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—The Frontier I y0[ ux O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938. No. 4 .—— Grasshopper Poison Is Ready For Distribution Through County Agent Grasshopper bait is being mixed at the county garage in O’Neill and distributed at the various towns in Holt county. The mater ials used are furnished to the *' county free of charge but a charge of 35 cents per sack is being made to cover the cost of mixing and distribution. Spreading poison bait should be done carefully and properly as bait spread at the wrong time or in the wrong way is largely wasted. Grasshoppers feed when the tem perature is between 65 and 90 de grees and the bait should be spread in dry weather at these tempera tures. Dry weather is necessary to insure a good kill and tempera ture and moisture conditions are much more important in getting a good kill than the time of day. Bait spread thinly, and scattered thoroughly, give the best kills. Twenty pounds per acre is suffici ent to give good results and heavi er spreading only wastes the bait and is more dangerous to livestock. Poison bait spread when hoppers are beginning to move from their hatching grounds will give the best kills with the least amount of bait and largely prevent*crop damage. Poisoning about every ten days may be required but the area to cover at this time is small and a hundred pounds spread at this time will be worth a ton spread in July. In spreading and handling the bait, farmers cannot be cautioned too much about the danger of sodium arsenite poisoning both to livestock and humans. Persons spreading and mixing the bait * should grease their hands and forearms with grease or soap and avoid getting the poison bait in their shoes. If either external or internal poisoning occurs, see a doctor at once. Bait spread in piles or too heavy quantities is very dangerous to livestock and poultry and only wastes the extra bait, killing less hoppers than when spread properly. Spreading bait with an endgate seeder or some mechanical spread er is advisable because it can be spread more evenly with less dan ger and better results. Progress Shown On First Apartment House In City Work is progressing quite rapid 1 ly on the new apartment building being erected by Joel Parker on the corner of Third and Clay streets. The basement walls are in and they are now putting down the rough boards fo& the flooring. The apartment building will con tain five separate apartments of four rooms each, with bath and a full basement under each apart ment and a separate furnace for each apartment. The building will be of cement and will be stuccoed on the outside and when completed will present an attractive appear ance. The demand for houses or apart ments in this city is increasing every day and a couple or more ^ apartment buildings of the same size could be used very easily in the city, and, even that number, would hardly take care of the demand. Weekes On World’s Fair Committee S. J. Weekes received a neat and attractive parchment scroll last Monday announcing his appoint ment as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the state of Nebraska, for the New York id World’s Fair, Inc. The appoint ment was signed by Grover A. Whelan, president of the organi zation. The fair opens in New York city on April 30, 1939, and ■ ^ will last possibly all summer. City Files Suit Against New Deal Oil Company Last Friday the City of O’Neill thru the city attorney, James P. Marron, filed suit in the district court against the New Deal Oil company and Tony and Carl Asmus asking that they be perpetually enjoined and restrained from main taining obstructions in the streets, and that such obstructions be de clared a common nuisance and that nusiance be abated, and that the court enter an order requiring the defendants to remove the gaso line pumps, electric light poles, fixtures, neon and advertising signs and other obstructions from the premises, and they they be forever restrained from maintaining same on the premises, and such other relief as may be just and equitable together with the costs of the ac tion. Dorothy McDonough Married Last Saturday In Washington, D. C. Miss D o r ot h y McDonough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McDonough of this city, was united in marriage at Washington, D. C., last Saturday morning to Donald Sutcliffe, now of Washington but formerly of Milbank, S. D. The ceremony was performed at 9 o’clock last Saturday morning at the Church of the Nativity, 6000 Georgia Avenue, Father Brunner officiating. A*ter the wedding ceremony the bridal couple started on a trip to the west and are ex pected to arrive in this city on Friday for a visit at the home of the brides parents and with other of her friends here. The bride is a graduate of the O’Neill high school of the class of 1933. In 1935 she went to Grand Island where she attended business college several months. She then went to Washington where she secured a government position and has been in the employ of the government for the past two years. The groom, a former resident of Milbank, S. D., is a government employee and has been so em ployed for the past four years and is said to be an energetic and capable young man. The bride