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Editorial 8t Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL, NEBR.
' CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
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HIGHWAY 281
After taking a short rough ride over segments of highway 281
in Holt county, it is apparent why progressive, civic minded busi
ness men in O’Neill and through the state and even nationally have
embarked on a program to have the route put in better shape.
The segments of the route, North and South of O Neill are un
doubtedly typical of the unpaved parts of the national highway.
The author puts no claim on being a highway or road engineer,
but it is evident these segments are unsatisfactory for a national
highway.
It is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of attracting business
and tourist travel, not only to O’Neill but to every town on the
six-state route.
With parts of the North-South route in their present condition
it can be seen why tourists, truck lines, public transportation
route over highways that are in better condition, thus avoiding
O’Neill.
It is believed when the roacl is paved from North Dakota to
Texas, there will be many more tourists, state and local farmers,
freight companies and public transportation transacting business
all along the route.
There is no need to review the situation to Holt county resi
dents. , . _,
However, many observers believe the chances of repairs and
improvements along the route are “favorable.’
Recently a national highway 281 association was formed for
the systematic improvements for the road. This association was
formed as a nucleus*for state associations to work around.
Recently a meeting of the delegates from Butte, Spencer and
O’Neill conferred, and decided the segment of the road South from
the junction of highways 281 and 12 to Midway was the poorest
in the three-town area.
Recently Gov. Val Peterson told members of the state high
way 281 association from this area, if Butte, Spencer and O’Neill
would decide where the road was the poorest in their area he
would attempt to obtain appropriations to have a six-mile stretch
improved. Governor Peterson stipulated, however, any paving or
oil that would be laid now, must connect with some already down.
Recently state highway officials said a stretch of 281 South
of Red Cloud to the Northern border of Kansas would be improved
this year.
Recently the stute’s chief executive talked “favorably ol
blacktop on the section of the arterial highway North of O’Neill.
Nonetheless, with all of the recent activity by the state and
national highway 281 groups it is hoped the road will meet the
standards of a national highway in the near future.
When the road is improved, it will provide the residents ol
Holt county with a road that will attract them to travel the North
South route in trading, business and pleasure activities. CWA
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Signs of Fall continue to multiply from day-to-day.
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By the way, what has become of those “flying saucers” wt
used to hear so much talk about?
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Talking about radio programs, we would suggest that less
quantity and more quality would be agreeable to the average in
telligent listener.
Sunday Night
On the Stage
BROADWAY
AND DANCE AFTER SHOW
Review — Laughs, Music, Dancing
featuring
• BARBARA KELLY
SCREEN AND RADIO STAR
• LEW POWERS
OUTSTANDING COMEDIAN
• DON ZARRUL
"THE MAN WITH THE SUPERSONIC TAPS"
Plus a Star-Studded Cast
MUSIC BY
RODNEY SINCLAIR
The Baron of the Bluet
Direct from 18 Weeks
On Broadway
ONE SHOW ONLY
Sun., Sept. 25th - 8 p. m.
O’NEILL LEGION HALL
Sponsored by American Legion
Adulti. $1; Children, 50c; Dance only. 75c, tax tncl.
j Prairieland Talk —
Swedish Determination Is Factor
In State-Wide Gambling Cleanup
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
Hay fever victims have taken
off for higher altitudes, while
others seek lower levels for
heartfelt reasons.
• * •
In one California community
there is a penalty of $500 or six
months in jail for catching a but
terfly. Annual
____________ ly one million
Romaine
Saunders
Monarcn but
terflies swarm
in from Alaska
and other Nor
thern regions
Winter in one
locality. That
so delicate bits
o f animat e d
life can wing
their way in |
safety and un- j
erringly mol-e i
than 3,000'
miles a n d |
bring their sil
ken beauty to\
rest year by year in the same
grove of stalwart pines is one of
nature’s marvels.
• • •
Chicago newspaper printers
have been on strike for a year
and as one of such craftsman I
am somewhat ashamed of them.
They are being paid for their
idleness out of a fund created by
I assessment of local unions
[ throughout the country. Single
men are paid $40; married men
received $60 each week. Some j
local unions are withdrawing
their support. Craftsmen who j
are able to carry on and yet feel!
free to live off of the toil of
others have lost their self-respect
and cast a shadow on the pro
fession that has written upon its
scroll the names of some of the
country’s great since Ben Frank
lin put into print his first line
of type.
