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Volume 73.—Number 49. ONeill, Nebraska, Thursday, April 8, 1934. ° Seven Cents
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Linville Elected Mayor
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ATKINSON—Willard Linville becomes Atkinson’s new mayor.
c succeeding Francis D. Lee, who was not a candidate for reelection.
Linville won the honors in Tuesday’s municipal election via the
9 write-in route, the mayoralty office a blank on the municipal bal
° lots.
He defeated Ervin Parsons and George Randol, who collected
37 and 26 votes, respectively.
o ° o Gonderinger was elected city clerk without opposition. He re
® cently was appointed to fill a vacancy.
o n Other incumbents5 were restored to office, virtually without
opposition. Around 350 ballots were cast, unofficially.
o Or ° 03 ° 1st 2nd 3d * Tot.
For mayor— °
Willard Linville;* < 0. 106 # 58 115 — 279
Ervin Parsons* ;__6 12 19 — 37
George Randol* . . 14 8 4 — 2G
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Gerry Gonderinger . ...135 73 12^ — 330
For city treasurer—^ ® ? ^ *
I. R.0Dickerson 146 76 122 — 344
0 0For police magistrate oQ
Frank 0Determan 139 73 112 _ 324
For city council—o
0 ' R'oy Griffin ° a 0 0— _ ... 118 . — no
A-J- Frost 77 M _ 77
0Leo Seger . , 145 _ H5
For board of education— r
°0 Walter Pucketf .—-*--o—« —114 71 104 —* 289
Lawrence0 Storjohann . ..._J12 61 125 — 293
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Former ° Resident
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Mrs.0° Charles Baker
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, °Mrs. Charles Baker, 70, a na*
t’ve0 of the O'Neill community,
diegl Tuesday, March 30, at her
o “home in Botilderp Colo., a victim
of cancer. o
oo - o Funeral services were con
ed ucted Friday, April 2, from Sa
cred Heart cCatholic? church ;nc
°°0 Boulder with burial there. Rev
r erend^Pheifeij0 officiated.
The late Mrs. Baker, whose
maiden ham^ was Maty MuHen,
o was born March 16, 1884, north
of O’Neill on tlje family home
stead? Her parents were the late
Mr. can^ Mrs. J? P. Mullen. She
attended schooj at? O’Neill and
O°on July 21;' 1904, she married
0Mr. Baker at Atkinson.
The couple resided^ Qn a farm
foi- many ^years, leaving Holt
county inG1939 to go to Colorado
v. here he worked0 in the tur
key0 hatchery business. For the
past five years0 he has been re
tired? °° ° ' c
Mrs. Baker became ill Decem
0 ber 7 and herohealth declined
rapidly. 0 A sister, Miss Katie
‘■^Mullen of O’Neill, was called to
Bouldero “ and0 helped care for
Mrs. Balce^ until she died.
Survivorso include: Widower;
Qsons —o Wilbur ofo Janesville,
Wise., Qand Harold of Boulder;
gnine grandchildren; brother >—
o °WiJlianf Mullen of jCmmet; sis
ters — Mrs. James Regal, Mrs5.
Jennie Shorthill, Katie Mullen
o and LMrs. LIrene Jurgensiqeier, j.ll
of O’Neill.
oMiss K^tie Mullen returned to
o O’Neill late Mond,ay,>
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There are four public auctions
listed on The Frontiers sale cal
° endar. ^Thesa include:
o Friday,0 April 9: Mar n \V.
Breyer of Neligh, formerly of
Naper, will offej0 his improved
o °o320 -cacre Boyd county Jstocx
farm, on -premises, four miies:
west arid cme mile south of Na
°per; Gabelman & Chambers, Ne
b. ligh. brokers; Col. Ed -Thorin,
O’Neill, auctioneer; Bill Bowker,
O’Neill, cclerk-broker.
