ST. MARY'S CARDINALS VICTORS OVER
VALENTINE HIGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Score was 31 to 23. St. Mary’s Has Won Nineteen
Games While Losing But Two During Season.
St. Mary’s Cardinals defeated
Valentine High School last Wed
nesday night in a rough ball game
by the score of 31-23. The game
was slow throughout with many
infractions of the rules being call
ed by the official. St. Mary’s was
ahead at the half 16-15.
Valentine was unable to check
fc* the Cardinals the second half, as
the home team showed a decided
change in form over the first half.
The victory was the Cardinals’
19th in 21 contests.
John Shoemaker was high point
man with 13 tallies. Jones had 10
points for Valentine.
St. Mary’s completes its schedule
Thursday night at Butte.
St. Mary’s fg ft pts
J. Shoemaker .—6 1 13
G. Hammond .1 0 2
W. Biglin .1 3 6
F. Hickey .2 0 4
B. Kubitschek .0 0 0
D. Kersenbrock .0 0 0
R. Shoemaker .3 0 G
B. Miles .0 0 0
B. Price .—.0 1 1
B. Parkins .0 0 0
Totals .13 5 31
Valentine fg ft pts
Lammereaux ...1 3 5
Hayford .0 0 0
Davey .-.3 2 8
Grace* .-.0 0 0
Jones .-.3 4 10
Butterfield .-.0 0 0
Ferris .0 0 0
Hanna .-.0 0 0
Campbell ..0 0 0
Yeast .—.0 0 0
Totals .—.7 9 23
Several Candidates Have
Filed Past Few Days
T. J. Coyne filed on February
:26th for the democratic nomination
for County Assessor.
W. G. Sire filed on February 27th
for the republican nomination for
County Assessor.
Ethan Allen of Page, filed on
February 24th for the democratic
nomination for county supervisor
from the Fourth district.
Clyde McKenzie of Dorsey filed
on February 28th for the republi
can nomination for county super
visor from the Second district.
Frank Schmidt of Ewing filed on
February 28th for the republican
nomination for county supervisor
from the Fourth district.
Axel Borg of O’Neill, filed on
February 28th for the republican
nomination for supervisor from the
Second district.
Wm. Clark of Page, filed on Feb
ruary 28th for the republican nom
ination for supervisor from the
Fourth district.
I. R. Ridgeway, of Dorsey,
filed on February 28th for the
republican nomination for super
visor from the Fourth district.
Eben Grafft, of Ewing, filed on
February 29th for the republican
nomination for county supervisor
from the Fourth district.
Robert E. Tomlinson filed late
this afternoon as a candidate for
.supervisor from the Second dis
trict. He made an unsuccessful
race for this office four years ago.
L. G. Gillespie, who filed on Wed
nesday for County Judge, on the
non-political ticket, withdrew his
filing on Thursday, and filed on the
Republican ticket for the nomina
tion for County Assessor.
C. T. Simonsen filed on Thurs
day, February 29th for the nomina
tion for supervisor on the republi
can ticket from the Second district.
St. Mary’s Lenten Play
The work of putting on the Len
ten play has been carried on en
thusiastically during the past week.
The cast rehearses daily in order
to get into the real spirit of the
play and to be able to portray the
characters as nearly as possible.
The costumes are beautiful. They
ate all being made at the Academy
and no effort is being spared to
make them historically correct.
A program for the play is in
process of construction. Adver
tising and patrons have been so
licited among the out-of-town
friends. The people of O’Neill
have always supported the Acad
emy so loyally that it was felt no
soliciting should be done in town.
Those who have so generously giv
en donations will be included in the
list of the patrons.
Special posters are being made
by the Poster Committee and these
will be distributed in O’Neill and in
surrounding towns.
There will be three performances
given, two on March 18 afternoon
and evening and one on March 19
in the evening at the K. of C. hall
in O’Neill.
C. E. Stout To Move Drug
Store About April 1st
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C. E. Stout, who has been en
gaged in the drug business here
for over thirty years has rented
the store room in the First Nation
al bank building, formerly occu
pied by the Brown-McDonald Co.,
and will move therein about April
1st, as soon as the buillding can
be renovated, a new front installed
and new fixtures received. The
store will be operated under the
name of the O’Neill Drug com
pany and will be a Walgren Agen
cy. John V. Sullivan, a former resi
dent of O’Neill and who learned
the drug business under Mr. Stout,
but who has been employed in
Chicago for the past twelve years,
is coming back to O’Neill and will
assist Mr. Stout in the manage
ment and operation of the store.
