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LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 NO. 25
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SMALL DOSES
PAST AMJ PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Rt. 5, Atkinson
Wh. t the world needs is a si- j
lencer for world planners and'
just a quiet time to adjust itself.
Political moves in connect.on
with the Pearl Harbor ‘investi
gadon” at least create suspicions.
If America arms for “defense”
through the president’s plan for
conscription other countries will
do the same. Instead of a world
with swords beaten into plow
shares the world is an armed
camp. Somebody will give the
order to fire.
Oiled, or graveled highways are
maintained at perpetual expense
for repairs and never satisfactory.
Concrete is the best solution so
far as now known. The Elkhorn
valley produces enough livestock,
hay and grain in one season to
pay the bill for laying, all our
highways with concrete.
The weather—at this writing—
smiles friendly for the bobby sox
maiden and the hatless gent who
cherishes the forlorn hope of
forestalling a bald pate. But
e’r this same paragraph shall
have been printed the blasts of
rude Boreas may force a covering
for bare legs and hatless heads.
There are inducements for
material increase in population in
the old town, but no living quar
ters. The birds of the air have
nests and the badgers have holes
but a stranger hath not where to
lay his head in O’Neill. Does not
r- the probosis of the money-bloated
^citizen scent profitable invest
■ ment in a few new houses?
When Henry the First handed
1 a shining new "Ford to the public
on a silver platter the price tag
; ' was on. The other day Henry the
' Third made a showing of the new
things in Fords and no price tag.
Washington will tell him what
tag to put on. And what does
Washington know of the complex
manufacturing problems in a
great plant at Dearborn?
Changes are wrought by the
march of time across the stage
of human affairs, but not with the
youth—youth is still the youth of
grandfather’s time. He is not
cutting the wind today racing
horses; he does in a grand sedan
or delapidated old car of any
make. And how he takes the
curves and corners with the gas
feed wide open. Dashing, spec
tacular, contemptuous of every
thing in his way—that’s youth.
And isn’s it great to be young?
Norfolk is getting to be some
thing of a convention town. The
highbrows hav’e been in there of
late and now the brawney black
smith enters the convention
arena. “The smith, a mighty man
is he, with large and sinewy
hands.” Maybe the metropolis of
north Nebraska is limited as to
the amount of higher culture it
mean absorb and the boys from the
>anvil and forge should be able to
balance the convention budget by
imparting some worthwhile infor
mation that will help to “strike
while the iron is hot.”
Compulsory peace-time military
training—getting set for another
war—is just one more departure
from American traditions. Tak
ing on old world ideas one by one.
American history is an emblaz
ened scroll of heroic victories
when American manhood has
arisen sans the whiplash to over
whelm the forces that would
fasten the shackles of body and
mind and soul enslavement upon
mankind. Our late European
foes, our late and forever Asiac
foes, have had the very thing
Washington now seeks to lay
across the necks of our young
manhood. Where has it brought
the Germans, the Italians, the
brown peoples of the east? To
the rubble of utter ruin. Forced
drum beats of a nation under
arms for peaceful Americans?
^ Yes, its coming. And then what?
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When an army or government
Eugene Ryan, of Superior, Wis.,
arrived last Thursday and spent
the week-end here, in the city of
his birth, looking after property
interests and incidently visiting
old time friends. Among the old
friends visited was The Frontier
office, where he extended his sub
scription so that he would be as
sured of the “old home town
paper’’ for the coming year. While
he has been away from here for
many years, and now owns and
operates a large drug store at
Superior, Wis.. he still looks upon
O’Neill as home, and the family
still have large real estate hold
ings here.
Deflated Celestial Visitor
Nothing like a baloon to ziz
zle out a hot air story and put
the populace in a quiver of ex
citement if not histeria. A
baloon story got loose from out
Dorsey way a short time ago and
how the fiction writers did whirl
into action. The sheriffs up at
the courthouse disclaims any con
nection with the incident of what
h s been guessed to have been a
Canada weather gadget that land
ed on the J. E. Wiley place near
Dorsey. No harm done but a
little diversion for the citizens of
a quiet, law abiding community,
in a thrifty corner of Holt county.
The deflated celestial visitor was
at the office of the O’Neill Pro
duction Credit association for a
few days and then taken back to
Dorsey invirons by Dick Marsten,
who had plucked it from a tree
branch, not however until the
lurid tales had brought out from
Omaha a couple of army men to
investigate.
