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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1937)
The Frontier VOL. LVIII. 1 O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937. No. 27 Annual Meeting of Holt County Farm Bureau To Be Held Here Monday The annual meeting of the Holt County Farm Bureau will be held in the assembly room of the new court house Monday, Nov. 22, start ing at 10:30 a. m. W. W. Derrick and J. P. Ross from the agricultur al college at Lincoln will appear on the morning program. Miss Grace Lee, district home agent, will have a message of special interest to the ladies. Leaders of 4-H clubs will also be presented their awards of appreciation and certificates of achievement. A covered dish lunch eon will be prepared with the Farm Bureau furnishing hot coffee. In the afternoon will be the regular reports from the president,'treas urer and agricultural agent, and the election of three directors to fill the vacancies of those whose terms expire this year. Everyone is cordially inivted to attend. State Officials Quarrel Over Placing of Million Dollars Gas Tax Funds By the Lowell Service State Treasurer Jensen has plumped $1,083,000 into the state V assistance fund and has refused to transfer it back into the general fund to be used to cash state war rants and thereby avoid a technical overdraft. Both Governor Cochran and Attorney General Hunter have tried to persuade Jensen to use the cash, which is the proceeds of the j gasoline tax law recently declared i unconstitutional, for general pur f poses. The division of the gasoline tax money has caused bitter discussion at the state house. During the last session of the legislature a com promise was made whereby half of the one-cent gasoline tax money should go to assistance and one half to the highway department. After the legislature had adjourned it was discovered that only four tenths of one cent could be used for old age assistance. Asserting that the order of Judge Broady directs that the gasoline tax money should go to the as sistance fund, Treasurer Jensen promptly placed it there. Now it must be used for that purpose. “The old age pensioners and the needy were demanding release of this money,’ said Jensen, “The matter was taken to court. I asked then that the entire amount be placed in the general fund, but the attorney general’s office was against me, and representatives of f the office asked that the $1,083,000 be set up specifically for assistance. The governor called me into his office and said that if that was not done, he might have to call a special session of the legislature. On these representations Judge Broady ordered me to credit the money to the assistance account, i “Now the general fund is de ' pleted. They want me to go con trary to the court order and take this million dollars from the relief funds and use it for general state purposes. Neither the bond of the governor nor the bond of the at torney generall covers this money. It is my bond and my responsibili ty. I feel that if the governor and the attorney general want this money used for other than assist ance purposes, it is up to them to ask the court to modify its order— not to ask me to handle funds con trary to the court’s instructions.” SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders _ Mr. and Mrs. Young are navigat ing in a new “Chivy.” Mr. and Mrs. Bly spent most of the afternoon Sunday down at Willow Lake. Most home talent performers have about the dramatic qualifica tions of a toad. Raymond Bly bought a" load of corn of Bernard Kennedy and cart ed it home Monday. Thru the vageries of Nebraska weather, last week’s swimming holes were converted into skating ponds out this way Monday. Grandpas on the federal and state sustentation, variously known as pension, old age assistance and whatever fancy suggests it be designated, will get a lot of satis-1 faction over that million being headed their way just as we face the winter. Preachers of fanciful ideas catch the women, who are “ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” while the gentlemen of the cloth with sane, practical teaching has empty pews. Those in a position to know ex press the belief the needs to meet the relief situation in Holt county this winter are to exceed all pre vious requirements. This, notwith standing the political preachments of better times. The president calls on the “hated rich” to build something to give jobs to idle men. As example over shadows precept, you may look for Franklin D. and son Jimmie to call in the architects for a Roosevelt sky scraper at once. I do not know as the lately formed rifle club at the county seat is to have a contest of marksman ship this Thanksgiving, but it is recalled such was an annual oc casion in the days now long gone. The Thanksgiving turkey shoot was an institution. Gus Hanlon, “Old Buster,” Jerry Kirwin, Del Akin, Walt Rathbone, Ed and Jake Hershiser, might miss breakfast that morning but not the turkey shoot. The heavy Winchester was used. Just off of Douglas street to the north at a point now known as Sixth street was all open country to the east. At a