The Frontier Woman j
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Hi there, all you nice peo
ple! Do you mean to tell me
April is this near to ‘flying
the coop' and that that's May
peeking in the window? I
don't believe it. Why April
has just gone with wings on
it Where does the time go?
And you've still got some of
that painting to do, havent
you, and I surely thought 1 d
have that soap cupboard clean
ed out and repapered by now.
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Anyway, what i* "ice][
than the fir«t week m May?
May baskets, so called wm
ler-onions," anemones stick
ing up their while and blue
daisy like heads on the
meadows and waving in the
breeze, trees either donning
their spring green or giving
it serious thought, the mead
ows greened up, the air with
that certain soft feel to “•
Spring is at high noon and
the big hand is at May. Lot
us make the most of it And
how about giving your favorite
person a May basket? Shucks,,
maybe it is sentimental and
silly but who cares? this is
May and a little nonsense now
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
automobiles
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
equipment
furniture
CENTRAL FINANCE
CORP.
C. E. JONES. Manager
O'NEILL s NEBRASKA
and then often pleases the hesi
of them!
Do something! Paint your
toenails and scare the old man
into thinking you’ve gone nuts,
or paint the kitchen chairs—
maybe that will be easier on
nappy. But do something dif
ferent. Honestly, maybe a
new dish would put you all
in a better frame of mind.
How about it? Want to try
this date pudding, or maybe
a blushing Betty?
date pudding
One-fourth cup minute tap
ioca, % teaspoon salt, 2 cups
hot water, 3 tablespoons but
ter or margarine, 6 tablespoons
brown sugar, V; teaspoon va
nilla. Vi cup chopped nuts, l
cup chopped dates. Combine
ingredients and bake in cov
ered pan with an oven meal—
if you’re fixing an oven meal.
Bake at 350 F. for 1 hour.
Serve with whipped cream. !
Good! This recipe calls for
no flour and comes to us from
the home service department
of Consumers Public I owe.
district.
BLUSHING BETTY
Four cups rhubarb, cut in 1
inch pieces, 1 cup sugar, 1-3
cup raisins, 2 tablespoons but
ted 1-3 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup
sifted flour, I Va teaspoons bak
ing prwder, V* teaspoon salt,
1-3 e'lp milk, xk teaspoon va
nilla. Place rhubarb in shal
DRS. BROWN & j
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Complete X-Ray ,
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Glasses Correctly Fitted
DECORATION DAY
Wreathes...
• We have a fine selection of wreathes
for Memorial Day. May we suggest
that you make reservations now. Mem
orial Day is little more than a month
away.
Bowen’s Ben Franklin Store
A. E. BOWEN Owner O’NEILL
low. buttered cake pan. Spr.n
kle with- 1 cup sugar and rai
sins. Cream butter and 1-3
tup sugar, add egg and beat
well. Sift dry ingredients to
gether and add alternately
with milk and vanilla to the
creamed mixture. Spread over
fruit. Bake with oven meal ol
350 F. one hour.
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Prize-Winning Letter—
A three-months’ subscription
has been awarded to Miss Min- |
nie Gathje, Atkinson, route Z,
for the following good letter.
Dear Blanche: .
Here it’s Monday, and letter
writing day for me. So must
eet busy, for the day is well j
spent already and only one
etter written so far, with o
more waiting to be answered.
Enjoy 2 of your depart
ments every week and so
much. The recipes all sound
so good, but have never seen
a potato pancake -recipe, we
are so very fond of them so
will send our recipe along.
Am also sending along a
marshmallow pie recipe
which is very good—we have
made it a couple of times.
Since Christmas I have done
3uite a little < rocheting, most-1
|y hot pan holders in the eve
ning, and now one of these
days I will have to sew md
some aprons and a house
dress. Well, it’s the time o.‘
year when people move, hou^e
•leaning time, ordering bab>
••hicks, and planting gardens.
Df course, all of that is beyond ,
me, but in my mind I can vis
ion all this. How I would dec
orate rooms, and so on, eve
landscaping a yard, bu g ■ ’
the only landscaping 1 will do
is arrange my flowers different
in the east window.
How beautiful everything
will be when the meadows are
fully green, floweis come forth
in their gay colors, and the
trees are dressed in their love
lv leaves. I love to go near a
creek and see the crystal clear
water flow gently by a bunch
of little willow trees, a splash
of gay flowers here and there,
and to top it off fleecy white
Kids0 floating between my
vision and the blue sky. Doves
cooing in the distance, birds
singing, bees humming, all of
this and many more such
things are what makes this
| wonderful country of ouis.
