‘Girl Next Door’
Is Title of Play
EWING- Tlie senior class of
Ewing high school will present
the play. "The Girl Next Door”,
Friday, April 11. A matinee at 2
in the afternoon will be given in
addition to the regular perfor
mance.
Committees for the play as fol
tows: Features Pat Hahlbeck
and Maryetta Peterson; bus most
manager Delbert Carl and John
Mlnarik stage managers Stan
ley Bartos, Virgil Potter, Larry
Wragge; advertising — Delbert
Carl, John Mlnarik, Judy Stamp.
Shirley Wnght, Pat Ernesti, Stan
tey Bartos, Virgil Potter, Larry
Wragge, Patti Schlinder. Gene
Sisson; programs Pat Hahlbeck
and Maryetta Peterson; char
acter presentation Darlene Lat
rel and Mary Lois Nolfke; cur
tain -Delbert Carl.
Other Ewing News
On Saturday, Mrs. Ralph Eac
ker of Ewing who teaches in |
Antelope county attended the
county spelling contest in Neligh
m Saturday. Miss Jeanne Wrelke
snd several of her pupils also at
tended.
Mr. and Mrs. Maden Funk,
who have made their home at In
man for several years, moved to
Ewing last week and are now
located in the Nellie Komer
residence in east Ewing. Their
daughters, Mrs. Alice Geary, and
children of Inman have been re
cent guests at their home.
The Antelope County Teachers
association held a meeting Tues
day. Mar. 25, at Neligb which was
attended by t»oth rural and town
teachers. Mrs. Ralph Eacker of
Ewing was present. A 6:30 dinner
was served followed by a busi
ness meeting and social hour.
Mrs. Wilbur Spangler and child
ren were shopping in O'Neill on
Saturday.
On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
tsr Spangler and family went to
toman where they were guests at
toe home of Mr. and Mrs. Bud
Barlow and family.
The Carl Christon sale was
well attended on Friday and
items brought good prizes. Col
Ed Thorin of O'Neill was auc
tioneer.
Guests on Saturday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larson
were Irwin Christon and Max Al
len of Newport.
Guests on Friday at the home
Alice’s Beauty Shop
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of Mr. and Mrs. Max Wanser and
family were his sister. Mrs
Hicks and son, Keith, (A Derby,
Colo.
Mr. and Mrs. William Schlin
dler of Omaha were callers a1
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Van Conet on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Waldo Davis and
Marie, accompanied by Betty
Wright, spent Sunday at Plain- ,
view as guests at the Waiter Aus- [
tin home
The Pitch club was entertained
Thursday evening at the home of;
Mr, and Mrs. Archie Tuttle.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Vcrle
Tuttle. Scorewinners were Mrs
Charles Rotherham. high, and
Mrs. Waldo Davis, low, for the
ladies. For the men, Verle Tut
tle won high and Elmer Berg
strom, low'. Refreshments were
served by the hosts.
Mr. and Mrs. John Walker of
Norfolk attended the funeral of
Bux Wanser held at Plainview
Friday afternoon They also visi
ted at the home of Max Wanser
and family in Ewing.
Jerry Wanser, who is employed
in Omaha, and his sister, Miss
Judy Wanser of Norfolk, came
home to attend the funeral of
their grandfather, Buv Wanser.
They remained to spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Max Wanser.
mis. *»aiiat i nua wvvn
pointed chairman of the cancer
drive in Ewing for the month of
April. Plans are being made to
contact the rura areas and the
town.
JoAnn Edwards celebrated her
fourth birthday anniversary on
Tuesday, March 25. Her mother,
Mrs. Richard Edwards, invited
nine three and four-years-old for
a party from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.
