Over the County
PLEASANT DALE
John Tenborg took a truck load of
cattle to the sale at Atkinson for Fred
Beckwith Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Antis and daught
er, Lilly Lee, of College View, and Mr.
and Mrs. Custer Johnson and niece,
Irene Coleman, of Waverly, came up
Saturday to visit at the Sam Hickman
home. Mr. Hickman has not been
very well the past two weeks.
Miss Irene Coleman spent Monday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur Coleman. Miss Coleman attends
high school at Waverly.
A miscellaneous shower was given
at the Hoehne home last Wednesday
evening for Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Hering. Mr. and Mrs. liering left for
their home in Omaha Thursday of last
week.
There was a family reunion at the
hitme of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hickman.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur Coleman and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Custer Johnson, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Antis and daughter and Franklin
Hickman. Miss Mildred Findley was
a guest.
Miss Vera Miller accompanied Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Fox to Ericson Sunday
to visit Mr. and Mrs. Chris Wonder
lick. Mrs. Wonderlick will be rememb
ered by friends as Miss Geneva Fox.
They all returned home Sunday even
ing.
Mr. Fred Beckwith was a dinner
guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hershberger
Sunday.
A lady in this vicinity received a
letter from a friend at Kimball, South
Dakota telling of the extremely de
pressing conditions at that place.
This friend lives on a 1280 acre farm
with large modern improvements,
which her father owns. She says they
have 25 calves less than a month old
and feed, of course, is scarce. They
have had but one inch of snow since
September. The relief work, which
allows each family $7 per week, will
end in May. Those who cannot pay
their rent longer are forced to go to
the relief settlement at Yankton or
move into tents. Over fifty families
have gone from Kimball this spring,
and the sand storms still persist. She
says that fences are drifted under so
deep that they can drive over them.
A delegation went to the county seat
to see if the landlords could force
them to move out of their homes since
they cannot pay rent. The answer
was either pay or get out.
According to the preliminary notices
sent out the first of the week to the
farmers who signed the corn-hog con
tracts several will have to get busy in
this community and plant a few more
acres of small grain.
All corn-hog signers are asked to
keep an account book this year. Ralph
Beckwith has been selected to distrib
ute and help signers set up their books
in this locality. He attended the meet
ing in O’Neill Thursday where in
structions were given.
INMAN NEWS
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wagman
on Monday a baby boy.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Alva Shultz
on Thursday a baby girl.
C. E. Brittell, of Neligh, was here
Friday looking after business and visit
ing relatives.
George Souvingnier, of Omaha, is
here visiting among old friends.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Conard and
granddaughter, Patricia Bowering,
visited at Red Bird over the week end
with the George Conard family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brittell went to
Neligh Friday to get their household
goods. They moved into rooms in the
Lee Conger residence.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Doughty, of Nor
folk, were here over the week end
visiting their daughter, Mrs. L. R
Tompkins and Mr. Tompkins.
Walter Sire left Saturday for Lima,
Ohio, where he has secured employ
ment with the Davey Tree company.
Mr. Site had previously worked for
this company.
Ueorge uovemry is recovering n
injuries received a week ago when he
was thrown from a horse. His back
was badly wrenched and he was severe
ly bruised about the body.
Roy Goree, of Long Pine, was here
Sunday visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Goree.
The Senior class of the Inman High
school took a sneak Saturday, return
ing early Tuesday morning. They
visited several places of interest in
Lincoln, including the state capitol.
Members of the Senior class are Lucile
Retke, Joyce Outhouse, Gayle Butler,
Murl Keyes, Lois Killinger, Gertrude
Young, Dolores Young, Billie Ilarte,
Lee Conger, Jr., Curtis Smith. Supt.
Alice French accompanied the class.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Roe and daught
er, Hazel, moved to Newport Sunday
where Mr. Roe has accepted a position
with the C. and N. W. Railway Co.
EMMET ITEMS
Clara and Sadie Marie Lowery spent
Sunday at the Kee home north of Km
met.
Mr. and Mrs. Zinn Butterfield, of
Venus, spent Sunday at their farm
south of Emmet.
