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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1959)
• STATE HIST SOC UINCOLN, NEBR. Ten Pages WEATHER hi kt pree 4 Thurs., Oct 22 66 35 Fri , Oct. 23 _ 58 43 T Sat., Oct. 24 59 36 * tl Sun., Oct. 25 67 28 T lnlS ISSOe Mon., Oct. 26 51 32 T Tues., Oct. 27 19 14 Wed., Oct. 28 53 34 • Volume 79—Number 27 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 29, 1959 Seven Cents Bristow Lion's Club loners ffater Bostrom for 55 Years Sirme It was Elmer Bostrom night at Bristow last Friday and what a night it was. Mon* than 200 ol Elmer's friends and relatives turned (Hit for the j dinner sponsored by the Bristow ; Lion’s club. His son. Lawrence and Law rence's wife. Helen, of Birlingame, Calif., were on hand for the fes tivities as well as Elmer’s daugh ter, Gloria, who works in Lincoln. And the reason Elmer Bostrom celebrated both 55 years in busi ness in Bristow and his 80th birth day. Elmer, a jeweler, musician and sportsman, was bom October 25, 1879. His mother died when he was only 14 and Elmer took over the coAking chores at the Bostrom household, then located in Saund ers County. He came to Bristow on New Year’s day, 1905. As he was al ways handy with machinery — he built his own bicycle when he was quite young — Elmer first went into the implement business. He had his own steam engine at the time and used it around the county on many jobs. His imple ment business at the time con sisted mainly of setting up wind mills and installing lightning rods. To relieve the tension of such haz/ardous work, Elmer opened a jewelry store in Bristow. This did not interfere with his implement business, however, and when the automobiles were being introduced in the country, he added the Stude baker automobile line to his other work. In 1911, Elmer sola more Stude-! balder cars than anyone else In the j j area and won a free trip to Mich-1 igan to view the plant. | ( With the addition of phonographs i and records to his business, El- j , mer became the first in the area | to service and sell the music ma- | chines. This howe'er, was right in line with another of his hobbies. He played the flute and piccalo for ( 23 consecutive years with Bristow Civic band. Elmer married Dena Bowman j Elmer Hulls \ Observe 60th Wedding Day i Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hull, Nio- I brara, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday at the Lynch Ballroom. A program is i scheduled and dinner for the fam ily and invited guests will lie held. Open House festivities will be observed from 2 until 5 pm. Both Mr. and Mrs Hull came to Holt county from Boone county, la., when they were children. Mrs. Hull is the former Mary Osier. They were married at Scottville November 2, 1899 and became the parents of five sons and one i daughter. They are Claude of j Pierce, Glen and Guy of Lynch, Doyle of Marshland and Harold of Harlan. Ia. Mrs. Wayne Boel ter of Verdigre is the daughter. Mr. Hull’s aged mother, Mrs. Sarah Hull, O’Neill, who recently celebrated her 104th birthday, | plans to attend the wedding anni versary activities. 1 KI.MKK BOSTHOM . . . 55 years service n 1908 anti his son Lawrence, was jorn to this marriage. Dona died n 1925 end in 1927 Elmer married nos Londberg. Gloria was horn o this marriage. Mr. Bosti-om is also an avid sportsman. He spent one fall in lis early life hunting prairie chic cens and earned $100 selling them o the Paxton firm in Omaha. Elmer can recall tlie blizzard of 888 and c#n tell of the great Bris ow floods. But the jewelry business has :een his chief occupation. During lis lifetime, Elmer, has taken The Hulls began married life >n a farm Ms mile north of Mid way. Their children were horn here ind some of them had homes of heir own when the Hulls moved o Knoxville. There they farmed ind operated the country store, ['hoy later moved back to Holt •ounty and in 1943 they bought heir farm at Niobrara. Cardinals Down Atkinson 42-12; Sixth SMA Win - St. Mary’s Academy trounced At dnson 42 to 12 Tuesday night to idd numlier 6 to their win column Although Atkinson scored first >n a 16 yard pass to cap a 40 yard Irive after recovering an SMA umble, the remainder of the game vas dominated by the St. Mary's Cardinals. The first St. Mary’s touchdown vas the result of a 58 yard run jy Jim