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Lxvi O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1945 . NO. 29
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Rt. 5, Atkinson
Flabby under the chin, .crow
foot marks telling the tale of
years, bare legs making pitiful
pretense to be cl-ssed with the
bobby socks. How the old girls
hang on to the make believe.
Down at York $5,300 of the
( tax payers’ money is to be paid a
Cleveland, Ohio, firm to deter
mine the value of York real es
tate for assessment. What have
they got assessors for down there?
If capital and labor, corporation
heads and the boys with the
wrenches, can’t settle it all, we’ll
have to conclude that there may
be some truth to the statement
born of scientfic findings that
Americans are slowly going cr. zy.
They gathered by the thous
ands in the old Roman amphithe
atre and sat under the blazing
sun to shout in wild delight at
the brutal, barbaric, tragic scenes
in the arena. An American foot
ball crowd has a good measure of
like endurance, and magnified de
vdiion to stick it out for a game
in the open on a day like the
north pole sent us Thanksgiving.
Edgar Howard of Coumbus, for
mer judge, former congressman
and always editor of the old
classic school has attained the
manly age of 87. Will Maupin,
former railway commissioner,
always a printer, always an en
tertaining and sometimes exasper
ating writer, has passed the four
score mark and still writes stuff
that crowds the columns of an
initimable personal organ that
tells the world whither it is drift
ing.
The cost of one kill is said to
have been $50,000 in the recent
war, as compared with 75 cents
in Caesar’s wars. The reaction
of returned soldiers is wide and
varied. One veteran who recounts
his dreams of getting back home
to this “wonderful country” has
been disillusioned by the greed
and grab for money he has run
into and has reenlisted in the
ormy. Others say it is great to
be back in the U. S. A. One
chap says he has the feeling that
the human race “has just about
arrived at the top of the stairs
and before the turn of the century
will fall and break its silly neck.”
I dare you. Did you ever hear
that, young friend? Life chal
lenges at every point. From
childhood hours when we were
thrown the challenge by a play
mate, I dare you to jump, a jump
from a high place, all along life’s
way there comes the lure, I dare
you It may be a jump from a
moral, a worthy, high level to a
step below and then another and
another jump until there is the
final plunge to the bottomless pit.
It may be the challenge, I dare
you to set a high mark for attain
ment, intellectual, moral, indus
trial, a glowing star lighting the
it way to worthwhile achievements
\\ as the ye.ns pass on swiftly. I
«F dare you. At every turn can we
sayt, “I dare do all that may be
come a man; who dares do more
is none”?
“Then said he also to him that
bade him, when thou makest a
dinner or supper, call not thy
brethern, neither thy kinsmen
nor thy rich neighbors;lest they
also bid thee again and recom
pense be made thee: But when
thou makest a feast call the poor,
the maimed, the blind.” Into
a vulgar, selfish world, to a gener
ation of self-satisfied hypocrites,
the One to whom millions of our
own generation pay lip tribute,
other millions mock and deride,
flashed this new sort of phil
osophy. If needed then maybe
more now. Our organized char
ity where conscience may be put
to rest with a dollar the hungry
are fed, but I wonder if there is
something of the human contact
thot is being missed by sending a
loaf to a needy fellow creature
instead of inviting him in to
share it With us. Maybe we are
all too grand for a ragamuffin to
sit at our shining board. The
sentences in quotations are not
mine. Wh,at I say may be of no
importance. What the One
quoted has said is forever im
mutable.
“The federal government will
not permit this kind of action to
interfere with its processes either
in the capital or any other part of
the nation.’’ With these brave
words, the bravest that have
come out of Washington since the
days of the picturesque Teddy
Roosevelt, President Truman
takes over busses and street cars
serving the broad and slanting
streets of our nation's capital,
when a strike put the hundreds
of thousands of that great city to
hoofing it. With the army, the
navy, the police and a nation to
back him the president can use
brave words and still braver
deeds. But is there not a puzzl
ing inconsistency in the govern
ment’s attitude of encouraging
strkes in private industry and
then bring to bat the whole force
of government when strikes
' touch an official tender spot?
