THE FRONTIER O'Neill Nebraska CARROLL W. STEWART Editor and Publisher “Entered the Postoffice at O’Neill Holt County, Nebraska, as sec mail matter under the ■ Act of March 3, 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebras ka Press Association and the Na ■iional Editorial Association. Published Each Thursday Established in !380 Term* of Subscription: In Holt and adiotning countips. $2 per year; elsewhere $2.50 per year. Letters to the Editor Boise, • Ida. October 21. 4 The Frontier: May I remind Romaine Saun ders that Billy Reed was not tried in O’Neill for the murder of Brmnv Kearns, but was tried at Neligh, after securing a ! change oi venue from O’Neill to h'eliph. Mrs. Grace (McCoy) ' Hummel, of 112 W. Pine street, Gordon, Nebr., has a picture of the crew who went to Atkinson and captured Reed and brought him bark. She may not have been old enough to remember that the trial was in Neligh, but her fiiend, Mary Connoly, who Jiv«s in Snokanc, Wash., may jemember it. By the way, Reed was later kill omb, this "greatest discovery” of Sir Simpson may not seem to be of much importance. And yet his was the greatest discovery any man can ever make. Within the reach of every one of us God has placed a power which can spell the difference between heaven and hell. 1 Cor. 1:18-24; 1 Peter 2:6-9. That power was demonstrated in all its fullness on a little hill outside the Gty of Jerusalem 1900 years ago. There the powers of heaven met with the powers of hell, and the powers of hell were vanquished. Gen. 3:15; Col. 2:13-15; 1 Cor. 15:55-57; Heb. 2:14, 15. 1 1 1 When Christ died in the place of sinners and the noonday sun became as black as night, when the earth quaked and the graves were opened (Matt. 26:45-53), the power of hell had been forever broken. The sins of all mankind had been atoned! Throughout Hie centuries this message of personal redemption j through Hie blood of Christ, which the Bible calls the "power of j God,” has brought its light and healing influence into the hearts j and lives of millions. 111 The Gospel of Christ lias proved to be the only power which can cleanse the guilty conscience, which can bring peace to the \ troubled soul, and which can change the savage heart of man into the dwelling of the Master! The world has known no greater "discovery’’^ nor <~an jt ever i hope to find one greater. CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH Clyde Cress, Pastor Reformation Service ._. 9:30 a. m. j Sunday-School Hour .. 10:30 a. m. We Preach: “A Changeless Christ in a Changing World.” INTERESTED SPECTATORS What are these children looking at? Nothing that would call for a second glance in this country — just the changing of a tire for an A merican Red Cross 1 ield truck in an isolated area in western Japan. The villagers demon _ strate a Japanese national characteristic which Ameri cans often find difficult to un derstand. Told to remain out side a circle of twigs, they stood for three hours without entering the tire-changing ar ea. pRAIRIELAND TALK By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Frank Neson's early entry for the legisla tive nomination is pleasing to his friends. Holt county lost the senator last primary and subsequent election by a surplus of "home favor ites." The district was not ably represented in the last session of the legislature and the voters will have the op portunity to send an able gentleman to the next ses sion in the person of one like Mr. Nelson. • • • You run into them in unex- ! pected places. I met up with | him down near the Kansas border—a native of the empire of Holt. George Bercha was horn on prairieland eight miles southwest of Atkinson, where he spent his childhood, youth and early mature years and regrets having left a grand grassland for wheat and corn ground where he’s now located south of Beatrice. Corn growers in Nebraska and Kansas have two stories to tell — the majority listing their crops at zero, while a few were getting quite some com out of the fields. Land sells for less across the line in Kan sas than in Nebraska. Perhaps half of the wheat-land in the 1 "wheat country” had been sown before the late rains and ! some were contemplating put ting their seed reserve on the market at $3 instead of put ting it in the ground. Rain, announced by midnight flight of geese and the staccato notes of coyotes that I heard one night in the section of Kansas made famous by Wild Bill Hickok, has changed the pic ture. m * I stand in the shadow while | sunlight lies on the distant hills. How like life. Today we are overwhelmed in dif ; liculty. the road ahead is clos ed and there is no detour; j leering fate mocks us as we I sweat and ponder a way out. I And then somehow the kinks I unravel and tomorrow we are on top of the world once more. • • • Walter Winchell has told Americans. Ciiiiens every where expect the military heads, statesmen and cabi net members to keep fully informed. They may know more of what the Russians' insulting bombast is all about than the rapid fire radio spieler does, but may be he has told us something that should be heeded. For the sake of keeping i straight the history of even the tragic pages of Holt coun ; ty I should make a correction. It was not in December, 1894 I that the body of Barret Scott I was recovered from the Nio brara river but on January 20, 1895. An inquest was held that day on the Boyd county side. Indictments were rend ered by the jury a g a i ns t George D. Mullihan, Mose El liot and Mert Roy, none of whom were convicted in the court trials that followed. * • * Nebraska’s highway forces are placing belated markers as memorials of the once nu merous Grand Army of the Republic. It is said that there is but one survivor in the state. States and individuals bring their flowers to the graves. O’Neill once