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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1941)
The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor En treed at the postoffice at O’Neill Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska.$2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska..... 2.26 Every subscription is regarded M an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notifiied; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every suscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub Usher and subscriber. Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, subse quent insertions, 6c per line. THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Fifty-Five Years Ago The Frontier, August 12, 1886 The prohibition County Con vention was held in McCafferty’s had last Tuesday and was largely attended. A dispatch in the Bee last night says that Frank Campbell was ap pointed postmaster at O’Neill vice D. Mtahews resigned. The meeting of the Northeast Nebraska Press Association was held in this city last Friday after noon with the following members in attendance: L. O. Hull, Gordon Press; Herbert Bottenburg, Hay Springs News; Reese Mayes, Long Pine Bugle; Byron Bead, Holt County Evangelist; H. A. Cross, Inman Index; J. M. McDonough. O’Neill Tribune; J. H. Riggs, O'Neill Frontier; R. B. Clarbome and H. N. Claiborne, Holt County People; W. D. Mathews, T. V. Gold en and G. M. Cleveland honorary members. Fifty Years Ago The Frontier, August 18, 1891 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dobbs cele brated their Crystal wedding an niversary at their home here last Thursday evening. The Item, August 13, 1891 Fire at the Burlington round house yesterday afternoon for a time threatehed to destroy the building, but hard work by the bucket brigade extinguished the flames. , Politics are beginning to sizzle in all sections of the county and the coming campaign promises to be a real hot one. Forty Years Ago The Frontier, Aa£u«f-16, 1901 A large delegation <>*.0'Neillites were on the excursion run by the Great Northern road to Duluth last Friday. Twenty-seven coaches were required to haul the excursionist*. The printers of O’Neill took the real estate men to a cleaning on the local baseball diamond last week. The score was 13 to 11. Thirty Years Ago The Frontier, August 10, 1911 O. A. Kilpatrick of Harlan. Iowa, was in the city last week visiting his old tiiqe friend. Jack Quig and will probably locate here. Several splendid rains have visit, ed the county the past week and everything is Jooking fine. Twenty Years Ago The Frontier, August 11, 1921 Clerk of the District Court Ira Moss visited relatives and friends in Atkinson Tuesday. Mrs. Charles McKenna entertain ed the Martz Club at her home north of the city Monday evening. Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom and Mrs. Bergstrom were called to Gregory, S. D., Monday by announc * ment of the serious illness of her sister. Ten Years Ago The Frontier, August 13, 1931 Plainview defeated the O’Neill ball club Sunday with a score of 1 to 0. It was a snappy game throughout. ' Last Saturday was a busy day I in the juvenile department of the district court. Two families of children, both from Stuart, were before the court The case was continued until August 22. CONGRESS; | KARL ITI'AN The House passed the new tax bill after striking out the provision, for mandatory joint income tax re turn of husband and wife. Those who favored joint returns say it may mean that the $325,000,000 of revenue that this method of return would have produced will have to come from other sources—prob ably from those in the lower income brackets. The bill has now goni to the Senate where many amend ments will be added and the House bill is expected to be materially altered by the time that the confer ence stage is reached. The final vote on the bill is not expected foi many more weeks. House leaders notified the mem bers that as soon as the draft ex tension bill is out of the way, three day recesses will be in order for a time. Many members are already packing up preparatory to going home or on vacations. The price control bill is not ex. pected in the House until after Labor Day. That is about the time members are expected to be back in Washington in the absence of emergency. In the meantime, all members are subjct to immediate recall to Washington. The President's veto of the agri cultural extension appropriation bill brought gloom to members whose states are effected by the veto. It means about $50,000 to Nebraska and the curtailment of much of the Four-H activities. Due to loss 01 population, quite a few states have been hit because the extension funds are apportioned according to popu lation. The veto message has been referred to the Committee on Ag