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The Frontier Woman — “0 Neill Housewife” Encounters Smart Mouse; She Should Hire a Smart Cat By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE To break the monotony of the same old breakfast menu, serve your family a piping hot plate of pancakes now and then. You don’t need to serve the ' same kind of ten, for there are pancakes and pancakes, whether you call them pan cakes or grid dle cakes. Re member, t o turn them just once; while baking _. . —and that Blanch. Spann u s t before the bubbles I burst, and not to flatten the pancake as it bakes, as that breaks the air bubbles and makes the cake tough. SWEET MILK PANCAKES Two cups sifted flour, three j teaspoons baking powder, one ' teaspoon salt, one tablespoon sugar, one egg, well beaten, 1 one and one-half cups milk, two tablespoons melted shortening Mix and sift dry ingredients. Combine beaten egg. melted shortening and milk, add flour {mixture and beat only until smooth. Bake on ungrcased, smooth, hot griddle or slightly greased griddle. SOUR MILK OR BUTTER MILK PANCAKES Two cups flour, one teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon baking powder, one and-one fourth tea spoon baking soda, two cups sour milk or buttermilk, one half cups sour cream, one egg, well beaten. I Sift flour, measure and sift i with baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add sour cream, egg, and sour milk. Beat until ' smooth. Bake on hot griddle. Makes 8 to 10 pancakes. A delightful variation of this recipe is to add one cup corn j ‘ meal for one cup of the white flour in the sour milk recipe. WHOLE WHEAT GRIDDLE ' CAKES One cup whole wheat flour, one half cup white flour, one- : half cups quick oatmeal, one tea * spoon soda, one teaspoon salt, three tablespoons brown sugar, two eggs, one cup sour cream, one cup sour milk. Combine dry ingredients. Add combined li 1 quid ingredients and beat well. Bake on hot griddle BUCKWHEAT GRIDDLE CAKES One cup sifted flour, one cup buckwheat flour, three tea spoons baking powder, three I fourths teaspoon salt, three | tablespoons sugar, two eggs, I beaten, one and one-half cups [ milk, three tablespoons short ening, melted. Beat eggs, add milk, stir in sifted dry ingred ients. Add shortening. Blend well. Bake in ungreased hot griddle. Serve with hot sprup and butter. SORGO PANCAKES One cup sorghum flour, one half teaspoon salt, one table spoon lard, one cup milk, one tablespoon and one-half tea spoon baking powder. Combine dry ingiedients. Combine melt ed lard and milk a^ add to the dry mixtuie. Beat until smooth. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle SCHOOL LUNCH TIPS The screw top jars that you buy salad dressing in makes good containers for school sal ads. If you’ve run out of cookies or cakes, make graham cracker sandwiches for school desserts. Make the filling just the way you do your powdered sugar cake icings. A handful of raisins wrapped In waxed paper makes a differ ent idea for the lunch box. Prunes can be stuffed with a soft cheese and youngsters kO for them. Carrots cut in straws and wrapped in waxed paper make a chewy addition to any school lunch —tfw— Subscription Winners— ‘‘A Busy Housewife”, of O’ Neill, wins one of our 3-months’ subscription awards this week. "M. T,” of Atkinson wins the other 3-mon*hs’ subscription - award Dear Blanche Another SOS for letters and here I have been intending to write for the past two weeks j So. guess I had better get busy and not put off writing another minute. Have you ever nad a trying j experience with a smart mouse? Well, I have, and here it is: , I went to U6e the oven one ,' day and there was Mr Mouse. , Yes, in my oven! Oh yes, I screamed and banged the door - closed, and then looked again . md he was gone Well, believe me, I began searching far him but just couldn't find him. So. I got busy and hunted up the traps, baited and set them, hoping that I would have him in the trap by morning. But no such luck For almost a week I baited and set them in a different place, but still no luck, so I decided to get some new traps and