d Neb. State Historical Society ^ jj • ft VOL. LXIII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 NO. 43 BREEZES FROM THE SOUTHWEST ] By Romaine Saunders Atkinson, Nebr., Star Route No. 5. Glasses are not needed to look on the bright side. J. B. Van Houten, of Taylor, bought a Short Horn bull of Tom Baker a week ago. I have the rationing book No. 2 and now need the services of a Philadelphia lawyer to tell how to use it. With young huskies out look for farm work, maybe the “labor W shortage” is just another specimen of our Yankee surplus talk. If your taste is none too fastid ious and your digestive force is equal to it, store cookies are not in the list of “processed foods.” The remedy of the wets for bootlegging was repeal. It would be interesting now for the “Old Judge” to give us his remedy for bootleg meat. “Blessed is the man that walk eth not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” A group of boys from the high schools of Holt county could pro duce something about as worth while as what seems at this time will be the net result of the 1943 legislative session. The thermonmeter registering 8 below the morning of March 2, we trust it is the farewell salute of subzero temperature for this season. A clear sky, a blazing sunburst coming out of the east and the artic wind sunk to a whisper there is a promise of just that. The glitter and glow, the ease and bounty, the bread of abund ance and kultur-ordered lives ^ promised the peoples of prostrate Europe by German invaders turns out to be ashes of desolation, the horror of haunting fear and the specter of gnawing hunger. Such have ever been the fruits strewn across empires by a vain mortal posing as diety, who ignores the lesson written large on the scroll of the ages. Quoting from a personal letter: “The speaker told of a man who visited Chiang Ki Chek and in a devotional meeting the general essemo prayed that his people would not become discouraged and that they would not hate the Japs, including a prayer for Jap anese Christians.” I wonder how many of us put such an inter pretation on our own Christian ity. But did not the One who hung on the cross pray, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” On Sunday night eight million Methodists will gather in their 42,000 churches of the country for spiritual rededication to defeat efforts to weaken or replace Christian faith and idealism by principles of barbarism, pagan ism and materialism.” A re surgence of the zeal, an endow ment of the humality and the piety of the Wesleys, rather than reliance on numbers, would do something to a body of eight million believers. ^ After 55 years the memory of January 12, 1888, lives on. The Frontier has brought us again the list of those who perished in this county during that storm and paralyzing cold. Providence in tervened by five minutes in my boyish belief that morning. The ’88 blizzard stands out as the most tragic in our history. It brought to men and women a strange mixture of human suffer ing, heroism, physical endurance and death. A winter earlier in the eighties saw a great loss of livestock, but few if any of the prairie dwellers perished. Out lying ranches suffered irreparable loss. From carcasses cowboys salvaged the hides by adopting a method of skinning said to have been introduced by John Kearney, who later retired from the range and became the head clerk in M. M. Sullivan’s, large store. The hide was slit from head to tail, a rope looped over one end, snub bed to the saddle horn and the spurs applied to the broncho. Something was thus saved but the losses sustained, combined with incoming settlers and the break ing plow, left many “cattle bar i a flying schooL O’Neill friends tender congratu lations and they know that he has what it takes to make a suc cessful aviator. Cattle Prices On Upward Trend At Local Sale Yard There was an extra heavy run of cattle for this time of year on Monday’s market with prices still cattle continued to be the popular on the up grade. Light weight choice, however, there were good prices paid on all grades. Steer calves brought from $15.50 to $17.00 per hundred, with some of the lighter ones bringing from $18.20 to $18.50. Heifer | calves from $13.00 to $15.00 per | hundred; yearling steers brought ! from $14.00 to $15.00 and yearling heifers cashed from $12.00 to $14.00 per hundred. Two year old steers sold from $13.75 to $14.50. There was a good strong market ! on cows with the beef kind bring ing from $9.50 to $12.00 and can ners and cutters from $7.00 to $9.25 per hundred. Bulls sold ! up to $12.50. There was another good run of hogs with the market steady to j slightly lower from last week. ■ Butcher hogs brought $14.55 to $14.65; sows sold from $14.20 to $14.35. Feeder pigs brought | from $15.55 to $16.60 per hundred. In the horse sale around 50 head of horses showed up. Next sale Monday, March 8th. __________ The Golden Rod Club This meeting was held on Feb ruary 23, at the home of Mrs. Dick Minton. The lesson was on dec orated Finishes for Home Sew ing. The beauty and economy of these decorations are valued more by those that make them and consider their time well spent. Miss Lowis, our county Demonstration Agent, has been trying hard to get more women interested in Project work. It advocates economy in nearly all lessons, and we need this ! especially now in war time.. Much of our time was taken up in electing new officers. Mrs. Jane Langan served. We will j meet again on March 9th. Our tlime at this meeting will be taken up in preparing for a booth | which all Project Clubs are re quested to do for Achievement Day, the date for which has not yet been set. The members of this Club want to thank the editor of this paper for giving his time and space in his paper. CASEY AT THE BAT Dan Casey, who always said he was the original" Casey,” died in a hospital in Washington, D. C., the other day. He was a prom inent pitcher in the 1880’s and 1890’s. He was heard to tell a couple of ball players that the ball game which is described in the poem, “Casey at the Bat,” j was played back in 1887 between the Phillies and the New York I Giants. He came to bat in the last ,1ialf of the ninth with Philadel phia trailing 4-3, and men on sec ond and third. He let two called strikes go by, and on the third pitch closed his eyes and swung —and missed. The incident was put into verse by Ernest Thayer and popularized by the late De Wolf Hopper, who recited it throughout much of the world in a generation. Judge D. R. Mounts and Court Reporter Ted McElhaney held I court in Butte on Monday.