Over the County
INMAN NEWS
Mrs. Anna O’Donnell left for
Walthill Saturday for a visit with
her son, Albert Clark and family.
Pat Laney, who is a student at
St. Mary’s Academy in O’Neill,
spent the week-end here with rel
atives.
Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy, of
Page, spent Sunday here with their
daughter, Mrs. William Thompson
and Mr. Thompson.
Miss Doana Brittell, of Newport,
spent several days of last week
here visiting among relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Anna Becktelhamier, of Lex
ington, Nebr., spent several days
here last week at the home of her
cousin, J. T. Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dutton and
son, of Torrington, Wyo., came
Wednesday for a short visit with
her sister, Mrs. Walt Jaeox and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Riley and.
daughter, Miss Mildred, and Miss
Lois Moor drove to Royal Sunday
and visited with Mr. and Mrs. Em
met Bartsch and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Colman,
of Lusk, Wyo., who had been in
Chicago taking in the Century of
Progress exposition, came Thurs
day for a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Colman. They
were accompanied by little Miss
Donna Mae Peterson, who had been
visiting relatives in Iowa.
Friday was a gala day at the
Inman high school. The freshmen
initiation being in progress. The
bays attended classes clad in girls
clothing while the girls were ar
rayed in boys wear. Friday evening
an initiation party took place.
EMMET ITEMS
Miss Lucille Lowery is visiting
with friends in Atkinson ths week.
Miss Ella Prange, of Atkinson,
spent the week-end with Miss Dor
othy Sesler here.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roth and
children visited at the W. F. Grothe
home Sunday.
A farewell dance was given for
Mr. and Mrs. John Horn and child
ren last Friday evening. Mr. and
Mrs. Horn are moving to Arkansas.
Miss Helen McCaffrey visited
Sunday with Mrs. Archie Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roth and, son,
of Atkinson, visited here Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Roth.
Joe Luth and George O’Connell
returned Monday from a trip to
Iowa.
Ed. O’Donnell, Mose Gaughen
baugh and Frank Prussa left Fri
day evening for Chicago where they
will visit the World’s Fair.
Miss Evelyn Tomjack spent the
week-end with Mrs. Otto Hoehne.
Mrs. James Connelly, Mrs. Pat
Connelly and Ann Connelly, of
O’Neill, accompanied by Miss Len
ore Walsh, of Iowa, and Mrs. James
O’Donnell, drove to £fie*Stuart hos
pital Friday afternoon where they
visited with Mrs. John Gallagher.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allen are the
proud parents of an eight and one
fpurth pound baby boy born last
Friday morning.
Lavina Kloppenborg bad the mis
fortune of losing an eye Saturday
afternoon when her brother, Ervin,
threw a piece of iron that accident
ly hit her. She w^as taken to Dr.
Brown at O’Neill and from there
to Norfolk.
A son weighing two pounds was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox
September 19.
The Ladies’ Aid met at the base
ment of the M. E. church Wednes
day, September 26, for a business
meeting.
Misses Lulu Beebe, of Atkinson,
and Lucille Lowery visited the
Emmet school l&st week.
MEEK AND VICINITY
We are glad to report those in
our locality who were injured in
car accidents Free Day to be get
ting along nicely. Some are nearly
recovered. Charles Kaczor, whose
car was struck by a truck on the
highway near Midway, received,
some bruises, and his car was quite
badly damaged. Will Harvey, Mary
McGowan and Mrs. Patterson were
struck by a car coming from be
hind, and their car went into the
ditch. They were shaken up and
are quite sore and stiff, and the
car was damaged some. Mrs. Guy
Y'oung had her lower lip quite bad
ly cut and several teeth knocked
loose when their car was over
turned. The rest of the family re
ceived bruises.
Mrs. A. L. Borg called at the
Frank Griffith home Thursday.
Elmer Devall shelled corn at the
Rouse brothers place Wednesday.
