VOL LX1 O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 NUMBER 20
SOUTHWESTERN I
BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
If Mr. Wallace wgnts to make
votes he should make no more
speeches.
Cattle have been moved to mar
ket from the ranches in this com
munity in large numbers in recent
weeks.
The prize club calf at the state
fair sold for just 25c short of
$7:?5.00, one of those pub nosed
aristocrats of the Angus breed, be
ing pronounced the winner.
Perhaps the governor’s chance'
to realize further political ambi
tion would be materiaiy advanced
could he lay aside a little of the
partisan attitude in behalf of a
needy group of Nebraskan’s and
join his opponent in Mr. Butler s
sane proposal to loan drouth-blis
tered farmers some of that corn
under U. S. seal. But Roy Coch
ran apparently is just not built
that way. Every man has at least
a touch of partisan prejudice, but
most of us can split it up in the
face of a specific need.
What response there may have
been on Sunday the 8th, to the call
of the nation to prayer for peace,
there is no way of knowing, I
would be the last to ridicule a sin
ner that goes to his knees, but if
our national leaders have any faith
in the thing they called for why, go
ahead spending billions for war?
“We mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes and
our sacred honor.” Thus our fath
ers faced the first great peril. To
day our honored members of con
gress make “their lives, their for
tunes," if not their sacred honor
safe from flying bullets in framing
a conscription measure.
I don’t know that the country
looked any better when Neil Bren
nan came up the valley, paused the
day he came in sight of the frontier
settlement to bathe his feet in the
cooling waters of the Elkhorn, than
it did a month ago when I traveled
the length of the valley from At
kinson to Fremont. It never look
ed better, but just what has jack
frost done to those miles of corn
fields. The demand for feeder cat
tle down that way indicates the
corn has not been injured.
An hour.before dawn a morning
last week neighborhood dogs were
aroused to furious barking by sharp
quick notes that announced the
prairie wolves were on a raid and
weather changes were at hand.
The changes were a frost and the
raid netted a haul of turkeys at
Warners.
If I owed a merchant ten dollars,
I could not loan a stranger in the
next county ten dollars and let the
merchants wait. With a public debt
standing at fifty billions, what is
the sense of loaning to foreign na
tions.
One patriot wants to set the
world straight by messing in oth
er nations affairs, another insists
on isolation; still another has the
brilliant idea of controling the use
of firearms by law, while another
wants a dozen guns in the house;
then there is the chap who thinks
grasshoppers can be eliminated by
the few pheasants if that bird is
withdrawn from the open season.
Anyway it is still free America,
where we can promulgate our
hairbrained ideas.
Out at Gering a group of thirty
five men were dismissed from a
county WPA job, whereupon they
held an indignation meeting and
demanded aid from the county com
missioners. And that is the kind
of citizens the New Deal is foster
ing.
A cry of alarm. I turned from
my work just as a mottled streak
flew past ten feet away croaking
frantically. A pheasant in full
flight with a gray hawk right at
Many Outstate Buyers ,
Expected at Stocker
Feeder Show
From all indications and in
quiries received by managers Lyn
dle R. Stout and James W. Rooney
of the Holt County Stocker Feeder
Show and Sale to be held in O’Neill
Monday, September 30, the largest
number of outstate buyers will be
present to purchase feeder calves
that will be found at any sale in
the county this fall. An unusual
demand for both feeder and 4-H
calves is promised and the fact that
many calves have either been con
tracted or sold indicates that this
sale will bze a good market for
good quality feeder calves. While
180 4-H calves are expected from
local clubs and several cattle men
have made consignments for the
commercial show and sale, it is be
lieved that additional calves will be
needed to supply the demand for
the day.
O’Neill business men in cooper
ation with the O’Neill Lions Club
are offering liberal premiums for
the show in an effort to advertise
and encourage the raising of bet
ter cattle and to stimulate local
4-H club work.
One thousand head of quality
feeder calves have been extensively
advertised in eastern livestock
journals for this show and sale,
which is being conducted in the
first of a series to be held during
next week. The sale will be con
ducted in the usual manner with
every rancher invited to consign
quality calves to help supply the
market.
