VOL. LXI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER H. 1940 NUMBER 27
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FIRE GUTS ONE OF O'NEILL'S NEWEST
BUSINESS BUILDINGS TUESDAY
In The Forenoon in Sub Zero Weather Fire Breaks
Out in Basement of Rickly Store; Stock
Destroyed, Building Ruined
Fire, the drehd of everyone, vis
ited this city last Tuesday morn
ing and as a result of that visita
tion one of the newest buildings in
the city is a wreck. It is the new
Hagensick building on the corner
of Fourth and Douglas, the center
of the city, and three business in
stitutions are temporarily out of
business.
The fire alarm sounded about
11:30 and the fire department ar
rived quickly on the scene and the
fire was in the basement of the
Rickly store on Fourth and Doug
las streets. The members of the
department were unable to locate
the source of the fire which had
secured a good headway at the time
they arrived on the scene, although
they were there within a few min
utes after the alarm sounded.
The department were handicap
ped on account of the smoke and
were unable to get into the base
ment bo locate the fire. Here is
where a few gas masks would have
come in handy and the city council
.should see that the Fire Depart
ment has at least a half dozen gas
masks. If they had only one at
this last fire it could have been lo
cated and thousands of dollars
would have been saved. As it was
they were unable to locate it and it
burned for hours with the result
that three business places were
wiped out and a new business build
ing ruined. There is only one con
solation to the whole story, and
that is that all of the tenants, as
well as the owner of the building,
were protected by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
It is supposed that it started near
the furnace, but that is only guess
work. Mrs. Rickly told us that
afternoon that they were down in
the basement, her husband and
herself, at 10:30 that morning and
everything was O. K. They were
inspecting a new shipment of holi
day goods that arrived that morn
ing. In a half hour she said the
building was filled with smoke. So
how it started is a problem for
someone abler than we are.
The building, built last spring of
brick and concrete, is gutted and
until the debris is cleared the dam
age to the building cannot be esti
mated. Most of the fire was in the
basement, where Mr. Rickly had a
lot of his goods stored, and wheth
er the fire was hot enough to crack
the walls and render the building
unsafe to again rebuild can only
be decided after a thorough exam
ination, which has not yet been
made. We understand that Mr.
Hagensick wdll start a crew of men
at work tomorrow and they will
clean the basement out and they
will then have an idea of the am
. ount of damage to the building.
The floors and joists are gone, but
whether the walls are damaged or
not will only be determined after
a thorough examination. Even if
the walls are good his loss in the
lire will be at least $3,500, which is
fully covered by insurance.
Mr. Rickly, who was the main
tenant of the building with his nov
elty store, was the biggest loser.
His stock was entirely destroyed
and all his fixtures. That morning
he had received several hundred
dollars worth of Christmas gitts
and they went up in flames with the
balance of his store., He was pro
tected by insurance.
Mrs. W. B. Graves had her jew
elry store in the west wing of the
building. She had not been up that
morning, but most of her valuable
goods were in the safe, which was
safe. She was protected by insur
ance.
J. M. Hayes’ insurance agency
was also in the west wing of the
building. Mr. Hayes and his wife
had spent the week end in Nor
folk and reached town just as the
whistle blew the fire alarm. Mr.
Hayes says that all his valuable
papers Were in the safe and that
it is unharmed, but he is out of a
home.
The loss on account of this fire
is estimated at between 15 and 20
thousand dollars, all covered by in
surance. An insurance adjuster
was in the city today and at 3:30
had settled with practically all of
those having claims. Anton Toy
had a claim for smoke damage.
Mr. Rickly this afternoon rented
the Abe Saunto building on west
Douglas street, occupied for sev
eral years by R. R. Morrison as a
grocery store, and will open up
there as soon as he can get a new
stock of goods. He has taken a
five-year lease on this building and
he will leave the end of the week
for the east to purchase a new
stock and expects to be going in
the new location about the first of
December.
J. M. Hayes, good republican
that he is, has secured a little cor
ner in the Frontier office and he
will remain here until the old build
ing is repaired. This kind of weath
er we could not see him sit on the
street corner, so he comes in. We
have not learned whether Mrs. *
Graves will continue the jewelry j
business or not.
