SOUTHWESTERN BREl iS Romantic youth gets ha first awakening to the realities of life when he discovers that his bride snores. Wonder bow we made it before ahks free and unlimited advice— frffiral expet amateur and oth If ihie war, as now promised, ckies away with the cuffs on men s trousers it will have accomplished something. Alfred James went to Omaha Monday for medical treatment. A recent injury to (me of ihs hands brought on an infection that was threatening serious consequences Thought the war dance belong ed to the Indian. Palefacea sis ters now reveiw "square” danc.ng as their contribution to fighting fitness. You qualify as an old timer if you remember when it was a disgrace to appear in a “hand-me down" suit with the trouser legs creased. Little Miss Bly, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Ray Bly, was t-ken to Norfolk early in the week to have her vision tested and glasses fitted. Hank Whitcomb and Orvil Kizer knocked over fifty-five jacks one night recently on a rabbit hunt. The boys find a ready market for their kill. As editors of our big dailies new it, army men and civilians just count as “twenty-one others" in an airplane crash that removes another Hollywood beauty. Elections in one or two congres sional districts may not signify so much, and again it may. At any rate, voters in those districts are not satisfied with things as they are. John McAllister of Atkinson was making the rounds of our patri otic citizens Tuesday gathering papers and magazines that will be shipped to the mills to be re vamped into clean white sheets of paper. John says we have just discovered that we are a nation of spendthrifts ^pd wasters. Sympathising with those whose sons fell victims to the stab of the assassins at Pearl Harbor, we are thankful our own son survives. A censored letter, with nothing blacked out except the coast guard title attached to his name on the envelope, does not mention the bombing of Honoluu other than to say the coast guard duties have been multiplied. Three young fellows, at that magnificent point in life when a mild rebuke may help a little, met an aged gentleman with flow ing white whiskers. “Hello Abraham,” greated one. “Hello Isaac’’ said another, and “Hello Jacob,” came from the third. The old gentleman paused. “Young men,” said he, “you are mistaken. I am not Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, but Saul the son of Kish out look ing for my father’s asses, and lo! I have found them.” A lady comes all the way from an eastern city to tell a group of Nebraska club women that we Americans are a selfish bunch of greedy grafters. Thought that meant the politicians and labor unions, but now it is gossiped around that patriots here and there in the common walks of life have stored away a half ton of sugar, which is responsible for a condition now whereby we of * the thin purses have it rationed out by the pound. The community was grieved to learn of the death in a North Platte hospital of Mrs. H. Smith, residing south of Amelia, death resulting from heart failure a short time after she became the mother of an infant. The funeral held in the Amelia Methodist church Saturday and conducted by Rev. Peacock, was largely attend ed. Burial was in The Chambers cemetery. Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coolige and others of the family came from Idaho to attend the funeral. A biting north wind moaned Mrs. Cora R. Hamilton Mrs Cora Hamilton died at her home three and a half miles north ami one ami a half miles west of Page. Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, after an illness ot about two weeks, at the age of 64 years, five months and sixteen days Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time of going to press. Deceased was bom at Milwau kee, Wis., an August 12. 1877. She came to this county with her par ents. the late Mr. and Mrs. Nich olas Grass when she was a little girl and this county had been her home nearly all her life. About forty-five years ago she was unit ed in marriage to William Hamil ton, the ceremony being perform ed in this city. Four children were bom of this union, two sons and two daughters, aii of whom survive. The children are: Claude B., Page; Cyril. Fair Oaks CaL; Mrs. George Drew, Early lowa; Sister M. Cortiila, Coloraac Springs, Colo. She is also sur vived by a brother, Percy, of Page and a sister, Mrs. Elsie Hough Wiekersham. Washington. Fred Robertson Transferred To Ainsworth Fred Robertson left last week for Ainsworth, where he will be district manager for the Consum ers Public Power Company, a position that he has held in this district for many years. Mr. Robertson succeeds Paul E. Ment ken. who volunteered and is now in the Signal Corps of the U. S. Army. Mr. Robertson will be suc ceeded here by Henry Walling. Mr, Robertson came to O'Neill in 1935 and since that time had been an employee of the light and pow«- company. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have made many friends during their residence in this city and they all wish them happiness and prosperity in then new home. They expect to move to Ainsworth the coming week. through the cheerless street, whistled at crevice and keyhole. A young woman hove around the corner in a fresh gust, tripped jauntily along the concrete muffl ed from head to knees in woolens and hands thrust into sheepskin mittens. From shapley ankles to round knees the nude skin shone blue in the feeble January sun. But why proceed? Hasn't fashion always been more important than comfort? A few candidates for state office have stepped into the open, among them the old reliable office seeker, Charley Bryan. A missing fea ture of announcements thus far is the old promises of “dirty linen” to laundry. Our Senator Asimus evidently finds politics, as well as outlaw and new deal merchan dising, an interesting game as he is coming before the voters again. The pisturesque has its appeal among the voters and Mr. Bryan and Mr. Asimus both have a touch of this quality. When the gloom and desolation of life’s darkest shadows have fal len across the pathway of one we have long known and they have come with solemn, silent step from following their life companion to the grave, the decent thing is to speak a word of sympathy and express a cherished memory of the dead. WheatheT this will be as soothing balm to the bereaved soul or tear afresh the emotions of grief we can not know. May be you will get a response as did an O’Neill citizen in the long ago. Extending sympathy to a bereav ed husband with a word of praise for the deceased wife, the grief stricken man responded: “Yes, she was a good cook.” Out of the ice and slush and mud and dirt of southeast Neb braska cities my feet again rest on the clean prairie of the Amelia country. Here and there remains a fading drift of snow but much of the landscape lies bare and brown and clean. The lengthen ing day ebb to their close at set of sun in painted beauty and the quiet of January night rests on the prairie as out of the southwest heavens rides the crescent of a new moon. Vast war expendi tures seems not to have injected a stimulent into commercial in terests in our capitol city. Some lines of business have preseptibly slowed up in recent months and the failure of a big department store is still the talk of the town. After the Christmas buying the stores are still loaded with mer chandise which discount sales are now frantically trying to move. i O'NEILL m TWO AIR ROUTES SOON The Century Aviation Company of Wayne, Nebraska has filed application with the Civil Aeron autics Authority in Washington for a permit to operate two air mail and air express routes, each of which will serve O’Neill. The application is the first filed for such a certificate of public con venience and necessity to sene the sections of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa included in tne application. AVnong the cities, along wTith the scores of towns which would be served are Sioux City, Iowa; Wagner, and Yankton, South Dakota: Chadron, Kearney, Grand Island. Hastings, Alliance, Norfolk and Wayne, Nebraska. As pro posed. Route 1 would connect with Mid-Continent Airlines at Sioux City and Route 2 w’ill connect wdth United Airlines at Grand Island. R. G. Fuelberth of Wayne, president of the newly formed company, announced that due to heavy defense needs it is not prob able that the CAA will take immediate action on the Century Aviation Company's application. However ,a number of applic ations for this type of service have been made from various sections of the country, and it is reported that some action may be taken on these applications at Washing ton in 1942. According to their schedule, a copy which we have, the planes, would leave Grand Island at 10:30 a m., stop at St. Paul, Fullerton, Genoa, St. Edward, Cedar Rapids, Greeley, North Loup, Ord, Bur well, Ericson, Bartlett, Chambers