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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1956)
o The Frontier Woman . . . Grandma Dried Tears with Apron By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE, Homeniakinff Editor Looking for a Lenten dish that is a bit different? How about try ing this escalioped potatoes and kraut casserole? This is still the time of year when kraut tastes good and this hearty dish will save you time. If you do not ob serve Lent, serve boiled or baked frankfurters with this casserole. ESCALLOPED POTATOES AND KRAUT One No. 2 can kraut, dash pep per, one cup thinly sliced onions, two cups sliced cooked potatoes,! one cup grated American cheese, one 10t£-oz. can condensed cream of mushroom soup, 1/3 cup milk, paprika. Season kraut with pepper. Place half of kraut in four individual casseroles. Add a layer of half the onions and then a layer of half the potatoes to each casserole. Sprinkle potatoes with part of grated cheese. Repeat layers using remaining kraut, sliced onions and potatoes sprinkled with cheese. Combine mushroom soup and milk, pour a portion over mixture in each casserole. Sprin kle remaining cheese and a dash of paprika on top of each cas serole. Bake in moderate oven of 350 F. for one hour. — tfw — No Sympathy for Oleo-Buying Farmers— Our reader’s letter is rather long today so we’ll use it next. Dear Blanche: I see you are still in need of letters, according to a recent issue of the paper, so decided to add one as I surely like to have the letters and recipes in every week. First, I’m going to tell you my pet peeve. __ "-—— It is when you hear fanners complain about the price of cream and then see them buy butter substitutes at the local store. Isn’t it funny, some of the things that stand out in your store of memories? One memory of my granddaddy is of him standing with both my arms tight around his leg by a big water barrel on a stone boat be hind the horses, old Nell and Bill, and hearing him singing to Jesus, his Saviour, “Tell mother I’ll be there, in answer to her prayer.” I remember grandma scolding me for eating so many fresh cook ies and all the time it was my daddy sitting upstairs eating them as I brought them to him. Granny’s big apron was always a highlight of ample size, it was used for so many things. Some of the uses being carrying cobs and kindling for fires, and vegetables and fruit from garden and or chard. She always used to carry little chickens and eggs from the hen house in her apron and when the chickens got bigger, she used that apron to flap them from the yard and garden. Grandma’s apron always dried our tears and sometimes cleaned our noses. It aways handled the hot pans from the stove, and scared the flies from the table at threshing time. i une oi tne many memories oi daddy was when we children and he were through with the chores in the evening. After we had milk ed the cows we would sit there in the corral on our stools in the cool of the evening, the big moon smiling down on us, and daddy would tell us things that happen ed when he was a kid. He told us poems he had learn ed when he was a boy and sang old songs to us. I liked those old songs better than the new ones. Mama always sang or whistled at her work. She never seemed to get many new clothes, we six children usually needed something more than she, she said. I re member her big loaves of fresh bread and a big cookie jar. She had always a ready hand to fix our hurts with a kiss or a bandage. Though but a short year since the folks were laid away to rest, memories are still so many and fresh. Only yesterday our little six-year-old boy said, “I wish grandma could be here to patch my shirt, I liked to hear her humming when she came to see us.” Being a lover of horses, I re member some of them very well, although some of the memories hurt. When I was small, four I think, daddy got us a Shetland pony. We named her Dixie. We rode her back and forth over a big cave in our yard the first day and then later to school. She raised three colts for us so we al ways had horses to ride or drive hitched to a buggy to school. I remember raking hay with them. During our 16 years of married life, my husband and I have had several teams of horses. The ones I loved best were Dick and Maud, the blacks, and Barney and Topsy, the sorrels. We had these teams during the winters of ’48, ’49 and ’51. We still use teams in feeding hay around springs and corrals. It’s easier with a team than tractor and cabling rack and I like it when he feeds in the field and doesn’t need a driver, when brr . . . it’s cold! In summer, we usually hay on bottomland and I still like my team to rake with. Some say it’s so slow with horses, but they seldom get stuck as a tractor does in a swamp. Then you need a dragline or old Barney and Topsy to get the tractor out. DORSEY HOMEMAKER Mike Williamson Heads Ewing Co-Op EWING—Carol Summerer was elected secretary of the Ewing Co-operative Creamery at a meet ing held Thursday evening at the creamery. On Saturday, the co-operative creamery held its annual business meeting at the Eldorado theatre. Charles Wilcox was guest speak er. A report was given by the Manager Julian Sojka for the 1955 operation, followed by a dis cussion. The following officers were elected: Mike Williamson, presi dent; Verl Tuttle, vice-president. Retiring officials are Harry Tay lor, president, and Willie Shra