VOT T VTTT O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938. No. 48
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O’Neill And Emmet
Beer Dealers Before
Liquor Commission
The state liquor commission
cited M. J. Enright, of O’Neill, and
Lloyd L. James, of Emmet, Tues
day to show couse why their licen
ses should not be revoked for “per
mitting sale or gift of alchohc
liquor to a person who is physically
or mentally incapicated by such
liquor.” The hearings are set for
Thursday. This is the first time
since the law has been passed that
the gift or sale of liquor to intoxi
cated persons has been brought up,
Chairman McEachen stated.—
Lincoln State Journal, Wednesday.
A good sized delegation of O’Neill
people left for Lincoln this morning
to attend the hearing, including
Mr. Enright and his attorney and
Chief of Police Chet Calkins, who
was subpoened as a witness by the
state commission.
Clearinghouse Ass’n
Holds Meeting Here
The spring meeting of the North
Central Nebraska Regional Clear
inghouse association was held in
this city last Thursday evening,
with a dinner at the Golden, after
which the business meeting was
held.
The association covers the fol
lowing counties in this section of
the state: Holt, Boyd, Brown, Keya
Paha, Wheeler, Rock Antelope and
Knox. At the meeting thirty mem
bers of the association were pre
sent. F. J. McDermott, vice presi
dent of the First National Bank
of Omaha, was present and ad
dressed the meeting. His talk was
on money and public relations of
banks and bankers with people of
their respective communities.
Those who attended the meeting
say it was very instructive.
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Vi? Halva Recalls
Ill-Fated Titanic
Twenty-six years ago tomorrow,
or April 15, 1912, is a date that
will never be forgotten by Vic
Halva of this city. On the above
date Vic was a passenger on the
ill-fated Titanic that struck an ice
berg and sank in the Atlantic ocean
with a loss of hundreds of lives.
Vic says that he was in the water
about four and a half hours, sup
ported with a life belt, that is
similar to the inner tube of an
automobile tire. It was a little
after 1 a. m. when he hit the water
and about 5:30 in the morning
when he was picked up by one of
the boats that came to the assist
ance of the stricken giant of the
seas.
Vic says he loves to swim but
the experience he had that morning
is one that he does not want to re
peat and he figures that he is
mighty lucky that he is now in
O’Neill instead of the bottom of
the Atlantic ocean.
Brady Addresses Lions
Senator Frank Brady, of Atkin
son, spoke before the local Lions
Club last Monday evening at a din
ner at the Golden on the subject
of taxation. The meeting was
well attended and the Senators ad
dress was very well received.
Country Club Invites
New Members For 1938
All residents of O’Neill are in
vited to participate in the activities
of the country club. The dues are
low and are within the reach of
any who care to join. The program
of events for 1938 will be outlined
at an early meeting of the directors
and will appear in the O’Neill
papers. In the interval all resi
dents of O’Neill who are not mem
bers and contemplate joining the
club for 1938, are invited to avail
themselves of all the privileges of
the club.
The treasurer’s report shows the
club to be in excellent financial
condition. The report discloses
that the corporation owns fifty-five
acres of valuable land, building
valued at $500.00 and a golf links
that has been kept in the finest
possible condition for the past
fifteen years. The indebtedness
against the land at the present
time is $800.00, with about $300
cash on had. A new mower will
be purchased at a cost of about
$350.00 and it was agreed by the
stockholders that no extra assess
ment would be necessary for this
purchase.
Golf was first played in O’Neill
in the year 1914, being introduced
by Ralph Evans and a traveling
man by the name of Guy Raybeck.
The game met with immediate fav
or and from the year 1914 until
1920 the Mullen land east of
O’Neill was the home of the coun
try club. In 1920 the new course
was occupied and with the con
struction of the club house the club
flourished. It has been the scene
of many splendid tournaments and
interesting events.
Cattle At Atkinson 25
To 50c Higher; Eastern
Buyers Take The Best
With a brisk demand for all
classes of cattle last Tuesday the
receipts of 550 head were sold in
record time and at prices mostly
25 to 50 cents a hundred higher.