Bankers of This District
Held Meeting Tuesday
The semi-annual meeting of the
North Central Nebraska Regional
Clearing House Association was
held in O’Neill last Tuesday even
ing with a seven o’clock dinner at
the Golden Hotel, with about forty
nine members of the association
present. There were members
prsent from all the towns in the
district’, which extends from Tilden
to Ainsworth and from Spencer to
Spalding.
O. E. Krohn of Neligh, who is
president of the association, acted
as toastmaster and introduced the
principal speakers, J. Francis Mc
Dermott, of Omaha, vice president
of the First National bank of
Omaha and J. O. Peck, vice presi
dent of the Continental National
bank of Lincoln..
Pleasant Dale School
The Pleasant Dale School opened
the 26th of August. Miss Kazda
is the teacher. She has five pupils.
They are Lottie Babl, Harold and
Robert Winkler in the 8th grade;
Arlene Beckwith the 6th, and
Daryl Beckwith in the 4th.
Pleasant Dale school won second
in the county on the fair exhibits.
We received $5.35.
Olive Beckwith and Nayadene
Kee were visitors at the Pleasant
Dale school this last month.
In the monthly examinations
Lottie Babl received 100 in spell
ing and arithmetic. Raryl Beck
with received 100 in reading.
Those that were neither absent
nor tardy were Lottie Babl, Ar
lene and Daryl Beckwith.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Murphy and
daughters, Mary and Catherine,
of Lincoln, visited here at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Beha
on Sunday. Mrs, Murphy is a
niece of Mrs. JBeha.
his tail. The bomber w&s being
bombed. The robber of birds nests,
the destroyer of prairie chickens,
the plunderer of house wives to
mato patches, had met up with
something. A hook-beaked, vi
cious, taloned creature on the wing
was giving him a taste of his own
tasties. And the truculent bully
always “hollers” when dealt a dose
of his own medicine. Reminds one
of the Nazi when bombs begun to
fall on Berlin. Czechs, Poles, Neth
erlands, Scandinavians—one after
the other were enveloped in the
horors of bursting Nazi bombs and
when the little island kingdom to
the west poured a similar dose over
Berlin—Oh. that wasn’t fair.
Spencer High Swamps
O’Neill High Friday
Spencer, undefeated in football
in 1939, kept its slate clean by de
feating O’Neill 21-0 in the first
1940 game for the two teams. In
the first quarter the heavier Spen
cer team plowed down the field
after receiving the kickoff and
scored a touchdown without losing
possession of the ball. O'Neill’s
defense tightened and the rest of
the first half was even.
On the second play of the sec
ond half, Spencer broke loose on
a 45-yard jaunt for a touchdown.
The final score also came in the
third period when a march down
field brought Spencer its third
touchdown. O’Neill carried the
ball inside Spencer’s 10-yard line
in the fourth quarter and failed by
inches to make the necessary yards
for a first and goal.
O’Neill reserves who saw action
were Leach and Wetzler, ends;
Bright, tackle; Perry and Oberle,
guards; Manzer and Osenbaugh,
backs.
O’Neill plays its first home game
of the season this Friday when
Burwell returns the game played
under the lights at Burwell last
year.
O’Neill’s squad was strengthen
ed by the return of Irvin Kloppen
berger, who is an inexperienced
player, but whose presence will add
power to the backfield. Experience
gained in the opening game should
add poise to some of the boys who
had never been in a football game
before last Friday. Burwell plays
here after having won and lost one
game so far this season.
BRIEFLY STATED
O’Neill relatives here received
word of the birth of a son to Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Gubbels, of Omaha
on Friday, September 20. Mrs.
Gubbels will be remembered here
as Miss Margaret Rhode.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Kinsman, of
Columbus, Nebraska, visited rela
tives here on Sunday and Monday.
They returned to their home on
Monday evening, their son, Jimmie,
who has been employed here at
the Golden Hotel returning with
them to Columbus, where he has
accepted employment.
Mrs. Walter Warner drove to
Broken Bow, Nebraska, last Thurs
day, where she visited until Wed
nesday of this week, when she was
to go to Lincoln, and then return
to O’Neill, bringing with her, Mrs.
A. E. Bowen, who has been in the
hospital there recovering from a
recent operation.
