The f VOL. LXII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, July 10, 1941 Number 9 SOUTHWESTERN BREEZES By Rotnaine Saunders Mr. and Mrs. George Meals of Atkinson spent an afternoon out here recently. __ Joe Serck of Chambers was over this wav Monday with his stock of apices and remedies and fount, some in need in this neighborhood. Salesmen are welcome visitors in the busy hay and harvest season when ranchers can’t take time U go to town. F. D. R. has the talent to select a cabinet that hos met with greater wide spread condemnation than al others combined. Says one forme Vew Deal bureau head of one New • Deal cabinet officer. “He is about as fair as Caiapbas, as objective as a fishwife and as courteous as a hyena.” Perhaps after all the New Deai crop allotment is but a modified application of the battle cry of a stary-eyed sister of Kansas fort\ odd years ago when she waived the banner of populism and called upon the clod hoppers to raise more hell and less com. The 4th is no good in these mod em times. We lack the gumption of our fathers. They greeted the 4th with "100 guns at sunrise. Sniggs. Merrit, Buster and the other snavthirs “shot the anvils, grand calathumpian parade, race^ sports, an imported orator. Gus Handlan marshal of the day. Silver Triggs stepping it off at the head of the O’Neill comet band, fire works at night and fire water at all times—patriotism run high and every body felt that the 4th wa something more than just anothei day on the calender. The “rumble and grumble and! roar" of tractor? in the hay mea dow? and grain fields is noisy evi-; denee that the one busy season ol j the southwest has swing into full; stride. Grass is abundant and the grain fields all the way down to the Loup are turning out heavy j crops. Cattle feed to the full in green pastures and the turkeys j have an unlimited supply of fresh grasshoppers. Mulberries are abun dantse and summer apples are com ing into use. Sand cherry bushes hang full of unripe fruit but the, new potatoes fresh from the gar-; den are something to rave about ; And from now until pheasants are; “ripe” fried chicken will abound *wi harvest dinner tables. Uncle Sam was supposed to have about all the gold stuck away in subterranen hideouts down in old • Kentucky. Now it is learned that a single individual over in myster; ious India has 800 tons of the yel low metal in his palace vaults. A current saying in our youth, “you are not the only pebble on the beach,” is still pertinent. The Holt county grasshopper is a tough customer. He multiplies in wet weather, is impervious to heat and if frozen like a stone thaws out in the sun winks an evil eye and hops away. He eats every thing that grows in field and gar den, strips young trees of leaves and bark and grows opulent on poison bait. He takes refuge in the gras? but shakes a hind leg at it as well as the weeds as being fit for the diet of a hopper. He bores holes in the earth in which would fit a round lead pencil and deposits millions of eggs to propetuate his kind that the work of destruc tion may go one from season to sea son. The engraver’s art, the press man’s skill in combining colors and the master of surperlatives in writ ing the ballyhoo for those seed catalogues intrigued the lady of the house early in the spring to go into flower gardening. She had my moral support but very little practical help. The beds were well planned, seeds planted and all that Watering and cultivating went on, through the weeks and now in the hot July days a touch of color in floral bloom shows here and there but the flower is a pitiful: contrast to the gorgeous thing the catalogue promised. Much ol human effort is crowned with but mockery of nature. From Mid May until late June the deep blue bloom of the prairie iris and the fragrances of the wild rose greet-, ed us every where, while for sheer beauty the creamy flower looking Joseph Sherman Ennis The funeral of Sherman Enni-; was held Sunday afternoon from the Methodist church. Rev. V. C Wright officiating and burial r Piospect HiU cemetery at the sidi ol his wife, who passed away las* November. His daughters, Mrs Maxwell, of San Diego, and Mrs. Smith, of Chambers, were both pre sent at the funeral. Joseph Sher man Ennis was born at Martinsville Indianna, on July 29, 1872. the son of Emery Etonis and Dorcas Perry* His