Mrs. Charles Vogel returned from
Topeka, Kansas, after attending the
funeral of her father there.
Mrs. George Reis visited the interJ
mediate room last week.
Roberta Bush has enrolled in the
ninth grade at the Emmet High school.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Wills last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mullen and
daughter and Mrs. Jettie Shorthill and
daughter were Sunday dinner guests
at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Pritton.
Albert Fernholtz returned to his
home from St. Helena last week.
Art Tibbett and sons, of O’Neill,
called at the John Lowery home Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mullen and child
ren were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
! and Mrs. Joe Jurgensmeir.
Frank Sesler purchased a new Ply
mouth Monday.
MEEK AND VICINITY
A metting will he held at Paddock
Union Church on Monday evening,
April 23, at 8 o’clock p. m., for the
purpose of making plans for Decora
tion Day. We would he pleased to see
a large crowd out, as that will show
that an interest is taken.
Guy Young, of Opportunity, was an
overnight visitor at the Frank Griffith
home on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters and
children called at the Howard Kouse
ome on Wednesday.
Roy Spindler and Raymond John
son helped put in oats at Frank Griff
iths the last of the week.
Edward Young, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Young had the misfortune to
fall from a horse last Saturday after
noon and his arm was broken, a few
inches below the shoulder. He is get
ting along nicely.
Loraine Joyce, little thirteen month
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Doyal
Hull, of Knoxville, was laid to rest
in the cemetery at Paddock Union
church on Thursday afternoon. The
sorrowing parents and other relatives
have the sympathy of the friends and
neighbors in this locality, where the
family lived for many years.
Special choir practice was held at
the Mariedy Hubby home on Saturday
evening.
Last Friday word was received by
relatives of Mrs. Walter Forbes, of
Brunswick, that she was seriously ill.
Several relatives went and Mat Schelk
pof returned home Saturday and re
ported that Mrs. Forbes was some
what improved.
Melvin and Velma Johring, Paul
Nelson, Mary, Leone and LeRoy Spind
ler and Elwin Benson called at the
Gust Johnson home Friday evening.
Virginia Rousch has been on the sick
list for the past few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Kaczor and Ed
ward called at Frank Nelson’s Sunday
afternoon.
Kalph Kousch spent sunaay wmi
Howard and Leonard l>evall.
Center‘Union Endeavor Society vis
ited Paddock Union Sunday evening
and had charge of the program.
Rev. and Mrs. Dillon, of Long Pine,
were overnight guests at the Mariedy
Hubby home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wells and son
were guests at the Dan Hensen home
on Sunday.
Nancy Jo Marts, of Long Pine, spent
the week end at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Mariedy Hubby and family.
Guests at Eric Borg’s on Sunday
were: Rev. and Mrs. Dillon, Mr. and
Mrs. William Hubby, Melvin Johring,
George, Felix and Helen Hostyneck.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Linn were guests
at the Harry Fox home on Snuday.
A large crowd attended the services
at Paddock Union Sunday evening. A
fine program was put on by Union
Center and we hope they may come
back again.
Velma Johring is confined to her
home with the measles.
Elmer Devall sprained his ankle
while working with the tractor at
A. L. Borg’s, one day last week.
Mary and Leone Spindler spent Sun
day with Hazel Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hubby, of
O’Neill, were dinner guests at the Vir
gil Hubby home on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Young and child
ren, of Opportunity, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Walters and children and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Rouse and . sons
spent Sunday afternoon at the Rulph
Young home,
Mr*. K. D. Spindler spent Monday
afternoon with Mrs. Gust Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bay, of O’Neill,
called at the Albert Kaczor home on
Tuesday afternoon.
Virgil Hubby had the misfortune to
lose one of his work horses Tuesday
night.
Excavation Shows Holt
County Was Once The
Home of Many Indians
By J. B. O’Sullivan
(Continued from last week.)
Many books say the workmen used
stone hammers of many weights and
that they would select a hammer of
just the proper weight, then thru long
practice strike just the right blow to
knock off a certain size tlake. This
kind of explanation and furrows, one
might call them, on arrowpoints look
ing like and hard as glass, and many
attempts to duplicate the work with
bruised fingers and flying glass chips
ami rank failure the only reward sort
of sank it in by experience that there
is something wrong, something un
known regarding the making of arrow
heads.
