\ •• . ? / ; "ft . . ..—. ., s. . . , g • o o . 1 • * Half Hour Show! “Voice of The Frontier” TWELVE jur Mon. — wed. — s»*. Pages I to 12 9:30-10 A.M. — 780 k.c. North-Central Nebraska’s BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 75.—Number 24. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 13, 1955. Seven Cents " ..'■ " "■ - ■" -1 —1. ' — ■■■ '■ - - -— ■ ,V * Hansen, Kelly Catch Greased Porker Roland Hansen (left) and Ned Kelly, both of Inman, cuddle a greased pig at Inman’s fall festival. The slippery prize subse quently slipped away while Hansen and Kelly were loading the porker onto a truck. The result of the escape was that they were obliged to share the proceeds with a third party. The annual fes tival, sponsored by the Methodist church, drew a large crowd and was acclaimed a big success.—The Frontier Photo. Youth, 16, Drowns in Pursuit of Boat - - - First-Born White Child in Holt Dies ‘Herb’ Bitney Rites Held Saturday ATKINSON— Funeral services were conducted from Wesleyan Methodist church in Atkinson on Saturday, October 8, for Frank H. Bitney, 81, better known as “’Herb” Bitney, one of the most colorful men of the Atkinson community. He was the first white child born in Holt county. Mr. Bitney died suddenly about noon on Thursday, October 6. Death was caused by a heart attack. Mr. Bitney was born May 22, 1874. His parents were Frank Bitney *hnd Clara Dickerson Bit ney. He was reared in the Atkin son community and was one of the few pioneers who remember ed the building of the Atkinson community. On April 9, 1898, he married Lpcy Irene Russell. They became the parents of two daughters. The late Mr. Bitney worked in his father’s store for many years. Survivors include: Daughters— Mrs. Lewis (Esther) Kemp of Pasco, Wash., and Mrs. Adolph (Clarissa) Mlinar of Atkinson; brother — Fred of Grass Valley, Calif.; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Frontier Publisher Heads Press Group Carroll W. (“Cal”) Stewart, editor-publisher of The Frontier, Friday was elected president of the Interstate Editorial associa tion at the organization’s 34th annual-convention in Sioux City. Stewart succeeds G. W. Hubin, publisher of the Buffalo Lake (Minn.) News, who became vice president. W. S. Gibson of the Vermillion (S.D.) Plain Talk was named secretary and Robert B. Lyon of the Schleswig (la.) Leader, treasurer. Wilbur Barnes, publisher ofl the Sleepy Eye (Minn.) Herald Dispatch, was elected a new member of the board of directors. About 175 editors and publish ers from Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska attended the convention which opened Thursday. O’Neill High Plans First Homecoming The O’Neill high school stu dent council has scheduled a homecoming celebration on Fri day, October 21. The Neligh Warriors, a tradi tional gridiron foe, will face the Eagles in an evening football game in Carney park. The game will be followed at 10 o’clock by a homecoming prom at the Am erican Legion ballroom. All alumni, teachers and for mer teachers are invited. The Neligh high school student body has been invited to attend the c’ance. Miss Viola E. Haynes, dramat ics sponsor, has announced the selection of “Let Me Out of Here” as the title of the senior class play. The three-act farce will be presented November 15. Practice began Monday night. SMA Homecoming Date Is Changed The St. Mary’s academy home cc ming football game, originally scheduled for Thursday, October 13, has been changed to Wednes day, October 26. The Verdigre Hawks will offer gridiron competition in a Nio brara Valley conference eight man game. Royalty will be crowned. The cab of an oil transport truck was damaged at 12:40 p.m., Tuesday at the O’Neill Drive-In theater comer. The unit was hauling a load of oil for the highway building project. The engine backfired and started the fire. Tune in! “Voice of The Fron tier” . . . Mon., Wed., Sat., 9:30 a.m. Special to The Frontier LYNCH—James Frederick, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Fred erick of the Greenwood Indian agency in South Dakota, was