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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1937)
Neb. State Historical Society __ * . ’ The Frontier ■ VOL LVm. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937. • No. 22 f INTERSTATE WILL BUILD GENERATING PLANT NEAR TOWN Pipe Line Will Be Hun From Rail Hoad To Supply Fuel Tanks Holding 40,000 Gallons. The Interstate Power company will start the construction the first of the week of a new generating station just oast of its distributing plant a half mile north of the main street of the city and two blocks west, as a guarantee of continuity and adequate service to customers. The building will be of the most modern design and of fireproof construction, of pressed brick with appropriate trimmings. It will be 60x38 feet and 27 feet high and will be constructed to accommodate two 1500 horse power units. One unit will be installed as soon as the building is made ready. There will be no doors in the front of the building, it being constructed of steel glass, affording ample light for the interior of the building. All doors and windows will be of steel. The building will set back from the highway several feet and the grounds around it parked and planted with shrubbery and flowers. ( It will make a very attractive spot along the highway. They will also put in tanks there with a capacity of 40,000 gal. of fuel oil and will run a pipe line from the railroad tracks, north on second street, to carry the oil to the tanks. It will be forced through the pipe line by a pressure pump that will be installed in a little building to be erected along the railroad tracks. If available local labor will be em ployed with the exception of the construction foreman, according to Superintendent Walling. Each unit will be capable of pro ducing 1,000 kilowatts of electric ity and when you consider that ' the city uses only 200 kilowatts you can readily see that this gen .. erating plant, after the second unit is installed, will be sufficient to supply the wants of this section of the country for many years, should something happen to their main power supply lines. This installation will bring two more families to the city, who will be in the employ of the Interstate Power Company. They now have twenty-one permanent employees on their pay roll here and the ar rival of the two new men will bring the total to twenty-three. The company will also put down a well near the plant that will pro duce 200 gallons of water a minute. They expect to have this well put down this fall. The erection of this generating plant will enable the Company to take care of their patrons in this section should a bad storm like the one last winter tear down the wires and poles that carry their juice from Sioux City and Sioux Falls. It is quite an investment for the Company but it proves conclusively that they are determined to give the best of service and it will be gratifying news to their hundreds of patrons in this section of the state and in South Dakota. The Weather The weather has been fairly warm and dry the past week. Last Thursday night and again on Tues day night of this week we had a light frost, but last night we had the first killing frost of the season, the thermometer registering 19 above zero. It has been quite chilly all day and overcoats have been drug from closers and many are wearing them with comfort today. Rain is predicted for this section of the state for tonight and to morrow', with a little warmer weather. Following is the weather for the past week: High Low Mois. Oct. 7_ 69 29 Oct. 8 _ 63 36 Oct. 9_ 69 38 Oct. 10 _ 72 38 Oct. 11_ 79 40 Oct. 12_ 77 29 Oct. 13_ 44 31 Atkinson Market Has Record Run of Cattle; Top Calf Price Is $13.00 Atkinson, Oct. 12.—An all time record for cattle receipts was es tablished at Tuesday’s auction, \vh«n nearly 2800 cattle sold in record time. The best load of calves brought 10.25 a hundred with singles bringing as high as 13.00 a hundred for 4-H club work. Cattle were shipped to eight states following the sale. Nearly 200 calves and yearlings were included in the receipts. Buy ers were present from ten states and following the auction cattle were shipped to Iowa, Illinois, In diana, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Da kota, Minnesota, Kansas and eas tern Nebraska. Top on calves in carload lots was 10.25 with a load of heifers of the same string at 8.35. Illinois buyers were the heaviest purchasers taking 11 car loads of cattle. The general cattle market ruled from 50 to 75 cents a hundred higher than a week ago. Representative sales: Choice steer calves 8.00 to 18.00 Choice heifer calves -..7.00 to 8.75 Fair to good calves.6.00 to 7.50 Choice yearling steers 7.00 to 8.60 Fair to good yearling steers..6.00 to 7.00 Yearling heifers .„5.00 to 7.00 Best two-year-old steers at_ 8.00 to 8.50 Fleshy feeding heifers 6.00 to 7.25 Choice heavy cows.6.00 to 7.00 Fair to good butcher cows at 5.00 to 6.00 Canners and cutters 3.00 to 4.50 Bulls all weights 5.00 to 5.75 Stock cows at - 4.00 to 5.00 Only about 165 hogs were in the days run and the market looked from 25 to 35 cents lower than a week ago. Another big special calf and yearling sale will be held next Tuesday, Oct. 19. John Dumpert left Wednesday morning for Omaha where he will receive medical attention. John has been under the weather the past three months and is going to the city to be checked over by physicians there. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leidy are rejoicing over the arrival of an eight pound daughter at their home last Wednesday morning. Get the Habit! ^ Eat I “MASTER BREAD” £ r , / • • • • always tresh! ■ me CarterCjij. \ Friday and Saturday Specials DOUGHNUTS \ *%c Glazed or Sagared—Per Dozen . . . AmV Also Other Pastries at Attractive Prices! Bunte’s Fresh Chocolate Covered MINTS Per Pound.I WATCH FOR OUR DAILY SPECIAL McMillan & markey BAKERY AIR FORCE FROM CHAMBERS USED TO TRAP CROWS Crows Fear of Airplanes Makes Fast Shooting For Hunters Gathered In A Grove. Using planes to herd crows into groves of trees, as an aid to hunters, is becoming a popular pastime in this county. Last Friday E. M. Gallagher, Ambrose Rohde and George McCarthy drove south of this city where they joined a party of twelve other hunters for a crow hunt. The crows were rounded up with the Collins, Newhouse and Fees planes, all of Chambers. It appears that crows are afraid of the planes and they start for the groves as soon as a plane appears overhead. The plane pilots swoop low and the crows would at once head for the trees, where the hunters were gath ered. As long as the planes kept circling the grove the crows would stay there and the hunters, of whom there were fifteen at this hunt, would blaze away. When the shoot ing started the crows would begin to desert the grove; but as soon as a plane appeared they would head back in. The boys say that they killed several hundred crows, each one of the hunters using over fifty shells. Practically all of the crows were killed in a grove one mile west and a half a mile north of the Hub bard filling station. Those present say they had all the shooting they wanted for one day. Mrs. D. Stannard Heads Red Cross Roll Call Mrs. David Stannard is county roll call chairman and Miss Elja McCullough chairman for the rural roll call drive for the Red Cross fall campaign. The objec tive for Holt county is 500 mem bers. For individual towns: At kinson 75, Chambers, 65, Ewing 50, Inman 30, O’Neill 200, Page 50, Stuart 75, Emmet 10, and rural dis tricts 100. The rsponse for flood funds, in which Holt county people gave so generously, indicates an increased membership during the roll call period. The work of the Red Cross and the need for maintaining or ganization during normal times is recognized by the public. Miss Elja McCullough has been appointed chairman of the Junior Red Cross committee for the county. Schools enrolled in Junior Red Cross may correspond with schools in other states and in for eign countries. The enrollment fee is 50 cents regardless of the num ber of students. Each school en rolled receives the Junior Maga zine and each pupil has a button to distinguish him or her as a member of the Junior Red Cross. F. M. Reece has been appointed chairman of the Accident Preven tion committee and will distribute supplies to the schools for the home inspection campaign. In this pro gram the children in each home check with the assistance of their parents, accident hazards in the home and on the farm. It is an education program to train child ren in accident prevention. Election of officers for 1938 will be held shortly after the roll call ! period, which is from Nov. 1 to 25. 4-H Show Well Attended Two full houses attended the showing of the motion picture “Under the 4-H Flag,” shown in the high school auditorium in this city last Tuesday. Members of 4-H I clubs, friends and parents who saw the picture were well pleased with the showing. At the evening performance, ribbons and awards were presented to club members who placed at the state fair. Those receiving ribbons and awards were Marjorie Rees, Vera Grutsch, Marie Hynes and DeMaris Benson, O’Neill; Donald Scott, Atkinson, and Dick Shearer, Stuart. Contract Is Let For New City Building The City Council, at a special meeting last Friday evening let the contract for the erection of the building over the new well on lower Fourth street to Martin Bazelman. Work is supposed to commence within a week and the building is I to be completed by November 16. The building will be 24x32, with eight foot posts, running to a peak in the center. It is to be of tile, with stu<*co outside*and plas ter inside. #The building will have a room set off for use as a council chamber for the city officials. New Deal Oil Appeals Its Tax Case To The State’s Highest Court The New Deal Transport line of O’Neill filed an appeal in supreme court Monday from a judgment for $1,389.28 taxes, plus interest, un paid under the gasoline tax law. The suit was brought by W. B. Banning, when head of the gas tax collection bureau, in the name of the state. Carl A. Asimus and Tony Asimus, wh > signed a $4,000 bond, were parties to the action. The company had paid $76, but claimed this was under duress and coercion and was a mistake of law. It filed a cross petition in which it asked for the refund of $16,941.26, which it claimed was paid under an unconstitutional law. The state objected that a coun terclaim of that character could not be asserted as a setoff, and Judge Kroger, called from Grand Island, after Asimus had objected i to Judge Dickson hearing the case j because of alleged bias and pre judice, sustained the state, and en tered the judgment asked. The I cross petition charged that Ban | ning had improperly charged Homer L. Smith, one of the part ners, with unlawful operation. The company says that, it imports from Kansas, and that the state has no ! authority to tax the privilege of | engaging in interstate commerce. The defense also claimed the 5 cent tax law is violative of both i federal and state constitutions in jthat it is an attempt to delegate j legislative authoriy to subordinate state officers; that it gives irre vocable grants of special privileges and immunities, and takes the property of one^class of citizens and gives it to others. State Trea surer Jensen and the million dollar fund of 1 cent gas taxes and Banning were brought into the controversy, but eliminated by court order.