The Frontier Woman . . .
‘Lucille’ Suggests: ‘Let’s Take
Out Xmas Put Back Christmas’
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
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Lady, do you realize it’s only
a few weeks until Christmas!
Here’s an idea for something
for the children to make for
Christmas gifts if you have some
quilt patterns. Choose a pattern,
not tbo large, and let the girls
select some pretty odds-and-ends
from your piece bag of washable
cottons. They can piece a quilt
block and press it carefully. Cot
ton can be used, or old turkish
to Weis for lining, and a plain
piece of material for the back.
Quilt the block after lining is
in and back on, and you have
some of the prettiest hot-holders
you ever saw.
These are nice ideas for ba
zaars, too. They are made up
fairly quickly on the machine,
but the children can do them
by hand.
Another hot-holder idea is that
of using unbleached muslin for
the holder, and fruit transfers to
decorate them. You can now' buy
hot iron transfers that can be
washed and they make very
decorative ideas for manv other
things besides hot - holders. I
have a set on tea towels that I
always enjoy using.
Terry cloth can now be pur
chased by the yard. When
brand new, it can be made up
into very presentable, and very
washable hot - holders by the
youngsters, and a couple of
yards will go a long way. A
teen-age daughter can also make
mom a set of bathroom curtains
out of this yard-sold terry cloth.
It usually comes in colors suit
able for that sort of thing.
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'Lucille' Wins
Subscription—
Dear Blanche:
A few days ago I purchased a
box of Christmas or should I
say Xmas cards? Last evening I
sat down to get my list of cards
ready for mailing. As I sorted
through the bunch, I was thor
oughly disgusted to find there
wasn’t a single one that had any
connection with Christmas and
the birth of our Lord at Bethle
hem. No, there wasn’t a single
scene of the stable, wise men or
the star! Just a bunch of trees,
dogs and snow!
I feel like throwing them
out but the snow is piling up
so I'll fix them and just hope
I'll get them mailed.
What is thet rouble anyway?
Have people forgotten what
Christmas really is? Are we set
ting such a fast pace in this
“keep up with the Joneses”
world that we’ve forgotten the
important things?
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I guess they’re going to com
mercialize Christmas. Seems that
Thanksgiving is completely for
gotten or overlooked because
early in November the stores are
full of Christmas decorations and
gifts. The clerks will tell you
“you must get yours early or
they’ll be picked over.” The kid
dies hear at school what Santa
is going to bring the neighbors’
children and expect just as
much.
Bui did you notice how sel
dom one sees a scene of the
Nativity in those Christmas
scenes?
We are changing the birthday
of our Saviour and peace on
earth, goodwill toward men into
a frenzy of buying, putting a real
dent in pocketbooks, forgetting
it is not the gift but the giver
that counts; there’s confusion
and merrymaking until it very
faintly resembles the beautiful
day it’s supposed to be.
Makes one wonder if we had
n’t so completely forgotten and
ignored Him, would we be in the
mess we are today?
Yes, it’s just like the thought
in a hymn I sang as a child,, “No
room for Him, it comes again—
an echo of that sad refrain.”
Let’s try to take the Xmas out
and put the Christmas back.
“LUCILLE”
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About Those Last
Year's Cards—
Do you still have last year’s
Christmas cards? They can be
used, many of them, to decorate
your Christmas packages and lor
tags for Christmas packages.
Some may even prove suitable
for Christmas tree trimmings.
It is often possible to use the
beautiful fronts of Christmas
cards to paste on Christmas
packages as trim. A tree cut-out
is lovely, a scene of three wise
men and a star is another nice
idea. Santa’s sleds and such are
all ideas. Often a cut-out can be
made from the front of the card,
punched, a bit of cord added,
and used for a card.
They are also fine for the chil
dren to make scrap books from
now that Christmas is approach
ing and they want something to
do. Some cards are just too beau
tiful to waste, do use them.
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Ewing Woman's Recipe
Is Published—
A recipe for mint glazed car
rots, submitted by Mrs. Pete
Cooper of route 1, Ewing, is re
ported in Capper’s Farmer. The
recipe is in “Country Cooking,”
a regular feature of the national
farm magazine.
Ingredients for the interesting
variation_for a vitamin-rich veg
etable are: 2^ cups cooked car
rots; two tablespoons butter;
two tablespoons mint jelly. Add
butter and jelly to carrots.
Cook over low heat until carrots
are glazed. Serves four.
The Frontier for printing!
SAYS SANDHILL SAL
What most ladies want in the
toe of their nylons is a green
back to spend just as they please.
Christmas is the best time in
the world to give stardust —
don’t be too practical.
Out of Old Nebraska . . .
Kearney Once
Free-and-Easy
Rendezvous Point
for Cowboys
By DR. JAMES, OLSON, Supt.
