O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Young of Ravenna spent the week here visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hynes. Mrs. Floyd Reinhardt and two sons, Floyd and James, of Oma ha came Friday to visit her mother, Mrs. Bessie Rotherham, ot Inman and to visit other rela tives hi O’Neill. M. B. Higgins went to Omaha eady this week and then con tinued on to Iowa on business. He returned Tuesday night. Mrs. Bennie Hill and two sons accompanied Miss Jackie Mettle ton to Des Moines, la., Saturday, December 27. From there Mrs. Hill and her sons went to Straw berry Point, la., to visit her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bowers, and then to Center Point, la., to visit her brother, Robert Bowers, and family. They returned Sat urday, December 3. Mr. and Mrs. James Banks and daughter were new year’s dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Van Buren, jr., of Wisner and Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Van Buren were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Van Buren, sr. New year’s dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Jonas were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Jonas’ of Wisner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jonas and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Gaughenbaugh. (New year’s dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fridley were Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Crumly and family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Devall and family, Mrs. Raymond Walter and Mr. and Mrs. Preston Jones and Merle. Rebekahs Install New Officers — The Rebekah lodge met Friday night, January 2, in the IOOF hall. Mrs. Ava Crumly of Page, district deputy president, and her staff installed the following of ficers for the coming year: Mrs. Roy D. Johnson, , noble grand; Mrs. Paul Shierk, vice grand; Mrs. Clay Johnson, jr., secretary; Mrs. Winnie Barger, treasurer; Mrs. Dewayne Landis, warden; Mrs. Amelia Simpson, conductor; Mrs. Geraldine Strong, inside guardian; Mrs. (Norma Strong, outside guardian; Mrs. Donald Loy, musician; Mrs. Bessie Way man RSNG; Miss Ruth Hoffman LSNG; Mrs. Harold Lindberg, RSVG, and Mrs. Tony Asimus, LSVG. Two officers were not installed because of their absence. They were Mrs. Barbara Johnson colorbearer and Mrs. Elma Evans, chaplain. Following the installation, me morial services were held for Mrs. W. P. Curtis and Mrs. Jane Harnish. Lunch was served to the members. The next meeting will be on January 16 at 8 o’clock j in the hall. MRS, HENRIETTE J. HARNISH Henriette Jane Harnish, the daughter of James and Adaway Parker Jacobs, was bom on Jan uary 1, 1867, in Galesville, Wise. In 1879 at the age of 12 she came with her parents and settled on a homestead at Paddock. As a pioneer, Mrs. Harnish saw the new and barren prairie grow in to a rich farming community. On February 22, 1887, she was united in marriage to James C. Harnish in the family home at Paddock. They spent the first two years of their marriage in Niobrara, moving to O’Neill in 1888, where she lived continuous ly until her death. Mrs. Hamish was blind the last three years. of her life, and for the past two years had had dif ficulty in hearing. On August 13, she suffered a broken hip and had been confined to her bed since that time. She died in the Antelope Memorial hospital in Neligh on December 31, 1952 just 13 hours before her 86th birth day. Mrs. Harnish was the mother of six children. She was preceeded in death by her husband and an infant daughter. Survivors in clude: son—Frank of Norfolk; daughters—Ruth at home; Naomi Pearson of Neligh, Edna Carnes of Omaha and Della McKim of Albuquerque, N.M.; sister—Mrs. Bessie Gaughenbaugh of Fair bury; brother—Sanford Jacobs of Pierre, S.D.; four grandchildren and one great grandchild. The last rites were held in the home on January 2, and burial was made by the side of her bus band in Prespect Hill cemetery in O'Neill. * _ . _a ONE DAY, OUR FURNITURE BUYER received this message from the head < of our Company: "I want you to search the length and breadth of this > land to bring our customers the greatest dinette value in the history of | | American merchandising. Let’s make it so good that customers and 4 i competitors will be talking about it for years!” * 1 -C - t. - * = 1 No, IT WASN’T EASY to fill that order. To do it, our buyer contacted dinette manufacturers I l[ from Maine to California. Many laughed at us for even trying to sell a sit built to our strict i H specifications for under $100. ^ •T». " 4 • v- BUT FINALLY HE FOUND a factory large enough to take on this tremendous venture. And then the | 7 work began—six months7 of hard work. V? I v I •3H * v.- '» ; 1 : : , I ■•» oalr* y .. g „ "« • 4 rr Yes, to save our customers ONE MILLION DOLLARS on dinette sets, we did all this: f 1. Built them during the manufacturer’s slack season, when he was willing to ( take an extremely low cost and keep his skilled employees on his payroll. | 2. We cut production costs by making up thousands of sets in only one style " and three colors. :J i •• «• v ‘''-'4 3» Took advance orders from customers as soon as production started. No g ’ " * ^ ■ ", high selling expenses to raise the price! 4 ’*,1 4 % rji " f■■ j ^ • * j;-*! t *■ /"■ 1 4. Saved transportation costs by shipping dinette sets in full carload lots 4 direct to the point of sale. - v tv 4 5. Eliminated warehousing, which adds to handling, insurance and tranfpor- * tation costs. We cut out all this and caused A SENSATION IN THE NATION ^ WE PASSED THESE SAVINGS ON TO OUR CUSTOMERS IN < THE FORM OF AN UNBELIEVABLE DINETTE SET VALUE!! J THE REST IS HISTORY—well-remembered by our Stores, our customers i I and competitors. Folks flocked to our stores to take advantage of this i ^ greatest dinette sale. Our manufacturer ran his factory 24 hours a day, I ^ yet he couldn't keep up with the orders, 1 p '* - g a WE SOLD MORE dinette sets in a week than we had sold in a I whole year previously. Friends told friends —sales doubled and fn- * I pled our greatest expectations. 90 carloads were delivered to cus I tomers’ homes in a few weeks. " ; ~%hc MrfWiwS sA _ |j