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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1950)
North-Nebraska’s I astest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 69—NUMBER 39 _O'NEILL. NEBR» THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1950 PRICE- 7 CENTS STate hist soc PLANS READIED FOR ANGUS SALE f — I 45 Bulls, 25 Females Are Offered in Fourth Annual Event ' ———— —— | Members of the board of di rectors of the Holt County Ab erdeen-Angus Breeders’ associa Ition, in special session here Monday night, readied final plans for the fourth annual show and sale to he held in O’ Neill on Tuesday, February 7. Show will be held at 10 a. m. with Charles Reece, of Simeon, as judge. Sale will begin at 1 p. m. Sixty-five lots are bemg of fered, including 45 bulls and 20 females. Ten of the females are entered for exclusive purchase by 4-H club members and Fu ture Farmers of America mem bers. Free first service to any sire owned by the members of the association will be available to purchasers of the club heif ers. There will be 30 mature bulls, 10 junior bulls and five 1949 bull calves entered, according to Ray Siders, of l O'Neill, sale manager. Leo T. ! A lams, of Chambers, is sec- j retary. Col. Ed Thorin, of ’ Chambers, will be the auc tioneer. Sale and show will be held at the O’Neill Livestock Mar ket. The Frontier's printing de- j partnient recently delivered to ( the association 500 copies of a two-color catalog describing the offerings. Catalogs may be ob tained by contacting Siders or Adams. On Monday evening, Febru ary 6, there will be an Angus banquet at the American Le gion auditorium. Already 140 tickets have been sold. More tickets are still available through Freeman Knight or Ev ert Miner, both of O’Neill. The film, “Angus Trails,” will be ^ shown as a portion of the after dinner program. There will be a special table for 4-H and FFA members at the banquet. The O'Neill Chamber of Com merce will present a silver lov ing cup to the* grand champion bull ii bred by exhibitor. The cup will be rotated unless won for three consecutive years by one individual. Seventy - seven registered Herefords will be sold on Sat urday, February 18, at the an nual Holt County Hereford Breeders’’ association show and sale, also to be held at the O’ Neill Livestock Market. The Chamber will furnish a similar cup to the grand champion j bull’s owner. James W. Rooney, sale j manager, said lira! the Here- ! ford catalogs will be ready "within a few days." The Frontier's printing depart ment is also producing the Hereford catalog. Two sales of farm personal' property are listed on The1 Frontier’s auction sale calendar. Ralph L. Ernst, wno recently moved his family to Miltonvale, Kans., has picked Tuesday, Feb ruaiy 21, as the date for his cleanup sale at his place locat ed 20 miles north of O’Neill. Complete details will be listed in the February 16 issue of The Frontier. $ William Jutte, who lives 12 miles south and 2 miles west of O’Neill, has chosen the follow ing day—Wednesday, February 22—for a cleanup sale. The Jut te sale will feature 45 head of cattle. This includes an old-es tablished herd of Aberdeen-An gus cattle. Details will be pub lished in The Frontier also on February 16. Col. Ed Thorin, of Chambers, will be auctioneer for both the Ernst and Jutte sales. Chambers State Bank will clerk for Jutte. Cows with Calves •* Hit New High Cows with calves at their side sold for $250 at the Mrs. J Russell Shoemaker sale Monday | at her place 7 miles south of O’Neill. A large crowd was on hand. Col. Wallace O’Connell, of O' Neill, the auctioneer, said bid ding was brisk and the $25u fig ure was a new high. Mrs. Shoe maker, whose husband was a polio victim three weeks ago, plans to move her family to West Point. She disposed of most of the personal property, including 102 head of Hereford cattle. First Robins Seen— With Boots On — Leon Sargent, O’Neill resi- j dent, Monday reported seeing the first robins of the new year. | He said three of the hardier , type appeared in the yard at his place. Mr. Sargent suggested the j early birds had arrived with; their snow boots on! Di Ann DeBaeker was The Frontier’s first informant of a , robin a year