Nebraska Newspapers

    I \
** State Historlwi Socl*f
The Frontier
- - I' !■■■!— ■■■ I ■ .. I ■ ■■ ' ■■ ■ ■ II ■ I. II ■■■■ ■■ ■ M I II ——m
,xv ~~ O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12,1945 NO. 48 |
Spotted Tail Takes to
Trail in a t ruck
Not since Spotted Tail’s bloody:
bands required that soldiers be
quartered at Ft. Hartisough on
1 the south and Ft. Randall on the
Missouri to the north has there
been so many Indians in town as
on Sunday night last. The slogan
now is not Another Red Skin bit
the dust, but rather put poor lo to
| work. And Uncle Sam, the em
I Idem of the Great White Father,
is doing that.
Packed in like a double-deck
load from off the sheep ranges,
fifty-four Indians with tepees,
camp equipment, gloomy squaws,
wild-eyed kids and lordly bucks
from the reservations somehow
found hanging on room in a truck
that tarried in town for a while
on the way to Hastings where the
men will work on government
projects.
They take their "homes" with
them, not merely because of lack
of house room but because an In
dian at home is thoroughly In
dian at heart. He may be college
bred, a competent worker amid
the white man’s cultured sur
roundings, yet his home is the
squalor and dirt and smoke of
the tepee camp life. He may
grunt his thanks for a porterhouse
steak but would rather have roast
dog or jerked venison.
There is extensive construction
work for the U. S. Navy now be
ing developed in the Hastings
area. These Indian families are
being taken to help on the job.
They do not have the white man’s
worry for a place to live as all
they need is a spot for a tent and
would rather be employed in con
struction work than under the
military discipline of an army
camp, where there is “too much
salute, not enough shoot.”
Word early in the week re
ported Bob Brittel’s condition im
proved. He was reported previous
ly to be in a critical condition in
Portland, Ore., where the family
moved some time ago from here.
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Remain* Saund*n
An effectual way of making
converts to a New Deal program
is putting gents on the payroll.
If you are not prepared to ad
mit that you are also one of a
shoddy outfit don't stand on a
street corner and watch the gang
go and come.
What has happened to our good
old American fruit pies? Order
pie at a public eating place and
there is set on the table a soggy
mess of corn starch and flavor
ing extract that would just about
poison a pup.
There it is in plain words, send
your clothes to the naked in
China and a yawning big box to
drop them into. Some of the fair
sisters will not have to take off
much for themselves to light out
for home naked.
Country publishers are asked
to donate from three to five col
umns a week to propaganda for
the perpetuation of various offi
cial or executive setups that are
not much in public favor and are
not even put on the dollar-a-year
payroll.
Not many out this way care a
hoot about Omaha power or MVA,
other than a considerable senti
ment for nature as it is. Our
own grand little river has been
ruined by too many ditches that
do no one any good. The Elk
horn as nature cut a winding
trail across our prairie had its
alluring swimming holes, abound
ed with 5-pound pickerel and in
winter furnished blocks of pure
natural ice for summer storage.
. The work of ditch diggers has
I left but a withered remnant of
the crystal stream we once had.
Whether the storage of grain
and other products is a proper
function of government is debat
able. And experience discloses
that most government business
ventures involve loss in addition
to the cost of maintaining an
army of administrative heads. If
it all adds up to the welfare of
the citizens the day of permanent
bliss is at hand. A native of the
lands east of the Mediterranean
many years ago in O’Neill took
an American girl as his bride.
She soon left him. The disillu
sioned Asiatic had the memory of
“two glad, happy weeks’ to take
with him back to his native coun
try. Maybe our “glad, happy
weeks” will end some day to make
the discovery we have been living
in a fool's paradise.
Just what would an up-to-date
doll-baby do if set out on no
man’s land in a tepee and a band
of Sioux warriors came to call?
Probably her Yankee courage
would meet the situation as it did
for Mrs. John O’Connell back in
1875. The O’Connells had an
chored their hopes for home and
fortune on the north bank of the
Elkhorn in the vicinity of Atkin
son and pitched a tent until logs
could be hauled from the Eagle
and cabins built. There came a
day when the men had all left
camp for a journey to the nearest
base of supplies, Mrs. O’Connell
and the children left to run the
tented camp. While the mother
was engaged in the duties of her
canvas home a band of painted
Sioux warriors galloped up. Al
ways hungry, always beggars,
they wanted to eat. They were
in a fair way to clean up the
camp supplies when the plucky
woman told them to clear out as
they could have nothing more.
