Nebraska Newspapers

    Neb. State Historical Society
LXV
O’NEILL,
SMALL DOSES
PAST AMD PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Atkinson, Nebr.
Thanks to Keith Neville, Ida
M. Thurber, Charles E. Sandall.
et. al., the Nebraska red nose
brigade is preserved for another
three years.
Mr. jind Mrs. Lyle Huber and
., two children, recently of Port-;
land, Ore.,, were guests for some
> days at the C. E. Addison home.
Mrs Huber is a sister of Mr. Ad -1
dison. They expect to make their ;
home in O’Neill or Atkinson.
Bring forth your strong teas- ■.
ons pile them high and bund j
a fence of barbed truth. Erect:
your idol to the god mammon
mountain high upon the dead and
mangled bodies of the flower el i
our youth, the tears and heait
aches of fathers and mothers.
Ask the mob to come and make
a choice. Who wins?
Lyle Addison arrived home
early last week from Omaha witn
head and neck swathed in a white
cast bearing the autographs oi
several hospital attendants. His
22 days in the hospital were
brightened by 116 letters and
twelve packages from friends and
school mates out this way. It
will be necessary to retain the
cast for a period of eight weeks.
It would appear the times were
too serious for the winners to face
the camera with a grin from ear
to ear. The guiding hands for j
whatever faces America for the
ftiture have complete control in
all branches of the national
government and there can be no
hedging or shifting of responsi-1
bility. But with street sweepers
and movie actresses being elected
to congress, what have we?
In that portion of the earth
known as the Orient there was
at the last roundup a herd of
943,230,283 brown skinned, slant
eyed and black haired people
tnat our Henry Wallaces and
world uplifters propose to take
under our political wing, along
with about that many more
trouble-makers to the west of the
Orient. Maybe if we herd our
own little bunch of 130,000,000
down the right trail we’ll have
to keep the spurs jingling.
Nebraska clodhoppers are now
in the fields tossing against the
bang boards an estimated crop of
328,000,000 bushels of corn. The
hybrids, the tractors, the rows in
“contour” and other up-to-date
stuff on the farm played a part,
but let us not forget the first
essentials mentioned by the psal
mist: “Thou visited the earth and
waterest it: thou greatly enrich
est it with the river of God, which
is full of water: thou preparest
them corn when thou hast so
provided for it.”
Weary and heart-sore republi
cans out across the valleys and
mountains, come to Nebraska!
Here is balm for disappointed
hopes and fellowship with the
remnants of Abe Lincoln’s pol ti
cal offspring. Prairie winds
whisper of freedom where men
walk and work and laugh and
bow the knee to none but the
God above. Let others step to
the drum beat of the unscrupu
lous bosses, out here every man
is the master of his destiny and ;
the only New Dealers you see
are those holding federal jobs.
The founder of Pennsylvania
1 \ put this in his plan for the colony:
? “The nations want a precedent
for a just and righteous govern
ment. . . . The people must
rule. I propose to leave
myself and my successors no
powdr of doing mischief—that
the will of one man may not
hinder the good of the whole
country. . . . You shall be gov
erned by laws of your own mak
ing, and live a free and—kf you
will—a sober and industrious
people.” It was no bogus prom
ise of the great Quaker states
man.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Peacock
of Emmet spent two days making
pastorial visits in this part of the
vineyard last week and re
newing acquaintances with
others not of their church group.
In childhood they were intro
duced to the gulches of the Nio
brara in the hey day otf the “vig
ilanters,” Middleton and the
Wades. Young Wade, hung in
1884 near Bassett, frequented
Rev. Peacock’s parental home and
played with the children. Mid
dleton also stopped at times to
see how the family of pioneer
settlers were getting along. It
was part of Middleton’s code to
keep an eye on honest settlers
and see that they received help
when needed. A neighbor called
one day at. the Peacock home to
borrow their 45 gun for the pur
pose, he said, of knocking over
a deer. He was given the weap
on with holsters and belt of cart
ridges, strapped the artillery on
y xoncu iv>i o waaauuu icn.
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Funds Appropriated
To Purchase Hickey
Farm For Airport
At the regular meeting of the
City Council on Wednesday even
ing of last week, they passed Or
dinance No. 213-A which provides
for appropriation of $6400 with
which to purchase land for an air
port. The city had taken an op
tion on the farm of John Hickey,
lVt miles west of the cemeteries
and comprises 320 acres, part of
which will be used for the airport.
