VDL, LX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939. No. 5
SOUTHEASTERN j
BREEZES
By Roraaine Saunders
Just how did we get a loaf of
bread previous to the New Deal?
I read the other day about the
wind-up of the legislature. The
weary senators had closed their
desks and headed out of town, a
sympathetic reporter told us. I
wonder if there are not a lot of
weary citizens out in the state who
would like to “close their desks’’
and get away from it all, but who
have to carry on year in and year
out and do their bit to help main
tain these great institutions down
here at the Capitol City which
never seem to have sufficient bud
get to satisfy them, and just who
has all in his budget he would like.
Whether a paragraph in this col
umn had anything to do with it or
H no—at any rate since the publica
tion of the same the card with the
misspelled name in the Bryan ex
hibit at the Historical Society has
been removed.
The sand hill cattle men in of
ficial gathering snubbed up the two
Nebraska senators and the presi
dent, put on the hackamores, tight
ened the cinches and took them for
a hazing with a loaded quirt. This
group of Nebraska citizens make
as little fuss as anybody. Just
now they are mad. They “take it
on the chin” and ask no odds of
anyone. I believe Jesse James,
Howard Berry, Tom Baker and
others of my immediate neighbors
when I am “up home” who are in
the cattle producing game are not
tossing into the tax fund a lot of
money expecting any of it to be
used to buy imported beef.
“And a certain man was carried,
whom they laid daily at the gate of
the temple; who seeing Peter and
John about to go into the temple
asked an aim.” This was something
over nineteen hundred years ago,
but doubtless it would be news to
those who fix the responsibility for
all the hungry mankind, for all
want, idleness and suffering upon
one Herbert Hoover.
In a great dingy building on East
O Street an immense store-room is
filled with books and magazines. I
use the word “filled” advisedly. The
books and papers are in full har
mony with the dust and gloom of
the room. It is a mass of litera
ture, now out of print at the pub
lishing houses, aggregating some
thing like 176 tons from which, I
was told, public libraries from
Florida to Canada draw their sup
plies. It operates under the name
of United Book and Magazine Sup
ply and flaunts the presumptive
slogan, “A World’s Storehouse of
Knowledge.” A genial gentleman
by the name of J. S. Williams
supervises the business and as far
as I could see was the sole individ
ual connected therewith. He in
formed me he has on hand at pres
ent 38,000 volumes of old books
and a hundred tons of magazines
and ships out $1,400 worth a month
to libraries all over the country.
Viewing this conglomerate mass of
which there was no semblence of
order or system of arrangement I
remarked it would be difficult to
^ find a given volume but was in
formed by the gentleman in charge
that he knew where they all are.
I made a test. I asked for a little
book of an old favorite poem. He
found his way through the piles
and stacks of begrimed volumes of
the world’s wisdom and presently
returned with the one I had called
for.
“No, sah, ah don’t neber ride on
dem things,” said the colored wo
man of a merry-go-round. “Why,
other day I seen dat Rastus John
son git on an’ ride as much as a
dollah’s worth, an’ git off at the
very same place he got on at, an’
I sez to him, “Rastus,” I sez, “Yo,
spent yo’ money, but whar yo’
been?” Similar to New Deal meth
f ods of recovery.
First National Bank To
Build New Building For
Brown-McDonald Store
And still building goes on in this
city. The latest to join the build
ing boom is the First National bank
who will build a brick building
24x50 north of the Brown-McDon
ald store building 24 feet and then
50 feet east to Fourth street. The
new' building will be occupied by the
Brown - McDonald company. In
their present quarters they have
been crowded for room and this ad
ditional space will enable them to
nearly double their store capacity.
No contract has been let for the
new' building but plans are being
drawn and the contract is expected
to be let within the next ten days
and the building will be rapidly
rushed to completion.
Thirty-five Attend Cook
Family Reunion
A family reunion was held at the
Bob Cook home Sunday, June 11.
Thirty-five relatives enjoyed the
picnic dinner given in honor of
Mrs. Nellie Simmons and Grand
daughter, Sally Lee George, of
Escondido, Calif., (Miss Sally Lee
is the daughter of the former Sarah
Simmons.)