They were on the warpath, not
with whites but with the Poncas
over by Niobrara and the im
placable Pawnee to the south. So
sharpening tomahawks and knives
on the O’Connell grinding stone
they headed for a Ponca camp.
War, blood shed, suffering, desola
tion, broken homes and broken bod
ies—a care incumbered world. Our
favored prairie land has heard the
human sighs coming from afar, has had
a view of the burden of sorrow and
distress and need and has opened the
purse strings in response to appeals
that may appear to be coming In too
often. The need Is great. If among
American citizens there are those
who give their time, their energy,
! their talents without money, without
■ price to solicit funds to soften
' suffering anywhere, as little as I
1 can do is to 'chip in' with my fel
! low citizens. R.S.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. John Berger are
spending a fortnight in Omaha.
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Walling
and wife of Albion, visited at the
L. C. Walling home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Slaymaker, of
Green Valley, were in the city
Wednesday.
William Froelich returned to
Chicago Sunday after a fortnightly
trip to his home here.
E. J. Mack of Atkinson was an
over night guest at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. James Rooney,
, Sunday.
Frances Cronin and Frank Big
lin were at Lynch Sunday on a
'visit to Pat O’Connor, confined in
I a hospital there.
Mrs. Harvey J. Sheton, Jr., of
St. Louis is spending a few weeks
with her parents in O’Neill, Mr.
and Mrs. John Melvin.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kuren of
Long Pine attended the memorial
service held here Sunday for Pvt.
Richard C. Young.
County Treasurer J. Ed Han
cock expects to be called to Leav
enworth soon for the military go
ing over for army service.
Assessor L. G. Gillespie is one
O’Neill gent that sports a spark
ling new spring hat. Lloyd ad
mits it is not from the emoluments
of qfffice — he had a birthday the
10th. __
Dr. J. F. and Mrs. O'Connell
received a telegram Sunday from
tlieir son, who has sailed the sev
en seas as one of Uncle Sam’s
navy boys, had landed in Phila
delphia and they expected him
home on leave.
Edw, M. Gallagher of the First
National Bank was re-elected
county chairman for another year
of the United War Fund of Ne
braska at a recent meeting of the
state organization at the state
house in Lincoln.
Mrs. J. C. Harnish, who re
ceived word in February of the
wounding of her grandson, Frank
James Harnish in Germany and
that he was taken to a hospital
in England, receives no further
word of his condition.
There are building prospects
and plans formulating for "after
the war” which if brought to
tangible strcturefe will be an
other stride forward for the city.
Just now the plans are kept “un
der the hat” and none otf the in
terested parties are making their
plans known. A lot of things are
curtailed while men fight and
bleed and die, construction of
new housing or business struct
ures among the largest of these.
It happened in the “good old
days,” according to Walt O’Mally.
He was a schoolboy spectator in
a pool hall on Fourth street while
two gay young blades were shoot
ing the ivory balls. The game
finished, the boys settled with the
house when the newly installed
helper at the pool hall thought
he would be a good fellow, opened
a fresh box of cigars and passed
them around. The boss came In,
learned the truth and fired his
helper whom he had hired 30 min
utes before. But give us more
liberal-souled helpers. You don’t
get a chew of gum now if you
buy out half the stock in store.
Railroad interests, union min
ers and other groups are doing
what they can to make a monkey
out of the river navigation, irri
gation, flood control programs.
Uncle Sam has sunk millions in
our rivers and the merry work
will probably go on in spite of
proven losses and failures. Busy
bodies must keep going and pub
lic funds spent. We were taught
in school that water seeks the
lowest level. Our once magnifi
cent Elkhorn was doing it on a
meandering down grade with a
drop of 10 feet to the mile, but
it too has come under the defac
ing hand of time.
School Land is
Boosted
With sixty-six townships com
prising Holt county and tvfro sec
tions in each township school land
is a sizeable interest in the county,
developed over the raise in values
of these lands recommended by
Hugh Dillon, state surveyor.
Rentals are based on fief of valua
tion. The valuations have been
made by the land commissioner
after personal survey of all tracts
by Mr. Dillon. In a few cases the
value per acre has been more than
doubled which if adopted as rec
ommended means the doubling of
rents.