has many friends in this city and they extend to her and her husband best wishes for a long and happy wedded life. Receives Fractured Ribs When Struck By Auto James Murphy, who farms the Cronin place northeast of town, met with an automobile accident last Sunday night on the highway east of town. James had taken Tom Cooper, who had been visiting at the Murphy home, to his home a mile east of the Shaughnessy corner. When he started for home his car stalled and he left it in the yard of the Hoxie place and started for town on foot. When about fifty yards north of the Shaughnessy corner a car was coming from the north and one behind him. The car behind hit him and thi-ew him into the ditch. The driver, Keith Wear of Ains worth, stopped and took him in his car to the hospital in this city. An examination there revealed the fact that Jim was suffering from four fractured ribs and had a badly skinned nose, but apparently was otherwise uninjured. He was taken home the next morning, and is now getting along nicely. The driver of the car said that he had dimmed his lights when he was passing another car coming toward him and when he turned his lights on Murphy was right in front of him that that although he stopped within a few feet it was not in time to escape hitting Mr. Murphy. The Weather Not much moisture during the past week, but crops are doing nicely. About all the corn is in and a good deal of it will be cul tivated for the first time during the coming week. A thunder shower last Sunday afternoon gave us eight hundredths of an inch, bring ing the total for the month of June to .11 of an inch. Following is the weather for the week: High Low Mois. June 2 - 79 49 June 3 - 78 50 June 4 _ 80 57 June 5 _ 91 59 .08 June 6 __91 52 .02 June 7 _ 68 43 June 7 _ 75 49 Precipitation since Jan. 1, 1938, 10.04 inches. Gerald Graybiel and James Roon ey are entertaining a group of friends at a fish dinner Friday, June 10, at the M and M cafe in the Blue room, and will offer proof of the fact that they all didn’t “get away.” Miss Inez O’Connell, who went to Omaha to attend the graduation exercises of Creighton University School of Medicine, as her brother, Hugh, was a member of the class, | returned Sunday night. SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Tom Baker had business in Burwell last Friday. It would be interesting to hear how Nebraskans who are invited to other states to explain the “White Spot” account for nearly half a million deficit in the state general fund. Remember when the grocery man tossed in a quarter pound sack of candy if a customer bought some groceries? You can buy out the store now and he will not give you a chew of gum. Summing it all up, blowing off the steam and laying the whole thing open, the past six and a half years at the White House has simply been a demand for more money—and getting it. Someone with a propensity for measurements lets it be kn<Wvn that the manufactured cigarettes con sumed last year if laid end to end would ma’ie 22% rows to the moon. The folly of mankind is reaching beyond high heaven. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Chambers, accompanied by Miss Frances Hammer of Rupert, Idaho, a daughter of Mr. Hammer, visited a short time here last Thursday. Miss Hammer sails from New York the 15th on a European tour. Melvin Oss and two sons of Shelton were over-night guests at our home recently. Prof. Oss had been on a visit to his parents at Burke, S. D., and was visiting various points in north Nebraska in the interests of the Shelton academy of which he is superinten dent. Sunday was good “korn growin’ weather,” as Mike Boldt used to say no matter how terrible the day. But not much of it had start ed to grow at that date in the southwest, as planters are still in the fields this week. The day was very warm, evening bringing rain that sprayed across an extensive area. In the quiet of late afternoon, an hour before sunset, a mated pair of God’s beautifully adorned crea tures of the air, the golden breasted and ebony crested orioles, came to show their dainty loveliness, perch ing on a little tree by an east window. Winging from bush to bush and before the darkness spreads its mantle of gloom come to rest in a nearby apple tree where they find a night’s lodging. “It is appointed unto man once to die.” From time to time—and all too frequently—The Frontier records the death of one of the pioneers of the town or country. Among those thining ranks the thought will come to some, who is the next to rest within the portals of the tomb? In reading of the death of Mr. Barnett, there comes out of the mists of more than half a century the vision of a few buildings strung along the south side of Douglas street—the home of Pat Hagerty, a little office and a few boards piled outside that was the Barnett & Freeze lumber yard, a store, a little “butcher shop,” as they were then known where Frank Toohill sold meat from a nickel to a dime a pound and gave away liver and rings of bologna. Capt. Frees, Barnett’s assiciate, came to O’Neill at stated periods, my only occasion for re membering him being that he was Captain of Company H, 38th Wis consin in which my father served and was with General Grant when General Lee’s army laid down their guns