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Robertsons Celebrate
Silver Wedding Date
CHAMBERS — Mr. and Mrs
C. V. Robertson observed their
25th wedding anniversary Sun
day with an open-house affair
at their home. About 65 friends
and relatives gathered and
many silver gifts were received
Mabel Walter and C. V. Rob
ertson were married July 9,
1922, and have resided since at
their present home three mile
west of Chambers.
They are the parents of two
sons, Elwyn and Delbert.
Mrs. Edward Hilderhoft and
daughter, Sharon, of Pittsburgh,
Pa., left Fridav after having
visited Mrs. Hildeihoff’s pa-,
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Os
enbaugh, for five weeks.
Mrs. Fred Doettcher, of At
kinson, visited Mrs. D. A. Baker |
Monday.
Mr, and Mrs. Albeit Pospe
shil, of Oakvtew, called at Pete
More’s June 30.
Eva Truax returned June 30
from Lynch where she assisted
Mrs. Mulhair for a week.
Miss Edith White departed
tor her home at Schuyler last
Thursday after spending the
past month with her grandpa
i rents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Truax.
Dale Bessert and Harry Tru
ax motored to Lincoln on busi
ness last Thursday, returning
the same day.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wells
have returned here after visit
ing relatives on the West coast
for the past four months.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Stewart
stopped at Redbird enroute to
Neligh to the July 4 celebra
tion.
George Kruse, of Dorsey, and
Leonard Coakley and families,
of near Verdel, spent the Fourth
with Elmer Luedtke and family.
Edward Krugman, sr., and
family, o f Minneola, Edwin
Krugman and family, of Atkin
son. and Harvey Krugman and
family, of Opportunity, drove in
for a surprise visit with Pete
More and family on Friday. A
picnic dinner and fishing fol
lowed at the Spencer dam.
A fishing party consisting of
Leon Mellor and family, Harold
Halstead and family, and Oliver
H'll, of O’Neill, spent July 4 at
D’Malley’s dam. They report
fishing “good."
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pinkerman
of near Scotville, called at Red
bird Friday.
A large gathering of relatives
and friends enjoyed a picnic
and dinner and visit at the Fed
bird park with Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Truax, sr., and family on
July 4.
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URGES ARM HEMISPHERE
Secretary of State George
C. Marshall was the first of
a number of top-ranking
civilian and military officials
called to testify before the
house foreign affairs commit
tee on President Truman’s
proposal to arm the nations
of the western hemisphere.
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... TALK
By
ROMAINE
SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — The A - bomb
took the fight out of the Japs
but there is no accounting for
spring floods through that
means. There were flooded
streams in Nebraska before
bombs were thought of and
doubtless before white men
intruded on buffalo and In
dian. In 1888 the Elkhorn
river spread all over the val
ley, in 1894 rain fell every
day during April and the
country was scorched by hot
winds in July, in 1905 rivers
were mighty Amazons, and in
1915 excessive rains wrought
nearly ruin to grazing lands
and hay meadows. Following
a herd of 500 beeves that sea
son it was disheartening to
take them off of the range
in late October with hardly a
pound of gain in flesh. Ex
cessive rains, hail, wind and
frost are elements of nature
that haunt the country, but
somehow when the brown of
autumn has laid a blanket
over the land Neb askans find
they have an adequate supply
of its products.
* • *
‘Tis barefoot time for b ys.
Those who have come to the
period in life of grey hair hob
ble along on the concrete,
aching feet encased in shoes
pressing upon corn and bun
ion and are frightened at their
reflection in the mirror, while
the lad stands with bare feet
in the soft earth working mud
between toes, cools them on
the velvet sod, or dips them
into the wayside pool.
‘‘Ah, that thou couldst know
they joy
E e it passes, barefoot boy!”
A gray spotted mongrel dog
irrevocably devoted to a Rip
Van Winkle type of Nebraska
patriot appears on the street
daily, dog at his heels. A
day last week they became
separated. The dog was wor
ried. What is it that stirs
in the loyal canine heart if
separated from an indifferent
biped he has adopted as his
god? The dog made not a
whimper but with alert eye
scanned the street responding
to the clatter of feet and then
pul his nose to the concrete
to trail the vagrant gent who
had gone into a store. The
two live in a nondescript
abode off at the edge of town
and maybe from sheer sym
pathy a devoted brute has at
tached himself to a forlorn
specimen of the race.
* * *
A beautiful white-tail deer
appeared from nowhere on
busy city streets a day last
week, moved daintily along
the concrete, hopped into an
alley and entered a rear op
ening of a business place on
opulent “O” street. The
deer was cornered by brave
office help and police were
summoned. The alarmed crea
ture leaped through a glass
front to the street and broke
its neck. Park managers said
it was not from any of the
parks of the city as it was a
different type than those kept
in captivity in the city.
* * *
Upon the complaint of a
meddlesome neighbor, a Cali
fornia judge sent a mother to
jail for 30 days because she
had endeavored to discipline
her child for some misde
meanor by depriving him of
a certain article of food at
meal time. “Starving her
child,” said the busybody. A
mother punished for endeav
oring to "train a child in the
wav he should go”—sort of
judicial aid to juvenile de
linquency.
If the A-bomb is going to
settle the next one, what’s
the need of universal military
training? If you will recall,
following the so-called first
world war scientists pretty
near scared us all to death
with their weird tales of de
struction that would be
brought upon the race in the
next war. A sizeable bunch of
the earth’s billion inhabitants
survived the “next war.”
Maybe this A-bomb isn’t such
a fearsome thing.
* * *
Mr. Wallace would have the
president and secretary of
state go to Premier Stalin and
ask him what he wants. It is
quite clear to all but Mr. Wal
lace’s group what Stalin
wants: the Earth.
• * •
Nebraska highways are not
much to boast about, but for
sausage grinder efficiency in
travel, motorists report that
Colorado highways have at
tained complete success.
On Tuesday, July 1, Ft.
Robinson out in Sioux coun
ty, was to come to an end as
a milita y post, and was to be
taken over by the department
of agriculture. Thus another
—and about the last—outpost
of frontier days in Nebraska
gives way to the inexorable
demands of the plow. Just
what the agricultural depart
ment will do with it remains
to be seen. The fort has been
successively the hangout of
infantry, artillery, cavalry,
dog training center and pack
mule headquarters. Jim R *
an has sold them a lot of ha>
from Holt county meadows.
North Nebraska’s frontier was
protected from Indian raids
by military forces at Robin
son, Ft. Niobrara near Valen
tin, a fort at Randall, S. D.,
and one down by Burwell,
the trail between these two
latter forts being still visible
across Swan precinct and oc
casionally you may run on to
a rusted mule shoe.
* * •
Judge Meyer, of Alliance,
is taking a job under his per
sonal friend, Dwight Gris
wold, who is administering
our “baby shower” gift of 250
million dollars to the Greeks.
Mr. Griswold will get $17,500
a year with expenses paid
and half a dozen others from
Nebraska are on the pay roll.
What the total expenditure
out of the United States treas
ury will be to save Greece
from communism is not yet
determined, but anyway a
few Nebraska patriots are en
abled to line their pockets. I
am informed by one in au
thority at the attorney gener
al’s office that as far as they
know the salary of Meyer as
district judge in the Alli
ance district will continue to
go to him.
* * *
Russia definitely will not
“play ball” in the big four
league. Indications point
strongly to hopefulness on the
part of the Muscovites for a
financial and industrial break
down in the United States.
This with a view of stepping
in with communistic vagaries.
Yankeeland hasn’t lost its
head just yet.
* * *
Mr. Ritchie, the somewhat
erratic though erudite leader
of Nebraska democrats, urges
Gov. Peterson to call a spe
cial session of the legislature
to put a clamp on rents. Mr.
Peterson is not responsive.
* * *
The Washington Star thinks
a good way to put a check on
foreign aggressors is to refrain
from letting their governments
cash checks on our treasury.
To beat the three-cent tax
on cigarets which became ef
fective at midnight July 1,
Lincoln smokers carried them
home in arm loads June 30.
Lady Nicotine’s grip on Ne
braska patriots inspires them
to shake a fist at state legis
lators for a few months un
til the law catches up with
them.
• • •
It has been disclosed in
court in Douglas county that
the county sheriff has receiv
ed more than $36,000 in seven
years for feeding prisoners.
That’s “legitimate profit” via
public funds. The FBI has
caught up with two gents
who have through the medi
um of bad checks garnered
$6,600. What’s that?
• • •
Old timers have forgotten
when the Eikhorn river south
of town was a mile wide and
Sam Elwood swam his sorrel
gelding across every day from
three miles out and “parked'*
at the Critic saloon for the day.
Spend Fourth at Amelia —
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dexter
md Darrel and Jeriy spent the
Fourth of July in Amelia at
‘he home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Bly.
PAUL SHIERK
INSURANCE
AGENCY
Has Movo^ to a
New Location
2 Doors North of
O’Neill Nat’l Bank
FAR EAST MISSION
WORKERS VISIT
CHAMBERS — Miss Dorothy
Caswell, and a Mr. Williams,
returned missionaries from Si
am and China, respectively,
conducted worship services at
the Baptist chu:ch in Chambers
Sunday evening. They were
accompanied by Don McKaughn
of Chicago, 111.
They represent the world
evangelical crusade and were
brought to this region to instrct
at Camp Joy, which was in
session on the Niobrara river
last week.
Family Reunion—
INMAN — A family reunion
was held at the J. T. Thompson,
sr., home July 4. A picnic din
ner was served at noon. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam F. Thompson, of Norfolk;
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brittell, of
Page; Mr. and Mrs. Pete Coop
er and son, Jimmie, of Orchard;
and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Thomp
son, jr., of Sioux City.
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