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VDL. LX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8.1939. No. 4.
ST. MARY'S HOLDS
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM FRIDAY
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$ Rev. J. J. O’Brien Gives
Inspiring Address to
Twenty-Nine Graduates
In St. Patrick’s Church, on Fri
day, June 2nd, at ten o’clock a.m.,
the commencement exercises of St.
Mary’s Academy were held, gradu
ating twenty-nine young men and
women.
Rev. J. J. O’Brien, pastor of Em
met, Nebraska, delivered the ad
dress, quoting as his text “Come to
Me all ye that labor and I will re
fresh you.”
The special feature of his talk
was the saying of a saintly old
pastor of his childhood days, “Do
what you do.” In his development
he stressed the fact that when one
has his whole heart in what he does
and labors with a good intention
and through the love of accomplish
M raent without looking to the re
Pward, he is bound to succeed in
living a good and useful life. In
fact, the secret of success is to put
your whole heart into whatever
you ao.
The influence of loving parents
and untiring and unselfish zeal of
oevoted teachers in holding up be
fore the young people high ideals
and principles should be a strong
incentive to guide their lives along
the paths of true Catholic Christian
living and prepare them to attain
their final goal—God and heaven.
He urged them not be Sunday
and Easter Catholics only but to
bring God and His interests into
every movement of their lives, for
this is vital to the attainment of
salvation.
In closing, he said, “Keep the
|| Commandments, love God and your
* neighbor, for unless we love our
neighbor, we cannot love God.” And
again, “Do what you do.” Com
mencement is not the end, but the
beginning.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor John G. Mc
Namara conferred the honors on
the High School graduates and
gave the Eighth Grade certificates
to seventeen young aspirants for
High School.
Scholarships were presented to
the following:
Margaret Hammond — St. Ter
esa’s, Winona, Minnesota.
Joan Jackson—Briar Cliff, Sioux
City, Iowa.
Ruth Taylor—Saint Louis Uni
versity.
Dorothy Jordan—Duchesne Col
lege, Omaha, Nebraska.
Marjorie Thiele—State Normal.
Jacques Kersenbrock — Creigh
ton University, Omaha, Nebraska,
t Benediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment was a fitting crown to the
beautiful and impressive cere
monies.
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Marriage Licenses
The following marriage licenses
have been issued in the county court
during the past week:
Frank Tracy and Miss Evelyn
Mitchell, both of Chambers, on
June 1.
Richard S. Brion, of San Fran
cisco, and Miss LaVerne Walter, of
ChamLers, on June 1.
Norman F. Tegler, of Page, and
Miss Hazel B. Stolte, of Atkinson,
on June 2.
Lindley Crumley and Miss Kath
erine Grass, both of Page, on June
2.
Bernard Allen, of Page, and Miss
Arlene Farran, of Dorsey, on June
3.
Roger Rosenkrans, of Dorsey,
and Miss Marjorie Lindberg, of
O’Neill, on June 3.
Leo J. Dowd, of Schuyler, and
Miss Eileen O’Malley, of Chambers,
on June 5.
NOTICE
The Holt County Board of Equ
alization will meet at their office
in the court house at O’Neill Ne
braska, on June 13, 1939 at 10
o’clock A. M., and be in session not
less than three days nor more than
twenty days. All protests on val
uations or assessments for the year
1939 must be made during this
period.
i „ JOHN C. GALLAGHER
County Clerk.
Holt County Women
Attend State Convention
Holt county is being represented
at the Nebraska Home Demonstra
tion Club Council in Fremont this
week by Mrs. Vern Sageser, of
Amelia, Mrs. L. 0. Johnson and
Mrs. John Protivinsky, of O’Neill,
Mrs. Ora Yarges, Mrs. James
Speease and Mrs. Wes Murphy, of
Stuart.
These ladies will take part in this
convention at which will be pres
ent more than 1,000 Nebraska
homemakers. This is the third an.
nual gathering of this type in the
State and music recreation and out
standing speakers from women’s
project clubs will be featured on
the program. Two outstanding
homemaking authorities from
Washington will be heard. They are
Miss Mary Rokahr and Mrs. Lydia
Ann Lynde.
Local ladies in attendance will
no doubt have some interesting
ideas to bring back to their com
munities.
BOARD STYMIED
IN SUPERVISOR
SELECTION
Three and Three Dead
lock May Last For
Some Time As Balance
Of Power Is Sough!
