The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, March 20, 1941, Image 1
V0L lxi O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941 NUMBER 45 SOUTHWESTERN ! BREEZES By Rotname Saunders What has become of that old humbug, the ouija board ? The first half of March was like falling in with a rowdy whet, you had expected bo meet a gentleman. 1 was not aware that the pur chasing public had made popular demand for any such a thing as ar, “unfair sales” law. If a merchant sees fit to unload at "less than cost” that’s his business. This reg ulation of business appears bo be getting to a point where the pub lic will have to begin to regulate the regulators. As a specimen of what a tough ened old Holt county .ranchman can show the hot house sissy, start ing before break of day on a cold stormy morning last week, John Bower, past 80 years of age, walk ed the five miles from his home to meet an appointment with Tom Baker for a trip into Boone county that day. Moving with a load of hay along the road Tom Baker felt one side of his wagon suddenly hit the earth. Sliding down the load to investigate he found a front wheel had come off by reason of a broken axle. This occurred some two miles from where he was bo feed the hay and by the time he went in to get an other outfit and had the hay re loaded it was about dark. But Mr. Baker thinks his difficulty of min or consequence compared with what his brother and family are exper iencing in Bristol, England. One of their i-ecent nightmares was the roaring of shrapnel from a bursting bomb through the roof of their dwelling. There has been little or no in spiration these weary months of winter to compose a sunset sonata. Mists, clouds, storms have obscured the orb of day much of the time since early November. The sky clears for a brief period, only to Lh overcast so that the prairie sunsets of winter have been shrouded in the gloom of threatening storm. What nature has failed to paint for the ‘artist in golden and crimson glow, she has vouchsafed in a more material way to the more practi al man of the prairie, to whom the wet sod means more than a gor geous sunset. But the artist may have found a fascination in the delicate decorations that winter hung on trees and bushes when the landscape has been spread with glittering jewels of ice and frost. As wq move on through March the prairie lies brown and dead await ing the warm touch that brings again the gTass and flowers and birds. One week ago today just after seven in the evening, the full March moon, among the first of night’s celestial orb* to come forth, rose out of the east, its full round disc aglow in silent triumph after hav ing gone out in eclipse near the western horizon some twelve hours earlier. Of four eclipses, two lunar and two solar, scheduled for 1941, this was the only one to be visible in this country. Though aware of darkness at an early hour on this morning when moonlight should have shed its subdued glow in the room, 1 did not get up bo view the planetary spectacle. What scien tific basis of fact there may be in the belief that lunar eclipses and soured weather for dwellers on this mundane sphere go hand in hand it will be for others to judge. But we had the weather out this way along with the eclipse. Zero the morning of March 16. An unknown friend at O’Neill sends me a printed sheet setting ‘ forth another collection of dizzy ideas for wooing’ again the univer sal material abundance those past I fifty have known. Many outriders & in the quest of smiling fortune have ■ arisen the past eight years that l have left the trail disillusioned. Re. I peal of the Eighteenth amendment, H a certain blue eagle, artificially COMMERCIAL CLUB ORGANIZATION TO! BE COMPLETED About thirty of the business and professional men, including two of our lady business women, met at the assembly room of the court house last Monday evening to or ganize a Commercial Club. One hundred and nine had signed up, so there was less than a third of the members present. At this meeting a temporary organization was per fected with the election of John Kersenbrock as chairman and I James Rooney secretary. Several men were proposed for president of the organization, but those who were present, declined j to accept the responsibility of the I position. As the members present were not making much headway it was deemed advisable to have a larger attendance when the officials were elected. In order to facili tate the selection of officials a mo tion was made that the chair ap point a committee of seven mem bers, representative of the various business interests of the town, to submit a list of candidates for the various offices to the next meeting of the Club, when the officers would be elected. The motion carried, and the chair appointed the fol lowing committee: R. M. Arm bruster, chairman, Ambrose Rohde, R. H. Parker, Henry Lohaus, Dr. J. P. Brown, Emmet Moore and Jack Arbuthnot, who will report to the