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W JK TEN PAGES U ln jj,;, lMue ••VOICE OF THE FRONTIER*' MON. • WED. • SAT. 9:30 to 9:55 A. M North-Central Nebraska’s B-I-G-G-E-S-T Newspaper Volume 78_Number 35 O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 25, 1958 Seven l cnts i ' _I_—— ..... ' —--— ” wmsKiStik mvtp Bruce and Nip . . . the tractor overturned on the boy and the dog streaked for help.—The Frontier Photo. Obedient Dog Saves Boy from Exposure Mother-in-Law Loses Six Teeth Gibson Also Attacks His Wife Albert Nelson Gibson, 34, Atkin son truck driver, Tuesday after noon pleaded innocent to charges of assault with intent to inflict great bodily harm. He was charg ed in Holt county court in prelim inary hearing. Gibson, who has I icon in scrapes before, was bound over to district court. He did not post four-hund red-dollars appearance bond and Is lieing held in Holt county jail. Holt County Attorney William W. Griffin said Gibson is charged with attacking his mother-in-law, Mrs Florence Scripter of Atkin son, on her premises and later turned on his wife, Marjorie, in flicting personal injury on both. Mrs. Gibson last spring filed suit for divorce again her hus band. Griffin said six of Mrs. Scripter’s teeth were knocked out and her jaw Ixme was shattered, requiring the attention of a doctor for several hours. Mrs. Gibson re ceived blackened eyes. The alleged incident took place Saturday night, December 20, at Atkinson. Gibson has served time in the state men’s reformatory and has been a frequent guest at the Holt county jail. Atkinson police arrested Gibson that night and Mrs. Scripter sign ed the complaint Monday. Holt Sheriff Ixx> Tomjack immediately transferred Gibson to the Holt Jail. The Holt county courthouse will close at 3 o’clock Wednesday, and remain closed until 8:30 a.m. Fri daj __ By MRS. N. I). K’KES Special Correspondent PAGE Headwork of Bruce Bowen, 14, and oliedience, foot work and headwork of a lx to talled shepherd dog averted tragedy near here Friday. Bruce was released from an overturned tractor sooner than he anticipated and a bruised leg will he a memento of a yule tide accident that could have been much more serious. Friday Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bowen, living north east of (own. appropriated his father’s tractor to go to the shelterbelt in search of pine branches to be used for Christ mas decorations. While cutting across the road through a ditch, the tractor overturned, pinning young Bow en underneath. The tractor landed almost in the fence row. The pinned youth was able to wiggle off a piece of fence wire. He then tore off a piece of his coat and wrapped it around the thumb of his mit ten. With wire, he tied the coat bit and mitten to the neck of Nip, his shepherd companion. Bruce then dispatched Nip home to Bruce’s mother. Mrs. Bowen promptly received the SOS message and summon ed her husband. They rushed to the scene, convinced that some thing had happened. The father lined up another tractor and loader and liberated his son. Bruce was alright ex cept for a badly bruised leg. Had he fallen forward, the ac cident would have tx?cn more serious. Bruce and Nip have been fast friends for years. Their associa tion dates to ftruce's pre-school days. Bruce is an eighth grader in the nearby rural school, where he reported for classes on time Monday morning. There will be no pine branch es in the Bowen home this Christmas. North-Holt Pioneer Is Dead at 88 John S. Gallagher Succumbs Following Eight - Day Illness ATKINSON Funeral services for John S. Gallagher, 88, a long time resident of Atkinson, wore conducted at 10 a m. Monday, De j cember 22, at St. Joseph's Cath olic church. Burial was in the fam ily plot in Calvary cemetery in O’Neill under direction of the Seg cr funeral home. Mr. Gallagher died at Atkinson Memorial hospital last Thursday. Oecember 18. after being a patient eight days. Pallbearers were nephews - Francis, John and Clarence Mur phy all of O'Neill; Mike Bonen , berger and Ray Pettinger, Iwth of Atkinson, and Joseph Pongratz of • Emmet. The late Mr. Gallagher was bom February 0, 1870, in Pennsylvania, lie was the son of Thomas J. and Mary Swift Gallagher, and was among the early settlers in north ern Holt county. After farming north of O Neill for many years, he retired about 20 years ago to an acreage at the oast edge of Atkinson. After the death of his wife, Bridget, on July i 5, 1943, he moved in the west part | of Atkinson. His