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FOR SALE
FOR SALE: 160 acres improvec
farm Va-mile north and 4 mile:
west of Page. Seven - roorr
house, good barn, comcrib
granary, henhouse and well
house. Good well and wind
mill. On mail route and only
li-mile to school. 50 acres ol
rye goes with the farm. Price
$4?50 with March 1st posses
sion. — J. T. Fletcher, Broker,
Orchard, Neb. 34-35
FOR SALE: Six-room house with
five acres of land, one-half mile
west of O’Neill.—Lynus How
ard. 30tf
FOR TOP quality registered
Hereford bulls, attend Sageser
Robertson-Shaffer 4th annual
sale January 23rd in Atkinson,
_Neb. 34-35
FOR SALE: 3080 acre hay and
cattle ranch near O’Neill, Neb
Good set of buildings. Nice
ranch. See: R. H. Parker, O’
Neill, Neb. 24tf
for. .
New Merchandise
Large Terry #Qr
TOWELS ...
Small Terry QQ
TOWELS ...
cloths.. 8c & 20c
Terry IQ
POT HOLDER.
Nation-Wide Q1A
SHEETS .*.
Nation-wide 47
CASES ._...
Bleached QQ- 0 4Q
MUSLIN
Iron Board 1 4Q
PAD & COVER ■•’7
0IL- 4 V
CLOTHS .
White Sheet 1 QQ
BLANKETS
Mattress Full size 0 QO
PADS ...*-70
Spun JLQ
PRINTS ._._ 07t
Chenille Bed / QA
SPREADS _°-7U
Cottage 1 CQ
SETS . I**7
Lace Panel 1 10
CURTAINS .■•■7
Men’s Zipper wool C AA
Plaid JACKETS
Boys’ Zipper Q CA
Wool JACKETS
Men’s Leather IQ CA
JACKETS . ,0'W
Men’s Brown Q1 CA
OVERCOATS
Men’s Whipcord Q CQ
PANTS ..L^1
Men’s Tex Green Q QQ
Shirt-Pant SET.**70
Men’s Wool 7Qr
BOOT SOCKS .I7t
Men’s Q QQ
FELT SHOES 9” **70
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FOR SALE: 240 acres of pasture
land 9 miles northeast of O’
Neill, Neb. This is good buffa
lo and gramma grass pasture.
! Any farmer living north of O’
Neill could use a pasture like
this. See: R. H. Parker, O’
Neill, Neb. 24tf
|FOR SALE: Piano, excellent con
dition.—Phone 255J, O’Neill. 34
FOR FARM INSURANCE cost
ing $7 a $1,000 the first year,
$2.50 each subsequent year,
with no renewal premium;
TOWN DWELLING and con
tents insurance as low as $10
a $1,000 for five-year term;
LIABILITY insurance on farm
cars, $12.50, and town cars, $15,
for one year. See: L. G.
GILLESPIE INSURANCE
AGENCY, O’Neill, Neb., Sure
ty and probate bonds of all
kinds 20tf
FOR SALE: SmaU upright oak
piano; height 43 inches, depth
24 inches, length 51 inches. —
Harry Petersen, O'Neill. 34
IF YOU WANT A GOOD FARM
OR A RANCH, we have the fol
lowing for sale: 160 acres im
proved; improved 200 acre farm
on hiway; 480 acre farm; well
improved 680 acre farm; a 720
acre and a 760 acre farm, cheap;
800 acre exceptionally good
farm; we have following ranch
es: 640 acre hay ranch; good
960 acres; 1,610 very good; 5,
520 acres; 1,960 acres; all lo
cated in good cattle country.—
RAITT REALTY COMPANY,
Ainsworth, Neb. 34
GAMBLE’S can insulate your
home now. Call for FREE es
timate.—Gamble’s, O’Neill. 4tf
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED: Place to room and
board for a high school boy.
Please notify: Mr. Ira George,
O’Neill. 34
ATTENTION FARMERS! Farm
ers are required to file a first
and final income tax return
January 1 to January 15, 1947.
To those I have nerved in the
past and to others needing help
at this time, I solicit your bus
iness.—R. II. (“Ray”) Shriner,
O’Neill. 32-34
NOTICE: My little black cocker
spaniel dog disappeared before
Christmas. If you have her,
bring her back or call me.—
Linda Bredemeier, phone 139
LJ, O’Neill. 34
SANDING MACHINE
FOR RENT
WORN, BLACKENED flooring
can be restored with a dear
grain surface by sanding. Do
the work yourself. Efficient,
easy to operate machine. Costs
very little rental per day.
