VOL. LVIII. ' O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938. No. 37
HONEY CREEK 4-H
POULTRY CLUB WINS
STATE RECOGNITION
Other Clubs Make Enviable Record
With County Ranking Fifth
In Completed Work.
The Honey Creek 4-H Poultry
club led by Mrs. Ralph Rees of
O’Neill, won state-wide recogni
tion by being designated as the
outstanding poultry club of the
year. This club, with nine mem
bers, has completed three years of
club ^work with 100 per cent com
pletion each year and 100 per cent
attendance at all meetings. Over
this long period a record of this
kind is especially outstanding and
Mrs. Rees is entitled to a lot of
credit for her untiring efforts in
this achievement.
Final reports on 4-H club sta
tistics have been completed for the
state and Holt county ranks fifth
in percentage of members complet
ing their projects. The county per
centage was 92.65 per cent. Of
the four counties having a higher
percentage of completion than Holt
county only one had more members
and its average was 93.19 per cent.
The average for the state was
75.04 per cent.
Holt county had the largest num
ber of beef cattle clubs with a
total of thirteen. Only one other
county had as many sheep clubs
with six, and one other county had
more poultry clubs than Holt with
four. A total of 272 club members
10 years old or over were enrolled
the past year. This does not in
clude over 50 accociate members,
most of whom completed their pro
jects but are not counted in county
or state totals.
To the thirty-nine club leaders
of the county goes the credit for
this enviable club record and they
may well be proud of this accom
plishment. Since all 4-H club lead
ers work without l'emuneration of
any kind except the satisfaction of
assisting our young people to be
come better citizens, a record of
this kind is doubly significant.
Leaders who made this record are:
Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson, Atkinson;
Ella Eisert, O’Neill; Mrs. O. R.
Yarges, Stuart; Mrs. Charles Deer
mer, Atkinson; Mrs. F. M. Reece,
O’Neill; Henrietta Schrier—led two
clubs—O’Neill; Marian Hulbert,
Emmet; Marjorie Thiele, Clear
water; Mrs. B. H. French, Page;
Eula Wintermote, Chambers; Eliza
beth Harper, Page; James E. Dom
ing, Stuart; Elinore Alderson,
Chambers; Mrs. Glenn White,
Amelia; Mrs. L. W. May, O’Neill;
Mrs. Ralph Rees, O’Neill; Mildred
Carter, Chambers; Mrs. Blake Ben
son, O'Neill; Mrs. Edgar Stauffer,
Page; Mrs. W. J. Fronek, O’Neill;
John Tipton, Atkinson; Henry Ve
quist, O’Neill; Lloyd Thompson,
Atkinson; O. R. Yarges, Stuart;
Luke Rakow, Page; Irwin LaRue,
Ewing; C. V. Robertson, Chambers;
Joe Jui'gensmeier, Emmet; Coy
Nelson, Stuart; C. R. Thompson,
Stuart; A. Max Karo, Stuart; Carl
J. Thiele, Clearwater; Glenn E.
White, Amelia; Mrs. John M.
Grutsch, O’Neill; Arthur Hiatt,
Amelia; Warner Eisert, O’Neill;
Mrs. William Drueke, Atkinson,
and Lorin Keyes, Inman.
Brady Files For
The Legislature
Senator Frank Brady was in the
city Friday on his way to Lincoln
where on Saturday morning he
filed for reelection as a member of
the unicameral legislature from
this district. Senator Brady was
a member of the state senate from
this district in the last bicameral
legislature and served this district
in the first unicameral. During that
session he was chairman of the
finance committee and was one of
the most active members of the
session.
Holt County Is 19th
In Cattle Production
According to a reportof the U. S.
Department of Commerce, for the
years 1935, Cherry county, Nebras
ka, led all the counties of the
United States in the number of
cattle in the county at the last
census in 1935. This county had
239,938 head of cattle in the county
that year, nearly twice as many as
the county next in rank,* Elko, Ne
vada, which reported 128,190 head.
Holt county, Nebraska, is listed
as nineteenth in the list, having on
Jan, 1, 1935, 100,579 head, as
against 90,856 in 1930, moving
from twenty-fifth place in 1930 to
nineteenth place in 1935.
