Teen Tattler —
Tagging Nicknames on Other 1 eeners
Popular Pastime; Anybody Know Slug?
By PAT BRENNAN
Hi! Now that the music con
test is in full swing, and every
one is getting their thrills, and
heartbre a k s
Pai
Brennan
p over me rai*
- ings they are
getting, I sup
pose you are
g pretty busy.
I Whate v e r
L rating you do
get, don’t let
| it keep you
I from having
(that wonder
ful time you
had already
planned. Any
way, I hope
all of you do
real good.
Yesterday the people of O -
Neill celebrated Army day by
staging a beautiful parade.
There were many comments,
from the bystanders, about the
new’ cherry-red plumes worn on
the band hats. The “new” two
year-old uniforms are still being
complimented on as being the
best looking band uniforms in
the state.
The teen-agers in the band
would like to take this oppor
tunity to thank, once again, the
citizens of O'Neill for the very 1
handsome uniforms.
The teen-agers, of O’Neill, ,
who have gone to the teen-age
dances held last year have over
$100 to their name. Half of this
money is going into teen-age
books for the public library, the
other half is going into an or
chestra for a big teen-age dance
that is to be held on the Friday
following Easter.
Marde Birmingham, Jim
White, Loraine Simonson and
Doug Rossman seem to be hav
ing a pretty good time togeth
er lately.
Tagging nicknames on other
teeners are the latest passtime
around here. Anybody here
know “Slugg?”
Wherever there is music you
’ll find me, so now you’ll know
where to see me. I’ll see you at
the music contest, most likely
near the bulletinboards.
Girl Scouts Meet —
ATKINSON — Girl Scout
troop 4, will meet at the home
of Marjorie Mack today
^Thursday).
DELOIT NEWS
Harold Savage took Miss John
son, the teacher, to her home on
Saturday by plane.
Mrs. Fred Harpster called at
the G. A. Bauer home on Tues
day, March 29.
Real Estate Transfers
(Editor’s note: A glossary of
the abbreviations follows: WD
—warranty deeds; QCD—quit
claim deed. The instruments
filed at the Holt county court-!
house are listed from whom to
whom, date, consideration, le- j
WD—Lena Tomjack to Rob- *
ert L Pruden 3-29-49 $2750- Lot
8 Blk 14- Ewing.
WD—Iola Lowery et al to Joe
& Ina Stoecker 9-17-48 $13,066.- '
67- SW>4- N'sSEhi- SWLiSE'-i
Sec 33-27-14
QCD—City of Atkinson to Er
nest K Porter 11-8-46 $60- Lots '
15 & iti Blk 2 Collins Add Atk.
PUBLIC SALE! !
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LIVESTOCK 8c RANCH
EQUIPMENT
In order to close the estate of the
late Leonard Grossnicklaus. I \
will sell at Public Auction the ‘
following described property on |
the ranch located 241* miles ,
west of Elgin. Nebraska on ]
Highway No. 53. and 44 mile 1
west of Junction of Highways
53 and 281, or 7 miles north and 1
44 mile west of Bartlett. Nebras- ’
ka. on
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Thursday, April 14th
Sale Commence! at 12 o’clock
Sharp . . . Lunch Stand on the
Ground!
109 HEAD OF CATTLE
93 Red Whitetace yearling
steers; 1 Guernsey steer, coming
yearling; 1 Red Whitetace yearl
ing heifer; 1 Holstein milk cow.
5-yTs.-old: 1 Guernsey cow. 3
yrs.-old: 6 Brown Swiss cows, 4
to 6-yrs. old: 1 Brown Swiss 2
yr.-old heifer; 1 Whitetace cow,
4-yrs.-old: 3 Brown Swiss heif
er calves: 1 Black Angus bull.
2 Spotted Saddle Mares
1946 Diamond T Stock Truck
and Omaha Standard Two
Wheel Trailer
TRACTORS, FARM MACHIN
ERY. NEW LUMBER, OILS &
GREASES, A FEW HOUSE
HOLD GOODS, ETC.
TERMS: Cash, or see your bank
er before sale. No property to be
remoeed until settled for.
Opal F. Grossnicklaus
ADMX.
WIRGES and DONNER, Aucts.
ELGIN CO-OP CREDIT AS
SOCIATION. Clerk.
4-H CLUB NEWS
EAGER BEAVER
We met at the home of Carol
Seger on Tuesday, March 29,
with 18 members present,
We had a discussion on birds.
