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VOL LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938. No. 46
DEATH TAKES ONE
WHO HAD LIVED IN
COUNTY 65 YEARS
Mrs. Sarah Jane Wolfe Is Dead
At 79. Funeral Today At
Methodist Church.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Wolfe died at
her home southeast of this city last
Tuesday morning, after an illness
of several months, of ailments in
cident to advancing years, at the
age of 79 years, 3 months and 19
days. The funeral was held at
2 o’clock this afternoon from the
Methodist church, Rev. A. J. May
officiating, and burial in Prospect
Hill cemetery at the side of her
husband who passed away in No
vember, 1929.
Sarah Jane Thompson was born
at Lodi, Wis., on the 10th day of
December, 1858. Her parents came
to this county in the spring of 1873
and located just east of this city,
on what is now called the Wynn
place, where she lived at home un
til her marriage to Samuel Wolfe
on May 31, 1877, the ceremony
being performed at the home of
her parents. Sevgn children were
born of this union, four sons and
three daughters, all of whom sur
vive and are left to mourn the
passing of a kind and affectionate
mother. All of the children were
here for the funeral except John,
of Moorcraft, Wyo., who had been
here for a couple of weeks during
his mother’s last illness, but who
was compelled to return home a
little over a week ago.
The children are: William and
Elmer of O’Neill; Mrs. Laura Bak
er of Omaha; Mrs. Rafe Shaw, At
kinson; John Wolfe, Moorcraft,
Wyo.; Claude, Omaha, and Mrs.
Mildred Kelly of Winnetoon, Nebr.
Mrs. Wolfe was one of the very
old pioneers of the county, coming
here in 1873 a year ahead of the
General O’Neill colony and had
been a resident of this county for
sixty-five years.
After her marriage she and her
husband took up their residence on
his farm a couple of miles south
east of the home of her parents
and she made her home there for
sixty-one years. When Mrs. Wolfe
came to this county there were no
settlers north or south of the Elk
horn, the colony that came here
with her parents all locating along
the Elkhorn river, from O’Neill
east. As the daughter of a pioneer
and the wife of a pioneer she en
dured all the hardships and priva
tions of the early day settlers in
this section of the great west, when
the nearest railroad to their home
was at Wisner, 120 miles east of
here.
She was a charming lady who
spent her life in devotion to and
the care of her loved ones. Those
loved ones will sadly miss her and
she will also be missed by the re
maining list of old time settlers of
this locality, whose ranks are be
ing rapidly depleted.
Japan Missionary Talks
To School Children
Miss Barbara Bailey, who has
been a missionary of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Tokio, Japan,
for the past fifteen years, was in
the city Wednesday and spoke to
the students of the fourth, fifth and
sixth grades of the public schools
on school problems and progress
in Japan. The school children
found it very enjoyable. In the
afternoon she addressed a meeting
in the assembly room of the M. E.
church on the school in Tokio and
Japanese customs. This address
is said also to have been very in
teresting. Miss Bailey was for
many years a Nebraska school
teacher.
Return From Texas Trip
Henry Schacht and Bill Egger
returned last Sunday evening from
a two weeks automobile trip that
took them thru the southern states
and over into Mexico. They trav
eled nearly 4,100 miles and say
they had a delightful trip and saw
many interesting sights.
They left here two weeks ago
Sunday, traveling south through
Kansas, then down thru Oklahoma
and into Texas, thru San Antonio
to Brownville on the Mexican bor
der. Mr. Schact owns a small tract
of land adjoining McAllen, Texas,
and it was for the pjurpose of in
specting this and possibly selling
in that he made the trip, and Bill
wanted to see the country. They
made two trips into Mexico, once
visiting Reynasa and on another
day visiting Matamoras.
They say that things were very
quiet in these two Mexican cities.
Both say that things were booming
in McAllen, near where Henry
owns his plot of ground. This is
in the irrigated section of Texas.
Henry says that he had a chance
to take one thousand dollars an
acre for five acres of his tract, but
that he wanted to sell it all and
when he had a chance to sell it all
he boosted the price, but, his agent
informed him he would be able to
sell it within a month.
