PAGE 2—August 18. 1949 , Editor!." sTbu.^s. Office.: 10 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR --5XRROLL wTsTEWART, Editor and Publisher_ "SS AHcfo« SSS-^32* „ .^ond-clM. mail matter under the Act «MU”*braaka Press A'aanciauon ahd the Audi. Bureau of Circulations. --i^bliihidbalMO—Publiahwl Each Thursday ^uea. AU "ubacnpt.cnr are a.ricdy paid-in-aduanee^_ It s F air Time Again Its fail time a^ Holt County Agricultural society, One of the officials c* county fair, casually remarked which annually sponsors oft-abused term “bigger and 52 £ ™ and greater sense than ever ^The idea was picked up and has been used in some of the fair’s promotional activity for the 1949 exposition. The Holt county fair, it might be said, is staging a come back and during the recent post-war years it has mounted in popularity and in qeneral acceptance. In several Nebraska counties fairs were suspended during the wa. and have failed to be revived. In Holt county agriculture-particularly Iwestock-hM made great strides and this improvement is being reflected at the fair where the county’s finest products are shown and where fitting recognition is made. The Frontier believes that the county fair, generally speaking, is one of the finest, most wholesome institutions in the country. We sincerely feel that fairs should be encouraged, exhibitors should receive ample recognition, and that the custom should be perpetuated and improved upon as years go by. In the livestock industry alone, Holt county products are aecond-to-none in the world, not to mention our hay, bluegrass, and other products. It seems to us we’d be a poor fish if we didn’t provide a means to display and admire these wares. In addition, the fair is a folksy place—where you can meet your neighbors and friends, where there is an abundance of good, clean entertainment. Gone are the day* of the horse races and fan fare that accompanied the original Holt county fairs ih O'Neill. But down at Chambers, fair-goers will see near-perfect specimens of modern agriculture, they will witness a first-class rodeo, they will meet their friends and they will have an opportunity to witness high-type entertainment. The Frontier feels that the rebounding Holt county fair—this year avowed to be “bigger and better than ever”—isn’t a mere coincidence. It is the result of year-around interest and activity on the part of a handful of good citizens. We are impelled to men tion here the names of some of those who are helping to make this year’s fair “bigger and better.” They are: Officers (1949): George Rowse, Chambers, president; Lloyd Gleed, Chambers, vice-president; Edwin R. Wink, Chambers, sec retary; Vern Sageser, Amelia, treasurer. Directors: H. R. Holcomb, Chambers; Harry Ressel, O’Neill; C. V. Robertson, Chambers, T. E. Alderson, Chambers; Steve Shavlik, Chambers; Henry Wood, Ewing, Superintendents: Henry Wood, Ewing, livestock; Carl Lambert, Ewing, farm products; Bernice Grimes, Chambers, fruit and flowers; Mrs. Loa Hubbard, Chambers, needle art; A. Neil Dawes and Viola Damkroger, 4-H club; Wave Farrier, Chambers, pantry stores. This issue of The Frontier includes a 24-page supplement The supplement contains the official premium list for the 1949 fair. The tabloid is a departure from the usual premium hand book and a copy of this issue of The Frontier is entering virtually every mail box in Holt county, conveying the official premium list. Arrangements for publication of the premium list were in the hands of the fair officials. The Frontier is proud to have a vital and important part in the Holt county fair . . . and we’ll see you there! n n n The ghastly tool of automobile tragedies mounts from day to day. ★ ★ ★ Some of those radio script writers surely have vivid imagi nations. ★ ★ ★ Incredible, but true. We saw an advertisement of Christmas cards the other day. ★ ★ ★ Why doesn’t somebody propose a law prohibiting static? Withers Family Moves to Omaha — ATKINSON — F. W. Withers and family moved early this week from Atkinson to Omaha where M. Withers will be agen cy supervisor for Union National Life Insurance Co. Mr. Withers has been a life long resident of Atkinson. He has been in the insurance bus iness since 1932 and