drowned about 6 p.m., Monday, October 10, near the Nebraska side of the Missouri river. The incident occurred near the Lloyd Spencer farm, which is located in the Sunshine Bottom commun ity east of Lynch. According to Boyd County Sheriff Claude Collins of Butte, who investigated, young Freder ick and four other Dakota youths had crossed the Missouri in a gas engine-powered boat, which had been borrowed for the purpose. They crossed to the Nebraska side to put out fish “set lines.” The boat broke loose and got into the current. Young Frederick felt respon sible for the boat and plunged into the water to retrieve it. He did not remove his cow boy boots or his bibless over alls, his friends said. Frederick was about mid-way in the river when he called for help. He disappeared in the wa ter, his companions related. Aid was summoned. Darkness bore down and an extensive search of the shoreline was made by men working under the direction of Sheriff Collins and Sheriff McCabe of Charles Mix county, South Dakota. Until late Wednesday the body had not been recovered. Sheriff Collins said the ages of the other boys ranged from 13- to 15-years-old. He said men in 10 to 15 motor boats dragged a wide area Tues day and Wendesday to no avail. “Very likely the body will come to the top Thursday or Friday,” Collins declared, “and we could use some additional help. We’re going to try and get airplanes to help on Fri day.” Some holes in the river, Collins stated, are 15 feet deep and the water has been rough, making the search perilous and difficult. Collins said the boy is surviv ed by the parents, four brothers and several sisters. An aunt is Mrs. Leona Black, who operates a Spencer cafe. Horse Killed When Hit by Truck Walter Zahradnicek of Stuart suffered the loss of a horse Fri day when a 1954 truck-tractor outfit, operated by C. H. Koerber of Alliance, struck the horse on U.S. highway 20 about seven miles west of Atkmson. Highway Patrolman Robert Gude of O’ Neill, who investigated, said the accident took place about 12:15 a.m. Gude estimated $500 dam ages to the rig. Gude investigated a country road collision which took place at 7:50 a.m., Wednesday three miles east of Midway. Vehicles driven by H. W. Rouse, 58, head ed northward, and David Jensen, 66, going eastward, skidded to gether. Gude estimated damage to the Jensen machine “about $200” and to the Rouse car, own ed by Lloyd Rouse, “about $150.” No one was hurt. Driver Training To Be Discussed Drivers training for high school students is to be the theme of the Public safety program Monday, October 17. The meeting will be sponsored by the county safety council and participating organi zations. It will begin at 8 p.m., at the American Legion audi torium in O’Neill according to Mrs. Albert Carson of Redbird. chairman. Two instructors for Holt city schools, Elmer Murman of O’Neill and Cleo Tippery of Stuart, and one instructor from Boyd county, Jack Rohrburg of Lynch, will discuss the drivers training pro gram and conduct a discussion concerning the course and related problems. Several selected high school students will also be in cluded in the discussion. Mrs. W. C. Whited and son, Scott, spent Thursday until Mon day in Omaha visiting her moth er, Mrs. Ned Emery, while Mr. Whited was on a hunting trip. City’s Oldest Resident Is Dead ‘Grandma’ Summers Bom in Scotland; Came to U.S. at 16 Mrs. Isabella Summers, 95, died Sunday, October 9, at 2:45 p.m., at the home of her son, Frank Summers, at the southeast edge of O’Neill. She had been making her home there for the past eight years, and had been seriously ill about five months. “Grandma” Summers, as she was best-known, was O’Neill’s oldest resident. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, from First Methodist church with Rev. Glenn Kennicott, church pastor, officiating. Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery under the direction of Biglin’s. Pallbearers were grandsons: Dwayne, LaVem, Donald, Ivan and Harold Summers and Ken Mrs. Summers . ,14 survived fall and pneumonia. — The Frontier Photo. neth Bergstrom. Honorary pall bearers were Clarence Dobbins, Elmer Trowbridge, Andrew Wettlaufer, Herbert Stevens. Mrs. Summers, whose maid en name was Isabella Cruick shank, was born February 6, 1860, at Garmond, near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She lived there until she had com pleted her schooling and study of music. Her parents, James and Isabel la Poison Cruickshank, had gone to American when she was 13 and settled near Blair. She join ed her parents in Nebraska when she was 16-years-old. She taught Washington county rural schools near Blair for sev eral years. On February 18, 1888, she was married to Miles Albert Summers at Blair. The couple came to Holt county in 1892 and settled near Page, where they continued to reside on a farm until Mr. Sum mer’s death February 28, 1934. The couple became the parents of eight children. Following the death of her hus band, Mrs. Summers resided alone for a time and later made her home with her sons, Leslie and Frank. She was a member of the Methodist church and was active in church work until late years. Each year on her birthday an niversary “Grandma” Summers was showered with a bushel of cards and letters. Until recent months her hobby was knitting and, despite impaired eyesight, she turned out finished products every few days. She frequently presented callers knitted gifts. Despite her years she retain ed a keen Scottish sense of hu mor. On her 95th birthday an niversary when the candle was lighted and The Frontier’s photographer prepared to take her picture, she exclaimed, “Well, here we go again!” In late years her hearing also became afflicted. In August, 1953, she was in jured when she fell against the bathtub at her home and later she survived a siege of pneu monia. Survivors include: Sons— Al bert of Bartlett; Charles and Frank, both of O’Neill; Mark of Elgin; Leslie of Page and Earl of Ewing; sisters—Mrs. Jean Bur nett of Medicine Bow, Wyo., and Mrs. Bessie Marshall of Casper, Wyo.; brothers — John Cruick shank of Golden Valley, N.D., and Andrew Cruickshank of Long Beach, Calif.; 32 grandchil dren and 40 great-grandchildren. Frank Benash, Wife Plan Open-House Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beriash will observe their golden wed ding anniversary on Monday, Oc tober 17, at their home in West O’Neill. Open-house will be conducted between 2 and 5 p.m. Back in I 907 ... Improves Farm for $1,200 By MRS. N. D. ICKES, SR. The Frontier’s Feature Writer PAGE—No special observance was made Wednesday, Septem ber 21, when Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder of Page quietly noted their 57th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Snyder was born June 24, 1878, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Henry of Tecumseh. Of a family of four, she and a brother, Lloyd Henry of Cole ridge, survive. Mr. Snyder was born October 5, 1875, at Galva, 111. He was nine-years-old when he came to Nebraska with his parents. He has three brothers — Walter of Ainsworth, Harry of Inman and Elmer of Page, and one sister— Mrs. Clifton Jacka of Tecumseh. Miss Nova Henry became the bride of Mr. Snyder at the home of her parents near Tecumseh on September 21, 1898. Rev. Lucy Dodge, Baptist minister, officiated and there were 50 guests present. For their wedding trip, the cou ple “took in” the famous Omaha exposition. Mr. Snyder had begun farming two years before and the year 1898 was a good one as farm years go. He raised 1,600 bushels of wheat and a thousand bushels of corn. He received 35 cents per! bushel for the wheat and 26 cents for the corn. Hogs were bringing three cents per pound. Twenty five dollars would buy a cow and a calf and he paid $60 for tluree good horses. Mr. Snyder paid $50 for a wagon, $8 for a plow and $10 for a cultivator. The Spanish-American war came along and Mr. Snyder was offered $400 for three horses—$380 more than he had paid. They were well matched, well broken, good saddlers, and, according to the owner, 167 Stocker-Feeders Average $25.55 Cwt Drueke Entry Tops at 