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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1956)
° ^ . Holt Bank Deposits Down from Year Ago YEAR END STATEMENTS HOLT COUNTY BANKS , L>eposits Loans Assets O’Neill National Bank ..$ 3,811,090.59 $ 371,153.77 $4,113,912.06 First National Bank, Atkinson . 3,268,198.62 467,987.73 3,549,542.84 First National Bank, °’Nei11 3,259,035.60 334,874.14 3,581,145.13 Tri-County Bank, Stuart 1,164,174.70 368,209.94 1,271,116.24 Farmers State Bank, Ewing . 1,098,208.52 267,707.37 1,198,978.30 Chambers State Bank, Chambers . 867,734.86 284,806.10 931,480.74 $13,468,492.89 $2,094,739.05 $14,646,175.31 A year ago, the Holt county bank deposits totaled $13,774,770, making a decrease of $306,218 compared to this time last year. The assets a year ago totaled $14,919,659—a difference of $273,481 lower now. Loans at the end of 1955 were $265,489 lower than the 1954 year end, when the footings showed $2,260,228. Once again the O’Neill National Bank heads the list in deposits and assets. County Brucellosis Organization Formed Educational Meetings Scheduled <8 A five-year plan to make Holt county brucellosis free was launched Wednesday afternoon in O’Neill when two delegates from each township in the county met with state and federal veterinar ians in the courthouse annex. A series of educational meet ings has been scheduled to ac quaint pepple with the brucellosis eradication program. Committeemen will contact all • , cattle owners in the county. The ° goal is to enlist 75 percent of the owners and 95 percent of the cat tle to qualify Holt as a brucellosis free county in the state-federal program. Officers elected are: Ernest Gotschall of Atkinson, chair man; Lawrence Pacha of At kinson, vice-chairman; John J. Dvorak of Atkinson, secretary. There is no membership fee. • At the forthcoming meetings the public will be told of how the committeemen will call on stock owners to encourage signing up of the breeding stock, giving the number of head. Commercial heifer calves, 4-12-months-old are to be vaccinated; purebred and dairy heifers, 4-8-months-old. Licensed veterinarians will do the vaccinating. The federal go vernment will furnish the vaccine and there will be no cost to the farmer or rancher cooperator. Here for Wednesday’s meeting were Dr. .Milo Johnson, federal veterinarian, and Doctor Christie, state veterinarian. There will be seven community meetings; \% ■’4 Stuart, fireball, Monday, Jan , uary 30, 2 p.m. Atkinson. Lesion hall. Mondav. i January 30, 8 p.m. Chambers, meeting place to be announced, Tuesday, January 31, 2 p.m. Page, meeting place to be an nounced, Wednesday, February 1, 2 p.m. Ewing, meeting place to be an nounced, Wednesday, February 1, 8 p.m. Northeast of O’Neill, Scott township hall, Thursday, Feb ruary 2, 2 p.m. O’Neill, meeting place to be an nounced, Thursday, February 2, 8 p.m. Sommer, Chaee Speakers Here— The Holt County American Le gion and auxiliary met Monday evening at the Legion club. Speakers for the evening were A1 Sommer of Norfolk, district ser vice officer, and Charles. E. Chace of Atkinson, district com mander. Miss Delores Jilg and Jack Ev eritt presented vocal selections for the group. The next meeting » will be March 18 at Ewing. Charged with Reckless Driving— BUTTE—LeRoy Erickson, 20, ‘ $on of Mr. and Mrs. Elof Erick son of Naper, Saturday pleaded a guilty to a charge of reckless » driving on the streets of Naper. Boyd County Judge John P. Clas sen fined him $10 and gave tvm a 10-day jail sentence, which was 9 suspended, pending the youth’s good behavior. ENLISTS IN NAVY Lyle Fox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox, who has been at tending Hastings college, is ex pected home today (Thursday) for a week’s visit. He has enlisted *»* n*'- UUU OVUll VV XXX AUUOX w for duty. Several of his college friends have also enlisted and will accompany him. Social Session— The Catholic Daughters of Am erica held a social meeting Tues day night at the Knights of Co lumbus hall. Mrs. Matt Hynes was chairman Mrs. John Proti vinsky won high; Mrs. Charles ® Boyle, second high, and also won the door prize. Lunch was served by the committee. SCHOOL HEAD TO QUIT BUTTE — Supt. Maurice E. Wolff, who is for the ninth year head of the Butte school system, announced that he will retire at the end of the school year. He says he may stay in the teaching profession, but not as a superin tendent. TO CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. John Clauss°n are leaving today (Thursday) f« r Lawndale, Calif.., where they w'll make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Claussen recently held a farm sale and disposed of their person al property and livestock. Sewer Use Billing Starts This Month Effective January 1 the new municipal sewer useage tax went into effect. Don Douglass, head of the citv water department, announced this week sewer use fee collections will begin with the billing which goes into the mail on Januaiy 31 for patrons on the west side of the city. Only one month of sewer use will appear on the statement, Douglass said. However, subse quent billing will cover a two month period and will amount to $1 for each two-month period for each account. Billing and collections will be handled in the same manner as water accounts. Unpaid accounts are subject to assessment to the property as a lien at the end of the year. Sewer charges will appear on the same statement as the water bill and will be payable at the water department desk in the po lice station-lounge. Lopp, Lambert to Address Groups Three groups will hold annual meetings simultaneously next week. The Holt county conservation service, Holt county extension service and Elkhom Valley Na tional Farm Loan association have scheduled sessions at the American Legion auditorium on Wednesday, January 25. Registration for the farm loan group will get underway by 9:30 a.m., at the American Legion hall in O’Neill and a business meeting will be held promptly at 11 a.m., with Frank C. Kruntorad, chair man of the board of directors, presiding. Following the business session, members of the farm loan asso ciation will join with the county extension service and soil conser Lopp . . . public relations expert to speak. vation district members, holding their annual meeting, in a dinner to be served by the ladies of the Legion auxiliary. The extension - conservation program will open with a film at 10 a.m. At 10:30 the annual ex tension service meeting will be held and will include election of new board members and a report of the past year’s activities. The soil district supervisors will report on the district’s 1955 activities and will dispose of an nual business. The combined groups will as- 1 semble for the afternoon pro gram. Speakers will be Byron Lopp, director of public relations for the Central Bank and Trust of I Denver, Colo., speaking on “The Human Side of Business and Public Relation,” and Dean Lam bert, who was chairman of the United States delegation touring Russia last summer. Lambert will show pictures and speak on his experiences of this trip. Massed Band Concert Feature of Clinic Members of the bands in the North Central Nebraska confer ence will participate in a band clinic Monday, January 23, at O’Neill. The clinic will be under the direction of Donald A. Lentz of the University of Nebraska and Ward Rounds of Alliance. NCNC schools participating will be Ainsworth, Atkinson, Stuart, Valentine, Springview, O’Neill and Bassett. O’Neill will be rep resented by the combined bands of O’Neill public school and St Mary’s academy. In the evening at 8 o’clock, a concert will be presented by the band at the O’Neill high school auditorium. Frontier for printing! Half Hour Show! ^ ___ “Voice of The Frontier” Ti TE1N jur ^Frontier t Mon. — Wed. — Sat. This Issue 9:30-10 A.M. — 780 k.c. North-Central Nebraska’s BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 75.—Number 38. O’Neill, Holt, County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 19, 1956. Seven Cents Ewing Man Now Minus Both Legs Gunter Goes Under Surgery in Omaha; Limbs Once Frozen EWING—Dewitt Gunter, a re tired farmer from the French ! town locality near here, now js minus both legs. Several years ago in Sioux City he submitted to the amputa tion of one leg. On Friday, at the University hospital in Omaha, off came the other leg. Both amputa tions are above the knee. His wife, who is near him at Omaha, reports Mr. Gunter is suf fering from the shock of the sur gery, but is making satisfactory progress and is expected to be home on Sunday. Mr. Gunter is in his seventies. Relatives say the circulatory trouble set in a number of years ago after his feet and legs were frozen. Amputations were neces- r sary to prevent the spread of gangrene. The Gunters’ only son, Melvin of Orchard, and one of their two