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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1958)
W. IHE F RONTIER . “ „ 9:30 to 9:55 AM ‘ -*- >ect,on I 1 ages 1-8 North-Central Nebraska * B1GGBS . Newspaper Volume 77.— Number 50. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, I hursday, April 1 0. 1 958. Seven l ents The SiigeserH . . . wed three wore yearn.—The Frontier l’hoto. Sagesers 60 Years on Same Ranch Army of Musicians to Invade City I, 500 Prepsters from 30 Schools Young musicians from more than 30 high schools w ill converge at O'Neill next week April 10. 17. IS for the annual district III mu sic contest sponsored by the Ne braska High School Activities as sociation. The contest will open with pi ano numlxu's at St. Mary's ' audi torium Wednesday, commencing at 1:30 p.m. Thursday will find C and I > schools competing in both voral an instrumental numbers. Class D bands will perform Thursday afternoon and Class C hands will perform Thursday evening. Class B events will he held all day Friday and all B bands will perform Friday evening. "It is imtuvrtant that the eiti-1 zens of O'Neill support this music contest it we expect to keep O' Neill as a center," explained M. J. Baaek, contest director. Last year the financial results showed the O’Neill site had a deficit of $52. "It appears that this event de serves support. Thirty schools have registered ;ind this means I that around 1.."><Xi students will in- i vade O'Neill. Along with these1 wo can expect between 300 and j 4tX) chaperons. This does not in clude interested people coming, to hear performances. "With this many people coming to O'Neill for the two-day period, they certainly will leave a consid erable amount of money in the • town. Support the contest with 1 your attendance," Baaek urged. Wee Hours Busy for City’s Police ATKINSON Police here early Wednesday were kept busy. Police Chief Alouis Wewel re ported these events: At 3 a m., he and Night Officer Clifford Botzloff picked up Alfred Schaaf. jr., who was alone in his car. They gave him a ticket for court appearance next week, but placed him in the town jail. Two of Schaaf's friends, Joe and Jim O'Connor, requested the police to jail them Ux>. ac cording to Wewel. The police ob liged. While police took a coffee break, the three youths pulled bars off the window and crawled to freedom. At 4 a.m., Dick Hytrek of Stuart was picked up for driving * without lights. He was taken to Holt county jail and held until morning without charge. State Liquor Inspector Char les Down was summoned to in vestigate the Schaaf incident. Schaaf was fined $35 and $1 costs at O'Neill in county court. Wewel said he'll take up the Hy trek matter with City Attorney Francis D. Lee upon Lee s re turn to the city today (Thursday). Fifth Ramold Is Going to Service Lea\ ing for induction Wednes day from the Holt county select ive service office were Hubert W. Ramold of Atkinson. His mother. Mrs. Joe Ramold, has had five sons go into the service. James C Reynold son of O'Neill went as a volunteer. Going for physicals were George N. Row so of Chambers, Ralph A. Maas of Chambers. Russel D. Miner of O'Neill, Duane F. Booth of O' Neill and Carl E. Thompson of Atkinson. ATKINSON Mr. and Mrs. Jay Simon of Hashington state are vis iting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dohrov olny and Mrs. Jessie Loyd. By a Staff Writer AMELIA Sixty years of mar ried life on the same ranch is some sort of a record in the Ne braska sandhills. But that's not all. M. L. ("Link") Sageser is 90. his wife, Lillian, is 80, and they're not about to abandon life on the prairie close to the cattle, hay nelds and lakes which they love „o well. Easter Sunday, April 6, the Sagesers were honored at opon nousi at the home of their son, at the edge of this sou til west Hull coumy community where the name of the village and the fam ily name of Sageser are some what synonymous. The affair was arranged by Sageser s son. Vei n, and his wife, Blanche, and the Sagesers' other] son, f)r. Bower