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O'NEILL, NEBR.
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Pofahl School Only
One in Session
DELOIT — The Pofahl rural
school, taught by Carol Pofahl,
was the only one in session Mon
day and Tuesday, March 12 and
13, because of storm conditions
that weekend.
By Tuesday, March 13, the rur
al mail carrier succeeded in get
ting part way to Deloit.
Other Deloit News
The HEO club met at the
Schmiser home on Thursday with
Mrs. Gene Ray and daughter
and Mrs. Ferdie Hupp and daugh
ters as guests. Next meeting will
be with Mrs. Ewald Spahn on
April 12.
Clearwater Valley farm bureau
will meet at Schrunk's on April
2. Sandwiches, pickles and coffee
will be served.
The Sylvester Bauer family
has moved to the Harpster build
ings located near the county line.
The Harold Spahns moved to the
home place from Ewing, and the
Herbert Spahns moved to the
Heuimesser farm. Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Steams, of Neligh, are mov
ing to their farm. Maynard
Steams moved back to their
farm north of their former loca
tion.
Bruce Van Ostrand, who is in
the army, is home on leave. He
will return to camp about Friday.
Mrs. S. M. Huffman spent
Thursday at Stanley Huffman's.
Mr. and Mrs. George Schiff
bauer have sold their farm north
I of Ewing and purchased a resi
dence in Ewing. They have mov
: ed to town.
Bonnie Rossow spent the
weekend at the Long home south
; of Bartlett.
Mrs. Gene Ray and daughter,
Vicky, are at the Ralph Tomjack
home. Gene, who is stationed at
San Diego, Calif., will arrive
soon and they will accompany
him back to California.
A number of Wheeler county
women met Thursday and Friday
in Bartlett for a lesson in textile
painting.
Omahan Succeeds
Ernest Endsworth
STUART—Dick Miller, 22, of
Omaha, has been named field ex
ecutive to the Boy Scout north
central Nebraska district to fill
the vacancy left by Ernest Ends
worth.
Miller, a graduate of Omaha
university, and No. 147 Boy Scout
national training camp at Mand
ham, N. J., will take over his du
ties in this area April 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Milller and their
17-month-old son plan to move
to Stuart as soon as the Ends
worths can obtain a home in Om
aha.
Student Nurses
To Be Capped—
Two Holt counity student nur
ses at the St. Francis school of
nursing at Minot, N. D., will be
capped on April 1. They are: Miss
Marjorie Troshynski, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Troshyn
ski, of Page, and Miss Jeanne
Head, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
George Head, of O’Neill.
Both young ladies appeared
in a play entitled, “The Upper
Room,” presented twice by the
school recently.
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"Then spake Jesus . . . saying "l
am the light of the world, he that
folio wet h me shall not walk in dark
ness and shall have the light of life.
| —John 8. 12. |
r These words symbolize the faith of a j
Christian people—the faith that guides us to
a brighter, better way of life.
The church is the foundation of faith in every
community. May this Easter be bright for you as you
attend Easter Services at the church of your choice.
Consumers Public Power District
Serving Nebraska Electrically
Right in His Lap
Prairieland Talk —
Teapot Dome a Mild Affair Compared
to Some Goings-On in High Places
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Scandals in sports,
that much touted example which
is supposed to teach “square
shooting.” A hundred thousand
_dollars into the
wallet of a go
between for his
influence with
a federal agen
cy. Five per
centers and op
en graft on the
federal trea
sury. Now citi
zens are asked
again to come
across to sup
port a socalled
charitable in
stitution whose
Romaine
Saunders
head gets a salary of $22,500 a
year and $6,000 expense money,
at the same time drawing $18,
700 a year army retirement pay.
It is time to get at things the
country over with the Old Dutch
cleanser and have a thorough
house cleaning.
Teapot Dome was a mild af
fair compared with what goes on
now in high places.
* * *
The Southeast Nebraska Tax
payers’ association adopted a
resolution pledging support of
Senator Wherry for the Republi
can nomination for president in
1952. . . AFL “engineers” on a
dam project down at Trenton
went on a strike. Prarieland was
not made into a great state by
AFL engineers and women on
spike-heel shoes. . . Coming from
nine foreign lands there were 13
recently ordained citizens feted
by the Lincoln Chamber of Com
merce at its 27th such function. . .
A Lincoln college has named
Bobby Roberts, of Texas, as its
delegate to a youths’ congress to
be held in Paris in July. It is ex
pected that 5,000 European youth
connected with the church group
that sponsors the congress will
participate with several hundred
from America. . . Page and Or
chard are among the latest with
oil well prospects, 28,000 acres
having recently been taken under
lease in these communities for
an oil and gas hunt.
I have not had the opportun
ity to keep informed on the
stale legislative grist but since
returning to the state learn not
much damage has been done.
* * *
Governor Dever, of Massachu
setts, was a state house visitor
March 16. His visit to Nebraska
was to entertain an Omaha group
with Irish wit and wisdom St.
Patrick’s day. Public officials,
educators, scientists, politicians
and specialists in many lines get
around a lot over the country
and thereby become acquainted
with the people and industries of
the various states. This must
make for mutual welfare and un
derstanding that does much to
promote a spirit of national uni
ty.
