Over the County
EMMET ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Grehn and daught
er, Ellen, Mrs. Mae Wagnon and son,
Skippy, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ses
ler and children, Edna and Jack, all
were Sunday visitors at the Clarence
Farr home.
Merrill Allen is on the sick list this
week.
William Luben jr.,-and sons, Carl
and John, and Mrs. Gene Luben and
daughter, Esther, were shoppers in
O’Neili Saturday.
Miss Eugenia Luben spent Friday
evening with Miss Dorothy Sesler.
Mr. and Mrs. James Coday and
family have moved to the old Banks
place north of Emmet.
John Tenobrg was a supper guest
Sunday evening at the James O’Don
nell home.
Herman Grothe visited Arthur
Dailey Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wills nad Miss
Dorothy Sesler attended a show in
O’Neill last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. James O’Donnell and Ed, and
Misses Anna Rose and Helen, were
shoppers in Atkinson Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tenborg and
family are moving to the George
Pebbles place.
Misses Helen McCaffrey, Alda Pon
gratz and Eleanor Monahan, all spent
the week-end with their folks at Em
met. They are attending St. Mary’s
Academy in O’Neill.
Anthony O’Donnell and Miss Ellen
O’Donnel visited at the home of
James Gaughenbaugh Monday.
Joe, Frankie and Darlene Sesler
visited Shirley and Wayne Bates Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Thaine Humphrey
visited friends in Emmet Sunday.
Louis Luben expects to move the
house on the William Luben sr. place
to his farm north of Emmet.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pettinger and
daughter, Ethel Rose, visited at Ray’s
service station Monday evening.
Mrs. R. M. Pease had her tonsils
taken out last Wednesday.
Miss Katie Mullen spent the week
end in Emmet.
Mr. and Mrs. Bell Schaaf and family
of Atkinson, were Sunday visitors at
the Robert Allen home.
Miss Darlene Sesler spent Monday
evening with Esther Luben.
The Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Society will meet Thursday with Mrs.
A. J. Hindmand.
Mrs. Alex McConnnell and Mrs.
William Moyer went to Atkinson
Thursday to get the lesson on “cheese
making” for the South Side Improve
ment Club.
A large crowd attended the Evans
and Bake sale south of Emmet Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex McConnell are
moving to the Clarence Tenborg place
north of Emmet. Mr. and Mrs. Rzes
zotarskies are moving to their home.
Mrs. Jess Wills held a bridge party
at her home Thursday. Mrs. Guy
Cole won high score and Mrs. Frank
Foreman won the all cut.
Guy Cole, Harry Werner and Zane
Cole were fishing at Fish lake Sunday.
A1 Grehn held a stag party Tuesday
evening at his home. A simliar one
was held by Mrs. Grehn at the river.
Those on the Honor Roll in the 9th
and 10th grades are: Dorothy Sesler,
Kathleen Shorthill, Elsie Fernholz,
Kieth Abart and John Luben. In order
to be on the honor roll one must have
and average of B plus.
MEEK AND VICINITY
Mrs. Will Kaczor visited the school
at Meek on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lindberg and
Helen left for their new home at Page
Friday. Their friends in this com
munity wish for them good luck and
prosperity.
Mrs. Frank Griffith spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Roy Spind.'er.
Little Martin Devall was quite ill
Thursday night and Friday, and was
taken to the doctor for an examination.
His parents were afraid of append
icits but it was not the case and he
was much better by Saturday.
Mrs. Charlie Fox, visited the Meek
school last Thursday.
Mrs. Howard Rouse and baby, and
Mrs. Ralph Young returned home from
O’Neill on Saturday.
Miss Leona Shirley is boarding at
the Eric Borg home since Oscar Lind
berg moved.
Walter and Lester Thomson, of
Lynch visited in this locality last week.
Harry Fox trucked two loads of
goods to Page fnr Oscar Lindberg last
week.
County Superintendent, Luella A.
Parker and Mr. Parker visited the
Meek school last Friday.
C. L. Benson and son, Robert, flew
up from Norfolk on Thursday for a
short visit with Mr. Benson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Benson.
Mrs. Sam Robertson helped cook for
the men putting up ice at the A, L.
Borg farm the first of the week.
Mrs. Clifford Wells and baby, of Red
Bird, spent several days last week at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Dan Han
sen and family.
Mrs. Roy Blunt left Monday for a
two weeks visit with her parents at
Clearwater.
