LXV O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944 NO. 5
BREEZES FROM 1
IRE SOUTHWEST
By Romaine Saunders
The Blue Nile river of Egypt
has a drop of six inches in 1,000
miles. The Elkhorn out this way
plunges on with a 10-foot drop
to he miles.
Back in the 1930 decade Pro
fessor McDougall of Harvard
said: “As I watch the American
nation speeding gaily, with in
vincible optimism, down the
road to destruction, I seem to be
l contemplating the greatest trage
V dy in the hisory of mankind.’
Big wigs of the democrat party
setup in Nebraska endeavored to
side track their senatorial candi
date—nominated at the primary
—two years ago but, he stuck.
They are trying the same game
on the party candidate for gover
nor this year with as little suc
cess.
We have a host of family case
work consultants, child welfare
workers, lady recreation directors
and maids showing mothers’
clubs the best method to fold the
baby’s triangler overall. I don’t
know that these excellent indi
viduals have had anything to do
with inciting the tidal wave of
juvenile delinquency.
If I understand the permanent
peace advocates the four great
powers—meaning us and the Eu
ropean and Asiatic allies—are to
collaborate each with a colossal
military setup, disarm the trucu
lent Axis powers and make the
whole world behave by force of
arms. With the Big Four thus
equipped how long would it be
till one or the other turned its
engines of war on one of its pals?
Rains are doing more to reduce
the use of gasoline than the ration
setup. Roads are prohibitive of
travel in some places and the
well appointed highways are
washed in spots and under water
in others. Ranchers out this way
who try to raise a little grain
have lots of time now to go fish
ing, with fish ponds at their back
doors. I think we average not
less than two inches of rain every
four or five days. Grass is un
usually good and there appears
to be a normal crop of blue grass
seed that soon will be in condi
tion to strip. A hindrance to
stripping may be water on the
meadows. Swan Lake has at
tained to sufficient depth to have
been restocked with fish. Most
rain since 1915.
In A. D. 64 St. Paul prescribed
a remedy that the elements of
industrial unrest of 1944 are in
vited to consider. “Servants, obey
in all things your masters ....
pleasers,, but in the singleness of
not with eye service as men
heart, fearing God.” “Masters,
give unto your servants that
which is just and equal; knowing
that ye also have a Master in
heaven.” And this sentiment I
find on a litle desk calander of
the Burlington railroad. “There
is nothing quite as satisfying as
the pride that comes from the
knowledge of a job well done.”
The author of that finds in his job
the opportunity for the full play
of the creative instinct—not in
terms of “increased living costs.”
No doubt he gets the meal ticket.
The boxelder tree that shades
Dr. O’Connell and Barber Street
er was probably planted by Doc
Mathews and furnished an after
noon shade for idlers 50 years
ago. Regardless of what the de
mands were at his watch tinker
ing bench where now are the
barber chairs, Noah Gwinn spent
a hot afternoon on a chair in the
shade of that tree catching flies
that came his way, and taking
the consolation afforded by a clay
pipe. Cigarettes were a positive
disgrace. He jumped one after
noon to a zone of safety when a
gray broncho plunged onto the
board walk churning its rider fit
to kill. It was either a fist fight,
horse race, wild riding or still
wilder shooting along tre un
paved street. On a summer even
ing an itinerant street preacher
on lower Fourth street brought
calm to the hectic scene and quiet
jeers from a few loafers with his
plea, “Ho, everyone that thirst
eth, come ye to the waters and
drink;” Az Perry, Bill Lakey,
George Triggs and others sat in
• front of the old Commercial hotel
and listened. O. F. Biglin, may
or, rebuked one rounder in his
cups who undertook to molest the
speaker, warning him to “let that
man alone or we will lock you
up.” The quiet old town now
sleeps on undisturbed by as
much as a political argument or
religious discussion.
“A sound and workable plan
for lasting world peace that will
mean freedom and justice for
all.” This idea, clothed in to
day’s language, has been going
the rounds of the human race
since the dawn of history. At
each fresh outburst of world
horror it floats again on dream
land wings. “A sound and work
able plan,” that is as far as sage
or dreamer can go. Tre period
A Son of Col. Meredith
Receives Army Wings
Pecos Army Air Field. Pecos,
Texas:—Col. Owen R. Meredith,
commanding officer of the Presi
dio of Monterrey, California,
pinned the wings of an Army
Air Forces pilot on his son, Lt.
