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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1956)
Old Grads Return to Wayne College PAGE— The annual picnic of the alumni at the student union building at Wayne on Sunday, August 5, was designed to call cut members of the old guard when WSTC was the Nebraska Normal college. Guest speaker for this year’s affair was the newly installed president of the college. Dr W A. Brandenburg, who compared the fine college with its most humble ble beginning'” when such a col lege was in the experimental stage Mrs Henry Fleming of Ewing, one of the early students, report ed that a clipping from The Frontier was read during the business session and became a part of the permanent record that is being kept on each year’s pic nic activities. Mrs. Charles H. Bright, whose maiden name was Anna Byrne, was a member of the first teach ing staff of the normal college during Professor Pile’s presiden cy. She and her husband, also a teacher at the college, were pres ent. Mrs. Bright, 90, is active, keen mtnded, and was able to recall incidents and people from the college days of yesteryear Mr. and Mrs. Bright taught many years at the college, fol lowed by a period of teaching in the Philippine islands. They re turned to the college later under state ownership. They transfer red to the Chadron college where Mrs. Bright served as librarian. Lewis Omey was the oldest student present, having attended during the late ‘90’s. Aatel Borg of Palo Alto, Calif., came from the greatest distance. The present officers are: John M. Peterson of Carroll, president; Ralph Crockett of Wayne, secre tary, and Pearl Sewell of Wayne, treasurer. Copies of the Nebraska Normal college song, published by Pro fessor Pile with music by Nellie Stewart and words by Nebraska’s poet laureate, J. G. Niehardt, were given to the guests as sou venirs. Other Page News Mr. and Mrs. Orville Olson of Oakland were Sunday guests in , the Merwyn French, jr., home. Mr and Mrs Roy Provost and family of Lusk, Wyo., were guests over the weekend of her mother, Mrs. Amelia Larson. Mr and Mrs. Roy Zellers and grandchildren, Nelta and Elonna King and Elvin Heiss, visited George and Grace Zellers at Chambers Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Marvin Snyder and children of Unadilla were Sunday evening guests at the Roy Zeller home. A good many of the friends and old neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Christon attended the sale Ht Ewing when the Christons dis posed of their home and house hold effects. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Porter of the east Emporia neigh borhood purchased the home. The Christons will leave soon tor their' new home at Rockford, ill Otto (‘‘Shorty’’) Wahletz and Charles Wiseman left Monday for the Ozarks where they will spend their vacation. , TI . . Mr and Mrs. Lloyd Henry of Coleridge were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder. Mr. Henry and Mrs. Snyder are brother and sister. Mr and Mrs. Charles Mitchell of Butte were Saturday to Tues day visitors in the Jesse Kt y home. Mrs. Anna Thompson was also a Monday guest there. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thompson of Wahoo and Mrs. Kate Thompson ot Caldwell, Ida., were Sunday and Monday guests of Mrs. Anna T1MrPand Mrs. Elwin Cronk and daughter, Jane Ellen, of_ Bernardino, Calif., arrived Satur day to spend their vacation with Yds parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cronk. at Page and with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Galla gher, at Inman. They were r, companied here by a friend of thier daughter, Mary Lou Mc KemC'and Mrs. Ira Thompson of W ihoo Mrs. Kate Thompson o, Caldwell, Ida., and Mrs. Anna Thompson were Sunday evening ‘Zr, at the R. D. Copes home. Mr and Mrs. Gilbert 1-*axx*i “ shire 'of Polk spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jud RUmS Evelyn Gray returned to her home Saturday from a two weeks' visit in the Virgil Chase home at Keystone, S.D., Sunday, ofMr and rhiane Gray and family, me oc Sion was Duane's birthday an “^iTand Mrs. Phillip Fink and daughter of Norfolk were Sunday callers at the darence Dobbins Herbert Stevens and Mrs. EthU neighbors of tliese families m Waring homes. They were once the Middlebranch vicinity. Ed Murfin and Mr. and Mr.. Darwin Murfin of Cairo were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs J°Mr Garnd Mrs. A. D. Palmer Mrs Lee Taylor were Sun day evening 8ueststHofM^sr'L3 Mrc Hal Farnsworth. Mrs. L. r. Knudsen and daughters were also “Mrs. S. Walker of'O'Neill, t'.