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LXV O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945 NO. 42
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Atkinson, Nebr.
The cottonwrood for our state
tree is eminently satisfactory to
most of us in this section of Ne
braska but cornhusker is a fitting
designation for only about one
third of the whole of the state.
We don’t like rationing, don't
like ceiling prices, don’t like a
lot of mysterious wonders a
bureaucrat can think up. Maybe
I t he boys in the foxholes, in steam
ing mud, in artic ice, don't like
their setup either.
It is said a soldier from Ok
lahma has accounted for 130 of
the ehemy in Europe as the result
of him pressing the trigger of a
Springfield. An army of eight
million duplicating that record
Europe would be open for re
settlement.
Lowering the voting age to 18
was met with disfavor down at
the state house. Why impose on
the youth unnecessary burdens—
let them be kids while they may.
Life’s worries come soon enough
and why turn the politicians loose
after our boys and girls.
’Rhere may be a shortage of
overalls, cowboy boots and ladies’
swanky hose in the O’Neill stores,
but the window displays of finery
are pictures of "the best city win
dow trimmers art. A visit to the
stores is an education in modes
and fashions, while the food and
fruit dealers lure with a grand
array of their wares.
There will probably be no ob
jection to raising salaries if a
way can be found to do it with
out taking it out of the hide of
the harassed land owner, the
widow, the retired horney- hand
ed gentry and even the worried
looking banker. And maybe in
the raise could be included all of
us now dizzy-headed over
shrunken value of the little old
income.
* The Frontier has “carried on”
" against great odds in recent
weeks, along with a lot of other
important or inconsequental
units and factors in the country’s
complex industrial, social and
journalistic setup. The old man
himself and the instigator of
1‘Small Doses’.’ arrived on the
scene the day the paper should
have gone into the mails and
have had it all to do in a day or
two. But the supposed superan
uated old clouts swung into it
and made a paper.
Out of the tragedies on battle
fields and the seven seas there
comes to nearly a million desolat
ed homes in America the words of
a great prophet: “The Lord
taketh pleasure in them that fear
him. . . . He healeth the broken
in heart, and bindeth up their
wounds.” And maybe it is worth
while to recall the words of one
other great prophet: “The earth
also is defiled under the inhabit
ants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the ever
lasting covenant.”
Cloudless heavens, a full moon
riding in silver glory above the
Iree tops an hour after the name
less lights and shadows of a
late February sunset have faded
in the west, the landscape blank
eted in white purity, there is a
winter charm on the prairie land
at night. Light from the celes
tial orbs touch us in transcending
calm while the roar of battle
brings ruin to far distant lands.
Well housed, abundantly fed,
ampe apparel, shall we snarl and
snap because of some real or
^fancied deprivations.
f The oddities—maybe it should
be said the abnormal—of Ameri
can life are thrown on the picture
from time to time that just about
make a prairie dweller gasp.
A household bull dog was sen
tenced by a California court to
be electrocuted. The dog fan
ciers the country over have sent
in a flood of protests against the
execution of the dog. And why
the execution? Because the life
of a little baby was sacrificed
when the dog closed his vicious
jaws on the child’s throat. The
young parents were helpless to
save their baby. How about a
hickory club for that bull dog
and forget the court sentence.
The death of Mrs. Evans, to be
buried here Saturday, removes
another from the nearly exhaust
ed ranks of former prominent
O’Neill citizens. Her many years
residence here was identified
with the business, social, church
and civic activities of the com
munity, in which she found pleas
ure in giving her best efforts.
She and her late husband, son
Ralph and daughter, Ruth, were
for many years prominent cit
izens of O’Neill. And Mrs.
Evans came from a prominent
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family of Holt county ranchers,
her father and brother, Andrew
Pottir, opeiating a cattle ranch
some sixteen miles southwest of
O'Neill in the earlier years of
that industry in southern Holt.
The old friends left in O’Neill
will have an opportunity to pay
a final tribute to the memory of
one of their esteemed and splen
did former citizens.
Mrs. W. T. Evans
Laid to Rest Here
Mrs. W. T. Evans passed away
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ruth Rhodes, at Payette, Idaho,
last Friday, February 23, 1895 of
concer of the mouth at the age of
89 years, 11 months, and 13 days.
Funeral services will be held in
this city Saturday afternoon at
2:00 o’clock at the Presbyterian
Church with Rev. Kenneth J.
Scott in charge. Burial will be
made in Prospect Hill Cemetery
beside the grave of her husband.
She was born on March 10th,
1855 at North Hector, New York
to Aaron T. Potter and Amanda
Ely Potter. When just a baby
three months old the family mov
ed to Junian, Wisconsin and from
there to Boone, Iowa a little later.
She was united in marriage to
Wesley Tillson Evans at Boone,
Iowa on June 13th, 1878. Two chil
dren were bom to this marriage:
Ralph Potter Evans and Ruth
Evans Rhodes. The family moved
to O’Neill in 1885, where they re
mained until after World War I.
After Mr. Evans passed away on
November 3rd, 1921, Mrs. Evans
the next yeaf left O’Neill and has
made her home with her daughter,
Mrs. Rhodes, at Payette, Idaho un
til her death.
She is survived by her son,
Ralph Potter Evans; her daughter,
Mrs. Ruth Evans Rhodes; 6 grand
children and 8 great grandchil
dren; and two nephews.
Until her illness started last
April she was active in the life of
the community and church at Pay
ette as she always was here in
O’Neill. Those who knew her
best testify that her faith in God,
her love for her church, family,
and friends was beautiful to be
hold.
Personal Tribute by Reverend
Mr. Longstaff
Mrs. Evans was a clever woman
with good native ability, a great
leader, and a wise counselor. She
was first in every enterprise. No
minister and his family ever had
a better and more loyal friend. No
work was too menial for her to
do. She took an interest in all the
activities of the church. Her purse
strings were open to every good
cause. She was a friendly woman
and consequently had many
friends. Catholics and Protestants
alike revered and loved her name.
Our prayers and sympathy are
with those who sorrow.
George and Susan Longstaff.
Atkinson Half
Section Sold
for $19,200
In district court Friday morning
the sale of a half section of land
west of Atkinson for $60 an acre
was confirmed. The land invol
ved was the partition sale of the
estate off Thomas Hanrahan and
was purchased by the tenant, Joe
Staka, who handed over the cash
for title to be passed to him.
CAR FOR WASTE PAPER
ON TRACK MARCH 2-3
A car for waste paper will be
on track in O'Neill March 2nd and
3rd and anyone in O’Neill who
has not had their paper picked up,
should call 8-R12 or 94 and an
effort will be made to get it.
Complaints have been coming in
about tin cans in O’Neill. We ex
pected to ship a car in November,
but to date haven’t a car. About
five out of every six cans have
been thrown away, so we would
| like to give vou the list of stores
in O’Neill where they will accept
' tin cans: Ideal Market, IGA Store,
| and Council Oak.
Mrs. Ethel Cole.
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Joe Fuen To Reopen Cafe
In O'Neill This Month
Joe Fuen came up from Norfolk
Tuesday and leased the Brennan
building where he formerly oper
ated a cafe and will reopen a cafe
in that location sometime about
the middle of the month.
He sold out here last year and
went to Norfolk where he was
employed as a cook, but quit his
job there and decided to relocate
here. He left Thursday morning
for Omaha to purchase equipment
and supplies for the cafe.
Percy M. Mentzer and S. Eliza
beth Ford, both of Atkinson, were
I granted a marriage license the
■ 19th and married on the 22nd by
Rev. A. C. Birmingham of At
kinson. On February 25 Wayne
E Gannon, of Inman, and Miss
Alice V. Sexsmith of O’Neill,
were married by Rev. D. Park of
this city.
Miss Helen Shane spent the
past week-end with a schoolmate
and friend, Bonnie Noble at Star,
Nebr.
