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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1956)
SIXTEEN PAGES it SECTION ONE North-Central Nebraska’s BIGGEST Newspaper V olume 76.- Number 32. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 6, 1 936._ Seven Cents. Mrs. Lawrence Itobrovolny of O’Neill . . . grand prize win ner In window unveiling contest.—The Frontier Photo. G. E* Laney, 9*7, Dies; Resident Since 1878 Milo V. Landreth Named to Board Page Demo Succeeds Tomlinson Milo Landreth, Page farmer living 51-. miles north and 1% miles east of that place in Iowa township, late Wednesday was appointed Holt county super visor to fill the vacancy created last month by the death of Ar thur W. Tomlinson of Inman. Landreth is a democrat who was beaten in the election NLvemtfer (i by Mr. Tomlinson, a republican. The appointment of a democrat makes three demos on the board compared to four republicans. ITior to Tomlinson’s death the count was 5-2. I^andreth was chosen Wednes day on the first ballot. He re ceived four affirmitive votes and two negatives votes. Unsuccesful applicants for the , vacancy were: Elmer Devall of O’Neill. Ray Wilson of Redbird, Chester Youngs of Inman and Harry Moore of Inman, all re- j publicans. A group of farmers in the Page locality appeared before board urging the supervisors to appeal for federal disaster aid. They wanted Holt county designated as a drouth disaster area. Among those appearing were: Pete and John Sojka, Marvin Stauffer. Alvin Hesse, Floyd Be lik, William Sorensen, Leslie Summers, Elmer Edmisten, Art Grass. The board instructed County Clerk Kenneth Waring to write Gov. Victor Anderson, urging that Holt be designated as a major drouth area. Kamphaus Land Sold in Tracts A large crowd attended the Kamphaus estate referee’s sale held Monday at the Holt county courthouse. The sale involved 3,720 -acres of deeded land in •outhwest Holt county, near Amelia, and 640 acres of school lease land. High bidders: Tract 1 (880 acres)—Burl and Lloyd Waldo of Chambers, $20, 000. Tract 2 (960 acres)—Raymond Beed of Chambers, $21,500. Tract 3 (1,040 acres) — W. l^eonard Dexter of Amelia, $20, 000 Tract 4 (840 acres) — James Bilstein of Amelia, $17,800. Tract 5 (640-acres school sec tion)—Gene Lierman of Amelia, ^Norman Gonderinger of O’Neill was the referee; Julius D. Cronin of O’Neill, attorney. Widely - Heralded Cold Wave Late— The widely-heralded cold wave, which had been forecast for early Monday, failed to materialize un til 48 hours later. Meanwhile, on Monday the mercury soared to 67 degrees and shirt sleeves and light sweaters were in vogue a mong the yuletide shoppers. Temperatures dropped, how ever, late Tuesday. Lowest tem perature during the night was 15 degrees, officially. Summary: hl 0 NOVEMBER 29 47 11 NOVEMBER 30 51 27 DECEMBER 1 58 24 DECEMBER 2 60 31 DECEMBER 3 6/29 DECEMBER 4 60 26 DECEMBER 5 27 14 Shellhases Return from Kansas — Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Shellhase have returned home from Belle ville, Kans., where they had taken her mother, Mrs. Minnie Sohnitker, to spend the winter with two other daughters. While in Kansas they all ac companied Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Aurand to Rockport, Mo., to visit relatives. Mrs Aurand is a sister of Mrs. Shellhase. Mrs. Schnitker i s from Cross Timbers, Mo. • • *. * • ... i* • *. * INMAN—Funeral services for George Egbert Laney, 90, were conducted at 9 u.m., Tuesday, December 4, at St. Patrick's Catholic church in O’Neill. Bur ial was in Calvary cemetery. Very Rev, Timothy O’Sullivan officiated. Mr. Laney died Saturday, De cember 1, in a rest home at Genoa. He had been ill about a month. A rosary service wa s held Monday evening in Biglin’s fu neral chapel. Pallbearers^ were James Cov entry, Melvin Michaelis, John H. Mattson, James Gallagher, Ehvin Smith and Joseph Gall agher. The late Mr. Laney was born October 19, 1866, at Elysian, LcSeur county, Minn., a son of Joseph and Jane Elm. Laney He came to Holt county in in 1878 from VVauseka. Minn., and spent virtually the remain der of Ids life in or near Holt county. On November 27, 1895, he married Mary Harte at O’Neill. They became the parents of two children. Survivors include: Widow— Mary; son—Joseph W. of Lin coln; daughter—Mrs. Robert (Elizabeth) Ticknor of Denver, Colo.