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NOTES
Primary and First tirade
Hill Froelich, who has been attend
ing the Primary class since last fall, ,
returned to his home in Chicago. We -
are all sorry to lose our classmate.
The pupils of the First grade re
ceived their First Reader thi sweek.
Every body is very much interested
in the new book.
Second Grade
Two mite boxes were placed in the
class room where the little boys and
girls could deposit pennies to ransom <
a Pagan child in the Mission countries. \
The children were very generous in i
dropping their pennies into the boxes, t
How they cheered when the money ;
was counted on Monday morning and i
to their surprise they had $5.07. Just
enough to buy a poor little heathen I
baby boy and to name him. «
Theyall agreed to have him baptized I
and name him Michael Francis in (
memory of our dear Monsignor Cns- 1
sidy. '
In a spelling contest held last Fri
day, Eldon Lowery spelled down the
class. i
For the past week Donna Gallagher
had the best written home work.
Grades Three and Four
Something funny, eh? Now don’t
laugh, just smile as you try to read
these sentences.
During the January examinations
blnnks were to be filled, as follows:
A “sentence” should begin with a
. capital and end with n “period.” A
“sentence” that tells something should
end with a “period.”
Onelittle deep-thinker wrote: Every
thing should begin with a “man” and
end with a “lady.” A “man” that tells
something should end with a “spankin.”
A typical Norwegian farm and
facter became more real when dem
onstrated on the sand table. Even a
power-house supplying electricity for
telephone, etc., was displayed.
Grades Five and Six
Our grammar lesson this week called
for u radio program, and so n com
mittee was appointed to sponsor this
undertaking. The members of this
committee were Billy Kubitschek,
Hilly Biglin, Catherine Finley, and
Betty McNally. The committee ap
pointed George Hammond as radio
announcer. Station N-R-A was erected
in the class room, and the program
was broadcast Wednesday from 1:30
to 2:30 p. m., just after our class sing
ing lesson. The program consisted of
l eadings, poems, songs, jokes, current
topics, weather forecasts, talks, etc., as
follows.
“The Old Spinning Wheel in the
parlor,” song — Maxine Harrington,
June Carol White, Mary Anne Meer,
Catherine Finley, Marjorie Cronin and
Betty McNally.
Edward McManus—“The Stolen Cus.
•nrd,” reading.
Catherine Me Nichols—“The Song of
the Shirt,” poem.
Romainc Stein—“How to Care for
Farm Animals,” talk.
Donald Wernke—“Cowboys,” song.
Leroy Wernke—Guitar Solo, accom
panist.
William Kubitschek—"Wingless Air
planes,” talk.
Catherine Finley—“Trees,” song.
Bobby Miles—“Thoughts of Society,”
jokes.
Paper Clipping and Current Topics
—James Mathews, Robert Moore, Wil
liam Biglin, Donald Lowery, Marjorie
Cronin.
Dale Kersenbrock—Weather Fore
casts, talk.
The program closed with the follow
ing words of the announcer, George
Hammond, “You have just listend to
station N-R-A,cherio, just signing off.”
station N-R-A. Cheerio, Just sign
ing off.”
Grade* Seven and Eight
The members of the Senior Normal
Training class are busy this week with
practice teaching. Miss Monu Mel
vin in at present conducting nur history
classes with marked success. Judging
front results, she promises to become
an efficient teacher.
Some of us are still puttied about
objective complements, Indirect ob
jects and uppositives, as recent lessons
revealed. However, they will all soon
be mastered for we will leave no task
undone, especially since Grammar if
our favorite subject.
Hurrah! A debate has been an
nounced, but the exact date is not yet
known. We can probably give an ac
count of the result in the next issue.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
The local preliminary Holt County
Spelling Contests will be held in
Stuart, Atkinson, Ememt, O’Neill,
Page, Inman, Ewing Chambers, Am
elia, Peloit No. 18 Ms, Dustin No. 218,
Scotville No. .‘18, Gibson No. 122 and
Meek No. 27, at 7:30 Friday evening,
February 10th, unless further notice
is given by the individual locals. We
have had notice that the local contest
to be held at Page will be postponed
until the first part of next week.
Notice of the exact time will be sent
to the teachers in the schools sur
rounding Page.
