INMAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins
returned from Norfolk Thurs
day, May 21 after attending the
funeral of Mrs. Tompkins’ father,
C. E. Doughty, who passed away
May 18th.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Butler of
Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. But
ler and daughter, Mary of Neligh,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A.
N. Butler on Sunday.
Miss Ruth Jeanette Watson ar
rived home Saturday from Lin
coln, where she has been at
tending Weslyan University. She
will work in the office of the
Watson Hay company this sum
mer.
The members of the D. S. D.
church held all day services in
their church on Sunday. Memb
ers from nearby towns were
present and a bach dinner was
served at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Jacox.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moor went
to Orchard Sunday where they
visited Mrs. Moore’s sister, Mrs.
Fern Moor.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren McClurg
were called to Stuart Monday
by the death of Mr. McClurg’s
% nephew.
L. R. Tompkins, Gene Clark,
Warren McClurg and Mr. Abra
hams drove north of Stuart on
Friday, May 22, where they spent
the day fishing at the Allyn lake.
Mrs. G. E. Moor and Mrs. Eva
Murtin entertained Mrs. Moor’s
Sunday School class Wednesday
night at a party at the home of
Mrs. Murtin.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher
entertained their bridge club at
their home on Thursday evening,
May 21. Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Watson were guests.
Out door movies will be en
joyed by the community through
out the summer, on Thurssday
: nights. These are sponsored by
the Commercial Club.
EMMET NEWS
A. J. Storm of the Storm Seed
company of Creston, Iowa, was
in Emmet Thursday, looking over
the blue grass crop for this
season.
The South Side Improvement
Club met Friday at the home of
Mrs. Arthur Burge.
The Emmet 4-H Club met
Thursday evening at the Joe
Joe Ramold home.
Andy Moss of Stuart was a
business visitor in Emmet Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Lawrence Tenborg of
' O'Neill was a week end guest at
[ DOUBLE HOLIDAY
Sommer sports fash
ions to keep spirits
high. Wherever you’re
bound, you’re bound to
have fun in casual
clothes like these.
Choose at Brown-Mc
Donald thrift prices
tomorrow.
Slack suits—figure flattering and
expertly tailored. Some with long
torso jackets, others with sport
shirt to wear In or out. Rayon
poplin, sharkskin, sport denim,
gabardine.
$2.98 — $3.98
Sport Shirts — of gay cottons to
wear with slacks. Bright plaids,
stripes or figures. Washable col
ors. Thrift QO
priced at . #Ov f
Play Suits — Short skirt, slacks
and blouse in check-print seer
sucker, printed crepe rayon and
striped ohambray.
$3.98 To $6.50
Slacks—Hard wearing and good looking
for play or hours of ease. Of Luana cloth,
spun rayon, Jungo cloth. New tapered
style*.
$1.98 T„ $3.98
Dresses—of cool, fresh looking seersuck
er, a fashion favorite. Trigger trim for
casual wear or active sports. QO
Slim stripes or checks, 14 to 20. .
Denim Slacks — for functional use in
work or play. Deftly tailored for city slick
er or farmerette, and grand <T1 dQ
for gardening, picnics, etc. ..—
Sport Oxfords—“Saddle MocsM of brown ,
and white leather with feather edge trim j
and flexible red rubber sole and <1*0 QO i
low heel. Smart wall last. Pair .. ® -
d
This store will be closed during Memorial Day Services
from 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M.
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the Tenborg home.
Leona Fern Beckwith suffered
a painful injury Monday evening.
While playing with some neigh
bor children she ran into a wire
fence and cut both legs so badly
several stitches were required.
Relatives received word last
Thursday of the death by drown
ing of Joe Horn at Redding, Cal.
Joe was the son of the John
Horns, who left here about nine
years ago to make their home
in the west. Joe graduated from
high school this spring.
Rev. Peacock left Tuesday
for Lincoln where he will attend
summer school. Mrs. Peacock
will go to Newport, where she
will visit relatives until Decor
ation Day.
Joe Babl, Sr., died Saturday
in an Omaha hospital. He under
went an operation about five
weeks ago and seemed to be re
covering nicely. The funeral was
held Tuesday morning at Hum
phery, Nebr.
