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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1954)
Patrons’ Day Is Observed at Emmet EMMET—Miss Helen Martens End the pupils of district 20 held n patrons’ day last Thursday af ternoon. All the mothers visited the school. The children sang songs which they had sung at the eighth grade graduation on Tuesday, May 11. The teacher gave prizes to some of the pupils. Dewayne Perry received a prize for hav ing the best attendance record, having missed only one day during the whole school term; Melvin Luben and Jerry Schaaf each received a prize for having read the most books during the ..ciir, and Mary Richards anc. Kenny Peacock each received a prize for having the most perfect spelling lessons during the school year. Bobby Perry and Jerry re ceived awards from the Nebras ka elementary school art exhibit for a picture they had drawn and painted. A lunch of cookies and fruit punch was served by the teacher and pupils later in the after noon. The eighth graders of district 20 received their diplomas Tues day, May 11, at the O’Neill high school auditorium. Melvin Lu ber received a superior and a diploma with honor. Bobby Per ry, Jerry Schaaf and Kathleen Grothe each received a diploma and each had a high average grade. Other Emmet News Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bates stayed at the Wayne Bates home while Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bates attended the wedding of Mrs. Wayne Bates’ brother, Mer vin Kee of Butte, to Miss Ar lene Primus of Tilden. Out-of-town relatives who at tended the open-house at the Leon Beckwith home Sunday, May 9, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Young’s 50th wedding an niversary were Mr. and Mrs. John Ford and daughters of Lincoln, T/Sgt. and Mrs. Ralph Young and daughter, Linda, of Fairbanks, Alaska, Mrs. Thomas Wyant of Portland, Ore., Mrs. Blanche Kazda and family of Oakdale and Park Young and John of Central City. Other out of-town guests included Mr. and = Mrs. Roy Johns and sons of Bas sett, Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt De Camp and family of Neligh, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Lusge of Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. John Ross of Ne ligh, Mrs. Grace Peterson of Ne ligh and Kenneth Ruggles of, Clearwater. Mrs. John Conard attended! the annual flower show at At kinson on Monday, May 10. Bob Allen of Omaha was a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Dusatko. Mylo Shalo otf Crete arrived at the George Skopec home Mon day to visit a few days. He is a brother of Mrs. Skopec. Mrs. Roy Cole and Mrs. Ina Wolfe were guests of Mrs. Geor gians McGinnis on Monday. Mrs. Geary Enbody enter tained at a coffee hour in* honor of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Meier of Prescott, Wise. The guests were Mrs. Bud Cole and children, Mrs. Bob Cole and sons, Mrs. Wayne Fox and chil dren, Mrs. Larry Schaffer and son, Dewey, Mrs. Grant Peacock and son, Carroll, and Mrs. Gil bert Fox and daughter, Barbara. Mr. and Mrs. William Jutte of Chambers were visitors at the Emma Maring home Monday af .» temoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold McMil lan and daughters of Newport were guests at the Cecil McM'l lan home on Sunday. The teacher and pupils of dis trict 141 had a school picnic on Sunday. Mrs. Rodney Livings and daughter of Sioux City arrived Friday to spend a few days vis iting Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bates and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Kee and relatives. Beverly Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Perry, cele brated her second birthday an niversary Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Conard at tended the races at Grand Island Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Little and daughter, Beverly, of Omaha are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alex McConnell. Mrs. Little is a daughter of the McConnells. The Church of the Epiphany at Emmet served a breakfast of pancakes to all the people of the church Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cole attend ed the races at Grand Island on Wednesday, May 12. The Altar society of the Church of the Epiphany held a card party at the church base ment Sunday evening. Mrs. Jesse Wills and Mrs. Georgianna McGinnis called on Mrs. Winkler Friday afternoon. Jack Bailey and sons, Jerry and Joe, of O’Neill were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foreman on Sunday. Mrs. John Pruss and granddaughter, Carol Ries, were visitors at the Fore man home Sunday. Miss Norma Lou Foreman held a wiener roast and school picnic for her pupils last Thurs