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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1940)
t vat. T.TT O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940 NUMBER 26 ‘ __________ ROOSEVELT WINS THE THIRD TERM Nebraska Joins Other Agricultural States In Opposition Endorses Willkie And Elects The Entire Republican Ticket Hugh Butler Elected To U. S. Senate With A Majority Of 90,000 Or Better Governor-Elect Dwight Griswold Leads Ticket With A Majority of 120,000 Votes At the election last Tuesday President Roosevelt was elected for a third term, thus breaking precedent in the U. S. A. The agricultural middle west did not join the labor organizations of the industrial east and they oppos his reelection and cast their votes for Wendell Willkie. These states comprised the following: Colo rado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ne brarska, Maine, Vermont, North Dakota and South Dakota, nine states in all. Willkie, although defeated, received about five mil lion more votes in the United States than any candidate who was ever defeated for the office. In the popular vote Roosevelt led him about four and a half million, but a large share of them came from the democrati south, where they vote like they drink, straight. After several years of following the New Deal fallacies the voters of Nebraska returned to their first love at the election last Tuesday and by an avalanche of ballots swept the New Dealers out of of fice and the republicans in. In the state all of the counties except eight gave majorities for the repub lican ticket. The eight that still clung with the New Deal were: Bulter, Dakota, Douglas, Howard, Saline, Sarpy, Thurston and Sher man, leaving eighty-five counties for the republican candidates. Wen del Willkie carried the state with a majority of 85,000, while four years ago Roosevelt carried the state with approximately 100,000 majority and a much heavier vote eight years ago. In this Veversal oi »form Holt county joined the throng and gave a majority for the republican candidate of 1831, with out the mail vote of 117, which will undoubtedly add to this majority. In 1932 this county gave Roosevelt a majority of 2386. In the fall of 1936 the voters of this county were getting a little tired of the New Deal and the Roosevelt majority slumped that fall to 188, or a loss of 2198 votes in four years, which conclusively proves that the farm ers are not in favor of*the New Deal farm policy. Hugh Butter, of Omaha, republi can candidate for United States Senator was an easy victor over Governor Cochran. Many Were of the opinion that Cochran could not be defeated but, although he carried Douglas county with a substantial majority, the rest of the state came to Butter’s rescue and he won with a majority of over 90,000 votes, running ahead of the head of the ticket. Butter is an alert and active business man and has been engaged in farming and stock raising for many years and he will prove a valuable asset to the people of Nebraska in the United States senate. He is 7iot a New Dealer nor a “yes man’’. Dwight Griswold’s fourth at tempt for the governorship was successful and he buried Terry Carpenter under such an avalanche of votes that Terry will have some time e7nei‘ging therefrom. His majority in the state is over 120,000, which we think, is the biggest majoi’ity ever given a candidate for governor in the state. The balance of the republican state ticket is safely republican with large majorities, except sec retary of state, and the vote on that office is rather close, although the republican is leading. In Holt county there were 7nany | surprises, for both parties, bitter : disappointment to the democratic I New Dealers and pleasant ones for the members of the republican party. Republicans were confi dent that Willkie would carry the county but they did not look for anywhere near the vote that was cast for him in the county, 4804, to 2973 for Roosevelt, or a republican majority of 1831, with 125 mail votes to count. This naturally will cause rejoicing among republicans of the county for it is the first time since the election of 1928 that the republicans carried this county for all the candidates on the ticket, and by majorities never before heal’d of in this county. In the election of 1930 the republicans carried the county for nearly all candidates on the state ticket, but lost the count to C. W. Bryan, who nosed out Governor Weaver for leadership in the county. Dwight Griswold, republican ] candidate for governor and the next governor of Nebraska, was the leader of the party on the state ticket. He carried the county with a vote of 4890 to 2041 for Ter rible Terry Carpenter, or a major ity of 2241. All the rest of the 'republican candidates carried the county, the vote of each candidate can be found at the end of this article, with the respective majori ties. The real leader ot tne iiCK.ec in the county, as he was expected to be, was Congressman Karl