^nSs,.ndd.‘nd ^En,M.ld SEU;hehn"dWidtdanf £'i5s.'ss« rr ^d'and Lee ?ayio? homes. Mr-. Palmer Is M". Taylor's -liter and Mrs. Chmcler is Mrs. Town SC Mrs. dLaSaer' Walker was a Sunday overnight guest of Mr.. Hester Edmisten. - ” Larry and Perry Lund, sons of Mr and Mrs. Melvin Lund of Scotia, accompanied Mrs. Arnold Stewart and Mrs. Robert Gray from St. Paul to Page where they will spend this week with their great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Connery* and son of Chadron and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sorensen of Owens boro, Ky, were Monday dinner guests in the Soren Sorensen, si., home. Mr and Mrs. Glen Clark and! Mike, Mrs. Ethel Park and Mrs. j Edd Stew-art and daughter, Sher-! ry, were Norfolk visitors Satur day. Mr and Mrs. Edd Stewart and Mickey and their guests, Mr. and Mrs Glen Clark and Mike cf Council Bluffs. Ia., were Pieks town, S.D., sightseers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wood and family of Battle Creek returned to their home last Thursday af ter a few days’ visit with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Copes, at Page. On Friday. Dale Wood brought his wife and sons to their home while he was at tending national guard camp Golf Tourney Results todate in the men’s city golf tournament in progress at the Country club follow: Championship Flight Ben Grady beat Jack Everitt, Henry Lohaus defeated Ted Lindberg, A. P. Jaskowiak down ed John Baker. First Flight Tom Liddy beat Marvin John son. Jim Clifton bested Laurence Haynes, Earl Hunt won by de fault from Paul Walker and C. C Golden defeated Ivan Kaiser. In the next round Liddy plays Clifton and Hunt takes on Gol 1 en. Second Flight Marvin Miller beat Dr. Harry Gildersleeve, Dale Kersenbrock won over Dr. Rex Wilson, Alfred Drayton defeated John Conard and Dale French bested George Hammond. Next round: Miller will play Kersenbrock and Drayton com petes with French. Third Flight W. W. McIntosh won from Dr. E. M. Gleeson, Fred Appleby outplayed Harold Connor, John McCarville beat John Watson. Fourth Flight Don Bunker topped Jim Earley, Jack Simmons beat Verne Rey noldson, Ivan Pruss bested Mor nr • t-v r» _ i a a .... ^ ^UU n aiu, uviiaiiv* ” from Tut McKee. Next round: Bunker takes on Simmons and Pruss plays Schaf fer. Fifth Flight Warren Kelley beat Elgin Ray, Art Noecker defeated Bob Cole, Bill Kelly won from Herb Kai ser. Bill Artus topped Fritz Yantzie. Next round: Warren Kelley meets Noecker, Bill Kelley plays Artus. Sixth Flight Don Tomplemeyer beat Glen j Miller, Dick Nelson defeated Ron Borg, L. A. Becker bested Robe't Devoy. Next round: Becker meets Nel son. All losers will enter the con solation play. Rockets Triumph in Loose Game The O’Neill Rockets defeated the Atkinson Towners, 12—11, in a comedy of errors Sunday night in Carney park. Although both teams are members of the North Central Nebraska league, the three-hour affair was a non league perfQrmance. Each club committed 10 errors. O’Neill had 14 hits; Atkinson 12. “They outfumbled us,” ex plained O’Neill’s Manager Dick Tomlinson. The game was tied several times, including the sixth and ninth innings. Batteries: O’Neill — Larry Heiss, Darel Graham and Junior Adamson; Atkinson — Fiester, Fleming and Troshynski. Congressman Feted at Tuesday Dinner Nineteen persons attended a dinner party Tuesday evening honoring Congressman A. L. Mil ler (R) of Kimball, Nebraska’s Fourth district representative. The affair was arranged by Mrs. Guy Cole of O’Neill, Holt republican chairman. Congressman Miller, when he was i iion iiicm i insular affairs committee of the! house, introduced legislation i making possible federal irrigation projects in Nebraska. One is at Sargent and construction is nearly completed. Welts Car Is Destroyed by Fire— LYNCH — About 12:30 a.m , Thursday, August 9, fire destroy ed Lyle Wells’ pickup. He was traveling down the Niobrara riv er hill when he discovered fire under the floor boards. A tele phone call to Lynch called many Lynch men to the scene but the pickup was destroyed. ATKINSON WINS CHAMBERS — The Chambers Midets met defeat at the hands of the Atkinson Midgets, 8-6, at Atkinson Sunday. Too Late to Classify FOR RENT: Modem sleeping room for men or for school boys.—Ramon Bright, O’Neill, phone 232. 16tf CARD OF THANKS WE WISH to thank our neighbors and the firemen who helped Saturday afternoon when fire broke out at our place. Espe cially do I wrant to thank the Charles Fox family, who inves tigated and sounded the .alarm. —Mrs. Martha Flecner, O’Nei'. 