Robert B. Meredith, as he grad
uated from tre two-engine pilot
school at Pecos Army Air Field.
Col. Meredith was the principal
speaker at the graduation exer
cises at the invitation of Col Orin
J. Bushey, commanding officer of
the Pecos Field.
Col. Meredith’s sisters, Mrfc. C.
F. McKenna and Mrs. Ruth Mc
Caffrey, are both living here in
the Colonel’s hometown.
The Weather
High Low M’st’e
June 2_88 60
June 3_85 59 .75
June 4_78 58 .39
June 5 -67 47
June 6_56 38
June 7 -67 46
June 8 _54 48 1.12
Total precipitation for the
week 1.96 inches, up to 8:00 a. m.,
this morning.
MOISTURE
Following is the precipitation
this year as compared with that
of last year, up to 8:00 a. m., this
morning, June 8:
January, 1943 --27
February, 1943 -.17
March, 1943 -.65
April, 1943 _2.66
May, 1943 _1.14
June, 1943, to June 8 _- .55
Total, 1943 -5.44
January, 1944 ---1.48
February, 1944 _—.- 85
March, 1944- 58
April, 1944 - 3.03
May, 1944 -5.74
June, 1944, to 8th-2.84
Total, 1944 _-—14.52
Excess moisture this year
over the same period last year:
9.08 inches.
Hospital Notes
Dallas Hemingway, of Orchard,
was admitted Monday. Medical
patient.
Mrs. Elmer Zuracek, Star,
baby girl Tuesday.
Mrs. John Pribil dismissed last
Friday
Mrs. Walter Pease, of Emmet,
dismissed last Thursday.
Leona Mullen, tonsils.removed
Thursday.
Mrs. Clarence Wrede admitted
Sunday, dismissed that evening.
is placed right there. What is
the “sound and workable plan”?
If by it is meant the arming to
the teeth of the four allied powers
in an amalgamated “workable
plan” to preserve world order
what will prevent one of
the four aspiring to domin
ate the other three. Alex
ander the Great was a great
empire builder and a great wine
bibber. When he passed out of
alcoholism at the age of 33 his
four leading generals took over
the government to guarantee
“freedom and justice for all.”
It wasn’t long until one, abler
than the others was running the
Greeko-Macedonian set up. Free
dom, justice the rights of citicens
are tor national determination,
not international. Isolationist!
Maybe so. But few wars would
have drenched the centuries with
blood had men and governments
not meddled with the affairs of
others. Americans have always
been ready to knock the block
off of a bully. We are getting so
we like to meddle a little, too.
Lee Downey favors me with a
friendly letter from Denver and
the story from the Denver Post
of the Burlington railroad cele
brating on May 26th the 10th
anniversary of their Zephyr train.
When one sees that gleaming
string of cars powered by a
Diesel engine streaking across
Nebraska or standing in the rail
road yards at Lincoln or Omaha
he is reminded of the first tele
graph message ever sent over the
wire, “What hath God wrought!”
As a feature of the 10th anniver
sary a party of railroad and other
notables rode a freight train from
Chicago to Denver. The Post
says “the ^Burlington has launch
ed the ‘latest descendant’ of that
pioneer Zephyr—a mammoth
Diesel-powered freight train of
123 cars, hauling 6,210 tons of
freight on a virtually non-stop
run from Chicago to Denver. The
train pulled into Denver at 9:50
a. m. Thursday—just twenty
one hours after leaving Chicago.
It was exactly 6,781 feet long—
—or 1,501 feet more than a mile.
Sandwiched into this huge assem
blage of freight cars were two
business cars of the Burlington,
carrying leading representatives
of the railroad world, business
and banking circles, and includ
ing a former vice president of the
United States, Gen. Charles G.
Dawes” Lee expresses the hope
of making us a personal call the
next time he is back this way.
His letter is an inspiration, the
story of railroad achievement in
teresting and educational, but we
will look forward to the warm
hand clasp and personal fellow
ship.