of Manhattan, Kans., and his wife, Ruth. The Sageser s actual anniver- , sary date was March 17, but th< formal observance was delayed in anticipation of better road and weather conditions. But that's not the way it turned out. A blan ket of wet snow covered the the ground Easter morn and where there wasn't snow there was water and mud after several days of eontinous rain. Roads Impassable Many friends of the couple particularly from Chambers on the east—were unable to negotiate state highway 95. A highway maintainor or tractor was needed to pull cars through. T h e Sagesers' 50th wedding celebration 10 years ago also was held on Easter Sunday March 28, 1948. Refreshments of ice cream, cake, coffee and mints were ser ved to 75 persons at the 1958 af fair. Mr. Sageser was born January! 16, 1868, in Illinois. His 'father had served in the Union army during the Civil war under a general named Malankton Lin coln. Somehow from that handle there evolved the name "Link" | for the son who was to figure) prominently in south-Holt aftairs for many years. The Civil war veteran took his young family and also his fathei to Alton, la., where the Sages>t* lived a number of years. "Link ’ was an infant at the time of the move. "Link" was 19-years-old when he accompanied his father and grandfather to Holt county, travelling in a covered wagon drawn by two horses and one mule. "Link’s" mother, one sister and two brothers came later by rail to O'Neill. "Link's" father filed for a homestead south of Chambers. His lather was a meat cutter by trade. Born in Kentucky Mrs. Sageser’s maiden name was Lillian Mae Clauson. She j was born January 26, 1878 at ( Upton. Ky., a small town south of Louisville. Her relatives were divided on1 the slave question. Some had slaves; some didn't. Some uncles, were in the Union army; others in the Confederate army She remembers Grandfather Pritle as "the worst old rebel who ever ( lived!" David A. Clauson loaded up his wife and two children, Thomas and Lilliam Mae. and headed for Colorado. The mother suffered from tuberculosis. After a short stay in Colorado, the Clausens returned to Kentucky, only to re turn West and land in Holt in the summer of 1895. The Clausons stopped initially at O'Neill, then Chambers and then Amelia. Mae was "about 18”. Mr. Clauson was a red-hot democrat and mem tiers of the party were few in southwestern Holt at that time, It was fashion able to be a populist. Within one week after his ar rival Mr. Clauson was appointed postmaster at Amelia. Mail came in only three days a week (from Atkinson' and once or twice a week would continue on to Bal lagh. All of the dwellings in (Continued on page 13T Jury Gives $8,000 to Anderson in Deliberates 8 Hours Following 4 - Day Damage Case Here A Holt county district court jury at 10:45 p.m., Thursday found in favor of Duane Ander son, 25, of Omaha, in a persona] injury action against Lloyd Evans, an Atkinson rancher. Anderson was awarded eight thousand-dollars damages by the jury, which deliberated over eight hours. The trial was in pro gress at O’Neill four days with District Judge Eyle Jackson of Neligh presiding and substitu ting for District Judge D. R Mounts, who is ill. Anderson was suing Evans for 110-thousand-dollars. alleging he was 18-years-old at the time he was burned in a farm accident near Atkinson. The explosion of a tank of fuel oil took place August 6, 1955. An derson was burned about the body < and was hospitalized extensively. Anderson on the stand told the iurj he was acting under instruc tions of Evans. Evans denied this-telling the court he had told the youth not to pour fuel oil on a truck rack stake being burned. Two years ago a Holt district court jury awarded Anderson 10 thousand-dollars. Evans appealed to the supreme court of Nebras ka, which found seven reversible technical errors and remanded the case to Holt distinct court for retrial. One of the errors, the high court said, was in Judge Mounts’ instructions to the jury in the 1956 action. In the original pe tition, Anderson’s