Emergency crop and feed loans
are available to Farmers in Holt
county for the planting of winter
grain and feeding of livestock, and
applications for these loans are
now being received at O’Neill by
J. W. Walker, field supervisor of
the emergency crop and feed loan
action of the farm credit adminis
tration.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Armbruster
and son went down to Norfolk Sun
day morning and visited at the
home of Mrs. Armbruster’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Dobney
over Sunday. On Monday Mr.
Armbruster visited salesmen in the
city and purchased a lot of holiday
goods for the store here and they
returned home about noon Monday,
being driven up by Mr. and Mrs.
Dobney, who visited friends here
that afternoon and then returned
home.
Miss Margaret Janes, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Max Janes of
Bakersfield, California, has enroll
ed in Scripps College for girls at
Claremont, Cal. Miss Janes was
graduated from the Kern County
Union High school this spring and
upon graduation was presented
with a senior service award, an
honor bestowed upon the outstand
ing 1940 graduates. During her
high school career she was an
active member of the California
Scholarship Federation, honor
society, the Thespian players, the
Radio production league, the Girls’
league and hostess cluh besides
participating in numerous extra
curricular activities. Miss Janes’
mother will be remembered here
as Miss Mary Stannard.
I
! Special To Stockmen
Since Monday, September 30,
is the date of the annual 4-H
Calf Club Show and Sale at the
local Sales Pavilion, this date
may not be the best time to
consign miscellaneous stock to
the weekly auction. It would be
difficult to give sueh consign
ments the customary careful at
tention and service they should
receive.
Some News Notes From
St. Mary’s Academy
On Friday afternoon, the stu
dents presented a program honor
ing Sr. Dolores on the occasion of
her Nameday. The students took
this opportunity to express to Sr.
Dolores their appreciation of her
work among them. Sr. Dolores is
beginning her twenty-fourth year of
teaching in St. Mary’s, and during
all these long years, she has de
voted herself wholeheartedly to
the interests of St. Mary’s and her
students.
The boarders’ Sodality held an
election of officers during the week.
Irma Langer was chosen as Pre
fect, and she has as her Assistants,
Rose Ann Schulte and Etta M.
Meyer.
The graduates of last year’s
class have been calling this week
to say good-bye before starting on
the work of the year. Bill Biglin,
Bill Kubitschek, and Basil Price
went to Creighton. Catherine Fin
ley registered for St. Catherine’s
in Minnesota. Darleen Weber left
for Atchison, Kansas. Mary Ann
Meer is enrolled in Ward-Belmont,
Tennessee. Ruth Pribil entered
college at Briar Cliff, Sioux City.
Monica Hoefs will attend the Col
lege of St. Mary, Omaha. Mary
Jane Iler started Nurses’ Training
at the Lutheran Hospital, Sioux
City. Alma Walla& and Marjorie
Cronin are doing post-graduate
work at St. Mary’s. Among those
who are out teaching are Mary
Zirnig, Marcella Ruble, Ethel Wink
ler, Helen M. Mullen, Holda Simons.
The other members of the class
have either succeeded in finding
employment or are at home.
The State Fire Marshall visited
the Academy Monday and found the
fire escapes and safety devices all
in excellent condition. Three new
fire extinguishers have been added
to the equipment during the past
year.
Wednesday, the eighteenth, was
a Red Letter day for all the stu
dents. Classes were dismissed, so
that all the pupils might take part
in the celebration of O’Neill Day.
The children were to be seen on
the floats, in the band, in the
games, but especially at the Merry
go-round. It was a great day.
Chambers Flyer Crashes
Tuesday and Receives
Serious Injuries |
Gordon Cooper, of Chambers,
about 18 years of age, and an ex
perienced pilot, crashed his air
plane about one and a half miles
from the Chambers airport on
Tuesday of this week, while out
hunting coyotes. Gordon received
two fractured legs and a fractured
jaw, and his condition is regarded
as serious in the Norfolk hospital
where he was taken immediately
following the accident.
Gordon is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Cooper and has been
flying for several years having
about 225 hours of solo flying to
his credit. There are a number of
airplane enthusiasts in Chambers,
and this is the first serious acci
dent that has occurred. The plane
which Gordon was flying was com
pletely wrecked. He was alone
at the time the accident occurred.