A buyer from Indiana took four
carloads and several buyers from
Iowa took a load each.
The top load of steer calves were
from Colorado and topped the mar
ket at 8.50. A load of choice qual
ity heifer calves brought 7.60.
John Shald of Stuart, was in
with a nice consignment of 110
head, mostly calves which sold at
very satisfactory prices. William
Tuma of Burwell was in with a
nice assignment of cows and
heifers. The top cows with calves
by side, sold at $57.75 with others
selling on down to $52.50.
Rperesentative sales: Top steer
calves at 8.50, with plainer quality
from 7.00 to 8.00; heifer calves
from 6.25 to 7.25 with the top load
at 7.60; yearling steers at 6.75 to
7.40; yearling heifers at 6.00 to
6.80. Heavy steers at 6.90 to 7.50.
Cows also shared the local upturn.
Canners cashed at 3.75 to 4.25, with
the better cows selling from 5.50
to 6.10.
Butcher hogs showed the decline
that is evident at all the central
markets. Top butchers cashed at
7.40 to 7.70 and butcher sows at
7.00 to 7.25. Bred sows are selling
exceptionally well cashing at 10.50
to 12.40 at Tuesdays sale. Pigs
weighing from 75 to 100 pounds
sold at 8.00 to 8.70, with no lighter
weights on sale.
Next sale Tuesday, April 19.
St. Mary’s Academy Notes
Music Department
St. Mary’s Student Choir will
sing the Jubilee Mass of the Sacred
Heart by M. Marsh, in four voices
on Easter morning, at St. Patrick’s
church, ten-thirty. For weeks the
students of the high school have
been preparing for the Easter ser
vices and with the great Feast
soon to be celebrated, final prac
tices are in session for its per
fection. Thru this liturgy the stu
dents have received some splendid
training in voice culture and tech
nique. The vocal teacher has been
untiring in her efforts and she
can well be proud of the results.
The choir will be directed on Eas
ter morning by Mr. F. Meyer.
Solos in the High Mass will be:
“Et Incarnatus Est” — Nadene
Coyne
“Qui cum Patre”—Elaine Street
er
“Et in Spiritum”—Lanone Miles
“Gloria Patri” — Bardy Kubi
tschek
“Psalm Verse”—Edward Quinn.
Un liood r nday the rite ot the
adoration of the Cross is enacted.
This ceremony owes its origin to
a custom in Jerusalem in the fourth
century of venerating on Good Fri
day the wood of the true Cross,
while the reproaches spoken by
Christ to His people whom He had
always treated with kindness were
sung. Some of these reproaches
will be sung by the St. Mary’s
choir on Friday morning.
On Holy Saturday, the high
school boys will chant the Litany,
the Magnificant, and Vespers af
ter Holy Mass.
Elementary Department
The Fifth and Sixth grades have
about completed a project on the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that
shows unique talent and initiative
for elementary grade children. All
handicraft used in study objectives
in this project are on exhibit in the
Fifth and Sixth grade classroom
at the academy. There are re
plicas of a liturgical altar, patens,
chalices, ciboriums, montrances,
amices, stoles, maniples, chas
bles, etc.
Outstanding work was done by
the following:
A brass chalice and a wooden
civorium by John Gallagher;
A model liturgical altar by John
Janousek;
A large altar by Claude Hamil
ton;
Sets of vestments by Donna Gal
lagher, Leona Hamilton, Lou Birm
ingham, Eldora Lowry and Collette
Meyer;
Altar linens by Mary Alice Judge
and Alice Stein;
Alby by Dorothy Bellinger, Don
na Clements, Elenore Bazelman.
Altar hangings by Edward
Campbell;
Tabernacle Booklets by Richard
Davis, Donna Gallagher and Bill
Gallagher;
Comunion Paten by Jimmy Gold
en.
Classes at the academy were dis
missed at noon Wednesday for the
Easter holidays. They will be re
sumed Tuesday morning.