• * •
Saline county Wilber, with
1,400 patriots whose ancestral
roots reached into old Bohemia, ]
the county capital, has miles of
ripening corn fields if nothing
else. If the county harbors the
same'tribal offspring as the prin
cipal town they have a very
thrifty class of farmers. Some
folks to the soil are born and
they make of a farm not only a
thing to fill granaries and cribs
but make of it a home. Wilber
has four grain elevators but
these may be wholly inadequate
to take care of the season’s yield.
• • •
City dwellers cordially wel
comed their folks from the farm
during state fair week. It would
be unfair to say the cordiality
was inspired by the two fat hens
dressed ready for the oven, the
box of fresh country eggs and
the baskets heaped with potatoes
and red-ripe tomatoes. However,
it might not be unfair to say that
such offerings, reducing the
pressure on the home budget,
have something to do with the
• invitation to come again.
* • •
Having licked a dozen or so of
those big postage stamps made
to accommodate a team and wag
on you feel like licking the gent
that devised the monstrosity.
• t •
A "lady section gang” has un
der their care a section of the
Alaska railroad. Maybe as a gal
lant gesture but more likely in
dead earnest the road manager
says the ladies have their section
of track in the best shape of any
on the line.
• • •
An honest estimate of the late
state fair permits neither flat
tery nor exaggeration. I don’t
know where will be found the
equal of agricultural, livestock
factory and home product exhi
bits. The fair grounds, fenced
and padlocked so even a poor
! Kid can’t ket in without paying
tne toil at the gate, incloses a
city, farms, ranches, exhibition
halls, hot dog stands and every
coneivable attraction and educa
tional features in the industries
of tne great prairieland region,
r lood lights are needed in the
oarns and exposition halls to
dispell the gloom and render a
clearer view of the exhibits'. The
livestock on display takes the
eye of a prairie wolf from the
grass lands. More and more the
polled cattle are gaining favor
and the exhibits of the blacks
and reds this year outnumbered
other breeds of beef cattle and
from the throngs that moved
through the horse barns there
is wide-spread interest in the
massive draft animals and dain
ty little ponies. The state fish
i exhibit was a sight to enthrall
the piscatorial experts and had
Pat Donohoe looked into that
pool of clear water, lousy with
big fisli he might have wanted
to bribe the guard to let him
cast in the pool. Much of the at
traction for fair going crowds
function apart from the exhibits
and probably some would be
disappointed if they came away
from a fair without having been
“taken in." Horse races were
eliminated on several days be
cause of a muddy track.
• • •
Autumn rains have nearly
drenched the land. September
21 marks the end of the Sum
mer of 1949 on time’s official
scroll when the heavens weep as
they pour forth equinoctial
storms. This September these
have arrived 11 days early. The
day has been gloomy, the earth
sodden, and the night closed in
! tarless and flickering street
lights are all but helpless in the
overwhelming shadow. The air
holds a chill, gas has been light
ed or the cord of the electric
heater plugged into the wall,
lights aglow and the homes
along the streets and boulevards
shelter the families of the city
from the gloom and rain and
wind without. The rain washes
the muck and mess away that
marks the trail of men and wat
ers the growing things of earth.
Floral bloom and clover leaf will
soon fade, foliage of elm and
birch and oak and maple will
turn to gold, the frost upon the
pumpkin, the fodder in the
shock and the walnuts gathered
in.
• • •
Two major strikes have broke
loose upon the land. With labor
better paid for less time spent
on the job than ever before or
anywhere, the average citizen
does not know what it is all
about. One railroad with routes
in Nebraska is out of operation
on all lines. Towns and cities on
these lines have had the United
States mail service interrupted.
If there was a Teddy Roosevelt
in the white house the army
would be ordered to operate the
mail trains. In view of these
strikes and the general trend of
organized labor maybe what Mr.
Pegler has to say about it is
something more than the general
run of his hide-peeling on
slaughts.
