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THE DAYS OF
LONG AGO
Fifty-Five Years Ago
Tiie Frontier, December 4, 1884
On the 25th of last month the
county commissioners leased of the
O’Neill State Bank the entire up
per story of the new building con
sisting of seven rooms and a fire
proof vault of sufficient size to ac
commodate all the records of the
county. The lease calls for the
payment of $900 in claims against
the county and runs for one year,
the county reserving the privilege
of five, the owners of the building
to pay insurance and taxes. It
would at first appear that the
amount of the rent was high but
when we consider the depreciated
value of the county claims, the se
curity afforded the records, the
convenience to the officers, etc., we
do not know that it is much out of
the way. We trust the county will
be able to provide a building of its
own, however, so that this rent may
cease. The O’Neill State Bank
mentioned above is now the First
National bank building.—D. H. C.
Fifty Years Ago
The Frontier, December 4, 1889
The fine weather of the first
days of December would indicate a
warm winter, but we may get out
share of the cold and snow. There
is nothing like the Nebraska falls,
however, for fine weather.
Con Keys has moved in a house
and bam onto a lot in the west part
of town and will 'make his home
among us.
Thanksgiving day witnessed the
marriage nuptials of one of
O’Neill’s former citizens and a sis
ter of the Hershiser boys. W. T.
Shively, son of Mr. Shively east of
town and familiarly known to
everybody as “Tom” Shively, and
Miss Rose Hershiser were quietly
married at the home of the lattet
in Waterloo, Iowa. The happy
couple came to O’Neill Sunday
night and visited friends here
until Tuesday evening, when they
went to Chadron whore th<-y will
reside, Mr. Shively being in the
employ of the railroad company.
Forty Years Ago
The Frontier, December 7, 1899
William Krotter was down from
Stuart Tuesday and left a few
“bucks” on subscription.
Thirty Years Ago
The Frontier, December 9, 1909
The past week has been the sev
erest so far this winter. The mer
cury has been around 10 below
every night, though it warms up
considerably during the day. The
week has been especially severe on
cattle, but so far we have not heard
of any losses.
The funeral of George Weingart
ner was held Friday afternoon at
Z o'clock. The services were held
at the residence and were conducted
by Rev. George of Neligh.
Twenty Years Ago
The Frontier, December 4, 1919
William Froelich returned to
Creighton university, Omaha Sun
day, after spending Thanksgiving
at home.
Homer and John Mullen, John
Gjlligan and Thomas Brennan re
turned to the university at Lincoln
Sunday morning after spending
Thanksgiving with the home folks.
This section and in fact the en
tire western half of the United
States, has been experiencing some
real winter weather the past week.
Snow started falling last Wednes
day, in fact fell all day, and it has
been snowing intermittingly since.
The thermometer dropped Mon
dx\y night to 11 below zero and 9
below Tuesday night. All day
Thursday it was very cold, the
v'emest being one b^Tow zero.
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Ten Years Ago
The Frontier, December 5, 1929
A son weighing nine and three
fourths pounds, was born to Mr.
a nd Mrs. Tom Brennan at the Gil
ligan & Brown hospital Tuesday.
The country home of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Murray burned to the
ground on Saturday, November 23.
We understand there was no insur
ance.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
(By The Lowell Service)
Lincoln— Irrigation crusaders,
after a pilgrimage to Hastings last
w^ek, returned to their homes dis
couraged and discontented. Disap.
pointment concerning the speech of
J. M. Carmody, federal works ad
ministrator, was expressed by
many irrigation and public power
district boosters.
The spearhead of the column of
militant conservation forces came
from the Republican valley and
from the region included in the old
Fifth congressional district which
sent George W. Norris to congress
more than 35 years ago.
At the initial session, C. E. Alter
of Alma, reviewed the disastrous
flood that in 1935 inundated the
Republican valley, cost a hundred
lives, and destroyed millions in
property. He told of the abandon
ed farms in the valley and the pro
longed drouth.
“Despite this long series of loss
es,” Mr. Alter declared, “not a
dime has been allotted to the Re
publican valley from the outside.
We have given consistent support
to those in public office. Maybe
that is what’s the matter! Perhaps,
we had better mix in a little vine
gar!”
President E. E. Placek declared
that Mr. Carmody had “a real
message" and would give the farm
ers some definite suggestions as to
what could be done.
At the afternoon session, Mr.
Carmody read a paper which con
sisted entirely of generalities. He
reviewed briefly the history of the
hydros and described the efforts of
Senator Norris to secure irrigation
and cheap power. This reference
was applauded.
Listening intently for the “mess
age of hope” predicted by Presi
dent Placek, the farmers were j
startled by the following state
ment: “It is important for all of us
to bear in mind that if these pro
jects (the hydros) are to be called
successful, and open the way for
other such projects here and else
where, they must pay back the
loans they have secured from the
public works administration. It is
to everyone’s advantage that these
projects be so managed as to pay
back every cent they have bor
rowed."
Mr. Carmody declared that Sen
ator Norris was the only member
of the Nebraska congressional del
egation who supported favorable
legislation.
After several generalities about
conservation, Mr. Carmody con
cluded his address without further
display of factual material.
Or. Clark Foreman, director, pow-!
er division, Public Works Adminis
tration, contented himself by say
ing that the central section of the
map of Nebraska was a source of
frequent headaches to him. He
said, “the boss could do the talk
ing.” He alluded to Mr. Carmody,!
who had already spoken.