The next step will be a survey
by an engineer from the Nebraska
Aernautic Board, who will furnish
an estimate of tne cost of putting
the field in shape for an airport.
We also understand that the State
Aeranautics Board will furnish the
money to level the runways and
other necessary work.
Now it seems certain that our
city will be on air map with an
established airport and be ready
to receive the benefits from some
of the airlines which will be estab
lished after the war. Only the
future can tells us just what the
real benefits will be.
D. H. Cronin Gains 35
In The Mail Vote Count
The official canvassing board
are busy counting the mail vote
and when the absent and disabled
voters ballots had been counted,
D. H. Cronin had gained 35 votes,
receiving 75 to Copeland’s 40. The
canvassing board were to start on
the soldier vote on Thursday
morning and will count those that
have already been received. After;
November 30th, the deadline for
receipt of mail votes, they will
canvass the remainder. We will
print the figures on the soldier vote
next week.
Capt. Jack Grady
Back From Battle Zone
Capt. Jack Grady arrived Wed
nesday from New York to spend:
a twenty-one day furlough visit-1
ing his wife, Mrs. J. F. Grady, of
Stuart, and his parents, Mr. apNd 1
Mrs. Henry Grady and other rela-1
tives here. Captain Grady has!
spent the past eighteen months j
overseas, being stationed in Eng- j
land and France. ,
Bob Brittell Visits
His Old Home Town
Bob Brittell, of Portland, Ore
gon, arrived in the city Wednes
day morning, coming up from
Neligh, where he had been visit- j
ing his brother, who is seriously
ill. Bob has been on the west
coast for about a year and is
an employee o|f the Kaiser Ship
building Company, where he has j
been employed ever since he
went west. Bob has put on a lot j
of weight since he left O’Neill i
which indicates that his work is
not of the flesh reducing sort,'
even if he has been collecting
$1.20 an hour.
Marriage Licenses
Clyde Brainard,43, and Fay
Atkinson, both of Stuart,( on No
vember 15.
night Wade, father of the Kid,
was shot. Out of the rough and
violent environment of t’ose
days have come Rev. and Mrs
Peacock to bear the banner of
the cross.
Since the automobile has be
come a commonplace, the bicycle
is the heritage of the boys. 1
believe it was J. P. Mann who
introduced the forerunner of the
modem bike to O’Neill’s unpaved
streets and no concrete walks.
Many gay goung blades and some
older gents took to the wheel one
after another but John Hecker
and Henry Murphy representing
the “white collar’’ boys, Joel Mc
Evony and I. R. Smith the "rough
necks,” preferred saddle horses
Hecker was something of a horse
fancier with a leaning toward
races. He got Frank Mann
aboard a blazed-face sorrel for
a race with an iron gray gelding
that I rode. The iron gray came
out a length or two ahead. Horse
bams were everywhere but the
town never had but one bicycle
and sporting goods establish
ment, a door or two east of Fred
Gatz’s meat market. Art Coy
kendall had one out of that stock
which*Doc Mathews rode home
one noon and found it hard pump
ing through the “dark ahd sandy
loam.” He remarked later that
he didn’t think much of the
bicycles that came as premiums
witn baking powder. Will Lock
ard was the first to bring on a
motor cycle when bikes were
fading out of the picture locally !
With the bikes rolling the streets
and roads in numbers somebody
attributed a remark to an Indian
brave over across the river to the'
effect that the pale face gent was
getting pretty lazy when he had
to sit down to walk. Conrad
Reka, Cap. McGowan and Tom
Golden were among the first to
frighten horses on O’Neill streets
with the crude forerunner of our
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up-tu-uatc tuio.
Quota For County In
The Sixth War Loan
Drive $561,700.00
The 6th War Loan Drive is un
der way all over the Nation and
will continue until December 31st.
Holt County’s quota in this cam
paign is $561,700.00.
Before long the Solicitors will
be calling on John Q. Citizen to
take his war loan subscription. He
is going to be mighty busy dur
ing the weeks ahead with his own
business—this soliciting will be an
extra load. When he calls, we
hope you will have your check
book handy and buy to the limit.
