Nebraska Newspapers

    LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20,1945 Nt). 32
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PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
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THE curtain drawn, the XX
world's undying story an- H
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page.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a «!
son is given: and the government shall ZZ
; be upon his shoulders, and his name ZZ
; shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, ZZ
the Mighty God . . . Isa. 9:6.
The Board of Supervisors had
a heart. With Chrstmas just
around the corner the board met
Tuesday to allow salary claims of
county workers.
Union leaders are forecasting
an unemployment problem “equal
to any the nation ever f-ced.”
Well, boys, haven’t you brought
it on yourselves.
Washington issues an ultima
tum to China that “strife must
cease." The Chinks have a big
sleeve to laugh in and wink a
slanting eye at the Yankee indus
trial strife.
Iran, the faint remnant of i
the once great empire of the great
Cyrus which stretched from India
to Ethiopia, a “hundred and
twenty provinces,” like poor little
Palestine, seems destined to be
the mouse for the Lion and Bear
to toy with.
Wages have increased from a
dollar a d.y to a dollar an hour.
There was more solid content
ment when the dollar a day work
er sat down on the sawbuck at
noon and ate his dinner of crhck-1
ers ,snd cheese than he can buy
anywhere in the country today
with his dollar an hour.
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About an inch of snow lies un-!
disturbed by winds out there in
the street while those little
weather tubes indicates a temper
ature around zero. Weather re
ports credit Buffalo, N. Y., with
40 inches of snow and more piling
up. It was a clear half a night
job finding a highway out of
Buffalo last summer and I pity
any stranger caught there in
three and a half feet of snow.
Anyway there is nothing
modest about the C. I. O.’s esti
mate of their worth on the job. j
Two a day raise for all hands and
no extra output. Steel workers, j
auto workers, electricians and now ,
the railroads say the trainmen
have plans for a two billion in
crease in their pay per annumn.
All of which is to come out of the
people of the small towns, vill- j
ages and those toiling on the land.
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Governor Griswold informs
the pressure groups that there are
to be no political roads built in
Nebraska. Surveys- are to be
made and highways authorized on
the basis of needs. No doubt
there are other sections of the
state needing better travel routes
but none that I know of present
the crying need that the sand hill
cattle country does. The move
ment of beef to market is a major
Nebraska undertaking every year
and the state road builders may
well look the sand hills over.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found the life story and death
notice of the mistress of O’Neill's
first grand residence, Mrs. Dave
Darr. I was one of a group of
young blades first to be enter
tained at a social function at the
Darr mansion, as we spoke of the
towns’s recently erected stone j
front. Miss Mazie acted as host-1
ess and graceously refrained from
any sort of a break that would
remind her guests of their more
humble abodes. This residence
passed into the hands of John
McHugh, then to Ed F. Gallagher
and is still in the Gallagher fam
ily. That was the beginning of
fine homes in O’Neill, the first
step from the simple four-wall
, abodes of the town’s beginning
and it has now become a city of
fine homes.
f “Youth is not a time of life, it
is a state of mind; it is a temper.
of the will, a quality of the imag
ination, a vigor of the emotions, a
predominance of courage over
timidity, of appetitite for ; dvent
ure over love of ease.” Is that
so? I suspect the fellow who
wrote that for one of those
wordly-wise monthly publications
is near the border-line and is try
ing to kid himself by turning a
wistful gaze toward life’s sunrise.
Youth is a fact; maturity is
a fact; age is still another
fact, inexorable, absolute.
Fountain of Youth, monkey
glands, face lifting, the longing
and striving can not withhold
the onward sweep of time one
moment. Childhood, impetuous
youth, staid maturity, serene age
—these are life’s stages. Happy
those who pass gracefully from
childhood’s joys to the quietness
of venerable years.