wife’s maiden name was [ Bridget Dixon. Survivors include: Son- Steve ot Omaha: daughter Mrs. Harry (Margaret) Ford of White Salmon, Wash.; sisters Mrs. Teresa Con nelly of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Nellie O'Donnell of Atkinson; I six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Revells Plan 50th Wedding Event Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Revell of the Star community will hold open house on Sunday. December 28, from 1 until 4 p.m. in observance of their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Revell reside 12 miles east, 10 north, three east and 214 north of O'Neill. Drive to Gordon— INMAN Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Geary and family and G. H Geary drove to Gordon Sunday to visit relatives. Mr. Geary’s grand mother had a leg amputated above the knee a few weeks ago. She also met her new little grand daughter, whom she had never seen. MARRIAGE LICENSES Fred R. Potts, 21, of Bartlett, and Carolyn Yvonne Senn, 18, of Battlett, December 19. Clarence Leon Sisson, 55, of Ew ing and Geneva Elvera Johnson, 43 of Oakland, December 22. Patrick V. Hickey and Mrs. Irene Martin, both of O'Neill, De cember 23. Gerald Michael O’Connor, 23, of Atkinson and Doris Elaine Bogue. 23, of Atkinson, December 23. Eleventh hour gift suggestion: A FRONTIER gift subscription. Johnsons Quietly Note 54th Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Johnson quietly celebrated their 54th wed ding anniversary Sunday. Decem ber 21, at their home on West Hancock St. Eleven members of their immediate family were pres ent for dinner. Three weeks ago Mrs. Johnson, 72, stumbled on a rug in the home and suffered a compound frac ture of the thumb on her left hand. She was hospitalized three days and carries the fractured members in casts. Mr. Johnson, 77, was born No\ ember 26, 1882, in Pawnee county. He came from a family of four sons and three daughters. Two brothers and the three sisters are deceased. Only surviving mem bers are L. O. (Lott), also of O - Neill, and himself. Mrs. Johnson's maiden name was Mav Hays. She was born Au gust 28. 1886 at Table Rock, also in Pawnee county. Thev were married at the court house in Pawnee Cty and went to Kansas by team and carnage on a two-weeks wedding trip. The couple established housekeeping on a farm north of Pawnee City. Thev spent two years in Kansas and" in 1919 came to Holt countj, where they farmed near O Neil two years. , . , .. Mr. Johnson gravitated into the carpentry trade his first love - and the work took the famil> to Ansley. In 1938 they moved to Lincoln where they resided nine years. In the spring of 194. the> returned to O'Neill anil have con tinued to reside here since. About two years ago Mr. John son retired from active carpen try work. Of four girls and one son in the Hays family, Mrs. Johnson and her sister. Mrs. Clara Johnson, al so of O'Neill, are the only surviv ors. The Johnsons' daughters are Mrs. M. L. (Mabel) Harmon of O'Neill, Mrs. Lowell (Leta) John son of O'Neill and Mrs. C. D (Ethel > Harmon of Scottshluff. Their son is Virgil, who lives in Lincoln. There are 13 grandchild ren and 13 great-grandchildren. The 13th great-grandchildren ar rived M o n d a y, December 15 "just in time for Christmas". She is Susan Michelle Kaup, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kaup of Omaha. Mrj, Kaup is ■■hk # mm the former Betty Harmon, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Har mon, formerly of O'Neill. Present at the dinner were the M. L. Harmons, Lowells John sons, Mr. and Mrs. David Ander son of Trenton. N. J., and Mrs. and Mrs. Donald Harmon and dau ghter of Bridgeport. Also present was Floyd John son (no kini of O'Neill. The Johnsons . . . they always returned to O'Neill. — The Frontier Photo. ‘Merry Christmas, Everyone’ Say First Graders First graders of St. Mary's academy are j saying “Merry Christmas" at the annual pro j gram held Monday evening in the school gym Each class in the elementary school from kin dergarten to the eighth grade participated. Pic tured in front is Kristie Abart (left), as Mrs. Santa Claus. diaries Gonderinger is Santa. Kneeling in front are Peggy Hammond and Tim my Gray, the brownies. Behind them are the Jacks-in-the-boxes — Charles Aldus, Charles Bosn. Terry Hastreiter, Charles Appleby and Jimmy DeWitt; dancing dolls in the next row are Jean ne McDonald, Constance Zastrow, Sally Stewart, Mary Kay McCarville, Teresa Templemeyer, Nancy Sindelar and Ellen Coker. A few of the Christmas fairies (peeking through) are Kathy Everitt, Janice Donohoe, Nan Kersenbrock, Linda Fuhrer, Debbie Hynes. The toy rabbit is Steven Harmon. A singing doll (extreme right) is Eu genia Gallagher. The Frontier Photo. Archie Juracek (on tractor), Elmer Juracek and Frank Kopejtka (foreground), Charles V. Cole (background) . . . the new telephone line is a community project.