ago. > Frontier for printing NEW ASSISTANT . . Rev Alex J. Onak (above) succeeds Rev. C J. Werner as assist- j ant pastor at St. Patrick’s Catholic church here. The two priests were classmates at Kennerick seminary, near St Louis, Mo., before they were ordained. Reverend Onak | comes to O’Neill from St Francis church in Omaha, where Reverend Werner suc ceeds him CHARLES MAT ON, WAR VET, DIES Military Rites Today For Charter Member of American Legion Military funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Thurs- j day) from the Methodist church here for Charles R. Manson, 62, a longtime resident of 'O’Neill. Rev. V. R Bell will officiate and members of Simonson post 93 of the American Legion will be in charge of the burial at Prospect Hill cemetery. Pallbearers will be Fred Low ery, Henry Lohaus, Carl Wid t'eldt, Joseph Grutsch, Delbert Robertson, Lester Boshart, Phil lip Allendorfer and Howard Rouse, all of O’Neill. Firing squad members will be Ben Oetter, John Grutsch, G. Owen Cole, Dorrance Crabb, James Sullivan, Emmett Carr, Darcy Abart and Richard Perry. Mr. Manson died at 2:50 a.m. Tuesday at his home here. He had been ill about 4Vi months. Charles Randolph Manson, son of Davis and Elizabeth Merrell Manson, was born at Chaiter Oak, la., on April 25, 1687. His childhood and early manhood were spent in Iowa where he received his educa tion. In April, 1905, he came with his family to Neligh, where the family lived for a time, coming later to Holt county. The family established a home 30 miles northeast of O’ Neill where he continued to live until the death of his mother in 1907, when the fam iy home was broken up. The late Mr. Manson later was employed at Spencer for several years at the' Ed Angel place. On August 27, 1910, at Fairfax, D., he was united in marriage with Miss Ella Lansworth, daughter of pio neer homesteaders, the Xaie Peter J. and Anna Pauline Lansworth. They made their home at Meek for 3 years. In May, 1916, they came to O’Neill, built a name on East Fremont street, where they lived for 34 years. Aiter World War 1 he was an oil dealer for 7 years. In May, 1925, he went to work for me Ford dealership in O’Neill, lie was employed by the Lo haus Motor Co. until Septem ber 16, 1949, when he became ill. The late Mr. Manson served for lMi years with headquarters company of the 3rd detachment of trie 364 depot brigade during World War I. He was stationed at Camp Funston, Kans., and was a charter member of the American Legion. He was also a member of the IOOF lodge 57 and of the AF& AM Garfield lodge 95. Survivors include: widow, El la; sisters—Mrs. John (Abbie) Chilton, of Hornick, la.; Mrs. Levi (Carrie) Hull, of O’Neill and Mrs. Arch (Jessie) Hull, of Crookstonj nephews — Loyal Hull, of O’Neill, and Alfred Doud, of Ewing; two nephews and six nieces in Iowa. He was baptized in Method ist chunch at Charter Oak Legion Opposes Hoover Change Gordon O. Harper, command er of Simonson post 93 of the American Legion, said Wednes day that the national Legion headquarters has gone on rec ord as being opposed to one phase of the Hoover commis sion’s report. They object, Harper said, to the commission’s recommenda tion that the Veterans adminis tration be changed into four bureaus. The objection, accord ing to Mr. Harper, is on the the ory that bureaus cannot as ef ficiently handle veteran hospit alization problems. 2 Killed in Airplane Crash f :• : ^;v -’w-XWM ♦ - '*• * •< Shaw and Daniels lost theix lives in this wreckage. (Story at right.)—The Frontier Pnoio. JOHN M’NICHOLS BURIAL FRIDAY ! Member Family Expires At Rest Home John McNichols, TO, a mem ber of a pioneer Holt county family, died about 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at a rest home in Coleridge, where he had been a resident since May, 1949. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at St. Patrick’s Catholic church and burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Very Rev. Timothy O’Sullivan, church pastor, will officiate in the rites beginning at 10 a. m. The late Mr. McNichols was born July 6, 1880, at Ames, la., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Mc Nichols, both of whom now are deceased. He came here as a lad with his folks, who settled northwest of the city on a farm where the municipal airport now is located. He lived there continuously, except for 5 years spent in the mining fields at Butte, Mont., until he went to Coleridge. Mr. McNichols, who was nev er married, is survived by: sis ter—Mrs. J. B. Donohoe, of O’ Neill, and Walter McNichols, ! also of O’Neill. The late Mr. McNichols had been in failing health for the past several years. Go to Wisner— Mr. and Mrs. George Cook and Mr. and Mrs. William White went to Wisner Friday. Mrs. Mina Covcmry ... a Rebekah for 25 years.—O'Neill Pholo Co. (Story at right). Firemen Called To Rooming House The O’Neill volunteer fire de partment made a call to Browns’ root ring hous’ in South O’Neill Friday at 4:45 p. m. Firemen said a stove pipe and chimney burned out and no damage n suited. T high wind would have fanned the lire if the blaze had goit< 1 out of control. Latvian Widow Latest European Displaced Person to Arrive _ 4 A 35-year-old Riga, Latvia, widow, whose husband was kill ed in a highway accident, whose immediate relatives have been compelled to go into Russian labor camps and who, herself, has had narrow brushes with the Reds is the latest displaced person from Europe to find ref uge in Holt county. She is Mrs. Erike Menesis, a brunette, who this week was taken into the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Secek at Emmet. The Seceks have a cafe and fill- : ing station at Emmet and it is their intention that Mrs. Mene sis will assist in the cafe work. The young widow's travels, since she fled her native Riga, read something like a novel. When the Russians were ov errunning Finland and Latvia early in . World War II. she made her escape to Germany by boat Most other lines of com munication had been cut. Sev eral of her brothers and a sister were successful in evading the Red occupation, but her father failed to reach the vessel. She has not heard from him since, presumes that he and other of her near-relatives have been sent to Russia for forced labor, j Her mother died when she was 2Vz-years-old. Later, her brother and sister were captured in Germany and taken to Latvia. They have not I been heard from since. That’s when Mrs. Menesis be came bent on coming to the United States. The trip, which required considerable arrang ing, was worked out through the Lutheran resettlement service under the direction of Rev W. | Wiese, of Lincoln, officials of | the Missouri synod I Mrs. Menesis was detained in Mrs. Erike Menesis . . . fled from Russians early in World War II.—The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarv,41e. Omaha one day, having missed a train. She speaks English “quite well" and managed to look after herself all right. She protesses to be able to speak Rushan, Gorman and Latvian considerably better than she handles English. Rev. Clyde O. Cress, pastor of Christ Lutheran church, met her at an O’Neill rail station early Sunday morning. Se had break fast at the C ’ss home and he took her to Seeek’s. Mrs. Menesis came to Holt from the in*' (national refugee camp at Bad Kissingen, Bavar ia, Germany. She says > i life during the oast few years has been a con tant move from one carnp to another. MINA COVENTRY DIES AT INMAN Holt Resident Since 1904 Succumbs Saturday At Her Home INMAN — Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at home here for Mrs. Mina Cov ntry, 73. Rev. Roy M. Wingate, uf the Methodist church, offi ciated and burial was in the In man cemetery near her hus band’s grave. The Arbutus Rebekah lodge ? 17, of which Mrs. Coventry was a member for 25 years, conduct ed memorial rites at the home. Pallbearers were: Arthur Tomlinson, Eugene Clark, Roy Gannon, Karl Keyes, James Gal lagher, Vaden Kivett and Mi chael Gallagher, all of Inman, md Melvin Smith, of Page Marye Hartigan and Faye Brunekhorst had charge of the flowers. Mrs. Coventry died following a two weeks’ illness. Mina Jane Smith, daughter of Robert and Belle Smith, was born December 31, 1876, at Red I Butte, Wyo. When a young girl, ■ ihe moved with her parents to ■ ichuyler and then in 1891 the family moved to Olds, Alberta, Canada. There she married George A. Coventry December i 23, and to them five children were born. They came fo Holt