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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1939)
' VOL. LX • O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,1939 NUMBER 23 --------- - - ■ - ■— ■ - - -- ■ ■ - - -- SOUTHEASTERN BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Something new to try for has * come to light. A 70-year-old Texar has been awarded the bow-legs championship. Perhaps Herr Hitler’s plea foi peace on the western front is thal he may deal with Stalin on the eastern front, mindful that Rus sian armies have distinguished themselves heretofore when the bugles sounded the call to retreat In bold, if somewhat crude letters a road sign in Boone county throws out this warning. “Breeze Out.’ All the same, travelers know what is ahead. A ranch woman with a friendly interest in how things were in a home where there is a new arrival, called by telephone a nearby house, wife and was told everything was lovely at her neighbor’s and that it was a 9-pound boy. “That’s a big ^ baby,” remarked the first lady. “Yes,” was the response, “but most of mine were twelve pounders.” Fields that once rolled out fifty bushels of corn per acre now show bare stubs of stalks forlornly stick ing from dead grey ground, yet farmers seem to be a cheerful lot. Maybe those “conservation checks” convey the same feeling as the presence of full com cribs in the barn yards. The cattle raisers out home are feeling the touch of prosperity, this season’s increase approaching the demand and the price of World war days. Neighbors tell me of sales of grade stock calves at $40 a <head. Tom Baker at the Riley ranch has sold a number of Shorthorn calves for calf club feeding at $70. The demand seems to arise because of large corn yields east of the Missouri river and works to the ad vantage of the ranchers in the grass country where hay is less plentiful this season. Autumn again touches the plumes of cottonwoods and willow with brilliant colors though the land scape stretches brown and dead to a thin horizon. In this immediate section the earth has been seared by a merciless summer heat reflect ed from a sky of burnished brass. Like a cooling hand laid upon a fe vered brow October weather changes bring release from the withering summer sun. Out on the great prai rie the autumn calm rests as a soothing element on the soul. The first morning recently in the famil . iar scenes of home there spread across a far-flung prairie, meadows and timber land a cooling mist that moistened the air until tree and grass blade dripped distilled jewels. Coming from a dry belt where there had been neither dew nor rain for many weeks it was like a refresh ing draught to a thirsty traveler. The prairie sunrise, the flaming sunset, the calm, the quiet night under the stars, old friends and neighbors, I was going to be among these again for a little while. John O’Neill “Services for John H. O’Neill, 73, son of the late Gen. John O’Neill, were held Monday at the Lady of Angels church. ^ “A San Diego resident for 36 years, Mr. O’Neill died Saturday. A native of Nashville, Tenn., he moved to O’Neill, Nebr., a town which was founded by and named for his father. “Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Nicholas Martin and Mrs. Ruth O’Neill, San Diego, and Mrs. Hans Nansen, Oslo, Norway, and one sister, Mrs. Catherine Tipton, San Diego.” The above clipping cut from a San Diego, California, newspaper, was received by S. J. Weekes from Mrs. Catherine Tipton, sister of Mr. O’Neill. Mrs. Tipton will be remem bered here as Miss Kitty O’Neill, who served many years in this city as deputy postmistress in the early nineties, and will be remembered by many of the old timers here, f She is now the only one left of the General O’Neill family. O’Neill High Again On Wrong End Of Score O’Neill high school football tean lost to Creighton at Creighton 19 j 0 before a Columbus day crowd, in | creased in size by the O’Neill Pef club and O’Neill high school band j The first quarter was all O’Neill’s with two scoring opportunities coming when the Blue and White team recovered a Creighton fumble on the Creighton 40-yard line and after Creighton had stopped the | O’Neill attack, when their punt | went off bounds on the 32-yd. line, Midway in the second quarter the tide turned when Creighton blocked an attempted quick kick on O’Neill’s 40 and marched to within the 10 yard line. With goal to go and four downs to make distance O’Neill’s defense tightened and after the fourth play Creighton was farther from the goal than in the first. Only two minutes were left to play in the half, O’Neill fumbled and Creighton recovered. Again it was first and goal to go for Creigh ton and this time they were not to be stopped. Yinel scored on a drive off tackle. The second half Creighton out played the visitors, scoring in the third quarter on a drive down field and in the fourth quarter when a blocked kick gave them the ball in O’Neill’s territory and Yinel ran 35 yards to