Those present included Mrs. Mel
vin Anderson and daughter, Irene,
of North Bend; Mrs. Maxine Wag
man and children, of Blair; Mr.
and Mrs. Frances Dempsey and
son, Duane, of Omaha; Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Crosser, of Inman;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook, of
Ord, Nebr.; Mr. and Mrs. Emory
Bolmen and Betty Louise, of Stuart
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Spencer, of
Memphis, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Graham and four children,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dempsey and
sons, Phillip and Jack; Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Cook and Mr. and Mrs.
George Cook, all of O’Neill.
One of the celebrations of the day
was the fact that it was the
twenty-sixth wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook.
McElvaine Building Is
Nearing Completion
The McElvaine building on north
Douglas street is rapidly nearing
completion and he expects to move
therein the forepart of the coming
week. This is also a very neat
and attractive building, and is di
vided into two sections, with two
separate entrances, a partition run
ning down the center. One side
will be used for liquor sales and
the other for beer.
The Weatjier
The past week has been an ideal
one in this section of the state.
During the week we had .80 of an
inch of moisture, which was scat
tered out through the week with
the result that it all soaked into
the ground and very little ran off.
The rainfall for the month, up to
this morning, amounts to 1.72 hun
dredths of an inch. Total for the
year to date, 7.35 inches. Follow
ing is the chart for the week:
H L M
June 8 . 85 50
June 9 . 80 53 .05
June 10 _ 76 44 .37
June 11 _ 61 47 .03
June 13 _ 75 48 .31
Redbird Ball Club Ties
One and Wins Other in
Double-header Sunday
Bats were crossed in a double
header at Redbird when the Red
bird club tangled with both the
Anoka and Niobrara boys.
The second game lasted only 7
innings on account of the rain and
wound up with a two and two tie
score. Batteries were Redbird;
Schuberg and Schollmeyer; Nio
brara, Abraham and LeRoy. Hits;
Redbird 3, Niobrara 4.
The game with Anoka resulted
in a victory for Redbird with a
score of 5 to 4. Batteries; Anoka,
Anderson and Mullendorf; Redbird,
Conard, Krugemann, Edwards and
Boelder. Hits, Redbird, 14, Anoka,
7.
CREIGHTON j
BOOSTERS
STOP HERE
Thirty-two Cars In
Motorcade With Band
Boosting 65th Anniver
sary Celebration
Thirty-two cars loaded with
boosters from the enterprising little
city of Creighton arrived in the
city about 5 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon boosting their Sixty-fifth
Anniversary celebration on Thurs
day of next week. They spent
about an hour in the city and mem
bers of the motorcade visited with
friends around the city, while the
speiler was extolling the virtues
of their coming celebration. Many
O’Neill people are figuring on at
tending the celebration, but Broth
ers Crew & Ryan, of Creighton,
prevented newspaper men from at
tending when they permitted the
celebration to be held on Thursday,
about the only day in the week that
the average newspaper man could
not attend.
Bricklayers Working on
New Hotel Building
The foundations are in for the
Vincent Hotel building and the
work of laying brick was started
the first of the week. With two
men on the job, with their various
helpers, it will not take long to
have the building completed. This
building will be a valuable addition
to the south side of Douglas street,
west of Fourth.
Letter From Former
Resident Brings Tidings
Of European War
The following letter has been re
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole,
of Emmet, from Scotty Ward, who
was in Guy’s employ for several
years, some ten years ago. Judging
from the letter all is not rosy in
England or its possessions at the
present time:
Homepark, Aberdour, N. B.
28th April, 1939
“Dear Guy and Ethel:
“It’s a long time since I heard
from you, and I’ve missed your
letters very much. I fully intended
coming out to the World’s Fair next
month, and was going to try and
see you all. You will realize how
ever that it would be a funny man
who would desert his Country at
this time. Perhaps I should be
exempt; as you know I served 3%
years in the last War, when I was
only a Laddie, and it seems a bit
hard after working all these years
in all different parts of the World,
and coming Home hoping to have
some peace and quiet, and maybe a
wee bit of fishing, that a man like
Hitler should come along and ball
everything up.