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Among friends and relatives from out-of-town here for the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ticknor of Denver, Colo.; Eugene Harte and Neal Chase both of Sheldon, la.; and Mr. and Mrs. John Harte of Lincoln. Held-Cook Incident Sends 1 to Hospital Bill Hold, about 35, of Cham bers was charged with assault and battery in Holt county court by Herman Cook, follow ing an incident which allegedly (ook place late Sunday. Cook is in St. Anthony’s hos pital suffering from concussion and a fractured collarbone. Held reported the incident to Holt County Sheriff Leo Tom jack and he posted $500 bail on Tuesday afternoon. No date has been set for hearing and officials offered no details. Cook filed the com plaint. EDUCATIONAL NOTES Registration for the second se mester off-campus class, ‘‘Fun damentals of Speech” will be held at the O’Neill public school, January 12, 10:30 a.m. Supt. Royal Henline of Neligh will be the instructor for this three-hour class from Wayne State Teach ers college. Yule Buying May Exceed Y ear Ago Stores Jam-Packed; Complete Stocks for Gift Shoppers Wide - open roads, balmy weather and unexcelled stocks of | merchandise in the gaiiey decor ated stores are 1 actors which are appealing to Christmas shoppers in the region. And O’Neill — the Christmas city in north-Nebraska — bids well to exceed last year's yule volume. The belated cold wave served only to stimulate shopping, ac cording to an infprmal survey taken on Wednesday. Most O'Neill stores and shops are jam-packed with holiday merchandise and merchants gen erally arc reporting “better Bal tic ’ than a year ago. The heaviest ! of tiie shopping is yet to come and merchants are prepared to handle the throngs with extra staff and I well-stocked shelves. Stores will be open on Thursday evenings until 9 o'clock, beginning tonight. Most stores have been all set for the Christmas shoppers for a month, but the sparkling new merchandise continues to arrive. "Bu.-iness has been ahead of a | year ago,” one merchant declared, I yet our buying was heavier and our stocks hardly been dented.” At the December meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held Monday evening, it was decided to abandon the “bogus dollar” promotion which was held for the lirst time last year. December 13, 14 and 15 have been designated at “appreciation days" in O'Neill in lieu of the “bogus dollars”. (Details will be published next issue). Secretary John Harrington re ported a “highly successful” win dow unveiling ceremony held Friday evening, which attracted hundreds of persons. Harrington said each family that participated received a prize. The Chamber voted to close stores at 9 p.m., on Saturdays through January, February, March and April, in accordance with the usual custom here. Membership in the Nebraska U.S. Highway 20 association was discussed, but no action was tak en. William H. Allen Rites at Newport NEWPORT — Funeral services for William H. Allen, 87, a re tired Newport businessman, were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church. Burial was in the Stuart cemetery. Mr. Allen died Friday, Novem ber 30, in the Bassett hospital. Rev. Edward Jackson of Long Pine officiated in the rites. Pall bearers were Price Alderman, John Hasch, Albert Everingham, Roy Farr , Fred Gardner and Oliver Gilg. The late Mr. Allen was born May 23, 1869 at Humboldt, 111., and lived in Kansas before com ing to Newport in 1893. Survivors include: Widow — Alta, to whom he had been mar ried 63 years; daughter — Mrs. Florence Barnes of Newport; son —W. Harold Allen of Bassett; four grandchildren; five great grandchildren. Returns from West — T. Joe Biglin returned late Friday after having completed a month’s visit with relatives in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada and California. Window Shoppers At Unveiling Among those viewing the Elkhorn Flower Shop’s attention compelling window during the unveiling ceremonies Friday night I were (left-to-right) the Misses Judy Sullivan, Mary Graham, I Mary Neiman and Ruby Passieux—The Frontier Photo. Dual-Control l ord for Driver Training A 1957 Ford fordor with dual-controls was ing classes to be taught by William Edwards, delivered Monday by the I-ohaus Motor com- who is pictured with Larry Firsch, Joan Booth pany to the O’Neifl public school for driver train- a id Larrj Anderson.