GAMBLES
O’Neill 21tf
LOANS
Buy that home or farm with a
GI LOAN
Regular farm loans at lowest
rates. See local correspondent
or KLOKE INV. CO.,
Omaha 2, Neb. 23tf
James G. Fredrickson
Kieth A. Abart
— Auctioneers —
Ready to Serve You
Phone 2 O'Neill
HELP WANTED: Experienced
girl for general housework.—
Mrs. Hugh J. Birmingham, O’
Neill. 30tf
Dr. Fisher, Dentist. adv
DANCE
At
SUMMERLAND
Ewing
Sunday, Jan. 5th
Music by
KAY MILLS
and Orchestra
Basketball !
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Public School Gymnasium
Friday, Jan. 3 j
1
The Ex-Gobs and Ex-GIs in {
“ARMY” vs. “NAVY” I
7:30 p. m. {
'n I
ST. AGNES (of Alliance) j
- vs. - j
ST. MARY’S (of O’Neill)
8:30 p. m.
1
CARDS BOUNCED
AT NORTH PLATTE
St. Patrick’s Quint Tops
St. Mary’s Cardinals
Score 45-19
NORTH PLATTE—The G'cen
ind-White of St. Patrick’s found
sweet revenge for a gridiron hu
miliation last October when they
rose to new heights and snowed
under a plucky St. Mary’s acade
my quintet of O’Neill, 45-19.
The Friday night show was St.
Patrick’s all the way while a
good-sized crowd looked on. It
was the most scoring the Platters
had done thus far this season.
Big Bill McGovern looped in 15
tallies to lead the point-getting.
The Cardinals left here early
Friday via charter bus and re
turned Saturday. Following the
game, the Platters were hosts to
their visitors at a social affair.
There was no preliminary
game.
The boxscore:
ST. PAT’S (45) fg ft pf pts
! McShane, f 2 0 2 4
Langford, f 10 12
McGovern, f 7 1115
Schraefer. f 10 12
Houldshed, c_4 2 1 10
Johnson, c . 0 1 4 1
Ryan, g 0 111
Andcnsorf, g 0 0 10
Mueller, g 12 2 4
Conneally, g 3 0 2 6
Totals 19 7 16 45
ST. MARY’S (19) fg ft pf pts
Miles, f . ..... 0 12 1
Harty, f 0 0 0 0
Hickey, f .. 1 5 4 7
Gatz, f ..... 0 0 0 0
DeBacker, c _ 0 0 0 0
McNichols, c . 3 0 3 6
Sauser, c ... 0 0 10
Hynes, g 10 12
Bohn, g — .... 0 0 0 0
Tomjack, gt 1113
Koci, g .0 0 0 0
Totals ... 6 7 12 19
Page, Chambers Coming
Here Next Week —
The O’Neill high school Eagles
will entertain Page here Monday
night, and the St. Mary’s acade
my Cardinals will be hosts to the
Chambers Coyotes on Tuesday
night in a pair of intracounty
basketball games.
DEMO UPSET TOPS
HOLT 1946 NEWS
Continued rom Page One
. . . F. J. Dishner was elected
mayor in the city election. The
election was quiet with only
378 votes cast for mayor. Dish
ner succeeds John Kersenbrock.
. . . The Commercial club en
tertained the Selective Service
boards and appeal agents from
nine counties. . . Plans for the
new O’Neill hospital, prepared
by Martin Aiken, a Lincoln ar
chitect, were accepted by the
general committtee. . . Harry
Vogt, who purchased a dry
cleaning plant here from the
late Ben Harty, has sold the
plant to C. A. Weatherford, of
Sioux City. . . Among the
deaths: Melvin E. Thayer, at
O’Neill, fatally injured when
struck by a block of falling ce
ment while at work on a con
struction job; Loula Parker, at
Lincoln; Agnes D. Kelly, at
Omaha; Frank Oberle, at Ains
worth; John Celary, at O’Neill.
MAY
The Center Union church cel
ebrated its 41st birthday anni
versary. . . Robert Parkins, of
O’Neill, represented Nebraska
in the national oratorical con
test sponsored by Northwestern
university. . . D. H. Cronin, 76,
editor and owner of The Fron
tier since August 13, 1896, an
nounced this week the sale of
the newspaper to Carroll W.
