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*Neb- stat* Historical Society
The Frontier
VOL. LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937. No. 23
ormer Manager Of
Armour Hatchery
Here, Dies In Iowa
L. L. Cambre, who was the man
ager of the Hatchery department
of the Armour Creameries here for
about three years, but who left
here after the plant was destroyed
by fire last May, died at his home
at Indianola, Iowa, last Sunday
evening after a heart attack. He
was about 53 years of age.
Mr. Cambre came here from Lin
coln, Illinois, when the Armour
people started the local hatchery
and was a resident of this city for
over two years. He was a very
pleasant and agreeable gentleman
and had a faculty of making and
retaining friends. After the plant
here was destroyed he went to
Des Moines and from there to In
dianola where he was about to start
in business for himself. Mr. Cam
bre had suffered for the past few
years from stomach trouble, but
his relatives and friends thought
he had overcome that ailment and
the notice of his death was a shock
to his many friends in this city and
Vicinity.
O’Neill friends tender the sor
rowing family their heartfelt sym
pathy in their hour of sorrow.
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SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kennedy
made a trip to O’Neill Thursday.
Remember when Atkinson would
refer to O’Neill as the Emerald
Tinted ?
The southwest was favored with
something like two inches of rain
during the past few days.
John Baker, son of Alva and
wife, were down this way Sunday,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hazelbaker.
With a copy of The Frontier
and a Montgomery Ward catalog
one may spend an highly enlighten
ing evening.
A half dozen or so attended the
meeting in Amelia Thursday to
check up on the “soil conservation”
layouts out this way.
The herds of Warner Brothers,
Ernest White and Fred Watson
have each been visited the past
season and one or more critters
made away with.
Edgar Peterson drove the south
mail route out of Amelia a trip or
i or two last week for Floyd Adams,
f who had taken Mrs. Adams to a
hospital at Stuart.
Wind, rain and considerably
lowered temperature combined to
keep those indoors Monday who
planned to attend the calf show at
O’Neill from these quarters.
J Added to an injured foot sus
tained the week previous in a hay
rake, Frank Williamson subse
quently found himself laid up with
the ever popular but none the less
distressing flu.
Josie, the extreme southwest
political division of the county, has
the shortest list if delinquent taxes
of any precinct in the county, while
old Grattan just about heads the
list the other way.
Journalistic enterprises in Oma
ha have slumped from four dailies
at one time to now only one. The
late lamented Bee-News was try
ing to run a New York City publi
cation among a bunch of farmers.
The most favored individual in
all the political literature, oratory,
schemes and discussions is the
farmer, but he hasn’t a show on
earth. He sells at the buyer’s
price; he buys at the seller’s price.
Clifford Bailey is back to the
more or less strenuous job of
ranch hand at his former hangout
at E. E. Young’s, after a visit with
relatives in Kansas. Mrs. Young
went Sunday to Kansas with those
who had accompanied Clifford here
and will visit for a time there.
Land men with Texas acreages
and water rights to peddle at $700
to $1,000 an acre are again looking
up interested individuals in this
community, at the same time ad
vising land owners here to retain
their holdings on the supposition
that inflation 4s going to greatly
increase land values. And they
go a little farther—buy more right
here at home.
Congress is to be called to its
doom in extra session to “regulate”
agriculture again. Whether this
is to involve an undertaking for
idehl weather conditions to produce
farm stuff in abundance, regiment
the farmers, revive the AAA or
cancel federal farmer loans and
close the numerous collection agen
cies, or none of these has not been
made clear.
Col. Hammer over at Chambers
has an interesting story of the
shipment of 108 cars of cattle from
an Idaho point. To the old timers,
reminiscence of H. W. McClure,
Charley Blabon, Corail Graham,
F. M. Widner and others in this
county, when loads of cattle went
scooting down the Elkhorn valley
at the rate of 30 to 35 trains a day.
(Continued on page 6, column 1.)
Davis-Winchell Nuptials
Last Sunday At Home
Of The Bride’s Parents
The home of Mr. and Mrs. B. T.
Winchell was the scene of a beau
tiful wedding when their daughter
Beryl, became the bride of John
E. Davis Sunday afternoon, Octo
ber 17, the Rev. H. D. Johnson
officiating and using the single ring
ceremony.
The bride wore a rust silk crepe
frock with brown accessories. She
carried a boquet of red roses on a
background of white Chrysanthe
mums. The bride was attended by
her niece, Elizabeth Medcalf, who
Wore a dark brown frock. The wed
ding march, Bridal chorus from
Lohengrin, was played by Miss
Alice Sexsmith:"
The groom wore an Oxford grey
plaid suit and was accompanied by
Alva Winchell, a brother of the
bride.
