The Frontier
O'Neill, Nebraska _
CAR R O LL~wT ST EWART
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LEGAL NOTICES
(First publication Nov. 7, 1946)
(Julius D. Cronin, Attorney.)
NOTICE
TO CREDITORS AND HEIRS
County Court of Holt County, Ne
braska. Estate of Jacob B. Mar
ing, Deceased.
The State of Nebraska, To All
Concerned: Notice is hereby giv
en that Oliver Maring has filed
his petition alleging that Jacob
B. Maring died December 31,
1908, intestate, a resident of Holt
County, Nebraska, seized and
possessed of the North Half of
the Southeast Quarter and the
Southeast Quarter of the South
east Quarter of Section 12, and
the Northeast Quarter of the
Northeast Quarter of Section 13,
all in Township 28, North, Range
13, West of the 6th P.M., and an
undivided one-fifth interest in
and to the South Half of the
Southwest Quarter, the North
west Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter, and the Southwest
Quarter of the Northwest Quar
ter of Section 12, and the North
Half of the Northwest Quarter of
Section 13, all in Township 28,
, North, Range 13, West of the 6th
P.M., all in Holt County, Nebras
ka.
That petitioner is the present
owner of an interest in said real
property, having derived title
thereto by inheritance from the
deceased.
The prayer of said petition is
for a determination of the time of
death of Jacob B. Maring, a de
termination of his heirs, degree
of kinship, right of descent of
the real property of said de
ceased person, and that there is
no inheritance tax, state or fed
eral, due from said estate or the
heirs thereof.
That said petition will be for
hearing in this Court on Novem
ber 27th, 1946. at ten o’clock A.M
LOUIS W. REIMER,
26-28 County Judge
(First publication Nov. 14, 1946.)
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received a*
the office of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation in the State
Capitol at Lincoln, Nebraska, on
December 5. 1946, until 10:00 o’
clock A.M., and at that time pub
licly opened and read for GRAD
1n6, CULVERTS and incidental
work on the CHAMBERS WEST
Federal Aid Secondary Project
No. S-422(3) Federal Aid Road.
The proposed work consists 6f
constructing 8.3 miles of Graded
Earth Road.
The approximate quantities
are:
119,380 Cu. Yds. Excava
tion
34,032 Cu. Yds. Topsoil or
Sand Clay Blanket Course
84,619 Cu. Yd. Miles Hauling
Topsoil or Sand Clay Blanket
Course Material
64,350 Sq. Yds. Slope Pro
tection
229 Cu. Yds. Concrete for
Culverts
20,789 Lbs. Reinforcing
Steel for Culverts
264 Lin. Ft. 24” Culvert
Pipe
68 Lin. Ft. 30” Culvert
Pipe
32 Lin. Ft. 36” Culvert
Pipe
60 Lin. Ft. 18” Culvert
Pipe for Driveways
60 Lin. Ft. 24” Culvert
Pipe for Driveways
20 Lin. Ft. 30” Culvert
Pipe for Driveways.
Each bidder must be qualified
to submit a proposal for any part
or all of this work as provided
in Legislative Bill No. 206, 1939
Legislative Session. Proposal
forms for this work will be is
sued to contractors who are qual
ified to submit proposals for
grading.
The attention of bidders is di
rected to the Special Provisions
covering subletting or assigning
the contract.
The attention of bidders is in
vited to the fact that the Depart
ment of Roads and Irrigation has
been advised bv the Wage and
Hour Division, U. S. Department
of Labor, that contractors en
gaged in highway construction
work are required to meet the
plrovisidns of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat.
1060).
The minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor employed on this
contract shall be eighty-five (85)
cents per hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
intermediate labor employed on
this contract shall be seventy
(70) cents per hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
unskilled labor employed on this
contract shall be fifty-five (55)
cents per hour.
Plans and specifications for the
work may be seen and informa
tion secured at the office of the
County Clerk at O’Neill, Nebras
ka, at the office of the District
Engineer of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation at Ains
worth, Nebraska, or at the office
of the Department of Roads and
Irrigation at Lincoln, Nebraska.
The successful bidder will be
required to furnish bond in an
amount equal to 100 percent of
his contract.