at Appomattox. Barnett was the resident head of the business and one of none too many classy if not aristocratic gentlemen of a somewhat wild and wooly pioneer community. The remorseless hand of time has swept to eternity nearly all of the early business men and homesteaders. Many of their sons and daughters are near ing the sunset. “So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” To Form Bicycle Club All boys and girls are asked to attend a meeting to be held in the recreation rooms at the court house Friday night of this week, to help organize the new Hiawatha Safety Bicycle Club. The aims of this club will be to promote safety among bicycle riders as well as to study traffic safety rules and to start organized bicycle activities among the bicycle riders of O’Neill. There will be no fee charged at this meeting. It is free to all boys and girls. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p. m. Herman Schollmeyer And Willa Wilson Wed Here Sunday Morning Herman Schollmeyer and Mis3 Willa Wilson were united in mar riage at 9:30 last Sunday morning at the Methodist parsonage in this city, Rev. A. J. May officiating, in the presence of a sister of the bride and a brother of the groom. After the wedding the bridal couple and attendants went to the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilson, near Redbird, where a sumptous wedding dinner was served the bridal couple and assembled guests. Those in attend ance at the wedding feast were: The Ray Wilson family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schollmeyer, Charles and Vera, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Baker, Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson and Everett Hasenpflug. A wedding cake, made by the bride’s grand mother, Mrs. William Wilson, cen tered the bridal table. On Sunday evening the newly weds went to the home of his par ents where they were treated to an old time charivari party on Monday evening which was attended by about 150 guests. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilson of Redbird, and is a graduate of the Lynch high school. Since her graduation she has taught school in this county. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scholl meyer of Dorsey, and is a capable and likeable young man. This young couple have the hearty congratulations of a host of friends for a long and happy wedded life. Patrolman Stops Churchmen The Virginia State Highway pa trolmen are always on the alert. “Ted” Hook of Wayne, and Rev. H. D. Johnson of O’Neill found that out the other night as they were stopped near Mount Vernon by a patrolman who ordered them to get out and allow him to make a search. He told the Nebraskans that he had to stop all cars with Nebraska licenses because he was looking for a Nebraska car which had been stolen in Kansas. The Nebraskans were on their way to Philadelphia to attend the Presby terian General Assembly. Government In Rum Business Members of congress are di rectors in the government rum business which is carried on in the Virgin Islands. The distributors of this government rum which is known as “Government House” rum, gave a free party the other night in a down town building to which these directors were invited. This government rum and a lot of food was given away to advertise the drink. Dealers here say the government rum is not selling very fast because they feel it is still “too green.” Those drinking this rum at the free party the other night say it carries a tremendous wallop. — • Fight For Farm Forestry Program Members from the plains states appeared before the House Com mittee on Appropriations this week asking that some iunds be made available to continue the farm I forestry program. The Bureau of the Budget had recommended $1, 5 300,000 for this work. The sub icomittee reduced this estimate to ' $400,000 and finally the full com 5 mittee made no appropriation at all for this purpose in the regular 1030 Agricultural Supply bill. The present effort is to get an item into the last deficiency bill that will be considered this year The WPA has been aiding the farm forestry workers in their work in various states but the department is anxious that this work be given regular appropriations. If the House Committee fails to provide the funds, a movement is to be (Continued or page 5, column 3.) BRIEFLY STATED Frank Brittell 'of Newport, was in the city Wednesday visiting old time friends and relatives. Frank was a resident of this city some thirty years ago, operating a meat market in this city. He had not been here for several years and said he was unable to recognize many of the O’Neill people now here. Redbird lost to Orchard last Sun day afternoon in a game played on the Orchard diamond with a score of 10 to 9. The Batteries for Red bird were Conard, Edwards and Ross. For Orchard, Wiseman, Copenhagen, Magirl and Steinberg. Hits: Redbird 15, Orchard 14. Next Sunday afternoon the Redbird boys cro«s bats with the Page team on the Page diamond. Mrs. Ted McElhaney, Mrs. Arlo Hiatt, Mrs. Esther Harris, Mrs. C. W. Porter and Mrs. John Kersen brock entertained the M M Club and their husbands at a seven o’clock dinner in the blue room of the M. and M. cafe, followed by cards, on Tuesday evening. Guy Cole