Stewart, 28, of Hartington, a
World War II veteran. Wrote
Mr. Cronin in his farewell to
his readers: “We have enjoyed
our newspaper career in the
empire of Holt. . . One of the
saddest things in the life of a
newspaperman is that of re
cording the passing. . . of many
of the closest friends and chums
of youth. . . I expect to contin
ue to make my home in O’Neill
and will be seeing you as the
days roll by. . . You, my friends
and enemies (if I have any)
have my best wishes for a long
life full of prosperity and hap
piness.” Mr. Cronin is the dean
of the state Unicameral legisla
ture. He will also retire from
politics. . . An unseasonal cold
wave struck in midmonth, in
flicting considerable damage
on all classes of crops. Every
thing suffered a setback. . .The
trainmen's strike forced the
North Western to recruit en
gineers, brakemen and officials
to sustain one-train-per-day
service during late May. . . The
Chambers Sun resumed publi
cation following an enforced
wartime shutdown. . . World
War II veterans swelled the
Memorial day parade. . . Among
the deaths: Oscar O. Newman,
at O'Neill: Michael H. McCar
thy. at O’Neill, struck by an au
tomobile; Mrs. George Bowen,
at Page; Pat O'Connor. at
Lynch: Emil Snyggs, at O’Neill;
Ross Albert Allen, on highway
near here, by earbonmonoxide
fumes; Mrs. Keith Houchin, at
North Platte.
JUNE
Guy S. Williams, of Omaha
World-Herald “Rolling Along”
fame, visited O’Neill. “A be
guiling bit of the auld sod it is,”
he wrote. “Sure a little bit of
Ireland fell from the sky one
day—and landed smack in the
middle of County Holt, Neb.,
begorra. They named it O’Neill.
The town is skirted by the Elk
horn river, which at this point
is called the River Shannon,
and the shamrocks grow right
dowm to the river’s idge. Sure
and a lovely spot it is, me lads
—a lovely spot indade.” . . .
Solicitation for the new hospi
tal w'as begun. . . The Kelly
Well company, of Grand Island,
began drilling a new well for
the city water supply. . . Norris
W. Coats, of the Stuart Advo
cate. was elected president of
the Holt County Publishers’ as
sociation. . . Sen. Hugh Butler
defeated Gov. Dwight Griswold
in the GOP primary for United
States senator nomination. The
duel attracted nationwide at
tention. Harold Stassen, Min
nesota’s presidential potential,
stumped the state in behalf of
Griswold. John L. Copeland,
of Mariaville, led the four-way
race for nomination for the
Unicameral. Balloting in the
primary was light in Holt. . .
The Commercial club was offi
cially redesignated the Cham
ber of Commerce and the group
affiliated with the national
chamber. . . Two-hundred and
fifty former O’Neillites reunit
ed in Omaha. . . Dr. Paul W.
Tipton, of Omaha, won the
Country club’s open golf tour
ney. He was the defending
champion. . . Mr. and Mrs. F.
C. Watson, of Amelia, observed
their golden wedding anniver
sary. . . A dry spell during the
critical growing season in the
Spring caused a sharp drouth
in the county’s output of blue
grass seed. . . Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam G. Beha passed the 50th
milestone in their wedded life
. . . Among the deaths: Mrs.
George L. Fink, at Page; Anton
Soukup, at Page; Thomas Con
nolly, at Stuart; Bernard H.
Dollarhide, formerly of Atkin
son, in a Bubuque, la., hotel
fire; John J. Young, near At
kinson, in a highway accident;
Ashley M. Paulette, of Webster
Grove, Mo., a tourist, injured
on highway 275 near Ewing;
Fred B. Jones, at Portland,
Ore., Mrs. William C. Farrand,
at Dorsey; Otto E. Clevish, one
of O’Neiil’s last three Civil War
veterans, at O’Neill; Mrs. C. B.
Shade, at Stuart; Mrs. Viola M.
Hoxsie and Mrs. Charles Hard
ing, sisters, at O’Neill, dying 52
hours apart; Thomas Griffin, at
Lynch.
JULY
The Fourth was a quiet af
foi- rity fo-mallv; infor
mally, noisy. Fireworks were
available after a wartime short
,rtr> . . H. W. Tomlinson and
wife were married 50 years. . .
Nine hundred O’Neill residents
signed the “right-to-work” peti
tion for a proposed amendment
to the state constitution. . .As
soc«ing was completed with val
uations slightly increased. . .
An automobile driven by Miss
Lottie VanOstrand, of Clear
water, was sheared in half by a
North Western train near
Clearwater. . , The small grain
harvest was good. . . The Le
gion of Merit has been award
ed to ex-Maj. John F. Grady. . .
