VOL. LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937. No. 31
f FRED BECKWITH
WILL AGAIN HEAD
HOLT COUNTY ACA
D. F. Scott of Atkinson and Frank
(Allen of Page, Also Retain
Their Past Positions.
Fred Beckwith, Emmet, was
again reelected chairman of the
Holt county ACA at their meeting
held in O’Neill last Monday. This
is the third term for President
Beckwith and will be his fifth year
as a member of the county com
mittee.
D. F. Scott, Atkinson, was re
elected vice president and will
serve his third term in this capa
city; likewise Frank Allen, Page,
who was reelected and will serve
his third term.
A1 Sauser, O’Neill, and Floyd D.
Anderson, Chambers, were elected
as alternate members of the com
mittee. F. M. Reece and Ed Mur
ray were reelected secretary and
treasurer respectively.
The 1938 program has not be#n
announced up to the present time
but will probably be made public
after the holidays. However, there
is not much change anticipated in
the general set up.
In connection with the 1937 pro
gram Mr. Beckwith reports that
Holt county has over 1000 summar
ies of performance in Lincoln
which were among the first in Ne
braska to reach the state office for
audit. After they are audited
new forms will be typed up from
these and sent to the county for
i signatures of producers. The ap
w plication for payment this year
will have the number of dollars
each man is to receive on the form
so when a producer signs he knows
how much he will receive. It is
anticipated these forms will be
feady for signature around Christ
mas and that payment will be
made within thirty days after the
final signature.
A complete list of the members
of the county committee will be
published next week.
Daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. H. McCarthy
Is Dead of Pneumonia
O’Neill relatives received word
last Friday morning of the death
that morning in a hospital at Grand
Rapids, Mich., of Mrs. Leo Byrne,
after an illness of but two days of
pneumonia. The funeral was held
Monday morning and burial at
Parnell, Michigan.
She took sick at her home Wed
nesday evening, Dee. 8, and was
taken to St. Mary’s hospital in
Grand Rapids Thursday night.
Mrs. Byrne was born in this city
on July 18, 1909, and was a little
over 28 years of age at the time
of her death. She was a daughter
of Mr and Mrs. M. H. McCarthy
of this city. On November 24,
1936, she was united in marriage to
i Leo Byrne and since her marriage
she had made her home at Parnell,
Michigan.
Miss Esther McCarthy was a
graduate of St. Mary’s academy of
this city and served for about three
years as deputy county clerk of
this county under County Clerk
Gallagher. She had been a resi
dent of Michigan for about three
years.
Her sisters, the Misses Catherine
and Jeanne McCarthy left Friday
night for Parnell, Mich., to attend
the funeral. Another sister, Edna,
who now resides at North Prairie,
Wis., met them at Chicago and also
attended the funeral.
She leaves to mourn her passing,
her husband, Leo Byrne of Parnell,
Mich.; her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. H. McCarthy of this city; three
brothers and three sisters, John of
Hastings, Nebr., Robert of Mitchell,
S. D., Edna of North Prairie, Wis.,
and George, Kathryn and Jeanne
of this city.
The many O’Neill friends of the
family extend heartfelt sympathy
in their hour of sorrow.
Paid To Next
Presidential Year
Wililam Grothe of Emmet, was a
pleasant caller at this office last
Saturday, and although Bill had
his subscription paid up until Jan.
1, 1939, he paid another years sub
scription and now stands on our
books paid up to Jan. 1, 1940, and
he received with the compliments
j of this office one of our new Kwik
Lite lanterns. Mr. Grothe has been
a reader of The Frontier for fifty
years and says that it is impos
sible for him to get along without
it. He sai<^ there is hardly a year
that he does not save double the
price of the paper by watching its
advertising columns, thereby being
able to pick up many bargains.
Mr. Grothe is one of the most
prominent farmers of the county
and in the old county fair days there
was no exhibitor that annually se
cured more premiums for agricul- j
tural products than he. Farming
has not been very profitable of late
years and William is of the opinion
that the present administration has
not been of benefit to the farmer
as a whole, of course he is a strong
republican and is looking forward
hopefully to the day when the re
publican party will again come into
its own and bring the finances of
the nation back on the right side of
the ledger, as well as the farmers
of the country.
Salesman Killed Last
Friday When His Car
Leaves The Highway
W. Earl Shields, a traveling man
with headquarters at Norfolk, was
instantly killed on highway 20
about nine and a half miles east
of this city last Friday afternoon
shortly after 12:30 o’clock.
