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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1938)
“"The Frontier VOL. LVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938. No. 47 HOLT COUNTY UNIT OF FEDERATION OF TAXPAYERS SET UP II. J. Birmingham Is Elected As Chairman At Meeting Held Here Last Thursday. At a luncheon meeting at the Golden Hotel last Thursday noon, a Holt county unit of taxpayers was formed which will affiliate with the Nebraska Federation of Tax payers. About sixty-five promin ent fai’mers and business men of the county were present. The meeting was addressed by C. D. Haskel, Laurel banker and treas urer of the Nebraska Federation of County Taxpayers Leagues. Max Miller, vice president of the Miller Cereal Mills of Omaha, and Mr. McFadden of the McFadden Motor company of Omaha, also addressed the gathering. H. J. Birmingham was elected chairman of the Holt county unit and he in turn appointed the fol folwing chairmen for the various cities and village of the county: Dr. W. J. Douglas, Atkinson; N. F. Crowell, Stuart; John W. Walters, Chambers; Guy Cole, Emmet; Ira Watson, Inman; Dave Gemmill, Ewing; Dr. French, Page. Ira Watson of Inman, was made secre tary of the county unit. Plans are under way for another meeting soon at which it is hoped to have Frank G. Arnold of Fuller ton, president of the Nebraska Federation, present for an address to the assemblage. Mr. Arnold is one of the best posted men in the state on tax matters and for sev eral years has been active in the Taxpayers Federation. Should the local unit secure his services for an address a large crowd would turn out to hear him. Funeral For Mrs. Susan Sparks Held Saturday Mrs. Susan Ross Sparks died at the O’Neill hospital last Friday afternoon about 4 o’clock after an illness of several weeks of diabetic gangrene, at the age of 67 years, 10 months and 7 days. The funeral was held last Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Presbyterian church, Rev. H. D. Johnson officiat ing and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. Susan E. Osborne was born May 24, 1870, in Hendricks county, In diana. When a young girl her family removed to Iowa and at Oakland, Iowa, on July 7, 1888, she was united in marriage to Charles Ross. Eight children were born of this union, four sons and four daughters, one daughter and one son having preceded their mother in death. The children are: Nettie Viola Ross, San Francisco, Calif.; Vera Elsie Hoganson, Prongue, Saskatchewan,Canada; Ray Ernest Ross, Payne, Ark.; Edna Susie Dorford, and William V. Ross, of O’Neill; Clyde B. Ross, Inman. Her first husband died a good many years ago and she later was united in marriage to William Sparks who survives her. Mrs. Ross-Sparks had been a resident of the county since 1915 when the family located in Atkin son, coming to this city a few years later, where she resided up to the time of her death. Dr. Charlton Unable To Get Here For Lecture The lecture which was to be given in O’Neill on the Veneral Disease Problem, by Dr. G. E. Charlton, of Norfolk, on April 6, was postponed because of the in clement weather, and will be given one week later, on April 13, at 8 p. m., in the recreation room of the old court house. Everyone is urged to attend this meeting and cooperate with the nation wide educational program now being car ried on in an attempt to stamp out veneral disease. ASH GROVE PROJECT CIA T, The Ash Grove Project club met with Mrs. William Derickson on March 25. This was the closing meeting of the club year and was held in the form of a hard time party. Nine members and their families were present, making about thirty-five in all. The evening was spent in playing progressive cards A delicious lunch was served at midnight. Prizes were awarded to Miss Morna Wertz and C. V, Cole for the two whose costumes best represented hard times. The score prizes were awarded to Mrs. C. V. Cole, Mrs. L. A. Hansen, Helen Hendrick and Willard Aim. Members were agreed that this had been a very successful club year, with open weather and good roads all winter, no lessons were missed and the leaders worked very diligently in preparing each lesson. It is felt, that a great deal of benefit was derived from the lessons. Atkinson City Officials Made Defendants In A Suit For 13 Thousand Mayor Douglas of Atkinson, Councilman C. E. Havens and the two police officers, Ray Traner and G. E. Spence, are made defendants in a damage suit for $12,920.00 brought in federal court by Joseph M. Michaels, an alien who since 1936 has been the proprietor of a little store in Atkinson. The plain tiff is represented by Attorney James P. Marron of this city. Ac cording to his petition Michaels