The second annual Patron’s Day will
be held in the schools of the county on
next Thursday, February 22. Patron’s
Day has been set aside as a day on
which a special invitation is given to
the patrons and parents in the school
district to visit the school and observe
the children in their regular work.
Excavation Shows Holt
County Was Once The
Home of Many Indians
By J. B. O’Sullivan
(Continued from last week.)
The find was made in a field of corn.
There must have been a burial there;
someone’s little boy or girl bit the
dust. Hearts, trained to withstand the
worst a cruel world has to offer, ached,
and over Hat, windswept hills went nu
tutored savages to whom death meant
all it does to us of a greatly over
advertised civilization.
Hay Calvert reported he has often
found queer stones in the gravel pits
east of O’Neill. Stones having strange
lines and curliques and of foreign
origin, as well as bones one never
would expect to find under 10 feet of
earth.
In O’Neill, in the alley back of the
Maurice Johnson residence, a year ago,
a hunch of kids, waiting for another,
bent on searching for relics out of
town, picked up a peculiar shaped
three-inch bone. It was found a dog
had dug the bone up near a swing and
had carried it to the alley.
This bone is part of the front leg
of a deer. One end was whetted to a
point. The other end is notched, some
stone chipper's “pliers” for quickly
snapping off the edge of stone flakes.
In the back is a leadpencil-size fur
row, likely used for smoothing the
shafts of arrows. Part of the points
forming the notch have been broken
off. There are cracks in this bone.
It seems to be petrified or ossified or
in some other than normal condition.
It has been shellacked and is a highly
prized memento of some unknown
who may have been in “O’Neill’ before
the birth of Jesus.
A black stone about one by one ana
one-half inches wide and long, and
about one-half inch thick was picked
up at a site two miles from O’Neill
one year ago. This stone came near
finding a new bed, almost was tossed
aside. Strange incised lines, winding
all over only one side, caused the im
pression the stone was of volcanic
origin and that one light strata cracked
as it cooled. The piece was shown to
Addison E. Sheldon when he was here
last summer. “This,” he said, “is the
most interesting specimen you have
shown me."
“Is it the work of ancients?” he
was quizzed.
“It undoubtedly is,” he added to his
first appraisal.
Intaglio lines are intertwined about
and many seem to suggest prehis'oric
monsters. An Indian woman’s face is
there as plain as day. Her hay is
done in a top-knot, her features are
remarkubly Indian. Somehow *he
figures remind one of Old Egypt..
There must be some important mes
sage on this rock. It would be at least
a half days work to duplicate the
carving.
On the Fritz Green ranch on upper
Eagle, last Fourth of July was found
an egg-sized snow-white stone on
which it was carved a square base and
on the base a small cone. The rest of
this stone is shapeless, cracked, per
haps only part of the stone containing
much carving. It seems to be as hard
as glass. The shape of the carving
would indicate the artist used a hollow
drill, common to aboriginal workmen,
but there are angles cut like one would
cut soap which is mighty hard to ex
plain, lying at the base of the tiny
cone.
A piece of thin and apparently ham
mered copper, known also as repousse
work, may yet prove to be lining for
some modern engine cylinder or other
mechanical piece. It is on a base and
resembles an extinct giant lizard. It
was sent to Lincoln experts where it
was thought modern but left in doubt.
The piece was picked up near Eagle
creek last summer.
A toy knife of bone, one and one
half inch long, and almost one-fourth
inch thick, still bearing the fringe of
the honeycomb of the animal bone,
was found on the farm of James Mc
Dermott about one year ago. The knife
is handled and has two scallops on the
back of the handle and blade. It is
clumsily sharpened and intact.
On the south bank of the Elkhorn on
I his same farm was found protruding
from a bank, eight feet under the
ground surface, the business end of a
pecking stone hatchet, a devise used
here for shaping axes, maul heads and
large pieces by granulation, pecking
the stone to shape almost grain by
grain, then finishing with several days
of rubbing with whetstones, water and
sand. Thousands of the whetstones
have been gathered up, all worn to
concave curves this way and that.
Near the hatchet was an arrowhead
of agate, unusual shape and so old the
flinty agate actually had rotted partly
awav.