day. Jeanie Kay Foreman was a guest. Mrs. Agnes Gaffney was a guest of Mrs. Charles Abart on Friday afternoon. Hugh O’Connor of Atkinson called at the Frank Foreman home last Thursday afternoon. Norma Lou Foreman left on Saturday night for Omaha where she will work this summer do ing office work. She also visited at the Dale Buckmaster home in Fremont on Sunday. Lambs to Mark 54th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lamb .will celebrate their 54th wedding an niversary Saturday, May 22. Mr. Lamb was born in Guth rie county, Iowa, December 25, 1877, and Mrs. Lamb in Jewel county, Kansas, April 23, 1883. The Lambs met when his par ents moved to Jewel county in the fall of 1888. They were mar ried in Esbon, Kans., May 22, 1900, and are the parents of three boys and one girl: Earl M., Robert H. and Howard W. (twins), and Mrs. Paul (Marga ret) Lucas. They have 12 grand children. The Lambs originally came to Holt county in 1925. Between 1934 and 1939 they lived in Kan sas. They returned to O’Neill in 1939 and have resided here since that year. Navy Men Home on Leave— PN1 Richard Morgan, son of Mrs. Ruth Morgan, left Tuesday for Chicago. 111., where he will oe stationed on a new assign ment. Enroute, he visited his sisters in Albion and Omaha and also friends in Lincoln. PN2 Richard Minton accom panied him to Omaha. Minton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minton, flew from San Diego, Calif., and had a 10-day leave here. From Omaha he flew to San Francisco, Calif., where he has been transferred to a plane tender. _ Bruce McElhaney and David Eby, both students at Wayne State Teachers’ college, spent the weekend in O’Neill visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted McElhaney and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Eby. Baseball O’Neill Rockets vs. Orchard CARNEY PARK — O’NEILL 4 . Sunday, May 23rd—8:15 P.M. Admission: Adults 50c; children under 12, admitted free. Expecting 350 to 400 Cattle We're expecting between 350 and 400 cattle on our market to day (Thursday) in connection with our regular weekly sale. The run will consist mostly of light yearling steers and heifers. There will be 50 head of steers in one consignment, good to choice quality. In our May 13 hog sale. 200 to 225-lb, butchers sold 27.00 to Last Thursday we sold 350 head of cattle on a good market. Top of 23.90 for light yearling steers. Plainer kinds sold on down to 17.00. Heifers. 14.50 to 17.00; cows and calves, 144.00 a pair. A load of fat steers, plain for quality, sold for 19-90. 27.78: 225 to 250 lbs., 26.65 to 27.00; 250 to 280. 25.00 to ! 26.25. Top sows went between 22.50 and 23.75; heavy sows. 19.00 to 21.50; stags. 18.00 to 19.00. O'Neill Livestock Market Phone 2 — O’Neill Seated at the honor table at the annual St. Mary's Alumni association reunion banquet were (lefi-to-right): Very Rev. Tim othy O'Sullivan, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church; Rev. Francis Price, SMA alumnus and pastor of Church of the Epiph any at Emmet, and Mrs. George Hammond, alumni president. Father Price was master-of-ceremonies. (Story on page 1.)—The Frontier Photo. . - - ••. - .. . Robert A. Davis Yvonne I. Smith ! _' Douglas H. Jackson 1 Jean L. Scholz 4 Inman Seniors Getting Diplomas INMAN— Baccalaureate ser vices for the four Inman high school graduates were held Sun day evening. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Lisle Mew maw, pastor of the Methodist church. Miss Lois Reimer, pianist, played the processional and re cessional and accompanied the congregation in singing two hymns. Seniors are: Robert A. Davis, Douglas H. Jackson, Jean L. Scholz and Yvonne L. Smith. Faculty members are James J. Eunnalls, superintendent, Joe W. Zowada, Mrs. Lois Reimers, Miss Colleen Heesacker, Mrs. Marjorie Kelley and Miss Mil dred Keyes. Social Evening — The Catholic Daughters of America held a social meeting Tuesday evening at the Knights of Columbus hall. Mrs. John Protivinsky and Mrs. Ed Flood were the cochairmen. Cards were played. Mrs. M. A. Schel kopf had the high score and Miss Patricia Mullen received the low score. Mrs. Ed Murray was awarded the door prize. F ollow'ing the card games a luncheon was served by the com mittee. WEATHER SUMMARY Hi Lo Prec. May 13 _77 45 May 14 . 