The Frontier
VOL. LX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 NUMBER 33
SOUTHEASTERN
BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
What is needed over there in
k Europe is some of our good Amer
can Vitamin D.
I don’t know of any more disa
greeable task imposed by law on a
public official than to arrest and
fine a good citizen for catching
frogs. Emil Sniggs would have
them guessing where to look for
the frogs. He had methods of his
own of stowing away fish bait.
He would catch several, put them
in his hat and slap it on his head.
Maybe we Yankees are not as
3mart as we thought we were.
Only 26 per cent of the population
are self sustaining after the age of
60. We all talk big, discourse
learnedly on all matters under the
sun and think we can furnish a
remedy for every political ailment,
and now we are just finding out
that 66 per cent of us can’t manage
| our affairs to acquire a competency
for that period of life after the
vigor of youth has faded.
She stepped out of the car as
it drew up to the filling station,
removed the cigarette from painted
lipe, dropped it to the pavement
and extinguished the fire with a
dainty foot. Then proceeded to
pick her way in the snow amid the
traffic across the street to a build
ing where a door was opened to
adroit her. So a sophisticated
young person of the modem model
that gives the beer “parlors” an
added attraction passed within.
Old timers down in my neighbor
hood will remember the Allen
ranch south of Amelia. I ran
across Mr. Allen lately. He says
he left Holt county the year Bar
rett Scott was hung and regards
his leaving there as the mistake of
his life. He has grown old in the
45 years since he sold the ranch,
has a high pitched quaint drawl in
his speech and swears like a sinner.
He inquires about various ones
still in the community and recalls
where the neighbors felt a particu
lar pride in the country because
Riley Bros, ranch was running the
largest pure bred Shorthorn herd
then known. Mr. Allen has made
Lincoln his home since leaving
Holt county.
“The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death.” Until then
the funeral train moves onward.
And one by one friends of a life
time are cut down. We pause to
enquire. Who next? The answer
| is hid until the fatal blow falls.
The Frontier editor pays tribute to
the memory of Clyde King. None
knew him better. No one can
place a more accurate measure up
on his worth. They were “kids”
together in the publication of the
brightest paper in Nebraska. At
a still earlier period I labored as
an apprentice with Clyde King,
whom I looked to as the embodi
ment of perfection. He had ex
perience as a compositor at Klopp
L Bartlett’s in Omaha, the attain
ment of such a place with a large
city plant being the zenith in crafts
ship in the vision of a beginner. In
the whole range of arthography
Clyde was as reliable as the diction
ary and he could set type with the
speed of a race horse with scarcely
4 an error appearing in his “string”
\ at the proof readers desk. When
machines replaced hand composi
tors in the Sioux City Journal com
pany room he quit the craft in dis
gust and would not be induced to
sit down .to a linotype to try his
hand. As The Frontier editor has
stated, Clyde was a writer of
marked ability, touching our hu
man emotions with a magic hand
and clothing commonplace inci
dents in the vestments of literary
elegance. Clyde was never a mixer
among men. He choose his
friends, betrayed none. Political
opponents trembled as his brilliant
pen tore shame and pretense to
shreds. Many regretted his per
manent retirement from editorial
work. He attained a measure of
success in another line, but Clyde
was pre-eminently an artist and
master of letters.
Pioneer of Northeastern
Holt Passes Away At
His Home in Lynch
William H. Wilson was born in
Iowa county, Iowa, on November
3, 1861, and passed away on De
cember 17, 1939, at his home in
Lynch, Nebr., at the age of 78
years, 1 month and 14 days.
Mr. Wilson grew to manhood in
Iowa and was there married in
January, 1883, to Miss Elizabeth
France. The first few years of
their married life was spent there
with his widowed mother, his father
having died when he was four years
of age.
The call of the west brought
them to Nebraska, settling in north
eastern Holt county. There he
lived with' the exception of one
summer, which was spent in Cherry
county, until he retired from farm
work in the spring of 1919 and
(moved to Lynch.
To this union six children were
bom of whom the following are
living: Roy Wilson, Rapid City,
S. D.; Mrs. Bessie Pinkerman,
Mrs. Faye Pinkerman, of Dorsey;
Guy and Ray of Redbird and Earn
of Burke, S. D. All were present
at the funeral, except Mrs. Bessie
Pinkerman who was unable to be
present on account of illness.