“We go out all the time,” said
a young air pilot, “with 10 live
500-pounders aoing bomb runs.
If sometmng goes wrong with one
of them it’s tne same as if some
thing went wrong with an A
bomb. You can only be dead
once.”
Only dead once—the tragic re
ality of what comes over men en
gaged in handling death dealing
things; the crushing out of all
human emotions of sympathy and
pity.
Only dead once! I wonder.
“And I saw the dead . . . stand
before God; and the books were
opened; and another book was
opened which is the book of life.
. . And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire. . . This
is the second death."
* * *
The distillers are going to
have competition. An American
patent has been issued to a
gent from Paris, France, for a
capsule which if dropped inio
a glass of water you hava
homemade fire water.
• m S
Mrs. Bert Shoemaker died at
her home in Lincoln March 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker both
were from pioneer Holt county
families. Mrs. Shoemaker was the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Carlon who were among
the earliest of the O’Neill settlers.
Funeral and burial were in Lin
coln March 14. Mrs. Shoemaker is
survived by her husband, also
four sons, Harold J., of Norfolk;
Donald F., of Boise, Ida.; Lester
A. and Richard E., of Lincoln.
There are also four sisters, Miss
Grace Carlon, of Rochester,
Minn., Mrs. Leonard Soukup, of
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Mrs. L. P.
Duffy, of Santa Fe, N. M., and
Mrs. W. J. Hammond, of Los An
geles, Calif.
* • ♦
Special election down in the
St. Louis congressional district
resulted in victory for the Repub
lican candidate. Something new
under the political sun.
* * •
The U.S. naval research ex
plains that the flying saucers are
nothing more nor less than naval
balloons. This conclusion is dis
puted by another authority, in
cluding pilots who have had ex
perience with the “saucers” in
flight. They say the objects at
tain a speed not possible for any
earth-made ship or balloon, and
unblushingly state their convic
tion that the sky visitors to our
planet are not of this earth.
• * •
Firestone is said to have per
fected a tire which eliminates
punctures and blowouts. . . A
January freeze down in old Mex
ico got 3,000 car loads of oranges
and killed 250,000 young fruit
trees. . . Another Roosevelt has
captivated the fancy of a Califor
nia dame with a lawful husband
and she has gone with the heart
breaker to Florida after a divorce
from her mate, then to the mar
riage license clerk for another
venture into the puddle of high
society matrimony.
* • •
If a bill sponsored by Con
gressman Curtis becomes law,
expense money granted the
president, vice - president and
members of congress will be
taxed the same as the incomes
of private citizens.
* * *
G. E. Owen was instantly kill
ed near Heber, Utah, February
21, when struck by an automo
bile. Mr. Owen was on his way
to Nebraska. He and Mrs. Owen
formerly lived north of Phoenix
in Holt county where they oper
ated an 1,800-acre ranch. They
have been living in California re
cently. The body was taken to
Loma Linda, Calif., for burial.
He is survived by his wife and
one son, Eugene, of Berrien
Springs, Mich.
• • •
Armstrong county in central
South Dakota has 52 white citi
zens, 12 tax payers, is the only
county in the U.S.A. without a
federal employee, has no schools,
• churches, towns or postoffices
and no county officials, has a
sizeable population of Indians,
cattle, coyotes, jack rabbits amt
other animal life. There are no
roads and it is the one place now
left to the saddle horse. It is at
tached to Stanley county on the
south for administrative pur
poses.
* * •
Down there in Washington bil
lions of dollars are spoken of with
the familiarity of a two-bit piece.
Some gent that maybe had noth
ing else to do has come out with
his finding that one billion silver
dollars would make a tower 10
feet square four times the height
of the Washington monument,
which overlooks the Potomac, 155
feet high.
• m m
The Kansas legislature has be
fore it a measure which if it be
comes a law wheat growers of
that state will be taxed one mill
on each bushel of wheat they
produce. It has not yet been pro
posed in the Nebraska legislature
to hang excise tax on each bale
of prairieland hay.
* * *
President Truman may be a
legitimate figure for public pan
ning but the vocal gymnastics of
the courageous Margaret might
well be allowed to pass unmolest
ed.
* • *
There are a total of 589,000 one
thousand dollar bills. Ever see
one?
Bensons Back from
Southwest Trip—
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Benson
and son, Stanley, returned re
cently from a trip through the
Southwest. They visited in Texas
on their way to California, tak
ing the tour through Carlsbad ca
verns of New Mexico.
They spent three weeks in Los
Angeles with their daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. S.
Thornton. While in Los Angeles,
they visited Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Stein and family at Burbank
and had short visits with form
er O’Neill people who now re
side in California.
The Bensons returned home
via of Boulder dam, Las Vegas,
Nov., and Grand Canyon. En
route, they visited Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Roberts in Albuquerque,
N. M.
They report roads very fine
for traveling most everywhere
with exception of some Nebras
ka roads.
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C. E. Jones. Manager
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3. Gas brooders can’t overheat chicks.
4. Gas brooders require only V2 the at
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(5. Gas brooders require no daily filling.
6. Gas is the safest fuel used today.
The National Bureau of Fire Underwriters give only
4,400 gas fires compared to orer 67.000 from electricity.
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