Shields was on his way east and
a front tire blew out, which caused
the machine to leave the road,
crash thru a fence and hit a tree.
Another motorist shortly behind
him notified village officials in Page
and Dr. French drove to the scene
of the accident, but Shields was
dead. When the automobile struck
the tree Shields was thrown against
the steering wheel with such force
that his chest was -crushed, caus
ing instant death. The car was
badly wrecked.
County officials here were noti
fied and Biglins went down and
brought the i>ody to this city. That
evening an undertaker from Nor
folk came after the body and it
was taken to Norfolk.
Shields was about 50 years of
age and had been making this ter
ritory for many years. He was
married and is survived by his wife,
mother, two brothers and two sis
ters. He had been a resident of
Norfolk for about twenty years.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Member of the Freshman class
took aptitude and intelligence tests
this week. The results of these
tests will be used in educational
research work.
Miss Kraemer gave instructions
and explanations to Freshmen last
week about the high school library
and its use.
The Ancient History class enjoy
ed an illustrated lecture of a trip
thru Rome taken and given by their
instructor, Mr. Durham. Both an
cient and modern pictures were
shown.
The shop classes are working on
their large projects of the year,
mapel, walnut, gum oak and cedar
woods making their appearance in
the shop. Tables, book cases, wall
lacks and many other useful ar
ticles are taking form. The ad
vanced shop class just received
their fancy woods and all power
tools in the shop are turning out
the forms for some very fine and
useful furniture this year.
The Normal Training music class
greatly enjoyed some records rec
orded in foreign countries of
Christmas songs. Those used were
from Sweden, Ukrania, Germany
and Yugoslavia!
The large shoe used in the benefit
program was made in the shop.
Junior Harris and Robert Mitchell
did the decorating.
The band members are patiently
waiting for their contest number.
A general review of marches and
overtures is being taken at pre
sent, before arrival of the contest
number.
The G. A. A. members have been
turning out 100 per cent for some
very exciting volley ball games
which they have been playing. The
teams are quite evenly matched
and the champions have not yet
been determined. The girls en
joyed a Christmas party at the
school house Monday, Dec. 13.
The faculty of the O’Neill high
school held a Christmas dinner
party at the Golden hotel last Mon
day evening. After a sumptuous
dinner the pedagogues enjoyed
themselves at bridge. The high
score prize for ladies was won by
Blanche Collins, English teacher,
and high score prize for men went
to Elmer Stolte, Typical of the
school room the teachers exchanged
gifts with Mr, Durham acting as
St. Nick.
Stefan Discusses The
Compulsory Features
Of The New Farm Bill
Congressman Karl Stefan, repre
sentative of the third congressional
district advises that he has been
asked in many letters, to explain
the compulsory features in H. R.
8505, the new Farm Bill which has
been debated during the past three
days in the House of Representa
tives, and which is for the purpose
of conservation of national soil re
sources, and to provide an ade
quate and balanced flow of agri
cultural commodities in interstate
and foreign commerce.
The Congressman took the floor
several times, speaking against the
compulsory section of the Bill and
was active thruout the debate. He
took the stand that farmers in his
district favored a loan on farm
crops and believed in the principles
of the soil conservation feature,
but was intensely worried over any
compulsory features which would
result in lawsuits and penalities of
any kind to farmers.
In explaining the Bill from the
minority views, the third Nebraska
district Congresman has this to
say: *
“The Farm bill before the
House has a referendum feature,
in that it provides for a refer
endum vote by farmers before
the compulsory control provis
ions, as announced by the Sec
retary, go into effect. The Sec
retary is required to permit all
farmers effected by his order to
participate in the referendum.
If more than one-third of the
number of farmers voting, are
opposed to the control program,
the Secretary will not put the
compulsory plan into operation.
The referendum of the farmers
is highly desirable, however, it
| has been stated on the floor dur
ing the debate that such a refer
endum may be declared uncon
stitutional.”
Farmers in the third congression
al district of Nebraska should be
most interested in the compulsory
feature of this Bill, and a strong
effort will be made in conference
and also during the reading of the
Bill for amendments to eliminate
any drastic compulsory control pro
visions which are found in the corn
title. *
To explain this control provision,
corn farmers living within the so
called commercial area, consisting
of ten states in the Middle West,
and which includes 20 of the 22
counties of the third district—Holt
and Wheeler excluded—could be
regimented, inspected and penal
ized to the nth degree, while the
farmers living outside the com
mercial area would be allowed to
produce, sell and feed without limit.