Shoemaker. Gale Stevens vent over for the next one, follow l].24a watches apart and put them ail ha k together. That does not include the great number of watches Elmer has had in his • tore for m r.or repairs like re placing crystals, watchbands and the like. Elmer passed some of his musi cal talent on to his son, Lawrence. Lawrence has played with the Lawrence Wellj; orchestra and now has his own jewelry store in Bur lingame. Elmer has had a very full life and the Hristow Lions Club took great pleasure in honoring such a Fine man. ing 58 yards gained in five plays. Jim Spitzenberger went the last 24 yards of a 64 yard drive to score again, and with three con versions good, the halftime score was 21-6. Bill Hynes received the second half kick and three plays later smashed 24 yards up the middle for the touchdown with Spitzen berger adding the extra point. Shoemaker picked up his second ID with another long run of 51 yards with Stevens kicking to make it 35-6. Atkinson scored once more on a 30 yard run to complete the third quarter. Hynes finished out the Academy scoring early in the final period wnen he went 80 yards. Shoemaker added the point to make it a final score 42 to 12. St. Mary’s showed strong on of fensse with long sweeps by Stev ens. Shoemaker and Hynes, while Atkinson relied on a passing game, hitting four of their first six passes. The Cardinals then held them to only four more completions of the next 20 attempts. St. Mary’s suffered a possible severe loss as Ronnie Holly was injured when hit from behind. H. B. Burch's Married 57 Years Yesterday was the 57th wedding anniversary of Mr, and Mrs. H. | B. Burch, longtime residents of: O'Neill — and to celebrate Mr. j Hurch went motorcycle riding! The couple, married 57 years ago in Central City, are In good health, although Mrs. Burch was ill during part of the summer. Befoi-e coming to O’Neill Mr. Burch lived in Lynch where he was a collector and also taught in the Page and Chambers schools. He spent 36 years as a rural mail route carrier in Chambers and O'Neill, 21 of those years out of O'Neill. Mrs. Burch was bom and raised in Merrick county and Mr. Burch was tx>rn in Stuartsville, Mo. The couple had one son, Howard, who died at the age of 34 in 1939. Lynch Farmer Dies; Funeral Wednesday Funeral services for Robert Larson. 68. were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28 from the Sev enth Day Adventist church in Lynch with Rev. Vernon Chase of ficiating. Burial was in Alford cemetery at Monowi under the di rection of Jones funeral home. Mr. Larson died Sunday at Lynch. Robert Larson was bom Novem ber 23. 1890 at Howells. He has, been a farmer in the Lynch vicin-1 ity for many years. He retired i about seven years ago and moved into Lynch w-here he has since re sided. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mona. Survivors are: Daughter- Mrs. Marion Thostrud of Seattle, Wash.: son—George; 4 grandchildren; 2 sisters — Mrs. J. W. Thomas of Hot Springs. S. D. and Mrs. John Levi of Monowi. Pallbearers were Bill Stauffer. Fred Spencer, Lloyd Spencer, CL] W. Christensen, Ed Johns and Ed, Heiser. * ' • Iv” I Mr. H. B. Burch waves to his wife as he rides on on a motor cycle for a little exercise. The couple celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary yesterday. Mr. Burch was a rural mail route carrier out of O’STelll Iter 21 years.—The Frontier photo and engraving Com Picking Bee Is Scheduled To Help Leon Beckwith, Emmet Monday has been set for a corn i picking bee to help Leon Beckwith i of Emmet, according to Joe Noelie, who is lining up crews to I help with the work. Beckwith has been hospitalized at the Atkinson Memorial hos pital and has been unable to do any of the farm work. Tractors, wagons and corn1 pickers are needed. Dinner will! lie served at noon at the Methodist i ; church in Emmet. Kinnaley Service Held Yesterday Funeral services were conducted yesterday for Miss Kathryn Kin naley at 9 a.m. at St. Patrick's j ! Catholic Church with Msgr Tim- j othy O’Sullivan officiating. Burial was in St. Mary’s cemetery. Miss Kinnaley died Monday at the age of 85 in St. Anthony's hos pital. Rosary was held Tuesday evening in Biglin's Chapel. Pallbearers were Horace Put I nam, Francis Putnam, John Lan gan, Joe Keller, William Lamp man and Earl Reiser. Catherine Kinnaley was born