LIVESTOCK PRICES DROP OFF SHARPLY Demand for cattle remained1 active and supplies were liberal at the local livestock market last! Monday, but prices dropped on practically all classes. The gen eral decline of the past week at the central markets was felt here and the general trend W'as on the weak side the better grades showed the least weakness tho, they, too shared in the price shrink. The toppiest steer calves paid $12.25 but $10.75 to $12.00 claim ed the bulk of this class. How ever, the quality, of the calves here was not as good as usual be cause the high grade kinds are being held for the calf sale next Monday. A small package of heif er calves averaging 350 lbs cashed at $11.25 with the bulk of the of fering ranging from $9.50 to $10.50. In the yearling division prices were as much as a quarter lower in spots. There were a few instan ces where these looked about steady with a week ago and a very few outstanding yearlings reached $10.75. The long end of these bulked from $9.25 to $10.60. Heifers bulked from $9.25 to $10.60. Heifers placed mostly from $8.25 to $9.25 with a few reaching upwards to $10.00. Two-year-old steers weighing around 750 sold at $9.50 to $9.95. One load of fairly good quality steers moved at $9.55. Heavy heif ers paid mostly $8.00 to $9.00. Fat roifery cows reached $8.35 which was only a nickel oil' irom last week. • Most of the better grade fat cows were caught at prices ranging from $7.50 to $3.00. Bulls were near steady at $7.80 to plainer grades made $6.00 to 7.00 $7.90. Hog receipts numbered onlly about 175 head. Butcher hogs I paid from $11.30 to $11.40. Top lightweight brood sows reached * $11.20: bulk brought $10.00 to ST0.*5TT: Weary-smvs had fr-spreao of $9.75 to $10.10. Next Monday, September 29. is the date set for the Fifth An nual Calf Show and auction. The special Calf Show' is scheduled for 9 a. m„ with the auction at 12.00 noon. ■■ ■ '• PRIVATE FURNITURE SALE At my home, this week and part of next for cash. Furniture Consisting of: One dining room set, one leath er davenport, two occasional chairs, one occasional table, three beds—double, one bed—single three congoleum rugs, one oil stove—4 burners, (oven), one ironing board, one childs high chair, two floor lamps, one childs bicycle, one oak dresser. MRS. ESTHER REKA ST. MARY’S FOOT BALL SCHEDULE FOR THIS SEASON ft - St. Mary’s High started its sec ond season of six-man football with two letter men, Jack Harty and Jim Higgins, and Vince Streeter, a squad man. ^ New material—John Brennan, Eugene Stanton, Gene Higgins, Harry Piercy, Johnny Hines, Pat Hynes, Dick Clark, Jack Gallag her, John Protivinsky, Jim Gol den, John Fernholz and Doc O’ Connell. Rev. Father Richard Parr and Jerry Gray.biel are the coaches. Schedule: Sept. 26, Page. Oct. 17, at Stuart: 22 Chambers, Long Pine (tentative). Nov. 7, Stuart: 14 at Page. Mr. J. E. Schoof, Field Repre sentative of the Production Cre dit Corporation of Omaha, attend ed a meeting of the Board of Dir ectors of the O’Neill Production Credit Association at the offices of the local association on Thurs day. Mr. Otto Krupicka of Spen cer, Mr. Otto Oberg of Ericson and Mr. C. F. Clark, Directors, together with President D. C. Schaffer of O’Neill, were in at tendance. On Thursday evening twenty two members of the Eastern Star went to Long Pine, where they acted as co-hostesses with the chapters from Long Pine, Ains worth, Springview, Wood Lake, Valentine, Atkinson, Bassett and Stuart in entertaining twelve of the Grand Officers of the State. A delicious three course banquet was followed by an evening of entertainment. ELVIN E. COLE Elvin E. Cole died at the O’Neill hospital last Tuesday evening after a few days illness of a heart attack, at the age of 81 years and one day. The funeral was held j this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Dorsey church and burial in the Star cemetery. Elvin Ernest Cole was born at Stanstead, Vermont, on Septem ber 22, 1860. At the age of twelve years he was left an orphan and he went to Gratiot, Wis., and made his home with an uncle un ti lhe reached his majority. After reaching manhood’s estate he came to Holt county with the Wis consin colony that came to this county in 1882 and took a home stead two miles west of Star. While holding down his claim he worked for Chas. Lamont, who in the early days was an extensive merchant with a large store at Mineola. With the exception of ten years he spent in Iowa he had been a resident of the county since 1882. On March 30, 1887, he was unit ed in marriage to Etta M. Ridge way, the ceremony being per formed in this city. Three child ren were born of this union, all of whom survive. They are: Chas. V. of Star; Nellie M. Hayne of Page; Mrs. Lena M. Powell Cor vallis, Oregon. He is also survived by seventeen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Della Scott of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Cole was one of the most prominent residents of the north easterp part of the county and one of the most beloved. For over thirty years he was postmaster at Star, which attested to the confi- i dence his neighbors had in his integrity. We had known Mr. Cole, for nearly half a century and there was hardly a time he came to town but what he would drop in for a few minutes chat and to discuss the olden days in the county. He was a real man and the people in the northeastern part of the country, #s well ms his friends elsewhere, will miss him.! Mr. Cole was a great homelover and his happiest days were spent in the presence of his loved ones. Another pioneer has gone; anoth er vacant chair in the ranks of the real oldtimers of the country. CLYDE L. HERSHISER Clyde L. Hershiser passed away at the Veterans Hospital in Lin coln at 2:15 Tuesday afternoon after an illness of two weeks of a bowel obstruction and hypastatic pneumonia, at the age of 42 years, two months and fourteen days. The body was shipped to this city, arriving this morning and the funeral will be held from the Presbyterian church in this city Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, i Rev. Spencer officiating and bur ial in Prospect Hill cemetery. Clyde L. Hershiser was born in O’Neill on July 9, 1895, and had been a resident of this city and county practically all his life On March 4, 1922, he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Weyman. Three children were born of this union, who with their mother are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate husband and father. The children are: Irene, Floyd and Francis. He is also survived by a step-sister, Mrs. D. W. Anderson, Mason City, Iowa. Clyde was a fine young man and had a host of friends in this city and county. He was a vet eran of the First World War, be ing inducted into the service from this county. His sudden death is a severe shock to his friends and acquaintenances in the county. OWEN M. GRADY Owen M. Grady, postmaster at Olava, Colo, since 1939, died yes terday in St Francis Sanatorium, 325 King Street. He was 28. Born July 11, 1913, in O Neill, Nebr., Mr. Grady was a graduate of Sacred Heart High School, Nor folk, Neb. He went to Olava witn his parents in 1932. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Grady of Ola va; two sisters, Mrs. Robert E. P e e r y Jr. and Miss Maureen Grady, and three aunts, Miss Rose Miss Kathryn and Miss Marne I Grady, all of 1554 Logan Street. A rosary service will be held at 8 p. m. today in the George P. Hackethal Mortuary. A requiem mass will be sung at 9 a. m. to morrow in Immaculate Concep tion Cathedral,