“I don’t mind; personally I’d just
like to meet him on a lonely road
and a dark night; but its really aw
ful for all of the womenfolk over
here. Mother is 75 now, and poor
old Lady is scared out of her life
all the time. Same with wives,
sisters, and aunts, and so forth. On
the >ther side of the picture all the
engineering factories here are
wonting night and day to put this
country in a position to put an end
to this sort of terrorism.
“You know, Guy, how sometimes
in the old days you and I might
have a little party on a Saturday
night and on the Sunday we were
very cautious crossing the road to
go to church? Well, in this coun
try now you’ve got to watch wb
you step, just in case you fall over
a big gun. What a life! I’m not
going to funk it, but I must say I’d
like to be going up to the Niobrara
for a week-end fishing with you
and Bill Dailey, and Ethel packing
us some grub.
“As usual I close by asking you
to convey my kind regards to all
Old Pals, and only hope you will
write me the usual friendly chit
before I get blown up.
Your sincere friend,
SCOTTY WARD.”
DAN MORAN
President Continental Oil Compan)
Conoco’s President Came
Up the “Hard Way”
The story of Continental Oil
Company and its rise to prominence1
in the oil industry, is told in the
current issue of Fortune Magazine.
A striking feature of the article
is a thumb-nail sketch of Conoco’s
president, Dan Moran:
“Born at Cygnet, Ohio, he had
picked up cash as an office boy
and as a telegraph operator, earned
his way through the University of
Dayton, and then had gone south.
To Tulsa, where he saw the oil
spout from the Glenn Pool strike,
then to Port Arthur, where he
signed up as an engineer for the
Texas Co. From there he was sent
down to Panama and to Southj
America, and from South America
he had trekked north again into
Mexico and to the States. He had
spent seventeen days in a hurricane
on an oil barge. He had helped re
pair the ravages another hurri
cane, which, ripping Port Arthur,
had floated away the oil tanks of a
refinery there like so many toy
ships. He had built refineries,
drilled for oil, and had put up ocean
terminals at Charleston, at Savan
nah, Pensacola, Mobile, Key West,
and in Cuba. And in the process
he had learned something of men
and something of the sweet-smell
ing stuff called crude.”
Mrs. Jack Harrington
Dies at Her Home In
Idaho, May 14th
O’Neill friends received word
last week that Mrs. Jack Harring
ton died at her home at Caldwell,
Idaho, on May 14. Mrs. Harring
ton was formerly Ollie Mason and
was a resident of this city at the
time of her marriage leaving short
ly thereafter for the west. Her
husband died several years ago. It
was the writers pleasure to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Harrington at their
home in Caldwell about fourteen
years ago and we spent an enjoy
able day in their company. Mrs.
Cronin accompanied me end noth
ing was too good for people from
O’Neill.
4-H Judging Day To Be
Held At Atkinson June 29
Holt county 4 H members and
leaders will be interested to learn
that the district judging day at
which time 4-H members in a proj
ect will practice judging, will be
held in Atkinson on Thursday,
June 29.
An attendance of 300 4-H boys
and girls is expected to take part
in the days activities.
New and old members alike will
enjoy the day which is probably
one of the most educational activi
ties which occurs during the 4-H
club year.
Complete plans of the days pro
gram will be announced soon.
Southside Improvement
Club
The South Side Improvement
Club held their achievement pro
gram Wednesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Robert Fox.
Each member contributed toward
the program which was greatly en
joyed. A delicious luncheon was
served at the close of the evening.
SIOUX CITY GOOD
WILLERS SPEND
NIGHT HERE
School Band and Many
Citizens Greet Trippers
At Depot and Escort
To Town in Parade
The Sioux City Boosters, com
prising a bunch of seventy-two
business men of that city headed
by a band arrived in this city on
scheduled time last Wednesday
evening. They were met at the
train by the O’Neill High School
band and 40Zens of business men
and escorted up town, with the
school band leading the procession.
When they reached the corner of
Fourth and Douglas streets their
band gave a concert and the clowns
with the Boosters gave an exhibi
tion for the benefit of the young
folks assembled, and there were
several hundred of them. The
older folks were out in great num
bers also and they were apparently
as happy over ovet the souvenirs
handed out by the members of the
party as were the little folk. The
Boosters spent the evening up town
and visited their customers here,
while others visited old time friends
in the city.