This means, of course, there would
be a rapid expansion of corn pro
duction outside the commercial
area and particularly in contiguous
counties, which could result in a
breakdown of the entire scheme.
As an illustration, it might be
well to cite some of the states not
in the corn area as the bill is now
written and give the corn produc
tion for 1937:
Pennsylvania, bu. 61,680,000
Michigan, bu. .... _ 58,320,000
Wisconsin, only 18 counties
in commercial area, but en
tire state produced, bu. 76,864,000
Virginia, bu._ 38,864,000
North Carolina, bu. 45,357,000
Georgia, bu. 47,368,000
Kentucky, bu. 79,482,000
Tennessee, bu. _ 68,592,000
Alabama, bu. 45,834,000
Mississippi, bu. 45,379,000
Arkansas, bu. .. 40,640,000
Texas, bu. 72,048,000
More than 50 per cent of the corn
produced in this country is grown
outside of the commercial area, and
prospects are very good under the
proposed program to double at
least present corn acreage in the
unrestricted area.
The States included in the com
mercial area and the corn produc
tion for 1937 is herewith given;
Minnesota (southern one-third of
state) entire state production, 169,
974,0W,9 bushels; Iowa, 496,620,000
bushels; Illinois, except 14 counties
in southern part of state, state pro
(Continued on page 4, column 1.)
O’NEILL PAIR HAVE
BEEN MARRIED FOR
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Carter Observe
Their Sixty-flfth Wedding
Anniversary Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Carter of this
city celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary last Sunday. The Qnly
festivity of the day was a dinner
at the home of their son, Dr. L. A.
Carter. None of the other children
were here for the anniversary, but
they generally visit their parents
here at least once a year.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter were mar
ried at Glenwood, Iowa, and lived
there until 1890 when they moved
to Washington, Kansas. In 1908
they moved to Burchard, Nebr.,
where they resided until 1922 when
they moved to this city which has
since been their home.
Mr. Carter is 87 years of age but
is enjoying good health and looks
and walks around like a man of 60.
He seems to have discovered the
fountain of youth. The many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Carter in
this city and county hope that they
will live to celebrate many more
wedding anniversaries.
Cardinals Beat Page
High School 2-1 Here
Last Friday Evening
The St. Mary’s Cardinals took
the Page High School basket ball
team into camp last Friday night
on the local floor with the following
score: St. Mary’^ 30, Page 15.
Connolly and Shoemaker were the
high point scorers for St. Mary’s.
The same evening the second team
lost to the Page second team with
a score of 15 to 12.
Last Sitnday afternoon the Card
inals played the Spalding High
School team on St. Mary’s floor and
won with a score of 20 to 19. At
the half Spalding was leading with
a score of 12 to f», The game was
won in the last thirty seconds of
play when Shoemaker made a long
side shot. Quinn and Connolly
were the high point men for St.
Mary’s.
APPRECIATION
When I am able to walk and play
again, it will be a pleasure to re
member all my friends who so
generously contributed to the suc
cess of the entertainment in my
behalf. I (together with my fam
ily) want to thank all of you and
tell you how much we appreciate
your kindness. 1 hope all of you
have as Merry a Christmas as I.
Francis Gunn.
Cold Weather Not
Unusual In December
Many of our local residents have
been expressing the belief that
the weather the past week
was the coldest we have had in
this section for seevral years. An
investigation of The Frontier files
of December, 1936, discloses the
fact that on Dec. 6, 1936, the
thermometer went down to 11 be
low zero. On December 7 this
year it dropped to 11 below. On
Dec. 7, 1936, it was 4 below zero
here and Wednesday, Dec. 8, this
I year, it went down to 10 below. So
| there has not been much change in
temperature in this section in the
two years. —
Mrs. Ed Mullen Dies
At Home of A Son In
Atkinson; Burial Here
Mrs. Edward Mullen died at the
home of her son, James, in Atkin
son last Monday morning, after an
extended illness at the age of 8(5
years. Funeral services were held
in the Catholic church in Atkinson
Wednesday morning and burial in
Calvery cemetery here, at the
side of her husband, who passed
away in May, 1919.
Mrs. Mullen came to this county
with her husband in July 1879 and
he took a homestead in what is now
Pleasantview township, where they
resided for many years and were
among the prominent residents of
the county in the earlier days.