Cecil Griffith has been helping
put up hay at the Robert Benson
home the past week.
Mr. and Mr«. William Hubby, of
O’Neill, spent the week-end at the
Eric Borg home.
Charles Linn purchased a new
Plymouth coupe of Marcellus in
O’Neill on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Harrison
and daughter, Mary, spent Wednes
day evening at the Frank Nelson
home.
Mrs. Laura Patterson, of South
Dakota is visiting her brother Will
Harvey.
Mr. and Mrs. Gust Johnson and
children, Hazel, Raymond and Har
old, were dinner guests Sunday at
the Frank Griffith home.
Dinner guests at Eric Borg’s on
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Rouse and sons, Lawrence, Lloyd
and Delbert, Arthur Roude and
Leonard, Thelma and Edward
Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young and
Clark Young, of Opportunity, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Young, of Meek, drove to Iowa
Sunday for a visit with relatives.
Miss Louisa Shivley was a guest
at the Sam Shults home S >nday.
Albert Kaczor returned last week
from a visit at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Ben Freeburg, and
family, of Valpariaso.
Mr. and Mrs. Halgrimson and
and children, of Ainsworth, were
overnight guests at the Eric Borg
home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Griffith called
at the C. E. Linn home Tuesday.
Ralph Rausch visited Tuesday
night with Leonard Young.
A fine rain fell in this locality
Sunday afternoon and evening. The
amount varied a great deal, from
one to two inches falling, and in
some places three inches is report
ed. It will help in the fall planting
of grain.
The Dan Hansen family visited
Sunday at the Ed Henifin home.
OPPORTUNITY*
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lamman called
at the Allen Hill home Thursday.
Mudloff Brothers erected a new
chicken house last week.
A large crowd attended the dance
at John Jaureceks Saturday night.
Herman Eisert had the misfort
une of losing two valuable horses
the last couple of weeks.
Percy Grass, of Page, delivered
500 bushels of corn to Sylvester
Zakrzewski last Thursday and Fri
day.
Andrew Wytoski and, son, Stan
ley, of Inman left for Minnesota
Monday morning on business.
The Ladies Aid will meet with
Mrs. Paul Young on Wednesday of
this week.
John Anderson, of Red Bird, is
working for Allen Hill this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Young and Clark
Young left Sunday morning for a
visit with relatives and friends in
Iowa. Mrs. Fred Milne, of Creight
on accompanied them for a visit
with her brother.
Clyde Thomas has been baling
hay the past week.
Sunday dinner guests at James
Van Every’s were, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Young and family and Oliver
Morgan.
Mrs. Guy Young had the stitches
removed from a cut on her chin, re
ceived in the collision of last Tues
day.
Allen Hill has been quite sick the
past couple of tfeeks.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
Teh Annual Holt County Teach
ers’ Institute will be held at the
O’Neill high school on Monday and
Tuesday, October 1 and 2. In
structors will be changed each day.
The instructors will be, J. G. Mast
ers, Principal Central High School,
Omaha; C. K. Morse, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln; Miss Mal
vina Scott, Kearney State Normal,
Kearney; Mrs. Cora Kent, Bassett;
Miss Nettie I. Mills, Chicago; a
representative of the State Depart
ment of Education, Lincoln; Lyle
Durham, Music Instructor, O’Neill
High School, and Miss Maude
Henderson, Normal Training in
structor, O’Neill High School. All
schools will be closed and all teach
ers will be in attendance during the
two days. Anyone who is inter
ested. is cordially invited to attend
this Institute.
A meeting of Rural School Board
members of Holt county was held in
the court room at O’Neill, lust
Tuesday morning to discuss several
subjects of importance that have
come up at this time. State Sup
erintendent Taylor, accompanied by
Mrs. Taylor, was present. He gave
them some valuable information
and discussed questions of import
ance with those present. The main
topic of discussion was a Circulat
ing Library for the schools of the
county. It was voted to organize
a circulating library in the new
| County Exhibit Hall. Each dis
trict to contribute their $6.00 per
| year toward this project and in re
turn to have access to all books in
the library. State Superintendent
Taylor assured them that this is a!
legal proceedure under the library
law and that other large counties
were following this plan very suc
cessfully.