The County Board is in a dead
lock in the selection of a supervis
or from the Fourth district to fill
the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Louis W. Reimer, who
was appointed county judge.
The Board met for the purpose
of selecting a successor to Mr.
Reimer on June 1. The first ballot
taken resulted in three votes for
Anton Nisson, of Page; two votes
for Mike Rotherham, of Ewing
and one vote for S. E. Adrain, of
Ewing. The second ballot taken
resulted in three for Nissen and
three for Rotherham. Three more
ballots were taken on the same day
and resulted in three votes for
each candidate. The board met
again on June 2 and took two bal
lets and the result of these two bal
lots were three for Nissen and
three for Rotherham. The matter
was then put off until next Monday,
June 12, when the Board will meet
again and try to elect a supervisor.
Oratorical Talent Shown
By O’Neill Boy
Virgil Johnson, of this city, fresh
man at Hastings college, was re
cently awarded a $5 prize for win
ning a tie for second place in the
Curren’s Biblical Oratorical con
test held in the college.
A member of the speech depart
ment, Johnson has been active in
dramatics, taking part in numerous
full-length dramas and one-act
plays.
Barnhart Market Sold
To Spencer Lady
Miss Florence Nelson, of Spen
cer, Nebraska, has purchased the
Barnhart Grocery and Meat Mar
ket in this city, and took possession
on Monday, June 5th. She has
retained Pious Ulrich, former em
ployee in the market, as manager,
and Ross Vorce, who is in charge
of the meat department. Charley
Smith is also employed in the store.
The Frontier welcomes Miss Nelson
to the ranks of O’Neill business
people, and hopes that her new
business venture will prove suc
cessful.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to all who
so kindly and helpfully assisted us
during the illness and death of our
beloved mother. Also to express
our thanks to all who contributed
the beautiful floral offerings.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Carson,
Mr. and Mrs. James Carson
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wolfe,
Mr. and Mrs. John Carson,
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Hunter,
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Carson,
Miss Lizzie Carson
DISTRICT BAR ASSOCIATION ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS FOR DECEASED MEMBERS
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The following resolutions were
adopted by the members of the Fif
teenth Judicial District Bar Associ
ation, on the death of two O’Neill
attorneys, who were charter mem
bers of the association:
CLARENCE J. MALONE
Resolutions of Sympathy
WHEREAS, our Brother Clar
ence Joseph Malone, has received
the final summons commanding
him to appear before the Supreme
Judge, and,
WHEREAS, that summons has
erased the name of a charter mem
ber from the roll of our Association,
and,
WHEREAS, his life was one of
public service as County Judge and
Judge of the County Court of Holt
County, where he was truly a pub
lic servant for more than twenty
nine years. His honest, courag
eous and capable service endearing
him to the hearts of all people, and
his liberal, tolerant and practical
views combined with a natural love
for his fellow men has left a monu
ment more enduring than bronze or
marble.
NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RE
SOLVED, that the Members of the
Fifteenth Judicial District Bar As
sociation do hereby express their
deep and sincere sorrow at the
death of Brother Malone, and do
further express their heartfelt
sympathy with his family in their
bereavement, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Secretary
be and he is hereby directed to for
ward a copy of this resolution to his
wife and family as an expression of
our sympathy.
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EMMET A. HARMON
Resolutions of Sympathy
Death, which has no regard for
youth or age, has called another
member of the 15th Judicial Bar
Association. Its mandate has re
moved from our midst a charter
member and one of the younger
members of the bar.
Emmet A. Harmon was born in
O'Neill, Nebraska in 1903 and was
licensed as an attorney in 1930. He
died May 29, 1989. His life was
spent in the town in which he was
born. He leaves to mourn his pass
ing, a wife, two children, an aged
mother and one sister.
He had not reached the prime of
life when the voiceless messenger
came and summoned him to appear
before the Judge who passes final
judgment on all. Quiet, forceful,
energetic and studious he attained
a high professional standing. He
took an active interest in our as
sociation and was alway ready to
aid in its activities. He had an
amiable even-tempered disposition
and always granted every courtesy
or request possible to another law
yer.
His early death is a great loss,
not only to his family and relatives,
but to the community in which he
lived and to the legal profession.
It is fitting that we pay our last
respects to our fellow member. He
lived, performed his tasks as best
he could; and answered the final
summons with fortitude and resig
nation. For him the final decree
has been entered.
Therefore, be it resolved that
this association extend to the fam
ily of Mr. Harmon their sincere
sympathy in their bereavement;
and that a copy of this resolution
be spread upon the minutes of this
meeting.