alleges that he was arrested and placed in jail in Atkinson and that because of a false arrest he has been “greatly injured in his credit and reputation and has been brot into public shame and scandal, in famy and disgrace and has suffered great anxiety, pain of body and mind, all to his great damage in the sum of $10,000.00’’ The balance of the sum sued for is made up as follows: Attorneys fees and ex penses $120; $300 for losses by reason of being prevented from conducting his business while in jail; $500 for goods he claims were stolen from his store while he was in jail; $2,000 as the result of the loss of a contract with a produce corporation. Kite Contest April 18 The boys and girls kite contest which is sponsored by O’Neill busi ness men in coperation with the Recreational Center will be held on Monday, April 18 on the Athletic Field north of the high school build ing. Boys and girls in the fourth to eighth grades are eligible for the contest and they may obtain a set of rules at the Recreational Center. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons next week have been set aside for instruction in kite making. All entries must be in by Friday, April 15. Prizes will be awarded to boys and girls in each division for largest kite, smallest kite, most unique kite, highest altitude reach ed. BUSY HOUR CLUB The Busy Hour club met at the home of Zillah Miller Thursday, March 31. Eight members respond ed to roll call with the two most disliked duties of housekeeping. Mrs. Lizzie Pelcer was a visitor at the meeting. The afternoon was spent in sewing quilt blocks for the hostess and playing games. Mrs. Maggie Gray won the prize by drawing a lucky date—April Fools Day. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess consit ing of sandwiches, pickles, coffee and desert. The next meeting will be held at the home of Clara John son on Thursday, April 28. The meeting bf the O’Neil] Wo man’s club which was to have been held this week was postponed until Wednesday, April 13. The meeting will be at 2:30 in the club rooms at the library building. Mrs. Peter Todsen will review “Rummel harts of Wampler Avenue.” Mrs. Ed E. Parkins will give a short discussion on the author, Mrs. Maude Delavin of Omaha, who is a personal friend. William Vandover, 21, was before the insanity commission last Fri day, found insane and committed to the custody of the sheriff, the insane asylums being overcrowded. He was taken to a sanitarium at Norfolk by Sheriff Duffy that afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. King, Mrs. Paul Montgomery and Miss Geraldine Cronin drove to Grand Island Sunday where Mrs. King left for Denver, Colo., to spend two weeks visiting relatives. Francis Welsh returned to his home in Norfolk the first of the week, after spending a few days here visiting relatives and friends. Rent Grady Store Room McMillian & Markey, proprietors of the bakery, have leased the former Grady store building from J. B. Mellor and will use the build building in connection with the bakery. The store building has a fine refrigeration plant installed therein and it will be used by the bakery for keeping their fruits, meats and vegetables during the warm summer months. The rest j of the building will be renovated i and brought into use later. — Directors Named For Country Club For 1938 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the O’Neill Country Club held Tuesday night, all of the directors were reelected. Francis N. Cronin was elected as a member of the Board of Directors, to take the place of Ira Moss, who re signed. Following are the present directors of the club: Dr. L. A. Burgess, Ed F. Gallagher, W. H. Hammond, William J. Biglin, Roy M. Sauers, Max Golden and F. N. Cronin. The date for the annual invitation golf meet was tentative ly set fof June 19, 20 and 21. Council Meeting Held Wednesday Evening The regular meeting of the city council, which was to have been held Tuesday evening, was post poned until Wednesday evening and was held in the city council room last evening. At this meeting all applications for liquor and beer license were before the council for action. All Class C liquor appli cations were allowed except that of William Gatz, which was laid over until the next meeting. The applications allowed were those that are already in business here. All beer applications were allowed, being all the present beer dealers in the city. PEOPLE YOU KNOW George Williams arrived in the city last Tuesday evening from Hot Springs, Ark., for a few days visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams. It had been thirteen years since he had seen the home folks. George is in the employ of a firm of race horse men, Hamilton & White, who act as starters and have some conces sions at the various tracks. He had been attending the races in California and in the southern states, finishing at Hot Springs last week. The next important races are those to be held at Omaha next month and he said that he was of the opinion that he would be at the races there, but was not certain until after he heard from his em ployers. Mrs. D. Stannard returned last Monday evening from a three and a half months visit with relatives in California. She left here just before Christmas and visited at Bakersfield with her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Max Janes. She also visited her son, William and family at Long Beach; her son, George and family at San Diego and another son, Donald and family at Taft, California. She says she had a delightful trip and visit but was glad to get back to see the old home town folks. Henry Schact and Bill Egger are of the opinion that they should have remained in Texas a few days longer. This wish was expressed the first of the week when cold winds covered this section from the north. Wednesday morning when snow was being driven south ward with a strong wind, they were conviced more than ever that they should have enjoyed the gulf weather for a longer period. I Mrs. W. J. Hammond drove to Lincoln Tuesday morning taking I her daughter, Mary Jean, Miss Jane Mains and Francis Soukup back to resume their school duties i at the university. The young• i folks came home last Friday night' ! to spend the week-end with rela- i ! tives. .Judge Dickson and Reporter Me-1 Elhaney left for Ainsworth Mon day morning where they are hold-1 ing the annual spring term of dis-1 trict court with a jury in attend : ance. The first case on the docket! is a criminal case and it is believed ' the court will be in session all week. Dope ‘Finar.ees Japan With her war in China and with her tremendous naval expansion program, Japan should have gone broke a long time ago, experts here declare. Some make these statements during debates on our own naval expansion program, but they can’t solve the puzzle as to just where Japan is getting all the money to run her war and her ship building program. One ex pert declared publicly the other day that the secret is that Jaffan’is financing everything from the sale of narcotics. His statement is to the effect that Japan has been is suing for years huge bond issues the sole security of which has been the anticipated revenue from the sale of narcotics. War Nerves With all the war talk going on in Washington, the other day somebody threw some giant fire crackers into a crowded market here. The explosions caused a lot of excitement. Three police squad cars came hurrying up. Thirty union pickets were in front of the market but nobody would accuse anybody of throwing the detona tors. Anyway a lot of people talked about the “explosions” thruout the day. Washington Monument Settles A lot of visitors who come here usually go to the top of the Wash ington monument. The other day a scientist announced that he had discovered that this famous monu ment is settling. It has settled one inch since its construction began in 1879. This is caused by the same sort of clay layer that makes the Tower of Pisa tilt. There’s no danger going up in the Washing ton monument. An elevator takes thirty people up at a time. Some people climb the stairway to the top but the experience usually re sults in many aches. Blossoms Came Ahead of Schedule Washington merchants who had planned to promote a big cherry blossom festival, learned they could not control the weather or nature. The cherry blossoms which usually bring 150,000 people to Washing ton in one week, burst forth two weeks ahead of the time scheduled by the merchants for the festival. So there was no festival queen, no parade, no grandstands and none of the annual programs that are arranged to attract the crowds. Notwithstanding that, however, the blossoms brought the crowds any way when the merchants launched an emergency publicity campaign over the press wires and the radio telling the world that the cherry trees were in bloom. (Continued on page 4, column 6.) 