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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1955)
Plan Gift Boxes for Overseas Mission CELIA—The Wesleyan Metho dist Missionary society held an all-day meeting at the Mark Hen dricks home Wednesday, March 9. The group worked on boxes for ar. orphanage, also bandages and quilt blocks to be sent to an over seas mission. Other Celia News Paul, Bill, June and Karen Focken attended a 4-H meeting at Pioneer school Sunday afternoon. June Focken is president. Judy Schaaf was hostess Mr. and Mrs. Archie Constable of Worthington, Minn, ^arrived last Thursday at the Dorothy Scott home and visited relatives until Saturday afternoon when they left for home. On Friday they were dinner guests at the Charles Dobias home. D. F. Scott was also a guest at the Dobias home. Dorothy Scott was a last Thurs day dinner guest at the William Maloun home. Mr and Mrs. O. A. Hammer berg were Sunday dinner and supper guests at the William Ma loun home. In the afternoon both families visited the Duane Beck home. Other afternoon guests at the Beck home were Emil Colfack and son, Denton. Alvin Heiser was a Saturday visitor at the Duane Beck home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith and Verdon were last Thursday O’Neill visitors. Mr. and Mrs. James Hupp and family of Highmore, S.D., were Saturday afternoon visitors at the Joe Hendricks home. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Focken and family attended the dairy sale in Ewing Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Constable, Mrs. Charles Dobias and Miss Dorothy Scott were Saturday din ner guests at the D. F. Scott home. Mr. and Mrs. William Maloun and Billy and Alex Forsythe were Monday dinner guests at the O. A. Hammerberg home. In the af ternoon Mrs. Hammerberg took them to Neligh. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Colfack and family, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Beck and Mr. and Mrs. William Maloun and son attended a card party at the Charles Dobias home Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Beck and Mr. and Mrs. William Maloun and son attended the dairy sale at Ewing Saturday night. Leon Hendricks and Millie Ernst went to Miltonvale and McPher son, Kans., Friday and returned Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Reiser and family were Sunday dinner guests at the Joe Hendricks home. J. W. Kilmurry was a Friday evening supper guest at the Frank Kilmurry home. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hoffman were Monday evening, March 7, visitors at the Lee Terwilliger home. Ray Elder worked Wednesday, March 9, and Friday at the Joe Hendricks home. Morgan Ward Accounting & Auditing Income Tax Service Hotel Golden Annex O’Neill, Nebr. — Phone 414 ! Don’t let the new Social Se curity regulations interfere with your haying or farming operations. Let me keep your records and file your returns. ————■ I 111 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Foehe© the twins and Dannie attended i meeting and 6:30 o’clock bahque' at the Madison hotel, Norfolk^ or Tuesday evening, March 8. Jim Lauridsen was an O’Neil’ visitor last Thursday. Isla Ruda and Bobby Knudsor were Monday evening, March 7 visitors at the Alfred Schaai home. Mrs. Duane Beck and Mrs. Wil liam Maloun attended a leaders’ meeting in the home economics room in the Atkinson high school building Friday. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Hammer berg and William Maloun were Friday Neligh visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Etherton and family were Sunday dinner guests at the LeRoy Hoffman home. Letters to Editor O’Neill, Nebr. March 15, 1955 Dear Editor: The street-widening controver sy to keep highways 20 and 281 routed through O’Neill has been a lively one among its residents, but to our knowledge little effort has been made to learn the re action of the farmers and ranch ers in the O’Neill trade territory, so necessary to its growth and development. Already the parking problem is one that necessitates parking where you can and walking the rest of the way to places to shop and other business. If the high ways are kept as now routed, the present parking problem will be come more complicated (and with the soon all-surfaced roads, farm ers and ranchers in O’Neill trade territory could detour to Spencer, Atkinson, Page, Inman, Chambers, Amelia). Completed surfacing of 281 will increase heavy truck traffic, and already the roar of those giants in the stoplight area is deafening and dangerous. Route the highways around O’ Neill, and leave O’Neill’s streets for the use of people in O’Neill’s trade territory, who