stau u e st0‘ic“ Sea,,, The Frontier VOL. LIX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938. No. 22. O’Neill Public School Teachers to Take Active Part in Meeting O’Neill instructors will play an active part in the District III teachers convention to be held in Norfolk, October 27-28. Director of Music, Ira George, is secretary of the association and has been nominated as a candidate for vice-president. . Supt. F. E. Alder who was pres ident of the association in 1928 and who served as vice-president of the Neabraska State Teacher’s As sociation last year, is chairman of the reception of teachers commit tee. Principal C. F. Grill will serve as a member of the resolutions com mittee. Headline attraction of the con vention will be Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, daughter of Nebras ka’s famous Willian Jennings Bryan, who will speak upon “This Business of Diplomacy.” Mrs. Owens is America’s first woman diplomat having been minister to Denmark, former congresswoman, teacher and lecturer. Other fea tured speakers will be Judge Mal colm Hatfield of Michigan, who has made a national reputation in juvenile court work. Mr. Herbert Agar, associate editor of the Louis ville Courier-Journal, author and Purlitzer prize winner. Mr. David Cushman Coyle, economist, writer and lecturer of Washington, D. C. Other features include a program by the Master Singers and many fine sectional meetings. The current social scene and its problems is the theme upon which the general session speakers will center their efforts. Judge Hat field speaks on “Children in Court”. “The Rise of Fascism and the De cline of Socialism and Communism” is Editor Agar’s subject, while Mr. Coyle uses the title of his Harper’s prize winning article, “The Ameri can Way.” The sectional programs present strong education speakers and subjects. Supt. F. Valdemar Peterson of Elgin, president of the district, an nounces that the convention has been streamlined with the number of speakers and length of sessions cut down for the convenience of the teachers. He states that in the past the tendency has been to over crowd the programs. U. S. Highway No. 275 Now a Reality According to the State Highway Department they have received approval from the American Asso ciation of State Highway officials of their request to extend U. S. No. 275 into northeastern Ne braska. The road runs from St. Joseph, Mo., to Council Bluffs and then to Omaha. The plan of the state Highway department is to extend it to Valley and Fremont, thence on No. 8 via West Point, Wisner, Norfolk, Neligh to O’Neill, where it will junction with No. 20. Employees of the State High way Department were putting up markers for the new highway the first of the week. Regarding Compulsory Motor Vehicle Inspection Numerous requests have been received by the Nebraska Safety Patrol relative to enforcement of the Compulsory Motor Vehicle Law. These requests have come from City Officials, individuals, opera tors of Official Testing Stations, and local enforcement officers. In order to clarify this situation Cap tain R. F. Weller made the follow ing statement today. “Deadlines for Motor Vehicle Inspection have been established in some municipalities by ordinance. These ordinance apply only to resi dents of the respective municipali ties and do not apply to any one living outside the corporate limits. Residents of municipalites having such ordinances are subject to their provisions.” “All other resident owners of motor vehicles in Nebraska are subject to the State law, which re quires that the owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer must have his vehicle inspected at least once in each year.” “No one, except resident of muni cipalities having ordianees setting a deadline, will be in violation of the Inspection Law until after Decern-; ber 31, 1938.” Answering inquiries and state ments relative to refuasl to issue 1939 licences to motor vehicles which have not passed the Vehicle Inspection in 1938, Weller said. “There is no relationship between the present Motor Vehicle Regis tration Law and the Compulsory Vehicle Inspection Law.” The Weather The weather has been very nice the past week with .08 of an inch of precipitation, which fell on the ■eightth and ninth. Wednesday night was the coldest night of the week when the thermometer reach ed 47 degrees above zero. Follow ing is the weather for the week. H. L. M. Oct. 6 _80 52 Oct. 7 .-. 