The Frontier
VOL. LX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 NUMBER 47
O’Neill Country Club Of
ficials Look For Good
Year Ahead
The annual meeting of the O’Neill
Country Club was held Monday
evening, April 1. The following |
were elected officers and directors.
Dr. L. A. Burgess, President; R.
M. Sauers, Vice President; F. N.
Cronin, Secretary; E. M. Galla
gher, Treasurer; W. J. Biglin,
Chairman of ground committee;
Max Golden, Chairman of enter
tainment committee; P. C. Dono
hoe, Chairman of Club House Com
mittee.
It is anticipated that member
ship will exceed that of 1939, the
year that broke all records as far
as membership is concerned, with
93 belonging to the Club. This is
the greatest membership since the
O’Neill Country Club was founded
in 1915.
The Directors set the dates for
the main entertainment events. The
-opening dance to be held May 23,
and the annual Tournament which
will be held June 16, 17, and 18.
Fourth of July will be celebrated
on a grand scale this year and the
dates for the annual stag party
and costume ball will be set at a
later time. Entertainment Chair
man Golden informed the Direct
ors that he had already booked
Cliff Keyes and his orchestra for
the tournament ball.
All newcomers to O’Neill are
• cordially invited to become mem
bers of this entertainment center.
The O’Neill Country Club has truly
been a community center in O’Neill
where all who join the club partici
pate in the various activities that
the Club offers.
Son of Native O’Neill Boy
Wins Honors in Georgia
O’Neill friends recently received
word of the honor conferred upon
13-year-old Bert Brennan, son of
Major and Mrs. Francis M. Bren
nan, of Fort Benning, Ga., where
Bert was nominated for promotion
to the highest scout rank of the
Boy Scouts, that of Eagle Scout, at
a session of the Boy Scout Court
of honor at Fort Benning. The
honor is the more unusual, in that
Bert has been a boy scout for only
fifteen m rths, wh: h is the mini
mum time in which one can advance
to the rank of Eagle Scout. Nor
mally, scouts who become Eagles,
this averages about one in every
400. do so after several years of
work and study and recipients of
the honor are generally 16 years or
even older, on attaining the rank.
Major and Mrs. Brennan and
children are expected to leave Fort
Benning about the first of July
and come to O’Neill to make an
extended visit with Major Bren
nan’s sister Bernadette and his
brother, Tom.
Conoco Dealers Will Hold
District Meeting Here
Next Sunday
A meeting of Conoco Oil repre
sentatives will be held in O’Neill
on Sunday, with a G o’clock dinner
at the Golden, followed by a busi
ness meeting. H. W. Hays, assist
ant division manager of Lincoln,
will be in ,’harge of the meeting, as
sisted bv K. B. Morrison, district
superintendent of O'Neill and C
M. Hock, district superintendent of
Sidney, Nebr. Ten district super
intendents will be present at the;
meeting, and all of the Conoco
agents in Mr. Morrison’s territor
tory. The superintendents will re
main in Mr. Mori.'son’s territory
the coming week and will assist the
local agents in the various towns.
Atkinson Man Dies of In
juries Received in Wreck
Ace Wehrly, of Atkinson, who
was injured in an auto accident
just outside Bassett a short time
ago, when the car in which he was
riding, and which was driven by |
John Wondercheck, also of Atkin
son. crashed into a telephone pole, |
died on Wednesday night. A reck
less driving charge was filed in the
county court of Rock county at
Bassett a short time after the acci
dent by Patrolman Russell against
Wondercheck.
Here’s A Ticket That Can
Be Supported By All
Republican Voters
Next Tuesday is primary election
day in Nebraska and the voters of
the state will go to Ihe polls and
be given one of the largest primary
ballots in years and it is their duty
to pick from the list men who are
well qualified and capable of filling
the positions to which they aspire.
Several of the men running for the
various offices are competent and
capable and would make good
officials, but a large number of
them come from the big cities of
the state and we have always been
of the opinion that there is just as
good material for these various
offices to be found in “the sticks”
as there are in the larger cities,
and that a better and a stronger
ticket could be presented to the
people of the state if it were made
up from capable men for- the dif
ferent sections of the state, in
stead of limiting it to one corner,
as has often happened.
