The Frontier
VOL. LX O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940 NUMBER 46
BREEZES
SOUTHEASTERN
I
By Romaine Saunders
One of the candidates for presi
dent is said to lack executive ex
perience. Maybe it would be just
as well to put some one down
there at Washington who has not
had so much “experience.”
At the entrance to the building
where Nebraska’s lone farm paper
is published is a notice: “Closed all
day Saturday to confirm with gov
ernment wage-hours regulations.
Hours from 8 to 5 Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day.” How many Nebraska farm
ers are able to keep such hours?
On South 13th street, emblaz
oned high in air, a flaming sign
reads, “Terrible Terry Carpenter.”
It is at one of the places of business
of the notable ScottsbluflF citizen
who is said to be selling gasoline
here below them all in price. He
maintains a fleet of trucks that
bring the gas from his oil fields.
Nebraska has had many pictur
esque characters in politics and Mr.
Carpenter is that as well as a
shrewd business manager. And
picturesque gents in politics can
do some damage. For instance, the
state bank guarantee law, a pro
duct of the statesmen of the Car
penter mold. I see he has been in
O’Neill and wonder if the old town
is as fruiftul a field as formerly for
the politicians with fantastic pro
grams.
I see Inman is thus early getting
ready for the Fourth. It was about
'85 that two other boys and myself
conceived the idea of jumping the
train at O’Neill and going to In
man to celebrate the Fourth. We
had our celebration all to ourselves
as the town was not celebrating.
Some years later we met with a
different experience at Page when
a great Fourth of July celebration
was held, combining the hurrah of
Independence Day with an equally
important event, the completion
of the short line railroad. E. C.
Coon was the inspiring genius of
the day and read the Declaration
of Independence. A husky gent
was operating a combined barber
shop and butcher shop—as meat
markets were then known. His
doors were wide open. There he
stood, one hand resting on a bar
ber’s chair, the other holding a
cleaver on the meat block. Come
in, boys; if we can’t shave you we
can skin you,” was his cheerful
invitation. But as celebrations go
Page really did something. Sam
Thompson and I were pals for the
day. We lost interest in the cele
bration in favor of a bit of ro
mance with a home girl and one
from a distant state. The “home
girl,” herself of a pioneer family,
married into a pioneer family. Out
of life’s experiences on the open
prairies of Holt county and in a
quiet village by the Elkhorn she
has had full measure of its pain
and pleasure, and bereft of hus
band now faces the sunset alone.
If early gardners around Lincoln
planted their potatoes Good Friday
they had to dig under a frozen
crust. The weather was severe for
the Easter season. ‘However, Ne
braskans will have their potatoes
as those planted a month after the
traditional date are more reliable
at harvest time. Early day mer
chants in O’Neill exported many
carloads of potatoes. Those were
the days they grew in abundance
and I have seen none since with
quality to equal them. As a boy on
my father’s homestead a few miles
out from town I was at work one
dav in the potato field adjacent to
the road when Mrs. Pfunder and
Mrs Gwyne from town drove past
in a buggy. “That is a hard way
to serve the Lord,” Mrs. Gwyne
greeted me. The homesteaders did
not regard it as “hard.” There
was a satisfying pleasure in pro
ducing by your own efforts the
necessary things of life, and it fai
transcended this modern mode of
life in getting a few things out oi
a store every day in paper sacks.
Mrs. Ed Johnson of Omaha, ar
rived Saturday to spend Easter
with relatives and friends.
See The Silver Streak
The Burlington's Finest Train
Citizens of this city as well as
those of surrounding towns are
invited to be in O’Neill on next
Thursday afternoon and greet
a delegation of the business men of
Sioux City, who will be here that
evening, coming here on the New
Burlington Zephyr, the latest thing
in the transportation line. The
train will arrive here at 6:05 and
the dinner will be shortly there
after at the High School Auditorium
The dinner will be furnishde by the
Catholic Daughters of America,
which is a guarantee that all pres
ent will receive a real meal. Every
one is invited to attend, but the
committee would like to know how
many will attend the banquet, so
that proper arrangements can be
made for your comfort. If you
contemplate going get in touch with
one of the members of the com
mittee and get your ticket. Tick
ets are 75 cents for the dinner and
can be procured from L. C. Wall
ing, E. M. Gallagher, John Kersen
brock, Jack Arbuthnot, Ambrose
Rhode or Howard Bauman. Let us
all go and show the Sioux Citians
that O’Neill is a real live town.
The Frontier Comes With
Largest Regular Edition
In Very Many Years
The Frontier goes to its read
ers this week with the largest vol
ume of advertising ever carried in
a Holt county paper, unless. in a
special edition. Advertisers know
the newspaper that brings them re
sults which accounts for this in
crease. The Frontier has carried
more advertising during the month
of March this year than we have
carried for any month since the
good old days of 1922-23. It be
gins to look as if Holt county was
coming back.