The 25th of December does not
even approximate the date. But
that is immaterial. The greatest
fact of history, the greatest hu
rrv.n event since Father Adam
bowed to the divine decree and
left his happy garden home for
a thorn cursed world, is called to
memory again this coming De
cember 25. Maybe we have been
so absorbed in buying and plann
ing thr-it the deeper significance
of Christmas has been lost sight
of for the moment. But before
the day closes many hearts will
thrill to the simple story of Beth
leham, a story that lives and
touches lives with kindly impulse
in a world of bitterness, cruelty
i-nd bloodshed. Life is made the
richer, the fuller, because we ac
cept the story of Bethleham in
its beauty and simplicity.
Has Daily Weather Record
for 30 Years
Do! you want to know what the
weather was like any day in the
past thirty years? Just ask Bob
Schulz. Mr. Schulz has made a
hobby of keeping tabs on the
weather. And its simplier than
turning to an almanac. At the
close of business he makes a note
on the day’s sales record what
the weather has been for the day.
He says there is a striking simil
arity in weather conditions from
year to year. Storm periods,
high and low temperature do not
fail of falling at regular intervals
and are not more than a week
earlier or a week later from seas
on to season. He learned to swim
and catch fish where the- waters
of the Baltic sea splash the Ger
man shore line but has acquired
the “weather habit’’ in Nebraska
the past thirty years.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
The date for the regular Teach
ers’ Examinations is Saturday,
January 19.
They will be given at O’Neill,
Stuart, Atkinson „nd Ewing. The
April and July examinations will
be given in O’Neill only. The
time schedule will be the same as
used in previous examinations
with Arithmetic being given at
8 o’clock.
A Special Examination for Tem
porary Examinations will be
given at O’Neill on Saturday,
January 5.
ela McCullough,
County Superintendent.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
shareholders of the O’Neill
National' Bank, O’Neill, Nebraska,
will hold their annual meeting in
the banking rooms of said bank
between the hours of 9:00 a. m.
and 4.00 p.m., on Tuesday, Jan
uary 8, 1946. The purpose of the
meeting is for the election of a
Board of Directors for the ensuing
year and the transaction of such
other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
F. N. CRONIN,
Vice President
Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Fisher left
Tuesday morning for Los Angeles,
Cal., to spend the Christmas holi
days with the Doctor’s mother.
They expect to return home about
January 4th.
Mrs. Frank Griffith departed
Saturday morning for San An
tonio, Texas, for a protracted visit
at the home of her daughter.
Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 24tf
Mrs. Dave Darr
Dead at Age 94
John Horiskey, of Cody, Wyo.,
sent us last week the follow
ing taken from a Basin, Wyo.,
newspaper regarding an early
settler of this city and county,
widow of David L. Darr, once a
prominent banker of this city:
“The Rev. J. A. Estey of Powell
officiated at the funeral services
held here Sunday at the Atwood
morturary for one of Basin’s ear
liest residents, Mrs. Ella Darr, who
died Thursday, November 29 at
her home.
“Mrs. Clark Musgrave and Miss
Jones of Greybull, sang ‘In the
Sweet Bye and Bye,’ ‘Nearer My
God to Thee,’ and ‘Shall We Meet
Beyond the River?,’ accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Estey.
“The pallbearers were Frank T.
Brigham, Josh Ellis, Chas. A
Hime, James A. Berry, Charles
Galusha and Mike Brandt.
“Ellen Sophia Jones, daughter
of Thomas W. and Adeline Jones,
was born at Monroe, Wis., July 12,
1851, and was at the time of her
demise 94 years, four months and
17 days.
At Munroe, in 1867, she was
married to Frank Hoyden. Two
daughters were the result of this
(union, one of them, Mrs. G. M.
Cleveland, died in Basin in 1936;
the younger daughter, Mrs. M. B.
Rhodes, of Basin, is the survivor.
“In 1880 the deceased then a
widow, settled with a brother at
Redbird, in northeastern Nebras
ka. The following year she was
united in marriage with David
L. Darr, a pioneer merchant of
that place.