Ferris—N ighteiiKale
Miss Lillian Nightengale and
Bernard Ferris, both of O’Neill,
were united in marriage on Thurs
day, September 19, at Bassett, Ne
braska, at twelve o’clock noon,
County Judge W. H. Allen officiat
ing.
Mrs. Ferris wore a dark brown
wool suit, with hunter green ac
cessories while her sister, Miss Ter
esa, who was her bridesmaid, wore
a black crepe dress with white ac
cessories.
The groom was attired in a dark
green business suit, while the best
man, Tony Rohde, wore a dark
blue business suit.
The bride is the oldest daughter >
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nighten
gale of Walnut, and attended the
Verdigris high school, from which
school she was graduated with the
class of 1934. For the past several
years she has been employed in
O’Neill, working in the local office
of the Travelers Insurance Com
pany.
The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Ferris of Pierce, Nebras
ka, where he attended school, be
ing graduated with the class of
1935, and has for the past few
years been in O’Neill, where he is
the manager of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company.
Immediately following the wed
ding ceremony, the young couple j
left on a wedding trip to Rapid
City, and the Black Hills in South
Dakota. Upon their return to j
O’Neill, they will be at home to all
of their friends in an apartment in
the northeast part of O’Neill.
The Frontier joins with the many
friends of the bride and groom in
wishing them much happiness and
prosperity.
THE ability to make money
and the ability to accumulate
it are two entirely different
things. In that difference is
the difference between failure
and success.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and This Bank Carries No
Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers
$140,000.00 or Stockholders.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
ANNUAL MEETING OF OMAHA DIOCESE
[ATHOLIC WOMEN VERY SUCCESSFUL
The Meeting Held Here Last Sunday and Monday
and Was One of the Most Successful Ever Held
The eighteenth annual convention 1
of the Omaha Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women, which was held i
in O’Neill on Sunday and Monday ,
of this week, was one of the most
successful ever held, with a large
group in attendance at all of the
meetings.
Mrs. Jaroslav Folda, of Omaha,
president of the Council was re
elected at the business meeting
which was held Monday morning.
The convention was closed at the
luncheon held on Monday, at one
o’clock at the Golden Hotel, with
Mrs. Jas. A. Brown, of Omaha, act
ing as toastmaster.
A short talk, “A Message to
the Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women,” by the Rev. John S. Jur
icek of Omaha, introduced the pro
gram, followed by the “Parent
Teacher Associations,” by Mrs.
Norman Folda of Omaha, who is
president of the Omaha Parent
Teacher Assoc!ation of Catholic
Schools.
Miss Mary Kayser, until recently
connected with the National School
of Social Service at Washington,
D. Cm and now in Omaha, talked on
“The Work of the Catholic Child
Welfare Agency.” Mrs. Fred Ber
ry of Wayne, who came to O’Neill
straight from Washington, D. C„
where she visited the National
Headquarters of the Council, spoke
informally of her visit to that city.
The report of the Resolutions
Committee, headed by Miss Beata
Schmidt of West Point, Nebraska,
vas then heard, followed by the
dosing of the convention by Mrs.
r. Folda, president of the Council.
The following members of the
;lergy were present for the meet
ings of the Council. His Excellency,
Most Rev. Bishop James H. Ryan,
S. T. D., Rt. Rev. Msgr. Wegner,
Rev. Father Marrin, of Creighton
University, Rev. John S. Juricek,
and Rev. Kocarisk, all of Omaha,
Nebraska. Rev. C.*A. Beyersdor
fer of St. Johns’ Deloit, Rt. Rev.
Msgr. McNamara and Father Parr
of O’Neill, and Rev. F. Lehman of
Atkinson, Nebraska.
Miss Veronica O’Connor, Nation
al Director of the Catholic Daugh
ters of America was present as a
delegate from Omaha, Nebraska,
as were several other ladies, prom
inent in the affiliate organizations
of the Council. These included
Mrs. Arthur Mullen, past president
of the Council, Mrs. James Brown,
Mrs. D. W. Killen, Mrs. Thos. Me
Shane, President of the Deanery
Study Club of Omaha, Mrs. Deiss
Muffitt, on the advisory committee
of the Study Club, Mrs. Norman
Folda, and Mrs. C. J. Tighe, all of
Omaha, and Mrs. J. E. Huntemer
and Mrs. Fred Berry of Wayne.
