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- The Frontier VOLUME 66.—NUMBER 45. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THU? MARCH 20, 1917. PRICE 5 CENTS PETITIONS OUT FOR APRIL 8 ELECTION Armbruster, De Backer, Ray, Mentioned for City Council 3 FOR SCHOOL POSTS ^ Petitions were In circulation here this week for city council and board of education posts, with three new names listed for council jobs and one new name for a school position. Those whose names appeared as petition candidates for the city council are: Hugh Ray, of the Speltz-Ray Lumber company, First ward; R. E. Armbruster, manager of Brown-McDonald’s, Second ward, and G. A. DeBack er, manager of Penney’s, Third ward. The incumbents are: John Mel vin, grocer, First ward; M. J. Wallace, oil man, Second ward, and Frank Clements, garageman. Third ward. Their terms expire in April. Petition candidates for the the board of education are Dr. L A. Burgess, dentist, incumbent; George Shoemaker, incumbent, and W. B. Gillespie, of Gillespie’s electrical appliance store. The two-year terms of Dr. Bur gess, who is chairman of the board of education, and Mr. Shoe maker expire; next month. Because no caucuses are held here all candidates for city coun cil positions must be petition candidates. Petitions must be filed 10 days before the election, which will be April 8. The Frontier has learned of no other petitions in circulation to date. _f_ MUSIC CONTEST DATES FIXED The annual elimination contest for the music departments of the O’Neill public school and St. Mary’s academy will be held on < Wednesday. In the afternoon session, solos and small groups will be heard. The vocal solos and small groups will appear at St. Mary’s acade my and the instrumental soloists and small groups will play at tha public school auditorium. Rohert Molzer, first clarinet player for the Lincoln symphony orchestra, will criticize the in strumental, and Miss Good, of Norfolk, has been selected as critic for the vocal events. The evening session will open with selections by the glee clubs from both schools. Concerts by the St. Mary’s band and the O’ Neill high school band will con clude the evening. ARTHUR BARNES, 55, DIES AT PORTLAND EMMET — Afcthur (“Art”) Barnes,55, former resident of Em met and O’Neill, died suddenly at his home in Portland, Ore., on March 2, according to. word re ceived here. Mr. Barnes moved onto a farm nfirth of Emmet when a small boy, coming with his parents from Shelley. He resided in this vicinity until 1919 when he was married to Miss Elsie Stanasher, of Shelley, i They resided in O’ Neill where Mr, Barns worked as a Chevrolet salesman for many years. The family moved to Oregon four years ago. Survivors include one daugh ter, Mrs. Randolph Stoar, of Portland; two sons, J. R., who is in the Navy, and William, of Portland* two sisters, Mrs. Julia Luben, of Emmet, and another sister, who resides in Wyoming. ‘The Black Twin’ Offers *Rare’ Treat ‘‘A rare treat is in store for those who enjoy fine dramatic stage performances,-’ ReV. Lloyd W. Mullis, of the Methodist church here, said this week in connection with the coming to the city of the Nebraska Weslay an university Plainsman players, jyith a cast of 12 the group will present “The Black Twin,” in the O’Neill public school auditorium, beginning at 8 p.m. It is a psychological story of a little green goddess who throws her hypnotic shadow across the lives of seven people. The role is played by Rosina Friederick. ' Members of the cast will be entertained in private homes the night of the play, Rev. Mullis said. __________ I CALENDAR -of COMING EVENTS Monday, March 24—“The Black Twin,” Plainsman players, O - Neill public school, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday — March 27-28-29—Grand opening, Midwest Furniture & Appliance company, O’Neill. i Saturday. April 5 — Annual spring bull sale, North Central Nebraska Hereford association, Bassett. —— Mr -* m w* • mmmrnrm .