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Snow Drifts Slightly
Reminiscent of 1949
DELOIT—Snowdrifts along the
road between the Savage and
Pofahl places have been slightly
reminiscent of the winter of 1948
'49.
Snow had been piled from 8 to
10 feet in depth.
Farmers report an abundance of
rabbits in the community.
Other Deloii News
HEO club will meet at the Hen
ry Reimer home at 1 p.m. on Feb
ruary 14. No covered dish lunch
eon will be served. A lunch will
be served by the hostess.
Elayne Reimer spent the week
end with her friend, Joyce De
mary, near Bartlett.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bartak took
their daughter, Shirley, back to
Wayne State college on Sunday
after spending 2 weeks’ vacation
with home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack
and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ray and
daughter visited recently Hen
ry Reimer’s. The Rays have mov
ed their furniture back to Omaha.
Gene reported back at San Diego,
Calif., where he is in the navy
and will be released in 7 weeks.
Mrs. Frank Bohn’s father, Al
pho'nso Beelaert, sr„ of Ewing,
suffered a stroke and is a patient
in a Norfolk hospital.
Form bureau met Monday eve
ning, January 7, at Bud Bartak’s.
A 4-H club was organized. Next
meeting will be at A. E. Bartak’s
on February 4. Pie wil be served.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harpster
visited Sunday evening at H.
Reimer’s.
HEO club met Thursday at the
Glenn Harpster home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Spahn left
Monday for Oregon to visit rela
tives. Mrs. Anna Savage accom
panied them to the home of her
daughter and family in Montana.
Mrs. Deloss Thompson and Mrs.
Henry Reimer attended a leaders’
training meeting in Neligh on
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Seaman at
tended the funeral of an aunt on
Monday.
Roland Schrunk is staying at
the Werkmeister home during the
winter to be near the school
where he teaches.
Vet Instructor
Entertains Class—
EWING—Charles Sanders, in
tructor in the veteran’s institu
tional on farm training progra/m,
was host to the class Monday eve
ning, January 7, Those enrolled
are: D. D. Allen, David L. Anson,
Floyd Belik, Lester Bergstrom,
Claude Elliot, Edward Funk, Mi
chael Gallagher, Theo. Jareske,
Leland Johnson, Ed Kaczor, Wes
yn Larson, Norman Pollock, Mar
vin Rouse, Kenneth Schmidt, Ed
Shaw, Herbert Spahn, Carl
Spangler, Walter Spangler, Mel
vin Spangler, Gerard Spittler, Al
bert Weibel, Sylvester Bahm,
Carl Beelart and Ferdinand Hupp.
Student Pastor
Takes Bride —
EWING—Miss Dona Jean Phil
ippi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
'loyd Philippi, and Ronald D.
iurt were married Saturday, De
cember 9.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Burt are
students at the Nebraska Chris
tian college, Norfolk. Mr. Burt
will enter ministry in the spring
when he completes his college
course.
Mr. Burt has filled the pulpit
of thfe Church of Christ in Ewing
for several months.
Mrs. Jerry Babl and daughter,
Diana, spent from Thursday un
til Saturday at the home of her
brother-in-law add sister, Mr. and
Mrs. William Schiessler, and fam
ily, and her niece, Mrs. Merlin
Beebout, and family.
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I Prairieland Talk —
Late Jake Pfund One of O’Neill’s
Pioneer Merchants and Builders
By ROMA1NE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN— Mrs. Jake Pfund
died January 5 in Galt, Calif.,
where 2 of her daughters make
their homes. The body was
brought to Lincoln for burial.
Members of the Pfund family
were citizens of O’Neill for a
number of years, Mrs. Pfund com
ing with her husband from Wis
consin about the year 1886.
Mr. Pfund put up the building
on the west side of North Fourth
street on the
north side of
the alley and
started a gro
cery store. Lat
er he was in the
Gallagher
building on the
corner of
Fourth and Ev
erett streets
and then built
at the corner
of Third and
Douglas. Their
Romaine children, K
daughters and 3
sons, were born in O’Neill. Miss
Louise Pfund and Mrs. George
Wrede are at Galt, Calif.; another
daughter, Mrs. Dawson, at
Wayne; Jake, a son, lives at Nor
folk; William in California and
Milton at Pratt, Kans. The family
lived in Lincoln at one time
where Mr. Pfund died.
After leaving O’Neill some 40
years ago they established a
ranch in Swan precinct and made
that the family home for a time.
Mrs. Pfund was 87 years of age.
She was an active worker in the
Methodist church in O’Neill.
• • •
Man has lifted his foot to take
the first step of another year. De
cember 31 the record closed and
stands for all time, just as other
years that have spelled out the
records of the centuries.
What is January 1? Just anoth
er day, a day that inspires the
wise ones among us to forecast
what’s ahead. Viewing the past in
the light of present trends most
anyone can qualify as a prophet
as to what lies ahead for another
year. What of yesterday, of the
brief span that reaches back
through the days and months now
gone? Failures have meant hu
mility but not dispair, they have
cast down but not destroyed. Vic
tories inspire hope for tomorrow.
And what of tomorrow? The
sun will ride its flaming chariot
across the azure blue above un
changed.
Today the sweep of prairieland
lies under a robe of celestial puri
ty; tomorrow blooms with the
fragrance and color of the prairie
rose. We cannot level the hill, nor
would we brush from the scene
the wooded slopes among the gul
ches and the endless miles of open
country, but we may add heav
_t
t-iu.y KiBLca uj uur own lives, lo
rejoice with them that do rejoice
and sympathize with the fallen
tear of those who weep; learn
better to enjoy the heritage that
the gracious hand of Providence
has laid at our feet—to thrill for a
moment over the sublime gran
deur of it all.