During the past tnree or iour
weeks several republicans of the
county have called at this office
asking about the candidates for
the various places on the state
ticket, saying they were unaquaint
ed with any of them and would like
to vote an intelligent ballot at the
election. For this reason we have
prepared a list of candidates, of
state officials only, composed of
good, capable men from various
sections of the state whom we can
heartily recommend to fellow re
publicans as worthy of their sup
port. It will be noted that we
have omitted presenting the names
of any candidates for local offices,
as the people of the county are
familiar with them and their abil
ity to fill the offices to which they
aspire. Following is the list that
we can heartily recommend:
For National Committeeman:
Lyle Jackson --- Neligh
For National Committee Woman:
Edna Basten Donald, Grand Island
For United States Senator:
Hugh A. Butler .. Omaha
For Governor
Dwight Griswold .—Gordon
For Lieutenant Governor
William Edward Johnson, Schuyler
For Secretary of State
Walter F. Cozad Omaha
For Auditor Public Accounts:
Roy C. Johnson Lincoln
For State Treasurer
Dr. 0. Olson ..r.Lincoln
For Attorney General
Walter R. Johnson Omaha
For Railway Commissioner
Edwin Schulz - Elgin
Precinct Assessors Meet
With County Assessor
The precinct assessor’s met at
O’Neill, Saturday, March 30th in
the Assembly room of the Court
House. All but one local assessor
were present.
Following brief reports on ac
tions taken at State and District
meetings by the County Assessor,
most of the time was taken up with
discussion on revaluation of real
estate. A comparison was made
of real property valuation in var
ious precincts as well as a com
parison of Holt County with the
adjoining Counties. The check
showed Holt County to be much
lower now than many of the sur
rounding counties.
After due consideration of all
factors entering into the tax prob
lems and with a full understanding
that lower valuations are only re
flected in higher levies, the real
estate committee did not recom
mend a general cut. However,
they suggested a complete and
careful check on each property in
such a way that every tax payer
would carry no more than his right
ful share of the tax load. This pro
cedure may result in a few adjust
ments and may slightly lower the
valuation of the county.
Your cooperation with your lo
cal assessor will help him to give
you a fair assessment. It will also
aid him in getting his books into
our office well ahead of the date
set for the convening of the Equal,
ization Board which is set for June
11th.
WALTER G. SIRE,
County Assessor.
MANY THANKS
I desire to acknowledge my
sincere appreciation to the citi
zens of O’Neill for their support
at the election in again electing
me to the office of Mayor of the
city, and for the many con
gratulatory messages received
As in the past it will be my aim
to always labor for the best in
terest of the city and the people
of the best town in this section
of the state. Now, that the
battle is over, let us all get to
gether for the best interest of
the people of O’Neill. Thank
ing you sincerely, I am yours
to command.
JOHN KERSENBROCK
Annual Anthrax Vaccin
ation to Start Soon
At the last regular session of
the Nebraska Legislature a law
was enacted which prescribes the
duties of the Department of Agri
culture and Inspection in regard to
the control of anthrax.
The law provides that the De
partment of Agriculture and In
spection shall vaccinate animals
against anthrax without cost to
the owner if the owner makes ap
plication to the Department de
claring under oath that anthrax
occurred on his premises in the
course of any of the preceding five
years.
A few days ago The Nebraska
Bureau of Animal Industry mailed
application forms to over 500 live
stock owners who, according to
records in the office of the State
Veterinarian, Dr. F. A. Jelen, had
anthrax occur on their premises
during the past five years.
No doubt there are a number of
anthrax infected premises of
which the State Veterinarian has
no record. Livestock owners who
live on premises where anthrax has
occurred during the past five years
and who have not received their
application forms may procure
them from their veterinarian or
by writing direct to the Nebraska
Bureau of Animal Industry, State
Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska.
State Veterinarian Jelen advises
that all owners of livestock in the
anthrax infected district should
have their animals vaccinated be
fore pasture season, even though
the disease has not previously oc
curred on their premises.
Vaccination at State’s expense
can be done only on premises
where infection has occurred dur
ing one or more of the previous
five years. This should not dis
courage owners on non-infected
premises from vaccinating at their
own expense, as the only way an
thrax can be controlled in this sec
tion of the State is by consistent
vaccination of all the cattle every
spring before pasture season.