“To citizens who desire to face
the truth,” he says, “ I recom
mend frank acknowledgment of
the fact that unionism is an ene
my of labor and a corruption of
government. Labor, meaning
people who work, is no more vir
tuous than merchants, doctors,
clergymen or public officials, it
is customary to goose-grease la
bor for votes and retail patron
age, but nobody knows better
than the working people them
selves that they contain their
due proportion of loafers, coun
terfeits and rascals. The decision
that unionism is a menacing
fraud calls for moral and intel
lectual courage.”
Maybe this blanket charge is
carrying it too far but what few
exceptions there may be does
not mitigate the general ominous
trend.
• • •
Attorney General Anderson is
out after the gamblers. Whether
its a penny shot at bingo or big
stakes at poker all “chance”
games are under the ban. And
with the constitution and laws
of Nebraska backing him, to
gether with his strong Swedish
determination, the attorney gen
eral evidently means business
in a move for a state-wide clean
up.
1,027 Cattle Sell
At Fredrickson’s
One thousand and twenty-sev- !
en cattle and 190 head of hogs |
were marketed here at the
Thursday, September 15, live-j
stock sale at the Fredrickson
livestock commission company.
The cattle market suffered a
. relapse of 50 cents to one-dollar
j per hundredweight, in sympathy
with this week’s decline on all
! classes of cattle at the river mar
I kets.
Choice steers still were in
1 strong demand and probably
were the only cattle not hit by
this week’s drop.
The best steers were light and
sold at $22.30 per hundredweight
while the bulk of the yearling
steers brought $20 to $21.50.
Yearling heifers sold on a wide
spread from $17 to $19.75. Steer
calves sold at a top of $26 most
ly $22.50 to $25 with heifer
calves going from $21.50 to
$24.50. Fat cows brought $14.50
to $16.50 with breeding cows
selling for $13.75 to $16.00 while
canners and cutters brought
$11.50 to $13.75.
In the hog market, top butcher
hogs brought $21.40, mostly $21
to $21.35; sows sold for $17 to
$20; good feeder pigs brought
$23 to $24 per hundredweight.
Adv.
Real Estate Transfers
WD — Hans C Lauridsen to
James Lauridsen 9-13-49 $1- %
Int in S%- SEy4NEy4 30 W&
sw>/4- swy4Nwy4 29- Nwy4
W%NEy4 31-32-13.
WD — James Lauridsen t o!
Hans C Lauridsen 9-13-49 $1- %
1 Int in EM>Eyj 31- SWy4 32-32-13.
Selling At Auction
480 ACRE HOLT COUNTY. NEBR. FARM
Wednesday, Sept. 28th—2 o’clock P. M.
(Sale will be held on the premises)
LOCATION: 17 miles Northeast of O'Neill, Nebr. Just
mile East off of Opportunity road (all weather graveled road.)
Only 2 miles to country schooL Rural mail route. Approved
for REA.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Southwest Vi Section 10 and
North Vi of Section 15. Township 30. Range 10, West of 6
P.M. Containing 480 Aires.
THE LAND: 480 Acres, of which 200 acres are farm land,
275 acres of hayland and pasture, 5 acres in lots and buildings.
THE IMPROVEMENTS: House built new in 1941, has 6
rooms and bath, full cemented basement, an excellent home.
Granary and machine shed, size 16 x 60 ft.. 2 small granaries,
8 x 20 ft. each, brooder house. Well and windmill.
WILL BE OFFERED AS FOLLOWS: You can either buy
it improved as it now stands, or present owner will reserve
all buildings and you buy just the land, fences, wells, wind
mills. You may buy the Southwest quarter aone, the North
half section alone, or all of it—IMPROVED OR UNIM
PROVED.
TERMS: 25% cash payment day of sale, settlement and
possession on March 1st. 1950. There is a Federal Land Bank
loan now on the place which the purchaser may assume if he
desires. Taxes last year $130. Insurance policy of $7500 will be
assigned the buyer if sold with improvements. Warranty deed
and abstract will be furnished.
WILL ALSO SELL SOME FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD
GOODS.
Max H. Berger, Owner
O'Neill, Nebraska
ERNIE WELLER, Auctioneer—Atkinson,, Nebr. Phone 6131
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