-— ■' —-J- -e. THREE DOWN AND NONE TO GO The mass of flesh seen in the above photograph happens to be wrestlers Abe Coleman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Joe Du sek, of Omaha, with Pat Mc Gill, of Omaha, the referee, thrown in for good measure. Reading Aorn leA-to-right (if you can) are: McGill (in white, lying on his back); Cole man (brooding over his out stretched opponent), and Dusek (somewhere in the bottom of the heap.) Th > customers, which packed the O’Neill public school audi torium for the mat show spon sored by the American Legion post here, are obviousl e:ij -vy ing the proceedings. (For de t.ai'= on John v c #pi'" to appear, turn to SPORTS on page 4.) — The Fro; tier Prroto by John McCarville. MISS SHOEMAKER BURIED HERE ... ■ —— Forme r Operator of Hospital Here Dies in Los Angeles Miss Luciria Shoemaker, 63. died Saturday in Los Angeles, Calif., following an operation in a hospital there. With her sister, Miss Clara i Shoemaker, a registered nurse, | she operated the O’Neill hospital for several years. Suivivors include two sis‘e s ' Miss Clara Shoemaker and Mrs William Burke, of Coleridge: three brothers, John. Bert and George, all of O’Neill. Funeral sei vices were h<dd to day (Thursday! at St. Patrick’s Catholic church here with burial in Calvary cemetery. RECITAL PLANNED AT ST. MARY’S The St. Ma'y’s academy music department will present its an nual recital next Thursday at 8 p. m. in the academy assembly | hall. The following pupils will par ticipate: Barbara Cunningham, Alice Reece, Patricia Tomlinson. Shar lene Shoemaker, Helen Engler, Jean Hickey, Rose Mary Corkle, Melba Ritter, Mary Lu Uhl, La Vonne Miller, Eunice VanHorn, Cecelia Peter, Jo Ann Zimmer man, Janice Turner, Mary Kath ; ryn Turner, Jo An Connott, Shir | ley Leahy. I Cera Corkle, Mary Ann Hickey, Angela and Margaret Mary Zak rzenski, Martha Vitt, Maureen i Mahoney, Eileen Angel, Angela J Soukup, Ellen Corkle, Sandra Harper, Diann DeBacker, Wilma . McKim, Kay Martin, Avis Ann , Reisirg Jean Col?, B a r b a r a Cleary, June Ernst, Eldie Bridges. The Girl Scouts will be heard , in a selection. LEON TOMPKINS, WIF WED 38 YEARS INMAN — Mr. and Mrs. Leon | Tompkins were honored Sunday I on their 38th wedding anniver jsary at a family dinner at the ■ home of their son, Harvey, and family. Their other son, Dr. ■ Charles A. Tompkins, and family j came from Omaha as a surprise to help them celebrate. The day began with an 8:30 a. m. breakfast and the table was centered with a basket of golden daffodils. The table for the 1:30 dinner was decorated with a St. Patrick’s tablecloth, napkins, plates and placecards, and a three-layer white cake decorated a bas ket of flowers formed the center piece. Jason Gifford was also a guest at the dinner. Visit Klingler Home — Mr. and Mrs. Will Oh mai d and son Lvle, of near Page, were vis itors at the Albert Klingler home Wednesday. Mrs. Otto SeCto returned Sun day evening from Hastings where she had visited her son, George. Rhe spent Sunday evening visit ing Mrs. Anna Brow. Mrs. Albert Klingler, Mr. and Mrs. William Widfeldt and daughter, Norma Jean, and Mrs. John Peterson visited Mrs. Anna Brown Monday. Mrs. O. A. Kilpatrick left early Sunday for Omaha to visit her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Voeckers, and family. Caravan on Tour of Holt County The Comhusker caravan is making a swing through Holt county this weekend wi h stops today (Thursday) at Scottville, Friday at Atkinson, and Satur day at Page. Elaborate programs have been ar:anged at each place in conjunction with civic groups and the Holt county and Uni versity of Nebraska extension services. The' Atkinson show will be held in Memorial hall. The Page event will be an all-day affair. A. H. BRADLEY DIES SUNDAY — j Partner in Repair Shop Succumbs After Short Illness -- Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. here Wednesday in the First Presbyterian church for Alfred Howard Bradley, 42, who died Sunday following a four months’ illness. Burial was in the Prospect Hill ! cemetery under the direction of j Biglin Brothers. Rev. Kenneth J. Scott officiated. ; Mr. Bradley, a son of M . and Mrs. Howard Bradley, of O’Neill, was born at Inman on August 27, 11903. He was twice married. One I daughter, Patricia, was born to his first wife, who was the former Florence Omart. His first wife died in November, 1939, and in 1942 he married Rose Bennet To this union two daughters, Ros etta and Helen, were born. Mr. Bradley was part-owner in a repair shop here operating un der the firm name of Bradley & Hoxsie. Survivors include the widow; three daughters, parents, one sis |ter, Mrs. Wesley Cook, of Venus, and one stepson, Gail. The pallbearers were Harvey iKrenzer, Ray Fernholtz, William Gatz, Claude Hamilton, Harry Sullivan and Charles Shaw. —— MOVE NEXT WEEK Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Reising and family will move from O’Neill March 31 to their new home at j Morrill, where Mr. Reising has been in the implement business | for the past three months. They have purchased a farm home one | mile from Morrill. Smiths to Johnstown — Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Smith spent the weekend at the home of Mr. Smith’s brother, Quentin Smith, who lives 25 miles outside Johnstown. HOFMANN, MYERS OPEN NEW STORE Midwest Furniture & Appliance Co. Plans Grand Opening O’Neill’s r a pi d 1 y-expanding business directory will welcome another new member next week —the Midwest Furniture & Ap pliance company. H. J. Hofmann, of O'Neill, and Don Myeis, of Omaha, are mak ing a formal announcement of the firm’s grand opening in this issue of The Frontier. The dates are next Thursday, Friday a”d Sat urday, March 27-?,8-29. Mr. Hof mann and Mr. ]VT < -rs are pa tners ir. the firm, which will be man aged by the former, who came here six months ago from Har vard. The store is located jcn Douglas street, directly across the street from Asimus Bios. Outlaw store in West O’Neill. The store is completely new, having been constructed during the past six months. It is an all modern, one-story, 45x120-font structure, designed especially for the firm’s requirements. The Midwest firm also has stores at Omaha and Ainsworth. Mr. Hofmann and M . Myers say that the O’Neill store will have the “largest selection of fur niture northwest of Omaha.” 'LOVE OF ALLAH' WINS SUPERIOR ATKINSON—For the Love of Allah,’ a one-act play presented by forensic students of the O’Neill high school, today (Thursday) won first-place in the 10-school district declamatory and one-act i play contest in Atkinson. At the same time, the O’Neill high school grabbed one superior in class B, and St. Mary’s acade my, of O’Neill, won one superior, in class D, in individual perform ances. Jean Calloway, O’Neill high senior, was judged the outstand ing actress among the eight casts presenting one-act plays. Gayl Widfeldt, O’Neill high junior, was ranked among the top five ac tresses. Richard Connell, of O’Neill high, won superior in dramatic reading, and Lu Ann Iler, of St. Mary’s academy, also won supe rior in dramatic reading. Mrs. Charlotte Ressegieu tu tored the public school pupils. W. T. Spelts was a dinner guest Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ray. Holt Ranks 13th in Nation in 1945 Cattle Census Chersy county, the Nation’s leader, and eight other Nebras ka counties are among the 100 leading cattle counties in the United States, according to fig ures from the 1945 census of argriculture issed by Director J. C. Capt., bureau of the census. These nine Nebraska counties reDorted 1,081,691 cattle and calves on farms, about 27 per cent of the state’s total of 3, 979,298 cattle and calves on farms on January 1, 1945. The 1945 number of cattle and calves on Nebraska farms rep resented about five percent of the national total of 82,654,417 cattle and calves on farms. The nine leading Nebraska counties, their national rank ing, and their January 1, 1945 cattle and calves inventories, follows: Cattle National &calves County Ranking (Jan.1,’45) Cherry 1 237,888 Custer 12 141,159 Holt 13 140.199 Lincoln 17 124,394 Sheridan 31 99,625 Garden 36 95,753 Knox 53 84,244 Cuming 59 81,969 Dawson 82 76,460 | \ POSTPONED SOIL MEETING PLANNED — ‘Snowed-Out’ Session to Be Held Here on March 28 The annual meeting of the Holt soil conservation district, origin ally scheduled on January 31 but “snowed-out” because of blizzard conditions, will be held next Fri day, March 28, at the Holt coun ty courthouse annex building, it was announced this week bg D. F. Bowen, of Page, chairman of the district. Farmers, ranchers and busi nessmen are invited, Mr. Bowen said. Those who attend will have an opportunity to see photo graphs concerning agricultural and erosion conditions in Europe, Africa and Southern Asia. District cooperators will tell of their experiences with various conservation practices. L. A. Ott, of O'Neill, and Harry Tegeler, of Page, will discuss their grassed waterways. Contour tillage and terracing will be discussed by David Keidel and Calvin Allyn, both of Stuart; Harry Tegeler, of Page; and Oswald Drueke, of O’ Neill. James Allyn, of Stua t; and Ray Siders, of O’Neill, will tell about their experience with subsurface tillage and stubble mulch farming. E. J. Revell, of Star, will tell about his results with the one way, and Louis Sobotka, of In man, will talk on crop rotations. Native grass seeding will be dis cussed by Joe Wagman, of At kinson; Clarence Qrnst, of O’ Neill, and Harvey Tompkins, of Inman. Max Karo and William Wefso, both of Stuart, will dis ' cuss methods of grassland man agement. Theodore Baumeister will tell about the methods of blowout reclamation to be