meeting Friday evening. It is the duty of all those who I have signed up for membership in the Club to come out and attend the meeting, which is to be held at the assembly room of the court house at 8 o’clock next Friday night. Come out and attend and let us get the Club started l ight. F. F. A. NEWS Father and Son Fun Feed The chapter members have plan ned a Fun Feed for their fathers i and brothers. This will take place Friday, March 28, at 7:00 P. M. This is to take the farmer’s mind off his work, long enough to find out what his son is doing in the shop and classroom. The chapter plans to show their fathers a good time. Basketball Tournament The O’Neill F. F. A. basketball team drove to Genoa, March 1, to play in the F. F. A. tournament there. The team played three games. The first was with Cen tral City, which they lost 32 to 24, in the second with Fullerton, they came out victorious 23 to 19. They lost the consolation to Genoa 32 to 15, after a hard game. The boys on the team were Don Vequist, Don Loy, Ronald Huebert, Rex Oberle, Forrest Riley, Charles Cooper and Junior Jareske. Charles Cooper was high point man. Entertainment At the meeting a basketball tour nament was held between the mem bers. As the basketball season is over it was voted that boxing matches between the members be put on as a form of entertainment. I made work, follies in agriculture— | all were held out as the right road I to the corner around which pros perity lay. The Townsend plan that was not tried but still survives, and j now according to the circular some; friend has mailed me “constitution- • al money”—so a group of patriots! believe—is the country’s vital need. Within the scope of more than eight years the managers of our federal government have failed by many billions ef paying expenses. Private credit is strained as never before imagined. Debts assumed for railroad and airplane trips, for cars new and old, for clothing, home furnishings and everything that goes into a complex mode of luxury living, “get it today—pay tomor row.” The various schemes for in dustrial health have had their ap peal, but the basic fact remains that the history of mankind discloses but one road to abundance—hard work, eeonomy and wise management. Active Demand For Livestock Results In Price Advance The receipts of livestock at the local livestock market on Monday of this week showed better quality than in recent weeks, and the buy ers were eager to'absorb the day’s offering at prices somewhat above those of a week ago. About an average supply of stock was on hand and the market was extremely brisk from start to finish. Calves were here in rather lib eral supply and met with popular demand. The best steer calves sold at $12.75 and $12.00 to $12.50 caught the long end of the good calves. The top heifers brought $11.25 and these were light weights. Heavier weighty sold mostly from $9.25 to $10.00. Not many yearlings were here. The better kinds of steers brought from $10.00 to $11.00. One good string of yearling heifers sold at $9.50. Plainer kinds sold for less. Good cows looked a full quarter higher than a week ago. The bull receipts were light and prices were fully steady with a week ago. Butcher hogs reached a top of $7.40. Light bred sows went as high as $7.50. Pigs sold upwards to $9.05 per cwt. The next regular sale will be held on Monday, March 24. — On The Sidelines By Observer Now that the season for throw ing the leather sphere through the loop is over, all the young minds in the nation have turned bo some other sport. In this season they have many different sports to choose from as there is no standard sport, as basketball, football and baseball during this time. Many are thinking about golf, tennis, track and softball, but O’Neill High has directed its at tention to boxing under their train ed leader, “Manny” Segel. In the last few years all sports in O’Neill have met with much ap plause and this is one sport, al though it is compai itively new to high schools, that has not tuken a back seat in the town’s eyes. Today more people are attending the box ing matches than was ever thought possible to get to any similar event. During the last week the High School presented their annual box ing tourney to determine who will be the next Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, or Joe Louis of their time. The time isn’t far off when the Country Club will again be flooded with its regular run of golfers. In a few weeks the greens will be put in shape and the golf season will be open to all. Even though the sea son has not opened, we have been talking with a few men who have already been out trying to see who can drive the longest or just try ing to limber up the old bones that have been idle all winter, and as they walked around the only com-1 ment they had was, "Ob, my back." i This warm weather also reminds us that not far off the softball sea son will be again whipping into shape. Last year there