help to make it the flourishing trade center it is. That will also please the trav elling public and the big trucks. Any of them needing O’Neill ser vice will turn off the highway and into town. Let merchants of O’Neill pro vide a place for their customers to vote, “yes” or “no” to keep- ! ing the highways routed through O’Neill. It would be interesting to know the farmers’ and ranchers’ reaction to that controversial question. Sincerely, FAY A. PUCKETT Lynch News Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tejral of Spencer and Mrs. C. Gehlson of Uross visited at Joe Slechta’s Sat jrday. Mrs. Lena Johnson of Monowi visited Mrs. G. L. Mulhair Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Streit and 'amily visited at the parental C. '->■ Haselhorst home Wednesday, March 9. Mrs. William Havranek and Mrs. Leonard Havranek were O’ Neill visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Spencer of Spencer visited at the Veldon Lee ’ome Tuesday, March 8. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kalkow ;ki spent Ttursday, March 10, at he Cyril Burbach home in Wynot. Mrs. Orville Peterson was a :offee guest at Mrs. Martha Ross’ on Thursday, March 10. Fertilizer on Track Carload of Ammonium Nitrate 33% Fertilizer This car arrived Wednesday and we will be selling through today (Thursday) at— S87 Per Ton 0 L GRAIN CO. Phone 57 O'Neill Bert Ott, Wife Married 40 Years ROCK FALLS — A supper [ party was held at the Francis Curran home Thursday night in [ honor of the 40th wedding an niversary of Mrs. Curran’s par ! I ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ott. Those present were Mr. and • Mrs. Bob Worth, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Worth and family and Benny Wetzler, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Page of Page, and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Miller and children. Other Rock Falls News Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and children, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Miller and children and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Curran and Mary Jo gathered at the James McNul ty home Tuesday evening, March 8. The purpose: A “permanent party”. The ladies appeared “all dolled up” at club the following day. The men played cards dur ing the procedure. Lou and Clayton Gokie called at the Levi Yantzi home Sunday afternoon. Bob and Fritz Yantzi had supper with their parents Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Grutsch and family were Wednesday evening, March 9, visitors at Lyle Vequists' Mr. and Mrs. Sam Derickson ! and Russell were Sunday dinner I guests of the Arden Larsons of i Venus. Mr. an'd Mrs. Don Hynes and Lynda were Sunday dinner j guests at the George Calkins 1 hnmp Alden Breiner and Frank Schultz called at the John Schultz home Thursday. Visitors at the Floyd Johnson home on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Foxworthy and small sons of Petersburg. He is also a coon hunter and dog lover. Mr. and Mrs. Blake Benson en tertained at dinner Sunday in honor of their son, Hugh, and grandson, Stevie Benson, on their birthday anniversaries. Those present were Carrol O’Neill, Mrs. Dorothy Benson of Omaha, who spent the weekend there, Clem Benson of Norfolk, and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Benson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Blake Benson and Stanley and C. L. Benson of Nor folk, and Linda Johnson visited at the Jess Benson home near Rapid City, S. D., from Wednes day, March 9, until Friday. They motored through the Bad Lands, stopping at some points of in terest on the way. Friday afternoon visitors at Floyd Johnson’s were Mr. and Mrs. William Claussen, Lou Brown, John Schultz and Levi Hull. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gallagher and Patricia and Mrs. Gallagher’ sister from Minniapolis, Minn., visited at the Louis Storjohaun home on Wednesday evening, March 9. The time was pleasantly passed watching TV. Mrs. Albert Sterns visited her sister, Mrs. Neil Davis, of Atkin son Monday afternoon. Francis Johnson spent Monday afternoon and evening at Floyd Johnsons. Mrs. Charlie Side of Sioux City has been visiting relatives here the past week. She spent Monday afternoon visiting her brother, Ray Johnson, and has been stay ing at_the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Johnson. The Sunday Night club met at Wesley Taylor’s Sunday evening. There were four tables in pro gress. With high score going to Mr. and Mrs. William Claussen and lows to Mrs. Floyd Sanders and Blake Eenson. Mrs. Sanders also won traveling prize. The next meeting will be at the Wil liam Claussen home on March 27. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Widtfeldt and children were Friday after noon coffee guests of Anna Brown in O’Neill. Russy Johnson spent the week end at his grandparents’ and with his little cousins, Gwenda, Trudy, and Debora Schultz. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Derickson and Russell called at Levi Yantzi’s Saturday evening. James Curran, Ardell and Francis attended the sale in At kinson Tuesday, March 8. Ed Claussen and son, Kenneth, of Atkinson had Sunday dinner at the William Claussen home. Don Hynes and Ray Johnson called at Lyle Vequist’s Wednes day evening, March 9. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes were in Omaha Thursday on business. Lynda stayed at Lyle Vequist’s and Ray Johnson did their chores. O’NEILL LOCALS Mrs. Guy Young returned Mon day evening after a six-week visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Huston, and family, of Kansas City, Kan., and with her son and daughter-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Harold Young of Mankato, Kans. Mrs. Cecil Miller and baby daughter, Marilyn, were guests at the home of Mrs. Martha Ross from Friday, March 4, until Wed nesday, March 9, before going to their home northeast of Midway. Mrs. Miller is Mrs. Ross’ daugh ter. , Ed Wilson and Willliam Blak kolb of Naper, and president of ; the Niobrara Valley REA, attend- < ed the REA meeting held Mon- ] day and Tuesday in Lincoln. < Redbird News s • _ :r Weekend visitors in the Ray is Wilson home were Earn Wilson n of Gregory, SD., Sgt. and Mrs. - Virgil Wilson of Hastings, Mr. •- and Mrs. Junior Wilson of Verdel, i and Mr. and Mrs. Robert White d and Sharlene of O’Neill, s. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hull spent y the weekend at Belden with the >1 Gay Hull family and at Allen 5. with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rey nolds and family. Thursday evening visitors in the Claude Pickering home were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hiscock and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pinkerman j and boys. Howard Wells is assessing in y Scott township, taking Ray Wil " son’s place. t Bruce Schollmeyer spent Sun day aftmoon with Ben Wright. ~ Nick Baker visited Mr. and j Mrs. Ray Wilson Friday evening. The Howard Wells family ac companied Bud Mitchell to ~ O’Neill to see Mrs. Bud Mitchell y at the hospital. * Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Carson s j and Rhonda and Kay Carson of Lynch were Sunday guests of i Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Carson. Rex !, ford and June Carson also spent ’<• Sunday evening there. 11 The Roger Rosenkrans family c entertained several teenagers f from the Assembly of God church i in their home at O’Neill Sunday 1; afternoon. r Mrs. Fay Pinkerman entertain s ed Mr. and Mrs. John Hurd of Lynch, Earn Wilson of Gregory, c S.D., and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wil i son at dinner Sunday. Other call ers were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne l Boelter and son of Verdigre, Mr. i and Mrs. Thomas Hiscock’s, the 1 Guy Pinkerman’s and the Veldon i Pinkerman family. Visitors in the Gordon Barta - home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. i George Barta of Lynch, Mr. and i | Mrs. Dale Barta and Sheila of r; Walnut, and Mrs. Vernon Oleson : and Neil. . j The Saturday night card club ) met in the Bill Aim home. Pre l sent were Mr. and Mrs. Guy [ Pinkerman , Mr. and Mrs. George Calkins, Mr. and Mrs. Veldon l Pinkerman, Mr. and Mrs. Albert • Carson and Mr. and Mrs. Howard 1 Oberle. Mrs. Albert Carson entertained the Dorsey Ladies Aid Wednes ■ day, March 9, with a large crowd , present. Emmet News Francis Tenborg was a dinner guest at the Geary Enbody home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Linville and Mrs. Chace of Atkinson vis ited at the Charles Abart home Wednesday evening, March 9. Leonard Dusatko visited at the Jerrold Dusatko home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meier and Megan entertained Mrs. George Bosn and children, Mrs. James Earley and children, Mrs. Fritz Belzer and children, Mrs. George Brainard and children, Mrs. Gil bert Fox and Barbara Tuesday afternoon, March 8. Cake sfttfT cof fee were served. The WSCS of the Methodist church wil meet today (Thursday) at the Geary Enbody home. Mrs. Ernie Harris visited Mrs. Henry Patterson Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cole and Mr. and Mrs. G. Owen Cole at tended the concert held at O’Neill Friday evening. Mrs. Guy Cole visited at the Robert Cole home Sunday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox and Barbara, Mrs. V. E. Stevehs and boys and Mr. and Mrs. Max Grenier were dinner guests at the Robert Tomlinson home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meier and Megan are staying at the Geary Enbody home while Mrs. Enbody is gone. Guy Cole and G. Owen Cole visited at the Jerrold Dusatko home last Thursday. 