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Over the County
INMAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith, of
O’Neill, were Sunday callers at the
F. S. Brittell home.
Miss Virginia Watson, who is at
tending beauty school at Norfolk,
spent the week end at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Watson.
Mrs. Bert Jones, of Neligh, ar
rived Saturday, to visit at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. Erele
Renner.
Virgil Tomlinson, Robert Hut
ton, Robert Sholes, Robert Moss
man and Gordon Brittell returned
Sunday to the CCC camp at Mad
ison after spending the week end
with home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Hancock,
of O’Neill, visited relatives in In
man Sunday.
Bill Morsback, who is working on
a farm near Bartlett, spent Sunday
with his parents, Mt. and Mrs.
Chas. Morsback.
Mrs. E. Sparks and Mr. and Mrs.
Mearl Sparks and two children, of
Newport, stopped Sunday evening
for a short visit at the F. M. Brit
tell home, on a return trip from
Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans Stover and
son, of Chambers, spent Sunday at
the home of Mrs. Stover’s mother,
Mrs. Zitella Kestenholta, who is
ill.
Mrs. B. C. Ferris, of O’Neill, was
in Inman Thursday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Riser, of
Stuart, spent the week end at the
home of Mrs. RisoFs parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Rouse.
David Morsback and J. T. Tbomp-1
son and son drove to Orchard Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Stems and
family visited Sunday at the Clyde
Ross home.
Mre. Clark and Mr. and Mrs.
Ferris and family, of O’Neill, visit
ed Sunday at the Frank Watson
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Brittell and
daughter, and Mrs. C. E. Brittell j
and daughter, of Chambers, stop- j
ped Sunday at the F. M. Brittell
home for a short visit on a' return
trip from Creighton.
Little Miss Olive Watson, daugh
ter of Mr. Frank Watson left Mon
day for Lincoln where she will en
ter the Orthopedic hospital for
treatments.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richter,
Jr., of O’Neill, visited relatives in
inman Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph BurivaJ, and
two children of Middle Branch vis
ited Sunday at the J. B. Meyers
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tomlinson,
of O’Neill, visited Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. James Co
ventry.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Farewell and
family moved to Chambers Thurs
day, where they will make their
home.
The I. O. 0. F. lodge, of Inman,
installed the following officers at
. the meeting Tuesday night: Bill
Jensen, noble grand; Kenneth
Smith, past noble grand; Ernest
Bronkhorst, vice noble grand; I. L.
Watson, secretary; A. N. Butler,
treasurer; T. J. DaviB, right sup
porter of the noble grand; Floyd
Keyes, left supporter of the noble
grand; Cecil Keyes, right support
er of vice grand; George Colman,
left supporter of vice grand; Man
uel Crosaer, chaplain; Ermand
Keyes, warden; Lewis Kopecky,
Jr., conductor; Eari Wataon, right
scene supporter; Karl Keyes, left
ncene supporter; Wilbur Brown,
inside guardian; Chester Youngs,
.outside guardian.
‘ Installation was in charge of
, *Mr. Van Robertson, district deputy
”,
grand master, of Chambers. E. W. I
Porter, Lcucs Neilson and two
other Chambers members assisted
him.
The Inman basketball boy6 en
tertained the pep squad girls at a
party and hamburger fry at the
school house Saturday evening.
Mr. Betts, of Broken Bow, Nebr.,
was in Inman Wednesday on busi
ness.
EMMET NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. John Abart, of Bas
sett, were Sunday dinner guests at
the Chas. Abart home.
Mr. and M rs. Dean Beckwith are
the proud parents of a baby boy
bom Monday night. Mrs. Beck
with and son are in Atkinson and
are both well at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. McGinnis
and Mr. and Mrs. John Conard and
Mary Lou were Sunday dinneT
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Gunn
and family and Andy Clark.
Elmer Von Seggern, of Wisner,
1 Nebr., came Friday to visit Keith,
Perce and Gail Abart. He returned
1 Monday afternoon.
Mary Welsh of O’Neill spent the ^
week end at the Jess Wills home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Beckwith ar
rived here Sunday from Billings,
Montana. »
The Emmet High School room
enjoyed a theatTe party Monday
afternoon in O’Neill. The show
was “Tin Pan Alley,” Rev. Thomas
Peacock and Guy Cole took the
children and Mrs. Harold Donohoe.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Beckwith and
Leona Ferne were dinner guests at
the R. E. Young home Sunday.
