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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1955)
Consumers Submits Atomic Proposal Consumers Public Power dis trict has submitted a proposal to the atomic energy commission to construct and operate a nuclear powered steam generating plant in Nebraska. The proposal was made just prior to the April 1 deadline set by the commission. The Consumers’ proposal is the only one which has been made by a public power group, three oth ers being made by private power companies in the New England and Illinois areas. Announcement of the Con sumers proposal was made by j Earl I. Mead of Scottsbluff, presi dent of Consumers. Mr. Mead pointed out that the ; proposal was made only after months of careful study of de velopements in the field of nu clear-powered generating facili ties, and their adaptability to the Nebraska public power picture. Vitally important in reaching the decision to proceed with plans for submitting the proposal, were the tremendous, possibilities for the developement of new indus try within the state. Mead said. 1 Regional Deaths Mrs. Harmon Lichty CREIGHTON — Funeral ser vices for Mrs. Harmon Lichty, 42, of Creighton were conducted Thursday, March 31, at the Plainview Congregational church. Survivors include—widower, one daughter and one son. ,, L. O. Todd CLEARWATER—L. O. Todd, 70, died of a heart attack at his farm home southwest of Clearwater Thursday, March 31. Survivors include — widow, one daughter, one son. Booth Member of I niversity Singers— Duane Booth of O’Neill, a Uni versity of Nebraska student, will be among the 100-voice Universi ty of Nebraska Singers when it presents its ^annual spring con cert at 8 pm. today (Thursday) on the campus^ in the Student Un ion ballroom. o Dr. Arthur Westbrook, profes sor of voice, will be the conduct or. r The program will include: “Re quiem,” by Faure, and the massive religious fresco, “Te Deum,” by Zoltan Kodaly. 0 BROTHER DIES Clarence McCarville of Omaha, brother °of oJ. L. NlcCarville, sr., of O’Neill? died in an Omaha hospital.,Funeral services are be ing held today (Thursdayi) at Atlantic, la. Survivors include: Widow; five brothers; three sis ters. 0 ° O __ O Tune in "Voice or The Fron uer”, thrice weekly! , .> _ Special! Old-Style PLENAMINS 2 for 1 PLUS ONE CENT! Reg. 4.79 Pkg. 2 for_4.80 Reg. 7.95 Pkg. 2 for _7.96 While They Last! —— 0 ° Elec. Blanket Reg. 29.95 Value While They Last! 17.95 o GILLIGAN’S I REXALL DRUG Phone 87 — O’Neill o ■—----; G ° O o 0 I 1 0 i “JUST BROWN AND SERVE" H J SWANSON'S QUICK-FROZEN PIES ‘ CHICKEN, BEEF, «r | turkey J ,1 JT_ ADAIRS QUICK-FROZEN ORANGE JUICE 2 « 25* BANANAS 2„.25‘ WASHINGTON RED DEUCIOOS 4 At apples. Florida U. S. No. 1 WHITE or RINR C 90^ GRAPEFRUIT**- ® a vauncTa oranges ~49' TE99EH CM40TS S 10* NEWSBOY and HARVESTER. COOKIES* ORANGE M SUCESfsBlr Council Oak COFFEE Lb__79c ' PETER PAN Plain or Chunky AAi I 1 PEANUT BUTTERS 33* DOLE Chunk, Crushed or Tidbit BAi PINEAPPLE 3™59* JlAAl H IflTlMIfr . rWVPUMrv i FILUN6 m .xcAW 33^ I tjid>ema»€md |Al ! tWlOUJ/ ta. <**... JM?0 TWLt GAHAYSOAP^ir^i GALLON (Wd^73{ SpicW^i JOG‘ CKmt^T* Mt 'US 7*1 JWsrJrffT* Jog £SL Z*| ___„ I ) Eyesight Fails; Pioneer Carries On By MRS. N. J). ICKES, SR. The Frontier Feature Writer In answer to an inquisitive knock, the door was opened by a slender, agile, little lady in her mid-eighties. Mrs. Annie Derickson, who has spent the past several winters in O’Neill with her daughter, Miss Sadie Derickson was about to set out for her old home on Steel creek where she had spent 65 years of her life. She was born July 5, 1869, at Blue Earth, Minn. Annie Emerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Emerson, made the journey from Blue Earth to Nio brara with her parents in the year 1879. They spent the first winter in Niobrara where her father built a frame store building. Lat er, in the spring of 1880, he moved that building to a spot on Steel or Apple creek which was destined to become the town of Dorsey. Mr. Emerson had the only store' between Niobrara and O’Neill. He also built a hotel known as the Emerson House, complete with attached livery stable. To this beginning a harness shop, drug store, hardware and a blacksmith shop soon made the place a settlement of note. The Mosher house and the Bader house were there also. The postoffice, first designated as Apple and then Steel Creek, became Omeral and was changed in 1884 to Dorsey, named for Senator Dorsey, because of the conflict with the Omaha mail. The postoffice desk was housed in the Emerson general store. Annie recalls on that trip from Minnesota to Nebras ka their covered wagon was drawm not by oxen, as was the usual custom, but by four milk cows. The children lined up at milking time with their tin cups for their milk. On one occasion, her mother donned a pair of breeches and