On the way home they came
back thru Houston, Texas, visited
Hot Springs, Ark., where they at
tended the running races for a day,
then up thru Missouri and back
home.
Carroll Resigns As Head
Of Local Public School;
Three More Posts Vacant
After six years of good service
as superintendent of the O’Neill
Public schools, Roy W. Carrol
tendered his resignation, which
together with resignations from L.
M. Durham, A. Blanche Collins and
Ella Caffrey, was accepted. This
leaves the following positions in
the local public school faculty to
be filled. Superintendent, com
mercial, band, and English depart
ments, and the Second grade.
At a meeting of the Board of
Education Monday evening, March
28, the following teachers were
elected to positions on the faculty:
C. F. Grill, Elmer F. Stolte, Ruth
Kraemer, Marie Wind, Eileen
Duffy, Hilda Gallagher, Eleanor
Kvam, Neva Wolfe, Frances Tom
jack, Mildred Miller, Mary Morri
son, Betty Jones.
Public School Items
The First grade pupils are begin
ning their study of farm life. They
are planing a sand table exhibit,
and supplementary stories of farm
life are being prepared by different
pupils to be read to the class.
Darlene Claussen, a first grader,
has been ill all week.
In a spelling test in the Second
grade, Barbara Walling, Arthur
Tibbets and Marvin Hoswell earn
ed a perfect score. Donna Elshine
and Robert Holzclaw were next
highest.
The Third grade students have
been practicing especially hard in
penmanship these last few weeks.
Ima J. Calkins, Naomi J. Knepper,
Marva Losher, Bonnie Morton,
Carol Pruss, Donna J. Richards,
Connie Lou Williams, Richard
Fenderson, Richard Morgan and
Dickie Lee Robinson are working
for their Palmer awards.
The news bulletin board of the
Fourth grade has created a great
deal of interest in reading the
daily paper for happenings of the
day. The European war situation
has been discussed pro and con.
The “A” reading group read an
interesting story of the origin of
the Olympic games. The last
games held at Berlin were dis
cussed. The other grades have
been invited to visit the Holland
village. Special reports on the
people, their country and work,
have been prepared.
The Fifth graders are sad over
the death of “Pinky” the pet turtle.
He died last week-end. Comb
cases from oil cloth are being made.
With these combs can be fastened
to the desks, thus no one need have
untidy hair.
The pupils in the Sixth grade are
studying forms of receipts and
checks, as well as the writing of
these forms, as a part of their
arithmetic work. Knowledge of
some common birds and trees of
this locality is the goal of the new
project in nature study and art in
the Sixth grade. Dale Clemens is
a new pupil in this grade.
Work in poetry appreciation is
being done in the Seventh grade.
Thus far “The Charge of the Light
Brigade” is No. 1 on our poem
parade.
The Eighth graders are steadily
raising their attendance percent
age. This week it was 80 per cent.
The Weather
High Low Precip.
March 24_ 72 36
March 25_ 67 32
March 26 .. 67 27
March 27_ 69 37
March 28_ 66 37 .07
March 29_ 68 39
March 30_ 64 27 .06
Meeting Scheduled For
April 5 For Planning
Grasshopper Control
The Holt County Farm Bureau
is bringing Dean Eckhoff, Exten
sion Entomologist from the College
of Agriculture, to O’Neill on the
evening of April 5, to discuss the
present and future grasshopper
season. The meeting will be held j
in the old court house.
Mr. Eckhoff will discuss the
grasshopper situation and will aid
in working out plans for Holt
county’s grasshopper campaign.'
He will be in a position to answer
questions that you may have re
garding the poisoning of grass
hoppers.
Numerous farmers have reported
that they have seen newly hatched
hoppers already. It looks as though
conditions for hoppers might be
worse than last year or any of
the past grasshopper years.
With the condition facing us, a
large attendance is urged so that
the farmers may get an early start
toward poisoning the hoppers
where they hatch.
Farmers and business men are
all invited to attend.