W. R. Tenborg and Mrs. Ruth
Wagnon and Mr. and Mrs. Dan
O’Oonnell called at the C. E. Ten
borg home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mts. J. S. Bair and fam
ily, and Mrs. Theresa Roggasch at
tended a formal wedding in Bassett
Sunday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Peacock called on
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lowery and
family Tuesday afternoon and also
called on Mrs. Ruth Wagnon Sat
urday afternoon.
Bonnell Tom jack visited at the
Frank Sc brads home in Ewing
over the week end.
The annual township meeting
was held Tuesday afternoon in
Jim O’Connor’s hall.
MEEK AND VICINITY
Mrs. Libby Nelson, May Mc
Gowan and Mrs. Delia Harrison and
Mary were sapper guests of Mrs.
E. H. Rouse on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Karr enter
tained several friends at a Pinochle
party on Saturday evening.
Guests at the W. S. Devall home
on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Devall and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Devall and sons.
The Alpha Club met with Mrs.
Alfred Drayton on Tuesday, Janu
ary 21.
Howard and Arthur Rouse top
ped the market with a fine truck
load of hogs at the O’Neill sale on
Monday.
Sam Robertson is now driving a
new 1941 V-8.
Paddock township held its an
nual meeting on Tuesday, Janu
ary 21.
Mrs. Carl Pfiel and daughter,
Jackie, were dinner guests of Mrs.
Alfred Drayton on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Peterson,
of O'Neill, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Louise Peterson.
Lutheran Notes
Sunday’s service at the Episcopal
cburch will begin at 3:30 P. M.
Sunday School at 3:00.
R. W. Fricke, Pastor
Special Horse & Mule Auction
At OlMeill, Nebraska
Monday, January 27
SALE BEGINS AT 11:00 A. M.
If you have horses or mules to sell, bring
them to this auction. We will have buyers here
for all kinds.
CATTLE AND HOGS
The regular hog and cattle sale will be held
immediately following the horse and mule
auction.
WE SOLICIT YOUR CONSIGNMENTS
O’Neill Livestock
Commission Company
PHONE 2
Methodist Church
V. C. Wright, Minister
Sunday school 10:00 a. m., H. B.
Burch. Superintendent.
Public worship 11:00 A. M.
Special music by the choir and ser
mon by the pastor.
The Epworth League will meet
at the church at 1:15 P. M. to go
to Ewing for the Mid-winter In
stitute. This includes high school
age and over. Fourteen towns are
represented in this group and only
a limited number can go. See Miss
Waldo or Helen Hagensick if in
doubt
The Womans Society of Christian
Service is having the parsonage
floors sanded and refinished.
The official board will meet Mon
day evening, February 3. The
Sunday school board will meet on
Wednesday evening, February 5.
Nebraska Banks Make
Loans of $100,000,000
During: 1940
Twenty-nine per cent of Nebras
ka’s commercial banks made more
than 138,000 loans totaling $100,
000,000 to business firms and indi
viduals throughout the state dur
ing the first six months of 1940,
according to the semi-annual sur
vey of hank lending activity made
by the American Bankers Associa
tion.
The A. B. A. loan survey was
participated in by 124 Nebraska
banks, or 29.3 per cent of the 423
commercial banks in the state.
These 124 banks reported that
they made between January 1, and
June 30, 1940:
81,970 new loans
totaling $45,475,959
56,423 renewals of loans
totaling _.... 53,914,566
315 new mortgage
loans totaling 948,850
138,708 $100,339,375
The average number of new
loans made per bank during the
six months period under review
was 661 and the average size of
loan was $555 .
The average number of loans re
newed per bank was 455 and the
average renewal was for $956.
The average number of new
mortgage loans made per bank was
3 and the average new mortgage
made was for $3,012.
The Nebraska survey was part
of a national survey of bank lend
ing activity made by the American
Bankers Association. ' For the
country as a whole 6,208 banks, or
43.3 per cent of the nation’s com
mercial banks reported that they
made between January 1 and
June 30, 1940:
7,331,097 new loans totaling $12,
253,628,581; 6,134,178 renewals of
loans totaling $8,246,301,835; 177,
398 new mortgage loans totaling
$453,663,612.
This is a total of 13,642,673 cred
it transactions amounting to $20,
953,584,028, reported for the first
half of the year by less than half
the country’s banks.
All Around Star Sewing
Club Met Recently
A regular 4-H Club meeting held
at the home of Joe Jerabek was
called tx> order by vice president
Ardis Newman.