—The Frontier Photo. Mapping Jaycee plans for the new year . . . (left-to-right): George Janousek, Allan Van Vleck, Ronald Borg, James Borland, state vice-president, Robert LaRue and Howard Malison.— The Frontier Photo. Shorthorn Group Is Being Formed Object t o Promote Breed in Area CHAMBERS — A group of Shorthorn breeders and several others interested met at the Lloyd Gleed home Monday eve ning, December 3, to promote Shorthorn interest in the county. E. R. Carpenter, Chambers stockman, was made temporary chairman of the group. Other committee members are: Ivan Heiss of Page, David Keidel of Stuart and Lloyd Gleed of Cham bers. They will make plans for a second meeting at which time a permanent organization will be developed. Following a general discussion a committee was appointed to plan future publicity. Slides of Shorthorn cattle were shown by Don Prill of pictures taken while he was in Scotland. County agent A. Neil Dawes also showed some slides. The Dawes slides featured loc al breeders, 4-H club and pure bred heifer projects. Ft. Robinson beef research act ivities were discussed. Following the pictures, Mr. Dawes discussed possible activi ties that this group might be in terested in. It was felt that they should be working with 4-H youth and vocational agriculture boys in getting more breeding projects started. The committee decided to meet with the coun ty agent and plan an educational program tonight (Thursday). Lunch was served by Mrs. Gleed. Joint Rail Agents Okayed by Commission— The state railway commission reported Tuesday it has au thorized three railroads to es tablish joint agents at the sta tions at Oakland, Laurel, Ran dolph and Plainview. The joint operation had been asked by the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy Railroad com pany; North Western Railway company and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail way company. Returns from New York — Miss Mary Kathryn Turner returned Wednesday, November 28, after spending two weeks visiting friends in New York City. • Mr. and Mrs, Howard Manson spent Sunday in Clearwater vis iting Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beason. Highway Accident Injures Woman An accident about 5:45 p.m . Saturday on U. S. highway 20, near the cemetery, sent Mrs. Joe Mlinar to the hospital for treatment for injuries. The car in which Mrs. Mlinar was riding ran into the rear of a stopped car, operated by Os car Gruenke, who was picking up a pedestrian. Both vehicles were bound for O’Neill. Mrs. Mlinar was ser iousiy hurt and damage to both vehicles amounted to several hundred dollars. Creighton Church Goes Up in Flames Spectacular Early Morn Fire CREIGHTON — St. Ludger Catholic parish of Creighton ded icated a beautiful new church edifice Wednesday, November 21. It was scarcely a moment too soon. Early Wednesday the former church, a 72-year-old frame structure, burned to the ground Flames, which already had a good start, were discovered in the building about 1:15 a.m., by Dale Reese. He operates the sale pa vilion here and had been work ing late following the Tuesday sale. He smelled smoke and got into his car to investigate, and soon discovered the old St. Ludger church was burning. He sounded the alarm, and a second alarm went cut 15 or 20 minutes later. Eventually fire departments from Plainview, Verdigre and Brunswick were summoned, but the fire had such a start and was fanned by a strong north wind and the fire-fighters could save nothing except the adjacent St. Ludger academy building, which is only about 30 feet from the old church. The old church was being re modeled into a gymnasium for St. Ludger academy The nearby academy