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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1949)
* * 12 PAGES * * * % z North-Nebraska s Fastest-Growing Newspaper SECTIONS VOLUME 69—NUMBER 2S_ O'NEILL. NEBR., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1949 PRICE—7 CENTS * * * ■OCJC Critically Hurt in 60-Foot Drop Sioux Cityan Tumbles Off St. Mary's Academy Roof-Top Elvin Hull, 28, of Sioux City, fell off the roof of the West building of St. Mary’s acad emy about 10:15 .a. m. Wed nesday. He was taken to the O' Neill hospital for first aid and then rushed by ambulance to St. Vincent’s hospital in Sioux City. Hall was painting the ridge row near the Southeast corner of the building when he re portedly slipped and fell. The fall was broken when he hit the steel pipe sidewalk railing near where he landed. Hall was lying on the cement when discovered, and conscious. Kathryn Ann Golden, of O'Neill, a student at the ac ademy, and Sister Flores, an instructor, were the first to hear the crash and Hall's plea for help. Miss Golden rushed to a window of the academy above where Hall was lying. She told Sister Flores and the two ran to the scene. Sister Flores called Rev- C. J. Werner, who summoned the ambulance. Henry F. Benze, a custodian at the academy, arrived on the scene minutes after the fall and said Hall was “still con scious'” after his 60-foot drop and he smoked part of a cig arette before the arrival of the ambulance.” Late bulletins to The Fron tier from St. Vincent’s hospital described Hall’s condition as “poor”. The ambulance carry ing the injured man arrived at the Sioux City hospital about 2 p.m., and doctors decided cided not to X-ray because of Hall’s shocked and weakened condition. Hall, who had been work ing with the McArthur Sheet and Roofing company, of Sioux City, had been in O’Neill three weeks working with the crew repairing the academy roof. Hall’s wife and small daugh ter reside in Sioux City. “It is the first major acci dent in the history of the ac ademy,” Mother Boniface of the academy said. Mayor Issues Stern Warning AITKIN SON — Mayor W. J. Douglas said this week that notification had been sent last Thursday that gambling act ivities which had been going on in Atkinson “should be stopped.” He also said tavern operators had been requested to keep children from sitting for extended intervals in their places of business while wait ing for parents. Douglas said the attempt to curtail gambling is in line with the drive by the state government to do away with such activities. , Council Rejects Lone Sewer Bid In an adjourned meeting of the O’Neill city council Friday afternoon, a lone bid for a sew erage lift and outfall installa tion was rejected. The bidder, Diamond Engi neering Co., of Grand Island, was $2,504 above the estimate made by Donald Price, of Lin coln, the city’s consultant engi neer. Price’s figure was in the neighborhood of 30-thousand dollars. The council decided to read vertise for additional bids. In the advertisement, ap pearing on page 8 of this iss ue, Price revised upward the estimated to 35-thousand-dol lars One city official partially explained a lack of interest on the part of the contractors. He said the city wanted the work oompleted before Win ter set in and contractors were reluctant to accept a deadline. District Court Fall Term Postponed The Fall term of the dist rict court, orginally scheduled to begin Monday October 31, has been indefinately post poned, according to District Judge D. R- Mounts. On the docket for the Fall term are 16 civil and four criminal cases. However, the judge said, some of the cases will be settled out of court. When the number of cases that can not be settled out of court has been determined, a new date for the Fall term will be set. TEACHER RESIGNS Mrs. Harold (Helen) Donohoe has resigned as teacher of the sixth grade at O’Neill public school, effective November 1. Mrs. Manuel Siegler has been signed to fill the vacancy. ELIZABETH HARRIS ELIZABETHHARR1S WINS DISTINCTION Honored For Outstanding Professional Nursing Achievement A young nurse from O’Neill recently received one of the highest awards in her profes sion. Miss Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Mrs. Esther