After the ceremony a wedding
dinner was served, with forty
guests present being members of
the immediate families of the bride
and groom and a few of their inti
mate friends.
Mrs. Davis is a graduate of the
O’Weill High school and has held a
position with the Interstate Power
Company for the past eight years.
Her family were among the pio
neer families of the county.
Mr. Davis is the son of George
T. Davis of Inman, and spent his
early life on a farm near Inman,
until a few years ago he became j
a resident of O’Neill. He is now
in the employ of the Miller Bros.1
Chevrolet company.
The happy couple left for a few
days trip after which they will
make their home in O’Neill.
The Frontier joins the many
friends of this young couple in
wishing them many years of
wedded happiness and prosperity.
Rain Halts Parade
•Of High School Band
The O’Neill High school band
wa3 one of forty high school bands
of the state that were in Lincoln
last Saturday, as the guests of the
Cornhuskers for the Nebraska-Ok
lohoma foot ball game. On ac
count of the downpour of rain the
bands did not get to play at the
game but all the members of the
various bands had a good time,even
if many of them got sopping wet.
The O’Neill contingent returned
home, some of them Saturday and
others Sunday, and they say they
had an enjoyable time, even with
the rain that marred the festivities
of the day.
Pheasant Hunters
Thick Opening Day
About every young man capable
of handling a gun, and many of
the older generation, were out in
the country early last Sunday morn
ing hunting the elusive pheasant.
Some of the boys were able to bag
the limit, while others were out
practically all day, traveled many
miles and returned home without
even getting a shot, or if they got
a shot they failed to hit and.came
home gameless.
Marriage Licenses
John E. Davis and Miss Beryl
Winchell, both of O’Neill, on Oc
tober 15.
Leonard Chaffin of Kilgore, Neb.,'
and Miss Ruth Mellor of Stuart,
cn October 18.
Top Calf Price At Show
Monday Goes To Boyd
Ressei At 32.25c Pound
All livestock on Mondays auc- j
tion brought good prices. Plenty of
eastern buyers were present for j
all stock offered. Boyd Ressei sold
an Angus Hereford calf which
brought top price of 32.25 cents
per pound, many singles brought
$12.50 per hundred.
Steer calves
in carload lots 10.50 to 10.60
One and two-year old
steers at __ 6.00 to 8.60
One and two-year-old
heifers at __ 5.25 to 7.85
Fat cows ____ 6.00 to 7.40
Canners and cutters ... 3.40 to 4.85
Bulls at 4.85 to 6.25
Only about 70 head of hogs were
listed for the sale. Butcher hogs
brought 9.50 per hundred; shoats
of 40 to 100 pounds, 10.25 to 12.10.
Next Auction, Monday, Oct. 25.
Man On The Street
Program To Be Sent
From Here Saturday
O’Neill will originate a radio
program for station KFAB, Oma
ha and Lincoln on Saturday, Oc
tober 23, when the “Man on the
Street” visits here.
Lyle DeMoss, KFAB program di
rector, will interview local resi
dents starting at 5:15 p. m. In
addition the Kentucky Clubmen,
KFAB male quartet, will accom
pany the Man on the Street and
put in a special half hour enter
tainment, starting at 4:45 and con
tinuing until the time for the broad
cast. Each man interviewed on
the program will receive a full
sized sample of the sponsor’s pro
duct.
The Man on the Street’s Visitor
programs are a feature original
with KFAB. Five days a week the
program originates in Lincoln and
the sixth day In some other Ne
braska town.
Public School Notes
Six weeks of school this year
have gone. The report cards will
be distributed this week. Parents
are urged to consider carefully the
marks earned by their children.
Note the degree of accomplishment
and if added work is thought nec
essary, help the student with pro
per home motivation and assist
ance.
The co-operation between home
and school is heartily desired for
the benefit of the pupil. Success
in school depends a great deal on
attitude. Help us to make the
year one of splendid co-operation
of patrons and students, the school
is progressing nicely.
Several members of the girls’
glee club who saw Grace Moore,
the famous opera star, in “When ■
You’re in Love” noticed that she
sang the vowels of the words of
the songs. This made them real
ize more than ever that good tone
quality could not be obtained unless
pure vowels were sung and the con
sonants merely spoken. For the
past two weeks the girls glee club
has been isolating the vowels of
the words in the song “Boats of
Mine” and singing them without
consonants. When the consonants
were added, the girls tried to watch
that they did not sing ^ie conson
ants with the vowels. Although
the process is slow, the girls hope
to reach eventually their goal, a
beautiful tone.
