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O 12 PAGES - 2 SECTIONS VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 29. ~ O'NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1951. ~ PWCETTami —The Frontier Engraving 100TH BIRTHDAY COMING ... Mrs. Joseph Axtell was busy gathering wood and doing kitchen chores when The Frontier’s photographer called at her home in Stuart. Her activity belied her 100th birthday anniversary coming up Saturday, November 24. Her parents brought this native New Yorker to the midwest in 1860 for the benefit of her health, living about 15 years in Iowa before coming to Holt county. She married in 1887, they became 4 the parents of a daughter, Pearl. Mr. Axtell died in 1911. The elderly Mrs. Axtell and her daughter reside together in Stuart, a block northeast of the public school. She is probably Holt county’s oldest resident. — The Frontier Knsraving OKLAHOMA KID ... A year ago the Nebraska University Corn huskers were geared to upset t^ie national collegiate grid champs, the Oklahoma Sooners, at Norman. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schaffer, of O’Neill, were among the 5,000 Husker fans who migrated south for the big game (which Oklahoma won, incidentally, 49-35). The Schaffers never reached Norman, however. They were shortstop ped at Oklahoma City when Mr. Stork began buzzing their auto. They watched the game on TV and afterward a son, Dewey, was born in St. Anthony’s hospital there, weighing 5 pounds 2 ounces. This year the Huskers are not given the faintest chance to upset the powerful Sooners at Lincoln, blit 1973 promises a different story. Young Dewey (above) has been admitted into the Corn husker KenebKluB (note certificate) and will be a contender for a backfield spot. Dewey’s mother is the former Lois Cole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole, of Emmet; the father is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey C. Schaffer, of O’Neill. YOUTH ‘OFFICER’ DATE DECEMBER 10 Legion - Sponsored Event Will Draw Juniors to City Date for the 1951 student gov ernment participation program has been set for Monday, Decem ber 10. This is the annual American Legion - sponsored program in which high school juniors from throughout the county will con vene here and “move in” on the county offices. Each elected from his own school, following a procedure of nominations and elections conducted along conven tional lines, the juniors will oc * cupy the various county offices for a day and learn the inside story of county government. The purpose of ihe movement is to familiarize youth with government procedure. In charge of' arrangements are District Judge D. R. Mounts, Holt Legion Commander Glea H. Wade; Commander John Stuifbergen, of Simonson post 93, and John Grutsch, Holt county service officer. Each year Simonson post is host to the Holt high school stu dents. Plans will be completed next week. Meanwhile, the juniors in the high srhools—O’Neill high, St. Mary’s academy, St. Joseph’s hall, Atkinson high, Stuart, In man, Ewing, Page and Chambers V —will befcin campaigning for the various offices. Frontier for printing. —The Frontier Engraving POLIO VICTIM HOME . . . Mrs. C. D. Ankney (above), pic tured in a WAVE uniform dur ing World War II, has returned to her home at Chambers fol lowing a light attack of polio. She was hospitalized several weeks at Grand Island and will recover. Her husband is pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Chambers. The Ankneys have 2 children. Union Thanksgiving Services Scheduled Union Thanksgiving worship services will be conducted Wed nesday, November 21, at the Methodist church. Participating churches, accord ing to annual custom, are Wesley an Methodist church, First Pres byterian church and the Metho dist church. Rev. Melvin H. Grosenbach, pastor of Wesleyan Methodist church, will deliver the sermon. HOLT FARMER, 38, PICKER FATALITY Chester Carsten Strangled When Coat Catches in Shaft Chester Carsten, 38-year-old northeast Holt county farmer re siding 2 miles south and 1 mile west of Redbird, died about 10 a.m., Thursday, November 15, in a cornpicker accident. Carsten had stopped the ma chine to make an adjustment, his heavy coat was caught in a shaft, and he was strangled to death. Funeral services were con ducted Sunday, November 18, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church in Lynch. Rev. Mitchell offi ciated. Burial was in Scottville rural cemetery in the locality in which he lived. Mr. Cartten had gone to the field early that morning to