He is expected to be here the lat
ter part of next week to assist in
getting things ready for the open
ing of the new store.
Mr. Stout says that he is de
termined to have one of the finest,
best stocked and equipped drug
stores to be found in any small |
town in the state. The Walgren
Company have a large number of
stores in various states and the
O’Neill store, being an agency
will have access to their large
stocks, thus enabling them to han
dle a complete line of drugs and
drug sundries. In fact make it a
real metropolitan drug store.
Clarke-McNary Seedlings
To Be Distributed
Clarke-McNary seedlings which
are available through the county
agent’s office will probably make
a record sale this spring. With
favorable spring moisture condi
tions and the additional $30.00
building practice payment for a
farm under the Agricultural Con
servation Program farmers are
going to be more interested in
planting trees.
These seedlings which have been
grown in nurseries under govern
ment supervision are available at
one cent each. With sales to date
totaling 25,000 and tree planting
time rapidly nearing farmers are
encouraged to place the order for
shipment at an early date. Appli
cations may be secured from the
county agent.
Grattan Project Club
The Grattan Project Club met
with Mrs. H. O. Russ Tuesday af
ternoon for the lesson, “Care and
Repair of Walls and Floors.’’
Roll call was answered by giving
a favorite poem. The lesson was
practical in helping solve many
cleaning and repair problems of
every home maker. A wall duster
was shown and demonstrated how
to make.
Mrs. Larry Barrett gave a book
report on “Forlorn River” by Zane
Grey, and Mrs. E. B. Price on
“Northwest Passage.”
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. John Vitt.
Mrs. H. O. Russ and Mrs. Ray
Lawrence served a delicious lunch.:
A Pioneer Resident of
Northeastern Holt
Passed Away
ERIC BORG
Eric Borg, one of the pioneer
residents of the northeastern part
of the county, passed away at his
home near Meek last Thursday af
ternoon about 2 o’clock, following
an illness of about five years. The
funeral service was held last Sun
day afternoon at 1 o’clock at the
community church in Paddock and
burial in the cemetery at Spencer.
Eric Borg was born at Sundsvall,
Sweden, on February 3, 1862. When
a young man of twenty he came to
the United States with his parents
and they located at Mainstee, Mich
igan, on June 25, 1882. In the
spring of 1884 he came to this
county and had been a resident of
the county for fifty-six years.
Four years after his arrival in
this county he was united in mar
riage to Miss Mary Hansen, of An
dover, 111., the ceremony being per
formed at Atkinson. On December
11, 1890, Mrs. Borg passed away
leaving one daughter, who passed
away a year later. On March 8,
1892, he was united in marriage to
Miss Anna Bergstrom, the cere
mony being performed at Butte,
Nebr. Mrs. Borg passed away on
July 28, 1908, leaving two children.
The children are: Axel Borg, of
O’Neill and Mrs. Ruth Griffith, of
North Platte, Nebr. On October 1,
1913, he was united in marriage
to Mrs. Carrie Hubby. One daugh
ter, Marvel Borg, was born of this
union, who, with her mother and
her stepsister and step-brother are
left to mourn the passing of a kind
and affectionate husband and
father.
Mr. Borg was one of the finest
men of the county. He was a
rugged man and had always en
joyed good health until about five
years ago when he suffered a par
alytic stroke and his health had not
been good since that time. He was
not confined to his bed however and
only a few weeks ago was a pleas
ant caller at this office, as he had
been a reader of The Frontier for
fifty years and he loved to drop in
and talk of the olden days. He was
an exceptionally good citizen and
had the love, admiration and re
spect of every person who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Northeast Holt will miss him as
will his many friends in different
parts of the county.
The funeral last Sunday was one
of the largest seen in the north
country for many years and prac
tically all of those attending ac
companied the hearse to Spencer
where the body was laid to rest.
The Frontier tenders its condol
ences to the bereaved ones.
Inman Girl Wins Honors
In Teachers College
Marjorie Moore of Inman, fresh
man in Teachers College at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, was one of the
guests at a party given recently
for University Regents Scholar
ship winners at Lincoln. These
scholarships are awarded each year
to high ranking graduates of Neb
raska high schools. Miss Moore
has held one of the awards during
her freshman year. The party was
held in the new residence halls for
women.