Assessors Will
Soon be Coming
State Tax Commissioner Arm
strong will be in the city next
week to advise in the lining up
of work with the new tax sched
ule forms introduced for the first
time this year. Assessor Gilles
pie and his assistant just now
are checking up and placing val
uations on schedules of some
4,000 automobiles, valuation be
ing based on one-third the trade
in ceiling price of used cars.
Stockmen will be interested in
the following figures to govern
the 1945 assessment o|f cattle:
Purebreds: Calves $15, six to
18 months $45, 18 to 30 months
$50, milk cows $85, stock cattle
$70, bulls $100.
Grades: Calves $10, six to 18
months $35, 18 to 30 months $45,
milk cows $75„ $60, bulls $90.
Hogs and grain to be assessed
1 at 25% less than market price.
An effort will probably be
made to get a number of tracts
of land more nearly in line with
i the general plan throughout Ne
braska of assessing at 65 per cent
of sale value. For instance, the
assessor’s records show one body
of land in the county valued for
assessment at $5,000 which was
sold for $19,500. Another tract
was sold for $15,750 that had
been listed for taxation at $3,000;
another sold for $11,000 assessed
at $2,830. Land values as a
whole in the county were found
by the check up at the state
equalization to be 15 per cent
above state estimate.
With Army in
Italy
With the Fifth Army, Italy.—
Corporal Kemp G. Hopkins of
Inman, Nebr., holder of the
Bronze Star for meritorious ser
vice in combat, is returning home
on furlough from the Fifth Army
front in Italy.
Hopkins, who has seen 470
days of combat during the Tun
' isian and Italian campaigns, was
a members of the Iowa National
j Guard and entered Federal ser
i vice in January, 1941. Sent to
Camp Claiborne, La., he joined
a field artilliary battalion of the
34th “Red Bull’ Infantry Division.
After serving in Ireland for
eight months, Hopkins arrived
in Algiers in January, 1943, and
saw action, as a wireman and a
driver throughout the Tunisian
drive. After arriving at Salerno,
Italy, in September, 1943, he kept
telephone lines intact during the
Italian drive through the crack
ing of the Gothic line.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Hopkins, live in Inman.
A FRAGRANT MEMORY
In a world aflame with hatred,
the milk of human kindness, the
spirit of sympathetic ministry,
lives on in the prairie land. The
ministry by mail and in person
of the friends in Holt and other
counties will be cherished by us
as a fragrant memory.
Romaine Saunders
and Children.
To the “old timer” it is a trav
esty on an ancient and honored
tradition of Holt county to see
a lumbering old truck moving
along tfne streets loaded with
loose hay. That was once the
perogative of the rural monarch
atop a loaded rack driving a span
of bays. He might set around
town a half day before he got a
bid of $1.50 for his load but he
would be in again in a few days
with another. The town ate a lot
of hay with every other citizen
having a string of race horses
and but few families pretended to
maintain a household without a
milk cow.
Mrs. Frank H. Griffith received
word last week through the San
Francisco O. P. that her grandson,
Capt. Darrel Griffith of the U.
S. Air Service, has been trans
ferred from the Kelley Field in
Texas to overseas service, which
may mean the Philippine area.
Capt. Griffith was graduated
, for service in the air in 1942 and
| will now fill an important mission
‘ in the zone of operations against
| the Pacific enemy.
Mayor John Kersenbrock had
| men on the street today putting
up the flashy banners welcoming
to O’Neill the basketball players
and their boosters from other
towns. The city was honored with
a happy and restless crowd of
youngsters. Its great to be
young.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mossman of
■ Inman have received the dis
quieting word from the European
war zone that their son, Staff
Sgt. Leo R. Mossman, tail gunner
on a Marauder, is missing in
action.
William J. Grady, A. S., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grady of
this city, is expected home next
Thursday from the Great Lakes
I Navy Station on Lake Michigan
. on his first leave since joining
I the Navy.