attorneys made Evans' wife a defendant. The nigh court, in returning the suit [or retrial, said the burden of proof that Mrs. Evans was a iartner of Mr. Evans rested with he plaintiff. She was omitted n the amended petition. In last week’s issue of The ■frontier it was stated Anderson lad been employed for the sum Tior by Evans. Testimony, how ever, showed Anderson had been engaged only the day before the iccident at $8 per day plus board ind room. Two of the jurors in last week's trial did not sign the verdict: Mrs. Clyde (Elsie) Streeter of P Neill and Miss Evelyn Broeker it Stuart. Others agreeing on the eight thousand-dollar judgement were Mrs. Helen Braun of Atkinson. Mrs. Irma Carr of Atkinson, Ray mond Dexter of Amelia. Don W. Femau of Spencer, Roy Gan non of Inman, H. A. Mitchell of Atkinson, Charles II. Mulford of Stuart, Joe Prichett of O'Neill, Charles L. Wright of Chambers and George McTaggert of Stuart. Joseph Spencer, 77, Reared 2 Families C h i 1 dren Motherless; Rites Held LYNCH Funeral services for Joseph Spencer, 77, were conduct ed at 2 p m.. Tuesday, April 8, ■»t First Methodist church here. Mr. Spencer died suddenly Fri day, April 4. at the home of his son, Fred. 10 miles northeast of Spencer. He was stricken with a fatal heart attack while assisting his son with the morning chores. Mr. Spencer had been making his home with his son. Rev. Anna Nelson of Lynch and Rev. Ray Haun of Ainsworth, a nephew of the deceased, officiat ed at the rites. Burial was in Highland cemetery north of Lynch under direction of the Jones funeral home. The late Mr. Spencer was bom October 27. 1880 at Venus in Knox county, a son of Joseph and Mary Sedden Spencer. He spent most of his lifetime in the Lynch community. On January 1. 1905. he married Miss Lillian' Hiatt. They became the parents of two children. His wife died in 1910 and Mr. Spencer fulfilled the duties of both father and mother for the two children Ixath of whom were un der four-year-old at the time of their mother's death. The daughter. Mrs. Ralph (Marjorie) Ridgley. died in 1937, and Mr. Spencer then assisted Mr. Ridgley in the caring for two more motherless children. Survivors include: Son - Fred of Lynch: grandchildren — Rich ard Ridgley of Port Coquitlam. B. C. Can.; Ronald Ridgley of Ken mu wk. Wash.; Carl Spencer of Wilbur ami Mrs. John (Joyce Spencer! Ridgley of Lincoln; 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife. Lillian; his daughter. Marjorie, three sisters and five brothers. Boyds Visit Here— Mr. and Mrs. Tom Boyd and children of Omaha visited fri ends and relatives here last week Tom came for them. Saturday. Easter paraders tripping through slosh and snow near entrance of First Methodist church: The Misses Faye Murray, Betty Fetrow, Marion Mosrman and Karen Bridge.—The Frontier Finite. Mrs. Washechek, /l, III 2 Years, Dies Remains in State Here Today Mis. Alby Washechek, 71, who had been ill two years, died at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 8, at tiie home o£ her daughter, Mrs. R G. Shelhamer. Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 p.m., Friday, April 11, at the Presbyterian church in Eagle, SJJ. Burial will be in the church cemetery there. The body will lie in state at Biglin's chapel from 3:30 until 9 p.m., today (.Thursday) and Friday at the church at Eagle from 1 o’clock until the funeral. Pallbearers will be Garnard Achley, Bertrand Marten, Guy Fatland, Tweed Sebesta and George Messer, all of Kimball, S.D., and Floyd llouska of Acad-, emy, S.D. The late Alby Anna Washechek was born January 27, 1887, in Brule county, S.D., the daughter of Vencil Sebesta and Mary Kov ar Seliesta, both natives of Gteek oslovakia. She was united in marriage to Henry W. Washechek in October, 1903 at Eagle. They became the parents ol three children. A daughter, IJbusce, died in in fancy. Mr. Washechek died in 1945. The family came to Holt coun ty in 1934 from Kimball She made her home with her daugh ter, Mrs. Shelhamer. Survivors include: Son Carl yle W. of