Two automobiles were stolen
from near St. Patrick’s Catho
lic church. . . A sign of the
times: Anthony Craig and fam
ily. Californians since the war
caused industrial mobiliation,
returned to Page. . . Holt coun
ty’s total personnel dead and
missing in World War II is 48,
according to an honor list re
leased by the War department
. . . Among the deaths: Em
met A. Doyle, at Evanston, 111.;
Mtrs. Josephine E. Hart, at
Page; James Soukup, at O’
Neill: M'-s. Elvina Scofield, at
O’Neill; Mrs. E. W. Perrigo, at
Tatt, Calif.; William Kutscher,
formerly of Chambers, drowned
in Puget Sound. Wash.; Bryce
Hock, a World War II vet, at
Butte, struck by propellor
blade; William Nollkamper, at
Omaha.
AUGUST
Glea H. Wade is the new
commander of the American
Legion. . . The American Le
gion Midgets were routed 28-0
by Lincoln in the state midget
baseball tourney. . . The fire
men had a brisk workout dur
ing the first week: seven alarms
. . . Stores adopted a new hour !
schedule, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
. . . Tlie city will expand its
sewer system on a recommen
dation to the council by the
planning board. Forty-three
blocks will be affected. . .The !
Frontier reproduced by special
permission the Collier’s maga
zine story concerning the epic
flight of a B-29 named “Irish
Lassie,” in which Lt. Leonard
C. Fox, of Emmet, the copilot,
was a hero in a hairbreadth |
flight over Tokyo. . . Mrs. Ida
Townsend, of Page, reaches 90
. . . Mrs. Anna Swanson, of O’
Neill, was seriously injured in
an auto-train crash on Omaha’s
outskirts. .*. Donald Lindquist, \
12, was the county’s first polio
case as the outbreak assumed
epidemic proportions through
out the state and nation. . .
Atkinson’s “Hay Days” went
over with a bant. . . D. H. Cron
in, dean of the Unicameral, was
on hand for the special session
called by Gov. Griswold. . . An
initial $520,000 loan has been
approved by the rural electrifi
cation administration for the
four-county Niobrara Valley
Electric Membership corpora
tion. . . Toy’s store has been
sold to J. L. MeCarville, sr.,
and his son, J. L., jr. formerly
of Bonesteel, S. D. . . Short
ages or no shortages, O’Neill
bristled with building activity
—a movement that began as a
postwar facelifting and by the
yea’-’s end may assume the pro
portions of the biggest building
boom in history. There were
12 new business buildings eith
er recently completed, in the
process of construction, or in
the drafting board stage. . .
Among the deaths: Stephen B.
Carpenter, at Chambers; J, B.
Fullerton, at O’Neill; Mrs. Wil
liam Reige, at Norfolk; E. Roy
Townsend, at Page.
SEPTEMBER
Both O’Neill public school
and St. Mary’s academy report
ed record attendances as the
1946-’47 term began. . . Ewing
voters turned thumbsdown on
a proposal to sell liquor by the
drink. The score: 139-95. . .
The McIntosh Jewelry opened
—a new firm name in the city
directory. . . September was
ushered in with a three-inch
moisture deficiency. . . An en
gineer of the U. S. Bureau of
Reclamation told the Chamber
of Commerce that Holt county
“definitely has irrigation possi
bilities.” The engineer, C. E.
Burdick, was working on a pre
liminary survey. He predicts
“100,000 irrigable acres in the
county.” . . . M. J. Golden won ;
the city golf crown. . . The
American Legion is confronted !
with a housing problem. Its 1
skyrocketing membership has
created the need for more room
. . . Miss Lucille Hickey won
honorable mention in a nation
wide search for a “typical
nurse.” . . . Among the deaths:
John T. Biglin, at Hastings; An
na Donohoe, at O’Neill.
OCTOBER j
Dolores Fredrickson, of I
Sparks, was elected S. Mary’s
academy homecoming queen. . .
September and October were
the wettest in history of the
weather station here. . . A 76
cent price was paid for the top
stocker-feeder calf at the tenth
annual stocker-feeder show and
sale here. The owner: Eddie
Rector, 9; the purchaser,
Charles Tasler. . . Miss Mary
Louise Birmingham was one of
10 outstate countesses at the
Ak-Sar-Ben coronation ball. . .
The army of huntsmen “jump
ed-off” at 6:28 a.m. on October
19 for the pheasant hunt, but
birds were not plentiful and
cover was abundant. Open
water well completed by a
Grand Island firm, and imme
diately negotiated with the
same firm for a twin well near
by. . . The American Legion has
invited the district organization
to meet here in 1947. . . “Mon
tana Jack” Sullivan breezed in
to town for one of his regular
visitations. . . Among the
deaths: Albert Petersen, at O’
Neill; Lester L. Coon, at Page.