In the year 1901 the wife and
mother was called to her eternal
home and in January, 1910, he was
united in marriage to Mrs. Kate
Schullenberg.
Mr. Wilson was one of the sturdy
pioneers of Holt county, coming
here over fifty years ago and knew
many of the hardships and pri
vations of the early days. He was
a splendid citizen and had the res
pect, love and admiration of all
who knew him and his passing
leaves a vacancy which cannot be
filled.
When a small child he was bab
tised into the Methodist church and
a short while ago united with the
Methodist church at Lynch.
Left to mourn his passing are
his wife, the six children, two
sisters, Mrs. A. R. Ladley, of Gor
don; Mrs. James Hall, of Oakland,
California; 29 grandchildren and
19 great grandchildren and a host
of other relatives and friends.
The last rites were held from'
the I. O. F. hall at Lynch on Wed-1
nesday afternoon, December 20,
with the Rev. Robert Ibach, pastor
of the M. E. church officiating.!
Mrs. Faye Brady sang a solo,
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and
the quartette composed of Mrs.
Brady, W. T. Alford, Earl Land
holm and Mrs. Zoe Darnell, with
Mrs. G. B. Ira at the piano sang,
“Sweetly Resting” and “Going
Down the Valley.” The flowers
were many and beautiful. Pall
bearers were grandsons of the de
ceased, Cliff Wilson, Duane Wilson,
Alford Wilson, Bill Wilson, Veldon
and Guy Pinkerman.
Flowefs girls were granddaught
ers of the deceased: Dorothy
Wilson, Velma Wilson, Iris Wilson,
Elva Jensen, Erma Schiessler,
Lila Hull, Willa Schollmeyer, Viv
ian Hasenflug and Mary Ann Wil
son. xxx
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Nelson and
daughters, of Norfolk, arrived in
O’Neill Saturday evening to spend
Christmas with Mrs. Nelson’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Reardon.
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HOW OUR HIDDEN TAXES
ARE COLLECTED
To give you something to
think about besides these direct
taxes that you pay, says the
Nebraska Taxpayers’ League,
let us enumerate a few hidden
taxes that you are constantly
paying that you don’t think
about:
58 taxes on bread
45 taxes on sugar
38 taxes on bacon
32 taxes on peaches
l%c tax on every quart of milk
154 taxes on a cake of soap
6c on every package of
cigarettes
126 taxes on a pair of shoes
148 taxes on a pair of overalls
125 taxes on just an ordinary
house dress
$231.72 a year hidden taxes are
charged against every man who
draws $100.00 a month salary, if
he spends the salary to live.
Wishing You
A Happy
And
Prosperous
New Year
I
Gerald Phalin Joins The
Ranks of Benedicts
Gerald Phalin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Phalin of this city,
was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Bethel, of Grasslands, N. Y.,
on Monday evening, December 18,
at 8 o’clock, by the Rev. Father
Bennett at the Pacanico Hills
parish of Grasslands, Westchester
county, N. Y.
Mrs. Phalin is a graduate nurse
of the Westchester County Hos
pital, and the attendants at the
wedding were a classmate of Mrs.
Phalin, Miss Mildred Monroe, and
Lawrence Phalin, brother of the
groom.
Gerald is well known in O’Neill,
being a native son and graduating
from the O’Neill Public scool with
the class of 1927, after which he
attended Creighton University in
Omaha for two and one-half years
and then later went to New York
j where he entered training at the
Westchester hospital, being gradu
ated from that institution this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Phalin will con
tinue to make their home in the
east, and their many friends in this
city, wish them much happiness
I and prosperity in their married
life.
The Weather
Saturday forenoon the first snow
of the season, started falling and
has continued intermitantly ever
since, with a total fall of four and
one-half inches registered on the
official weather guage at the court
house. The temperature, however,
has been quite mild, the lowest be
ing four above on Wednesday even
ing, and there has been little or no
wind, with the snow remaining
where it fell. The snow was quite
general over the entire mid west,
and is a boon to the farmers, all
over the country, and especially
those in the winter wheat belt, as
there has been very little moisture
all fall. The general snow fall
caused an immediate reaction on
the winter wheat market, which
had been steadily rising for the
past three or four weeks, due to
the continued drouth. Following is
the weather chart for the past
week:
High Low Prec.
