THE FRONTIER
O'Neill Nebraska
CARROLL W. STEWART
Editor and Publisher
Entered the Postoffice at O’Neill
Holt County, Nebraska, as sec
ond-class mail matter under the
Act of March 3, 18T9. This news
paper is a member of the Nebia.s
ka Press Associatioa and the Na
tional Editorial Association.
Published Each Thursday
Established in 1880
Terms of Subscription:
In Holt and adjoining counties.
$2 per year; ckevfccre $2.50
per year.
PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN
CHAMBERS—Mr and Mrs. J.
W. Walter received word that
their son, Floyd, has received a
promotion from fir^ lieutenant
to captain. He is with the med
ical corps at Sacramento, Calif ,
attached to the air forces.
BRING OUT
THE BEST!
Is your radio reception and
tone as clear as it should
be? If not bring it here
for expert repair service. . .
and our prices are right.
GILLESPIE'S
“Home Appliance
Headquarters”
TWO-DAY AUCTIONS
At The Atkinson Livestock Market
Starting Monday, September 29th and
Tuesday, September 30th
• We will cell calves and yearlings every Monday and all
other cattle on Tuesdays, starting on Monday, Septem
ber 29th. For our Monday sales, calves and yearlings will
be sold as listed. Firs! listed, first sold, so list them in
advance and assure yourself a good position in the auc
tion. Calves will be sold right off the trucks ONLY on
Monday, so have them in on that day.
• Hogs will be sold every Tuesday — starting at 11
a- m. from now on. Any hogs arriving after 12:30 will
not be sold until after all cattle have been sold_so please
have them in in the morning.
• Regular Tuesday catile auctions start at 12:30 noon for
the next three months. No cattle sold off the trucks
on Tuesdays froai now on. Monday is the day we sell
calves and yearlings off the trucks.
• From Monday. September 29th to Monday, November
10th we hold two auctions a week—calves and yearlings
on Mondays. aH other cattle on Tuesdays. Please tell your
friends.
It Will Pay You To List Your Cattle Early.
ATKINSON LIVESTOCK MARKET
Phone 89, Atkinson
ATKINSON. NEBR.
REDBIRD NEWS
Betty Mellor is visiting at
Spencer this week.
Dale Spencer and family vis
ted at Hals Hull’s Sunday.
Chancie Hull is at Norfolk
this week visiting relatives.
Dale Bessert and Harry Truax
I were to O’Neill September 9 on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Bessert and
Mrs. John Stewart drove to
j Butte September 9 to attend the
! cattle safe.
Herman Schollmeyer had his
■ car fixed at Redbird garage
: September 10.
Mr and Mrs. Schuyler Rey
nolds called on friends at Red
! bird September 10.
Will Hartland visited at Mike
j Hull’s September 10.
Schuyler Reynolds left for
Kansas City, Kans., last Thurs
I day for several weeks’ visit with
his mother.
Mrs. Bill Wilson, of Lynch,
visited at Ray Wilson’s last
Thursday.
Mrs. Rollie Truax called at
Peter More’s Thursday.
Will Conard and Lloyd Phelps
drove to Lynch Friday.
Harvey Krugman drove to
Lynch Friday to have his tractor
discs sharpened.
Elmer Luedtke finished cut
ting his cane and sudan Satur
day and sold his binder to a
Mr. Townsend, of near Page.
Mr. and Mrs. Hals Hull auto
ed to Lynch Saturday
Claude Pickering called at
Lawrence Hoy’s in Lynch Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hiscocks
visited relatives in Lynch Sun- j
day.
Mrs. John Stewart
Honoree at Shower—
UEDBIRD — A shower was
held Friday tvening for Mrs.
John Stewart at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Besseit.
Many friends and neighbors
gathered for the occasion, and
Mrs. Stewart was the recipient
of numerous gifts. Refreshments
were served.
Mrs Stewart will depart Sun- „
day for her new home at Ra
venna, S. D.
I William W. Griffin
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By
ROMAINE
SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — At the north
west extremity of the court
house grounds that form the
center piece of a charming
little city in the ;ich dairy
district of southern Wisconsin,
where it was appointed that
I should be born, stands a
monument to the soldiers of
the Union' army in the war
of the 1860s. On the tablet
I read the chisled inscription
that Capt. B. M. Frees had
donated the memorial to O.
F. Pinney Post No. 102 GAR,
composed of members of Com
pany H, 38th Wisconsin Vol
unteers of which Capt. Frees
was in command, my father
serving in the same company
as a non-commissioned officer.
All of this would be of no
interest to Frontier readers
were it not for southern Wis
consin's contribution to the
development of Holt county.
Capt. Frees was of the firm
of Barnett & Frees, which
had the first lumber yard in
O'Neill. It was located where
Archie Bowen has found it
necessary to occupy lumber
yard space with his Ben
Franklin layout. That lum
ber yard has changed hands
a few times, grown and ex
panded and occupies ample
giounds facing upper Four
th street.
Lapt. r ices was not the
first southern Wisconsin pro
duct in Holt county. E. H.
Thompson, the county’s first |
treasurer, the MeEvony and
Hoxie families and several
others in the settlement down
the river were from the Bad
ger state. W. D Mathews,
lounder of The Frontier, was ;
from Monroe, Wis, the claim
ing little city I have mention
ed. John McDonough, editor
of the old ONeill Tribune,
came from eastern Wisconsin,
went from O’Neill to the Oma
ha Herald and then to the
New York Sun and was sent
back out here to get the sto.y
for the Sun of Sitting Bull
and the Battle of Wounded
Knee up on the Pine Ridge.
