When You & I Were Young . . •
Rubber-Wheel
Skates for Rink
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40-hp Engine in ’27
Model Ford
50 Years Ago
The grand opening of the roller
skating rink will be December
16,° according to Dr. J. W. Mc
Leran and Ralph Evans. New
rubber-wheeled skates have been
ordered ... A new year present
of $100 in gold will be given by
P. J. McManus. Each purchase
of $5 or the same amount, or*,
account, will give the customer
an opportunity to receive it . . .
Michael Lyons, a land man from
Emmet, was in O’Neill taking
care of clients . . . The Royal
Highlanders will hold their in
itiation of new members Monday
evening.
25 Years Ago
Santa Claus will visit O’Neill
December 17 ... A daughter was
bom to Mr. and Mrs. George
Babl ... A marriage license was
issued December 5 to Connie
Calloway and Miss Margaret
Bruns ... A truck belonging to
Await Spangler burned Tuesday
. . . Grocery prices are as follows:
14 pounds of sugar, $1; three
pounds of coffee, $1; one pound
seedless raisins, 10c; a box of
matches, 4c; one gallon of coal
oil, 15c; one can carnation milk,
7c; two large size Post Toasties,
25c; large size can baking pow
der, 30c . . . Dan Desdune and
his company of colored players
performed at the Royal theatre
Thursday and Friday night . . .
The new Ford car will be here
December 10-11. Some of its
features are 55 to 65 miles per
hour, 40 horsepower engine and
20 to 30 miles per gallon of gas
oline.
10 Years Ago
Miss Eileen Kelly and Pfc.
Jerome Spittler were married at
St. Patrick’s church, Rt.-Rev.
J. G. McNamara officiating . . .
Judge D. R. Mounts held court
in Butte . . . ‘The Legend of the
Snow Man,” an operetta, was
given by the grade school at the
O’Neill high school . . . The
Arctic exhibition will be in O’
Neill December 18 . . . Football
season closed with only one loss
on the record. Harold Calkins
and Gene Wolfe were chosen co
captains . . . O’Neill high school
starts basketball season with six
lettermen—Gene Wolfe, Warren
Burgess, Francis Yantzi, John
Osenbaugh, Gene McKenna and
Harold Calkins.
One Year Ago
Rev. Samuel Lee recently re
turned from six years in an
Alaskan outpost to become the
new pastor of the First Pres
byterian church here . . . Duane
Cavanaugh enlisted in the air
force and left December 5 for
San Antonio, Texas . . . Miss
Ruth Hoffman, Holt county clerk,
attended the county officials
convention in Omaha . . . Cpb
James Urlaub was discharged
December 1 from the army at
Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.
Two Contests Offered
to Stale's Failures—
Two Christmas holiday con
tests are being offered Nebraska
farmers this year. The contests
are open to all users of elec
tricity served by the rural elec
tric systems.
They are a Christmas farm
and home lighting contest for
either inside or outside displays
and a “Letter to Santa” contest.
Rural people are to tell Santa
in 50 words or less what electric
appliance or equipment they
would like to receive for Christ
mas and why? The lighting dis
play contest will be judged from
photographs received.
Worthwhile electrical prizes
are being awarded in both con
tests. The contests are being
sponsored by the Electrical Far
mer magazine and the rural
electric systems in the state.
Page People—
Attend Reunion—
PAGE — Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Stauffer of Page were among
those attending the reunion of
WOW-WO-TV’s farm study tour
to Mexico and Texas. The re
union was held Saturday, No
vember 22, at the Omaha Cham
ber of Commerce.
During the day long get-to
gether, tour members saw mo
tion pictures, colored slides,
photos and heard recordings that
were made on the September
trip.
Prizes were awarded for the
best report on the tour, the best
colored slide photo and the best
black and white photo.
‘Night Before’ Author
Was Ashamed of It
Everyone knows and loves the
poem which begins—
'Twas the night before Christ
mas, and all through the
house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse;—
but the man who wrote it, Dr.