80 56 Oct. 8 .. —80 45 Oct. 9 __ 79 58 .02 Oct. 10 _67 54 .06 Oct. 11 _ .76 52 Oct. 12 .73 47 — Interstate Power Co. Makes Changes in Force Larry Cain, who has been mana ger of the Bookkeeping department of the Inter-State Power Co., here for the past eight years, has been transferred to Dubuque, Iowa, to the main offices of the company, ef fective the first of November, and Cletus Sullivan, who has been em-; ployed for about ten years has j been given Mr. Cain’s position here. The Women’s club will meet at the Club Room on Wednesday, Oc tober 19, at 2:30 p. m. At that i time the following program will be j [presented: I Piano Solo—Danse di Campag- j narde, Mrs. Jeane Scott; Book Re view—“Bright Land”, Mrs. F. E. Parkins; Discussion lead by Mrs. C. E. Lundgren. The following new books were received: “The Yearling,” Margaret Raw lins. “Bright Land,” Janet Fairbanks. “Out of Africa,” Ifak Dinesen. “Free Land,” Ruth Wilder Lane. School Notes The O’Neill-Bassett game that was scheduled for Friday, October1 6, was postponed until a later date. O’Neill will play Creighton, Fri day, October 14, on the O’Neill gridiron. O’Neill has not played Creighton for years and it is expected to be a | very hard game as Creighton has [ a good record. PEP SQUAD DANCE Were you there? You should have been! Everyone had a won derful time, even the faculty, and the graduates who reached the party. Wax and people who wanted to step on your feet were much more plentiful than was the punch, but Doc O’Connell h^id the punch was all right. There was a floor show too. Charles Yarnell and Junior Harris put on a very clever little act sing ing, “A Tisket, A Tasket,” and after several encores, Maybelle Osen baugh, dressed in the garb of the gay nineties, tapped (with a little something else thrown in) to the same melody. Then came more of “Flat Foot Floogie,” and Alexander’s Rag Time Band. We’re wondering who’s idea that Circle Two-Step was— surely not Thompson’s! The necolodian just wouldn t play after the clock struck twelve! After the “Thanks, we had a lovely time.” all was still for the night? STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Counil has held its first meeting. Some of the results of the meeting are: Meetings are to be held once a week, on Tuesday, alternating periods 1-6 and 8. The officers elected at the meet ing are: Hugh McKenna, Chair- i man; Junior Toy, Vice Chairman; and Jane Jeffrey, Secretary. It was through the Student Council that the Pep Club Dance was allowed. It proved to be a great success. It was also decided to have a welcoming committee of two i students to help all football and basketball teams which visit our school. Also there will be a patrol at all football and basketball games. Points to be brought up at the next meeting are: Patrol for playgrounds, patrolmen in halls, (Continued to Page 4) O’Neill Making Great I Building Record The building industry and the j real estate business have been j booming in O’Neill for the past J year and during the past week! three city real estate transfers have been reported by Mrs. Mattie Soukup, local real estate dealer. William Daly has purchased the Roy Penland property; J. B. Ryan purchased the Ed Peterson estate and Frank Wyant has purchased the George Mellor property in the southeast part of town. Work on the Parker store build ing on Fourth street is progressing nicely and the building is practi cally enclosed. Miss Holcomb’s five room house is completed and they are ready to move in. D. C. Seger is building a five-room bung alow' in the north part of town. Richard Morrison is building a six room house in the north part of town. Dick Rascowski is building an eight-room house with a finished apartment in the basement. Neil Ryan is completely remodeling and modernizing his two story home in the south part of town. Harri son Bridges is building a five-room bungalow in the north part of town. Mrs. Mabel Gatz’s house in the east part of town is now finished. Work on the Joel Parker apartments is progressing and they are now ready for the roof. It has been many years since the building in O’Neill has been as widespread as it is at this time. In addition to the buildings that are being erected this year several new residences are contemplated for next year and three are three new store buildings contemplated for the early spring. This seems to be conclusive evidence that the city of O’Neill is still growing, and will continue to grow, as the people are proud, and rightfully so, of their home town. In addition to the building boom in this city Holt county real estate has been in great demand the past few weeks, especially good ranches. During the past month the Travel ers Insurance Company has dis posed of four ranches, containing 7,520 acres of land, the ranches being in Holt and Rock counties, most of it in Holt. Cattlemen are of the opinion that the cattle busi ness is going to be better during the next few years and men in that business are -anxious to acquire good ranches, at the price they can be purchased at today. State Fire Mashall Here Horace M. Davis, of Lincoln, State Fire Marshall, was in the city Wednesday and while here made a fraternal call at this office. Horace is an old time newspaper man having published a paper at Ord for a good many years. For