lIhe frontier
Editorial & Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'Neill, Nebr.
' CARROLL W STEWART, Editor and Publisher_
Entered the postoffice at O'Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
8, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
‘ Established in 1880— Published Each Thursday
Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year, ^Ise
where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided
on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
The Next 75 Years
Here is an interesting question—what is going to happen in
O’Neill during the next 75 years?
We have a comprehensive and accurate picture of what has
happened during the past 75 years. The history of that period
has been published and proclaimed to the world in The Frontier s
mammoth Diamond Jubilee Edition.
That edition, consisting of 64 pages in eight sections, of which
more than three thousand copies were printed, totaling 206,016
pages and containing news and advertising matter, which, end to
end, would reach about three blocks, tells the graphic and fascin
ating story of the town’s past history.
This great weekly newspaper, which was an outstanding
achievement in country journalism and would have been a credit
to a city daily, records the history' of O Neill between 18/4 and
1949, especially the period of 1874 to 1900, and it is ample and
convincing proof of the extraordinary progress the community
has made.
Obviously, the edition, both by reason of ilt contents and
its literary and typographical excellence, has attracted wide
attention and The Frontier has received numerous congratu
latory messages and orders for extra copies from near and far.
The Diamond Jubilee Edition was intended to commemorate
the first 75 years of the history of O’Neill and it will be followed
by a big community celebration, in which both old and young will
join and which will also be a fitting observance of this notable
year. It will no doubt be one of the greatest celebrations of its
kind ever staged in this part of Nebraska and will be a fitting
rlimax to a long and important era of Midwestern history.
And thus the first 75 years of O’Neill’s history comes to an
appropriate close with The Frontier’s big Diamond Jubilee Edi
tion and a rousing community celebration, and the question sug
gests itself: What about the next 75 years?
We have a detailed, picturesque and accurate record of the
past 75 years—that is now history, but what about the future?
What about those 75 years which now seem to stretch end
lessly aw’ay in the misty and uncertain days which are yet to
come?
Of course, we don’t know. The most astute historian doesn’t
know and would not undertake to predict for the future is always
vague and unpredictable and all the smartest of us can do is to
guess and conjecture. However, we may do that and The Frontier’s
guess is that O’Neill and Holt county will continue to forge ahead
and progress and prosper during the next 75 years as they have
during the past.
That is, we believe, a safe and conservative opinion, based
upon facts which have been revealed in the unusual history of
this community up to the present hour.
The past is history—unchangeable history: the future will
be determined by the hopes, aspirations and efforts of the people
of O’Neill and surrounding territory. It is a tremendous chal
lenge to us all.
No, we can not predict or prophesy with any degree of
certainty, but there is one thing we can always do and that is
argue from the known to the unknown and. on that basis, we
may reasonably assume that the next 75 years will also be a
period of progress—probably even greater progress than the
last 75.
There are several reasons for assuming this. In the first
place, there are a number of projects now being worked on which
will assure community activity for years to come; in the second
place, the progressive character of our people is a guarantee of
continued progress and, in the third place, the normal trend of
healthy towns like O’Neill is always upward and onward. So to
The Frontier, the outlook at the end of the first 75 years and the
beginning of the second is very bright and promising.
There will be very few of the present inhabitants of this area,
even including the babies, who will be around to participate in
the celebration commemorating the next 75 year period; but it
will likewise be an outstanding historical event.
Time’s a-Wasting
/URGENT
W/NISHED
business
□
Prairieland Talk —
Bankers and Bakers Move into
Picture to ‘Conserve the Soil’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — Nebraska clod
I hoppers better look out. We are
going to be conserved, preserv
i ed and oickled. Another group
1 organization is announced. This
time it is the bankers and bakers
1 that have moved into the picture
to “conserve
the soil." An
other uplift
band of patri
ots moves up
on the farm
ers to show
them how to
do it. What
this new
group will
contribute to
the welfare of
prairieland is
Romaine not difficult
Saunders to foresee.
The men and women working
the land they own know more
about preserving its usefulness
than the custodians of the coun
try’s filthy lucre and the dough
mixers.