The total number of cattle in
the United States, according to
these figures was 68,284,409 head
in 1935 as against 63,895,826 in
1930. Sheridan county, Nebraska,
landed in seventh place in 1935
with 110,962 head, as compared to
91,911 head in 1930, jumping from
twenty-second to seventh place.
Farmers Of County Are
Warned To Be Careful
In Buying Hybrid Corn
Many inquiries have been re
ceived at the agricultural agent’s
office concerning hybrid corn that
it is felt advisable to caution pro
ducers not to purchase this kind of
corn in any quantity without care
ful consideration being given first.
Results of tests conducted in the
county last year on the J. M. Ken
nedy farm near Page and the Paul
Schwisow farm near O’Neill in
dicate that many hybrids will not
outyield our native varieties be
cause they are not adapted to this
county. Hybrid corn has material
ly outyielded standard varieties in
eastern Nebraska and other states
but so far has not been commer
cially raised far enough west or
north for this county so that
definite results may be expected.
The planting of a small quantity
of hybrid seed, especially of Ne
braska 238 or Iowa 939, or possibly
a few other varieties might be
justified as more or less of an ex
periment. Care should be taken
also to see that the spelling of the
word is “Hybrid” as this spelling is
designated by law in Nebraska to
mean only those grains crossed
under certain requirements.
Stockholders of O’Neill
NFLA Elect Directors
The stockholders of the O’Neill
National Farm Loan association
held their annual meeting in this
city on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at
which 65 of the stockholders were
present. J. Inhelder of Omaha, a
representative of the Federal Land
bank was present and delivered a
splendid address to the stock
holders.
The following directors were
elected: Frank Allen and T. J.
Donohoe, for a three year term;
R. H. Murray and Paul Schwisow,
for a two year term; E. J. Revell
for a one year term. Immediately
after the election of the directors
they held a meeting and elected
the following officers for the en
suing year: Frank Allen, president;
Paul Schwisow, vice president;
James F. O’Donnell, secretary and
treasurer.
*
1937 ACP Aplications
Are Expected Shortly
Information from the state office
indicated that the applications for
payment under the 1937 Agricul
tural Conservation program will
be received in the county, ready for
the producer’s signature some time
next week, according to Fred F.
Beckwith, chairman of the Holt
county ACA. After these forms
are signed they will be sent to the
disbursing office in Kansas City
and payment may be expected in
approximately three weeks.
BUSY HOUR CLUB
The Busy Hour club had a party
for the members and their families
last Friday evening at the home
of Rebecca Ernst. Rebecca, who is
moving and will not be with the
club another year, received a nice
gift as a remembrance from the
club. The evening was spent in
playing games and visiting. Lunch
was served about eleven thirty, con
sisting of wieners, buns, pickles,
cake and coffee. The guests de
parted for home about midnight,
all reporting an enjoyable time.
ASH GROVE PROJECT CLUB
The Ash Grove Project club met
with Mrs. L. A. Hansen Jan. 19,
ten members and one visitor being
present. The morning was spent
in preparing the vegetables and
the leaders demonstrating the one
dish meals. Baked liver with veg
etables and casserole meal recipes
taken from extension circular 9908
were demonstrated and served for
the luncheon. These dishes were
not only well balanced but a whole
meal in themselves. These, with
salad and dessert comprised the
noon-day meal. Extension cir
culars 9908 were distributed. The
correct way of setting a table and
serving the one-dish meal was
demonstrated.
After dinner the business part of
the meeting was conducted by the
president and leaders. Roll call
was answered by relating a humor
ous incident taken from a book you
had read. Suggested lessons for
the coming year were discussed and
voted upon. It was decided |
the club would join the Nebraska j
Council of Home Demonstration
clubs. The next meeting will be
Feb. 9 at the home of Mrs. Robert
Miller.
