Improved Facilities for 1948 Fair-Goers
Relocation of Chutes and
Pens Brings Action
Closer to Stand
New Exhibit Building
By a Staff Writer
CHAMBERS — The annual
Holt county fair and rodeo
dates are growing near—Sep
tember 1-2-3-4.
According to officials of the
Holt County Agricultural as
sociation, the sponsors, the fif
ty-sixth annual exposition has
promise of being “one of the
best—if not the best” in the
history of the association.
Secretary Edwin Wink, of
Chambers, has announced
that considerable expense
has been undertaken to im
prove the existing facilities
for accommodation of visit
ors and their products.
“The rodeo chutes and pens,
which of necessity had to be
rebuilt, are being placed to the
east of the center field,, fac
ing the grandstand,” Mr. Wink
explained. “Thus much of the
rodeo action is being brought
closer to the spectators.”
The members of the board
were undecided as to the new
location for the shoots and
pens. Gus Obermire, veteran
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new positions.
To better accommodate the
various 4-H club projects and
women’s extension club pro
jects, the fair officials have
ordered construction of a new
building, measuring 22x40 feet,
situated on the south side of
the trees on an adjoining acre
obtained a few years ago.
The dance floor has been en
larged from its original 40x60
feet size to 40x100 feet. Kay
Mills and his orchestra have
been signed for Friday, Sep
tember 3, and Don Lotion and
his orchestra will appear on
Saturday, September 4.
The new 4-H and exten
sion building paves the way.
Mr. Wink said, for an im
proved school exhibit. In the
past the schools and 4-H
shared a building. The older
building will be devoted ex
clusively to schools.
Thursday, September 2, is
school day and all school chil
dren in Holt county are being
invited to be guests of the
fair and there will be no ad
mission charge for children of
school age.
The program has not yet
been completed, Mr. Wink ex
plained, “Watch The Frontier
| and other newspapers for lat
er announcements,” he added.
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CELIA—Roger and Rodney
Dobins visited their grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Scott,
Sunday night, July 18, while
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Dobias, jr., went to
Lake Andes, S. D.
They were accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bouska, of
Atkinson.
The party spent the night
fishing in Lake Andes.
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Mr. Gibson, of Page, and Mr.
McKim, of O’Neill, combined
rye for Lex and Paul Forsythe,
F. O. Hammerberg, O. A. Ham
! merberg and George Beck last
week.
Hans Laurldsen took Lex and
Paul Forsythe to Chambers, by
truck, Thursday, July 22,
where they loaded and brought
home 2 new rakes, which the
Forsythes had purchased in
Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Samms
and Diane and Mrs. O. A.
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BRITANNIA NO LONGER RULES IN INDIA
.... The sound of a shrinking British em
pire was in the air as Lord Louis Mountbat
tcn and Ltidy Mountbatten (center) and their
daughter Pamela (rear) left government
house at Delhi, India, for the last time.
Thousands of cheering Indians and govern
ment officials were on hand as the Mount
battens left the palatial executive residence
in a state coach and proceeded to an airfield
to board a plane for England. Great Brit
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dia actually ended last year when the nation
was given its political freedom and divided
into the 2 independent states of India and
Parkistan.
Hammerberg were O’Neill vis
itors Tuesday, July 20.
Mrs. LeRoy Hoffman and
Roger were visitors at the
i George Beck home Monday,
I July 19.
George Beck and son, Duane,
and the Lockman twins, Garry
and Glen, of Stuart, visited O.
A. Hammerberg Monday, July
19. The twins visited their
aunt. Mrs. George Beck, and
! family from July 16 to 21.
Mrs. Charles Dobias, jr. and
sons, Roger and Rodney, vis
ited the O. A. Hammerberg
family Monday, July 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pease and
son, Bob, visited his brother,
Walter Pease, and family, at
Emmet on Sunday, July 18.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Samms
and Diane, Mrs. O. A. Ham
merberg visited Mrs. Ray
Pease, on Tuesday, July 20 and
picked a bushel of beans to
can.