several years he has been liv ing Lincoln and has filled the posi tion of State Fire Marshall for the past four years. Mr. and Mrs. James McManus, of Chicago, arrived in the city Wednesday evening and will visit for a week with his brother, P. J. and sister, Miss Mamie and with other rerltives and friends here. They were both former residents of this county, coming here some fifty years ago, when both wei-e young and unacquainted with each other. After their marriage they went to Chicago where Mr. McManus enter ed the grocery business, having become familiar with that business when he worked in the grocery for his brother, Pat. Mr. McManus was very successful in business in Chicago and has acquired a com petence, so that from now on he and his estimable wife can take life easy, but it keeps them busy looking after their property inter ests in their adopted home. While James was born in Wisconsin and came here before his majority he says that he has two homes. He recognizes his old home in Wiscon sin as one home and O’Neill as the other. While he has lived in Chi cago for about forty five years he still can not look on that city as [ home, he says and when he thinks ' of home it is always of Benton, I Wisconsin, the city of his birth or O'Neill, his adopted home. Mrs. Carter Lee returned Sun day from Elgin where shq has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reiken. Mr. Reiken is recover ing from an injury sustained when he was kicked by a horse. » O’Neill Feeder Calf Show And Sale Big Success On Monday of this week the 3’Neill Livestock Pavilion was the scene of one of the biggest calf shows and sales in this part of Ne braska. The show and sale put on exhibition some of the finest feeder calves which Holt county! produces and the presence of sev eral Eastern 4-H club buyers and commercial feeders made a very good market for the calves. Fifty of Holt county’s 4-H club members exhibited culves which they had raised and fed in their club projects during the year. The 4-H club show was judged by Mr. W. W. Derrick of the Extension ser vice of the College of Agriculture. Two hunderd fifty calves were en tered in the commercial calf show and approximately 1200 high grade calves were sold through the ring during the sale. K. C. Fouts, the County Agent from Sward county, judged the commercial entries. One of the major purposes for holding this show and sale is to encourage both 4-H members and ranchers to use better herd sires in order that higher quality calves may be produced. The value of raising high grade calves was cer tainly emphazied in the sale by the spread in price between the lots of high grade calves and more com mon lots. Premiums wrere given by the O’Neill business men as follows: 4-H DIVISION Hereford Steers (Lightweight) 1 Dickie Clark, Emmet. 2 Wayne Hoffman, Atkinson. 3 Irvin Forbes, Amelia. 4 Vernon Siebert, Atkinson. 5 Mabel Forbes, Amelia. Angus Steers 1 Jerry O’Malley, Amelia. 2 Keneth VanEmery, O’Neill. 3 Floyd May, Inman. Shorthorn Steers 1 Donald Keyes, Inman. 2 Thaine Lee Mitchell, Chamb ers. Hereford Steers . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Doty of O Neill announce the birth of a son on September 10. Installs New Hat Blocking Machine The Harty Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment the first of the week installed a new hat blocking machine, which is said to be the latest on the market. It is a Hawkeye machine and is manu factured in Omaha. After the hat is cleaned it is placed on the machine for blocking for size, polishing, and ironing. It is install ed in the machine with the proper blocking size, then the switch is turned and the operator can go about his other duties while the machine automatically sizes and polishes the hat doing a much finer job of it than any man could do and doing it quickly, with no question at the conclusion of the job that the hat is smaller or larger than it had been before. The machine keeps the perfect size. The machine is known as a fac tory process hat rebuilding machine and from what little we have seen of its operation we are convinced that it is well named. This machine should greatly in crease the business of the hat clean ing department of llarty’s, and Ben is to be congratulated in his efforts to keep his cleaning department up to date. See the advertisement of this machine in another column. SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Mrs. Saunders returned Tuesday after a few days visit with friends at Atkinson. It is reported that six yearlings are missing from the herd of young stock up at‘the Inez Valley ranch, thought to have been stolen. The citizen who preaches cur tailment of government expend itures can also howl with the best of them when WPA funds are shut off. H. C. Mignery was up from the vicinity of Elgin Monday to take to his ranch on the Beaver four young short horn bulls purchased of Tom Baker. Bernard Kennedy got snared into ahorse trade—or snared the other fellow—and went over to Amelia horse-back Sunday to bring home his newly acquired nag. Several truck loads of steer calves were hauled from the James ranch Saturday, the lot selling for 8!