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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1945)
LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1945 NO 23 SMALL DOSES PA ST AND PRESENT By Romaine Saunders Rt, 5. Atkinson The European and Asiatic situ ations have ramifications too deep for most citizens at home. If all concerned come out of it with not a humiliating loss of national dignity it might be listed as the ^ world’s eighth wonder. You would have to have been up before daylight to have seen it at its brilliant best. There it hung over the treetops—the Morn ing Star. But if the gems glow ing out of the blue of eternity have no fascination for you better stick to the bed. Some things are sacred, some profane, Some duties are pleas ant, others hard to perform. The hardest thing one Holt county cit izen ever had to perform was to start legal proceedings to eject from his premises a family of the second generation of the original homesteader. He felt it was either that or sustain irreparable loss. In raising a voice of protest to peace time military drafting of young men the Nebraska Cattle mens’ association speaks for our citizens pretty well as a unit, Nebraskans will defend home and country whenever threatened— and any bully better beware— but they are not carrying a chip on their shoulder to invite a slap in the face. Printers, usually sensible fel lows that will give and take, talk problems over seem to have lost their heads in Chicago and gone out on strike. In place of the regularlay printed paper that f hasn’t missed an issue before in * 80 years we got the other day just the wrapper on which had been typewritten a message telling about the strike. The Missouri Valley authority does not concern Us a lot out on the prairie and about the only interest is a wish that the indus trial and political busybodies would let some things as nature made them. The Elkhorn so far flows on with unmolested fresh ness as when Col Brennan bathed his weary feet in its limpid waters more than sixty years ago. “What a power 14,000,000 vets will be some day,” says a high ranking army officer. Threat or promise? But why “some day”? The vets were the power behind all planning, all strategy, all the hopes for triumph of an agonized world over the monstrous forces of evil and enslavement. But the general may be throwing out a warning to politicians to tread softly. Man fundamentally is a gallant. He instinctively respects woman hood and the welter of modern ism has left him flustrated, con fused, with something of a wist fulness for that indefinable fine thing that has gone out since women have taken to the curling incense and sp-. .»ling cup. What is the background of the bold free dom, the brazen disregard for the niceties of life that crowned womanhood in the days of femin ine modesty? The ballot, busi ness, politics, the necessities of life's industrial struggle? Maybe so. And man finds the female of the species involved with him in the mad maelstrom of grab and get yours. Then the reaction. Its knocking too many of our women off of the road of decorum, too many hit the bottom of de pravity. A few hectic days, months, years, roll over the wreckage of human lives, leaving them morally and materially bankrupt. And then out of the resources of men and women out producing the needful things, workers with lunch pail starting at dawn for another day’s grind, office girls, store workers, hard working res taurants, girls, from the elements making possible the whole sweep of industry, will the wreckage of wasted lives have to be sustained. | And what of the wrecks? Can for them be echoed the lament of Vondcl over Mary Queen of Robert Doming of the Cleve land 4-H Club north of Stuart, has made an outstanding Fores try Club exhibit which is on dis play at the office of the county agent at the court house. The young man has mounted on cards leaves of trees showing both the top and under side of the le.f, also small twigs showing buds £ nd bits of larger branches as well as seeds, each of these label ed with the common and botan ical names. The collection was gathered from ten or twelve dif ferent varieties of trees and is a part of his club work. Post 93 Elects Officers Simonson Post No. 93, of the American Legion met Monday evening andelected the following officers for the ensuing year: John Grutsch, commander; George H. Jones, vice commander; Harry Claussen, chaplain; Tim Harring ton, sergeant at arms. Following are the members of the executive committee: P. B. Harty, Leo Carney, H. J. Bir mingham, Melvin Ruzicka and F. A. Miles. Plans were discussed relative to building an American Legion Memorial Home here. Scots—O Roman rose, cut from her bleeding stem! “So Mioses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural iforce abated.” There it is, perhaps the briefest obituary to have yet been written. And of whom? The world’s greatest law giver. The death of a common rounder today gets more notice. And we write at length of every worthwhile citizen upon whom the grim reaper has laid a pale hand. Maybe the ancients can teach us something of the beauty of brev ity and simplicity. As I opened an old Oxford bible that had belonged to Mrs. Saunders there floated out a bit of paper on which was printed in italics a short poem that had ap pealed to her mother heart. A reprint may find an emotional response from some other mother. A MOTHER SPEAKS I must not interfere with any child, I have been told; To bend his will to mine, or try to shape him through some mold. Naturally as a flower he must unfold. Yet flowers have the discipline of wind and rain, And though I know it gives the gardener pain, I’ve seen him use his pruning shears to gain More strength and beauty for some blossoms bright, And he would do whatever he thought right. To save his flowers from a dead ening blight. I do not know—yet it does seem .* to me That only weeds unfold just nat urally. A Minneapolis couple plan a trip 20 miles straight up, if they get the financial backing. Local interest in the big ball game was scarcely less marked than on V-J day, ... A power and irrigation district for Buffalo, Hall and Merrick counties have applied for an eight million dol lar federal loan. ... A single ship docks at home port with a consignment of troops twice the population of O’Neill. . . .Talk of suppressing the atom bomb, but no plan to suppress foreign scien tists on trail of its secret. $200,000 recently added to the as sistance fund plundered of a mil lion last winter. ... If a Nebraska girl has ambitions to engage in the beauty business she must first show a certificate of eighth grade school work completed. ... A newspaper wit, after all, has come to the conclusion that there is no place like home—if you can find one. Drillers Sav Oil * Prospecls Good J. E. Palensky, of Vermillion, S. D., accompanied by a gentle man from Sioux City who desires his name withheld, called at The Frontier last Friday. They are pitting down the test well in the north part of the county near the dam on the Niobrara river. Both expressed enthusiasm over the prospects for the development of an oil field in that locality ap proximately six miles square as indicated by what the oil men call an “uplift.” They are now down 700 feet with the drilling, having been delayed some in operations because of having to truck in equipment from long distances and also because of funning into an oil shale that is saturated with oil to the extent that further work that only expert know about is involved. Work was begun out there something like a year ago and progress has been about all that could be hoped for considering the difficulties and slow move ment of equipment. Mr. Palensky says drilling operations were un dertaken only after a complete survey of the area by competent oil geologists, who drew up and submitted an irregular diagram of the territory roughly six square miles of lamd where the presence of oil is indicated by the "uplift.” The gentlemen forecast with the enthusiasm off the true op tomist what the development of an oil field will mean to the O’Neill community but threw out the warning that not even the best of experts can guarantee to strike oil. Among the visione are a refinery and 25,000 peope for O’Neill. The oil shale the drillers are now encountering mean the pres ence of an oil pool still there or has been and now drained out, Mr. Palensky says. We may hope it is still there when those long reaches of pipe penetrate to its oily depths—or a dry hole. Letter 4 Years on Way From Poland Louis Sojka was up from De loit precinct Wednesday when he made The Frontier a call to re new his subscription. He in formed us that on September 18 last they received a letter at his home from a sister, whose home at the time of writing the letter WcB Cheznow, Poland. The letter bore the date of November 13, 1941, and also the ugly marks of German censors, the ravaging hordes at that time had begun the rape of Mr. Sojka’s native land and for fear of whom he came to the United States in 1913. What could be made out in the letter his people were suffering and in dire need, asking that something to wealr be sent them. His people were in good circum stances when he left Poland. Whether any of them are still alive can only be surmised as this letter is the only word from them. Mr. Sojka plans to make a> trip to his former Poland home at the earliest opportunity to get in there. Mrs. C. J. Tessier, of Long Beach, Cal., arrived last Thurs day and will make her home