Private Wallace O Connell re
turned to his camp in Texas
Wednesday, after a week’s fur
lough spent at home.
The Bob Fox family heard
from their son, Jim, last week.
This is the first word they have
had since he sailed from San
Francisco.
Mrs. Guy Cole and son, Bud,
drove to Lincoln Saturday. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Esther
Harris of O’Neill. They return
ed home Sunday evening, bring
ing Zane, who has completed his
freshman year at the University.
Mrs. John Conard took Mary
Lou to Stuart Monday morning
where she underwent a tonsil
ectomy. They returned home
Friday afternoon.
Pat McGinnis accompanied a
load of fat cattle to the Omaha
market Tuesday. Charlie Fox
trucked them down. We sup
pose Pat will stay over and take
in a day or so at the races.
Deaul Oberle and Barney
Hynes of O’Neill visited Wednes
day with the Cole boys.
Mrs Andrew Johnson return
ed home Friday everting. She
had spent the past several months
in Texas visiting relatives. The
last two weeks she visited her
son, Custer and family at Lin
coln. Custer brought her up
from Lincoln and will visit rela
tives here for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole re
ceived an interesting letter from
Scotty, Harry Ward, which fol
lows: j
Somewhere in England,
April 25, 1942.
My Dear Guy and Ethel:
I guess your last letter must
have gone down, anyway the last
one I have from you is December
4—just three days before the
llittle Yellowbellies waltzed into
Pearl Harbor. There’s a lot of
water flowed under bridges since
that date; on paper the Japs
would seem to have done wonders
too. I’m Jack easy about their
progress.
Unfortunately I haven’t been
able to get a hold of any Amer
ican papers for some time, but
from what I have read I am sorry
to find there seems to be a tend
ency to be unduly critical of what
Britian HAS done, so far. When
you come to look at the map and
realize what a tiny country we
are—not much bigger than Ne
braska and Dakota—it amazes
me when I consider that we have
a great army in Libya, another in
Syria and Mespotamiia. An
Army in Persia and Southern
Russia, to supply which we’ve had
to build a railway 2000 miles long
from Persian gulf (where its as
hot as the blue bars of Hell).
Then the backbone of Indian De
fense is the British Army. My
God, no wonder we can’t hold out
against 500,000 Japs in Burma at
the moment.
My idea of strategy (mind you,
as a fairly widely traveled man—
not just a politician sitting in
London), is for you and us to
concentrate everything we’ve got
on smashing Hitler and Musso
lini, even if we lose all sorts of
Territory to Japs in the mean
time. The moment Germany is
beaten, then there will be the
combined Fleets of the USA and
Great Britian, together with the
remnants of the German, Italian
and French Fleets (which we
would certainly confiscate as
part of any Armistice terms,)
all to be used to blockade Japan.
All their conquests then, in Phili
pines, Dutch East Indies, Burma,
etc., will just be embarrassments
to Japan as it will be quite im
possible for them to keep their
troops supplied in the “conquer
ec# Countries.
It must be difficult for the
people of America to realise why
they should actively wage this
war, because I must admit that
the prospct of any active invasion
of USA seems very remote to me
on this side. Nevertheless your
participation surely should not
be considered as merely to re
venge the insult of Pearl Harbor,
or restore the Phillipines. Act
ually, as I see it, it is quite im
possible for a Country like the
United States to get along in a
world, the main Power in which
would be vested in Japanese and
Germans—neither of whom has
the slightest regard for the rights
of others.
Let us admit that in the past |
the conception of the British '
Empire may have been a selfish
one; this aspect has certainly
changed immensly in my time.
My contacts overseas have been !
mainly confined to the British
Empire and have been entirely
of a business nature. Now, in
every market I went to my main
competition (quite friendly com
petition as a rule), was from USA
and as, far as I'm concerned
everybody was quite happy, as
we did not cut each others
throats competitively and there
was enough business for us both
to get a living. Not so when the
competition happened to be Ger
man or Japanese—you might as
well pack up and go home, be
cause they had no intention of
“live and let live.’’ I hope and
believe that out of all this troub
le there will emerge a much
closer commercial association
between the two countries. There
1 is bound to be, because with the
immense aid you are giving us
through Lease and Lend help,
this little Old Country will owe
more than they could possibly
pay in the creation of time. The
only solution seems to me to be
1 some closer commercial inter
course in the way of sharing
Empire .Markets, or even incor
porating the whole issue in one
Customs and Currency Union.