“In 1898, while they were resid
ing at McCook, Nebr., Mr. Darr
came to Basin and organized the
Big Horn County bank, of which
he became cashier, and afterward
president. Big Horn county then
comprised the territory now in
cluding Big Horn, Park and Wash
akie counties and part of Hot
Springs county, and was the
county’s first bank.
“In August of that year, Mr.
and Mrs. Darr took the train from
McCook to Sheridan, after first
shipping their personal effects.
Upon arrival at Sheridan, fore
seeing a delay of several months
in transporting their goods to
Basin, they reshipped to Billings
with the exception of the cook
stove, some dishes, bedding and
clothing; this they loaded into a
wagon and the two drove over the
Big Horn mountains to Basin,
where they passed the remainder
of their lives.
“Mr. Darr died April 20, 1929.
“Mrs. Darr had been a member
of the Rebekah order for nearly
60 years and was instrumental in
the institution of Eliza Rebekah
lodge No. 26, in 1909. During
Basin’s infancy, she was promin
ent in social and civic affairs, was
one of the original members of
the Baak Lovers’ Club, organized
in 1906, which was the forerunner
of the Basin Woman’s Club. Ill
health had of late years pre
“Besides her daughter, deceas
ed is survived by four grandchild
ren and four great-grandchild
ren.
“The body was laid to rest in
Mountview cemetery under a
beautiful mound of floral tributes.
“Interment was in charge of
Atwood and Atwood, morticians.”
DECEMBER WEATHER
H L Mois.
December 1 . 48 29 .15
December 2 _ 32 20 .65
December 3 _ 23 05
December 4 _28 06
December 5 _ 39 18
December 6 _44 27
December 7 _ 46 28
December 8 _ 44 28
December 9 _35 09
December 10 _15 09
December 11 . 20 02
December 12_ 25 08
December 13 27 12 .10
December 14 _ 23 08
December 15 _20 7
December 16_10 —13
December 17 _ 14 —12
December 18 _4 7
Hugh Ray departed Saturday
on a drive to Blue River, Wis.,
for a few days visit at the home
of his parents.
Seen on the street: 25 dogs, a
gent able to whistle a tune with
the temperature at 4 below, a
battered and blood spotted auto
mobile, a Cher/y county car pull
ing a trailer loaded with a saddle
horse, a big truck from the other,
side of the Mississippi, a fine
looking class df people scurrying
along to get in out of the cold.
Assemble for a Bit of Fun
What has become to be known
as the annual* employees party
was held last Saturday at the
Golden by Consumers Publlic
Power. A business meeting was
held during the afternoor and at
6 o’clock the sixty-five in attend
ance sat down to a turkey dinner.
It was a dinner rather than the
frills of banquet and no speeches.
This Power District serves
fifty-two towns and covers most
of north Nebraska* Towns rep
resented at the gathering last
Saturday were: Valentine, Bas
sett, Ainsworth, Neligh, Elgin,
Creighton, Hartington, Wausa and
Butte. The purpose of the annual
gathering is, as one official ex
pressed it,more for a bit of fun
than anything else after a year of
close attention to work though
business can not be entirely for
gotten.
Following the turkey feast
dancing and cards amused the
guests and furnished the oppor
tunity for all to get better ac
quainted. It was strictly an
affair for the employees and their
wives.
C. & N. W. Railroad Taxes
A narrow stdip of land stretch
ing from the Missouri river to
the northwest c«g-ner of the state,j
that yoiv can step across any- '
where in five seconds, two shin-1
ing steel rails, some dreary depots
and empty box cars from which
the assessors in twenty-eight Ne
braska counties extracted as taxes
in 1945 $277,901.58. Holt county
received more than thirteen
thousand dollars of the total sum.
The amount receivel by Holt
and five neighboring counties
will be of interest to Frontier
readers and is as follows: Holt
$13,666.65, Boyd. $8,927.32, Ante
lope $9,744 92, Knox $10,170.44,
Rock $5,649.34, Brown $8,017.18.