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Bernice Baer was called
to Creighton by the sudden death
of her father, last Saturday.
Myron Mayhew of the Fine
Saddle Horse ranch of Cherry
county was in the city Monday, j
Mr and Mrs. Merlin Bader and
daughter of Mt. Hood, Oregon,
have been visiting at the home of
Mr. Bader’s mother, Mrs. Viola
Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Watson and
son, A. C. and Mr. and Mrs. T. T.
Baker, prominent Wyoming pre
cinct ranchers, were in the city
Friday making purchases.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edwards and
daughter, Mrs. James Marsh, ac
companied by her husband, re
! turned Sunday to Rockford, 111.,
I after a visit with friends here.
Mr. Edwards was formerly em
ployed at the Noble lumber yard.
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Mrs. John Classen, nee Helen
Sullivan, was at her desk in the
county superintendent’s office
for a time Monday. The Class
en’s were recently married in
Omaha and have been visiting
the past few days with the
groom’s parents at Spencer, Judge
and Mrs. John P. Classen.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McKenna
and son, Richard, came up from ,
Lincoln Wednesday last to spend
Thanksgiving with Hugh’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McKenna.
They returned Friday to Lincoln
where Hugh is completing a course
at the State University after a
long period of service in the
army.
Biglin Bros, were notified Sun
day of the death of Margaret1
Gibbons at her home in Butte,1
Mont. The body will be shipped
to Grand Island accompanied by
her two sisters familiarly known
by the older residents of O’Neill
as Dede and Deb, arriving there
Thursday when the body will be
brought tp O’Neill for burial.
The funeral will be held at St.
Patrick's church Friday morning.
According to the Lincoln Jour
nal of November 22 the state
pardon board has announced that
it “would parole John C. Galla
gher, 54, former Holt county clerk,
after he has served two years of
his 1 to 21 year sentence. It con
celled the $2,245 that Gallagher
was fined for embezzling $1,988 of
county funds during the time that
he served as Holt county clerk.”
The two years will expire in De
cember, 1946.
The O’Neill-Norfolk bus line is
making plans for large improve
ments in the bus service between 1
these two cities. It is reported
that two new busses costing $7,500
each have been ordered for May
delivery. The line started a few
years ago with two seven pass-1
enger automobiles and is now
operating with pony cruisers. The
Grand Island bus driver felt he
needed a bigger bus when he
pulled in Sunday from Ainsworth
with a fair sized load and learned
there were eighteen here waiting
to take passage to Grand Island. |
Polio is Fatal to
Page Young Man
Sorrowing friends, sympathetic
neighbors and strangers came to
the Biglin Bros, morturary to view
the remains and pay a final trib
ute to a young man of the. Page
neighborhood who had been
struck down by that dread enemy
of youthful vigor polio. And
as he lay in the habiliments of
burial life like and peaceful it
appeared unreal that one so young
was straightened for the grave.
William Timm, age 19 years,
five months and 23 days, the third
generation of a Holt county fam
ily, was stricken on November
14 in a paralizing grip and died
the 25th at the family home on
a farm northwest of Page. Fun
eral was hed Sunday afternoon
at the Biglin chapel, Rev. Lloyd
W. Mulli.s condurting the service.
Pallbearers were, Melvin Haynes,
Elwin Haynes, Richard Holiday,
Richard Cunningham, Darrel
Heiss and Emil Pochop. Burial
was in the Page cemttery.
William Timm was born May
29, 1926, at Page, the son of Frank
and Florence Anderson Timm. He
leaves his mother and step father,
and one half brother, Owen Lee
Parkinson, his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Anderson of
Page, grandmother, Mrs. Hen
rietta Wagner of Norfolk; seven
uncles and aunts and twenty-four
cousins. His father died in 1927
when William was an infant of
nine months. He had been bap
tised into the Methodist faith.
William spent his entire boy
hood in the Page community and
had graduated in 1943 from the
Page High school, after which he
took a year’s course in radio.
Outdoor life was the strong ap
pear for Billy, with a fondness
for animals and a warm, respon
sive heart for his friends.
