The Frontier
LXV1 O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1945 NO. 20
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Rt. 5, Atkinson
A congressional investigation
of Pearl Harbor—by a political
topheavy committee. But the
minority can also make a report.
Federal Aid for schools, or an
other dent in the taxpayers'
dwindling resources, confronts
congress under high pressure
from the N. E A.
’I*' In the endless struggle of or
ganized labor for iincrease of pay
and shorter hours it would be
interesting to learn of increased
efficiency, more and better work.
A magazine presents as a “new
fact” a device for setting fence
posts without digging holes. The
old A. T. ranch in Wheeler county
drove in their fence posts as far
back as 40 years ago.
“Let the wicked forsake his
way and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return
unto the Lord and he will have
mercy upon him; and to our God,
for He will abundantly pardon.”
If as a point of honor Gov.
Dewey kept under his hat infor
mation that in all probability
would have put him in the White
House, he is too big a man to be
permanently denied that honor.
Time pieces are to be set back
to daylight wasting time Sep
tember 30. Now maybe statis
ticians will come along with the
figures telling how much day
light has been seved since war
time took over.
Potatoes are reported to be a
whale of a crop everywhere,
while apples are less than half
last season’s yield My trees pro
duced a few but were stripped
clean during my absence. Apples
like the melon patch, are regard
ed legitimate plunder by all too
many hopeless sinners and ir
responsible youngsters.
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His name is Cobb. His hunt
ing license has been revoked for
killing ducks out of season, trap
ping muskrats out of season; trap
ping beaver without a permit;
taking beaver out of season; pos
session of a hoop net; trapping
without a permit and transporting
and possession of a deer killed
illegally. A gent that has attain
ed such accomplishments will
not worry over the loss of our
game commission’s favor.
Housewives out my way gath
ered all the jars and crocks they
could.find a day last week in
which to make kraut of battered
cabbage heads and salvage other
garden produce that had under
gone a severe beating of hail
the night previous. The storm
descended Upon a sleeping com
munity about 11:30 and at day
break next morning ice was
scraped up by the bucket full at
some homes. A heavy rain also
accompanied or followed the
hail.
r The New York Times, Provi
dence, R. I. Journal and Chicago
Tribune are regarded by many
as the outstanding American
newspapers. The Times runs no
funny strips, confines want ads
to two lines of agate in narrow
columns, keeps big type out of
display ads but uses it lavishly in
headlines. Its column long edi
torials lack the punch and liter
ary elegance of the Herald-Trib
une. The Providence Journal is
one if the best edited papers in
the country. Washington papers
cannot see beyond the Potomic
while maybe the Chicago Trib.
has too wide a world vision.
What do the classic halls of Har
vard, Yale and Princeton play in
the literary and journalistic at
tainments of the eastern papers
and the Northwestern when you
get out to the metropolis on
lake Michigan? Probably none.
Bill Nye, Bill Barlow, O. C. Bates,
John Wertz, Clyde King com
manded the attention of news
readers in their day with a liter
al ary lingo not now duplicated and
" their only university contact
were the newspapers composing
rooms. Nye and Barlow in Wy- j
oming. Bates, Wertz and King in
Nebraska—they were Holt county
men—probably have no equals
today in newspaper circles.
Coyotes have killed the fifth
or sixth sheep at the Bly ranch
and some ranchers report the
loss of twenty or more in their
flocks. They are'choice about it,
selecting a twelve dollar lamb
and passing qp the six dollar
ewes, ripping the victim open for
the liver and kidney and leaving
the torn carcass on the prairie.
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Chambers business men take
the afternoon off as a mark of
their pride in the high school
boys who have a contest in ath
letics on with a visiting group of
school boys. If you go to town
and find things closed you'll find
the town out to the fair grounds,
at this saseon a football contest.
Stuart gave them a tryout a re-,
cent Friday and went home with
19 scalps.
Middleton, or Riley, the big
hearted outlaw, semi-hero, Texas
: cowboy and all around rough
' neck, of whom there has been
border stories told for a gener
ation, aged and debauched, the
wages of sin marking him for
their own, his bent form with a
whiskey flask protruding where
once he carried an ivory-hand
led six a familiar figure in north
west Nebraska towns, went on
his last "spree”, as many have
done before, was locked up as a
common drunk and died that
night on a filthy jail cot. And
for what shall a man barter awoy
his soul?