1 - •' ~7.'i V. i ■ iiin.1 I Band Rates Good At the music contest held in Ful lerton last Friday and Saturday, the O’Neill Band under the direc tion of L. M. Durham, rated good. The trumpet trio composed of Howard Graves, Woody Melena and Dorothy Yocum rated superior, and Charles Yarnall rated superior in low voice. Traveler Taken 111 And Is Operated On Here Dr. Edmund Donohue of Gregory, S. D., was called here last Saturday to perfborm an operation on Mrs. L. A. Iler of Gregory, who was taken seriously ill while passing through the city and was taken to the O’Neill General hospital. The operation was performed that evening and, while Mrs. Iler is still a patient at the hospital she is getting along nicely. Dr. Donohue was accompanied here by his wife and brother Parnell, who visited relatives here while the Doctor was busy with his professional duties. The Doctor is a son of P. J. Dono hue, who was raised north of this city and is from one of Holt county’s pioneer families. He has been practicing law for a number of years at Gregory, S. D. He is a brother of Miss Anna Donohoe, for many years county superintendent of this county and at whose home the Gregory party visited while in the city. Meetings To Be Held For Range Program A series of meetings will be held this week for the sign-up of appli cations on the range program of the agriculture conservation pro gram. If a farmer is interested and has (540 acres or more of range land, he is invited to attend one of the following meeting to pre pare his application and fbs an explanation of the details of the program. The schedule follows: Stuart, public library, Thursday, April 7, at 2 p. m. Atkinson, Memorial hall, Thurs day, April 7, at 7:30 p. m. Ewing, Town hall, Friday, April 8, at 2 p. m. Chambers, Greenstreet Bros, store, Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p. m. Scott Precinct, Town hall, Sat urday, April 9, at 2 p. m. All applications for range pro gram have to be on file before May 15. So the sooner a farmer can get his application in the better it will be, because it will save considerable expense if the in spector can have all the applica tions before he starts checking. Sheep Meeting The sheep meeting which was planned for O’Neill on April 14, has been changed to Chambers on that same day. Holt county farmers who are interested in keeping a farm flock of sheep will have a fine op portunity to learn more about . =.= "v;i An account here is a sinking fund that may prevent you from sink ing under debts. \ The O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital. Surplus and This Rank Carries No Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers $140,000.00 or Stockholders. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sheep at this meeing. In the morning E. S. Bartlett, a professional sheep shearer from Chicago, will give a demonstration on the farm of Harry Ressel two miles east and four and one-half miles north of Chambers. Bart let is a real expert and Holt county is fortunate to have this opportun ity to see him. Walter Tolman from the exten sion service, will be present to dis cuss the problems which commonly confront the sheep grower. Marshall Ross of a marketing association will explain the co operative marketing of wool, and one or two local farmers will tie the program into local conditions. The association will furnish a free lunch at noon, and everyone is welcome to attend. Blizzard Strikes Here Snow Bringing Over A Half Inch Of Moisture This section of the state has received quite a little moisture the past week, in fact all of the state. The moisture recorded so far this month is .51 of an inch, making the precipitation for the year 8.22 inches. Tuesday night we had a light scifif of snow and a little rain which was measured the next morning at '.02 inches. Most of Tuesday it misted and rain fell hard for a few moments and thunder was quite prominent. That night it turned to snow shortly after midnight and the weather guage at the court house the next morning registered .06 inches of moisture. Wednesday morning a small bliz zard was on and it snowed practic ally all day and with a heavy wind from the northwest made travel ing almost impossible. While a heavy wind kept the snow in the air most of the day it is estimated that six or seven inches of snow fell. It was very wet and a boon to the grain fields and pastures in the county and state. The local weather observer estimated the moisture content at .43 inches. This storm was quite general over all the northern states, and according to the radio heavy rains visited the southern states during Tuesday and Wednesday. Snow in the western part of Nebraska was said to have drifted in many places to a depth of ten feet or more, and traffic was paralyzed. In many sections ot Nebraska all telegraph and telephone wires were out of commission and the only contact many of the towns had with the outside world wAs thru radio. According to reports there are thousands of telegraph and telephone poles down in Ne braska, Iowa and South Dakota, and the damage will run into the thousands of dollars. The moisture in Omaha was measured at 2.34 inches, more than that recorded for the first three months of the year. Crop ex perts believe the storm will be of inestimable value to winter wheat and other crops, and put the ground in fine condition for the corn sea son. Following is the weather chart for the week: March 31_ 39 21 April 1 38 21 April 2_44 16 April 3 „ _ 46 28 April 4 _ 48 25 April 5 . 