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LXV O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945 No. 50
Nebraska Stockmen
June 14-1()
The Nebraska Stock Growers
Association has notified the offi
ers of the O’Neill Commercial
Club that they have accepted
our invitation to hold their annual
business meeting here on June
14, 15 and 16h.
This is an association of several
.hundred stock growers from all
Fover Nebraska, and we are proud
that they have chosen O’Neill as
the place to hold this meeting.
We feel sure that the people here
i will all cooperate to make this
a successful occasion, even
though we must operate under
difficulties never before exper
ienced by their host city. Let's
all get behind this and put it over
in true O’Neill style.
At a meeting of the county
board Wednesday arrangements
were made to redress the roof
of the annex, which sprung some
damaging leaks during recent
storms.
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Rt. 5, Atkinson
The type of womanhood pat
ronizing the wet spots is not that
which would appeal to a steady
going gent for a life companion.
Out of memory's mists there
looms a youthful figure, the prize
boob of them all. But what gray
head would not be a youth again?
A traffic sign in a Nebraska
town reads: “Drive slow—no hos
pital.” Maybe a little more to the
point would be: "Keep going or
--•you get run over.”
The second Henry Ford says
no wages are “high” that are
earned. If you earn a whole loaf
it’s unfair to receive only half a
loaf. And the reverse is forever
true.
It required twenty army trucks
^to remove the Roosevelt effects
1 from the White House, not room
for another teaspoon on either
load the cheerful truck drivers
observed.
The lure of the outdoors, the
green of nature’s new growth,
the fragrances of plum blossoms,
the song of birds, the glow of
fresh vigor in awakened life—
you’ll have to shake off the indo
lence of drowsy dawn before the
rising sun tints the morning
clouds with the gold of another
day if you are on the scene at its
best.
I take it back with apologies—
apologies to that harassed force
of workers in the kitchens and
all others employed in public
eating places. It is remarkable
that they can keep sweet, even
tempered with hungry mobs flock
ing in on them at all hours. There
was placed on my table a thick
slice of that great Yankee dinner
dish, apple pie—and that would
gratify the taste and soften the
heart of any critical epicurean.
“In bitter despair, some people
have come to believe that wars
are inevitable. With tragic fatal
ism, they insist that as wars have
always been, of necessity, wars
will always be. To such defeat
ism, men and women of good
'-will must not and cannot yield.
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The outlook for humanity is not
so hopeless.” From Mr. Truman's
first address in congress as presi
dent. He speaks from the lofty
heights of Yankeeland tradition.
Unfortunately the rest of the
globe keeps breeding the stock
that rattles the sabers. Maybe it
is something more than "bitter
despair” to recognize this.
Prof. Spindler’s book “Rim of
the Sandhills" is being quite
widely read. It has its critics—
so does Shakespeare, Edgar Allen
Poe, prophets and apostles and
poets of sacred literature. If
there be a slight limping in
rhetoric, a confusion of dates,
that need not spoil a good story.
Mr. Spindler does not pretend to
hold to chronology or true names
but has forged on the anvil of
time a good story which a lot of
folks recognize as something
more than fiction. The author is
a Holt county boy in whom we
may well feel a community pride.
If the global thinkers and tink
erers should succeed the old roll
ing ball will have experienced
just what Herr Hitler started out
to do—One World, One Boss. The
chance for the success of this
idea is even more remote than
ever. I am intensely more Ameri
can than the first of the tribe to
ride the waves of the Atlantic; so
are my neighbors; so are the peo
ples all over the globe more in
tensely anchored to their racial,
national and religious traditions
as the centuries have come and
gone. The author of the human
race “hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on
all the face of the earth, and hath
determined ... the bounds of
their habitation.”
Not many ever heard the story.