Vernon Landholm Wins
Silver Medal At Denver
Vernon Landholm, 4-H club boy
living near Stuart, who fed the only
4-H baby beef in the county last
year had the satisfaction of seeing
his calf place well up in 4-H com
petition at Denver during the Na
tional Western livestock show last
week. While all of the details have
not been learned, the entire county
congratulates Vernon on his record
and were especially glad to hear
the report over the radio that he
had been awarded a silver medal.
Vernon fed a purebred steer calf
born about the first of November,
1936, which at the time of the
Denver show weighed in the neigh
borhood of 1,000 pounds which is
the ideal weight for baby beef.
Southwest Breezes
From The Southeast
I encountered many tramp
printers “in the days that wuz”
but narry a one with the halo a
recent issue of the Nebraska His
tory Mazagine bestows on the late
Ed Howe. Without exception they
were like the brazen old bum who
came into the Item office in O’Neill
one day with the usual story of
the need of the price of a meal.
Guy Green, then newly launched
into the mysteries of the “art pre
servative,” green as his name and
generous as a New Dealer, gave
the tramp his last 50-ccnt piece,
saw the gent of the road make a
beeline for Pat Gibbons’ place
across the street and heard his
50-cent piece slapped down on the
bar. Another I recall—and he was
a demon to set type—worked two
days at The Frontier, got $4,
swiped a new suit Jim Riggs had
hanging on the old pegs under the
clock and made his getaway.
Nebraska is attracting consider
able attention as a state without
indebtedness, a one-house legisla
ture, no income or sales taxes and
a few other things. But she has a
lot of hungry people on the relief
rolls as well as other states. Up
at the State House drawing pay
from the taxpayers is a mob of
supernumeries that ought to have
a day or two in a busy printing
plant so as'to learn the rudiments
of a day’s work, while down at
18th and Que, when I passed there
a day last week, there was a crowd
at the old school building extend
ing into the street waiting turns
to be served with relief supplies.
The old capitol town has its share
of the ten million jobless—the
capitol building being not quite
ample to furnish them all “jobs.”
In an attractive part of the city,
around the neighborhood of 18th
and J, I saw well arranged groups
of photographs in glass cases and
then a neat sign “Barnett.” Take
it that this is the home and studio
of Mr. and Mrs. Freij Barnett,
formerly of O’Neill. Mrs.' Bar
nett (Lucille Cress) having been
born there if my memory serves
the purpose.
Mrs. Miner, remembered as
Sophie Anderson in Atkinson where
she lived before her marriage is
one of many from up that way who
has taken root in the dry soil of
the capitol city, but retaining vivid
and pleasant memories of early
times in Holt county.
Lincoln evening papers have ad
vanced from 3 cents to a nickel,
but oranges are available for a
dime a dozen and spuds at 15 cents
a peck. I talked to a pressman who
said ho had his first layoff two
weeks ago in the nine years he
had been on the job, the layoff be
ing occasioned by “business reces
sion,” as they say down at Wash
ington. Romaine Saunders.
CONGRESS
I1* AS 8(t« BY '
KARL STEFAN
1939 Budgel Report Out
The 1939 budget report is a book
two inches thick with 908 pages.
It contains the report of every gov
ernment department on how much
money each department will need
to run another year. Each member
is allowed only one of these books.
It would take a month to read it
all. But briefly it shows that our
budget is pretty sure to remain
around seven billion dollars a year
instead of the three and a half
billions we used to spend each year
before the depression.
Pastor Confers On Indian
Affairs
Rev. Waldemulder of Winnebago,
Nebr., who is engaged in religious
work among the Omaha and Win
nebago Indians, has been in Wash
ington several days in conference
with officials in the office of Indian
affairs.
Are You One of These?
Just what is in a name? The
Social Security Board recently
Compiled a list of the most com
mon American names. Here is part
of the list: Smith, 294,000; John
son, 227,000; Brown, 164,000; Wil
liams, 156,000; Jones, 147,000; Mil
ler, 137,000; Davis, 123,000; Ander
son, 115,000; Wilson, 96,000; Taylor
81,000. One man here discussing
names says that under our good old
American system any of these
names can become a Rockefeller, a
Ford or even a Cohen if they have
the ability.
