Holt Man, 96, Never 111 a Day (Continued from page 1) He moved bis wife and family to Holt county in 1900, settling 10 miles southeast of Chambers. “I bought the" land kinda cheap from the man who home steaded it," he explained, "and 1 never regretted coming to tfolt.'' The Fauquiers became the parents of 6 children. They are. Adelbert Fauquier, of Chamb ers; Charles C. Fauquier, of Chambers; Mrs. J. F. Coleman, of Woodbum. Ore.; J)4rs. A. B. Hubbard, of O'Neill, and Mrs. Mrs Margaret L. Elkins, of O - Neill. '“One Son, Anson Fauquier, died in July. 1949. Several generations of folxs in the Chambers community looked upon a unique friend ship between Mr. Fauquier and the late John Line-hart who died several years ago. Neigh bors, they lacked a week of be mg.the same ag(* and regularly celebrated their birthdays to About twice a wee}c they vis ited each other and frequently walked the other home. They talked crops and weather, ev erything and nothing, s The Fauquiers celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in >©31, and his wife died 6 years later. Since then lie has made his home With'his children. > Occasionally Mr. Fauquier fbUk1 time to dig a date out of hti .TTUrtd; once said: “Hold on a mthute JnoW . . . it' was (such hjid such).’’ 1 ' He if member of the Wood en lodge, served in 1912 as a Ihember < of the Holt county i hoard of1 supervisbrs. ' But1 the truly 'femarkafole teahtfe about Mr. Fauquier is the fact he’s never been ill < ■ “ "I've always bean in pretty good health" he says with li censed satisfaction. -’'Don'i "remember ever having rheu "ihdtism. have never been ■ ' • He Hkes to have it known that he was useful on the farms ^vfrlth'his sons) up until the .la?t 'f'Pw years. But, technically. he?s been retired for at least 25 dr 30 years , . IJ t, llis hair (and there’s lots Pf it), is grey and wears a well groomed moustache. ... “They say life begins at 40 and I guess that’s about right* he confided. “Time really begins j ‘in fly then. When I was young 'H year used to be forever. NpW there’s ’ nothing to it—a year.. He likes to retire about 8 o« clock in the evening ami sleeps until about 0 in the morning. , ®*Nur-Sectu»n Harrow: Cable Hay Rack with power take-off. double wench; 1948 Seamon Tiller. 5-fh: 1949 Dodge Truck; T#o Rubber Tired Wagons, 100-bushel sapacity boxes: Rubber-Tired Wag on with flat rack; Steel Running Gear with hay rack; Rubber Tired Wagon. 50-bushel box; McCormick-Deering Corn Bind er; Walking Plow; 2-Horse Scraper; 12-foot Disc: 1-Row Horse Cultivator; lVi hp Gas Engine: ^Gas Engine Electric Welder: Slock Saddle and Bridle; Weed Sprayer: Hog Trough; Feed Bunks: 2—150-gal. Fuel Tanks: Stock Water Tank and Numerous Small Itefns. < .LIVESTOCK i 21 HEAD OF C^Tt£e-^9 Head of Steer Calves: Two Milk ' Cows; Two 2-year-old Heifers, freshen soon; Shorthorn Cow, fresh three weeks: Shorthorn Cow, fresh two months, i 6 HEAD OF HORSES—Team o' Llack Geldings, weigh 3,600 lbs., smooth mouth: Sorrel Saddle Horse: Gray Saddle Horse, 7-years-old; Yearling Colt. Good Saddle Stock. MONTE OHLSON WIRGES 8r NELSON-FULLER. Auctioneers PETERSBURG STATE BANK. Clerk O’NEILL BAGS WIN FROM INMAN Eagles Down Bright’s Crew, 42-39, As Hally Fails In winding up the regular season's docket of scheduled games Friday night, O’Neill j high edged Inman, 42-39. The fiacus was staged'on the O’ Neill floor with a good crowd of fans attending. Coach Howie Dean’s cagers were in the drivers seat throughout the game they led at the end of every quarter. Both clubs cracked the scor ing whip sharply during the initial period. When the first quarter buzzer sounded, O’Neill had jumped to a 16-10 lead. Stevens and Sholes showed the way for the initial period scor ing assault for the Inman club. Paring the