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VOL. LXIII O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943 NO. 52
Huge Audience
Meets Griswold
The O’Neill Commercial Club
held their regular monthly meet
ng at the Golden Hotel last Tues
day evening and were hosts to
Governor Griswold, Walter Rob
erts, state director of civilian ac
tivities, and Mr. Carter, state fire
warden. Several citizens from
different towns and precincts in
the county were also present at
the dinner. Ninety-four persons
were seated in the dining room
of the hotel and a surplus of din
ers were taken care of at the M. j
and M. cafe.
* At the conclusion, of the dinner
Eg Mr. Roberts, who was raised in
' the northeastern part of Holt i
county, near the old Joy postof
fice, being the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Roberts, was called:
on and made a few remarks re-:
garding civilian defense in tne
state. He was following by Fire
Marshal Carter, but he said that
from the splendid record made
by the citizens of this city the
past year, as there was but one
fire here, he did not think the
people of O’Neill needed much
instruction on fire control. Gov
ernor Griswold was then called
on and gave a short and very in
teresting talk on Nebraska and
its part in the war effort.
As the county civilian defense
wardens were graduated that eve
ning, in services held in the
O’Neill high school auditorium,
most of the diners and several
hundred others repaired to the
school house to witness the ex
ercises held there. The O Neill
High School band was in the gal
lery and furnished the audience
inspiring and soul-stirring Peri
otic music while they waited the
program of the evening.
The meeting was called to or
der by Paul Beha, commander of
the local American Legion Post,
and after a prayer by Rpv- Daw
son Park, pastor of the Methodist
church, the meeting was turned
over to K. D. Fenderson, com
mander of the Holt County Civil
ian Defense Committee, who had
charge of the graduating exer
cises of the wardens, and the ex
ercises of the evening.
Walter F. Roberts, secretary
i co-ordinator of the Nebraska Ad
% visory Defense Committee, was
introduced and made a short ad
dress on fire prevention and told
of the great loss by fire of prop
erty in the state and nation
through carelessness.
“A Patriotic Medley
“Home” by the Atkinson High
School Quartette, with Miss Le
ona Kilmurry as director, won
favor of the audience as was ev
idenced by the round after round
of applause they received.
Governor Griswold delivered
an address to the graduates dur
ing the course of which he spoke
of the future of this great country
of ours and said that it was time
the people of this country were
thinking of what was coming af
ter the war. He said that he was
proud of the part that had been
taken in defense work through
out the state by the various men
and women who were working
on the many defense committees
through the state. He spoke for
about half an hour and the ad
dress was listened to with the
closest attention by the large
aUDipk>mas were then presented
to the following graduates of tne
warden school: .
6—Atkinson: Ethel V. BousKa,
Alta P. Campbell, Clarence S.
Gilg, Bernice E. Kelly, Lloyd E.
McDowell. Helen Sn>Ter'Adams
5—Chambers: Leo T, Adams,
Merton M. Cov. George W Thom
S George A. Kelly, Letha May
K tinman: Eugene E. Clark,
Warren J. McClurg, Harry Mc
Graw, Carrie C. McMahon.
g_page: William E. Howell,
Edward L. Jordan, Bryan H. Stev
• ons, Cordes Edwin Walker. Irvin
/O Wood, Florence E. Wood.
23—O’Neill: Harden Anspach,
Mrs R. E. Armbruster, Helen Big
lin, Bernadette C. Brennan, James
M. Corkle, Rev. Daniel F. Brick,
Irenaeia M. Cronin, Edith J. Dav
idson, Marion M. Dickson, Carl
F. Grill, Mabel H. Gatz, “Law
rence Hanna, Ethel C. Harris,
Harold L. Lindberg, Fay A. Miles,
Ira H. Moss, Helen B. Mullen,
Ryland H. Parker, Mrs. R. H. Par
ker, Frank E. Parkins. Richard
J Rakowski, Lyndle R. Stout,
Esther M. Tomlinson, Christian
E. Yantzi. ** Moved away.
3—Stuart: Rev. John P. Hilt,
Ruth M. Krotter, Marguerite L.
Smith.
There were three more wardens
from Atkinson who also graduat
ed, but we were unable to secure
their names for this week’s paper.