—State Journal. SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Mr. Mundy and son of Fremont, friends of John Bower, were guests at his ranch Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Buker, Mrs. E. E. Young and little Sammy, visited Sunday at the home of the compiler of the Breezes. Franklin D. is not the first around whom has centered the third term idea. In the mean time, Ameri cans come to their senses. George Meals and family and his mother, Mrs. Hannah Meals, were down this way from Atkinson Sun day and visited Mr. and Mrs. Saunders. Bill Arnholdt came over early from Amelia Tueday with his saw ing equipment to reduce logs and sticks to stove-wood lengths over at the James place. Miss Arbuthnot was out in Swan and Wyoming precincts Monday and gathered some clothing for her work as relief administrator and also looked after a few cases of old age assistance. Cap Addison was thru this way Monday conveying horses, wagon with lack, and numerous items of lesser bulk, property of Delbert I Edwards, to the home of the senior Edwards over near Chambers. The southwest reverted to the straw hat and other summer attire Monday, to awake Tuesday to dis cover North Dakota had slipped down over us during the night, necessitating fishing out the caps and mittens. John Steinhauser of Stuart was a guest of Tom Salem at Amelia a day or two last week. John recent ly returned from a trip with Omaha friends to California and elsewhere to the west and says he had a most enjoyable outing. The meanest man heard of to date is the fellow in Omaha who forged his 70-year-old mother’s (Continued on page 5, column 1.) HOLT COUNTY 4-H CLUB WINNERS FOR 1937 ANNOUNCED Henrietta Sehreier of O’Neill Will Compete For Northwestern’s Free Trip To Chicago. Henrietta Schreier, O’Neill, was named home economics champion and will compete for a trip to Chi cago with transportation paid as a guest of the Chicago and North western railway. Mildred O’Malley, Chambers, was was named “County Girl’s Room Champion” and will receive a Cole man lamp from the Coleman Lamp and Stove company. Elwyn Ro bertson was awarded the title of "County Meat Project Champion” and will receive a gold medal from the Thos. E. Wilson company. Mrs. Edgar Stupper, leader of the Page Poultry club, was awarded the Burlington leadership award which is a trip to club week at Lincoln next spring. Additional awards will be made after the 4-H county committee completes their selections. Yanks Close Series In The Fifth Came The New Yory Yankees are again the championship baseball club of the World for the second year in succession. They defeated the giants in the third game last Friday by the fine pitching of Monte Pear son, who pitched a better game than either of the other Yank pitchers that had preceded him, Gomez and Ruffing. On Saturday Carl Hubbell, who was driven from the box in the first game by a bombardment of Yankee bats was on the mound for the Giants and scored a victory 7 to 3. Hubbell held the slugging Yanks to four hits for the first eight innings of the game but gave two in the ninth, one a home run by Gehring. But that ended the scoring. Hadley started the game for the Yanks but was batted out of the box in the second inning, when the Giants scored six runs, and thirteen men batted in that inning. This was enough to win the game. The fifth game, which also proved to be the last of the series, was played Sunday. Gomez was on the mound for the Yanks and Melton, one of the Giant ace left handers, was on the mound for the Nation als. It was a good game, the best of the series, but as in the other games the Yanks were too strong for the giants and they won with a score of 4 to 2. this game was enlivened by three home runs, two being secured by the Yanks and one by the Giants. Repairing Beha Building On Lower Fourth Street Workmen are bnsy this week renovating and repairing the old Hynes building, long a landmark of lower Fourth street. The build ing was built by the late William Laviolette about 55 years ago, who afterwards sold it to John Hynes who operated a saloon there for many years and it was used as such until prohibition. For several years it was used as a cream and produce station by the Connolly Brothers, until about a year ago when they moved their station a few doors north, the building being in a delapidated condition. It is now owned by Paul Beha. The building was raised and moved twenty inches north, a ce ment foundation will be placed under it, a cement floor placed therein, with a new roof and stuc coed sides and new front will make it practically a new building and an addition to the south side of lower Fourth Street. William Kelley, of Inman, has charge of the work and is being assisted by John O’Connor and Frank Valla. Anton Toy is back on the job in his store again after an absence of a week, when he was confined to hi home with a bad cold. ALPHA CLUB The Alpha Club met at the home of Nellie Boshart Wednesday, Oc . 