An address, “The Contributions
of Catholic Women to the Unity of
Catholicism,” was given at the
banquet on Sunday night by J.
Francis McDermott, K. S. G., of
Omaha.
Market Better This Week;
Light Supply Makes
Prices Advance
With lighter receipts of live
stock than have been here the past
couple of weeks, the market show
ed a firmer undertone and prices
advanced on practically all classes.
Plenty of buyers were here and
their competitive bidding kept the
auction moving at a brisk pace.
Sales on the calf end of the day’s
offering were strong and prices
were somewhat higher than a week
ago. Top price on steer calves
touched $10.85; bulls in this class
solrl from $0.75 to $10.75; plainer
kinds with more weight were not
quite so popular. Heifer calves
were in rather light supply and
best of these sold upwards to $9.50;
bulk moved from $8.50 to $9.40.
Yearlings shared in the day’s
price upswing, the lighter weights
showing the most advance. Topper
steers in the yearling class sold as
high as $9.90 with the bulk cashing
between $8.50 and $9.50. Yearling
heifers bulked around $7.75 to
$8.75.
Heavy feeders were not too plen
tiful this week and quality gen
erally was only fairly good. Bulk
in this class found new owners
around the $8.50 levels with better
kinds going at prices upwards to
$9.25 or better. The latter were
scarce.
Cows came in for the biggest
price gain of the week. Most of
the good kind of fleshy clows
changed hands at prices ranging I
from $6.00 to $6.75. Thinner she
stuff showed gains on a similar
scale with last week’s figures. Bulls
were scarce and ruled about steady
with a week ago. Too few were
here to make a quotable market.
Hog receipts fell off a little this
week and prices were mostly steady
to a dime lower. Top butchers sold
at $6.05; bulk found ready outlet
at around $6.00. Pigs sold about
steady with prevailing prices last
week.
Only a few' sheep were here; too
few to test the market. About 20
horses and mules were in the day’s
offering.
Next Monday, September 30, is
the date set aside for the annual
4-H Club Calf Show and Sale. The
show will begin promptly at 9:00 ■
A. M. at the sales pavilion. The
stock sale is scheduled at 1:00:
P. M. on that day.
A Holt County Girl Wins
Honors at Sioux City
Livestock Show
Patricia Faulhaber, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Faulhaber
of Middlebranch, was an exhibitor
of a 4-H baby beef calf in the Sioux
City Livestock Show this week
and was awarded a sixth place
ribbon in the junior division of the
Hereford contest. This accomplish
ment is one of which this 4-H mem
ber can be very proud considering
the fact that over 800 calves from
Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and
Nebraska, were competing in one of
the midwest's finest livestock
shows. Miss Faulhaber deserves
to be complimented on this splen
did achievement and other Holt
county residents can be proud
that their boys and girls are mak
ing such records among interstate
competition.
Six calves from Holt county
were shown and sold at the show
which was very successful. George
Hendrick, Richard and Shirley
Faulhaber had the additional en
tries in the show.
O’Neill Defeats Redbird
On Local Diamond
O’Neill defeated Redbird here
Sunday 8 to 1 in a six inning game.
Bill Troshyuski pitched one hit ball
until the game was halted in the
seventh on account of rain. The
batteries were, Redbird, Edwards,
Thorn and P. Carson. O’Neill,
Troshyuski and Pruss. The locals
collected eight hits, Redbird one.
O’Neill defeated Stuart on Tues
day at Stuart's Tri County Cele
bration by a score of 7 to 0. Bill
Tomlinson pitched a no hit no run
game for O'Neill, while his mates
collected nine hits and seven runs.
O’Neill closes the season on
Sunday, September 29 at Bassett
against a team of all stars from
Ainsworth, Long Pine, Bassett,
Newport and Springview. They
have engaged the services of Jack
Tesinger, from the Texas league,
to pitch for them. He pitched
this same team of all stars to a
9-3 victory over Redbird here last
fall.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Nelson and
daughter, Nancy Jo, of Norfolk,
arrived on Tuesday to spend a few
days visiting at ♦he home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rear
don.