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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!
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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