Marriage Licenses
Joseph McCarthy, of Burke, S.
D., and Miss Sophia Serr, of Jami
son, Nebraska, were granted a
marriage license by County Judge
Reimer on February 27th and were
then united in marriage by the
Judge.
Fraser Haglan and Miss Lyda
Wilkinson, both of O’Neill, were
granted a marriage license on Feb
ruary 21 by Judge Reimer and
were then united in marriage by
the Judge.
Carl Holz, of Ewing, and Ann
L. Wright, of Atkinson, were grant
ed a marriage license on February
28th by Judge Reimer and were
united in marriage the same day
by the Rev. Virgil C. Wright of
the Methodist church of this city.
SOUTHEASTERN
BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
If I were to join the national
guessing game as to whether Mr.
President will be a candidate for
the third time, would say it looks
like he intended to keep his own
council until it was too Jato to de
velop organised opposition, then
ask—no, the Rooseveltian way is
demand—the nomination. What
else could the forth coming Chi
cago convention do?
Can’t somebody stir up a fight or
rob a bank to break the basketball
monotony ?
I see a group of candidates visits
O’Neill today. Voters are no long
er enthused as in the old days of
torchlight processions when we
stepped in unison to the drum beats
and had honest to goodness politi
cal rallies with spellbinders like
Matt Dougherty, Jim Whitehead
or O. M. Kem throwing open the
faucet of oratory and stirring the
patriots to political frenzy. Young
America today is missing a lot of
election campaign fun, largely on
account of our senseless primary.
Medical authority is credited
with the statement that toeless,
backless and perforated shoes have
been responsible for innumerable
cases this winter of frostbite and
chillblains among women. I have
seen no statement of the results
from the short sox style but have
observed on bleak winter days the
blue, goose-pimpled limbs of the
feminine group which has discard
ed stockings as a tribute to the
goddess of fashion.
That big league base ball play
ers, on eight and ten thousand
dollar salaries, who ask for $15 a
week unemployment wage during
idle months in the winter suggests
that maybe our grand “social re
form” programs are pointing the
way to become public mooehers.
, Throrugh the courtesy of a friend
in loaning me the book, I have read
a portion of “Gone With The
Wind”. I undertake no book re
view nor critical examination of
literature. My ancestors were rep
resented in the blue-clad armies,
spoken of in this book as “Yan
kees,” who fought to preserve the
Union. The story purports to bring
an authentic picture of Atlanta,
Ga., and vicinity during the civil
war period. But it is no book for
me. I want a book which lifts you
out of the mire of earth’s sordid
scenes, which tunes the soul to the
music of the celestial and gives the
eye a glimpse of flashing of ser
aph’s wings. “Gone With the
Wind”—the title has an appeal to
one who belongs to Nebraska’s
wind blown prairies—the fresh,
clean outdoors where virgin sod
spreads for miles and the tall
grass slants with the wind; where
are found the nodding golden rod
and prairie rose; where is heard
the song of meadow' lark and call
of prairie rooster in early spring;
where you see a flash of the oriole’s
gorgeous beauty, the bounding
jack-rabbit and the prairie wolf,
yellow eyes staring wild and fright
ened. “Gone With The Wind” sug
gests something like this, hut I
found instead sweating negro
slaves, southern aristocrats, blue
clad and grey-clad soldiers, shame
less vice and the lament of unre
quited love.
Blanks For Agricultural
Census Are Available At
County Agent's Office
A good many farmers have been
calling at the county agent’s office
to obtain a sample schedule of the
agricultural census which is to be
taken soon.
The farmer who is interested in
saving time for himself and the
census enumerator and also in fur
nishing an accurate report to the
U. S. Census Bureau will be inter
ested in receiving a sample sched
ule which can be filled in at leisure.
Class B Tournament To
Open In O’Neill Next
Tuesday Evening
Representatives of the schools
playing in the Class B Basketball
Tournament in O’Neill met last
Saturday afternoon at the school
house. At this meeting it was de
cided not to play consolation. If
O’Neill is not assigned a Class C
playoff in the finals Friday night,
then the losers in the semi-finals in
this tournament will play for third
and fourth place Friday at 7:30
P. M.
The pairing of the ten ms for the
tournament were made at this
meeting. The time for playing the
games was decided and that the
play1' ig should be on the evening -
of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. That way teams will
not have to play twice the same
day anl no school time during the
day will be lost. See the advertise
ment in this paper for details on
pairing of teams, time of playing
and admissions.