' c° Saturday, April 10: Consign
ment furniture auction, 2‘,4
blocks south of traffic signal;
o o John McCft?llan,° rrfgr.; Col. Ed
Thorin, auctioneer; Bill Bowker,
o clerk. ° (Se% advertisement on
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?o : Wednesday, April 14: Kenneth
Oetter,u who fives 23 miles
south of O’Neill, one mile west
3 and one .^mife 0seuth, will sell
■j personal property including 30
head of dairy cSttle, farm ma
chinery gndo equipment (See ad
o'vertisement on page 4() 0
J ° Friday, April 23: Mrs. Ellen
Welch ofo the Dorsey communi
tv will offer her highly-imprcv
cd l,000-acre°Holt county ranch,
livestock and .other personal
property; Col. Ed Thorin, 0’
Neill, auctioner - broker; q Bill
Bowker, O’Neill, “clerk-broker.
(See full description in°next is
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Social Security 0
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° Martin cGundlaeh, field repre
sentative of the Omaha office of
the social security administra
tion, will be at O’Neill in the
courthouse, Wednesday, Apiil
14, betweeft the hours of 9 a.m.
0 and dl a.m. ° ° Q
He will assist Retired individ
uals who0 wish to0 file claims for
0 old-age insurance benefits, as
well as those who wish to file
claims for survivoics insurance
obenefits. „ o
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Mrs. Maring Feted
on Anniversary—
f An anniversary dirftier was
held at the Aflo Hiatt home Sun
day honoring Mrs. Emma Mar
ing, 85, whose birthday was Sat
urday? April 3.
Relatives present were: °her
brother, J. S. Hoffman of Chanf-o
bers, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoffman",
Mr] and Mrs. Ralph Hoffman cand
= Carol, Jeanette Klabenes, all of
Chambers, and Oliver and Homer
Maring of Emmet.
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Captain Baker . . . veteran of
Korean war.—USAF Photo.
(Story at right)
Elizabeth Cullen
Funeral at Page
Lifelong Resident of
Nebraska
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PAGE— Funeral services for
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Cullen, 79,
were conducted in the Page
Methodist church Monday after
noon, April 5, with Rev. Lisle
Mewmaw, church pastor, and
Rev. Harry Johnson, pastor of
the Wesleyan Methodist church,
in charge. Mrs. Cullen died Fri
day, April 2, at the home of her
son, Harvey, at Page.
Favorite songs of the family
were sung by Mrs. ISTeven Ickes,
jr., Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stauffer
and Marvin Stauffer with Mrs.
Harold Kelly playing the accom
paniment,
Burial was in the family lor
in the Page cemetery. Serving
as pallbearers were eight
grandsons — Dale and Gene
Cullen. Donald Heiss, Leon
Bergstrom, Floyd Cullen,
Charles Sorensen, Ross Fink
and William Kuk.
The floral offerings were in
charge of Mrs. Ed Sterner and
Mrs. Ernest West. Biglin’s were
in charge of arrangements.
Elizabeth Bobbitt was born
July 14, 1874, at Stella.
On January 25, 1893, she was
married to Ferd M. Cullen. To
this union 10 children were born,
three dying in infancy. Her hus
band preceded her in death on
March 19, 1948.
She was baptized in the Bap
tist church at Chenney in 1915.
She was active in the work of
the Ladies Aid at Page until
her eyesight forced her to give
up. the work.
Seven children who survive
were present for the funeral.
Survivors include: Sons—Har
vey of Page and Harry of Pow
ell, Wyo.; daughters—Mrs. Ray
mond Heiss and Mrs. Harold
Heiss, both of Page; Mrs. Dale
Stukey of Norfolk; Mrs. Ross
Taylor of Troy, O., and Mrs.
Lloyd Bergstrom of Newcastle,
Wyo.; 24 grandchildren; 42
great-grandchildren; two broth
ers and two sisters.
She came to Holt county from
Tecumseh in 1914.
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Mrs. Cullen . . . born al Stella.
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Bails Out
with Plane
in Flames
Capt. John L. Baker
Suffers Sprained
Knees and Ankles
Capt. John Lee Baker, 25, vet
eran of 102 jet combat missions
during the late Korean war, was
forced to bail out of his flaming
aircraft over mountainous ter
rain in Arizona on Wednesday,
March 31. He was on a routine
training flight in an F-84G
when the engine caught afire.
