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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1951)
METHODIST (Inman) Rev. C. C. C happell, pastor Church school, 10 a.m. Worship, 11:15 a m. There will be no worship ser vice Sunday, June 3, because of I annual conference which is being m held at McCook, May 30-June 4. The Bible school was well at tended, with an average attend ance of about 50 each morning. Sunday afternoon following a basket lunch the congregation met to discuss plans for an addi tion to the church in which to house the church school and to provide kit hen and social ro^ms for other groups. , Plans weie submitted by E. B. Watson, of Norfolk, which called for an addition to the north end of the present building 28 x SO feet, at an approximate cost of $12,000. The plans were approved by unanimous consent of those pres ent. Work is to be started in the near future on the addition. Tom Hutton is chairman of the build ing committee to be assisted by Mr. Nielsen. Ira Watson is trea surer of the building fund and Louis Kopecky, jr., is in charge of volunteer labor. 1 ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL (Neligh) Rev. Wm. H. Cowger, pastor June 3, prayer, 9 a.m., second Sunday after Trinity. Sermon topic: “Christian Rewards.” Church school Sunday, 10 a.m. Guild will meet at the home of Mrs. Freda Marwood west of Ne ligh as the guests of Mrs. Harold Kester and Mrs. Marwood on Wednesday afternoon, June 6. Begin making plans now for your young men and women from the 9th grade (or 14 years of age) through college age to at tend the Nebraska Episcopal youth conference at Hastings col lege from June 24 to 30. Any one interested in receiving more in formation, please call 440 Neligh or write Mr. Cowger. 4 We are making plans for a dai ly vacation church school from July 9 to 13. The directress of the school will be Miss Jessie Hunter, consultant in Christian education of the diocese of Nebraska. CHRIST LUTHERAN (O'Neill) (1 blk. north Kaiser-Frazer) Rev. R. W. Olson, pastor Thursday, May 31: Ladies Aid society meets at the home of Mrs. William Hinze, 2 p.m. Friday, June 1: Circuit lay men’s conference at Immanuel Lutheran church in Atkinson, 10 a.m. Saturday, June 2: Adult in struction class, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 3: Congregation al Bible class, 9 a.m. Divine wor ship with the celebration of holy *romunion, 9:30 a.m. Those that desire to partake of the sacra ment may announce themselves before the service or by calling at the parsonage. Sunday-school, 10:30 a.m. We welcome all visitors in the r.ame of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. If you have no cnurch home we invite you to v/orship with u& regularly Mrs. M. J. Wallace and daugh ter, Mrs. D. A. Kersenbrock, were in Sioux City Monday. DR. GILDERSLEEVE, OJD OPTOMETRIST Permanent Offteee M Hagenaick Building Phene Id7 O'NEILL NEBR. Ev«a Examined . Olaeeea Fitted METHODIST (O'Neill) Rev. V. R. Bell, pastor Sunday-school, 10 a.m., classes for all, Neil Dawes, superintend ent. Daily vacation Bible school, be ginning Monday morning at y, and continuing for 2 weeks. Par ents are urged to plan their vaca tions accordingly. There will be no church ser vices Sunday morning, June 3. The annual conference will be in session at McCook. The MYF will not meet this week. The following were elect ed as officers for the ensuing year: President, Don Hagensick; vice - president, Jo Ellen Back haus; secretary, Esther Kaiser; treasurer, Warren Seger. Thursday, May 31, the mission ary society will meet with Mrs. Homer Asher. Friday, June 1, the Dorcas so ciety will meet with Mrs. Paul Shierk. ASSEMBLY OF GOD (O'Neill) Rev. Wayne Hall, pastor The vacation Bible school is progressing very nicely. We ap preciate the effort the parents are putting forth to make this a goid school. Sunday services are as follows: Sunday - school, 10 a.m., classes for every age. Worship, 11 a.m., message by the pastor. The young peoples’ meeting is at 7:30 p.m. Evening service is at 8 with spe cial music and singing. Wednesday, June 6, is ladies’ Drayer meeting at 2 p.m., and the regular prayer and Bible study Wednesday is at b p.m. We are studying in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. We welcome anyone to visit any or all of these services. METHODIST (Chambers) Rev. L. R. Hansberry, pastor Sunday-school, 10:30 a.m., Clair Grimes, superintendent. Worship, 11:30 a.m. MYF, 7 p.m. Daily vacation Bible school will be held the week of June 4 with all day sessions. Rev, and Mrs. Hansberry left Sunday af ternoon for Ong where they will visit her parents. On Wednesday, May 30, they will leave for con ference at McCook. There will be no preaching service next Sun day. IMMANUEL LUTHERAN (Atkinson) Rev. R. W. Olson, pas to - Friday, June 1: Circuit lay men’s conference. 