Editor J. E. Lawrence of the Lin
coln Star did not come to the meet
ing. Dr. D. W. Kingsley, president
of the Tri-County, and Ernest V.
Sjorgren, president of the Nebras
ka Association of Rural Public
Power districts, addressed the
farmerB on aspects of their pro
i "'cts. State Engineer Tilley told
the delegates about some of the
pitfalls of irrigation programs,
and how the mistakes rntght be
avoided.
By this time, delegates realized
that Mr. Carmody and Dr. Fore
man had left the meeting. Repre
sentatives of several projects then
'eearned that a “sub rosa session of
the inner circle” had been held at
the Clarke hotel in Hastings on the
Sunday evening preceding the
meeting. George E. Johnson, gen
eral manager of Tri-County, was
reported to be the host, with M. L.
Bowman as the executive element.
B sides officials of the hydros, Gov
ernor Cochran, C. A. Sorensen and
several other “distinguished
guests” were invited. The farmers
heard that there had been a “de
sire to curtail power development
and irrigation in Nebraska until
established projects proved their
worth.”
A hastily formed committee at
tempted to contact Mr. Carmody
but reported that their efforts fail
ed. The delegates expressed con
siderable apprehension over the
published reports that Governor
Cochran’s state planning boare
would be engaged in an intensive
study of the public school system
and could not help the farmers plan
irrigation works. Another report
indicated that an agreement not tc
loan any more Nebraska projects
had been secretly made when con
tracts for energy had been signed
with private companies. Therr
was, also, a report that both hydros
and private companies were fight
ing the extension of the national
grid to Nebraska.
“Such a decision,” declared a Re
publican valley booster, referring
to the Carmody statAnent, “has no
justice in law or equity. For any
relief, after all these years of work
and worry, we must look to the di
rectors of the Sutherland, the Loup
River and the Tri-County projects
If their engineers and managers
fall down, we are out of luck. There
are funds available. We have as
certained that fact.
“Mr. Carmody is talking to the
wrong people, if he thinks he can
put anything like this over without
a protest. I am in favor of taking
this matter up with the entire Neb
raska delegation. As for secret
banquets at hotels, we thought we
had discredited that sort of thing
when the hydros were chartered.”
At Omaha where he was a guest
of the Chamber of Commerce Mr.
Carmody said: “After seeing crop
and moisture conditions in Nebras
ka, anyone can see that any state
planning done in Nebraska—wheth
er it involves roads or schools or
whatever—must first of all consid
er irrigation.
“Nebraska should irrigate as
much land is it can support econ
omically. A plan that doesn’t in
clude this main factor has no vital
ity for Nebraska.
“What good will it do to build
schools or fine auditoriums if the
people must move away because
they can’t make a living? A large
part of Nebraska needs at least
some irrigation to be farmed suc
cessfully.”
Mr. Carmody’s Omaha allusion
to state planning evidently resulted
from criticisms which reached him
after the Hastings banquet. Farm
ers averred that the state planning
board should aid them in setting up
irrigation projects. An “inspired
source” in Omaha made the follow
ing statement of the state planning
board’s aims: “Their report, when
finally approved by the planning
board as a whole, will constitute the
state’s first survey of its educa
tional resources, the first attempt
to blueprint a course of future de
velopment of these resources.
“It will be based upon a monu
mental set of findings and recom
mendations representing nine
months of delving into question
aires and statistics by nearly a
hundred educators who served on
sub-committees, by planning En
geneer W. H. Mengel and the
board’s WPA staff of clerks and
statisticians, by educational ex
perts brought in as advisers.
“The five men who must boil
down a mass of facts and recom
mendations into a set of proposals
for immediate action are Gene
Huse of Norfolk, chairman; J. G.
Mothersead of Scottsbluff, Arthur
Melville of Broken Bow, State Tax
Commissioner William H. Smith,
r=—"
and Carl H. Swanson of Culbert
son. The planning board delegated
these five of its 14 members to con
duct the educational survey.”
From Washington comes word
that the private power compapies
'in Nebraska, the hydros and the
forces of Governor Cochran have
united to oppose the national grid
idea proposed by Secretary Ickes
and his National Power Policy com
mittee on national defense. A
hearing on the question will take
place in Washington December 5.
The plan contemplates linking
public projects, municipalities and
private companies together for
generation and distribution of
| power.
Governor Cochran, at this writ
ing, is still vacillating on the mat
ter of a special session of the leg
islature for old age assistance. The
governor contacted the legislative
council after Senator Amos Thom
as of Omaha opposed any effort to
bring about relief. Eleven of the
fifteen members of the council fa
vor a special session.
Clifford L. Rein, one of the at
torneys retained to test the legal
ity of the appropriation bill, an
nounced that “concessions had been
secured” and the suit would not be
filed.
Monday, December 11, has been
set as the date for the formal open
ing and dedication of the new
bridge at Brownville which is the
terminus of State Highway No. 3,
and which connects Nebraska and
Missouri, replacing the old ferry.
The state champion American Le
gion drum and bugle corps from
Auburn and other bands from both
states will furnish the music for
the ceremony, and the chief ad
dresses are to be given by Gover
nor Cochran of Nebraska and Gov
ernor Lloyd Stark of Missouri. Oth
er invited speakers are Senator E.
R. Burke of Nebraska and Senators
Clark and Truman of Missouri,
State Engineer A. C. Tilley and
I other members of the state high
way department. The program is
scheduled to begin at 1 p. m.
The approval by the state board
of educational lands and funds of
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