had a strong GAR. And they made Memorial day an event that the American Legion now needs must perpetuate. They are referred to as tow heads. She sat directly in front of me and could not have been more than 10 years of age. Her shapely crown was covered with beautiful blonde hair festooned about the shoulders with that ar rangement called a permanent. That hair may well have been the envy of a Hollywood queen. But neither the shin ing blonde head nor the throbbing tones of the great organ was the fascination of that hour. The little girl with the blonde hair had in her charge a smaller girl with brown hair and dark eyes that seemed to look out upon the world about her with full as surance that everybody must be just like her sister, and over whose shoulder she had {ilaced a trusting arm and ooked up into her face with an expression of childish love. And the stronger arms held her in dfvoted embrace. In a world ml here was sweet childhood affection that transcended the fine moral precepts coming from the pul pit. "Whosoever shall not re ceive the kingdom of God as a little child ne shall not en ter therein.” * ♦ * And so the long dress and corset are to come again in to the feminine picture. A former Holt county woman owes her life to her corset. December 31. 1894. Miss Mc Whorter, a niece of Barret Scott, was in the buggy at the time the Scott party was waylaid and a bullet from a Winchester in the hands of a member of the ambush found its mark against the steel stay of Miss McWhor ter's corset. I have under stood that she is now living in Fremont and retains pos session of the corset that served the purpose of an armorplate at a critical mo ment. * • • ed with bitterness, a simple scene of The Journal of the Ameri can Medical association, the court of last resort in such matters, admits that the med ics and corner drug store are alike helpless to either pre vent or cure the commonest affliction of mankind, the cold or its related allies of misery the grip and the flu. We now head into another session that furnishes the sniffles and have been bereft of the con solation of the old fictions to nurse us through the tussle with the ancient if not emi nent thing they call virus. The ladies are selling an inviting table in The Fron lies's ably conducted recipe department and maybe read ing them in itself helps to tide the stringency we are invited to court. But, please pass the pie! • • « Washington census gather ers say Nebraska has lost 15,000 of its rural population since 1940. That’s like taking everybody out of Holt county. Noith Dakota lost 90,000 and South Dakota 79,000 in the same period. Nothing to worry about; just gives us more room while down there in southern California they are tramping on one another’s toes. • * * Our world vision has in volved us in a world job of spreading a table and clean ing out the clothes closets. * * * It’s great to be young. It’s greater to grow old graceful ly. Son Honored— AMELIA— Mrs. Mamie Sam mons entertained members of the family Oct. 19 at a birthday anniversary dinner honoring her son, Lee Sammons. Those pres ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sammons, Billie and Margie Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Blake Ott and Gloria and Mr. and Mrs. Asa Watson and family. PAUL SHIERK INSURANCE AGENCY Has Moved to a New Location 2 Doors North of O’Neill Natl Bank R H SHRINER Bond's Rents n* Plate G]ass Liability GENERAL INSURANCE Livestock REAL ESTATE. LOANS. FA IM SERVICE, RENTALS Automobile O'Neill —Phone 106 Farm Property Wind fe Tornado, ''"rucks 8t Vrartor, Personal Property Mrs. Rakow Hostess — PAGE—Mrs. H. F. Rakow en tertained the following ladies at a bingo party October 13 a ter noon: Mrs. C. A. Townsend, Mrs. J. I. Gray, Mrs. Wilton Hayne, Mrs. E. A. Walker, Mrs. George Rost. Mrs. H. L. Ban ta, Mrs. L. C. Rakow, Mrs. O. L. Reed, Mrs. J. Russell and Mrs. Elsie Cork. Club in Session— The Last Minute club met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Frank Clements. Try FRONTIER want ads. FREE GLASS . If you have COMPRE HENSIVE INSURANCE we will install your glass free. See us for further details. Skalowsky Glass Co. Phone 186 < c < Enjoy tke Good Old Flavor of the Good Old Days! ¥ “Let’s Stop for Premium Quality FALSTAFF!” 4 Our Inauguration of the STATEMENT SYSTEM of Bank Bookkeeping ★ ★ ★ THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK is pleased to announce to its friends and patrons a change from the ‘passbook’ to the ‘statement’ system of bank bookkeeping, beginning after the close of business on November 1, 1947. UNDER THIS NEW SYSTEM our customers will regularly receive a machine-made statement showing each debit, credit, the daily balance and all cancelled checks charged against the account during the period covered. This will be prepared on a convenient sized statement and will be an exact copy of the Bank’s permanent record of the account. This improved mod em method will eliminate the necessity for a passbook and your own bookkeeping will be made simpler and easier. At year end these statements with your cancelled checks will constitute a complete record of your year’s banking, and will simplify prep aration of your income tax return. There will be no extra charge for this new, improved service. THE INAUGURATION of this system is in keeping with our, policy to provide the O’Neill territory with a complete ly modern banking institution. ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE of the O’Neill National Bank will be pleased to discuss with you further the advant ages of this system as well as our other facilities. YOU ARE INVITED to make use of our modern, friendly banking service which we are constantly trying to improve. ★ ★ ★ O’Neill National Rank — Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. —