riculture. The chairman and mem bers of that committee are con ferring on what to do. Members from states not affected are not interested and there is doubt if the veto can be overriden in the House. It cost $248.00 for Albert Engel of Michigan to investigate costs of construction of thirteen army cantonments. He is a member who told Congress that out of an ex_ penditure of $800,000,000, about $250,000,000 has been wasted through inefficiency and rackets. His figures have not been disputed thus far. Engle was representing the committee on Appropriations in his investigation. A leading member of the com mittee on military affairs tells his colleagues that he does not be lieve we will send another A. E. F. He believes our industries will wii the war for Great Britain. When asked about the Japanese situation however, he says that is something different. Here in Washington the Far-East situation is believed b be a tinder box. Winter is not for off. Food ex perts predict much starvatior throughout the world. Humanit> everywhere is going to need mucl of the food that the United State has in abundance at the present time. Czechs in Washington are cele brating the recognition of the Czech committee of Dr. Benes in London They feel this will give the Czecl Legation in Washington improve*! standing. Heretofore, the Stat* Department felt that it could onl.» recognize representatives of the old Czech republic. The new actior gives the Czech provisional govern, ment located in London opportunitj to co-ordinate its American activ ities. Miss Marion McGill of Tekamah Nebraska, is back in Washington nfter a harrowing experience fol lowing the torpedoing of the Dutch steamer Maasdam late last June. Miss McGill was one of the fifteen Red Coss nurses taken out of the chilly waters of the North Atlantic when the steamer was sunk. Her roommate and anothre girl were drowned. Talking to the Third District member, Miss McGill said she needs rest badly and will re main here with her brother, Ken neth McGill, about a month. In the meantime, she is writing of her experience while they are stil' fresh in her mind. Miss McGill was received by the Queen of En gland, Prime Minister Churchill Lady Astor and many other not. ables In England. It was her sec ond visit to the country. She says that London is not damaged as' badly as she expected it to be but other cities are badly wrecked The morale of the Ehglish people is wonderful. Food is still available in fair quantities but she fears that much material is being lost by torpedo sinkings. She hopes that the United States will not have to send men to Europe to fight but hopes sufficient material will keep going to England and that it will get there safely. This Ne braska girl who was rescued from an icy grave is writing one of the most thrilling stories of World War number two. It will tell how she and her women companions calmly don. ned life belts when the torpedo struck; how they floated around in the dark, rainy night in the icy waves of the North Atlantic; how the life boat sunk and how she saw her roommate disappear; how she battled the waves for nearly an an hour suddenly to see the life boat come up again; how she swam to the boat and how she aided other® who came to the boat and finally how she was recused by a tanker and taken to England. Her story will be filled with human inter est and tragedy and will tell of the terror of riding through the path of submarines for days awaiting a tragic blow which finally came President Roosevelt issued an or der freezing Japanese assets in this country. That Japan would do the same thing with assets of our citizens in that country was anticipated. The amount of such assests was about equal in the two countries. Prospects of war with Japan are largely up to Japan, those states men still talk peace and war in the same breath. It was fully ex. pected that the Japanese newspap ers would explode a bit when the Panama Canal wps closed to their vessels, and they became belliger ent in tone for a day. But when the news was released that a Jap ves sel heading for the canal carried explosive bombs of sufficient size to Bink the boat and at the same time damage the canal locks, the Japanese government had little to say. Apparently our government is able to keep many steps ahead of Japan in heading off untoward incidents. Japanese now are go ing around South America without attempting to enter the canal. That Japan may provoke a con flict is possible because of its in ternal conditions which are already acute. That it is likely to do so is doubtful. But in such an event our country would not be caught napping. The principal part of our Navy lies near Japan’s lines of communication, including those of its foreign trade. Huge naval bom. bing planes are in the Philippines and on other Pacific bases which are