Thursday . 33 12
Friday . 42 16
Saturday .. 36 15 .01
Sunday . 26 20 .20
Monday . 25 22
Tuesday . 25 7 .10
Wednesday ..... 20 4 .08
M. J. Connolly left Wednesday
for Wayne, where he will visit
friends for a few days.
Miss Ethel Tasler left Saturday
for her home in Atkinson, after
resigning her position here at
Helen Simar’s Beauty Salon. She
plans on remaining home for about
three weeks when she will leave
for the west coast where she is to
be married at Portland, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Butts came
up from Nebraska City last Satur
day and spent the week end at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cnonin.
They left for home Monday after
noon and were accompanied by
Mrs. D. H. Cronin, Marjorie Joan
and Richard, who will spend a
week visiting at Nebraska City and
Omaha.
Returns After Thirty
Years And Astonished
At The Improvements
Mrs. Frank Gapter, of Boulder,
Colorado, and her sister, Mrs. Geo.
Withers, of Amelia, With whom she
has been visiting, ware in the city
last week, visiting^ Mrs. Helen
Simar. Mrs. Gapter. who will be
remembered here aq Miss Alta
Blackmore, was visiting O’Neill for
the first time since 1909 when the
family moved away, and she was
amazed at toe changes that had
taken place in the city since that
time. She reports that she was
unable to find a single landmark
that she recalled, and she could
hardly believe that this thriving
little city was the same town that
she left so many years ago.
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Nellie Toy arrived Friday
evening from Herman, Nebr.,
where she teaches, to spend Christ
mas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Anton Toy.
Miss Exlaura McDonough and
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Sutcliffe left
Wednesday morning for their
homes in Washington, D. C., after
spending Christmas at the home of
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
McDonough.
Jack Vincent, a student at the
university of Nebraska, came home
the latter part of the week to
spend the holidays visiting with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vin
cent and with other relatives and
friends.
“The Gang” ganged up on John
A. Robertson Sunday, when all but
two of his children and four of the
grandchildren were home. There
were forty present. These home
comings are real events in the
memories of the Robertson’s.
Charles E. Hiatt, of Moravia,
Iowa, and Miss Elsie Runnello, also
of Maravia, were granted a marri
age license on December 23 and
were then united in marriage by
Rev. William I. Bell of the Pres
byterian church in this city.
Dr. Frank Gallagher returned to
his home in LaCrosse, Wis., on
Thursday, after spending Christ
mas here with his mother, Mrs.
Winnie Gallagher and his sisters.
Miss Hilda and Helen Gallagher
and other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Harvey Mitchell and sons,
Bob and Earl, drove to Elm Creek,
Nebr., on Sunday to spend Christ
mas with Mr. Mitchell’s parents
in that city. Mrs. Mitchell re
turned Tuesday morning while the
boys remained for a longer visit
with their grandparents.
La Vern Finley, of Neligh, and
Miss Lois Filsinger, of Clearwater,
were granted a marriage license by
County Judge Reimer on December
26 and were then united in mar
riage by the Rev. John H. Bishop
of the Methodist church in Atkin
son on the same date.
C. E. Jones, manager of the
Central Finance Corporation, re
turned on Tuesday morning from
Columbus, where he spent Christ
mas with his family. Mrs. Jones
returned with him and will spend
a few days here before moving
their household goods here.
Congressman Karl Stefan will
leave Norfolk for Washington not
later than December 27th in order
to be on hand for several important
committee meetings preliminary to
the opening of the last session of
the 76th congress. The Congress
man and Mrs. Stefan plan to drive
to Washington and will spend one
day visiting relatives in Omaha.
Since he has been home the Con
gressman has visited each of the
twenty-two counties which com
prise the Third Congressional dis
trict. He has made numerous
speeches to various groups and at
tended many meetings. Most of
the work while he has been home
has been in connection with relief
matters, farm loans, farm forestry,
farm to market roads. He com
pleted investigations on farm fore
closures, and is making a report to
the Farm Credit Administration
upon his return. He contacted
many farmers to secure their views
on the soil conservation program
and parity payments, and also se
cured the views of many farmers
on the question of proposed pro
cessing tax legislation. The Cong
ressman states that while the big
gest problem to face Congress will
be the determination to keep this
nation out of another foreign war,
he lists the following as some of
the legislation which Congress will
face in this last regular session of
the 76th Congress. Reciprocal
trade agreements, National defense,
the national debt, farm forestry,
farm to market roads, federal loan
appropriations, immigration, crop
insurance, irrigation, relief and un
employment, natonal labor laws,
social security.