13. Ten members answered roll call, which was a discussion i cur rent events. During the business meeting, plans for the Halloween party, which is to be held Sunda night, Oct. 31, were discussed. Also plans were made for the birthday party to be held in November. The program consisted of a cooking I demonstration by Minnie Boshart, and two one-aet plays put on by Velma McDonald, Perle Widtfeldt and LaVerne Robertson. A de licious luncheon was served by the hostess. Two Old Buildings Are Moved To Make Room For A New Structure Two of the old time buildings on ! north Fourth street were relegated to the rear of the lots last Wednes day, being jerked back from their proud position on Fourth street, just south of the Telephone com pany’s building. They are the buildings that have been used as offices by L. G. Gillespie and Dr. II. L. Bennett and are two of the city’s oldest office buildings. James Kelley had charge of the moving and he handled it quickly and care fully. If these buildings could talk what a tale they could tell of the early days of the city and county, and the many and intricate problems of law and real estate titles and contests they could upfold. But they had outlived their usefulness and had become an eyesore to that prosperous section of the city, so they bave been relegated to the rear and will probably be reduced to junk. The buildings were removed by Emmet A. Harmon, who recently purchased the lots and will at once begin the erection of a new building thereon. The building will 1 c 42x42, one story high, of brick and tile construction, with a basement of about 20x20 under the building to house the boiler for the heating of the two office rooms that he in tends to have in the building. Work of excavation is expected to begin this week, R. E. Calvert having the contract for this part of the work and the work of con struction will commence as soon as the excavation is completed and it is hoped to have the building com pleted and ready for occupancy by December 15. This building will add much to the appearance of the east side of Fourth street, north of Douglas, and if there would be three or four new buildings erected on the west side of the street it would udd much to the appearance of that section of the city. GRATTAN PROJECT CLUB The Grattan Project Club met at the home of Mrs. Herb Russ for an all day meeting on Tuesday, October 5. This meeting was the first of the regular meeting^. The lesson was given on Personal De velopment and was very interest ing. A delicious covered dish lun cheon was served at noon. There were thirteen members present and one new member was added, making seventeen members in all. The next regular meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Ralph Taylor. CORN HUSKERS TO COMPETE FRIDAY - OCT. 22 AT STUART Cash Premiums Go To pinners In Contest To Be Held On The John Shald Farm. The Holt county corn husking contest will be held on the John Shald farm west of Stuart, Friday, Oct. 22. The winner of this con test will have a chance to compete in the state contest the following week. The Stuart Commercial club, Inc., is cooperating with the Holt county farm bureau in spon soring the contst. Cash premiums of $6 first, $5 second, $1 third, $3 fourth, and $2 fifth prizes, will be paid winning contestants. The field for the contest joins the road one-half mile west of Tony Lockman’s. It is a level field of very uniform stand and should average over 35 bushels per acre. The rows run east and west and the stalks are all standing at a very desirable height. Anyone in terested in competing should regis ter their name with Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece at O’Neill, or B. J. Snodgrass at the Stuart creamery, Stuart, Nebraska. Judges Are Named For Calf Show To Be Held At O’Neill Next Monday Entries are coming in in fine shape for the Holt county calf show to be held at the O’Neill livestock market next Monday, Oct. 18. Judges for the show have been se cured. They will be: K. C. Fouts, Agricultural Agent fo# Seward, 4-H club division; Anton Winther, well known feeder from Wisner, Nebr., feeder cattle; and W. W. Derrick, Extension Animal Hus bandman from the Agricultural college, purebred cattle. Over fifty head of purebred cattle have been entered for the purebred show and over fifty 4-H boys and girls have signified their intention of showing. The sale of the 4-H club cattle is scheduled-to start at 11 a. m. so the cattle to be entered in the show must be in the yards by 9 a. m. Monday morning. The yards will be open in the afternoon, Saturday. Cornhuskers Win 20-7 From Iowa State The Cornhusker football team kept their record clear last Satur day when they trimmed the Iowa State team at Ames, with a score of 20 to 7. It was a good game, Iowa State scoring in the first few minutes of play. After that it was practically all Nebraska. Next I Saturday Nebraska plays Okla homa at Lincoln and a large crowd from this city will be in the stands to witness the game. Lewis Cambre arrived here Sun day for a visit with friends. Dr. Chatfield said, “Robin Crusoe might despise riches —so may a savage; but no sane and civilized man will hold them in contempt.” The O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This Hank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation