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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1942)
Neb. State Historical Society £ VOL. LXII_O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942 NUMBER 39 SOUTHWESTERN BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Pastor and Mrs. E. W. Pederson were among the Amelia visitors in O'Neill Monday. A son was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Fredricks, Dr. Gill of Chambers attending the mother Mr. and Mrs. Saunders were favored with an over night visit from Pastor and Mrs. A. E. Hagen of Oakdale a day last week. In a letter from John Brennan hS mentioned conditions in Utah, saying there are 13,000 unemploy ed in that state where $130,000,000 has been put into war industries. This has made employment for 13,000 workers. John regrets to hear of the passing of so many ol our old settlers. Maybe it should rest in the grave of forgotten records and maybe it is alright to know some thing of our Nation semi-heroes. Here is one of over a hundred years ago down in old Texas: ‘‘This is to certify that the foreig ner Samuel Pablo Houston is a man of good moral character and industrious, loving the constitu tion and laws of the country, a bachelor without a family and generally known as a good man.’’ It was signed by Juan M. Dor on April 21, 1835. At that time Hous ton had a white wife in Tennessee, an Indian squaw in Arkansas and bore a Cherokee name that meant Big Drunk. At 5 o’clock on the morning of February 1 a prairie owl alighted on a clothesline post a short dis tance from our bedroom window and began his return engagment talk to the moon. This is an annual occurance and will continue until owls are too busy gathering in sects for their young to devote any part of the night to visiting. I have not as yet been able to identify this owl as the one that has perched upon that post in past seasons. As a symbol of wisdom the owl is probably over estimated but he can take care of himself and if you ever trap one watch out. The late Col. Neil Brennan had a handsome speci men of these birds in the office of his hardware store, as well as a squirrel or two and other mena geriel exhibits, in which the Col onel took delight. One day a traveling salesman called in. See ing the owl on a perch in a corner and taking it to be a stuffed speci men walked over to it and reached out a hand to examine it. Like a bolt of lighting the owl struck, snapping shut a vicious beak on a finger. Nonplused, mad and in pain the gent wrenched free his bleeding finger and hastened out and up the street to Dr. Gilligan, while Col. Brennan chuckled. He had a way of getting along with wildlings. You might go in the store to make a purchase and while the Colonel was waiting on you a squirrel would stick its head out of his coat pocket. I can make a pet of a horse or other domestic animal, but some how the wildlings are suspicious of me. Another of Holt county s early citizens has come to the journey’s end. At the age of 81, Mrs. Anna S. Minen died a week ago in Lin coln, where she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Car] Henkelman, the wife of a promin ent dentist of the Capital city. Mrs. Minen before her marriage to the son of another couple of early set tlers in this county, was Sophie Anderson of Atkinson. That was in the days of Joe Bartley, Harry Mathews, the Sturdewants and others. A generation of men and women who gave of the vigor of youth to the virgin sod of Holt county, a generation fast passing out of the picture. The living are not denied the pleasure of re viving the scene, “as one who cons at evening over an albuin, all alone, and muses on the face? of friends that he has known. In the long procession passing down the aisle of memory s vision one face stands out above the crowd, a head crowded in the glory of frizzled red hair, pink bloom on cheeks like a fresh ripe peach, red lips opened in a smile over a row of white teeth and as I look into the depth of blue eyes am held captive. For more tha two score years the chains of Cupid’s thraldom have S^es ing captive. There are other laces faces of those whose life counted Frontier Readers Responding Liberally Frontier readers have been res po nding liberally during the past month with their renewals, and taking advantage of our offer of two years for $3.00 when paid in advance, with all arreages paid. Last Saturday we had a rush in the office of readers who were desirious of getting under the wire and getting on the right side of the ledger. The offer of this paper has been received so favor ably that we have decided to ex tend it durng the month of Feb ruary and any reader, paying his arreages can pay $3.00 more and have his subscription extended for two years. This applies to readers in the state of Nebraska only. We have several readers who are still in arrears and we hope that during the coming month they will call and get their ac count on the right side of the ledger. So please drop in and liquidate your indebtedness. If you are in arrears for several years we will treat you right in oder to get the account settled, so that we can start with a clean slate. The following readers have ex tended their subscriptions during the past week: Ralph Beckwith Andrew Clark Sister M. Alma W. C. Craig Frank Riser John Sobotka, Jr., Charles Grimes W. G. Beha Mrs. J. C. Harnish L. A. Simonson John Schmidt Forrest Smith R. B. Geary W. G. Kraft Charles W. Fox Mrs. Nora Quilty Elja McCullough C. E. Lundgren Pearl Cary Ed Van Horn Ray Siders Lohaus Motor Co. Mrs. R. L. Arbuthnot C. W. Porter BOYS STEAL FIVE AUTOMOBILES Two young Council Bluffs boys, about 22 years old, started on a crime jaunt last Sunday in the Bluffs by stealing a car there and heading north. They ran out of gas by the time they reached Pemder and stole another car there and continued on to this city. Here they picked up the car of Mr. Hanna, the grocery man, and started west, with both cars. These cars ran out of gas and they were j both abandoned between here and Atkinson. At the latter town they found a car outside a restaurant running and apparently in good shape, so they took it and kept on going west. When they reached Ains worth they picked up another car and kept on west. The last car did not have water in it and they had to abandon it after they had burned out the engine. They then started west on foot and thumbed a ride from a man on the highway near Wood Lake. The man hap pened to be Sheriff Richardson of Brown county and he was out looking for them. So he incarated them in the Brown county jail at Ainsworth, where they were still confined this morning. They have agreed to plead guilty and Judge Mounts was to go to Ainsworth today and sentence them. The young men gave their names as Thomas O’Neill and Gren R. Boot, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and they were on their way to the west coast. They are about 22 years of age. The chances are that they will have a few years in durance vile to pon der over their misdeeds. for little in community or individ ual betterment faces of those who walk life’s pathway erect—A pathway which verified the words of the Psalmist: “I have been young and now I am old, yet have I not seen the righteous foresaken nor his seed begging bread.” Hitlerism has written down Amer icans as “sentimental fools.” God forbid that—with all our practical good sense—we should ever lose the heart throb of human sym pathy—that we should ever want no more the exalted vision that comes at eventide “when care has cast her anchor in the harbor of j a dream.” ! REGISTRATION FEBRUARY 14-16 Saturday, February 14th, 1942 and Monday February 16th, 1942 between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M., all men not previously registered who have attained their 20th birthday on December 31st 1941, and who have not reached their 45th birthday on February 16, 1942, are required to register Provision has been made for re gistration as follows: In O’Neill at the Local Board office in the courthouse in O’Neill. Emmet Moore will be in charge assisted by Mattie Soukup, Teresa Connelly and Bernadine Grutsch. In Atkinson at Memorial Hall Fred Jungman in charge, assisted by Eugene Hickok, Arthur Millei and Claude Humphrey. In Stuart at the American Leg ion Hall, B. C. Engler in charge assisted by W. O. Whitehead, Clayton Perry and Dana Bigelow and C. D. Bailey. In Ewing at the Ewing Public Libaray, Lyle P. Dierks in charge, i assisted by A. H. Marquardt, Con- j rad Schaffer and Jay Butler. In Page at the City Hall, C. A Townsend, Jr., will be in charge, assisted by June E. Townsend, Carrie Townsend and Helen Brad dock. In Inman at the Inman School House, north entrance, I. L. Wat son in charge, assisted by L. R. Tompkins, Mrs. John Gallagher and Mrs. Elvin Smith. In Emmet at the office of Guy Cole, Mrs. Guy Cole will be in charge, assisted by Keith Abart, Harry Weiner and Guy Cole. In Chambers at the American Legion Hall, Leo T. Adams in charge, assisted by T. J. Osborne. Wm. Ermer and Hattie Tibbets. In Amelia at the home of Vern Sageser, Vern Sageser will be in charge, assisted by Hazel Ott, Vida Adams and Mary Minahan. All registration places will be open at 7 A. M. and will continue opdn until 9 P. M. Registrants may choose their own registration place. It is not necessary for re gistants of Holt County to re gister in Holt County but it is necessary that you give your ad dress and place of residence when registering. The registration cards will be green in color. The cards will be furnished the chair men. The chairman is expected to furnish chairs, tables and othei items of equipment at no expense to the government. All members of the various registration boards are volunteers and serve without pay. All places of registration are donated. D. R. MOUNTS, Chairman, Holt County Local Board Horse And Mule Auction Very Successful In addition to the regular sup ply of cattle, hogs and sheep, more than 100 horses and mules were sold at auction here last Monday. The sale started off early in ordei to handle the day’s receipts of livestock. Many buyers were on hand and the entire offering found ready outlet. Prices ruled strong and the action was brisk. The highest price paid for mares was $107.50. A large number of good horses sold between $65.00 and $85.00. The entire lot of horses was sold readily at good prices. Some of the steer calves paid $13.00 or better tho $11.50 to $12.50 caught the bulk of this class. A few heifer calves reach ed $11.50; bulk moved at $10.00 to $11.00. A tew yearlings changed hands at $11.00 with $9.50 to $10.50 claiming the long end of the off ering. Cows were quite plentful and the top price was around $8.00. The bulk of the cows sold from $6.50 to $7.50. Hog receipts were heavy and a top price of $11.75 was paid for light butchers. The nominal price was $11.70. Sows sold from $10.50 to $10.80. A large supply of pigs were here and $13.10 was the top price paid. Many small pigs sold by the head at good prices. A few sheep, too few to make a quotable market, completed the day’s supply. A pet goat, consigned to the Red Cross by it’s youthful master Richard Shoemaker, was sold and resold several times. A total of $27.50 was realized and the en tire amount has been turned over to the local Red Cross Chapter The list of contributions will be found elsewhere in this issue. Feed And Seed Loans Now Being: Made. J. O. Walker of Holt, County Field Supervisor for the Emer gency Crop and Feed Loan Sec tion, who recently announced the availability of 1942 crop and feed loans in Holt County, is quoted as saying that his regional office at Omaha, Nebraska, is giving prompt service' on getting the loan funds into the farmer’s hands. Loan checks are being delivered in a week or less after the loan applications are received at Omaha. Loans are being made to pur chase feed, seed, fuel and oil, machinery repairs, and to defray other expense occidental to plant ing and produciing a crop. The loans are available to all eligible farmers who can meet the re quirements and give a first lien on the 1942 crops financed or the livestock fed. It was also pointed out that the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan office is in a position to be of real service to the fanners in this area. The fact that they are getting loan funds into the farmers’ hands so promptly, the 4 per cent interest rate, and permission to use a part of the loan funds to participate in the “Victory Garden” and “Farm Machinery Repair” pro gi ams should prove very bene licial to farmers in contributing their share to the nation’s “All Out” effort. Loan applications for this terri tory are being taken at County Agents office. Ash Grove Project Club The Ash Grove Project Club met at the home of Mrs. Don Weitz Thursday, January 29 with six members present. The lesson it illness Gomes ' w&s very well given by our leaders Mrs. Wertz and Mrs. Miller. Our club is go ing to do Red Cr^ss sewing at the next meeting. * A delicious covered dish lunch eon was served at noon. Mrs. C. T. Lambert of Ains worth visited at the hoxne of Miss Agnes Griffen Monday. ____ SPORT NOTES Bystander The O'Neill High kept their slate clean by beating Ainsworth and they along with thirteen other teams are the only basketball teams that are undefeated in the state of Nebraska. In the World Herald’s first ten in class B, O’Neill High was rated tenth and that means that according to the World Herald combined with a number of coaches and newspaper men and officals, rate O’Neill the tenth best basketball team in class B in the state and that is quite an honor, and we wish the basketball team and the coaches the best of luck during the rest of this season and hoping that O’Neill High con tinues to keep O’Neill’s name in the world of sports. In the January 22 issue of this paper I picked the games of rfhe following week and I hit 750% hitting three out of four games The one I missed was the Saint Joseph (Atkinson) team and it took Saint Joe extra periods to beat Saint Mary’s 24 to22. Here are my selections for next week. I pick O’Neill to beat Atkinson by a pretty big score, and I also pick them to beat Butte, although thi'-l ic bound to be a very good basket- j ball game, but I think they wil1 beat Butte and remain undefeat-! ed for at least another week, bib you can never tell, for some team that hasn’t had such a good sea son might win. I predict a very close game be tween Long Pine and Saint Mary’s but I pick Long Pine to win and I also pick Spaulding Academy to beat Saint Mary's although this two will be a very close game Spaulding Academy is rated second best in the state in class E according to the Lincoln State Journal. Although they to have a good team I think that they are over rated and I am sure that O’Neill could beat them, as they are rated only tenth in Class B in Nebraska according to the World Herald. One reason can be given that Spaulding Academy has played better teams then O’Neill High but also lost quite a few of their games this year See you next week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Drey return ed to Early, Iowa, Saturday, after attending the funeral of Mrs. Ddey’s mother, Mrs. Cora Hamil ton. SI. MARY'S WINS ONE LOSES ONE St. Mary’s broke even on their games this past week, losing to Orchard High last Friday night 123 to 20 and winning from Atkin son High on Monday night by a score of 24 to 11. The first quarter at Orchard was even, both teams scoring seven points, but at the half time Or chard had pulled away slightly and held a three point lead, score 14 to 11. In the third quater Orchard l took the floor hot again and. scoring 8 points while holding St. Mary’s to 4 built their lead up to 7 points, the score at the end of this quarter .reading 22 for Orchard and 15 for the Cardinals. In the fourth quarter of play St. Mary’s held the upper Hand for six minutes, pouring in 5 points to come within 2 points. With but two minutes remaining in the game, Orchard resorted to stalling tactics which worked so well that the score remained the same to: the end of the game, when Harty St. Mary's forward fouled just as the final whistle blew. The Orchard player made the free toss and the final score read 23 to 20 Kubitschek and Gallagher led St. Mary’s with 8 and 6 points respectively while Klusman led Orchard with 9. Cardinals reserves lost their game 14 to 2. Janousek made his team’s only points on a field goal in the first half. L. Lieb of Or-1 cnard led all scoring with 7 points. St. Mary’s grades defeated Or chard grades 15 to 9 in the first game of the evening. Monday night at Atkinson, play ing before a strictly partisan crowd, St. Mary’s held Atkinson High to 3 field goals the entire game defeating the Hay-Balers 24 to 11. St. Mary’s racked up 7 points the first quarter to one for their opponents. At the half the same situation prevailed as the Cardinals left the floor in posse sion of a 13 to 2 lead. In the third quarter Atkinson still could not solve the Cardinal I 'defense and once more could score only one point as the St. Mary’s boys built their lead up still further so that at the end of this quarter the score was 21 to 3. In the fourth quarter, Atkinson j finally counted for three field goals with a Cardinal line-up largely consisting of substitutes in the game. The final score; for St. Mary’s 24, for Atkinson 11. St. Mary’s reserves, without making a field goal the entire game lost to Atkinson reserves 13 to 5. Five St. Mary’s players made one point apiece. St. Mary’s had no high scorer in this game. St. Mary’s grades opened the program with a 13 to 6 win over Atkinson grades. Baker had six points to lead the scoring. Trevanian T. Waid Trevanian T. Waid died at the Good Samaritan Home at Fre mont, Nebraska, last Sunday, of a heart attack after an illness of but a few hours. The body was shipped to this city, arriving Wed nesday morning and the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church, Rev. V. C. Wright offici ating and burial in Prospect Hill cemetery, at the side of his wife who passed away on February 14, 1915. Deceased was born at Randolph Illinois, on July 17, 1856, and was 85 years, six months and fourteen day old at the time of his death On March 9, 1881, he was united in marriage in Illinois and remain ed in that state until 1889 when he came to Nebraska and settled in Saline county. He remained there only a few months when they moved to this county and he purchased a farm southeast of j this city, where he resided until; about fifteen years ago when he moved to this city and this had been his home until about two months ago, when he went to the hospital at Fremont for med ical care. An adopted daughtei: survivies and is a resident of Al-1 aska. Wink was a good citizen and un- s til the past few years was fair-i ly properous and had a host of friends in this city and county He was one of the real charcters in this city and he will be missed by members of the “Cat Fish Club” and other old cronies in this city and vicinity. Mrs. Harold Lindberg and Mrs ' Ted McElhaney went to Norfolk' Friday and spent the day there Vocational Training In Home Economics The State Vocational Depart ment is now providing instruction in home economics for grls at the Long Pine NYA Resident Pro ject. The Long Pine Board of Education acting as local agent for the State Department selected Miss Loretta Dowd of Schuyler for the postion. She has arranged a program of instruction to dovetail with the work-experience under the direc tion of Miss Zeima Waldron, the project supervisor. Some of the units to be studied are personal grooming, nutrition, gardening canning, interior decorating, ana food preparation. Miss Dowd, who has specialized training in th« homemaking arts, began her work at Long Pine on January jy by giving the girls their fust lesson in serving meals. The following girls from Holt County are now enrolled at the Long Pine NYA Project: Audrey Ansen, Ewing, Neb raska; Erma Hogeman, Stuart, Nebraska; Sadie Lauery, Emmett, Nebraska; Donna Sheilhase, At kinson, Nebraska. Golden Kod Club Our Club had a very successful meeting on January 28th “If 111 ntlSS uC?mes" was the subject, which the leaders gave very well they gave us the daily rutine of 1 the patient. Mrs. Lee Osburne was our patient and responded splen didly. Two members were taken in and Mrs. O. Clevish was a visitor, j | We auctioned off a number oil articles and money recived from their sale will be turned over to the Red Cross. Most of our club members have worked very faithfully for the! Red Cross and turned out much work. Our meeting was greatly saddened by the death of our be- \ loved friends and club membei Mrs. Joe Fernholtz. May God have mercy on her soul. Dick Robertson went to Omaha Friday on business. NEXT CLINICON FEBRUARY 14,1942 The next extension clinic to be held in O'Neill under the auspices of the Division of Child Welfare and Services for Crippled child ren will be held at the Auditorium of the O’Neill High School on Sat urday, February 14, 1942. Clinic hours