Last Civil War Veteran
In Cedar County Dies
Ed C. Leicy, 93 years of age, the
last cival war veteran in Cedar
county, died at his home in Ran
dolph last Tuesday, after a short
illness. The funeral is being held
in Randolph today. Mr. Leicy was
the grandfather of Leslie W. Cas
ter, of Inman, who will attend the
funeral.
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BRIEFLY STATED
Phillip Yarnall, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Chares Yarnall of this city
and a junior in the O’Neill high
school, has been chosen as the
representative of the American
Legion Post of this city to be their
delegate to the annual Boys State,
and will leave for there Friday.
The members of the Holt county
board of supervisors and County
Clerk Gallagher and Register of
Deeds, Harris, drove to Norfolk this
morning where they will attend a
meeting of the Northeast Ne
braska County Officers Associ
tion, which is being held in that
city today.
County Treasurer Ben Winchell
has received notice from T. W.
Bass, Secretary of Public Lands
and Buildings at Lincoln, Nebraska,
that delinquent notices will be
mailed to all those who are de
linquent on their school land leases
or contracts by July 10th, and that
said delinquency will be figured up
to July 1, 1939.
Mrs. Cecil Ainsworth and daugh
ter, Betty, a member of this years’
graduating class of St. Mary’s
Academy, and Miss Emily Olson,
of Grebill, Wyoming, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Mullins, of Anderson,
Wyo., who were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. John Protivinsky, during
commencement week of St. Mary’s,
returned to their homes on Tues
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Yarnall and
daughter, Bonni^, and son, Phillip,
left Monday for Holdrege, Nebr.,
where Mr. Yarnall goes to attend a
meeting of the Brown-McDonald
managers and to purchase his fall
stock of merchandise for the local
store. Mrs. Yarnall and children
went on to Hendley, Nebr., whera
they will visit at the home of Mrs.
Yarnall’s parents for a week.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many
friends for their many acts of
kindness and the beautiful floral
offerings sent during the illness
and following the death of our
beloved husband and father.—Mrs,
Emma Kivett and family.
O’Neill Student Injured
In Fall From Horse
Miss Mary Ann Meer, of Valen
tine, fell from a horse last Sunday
afternoon and sustained a fractured
skull. Latest reports received by
O’Neill relatives are to the effect
that she is getting along nicely,
which will be gratifying news to
her many friends in this city.
Miss Meer is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Meer, of Val
entine, and has been a student at
St. Mary’s Academy for the past
four years and was a member of
the Junior class at the last gradu
ation. Miss Meer is a lover of
horses and was used to riding, but
heretofore she always had some
one saddle her pony, but Sunday
she did the job herself. She failed
to get the cinches tight enough and
the saddle turned throwing her off.
When the horse returned home
without her a search found her
lying at the side of the road about
a block from her home. She was
unconscious for several hours and
her aunt, Miss Mayme Meer, of
this city, drove to Valentine early
Monday morning to assist in her
care.
The Weather
A couple of good showers the
past week revived pastures and
small grain and makes the people
of this section feel naturally elated.
Wednesday of last week we had .02
hundredths of an inch of moisture
and on Thursday night we had .40
hundredths of an inch. It rained
most of the night, not hard but a
steady drizzle that all soaked into
the ground. Then on Tuesday night
we had a half inch of rain, which
was also long drawn out and all
soaked into the ground. A little
hail preceded the rain, but as
far as we have been able to learn
injured no crops. Following is the
chart for the week:
H L M
June 1 _ 90 GO .02
June 2. 72 57 .40
June 3 _ 76 46
June 4_ 89 60
June 5 _ 89 65
June 6 __ 91
June 7 __—• 89 58 .50
Total precipitation for June .92
hundredths of an inch. Total pre
cipitation since January 1, 1939,
6.55 inches.
LUTHERAN NOTES
There will be a regular service
at the Episcopal church Sunday
afternoon at three.
Pastor R. W. Fricke,
Chambers.
Highway Patrolman
Still on the Job
Helmer Widtfeldt, of Kilgore,
Nebraska, was arrested by Patrol
man Harry Brt and brought before
County Judge Louis Reimer on
Monday, June 5th, charged with
operating a motor vehicle while
under the influence of alcoholic
liquor, and operating a motor ve
hicle while his drivers license was
suspended. He was found not
guilty on the first charge, and pled
guilty to the second, and was sen
tenced to thirty days in the county
jail.