Among the prominent visitors
with the train were John Carey,
editor of the Sioux City Journal,
and Eugene Kelly, grandson of the
founder of the Sioux City Tribune
and son of a former editor. The
visitors enjoyed their trip to the
Emerald Tinted City and members
of the party made many new
friends here.
Former O’Neill Resident
Receives International
Scholastic Honors
The following is taken from the
Owen Enterprise, Owen, Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were former
residents of this county, living
southwest of this city on Holt
creek. About twenty-five years
ago they moved to Owen, Wiscon
sin, where they have since resided:
“Arthur M. Wilson, Jr., a former
Owen resident, has been honored a
second time within three months,
according to information received
here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Wilson, revealing that he has
been awarded a Guggenheim fel
lowship for advanced study abroad
beginning in September, 1939.
His Guggenheim fellowship award
will be used in the preparation of
a biography of Diderot, which he
will work on at the university of
Paris. It was his intention to work
on the biography in 1939 because
it marks his sabbatical year at
Dartmouth college.
The tenure of the Guggenheim
fellowship is for 12 months, start
ing Sept. 15, and the stipend is to
be $2,500.
Dr. Wilson’s “Study of French
Foreign Policy During the Admin
istration of Cardinal Fleury” re
cently received the Herbert Baxter
Adams prize of the American His
torical association. This award
was received by him in January of
this year and is an outstanding
recognition of the work being done
by him. From 45 to as many as
60 scholarships are awarded annual
ly and are maintained for men and
women who have shown “unusual
capacity for productive scholarship
or unusual creative ability in the
fine arts.” Selections are generally
made dependent upon previous
publications which reveal capacity
for research or proved creative
ability as an artist.
Arthur M. Wilson, Jr., lived in
Owen after his graduation from
Yankton college, Yankton, S. D., in
1922. In 1923 and 1924 he taught
at Chippewa Falls senior high
school. While- at Chippewa, he re
ceived a Rhodes scholarship and
spent three years at Oxford, where
he majored in European history.
When he returned to America,
he entered Harvard where he re
ceived his M. A. and Ph. D. de
grees. This is his sixth year at
Dartmouth college.”
Mrs. Helen Simar Buys
Wise-Pettijohn Property
On Douglas Street
Mrs. Helen Simar recently pur
chased the Wise and Pettijohn
property on Douglas street, now
occupied by John Melvin as a groc
ery store, and will move her hat
shop, Creola’s Dress Shop, and
Ethel’s Beauty Salon there as soon
as the building is remodeled. Pres
ent plans call for a new front in
the building, and remodeling of the
interior, so that when the work is
completed, Mrs. Simar will have
one of the finest shops in Nebraska.
She expects to be settled in her
new location in about a month.
John Melvin has rented the P. J.
McManus building, just north of
his general mercantile store, and
will move his grocery to its new
location within the next two w'eeks.
In our opinion this is a much bet
ter location than where he has been
and we are of the opinion that John
will notice it too shortly in in
creased patronage.
George Cook Marries
Lynch Girl Monday
George Cook, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Cook, of this city, was
united in marriage last Monday
afternoon at Ord, Nebr., to Miss
Evelynn Stuart, of Lynch. The
attendants were the brother of the
bridegrom and his wife.
George Cook is a native of this
city and for several years was an
employee of the Council Oak stores.
He is a graduate of the O’Neill high
school and an industrous and alert
young man and one who will make
his mark in the world.
The bride is the daughter of one
of the pioneer families of the Lynch
neighborhood and a graduate of
the Lynch high school and since her
graduation has been teaching school
in Boyd county. She has a host of
friends in that section who wish her
happiness and much joy.
The young couple will make their ;
home in O’Neill and their manyj
friends in this city and vicinity wish
them much happiness and joy in
their martial state.
Former Resident Dies
In Rome Italy
Col. John G. Maher, of Lincoln,
died in Rome, Italy, last Saturday
after a short illness. He was about
seventy-six years of age. Mr. Maher
was a resident of this city in the
early nineties, having been a court
reporter here for Judge J. J. Har
rington. From O’Neill he went to
Lincoln and organized a life in
surance company, of which he was
the head at the time of his death.