Eastern Buyers Take
Nearly All Good Cattle
At Atkinson Market
Atkinson, March 29. — Despite
lower trends at nearly all terminal
markets the past week, Tuesday’s
cattle market here was fully steady
and in some instances a little high
er than a week ago, especially on
choice lightweight calves and year
lings. Four loads were bought to
go to Indiana, one to Illinois and
two to Iowa, while local ranchers
and Eeastern Nebraska feeders
took the balance of the offering.
A few over 500 head were on sale.
A choice package of steer calves
from the E. M. Englehaupt herd
of Butte, topped the sale at 8.35
while a load of 38 little heifers
from Ainsworth sold at 7.65 with
the bulk of the good heifer calves
bringing from 7.00 to 7.50 and the
steers at 8.00 to 8.25. Fred Beck
with of Emmet, had in a small
package of shortfed cattle that
brought 7.65. A load of good
quality Colorado yearling steers
crossed the scales at 8.05 while the
heavier two-year-old end went at
7.40. Good yearling heifers were
quotable at 6.00 to 7.00; red and
roan steers at 5.50 to 6.60, with
cows and butcher cattle unchanged
from a week ago.
About 300 hogs were on sale, but
here the market reflected the full
down turn of the past week, being
about 50 cents off from the last
sale. Best light butchers sold at
8.25 and 8.30 with medium and
heavies selling at 7.95 to 8.20. Bred
sows brought from 8.50 to 11.00 a
hundred and feeder pigs from 9.00
to 11.50.
Next auction, Tuesday, April 5.
Local Postoffice Ranks
High In Bond Sales
The O’Neill postoffice ranked
third in the state among offices of
the second class in the per capita
rating on United States Savings
Bond sales from Sept. 1, 1936, to
Aug. 31, 1937. The local office was
in ninth position in total bond sales
for second class postoffices of the
state. Total sales amounted to
$71,475.00 of which $71,437.60 were
direct sales at the office and the
Remaining $37.50 being mail order
sales.
The first ten postoffices of the
second class for Nebraska, were
rated in the following order for
volume of bond sales: Seward,
Nebraska City, Falls City, McCook,
Superior, York, Chadron, Holdrege,
O’Neill and Fairbury.
Collar Bone Broken
Last Thursday afternoon while
descending the back stairs at her
apartment home on south Fourth
street, Mrs. Emery Peterson slipped
and fell to the bottom, a distance
of about ten feet, sustaining a frac
tured collar bone. She managed
to crawl back to her rooms and
call her husband who promptly re
sponded and a doctor soon had
the fractured bone set. She is
getting along nicely, a fact that
will be agreeable news to her many
friends here.
Sprains Ankle In Fall
While climbing a ladder leaning
against a tank car on the railroad
tracks last Monday, to connect a
pipe to pump fuel oil from the
;ank car, Fred Robertson of the
Interstate Power company, slipped
ind fell sustaining a badly sprain
ed ankle. He was taken home and
the injury dressed, but he will
probably have the ankle in band
ige for a week or ten days.
Final Rites Arc Held
Here Last Saturday
For Mrs. McNichols
The funeral of Mrs. Catherine
McNichols, who died last Thursday
afternoon,was held from the Catho
lic church in this city last Sat
urday morning at 9 o’clock, Mon
signor McNamara officiating and
burial in Calvary cemetery at the
side of her husband who passed
away in September, 1905.
Catherine Meehan was born in
Fond du Lac, Wis., on Sept. 10,
1859, and was 78 years, 6 months
and 14 days old at the time of her
death. In 1876 she was united in
marriage to Patrick H. McNichols
at Fond du Lac, Wis. Nine child
ren were born of this union, seven
of whom survive and are left to
(bourn the passing of a kind and
affectionate mother. The children
are: Mrs. T. F. Donohoe, John,
Joseph, Mrs. J. B. Donohoe, Mrs.
P. V. Hickey and Walter of O’Neill,
and William of Butte, Mont., all of
whom were present at the funeral,
except William, who was unable
to be here.