The men and women on rent
ed land are going to get all out
of it they can. While it is recog
nized in both plains and moun
tain states that much land has
j been taken over by the plowman
1 that should have been left in
sod, no conservation group has
come forward with a purpose to
return this cultivated land to
grass.
• • •
Frank Williams, on a visit to
Lincoln from the industrial cen
ters on the Illinois side of the
Mississippi fiver, says the wheels
are slowng down and men are
out of jobs formerly employed
in turning out farm machinery.
I Among other things one gent has
; mentioned as “soothing cluck
ing” down there at Washington
comes now a presidential call
for greater production. Business
knows if politicians don’t that
production can only go along
with the demand for goods. Peo
pie have had their fill of paying
high prices for stuff and now
curtail on buying.
There was held last week at
the University of Nebraska what
was designated a clinic, some of
the wise ones giving lectures to
| baldheads and others about the
; “Missouri river basin." For a
’ century past settlers along the ,
Big Muddy river have been tak- j
ing care of themselves pretty |
well but the busybodies must
have something to promote and j
Missouri seems the most likely
victim just now. Government
fools away money on and the
functionaries, army brass and
university instructors will find
enough to do in the various
realms in which they have been
placed without taking over a
job to revamp the handiwork of
I the Creator.
• • •
The Old Timer says he
would like to know about a
75-year-old house over a t
Lynch as at ihal remote period
the tepees of the Santees were
the human habitations of the
region.
• • i
Mother Earth has swallowed
another victim. A dirt slide bur
ied a workman in a ditch on
South Forty-Second street. A
few minutes in the agony of suf
focation and his troubles were
all over. The worries of life, the
struggle for life and mainten
ance of home that the man with
the shovel only can know are
over for him. But there in a mo
ment of time desolation settled
down upon a home when the bit
ter word came to the young wife '
and two small children. Acci
dental death, the burial permit j
will indicate. What horror- -
haunted tragedy lurks in that
cruel word. Accident. Must man
to win his bread for himself and '
his dear ones do so under the
shadow of possible doom? Is
’.here no way to furrow the
earth and lay the conduit with
out the sacrifice of a life that
overwhelms some hearts with
sorrow? The accident is report
ed; we say it was too bad, and
the smug old world moves on.
Readers Like, Dislike Jubilee Edition
(Editors note: Since our mammoth Diamond ■
Jubilee Edition went into the mail June 30, The
Frontier has received hundreds of congratula
tory messages and a stray condemnation or
two. Hundreds of extra copies have been sold
and mailed to most of the 48 states and sever
al countries abroad. One woman cancelled her
subscription because of a reference made by <
the Jubilee editor that she thought was unnec
essary. An agitated Phoenix, Ariz. reader—a
former resident—wrote in and that letter—
along with a cross-section of complimentary
ones—is reproduced below):
★ ★ ★
STATE OF NEBRASKA
Executive Office
Lincoln, July 11, 1949
Mr. Romaine Saunders, Editor
The Frontier Diamond Jubilee Edition,
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Dear Romaine:
Just got back to the office today, and, among
other things, I found the Diamond Jubilee Edi
tion of the Frontier on my desk. It is an excel
lent piece of work, and I want to offer my con
gratulations to you, to Publisher Cal Stewart and
the entire Frontier staff for turning out such a
fine paper.
As a former newspaper man, I can fully realize
the work that such an edition entails. However,
the enjoyment that many oldtimers, and others,
will get from it will more than repay you for
your efforts, I am sit e.
Good luck to you always.
Sincerely, VAL PETERSON.
★ ★ ★
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
f House of Representatives
Washington, D. C., July 5, 1949
Carroll W. Stewart, Publisher,
The Frontier,
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Dear Mr. Stewart:
I have just finished reading the Diamond Jubi
lee Edition of The Frontier and I want to com
plirnent you on the fine service you rendered
your community by publishing it. It will afford
the people of O’Neill and vicinity a lot of inter
esting information about the past and the devel
opment that has come through the years. Please
express my congratulations to Mr. Romaine
Saunders for the excellent job he did in assemb
ling the material for the edition.