score. Yinel, Salomn and Burt were outstanding players on Creighton’s team. O’Neill’s next game is to be played at home this Friday, October 20, against Ewing. Both teams have lost to Bassett this season, Ewing by a score of 7-0 and O’Neill by a 14-12 decision. Starting lineup in the Creighton game: O’Neill Creighton McKenna . LE — Hladik Snyder _ LT Lund Matula _ __ LG Kyriss Sirek _ C- Falter Calkins . RG ....Larter-Burt Valla _ RT Miserve Grutsch _T RE .Ganz Brown _ QB Yinel Yarnell _ RH George Burt Ryan . LH Jamen Burt Morrow _ FB Salomn John N. Stauffer John N. Stautfer died at his home in the northwest part of the city last Sunday afternoon about 4:15, after an illness of a couple of months of cancer of the liver, at the age of 48 years, 6 months and 6 days. The funeral was held last Tuesday morning at 10:30 from the M. E. church, Rev. Wright officiat ing and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. John N. Stauffer was born at Venus, Nebraska, on April 9, 1891, and had been a resident of Holt and Knox counties practically all his life. A couple of years ago he went to Fargo, N. D., where he was em ployed and was taken sick a little over a month ago and came back home three weeks ago. Although he was given the best of care and medical attention he kept gradually sinking until Sunday aftrnoon when he passed away. On July 15, 1914, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Murphy, the ceremony being performed at Page. Four children were born of this union, three daughters and one son. The son, Arthur, lost his life in a gas explosion in a filling sta tion in this city last April. The daughters are: Mrs. Elva Nickels, Mrs. Lola Calkins and Miss Ellen Stauffer, O’Neill, his wife and two grandchildren. He is also survived by three brothers and one sister. They are: William, of Lynch; Mar tin, Sioux City; Dan, Elm Creek, Nebr.; Marshall, Belleville, Kans.; Mrs. Robert Beede, Interior, S. D., all of whom were present at the fu neral services. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank everyone who so kindly assisted us in our last sad sorrow. We especially wish to thank the choir for the lovely music. Mrs. Mary Stauffer and Family. Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Bennett and daughter, Barbara, returned Tues day from Osage City, Kansas, wherte they visited Mrs. Bennett’s mother, Mrs. Hannah Hokanson, and from Waverly, Kansas, where they visited Dr. Bennett’s father, ! Hirman Bennett. HOLT COUNTY TO BE WELL | REPRESENTED AT OMAHA SHOW ■■■ Honors Of Holt County Will Be Upheld At Ak-Sar-Ben By Eight Representatives Six Boys and Two Girls From 4-H Clubs Holt county will be represented by six boys and two girls who have entered their prize-seeking baby beeves in the 4-H club competition which features the twelfth annual livestock and horse show opening at Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum in Omaha next Sunday at 2 p.m. Noted as being the world’s larg est 4-H exhibition in the world the entry list, .. w closed, ehoxva it to be the largest in the history of the Omaha exhibitions. Four-H baby beeves to the total of 1,047 will be competing from Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri and other states. Aside from the outstanding 4-H club competition there will be other big features which will provide not only entertainment but education for the many thousands who will come from all sections of the mid dlewest. While the horse show will present many of the best purebred arena performers in the United States there will be other new and additional forms of entertainment. Tops in the program of thrills j and chills will be Ken Maynard, world-famous cowboy movie star and his wonder horse “Tarzan” in thrilling exhibitions. Important in the program is the Mid-West championship band and drum corps contest and the region al flower and garden show. A week of special events for all 4-H club members has been ar ranged. Coupons for free admis sions to banquets, shows, tour of the city and other forms of enter tainment will be given every boy and girl. General admission to the show it self is BO cents and, for the first time, a large section of reserved seats for only 26 cents. 4-H club representatives from this county are: Patricia, Richard and Shirley Faulhaber, Middlebranch, each one calf; Jene Ranim and Bob Ramm, Stuart, each one calf; Irven and Roy Forbes and Frank Spath, Am elia, each one calf. DROPS DEAD WHILE EATING NOON HEAL Howard Vincent Burch, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Burch of this city, dropped dead in his home at about 1 o’clock today while sitting at the table eating his lunch. The attack came suddenly and he fell out of the chair to the floor and had passed away by the time the doctor arrived. Howard was born in this city on May 26, 1905, and was 34 years of age at the time of his death. Fu neral arrangements had not been completed at the time of going to press. The Weather The weather has been nice and mild the past week, with no pre cipitation. It was very warm last ■ Sunday, the thermometer reaching 81. Monday was the coldest night of the fall, the thermometer regis tering 26 above zero. Following is the chart for the week: H L October 12 71 32 October 13 .