—The Frontier Photo. Multiple Conversations Soon— South Star Lines Going Up STAR — The new 60-odd mile South Star Telephone company's line under construction is moving along according to schedule. Soon about 40 farms, now without tele phone service, will be connected to the O’Neill exchange with a modem system that readily lends itself to conversion to dial phones when the time comes. The South Star company was formed this fall to bring phone service to isolated farmers north east of O'Neill. Previously the Star community enjoyed multiple switching through Page, Verdigre and Lynch. Exchanges in those towns switched over to the dial system, leaving Star high-and-dry. Farmers and ranchers south of Star organized, raised funds on their own, solicited some and dur ing recent weeks have been fever ishly working on the community project, grubbing out trees where necessary, distributing poles, dig ging holes and erecting poles. Monday was no exception in spite of the holiday season. Three crews were at work in the neigh Auction Calendar Friday, January 2: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Butterfield, living 1)4 miles north of Atkinson, will sell 30 head of cattle, registered Here ford bull, two tractors and other farm and haying machinery, also household goods; Col. Ed Thorin of O’Neill, auctioneer; First Nat ional Bank of Atkinson, clerk. Mrs. Ed Etherton, residing north Friday, January 9: Mr. and (Details on page 7.) of Emmet, will sell livestock, full line of farm and ranch machin ery, grain, feed and household goods, complete closeout; Col. Wallace O’Connell of O’Neill, auc tioneer; Ed Murphy of O'Neill clerk. (Details in next issue). Wednesday, January' 14: Lester Waterman, living 15 miles east of O’Neill on state road 108, or four miles north of Page and three miles east, will sell complete line of farm machinery and some live stock; Col. Wally O'Connell of O’ Neill. auctioneer; Ed Murphy of O’Neill, clerk. (Details in subse quent issues). borhood of the Leonard Juracek farm when The Frontier special events unit called. A mechanical posthole digger is used to provide settings for the poles which vary in height (de pending upon the situation) from 16 to 35 ft. The new line will cost in the neighborhood of 20-thousand-dol lars but much of the labor is vol unteer. Carrier stations and boosters are being installed to provide pro perly engineered volume and en able multiple conversations on the two-strand line. Northwestern Bell has assigned a foreman and prof fered engineering services. From Bell's standpoint the South Star line is a pilot. The earner principle simply hasn't been employed by a cluster of rural patrons on a 60-mile run. Clayton Nelson is president; Al bert Derickson, secretary, and Dale Revell is treasurer. The “hardpan” ground dulls Ihe posthole digger at regular inter vals. There is no moisture in the ground, the workmen say. It's ex pected the line will be put to use sometime early in 1959. Among workmen at the scene visited by The Frontier (in addi tion to those pictured) were Rob ert Sholes, William Hansen, Jo seph Nobel, Leonard Juracek and Thomas Slattery. Of course, down the road a piece there were others . . . more holes being dug, more poles coming up. Nonagenarian, Queen o f Niobrara Fete, Leaves 184 Survivors NIOBRARA—Mrs. Martha Ann Mayberry, 93, who leaves 184 de scendants, died at her home Satur day, December 20. Funeral sendees were at 2 p.m., Monday, December 22, at Niobrara Lutheran church. Rev. John C. Heidbreder officiated. The body lay in state at Jones’ funeral home until the funeral hour. Burial was in L'Eau Qui Court cemetery at Niobrara. She was born March 7, 1865, in Indiana, the daughter of William and Christiana Bloodhart. Her hubsand, Grimes Mayberry, died July 28, 1942. Mrs. Mayberry was crowned queen of the Niobrara centennial celebration several years ago. The king, Frank Lenger, died at the age of 99 on May 6, 1958. Mrs. Mayberry’s survivors in clude: Daughters — Mrs. Clyde (Inez) McGlade of Niobrara; Mrs. Clayton (Velma) Tripp