j January 20, 1874, at. Shullsburg, | Wise, the daughter of John and Mary Ellen Kinnaley. She came o O'Neill from Spencer and work ed as a housekeeper here. Survivors include two sisters, Ella Nelson, O’Neill, and Bessie Kinnaley, O’Neill; two brothers, Robert, O'Neill, and Ben, Port land, Ore. Five brothers and sis ters preceded her in death. Valentine Eleven Halts O'Neill Eagles To Take Central Conference Valentine stopped the O’Neill Eagles cold last night and went on to take the North-Central con erence championship, 14-0. With Kilcoin out of the line-up due to an injury received in the Ainsworth game, the Eagles were unable to move the ball and threatened only once during the contest. Valentine scored on a quarter back sneak that resulted in a 30 yard dash to the goal and added another with 2 minutes left in the hird quarter on a 12 yard pass. The Neligh reserves play the Eagle reserves Monday night here and O’Neill high will observe homecoming next Friday night. Funeral Tuesday For Mrs. Leach Funeral services were conducted ruesday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Ida M. [.each, a longtime O'Neill resident, it the First Methodist church with Rev. Glenn Kennieott officiating. Burial was in Prospect HilJ cem etery. Pallbearers were George Weingartner, Matt Beha. William Babutzke, Harold Lindberg, and [Thauneey Porter. Mrs. Leach passed away Oct. 24, at the age of 75, in St. Joseph's hospital, Osmond, where she had been a patient since August 31. Ida Mae Manzer was the eldest Jaughter of C. E. and Martha Manzer. She was born in Pierce county, June 30, 1884. She attend ed Nebraska Normal College in Wayne and taught school for sev eral years before her marriage. She was married to Edward M. Leach at Pierce September 27, 1905. Ho preceded her in death May 5, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Leach moved to Holt county in 1914 and lived at MRS, IDA LEACH tlieir 156 acre farm home, three miles southeast of O'Neill for 42 years. Mrs. Leach was a member of the Methodist church and a mem ber of Eden Rebekah Lodge for 37 years. Preceding her in death besides her husband were three brothers and sisters. Survivors are a daughter, Mar garet Weingartner, Hanston, Tex., and three grandchildren, Gary, Ann and Carol; three sisters, Mrs. Peter Lackas, Magnet, Mrs. Er nest Samuels, Wayne, and Mrs. Wendell Potters, Keystone, la.; and two brothers, Chris Manzer, Pierce, and Roy Manzer, Vale, Ore. I * Marjorie Minings, Atkinson, reports on county Government at the annual Government Day spon sored by the American Legion. The high school juniors elected county officers for the day. Stanley Hoffman, Ewing was the guest speaker at the government day.—The Frontier photo and engraving Government Studied By Students Monday An estimated 175 Holt County high school juniors attended the 11th annual Cornhusker boys and girls county government day Mon day in O'Neill. Highlights of the day included a speech by Stanley Hoffman, Ewing, a Court House tour, round table discussion led by R. C. Pat terson, past adjutant state depart ment American Legion, and a film on a jury trial. The students fulfilled their duties as elected officers to represent their high school classes in other activities. Lunch was served to them by members of the Legion Auxiliary. H. P. Stoltenberg Pays $1,225 For Top Van Horn Bull Tuesday H. P. Stoltenberg paid $1,225 for the top bull, VH Zato L 1st, at the fifth annual Van Horn registered hereford sale Tuesday at their ranch. Five of the Van Horn bulls brought better than $1,000 and the average price paid for the top ten bulls was S930. Stoltenberg is from Burton and also purchased another of the Van Horn bulls. VH Zato Aster 26th. A good crowd was on hand for the sale and bidding was brisk. TEACHERS MEETING HELD Teachers in the O'Neill public school will meet today and tomor row. There is no school for the public school pupils during the meeting. Ewing Considers School Changes The possibility of reorganizing the school districts in the Ewing area was discussed last Tuesday at a meeting of the Ewing School district 29 school board. A large crowd attended the meeting, including many rural district school board members. Statistics show, said Charles Rotherham, Ewing school board secretary, that the number of pu pils in the Ewing grade and