As an evidence of good faith
in submitting a proposal for this
work, the bidder must file, with
his proposal, a certified check
made payable to the Department
of Roads and Irrigation and in an
amount not less than three thou
sand (3,000) dollars.
The right is reserved to waive
all technicalities and reject any
or all bids.
DEPARTMENT OF
ROADS AND IR
RIGATION,
WARDNER G. SCOTT,
State Engineer.
J. M. CROOK.
District Engineer.
RUTH HOFFMAN,
County Clerk,
27-29 Holt County.
HEAVY
SEAS
—require ■ good ikippet who know*
• SAFE courae. You chart a SAFE
Coune to Debt-Free Farm Ownei
ahip when you have a Land Bank
Loan through the
NATIONAL FARM
LOAN ASSOCIATION
Lyle P. Dicrki. Sac. Trea*.
imr O'NailL Nabr.
* Low FARM Long
Interest LOANS Term
The poles we need
are comif\^
along slowly
Telephone poles are only one of the serious
shortages handicapping our efforts to catch up
with service demands.
Lack of lead, copper and cotton insulation is
likewise slowing the factories that build tele
phone switchboards, dial equipment, or furnish
us with cable and wire.
Every bit of equipment we can lay our hands
on has been pressed into use in order to cope with
the greatest demand for telephone service ever.
But the need can only be really satisfied by
more equipment—the first step in an expansion
program calling for an outlay of well over 100
million dollars in the next five years.
To attract the vast amount of money needed
for the expansion and improvement of telephone
service, our earnings must be comparable with
the earnings of other businesses which are bor
rowing money from the investing public.
| NORTHWIITIRN BILL TILIPHOIII COMPANY
FAREWELL TO A FRIEND
Billy Walker, 13, (above),
sprawls weeping beside the
body of his shepherd dog, Mag
gie, struck and killed on a Los
Angeles street. Though passers
by tried to comfort the be
reaved Billy, he was inconsol
able in his farewell to a friend.
PRAIRIELAND romaine
X SAUNDERS
'T A T Route 5
... I rVljl\ ATKINSON
GLENDALE, CALIF., Nov. j
12.—The chandlers of the opu
lent Los Angeles Times have
their editors conclude an edi
torial on the late political land- !
slide, ponderous but compre
hensive, with this terse sen
tence: “Americans decided to
stay Americans.”
« • *
Sunny California is sullen,
soggy and the wind can blow.
The rainy season is being ush
ered in and, from the looks of
the earth when I landed here
November 1 ahead of the Colo
rado blizzard, the rain is need
ed.
* * *
Colorado, New Mexico, Ari
zona and California have
enough waste land to make
about three states the size of
Nebraska. Some worthwhile
valleys, mining communities
and many fine cities.
m m m
Some two million patriots
have anchored their fortunes in
the Los Angeles area but they
seem to be doing what they can
here to reduce the population—
757 traffic deaths having been
reported the other day for the
past 10 months. And there is
much newspaper agitation to
correct this condition.
* • •
Up the coast on a pleasant
hundred mile drive I have gone
by the orange and lemon
groves, miles of English wal
nut orchards, mountainous
piles of rock and the fancy
horse breeding ranches, half
the distance being along the
shore of the vast Pacific, roll
ing its white foam onto. the
gray sands of the beach As
we returned, the sunset picture
above old ocean’s rim gave
pause to this prairieland dwel
ler. It was a great yellow ball
poised in the gloom now set
tled on the salted horizon with
out the lights and shadows and
rainbow hews of the prairie
such as we had seen crossing
the New Mexico mesa.
* • •
Journeymen craftsmen are
earning $1.90 an hour, more-o
less, but after the various ele
ments that have a hand out to
take a toll, the craftsman is no
better off than the $1.50 a day
worker of a half century ago.
A friend writes me that print
ers are getting $15 a day up in
Seattle. You businessmen
would have to pay something
for a box of printed envelopes.
• • •
Hollywood, Beverly Hills,
and other adjuncts to the larg
er city is just some more town.
Strikes in Hollywood, layoffs
in airplane factories and other
industries, though said to be
numerous, have not seriously
affected the complacency of a
fine people in a great commun
ity, typically Californian, typ
ically American.
