Mrs, Maud Brion
Presented Gift
Star Worthy Matron
Retires
EWING—Mrs. Vera Anson was
installed as worthy matron of
Jephthah chapter 85. Order of the
Eastern Star, on Tuesday eve
ning, January 27. Mrs. Maud
Brion was the installing officer
and Mrs. Grace Briggs was the in
o stalling marshall.
William N. Spence was in
stalled as worthy patron; Mrs.
° Myrtle Fleming, associate ma
tron, John A. Wood, associate pa
tron; Mes. Harriet Welke. secre
tary; Mrs. Irene Rockey, treas
urer; Mrs. Luella Bennett, con
ductress; Mrs. Leona Davis, as
sociate conductress; Mrs. Anna
Spence, chaplain; Mrs. Grace
Briggs, marshal; Mrs. Mary Huff
man, organist; Mrs. Mary Con
ner, Adah; Miss Fern Pruden,
Esther; Miss Ina Bennett, Mar
tha; Miss Vina Wood, Electa; Mrs.
Beryl Wood, warder, and Mrs.
Maud Brion, sentinel.
Mrs. Maud Brion, the retiring
worthy matron, was presented a
cup and saucer, the gift of the
Past Matrons club and Star Ken
sington. She entertained her of
ficers and members with a lunch
after the close of the session.
Other Ewing News
Ewingites attending the golden
• gloves tournament at Norfolk on
Wednesday and Thursday, Jan
i uary 28 and 29. were Mr. and
Mrs. Leland Welke and sons, Mi
lan and Bobbie, Mr. and Mrs.
William Spence, Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Ruby, Mr. and Mrs. M.
B. Huffman, Jay Butler, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Edwards, Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Tuttle, Rev. and
Mrs. W. J. Bomer, Willis Rockey,
Richard Spittler, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Bergstrom. Frank Noffke,
jr., and daughters, Maxine and
Frances, Arthur Sanders and Ber
nadine, Mrs. J. L. Pruden and
daughter, Fern.
Mark Muff of O’Neill was a
visitor at the George Jefferies
home on Wednesday, Januair 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Davis at
tended a family party held at the
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home of her mother, Mrs. Louise
Beal, in Orchard on Sunday. A
1 o’clock dinner was served.
Other guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Baron and family of Or
chard, Mr. and Mrs. Waiter Au
! stin of Palinview.
The senior class members of
the Ewing high school were
hosts to a party last Thursday
evening at the school when they
had as their guests the juniors,
sophomores, freshmen and stu
dents of the eighth grade. Games
and dancing provided entertain
ment for the group. Refresh
ments were served. The seniors
are Marcia Gibson. Joellyn Eack
er, Lois Ann Bergstrom, Geraldine
Bauer, Bernadine Rotherham,
Alice Funk, Charlotte Woeppel,
Madonna Ernesti, Yvonne Mlnar
ik. Bob Pruden, Jim Good and
Joe John Thoendel. Supt. Lewis
Carter is the class sponsor.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hoag of Or
chard are moving to Ewing in the
near future. They will make
their home in the house of Mrs.
Mary Rotherham.
Mrs. Bertha Urban left Mon- |
day on a business trip to North ;
Platte.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pruden went
: to Chamberlain, S.D., Friday on a
j combined business and pleasure
j trip. They took the route through
Picksto^vn, S.D., since the bridge
at Wheeler landing has been
closed.
Merton Dierks came home last
{ Thursday from Lincoln to spend
the weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lyle Dierks.
Mrs. Ralph Eacker and daugh
i ter, Joellyn, went to Norfolk on
Wednesday, January 28.
R. F. Miller, district Boy Scout
representative from Stuart, and
Mr. Rod well of the Covered Wag
on council of Omaha, were re
' cent callers at the home of Scout
master H. R. Harris.
Schollmeyers Hosts
. Recent guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schollmeyer,
sr.. were Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Schueth of Ewing on Wednes
day, January 28; Mrs. J. McDon
ald and Charlie Schollmeyer, jr.,
| of Dorsey last Thursday; Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Knittel of Gregory,
S.D., and Neil Ashbum of Til
den on Friday; Mr. and Mrs.
Art Tomlinson of Omaha on Sat
urday and Mr. and Mrs. D. L.
Bohn of Inman on Sunday.
EARN DEGREES
Francis J- Clark of Stuart and
Francis Wr. Frost of Atkinson
were among the 24 students re
ceiving degrees Saturday at
Creighfton university, Omaha.
Both were awarded midterm
bachelor of science degrees.
Entertain Pinochle Club—
PAGE—Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Conner entertained the Pinochle
club at their home Saturday,
January 24. High scores went to
Mrs. Herbert Steinberg and Ed
ward Shaw. Low scores were
awarded to Mrs. Leland^ Finley
and Herbert Steinberg.