people were of southern extrac tion, his father a Kentuckian and his mother a native Virginian Sherm moved to Iowa in 1890 and from there he moved to Thurston county, Nebr. He moved to Atkin son in 1908 and lived there until 1916 when he moved to O’Neili where he resided up to the time of his death, on July 2,1941. at the age of 68 years, eleven months and two days, after a short illness. He wa* united in marriage to Sarah Lavinia Eveland in Monona county, Iowa, on April 29 1893. Five children were born of this union, two sons and three daughters. They are: Emmery II. of South Bend, Ind.,; Mrs. Millie L. Maxwell, Mrs. Marguerite D. Basye, Elmer F., of San Diego, California; Mrs. Lorraine H. Smith of Chambers, Nebr. He also leaves to mourn his passing a sister, Mrs. Thompson, of Morgantown. Ind iana, and five grandchildren. Sherm was a good citizen and al- i ways attended to his own affairs After moving to O’Neill he was em ployed several years in a lumbet yard here. He made one entry into politics, being the republican can didate for sheriff in the early twen ties but failed at the election. Aftei that campaign he purchased a shoe repair shop and conduced that busi ness up to the date of his death. He was a member of the Odd Fel lows Lodge and had held all the local offices in that organization In 1918 he joined the Methodist I church and had been a faithful member from that date to the time of his death. f - Senator Butler Has Three Appointments To Naval Academy Senator Hugh Butler announced today that he had received word from the Navy Department that he will have three appointments to make from the State of Nebraska to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1942. This increased number of appointments at this time is a result of the speeded up program of training recently adopted at the academy. Senator Butler will give competi tive examinations under the aus pices of the Civil Service Commis sion on October 4, 1941, for these appointments. He requests that al! applicants have their inteniton to compete for these appointments fil ed in his Washington office by the twenty-fifth of September. Our Governor Is Back Home Governor Griswold returned last Tuesday from a trip to the east, during which visit he attended the national convention of governors and also visited in Washington D. C., and other points of interest in the east. It is expected that within a short time he will appoint a district Judge for this district bo fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Robert R. Dickson. It is expected that the new district judge will be Attorney D. R. Mounts, of Atkinson. It is said that the average Amer ican home being built has decreased by one room since 1926. But the decrease in cost of building is not visible. up from the thorny bed of cactus like a thing done in delicate wax is rarely surpassed. Nature’s ador nments are not limited to the floral bloom at our feet. The transcend ing beauty of a prairie sunset in July holds a captivating charm. For a moment the great golden ball rests in the hollow between two distant hills and is gone. The sky aglow like burnished brass fades to deeper shades as the moments pass and an hour later the evening star sets like a jewel on the sunset after glow. In the darkening sky to the southeast a full moon rides above the tree tops, now at rest in the evening calm. Seed catalogues may fail us but our beloved prairie t holds a perpetual charm. Prices Strong At Last Monday’s Local Market Strong prices prevailed at Mon day's Livestock Auction. Las; Monday's receipts of livestock met with stronger prices on practically all classes at the regular local live stock auction. Due to activity in the harvest fields, not quite a* large receipts were here, but sup plies found a ready outlet and de mand was brisk. Good steer calves paid an ex- { treme top of $12.00 with the bulk of this class ranging from $10.50 to $11.50. Heifer calves .were rather scarce. One small package of choice; lightweight yearlings sold at $12.05 with the lor*? end cashing @ $9.50 to $11.50. A few lightweight year-] ling heifers sold upwards to $10.00. Howarer the bulk of these sold mostly from $9.00 to $9.50. The quality of the cow offering was not too good. The best kind brought $7.50 with plainer kinds paying $6.50 to $7.00. Bulls were in light supply. The