. • • * •• • ‘„1 N«b. State Historical Society The Frontier VOL. LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937. • No. 32 ANTA ARRIVES IN PONY DRAWN SLED TO TREAT KIDDIES Excellent Weather Brings A Large Crow d Of Children To Receive Bounties From St. Nick. Santa Claus made his annual ap pearance to the Kiddies, as well as the grown-ups, of this city and trade territory last Monday after [ noon promptly at 2 o’clock, and i was cheered by a couple of thous | and spectators. The tree was erected on the va f cant lot off of Fourth street and just south of Clay, and the O’^Neill high school band marched to the I tree about 1:30 and held the audi ence thrilled with inspiring music suited to the occasion. Promptly at 2:00 o’clock the siren sounded and in a few seconds Santa ap peared and the method of his ap pearance caused a murmur of sur prise, not only to the children but to many of the older people. Santa appeared in a big sleigh, which on account of the absence of snow had to be transported on its wheels. The sleigh was drawn by five Shet land ponies, traveling tandem style, and as they rounded the corner of ^►ourth and Douglas and were spied £>y the spectators, a rousing cheer went up and Santa Claus and the Shetland ponies occupied the un divided attention of the Kiddies for the next hour or so. After the inspection of Santa’s method of transportation the Kid r dies all gathered in the storage space of the Seth Noble lumber jglyard, where Santa, with the aid of a good bunch of assistants, gave out packages of candy to the eager and expectant youngsters, until the supply was exhausted, 950 sacks having been distributed. The management of this annual event, as well as all the business haen of O’Neill, sincerely regret that the candy supply was exhaust ed before all the kiddies had been served and some of those present were compelled to go without their sacks. The committee in charge pur chased the same amount of candy and nuts this year, as they had in former years, and there had always Keen a surplus. On account of the ^■ttremely nice day Monday there Were several hundred more present than on any former event of this kind, which accounted for the s shortage. The residents of this I city will see that this will not happen on another event of this character, as enuogh will be pro ^vided to take care of a crowd even Vif it is double the size of the one this year. The Shetland ponies, which were a great treat to the Kiddies and thoroughly enjoyed by them, were owmed by C. Hubert Riley of Pierce, Nebraska. Mr. Riley is in the Shet land breeding business and visits Jfcrarious towns each Christmas sea ^Kpn, putting on his stunt with the I^Bonies, thus advertising his busi ^ness. His appearance here was arranged for by the committee from the Lions club who had charge of the arrangements for the day. 1937 Sorghum Variety Test Results Available Results of sorghum variety tests pin 22 different counties of which W Holt was one, show many interest ing similarities in the sixteen dif ferent varieties included. One im portant conclusion that may be de ducted is that several varieties are not worthy of planting on many Nebraksa farms but that if the better varieties are grown, favor able results may be expected. For grain, Sooner Milo and Early Kalo Kaffir were consistently high pro ducing varieties. For forage and ensilage, Atlas Sorgo, Waconi Or ange and Leota Red all consistently produced high yields. These re sults would indicate a producer should have definite plans made at planting time concerning the use he intends to make of the crop. Announcement of Civil Service Examinations The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations as fol lows: Junior tabulating machine opera tor, $1,440 a year; alphabetic ac counting machine operator, $1,440 a year. > Inspector of railway signaling and train control, $3,800 a year, Interstate Commerce Commission. Mathematical statistical analyst, and senior, associate, and assistant mathematical statistical analysts, $2,600 to $4,600 a year. Soil con servation service. Full information may be obtained from Mrs. C. E. Yantzi, secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the postoffice or coui’thouse in this city. - Corn Loan Procedure Outlined At A District Conference Held Here Procedure for obtaining corn loans in Holt county was outlined at a district conference held in O’Neill last Thursday to a group of sealers and county ACP com mitteemen. Receipt of forms is temporarily holding up the initial start of the program in this county. These are expected daily and as soon as they are received, work will begin u untier tne iy«v/ program, omy farmers cooperating with the Agri cultural Conservation program may borrow on eligible corn, pro perly stored in well-constructed, sealed cribs on their farms, at the rate of 50 cents per bushel of two and one-half cubic feet, or more, depending upon the moisture con tent of the corn. The volume of corn required to equal a bushel of corn will be increased above the two and one-half cubic feet by two per cent for each one per cent in moisture content over 14% per cent. This offers a protection to the borrower since