O— Thursday. Oct. 16. 1647.
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, 1879. This newa
paper is a member of the Nebras
ka Press Association and the Na
tional Editorial Association.
Published Each Thuisday
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per year.
Polluck Supper—
EMMET — A poiluck supper
was held at the Methodist
church last Thursday evening.
There was a crowd of over 70
people. For amusement Miss
Helen Marton put on a program
and Grant Peacock showed pic
tures.
Coes to North Platte—
Mrs. F. H. Griffith departed
Wednesday for North Platte for!
an extended visit with her son, I
Cecil Griffith, and family. Mrs.
Griffith will also visit in. Sedge-1
wick, Colo., befo:e returning to
OINeill in the Spring.
Sunday School Institute
Held at Neligh—
Mrs. Clyde Cress and a group
o. Sunday school teachers at
tended a Sunday school teach
ers’ institute of Christ and Im
manuel churches at Neligh Sun
day.
Iowa Resident Visits
Daughters Here—
Arriving Sunday from Liver
more, la., to visit her daughters j
Mrs. M. E. Asher and family
and Mrs. H. E. Asher and fami
ly, was Mrs. C. H. Chambers.
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AMELIA NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. George McGin
nis, of Nickerson; Mrs. Robert
McGinnis, of Fremont, and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Sauers, of O’Neill,1
spent Saturday visiting at the
Ralph Rees home.
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Sammons
and son, Duane, and Mrs. M. L.
Sageser returned last week from
Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Morris
Nelson came with them to visit, i
Mr. and Mrs. William Thomp
son and Marilyn drove to,
Scottsbluff to spend a few days'
visiting Mr and Mis. Gene,
Thompson. Joe Kamphaus, jr„
did chores for them while they
were away.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Benda
and family visited at the Frank
Backaus home Sunday. Mrs.
Mary Benda, who spent the
past week visiting heie, return
ed home with them.
Mr. and Mrs. James Cearns
and son, Ardell, Mrs. Gertie
Minahan, all of O’Neill, Art
Waldman and Mike Cearns were
dinner guests Sunday of Mrs.
Delia Ernst.
Mr. arnd Mrs. Richard Porter
and son, Marvin, moved to
Chambers Saturday. Mr. Porter
plans to work in the locker
plant.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sammons,
Mrs. Mamie Sammons and Mrs
Moi ris Nelson drove to Axtell
Monday to visit Chester Sam
mons.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Chris
tianson, of St. Edwards, visited
at the Oscar and Edgar Peterson
homes Sunday.
Mrs. Bob Friedrich and son,
! Kirk, of Omaha, visited a few
' days this week with Mrs. C. F.
Small and family.
Art Doolittle and Asa Sher
mers are driving new cars.
Mrs. Gertie Adair is taking
care of the switch board until
a new ope ator can be secured.
Mrs. Raymond Wickham has re
signed.
Mrs. Harold Waldo and
daughter, Barbara Anne, left
SatU'day to visit her mother in
Boston, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Kizer
and family, of Ord, spent Sun
day with the Bob Rees family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Krutz,
of Stanton, visited Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Frahm.
O’Neill High
School Carnival
School Auditorium
October 21, 1947
Admission 10c and 20c
Doors Open at 7:30
Public Invited
Public Auction
I will m(1 the following household goods at public auc
tion at my home in the south part of O'Neill on
October 25, 1947
Sale Starts at 1 o'Clock
1—Westinghouse electric Refrigerator;
1—Coronado Gas Range;
1 Electric Washing Machine
1—Large sise Superfex Oil Burner;
1—Davenport and Chair
— also —
Dining Room Table and Chairs; Buffet; Beds with
Springs and Mattresses; Linoleum Rugs; Floor Lamp; Kitch
en Cabinet; steel Cabinets; Library Table; Bookcase; Dishes
and other articles too numerous to mention.
TERMS; Cash No article to be removed until settled
for. t
Mrs. Ona Calvert, Owner
JIM MOORE. Aucti
PRAIRIELAND
. .. TALK
By
ROMAlNE
SAUNDERS
A trick of the booted and
belted cowboys 60 odd years
ago was to cut loose with a
.44 at the clothes lines of O’
Neill housewives. They could
just about split a bullet on a
knife blade and the rope
clothes lines were easily cut
in two, letting the fresh wash
ed clothes fall to the ground.
It was such a perverted
notion of fun that led lo a
killing. Sheriff Barney
Kearns remonstrated with
Billy Reed over such past
time and the two became
involved in a quarrel in
which Kearns lost his life.
Reed shot him down at the
old Daily hotel that stood
about where Mr. Herre now
has a jewelry business.
Reed was tried first at Ne
ligh on some pretext of pio
neer judicial order but no
conclusion was reached. The
next trial was held at O’Neill,
Judge Barnes presiding. The
jury acquitted Reed. There
was one lad in O’Neill who
was pleased over the verdict,
Den Hunt, now living at 5135
O street in Lincoln. Den was
a favorite with the cowboys,
who kept him supplied with
spending money because he
looked after their ponies.
Ths irial was a step to
ward the raw frontier be
coming a civilised commu
nity, but the blood stains of
other shootings and a few
hangings were yet to mark
the trail from smoking guns
to the dignity and securLy
of the courtroom.