£ cents per pound to a local buy er. Average weight 400. Mr. and Mrs. Koinzen, residing in Wheeler county and Mrs. Riza Staky of Los Angeles, a sister of Mrs. Koinzen, were guests of Mrs. Fannie Riley a day last week. While the Platte and Loup country is involved in about seven teen kinds of transmission lines, north Nebraska js getting on pretty well without a public power humbug. W. C. Furr of Ainsworth, who with his helper and some local help, stuccoed the Tom Doolittle and Earl Doolittle houses, were at Ber nard Kennedy’s Sunday and hung some wall paper, which is also in their line of work. Up at Chadron a judge gave sus pended sentences to a group of cat tle rustlers. Back in the days when Pat Hagerty sold “groceries, china and glassware, clothing, boots and shoes" to the settlers “suspended sentence” for cattle thieves, meant suspended with 15 feet of rope. A few ranchers have been clear ing their meadows of hay stacks so as to turn the cattle in on the aftergrowth. The work of remov ing the stacks has been accomplish ed with a caterpiller and cable, dragging them all into one central group. It is charged the government encourages the deadbeat. Blunt way to put it. Instructions, effect, to laborers on federal spending projects is—spend the $3.20 a day you get on a good living; pay no debts. Home owners and farmers who borrowed funds under the housing and farm loan programs have a right to assume the same attitude—live before you pay off the loan. Five, six, eight and ten dollar seed corn is apparently something of a holdup. A stray kernel of the common yellow corn sprung into a eight feet stalk at the back door und yielded a 9 inch ear of good corn. Neighbors just to the east have heavy yields from seed out of their cribs of the previous sea son’s raising. Hybrid corn is being exploited just now. Samples from a field near Clearwater are not quite up to the native product in this community. That it does not reproduce is an objection raised to the hybrid. A day last week a coupe stopped at the turn of the road leading north by Riley's grove. Shots were heard by Mr. Baker who, with Hank Whitcomb, was gathering potatoes in a field some distance away. Going to investigate, Tom discovered a man, a woman a boy with the coupe. A raid was being made on Mrs. Baker’s turkeys. As he called to them the man gathered up a turkey that had been shot and with the wings still fluttering shoved it into the back of the car and proceeded to make a hasty get away. A second turkey, still kick ing was found at the edge of the grove. This Tom took to the house, backed his Pontiac out of the garage and with Hank drove in swift pursuit. The coupe, bearing Holt county license plates for a truck, was located at a neighbor’s where it had been driven into the barnyard. It did not belong in this neighborhood, however. Mr. Baker’s investigations resulted in the owner of the coupe coming to him in a few days to pay for the turkey’s. He is quoted as saying it was the work of a man in his em ploy and that he had run into the turkeys and thought it merciful to shoot them. Soon ofter this ex planation Mr. Baker says he found two dead turkeys in the grove at the scene of the shooting. These had been shot, in his opinion, at the same time the others were. Two of the flock also are iprcpled. He says as he approached the coupe at the time the shots were fired he heard the woman say: “Here comes somebody.’’ When the first born son of man kind stretched forth an impious hand, imbrued in the blood of his brother, there was the prelude and there was the picture to the cen turies of human slaughter to follow that single act. W'ar has been the employment and the delight of the race in all ages. The earth has been drenched by the blood of countless hosts that were driven to the butchery by the masters. And a singular fact stands out in the whole diobolical business. The masters escape with a whole hide. The best military genius of Europe could not match Napoleon’s Grand Army, but the snows overwhelmed them on the frozen plains of Russia in the retreat from Moscow, while the master, wrapped in furs, glided back to the delights of Paris in swiftly driven sleds. A lust for power, a greed for conquest, a sinister purpose to control the des tinies of men, stirs in the brain of a military monster, who does not hesitate to drive the plowshare of devastation through the world, set up a throne over the graves of crushed nations and plant himself thereon as the master, btrange the world had cherished the vain delusion that it had gotten beyond all this. And