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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
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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
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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.