The recreation and play room
were decorated in pink-and-white
in an Easter theme. A few games
were played and gifts were o|>eti
ed by JoAnn. The centerpiece
for the luncheon table was a fiber
glass rabbit. The birthday cake
also was a rabbit with pink and
white decorations
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Olson's
home was the 3cene of a family
get-together Sunday. A covered
dish dinner was served and lunch
later in the afternoon. Present
^vere Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Olson
and family of Clearwater, Mr
and Mrs. Oscar Wilson, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Blair and son of El
gin. Mr. and Mrs. Greer Clark
and family of Stanton, Mrs. Al
lan Dolezal and son of Lincoln,
Mrs. Henry Rassmuson of Fre
mont.
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Miss Patty Pierson, a reser
vationist with Northwest Airlines
in Portland, Ore., spent the week
end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Pierson of O’Neill.
She flew to Sioux City and was
met there.
Miss Mardel Johnson of Ober
lin, O., Conservatory of Music
arrived Saturday to spend Easter
and spring vacation with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
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Leaders Study Meat Cuts
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uiuo leaders irom various non county exten
sion clu! s and some 4-H leaders Tuesday visited
the meat department of the Safeway store and
heard discussions on meat cutting by Dick Mc
Murtry (white hat, left) and Ivan Hurley (white,
right). In the foreground (left-to-right) are Mrs.
Dwayne Philbrick of O'Neill, (with small white
flower), Mrs. Lawrence Dobrovolny of O'Neill,
mi 's. V> es iviutrj v/I w ncui, • *v. ■iv/uuitui
of Stuart, and Mrs Norris George of O'Neill
(scarfi; background Mrs, Robert Jonas of Stuart,
Mrs. Roy Wayman of O'Neill and Mrs. Vero Kap
lan of Stuart. Only a portion of the group, includ
ing both men and women, is pictured. The Fron
tier Photo.
Transforms Desert to Garden
Watering Plants Is Answer
By MRS. N.D. U’KES, SR.
Special Correspondent
PAGE-To cause a desert to
blossom as a rose is an accom
plishment credited to reclamat
ion projects powered by large
crews o f workmen operating
huge and complicated machinery
at taxpayers' expense. Seldom
has similar credit been given to
a woman, frail and elderly,
working alone and against power
ful odds such as the dry and
dusty thirties.
Any one passing by the Holt
county home of Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Chichester and son, El
bert, jr., 20 years ago would have
been dejected by the worthless
ness of the land and would have
scratched his head and wonder
ed how any newcomers could
keep their cattle through the
summer.
But credit is due Mrs. Rose
Chichester. She performed a
miracle transforming a gravel
hillside into a veritable garden,
utilizing in the landscaping a
small creek that flanked the
hill and meandered through the
half-section
Mrs. Chichester’s m a id e n
name was Rose Lehmkuhl. She
was born January 13, 1877, at
Westside Carroll count, la., a
daughter of George and Mar
garet Lehmkuhl.
When she was 16, she moved
with her family to Wayne coun
ty. Nebr., where she became the
bride of Elbert A. Chichester
January 16, 1901. They were
married at the home of her par
ents and began housekeeping
in the new house built for them
on the farm situated between j
the places of their respective
parents.
Her gardening experience, |
however, dates back to the age
of nine. Her mother was not a
churchgoer so Rose stayed home
with her mother and the little j
folks while her father and the
older children worshipped. It
was on Sunday that she planted
her garden along with flow'er
seeds gained from free packets
distributed by hopeful congress
men.
From that beginning, Rose’s in
terest in horticulture blossomed
into a hobby in her later years.
She is now recognized as an au
thority.
uvea in Wayne t .aunty
For 30 years the Chichesters
lived on that Wayne county farm,
where a daughter and three sons
were bom and reared. Elbert, jr.,
a late arrival, moved to Colum
bus onto a 40-acre plot with his
parents. He was a victim of in
fantile paralysis when eight
weeks-old and was in and out of
hospitals, getting his schooling at
the Orthopedic hospital at Lin
coln and later some high school
and college work at Lexington,
Ky.
Depression, drouth and sickness
deprived the family of three good
Wayne county farms. They spent
eight years on an acreage in
Platte county -Columbus—and la
ter found themselves owning a
slim equity on a hilly, gravel
underlayed ranch-farm five miles
east of Page.