of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mrs. Myrtle Nitz, Mrs. Katie Magdefrau and Mrs. William (Mary) Pease, all of Niobrara; Mrs. Tom (Ruby) Carr of Hills boro, Ore., and Mrs. Cameron (Anna) Coones of Spotted Horse, Wyo.; 43 grandchildren; 116 great grandchildren and 19 great-great grandchildren. i Price Infant Dies in Omaha— Funeral service for Loretta Ann Price, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Price of 412 Lin coln blvd., Omaha, were held at 9 a.m. at John A. Gentleman mor tuary. Burial was in Holy Sepul chre cemetery. Survivors include: Parents; bro thers Melvin, Lawrence, Lester and Leo; grandparents-Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Price of O'Neill, and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cuny of Buffalo Gap, S.D. Pack Christmas Boxes for Home INMAN Mrs. James M. Mc Mahan attended Past Matron’s club at the home of Mrs. John Os enbaugh in O’Neill Thursday after noon when the members packed two lx>xes of gifts for the Masonic Eastern Star children’s home at Fremont. Mrs. Osenbaugh served refresh ments at the close of the after noon. ARCHER HITS STUART — Linden Mulford of Stuart last week bagged a deer near the Niobrara river, north of Stuart. He got the 130-pound doe vith a bow-and-arrow. Sunday-Schools in Christmas Programs The Christmas program at the Methodist church Sunday consist ed of songs, recitations anti spec ial selections by the junior choir Donald Maw, Sunday-school sup erintendent, was director, assisted by Mrs. Glenn Kennicott and Kon nie Kurtz, organist, t ■ First Presbyterian church used colored slides to tell the Christmas ! story. Costumed Sunday-school j children dramatized Christ's birth I with Sonita Wilson as narrator i | Miss Ann Johnson accompanied i the children as they sang carols. — The Frontier Goes to Press Early This week's issue of The | Frontier went to press 24 hours earlier than usual in order that most subscribers would have their paper ahead of the Christ mas holiday. Some newsmatter and pictures have been omitted because time did not permit developing extra pages. Since October 1 The Frontier has published 20 pages MORE than any other newspaper in the area. The publishers and staff ex tend warmest Christmas greet ings to Frontier friends every where ! Pauline Poessnecker Expires in Hospital Resident of County Since 1920 ATKINSON Funeral services ■ for Mrs. Pauline Poessnecker, 82, | were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 23, at St. John's Luth eran church here. Rev. Emil Kuehn officiated. Burial was in Woodlawn cemetery under direction of the Seger fun eral home. Mrs. Poessnecker died Sunday, December 21, in Atkinson Memor ial hospital. She was born July 20, 1876, in Grossinger Scheim, Germany, the daughter of Wilhelm and Christine Blattert Happold. She came to the United States May 1, 1898, and settled at Stanton. She was united in marriage to William Poessneck er June 4, 1898, at Stanton. In 1920 the family moved to In man and in 1927 moved to Atkin son where she continued to reside. Mr. Poessnecker died October 4, 1931. Survivors include: Daughter — Mrs. Oswald (Ema) Golffuss of Page; sons Ottmar, Rudolph, Eu gene. Thilo and Werner, all of At kinson; 19 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Inman Lodge Stages 3d Degree, O’Neill INMAN Seven members of the Inman IOOF lodge drove to O’ Neill Wednesday evening, Decem ber 17, where they were guests of the O’Neill IOOF lodge. The Inman lodge put on the third degree. London Kin Injured in South Dakota— Susan Tarr, 11-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Tarr of Colome, S.T>., and a grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike London, was injured last Thurs da yin a car accident while driv ing with her afther. Another car, which was ahead of them, went in a ditch and un expectedly came back on the road and hit the Tarr car broadside. Susan, who was under doctor’s care at the time o the accident, was taken to a hospital in Sioux Falls and was found to have a concussion and a broken jaw. She also bit her tongue and suffered a deep cut under her chin. Because of the concussion, Susan is not be ing given reditives. The doctors were concerned about her seeing double. Her neck will have to be put in a brace after her tongue and jaw are taken care of. Mrs. London went to Colome last Thursday and returned home Tuesday morning. Regional Deaths Ira Napier EWING — Funeral services for Ira Napier, 64, were conducted here Monday, December 22. He died Monday, December 15, in the Veterans hospital. Survivors in- | elude: Widow -Helen; daughters Mrs. Dale Roberts of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Mrs. William Sample of Germany; son William of Ar lington, Va. Oleo Hoyda OAKDALE -Cleo Hoyda, 25, of Oakdale died Friday in the Tilden hospital. He suffered a brain in jury Tuesday, December 16, in a one-car accident near Meadow Grove. Eddie Gatz, a premedical stu dent at Creighton university, was home Friday. His cousin, Miss Mary Elizabeth Gatz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz, also ar rived Friday from the College of St. Mary in Omaha. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gatz and daughter of Omaha. Eddie will re turn home for the holidays with guests. Santa Won’t BeComing in His Sleigh Not Enough Snow to Accomodate Ste e 1 ; Likely to Use Plane It's not definite but prospects arc (bat Santa will lx- arriving in Frontier I-and minus bis rein deer and sled. lle'd have to search to tind snow. The glistening steel run ners simply won't crunch or cement, gravel and dirt. Best guess is the Jolly OT Fellow will make extensive use of air transport. Meanwhile, yuletide shop}me Wednesday was being wrapped I up with a flourish, O'Neill mer I chants, with record inventories at the start of the Christmas shopping season, report unprec edented sales. Six-day weather summary . Hi Lo Dec is 53 a Deo. 19 48 11 I Dec. 20 48 1J Dec. 21 39 11 Dec. 22 50 U Dec. 23 44 3 Maryland Teenager* ‘Tired of School’; Steal Two Auto* Three runaway teenagers from i West Chesapeake, Md., filing into I an O’Neill rettaurant about 2 a m. I last Thursday were picked up bj | O'Neill police for questioning I Within two hours it was determin ed the two girls and one boy had been the subject of a 14-state search and had been fleeing west ward in stolen cars. The trio: Herman Porter, 16; Patty Shumate, 14, and Rita Me* kinas, 15. They took a 1954 Chevrolet Irum the streets of West Chesapeake and drove it to Chester, Pa., where they abandoned that machine and helped themselves to a 1957 Chev rolet convertible, which was in their possession when they were approached by Police Officer Or ville Miller. The father of the Shumate girt arrived here by air Saturday and took toth girls hack to Maryland. The toy, who was regarded as * good student, is being held for Maryland or federal authorities. The sherilf of West Chesapeake indicated to Holt County Sheriff Leo Tomjack he will come for Porter after the holidays. A fourth member of the gn>up | had joined up at Muscatine, la. He was John Johnson, 18, and said he did not know the vehicle was stolen. He was released here. Maryland authorities told Tom jack two of the trio came from broken homes. They had been missing several days, he said. Porter told Tomjack: “We sim ply got tired of school”. Low-Grade Fuel Blamed for Fire* 0 O’Neill firemen were harassed Saturday afternoon by a series c< fires along the Chicago & North Western railroad tracks between Inman and O'Neill. One break out, five miles east of here, burned off a strip nearly a mile long. Fire, started by a diesel loco motive burning low-grade fuef, broke out in about five different places. Firemen were also suntntoTied to the Norbert Uhl property, south of the tracks. There was no damage. But Fred Snowardt nosed his truck into a ditch. Here’s what happened: One of the O'Neill fire midkf, sped around the southbound Snow ardt truck in the city limits, puH ed ahead of Snowardt, and within a short distance, pulled to a stop Brakes failed on Snowardt’s truck and he took the ditch in order to avoid crashing into the rear t/ the fire truck. In other words, Snowardt wasn’t following the fire truck, then hr was, then he wasn’t. Purviance Burned in Denver Explorkm LYNCH Leroy Purvianrr. jr of Denver, Colo., formnrt* of Lynch, was severely bumod Sat urday evening while working at a Denver gas station. He suffered second and third degree bum* about the face, neck, hands, arm* and legs. Purviance is the son of Mr and Mrs. Leroy Purviance, sr., of Lynch. Firemen theorized young Purvi ance was hurt when a heating stove caused fumes from nearby cleaning fluid to explode. Commercial Club Provides Trear* INMAN The grade school put on the annual Christmas program in the school auditorium Thursdaj evening. After the program Santa made his annual appearance witta treats for all the children present. The Inman Commercial clufc sponsored the treats.