$100 Worth of French
There were more people looking
in from the outside as spectators
than those seated around the tables
at the Jackson day dinner here the
other night. The menu for that
$100 plate dinner had to be inter
preted to several, guests. Noted
on the menu were the following:
“Capon Farci perigourdine” and
“Pommes parisienne,” “croute su
Chaud.” Anyway the foreign words
didn’t mean much to some of the
diners who later referred to some
foreign language books.
Trade Conference Lobbying
Starting
A lot of the British trade experts
are here to be on hand when the
American-British trade conference
begins. British Ambassador Lind
say who lives here will head the
British delegation. A lot Is being
said about these trade conference
in Washington these days. While
the agriculture bloc is worried
about imports of foreign farm
commodities, the New Englanders
are starting to talk in the lobby
about importation for foreign mer
chandise. One member from Mas
sachussets says he has 27 shoe
factories in his district making a
woman’s low priced shoe. Seven
teen of these factories have closed
and some others are working only
part time because a certain Euro
pean country can now send in a
competitive shoe. .
Decline In Meat Prices
To the desks of a lot of congress
men today came a report from the
“Institute of American Meat Pack
ers.” This statement says that
beef prices have declined from 8 to
35 per cent from the levels reached
in mid-September, when prices
were at their peak; fresh pork
prices are 21 to 49 per cent lower,
smoked cuts 16 to 32 per cent lower
and lamb 7 to 11 per cent lower.
Members from Montana and other
states where they raise sheep say
there is no market for wool. They
are afraid of trades with Britain.
In fact, they fear Austrailian wool.
The statement of the packers says
nothing about imports of Argen
tine beef. A clerk in a big chain
store here says he hasn’t heard of
any American canned corn beef
for years and that his shelves are
now being filled with South Ameri
can roast beef.
Two Appropriations Cut
The Treasury and Post Office ap
propriation bill is now going thru
the House and will be passed this
week. The Post Office Department
will get $789,689,659 and the Treas
ury Department $1,400,552,286.
These funds are to run those two
departments for the fiscal year
1939. The committee having these 1
bills in charge did considerable
pruning and expects to show quite
a reduction in these appropriations
when compared to recently pre
ceding bills.
Costs of Peace
Cur Navy is second in size to that
of Great Britain. It is now being
increased by a billion dollar pro
gram. It is not given out how
much money is now available. In
addition to direct appropriations,
there are many more millions which
have been set aside for relief funds.
Then too, the Maritime Commis
sion has $200,000,000 for ship'
building. Recently it made a grt nt
of $10,000,000 for the construction
of a lot of oil tank ships by the
Standard Oil company. That com
pany will provide $14,000,000 of
the funds. When the tankers are
built they will be owned and op
erated by the Standard Oil com
pany, but the boats will be subject
to call by our Navy in case of war.
Preparing for peace by preparing
for war is costly.
PWA SU11 At Work
Although the PWA has been on
the way out for nearly a year, it
still has 2,980 projects under con
struction contract or allotment,
which will cost nearly two billions
of dollars. It has completed 23,491
projects at a cost of $2,303,000,000.
Its administrative forces have
been greatly reduced, but still more
than a year will elapse, possibly
a longer period, before PWA passes
completely out of existence.
County Publishers
Meet In This City
The Holt County Publishers as
sociation held their annual meeting
in the office of The Frontier last
Monday morning, with all members
of the association present except
one. The old officers were reelected
for the ensuing year. They are:
I). T. Murfin of the Page Reporter,
president; Ralph Kelly of the At
kinson Graphic, secretary, and D.
H. Cronin of The Frontier, treas
urer.
The association had a fairly suc
cessful business during the past
year and were able to save the
county several hundred dollars dur
ing the year on county supplies,
which have been furnished by the
association.
On account of the financial condi
tion of the general fund of the
county and the opex*ation of the
budget law it has been necessary
for the association, and the in
dividual publishers of the county,
to bring suit against the county
on all unpaid bills up to January 1,
1938. It is the hope of all con
cerned that under the new budget
law that hereafter all bills will be
paid promptly each month.