Preinduction List And
In During Month Of May
Following is a list of Holt
county men who will take their
preinduction examination in the
month of June:
O'Neill
Robert A. Richardson
Earl R. Eppenbach
Merlyn M. Shaw
Ewing
Lloyd L. Durre
Ludwig V. Tagel
Leonard J. Rotherham
Charles C. Wright
Page
Pat E. Gamel
Melvin L. Haynes
Stuart
Donald J. Krysl
Edward Rezac, Jr.
Atkinson
Lawrence G. Slaymaker, Jr.
Carl S. Berg
Inman
William L. Sholes
Eugene L. Sobotka
Redbird
Austin A. Searles
Chambers
Franklin J. Scott
James B. Cavanaugh
Star
Joseph H. Noble
The following registrants were
inducted in the army during
the month of May:
Pag*
Allen B. Leist
Calvin J. Harvey
Dorsey
William E. Alder
Chambers
Robert G. Peltzer
The following registrants were
inducted in the Navy during the
month of May:
Atkinson
Charles W. Strong
Chester E. Elkins
Gale L. Fix
O'NeiU
Hugh O. Benson
Joseph H. Schmidt
NOTICE
The Holt County Board of
Equalization will meet at their
office in the Court House at
i O’Neill, Nebraska, on June 13,
i 14, 15,. 1944, and be in session not
I less than three days nof more
: than twenty days.
All complaints or protests on
l valuations or assessments must
I be made on the above dates.
JOHN C. GALLAGHER,
County Clerk.
James W. Conard
Pomoted Ta Sergeant
From Public Relations Air
Force Service Command, Italy,
May 9, 1944 James W. Conrad,
of O’Neill, Nebr., has been pro
moted to the rank of Sergeant
from that of Corporal, according
to announcement from his unit
headquarters. He is the son of
Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad, O’Neill.
Sergeant Conrad has been a
member of the Unied States
Army since April 13, 1942, and is
now a member of a Fifteenth
Air Force Command service
group. A tractor driver in civ
ilian life, he is now a supply
clerk.
Marvin Bausch Passes Away
Friday, June 2; Services
At Phoenix On Monday
Marvin Bausch, 16, son of Henry
Bausch of northern Holt County,
passed away at Beatrice, Nebr., on
Friday, June 2. The body was
shipped to O’Neill, arriving here
Sunday morning and funeral ser
vices were held Monday afternoon
at Phoenix with burial in the
Phoenix cemetery. Rev. Ohmart
was in charge of services.
Marvin was born at Spencer,
Nebraska, April 25, 1928 and at
the time of his death was 16 years,
1 month and 7 days of age. He is
survived by his father and mother,
two brothers, Privte Raymond
Bausch, Gardner Field, Okla., and
Pvt. Alvin Bausch, Scott Field,
East St. Louis, 111; three sisters,
Thelma Palmer, Elk, Washington;
Lorena Culp, Dale, Oregon; Mavis,
Bausch, a twin sister of the de
ceased, Herminston, Oregon.
BAND CONCERT
SATURDAY, JUNE 10th
1. “Star Spangled Banner"—
Key.
2. March, “Song of the Sea
Bees”—Lewis.
3. March, “Our Colonel” —
Vandercook.
4. Waltz, “When I Grow Too
Old To Dream”—Ham
mers tein.
5. Novelty Slection, “Large”
—Handel.
6. Vocal Solo, “Sweetheart of
Sigma Chi”—Vemor.
7. March, “The Footlifter”—
Fillmore.
8. Selection, “The Chocolate
Soldier” from “My Hero” j
—Strauss.
9. Popular, "Peanut Vender"
—Simons.
10. Spiritual “Nobody Knows
The Trouble I’ve Seen”
Traditional.
11. March, “World Events” —
Zamacenik.
Charles E. Stout
Retires From Drug Store
Another old time O’Neill busi
ness man has retired. After 50
years in the drug business C. E.
Stout, last Thursday sold his
store to Robert Evans of Meadow
Grove, Nebr., who took possession
the same day, June 1.
Charlfes E. Stout came to this
city in 1895, when he was a
young man of 18 and went to
work for Dr. P. C. Corrigan. In
’1897. after the death of A. U.
Morris, who operated the other
drug store, it was purchased by
J. L. Hershiser and the late Dr.
J. P. Gilligan, and Charles went
to work there. In the meantime
he attended school and graduated
as a pharmacist. In 1900 Dr.
