Octogenarian Commits Suicide By Hanging

(Special to The Star.) O'NEILL . Neb., Aug. 29.—

John H. Bay aged 82, committed suicide by hanging at the Bay home northeast of O'Neill. George Bay, his son. came in from a field shortly before the old gentleman took his life, and

he saw his father walking about the yard.

A little later the son went to the house and found his father dangling from a limb of a shade

tree. Mr. Bay had climbed to the top of a barrel and kicked it from underneath his feet, after

he had fastened the rope about his neck.

Mr. Bay was born in Germany, November 18, 1835.

He came to Holt County in 1884.

County Attorney Hugh Boyle went out and viewed the body and pronounced it a plain case

of self-destruction.

Funeral services were conducted from the Bay home and inteiment was made in the Pleasant Valley cemetery.

The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

 Twenty-one Cars of Cattle Bring Them Big Money

(Special to the Star) O'Neill, Neb., Aug. 29. --

The Ditch Company, a branch of the David Rankin Farms Company, of Tarkio, Mo., largest farmers in the world.

Shipped twenty-one carloads of fat cattle to Chicago the latter part of last week for which they received something like $100,000.

The company manager, Everett Brown, says another consignment consisting of 500 head will be transported to the city of breezes within the next sixty days.

The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

Cold at Stuart

Stuart, Neb., March 5 - special

The weather the present week has been the coldest of the season.  The thermometer

registered 14 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, 24 Wednesday morning and 2 below

this morning, with a south wind and prospects of moderating.

There is a heavy snow on the ground and trains from the west are two to three

days overdue.

The farmers are jubilant over the prospects of a good crop this year.

Morning World Herald - March 6, 1891