Quotas
Following is the quota by Town
ship:
Antelope _ $ 5,062.00
Atkinson ... .. 20,390.00
Atkinson City _ 48,540.00
Chambers 11,318.00
Chambers City . 14,271.00
Cleveland 5,946.00
Coleman .. 6,321.00
Conley .... _ 8,968.00
Deloit ..- 13,340.00
Dustin _ 5,017.00
Emmet —.-.— 8,700.00
Emmet City .. . 2,947.00
Ewing _ 5,856.00
Ewing City - 23,538.00
Fairview _ .. 4,431.00
Francis —- 4,170.00
1 n enn ar
VJUlUCli - iu,uuu.uvi
Grattan . 25.460.0C
Green Valley- 6,984.00
Holt Creek .._.. 2,100.00
Inman . 16,281.00
Inman City - 6,815.00
Iowa - 9,133.00
Josie _ 2,000.00
Lake . 7,083.00
McClure - 5,504.00
O’Neill City _ 88,692.00
Paddock _ 13,137.00
Pleasant View _ 5,528.00
Page City . 11,297.00
Rock Falls . — 9,499.00
Sand Creek _ 7,477.00
Saratoga - 5,626.00
Scott .-. 9,499.00
[Shamrock --- 4,702.00
i Sheridan _ 12,013.00
Shields . 13,237.00
Steel Creek.. — 9,154.00
Stuart . 24,829.00
Stuart City - 25,485.00
Swan ..—.. 7,020.00
Verdigris --- - 17,705.00
Willowdale _ 7,543.00
Wyoming _ 9,165.00
Warren Hall Injured
At Fort Crook
Mrs. Georgia Rasley received
word Tuesday evening that her
son, Pfc. Warren Hall, stationed
at Fort Crook, had sustained a
severe injury to his left hand,
when a booby trap, which was
lying on a table in the class room,
exploded as he picked it up.
Warren has been stationed at
Fort Crook for about a month,
and has had charge of the show
ing of film to the students.
Spec’al Announcement
For Men Who Need It
All men interested in playing
Volley Ball every Monday even
ing report to the old gymnasium
in the Public School building
next Monday, November 2 0, at
8:00 p. m.
O’Neill Girl To Wed
In The Near Future
Mr and Mrs. John Osenbaugh
announce the approaching mar
riage of their daughter, Mabell
Deloris to Erik Ericksen, son
of Mifc. Florence Ericksen, of
Mullen, Nebr. The wedding will
take place in December.
Can Be Increased
Retail Milk Prices
It was ordered last Thursday,
November 9, by M. E. Rawlings,
Sioux City District OPA Director*
that effective Saturday, Novem
ber 11, 1944, the retail price of
fluid milk could be raised to 12
cents per quart in any town under
10,000 population in the Sioux
City OPA District, with a former
retail ceiling price of 11 cents
per quart. Fluid milk prices at
wholesale in the same towns may
be ncreased to 10 cents a quart
where lower ceiling prices pre
vailed.
This price increase, Mr. Raw
lings said, was granter primarily
eo equalize the differential in
prices on milk in communities
over 10,000 and those under that
population.
Invoices No Longer
Needed For Alfalfa Sales
Retailers of alfalfa hay no long
er are required to issue invoices
on sales of less than one ton of
this commodity, the office of price
administration announced Mon
day.
This action, effective Novem
ber 16, 1944, removes the burden
involved in detailing the inifor
matton required bn an nv\pice
when this minor type of sale is
made, OPA said.
However, for enforcement pur
poses, invoices are still required
on sales of one ton or more of
alfalfa hay.
Mrs. F. N. Cronin spent Mon
day in Sioux City.
Mrs. Frank Nelson
Passes Away At
Lynch Thursday
Funeral services will be held on
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock
at Paddock Union Church for Mrs.
Frank Nelson, who passed away at
the Sacred Heart hospital in Lynch
on Thursday morning, November
16th at 1:30 a. m. after an illness
of one week. She had been in the
hospital only two days.
Services will be in charge of |
Rev. Dawson Park and burial will
be in the Paddock Union cemetery '
Sarah E. Hull was born at:
O’Neill, Nebraska on September 9,
1881 and was 63 years, 2 months
and 7 days of age at the time of
her death. She grow to woman
hood in northern Holt County and
was united in marriage to Frank
Nelson at the homo of her parents
on December 5, 1912. To this un
ion were born two children, one
son Paul of O’Neill and one daugh
ter, Mrs. Edward Kaczor. O'Neill.