Friendly Neighbor Club
The Friendly Neighbor Club met
Thursday, March 21. at the home
of Mrs. Wm. Brugeman with Mrs.
James Oppen as assisting hostess.
The business of the afternoon
consisted of the election of officers.
Mrs. Clay Johnson was elected
President; Mrs. Ray Jansen, Vice
President; Mrs. Geo. Mitchell,
Leader A; Mrs. Brugeman, Lead
er B; Mrs. Tom Edwards, Read
ing Leader; Mrs. Bill Lewis,
Treasurer; Mrs. C. Hicks, News
Reporter; Mrs. Enard Leach, Sec
retary.
The lesson “The Livable Home”
was presented by Mrs. James Op
pen and Mrs. Clay Johnson.
Special Lecture at Meth
odist Church Next
Monday
Dr. Wishard an Indian Nation
alist of the Central Indian Metho
dist Conference and a Mr. Joshus
of Hyerabad are in America as
delegates to the General Confer
ence of the Methodist church to
be held in Atlantic City, N. J., be
ginning April 25. They are in
the Norfolk District of the Nebras
ka conference for one week.
O’Neil will have the privilege of
hearing them at the local Methodist
church next Monday evening at
8 00 p.. m. All who are interested
in international affairs’ and mis
sions are invited.
O’Neill Music Students
Win Honors At The
Atkinson Contest
•Ninety-one students of the
O’Neill Public school participated
in the Music Festival held at At
kinson last Friday, March 29.
Entered in nineteen events they
emerged with sixteen superior ra
tings. This, according to all in
formation we have been able to
find, is the best record ever to be
compiled by the ^oint vocal and in
strumental groups of our school.
This impi^esive showing was
made possible by the co-operation
extended by the citizens of the
community who used their cars to
transport contestants, and the
large number of O’Neill people
who came to help make up the lar
gest audience in the history of the
festival. The committee in charge
of the festival deserve a large
amount of credit for the excellent
organization, making for a mini
mum of confusion and discomfort.
The students who appeared at
Atkinson in this festival will give
a concert on Tuesday, April 16,
at the new high school auditorium,
at 8 o’clock. Admission charge
will be 16c. The money earned at
this concert will be used to help
transport contestants to the dis
rict music contest to be held at
Fullerton on April 19 and 20th.
Participants who rate superior at
Fullerton are eligible to compete
at the Kansas City division of the
National Contest to be held May
9, 10 and 11th.
Givens—Pongratz
A very wedding was solemnized
on April 3, 1940, at the Epiphany
Church of Emmet when Alda Pon
gratz became the bride of Arthur
Givens of Emmet, with Rev. J. J.
O’Brien officiating.
The bride is % daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Pongratz. She
was attired in a white net floor
length gown with a three-quarter
length veil and was carrying a
bouquet of red roses. She was
attended by her sister, Mrs. Harold
Givens, who wore a pink organza
gown.
The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. I. S. Givens. He wore a dark
blue suit. He was attended by his
brother, Harold Givens.
After the ceremony they return
ed to the home of the bride’s
parents where a delicious wedding
dinner was served.
The bride is a graduate of St.
Mary’s Academy and has been
employed in the John Conard store
in Emmet.
The groom is an industrious
young farmer, living northwest of
Emmet.
All of their friends join in wish
ing them a happy and prosperous
future. ***'
Former O’Neill Boy Dies
in Butte, Montana
Jerry Hanley received a letter
this morning from Mrs. H. H.
Mitchell, of Jefferies, Mont., an
nouncing the fact that her broth
er, Mike (Flur) Sullivan died at
Butte, Montana, on March 2(5, 1940.
Mike Sullivan was a member of one
of the pioneer families that came
from the copper mines of northern
Michigan and located northeast of
this city, where he grew to man
hood and lived for many years.
Mike left here about thirty-five
years ago and since that time has
been a resident of Butte, Mont.,
where he was a peace officer for
many years. He had been troubled
with pleuresy for several years and
reputable physicians had repeat
edly told him that it was only a
question of time and that they
could do nothing for him. He was
bedfast for about six weeks before
his death.