With kindest personal regards to all the mem- j
bers of your staff, I am,
Sincerely yours,
A. L. MILLER, M. C.,
Fourth District, Nebraska.
★ ★ ★
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
State Capitol, Lincoln, 6 July 1949
Mr. Carroll W. Stewart
Publisher The Frontier
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Dear Mr. Stewart:
I have just seen a copy of the Diamond Jubilee
| Edition of The Frontier. It is magnificent. You,
I Mr. Saunders, and all who had anything to do
with it are to be congratulated on a tough job
very well done. I’m proud to have an article in it.
Very sincerely yours,
JAMES C. OLSON,
Superintendent.
Phoenix, Ariz.
July 14, 1949
Frontier: ,
I was disappointed in your 75th edition. Too
much Romaine Saunders. , . . Very skimpy about
M. F. Harrington. McNichols, Horiskey's. ... If
I had time I could remember dozens of others—
early teachers, professors, farmers. . . .
MIKE SULLIVAN.
♦ ★ ★
THE HAMBURG REPORTER
Hamburg, Iowa, July 16, 1949
Frontier, O’Neill, Nebr.:
Have been reading, as time permitted, your ex
(Continued on page 4-A)
Hollywood, on the hunt for
such things, lists 10 most dra
matic sound as follows: The ba
by’s first cry, the shriek of a
siren, blast of a foghorn, the
slow drip of water, galloping
herd of horses, distant train
whistle, the thunder of breakers
on the rocks, the roar of a forest
lire and the howling of a dog.
A country editor came out once
with his view of what constitut
ed the most pleasant sound,
which ran something like this:
Though a man may have a rasp
ing voice that like a scythe doth
mow you, ’tis sweeter than
sweet music when he says,
Here’s what I owe you!
• • •
In the display window of one
of those swank stores where
they try to impress you with
“quality” by the medium of high
For a Good Time
VISIT THE
OLD
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CLUB
Elgin. Nebr.
★
• Fine Food
• Dancing
• Entertainment
★
Members and their guest*
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prices, hung a lady’s dres6 that
a man might wad up and put in
his pocket price marked $97, a
line drawn over the $97 with $70
written in, what they would take
—maybe less—for that morsel of
feminine attire. Show windows
about town are a study in price
tags that have been marked
dowm.
• • •
11 was the regret of both the
publisher and the editor of the
Diamond Jubilee number of
The Frontier that photographs
of a few of O'Neill's prominent
people of a past generation
could not be found. Pictures
of these would have given a
completeness to that feature of
the paper. Producing such a
paper was a large undertaking
but all concerned went into it
with enthusiasm. The result
has been gratifying, yet within
the scope of 64 pages there
was not room for all the mai
ler that had been prepared.
Thai the fruitage of the effort
has met with popular favor is
also gratifying and has ex
ceeded expectations. That I
have had a part in placing in
thousands of homes stories
and material of pioneer life
in Holt county gives me per
sonal pleasure.
WJAG . . 780 on your dial!
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of that goal . . . The slogan “YOU CAN BUY WITH CON
FIDENCE AT COUNCIL OAK’’ was not born in the mind
of an advertising agency — it was on the lips of grateful
customers who had found quality at low everyday prices
We cherish that customer confidence and will continue to
do our utmost to preserve and DESERVE it.
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COOKIES SSSfwoD.1 &33c
COCONUT ?“fBEDBDAEGD 15c
CARNATION MILK, 2 for. 25c
Warm Warm Weather Calls for Sugar Cured . .
READY-TO-EAT
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Mild Cure
SUMMER SAUSAGE
For the Cold Meat Tray
59c lb.
Cello Wrap
BACON SQUARES
27c lb.
Sirloin STEAK
Govt. Inspected
Per Lb. 59c
TENDER, TASTY SHOULDER CUTS
BEEF ROASTSu
STANDING RIB ROASTS, lb. 57c
FRESH GROUND
PURE BEEF c
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