here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dempsey, who have just returned from Texas City, Texas, where they have been for the past three years. Hei^ brother, Pfc. Phil Dempsey, arrived that day to spend his furlough visiting relatives and friends He recent ly returned from the E. T. O. where he had been for fifteen months. He was wounded in Italy and spent three months in a hospital in Porto Rico. At* the expiration of his forty-five day leave he will report to West Palm Beach, Florida. Alex Head, of the Stuart neighborhood, was brought to O’Neill for incarceration pending a hearing before the insanity board on a complaint filed by Conrad Straka, father of a young woman whom it is alleged has been threatened. Of the seventy thous and Ne braskans who are said to have j ieldt d to the call of the wild the first day of another open hinting season perhaps R. M. Sauers has the best hunting tale brought to town. He has re ported to his fritnds that he saw an antelope up on the J. B. Ryan ranch west of town. Buck fever or more likely a good citizen’s regard for “Law and Order’’ coupled with a greater admir i ation for a live creature of beauty than a dead one the antelope still survives as far as Mr. Sauers is concerned. BRIEFLY STATED Clyde Harvard, of Tensleep. Wyo., visited .friends here last week. George Abdouseh, of Omaha.. spent the week-end here on a hunting trip. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Larson, of Clearwter, spent Wednesday here on business. Dr. and Mrs. Paul Tipton, of Omaha, were week-end guests at the Max Golden home. I. O Copes, Jr.y and Guy Spiel man, of Sioux City, spent Mon day here visiting friends. W P. Hiltabrandt, of Boston, Mass., arrived Sunday for a visit at the C. F. McKenna home. Clarence Bergstrom and son, Leonard, of Omaha, spent the week-end here visiting friends. ' Miss Helen Biglin returned Sunday from Sioux City, where she had been receiving medical care. Mrs. Curley Washacek, of | Omaha, spent the week-end here 1 visiting her husband and other ! relatives and friends. _ Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Johnson and i Mr and Mfs. Virgil Johnson, of Lincoln, were week-end guests at , the Marvin Johnson home. L. G. Gillespie was in Fremont | early in the week for the Grand j Encampment of the I. O. O. F., ' which was held there on Tuesday. Mrs. Keith Schwigert, of Dallas, S. D., spent the week-end here visiting her sisters. Mrs. Melvin Margellus and Mrs. M. A. Pettijohn. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sauser and son, Donald, spent Sunday in i Atkinson visiting Mrs. Sauser’s j parents, Mr. atnd Mrs. M. M. Cleary. Dale French, who is attending the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, spent the week-end here visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. O W. French. Mrs. Gene Cromwell and son, Larry, of Creighton, returned to their home Tuesday, after spend ing a few days here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Johnson. Charles “Sammy” Regan ar rived home Monday from Great Lakes, 111., where he recently was discharged from the navy, after three years in the service. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Streeter, Seaman 2-c Gene Streeter and Mrs. Clyde McKenzie, Jr., and daughter, Patricia, spent Thurs day in Brunswick visiting rela tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Streeter, Mattie Soukup, Seaman 2-c Gene Streeter and Mrs. Clyde Me Ken zie, Jr., and daughter, Patricia, spent Tuesday in Ainsworth visit ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Perkins. Pfc. Lufther Schulz arrived last Thursday from Camp Shelby, Miss., to spend a forty-five day furlough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schulz and other relatives and friends. Dr. John Gallagher and Dr. J. P. Murphy, r»f St. Louis, Mo., ar rived Saturday and are visiting Mrs. J. P. Gallagher and family and other relatives and friends. Incidently, while here, the boys will try their hand at bagging some Holt county pheasants and ducks. 0 Neil! Boys are Given Citations With the 37th Infantry Divis ion on Luzon — For "Heroic Achievement" on Luzon, the Bronze Star Medal has been awarded to Sergeant Dominick F. Kubik, O’Neill, Nebr. “When Kubik and members of a squad evacuating wounded men at night, realized that they were being followed by several Jap anese, they set up a defensive position and fought off repeated j Japanese attempts to penetrate their perimeter They killed several of the enemy and suc cessfully evacuated the wounded in the morning without suffering a single casuality,” the citation reads, Doughboys of his outfit, the 37th “Buckeye” Division's 129th Infantry Regiment, saw action on Bougainville in the Solomons and at Fort