used. ! Coffee and doughnuts will be | served. TOMLINSON TO BOSS INDEPENDENTS Dick Tomlinson, O’Neill liquor store proprietor, Tuesday night was reelected manager of the O’Neill independent baseball club at a meeting in the public school. Danry Helmer, pitcher, was named assistant manager, and A1 Sines was elected treasurer. There wqs a relatively small gathering at the meeting and def i inite plans were not made. A movement will be started, how ever, to build a new diamond. | Numerous away-from-home night ; games may be played this season. Recreation Topic of Meeting Here Recreation for young and old will be the theme of a rec eatio meeting to be held in O’Neill next Friday, March 28, at St Mary’s academy. The all-day meeting will be sponsored by the Holt county ag ricultural extension service and is open to all persons interested in recreational activities in the various communities. Especial ly invited are representatives from 4-H clubs, home extension clubs, schools, churches and civ Ted Alexander, state rural youth and recreation leader of the state extension service, will conduct the meeting, which will consist of mixers, play - party games, musical games, quiet games, and folk games. GIRL SCOUT NEWS By Suzanne Moss, Troop Scribe Dr. W. F. Finley gave us our fourth first aid lesson Sunday and we had a short meeting af terwards. We enjoyed singing the songs that Mrs. Carroll Stew art taught us the Sunday before. We will have our regular meet ing after the first aid class on next Sunday. Our uniforms have been ordered and we hope they arrive soon. We are going to present a play, “Sally Does Her Homework.” We would like to have all our friends come. There will be no charge. It will be March 27. Bible Group Meets— EMMET — The Bible Stud gioup of the Methodist chore1’ met at the Claude Bates h im Friday afternoon with 11 mem bers and one visitor present. Mrs Wayne Bates gave the lesson. A lunch was served by Mrs. Claude Bates. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Emma Mating with Mrs. Dean Beckwith as host ess. Expect New Grandson — George Hammond spent 1h weekend with his wife and son, 1 Michael, who are stavim* with Mr. Hammond’s parents nnrj Mrs. H. J. Hammond. His sister, Mrs. Charles E. Chace, and in fant son, of Atkinson, are expect ed at the Hammond residence ' Sunday. They are being dismiss ed from St. Vincent’s hospital in Sioux City. Lutheran Group Hears from ‘Adopted’ Family — — CHAMBERS—An interesting letter, accompanied By photo graphs, was received last week by the Lutheran Women’s Mis sionary league here from the group’s “adopted” family in Eu rope. The author of the letter is a Lutheran minister, who has a congregation of 3.000 persons, many of whom are in need, he said. The league packed about 180 pounds of clothing to be sent to the parson to be dis tributed among the needy. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. J. W. Walter. Twelve members and two visit ors were present. Refreshments were served. DOWNTOWN LENTEN SERVICES PLANNED A series of five noon-day lent en services, to be held during holy week, is planned by the O’Neill Ministerial association. Pastors of five Protestant church es in the city are cooperating in these services, which will be held in the Golden hotel dining room. The services will begin Mon day, March 31, and continue through April 4, beginning at 12:25 p. m. daily and lasting for 30 minutes. The Good Friday service, however, will begin at 1 p. m. and last for one hour. Cooperating churches and the pastors are: First Presbyterian, Rev. Kenneth J. Scott; Mehodist, Rev. Lloyd W. Mullis; Christ Lu theran, Rev. P. J. Wirth; Holiness church, Rev. Melvin Grosenbach; Assembly of God, Rev. J. M. Cummings. Attends Parents' Anniversary — PAGE—Mrs. H. L. Banta re turned home Saturday after spending a few days at Beatrice, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brown. On Thurs day, Mr. and Mrs. Brown cele brated their 47th wedding anni versary with eight of their nine children present for the occasion. FRIDAY FIRST DAY OF SPRING Weatherman Predicts a Good Day; Cold Front Develops Tomorrow (Friday) will be th' first day of Spring. And the ■’ontherman is inclined to believe it’ll be a good day. Temperatures Wf"e moderat ‘hreuehout this region earlv to day, but a cold front was report ed to be developing in the no th w«st oart of the country for th° third consecutive day. The temperature here at 8 am. hovered near the freezing mark Some cloudiness is expecte-:’ with the advent of Spring, but no precipitation, the Government weather bureau reported. The day will hold no special ignificance to the scores of Holt 'ountyans sutfering from an epi demic of influenza, which has ’eft few homes unaffected. Mrs. Baker Departs for Casper — Mrs. O. W. Baker departed Tuesday for her home in Casper, Wyo., after having soent several weeks visiting at the home of her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Baker. ■" " ■ * 1 " ' — ■*! ( . rr-- - P-’UMMUUSE* ; TvTOBafe::'- rn mmnnm-.mmm -—— RED WAR CHIEF Gen. Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, who nas ! n named new minister of Soviet armed forces, succods Josef Stalin, who recently relinquished the command. HEART ATTACK CLAIMS PIONEER John Paul Sullivan, 76, Dies Suddenly Late Wednesday BURIAL SATURDAY Death late Wednesday claimed the life of another of Holt coun ty’s pioneer settlers. John Paul Sullivan, 76, died suddenly at his farm home, eight miles northeast of O’Neill, fol lowing a heart attack. He was sitting at a table preparing to eat when he was stricken. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Patrick’s Catholic church with Rev. Cyril Werner officiating. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery under the direction of Biglin Brothers. Mr. Sullivan was bom June 6, 1871, at Hancock, Mich., a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sul livan. He came with his parents to Holt county at the age of eight, settling in Grattan town ship. On October 6. 1909, he was married to Margaret Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Harrington. The wedding took place in O’Neill. One son, Fran cis, was born to the couple. Mrs. Sullivan died on February 20, 1946. Mr. Sullivan was widely - known in Holt county. He is a former county assessor. Survivors include the son; two brothers, Peter, of Lincoln, and Paul, of O’Neill; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Jolley* and Mrs. Larry Bar rett. both of O’Neill. The pallbearers will be D. H. Murphy, D. F. Murphy, William Hanley, Dennis McCarthy, James Kelley, and H. D. Grady. IMPORTANT SCOUT MEETING SOON A meeting in behalf of Boy Scout activity in the six-county northcentral Nebraska district will be held here next Thursday night, it was announced today by District Judge D. R. Mounts, of O’Neill, chairman of the district organization. Persons interested in scouting from Cherry, Brown, Rock, Keya Paha, Boyd and Holt counties are expected here for the meeting which will begin at 8 p.m. in the Hclt county district courtroom at the courthouse. William Fullois, of Kansas City, Mo., deputy regional Scout executive, and H. W. Haun, of Omaha, executive officer of the Covered Wagon area of Nebras ka will be present. Judge Mounts said that the im portant work of preparing for a district field executive will dom inate the business session. In addition, plans w'ill be developed for the 1947 district scouting pro gram. Judge Mounts said that efforts are being made to have a wide reoresentatitn at the meeting. “Hopes are held that O’Neill per sons interested in Scouting will make it a point to be present,’’ he added. Dancers Entertain at CDA Meeting The Catholic Daughters held a regular social meeting Tuesday evening at the Golden hotel. Eight eighth grade St. Mary’s academy pupils entertained with tap dancing. They were Mary Lois Kelly, Judy Martin, Barba ra St’eeter, Mardy Birmingham, Rita Higgins, Glea Iler, Berna dine Hynes, and Loretta Cuddy. They were accompanied by Pa tricia Mullen. Miss Regina Mullen was heard in two vocal selections, Mrs. Dean Streeter gave a reading. The evenings card game was Monte Carlo whist with Mvs. James Kelly as high sco*<^ win ner. Mrs. Merle Hickey won the door prize. The entertainment committee, ■ith Mrs. Dean St ee*e • as chair lan, s r” d f- shments. As -tire wf- s. Led J 'no”sek, Hiss Martha Jr>"m sek Mrs. Fred Teerman, M s Dan Tro hvnski, Mrs. James C^onk Mrs M. J. rallace, ard M”s Ma*y Allen. Juniors Hosts at 'ioh School Dane® — The junior class of the O’Neill high school ente tained Tuesday evening at a dar.ce in the public school gymnasium. The affair included the entire high school student body. SELLS INTEREST Richard Shoemaker has sHd h’»3 interest in the sendee station at the Elkhorn. cabin court to Fred Heerman, and has accepted a po sition with the Grainger Bros. & Co., of Lincoln. Mrs. O. A. Kilpatrick went to Norfolk Saturday and met her son. Gene, and his wife and baby. They then continued on to Omaha and spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Kilpatrick’s daughter, Mrs. R. A. Boecks. •