were quite a number of teams within the town playing just for the sport, but this i year we hope bo be able to organ-1 ize all these teams into a leagut to make this sport a little more in teresting to the players. I noticed in last Sunday’s Lin coln Journal that John Shoemaker, I forward and guard on the St. Mary’s Cardinals, made honorable mention on that paper’s All-State selections. Congratulations John! Clarke-McNary Seedling Deadline Soon The deadline for receiving Clarke-McNary seedlings for plant ing this spring is rapidly approach ing as over a half million seedlings j will be shipped to Nebraska farm- j ers early in April. Holt county re- j mains the number one county in orders with 35,000 tree orders al ready placed. The available supply of a few varieties is limited and farmers who want to select their varieties should place their orders at the county agent's office immed-1 iately. . I Mastersingers In Concert Here Tuesday Evening The Mastereingere, of Norfolk, I Nebraska, Mr. Otto A. Voget as I director, under the auspices of the Public School will present a concert in the O’Neill High School Audit-, urium on Tuesday evening, March 1 26. The Mastersingers is an inde pendent group of tine adult singers organized for the purpose of bring ing to the public, music of a high standard and develop a finer ap preciation of such music. Mr. Voget will not only direct the Mas tersingers in this concert, but will also piay a violin solo. Guest artist appearing with the Mastersingers will be Arne Soren son, of Tilden, for whom a great future is predicted. Young Soren sen, now only sixteen years old, is already a master pianist. He has played the piano since he was five years old and his goal is to become a toncert pianist. Sorensen has been enthusiastically acclaimed as a marvel pianist. Another added attraction on the program will be “The Silver String Ensemble.” The ensemble will play two numbers. There will be splen. did variety to insure an outstand ing concert in every way. Director Otto A. Voget has de veloped an innovation in musical color whih will be featured by the musical groups in this concei't. Wo. j men in the group will wear gowns: in color to correspond to their tone i timber. These colors will range from the lighter shades of blue in the soprano section to the deeper shades of red in the instrumental: base section. Fox- the first time in the development of musie appreci ation in northeast Nebraska, people can both see and hear fine musical tones combined with color vibra tions. Otto A. Voget has a splendid foundation in the field of music. He was bom in Dortmund, West phalia, and later came to Wayne, Nebraska, with his parents, whei/. he completed his elementary and high school education. He then went to New York City, where he studied at the National Conserva tory of lMusie. Later he studied in Europe, taking instruction from some of the greatest masters. Dur ing the year li)03-’04, Mr. Voget made a concert tour of Europe and in 1909 he was violin soloist at the great Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, Washington. He has di rected a voice studio in Los An geles, California, for twenty years. In 1938 he re-opened a conserva tory in Norfolk and in 1939, he or ganized the Mastersingers, all of whom are talented and accomplish ed musicians. Admission to this concert has been placed especially low so that everyone who enjoys good music can attend. See the ad in this pa per and inform your friends about it. Pleasant Dale School Miss Ella Kazda, Teacher Miss Beulah Grace Siders, a nor mal training student in the O’Neill Poblic School was a practice teach, er in our school this past week. Miss Elja McCullough, County Superintendent, and Miss Frances Rotherham, normal training teach er, visited at -our school this past week. Daryl Beckwith spent the week end with Miss Kazda at her home in Atkinson. Those who were neither tardy nor absent this past month were Arlene and Daryl Beckwith, Robert Wink ler and Lottie Babl. How long is the United States going to put up with strikes in leading defense industries, put on by the highest paid labor in the country? Seems to us that some thing should be done to close the avaricious jaws of organized labor. Fr m present indications there will be several new residences erected in O’Neill this spring and summer. With prospects of a good crop in the offing there will be much activity in the building line, which is very gratifying to the lumber dealers of the city. Severe Blizzard In North Dakota and Minnesota The residents of North Dakota and Northern Minnesota had a taste of an old-time blizzard last Sunday night, when an 86 mile wind accompanied by snow and whirling dust descended upon them. Accord ing to radio reports on Wednesay noon 80 persons are known to have lost their lives and several other residents of northern Minnesota and North Dakota are still unac counted for. From the description of that storm we are