Mike was back to his old home
but once since he left here and that
was about 1924 when he put in
several weeks here visiting among
the old time friends in the Michi
gan settlement. He was a robust
man and a genial companion and
passed away in the prime of life,
being only about 61 at the time of
his death.
Academy Students Give
Passion Play At
Wood Lake
The “Crown of Thorns," which
was presented by the students of
St. Mary’s Academy at the K. C.
Hall during Holy Week, was taken
to Wood Lake on Wednesday night,
where the cast played before a
large and appreciative audience.
The choral group, which was one
of the outstanding features of the
play when presented in O’Neill, was
unable to make the trip.
Three Sisters and Fifteen
Students From St. Mary’s
Attend Sodality*Meeting
The following teachers and
students of St. Mary’s Academy
went to Omaha last Saturday to
attend the State Sodality meeting:
Sister Dolores, Sister Electa and
Sister Fedes. Eileen McKenna,
Darleen Weber, Monica Hoefs,
Alice Jackson, Alma Wallace, Cath
erine Finley, Mary Ann Meer,
Dorothy Dalton, Rose Anne
Schulte, Etta Meyer, Verne Coyne,
Betty McNally, Charlotte Buell and
Constance Golden.
Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom left
Friday morning for Lincoln taking
John Young, who last week was
sentenced by Judge R. R. Dick
son to serve from one to ten years
in the penitentiary on a man
slaughter charge.
A BANK account is a delight
ful thing to possess.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$140,000.00
This Bank Carries No
Indebtedness of Officers
or Stockholders.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Robert E. Miles Selected
By Lions Club to Attend
Annual Boy’s State
According to James W. Rooney,
Secretary of the O'Neill Lions
Club, that organization is spon
soring Robert E. Miles to attend
the Third annual session of Boys’
State, which will be held on the
campus of the College of Agricul
ture, University of Nebraska, June
8 to 16th.
Boys’ State is a plan for train
ing in the functional aspects of
citizenship. Its purpose is to teach
the youth of today constructive
attitudes toward the American
form of government. Boy’s State
attempts to show that our scheme
of government has not outworn
its usefulness; that all a democ
racy needs is an intelligent citizcn
ery and a clean, honest and im
partial administration responsive
to the will of the people.
Robert is the 16-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Miles of this
city and a junior in St. Mary’s
High School.
State Seed Regulations
Changed This Year
A change in the state regula
tions governing the sale of agri
cultural «eeds was announced to
day from the Department of Ag
riculture and Inspection by R. C.
Kinch, State Seed Analyst.
All farmers, Beed dealers, and
prospective seed buyers will be
affected by the change which is in
accord with the Federal seed laws
that went into effect recently.
Previously the percentage of
Bprouts and percentage of hard
seeds were added to^etfyer and
shown as germination but Mr.
Kinch pointed out that the hard
seeds of alfalfa, sweet clover and
other legumes must now be kept
separate from the germination
when reported on the seed label.
The seed label must now show, (1)
the percentage of germination, (2)
the percentage of hard seeds and
(3) the total of the percentages of
germination and hard seeds.
Jolly Star Club
The Jolly Stars gathered at the
home of Mrs. Ray Siders, Wednes
day, March 20, for their final meet
ing of the year.
The lesson, "The Livable Home”
was presented in an interesting
manner by Mrs. L. A. Hansen,
Leader A and Mrs. Wm. Derick
son, who substituted for Mrs. Rob
ert Miller, Leader B.
The following officers were
elected for the coming year: Mrs.
C. V. Cole, President; Mrs. Rob
ert Miller, Leader A; Mrs. John
Carson, Leader B; Mrs. Wm. Der
ickson, Secretary; Mrs. Ray Sid
ers, Music Leader; Mrs. John Car
son, Reader; Mrs. Albert Carson,
News Reporter.
Mrs. Emmet Revel and Mrs. Em
met Revel, Jr., were guests.
At the close of the afternoon
everyone enjoyed doughnuts and
coffee served by the hostess, Mrs.
Ray Siders.
Miss Mildred Miller and Miss
Elja McCullough drove to Ewing
Wednesday evening and visited at
the home of Miss Miller’s parents,
and then acted as judges in the
declamatory contest.