10 a.m. Sunday, June 2: Sunday-school, 10 a.m. Divine worship, 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 5: Congregation al Bible class, 8:30 p.m. Visitors are welcome to all of our services and activities. COMMUNITY (Stuart) Rev. Orin Graff, pastor Unified services every Sunday, 10 a.m. Everyone welcome. Sermon text for Sunday, June 4: “The Tabernacle of the Lord.” Exodus 36. Men’s council meeting tonight (Thursday), 8 o’clock. Square Dancing Climaxes Meeting— The Up and At It 4-H club held its 4th meeting at Melba Dobro volny’s home. Three members were absent. They were Elaine Babutzka, Shirley Babutzka and Viola Closson. We held our regular meeting and discussed the annual 4-H club camp held at Long Pine. Some of our members are plan ning to attend. After the meetings of our club and the Sons of the Soil 4-H club which also met there, we sang songs and square danced. Mrs. Dobrovolny then served us a lunch.— By Doris Pierson, vice president. “Voice of The Frontier” . . . ,VJAG (780 k.c.) . . Mon., Wed., >at., 9:45 a. m. 11 ■ <n.«——unfnmin i nninir•irn*iir-ftwi*i ; I WATCH FOR fi The Big Sale Bill and Ad in Next Week’s Frontier SELLING complete livestock and hay ranch in excellent neighborhood :! southeast of Chambers ... 34 head of live ^ H stock . . . complete line of farm and hay H ing machinery . . . tools and other shop | equipment on — TUESDAY, JUNE 12 | WALTER TRIISSELL, Owner j COLS. ED THORIN, Chambers, and VERNE REYNOLDSON, O'Neill, Auctioneers CHAMBERS STATE BANK, Keith J. Sexton, Clerk ■ Page, Stuart, Inman Victors Page defeated Bartlett, 7-1, at Bartlett. The winning pitcher was Darrell Heiss; losing pitcher, Milt Rosso. Page’s third base man, Dick Asher, collected a double and a single in 4 trips to lead the Page offensive. Stuart won a close league game Sunday at Chambers, 11-10. Chambers, although losing the game, outhit Stuart, 11-8. Batteries* For Chambers — Jerry Grimes and Hildergast, pitchers; Bruce Grimes and Ted Tomjack, catchers; for Stuart— Tielke and Chasinghawk, pitch ers; Darrell Bright, catcher. It was Bright who was tha bright star in tha Stuart of fensire. He banged out 3 hits in 5 trips, including a triple and batted in 5 Stuart runs. The O’Neill Rockets were scut tled on the Inman playground, 4-2. Sholes was the winning pitcher; Don Godel, the loser. Sholes yielded only 1 hit in 7 innings, while Moore, who fin ished the game, gave up 4 hits in 2 innings. Together Sholes and Moore collected 11 strikeouts. Don Godel went all the way on the mound for O’Neill, and set down 13 Inman batters. Long Pine was scheduled to have played at Bassett, but League Secretary Fred Appleby had no report on that game by late Tuesday. Inman and Stuart will tangle Thursday night, May 31, at Stu art. It will be the match ongi nally scheduled May 20, but was postponed because of rain. Incomplete standings: W L Pet. Page _ 2 0 1.000 Inman_ 1 0 1.000 Stuart . 1 0 1.000 Bartlett . 1 1 .500 O’Neill . 0 1 .000 Chambers _ 0 2 .000 Long Pine . 0 1 .000 Bassett .._ 0 0 .000 Celebrates 84th Birthday Anniversary— J. W. Wilkinson celebrated his 84th birthday anniversary Mon day. His daughter, Mrs. Hazel Boatman, was hostess at a dinner party in his honor. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Wilkinson, of Ans ley; Mr. and Mrs. Vern Wilkin son, Dean and Delores, of Cham bers, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lang, of Atkinson. Princess in Festival— Miss Elaine Ressel was a prin cess at the May festival at Bry an Memorial hospital in Lincoln. She is a senior nursing student there. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Chambers, bers, sr., and Miss Wanda Haack jr., and family, Mrs. C. H. Cham spent the weekend at Swea City and Livermore, la. Miss Haack remained in Livermore to attend the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of her grandparents. Gravel Resurfacing Contracts Are Let Two contracts for maintenance gravel resurfacing of highways in Wheeler and Holt counties were awarded Saturday by the state highway department. Armour Construction company, of Grand Island, was the low bid der on the 2 jobs in these coun ties and won both contracts. A $6,039.50 contract is for supplying and placing 2,350 cubic yards of new gravel on Nebraska highway 95 from 281 west through Cham bers to highway 11 near Amelia. The second contract, amounting to $5,329.70, is for 2,230 cubic yards of gravel to be laid on U.S. highway 281 from a point 13 miles south