The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, December 03, 1936, Page FIVE, Image 5
Over the County SOUTHWEST BREEZES By Romaine Saunders - - - E. E. Young went to his former home in Kansas last week on busi ness. And what is there about a farm er trying to husk more corn than all others to make a whole country side go nuts? Mrs. Fanny Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baker and Ned and Mil dred Saunders spent Thanksgiving with friends in Albion. William Arnholdt was over from Amelia a day last week with his saw rig and converted a lot of dry cottonwood into fuel for De Lance Withers. What is there about a dingy, smoke-filled room and a pack of soiled cards to intice a man from his family and fireside for an all night session ? When a vegeterian and one en tertaining no such scruples sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner with a nine-pound turkey hen nicely browned the carnivornous one is pretty apt to go the limit. D. L. Withers and H. L. Janies went down to the Chris Madsen sale in lower Wyoming precinct last Wednesday. We understand Mr. Madsen is another who has caught the new Oregon fever. Votes being not needed, a reduct ion in PWA workers by fifty per cent is ordered as a starter. Offi cially we are informed thereis in creased demand in private industry but some ten million idle workmen say they don’t know where to buy a job. Little chance for justice if left in the hands of officers whose mis taken sense of official duty makes •fi^nzied fools of otherwise calm sane men. The spirit that _linates lynching mobs is none the less reprehensible in officers of the law. A gentleman of letters down at the state university is credited with putting it this way: “The mois ture content of both top soil and subsoil is seriously depleted.” An old timer down here has been heard to express the same thought—“it’s dryer than h—.” Anyone will respond to the call of a neighbor in need night or day. However, a neighboring rancher says he could take a club to his best friends that aroused him from the midnight slumbers to find they had filled the wrong tank before leaving town. The United States treasury has a full page ad in colors in a maga zine of national standing which asks a thousand dollars for such a space. The treasury is seeking a market for more government bonds and offers the liberal inducement of thirty-three and a third per cent increase at maturity. Should it find itself impotent, shorn of spiritual force, standing naked and ashamed the church that has abandoned the old paths for a “new gospel,” against which the gTeat Apostale Paul once threw out a warning, it will learn that a soul service, not a social service, is the thing needed to bring healing to a world’s heartache. Mr. and Mrs. Borg and family, residing two miles east of Midway, were at Amelia Sunday in the in terests of Sunday school work, Mr. Borg being president of the county Sunday School Association. He spoke to the Methodist group as did also Mrs. Borg. She sang a solo and the girls sang a few se lections. They are visiting the schools of the county and interest ing them in a convention to be held in Chambers some months hence. Oregon has its beds of roses, Cal ifornia its orange blossoms, Ar izona its painted desert and Ne braska its nocturnal charm. In late November down here in the southwest there is opportunity for unrestricted view of the moon’s full orb walking in majestic and uncomparable splendor across the gilded vault and the unnumbered stars twinkling in silent granduer. The celestian picture on a cloudless night an hour after sunset trans cends the gorgeouB terrestial scenes. The beauty of form, the fragrance, the exquisite coloring of the flowers holds a charm, but searching the mystey of the night sky has been coeval with the ex istence of man. Lonely watchers of armies in bivouac, shepherds watching their flocks as well as the great of the earth have beheld with rapture the gilded, orbs of night, and a star pointed the place of the birth of the Saviour. We have all this scene without the turn ing of a furrow or the breaking of a clod. "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” Have we gone soft? Are we no good any more ? Where is the breed of men and women who settled the sod-bound prairies of Holt county? We hear the moderns talk about being poor, about relief, of corn-hog checks, old age assist ance and other expressions group ing us under charity’s wing. Many of the pioneers were poor in a sense not now known. They fought the grim struggle and asked odds of no one. A bleak winter in the long ago a family that settled near what is now the town of Inman subsisted for days on dried cherries brought with them from Iowa. In after years, in a comfortable frame house and surrounded with plenty, cii the land they had homesteaded, I frequently dined with them and their table was always abundantly supplied with the best. They en joyed telling of those early priva tions and the satisfaction they felt of having made their own way to better things. Daily rations of boiled potatoes were common among the very early settlers. Game was plentiful but that took amunition which in turn took money. But a dollar looked as big as a hind wheel of a wagon. The champion of the hard luck brigade of today has yet the rudiments to learn. A lady of quality fell in a faint at a church service one night in O’Neill. Another young fellow and myself secured a team and buggy and took her to her home. What we should have done but didn’t know it was to have taken her to Lewie’s food