At the conclusion of the pro
gram, Benediction was given by
Rev. Father Brick of O’Neill.
Following the program, State
Fire Marshal Carter showed mov
ing pictures of the Bombing of
London, which were very inter
esting to the audience, and show
ed the audience what disastrous
effect the 1940 and 1941 bombings
had on the city of London.
Mrs. William Ryan and son of
Grand Island came Saturday to
visit her mother-in-law, Mrs. G.
j ' Ryan, and family.
POPPY SALE DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 29
Poppies in tribute to America’s
battle dead of two wars will be
worn in O’Neill on Saturday, May
29, Edith J. Davidson, president
of Simonson Unit No. 93 of the
American Legion Auxiliary an
nounced today. |
The poppies this year will
honor the men who have given |
their lives in the present conflict,
as well as those who fell among
the poppies of France and Bel
gium twenty-five years ago, she
said. The money contributed for
the flowers will be used for the
welfare of victims of both wars
and their families.
The Simonson Unit of the Aux
iliary is making extensive pre
parations for the observance of
Poppy Day here, under the lead
ership of Mrs. Davidson and Mrs.
Edward M. Gallagher, Unit Poppy
Chairman. The little red flowers
of remembrance will be available |
to everyone in the city, offered
by volunteer workers from the I
Auxiliary who will be on the
streets thronghout the day.
The flowers, made of crepe
paper in replica of the wild
Flanders poppy, have been order
ed from Lincoln where disabled
veterans manufactured them un
der direction of the Nebraska De
partment of the Auxiliary. Poppy
making has kept the hands of
hundreds of these unfortunate
men usefully employed during
the winter and spring, helping
them pass the long hospital hours
and aiding irk their rehabilitation.
More Americans than ever be
fore are expected to wear' poppies
this year as a personal tribute to
those who have been killed, and
to aid the disabled, their families
and the families of the dead.
MORE INFANTILE PARALYSIS
FUNDS ARE HANDED IN
I have received $29.29 to be ad
ded to our Infantile Paralysis
Fund, from Miss Marline Dalton,
who teaches at Dist. 170, and
$4.10 from Ewing Public School
that came in too late for the first
counting. — County Chairman of
Infantile Paralysis Fund.
Nebraska Delegation On
Air From Washington
In order to serve the people of
Nebraska better and to give them
information concerning the hap
penings in Washington, the Ne
braska senators and congressmen
plan to broadcast by radio each
: Sunday. Two members will be
heard in each broadcast. Senator
Hugh Butler and Congressman
Carl T. Curtis had the opening
program last Sunday. The broad
casts can be heard over Station
KFAB (Lincoln) at 4:45 p. m„
j central war time. It is hoped that
i you can listen in on this program
j next Sunday and that you will
invite others to listen. If you like
the idea, be sure to write Radio
Station KFAB.
Catholic Daughters
Elect New Officers
The Catholic Daughters of
America had a business meeting
and election of officers at the
j Golden Hotel on Wednesday eve
1 ning, followed by lunch at the
Elite. The committee consisted of
Mrs. K. P. Hoffman, Mrs. Jack
! Arbuthnot, Mrs. James Mullen,
Mrs. Mike Langan, Mrs. G. De
Backer and Mrs. Ralph Bauman,
j Following the business meeting
the evening was spent playing
cards. Mrs. John Donahoe won
all cut.
Following are a list of the new
ly elected officers: Grand Re
gent, Mrs. John Hickey: Vice
Grand Regent, Mrs. Leo Carney;
; Prophetess, Mrs. Pat Hickey; Lec
turer, Mrs. Ambrose Rohde; His
torian, Mrs. F. Clements: Finan
! cial Secretary, Mrs. K. P. Hoff
man; Treasurer, Mrs. C. Mullen;
Monitor, Mrs. Ivan Pruss; Sen
tinel, Mrs. Vince Suchy; Organ
ist. Mrs. G. DeBacker; Trustees,
I Mrs. John Kersenbrock and Mrs.
| John Donahoe.
Old Schoolmates Here
Meet At Guadalcanal
Mr. and Mrs. William Langan
received a letter from their son,
| Gerald, last week. Gerald is in
the Marines and has seen action
in Guadalcanal and, at the time
of writing the letter, was in a rest
i camp somewhere in the southern
! Pacific. He said that he was feel
I ing fine and getting along nicely.