The meeting adjourned at noon
to meet again later in the afternoon
to complete plans for the organiza
tion. In the afternoon a temporary
purchasing committee consisting of
Mrs. M. F. Stanton, District 15,
Joe Winkler, District 157, one other
member to be appointed later, and
the County Superintendent was ap
pointed, to act until the next An
nual Meeting of School Boards in
February. This committee is to
buy the books for the Library as
fast as the districts come into the
organization.
Publishers of text books for
schools are offering an exchange
price reduction of 15 per cent of
the price of the new texts ordered
if old books are sent in to apply on
the piychase. In order to secure
this reduction books must be ord
ered direct from publishers. This
is a good way to dispose of old
books and lessens the expense of
new texts. The books exchanged
must be for the same grade as those
ordered., but need not be from the
same publishers.
A fine display of school exhibits
from the Stuart Public School, the
St. Boniface School at Stifart, as
well as the rural schools surround
ing Stuart, were placed on display
in the exhibit hall at Stuart for
the Tri-County Meet last week.
The School Exhibit work will be
on display in the Exhibit Hall at
O’Neill until October 2. Anyone
interested in seeing this exhibit is
welcome to come. Please call at
this office for the key.
Excavation Shows Holt
County Was Once The
Home of Many Indians
By J. B. O’Sullivan
(Continued from last week)
There seems to be no end to the
interesting things found and noted
by those who excavate where people
lived long ago. There is a place in
the state of Arkansas, thought to
have been inhabited by Caddoan
stock, the same linguistic culture
of which the Pawnee are said to
belong, where a promontory known
as Chart Rock, in the vicinity of
Evening Shade, is thought to have
been a sacred place for centuries.
Extensive burials nearby have
their feet pointing toward this
stone, every one of them. This
rock lies among almost inaccessible
hills. One of the interesting phases
of this find is that the people who
lived there must have been isolated,
and had no chance to learn of the
way other tribes did things.
This is shown by their implements,
cooking vessels, pottery, ornaments
and weapons, all having an individ
uality about them.
Chart Rock raises its brow about
75 feet above the surrounding land
and it faces the sun when it is in
the west. Ancient hands carved
this stone to crude forms of human
beings and mysterious symbols and
there are many incised tracks of
wild animals of the region in solid
rock.
Not far away is the remains of
another tribe who must not have
had contact with the Chart Rock
people of Evening Shade, but who
must have contacted many other
tribes and these, because they were
not isolated, show a much higher
cultural development, although they
are believed to have flourished at
the same time as the Chart Rock
ers.
The latter’s pottery is very brit
tle and the designs are like those
of some small child or entirely
lacking. Pipes are of pottery and
poorly made. Isolation must have
retarded progress of this tribe.
The'religion of ancient Indians
must be interesting since they evol
ved one of blue sky or went with
out. For the benefit of youngsters
who may wonder if the brown boys
and girls went to heaven or to
yell, several pastors of different
faiths were asked just what chance
the wild ones had to enter the great
kingdom, and all said they had the
finest possible to do so, explaining
that the Indians had a God of na
ture, they used their reason and
decided there is a Great Spirit and
of course the Great Spirit would
not turn down any who chose to
worship Him. It is nice to know
this because the brown fellows did
have a rather hot time here and
they seem to deserve everything
they may get elsewhere.
Prying into the religions of the
people draws us to Painted Rock,
“La Piedra Pintada’’ of the Span
iards and the Tlacatapetl to the
Achmmirkjaves, who are thought to
be the ancestors cf the Mojava
people, and it is thought the first
named instituted worship at Paint
od Rock or, the Larissa Plain, 65
miles t'3‘ of San Luis Obispo, Cal.
