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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1938)
Neb. State Hiitorical Societj The Frontier tot, t ty O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22,1988. No. 32. An Old Pioneer Passes Away At Creighton Mrs. Wilhelmina Thierolf, who came to Nebraska 22 years before its admission to the union and lived 83 of her 84 years in the Corn husker state, passed away at her home here about 11 o’clock Satur day night. She had been ill for some time. Death was attributed to hardening of the arteries and de generative arthritis, with a fall suffered several weeks ago being a contributory cause. She was 84 years, four months, and 22 days old at the time of her passing. Mrs. Thierolf lived here 28 years. She was born at Ashland, Ohio, July 18, 1854, and came to Nebras ka with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stoll, the following year. On March 9, 1875, she was mar ried at Plattsmouth to Henry Thierolf. Six of seven children born to them survive her. They are: George, of Arnold, Mich.; Al bert, of Lincoln; Mrs. Rosa Weber, Creighton; Ona, Niobrara; Mrs. Victoria Hansen, Star; and Mrs. Sophronia Gableman, Beatrice. An other daughter, Matie, passed away in 1915, and Mr. Thierolf died the following year. Besides the surviving children, there are 14 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Eighty-three years continous residence in Nebraska, a state whose history hardly goes back that far, made Mrs. Thierolf one of its earlier residents. When her parents and she left Ohio in 1855 and settled on a claim along the Platte river, about two miles from Plattsmouth, they qualified with out reservations as a pioneer fam ily. The trip to Nebraska was made by steamboat, down the Ohio river to St. Louis, then up the Miss ouri to Plattsmouth. At Platts mouth Mr. and Mrs. Stoll reared a family of 12 children. For 25 years after their marri age, Mr. and Mrs. Thierolf lived at Plattsmouth, but in 1900 they mov ed with their family to near Star, in Holt county. Ten years later they moved to Creighton, which remain ed Mrs. Thierolf’s home until her passing. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Thierolf Tuesday afternoon— at 1 o’clock at the home and at 1:30 at the Federated church—with the pastor, Rev. George B. Anderson, officiating. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery.—Creighton News. Another Old Pioneer Passes Away Wed. Mrs. Bee Merzig passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs Walter O’Malley northwest of this city Wednesday evening about 8 p. m., after an illness of several months, at the age of 79 years, 9 months and 18 days. Mrs. Merzig was a native of Scranton, Pa., coming to Holt county with her parents in the fall of 1878 and they located north east of this city. On October 5, 1882, she was united in marriage to Peter H. Merzig, the ceremony being performed at Fort Niobrara Five children were born of this union, two of whom survive and are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate mother. They are, Mrs. Walter O’Malley, O’Neill, and Miss Elizabeth Merzig, Philadel phia, Penn., and one sister, Mrs. James Brennan, O’Neill, and one brother, Christopher Casey, of Omaha. Mrs. Merzig and family were residents of this county for about a year while her husband, who was in the regular army, was in the Phillipines. After the war the family moved to Pennsylvania where she made her home until June, 1934, when she came back to Holt county and since that time made her home with her daughter, Mrs. O’Malley. Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time of going tf press, pending word from her daughter in Pennsylvania. The Puppet Show' On December 31 the O’Neill Re creation center will present a free puppet show entitled “The Jewel Tree” and will be held at the K. of C. Hall. The local puppet group have been working day and night to present this sensational play with an all star cast to the public. They have been reparing the entire cast con sisting of: Petrovitch, the Hero; Tanya, the heroine; Ba Ba Ya Ga, the witch. Taming and training horses for the necessary roles. ThO stage is being redesigned for vthis play. Petrovitch: “Pm the terrible Petrovitch .... the strongest, the : bravest and the most handsome man in Russia. I’m the hero of the ] play. ... I rescue the heroine. . . . | The only trouble is she’s too fat . . I don’t like fat girls they’re a nuisance." Wood Craft The craft shop at