While at the rest camp he ac
cidently ran into Romaine Stein
—former schoolmate of Gerald’s—
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stein,
formerly of this city, but who are
now residents of California. Ro
maine is also in the Marines and
was at Guadalcanal at the time
Gerald was there, but thev never
met until they reached the rest
camp. He said they had a fine
time visiting together, talking of
the good times they had while at
tending school in the “old home
town.” Gerald has been in the
Marines since August, 1942, en
listing right after his eighteenth
birthday, and he had a lot of ex
perience during his first year in
the service._
Mrs. W. L. Barr of Spencer vis
ited Mrs. Elma Evans on Tuesday.
Mrs. M. H. McCarthy
Died Tuesday Night
Mrs. M. H. McCarthy died at
her home in O’Neill on Tuesday
evening. May 11th, about 11:45,
of a heart attack, at the _age of
65 years one month and 27 days.
The funeral will be held from St.
Patrick’s church Friday morning
at 10 o’clock and burial in Cal
vary cemetery.
Mrs. McCarthy had suffered
two or three heart attacks during
the past few years, but she had
been feeling fine lately and her
sudden death was a severe shock
to her husband, family and many
friends. She was busy about the
house all day Tuesday and that
evening. After supper she went
into the bedroom to rest a little.
A couple of hours afterwards her
daughter went to the bedroom
and saw her on the bed, but
thought she was asleep and did
not disturb her. When her hus
band went in later, they found
her dead.
Ethel E Morse was born at
Winslow, Illinois, on March 7,
1878. Her parents came to Holt
county in 1887 and her father en
gaged in business in Atkinson.
Her father passed away a few
years after their arrival in this
county, and in 1898 the family
moved to O’Neill and for a few
years Miss Morse was employed
in the court house, prior to her
marriage.
On September 24, 1902, she was
united in marriage in this city to
Michael H. McCarthy. Nine child
were born of this union, five sons
and four daughters. Of this fam
ily two sons and two daughters
have preceded their mother, leav
ing surviving her husband and
Kathryn and George M. McCar
thy, of O’Neill; John F. McCar
thy of Omaha; Robert M. McCar
thy of Pocatello, Idaho, and Miss
Jeannie McCarthy of O’Neill, all
of whom were here for the fu
neral services. She is also sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Ida
Morse, and one brother, Van
Morse, Berkley, Calif.
Mrs. McCarthy was a charming
lady and had a host of friends in
O’Neill and surrounding country
who heard with sorrow and re
gret of her sudden passing. The
sympathy of their many friends
is extended to the sorrowing fam
ily in their hour of sorrow.
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Let’s Rank High
When Job Done
“Holt county has job to do,”
said Harry E. Ressel, of O’Neill,
county salvage chairman, in com
menting on the third state-wide
scrap salvage drive, “but we will
be up there with the leaders when
it is all over.” The campaign will
run from May 10 to 22, the same
dates as those of Kansas.
In 1942 Nebraska had the dis
tinction of being the first state to
go over her quota, and for the
entire year placed 14th with 111
per cent of her quota.
“At the time,” said Mr. Ressel,
“we may have wondered how it
would ever be possible to use all
those mountains of iron, but
somehow most of them disap
peared.
“Now we are informed that col
lections have slowed down so
much that mills have been re
ceiving but 25 per cent as much
scrap as they got lost fall. In fact
Nebraska has collected but 28 per
cent of the 80,000 tons allotted to
her for the first six months of
the year. We need scrap and we
need it now to make ships, planes
and implements of war for our
fighting men. We have the enemy
on the run, and the only way to
keep them there is to see that our
men have plenty of everything.”
Another point stressed by Mr.
Ressel was that the community
scrap pile was the reserve stock
which the steel makers could rely
on in time of need. Unless the
material is collected, they have
no way of knowing just where
they stand in reserves.
“When we look back to last
year we recall how many mills
were faced with shut-downs,” he
said, “then the Nebraska plan was
put into play. As a result of the
national acceptance of this idea,
not a single mill was forced to
shut down, or even curtail pro
duction. It is now up to each com
munity to put forth every effort
that our quotas may be met.”