of O’Neill, south to within 7 miles of the intersection of 2881 with 53. Gets 2-Year Diploma At Chadron— Larry Tangeman, of Chambers, received his 2-year diploma from Chadron State Teachers college during the commencement exer cises which took place Friday morning, May 25. Larry was recently elected vice-president of the Sigma Delta Nu, professional fraternity of the college. r | Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowry are visiting their son, Orville Lowry, and family, and their daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Luber, and Mr. Luber, all of Memphis, Tenn. Miss Beverly McCarthy arrived Friday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George M. McCarthy, for 4 days. She is employed in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. John H. McCar ville and Michael left Tuesday for Minnesota, where Mrs. Mc Carville and Michael will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Egan, in Ellsworth, and relatives in Winona for 3 weeks. She will also attend the banquet at St. Te resa’s, her alma mater. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schroeder, of Fresno, Calif., visited a week with Mr. and Mrs. William Gatz, Mrs. Amelia Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz and Mrs. Mabel Gatz. They left Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Snyder have named their son Melvin Dan. The baby, who was born Friday, May 18, was named after his late un cle, Melvin Kurtz. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sauers left Tuesday for Omaha where they will spend memorial day and the rest of the week. Miss Ellen Butterfield is spend ing this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Butterfield, before entering the summer ses sion at Wayne State college Mon day. Miss Carol Jean Reis, of Atkin son, was a guest at the Ivan C. Pruss home Saturday and Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beckwith, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Beckwith, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harley, of At kinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Cas per Harley, of Stuart, went to Swan Lake Sunday for fishing and a picnic. Mr. and Mrs. W. Lloyd Brady will go to Crete Sunday to at tend the graduation exercises at Duane college.' Their daughter, Jean, will be a graduate. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Brewster at tended the alumni banquet at Page high school Saturday eve ning. Rev. and Mrs. M. G. Hubby, Bruce and Bonnie, of Wayne, vis ited Thursday, May 24, at the home of Mrs. Carrie Borg. Wally Shelhamer, Don Beck with and Ted Lindberg went to Lake Andes, S. D., to fish over the weekend. Dr. Keith Vincen*, of St. Louis City hospital, has received his orders from the army as a med ical specialist. He will be in the St. Louis hospital until July L His mother is Mrs. Amelia Vin cent. Mrs. W. H. LePage of Lincoln, is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. Thompson, and other relatives in and around O’Neill. She arriv ed May 17. Miss Maxine Golden went to Omaha Wednesday to attend the graduation of her fiance, Richard L. Owens, from Creighton med ical school Thursday. They plan to return to O’Neiil Thursday. The wedding will take place at St. Patrick’s Catholic church Sat urday. Miss Jodean Niemeyer. who teaches in Creighton, is spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Niemeyer. She will enter Wayne State college next week for the summer term. Mrs. Dean C. Reed and Paula returned Sunday from a stay in Hastings and Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miner en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ressel Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rooney drove his mother, Mrs. J. W. Rooney, to Tecumseh last Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Jack McDonald, of Omaha, visited their parents, Mrs. Marie McDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Froelich, for the weekend. Dr. and Mrs. George C. Cook have named their son Webster Nolan. He was born in the Luth eran hospital at Norfolk Sunday, May 20. Mrs. Cook is the former Patty Schaffer, daughter of the Dewey Schaffers. She returned home Saturday. Dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mrs. Florence Schultz were Mr. and Mrs. Jake Braun and family and Frank Schultz, all of Atkinson. Sumner Downey, R. H. Parker and R. M. Sauers went fishing at Lake Andes, S.D., last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Cuddy and family, of Sioux Falls, S.D., were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stanton, for the week end. Mrs. Eugene Stanton and children, who have been spend ing the past month here, returned with the Cuddys to their home in Sioux Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Appleby have named their daughter Linda Marie. She was bom Saturday, May 19. SECTION 2 — PAGES 9 TO 12 ^Frontier O'NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. MAY 31. 