Clement Clarke Moore, was a
shamed of it and would not-allow
it to be published under his name
for more than 20 years.
Dr. Moore, an aloof professor
of Greek and Oriental literature
in the Episcopal seminary in
New York, wrote the poem on
1 Christmas eve, 1822, and read it
to his seven children.
He had not planned for the
poem to go further than his own
family, but a relative who was
visiting the Moores put a copy
in her diary. The next year the
relative’s father sent it to a
| newspaper.
Other newspapers printed the
jingles and they quickly became
I known all over the country. The
| dignified Dr. Moore was em
barrassed and considered it be
neath a man of his scholastic
standing to be the author of
children’s jingles.
Twenty-two years later, how
ever, he finally publicly admit
ted authorship of the jingles and
it was published in book form
under his name for the first
time.
Ironically, the professor’s ser
ious works are forgotten today.
He is mentioned in encyclopedias
because he wrote the celebrated
Christmas verses.
Wax from Candles
Calls for Caution
With so many candles placed
about the home to give a festive
air during the holiday season,
candle wax drippings on rugs,
tablecloths, and mantels are al
most inevitable.
Wax spots on rugs can usually
be removed successfully by first
scraping off as much wax as
possible with a dull knife and
then sponging with carbon tet
rachloride.
When you scrape up the wax,
be careful not to injure the
yams. If the candle was colored
and a stain remains, try spong
ing it lightly with a liquid made
of two parts of water and one
part of denatured (rubbing) al
cohol.
As a precaution against fading
test this mixture first on an in
conspicuous part of the rug.
Wax that has run down frorr
candleholders onto your besi
linen tablecloth can be removed
by the same method of firsl
scraping—being very careful no!
, to injure the fiber or thread—
and then sponging with carbon
tetrachloride. If the stain is col
ored, use the solution suggested
for a colored spot on a rug, af
ter you’ve used carbon tetra
chloride. Again you are urged tc
test an inconspicuous spot foi
possible fading from use of the
solution.
GOOD DEEDS
After picking 100 acres of corn
at the Ed Isley farm near Geneva
friends and neighbors picked 25
acres of com at the Walt Isley
farm the same day.
Make It a Safe
Xmas at Your Home
(State of Nebr„ Dept, of Health)
Regardless of how much joy is
anticipated at Christmas, this joy
may be destroyed quickly by
sorrow when an accident occurs
in the home.
Home accident mortality and
morbidity rates today present a
serious national problem, one
calling for planned and organiz
ed preventive action.
Someone is killed by a home
accident in this country every 16
minutes, and someone is perma
nently disabled by a home acci
dent every four minutes. In 1950
alone, more than 4.5 million Am
ericans were either injured or
killed in preventable accidents
occurring in the home. These
figures given by the national
safety council indicate the num
ber of lives lost in the homes in
the United States each year is
far greater than the number of
people killed in action in Korea.
It is far greater than the large
number of people slaughtered on
public highways each year. Of
this total, 120,000 persons were
permanently disabled and 31,000
were killed. In terms of wages
lost, medical expenses, and high
er insurance premiums, we paid
an estimated 600 million dollars
for home accidents in 1950.
The underlying causes of home
accidents can usually be traced
to environmental hazards or un
safe actions, or both
St. Francis Made
First Crib in Cave —
St. Francis of Assisi is believed
to have orginated the custom of
displaying the Christ Child in a
crib at Christmas time.
He is reported once to have said
to one of his followers: “I wish to
celebrate holy Christmas night
with you. In the woods near the
cloister you will find a cave where
we shall arrange a manger with
hay. We shall have an ox and an
ass just as at Bethlehem. I wish
to see how poor and miserable the
Infant Saviour became to us.”
So at midnight, in the small
Italian village of Garcia, in the
year 1200, St. Francis and his fol
lowers celebrated mass at the
cave and sang hymns in honor of
the Christ Child.