counter and given her a square meal. She was starving but too proud to ask help. Are there still such among us ? To the boys and girls of the pion eers, themselves now tinted with gray by the hand of time, there comes through memory’s dream the sufferings and, sacrifices of their fathers and mothers and the present day complaints make them just a little bit tired. EMMET ITEMS Margaret Cuddy spent Thanks giving at her home in O’Neill. Mrs. Clara Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Pat McGinnis and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole and children were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Conard on Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Henning and family and Mr. and Mrs. Lou Praugue spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. and. Mrs. William Grothe, Sr. Mrs. Praugue and Mrs. Hen ning are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Grothe. Helen Anspach spent Thursday of last week with her parents in Inman. Mrs. Ella Dallegge and Mr. and Mrs. John Bonnenbcrger and son Duane, and Helen Peterson, spent Thanksgiving with the Charles Dal legge family at Chambers. The Emmet teachers spent their Thanksgiving vacation at their homes. Miss Kellar at Chambers, Miss Harris at Page, and Miss Pongratz with her parents north east of Emmet. Helen Peterson spent the week end with her aunt, Mrs. Bob Fox, in O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wills and sons went to Ainsworth to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Wegner. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fox were in Emmet Sunday visiting relatives. Teado Dailey spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Daily. He is attending Creighton Medical College in Omaha. Miss Marwn Holbert was a din ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Conard Sunday. Mrs. Pat McGinnis was a busi ness caller in O’Neill Monday. Milt Lawrence, Guy Cole and Harry Werner went to the Nio brara again Sunday to hunt geese, but again came back without any. Mr. and Mrs. Eli McConnell and children, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mc Connell and children, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pucket and son, Jimmie, and Miss Maxine McConnell all spent Thanksgiving at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex McConnell. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Johnson and son Harold, were Thanksgiving dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Banks. Guy Cole attended the livestock sale in Atkinson Tuesday. FREE! Power Chef Electric Mixer with the purchase of a Cor onado Model I) Washer or an Electric Ironer. FREE — Your choice of a Goose-down Comforter or Twin, Self Draining Tubs with our Cor onado AX Power Washer. For BEST RESULTS CONSIGN AND BUY THROUGH THE Atkinson Livestock Market “Your nearest and best market.” Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Fat & Stock Hogs Auction Every Tuesday starting at 12:30 p. m. Our selling charges are very moderate, your livestock, we charge you nothing, shipment of livestock to Atkinson. If we do not sell Send your next Turkeys wanted for the Christmas Market BUYING DATES December 4 to 11 inclusive We will dress your turkeys and buy them for Cash, or “Pool” them on the Co-operative plan of marketing. See Us for Prices and Information Before Marketing Your Christmas Turkeys! Armour Creameries O’Neill, Nebr. Phone 66 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foreman were guests Sunday at the home of Frank Tom jack at Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Thompson, of O’Neill, were guests Sunday of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sesler. John Bonenberger was a business caller in Atkinson Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sesler and children were guests Thanksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Farr. J. B. Ryan was in Emmet on business Tuesday afternoon. Elmer Wolfe was a caller Sun day at the Clyde Allen home. Gaines Rzeszotarski was a caller at Stuart Tuesday. Miss Anna Vequist was a busi ness caller in Emmet Tuesday. Mrs. Dorothy Humphrey went to Valentine Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Orland Moore were Thanksgiving dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gaines Rzeszotarski and children. Sam and Warren Beck and Kath leen Cadman were Sunday dinner guests of Faye Sesler. County Superintendent McClurg visited the Emmet school Tuesday. The WPA workers who have beeen on a road job south of Em met, were called to O’Neill for ex amination Monday. Oliver Maring was a business caller in O’Neill Tuesday. Dougal Allen attended the Atkin son livestock sale Tuesday and purchased a truckload of cattle. • Guy Cole has rented the Brown place south of Emmet and intends to pasture cattle there this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Tenborg were callers at the Cadman home Mon day afternoon. I Mrs. Emma Maring and son, Ollie and Homer, spent Thanksgiv ing at the home of her brother in Chambers. ' Larry Tenborg and nieces. Dor othy Anne and Kathleen Cadman, and sisiter, Mrs. Ruth Wagnon, were O’Neill callers Monday after noon. INMAN NEWS Miss Lois Moor who teaches at North Bend, was home to spend the Thanksgiving; holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moor. (Continued on page 8, column 1.). Wrecking Truck Streamlined. Haa crank type crane. UH* long, APIA 4' wide, and /HV 4%' high. Giant Racer.2Sc Building Blocks Over 100 pieces. 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