are from 7:30 a. m. The clinic will be conducted by Dr. W. R. Hansa, orthopedist, and Dr. Charles A. Tompkins, pediat rician. They will examine all children referred by their local doctor. All physicians in Holt county have been informed regarding the clinic and have been furnished with blanks for the referral of children whose parents wish con sultation or preliminary diagnosis Parents desiring service should make application to the Holt County Assistance office in O’Neill at an early date so that the appli cations can be handled at or be fore the opening time of the clinic Children who are not now re ceiving services under the pro gram of Services for Crippled Children may be admitted to the clinic when referred by the local physician, or, in certain cases at the request of the child’s parent or guardian. In such cases it is desired that application be made at the local Assistance Office. Orthopedic cases may receive continued treatment if care cannol be arranged thru private sources. Pediatric cases will be accepted at the clinic for the purpose of consultation and diagnosis only and should be referred by the i family physician. All parents who plan to onng children to the clinic should reg ister the child to be sent before 11:00 a. m., atho examinations will continue until 4:00 p. m. The Norfolk Elks Lodge will furnish without cost, a noon lunch for all children and parents who are registered for the clinic ex aminations. POLITICS PICKING PU J Ed Hancock filed this morn ing as a candidate for the republi can nomination for county treas urer. Mr. Hancock is the present deputy county treasurer. County Superintendent Elja McCullough filed Tuesday as a candidate to succeed herself as county superintendent. She runs on the non-political ticket. O'NEILL HIGH WINS ONE LOSES ONE O Neill High's Eagles snapped the Ainsworth’s Bulldogs’ chain of victories at ten and extended their own to that number, as they smashed one step closer to an un defeated season, at Ainsworth last Friday night, 27-22. The Eagles led all the way ex cept for one break as the Bulldogs forged ahead by one point in the last half. , Sharp-shooting Ted Manzer of the Eagles led the way with long field goals from the sides. The Blue and White were ahead, 14-11 at half time. Ainsworth put on a hard drive early in the third quarter and suc ceeded in pulling ahead for about 30 seconds. Then the Eagles broke away, never to be headed again, and won by a five point margin. An unusually large number of fouls were called, both teams be ing handicapped by lack of play ers. McKenna, Burgess and Vin cent of O’Neill went to the side line on that account, as did two of the Ainsworth players. Altogether a total of thirty-five fouls were chalked up during the game. O’Neill went to the sidelines on that account, as did two of the Ainsworth layers. Altogether, a total of thirty-five fouls were chalked up during the game. Manzer was high point man for the Eagles with 12; Williams of Ainsworth had 10. Eagle starters were Burgess, Manzer, Lewis, Calkins and Mc Kenna. The O’Neill High School Eagles toppled from the ranks of the un defeated at the hands of a spir ited Page five on their court last Tuesday evening, by a score of 22-29. The Eagle machine did not roll smoothly until the last quarter, in which a rally sputtered and died away during the last few minutes of the game. O’Neill outscored Page in the last period with this brief surge, but the hosts held too large a margin. Page broke away to a four point lead before Lewis made the first score for O’Neill. At the end of the first quarter, the tally was 5-3 for Page. As unerring free throws counted up, Page made six of the first half’s twelve points on gifts. The first half ended 12-7. ' The third period saw Page break away to clinch the game, Forward Bill Howell alone scoring ■ beginning of the last quarter, ten points. They led 26-13 at the I beginning of the last quarter. Lewis of the Eagles led his team with six points, but Howell of Page made eleven to capture hon ors for the victors. Eagle starters were Manzer, Burgess, Lewis, Calkins and Me- • Kenna. Holt County Resident’s Mother Passes Away Preston Jones received a wire last Friday stating his mother had passed away at San Bemerdino, California on Thursday. She would have been eighty years old this* May. She had been in failing health for the last few months and two weeks ago she received a bad heart attack and could not recover Mrs. Jones visited Preston and his family a little over a year ago She leaves seven sons and three daughters. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many relatives, friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness extended to our beloved mother during her illness and to us following her death, and for the many beautiful floral offerings.—Mr. and Mrs. George Drey and family; Sister M. Costilla, Cyril and Claude Hamilton. Hospital Notes Mrs. Frank Hawk of Ewing, a boy, Thursday, January 29. Mrs. Robert Smith, Jr., a girl, Sunday, February 1. Mrs. J. C. Carney admitted Wednesday evening. Births Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hawk of Ewing, a boy, Thursday, January 29. Mr .and Mrs. Robert Smith, Jr., a girl, Sunday, Febrauary 1. The young lady will be known as Helen Ann.