* * •
Now1 comes a radio spellbind
er and calls upon American wo
men to discard the cherished
function of housewife and
“take up proudly the larger
role of home manager, which
should rank with any of the
recognized professions.” Is it
going to come to this that the
home (the only refuge left for
professional weary, fagged-out
men and women from hours of
grinding exactness with the
multitudes) will be turned into
a sort of laboratory of cold pro
fessionalism? Home, house
wife—what can be said, what
can be done to add anything to
either? The haven of rest, the
place of shelter and safety at
the fireside,the warm sympathy,
the understanding of a devoted
family group of which the mo
ther, the housewife, is infinitely
more than “professional man
ager;” she is the center and
soul. “Home manager”—per
ish the thought!
Money to Loan
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Centra! Finance Co.
C. E. Jones, Manager
O'NEILL : NEBRASKA
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LEGAL NOTICES
(First publication Nov. 14, 1946.)
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a
Petition has been filed in the of
fice of the County Clerk of Holt
County, Nebraska, praying that
the road described as follows be
designated a County Road:
Commencing at the North
west corner of Section 30,
Township 29, Range 11; run
ning three miles West along the
North side of Sections 25, 26
and 27, Township 29, Range 12;
thence North 1 mile between
Sections 21 and 22, Township
29, Range 12, to connect with
the County Road at the junc
tion with U. S. Highway No.
20;
That a hearing will be held on
this Petition by the Holt County
Board of Supervisors on Tues
day, November 26, 1946, at 2:00
P.M. at their office in the Court
House at O’Neill, Nebraska.
RUTH HOFFMAN,
27-28 County Clerk.
(First publication Nov. 21, 1946.)
William W. Griffin, Attorney.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF HOLT COUNTY,
' NEBRASKA.
IN THE MATTER )
OF THE APPLI- )
CATION OF)
EDWARD MSN- )
ISH, GUARDIAN ) ORDER
OF JOSEPH ED- ) TO
WARD' MONISH ) SHOW
AND MARYELIZ- ) CAUSE
A BETH MENISH, )
MINORS, FOR LI- )
CENSE TO SELL )
REAL ESTATE. )
Now, on this 16th day of No
vember, 1946, this matter came on
to be heard before the under
signed, D. R. Mounts, Judge of
the ISth Judicial District in and
for Holt County, Nebraska,
upon the petition of Edward Men
ish, guardian of the persons, es
tates and property of Joseph Ed
ward Menish and Mary Elizabeth
Menish, minors, praying for a li
cense to sell the undivided l-28th
right, title and interest of the
said Joseph Edward Menish, and
the undivided l-28th right, title
and interest of the said Mary
Elizabeth Menish, in and to the
following described real estate,
to-wit:
Southeast Quarter of Section
27, in Township 30, North, of
Range 12, West of the 6th P.M.,
in Holt County, Nebraska, for
the purpose of maintaining and
educating said minors and pay
ing the charges and costs of
managing their said estates.
Upon consideration whereof,
and it appearing from said peti
tion that it is necessary to sell
the right, title and interest of
said minors in and to all of said
real estate for the purpose of
maintaining and educating said
minors and paying the charges
and costs of managing their said
estates,
It is ordered that the next of
kin of said minors and all persons
interested in their said estates
appear before the District Court
of Holt County, Nebraska, be
fore me in the Court Room in the
Court House in the City of O’
Neill, Holt County, Nebraska,
on the 17th day of December, A.
D„ 1946, at ten o’clock A.M. of
said day, then and there to show
cause why a license should not
be granted for the sale of said
minors right, title and interest in
and to all of said real estate in
accord with the prayer of said
petition.
It is further ordered that a copy
hereof be published at least three
successive weeks before the said ;
day of hearing in The Frontier, ,
a weekly newspaper printed,1
published and of general circu
lation in Holt County, Nebraska
BY THE COURT:
D. R. MOUNTS.
28-30 District Judge.
6 FROM PAGE AT 'U'
LINCOLN — Six people from
Page are attending the Universi-1
ty of Nebraska. They are Velma
Bernholtz, Merwyn French, Har
ry Matschullat, Dale Stauffer,
Gene Terrill, Charles Walker.
Faye Allendorfer, George Ku-!
charski, and Russ Weber, all of
Chicago, 111., visited their aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrg. Phil Al
lendorfer, during the Armistice
day weekend.
OUT OF OLD NEBRASKA . . .