The sum that came into the
Holt county treasury was divided
as follows: State $1,849.21,
County! $1,838.89, Township $1,
062.28, School $7,930.63, City or
Village $985.64. Total $13,666.65.
It is noted that more than half
of this sum went to the support of
the schools. These are the taxes
on the Northwestern railroad.
Mrs. Glen Tomlinson and Mrs.
Ray Hill took Douglas Hill to
Rochester, Minn., a week ago for
medical examination.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dailey, of
Inman, have received the an
nouncement of the marriage of
their son, Orville K. Dailey,
seaman first class, to Miss Marion
W. Weston of Portland, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Melvin are
anticipating a/ visit from their
daughter and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Shelton of St. Louis, who
expect to start for O’Neill Satur
day to spend the Christmas week
here.
Word from Bob Brittell, at one
time deputy sheriff here, informs
friends that he. has bought a
home and cabin camp at Van
couver, Wash., where the family
are making their permanent
home.
St. Mary’s Academy and the
O’Neill Public Schools will each
close Friday afternoon, December
21, for the holiday vacation. The
Public School will resume activ
ity again on Welnesday, Jan
uary 2, and the Academy on
Monlay, January 7.
Lt. Margaret Bosn, USN, arriv
ed home Tuesday from Brooklyn,
N. Y., to spend the holidays with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Bosn. Lt. Bosn has received her
discharge from the navy. Lt.
Dorothy Bosn, USA, also arrived
home Monday to spend the holi
days with her parents. Lt. Bosn
is stationed at Ft. Snelling, Minn.
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Holt County Men
In On the Win
Six farmers and ranchers from
Holt county received state recog
nition at a recent P. F. L. meeting
in Omaha, and were awarded a
total of $170.00 in War Bonds and
Stamps. These men were recog
nized for their methods and re
sults obtained in producing beef
from native grass pasture, har
vestvesting native hay with mini
mum labor requirements and in
establishing and maintaining
stands of grass or legumes to be
used in crop rotations. The
Pasture Forage Livestock pro
gram is sponsored by the Exten
sion Service, with the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce co-operat
ing and giving awards as follows:
Carl Hallgrimson, Stuart, first,
beef from grass, $50 War Bond.
He produced 94 lb. beef per acre
of pasture. Record was kept on
75 head of yearlings. They were
weighed on the pasture in the
spring and weighed off in the fall
Carl believes the management of
the pasture, watering facilities
and salting practices helped to
give him this high gain.
Alfred Drayton, O’Neill, second,
beef from grass, $25 War Bond.
By rotational grazing 150.head of
yearlings made an average gain
of 263 pounds per head in four
months and seven days, and pro
duced 50 pounds beef per acre of
range.
Robert Clifford, Atkinson,
fourth, beef from grass, $10 War
Stamps. This range land was
probably undergrazed and a large
acreage used, with twenty-nine
poitnls of beef per acre.
Skrlla Brothers, Stuart, First,
hay making, $50 War Stamps.
Lawrence and Don averaged
thirty-six minutes to cut, rake,
sweep and stack a ton of hay.
The contest field was 160 acres.
It produced approximately 165
ton of No. 1 hay. The power
trail mower helped them to make
the good record. Don has just
been released from the army.
Both boys flew their own plane
to Omaha for the meeting.
Lynn and Harvey Tompkins,
Inman fourth, hay making, $10
War Stamps. Here it took one
hour and thirty-three minutes to
put up a ton of hay. It was very
fine quality, and was put up early
in the seasom. Due to wet con
ditions at th'.t time, more time
was required to put up a ton of
hay. The condition of meadow
was excellent this fall and is
being used for winter range for
Black AngUs cattle.
Ray Siders, O’Neill, second,
grass growing, $25 War Bond.
Disked a four acre field of corn
stalks twice. Broadcast 12 pound
bromegrass, three pound alfalfa
with h If bushel oats per acre.
