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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1953)
Mrs. Frank Hammon Dies from Injuries Son Hastens Back from Germany LYNCH — Mrs. Frank Ham mon, 66, died at the Sacred Heait hospital at Lynch Wednesday, June 24, at 2 p.m. Mrs. Hammon and her hus band were both seriously injured in a headon auto collision Wed nesday, June 17, one and one half miles west of Niobrara. Mr. Hammon, who is also in the Lynch hospital, is “improv ing” but still not out of danger. All of their surviving seven sons and five daughters have been at their parents’ bedside except Eldon, who was on his way home from Germany at the time of his mother’s death. Funeral services for Mrs. Ham mon were held at the Lynch Wesleyan Methodist church Mon day, June 29, at 2 p.m., with Rev. Keith Cunningham in charge. Survivors include: Widower; sons — Archie of Nampa, Ida.; Gilbert of Tillamook, Ore.; Ches ter of Spencer; Donald of Stan ton; Phillip of Lynch and Eldon in Germany with the U.S. forces; daughters — Mrs. Fred (Vesta) Moon of Eugene, Ore.; Mrs. Rob ert (Mildred) Anderson of Bend, Ore.; Mrs. Floyd (Bessie) Aspiin of Stanton and Althea and Don elda at home. The funeral was delayed until Monday, June 29, waiting for the return of Eldon who was enreute home from Germany. Tune in “Voice of The Fron tier", thrice weekly! * ' I I . 1 I ---— r. — — ■ — - - - - - _ I '« 0 11 1 : ' ! # J j* 1 i !, ,. ■ : \ ' • 1 J; ’ • ' AS YOU PREFER IT! * i < i : •': ^ ‘ ! 1 • * * I if i . I Kentucky whiskey I A BLEND ‘ * ! ‘ 40% KENTUCKY STRAIGHT WHISKEY * i 4 YEARS (OR MORE OLD), 60% ' GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. 86.8 PROOF « KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHIS KEY. S YEARS OLD. FINEST 1 QUALITY SOUR MASH. 86.8 PROOF ° 1 Distributed by WESTERN WINE & LIQUOR CO., Omaha, Nebr. American Legion Sixth Annual RODEO JV Stuart, Nebr. * Five Event Rodeo - R.C.A. Approved RODEO PERFORMANCES AND STOCK FURNISHED BY THE GEO. STICHKA CO. RODEO DIV. OF INMAN. KANS., AND SENECA, NEBR. $1,500 Prize Money Entries Close, 11 am. Fees to Top Cowboys After Final Event Bronc Riding $100 — Bull Riding $100 — Calf Roping $ 1 00 — Bull Dogging $ 1 00 — Bareback Riding $ 1 00 $250 TROPHY SADDLE lo TOP COWBOY $100 Prize Awarded for Each Division Per Show PLENTY OF SEATING FACILITIES — GRANDSTAND AND BLEACHERS LUNCH SERVED ON GROUNDS BY LEGION AUXILIARY PARADE Judging of Rodeo Queen Candidates & Gigantic Float'Parade 12 NOON, JULY 4TH, ON MAIN STREET Rodeo Queen to Represent Stuart at Ak-Sar-Ben Rodeo Quarter Horse Show & Contest JULY 5TH, 1:00 P.M. Admission— 50c DANCE The Aces of Rhythm JULY 4 AND 5 At Stuart Auditorium 2-DAY PROGRAM SATURDAY, JULY 4 Parade 12 noon. Main Street Rodeo Queen Coronation, 1:30 pan., Stuart Park Grand Entry. 1:30 pan. Rodeo. 1:30 pan. Drill by O'Neill Saddle Club Grand Entry, 8:00 pan. Rodeo Evening Show, 8:00 pan. Drill by Stuart Circle "S" Saddle Club Dance in Evening at Auditorium SUNDAY, JULY 5 Quarter Horse Contest and Show, 1:00 pan. Grand Entry, 7:00 p.m. Twilight Rodeo, 7:00 p.m. Drill by Stuart High School Band Free Fireworks following Rodeo. Dance in Evening at Auditorium. Special Rodeo Attractions EDUCATED MULE — BUCKING FORD TRICK RIDERS — DOG & GOAT ACTS CLOWNS — BAND MUSIC WILD BULL CHARIOT RACE FREE FIREWORKS $1000 Display 9:00 PM.. JULY 5 Stuart Park Shot by Sioux Falls Expert CARNIVAL ON MAIN STREET OF STUART Rides — Shows — FUN FOR ALL — CELEBRATE IN STUART GRANDSTAND RESERVED SEATS ON SALE AT STUART DRUG, Stuart. Nebraska Make checks or money orders payable to the Stuart American Legion, Post No 115 ADMISSION — Reserved Grandstand Seats: $2.50; Bleacher Seats' $1.50; Children; 75c (on sale at grounds) Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers . . . stolen suitcase burned there. ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ‘No Brakeman Would Do That!* Joseph McLimans had a habit of sleeping in the caboose of his train at Bonesteel and always parked his car near the depot. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers, Bone steel depot agent and his wiie, live in an apartment on the sec ond floor of the depot and the McLimans vehicle invariably is parked in easy view of the Meyers’. On the night of March 6 the McLimans car was gone. The next day the Calkins slaying was the talk of the town and Mrs. Meyers jokingly accused McLi mans, in his presence, of perpe trating the murder. Authorities did not check with Mr. and Mrs. Meyers until last week when they were checking his story. He had insisted dur ing the interrogation that he had been playing poker that night at Bonesteel, but the cohtact with Mr. and Mrs. Meyers substantiat ed he was away. He subsequently chopped up the suitcase and burned it in the stove in the caboose. He remov ed the “D.D.” plate and threw l*. in a toilet. The pistol, which was believed to have been gotten in Norfolk, was hidden and author ities have not divulged where it DR. H. L. BENNETT Phones 316 and 304 VETERINARIAN — O’Neill — _ .. is located. The “Voice of The Frontier” special events microphone was hastened to Bonesteel Friday af ter a letter was received from the Meyers, telling details of their contact with McLimans. Mrs. Meyers said McLimans sat in their apartment the morn ing of the murder and lisfenel to Cal Stewart telling the p-.ws to the world that Chief Calkins had been slain. McLimans, she said, was un moved. Finally, when the broad cast