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Editorial X Bu.in.a. Oflic.t: 10 Souili Fourth Sirt.1
O'NEILL. NEBR.
-CARROLL W STEWART. Editor and Publisher_
*-Entered the postoff.ce at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska^
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^LoT„hN»rnS.PiaSto“ "a'tion and ihe Audi. Bureau
of Circulations.
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Hospital Is in Sight
St Anthony’s hospital soon will be a reality.
In a banquet here last week, the fund-raising campaign was
formally drawn to a close-the fund-raising having exceeded
the arbitrary 100-thousand-dollar top.
Still needed, however, is money to equip this splendid new
health center that will serve the medical needs of people in the
r _t Sand Hills Region. To accomplish this end, room memorials
S^bel^sold tor one-thousand-dollais each. Already 10 of these
memorial have been purchased or pledged. It has been estimated
that cost of furnishing rooms and equipping the hospital will run
at about one-thousand-dollars per bed—or 40-thousand-doUars.
* Many persons have given of their time, talents and treasure
to make the hospital plan come true.
A hospital such as that envisioned for the O'Neill region is
a big business proposition. It is big in relation to other enter
prises in the community. As such a great deal of money is re
quired to build it and sound management is required to operate
it after if has been built and set in operation.
Workers for the hospital for several years» have been con
fronted with steadily rising construction costs In f act, d can b
— r.rssr
in Holt county banks.
The point is that St. Anthony’s hospital aaenvisionedm^y,
have cos? four j^S^^rSyernment early agreed*
popular subscription. less
rinSbS'ess.rZ. St'S JTWancL. who wUl own and
“’’“xhe’sistosfesrly in the program agreed to “assume any
rcasonab^ mdebtedneM nsjderable hospital management as back
ground? know that if they are to uae off the indebtedness and
make the hospital an operational success they must have
facilities, equipment and staff to insure its success. This is a
generally accepted fact.
Indebtedness" figure worked out on paper 3 a years ag
That the Federal government, aware of an acute need for
medS faculties of thlf type, is liberalizing its PJ <| and wJU
lcast proportionately increase its grant, gives the St. Ant™^J
^mmitSTevery reason to keep open the avenues for reelvmg
contributions. - .. * ”*
Tho Frnntipr takes the view that the more favorable tne
positTon oMhe’sisters ?n the operational picture .he lewer w.ll he
the*hospital’s fees, the greater will be the assurance of^St. A^
thony’s success, and come economic revers . ick
hospital will stand firm and strong and ready to heal the
Summing up:
While the fund-raising campaign is formally ended, avenues
are still open for receiving additional contributions ai
*C""more^nKOT^memoria Ls* must he sold to insure adequate furn
ishing and equipping of St. Anthony , hospital A convement
financial arrangement may be made in which income tax• M
ductlons may be absorbed by the donors in three different caien
dflr H you haven’t already helped the St. Anthony’s hospital
cause, why not do so today?
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When a cold spell moved into the region over the weektn
and radio newscasters told of snow in the Northwest, the V oice
of The Frontier” cleared its throat and prepared to do yeoman s
duty for which it won recognition last Winter.
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Dollar Days are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Read
The Frontier advertisements for a preview of bargains that have
seldom been excelled.
Howard Graves Weds
in Sioux City—
Miss Joanne Mickey and Ho
ward Buckley Graves, both of
Sioux City, exchanged marri
age vows on Sunday, October
2, at the Wakefield Methodist
church in Sioux City. The
ceremony took place at 7:30
in the evening with a reception
following in the church parlors.
Mr. Graves is the son of Mrs.
William Graves and the late
Mr. Graves who was an O’Neill
jeweler for many years. Ho
ward attended O’Neill high
family, at the time, was em
several different places before
going to Sioux City.
Here for Jubilee—
Robert Shoemaker, of Om
aha, spent the Diamond Ju
bilee weekend visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Shoe
tnaker. _
Rummage Sale
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Oct., 13, 14,15
Building West of Saunto’s
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
| Prairieland Talk —
Modern Teen-Agers and Adults In
Mad Race lor Giddy Entertainment’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — In the swank
modern home touch a button
flip a faucet, plug in a cord
and your art
surrounded Dy
a score of
"dingbat s’’
that respond
to a touch to
make of home
life just a
swell job of
loafing. Mod
ern man de
mands it, not
alone within
the confines
of mumcipau
Romaine but on the
_ highlands or
Saunders m the low
lands of ljfe out on the soil
Looking for a home? And the
house searcher asks, “Is it mod
ern?”
A little white cottage where
you brought in the water from
a spring or well, and had a
woodpile to draw on to keep
the stove hot; a sod house
and a haybumer, a log cabin
or a dugout still would give
the thrill of ownership.