Stale Historical Society
Though not organized until
1870, Buffalo county on the ov
erland trail was the scene of
much activity in territorial days
and even earlier. The old Mor
mon trail ran through Buffalo
county, and from 1847 on each
summer saw long lines of cover
ed wagons wending their way
west through the county. Ft.
Kearny, established in 1848 just
south of the river, became the
nucleus of white activity in the
region.
The earliest settlers in the
county were Mormons who made
a settlement on Wood river in
1958. Among their number was
Joseph E. Johnson, founder of
the Omaha Arrow, the first pa
per published in Omaha, who
settled on the present townsite
of Shelton and started a paper,
the Huntsman’s Echo.
We have a few issues of that
paper in the library of the
Stale Historical society, and a
lively, vigorous sheet it was. It
well lived up to the slogan on
the masthead, "Independent in
everything; neutral in noth
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ing.
Though Johnson pictured the
country in glowing terms in his
papers—most of each issue was
circulated among the traders and
travellers—and set out on5 of
the finest flower gardens in the
West, he wearied in a few years
and went on to Utah.
As late as 1870, settlement in
the county was confined to the
few farmers living along Wood
river. Nonetheless, they persuad
ed Gov. David Butler to issue a
proclamation formally organiz
ing Buffalo county—hitherto it
had existed only cn paper .md
had been attached to Hall coun
ty for judicial and revenue pur
poses.
At first, Buffalo county had
no permanent countyseat. Each
officer kept the records pertain
ing to his office at his home, and
the commissioners met at first
one place and then another. As
was true in most Nebraska coun
ties there was considerable diffi
culty in locating the countyseat.
Gibbon was first selected as the
permanent countyseat, but when
the B&M railroad joined with
the Union Pacific at Kearney
(then called Kearney Junction)
settlement began to develop rsp
idly at that point and soon it
was the largest town in the
county.
A movement got underway
to move the countyseat. The
people of Gibbon resisted it
for a while, but in 1874 the ef
forts of Kearney Junction were
successful.
Kearney was for many years
a free-and-easy town. A railroad
junction in the midst of a great
cattle country, it became a ren
dezvous for cowboys. It retained
this character until the country
began to settle up with farmers,
1 and then it began to quiet down.
An important early group of
farmers in the county consisted
of a group known as the free
homestead colony. They arrived
at Gibbon in 1871, and their
story has been ably told by C. S.
Bassett.
Lynch Soldier Upped
to Corporal—
LYNCH—James T. Muller, jr.,
of Lynch recently was promoted
to corporal while serving in Ko
rea with the Third infantry di
vision. Last winter, the unit
cracked the communists’ line
during the battle of “Bloody An
gle,” one of the bitterest engage
ments of 1951.
A rifleman in company G of
the 15th infantry regiment, Mul
ler entered the army in June,
1951, arriving in Korea last Ap
ril. His wife, Mary, lives at 2416
W. Erie, Chicago, 111. He is a son
of John T. Muller of Lynch.
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LEGAL NOTICE
(First pub. Nov. 27, 1952)
Julius D. Cronin, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
HEIRS
County Court of Holt County,
Nebraska. Estate of Daisy
Shumate, Deceased.
The State of Nebraska, To All
Concerned: Notice is hereby
given that Luella A. Parker has
filed her petition alleging that
Daisy Shumate died March 2,
1943, intestate, a resident of Holt
County, Nebraska, seized and
possessed of an interest in Lots
“A” and “B”, Barnes Addition :
to Newman, Lancaster County,
Nebraska.
That petitioner is the owner of
the above-described property,
having derived title thereto by
deed.
The prayer of said petition is
for a determination of the time
of death, the heirs, degree of
kinship, and right of descent of
real property of said deceased;
that she died intestate, and that
there is no inheritance tax, state
or federal, due from her said es
tate or the heirs thereof.
That said petition will be for
hearing in this Court on the 17th
day of December, 1952, at 10
a. m.
LOUIS W. REIMER
County Judge
(County Court Seal) 30-32
(First pub. Nov. 27, 1952)
George W. Dittrick, Att’v.
NOTICE OF GUARDIAN'S
SALE
In the District Court of Madison
County, Nebraska.
In the Matter of the Application
of Bernard M. DeLay, Guard
ian of Elizabeth C. McKamy,
LeRoy McKamy, Joan McKa
my, Morris McKamy, and
Donald McKamy, Minors, For
License to Sell Real Estate.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to an order by the Hon.