Apparently a confirmed bache
lor, John was said to have
succumbed to. the charms of a
French actress.
J. P. Mann, the O’Neill mer
chant, his father, brothers and
sisters, the late Ed F. Galla
gher, father of Edward Gal
lagher of the First National
bank, and Edward’s mother,
Mamie Mann before her mar
tiage, Tom Birmingham, fath
er of Hugh and long owner of
a lumber yard, and P. J. Mc
Manus were all from the same
community in southwest Wis
consin, as was also Henry
Tomlinson.
O’Neill profited largely from
the men and women of ability
coming here from the Badger
For a Good Time
VISIT THE
OLD PLANTATION
CLUB
Elgin Nebr.
• Fine Food
• Dancing
• Entertainment
Members and their guests
are Invited to visit the Old
Plantation Club.
state. And those people back
there, cordial, contented in
their mateiial abundance, tell
you their dairy and cheese
business surpasses anything in
America.
I did a little boosting, too,
by drawing word pictures
of the best beef cattle and
grasslands anywher4 in the
country right out here in
Holt county, and the Monroe
Evening Times gave my stor
ies a column with spread
head lines to boot.
The late John Green’s fath
er, Charley Green, an early
settler in Madison county,
claimed descent from the fam
ily for which Green county, of
which Monroe is the county
seat, was named.
The county treasurer told
me they have no delinquent
tax list. Taxpayers told me
their taxes are plenty high.
The city maintains five school
buildings and a fine library
Teachers out in the rural dis
tricts are paid as much as
$250 a month. Street patrol
men are Beau Brummels in
attire, friendly as neighbors
at a Sunday-schcol picnic.
Hotel rates and living costs
are lower than I have found
elsewhere. Two peaches in
a food store cost me four cents.
From that community, from
Iowa, from Illinois, from Mich
igan, from Pennsylvania and
other states beyond the Mis
sis. ippi came youthful vigor
with vision and daring, set
tled an empire, hung horse
thieves, brought outlaws to
justice, tamed wild men and
subdued evil passions.
And here it is — HoR
county, touched with a bit
of Eden heauty, born out of
travail and toil, out of com
mon sacrifices and common
sufferings, a heritage of
those who have come after.
• • •
The radical proposal for a
new world calendar was
stricken from the agenda of
the economic and social coun
cil of the United Nations
through the influence of the
United States representative
on the council. The state de
partment was back of the gov
ernment representative and
still back of the department
was sweeping pressure groups
of citizens who opposed the
calendar change because it set
floating from date-to-date va
rious days which have religi
ous significance. Embodied in
H.R. 1345, now dormant in
committee, may be revived the
measure the state department
has froWhed upon when con
gress convenes in January,
1948. Certain business and
cultural groups sponsor the
calendar change and are find
ing strong opposition from
nearly all churches.
In Lincoln the friends of
the late Mr. Bryan have his
memory monument where they
wanted it at the north appro
ach to our architectual clas
sic, the Nebraska statehouse!
Before unveiling September 1,
the synthetic commoner was
enshrouded with a white cloth.
There had been vigoious pro
test against this supposed de
secration of fine architectual
arrangement embodied in the
capitol building. How it adds
anything to or detracts from
the scene is not noticeable to
the everyday passerby. Mr.
Bryan stood out as the Demos
thenes of Nebraska, but finally
met defeat down south there
at that Bible trial at the hands
of none other than a shrewd
Chicago lawyer.
While Mr. Bryan stood out
as the dean of orators out
this way, Bill Greene, Jim
Whitehead, Matt Dourthy and
even that watermelon farmer,
O. M. Kem, had a bit of the
silver coating on their tongues.
* * *
The boiling caldron at the
state pen had subsided when
up comes an inmate with a
law suit. The new board of
control and their warden have
no dull moments. The typ
ical figure characterizing the
convict, stripes and pickax,
is no longer to the point. Give
him a brief case as a member *
of the bar association headed
for the judicial precincts
Please route your freight
O'NEILL TRANSFER.
An O'Neill firm.
4 — TRIPS WEEKLY — 4
Mondays
Tuesdays
Thursdays
Fridays
O’NEILL
TRANSFER
JOHN TURNER,
Prop.
O’NEILL—Phone 241J
OMAHA—Phone JA3727
"Your Patronage Appreciated"
Project Club to
Mae! Tuesday—
PAGE—The Page Project club
will meet Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. Jennie Holloway. Mrs.
A. L. Dorr and Miss Rose Vro
man will be leaders of the les
son “Success with House
Plants."
Assisting hostesses will be
Mrs. H. L. Banta and Mrs Mel
vin Smtih.
Sunday visitors at the home
of Mrs. John Carr were Mr. and
Mrs. John Walker, of Ewing,
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Re
gan, of Inman.
"Enjoy tht
Good Old Flavor
of tht
Good Old Dap!
“Let's Stop for Premium
Quality FALSTAFF!’’
1947 MISTAFf RfftWING CORP. « ST IQUIS . OMAHA • NEW OBUANS
4
NOW
Is the Time
To Order
TREES
for 1948
Order Before Sept. 30
HOLT SOIL
4
CONSERVATION
DISTRICT
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Courthouse Annex
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