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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1950)
, Former Residents Visit Redbird REDBIRD — Carroll Wilson, of Fairbault, Minn., called here Saturday, June 3, enroute to ’Dorsey to visit relatives and friends. The Wilsons, who formerly 4 were farm residents southwest of here, moved to Minnesota several years ago. Other Redbird News Mre. H V. Rosenkrans and daughter, Dorothy, were callers in Redbird Saturday, June 3. Fred Baker, of Lynch, was here Saturday, June 3. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wadsworth and children, of Stuart, visited in Redbird Sunday, June 4. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rosicky, and daughter, Joan, were in Redbird Sunday, June 4 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Oberle and Dean Oberle, were here * Sunday, June 4. Virgil Wilson called in Red bird Sunday, June 4. Virgil Pinkerman was here Sunday, June 4. Leon Mellor and family were in Redbird Sunday, June 4. Charles Schollmeyer, of Scott ville. was a visitor here Sunday, June 4. Mrg. F A. Crawford and son, were in Redbird .Monday, June S. Mr. and Mrs. John Derick son, of near Dorsey, were vis itors here Monday, June 5. Frank Spinar transacted bus iness in Redbird Monday, June 5. | . Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wither !* wax were in Redbird Monday, June 5. Mr- and Mrs. Harry Hiscocks and Mr. and Mrs Thomas His cocks were in Redbird Monday, June 5. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Barta called here Monday. June 5. Halsey Hull and daughter, Margaret, were visitors in Red bird, Monday, June 5. Bill Aim and Jerry Carsten, of near Dorsey, were callers here Monday, June 5. H. W- Hartland was here on business Tuesday, June 6. Garry Wilson called in Red bird Tuesday, June 6. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Sedivy were here Tuesday, June 6. Llye Wells is asisting Floyd A Kaasa north of the river with his farm work this week. Mrs. Bud Carsten and a friend, from Lynch, weae in Redbird Tuesday. June 6. Elmer Luedtke and family were here Tuesday, June 6. Fred Truax. sr., was in Red bird Wednesday, June 7. Albert Carson was here Wed nesday, June 7. Clarence Brenneman, a bee keeper from Atkinson, called on Pete More Wednesday evening, June 7. _ Mrs Clifford Wells called here Thursday, June 8. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Carsten and family were in Redbird Thursday, June 8. Mrs Howard Graham and children were in Redbird Thurs day, June 8. Mrs. Retta Phelps departed for Omaha Thursday, June 8, where 6he will visit a week with relatives before returning to her home in Cherry Grove, Ore. She visited with her daugh ter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Will Conard the past month. Howard Berglund drove up from Lincoln Thursday, June 8, to visit home folks, Mr. and Mt6. Pete More, of Redbird, and also a sister and family, Mr and Mrs. Harvey Krugman, of Opportunity. Halsey Hull visited at Clyde McKenzie’s Thursday, June 8. Leon Mellor called at Art Bes sert6 Friday, June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hull visited in Redbird Friday after noon, June 9. Mrs. Floyd Crawford visited at Redbird Friday, June 9. Edward Carson and Beverly were in Redbird Friday, June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spinar drove to O'Neill on business Friday, June 9. LEG AMPUTATION FATAL TO MAN, 64 John Kopecky, Sr., Dies In Lynch Hospital; To U. S. in 1916 ,LYNCH — Funeral services were held Friday, June 9, at 9 a. m- for John Kopecky, sr., 64, at the Assumption BVM church with Rev. Charles Oborny, of Verdigre, in charge. Burial was held in the west cemetery at Spencer. Mr. Kopecky was born in Czechoslovakia and came to America in 1916, coming almost directly to Lynch. He has been a farmer all his life. Some time ago he was taken to Sacred Heart hospital at Lynch where it was necessary to amputate both legs above the knees in an effort to save his life. Survivors include: widow; daughter — Helen, of Bristow; 6ons — Joseph, of Spencer; Ludvig and Jerry, both of Sioux City. Out-of-town people attena the Kopecky funeral were Lud vig and Jerry Kopecky famil ies, of Sioux City, la : Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kopecky, and family, of Spencer; Mr. an*i Mrs. Frank Vomacka, sr., and Frank, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hlavka, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pesek all of Greg ory, S. D.: Mrs. Tillie Hambek, of Colone. S. D.; and Mrs Mar tha Jelinek, of Winner, S. D. Those from Lynch attending the burial rites at Spencer were: Leo and Lawrence Kalkow ski; Mrs. Josephine Boska and son, Joe; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Slechta: Alfred Stanek, Mrs. Albert Kalkowski. Mr and Mrs. Emil Micanek, Mr. and Mrs. James Svatos, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Svatos and son, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Vomacka and Ernst Vomacka. Sisters Reunite After Half-Century— LYNCH — Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wurtz visited in Tyndall, S. D., recently. A sister of Mrs. Wurtz came from California. They had not .seen each other for 50 years. HANSEN SISTERS . . These are the Hansen sisters, Sindy, 2, and Sue,4, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hansen, of O’ Neill. Both have brown hair and blue eyes and both enjoy help ing their mother.—O’Neill Photo Co. Prairieland Talk (Continued from page 2) ten in Denmark.” Let’s forget it and begin to live. • • • Just what has become of the Holt County Economy League organized in 1931, constitution; by-laws, officers and all. The purpose, intention and lawful efforts of the organization, whose inspiring genius was one George Bressler or maybe the name was Tressler, was to slice the tax load. The league took in everybody as members who owned property in the county and set for its mark a curtail ment of court house expenses, then called upon the officials to gather in some 85 thousand dollars in delinquent taxes. The work of that organization at that time had at least the effect of making county boards and other officials a little more cau tious. Somehow this and similar movements from time to time have failed to reach the goal and taxes go up instead of de clinging. # * • A group of young patriots or bolsheviks connected with a city church have resolved and whereased to denounce Sen. Wherry because he has called for house cleaning in the State Dept. A similar group at Madi son. Wise., are after Sen. Mc Carthy. Do these young gents think they know more about it than the U. S. senators, or are they part of an underground bunch of communists at work in America. «tt Gov. Peterson says the ref erendum defeat of the tax for road building will set that pro gram back 15 or 20 years. Good enough. Let’s set it back and learn to stay at home mstead of chasing over the highways. If we must go out let’s walk oyer and spend the evening with neighbor John and Mary. If you are fortunate in hav ing one—take a look at that one dollar bill in your pocket. It now is going to cast Uncle Sam 4!a cents a pound more for the paper used in making money, the estimate for the year for the paper being about $2,030,000. * * * There were 25 Nebraskans among the 3,567 students grad uating from Northwestern uni versity. Beverly Chace, of At kinson, was one of the 25. * * # Every young man should re member that if he wants the girl it’s smart to listen to her father’s fish stories with an eager listening look. * * * Warm hearts, not hot heads, make for cheering temperatures in any home Ben Franklin invented bifo cal glasses, introduced the idea of crop insurance, invented the long arm used by grocers to reach the high shelves, started the wearing of white in sum mer as a means of keeping cool, and founded the dead letter of fice . . . The only original pony express station now in existence is near Hanover, Kans. . . . $7,500,000,000 in federal tax was extracted from automotive transportation industry in 1949 . . . Thousands of high school and college students at South ern Baptist summer colony in southern Oklahmoa took a life time pledge not to drink, smoke or dance . . . Queen Mary of England is said to never have used a telephone, in half a cen tury has not been late for an appointment, and has never been known to cry ... It is es timated to require an invest ment of $8,000 to put a man to work and keep him steady on the job. • • • Tragedy rides along