Lena B. Nickel
Lena B. Nickel, one of the pio
neer daughters of Page community,
passed away at her home west of
Page, Easter Sunday night, March
24, at 11:00 p. m. She had been
ailing for several months but had
been practically bedfast for the
past five weeks.
Born November 18, 1888, she
was the fourth child of Henry and
Etta Trowbridge and the first of
ten children from this union to fol
low their father into the realm of
eternity.
She spent her entire life in or
around Page except for a few years
when she lived near Lusk, Wyo.
On June 8, 1910, she was united in
Marriage to William Wesley Con
ard with whom she moved to Wyo
ming, where he passed away Nov
ember 13, 1918. Following his
death she returned to Page. Here
she met and later was married to
John William Nickel on June 16,
1921, and lived near Page until her
death.
Besides her husband she leaves
three children, Plenn, his wife
Eva and children Wesley and
Franklin, of Page; Austin Nickel
of Saratoga, Wyoming; and Anna
Mae Nickel of Page; her mother,
Mrs. Etta Trowbridge of Page;
nine brothers and sisters, Earnest
Trowbridge of Page, Mrs. Anna
Smith of Inman, Mrs. Blanch Ren
ner of Elwood, Indiana, Mrs. Vera
Miller of Ewing, Elmer Trowbridge
of Page, Mrs. Eva Williams, of
Loveland, Colorado, and Elton
Trowbridge of Saratoga, Wyoming;
five uncles and three aunts, twenty
six nieces nad nephews and a host of
other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by a
son, John William, on April 15,
1926, and her father on June 28,
1934.
Mrs. Nickel united with the Meth
odist church as a child in 1897 un
der the pastorate of Rev. J. J.
Schick.
A loving mother and wife, and a
kind friend she will be missed by
family and neighbors alike. ***
O’Neill Will Probably Lose
Two of Its Most Prom
inent Citizens
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hammond
will leave some time this week-end
for the west coast, where they will
make an extended visit with their
son, William and his family, and
their daughter, Mary, at Los Ange
les, California. Bill will aslo look
over several locations on his visit,
with a view of locating permanent
ly elsewhere. The Frontier and
his many O’Neill and Holt county
friends hope that after a good va
cation they will decide that there
is no place like O’Neill and return
to the Emerald Tinted city for
keeps, for they are of a class of
citizens that no town can afford to
lose. But here is wishing them
good luck wherever they may de
cide to locate.
Ed Guthman Stages A
Surprise Party
Last Friday was the third anni
versary of the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Guthman and to properly
celebrate the event Mr. Guthman
pulled a surprise party on his wife
by inviting seven couples to dinner
at the Golden that evening in
honor of the event. The party was
a real surprise to his better half
and after a delicious feast the good
old game of pinochle was played
until nearly midnight, when all
departed for home after extending
felicitations to Mr. and Mrs. Guth
man for a very pleasant evening
and presenting them with a gift
suitable to the occasion and wish
ing them many more happy anni
versaries.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many
friends for their help during the
sickness and following the death
of our beloved one.— John Nickel
and family, and brothers and sis
ters.
John Young, 36, of Inman, who
was driving the car on Tuesday
which collided with another car
a few miles east of this city, in
which his father was seriously
injured and later died, was
charged in the District Court
of this county with manslaughter.
He appeared before the Court last
Saturday and pled guilty to the
charge and at noon today he was
sentenced to serve from one to
ten years in the state penitentiary.
In the petition Young was
charged with operating an auto
mobile while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor. The others in
injured in the accident are getting
along nicely.
Miss Mary Jardee went to Stu
art Saturday, to spend Easter with
her parents.
Bill Graves Comes Back
To Fourth Street
W. B. Graves, who has been in
business on East Douglas street
for the past twenty-five years, has
rented window space in the Hagen
sick building, first door north of
the O’Neill National bank, where
he will carry on a general watch
and jewelry repairing business.
He will be in his new location and
ready for business by April 1st,
and invites all his old friends to
call on him in his new location.
Buy Tickets For “Soomen*1
Dinner Next Thursday
Tickets for the dinner to be giv
en for the Soomen, of the Sioux
City Chamber of Commerce, next
Thursday, April 4th, will go on
sale in a few days, and will be
seventy-five cents apiece. All who
wish to attend the dinner are urged
to buy their ticket as soon as pos
sible, so that all arrangements can
be completed. The following busi
ness men are in charge of the ticket
sale: L. C. Walling, E. M. Gallagher
and John Kersenbrock, co-chair
men; and Jack Arbuthnot, Am
brose Rohde and Howard Bauman,
committee members.