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Mrs. Margaret Allen, who had
been seriously ill for about a month
suffering from a severe attack of
the grip, is rapidly recovering from
her illness. She was confined to
hed bed for about three weeks but
the last ten days she has been able
to be up, a fact that will be gratify
ing news to her many friends in
this city and vicinity.
Leo Matthews returned from a
hospital at Sioux City last Thurs
day night, where he had been op
erated on ten days previously for
appendicitis. He was attended
by Dr. Leahy, a brother of Father
Leahy fromerly of this city and
now pastor at Genoa.
Mrs. Stuart Meech and her sis
ter, Louise O’Donnell, left last Sun
day afternoon for Omaha. The
latter will visit in Omaha for a few
days while Mrs. Meech will go on
to Chicago for a week and will then
leave for a visit of several weeks
in California.
Romaine Saunders of the south
west part of the county, was in the
city Tuesday, greeting friends and
looking after a few items of busi
ness. The compiler of the Breezes
looks fat and robust after spending
four of the winter months at Lin
coln, Nebr.
Mrs. C. C. Bergstrom, Mrs.
Esther Harris and Mrs. Guy Cole
drove to Sioux City Tuesday morn
ing, returning that evening and
bringing Miss Ruth Harris, who is
a student at Morningside College,
home with them for the Easter
holidays.
Miss Anna Connolly, who has
been an employee of the North
western Bell Telephone company
here for the past several years, has
received word that she has been
transferred to the Omaha office,
effective April 25.
Miss Mary Joan Finley, who is
a student at Creighton university
in Omaha, arrived here Wednesday
to spend Easter with her father,
Dr. W. F. Finley, and with other
relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Genereux
and son, Lewis, of Bratlett, were
in O’Neill Tuesday, to take their
daughter, Rachel, home for the
Easter holidays. Rachel is a stu
dent at St. Mary’s academy.
Word has been received here that
Miss Madeline Ullom has accepted
a position with the Walter Reed
Hospital at Washington, D. C., and
will enter upon her duties im
mediately.
Miss Grace O’Donnell returned
to her home in Omaha Wednesday
after spending a few days visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
O’Donnell in this city.
Last Wednesday Julia Corrigan
Sample, of Emmet, filed on the
democratic ticket as a candidate
for the democratic nomination for
register of deeds.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yarnell
and family will go to Grand Island
Sunday to spend Easter with their
daughter, Geraldine, who is a stu
dent at the business college there.
Paul F. Morris, of Benkleman,
was in O’Neill Saturday as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet
Moore.
Mrs. Addie Wrede went to Fre
mont Friday to visit her daughter
and family, Mrs. W. R. Easton.
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Mrs. T. T. Baker was a guest of
Mrs. E. E. Young Sunday after
noon.
Lumber was hauled to the place
occupied by Ray Bly Tuesday for
some building improvements.
The Bernard Kennedy family
visited Sunday at Mrs. Kennedy’s
parential home, the Tom Doolittle
ranch.
It is said the use of plug tobacco
has fallen off over one-half be
cause there is no place left to spit.
Cigarettes are as common as un
darned socks. •
It is said there is not a Mormon
accepting government relief. Of
coure, as millions are computed in
our population there are not so
many Mormons, and they being
grouped in a religious and indus
trial center plan and plant for
abundance rather than scarcity.
Three horses, lost, strayed or
stolen from the Kizer ranch down
by the lake entailed a search over
a considerable sweep of country
but the nags had not been located
Tuesday when ranchers were thru
here. It is said some horses are
being stolen and conveyed to dis
tant markets.
The Holt county units of a
woman’s organization which did
much to bring about the Eighteenth
amendment are displaying signs
“Repeal Has Failed.” A lot of
people seem to thing so. Out of
seven thousand wet and dry con
tests in as many politics sections
there were victories for the drys
in five thousand of these. The
count was as much as 13 to 1 in
some localities.
A young man, from far south
west Swan shows interest and de
votes time to stop at the homes,
talk and hand out little religious
leaflets when necessity takes him
onto the road. He is connected
with what is known as the Baptist
mission recently started south of
the lake. The spiritual state of
the union would indicate the need
of missonaries at home as well as
in far jungleland of raw heathen
ism. And the world’s troubled
nations has aroused interest in
spiritual things, so that the one
with a message has a respectful
hearing.