The O’Neill airman discover
ed he was in difficulty at about
200 feet altitude, having com
pleted a diving attack on a gun
nery range target. He pointed
the nose skyward, loosed the
last surge of power remaining,
and at 3,000 feet hit the button
that ejects the pilot in seated
position.
Baker parachuted down and
landed on rough terrain near
Ago, Ariz., along the Mexico
border. The area is inaccessible
to cars or ambulances. He spread
out his parachute to attract at
tention of search parties and
was rescued by a helicopter
crew.
The young flyer who spent 19
months in the Far East suffeied
sprained knees and ankles. His
plane was afire when he aban
doned it. The aircraft was a
complete loss.
Baker is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Lohaus of O’Neil).
Most of his combat missions in
volved strafing and bombing
North Korean and Chinese reds.
A graduate of St. Mary’s acad
emy here, he joined the air
force in October, 1948, and in
November, 1949, he went over
seas. At the outbreak of hostili
ties in Korea his unit moved to
Jajian from Okinawa and took
up the fight against the com
munists.
Since his return to the states
in May, 1951, Baker was pro
moted from lieutenant to cap
tain and has been instructing
younger pilots.
Musical Contest
Is in Progress
The annual district music con
test got underway Wednesday
at O’Neill under the sponsorship
of the Nebraska School Activi
ties association.
Two thousand high school
musicians will have visited O’
Neill by the time the three-day
event draws to a close Friday
night. Piano solos were heard
Wednesday. Class C and D com
petition will be carried out to
day (Thursday) and class B
competition will be heard Fri
day.
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Harry Anderson
Expires at Denver
Funeral services were held in
Denver, Colo., Saturday, April
3, for Harry Anderson, 70, who
died at St. Luke’s hospital, Den
ver, Wednesday, March, 31. Rev.
John Futh of the Lutheran
church officated. Burial followed
at the Crown Hill cemetery,
there.
Mr. Anderson was born June 1,
18&4 at Concord. Before moving
to Denver 10 years ago he re
sided at Wakefield and Omaha,
j At his death he was employed as
i as engineer with the Conoco Oil
Co., in Denver.
Survivors included: widow—
the former Elsie Robertson of
O’Neill; daughters—Mrs. Ray
1 (Gladys) Cote of Van Nuys,
Calif., and Mrs. Donald (Harriet)
Ewing of Decatur, Ga., son—
Robert Anderson of Denver.
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Rcib
ertson of O’Neill attended their
brother-in-law’s funeral.
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Incumbents Are Re-Elected
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Hytrek car . . . three Stuart young people survived this crash.—Frontier Photo.
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Snelsons Mark
64th Anniversary
Former Holt Couple
Weds in 1890
LONG PINE—Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Snelson of Long Pine, who
are 87- and 80-years-old, re
spectively, Wednesday celebrat
ed their 64th wedding anniver
sary. Both enjoy good healto
considering their advanced ages.
Thefe was a family dinner at
noon attended by 14 relatives.
A more elaborate anniversary
was planned by their children
in 1950 when the Snelsons ob
servd their 60th wedding date.
Mr. Snelson was born at Oska
loosa, la., November 8, 1366
Mrs. Snelson was born at Kirk
wood, 111., January 16, 1874. At
Ihe age of 10 she came with her
parents to Genoa, where the
couple met.
They were married April 7,
1890, at Albion and shortly
thereafter filed on a Wheeler
county homestead, 16 miles
from the southern Holt county
line.
During the first two years cn j
the homestead, prairie f i r e s I
threatened their sodhouse on
several occasions, but all were
successfully fought off. Mr. Snel
son had a reputation as a fiddler
at square dances in the Bartlett
and Ericson communities.
The couple spent 17 years on
ihe homestead and then moved
o Ewing from where Mr. Snel
son carried mail to and from
tie Bliss and Martha postoffices.