On a farm northeast of here, once
operated by Patrick Shea, is an ex
tensive fiat t ish hill where arrowheads
used to be found by dozens. Search
there recently revealed no arrowheads
but many flrerocks and hatchet-head
size rocks that had been worked to a
unusual pattern that suggests they
were intended to mark the place of
burial. Not now, with thousands of
groves of trees, roads ami buildings
would such marks be needed, but when
Nebraska was an unending sea of
prairie it must have been thought
necessary to mark everything if one
expected, to locate places and things.
Hills, valleys and plains must have
looked pretty much the same as others
even to a child of the untamed out
doors.
.surgeon s Knives were a part ot tne
equipment of medicine men, and many
patds of these have been recovered in
Holt county, particularly near O’Neill.
Most of these early day scaplels were
shaped of agate, which is chalcedony,
and the length is not known here.
Only broken pieces have been recov
ered. The business end of most of the
knife heads seen here is about one-half
inch wide, like a common table knife,
but there is a point for fine cutting.
The handle seems to have been much
narrower than the blade.
An operation here 1,000 years ago
probably would cause laughter today
if we could see it, yet it is known the
Indians knew every plant on this con
tinent as well as their effects on the
human body. They made use of nar
cotics and therefore an operation then
may have been pretty much the same
as today. Toothache is thought to
have been a holy fright on bleak
prairies, but it must be remembered
the Indians had plenty of sunshine on
their bodies, ate much raw vegetables
and chewed on bones and did almost
everything modern dentists recommend
to those desiring to have sound teeth.
So toothache must have been infre
quent. Of many Indian heads ex
amined, none showed dental caries,
decayed spots, and even if they were
afflicted with this pain, they had the
medicines to alleviate it, besides being
able to put a victim to sleep while
some medicine man knocked the
' tooth out.
A gaming-ball of Spanish Diggings
' stone was picked up by August H.
Brown, of Hastings, Nabr., hut where,
is not known. It is believed this was
found in Holt county. The ball iis
roughly chipped A shinny game
called for such a sphere. Most ancient
villages had a gaming field east, and
another west of the place. A stone
ball was wrapped with skin, the play
ers used shinny sticks and played on
ground or ice.
(Continued next week.)
Nebraska Fish And Came
Ass’n Adopts Constitution
The directors of the Nebraska Fish
and Game Association met in Grand
Island at the Yancey Hotel on Febru
ary 4. A constitution was adopted
and a program set up to encourage and
foster the conservation, restoration
and promotion of Fsh & Game in the
State of Nebraska.
The following is a copy of the pro
gram adopted by the board of direct
ors.
1. Keep Nebraska sportsmen in
formed on the following: State and
National legislation pertaining to game
and fish. All activities of the Nehrs
ka game commission; all activities of
the Nebraska fish and game associ
ation; hunting and fishing conditions
in the state.
2. A conservation program for Ne
braska.
2, A constructive program for the
propagation of fish, and game birds.
4. Lend assistance to Nebraska game
commission in establishing game ref
uges, and public shooting and fishing
grounds.
5. Pertect an organization wnicn can
secure favorable game legislation.
fi>. Educate Nebraska citizens to bet
ter know and obey the game laws.
7. Devise a suitable means of ed
ucating Nebraska school children a
long the following lines: Nebraska’s
topography relative to it’s recrea
tional possibilities; know Nebraska’s
fish, game and wild life; develop a
course suitable for rod and gun classes
to be established in schools where
possible; better appreciation of God’s
out-of-doors.
8. Full cooperation with other fish
and game organizations.
The Nebraska Fsh and Game As
sociation is a new vehicle designed by
Nebraska sportsmen for Nebraska
Sportmen and their interests.
The membership is open to all per
sons regularly licensed or permitted to
fish and hunt in the State of Nebraska
who may comply with the by-laws of
the association pertinent to member
ship. The dues are one dollar per year.
| Plans for a state-wide meeting at
Grand Island February 25, of all Ne
braska sportsmen under the sponsor
ship of the Nebraska Fish and Game
association, are being made by the
board of directors.
This meeting will convene at the
Yancey Hotel at 10 a. m. and all the
sportsmen in the state are invited.
State Journal: The right of John
Mullen, a minor, who worked for his
father on road work for Holt county,
to sue for workmen’s cmpensation was
denied hy the supreme court Tuesday.