That a group of American youth
went seriously to Washington with a
whimpering protest that they would
not engage in war; that out in
the old west where leather-clad
frontiersmen wrestled grizzley
bears and crushed the heads of
rattlers now large numbers of
women and girls work in straw
berry and pea fields make the old
timers feel we are becoming a
nation of sissies. There are worse
things than war and I imagine
Hittler ordering us out here in the
southwest to goose-step would be
one of these. Should occasion
arise for our nation to arm for
defense, why not take the old men,
leaving the younger with the home
fires? Those on pension would
feel they were earning it if dressed
in a uniform. There is a lot of
DOES THIS INDICAT1
By Karl Stefan
Are we really increasing our im
ports of foreign farm products?
That question is contained in so
many letters these days that a
comparison of the 1932 and 1937
import figures is timely. From
these figures, one may visualize
Item
Corn, bushels
Wheat, bushels _
Barley, malt, bushels ...
Rye, bushels .
Tapioca, pounds ...
Hay, tons —...
Soybeans, pounds -
Cottonseed Oil, pounds _
Butter, pounds -
Cattle, head ---
Hogs, pounds ..
Fresh Pork, pounds _
Hams, Bacon, etc., pounds —
Fresh Beef, pounds _
Canned Meats, pounds_
Total Meat Products, pounds
Eggs in shell, dozen_
Dried Yolks, pqunds_
Frozen Yolks, pounds_
Egg Albumen, pounds_
Wool and Mohair, pounds_
Dried Milk, pounds
Hides, pounds
Inedible Molasses, gallons_
scrap in Americans over sixty and
an army and fleet of invasion would
encounter something if defense
forces were made up with men like
John Bower and others of this
neighborhood. It should be noted,
however, that John is not an old
age pensioner.
High Honor Comes To
Former O’Neill Boy
Many residents of O’Neill will
remember the Hazelet family who
formerly lived here. There were
two boys who were born in O’Neill,
and left here with their parents for
Alaska in the early part of the
century.
A great nonor nas oeen con
ferred upon the younger of the two
sons, Craig Hazelet, who is now
a resident of Chicago, 111., and
engaged in the engineering pro
fession. Recently the American In
stitute of Engineers awarded to
the firm of Hazelet & Erdal the
highest honor that an engineer can
receive when a $500.00 prize was
given to Mr. Hazelet for his ele
vated highway design.
There were 287 entrants from all
parts of the world in this contest,
and the Chicago papers, in a re
cent account, state that the first
prize in this competition was equal
to the highest compliment that
could be paid any engineer. Fur
ther, the Chicago Tribune states
that bridges designed by Mr. Haze
let may be found in all parts of
the world.
Craing has not visited O’Neill for
a great number of years, but there
are many in O’Neill who remem
ber him as a boy, and who will re
joice in this honor that has come
to him. His present address is
in care of Hazelet & Erdal, Con
sulting Engineers, Monadnock
Building, Chicago, 111.
Mona Melvin Is A
Successful Designer
Miss Mona Melvin of St. Louis,
Mo., daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Melvin of this city, is men
tioned in the Women’s Wear Daily
(New York City) of March 22,
as one of five graduates of the
Washington University school of
Fne Arts, who are getting on in
the world. The paragraph about
Miss Melvin is as follows:
“Miss Mona Melvin, who did
junior dress designing for both
Doris Dodson and Forest City, is
now connected as junior miss de
signer with Mary Muffet dresses,
of this city, together with two
other former classmates, Miss Lor
etta Novy and Miss Virginia La
mar.”
Child Scalded
Carla, the four-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Oppen,
suffered severe burns on both legs
at her home last Friday when she
pulled a coffee pot filled with boil
ing coffee off the stove, saturat
ing herself with the holing fluid.
She is getting along nicely.
Visits Parents In O’Neill
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ennis of
Charleston, West Virginia, arrived
in the city last Monday evening for
a weeks visit at the home of Mr.