Thi rod: and the surr unding
worship grounds is as large as an
average size farm. The rock itself
rises 200 feet and is at the base
750 by 1,200 feet. There is a great
room carved out of this solid, rock
and the room measures 225 feet by
120 feet. The room is oval, and it
is on the eastern side of the stone
tower, there undoubtedly to permit
rays of the morning sun to flash
some important message from the
Great Spirit across an altar.
The Painted Rock is of a gray
sandstone. The door was rather
narrow, but time and inquisitive
persons have worn it much wider
than it was when found. The floor
also was almost level to the sur
rounding plain, but dirt and rub
bish have filled the chamber many
feet. Old timers told investigators
there are many doors low down
that are covered by sand and that
these had never been entered be
cause the place at one time was
alive with rattle snakes and other
dangerous things.
Carefully picking our way along
a gallery like floor which runs
around the south side of the big
chamber, one is struck by the great
number of paintings on the wall, if
one has a good flashlight, if not
one may be struck on one's head,
and many of the paintings are so
elaborate as to cause doubt they
are works of savage Indians.
Vandals, always with us, have
ruined many of these fine works of
art and others are dim because of
age. Many of the pictures are in
the same condition they were when
completed. The colors used are red,
white and black. There are plenty
of indications to show there was
long ago many pictures on the
outside walls of Painted Rock, but
the weather has all but destroyed
these. The story of this great
natural rock shaft must be very
interesting, and it is being woven
together so that in time we may
know all of it.
The story that most often heard,
legendary, is that long ago the
Aztecs used the rock as their
temple of the sun. It is pretty
well known the Aztecs, before the
Spaniards came to prove the other
fellow’s religion does not amount
to an augerless flea, kept the Az
tecs there on the trail to their
heaven thru worship facilities avail
able at this stone temple. The
Aztecs were followers of a religion
wherein cardinal features were
humility, charity and love, with,
perhaps, emphasis on the latter.
The symbol of this religion was a
serpent having a coating of feath
ers, and this snake was called Que
zalcoatl. No definite proof ever has
been found this place was the prop
erty of the great Aztec civilization,
and legends are the sole indicators
the Aztecs were in the vicinity.
Bits of evidence showing the
Aztec idea may be true, are the
name, Painted Rock, “Tlacatapetl,”
•certainly Aztec in spelling and
pronounciation, and the characters
painted on and in the rock.
There has been found on the
south side of this great stone a
painting of what mast be a picture
of a great snake with a triangle on
its head. It is thought this means
a snake having feathers. The paint
ings on this outside south wall have
been declared, much older than
those on the inside.
White men, trying to copy some
of the pictures there, learned they
are very complicated and that the
artists who executed them must
have known much more than they
were supposed to know. There
also is a difference in the outside
and inside paintings, possibly show
ing the first comers were Aztec and
that in time the people forgot
about their old conections and evol
ved a religion and mode of making
a living of their own.
Other paintings are of turtles,
lizards, large animals, some of
which have not been identified, and
of wheels of which none are alike.
Those seeking to unravel the
mysteries of Painted Rock sought
out a man named Jose Sequatero,
a ranch foreman near the place,
and who was known to be able to
truce his lineage back to the Ach
amickjaves. This man was known
as very truthful, quiet and highly
educated.
Long ago, the mother of Jose
was the wife of a Mojave chief by
the name of Taquala, and .while
holding down this position, she got
herself mixed in some sort of scand
al and the only thing that saved
her from meeting her death right
away was the fact that it was her
duty to tuke care of the legendary
history of the Mojave Indians, and
as such she was regarded as indis
pensible as well as being the ob
ject of more or less reverence.
This woman made a get-away,
not from her new found love, but
from wagging tongues, and she
made a hard journey to a place she
heard her folks speak much about,
the Painted Rock. All had been
chased away from this place many
years before the birth of this wo
man. Near this great rock the
woman constructed a residence and
spent much of her time instructing
the son, Jose, in the meaning of
the tower and its many paintings.