daughters, Mrs. Max Graver of New Windsor, O., accompanied Mr. Gunter to the hospital and also were near him at the lime of surgery. The socalled “good leg” had been giving the Ewing man con siderable trouble recently. He is in University hospital, Waid C, Omaha. For several years Mr. Gunter has been scooting about the streets of Ewing in a homemade go-cart (above), a powered ve hicle that appeared to be a cross between a bicycle-tricycle-motor cart. Recently the unorthodox ma chine was replaced by an electric car similar to the one used in O’ Neill by Miss Florence Ponton. Charles Mulford Is Worshipful Master— STUART — Charles Mulford was installed worshipful master of Siloam lodge 147, AF&AM, at the lodge hall at Stuart Friday evening. Other newly-installed officers include: Donley Moss, senior warden; Robert Brayton, junior warden; Harry Cowles, secretary; Eton Krotter, treasur er; Wilbur Moon, senior deacon; Ora Yarges, junior deacon; John Strode, senior steward; Arthur Kropp, junior steward; Mahlon Shearer, tyler; Mark Nelson, chaplain. Lieonard Roberts, past worship ful master, installed the officers. Wilbur Moon is the retiring wor shipful master. Raise Music Funds— Mother Agnesine on Monday gave a talk at the January meet ing of the Friends of St. Mary’s. The topic was “The Franciscan Sisters’ International Order.” Plans were discussed for raising money for the music fund. Enter tainment was furnished by the second grade class of St. Mary’s academy. ’88 Blizzard on 14th Birthday W. R. (Bill) Tenborg on Thurs day celebrated his 82nd birthday anniversary with a party held at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Walter Meier, in O’Neill. Mr. Tenborg was bom in Saun ders county near Wahoo, January 12, 1874, the son of Frank and Sophia Tenborg. He came to Holt county in the spring of 1883. His father had come here earlier to build a homestead shack 2 V2 miles north and one mile west of Emmet (on the place now occupied by George Pongratz). The family included the par ents, three boys, Fred (the old-1 est), Bill and Clarence, and one daughter, Sophia. The elder Tenborgs had origin ated in Erie, Pa., and were beck oned West by glowing tales from friends and relatives. They so journed a short time in Wyoming where Bill’s father was a fore man for a year or two on a Union Pacific railroad construction crew. Three daughters and one son died before the family reached Holt and the little girl, Sophia, died at the age of 7 after arriving here. During the moves the family | lost all of their personal effects in the Missouri river at Omaha. A rope that anchored their wagon to the ferryboat broke and the heavily-laden wagon descended to the bottom of the river. Bill Tenborg won’t soon forget the historic blizzard on Januuary 12, 1888. On that date he was celebrating his 14th birthday anniversary by helping a neighbor, Frank Herley, feed four head of horses in a sod bam at the nearby place occu pied by Frank and his father, Da vid. It was after 9 a.m. The morn ing air was still and ominously quiet. Young Bill was pulling out hay, looked up and saw a dense fog rolling toward the place. He sum moned Frank and they scurried to the house. The hay was quick ly swept away and the blizzard bore down. Frank was a number of years old and his more mature mind dictated what was right,” Bill remembers. “I was all set to strike out across the prairie for home, but Frank insisted we fallow the section lines.” 'fix. OTKHHHnKMHKSIS Bill Tenkorg . . . “storm ap- ' proached like dense tog."—The Frontier Photo. Frank and his father had made their home with the Tenborgs fol lowing the death of Mrs. David Herley in 1887. “Father had built a big house during the summer and we had plenty of room”, Bill remembers. They followed the mowed sec tion lines until they reached a row of trees, and the trees led the storm victims safely to the Ten borg house. “It was the grand daddy storm of them all,” Mr. Tenborg insists. “It got cold, very cold, awfully quick and anybody caught out without protection died, that’s all. “Dad had bought some cattle in the summer and we had raised some. Had about 30 head in all. A few days later we found the dead i critters strewn out all the way to O’Neill.” Luckily none of the neighbors perished but the storm took a number of lives and hundreds of cattle. lady down the road took up a homestead and taught a few of us boys two or three months out of the year. That’s