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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1949)
When You and I Were Young — 3,000-Acre Peter Duffy Ranch in Saratoga Township Sells for $24,000 61 YEARS AGO April 19. 1883 James Frazer has decided to locate in O’Neill and has rented Mr. Mack’s store room and will put in a stock of groceries, lie has gone back to Chicago, 111., to purchase goods and will open up May 1. One more business enterprise for our town. We now have two wholesale groc ery houses, six retail groceries, three general merchandise stores, one shoe store and one exclusive dry goods store. The many friends of Jack Harrington and Will Haley in this city will be pained to learn that the building which they occupied in Valentine as an ab stract office was consumed in the fire at that place last Sun day. The boys had just started in and this alone comes rather hard for them, although, we un derstand that they did not lose anything, which, we trust, is the case. We have been informed by several parties who are con templating moving to O'Neill that no suitable houses are for rent. Some men with a little money ought to build some tenament houses here. It would be a paying investment and it would beat the two percent loaning business. A nice rent roll is a very convenient thing to have. L. T. Shanner, of Inman, was at the county sat Tuesday and called at this office on business. He and Mr. Swain, who have been engaged in the general • merchandise business at that place, have dissolved partner ship, Mr. Shanner retiring. “Charlie” Swain is now in the old stand which he left several years since to go to Minnesota. The Frontigr wishes him suc cess, and he deserves it. Ditto Mr. Shaner, who informed us I that he Expected to remain in Inman. 40 YEARS AGO April 22, 1909 This office is in receipt of a letter from Dan McClellan, who left here about three weeks ago for Oregon. He is located at Nyssa, Ore., and says he likes it fine and is enjoying good health. Judging from his letter, Dan is fascinated with that countrj. It is a great fruit growing section and he says the orchards aver age $500 an acre. He says they have struck natural gas about 70 miles from Nyssa which they expect to use to light the towns in that section of the state. He expects to invest in a fruit farm there and remain. His many Holt county friends wish him prosperity in his new home. One of the largest real es tate deals that has taken place recently was effected Monday when the Peter Duffy ranch on Oak Creek in Saratoga pre cinct was sold to P. C. Anderson, a real estate man of Spencer. The instruments in the transfer were executed Monday in O’ Neill. There are 3,000 acres in the ranch, the purchase price being $24,000. Mr. Duffy will remain on the ranch this Sum mer as he has several hundred | head of cattle and he leases the place until he can dispose of his stock. Joe Leahy, a brother of Frank Leahy, formerly of this city, was killed at Burke. S. D., Sunday while moving a piano. The piano fell upon nim and crushed him so badly that he died soon after. The de ceased was engaged in the hotel business at Burke and was 41 years of age. He is sur vived by a wife and three chil* j dren. 10 YEARS AGO April 20. 1909 April seems to have changed I with March, as we have been I having all kinds of weather. On Monday it rained, snowed, was almost a blizzard at times, then the sun would break through the clouds for a time. A stray North wind blew all day Mon day and Tuesday with freezing temperatures. The latter part of last week T. S. Maines, who was going to open an office for ihe Securi ties Acceptance corporation of Omaha, in the Streeter barber shop next to The Frontier of fice, closed a deal with the Central Finance Co., if Norfolk, by which he became the man ager of the local office of this corporation taking over the of fice last Monday. Charles Han cock, who opened the local of fice for the corporation here about a year ago, has been transferred to Ainsworth, where he will open up an office for the company about the first of May. Charles made a fine re cord with the company while here and his many friends in O’Neill wish him and the family success and prosperity in their new home. Nicholas Oberlee died at his home near Verdigre last Thurs — • Special Purchase THURSDAY through SATURDAY ENDICOTT - JOHNSON IV en’s Work Shoes Purchased Especially for This Spring Savings Event!! • Cowhide Uppers • Leather Insoles • Leather or Compo Outsoles • Plain or Cap Toes • Brown . . . Black • All Sizes 6V2 to 11 We Reserve the Right to Limit. 1 2.29 Mail Orders Filled All 4.95 Values —Isborne’c; f Tke Family SkoeStore Iht O’NEILL —HimiiiMiiiii m m mi u. mmw rwimi mmm' day afternoon at the age of 71 years, two months and six days. Funeral services were held at the home last Sunday and bur ial followed in the Riverside cemetery at Verdigre. Legal Notices (First pub. April 14, 1949) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Department of Roads and Irrigation in the State Capitol at Lincoln, Ne braska, on Mav 5, 1949, until 10:00 o’clock A. M ; and at that time publicly opened and read for SAND GRAVEL SURFAC ING and incidental work on the SPENCER-O’NEILL Patrols Nos. 81003 and 81012 State Road. The approximate quantity is: 3,100 Cu. Yds. Sand Grav vel Surface Course Mater ial The attention of bidders is di rected to the Special Provisions covering subletting or assigning the contract. Compliance by the contractor with the standards as to hours of labor prescribed by the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” approved June 25. 