A hundred years in the white
mans' schools, contact with the j
best and the worst pale faces;
have to give him, trained and
glamorized, romantic and pictur- j
esque, able pleas by statesmen
and eloquent subterfuge by au
thors to set him free, the Indian
is Indian still. They got into a
rapidly filling bus at a Nebraska
terminal, a raw-boned redskin,
his frustrated mate whose dark
eyes expressed a haunting fear.
The swarthy buck dopped into
a vacant seat while this daughter
of Pocahontas stood for a mo
i ment beside her ungallant lord
i and then from instinct acquired by
centuries of the habits of Indians
rustled herself a seat.
Dan Cupid ia probably respon
sible for a number of war casual
ties, as parents may look at it.
Some of the war ventures into
wedded bliss doubtless will crash
on the rocks of broken homes,
| haughty insolence mar love’s
tended dream, drab reality wreck
the plighted faith of the honey
moon’s intreaguing romance, but
most of the young folks will
I make for themselves happy home
life with a little encouragement
from dad and mom. And dads
and moms for the most part are
sensible and will accept an in
! law whom they may have posi
tively disliked but now that they
are one of the family will “break
their necks” to help the young
' folks to become established as
j another worth while American
| family. And if baby’s smiles and
j dimples do not make the sur
j render complete there is some
I thing the matter with Dad and
| Mom.
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The dark shadow of the infidel
! Voltaire burst into the lurid
glow of the French revolution.
Then “the world for the first time
heard an assembly of men, born
and educated in civilization, and
assuming the right to govern one
of the finest of the European
nations, uplift their united voice
to deny the most solemn truth
which man’s soul receives and re
nounce unanimously the belief
and worship of deity.” A cent
ury and a quarter later Russia
proclaimed a feast of blasphemy
and 25 years later a sinister figure
distilled the same poisoned phil
osophy on the ancient soil of
Germany. France recast her
national anchor to the only hope
of the race and Russia has seen
the futility of butting an athestical
| head against a stone wall. And
| what was the part of the churches
in all this? Had they given heed
to the seven-fold warning: “He
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Tom Don hoe
Home Burns
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The farm home of T. J. Dono
hoe a few miles north of this city
was burned to the ground last
Sunday, catching fire while the
folks were away. They had been
in O'Neill at chcrch for Sunday
morning mass, arriving home to
find the home in flames. A few
things were saved from the burn
ing building.
Origin of the fire was supposed
to have been on a south sun
porch caused by spontaneous com
bustion in some stored cloth ar
ticles. Insurance will, cover most
of the loss so far as such losses
can be compensated for. It had
been the Donohoe home for an
unbroken stretch of forty-three
years.
Fine Painting By a
Former O’Neill Boy
In the lobby of the Golden
hotel there hangs a painting, the
work of a former O’Neill boy,
Phillip Kirwan, a brother of M. F.
Kirwan of this city. Mike re
ceived the picture last week
from his brother at Denver.
Phillip did the painting in 1942, a
life-like representation on can
vass of a bewhiskered old miner
seated at a table in a log cabin
entertaining himself at a game of
silitaire. It might be labeled
Individual Content, and you
fancy seeing the onginal in life
as you look at it.
Phillip has been a fixture in
Colorado for many years and has
gone a long way in finance and
art since as a young fellow in
O’Neill he turned the press at
The Frontier on “press day’’ for
$1.50. That was before a gaso
line engine, the first to be
brought to O’Neill, was installed
as a power unit for operation of
the presses. His natural bent for
art has had opportunity for free
play since oil deveopment on his
Colorado holdings furnishes him
a large income. He is expected
to arrive in O’Neill during the
week for a visit with M. F. and
others.
that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.”
The half moon hung at half
mast. Through tree tops and
drifting clouds its light penetrat
ed at frequent intervals to the
hushed and darkened earth. Night
again on prairieland. And now
to empoy the lengthened hours
of early nightfall in the com
panionship of the old masters,
■ poet and prophet, sage and saint,
until the drowsy nods invite
slumber. But ere Morpheus has
lulled with filmy apparation there
is heard the roll of distant thund
er. Clouds had drawn a dark cur
tain over the moon and ightning
iuminated the now darkened
room. And then slanting drops
of rain drum a cheering rythem
on roof and window pane. Early
autumn showsrs are a grateful
visitation out on the grass lands.
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An Illinois mother who went
to court to air her atheistic notions
was given a bible name by her
parents. . . . There are 50,000
Indian children students in public
and private schools. . . . Japs ask
us to forget Pearl Harbor; we
probably will. . . . The republi
can state committee has formu
lated the plan of procedure for
the pre-primary convention to be
held in Omaha March 19 and 20.