Omaha Men in Accident
Bert Murphy, head of the firm of
Andrew Murphy & Son, Omaha,
sustaned back injuries when the
car in which he was riding with
two companions by the names of
Chrisman and Savagt, also of
Ormha, overturned when a tire
blew out on the highway two
miles south of the Spencer dam
late Monde y afternoon. The
other occupants were only slight
ly injured but the car was badly
wrecked. Mr. Clausen of that
neighborhood brought the three
to O’Neill where Drs. Brown &
French examined the injury with
x-ray and the Biglin ambulance
was called to take them into
Omaha but because of sleet and
fog east of here the ambulance
got only to Norfolk Monday night,
proceeding to Omaha Tuesday.
A1 Strube drove the ambulance.
The Murphy party were out
here on business and were on
their way to Winner when the
accident happened. The Lohaus
Motor Company brought in the
wrecked Chrysler.
Joins Soil Saving Staff
William H. Schorer reported at
O'Neill last week to assist with
the work of the Holt Soil Conser
vation District.
Mr. Schorer recently discharg
ed from the army lived on a farm
near Phillipsbury, Kansas. Mrs.
Kathern Schorer and children,
Susan and Danny, are living at
Denver, Col., and will join Mr.
Schorer as soon as he can find a
place to live.
Mr. Schorer comes to Holt
county with considerable train
ing and experience. He gradu
ated from the Iowa State College
and received his Masters degree
from the University of Nebraska
in plant ecology work. He has
done conservation work in Miss
ouri and Iowa, farm management
work in Illinois, Indiana and
Wisconsin and county agent work
in Kansas.
In Holt county Mr. Schorer will
work with L.. F. Bredemeier and
Merlyn Shaw on the Soil Con
servation District.
County Surveyor Lenard A.
Thomazin was up from the
Chambers neighborhood Tuesday
consulting with the supervisors
over a proposed road up in Dustin
precinct.
There is on in Omaha tod y a
banquet, something of show and
a tour through s;ock yards and
packing plants for the boys out
here in the grass roots. The pro
gram deals with various phases
of the agricultural activities of
Nebraska and the setup, sponsor
ed by the Oni ha Chamber of
Commerce, is officially alphabeti
cally designated P. F. L., which
means when put into words,
Pasture, Forage, Livestock. At
this time there is special recog
nition of those who have made
outstanding records in beef pro
duction, haying methods and
gnass developments. Those “in
on it” from Holt county are
Skrdla Bros, of Stuart, Harvey
Tompkins of Inman, Ray Siders
of O’Neill, all of whom, with
County Agent Dawes definitely
plan to go to Omaha for the pro
gram. Skrdla’s will fly their plane.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hallgrimson of
Stuart and Bob Clifford of At
kinson are among those with out
standing records and plan to at
tend the Omaha gathering if they
can make arrangements to leave
their ranchts long enough.
BRIEFLY STATED
E. G. Casey and son, Tommit,
spent Friday and Saturday at
Burke, S. D.
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Miss Adalene Green returned
last Wednesday from a seven
weeks visit with relatives and
friends at Seattle, Washington.
Lloyd A. Collins and family, of
Burke, S. D, arrived in the city
Wednesday of last yveek to make
their home here. They bought a
home in the western part of
town and Mr. Collins also be
comes owner of the Putnam im
! plement business.
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Bennett Gillespie, Matt Beha
and a frigid air.«iealer from Bas
: sett formed a ftarty who left
Tuesday for Sioe.x Falls, S. D.,
via Sioux City, to attend a gath
ering of dealers, not in hot air,
but those shining new things we
used to call ice boxes.
R. H. Shriner reports the sale
of the residence at Fifth and
Everett streets to Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell Culvert of Burke, S. D.,
who will make their home here.