She is survived by her husband,
the two children, three
grandchildren, her mother, Mrs.
Sarah E. Hull and four sisters and
six brothers: Elmer Hull, Niobrara,
j Nebr.; Clyde Hull. Atkinson, Nebr.;
Levi Hull, O’Neill; Mrs. Alice Mil
ler, Boorte, Iowa; Arch Hull, of
Crookston, Nebr.; William Hull,
Redbird; Mrs. Atha Jones, O’Neill;
Mrs. Esther Haines, Parmalee, S.
D.; Edwin Hull, Sioux City, Iowa
and Mrs. Edna Mellor, Redbird.
Pallbearers will be: Sam Rob
ertson, Axel Borg, Arthur Rowse,
Virgil Hubby, Chas. Fox and Nate
Conaro.
County Clerk Gallagher
Resigns Following Report
On Audit Of His Office
The Holt County Board of Su
pervisors met in special session
last Tuesday, following receipt of
a copy of the audit, made on the
county officers the past few
months. (A copy of the report
will be found on page eight of
this issue of The Frontier.) The
audit disclosed that County Clerk
Gallagher was short in his ac
counts about $1,200. Mr. Gal
1 lagher appeared before the board
and tendered his resignation,
which was accepted, and Judge
Reimers is now supervising the
clerk’s office, pending the ap
pointment of a clerk.
Mr Gallagher has been county
clerk for about ten years and
has made an efficient official.
| While the shortage as found
by the auditors, is about as stated
above, we understand that the
money collected for the fish and
game commission are not audited
by the State Auditor and that
and that the total shortage will
be nearly $2,000.
will be nearly $2,000.
The county board will fill the
vacancy in he office at thei?
next regular meeting, on Tues
day November 28, and already
there are many mentioned in con
nection with the appointment.
Sitting on the side lines it looks
to us as if Ed Matousek stands the
best chance of getting the ap
pointment, if he wants it. Ed
has been on the county board ifor
; a number of years and possesses
the ability and knowledge of
county affairs to make a splendid
clerk.
Presbyterian Church
Kenneth J. Scott, Pastor
O'Neill, Nebr.
Announcements for week of
November 19-26
Sunday, November 19
10:00 a. m. — Sunday School.
j Mr. Sauers, Supt.
11:00 a. m.—Morning Worship
| Sermon: “Sin”.
6:00 p. m.—Junior Christian En
deavor.
7:00 p. m.—Senior Christian En
deavor. Leader, Joann Burgess.
Tuesday, Nov. 21st
Mid-Week Devotional Service
at 8:00 p. m. in the Church Base
ment.
Thursday, Nov. 23rd
Circle No. 1 meets at the home
of Mrs. Dewey Schaffer with Mrs.
George Rector assisting.
Christ Lutheran
Missouri Synod
Roiahard Koapp. Pastor
Sunday. November 19
Sunday School — 2:00 p. m.
Daniel in the Lions’ Den—Dan. 6,
1-28.
Worship—3:00 p. m. In this ser
vice we again celebrate the Lord’s
Supper. All who wish to partake
of it will please make their inten
tions known to the pastor before
hand.
Monday and Thursday evenings,
at 6:30 and 7:30 respectively, con
! firmation instruction for children
and adults at the parsonage.
Thursday evening at 8:30^—Sun
day School Teachers meet at the
i parsonage.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Parkins
were surprised this week
when they received word
from their son, Sgt. J. M. Parkins
I of the 46th Engineers, that he
was now stationed in the Philli
pines, after having been stationed
in New Guinea for the past three
years.
Mr and Mrs. Homer Mullen at
tended the Bankers’ Convention
in Omaha last Saturday.
List Of Holt County Men
Inducted Into Service And
Those Taking Preinduction
Inducted
List of Registrants inducted dur
ing the month of November:
Albert W. Kopejtka, Oppor
tunity.
Donald A. Shonka, Chambers.
Thomas F. Bilstein, Amelia.
Howard R. Oberle, Dorsey.
Donald R. Taylor, Opportunity.
Carl S. Berg, Atkinson.
George J. Nachtman, Chambers.
Eugene R. Hoffman, Stuart.
William J. Langan, Spencer.