During 1945 he grazed 24 year
ling steers from June 3 to July
13. In addition, 24 shoa's grazed
the field from May 1 to October 1.
Holt county had probably the
largest number of persons to be
recognized by the state. This
is a boost for the county. The
County Agent wishes to stress
that even more interest in P. F. L.
is needed for the coming year.
One of the highlights of the state
finishup meeting was the address
given by the mayor of Kansas
City, John B. Gage, which stress
ed the care of the soil and live
stock and the decentralizing of
labor and industry. Approxi
mately 500 farmers and ranchers
attendel the meeting.
Eugene Owen tarried in town
a few minutes Tuesday on his way
from the ranch in the Phoenix
neighborhood to Lincoln where
he went for Mrs. Owen who is in
college and comes home for the
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs A. E Bowen had
a telephone talk with their son,
Donald, at Farragut, Idaho, last
Friday noon, Donald having call
ed them by telephone. He is
serving at the Idaho navy station
in the capacity of musician.
Marriage Licenses
Martin B. Miller, O’Neill, and
Miss Ophal M. Johnson, Spencer.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tomlinson
, cnjoyel u family get together latt
Sunday at their son, Arthur Tom
linson's home near Inman. Resile
the senior Mr. and Mrs. Tomlin
son there were present a daugh
ter and her husband from Cham
bers, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner,
a daughter from Inman and her
husband and family, the James
Coventry’s and Glen Tomlinson,
of O’Neill.
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BRIEFLY STATED
Tom Coyne is in St. Vincent’s
hospital at Sioux City seriously
ill.
Merry Christmas and Il.ppy
new Year to everyone ever
where.
Mrs. Loren Nelson will leave
this week for Columbus, Ohio, on
a business trip.
Supt. Ira, George, of the O’Neill
Public schools, was in Lincoln
last week looking after school
matters.
Sister M. Calixta, of Chicago,
and Miss Genevieve Biglin, of
Sioux City, are spending the
holidays with relatives in the
city.
The Northwestern passenger
and mail train from the east has
been from two to eight hours
late the past week. Its time in
O’Neill is 5:17 a. m. Yesterday
the mail train pulled in at 12:30,
out at 12:45. «
Lt. Stephen Price didn’t wait
for a discharge from the army to
j take on a job at the Spelts-Ray
lumber yard. But he expects
release from Uncle Sam’s forces
| early next year and, in the mean
time will help out the lumber
; men. *
The fire department hustled
out a cold night 1 st week-end
in response to an alarm turned
in from the Nu Way Cafe. A
chimney accumulations of soot
j and ashes was making a lurid
streak skyward that resulted in
nothing detrimental to the build
ing.
O’Neill youngsters are invited
to be up town at 3:30 Friday
afternoon. Santa Claus invites
you to meet him in person, accept
his bag of gifts and enjoy an
hour’s association with him.
This promises to give you a good
start for the holiday season. As
schools close at 3:00 you can be
on time for Santa’s initial ap
pearance and take it all in.
Mariane Hansen vs. Charles
Lawrence, a suit in county court
to recover $1,000 alleged dam
ages. Alegations set forth that
defendant loaded a consignment
of cattle at Ewing to be delivered
at plaintiff’s place east of O'Neill,
plaintiff being a passenger in the
truck. The truck left the high
w y and overturned when the
defendant, who opera ed the truck,
is alleged to have slept. The
suit is for personal injury. Facts
were presented to the court Tues
day and recess taken for a day
while attorneys prepared cita
tions for the guidance of the court
in its findings. J. J. Harrington
represents plaintiff and J. D.
Cronin the defendant.
i December eclipse of sun or
moon means subzero tempe ature.
