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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1938)
The Frontier D H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietoi Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill Nebraska, as Second Class Matter One Year, in Nebraska _ $2.0( One Year, outside Nebraska 2.21 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names oi subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list ut ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. Oistplay advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one eoiumn wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The first six weeks of the second semester will end Friday. ■ Students in the Orientation cla^ss are interested at this time in the frontier histbry of O’Neill. Each class is writing a his'torical story on the information they have col lected about the early frontier and development of this community. Students who have not been trady during the first semester are as follows: Freshmen—La Vern Borg, Lydia Halva, Wayne Bowers, George Dahlsten, Merrill Hicks, Bonnie Kurtz, Donald Lowery, Eileen Robertson, Gertrude Worford, Ed ward Young. i 1 Sophomores — Bob Allendorfer Delores Bachman, Ralph Bfown, Alexander Chimel, Howard Graves, Davene Loy, Frank Petti john, Betty Puckett, Alice Whaley. Juniors—Robert Clift, Woodrow Helena, Lucille Penland, Iioxanna Mae Puckett, W’anda Spangler, Mary Welsh. Senors—Robert Bergstrom, Cleo Crabb, Eleanora Bredeholft, Eu gene Donohoe, Leroy GrandorfT, Lois Lindberg, Melvin Lorenz, El eta Meaner, Vernon Spangler, Max Wolfe, Maxine Burnps. Post Graduate—Margaret Pruss. The library class has now com pleted its study of classification numbers and author numbers for books. The next unit of study is on the card catalogue.! The Rural Sociology class ftas been discussing the rural adjust ment problems of migration from the farm, and health. Six week’s examinations are be ing given in all English classes. Interesting book reviews are be ing given by students of American' Literature. This Is ft pari of the required work of each student. Elizebeth Graves and Hugh Mc Kenna have been chosen as the best clerks in the Public Speaking class. After examining overalls, lubricat ing oil, an eversharp pencil, vac cine and shells, each member chose one article and gave information which would help to sell it to the customer. “Sylvia” by Oley Spepks, and “The Big Brown Beai^’ by Mana Zucca, are the contest1 humbers on whicn the Girls ^ an • e work ing. The Pep Squad play, “Where’s Grandma?” scheduled to show this Thursday in the O’Neill high school auditorium, has been postponed until Monday, Feb. 28. This prom ises to be a good play. The mem bers of the cast art; Nprandma, Nadine Kilpartick; Qietehen Blake, Maxine Barnes; 'fcob Blake, Virgil Johnson; Jack Worley, Joe Curran; Lucy King, Martha Switzer; Ar line Trusdale, Margie Wyant; Car ol Worley, Maybelle Osenbaugh; Midnight, Leonard Young; Dahlia, Gloria Warner. This play is being staged to defray the expenses of the girl’s Pep club to attend out of town basketball games. The typing students are address ing envelopes and folding business letters for mailing. In bookkeeping the class is work ing on beginning and closing mer chandise inventories, handling mer chandise discount on purchases an<: sales. The profit and loss state ment is getting a little complicated Eleanora Bredehoft, a senio commercial, is doing secretaria work at Downey’s studio afte school. An electric recording of “Stra dlla Overture” was received b Mr. Durham and the Band mem bers are checking up their passage and mistakes by hearing it playe by a real band. The shop classes are studyin the effect shut metal plays o transportation and. building—th uses of the harder and softer shi metals — the short history of ti possibilities and uses of tin, bot in its pure state and amalgams. The orchestra at St. Mary academy, conducted by Mr. Dui ham of the high school, just n ceived a 3et of new orchestra book and are enjoying a large collectio of new pieces. The Band Benefit show held a the Royal Theater was very we' O attended considering the night. The show was a very clever comedy anci was appreciated by all who at tended. The Band wishes to thank the people who attended. Robert Yantzi just completed a project of a series of booth cost racks which he installed in the Johnson drug store. Junior Harris is reconditioning some dining room chairs which came in to the shop over the week end for repairs. The Art class students are copy ing free hand crayon work using the charcoal pencil for only black and white effects. The band has started their even ing rehersals. The regular nights will be Tuesday and Thursday. This will only be changed when conflicts occur at the building. Stu dents report for rehersal at seven and will leave the building at eight. Junior Toy has quite a caravan ! of camels. One of the small ones does quite a bit of wandering around at times, but with digilent training he might be made to keep to the straight and narrow path. Ask Junior. The Band is giving another bene fit show at the Royal theater on March 8, “Breakfast for Two.” You will be visited by band mem bers selling tickets. Grade School Notes Washington’s birthday was ob served in the various rooms this week. A visit to each room showed a variety of interesting pictures and clippings on display. Many of these were brought in by the stu dents. Decorations carried out the patriotic feeling which this month suggests. The activities of the classroom were correlated with Washington’s birthday also. The First grade students are learning the flag salute