The late Peter Donohoe was a
friend of Doc Middleton and had
a reason for it. Astride an Indian
pony, long legs and bare feet
dangling, trousers half-way to the
knees, straw hat shading a freck
led face—a sight to arouse the
deviltry of the Middleton gang up
toward the Keya Paha. That was
Peter as a strapping Irish boy on
a mission for his father to buy a
pair of horses. It was too good
for the humorous sentiment of
the fellows in Doc’s circle. As
young Pete slid from the back of
his pony in their midst 45’s be
gan to crack and the dirt raise at
his feet. The freckles faded as
his face turned white and hair
stuck through a hole in the top of
his hat, when a slim built gent
with a black moustache stepped
up and said, “That’s enough, fel
lows; he's only a boy.’’ Then he
asked, “What you doing out here,
son?’’ Pete replied, “My father
sent me here to buy two horses."
He was talking to Doc Middleton
who directed him to a point
where he could get horses that
were broke as what they had were
unbroken bronchos. Pete and Doc
then became friends. Some years
later Donohoe saw a gent with
a black moustache trailing a
bunch of horses across the coun
try and greeted him as his friend
who took an interest in him when
he was a boy. "Now, Donohoe. I
did you a good turn once,” said
Middleton, “don’t you mention
seeing me go through here with
these horses.” It was many years
later that Pete did mention it.
The last time he saw his friend
with the black moustache was
when he was in O’Neill on that
1,000-mile race to the Chicago
world’s fair.
Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 43-tf
If you have tears to shed prepare to
shed them now — reputed to be the
words of Mark Anthony. Just what Is
the measure of a tear? Who is there
among the sons of men so gifted, so
brave as to say? It is recorded of
the one Perfect Man that he wept. A
friend of mine with a heart of sym
pathy was ashamed of it when moved
to tears. Look at the big baby cry
ing, he imagined observers saying.
Only a heart of stone is not touched
to tears. But tears may start from
an unworthy as well as a worthy thing.
The Hebrews turned from the worship
of Jehovah to the worship of the sun
and their women found "weeping for
Tammuz." And who was Tammuz? The 11
legitmate son of the widow of the
greatgrandson of Noah, palmed off by
his crafty mother as a miracle child.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peier of
Amalia were in the city Monday.
Mrs. Wm. Fryer from south
. west Holt was in the city Tues
day making purchases.
Nazi agree not to move war
captives. Taking to their heels,
“moving" is strictly an individual
| matter.
Mrs. Hattie Schmall of Grand
Island is spending this week with
relatives in O'Neill and north
eastern Holt.
Nebraska ranchers unloaded
17,930 beeves in Omaha Monday
as their contribution for the re
lief of the stringency in the meat
market.
O’Neill business concerns that
have weathered the vicitudes
over a half century — drought,
hard times, storms and hot winds,
but the college boys on the OPA
have them about floored.
At a meeting of the church
board on Monday it was officially
arranged to make some improve
ments and repairs on the Metho
dist church property,' shingling,
painting, sanding floors and the
like.
Fred Watson was up from Wy
oming precinct Monday when he
bought some steers at the sale
ring, moving them to the ranch
Tuesday. Mr. Watson says the live
stock industry out his way con
tinues in a flourishing condition.
Dr. and Mrs. O'Connell are en
joying a visit from their son,
home on leave after many months
sailing the seven seas in a U. S.
navy vessel. His ship recently
docked in an Atlantic home port
and he was given a twenty-day
leave.
As he looks upon the rolling
waters of the Atlantic, Thomas A.
Edison said, ‘‘There is a waste of
mighty energy.” Some fellows had
energy to spare the other might
when they pulled up a household
er’s fence, posts and all, just a
block off of Fourth street.
Lumber and other building me
terias hove been hauled from a
local yard to the hill beyond the
cemeteries, where the Nebraska
Seed Co. are building a structure
for drying blue grass seed. There
are tons of the seed harvested in
this territory every season and
this seed concern is early getting
ready to take care of the yield
that comes their way.
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Robert Bowen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Bowen, left Thursday
for San Diego, Cal., where he will
be inducted into naval reserve
This is the second son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bowen to join the navy,their
son Donald having been in the
service some time and the last
seven months at Farraget, Idaho,
where he brings the cheer of song
to the wounded brought thtre. A
memorial service was held last
Saturday for the President, at
which Donald sang “Jesus Sevior
Pilot Ne.”
