The Frontier
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YQL Lxil O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, June 19, 1941 Number 6
SOUTHWESTERN
BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Railway trainmen responsed to
the plea from Washington to sacri
fice by voting to ask a 30 per cent
increase in pay.
Residents out this way are glad
to learn Highway 11 is to be gravel
ed. That word is used advisedly
The highway from Atkinson to
Amelia ha8 been a disgrace to road
engineers almost its entire history.
Master Paul James, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred James, left the
ranch a day this week to accom
pany his grandfather, H. L. James
of Atkinson, to Minneapolis on a
visit to relatives. They will be
accompanied home by Mrs. H. L.
James who has been visiting in the
Minnesota city. Paul thinks he will
be lonesome for his pony and dogs,
but philosophically remarks “I don’t
care.”
Twin calves, snow white, comprise
interesting specimens of dainty
baby beef at the side of an arist
ocratic Short Horn cow among the
herds at the Riley ranch.
Miss Laura Meals of Lompoc,
California, a sister of Mrs. Sanders,
is visiting at the home of the
Breezes Editor. Miss Maria Saund
ers of Takoma Park, Maryland, is
also visiting her parents. And with
two grandsons up from Lincoln,
Roger and David Eno, we are hap
pily remembered this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gangenbaugh were
in this community last week search
ing for relics for a museum at
Hastings. Mr. Gangenbaugh is a
nephew of John and Clark Gaugh
enbaugh of O’Neill, a son of George
who operated a mill and feed busi
ness in O’Neill some 25 years ago.
Mrs. Herman Medlin and child-'
ren of Red Cloud visited for a fe«v j
weeks at the home of her parents
near Ammelia. Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Doolittle and with other relatives
departing for their home Monday.
Mrs. Medlin formerly resided in
O’Neill, where her husband was
engaged in the meat business.
A contributor in a San Francisco
paper calls attention to the presid
ent’s plea to patriots for sacrifice
in buying defense bonds and notes
that the president himself has sac
rificed $500, or one—150th of his
annual salary. Thus the soverign
citizen whoLcan scrape up an income
of $1500 Scapes with a ten dollar
sacrifice on the basis of per cent
ages set by Mr. Rooselvelt. Under
$1500—and there is a lot of us in
that class—it is hardly worth men
tioning.
Just what was done by our last'
legislative body to simplify lifes’
problems, to lessen the heartache
of the lonely and desolate, to close
life’s dark allies and open rose
strewn avenues to better living, to
make simple the complex windings
all along the way, to cut through
the jungle of legal restrictions and
throw the gates open that enter
prises—whether branding a cow
or building an airplain—may move
forward in freedom along natural
courses? This peaceful June after
noon, a cricket out in the grass
playing his fiddle, a Meadow-lark
on a nearby post rehearsing his
half-dozen notes. The song of hid
den singers in dense foliage, the
waving plumage on cottonwood and
Elm and honey locust, tall grass
swaying easily in the wind, prairie
flowers nodding their brilliant love
liness, white clouds floating easily
across the azure above—this is the
heritage of the country dweller.
Why be concerned over legislative
enactments ? If the neighbors were
asked, proably 10 percent of them
would know there had been a state
legislature in session the past win
ter.
It will forever remain regretable
that the author of “Western De
mocrat” did not employ his splen
did talent in writing a book less
punctuated with the partisan. I
knew the late Arthur F. Mullen in
a very friendly way. When he
was in law practice and politics in
O’Neill and I in news paper work I
relied a lot on Art for information
in writing news stories, both to use
locally and to send out by wire.
i$We were perhaps as far apart as
pen ever get as to our political
ftnd social philosophy and relgious
|lBith. These are largely the an
Rstral heritage. His sprung from
picturesque Canada and lovely Ire
land; mine from the staried Sus
quehanna, the agony of Valley
Daniel Gallagher
Daniel P. Gallagher died at his
home near Inman, Nebraska, at
3:35 P. M., last Thursday afternoon,
after an illness of about four
months, at the age of fifty-two)
j years, five months and twenty-one j
days. The funeral was held from
the Catholic church last Saturday
morning, Monsignor McNamara
officiating and burial in Calvary
cemetery. The funeral was one of
the largest ever seen here, as the
funeral precession was a mile-and
a-half long, which attested to the
esteem in which the deceased was
held in this city and county.
Danny Gallagher, as he was
known by everyone, was born at
Inman, Nebraska, on January 21,
1889, the son of one of the pioneer
families of that section of the
county and he spent his entire life
in this county. Danny never mar
ried being content to stay at home
with his brothers and sister and
look after the affairs at the ranch,
as he was an expert in the care and
feeding of livestock. He is survived
by three brothers and five sisters.