In 1926 they moved to Long
Pine, later lived at St. Edward,
farmed tv/o years north of Stu
art, and then moved to Amelia
where they resided until 1941.
Between 1941 and 1945 they di
vided their time between Am
elia and the state of Washing
ton, and for the past few years
have been living at Long Pine.
The Snelsons' nine children
range in age from 60 to 38.
They have 21 grandchildren
and 29 great-grandchildren.
Their children—from the old
est to the youngest — are Mrs.
Edna Jones of Medford, Ore.;
Emel of Long Pine; Mrs. George
(lazel) Cutler of Rockford,
Wash.; Mrs. Ira (Elsie) Goodwin
cf Long Pine; Mrs. Albert (Eth
el) Sanford of Red Bluffs, Calif;
Mrs. George (Opal) Vargason of
Long Pine; Mrs. Deloert (Irma)
Edwards of Amelia; Mrs. Clif
! ford (Thelma) Green of Vtneta,
Calif., and Mrs. Don (Velma)
Huston of Sedro Woolley, Wash.
Mr. Snelson spends most of
his time in a wheel chair but is
able to get about the house. Mrs.
Snelson has managed to siay
quite active with housework and
gardening.
4-H Family Fun
Here Saturday—
The 4-H family fun night will
be held in the O’Neill high school
auditorium on Saturday, April
10. The program will start promp
tly at 7:45 p. m., with the doors
open at 7 o’clock.
Clubs from over the county
are presenting skits, acts and
musical numbers. The awards
for 1953 will be presented. There
is no admission charge for this.
Everyone is invited.
TRAIL RIDE
The O’Neill Saddle club has
scheduled a trail ride Sunday.
April 11.
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Kaup Transferred
to Vet Hospital
Three Stuart young people
survived a crash that virtually
demolished the auto in which
struck loose gravel on U.S. high
way 281 north of O’Neill. The
car careened through a ditch
and came to a stop against a
tree.
Injured were:
Freddie Kaup, 21, Korean
war veteran who suffered a
fractured right leg and knee cap;
Miss Theo Weichman, Stuart
rural school teacher, who sus
ta .ied a broken back and fraq
tured ankle, and Miss Delores
Hamik, who received a dislocat
ed hip, fractured pelvis and
fractured ankle.
Miss Weichman is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Weichman
of Stuart; Miss Hamik, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ham
ik.
The accident occurred about 1
A.M., last Thursday. The injur
ed were taken to St. Anthony's
hospital by ambulance. La'e
Friday, Kaup was removed to
the Veterans hospital at Omaha.
The car, a 1953 model, is own
ed by Richard Hytrek of Stuart.
It was towed to O’Neill. It is
said there was no insurance or
the car.
Miss Weichman, who will be
hospitalized for some time, will
oe unable to finish her term of
school. Already the nine rural
pupils at the Head school have
been absorbed in other schools.
The two young ladies’ physi
cian, Dr. J. P. Brown, said Wed
nesday the accident victims are
“doing well.”
Visit Mrs. Hopkins—
Mrs. Ralph Barnes and chil
dren of Amelia Were Monday
guests of her mother, Mrs. Iva
Hopkins.
Red Cross Fund °
Drive Lags, Closes
O’Neill Contributions
Amount to $1,009
Holt county’s 1954 American
Red Cross membership and
fund raising drive came to a
close Wednesday, March 31 ac
cording to Mrs. Elgin Ray of O’
Neill, chairman of the c.'unty
wide drive.
Mrs. Ray stated that rural
contributions in all areas of the
county have been “behind that
cf last year” and ip genera! con
tributions “have been slow in
coming in.”
Mrs. William White of O'Neill,
who was in charge of solicitation
in O’Neill, made the following,
report for the city:
Northwest residential section,
Mrs. Laurence Haynes, $88.66.
Northeast residential section,
Mrs. William McIntosh, $93 17.
Southwest residential section,
Mrs. Lionel Siefken, $86:65.