16p50 FOR SALE: John Deere corn binder, good condition. —Mrs. Martha Fleener, O’Neill, 2V->. miles east of Midway. 16p>40 CARD OF THANKS A BIG, big thank you to my many friends for their prayers, the lovely flowers, presents, cards and visits to me while I was in the hospital. And thanks to Doctor Brown and the hos pital staff for their good care. —Jennie Eppenbach. Hip tl * * ■ f Camera Goes to the Fair . —« i. mim-m—rn—~~ ' r '**•* ' ■ Grand champion baby beef steer of all breeds was shown by a frequent purple exhibitor—Robert Beelaert. 18. of Page, member of the Eagle Hustlers club. "Bob" acquired "Percy" as a gift from the Holt County Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ association last fall.—The Frontier Photo. g&r-fxwmumamamtiwu... ■ Kenneth Backhaus, 17, of O’Neill exhibited the rhampion breeding heifer, Hereford division, at the fair.—The Frontier Photo. Grand champion baby beef breeding heifer at the fair was an Angus shown by Robert Beel aert of Page.—The Frontier Photo. 1 Randy Colman of Inman and Ralph Heiser of Atkinson stand beside Ed Heiser of Atkinson at the new 4-H barn put to use this week for the first time. Ralph was awarded two livestock rib bons. The new barn housed dairy cattle exclusively. (The youth at right is not identified.) The Frontier Photo. Credit Conference— Return from Farm Officers and directors of the O’Neill Production Credit asso ciation returned home Tuesday from a two-day farm credit con ference at Hastings. Representing the O’Neill PCA were Ott E. Oberg of Ericson and Otto Krupicka of Spencer, di rectors; James W. Rooney of O' Neill, secretary - treasurer, and William S. Mattern, assistant secretary-treasurer. ; Topics discussed at the meet • ing included the outlook for the . farming and livestock industry, i recent developments in short term credit, and trends in the money market. Mr. Rooney was a member of a panel. The topic for discussion was “Extending Cred it Today.” The 14 Nebraska Production Credit associations, owned co operatively by 6,000 farmers ard stockmen, provided a total of $:'6 million short-term farm credit during the year ended June 30, 1956. DOWNS BURWELL CHAMBERS— The Chambers ball club defeated Burwell, 10-8, in a game played at Chambers Sunday. On Furlough— VENUS — Pfc. Roland Oltjer bruns is spending a two-weeks’ furlough with his father, Walter Oltjenbruns, and family. Pc lend is stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Notes Anniversary— EWING—Mrs. Roy Rotherham celebrated a birthday anniver sary Friday and was surprised by a group of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brittell and Betty visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Brittell Mon day and Tuesday. Charge Businessmen with Inaccuracies Some businessmen have been! “picking figures out of the air” in reporting the worth of their inventories for tax purposes, ac cording to Gov. Victor Anderson, himself a businessman. The governor, chairman of the state board of equalization, said in 1957 the board will not tol erate incomplete returns from businessmen. Assessors will be directed to return the forms, he said, with the request that they be properly filled out. , A special note was made on business assessment forms this year reminding taxpayers in volved that the amount of their inventories on January 1 should he the same as that turned In for federal income tax purposes. Many skipped filling out the blank, but merely listed a total in the space provided. The governor says this gives the assessor nothing to check against to determine if the figure listed is accurate. Governor Anderson emphasiz ed that in making the statement, he was not accusing businessmen of making “dishonest” returns. Rather, he said, they don't actu ally know the amount of their in ventories otherwise. "We don’t like to penalize any one,” the governor commented.! “All we want is the facts, and the | only way they can be obtained is I by the businessman making a I ■ complete return.” ( * * » Merit System— One of the little heard of—but important—agencies of state gov ernment is the merit system council. Without a merit system, three state agencies—health de partment, labor and welfare — would get no federal money. The council lays down policies for the merit system—a system of personnel administration where by uniform standards are used to classify and pay employees. J. Y. Castle of North Platte is the chairman of the council, and Dwight Williams, council direct or. The federal government re quires the agencies involved to nave a merit system for em ployees or it would allocate no federal funds to them. All three use a considerable amount of money. Lynch News Mr. and Mrs. William Vesely of Verdel visited recently at the I Frank Fisher home. Denise and with their parents after a week’s visit with their grandparents. Mrs. Mauree Leamons Schaller of St. Paul, Minn., visited with Mrs. G. L. Mulhair last week. Mrs. Buss Greene of Lincoln is visiting home folks this week. Lt. and Mrs. Delbert Haselhorst and baby recently visited at the Henry Vonasek home. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Hammon and family were Sunday visitors at the Walter Monroe home in Fairfax, S.D. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tcadtke and daughter visited with Mr. and Mrs. Art Peters at Spencer Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Whetham returned to their home in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday. They spent the past two weeks visiting Boyd county relatives and W'ere housegucsts at the I’d Whetham home while here. Margene Weeder returned to her home Tuesday, August 7, having spent several days with her parents in Sioux City. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ellers and family of Azusa, Calif., are here visiting relatives and j friends. Mrs. Ellers is the former ■ Miss Ruby Barnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Barnes. She was born and reared in Lynch. Chace Gives Up Law Practice ATKINSON— Charles E. Chace, Atkinson attorney, will discontinue his law practice September 1 and will enter the field of public relations at Mon tevideo, Minn. Francis D. Lee, also an Atkinson attorney, will take over the Chace law prac tice. Mr. Chace will enter cham ber of commerce work, doing orofessional writing on legisla tive and taxation matters. Chace returned to Atkinson following World War II and es tablished a law practice. His wife is the former Mary Lois Ham mond of O’Neill. They have six children. Mrs. Floyd E. Fast BUTTE—Funeral services for Mrs. Floyd E. Fast, 63, were con ducted Monday afternoon at the Community church. She died Friday in the Lynch hospital. She was born March 17, 1892, at Grand Island. Survivors: Widower; daughters — Mrs. Lee Mathre and Mrs. Ralph Blomen kamp, both of Butte three j grandchildren. I - O’Neillites Buy 1 Norfolk Store— i Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Evans, owners of the O’Neill Drag and Johnson Drug in O’Neill, have purchased the Healey Drug store in Norfolk. They will continue to operate the O’Neill stores. MULFOItD AT SHAW AFB STUART—A/2c Fred A. Mul ford is now at an air base in South Carolina. His address. - A/2c Fred A. Mulford, 363d AB 5’| Op. Hq. RON, Box 94, Sha-.v r; AFB, S.C. d I --- 1, GRIFFIN CAR DUNKED A parked Buick sedan owned ’ by William W. Griffin of O’Neill rolled from its parking place n | Sunday noon and was submerged ■- in 20 feet of water at Ft. Randall y reservoir. KOLACH DAY 111 VERDIGRE—Plans have been completed for Verdigre’s sixth ; annual kolach day to be held la bor day—Monday, September 3. An Anrus bull. “Century.” owned by Miss Brenda Beelaert. 17, of Page and shown (above) by her father, Frank Beelaert. was judged grand champion in the open-clans competition of all breeds.—The Frontier Photo. _ ■ m ^ m *. ' f Ver Linden . . . alone now; decided to visit scenes of child hood.—The Frontier Photo. Makes Pilgrimage to Hometown After 45 Years Away Henry Ver Linden of Tipton, Mo., a retired contractor who was reared in this community, departed late Monday after paying his old hometown a re turn visit. He left O’Neill with his fam ily in 1911 and the return tiip was the only one in 45 years He marveled at the progress that had been made and recall ed how horse-drawn rigs fre quently used to get stuck on the town’s main street. “Every thing looks swell now,” he de clared. “Lots of new homes; fine, wide streets.” As a building contractor his work took him to several states. He formerly lived on the old Bellamy place, two miles north of O’Neill. The old family home still stands. we Kias were saaaenea when we had to move away. My wife died several years ago and my boy lives in California. I’m all alone now and simply wanted to pay a visit to the scenes of my childhood.” Mr. Ver Linden called on for mer neighbors: Frank and Ed Murray, Mrs. Paul Sullivan and Richard Minton. ONE INDUCTED Wesley Sedivy of Spencer went