all the school ing we had.” Bill married Myrtle Neher in March, 1895. They became the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. They are: Mrs. Geary Enbody of Emmet, Mrs. Kathleen Swick of Clinton Mrs. Dorothy Kennedy of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Beryl Nickert of Ta coma, Wash., Mrs. Anne Cadman of Oak Lawn, 111., Lawrence Ten borg of O’Neill and William Ten borg of Anacortes, Wash. Mr. Tenborg resides in Emmet with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Geary Enbody. He had been active until last summer when he suffered a heat stroke. He is in good health. “The kids made me get rid of my cattle last year after that heat attack. “I guess I’m not of much ac count anymore.” . ....... I Amputee Dewitt Gunter . . . loses second leg, gets new conveyance.—The Frontier Photo. Ewing Postoffice Now Second Class 1955 Receipts Exceed $8,000 EWING—The postoffice at Ew ing has been advanced from a third-class to a second-class rat ing, the 1955 receipts being in ex cess of $8,000. Office personnel includes Miss Frances Rotherham, postmaster; Willis Rockey and Wilma Daniels, assistants; Charles Rotherham has the route east and south of town with Waldo Davis, assistant; El mer Bergstrom has a star route going out south and west of town (tri-weekly until 1953 when it became a daily route). The probable reason for the ad vancement is the loyal support of its patrons. Among them are: Farmers State Bank, M. B. Huff man, president, Richard Edwards and Mrs. Dorothy Sojka; Ewing public schools, Lewis Carter, su perintendent; the several church es; Ewing Livestock Market, Max Wanser, owner and operator; Ew ing Creamery, Julian Sojka, manager; Eldorado theater, oper ated by Dick Shane; Rockey Im plement and Conoco Service, op erated by R. G. and Willis Rock ey; Ruroede Feed store; West Lumber Co.; Zimmerman Insur ance Agency; Loughrey locker plant; Spittler Hardware; Pollock Sand and Gravel Co.; Public Tel ephone Co., Evlin Hamilton, man ager; Walt’s Texaco; Stoney Ser vice; Shaw Oil Co.; Frank Noff ke blacksmith shop; Norwood Repair Shop, services by Ernie Norwood; Chicago & North West ern railroad, William Spence, agent; J. L. Pruden, order buyer Irish Festival Singers Next on Concert Schedule Most of the concert-goers in the O’Neill region may never kiss the Blarney stone, sail up Gal way bay, go down the road to Limerick or over the water of the Aran Isles, or follow the trail of Yeats, Synge and other Irish bards. But on Friday evening, Janu ary 27, the illustrious Irish Festi val Singers, on tour of the Unucd States, will present the second in the 1955-’56 series of O’Neill Community Concerts. The Singers include 12 voices and feature Veronica Dunne, so prano; Dermot Troy, tenor, and Austin Gaffney, baritone. Kitty O’Callaghan is director ana ac companist; Sheila Larchet, harp ist, and Terry O’Connor, violinist. They will spread before their concert listeners in song the whole essence of the Irish nation: It’s sentiment, devotion, charm and earthy humor. Concert starts at 8:15 p.m. of hogs; L. A. and William Hobbs, truckers and cattle buyers; ilea ! and White; K.B. Market; Gamble : store; restaurants; produce mar I kets; general stores; beauty shop; ‘ barber shop and service stations. The following outlying com munities contribute to the volume of business and have had their part in the advancement of the office: Knievel’s store, Bethany, Riverside, Deloit and St. John’s communities. While not fortunate in having medical or dental service, Ewing does have Mrs. Bertha Urban, whose therapy has benefitted many local and outstate patients. Five-Pupil Amelia High School to Go Attorney - General Rules on Road Amelia will have to close its two-year high school after this school year, State Education Commissioner F. B. Decker said Friday in Lincoln. Mr. Decker pointed to an at torney - general’s opinion an nounced Friday. Assistant At torney-General Robert V. Hoag land ruled: In measuring the travel dis tance between high schools, a graded county road is “a rea sonably improved highway” if it is used regularly and is dif ficult to travel only in rainy weather. This is the background: Amelia’s ninth and 10th grades have a total of only five pupils. This is the third consecutive year in which the high school enroll ment has been fewer than 10. State law specifies that a two year high school must be closed if: It has fewer than 10 pupils