high schools is decreasing yearly and the same thing is true in the rural schools. It was noted that Ewing’s school building could hold a sizable num ber of additional pupils without crowding and that the cost of edu cating a grade pupil in town, $201.99 a year, is less than what some rural districts are spending. A big problem would be trans portation in such a reorganiza tion, and this was discussed at length. If interest is sufficient, an other meeting will be scheduled in the future for further discussion Bureau of Reclamation Men Here for Meeting O’Neill Chamber of Commerce members are urgently urged to attend Monday night’s Chamber of Commerce meeting. Bureau of Reclamation men Gor don Wendler, R. E. Johnson and J. M. Barrett of Ainsworth wall speak to the group on the propos ed irrigation project for O’Neill and Atkinson. One Hurt In Crash An automobile accident involv ing Willard B. Walton, Madison, Nebr. and Alfred W. Carrpll, O' Neill, occurred Sunday, Oct). 25 on North 8th street. Kevin Shelhamer, a passenger in the Carroll vehicle was taken to St. Anthony’s hospi al where some stitches were taken. He was later released. Albert Stoffer is Shot; Accident is Area's First 2,434 'Blacks' on Sale At Annual Black Friday Sale Buyers from Illinois, Iowt% South Dakota, Miohigan and Ne braska were on hand at Atkinson Friday as 2,434 "blacks" went on the auction block in the annual Black Friday sale. Revell and Davis sold yearling heifers for $28.SO. G. C. Funk and Sons received $29.10 for 476 pound heifers. Blaine Garwood sold a 325 pound club calf for 61 cents a pound and another 490 pounder at $44.50. Some representative sales in the yearling steer division are: Clarence Gilg, package of 590 pound steers at $31.50. Albert Widtfeldt, 549 pound steers at $29. In the steer calf division: G. C. Funk and Sons, 366 pound calves at $37. Louis Vitt, 376 pound calves at $36.75. Lou Seibert re ceived $36.30. TO JOIN HUSBAND Mrs. Dean C. Lidberg, formerly Catherine Christon of the Page and Ewing communities, will de part from New York on the S. S. j Rotterdam to join her husband ; who is stationed in Betberg, Ger many. SUB-DISTRICT RALLY HELD Methodist youth in the area are invited to a sul>-district youth rally of the Atkinson Methodist church to be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Atkinson.* BAND MEETING SET A general band meeting will lie held Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the band room of the O'Neill public school. Election of officers and appointment of new board mem bers is set for this first general : meeting of the season. MRS. AUGUST PAUL LYNCH Funeral services for Mrs. August Pahl, 71, were held Sunday at the Trinity Lutheran church at Bristow, Rev. Benard Nelson officiated and burial was in the Bristow cemetery. Aioen oiouer, oo-ytw'-viu w m iu farmer, is still in grave danger in i the Veteran’s hospital in Omaha following the area's first hunting i accident of the year. Stoffer's gun discharged Sunday I wming hitting his left hand anil j the right side of his head. He was \ taken to the hospital at Lynch and . was transferred to the Omaha hospital Monday morning. Stoffer was hunting with Roliert Engler, Ixmn Sargent and Bob Scott. They had spotted some quail and till four men got out of, the car. Stoffer got out of the car on the opposite side than the other three men. Scott fired at one of the quail and then the three men heard another report from the other side of the car. They went around the car to see what Stof fer had fired at and found him lying on the ground. The double barrel shotgun lay approximately 4 feet from Stoffer. The time of the accident was about 7 a.m. He was at the 1-ynch hospital by 8:15 and was given treatment for shock and his wounds were partially cleaned. Bob Scott and Leon Sargent stayed with Stoffer and kept him quiet while Engler went for help ALBERT STOFFER Scott kept ttie man down when he wanted to get up and go to the hospital i nd Sargent built a tire when Stoner complained of being cold. The charge tore into his left thumb and forefinger and travel ed on into the right side of his head. It entered his cheek, went upward until it hit hard bone and then a good share of the charge came back out of Stoffer’s head. According to doctors in Omaha there is still a large amount of shot in the right