der. Prepare Sewing for Hospital— EWING — The Jolly Worker’s club members sewed clothing for f ■ the General Missionary society of the United Presbyterian church when they met Thursday after noon at tne nome of Mrs. Louis Shrader. The society is packing a box to be sent to the Jane Cook hospital at Frenchburg, Ky. Tea towles were also made for the hostess by the Jolly Worker’s. Gifts were presented to the fol lowing members who observed birthday anniversaries recently: Mrs. Joe Tomjack; Mrs. Will Shrader, Mrs. Kittie Fry; Mrs. Emily Johnston and Mrs. Victor Vandersnick. At the April meeting, to be held at the home of Mrs. Fred Wiegand, bulbs will be exchang ed by the members. Mrs. Roland Horde presided. A potluck lunch was served. Other Ewing News Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schindler of Elgin spent Sunday at the home of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Urban. Ed Urban is back at his home in Ewing after making a trip to ! Chicago to take a car to his daughter, Miss Myrtle Urban, during his absence. The ladies are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleming accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Serr of Clearwater went to Stanton on Sunday, March 4, to attend open house for the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown, former resi dents of the Ewing community. Recent callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleming were Mr. and Mrs. George Bonge and family of Orchard, Mrs. Dora Townsend and Duran Rutherford, both of Page, and Mrs. Frank Bel mar. Mrs. Ralph Eacker returned, Wednesday, March 7, from Grand Island where she had stayed at the home of her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Fuller, while they made a trip to Denver, Colo. Venetian blinds, prompt deliv ery, made to measure, metal or wood, all colors_J. M. McDon alds. tf Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Cloyd March 4 were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Timmerman of Plainview, and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brokaw and family of Norfolk. Mrs. Kittie Fry was a guest on March 4. at the home of her son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Shrader, and family. Mrs. Kittie Fry spent Thursday and Friday, March 1-2, with her sister, Mrs. Mark Hemenway, near Clearwater. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Boies, Mrs. Rose Bauer and Catherine went to Plainview recently where they called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Boies. Miss Fern Pruden was hostess at a party Friday, Mar. 2, at her home. The group of ladies was entertained by Mrs. Hessie But terfield of Orchard with games and demonstrations. Don’t be sorry. See our wall paper display before you buy.— Scovie’s Western Auto, O’Neill. 45-2c Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Spangler entertained at a 1 o’clock dinner recently in honor of the fifth birthday anniversary of their son, Leon. A candle-lighted cake made the table centerpiece. His grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ebben Grafft, were guests. DAMAGE $200 An unoccupied car owned by Dr. Edward M. Gleer.on, parked near the H. J. Lohaus residence, was struck by a car driven by James Reynoldson during a blinding snowstorm Friday eve ning, March 2. Damage was esti mated at $200. Received a shipment of the new Winchester model 77 automatic.— Scovie’s Western Auto, O’Neill. 44-45 -- Dr. Edw. J. Norwood. OJ3. Optometrist. from Crawford. Nebraska, will be in O'Neill on Ai the Hotel Golden SATURDAY. MARCH 24 9 Ail to 5 PM. Eyes Scientifically Examined Glasses Properly Fitted 46-47c o REFEREE'S SALE The Joseph Gilg Estate Lands Will be Sold at Public Auction on MARCH 19,1956 At 1:30 P.M. at the Court House in Bassett Terms 20% cash on sale date, with balance on confirmation when possession will be given. 480 acres of good hay and pasture, at south edge of Newport; improved 50 acre tract a at southwest corner of Newpot; auditori um, store, three houses and lots in New port; house and lots in Bassett; and 280 acres pasture land about 25 miles south of Newport. Arthur A. Weber * REFEREE Bassett, Nebraska » .0 The Case Where One Head Is Better Than Three • » O' You’ve probably heard about the proposed merger of Nebraska Pub lic Power System, Loup River Public Power District and Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District. These units, working to gether, are the producers of virtu ally all the electricity used in the eastern two-thirds of Nebraska, ex clusive of the Omaha area. 0 What does this merger mean to you, the electricity user? 1. More possible savings in your electrical bills. (You now pay less for electricity than the average homeowner in any neighboring state.) 2. An increasing amount of electricity, made possible by fast and low-cost expansion of the State’s power supply. (Electricity demand in Ne braska is expected to double by 1960.) . This merger of Nebraska’s power producing agencies is needed. It’s * a case where one consolidated dis ° trict with one management team and one board of directors is better than three separate power entities — no matter how closely those three work together. The proposed merger: • will streamline operations, resulting in cost savings 9 is favored by bankers and investment people who be lieve that consolidation can bring lower interest rates on money needed for power expansion 9 will give all people in the area served a bigger voice in power matters. (Directors would be elected from the eastern two-thirds of Ne braska, exclusive of the area served by the Omaha Public Power District.) 