Pride, selfishness, the things
demanding so much of us, appear
mean and unlovely as we thus
face another year, conscious
that what progress comes in the
hearts and brains of men who un
davs ahead must come from the
derstand what their place is in
God’s pattern for our lives and
our relationship one to another.
* * *
The plaudits of the crowd can
mean disaster to the hero. Five
basketball players that had float
ed in the starry realms of college
sports will cool their restless heels
in jail. Invulnerable on the bas
ketball court their armors of self
respect and honor cracked wide
open when the lure of bribes con
fronted them, betrayed their
friends and the institutions they
represented. Judge Saul S. Streit
in passing sentence after the hear
ing in an Eastern court, said of
the gent who had attained the
pinnacle of perfection at the game
that he was “greedy and glamour
struck, with an insatiable lust for
night clubs and the company of
girls.” Of the others the judge
found them “completely lacking
in moral and ethical concepts.”
And the college administration
heads, the coaches and alumni
groups were rebuked by the court
for sharing in the responsibility
for such conditions in the sports
of their institutions. If the higher
institutions of learning fail to in
culcate the fundamental princi
ples of honesty education becomes
a tragedy, and the thing that has
always been flaunted as the high
goal of sports is a mere farce.
• • •
Of the millions of civilian pa
triots on the federal pay roll, 21,
300 Nebraskans are on the gravy
train, not counting those favored
with subsidies, gratuitous favors
and maybe a mink coat or 2.
William Ritchie, of Omaha, will
seek and probably get the demo
cratic nomination at the April
primary for the 2-year stretch in
the U.S. senate. The appointment
to the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Wherry serves
only until 1953 and this year Ne
braskans make a choice of who
will then complete the remaining
2 years of the late Mr. Wherry’s
term. Mr. Ritchie says he is out of
harmony with the present na
tional administration. He makes it
pretty strong by saying Mr. Tru
man has neither moral nor men
tal force to fit him for the presi
dency and that the country has
been slipping since his crowd
took over. So far Nebraska has 1
republican and 1 democrat in the
field for the 2-year term. The re
publican candidate for the nom
ination, Mr. Griswold, without
doubt entertains the same senti
ments as Mr. Ritchie concerning
the Truman crowd.
* * •
Nebraska authors added some
books to the literary products of
1951. A work by Ann Terry White
deals with “Prehistoric America”
and has special interest for North
Nebraskans as the “Quicksands
of the Niobrara” are one of the
subjects dealt with. What is said
to be the first of the kind in the
United States is a work by Arch
Donovan, “County Government
in Nebrsaka.” The fertile pen of
Jane Leonard down at Broken
Bow, a one-time picturesque and
often wild and woolly frontier
town, has produced in “Cgll of the
Western Prairies” what must a
rouse unusual interest among
Nebraskans who cherish their
prairieland heritage. “Pawnee
Indians” by George E. Hyde and
“White House Profiles” by Bess
Furman are some of the books by
Nebraskans or former Nebraskans
to have been published in 1951.
* * *
Returning from a holiday visit
to sunny California a group of
Lincoln innocents stopped for a
lunch in one of those desert
towns in the Southwest and for
a bit of relaxation thought they
would look in on a show flaunt
ing an alluring sign. But they
soon ducked out with red faces.
They had run into a brazen bunch
of men and girls drinking and
dancing in the nude. You can run
into most anything in some parts
of the world. I boarded a bus in
Los Angeles a few years ago for
Denver and at the first stop we
made for a rest and to change
busses we were ushered into a
gambling den.
• • *
Secptember last TV raked in
$11,920,000 as against radio $11,
861,000. TV is a newcomer that
seems to be going across strong.
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An army dog school has been
put into operation at Camp Car
son, Colo., with 48 German shep
herd dogs and 25 enlisted hand
lers. There was a similar training
camp at Ft. Robinson during the
last war. A baggage car load ol
the dogs was attached to the
North Western train I rode tc
Omaha one night on their way to
the front. The soldier informed
me that army dogs were tempera
mental and strangers should keep
away from them. But the dogs
were valuable at the front to
warn of a hidden enemy. The
warning is a growl and the hair
of the dog’s back raises a flag
of danger.
• * *
A senator spoke this morning at
the mike. The agenda of this ses
sion of congress was his brief
theme. National defense, keep the
wheels of industry oiled. But—
recapture the moral values of
honesty and decency in govern
ment—not a word. The solemn
grandeur of our American tradi
tions to inspire the members of
congress—not a word. Shrinkage
of the tax load, let the air out of
inflated prices—not a word. Lift
ing the hand of the bureaucrat
from the private and industrial
affairs of American patriots—not
a word. End this monstrous thing
that stains the earth with the life
blood of young America—not a
word.
* * •
The stalwart statures of Ne
braska patriots begin to loom
over the political horizon
this early in January for a
place on the ballot for the Ap
ril primary. We must admire
anyone who has the courage to
seek office and take the abuse
that goes with it.
* * e
One use found for the helicop
ter brings it into the realm of re
ligious service. It picked up a
church steeple at a newly built
house of worship and placed it in
position on the church tower.
* * *
The past 3,865 years civilized
man has enjoyed only 323 years
of freedom from wars, during
which time there have been ne
gotiated, siqned, sealed and de
livered 8,250 peace treaties.
Man is essentially a scrapper.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Butterfield
were Sunday dinner guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Meitties at Star.
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