Mr. Culvert comes to take up his
duties with Lloyd A. Collins in
the implement trade. Mr. Shriner
also reports the sale of the Mrs. I
Ella Shaughnessy farms just east
of town, the home place to Eliza
beth Howard and another quarter
to Ralph Van Horn.
twenty-one ladies representng
nine project or womens’ clubs of
a portion of the county met at the
assembly room of the court house
Monday afternoon for their last
meeting with Miss Della Lewis
who came up from Lincoln to
give some helpful instruction
pertaining to club matters. She
is leaving the state to accept a
similar position in Maryland.
At the close of the afternon pro
gram the club women exchanged
gifts and enjoyed an informal
social hour, closing with lunch.
Joe Daas, one of the progress
ive merchants of Chambers, w. s
a business visitor to the city Mon
day. Mr. Daas, a native of the
land known as the near east,
thinks that because of the fan
actical religious feeling of the
Mohammeran Arahs there is no
hope for permanent settlement of
the Palestine question and if the
fanatical Egyptians and Arabs
were not held in check by Eng
land and France there would be
tot 1 annihilation of all Hebrews
in that part of the world.
There was a stranger in town
Tuesday. Nothing strange about
that. Strange if a strange one
doesn’t run onto one or a hund
red strange ones every day. This
stranger, a rather aristocratic!
tightly closed and huge truck
bearing the brand of Indiana
and the herd brand Grey Lines,
a subsidary of the Greyhound bus
company, which in turn is a sub
sidary of the Pennsylvania rail
road, according to the pleasant
young Hoosiers who breakfasted
in town and headed on toward
Denver with their cargo of fur
niture. They put out the smiling
assurance that they were not in
volved in any strike or labor
dispute.
While Horse Is
U. S. Attraction
Up along the breaks of the
Niobrara where once was the
hangout of Doc Middleton, Pat
Nolan, Kid Wade and the likes
of A1 Hileman, twenty-five miles
north of Stuart now nestles
among the picturesque hills u
national show place' developed
by a former ranch hand down on
the old Bruner ranch in south-1
west Holt county, Carl Thompson I
and his charming wife Ruth
Thompson, a former country
school teacher.
The White Horse Ranch, known
from coast to coast and almost
daily visited by admiring Ameri
cans from many states, stretches
across 3,000 acres with a hundred
white horses and as many white
cattle. Mr. Thompson, the first
in command and ownership after
his wife Ruth, was in O'Neill
Monday, favored this writer with
a profusedly illustrated book de
scriptive of the ranch and its
history. Mr. Thompson was doing
a bit of detective work to locate
some things of value that had
been stolen from the ranch by a
former ranch hand and which he
thought might have been offered
for sale here. He was also per
fecting arrangements for a trip
with Mrs. Thompson that will
keep them away from the ranch
for a fortnight or possibly longer.
They maintain a troup of trained
riders and educated mounts of
immaculate white and the visit to
California is in connection with
this feature of their enterprise. .
Mr. Thompson says he has a
white wolf, white badger, is get- j
ting a white deer and hopes to
develope a white strain of all of
these. The white coyote was
caught by an Amelia hunter south
east of Chambers and the ranch
acquired it for $50. They have
white hogs, white sheep, white
dogs, cats and rabbits. In place
of the usual hot branding irons,
everything pertaining to the
ranch is in gleaming white.
The ranch is also something of
a Boys’ Town—with the addition
al compliment of girls. Mr. and
I Mrs. Thompson are making a
home for boys and girls, some
I from congested centers of the
east whose home environment is
! of a low order or none at all.
Twelve year old Jimmy has just
been given a trip to Pennsylvania
to spend Christmas with his
mother, his older brother remain
ing at White Horse. They have
at present twelve boys and girls.
Mr. Thompson admits that he had
been a bachelor for more than
ten years before he discovered
that “it is not good for man1 to be
alone. Much of the success of
their enterprise he attributes to
Mrs. Thompson’s help.
A radio announcer in big, rich,
grand and boastful California last
summer denied a claim that had
got abroad that the much publi
cized nag of the Jap emperor |
came from the White Horse.
California, of course, is the back
ground of all notable things.