side of his head. If no shot reached the brain the doctor’s feel that there is a good chance to save the man’s life. Stoffer lost the right eye com pletely, but reports Wednesday night indicated that he could see light with his left eye. It was feared that he had also lost the left eye in the mishap. Stoffer is a World War II vet eran. Ho is married and he and his wife, Myra, have six children. They are Jimmie, 13, Winnie, 11, Claudette, 10, Frances, 9, Hazel Belle, 3 and Richard, 2. Jimmie suffered a broken leg some time ago and is still in a cast from the 1 accident. Stoffer received three pints ♦if blood at the Lynch hospital. O’ Neill men who stayed with the man during the long ordeal were Lyle Lower and Gil Poese, from 6 p.m. until midnight Sunday and Kenny Wrede and Bob Pappen heimer from midnight until morn ing. Lyle Lower, Bob Pappenheimer, Ernie Kloppenberg and Kenny Wrede accompanied Stoffer to Omaha Monday morning. A fund originated by radio sta tion KBRX, was started for the Stoffer family Monday morning. At press time the fund had grown to $993.25. The Frontier, along with other news media in O’Neill, has joined with KBRX and will accept cash donations to help the Stoffer family. Just mail the money to Stoffer Fund, The Frontier, O’ Neill, Nebr. The money will be turned over to fund chairman Gil Poese and given to the Stoffers. Carnival Is Success; P-TA Meets Monday The P-TA Carnival held Satur day night was a "wonderful suc cess”, according to Mrx Dim Younie, publicity chairman, and ✓ill probably l)e held again next year. The proceeds have not yet been determined and it has net been decided what they will go fur. This will l>e discussed at th* P-TA meeting Monday evening The meeting Monday will he at 8 p.m. and the guest speaker will be R C Patterson, Stuan. a past state adjutant of the American I region. Announce Winners Of Needlework Contest The winners have l>een antioune <1 of the needlework conn xr held by Ia?e Store during the month of October. Seventeen pri/< s were awarded. The judging war (tone on the basis of workmanship, beauty of design and general ap pearance. __ Judges were Mrs. Harold Seger, Mrs. Mentor Davis and Mrs. Wil liam Murray. The winners are as follows; For the best tablecloth, Mrs. iVmi G. I Hutton, first prize, Mrs. Ilerbert | Kaiser, second and Mrs. Kart Mil ler, third. For bedspreads: Mrs. Alva Mar online firct JlPi 70 find Mrs. John Shoemaker, second. In the division of doilies, cen terpieces, chair sets, and put hold ers, winners were Mrs Arthur Ziska, first prize for a doily, Mrs. Ed C. Smith, second for a center piece, and Gladys Smith, third tor ka doily. ___ Six more prizes were .1 warded for the next t«-st pieces; Mrs. Hat tie Kindland, for u doily, Mrs Earl Miller for gloves, Mrs. Kd Dura port, for a doily, IJIlian Hibbs. for a davenport set, Mrs Arthur Ziska, for a doily ami Minnie Cot hie for a scarf. In the yarn and knitting divi sion: Mrs. Bryon Greiner, first prize for a sweater, Mrs. Frank Smith, second prize for a sweater and Mrs. George Colkinson for an afghan. _ Sale Dates Claimed SATURDAY, Oct. 31—D. J. Mur phy furniture sale of complete household giKxls. Izicated at the corner of 9th and Douglas. CoJ. Wally O’Connell, auctioneer. MONDAY, Nov. 2 — Ij.estock and machinery farm sale of Ro bert and Emma KiokaugBer. Verne Reynoldson, auctioneer and Virgil I^iursen, broker. See next week’s Frontier for big ad. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 - Live stock and machinery sale of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fullerton located 1 mile south and 1 mile east of Amelia. Col. Ed Thorin, real es tate broker and auctioneer in charge. Chambers State Barak, clerk. SATURDAY, Nov. 7- Holt Coun ty Hereford Breeders Association sale of 49 registered Hen-fords. Show at 10 a m. Sale at l:3i p.m. TUESDAY, Nov. 17ttv Mr. and Mrs. John Jeffrey. 3 miles west 4 miles north and Vi west of Chambers. Selling livestock. Ma chinery, hay, grain and furnitrare. Col. Wally O'Connell and Merlin Grossnicklous, auctioneers, Ed Murphy, clerk. Pat Stoltenberg, sun of H. P. Stoltenberg, Burton, is shown with VH Zato L 1st. The ShlluhMgi paid $1,225 for the coming two-year old. It was the top price paid for a bull at the fifth annual Fm Horn registered Hereford sale Tuesday.—The Frontier photo and engraving