1938 (Public No. 718, 75th Congress), will be required in the performance of the work under this contract. The minimum wage paid to all skilled labor employed on this contract shall be ninety (90) cents per hour, except that a minimum wage of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per hour shall be paid to: Crane Operators Dragline Operators Power Shovel Operators The minimum wage paid to all • _1 _ __1_1 I 111 v 1 UIV.U ia owi wuptoj vu v*» this contract shall be eighty (80) cents per hour. The minimum wage paid to all unskilled labor employed on this contract shall be sixty (60) cents per hour. Plans and specifications for the work may be seen and in formation secured at the office of the County Clerk at Butte, Nebraska, at the office of the County Clerk at O’Neill, Ne braska, at the office of the Dis trict Engineer of the Department of Roads and Irrigation at Ains worth, Nebraska, or at the of fice of the Department of Roads and Irrigation at Lincoln, Ne braska. The successful bidder will be required to furnish bond in an amount equal to 100% of his contract. As an evidence of good faith in submitting a proposal for this work, the bidder must file, with his proposal, a certified check made payable to the Department of Roads and Irrigation and in an amount not less than two hundred fifty (250) dollars. The right is reserved to waive all technicalities and reject any or all bids. DEPARTMENT OF ROADS AND IRRIGATION F. H. Klietsch, State En gineer J. M. Crook, District En gineer C. J. Tomek. County Clerk Boyd County Ruth Hoffman. County Clerk. Holt County. 49-51c O’NEILL LOCALS Steven and Robert Wallace spent the weekend visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Wallace. Both boys attend Creighton university in Omaha. Ralph Walker left Sunday for Omaha where he spent a few days on business. Ray Sullivan, of Omaha, Spent the weekend visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Sul livan. Mr. and Mrs. La Verne Van Every and son were Sunday dinner guests at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Van Every. Miss Ivalyn Brady was a Sunday guest also. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford New man and son, Neil, of Burwell, and Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Mag stadt and family, of Boyden, la., spent Sunday visiting at the home of Mrs. Vannie New man. Mrs Newman is the mot her of Clifford and Mrs. Mag stadt. Arizona Pioneers Hold Reunion By A. STROLLEp PHOENIX, ARIZ., Apr. 12.— As I was walking downtown on a recent Saturday morning, I heard a band playing and notic ed a large crowd gathered around the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette building. I stopped to investigate and dis covered that the occasion was the annual reunion of the Ari zona Pioneers association. Most of the men and women standing there wore badges and were waiting for cars to join the parade. I also learned that the parade would be followed by a full day of entertainment, clim axing in a barbecue. I was sur prised at the number and ap parent vigor of the pioneers. It seemed very fitting that the sun was shining after sev eral days of cold, rainy weath er. The sight of all those peo ple made me think of the Old Settlers Picnic which is held in my own state. Nebraska, every year. We generally call the pioneers old settlers in that state, but the meaning is the same. Either word is used to designate those sturdy men and women who came West in the early days and endured dangers and hardships of all kinds to lay the foundation of the splendid civilization which we have today. They were trailblazers in the best sense of the term. In Nebraska, people have ex perienced some of the hardships of pioneer days in the terrible Winter which has just come to a stormy close. The Winter was a succession of blizzards, during which many head of livestock perished, all traffic was paraly zed and there was some actual suffering in various homes. Even so, the strenuous exper iences of the pasf Winter in the Midwest were not comparable to those of the early settlers. They had to fight for their very lives in the face of such threats as Indians, drouth, grasshoppers, etc., and they were not equipped for the struggle. As far as the Arizona pioneers are concerned, the struggle for survival which they had and the dangers of wild animals, and the hardships and discomforts of heat, drouth and dust which they endured in the early days baffle the imagination to des cribe. Some of the old-timers, no doubt, contrasted that ride in luxurious automobiles with some wagon trips they had taken through dust or mud long ago. Geographical location, howev er, is of no consequence. Ne braska or Arizona or some other state, the pioneers were a brave, industrious, energetic people who explored the frontier and built homes and towns and cities and it seems to me we owe them a debt of gratitude which we can never pay. It is the spirit of the pioneer that has created our modern world. Normal Trainers to Teach Next Week ATKINSON — Normal train ing seniors will do practice teaching the week of April 25. The senior class play is Fri day, April 22. Students to attend the fine arts festival at Lincoln Friday are: Sue Neuenswander, dramat ic division; Shirley Withers, hu morous; Maxine Peterson, inter pretive oratory. The festival will be held at the Temple Theater building. Perfect attendance in the first grade the last six weeks: Sandra Frisch, Donna Humphrey, Philip Ihrig, Michael McKay, Kenneth Osborne, Doretta Roth, Roger Storjohann. Second grade: Dallas Ford, Jean Martens, Markita Hen dricks. Barbara Mlinar, teacher of the first and second grades, held an Easter party for the pupils last Thursday afternoon. Two live, white rabbits helped entertain the 37 children. A large Easter lily planted in September had two blossoms in time for the Easter season. Besides the Easter lily, the first and second grade room is adorned with flowers and vines of every kind. There is also a large banana tree, the root of which Miss Mlinar brought back from Cali fornia. It now stands six feet tall. ,, , . A palm tree, standing about five feet, was grown from seed, planted 10 years ago. Three oleanders are in full bloom. Of the many attractions the childrens’ interest is cen tered upon the 50-gallon aquai ium that holds gold fish—big ones and tiny babies—snails and clams, besides hundreds of marbles of every color resting on the sand. Their teacher, Barbara Mlinar, with her motherly instinct, has provided# a place where pupils who became ill, might lie down. ‘We have a ‘bed’ under the fish bowl,” one first grade boy told his mother, ‘‘where we can sleep when we get sick.” O'NEILL LOCALS Mrs. John Osenbaugh and children, of Lincoln, spent the weekend visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Cleary and Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Sch aaf and children, of Atkinson, were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dumpert. Mrs. R. A. 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