They left the farm over twenty
years ago and moved to this city,
where they were living at the time
of Mr. Mullen’s death. Since that
time she had made her home with
her son.
Prices On Fat Hogs
Up 35 To 50 Cents
On Atkinson Market
Atkinson, Dec. 16. Best fat hogs
topped the Atkinson Livestock
market Tuesday at 7.96 per cwt., a
price slightly better than the
Omaha top for the day. All fat
hogs were quoted 35 to 60 cents
higher than the previous week’s
price, and feeder pigs were steady
to firm. A few more than 500
head of hogs were sold.
Cattle receipts were 1,500 head
and the market Tuesday was some
what weaker. Lower prices were
in effect^ on all classes except fat
cows and choice heifer calves. The
decline ranged generally from 25
to 60 cents. Heavy snows pre
vented many buyers coming from
a distance and most of the cattle
were sold for shipment to Iowa
and eastern Nebraska.
Quality of the cattle offering
Tuesday was very good. Bulk of
the choice consignments were from
Cherry and Brown counties, with
the top load of steers coming from
Norden, and two loads of choice
heavy steers and two loads of
choice two-year-old heifers being
offered by Cren Bachelor of Merri
man. Top steer calves sold at 8.00
per cwt.
Representative sales: Choice
steers calves at 7.60 to 8.00; fair
to good steer calves at (5.50 to 7.50;
choice heifer calves at 6.25 to 6.50;
fair to good heifer calves at 5.75
to 6.25; choice yearling steers at
6.50 to 6.75; fair to good yearling
steers at 5.75 to 6.50; heifers at
6.00 to 5.40; heavy fleshy steers at
4.50 to 6.25; 2-year-old heifers at
6.25 to 6.50; best fat cows at 5.00 to
5.50; canners and cutters at 3.25
to 4.00.
The hog market was really a
snappy affair, with plenty of buy
ers on hand to create a lively de
mand for the offering, which in
cluded about 300 fine fat hogs and
200 feeder pigs. Fats were gener
ally 35 to 55 cents higher this week
and feeder pigs ruled steady to
'firm. Best fats here, in the 180 to
225 lb. class were sold at 7.60 to
7.85; fats in the 225 to 250 lb. class
at 7.35 to 7.60. Fat sows were
steady at 6.50 to 7.00; feeder pigs
100 to 150 lbs., steady at 7.50 to
8.00; feeder pigs, 60 to 100 lbs.,
8.00 to 9.50.
Next auction Tuesday, Dec. 21,
starting at 12:30 p. m.
Chesterfield said: “Men
are judged not by their inten
tions, but by the result of
their actions.” It is not what
you intend to bank, but what
you do bank that counts.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$140,000.00
This Hank Carries No
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
\
Lions Celebrate Charter
Night With Dinner Last
Thursday At The Golden
The O’Neill Lions Club celebrated
charter night on Thursday even
ing, December 9, by holding a ban
quet at the Golden Hotel. About
sixty guests were present and in
cluded among them there were
Father B. F. Teves of Platte Cen
ter, District Governor, and two
past District Governors, Ira Kyle
of Omaha and Dr. A. L. Miller, of
Kimball, Nebr.
Lion D. H. Clausson presided as
toastmaster and managed to keep
things going at a merry pace all
evening. The Governors, past and
present, favored the audience with
inspiring messages and Lion Am
brose Rhode distinguished him
self by adopting a doorstep baby
during the evening’s entertain
ment.
This charter night celebration
marked the first anniversary of the
reorganization of the O’Neill Lions
Club. During it’s first year the
Club has gained considerable
strength and has won the confid
ence and friendship of the entire
community.
The next regular meeting of the
Club will be held on Thursday,
December 23, at 6:30 p. m. Re
member the contest is still raging
between teams captioned by Lions
Irving Johnson and Harry Clausson.
Prices Rule Steady To
Higher On All Stock At
O’Neill Sale Market
Prices steady to higher on all
stock at O’Neill Market. Top on
light butcher hogs 7.65; heavy
butchers 7.35 to 7.50; sows 6.25 to
6.75. Very good demand for serum
pigs, weighing from 50 to 90 lbs.
with quality, will bring up to 9.00
per hundred.
All prices steady on grown cattle,
higher on calves and yearlings.
Young horses with quality sold
very good with increasing demand.
Any one having livestock for
sale bring it to O’Neill. We get
the high dollar for you, as all class
es are in very good demand. Next
auction, Monday, December 20.