Pre-Induction
List of Registrants to be Pre
Inducted during the month of
November:
George M. Mellor, Stuart.
Donald A. Kaup, Stuart.
Donald D. Mareellus, Stuart.
Evan R. Garwood, Atkinson.
Vern C. Wrede, O’Neill.
Ralph L. Adair, Amelia.
Donald D. Barnes, Atkinson.
Orvel Neal, O’Neill.
Leonard J. Ruzieka, Dorsey.
William L. Timm, Page.
Dale W. Hamilton, Middle
branch.
Roy A. Worth, O’Neill.
Zane E. Searles, Redbird.
John A. Etherton. O’Neill.
Another O’Neill Boy
Wears Pilot’s Wings
Victorville Army Air Field,
Victorville, Cal.,—Augmenting
the striking power of the Air
Forces, another class of bombard
iers was placed on active duty
today as flying officers in the
United States Army Air Forces.
Trained as bombardiers, the
graduates of Victorville Army
Air Field, a station in the AAF
Training Command, are also qual
ified gunners and navigators.
Each officer to complete the 18
week AAF course is capable of
performing all three assignments
aboard a medium bombardment
plane.
Col. Earl C. Robbins, command
ing officer at the field, presented
the men with their newly won
rank, while Col. Daniel B. White
awarded the graduates the silver
wings symbolic of their position
in the Air Forces.
Among the men to graduate at
Victorville in this class was: F.
O. Gene M. McKenna, 19, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McKenna,
O’Neill Nebr.
F. O. McKenna was graduated
from O’Neill High School in 1943,
and he also attended Wayne
State Teachers’ College.
Throughout his school years he
figured prominently in athletics.
Prior to entering service F. O.
McKenna was employed by
Lloyd’s Booterie as a shoe sales
clerk.
One brother, Lt. Hugh F. Mc
Kenna, is in the Quartermaster
Corps.
Victory Homemakers Meet
With Mrs. Joe Ramold
The Victory Homemakers Club
met at the home of Mrs. Joe
Ramold on Thursday, Nov. 9th.
All members were present, includ
ing a new one, Mrs. Walter Puck
ett.
Our leaders gave the lesson,
“Christmas in War Time,” which
was very interesting and which
we all enjoyed very much.
It was an all-day meeting and
dinner was served by Mrs. Ramold
and Mrs. Joe Pongratz. After the
meeting a birthday party was giv
en for Mrs. Carl Hoppe, Leona
Winkler, and Mrs. Bernard Pon
gratz. Each one received many
nice gifts.
The Christmas meeting will be
held at Mrs. Rex Beckwith’s on
December 14th.
Mileage Rationing Card
Needed For Added Gas
“Keep your Mileage Rationing
Record,’’ is the reminder given
to motorists by M. E. Rawlings.
Sioux City District Office of Price
Administration Director.
“This is extremely important,’
he stressed, “as it is necessary
that it be presented to the board
by the applicant when an appli
cation is made for a supplemental
gasoline ration”
“When motorists made appli
cation for their new basic [A1
gasoline rations September 21, in
stead of the usual tire inspection
record which was formerly need
ed, a Mileage Rationing Record
was attached to the bottom of
the application. When the ap
plication was approved at the
War Price and Rationing Board,
this Mileage Record was detach
ed and returned to the applicant
with his basic “A” coupons.
This Mileage Rationing Record
must be kept in the motorist’s
possession at all times, Mr. Raw
lings said, as it is necessary that
this record be presented to the
local board when an application
is made for supplemental gaso
line.
FREE War Picture Show
Exclusive War Pictures will
be shown at the Royal Theatre
on Tuesday. November 21, at 9:30
A. M.. auspices of Office of Price
Administration.
SPORT NEWS
AND VIEWS
Richard Cronin
The St. Mary’s High School
six man football team has again
this week gained state recog
nition being placed sixth in the
state Top Ten six man football
teams in the State Journal nn'd
eighth in the Omaha World-Her-1
aid. Richard Clark, St. Mary’s
hard hitting full back, again
gained state attention by making
six touchdowns against St Mary’s
of Grand Island.