mounted the saddle pony and went away from camp to try to get some, potatoes from settlers along the way. She was met by a man armed with a pitchfork. He was skeptical about the maraud ing female. Annie attended school in a lit tle old log schoolhouse along with three score other children. That building was replaced by a frame structure, which served till 1910 when the present school was built. , Annie’s father gave ground for the cemetery and for the 1891 school yard. John Mosher donat ed the site for the Presbyterian church. There was no cemetery when Annie’s mother died so she was buried in the orchard. The care of the grave has passed to Mrs. Derickson’s children and grandchildren. In late years the grave has been built up with stones for protection and more permanent marking. The settlers’ homes were small and the Emerson family ate out of-doors when possible. One day a dog came within a few yards of them but could not be coaxed closer. Finally, Mrs. Emerson toss ed a bread crust to the pooch and he took it and ran away. Each day for a month or more he returned for more food. They tried to fol low him but he eluded them. Several years later a pile of Mrs. Derickson . . . one of two survivors. bones was found. The family al ways wondered if he might have been carrying food to a wounded master. Hoss thieves quartered stolen property in the gulches ! closeby her home. Before the postoffice was mov ed to the store, Annie rode her pony to the postoffice where the woman attendant was accustomed to give her mail without Annie’s dismounting. On that day, the pony walked right into the kitch en. She recalls that it was a blessing the horse was small. There would have been complica tions getting a larger horse turn ed around. Annie Emerson was united in marriage with Samuel Derick son March 3, 1886. They took up housekeeping within a half mile of her old home. Rev. D. W. Rosenkrans officiated. Mrs. Derickson found it a pleas ure to carry water from the creek for all uses and to wash on the board for the increasing family. She performed all of the necessary duties of a wife and mother of that day. Six of eight children are liv ing. They are: Sadie Derickson of Dorsey, William of Star, Georgia Butterfield and Jeanette Derick son, both of O’Neill, John of Dor sey and Mrs. Wallace (Olive) Lundeen of Lincoln. Edward and Mrs. Oral (Marion) Pickering are deceased. Mrs. Derickson remembers that her father always hoisted the flag for a celebration and built a plat form or bowery for Fourth of July celebrations and for the occasion al dances held in summer months. He also furnished lemonade by the barrel for the thirsty crowd. Fishing was a favorite summer sport and in winter sorghum taffy candy pulls bnd sleighing parties were common. With an intended cross of the Missouri river at Niobrara, a rail road was surveyed and staked out. This ill-fated idea would have given Dorsey rail service. That was one of the great hopes of the settlers that never materialized. Reminiscing, Mrs. Derickson re calls how she had just arrived at her parents’ home about three minutes before the blizzard of i 1888 struck. Had she been that much tardy, she and the babe in her arms easily might have per ished. Her husband, sensing dan ger, ran for the bridge. As the storm hit with unbelievable strength, he found it necessary to crawl on hands and knees the short distance to the house. Coral McElhaney, Ted’s father, was urged to stay at Dorsey, but since the storm appeared to be distant and only menacing in ap pearance, he thought he could make it to Niobrara. He became hopelessly lost and gave his team free rein. They brought him up against a barn near Stoney Butte. The owner of the barn was inside with a lantern and gave Mr. Mc Elhaney the attention he needed. Of all who have peopled this section of the state since 1879, only Mrs. Derickson and one oth er, John Bader, now a resident of Long Pine, can testify as to con ditions existing in that earliest era. With the ability of the daughter and the wife of a pioneer to make do with what was close at hand, Mrs. Derickson chewed up several sticks of gum and arranged the cud to take the place- of a lower set of teeth (she wished she had) when she went to Norfolk to pose for a photograph. The photographer was at a loss to understand her sudden i voiceless condition and gesticu lating hand. She tried vainly to make him understand she could not talk and never did take the trouble to explain why. Among her keepsakes, Mrs. Der ickson prizes her grandmother’s wedding dress and petticoat and a small chest in which her father kept valuable papers. The chest came from Blue Earth. She has a “ladder-back” chair and rocker, a sewing cabinet, a chest of draw ers, also a bedroom suite of cher ry wood with marbletop dresser and commode. These are the envy of those who appreciate fine fur niture