R. H. Shriner, R.d Cross chair
man for Holt county, opened the
drive today to raise $7,200, the
quota for the county, and the
campaign will contiuue through
out the month of March. Mr.
Shriner plans to keep the public
informed of the progress of the
campaign by publishing from
time to time names and amounts
of those donatin and hopes to
have the first list in readiness by
another week.
Calmer Simonson
Called to Rest
The grim reaper has laid a
pale hand upon another pioneer
of Holt county. Calmer Simon
son came to life’s journeys end in
Council Bluffs on February 27,
one month before his birthday
which would have fallen on
March 27. Early in the winter
Mr. Simonson, whose home was
northeast of O’Neill, sustained a
slight stroke from which he soon
seemed to have recovered.An
other later followed and he was
taken to the city but a sudden
intensified cerebral hemorrhage
resulted in his death.
Deceased was born March 27,
1875, in Dane county, Wisconsin,
to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Simon
son. When Calmer was a child
of three years the family moved
to Clay county, Nebrraska, and
in 1881 came to Holt county, es
tablishing a homesteader’s dwell
ing place on the fertile prairie
over toward the Red Bird. Cal
mer grew to manhood in this
county and in 1899 was married
to Gertrude Leeper, the daugh
ter of another pnoneer family,
who with two son* preceded him
in death. The deceased is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs.
Bert Dickason and Miss Carol
Simonson, both of Council Bluffs,
Iowa. A son, Venton Simonson
resides in Omaha. He also leaves
two brothers, L. A. and I. V. Sim
onson, well known residents of
this community.
The funeral will he held under
the direction of Big]in Brothers
Friday at 2 p. m., at the Presby
terian church. Rev. Scott will
conduct the service and burial
will follow in Prospect Hill.
Phillip A Allendorfer, Carl Widt
feldt, John Lansworth, Henry
Martin, ITa U I (.-*se and Charles
Berger, pallbearers.
Two Years in the
Bleak Aluetians
Pvt. Wesley Taylor, son tofVVIr.
and Mrs. Jack Taylor formerly,
of the Opportunity neighborhood
but now living near Atkinson,1
came in on the Thursday morning
train for a thirty day visit with i
his parents and other relatives
and friends here. Pvt. Taylor
came direct from the Aleutian
Islands, where he had been for
the past two years. He said
they le|l there on February 41
and that he had been traveling
constantly since that time, wihich
gives some idea of the distance.
After his furlough is over he
expects to be stationed in the
states for some time.
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BRIEFLY STATED
Landlord Gage of the Stock
men hotel in Atkinson, was in
tihc city today.
James R. Roomy is spending a
few days in Wheeler county on
business for the Credit Associa
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bly, of
Swan precinct, had business in
the city Wednesday and visited
at the home of Mrs. Bly’s brother
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Dexter.
Mrs. Ira George was taken to
Sioux City Thursday for surgery,
following the operation in the
evening she was reported in
serious condition.
Mrs. Ruth Evans-Rhodes of
Payette, Idalho, and her niece,
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Oswald, of
Sterling, Col., arrived with the
body of Mrs. Evans on the North
western this (Friday) morning.
Ralph Evans was expected to ar
rive during the day.
George Mellor, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Mellor, living north
of this city, came home this
morning from the Naval Train
ing Station at Great Lakes, 111.,
where he had just completed his
boot training, for a visit with the
home folks.
The Misses Fern Hubbard and
Marjorie Dickson came up from
Lincoln Thursday to attend the
Simonson funeral. Miss Dickson
is taking a year’s rest in Lincoln.
Miss Hubbard is an instructor in
the Lincoln schools and heads the
teachers’ association in the cap
ital city.
A WEEK OF MANY LOCAL WEDDINGS
Popular Holt County Young
People Take Nuptial Vows
ANSON-BLAIN
On Friday, February 23, at 6:00
o’clock Miss Ruth Ervie Anson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S.