Pin cushions were judged and
several demonstrations on stitches
were given by members. Direc
tions for making needle case and
hand towl were given by the leader.
Lunch was served to the mem
bers and one visitor, Mrs. New
man.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Janis Miles on Febru
ary 15.
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Pleasant Dale School
Mias Klla Kazda, Teacher
Those who were neither absent
nor tardy the past month were
Daryl and Arlene Beckwith.
Harold and Robert Winkler re
ceived their gifts of a comb and
pencil for selling $1.00 worth of
Christmas seals. The school re
ceived a box of anagrams.
We are enjoying a set of indoor
croquet, and a set of ten pins,
which Miss Kazda purchased.
Miss Kazda held a Christmas
party on Tuesday, December 24.
She had games and contests and
whoever won received a candy bar.
Santa left plenty of candy, nuts,
fruit and nice gifts for both the
teacher and pupils.
We made our mothers a maga
zine rack and our fathers a tie
holder for Christmas.
The Golden Rod Club
The Golden Rod Club members
have decided to do their bit for
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the Red Cross by both sewing and
knitting. They expect to meet
once a month throughout the re
maining winter. Our first meeting
was January 15, at Mrs. Dick Min
ton’s. Why not try it, you pro
ject club mem be i s ? We enjoy it,
so will you. ***
Community Thespians Of
Dorsey Are Still Active
The Dorsey Community Players
presented their play. “Hillbilly
Courtship” to a capacity house at
Lynch last Wednesday night de
spite the weather and roads. The
players are all adults and the
play certainly went over well with
the crowd. Each player did a pro
fessional’s job with his part.
These people have spent con
siderable time on this play and
have an evening’s entertainment
well worth seeing..
If given in your community
don’t miss a chance of seeing it.
It will be given in Inman Hall,
February 1.
More Fog, More Rain
I^et Them Both Come
t .
This section of Nebraska has had
more foggy Weather the past six
months than was ever known in
this section of the state. There is
an old saying that a lot of fog in
the fall and winter means a lot of
rain during the coming summer.
If that holds true we will have a
lot of rain in this section of the
state during the year 1941.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Church school 10 a. m., C. E.
Yantzi, Superintendent.
Divine worship 11 a. m., sermon
by Rev. J. E. Durkmg, of Wayne,
Nebr.
Anthem—Junior Choir — “The
Light Has Come,” Mrs. J. E. Har
boitle, organist; D. H. ClauBon.
director.
Congregational meeting at close
of service.
You are cordially invited to wor
ship with us.
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Frontier Want Ads Get Results.
BRIEFLY STATED
Front Quarter of Beef, 13tgc;|
Hind Quarter of Beef 15Vac at;
Council Oak Store. 37-1'
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hallickev'
spent the week end visiting friends j
at Norfolk.
Paul L. Beha. of Oshkosh, Wise.,
is visiting at the home of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Beha.
Mr. and Mrs. Manley Lockman
of Bassett, spent the week end in
ONeill visiting relatives and
friends.
L. R. Stout, county agent, drove
to Ainsworth on Wednesday, where
he attended a meeting of county
agents.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schulte and
son left Monday for Brookings,
S. D., where they will make their
home in the future.
Tom Hansen, of Elgin, Illinois,
arrived here on Monday to spend
j a few days here visiting with old
friends.
O’Neill relatives received word
on Monday of the birth of a daugh
ter to Mr. and Mrs. John McCarthy
of Hastings. Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Norb Ubl, H. J.
Reardon, Jack Ernst and L. 0
Johnson returned on Tuesday even
ing from Rochester, Minn., where
they were during the past week,
going through the clinic and hos
pital.
Holt county friends received
word the latter part of last week
that Mrs. O. J. HunteT, formerly
of eastern Holt, died at her home
Lemon Juice Recipe Checks
Rheumatic Pain Qnickly
If you suffer from rheumatic, arthri
tic or uruf.tii ; Uiu, try this simple
inexpensive h« me recipe that thousands
are ut>ng. (5ft a package of Ru Ex
Compound today. Mix it with a quart
of water, add the juice cf 4 lemons.
It’s easy. Ileaiaot aud no trouble
at all. You nerd only 2 table
rpocrafuls two tmet a day. Often
within 48 hours — sometimes over
night — splettdid results are obtained.