The revelation of Mr. Blackman came
as startling information here. His
glue method was tried and a thin strip
of rock came off a piece of Spanish
Diggings stone in two days, along with
the thick strip of glue. It is believed
here that Mr. Blackman has made a
great discovery.
Jumping to another phaze of this
Indian artifact subject, and jumping
out of Holt county momentarily, un
doubtedly permissable in this article,
which is only cow-country conserva
tion and not an attempt at choking to
death the other fellows at a scientific
convention with words longer than a
Chinaman’s dream of a clothesline, it
is interesting to note that red pipe
stone, or Catlinite, considered sacred
by Indians everywhere, has been found
near O’Neill and must have been
brought here by Indians u great many
years ago.
In this connection it is doubly inter
esting to read the following which ap
peared in the Sioux City Journal of
January 29, 1934:
“Pipestone, Minn.—With funds fur
nished by the Indian emergency con
servation works, the first work to be
done on the national park, an 80-acre
tract on the Indian reservation here,
will start February 1.
“A landscape engineer will be in
charge of the work to be done. It will
consist of planting trees and shrubs,
fencing the park and laying out road
ways.
"In the park is the sacred red pipe
stone quarries, from which tribes in
all part of the country secured their
stone for making pipes. It is the
only quarry of such stone in the
world.”
une piece ot tnis stone iounu nere
was a fine pipe-head picked up by the
editor of this newspaper, D. H. Cronin,
when a boy, just northeast of the fair
grounds here. Other pieces have been
found since. It has been stated by
some authorities that should Indians
on the war-path behold a piece of this
material all thought of doing anything
but admiring it was out of order right
there and right now.
1 One wonders what sort of scene
greeted the eyes of the first white men
to visit one of the Pawnee Indian vil
lages sprawled on Nebraska prairie
and particularly one in Holt county.
As far as can be determined, no white
saw such a village in Holt county, but
the villages had stood here according
to material evidence. From the de
pressions left by house ruins and by
artifacts it is presumed any Pawnee
village would be a fairly true picture
of one of the villages in prehistoric
Holt co*inty and here is an official re
port mud? by Colonel Dodge, who in
the summer of 1835, according to the
Nebraska History magazine, with 120
mounted dragoons marched into Ne
braska and held council with Pawnee
and other near Indians.’ This is ,what
the colonel had to say:
"After the council with the Omaha
we commenced the march up the Platte
river for the Pawnee village. The
Platte, near the mouth, is a broad shal
low river, from a mile and a half to
two miles wide; its average depth is
not over two or three feet. The cur
rent is rapid and the bottom very un
even, in some places barley covered
with water, in others six or eight feet
deep. Tli Platte is not navigable for
boats of any sue in low water. In
the highest stage of water the traders
sometimes descend the river from
above the forks in small rafts or skin
boats. The Horn river (Is this our
| Glkhorn river?) which empties into
the Platte on the opposite side, near
the mouth, is a much deeper and more
rapid stream than the Platte, not so
wide, and navigable for small boats
to a considerable distance.
"Our course to the Pawnee village
lay along the valley of the Platte, in
some pluees approaching close to the
river bank, at others keeping at the
■distance of half a mile or a mile. The
valley is of variable width, from one
mile to three or four mles wide, and
terminated on both sides by a high
prairie ridge. From one of the high
points near the river the eye could
wander over a vast extent of country,
possessing almost every variety or
feature. Could view the broad sur
face of the river, studded with islands
covered with groves of timber; the
green level valley, terminated with
hills of every variety of shape, beyond
which there was a successive range of
hills, until the view was terminated by
the distant horizon, the soil, which is
umiviai, appears 10 oe very ieriue,
and the whole valley appears once to
have been the bed of the river. The
proof of this is the irregular formation
of some of the hills which terminate it.
They appear to have been worn in
this shape by the continual washing of
the wa'er. There is but little timber
on this side of the river, only a few
scattered trees on the banks of the
creeks. Upon the opposite side the
timber appears to be more abundant.