There will be ten minute inter
vals between the games to give the
teams opportunity to warm up and
get ready for their game.
AAA Birthday Dinner
On March 8, dinners will be held
in Holt County for the purpose of
celebrating the seventh anniver
sary of our National Farm Pro
gram, commemorating the day in
1933 when President Roosevelt and
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace called in representative
farmers to Washington to formu
late what is now our National
Farm Program. Similar dinners
and programs will be staged March
8, in nearly all Nebraska counties
and in more than 20 other states.
An evening’s entertainment is
being planned. Dinner will be
served and at 9:00 P. M. a radio
broadcast will be given. President
Roosevelt and Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace have
both accepted invitations from a
committee of Nebraska and Iowa
farmers to address farm families
of the nation at dinner programs.
This committee is headed by John
Nolan, Alliance, Nebr., rancher. He
is chairman of the Nebraska com
mittee, including E. M. Von Seg
gern of West Point, Peter Parkert
of Hooper, W. O. Buel of Hickman,
and Louis Thompson of Riverton.
Farmers’ wives as well as busi
ness men and their wives are in
vited to the affairs, since all fam
ilies in rural communities have
benefitted fronAhe Farm Program.
The meal tickets will soon be
ready for sale, and these tickets
will be set at reasonable prices.
This is a non-profit affair, designed
only to bring people together for
proper celebration of the anniver
sary.
Watch the next issue of your lo
cal newspaper for complete details
of time and places.
The Weather
The weather for the past week
has been quite cold, the mercury
touching zero on Saturday and
Sunday morning, and the highways
and sidewalks covered with a thin
coating of ice, which made walking
and driving very hazardous. To
day, however, the weather has tak
en a change for the better, and it
is a warm, spring like day. Fol
lowing is the weather chart for the
past week:
High Low
Thursday .21 3
Friday .-.21 16
Saturday .-.17 0
Sunday .—.36 0
Monday . 40 26
Tuesday .-.33 16
Wednesday . 33 20
Three O’Neillites File For
Unicameral Legislature
Tony Asmus, Dean Selah and
Stanley Soukup, all of O’Neill,
filed for the Unicameral—Tony on
the 27th, the other two on the 28th.
With the filing of these three
O’Neillites there are four candi
dates for this place, the other be
ing the present incumbent, F. J.
Brady, of Atkinson.
O'NEILL HIGH BLUEJAYS WIN ONE AND
LOSE TWO DURING THE PAST WEEK
I^ose to Oakdale 33 to 19. Also Lose to St. Mary’s
20 to 39, But Defeat Valentine 30 to 18.
St. Mary’s basketball team de
feated O’Neill High last Sunday
39-20 in the benefit game played to
secure funds for an electric clock
and scoreboard for the gymnasium.
The Cardinals Bet a fast pace and
stepped out into a 12-5 lead in the
first quarter. In the socond quar
ter they pulled out into a com
manding lead 21-7.
The second half was a much
more even ball game but the out
come was never in doubt. Each
team made ten points in the third
quarter. Play was even duxing the
first half of the final period but
St. Mary’s pulled still farther
ahead in the closing minutes.
St. Mary’s Reserves won the
preliminary game 16-11 building up
a lead in the first half and coasting
through the second.
O’Neill (20) fg ft pf
French, f . 0 0 1
Burgess, f . 0 0 0
Sirek, f . 0 1 2
Vincent, f ..._. 0 0 0
Valla, c .... 4 0 3
Calkins, g__._ 10 1
Ryan, g . 2 3 0
McKenna, g . 10 3
Reimer, g . 0 0 0
Osenbaugh, g .. 0 0 0
Total . 8 4 10
St. Mary’s (39) fg ft pf
Biglin, f .. 5 0 0
Shoemaker, f . 4 0 1
Hammond, f. 2 0 2
Kubitchek, c . 3 2 1
Hickey, g . 10 0
Price, g .-. 0 12
Shoemaker, g . 3 0 1
Total ..is 3 7
A smooth passing Oakdale team
pulled away from O’Neill in the
second half to win a basketball
game 33-19. O’Neill’s Reserves
won in the preliminary 13-12 after
trailing until the final minute.
Oakdale’s Eymans, G. and K.,
made enough points to keep their
team in the lead thrrough the first
half; at the intermission they led
12-9. In the third period Tavner
joined in the scoring and Oakdale
took a safe lead 25-14. Against
O’Neill’s substitutes in the last
minutes they scored two field goals
to increase the lead to 33-19.