If the pains do not quickly leave
and if you do not feel better, Ru Ex
will cost you nothing to try as it it
sold by your drufg*>t under an abso
lute money-back guarantee. Ru Ex
Compound is for sale and recommended by
O’NEILL DRUG COMPANY
G-F MAZDA ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS
^ 120 Volt ,
25 WAT# ,1.........................._i.:...jli«c
40-50-40 WATT _. _.... .13c
75—100 WATT __ 15c
BEST GRADE LAMP CORD, 3 Feet 5c
PULL CHAIN SOCKETS .. 15c
FUSES .... 5c
APPLIANCE PLUGS 10c
TRIPLE OUTLET TAPS .. 10c
TOGGLE SWITCHES 15c
HEATER CORD SETS ..... 15c
EXTENSION CORDS, 8 ft, with 3-way
service _ 25c
FRICTION TAPE_ 5c
Belmont ELECTRIC IRONS_ $1.00
Belmont HOT PLATE___$1.00
Belmont SANDWICH TOASTER __.$1.00
IT is triumph in excelsis when
a man sternly denies himself
present luxuries, so his family
, may not suffer for future ne
cessities.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital. Surplus and This Hank Carrie* No
Undivided Profit*, Indehtednms of Officer*
$110.00rt.00 or Stockholder*.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
at Arvada, Colorado, on January 6,
following an attack of the flu. Mr.
and Mrs. Hunter lived for several
years in the eastern part of this
m .. m f •' •
county, receiving their mail at
Venus. They left here about five
years ago and moved to Colorado,
where they have since resided.
Friday and Saturday January 24 and 25
WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT?
Truly Thrifty Shoppers are mostly concerned about “Value.”
This accounts for the popularity of Council Oak, where “Real
\alue“ is reflected in the prices in all departments. Note the
“Special Values" for Week-end Shoppers. * < j
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Tender—Juicy
BEEF ROASTS
PER
POUND 17c AND
_
Shoulder Cut
BEEF STEAK
PER
POUND
BULK SAUER KRAUT, Pound ic
BLACK COI), Pound .... .. ' 14c
FRESH OYSTERS, Quart 45c
FRESH GROUND PURE BEEF, Pound 16c
! DRY SUGAR CURED
BACON SQUARES _ POUND
I___ *
PORK
LIVER
PER
LB.
_
BOILING
BEEF
PER
LB. _
FRESH
SIDE PORK
PER ,
LB. . I
_. I
FREE COWBQY GUN WITH A PKGS. AAC
MILLER’S WHEAT FLAKES .... L por IS
ASSORTED JELLY BEANS, Pound 10c
JELLY TART COOKIES 2 ™ 25c
You will be delighted with this new fancy cooky. Cocoa
base, topped with marshmallow, coooanut and tart red jelly.
Superb Brand
BLUEBERRIES
NO. 2
CAN
Superb Brand
CORN
VACUUM PACK (.OLDEN
BANTAM 4ftC
12-OZ. CAN .Ill
•THE BETTER BREAD’ POUND LOAF 7c ff|C
NANCY ANN ..im pound loaf III
DAWN FRESH ' JOUNCE ||C
SLICED MUSHROOMS „T X can T
SHomI thin fdr the Beef Steak Gravy.
WHOLE GRAIN A-POUND <|Ac
WfllTE RICE _ . 2 10
GOLDEN BROWN SUGAR 2™™ 10
Keep a supply on hand for pancake syrup, for baked beans
and the Caramel fronting.
BULK DATES 2 ” 25°
MiHst desirable Fruit for Salad and for cake** and cookies.
GERBER’S
BABY FOODS
PER *»C
CAN ..f
I - -
YELLOW LABEL
UPTON’S TEA
Vt-POUND 45* Arc
Vi -POUND PKG.
COUNCIL OAK POUND .23c IIC
COFFEE ___ 3-POUND BAG 66
Save the empty bags and start a set of 22-carat Gold Pattern
Dishes.
MEDIUM SIZE J-POUND MC
SWEET PRUNES _4 bag Zl
Sweet California prunes that require the addition of very
little sugar.
SUNBRITE CLEANSER 3 <**« 13
Sunbrite for Shining pots and pans.
BROOMS kach 59‘ anD39c
Special Week-End Values. Bright, Selected Com. Straight
handles and carefully made.
P & G SOAP PRODUCTS
WEEK-END SPECIALS
CAMAY TOILET SOAP 2 _ 11c
IVAPV FI A RFC LARGE PACKAGE 21e IfC
If UR I iLARU 2 MEDIUM PACKAGES ... If
P & G NAPTHA SOAP 10 GZ 33c