The girls talked about sewing.
The new members are Ardis
Grenier, Carol Grenier, Harlene
Sawyer, Carol Leidy, Marvell
Gaskill and Terry Strong.
After our meeting a lunch was
served. The next meeting will ;
be held at the Verne Beckwith
home.—By Wayne E. Osborne,
reporter.
CLOVER CLUB
ATKINSpN — The Clover 4- j
II club held an organization
meeting at the home of the !
leader, Helen Martens, on Sun- i
day, March 20.
Officers elected were; Murry .
Mellor, presidenF; Benton Mel- J
lor, vice-president; Shirley Roth,
secretary; and Margaret Rohrs,
news reporter.
George Mellor is the assistant
leader. There will be projects
for both boys and girls, namely:
gardening, stocker feeder and |
girls’ room. A meeting to have
been held Friday, April 1, at the
Walter Ries home, was postpon
ed, due to bad roads.
Walters Entertain —
CHAMBERS—Sunday, March
27, dinner guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walter
were: Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Walter,
of Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
Walter, of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Brion and boys, of Neligh;
Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Dale and
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Walter and ,
Vivian.
ATKINSON NEWS
Miss Helen Martens, who
teaches at Emmet, spent the
weekend with Raydean Slay
maker.
Pat Miller and Robert Mack,
who attended Wayne State
Teacher’s college, were home ,
over the weekend.
Mrs. Leo llienowski returned
the first ol the week from
Omaha, where she had spent
two weeks visiting her parents.
Mrs. Chris Judge and son,
Linus, visited in O’Neill Sun
day. Mrs. Herbert Jensen re
turned home with them for a
visit. Mrs. Jensen and Mrs.
Judge are sisters.
Mrs, Will Ullrich, of Stuart,
is visiting at the Mabelle Bau
man home for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. James Ziska !
and daughter, Doris, were;
snowbound in Atkinson from
Tuesday* until Saturday. Miss I
Doris teaches school North of ;
Atkinson, but was unable to (
return to her work.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Buzard
and two children, Pamela and |
Douglas, came from Omaha
Sunday to visit at the home !
of Mrs. Buzard’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. P. T. Schultz.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McDowell
are doing considerable re
modeling on the apartments in
the East wing of their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Galligan, 1
of Stuart, have moved to their
farm home South of Atkinson.
Dr. W. J. Douglas has moved
his offices to a new location.
Doctor is now located in the
West half of the building re
cently remodeled by Margaret j
Horten, owner. The East half
of the building houses the of- '
fices of Charles E. Chace, at- '
lorney.
Claire Brooke is remodeling
his building located on State
and Main sts. The Davis’s, Cl
yde and Howard, will have a
barber shop in the West half
of this building. The Leroy
Richards insurance offices are
located in the East half
Mrs. Blanche Gibson of Den
ver, Colo., came Monday morn
ing to visit her mother, Mrs.
Flora Kilgore, who is a pat
ient at the Ethel Brown home
in Atkinson Mrs. Gibson was
flown from Bartlett, to Atkin
son by Pilot Don Fletcher, of
Bartlett.
Pete Morgan, of O’Neill,
was an Atkinson visitor Mon- j
day.
George Henderson visited his I
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank
Henderson, in Atkinson Mon
day. George reports the roads
north from Atkinson are as bad
as he ever saw them.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jon
as and Mr. and Mrs. A1 Kline
attended the “People are Fun
ny” radio broadcast in Omaha
Tuesday, March 29.
Mrs. Lizzie M c K i m, of
Clearwater,, left March 25 after
visiting her son, Orville Mc
Kim, and family for three
days. She went on to Scotts
bluff where she will visit her
two daughters.
Pat Boyle, sr., is visiting at
the home of his son, James
and family. Mr. Boyle has
been in failing health for some
time.
Mrs. John Hynes returned
Thursday. March 31, f r o m
Kansas City, Mo.,, where she
had been visiting her parents
Mr and Mrs. Ted Viekland.
Mrs. John Rotherham h
spending a few days visitinf
at the home of Mr. and Mrs
M. M. Langan, of Stuart.
A square inch of stkin maj
have 3,000 sweat glands.
h JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent
•TATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The fame of Mark Twain’s
Mississippi river steamboat
pilots has tended to obscure
somewhat the equally exciting
exploits of their counterparts
on the Missouri. Indeed, in
many respects, the job of a pil
ot on the Missouri was more
dangerous and called for great
er skill and judgement than
did the same work on the fath
er of waters.