Anson, of Orchard, Nebr., became
the bride of Homer L. Blain, son
ctf Mrs. Ellen Blain, Middle
branch, Nebr. The wedding took
place at the Anson residence two
and one half miles west of Or
chard.
Miss Carlie Blain, sister of the
groom, played the wedding
march. Mrs. Harold Blain, sister
otf the bride, sang, "Alone With
God.” Rev. C. A. Phipps per
formed the ceremony.
The bride wore a wedding
gown of white sharkskin and
brocaded satin and a short veil.
Miss Sarah Anson., sister of
the bride, was maid of honor.
Slhe wore an aqua blue floor
length gown. Harold Blain,
brother of the groom, was best
man. The groom and best man
wore dark blue suits.
Following the ceremony a
wedding supper was served ffor
the guests. The wedding cake
trimmed in pink garlands graced
the bridal table. Guests present
were: Kev. and Mrs. C. A.
Phipps and family, Venus; Rev.
and Mrs. Ivan Turner and son,
Raymond Lee, Page; Mrs. Ellen
Blain, mother of the groom, who
returned from California to be
present at the ceremony; Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Huston and family,
Page; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blain
and sons; Miss Carlie Blain,
Middlebranch; Mrs. Ervie Anson,
Orchard, grandmother of the
bride; Mr. and Mrs. Theron An
son, Orchard; Miss Bernice Strope
enus; Miss Helen Wegman, Page.
The bride graduated from
High School at the Faith Bible
School, Mitchell, S. D., in 1932,
and completed a three years
Theological course at Faith Bible
School and Missionary Training
School, Tabor, Iowa, in 1938.
The past two and a half years
have been spent at home helping
with the farm work. Mr. Blain
attended High School at Tabor,
Iowa. He served thirty-one
months in the army. Two thirds
df that time was spent in the
Aleutian Islands. He received
his honorable discharge Novem
ber, 1944.
The happy young couple will
make their home on the Blain
farm near Middlebranch, Nebr.
SEXSMITH-GANNON
In the presence of fifty friends
and relatives, Miss Alice Sex-!
smith became the bride of Wayne
Gannon, A. M. 2-c, U. S. Navy, in
a wedding ceremony at 4 o’clock
Sunday afternoon in the Metho
dist Church of this city. The
double ring ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. Dawson Park.
The bride, given in marriage
by H. B. Burch, a close friend of
the family, was charming in a
street length dress of winter
white with which she wore a cor
sage of orchid Chinese iris and
gold friesia. Her only attendant
was Mrs. Ralph Vaecks who wore
gold wool with gold and brown
accessories and a corsage of Chin
ese iris and gold friesia. The
bridegroom in his uniform of
servee was attended by his cousin
William Pensen, otf Grand Island.
Preceding the ceremony, Miss
Phyllis Johnson sang “Oh Prom
ise Me” accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. Harold Lindberg. Lho
engrin's Wedding March as the
processional and Mendelschonn’s
Recessional were also played by
Mrs. Lindberg.
n weuamg ainner was served
at six o’clock in the Blue Room
of the M and M Cafe to the wed
ding party and their immediate
families. Mr. and Mrs. John
Borders of Gordon, Nebr., uncle
and aunt of the groom, were out
of town guests.
The bride is the youngest
daughfer of Mrs. Letta Sexsmith
of thisi city and has been employ
ed by the Northwestern Bell
Telephone company for the past
several years. The groom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gannon
of Inman and only recently re
turned to the United States after
serving thirty months in the
Pacific at various Naval Air
Bases.
The happy couple left on a
short wedding trip Sunday even
ing, but will return to O’Neill
and Inman to visit friends and
relatives until the expiration of
his leave, when they wlil go to
Seattle, Wash., to make their
home.
VAN HORN-POESSNECKER
The St. John’s Lutheran church
in Atkinson was the scene of a
lovely wedding Tuesday, Feb-;
ruary 21, at 1:30 o’clock, when |
Doris Van Horn became the bride
of Thilo Poessenecker.
