22 MEN SHOVEL TO OPEN ROAD Businessmen and Farmers Mann Scoops to Cut 300 Yards of Snow EWING—Business men and farmers east of Ewing got-to gether Friday morning for a snow shoveling party. In less than three hours they opened a road two miles east of town which had been blocked by the historic November storm. Twenty-two men used the old time method of shovel and-heave to cut through 300 yards of hardpacked, deep snow south of the Ew ing cemetery. Their efforts made possible the opening of one of the important roads leading from the Riverside district to the highway, one half mile southeast of Ew ing. Those from the surrounding farms who helped were: Z. H. Fry, William Lofquist, Donald Larson, Grant Mott, Wayne Fry, Carol Christon, Norman Pollock, Alfonz Waslager, and Fay Primus. Businessmen from town who took time off from their work for this project were: Frank Nofke, Donald Jensen, Will Conner, Eben Grafft, Victor Marquardt, Clyde Allen, T. B. Jacobson, Ernest Norwood, Leland Welke, James Mnarik, Richard Shain, Adrian Muet ing, and C. Donald Vogel. Mayor Clyde Allen, John Walker, president of the Com mercial club, and Carl Chris ton of the Riverside area, ar ranged the “party.” Yule Decorations in Table Settings EWING—The WSCS of the Ewing Methodist church, held its regular meeting at the church Wednesday afternoon, December 1. Mrs. A. S. Evans led the devotions on the Christmas theme, “They Offered Him Gifts.” Christmas decorations were used for the table set ting by Mrs. Jessie Angus and Mrs. Earl Billings, who were hostesses for the luncheon, which followed the meeting. Mrs. Billings presided at the business session. The group voted to hold over the pres ent officers until June 1, 1949. Serving committees for the next year were selected. A Christmas party was planned for Friday, December 17. Mr and Mrs. Jack Faulk and children, of Chadron, spent Friday, November 26, visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lanman. Mrs. Faulk and Mrs. Lanman are sisters. FOR SALEH 8” and 10” I-Beams, 18’ to 40’ Suitable for Hay Sleds, Building Purposes, Etc. NORFOLK HIDE AND METAL COMPANY Norfolk, Nebraska prairieland talk (Continued from page 2) Bleak December comes to Nebraska bathed in sunlight^ the first day of the last month of another year that fades in- ; to the past comparable to a mild October morning. What follows this day is not my guests. As the seasons are ap pointed, Winter begins Decem ber 21. But those who exper ienced the blizzard of Novem ber 18 hgd to conclude that almanac makers were a month behind the weather’s schedule for this season. — - ' • t t At 1 o'clock in the morn ing of Wednesday, December 1, the electric current was turned on at the state peni tentiary and another red skin bit the dust. Timothy Iron Bear was given every chance for his life. When he admit ted guilt before the pardon board, with the old alibi of a pint of whiskey, there was nothing to do but confirm the sentence of the court. • • • School redistricting might be of some help in the more thickly settled sections of the state where children are tak en to school in busses, but possibly the advocates of re districting have not taken in to account the extensive ter ritory in this state where there is no bus service nor ever will be. Children lope to school on their ponies. Citizens and taxpayers, too, are get ting just a little tired of be ing bossed by somebody at the state house. • • • The Sunday papers carried the picture of a plump, well dressed matron holding upon her lap a healthy, well fed child with a toy, a segment of a group of ‘‘displaced persons” aboard a vessel bound for home in America. The picture arouses a question if there isn’t something of an organiz ed propaganda behind the sto ries of starvation and rags ov er there in Europe. • * • The matron asked her hus band to accompany her to an afternoon gathering. He grunt ************** t/mutmtneyn/sflui ed his refusal Later the ma tron sat alone in her home, her husband out somewhere entertaining himself. They had been married nearly a quarter of a century. What is it that changes gallant young men in to the self-centered grouch of middle age. • « • A Lincoln concern was fined $15 for hiring a boy of 13-years-old io work. I can mention some oldtimers who wonder why there was not such a law when they were kids, - —... - » i « — When the husky out on the Srairie sizzles the hair and ide of a critter with a hot branding iron he mignt be in terested to know that he Was one of them who paid into the hands of the state brand com mitee during the past two years $268,000. • • • There is talk of cluttering up Nebraska with factories. That may have an appeal to ambitious small town commer cial clubs but to the natives who must have room in which to get around it forebodes of doom. • • • Lincoln builders who have been in the business as rental investment are reported to have announced that they are through, the crest has passed and the tide ebbs. They will put up a house now only on order. • • • The talkative young lady was entertaining, a free flow of delightful nothings and ap parently regarded Her syntax lacking without frequent in troduction of the phrase, “my husband,” wanting us to know she had one. • • • One generation builds, plants, develops communities out of raw material with bare nothing. Another generation comes along, uproots, tears down, remodels and undo the ; relics of the past. • • • Experiments with rats to de | termine what’s the matter with us and what we should eat may be all right for the I'ltfMTiii'lg'ttf'Isrwisndntfisru gents toying with the idea, but J not many of us care to be classed with the rodents. * • * What he said was his first drink of firewater landed a Lancaster county gent in court for drunken driving and he may conclude the hundred dollar fine makes it too ex pensive to try again. * * # Mr. Hoover, 74, still the rug ged individualist, talks elo quently of a generation that got their social security out of the cellar, not from the gov ernment. Difficulty now is nobody has a cellar. ♦ » ♦ Gentlemen are Wondering if they Bhould salute a lady by raising their hat when they | meet one dressed like a man. 1 * * * The delights o f friendly contacts made in bus travel are somewhat mitigated when a spike heel under the pressure of 180 pounds comes down on your foot. * * * The Swiss word for youth is jugend, in our termology de- i scriptive of a few we have I over here. • • • Linpoln has within its con fines 162 practicing attorneys and 268 physicians. - Gift for Parkistan Mission Worker Planned 1 EWING—The Forum Group of the United Presbyterian church met Thursday evening, December 2, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rickard. Mrs. Dale Napier led the meet ing. The roll call was answer ed by those present by recit ing a Bible verse containing the word “peace.” After the meeting, the group played i Christmas games. It was decid ed to send a gift to Laura MacLachlan, missionary in Pa kistan. 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