with young America. Five high school students raced to their death at 92-miles-an-hour ov er at Harlan. Ia.. recently. They had listened to a grad uation address in which the speaker warned against the dangers on the highway. Fol lowing the exercises the sen iors went out, stepped into an automobile, turned on the gas and raced to their death. * * * Gov. Val Peterson has all but lost cast with the engineer of this department because of po tato salad. The governor has been indulging in a little amuse ment at the expense of J. Hyde Sweet of the Nebraska City News Press. It appears that Publisher Sweet has about the same aversion to salads that flutter about my own palate. The governor’s concoction, which he calls potato salad, ought to give a mule the nightmare. Permit me to recommend to “His Excellency” that he bake a good Nebraska spud in a bed of hot ashes, split open and add to the flaky interior a little but ter, proceed to consume and compare results with his vine gar, sour milk, egg and potato mixture. Yearline Steers Hit $29.50 at O’Neill Six hundred and forty head of hogs and 200 head of cattle were sold at the Thursday, June 8, livestock sale held at the O’ Neill Livestock Market. Top butcher hogs brought from $19.60 to $19.75 with the heavy butchers selling on down to $17. Light sows cleared up to $18.85 with the heavy ones sell ing down to $16. , A “good” number of feeder pigs sold by the head from $8 to $16. The cattle market was “snap py” with yearling steers reach ing a top of $29.50 and cows hit ting from $19 to $21. ANNA MOTACEK RITES AT LYNCH Monowi Homesteader Hies In Rockford, III.; Burial at Alford LYNCH — Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Motacek, of Rockford. Ill, who died Mon day, June 5, were held Thurs day afternoon, June 8, at the Methodist church in Lynch. Rev. Richard Monroe officiated and burial was in the Alford cemetery, west of Monowi. ^ Mrs. Anna Koterba Motacek \$as bom in Czechoslovakia, May 20, 1877, and came to Am erica at the age of 23, She was married to James Motacek in 1902. They homesteaded on a farm west of Monowi and lived there until 5-years ago when she went to live with her daughters in Rockford, 111. She had been in ill health several weeks but passed away suddenly at her home in Rock ford. Mr. Motacek died in 1936. Survivors include: Sons—Fe lix Motacek, of Niobrara; James and Henry Motacek, of Belvi dene, 111; daughters — Mrs- Lil lian Warba, Mary and Tillle Motacek, all of Rockford; broth er — Anton Koterba, of Madi son. Mr. and Mrs. D C. Schaffer and Mrs. G. R. Cook went to Lincoln to attend the gradua tion Monday, June 5, of their daughter, and sister, Miss Shir ley, from the University of Ne braska. Dr. and Mrs. L A. Burgess left Wednesday, June 7, for Boulder, Colo, to bring back their daughter Miss Joannn, who attends Colorado univer sity. DANCE DANCELAND O'NEILL WNAX Bohemian Band Sunday, June 18 A dm. & Dance: $1 .TRACTOR X-RAY hl ~ s Shows Model C PM'fflM design i. ssr w 3. Vision 4. Pulling Powor Here’s a different kind of family farm power. Tubular Powerline Design eliminates the tractor frame. You SEE dearly ... on both sides. There is less dead weight... more active power , ., more real pull. Raised rear axle and offset final drive give you high clearance for tall crops, yet hug-the-ground stability of sturdy, low-set drive wheels. Weight of both the transmission and differential over the rear axle plus non-freezing liquid in rear tires give traction enough to match the big 125-cu. in. engine. i demonstration (flILIS'CHflLMERS) on your farm, ^ $aus and shvici J i MARCELLOS IMPL. CO. ^ West O’Neill Phone 5 f t O’NEILL TRANSFER John Turner, Prop. a ★ Daily Trip8 Omaha to O’Neill O’Neill to Omaha Irregular Trips O’Neill to All Nebraska Points ★ Telephones: ornciLi^-141-j OMAHA—JAckson 1717 ★ Your Patronage Appreciated FAMILY TREAT. They'll all have fun in this roomy 4-door Sedan with generous luggage space for trips. Shown here is the SfCCIAL. Some body type available also in the SUPER series. Look at the FON you're missing! SURE, we know—a car is a "ne cessity” these days. A modern family "couldn’t get along without one.” Or so you tell yourself. Come, come, sir! 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