•. . . Unemployment rolls had
grown to two and a quarter mil
lion by early September. . . . Hab
itually agin’ everything, the state
federation of labor, mostly Oma
ha, resolved to condemn Gover
nor Griswold for vetoing an
Omaha police pension measure.
... A high wind Sunday swept
across the prairie, maybe inspired
by the Florida hurricane, taking
the tops off hay stacks. ... A
notable gent down in picturesque
little Connecticut says “America
strangles for a breath of freedom.”
Come to Nebraska, brother, come
to Nebraska.
Richard Cronin came up from
Noriolk Friday afternoon and
spent the week-end with the home (
folks, returning to his school
duties Sunday afternoon. Dick
says he likes his school work
fine, but he could stand a little
more food at a meal than the
Norfolk restaurants put out, so
he came home to get a few square
ones.
Earl S, Hlrsch, of Cleveland,
Ohio, left last Friday for Den
ver, Col., for a visit with his
sister before going on to his home
at Cleveland. Earl was here
several days looking after his farm
northeast of town and visiting
with old time friends.
Mrs. W. J. Bro, of Syracuse,
Nebr., left for her home livst
Sunday, after spending a week
here visiting at the home of her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Emmet Moore and family.
Reported from the Fourth
grade: Teacher—Bobbie, how
many children in your family,
Bobbie—Why, I’m not even mar
ried.
Miss Arlene Shade spent the
week-end in Stuart visiting her
parents, Mr. 'and Mrs. Cecil
Shade.
The 8, 9 and 10:30 Masses in St.
Patrick’s Church, Sunday morn
ing, September 30, will conform
to the new time.
Calf Show Oct. 8
The County Stocker Feeder
Calf Show will be held at O’Neill,
Monday, October 8, according to
County Agent Dawes and James
Rooney, managers.
There will be a calf show and
judging, starting at 9:00 a. m., fol
lowed by the sale of 4-H club
stocker feeder calves. It is ex
pected to be one of the largest
sales ever held in the county.
4-H club boys and girls have been
getting their calves in readiness
for this event and will have them
find a place for one and then see
what has been done in 4-H live
stock production. Club leaders
will make their entries through
the County Agent’s office. Ranch
ers and farmers having calves
which they wish to consign to
the calf sale are urged to enter
them with James Rooney, or the
O’Neill Livestock Commission
Company. Calves will be sold
as individual 4-H club calves or
feeders in carload lots. For more
information contact the County
Extension Office.
Funernl of Harry Keefe
Held Friday
The funeral of Harry J. Keefe,
who died in Denver, Col., Wed
nesday morning of last week, was
held from the Catholic Church
in this city last Friday morning,
interment in Calvary cemetery.
Harry J. Keefe was born in
Bed Banks, N. J., in 1884. and was
61 years ofl age at the time of his
death. He lived in his native
state until 1915 when he came
west and located in Denver. Col.
In that state in 1918 he was
united in marriage to Miss Nellie
Dwyer, who survives. After his
marriage he was employed for
several years by the Santa Fe
railroad company, and came to
Holt coutny in 1 ‘33, coming from
Texico, New Mexico, where he
had been employed by the rail
road company. He purchased a
farm northeast of town, where he
farmed for about eight years,
when he disposed of the farm and
moved to town. Until his health
failed he was employed in the
Coyne hardware and by his aff
able disposition and pleasant
ways made many warm friends,
who regretted his passing. His
many friends extend condolence
to Mrs. Keefe in her hour of sor
row.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank the many
friends for their assistance and
sympathy during the illness and
following the death of my be
loved husband, Henry James
Keefe.
MRS. NELLIE KEEFE.
J. Parnell Golden came up
from Omaha this morning to
spend a few days visiting relatives
I and friends in his old home town.
Reach Golden
Wedding Date
Mr. and Mrs Rollie Snell cele
brated their Golden Wedding An
niversary Wednesday, September
19, 1945, by entertaining twenty
four relatives at dinner.
Those present were their three
daughters and families; Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Cullen and family;
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stuart and
Neva and Mrs. Dale Asher and
son, Jimmie. Other relatives
were, Mrs. Nona Bedford. Page;
Mr. and Mrs. Dorlin Lockman
and son, O’Neill; Mrs. Tony Lock
man, Mrs. Lute Hansen, daugh
ter and son, Stuart; Adolph
Julius, Gertie Synhorst and
daughter, Arlene Johnson. Rapid
City, S. D.; Mr and Mrs. John
Kelly, Petersen, Iowa; Mrs. Max
ine Meredith, Truesdale, Iowa;
Mr and Mrs. Lewis Julius and
John Julius, Cherokee, Iowa; Mr.
and Mrs. Don Blair, Sutherland.
