The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, November 22, 1951, Image 1

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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.
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—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.
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—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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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