State Salvage Chairman Joe
Seacrest has announced that
scrolls will be awarded to county
chairmen who reach 82 per cent
of their six months quota by May
22. The scrolls will be signed by
him and Governor Griswold.
NOTICE
Oil jobbers are hereby notified
that bids will be received by the
city clerk up to and including
Tuesday, June 1, 1943. to 8 o’clock
p. m., for the furnishing of Diesel
Motor Fuel for the city pump sta
tion for the coming year.
BENNETT GRADY,
52-2 City Clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Harnish
of'Norfolk; Corporal Frank J.
Harnish, of Van Dorn, Miss., Miss
Dorothy Smith of Onawa, Iowa;
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carnes
of Plainview, spent the week-end
at the home of Mrs. Jane Harnish.
BREEZES FROM
THE SOUTHWEST
By Romain* Saunders
Atkinson. Nebr., Star Route No. 5.
The government printing office
would do the public a favor by
furnishing a guide to what these
OPA's, WLB’s and a hundred or
so others stand for.
Blake Ott, the genial genious
of the Amelia filling station, made
a trip to Albion Monday, Mrs. Ott
being the able substitute in hand
ling the gasoline nozzle.
I find myself in sympathy with
Mr. Lewis’ miners. If there is
anything more dreary than wash
ing dishes in the kitchen of a res
taurant it must be swinging a
pick in a coal mine.
Eggs $9 a crate, butter fat 50
cents, grain and livestock prices
at a kidnapper’s ransom—if you
can’t make it on the land now
without the aid of the triple A
you better go join the Army.
The Henry Knutzen family
were guests Monday evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine
Garwood, the occasion being the
gathering of a few friends in
honor of Mrs. Garwood’s birthday.
As it is the fashion to make
"peace plans’’ all of us might as
well have a hand in it. Mine, not
unmindful of its unpopularity, is
for all nations to run their own
affairs and keep their noses out
of the business of others.
A member from Omaha says of
Senator Asimus’ plan for gas tax
redistribution: “Just another
move to divide Douglas county
and Lancaster county money with
the rest of the state.” Very little
money would Douglas county and
Lancaster county have without
the inflow from “the rest of the
state.”
A college Prof, for it and a U.!
S. Sen. against the fourth term
idea, were about to come to blows
when a third gent stepped be
tween them. Just which one, or
both, thought that was a lucky
break will nevAr Ote known. The
new dealer is definitely a mon
othiest — only one political god
in his range of vision.
Assessor Rafe Shaw wound up
his job in Swan a day ahead of
the end of the month. There has
been a sizeable advance in cattle
valuations and ranchers only trust
that cows which go on the sched-1
ules at $60 will not sell for $30
when the tax is due. Just about
every household is hit with a $6 I
or more assistance tax this year, I
bonds and Red Cross, income and
property tax; and I guess there is
no use in denying that not many
enjoy it.
John Dunkel, from the extreme
western edge of Swan, rode a
black gelding through here Mon
day on his way to a point in Wyo
ming precinct. He had trouble at
the bridge with a brown bronc
he was leading, this little nag’s
off-the-range demur at crossing
bridges. Mr. Dunkel finds he has
had to give up ranching because
of present conditions that have
taken his boys and girls either to
the Army or other activities in
cident to the war.
The past winter has brought
heavy losses of trees. Reports
show the condition is general
throughout this community. At
home we have sustained the loss
of 60 per cent of last years’ fruit;
tree plantings and many other
young trees and some of several
years’ standing. It may have re
sulted from a winter of bare dry |
ground and subzero cold, though
some fruit trees most exposed
have put on spring green. When
you see a magnificent Chinese
elm that has survived the gales
for ten years has withered and
died there is little consolation in
finding the cause.
“Let no man dispise thy youth;,
but be thou an example of the,
believers in word, in conversation,
in charity, in spirit, in faith, in
purity.” This instruction for a
young preacher was given in the
first century by one who would
be designated in this 20th century
an Old Timer, not irreverently. It
is still good advice for the youth
who undertakes to shepherd a
church group. We expect to see
in the one bearing tne title of
Rev. inspiring cordiality temper
ed with dignity and poise, the
friendly word but not boisterous
familiarity, pleasant expression,
but no cheap joke.