9 will safeguard public power benefits, including irriga tion benefits, for all people of the State. Your power producers have served you well in the past. Now your support for the future in this self-improvement merger is essen tial. We realize State power prob lems are complicated, so we urge you to ask questions, because . . * OUR BUSINESS IS YOUR BUSINESS % Producers of Low-Cost Power iJ^Ps ) for Nebraska's Expanding Needt Nebraska Public Power System OS. LOW RIVtt PUBLIC POWtt DISTRICT AND PLATT I VALUV PUBUC POWtt AND IRRIGATION DlfTRICf 3 O c o It Happened In NEBRASKA The first frontier schools conducted for Indian children were missions. But the migratory Indians were seldom near the missions except during corn-growing sea son. Even then, older children were often kept out of school to frighten blackbirds away from the corn fields. AS REFRESHING AS these tales of early frontier 1 ■''/ life is the friendly glass of beer which has come to be long—m today’s Nebraska. Beer is the refreshing bev A erage of moderation, so right to serve when friends drop . in or at family gatherings. Keep it on hand—always! DIVISION • U.S. BREWERS FOUNDATION, 710 First Nat'l Bank Bldg., Lincoln, Nabrt AS WE ARE MOVING to California, we will offer our real estate and personal property at public auction, on t le premises, located 1 2 miles east of O Neill on Highway 1 08 or 4 miles north of Page and three-quarters of a mile east, on — FRIDAY, MARCH 23xd Sale Starts at 12 O’clock Noon_Lunch Served by Help-U Club | 440-A Pump Irrigated Holt Co- Farm I 120-ACRE TRACT IMPROVEMENTS Legally Described: E% of SEy4, SEy4 of NEy4, aU in Section 19, Township 29 Range 9, Holt County, Nebr. DWELLING: 11-room dwelling, completely insulated with rock wool. New sid ing. Large enclosed porch, basement, furnace. Dwelling is in excellent condi tion inside and out. CORN CRIB, 10x48 — HOG HOUSE — GRANARY—24x32 — BARN, 30x40 with Hay Loft — POULTRY HOUSE — SHED, 16x52. GENERAL INFORMATION MAIL route at door. Rural grade school only 1 mile from farmstead. Telephone. Easy access to ONeill (countyseat) and to Page (four-grade high school). REA wired to all the buildings. Underground (pipe) water from supply tank to house, bam, corral, hog lot. Well and windmill for supplementary water. 320-ACRE TRACT Legal Description: N% of Section 21, Township 29, Range 9, Holt County, Nebr. This Is a generally level, pump-irrigated farm, some of Holt county’s best and most productive farmland. Shelterbelt extends east-and-west through center. Place is fenced. Irrigation well will deliver 2,000 gallons per minute. 160 rods of main water line with 160 rods of sprinkler pipe with attachments. Pump, motor, 1,000-gal. LP fuel tank, trailer for moving pipe, all pipe and attachments sold with 320 acres. TERMS ON REAL ESTATE: 20% of purchase price payable on day of sale; guaranteed abstract and title furnished, 1955 taxes paid, possesion given on or before April 1, 1956, after complete settlement Has been arrangd and title has been accepted. 1/"^* T J .»_ i-’iace is well-fenced and cross-fenced; fine winter protection around building site. Mr. Burival, living on the I wCilcral mrormauon: place, or Colonel Thorin, the auctioneer-broker, will be pleased to show the place at any time. Farm will be sold as one unit or in two separate tracts, whichever brings the most money. | Farm Machinery, Etc. I V AC Case I ractor and Cultivator 1952 Oilver Tractor Comfort Cover for Oliver Tractor 2-Bottom 16-In. Plow (tractor) 2-Row Lister — Sprayer 1,500-Lb. Feed Mixer 2-Row Cultivator with Fertilizer Attachment 7-Ft. Power Mower 14-Ft. M-M Windrower 2- Row IHC Eli, 1953 Iron-Wheel Wagon Gear M-M 91/2-Ft. Grain Drill 3— Wagon Trailers with Boxes, ^ on rubber Farmor M-M Tractor Compicker Combine, self-propelled, pickup attachment M-M 7-Ft. One-Way Hog Troughs — Wood Gates 50-Gal. Hog Waterer Loading Chute — Branding Chute Registered Brand LP Heater for Branding Irons A-C Chopper A-C Hay Baler (round bales) A-C Side Delivery Rake Ezee Flow Fertilizer Spreader, 12-Ft., on rubber Manure Spreader, power take-off Manure Loader — Cement Mixer Fanning Mill — 4—Feed Bunks 5—50-Bu. Self Feeders 200-Bu. Self Feeder 40-Ft. Grain Elevator LP Gas Tank Heater New Saddle and Bridle 300-Gal. Tank Gas LP, with reg. 500Gal. LP Tank with reg. 300-Gal. Water Tank 2— 8-Ft. Water Tanks 4-Section Harrow Hammer Grinder Tandem Disc, 8-ft. Some Hog Wire — Slat Cribbing Steel Crib Roof (for round 16-ft. crib) Lots of 1-In. Pipe, new 3— Garden Hose Chicken Feeders and Waterers Electric Heat Lamps DeLaval Table Model Cream Separator Small Brooder House I Household Goods ZU-ht. 1HCJ Deep Freeze Magic Chef LP Gas Cook Stove LP Gas Pleating Stove, large electric fan Dining Room Table, 7 Chairs Servel Gas Refrigerator Davenport and Chair Coronado Elec. Washing Machine Chrome Breakfast Set 9x12 Wool Rug — Cabinet Library Table — Coffee Table 2—End Tables — Floor Lamp Folding Steel Cot, Mattress Bed Spring and Mattress 2—Dressers I terms on Personal Property: Strictly Cash. I HENRY BURI VAL, Owner I COL. ED THORIN, O’Neill, O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK, I | Auctioneer - Real Estate Broker Clerk