won high score for the men and Arlo Hiatt low, and Mrs. Arlo Hiatt winning high for the women and Mrs. Harold Lindberg low. The first of the series of weekly entertainments at the O’Neill Country Club was given last Sun day evening when a committee composed of the following ladies, Helen Biglin, Marjorie Dickson, Mrs. P. B. Harty, Mrs. John Dailey, Marion Dickson and Jeanne Mc Carthy sponsored a Sunday night supper followed by bingo. Over 100 members were present and if the first event is any criterion for the future, a successful season may definitely be predicted. Roger V. Rosenkrans of Dorsey, was among the 848 students who were granted degrees by the Uni versity of Nebraska at the 67th annual commencement exercises Monday morning. Last year 756 students received degrees. Rosen krans, an agricultural college stu dent, received the bachelor of science degree in agriculture. The commencement address this year was delivered by Dr. Carl W. Ack erman, dean of the graduate school of journalism at Columbia univer sity. According to a story from Los Angeles, William Daniel Douglas Hammond, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond of this city, gradu ated from the University of South ern California, with a bachelor of arts major in journalism, being a member of a class of 1,(500 gradu ates from that university who re ceived degrees at the hands of President Rufus B. von Klein Smid during the fifty-fifth annual com mencement exercises held in the Los Angeles coliseum on Saturday, June 4. H. B. Hubbard came up from Lincoln last Sunday morning for a few days visit with friends and to look after business matters. Mr. Hubbard informed us that rust is having a very damaging effect on wheat in Johnson county and south of there in this state, and that in part of that territory the wheat yield will be reduced at least one half. Down in that section last Saturday some farmers were plow ing their corn for the first time, while others were just finishing planting. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Dixon of Gordon, Nebr., are in the city and are installing a hamburger and short order establishment on the corner of Douglas and Fourth streets. They have had a neat and nifty little restaurant built on the order of a street car, and have in ! stalled it on the Downey corner, formerly occupied by the Warner I hardware store. The building is brand new, as is all the equipment, 1 and they are trying to get it in shape to open for business Satur day morning. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Carroll and daughter, Kay, left last Thursday afternoon for Chambers where they were to spend the night at the home of Mr. Carroll’s sister, and left the next morning for Mt. Clare, Nebr., and will visit relatives there and at Bostwick for a few weeks. Prof. Carroll, who was superinten dent of schools here several years, expects to continue his teaching career and has under considera tion three or four attractive offers for his services during the coming year. The Frontier will visit him each week during the coming year and keep him posted on the current events in this section of the state. L. M. Merriman On The Executive Committee Of State Beer Organization The fused forces of Nebraska’s $30,000,000 a year beer industry are today moving to launch a state-wide “good citizenship” effort under the leadership of Charles E. Sandall, widely known York law yer-legislator-farmer, and former U. S. District Attorney at Omaha during prohibition. Forming the Nebraska Brewers and Beer Distributors committee at Lincoln last Sunday to safe-, guard the temperate, social and economic benefits of legalized beer in this state, brewers and beer wholesalers unanimously adopted a law enforcement-educational pro gram. Formation of the commit tee was initiated and sponsored by Brewing Industry, Inc., of Chi cago, a national association of brewers. The following executive committee was appointed: Chairman, Robert A. Drum, president Fontenelle Brewing cor poration, Omaha; secretary, Arth ur E. Storz, sales manager of the Storz Brewing corporation, Oma ha; treasurer, Charles E. Metz, ad vertising manager, Falstaff Brew ing corporation, Omaha; and Rich ard G. Kneedler, Jr., executive sec retary of Brewing Industry, Inc., Chicago. The following were elected to the executive committe on June B: M. C. Seltzer, Scottsbluff distri butor; L. M. Merriman, O’Neill dis tributor; R. M. Kuester, Grand Is land distributor. Stating that the committee’s program is primarily designed to protect the public interest while aiming to preserve the present legal status of an industry that contributes importantly to the social and economic welfare of Ne braska, Mr. Sandall declared: “My experience as a Federal prosecutor of prohibition cases definitely convinced me that local, state and national prohibition is impossible of enforcement. Furth ermore, I am convinced that the best solution—possibly the only solution—lies in strict regulation.” O. M. Herre Returns To Operate Jewelry Store O. M. Herre, who left here last fall after being a resident of the city for about six years, during which time he was engaged in the jewelry business, is again a resi dent of this city. Ott was here last week and rented the Gatz