The court says there was no proof
that the boy had been emancipated by
his father or that there was any con
tract of hire between them:
An O’Neill man whose wife went
away temporarily was afraid he would
not awake in time to go to work. A
friend, living 10 blocks away, an early
riser, rang the sound sleeper’s tele
phone morningsand solved the problem.
BERT OLDS IS
TAKEN TO OMAHA
(Continued from page 1.)
pile of wood ashes. Ten feet north
was a rude shelter of hay, twigs, some
cloth and a lot of faith in little or
nothing. The wind Friday morning
was from the south, not a thing to
slow it, and it is certain any animal
would have suffered with cold where
this man sat on the ground and ate.
The balance of the equipment was
several tin cans and a few odds and
ends, mostly odds. When breakfast
was over, a paper sack or two and j
some tins were given a neighbor. It
was stated these contained food. One
had peeled potatoes, in water, raw and
ready for the fire. As mentioned, the
neighbors in northeast Holt county
certainly know what the word neigh
bor means.
Olds arose and disposed of his be
longings to a neighbor. The man
produced a common paring knife and
calmly picked his back teeth, remov
ing several chunks of meat which were
sent whirring, luckily hitting noth
ing in the flesh.
Suddenly there was a commotion
and heads turned to see a footrace
between Duffy and Olds. Duffy won,
but not in a walk, and Olds was asked
what he meant by his sudden depar
ture. “Oh, just a warming up is all,"
he said. “Going to run to the house
while you boys come along in the
wagon.” He may have Leen making
his final stand for liberty.
Bert Olds appears to be an intel
ligent man. Only the talk about the
curses seemed out of place. He knows
the outdoors very well. One of his
stunts, his neighbors said is to build
two campfires, then move one to the
other at bedtime, clean off the ground
and go to sleep on the heated spot.
Indians used this trick and he was
quizzed as to his meeting Red men.
“You bet,” he said, “the Indians and
Negroes are a whole lot better than
the whites. I have been among them
many times and learned to like them.”
On the way to O’Neill he readily
read sign board news and at his camp
he had newspapers, borrowed from the
neighobrs, evidently. He quoted top
ical subjects from the papers and ex
pressed his opinions on them, so he
must be able to read and write.
On the way to O’Neill he softened
and seemed to put more trust in Mr.
Duffy. At the camp he had been told
the government wanted to give him a
fair break and he replied, “Don’t you
know we have no government? If we
had, they would have sent me blankets
instead of bothering me like this. You
don’t see them after the rich boys, the
bankers and the like. No, they come
out here after a poor man, in a gang;
gosh, if I had a six-shooter on me I
would certainly be up for robbing
some bank.”
The last, night and morning on the
Eagle, for Olds, was pronounced by
him the worst, coldest, he had put in
this winter.
Olds said he was awfully disap
pointed the sheriff had not given him
a weeks notice he was to grab him so
he could have time to prepare and de
vour a meal before he and his cohorts
came bothering around. lie asked and
was granted permission to take along
a box of some mysterious medicine,
perhaps something taken from na
ture’s drug store on the banks of the
Eagle.
who specialized in taking wolves by
digging them out. “You can’t sit up
nights and make good catching wolves
for a living,” Olds said, so they sep
arated and he does not know where
his former partner went to.
Olds said he was putting a curse on
the six who took him, a blanket curse
on northern Holt county and a free
for-all curse of full strength on the
entire world. He said he cursed other
places and they wouldn’t know water
today if they saw it.
Leaving his large, young police dog
bothered the man like it would the
rest of us. He manifested strong af
fection for the animal. He was asked
his name. “Nothing,” he said, “ I
have not had the time to name him and
besides you know times have been too
hard to give a dog a name.”
A story was told of a partner he
had one time who insisted on sitting
up until midnight telling stories and
Neighbors said the dog was adept
at rounding up wild or domestic
animals of small size, and they thought
he made a good living at this. 01d3
said he had seven dogs shot. He
counted them, one, two, three . . . ,
and told of kill kluxers in Oklahoma
visiting him at night and of his being
bothered here and there by officers.
He said ho found people awfully mean
and that the end of the world was
just around the corner.