Iowa; Mrs. Lillian Hahn, Off
Stuart.
Open house was held in the
afternoon when 108 friends called
to extend congratulations.
They received many nice gifts,
cards and letters. Among the
gifts was a blanket from her
Sunday School class; a pair of
pillow cases from her W. C. T. U.
organization; a luncheon cloth
from her Just-a-Mere Club and
other gifts from relatives; also_a
purse of $34.75 from friends and
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Snell were among
the pioneers of Holt county, com
ing here with their parents in
the early eighties. They were
married at O’Neill September 19,
1895, by G. A McCutcheon. They
went to keeping house on the
farm now occupied by Walter
Cole. They lived there for one
year. From there they moved
on their homestead, five miles
northwest of Page, where they
lived for thirty years. In 1928
they moved to Page where Mr.
Snell worked in the Farmers
Union store for thirteen years,
and where they have since
resided.
They have three daughters,
seven grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
Mr and Mrs. Snell are in fairly
good health. Mrs. Snell is a
member of the Methodist Church,
Womans Society of Christian Ser
vice and W. C. T. U., which she
attends quite regularly.
Mrs. Lillian Hahn, of Stuart,
gave a reading in the afternoon
and five of Mrs. Snell’s nieces
sang, Silver Threads Among the
Gold a. d Whispering Hope,
which was enjoyed by all.
Ice cream, cake and coffee were
served in the afternoon.
Death of Aged Citizen
Mrs. Emma Cunningham, age
80, a resident of this community
the past year and a half, died in
this city Monday. The funeral
was held Wednesday at St. Pat
rick’s Church and burial at
Ewing.
Deceased was born at Ashton,
Iowa, August 16, 1865. She was
married to Patrick Cunningham,
who died twenty years ago. She
was the mother of four sons, who
survive her. These are: John, of
Glasgow, Mo.. Tom and Patrick,
of Morrell, Nebr.; Edward, of
Riverton, Wyo; Joe. of O’Neill,
and Raymond, of Madison, S. D.
There are also two brothers, six
teen grandchildren and one great
grand child. The deceased came
to Holt county in 1943 from
Burke, S. D.
A change in recording of doc
uments at the court house is re
! ceiving some consideration and if
| adopted will mean installing a
! little picture machine to produce
photocopies, to take the place of
the present system of copying
documents with type writers. It
would also involve a new set of
record books, which is not wholly
agreeable to some of the county
I officials.
A sprinkle Wednesday fol
lowed by a cold rain Thursday
ended a prolonged late summer
dry spell, as well as bringing a
chill over our balmy weather.
Peaches Grown Near Emmet
J J. Dusatko. living three i
miles south of Emmet, brought to:
The Frontier office Monday a
branch from one of his peach
trees. Have you been canning
California peaches. You have seen'
nothing yet. The little tree branch
Mr. Dusatko favored us with
bears three luscious and pink
tinted peaches, each much larger
than what are shown at the stores
and now coming in from distant
parts in quantities. And he had
a still larger single peach,
something the size of a large
orange, that had been picked
from a tree.
Mr. Dusatko says there are
possibilities in fruit culture yet
untouched in our community.
From two young trees that
grew from seeds he had planted
this season they gathered a bushel
and one peck as the first fruits
from the planting of these two
peach seeds and he is encourag
ered to feel that peach culture
can be made a success here. And
the samples he left with the edi
tor are tangible evidence that
Mr, Dusatko has already achieved
success to the extent of warrant
ing the planting of more seeds.
He is not able to identify the
variety as he does not recall
what the peaches were or from
where they came from which he
took the seeds for planting. Var
ieties seem immaterial as it is
local conditions that determine
the quality of fruit. His interest
in fruit culture takes in ai variety
of fruits.
Convicted of
Federal Crime
A federal court jury at Norfolk
has found Charles J. Ford, 38,
Stuart,, and Ralph B. Mellor. 41,
O’Neill, gujlty of viilating the
Mann Act.
The Government charged the
men with trasporting two girls,
15 and 14 years old, from Ne
braska to Signal Moutain Lodge,
Moran, Wyoming, for immoral
purposes.
It was stated in testimony
that when the men arrived at the
Nebraska line on their way to Sig
nal Lodge they ordered the girls:
"Get out and walk. It is illegal
to take you acros4 the state line."
The girls walked, according to
testimony.