Cole Harris, of O’Neill, received the Linda Richard award for out standing professional achieve ment. Announcement of the award was made at a banquet of the Iowa State Nurses’ association Wednesday, October 19, at Ce dar Rapids, la. The banquet was’ part ot the ! convention of the association which Miss Harris attended. The O'Neill nurse, who graduated from the Metho l dist hospital school of nurs ing in Sioux City in Sep tember 1948, was judged by | the association to be the outstanding nurse graduated from an Iowa nursing school during 1948. Miss Harris was nominated for the outstanding award by the Methodist hospital school of nursing faculty after com pleting an outstanding record as a student. A 1944 graduate of the O’ Neill high school, Miss Harris' attended the University of Ne braska for one year and was in nurses’ training for three years. For the past year she has been on the operating room staff of the Lincoln General hospital at Lincoln. The achievement award is named for Linda Richard, first graduate nurse in the United States. Robertson, Hixson Sales Head Calendar Two big farm sales are listed this weekend on The Frontier’s calendar. They are: Friday, Oc tober 28: Mrs. LaVerne Robert son, administratrix, selling per sonal property in the Dick Rob ertson estate; Saturday, October 29: Vernon H. Hixson’s complete dispersion sale. The Dick Robertson estate place is located 11 miles North on highway 281, then one mile East and one-quar ter mile South, of O’Neill; or ive miles South of the Mid vav store on highway 281 and one mile East and one quarter mlie South. Included in the sale of personal prop erty will be 130 head of cat tle, five head of horses, farm and haying machinery, house hold goods. In addition there will be offered approximately 65 tons of good bottom hay, ap proximately 40 tons of alfalfa and a 32-volt cream separator. Mrs. Robertson is the adminis tratrix; Ed Thorin, of Chambers, will be the auctioneer. Vernon Hixson will hold a complete dispersion sale of all of his personal property and registered Herefords on Sat urday, October 29, at the ranch 24 miles South on highway 281, one mile West and 1 V\ miles South of O’ Neill; or one mile West and three-quarters mile North of the Herley filling station. There will be 68 head of cat tle, which includes 34 females and four bulls that are regis tered Herefords. A catalog of the registered Herefords will be mailed upon request to the owner, Vernon W. Hixson, of Chambers. There will also be 10 head horses, 17 head of registered spotted Poland Chi nas, farm and haying machin ery, some household goods and other miscellaneous items. Ed Thorin, of Chambers, and Johnny Donner, of Elgin, will be the auctioneers; The Frontier’s farm sale ser vice includes radio and newspa per advertising and handbills and assures sellers of maximum results for a minimum cost. Sales advertised by The Frontier this Fall have been attracting capacity crowds. YOUTHS TO JAIL ON DRIVING COUNT Donald Riley, 18, and Richard Hynes, 17, Draw 20 Days Two O’Neill teen-age driv ers Tuesday were fined $50 and costs, sentenced to 20 days in the Holt county jail, and had their drivers’ licenses revok ed for one year. Donald Riley, 18, and Richard Hynes, 17, ap peared before H. W. Tomlin son, O’Neill’s justice of the peace, and plead guilty. They were charged with “willful and reckless driving” by State Patrolman Fay Robe son. The charge grew out of an accident involving the Ril ey car and a machine owned by Gilbert Mitchell, of O’ Neill. The accident occured at 5:45 p. m. Monday one block South of the Outlaw Imple ment Co- in West O’Neill. The Mitchell car was Southbound and Riley was going West when the acci dent occured. After the col lision the Mitchell car crash ed head-on into a tree. Riley told Robeson his car was traveling between 35-and 40 - miles - per-hour, turned three-fourths of the way over and caught afire. H. W. Tom linson extinguished the fire. The machine was on the front lawn at the Woody Grim resi dence on the Southwest corner of the intersection. Robeson told the court he had “repeatedly warned” the drivers against speeding and “playing tag”. Robeson said Riley and Hy nes had “played tag” before. “Tag” is when two or more vehicles race through the city with one designated as “it.” Until bumpers are touched one vehicle pursues other cars. Then the procedure starts over again. Justice Tomlinson told The Frontier that this sort of play endangers the lives of other people, as well as the drivers themselves, and he was im pelled to punish the offend ers in an effort to discourage reckless driving. Robeson estimated damage to the Riley car between $300 and $400 and to the Mitchell ; car between $200 and $300. “Voice of The Frontier” . . . WJAG . . . 