Rose, realizing the imminence
of moving because of economic
conditions, carefully lifted choice
perennials and other most cher
ished plants, potted them or pack
ed them as the species required
for transplanting to the present
location.
Philospohically she believes
she erred. They should have
gone with the farm. God punish
ed her, she said, because she
didn't save a single plant.
Her sisters shared bulbs, roots
and seeds and the second year
the story was different.
Word spread that a miracle had
transformed a gravel hill -bar
ren, ugly and unproductive—into
an attractive hillside landscape,
providing an eye-appealing back
drop setting for the large frame
house that nestled at the foot of
the slope.
With lilacs on the south for pro
tection. she gradually worked her
way across the yard with long
rows of grape cuttings, currants,
gooseberry bushes, peonies, iris.
She interspersed these with less
hardy one that her knowledge and
experience had taught her to po
sition in order that another plant
would give shelter or shade. She
also took into consideration the
type plant that would bloom lus
Mrs. Chichester ami her daughter, Mrs. Haekensmith . . . the
mother is a gardening genius.
tily after the neighboring plant
had spent itself for the season.
With a slight attempt at •ter
racing, she edged paths across
and around the hill with chives,
converging the routes of travel at
points on either side of the house.
Tall, healthy hills of peonies of
every variety flanked named va
rieties of rose bushes. These were
protected by a ground mulch of
creeping Charlie, moss rose,
hardy jew and evergreen creeper.
Dignity Provided
Strategic plantings of sage,
mock orange, honeysuckle, snow
ball. flowering almond and crab
and forsythia and more of their
kind provided dignity to the be
hind-the-house portion of the pic
ture and ended on the extreme
north with a spyrea hedge.
Annuals, too, had their day in
her garden, helping to maintain
her plan of blooming balance,
creating a treat for the eye at
any time of the growing season.
Rhubarb, horse radish, winter
onions and those things necessary
but not necessarily beautiful were
hidden here and there in incon
spicious places.
Virginia creeper, climbing roses,
wisteria and the old fashioned
hollyhock covered unsightly cor
ners on the house of transformed
stumps and clothes line poles in
to a camoflague of beauty.
Contained in a handful of
earth that surrounded some gift
plant was a puny, unnoticed plant
that became the nucleus from
which in a few years time be
came a strawberry bed tumbling
down the hill and producing fruit
in an under-cover manner.
In the main yard and in the
hand-slop area she also connived
to defy every law of hor
ticulture and crowded homegrown
peaches, red yellow and blue
plums, seedling cherry and apple
trees in a much too crowded spot
These have produced far beyond
anyone’s wild expectations.
It became the habit for people
to take a ride to the place simply
to satisfy doubting Thomas cur
iosity; to prove that what thsy
had heard was not a myth.
By what miracle such a show
ing had been accomplished under
unfavorable circumstances is a
mystery’ that she repeated later
when the Chichesters went into
semi-retirement on a 20-acre plot
on the south edge of Page.
Noah inspired she said, and
she took pattern after the “two
by-two” of a kind and moved
some of everything she had.
Overall appearance had overrid
ing place in her plans, yet she
would hide some of each in an
other inconspicuous plale. Just in
case something died out and
needed replacement.
This past year, when she be
came satisfied that she had
enough and that all her neigh
bors and friends had all they
wanted from her farm yard, she
consented to a fence being open
ed and letting cattle take over.
Even so the spot was a wilder
ness of neglected beauty.
Hauls Water
One rule by which she lived
was to give her plants a drink
before she went to bed at night.
To do this, water was pumped by
hand and transported in a boiler
in a child’s wagon, tugging the
refreshing cargo up and down the
paths.
Her men were stingy and allow
ed her little room for all she
wished to keep near town so that
her plantings were more compact
and crowded, causing some ac
comodating varieties to make
hemselves at home at the very
root of trees that cast their shade
too deep to allow growth or
bloom. Yet somehow this genius
exacted both out of the plants!