Serial and Order Numbers
Following is a list of the serial
and order numbers of the regis
trants in Holt county. The second
number is the serial number, which
was assigned the registrants in
Holt county by the local draft
board, and the first number is the
order in which the serial numbers
were drawn in Washington. Ac
cording to the daily press as of
Thursday, there are enough volun
teer enlistments in Nebraska, so
that there will be very few, if any
Nebraska men called in the first
draft, which was supposed to take
place some time in November. This
is the first installment of the list, \
and each week succeeding lists
will be printed, until the entire list
has been published.
Order Serial
No. No. Name
295 1 Mervin Henry Kee
950 2 Norman William Kir-j
chmann
342 3 John Edward Boody
440 4 Thomas Jennings
Flannery
355 5 William Merril Hawk i
50 6 Leonard Colson
862 . 7 Louis Clinton Zastrow
500 8 Herbert Ervin Pfiel
58 9 Leonard Allen Thoma
zin
428 10 Bert Norris
746 11 Thomas Perry Coleman
349 12 John Alfred Abart
298 13 Raymond Leo Lans
berry
8 14 Raymond Nelson John
son
641 15 Gilbert Eugene Strong
648 16 Donald William Wilcox
423 17 Clarence Joseph Greig
558 18 John Henry Kryal
11 19 Francis Charles Stein
hauser
1017 20 Orville Lee Paxton
77 21 Ward Eugene Hender
son
1701 22 Ray Arthur Neisus
276 23 Eddie John Marris
695 24 Theodore Jefferson
Hieter
1 89 25 Warren James Mc
Clurg
569 26 Lester Lee Coon
679 27 Aelred John Sanders
1729 28 Robert Reimer Leisge
294 29 Ward James Flannigan
435 30 Laddie Cary
26 31 Fred Orcen Moore
762 32 Lavern D. Stevens
1598 33 Arthur Kropp
463 34 Edward Gerald Dvorak
790 35 Eugene Lawrence
Wedige
1454 36 Clarence Ellery Retz
laff
387 37 William Earl O’Brien
868 38 Robert Clem Tams
1136 39 Joseph Carl Thoen
del, Jr.
1381 40 Ralph Arthur Cassell
449 41 Frank Wessel Cronk
750 42 Raymond John Kramer
896 43 James Micheal Corkle
248 44 Gerald Scott Stamp
88 45 Merle Bowden Spang
ler
356 46 George Bernard Ziska
246 47 Bernard Cloyd Ferris
1114 48 John Davis Walker i
1590 49 William Admiral Gun
ter
1595 50 Veldon Vrudet Pinker
man
963 51 Leo Frederick Schnei
der
Fourth Dist. Supervisor
Contest Still Undecided
The contest for supervisor in
the Fourth district is still up in the
air. The canvass of the mail vote
gave Mr. Wulf, present supervisor,
a plurality of two votes and that
should end it but it does not. It
seems that there is a ball-up in the
returns from Verdigre township
and that they did not return an ab-!
street of their vote, but sealed it
up in the box with the ballots. The
canvassing board, according bo
County Clerk Gallagher, will not
count the vote of that precinct, as
their returns were not properly re- j
turned.
Wnth Verdigre precinct elimin
ated the vote would stand: Wulf
328; Graft 261; Rakow 162, which
would elect Wulf with a substan
tial majority, but would also dis
franchise over 400 voters in Ver
digre precinct. It seems that there
is no question but what this will
be settled in the courts and the
people of the Fourth district are
again in the position they were in
a year ago, they do not know who
their supervisor to be, is.
—
402 52 Lawrence Edward
Ziska
1603 53 Marvin Willis Young
611 54 Francis David Lee
173 55 George Glenn Hender
son
519 56 Harold Leroy Cork
9 57 Elden LeRoy Wm.
Prawitz
1449 58 Archie Rubbin Tuttle
104 59 David Leroy Morsbach
381 60 Lawrence FVederich
Wilcox
1524 61 Harold August Mel.