Lyle E. Jackson, Judge of the
District Court of Madison Coun
ty, Nebraska, made on Novem
ber 7, 1952, for the sale of the
interest of said minors, Elizabetn
C. McKamy, LeRoy McKamy,
Joan McKamy, Morris McKamy,
and Donald McKamy, in the real
estate hereinafter described, will
be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, at the
West front door of the court
house in the City of O’Neill, in
the County of Holt and State of
Nebraska, on the 20th day of
December, 1952, at three o’clock
P.M., of said day, the interest of
said minors in the following de
scribed real estate:
The West Half (WMs) of Sec
tion Twenty-four (24), Town
ship Twenty-five (25), North,
Range Nine (9), West of the
6th P.M., in Holt County, Ne
braska.
Said sale will remain open one
hour.
Dated this 26th day of Novem
ber, 1952.
BERNARD M. DELaY,
30-33c Guardian
(First nub. Nov. 27, 1952)
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received
at the office of the Department
of Roads and Irrigation in the
State Capitol at Lincoln, Nebras
ka, on December 18, 1952, until
10:00 o’clock A.M., and at that
time publicily opened and read
for GRADING, CULVERTS
ONE WEIGHING STATION and
incidental work for the STAF
FORD WEIGHING STATION
Project No. SF-80a01.
The approximate quantities
are:
3,000 Cu. Yds. Excavation
55 Thousand Gallons Water,
Applied
1 Cu. Yd. Concrete for Culverts
118 Lbs. Reinforcing Steel for
Culverts
23 Cu. Yds. Concrete for Pav
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ing Approaches
2,080 Lbs. Reinforcing Steel
for Paving Approaches
52 Lin. Ft. 18”xll” Corrugated
Metal Pipe Arch Culverts
52 Lin. Ft. 36”x22” Corrugated
Metal Pipe Arch Culverts
1 Weighing Station, Complete
in Place
Each bidder must be qualified
to submit a proposal for any part
or all of this work as provided
in Legislative Bill No. 206, 1939
Legislative Session. Proposal
forms for this work will be is
sued to contractors who are qual
ified to submit proposals for
culverts.
The attention of bidders is di
rected to the Special Provisions
covering sub-letting or assigning
the contract.
Compliance by the contractor
with the standards as to hours
of labor prescribed by the “Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1938”,
approved June 25, 1938 (Public
No. 718, 75th Congress), will be
required in the performance of
the work under this contract.
The minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor employed on this
contract shall be one dollar and
five cents ($1.05) per hour, ex
cept that a minimum wage of
one dollar and twenty-five cents
($1.25) per hour shall be paid to:
Journeyman Carpenters
Crane Operators
Dragline Operators
Journeyman Painters
Paver (5-bag rated capacity or
over) Operators
Power Shovel Operators
The minimum wage paid to all
intermediate labor employed on
this contract shall be ninety-five
(95) cents per hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
unskilled labor employed on this
contract shall be seventy - five
(75) cents per hour.
Plans and specifications for
the work may be seen and infor
mation secured at the office of
the County Clerk at O’Neill, Ne
braska, at the office of the Di
vision Engineer of the Depart
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ment of Roads and Irrigation at
Ainsworth, Nebraska, or at the
office of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation at Lincoln,
Nebraska.
The successful bidder will be
required to furnish bond in an
amount equal to 100% of his
contract.
As an evidence of good faith
in submitting a proposal for this
work, the bidder must file, with
his proposal, a certified check
made payable to the Department
of Roads and Irrigation and in
an amount not less than five hun
dred (500) dollars.
The right is reserved to waive
all technicalities and reject any
or all bids.
DEPARTMENT OF ROADS
AND IRRIGATION
H. L. Aitken, State Engineer
J. M. Crook, Division
Engineer
Ruth Hoffman, County Clerk
Holt County 30-32
(First pub. Nov. 27, 1952)
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received
at the office of the Department
of Roads and Irrigation in the
State Capitol at Lincoln, Nebras
ka, on December 18, 1952, until
10:00 o’clock A.M., and at that
time publicly opened and read
for GUARD RAIL and incidental
work on the SPENCER-O’NEILL
Federal Aid Project No. F-14(1Q)
Federal Aid Road.
The approximate quantities
are:
139 Guard Posts
200 Lin. Ft. Beam Guard Rail
Each bidder must be qualified
to submit a proposal for any part
or all of this work as provided in
Legislative Bill No. 206, 193'J
Legislative Session.
The attention of bidders is di
rected to the Special Provisions
covering subletting or assigning
the contract.
The attention of bidders is in
vited to the fact that the Depart
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I ment of Roads and Irrigation hast
been advised by the Wage and
Hour Division, U.S. Department,
of Labor, that contractors en
gaged in highway construction
work are required to meet the
provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat*
1060).
The minimum wage paid to alt
skilled labor employed on this
contract shall be one dollar and
five cents ($1.05) per hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
intermediate labor employed on
this contract shall be ninety-tive
(95) cents per hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
unskilled labor employed on this
contract shall be seventy-five
(75) cents per hour.