and O’Neill, reaching O’Neill at 12:06. From O’Neill they would go on west to Chadron, arriving there at 1:55 p. m. Leaving Chad-_ ron at 2:25 they would go west to Crawford, then south to Hem ingford, Alliance, theh east to Ellsworth, Hyannis, Mullen, Thed ford, Dunning, Stapleton, Arnold, Anselmo, Broken Bow, Ansley, Loup City, Ravenna, Kearney, Holdrege, Minden, Hastings, ar riving back at Grand Island at 5:38 p. m. Another proposed route they intend to establish, if granted per mission, will leave Sioux City at 1:00 p. m., with stops at Ponca, Elk Point, S. D., Vermillion, Yank ton and Gayville, S. D., Crofton. Nebr., and the following Nebraska towns; Hartington, Coleridge Lar urel, Randolph, Pierce, Plainview, Creighton, Wausa, Bloomfield, Niobrara; Tyndall, S. D., Wagner, S. D., Spencer, O’Neill, arriving here at 3:44 p. m. From here they would go east and stop at Ewing, Neligh, Elgin, Albion, Newman Grove, Madison, Norfolk, Stanton, Pilger, Wisner, West Point, Oak land, Tekamah, Decatur, Walthill, Pender, Wayne, Wakefield, Em erson, Homer and arrive back at Sioux City at 5:57 p. m. SPORT NOTES Bystander The Saint Mary’s Cardinals last Friday morning received their letters for football. There are seven men graduating this year and next year Saint Mary’s will have four leittrmen return. This year they had only one letter man returning. So Saint Mary’s foot ball season for next year is a lot brighter than it was last year. There were seven seniors, a junior, a sopohmore and a freshman re ceiving football letters. Here are their names: Senior Jack Hartv, Jim Higgins, Jean Higgins, Johny Fernholtz, Harry Piercy, Bill O’Connell and Pat Hines. Juniors, Jack Gallagher and Vincent Stret ter. Sophomores Bill Brenan and Freshman Richard Clark. The people of O’Neill should be proud of their boy’s for Saint Mary’s didn’t have hardly any material and they did make a pretty good squad out of the play ers who went out for football, for you must remember the old say ing, “It isn’t if you won or lost but how you played the game.” In a letter received from Mrs. T. S. Mains, of Denver, Colorado, extending her subscription to The Frontier, she informed us that her son, Robert, had joined the Army Air Corps and is now stationed at the training camp at Sheppard Field, Texas. The Mains family were residents of this city for many years and the many friends of Robert here extend con gratulations and wish him the best of luck in piloting army planes. R. L. Arbuthnot Robert L. Arbuthnot passed a way at his ho*ne in this city Wed nesday afternoon at 12:05, after an illness of about eight months of cancer, at the age of 68 years, six months and two days. The fun eral will be held Friday morning at 9 o clock from St. Patrick’s church and 'burial in Calvary cemetery. Robert L. Arbuthnot was born at Toledo. Iowa, on July 26. 1873. He grew to manhood in his native section and then came to Nebraska locating in Saunders County. He lived there far several years and on November 17, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Evelyn Burke, the ceremony being per formed at Ashland. Nebr. Three' children were born of this union one son and two daughters. The children are: Jack. O’Neill; Miss Roberta, Omaha; Mrs. Dr. John De HalL of Birmingham, Alabama Mrs. De HaU visited here late in the fall and was unable to come to the funeral, the other children being present He is also survived by four brothers and one sisters They are: Ethel Arbuthnot and James Arbuthnot, Marsland, Neb raska; Arthur, Cedar Rapids, Neb raska; Walter. Topeka, Kansas; Harry, Glendale. California. Bob Arbuthnot, nobody ever called him Robert, was a resident of this city and county for nearly forty years and no man had more friends in the county than Bob. He was a mechanic and when he came here in 1910 he opened up a garage, the first in this city or county, for the repair of the horse less wagon, then in its infancy. His first place cf business was in the cement biulding erected by Jess Mellor on the lots west of the Lohaus Motor Company. Mr Mellor got into the automobile business and Bob went to work for him and when Jess built tist new building he went with him as superintendent of the repair department. Bob was a good con scientious meenanic and knew his L.isiness. He acquired an inter' est in the Mellor Motor companj *:T'd remained with them until 1926 when he disposed of his interests and in company with Charles