Dinner guests at the Gus Johnson
home on Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Griffith and son. Cecil, Hazel
Mae and Rose Maine Rouse. After
noon callers there wrere Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Blunt, Mary and James Spindler
and Elmer Devall.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hoyer and
May McGowan and Will Harvey were
guests at the Harry Fox home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nelson and
daughter, Margretha, and son, Paul,
called at the Emmet Slate home Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Johring and baby, and
son, Melvin, visited Mrs. Johring’s par
ents at Pheonix Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lindberg and
Arthur Rouse called at the Ralph
Young home Sunday afternoon.
LeRoy Spindler was an overnight
guest of his friend, Bryce Bressler,
in O’Neill Friday night.
Rev. and Mrs. Stevens drove to
Ewing last Friday. Mrs. Stevens ex
pects to make an extended visit with
home folks and Rev. Stevens expects
to return this week.
Mrs. George Rock visited with Mrs.
Harry Fox on Monday while Mr. Rock
and Mr. Fox went to O’Neill after a
truck load of grain.
Cecil Griffith helped Axel Borg
haul hay the first of the week.
County Superintendent Luella A.
Parker and Mr. Parker were dinner
guests at the Fox home Friday.
Mrs. Will Grutsch is suffering with
a bad case of inflamitory rheumatism.
Mr. and Mrs. John Alfs, of O’Neill,
and Mr. and Mrs. Will Kaczor were
guests at the S. J. Benson home on
Sunday.
Ralph Rausch visited Edward Kac
zor on Sunday.
Harry Lansworth has been suffer
ing with a bad case of blood poisoning
in his hand. He still has to see the
doctor and have it dressed every day.
Leone and LeRoy Spindler spent
Monday evening at the Harry Fox
home.
The Aaron Boshart family called at
the Lansworth home Tuesday evening.
PLEASANT DALE
Edward and Florence Winkler were
surprised Sunday when their grandma
Winkler gave them each a large birth
day cake. Edward’s birthday was the
28th of February and Florence’s was
the first of March.
Dean Beckwith has signed a con
tract to play ball with Oklahoma City
this summer. He will leave for prac
tice in two weeks. Dean is now em
ployed at the Beckwith Variety Store
in O’Neill.
Ralph Beckwith says at Scottsbluff
there were about 100 men employed by
the county burning weeds along the
roads in the vicinity of Gering and
Scottsbluff. These men were the un
employed of the town and get to work
one week then take a loyoff while
another group work. The men re
ceive one dollar per day and are paid
in Script which is good in Scottsbluff
and Gering only. Another thing of
interest that Ralph noticed while there
last week was the cattle and sheep
that are being fattened by the Great
Western Sugar Company. About 2,500
head of white face cattle and 5,000
head of sheep. There were sixty head
of cattle in each pen. They are weighed
every thirty days and have made an
average daily gain of two and one-half
pounds each since they have been op
fulkfeed. Their feed consists of eight
pounds of shelled corn and one pound
of cotton cake, each, and all of the
beet pulp and alfalfa they can eal£
After the juice is extracted from thfc
sugar beet the pulp is put into pits
which cover about one and one-half
acres and are seven feet deep, and that
is kept for feed. They have three pits
at this place. The farmers can buy
the pulp for 50 cents a ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kloppenborg
and children visited at Joe Winkler’s
Monday evening.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Ernst Monday, Febru
ary 27th.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ernst are mov
ing onto the place vacated by Clyde;
Hershiser and Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Rosier are moving onto the place
Mr. and Mrs. Ernst have vacated.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kee and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ritts and
daughter visited at the Will Schmohr
home Sunday evening.
Superintendent Luella Parker and
little Lorraine G. Ernst visited at the
Pleasant Dale school Monday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ernst and
daughter, Evelyn, visited at Ralph
Ernst’s Friday evening.
Miss Elva Kee came home from
Omaha Sunday evening. Miss Kee has
been employed in Omaha since Sep
tember.
Pauline, Geraldine and Bernard Dus
atko and Alda Pongratz spent the
week-end with home folks, returning
Sunday afternoon to St. Mary’s Acad
emy where they attend school.
Friends and neighbors gathered at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Pon
gratz Sunday evening and helped them
celebrate their twenty-seventh wed
ding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winkler and Le
ona, Florence, Robert and Harold
visited Henry Mullen’s Sunday after
noon.
Armella Pongratz spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Dan Trosh
Jmski and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beckwith and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Verne Beck
with and Rex Beckwith were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Seger last
Sunday.
INMAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Genrge Conard and
son were over from Red Bird Sunday,
visiting his brother, R. M. Conard and
family.