They are; Mrs. Maye Hart, Inman;
Miss Bea Gallagher, at home; Mrs.
Francis Kemp, Ponoma, Calif.;
Mrs. Charles Gilligan, Sioux City,
Iowa; Mrs. Neil Chase, Sheldon,
Iowa; John, James and Joe Gall
agher, of Inman.
Danny Gallagher was an out
standing young man and had al
ways enjoyed good health until a
bout five months ago, when he be
gan to fail. He made a trip to
Rochester, Minnesota, but without
avail and after leaving there he
remained for a time at the home
of his sister, at Sheldon, Iowa.
He had a severe sinking spell while
there and as soon as he became well
enough to move they brought him
home, for his family had been in
formed that there was no chance for
him and he wanted to be among
familiar scenes when the final sum
mons came. He had a host of
friends in various parts of the
county, being especially well acqu
ainted with all the active cattle!
men of the county. He was a splen
did citizen and his many friends j
over the county will regret to learn
of his passing in the very bloom of
manhood. Our sympathies are ex
tended to the bereaved relatives in
their hour of sorrow.
Walsh — Blackburn
A very pretty wedding was sol
emnized Monday morning at 6:30
June 16 in St Patricks Church when
Clare Blackburn became the bride
of James Walsh of Los Angeles,
California.
The ceremony was performed by
Reverend Richard Parr. The altar
boys were nephews of the bride
Charles, Budd and Benny Jean
Weichman and Ronald Ackerman
of Stuart and her three little neices
were flower girls: Marilyn and
Charlene Ackerman and Cathleen
Weichman.
The bride looked attractive in
an outfit of the new aqua shade
with which smart beige accessories
were worn. Mr. Walsh was attired
in a Savoy blue, double-breasted
suit. They were attended by a
sister of the bride and husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Pius Ackerman of
Stuart.
Following the ceremony a wed
ding breakfast was served to im
mediate relatives.
Mrs. Walsh for the past six years
has most successfully operated her,
own beauty shop, the La Clare
Beauty Salon, in O’Neill.
Mr. Walsh is in the construction
business and has a lovely home in
Los Angeles to which he will wel
come Mrs. Walsh.
After a short trip to the Black
Hills, the Walsh’s will return to
spend a few weeks in Atkinson with
the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Chas Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh
plan to return to Los Angeles by
way of Salt Lake City and a tour of
Yellow Stone National Park.
Mrs. C. T. Smith left on Thurs
day for her home in Council Bluffs,
jlowa, after visiting here at the
| home of her son, R. R. Smith, Sr.,
‘and Mrs. Smith.
Forge and the triumph of Appom
attox. The biography of the pioneer
history, Art’s own quest for an
education—those are the heart of
“Western Democrat.” All else is
a sort of half picture of the politi
cal life of county, state and nation.
“The west was won on whiskey”
says a paragraph in this book.
Nothing worth while was ever won
on the indulgence of the senses.
The' west was won through back
breaking toil inspired by spiritual
vision.
MAX GOLDEN AGAIN WINS O'NEILL
COUNTRY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
He Had A Real Scrap To Win However As Dr.
Tipton, Defending Champion, Took Him To
Twenty-Two Holes -Before Defeat.
Max Golden of O’Neill won for
the second time, the local golf
championship when he defeated Dr.
Paul Tipton of Omaha, 1 up on the
22nd hole in a hot and exciting con
test on the links on Tuesday after
noon. Max Golden won the right
to compete in the finals, when on
Tuesday forenoon, he defeated Dr.
Merle Hunt of Battle Creek, 1 up
on the eighteenth hole, while Dr.
Tipton wa« disposing of Jasck
owiak, of O'Neill. While the tourn
ament was not as large as usual, it
was a very satisfactory and excit
ing tournament with some very
close matches being played in all
the flights. The Ladies bridge
parties, which were held on Sunday
and Monday afternoons, and the
annual tournament dance on Mon
day evening, were pronounced suc
cesses.
George Stannard of San Deigo,
California, won the second flight
when he defeated the Rev. Richard
Parr of O’Neill. Harry Reardon
of O’Neil won the third flight de
feating John Webster of Winner,
S. D., and in the fourth flight, the
winner was E. Wisco, of O’Neill,
who defeated the Rev. John O’Brien
of Emmet. W. Warner of Norfolk,
was medalist, shooting a 72 on Sun
day, while honors for second place
were held by Dr. Tipton of Omaha,
Dr. Merle Hunt of Battle Creek and
Max Golden of O’Neill, all shooting
a seventy-six.