In 1878, two years after her
marriage to Mr. McNichols, the
family moved to Iowa and came
to this county in 1884 where she
made her home up to the time of
her death. For fifty-four years
she had been a resident of this
county and, like all other old pi
oneers, she went thru all the hard
ships of the pioneer days in the
county. She was a charming lady
and had a host of friends in this
city and section of the county; a
kind and affectionate mother and a
splendid neighbor.
Mrs. McNicho! had been in
feeble health for the past two or
three years, so her passing, while
a shock to her family and relatives,
was not unexpected.
Demonstration In Sheep
Shearing To Be April 14
Holt county farmers are going
to have a chance to attend a sheep
shearing demonstration and sheep
meeting April 14.
Holt county is one of six counties
in Nebraska to have a chance to
see E. S. Bartlett give a sheep
shearing demonstration. Mr. Bart
lett is a ix?al expert at his work,
and this will be a chance for Holt
county sheepmen to see and learn
more about good shearing. The
shearing demonstration will take
place in the morning on the farm
of Harry Ressel north of Chambers.
A wool marketing association will
furnish a free lunch in Chambers
at noon and the afternoon will be
spent hearing representatives of
the company and extension service
explain cooperative wool market
ing and other sheep problems.
This is going to be a real op
portunity to learn more about
sheep, and a good program is being
planned.
Free Show For Boys
Sponsored by the local American
Legion organization, there will be
a free show at the Royal theater
next Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
entitled “Batter Up.” This show
is for boys and is to aid the Ameri
can Legion in securing recruits for
their American Legion Junior
baseball teams, as they intend to
have a Holt county team in the
field again this year. As the title
suggests, the story that will be
shown is all about baseball.
GOLDEN ROD CLUB
The Golden Rod project club met
at the home of Mrs. T. Connelly.
The lesson was “Adding Beauty In
Homes Thru Decorative Objects.”
Many objects and table covers
were arranged for best effects. A
covered dish luncheon was served
by the members. The local
Achievement day will be held at
the home of Mrs. H. B. Burch.
The way those TV A heads are
scrapping would seem to indicate
that TV A stands for Taint Very
Agreeable.
John Robertson, one of the pi
oneers of western Holt, was down
from Stuart last Monday.
New Directors Of The
Assistance Office Start
Their Duties Tomorrow
The Holt county office of assist
ance director changes hands and
personnel tomorrow, April 1. Miss
Roberta Arbuthnot, who has been
director since the committee was
established in this county, retires,
having resigned several weeks ago,
and the two assistants in the office,
Miss Joyce and Miss Cronin also
retire.
The new director will be Thad
Sanders of Norfolk. He will be
assisted by Miss E. Mellor of
Pender, and Miss Margaret How
ard of O’Neill.
The average resident of the
county fails to see why the county
board went outside of the county
for their employees, as in the final
analysis, the personnel of the office
is up to the county board of super
visors. In their selection they ad
mitted that there was no one in
the county capable of filling the
office of director, or of assistant
director, but, perhaps they should
be commended for admitting that
there was one resident of the
county capable of taking care of
one of the positions.
Lions Club And Legion
Sponser Delegates From
Here For Boy’s State
The O’Neill Lion’s club and the
local post of the American Legion
have joined in sponsering the at
tendance of two local boys as
delegates to Boys’ State. This
project is sponsered by the Ameri
can Legion and will be held in
Lincoln from June 11 to June 18.
This program constitutes an ef
fort on the part of the American
Legion to bring to the boys of
Nebraska a knowledge of the
principals of American government
thru actual practice and control of
the various state, county and city
offices. These boys will be elected
as officers of a mythical 49th state
which will function for eight days
according to Nebraska laws and
practices.
The local post of the American
Legion is sponsering the attend
ance of Harold Hunt as a delegate
and Hugh McKenna as alternate,
both from the O’Neill high school.
The O’Neill Lions club is sponser
ing Jacques Kersenbrock as dele
gate and Robert McDonough as al
ternate from St. Mary’s academy.
The two organizations are paying
the enrollment fee and the cost of
transportation to and from Lincoln.