within close striking range if Japan starts something. The for eign trade upon which Japan is dependent is equally within range of our guns and bombs. The chances are that Japan will continue t< blue and bluster at least for weeks if not months to come before the actual show-down occurs. The President vetoed the defense highway bill. Immediately t|ie Senate Committee on Roads began to prepare the action to bring the bill before the Senate for a vote oti passage notwithstanding the veto. The House Committee on Roads began to lay the foundation for a similar vote in the House but the vote in the Senate will come first The inside story is that the road people are having a bit of a feud with the Bureau of the Budget. The road people claim that the Bureau ct the Budget is trying to wreck the federal aid road program. The Budget people claim that the road people have gone beyond the reasonable requirements of actua? national defense. Many state High, j way engineers who had staited building access and defense roads with expectation of reimbursement from the funds authorized in the defense road bill kept the House Committee on Roads mighty busy after the news of the veto leeked out. Among the recent visitors in the Third Congressional District office were Miss Jean Mason of Tekamah; Mr. Dean Lundell of Wakefield; M iss Ardene Swanson of Wausa Miss Lois Taylor formerly of Wes* Point and now employed in Wash ington. D. C.; Mr. H. L. Dempster of Beatrice; Mrs. Charles Gillespie, of Meadow Grove; Mr. Chris Miller and Nels Hansen all of Hubbard; Mr. Douglas Kayler of Dakota City; Mr. Eldon Wise of Norfolk; Mrs.Lloyd W. Carlson of Albion; Mr. and Mrs. S. Kalbo of Omaha; and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kalbo of Davenport, Iowa; Dr. Ed. W. Snygg, formerly of Magnet and now at Walter Reed Hospital in Wash ington, D. C.; and Dr. Robert Fish bach, formerly of Norfolk, who will leave to join the Public Health Ser. vice’s Staff at Honolulu, Hawaii in the near future. City Council Proceedings O’Neill, Nebraska, July 1, 1941; Council met in regular session: Present Mayor Kersenbrock: Councilmen: Arbuthnot. Yantzi, Johnson. Phalin. Walace. Alf, Meeting was called to order by the Mayor: Minutes of the pre vious meetings were read and ap proved: City Treasurers state ment for the month of June read and approved: Upon motion the following bills ! were allowed: General Fund: Uhl Transfer . $ 3.00 J. P. Protivinsky . 1.00 Frank Valla 7.20 Consumers Public Power .... 172.75 Andy Springer . 75 M. Peterson .... 2.00 Thos. Higgins . 10.01 Jack Kersenbrock . 11.10 The Frontier 38.43 W. S. Darley Co.. 3.43 Arbuthnot Oil Co.. 8.55 O’Neill Fire Dept. . 26.00 Frank Greiner . 80.00 G. E. Miles . 4.00 C. W. Portei\|, . 20.00 Recreation Center ... _... 15.00 Elmer Neal . 25.00 Lohaus Motor . 46.60 Nebraska Culvert Co. 9.00 Chas Switzer .. _. 1.00 McDonough Paint .... .. 3.00 Monarch Industries . 128.001 A. A. Hiatt .... 11.00 Standard Oil Co. _... . 8.69 Ray Osborn . .90 O’Neill Hatchery . 3.10 R. E. Calvert _ 42.48 Levi Yantzi . 10.00 Chester Calkins . 100.00 Norman Gonderinger. 30.00 Bob Cook . 75.00 I Roy Lowery-- 80.00 John Meyer . 40.00 On Water Fund: Jesse Scofield___. $100.00 Interstate Mach. Co..103.00 John Kersenbrock .._.. 3.24 Ernie Harris . 2.00 Porters Diamond Sta. ;. 4.06 Montgomery Hdw. Co.. 10.71 Ralph Scofield - 22.50 Conard Wegner _.__ 75.00 C. W. Porter, Contg.. 15.00 Ed. Dumpert _ 4.75 Consumers Public Power .... 85.75 N. W. Bell____... 5.30 The Texas Co. 41.39 Pittsburgh Equitable . 155.75 H. L. Hammond . 21.10 Lee Wyant __:.. 13.00 Motion by Yantzi, Seconded by Phalin, that the Council accept the insurance policies No. 5034 and 449 Springfield Fire and Marine pre miums $5.00 and $16.00 respect fully, H. J. Hammond Agent on pump house and equipment; motion carried: The following Oil companies sub mitted bids on diesel motor oil for the Pump Station: Continental Oil Co. .50% and 38% cents per gallon. Standard Oil Co. 49, 45 and 4^ cents per gallon. Texas Co. 39% cents per gallon. Motion by Johnson seconded by Phalin, that the City accept the bid as submitted by the Texas Oil Co. for diesel motor oil at 39% cents per gallon. Motion Carried. Motion by Johnson seconded by Yantzi that Conard Wegner be at. lowed $75.00 in full settlement of his contract. Motion carried. Upon motion the Council ad journed subject to call of the Mayor. C. W. PORTER, Clerk. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones drove to Polk, Nebraska, on Sunday, and visited at the home of Mrs. Jones mother, Mrs. Nellie Peterson. Misri Gloria Peterson returned with them and will visit here for the week. CASH at ONCE We advance money on all makes of cars—without delay or bothersome details — and without co-makers or en dorsers. The most conven ient way to get cash in a hurry and at low rates. If your car isn’t paid for, ask about our thrifty refinancing plan. Usually we can re duce payments as much as one-third to one-haff and pro vide extra cash besides. For Quick Convenient Loans Central Finance Corporation Prompt Courtev.ua Service 1st Nat’l Bank Bldg. O’Neill C. G. Jones, Mgr. Loans made in nearby towns. HOW MANY TELEPHONE CALLS TO A TANK? Nobody has ever counted the tele phone calls that go into making a tank, but there are a great many. The faster tanks and other de fense equipment are produced, the more the telephone is used. In every step from mine to machine, the telephone helps get things done more quickly and efficiently. The telephone's part in national defense goes beyond providing service for military establishments. Much of the tremendous demand for service has come from the many thousands of industries that are making military materials. * *uch al* so is due to the general expansion of business and increased employ* ment, particularly in larger cities. We are meeting promptly and fully the enormous • national defense needs for telephone service and at the same time taking extraordinary measures to minimize as much as possible the restrictive effect of defense needs upon telephone service generally. NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CONS PA NY BRIEFLY STATED Many times a young man marries a girl because he likes the clinging vine type only to find out that she is poison ivy. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Smith, Jr., and Mrs. R. R. Smith, Sr., drove to Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sunday taking Mrs. Melvin Grd and her two daughters of Tacoma, Washing ton, to that city, where they will visit relatives for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Girard and daughter, Mary Lenore, of Manilla, P. I., who have been visiting rel atives and friends in the east, re; turned to O’Neill on Wednesday to visit at the home of Mr. andMrs. J. J. Harrington for a short time, before returning to their home. It is proposed that the draftee? be kept in the army as long as there is a crisis. This means as long as the New Dealers are in control of the government. Miss Alma K. Zoller, nurse at Northeast State Teachers College at Kirksville, Mo., and Miss Lora M. Harper, Supeiintendent of nurses at Grim-Smith Hospital, also of Kirksville, Mo., arrived Monday to stay three days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gallagher. Charles Yaimall, who was ; employee of the O’Neill Drug con?* pany for the past two years, resign, ed his position there and Monday morning he started work for the IF MORE OLD PEOPLE would use ADLERIKA they would feel better. I’m 70 and have had it on hand for 14 years.” (L. M. So. Dak.) For Quick bowel action and relief from bloating gas, try ADLERIKA today. Johnson Drug Am origin , Gea* Company, arid will do office work for thai firm. Charlie tt « hustling young fellow and should make a valuable assist ant in this popular establishment -- .. ,' 7 Washington, D. C., is now so full of government workers that th«-e w a move on to transfer many of them to other cities. That’s fair enough: pass New Deal prosperity around. Leon Henderson, the Price Czar says, the “party is over” and long years of high taxes and sacrifice lie ahead. Wonder what party he was referring to? The President told us early in the New Deal administration if any experiment failed he would be the first to acknowledge it. He now frankly says that changing the date of Thanksgiving has proved a dis appointment. So far as we know, hiking the debt forty billions, pump priming and tax raising have been successful in their objectives. It is said that over in German occupied Europe allied sympath izer are drawing the letter ‘‘V’* on buildings and sidewalks signify ing allied victory. No doubt Dr. Goebbels, head of the Nazi propga anda, will make out that this “V” doesn’t stand for victory but "Velcome.” Prepare for school by having your children’s eyes examined now for their school glasses. Satisfac tion guarenteed. See Dr. C.' W. Alexander, Eye-sight Specialist at the O’Neill Hotel in O'Neill, Mon day, August 18th. As Stream lined as a Straiollner— As Modern As Next Week's Newspeper— W* .. -m. .;li That's Electric Cookery! __ ■ ■.. j.. The New 1941 Electric Range Cooks Faster, Better, Cooler Cheaper and Cleaner. Cooking m the modern manner means cooking with an electric range. And once you hare seen the new, 1941 streamlined electric ranges, com plete with feature after feature including fully insulated orens, easy-to-clean cooking elements, controlled heat that wastes nary a degree and a gleaming white porcelain enamel finish that requires only a jiffy to clean, you. too. will «ay "My next range will be electric." 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