Gardens are not new to the
world. The big V maybe gives it
a bit of glamour, but you will
have to sweat out in the dirt with
a hoe if you get results. A gar
den was man's first job and will
be the last. “And the Lord God
planted a garden eastward in
Eden and there he put the man
whom he had formed.” Gardens
have kept the race alive from
that day to this. The beginner,
drawing inspiration from gaily
colored and deceptive seed cat- J
alogues, is always in for disap
County Butter In 1943
Vital To War Effort
Holt county must increase its
butter production in 1943 to 1,
560,000 pounds, or approximately
10 per cent more than 1942, if the
United States Department of Ag
riculture’s national goal is to be
met.
The nation’s production of
creamery butter dropped to an
estimated 1,779,465,000 pounds in
1942, or approximately five per
cent below the 1941 level. Pro
duction, however, increased in
Nebraska, moving upward from
1941’s total of 89,396,000 pounds
to 94,430,000 in 1942. Average pri
ces received for this product last
year were also greater, according
to a report of the A & P Tea Com
pany, which purchased 4,170,249
pounds of Nebraska butter for $1,
566,074 during 1942.
Heavy requirements of not only
our armed forces but also our al
lies makes increased production
of butter of vital importance in
1943, said Owen M. Richards,
manager of the American Dairy
Association, an organization that
speaks for 5,000,000 dairy farm
ers. While diversion of large but
ter supplies to war uses probably
will trim civilian consumption to
13 pounds or less per person this
year, as compared to the peace
time average of 17 pounds, Rich
ards believes the dairy industry
should benefit by its war role in
the years to come.
“Each man in our armed forces
is consuming an average of 35
to 36 pounds of butter each year,
about twice as much as he ate as
a civilian,” Richards said. “It
seems logical to expect that many
of these men will continue to de
mand larger quantities of this fine
dairy product after the war.
“This may help increase our
national per capita consumption
to a peace-time level more nearly
in line with other nations. For in
stance the pre-war consumption
of butter in Canada, New Zea
land, England and Denmark was
as high as 30 pounds per person
a year.”
17 From Holi
Join The Army
Following are the names of Holt
county boys who registered dur
ing April for military service. Al
so given, preceding their name, is
their order number and serial
number, respectively, their ad
dress, and date of birth:
11391, W-97, Donald Austin
Hynes, O’Neill, Nebr., April 3,
1925.
11392, W-98, Francis Leo Yant
zi, O'Neill, Nebr., April 9, 1925.
11393, W-99, Joel Asbury Birm
ingham, Atkinson, Nebr., April
12 1925.
11394, W-100, Wayne Dean Pet
erson, O’Neill, Nebr., April 17,
1925.
11395, W-101, Francis John Bel
zer, Page, Nebr., April 19, 1925.
11396, W-102, Carl Sanke Berg,
Atkinson, Nebr., April 19, 1925.
11397, W-103, Gilbert Elwood
Fox, Emmet, Nebr., April 26, 1925.
Following are the names of
boys who were accepted for serv
ice in the armed forces:
Roy Raymond Rogers, Atkin
son; Francis Kollman, Stuart;
George William Oetter, Ewing;
Roy Richard Gilg. Atkinson; Ver
non Loyd Smith, Chambers; John
Patrick Hynes, O’Neill; John Os
wald Hobson, Page; Keith Nor
man Newhouse, Chambers; Claud
Arthur Hamilton, O'Neill: Charles
Ridgeway, Dorsey; Gene Dean
Spencer, Atkinson; Walter Spang
ler, Ewing; John Clement Allen,
Page; Jacques Clayton Kersen
brock, O’Neill: Delbert John Zum
brum, Page; Charles William Jef
frey, O’Neill; Alexander Adam
Chmiel, Ewing.
Marriage Licenses
Louis Funk and Miss Mary
Wiebel, both of Ewing, on Fri
day, April 30.
Emil M. Pavlis and Miss Mary
H. Novotny, both of Lake Andes,
S. D., on Tuesday, May 4.
Miss Marion Bosn and brother,
Ray. visited relatives and friends
in Hastings on Sunday.