hog run was light, but those on sale shared the general upswing in prices. Top butchers paid $10.60 with $10.55 claiming the long end. Sows sold mostly at $9.85. Not enough pigs were here to establish a price. About a dozen horses and mules completed the day's offering. The next regular auction will be held on Monday July 14th. I Your Opportunity To Learn A Trade. Opportunity for trade training will be offered you by a Traveling Navy Recruiting party to be lo cated in the Post Office Building in O’Neill, Nebraska, on July 15th Office hours will be maintained from 9 A. M. until 4 P. M. to in terview' and accept applications from men who might be interested in this opportunity to learn and earn while serving their country. Our “Expert” Columnists When the war between Hitler and Stalin, the two European despots started there was considerable dis- ( cussion as to who would be the winner. The Gentians since have claimed to have made considerable gains while the Russians said that, their unexpectedly stiff resistance had put the Nazi behind schedule, j Of course nobody knows at this I writing just how the Russo-German war will eventually turn out. But! there is one intangible thing which seems to favor Joe Stalin. W'hen the war started most of the so-call ed military' “experts’’ and colum nists held that Hitler would wi^ in a few weeks. Now in previous1 predictions these so-called colum nists-experts have been about IOC per cent wrong. Therefore then prediction of a Hitler victory, in the light of past results, would seem to indicate that Stalin would win. Let’s look at the records for a moment; When Hitler invaded Poland it was the opinion of the experts that the Poles would hold the Nazis ofl until the rains came, when the Ger man tanks would be mired in mud and the British and French would finish them on the western front When the Germans invaded Nor way it was declared the Nazis could not possibly bold the Scandinavian peninsula when it had no fleet to compare with Great Britain’s Hitler’s invasion of Norway was said to have been as big a mistake as Napoleon’s campaign in Spain ! When the Nazis invaded the Low, Countries it was predicted that the Dutch would drown many by open ing the dykes, and that the Dutch Belgians, French and British would finish them off. It was predicted that it would cost 2,000,000 men to pierce tht Maginot Line and then it was' doubtful whether it could be done I even at so great a sacrifice. When the Balkan campaign start ed it was predicted the Serbs would retire to the mountains and hold; the Germans off until winter by j which time they would be practic-! ally exhausted. In all of these predictions the experts were wrong. Now when they predicted that Hitler will fin ish Stalin off in from four to six weeks they may just be continuing their record as prophets. If they run true to form this campaign might easily be the finish of HitleT. At any rate, having the experts j predict his army and material are no good, and he can’t win, is a big break for Joe. O’Neill Coimnercial Club Regular Meeting Tuesday Evening The regular meeting of the O'Neill Commercial Club was held at the Goklen Hotel last Tuesday evening and was fairly well attend ed. The Club decided at this meet-j ing to sponsor the annual Calf show and sale to be held here later in the fall and the President was authorized to appoint a committee to have charge of this event. Com mittees are working on the annual free day celebration, which will be held this year on August 13 and members of the Committees are looking forward to having the larg est celebration ever held in this section of the state. Place the date, August 13, in your calendar and be sure to come to O’Neill on that day and be a guest of the busi ness men of O’Neill. Are We Prepared? The principal argument of the war interventionists that now is the time to get into the contest while Great Britian is still “hot” so to speak. One thing which they fail to discuss is whether or not the United States is prepared for war at this time No wonder they do not discuss that question because the weight of the evidence seems against them. We all remember that Poland, France and Great Britian were not ready for war when they plunged W’hat has happened since has not been exactly pleasant reading There is no admission here or else where that Hitler