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NOVEMBEP
Three thousand head of cat
tle escaped injury in a spectac
ular $35,000 fire at the Atkin
son Livestock Market. . . Rev.
Eugene B. Maxcy, for 10 years
the Methodist pastor at Inman,
is retiring. . . Cornpicking was
retarded because of excessive
moisture. . . The Chamber of
Commerce successfully spon
sored a merchants’ day and a
farmer - rancher day. . . The
strike of the Nation’s softcoal
miners caused some inconven
ience but produced no serious
results here. Officials and coal
dealers were prepared to take
emergency measures if neces
sary to conserve fuel. . . A lone
blemish marred the O’Neill
high school grid record, a 6-13
loss to Ainsworth. St. Mary’s
academy finished the season
with four wins and three losses
. . . Ex-Lt. Bernard F. Coday,
of Atkinson, was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for
heroism under enemy fire. . .
The Protestants held a union
thanksgiving service. . . Leon
and Harvey Tompkins and
Clarence Ernst won state recog
nition in the annual pasture
forage-livestock fifnishup pro
gram at Omaha. . . Among the
deaths: R. Lewis Cunningham,
at Page; Mrs. Charles Edwards
and Miss Doris Vargason, both
of Chambers, fatally injured in
a highway accident near Cas
ner, Wyo.: Mrs. Clifford Gil
lette, at Chambers; Mrs. Hen
ry Hookstra, at Sioux City;
John J. Harley, at Norfolk;
Archie Martin, at Long Pine;
Mrs. William Decker, at Lin
coln.
DECEMBER
Contributions to O’Neill’s >
new nonprofit hospital were 1
ruled “deductible” from an in
dividual’s “taxable net income,” j
the hospital committee mem
bers learned from a deputy
commissioner of internal reve
nue, Treasury department,
Washington, D. C. 1716 drive
for funds for the 200 thousand
dollar undenrtaking was press
ed. . . The corn loan rate was
fixed at $1.06 per bushel. . . A
five-generation group gathered
for the photographer, headed
by Mrs. Mattie Johnson. The
others: her daughter, Mrs.
Christine Walters; Mrs. Wal
ters’ daughter, Mrs. Samuel
Robertson; Mrs. Robertson’s
daughter, Mrs. Noel Long, of
Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Long’s
daughter, Sandra Lee Long, an
infant. . . Ben Kuroki, the Her
shey Japanese-American who
turned in an amazing war rec
ord in Europe, North Africa,
the Middle East and the Pa
cific, visited O’Neill. His biog
raphy has been published by
Harper & Brothers, New York
City. It is the story of his
struggle against the enemy
abroad and his fight at home
against intolerance and preju
dice on the part of some Ameri
cans. . . Displaced workers from
the West coast began to trickl^
back into this region. . . A flip
of a coin gave William Hanley
the victory over Marvin Clou6e
in the race for assessor in Grat
tan precinct. . . L. D. Putnam
paid $56,000—more than $23
vper acre—for the 2,400-acre Pat
O’Connor ranch. . . The tradi
tional “blanket of snow,’ which
proverbially covers the Christ
mas scene, was excepted this
season. There was no snow in
sight. . . Mrs. John Zahradnicek,
of near Atkinson, unc overed
$3,440 in an old organ. . .
Among the deaths: Mrs. Fannie
Gallagher, at O’Neill; Mrs. Re
becca Bursell, at Vermillion,
S. D.; Ela Allen, at Blaine,
Wash.; Mrs. Clara B. Miles, at
O’Neill, widow of the late
George A. Miles; Mrs. Jennie
Wilcox, at Granite Falls, Wash.;
W. E. Williams, at CorpusL
Christie, Tex. #
Mrs. L. Shilery returned to Lin
coln Friday after spending the
holidays with her daughter, Mrs.
R. L. Bode.
INCOME TAX
For assistance in
making your reports, call on
Geo. C. Robertson
O’Neill
W 4
Announcement
A representative of our firm will be available at Golden
hotel, O'Neill, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m„ Friday and Saturday,
January 10th & 11th, to those who desire our services In the
. preparation of 4
INCOME TAX RETURNS
An appointment may be made in advance, if desired, by
contacting Hotel Golden.
SOBOTKA and SCHOENING
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS — TAX SPECIALISTS
Norfolk, Nebraska
Members National Association of Tax Accountants
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