What has she strived for all
these years? To get rich?
First and foremost her aim has
bom to have the earliest blooms
on the pulpit and chancel in the
spring and to project the flower
ing season far beyond the frost
date by cutting budded stalks set
in pails of water in the cellar and
trimmed and cared for so that
she might also have the last
blooms of the season on parade.
Huge bouquets cheer the sick
and the shut-ins. Brilliant floral
arrays for banquets, weddings,
church meetings and funerals are
her contribution for free for any
and allcomers.
Mr. Chichester died in 1954.
Mrs. Chichester and her son, El
bert, live on the acreage while
he operates the ranch.
Ill Seventieth Year
A daughter, Mrs. Charles Hack
ensmith of Lexington, Ky., and
sons, Morlin of Boise, Ida., Ray
mond of LaSegunda, Calif., and
Elbert, constitute her immediate
family. She has three sisters—
Mrs. Mary West of Kennard,
Mrs. Anna Kellogg of Caldwell,
Ida., and Mrs. Emma Christen
sen of Chappell, and two brothers
—Albert Lohmkuhl of Hadar and
Fred Lehmkuhl of Sioux City.
In her seventieth year, Mrs.
Chichester took a plane ride to
Kentucky.
Never robust or rugged, it is a
matter of deep regret that she
no longer is able to tend her flow
ers in her customary way.
Her garden has been her pride
and joy; her solace in time of
grief. It has provided her with
gifts for her friends. It has
been the talent given her to re
turn in good season manyfold.
That’s what the Word promises.
The miracles wrought in her
garden have increased her faith
in God and permitted her to work
hand-in-hand with The Master
Gardener.
Pofahl Grooming
Midgets for Season
EWING — Dean Pofahl of
Springfield. 111., is spending the
Easter vacation with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pofahl. His
wife accompanied him as far as
Norfolk and stopped to visit re
latives there before coming to
Ewing.
On his arrival, Dean, who has
coached the Ewing midgets base
ball team for the past two sum
mers, began to get busy in
lining up some practices sessions
during his vacation. The first was
Sunday afternoon at the Ewing
park. Much enthusiam was shown
by the 25 boys who turned out for
this first workout.
Visits Relatives—
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shellhase
and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Richard
son of Atkinson were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. G
Shelhase.
Atkinson Man Among
5 Army Enlistees
The following recent enlist
ments have been announced by
M/Sgt William (“Bill"> Cousins
of the army recruiting office at
O'Neill:
Newell D. Metzger of Merri
man, guided missle unit.
Ralph A. Starman of Elgin,
corps of engineers.
Richard Baker of Atkinson
corps of engineers.
Raymond Berendsen of Crofton.
regular army, unassigned.
Roger E Bejot of Long Pine,
reserves, two years of active
duty.
O’NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Will O'Conner
and Mr. aud Mrs. Bud Van Fleet
and daughter of Royal were
Sunday callers of Mrs. J. F. O'
Conner.
A birthday anniversary party
was given for Alvin Ott Friday.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs L. A.
Ott. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Quran
and Betty, Mr and Mrs. Bob 1-ar
son and Mike. Mr. and Mrs. Boh
Worth, Mrs. Orville Miller and
Mike.
Mr. and Mrs. George Peterson,
jr., and boys erf G'noa and Mr.
and Mrs. Don lluser of Sioux City
are expected Saturday to spend
Easter with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs George Peterson, sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Petsche
and daughter spent Sunday in
Randolph visiting his • parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Bloomer.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rnmold and
son and Mr. and Mrs. Leo E
Schneider took Pvt. Thomas Sch
neider to Omaha Sunday where
he boarded a plane for Ft. Eus
tis. Va
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Reynold
son attended the funeral of Ver
non Goodman in Cedar Rapids
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ruzicku
spent Sunday in Clarkson visiting
his father. Anton Ruzicku.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenneth Jons
and son and Henry Lampm&n of
Bonesteel. SIX, were Saturday
and Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs Bernard Schmitz.
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