The state highway patrolman
were searching for the driver of an
automobile, which was struck by
a car driven by L. H. Serck, of
Orchard, on highway No. 20, about
four miles west of O’Neill on Tues
day night. The rear end of the
parked car was damaged consider
ably, but it was driven away im-i
mediately following the accident.
Serck was driving west on No. 20,
when he was momentarily blinded
by the lights of a truck, passing
him. Just after passing the truck
he struck the car, which was park
ed on the highway without lights.
Serek’s car was also badly dam
aged.
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Last week Janies Rooney pur
chased the W. J. Hammond home,
located on first street, between
EVerett and Franklin streets, and
will move to O’Neill from Atkinson,
where he has made his home for
several years, some time within the
next week.
About eighty census enumerators
from Holt, Knox. Boyd, Wheeler
Antelope and Greeley counties
were to assemble in O'Neill on
Thursday to receive instructions
in their work, which is supposed
to start on April 1.
Ivan Smith of Creighton and
Alta Ernst of Brunswick were
granted a manage license by
County Judge Reimer on March
26th, and were then united in
manage by the Judge on the same
date.
William Henry Young
William Henry Young was born
Otober 17, 1880, in the state of Ill
inois and passed away at the hos
pital in O'Neill about 9:00 P. M.
on March 21st, 1940, at the age of
59 years, 5 months and 4 days.
He was one of a family of four
sons of Jacob Young, all of whom
are now deceased. He came to Ne
braska with the family when he
was only six years old and settled
on a farm near Creighton, Nebr.,
where he grew to manhood and on
February 3rd, 1904, he was united
in mariage to Miss Anna Wagner
of Creighton. They remained in
the vicinity of Creighton until
1914, when they moved to a farm
near Page, Nebr., and after 13
years they came to the farm south
west of Inman in 1927, which is
still the family home.
This union was blessed with five
children, three boys and two girls,
all of whom reside at Inman and
Ewing, Nebr.
Mr. Young united with the Cath
olic church in 1904, this being the
church to which his wife belogned,
and he went with hqr. He was a
well known farmer in the Inman
community and formed many
friendships here which remained to
the end. He was injured in an
auto accident on the way home
from work Tuesday evening, March
19, and taken to the hospital, where
he failed to regain consciousness
and passed away at 9 p. m. Thurs
day evening.
He leaves to mourn his loss be
sides his life-long companion the
folowing children: Jonn J., Charles
L., Marvin W., and Miss Gertrude
Young, all of Inman, and Mns. Do
loses Ksopp of Ewing, Nebr. His
father, mother, three brothers and
a much loved grandson preceeded
him. His loved ones and friends
are shocked and grieved at his sud
den passing from us.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home at 2 p. m., and at
the Methodist church at Inman, at
2:30, by the pastor, E. B. Maxcy.
A sextette of the following young
ladies sang: Misses Doris Ganon,
Arvilla Keyes, Ruth Watson, Ar
dith Smith, Virginia Watson and
Donna Hutton, with Hazel Fraka
at the piano. Interment was in the
Inman cemetery. Pall bearers
were Messrs. Chicken, Harkens,
Thompson, Coleman, Kopecky and
McGraw.
Mrs. Fay Puckett left for Grand
Island Monday, taking her daughter
Betty back to resume her studies
at Grand Island High, after spend
ing her vacation with her parents.
Mrs. Harold Rose and daughter,
Norma, accompanied them to
Grand Island.
Miss Margaret Shearer went to
Stuart, Saturday, and spent Eas
ter with her parents.
THE CLIMAX OF A VERY SUCCESSFUL
BASKETBALL SEASON FOR O'NEILL
Was the Banquet Tendered the Boys and Their
Coaches By the Lions Club and O’Neill
Business Men Last Monday Evening
The dinner tendered, under the
auspices of the Lions Club by the
Club and the business men of
O’Neill, last Friday evening, to
the members of the O’Neill Higi
School basket ball team and the
members of the St. Mary’s team,
and the coaches of both teams, was
one of the highlights of the year.
Eighty sat around the banquet
table and enjoyed the good food
provided for them. At the con
clusion of the dinner, L. D. Putman,
vice president of the Club, who
presided and acted as toastmaster
in the absence from the city of
President Ted McElhaney, called
the meeting to order and then pro
ceeded to introduce tte various
speakers.. Among those who
spoke briefly were Coach Ander
son, of the O’Neill High, and Supt.
Grill of the O’Neill High; Father
Parr, of St. Mary's and Coach Jack
Arbuthnot, also of St. Mary’s. The
talks of all the gentlemen were very
well received nad each received the
plaudits of the assembled guests.
The main speaker of the even
ing was Coach Morrison, of the
Wayne State Normal school and
the program committee of the
Lions Club hwo secured his services
for the occasion are to be congratu
lated upon securing a very inter
esting and entertaining speaker.