Harold Gill, of Stuart, was ari
rested by Patrolman Harry Brt,
and brought before County Judge
Louis Reimer on Monday, June 5th
charged with operating a motor
vehicle while under the influence
of intoxicating liquor. He was
found guilty and fined $10.00 and
costs, amounting to $IU0 and his
drivers license was suspended for
sixty days.
SIOUX CITY GOOD
WILL BOOSTERS
HERE WEDNESDAY
Next Wednesday evening at 7:30
a special train will arrive in this
city from the west containing about
eighty Sioux City business men,
who are on their annual Booster
Trip. They will remain here all
night and will leave for the east
about 7:15 the next morning.
They leave Sioux City on their
trip at 12:30 a.m., next Monday
morning and will go through South
Dakota on the Northwestern rail
road as far west as Deadwood. Then
will start east and will reach
O’Neill Wednesday night. From
here they will go on east as far j
as Norfolk and will then go up the i
Winner line into South Dakota,
putting in a week on the trip boost
ing for Sioux City, their business
places and livestock markets.
As this delegation will be here
all night Wednesday the business
men of the city should make ar
rangements for their entertain
ment, to show them that the best j
town within the Sioux City trade
territory was wide awake and up
to date. As their visit is one of
importance to the city, the Mayor
and Council should take recogniz
ance of their coming and arrange
entertainment. Let us give them
an old-time O’Neill welcome.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
William I. Bell, Minister
Sunday school, 10 a.m.
Morning worship, 11 a.m.
Young People’s meeting, 7 p.m.
Evening service, 8 p.m.
The evening service this week,
at 8 o’clock, will be a young people’s
service with young people on the
program. Plan to attend this as
well as the other services of the
church.
Mrs. Margaret Hoefs, of Wood
Lake, Nebr., who had two daugh
ters in the 1939 graduating class of
St. Mary’s Academy invited the en
tire senior class to attend a house
party at their ranch home at Wood
Lake last week. About thirty at
tended the house party, these in
cluding the senior class and the
following invited guests from this
city, Charles Yarnall, Jr., Owen
Davidson, Harold Hunt and Leon
ard Bergstrom.
O’Neill Star Calf Club
The O’Neill Star Calf Club held
its regular meeting at the home of
Hugo Holz. Two members of the
club were absent. The committee
appointed last week explained the
fine points of livestock judging.
Our president, Edward Hanley,
attended the 4-H Club Week in
Lincoln and Omaha, and upon his
return gave the rest of the mem
bers a short resume of his activ
ities and the programs arranged for
the 4-H clubbers.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Raymond Bright,
June 25.
Francis Holz,
News Reporter
POWER HIGH LINE TAKES LIVES OF
TWO IN ACCIDENT NEAR LYNCH
Bodies of Accident Victims Were Worked on
Por Several Hours; Two Others Were Severely
Shaken and Taken to Lynch Hospital
Former Presbyterian
Minister Visits Here
Rev and Mrs. J. B. Longstaff
came up from Hansen last Tuesday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Isa
bella Carson and for a short visit
with friends here.
Rev. Longstaff was pastor of the
Presbyterian church here for about
thirteen years, leaving here four
teen years ago for Hansen, Nebr.,
where he served as pastor until
April 1, this year, when he went
on the retired list.
He made a remarkable record in
the ministery. For forty years he
served and all of that time in the
state of Nebraska. During that
time he served in three Presbyterys
—there are six in the state—and
had but five charges during his
forty years. He put in twenty
seven years as pastor of two
churches, O’Neill thirteen and Han
sen fourteen. During his service he
served as commissioner from each
one to the general Presbytery of
the church, which is a rare honor
and achieved by but very few min
isters during their life time. He
has been selected chairman of the
Historical Society of the Hastings
Presbytery and expects to put in
most of his time for a year or so
in compiling a history of the church
in this section of Nebraska.
Rev. Longstaff made many
friends in this city and county dur
ing his residence in this city and
his friends wish for him and his
estimable wife many years of hap
piness to enjoy their hard earned
vacation.
Rev. and Mrs. Longstaff returned
last week from Portsmouth, N. H.,
where they had been visiting their
son, Lieutenant Commander John
Longstaff, who is stationed there.
During their eastern trip they vis
ited many points of interest in the (
eastern section of the country.