the Recreation center is being opened each Friday afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock for adult craft work. Our craft in structor is an expert craftsman and a large supply of interesting pat terns to choose from. Those attending craft shop are ! asked to furnish their wood and [similar materials. The craft shop ; is well equipped with the necessary | tools. Mrs. Clara Kipplinger Mrs. Clara Martha Kipplinger died at the University Hospital in Omaha last Tuesday after an ill ness of many months, at the age of 21 years, 9 months and 8 days. The body was shipped to this city Wed nesday night and the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Methodist church, Rev. Wright officiating and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. Deceased was born at Page, Ne braska, on March 12, 1917, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Sterner. She was maried at Bartlett, Nebr., to Gerald Kipp linger, who with a son, Bruce, are left to mourn her passing. She also leaves her parents, three brothers and three sisters. Mrs. Goldie Fountaine Mrs. Goldie Fountine died at her home in this city last Sunday morn ing at 1:50 A. M., after an illness of several months of Bright's dis ease, at the age of 38 years, 10 months and 20 days. Funeral ser vices were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. V. C. Wright J officiating and burial in Pleasant Valley cemetery at Meek, Nebr. Goldie Fountaine was the daugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mil lard Putman, for many years pio neer residents of the Eagle, north west of this city. She was born on the old homestead on January 28, 1900, and lived practically all her life in this county. On November 3, 1923, she was united in marriage to Charles H. Fountaine at Yank ton, S. D. To this union one daugh ter was born, Mabele Darlene, who with her father are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affection ate wife and mother. She also leaves one brother, Louis and four sisters to mourn her passing. They are Mrs. Ed Hood, Spencer; Mrs. Geo. Thavenett, O’Neill; Mrs. E. F. Bentx, Laughton, Iowa, and Mary Putman, of O’Neill. Mrs. Fountaine was a resident of the northern part of the county until about three years ago when they moved to this city and had since resided here. She was a charming woman with a pleasant personality and had a host of friends in this city and county who will regret to learn of her passing in the prime of life. — Shelterbelt Personnel Don Harmon, who has been in charge of field work for shelterbfelt plantings in the vicinity of Page, has left the Government’s employ for other work. Russel C. Brown field, of O’Neill will henceforth be in charge of the work for the north two thirds of Holt County, and any one desiring information concern ing new plantings in that area i should get in touch with Mr. Brownfield. The Neligh District, consisting of Antelope, Holt, Garfield, Wheel er, Greeley, Boone, Nance and Knox counties is now under the direction of Carl A. Taylor. Mr. Taylor has been with the Shelter belt project since its Btart in the spring of 1935; and has covered various assignments in five of the states in which the cooperative farm shelterbelts are growing, but considers this district one of the most promising of fine results from the planting of tree shelterbelts for crop protection. The Frontier extends to all its readers a Merry, Merry Christmas. Lawrence Chapman Transferred to New York Lawrence Chapman came up from Omaha last Thursday and visited friends in this city. Law rence has been in Omaha for six teen years where he has filled a I position for the Phoenix and Lon i don Guarantee company of New York, having charge of Nebraska and western Iowa. He informed us that he was leaving Nebraska the end of this week, moving to I New York city, where he had ac cepted an appointment as an execu tive officer in the home office of the company. This is a deserved pro motion and carries with it a sub stantial increase in salary. Chap pies O’Neill friends wish him con tinued happiness and prosperity in his new home. Will We Have New and Higher Taxes More and more news is beginning to leak out concerning the Admin istrations’s vast rearmament plan, It seems certain that hundreds of millions will be spent next year for battleships, planes and expansion of all the arms of the military ser vice. This forthcoming “war bud get” will doubtless be the largest, for peace time, in our history. In the