The Frontier
O'Neill Nebraska _
~ CARROLL W. STEWART
Editor and Publisher
r -tered the Postoffice at O’Neill
H »lt County, Nebraska, as sec
< d-class mail matter under th<
i t of March 3. 1879. This news
I per is a member of the NcbraS'
> < Press Association and the Na
t mal Editorial Association.
Established in 1880
Published Each Thursday
Term* of Subscription:
Jo Holt and adjoining counties
*! per year; elsewhere, $2.50 pet
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Mrs. W. Mordhorst returned
S turday from Chambers where
s’ j visited four days.
Mrs. Emma Meilke returned
fi Jin Park Rapids, Minn., last
week. She had been visiting
S - parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
. for a few months,
. and Mrs. Harley Miller, of
j h, were Sunday visitors at
l * William H, Strong home.
! T. Murphy, of Omaha, visit
ed Mrs M. P. Sullivan and fam
iy Eiday and Saturday.
.Vr. and Mrs. C. II. Switzer
t i ic several calls in Meadow
f uve over the weekend. The
1 mes they visited were Mr. and
I s. Walter Dahl, the R. D. Hor
» jks and Mr. and Mrs. R. P.
t vitzer.
a m 1* *11*_ IT.n d
LVIlII till i lUIlipo, yJM. ru. «,
returned Friday after having
spent four days visiting his sis
1 r. Mrs. Dean C. Reed, and fam
ay.
Superintendent and Mrs. Neal
C ubb, Mrs. Carl Barr, Mrs. Jack
Cshorn, Mrs. Francis Blackman
and Mrs. Ray Potts, all of Tilden,
1 st Thursday visited Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Vogt.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Golden and
I'rs. P. T. Morgan were in Nor
folk Monday on business.
Sunday evening guests at the
Tarry Vogt home were Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Saxton, of Spaulding.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Walker
entertained Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Anderson, of Sturgis, S. D., from
Friday until Monday.
Donald Willson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clark L. Willson left Tues
day for a several weeks’ stay in
f t. Louis, Mo. He accompanied
J liss Marcella DeMoyer, of St.
l.ouis, who has been a house
l uest of the Willsons.
For a Good Time
VISIT THE
OLD PLANTATION
CLUB
Elgin Nebr.
•Fine Food
• Dancing
• Entertainment
Members and their guests
j are invited to visit the Old
Plantation Club.
REDBIRD NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Krugman
of Opportunity, called at the
Lynch hospital Wednesday to
visit Mrs. Herman Eisert.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eisert drove
, here from Scottsbluff last Thurs
. day, being called by the serious
. illness of Mr. Eisert's mother.
. ' County Supervisor Joe Scholl -
. meyer was in the Redbird neigh- ;
. borhood Thursday on business.
Mrs. Fred Eppenbaugh and I
son, Orville, of near O’Neill, '
were callers at Redbird Iasi;
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Clifford Wells and daugh
! ter, Marie, left for Saco, Mont., ;
Saturday to visit her mother,
who is ill.
Bob Tomlinson, of Star, was
over Saturday helping install
the electric system at the Red
; bird garage.
Starch Ross, of Norfolk, visited
over the weekend with his cous- j
| in. Chancie Hull.
Henry Hull and family of Ver
del, visited at Mike Hull’s Sun
I day‘
Warner Eisert and family, of
Scottsbluff, visited relatives at
Redbird and Minneola Saturday
jand Sunday.
Betty Mellor is assisting Mrs.
Joe Madura, of near Scottville,
the past two weeks.
A letter was received by rela- |
i tives here from Kenneth Berg- .
j land, stationed at Whidbey Is- 1
land, Wash., saying he had been
transferred there from San Di- j
i ego, Calif. Kenneth is in the
Navy. He enlisted from here
last year after completing high j
school in O’Neill.
John Stewart is helping Leo i
and Lyle Ferron, of near Scott- ,
ville,' with the farming this
Spring. <
Letters to the Editor
5958 Wabash
Detroit 8, Mich. ]
April 18, 1947
Editor of The Frontier:
The Frontier began visiting |
our dug-out when I was in swad- '
dling clothes, father being one 1
of the first subscribers in the old 1
Doc Mathews days.
I regret very much the pass- 1
ing of Denny Cronin. We were
very good friends.
His "Goodbye,” published in
The Frontier was a classic.
| The articles “In Old Nebras
ka,” “Fifty Years Ago,” "Prairie
Land Talk, by Romaine Saun
ders,” whom I know and admire,
real estate transfers, crop condi
tions, the weather, I look for
ward to every week.
Expect to see Newhauser pitch
against the Cleveland Indians
Sunday!
Best wishes,
JOHN T. O’MALLEY.