set them where I finally decided he could be getting in. So I set two traps and went to a caid party. I fig ured I would surely have him caught when f got home. No such luck, but the traps were pushed away so I pushed them back in position again. My hus band was up at 4 o’clock and he said the traps were pushed away again, and when we got up in the morning, both traps were snapped and one was missing. My husband had left his shoes close to the door and had laid his cap on them. Mr. Mouse was only caught by the tail and had pulled the trap by his shoes, getting it caught on one side of the shoe and Mr. Mouse be came very mad. He had work ed until the cap fell on t h e j floor and he chewed a hole in ; the cap. Not only a smart mouse 1 but also a very spiteful one. 1 That was one mouse I really murdered-with joy in my heart. ! Now I don’t have to wash the oven every time I want to use 1 it. Have any of you folks ever had a potato blow up for you? Thii happened to me last night. I was baking some potatoes for dinner when all at once I heard an awful noise. It sounded as if some one banged the back door. When I looked in the oven, 1 one potato had popped wide open and baked potato was' scattered all over the oven! Here is a recipe for one, two, three cookies which I got over !he radio yesterday. Tried it myself and had very good luck with them. ONE, TWO. THREE COOKIES One cup peanut butter, one cup sugar, one-half cup boiling water. Mix till well blended, then add two cups biscuit mix and stir. Drop by teaspoons on cookie sheet and bake in 350-degree oven. _ “A BUSY HOUSEWIFE” —tfw— M. T.V Letter Read your appeal for letters and intended to sit right down and write, but somehow just kept putting it off. That should be my New Year’s resolution, I guess, to get right at things and get them done. But for me it’s so easy to figure that tomor row’s another day. Guess there are too many of us like that or you wouldn’t need to ask for letters. I think everyone probably enjoys the column as much as I do and miss it just as much when it’s not in. Well, I expect most everyone has broken their New Year’s resolution already. I quit mak ing resolutions, just try to do a little better each day and work at that all through the year. A11 the beautiful seed cata logs and the bright, sunny weather has me itching to start ordering seeds and bulbs. I have quite a few bu bs last fall and am hoping to have tulips, daffodils, hya NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA HEREFORD ASS'N. BULL SALE BASSETT, NEBRASKA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 SHOW AT 10 AM.--SALE AT 1:50 PM. Emil Rezak, Tabbr, S. D., Judge Grand Champion Cup Given by Bassett Lions Club 71 — HEREFORD BULLS — 71 TWO FEMALES List of Consignors Floyd Arrowsmith, Bassett; Harry J. Brown, Bassett; f Herman Boerger, Duff; B. T. Buell, Rose; C Bar M Hereford Ranch, Ewing; J. Hall Dillon, Long Pine; Charles Dorsey, Newport; Marvin Dorsey, Newport; Vernon W. Hixson, Cham bers; Robert E. Lethert, Almeria; C. E. Miller, Bassett; Chas. H. Morton, Duff; Irvin D. Nicholson, Springview; Max J. Nicholson, Springview; Bernard C. Phifer & Sons, Long Pine; Ralph Prill & Sons, Page; George Smith, Bassett; Howard Thiede, Burton; F. E. Titus, Springview; H. A. Van Horn, Page; Bernard Van Vleck, Clearwater; Artice N. Wentworth, Mills; F E. Wentworth, Mills; Lou F. Wewel, Newport; Le land G. Wilson, Wood Lake; H. L. Buell, Bassett v FOR CATALOG WRITE TUG PHILLIPS, Sales Manager BASSETT, NEBRASKA Bob Van Horn, Page, Nebraska—-President CHARLES CORKLE, Auctioneer Usual Field Men Will Be Present —wgpw ' i ..