district manager for Union National for 10 years. E. C. McKay will be Mr. With er's successor for Union Nation al Dale Fullerlon Honored On Anniversary— AMELIA — Dale Fullerton was the honored guests at a birthday party Thursday, Aug ust 4. It was his seventh birth day. Guests present with their mothers were: Joan and Beth Fullerton, Ardath and Connie Barnett, Rochelle and Duane Sammons, Marcia Ruth Wid man, Dennie and Connie Wer ner, Roger and Darla Jean Waldo, Dwayne and Gayle Standage, Jimmie and Dennie Doolittle and Phyllis Fullerton. Refresher Course I I I W I Prairieland Talk — No Telling What Will Turn Up Next About Boy Who Got Start in 0 Neill By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — At 93 George Bernard Shaw is wholly indif ferent as to what the world thinks of him—a grand o 1 d man, an old nut or a silly sim pleton who tries to be funny. A pitiful fig from day-to day, with an M. D. sup porting h i s 80 odd years, trouser legs pressed stiff as a board, shining bald pate, recent ly having taken nn hie „ . third bride, Romame and trying to Saunders step 'ro*nd like a colt. Maybe that’s one way to beat the inexorable revenges of time. But another old timer says the best way to beat it is to die young. Another gent is is in evidence who wears sup penders, has elastic bands on his arms above the elbows, drives a model A and makes one concession to the moderns by going about bare-headed. Who was it said, “What fools we mortals be?" Maybe we should qualify that by inserting the adjective harmless. • • • On the other corner of the block there is a former pal of Sir Harry Lauder by the name of James Rodney. He and Lau der mined coal together in the mines at Hamilton, Scotland, in the happy days of their youth. Lauder became a world stage notable while Rodney is content to be a common citiz en in his adopted land, main tain his home, care for his blind wife and for diversion releases his Scotch heritage in verse. Here are two stanzas from a poem on “Texas”: Our forebears sure did strut their stuff And told King George, that’s enough, This tax upon our good wives’s tea, By Heck, we won’t pay, no siree. But in these modern times, O Gee, So many taxes near swamp me. No matter how I howl and plead They tax and tax my iron steed. # • • At the state conference of Free Methodists at Ansley the name of I. I. Dixon appears as the minister for the Bethany church near Amelia. • • • With six percent of the world’s population the United States has three-fifths of the 60 million telephones in use scattered over the globe. On a rain-soaked Wednes day morning I heard the story of the haying crew that put up the hay for the church building fund of the Methodist group at Inman, as broadcast by The Frontier’s announcer, Chuck Apgar. When informed that it took the crew 15 or 20 minutes to run up a stack of hay the announcer, who was asking the questions, seemed uncertain as to whether he heard right. Maybe because Chuck is from down this way where they take a day for putting up a stack of hay he thought he was being kidded. A Holt county outfit could put ! up all the hay in Lancaster county in a day if they could get at it. This is a grain and pig country down here and the clod hoppers are hopeful of plenty of corn for the pigs. • • • The Seattle Times recently carried a picture and story of i four old timers at the Wash | ington Press association meet I ing. One of these was our ; Homer Campbell, who was an | early day O’Neill printer and who contributed two interest ing stories to The Frontier’s Diamond Jubilee Edition. Be sides Homer’s achievements in the printing and publishing business, the Times gives us another slant on his attain ments and says he was the first president of the Ralston male chorus, a vocal group of Seattle men. No telling what 1949 ALL WEEK LONG TO APPEAR IN NEBRASKA State Fair Grounds Lincoln l —— r DESPERATE ( OP? VMfEOS! WEEDS! MEASURES WEEOS! I CANT TAKE IT! > MR- GREEN- IM BEAT1. I QUIT! , WMATS OP? ^BEFORE *OU 6IVE^/ MfOW! ARETHOSE^ UP FOR 6000^ V vwEEDS BURNED UP*. WHV NOTrT\ ^ vjOOKATTHAT p . TRY / SMOKELESS FtAME ' ) LP&AS V MOW‘EM DOWN! I FLAME yt.^( THIS IS FOR ME ! 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