Mr. Thomson says the horse was
sired in California but his sire
traces back to White Horsq ranch
stock. He is h ving prepared a
history of this somewhat famous
horse. |
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson plan-,
ned to leave from Atkinson
Tuesday afternoon on their trip
to California. He had recently
returned from a trip to New York
City.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means to
thank our kind friends ond neigh
bors for their many acts of kind
ness and words of sympathy
during the death and burial of
our beloved son, brother, grand
son and nephew, Billy, and for
the beautiful floral offerings.—
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Parkinson
and Owen Lee, Mr and Mrs. Wm.
Anderson, Mrs Henrietto Wagner,
Mr. and Mrs Jasper Hitchcock,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Williamson
and family, Hazel Haines and
Ronnie, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Mc
Kimi and family.
—
Mrs. Homer Mullen of Scribner,
spent a couple of days here the
past week a guest of Miss Berna-1
dette Brennan.
CLARK APPOINTED TO
VACANCY ON BOARD
Andy Clark was appointed yes
terday to fill the vacancy in
supervisor district No. 3, the
O'Neill district. Appointments
to vacancies where a number of
qualified applicants are involved
is always a delicate job. No
doubt the board’s selection will
prove satisfactory to the citizens
concerned.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
INITIATES LARGE CLASS
Twenty-five new members,
were taken into the Knights of
Columbus here last Sunday after
noon. Knights from Norfolk,
Columbus and Omaha came here
for the occasion. Among the
prominent members of the order
to participate in the initiation
ceremonies were State Deputy
Charles J. McDonald of Omaha,
and State Treasurtr Ben McNair
of Columbus. A banquet was
served in the evening to 200 in
the gymnaisum of St. Mary’s
Academy. The local Knights
feel it was one of the best occas
ions of that kind they have had.
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Donna Gallagher left Sun
day to return to Rosary College,
at River Forest, Illinois.
Mrs. C. E. Stout and Mrs H. J.
Birmingham left Saturday for
Omaha for a few days stay.
Arthur Hooper of Portland,
Oregon, is visiting at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Oscar Newman.
Andrew Morgan of Lincoln,
state adjuster for the Farmers’
Mutual Insurance company, was
in the city Tuesday.
Mrs. F. A. Miles left last Sun
day for Valentine, being called
there by the serious illness of her
aunt.
Miss Lou Birmingham left Sat
urday for Barat College, Lake
Forest,, Illinois, where she is at
ttnding school.
Patricia O’Donnell, who is a
student at Rosary College, River
Forest, 111., returned to her
school duties last Sunday, after
spending the Thanksgiving va
cation with the home folks.
Victor Howith, a former resi
dent of Swan precinct, but now |
in Nance county, came up from
his home near Fullerton Tuesday
on business at the court house.
He still owns the Swan ranch and
went out there yesterday.
St. Mary’s Basketball team |
play their first game here next
Monday with Spalding High
School team as their opponents.;
On Wednesday they play the In
man High School on the local ■
floor.
Miss Helen Biglin was hostess
to the Martez Club Tuesday
evening. Following dinner at the
M ..nd M cards were played at
the Biglin home. High score
winners were Mrs. P. B. Harty,
Mrs. H. J. Lohaus and Miss Helen
Biglin.
Lt. and Mrs. W. H. Bowker are
house guests at the home of Mrs.
Bowker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. J. Hammond. Lt. Bowker has
just returned from Iwo Jima
and is on a forty-five day terminal
leave. They will go to Sacre
mehto, Cal., from here.
Osear Boyer vs. E C. Wilbur is
the title of a suit filed in district
court wherein the plaintiff asks
for $10,000 for alienation of his
wife’s aflftctions. He alleges it
began in M y last since when the
wife abandoned husband, home,
children, the youngest 5 years,
has gone with the defendant and
seeks divorce from plaintiff.
Miss M e Keys who has been
the efficient manager of the J
B. Ryan office on lower Four h
street almost since the business
was started, is retiring from the
position she has filled so long to
c re for her mother who is in
feeble health. Neil Ryan, with
clerical and navy experience, is
looking after the office work for
his father.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Vleek, of
Woodburn, Wash., arrivtd here
Tuesday night and will m ke their
future home in O’Neill. Mrs.