O'Neill; daughter Mrs. R. G. (Hilda) Shelhamer of O’Neill; one grandson and two great-grandchildren; brother — Peter P. Sebesta of Kimball; sis ter Mrs. C. I. Nogen of Win chester, Ind. Gambles Remodel, Add New Fixtures The 3H-floor Gamble store to day i Thursday i launches a nine day grand opening sale. The downstairs store lias new fixtures throughout. Redecorating in tiie downstairs store is high lighted by latest-type cornice lighting and peg board displays. The entire downstairs store has been rearranged, new depart ments opened, and the office has been moved to the furniture floor, according to Manager Joe Me Leish. Mainfloor has been redecorated and the soft lines floor is coop erating in the big sales event, according to Frank McKenney, who manages that department. (Two full page advertisements heralding the event appear in section'. 4-H Fun Night Set Saturday The annual 1-H fun night will he he! 1 Saturday, April 12. The progn 1 wil begin at 7:30 p.m. in the O'Neill public school audi torium . Skit:; an ’. musical numbers by various 1-H clubs will he fea tured on the program. High-light ing th pro i un will be the pres entation of awards to club mem ue.sv fucuu are presented for outstanding work in the projects in which both boys and girls were enrolled. Aileinang Riles at Clearwater Today CLEARWATER Mrs. Fred M. M. Allemang 86. pioneer farm resident of the Clearwater and Ewing loculi b d.od UD • ;x><ded ly at 10:15 a.m. Monday, April 7, at her home. However, she had been in fail ing health for sometime. Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 n.m. today (Thurs day ) i»*t Cnn c o rdia Luther an church at Clearwater. Burial will be in the Clear w a te r c e me tery under the direction of the Snider tuner a 1 home. The late Mrs. Allemang whose maiden n a m e w a s Mary Spang-! lor, was bom Novcm b e r 26, 1871, at Sher-i rard, 111., a | daughter of ’ John and Mar garet Spangler. She lived a t Shorrnrd until Mrs. Alieniung her marriage [August 17, 1898, at Sioux I City. She and her husband liv ed in Woodbury county. Iowa, n >r Oto, four years, moving to Clearwater in the spring of 1902 Survivors include: Widower Fred of Clearwater; son William of Clearwater; daughter Mrs. Mae Wagner of Beemer; broth er' I.eo Spangler of Orlando, Calif., and Henry of Sherrard; 10 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by four brothers end two sisters. The Into Mrs. Allemang was a member of Concordia church. . d.bc m; s will be grandsons: [ Verdon Wagner of Beemer. Merle \ Allemang, Donald Allemang, Hoyle Allemang and Ted Alle mang, all of Clearwater. . TL,. • Willard Greenwood Dies in California Succumbs 4V*> Months After Wife ATKINSON Willard R. Green wood, 5.3, of Fontana, Calif., died Tuesday afternoon. April 8, at a hospital in Su 1 B rnadino, Calif., where he had been a patient sev eral months. Mr. Greenwood is a former res ident of the Atkinson community. The remains will reach Atkin son Friday. Funeral services will be conduct t at 2 p.m. Sat urday the Methodist church at Atkins in. Rev. Charles Gates, church pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn cem etery near the grave of bis wife, Mildrc t who died November 16, 1957. Sever funeral home will !>c- in charge. The late Mr. Greenwood was born at Grenola, Kens., July 16. 1899. the only child of James Madison Greenwood and Jennie Root Greenwood. Hi' was reared at Gro i !a and worked for a time in the steel mills at Gary, Ind. He married Mildred Ilnmmer berg Vnril 8, 1926. His death came h*s wedding anniversary. The Greenw >ods lived for a num ber of years on a farm in the Celia neighborhood. Later they fanned southeast of Atkinson un til June 7, 1949, when they moved to Sand Point, Ida., where the Greenwoods purchased a farm which still belongs to the family. The Greenwoods spent a short time in Washington, and lived in California the past three years. Survivors include: Daughter Miss Betty Arlene of Fontana; son Dwayne Greenwood of Mira Loma, Calif.; two grandsons Stephen and Paul. One son died