Members of the senior normal
training class spent a very enjoy
able and profitable day on Wednes
day of last week when they visited
some of the rural schools of the
county. Each year the members
of this class receive inspiration and
help from watching experienced
teachers at work.
The English 10 class studying
paragraphs intensively. The
students are striving to develop
ability to write paragraphs in keep
ing with good form.
The essays of Lord Bacon are
being read by the English Liter
ature class. Interesting ideas are
found throughout the collection of
essays.
Dr. Oliver W. Holmes literary
work is furnishing interesting
reading material for the American
literature class. Each student is
attempting to write an “Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table” to compare
with Holmes.
A committee of the Junior class
■js selecting a play to be given some
time before Thanksgiving.
The band of the 0. H. S. went to
Lincoln over the week-end. Their
PORTABLE RADIO STATION TO BE HERE
When the KFAR Man on the Street program originates in O’Neill
on Saturday, October 23, local residents will have their first opportun
ity to see a modern mobile broadcasting studio in action. The unit
pictured belongs to the Central States , Broadcasting System, and is
used by KFAB, KOIL and KFOR in covering out of otwn broadcasts
and special events. Inset shows Lyle DeMoss, KFAB program direc
tor, who will ask the questions in the local broadcast.
sole purpose to play at the Nebras
ka-Oklohoma game, but due to
weather conditions they did not.
Some went down Friday night and
Saturday morning returning Satur
day and Sunday nights. For most
of the members it was the first trip
to their state’s capital and a good
time was had by all.
Legal Fraternity Of
O’Neill Attends Bar
Meeting At Bassett
Judge R. R. Dickson, Judge C. J.
Malone and attorneys J, J. Har
rington, W. J. Hammond, J. D.
Cronin, James P. Marron and Ira
H. Moss drove to Bassett last
Thursday afternoon where they at
tended the quarterly meeting of
the Fifteenth Judicial District Bar
association, which was held in that
city that evening.
Judge Carter, of the Nebraska
State supreme court, was the prin
cipal speaker of the evening, tak
ing for his subject the Constitution
of the United States, Those pres
ent report that Judge Carter de
livered a splendid address and one
that was well received by the
members of the bar present. Prac
tically all the members of the
association were in attendance.
HAPPY HOUR PROJECT CLUB
The Happy Hour Project club
held their second regular meeting
at the home of Mrs. Arthur O’Neill
Oct. 14. After a covered dish
luncheon at noon, the circular,
“Personal Development" was dis
cussed by all the club members
and some demonstrations were
given as an interesting part of the
meeting. The members and guests
were all served ice cream and cake
by the hostess. After the meeting
they helped celebrate the birthday
of the small son, John. The next
meeting will be held^at the home of
Mrs. James McNulty, Oct. 24.
Cattle Find An Uneven
Outlet In Large Supply
At Atkinson Market
Atkinson, Oct. 19.—The cattle
market presented a rather spotty
appearance at Tuesday’s auction
on another record run of nearly
3000 cattle. Choice yearling steers,
best feeding heifers and butcher
cattle found a good outlet at firm
to a little higher prices while all
others, especially thin cattle and
plainer kinds, were hard to move
at figures that looked anywhere
from 25 to 50 cents a hundred lower
than a week ago. Muddy yards
tended to slow up selling some
what and the sale lasted until 3
a. m. Wednesday morning. After
a slow draggy start the market im
proved as the auction progressed
and late sales showed as much as
25 cents a hundred improvement
over early afternoon.
Representative sales:
Choice yearling steers
in carloads 8.00 to 8.70
Fair to good yearling
steers at ... 7.00 to 7.50
Common and plain
steers at 5.00 to 5.5g
Best steer calves
in carloads . 9.00 to 9.50
Fair to good steer
calves at - 7.50 to 8.50
Heifer calves at 0.00 to 6.50
Best yearling heifers
in carloads 6.00 to 7.25
Fair to good heifers 5.00 to 5.50
Common heifers
on down to ..— 4.00
Best two-year-old steers
in carloads __8.00 to 8.50
Fair to good
heavy steers at 7.50 to 8.00
Best fat cows 6.00 to <1.50
Canners and cutter
cows at .3.00 to 4.50
Bulls all weights 4.75 to 5.75
Only a few over 100 hogs were
in the days run and the market
reflected a full decline at central
markets, fully 50 cents for the
week. »
Next auction, Tuesday, Oct. 26.
