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
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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
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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.
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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.