cher
1196 62 James Roy Furley
1320 63 Raymond Irvin Cooper
515 64 John Wesley Harbottle
1597 66 Harold Ernest Weier
696 66 Ralph Beck
101 67 Steve S. Cieslak
855 68 Leo Francis Harte
370 69 Charles Andrew Prussa
1417 70 Henry Monroe Axtell
422 71 Victor Ignatius Hamik
383 72 Dale Henry Gilbert
1214 73 Richard Darrell Hor
rocks
105 74 Lonnie Edward Otto
386 75 Herman Alois Kaup
1035 76 Merle Thomas Hickey
94 77 Michael Eugene Harty
87 78 John Roland Dvorak
w 82 79 James Marquette Ken-,
nedy
573 80 Frank William Bose
1000 81 George, Benjamin
Wiseman
268 82 Charles Albert Wilcox
52 83 Everett Eli Guthmann
1054 84 Claire James Nothem
1233 85 Gailard Brandon Abart
66 86 John Cilfford Harding,
471 87 Ralph Geareld Jung-|
bluth
1138 88 Clarence Henry Grant
737 89 Gerald Richard Lama
son
359 90 Leonard Frank Olberd
ing '
393 91 Harold Ernest Hoerle
236 92 Chester David Ander
son
718 93 Chester DeVan Hart
ronft
278 94 James Thompson Bolen
1528 .95 Alton Greggory Brad
dock
395 96 Charis Dwayne Crip
pen
1678 97 Carl Mathews
739 98 Walter Robert Pease ;
700 99 James Kenneth Brad-,
dock
179 100 Gerald Max Donohoe
1262 101 Hale Osborn
443 102 Arnold Hanson
184 103 Tom Leo Nekolicjak
113 104 Norbett Frederich
Jansen
3 106 Everette Elbert Copes
1536 106 Herman Henry Grothe
102 107 Harry Thornes Cullen
31 108 Robert Henry Lamh
32 109 Herbert Dale Stevens
448 110 William James Leahy
287 HI Natchel Edwman Rzes
zotarski
28 112 Gail Delois Boies
1327 113 Donald O’Connell
67 114 Albert Joseph Weber
250 115 Jerald William Snyder
35 116 Dean Virpil Stevens
559 117 Keith Aversion Abart
362 118 Leo Claude Penry
706 119 Everett Clayton Nor
wood
5 120' John Edmund Hancock
60 121 Ronald Warren Roby
51 122 John Thomas Bourne
263 123 Edward Hirim Schil
ousky
112 124 John Morris-Grutsch
39 125 Lloyd Elmer Johnson
14 126 John Henry Steskal
1123 127 Leo Juracek
121 128 Henry William Kah-;
ler
200 1 29 Veral Lester Tuttle
111 130 Floyd Ival McNair
38 131 Jack Alfred Dailey
627 132 Hupo Emiel Grosse
1576 133 Alfred Gabriel Desive
110 134 Woodrow Nelson
Gauphenbauph
43 135 Georpe Frank Kramer
68 136 James Anthony Ar
buthnot
(Continued on pape 4)
Holt County Has Fifty
Three Students At The
State University
Of the 53 students from Holt
county who are attending the uni
versity of Nebraska this year, 18
are attending the University for the
first time.
There are seven new students
from O’Neill.. These include: Lor
aine C. Murray, sophomore in the
Teachers College; Francis J. Kub
itschek, registered as a freshman
in the College of Business Admin
istration; Dorothy Ann Jordan,
sophomore In the College of Busi
ness Administration; Nadene Anna
Coyne, enrolled as a junior in the
College of Arts and Sciences;
Ruth Anne Biglin, junior in the Col
lege of Agriculture; Lotis J. Stor
john, freshman in the Teachers
College; and Anton J. Toy, fresh
man in the College of Business Ad
ministration.
The four students from Atkin
son, all freshmen, are: Verne
E. Frost, College of Business Ad
ministration; Avis Jean Frost,
Teachers College; Donald R. Scott,
College of Agriculture; and Byron
D. Petersen, College of Arts and
Sciences.
New students from Page.include:
Lee W. Stevens, sophomore in the
College of Business Administra
tion; Leonard D. Lorenz, freshman
in the Teacher's College; and Rob
ert A. Ballantyne, junior in the
Teachers College.
The two new students from In
man are both freshmen. Hazel May
Fraka is in the Teachers College,
and John C. Watson, Sigma Nu
fraternity, is in the College of
Business Administration.
Other new students from Holt
county include: Keith N. Newhouse,
Chambers, freshman in the College
of Engineering; and Mt^rgery L.
Rees, Amelia, freshman in the
College of Agriculture.
Resident enrollment the first se
mester is 6488 with 34 states in
the union represented besides Ne
braska. Iowa sent 144 students,
the greatest number from any
single state outside Nebraska;
from South Dakota came 59,
Wyoming 43, Colorado 41, Kansas
33, Missouri 28, Illinois 21, New
York 14, and Minnesota 13.