For the muddy Missouri,
tumbling past eastern Nebr
aska. was as changeable as it
was treacherous. Snags and
sandbars met on one trip could
not be depended upon to be in
the same place on the next.
The ever-shifting condition of
the channel presented new
problems on every excursion
As an early Sjoux City ed
itor wrote. "Of all the var
iable things in creation the
most uncertain are the action
of a jury, the state of wom
an's mind, and the condition
of the Missouri River."
The shifting sandbars pro
vided a particularly ominous
threat to river navigation. The
pilot avoided them whenever
possible. All to frequently,
however, that was impossible
and the pilot had to get the
boat across as best as he could.
With luck and skill he could
jump or “grasshopper” the
boat over the bar. Occasional
ly, though, the craft would be
come mired to deeply that his
only recourse was to unload
the freight and drag the boat
from its moorings by sheer
human force. Now and then
even the passengers had to
man the tow-lines.
Particularly dangerous were
fallen trees lodged in t h e
channel. To strike a large one
head-on meant certain disaster
because the frail bottoms of
the river steamers were easily
pierced.
It is little wonder, then, that
a pilot skilled and responsible
enough to guide a boat along
the Missouri commanded top
pay for his time as well as be
ing a man of high standing on
the river. After all, men’s lives
as well as their property were
entrusted to his care.
Although the name “Neb
raska” itself is adapted from
an Otoe word descriptive of
the Platte river, and Omaha,
the state's metropolis, is named
in commemoration of an In
dian tribe, the Indian influence
In Nebraska’s place names is
not as marked as one ordinari
ly would think it to be.
This is particularly true with
regard to the names of count
ies and towns. Of Nebraska’s
93 counties, only five are nam
ed after Indian tribes: Chey
enne, Dakota. Otoe, Pawnee
and Sioux. Three others Loup,
Red Willow, and Nemaha- are
named for streams whose
names, in turn, have original
derivations
Nebraska’s towns show a
similarly small proportion of
Indians names A few chief
tains are reconized in s u c h
names as Red Cloud, Yutan.
Osceola and Tecumseh. Omaha
has been mentioned as com
memortive of a tribe. Among
other towns similarly named
are Arapahoe. Kiowa, Ogallala,
Pawnee City and Ponca.
As is true of the counties,
certain Nebraska towns are
named after streams which
in turn bear Indian name;.
In this group r>-e such towns
as Niobrara. W a h o o and
Weeping Water.
If Nebraskans were not pr
□ne to give Indians names to
their towns and counties, they
retained similar names for sev
eral of their rivers, and if you
look on a map of the states
you will observe that a num
ber of the important streams
carry names adapted from the
aboriginal.
Among these, the Missouri
stands out particularly. Opin
ions vary regarding the or
igin of the word as applied to
the river, although probably
it was named after the Indian
tribe bearing the same desig
nation.
The French, who were a
mong the earliest map-makers
of this region, left their im
print firmly on the names of
our streams. Loup is a French
translation of the Pawnee
word “skidi”, signifying wolf.
Platte, mentioned earlier, is
similarly derived.
One French designation
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, qui Court, “running water."
We have applied Niobrara, an
approximation of the design
! tion by several Indian tribes,
name given the county em
bracing the mouth of the riv
| er also was L’eau qui Court,
but a more prosaic generation
to the stream, The original
changed it to Knox.
A highly controversial figure
in Nebraska territorial politics
was Mark W. Izard, governor of
the territory during the years
1855-’57.
Governor Izard was born in
Kentucky and reared in Ala
bama. At the age of 23 he mar
ried the daughter of George
Shackleford, a prominent resi
dent of Charlestown, S. C., and
moved to Mount Vernon. Ark
on the edge of wilderness. He ac
quired considerable property,
including a rather large num
ber of slaves and rose to prom
inence in Arkansas politics,
serving both as speaker of the
house and president of the Sen
ate in the Arkansas legislature.
He was appointed United
States marshal for Nebraska
territory in October, 1854, and
about two months later won ap
pointment as the second gover
nor of Nebraska from a long
list of applicants. The new gov
ernor’s oath was administered
in Washington, and after a long
and arduous trip he arrived in
Nebraska, February 20, 1855, to
take over the reins of territorial
government for Secetary Thom
as B. Cuming, who had served as
acting governor since the death
of Governor Burt.