Our ancestors made owner
ship their security. Young Am
erica rests its hopes for secur
ity on the uncertainly of state
assistance plans. The desire to
live for the moments in the
comforts of modern life has
brought on the housing prob
lem. The multitudes have not
the means to build, buy or
rent here when confronted
with such standards. The hous
ing problem could be solved
if bright, young Americans
would start life as their fath
ers and mothers did.
Two score years have left
their wrinkles on Prairieland
since the night I climbed a
ladder attached to the wall
and crawled through an open
ing in the ceiling to the attic
“guest room” in the three
room home of a couple, when
in middle life, living in the
quiet security and peace on
Prairieland, miles from the
nearest habitation. I discovered
that if I moved a foot eithei
way from the center of the
attic my head encountered a
rafter. I got into bed — and
such a bed! The soft down of
duck feathers took me to a
friendly embrace as I stretch
ed my legs for the night. By
reaching out a hand I toubh
the roof, over which swept the
night breeze. It played among
the wires that supported a gal
vanized pipe that served as
chimney, humming a bit of a
weird Prairieland tune tha
soon lulled me to sleep.
When morning brought the
attic guest to consciousness,
strange, alluring odors min
gled with that of the burn
ing hay aroused the sleeper
and after dressing I de
scended the ladder to find
the breakfast on the table.
After washing from the tin
wash pan and drying on a
flour sack towel, I sat down
to such a breakfast as today
would make you weep for
joy.
There was quail on-toast, hot
biscuits, a mountain of butter,
cream as thick as batter, a
poached egg, sand cherry
sauce, hot drink, a bowl of
cooked cereal on which you
could pour a quart of cream
if you cared to. That break
fast was' a fruitage of the
simple life out where men and
women were self-sustaining.
And the couple, within the
confines of their little Prairie
land cottage, had evidence of
culture. There was a piano
with sheet music and a shelf
of books, with bits of adorn
ment in bright colors impart
ing cheer to the living room.
No grand, modern dwelling
place has the restful charm
and contentment of home life
found in that household out
on a treeless prairie 30 miles
from O’Neill. Back over the
trail to the sod house and the
quiet country cottage? Probab
ly not. but with their passing
something fine in our Prairie
land went out, including the
quail-on-toast for breakfast.
The gent who invented the
zipper should be sent to pris
on for life. The zipper, one of
those things that are becoming
too numerous, looks like a great
thing until you try to make
them work. There was a story
in a school reader of a fellow
selling razors. A gent with a
broad, black beard bought a
hand full of the razors. When
he tried them out, none of
the razors would cut a hair.
Returning them to the grafter
who had sold them, he was
informed that the razors were
made to sell, not shave. A lot
of the modem dingus’s are
made only to sell!
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One of the individuals who
likes to reduce everything to
statistics tells that Prairieland
has profited to the extent of
19-million dollars the past
season from tourist trade. How
are the figures arrived at7
Ask somebody who knows.
It is the commercial aspect
of the dollar to get in on it,
or has the community gone
mad that gluttony for the
dance and the show and the
gay whirl in gidy entertain
ment has no letup. Kids, teen
agers and adults are in the
mad race for excitement. Will
the excitement hungry hum
ans ever be fed up on life’s
husks and turn to the mor'
substantial employment of a
good book, or group gathering:
for songs or dramatic expres
sion? An earlier generation
found enjoyment in the ex
ercise of music and literary
talent which had much to do
with the development of men
and women of substantial ab
bility for which the O’Neill
community became noted. The
recent Diamond Jubilee cele
bration should have held us
for awhile. But, the next night
witnessed another revelry at
a dc.llar-a-throw to enter the
door. Maybe it will take a run
of hard times, when every
dime is needed to buy bread,
to call a halt to a generation,
which St- Paul mentioned as
being “lovers of pleasure.”
* * *
From a bright young gen
eration bred on Prairieland
come bright new ideas to
set a bright new course for
GOP. The old boys who
held the Republican party
to a consistent course, have
no illusions. They know
what it has meant to go into
the arena from time to time
and hold Nebraska steady
in the face of political brib
ery in the form of federal
subsidies and grants,
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That Nebraska has stayed
to the Republican political
moorings in the face of the
handouts which have “broke”
the United States treasury, is
an evident token of the in
telligent understanding of the
sons of the soil. Along with
the labor union element, farm
folks have been “goose-greas
I ed” for votes by new deals
and fair deals and rank deals.
They have taken the pie and
gone merrily on their way.
The GOP old guard in Neb
raska has no apologies to
make.
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A hard bitten “amazon”
writes of her experiences as a
reporter for a newspaper in a
city of three million. She un
covered evidence that sent pi
ous cut-throats to the electric
chair. The cut-throats were
convicted of murdering mem
bers of their own families to
collect on insurance policies.