The O’Neill High School Eagles
dropped their third game of the
season, against five victories, last
Saturday when they traveled to
Neligh and played their annual
Armistice Dal tussol with Neligh
comng home on the short end of
a 25-9 score. The Eagles tried
hard and played good ball, but
the Neligh squad seemed to have
too much power for the Eagles,
although from reports that 1 have
heard, the game was much better
than the score indicates. Although
the Eagles have won five out of
their eight games, there is some
thing interesting in the fact that
there are only twelve eleven man
teams in the state of Nebraska
which arc still undefeated and
among these teams are Ord, Bur
well and Neligh, the only teams
to defeat the Eagles this year.
Besides this the Eagles trimmed
Ainsworth 13-6 a few weeks back,
and Ainsworth is supposed to
have one of the best teams in the
state. This week the Eagles wiil
be getting in shape to play their
last game of the season, when
they go to Atkinson to play their
annual game with the Atkinson
Haybalers next week. O’Neill
has high hopes of defeating At
kinson and finishing the season
with a record showing six wins
and three losses, which is a fine
record when you notice the good
teams the Eagles have been play
ing all season.
In the college and service
games over the week-end the Ne
braska Cornhuskers, after tying
up the score 6 all, had another
defeat added to their list as> Iowa
State finished on the long end of
a 19-6 score. The Cornhuskers
played a much better game than
they did against Iowa the week
end before, but the staters had
too much power for the Huskers.
The Huskers have an open date
this week-end, so they can pre
! pare for their last home game of
the season on November 25, when
| they will play Kansas State to
| see which team will occupy the
cellar in the Big Six standings
j The other two conference games
' in the Big Six were upsets, with
i the Missouri Tigers tying the Ok-1
lahoma elevt n 21 all, and heavily j
favored Kansas being defeated by
Kansas State 18-14 in one of the]
best games of the day. The big-!
gest upset in the Big Ten found
the Minnesota Gophers triumph
ing 19-14 over the Indiana Hoos-j
iers in a conference game. Other;
conference games found! Michigan
beating 111 nois 14-0, whi e Purdue
kept in line for the title by sink
ing Northwestern 27-7; Wisconsin
walloped the Hawkeyes irom
Iowa 26-7; while in a non confer
ence game the all-civilian un
defeated eleven from Ohio State
ran through Pittsburgh 54-19
In service games the Lincoln
Army Air Field Wings finished
their season with six out of seven
wins as they humbled the Skyers
from Ottumwa Naval Air Station
39-0; the undefeated Randolph
Field eleven trimmed Maxwell
field 25-0; Great Lakes had to
come from behind to defeat Mor
ris Field 12-10; March Field hung
a 28-0 lacing on Washington Uni
versity, while the Norman Zoom
ers remained undefeated by
walloping the Lubbock Army Air
Field 42 0. In the east the Iowa
Seahawks whipped Bunker Hill
33-7; while the coast Guard beat
Dartmouth 19-0.
The undefeated St. Mary’s High
School six man football team
marched to its eighth straight con
quest of the season here last Fri
day afternoon at Carney Park
when they stampeded the sextet
from St. Mary’s, of Grand Island,
53-14.. Richard Clark, St. Mary’s
fullback candidate for All-State
honors, was again the spark plug
for the Cards as he ran into pay
dirt territory six times curing the
afternoon, scoring thirty p ints
for the undefeated St. Mary’s
team. St. Mary’s were without
the aid of two regulars. Small f
but fast and shifty, Edward
Campbell, first string quart r
back, broke his collar bone early,
in the first quarter and Williarq
Kelly, their star halfback, was,
also handicapped by injuries. |
which kept him on the bench
the entire game. Neither of these J
boys are expected to see any j
ac'ion against the Butte team in!
the season’s final game for the
Cards this coming Friday after
noon at Carney Park. The Card'
inals with a win over Butte Fri
day will complete their first un
defeated season and wind up
their fifth straight year of foot-!
ball. The Cardinals started to j
play six man football in 1940, j
when they had one of the first
parochial six man football teams!
in the state. They had a very |
j successful season tnat year, win- j
United War Fund
Drive In Holt Co.
% i <
Is Very Successful q
The 1944 United War Fund cam
paign has come to a close in Holt
County. The quota assigned for
the county was exceeded by a con
siderable amount. A complete list
of the quotas assigned and the
final donations received is given
below. The total collection as
shown has been remitted to the
state headquarters of the National
War Fund in Lincoln.
In closing the 1944 drive, the
chairman, on behalf of all com
mittee members, extends kindest
thanks to all who donated to this
worthy and patriotic fund.