This is bound to help all round
as we can’t possibly grow half
of the Grub we need in this
Country.
That’s all to be boiled out in
the future. At present I would
just like to have a nice little
Truck Garden of about 20 acres
on the banks of the Elkhorn. I
always did reckon that with a hy
drrualic ram to lift a little irriga
tion water there, you could grow
the same fine crops I saw up the
banks of the Salmon River in
Northern Idaho that time I went
away on that “Gold Hunting”
trip with Bailey in the spring of
1925.
By the way; you,mention taxes.
I never knew you had any. Cer
Itainly not when I was there.
Here’s our Income Tax. A mar
ried man with one of a family
can make $1,000 a year Tax Free
—THEN the Income Tax is $2.50
out of every $5.00. No chance
whatever to dodge it, as its de
ducted from your salary and the
firm that employs you has to dis
close it. Even we fellows who
are in the Army have to pay it.
Cigarettes are 25 cents for 20,
Beer out of the barrel is 30 cents
per pint or 15 cents for a glass.
Whiskey is 40 cents a small shot
and $5.50 a bottle. There’s a
purchase tax Sf sixty per
cent on luxuries ^Cosmetics etc.,)
and thirty-three end, one third
on everything else. There’s an
Entertainment Tax of 50 per cent
on prices of cinema seats (the
cheapest of which is 20 cents
and average 50 cents.) Despite
what you’d think, you can get on
fine with the grub—it sounds
very little; one egg a week just
now, and only 25 cents worth of
meat per person per week.
Nevertheless I was 140 lb. when
the war broke out and here I am
two and a half years after and
I weigh 175 pounds, and I’m NOT
FAT.
While I remember, the stock
ings you so kindly posted for
Mary, didn’t come through. The
censor must have pinched them
for his best girl. Anyway,
everyone’s in the same boat here
and I guess a civilian looks cred
itable if he’s or she's a bit
shabby.
Hope to see your planes com
ing over in quantities ere long.
It’s amazing when one consid
ers that we’ve been supplying
Russia, keeping up an offensive
in Libya and defending Malta,
etc., etc., that we can go out to
Germany every night just now
and lose 15 or 20 planes a day
without batting an eye-lash and
the Jerries can’t stop us; every
little garage and workship in the
whole country is making some
part of an aeroplane. If it was
Nebraska, Tom Strong at Emmet
would have half the town lads
busy turning out some gadget
that goes into an aeroplane. You
see, the idea is that Jerry can
bomb till Kingdom Come and he
can hardly affect our potential
aeroplane capacity.
Now I deserve a good chit from
you, and here’s hoping that Zane
escapes the maelstrom. My re
gards to all friends m Nebraska,
also say hello to Harry Milligan
and John Nixon, Henry Foley,
etc., when you next have them
on the line.
Your sincere friend,
Lieut. H. M. Ward.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Biglin
daughter, Alice and son Joe, re
turned Sunday from Omaha,
where they had been visiting sev
eral days.
Mrs. Cecil Parks of Clearwater,
Mxs. James Berigan andfe Mrs.
Charles Chace of Atkinson, the
Misses Alice and Jean Jackson
of Springview Rose Ann Schulte
of Brunswick, and Erma Langer
of Nordon, attended the
Alumnae banquet at St. Mary’s
Academy Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Noble spent
from Saturday until Monday at
Carthag^ and Plankington, S.
D., on business.
The Blue Dotters held a picnic
at the City Park Friday evening
honoring the Misses Muriel Brit
tell and Luella Hartford of Sioux
ICity and Elizabeth Graves of
Washington, D. C., who are here
on vacations.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hewett,
Jr., and children of Rushville,,
spent the week-end at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Parker.
Misss Hazel Schwisow of
Omaha spent from Friday until
Sunday at the home of her father,
Paul Schwisow and family.