School land in the county is di
vided into three groups—culti
vated, grazing and hay lands. This
in turn classified in groups.
The higher figures below are
those of the state surveyor, the
lower as recommended by the
county board of supervisors:
Cultivated IjukI
A1__ $24 $20.00
A2___ 16 12.00
A3_ 10 7.60
A 4. 6 4.50
A5_ 2 2.00
Crazing I at ml
G1__$6 $4.50
G2___ 4 3.60
G3......' 2 1.50
G4.. 1 1.00
Hay I<and
HI_$18 $13.50
H2__ 8 6.00
H3__ 4 3.00
These figures are suggested
values per acre. The lease holder
of land valued at $2 4 per acre
pays an annual rental of $1.44 per
acre while that In the lowest
bracket can be had for 6 cents an
acre, the figure the federal gov
ernment places on some of its
grazing land. The hay land seems
to be considered the “best bet"
under these figures. The state
board dealing with public land
values will make the final de
cisions on the two sets of valua
tions recommended.
Memorial Mass for
Pvt. Wm. Biglin
A Memorial High Mass will be
celebrated by Monsignor McNa
Mara at St. Patrick’s Church in
this city next Monday morning,
April 16, 1945, at 9 o’clock for
Pfc. William J. Biglin, Jr., who
was killed in action in Germany
on March 18, 1945.
William J. Biglin was born at
O’Neill, Nebr., Nov. 23, 1922, at
tended St. Mary’s Academy and
Creighton University. He en
listed in the Armed Forces on
August 20, 1942. He was sent
overseas with the 11th Armored
Division in September 1944. The
division landed in the continent
late in December and was rushed
into the battle of the Belgium
bulge. He was a member of a
tank crew and last heard from
in the Rhineland.
Project Club
The Neighbors Project club
held a special meeting on Thurs
day evening at the home of Mrs.
Dale Fetser. The meeting was
held for the purpose of electing
officers for the coming year, and
also to plan for Achievement Day.
The meeting was called to order
by the president, Mtb. Levi Jantzi,
who was re-elected president.
Leader A is Mrs. Dale Fetser;
Leader B, Mrs. Pearl Brugman;
Miss Mary Holiday, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Harden Anspaugh, sec
retary and treasurer; Mrs. Clay
Johnson, song leader; Mrs. Em
met Craff war leader; Mrs. Lulu
Juig, health leader; Mrs. F. H.
Griffith, news reporter; Mrs. Paul
Fetser, reading leader. The club
members canned 1,185 quarts of
vegetables and 1,190 quarts of i
fruit the past year, besides Jelly',
and fruit juices canned, and quite1
a bit of meat and fruit frozen. The
meeting closed by singing “Old
Lang Syne’’ and “Onward Chris
tian Soldiers." Mrs. Fetser, as
sisted by Mrs. Juig, served a de
licious lunch.
Several important news items
received too late for publication
this week, will appear next week.
I BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. llennet Gillespie
were in Sioux City last Saturday.
Miss Dorothy Krotochvil visit
ed in Osmond Saturday and Sun
day, her sister, Miss Jeanel, re
turning with her for a week’s so
ourn with friends in O’Neill.
After Tuesday’s gentle zypher
city street cleaners hauled out
truck loads of sand and tumble
weeds and sidewalks entrances
to business places having to be
swept and garnished.
Mrs. Mary Ullom is enjoying
a visit from a second daughter
in military service, Capt. Cather
ine Ullom,. like her sister Lt
Magdalene, serving as a nurse in
charge of a military hospital with
the rank of Captain.
A broken glass in the door of
the offices of Julius D. Cronin
was the subject of official detec
tive investigation Tuesday morn
ing, the bluecoats arriving at no
satisfactory solution other than it
was the result of misdirected
youthful energy.
What’s the UBe of having a pub
lic official unless you can use him.
So thinks one Holt county citizen.
He took his troubles to the state
house, ficticious or fact, en
deavored to wield a club over an
other citizen incidentally may
have yielded him some revenue
on account had the state depart
ment been functioning as a col
lecting agency.
The two boys taken to the
Industrial School at Kearney last
week from Holt county and sup
posed to be held in custody gave
the institution a farewell salute
soon after arriving, were picked
up by police and given anotheh
chance as student inmates before
more severe treatment. Mr.