Huskers Tie With Sooners
The Nebraska Cornhuskers lost
A MAN DOESN’T HAVE TO
PLEAD WITH CREDITORS FOR
EXTENSION OF TIME WHEN HE
HAS ESTABLISHED CREDIT AT
HIS BANK BY MAINTAINING A
SUBSTANTIAL ACCOUNT.
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
I
a lot of prestage in the foot ball
world last Saturday when the Ok
lohoma team held them to a score
less tie. The game was played in
a downpour and fumbles were the
popular order of the day, instead of
the exception. According to fig
ures compiled by national sporting
authorities Nebraska has the eighth
best team in the United States.
Their tie last Saturday reduced
them in the ranks several numbers.
Minnesota, which went down to
defeat at the hands of the Corp
huskers, is rated as the fourth
best team in the U. S. A.
.Gillespie Becomes Grand
High Priest of Nebraska
I. O. 0. F. Encampment
L. G. Gillespie and B. T. Win
chell drove down to Kearney last
Monday to attend the annual meet
ing of the Grand Encampment of
the I. 0. O. F. and also the Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. Mr. Winchell was a
delegate to both gatherings, while
Mr. Gillespie was one of the grand
officers of the Encampment. At
this meeting officers were elected
for the ensuing year and Mr Gil
lespie was honored by being elected
Grand High Priest of the order.
This places him in line for the
highest office in the order, as the
officials are advanced in rank at
each encampmet. In two years
Mr. Gillespie will be at the head of
the organization.
Mr. Gillespie returned home
Wednesday evening, while Mr.
Winchell is not expected to return
until Friday. Among the other
officers at the encampment from
this section of the state, was J. T.
F'letcher of Orchard, who was
elected Grand Treasurer.
John Brown’s Pay Check
According to an article by Frank
R. Kent, current slackening of
government borrowing is a deceiv
ing phenomenon. Instead of bor
rowing directly from the banks or
the people thru the issuance of
bonds, the government has now
adopted a policy of spending the
funds supposedly placed in trust
with the government, by the people,
under the Social Security act. In
other words, the money which is
taken out of John Brown’s weekly
pay check, and which the govern
ment has promised to set aside to
care for him in old age or when he
is unemployed, is promptly being
dumped into the public treasury
for general expenses!
The public treasury has simply
become a vast and seemingly bot
tomless grab-bag. Politicians seek
ing to perpetuate themselves in
office gleefully ply the treasury for
money, and more money—money
that is spent on everything from
out-houses to cash registers. For
the first forty-four days of the
current fiscal year the government
spent $954,805,183.94; its receipts
were $075,375,502.55; deficit $279,
429,021.39.
What will become of John
Brown’s hard earned savings if
such a policy is continued? What
do you think?
The Weather
The weather the past week has
been chilly and moist. Commenc
ing last Thursday night this sec
tion received 1.67 inches of rain,
which was quite general over the
county, falling gently for parts of
three days and every drop went
into the ground. This was of vast
benefit to the fall grain and many
farmers say their rye crop is now
looking fine and with a little fav
orable growing weather the next
few weeks rye should be in great
shape for the winter.
Following is the weather for the
past week:
High Low Mois.
' Oct. 14 . 39 19
Oct. 15 . 32 30 T.
Oct. 16 _ 36 30 1.04
Oct. 17_ 62 36 .27
Oct. 18 _ 60 35 .36
Oct. 19 _ 66 37
Oct. 20 .. 52 35
Total rainfall for the year, 21.45
inches.
Corn Pickers Meet For
Competition Friday
The Holt county corn husking
contest will be held on the John
Shald farm one-half mile west of
Tony Lockman’s near Stuart Fri
day, Oct. 22, starting at 1 p. m.
Several contestants have entered
their names including the 1935
champion, Orville Thorson.
Hereford Calf of James
Moehr Is Named Grand
Champion At Calf Show
Carl Myere from Wayne county
' paid $94.00 for the Hereford Angus
crossbred calf shown in the calf
show Monday by Boyd Ressel of
! Chambers. Mr. Myere is a 4-H
cliib member and intends to feed
and fit the calf for show next fall.
The calf weighed 290 pounds, which
niakes a price of 32.25 cents per
I pound.
James Moehr of Dustin showed
! his Hereford steer to first place in
| his class of twenty-two and later
I to the Grand Champion club calf.