Nothing stirred the commu
nity deeper than the lynching
of Barret Scott. The body
was recovered on a bleak De
cember day from the icy wa
ters of the Niobrara and laid
out at Biglin’s and the picture
of those who saw the heel
mark ot i vengeful foot upon
Barret’s bald head, with other
evidence of heartless treat
ment is not to be erased from
memoiy’s tablet
• • •
It will take something more
impressive than “executive re
quest’’ to perceptably reduce
the line of shoppers moving
toward cash counters at food
centers with the wire baskets
on wheels filled *to the full
with products fresh from the
vine, manufactured morsels
and select viands. Americans
are great eaters and probably
have no intention of cutting
down on the intake. The
sandhills rancher expressed it
when he said he raised cattle
and his family have the choi
cest of the herd. In other
words, we have it — let's eat.
A J. P. Morgan of an Indian
tribe has been doing some
figu ing and comes now with
a bill against the United
States government for some
thing like 10 billion dollars.
This for lands secured from
the various tribes for a few
trinkets. While the millions
from the federal treasury are
floating ac oss the Earth, this
red brother feels that his peo
ple have a legitimate claim
that demands government at
tention.
• * *
Mr. Truman says we must
use less bread. Does he
mean that the thin slice
they sometimes bring you at
the cafe should be reduced
to half a slice?
• • •
America nor other civilized
lands have no fear of the eiv
various thrusts of the Soviet
leadership, but it may reach
a point where forebearance is
no longer a virtue. A nation
built on assassination and the
shifting sands of falsehood can
neither prosper nor endure.
• * *
Convicted of armed robbery,
a 13-year-old Kentucky lad
will spend the rest of his life
a p isoner, probably the
youngest life termer in the
history of criminal prosecu
tion.
It was economists of a sort
; a decade ago who began the
preachments about the horse
"eating his head off.” Yes,
farm with engine-powered ma
chines and save that grain the
horse eats for human consump
tion. It turns out like day
light saving—what is gained
on one end is lost on the
other. Every gallon of oil
taken from the earth to oper
ate an engine-powered ma
chine adds to the sum total
of the steady lowering of oil
wells that are not refilling.
Every ton of iron ore taken
from the ground to be shaped
into a tractor is never replac
ed. The horse renewed his
supply of feed from season-to
season. The tractor burns the
oil and replaces none. The old
er generation of crop growers
say they prefer the horse; the
later generation say if they
had to use horses they would
quit the farm. In the event of
exhausted oil wells then
what? The art of harnessing
a horse better not be lost.
The following is a free
translation from the German
of a letter recently received:
Rensburg. G.,
26 August, '47
—Very much honored Mas
ter Saunders:
You had k.ndness through
my dear sister to send us a
few precious lines. My wife
and I thank you with all
our hearts for your words
and though fulness, which
did our hearts good. We
■ ee by that that America
has many people who do
not look upon us as enemies
and are willing to really
help us by sending food and
clothing. Both are urgently
necessary and accepted
thankfully.
We thank you heartily for
the wearing material, which
I sent to my niece who has
six boys. You must picture
the happy faces in your
mind.
Men are still imprisoned
in Russia and starve. Again
ihanks and greetings.
(We will omit the signa
tu e as a protection to the
writer of this letter.)
Fall
DANCE
STUART
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It was in that hectic period
of the 1890’s when Yankeeland
was on the move following
the closing of factories and in
dustrial plants and we were
in one of those periods known
as “depression.” Our fathers
had another way of express
ing it. They called such peri
ods “hard times.” and got
some fun out of it by making
it a social feature with “hard
times’,’ parties, when you
came dressed as ragamuffins.
But in the recent ’30’s it was
not taken so pleasantly.
O’Neill caught its share of
gents who had struck out
from their home base to find
jobs and live on the generosi
ty of the country. If you ap
peared on the street early
morning you, were sure to be
approached by a stranger who
asked for breakfast.
This situation was put to
use by one shrewd and witty
Irishman, Henry Cook. Hen
ry had about as much need
of a free meal as he did of a
steamboat. But he would get
out looking like he belonged
with the hungry brigade and
presently a prosperous stran
ger would take him to Sam
Thompson’s and pay for his
breakfast.
• * *
The fine legal description
that determines the degree of
guilt in taking human life is
not based on results but rath
er on motive. And who is to
determine the motive behind
the overt act? Planned slaying
is said to be first-degree mur
der. A killing that is the out
growth of a quarrel it. said to
be manslaughter. The quarrel
has led to the determination
to kill and a sudden plan is
formed to kill. The result is
the same—a death is added to
the long and tragic list of hu
man victims since Cain im
brued his hands in his broth
er’s blood. The individual con
victed of manslaughter i s
stowed away for a few years
while the other gets the chair
or life imprisonment The re
sult in each instance has been
the same and both may be
equally guilty as Satan him
self.
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CELIA SIDELIGHTS
Conrad Frickel, jr., moved
some calves home from his pas
utre south of the Hendricks
ranch last week, but will allow
his cattle to graze on the after
growth on the hay lands until
snow flies.
Perry Terwilliger cabled 14
stacks of hay from Ray Pease’s
; pasture last week and Mr. Pease
j will graze his cattle in this pas
j ture this fall. Mr. Pease has
several pastures, rotating them.
Rye di illing was finished this
week at Frickel & Sons, Conrad
Frickel, jr., farm, Vic Frickel
farm, and the Ray Pease ranch.
LeRoy Hoffman is putting in
rye on the Conrad Frickel, sr„
place, which is near the Allard
place which LeRoy has rented.
Lee and Perry Terwilliger cut
i 40 acres of Atlas sorgo feed this
week on their south place.
Looks like Terwilligers cattle
will have a succulent side dish
for next winter.
Herman Frickel has moved
their cattle home from their
west place and several buyers
have called at the Frickel &
Sons home to try to buy them.
Frank Kilmurry sold his spring
calves last week for 25 cents a
pound.
Frickel & Sons farm build
ings are being given a coat of
Daint this week by Herman
Frickel.
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