Eagle’s first quarter 'attack was Don Godel and Ted Lindberg, However, the hot pace was abandoned during the second stanza as both quintets settled to a "convenient” attack. Coach Darel Bright’s kids bucketed 7 markers and the O’Neill lads j rimmed 10. The count as the teams went to the locker rooms for the intermission rest period stood at: O’Neill 26, Inman 17. Third and fourth period scor ing saw the visiting "5” out score the cold Eagles by 6 points. Hartigan the Inman slot man was able to work around and finally began hitting-. He racked up 7 of the 9 third peri od points. The Eagles warded off thq tardy Inman ralljr to hold on for the win. Inman poured through 13 points in thq last quarter, while the Eagles hit for 10. Even though Godel went out of the game via the foul route late in the game, he bagged high scoring laurels with 13 points. Hartigan of Inman, hit for a 12-point total. In the prelim evsent, the In man seconds dropped the O’ Neill reserves, 20-18. Lines, of Inman, and Eby, of O’Neill, shaded the high pointmaking honors as east potted 7 count ers. Boxscore of the main event: O’NEILL (42) fg ft pf tp Godel, f . 6 1-25 13 Calkins, f 3 i- l 1 ' 7 . Lindberg, R f _ 0 0- 0 0 0 Lindberg, T. c 4 2- 3 3 10 Layh. g 3 1-357 Wagnon. g 2 13 0 5 Totals _ 18 6-12 16 42 INMAN (39) fg ft pf tp Sobotka. f ... 1 0- 1 1 2 Stevens, f -— 2 5-8 1 9 Nielson. H. f 0 1-10 1 Moore, f . — 10-402 Hartigan, c 5 1-4 3 12 Sholes, g ..— 4 1-13 9 Morsback, g — 2 1-215 Totals.. 15 9-21 9 39 Technical foul: Moore. Class C’ Cage Tourney Starts — ATKINSON — Annual class “C” cage tournament got,under way here Monday night at the I Atkinson gym before an ov erflow house of Holt county i fans attended. _____ FIRST ROUND . . . Favored clubs—St. Joseph’s, of Atkinson, St. Mary’s of O’ Neill, and Stuart — advanced to the quarter finals of the tourney here Monday night by dropping Ewing. Chambers and Atkinson, respectively. Stuart 30. Atkinson 16 The favored Stuart Broncos ; romped to an easy victory over Atkinson high school, 30-16, in : the opener of the tournament. ! The Broncos held '.he advan tage throughout the contest and ! were never endangered. St. Mary's 31, Chambers 22 Coach Jack Arbuthnot’s Car dinals, tournament dark horse, dropped the Chambers Coyotes, 31-22, in the second contest Monday evening to advance to quarter final play. Pat Hickey paced the Cards to the second tournament vic tory over Coach Les Eckdahl’s Coyotes, as he swished 11 points. The Ca;ds filled Cham bers in the finals of the Holt county tournament in the lat ter part of January. However, the Chambers quin tet war not the fireball team they were when they hit the Holt county tourney. The St. Mary’s “5” limited the south Holt team to a lone fielder dur ing the first half. While the Coyotes could garner only one bucket, the Cards piled up a 17-6 halftime advantage. — "1111 . During the third quarter the Cards sketched their lead to 1 14 points. The score going into ; the final period was: St. Mary’s 23. Chaanbeis 9. A fourth period spurt by Eckdahl’s lads netted 13 points but time ran out. Grimes, a Chambers guard, cop ped the high point honors with a quartet of buckets and char itites for a 12-point total. St. Joseph's 42. Ewing 38 Tournament favorite St. Jo- I seph’s, of Atkinson, briefly dur- \ ing first round play, had the wind taken out of their highly touted sails by the Ewing Ti gers. The Tigers worked hard and held a slight advantage through 2lk quarters of the op ening round main event. But Coach Louis Wewal’s un defeated Josies came around in the final quarter just in time to cop the victory. First dound byes were issued to Springview. Orchard, Butte. Spencer and Lynch. SECOND ROUND . . . Second round tourney games got underway here Tuesday night as Stuart handily defeat ed Orchard 42-29 and a highly polished Boyd county champion, Butte downed Spencer 45-38. O'NEILL HOSPITAL NOTES Admisions: February 22 — Mrs. George Cameron, of Cham bers, medical, condition “im proved.” 