Pairing and matching play in
the first flight were as follows:
Warner vs. Merle Hunt; Horn vs.
Mauch; Golden vs. Pat Harty;
Winchell vs. Baldwin; Tipton vs.
Ed O'Donnell; Cadwell vs. Ed
Gallagher; Jaszkowiak vs. Green;
Lightner vs. Harris. In the second
round, Hunt defeated Mauch;
Golden defeated Winchell; Tipton
defeated Cadwell; and Jaszkowiak
defeated Lightner. In the semi
finals Hunt lost to Golden, 1 up
on the 18th hole; and Tipton de
feated Jasckowiak 1 up. In the
finals Golden won from Tipton on
the 22nd hole. In the consolations.
WarneT won from Harris 1 up.
In the consolation on the second
flight, Grady won from Wanser,
1 up on the 18th hole, and in the con
solations in the third flight, Ben
Harty defeated Paddy O’Donnell
to win. In the consolations in the
fourth flight, Homer Mullen of
Omaha, defeated C. V. Sullivan
of O’Neill to win the honors.
Gilg—Sullivan
A very pretty wedding ceremony
was solemnized at St. Patrick’s
Church in O’Neill on Tuesday, June
17th, when Lenore Sullivan became
the bride of Francis J. Gilg of
Atkinson, Monsignor McNamara,
the parish pastor, officiated. Hymns
were sung by Miss Sheila Barrett,
a cousin of the bride. She was ac
companied on the organ by Mother
Virginia.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. P. Sullivan, who live
on a farm northeast of O’Neill. She
was a graduate of St. Mary’s Acad
emy and for the past several years
has been a successful teacher in
the rural schools of the county.
The bride wore a navy triple sheer
dress with rose accessories and
carried a bouquet of American
Beauty roses. She was attended by
her sister, Patrica, who wore a
rose crepe dress with beige acces
sories, and carried a bouquet of
tea roses.
The groom is the son of Mrs. Mary
Gilg, who lives south of Atkinson
and has lived his entire life in that
community. He was employed by
the Skrdla Motor Company of At
kinson until March first, since that
time he has been engaged in farm
ing. He was attired in a light gray
suit, and was attended by his broth
er, Roy.
After' the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the Gold
en Hotel to the immediate re
latives of the bride and groom.
The center piece on the table was
a four tier, beautiful decorated
wedding cake, baked by the bride’s
sister.
After a short trip through the
Black Hills Mr. and Mrs. Gilg will
be at home to. their many friends
on their farm five miles Northeast
of Atkinson.
A miscellaneous pre - nuptial
shower was held for Miss Lenore
Sullivan on Sunday afternoon, June
15th, at the home of Mrs. T. F.
Donohoe. Many beautiful and use
ful gifts were given to Miss Sulli
van,
O’Neill Commercial Club
At the Board of Directors Meet
ing of the O’Neill Commercial Club,
Wednesday August 13, 1941, was
set as O'Neill Day this year. Ger
ald Miles was appointed General
Chairman, with Ted McElaney as
Assistant Chairman.
A meeting will be called this week
with these chairman and all com
mittees appointed.
Carrying with them a brand new
portable radio, first prize in the
second flight of the golf tourna
ment, and the good wishes of th
citizenery of O’Neill, Mr. and Mrs
George Stannard and daughter,
Lynn, left Thursday for California.
THE true use of the mouth is
not merely to make a noise,
any more than the proper use
of money is to make a show
of the spender.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital. Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
tl 40.000.00
This Bask Carries Ns
Indebtedness of OAcers
or Stockholders.
Member hederal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Second
Registration Day
Every male citizen of Holt
County who has arrived at his
twenty-first birthday subse
quent to October 16th, 1940 and
before July 1st, 1941, is
required to register at one of the
following places designated for
the purpose of registration be
tween the hours of 7 A. M. and
9 P. M., on July 1st, 1941:
The office of the Local Board,
Court House, O’Neill.
The office of B. C. Engler,
Member of Local Board at
Stuart.
The office of D. R. Mounts,
Secretary of Local Board at
Atkinson.
Frank J. Biglin, Chairman,
Holt County Local Board.
W. P. A. Appropriations
On the relation of appropria
tions to numbers employed, the new
WPA relief bill for the fiscal year
1942 as follows:
1. Appropriation decreased $474,
660,000 or by per cent.
2. Average number who can be
employed reduced from 1,700
GOO to 941,315. A decrease of
768,685—44 per cent. Nebr
aska’s decrease depends on the
quota assigned to us by the
Washington office. Our years
of drouth may furnish part of
the basis upon which the mea
sure of need is determined.