building escaped damage except from smoke. Embers showered on its roof throughout the fire, but the firemen kept it from igniting. It was feared for a time that the extremely tall church steeple might be toppled on the academy building, as the wind would tend to make it fall to the south. When the steeple collasped, however, probably because of the weight of the church bell, it dropped straight downward. Jaycees Will Again Make Toy Collection Discards Wanted for Needy Children Ronald Borg and Marlin Wich man were made vice-presidents of the O’Neill chapter of the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce in Tuesday’s rorganization meeting held at the American Legion clubrooms. James Borland of Omaha, state Jaycee vice-president, was a guest and helped with the mapping of plans for the O’Neill unit for the new year. The Jaycee officials voted to again sponsor a toy collection, asking for discarded toys from the residents. Toys will be mend ed, when possible, and prepared for distribution to needy children on Christmas morn. A year ago a vast amount of toys was collected, also $300 in cash. Legion, Auxiliary Again to Aid Needy At a meeting of Simonson post 93 of the American Legion, held Tuesday evening, it was decided I t,i again cooperate with the aux-; diary and provide yule baskets on Christmas morn for needy fam- ! dies in the community. A father-son party will be held j in the near future, sponsored by the Legion. Mean* hile, Christmas trees are being sold in the Odd Fellows building on the main floor Mrs. E. A. Peterson Burial at Niobrara Boyd Resident, S6, Expires in West MONOWI—Mrs. E. A. Peter son. t>(>, who was born ami reared at Niobrara, expired early Friday, November 23, at the heme of her daughter, Mrs. Clif ford Jensen, at Garden Grove, Calif. Mrs, Peterson had spent Thanksgiving with the Jensen family at the oceanside and was in good spirits that evening at die Jensen home. Funeral services were con ducted in Garden Grove Satur ady, November 25, and at Mon owi on Tuesday, November 27. The Peterson family trio sang three songs and Rev. Peterson ■ ff ited Burial was in L'Eau Qui Court cemetery at Niobrara. The late Mrs. Peterson’s mai den name was Carolyn Florence Longer, daughter of Frank ind 'arolyn Longer. She was horn March 8, 1890. She attended, the Niobrara public school. Her mother died when she was in her teens and the responsibility for rearing her younger brothers and sisters fell upon her in order to keep the family cir cle intact. She was united in marriage to i A. Peterson at Center, in 1915 and they became the par ents of eight children, all of whom survive. Mrs. Peterson lived at Monowi until a few months ago when she went to California to visit the Jensen family. She was a member of the Lutheran church and was a charter member of the Rebek ah lodge at Niobrara. Survivors include: Widower— Emil A. of Monowi: sons—Ches ter A. of Lebanon, Ore.; Buford E. of Anaheim. Calif.; Norris D. of Lebanon, Ore.; daughters— Mrs. Clifford (Florence) Jensen of Garden Grove; Mrs. Clifford (Mildred) Peterson of Salem, Ore.; Mrs. Vernon (Gladys) Houser of Garden Grove; Mr3. William C. (Fauniel) Graham, jr., of San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Frank (Carole Ann) Ertz, jr., of O’Neill; father—F. H. Lenger of Niobrara; brothers—Edward J. Lenger of Niobrara; Ralph B. and Claude Lenger, both of Al liance; sisters — Miss Mildred Lenger and Mrs. Rayder Ben son, both of Niobrara; 11 grand children. She was preceded in death by her mother and by one grand son, Dana Jensen. Relatives from a distance at tending the funeral at Monowi were: Ralph and Claude Lenger, both of Alliance; Mrs. Leo Stasch of Cody; Chester and Norris Pe terson of Salem, Ore.; Mrs. Clif ford Jensen and daughter, Pam ela, of Garden Grove, Calif.; F. H. Lenger, Miss Mildred Lenger, Mrs. Reyder Benson and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nelson, all of Niobrara; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ertz, jr., of O’Neill, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ertz, sr., of Butte. Jerry Terrill in College 'Who’s Who’ PAGE—Jerry Terrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Terrill of Page recently was selected to be listed in “Who’s Who” among students in American colleges and universities. Jerry is a senior in Marion college at Marion, Ind. Selections are made on the basis of scholarships, good citi zenship, membership in extra curricular activities which contri buted to general campus life and i promise of future usefulness. X-Ray Unit Will Visit 7 Towns Free Chest Service Made Available t o Holt Residents Tlit' Holt county cheat X-ray survey. its goal the free chest X-raying of every adult in the county, will begin in Stuart on Thursday, January 3, it was an nounced this week by L)r. W. F. Finley, O'Neill physician. Endorsed by Holt county phy sicians as "an excellent health program", the Holt county X-ray survey will utilize the X-ray unit owned and operated by the state department ot health, in giving: free chest X-rays to all who wish them. The X-raying schedule for the county follows: STUART—January 3, 4. ATKINSON—January 8, 9. 10. O’NEILL—January 14 p .m., 15, lt>, 17, 18. CHAMBERS—January 22, 23. INMAN—January 25. PAGE—January 29. EWING—January 31, Febru ary 1. “This should be one of the most important community enterprises that Holt county has sponsored in years,” said Doctor Finley. “This is not merely a tuberculosis sur vey—it is a chest X-ray survey Where any abnormal condition in the chest is noted, including tu berculosis, cancer, heart disease or other conditions, the individ ual is referred to his or her per sonal physician for further ob servation. Any adult, including children of high school age, may receive this valuable X-ray service ab solutely free. If there is any suspicion of an abnormal chest condition how ever, children of grade school age are welcome but the X-ray machine cannot be adjusted to take satisfactory films of young er children. Dr. E. A. Rogers, director of the tuberculosis control division, state department of health, re cently revealed that more than 800,000 free chest X-rays have been taken in Nebraska by the X-ray unit. Of these, 97 out of each 100 have been found to be perfectly healthy. Christmas seal funds are used to mail letters to these people, telling them the good news. The following were appointed to assist in the towns of the coun ty: Mrs. Robert Martens, Atkin son, county chairman; Mrs. Wil liam Wewel, Stuart; Mrs. Robert Kurtz, O’Neill; Mrs. Wayne Smith, Chambers; Mrs. E. L. Wat son, Inman; Mrs. Margaret Kelly, Page, and Miss Frances Rother ham, Ewing. Appeal in Behalf of Hungarian Refugees Holt county’s quota for the American Red Cross Hungarian relief fund drive has been fix ed at $268, according to Dr. Rex W. Wilson of O’Neill, chairman of the Holt county chapter of the ARC. Checks may be made payable to the American Red Cross, O’Neill, Nebr. Doctor Wilson said any over age in the collection would re main within the county. The ARC is expending huge sums to aid refugees from the small communist-dominated country overran last month by the Red army. CDA Makes Plans for Annual Party — The Catholic Daughters of America h e lAl their regular business meeting at the Knighta of Columbus hall on Tuesday night. Plans were made for the an nual Christmas party, which will be a potluck supper at 6 p.m., at the KC hall on Tues day, December 18, for all members. There will also be a one dollar gift exchange. Preceding Tuesday’s meet ing, Julius D. Cronin, attorney, gave an instructive talk on legal procedure in every day life. Four Registrants Leave for Induction— Four Holt county selective service registrants left O’NcilS late Wednesday by train for in duction: John Albrecht of Atkinson. * Hugh Carr of Amelia, Keittn Bonenberger of Atkinson, Don ald Wolfe of Atkinson. Wolfe and Bonenberger are both volunteers. Miss Alvara Ramm Schedules Recital of Pupils — Miss Alvara Ramm is present ing her vocal students in a re cital Tuesday, December 11, at 8 p.m. The affair will be held in the St. Mary’s auditorium and the public is invited. Mrs. W. L. DeHart of Ord came Thursday, November 29 t* visit her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lofflip.