Another Holt Co.
Boy Falls at Front
Another Holt county boy has
been sacrificed for his country.
Word was received Wednesday
that Floyd Burge was killed in
Germany. His mother lives neor
Emmet, a brother near Amelia
and an uncle, Ed Burge in
O’Neill.
From Buck Priv
ate to Major
John F. Grady, son of Mr. and
Mrs . Henry Grary, came to town
as a caqtain in the oir service and
will leave for his assignment in
Washington, D. C., as a major.
This word came to him Tuesday
in O’Neill from his colnel back in
Washington.
Maj. Grady had the week with
his wife in Stuart and relatives in
O’Neill. He came here for the
funeral of Mrs. Grady’s tather,
Mr Cress, who was buried in
Stuart last Saturday.
John started aa a Private and
has climbed the military ladder
until he ranks as Major.
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Safety Patrol Taken Away
for Lack of a House
The Nebraska Saftey Patrol
has informed The Frontier that
Patrolman W. L. McCauley is
being transferred to Norfolk,
efective May 1, 1945. Due to the
housing situation in O’Neill at the
present time, it wil be impossible
to staion a member >of the Ne
braska Safety Patrol in O’Neill
at this date. With the shortage
of personnel, the deparment has
decided for better service and
patrolling to the territory, the
Patrolmen must be located in the
center of the district. We hope
the near future to station a mem
ber of he Safety Patrol at O’Neill
again.
Death Summons Elmer
Wolfe
Elmer Wolfe died at his home
near O’Neill last Friday, the home
where he was born on' April 13,
1892, 53 years ago. The funeral
was held Sunday in O’Neill at the
Methodist church with the pastor,
Rev. Parks, in charge of the serv
ice. Burial in Prospect Hill ceme
tery.
Mr. Wolfe was from pioneer
stock and had made his home all
his life where he was born and
where he came to life's journey's
end. His parents, Samuel L. and
Sarah Thompson-Wolfe, were
among the first colony which
marked out liomesites down along
the river. Sam Wolfe and Alex
Boyd built most of the earlier
structures, for homes and busi
ness, in O’Neill.
On February 10, 1919, Elmer
was united in marriage with Ina
Mae Bain. They have one son,
Gene. He has three sisters and
three brothers. Mrs. Itafe Shaw
whose home is in Basset, Mrs.
Laura Baker of Omaha and Mrs.
Dan Kelly of Winnetoon, Neb.
One brother, Wm., resides in
O'Neill, Claude at Omaha and
Jack at Gillette, Wyo., who with
Mrs. Kelly did not get here for
the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw
came from Basset as did also
Claude from Omaha.
The church was Inadequate to
seat the large number of friends
who sought admittance to partici
pate in the final tribute to an es
teemed citizen that had spent his
life in the community.
Elmer was a veteran of the
world war preceding the 20's and
a member of the American Le
gion.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation and thanks to our
many friends or their assistance
and expressiins of sympathy ex
tended to us.—Mrs. Ina Wolfe,
son Gene and the Brothers and
Sisters.
BRIEFLY STATED
Frank Snyder was up from
Page early in the week.
Elmer Smith of Ewing was
transacting business in O'Neill
Monday.
Ernest Trohridge of Page, ac
companied by bis mother, spent
Monday in the city on business.
W. J. Plglin went to Sioux City
last Friday and has been in a hos
pital there since for medical treat
ment.
A number of O’Neill friends of
the deceased attended the Dennis
A. Cress funeral at Stuart last
Saturday.
A large group of young people
of the Presbyterian church went
to Stuart Sunday afternoon to
join a like group there in a 4
o’clock service.
John Sullivan came up from
Grand Island Sunday to spend the
week with home folks here. John
is one of those fortunate guys
who gets a week's vacation on full
pay.
The Lions Club held a meeting
at the Golden Wednesday even
ing, a feature of which met with
hearty approval, among other in
teresting numbers, was a pork
chop dinner.
Ed Early reports the loss of
five calves during the blizzard
April 16 when they were drifted
over with snow and smothered.