could do to us what he did to France, Poland and Yugoslavia. Certainly if he can not cross the English channel to attack Great Britian in force he would find it difficult to get into; the United States. Bu this does not gainsay the fact that it is un wise to get into war until one is prepared. That we are not pre pared, even for a defensive war, is evidenced by tfeg fact that Uncle Sam plans to spend something like $15,000,000,000 for defense alone in this fiscal year. We believe that our army and our navy, man to man and ship to ship, are the finest in the world. But this does not mean that we are prepared for a long war at this time. Let us quote a few para graphs from the Washington Daily News: “ ‘Before we fight, face the facts.’ Well the week-end turned up an eloquent array of facts concerning both the state of the army and the state of the whole defense adminis tration. “Liaut. Gen. Ben Lear, analyzing a month’s maneuvers in Tennessee by the Second Army, commented that unless the performance of commanding officers is improved, ‘disastrous embarrassments and failures will be encountered during battle.’ He said cases were found where srergents, corporals and privates in great numbers did not know the nature and details of the exercises being conducted.’ And this, he emphasized, “is not the fault of the soldier. It is the fault of the officers above him, and it must be corrected.’ “This judgment was elaborated by Hansen Baldwin, military cor respondent of the New York Times, who said high army officers were of the opinion— “That not one American divis ion is ready for war; “That the army’s conception of modern tactics is ‘primitive’; “That there are grave deficiencies in equipment, in training and tac tics and leadership, and to a lesser extent in discline and morale.” The report of the House Com mittee on Military Affairs regard ing our progress for defense building is no more encouraging. Let us not forget the old axiom that the time to prepare for war is in the time of peace. This is the time of peace so far as we are concerned and we are pre paring for defensive war which we hope will never occur. Let us continue to keep it a time of peace so that we may all the better pre pare for war. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kruse of Sherton, Iowa, visited here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Kruse while on their way home from Glacier National Park, over the week end. They left on Sunday for their home, taking with them Miss Patsy Kruse and Miss Betty Jane Ernst to Swea City, Iowa where the two girls will spend the next ten days or two weeks, visit ing Patsy’s Grandmother, Mrs Anna Dahl. K. C. Kittenball Team Goes Down To Defeat Rudy Valla’s K. of C. kittenball team met with defeat at the hand.* of the O’Neill All-Stars at the city park on Monday night of this week. The game went an extra inning and the All Stars won 14 to 11 Playing for the All Stars were: Biglin, McDonough, Toy, Ferris Moore, Jones, Wyant, Halva, Vin cent Femholtz. For the K. C’s were playing Valla. Miles, Stanton Tomlinson, Hammond, Stutz, Early Flood, Chapman. Laying down a barrage of 17 hits, many of them for extra bases, the Tri-State Kittcnball team downed the K. C. team, 22 to -I Tuesday evening. The K. C. team paraded three pitchers to the mound but the Tri State bats were booming hits all over the field, and the outcome was evident early in the game. Mason, on the mound for Tri State gave up eleven hits, but kept them well scattered and bore down with runners on the bases. Tri-State played almost error less ball, committing only two er rors, while the Knights were mak ing eleven errors behind the pitch ing of Hammond, Shoemaker and Yarnell. TRI-STATE Player AB R H E Godel c. 6 0 0 0 Ward cf. 5 2 10 Cuddy ss. 3 2 2 1 Tomlinson If. 3 2 0 0 Willson 2nd. 5 2 2 0 Manson p. 5 3 4 0 Honeycutt 3rd. 5 3 2 0 Stewart rs, 4 2 10 Peterson rf. 5 2 2 0 Kersenbrock 1. 