Gilligan purchased the interest
of his partner, J. L. Hershiser,
in the store and the store then
became Gilligan & Stout’s. The
firm continued until 1900 when
Charley purchased the interest
of his partner and since that
time he has been the sole owner
and operator of the store. For
many years the store was in the
building now occupied by the
Gamble store, but in 1933 Mr.
Stout moved to the Golden hotel
corner, where re remained until
1940, w!hen he moved to the
storeroom in the First National
Bank building, where the store
is now located.
The retirement of Mr. Stout
from the drug business removes
another of the pioneer business
men from the ranks of our busi
ness men, and there are mightv
few of the old timers left. A
young stripling of 18 when he
came here and O’Neill likewise
was young in years but full of
activity and business. Its busi
ness men were pushers and they
made the name of the town
known from coast to coast. This
was recognized as a good, live
town, with a bunch of energetic
up-to-the-minute business men,
and it is so recognized today.
There have been many changes
in the drug business, as well as
in other lines, since Charley en
tered the business. Fifty years
is a long time to serve the public
as a compounder of medicines.
The pioneers that were here and
in this immediate vicinity when
Charley came here have mostly
passed on. The second genera
tion is getting ahjng in years,
and their descendants are now
! the men and women of today
in this community, as well as in
other communities of the state.
For time marches on. Charley
expects to remain in this city.
It is home and always will be.
For about ten years he was mayor
of the city and made a good
record while in that position.
He has always taken an active
interest in everything that would
aid in the further advancement
of this city and her people.
Mr. Evans, the new owner is
well qualified to take over the
business. He is a graduate phar
macist: his father has for years
operattd a drug store at Meadow
Grove and his son practically
grew up in the business. He is
a nice appearing young man and
The Frontier extends him wel
come to the ranks of O’Neill
business men.
Mode Information On
Contour Farming
“Last year I planted a field of
com on the contour on my own
without having a contour guide
line surveyed and found out that
I had better get some help to lay
it out right,” said Ray Siders,
farmer 3 miles west and three
quarters mile north of Star.
“My field slopes to the southeast
so I listed crosswise to that slope,’
continued Mr. Siders. “It did a lot
of good and saved a lot of soil and
moisture but there were low spots
in the rows. The water accumulat
ed in these spots and when there
was too much it broke through
the ridges,” he stated.
The next time this field is put
in row crop he will have a con
tour guide line staked so as to
eliminate the low spots, he point
ed out.
Mr. Siders said, “This year I am
contouring another field using a
guide line staked by the Soil Con
servation District technician. This
field doesn’t have much slope but
I can hold the moisture on the
high spots and keep it from ac
cumulating in the low spots. Next
year we are going to work on an
other field to prevent the water
from accumulating in my lots,”
he continued.
Contour farming is only one of
the conservation practices that Mr.
Siders will be using when he gets
his conservation program in opera
tion that he is working out for his
farm in cooperation with the Soil
Conservation Service technicians
assiting the Holt Soil Conservation
District.
Anyone interested in contouring
or any of the other conservation
practices should contact the Dis
trict office in the basement of the
Courthouse Annex on Saturdays or
Mondays.
CARD OF THANKS 4
We desire to express our sin
cere thanks and apprecation to
the many kind friends and neigh
bors for the many acts of kind
ness shown us during the illness
and death of our wife and mother.
John Carney Family.
Enlistments Increasing
In Women’s Army Corps
Omaha, Nebr.,—(Special)—In
spite of and increased quota
Women’s Army Corps enlistments
during May in the Nebraska Re-,
cruiting District exceeded by
four (4) per cent the quota set by
the Seventh Service Command
for the district during the month,
it was announced today.
It was the third consecutive
month that the Nebraska district
(comprising the states of Nebras
ka and South Dakota) has met or
surpassed the procurement of
new WAC enlistees asked by the
service command, said Maj.
Frank V. Kent, Omaha, in charge
of army recruiting in the two
states.
The May quota was 13.6 per
cent higher than the enlistments
asked from his district for the
months of March and April, mak
ing May enlistments in the Ne
braska district 17.6 per cent high
er than for those months when
the quota was exactly reached.