Two students are registered from
Canada, three from Germany, two
from Hawaii, and one each from
Syria, Palestine, Philippine Islands
and Vienna, Austria.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express out thanks
for the kindness and sympathy
shown us during the recent illness
and death of our beloved wife and
mother.—Joseph S. Ennis and fam
ily.
Wind Tears Fart of Roof
Off W. J. Froelich Home
During the exceedingly high
wind on Sunday night, which brot
with it snow and near sero tem
peratures, the copper roofing on
the north side of the W. J. Froelich
residence In north O’Neill was ttTTn
loose and the loose end was thrown
over the house. The copper sheet
which covers a portion of the north
side, covers a flat surface, over
which it was not considered practi.
cable to put slate roofing, which
was used on the rest of the roof.
No one in O’Neill was able to repair
the damage so it was necessary to
call Omaha to have some one come
to repair it. Due to the damage
which the storm caused to commun
ication lines, the call was not com
pleted until Tuesday, and the
Omaha firm advised that a man
would be sent immediately to re
pair the damage.
Mrs. Amelia Alder
Mrs. Amelia Alder died at her
home near Dorsey at 8:30 a. m.
last Saturday morning, after an
illness of several months. The fun
eral will be held tomorrow after
noon from her residence, Rev.
Wright of the Methodist church of
this city officiating and burial in
the Dorsey cemetery. The funeral
was to have been held Tuesday,
but the late storm made the roads
impassable in that section of the
county.
Amelia Smalley Alder was a na
tive of Nebraska and was born on
March 30, 1870, and was 70 years,
7 months and 19 days old at the
time of her death. Mrs. Alder
came to this county in 1882, com
ing here from Iowa. On May 2,
1880, she was united in marriage
to Isaac Samuel Alder. Nine child
ren were born of this union, five
boys and three girls, three of whom
preceded their mother to the be
yond. Following are the children:
Mrs. William Buchman, Cainas,
Wash.; Edwin W., Dorsey; John
Benjamin, Kelso, Wash.; Mrs. Mary
J. Williams, Camas, Wash.; Henry
E., Camas, Wash.; McKinley and
Melvin, Norfolk, Nebr.; Mrs. Sadie
Wrede, San Francisco; Mrs. Rose
Ellis, O’Neill.
Mrs. Alder was one of the pio
neers of the northeastern part of
the county and had a host of friends
who will regret to learn of her
passing.
The Orton Young public sale,
which was to have been held last
Tuesday was postponed on account
of the storm and will now be held
next Tuesday, November 19. This
is a good sized sale and Mr. Young
is disposing of his farm property
on account of ill health, so a good
sized crowd should be at the sale.
ONE of the causes of failure
in life is that people will not
turn from envy of the success
ful to emulation.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and This Bank Carries No
Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers
$140,000.00 or Stockholder*.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
s
HOLT COUNTY AND NEBRASKA HAS THE
WORST EARLY STORM IN HISTORY
Livestock and Poultry Lost As Forty-Mile Gale And
Hard Snow Hits This Territory Suddenly
O’Neill, as well as all of Ne
raaka and several other states
was recovering today from the
effects of the worst early winter
storm in the history of the
country. Some snow fell dur
was preceded by a very heavy fog
and mist and on Sunday morning it
started snowing in earnest, with
a very high wind, which whipped
the snow, making deep and im
passible drifts in many spots. The
storm continued all day Sunday
and on Monday until late in the
afternoon, when the wind finally
died down and the sun appeared.
The snow was followed by ex
tremely cold weather, which last
night reached fifteen degrees below
zero.
Many unconfirmed stories of
heavy losses to live stock of the
farmers and ranchers in this vic
inity have been heard in this office
the loss being confined mostly to
turkeys and young calves, which
in most cases were entirely unpro
tected, as no warning of the sever
ity of the storm, which covered all
of the mid-west and extended as
far east as the Alleganies, had
been received. There have been
reports of heavy losses to turkey
raisers in the south east part of
the county, one farmer supposedly
losing between four and five hun
dred turkeys out of a flock of about
three thousand. A rancher living
south of Emmet is missing ten ar
twelve head of cattle, some af
which it is thought perished in the
near blizzard and extreme cold. All
highways leading into O’Neill have
been open at all times, althougk
all motorists from Norfolk west
were advised fco stay off the high
way, because of the high wind and
the extreme iciness of the roads,
and the country roads are for the
most part still difficult to travel
on.