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pointments. But if he is not eas
ily discouraged, he will harvest
some fruits. Frank and Vince
Suchy in O’Neill are two masters
in the production of flowers and
foodstuff that I know of who can
give beginners a lot of suggest- j
ions. YoU will learn more from I
practical producers than from all
the books and papers ever pub
lished. Country editors have the
good sense not to offer advice to
farmers and gardeners. But there
are men and women in every
community whose knowledge of
fundamentals of soil and plant
culture, drawn from the deep
well of life’s experiences, who are
glad to help a beginner. There is
no lack now of material relating
to farm and garden work sent out
at public expense, but the most
helpful thing ever done started
about the time Joe Cannon of Ill
inois was speaker of the House
and congressmen from all over
the country kept us supplied with
free seeds, inoculated and primed
for a quick start.
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
CLINIC SATURDAY
Dr. W. R. Hamsa and Dr. Her
man Jahr will conduct the next
Crippled Children’s Clinic to be
held at the O'Neill high school
auditorium on Saturday, May 8.
They will examine all children
having appointments as well as
those referred by their local phy- j
ictans. Clinic hours, from 7:30 a.
m. until 4 p. m., though it is re
quested that all registrations be
completed prior to 11 a. m. Holt
county children should register
as early as possible.
The clinic is for diagnosis, con
sultation, check-up and after-care
services on cases receiving treat
ment. Children admitted to the
clinic for consultation or prelim
inary diagnosis will not receive
treatment under Services for
Crippled Children unless formal
referral is made and the child
found to be eligible.
Orthopedic cases may receive
treatment if care cannot be ar
ranged through private resources.
Pediatric cases will be accepted
by the clinic for the purposes of
consultation and diagnosis only,
and should be referred by the
family physician, only.
The Norfolk Elks Lodge is furn
ishing, without cost, a noon lunch
served by the ladies of the Pres
byterian church to all children
and their parents who are regis
tered for the clinic examinations.
LOCAL SCRAP CHAIRMEN
WILL HOLD MEETING
On Thursday evening, May 6th,
at the court house annex at 8:30
o’clock, there will be a meeting
of all local chairmen in the coun
ty, organizing and preparing for
the Third Scrap Drive, May 10
to May 22. We desire your pres
ence at this meeting so that pub
licity for the scrap drive may be
handled by experts in that held.
Please be present, asks Harry E.
Ressel, Chairman, Holt County
Salvage Committee.
Burkhardt-Rouse Vows
At Grand Island April 17
Holt county relatives have re
ceived word of the marriage of
Walter Rouse, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Rouse of Inman, to Miss
Edna Burkhardt of Palmer, Nebr.,
the ceremony being performed at
Grand Island, Nebr., on Satur
day, April 17, 1943,
Mr. Rouse has been working in
a defense plant at Grand Island
for the past six months and his
wife has also been working in
Grand Island. The groom has
many friends in this county who
extend to him and his wife best
wishes for a long and happy mar
ried life.
HARD TO DIGEST
In testifying before the Truman
Committee which is seeking in
formation on the possible coal
strike and the problem of holding
down wages, John L. Lewis said:
“One way to get co-operation is
to give the workers of this coun
try enough to eat . . .
With coal miners’ wages around
$1 an hour, it is hard to digest
such a statement. In the best-fed
country in the world, the public
would not want to see any group
of persons going hungry, but it
would like to see more proof that
a hunger condition exists with
men who are being paid $1 or
more an hour.
If these men are going hungry,
a large percentage of the people
of the United States are also go
ing hungry, for it is probable that
a large majority of them do not
; make the average monthly wage
of the coal miner.
Wo are face to face with the
question of when this nation will
j call a halt to the constant infla
tion of war wages. Inequities may
remain that need correction in
particular cases. But the day of
hold-up on threat of strike must
end or we might as well kiss any
check on living costs goodbye.
Market Steady At Sale
Here Last Monday
Prices remained about steady,
with last week’s average at the
! local sale here Monday. There
■ were not very many cattle but a
I nice run of hogs showed up.
Steer calves brought from
$15.00 to $17.00 per hundred and
heifer calves from $14.50 to $15.50.
Yearling steers sold from $13.90
to $14.75 and yearling heifers sold
from $12.50 to $14.00 per hund
red. Two year old steers brought
' $14.00 per hundred. The cow
I market was a little stronger with
prices being from $8.50 to $12.40
per hundred and bulls sold from
$12 10 to $12.40
Butcher hogs brought from
$13.85 to $14.05 with $14.10 per
hundred being the extreme top.
