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VOLUME 69—NUMBER 39 _O'NEILL. NEBR» THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1950 PRICE- 7 CENTS
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PLANS READIED
FOR ANGUS SALE
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45 Bulls, 25 Females Are
Offered in Fourth
Annual Event
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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
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Shaw and Daniels lost theix lives in this wreckage. (Story at right.)—The Frontier Pnoio.
JOHN M’NICHOLS
BURIAL FRIDAY
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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
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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.
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