“Saw several herds of antelope and
a number of deer. The principal chief
of the Grand Pawnees’ whose name
is the Angry Man, met us about 10
or 15 miles from his vallage, and ap
peared rejoiced at our arrival. lie
appeared to be a shrewd, intelligent
old fellow and very talkative, lie had
a long talk with Colonel Dodge, lie
told him that the Pawnee Loups had
been stealing horses from the Pawnee
Peets and were otherwise rather
troublesome and disposed to war He
endeavored to preposess the colonel in
his favor by telling him how well he
had conducted himself, while his neigh
bors had behaved very badly. In ex
plaining the relations he stood in to
the neighboring tribes, he appeared to
posses all the ingenuity of u modern
politician.
“We arrived within sight of the
Pawnee village about 12 o’clock on the
21st, having marched 80 mile3 since
leaving the Otoe village. We were met
two or three miles from the town by
the son of the principal chief in full
dress. He had on a scarlet colored
coat, trimmed with silver lace, a hat
decorated with bands of tin and red
feathers, with leggings and moccasins
ornamented with different colored
beads.
He wished the command to wait a
short time until his young men could
prepare to receive us in due form.
It could be observed from their delay
in turning out that they were rather
suspicious of our intentions, seeing
so large a body of troops come rather
unexpectedly among them.
“After waiting nearly two hours
they turned out to the number of 150
or 200, mounted on their best horses,
and dressed in their gayest costume.
They formed themselves into an ex
tended line, and advanced to meet us
in the same manner that the Otoes did
—at full speed.
“On arriving at the head of the col
umn they broke to the right and the
left, and galloped around us two or
three times, the chiefs then collected
together in a group at the head of the
column, lit their pipes and after
smoking a few whiffs, advanced alter
nately to Colonel Dodge and their
agent, Major Dougherty, and offered
them their pipe.
“After this ceremony was finished
we continued the march to their vil
Inge. The principal chief, the Angry
Man, then invited Colonel Dodge to
his lodge to a feast, which invitation
he deemed it advisable to accept, as
they had evinced some signs of dis
trust at our arrival, and he wished to
put them perfectly at their ease.
“The old chief conducted us to his
lodge, seated us around the fire, con
forming strictly with the rules of et
iquette, by giving to Colonel Dodge the
highest seat.
“He then set before us a large bowl
of boiled corn, which we found to be
very good.
“Marched about five miles beyond
the village and encamped on the banks
of the Platte. The Pawnee village is
built after the same plan as that of the
Otoes.
“The Pawnees are the most num
erous nation of Indians originally west
of the Mississippi, with the exceptions
of the Sioux and Blaekfeet, and if not
restrained by the infiuence of the
whites, would be very formidable to
their enemies. They have a very high
opinion of their agent, Major Dough
erty, and he exerts a strong influence
over them, and will doubtless ultim
ately, if assisted by the influence of
the government, succeed in effecting a
pace between them and ull of the
neighboring tribes.
“They are already impressed with a
high opinion of the power of the
United States, and it will not be dif
I ficult for the government in a short
time to exert a controlling influence
over them.
“They occupy a country possessing
a rich and productive soil, well adapted
to the cultivation of every species of
grain, and one of the finest grazing
countries in the world.
"There is a sufficient quantity of
wood to supply all their wants. There
is consequently nothing wanting but a
little instruction and industry to make
them a wealthy and prosperous people.
"The buffalo live within a three or
four days ride of their callage, and
they now subsist principally upon that
meat. They have parties out killing
buffalo and drying the meat most of
the time during the summer and fall,
and they sometimes move their whole
vallage into the buffalo country, and
remain several months, for the purpose
of killing buffalo.
"As the butfalo, however, are re
ceding from them and becoming few
er every year, this will be a very pre
carious method of procuring food, and
they will be obliged to resort to some
other method of sustaining them
selves.”
(Continued next week.)
Stranger: “Give me my mail,
please ?”
P. O. Clerk: "Name, Please.”
Stranger: "You’ll find that on my
mail.”
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