Sows brought from $13.70 to
$13.75. Lightweight shoats sold
from $15.00 to $17.10 and there
were a number of small pigs sold
by the head.
Next sale Monday, May 10th.
Yoeman 3-c Clyde McKenzie,
U S. N., who is stationed at the
Naval Air Station, Pensacola,
Florida, returned there on Wed
nesday, after visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McKenzie, Sr.,
and other relatives and friends
for several days.
Canning Sugar
Now Available
Harry J. Gleason, district di
rector of the Sioux City Office of
Price Administration, announced
today that the issuance of sugar
for canning will be greatly sim
plified soon, allowing the house
wife sufficient sugar for home
preservation of fruits and veg
etables, as well as jellies, jams,
and preserves.
Each family unit will be al
lowed up to 20 pounds of sugar
for each member of the family
for canning fruits and vegetables,
and 5 pounds of sugar per person
for the preparation of jellies and
jams. These canning sugar allot
ments are based on the factor of
one-fourth pound of sugar per
quart, regardless of the type of
fruit or vegetable to be canned.
This canning sugar allowance will
be granted to the housewife in
sugar stamps so that she may
purchase sugar as her individual
canning program might demand.
One member of each family will
make application to the Local
War Price and Rationing Board,
at which time she will supply the
Board with the name and address
of each member of the family, as
well as the serial number of War
Ration Book No. 2, and the ra
tion board will issue the stamps
according to the amount to be
canned.
The Office of Price Adminis
tration explained the purpose for
this simplified procedure for can
ning sugar is an effort toward as
sisting and helping in seeing that
each family unit preserves as
much fruit and vegetables as it
is at all possible. It is felt through
these means that each household
will be in a better position to use
ration stamps for food that can
not be preserved at home, and
consequently result in a better
diet for each family.
It will not be necessary for the
housewife to declare home canned
fruits and vegetables when mak
ing application for War Ration
Book No. 3. Each housewife is
encouraged by the Office of Price
Administration to can all fruits
and vegetables possible and no
nenalty will be placed on her
j because of home processed foods
on hand.
Bond Drive Is
Short 7 Grand
The Second War Bond Drive
was concluded last Saturday night
and the state of Nebraska went
away over its quota. The quota
for the state was set at $841,937,
000. On the basis of incomplete
final returns, the state sales
amount to $75,495,302 today, or
about 180 per cent of its quota.
Holt county did not do as well
in the drive as many of the other
counties in the state. The quota
for this county was fixed at $341,
500. The amount raised up to last
Saturday night in the county was
$333,789.50, or $7,710.50 below the
quota. The county would have
been much lower than this
amount but the state board of
Educational Lands and Funds
purchased several thousand dol
lars worth of bonds and they were
credited to the various counties
in the state in proportion to the
amount of the school lands in the
counties. This added a nice bunch
of money to the Holt county total
and is credited in the amount col
lected in the county.
While the drive is over, officials
state that the books will be kept
open for a short time so that those
who failed to get their share of
bonds during the drive, still can
buy their share. We ought to be
able to get more than $7,710.50
worth of bonds so that the county
could be over the top in the drive.
Following is the amount col
lected in the various towns of the
county, which also includes the
trade territory of the towns:
Total
Stuart_ $ 28,882.55
Emmet _ 3,705.45
Chambers 18.450.00
O’Neill 151.534.65
Inman _ 7,514.15
Ewing _ 24,382.15
Page 12.624 80
Atkinson .. 86,270.75
No name . 3/5.00
Total _ $333,789.50
BAIN RECEIVES FINE VOTE
IN GREGORY ELECTION
According to figures printed in
the last issue of the Gregory. S.
D., Advocate, Ivan Bain, former
O'Neillite who was elected mayor
of Gregory at the last election,
had a walk-away at the polls. Al
though he was running against
the present mayor, who was seek
ing re-election, Ivan polled a to
tal of 390 in the city, to 152 for
the opposing candidate, or a ma
jority of 238 votes. Ivan was a
resident of this city when every
one took their politics seriously
and he must have observed the
ways of the politician in the old
home town. He has a reason to
feel proud of the splendid vote
given him by the people of his
town.