Ennis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Ennis. Mr. Ennis has been a resi
dent of Charleston for the past
three years, as fleet manager of
S A FARM SURPLUS?
how many acres of land it would
have taken to have produced these
imported farm products, and how
much more the income of the Am
erican farmer would have been had
we raised these additional amounts
at home instead of importing them
from the foreign farmer.
1932 Imports 1937 Imports
_ 347,627 86,337,248
_ 3,396 17,434,837
_ 52,532,636 371,243,456
_ 87 206,860
._ 130,000,372 432,857,738
_ 13,858 146,149
_ 36,568,700 109,418,304
_ 1,058,945 41,952,062
_ 1,052,598 11,110,762
_ 97,040 494,943
_ 34,155 16,555,218
1,657,500 20,876,569
-_ 3,015,489 47,422,022
_ 796,594 4,665,558
_ 24,793,497 86,087.133
_ 46,749,702 191,906,012
243,784 520,189
_ 726,400 5,426,358
_ 422,060 1,482,862
_ 1,275,790 2,844,073
_ 58,097,521 326,034,700
_ 59,620 2,024,157
_ 188,013,286 312,035,407
_ 155,888,307 301,499,599
the General Motors coporation.
Prior to that itme he had repre
sented the corporation as general
manager of their business in Aus
tralia and has held responsible
positions with the copany for many
years.
Prior to his association with
General Motors he was an em
ployee of the Ford Motor company
for several years and w*as, at one
time, manager of the assembly
plant in Omaha. Mr. Ennis does
not expect to return to Charleston,
as he has had enough of the south
and is thinking of engaging in
business for himself, possibly in
Omaha.
Mrs. Pat Myhre Dies
At Pocatello, Idaho
O’Neill friends received word
last Friday of the death of Mrs.
Pat Myhre at Pocatello, Idaho on
Thursday of last week. Mr. Myhre
was formerly manager of the
Armour Creameries plant here.
The following item is from the
Tribune of Salt Lake City, under
a Pocatello date line:
“Mrs. Lucille D. Myhre, 30, wife
of Orin A. Myhre, manager of the
Armour Company offices here, died
Thursday morning of a heart at
tack. Apparently in good health,
after a recent operation in Iowa,
Mrs. Myhre complained of having
a severe headache Thursday morn
ing and took medicine to allevi
ate the pain. Two hours later she
was found unconscious at her home,
734 East Halliday street, but died
before a physician arrived.
“Mrs. Myhre, a graduate of the
University of Iowa, was born in
South Dakota on June 3, 1907, and
lived most of her life at St. Ansgar,
Iowa. She was married in Mason
City, Iowa, on June 2, 1934, and
came to Pocatello with her hus
band last July. She is survived by
her husband and a brother, R. A.
Culver of Marly, Iowa.”
The funeral was held a Pocatello,
and burial at St. Ansgar, Iowa,
beside her parents.
Here And There
K. C. Matheson of Rushville,
formerly county treasurer of Sheri
dan county, was sentenced to one
to two years in the state peni
tentiary for pleading guilty to a
charge of participating in the em
bezzlement of $5,00 in state in
heritance tax funds. He was also
fined $11,500.00. A former county
judge was convicted on a similar
charge in connection with the same
embezzlement and an attorney of
that county is waiting trial on the
same charge.
President Roosevelt suffered his
second serious defeat at the hands
of this congress last Friday after
noon when his reorganization bill
went down to defeat in the house
with a vote of 204 to 196. In the
vote 108 democrats joined with 88
republicans, 6 independents and 2
farmer laborites to defeat the
measure. The defeat of this bill
was received with joy by people in
all parts of the United States.
John M. Thompson, 75, of Lin
coln, for over fifty years an em
ployee of the State Journal, died
at his home in that city last week.
Mr. Thompson covered the state
house for the Journal for over
forty years, and had a larger ac
quaintance with men in public life
during that period, than any man
in the state. John was a very
pleasant and agreeable man and
had a host of friends among public
officials, present and past, who will
mourn his passing.