Stefan. He polled 5819 votes in the county to 1185 for his democratic oppon-1 ent, Victor McGonigle, or a plur ality for Stefan of 4634 over both candidates. Paul Burke, petition candidate, received 241 votes in the county and Congressman Stefan had a majority over both candi dates of 4,373 votes. His majority in the county two years ago over former congressman Edgar How ard was 3,499, so he increased his majority in the two years 874, which clearly proves that Karl is increasing his hold on the people of this county. On the Non-political ticket Judge Carter, member of the supreme court from this district and candi date for re-election without oppo sition, received 4975 votes, while Judge Dickson, a candidate un opposed for district judge from this district, received 5769 votes. One of the real scraps on this non-political ticket was that for member of the legislature from this district. The candidates were Sen ator F. J. Brady, of Atkinson, who served in the unicameral two terms, after serving one term as state senator in the old bicameral. Dur ing the past two sessions of the legislature Mr. Brady has taken a very important part in the deliber ations of the legislature, having been chairman of the finance com mittee, the most powerful and im portant committee in the legisla ture during his two terms of serv ice. Mr. Brady’s health has not been very good the past year and a half and he was prevented on that account from making an active campaign. The vote in this county was 3320 for Brady and 3937 for Asimus, or a majority for the lat ter of 617 in the county, exclusive of the mail vote. We understand that the complete vote of the dis-j trict is: Brady 6075, Asimus 6317, | or a majority in the district of 242. The race for county judge was not close enough to be interesting. J f O’Neill And Grattan In The Republican Column Among the surprises in the last campaign was that given by the voters of O’Neill and Grattan township. For many, many years this city and township surrounding it, have been bulwarks of the demo cratic party and many of their suc cessful candidates in this county owed their election to the heavy vote given them in this city. This was all changed last Tuesday and the city voted republican with a, majority of 79 votes and the town ship gave a republican majority of 42 votes, or a republican majority in the city and township of 121. The vote in the township and the three wards was as follows: Rep. Dem. Grattan .166 124 O’Neill, First Ward 219 218 O’Neill, Second Ward 163 184 O’Neill. Third Ward 287 188 Total . 835 714 Atkinson was unusually strongly republican at the election last Tuesday. The republican ticket carried all the wards in the city, in cluding the strong democratic Third ward, which went republican with a majority of fourteen votes. The total vote in Atkinson and Atkin son precinct was 375 for Roosevelt and 560 for Willkie. O’Neill, At kinson and Chambers gave Willkie mqre than half of the majority he received in this county. As in the primary race, Judge Rei mer showed surprising strength and polled a vote of 4942 as against 2302 for Henry Grady, or a major ity of 2640. In the race for county assessor, Walter G. Sire, a novice in politics, ran ahead of his democratic op ponent, an old political war horse, T. J. Coyne, polling 3824 votes to 3156 cast for Mr. Coyne, a major ity of 668. As in the primary race Tom ran ahead of the head of his ticket, but the republican tidal i wave was on and it would not be I denied, at least not in Nebraska. For President: Wendell L. Willkie, R .4804 Franklin 1). Roosevelt, D . 2973 For United States Senator: Hugh A. Butler, R .4051 R. L. Cockran, D . 3265 For Governor: Dwight Griswold, R .4890 Terry Carpenter, D 2649 For Lieutenant Governor: William Edward Johnson, R 4201 William H. Diers, D .. 2449 For Set rotary of State > Frank Marsh, R .. '.'...3680 Harry R. Swanson, D .... .3382 For Auditor of Public Accounts: Ray C. Johnson, R .3872 William H. Price, D ...i.2749 For State Treasurer: L. B. Johnson, R . 3719 Walter H. Jensen, I) .2813 For Attorney General: Walter R. Johnson, R 3876 Michael T. McLaughlin, D 2612 For Railway Commissioner: Richard H. Larson, R .3427 S. A. Swanson, D .3136 For Representative in Congress, Third District: Karl Stefan, R 5819 Victor J. McGonigle, I) ....1185 Paul Burke, by Petition .241 For Judge of the Supreme Court, Sixth District: Edward F. Carter .4975 For Member of the Legislature, Twenty-Eighth District: Tony Asimus .3927 Frank J. Brady .3320 For District Judge, Fifteenth Dis trict : R. R. Dickson .5769 For County Judge: Louis W. Reimer . 