county during 1904 and settled on a farm south of here. They mov ed to Inman during the fall of 1913. Mr. Coventry died in July. 1947, Survivors include: daughters _Mrs. James M. (Carrie) Mc Mahan and Mrs. Kenneth (Jes sie) Smith, both of Inman; and Mrs. Sherman (Louise) Grazier, of Tipton, Mo.; sons—Kenneth and Albert, both of Inman; 17 grandchildren; three great grandchildren; sisters — Mrs. Max Michaud and Mrs. Grace Deimage, both of Langby I rai rie, B. C., Canada; brothers — Ernest Smith and John J. Smith, of Three Hills, Alberta, Canada; Daniel and Bert Smith, of Lanby Prairie, B. C., Canada. Out-of - town relatives and friends who attended the ser vices were: Mrs. Guy Brillhart, of Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Rod ney Tomlinson, of Lynch; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Tomlinson and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tomlinson, of O’Neill; Mrs. William Tur ner, Mrs. Donald Shonka, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Held, all of Chambers; Mr. and Mrs. ML vin Smith, of Page; and Mr and Mrs. Ralph Pinkcrman, of Dorsey. The late Mr. and Mrs. Coven try celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary on December 22, 1946. Mrs. Coventry recently re ceived her 25-year jewel for ac tive membership in the Rebekah I organization. Lions Plan Benefit Basketball Feature— The O’Neill Lions elub wi sponsor benefit basketball games on Thursday evening, February 16, according to A. L i Bowen. Affair will be held at ;i e O’Neill public school gym nasium. . The O'Neill Irish and Winner (S D ) Aces, both sponsored hy American Legion organizations in their respective cities, wm vie in the main event to begin nt 8:45 p m. Tn a preliminary game, tne I O’Neill Irish seconds will take I on the Clearwater Indepen ■ dents. This game will begin at I 7:30 C larence E. Shaw, 43, and! Albert J. Daniels, 37, Found in Hayfield Wreckage By a Staff Writer Two Ewing men lost their lives in an airplane crash 9Vfe miles southwest of O’Neill late last Thursday Dead are: CLARENCE E. SHAW. 43. oil dealer. ALBERT J. DANIELS. 37. trucker. The two men boarded Shaw’s light 2-passenger plane at Ew ing about 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, were reported flying southwest of Ewing a half-hour later, and made a brief stop at the farm home of the late Weldon Wood, near Chambers. The plane struck the earth with a rending crash in a hay field on the Joe Peters farm. Markings on the ground indicated the plane was headed in a southeasterly direction when tha crash occurred. Exact time of the accident has not been determined by Civil Air authorities, who investigated. County Attorney William W. Griffin, who was one of the first to reach t/ie scene, estimated the accident occurred “around 6 p.m.” One of the victim’s wristwatches had stopped at 10:40 p.m.; the other several hours later. Griffin suggested that the watches had not stopped at the time of impact but probably were stopped by the intense cold. Shaw Rites Held At St. Peter's— EWING — Funeral services ior Clarence E. Shaw were held it 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. - eter’s Catholic church. Rev. Peter Burke, church pastor, of iiciated, and burial was in St. ! Peter’s ceretery. Mr. Shaw was born on Octo ber 24, 1907, a son of Mr. and i Mrs. Grover Shaw, of O’Neill, tie was reared on a farm about | 10 miles south of O’Neill and j attended school at St. Mary's academy and O’Neill high scnooi. He farmed in the Emmet community for a number ol years, operated a filling station mere for 3 years, and for the past 3 years na^ been in the oil Dullness at Ewing. His hobby was aircraft flying. He was a ; member ol St. Peter’s church. On June 1, 1939. he married Frances T’omjack. of Ewing. They became the parents ot a son, Grover. Survivors include: widow — Frances; son—Grover; parents -Mr. and Mrs. Grover Shaw, ol O'Neill; sisters—Mrs. K. C. (Eileen) Hunt, of O’Neill, and Mrs. Loretta Rhode, of Richland, Was.i.; brother—Ralph Shaw, oi Cowley, Wyo. The funeral was one of the largest gatherings ever held in Ewing. | Daniels Leaves 4 Children— . rAViNG Funeral services lor Albert J. Daniels, 36, were held Monday afternoon at the Fwing public school auditorium. Like the Shaw funeral earlier in the day, there was not room indoors to accommodate the ov erflow crowd. Kev. Koy M. Wingate, pastor of the Methodist church, offici ated, and burial was in the Ew ing cemetery. Mr. Daniels was born on Feb ruary 4, 1913, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus H. Daniels, on a farm 7 miles south of Ewing. He was reared and educated in the Ew ing community. On March 29. 