780 on your dial! Mother-General Here from Holland rrr-niir".imiiwMmiiiininnnnnnnnrnnr i >»<.•*** <•: 'v.xvi'-v. ;.;-: Rev. Mother Ignace (right), of Heylhuizen, Franc’s. She has spent a week at St. Mary's Holland, ’s superior general of the Sisters of ec; de ny here, accompanied by Assistant Moth er C’-a-issa (left), a Californian. St. Mary’s Hpst to School Leader in Cononical Visitation Photo and SioTy by ELLEN LANDON Since she was elected sup erior general of the Sisters of St. Francis in 1947, Rev. Mother Ignace has traveled thousands of miles and has been a guest in hundreds of convents and fields of labor of the order in visitation such as she has been making this past week here at St. Mary’s convent and St. Mary’s acad emy. What is more, she will tra vel many thousands more miles as next year she goes to Brazil; the following year around her native Holland; and in 1952 thrugh Germany. There will be another election in 1953. While this peripatetic life is >a great contrast to the quiet., and settled existence she has enjoyed as a teacher in Hol land since she was professed at Heythuizen in 1915, the Reverend Mother adapts her self to it as only one with her talent for friendliness and her linguistic ability could. "Americans are so friend ly and helpful and seem lo appreciate the work of the sisters," she commented, ad ding that her arrival in this country last Febru ary for visitations lo the three provinces in United States marked her first visit here. Some of the little children at St. Mary's academy half expected Rev. Mother Ignace would be wearing the wooden shoes of her native Holland when she arrived here for a once-in-six years canonical vis it, she told with a smile. “But I showed them my .shoes were just like theirs and 1 told them about the children in Holland who do wear wood en shoes—particularly those in the country and in small vil lages.” Traveling with the Rever end Mother during her year in America is Assistant Moth er Clarissa, a Californian, who was chosen first assistant of the Sisters of St Francis gen eralate in the 1947 election by the order. “She is my interpreter," said the Reverend Mother. However, both Mother Clar issa and Americans who talk with Rev. Mother Ignace are agreed that the latter does not need an interpreter. Her ex cellent English is marked on ly by a pleasing Dutch accent, and her grasp of American id iomatic expressions is amaz ing. Rev. Mother Ignace and Mother Clarissa have been (Continued on page 4) * ° L A n-El > X4** .<3* «sy;y«DWii)B w n^^-. • ■ ■ . —1 ■■■ —.... This car and truck figured in crash in which two were killed.—The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarville. MRS. VIOLA MORGAN D. F. MORGAN Next Dollar Days November 4 and 5 Friday and Saturday, Novem-a ber 4 and 5, are dates for the next Dollar Days merchandis ing event sponsored by O’Neill[ business firms. The citywide sale is the sec >ond in a series. Dollar Days were staged October 14 and 15 with remarkable success. Next week’s issue of O’Neill newspapers will carry full de tails. Aged Mother, Son Are Killed O’NEILL MARKET CHANGES HANDS Albion Men to Conduct First Sale Here on December 1 O’Neill’s livestock market will be under new management De cember 1. James G. Fredrickson, mana ger of the Fredrickson Com mission Co., this week announc ed that he will suspend opera tions before December 1. Fred rickson’s last scheduled sale will be Thursday, November 17. Because of Thanksgiving there will be no sale on November 24. New operators will be Verne and Leigh Reynoldson. cou sins, both of Albion. They have entered into an agree ment with the O'Neill Civic club, which owns the prem ises here. Since April, 1946, Fredrickson has operated the market on a lease basis. Fredrickson came here from Bassett of that year. He will go to a ranch near Long Pine and do auctioneering work in that locality. The Fredrickson family will not move from O’ Neill until after the school term is ended. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrickson have three children: Geraldine, 16;! Gene, 14, and Carol, 11. The Reynoldsons have dis-1 posed of their interests in a sale barn at Albion and are making arrangements to move their families here. Construction Seen In Spring, 1950 James M. Corkle, chairman of the St. Anthony’s hospital build ing fund committee, said con struction is slated to begin dur ing the Spring of 1950 on the St. Anthony’s hospital. In preparation for the actualI physical construction of the 40-1 bed health center, Corkle and! L. D. Putnam are moving the barn and chicken house from the site. The buildings were purchased! by Corkle and Putnam on Octo ber 3 at the $5-per-plate ban quet-auction held here. Although the original hospi- j tal fund goal has been reach ed, the building funci head quarters continues to operals and Mrs. Glen Tom inson, manager, said Wednesday that the new popular subscription total is $108,700. Nine room memorials have been pledged todate in addition to the building fund. These are being sold at one-thousand-dol lars each. Funds will be used to furnish rooms and equip the hospital. A goat, originally belonging to Mary Jane Flanigan, of O’Neill, and donated to the calf auction, was inadvertently omitted from the summary of the calf sale, Mrs. Tomlinson explained. The goat sold for $5. Recently the (Continued on page 4) Funeral Services Are Held Tuesday for Crash Victims Mrs. Viola A. Morgan, 86, and her son, D. F. Morgan, 60, died about 4:50 p.m. Saturday in an aulo-truck crash at the inter section of highways 20 and 281, two miles Northwest of O’Neill. Double funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Methodist church with Rev. V. R Bell, church pastor, officiat ing. Burial was in the Mineola cemetery. The driver of the semi-stock truck, Marlie Featherston, 26, of Atkinson, was uninjured. The accident occured when the Southbound Morgan car was coming onto highway 20 from highway 281 and Featherston was near the Cast end of the Danceland curve on highway 20. Feat herston was going West. At the inquest he d Monday at the Biglin funeral home, the driver of the truck said it appeared to him that Morgan had “lost control of his car” seconds prior to the accident. Featherston said he attemp ted to avoid the collision by swinging the truck to his left. The truck ended in the ditch inside the curve. The six - man coroner’s jury returned a verdict that the aged mother and her son met their death by an “unavoid able accident”, according to Holt county Attorney W. W. Griffin, who conducted the in vestigation. On the scene of the acci dent, parts of the demolished Morgan vehicle were strewn for a radius of 40 yards. Among the first to arrive on the scene was William Anson, of O’Neill. He said Mr. Mor an was lying a few feet from the car on the highway and Mrs. Morgan was half way out of the car. Robert CUnkerscales, a mortician employee of Biglin Bros., said at the inquest Morgan had "signs of life" . when he arrived at the ac cident, but was pronounced dead upon arrival at the O' Neill hospital. The damage to the truck was not estimated. Viola Antionetta Sherman was born June 15. 1863, at Mineral Point, Wise., a daughter of The odore and Mary Sherman. She was reared in Wisconsin and came with her parents in a cov ered wagon to the Mineola com munity, in Northeastern Holt county, in about 1886. The fam ily first lived in a dugout. She was the eldest of 11 child ren. The other children were Julia, Mabel, Emma, Phoebe, Rhoda, Jesse, Charles, Harry and Henry. The mother and sev en of the children died from (Continued on page 4) DIES IN PARADE Mrs. Elsie Slattery recently received word this week of the death of her brother, Wil liam Ambrose, in London Eng land. Mr. Ambrose dropped dead while participating m n r policemen’s panda. 4 ~