4942 Henry D. Grady .2302 For County Assessor (To Fill Va cancy) : Walter G. Sire, R .3824 Thos. J. Coyne, D .3156 Supervisor Contests In the race for supervisors in the three districts, which elected this fall, there was a close race in but one district, the second. In this district W. E. Wulf, who was ap pointed by the county board to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of L. W. Reimer when he was appointed county judge, was the democratic candidate, and Eben Grafft, of Ewing was the repub lican candidate. Luke Rakow, of Verdigris, field as a petition can didate and made a remarkable race. When the votes were finally counted W. E. Wulf had 395, Eben Grafft 389 and Luke Rakow 390, so that but six votes are between the highest and lowest candidate. Theie are seventeen mail votes to count in this district and they will decide the winner in this contest. They will start the count Friday morning. In the Fourth district Supervisor Carson, who has held the position for the past eight years, was a can didate for re-election and he was opposed by Joe Schollmeyer, dem ocrat, who was the democratic candidate. Schollmeyer was a sup ervisor from that district many years ago and he made a come back and won handily, receiving 526 votes to 286 cast for Carson, or a majority of 239, without the mail votes. In the Sixth district Walter K. Smith, former chairman and pres ent member of the dioard, was a candidate for re-election and he was opposed by A. M. Batenhorst, democrat. It looked like a close race for a while but Smith retained his seat on the board, with a vote of 653 to 445, without the mail vote, a majority of 108. The total vote cast last Tuesday was 7777, without the mail vote, which is less than the 7965 cast at the general election in 1936. Sixth District Supervisor: Batten - horst, I) Smith, R Francis . 6 47 Green Valley . 57 40 Holt Creek . 13 20 Stuart ..353 366 Swan . 13 68 Josie . 3 12 445 563 Fourth District Supervisor: Wulf Grafft Rakow D R Pet. D R tion Deloit .144 18 10 Ewing . 155 177 103 Golden . 29 66 49 Verdigris .. 67 128 228 395 389 390 Second*District Supervisor: Scholl. meyer, D Carson, R Antelope . 31 19 Iowa ...,. 73 32 Paddock ... 124 65 Scott . 66 69 Shields .-.132 37 Steel Creek. 69 70 Willowdale . 71 33 526 286 Asimus Wins Senatorship Following is the vote of the four counties of the Twenty-eighth sen atorial district for state senator. This is a complete unofficial vote, without mail vote, but theTe is not enough of them to change the result, unless they are all cast for one candidate and that hardly seems probable. Brady Asimus Holt . 8320 3927 Boyd . 1148 1376 Keya Paha . 786 441 Rock . 821 573 Total .6075 6317 Mr. and Mi's. Frank Biglin njade a business trip to Omaha on Friday of last week. St. Mary’s Six-Man Team Wins An Easy Victory St. Mary’s, overwhelming Stuart in 26 minutes of play, won an easy victory by scoring 47 points while again holding their opponents scoreless. After the game had burely got ten underway Ryan took the ball on the Stuart 30 and ran it across starting the scoring for St. Mary’s. Ryan then kicked the extra point, making the score 8-0. After tak ing the ball away from Stuart on a fumble St. Mary’s again scored with Hickey plunging from about the five yard line. St. Mary’s took the ball on downs and Bill Ryan running through the entire Stuart team scored from the 25, making the score 23-0 after Shoemaker ran the extra point over. St. Mary’s again kicked off to Stuart but again they were helpless and lost the ball to St Mary’s on their own 30. Hammond then ran it over from the 30 to end the scor ing of the first half at 20-0. Only six minutes were played in the third quarter, but this was long enough for St. Mary’s to score three touchdowns, an average of one every two minutes. Klein schmitt took a pass from Ryan for the first one. Hickey again plung ed for the second fumble on their own 25-yard line, ran it across to end the game 47-0, for this game was played on a sudden death bas is, that is, if one team is ahead of the other team by 45 points the game is automatically over. St. Mary’s having won six suc cessive games and scoring 231 points to their opponents 12 have become the biggest threat in six man football in this part of the State. St. Mary’s will meet the Long Pine outfit on Armistice day at the city park. Annual Red Cross Drive To Start Next Tuesday The annual Red Cross drive will! start in O’Neill on next Tuesday i morning, according to Chairman Mrs. D. Stannard. The following j four ladies have been appointed i captains for the city: Mrs. J. P. Brown, southwest section; Mrs. L. A. Burgess, northwest section; Mrs. E. M. Gallagher, northeast section; Mrs. C. J. Gatz, southeast section. These ladies will appoint the solicitors for the various sec tins of the city, who will start work T uesday. Mrs. J. S. Ennis Sarah Lavinia Eveland was born in Monroe. Wisconsin, April 17, 1877, and while a child moved to Delaware county and then to Wood bury county in Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. From Iowa she came to Thurston county, Ne braska, then to Atkinson and to O’Neill in 1916 where her home has since been until her death Friday evening, November 1, after a short ilnness, aged 63 years, 6 months and 14 days. She was united in marriage to Joseph Sherman Ennis in Manona