inclined to be lieve it was on the order of the great blizzard of January 12, 1888, that visited this section of the state and took about u half hundred lives and hundreds of cattle, hogs and1 chickens. According to reports, many people in the late storm were smothered and then frozen to death, the snow closing their mouths and nostrils. That was re sponsible for many of the deaths in Nebraska during the memorable blizzard of 1888, and there are many people in this county and through out the state who have repeatedly stated that with modem conven iences, weather reports and the ra dio, that such a tragedy could never happen again, but it did. While the loss of lives is apalling there must have been hundreds of head of live stock also lost in the storm. Of course they can be replaced, but the lives of the poor unfortunate never can be. Little Activity In Coining City Campaign The city campaign has started. The first of the week petitions were in circulation for Frank Phalin and Robert Arbuthnot, who was ap pointed last fall to fill the unexpir ed term of Fred McNally. For the school hoard petitions were in cir culation for the re-election of George Shoemaker and Dr. L. A. Burgess, present members, whose terms expire this spring. In the second Ward the term of Gerald Miles expires this spring. The only candidate in the field so far is M. J. Wallace, whose petition is in circulation. In the Third Ward the term of Norb Uhl expires this spring. There is a petition in circulation in this ward for Levi Yantzi, a former councilman, for this position. The Weather For the past week we have been having typical March weather, with exceedingly high winds on Satur day night and Sunday, with the low est reading 7 above. Nebraska was fortunate in that the severe cold and snow with high winds, which swept North Dakota and northern Minnesota, in which a large number of people lost their lives, missed this section. The weather on Wednes day was mild, with the temperature climbing to 58 during the after noon, but today, the first day of spring, it is much copier, with rain or snow forecast for the area. The weather chart for the past week is as follows: High Low Free. March 13.30 24 March 14 31 22 March 16.47 17 .02 March 16. 46 7 March 17.31 8 March 18.65 23 March 19.58 31 All Round Star Club The All Around Star Sewing! Club met at the home ot Janis; Miles on Saturday, March 15.: There were two members absent, Miss Edna Newman and Verna Mil-i ler. We discussed the use ot' the sew ing machine, and the hot pan hold ers, which were made by the sew ing machine. Our assignment was to darn stockings and make an apron using the sewing machine. Our next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Verna Miller on | April 26. A delicious lunch was served by ! Mrs. Miles, which we all enjoyed, j being that all members present had to walk, some two miles, thru ' mud and water. NATIONAL HIGHWAY 20 CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN O'NEILL IN MAY Convention Will Be Held During Month of May— Between Two and Three Hundred Delegates Are Expected To Attend This Meeting At a meeting of the directors of National Highway 20 association held in Lusk, Wyoming, on Tues day, March 4, 1941, O’Neill was se lected as the convention city for the 1941 meeting. This was made pos. sible through the activity of Har old L. Lindberg of this city. The meeting will be held in May, the date to be announced within ten days or two weeks. It will be a two-day convention and the officers of the association look for between two and three hundred delegates to be here for the convention and O’Neill will prepare to entertain them loyally. The following ac count of the directors meeting is taken from the Lusk, Wyoming, Herald: “At a meeting of the executive officers and board of directors of National Highway 20 association held in Lusk on Tuesday of this week, O’Neill, Nebraska, was named as the city to entertain the dele gates at the annual meeting to be held there in May, the definite date to be announced later. Roy Chamberlain, of Lusk, presi dent of the association, presided at the meeting here this week. Geo. Earl Peet and Thos. O. Miller, of Lusk, attended the executive board meeting as directors. Out-of-town directors attending Tuesday were J. Frank Cowan, Mayor of Casper; li. R. Dempster of Chadron, Nebr.; Jack Scovel, of Hay Springs, Nebr., and Bert F. Bell, secretary-mana ger, of Lusk, completed the board membership present. “Among others present tor the meeting here was a delegation of three from Harrison, Nebr., Frank Viele, J. K. Laushbaugh and A. R. Brown. W. O. Barnes, secretary of the Crawford Chamber of Com merce and Nate Wheeler, of Casper, were also out-of-town guests at the meeting. Others from the Big Horn Basin country had planned bo attend but were kept away by in clement weather over a wide sec tion of the state. “A report of the past year’s ac tivities heartened the executive board and