1951. — PAGE S. Tree America a Legacy’ - Lahman EWING—A class of 23 received diplomas at the commencement exercise!, for the Ewing high school Wednesday evening, May 23, at the school auditorium. A capacity audience of par ents, relatives and friends en joyed the address of Dr. Alan Lehman, of Wayne State Teach ers college. He spoke to the senior class on the theme: “Young America’s Heritage.” He said: “A free America is the legacy left by their forefa thers, granting them the privi lege of free education, teaching them self-reliance and to be lieve in themselves, gave them the right to choose their voca tion, to attend the church of their choke as well as many oth er freedoms enjoyed by all Americans. I Doctor Lehman continued: “This duty now falls to them, to protect and gaurd this inheri tance, a free Aimerica for the generations to come.’” Doctor Lehman used great men of his tory to illustrate his points. A welcome was extended to Keith Bartak in the salutatory and to Sally Ann Christon in the valedictory. As faculty, board members and speakers took their place on the stage, the processional be gan, played by Miss Esther Sehram. The 8th grade gradu ates marched to the seats at the front of the auditorium. Bob Knapp and Mary Alys Dierks, juniors, came next, followed by the seniors in white gowns and caps. They were seated on the stage. itf uhical numbers preceding the address were: ‘‘Homing,” by the girls’ triple trio; "The Prayer Perfect, by the mixed quartet, and a vocal solo, ‘‘In the Garden of Tomorrow,” by Mari on Harris. Supt. R. K. Whittemore pre sented diplomas to the 8th grad ers: Rosalie Spittler, Helen Rotherham, Nila Cary, Geral dine Rotherham, Doris Spahn, James Wulf, Bethy Daniels. Donna Mlnarik, Marvin Carl, Keth Gibson, Leo Spes, Don and Melvin Pruden, Bonnie Jo Jef feries. Lyle P. Dierks, president of the board of education, present ed the diplomas to the seniors: Maxie D. Angus, Keith Bartak, John Binkerd, LeoLa B. Cary, John L. Charvat, Sally Ann Chr1«ton, Beulah M. Cloyd, Marion M. Harris, Anna Mae Hill, Anton Kaczor. Richard Kallhoff, Donald Kurpgeweit, Beverly Montgomery, Wayne Pollock, Thelma Primus, Jerome Rotherham, Arlene Ruroede, Dwight Schroeder, Donald Sahn AlGene Thramer, Lyle Tucker, James Weber and Carol Wulf. Presentation of awards was made by Superintendent Whitte more. Thekma Primus was awarded the church school schol arship; Sally Ann Christon was awarded the teachers collage scholarship; Keith Bartak re ceived the Norfolk Junior col lege scholarship; Carol Wulf was winner cxf the University of Ne braska regents scholarship, bas ed on competitive examinations, with Sally Ann Christon as al ternate. The ceremonies of the evening were closed with the benedition by Rev. P. F. Burke. Vernon Rockey Off to Boys* State EWING— Vernon Rockey, who had the honor of being chosen from the junior class of the Ew ing high school by the American Legion, Sanders post 214, to at tend Comhuskers boys state, will leave for Lincoln on Sun day, June 2, He will enroll on Monday, June 3, for the week at boys state, ending June 9. The ses sion will be conducted on the. campus of the college of agricul ture. ' Clyde Thomas. Former i Residene, Dead— Clyde Thomas, 51, passed | away May 11 at his home in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Thomas wan bom Sep tember 3, 1889, near Page. He went to Alaska about 10 yearr ago from northeast of O’Neill He never married and the only survivors are a sister, Mrs. Joe (Gladys) Weston, of Selah, Wash., and a brother, Milford, of Lancoln. Winners at, a bridge party on Wednesday, May 23, at the J. H. Doeming home were Mrs. Palmer Skulborstad and Mrs. Gene Cant Ion. * - f / « « I I I i " • KOCERA’S “ Bohemian Band Sponsored by ZCBJ Jr. Lodge ' I The high-compression HURRI CANE Engine gives you long mileage on regular gas. And just 4 qts. of oil fill the crankcase! Drive in today for a Road-Test of the WILLYS Station Wagon and Appraisal of your old car—without obligation! /approvers. The Willys is built to last! Low cost Willys service will keep it performing its best and saving you money every mile. > , The Willys Station Wagon is two cars in one—a smooth, comfortable passenger car and, » .. with seats removed, a cargo carrier for loads up to a half-ton. ASIMUS MOTOR CO. OUTLAW IMPLEMENT CO. Phone 373 X West O’Neill