Governor Izard encountered
serious opposition from the
very beginning. In the first
place, he was looked upon as
a "carpetbagger" by many
disappointed applicants for his
job—including Cuming—who
had lived in the territory all
of a few months. In the sec
ond place, he was accused of
forming an alliance with Om
aha interests to the detriment
of the rest of the territory.
This charge was levied against
virtually every territorial ex
ecutive (Acting Governor Cum
ing, you will recall, had been
bitterly assailed on the same
grounds) but Governor Izard
gave substance to the charge by
his failure to travel about the
territory as much as his con
stituents thought he should and
by his veto of a bill removing
the capital from Omaha.
Governor Izard’s capacity for
the job of chief executive fre
quently was called into question
by his contemporaries, and the
territorial press often referred
to him contemptuously as ‘‘Gov
ernor Lizard.” Weary of this
sort of criticism, he resigned in
KOREAN FARMERS PROSPER . . . This Korean farmer tills
the soil as his father did, with ox and wooden plow, but he is
more prosperous. His father worked as a tenant, but under
Korea’s new land reforms the son will goon own his own land.
Korean farmers can buy land for three times the annual pro
duction of its main crop.
1857 and returned to Arkansas,
where he died in August, 1866.
Although never achieving the
brilliance exhibited by men like
Cuming, Richardson, and Mor
ton, it is evident from the re
cord that Governor Izard made a
conscientious effort to effect an
efficient administration of the
territory’s affairs.
His chance for a permanent
place on the map of Nebraska
was removed when the county
originally named after him was
named Stanton in honor of Lin
coln’s Secretary of War.
When Nebraska was admit
ted to the union—just 82 years
ago on March 1st — its basic
law was the constitution adop
ted in 1866. This anniversary
period seems like a good oc
casion for examining that ear
ly document.
The citizens of Nebraska ter
ritory were far from agreed
that statehood would be desir
able. Aside from political con
siderations, there was a gen
eral fear that a state govern
ment would cost more than
the people could afford.
Those who favored statehood
realized that if their proposit
ion was to pass, a majority of
the people would have to be
convinced that a state govern
ment could be operated cheap
den on the taxpayers. The con
ly and without an undue bur
stitution of 1866 was drawn
expressly to guarantee that
kind of government, and with
little thought being given to
t !
others considerations.
Illustrative of the spirit of
the document were the sal
aries provided for stale of
ficers. The governor was to
be paid $1,000 a year; the
secretary of state. $600; the
treasurer, $400; and the aud
itor. $800.
The constitution was drafted
in haste and adopted by the
people after very little consid
eration. It was drawn, not by
a constitutional convention,
but by the legislature. So
quickly was it adopted that it
was signed by the governor
! only five days after it was in
troduced.
Indeed, there was a great
deal of complaint regarding
the manner in which the doc
ument was pushed through the
legislature. No amendments
were permitted. The lower!
house held no committee hear
DANCE! I
Summerland
EWING, NEBR.
Sunday, Apr. 10
Music furnished by
Elmer Hall and
His Orchestra
ings whatever on it, and the
members of neither house had
printed copies for study.
It is little wonder, then, that
the instrument was hardly a
dapted before a clamor arose
for a new constitution. A con
vention met in 1871, but the
voters rejected the document
submitted by that body.
The need for a new constit
ution was so apparent, how
ever, that another convention
was convened in 1875. The
work of this body was approv
ed by the voters.
The constitution of 1875 has
undergone numerous amend
ments, although it still is the
basic law of the state of Nebr
aska.
ATKINSON nFws
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Trecker
and family moved Monday to
Broken Bow, where Mr. Trec
ker was recently transferred
as supervisor for the Standard
Oil Co. district.
Mrs. Ed. Desieve can soon
be boasting of early fries. In
spite of the storm last week,
resulting in a cold, electrically
operated brooder, “the chicks
are thriving,” reports Mrs. De
sieve.
Mrs. N.P. McKee left Tues
day, for Lincoln, to visit her
son Neal, a student at the Un
iversity of Neb.
Mrs. H. L. Lindberg returned
Wednesday from Omaha where
she spent a few days visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P Jaszkow
iak attended the Ice Capades
in Omaha last week.
j For a Good Time
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