As ever,
MINNIE GATHjE
How glad I am you vrote
,at good letter, Minnie,
hained to a wheel chair^ with
seless legs you may be bu
our mind soars up and out
od you can see the beauties
l nature. Nor have you sat
itter, doing nothing and ex
ending no love an other^
ours has been a good ana
seful life. You have many
•.ends and I for one have al
•ays admired your courage
j fortitude. Many people
Z you and the affection we
Z\ for you you have earned
y your own nice personaility
nd unselfishness. Most of us
ave good legs, but few
avc fived at peace with our
>lves as vou ,
o, and few of us too have so
mply earned the respect
ur fellow citizens.
F. Finley, M. D. j
OFFICE PHONE: 28
it National Bank Bldg.
O'NEILL
Business As Usual
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^ WE HOPE that our building program, which is now enter
ing a new phase, will not inconvenience you in your shop
ping. Our big, new building will, in effect, “envelope’’ our pres
ent store. This procedure is accompanied by a certain amount
of temporary measures. During the next week or 10 days we
ask you special consideration. However, we want you to know
that our business is being carried on as usual.
^ WE ASSURE you that despite the construction activity
we’ll do our utmost to take care of your needs, and we hope
that you will not be inconvenienced in any way.
if WHEN COMPLETED this summer, our new store will be
one of the finest of its type in any city of the O’Neill class
in Nebraska or South Dakota. In fact, we hope you’ll agree
that our store will do justice to cities many times larger than
O’Neill.
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BEIM
F R AM K LIN
« H O W N -l o C A
L ' * * O W N t t>
O’NEILL
A. E. BOWEN, Owner
SPRING IS HERE — FLOODS. TOO . . . More than 2.000
acres of valuable farm land were inundated by heavy rains
and melting ice and snow throughout the Rock river area
near Moline, 111 Property damage was extensive and spring
planting was delayed, keeping fertile fields out of production
until they were dried up.
I
Here are Miss Gathje’s good j
recipes: i
POTATO PANCAKES ,
Three cups raw grated pota?
toes, 1 onion size of egg, cut ,
fine, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 eggs, ‘
1 heaping table poon flour. Put (
all together and beat good, ^
then fry in skillet. Use a lit- ^
tie more lard than for pan- ,
cakes. Serve with sausage for ‘
supper.
MARSHMALLOW PIE
Eighteen marshmallows, xk (
cup hot milk, dissolve marsh- '
mallows in double boiler with j
the hot milk. Then set aside J
and cool. One cup cream, 1
cup crushed pineapple. Whip ■
cream till it stands in peaks,
fold into marshmallow mix- '
ture. Then add pineapple. You
may use a graham cracker
crust or an ordinary baked pie
shell. Sprinkle top of pie with
either graham crackers o r
chopped nuts.
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Millie Also Wins
Prize Subscription—
A prize subscription of 3
months also goes this week to
"Millie,” of Dorsey.
Dear Mrs. Pease:
Got the recent sample copy ’
j of The Frontier that they put
jout and I surely enjoyed it. A
neighbor has been kind enough
1 to let me read her paper. To
tell you the truth I think it
sure is improving. So I think
we will soon be a subscriber. |
I never could expect to win I
a subscription as I never was
lucky that way.
I thought you might get a
laugh out of our courtship.
(If my husband knew it he
would laugh.) I) met him in
church, he had been work
ing in Knox county and
came home over the week
| ends and came to church
I with his folks.
I But the part I wanted to tell
you was of our first date. We
had seen each other several
times and one Sunday after
noon I went to a coyote hunt
with friends. We had done
lots of walking and all were
tired so after the hunt, kidding
| me, he asked me to come ovei
to his car. it was closer and he
would take me to church that
night. I decided to go home
I with him. So we started back
I to the car and the ground had
sort of thawed, mud picked up
| and I said something abou’.
zipping up my overshoes. 1
! bent over to zip them up, and
; at the same time he bent ovei
to zip them for me, and the
'' shotgun he had over his shoul
' der came down on my head
with a bang.
Needless to say, it hurt him
about as much as it did me^
and oh what a head ache 1
had. .
I always tell him that the
i reason he got me was that he
stunned me right from the
!first.
so
My husband has been
loving and kind, never cross.
I have been ill so much and
more trouble than help to
him. but I try my best to
help him and my 2 children.
I really thank God for such
a wonderful husband. Do
you wonder why I love that
m‘nl MILLIE
We’re glad vou wrote, Millie,
and I get a nick out of your
| telling about your first date,
j Expect our readers did, too.