The residential solicitation to
taled $333.27. O’Neill rural con
tributions amounted to $138.26,
and business district contribu
tions amounted to $538.25—a to
tal for the O’Neill community of
$1,009.78.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Ray said the
Emmet community raised $111
and the Page community report
ed $138.39.
ARC finances are used for
services to the armed forces and
veterans, the blood program,
disaster services, safety services
(which O’Neill will be taking
advantage of during the summer
n connection with teaching of
swimming and lifesaving), nurs
ery services, Junior Red Cress,
international relations and ser
vice groups.
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Martha Pupils Visit The Frontier
Pupils of Martha school district 134 near
Chambers toured The Frontier newspaper
and commercial printing plant and the “Voice
of The Frontier” radio studios during a field
trip spent at O’Neill. Other points of interest
visited were the Tri-State plant, Harding
Creamery Co., and airport. Miss Ada DeHart
is teacher. In the photo (left-to-right) are:
Front row—Gary Hertel, Kathy Farrier, Virgil
Lorenz and Susan LaRue; second row—James
Kruse, Carole Hoffman, Betty Hertel, Linda
Chipps, Jeanette Klabenes; back row—Bonnie
Schmidt, Sheila Hertel, Roberta Klabenes,
Karen Kruse, Robert Klabenes and Lyle
Chipps. One pupiL„Elaine Whiting, was ab- 1
sent Drivers were Mrs. Kenneth LaRue and
Mrs. Loran Kruse.—The Frontier Photo. '
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Balloting Spirited
for Page Posts— j
PAGE — There was spirited ]
voting at Page Tuesday for the J
annual municipal election.
In a lively bid for board of ]
education posts, C. E. Walker
with 94 votes defeated Otto Ter
rell, whose three-year term ex- .
pired. Mr. Terrill received 81
votes. .
Lorenz Riege defeated L. C. ;
Ballantyne, incumbent, 90-79, *
three-year term.
For the one-year term, Carl
Max received 91 votes, defeating
Owen Park, incumbent, who
collected 74. Park had been ap
pointed earlier to fill a vacancy.
Three out of five candidates
were successful in bids for vil
lage board positions.
Edd Stewart received 85 votes;
Carl Max, 83, and William Neu
bauer, 81. Stewart and Max had
been appointed earlier to fill
vacancies and Neubauer be
comes a new member.
iwen Park received 73 votes
and Melvin Roach 59 as unsuc
cessful candidates for the town
board.
Pribil Defeats
Butterfield—
INMAN—In the only contest
in Tuesday’s municipal election,
Frelent Pribil defeated Livelle
Butterfield, 36-13, for a board of
education position—a two-year
term to fill a vacancy. Fifty-two
votes were cast in the school
election.
J. R. Coventry and Wilbur
Brown, unopposed, received 49
and 39 votes, respectively for
three-year terms each.
Thirty-ttwo votes were cast
in the village election with L|i
velle Butterfield getting 27 votes
and I. L. Watson 26. There were
two positions voted on for the
village board of trustees, eacn
two-year terms.
Krotter, Henderson
Win Positions—
STUART—Things were rath
er quiet in the municipal elec
tion Tuesday at Stuart.
Donald Krotter with 94 votes
and Dale Henderson with 67
votes were successful board of
education candidates. Unsuccess
ful school candidates were' Glen
Cobb with 62 votes and Ira M.
Ready with 42.
Successful village board of
trustees candidates were A. Max
Karo0 with 104 votes and R. A.
Mueller with 64. Walter Smith,
a write-in candidate far the
town board, was unsuccessful by
a narrow margin.
PRAIRE BURNS
AINSWORTH — Fire burned
over two miles of prairie on the
Sid Salzman ranch near here
Tuesday before it was stepped by
Ainsworth volunteer fireman in
a stack yard. Twenty stacks of
hay were lost. The burned area
was a mile wide and two miles
long. It was extremely dry due
to lack of winter moisture.