HILLS SETTLERS
HOAX SOLDIERS
By Supt. James C. Olson,
Slate Historical Society
For a long time, settlement of
northeastern Nebraska was held
up because it was not on a di
rect line of communication. The
people of Sioux City, observing
Omaha and other towns to the
south growing rich as a result of
the overland trade, were particu
larly disturbed over this condi
tion.
To put them in the stream of
western trafiic, they persuaded
Congress in 1865 to authorize the
construction of a wagon road
from Sioux City to Idaho via the
Niobrara valley. Col. James A.
Sawyer was appointed superin
tendent of construction, and that
same summer organized a freight
and emigrant expedition to Vir
ginia City.
Col. Sawyer started from Sioux
City in May, carrying with him
the high hopes of the citizens of
the town. Organization of the
j expedition was completed at Ni
obrara, where a military escort
was provided. The members of
the expedition didn’t think much
of their military escort, however.
The bulk of it consisted of two
I companies of infantry, made up
S largely of paroled rebel soldiers
—“galvanized yankees,” as they
i were known in the North — and
some of the men were sure that a
small band of Indians would be
able to capture the entire train,
| soldiers and all.
After six weary months, dur
ing which they had more than
one encounter with hostile Indi
I ans (although not with the dire
results predicted), they reached
their destination. A second and
last expedition was organized the
following year, 1866.
The Sawyer road, as it came to
be called, never caught on. It
was too near the great Platte val
ley route through central Nebras
ka, and completion of the Union
Pacific railroad in 1869 definite
ly sounded its death knell as a
road to the Pacific.
The discovery of gold k. th<
Black Hills revived the Nebras
ka section of the road though,
and during the ’70s a number of
caravans of gold seekers crossed
the northeastern part of the state.
These caravans had about
them an air of mystery. The
Black Hills had been reserved as
a hunting ground for the Indians,
and whites were forbidden to en
ter them. When news of the gold
got abroad, however, it became
well-nigh impossible to keep the
whites out.
In order to fool the soldiers, the
wagons going, across Nebraska
would be labelled “O’Neill,” with
the gold-seekers setting them
I selves up as settlers bound for
that area. But once at O’Neill,
down would come the signs, and
the party would head for the
Black Hills.
One of the most famous of
these expeditions was the Gor
don party, which made the trip
across Nebraska in the fall of
1874. Part of its fame rested on
| the fact that it included the first
woman ever to enter the Black
j Hills, and part on the fact its
members were arrested by United
States troops for trespassing on
Indian hunting grounds.
Even though they had “O’
I Neill’s Colony” tacked on their
wagons in large letters, they
fooled no one, and the Nebraska
newspapers of the time remarked
openly that their destination was
the Black Hills. The government j
finally took action, and in the
spring of 1875 soldiers from Ft.
Robinson were sent to bring the
party out of the hills.
The men had to walk, but the :
woman was provided with a gov
ernment mule.
Babl, Cole Return
from Military Service
EMMET—Two Emmet service
men this weejt returned here,
having been separated from the
forces.
They are Pvt. Lionel Babl, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Babl, who
spent 12 months in the Army Air
Force in California, and Pfc. Ow
en (“Bud”) Cole, who spent one
and a half years in the service,
serving a number of months in
Japan.
OTHER EMMET NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Patterson
took a car load of the O’Neill
Presbyterian Youth Fellowship
people to Niobrara Sunday where
they attended a youth rally at the
Niobrara state park
Kenneth Hagelstein, of Wahoo,
spent the weekend visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ha
gelstein.
I Mr. and Mrs. Howard Newton,
of Lincoln, spent the weekend
visiting at the William Newton
: home.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winkler,
' of Venus, were Sunday dinner
j guests at the Joe Winkler home.
Miss Rita Babl, of Stuart, is
spending a few days this week
J visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
! Joseph Babl.
Mrs. W. P. Dailey returned
j Tuesday after spending the past
two Weeks visiting at the Arthur
Dailey home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dusatho
and son, James, of O’Neill, spent
Sunday visiting Jerald Dusatho.
Zane Cole piloted W. P. Dailey
to North Platte Sunday where he
spent the day visiting at the Ar
thur Dailey home.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil McMillian
took Cecil’s mother, Mrs. Bertha
McMillian, to Page, Saturday.