1936, he mar ried Wilma Jeffries at West Point. They became the par ents of 4 children—1 son and 3 daughters. Mr. Daniels’s occupation was a trucker. He was a passenger in the ill fated plane in which the two Ewing men lost their lives. Survivors include: widow; daughters — Bethyl, Veradel, Sharon; son—Harold Gene; par ents--Mr. and Mrs. Gus H. Dan j Is: brothers—Harold and Bud; sisters—Mrs. Viola Fibwall, of Ft. Jones, Calif.; Mrs. Bernice Lucas, of Clearwater; and Mrs. Annabelle Wright, of Ewing. Pallbearers were: Art Walters, Edwin Walters, Louis Walters, Dwayne Summerer, Carol Sum merer and Robert Summerer. Active pallbearers were: Wil liam Schindler, James Rother ham, Joseph Thoendel, Ray Funk, Roy Vandersnick and George Burk. , I Goes to Lincoln For Son's Graduation— Mrs. Edward F. Quinn left Tuesday, January 24, for Lin coln- She amended the gradua tion of her son, Edward Quinn, Saturday at the University ot Nebraska. Mr Quinn was pre sented a bachelor of science degree in civil esngineermg and architecture. .. *v iil-ii onaw ana uanieis rau to return to the Ewing airport that evening, there was consid erable anxiety. It was presum 1 ed they had been aloft to “spot” ! coyotes. A searching party was organ ized early Friday morning. More than a dozen planes—from O' Neill, Elgin, Ewing, Chambers, Clearwater and Neligh — were engaged in a widespread search. George Nachtman, pilot, and Gordon Harper, observer, took off from the O’Neill airport, flew in a southwesterly direc tion, and spotted the wreckage after flying only 20 minutes. They landed, found the bodies badly frozen. Peters had also discovered the wreckage. Shaw’s body was thrown from the cabin in the direc tion the plane had been rrav eling. Daniels's body was still in the cabin. Both men died instantly. No examination was made to de termine the extent of the injur ies, Nachtman flew back to O’ Neill airport to advise authori ties by telephone of the acei ent. Harper kept a vigil at the cene until Biglin Bros, ambu- • ance r. moved the bodies and Civil Air authorities, who were it Ord, could investigate. No inquest was held. Civil air authorities declared i at Shaw’s plane “stalled out” while making a “steep, banking ui n at too low’ an altitude.” Civil air board representatives were to have arrived Wednesday to tear down t ie aircraft’s en gine and inspect for a possibility of mechanical failure. Mrs. Pritchett Heart Victim Funeral services were con ducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in St Patrick’s Catholic church here for Mrs. Bertha Pritchett, 76, a resident of the Opportunity com munity. Very Rev. Timothy O’ Sullivan officiated and burial was in Calvary cemetery here. Mrs. Pritchett suffered a heart attack on Monday, Janu ary 23, which proved fatal Fri u8v ai her dome. The late Mrs. Pritchett was born Bertha Margaret Foran December 3, 1873, at Prairie DuChein, Wise. When a small girl, she, with her parents, moved to Rock Rapids, la. Sev eral years later the family mov ed to Sioux City where she at tended St. Mary’s school and ! studied to be a teacher. On January 10, 1899, she mar ried Marion Pritchett at Sioux City and to them six children I were burn. They traveled by team and wagon to Lynch in the spring of 1899. There they home steaded. During 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Pi itchett moved to the Oppor tunity neighborhood. Mr Pritch ett died January 21, 1937. Survivors include: sons — Charles, of O’Neill; Nathan and Joseph, of Opportunity; Alphon so, of Redbird; daughters — Mrs. Roy (Helen) Osborne, of O’Neill; Mrs. Gene (Angeline) Morgan, of O’Neill; 13 grand children; one brother and two sisters. “Voice of The Frontier" . . 7«0 on your dial . . . 9 45 a m. thre* i times weelilv—Mondays, Wed nesdays, Saturdays. 4