Biff Jones At Atkinson
Sevei'al members of the Lions
Club will go to Atkinson tomorrow
evening to attend a meeting of the
Atkinson Sexwice Club, at which
Biff Jones, athletic instructor for
the University of Nebraksa, will
be the principal speaker. Mem
bers of the local high school foot
ball team will be the guests of the
Lions Club members at the dinner.
Past Week Bring
Sub-Zero Weather
We have had a little spell of
winter the past week, although
nothing like that which visited
other parts of the U. S. A. Last
Monday it snowed most of the day
and with a thirty-five mile wind
blowing it had all the appearances
of a good blizzard, although it did
not get so cold.
Tuesday morning the thermom
eter dropped to 3 below zero and
followed up Wednesday morning
with 4 below. This morning it
registered 2 above. The winter
has been very moderate, as com
pared with last winter or the
winter before. So far during the
month of January there have been
but four mornings when the ther
mometer registered below zero.
They were the mornings of Jan. 7
when it registered 5 below zero,
and Jan. 8 when it registered 4
below zero; then on Jan. 25 and 26
it registered 3 and 4 below re
spectively.
Other parts of the country have
not been so fortunate. Floods
have done and are doing immense
damage in Wisconsin, Illinois and
I
southeastern Iowa. Heavy snows
stopped all traffic in northern
Michigan, and according to radio
reports there are drifts in the
northern peninsula over thirty feet
deep. Tarts of North Dakota and
Minnesota also received heavy
snow falls.
Following is the weather chart
for this section for the past two
weeks:
High Low Mois.
Jan. 13 ... 38 19
Jan. 14 37 12
Jan. 15 65 21
Jan. 16 61 28
Jan. 17 43 27
Jan. 18_ 36 23
, Jan. 19 44 18 .08
Jan. 20 43 30
Jan. 21 46 25
Jan. 22 55 28
Jan. 23 52 33
Jan. 24 .- 37 16
Jan. 25 ... .. 16 —3 .01
Jan. 26 21 —4
Total precipitation since Janu
ary 1, .11 inch.
O’Neill High Sneaks A
A Narrow Victory Over
The Valentine Cagesters
The O’Neill high school basket
ball team extended its winning
streak to nine games last Friday
making Valentine the victim. One
of the best games that has been
seen in this part of the country was
played here last Friday night. The
score was 14 to 13 in favor of the
home boys and the score truthfully
indicates the hottest of contests
from beginning to end.
O’Neill gained the lead when
Randall caged one from under the
basket to be followed by a group
of contributions from Lewis and
McKenna. The score at the end of
the half was 10 to 2 in favor of
O’Neill.
The second half was a different
story with Valentine coming back
strong to run the score to 14 to 7
at the end of the third quarter, and
Leo Lewis, O’Neill forward was
removed from the game on four
personal fouls. During the final
period O’Neill failed to score while
Valentine continued to cage three
baskets and bring them within one
point when the final whistle blew.
The largest crowd of the year
was present and all left agreeing
that they had seen the game of
a lifetime.
Bcahr, Valentine’s center was
the star of the game. This 200
pound boy is only a sophomore and
bids fair to become one of Nebras
ka’s immortals. He collected eight
of Valentine’s points and gave
some of the O’Neill fans near heart
failure. O’Neill will meet Valentine
at Valentine Feb. 11.
Cardinals Bow 27 To 17
Monday Night To The
Strong Bristow Squad
Last Monday night St. Mary’s
basketball team traveled to Bris
tow where they tried to break a
nine game winning streak of the
Bristow high school quintet. The
Cardinals were unsuccessful and at
the close of the game the score
board showed 27 to 17 in favor of
the Boyd county team.
Robert Shoemaker, St. Mary’s
star forward was sick and could
not make the trip, and Valla was
shifted from his regular guard
position to fill the vacancy. B.
Price, a sophomore who has been
playing on the second team, filled
in the vacant guard position.
The Cardinals shifted line-up
made it plenty tough for Bristow
as the score at the half stood 9
to 11 for Bristow. In the middle
of the fourth quarter the Cardinals
were within one point of tying the
score, but Quinn was called out of
the game on fouls and St. Mary’s
defense was cracked.