The Congressman is now receiv
ing many petitions filed with him
and signed by many farmers who
are in the soil conservation pro
gram, urging the Secretary of Ag
riculture to allow the corn and
grain acreages in the drouth dis
tricts to remain the same as it
was in 1939, instead of cutting
down the acreage. Some of these
farmers tell the Congressman that
it is unfair to cut the acreage in
the drouth stricken districts where
only ten bushels of corn was raised
per acre compared with 50 bushels
in Iowa. The Congressman has
sent many of these petitions to Sec
retary Wallace in Washington and
UTged that the appeal of these
farmers be given careful consider
ation.
The Congressman is pleased over
the fact that there has been more
farm forestry projects planted in
the Third Congressional district
than in any other district in the
state. He finds about 75 per cent
of the trees that have been planted
are growing and he was informed
that all of the dead trees would be
replaced. He is hoping that an
appropriation will be made to con
tinue this tree planting program.
The mild weather which has pre
vailed in the district, he states,
has resulted in more work being
done on farm to market reads
than during the past year and he
is now being furnished with a map
showing the large increase of the
construction of farm to market
roads in his district. The Congress
man was one of those who urged
additional relief appropriations foT
the drouth districts, and believes
that before he leaves for Washing
ton every unemployed and needy
person in his district will find some
kind of employment during the
next two months. He is urging the
WPA administration to do every
thing possible to give farmers who
are certified to WPA some kind of
employment during the cold weath
er. In sme counties in the district
this has been impossible due to the
fact that some of the counties have
treasureries which are practically
depleted of funds for direct relief
and the local 25 per cent contribu
tions cannot be made. As a result,
some counties with needy unem
ployed find it difficult to secure
work projects. The offices of the
Congressman, located in room 397
of the postoffice building, Norfolk,
was closed December 24, and all
the files will be sent to Washington
office which has been constantly
open while the Congressman has
been in his district. All mail for
the Congressman should be sent to
ST. MARY'S BASKETBALL TEAM IS STILL
CLIMBING LADDER OF SUCCESS
Won Invitation Tournament Held at Spalding Last
Week By Decisive Victories in Each Game.
After defeating Primrose High
in the second round of Spald
ing’s Invitational Tournament, St.
Mary’s went on to defeat Spalding
High School and Spalding Acad
emy, thus bringing to St. Mary’s
its first championship in many
years.
The team drew a bye in the open
ing round which was played on
Tuesday and in their first game on
Wednesday, defeated Primrose
High by a score of 36 to 10. Thurs
day afternoon the team met and de
feated Spalding High by a score of
27-22. At the end of the first
quarter the score was tied but at
the half St. Mary’s was in the lead
by seven points, a lead which was
only threatened in the final min
utes of the game. Bob Shoemaker
was high scorer for St. Mary’s with
13 points, while German led with
7 points for Spalding.
Summary
St. Mary’s FG FT PF
B. Kubitschek --- 2 0-2 2
J. Shoemaker . 2 0-2 2
B. Biglin_2 0-0 1
G. Hammond.. 1 0-0 0
B. Shoemaker . 6 1-2 4
D. Kersenbrock . 0 0-0 0
B. Price _,_0 0-2 3
Spalding FG FT PF
K. Hiatt .. 0 1-2 0
Brimm ...0 0-0 0
Connell _.— 2 1-2 3
Mahoney .—. 0 0-0 0
C. Hiatt ...2 2-3 0
Btoomquist . 1 1-2 3
German .2 3-7 1
German . 2 3-7 1
In the evening St. Mary’s return
ed to the floor to win a close game
from the Spalding Academy boys,
who had beaten Palmer in the af
ternoon 26-24. Playing unbeatable
ball during the first half, St. Mary’s
led at half time 27-13. This lead
was overcome in the second half
until but a few points separated
the teams. Spalding’s attack be
came much more effective when
Bob Shoemaker left the game be
cause of too many fouls. The team
held their lead however until the
gun went off to end the game. Bill
Biglin was high scorer for the win
ners with 13 points while Speicher
had 11 for Spalding.