distance of 150 yards a mound of earth was thrown up and a box placed with several turkeys. One turkey head at a time stuck thru an opening and as it was taken off by a keen-eyed marksman’s bullet another took its place. Various sorts of guns were popular those days so that the town had two gunsmiths. In this d#y of bespectacled citizens the red head of a turkey at 150 yards would look like an uncertain target. Those whose only contact with God’s great outdoors comes from walking to the stret curb and step ping into the car cannot know the satisfying pleasure of coming in at the close of the day in the open. The warmth from the old living room heater, the smell of burning cottonwood, inticing odors from the quarters where an evening meal is cooking, heavy footwear and gar ments laid aside, a refreshing and cleansing dash of water, a healthy taste gratified by simple bounties and an evening in the easy indol ence of one’s fireside. The trans cendent pleasures of home come with the long frosty evening. “The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces of which others never dream.” Within for the night from dust and cold and labors of the day— “Musing as I sit By the firelight’s cheerful blaze, Listening to the busy kettle Humming long-forgotten lays.” 1938 Agricultural Conservation Program Community committeemen met in O’Neill last Monday for instruc tions in field work on the 1938 agricultural conservation program and started to work this week. They will check every farm in Holt county to determine basic data for the 1938 program. This will in clude estimates as to erosion, pro ductivity, slope and other factors, which affect farming conditions and in this way hope to set a basis for a sound soil improvement pro gram. They hope to have the work completed by Dec. 18. Miller-Ross On Tuesday, November 16, 1937, Mattie Melvina Ross and Cecil Clyde Miller were united in mar riage at Butte, Nebr., at 11:30 a. m. The young couple were attended by Neva June Schelkopf, a friend of the family, and Alfred Leonard Ross, brother of the bride. The bride is the younger daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross, of Red Bird. She was attired in a dress of wine colored transpar ent velvet trimmed with white silk braid at the throat and rhinestone buttons down the front of the waist. Her bridesmaid wore rust colored crepe also trimmed with rhinestones. The groom is the son of the late Bertrum Miller and his wife. He and his attendant wore dark blue. The young couple will make their home for the present with the bride’s parents, where the groom has been employed for the past few years. Their many friends wish them many years of wedded happiness and prosperity. xxx Cattle And Hogs Show Further Price Decline At Atkinson Market Atkinson, Nov. 16.—Livestock prices continued down grade at Tuesday’s auction, largely in sym pathy with the bad break at the larger markets the two preceed ing days. While the quality of this weeks cattle offering was not up to previous sales, the prices received looked anywhere from 25 to 50 cents a hundred lower than a week ago for corresponding kinds. Cattle receipts totaled 1000 head. Representative sales: Yearling and two-year old steers, of good quality at _6.25 to 6.85 Red and roan yearling steers at_5.00 to 6.00 Yearling heifers at 4.75 to 5.50 Best steer calves at_6.75 to 7.35 Fair to good steer calves at _5.50 to 6.50 Choice heifer calves 5.50 to 6.50 Fair to good heifer calves at -5.00 to 5.40 Wet cows at .... 3.75 to 4.25 Canner and cutter cows +1.00 to 4.00 Butcher cows at 4.00 to 5.50 The hog run was the largest since early summer with a few over 400 head being offered, of these 60 per cent were fat hogs. Top on fat hogs at 7.75 with bulk bring ing from 7.25 to 7.60; sows at 6.76 to 7.20; pigs all weights at 7.00 to 8.50. Next auction Tuesday, November 23, beginning at 12:30 p. m. PEOPLE YOU KNOW " Gladys Brack has filed suit in the district court for a decree of di vorce from Jacob Brack. In her petition she alleges that they were married at Plankington, S. D., on May 17, 1933. She had been a resident of Holt county for more than thirty years. She alleges cruel and inhuman treatment and lack of support. On account of his acts of cruelty she says that she was compelled to leave their home at White Lake on Dec. 16, 1933, and returned to the home of her par ents in this county. She asks for an absolute divorce and that her maiden name, Gladys Gray, be re stored. There are no children. This office turned out a large number of large bills for the John son Drug company the first of the week announcing their first anni versary sale which will begin next Saturday and end one week from Saturday. Mr. Johnson has been in business in this city for one year and during that time he has had a splendid business and is looking forward to a greater increase in the volume of business during the next year. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Moore drove to Nebraska City Sunday morning for a short visit at the home of Mrs. Moore’s parents. Mr. Moore returned Monday morning to Gree ley where he put in the day looking after business matters, coming home that evening. Mrs. Moore remained for a weeks visit with her parents, as they leave next week for Florida where they will spend the winter. Mrs. R. E. Maw entertained the W. C. T. U. Tuesday afternoon. Christian Citizenship was the topic for discussion. After the meeting adjourned Mrs. Maw served a nice plate lunch. Echos from the World W. C. T. U. report on Christian Citizenship in different countries was read. This report book was printed in London and was com piled by Agnes Slack who was a friend of Frances Willard. Mr. and Mrs C. B. Yarnall drove to Grand Island last Sunday where Mr. Yarnall looked after business for the day. They returned home that evening and were accompanied back by their daughter, Miss Ger aldine, who is attending business college at Hasings and she will visit with the home folks until after the Thanksgiving vacation. Two Members Of State Highway Patrol To Be Stationed At O’Neill The members of the State High way Patrol will enter upon their duties next Saturday, Nov. 20. Forty-four men havo been ap pointed and they all begin work for the state on the above date. They have had headquarters es tablished in several parts of the state, which were considered most available positions for their duties. O’Neill has been selected as the headquarters for two members of the Patrol and E. L. Hailey of Stanton and It. F. Nash of Lincoln, have been selected as the patrolmen to be located here. Part of the members of the farce will do patrol duty only, while the balance of the members will have patrol duty as well as looking after the license in spection of drivers. The men lo cated here will have both duties to perform. With a couple of the State High way Patrol located here some of the auto drivers in this section of the state will have to be more care ful in the future than they have been in the past, if they do not wish to run afoul of the law. Post yourselves on the rules and regula tions as they apply to drivers and observe them and you need have no fear but what you will get along all right. Public School Notes High School News The Junior Class play, coached by Miss Collins, will be presented at 8 o’clock in the public school auditorium on Tuesday, November 23. A matinee will be held at 2:30 o’clock. The cast of characters is as follow's: Robert Downing, Charles Yarnall; Jim Bradley, Junior Toy; Harry Collins, Hugh McKenna; Jerry Roebuck, Harold Hunt; Helen Norwood, Jane Jeffrey; Joan Sanford, Martha Switzer; Anne Hawkins, Lyda Wil kinson; Mrs. Matthews,-Leone Bel zer; Miss Odessa Henworthy, Dor othy Ross; Madame Du Pont, Wanda Spangler; Judson, Donald Mitchell; Louise, Miriam Kubichek. The class has been working hard and will appreciate your attend ance. The girls in the home economics classes have begun the study of foods and are learning some of the values of having regular and whole some meals. Kindergarten It’s so much more fun to walk down the middle of the street in stead of down the sidewalk. On Armistice day it was the cars that had to look up, look down, then hurry across instead of the kinder gartners. Yet, there were a few disadvantages. Because in a par ade there was no time to enjoy standing on the “No U Turn” plate at the intersection. Then too, people were watching. Soon after reaching the pavement, a litle girl was heard to say in dismay, “Oh, my new shoes is a dirty.” She knew and applied the remedy. If you should come to visit the Kindergarten, don’t be surprised to see rabbits, foxes, lions and ele phants skipping around the room. Of course, they do not look exactly like the pictures you see but music helps them to skip like book ani mals do. First Grade We are very sorry that Betty Jo Coutts has left our school. We hope she will be happy in her new home in Grand Island. This week we are starting a study of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving Day. One of our favorite stories is “the Soap-Mak ing of Remember Biddie.” Second Grade Care of the teeth, healthful drinks and food of children in other lands were studied last week. Health jingles were memorized and dramatized. For art work we have begun a Thanksgiving frieze. Third Grade Mrs. Ruth Morgan, Mrs. Hazel Boatman and Mrs. F. Wyant visit ed in our room last week. We are making Indian booklets this week. We will have in them about our Nebraska Indians, our original Indian stories and draw ing of Indian blankets. We are sorry to lose Robert Coutts from our class. Fourth Grade The “A” reading group is read ing about people of the desert edge in correlation with geography. We are learning about the life of the Nomads, their clothing, the pro ducts of the desert and the camel, often called the “Ship of the Des ert.” The “B” reading group is study ing the life of the Pilgrims. We are discussing Pilgrim furniture and customs. We welcome a new pupil to our room, Virginia Ball, who formally attended school at Neligh. In correlation with our study of the Pilgrims we are learning about the Indians and their sign language. Several in the room are quite ex pert at carrying on a conservation. We have had some very good art work in correlation with our Health lessons. Pictures of the healthy O’s along with Health Rymes are posted on our bulletin board. Fifth Grade Our “Alice in Wonderland” movie is progressing now. We hope to have Alice performing soon. Billy Coutts moved to Grand Island, so we made up our own good bye to him in our own song with Miss Duffy’s help. Many of our mothers visited school the day of our flag pageant. We were very glad the sixth grade asked us to help them put on the pageant. Second and last installment, the Mystery Unsolved. It is like this. One morning, when we came to school, all our leggy, whizzing beings were no longer leggy and whizzing but had curled up their toes and were still—on the top of the water. What demon could have killed them?