O’Neill voters turned out in
urprising numbers Tuesday for
i unique municipal election
^ive hundred thirty-one vote**
rekked to the polls and were
landed blank ballots.
The citizens literally cast thetr
rotes for every Tom, Dick ani
larry—about a dozen persons
;etting into the mayor’s rams?
;ut only one of them had signa
led a desire for the office
Incumbent city and school ©f
icers were reelected straigh/t
icross the board, all via the
vrite-in route.
As expected, under the cir
cumstances. some confusion,
prevailed. A number of voters,
wrote out the names of their
favorite candidates and then
neglected to mark the 'X" its
the appropriate squares.
In the First ward, one zea’ous
voter simply marked an “X” if®
ill the squares—and then neg
lected to write - in anybody *
name.
Mayor J. E. Davis received 31s*
votes out of the 531 that wen?
cast.
O. D. French, city clerk, was.
reelected with 423 votes.
John C. Watson, city treasur
i:. was reelected with 411 bal
uts cast in his favor.
H. W. Tomlinson, veteran po
lice judge, was reelected, un
opposed, 252.
Ira H. Moss and F. N. Cronin,
were reelected to the board of
education, virtually unopposed,
with 376 and 340 votes, respec
tively, three-year terms.
L. M. Merriman received 10!*
out of 172 First ward votes for
city councilman, two-year term.
Joe Stutz was given 94 out
of 168 votes foT the city council.
Second ward, two-year term.
Emmett Crabb received 139»
out of 191 votes for the city
council, Third ward, two-year
term.
There was a mild flurry of
votes for John Kersenbrock for
mayor, a total of 72 distribulted.
1 among the three wards. R K
Parker picked up about 42 write
in votes for mayor.
There were 59 different can
didates in the First ward; 46 wr.
the Second and 51 in the Third—
a total of 156 different Toms.,
Dicks and Harrys.
Pruden, Boies
Are Losers—
EWING — Two hundred and
seventeen ballots were cast ini
Tuesday’s municipal election
here.
Elected for the twi ■ year
terms to fill village board va
cancies were Richard Edwards*
138 votes; Allan Pollock, 107,:
Lloyd West, 102. Retiring trus
tees are Elmer Bergstrom, who
has been chairman of the board
(mayor), and R. G. Rockey. A
village board incumbent who
was defeated was Gail Boies.
Elected to three-year terms
on the Ewing school board were
W. N. Spence, 109 votes, and
Charles Rotherham, 120.
In voting for the two-year
school office, Wilbur L. Spang
ler got 125 votes.
Retiring from the Ewing
school board are J. L. Pruden
and Lionel Gunter — the latter
having been an unsuccessful
candidate for reelection. Retiring
from a two-year term was Al
fred Napier, who had been fill
ing a vacancy. Mr. Napier was.
2 candidate for a three-year
term but was defeated.
Mr. Pruden was not a caucus
candidate.
Write-In Activity
at Chambers—
CHAMBERS—T. E. NewboM-*
with 65 votes defeated Victor
Harley, who collected 44 votes^
for a three-year board of educa
tion term in municipal balloting
Tuesday. Harley was the in
cumbent and Nbwhouse becomes
a new member of the board.
Meanwhile, Eric Dankert, in
cumbent, defeated Stanley Elk -
ins, 69-36, for the other tliree
year board of education teren.
A write-in campaign develop
ed for village board positions,
but three incumbents were re
turned to the board. Ed Smith
received 77 votes; W. D. Renin
ger, 107,' and F. M. Porter, 72
ft. total of 116 ballots were cast
Les Lieswald was a write ire.
'andidate for the board of vil
age trustees, receiving 31 and
<en Werner received 34 write -
n endorsements.
The retiring police magistrate,
lilas Farrier, was not a candi
date for reelection. The office
jjoes to T. E. Alderson w’th 73
/otes compared to 31 for Ernest
rhorin. o
; Interest mounted during the*
lay as news of the write-fixi
novement spread.
Mr., and Mrs. Ben Wetzler
nsited Sunday in Gregory, S. D^,
vitho relatives.
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