in infancy. The Dwayne Greenwoods, Miss Betty and Mrs. William (Loisi Ma loun, all of California, will ar rive for the funeral; also Mrs. E. W. Samms of Wichita. Kans. Pallbearers will be Theodore Baumeister of -West Point. Ralph Reis , Merrill Smith, Clarence Tasler, Charles Mlinar, and Franklin Schaaf, ALASKA BOI’XD ATKINSON A/2e Loo D. Wal n went to Grand Island Thurs day, April 3, after spending a 30 lay furlough with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Wallen, and Ar lene. He went from there to Se ct • to. Wash., where he embarked y pliine for Anchorage, Alaska, tie has recently been promoted. The kindergarten and first grade mothers are sponsoring the Friends of St. Mary’s card [tarty on Sunday evening. Homo appliance section glistens in the remodeled Gamble store. — Frontier Photo. Father Burke joon to Europe EWING Rev. Peter F. Burke, pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church here, will leave Monday, April 14, for an extensive Europ ean trip. He will sail from New York City aboard the Queen Elizabeth His first major stop will In* at Lourdes, France, where the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of t I>ouriles is being observed. From there he will go to Rome, Italy and hopes to gain an audience with Pope Pius XII Next will | follow a stop at Lucerne, Swit-1 zerland; points in Germany; the I world's (air at Brussels, Bel-1 glum; London, England, and! Father will spend three day s in j Ireland. He will sail on the Mauritania i for the return trip, reaching New York June 2 after 6*>a weeks i abroad. Rev. Paul Dietzke of Antelope Memorial hospital at Noligh will | substitute at the Ewing church during Father Burke’s absence, j WHEELS COME OFF EMMET A truck driven by Hud Cole of Emmet overturned I Monday near the end of a trip. J The truck, loaded with ensileage, j was just two miles east on U.S. | highway 20 when both sets of rear dual wheels came off. Mr. Renner . . . Mflfitlant and friend of youth. Longtime School . Custodian Is Dead Arthur Renner, 81, Friend of Pupils INMAN William Arthur Ren ner, 84, beloved custodian of the Inman school for 21 years, died at Norfolk Sunday, April 6, of complications of advanced age. Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 9 at 2 p.m. at the Inman Methdist church. Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church pastor, officiated. Music was furnished by Ronnie Banks, Brenda Colman, Linelle Tompkins, Marilyn Siders, Lois Morsbach and Carol Cadwallader witli Mrs. L. F. Kopeeky' at the piano. Pallbearers were Earl Watson, Kenneth Smith, Karl Keyes, L. F. Kopeeky, jr., Ernest Brunck horst and Harry McGraw. Interment was in the Inman cemetery under the direction of Pdglin’s. The body lie in state at Big lin's chapel from 2 until 5:30 p. m., Tuesday and at the church on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the funeral hour. William Arthur Renner was born at Portland, Ind.. December 28 1873, the son of Daniel and Dianiah Renner. He was mar ried in 1898 and his wife died in 1900. He was married to Mrs. Ella Renner of Burr Oak, Kans. They became the parents of two sons. One son, Dallas, died in infancy. Mrs. Renner died in July, 1952. He came to Holt county in 1919. After the death of his wife, he left Inman to make his home with his sons, Ercle and Harvey, and recently has been residing in a rest home. He lived in Inman 33 years. He was the last surviving mem ber of a family of six Ixiys and one girl. A stepson, Floyd, died in March. 