Following is the weather chart
for the past week:
High Low Snow
November 7 . 51 25
November 8 .58 41
November 9 . .50 32
November 10 ........ 34 14 3.
November 11 14 4 4.
November 12 ..... 9 -3
November 13 11 -8
November 14 -16
BRIEFLY STATED
George Thompson returned to
Omaha on Monday, after spending
the week end here visiting friend®.
W
Miss Ruby Weiseman spent the
week end visiting her parents at
Osceola, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McManamy
attended the Nebraska-Iowa foot
ball game at Lincoln on Saturday.
K. B. Morrison attended the Ne
braska-Iowa football game at Lin
coln on Saturday.
W. F. Kelleher, of Boone, Iowa,
arrived re on Saturday nnd is
visiting : ! the lionn t Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Grady.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harnish and
son, Frank James, of Norfolk,
spent Sunday here visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harnish.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cuddy, of
Sioux Falls, S. D., spent the week
end here visiting at the home of
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Dishner re
turned Monday from Lincoln, where
they attended the Nebraska-Iowa
football game.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hayes re
turned on Tuesday from Norfolk,
where they spent the week end
visiting friends.
Miss Marion Dickson, of Nor
folk, NebT., spent Sunday here vis
iting her parents, Judge and Mrs.
Dickson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Graybiel and
Cletus Sullivan spent the week end
in Lincoln, where they attended the
Nebraska-Iowa football game.
Miss Eleanor Kvam returned on
Monday evening from Petersburg,
where she spent the week end
visiting her parents.
A marriage license was issued on
November 9 to Steve Sladek, of
Chambers, and Miss Margaret
Pribil, of O’Neill.
A marriage license was issued on
November 9 to Cecil Sparks, of
O’Neill, and Miss Irene Neiman, of
Herrick, S. D.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Stout return
ed Tuesday from Lincoln, where
they spent the week end visiting
relatives.
Mrs. Roy Anderson, of Steven
son, Washington, who has been
here visiting her parents, Judge
and Mrs. Dickson for the past six
weeks, left this morning for her
home. Charles Smith, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. Smith, Sr., left with
her and will visit his sister and
family, who live at Tacoma, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Drayton, of
Valentine, spent Armistice Day
here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. McKenna.
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James Rooney, L. R. Stout and
Mrs. Ed Verzal drove to Ainsworth
on Wednesday where they attended
an agricultural extension meeting.
Donald and Dorothy Wilson left
Saturday for Sioux City where
they were to spend Armistice Day
with their grandmother.
Charley Walling, of Fremont,
spent the week end here visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Walling.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Horn, of Ains
worth, spent Monday here visit
ing friends while on their way
home from Lincoln, where they at
tended the Nebraska-Iowa game.
Miss Bernadine Protivinsky re
turned on Sunday afternoon from
Columbus and Lincoln, where she
visited friends and attended the
Nebraska-Iowa football game.
Deputy Sheriff C. C. Bergstrom
returned Sunday from Lincoln,
where he took C. Grunke to the
state penitentiary to start serving
his sentence for forgery.
Mrs. Ralph Oppen returned to
her home in Omaha on Sunday,
after spending the week end here
visiting her mother, Mrs. Jeannie
Scott.
The Baazar and supper which
was to have been held at St. John’s
Lutheran church at Atkinson has
been postponed to Tuesday even
ing, November 19.
Miss Genevieve Biglin entertain
ed the Martex Club at a 7 o’clock
dinner at the M and M cafe, fol
lowed by cards at her home on
Tuesday evening.
Mrs, Hoy Anderson, of Steven
son, Washington, returned on
Tuesday from Norfolk, where she
spent a few days visiting her sis
ter, Miss Marion Dickson.
Jack Kersenbrock returned to
Lincoln Monday afternoon, after
spending the week end here visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Kersenbrock.
Dan Dillon, of Houston, Texas,
has leased approximately 20,000
acres of land between Neligh and
Oakdale, Nebraska, for the purpose
of sinking a test well for oil. Mr.
Dillon is at the present time in
Neligh. where a survey is being
made to determine the best loca
tion to sink a test well in the area
under lease. Oil men say that the
Neligh venture is a rank wildcat,
but Dillon says that the Elkhom
j valley looks as favorable for oil as
any land in Nebraska.
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