to Omaha by train early Wednes day for induction into the armed forces through the Holt county selective service office. Going for preinduction physical examina tions were Earl Miller of O’Neill and Wilmer Warner of Atkinson. BASSETT PLANS TOURNEY BASSETT— The Country club, now in its first season, will hold on open golf tournament on the sand greens course Sunday. A number of O’Neill entries are ex pected. The clubhouse also is new. MISSES CURVE Harold O’Connor of Sioux City last Thursday evening missed a curve on the Eagle creek detour on US. highway 281, nortn of here, and his machine rolled over. He was driving a 1955 model car and no one was hurt. CHECKS TO GO OUT An agricultural department of ficial in Washington said Satur day the first checks to farmers participating in the 1956 soil bank program may go out shortly after labor day. O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. Roy Humrieh and sons returned Friday after a six days' stay with her brother-in law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lyders of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Fried rich of Lomira, Wise , spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Burch, uncle and aunt of Mrs. Friedrich. The Burches are re turning to Lomira with the Fried riches for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Wrede and son. Tommy, of Denver, Colo., visited Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bowen several days last week. Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harden Anspach are their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Anspach of Lincoln. They' arrived Monday to spend a two-weeks’ vacation. Miss Loretto Enright and Mrs. Henry Benze and daughter. Car men, spent Monday in Norfolk visiting at the home of Miss En right’s sister, Mrs. Tom Semlak. Mrs. Henry Martin spent sev eral days last week in Norfolk Ewing News Mr. and Mrs. John Steskal and family attended a reunion of the Hauser family held Sunday at the Riverside park in Neligh. Mr. and Mrs. John Steskal, jr., and family were also present. I jester Wood of Lincoln came to Ewing Sunday to spend the day visiting relatives and to get Mrs. Wood and children, who had been visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anderson and daughters of Nyssa, Ore., spent several days the past wwk visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Werkmeister. Levi Hull of O’Neill was a Sat urday overnight guest at the home of his nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Doud. Guests on Friday at the home of Mrs. Jessie Angus were Mrs. Chris Larson and her daughter, Mrs. Minnie George of Ft. Dodge, It. The ladies also visited Mrs. Amy Jacobsen. Recent guests at the home of Mrs. Amy Jacobsen were Mrs. Brown and daughter of 3t. Cloud, Fla. They are friends of Mrs. Jacobsen’s son, Thomas Jacobsen and family who also live in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Donovan of Meadow Grove were guests of her uncle and wife Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Cloyd. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Tom jack were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Taylor, her grand mother, Mrs. B. E. Taylor of Tilden, and Mr. and Mrs. Mer win Murray of Neligh. Inman News Postmaster and Mrs. B. H. Stevens of Page were Tuesday evening, August 7, callers in the home of Postmaster and Mrs. James M. McMahan. The Inman WSCS met last Thursday afternoon at the church annex for a regular session. Mrs. H. A. Tompkins and Mrs. Wilbur Brown were hostesses for the afternoon and served refresh ments to the group. Chambers News Mrs. Charles Spann has pur chased the Kieth Sexton home in Chambers and has rented it to Mrs. Ed Harvey. The Sextons plan to leave for their new loca tion at Holyoke, Colo., the last of this week. Mrs. Harvey has not definitely decided when she will move. 350 - 400 Cattle Predicted • At the regular weekly auction today (Thursday) at the O’Neill Livestock Market there will be 350 to 450 head of cattle. These will be mostly mixed consign ments of calves, yearlings and cows. However, at present there are a number of nice consignments of part loads of yearlings, heifers and steers with a few light calves t>» be offered for sale. • There will be 15 head of purebred Hereford cows and calves from Bristow, 15 black yearlings from Orchard and 20 yearling calves from Chambers besides other numerous consignments. • The hog sale will begin at 1 o’clock. O’Neill Livestock Market Phone 2, O’Neill