building on the south side of Doug las street, between Third and Fourth streets, and he arrived this morning with a truck load of jewelry and household goods, and is now busy getting his store ar ranged so that he can open for business Monday. Mrs. Herre is expected to arrive tonight and will help in getting things in shape. During his residence here Mr. Herre made many friends and they are all glad to see him return and again become a resident of O’Neill. Ott says that he should never have left here as this is the best town for business in the state, and he says that he has looked over hun dreds of them the past six months while looking up a possible loca tion. He says that he intends to carry a full line of silverware and jewelry notions, and when his new stock arrives will have a complete and attractive jewelry store. The Frontier welcomes him back to the ranks of O’Neill business men. Marriage Licenses Herman R. Schollmeyer of Dor sey, and Miss Willa W. Wilson, of Redbird, on June 4. Albert Kasmicka of Martin, S. D., and Miss Virginia G. Wanser of Page, on June 8. Albert Schaaf and Miss Agnes Barnes, both of Atkinson, June 8. Mrs. Alma Evans and daughter, Billie, and Mrs. Howard Bauman and son, Robert, returned Friday from Omaha, where they had gone to attend the graduating exercises of Creighton university as Miss Ruth Evans was a member of the graduating class of St. Catherine’s hospital school of nursing. Jack Kersenbrock And Harold Hunt To Attend Boy’s State Next Week Mrs. John Kersenbrock and son, Jack, and Harold Hunt will leave in the morning for Lincoln where they will spend a week. Mrs. Ker senbrock will visit with relatives while Jack and Harold Hunt will attend the Cornhusker Boys’ State for one week. Jack will attend as the boy seleceted by the Lions Club while Harold was selected by the American Legion post of this city. The Cornhusker Boys’ State is an effort on the part of the Ameri can Legion to bring to the boys of Nebraska a knowledge of the fundamental principles of Ameri can government thru actual prac tice and control of the city, county and state offices for the period of the Boys’ State. As future voters and officehold ers, the youth of Nebraska should have an understanding of the prob lems of elective officials, their duties and their functions. The opportunity to experience these fundamentals will be offered by the Cornhusker Boys’ State. It is a laboratory of practical political science. The meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Nebraska. The 1938 Cornhusker Boys’ State will be limited to 200 boys. When they reach the campus of the University of Nebraska, they will be divided into cities, counties and the entire assemblage will be come the mythical 49th state which will function for eight days, ac cording to the laws of procedure of the State of Nebraska, taking the basic laws of Nebraska as their guide. In substance the program is designed to teach our boys that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with our American form of government, that it has not outlived its usefulness; that what it de mands is intelligent citizenry and a clean, honest and impartial ad ministration. In the Boys’ State, the boys have their own city and state govern ments. They elect their own city and state officials from the Gov ernor down. They have their own unicameral and city councils where they present and argue their own bills; they have their own police department, enforce their own ordinances and in other ways live as self-governing citizens the full eight days. Each boy has a chance to learn for himself that govern ment is just what he makes it. In the cities and the counties, officers will be elected. City Coun cils and County Board of Supervis ors will pass laws, courts will func tion and every officer of the Ameri can system of government will ic represented. An adequate staff of adult coun sellors and leaders in state govern ment will be present to help keep the program moving smoothly. Gerdes Resigns As Superintendent Here B. W. Gerdes, formerly principal of the West Point high school and who was elected a couple of weeks ago as superintendent of the O’Neill public schools, tendered his resignation to the school board here the end of last week. The resignation was accepted Friday and he was released from his con tract. Mr. Gerdes has been elected assistant principal in the Norfolk senior high school. Wins Track Awards Jack Vincent of this city, a freshman at the University of Ne braska this year, was among 21 freshman track performers who were awarded numerals, it was announced by Coach Schulte Sat urday. He will also be awarded a medal on points scored in the Tri-Color events. He was second in the 440 yard dash with 30 points, and drew 14 points in the 880 yard run. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole and Mrs. Esther Cole Harris drove to Sioux City Sunday and returned that same evening, bringing back with them Mrs. Harris’ daughter, Ruth, who has been attending Morning Side college at that place. Mrs. Hugh Coyne and daughter, Mary Kay, and Mother Ceribum, drove to Grand Island Friday where Mother Ceribum took the train to Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Coyne and Mary Kay returning to O’Neill.