The double ring eeremony was
performed by the Rev. Thomas
Tychren of Atkinson. Ottmer
Poessnecker sang, “Oh Perfect
Love” and “Take My Hand” with
Werner Poessnecker at the piano.
The bride was lovely in a floor
length wedding gown of pink
satin and net with a finger tip
veil of double illusion, edged
in lace and caught with a beaded
tiara; she carried an arm boquet
of pink roses and sweet peas.
The matron of honor was Mrs.
Elmer Goldfuss, sister of the
bride. She wore a floor length
gown of blue net and carried a
boquet of sweet peas.
The groom was attended by
Alex Frickel. They both wore
dark suits and carrination bou
<tiers.
The bride’s mother wore green
crepe and a corsage of gardenias
and the groom’s mother wore
blue crepe and a corsage of gar
denias.
The bride is the youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Van
Horn, farmers living north of At
kinson. The groom is a son of
Mr3. Pauline Poessnecker of At
flinson.
Following the wedding a re
ception was held in the church
basement for close relatives
and friends. Assisting at the re
ception were Mr. and Mrs. Ru
dolph Poessnecker, Mrs. Werner
Poessnecker and Mrs. Emery
Mathers.
Mr. and Mrs. Poessnecker will
make ttheir home on a farm north
of Atkinson.
FIRST LT. R. S. GALLAGHER
AND BRIDE VISITING HERE
^ First Lt. and Mrs. Robert S.
Gallagher have been visiting in
the city and at Butte during the
week. Lieut. Gallagher, son of
Mrs. Robert E. Gallagher, was
urvited in marriage with Miss
Mildred Honke, of Chicago, form
erly of Butte, Nebr., in Omaha
last Sunday at St. Mary Magde
lene church. Lt. Gallagher has
seen service with the Marine
Corps in the Pacific, where he
returns to active duty and his
bride to Chicago after a brief
honeymoon.
The many O’Neill friends of
the groom wish for him and his
bride best wishes for a long and
happy wedded life.
CHAMBERS NEWS
Phyllis Carpenter, Reporter
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Walter and
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Taggart at
tended a farm sale near Atkinson
Thursday of last week.
A group of twenty-one young
people of the Youth Fellowship ,
of the Methodist Chuurch had a |
party Friday evening, February j
16, at the £. V. Robertson home.1
An enjoyable evening was spent
playing games of various kinds,
after which refreshments of pie
a-la-mode and coffee was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cavanaugh
received a letter recently from,
their son, Sgt. Bob Cavanaugh. I
stating that he was in a hospital j
in the East Indies. This is the]
first word they have had of their j
son for several months.
Sgt. Orville Metschke, of Camp!
Livingston, La., has been spend
ing a furlough here with his wife,
grandparents, Mr. ; nd Mrs. Emil
Leiswald, sr. and other relatives.
Virgil Metschke, of the Merchant
Marines, has also been home on
furlough. He left Wednesday
for New York, from where he will
go to England.
Mr. and Mrs. Chet f ees drove to
Grand Island Saturday and
brought Mrs. Louis Fees home,
after a visit at Lincoln and
Bradshaw. Mrs. Weldon Woods
accompanied them to Grand Is
land, going on from there to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Leslie
Hanna at Lincoln.
Mrs. Grace Kemp left Satur
day for Lincoln for a short visit
with relatives before going on
to her home at Tesdale, Canada.
She has spent several weeks with
her father, W. H. Jeffers and
other relatives at Chamberss.
Mardell Butts came up from
Hastings to spend the week-end
with home folks.
Rev. and Mrs. Dawson Park
and boys had Sunday dinner at
t.he Glen Adams home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thorin had
dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. i
Paul Roth.
Mrs. Curt Hill, of Stanton, is
visiting with her sister, Mrs. A.
A. Walter and Mr. Walter and
Ralmond.