Wedding, Birthday
Anniversaries Marked—
A double celebration in honor
I of Mr. and Mrs. Don O, Lyons’
23d wedding anniversary and the
I birthday anniversary of Mrs. Ed
| Dumpert was held at the Lyons
! home Sunday evening. Besides
j their families, the guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Grenier, Mr.
j and Mrs. Clarence Sauser, Mr.
j and Mrs. Mayford Yinglan, Mr.
j and Mrs. Alfred Ross, Mr. and
Mrs. George Layh, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Smith and Mrs. Woodrow
Gaughenbaugh.
’Bobby’ Grenier Honored—
Robert ("Bobby”) Grenier, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Grenier,
was honored at a party at his
home Saturday to celebrate his
fifth birthday anniversary.
There were six little guests pres
ent. Refreshments of ice cream
and cake were served. Bobby
received many gifts.
Visit at Inman —
Mrs. Guy Young visited her
i brother, Herbert Rouse, of In
man, Sunday.
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“We Call for and Deliver”
CHERRY QUEEN
Nancy Anderson, daughter of
the secretary of agriculture 1
and Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson,
who will reign as queen in the :
1947 Cherry Blossom festival in j
the national capital.
HOLT COUNTY
Educational Notes
Teachers’ examinations will be
eld in O’Neill on Saturday, May ,
, at the O’Neill public school,
'he regular state schedule of
ubjcets will be followed. Arith
metic, the first subject, will be
iven at 8 a. m.
A Spring session of teachers’ j
mstitute will be held on Friday, j
.pril 25. Miss Lulu Way, from
Jayne State Teachers’ college,
dll be thb principal speaker.
I am asking school boards to
xcuse their teachers for attend
nce at this institute session al
imough such attendance will not
e compulsory. Certificates ot
ttendance will be sent each
card whose teacher attends.
Enrollments for a course in
hildren's literature may also be
made that day and Miss Way
dll continue this course through
Saturday, April 26, and several
ther Saturdays through May
nd June. This is being arrang
d to accommodate teachers who
ind it difficult to attend a
ourse in August.
The eighth grade county ex
amination schedule has been
ent to each school with a noti
ication to each rural eighth
:rade teacher as to where and {
vhen to send their students for
hese tests.
ELJA M’CULLOUGII
County Superintendent
Brothers Pass in
\rmy Transfers—
Pic. Raymond Smith, younger
ion of Mr. and Mrs. Mike A.
smith, has just been transferred
rom Boca Raton, Fla., to Keesler
Held, Miss. His brother, Pfc.
Deraid Smith, had just left Kees
er Field for Chanute Field, 111.
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LINCOLN—Out of Chadron
comes a voice that speaks for
Nebraska’s producing sections
—out where by exacting toil
the state’s wealth comes from
and the ideals of rural life are
developed. That voice de
mands a letup to the propa
ganda that breeds and engen
ders increased children to feed
Irom the tax collections.
Greeks called their tax gather
ers farmers, the Romans nam
ed them publicans, and mede
vial lords and ladies took it all
without a go-between.
Out of our capital city comes
a retort to the Chadron voice
—the state normal and state
park up there are among the
‘‘tax eaters.” Chadron — as
well as every town from there
to Norfolk—hummed with life
and activity before the intro
duction of the refinements of
a teachers’ college and the ar
tificial grandeur of a state
park—in the days when the
late cowboy mayor of Omaha,
the festive Jim, and Rattle
Snake Pete with Billy the
Bear followed the cow trails of
northwest Nebraska.
Chadron, Rushville, Gordon,
Valentine, Long Pine, Atkin
son, O’Neill and on to Norfolk,
the glamour of an earlier day
i^ gone and the two dollars
and six bits tax on a home in
those towns is now writen $25
to $50. Yes, we’re getting
something for it and if that’s
what we moderns demand,
why holler?
• * *
I don’t know that what the
unicameral does or does not do
is the most important feature
of the Nebraska picture. There
are important developments
out on the wheat lands and the
corn ground enjoys a good
wetting. Out on the grass
lands the booted huskies will
be heating the branding irons
and the young beeves will soon
have a scortched spot on a hip,
while bands of sheqp carry a
million and a half pounds of
wool for the Spring clip. The
season looks like a 30-ton-to
the-acre sugar beet crop and
box cars reaching across the
continent may be required to
move the bales of hay.
♦ * *
Something went out when
the New Deal came in. Pad
dle your own canoe and lay up
something ffft life’s unproduc
tive period no longer obtains
with many Americans. Spend
today’s earnings today and a
little more if you can; old age
assistance, a pension or a
monthly check from the U. S.
treasury awaits you at 65.