O’Neill High School
Hand Will Give Concert
Here Saturday Evening
Following is the program for the
O’Neill High School hand concert
which will be rendered from the
band stai d on Everett, and Sixth
street next Saturday evening:
1. March—“Show Boy” .„.Huff
2. March—“Colonel Bogy” _
Alford
3. Waltz—“The Waltz You Saved
For Me” . Wayne King
4. Vocal Solo—Catherine Finley
5. March—“New Colonial,” Hall
6. Novety—“Three Blind Mice”
.. Chenette
7. Overture—“Southern Cross”
- Yoder
8. March—“Victory March”_
- Shea
9. Hymn—“Onward, Christian
Soldiers”..—.—Sullivan
10. “Star Spangled Banner,” Key
O’Neill Boy Accepts
Position in the East
Glenn Saunders, who was an em
ployee of this office for over seven
years up to last September, when
he went to Wisconsin, leaves his
Wisconsin home Saturday of this
week for Greenwich, R. I., where
he has acepted a position with a
large newspaper and job printing
plant in that city. Glenn is a good
printer as well as being a fine
gentleman and he will show the
eastern printers the way the art
preservative is carried on in the
west.
As East Greenwich is on Narra
gansett Bay, and Glenn loves to
fish, we are of the opinion that he
will enjoy his new home and that
most of his spare time will be spent
on the bay fishing for the big ones.
O’Neill friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Saunders tender congratulations
to them on his advancement in the
art preservative, as his new posi
tion pays him a handsome increase
in wages, even if it does take them
to the eastern part of the United
States. Congratulations.
A tragic accident near Lynch last
Saturday forenoon took the lives
of two employees of the Interstate
Power Company and sent two more
of their employees to the hospital,
but they are not in danger and are
rapidly recovering.
While putting in a lead line, a
short distance west of Lynch, the
wire came in contact with the high
tension line, and two men, Harry
Ellis Chase, 34, of Ainsworth, and
Donald Earl Hallett, 23, of Holland,
Mich., were so severely shocked
that they died a few hours after
wards. Raymond Davis, of Dixon,
Nebr., and Claude Hardy, of Texas,
were severely shocked and taken
to a hospital in Lynch for medical
treatment. The latest reports
from the hospital are to the effect
that they are getting along nicely.
Biglin’s mortuary was called and
they went over with the ambulance
and brought the bodies to this city
Saturday afternoon. The under
taker from Ainsworth came down
Saturday evening and took the
body of Mr. Chase to Ainsworth.
The body of Mr. Hallett was
shipped to his home at Holland,
Michigan, on the Northwestern
Tuesday morning. Both of these
young men, while not in the em
ploy of the Interstate Power com
pany very long, were experienced
linemen; men who knew the danger
in high power lines, but still they
were caught. Electricity is a dan
gerous thing to handle and even
those experienced in handling it
must always be vigilant, if they
expect to live out their allotted
span of life.
Mr. Chase leaves to mourn hi>
passing his young wife, to whom
he was married last December, the
marriage taking place at the home
of her parents north of Atkinson.
She was Helen Cunningham. He
also leaves his parents.
Nothing is known of the other
victim, Donald Hallett, except the
information contained on his Social
Security card. He was 22 years,
9 months and 15 days old at the
time of his death.
Grain Variety Tests
Numerous in Holt
County This Year
Farmers who are interested in
planting varieties of grain which
are best adapted to local conditions
will be interested in watching tests
of local farms throughout the coun
ty. These tests are made possible
through the cooperation of local
farmers with the county extension
agent.
Thirteen varieties of hybrid corn
are planted on the Fred Lindberg
farm north of O’Neill and 10 var
ieties can be watched on each the
farms of Roy Snyder and C. D.
French, of Page.
Much interest is being shown in
the so called “camel” crops or
drouth resistent sorghums. Var
iety test plots containing the best
adapted varieties may be seen on
the J. M. Kennedy farm of Page
and Joe Rocke, of Atkinson.
Farmers who believe there is a
deficiency of soil nutrients in local
areas may be interested in watch
ing the tests of oats and barley
sowed with various amounts of
superphosphate on the farms of
Karl Keyes, Inman; Leonard Heiss
and Anton Soukup, Page; J. K.
Ernst, of O’Neill, and J. W. Wal
ters, of Chambers.
Experimental work is also being
carried on as to the possibility of
restoring land to native sod cover.
Possibilitie of reseeding of native
grasses can be watched in the test
plots of S. B. Widner of Chambers
and W. J. Brown, of O’Neill.
These experiments can be of
much value to local farmers in de
termining the best adapted crops
and practices. Information on var
ious tests in the county can be ob
tained at the office of the local
county agent.