meantime, there is con siderable talk about possible ways of fiancing it. The President has said that he does not want to do that by adding to the debt—that he favors a pay-as-we-go plan so far as possible. At the same time, sentiment generally in Congress seems to be against new taxes. One suggested solution is for the Administration to liquidate some of the tremendous assets held by the RFC. This bureau is a big partner in American industry, and its holdings run into the billions. They are, however, difficult to realize on—no one believes the RFC would dump securities on the open market, as that would be cer tain to cause a sharp break in values. So, even though Congress is un willing, it may become necessary to pay for rearmament with new taxes, or higher old ones. If the latter course is chosen, it is likely that the income tax on all or most brackets will be increased one or ; two per cent. Don’t For A Merry Christmas A Merry Christmas to you and yours! And remember—it can’t be merry unless it’s safe. Fire is the great hazard of the holiday season. It has turned many gladsome celebration into a horrible tragedy; for the victims of holiday fires are usually children. So—here are some don’ts for the holidays that will pay you tremend uos dividends in the coin of happi ness and safety: Don’t use candles on your Christmas tree—the tree itself is highly inflammable and it, to gether with tinsel decorations placed near flame, may cause a hol ocust in your home. Electric light sets are inexpensive, safe and sat isfactory. Don’t permit children dressed in flimsy cloth or paper holiday cos tumes to be in a room with open flame of any kind. Fatal bums can be suffered in an incredibly brief period of time. Don’t give children gifts that re quire the use of explosive chemicals fire, steam or other hazardous elements. Don’t allow a niess of discarded Christmas package wrappings tc accumulate. A carelessly disposed match or cigarette may cause them to burst into fire that will swiftly get out of control. Dry Christmas trees present a major hazard—dispose of yours as son as the holiday's are over. And—last but not least—don’t take a chance of any kind. Be constantly alert. Have your fun safely. GREETINGS FROM ST. JOHN’S With grateful memories and sin cere appreciation of your kindness and friendship towards us during the past year—the Priest and people of St. John’s extend to their many friends of O’Neill and vicin ity the greetings of the season, and wish you one and all,—a holy and a happy Christmas and an abun dnce of good things during 1939. C. A. BEYERSDOFER. Communications Must Be Signed By Writer The Frontier has repeatedly stated in its news columns that it would not print annonymous com munications. During the past month we have received several such items. Some of them had real news value, while in others it was apparent that some one was trying to get even with some one else. Correspondents should re member that we will print nothing in The Frontier unless we know the author. The name is not necessary for publication, but we must know who the author is or the matter will not appear in the columns of The Frontier. CARD OF THANKS Permit us to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the local head officials of the WPA in this city, Howard Perkins and Dan Sul livan and^father and all other fel low workers and to our many kind friends and neighbors for assistance rendered following the death of our beloved wife and mother.—Charles H. Fountaine and daughter. J. B. Ryan and son, Bobbie will leave on Friday for Chicago, where they will spend the Christmas holi days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Doyle, and with Joe Ryan. J. B. will return after the holidays but Bobbie will remain in Chicago, and will attend either North western University or the Univer sity of Loyalo. New Deal Foes Are Active Some political commentators have expressed the opinion that the recent election which admittedly turned out as a rebuke to the New Dealers, would serve to pull the [democrats together rather than to divide them further. Yet the soundness of this prediction may be seriously doubted unless we are to expect that the New Dealers them selves will change their unsound i policies for some which are more I in keeping with budget balancing and federal expenditure. Cer tainly it cannot be expected that statesmen like Harry Byrd, Carter Glass and Pat Harrison will be pulled any closer to the New Deal by the election results. We