Prof. Morrison has been a coach
for a numebr of years and he ad
dressed the boys as a father would
talk to his son, and explained to
the uninitiated many of the differ
ent things that come up during a
basket ball game. He was im
pressed with the fact that the boys
played the game and always gave
their best for the reason that they
loved the game and had pride in
their school nad its success in the
athletic eld. His address was in
spiring, not only to the young men
but to the old as well.
The sucess of this meeting again
brings to mind the fact that O’Neill
has need for a real live civic or
ganization that will have the sup
port of all the business men of the
city. This meeting was made pos
sible by the Lions Club, three of
hte members of the Club and all
busy business men, devoting sever
al hours of their time in promoting
the event for the benefit and glory
of the city. O’Neill is growing more
rapidly than any other city in the
state and it needs a good civic or
ganization; one that will be sup
ported by the entire business ele
ment of the city. The Lions Chub
has only a few of the business
men of the city enrolled on its
membership, but, even with their
limited membership they have been
able to do many things for the
city. To get ahead there must be
leadership. If you do not wish to
take an active part you can at
join the Club and help them with
the problems that they are daily
facing.
Mrs. Mae Z. Anderson
Mrs. Mae Anderson died at the
home of her son, Glenn, 15 miles
south of Ainsworth, last Saturday
afternoon, at the age of 79 years,
4 months and 13 days. The Biglin
ambulance went after the body
and it was brought to this city and
the funeral was held Tuesday after
noon from the Methodist church
in this city, Rev. Wright officiating,
and interment in the cemetery at
Star, at the side of her husband,
who passed away about seventeen
years ago.
Mae McElhaney was born on
November 10, 1860, at Boone, Iowa.
When she was a young girl her
family came to this county and
settled in the northeast portion of
the county where she grew to
womanhood and was united in mar
riage to John B. Anderson, one of
the prosperous ranchers and farm
ers living in that section of the
county. To this union seven child
ren were born, four of whom are
living and are left to mourn the
passing of a kind and affectionate
mother. The children are: Wm„
O’Neill; Dell, Sheridan, Wyo.; Mrs.
Orpha Bayer, Marcus, Iowa; Glenn,
Ainsworth.
Mrs. Anderson was a member of
one of the pioneer families that
settled the northeast section of
the county and her family, as
well as that of her husband, were
among the most highly respected
people of the county. For
years her husband was one of the
largest livestock growers in the
county and one of the eounty’s real
moneymakers. They were of the
old pioneer stock and had a great
share in making this county what
it is today.
The Weather
The weather the last week has
been what the old timers call the
good old days. We had a dandy
rain last night, Wednesday, which
continued today, Thursday, until
about three o’clock when it started
to snow and it kept snowing for
several hours and it was wet. The
government gage gave the rainfall
as .73 hundredths of an inch up to
4 o’clocn today, which, with the
snow since then gives us more than
an inch of moisture in the last
twenty-four hours. Nebraska is
coming back.
Mrs. Dolly Hansen, of Naper,
was • i O’Neill Tucsda” on business.
John Sullivan Came From
Chicago Wednesday And
Is Getting Ready For
New Store Opening
John Sullivan arrived Wednes
day morning from Chicago, and will
again be a resident of his native
city. John is to be assistant man
ager of the new store of the O’Neill
Drug company, when it is opened in
the First National bank building,
some time between the 5th and 15th
of next month. John got his early
training in the drug business in
this city and since leaving here has
worked in some of the leading
stores in Omaha and Chicago, hav
ing been about a dozen years in the
latter city, where for several years
he managed one of the largest
stores on the north side, owned by
a chain. He knows the game from
end to end and will be a valuable
assistant to Mr. Stout in the new
store.
Bridge—Luth
Clifford Bridge and Miss Gwen
dolyn Luth were united in marriage
by the Rev. Virgil Wright of the
Methodist Church in this city at
six o’clock on Sunday morning. Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison Bridge, brother
and sister-in-law of the groom,
were the attendants. Clifford, who
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Bridge of Orchard has lived in
O’Neill since 1934, being engaged
in the gasoline and oil business
with his brother, Harrison. Mrs.
Bridge is the daughter of Charles
H. Luth of Butte, and has been
employed in O’Neill for the past
'few years. The young couple left
immediately after the ceremony for
' a short wedding trip, and upon
| their return will make their home
in an apartment in the south part
I of O’Neill. The Fronier joins with
; the many friends of the young
couple in wishing them many
! years of wedded happiness.
The Methodist Choir To
Repeat “Memories of
Easter Morn”
So many requests have been made
by people who were not able to
attend the first program of the
Methodist Choir, Memories of
Easter Morn, that they have con
sened to repeat it Sunday even
ing, March 31, 8:00 p. m., at the
church.