THE FRONTIER
O'Neill Nebraska
CARROLL W. STEWART
Editor and Publisher
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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 <d in Springville, Tex., in a
gun fight.
Yours truly,
J. S. KIRWAN
Farewell Party—
EMMET — A farewell party
was held at the Methodist
church in Emmet in honor of
Mrs. Clyde Bates, who will be
come a resident of O’Neill. Tho
WSCS and the Bible class were
in charge of the party. Re
freshments were served.
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[ CHAMBERS NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Fees, jr.,
returned Sunday from a trip to
Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs.
^ees' parenis, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter McNichols, who had been
visiting here, accompanied them
to their home at Colorado
Springs.
Gordon Brittell, Mearl Sparks
and son, of. Inman, called at the
F. S. Brittell home October 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Curt Hill and
son, Bill, and Norman Lehman,
of Stanton, spent Saturday night
m the A A. Walter home. Mrs.
Hill and Mrs. Walter are sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Peltzer
and Mrs. A. A. Walter attended
the funeral of an aunt, Mis.
Mary Molle, at Stanton last
Thursday, They were accom
Dinied home by their mother,
Mrs. Clara Peltzer, and' sister,
Mrs. Curt Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McBain
and Mrs. George Thomas, of
Seward, have been visiting in
the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Gill the past week. The ladies
are sisters of Mrs. Gill.
George Thomson, Louis Har
ley and J. W. Walter attended
a fireman’s convention at Grand
island October 22. Mrs. Louis
Harley accompanied them and
visited her daughter, Mrs. Dew
ey Strucbing.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller, of
Inman, visited last Thursday in
the Faye Brittell home. Bever
ly Brittell accompanied them
home.
tom Salem and Dan Perkins
drove to Belgrade Monday on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coolidge
and Kenneth returned Saturday
from a week’s trip to the Black
Hills and to Douglas, Wyo.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Dierking
we: e last Thursday supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ad
ams and boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brown en
joyed Sunday dinner in the Gor
don Brown home.
Gene Cavanaugh arrived Sat
urday from Albuquerque, N. M.,
where he has been employed.
He is at the home of his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cavan
augh, for an indefinite stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jones and
daughter, of Spencer, spent the
weekend with her mother, M:s.
Orville Kellar and family.
Patty Columbe, of Mission, S.
D., who is attending St. Mary’s
academy in O’Neill, spent the
weekend with Clara Cavanaugh.
David Whitmer, of Riverton.
Wyo., spent last Thussday night
in the L. V. Cooper home. Mr.
Whitmer operates a cabin camp
at Riverton and was enroute
home from Indiana with a new
school bus.
Gordon Cooper, of Winner, S.
D., was in Chambers Monday to
see a dentist. He came by
plane.
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LINDQUIST & SONS
PHONE 133
i GREATER THAN
THE ATOMIC BOMB
It was the great Sir James Simpson, world-famous scientist, who
when he was -uked, "What do you consider your greatest discovery?”
replied: "That I am a sinner and that Christ is my Savior.”
To a world, still dizzy with excitement over the invention of the
atomic l>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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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!
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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.
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Our world vision has in
volved us in a world job of
spreading a table and clean
ing out the clothes closets.
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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.
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Our Inauguration of the
STATEMENT SYSTEM
of Bank Bookkeeping
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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.
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