Mrs. McMillian had visited here
the past month
Mrs. Bessie Burge, Harold and
Jane were Sunday guests at the
D. E. Lay home in O’Neill.
The pupils of school district 20
will present a program to the pa
trons of the district and com
munity next Tuesday evening. A
box social will follow. The pro
ceeds will be used to increase the
library and play ground equip
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Biglin spent
the weekend in Lincoln visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Dale French.
Fanner from Star Is a
Stir Farmer When It
Comes to New Seeding
STM5-Willis Butterfield, of
near i'tar, is a star farmer when
it! conies to packing new seed
ings o. grasses and legumes and
getting an honest-to-goodness
stand.
The feedings of native grass
es and brpmegrass and alfalfa
are* pai t of the farm conserva
tion pirn Butteriield worked
out with the help of soil con
servation service assisting the
Holt county soil conservation
district.
"In the fall of 1944, I sowed
12 acres of bromegrass and al
falfa for pasture. The district
recomnunded that I roll the
soil afte. sowing the seed but
there was no roller or packer
available so I harrowed it sev
eral times,” he recounts. “In
the fall and the next spring
there was a much better stand
of grass where the tractor
wheel had gone,” he continued.
In the spring of 1945, he sow
ed 15 acres of native grass
which he pocked with the land
roller available through the
soil conservation district. This
did such s good job and the
stand was so good he decided
to use it o.i the 37 acres of
grassesiand legumes he sowed
in the sprirg ;of 1946. The re
sults of seedings the last two
years have convinced Butter
field of the value of a firm seed *
bed and of rolling the seed af
ter it is sow tn. He points out
that this firms” the soil
around the ;teed and helps to
cover it. 1 He also believes the
soil does not dry out as fast
if it is well-, lacked.
Butterfield’i farm conserva
tion plan inclides contour far
ming, terracing, establishing
grasses in gullies and water
ways, crop i esidue manage
ment, strip c opping, seeding
grasses for ha;' I and pasture,
construction ol a pond, springs
developed for \ ater supply, de
feitred grazing and .proper
stocking of pastures, and th#
planting of tress for a farm
stead windbreak.
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W. F. FINLEY, M. D.
OFFICE PHONE: 28
Fini National Bank Bldg.
O'NEILL
ROYAL
THEATRE
O'NEILL
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
NOV. 22-23
BIG DOUBLE BILL
Noah Beery, jr., Lois Collier,
Danny Morton, John Litel in !
The Crimson Canary
—also—
Sunset Carson in
Bandits of the
Badlands
Adm. 32c, plus tax 6c. total 38c
Child. 10c, plus tax 2c, tot. 12c
Matinee Saturday 2:30
SUN. - MON. - TUES.
NOV. 24-25-26
Margaret O’Brien, Lionel
Barrymore, Lewis Stone,
and Edwad Arnold in
Three Wise Fools
with Ray Collins, Jane Dar
well, Charles Dingel, Cyd
Charisse, Harry Davenport,
and Thomas Mitchell.
Adm. 42c. plus tax 8c, Total
50c—Matinee Sunday 2:30,
Adm. 38c, plus lax 8c, Total
46c—Children 10c, plus tax
2, Total 12c
WEDNESDAY ONLY
NOV. 27
Ruth Hussey and Charles
Ruggles in
Bedside Manner
Adm. 38c, plus tax 8c, tot. 46c
Child. 10c, plus tax 2c, tot. 12c
DRS. BROWN & FRENCH
Office Ph< nes 77
Complete X-Rt y Equipment
Glasses Correctly Fitted
H«v<a«iice ) lit iimwn, <Z3
! hone* ( |>r French, 742
William W. Griffin
ATTORNEY
J First National Lank Bldg.
O'NEILL
™“LL be No Sale !■
THANKSGIVING DAY 1
NOVEMBER 28 Jt
YOUR PATRONAGE IS APPRECIATED !
Fredrickson Livestock
Commission Co.
James G. Fredrickson
MANAGER
1
We are equipped to respond
to your requests for financial
assistance as generously as
good business and sound
banking will permit — enabl
ing us to strengthen not only
the borrower, but the com
munity and Bank as well.
We are anxious to make
good loans.
O’Neill National Bank
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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