—Maybe there was a war—, anyway they couldn't learn long division. So, out the window they went. The mystery ends still shrouded in mystery. You should see how the multipli cation has improved. Several of us can turn it at the rate of six or seven seconds. We are learning the song for the operatta, “Smiling Sixpence.” There are goblins and the man of the mountain smells blood “by his whiskers,” instead of his nose. Seventh Grade Morris Kirkpatrick is making a clock shelf for our room. We are anxious to see it. The class is busy on a product and industrial map of Australia. The class is working in groups, each group being responsible for a definite part of the map. We hope to have work that we can be proud of when it is completed as well as a better knowledge of the con tinent of Australia. Eighth Grade The seventh and eighth grades, the class in normal training and some o'jtside visitors were pleasant ly entertained at an Armistice Day program by the fifth and sixth grades last Wednesday afternoon in the auditorium. The program, which was very appropriate, con sisted of three numbers: First, history of the flag, a pageant of fifth and sixth grade girls; second, reading, “In Flanders Fields” by Shirley Claussen; third, selection by High School Glee Club. Everyone greatly enjoyed the program and much credit should be given to the teachers, Miss Kvam, Miss Jones, Miss Duffy and Miss Nadine Kilpatrick, assistant. Holt County Is Not In Corn Loan Area Latest information Relative to corn loans is that none will be available in Holt county because this county was not in a corn limit area in 1937. The community committee of the agricultural conservation program in session Monday passed a resolu tion unanimously requesting that Holt county be put in the corn limit area in 1938 and that corn loans be made to producers cooperating in ACP for the corn they raised in 1937. This request was sent to the state chairman of the agricultural conservation program who is in charge of corn loans for Nebraska. The action of the state committee will be reported as soon as it reaches the county office. Stuart Woman Has Excellent Turkey Fluck Mrs. Charlotte Keidel of Stuart, recently had fifty of her best tur key hens leg banded with the h • braska Poultry Improvement as sociation bands. By so doing Mrs. Keidel will be able to sell her eggs to much better advantage and be in a position to sell high quality breeding stock in her surrounding territory. Her flock was inspected and banded by J. R. Redditt from the poultry department of the Uni versity of Nebraska who stated that her flock was well above the average in quality and with con tinued improvement may become one of the best known flocks in Holt county. O’Neill Market Shows A Good Horse Demand; Butcher Hogs Steady <Jood colts met a good demand at steady prices at the auction in O’Neill Monday at the O’Neill Livestock Market. Cattle prices were steady on calves, yearlings, bulls, vealers and the good quality younger stock, with prices lower on canners and cutters and poorer grades of livestock. Horses sold better than two weeks ago, horses with age and flesh good enough for shipment being in good demand. Common and poor horses sold locally. Steer calves .. 6.00 to 7.45 Heifer calves 5.00 to 6.75 Vealers at 7.85 Heavy 2-yr. steers 5.50 to 6.65 Beef cows 4.25 to 6.40 Canners and cutters 3.35 to 4.26 Bulls 4.90 to 6.00 The hog run was extra large and good prices were obtained for most of the better grades. Top on but cher hogs was 8.10, with moat of them going at 7.75 to 7.25. There was quite a demand for breeding boars. Shoats and pigs at 8.50 to 10.40 per hundred. The Weather The weather has been cloudy and cooler the past week and on Wed hesday we had the first snow fall of the season. In started about noon and between then and about 9:30 that night about three and a half inches of snow fell, but the weather reports indicate more snow today and tomorrow, with much colder tomorrow. Monday night the thermometer got down to 12 above zero, 9 above Tuesday, and 8 above Wednesday night. Following is the weather chart for the week, as kept by Observer Bowen: High Low Mois. Nov. 11 __ 65 34 Nov. 12 62 39 Nov. 13 _ 49 32 Nov. 14 _ - 37 23 Nov. 15 . 