Connolly and Valla were high
point men getting 6 and 4 points
each.
The St. Mary’s second team won
their game with the Bristow re
serves 15 to 10. This makes eight
victories out of nine games for the
seconds.
The next home game for the Car
dinals is with the Spalding acad
emy Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in
the St. Mary’s gym.
St. Mary’s pf ft fg tp
B. Kubitschek f_10 0 0
Valla f -2 3 1 4
Connolly c __ 2 3 2 6
Quinn (c) g_4 4 13
Price g_ 12 2 4
J. Shoemaker f _- 0 0 0 0
Judge Dickson was looking after
business matters in Neligh last
Saturday.
FREAK FIRE DOES
DAMAGE MONDAY IN
O’DONNELL HOME
Fire Occuring While No One Is In
The House, Damages Kitchen
And Then Goes Out.
A fire of unknown origin and un
known existence was at the J. F.
F. O’Donnell home last Monday
afternoon. Mrs. O’Donnell was out
of the city and there was no one
at home from two o’clock until five
that afternoon, but in the meantime
fire had badly damaged the kitchen
of the home and then gone out.
About 2 o’clock that afternoon
the maid went down town, and ac
cording to her, everything was in
order when she left. She returned
about. 5 o’clock, smelled smoke in
the house and when she went to
the kitchen she discovered that the
curtains on the kitchen windows
were burned, the window casings
badly scorched and a big hole
burned in the lineolumn on the
kitchen floor, and the entire house
filled with smoke, but there was
no fire.
No one Has been able to deter
mine how the fire started. As
everyone in this section realizes
Monday was one of the worst days
seen in this section for many years,
the wind blowing about thirty-five
miles an hour and snow falling,
which was whirled this way and
that by the wind. No one has
been able to determine how the fire
was extinguished, unless Jim’s
home is so airtight that the fire
smothered for lack of air to keep it
going, and that seems to be the
only Solution to the extinguishing
of the fire. During Monday's ter
riflic wind storm, which also con
tinued that night and the next day
and night, in most of the homes in
the city the wind whistled through
and if J. F. has a home that is so
air tight that a flame will smother
therein, then some company, who
furnished the insulation, weather
boarding, etc., has something that
other residents will be looking for.
The O’Donnell famdy is very
fortunate, for had the fire broken
through, not even the waters of
the Atlantic could have extinguish
ed the fire in the face of the fierce
wind. The fire damage is covered
by insurance.
Declamatory Contest
For Sub-District Will
Be Held Here Friday
Sub-District Declamatory con
test will be held here Friday, Jan.
28, at the high school auditorium.
There will be a Oratory and orig
inal extemperanis at 2:30 p. m. In
the evening beginning at 7:00 will
be the humerous and dramatic
readings. A total of twelve schools
will be represented in this contest
including: Atkinson, Anoka, Bas
sett, Butte, Creighton, Ewing,
Lynch, Neligh, Spencer, Stuart,
Springview and O’Neill.
There will be two elapses, repre
sented as “A” and “B ’ classes, and
five divisions in each class. The
students who receive superior rat
ing will represent their respective
schools in the district contest to be
held at Wayne. A day has not been
set for it as yet.
O. H. Johnson Improving
O. H. Johnson, construction fore
man for the Interstate Power com
pany, who was severely burned a
week ago Monday when a ladder
he was carrying came in contact
with a buss arm carrying 22,000
volts of current, is getting along
nicely and it now seems of if he
would suffer no ill effects from the
injury.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beaver of
Deaver, Wyo., arrived in Holt
county a week ago Monday and
spent a week visiting relatives and
old friends in the northern part of
this county and in Boyd county.
The Beavers were for many years
residents of this county, but for
the past twenty years have lived
in Wyoming. They left Friday
morning for Rochester, Minn.,
where they will go thru the Clinic
for a physical checking. From there
they will go to Washington for a
short visit and will then tour the
southern states before their return
home. They expect the trip will
last three months.
Frank Hunter was in from the
Star neighborhood last Tuesday.