The jury brought in a guilty
verdict Tuesday night, after eight
hours of deliberation.
Hugh J. Boyle and Eugene
O’Sullivan, both of Omaha, ap
peared as atorneys for the de
fondants. They filed mition for a'
new trial. They were given 30
days by Judge John W. Delehant
to file briefs. The Givernment
then will have an equal time to
file an answer and the defense
will have additional time to file
rebuttal.
HAMILTON DONOHOE
Miss Mabel Hamilton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamilton ■
of this city, was united in marri
age to Gene Donohoe, son of Mr.,
and Mrs. John Donohoe also Of
this city, on September 24 at 9
o’clock a. m., at St. Patrick’s
Church, Rt. Rev. Monsgr. J. W.
McNamara performing the single
ring ceremony.
Mrs. Donohoe was attaractively
attired in a light blue suit with
brown accessories. Her only at
tendant, Miss Catherine Donohoe,
cousin of the groom, wore a blue
pin stripe suit with blue acces
sories. Both wore corsages of
talsiman roses.
The groom wore a brown pin
stripe suit with a carnation bou
tonniere. His brother and at
tendant, Walter Donohoe, wore a
grey business suit.
Following the ceremony a wed
ding breakfast was served to the
relatives and immediate friends
of the young couple at the Right
Spot cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Donohoe enter
tained at a wedding dance at
Danceland that evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Donohoe leave
today for Fremont, Nebr.( where
they will make their future home.
The Frontier joins the many
friends of the young couple in
wishing them a long and happy
wedded life.
Mrs. Leonard Hamilton enter
tained sixteen guests at a pre
nuptial miscellaneous shower at
her home last Thursday evening
in honor of Miss Mable Hamilton
who was married on Monday. A
delicious luncheon was served and
the evening was spent informally.
Mrs. Clarence Donohoe enter
tained at a pre-nuptial shower at
her home Friday evening, in
honor of Miss Mable Hamilton
whose marriage to Gene Donohoe
was an event of September 24th.
The guest was the recipient of
many lovely gifts. Following
lunch the evening was spent in
formally.
A bed of petunias under the
window of a loan office on upper
Fourth street droop a bit as early
autumn is ushered in, but still
give a touch of color to a spot
along the grey concrete. Whether
the inspiration back of planting
flowers! was for beauty as such or
an ulterior motive to put the pros
pective borrower in an optomis
tic mood by sniffing a bit of fra
grance and getting the lift im
parted by bright colors the select
ion has been choice.
A Week Appointed for
Physically Handicapped
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Can you use a Handicapped
Veteran? Congress has declared
the first week in October as
National Employ the Handicapped
Week.
Many boys are coming home
from the service of our fcountry
'physicaly handicapped from per
forming the job that they had
been doing before entering into
service. These boys are all
anxious to make their own way
and find a job that they can do.
It my be necessary for them to
leam a new trade. This will be
taken care of by Uncle Sam.
These boys can go to school and
learn a new trade at the expense
of the government.
What do you have that handi
capped veterans could do. Many
business men could find some
thing that one of these Veterans
could do. Study your business
organization and see if you can’t
find a place for one and then see
the manager of the U. S. Employ
ment Service in the Annex of the
court house in O’Neill, who will
be able to contact these Veterans.
Some of the job openings in
this section are butter maker,
power house engineer and man
ager, heating and pumbing men,
several good mechanics, meat
man, grocery clerks and common
labor. Call at the court house
annex if interested.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
The Annual Rural Teachers’
Institute will be at O’Neill, Fri
day, October 5 Registration at
the O’Neill Public School (west
entrance) begins at 8:15, A. m.
Miss Zelma Wonderly, county
superintendent of Red Willow
county and Dr. Herbert C. Cush
ing, president of the Kearney
State Teachers’ College are the
j principal speakers.
All rural teachers are required
1 to be present and are to be excus
ed from that day of regular
school duties to attend the Insti
tute.
On Saturday, October 6, the
‘‘Teachers in-Service College
Course” will begin ct 9:00 n’c'ook.
This course is under the super
vision of Dr. Ray Bryan of Wayne
Teachers College It will afford
the opportunity for Holt county
teachers to earn two college
hours by attending four Satur
days at school in O’Neill It will
cost $7.00 for the two hours. By
special arrangement a student
by further work may earn the
additional third hour. The Sat
urdays are not consecutive ones.
A School Board Meeting will be
held at O’Neill on Saturday after
noon, October 20.
Next regular Teachers Exam
inations, Saturday, November 17.
ela McCullough,
County Superintendent.