operate the mechanical picker, oand was to have returned to the house early because the family had planned a trip to O'Neill in the afternoon. About 1 p.m., Mrs. Carsten be came concerned about her hus band, went to the field and found him dead. Survivors include: Widow — Irene; daughter — Mrs. Eldon (Alyce) Mills; sons—Jerry, 16, and Robert, 15; parents—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carsten; 2 grandsons. Native O’Neillite Dies in Washington Mrs. Amanda Calkins, 54, died, Friday, November 2, in Spokane, Wash., according to word re ceived by a sister, Mrs. Jennie Eppenbach, of O’Neill. Mrs. Calkins was the former Amanda McAllister, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc Allister. She was born March 2U, 18S7 on a fanm north of O’Neill. Survivors include: 5 sons and daughters, 6 sisters and 5 broth ers. NEW DEALERSHIP OPENS HERE The opening of a new De Soto Plymouth dealership, to be known as Smith $Iotor Co., was announced Tuesday by Harry K. Smith and Paul Shierk, part ners. It is located at 316 East Fremont. “We invite the public to visit what we believe to be the finest, most up-to-date automobile deal ership in this area," they said. “We will have on display the beautiful new 1952 DeSoto and Plymouth cars, both outstanding products of Chrysler Corporation. We have a service department comple'ely equipped with the most modern equipment and tools, staffed with mechanics trained in factory methods and using only parts approved by the factory. “It is our aim to gi'Ve our cus tomers the finest service obtain able. We guarantee that our work will be economical, efficient and done without unnecessary delay. “In fact, we intend to give the kind of service that goes with the kind of quality cars that we sell, the new De Soto and Ply mouth." FRONTIER 24-HOURS EARLY This issue of The Frontier went to press 24-hours earlier than us ual in order that all subscribers in the O’Neill region will receive their paper ahead of the holiday. Because many rural mail routes and all city carrier routes do not operate on holidays, the advance publication is for the benefit of patrons who, because of the Thursday holiday, would not re ceive their Frontier until Friday. G mble Manager Plant Get-Acquainted* Sale — Burl Munsell, new Gamble store manager, has scheduled a get-acquainted sale Friday and Saturday, November 23 and 24. Gambles will be open Friday and Saturday evenings until 10 o’clock, Mr. Munsell said. There will be free musical en tertainment by the Coronado Kids, free coffee and doughnuts and free prizes hourly. (See 2-page advertisement on pages 2 and 3.) MERCURY DIPS Lowest temperature of the past 7 days was 19 above zero record ed early Saturday. mm mr ifiiy zzm y rea, . —The Frontier Photo & Engraving PUBLIC DEMANDS REPEAT . . . The response to the Lions club-sponsored home-talent minstrel, show on Wednesday, November 14, was so grat ifying that a repeat performance was held Mon day, November 19. Photographer John H. Mc Carville snapped this photo after Endman John C Watson (right) finished “The Chicken Song", which had rocked the house. Robed choristers in the photo are Clayton Baumeister, Jerry Fox, De Wayne Booth and Mike London- blacks are Mat thew G. (“Rastus”) Beha, “the poor man’s Jue Louis,” Roy (“Mose”) Johnson and “Bones” Wat son. o 0 00 0 0 0 o 0 8 o o Q O 0 O 83 o „ < O • o —The l-Yontler Photo ft Engraving An army of neighbors equipped with an array of mechanical cornpickers, descended on the Ed Thomas farm northwest of here Tuesday morning and made; short work of 80 acres of unpicked ★ ★ ★ corn. Mr. Thomas, one son and one daughter are hospitalised with tuberculosis. Photo was taken at the "headquarters" for Operation Good Neighbor—the James C. Parker farm. ★ ★ ★ 3 in Family Have TB—Neighbors Rally Every room in the James C. Parker farm home was filled with hungry cornpickers follow ing the 4-hour session at the Ed Thomas farm. Mrs. Clarence Ernst (left background) and Mrs. Ed Wey man are presiding in this room. c Mrs. Ed lhomas (lett) cnats with Mrs. Homer Ernst after the noon-hour rush. Elvin H. Coker Burial in Iowa Funeral services for Elvin H. Coker, 56, were held Saturday, November 17, at^ the Methodist church here. The late Mr. Coker died late ^Wednesday, November 14, at his home here following a 6-months illness. Rev. V. R. Bell, church pastor, officiated. B.filin Bros, were in charge and the body was for warded to Afton, la. Burial rites were held Sunday at Afton. Elvin Howard Coker, son of | the late James Benjamin and Mimi Beck Coker, was born August 27. 