1885. When she was a little girl the family moved to Hay Springs, Nebr., where they lived until 1902 when they moved to this county and lived southeast of this city. She was a teacher in the county schools for a few years and on March J6, 1907, she was united in marriage to Fred Cronk, a pioneer resident of the Page country. I Five children were born to this union, two sons and three daughters, who with her husband are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate wife and mother. The children are: Mrs. Mae Fetrow, Frank, Hazel, Margaret and Warren, all of Page. She also leaves to mourn her pass ing two sisters and two brothers. Mrs. Cronk was a charming wo man, a kind and affectionate wife and mother and a splendid neigh bor. She was a member of the Rebekah lodge of Page and always took an active interest in the af fairs of that organization. She always enjoyed good health until a little over a year ago, when her heart troubled her. Although all that medical skill and loving hands could do, was done, it availeth naught and she gradually declined until she passed away Saturday. For the past six weeks she had been confined to her bed. Her passing, in the very bloom of wo manhood, is sincerely mourned by her many friends in the eastern part of the county. The funeral Monday was very largely attended, attesting the love and esteem in which the deceased was held by her neighbors and friends in the eastern part of the county. Relatives of the deceased have the sincere sympathy of their many friends in their hour of sorrow. Judge and Family At “By The Way” Picnic Judge and Mrs. R. R. Dickson and daughter, Marion, drove to By The Way ranch in Cherry county last Sunday to attend the gathering of Western Nebraska people at the S. R. McKelvie ranch. Judge Dickson says there were about 1,000 people present and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. The Judge did not have very favorable comment for the road southwest to the McKelvie ranch from the main highway. Rooters Day At Ag. School The annual “Rooter’s Day” at the Agricultural college will be held Wednesday, Oct. 1, this year. The failure of the corn crop in many parts of the state has made it de sirable to broaden the scope of the meeting this year so that all classes of livestock will be included. The program will include recom mendations for the dairyman, the poultryman, and the farm flock master. How best to utilize silage will receive major consideration. Also included will be a discussion of diseases uppermost in every stockman’s mind, such as anthrax, swine erysiplas, and sleeping sickness. Walt Warner came up from An sley, Nebr., last Saturday for a few days visit with his family and to look after business matters here. Walter says that outside of the irrigated section in that part of the state that the corn crop was nearly a total failure. PUTNAM IS ELECTED AS HEAD OF O’NEILL LIVESTOCK MARKET C. T. Lambert Disposes of His Interest In Livestock Market To L. I). Putnam. • C. T. Lambert, who has been secretary and manager of the O’Neill Livestock Market for the past six months, disposed of his stock in the company last week to L. D. Putnam and retired from active participation in the firm. An election was held by the stockholders and the following of ficers were elected: L. D. Putnam, president and manager; M. W. Putnam, vice president, and Willis Burnham, secretary. Mr. Putnam says that the busi ness of the market has been con stantly increasing and in a short time he looks for the O’Neill Live stock Market to be one of the out standing markets in the entire state. Roy Judge Dies At Lincoln Vet. Hospital Word was received in this city this morning that Roy D. Judge, who lived about three miles west of Emmet, died in the Veterans hospital at Lincoln about 7 o’clock last evening. The body will be shipped to this city on the Burling ton tonight. Funeral arrange ments have not been made. Mr. Judge went to the hospital about two weeks ago and reports received Tuesday were to the effect that he was slowly recovering, but he took a turn for the worse Wed nesday morning and passed away last evening. Mr. Judge had been a resident of the county practically all his life, living for a time northwest of this city and since his marriage to Miss Jane Minton of this city on Oct. 17, 1922, he lived on a farm near Em met. He leaves to mourn his death his wife and four little daughters, besides several brothers and sisters. _% Cattle Prices Remain Firm In Record Run At Atkinson Market Atkinson, Sept. 22.