23—Baby Jimmy Tro shynski, of O’Neill, minor sur gery. 24—Mrs. Lyle Vequist, of O’Neill; Mrs. June Angel, of Spencer. 25—Mrs. Orval Hart land, of Niobrara. 26—Mrs. Har old Green, of Bartlett; Kenneth Moore, of Inman, medical, con dition “improved.” 27 — Mrs. Lyle Addison, of Atkinson; Mrs. A. E. Derickson, of Dorsey, medical, condition “improved.” 28—Mrs. Glen Lorenz, of Ew ing, medical. March 1—Mrs. Ed ward B. Gormason, of Cham bers, medical, condition “good"; Lois Anderson, of O’Neill, med ical, condition “improved.” Still in hospital: Mrs. Bridget Carr, of O’Neill, condition “poor.” Dismissals: February 23—Mrs. George Cameron, of Chambers: Baby Jimmy Troshynski, of O’ Neill. 27 — Kenneth Moore, of Inman: Mrs. Rudolph Johnson, of O’Neill. Mrs. T. M. Harrington. Mrs. Stanley Soukup, Mrs. Robert Cook and Mrs. H. O. Russ at tended the funeral of Mrs. A. Marcellus Monday afternoon a t Neligh. Former Holt Resident Dies BUTTE — Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. from the Community church here Thurs day, February 23, for Mrs. Geo. Krikac, 57, a former Holt coun ty resident. Rev. L. M. Hovda conducted the funeral services and burial was in the Butte cemetery. Mrs. Krikac died at a hospital in Lynch Monday, February 20, after an extended illness. Born Ethelyn Belle Brad street November 4, 1892, on a farm north of O’Neill, she mov ed with the family to Lynch during 1903. In 1910 the family moved to Butte, where she grad uated from the Butte high school. She taught school in the Butte community for 2 years. On April 6, 1915, she married George Krikac in Butte and to them two daughters were born. The late Mrs. Krikac was a member of the Butte commun ity church, past president of the Butte Ladies Aid and sec retary of the Bernice chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include: widower; daughters—Mrs. Harold (Mar jorie) Borden, of Tecumseh, and Wilma, of Lincoln; a brother and sister and 4 grandchildren. O'NEILL LOCALS Mrs. Paul Schultz and Mrs. R. E. Chase, of Atkinson, came down Friday to get little Rose mary Chace, who had been vis iting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hammond while her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles E. Chase and the Wilsons went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras. The Graces and Wilsons returned Sunday. Clarence Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hicks and Mrs. Mildred Honke, of Omaha, attended the funeral of a relative in Butte. Miss Vivian Nelson, of Sar les, N. D.. is a houseguest this week at the C. E. Melena home. Bert De Groff was called to Burwell to the home of his sis ‘ ter’s. r 500 Farmers Attend John Deere Day Two O’Neill implement deal ers are entertaining the farm and rural residents on different occasions. The Lloyd Collins implement company, of O’Neill, played host Wednesday to 500 farmers^ at the annual John Deere day. The event was held at the American Legion auditorium here and got started at noon with a free lunch. The film “Roots in the Soil,” was shown. In addition the film “What’s New in John Deere Farm Equipment” and other new interesting and education films were seen by the farmers during the afternoon. Saturday, March 4, the Shel hamer Oil and Equipment com pany, of O’Neill, will entertain at a free family party of enter tainment beginning at 2 p.m. at the O’Neill high school auditor-^ ium. * Scheduled to participate in the big entertaining show are: Virgil Hummer, banjoist extra ordinary; Chuck McCauley, jug gler and bag punching; Ruwe