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vat. T.TT O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940 NUMBER 26
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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.
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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.
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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.