have a line on Senator Byrd’s impressions [ in a caustic speech which he de livered recently before the Massa chusetts Federation of Taxpayers’ Association. Senator Byrd advocated the reor ganization of the federal govern ment for simplification, retrench ment and economy; cancellation of the existing authority of thirty federal borrowing corporations; re ducing the activities of the “Green belts, and tree belts”; transfer of part of the relief burden to local and state governments and conduct of the government within the abil ity of our people to pay. Senator Byrd declared that we are just emerging from nine years of fiscal insanity, and added: “We are facing a perilous situation and what can be done about it? Can we expect any leadership from the present administration for econ omy and retrenchment? As one who has fought for five years for prudent spending in Washington, I say no.” Senator Byrd was caustic in a lengthy attack upon the Roosevelt1 administration. Good government, he said, would be “vastly promoted if the brain-trusters from Tugwell ! to Corcoran would go home, and if, Congress resumed its constitution- j al duty.” “A modern liberal,” he asserted, “is tested and judged in proportion as to how liberal he is willing to. be with other people’s money.” Not long ago Senator Byrens, of South Carolina, long looked upon as an administration wheel horse, delivered a speech in New York in which he declared that policies at .Washington would have to changed 1 if we are going to return to sound business prosperity in the United States. As did Senator Byrd, he made caustic reference to those who pose as liberals because they are liberal with other people’s money. It may be that the New Deal and the Jeffersonians in Washing ton are going to move closer to gether because of the Republican gains in the recent election. But developments so far would seem to indicate that if there is to be a narrowing of the gap the New Dealers themselves will have to do most of the narrowing. After all, if anybody should be sobered by the election results it ought to be the New Dealers. They were the ones who lost caste. If you don’t believe this, just com pare the election returns affecting Senators Tydings and Clark with those which eliminated such New Deal wheelhorses as Senator Buck ley, Governor Murphy and Senator ial Candidate Earle. - —.—■ - ----- - - SOUTHEAST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Abaut the only thing in men’s clothing not encroached upon by modern feminine attire is the uni- ^ form of a letter carrier. Texas weather has worked up this way along with large shipments of oranges. No frost some days pro ceeding the week of Christmas. Sheep-lined white boots with bare legs have made their appear-1 ance as a style of winter foot wear for the swanky young dames parad- J ing 0 street. On a bulletin board in front of a downtown church is a suggestion for a job for those not otherwise employed.—“Hunt for the good in the other fellow.” If Doc Tonwnsend’s two hundred a-month pension is a problem in spending, what is the thirty-thous and-a-month that the young Dodge widow asks from the estate.? I recently listened to an absorb ing discourse by a man of world wide travel who employed neither the term “sky-scraper,” teeming millions” nor the “mighty Amazon.” There are around one thousand languages on the human tongue. Then we haven’t done so much if we acuire one oir two. Somebody tells us the Greek word for boiled I water is “zoop.” These large red apples imported from the Pacific northwest have a strong competitor for popular favor in the Nebraska Jonathan. Like the valorous son of King Saul, they have a quality of their own. The southeast counties of the state produce thousands of bushels of this delectable fruit each season. Amusing things may happen in a place set apart for sacred things. The Mind man was conducted to a pew well to the front and left to his own devises as to where in the pew he would sit. With the ex treme end next to the wall his ap parent goal he edged along and when he sat down it was on the lap of one of the brethern. There were none of the sisters seated in that pew. An Italian-American of long ac quaintance says there is some merit in dictatorship as developed in his native country. In his boyhood days in Italy the racketeer flourished with a high hand. They made their demands on people with money and it was either comply with the demand or have your head taken off. Mussalini has put a