1955. Survivors include: Son Ercle of Norfolk; stepson Harvey of Manhattan, Kans.; grandchild ren Terry and Connie Renner of Norfolk; four stop-grandchildren. Relatives and friends from a j distance attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Paxson of Martin, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs Har-i '.’ey Renner of Manhattan, Kans.; Mr. and Airs. Ercle Renner and ! Terry and Connie and Mrs. Claude Rutledge, all of Norfolk. Mrs. Anna Jones, Mrs. Lloyd .Tones and Marlene and Mrs. Le Roy Marshall and Nancy, all of Noligh; Mr and Mrs. Dale Jones ind family of Brunswick; Mrs. Eva Williams of Salem, Ore.; j Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Smith of i Page; Mr. and Mrs. Charles ' Richter, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Ixiy, j Mrs. Bridget Swanson, Mrs. Mary I Peterson and Emmett Slaight, all j of O’Neill. Finery Is Tardy Due to Weather M' Lady Frustrated by Snow, Wind but Sun Breaks Through General rains throughout the area Into last week and addition id precipitation in the form of moisture-laden snow early Sun day combined to Ixxist the agri cultural outlixik in this area as farmers ready for field work in earnest. Moisture is substantially above normal and J. O. Walker, who tours extensively in Holt and Boyd counties, regards the pic ture at present as a “flying start Meanwhile, ranchers are cheer ed for pastures are "greening up” and all that is needed now is sunshine and warm weather. Rain fell early Thursday and cold. cloudy skies prevailed through Friday when the weath erman settled down to an all-night rain here. The same general condition was reported at Atkin son. Stuart Newport, Bassett, Ainsworth, Spencer, Butte, Lynch, Vcrdigre, Creighton, Orchard, Page, Neligh. Chambers, Amelia, and Clearwater. Early Easter Sunday area res idents awakened to find a half inch blanket of fresh snow accom panied by blustery winds, which spoiled showings of Easter fin ery for early morning churchgo. ers. Taxi cabs did a brisk business in the snow which had a high moisture content. The 10:30 and 11 o'clock wor shippers were greeted with a moderating change in Ihc weath er and that's when m’ lady be gan to appear in crisp Easter bonnets. By shortly after noon the sun was shining brightly and the white stuff quickly disappeared. Meanwhile, the Elkhorn river is running bank full to carry the runoff from melting snow and rain (see photo on page 16.) Many country roads were im passible during the period and motorists were 1 nigged down re peatedly on highway 95 between Chambers and the junction with highway 11. The state highway department early Sunday found it necessary to dispatch a snowplow east of here on U. S. highway 20. Western Nebraska reported much more snow. Precipitation during the week amounted to 1.74 inches: Weather summary: hi lo pr April 3 55 42 .45 April 4 50 44 .25 April 5 50 35 .96 April 6 48 32 .08 April 7 57 24 April 8 56 37 April 9 56 37 Total proc. 1.74 Car Overturns at Ewing s Edge (Photo on page 4.) EWING Two men and two teen age I toys figured in a one-car highway accident about 10:30 p. m. Saturday. The accident oc curred about six hundred feet west of Ihe river bridge in the town of Ewing on U. S. highway 275. The four people were traveling westbound, coming from the east. Their machine hit the right shoul der of the highway, the driver jerked the car back onto the high way hut lost control. The vehicle skidded sideways, went into the left ditch and rolled. State Highway Patrolman Eu gene Hastreiter of O’Neill, who is investigating the accident, said John Steskal of Inman was owner and driver of the car. These men were taken to St. Anthony’s hospital at O’Neill: Johnny Steskal and his broth er, Clifford, a teenager; Jerry Sisson, a teenager, and George Neckolite, both of Ewing. Neckolite suffered a fractured •oilarljone. John Steskal and Sisson sut ured bruises and were held at he hospital. Young Clifford Stes kal was released immediately. Damage to Ihe vehicle was es timated at $500, Presbyterian Meet Scheduled Here Niobrara Presbytorial and Presbytery will meet here Mon lay and Tuesday, April 14 and 15: About 150 persons are ex pected. Registration will begin at 10 am., Monday. A banquet at the Methodist ahurch will be held that evening at fi o’clock. Tuesday a luncheon will be held wilh the ladies of Christ Lutheran church serving at the Lutheran church. Dorothy Foster, a representa tive of the National Foreign Miss onary board will he on the pro mam. The expected attendance will include ministers and delegates.