Richaidson took over the distribution of Chevrolet cars, in the location now occupied by tne Midwest Motor Company. In 1921 Mr. Richardson sold his in terest in the firm to Charl*»; I:ekr and the firm of Arbuinnot and Peka was formed which lasted un t'l the death of Mr. Reka in may, 193y. In 1934 they disposed jf their Chevrolet agency and after that time the firm were engaged in the oil business. After Mr Rcka's death Bob and his son Jack, purchased his interest and since that time they have wen operating as the Arbuthnot Oil company. Bob was a genial and eomp.’ju ionable man and had a host of friends, and no enemies. He was very popular m this city and at the time of his death was a mem ber of the City Council, represent ing the First ward. The many friends of the family tt nJer smtere sympathy to the’ bereaved relatives in their hour of sorrow. Recent Bride Entertained At Unique Party At their regular meeting, which was held at the* home of Mrs. James Walling Monday evening, R. E. H. Club and assisting hostes ses, Mrs. Anna Jordan and Mrs. Francis Murphy, held a miscel laneous shower in honor of Mrs. John Grutsch. who before her re cent marriage was Miss Bernadine Protivinsky. As Mrs. Grutsch was escorted into the living room, she was surprised to hear the strains of the wedding march, which was played by Mrs. Oral Fox and to see a “wedding party” slowly descending the stairway. The wedding of “Bernie Meadows and John Adams” immediately took place, with the parts played by the ladies of the Club. Following the “ceremony,” the ladies played bridge, while alarm clocks rang at intervals to inform Mrs. Grutsch it was time for her to open a gift. At the close of the evening, refreshments were ser ved in the diniitg room, where the table was especially decorated for the occassion with a center piece of a miniature soldier and his bride standing in an arch of flow ers. Red, which were made of red hearts with flags in the center Mrs. Max Wanser and Miss Mary Clare Waldman. received high scores at bridge. Mrs. Grutsch received a lovely gold velvet glider chair and other small gifts. O'NEILL HIGH WINS TWO MORE The O’Neill Eagles won their eighth straight game as they over powered the Creighton five in the O. H. S. gym last Friday night, 33-22. Jumping into an early lead, the Blu^ and White five held a com manding 9-2 superiority at tne end of Uie first period. Tne second quarter, in which many fouls were called on tfbtn teams, almost prov ed disastrous to the Eagles, Creighton holding them scoreless and forging ahead by me half time, 12-9. O iNeill soon overcame mat margin, however, ana alter lour minutes oi me second nail they were in front, if* 10. men a snower oi basnets for me isagies pul me game on ice to win, urviue Kewis, Eagle center, rang up 14 point to lead the team, basenuing was nigh lor Kreignton with 7. Starters for O’Neill were Bur gess, Manzer, McKenna, and CaJ Kins. Vincent, Osenbaugn, lantzi. Woile, Wetzier, Van Every, ana bruegmann played as substitutes. O'Neill's Eagles smothered a last Bioomfieia live in the last half to win their ninth straignt game, 38-32, at O’Neill on Tuesday night. i railing, 12-15, going into the third quarter, the Blue and White, rallied to lead momentarily but lost their margin alter lour min utes of furious playing, /it that stage, Bloomfield led by one point1 From then on, the O'Neill macninc loued with precision as tne Eagles scored time and agam with nelu goals to biuld up a 28-IB lead ai the third period. In the last quar ter, the U Neill forwards couidn t be slopped as Warren Burgess and Ted ivianzar hit me hoop re peatedly. Bloomfield turned out a hard-driving ollense in me last few minutes, but time ran out with tne Eagies on top, aB-32. me urst nan had snown the visitors leading the way mrougn-' out, and last play gave mem leads' oi o-o at me end oi tne nrst quar ter anu lh-12 at tne han-time. Burgess and lvianzer led the O’Nein aliacK wnn n and 1U points, respectively. Waiters oi Bloomfield was tne game s nigh scorer, nowever, wnn 11 counters, j Calkins and Mcivenna, O’Neill guards, played outstanding defens- j ive games. Eagles starters were Burgess, Manzer, Lewis, Calkins, and McKenna. Heavy Enlistment In Coast Guards Things moved thick and fast! at the Omaha recruiting office of the U. S. Coast Guard, during January, thanks to the enthusi astic reponse of young men in the North Central States area. First came the rush of