Frickel brothers are the own
ers of a new 12-foot combine.
They formerly owned a thresh
ing machine and threshed for
others a number of years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Black
more and son, Bob, of Atkin
son, and Leonard Chaffin are
putting up hay for the Kilmur
rys.
Halley’s comet will next be
seen in 1986.
MRS. HOKE. 80,
RITES AT EWING
Came to Holt When
County Was Abundant
with Indians
EWING — Funeral services
were held last Thursday af
ternoon at the Ewing Metho
dist church for Mrs. William
Hoke, 80. who died at her
home in Ewing early Tuesday
morning, July 20.
The services were conduct
ed by Rev. C. Donald Vogel,
pastor of the Ewing United
Presbyterian church. Vocal mu
sic was provided by a quartet,
Mrs. Vera Anson, Mrs. Harriet
Welke, Ebon Grafft, and Mr.
Vogel.
The pallbearers were: Mel
vin Gunter, Lafayette Gunter,
Louis Beckman, her nephews,
and Alton Gunter, William
Gunter and Duane Hord, her
grandnephews. Burial was at
the Ewing cemetery.
Phoebe Jane Gunter Hoke
daughter of Calvin and Ruth
Gunter and wife of William
Hoke, was born July 16, 1868,
at Centerville, la.
She came to Holt rountv fn
1871 when this area was an
untamed prairie abundant with
Indians. Her folks settled on
the old Ike Billings place 2
miles east of Ewing. In 1876
they moved to a farm 1 mile
north of Ewing, which since
has been known as the Gunter
farm and is now owned by
Lional Gunter.
Jane, or “Jennie,” as she
became known later, attended
a country school near her
folks’ place. Many of her play
mates were Indian children
who lived along the Elkhorn
river.
As a young woman she be
came famous as a cook, work
ing in hotels in Neligh, Plain
view, Norfolk. Omaha and oth
er places.
In 1905 she married William
Hoke, of Ewing, and came to
live on the Hoke place IVt
miles east of Ewing, where she
lived until the time of her
death.
The Hokes had 3 children,
DeWitt, Verna and Genevieve.
Mrs. Hoke reared 2 of her
stepchildren, William and Syl
via; 3 o t h e r stepchildren,
Ethel, Elsie and Mabel.
Mrs. Hoke united with the
Methodist church while a
young woman.
She was a member of the
Ladies’ Aid Society and the
Women’s Missionary Society of
that church. In the rural area
where she lived she took an
active interest in the Jolly
Workers’ Sewing club and the
Farmers’ Union
Mrs. Hoke was a lover of
[lowers.
In 1934 she became ill with j
arthritis, and she spent the
rest of her years in bed or in
a wheel chair, especially af
ter her hip was broken from
a fall in 1936.
During her last years she:
was cared for by her son and
iaughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
DeWitt Hoke.
Over the years she and her
iister-in-law, Mrs. DeWitt Gun
ter, have been celebrating to
gether their common birthday
anniversary on July 16.
Survivors: Widower, who is
row 92-years-old; son, DeWitt,
>f Ewing; 2 daughters, Verne
3ennington, of Napierville, 111.,
and Genevieve Nelson, of,
3lainview; 3 stepchildren, Wil
iam Hoke, of Cleghom, la.;
Mrs. Ethel Prunty of Cleghom,
a.; and Mrs. Sylvia Harvey, of j
Veligh; 5 brothers James and
DeWitt Gunter, of Ewing; Uly
ises Gunter, of Sand Point,
da.; Barney Gunter, of Twin
•'alls, Ida.; and Clarence Gun
er, of Saskatoon, Canada; 1 j
ister, Mrs. Rosa Beckman, of
Clamath, Ore.; 4 grandchild
en.
She was preceded in death
>y 2 stepchildren, Mrs. Elsie
jrunter and Mrs. Mabel Prun
y; 3 brothers, John, Milo and
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