Others were found with ears
sticking up out of the snow and
survived.
Mrs. Ruth McCaffrey has re
eived word that her son, T. Sgt.
Owen E. McCaffrey, 17300633
41st Photo R. C. M. Squdr., has
shipped from San Francisco to
the South Pacific zone of action.
Wm. Long and Wes Gage drove
down early Saturday morning
from Atkinson, Mr. Long board
ing the bus for Sioux City for a
two weeks’ visit with relatives in
Iowa, while Mr. Gage returned to
Atkinson.
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A heavy rain and electric storm
Sunday night came from the east
as far as the vicinity of Ewing.
The downpour was particularly
great about Orchard and Creigh
ton, where considerable damage
resulted to the Consumers’ elec
tric lines from severe lightning.
No rain fell In the O’Neill terri
tory.
The fire department roared up
the hill Sunday to St. Mary's
academy in response to the wail
of the siren. Smoke had filled
portions of the basement from
smoldering fires set off by electric
wires. It became necessary to cut
the wire carrying the main cur
rent but no extensive damage re
sulted from the fire.
Ivan Bain was over from Greg
ory, S. D., over Sunday and Mon
day, called here by the death of
his brother-in-law, Elmer Wolfe.
Mr. Bain took time before return
ing to Gregory to see a few old
friends. The Frontier being among
them. Ho is engaged in the
hardware and furniture trade and
reports business flourishing in his
line.
Maybe you scratch your head
and frown a little when you pay
taxes. There are quite a few oth
ers that have sizeable shares in
piling up public funds. L. C. Wal
ling, district manager of Consum
ers Public Power, informs us
that they have just tossed into
the county treasury $2,953.84,
"the second half-payment in lieu
of taxes.’’
Nebraska must spend an esti
mated $8,475,000 in immediate
postwar years for new school
buildings and for repairs to pres
ent structures, according to the
American Association of School
Administrators. New educational
needs and lack of building dur
ing the war, they say, make such
a construction program essential.
Maybe the school boards and tax
payers are going to think differ
ently.
Attractive Exhibts by
Club Women
A lot of men in Holt County
may well be proud of their wives
and daughters and if there still
remains any at which cupid can
cast a dart they should have seen
the group of grand ladies respon
sible for Holt County Achieve
ment Day at Tuesday’s gathering
of womans' clubs in the O’Neill
school auditorium.
As you entered the auditorium
a very competent appearing and
withal gracious lady handed you
a program and song sheet. You
were attracted by the first exhibit
of club work near the entrance,
the booth of the Victory Home
Makers of Emmet. A clever
Christmas tree arrangement.
Or perhaps it should be described
as artistic. At the next stop the
Friendly Neighbors’ booth, club
members names were displayed
on a large card, done in Old Eng
lish text letters by a Seventh
grade girl, Verna Pruss, which
showed much talent. A globe
a bible, other books and flowers
gave expression to the talent and
taste of this group.
At the booths marked “Gen
eral” were displays of garments,
linens and various articles made
from sacks that showed clever
talent and good taste in working
out something useful from sacks.
The Elkhorn Project Club had
a food display that held a tempt
ing invitation to stop and take
a bite. Golden Rod Club Valley
Center Club, Amelia Progress
and Page dispayed needle work,
home food preservation, hand
craft, couch, cushions, rugs and
spreads.
Several interesting numbers
were on the program, with Mrs.
G. H. Grimes of Chambers, the
county chairman presiding.
Legion and Auxiliary
Next Week
On May 7, 1945, the Legion
aires and Auxiliary of Holt and
Boyd coutnies will meet in
O’Neill for an afternoon and
evening meeting. Department
officers of both organizations
will be present and every mem
ber is urged to be present.
All post officers are especially
urged to be present.
E. V. HICKOK,
Holt County Commander.
Former Citizen Dies
in Omaha
L. C. Peters, formerly of this
city, died in Omaha last Tues
day night very suddenly, at the
age of 68 years.