recruits. Starting New Years' Day, they crowded into the recruiting sta tion, breaking ail records tor the office in the day that followed and supplying during the first hall of the month the greatest per capita enlistment in the country— in the area farthest from the nation’s coast. Then came orders from Wash ington, brought on by this rush of applicants—374 signed from Nebraska and the other four states of the territory in la days— orders informing headquarters at Omaha that the North Central States had been placed under a quota, limit ing recruits. Close on the heels of the quota, came another order, also a result of the remarkable enlistment re cord of the boys from Nebraska and the North Central States. Chief Boatswain Lee Scoott, head of the Omaha office, was to report at St. Louis. He left Sunday night. When he came back to Omaha two days later, he was Lieutenant Scott. He had been promoted for his good work as recruiting dir ector of the North Central States area. “I feel that I owe my promotion, in a large part, to the boys of this territory, who have provided me such large numbers of unusually high quality recruits, “Lieutenant Scott said. — Young men from this area make especially good soldiers, according to the Omaha recruiting office. They are also proving to be un usually healthy, with a very low ratio of rejections for physical defects. St. Mary’s Juniors Entertain The Seniors The Junidxs entertained the Seniors Wednesday evening of last week with a unique annual entertainment. The Banquet was served in the Academy Dining-^ room w’hich was converted into a “Winter’s Twilight Scene,” the theme of the banquet. Snow covered autumn leaves, tiny snow men, and a profusion of dazzling snow flakes enhanced the beauty of the decorative project in the dining room. At the Speaker’s table were Rt. Rev. Monsignor McNamara, Rev. Father Parr, Band-Director, Mr. Ira George with Mrs. George, Coach, Mr. Jerry Greybeill with Mrs. Grey beill, Toastmaster Bert Brennan. Senior Class-President, Gene Higgins, Corinne Kubitschek, John Brennan, Maratha Janousek, and Junior Class-President, Maragaret Higgins. General good cheer, song and laughter prevailed from six till seven thirty when the Seniors and Juniors with their ual intersectional tribute to the visit in different rooms of the Academy until other guests ar rived at eight o’clock for the Junior Prom. It was a happy group of High School students who proceeded in the march from the Assembly to the Gym where the Prom was opened with a very effective spirt - ual interseccional tribute to the Queen of Heaven, the Unseen Guest of the Evening. The fol lowing floor show under the direc tion of Sister Arthur and lister Flores was a much appricated feature of the evening. ‘‘Walkng the Area’’ Tap Dance i —Helen Kubitschek and Lois Hoffman. “Polly Wolly Doodle*’ Song— Kathryn Golden, Francis Flood and John O'Neill. "I Am An American,’’ Song and Dance—Beverly McCarthy and Betty Pinkerman. “Denmark on Parade,” Dance— Ann Harty, Bonnie Hynes and Bobby Wallace. Three Little Maids," Song—! Patti Keiser, Nancy Froelich and Helen Kubitschek. ‘‘Acrobatic Stunts"— Trena Hoffman. “Bluebirds Over the White Clffs of Dover”—Kathleen Flood. “Syncopation”, Tap Dance— Helen Kubtischek and Lois Hoff man. “Bill Grogan’s Goat,’’ Sextette —Bobby Wallace, Bill Froelich, Gerard Spitler, John Baker, Jim Merriman and Kenneth Kissenger. Machanics Course Still Open To You O'Neill High School, in cooper ation with the Nebraska State De-! partment of Vocational Eduction will offer a course in the operation, care and repair of motors, pro viding there are ten or twelve young men between the ages of 17 and 25 who are not now attend ing school and who are interested in receiving such training. This course, and others similar to it, are offered in occupations essential to the National Defense and all the expense of the course is met by the Federal Govern ment. A local mechanic will act as in structor, and the course will be offered in a shop down town. A minimum of fifteen hours par week is required with the total length of the course being one hundred and twenty hours of class work. After the personnel has been selected, the time at which classes will meet will be decided. The course, as it is now planned, will probably include all the gen eral care and repair of motors, including such things as packing water pumps, adjusting brakes, setting up front wheel bearings, adjusting