CROSBY ON DUTY
Governor-elect Robert Crosby
was in Lincoln to participate in
the budget hearings. He said he
hopes to be able to announce
most of his appointments by De
cember 15.
Venetian blinds, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal or
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
ads's, O'Neill.
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Make Covering Gay
When Wrapping Gifts
Half of the gift is the wrap
ping— let’s make the covering
as gay as the gift inside.
For the girl who likes to sew,
material for a dress in a fabric
wrapped box, rick-rack for the
ribbon and spools of thread with
big buttons for the decoration
create an unusual package. If
you give yam for a sweater, use
one skein for the big bow.
Disguise a flai box of lelier
paper as a desk pad. Use a real
blotter on fop wilh corners of
metallic paper.
Why not use a necktie knot in
decorating the box containing a
tie? Fasten the ends of the rib
bon under the lid about one
fourth of the way down; bring
to center; tie the knot and shape
the ends tie fashion. Use a dark
blue, wine or green ribbon about
one and one-half inches wide.
These are attractive used on a
striped or plaid paper.
Or the pacKage might resem
ble a tiny suitcase wrapped in
paper with the ends bound in
decorative tape. Add a handle
and identification tag.
ROYAL THEATRE
— O NEILL —
THURS. DEC. 11
Family Night
Herbert J. Yates presents a Bob
Considine story
HOODLUM EMPIRE
Starring Brian Donlevy, Claire
Trevor with Forrest' Tucker,
Vera Ralston, Luther Adler, John
Russell, Gene Lockhart, Grant
Withers, Taylor Holmes, Richard
Jaeckel, and Richard Benedict.
Ace Reporter Bob Considine’s
scoop that rips the lid off million
dollar crime!
Family Night. $1.00; Adults, 50c,
Children 12c
FRI.-SAT. DEC. 12 -13
In all the annals of love there’s
never been a chaperone like
Clifton Webb.
ELOPEMENT
Let’s all go along for the laughs!
Anne Francis, co-starring Charles
Bickford, William Lundigan,
Reginald Gardiner, Evelyn Var
den, Margalo Gillmore.
Adult 50c; Children 12c. Matinee
Sat. 2:30. Children under 12 free
when accompanied by parent.
SUN-MON-TUES DEC. 14-15-16
Gilbert Roland and Eleven-Year
Old Susan Whitney in
THE MIRACLE OF FATIMA
In color by Warner Color
Stunning! Staggering! Spectacl
lar! Before their eyes, the sun
lurched in the heavens! . . . and
then, with a tremendous roar,
it hurtled wildly toward earth!
Adults 50c; Children 12c. Matinee
Sunday 2:30. Children under 12
Children 12c
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IIow to Pour Molasses
Out of a Cup
The first woman who greased the cup before measuring mo
lasses deserves a small but appropriate medal for ingenuity.
Likewise, the first man who thought to tape an emergency key
under his car hood. Or whoever first sprinkled salt on an icy
sidewalk. Or whoever first tried warming a knife before cut
ting fruitcake.
In case you think all pesky problems center around the
home, try soldering the connections on a radio. Or assembling
the bits and pieces of an automatic toaster.
If you did it for a living, you d be on the lookout for better
ways of working. That’s for sure. In our family, a General
Electric man or woman who finds an easier way to work a
tool, to tighten a belt, or pack a parcel may win the price of
a new hat, or a suit, or maybe even win the price of a new car.
Our sugar bowl marked “Cash for Suggestions” has been
hit for over $4,000,000 by employees in past years. Last year,
over 25,000 suggestions were accepted and rewarded. This
has been going on since way back in 1922.
As we write this, a machinist in our Schenectady plant has
just made himself a tidy $5,000. His suggestion led to an
improvement in the bearing that supports a giant generator.
By the way, we asked him how he planned to spend the
money. Turns out to be a down payment on a brand-new
home.
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