— 71 36 October 14 . 58 28 October 15 - 81 43 October 16 .. 67 33 October 17 . 56 26 October 18 .—— 72 43 Precipitation for October—.52. Total precipitation from Janu ary 1, 1939—13.87 inches. Mrs. Lucinda Neal Mrs. Lucinda Neal died at the home of her son, Elmer Neal, in this city, last Saturday of ailments in cident to old age, at the age of 89 years, 10 months and 14 days. The funeral was held Monday morning at 9 o’clock, Rev. V. C. Wright of ficiating and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. Lucinda Moore was born in De catur county, Ohio, on December 22, 1849. On September 19, 1872, she was united in marriage to Henry Neal in Page county, Iowa. Two children were born of this union, Elmer and James Neal, both of this city. Mrs. Neal had been a resident of this county for twenty one years, coming here from Ante lope county. O’Neill Man Heads Grand Encampment Of I. O. O. F. At the annual Grand Encamp ment at the I. 0. 0. F. state con vention held in Lincoln the first of the v/eek, L. G. Gillespie, of this city, was advanced from the office of Grand Senior Warden to the of fice of Grand Patriarch of the Or der, the highest gift at the hands of the members of the order. Mr. Gillespie went to Fremont last Sun day to attend the meeting. Telephone Company Managers Hold Meeting Here The northern part of the Grand Island District of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company held a sales meeting in O’Neill on Satur day with managers present from Ainsworth, Long Pine, Stuart, At kinson, Lynch, Butte, Anoka and Spencer. Mr^Spears of Omaha, Mr, Johnson, Mr. McCullon and Mr. Wilson of Grand Island addressed the meeting. O’Neill Boy Gets Interstate Promotion Bruce Rummel, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Rummel of this city, has received a promotion from the In terstate Power company, for whom he has been working the past six or seven years. He had been man ager at New Ulm, Minn., and about ten days ago was transferred to Albeit Lea, Minn., where he has a larger field and a corresponding in crease in salary. His many O’Neill friends tender congratulations. School Notes From O’Neill High umcers: President, Mary Jo Allen. Vice-President, Dorothy Larson. Secretary, Lois Jean Robertson. Treasurer, Delores Bachman. Publicity Director, Eunice Hurt. The O’Neill Pep Club attended the game at Creighton Thursday. Twenty members participated in the drill given by the band and pep club. The Pep Club initiated thirteen new members into the club at the regular meeting Wednesday night. A committe arranged a very effec tive program. The new members taking the oath were as follows: La Vein Borg, Ruth Burge, Dor othy Ann Davidson, Vivian Derick son, Yvonne Ernst, Helen Hagen-; sick, Doris Kiltz, Leone Korab, Ber- j nice Jones, Anita Williams, Dorothy Yenglin, Esther Fox. Student Council The O. H. S. student council el ected their officers at a meeting on Wednesday. Officers were chosen as follows: Sponsor, Principal K. L. Martyn; prsident, Owen Hiatt; vice president, Philip Yarnell; secre tary, Keith Vincent. Senior repre sentatives, Philip Yarnell and How ard Graves. Junior representatives, Owen Hiatt and Ted Sirek. Sopho more representatives, Keith Vin cent and Francis Gunn. Freshmen representatives, Francis Yantzi, Dorthy Yenglin. -—_____ CARD OF THANKS We desire to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the many friends and neighbors who so kind ly assisted us with their help and sympathy during the death and bur ial of our beloved father, Charles E. Sholes. The Children. Interstate Power Co. Entertains Employes The Inter-State Power Company of Nebraska gave their annual din ner dance to all of their employes last Saturday night at the Golden hotel in this city, with forty-one employes and their wives present at the banquet and dance. Follow ing the dinner, which was held at six-thirty, the company presented the following employes, who have been with the company five or more yaers, with service awards. The employes and their length of serv ice are as follows: Twenty years of service, H. J. Blomgren of Creigh ton and C. I. Oppen of Creighton; fifteen years, Wm. F. Keen, Hart ington, and L. A. Walker, also of Hartington; ten years, G. E. Schultz of Gregory, A. L. Fugate of Valentine, M. O. Hooper of Val entine and L. C. Walling of O’ Neill; and for five years of service, H. F. Little of Wausa. M. L. Kapp, assistant to the president; E. R. Lehmen, safety di rector; Doyal Journey and Frank Bescher of the merchandising de partment, all of Dubuque, Iowa, were present at the dinner. Mrs. Joseph Schollmeyer Mrs. Edith Schollmeyer, beloved wife of Joseph Schollmeyer, died at the home of her son, Ernest, at Crofton, Nebr., last Sunday after noon at 4:20 p.m., after an illness of about three months of uremic poisoning, at the age of 63, years, 9 months and 21 days. The Biglin ambulance went to Crofton after the body and she was brought back here Saturday night. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from her residence and burial in the Scottville cemetery. Mrs. Schollmeyer accompanied her husband, daughter and son-in law on a trip to the west coast about three months ago. The trip lasted nearly a month and they vis ited many relatives on their trip to the coast and on the west coast. The climate of the west did not agree with her, the weather being too moist, but she apparently en joyed the trip. After her return she did not feel very well and she was taken to Crofton for medical treat ment. She had been there about four weeks and was apparently on the road to recovery when she had a setback and passed away last Sunday evening. Edith Richter was born in Ger many on December 24, 1875. She came with her parents to the Unit ed States in 1883 and was a resi dent of Wisconsin for three years, coming to this county in 1886 and the family settled northeast of this city where she grew to womanhood. On March 27, 1894, she was united in marriage to Joseph Schollmeyer, the ceremony being performed at Scottville. To this union were born sixteen children, two of whom pre ceded her in death, and fourteen of whom, five sons and nine daugh ters, with her beloved husband, are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate wife and mother. The children are. Henry, Sheridan, Wyoming; Charles and Joseph, Dorsey; Mrs. Rosie Harper, Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Mary Tomlinson, Inman; Ernest Richter, Crofton; Mrs. Ida Hughes, Dorsey; Mrs. Em ma Axberg, Spencer; Minnie, San Francisco; Dorothy, Portland, Ore gon; Mrs. Frances Neeley, Long Beach, Cal.; Mrs. Hilda Butterfield, Walnut, Nebr.; Herman and Vera, Dorsey. Mrs. Schollmeyer was one of the pioneer residents of the northeast section of the county, having lived in that vicinity for fifty-three years. She had a host of friends in that section of the county, but she cared little for social activities, being con tent to devote her attention to look ing after the welfare of her hus band and large family of children. She will be grealy missed in that section of the county as she was known to all the residents of that secion of the county and loved and esteemed for her many fine qual ities. The Frontier joins the many friends of the family in extending condolences to the family and other relatives of the deceased in their hour of sorrow. Miss Freda Parr and Matt Beha drove to Elgin on Sunday and spent the day there visiting at the home of Miss Parr’s parents. COUNTY ASSESSOR MULFORD SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK Official Is Suddenly Stricken Monday In His Car, While Preparing To Leave His Duties During the Noon Hour County Assessor Fred Mulford died from a heart attack last Mon day morning about 11:45 in his car at the rear of the courthouse. Mr. Mulford and a friend, Fred Primus, of Ewing, an old friend and neighbor of Mr. Mulford, had just got in the car on their way to the Mulford home for lunch. Mr. Mul ford started the car, backed up and had the car headed to the north on the driveway to the street. He stiffened in his seat and reached forward and shut off the ignition, then straightened back in the driv er’s seat. Some of the county offic ials were called and they called Dr. Brown who came at once but Mr. Mulford was dead when he arrived. We learn that he has been bother ed from heart trouble for the past two or three years and that was one reason why he became a candi date for county assessor as the work on the ranch was too strenuous for him. The funeral was held last Wed nesday afternoon in Stuart and bur ial in the Stuart cemetery. The court house was closed during the afternoon and all of the officials went to Stuart to attend the funer al services. It is said that it was the largest funeral seen in that sec tion of the county for years. Mr. Mulford was elected county assessor last fall and took the of fice last January. Mr. Mulford had spent practically his entire life in the western part of the county where he was well known and. had the confidence and respect of all the people of the west end of the coun ty. At the election last fall Mr. Mulford carried Atkinson township and the three wards of that city with a majority of 158. In Stuart township where he lived for many years he carried the township with a majority of 384. In Sand Creek precinct, where he had lived for the past thirty years, he received all the votes cast except three, secur ing 78 to three for his opponent. In eight townships in the western part of the county he received 992 votes to 450 for the opposing candidate, or a majority of 542. This speaks well for his standing in the section of the county where he was well known. He made a gocd officer and his many friends over the county will be saddened