popular about a century ago. About 15 years ago a strange malady of unknown origin threat ened Mrs. Derickson’s eyesight and for the past several years her sight has been badly impaired. Nowadays she can only distin guish between day and night. She busies herself with the making of rag rugs. She tears and sews the rags and crochets with help only in threading the needle and starting the strips to tear. To be able to meet difficult sit uations as they arise, to solve the problems of life as they present themselves, and to accept as hei portion the hard-to-take thing* with the grace of the true aristo crat, she does all these gracefully and cheerfully. Undaunted, she is resigned tc total blindness, all the while keep ing her hands busy in a resource ful manner born out of the pioneei spirit. Deloit News MBr. and Mrs. Glenn Harpstei and sons were guests Easter a1 the Web Napier home. Sunday dinner guests at the Ralph Tomjack home were Gene Tomjack, the Gene Ray anc Ralph Beaudin families of Oma ha and the Jewell Tomjack fam ily of Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christon, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Larson, Mr. and Mrs. Don Larson and family and family and Mr. and Mrs. H Reimer and Elayne, all of Ew ing, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pahl and Mary of Oakland were Easter guests at the Howard Temple home in Hastings. Lyle Bartak spent Friday af ternoon with Terry and Willard Harster. Martin VanConant and Fred and Maynard Stearns have been sawing lumber. Mr. Thurber, the county agent from Burwell, was’ calling here on Monday. Anita Lee and son spent the weekend in Kansas visiting her son, Kenneth, who is taking training there. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kruntorad were Sunday evening supper guests at the home of his moth er in Ewing. Mrs. Myrtle Jewell of Dallas. S.D., visited at the Johnny Bauer and Ralph Tomjack homes last week. Leonard Miller went to camp in Wyoming last week after spending about 10 days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller. Gene Tomjack left Sunday eve ning for camp at Keesler field, Biloxi, Miss., after about a week at the home of his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack. Elayne Reimer accompanied Judge and Mrs. L. W. Reimer o] O’Neill to Grand Island Friday evening. The Reimers visitec their daughter, Mrs. Lucier Taylor, and family in Grand Is land. Elayne visited her sister Mrs. Howard Temple, and family in Hastings over the weekend. Pupils of the Pofahl school am the teacher, Mrs. Green, wer( entertained at an Easter party oi Friday afternoon at the Urbai school taught by Elayne Reimer The Presbyterian rummage sal will be held in the Yantzi buildin? Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Apri 21-22-23. 50-51pl0! PAUL SHIERK INSURANCE AGENCY O’NEILL, NEBR. Insurance of All Kinds Bus. Ph. 430 Res. Ph. 235 REX W. WILSON, M.D. ROBT. M. LANGDON, M.D. PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS 128 W. Douglas St., O’Neill Phone 138 Branding Irons, Plows' Indicate Busy Season ROCK FALLS—The busy sea son seems to be in full swing as men flourishing branding irons and dehorners proceed at their respective jobs, encircled in a wreath of smoke, foul with the odor of scorched hide and hair. One-by-one the yearlings are put through the chute all ready for the spring pasture a little later. In the distance two or three “moving clouds” in a field indi cate others are preparing ground for planting. Judging from the way the dust was flying a while back they must be stirring up a lot of soil in Kansas and Colo rado. Other Rock Falls News Alden Breiner and son, Lonnie, were callers at Lyle Vequist's on Sunday, April 3. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Widtfeldt and children, Norma and Jimmy, and Miss Serck attended the Wal ther league supper at Immanuel Lutheran church in Atkinson on Tuesday evening, March 29. Fol lowing the supper, Miss Serck remained for the league meeting and choir practice find Norma went for her trombone lesson Later they visited the William Carroll home. Sunday evening, March 27, vis itors at the Orville Miller home were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bausch and children and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O'Neill. Money to Loan — on — AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Corp. C. E. Jones. Manager O'Neill : Nebraska j [PENNEYlsf^^ g *v, j&mjt v <£> ^ c> y* «.<r ^ ■i i£K*i - - - %A;^l ttmawwwsasaiMMMMii _<?5l. Special! Nylon tricot slips in 2 favorite styles—a “show off” with lacy camisole top, a “classic” with pleats and embroidery trim. White on pink. Sizes 32-44. 1.88 Anniversary offer—60-gauge, 15-denier nylon hose with slim, dark seams. They’re first quality, full fashioned. 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