now for a decade shadows have been gathering over the cradle of civilization and cul ture of mankind. The world Is scientifically equipped for destruc tion until it is afraid of itself. A lull has come. Three men conceded to hte fourth all he demanded. With the armament now in the hands of men the crash cannot be delayed forever. And when it comes you may be glad you stuck to it here in Nebraska. I brought the bay mare to a stop on the highest elevation and sat erect in the saddle to contemplate the scene. A young gelding, white spotted with deep red, a roan Ap palasian filly and a black colt hov ered close by when they were not racing one another in circles. A filmy haze hung low on the hills far to the west and south. On all sides stretched for endles miles the prairie landscape that fascinates and charms a son of the soil. Flow ers have faded save here and there Fails In Attempt To Hold-up Tobacco Co. A masked bandit with a gun his hand entered the office of the Daily Tobacco company here last Friday afternoon, about 4:50, and demanded of Mrs. Daily the com pany money. The bandit attempted to climb over the railing in to the office proper but Mrs. Daily push ed him back and screamed for help. She then dashed into the adjoin ing office, escaping from the in truder. Her screams brought people running and the bandit made his escape down the alley, getting nothing in his attempted hold-up. Persons attracted to the scene said that the bandit got into a car parked down the alley from the tobacco company office and they secured the license of the car. It was a Platte county license and Sheriff Duffy has learned, since the robbery attempt, that the license plates were stolen at Platte Center the latter part of September. Dr. H. L. Bennett was attracted to the scene and he got into a car and started after them, but he lost track of them a few miles from town. Sheriff Duffy also took out after the car, but failed to sight it. This was one of the boldest rob bery attempts ever made in this city. Some one in this city must have been a confidential advisor of the would-be robbers for they went there after cash and the hour of the day they selected for it was short ly after the truck drivers would return with the proceeds of their day’s business. But they happened to be late that day and had not returned at the time of the at tempted robbery Mrs. Daily’s resistence to the robber was probably unexpected by him. After pushing him back from the railing and screaminy lustily the robber changed his mind and was only intent on getting away. She saved the robber from getting anything but she was taking a lot of chances in thus resisting an armed man who was bent on rob bery. It is hoped that the robbers will finally be apprehended. The Daily Tobacco company, was robbed on the night of September flO of $1,600 worth of merchandise from theii truck which was parked in front of Mv. Daily’s home. Offi cials are working on this case and are in hopes that they will shortly be able to get a lead that will result in the capture of the bandits. the sheepsorrels yellow bloom cling ing close to the earth. The prairie is being touched with the brown of autumn, while in the cottonwood groves a tree with foliage turned to gold catches the attention. Close by shocks of grain sorghum, black heads outlined gloomily, is a re minder to get it under shelter. A half-mile to the north herds are still feeding in the summer range and at the ranch a mile southwest cows are bawling for the calves which have been taken from them. As the mare is headed toward home realization comes that this rural scene, the quiet of the hills, the peace and beauty of the valley, the glow of early morning, the gold and crimson shades of a prairie sunset, the soft light from the full moon bathing in quiet splendor, an October night in the southwest, will soon be left behind for the glare of electric lights, for the noise, the huri^r, the crowds, the miles of buildings and hard pavements of the city. Why leave the charm of rural surroundings. The heart must answer. Daughters, son, grandsons, beckon. As the years roll on attachment to home aug mented. Leaving is like rooting the aged cottonwood from the ground. Home furnishings, decor ations, books, the old easy chair where you have sat in the firelight and dreamed through long winter evenings, the little inconsequential and commonplaces of home—these are a part of life. As you turn the key on leaving emotions are calm ed by the knowledge that the re turn road is always open. But for now, Friends of the Breezes, good bye. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Blaine, of Grand Island arrived Sunday and wil visit at the home of their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Todson. Mrs. Todson, who has been quite ill with a strepto cocci infection of the throat is now much better.