county, Iowa, April 30, 1893. Their children are Emery H., Mrs. Billie L. Maxwell, Mrs. Marguerite D. Bayse, and Elmer F. of San Diego, California and Mrs. Loraine R. Smith of Chambers, Nebr.; also two brothers, Lorenzo Eveland of Nashville, Tenn.; James Eveland of Sand Point, Idaho; and one sis ter, Mrs. Charles Hiserote, of South Sioux City, Nebraska; five grand children and her mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Eveland. She became a member of the Methodist church at the age of fourteen and remained faithful to her vows until death; she also was a member of the O’Neill Rebekah Lodge, has been a member of the O’Neill Methodist choir for twenty, two years and an officer and teach er in the Sunday school. She has been a faithful and loyal wife, mother and servant of her Lord and Saviour. She will be missed in the many places of service that occu pied her life. *** The Weather O’Neill received the first taste of winter last Monday evening when a few flurries of snow fell around seven o’cl 1 after a day in which a very lif: at mist fell most of the time. Tuesday, which was election day, was cold and chilly but no moisture was received in this part of the country, and the chilly weather did not keep the voters away from the polls. Following is the weather chart | for the past week: High Low October 31 . . ....61 41 November 1 ...64 36 November 2 .61 32 November 3 ...76 40 November 4 .60 36 November 6 ..37 32 Misses Beulah Rogers, Berna detta Penney and Darlene Grass drove to Norfolk Friday and visit ed friends. r - 'I Program For Armistice Day Monday, November 11 1. Music by Combined School Bands. 2. Music by O’Neill High School Mixed Chorus. 3. Reading—Student of St. Mary’s Academy 4. Music—Vocal Group of St. Mary’s Academy. 5. Address—Rev. O’Brien of Emmet. 6. Taps—Sung by Miss Marjorie Gray bill, echoed by Dorothy Ivowery. Program to be held at the High School Auditorium at 10:00 A. M., preceded by parade starting at 9:30. O’Neill High looses To Bloomfield High O’Neill High held the undefeated Bloomfield team scoreless in the first .half of the game here last Friday but weakened in the second half and lost 21-0. The turning point in the game came with one minute left in the third quarter when Bloomfield recovered an O’Neill fumble on the O’Neill .'10 yard line. In nine plays they scored and converted on the extra point. The second touchdown came after O'Neill had kept the visitors behind their 40 yard line for most of the fourth period. Wil son, Bloomfield halfback, broke loose for a 78-yard run before he was forced out of bounds inside the O’Neill one-yard line. He scored on the next play. With only a few minutes left to play Bloomfield in tercepted a pass oh the 50 yard line and on the next play threw a foreward that gained to the O’Neill one-yard line. Bloomfield smashed over for the goal and kicked the extra point. The next game on O’Neill’s sched ule is at Neligh on -Monday, Arm istice Day, and the next home game is on Friday, November 16, when Ainsworth plays here. Neligh boasts a win over Norfolk High this year, while Ainsworth until last Friday’s game at Atkinson was undefeated. Starting Lineups O'Neill I’os. Bloomfield Mitchell RE Walters Bright T Brounroth Kirwan RG Bruner Calkins C Kopetka Wolfe LG Claussen Vequist LT Newtotn French LE Newton Bowers B Johnson Cale B McCallum Osenbaugh B Wilson Kloppenberg B Schmoldts O’Neill substitutes: Leach, Wetz ler, Huebert, Ridgeway, Luben, Oberle, Manzer ^nd Burgess. A Holt County 4-H Boy Given Trip To Chicago Bob Rees, of Amelia, who has been one of the outstanding 4-H members in the county for the past several years was awarded a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago as a guest of the North western Railway Company. The National '4-H Club Congress is held during the International Livestock Show December 1 to 5 and will attract members from all parts of the United States and will be one of the high honors which are awarded 4-H members throughout the year. The Nebraska 4-H CongTess party will leave Omaha on Satur day, November 30, to be entertain ed throughout ne following week in Chicago and ;eturning to Oma ha December 5. | In addition to being a 4-H mem ber who has deserved this high hon or, Holt county should be very proud that one of its boys has I brought this honor to the county and can bring back his experiences to encourage other boys and girls to do better work in the future. F. F. A. Initiates Nineteen New Members Last Tuesday evening the F. F. A. members held their regular meeting. Due to the absence of the president, George Hendricks, the vice president presided over the meeting. Cliffoord Burivil was elected vice-president. After the regular meeting nine teen new Vocational Agriculture members were initiated into the F. F. A. by the regular initiation ceremony. After the informal in itiation of a sky ride, worm eating contest and other games, all of the members were served doughnuts and cocoa.