The success of the drive result
ed from the fine spirit shown by
the committee members who
actually made the solicitations.
The chairman is indeed grateful
to these people; without their aid
the drive would, not have been
successful. Special thanks are due
Ralph Kelly of Atkinson who acted
as publicity director and Mrs.
Blanche Spann Pease who served
as rural chairman.
Edward M. Gallagher,
Holt County Chairman.
Township
Antelope _$
Atkinson _
Atkinson City _
Chambers Twp.
and Village _
Cleveland_
oleman_
onley_
Deloit_._
Dustin _
Emmet Twp
and Village_
i Ewing_
Ewing Village -
Fairview _
Francis_
golden_
rattan_
i Green Valley _
Holt Creek_
Inman Twp.
and Village_
Iowa -
Josie _
Lake_
McClure -
[O’Neill City ......
i Paddock ..
l Pleasant View „
Rock Falls _
i Sand Creek_
1 Saratoga _
Scott ... ...
Shamrock__
Sheridan_
Shields _
Steel Creek _
Stuart
Stuart Village
Swan .
Verdigris .......
Page Village
Willowdale _
Wyoming _
Total...
Quota Collected
73.00 $ 60.00
295.00 304.60
648.00 776.20
350.00 387.00
86.00 113.00
91.00 107.00
130.00 128.50
193.00 122.70
71.00 87.60
167.00 242.20
84.00 70.60
326.00 212.70
64.00 71.60
60.00 73.00
155.00 158.2S
354.00 321.50
101.00 175.50
28.00 56.60
334.00 359.00
132.00 99.00
26.00 22.15
102.00 131.50
68.00 110.00
1,215.00 1,483.37
190.00 193.70
80.00 82.60
137.00 118.25
10800 167.75
81.00 132.62
137.00 152.00
68.00 72.00
174.00 233.45
192.00 199.00
124.00 127.50
359.00 271.25
364.00 365.00
100.00 121.51
252.00 277.50
160.00 161.00
109.00 160.00
132.00 205.00
$7,920.00 $8,797.10
Future Farmers Hold
A Meeting Tuesday
A meeting of the O’Neill Chap
ter of the Future Farmers od
America was called to order, Tues
day, Nov. 14, by the President,
Larry Schaffer. Roll of members
was called and almost all were
present including: Dean Oberle.
Merlin Shaw, John Etherton, Dur
ven Kipple, and Raymond Noble,
who are alumni of O’Neill High
School.
The President got out the busi
ness plans for the evening and
called on the chairmen of stand
ing committees, who are as fol
lows: Raymond Revell, Larry
Schaffer, Max Kipple, Richard
Fox, Kenneth Berglund, Charles
Johnson, Ralph Rector, Bill Hart
man, and Norman Oberle. Ths
Freshmen were appointed to thoss
committees.
The meeting was adjourned by
the President. Lunch was served
by Richard Fox and Max Kippls
after the meeting.
Bob Walters, of Omaha, spent
Wednesday here on bus ness.
ning seven out of eight games,
losing only the season’s final ir>
the last few minutes 28-22 against
the sextet from Verdigre. In their
first year of football they scorei*
over 300 points to their oppon
ents 50. The starting lineup for
the Cards in their first football
game was: Ends, Ted Sirek and
Gerald Kleinschm dt; Center*
Duke Kersenbrock; Quarterback.
Bill Ryan; Halfback. George
Hammond and Fullback Johnnji
Shoemaker. Fritz Hickey and
Robert Miles also saw a good deal
of action during the year. Other
members of the 1940 team were:
Jack Harty,, Fomaine S‘ein,
Robert Parkins, Bob Moore, Don
McKenna, Jim Higgins, Johnny
Femholtz, Art Jurgensmeir and
Vincent Streeter. Then in the
two following years 41 and 42 the
Cards hit the skids losing more
than they won, but always re
membering the olds y ng, “ tin*fr
if you won or lost but how you’ve
played the game.” Then last
year the Cards began to roll back
into motion and this year witt*. **"
nine lettermen returning the ,
Cards have been improving with
each game and have become one
of the finest sextets n the state.
So this Friday they will com
plete five years of football with
a victory over Butte, which will
give them their first undeffeated
and untied season. So here’s
good luck io you, Cards.