5 4 3 1 46 22 if 2 K. of C. Player AB R HE Early 2nd. 4 0 12 Miles rs. 3 111 Valla 1st. 3 0 13 B. Shoemaker 3.3 1 2 1 Stanton cf. 2 0 0 0 J. Shoe'ker ss-p. 3 12 1 Stutz If. rf. 3 0 10 Hammond p-ss. 3 0 10 Parkins rf-lf 3 0 11 Yarnell c-p 3 111 X French cf. 1 0 0 0 31 4 11 11 X Batted for Stanton in 7th. The Weather For the past few days the weather has been hot all over the state, with the temperature hitting over he hundred degree mark Tues day and Wednesday in several parts of the State. The highest reading recorded in O’Neill, however, was 95 on Wednesday4 with 93 on Tues day. Early Thrusday morning 1.15 of rain fell, which was accom panied by an exceedingly strong wind. Thus far in July, we have received 1.98 inches of rain, while in July, 1940, we received only 1.90 during the entire month. The weather chart for the past week is as follows: H L Pre July 3rd 73 57 .05 July 4 81 56 July 5 89 61 .71 July 6 88 64 July 7 . 88 67 July 8 93 68 July 9 95 70 July 10 Thrus. 1.15 The mositure chart since the first of the year is as follows: January .80 February . .63 March . .68 April . 4.09 May 1.47 June . 3.60 July, Kith. 1.98 13.22 CARI) OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation for gracious services by neighborly hands held out in our hour of need. To Biglin Bros., Rev. Wright foi his comforting words, the choir, the pall-bearers, the friends who lightened irksome tasks and to those who expressed sympathy by beautiful language of flowers. From the Children, Grand children, Nieces and Nephews of Mrs. Frank Phillips. Clear Golden of Cheshire, Conn., who is here visiting relatives drove to Omaha on Saturday, where he met his wife, who had been visiitinp relatives in California and Montana. They returned to O’Neill on Tues day evening and will visit here until some time next week. Kinbeiter—Giliigan The folowing announcement of the marriage of a former O’Neil^ boy, Bennett Giliigan, is taken from the last Sunday issue of the Omaha World-Herald. Bennett’s many O'Neill friends tender their sincere congratulations to himself and bride and hope that their married life will he a long and happy one. At St. Joseph church Benkel* maim, Saturday at * A. M. Miss Marie Kinbeiter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kinbeiter of ; Gretna, because the bride of Ben Giliigan, son of Mrs. Maude Gilii gan of Scottsbluff. Rev. Joseph Kolar officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Owens of Benkelmann were the only attendants. The bride was attired in a dress i of dessert sand with which she ; were beige accessories. Her cor sage was of gardenias and she carried a white prayer book. The matron of honor wore a street I length dress of pale green with a corsage of yellow roses and la vender sweetpeas. Immediatly following the cere mony a wedding breakfast was | served at the Daniel E\ Ownens’ ' home. Mrs. Giliigan before her mar riage was public health nurse in Dundy county for the past two and a half years. She is a gradu ate of St. Catherine’s hospital school of nusring at Omaha and attended the University of Michigan. Mr. Giliigan attended Kemper Military academy, Creighton uni versity school of Pharmacy and the University of Michigan. Following a brief honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Giliigan will make their home in Scottsbluff, where Mr. Giliigan is now employed as sanitarian by the Nebraska state department of health. State Teachers Examinations Here Next Saturday The next State Teachers Exam ; inations will be given in O’Neill on Saturday July 12th. The sched j ule of subjects will be: i Morning: 8:00 to 8:50 Arithmetic Mental Arithmetic, and Bookeep | ing. 9:00 to 9:50 American History, Civil Government. 10:00 to 10:50 English Composi tion, Grammar. 11:00 to 11:50 Physiology and Hygiene, Public school Music. Afternoon: 1:00 to 1:50 Theory and Art, Course of Study. 2:00 to 2:58 Reading, Ortho graphy. 3:00 to 3:50 General Geography, 3:00 to 3:50 General Geography. Agriculture and Geography of Neb raska. 4:00 to 4:50 Penmanship, Draw ing. This is the last teachers exam ination until November. Holt County Pre-Opening Day will be held Saturday, Augsst 30. Teachers should arrange their vaca tions so as not to interfere with their attendance on this date. Elja McCullough, County Superintendent Band Concert Saturday Night 1. Marcy - Repasz Band - Lincoln 2. Waltz - On the Mall - Goldman 3. Waltz - Alpine Suneet - King 4. Selection - Poet, Peasant, and Light Cavalryman - Von Suppe 5. Vocal Solo- My Buddy - Don aldson Soloist - Mary Jardce 6. Novelty - Trombone Smear - Bull Trombone - Fillmore 7. March and Two Step - Alex anders Rag Time Band-Berlin 8. Vocal Solo - Shine on Harvest Moon - Robert Mitchell 9. Hymn - Adeste Fidelis 10. Star