to learn of his sudden passing. FRED MULFORD Fred Mulford, son of Chas. M. Mulford and Hortense Hallock Mul ford, was born in Orange county, New York State, February 19, 1870, and died October 16, 1939, at O’ Neill, Nebraska, at the'age of 69 years, 7 months and 27 days He came to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1878 with his parents and stayed there a year. In 1879 they came to Stuart, Nebraska, in a covered wa gon, and settled at Stuart when it was a small town of one store and only one tree in sight. The railroad reached no farther than O’Neill. He spent the rest of his boyhood life on the home place one mile west of Stuart. When a young man he united with the Presbyterian church in Stuart of which he was still a mem ber. He was always active in church work as long as he was able to take part. On May 20, 1896, he was united in marriage to Laura E. Miner at Stuart and to this union five chil dren were born: Chas. M., Stuart; Mrs. Laura F. McClurg, Atkinson; Mrs. Helen Raymer, Stuart; Mrs. Elsie A. Sire, O’Neill, and Mrs. Marion E. Haisk Milbank, South Dakota, In 1908 he purchased a farm on the Sand Creek 14 miles northeast of Stuart, where they lived for 30 years. He held the office of local as sessor of the home precinct for 15 years and at the last general elec tion was made county assessor. Last January he and his wife moved to O’Neill where he tran sacted the business of his office un til his death. He leaves to mourn his loss his beloved wife, one son, four daugh ters and twelve grandchildren. Also one brother, Linden Mulford, of Grand Junction, Colorado, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Corwin, Middle, town, New York, and Mrs. Katie Margritz of Norfolk, Nebraska. Also several nieces and nephews and many friends. All the children and a sister, Mrs. Katie E. Margritz of Norfolk, were present at the last sad rites except Mrs. Marion Haish of Milbank, S. D., who was unable to attend. Pioneer Celebrates Her Ninety-First Birthday At Home Of Daughter On Sunday, October 15, Mrs. Charlotte H. Planck celebrated her 91st birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. M. Sauers. Her brother, W. A. Woodruff of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was here for the oc casion, as well as her son, B. W. Planck, wife and daughter, Donna Rae of Atkinson. She received many calls, cards and gifts from kind friends and these were greatly appreciated. Mrs. Planck is one of Holt county’s early settlers, coming here in 1884 and taking a claim on what is now known as the Chase farm. Northeast Residents Come To Aid Of Ailing ^Pioneer A very neighborly and Christian act was done Monday, October 16, in the Star and Dorsey neighbor hood when fifteen men and five wo men came to the Frank Hunter home and did a real day’s work. The men threshed cane and kalo seed, filled barn and feed racks with hay and feed, stacked cane, ground feed, fixed fences and done other small jobs that would get things in shape for winter weather. All brot some eats and the ladies saw to it that the men had plenty to eat. Mr. Hunter has been ailing all summer and hasn’t been able to do a day’s work since July 1. The last two weeks he hasn’t been able to even do the chores and Mrs. Hunter and her sister have been doing them. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter certainly ap preciated what was done for them and ail are hoping Frank will soon be able to be his old self again. How wonderful to have good friends, relatives and neighbors. What would we do without them ? Those helping were Emmet Wertz, Mr. and Mrs. W'm. Derickson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Han sen, Mrs. Grant, Dick Curran, Mr. Hibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krug man, Emmet and Dale Revell, Hal Rosenkrans, Fora Knight, Albert and Edward Carson, George Kubik and Ralph Rosenkrans. Ministerial Association Elects Officers The regular monthly meeting of the Ministerial Association of Holt county was held at the Methodist church in this city on last Monday. 1 At this meeting, the officers elect ed for the coming year were: Rev. Leo D. Carpenter of Page, presi dent; Rev. W. I. Bell of O’Neill, vice-president, and Rev. George I. Friday of Ewing, secretary-treas urer. The Rev. Bell read a paper at the meeting on the subject, “Atone ment.” The meeting was started with a luncheon at the M & M Cafe at twelve-thirty, at which all the members were present. CARD OF THANKS We desire to extend our heartfelt and sincere thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who so 1 kindly assisted us during the last illness and following the death of 1 oor beloved wife, mother and sis ter. Your thoughtfulness of us in our sorrow will ever be held in ' grateful remembrance.—Joe Scholl meyer and family, Charles Richter and family, Fred Richter and fam ily, Ernest Richter and family, Mrs. • Minnie McDonald, Mrs. Rose Chase and Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson >'and family.