Plans and specifications for
the work may be seen and in
formation secured at the office
of the County Clerk at Butte,
Nebraska, at the office of the
County Clerk at O’Neill, Nebras
ka, at the office of the Division
Engineer of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation at Ains
worth, Nebraska, or at the office
of the Department of Roads and
Irrigation at Lincoln, Nebraska*
The successful bidder will be
required to famish bond in an
amount equal to 100% of his
contract.
As an evidence of good faith
in submitting a proposal for this
work, the bidder must file, with
his proposal, a certified check
made payable to the Department
of Roads and Irrigation and in
an amount not less than seventy
five (75) dollars.
The right is reserved to waive
all technicalities and reject any
or all bids.
DEPARTMENT OF ROADS
AND IRRIGATION
H. L. Aitken, State Engineer
J. M. Crook, Division
Engineer
C. J. Tomek, County Clerk
Boyd County
Ruth Hoffman, County Clerk
Holt County 30-32
Dr. Fisher, Dentist
In the Bishop Block—Norfolk
Office Phone: 610
Res. Phone: 2842
HUDSON
frith an all-time record in stock-car contests for performance, safety and durability
sets the style for 1953
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HUDSON HORNET
(wd a wu) HUDSON WASP
Here it is, the fabulous Hudson Hornet
for 1953—luxurious new version of the
car that won 44 out of 52 stock-car races in
1952, a record unequalled by any other make.
See the Hudson Hornet’s interior color har
mony in your choice of two ensembles to
complement exterior car colors. See and try
new foam rubber seat cushions with bolstered
and rolled-edge contours for more comfort.
See the rich nylon interior fabrics.
And try the 1953 Hudsons on the highway!
Feel them hug the road: the result of exclu
sive "step-down” design and the lowest
center of gravity in any American car!
For 1953—there are two great, lower-priced
running mates to the Hudson Hornet—the
new Hudson Super Wasp and Hudson Wasp.
The Super Wasp has a high-compression
H-127 engine and smart new interiors; and
the even lower-priced Hudson Wasp features
a powerful H-112 engine.
Standard trim and other specifications and accessories subject to change without notice.
COME SEE THE 1953 HUDSONS TODAY!
Sensational engine development!
NEW! TWIN H POWETt
A new system of multiple fueling
that develops more energy from
every drop of gas. And because
Hudson engines are so rugged,
this power plus can be harnessed
for you.
*Optional on the Hudson Hornet
and Super Wasp at extra cost.
UNBELIEVABLE TILL YOU TRY IT/
COME IN TODAY/
Three Hudson series for 1953 — Hudson
Hornet, Hudson Super Wasp and Hudson
Wasp. Twin H-Power (on the Hornet and
Super Wasp), Overdrive or new Dual-Range
Hydra-Matic Drive optional at extra cost.
GONDERINGER MOTOR CO.
— ATKINSON, NEBRASKA
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17th
B Sale Starts at 12 O’Clock Noon Lunch on Grounds by Amelia Ladies Aid 8
185 -- HEAD OF CATTLE --85 J
From Fine, Well-Established Herd of Herefords f
6ft—Head of COV/S, 8 milk cows 10—Steer CALVES I
10-Heifer CALVES 2-Grade BULLS |
1—Reg. Hereford Bull, coming 3-yrs-old 2—Reg. BULLS, coming 2-yrs.-old I
ONE SMOOTH-MOUTH MARE I
FARM AND RANCH MACHINERY, ETC.
VAC Tractor 2—Stock Saddles Table Mounted Saw
Allis-Chalmers Tractor Hayrack on Rubber to Fit on Tractors
2-In. Ram Wagon Spreader 34-In. & 20-In. Blades
Power Mower 300-Gal. Oil Barrel Wall Post Drill
Hay Tools on Skids 22-Ft. Endless Belt, 6-In.
Stripper Box Forge Oil Brooder Stove
Underslung Turn-Over Separator
Harrow Dump Cart
Corn Planter Sally Saw
Lister 3—Cross-Cut Saws Numerous to Mention
2—Sets of Harness Vise Many Other Items Too
I HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ETC. I
Dining Table 2—Dressers Baby Bed g
6—Chairs Commode Stand Cook Stove m
Kitchen Table Duo-Therm Oil Heater 2—Horsehide Robes m
Bed Springs Crown Elec. Apt.-Size Items f
Davenport Stove Miscellaneous Other M
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Frame House to Be Moved | I
Main Portion 16’6” wide, 30’6” long — Built on 12 20 I £
WIRED FOR ELECTRICITY I f
TERMS: CASH 1
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V ayne Standage, Owner)
COL. ED THORIN, O’Neill CHAMBERS STATE BANK 1
Auctioneer Clerk 1