Tuesday evening betwen 7:30
and 8:00 o’clock the earth inter
posed its shadow over the moon,
effecting a near total eclipse by
7:45. A clear sky, a calm even
ing and the early appearance of
the lunar ball over the treeaops
above the eastern horizon made
ide^l conditions for O’Neill citi
zens to witness the celestial
phenomena. If you were out
early Wednesday morning you
would have observed that
the ear!h no longer stood in its
light and the moon’s full orb
in all its golden glory looked up
on the cold and sleeping town at
an hour when hoLiT frost had
pushed the mercury down to 7
below.
Frank Howard accompanied
by his daughter, Margaret, went
to Soux City today and Frank
expects to undergo hospital treat
ment there. His friends here
trust he will find help to regain
l his customery vigor and good
health.
O'Neill Couple
Married 50 Y rs.
A reception at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Curtis in the
southwest part of the city Tues
day afternoon was the occasion
for the observance of their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
As a singular coincident fifty
guests registered during the after
noon. Ladies Qf the Rebekah’s,
under the direction of Mrs. L. G.
Gillespie and Mrs. Peter Hert
ford, were the instigators of the
plan to bring a number of friends
to the Curtis home on the occas
ion of their golden wedding, and
the loads of gifts and large purse
of money brought to them the
occ sion became golden in a
material sense as well as in the
warm throb of human friend
ship.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis started life
together fifty years ago down in
Custer county and have shared
life’s lights and shadows along
the way. Their deepest sorrow
was the loss of an only son some
years ago. They came to O’Neill
in the early nneteen hundred
and axe held in high esteem to
this community.
Besides the O’Neill friends who
called during the afternoon, Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Evans of Berwyiv
Ncbr., and Miss Marion Curtis*
of Sioux City, a granddaughter*
were here to join in the reception
and congratulations. Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis are leaving soon for
a visit at Berwyn with Mr. and
Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Evans being a
sister of Mr. Curtis. They desire
The Frontier to express for them
their sense of gratitude to the
| friends who made this occasion
i such that it will ever remain a
I pleasant memory.
The ladies served cake and
coffee to the friends who called.
F. B. I. Nab A
Deserter
James W. Skeels was arrested
at the Western Hotel Wednesday
night and taken to the county
ji a. F. B. I. agents have been
his trail since September, 1943,
when he is charged with desert
ion from the army air field at
Lincoln. An agent from the
Omaha division of the F. B. I.
came to O’Neill and in conjunct
ion with Policeman Bert Peter
son and Sheriff Hubbard the
arrest was made.
Skeel’s home is at Hammond,
Oregon. He has been employed
here and in Boyd county for some
months. The provost marshal's
office has been notified of his
arrest and a military police is
expec ed here to return the pris
oner to the army base from which
he deserted for milit ry trial.
Death of Pioneer Woman
Mrs. Ella Riley died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. James
Cronk in (his city last Saturday
tfternoon at 1:20, af er an illn-ss
of several months of diabetes and
other ailments, from which sl\e
had suffered for several years,
at "the age of 72 years eight m nths
and one day. Funeral service*
were held from St. Patrick’s
church Tuesday morning at 10
o’clock Mnsgr. McNamara offi ia -
ing and burial in Calvary ceme
tery.
Ella Marley was born in Scr n
ton, Pa., April 14, 1873. and, came
to this county with her parents
in 1881, the family coming here
from Iowa. The family located
on the Elkhorn river near Inman
where Mrs. Riley grew to woman
hood.
In 1895 she was mited in mar
riage to William H. Riley, the
ceremony being performed in
this city. To this union one
daughter was bprn, Mrs. James
Cronk, with whom Mrs. Riley
had made her home for several
years, as her husband p ssod
away n 1918.
Mrs Riley leaves to mourn her
passing her daughter and three
sisters: Mrs. Tessie Babcock . nd
Miss Sarah M,.rley, Douglas,
Arizona, and Mrs. Frank Line
man, Adel, Iowa.
Her parents were among the
pioneers of the Inman community
and she spent practically her en
tire life in this county. She had
many friends and neighbors in
the eastern part of the county,
where she was well known, who
will regret to learn of her passing.