Jose was asked what was meant by
things about the rock.
Joe said the pictures were histor
ical records of important events oc
curing to the people there at the
time they were made. Part of
them were curses on those who
might come there, or on those whq
took by force or crooked ways the
land of the people. It is true that
dozens of men have come to the
Carrisa plain and have died violent
deaths or lost everything they had.
White people come there now and
pick up curios or crack off a piece
of souvenir rock, carve their names
or look and are gone. Many lakes
that once were full of fish have
dried away, and an abundant store
of wild game is no more. No more
does the atmosphere resound with
gutteral incantations of some great
ceremony, perhaps as some priest
or medicine man let the heart’s
blood of some renowned beauty out
on the earth.
Poking into the religious ways
of ancient Indians presents many
baffling problems even to the
trained archaeoligist, according to
their reports on sites examined. In
nearly every old village vicinity
are remains of large houses, one or
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two, or even more, and the number
may be accounted for by new con
structions, say following the col
lapse of an old one, or, maybe
hundreds or even thousands of
years passed between the building
of the places we know today as
extra large “buffalo wallows.”
There are many such large earth
depressions here and in Holt county
and each one offers the excavator
a fine chance to unearth something
startling and educational. Several
may be found within a mile of
O’Neill. The great drawback to
exploring these is the great amount
of work necessary and no guaran
tee of any interesting find. The
only way one might get an idea
of what lies buried in these places
is to scan reports of those excav
ated in other sections of the
country.
It looks from literature read, and
from conversation with those who
know something about religious
places of ancient Indians, that few
if any tribes lived here without
their “church,” temple or other
place set aside for the worship of
the Great Spirit. It is nice to know
these people, without, as far as we
know, any revelation, knew and
admitted there is a higher author
ity than the head of the household,
or even his mother-in-law.
(Continued next week.)
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. R. M.
Sauers, Superintendent. Promo
tion Sunday.
Morning Worship 11:00 — “The
Growing Christian."
Evening Service 8:00 — Large
People’s Choir and good Song Ser
vice.
Your presence will encourage
others in this great work.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
Pointed Paragraphs
Postmaster General Farley con
tinues stamping up and down the
country hurling vituperation at Re
publican leaders. But Mr. Farley
is using the corpse of the Demo
cratic Party as a ventriloquist’s
dummy as Senator Hasting of Del
aware so aptly pointed out.
Add to the New Deal’s demands
for loyalty to its policies from
farmers seeking drought relief
funds, its attempt to own applic
ant’s for loans body and soul.
For the business man to get at
loan from the RFC it is necessary
that he sign a contract whether be
likes the New Deal or not, saying
whether he will uphold the Presi
den and if he gets the money, use
it only, spend it only, with firms
flying the Rlue Eagle. A pretty
dash of politics mingling with sa
called relief.
In June, according to government
figures, there were 6,COO,000 people
comprising 4,234,000 families, or
about 13 per cent of the total pop
ulation of the country, on relief!
Just to show how much good the
tossing away of billions of dollars
by the New Deal is doing Donald
Richberg admits that more than
5.000. 000 families or approximately
20.000. 000 people will be on the re
lief rolls this winter. Unemploy
ment does not seem to be lessening^
Thomas Harley, of Wichita, Karx^
says, “Taxation is nearing the
point of confiscation and can only
be credited when the voter makes
up his mind to credit it. Unless
voters, en masse, wake up to the
situation, and quit taking it on
the chin there will be no improve
ment, on the other hand the load
will continue to get heavier.”
PUBLIC SALE
at the
FAIR GROUNDS
Sat., Sept. 29; 2 p. nt.
of the salvage lumber of the
ampitheatre and barn.
TERMS—CASH
JOHN L. QUIG,
Secretary-Treasurer
George Colman, Auctioneer
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