to show their love for their country. In the Third grade a Washington stamp picture was put on the best spelling paper. These spelling papers were very special ones as they were the first to be written with ink. Silhoutte plaques of Washington and Lincoln were made in the Fifth grade. For opening exercises jn the Seventh grade each student con tributed something of interest on Washington. Mr. Carroll, who was visiting in the room at that time told many interesting things about Mt. Vernon. He had been there so was able to give some first hand information. The First grade pupils are glad to have Patricia Bruensback in school again. The pupils of the Third grade are studying plants from which clothes are made. Stories of cot ton, linen, silk and rubber are proving of interest as well as pic tures and stories of people who produce these things. A silk co coon, obtained from the Real Silk mills, is of great interest to the class. The Fourth grade has been dis cussing the harmful effects of tea and coffee. The large milk bottle on the board contains the names of those who drink milk each day. Penmanship is being practiced daily. Our goad—To earn a Pal mer Method pin. Vincent Cunningham and Mar vin Rieken of the Fifth grade made models of flat boats of the type used in early river traffic before Fulton invented the steamboat. The study of the Hawaiian Is lands shows them to be a great pro ducer of pineapples. According to Beverly Matthews this is the best thing to remember about them. The Sixth graders have set their goal in English to master the parts of speech. They have completed the study of Europe, and Africa will be the next unit to be studied. Basket weaving is an interesting ,part of the Art period in the Sixth grade. 1 The Seventh grade has shifted the emphasis from China to Japan this week. After completing the study of both countries they will try to arrive at some conclusions 1 concerning the struggle between ■ these two countries. Insurance is the topic for study in Arithmetic this week. If theii ! knowledge of insurance is an in - dication, the Seventh grade cer s tainly has some promising materia 1 for the future of the insurance business. r Wednesday evening of last weel i the Eighth Grade club held a part] e in the gymnasium. All member! t were present. The time passee n very quickly and pleasantly ii ti carrying out a well planned pro gram of entertainment. Credi s goes to the refreshment committei - for preparing more food than i . was possible to consume. s The cold weather last week sen i our perfect attendance down t eight. t Reading class will finish th 1 study of Evangeline this week. THE NEBRASKA SCENE By the Lowell Service The volatile and energetic Terry Carpenter provided the political sensation of the month in demo cratic circles. Terry means to go for governor. Along with Mayor Butler of Omaha, Terry recently engaged in gestures of abnegation, intimating that Governor Cochran would not be opposed for a third term. Mayor Butler stands pat; Carpenter is off the reservation. He will carry the old age pension banner. Friends of Governor Cochran ex pect that his filing for the demo cratic gubernatorial nomination will be made at an early date. So far all the close Cochran advisers disclaim any first hand information and they will not be quoted. They do not conceal sigrys of their hopes and expectations. The advent of Samuel Freeman of Jefferson coun ty into the situation has not at tracted much attention. Charley Bryan is one of the busi est men in the state. Into his Lincoln office men prominent in both parties come and go. Mr. Bryan, so far, has said little. His lieutenants are doing much. Such redoubtable politicians as Ed Luik art and Cecil Matthews are in the game. Straw polls are drifting in. While the Bryan advisers will make no statement for publication there are signs of elation. Veteran democrats suspect that Mr. Bryan has a rabbit or worse yet—several rabbits—in the political headgear. Honjestead exemption is Mr. Bry an’s major issue. , The verdict of guilty in the em bezzlement case brought against Lieutenant Governor Jurgensen will undoubtedly bring several can didates into the race for that posi tion. Ed McKim of Omaha, got into the game several months ago and filed for the democratic nom ination. Before the trial, Mr. Jurgensen expressed intention of filing in order to test public opinion. His attorneys expected acquittal. Since the trial the lieutenant governor has not made any statement as to his intentions and there are sev eral ambitious democrats feeling out public sentiment. Approval of $550,803.32 in state and federal funds for allotments to counties for February assistance payments has been announced by the state board of control. Of this amount $10,779.81 was marked for assistance to the blind; $107,812.29 for aid to dependent children; and $442,216.21 for old age assistance. Frank B. O’Connell, secretary of the Nebraska game commission, will preside at a general sports men’s meeting to be held in the city auditorium at Columbus March 6. The chambers of commerce of Columbus and Grand Island are co operating in promoting the con ference in the hope of obtaining concerted action by state sports men in asking for an open season in 1938 satisfactory to the majority of state hunters of waterfowl. Since the refusal of the heirs of the Freeman estate to accept the offer of the government of $11,000 for the Gage county land compris ing the Daniel Freeman homestead, the first homestead in the United States, it seems likely that the department of justice will institute condemnation proceedings in order to acquire the land for a national park. A