and Looey, ventriloquist and comedian and Barbara Kelly, singing, top dancing and acro batics. Moves in Page Community Listed— v > PAGE — A number of moves took place March 1 in the Page community. Among them: Mr. and Mrs. Junior Soren sen are moving to the Lowell Murphy farm; Mr. and Mrs. p James Finley to the Gailord Albright farm; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Asher to the H. F. Ra kow farm, vacated by James Finley; Mr. and Mrs. La Verne Finley to the Mrs. Heleh Knud son farm; Mr. and Mrs. Kieth Kennedy to the J. M. Kennedy farm, vacated by La Verne Fin ley: Mr. and Mrs. George Wet lauffer to Ernest Bronkhorst farm; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Asher to the old Strube farm, which he bought; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stauffer to the farm vacated by George Wetlauffer and own ed by Edgar Stauffer. ■i. - ■ ■ ■ ■ r"— “Voice of The Frontier” • '■ 11, ; News - Markets - Shopping Tips MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY WJAG ... 780 kc. • -.Vi 9:45 A.M. IT’S OUR SECOND year of broadcasting . . . direct from O’Neill . . . with an interest-filled 1 5 minutes of | . up-to-the-minute news, markets and shopping tips. These programs originate from the O’Neill Studios in The Fron tierbuilding. Join thousands of your neighbors and friends evefy Mpnday, Wednesday and Saturday morning at 9:45 a.m. for 1 5 minutes of O’Neill regional news and shopping hints brought to you by Chuck Apgar of The Frontier staff. ★ * ★ ★ YOKE OF — O’Neill Studios — •. W - J - A - G (Norfolk) I .„r . SELLING AT AUCTION For the Fred Martens Estate A GRAND OLD RESIDENCE ALL THE FURNITURE SATURDAY, MARCH 11 2 O’Clock P. M. — Atkinson, Nebr. ■ i Built back in the days when a Republican had a chance of becoming President—and a dollar paid for one hundred cents of val ue—this property represents sound con struction—solid masonry—and the best of materials. LOCATION Well located on a large corner lot. size 88x125 feet, east front, only two blocks south of the Brady Hay Co. office on main street just one block to Presbyterian or Methodist churches, five blocks to high school. It's Lot 1, Block A, Neeley's First Addition to Atkinson, Nebr. DESCRIPTION Overall dimensions 26x34 ft., with 10x26 ft. open porch on ; the east and a 10x22 ft. glass enclosed porch on the rear. First floor has spacious reception hall with open staircase, lovely living room with fireplace, bed room connecting with half bath, kitchen and dining room. All woodwork and floors are of solid oak. Second floor has 4 bedrooms central hall and 6 spacious closets, one of which is cedar lined. All finished in grade A pine. Basement 26x26 ft., 8-ft. ceilings, 10-inch brick walls, 5-in. cement floor, Holland Forced Air Automatic Oil Burning Furnace, 7 separate heal leads, 1000-gallon fuel stor age, hot water heater. Small garage. The Lovliest Grounds in Atkinson , Majestic trees, beautiful evergreens and shrubbery, a nice * lawn, over 300 feet of cement sidewalks, give it a charming and restful setting. THE FURNITURE Solid oak dining set, buffet, table and 12 chairs. Antique ! cherry oak bedroom suite of bed, dresser and chest of draw ] ers. 3 brass rail beds complete with springs and mattresses, 2 oak dressers, 1 vanity, 7 rugs, 3-piece oak living room set of divan, chair and rocker, leather couch, 4 oak rockers, writing desk, apartment size electric range, cupboards and other uten sils. TERMS Cash on furniture. On residence, 25% day of sale, balance jf April 1st, 1950, when possession will be given. Warranty deed and abstract furnished. YOU ARE WELCOME TO INSPECT THIS PROPERTY ANYTIME BEFORE THE HOUR OF SALE Alfred W. Martens EXECUTOR, Atkinson, Nebr. ERNIE WELLER, Auctioneer Phone 5141, Atkinson, Nebr. !