3. The decrease from the high
employment of the fiscal year
1941 of 1,890,000 in January
to 941,315 which would have
to be attained by July or ear
ly August would be 948,685 or
50 per cent.
4. The decrease from the antic
ipated June 1941 employment
of 1,300,000 to 941,315 in July
or early August would be 385,
685. An average employment
of 941,315 for the fiscal year
1942 will provide the lowest
employment on the Work Pro
jects Administration program
since it was instituted in 1935.
Administration officials of WPA
suggested among others, the fol
lowing changes in relief legislation:
1. Elimination of the rotation
provision—the 18 month re
quirement whereby a person
on WPA continuously for 18
months is obliged to leave and
connot be reemployed until
after 30 days has expired and
his needs have been reexam
ined.
2. The removal of the ban on the
employement of aliens.
3. Modification of the require
ment of an annual review of
the need of all on WPA by sub
stituting a discretionary re
view of need to be made in such
places and at such times as
the commissioner might de
termine.
4. Elimination of the require
ment that employment shall
be given to eligble persons in
the order of their relative
needs.
5. Elimination of the ban on
theatre projects.
6. Elimination of the minimum
25 percent average statewide
sponsors, contribution.
The Committee concluded that
the suggested changes would have
removed practically all of the re
quirements that have been placed
in the law in the past few years
with a view to improving the pro
gram and spreading employment.
However, blind persons were ex
empted from the operation of the
18 month provision. The big fight
was over the 25 per cent cut in
administrative expense.
The Workers Projects Adminis
tration has never undertaken to
provide employment for all of the
employable unemployed. The pro
vision for an average of 941,315
for the fi&cal year 1942 will be the
estimated average of 5,600,000, will
mean that 17 per cent of the em
ployable would be able to get em
ployment on WPA. This would be
the lowest proportion of the group
that WPA has employed in any
fiscal year.
Mrs. Frank Eppenbach, a pioneer
resident and wife of one of north
east Holt’s properous farmers and
stockmen, was a pleasant caller at
this office last Saturday and ex
tended their suscription to The
Frontier for a couple of years. Mrs
Eppenbach says they have had a
lot of moisture in their section,
near Meek, this spring and that
small grain is looking immense
and that from present indications
Holt county will harvest the larg
est small grain crop in years We
can stand several years of good
| crops, as we have had several years
of drought.
JUDGE ROBERT R. DICKSON PASSES
AWAY IN HIS SLEEP TUESDAY NIGHT
Distinguished Jurist And Pioneer Resident of
O’Neill Answer The Last Call At His Home Here.
Was The Dean of Nebraska Judges.
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The residents of this city were
shocked last Wednesday morning
when it was learned that Judge
Rebert R. Dickson had passed away
in his sleep during the night, his
body being found inb ed Wednesday
moaning by his daughter, Marjorie,
when she went to call him. Physi
cians were of the opinion that he
had been dead for about eight hours
when the body was found. The
funeral will be held Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock from the Pres
byterian church, Rev. John E. Spen
cer officiating and burial in Pro
spect Hill cemetery. The Grand
Masonic Lodge of Nebraska will
have charge of the funeral services,
as Judge Dickson was a past Grand
Master of that Order in the state.
Judge Dickson was born in Rock
County, Wisconsin, on Noember,
21, 1863, and woul have been 78
years of age next November. He
came to Nebraska at an early age
and for time studied law with a firm
at Madison, Nebraska, and was ad
mitted to the Nebraska bar in 1887
and then came to Holt county and
located in O’Neill, where he prac
iced law until 1912 when he was
elected district judge of this judi
cial district, a position he held up
to the time of his death, or twenty,
nine years. He was the senior
District Judge in the state, having
served the people of his district
longer than any other judge, which
attested to his popularity with the
people.
The writer had known Judge
Dickson ever since he came to the
county, fifty-four years ago and
had been closely associated with
| him politically and intimately for
the past forty-five years. Judge
Dickson had a gruff exterior, a
commanding personality, standing
about 6 feet 2 inches, and he im
pressed people with whom he came
in contact with his appearance of
vigor and personality. Beneath his
gruff exterior he had a heart of
gold, which he manifected on many
occasions while on the bench, in
his treatment of young offenders
brought before him for punishment
for their misdeeds. His heart of
gold is also exemplified in the lov
iing care and devotion he extended
to his wife, who has been a semi
invalid for the past two years. If
for no other reason, he is entitled
to a crown of glory.