The Weather
Since last Sunday we have been
having a spell of real nice winter
weather, after the severe cold spell
last week. According to the daily
press and radio the cold spell took
in most of the United States with
1 extremely heavy snows in the east
ern portion.
Following is the weather chart
for the past week:
High Low Mois.
Dec. 9_21 —10
Dec. 10 _ 24 —9
Dec. 11 _ 31 5
Dec. 12 .. 30 22
Dec. 13_29 14
Dec. 14 .. 22 16
Dec. 15_ 34 10
C. C. Jones of the Chambers
valley was a pleasant caller at this
office last Tuesday and extended
his subscription to this household
necessity for another year, be
cause he said “he just had to read
The Frontier.” Mr. Jones has been
a resident of the southern part of
the county for fifty-five years. He
likes to discuss old times and we
had a very pleasant visit with him
while heft discussing Holt county
old time history. He took home
with him a Kwik Lite electric lan
tern as a gift from The Frontier
and he said that it would prove
valuable to him and it was a very
nice gift.
SANTA TO BE HERE
WITH TREATS FOR
KIDDIES MONDAY
Candy And Nuts Will Be Given
To Youngsters At O’Neill’s
Annual Xmas Tree Day.
Santa Claus will make his ap
pearance in O’Neill next Monday,
Dec. 20, at 2 o’clock in the after
noon. Bring the little folks into
town and let them enjoy them
selves.
A Christmas tree is being erected
on Fourth street, just south of
Clay street and it will be properly
decorated for the occasion. Santa
will arrive here promptly at 2
o’clock so have the little folks here
on time. The children will be
treated to candy and nuts, which
will help to make the day pleasant
for them.
This celebration is being spon
sored by the Lions club and they
have the financial assistance of the
business men of the city. Do not
forget the date nor the hour.
O’Neill High Opens
Its Basketball Season
With Two Victories
The O’Neill high school basket
ball team opened its 1937-’38 sea
son strong by defeating the Spald
ing high school quintet last Thurs
day on the local court. The score
was 20 to 16. The Freshman team
lost to St. Mary’s freshman 14 to
4 the same evening.
They won from the Wheeler
county high school five Tuesday
night at Bartleet with a score of
fi9 to 32. The O’Neill high school
seconds lost to the Wheeler county
seconds 17 to 14.
The blue jerseyed club in its two
early season games has shown that
it has possibilities of developing
into quite a formidable outfit, dis
playing plenty of scoring punch
in the pinches. Its main fault
seems to be a lack of speed and
defense. Many set-up shots were
missed in both games and both
offensive and defensive play was
marked by raggedness.
Among the veterans who have
shown up well are Leo Lewis, for
ward; Hugh McKenna, forward and
guard; Bill Randall, center; Ralph
Brown, forward; Chas. Yarnall,
forward; Bill Maxwell, guard; Bob
Sauers, guard, and Bob Williams,
guard. Promising new men are
Gene Sanders, center: Richard Loy,
forward and guard; Vernon Spang
ler, forward, along with several
others who at this early date have
not had the opportunity to show
their wares. With a little more
experience, Sanders, six feet and
four inch center, should develop
into one of O’Neill’s greatest pivot
men.
The first real test of the season
for the Irish will come Friday night
when the local boys take on the
strong Rock County high school
outfit from Bassett on the local
court. From early reports the
Bassett lads have one of their best
outfits in years, with Wayne Root,
six foot three inch center at the
mainstay.
MRS. JOHN KELLER
Mrs. John Keller, one of the
pioneers of the Chambers valley,
died at her home in Chambers last
Tuesday morning, after an illness
of several months of cancer. The
Methodist church at Chambena
funeral services were held in the
Methodist church at Chambers this
afternoon.
Mrs. Keller, nee Flucky, was a
pioneer resident of the southrern
part of the county, where she lived
all her life with the exception of a
couple of years when they resided
on a farm adjoining this city. She
was a splendid woman and her
passing will be sincerely mourned
by a host of friends, not only in
the south country but in this city
sa well.
CORN LOAN INSPECTORS
NAMED FOR THIS COUNTY
Thomas F. Higgins of Stuart,
A1 J. Sauser of O’Neill, and Clem
Bollen of Orchard, have been
named to check warehouses in this
county under the 1937 corn loan
program.
The loan rate will be from 44
cents to 50 cents per bushel depend
ing on grade and moisture. 'The
corn must be in a well constructed
crib with a good roof and must be
ear corn. Further details will be
announced later.