Major Kent added. Of the total
WAC enlistments in the district
during May, he continued, 29 per
cent were by South Dakota re
cruiting sub-stations; 71 per cent
by Nebraska sub-stations.
The Omaha recruiting sub
station, Lt. Dorothy Rolofson in
charge, again led the district sub
stations in total May production,
contributing 44 per cent of the
new enlistments. Major Ktnt said.
It was the seoond largest monthly
production by the Omaha sub
station since March, 1943.
Enlistments by other district
army recruiting sub-stations in
May were announced as: Sioux
Nebr., each had 15 per cent of
Falls, S. D., and Grand Island,
Nebraska each 15 per cent of
the total; Rapid City, S. D., 14
Lincoln, Nebr., each six (6) per
per cent; and Scottsbluffs and
cent.
The May enlistments at the
Rapid City sub-station, Lt. Lela
Hogan in charge, were the largest
in any month since the sub-sta
tion was opened there a year ago,
Major Kent said.
Mayor Kersenbrock Makes
Appointments At Regular
Meeting Tuesday Night
At the regular meeting of the
city council Tuesday night, Frank
Clements was appointed council
man for the 3rd ward, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Levi Yantzi, and at this meet
ing Mayor Kersenbrock made the
following appointments for the
coming year:
City Attorney—Wm. Griffin.
Chief of Police—Chet Calkins.
Asst. Chief—Bert Peterson.
Engineer at Pump House—Jess
Scofield.
Street Man—Bob Cook.
City Physician—Dr. Carter.
City Dump Man—Roy Lowery.
Water Collector—Dora Murphy.
Committees:
Streets & Alleys—Wallace, Hlck
p, Clements.
Lights—McElhaney, Melvin, and
orkle.
Water—Clements, Wallace and
McElhaney.
Sewer—Hickey, Melvin, Corkle.
Walks and Crossings—Corkle,
Hickey, Wallace.
Parks—Clements, McElhaney &
Melvin.
Auditors—Melvin, Clements and
McElhaney.
4-H Judging Day Expected
To Draw A Large Crowd
Considerable interest is being
shown in the 4-H Judging Day
scheduled in the O’Neill Public
School on Tuesday, June 13. The
Judging Day is not a contest but a
school of instruction to teach the
4-H boys and girls how to judge
in all lines.
Judging of home economics pro
jects will be conducted by Miss
Allegra Wilkins, from the state
4-H club office, in the O’Neill Pub
lic School, and Mr. M. N. Law
ritson will have charge of live
stock judging on nearby farms. I
Each members or club attending1
should make arrangements for
their own lunch.
Several clubs have indicated
that they are planning to attend in
a group and the event should
bring in two hundred of Holt
County’s 4-H club members.
Mrs. F. J. Dishner went to Sioux
City on business last Friday.
She was accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Biglin. They return
ed home the same evening.
Miss Lanone Miles returned to
Gdand Island Sunday after
spending a week here visiting at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Miles.
Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Sutcliffe left
Sunday for their home in Rapid
City, S. D., after visiting here at
the home of her mother, Mrs.
John Carr.
Miss Catherine Finley received
her degree at the graduation and
commencement exercmises of St.
Catherines’ College, St. Paul,
Minn, on June 5th. The degrees
were presented by Archbishop
Murray of St. Paul. Dr. Finley,
who attended the exercises, re
turned home Wednesday.
PAGE ITEMS
Mrs. Harold Banta was host
ess to the Chatter-Sew Club Fri
day afternoon. There were thir
teen members present and one
guest, Mrs. William Simmons. |
The afternoon was spent doing
needle work.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Wood, of;
Elm Creek, came Saturday to;
visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.!
I. O. Wood. Mr. Wood left Sun
day night. He will work as me
chanic and welder at the Kearney 1
Air Base. Mrs. Wood will spend
two weeks here visiting relatives
and friends.
H. F. Rakow returned from
Rochester, Minn., last Friday. He
also visited at the home of his
son and daughter-in-laW, Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Rakow and son at
Minneapolis, Minn.
Miss Mildred, Stuart left for
Hastings Sunday, to attend sum
mer school at Hastings Teachers’
college.