*
Summary
St. Mary’s FG FT PF
B. Kubitschek. 6 0-0 0
J. Shoemaker . 2 3-4 3
G. Hammond . 2 0-0 0
B. Biglin ... 6 1-1 0
B. Shoemaker. 3 0-0 4
D. Kersenbrock ....0 0-0 0
B. Price..- 0 0-1 3
Spalding FG FT PF
Coyne_-. 3 0-3 0
Bopp -. 2 0-1 1
Cronin. 2 0-2 1
Speicher .. 5 1-2 0
T. Kelly__ 3 0-0 0
Rogers . 0 0-2 1
O’Connell . 1 1-2 2
St. Mary’s Cardinals will com
pete in two more tournaments this
year, the annual Holt County Tour
nament, which will be held at At
kinson January 11 and 12th, and in
which St. Mary’s will meet O'NeHl
High for their first game.
The second tournament will be
the annual State Basket ball tour
nament, which will be held some
time during the first week or two in
March. It has not as, yet, been an
nounced where the teams will com
pete during this tournament.
St. Mary’s B. B. Schedule
For Balance of Season
Following is the St. Mary’s bas
ketball schedule for the balance
of the playing season:
January 9, Valentine, there.
January 11 and 12, Holt County
Tournament at Atkinson.
January 14, St. Joseph’s of At
kinson, there.
January 19 Page, here.
January 22 Ainsworth, here.
January 24 Inman, there.
January 31 Inman, here.
February 2 Long Pine, here.
February 6 Page, there.
February 11 St. Joseph’s Atkin
son, here.
February 18 Sacred Heart Nor
folk, here.
February 28 Valentine, here.
February 29 Butte, there.
CARD OF THANK8
We wish to thank all of our
friends and neighbors who so kindly
assisted us following the death of
our beloved husband and father,
Henry J. Bauman, and for the
many beautiful floral offerings.—
Mrs. Henry Bauman, Mrs. John
Protivinsky and family, Gene Bau
man, J. Howard Bftuman and fam
ily, Ralph Bauman and family,
Lloyd Bauman.
W. J. Hammond drove to Omaha
last Thursday where he met his
daughter, Harriett and the Misses
Rose Mary and Ruth Ann Biglin,
who are students at the Iowa State
University at Ames, and brought
them home to spend the Christmas*
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fernholz, of
this city, enjoyed a family reunion
on Christmas day when their eight
children were all present for
the Christmas festivities. Albert
Fernholz, of Portland, Oregon, ar
rived here last Thursday and Wil
liam Fernholz, of Colome, S. D.,
the only two of the children who
are out of this county, came last
Sunday to make the family circle
complete. It is needless to say they
had an enjoyable day.
the Washington office, which is
located in Room 1017, House Office
Bunilding, Washington, D. C.
And a HAPPY NEW YEAR to
all from the Third district Con
gressional office.
Mahlon H. Nuttelmann
Mahlon H. Nuttelmann died in a
hospital in Norfolk last Saturday
following an operation for appendi
citis, after an illness of about ten
days, at the age of 33 years, 2
months and 14 days. The body
was brought to this city Saturday
and the funeral was held from the
Presbyterian church last Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, burial in
Prospect Hill cemetery.
Deceased was bom at Cedar
Rapids, Nebr., on October 9, 1906,
and had been a resident of the
state all his life. He came to this
county in 1927 from Norfolk and
had been a resident of the county'
ever since. Since coming here he
had been one of the owners of the
Norfolk-O’Neill bus line in partner
ship with Glen Tomlinson, and he
drove one of the busses. He leaves
to mourn his passing twe seas,
Rudolph and Douglas Gene, his
father and mother and one sister
and two brothers*
Mahlon was a robust man in the
prime of life. He had always en
joyed good health until abotrt ten
days ago when he suffered an at
tack of appenditics. He was oper
ated on and was apparently getting
along nicely when pneumonia de
veloped and he succumbed to the
attack.
—
C. E'. Downey, of Independence,
Mo., arrived in this city for a few
days visit with his son, Sumner,
and with other old-time friends and
neighbors. Charley lived in this
county for many years, his parents
operating a general store near
where Star is now located and they
were also extensive farmers in the
early days. For many years Char
ley drove a mail route between
O’Neill, Star and Niobrara. He
moved to this city in the nineties
and for years he was one of the
most active insurance agents in the
county. About twenty years ago
he moved to Independence, which
has since been his home. Charlie
does not look a day older than when
he left here and we are of the opin
ion that he must have discovered
the fountain of youth in his south
ern home.
Orville Winchell, of Omaha, came
up Saturday to spend Christmas
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben.
T. Winchell.