While Judge Dickson and the
writer were members of the same
political party, we did not always
agree on party principles, but conld
and did get together and thrash
out our differences without hatred
or malice and retained the old time (
friendship, which existed to the
time of his death. He was a splen
did citizen, always wanted to do
what was right, as he saw it, and if
he made a mistake, who does not,
it was of the head, not of the heart,
for he tried faithfully to treat
his fellow man fairly when they
appeared before him in his judicial
capacity. He was a fair and im
partial Judge and the people of
this district have lost a real friend
in the death of Judge Dickson. The
editor of The Frontier, who for so
many years has been a warm per
sonal friend of the Judge and his
i family, extends to them his heart
1 felt sympathy in this, their hour
| of sorrow.
Consumers Public Power
Cut Rates, Effective This
Month
Reductions approximate $21,947
annually for homes and stores.
Reductions in lisrht rates in 36
municipalities included in the north
eastern Division of Consumers
Public Power District were an
nounced this week by Division Man
ager L. C. Walling, at O’Neill.
The reductions are in residental
and commercial rates in 35 of the
villages and cities in the division.
At Neligh, where a previous adjust
ment had been made, reduction is
only in the residential schedule.
The reductions are effective with
the July billing.
Families and firms in the 36 mun
icipalities will have savings of ap
proximately $21,947 annually, re
presenting an over-all reduction of
about eight per cent on their month
ly bills, based on last year’s cur
rent consumption, Walling said.
The Consumers Board of Dir
ectors ordered reductions in resid
ential and commercial rates for
all users in the 36 towns in this
division.
Walling added that all residential
and commercial customers in the
36 municipalities will receive the
benefit of the reductions. It is the
first general rate reduction through
out the Northeastern Division since
the Consumers Public Power Dis
trict acquired the property.
Consumers directors said further
reductions in the division will be
made as rapidly as earnings permit.
They reminded the Consumers Dis
trict is part and parcel of the mu
nicipalities it serves, noting that
all earnings over and above the
operating expenses of te division
remain strictly in the division and
are used for the retiremeut of the
bonded indebtedness. They added
that earnings over the necessary a
mounts needed for various fixed
charges and operating expenses
automatically pass to the users of
electric power in the form of lower
rate schedules. New rate sched
ules, it was announced by Mr. Wall
ing, are available at the local of
fices.
The O’Neill Play Ground is now j
open to the Public. All Parents
and Children are cordially invited
to attend. There are games for
the older boys and girls and a
sand box and games for the smaller
children. As a special event Fri-j
day, there will be a Treasure Hunt!
at 2 P. M. Prizes wil be award
ed to the winners.
Nickel Day — Sun. June 29th
St. Johns
Increased Supply of Stock
Bring Good Prices.
Last Monday’s livestock market
showed a firm undertone and the
action was brisk. Buyers, attract
ed here by the increased supply of
stock paid fully steady to strong
prices, with a sharp upswing in
price characterizing the sales in
the hog division.
Steer calves averaging around
450 and of fancy quality establish
ed an extreme top of $12.40. Good
calves paid from $11.00 to $12.00.
Top heifer calves sold at $11.00
with $9.50 to $10.50 catching the
long end of the offering.
A few light yearling cashed at
$11.00 with the bulk going at $9.50
to $10.50.
A very good run of cows were
on hand and the best beef cows
reached a new high of $8.05. Bulk
of the offering sold from $6.50 to
$7.50. The bull run was rather
light with prices mostly steady.
The hog market reflected the
price advance at the river markets
and demand for hogs was active.
Extreme top on butchers was $9.75
with a practical top of $9.65 to
$9.70 being paid for the bulk of the
days run. A few sows reached
$9.50. Feeder pigs were plentiful
and the best kind paid $11.25 per
cwt. but most of the pigs sold by the
head.
Receipts in both the horse and
sheep divisions were light.
The next regular auction will be
held on Monday June 23, 1941.
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Mother-Daughter Banquet
The men of the Methodist Church
are serving a Mother-Daughter
Banquet at the Church, on June 26
at 6:30 P. M. Mrs. Esther Cole
Harris and Mrs. Haroln Linnberg
are selling tickets. Please see
them if you wish to buy tickets.
Everyone Welcome.
Dr. and Mrs. George Stevens, of
Sioux Falls, S. D., arrived here
on Saturday to visit at the home of
Mrs. Eliza Wilcox. Mrs. Stevens
went on to Grand Island and visited
relatives and then returned to
O’Neill on Monday. They left for
their home on Tuesday afternoon.
According to recent call Holt
county will have to furnish thirty -
ne men for the next quota for se
Dctive service. They are to report
for induction into the army on
July 12, 1941. As all of the vol
unteers have been inducted into
service the next quota will be taken
I from the draft registration, accord
ing to their draft number.