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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
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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;
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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