The screen door swung at the
Lohaus Motor Co. last Friday to
admit between 800 and 900 people
who came and went for the Ford
show. The shining new oar, like
a thing animate conscious of aris
tocratic importance, rested in
automotive elegance on the floor
of the show room while thecrowds
sniffed and handled and inspect
ed it from wheelbase to rooftop.
It was there complete in painted
and polished glory all but the
price tag which the fellows who
made it seem to have no say as
to what it shall sell for.
Study of Irrigation
in the County
Irving Walker, Engineer from
the Regional Office of the Soil
Conservation Service at Lincoln,
is spending several d ys this week
in Holt ciunty, working with dis
trict personnel on special engin
eering problems. Many cooper
ators of the District have asked
assistance on farm ponds, gully
control structures and irrigation
layouts. These were the prin
ciple items considered.
Information is being accumu
late! regarding feasibility of ir
rigation in the county, an echo
out of the' past when the county
w s replete foith irrigation plans,
from which in time evolved Sam
Dei1 rich’s canal in the Dry Creek
country that has been a dry
ditch these 35 years. Maybe a
way to really do it will now grow
out of these studies.
Dr. John Gallagher and Dr. J."
P. Murphy left last Thursday for
their homes in St. Louis, Mo., after
spending two weeks here visiting
Mrs. J. P. ■ Gallagher and other
relatives and friends.
dignitary unburdens himself in a
public address he is pretty apt to
hear from the back country. And
only in Yankeeland is this allow
able. If the gentleman down in
Texas who makes the following
observations was elsewhere on
this troubled globe his head
would have been the price there
of. But he faces a great army
man with this thrust: “Gen.
Wainwright made three brief
speeches in Washington. The
tenor of them was: Never again
must the Nation ba left so weak
and unprepared as to invite an
ither Pearl Harbor and Corregi
dor. Well, after eight years of
sword-rattlinfg and war prepa
rations by Hitler, Mussolini and
Hirohito and after squandering
untold billions on shameful, vote
getting boondoggling in this
country, who left us so weak and
unprepared?”
Additional Pipe
Needed at Well
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Palensky
departed Tuesday on a trip south.
Mr. Palensky is directing the
work on the test oil well over on
the river. He informs The Fron
tier that drilling has reached a
stage where they must have an
addition. 1 supply of 7-inch pipe,
hence his mission into the oil dis
tricts of Kansas and Oklahoma
to secure a supply of this pipe.
He hopes to get a thous .nd or
twelve hundred feet. As the
7-inch pipe of the weight de de
sires weighs 25 pounds to the foot
a thousand feet makes quite a
load and the problem of getting
it hauled to the site of the drilling
confronts the drillers.
The mills malting on wen
piping have been in war product
ion, rendering the pipe scarce. If
he is unable to secure a supply
before cold weather sets in Mr.
Palensky s .ys it will be necessary
to suspend further operation un
til spring, though he hopes this
will not be necessary.
‘T see it takes patience to drill
for oil,” it was suggested.
‘‘Patience, faith, hard work,
money—that’s what’s involved in
development of an oil field.” said
Mr. Palensky. “But the develop
ment of oil is worth it and I would
not be here if I didn’t have faith
in the showing we have on the
six square miles we have mapped
out for the test"
Their first stop will be at Falls
City, Nebr., where they may be
able to contract for some piping.
Once Corn Field Now Site
of Suburban Homes
Down across the tracks where
Gus Doyle raised corn and cock
leburs has, grown up a surburban
community of homes that come
well nigh being self-sustaining in
garden products and fruits.
One such is the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Klingler who have a
modern little stuccoed dwelling
on three and a half lots that even
in late October are a picture of
homey comfort and assured secur
ity. Mr. and Mrs. Klingler came
to O’Neill three years ago from
the northwest part of the county
and have developed in that brief
time an ideal spot for the retired
home life that most couples look
forward to. Strawberries, some
young fruit trees, berry bushes,
garden ground and sodded spots
are kept in healthy growth by a
nome water supply ana careiui
attention. Just last week they
g thered ripe fruit from the straw
berry vines. There are also
twenty hives of bees that produce
sweetening that mocks at sugar
shortage. Flowers and schrubs
add color and fragrance during
the long summer days. This
grand little home and others down
that way is a pattern for those
who might be hunting jobs how
to make their own jobs that will
furnish a livelihood.
Phm. Mate 1-c Lyle Davis, of
Washington, D. C., spent Saturday
here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ray
,mon Bright and son, Ardell. He
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Davis of Page.
NOTICE
Two Coon Dogs came up miss
ing the morning of October 29,
;firom my home 1 mile south of
Chambers. One black and tan,
other blue tick. Will pay good re
ward for information leading to
their recovery.
Lewis Rothchild,
25-2*4 Chambers, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted McElhaney
visited at the home of Mrs. Mc
Elhaney’s parents in the Orchard
neighborhood Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Eby and
their son, Bob, who arrived on
Sunday morning’s train on a brief
furlough from the army, accom
panied by Mrs. Bennet Gillespie,
went to Springview that after
noon for a visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Eby, who have been
at their daughter’s home in
O’Neill since selling out at Page,
left during the week for Califor
nia.
A G. I. wont to bod in a local
hotel intending tu smoke himself
off into dreamland. Snoring got
well under headway when he
thought a branding iron w.,s run
on him and aroused to find his bed
on fire. Mattress, sheets and
other emblems of rest w’ere
scorched and the hotel had a
charge up for damaged bedding
against the weary soldier which
he thought was too high, and at
last word down Fourth street no 1
compromise had been reached.
Messers. Oscar and Edgar Pet
erson were up from Amelia a
windy day this week.
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Mabelle Bauman spent the
week-end at her home in Atkin
son.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Grutsch and
son, Michael, made a business
trip to Norfolk Friday.
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Miss Arlene Shade spent the
week-end at her home in Stuart
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Shade.
Mrs. D. H. Cronin left Sunday
for Lincoln, he|rig called there by
the sudden death of an old
friend, William H. Butts.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dowd and
sons, of Sioux City, spent the
week-end here visiting at the
Clyde Elkins home.
Dinner guests Sunday at the
Elmer Neal home were, Mr. and
Mrs. Orval Neal and soft, and Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Neal, of Fullerton,
Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hahn and
family, of Pierce, spent Sunday
here visiting Mrs. Hahn's parents,
i Mr. and Mrs. Carsten Hansen and
I family. ‘ *
Clyde Streeter and Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Streeter spent Sunday
in Brunswick, visiting Mrs. P.
Streeter and other relatives and
I friends.
Mrs Ed Bruegman, of Wynot,
Nebr., arrived Saturday to visit
her parents, Mr and Mrs. I. Tim
merman and other relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beelaert, of
Idaho Falls, Ildaho, arrived Mon
day to spend a few days visiting
Mr. Beelaert’s sister, Mrs. Neil
Ryan and family.
Mrs. E. A. Dlmmitt returned
to her home in Long Beach, Cal.,
on Tuesday, after visiting her
sister, Mrs. Allie Eidenmiller and
other relatives and friends here, j
Misg Ethel Bennett of Washing- ]
ton, D. C., arrived Tuesday after
noon, called here by the illness
of her mother. Mrs. Bennett
passed away Wednesday morning.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Roberts, of
Evanston, Illinois, returned to
their homes on Wednesday, after
spending the past few weeks here
visiting Mrs. Robert’s brothers,
W. H. and P. B. Harty.
Mrs. Edward Campbell enter
tained at a 10:00 o’clock breakfast
at the M and M. Tuesday morning
in honor at Robert Gordon, of
Lawrence, Mass., who is a guest
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stout.
W. J. Froelich, who had been
visiting his wife and family here
over the week-end, left Tuesday I
for Chicago. Mrs. Froelich ac-1
companied him and will visit
there for several days.
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Dinner guests at the Elmer
Neal home Monday were, Mr.
and Mrs. I. Timmerman and Mrs. |
George Timmej^nan and daugh
ttr, Bessie Loretta, and Mrs. Ed
Brugeman, of Wynot, Nebr.
Seaman 2-c Gene Streeter, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Streeter,
has recently been transferred
from the Great Lakes naval train
ing Station, Great Lakes, 111., to
the Navad Air Station at Pensa
cola, Florida.
Lt. Eugene Chmiel, whi has re
cently returned to this country
after two and a half years with
the American Fifth Army in
Italy, is visiting friends here and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Chmiel and other relatives and
friends at Ewing.
Ladies’ Names
Go on Jury List
Ladies, you have come into
your own for jury duty in Holt
county that the ends of justice
may be fully realized. From the
jury list appearing in the Fron
tier last week some names have
been removed, those of mere mi n,
and the following ladies added to
conform to legal requirements:
District 1 — Saratoga, Alma
Syfle.
District 2—Paddock, Mrs. Geo.
Rector.
District 3—O’Neill, Mrs. John
Protovinsky.
District 4—Verdigris, Mrs. Art
McClure, Ewing, Mrs. Bertha
Butler, Mrs. Vera Anson.
District 5 — Chambers, Mrs.
Gen&vieve Bell.
District 6—Green Valley, Mrs.
Ernest Gruenberger.
District 7 — Atkinson, Ethel
Bouska, Opal Keating, Olive Mc
Kee.
A plea of abatement, State of
Nebraska vs. Milton I. Graham,
after lengthy argument by a
Kansas lawyer, N. J. Ward, one of
the attorneys for the defendant,
was over ruled by Judge Mounts
Wednesday and the case set for
trial November 13. This is the
action growing out of a bus-truck
collision in which one person was
fatally injured.
Mr. and Mrs T. M. Harrington
are spending a few days in
Omaha.
Supervisor Vacancy Not
Going Begging
Within one week after R. E.
Calvert filed his resignation as
supervisor representing the Third
district there were three appli
cations in the county clerk’s
office for appointment to fill the
vacancy created when the board
accepted Mr. Calvert’s resigna
tion. John Sullivan, Bert Shoe
mker and C. H. Switzer had
each asked for the appointment
by Monday morning of this week.
The session of the board last week
took an adjournment untill No
vember 27, the regular meeting
date. Unless a special meeting
is called there will be no action
to fill the vacancy until that time.
The latest applicant as we go
to press is Leon Sargent of
O’Neill.
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Death Takes Star Citizen
William A. VanDover, a resident
of the Star neighborhood since
1911, died at his home Sunday
night after an illness of ten days,
at the age of 74 yei.rs, ten months
and twenty-four days.
He was a native of Iowa, born
in Monona county on January 4,
1874, and is survived by two
sisters and two brothers, Marsh
VanDover. of O’Neill and Emmet
Van Dover, whose home is in
Texas; Mrs. Ella Sumner, of Port
land, Oregon, and Mrs. Pearl
Booth, of Shawnee, Oklahome.
Deceased had never married.
The funeral services were held
it the Methodist Church in
O’Neill at 2 p. m., Wednesday,
Rev. Mullis officiating and burial
in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tomlinson
and sons, Georgie and Eddie,
returned Monday from North
Platte, where they had been vis
iting Mrs. Tomlinson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNally.
While there they attended the
game between North Platte and
St. Mary’s.
Miss Margaret Howard re
where she had been with her
turned Wednesday from Omaha,
f ther, Frank D. Howard, who
underwent a major operation at
the Luther; n Hospital last we< k.
His condition is described as
good. ,
Qu/intin Cavanaugh and Ardell
Bright took Richard Cronin to
Norfolk Sunday, where he is at
tending Norfolk Junior College.
He had spent several days here
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D. H. Cronin and oth^r relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clyde ar
rived Tuesday from Denver to
visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Clyde and other relatives
and friends. He was discharged
at B'ort Logan. He had been over
seas for eighteen months in the
E. T. O.
TAX MEETING NOV. 13
Holt county 9, Boyd 8, Keya
Paha 4. Rock 5, Brown 6. This
is the representation from the five
counties Tax Commissioner Arm
ing in O'Neill on November 13.
strong has scheduled for the meet
It includes the county assessors
and supervisors or commissioners.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Dorlin Lockman
attended the teachers’ convention
in Norfolk last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Souhrada of
Lincoln, arrived Monday and are
guests of Edith Castleman.
Mrs. Emil Weyrichr and child
ren and Mrs. Magdanz made a
trip to Norfolk on Wtdnesday.
Miss Josephine Mlinar returned
Sunday from Omaha, where she
had attended the teachers' con
vention.
Miss Hilda Gallagher returned
Sunday from Omaha, where she
had attended the teachers’ con
vention.
Mrs. H. J. Lohaus and son,
John, returned Saturday from
Omaha, where they had gone on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Swim
of Scottsbluffs, arrived Monday
to visit Edith Castleman and
other friends.
Prof, and Mrs. Ira George re
turned Saturday from Norfolk,
where they hal been aatending
the teachers’ convention.
Mrs. Harry Peterson attended
the tearhers’ convention in Nor
folk last week. Before returning
home she visited friends in Madi
son.
Mrs. John Harbottle, Miss Lor
etta Enright, Mrs. Emmet Carr
and Miss Verne Coyne attended
the teachers’ convtntion in Oma
ha last week.
Leon Asher left Monday for
Omaha, after a visit with his
mother, Mrs. Ann Asher. He
was recently discharged from the
army at Camp McQuaide, Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus DeBacker
returned Friday from Spalding,
where they hcd gfione to attend
the funeral of Mrs. DeBacker’s
uncle.
Mrs. Esther Harris accompan
ied Mr. and Mrs. John Conrad of
Emmet to Sioux City Tuesday.
Mrs. Harris’s son is ill in a hospit
al there.
Miss Geneva Pribil, of Sioux
City, spent the week-end here
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Casper Pribil and other relatives
and friends.
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Prof. Ira George went to Stuart
Tuesday evening in the interest of
i the school bands in which the
young people are receiving a fine
musical training.
Miss Margaret Sauser, who is
attending Wayne State Teachers’
College, spent the week-end here
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Sauser.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith.
I Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Madison and son, Jimmy, of Ta
coma, Wash., are visiting rela
tives and friends here.
Brooms in action clearing the
sidewalks of dead leaves. Comes
a gale front the south and sprink
les a fresh supply over the walks
that the ladies have carefully
swept in front of their places of
business.
Donald Adamson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Adamson, arrived
home Friday from Fort Logan,
Col., where he had received his
discharge from the army. He
recently returned to the states
after spending two years in the
South Pacific.
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A Gun Accident
Results in Death
A hunting accident last Sunday
afternoon resulted in the death
Wednesday morning of a popular
and prominent O’Neill lady, Mrs.
Etna Julia Bennett, beloved wife
of Dr. H. L. Bennett, at the age
t of 54 years, three months and
fifteen days. Funeral services
for Mrs Bennett will be held
in the Presbyterian Church Fri
day afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, Rev.
Kenneth Scott officiating and
burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Last Sunday afternoon Dr. and
Mrs. Bennett were out in the
Phoenix neighborhood and he
h. d his gun along as usual during
the hunting season. Dr. Bennett
got out of the car, loaded the gun,
when it was accidently discharg
ed, the load striking Mrs. Ben
nett, who was sitting in the car,
in the right leg just above the
ankle. She was rushed to this
city for medical treatement and
taken to the O’Neill Hospital
where an operation was perform
ed and the leg amputated be
tween the knee and ankle. She
withstood the operation nicely and
it was thought she would recover
as there was much improvement
in her condition during the first
twenty-four hours. Then the
shocks she sustained is believed
to have been the contributing
factor in her death, as she passed
away in the hospital at 3:30
Wednesday morning
Esna Julia Honakson was born
in Galveston, Texas, on July 16.
1891. On April 20, 1921, she was
united in marriage to Dr. Harry
LeRoy Bennett, the ceremony
i being performed in Kansas City,
| Kansas. Four children were bom
to this union, Ethel, Washington,
D. C., Dorothy, Harriett and
Barbara Ann, of this city, all of
whom were at her bedside when
she passed away. She is also
survived by her mother and two
sisters.
Dr. and Mrs. Bennett sace to
O’Neill on April 14, 1921, from St.
Joseph, Mo., and since that time
have been residents of this city.
Mrs. Bennett was a charming,
friendly woman and had a host of
friends in this city and commun
ity, who were grieved and shock
ed when they heard of the acci
dent that resulted in her death.
The bereaved husband and
daughters have the heartfelt
sympathy of the people of th s
community in their hour of
sorrow.
A group of Methodist young
people had a Hallowe’en party
i_nd scavenger hunt Tuesday
evening. A luncheon was served.
About seventy attended the
party.
ST. MARY'S TRIMS ST.
AGNES OF ALLIANCE 18 7
The St. M ry’s Cardinals, led
by tluir great all-arm jad back,
Jerry Tomjack. defeated the pre
viously undefeated St. Agnes, of
Alii nee six manners by a 18 to
7 score.
After playing a scoreless first
period the C rdinals began to
roll and drove over for a touch
down. They also added another
touchdown in the second period
j and in the third period, one being
a pass from Tomjack to Froelich,
the other being m de on a run by
Tomjack. Jerry, besides scoring
two of the th~ree touchdowns,
made runs of 50, 45, and 25 yards;
intercepted a pass and recovered
a fumble besides playing a fire
defensive game.
St. Agnes in the last period be
gan to move md drove from mid
field until they finally scored, a
pass clicked for the extra point.
The St. Agnes team, as we
stated before, had been previously
undefeated, the only mar in their
first five games had been a 20-20
tie with the St. Patrick’s of North
Platte, which St. Mary’s played
j last Sunday at North Platte,
i St. Mary’s has two more games
1 to play, Chambers and the so far
j undefeated and untied St. Mary’s
I of Grand Island, on November 11.
The Grand Island team now rests
i with three other clubs in the state
at the top of the six man stand
ings, and if St. Mary’s can defeat
! them they will have a rating in
I the state unexcelled by none.