they are very optimistic ever prospects for the 1941 season now opening. Otto H. Klemke, of Lusk, submitted audited reports of the treasurer’s and secretary’s books which were accepted and commended by the executive board, the past year being the first year of operation for the highway as sociation, the work accomplished was outstanding in many respects. “A general discussion of the 1941 program to be followed by the as siciation was held during the af ternoon, with considerable empha sis placed upon reconstruction at several points on the highway dur ing the coming year. Publicity and organization work also came in for thorough discussion. “The committee from Harrison met with the board to enlist their support in staging a monster cele bration at that city upon completion of the oiling of the last eight miles of highway 20 in Nebraska, mak ing it an all black-top highway thru that state. According to the Har rison boosters the highway will probably be completed during the latter part of May or first of June, and it is planned to stage the cele bration near that date, probably between June 1st and 10th. “The board let a contract Tues day for the printing of 50,000 strip maps of Highway 20 to the Prairie Publishing company at Casper, who submitted the low bid on the job. The 50,000 maps is the first of an order aggregating 250,000 such maps to be purchased and distrib uted by the Highway 20 associa tion this year. “An outstanding publicity and ad vertising campaign for Highway 20 has been arranged with a com mittee named to handle the details of the work. Nine broadcasting stations located from Casper, Wyo ming to Chicago have been con tracted to put on 5G programs each during the spring months for Highway 20 tourist information. J. W. McNamara, of Casper, is the chairman for the committee with J. Frank Cowan, of Casper, and Bert F. Bell, Secretary, assisting him with the work. It is planned to place a short advertising fea ture for the highway and places of Interest along the route, on the air from each of the broadcasting stations, with a total of 494 pro grams for the publicity and ad vertising of the shortest and fast est route from Boston and Chicago to Yellowstone National Park and the west coast. "Information reaching Highway 20 officials from various travel bureaus over the nation indicate that at least a 60r/t> increase this year is being shown in inquiries on routes and vacation spots over the nation, and that Highway 20 will show the biggest increase in trav el for 1941 of any national east west highway west of Chicago. "At the annual meeting in O’Neill the election of officers and direc tors for 1941-42 will be held, to gether with a general meeting at tended by delegates all along the route from Cody, Wyoming, to Chi cago. The Bassett, Nebr., Drum und Bugle Corps, official organiza tion for the Highway 20 association will be at O’Neill, and several days prior to the convention will make a trip from Sioux City, Iowa, to Oody, making stops in towns along the route to advertise the highway and the convention at O'Neill." Prairie Dogs Can Be Controlled With Poison Prairie dogs, which have become a serious pest in many pastures, are reported to be active in a good many localities and a few framers have been inquiring at the office of county agent, Lyndle K. Stout, for methods of eradication. These pests may be controlled by careful spreading of poisoned oats where the dogs can find it. It is generally agreed that the best results in poisoning can be obtain ed before the grass starts to grow. Usually several attempts will be necessary before complete eradica tion is brought about. A few dogs remaining will soon increase to the original number and the effort will be lost. ■ * v - A prepared bait can be obtained commercially or a formula for home mixing of a bait from oats and strychnine may be obtained from the county agent’s office. One quart of this bait will treat about 40 burrows and with reasonable care in scattering bait, livestock on open range will not be endan gered. __ ■ - O’Neill Boy Appointed To Internship In Omaha Robert P. Biglin, of O’Neill, who is now a senior at the University ! of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha, has been appointed to Im manuel Hospital, Omaha, to begin his internship next fall. Dean C. W. Poynter, of the Col lege of Medicine, has announced 77 internship appointments for the graduating class in 52 hospitals in all parts of the country. The class includes students from Nebraska, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Iowa, Wyoming, Wash ington, Missouri, Canada and Jap an, who have come to the Univer sity for their undergraduate medi cal study. South Side Club The South Side Community Club met at the Schaffer school house Friday night, March 14. A nice crowd was in attendance. The evening was spent in games and dancing. Lunch was served about midnight. Another fun frolic will be held in the near future.