Laurence, little son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Young was taken to a hospital
in Omaha Sunday night. The little
one had been eating a raw carrot and
a piece went down his windpipe and
lodged in his lung. No word has come
back as to his condition. His father
John Young, and grandmother, Mrs.
William Young, took him to the hos
pital accompanied by Dr. French, of
of Page.
Mrs. John Anspach has gone to
Page for a visit at the Hardine An
spach home.
Mrs. Wadsworth and daughters,
Miss Esther and Miss Lillian, of Til
den, Nebr., were here Sunday visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Goree and
other friends.
Harry Harte went to Omaha Satur
day on a business trip.
Mrs. George Killinger is ill at her
home, with high blood pressure and
complications.
Miss Cartla Gifford went to Omaha
Saturday to Spend the week-end with
friends.
Word has been received here by Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins that their
son, Harvey, freshman at the Wesley
an University at Lincoln has been se
lected to go with the Men’s Glee Club
on their annual tour. This honor is
seldom given a freshman student.
Mrs. Bryon Clute, who has been
quite ill, is some better. He advanced
age makes her recovery slow.
The R. N. A. Lodge will meet at
the home of Mrs. Charles Stark, south
of town, Wednesday.
SCHOOL NOTES—DIST. 122
The pupils receiving perfect attend
ance awards this month are Phyllis
Taylor, Kenneth Hazen, Lela Taylor,
Ruth Siders, Hazel Siders and Robert
Hazen.
Our school gave a program and pie
social last Friday night. There was
a nice large crowd present, many com
ing from outside districts. The pro
ceeds from the pie social will be used
to buy pictures of American and Brit
ish authors.
We are sorry to say that we have
lost two families this month. The
Arthur Aim family have moved to
district 49, at Star and the Charles
Liska family to district 4, Dorsey.
The school board has purchased a
new teacher’s desk, which was very
much needed. It makes a nice im
provement in our school room and we
are very proud of it.
SHIELDS
Wednesday evening, February 22nd,
a large crowd of neighbors and friends
assembled at the Ed. Early home to
celebrate Washington’s birthday, and
to enjoy the evening’s program, in
which the young folks of the various
adjoining school districts participated.
The evening was most enjoyable,
music being furnished by the well
known orchestra consisting of Naomi
Beller, John Conway and Mrs. Kling
ler. Singing, speaking, games and a
social hour were the order of the day.
Several patriotic songs were sung, ac
companied by the orchestra, which
would be a credit to any community.
They were so cheerful that their cheer
fulness became contagious. Every
body joined in the enthuastic applause.
One of the members disclosed tlje
story of the early fathers touchingly,
with a finished technique that is sel
dom seen on the amature stage. The
audience was held spell bound through
out the entire number.
Albert Klingler impressed the aud
ience with his short talk. He said in
part: “We are powerless against the
organized forces shaping the econ
omic affairs of the country, but com
bined and collective action will bring a
mighty influence on the forces that
underlie the well being of the farming
population."
Tim Conway gave a short talk, al
though handicapped by an irritating
cough, which was exceptionally good.
Mrs. Anna Erb, Mrs. Steskal and
Mrs. Klingler prepared a beautiful
lunch. Everything was free and it’s
about the only way we can stage an
entertainment anymore, all economists
and against the eighteenth amendment.
The program given by Miss Nellie
Cleary on Wednesday afternoon, Feb.
22nd, in district 146, commorating the
great heros of the past and present,
who’s birthdays occur in the month of
February.
Margaret Early spoke on the ad
ventures of Columbus and gave an ex
cellent sketch of his life and the odds
they had against them compared with
the advantage we have today.
Miss Patricia Gallagher talked on
Washington, reciting his farewell ad
dress to his army. That is very dif
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AUCTION
AT
ATKINSON, NEBR.
EVERY TUESDAY
CATTLE - HORSES
HOGS - SHEEP
Offering broadcast from
WJAG (Norfolk) Every
Monday Noon.
ATKINSON
LIVESTOCK MARKET
PUBLIC
SALE
On account of the death of my husband I will offer
for sale on the Judge Dickson farm, 4 miles north of
O’Neill, on
Thurs., March 16
Commencing at 1 p. m.
60-HEAD OF CATTLE-60
23 cows, fresh and coming fresh, some with calves by
their side. Good dairy cows.
7 Heifers, coming 2 years old.
12 Steers, 2 years old.
17 Yearlings—11 steers and 6 heifers.
1 Polled Durham Bull.
TERMS—CASH
Mrs. George Simpson
Col. JAMES MOORE, Auctioneer
Save while you have a job,
and you can spend when
you haven’t.
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Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
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