—The largest auction ever held since the found ing of the Atkinson Livesock Mark et took place this week. Two thous and cattle including 750 two and three year old steers met a good reception at the hands of one of the largest groups of buyers ever assembled at one sale. The demand was brisk and the market main tained a firm tone to the very last. Cattle were shipped to Iowa, Il linois, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and South Dakota. A feature of the sale was 280 head of two year old steers consigned by J. E. Stott of Wood Lake, Nebr. They sold at prices from 8.25 to 9.80 a hundred with a few singles up to 10.90. i Representative sales: Fleshy feeding steers 8.25 to 9.80 Best yearling steers 7.50 to 8.60 Fair to good yearlings 6.50 to 7.50 Common yearling steers at - 5.50 to 6.00 Choice steer calves 8.00 to 9.00 Choice heifer calves 7.00 to 7.50 Fair to good calves 6.00 to 7.00 Fleshy feeding heifers 6.00 to 7.00 Fair to good heifers 5.75 to 6.50 Heavy fat cows 7.00 to 7.50 (iood butcher cows 5.75 to 6.50 Canners and cutters .3.75 to 5.00 Bulls all weights 5.00 to 6.00 The hog offering was made up largely of feeder pigs with only a few fat hogs included. Pigs sold mainly at 10.00 to 12.25; fat hogs at 10.75 to 11.00; sows at 8.75 to 10.10. Next auction Tuesday, Septem ber 28, starting at 12:30 p. m. The Weather The weather has been warm and dry during the past week. No frost in this section of the state up to the present time. Following is the chart for the week: High Low Mois. Sept. 16 ... 73 40 Sept. 17 «... 79 39 Sept. 18 _ 83 51 Sept. 19 82 50 Sept. 20 . 90 55 Sept. 21 .. 92 60 Sept. 22 _ 91 58 GRATAN PROJECT CLUB The Grattan Project club met at the M. E. church basement Tues day, Sept. 21, for a very enjoyable afternoon meeting. Hostesses were Mrs. A. Marsh and Mrs. Ed Mat thews. A general discussion of books to be read this winter was held. There was also a reading of “Some Quilting Thoughts.” Mrs. Herb Russ was elected aeading leader and Mrs. H. Marcus was elected leader B to take the place of Mrs. A. Miller who was forced to resign because of illness in the family. This was the last of the summer meetings. The next regular meet ing will be held at the home of Mrs. Herb Russ Oct. 5. A delicous lunch of pie a la mode and coffee was served at the close of the meeting. O’NEILL HIGH WILL TACKLE VERDIGRE IN FIRST HOME TILT Four Classes Elect Oflicers For The Year, And Girls Rep Club Organized. The first football game of the season will be with Verdigre. The game will be played on the new athletic field, four blocks north of the Ford garage. O’Neill high feels that they have a strong team this year. Everybody is invited out to give the boys a good send on their first game on the new field. The Pep Club has twenty girls out to back the athletes. Cheer leaders are Nadine Kilpatrick, who is also president of the organiza tion, and Maxine Barnes, who is also treasurer. Other officers are Martha Switzer, vice president and Davene Loy, secretary. The first rally will be held Thursday night, the pep club girls sponsoring a smoke dance and bonfire to arouse enthusiasm for the first home game, which will be with Verdigre on Friday, Sept. 24. Some of the G. A. A. Girls are learning to catch the ball, and a few are making some home runs in the kittenball games which they play on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings after school. The girls have elected the following officers of the year: Lyda Wilkinson, president; Lucille Penland, vice president; Eilen Robertson, secre tary; La Vern Borg, treasurer. Miss Wind is sponsoring the G.A.A. An enthusiastic group of fresh j men is striving to master some of the fundamentals of English. Morality dramas of early English literature are being studied by the seniors. “Everyman” serves as a splendid example. Much human nature is displayed thruout the drama. The class has been decid ing which of the characters, Goods, Good-deeds, Knowledge or Beauty is best able to cope with the all powerful character of Death. The Senior class of O’Neill high school has organized for the year with Cleo Crabb as president, Lyle Hartford, vice president; Le Roy Grandorf, secretary, and Maxine Barnes, treasurer. Warren Thomp son is class sponsor. The Seniors started the high school social ac tivities of the year with a steak fry at McDermott’s grove. The Junior class organized Wed nesday with the following officers: Jane Jeffrey, president; Harold Hunt, vice president; Martha Swit zer, secretary; Bob Clift, treasuer er. The have already started their financial campaign of the year by selling candy. The student librarians on duty in the library this semester are Lyle Hartford, Charles Herrick, Max Wolfe, Dora Hughes, Eleta Mosner, Miriam Kubichek, Alice