Pfc. Ralph L. Gray arrived
home Saturday from Camp
Bowie, Texas, to spend several
days visiting his mother, Mrs.
Eva Gray and other relatives.
Earl Closson spent the week
end with his brothers in O’Neill.
The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs.
Rollie Snell last Thursday after
noon. There were eight mem
bers present.
Mrs. Frances Stuart and son,
Brook, of Lincolh. are visiting at
the O. B. Stuart home.
Duane Banta is at Beatrice,
Nebr., where he has employment.
Just-a-Mere Club met last Fri
day afternoon at the home of
Mrs. J. T. Walker. There were
twelve members present and one
guest, Mrs. Kattner. The after
noon was spent playing games.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Switzer
and children of Clearwater, were
Sunday evening supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Closson. Mrs.
Switzer is a sister of Mrs. Clos
son. '
Mrs. Minnie White, who has
been sick for some time, was
taken to the home of her son
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fin
ley, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schwinch,
of Neligh, spent Sunday at the O.
B. Stuart home.
Robert Merchant, of Lynch,
visited a few days in Page. Bob’s
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Merch
ant, who recently moved to
Lynch . is well and likes her
new location.
Word has been received from
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cullen of
Sutherlin, Oregon, that their son,
Dale Cullen, is somewhere in the
south Pacific and their son, Cpl.
Eugene Cullen, who was injured
in an auto accident last January,
is still in the hospital in Vancouv.
er, Wash. Mrs. Cullen is the
daughter of Ml-, and Mrs. Rollie
Snell of Page.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Copes were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. E.;
A. Walker Sunday.
Miss Lois Heiss spent Sunday
with Miss Naomi Steinbarg.
Mr and Mrs. Harold Heiss and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Bergstrom visited at the Ray
mond Heiss home Sunday after
noon.
Miss Betty Knudsen has been
helping at the Copes cafe during
the absence of Jean Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz Reige
spent last Thursday at the Wm.
Reige, Sr., home in Norfolk. The
Reiges were not in the flood area
of a ftw weeks ago.
Mrs. Robert Weir and children
left for their home at Fullerton,
after spending a week with Mrs.
Weir’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Roy Townsend.
Mrs. Sam Trent, of Omaha,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Wm. Simmons.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Trow
bridge and family visited at the
Forrest Smith home in Inman
Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs.
John Nickel and Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Stevens were guests there
B ISO.
M G. French and family drove
to Omaha Sunday to bring Mrs. i
French home, she had been in
a hospital there for an operation.
Miss Leona French of Omaha,
came home with them to spend
her vacation with her parents,
Dr. and Mrs. French of O’Neill
and relatives here.
Miss Margaret Cronk, of Oma
ha, spent the week-end with rel
atives at Page, Inman and O’Neill.1
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beelart
spent Monday evening at the
Esmond Weber home.
Ralph Reige arrived at Page
Monday to spend some time with
his brothers. Lorenz and Vern.
Mrs. Davis Williams and Lyle,
of Salem, Oregon, spent the week
end in Saratoga with Mrs. Will- |
iams’ brother and family, Mr. and
Mrs Elton Trowbridge. They
came to Page Monday night to
visit relatives and friends. Tom
my Trowbridge, of Saratoga, ac
companied them here. They ex
pect to spend a week in this
vicinity. w _ .
Mr. and Mrs. Walter French,
their two daughters and families,
and their son, Lt. Wendal French
all of Stromsburg; James Mur
phy Mr and Mrs. Leonard Heiss
and' M. ' G. French and family
spent Wednesday of last week at
the Lowell Murphy home at
Plainview.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Trease, of
Orchard, and Mr. and Mrs. Otto
• (Continued on page Five)
'D' Day For War
Bonds In Holt County
To Be On June 12th
“D” Day has come and gone for
the “boys” and our soldiers are
now standing on the soil of France
with their eyes set on Berlin. We
at home are anxiously awaiting
every bit of news in anticipation
of the Supreme Test which we
know lies ahead. Many are the
mothers and fathers right here at
home whose own sons are in the
midst of this terrible struggle and
for whom these days will hold
nothing but suspense and agony.
Now, more than ever before, this
war is right at our doorsteps and
so it will remain during the crucial
days ahead. Everything we have
fought and worked for and every
thing we hope for in this war now
lies at stake in the coming weeks.