stop to all' this, according to my Italian friend and he says we are not free from the racketeer right here in Lincoln. But I haven’t heard of any heads being taken off. A stranger, a little worse be cause of the frequent use of the corkscrew, yet foxy enough to work the ruse of making a pretense of an errand, found his way to a base ment room of a church a few blocks south of the capitol where a meet ing was being held. Who i his pres ence was discovered by the church custodian he inquired for an indi- j vidual, real or fictious, not con nected with the church gr.up and being told there was no such person i there he made his departure. Ten minutes later it was discovered that the overcoats belonging to some in the meeting had been, stolen. It is said ranis on the cloak rooms at various churches throughout the city has become a racket. L. H. Edwards, one of the pros perous farmers and stockmen of the southern part of the county, was a pleasant caller last Monday while in the city on business and extended his subscription to this household necessity. New Books Recieved At Grattan Library Following is a list of new books recently received at the O’Neill Public Library, in both the Juvenile and Adult departments: Juvenile Books Cattle Ranch to College, Double day; Davy Jones Locker, Fulton; Haunted Air Ways, Burtis; Jim of the Press, Dean; Jinx Ship, Pease; Lardy The Great, Fulton; Living Forest, Heming; Son of the White Man, Best; American Boy Sports, Griffith; American Boy’s Adven ture Stories, Griffith; Betty Lou of Log Mountain, Justus; Disappear ance of Ann Shaw, Seaman; Up Stairs and Down Stairs, Sherman; Susannah of the Yukon, Dennison. Big Miss Liberty, Rogers; Girls of Glen Hazard. Chokmnn; Daugh ter of the Coast Guard, Baxter; Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines, Wheeler; Kitten Kat, Dearborn; Chinky Joins the Circus, Quosey; Heidi Grows Up, Tritten; Adven tures in a Big City, Reardon; Betty Lou in Paris, Criss; Bibi, Kairn; The Hurdy Gurdy Man, Bianeo; Tidiothy, Garbutt; Turkey Tale, Bacon. Adult Books The Wall, Rinehart; Heart Broken Melody, Norris; Rebecca, DeMaurier; Dark Riven, Hall; Madam Curie, Curie; Wollcott Reader, Wollcott; O’Henry Memor ial Award, Prize Stories of 1938, Hansen; Master Quiz Book, Has kins; Way of the Transgressor, Farson; Little Known Facts About Well Known People, Carnegie; The Mortal Storm, Bottome; Night Mudt End, Price; Nobody’s In Town, Ferber; 40,00 Quotations, Douglas; Book Nobody Knows, Barton; America’s Sixty Families, Lundburg; Young Doctor Galahad, Seifert. Wisdoms Gate, Baines; Raiders of Spanish Peaks, Grey; What Do You Want for $1.98, Austin; Cripp led Splendor, Evans; Trail to Yes terday, Seltzer; Honor of the Big Snows, Curwood; Model Memoirs, j Leacock; Trial of Helen McLoad, Parsons; Golden Empire, Richard son; You Haven’t Changed, Ban ning; 13 Vol. Smithsoian Scientific Series, also 1938-1939, Who’s Who in America. The Weather Following is the weekly weather chart. H. L. Dee. 16 61 20 Dec. It 41 23 Dec. 17 _ 41 12 Dec. 18 44 15 Dec. 19 43 22 Dm. 20 39 12 Dec. 21 _ 40 10 Alpha Club The Alpha club held their an nual seven o’clock Christmas din ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Helmer Whidtfeldt on Wednesday evening, December 14. The club members and their hus bands were present. The out side guests were Mrs. Aneta Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Knapp. The room and tables were dec orated in red and white, the club colors. The place cards were white and red and made lovely decora tions for the tables. Our club president, Nellie Bos hart was toastmaster. The word chosen for their toasts was Mary. Mother, Louise Robertson; Arise and seek the Christ Child, Maud Auker; Review of the club years, Ruby Morton;. Yuletide, Pearl Whidtfeldt. The menu consisted of Tomato Juice Cocktail, Roast Chicken, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Creamed Cauliflower Salad, Pick les, Olives, Celery, Cranberry sauce, Rolls, Jelly, Date Pudding with whipped cream and Coffee. The remainder of the evening was spent playing bridge. Before returning home each person received a lovely gift. The club members received their gifts from their friends. All reported a very enjoyable evening. Mrs. Melvin Old and daughter, Sandra, arrived Saturday night from Hastings, Iowa, and will visit here at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Smith sr., until nfter the.holidays. Mr. Ord will rome later in the week to spend Christmas.