Summary
O’Neill (19) fg ft pf
Ryan . 10 2
Vincent . 0 0 0
Sirek . 2 0 8
French ...-.0 10
Basketball Game Sunday
O’Neill vs. St. Mary’s A
Financial Success
Due to tne fine support of the bas
ketball fans for the St. Mary’s and
O’Neill game last Sunday after
noon, it will be possible to have a
new electric scoreboard for the
gymnasium. The scoreboard, in
cluding a clock, is to arrive any
time now and is to be installed for
the tournament this coming week.
The proceeds of the game Sun
day go toward paying for this elec
tric scoreboard. The receipts of
this game were not sufficient to
take care of the total cost of this
board. Therefore, St. Mary’s and
O’Neill High teams plan to use the
proceeds of games next year be
tween the teams to take care of
the unpaid balance of this year.
Is The Noble Experiment |
A Proven Success?
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Ec
onomics shows average prices re
ceived by American farmers below
the amounts received by farmers in
1937. The year 1939 revealed sub
stantial decreases and losses to
farmers in many items, to-wit:
Hogs, sheep, wool, clover seed,
timothy seed, cotton seed, wheat,
corn, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat,
potatoes, flaxseed, apples, hay, but
ter, eggs. Certainly, these facts
indicate that the “experiment” has
not been a success.
Valla . 1 2 5
Mitchell .-. 0 0 5
Reimer.... 0 0 0
McKenna .... 12 2
Brown . 2 0 2
Total . 7 6 5
Oakdale (33) fg ft pf
K. Eymann .... 6 15
G. Eymann . 3 2 1
Tavener . 3 4 2
Cram . 10 3
Evans ... 10 3
Total . 13 7 9
O’Neill won the last home game
of the basketball season defeating
Valentine 30-18. The first quarter
was all O'Neill, Ryan and Sirek
tallying seven points before Valen
tine broke into the scoring with a
free throw. Valentine didn’t seere
from the field in the second quarter
either and at the intermission
O’Neill had a 14 4 lead. The third
quarter was the best of the game.
Davey had the O’Neill guards
dizzy as he made nine points bot
the O’Neill offense accounted fbr
eleven points to keep the homo
team in the lead. Both teams tired
in the final period and five points
was all that either made.
In the preliminary game tbs
Junior High boys warmed up for
the Stuart tournament by defsnt
ing a team from the intramarn}
squad 21-17.
Summary
O’Neill (30) far ft pf
Sirck . 1 2 2
French .-. 0 0 0
Ryan .-.-. 4 3 1
Vincent . 0 0 0
Burgess . 0 10
Valla . 5 0 3
Mitchell . 0 0 0
McKenna .—.2 0 2
Brown . 0 0 3
Calkins . 0 0 0
Reimer. 0 0 0
Total . 12 6 11
Valentine (18) fg ft pf
Lammereaux .—. 0 2 0
Butterfield. 110
Davey . Ill
Grace .-. 0 0 0
Jones .-. 0 0 2
Hayford .0 0 1
Ferris .1.0 2 2
Hanna . 0 0 0
Campbell . 0 0 1
Yeast . 0 0 0
Total . 6 6 1
Lucas Ranch Wins Grand
Championship at Show
Fourth Time in Row
R. E. Lucas returned the latter
part of last week from Valentine
where he had been attending the
Hereford sale. The Lucas Hem
ford ranch again had the grand
champion bull at this sale for the
fourth consecutive time at the
Northwest Nebraska Hereford
Breeders Association Sale and
Show, held February 22 at Valen
tine, which is some record for the
other breeders to shoot at.
The Lucas entries stood first,
second and third in the two-year
old class. The Grand Champion
was Militant’s Return, a 1600
pound summer yearling purchased
by Carr Brothers of Simeon, Nebr.,
for $515.00. Average of Lucas’
two-year-old bulls was $400.00. The
show was judged by W. W. Derrick
of the department of Animal Hus
bandry, University of Nebraska.
Mr. Lucas will also have some
bulls on sale at Grand Island on
March 6 and 7.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express thanks to
our many friends and neighbors
for their acts of kindness during
the illness and death of our hus
band and father, also for the beau
tiful flowers and expressions of
sympathy.—Mrs. Eric Borg and
family.