Hubbard says he told the institu
tion’s heads the kind o(f a juven
ile package he was handing them
and advised that the boys be
separated but his advise was re
ceived with a haughty air of
superiority.
Mrs. Anna Wilbur, of Page,
died Tuesday, burial to be
Thuursday at Sioux City. De
ceased was 63 years of age, a
native of Germany and a resident
of this county the past four
years. She was married to E.
C. Wilbur in 1902 and was the
mother of two daughters and two
sons. The daughters are, Ellen
E. Weir, of Los Angeles, and
Anna Mae Murphy of Inglewood,
Calif. Two sons, Fred E. Wilbur
U. S. Navy Pacific fleet and Cpl.
E. Wilbur, Fort Mead, Md. There
are four sisters and three broth
ers. She was a member of the
Eastern Star.
The volume of purely commer
cial traffic originating in this ter
ritory coming into the city each
week is something to look at.
Scores of truck loads of hay, live
stock, cream and cases of eggs
piled nearly to the telephone
wires make up the week’s ex
hibit. The cash deposits of some
thing like seven million dollars
in Holt county banks tell some
thing of the story of what It
means in financial returns to the
citizens. Maybe this is a mere
bagatelle compared with the two
billion dollars “salted” plunder of
Herr Hitler's which the Yankees
have taken over, but it helps keep
our citizens fat, if not sassy.
John Dorr, a former resident of
the Page community, died Sun
day at St. Edward, Nebr., and
was buried Tuesday at Page,
funeral being held at the Metho
dist church there. Deceased was
a native of Germany and was
born June 6, 1867. He was mar
ried in Madison, Nebr., in 1894
to Augusta Gall. They came to
Holt county in 1909. He is sur
vived by two daughters and five
sons, all of whom were at the
funeral. These are, Anna Purr,
of Sioux City; Della Stauffer of
Page; Herman and Leonard
Dorr, of Orchard; John Dorr, of
Tecuumseh, Nebr.; Alfred and
Henry, of Pago.
Death Claims Pres. Roosevelt
The death of President Roosevelt on Thursday,
though sudden was not unexpected. In spite of
repeated assurances to the contrary, pictures of Mr.
Roosevelt, the Roosevelt of recent years, disclosed a
rapid decline under the crushing weight of official
affairs—a victim, as Wilson was, to a great responsi
bility, and has joined our illustrious dead who died in
the White House.
Death came suddenly to Mr. Roosevelt while at his retreat
at Warm Springs, Ga. A memorial service is being arranged
by the O’Neill AmericauLegion for 3 p. m. Saturday at the
High School Auditorium. _ ,
A Message from China
The spiritual descenants of
John Wesley, amalgamated with
those of John Knox, an odd one
or two from other lines of ecles
iastical descent, gathered at the
Methodist place of worship Tues
day evening to hear something
about a great Oriential country,
now allied with us in arms, as
known by missionaries of forty
two years residence in China,
Rev. Perry O. and Mrs. Hansen,
who are touring the country in
the interests of work in their
fields. During the day they had
spoken to the school groups in
O’Neill and Chambers, the night
meeting being the fourth for the
day. In the district of China
where they are located, Rev.
Hansen says there are three mil
lion people who are always
hungry—never have enough to
eat. When, the Japanese armies
invaded northeast China the
pagan priests took to the “tall
timber’” while American mission
aries held on and became the
refuge center |for terrified Chinese
who are now anchoring their
hopes for the future on Yankee
land.
Citation for John Watson
Through the courtesy of Mrs.
Ira L. Watson, of Inman, The
Frontier is given a story of hero
ism from the bloody battle
grounds of Germany. Mrs. Wat
son’s story is concerning her son,
Tech. Sgt. John C. Watson who
is serving with the 84th Infantry
division in the 9th Army. The
Watson home has received a “cer
tificate of merit,” awarded “in
recognition of conspiciously meri
torious and outstanding perfor
mance of military duty” when
facing the enemy in Belgium.
The citation reads: “On Janu
ary 23, 1945, Tech. Sgt. Watson,
with complete disregard for his
welfare while under heavy
enemy fire, successfully admin
istered medical aid to three
wounded men and removed them
to a place of safety, thus sav
ing the lives of the stricken sold
iers.” The citation was issued
and signed by Maj. Gen. A. R.
