—The Frontier
I y0[ ux O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938. No. 4
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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.
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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
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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.