Label it a show and there
will be a crowd. Acres of au
tomobiles crowded side-by
I side at the Lincoln air base a
recent Sunday, and the thou
! sands of curious citizens who
came out to see what the air
unit of the national guard had
to olfer crowded the hangars,
j runways, side spaces and stood
in line for hours to get aboard
a big transport riding at an
chor. Airplanes floated high
in the heavens, roared in com
bat formation just above the
landing field, and offered you
a tiip to the Missouri river and
back for $5.75. The air field
is one of the relics of war that
absorbed oceans of concrete,
mountains of lumber, glass
and steel and cost millions.
Probably much less important,
but a prairie dweller would
rather see the boys riding
horses in a rodeo than an ex
hibition of skill as an airplane
pilot.
* * *
Mid-April. The sun rides
high. Clouds that have spray
ed a thirsty land for days have
disappeared and warm golden
days of Spring bring to life
green verdure and bright col
ors of floral bloom. Boys
throw the ball and fly kites,
the men at the fire stations
have moved the chairs outside
and loll in the shade as the af
ternoon sun rides to the West,
lawn furniture is moved to the
open, and life again takes on
renewed courage. “ . . . the
Winter is past, the rain is over,
and gone; the flowers appear
on the earth; the time of the
singing of birds is come and
the voice of the turtle is heard
in the land.”
• * *
The clergy is about the only
group of citizens that have
not been heard from on living
costs. Perhaps having learn
ed that “man does not live by
bread alone” they are not un
der the ministry of the materi
al things that hamper so many
of mankind. Cost of living—
how will it be brought down?
Certainly not by increasing
costs of prpduction. If it is
ever done labor will have to
share in some common sacri
fices along with those partici
pating in profits.
* * *
Newspaper men are not or
dinarily stampeded. They are
caught in the tide at ‘ last.
They follow “kind to animals
week” with one of their own.
A week in mid-April was ded
icated by the newspapers to
“want ad” week.
I IT STAYS SILENT, LASTS LONGER
Dividends of permanent si
lence, longer life, are assured
when you choose the Servel
Gas Refrigerator. That’s be
cause its freezing system is
basically different—hasn’t a
Bingle moving, wearing part.
A tiny gas dame takes the
place of valves, pistons, pumps
in the Servel Gas Refrigerator.
There’s no machinery to wear
or get noisy. “
Come see the new Servels on
our showroom floor right now.
Not enough for everybody, of
course, but more are arriving
every day. And Servel is worth
waiting for.
SERVEL IS DIFFERENT. . .
— --L
Ralph N. Leidy
• PHONE 162J •
No doubt country roads
could be improved much. So
could town sidewalks. In
most towns the walks in many
places are sunk below the
ground level creating a pool of
mud in wet weather and many
of the walks are so badly brok
en as to make it hazardous to
travel them at night. Perhaps
in this atom age we are not
supposed to use our legs to get
from one block to another.
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The real qgony of the leg
islative session is in the com
mittee hearings, when pressure
groups put on the heat in the
interests of the few. It is
proper to invite citizens to at
tend committee hearings who
may be able to impart infor
mation that will help toward
the promulgation of wise leg
islation, but the function of
the lobbyists is to get some
thing for himself.
* * *
On September 1, 1867, the
Lincoln Journal first went to
press, with this as the editorial
motto which still survives:
“Dedicated to the people of
Nebraska and to the develop
ment of the resources of the
state.” Grown cautious with
age, it timidly takes the side
of pressure groups lugging for j
more tax money.
* • •
If all those contraptions in
troduced each month by me
chanical magazines were turn
ed loose on the public every
household would require an
Ed Hagensick to keep the
equipment functioning.
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A late addition to the “high
cost of living” is a $1.00 pen
cil. I am in the one-cent-pen
cil group.
Lincoln bus drivers got a
raise to a dollar an hour, nine
hours a day and six days to
the week; so a.ter five days
without bus service public
transportation was restored to
normal.
* • *
Grocery ads do not mention
flour, maybe because the gent
with the long white apron and
a pencil hooked above an ear
has not the courage to price a
25-pound bag of flour in his
ad at $2.05.
* * *
It is Mr. Wallace’s Yankee
privilege to disagree with our
government’s foreign policy,
as it is yours and mine. I
could not have the disloyalty
to preach it in alien pulpits.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vogt en
tertained Mr. and Mrs. Burton
Graham, of Tilden, on April 16.
eilesi
Welcome news in every home where men,
women or youngsters suffer from consti
pation. Today you can get the new, im
proved Adlerika, the famous Tone-Up
laxative in almost any drug store.
Adlerika stimulates sluggish intestinal
muscles... moves waste quickly, but gent
ly and pleasantly through the digestive
tract. Enjoy that splendid feeling of warmth
and vitality that comes from a healthy
digestive system. Know the joy of happy
relief from constipations miseries. Get a
bottle of Adlerika, the Tone-Up laxative ^
originated by a doctor and compounded
under the direction of registered pharma
cists. Caution: take only as directed.
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