1895, at Shelby. Ia. Wheji he was 11 years old, his family mowed to Afton, la. He be came a mem ber of the Christian church there at the age of 19. In 1916 he was united in mar riage to Abbie Deborah White. They lived on a farm near Afton until 1918, when they moved to Holt county. They were engaged in ranching, farming and meat cutting at Stuart. In 1946 they opened Coker’s Lockers in O’Neill. The late Mr. Coker was known to most people as “Shorty" Coker. Survivors include: Widow; sons —Lewis F., and James H., both of O’Neill; daughters—Mrs. Robert (Jean) Reitz, of Wichita, Kans., Mrs. B. W. (Patricia) Hand, of Rickford, 111., Mrs. Robert (Dons) Greenfield, of Stuart, and Mrs. Robert (Eva) Mathews, of O’Neill; sister—Mrs. C. B. Shade, of St. Paul; brothers—James Calvin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Earl F., of Creston, la.; 7 grandchil dren.. Three children preceded him in death—Theora Onoita, Lola Mae and Robert White. The family burial plot is at Afton. Pallbearers at the funeral here were: K. B. Carlisle, Hubert Khole, Fred Stracke, all of Siuart; Fred McCart and Ed Eth erton, of O'Neill, and Herbert Neilsen, of Iranian. Pvt. James Coker was injured in a car accident enroute to the funeral and was unable to attend the services. He ip at the home of his uncle, Willis White, of Cres ton, la. Mrs. Coker remained there after the funeral to be with him. There was a 35-minute inter ruption in electric service in the northeast Nebraska Consumers PPD network Friday evening, due to personnel error at Oak land. o o 0 o Ooo° Army Makes Short Work of 80 - Acre Com Field (By a Staff Wrifer) Mrs. Jbd Thomas, U weill farm woman wnu is a mother of 10, will not soon forget tne Thanks giving season, lyai. Her husband and a daughter, Vonda, lo, are tubercuiusis pa tients in tne Kearney TB hospi tal, and a son, Kobert, is a TB patient in tne Veterans hospital at Minneapolis, Minn. As InanKs giving day, iOol, approaches, Mrs. i nomas is thaniUui she and 8 of her children enjoy good health and one s grateiui tne family s corn crop has been picked. The neighbors who gathered at 8:30 Tuesday morning at the Thomas place, located 6 miles northwest ol town, came witn an elaborate layout of picking and hauling machinery and an abun dance of sheer manpower. The la dies appeared laden with enough prepared food to feed0an army twice as large. By shortly after noon, 8tt acres had been picked, represent ing several thousand bushels of corn. "The corn isn't too good." ex plained Mrs. Thomas, "but, my. how grateful we are it's done. I visited Ed at the hospital last week and he was worried about the corn." Mr. and Mrs. James C. Parker live across the road from the Thomases. In a neighborly way they set out Saturday to organ ize the husking bee, Mrs. Parker doing her share of the engineer ing with a pair of crutches she has been obliged to use for sev eral months. “Everybody we asked showed up and helped,” explained Mrs. Parker. It was an impressive array of farm machinery that lined up near the Thomas home after the job was done and bright yellow corn was piled high in the ya In 4 hours from the starti j time the job was finished. Mr. Parker explained that the com was “not too good — like everybody else’s this year.” The men abandoned the ma chinery and went to the Parker home across the road for a big dinner. Men were eating in every room in the spacious Parker home and women busily waited tables. The buffet, for example, was lined with 75 pies. Every con ceivable kind of pie was rep resented. not to mention all the dishes of meat, salads and veg ! etables. : After the men had finished the | women sat down. Working with ! them was Mrs. Thomas, who was (Continued on page 8.) r,',r»ect Over 100 *'* Soil Banquet • r More than a hundred persons are expected at the banouet rec , ognifcing preserit and past mem bers of the Holt countv soil con servation district board of direc tors to be held Tuesdav evening, November 27, at 7 o’clock. The affair will be held at the Amer ican Legion auditorium. E T. McClanahan, of the Oma ha World-Herald, will present the award and Bill Derrick, ex tension animal husbandrvman of the University of Nebraska col lege of agriculture, will be the speaker. C. F (“Bob’’) Hill, of the Holt soil office, savs reservations must be in not latef than Eridav, No vember 23. Businessmen from all over the count”, farmers, ranch ers and their wives are Invited. The Chamber of Commerce is in charge of arrangements. The American Legion auxiliary will serve the dinner. O G