Norfolk Doctor Will
Lecture On Syphilis
Annuonccment was made today
by Dr. J. P. Brown that one of the
representative speakers of the Ne
braska State Medical association
wuold be in O’Neill on April 6 to
give a lecture and that arrange
ments are now under way for a
local meeting which will be held at
the recreation room in the old court
house at 8 p. m. Dr. G. E. Charl
ton of Norfolk, the speaker, will
lecture on the “Venereal Disease
Problem.” This lecture will be one
of a series of lectures now going
on over the state by the Nebraska
State Medical association in a state
wide campaign against syphilis.
In this campaign physicians in
the state who are members of the
Nebraska State Medical association
are giving of their time in bring
ing authentic information to the
public regarding this very acute
problem. Lectures to the public
are going on now in approximately
two hundred Nebraska towns in an
effort to better inform the people
regarding a disease which is con
trollable, but which requires the
close cooperation of the medical
profession and the people of the
state.
Those who attend this lecture
will have the opportunity of hear
ing one who is an expert in his
subject. Following the lecture |
there will be an opportunity given
for those present to ask questions
to bring out any other informa
tion which they desire regarding
this problem.
Over Twenty Thousand
Trees Have Been Ordered
Holt county people making ap
plication for Clarke-McNary seed
lings and transplants thru the
Farm Bureau office this week are
planting the trees.
Shipped from Fremont and the
Nebraska National Forest at Hal
sey, the trees are better than any
shipped in recent years. All of the
stock is of good size and given good
rare should make excellent growth
during 1938. Most of the trees are
being planted for farmstead wind
break purposes. A total of 20,300
Clarke-McNary seedlings were or
dered by Holt county people.
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Sentences On Amelia
Youths Remitted; Four
Paroled From Bench
Lloyd Clemens, Milton Clemens,
Armand Clemens and Eugene Han
sen, who were sentenced by Judge
Dickson on March 12, for breaking
and entering business establish
ments in Atkinson and Amelia, to
a year each in the state reforma
tory, were again before the court
last week. Judge Dickson remitted
the sentences and placed each of
the young men under parole for a
period of three years. Milton Clem
mens and Eugene Hansen were
paroled to their parents; Arnold
Clemens to Charles Prussa, and
Edward Clemens to Edward Jung
man.
The young men will have to be
on their good behavior for the
period of the parole and they will
have to pay the county the ex
pense the county sustained in their
prosecution.
Mrs. Mable A. Pond
of Stafford, Is Dead
Mrs. Mable A. Pond died at her
home near Stafford last Saturday,
March 26, 1938, after an illness of
over three months, at the age of
54 years and 8 months. The funer
al was held from the Methodist
church at Ewing on Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock and hurial in the
Ewing cemetery.
Miss Mable A. Chase was born
Ewing, Nebr., on July 26, 1883,
where she grew to womanhood.
On June 15, 1911, she was united
in marriage to George W. Pond,
the ceremony being performed at
Neligh. Four children were born
of this union, one son and three
daughters, all of whom with her
husband survive.
HAPPY HOUR CLUB
The Happy Hour project club
held their local Achievement meet
ing at the home of Mrs. D. Moler
on Thursday, March 24. All mem
bers were present. Mrs. Hynes was
a visitor at the meeting. Material
for County Achievement day was
assembled by the members. This
club will demonstrate the lesson,
“Satisfying Meals."
Two short plays were presented
by the members. Mrs. John Hynes
and Mrs. John Grustch were prize
winners in the contest games. A
delicious luncheon was served at
noon.
BRIEFLY STATED
Dr. B. B. Hauser of Hooper,
Nebr., was in the city Tuesday and
made this office a pleasant call. Dr.
Hauser has been practicing his
profession at Hooper for the past
thirty-seven years, but has been
specializing the past few years in
the treatment of Hemorrhoids,
Rectal and Endocrine diseases and
in the treatment of these diseases
he has been spending a couple of
days a week visiting other towns
along the Elkhorn. He has de
cided to add O’Neill to his list and,
beginning Thursday, April 7, he
will visit O’Neill every Thursday
and can be seen at the Golden
hotel. See his announcement in
another column.