it gives him assur ance that after shrinkage, there will be enough corn in the crib to satisfy the collateral requirement. No federal loans will be available on corn testing more than 20% per cent moisture. Loans will bear an interest charge of 4 per cent. Loans made in December will run for ten months, while those made after Jan. 1, 1938, will mature Nov. 1, 1938. Cattle Prices On Local . Market Rule Steady To Higher At Sale Monday Cattle prices Monday at the O’Neill Livestock market were steady to higher on all classes. A very good demand for light stock steers, heifers and milk cows. Butcher hogs brought a top of 7.55 on 165 to 200 pound classes; hogs weighing 210 to 240 sold at 7.30 to 7.40; sows at 6.25 to 6.90^ shoats, 75 to 125 pounds at 7.50 to 8.50; pigs of 40 to 60 pounds at 0.50 to 11.40 a hundred. Included in the sale next week will be some purebred Hereford breeding bulls. Also a special horse auction Monday, Dec. 27. BUSY HOUR CLUB The Busy Hour club met Thurs day, Dec. 1C, at the home of Bessie Wayman. One member was absent. Mrs. Lizzie Pelcer and Miss Sul livan were visitors. New officers were elected. They are: Lizzie Schmohr, president; Clara Johnson, secretary; May Johnson, treasurer, and Bessie Wayman news reporter. The ladies sewed quilt blocks for the hostess. A delicious lunch was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be held at the home of Rebecca Ernst January 27. ALPHA CLUB The Alpha Club members were entertained by their husbands at an oyster feed held Friday evening, Dec. 17, at the Helmer Widtfeldt home. The ladies played bridge, while the men prepared the oyster stew, celery, pickles, sandwiches and coffee. High score was won by Ruby Morton and the consola tion prize by Perle Widtfeldt. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening and the ladies are hoping they will be as fortunate again. GREETINGS FROM ST. JOHN’S A very merry Christmas, a hearty thank you for your friendly gestures during 1937, and a Happy, Holy and Prosperous 1938 is the Yuletide thought of the priest and people of St. John’s for their many friends in O’Neill. St. Mary’s Cardinals drove down to Norfolk last Sunday where that afternoon they played the Sacred Heart academy basketball team and went down to defeat with a score of 28 to 15. This is the second win of the season for Sacred Heart against the Cardinals. 4-H Girl Tells Her Experiences On Trip To Chicago Meeting By Henrietta Schreier As a guest of the Northwestern Railway company to the Sixteenth National 4-H Club Congress at Chicago, I hail a very enjoyable time. I think every state in the Union was represented, as well as Canada and the Hawaiian islands. I had the pleasure of meeting the girl from Hawaii. Sunday morning the club mem bers were privileged to attend church services wherever they chose. The forty-five mile tour thru the city of Chicago by bus the same morning carried us to all important points within the city: the Loop, Lincoln Park which cov ers 100 acres and was the first cemetery in Chicago, the Ghetto, Chinatown, nerman ana Kussian district, the draw bridge, Market centers w'hich are so narrow in places that two persons would have difficulty walking side by side. An other was the Wrigley building, which is washed on the outside with soap and water each year, which costs a goodly sum of money as it is a very large building. Lind berg’s Beacon, on the Palmolive building, is so powerful that an airplane can see the light 300 miles away and a newspaper can be read by its light at a distance of fifty miles. We also visited the University of Chicago, and the University chapel. Rockefeller has been a very generous benefactor of the university, and his request at one time was to apropriate some part of the money for a place where religious services could be held. As a result the Chapel was built. It is an originally planned building costing $10,000,000. The largest bell weighs five tons more than the largest bell in London. The chapel also has a large pipe organ, the largest pipe of which is big enough for an average sized man to crawl thru. The windows are of tinted glass instead of stained glass. The walls are covered with script of different periods of bible time. Sunday evening the Chinese Ambassador, C. T. Wang, gave an interesting talk, as did Mr. Salom Rizk, from Seria. Monady the elevated carried us to the Livestock Show. The horse show was very interesting to me. The judge of the horse show was from Scotland. Thomas E. Wilson & Co. enter tained the members of the 4-H at the Medmah temple, i he seat ing capacity of the temple is 4,500 and the building was filled. This is the 20th time Mr. Wilson has entertained 4-II clubs. He told of the first time he entertained them when ther were six boys and six girls. He complimented us on the growth of the number of delegates and membership. Following this the 4-H club members returned to the Livestock show building and put on a drill in the arena. Tuesday we visited the Planetar ium and saw a display of all sun dials, compasses, scales and globes that had been used in times past. They also showed us the position of the stars, sun and moon, as they would appear to us