Van Vleek is a daughter of Alva
Marcellus and they have moved
into his home in the southeast
section erf the city. After they
get located Mr. Van Vleek will
join the force of employees of the
Marcellus garage and give Alva
more timt to devote to the hand
ling of new cars and to look after
the outside work than he has
been able to give to that portion
of his business in the past.
Rubble, rubbish, weeds head
high and a vacant lot can’s just
be classed as vacant. The efforts
of city officials to keep the streets
swept and garnished are some
what mitigated and the picture
marred by the socalled vacant
lots.
Relires After A
Half Century
After more than a half century,
fifty-four years to be specific, R.
E. Chittick of Stuart has sold his
drug store and retired from an
active life that involved not only
his personal business but a great
interest in the public affairs of
his community. This is the l..st
“turn over’” up to date in the
drug business in the county, the
one just previous taking place
down at Chambers. Drug stores
in the county have passed to new
owners with considerable regular
ity in recent years. Mr. Chittick
was elected county treasurer «as
a republican against strong fusion
opposition. If this generation
doesn't know what “fusion”
means in politics is should be de
fined as an amalgamation at
fkopulists, democrats and every
element with an implacable
hatred of republicans. The op
position bloomed into persecution
after Mr. Chittick took office la
1900. With a clear record and
nothing to fear after about one
year in office, but feeling that the
abuse of political demogoguee
was not worth remaining in office,
Mr. Chittick resigned, the first up
to that time to resign a county
office. James C. Harnish, serving
as deputy under Mr. Chittick, wal
appointed to the office and later
elected at the general election.
That his home community
didn’t share the vicious feeling
manifest by jealous political ene
mies is testified to by Mr. Chittick
being almost continuously in
official positions in Stuart. The
animosities, the bitterness, the
abuse of good citizens over our
| county offices in the long ago was
enough to make men blush.
A MUSIC PROGRAM
The Vocal and Instrumental
Music departments of the O'Neill
Public Schools will present a
program on Tuesday evening,
December 4, at the High School
Auditorium at 8:15 o'clock. •
Only large groups consisting of
Girls Chorus, Boys Chorus and
Band will be used.
The admission charge will be
25c and 15c.
List of Registrants discharged
since November 14, 1945:
Frederick G. Soger, Atkinson
Joseph J. Kalina, Inman
! Robert W McCartney, Stuart
j Martin L. Craig, Page
Otho R. Johnson, O'Neill
Robert P Thompson, O'Neill
Joseph E. Stutz, O’Neill
Richard L. Hovey, Stuart
Herbert C. Spahn, Ewing
J Cecil T Grenier, Opportunity
j Jerome M. Baum, Stuart
l Lloyd T Lawyer, O’Neill
Clay H. Johnson, O’Neill
James B. Rotherham, Inman
John C Hipke, Stuart
George Verzal, Atkinson
Forest I. Iverson, S uart
Harold A. Green, Chambers
Fred E Wilbi r, Page
Poul V. Shipm.m, Atkinson
Alvin J. Heiser, Atkinson
Dtlmar L. Sp ngl- r, O’Nt ill
Don Id R Smith, Atkins n
Keith N. Ni whous -, Chambers
Leo Straka, Stuart
Lloyd C. Taylor, Chamb *rs
William P. Krysl, Stuart
Donald R. Wi t, Amelia
Arnie E. Mace, O’Neill
Ct.rl L. Hubei, Ewing
Melvin C. Hickerson, Amelia
Tommy J. J. Dunn, Jr., Atkin
son
Jack A. Dailey, O’Neill
Boyea B. Shaffer, Stuart
August B. Sc-hutt, Amelia
Wilbur L. Sydow, O’Neill
Danold E Lowery, O’Neill
Robert E. Thomas, O'Neill
Irwin C. Dunlap, O'Neill
Delbert P Warner, Atkinson
Robert H. Lamb, O’Neill
Harold J. Weller, Atkinson
Lee E Osborn, O’Neill
LeRoy J. Dobrovolny, Atkinses