1 Mrs. Robert Cole and son, Jackie, went to Omaha Tuesday, March 8. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Humpal accompanied them. They returned home Wednesday, March 9. 1 Mrs. Agnes Gaffney left Mon- , day night by train for Topeka, Kans., where she will visit a few ( days with her nephew and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Allen, and | will' go to Savannah, Mo., where she will visit her niece, Mrs. | George Jacobson, who is in a hos pital there as a surgical patient. | Miss Jeanie Kay Foreman was a guest of Lila Jean Miller Sunday. | Mrs. Dean Perry and Mrs. Ag nes Gaffney called on Mrs. Frank I Foreman Monday afternoon. -- I Ewing News 1 _ I Weekend guests at the home of , Mrs. Hazel Kimes and sons were ' her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. i and Mrs. Joe Kusek, and family of David City. Other guests on Sun- t day were Mr. and Mrs. Merle Fil- ' singer and family of Ewing. i Mr. and Mrs. Duane Walske " and Bob Peterson of Tilden were i entertained at a 6 o’clock dinner * last Thursday evening at the home i of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sedivy. | NEW TREATP^ Meadow Gold Hutch Apple Ice Cream Buy it in this special picture pint, or the thrifty half-galloffc Meadow Gold is mighty good! Beatrice Toods to. Mrs. Hiatt Hostess— Mrs. A r 1 o Hiatt entertained the M&M bridge club Tuesday evening at her home. Following bridge, at which Mrs. D. C Schaffer and Mrs. Esther Harris had the high bridge scores, a luncheon was served by the host ess. Mrs. Elden O. Ramsel, Mrs. Paul Shierk, Mrs. D. A. Baker and Miss Alice French were guests. Mrs. Melena Entertains— Mrs. W. D. Melena was hostess to the Chez-a-Marie club at din ner and bridge Tuesday evening. Guests were Mrs. Louis Reimer, jr., Mrs. Robert Langdon and Mrs. Larry Schaffer. High bridge scores were won by Mrs. D. A. Kersenbrock, Mrs. Edward Glee son and Mrs. Dale French. O’Neill News _ _ Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Simonson spent from Sunday until Tuesday in Bristow visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Donlin. Mrs. Vannie Newman visited from Sunday, February 27, until Saturday, March 5, with her son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Babl in Holdrege. She was a houseguest from that time until Tuesday, March 8, at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Newman in Bur well. Mr. and Mrs. William Turner 1 of Chambers were Sunday dinner i guests at the home of her parents, j Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Tomlinson of Spencer called in the afternoon at the Tomlinson home and Mr. and Mrs. James Coventry and Bill of Inman were Sunday even ing callers. Mrs. Reuben Magstadt of Park ston, S.D., and her mother, Mrs. Vannie Newman, spent Monday in Ainsworth visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Schiess ler. Mrs. Charles Grubb and daugh ter visited Monday with her aunt, Mrs. C. W. Porter. They were en route to her home in McGill, Nev. Mr. and Mrs. James Reynold son and family spent from Sun day until Tuesday in Albion visit ing at the James Reynoldson home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Benson and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shierk spent Sunday in Gregory, S.D., visiting the Stanley Gilbert family. Mrs. John DeHoogh of Shel don, la., arrived Tuesday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robertson. Mrs. Reuben Magstadt of Park % ^ A. A. a. a a. A - ; ston, S.D., arrived last Thursday ! to visit for a week at the home ol | her mother, Mrs. Vannie New f man. Mr. and Mrs. John Cuddy ahd family .and Gene Stanton, all ol Sioux Falls, S.D., visited from Friday until Sunday with Mrs, Cuddy’s and Gene’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. A. F. Stanton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Under wood of Sisters, Ore., arrived in O’Neill last week and plan to visit relatives here and in this area for about a month. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Wickman and family were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wickman of Yankton, S.D., Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bouska and sons of Stuart and Mrs. Julia Schaaf of Atkinson. Mrs. Fred Truax, sr., was a dinner guest with Mrs. Martha Ross on Thursday, March 10. Mrs. Ross’ son-in-law, Cecil Miller, and Wilbur Mitchell and nephew were also dinner guests the same day. Mrs. Oliver Ross and Shirley took Mrs. Martha Rioss to St. An thony’s hospital on Friday to call on friends. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wolfe and family visited Sunday in Norfolk with her brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hansen, and family. Inman News Miss Mary Ann Kopejtka spent last Thursday and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kopejtka at Page. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Hrbek and sons of Dorsey spent Saturday evening visiting Mrs. Anna Ko petjka and Mary Ann. Cake and ice cream was enjoyed in honor of Mrs. Koepjtka’s birthday. Sunday guests in the home of Mrs. Anna Kopejtka helping her celebrate her birthday anniver sary were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kopejtka and sons of Elgin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kopejtka and family of O’Neill. Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Cihlar of Redbird and Mrs. Wilbur Smith and sons of Inman. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kopejtka and sons of Page were overnight guests of Mrs. Anna Kopejtka last Friday night. — Chambers News Mrs. Guy Wright of Ewing is spending a few weeks with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Davis, and family. Raymond Urban of Omaha came Saturday and visited until Sunday evening in the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John Honeywell. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDon ald of Ewing visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Honeywell and Mrs. Charlotte Honeywell. Lee Mitchell of Boise, Ida.. nephews Carl, Robert, Jack and Steve Mitchell spent Saturday night in the Andrew Gilbert home. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mickel sen of St. Paul, Minn., came Sa turday, March 12, to visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fees, and son. They left Tuesday for home accompan ied by their daughter, Mrs. Fees, and her son, Michael. They ex pect to visit about 10 days. Mrs. Verl David of Chambers and Mrs. Ray David of Inman accompanied by their brother, left Sunday for Washington to visit a sister, who is reported seriously ill. 1 o Martez Meets— Mrs. Ira Moss was hostess to the Martez bridge club at her home Tuesday evening following dinner at the M&M cafe. Mrs v J. Lohaus and Mrs. M. J. Golden had the evening’s high bridee scores. 6 __ ° Regional Deaths -— . Mrs. Leon Newton ORCHARD—Mrs. Leon Newton who would have been 85-years old on Sunday, March 20, was buried Tuesday afternoon, March 15, in the Orchard cemetery. She died Sunday, March 13, and had been a resident of the communis 45 years. Steve Schrage ELGIN—Steve B. Sehrage, 69, retired farmer, will be buried to-’ day (Thursday). He died in an1 Omaha hospital, having been in six months. The following editorial appeared in the Omaha World-Herald, Sunday, March 13, 1955: Modern Oakland There was an interesting item in the paper the other day about a delegation from Oakland, Nebr., which went to Lincoln and called on Governor Anderson, urging that Highway 77 be by-passed around their town. The road is scheduled to be widened some time soon. Whether the delegation represented a majority of the people of Oakland, we don’t know. But certainly it represented the most modem thinking about highways. If highway travelers want to do some shopping or buy an ice cream soda, the dis tance into town is not too great; they will make the trip. But if they are only intent on getting someplace else, open .country provides a better and safer route. There is no reason why they should speed through city streets, and endanger city children and pedestrians, for no purpose. Towns which demand that highways go through them are simply behind the times. The modem practice is to by-pass, and pro vide adequate access roads for those who want to stop. The space ordered and paid for by O’NEILL TAXPAYERS’ LEAGUE M. J. GOLDEN, Member < > <' > NEWSPAPER STANDS OUT IN ! * I p r iii r tt I I > c I c An ABC (audited circulation) newspaper j with a truly great record in circulation | building — 300% gain since 1948! -i ■ * " > » . •* £ i I I V Biggest ABC (or sworn) circulation in a nine- ) 1 county area . . . substantially bigger than i f nearest rival in paid circulation * W Detoils, rates, marketing information, promotional assistance gladly furnished. The O'Neill region is one of Nebraska's richest rural marketing areas with * » an economy based on cattle, hogs, hay, blue-grass, poultry, eggs, dairy prod- 1 ucts. 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