This calf weighed 500 pounds and
wrent to another 4-H club buyer
for $12.50 per hundred. In addi
tion he won premiums totaling
$15.00. The reserve champion calf
was an Angus shown by Clyde
Spike of Amelia, which sold for
$12.50.
In the Purebred Division the
Grand Champion bull, reserve
champion bull and grand champion
heifer were shown by Red Deer
ranch from Wood Lake. The re
serve champion heifer was shown
by R. E. Lucas of O’Neill.
In the commercial cattle division
first place in Herefords in lots of
five, went to Ed Krugman of Op
portunity. They were sold for
$10.00 to Max Baird of Storm Lake,
Iowa. Hugh Carr had the best
five Angus which went to Mr.
Bothey of Lindsay, Nebr., at $10.50.
Helmer Widfelt had the ten first
place Angus calves and R. L.
George the first ten Shorthorn
calves. Ed Krugman was awarded
first in lots of twenty head in his
entry.
While wet weather kept many
spectators away and possibly some
buyers, it is felt the show and sale
was a success from a financial
standpoint and also as a means of
breaking the drouth.
The complete list of winners fol
lows:
4-H Club Division
No. 1 Herefords: First and
Grand Champion, James Moehr of
Dustin, 2nd Jack Hynes of Atkin
son, 3rd Eugene Thompson of Ame
lin, 4th Margaret Carroll of Atkin
son, 5th Irven Forbes of Amelia,
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No. ?. Herefords: First Thomas
McNally of Emmet, 2nd Roy Forbes
of Amelia, 3rd Edwin Nachtman
of Chambers, 4th Wayne Hoffman
of Atkinson, 5th LeRoy Hoffman
of Atkinson.
Hereford Heifers: First Marie
Hynes of O’Neill, 2nd Jerry O’Mal
ley of Chambers, 3rd Vernon Land
holm of Stuart, 4th John Hytrek
of Stuart, 5th George Nachtman
of Chambers.
Angus Steers: First and Reserve
Champion Clyde Spike of Amelia,
2nd Lorin Keyes of Inman, 3rd
Dorothy Ann Karo of Stuart, 4th
Lyle Brabec of Amelia, 5th Leonard
Clemens of Amelia.
Shorthorn Steers: First Burnita
Dierking of Amelia, 2nd Jeanette
Druke of Atkinson, 3rd Arthur
Jurgensmeier of Emmet, 4th Floyd
May of Inman, 5th Fred Stoecker
of Amelia.
Shorthorn Heifer: First De
maris Benson, O’Neill, and 2nd
Zane Cole of Emmet.
Commercial Cattle
Hereford singles: First Boyd
Ressel, 2nd H. G. Kennedy, 3rd
George Rector.
Angus singles: First Jack Res
sel, 2nd Helmer Widfeldt, 3rd Hel
mer Widfeldt.
Hereford lots of 5: First, Ed
Krugman, 2nd D. C. Schaffer, 3rd
W. E. Dexter, 4th George Rector.
Angus lots of 5: First Hugh.
carr
Hereford lots of 10: First Geo.
Rector, 2nd Andy Clark, 3rd D. C.
Schaffer, 4th Mark Gribble.
Angus lots of 10: First Helmer
Widfeldt, 2nd Hugh Carr.
Shorthorn lots of 10: First R.
L. George.
Hereford lots of 20: 1st Ed Krug
man, 2nrt Andy Clark, 3rd Ed
Krugman, 4th Harry Cooper.
Purebred Division
Yeorling Bulls: First and Re
serve Champion, Red Deer ranch,
2nd, 3rd and 4th R. E. Lucas.
Yearling Heifers: First and sec
ond R. E. Lucas, 3rd C. R. Thomp
son, 4th Lakeview ranch.
Senior Bull Calves: First and
Champion, Red Deer ranch, 2nd
C. R. Thompson, 3rd R. E. Lucas,
4th Red Deer ranch.
Senior Heifer Calves: First R.
E. Lucas, 2nd Lakeview ranch.
Junior Bull Calves: First and
2nd, Red Deer ranch, 3rd R. E.
Lucas, 4th C. R. Thompson.
Junior Heifer Calves: First and
champion, Red Deer ranch, 2nd and
reserve champion R. E. Lucas, 3rd
Red Deer ranch, 4th F. E. Went
worth.
Bulls, 2 animals any age: First
Red Deer ranch, 2nd R. E. Lucas.
Heifers, 2 animals any age: First
Red Deer ranch, 2nd R. E. Lucas.
Get of Sire, 4 animals any age:
First Red Deer Ranch, 2nd R. E.
Lucas.
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