Miss Betty Biglin returned j
Suunday from Chicago and;
Washington, D. C., where sshe
had been visiting relatives and
friends for the past two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. William Forsborg
spent Friday in Sioux City, Iowa
on business.
Mary Anstirie started on her
three weeks vacation from the
Northwestern Bell Telephone
company Wdnesday.
—
Mrs. C. B. Yarnall and daugh- j
ter, Bonnie, left Tuesday for
Hendley, where they will visit
relatives until Friday when they
will leave for LosAngeles, Cal.,
to join Mr. Yarnall, who has em
ployment there.
Mrs. Bert QuicJc pf Los Ange
les. Cal., and daughter, Mrs.
R. Rosengren and daughters of
Butte, were guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Murphy
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Wanser of
Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Shatto of Philadelphia, Pa., and
Mrs. Catherine Keiser of this
city visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Walker at South
Sioux City Monday,
Bennet Grady and Cletus Sul
livan went to Omaha Friday,
where Bennet had his pre-induct
ion examination for the U. S.
Army. He failed to come up to
the physical requirementss and
was placed in 1 B.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MAY 29 and 30
HOLIDAY SUGGESTIONS!
The following Seasonable Values will refresh your
memory as to some of your requirements for the
Memorial Day Picnic. . . . Select your picnic refresh
ments at Council Oak where "Dependable Quality" and
Low Prices prevail.
IT'S SAFE TO SAVE AT COUNCIL OAK
FANCY I
ASSORTED
COOKIES
Per Pound .. 19011
BEEF
ROASTS
Well covered corn fed
beef. Tender and Juicy.
Pound
26c and
From selected Pork Loins p
ROASTS and CHOPS, Lb. 33c & 27c
SPECIAL LUNCH MEAT, Pound.23c I
SUMMER SAUSAGE, Pound
WIDE BACON, | lb. Sliced.17c I
CLUB BEEF STEAK, Per Lb. . 34c
PORK
UVER
g.I60
BOILING
BEEF
£ . 170
SPARE
RIBS
Per
Lb.
Ready to Serve
COLD MEAT
Pickle and Pimento and
Macaroni and Cheese
Pound ...
RED DOT
POTATO
CHIPS
L6E. BAG
19e
CANDY
Swedish 4 A
Mints, 1||A
Pound. IV V
KRAFT
CHEB8B
FOOD
SPREAD
Spreads as easy as butler.
American and Pimento.
Packed in reusable Glasses. m m
2—5-Ounce Glasses. . Mm I
SUPERB PEANUT KRUSH, I6??gc.‘.27c
SUPERB SWEET MIDGET PICKLES l2 °S ' 2lc
SUPERB
Apricots
Fancy Halves
16 15c
SUPERB
Grapefruit
Hand Peeled.
Whole Segments
2 &? 27c
Morning Light
CORN
White Cream Style
3 Can* 29C
LARGE SIZE
SWEET
PEAS
2 Cai«* 27C
HEINZ BOSTON BAKED BEANS 10c
ZEPHYR NECTAR Popular Flavor* .Q BOTTLE 7c
CLAPP’S BABY FOOD 2 as.*- 15c 2 £"..* 13c
SWIFT’S PREM Product 1°r*.No. I Can 33c
SUPERB
Shredded
Cocoanut
8 Ox. Bag 140
KELLOGG’S
CORN
FLAKES
Lge. Pkg.12 jC
Unbleached
Seedless
Raisins
Per. Lb. .., 90
DERBY
CORNED
BEEF
No. I Can 25d
a ■’ — ■—i i -11. T*;gxan—
MA BROWN
Whole Wheat Bread
■ gg°.
OLD COUNTRY
RYE BREAD
POUND
LOAF .
PICNIC PLATES
PER
PACKAGE .
WAXTEX
^With Cutter
125-PT. «
. ROLL .
i
LUX
FLAKES
Small Pkg. ... 10c
£S«. ■ ■ 24c
LUX
Toilet
Soap
2 sar..' H
Lifebuoy
.. Toilet
Soap
2%gE8....l30
RINSO
Smallf Pkg. ..10c
Large Pkg. . .22c
Giant
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