three consecutive years. It is within 15 miles of another high school “on a reasonably im proved highway.” Chambers, another Holt county community, has a four year high school 10 Vi miles from Amelia. However, an Amelia delegation told the state board of education last November the 10 Vi miles of road includes 2% miles of graded but ungraveled county road which is impassable for long peri ods. The state board of education asked the attorney-general to rule whether the 2 *6 -mile stretch meets the legal definition of “reasonably improved highway.” Plane Forced Down During Blizzard A Cessna 170 aircraft enroute from Brookings, S.D., to Laramie, Wyo., passed low over O’Neill Sa turday afternoon, couldn’t locate the Stuart-Atkinson airport and finally landed in a farm field about six miles west of Atkinson. The pilot, Pat Murdock of Lar amie, said visibility was “about zero” in the O’Neill Atkinson area. State Highway Engineer John D. Osenbaugh of O’Neill said none of the state or federal high ways in the region was blocked by the snow and accompanying wind. He said the wind had blown the roads free of snow. However, some country roads were choked up where there was residue from the early December storms. Weather summary: HI Lo Prec. January 12 . 41 13 January 13 . 37 21 Janaury 14 .35 17 .14 January 15 .19 -5 January 16 . 0 -9 January 17 . 7 -5 .14 January 18 . 15 -12 Lynch Farmer in Boyd County Race BUTTE—Anton E. Kalkowski, a Lynch farmer, has filed for Boyd county supervisor on the democratic ticket. This is for the Second district office. Two other districts are up for contests this year. No other filings have been made. Clifford Dick, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dick of O’Neill, has volunteered through the Holt county selective service office and reported for military duty on Tuesday, January 10. Technicalities Cause Fire Meeting Delay CHAMBERS— Because of ad ministrative technicalities, the organizational meeting for a south-Holt county fire protection district has been postponed in definitely. The state fire marshal’s office in Lincoln advised promoters of the district the officers could not be elected until certain adminis trative procedures had been fol lowed. “It was a question of getting the cart before the horse,” said Lloyd Wintermote, one of the spokesmen. All but six of 30' el igible signers have signified their desire to have a district estab lished. The 900-square mile dis trict, if and when it is finalized, will embrace all of Swan, Josie, Wyoming, Conley, Chambers. Lake and McClure townships, and half of Shamrock. Date for a hearing to be fixed by the county board and date for an organizational meeting will be announced later. 4-H Leaders at Training Sessions ‘Greater Contribution* to Be Result A delegation of Holt county 4 H leaders who attended the an nual 4-H leaders’ conference held last week at Norfolk included: Linden Mulford of Stuart, an imal husbandry; Mrs. Albeit Carson of Redbird, clothing; Mrs. Dwight Hammeriun oi O’Neill, animal husbandry; Mrs. W. B. Gillespie of O’Neill, foods: Mrs. Walt Fick of Inman, animal hus bandry; Roy Boshart of O’Neill, tractor; Mrs. William Alin of Dorsey, home living; Assistant Leader Warren Peden of O’Neill, animal husbandry; Mrs. Helen Crumly of O’Neill, clothing, and County Home Extension Agent Kathryn Indra, foods. This leaders’ meeting was made possible through the spon sorship of the Knights of Ak Rar-Rpn Standard Oil Frninda tion, Inc., of Chicago, 111., and Local Rural Power Suppliers of Columbus. The first day—Tuesday, Janu ary 10 — featured interesting speakers on “Understanding the 4-H Club Program,” “Safety,” “Junior Leadership Techniques,” “Promoting Parent Participation” and group sessions. “Party Fun for Everyone” end ed the day and evening meet ings. On Wednesday, January 11, the leaders attended project meetings. The day was brought to a close with a 4-H leaders’ banquet at the Hotel Madison ballroom. A leader from Holt county was chosen to give the re sponse to the sponsors of the con ference. Thursday morning was spent attending project meetings. A special noon luncheon was given at the hotel. The conference ad journed at 2 o’clock. Mrs. Hammerlun, spokesman for the group from Holt, said: “We feel by virtue of the experi ence we can make a greater con tribution to club work in our own communities.” Ashburn Crew in Benefit Here— Ritchie Ashburn and his Tilden All-Stars