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It was during one of the winter’s heaviest snowfalls
that the line from Richardson to Pine Pass* went
out. Finding the trouble was comparatively easy
—line testing equipment located it two miles up in
0 the mountains near Eagle Falls.
Fixing the line was something else again. With
drifts up to 30 feet high in the pass, trucks were out
of the question. Carrying tools and wire through the
snow was too much—even for rugged telephone
linemen.
What they needed was a dog sled, and so ..;
With a team of Huskies and their trainer, repair
men Ed Olds and Jack White mushed their way up
the mountainside. Roped together for safety, they
crawled out on the frozen crust and spliced the wire.
As Ed Olds later reported, “Once we got there with
the dog team, the rest of the job was routine.”
*The names have been changed, but the story is true.
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Wind 8c Tornado, Truck 8c Tractor, Personal Property
T.iahiiity GENERAL INSURANCE Livestock
REAL ESTATE. LOANS. FARM SERVICE. RENTALS
Automobile O'Neill —:— Phone 106 Farm Property
Greater Costs
Driving on Gravel
Everybody Wants Out
of Dust
By CLIFF SANDAHL
Chairman, Nebraska Editors
Highway Conference
Many of the demands made up
m the state highway department
for construction of hardsurfaced
'oads come from areas in Nebras
ka where gravel surfacing is most
ibundant and where permanent
:ype stretches are few and far be
;ween.
The argument usually accom
Danying those demands is that
;he traffic is sufficient to warrant
jetting out of the rust and. in the
najority of cases, the evidence is
:here.
But there is also a corollary
?conomic factor, as can be seen
n results of official studies made
jver the past several years. They
;how conclusively that it costs
nore to drive on graveled roads
:han on pavement.
For example, a study by the
Mississippi highway department
has brought out that passenger
car operation costs average 4.8
cents per mile on pavement as
compared to 5.G cents per mile
on gravel.
An Iowa State college study
has shown that tires driven whol
ly on pavement were good for 13,
000 miles more service than those
run wholly on gravel. In 132,000
miles of travel on gravel, there
were 98 punctures; in the same
miles of travel on pavement there
was one puncture.
A report by the Brookings In
stitution, Washington, D.C., states
that the amount of travel that
would cause a dollar’s ($1) worth
of depreciation to a passenger car
while traveling on concrete would
cause $1.4.3 in depreciation while
traveling on low-type bituminous
surface and $1.77 while traveling
on gravel.
The highway research board
has declared that automobile
maintenance costs are 10 times
greater when a vehicle is driven
over a dirt road than when a ve
hicle is driven over pavement.
The board also has pointed out
that the average gasoline mileage
for passenger cars traveling on
pavement is two miles per gallon
greater than on gravel surfacing.
The third point in the board’s
study is that tire wear on gravel,
at 25 miles per hour, is double the
wear on pavement at the same
*speed.
The Nebraska legislative coun
cil has taken cognizance of this
situation, stating in its report to
the 1953 legislature, now in ses
sion:
'Good roads cost money, but
crowded, outdated and broken
up roads cost more. They take
a heavy toll in accidents, fuel
waste, vehicle expense and time
lost they impair the efficiency
of essential transportation sys
tems and they handicap the en
tire economy.
Thomas H. Macdonald, com
missioner of the U. S. bureau of
public roads, sums it up quite
well when he says: “There is no
escape from the payment for our
highways* whether or not we have
them.”
And from Albert Bradley,
chairman of the National High
way Users conference, which in
cludes in its membership petro
leum, trucking and farm inter
ests, has come these significant
observations:
“That people want and are
willing to pay for better highways
is indicated by the resurgence of
the toll road idea and the fact
that actual use of most new toll
roads so far has greatly exceeded
prior estimates.
“This does not imply that toll
roads can solve all our ills, but
it does show this: People’s desire
for adequate roads is such that,
under certain conditions and
when they can see results, they
will pay what is really a high
fee for them.
“The reason we got out of the
mud was because the people got
tired of bogging down; the peo
ple got up on their collective ear;
the people demanded action. And
the people -got action.”
Nebraskans are looking to the
legislature for action to get them
out of the dust and to provide
them more economical motoring.
Graduates From
Specialist School—
CLEARWATER— Pfc. Neville
G. Anson, whose wife lives in
Wausa, is a recent graduate of
the army’s Eta Jima specialist
school in Japan.
He completed a four-weeks
course for field wiremen receiv
ing training in the installation,
operation and maintenance of
communications systems.
Before attending school, Anson
was assigned to the 29th infantry
regiment as a rifleman.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Glen M. Anson of Clearwater.
DR. J. L. SHERBAHN
CHIROPRACTOR
O'Neill, Nebraska
Complete X-Ray Equipment
Yi Block So. of Ford Garage
Progressive Homemakers
Hold Meeting —
ROYAL — The Progressive
Homemakers club met with
Mrs. B. Chart January 22 with 10
members present. The lesson on
home nursing was presented by
Mrs. Elwin Rundquist and Mrs.