REGIS
HOTEL
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with
Bath
OMAHA
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Home of lha Popula*
White Horse Inn
and
Cafe Regis
Vnd you surprised yourself by
winning a subscription!
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>end Us a Letter—
Enjoying The Frontier Wom
n, aren’t you? Then, why
lon’t you write us a letter to
ell us so? We’d like so much
o have a letter from you,
elling us what you’re doing
nd anything else you might
are to write us about. Per
laps you’d like to inclose a
cuple of your favorite recipes,
ir share some helps and hints
vith us. We do need letters
or The Frontier Woman. Send
hem to Mrs. Blnache Pease,
?he Frontier Woman, Atkin
on, Nebraska. That’s all for
his week. Meet you here next
veek. Be watching for me.
Sincerely yours,
BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
REDBIRD NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. George Barta
were in Redbud Saturday, Ap
ril 17.
Mrs. Albert Carson and chil
dren called here Saturday .Ap
ril 17.
Eddie Hrbek and family
were in Redbird Saturday, Ap
ril 17.
Claude Pickering and family
autoed to Lynch Saturday, Ap
ril 17.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pink
erman, of Minneola, called at
Redbird Saturday, April 17.
Visitors at the Mike Hull’s
Sunday, April 18, were: Henry
Hull and family, of Verdel;
Charles Hull and family, of
Crete; Fred E. Truax and fam
ily, of Lynch, and Ted Craw
ford and family, of O’Neill.
Mrs. Rollie Truax and chil
dren called at Redbird Mon
day, April 19.
Claude Pickering, Albert
Carson, Flunky Phelps, Gordon
GEO, C. ROBERTSON
Insurasce Bonds
O'Neill
Office: % -block north of
First National Bank
Real Estate Loans
STANDS OUT
ELECTRICALLY
1*47 Ifata Average Klactrk •Ills—
ISO KWH—Wantl«l
6.41
The above map uat re
produced from a Federal
Power Commission report
showing comparison of av
erage electric bills (250
KWH residential) br states.
Sine* the organization of Consume™ Public Power District. Nebraska has achieved
on enviable record in the nation electrically, as indicated on the Federal Power Com
mission map reproduced above. The average electric bill for 250 kilowatt-hcur*
of electricity tor residential service in
Nebraska during 1947 was the lowest
of any bordering midwestem state and
among the twelve lowest in the entire
nation.
Nebraska did net always hold this
favorable position as shown on the
map at right, which indicates typical
average electric bills by states in 1935.
CONSUMERS PUBLIC .POWER DISTRICT
^arta, Chancie Hull and Ed
ward Parson were among those
here Wednesday, April 21, re
pairing the Dorsey-Lyruh tele
phone line.
Emerson Tyler, of O’Neill,
called at Redbird Monday, Ap
ril 19.
Miss Rose Maly was here
Monday, April 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas His
cocks, of Dorsey, stopped here
Monday, April 19, enroute to
Lynch.
Arthur Bessert was here on
business Monday, April 19.
Miss Erva Hull called at'
Redbird Tuesday, April 20.
Michael Hull a u t o e d to
Lynch Tuesday, April 20.
Among the visitors in Red
bird Thursday, April 22, were
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Luedtke.
Donald Landman, of O’Neill,
was in Redbird Thursday, Ap
ril 22.
Mr. and Mrs. William Con
ard were in Redbird Thursday,
April 22.
W. H. Hartland was here on
business Friday, April 23.
Michael Hull visited Pete
More Saturday, April 24.
You Can Still Get
Best Flat Kernels
YAGER'S
Improved Hybrid
Seed Corn
if Bred and grown in
Nebraska and capable
of giving you the largest
corn crop your land will
produce in this locality.
See Me at Once:
JOHN D. PRUSS
Emmet, Phone 7F210
Local Yager Dealer
Mark 10th Anniversary—
CHAMBERS — A group of
relatives gathered at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Baker
Sunday evening to surprise
them on their 10th wedding
anniversary. Those present
were: Mrs. Lela Grubb and
Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Guais Win
. termote and Carolyn, Mr. and
Mrs. Bayne Grubb and chil
dren and Mrs. Stanley Elkins
and Ronnie.
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Attend Meeting—
The following attended a
bottlers’ meeting on Sunday at
the Fontanelle hotel in Omaha:
L. M. Merriman, James Lyons,
Fritz Belzer, Bob Stevens, Rob
ert Asher and Dale Nissen.
Visiting at Madison—
Mrs. William McIntosh and
son returned Saturday from a
2-day visit in Madison with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Beaty.
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