For the past five years he had
made his home in Rome. He is
survived by his wife and one daugh
ter.
Marriage Licenses
Lawrence LaVerne Thurlow, of
Stuart, and Miss Doris Quick, of
Long Pine, were granted a mar
riage license in county court last
Tuesday and they were later united
in marriage by Rev. D. S. Conrad,
of O’Neill.
Delbert Reeves and Miss Ruth
Rathbun, both of Elm Creek, Nebr.,
were granted a marriage license in
county court last Friday and later
were united in marriage by Rev.
j Wm. Bell, in the Presbyterin Manse.
Ralph Hayne, of Star, and Miss
Ethel M. Herman, of Venus, were
granted a marriage license in coun
ty court last Saturday.
Herman Grothe and Miss Lela
Jane McRobert, both of Emmet,
were granted a license in county
court last Tuesday.
—
Attention Sec’y* Wallace
Wagman Cows Have
Three Sets of Twins
Fred Wagman, of Atkinson, for
merly a resident of Inman precinct,
was in the city Wednesday and in
formed the general public that he
had three cows that had given birth
to twin calves. Fred is now living
on a ranch south of Atkinson. He
had better not let Henry Wallace
hear about it or he will order the
three cows killed, as they are in
creasing the meat production too
rapidly and what would happen to
*our Argentine people?
TOURNAMENT
OPENS 18TH
MANY EXPECTED
Prizes for Invitational
Meet on Display In
Sauntos Store Window
The Eighteenth Annual Invita
tion Golf Tournament opens at the
O'Neill Country Club Sunday, June
18 and it will continue through
Monday and Tuesday. Many vis
itors are expected for this annual
reunion and homecoming. The
club house has been entirely re
decorated and visitors will be agree
ably pleased with the appearance
of the grounds and buildings. A
most entertaining program has
been outlined for the occasion.
Aside from the golf contests, the
ladies bridge parties on Sunday
and Monday afternoons will be
featured. Beautiful prizes are
being displayed at the S a u n t o
Clothing Store which will be of
fered for the winners in the golf
contests for the men and bridge
matches for the ladies. The danc
ing party Monday evening, with
Evan Morgan’s orchestra furnish
ing the music will be one of the
highlights of the tournament.
f Plans are rapidly going forward
for the annual Fourth of July cele
bration at the club house. A picnic
during the late afternoon, at which
a sports program will entertain
those present and a beautiful fire
works display in the evening, under
the direction of A. L. Horn and Ben
nett Grady, will make the celebra
tion a pleasant occasion. Edward
Landsberg, president of the Blatz
Brewing Company, a friend of Wil
liam J. Froelich, has donated five
cases of Old Heidelberg beer, which
will be served to picnicers at the
Fourth of July celebration.
Reo Bar Now Occupying
New Gatz Building
The Gatz building across the
street from this office is completed
and Roy Osborne moved his beer
parlor therein Wednesday after
noon. It is a very neat an at
tractive building and was built in
record time. The contractors,
John Kazda and Ed Burge received
their first lumber on the job and
completed the building in less than
five week, which is going some, in
these New Deal times. If the New
Deal had anything to do with the
building it probably would not be
finished until Christmas. The con
tractors can well be proud of their
job for the building is one that
would be a credit to any town.
When Roy gets installed therein we
expect him to wear a white coat
and slickers to match and he may
insist on Charlie wearing a silk hat
and Prince Albert, to lend dig
nity to the place. We will watch
and see.
Holt County Project
Club Members Enjoyed
Fremont Convention
The Nebraska Home Demonstra
tion Council which held its annual
convention in Fremont was attend
ed by Mrs. Vern Sageser, of Amelia,
Mrs. John Protivinsky and Mrs. L.
O. Johnson, of O’Neill, and Mrs.
Ora Yarges, of Stuart.
These representatives of Holt
county women project clubs re
ported a splendid meeting including
music, educational and recreational
discussions on the theme of the
meeting which was “Desirable
Homes—Gilt Edge Investments.”
More Holt county women should
be encouraged to attend these meet
ings in order that ideas of other
rural women may be available to
more local homes.
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.
All people are invited to attend
the services of this church.