Lady luck occasionally puts in a
good word for her favorites. Last
Thursday Charles McWilliams of
Syracuse, Nebr., suffered only min
or cuts and bruises when his car
was sheared in two, in a collision
with a Burlington motor train.
The Northwestern Bell Tele
phone company, according to of
ficials in this section of the state,
suffered a $200,000 loss from the
recent sleet storm in Nebraska and
Iowa.
J. H. Riggs of Sioux City spent
the week-end in O’Neill as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mc
Kenna and family.
Henry Martin, Clarence Wrede
and H. B. Hubbard of Lincoln, were
in Atkinson Friday on business.
Final Vote Count Gives
Coyne A Majority Of
30 Over Kersenbrock
The city council met last Friday
evening as a canvasing board to
canvass the vote cast at the last
city election, including the mail
vote, which was not opened until
that evening. Following is the
mail vote on the various candi
dates:
Mayor—Kersenbrock 4; Coyne
20; City Clerk—Porter 24; City
Treasurer; Quinn 25; for Police
Judge—Bay 8, Tomlinson 17; for
Councilman, First ward—Bazel
tnan 5, McNally 8; Councilman Sec
ond ward—Lindberg 2; Councilman
Third ward—Yantzi 10, Bachman 3.
For members of the school board
—Shoemaker 19, Burgess 22, and
Mrs. Lindberg 2.
The final vote for mayor- waa
Kersenbrock 492, Coyne 622, a
majority of 30 for Coyne. Several
of the Kersenbrock mail votes were
not counted because they were not
properly made out, but even if they
had been counted it would not have
made any change in the final re
sult. For police judge, Bay 504,
Tomlinson 444, or a majority of
60 for Bay. The final vote for
members of the school board was:
Burgess 569, Shoemaker 643, and
Mrs. Lindberg 215.
Shamrock Stamp Club
Organized Past Week
About a dozen of the adult phil
atelists of this city met last Fri
day evening in the office of James
W. Rooney and organized a stamp
club with the following officers:
Chris Yantzi, president; Melviir
Ruzicka, vice president; Arlene
Kilpatrick, secretary and treas
urer.
The juniors of this city have had
a club here for several months and
they, in connection with the mem
bers of the adult club, are now busy
preparing for the celebration of
National air mail week, May 16 to
21. On May 19 an airplane will be
in the city and it will be possible
to send mail by air from this city
for the first time, and the stamp
enthusiasts are looking forward
to it eagerly, as a stamp that left
this city by the first air mail from
here, they figure will be a valuable
asset to any collection.
Receipts Good At
County Judge’s Office
Last week County Judge Ma
lone filed his report on the business
of his office for the first three
months of 1938 and it was one of
the biggest quarters the office has
had for several years. During
the quarter, fees collected amounted
to $932.45; fines collected $225.00;
inheritance taxes collected $550.38,
or a total of $1,707.93 for the first
three months of the year. A com
parison with the amount of busi
ness the first three months of last
year shows that 1938 is more than
double that of 1937. The collec
tions during the first three months
of 1937 amounted to $023.30, di
vided as follows: Fines $75.00;
fees collected $548.30.
Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jarvis of At
kinson, celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary last Friday.
They were married in Iowa and
came to Nebraska in 1898 and ever
since have been residents of At
kinson and that section of the
county.
Figures That Shout
(Kansas City Star)
At the risk of being set down
as hopelessly old fogeyish in this
expansive age, the Star presents
a record of government expendi
tures compiled by Senator Harry
F. Byrd of Virginia in a recent
speech. He obtained the figures
from government auditors. They
do not include expenditures for
relief and recovery:
1934 _ $2,700,000,000
1935 _ 3,200,000,000
1936 __ 3,300,000,000
1937 __ 4,400,000,000
1938 (estimated) _ 5,400,000,000
These figures speak for them
selves. No comment is required.
The Weather
High Low Precip.
April 7_30 19
April 8_39 14
April 9 _ 54 21
April 10 - 70 31
April 11 - 70 40
April 12_ 74 40
1 April 13_ 76 48