Spangled Banner Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davidson and chilrfren of Lincoln, left on Monday for their home after visit ing here at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank How ard. Mr. Davidson, who was also here visiting, went on to Odgen, Utah on business. while Johnson allowed three hits and struck out a like number. Mrs. Anna C. Wettauffer pas sed away at her home in this city last Saturday morning. She was nearly 09 years of age and had been a resident of this county since 1885. Over two inches of rain has fallen here since the first of the month. On July 1 we received .09; on the Fourth 1.15; on the 8th .14; this afternoon 75, making 2.73 inches so far this month. THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Fifty-Five Years Ago The Frontier, July 8, 1886 The valuation of Center Precinct was double that of Atkinson pre cinct and it is one-fifth the valu atio nof the entire county. The diplomas given to the O’Neill graduating class of 1886 were the first ever given in Holt county and I for that fact alone are worth much. A bouncing hafcy girl has taken 1 up her residence at the home of A. ; J. Hammond, having put in an ; appearance on Tuesday. Rev. T. J. Smith preached his farewell sermon in the Catholic church last Sunday morning and on Tuesday morning departed for his new field of labor at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The following were graduated from the O’Neill High School last Friday evening: Edith McWilliams, Ella Graham, Nora Baldwin, Maud I Baldwin and Julia Marsh. A large delegation of O’Neill ! people headed by the band celebrat ed the Fourth at Minneola and a grand time is reported. Fifty Years Ago The Frontier, July 9, 1891 On July 2, a marriage license was issued to Robert E. Chittick, of Stuart, and Mis* Lorena Sturde vant of Atkinson. The heavy rains Sunday and Monday night have raised the river and streams of the county and made i it exceedingly wet in some parts, j especially over south. The Item, July 9, 1891 Kid Cronin, of the editorial force j accompanied S. J. Weekes to Pad ! dock last Friday to help celebrate the Glorious JTourth, the celebra tion being hold in Back Berry’s grove. Hugh O’Neill was the orator of the day and he delivered a masterly address. We spent the night at the commodious home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hicks on the Red Bird, where we feasted and retired for the night. We came I home the next morning well satis fied with our jaunt into the north eastern part of the county. “Kid” King spent the fourth at | the new and hustling town of ' Spencer. The town now has a pop i ulation of about 150 but is grow ing fast. One hundred and fifty Indians were present to assist in making the celebration a success. _ Forty Years Ago The Frontier, July 11, 1901 Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Weekes re turned Saturday evening and were greeted by a large and demonstra tive crowd of seranading boys. J. P. Mann departed for Chicago, ris future home, last Friday. Mr. Mann had been a resident of O’Neill | for more than eighteen years and [ had always taken a prominent part I in the development of the city,while he lived here. His store will continue | to operate, being in charge of his | sister, Miss Mann. Thirty Years Ago The Frontier, July 13, 1911 C. E. Stout returned last Monday from a short visit with relatives at Tekamah. The county was visited with a splendid rainfall last Saturday night. The preciption in the city was one and one-half inches. Twenty Years Ago The Frontier, July 9, 1921 Rolla and Della Dehart arrested at Burwell last Thursday night as suspects in the mueder of John Mize I of Platte, S. D., whose body was | found in the Niobrara river, near i the Parshallt bridge, a week ago i Saturday, are in seperate jails in this city, alleged confessed murde-r ers of the man who had traveled with them from the South Dakota town. Ten Years Ago The Frontier, July 9, 1921 In what was declared to be the best ball game ever seen in northern Nebraska, O'Neill defeated the fast salaried Club of Winner, S. D., at Long Pine Sunday, 1 to 0 as a featore of the Long Pine rodeo show. It was a great pitcheis battle, between Honeycutt of O’ Neill and Johnson of Winner, the former having the edge and allow ing two hits and striking out ten,