The murders were made to ap
pear as accidents- There are
still some pretty low-down
specimens of the race.
• * •
The Box Butte county
clerk talks up to the state
auditor who thought he
found something irregular
out there. The county clerk,
a lady, made somebody in
the state house at Lincoln
blush his best pink.
Two small children perish
ed in the fire that destroyed
the one-room home of a Lin
coln family. The father of this
family, at the time, was em
ployed as a laborer in an out
of-town community. He had
just been notified by his boss
that his wages were being lev
ied on by a Lincoln doctor
when word came of the burn
ing of his home and 'his two
little children.
* * *
Gamblers are indignant. More
than that, they are mad. And
being mad, they have come
forward with a proposition to
change the Nebraska constitu
tion to confirm to the demands
of the trade. The gambling
fraternity can find a setup to
suit the most ferocious patron
of the tables by moving across
the Roeky mountains into Ne
vada.
* * *
In the window of a beauty
parlor in a Pennsylvania town
hangs a card on which is pririt
this warning: “Don’t whistle
at a girl coming out of here;
she may be your grandmoth
er!”
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Now comes the gold and
shaded tints of October. For a
month the “weather - wise”
have forecasted a visit from
hoary frost. But September
draws to a close with the
gorgeous Asters and morning
glories in full bloom. Early
Autumn brings prairieland na
ture’s most delightful days.
The Springtime has the inspir
ation of life awakened, the
beauty and fragrance of open
ing buds when we have stepped
across the threshold of Winter
onto the highway of another
season for production; but Au
tumn brings the quiet charm of
an evening after the day’s toil.
On a Summer night a hand- j
ful of O’Neill patriots assem- |
gled in the court room of the
old court house. The few that
showed up came in response
to an announcement that M.
F. Harrington would give a
talk on government ownership
of the railroads. Mr. Harring
ton was usually accorded the
inspiration there is in a house
full to talk to, but that night
there was a nearly full house
of empty seats. This was due to
both a lack of interest and the
fact that the assembly was little
known. With the passing years,
railroads have become less im
portant, but the country is not
ready for them to fold. It is com
ing much closer to the need of I
some additional government con
trol to prevent the suspension of
operations on entire railroad
system because of strikes than it
was in Mr. Harrington’s day.
But what he proposed that night
at the old court house to a scan
ty audience, may yet reach frui
tion.
Mayor Proclaims Fire
Prevention Wee k
The week October 9-15 is na
tional fire prevention week and
this week O’Neill’s Mayor H. E.
Coyne officially proclaimed fire
prevention week for O’Neill.
Firms cooperating with The
Frontier in emphasizing the
event were: O’Neill Insurance A
gency, O’Neill Cleaners, R. H.
(“Ray”) Shriner, Coyne Hard
ware, Ralph N. Leidy, O’Neill
National Bank, Moore-Noble
Lbr. & Coal Co., L. G. Gillespie 1
and Spelts-Ray Lbr. Co.
(A two-page advertisement in
last week’s edition.)
Miss Clara Shoemaker, of
Lynwood, Calif., has been vis
iting relatives and friends here. ,
1,400 Cattle Sold
At Fredrickson's
Fourteen hundred cattle and
500 hogs were sold at the *
Fredrickson livestock commis
: sion company here, Thursday,
October .
The market was very active
with top quality steer calves
and yearling steers in broad
demand. Heifers were harder
to sell but cleared nicely at
prices less attractive than the
prices of the steers. Stock and
breeding cows were scarce but
moved readily at 50 cents to $1
higher than prices of the
Thursday, September 18, sale.
Steer calves topped at $27
mostly $22 to $25; Heifers
calves topped at $24.30 mostly
$20. to $22.50; yearlings top
ped at $22.85 mostly $21 to
$22 and yearling heifers top
Pe£ ft $19.60. mostly $17.50 to
$18-75.
The hog market reached a
high of $18.30 with 200 to 270
pounders selling at $18 to $18.
25; 270 to 100 pounders $17.50
to $18; good light sows brought
up to $17-75 with the heavier
kinds on down to $15 on some w
sows over 500 pounds.
EARNS ADVANCEMENT
Richard D. Morgan, USN, of
O’Neill, has been advanced to
personnel man, third - class,
while serving with the fleet
aircraft service squadron 114
based at Kodiak, Alaska.
Thorin Assists in
Wood Lake Sale—
Ed Thorin, Chambers auc
tioneer, Friday assisted in the
O. W. Walcott registered Here
ford sale at Wood Lake.
Drs. Bennett &
I Cook
VETERINARIANS
} — O'NEILL —
Phones: 318. 424. 304
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