This office is in receipt of a card
from Rev. S. M. Ohmart ordering
his copy of The Frontier changed
from Pomona, Calif., back to
O’Neill, stating that they expected
to be back home this week. Mr.
and Mrs. Ohmart left here last fall
and went to California where they
spent the winter with their daugh
ter and other relatives in southern
California. Now that the tang of
spring is in the air they are com
ing back to Holt county.
W. Eaton of Fremont, of the
Elkhorn Valley Real Estate com
pany, was in the city Tuesday and
made this office a short call. Mr.
Eaton was taking some grass seed
to a farm his company owns near
Atkinson for the purpose of having
it sown there to improve the mea
dow. He reports the real estate
business as having been very good
this spring.
VOTERS TO SELECT
CITY OFFICIALS AT
POLLS NEXT WEEK
Little Interest Shown Though A
Contest Exists In Two Wards
And For Mayor’s Job.
The city election will be held
next Tuesday and from present in
dications it will be quiet, there ap
parently being little interest mani
fest either among the candidates
or the electorate.
Another candidate was added to
the list the last day of filing, last
Friday, when a petition was filed
with the city clerk placing in nom
ination Henry W. Tomlinson for
police judge. George Bay is the
present judge and is a candidate
for reelection.
Following are the candidates for
the various offices who will be
voted on next Tuesday:
For Mayor, John Kersenbrock,
incumbent, and H. E. Coyne.
For City Clerk, C. W. Porter, in
cumbent and unopposed.
For City Treasurer, Ed Quinn,
incumbent and unopposed.
For Police Judge, George Bay,
incumbent, and Henry W. Tomlin
son.
For Councilman first ward,
Francis Bazelman, incumbent, and
Fred McNally.
Councilman, second ward, H. L.
Lindberg, incumbent, unopposed.
Councilman, third ward, Levi
Yantzi, incumbent, and G. L. Bach
man.
For members of the Board of
Education, George Shoemaker and
Dr. L. A. Burgess.
Considerable talk has been going
around the past couple of days
annent a write-in campaign at the
city election next Tuesday for mem
bers of the school board. The re
cent action of the school board in
the election of teachers is respons
ible for the talk. It is certain that
had the election of teachers taken
place before the last day for filing
candidates for election to the school
board, that there would have been
another ticket in the field.
Dinner For The County
Teachers Held Tuesday
Evening At The Golden
A Holt county grade and high
school teachers’ dinner was held at
6:45 Tuesday evening, March 29,
in the Golden hotel dining room.
Approximately ninety persons
were present. Schools having 100
per cent representation were Stu
art, Ewing, Emporia and Martha.
Fourteen teachers from O’Neill,
twelve from Atkinson, one from
| Amelia and two from Page.
Dr. W. H. Morton of the Teach
ers college, Univerity of Nebraska,
gave the address of the evening on
the subject, “That Life May Be
Rich.” Mr. Morton’s lecture was
especially interesting and inspiring
and was well received by his
audience.
Musical numbers were furnished,
by a boy’s glee club from Atkinson,
an instrumental group from Page
high school, an instrumental group
from O’Neill high school, Stuart
faculty quartette and Harold Kline,
soloist from WJAG Norfolk.
Fined For Illegal Liquor
Mrs. Frona Davis and her broth
er, Dallas Robinson, were before
the county court last Monday
charged with the illegal possession
and sale of intoxicating liquor. The
complaint was filed by a state man.
They were convicted, he on two
counts and she on one, and were
fined $75 on each count, a total
of $225.00 and costs amounting to
$18.00.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to thank all kind
neighbors and friends who so gen
erously assisted during the sick
ness, death and burial of our dear
mother. Also those who sent beau
tiful flowers. Your kindness will
never be forgotten.—John McNich
ols, Mrs. T. F. Donohoe, Joe Mc
Nichols, William McNichols, Mrs.
J. B. Donohoe, Mrs. P. V. Hickey
and Walter McNichols.
Harold Lindberg and C. W. Por
l ter made a business trip to Omaha
Tuesday morning, returning home
that night.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Kratovil and
family of Osmond, were in the city
last Sunday visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John Kersenbrock.