request for such action has been made of the department of justice by Secretary Ickes of the department of the interior. Leo Swanson, capitol custodian, has granted permission for the cutting of a new door thru the west wall of the south corridor on the ground floor of the state capitol, thru marble wainscoting, providing that the expense is paid out of state highway funds. The door will give the state automobile driv ers’ registration bureau direct ac cess into the room used by the highway department for its sta tistical and bookkeeping machines. A total of 47,880 sacks of po tatoes has been bought in Nebraska l since Jan. 1, by the federal surplus ’ commodities corporation, mostly from the region about Scottsbluff ^ and in Custer county. The potatoes are shipped to key points and are distributed as surplus commodi 1 ties to the county relief agencies of i the state. t Gasoline tax collections are do ' dining in Nebraska, according to t State Treasurer Walter H. Jensen He says that he believes that mo t torists are buying all the gasoline o they can in other states, because surrounding states have lowei e rates. The total received from gasoline tax collections in January was $789,665, as compared with $870,961 a year ago. Nebraskans are to vote this fall on an amendment to the state con stitution which, if carried, will do away with double liability on stock ownership in state banks. Forrest B. Spaulding of Des Moines, la., who has been conduct ing a survey of the Lincoln City Library under the direction of the American Library association, has reported to the Lincoln city coun cil that the library has reached a size that demands a well function ing organization, rather than a one-man type of management. A capable administrator, trained in an accredited library school and ex perienced in modern methods, must carry on from this point, he de clares. He recommends that Miss Lulu Horne, whose work as li brarian for the last 28 years he commends, be granted a leave of absence at full pay from now until Sept. 1, and that Magnus K. Krist offerson, who has been assistant librarian since 1937, be appointed librarian. Recommendation is made that Miss Horne, on her return on Sept. 1, be employed as librarian emeritus at a reduced salary, and that this arrangement should con tinue until she “can voluntarily re tire with financial security for her future.” Dr. Spaulding emphasizes the fact that the Lincoln city li brary owes Miss Horne more than it can ever pay, and urges that the community do her honor with fit ting ceremonies when the time comes for her retirement. Mr. Kristoffersen, who was for three years head of one of 27 central libraries in Denmark, since 1929 was head of one of the larger branch libraries at Detroit, Mich., and came to Lincoln from Detroit. Dr. P. H. Bartholomew, state health director, has announced the resignation of Dr. J. Warren Bell, who came to Lincoln from New York about a year and a half ago to take charge as head of the Ne braska maternal and health pro gram, a branch of the state health department supported by the fed eral matching plan. Dr. Bartho lomew says that he himself will direct the maternal and child health program, assisted, part time, by Dr. E. W. Hancock, diagnostician for the crippled children. Captain R. F. Weller, director of the state highway patrol, states in reply to a question of the author ity of II. D. Robinson, state high way patrolman, to arrest the Les hara bank robber, that the patrol man was entirely within the scope of his duty and says in addition, “We believe it is illegal for a person to use highways to escape from a major crime; but particularly, in this instance, the robber was driv ing recklessly, had wrecked his car and was fleeing from the scene of the accident. Besides, the patrol man had every reason to believe that the robber was driving a stolen car.” The Federal Deposit Insurance corporation has taken charge of the Farmers’ Security bank of May wood which closed last week. State Banking Director Ben N. Saunders says that he has not been informed as to whether the liquidation of the assets of the bank will be handled by the Federal corporation or by the state banking department. That dust storms are a part of a normal cycle that is now drawing to a close is the encouraging belief I of Dr. A. F. Lugn, geoligist at the University of Nebraska. He af firms that Nebraska is not entering another dust era. He states that a slow increase in soil moisture since 1935 is responsible, and he points out that recent dust storms were aggravated by harmful farm ing practices, most of which are now rectified. The cost of operating the state board of cosmetology was less during the year 1937 than during 1935 by $5,113, according to a re port made to Geovernor Cochran by State Accountant W. H. Pan sing. The saving was made by combining type operation of the board of cosmetology under the direction of Mrs. Clark Perkins, chief of the bureau of examing boards. Governor Cochran and State En gineer Tilley have been urged to take steps toward completion of the Oregon Trail highway west from Gering to the Wyoming line by a resolution signed by about one hundred men representing towns and farms on the south side of the North Platte river from Bridgeport west in Nebraska and to Yoder in Wyoming. A link of about 67 miles is needed, from Ger ing, Nebr., to Wheatland, Wyo. State Entomologist 0. S. Bare, at a conference at Wayne last 'Continued on page 5, column 4.) BROODERS $10.95 Here’s the biggest bargain we ever offered in a real drum brooder. Cheap to operate, no fumes, and plenty of heat. 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