seven years from now. We also visited the Field Mu seum of Natural History where we saw the stone age man, the hall of races of mankind and other exhibits. Lunch Tuesday was at the Edge water Beach hotel located on the beach of Lake Michigan. Radio fans will recognize this hotel as a popular musical broadcast sta tion. Montgomery Ward & Co. were hosts to the club members at this lunch and they presented the girls with a set of scissors with the four-leaf clover engraved on them, and the boys received pocket knives. The annual banquet was held that evening at the Stevens hotel. This was an elaborate occasion. The play from “Man to Man” was given. Also a pageant of fifteen club members. I was one of them. Wednesday the Northwestern railway entertained those receiving trips from them to a breakfast at the Auditorium hotel in the Blue ballroom. The International Harvester Co. took us thru their plant. We saw a tractor begun and completed in the shop and saw twine and rope start ed from Sisal and Manila fiber to m^chpistww'^_ The Frontier the completed product. We were entertained at luncheon in the plant and they presented us with a souvenir pencil flashlight. That evening was the Style Show at Orchestra hall. Thursday the Chicago Mail Order company entertained us at the College Inn in the Sherman hotel. Jane Alden was in charge of a style show given by her stylist showing wardrobes suitable for college, street, formal and informal wear. After this we visited the Art Institute where we saw Old English furniture, doors and stairways that were old and rare, and of great value, also rare and valuable art. Sears Roebuck & Co. entertained us at luncheon and a program at the Stevens hotel. Frank Buck’s collection of trained wild animals was very interesting and they were well trained. There were tigers, lions, monkeys, chimpanzees, birds and snakes of all kinds, deer that were said to be the smallest in the world, and a four-year-old elephant. We also visited Marshall Fields. I believe the thing of interest here to'4-H club members from Nebras ka was the escalated stairway. Marshall Fields is one of the larg est stores in Chicago. It seemed to m* that Chicago was outstanding in its hospitality as it turned the city’s best over to the enjoyment of 4-H club mem bers. Each street corner was dec orated with a lovely large green wreath lighted with electric lights. Candles and flowers made our ban quets and places of entertainment beautiful. The week as a guest of the Northwestern railway in Chicago was well worth while and will be a pleasant memory. The splendid way our state leader, Mr. L. I. Frisbie took care of us all, is to be complimented. It was good to hear the men who had achieved success, in their talks to us tell of the time in their life when they had been 4-H club members. For myself I like 4-H club work. I think our motto, “Make the Best Better and the Better Best,” is worth while trying to do. Bids Asked For Grading And Bridges On New 8 Bids will be asked on January 13 for the construction of bridges and grading on highway No. 8 from Ewing to O’Neill, according.to a notice received by the county clerk. It has been rumored around town the past few days that owing to a protest filed by a resident of this county, on account of the ex cessive cost of the right of way for the new road, that the railroad route would be abandoned. Ac cording to reports from Lincoln it appears that the work will be pushed next year, provided satis factory arrangements can be made regarding the right-of-way, and that the road would be hard sur faced from Ewing to O’Neill late next year. With the completion of this stretch and another small one it will give the people of this sec tion a hard surfaced road from O’Neill to Omaha. The Weather High Low Mois. Dec. lf> . 42 22 Dec. 17 ... ... 40 25 Dec. 18 .. 39 24 Dec. 19 35 24 Dec. 20 40 11 Dec. 21 51 32 Dec. 22 _ 47 22 Mr. and Mrs. Barney Myers and family of Dallas, S. D., spent last Friday visiting at the home of R. H. Mills in this city. They attend ed the program at the Academy where their daughter is a pupil, and she returned home with them to spend the Christmas vacation. O’Neill High Cagesters Continue Winning By Adding Two Victories The O’Neill high school basket ball team continued its winning streak by two more games within the week, defeating Bassett on the local court by n score of 22 to 7, and defeating Wheeler county high school by the score of 40 to 16. This makes four games in a row for the local boys scoring 141 points to their opponents 71, aver aging over 35 points per game, and holding their oponents to less than 18 points per game. Gene Sanders, center, has made his first appearance with the local quintet and appears to have great possibilities. Summary for the games follows: O'Neill vs. Bassett O’Neill: pf ft fg tp Lewis f _ 2 2 2 6 Randall c-f 0 1 1 3 Yarnall f _ 0 0 1 2 McKenna g-f 0 0 2 4 Sanders c _ 0 0 2 4 Sauers g . 0 0 0 0 Bergstrom g 0 10 1 Total points_22 Bassett: Garball f _ 10 0 0 Jeffrey f 0 0 0 0 Wyline f_ 0 0 0 0 Buell g.. 0 0 12 Burgett g _ 0 0 1 2 Bell g _ 0 0 0 0 Rvot c_3 11 3 Total points - 7 O’Neill vs. Wheeler County O’Neill: pf ft fg tp Randall <