82 52 May 15_—79 48 .06 May 16 _74 51 May 17 _70 48 Mav 18 _65 45 .10 May 19 68 34 ——— 11 VT-' Celia News Mr .and Mrs. Joe Hendricks, Jimmie, Jerry and Nina spent Sunday at the Ted Crawford home near Redbird, for a fami ly party honoring Mrs. Hend ricks’ brother, Wilbur Staples, and wife and two sons of Wash ington, wTho have been visiting relatives for the past two weeks. Around 65 friends and relatives were on hand for the party. Frank Kilmurry and daugh ter, Patricia, and Mrs. P. W. Kilmurry were O’Neill visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Beck at tended a family reunion at the Clarence Johnson home at Stu art Sunday. Others present were Mrs. Joe Mlinar, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mlinar, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Mlinar and Dale, Mr. and Mrs. George Beck, all of Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Quigley and Larry of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Lockmon and Glen and Gary of Stuart. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Donna, Rollin and Verdon were last Thursday morning visitors r -----: at the O. A. Hammerberg home. Mary Schaaf and Russell Erienard from district 147, Mrs. Andrus, teacher, were eighth grade graduates Tuesday, May 11, in O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schlotfeld and family were Wednesday evening May 12, Butte visitors. Earl Schlotfeld and son, Dar rel, were Tuesday morning vis itors at the Emil Colfack home. “Grandpa” Blow spent the past week at the Joe Hendricks home. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Hammer berg w'ere Sunday evening vis itors at the Alex Forsythe home. Mrs. D. F. Scott, accompanied by Mrs. O. A. Hammerberg, at tended Country Women’s club meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert Fullerton last Thursday afternoon. Assisting hostess was Mrs. Alice Hill. Fourteen mem bers answered roll call by nam ing their favorite radio program. A letter was read from the Ne braska Children’s home thank ing the club for a case of eggs it had sent for Easter. The next meeting will be with Ann Crip pen. Mr. and Mrs. Connie Frickel and family went to Lincoln Fri day to attend the state track meet. Their son, Donnie, tied for third place in pole vaulting at the meet. They returned home late Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hend iicks and their cousin, Bill House of Concord, Calif., went to Yank ton, S.D., Wednesday, May 12, iooking for work. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dobias, Roger and Rodney were Sunday dinner guests at the D. F. Scott home. Supper guests at the Scott home were Mr. and vr™ Delbert Scott, Patty and PKii i Butte. 11 0£ Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Scott were Tuesday morning, May li yc. itors at the O. A. Hammerbere and Charles Dobias homes. 8 Mrs. Frank Kilmurry ind daughters, Mary Catherine and Patricia, and Mrs. O. A. Ham merberg were Tuesday after noon. May 11, O’Neill visitors Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fociteti and family attended the eighth grade county graduation exer cises Tuesday, May 11. Their son' Paul, was one of those graduat’ ing. Paul won eight first place marks and seven new records in the fourth annual rural track meet in Atkinson, May 8. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Poynts and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hend ricks and Becky weije Sunday dinner guests at the Mark Hend ricks home. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Tasler spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs • Stanley Johnson. COME IN EVERYONE ' ■ HEAR — PLAY y.1 The Wurlitzer ORGAN SHOWN ON o Saturday, May 29 in the . .o Consumers Power Co. Music’s Richest Voice WurliIzer ORGANS C . A * O An Instrument Anyone Can - Play o Music from 2 to 5 O'clock HOSPE PIANO CO. 517 Fifth St. Sioux City, la. . , - , . r i ELKHORN FI I 't 405 E. DO O’NEILL Night Phone 530W We Telegrg Flowers For _ .ODER SHOP JGLAS ST. , NEBR. ■j Day Phone 579 ph Flowers All Occasions ' One of Nebraska's Richest Marketing Areas *<**.> j* served by North Nebraska’s fastest-growing newspaper * 1 : O'Neill is North-Central Nebraska’s largest city (pop. 3,050). It is situated at the gateway to the sandhills and is the biggest re tail, wholesale, communica tions, hay, bluegrass and farm produce center in all North Nebraska; also one of the ranking cattle and hog markets in the state. The FRONTIER’S circulation has been grow ing by leaps and bounds, because of its well edited news and edi torial policies and because, in a single year, it has published more pictures than many other papers in the area combined! Your message in The FRONTIER will enter ranch, farm and city homes where folks enjoy far-above average purchasing pow er . . . where your story is welcomed and wanted. > •Biggest ABC circulation in nine counties. Details, marketing in formation and promotional os «'stance gladly furnished. ■054 NEBRASKA RATE BOOK . !u:j30' i ; . o . > ; • o The Frontier’s ABC Record: l c » c 1st Qtr. 1948 - 804 1st Qtr. 1949 _1,141 1st Qtr 1950 _M Qtr- 1»53 -2,200 14 i r 0 ' -«; * *C‘ *