steering gear, grinding valves, replacing pistion rings, replacing bearings, replacing axels, and all other types of mech anical work. All young men who are inter ested are asked to notify A. L. Mathis, Vocational Agriculture Instructor, or C. F. Grill, Super intendent of Schools as soon as possible because the course will start just as soon as the decided number are enrolled. There will be no tution charge made for this course and boys either in O’Neill or vicinity are elgible. M. J. Connelly went to Creigh ton Sunday to get his wife and daughter, Mary Ann, who have been visiting Mrs. Connelly’s mother, Mrs. Wenge for the past week. . . ST. MARY'S LOSES TWO CLOSE ONES St Marys Cardinals dropped two close games last week, in both cases losing by two points and in the second game only after playing two overtime periods. The first game, at Butte, Friday night was decided in favor of Butte 21 to 19, after St. Mary's had held a 15 to 5 half time lead. In the first half St. Mary’s held Butte to but one field goal, while Kubit schek with 7 points and Gallagher with 4 led the Cardinals to 15 points and a 10 point lead. In the second half, Butte got hot while it was St. Mary’s turn to gei cold. Only four points were made by the St. Mary’s team in the en tire second half. The cardinals led at the third quarter 17 to 15, but Butte was getting hotter all the time and the 4th quarter saw them take the lead 19 to 17. This was short-lived as Kubitschek dropped his fifth fielder of the evening to knot the count. Short ly afterward, however, Adkins, Butte center, dropped the winn ing counter. The final score; for Butte 21, for St. Mary’s 19. Cardinal reserves also lost by two points 13 to 11. Grady led for St. Mary’s with 4 points while Anderson and Jordan made all of Butte's points with 7 and 6 points respectively. At St. Joseph’s of Atkinson, last Sunday, St. Mary’s again lost by two points when in the second overtime period of the game, Straka, tall St. Joe center, dropped in an overhead shot to end the game very abruptly. It was a very rough game all the way. St. Joe, playing a fast brand of ball on their very small floor, led 12 to 4 at the half, at which time St. Mary’s had yet to connect for a field goal, drop ping all their points on free tos ses. The third quarter St Joe's still kept control of the game and though St. Mary’s hit for a lew field goals in this period, had even indreased their lead to 11 points. The score at the end of the 3rd quarter was St. Joseph 22; St Mary’s 11. In the fourth stanza the situation was reversed, as St. Mary 's, suddenly got hot, scor ed 11 points while holding St Joe scoreless, knotting tne score at 22 to 22 with about a minuie ox playing time remaining in the game. No points were made in the final few seconds and an over time period had to be played. lhe three minutes overtime went quickiy and without any special incident as neitner team was able to score, aitnough play was kept at a feverisn puta throughout. Not until the second overtime had been under way tor aoour a minute was one of the teams able to score as St. Joe on an out ot bounds play under the St. Mary’s basket ended the fray on the long end of a 24 to 22 count. Cardinals reserves also lost by two points in a second overtnne period after the second team game had ended 11 to 11. Schaat dropped the winning basket. Tro shynski had 4 points for St. Joe’s and Grady and Merriman both had four lor St. Mary's. St. Marys plays at Orchard next f i iday and the following Monday at Atkinson High School. St. Mary’s Grade team lost a close decision to O’Neill Grades, Tuesday night. The record so far reads one win and two losses. The win was over Amelia. The losses to Inman Grades and O’Neui Grades. The Grade team will go to Orchard, Friday for a game there. Three members of this grade team, Baker, Froelich and Merriman have been playing with the Academy second team this year. Hospital Notes Mike Engelhaupt of Chambers was dismissed on Tuesday. Mrs. John Rotherham and son, dismissed Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Kelly of Inman dis missed on Wednesday. Swan John Peterson dismissed on Wednesday. Births Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Benash. a girl, Wednesday, January 28 .Mr^and Mrs. Walter Hauf, a girl, Tuesday, January 27. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin HalL a g.il, Monday, January 26. Mr. and Mrs. George Herold, a girl, Sunday, January 25.