basketball team will appear in a benefit game here Wednesday, January 25, and pro ceeds will go to the march of dimes. The national guard cagers will provide the opposition. COLONEL DEATH HERE Col. Francis Drath, assistant director of Nebraska selective serivce, spent last Thursday here in conference with the Holt draft | board. Files for Reelection State Sen. Frank Nelson (above), an O’Neill farmer, Friday filed for nomination for the unicameral legislature from the 28th district. Nelson is seeking his fifth two-year term. Another candidate who filed earlier was Donald E. Rohde of Lynch, a University of Nebras ka student. Nelson defeated Rohde in the 1954 general elec tion. The 28th district includes Holt, Boyd, Rock and Keya Paha counties. Worden,67, Rites Held At Burwell Amelia Randier Dies Sunday in Hospital; to County in 1901 AMELIA—Roy Worden, 67, a resident of southwestern Holt county since 1901, died Sunday evening, January 15, in the Community hospital at Burwell where he had been a patient for nine days. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Janu ary 18, from the Methodist church in Burwell. Burial was in the Burwell cemetery. Pallbearers were Dale Mitchell, Roland Swanson, Don Carpenter and Kenneth Weller, all negh bors from the Amelia communi ty; Lawrence Rothchild of Atkin son and Glen Adams of Cham bers. The late Mr. Worden was bom July 19, 1888, at Oak. - He came to Holt county in 1901 with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John Worden. His father operat ed the Swan postoffice for many years. On April 28, 1908, the late Roy Worden married Ethel Scafe. Born in the East in 1887, she had accompanied her par ents to Holt county in a covered wagon. Mr. Worden ranched south of Swan lake for many years. He was well-known in both Holt and Garfield counties and was active in ranching until hi3 fatal illness. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in April, 1953, Kir Ar»A enn 7V/T nlirin on,] Kir one daughter, Mrs. I^eone Moser. Survivors include: Son— Lyle of Amelia; daughters—Mrs. H. P. (Roine) Johnson of Burwell, Mrs. Clarence (Eleanor) Roth child of Clearwater, Mrs. Howard (Norma) Maxson of Burwell and Mrs. Berma (Betty) Gallaher cf Glendale, Calif.; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Jaszkowiak Leaving for Company Show A. P. (“Scovie”) Jaszkowiak, owner of the Western Auto As sociate store at O’Neill, will at tend a Western Auto merchan dise show in Kansas City, Mo., leaving Sunday by train and re turning next Wednesday. He has owned and operated the O’Neill store for 16 years and is one of 3,510 dealers in the West ern Auto organization. Mr. Jaszkowiak said Western Auto was founded in 1915 and has expanded its operations each year, liie 1955 expansion gave it nationwide status. “It is now the largest organiza tion of its kind in the United States, carries 12,000 lines of merchandise from geiger counters to home freezers,” Mr. Jaszkow iak explained. He said more tnan 2,000 items of new merchandise will be displayed at the Kansas City show. 4th Street Market Gets Improvements The Fourth Street Market, sit uated across the street south from the postoffice, will be closed all day Monday for installation of new shelving and fixtures and to permit workmen to complete re modeling of the interior of the store. George Janousek, proprietor, » said the changes will enable the nrm 10 increase its stocK or merchandise and, at the same time, provide more space for shoppers. The meat department has been enlarged and new tile flooring laid. Mr. Janousek opened the store four years ago and the volume has been growing steadily. ■■ O’Neill Saddle Club Plans Benefit Dance Smitty and his Jumpin’ Jax or chestra of Yankton, S.D., have been booked for a benefit dance to be held Thursday, January 26, at the American Legion ball room. The affair will be sponsored by the O’Neill Saddle club. Proceeds will go toward the purchase of new lights for the club’s new arena in Carney park. The arena was set up last fall in the park which is being restored. * 4-H Leaders to Meet. Elect— All 4-H leaders in Holt coun ty are asked to attend a meeting Saturday, January 21, at 10 a.m., in the assembly room of the courthouse. This includes all leaders and leaders of newly-or ganized clubs. The meeting will consist of election of officers and planning of the program for the coining year. Charles Houser spent Saturday in Bassett. o