June 12, 1944 our Government
—which means you and every
other citizen—begins its Fifth War
Loan Drive. Our county’s quota in
this sixteen billion dollar drive is
$639,800.00. We have faith that we
shall meet this request and shall
not be surprised if we exceed ifc
Day by day the war and its costa
in “blood and tears" is being
brought more vividly home to the
people of our country. More ani
more frequently, now, those fateful
messages beginning “The Govern*
ment regrets—” will be delivered
to our homes in this country sig
nifying that some man (who so re
cently was one of us) has given hia
full measure of blood, his loss
wringing the full measure of tears
from the loved ones left behind.
There is no sudden way to end
the war but there is a way to
hasten that end: To keep a cease
less stream of supplies of every
sort flowing to the battlefronta.
The men getting those suppliea
will do the rest. They have never
let us down. ,
lo iortiry those men makmg the
invasion with an equal assurance
that we at home are backing them
with our utmost, we must meet
this sixteen billion dollar war loan.
This is our assignment for this in
vasion period. All of us must buy
more war bonds than we have ever
bought before.
Following is a list of the chair
men of the various precincts and
city committees who have volun
teered their time and effort in this
drive. You can assist these work
ers by volunteering your purchas
es.
Precinct Chairmen
Antelope: LaVern VanConnet,
Lyndley Crumley.
Atkinson: Roy Johns, Joe Rocke,
Ottmar Possnecker.
Atkinson City: A. G. Miller, R.
E. Childers, C. E. Kiltz.
Chambers City: Leo T. Adams.
Cleveland: C. E. McClurg, Chas.
Mulford, Elmer Allyn.
Coleman: R. J. Rohde, Carroll
O’Neill.
Conley: Adelbert Fauquier, Wm.
Shipman.
Deloit: Adolph Latzel, Fred
Forslund, R. A. Bartak.
Dustin: Frank Fundus, Edwin
Engler, Harold Fried.
Emmet: Guy Cole, Leon Beck
with.
Emmet City: W. P. Dailey.
Ewing: Leo Vandersnicht, Cas
per Larson.
Ewing City: S. W. Brian, A. H.
Marquardt.
Fairview: Arthur Hiatt, Jennie
Hershiser.
Francis: Mike Higgins, Bob
Clifford, Joe Dobrovolny.
Golden: E. P. Williamson, John
Walker.
Gratton: Russel Shoemaker,
John Hickey.
Green Valley: Jim Ziska, Wm.
Tasler.
Holt Creek: Florence Boettcher,
Herman Gotschall.
Inman City: Floyd Keyes.
Inman: Cal Geary, Henry Harte.
Josie: Clarence Brenaman, L. M.
Rawlings.
Iowa: Dave Bowen, Roy Waring:
Lake: Wm. Hubei, Carl Lam
bert, John Summerer.
McClurg: Henry Wood, Lloyd
Gibson, Sam Kellham.
O’Neill: F. N. Cronin.
Paddock: Frank Nelson, George
Rector.
Page City: Bryan H. Stevens.
Pleasantview: Joe Bruder, Louis
Goeke.
Rock Falls: Austin Hynes, Floyd
Johnson.
Sand Creek: Fred Zink, P. W.
Kilmurry.
Saratoga: Hans Lauridsen, Mrs.
Ralph Coburn.
Scott: Howard Oberle, Leo Far
rand.
Shamrock: Joseph Serck, Ray
Hoffman.
Sheridan: Nick Bonenberger,
Fred Mack, Carl Smith.
Shields: Ed Murray, Homer
Ernst, Clarence Wrede.
Steel Creek: H. H. Miles, W. L.
Brady.
Stuart: Aloys Kaup, Chas. Moses.
Stuart City: A. C. Berner.
Swan: Roy Warden, L. W. Bar*
thel, Neal Sloan.
Verdigris: Wm. Neubauer, Roy
Haynes, Anton Nissen.
willowdale: Gene Mudloff, Em
met Wertz.
Wyoming: Vem Sageser, Pred
Watson, Glenn White, Tom Doo
little.
George Harrington, of Wash
ington, D. C., arrived in the old
home town Monday to look after
some business matters and also to
visit relatives and old time
friends. __