was over, Mrs. Meyers turn ed on McLimans: "You're the man they want, Joe . . . you drive a late model ► green Kaiser and you were gone way into the night. You killed Chet Calkins!" McLimans stared at the floor, shrugged his shoulders and walked away, saying: “You’re crazy. No brakeman would do a thing like that!” The next day—Saturday—the Meyerses saw McLimans drive up in his Kaiser. Mrs. Meyers again turned on him, saying: “Joe, aren’t you afraid coming across country in that green Kaiser . . . aren’t you afraid they’ll pick you up?” McLimans said no. Slayer’s Wife Says: ‘I’ll Stick By Him’ Mrs. Pearl McLimans, young wife of the slayer, told The Fron tier Friday afternoon at Long Pine that she would “stick with her husband.” The slayer’s moth er-in-law, Mrs. Alice Coen of Long Pine, who works at a rest home there, echoed the same sentiment. Both women spoke to Cal Stewart on the “Voice of The Frontier” special events micro phone and the contents of the interview were aired in a spe cial program Saturday morning. The McLimans dwelling in Long Pine is a few hundred feet west of the depot. An oil tank car literally sat in the back yard when The Frontier reporter call ed, accompanied by Joe Biglin, “Voice of The Frontier” radio engineer. Joe McLimans' adopted son, Bobby, 5, and his own 16 monihs-old son. Don, were playing in a sandpit beside the house. Four neighbor girls had congregated there and play went on — the tender minds completely unaware of the sit uation. “Joe wouldn’t harm a dog,” the mother-in-law said. “I’ve been riding down the road with him in the car and he’d slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a dog or a chicken. He was not tough. He’d been doing a lot of drink ★ ★ ★ < ing. Some of the loot that has been found wan’t worth any thing. I don’t understand it.” The slayer’s wife, who had been married before, told The Frontier a bit about Joe’s war record. “He wouldn’t talk much about the war,” she sobbed. “He did say that on that bombing mis sion in which his plane was shot down over Germany one of nis buddies, who had been wound ed, died in his arms. “He said the food In the Ger man prisoner of war camp con sisted of rotten potatoes and -.tale bread. “I met him in Long Pine four years ago when Joe began com ing into Long Pine as a brake man on the railroad. We were married in Winner in 1951 ” Finally, she scooped up her children and went into the house and closed the door. She had refused to talk to the re porter except that he promised not to take a picture of the children or ask anything on the microphone that "might hurt Joe." Mrs. Coen said Joe was very kind to her crippled son, 19, who had been permanently injured in a hunting accident 3% years ago. “He wheeled my Robert around town in the wheel chair and took him fishing.” The slayer’s foster mother, Joseph Emmett McLimans. 33 ... to prison lor iiie. ] Mrs. Lillian McLimans of Nor folk, told a reporter her son might be a split personality—a “Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde.” Earlier she had insisted that Joe wasn’t the same boy she had raised and sent off to the wars when he enlisted in the air iorce. “I was proud of him when he was in uniform.” There has been no apparent deep affection between the slay er’s foster mother and the wife and mother-in-law, although the three women sat together in the courtroom. Joe’s own children have silken white hair. The slayer had been taken to Ainsworth and Long Pine Thursday afternoon in rounding up some of the loot. At his home, he held his stepson in his arms for an hour or more. A toy terrier dog romped and frolick ed when he saw his master—the first time in four months. It was the first time McLimans had seen his month-old baby. “He was a funny guy,” said one of the Long Pine workers— a night telegraph operator “When I first came to Long Pine a couple of years ago, I used to roundup the crews. Joe would come in and talk a little. But during the past year or so he didn’t have much to say. “Sometimes I’d see him drag ging himself home in the early hours of the morning. Occasion ally, he’d pace the platform The telegrapher didn’t offer The Frontier reporter his name. -—— Peter N. Nelson, 89, Dies in Grand Island Resides Near Lynch 40 Years LYNCH—Peter N. Nelson, 89, who had been in poor health for several years and had been a pa tient in a Grand Island hospital for three weeks, died Saturday June 27. Funeral services were to have been conducted Tuesday at Grand Island. The Nelson family resided west of Lynch for about 40 years During the past few years, the late Mr. Nelson and his aged wife made their home in Grand Island. Survivors include: Widow sons — Frank of Grand Island: Archie of Chicago. 111., and Andv of Madison; daughters—Mrs Ed Johns of Lvnch and Mrs. Alice Yocum of Chicago. Mrs. Johns was called to Grand Island Saturday. The Cub Scouts of O’Neill and their leaders were hosts to the Cub Scouts and leaders of Cham bers last Thursday evening at Ford’s park. A picnic supper was enjoyed by all. Games were play ed.—By Jim McClellan, reporter. To California— T. Joe Biglin accompanied nis sister, Mrs. George Curtis, and her three children to Columbus late Monday from where they took a train for Novato, Calif. Mrs. Curtis and children had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Biglin, for about a month. T. Joe Biglin plans to visit his sister and family and his brother. 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