Sexsmith, Bessie Jones, Eleanora Bredehoft, Alice Reiken, Margaret Kane, Le Roy Grandorff, Doris Stearns and Wilma Harding. Miss Kraimer is directing the library program. The Sophomore class elected Maybelle Osenbaugh as president, Phillip Yarnall as vice president, Lois Jean Robertson as secretary, and Howard Graves as treasurer. Mr. Durham is class sponsor. The Freshman class election re veals that Donad Lowery is presi dent, Ned Porter vice president, Lydia Halva secretary and Edith Leinhart treasurer. Mr. Stolte is sponsor of the Freshman class. Treasure hunts have become the most popular sport in the city and at least once and sometimes twice a week a group of young folks, as well as older ones, are scouring the city hunting for the elusive clues. One thing that has been demon strated is that the younger genera tion are weekly becoming more familiar with the early history of O’Neill. VERDICT OF COURT FAVORS WIDOW OF KENNETH BERGER Federal Court Buies That Life Insurance Was In Force And Interest Due Plaintiff. The tragic drowning of Kenneth E. Berger in 1935 was reinactedl before the Federal court at Norfolk the first days of this week. Mr. Berger, a son of Charles E. Berger old time and prominent farmer and stockman of the Op portunity neighborhood, and then himself engaged in farming and ranching in that locality, was ac cidently drowned while swimming in O’Donnell’s lake near Inman one Sunday in early July, 1936. About a year before his death he had been married to Erma Gray of Page, a member of the well known, and pioneer Gray and Hunter fam ilies of that city, and herself well known in O’Neill. At the time of his death he had an insurance policy in the New York Life Insurance • company which the company refused to pay. His widow and the beneficiary un-^ der the policy started suit which was tried the first days of this week. Julius D. Cronin of this city and Charles E. Kelsey were the attorneys for the widow and the case was tried before Judge J. A. Donohoe who for many years was engaged in the practice of law in O’Neill. The Norfolk Daily News of Wed nesday evening had the following' to say respecting the suit: “Erma E. Berger, Holt county resident, Wednesday was awarded $4,000 plus interest thereon at 6 per cent from Aug. 24, 1935, by Judge J. A. Donohoe, Omaha, in. her suit against the New York Life Insurance company in federal court here. “Mrs. Berger contended the in surance company owed her that amount under a policy on the life of her late husband, Kenneth M. Berger, who lost his life in the summer of 1935 by drow'ning. Be cause of the accidental death, tha plaintifT claimed $4,000 was due her under the double indemnity clause in the policy. “The insurance company claimed the first premium on the policy was not paid, and that the policy was not delivered to or accepted by Berger during his lifetime. “After evidence had been intro duced Tuesday afternoon and Wed nesday morning, counsel on both sides asked Judge Donohoe to take the case and give a verdict. The judge then instructed the jury to decide whether or not the policy had been delivered to Berger and whether or not the first premium had been paid. “The jury, after a brief delibera tion, said it had found that the policy had been delivered and the first premium paid. Judge Dono hoe then gave a decision in favor of the plaintiff.” Sorghum Meeting Will Be Saturday The public is cordially invited to the sorghum and cane variety test to be held on the John Tipton farm 414 miles east and 1 mile south of Atkinson and .1% miles west and two north of Emmet on Saturday, Sept. 25, at 2 p. m. Mr. Tipton ! planted sixteen different varieties last spring and the results are now 1 very evident. Immediately follow ing the field meeting, those present will visit the irrigation plant of Earl Coxbill in the northeast part of Atkinson. Anyone interested in the subject is cordially "invited to attend. Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nissen and | family were as follows: Mrs. Henry | Fuelberth and daughter, Marie, of Pekin, 111.; Mrs. Blatz Fuelberth, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Fuelberth and family, of Osmond; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fuelberth and family of Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brunckhorst and family of Inman and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Asher anc family, Anton Nissen and sons Mr. and Mrs. Esmond Weber, Mr and Mrs. Herbert Kemper and Mr and Mrs. Foy Clark and family all of Page. There will be Lutheran service al the Episcopal church Wednesday Sept 29, at 8 p. m., conducted bj Rev. Wm. G. Vahle of Atkinson.