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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
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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,
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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.
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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 <Heavyweight)
1 Roy Forbes, Amelia.
2 Harlan Dierking, Amelia.
3 Burnita Dierking, Amelia.
4 Keith Greenstreet, Amelia.
Hereford Heifers
1 Ella May and Dorothy Clark,
Emmet.
2 Bill Rees, Amelia.
3 LeRoy Hoffman, Atkinson.
4 Patty Schaffer, Emnlet.
5 Edward Albrecht, Atkinson.
Angus Heifers
1 Harlan Moore, Inman
Shorthorn Heifers
1 Danny Gallagher, Inman.
Short Fed Baby Beef
1 Vernon Landholm, Dustin.
2 Carol Summerer, Chambers.
3 Dick Shearer, Stuart.
4 Lloyd Westphalen, Chambers.
5 Bobby Summerer, Chambers.
CHAMPION—Vernon Landholm,
Stuart.
RESERVE CHAMPION—Ray
Forbes, Amelia.
COMMERCIAL DIVISION
Hereford—Lot of 1
1 Mickey Gallagher, Inman.
2 Frank Schafer, Burwell.
3 Walter Puckett, Emmet.
4 Frank Peters, Chambers.
Hereford—Lot of 20
1 Walter Puckett, Emmet.
2 Frank Schafer, Burwell.
Angus—Lots of. 5
1 Musil Brothers, O’Neill.
2 W. J. Jones, Atkinson.
3 Pat Carr, Stafford.
4 W. J. Jones, Atkinson.
Hereford—L.ot of d
1 H.. A. VanHorn, Page.
2 Frank Schafer, Burwell.
3 Ed Krugman, Opportunity.
4 Andy Clark, Emmet.
Angus—Lot of 1
1 Pat Regan, Inman.
2 Pat Carr, Stafford.
3 Blaine Garwood, Atkinson.
4 W. J. Jones, Atkinson.
Angus—Lot of 20
1 Pat Carr, Stafford.
AN APPRECIATION
We wish to thank the O’Neill
Lions Club, James Rooney, Lyn
del Stout, the O’Neill Sales Pavi
lion and the people of O’Neill and
all others who helped make the 411
Calf Sale a decided success.
Sand Hill Calf Club
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strong of
O’Neill announce the birth of a
daughter, September C>.
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.