Mr Peters was a resident of
this city for about six years in
the early twenties representing
a couple of road machinery
manufacturers. He left here in
the summer of 1925 and has since
that time lived in Omaha. In
his younger yeors he was a news
ipaper mart, working ion. both
of the Omaha papers at different
times as well as on the Lincoln
papers. During his residence
here he spent mony days on The
Frontier and his snappy, breezy
stories were appreciated by our
readers. He was a gifted and
easy writer and could produce
columns of copy daily without
apparent effort. His many friends
here will be sorry to learn of his
sudden death.
AN EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
A sub-office of the United
States Employment Service will
be established in O’Neill on May
1, It Is announced by Walter A.
Steffen, area director for the Nor
folk area of the War Manpower
Commission.
Allen H. Connell, a World War
I veteran, will be the manager in
charge, and comes to the O'Neill
office well qualified. He Is a mem
ber of the American Legion.
Although veterans’ employment
and information service is the pri-j
mary function of the office, it will
also carry on all activities of a
free public employment office, in-!
eluding unemployment Insurance
business. The O’Neill office will
serve Holt and Boyd counties.
For the past eight years employ
ment service representatives have
provided itinerant service at
O’Neill. After June 1, the O’Neill
sub-office will be on a full time
basis, except that on each Tues
day, Mr. Connell will travel to
larger towns In the county to
provide itinerant service.
The American Legion post at
O'Neill has assisted the United
States Employment Service in es
tablishing this sub-office.
Mr. Connell expects to move his
family to O’Neill as soon as he
can find living quarters. He has
a wife and two children, a son
age 15 and a daughter age 11.
How* would a white haired gent
look with it dyed red.
What’s Coming in New
Merchandise
G. C. DeBacker, manager of J.
C. Penny Co. was in Sioux City
early in the week, when he had
the opportunity of seeing sample*
o|f new things to be brought out
in the merchantile lines “after the
war,” which has been figuratively
errected as a post from which to
start the race for the business
that is now anticipated.
New things are to be fabricated
out of strang combinations of
chemically treated materials. The
glamour girl o>£ the near future
among other stunning things, can
set a dainty foot into a shape
ly shoe of any color of the rain
bow. Mr. DeBacker says the
samples shown him were a dream
made of synthetic material soft
as silk and said to outwear leath
er footwear.
The new things he saw in shoes
and other lines, Mr. DeBacker be
lieves, will mean great changes in
the merchandise of the (future. He
may be able to make a showig of
the new things at no distant date.
Nurse Bosn Becomes a
Lieutenant
Omoha Nebr., April 25, 1945.—
Major-General C. H. Danielson,
Commanding General of the Sev
enth Service Commandwith head
quarters in Omaha, today releas
ed the informotion that Dorothy
Josephine Bosn of O’Neill, Nebr ,
has been appointed a Second
Lieutenant in the Army Nurse
Corps and will report for duty at
Camp Carson Col., on or about
June 1 to begin the necessary
period of Army training.
Following the training period
Lt. Bosn will be assigned to an
installation or unit now exper
iencing a critical shortage of
nurses.
Lt. Bosn is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Bosn of this city.
"11* ANI) AT IT.”
"The Up and At It” 4-H club
was called to order by Doris Pier
son, vice-president in absence of
the president April 15, at the
home of Glea and Helen Bowden.
Secretary called the roll and two
members were absent, Helen
Johnson and Twila Whaley. Helen
Bowden lead the flag pledge.
Marlon Schmidt lead the 4-H
pledge.
Each member was presented*
with a 4-H pin and their books
for the year.
For the roll call next meeting
we are to have a Birthday Greet- >
ing for Bonnie Dickaw, one of
our mombers.
The next meeting will be held
at Marion Schmidt’s home, April
2 9, at 8:30 p. m. exactly.
Marian made a motion ths
meeting be adjourned..Bonnie sec
onded it.
Meeting was adjourned by Dorlg --
Pierson.
After the meeting Marion and
Donna entertained the club until
dinner was served. Mrs. Bowden
served a delicious lunch.
News Reporter,
HELEN BOWDEN.