62c Buyers from Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and numerous Nebraska points were on hand Wednesday for the annual 4-H and commer cial stocker-feeder sale held at the O’Neill Livestock Market. One hundred seventy-two head sold, averaging $22 per cwt. Grand champion club calf was shown by Loren Blake of Amelia. His entry was a Hereford heifer weighing 385 pounds and sold for $25 cwt., to Bill Ermer of O’ Neill, the reserve club calf, an Angus steer, was shown by Glen Miller of O’Neill and was pur chased by Don Harder of Sioux City for $56.25. The Miller entry weighed 400 pounds. Ninety-four out of 110 club calves shown were sold. Seventy eight commercial calves were purchased. Best price on commercial calves was paid to Oswald Drueke of O’Neill—65 cents a pound. He had another entry that brought second high—62 cents. A Michi gan buyer paid the top figure. Champion pen of commercial calves — Herefords — was shown by Drueke. Other pen placements: Second —Drueke; third—John Neiwah nor of O’Neill, Herefords; fourth —Vernie Johnson of O’Neill, An gus; fifth—Johnson; sixth—Louis Wewel of Newport, Herefords; seventh—Wewel, Herefords. Top and runnerup commercial single honors went to Blain Gar wood of Amelia with Angus steers; Dave Kiedel of Stuart, third, Shorthorn steer; Vernie Johnson of O’Neill, fourth, Angus steer; Roy Seger of Atkinson, fifth, Angus steer; Vernie John son of O’Neill, sixth, Angus steer. Mrs. Lod Janousek, Miss Effie Stevens and Miss Mary | Ann Schmitz returned Saturday | from a trip to the Ozarks. --, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder ... a boating tragedy turned her dark hair into snow white overnight.—O’Neill Photo Co. were the “classiest driving team in the country.” But he turned down the offer from the army and said he wouldn’t sell them at any price. Mrs. Snyder’s first dress pur chased after their marriage came in the form of 10 yards of calico costing 30 cents. The material was a brown background with green leaves. She made it floor length, complete with a ruffle around the bottom. Her wedding dress (which some critics had considered “en tirely too short”) was pinkish brown and wasn’t the duster type (it barely cleared the floor). Mr. Snyder recalls that he in itiated his newly-found cook with the job of feeding men who came to shell corn. Not all of the Sissons to Note 60th Anniversary DELOIT—Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sisson will celebrate their 60th ucd 4-jig anniversary at their home on Sunday, October 16. Both enjoy “fairly good health.” About 30 relatives will be pres ent for the dinner at their home at Deloit that day. Among them will be Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rei mer of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fisher of St. Edward, Mr. and Mrs. Robley Sisson, Mr. and Mrs Melvin Rexin and John and Fred, all of Ewing. Other relatives plan to attend. 56 Children in First Communion Class A class of 56 children, mem bers of St. Patrick’s Catholic church, received their first com munion Sunday morning. Class roll: Susan Abart, Jerry Babutzke, James Michael Beha, Edward Benson, Julie Bosn, Terry Russel Brown, Patricia Davidson, Robert Davis, Robert Edward DeWitt, Cheryl Donlin. Carol Donlin, Neil Donohoe, William D Eastman, Agnes Lou ise Eastman, Cherilyn Fees, Mary Ann Fox, Joan French, Anna Marie Fritton, Janet Gallagher, Kathleen Gallagher. Ann Gleeson, Cecilia ,VaReane Gray, Rosemary Grenier, Ger aldeen Hansen, Randell Helmer, Joyce Janzing. Donna Jonas, Robert Jurgensmeier, James Pat rick Mahoney, Marlene McMan us. John Miller, Leroy Moos, Gayle Marjorie Murphy, Rita Clare Murray, Anna Marie Musil, Phyl lis Musil, Larry Peters, Veronica Pribil, Mary Catherine Pribil, Raymond Pritchett. Judy Riley, Daniel Saunto, Di anne Schaaf, Barbara Spittler, Billy John Tomjack, Janice Ma rie Vequist, Ronnie Edwin Walt ers, Elizabeth Watson, Leona Winchell, Eugene Paul Winkler. Ann Wolfe, Paul Yantzi, Larry Zakrzewski, Francis Zakrzewski, Delores Zakrzewski, W. James Troshynski. —"