Bolling, commanding officer.
Music Contest
The O’Neill Division of the Dit
trict III Muusic Contest will be
held on Friday, April 27.
The Judges will be: Dr. Lee
N. Dailey, Yankton, S. D.; A. L.
Wilson, Vermillion, S. D.; Mrs.
Leo Kucinski, Sioux City, Iowa;
Edward Kurtz, Cedafl Falls, Iowa.
Chairmen of local committees:
Local School Chairman—R. C.
Anderson,
General chairmen—F. N. Cron
in, Harry Peterson.
Door Committee—Mrs. Edward
Campbell, Mrs, Pat Harty.
Good Will Committee—Harry
Claussen, Mayor Kersenbrock,
Rev. K. Scott.
Stenographic committee—Ted
McElhaney.
Entertainment of Judges—Dr.
and Mrs. L. A. Burgess, Mr. and i
Mrs. H. J. Birmingham, J. D.
Cronin.
More than 800 participants,
supervisors and sponsors are
expected for the event.. The
vocal events, with the exception
of the Glee Clubs, will be held
throughout the day at St. Mary’s
Academy. The instrumental
events and Glee Clubs will be
heard at the Public School audi
torium. The piano contest will
be held at St. Mary’s Auditorium
on Thursday evening, April 19
at 7 o’clock.
Michael Vaughn
Michael Joseph Vaughn, 77,
1458 Roberta st., died in a Salt
Lake hospital Sunday at 2:45 a.
m., of carcinoma.
A retired railroad conductor,
he was born in Des Moines, Iowa,
November 4, 1867, a son of Pat
rick and Margaret Hickey
Vaughn.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Alice Wilcox Vaughn; a son,
Leo E. Vaughn, San Francisco; a
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Luck,
Los Angles, and five grandchild
ren.
Requiem mass will be celebrat
ed Tuesday at 10 a. m., at church
of our Divine Saviour, 170 E. 9th
South. The rosary was recited
Monday at 8 p. m., at 32 4th East.
Burial will be in Mt. Calvary
cemetery.—Salt Laks City Trib
une,
The Vaughn family were pio
neer residents of O'Neill, living
on a farm a couple of miles west
of this city. MiKe grew to man
hood here and after reaching his
majority he left O’Neill and went
railroading, which he followed
all his life. He visited here sev
eral times during the past half
century and those old friends
here who knew the family will
regret to learn of his passing.
A group of the Alumnae of St.
Mary’s entertained a number of
guests at tea Sunday afternoon
at the Academy, the pleasant
occasion being in honor of Lt.
Magdalene Ullom. A social hour
with refreshments was enjoyed.
L. B. 120, the teachers pension
bill passed the state legislature
the first of the week with only
four votes being cast against it.
It will take $85,000 to get this
started and the state will have
to put up this money.
Elect Officers
At a meeting of the Commerci
al Club Tuesday evening the foi
ling officers were elected for the
coming year: Ted McElhaney,
president; C. E. Lundgren, 1st
vice-president; James M. Corkle,
2nd vice-president; Ira George,
Dr. Brown and Pat Harty. direct- *
ors. The membership was shown
to be sixty-six and the cash bal
ance on hand $570.66.
Irwin Adamson of Cody and
W. A. Johnson qf Alliance, pres
ident and secretary of the Ne
braska Live Stock association,
were in the city and met with the
local commercial group in the in
terests of a business meeting of
the association here in June. They
were assured that O’Neill will
keep open house for it if the
meeting is arranged for.
Marriage Licenses
Clifford C. Fox, 30, and Miss
Lois Marjorie Snider, 25, both of
Basset.
Francis Fdward Brandt, 20, of
Atkinson and Barbra Jean Stev
ens, 17, of Page.
Harry Van Fleet and Miss Mar
cella Gilg, ages of both given as
over 21, Atkinson.
John Joseph Dvorak, 24, and
Miss Helen Marie Mullen, 21,
both of Atkinson.
The socialist-minded gent is
horrified at the profit motive of
capital. Capital and labor both
have the profit motive along with
the higher motive of pride of
achievement. The fellow who
wants an increase in wages has
the same motive as the one who
strives for Increased profits. And
we'd better keep the ball rolling
or we’re sunk.
Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 43-tf