Superintendent C. F. Grill and
Principal K. L. Martin attended
the superintendent’s and princi
pal’s division of the Nebraska State
Teacher’s Association, which was
held in Omaha last Friday after
noon and Saturday. The program
was high-lighted by an interesting
talk given by Prof. C. A. Ptosser,
director of the Dunwoody Institute
jof Minneapolis, Minn.
Miss Elja McCullough, county
j superintendent of Holt county, en
tertained approximately 100 of the
grade and high school teachers of
; the county at a 6:30 dinner at the
j Golden Hotel on Tuesday evening.
Music was furnished by the pupils
from different schools throughout
the county. Following the dinner,
a short address was given by E.
Remsey, humorist from Midland
Assemblies of Lincoln. All the
schools in the county were repre
sented at the dinner, except
Chambers.
They Do Come Back. John
Kersenbrock Elected
Mayor Last Tuesday
In the heaviest vote ever cast
in a city election the electors at
O'Neill last Tuesday returned
John Kersenbrock to the mayoral
ity chair after an absense of two
years, with a majority of 64 votes,
without counting the votes sent by
mail votes or those of disabled
voters. There were forty-seven
applications received by the city
clerk and that many ballots sent
out and forty-four of them have
been returned. Should all of
these votes be for Mayor Coyne
there would not be enough to
change the election—they will
probably be pretty evenly divided
between the two candidates—so
for the next two years it will again
be Mayor Kersenbrock.
The election was unusually quiet.
You never could hear the matter
dit cussed on the streets or whete
crowds gathered until election day
and a small vote had been expected.
But election day all this changed
as voters from all the wards of the
cU:> l ocked to the polling places
and cast their ballots. A very
heavy vote was cast in the fore
noon and it was easy to see that
there would be an unusually heavy
vote caBt. There were 380 votes
cast in the First ward, 346 in the
Sfcond ward and 414 in the Third.
Following is how the wards voted
on mayor: —
First Second Third
Ward Ward Ward
Coyne .158 194 183
Kersenbrock 219 149 231
The only other contest was that
for councilman in the Second ward,
the contest being between C. E.
Lundgren and Edmund Hancock.
Lundgren won the race easily, re
ceiving a majority of 88 votes. The
vote was: Lundgren 205; Hancock
117.
The only changes in the city
council which will handle the affairs
of the city after the first of May
will be Lundgren in the Second,
replacing Lindberg, who was not a
candidate for re-election, and Mike
Johnson in the Third, who replaces
Levi Yantzi, who was not a candi
date for re-election. Johnson
served on the council from the
Third ward for several years and
is an old hand at the game.
Following is the vote received by
the other candidates, all running
without opposition:
C. W. Porter, City Clerk .936
Ed Quinn, City Treasurer. 901
Geo. Bay, Police Judge .861
McNally, Councilman, First . ..302
Johnson, Councilman, Third.321
For School Board
Anna O’Donnell . ...613
Dr. H. L. Bennett .811
Nine O’Neill High Com
mercial Students To
Norfolk Saturday
Nine junior commercial students
are leaving for Norfolk Saturday
morning to compete in the district
state commercial contest. Be
cause of the fine work that these
students have been doing this
school year, despite the very late
start that they got at the begin
ning they are o be given the op
portunity to match their skills with
the best in the state.
Entries are as follows: Book
keeping: Francis Murray, Cliff
ord Burival, Lydia Halva, E'dith
Leinhart. Novice typewriting, 10
minutes: Bonnie Kurtz, Lydia
Ilalva,Edith Leinhart. Same for
novice typewriting, one minute,
Shorthand novice: Shirley Luben,
Esther Fox, Edith Leinhart, Lydia
Halva.
Census Enumerators For
Holt County Announced
According to Mrs. W. H. Bosse,
Norfolk, census supervisor for this
district, the following have been
appointed as census enumerators
for this county. The work of tak
ing the census started on Tuesday.
Appointees for this county: Ger
tie Minahan, Amelia; Frank Mln
narik, Ewing; Tom Murray,
O’Neill; William Murray, Atkin
son; Flirence Parkinson, Page;
John Grutsch, Atkinson; Ernest
Price, O’Neill; Ruth Rector, Mid
dlebranch; John Walker, Page
Harold Donohoe, O’Neill.