The people out there were not afraid
of Olds; they wanted, especially the
women, to see him safely where some
chance six-foot fall of snow and 40
below weather would not cause a
tragedy that could be averted. The
women know 'Olds is someone’s son,
that he is a man, a human being, and
they did not like to have him punishing
himself as he is at his age by living
outdoors, with not enough shelter or
warmth to raise the temperature of
northern Holt county one tenth of one
legree. Olds is about GO. He is well
preserved and good looking. It was
noticed he did not have any trace of a
cold, perhaps indicating what fresh
air will do—if one can stand it in
winter.
lie js about 5 feet 10 inches in sta
ture, weighs about 175, has red beard
streaked with gray, dark hair, is
slightly hump shouldered. The first
finger of his left hand is off and scars
.how he has been in some accident in
which he was severely cut.
Bidding the dog goodbye required
about 15 minutes. “Here dog,” he
;aid, “take this; last time I’ll ever see
or feed you. I know; this makes seven
[ have had taken away like this.”
“You may not be to blame for this,
Duffy, but someone is going to be
punished awful for spoiling my fun out
here. What have I done to be rounded
up like a scalawag?” Duffy made a
motion to get in the wagon. The mo
tion was sustained.
Olds talked as though he had been
in every part of the country. “I have
been drifting from the cornfields to
North Dakota many years,” he said.
And of his dog: “If I had been able,
I would have paid $5 for a chunk of
cow for that dog, one of the smartest
I ever owned.”
The dog leaped about at the parting
as if to fight the world. Olds was
taken to Omaha by Sheriff Duffy last
Friday afternoon. He appeared sat
isfied at the queer turn things h<r:d
taken in a mighty queer world.
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PUBLIC SALE
Our Regular Annual Spring
Clean-up Sale Saturday,
February 24, 1934
2:00 I*. M. Sharp
If you have anything to sell,
bring it in even up to the sule
date.
OCR SELLING RATES ARE:
Calves, 25 cents a head.
All other cattle, 50 cents.
Pigs, 10 cents.
All other hogs, 20 cents.
Horses up to S25, $1 each.
Horses over $25, $2 each.
All other articles, 5%.
We want to please you on our
selling prices. We sell every
thing, regardless of what it is!
We have plenty of sheds and
lots for stock aid storage for
everything.
GEO. E. COLEMAN
ACCTIONEER
JOHN L. QUIG
MANAGER
PUBLIC SALE
As I am leaving the county I will sell at public auction at my place
two and one-half (2li) miles east of the center of O’Neill, and a hall
mile north of Highway No. 20, on
Tuesday, February 20, 1934
commencing at 1 o’clock P. M.
6 — HEAD OF HORSES — «
One gray gelding, 7 years old, wt. 1,400; One gray mare, 7 years old, •
wt. 1,400; One gray stallion, fi years old, wt. 1,500; One brown mare,
10 years old. wt. 1,200; Two spring colts.
11 — HEAD OF CATTLE — 14
Two Gurnsey cows, fresh in spring. 8 years old; One Gurnsey cow,
fresh in fall. 8 years old; One Gurnsey cow, fresh in March, t> years
old; One Gurnsey cow 3 years old; One Gurnsey cow 2 years old; One
black cow fresh March 15; One roan bull, long yearling; Three steer
calves; Two heifer calves; One Gurnsey bull 3 years old.
1 Hoif. 21 chickens, White Jersey Giants.
MACHINERY: —One flat disc; 1 lister; 1 over-shot stacker; 1
sweep; 1 ti-foot McCormick mower; 1 8-foot Acme mower; 2 sets work
harness; 1 Moline lister; 1 riding cultivator; 1 two-section drag; 1 Hock
Island corn planter: 1 Moline sulky plow; 1 garden drill; 1 Oliver gang
plow, 11 - in.; 3 rolls wire cribbing; 1 2411-egg Old Trusty incubutor; I
70-egg Old Trusty incubator; about 10 or 15 bushels of white seed corn.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS: —One davenport; I library tuhle; 2
rocking chairs; 8 dining chaira; 1 dining table; I kitchen cabinet; I
kitchen table; I bedstead and spring; other things not mentioned.
Have a wrecked Model A. Ford; will sell all accessories.
TI RMS:—Nine months time will be given on all sums over $10. with
approved security and 9 per rent interest. $10 and under, cash. No
property l.t he removed until settled for. If you want credit make
before ill. -ale.
W. It. LAMB, Ow nor
Col. JAMES MOORE. Auctioneer O'NEILL NAT’L HANK, Clerk