Harold Francis. Mrs. M. M. Co
son will be the February hostess.
The lesson on rug makings will
be conducted by Mrs. Harold
Dawson. Members present at
Mrs. Chart’s were Mesdames R.
N. Nelson, Frey Sayre, Hans Ho
fer, Warren Holm. Alois Mlnarik,
Forrest Storm and M. M. Colson.
Mrs. Hofer was named club re
porter.
DR. H. D. GILDERSLEEVE.
OPTOMETRIST
Permanent Office* In
Hagensick Bldg.
O’NEILL, NEBR.
Phone 167
Eyes Examined . Glasses Fitted
Office Hours: 9-5 Mon. thru Sat.
MILLER THEATRE
— Atkinson, Nebr. —
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Febr. 8-9-10
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Wed.-Thurs. Febr. 11-12
LAURENCE OLIVIER 1
JENNIFER JONES | !
Mmam Hopfcim AAnh*
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HAVING DECIDED to move to Florida, I will dispose of my ranch, livestock and personal property at public auction
on the ranch, located 1 7 miles east, 4 miles north and I mile west from O'Neill; OR 4|/2 miles north, I mile west
from Venus; OR 1 3 miles north, 2 miles west from Orchard; OR 18 miles west, 4 miles north, I mile west from
Creighton; OR /i west of Oakview Park, on—
Sale Starts at 12 O’Clock Noon with Sale of Real Estate — Lunch Served on Premises
1,600 - ACRE RANCH
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THE ROVEMENTS
Features an excellent set of modem improvements, ex
ceptionally low taxes, and is known as the Oak view
Ranch. There is an 8-room modem house; 3 large barns
with hay lofts; hog house; poultry house; garage and
shop. All outbuildings have concrete floors, automatic
water system to all buildings. 590 feet of copper tubing
are used in this installation. Completely REA serviced.
Mail route. School bus will pass; also country school %
mile from house. Good roads any direction from place.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
The northwest quarter of section 5; the east half of the northeast quarter of sec
tion 6, Township 29 North, Range 8. The southwest quarter of section 29, the
south half of section 30, the west half of the northwest quarter and the southwest
quarter of section 32; all of section 31; in Township 30 North, Range 8, in Knox
County, Nebraska.
TERMS ON REAL ESTATE
20% on date of sale, balance to be paid when warranty deed and abstract of title
are furnished. Possession may be had on approval of title by purchaser. All taxes
paid to January 1, 1953.
THE LAND
This land consists of 265 acres of first and second year
alfalfa. A beautiful stand throughout. 25 acres lowland
hay; 100 acres upland hay. 1,200 acres excellent hard
grass pasture—crested wheat, brome and grama. Bal
ance is wonderful winter quarters, building site and feed
lots, with plenty of running water, and timber consisting
of walnut oak and cedar, supplying ample posts.
There is excellent fencing and cross-fencing, including a
lot of woven-wire fencing and 4-wire pasture fencings
Many non-freezing springs furnish ample water for
stock. Sorting chutes, sorting lots, good corrals. This out
standing ranch will accommodate a surprising number of
livestock, and rates the consideration and thorough in
spection by everyone interested in a first-class ranch.
Anyone wishing to inspect this ranch may contact the
owner, Mr. Paul McBride, who lives on the premises, or
Col. Ed Thorin, Phone 454-J, O'Neill, or Bill Bowker,
Phone 551-J, O'Neill, Nebraska.
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150 - Head High-Grade HEREFORD CATTLE -150
65—Choice Hereford Stock Cows to calf in spring 3—Registered Hereford Bulls, two 3-yrs,-oid and one
20—Head Coming 3-Year-Old Heifers, to calf in spring 4-yrs.-old, all half brothers from the H, A,
62—Head Coming Yearling Hereford Heifers Van Horn herd
One 4-Year-Old Saddle Pony, well broke and gentle; Good Saddle and Bridle; 18 Shoats
MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, ETC.
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4/2-Foot Chain Saw
• Lumber Saw
300-Gal. Fuel Tank and Stand
Electric Grindstone on Stand
1 Rubber-Tired Wagon with Wide Box
Hay Rack on Rubber
Allis-Chalmers Combine, used
2 seasons, with pickup attachment
I.H.C. Hammermill, mounted on
rubber, power take-off attachment
F-20 Tractor, on rubber,
excellent condition
Power Spray fo^Tractor
Set Tractor Chains
Stock Chute
Turner Stock Chute
Feed Bunks, Troughs
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ALFALFA and UPLAND HAY, stacked and baled 1 erms on Personal Property: lash
No Property to Be Removed Until Settled For
Mr. and Mrs. PAUL McBRIDE, Owners
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COL. ED THORIN & BILL BOWKER
AUCTIONEER & BROKERS BANK OF ORCHARD
O’Neill, Nebraska Clerk
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