Stotsenburg, Manila, Baguio, and the Cagayan Valley on Luzon. With the 31st Infantry Divis ion in Mindanao—(Special)—With the announcement by General MacAxthur that the 31st (Dixie) Division will be among the first to return to the states from the Pacific tfor deactivation, Pfc’s. Owen M. Hiatt and Duane J. James, of O’Neill and Ewing, Nebraska, respectively, are an ticipating an early return home. The two Holt county men both came into the service in Novem ber, 1942, both were assigned to Company B of the 167th Regi ment, and both served together in nineteen months of overseas service, sharing the hardships and perils of four Pacific cam paigns. “It’s the best homecoming pos sible,” the two Nebraska soldiers agreed. Pfc. Hiatt is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Hiatt, of O'Neill. Pfc. Jaimes’ wife, Mrs. Dorothy M. James, lives in Norfolk. His jfather, Floyd S. James lives in San Diego, Cal. On the USS Nehanta Bay— Marion D. Peterson, seaman, second class, O’Neill, Nebr., serv ed on this escort aircraft carrier when she took part in the occu pation of Ominato Naval Base on the northern tip of Honshu, main Japanese island. Since the Saipan operation, the Nehenta Bay has participated in every Pacific operation except Iwo Jima. Seaman 1-c John Protivinsky. son otf Mr. and Mrs. John Proti vinsky of this city, has recently been promoted to Radar Man 3-c, somewhere in the Panama Canal Zone. Mrs. Ann Asher received word from her son, Leon, on Tuesday saying that he had received his discharge from the army at Camp McQuaide, Cal., on Friday and would arrive home sometime next week. Movement of Cattle This is cattle moving time for the cow country and it is some thing like pretruck d;*ys to see half mile long stock trains rolling through with a mighty snort of whistles. Cattle are not all going to the block, however, that are taken out of Holt county. Breed stock is being taken us well. The Riley pure bred Short Horn ranch down by Amelia, operating for more than fifty years, has calls this season ifrom Minnesota, Iowa and various counties in Nebraska for young breeding stock. Meat shortages, real or fancied, federal loaning agencies urging citizens to borrow money from them and buy land, are some of the induce ments for cattle raisers. APPRECIIATION To the many friends who so graciously remembered us on our Golden Anniversary we express our sincere appreciation. Your kindness will long be remem bered. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ellis. Ambrose Biglin, of Casper, Wyoming, arrived Saturday, for a few weeks visit at the home of his birth. Dr. Erwin Gallagher, of La Crosse, Wis., arrived Saturday and is visiting Mrs. J. P. Gallagher and other relatives and friends. Laurence Tenborg arrived Tuesday night from Fort Leaven worth, Kansas, where he was re cently discharged from the army alter five years service, thirty - eigth months of that time being spent overseas in England, France, Belgium, Holland and GernYany. He will be with his wife here and his father, W. R. Tenborg and other relatives and friends in Emmet. BRIEFLY STATED Ambrose Biglin lqft Wednesday for Sioux City, Iowa, to spend a few days visiting relatives. Mrs. Dewey SchalTer entertain ed the Women’s Club ait her home Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Perkins, of Ainsworth, spent Wednesday vis iting relatives and friends here. Miss Alva Wakefield spent Sun day in Butte visiting her parents and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Milo Jones returned Fri day from Rochester, Minn., where she had gone through the Mayo Clinic. Mrs. Edward HilderhofY and Mrs. Harold Mlinar returned Fri day from Norfolk, where they had been visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Harold Mlinar returned to her home in Clearwater on Wed nesday, after spending the past week here visiting Mrs. Edward HilderhofY and friends. Pfc. M. A. Pettijohn, of Camp Cooke, Cal., is spending a forty five day leave with his wife and his parents and other rela tives and friends in Stuart. Mrs. Cassie Kaiser loft Friday for Sioux City, where she enter ed St. Vincent’s Hospital (for med ical care. At the last report her condition is described as fair. Lt. and Mrs. Charles Chace and daughter, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, are visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Ham mond and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chase, of Atkinson. Seaman 2-c Gene Streeter ar rived home Sunday from the Great Lakes Naval Training station, Great I^akes, 111., to spend his leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Streeter and with other relatives and friends. T. Sgt. Louiis Zastrow arrived last Thursday from Tyndall Field, Florida. H received his dis charge from the army after four years and four months in ser vice. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Zastrow of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Streeter en tertained at a 6 o’clock dinner at their home Wednesday evening, in honor of their uephew, Sea man 2-c Gene Streeter, who is home on leave from the Great Lakes Nav:tl Training station at Great Lakes, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Lind holm, daughter and son-in-law of Romaine Saunders, arrived in the city Thursday night from Iron Mountain, Michigan, where they had been on a visit from the west co st, their home the past few years. A visit in Nebraska may determine a permanent resi dence somewhere in the state One of the busiest persons at the court house is Custodian Bowen. His headquarters in the basement is not the least place of interest in the county’s store house of records Tools, gadgets of his own devising, cabinet of chemicals for sanitation md equipment to keep both building and grounds in order, of which he is doing an excellent job. The season brings some release from the exacting lawn work but it also adds a job in the furnace room. Whether as official weather recorder or by other means a flower garden on the lawn has retained its bright bloom while other plant life has crump led under autumn frosts. Pioneer oi’ iSie Eighties Dead Fr ink Pribil, one of the old time residents of the south country died suddenly at his home south ojf this city last Tuesday morning about 9 a.m. He had been up and around as usual that morning doing the chores when he had the attack and quietly passed away. He was 65 years, six months and fifteen day old. The funeral will be held from St. Patrick’s Church Saturday morning at 9 o’clock and inter ment in Cadvary cemetery. Frank Pribil was born near Linwood, Saunders county, on March 1, 1880. When he was abouit a year old his parents came to this county, in 1881, and this had been his home ever since. On June 9, 1908, he was united in marriage to Mary Sobotkai the ceremon being performed in this city. To this union seven child ren were born, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are expected to be here for the fun eral services The children are: Raymond, Framcis, Leonard and Lawrence . Pribil, O’Neill; Mr*. Charles Dennesia, Wayne; Mrs. Steve Sladek, Chambers; Mrs. Russell Knower, Las Vegas, Nev., who with their mother are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate husband and father. He is also survived by four brothers, Fred Vitt, Jake, Casper and John, amd three sis ters, Mrs. Frances Englehaupt, Denver; Mrs. John Shoemaker and Mrs. Walter Shoemaker, O’Neill. Also surviving are six grandchildren Frank Pribil was one of our successful farmers and stockmen and had a host of friends in this city and county, who were grieved and shocked when they learned of his sudden death. He will be missed by his many friends in this community ifor he was a credit to any community FLORA BELLE LEWIS Flora Belle Lewis, a resident of this county for thirty-two years, passed aw.Jy suddenly at her home in this city, last Thursday evening at 6 p. m., at the age of 87 years, eleven months and twenty-three days. The funeral was held last Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church, Rev, Mullis officiating and burial in the cemetery at Elmwood, Nebr. Flora Belle Hite was born in j Ottawa, Illinois, on 'October 13, 1857, where she grew to woman hood. On January 16, 1875, she was united in marriage to Wil liam .R Lewis. To this union I two children were born, Mrs. E. A. Dimmitt, Long Be ch, Cal.. and Mrs. R V. Eidenmiller, O’Neill. In 1880 Mrs. Lewis and her husband moved to Cass county, Nebr, where they remained until 1913 wh'm they moved to this I county, where Mrs. Lewis had made her home continuously since. Mrs. Lewis was a ch irming lady and had a host of friends in this city and surroi nding territory, who will regret her passing. Shortly after coming to O’Neill the family joined the Methodist church und she continued a faith I ful member to the date of her death. Under a two-column picture of ! the group last Friday’s Linco’n Journal said: ‘ As Fred L rkin, executive secretary looks on, Joe W. Seacrest, Nebrask . state sal vage chairman, congratulates Mrs Guy Cole of Emmet, who headed up the women’s oart in the sal vage program. Thirty-nine per sons from Nebraska were pres ent at a dinner in Lincoln form ally closing the program.” Comes in a Flyin* George Stannard, of SanDiego, California, arrived Saturday to visit his mother, Mrs. David Stannard and other relatives and friends. Mr. Stannard came in by in creasingly popular air travel to Omaha and Ralph Mellor picked him up there and flew to O’Neill in his recently acquired ship of the air.