48 29 .02 April 6_ 30 21 .06 April 7 _ _ 19 .43 Total precipitation since January 1, 1938, 3.22 inches. ■ Ira H. Moss, clerk of the district court, has filed his report for the business transacted by his office the first three months of 1938. The fees earned by the office for the first three months were $1,096.10, as compared to $688.75 for the first three months of 1937. The Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church will hold their regular study class at the home of Mrs. J. P. Brown Tuesday evening, April 12. Mrs. Jeanne Scott will be leader of the meeting and the subject will be the American Indian. Mrs. Mary Mullen of Portland, Oregon, arrived in O’Neill Satur day night to visit her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Ilarty, and other rela tives and friends here. She plans to remain for an extended visit. N. F. Crowell and D. A. Criss of Stuart, were in the city looking after business matters Tuesday. H. E. COYNE WINS RACE FOR MAYOR FOURTEEN VOTES Write-in Attempt On School Board Fails. Bazelman Loses To McNally In First Ward. The city election Tuesday passed off quietly with a fairly good vote polled. A little over 1000 voters went to the polls and exercised their rights of franchise. There was very little activity prior to election day for any of the candi dates, but on that day many sup porters were out pushing the quali fications of their candidates. The vote on Mayor was very close, H. E. Coyne having a majority of 14 votes with 29 mail votes yet to be counted. These are looked to in crease his majority to possibly 20. C. W. Porter for city clerk had no opposition nor did Ed Quinn for city treasurer. In the First ward Francis Bazel man, present member of the coun cil, was opposed by Fred McNally and the latter won with a vote of 213 to 128, or a majority of 85 for McNally. H. L. Lindberg was unopposed for the council in the Second ward. In the Third ward Levi Yantzi, a present member of the Council, was opposed by G. L. Bachman. Levi was an easy winner receiving 257 votes to 96 cast for Bachman, or a majority of 161. The race for police judge be tween present Judge George Bay, and Henry W. Tomlinson, was quite a spirited affair and resulted in a victory for Bay with a major ity of 69. The write-in campaign for two members of the school board did not get very far. Slips were passed around Monday bearing the names of Mrs. Mildred Lindberg and Dr. L. A. Burgess, to take the place of the regular ticket of George Shoe maker and Dr. Burgess. Dr. Bur gess and George Shoemaker were reelected. Mrs. Lindberg informs this office that her name was writ ten in on the ballot without her knowledge or consent. Following is the vote of the sev eral candidates upon which there were contests in the several wards: For Mayor: 1st 2nd 3rd Total Kersenbrock _ 180 104 204 488 Coyne 179 161 162 502 For Police Judge: Bay _ 176 120 200 496 Tomlinson 154 129 144 427 For Members School Board: Shoemaker — 216 141 167 524 I)r. Burgess 213 124 210 547 Mrs. Lindberg 62 51 100 213 Sander-Krugman On Wednesday, March 30, Miss Helen Krugman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Krugman of Opportunity, became the bride of Mr. Irvin Sander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sander of Verdigre. They were married at the Lutheran parsonage at Walnut, by Rev. Woelters. The attendant were Evelyn San der, sister of the grooom, and Harvey Krugman, brother of the bride. The bride wore a beautiful floor-length gown of blue chiffon with white accessories. After the wedding the parents and close friends of the bridal couple assembled at the home of the bride’s parents for a 6 o'clock dinner. The bride is well known and well liked in the community. The groom is a fine young man with a promis ing future. Mr. and Mrs. Sander will make their home on a farm near Verdigre. The friends of the bride and groom wish them all the success and happiness possible. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to our friends and neighbors for the kind ness shown us in different ways during the sickness and death of our dear mother and sister.—The Wolfe famliy, Elliot Thompson and Sam Thompson. Word has been received of the coming marriage of F. J. Brohe niekey to Miss Dorothy Klein of Beatrice, Nebr. Mr. Brohenickey taught in the local high school here from 1927 to 1929. Mrs. Arthur M. King enter tained at a luncheon Saturday in honor of her sister, Mrs. Paul Montgomery, of Lone Star, Kans.