A family gathering was held
in the C. V. Robertson home Sun
day, in honor of Lt. Martin
Sprandle, who is here on a fur
lough from the hospital at To
peka, Kansas. Those present
were, J. W. Walter, Sr., Lt.
Sprandle, Mr .and Mrs. H. C.
Walter and family, Mr. and Mrs. I
Woyne Smith and Dean and Ar-:
dith Roth.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Carpenter, j
Marian and Phyllis were dinner
guests at the Donald Grimes
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Robertson,
Elwyn and Delbert, John Watler,
Sr., Lt. Martin Sprandle and Ar
dith Roth drove to Norfolk Mon
day. Lt. Sprandle ond Delbert
Robertson left from there for a
few days visit at Plattsmouth
with Lt. Sprandle’s parents, be
fore going on to Topeka, Kansas.
FV4|. Vernon Harley arrived
home Sunday evening from Camp |
Hood, Texas, for a short lurlough !
with his wife and children and
other relatives.
John Albers and Orville Svatos
left Monday night for Leaven
worth, Kansas, for pre-induction
examinations.
John Walter, Sr., Lt. Martin
Sprandle and Mrs. H. C. Walter j
and children were supper guests |
of Mr. and Mrs. George Kelly J
and Joyce.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lenz apd j
family, of Boonville, Mo., are
visiting Mrs. Lenz’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. ohn Dankert and other
relatives.
worct nas oeen received tnai
Pvt. Norman Nissen, who was
reported missing in action in
France several months ago, is a
prisoner of war in Germany.
S. Sgt. Bill Held is now station
ed at the Barnes General Hospit
al at Van Couver, Wash.
Mrs Louis Walter is now em
ployed at the Moety Cafe.
The American Legion are ask
ing everyone to help in a book
campaign to furnish reading
material for service men. Share j
your reading with those brave I
men who man remote lighthouses,
light-ships, Coast Guard stations,
Maratime Stations and Merchant
ships delivering precious cargoes
to our armed forces from Aisa
to Africa and from Iceland to
Capetown. If youu have books
to contribute please leave with
H. W. Hubbard at the Service
station.
George Smith sold his interest
in the Smith & Smith grovery
store to his brother, Ed Smith,
recently.
The Amerilcan Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary held
a joint meeting at the Legion hall
Tuesday evening. Ten mem
bers were present. After a short
business meeting a social hour
was spent followed by lundh.
The next meeting will be the
last Tuesday of March.
Jack Sexton, engineer gunner,
visited his parents and other rela
tives at Chambers last week.
He had completed fifty missions
and earned a furlough.
(Continued on page eight)
Fatal Accident to
School Child
During the noon hour recess
(Friday, March 2) the pupils of
School District No. 208 Miss
Opal Johnson, teacher were play
ing in the bank along Eagle
Creek, whiah runs through the
school yard. They were digging
in the bank when part of it caved
in and caused the death of Ida
Fay Miller, 11 year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Miller,
who was struck on the head by
the frozen earth.
Larry Miller, son of Cecil Miller
and a cousin of the dead girl, was
taken out unconscious and it was
feared that he was dead. He was
taken to Spencer for medical at
tention.
District Np. 208 is north of the
old Meek postoffice and store, in
one of the most properous sec
tions of the county.
Pictures Must Be Called
For In Next Two Weeks
All who have pictures of ser
vice men and women which have
been in the windows of the Con
sumers Public Power District are
asked to please call for them with
in the next two weeks at the Con
sumer’s office.
Mrs. T. M. Harrington,
Window chairman
Class 'B' Tournament To
Be Held Here Next Week;
March 7th, 8th, And 9th
The Class B tournament will be
played in O’Neill next week, with
six teams, Ainsworth, Neligh, Val
entine, O’Neill, Burwell and Ord
playing for the title.
Two games will be played each
night, with the first game being
played Wednesday evening at 8:00
between Burwell and Ord and the
second game at 9:15 between Ains
worth and Neligh. Valentine and
O’Neill drew byes.
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