26 21 Nov. 16 _ 26 12 Nov. 17_24 9 SOUTH SIDE IMPROVEMENT CLUB On Nov. 11 the South Side Im provement club met at the home of Mrs. Bob Gardiner. A delicious dinner was served by the members of the club. After dinner the meet ing was called to order by the presi dent, Mrs. Ben Bachman. There were fifteen members and one visit or present. The lesson, “Our Family Christmas," was well given by the two leaders, Mrs. Ralph Fritton and Mrs. Walter Puckett. They had several aprons, dolls, Christmas cards and place cards which they demonstrated. Patterns of these were passed around to the members. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Alex McConnell. BRIEFLY STATED William Hagerty returned Tues day evening from a weeks visit with a son at Stanton, Nebr. Evelyn Stannard returned last Saturday from a short visit with relatives and friends in Omaha. E. R. Powers, special agent for the Chicago and Northwestern rail way, was in the city Wednesday. County Attorney W. L. Brennan of Butte, was looking after legal business in this city last Wednes day. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz returned last Saturday evening from a ten day visit with relatives and friends in Omaha. The Presbyterian Ladies Guild will hold their bazaar in the church basement Dec. 11. Pie and coffee will be served. J. B. Mellor and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Mellor returned last Sun^y afternoon from Omaha where they had been in attendance at the an nua] automobile show. Lions Club Conducting A Membership Drive; District Governor Here The O’Neill Lions club held their regular meeting last Thursday evening at the Golden hotel. Father B. H. Teves, district governor of district 38A of Nebraska, was at the meeting. Father Teves lives at Platte Center and was elected to the office of district governor at the state convention of the Lions Club held in Lincoln last spring. He has been very active in promoting Lionism during the past eight years. All present enjoyed the in formal remarks made by the dis trict governor. There was a good attendance at this meeting, and among those re cently taken in as members was Mayor Kersenbrock. A member ship drive and attendance contest was launched at this meeting by dividing the members into two teams, one headed by Irving John son and the other by Harry Claussen. Plans are being completed far the annual Charter Night celebra tion which will be held Dec. 8. Plans call for the invitation of neighbor ing clubs and the district governor will be present to address the meet ing. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 in the evening. Application Blanks Now Ready For 1938 Clarke McNary Seedling Trees Application blanks for Clarke McNary tre^ seedlings are now available thru the Holt County Farm Bureau office in O’Neill. The following varieties are available in 1938 to farmers in Holt county: Hackberry, Chinese Elm, Green Ash, Honey Locust, Cottonwood, American Elm, Russian Mulberry, Russian Olive, Caragana, Yellow Pine, Jack Pine and Red Cedar. An applicant may secure a maximum of 1000 trees of any variety except Russian Olive and Hackberry which are limited to 100 each per order due to a limited supply of stock. In order not to be disappointed next spring, applications should be sent in as soon as possible since orders are filled in the order they are received. There is no change in the cost which will be $1.00 per hundred. Cornhuskers Fail To Overthrow Panthers The Nebraska Cornhuskers were defeated in Pittsburg last Saturday but they were not disgraced. Con sidering the standing of the Pitts burg team in the national football hall of fame, they being classed as the best aggregation of gridiron warriors in the United States, a defeat by them of Nebraska with a score of 13 to 7 was really a victory for Nebraska, and the team has been congratulated on all sides for the great battle they put up. Nebraska was first to score. In the third quarter Andrews received a Pittsburg punt on his own 40 yard line, ran with the ball toward the right side of the field and passed the ball to Jack Dodd who cut back to the left side, running 55 yards down the sideline for a touchdown. English kicked the extra point, putting the Huskers in front 7 to 0. They held Pitts burg until the last quarter when they made a touchdown and missed the kick, so that after this Nebras ka was still leading 7 to 6. A couple of funmbles enabled Pittsburg to secure possession of the ball on Nebraska’s 33 yard line a few moments afterward, with less than five minutes left of the game, and the Panthers scored an other tuochdown and kicked the extra point. If—what a big word it is—Nebraska had not made those wo fumbles at that particular time the chances are that they would have come home with the Pitt scalp in their belts, with a score of 7 to 6. All sports writers give the Ne braska team credit for playing a splendid ;’ame against, what was figured before the game, as a set-up for Pittsburg, so we are of the opinion, as well as many others, : ' nt Nebraska won quite a victory even if they got the short end of the score. The Huskers play Iowa on the home grounds next Saturday and this promises to be a swell game, but the Hawkeyes, we do not think are in a class with the Nebraska team of 1937.