———— IT'S ENOUGH work just to sit at the phone and comb the town for help. But what tf you had to make a door to door canvass! So you can thank the telephone for many steps saved. And what do you pay in dollars and cents for those saved steps — performed by your able servant, the telephone? It isn’t enough to say "let's spend so many million dollars for improvements”—we have to know where the money’s coming from. That gets us back to your monthly bill for service. It the amount you pay is enough to cover oper ating expenses and still leave a little over, investors will see that we are operating effi ciently and earning money. Only then will they furnish the funds we need to meet costs of improve ments and expansion. Thai's how the small profit we make on supplying service en ables us to grow. NOITNWKSTIIN BUL TflKFMONI COMPANY Sandhill Sal Same folks are so diplomatic they can pare a mountain right j down to a mole hill. Some folks love to go to the movies and some go to the l moyies to love. Never correct your husband when he is telling a story; it cramps his style and that’ll work both ways, bub, Mary had a little coat, i t s fleece was white as sleek, but every time she passd a cat, that cat left like a streak cinths. narcissus and crocus in the spring. I say "hoping" because I definitely do not have a green thumb. Every year I buy new gladi | olus bulbs and every year I al ways wind up with just a few i less than I planted. It’s betting . to be the great unsolved mys | tery since I never find out what I happen to them i Last year I bought and plan | ted 4 new dahlia bulbs, one of | each color, since I had plenty of red. I was waiting impatient ly for them to bloom. Shortly before frost 1 budded and, wouldn’t you know it, it was red! The other 3 didn’t bloom at all so I’ll have to try again this year. Lately I’ve been wishing for the good old days. Not the in- ' conveniences, of course, but the the friendliness, good neighbor liness, and spirit of helpfulness that was so necessary in those ' pioneer days. When someone was sick or I had a new baby, a neighbor lady would come and take charge until everyone was well again. Now, if you want help of any kind for a few minutes, or a few days, you have to hire someone. Somehow that old idea of neighbor - helping - neigh bor has been lost. It’s* too bad that in all the wonderful progress that we’ve made in the last few years, we couldn’t also keep the best of the good old days. Sincerely. “M. T.” —tfw— I Do Mean You— Yes. I do, indeed. I do mean you. Shame on you for not writ ing me a letter for The Fron tier Woman when I need letters so badly for our department, too But I’ll forgive you if you’ll get busy and write me one now. You have all kinds of lee way— you may write about almost anything you like, but write. Every week we give two three months’ subscriptions to The Frontier for the two letters from readers which we use in The Frontier Woman. I Flu Strikes Many Deloit Homes DELOIT — Most homes in Deloit community have been visited by influenza the past few weeks. It has been a genuine epidem- | ic and m some families that ill- . ness has made the complete “round.” Other Deloit News The HEO club met at the El liot home last Thursday. The next meeting will be at the Glenn Harpsters home on March ! 9. Cathy Wiegand spent the weekend with her grandparents, ■ Mr and Mrs. Marvin Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Huff man, sr., spent the weekend witii | tneir daughter and family in ! Omaha. Clearwater Creek club plan ned to meet February 15 at the | Kermit Johnson home. The farm bureau meeting was ! held at the Anton Shavlik home on February 14. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Trenne pohl attended a sale near Ne ligh on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdie Hupp en tertained a group of friends at a pinochle party Sunday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mlnark, jr„ have bought a farm in North 1 Dakota and moved there last I week. Mr and Mrs. Clarence Schmls er attended a hockey game in 1 Omaha last week. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Harpster and son spent Friday at Will i Napier’s. Otto Reimer was a dinner I guest at the Henry Reimer home on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack and Mrs. Jewell spent the week end with Darlene and Mr. and Mrs Gene Ray in Omaha I --- - 1 Former Royal Girl Hailed As New Star ROYAL •— Mrs. Robert C. King, of Chicago, 111., singer - oianist known professionally as Miss Jeri Southern, has been hailed by authoratative Down Beat magazine as a safe bet for stardom. The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hering, of Royal, she has been entertaining as an intermission soloist the past two years in Chicago and prior to that in Omaha and in other mid west points. She attended grade school in Royal and was gradu ated from Notre Dame academy in Omaha. She immediately be gan instructing m piano at the Modern Music Studio of George A Johnson, well-known organ ist and radio entertainer. Miss Southern continued her study of piano under Prof. Karl A. Tunberg and studied voice with 1 the late Harry Cooper. She has signed a year’s con j tract with a Chicago recording | j company and “cut" her first rec- j j ords last week. Miss Southern ' ! plays her own accompaniments | and writes the arrangements for j the orchestration. Mr. and Mrs. Hering have re ; ceived word from their daugh to the effect that she received a telephone call from New York City for a booking at “BircUand” and that she will “cut” records before beginning her work which will continue for a month or more Trip to California Completed for Gatses— Mr. and Mrs. C J. Gatz re turned Friday, February 3, from a four weeks’ trip to California. I They drove the extreme south ern route. At Los Angeles they visited Mr and Mrs. Charles Cobleigh. At Fresno they visit ed Mr. Gatz’s sister and her hus band, Mr and Mrs. A. J. Schroe der and in Visalia they visited another sister of his, Mrs. Teena Clift and daughter, Meta. They also visited fh San Francisco and Sacramento. They returned via Albuquerque, N M. MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Carp. C. EL Jonas, Manager O'Neill s Nebraska 77-REGISTERED-77 HEREFORDS AT PUBLIC AUCTION O'NEILL UVESTOCK MARKET O’Neill, Nebraska SHOW 10:00 A.M. — SALE 1:30 P.M. Saturday, Febr. 18 4 AGED BULLS, 9 TWO-YEAR-OLD BULLS. 12 SENIOR TWO-YEAR-OLD BULLS. 11 JUNIOR TWO-YEAR-OLD BULLS. 5 YEARLING BULLS, 16 BULL CALVES 2 TWO-YEAR-OLD HEIFERS. 18 HEIFER CALVES Prince Dominos, Mischiefs, Thicksets, Regents, Caspers, An xieties. North Stars. Stanways. Paladins. Carlos, W. H. R.s, Pioneers, Lamplighters. Aladdins Cattle will be judged. Animals lacking quality and breed characteristics will be sifted and not sold. Come early and see the cattle judged Holt County Hereford Breeders’ Assn. For Catalog Address: JAMES W. ROONEY. Sales Manager. O'Neill. Nebr. Charles Corkle. Auctioneer Emil Rezac, Tabor, S. D.. Judge Laurence Buller and Hi Mackey, Fieldmen I CLOSEOUT I PUBLIC SALE Having decided to leave the farm to be nearer a high school, 1 will sell the following 0 described personal property at public auction at my place, located 20 miles north of p O’Neill on highway 281, or 11 miles south of Spencer, on: 2 Tuesday, Febr. 21st I _ SALE BEGINS AT 1 O’CLOCK W I Farm Machinery, Etc. 9 I John Deere IS41 Tractor, Model B John Deere 2-bottom Plow 2-Row IHC Tractor Lister IHC 12-ft. Disc John Deere 7-ft. Tractor I Mower Universal Pickup for 5-ft. Combine 1-Horse Rye Drill 75 bu. Hog Feeder Rubber Tire Wagon with Box Cabling Rack on Rubber IHC 7-ft. Trail Mower McCormick Cream Separ ator, No. 3 Duckfcot, 5-ft. 4-section Drag Buzz Saw with Blade, mounted, fits John Deere Model B or Farmall Regular 50-ft. Hammermill Belt Set Ford Truck Axles, Suitable for Cabling Rack 150 Oak Posts ^Ut of Good Harness I ord 12-in. Hammermill 2-Row John Deere Culti vator Tractor Chains, 10x38, good Tra:l Mower Hitch for John Deere Model B 300 gal. Fuel Tanks on Stilts 50 gal. Fuel Barrels 8x12 Truck Box New 5-gal. Cream Cans Brooder Stove Chicken Feeders Chicken Waterers_ 150 POUNDS OF ALFALFA SEED-SET OF CARPENTER TOOLS Household Goods, Etc. CokUpo* Refrigerator, kerosene. 7-ft.: 2 Linoleum Rugs; Phlo Battery Radio: Bed. almost new with Srrino an* Chair: Lounge; Kitchen Cabinet; Small Cupboard; Maytag Washing Machine with Dra^n Tub- Some Tool.. Tools; Cook Store; Wash Stand; Water Pail Dipper; Hew O anile 7-qt Canner: Work Table with Drawer. M-Crm T Dee ring Separator, large sise; Oil Store. 3-burner, nearly n -w: Dish Pans. CJC* TERMS: CASH. No property to be remo ved until settled for RALPH L. ERNST ss COL. ED THORIM. Auctioneer, Chambers - I