J^wlFrontier
Editorial & Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL. NEBR.
* caRROLlT W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher_
“ Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
M aecond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
A. 1879 This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Assoc iation, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
-Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; else
where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided
on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance._
How Did We Do Without?
The spacious American legion auditorium is a busy place.
It’s facilities for meetings (formal and informal), banquets, lec
tures, dances, parties, educational films, etc., etc., are in demand
almost every day.
This well-equipped community center, paid for in a miracu
lously short time by a hardworking band of World War I and II
veterans and their ladies’ auxiliary, today is the accepted center
for a whirl of activity of an essential, semi-essential and just plain
entertainment nature.
Night-after-night the building is illuminated from tront-to
rear. It is an imposing sight for travelers passing on O'Neill's
Douglas street.
Simonson post’s quonset-type home is visited each day by
dozens of strangers. They are attracted by the clubrooms where
excellent taste has been shown throughout in decoration and com
fort The variety of entertainment in the auditorium proper
ranging from a routine Boy Scout meeting to an overflow crowd
dancing to the music of a “name" band-regularly impresess cas
ual visitors.
The point is: How did we get along for so many years with
out these facilities?
The recent $5-per-plate banquet in behalf of St. Anthony’s
hospital presented a sight to behold. Three hundred and seventy
five persons were royally served a fine chicken dinner in a mini
mum time—a tribute not only to the auxiliary, which handled the
banquet arrangements, but to the facilites of the building.
Few organizations in O’Neill have not already availed them
selves of the facilities of Simonson post’s auditorium. As the town
continues to grow, the auditorium’s place in the scheme of things
becomes increasingly important.
Any wonder we ask:
How did we get along without it?
X X X
r*
The Frontier still has on hand a limited number of Diamond
Jubilee editions — the 64-page whopper that ranks as one of the
biggest single editions of any weekly newspaper in Nebraska.
They are available at one dollar each. However, the Jubilee edi
tion will be given free with each NEW subscription for a limited
time only. Subscription rate is $2.50 per year in Nebraska; $3 per
year elsewhere. All subscriptions are payable in advance.
★ ★ ★
Mr. Saunders isn’t convinced that football is all that it is
cracked up to be. Friday night he should have seen the Cardinals
from St. Mary’s pull out in front of their noted opponents, Dwight
Assumption of David City. He would have tossed his Prairieland
chapeau into the air with the sound of the final gun—like a hun
dred or so St. Mary’s faithfuls did.
★ ★ ★
O’Neill’s new white way will make the city even more prom
inent, more distinctive out on Prairieland.
'' - """ " —'
PUBLIC SALE
I HAVE DECIDED to leave O’Neill and
will sell the following described
household goods at the place, located 4
blocks East and 2 blocks South of the cen
ter of town, on:
Sat., Oct. 29
- Starting 2 P. M.
2 Beds
2 Dressers
1 Couch
6 Chairs
2 Tables
2 Heating Stoves
1 Three-Burner
Oil Stove
2 Rocking Chairs
1 Kitchen Cabinet
1 Ice Box
1 Sewing Machine
Many Other Articles Too Numerous
To Mention !
W. L. Hungerford
— OWNER —
BECK WALLEN, Auctioneer
| Prairieland Talk —
Oblong Object Known As a Football
Resembles Jaw of Lump-Jaw Steer
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
u
LINCOLN—That thing they
call a football is .it for the
moment. In the streets, on the
school grounds, at the stad
iums of the professionals Young
America of school and college
Romaine
Saunders
age put ior
th vast en
ergies in
chasing after
an oblong
object that
looks like the
jaw of a
lump jaw
steer. The
players strike
a n attitude
and it is
someth i n g
of a comedy
to see the
boys on the school ground, .
legs spread wide, hands on
knees and crouched in an a
position to leap into action, j
The “lumpjaw” is fumbled
around for a minute and then
the kids go into a huddle to !
argue it out.
I wonder if the thrill of
sports have taken over where ;
once the emotions of Young
America thrilled with patriot- j
ic pride as they discussed j
among themselves the stirring
events of ’76, visualized the
gathering of patriots in re
sponse to the drumbeats when
they read the utterance o f ■
such men as Patrick Henry,
heard the pounding hoofs of
Paul Revere’s running horse
and wished that they might
have been one of the “ragged
regimentals” that stood bare
foot in the snow with Wash
ington’s army at Valley Forge.
There were the longues
of fire of statesmen, the sub
lime literature of poets and
penmen who wrote a goose
quill. The emphasis on sports
has been at the sacrifice of
other ideals. The beauty of
the language woven into lit
erature is being buried un
der the surging tide of the
commonplace.
A generation ago a school
boy read of the rumble and
grumble and roar that told
the battle was on between the
blue and the grey and a youth
ful patriot was inspired to be
come a statesman.
Childhood, youth, maturity
should have their moments of
play but the grave problems
of a distracted world are not
being mollified by the foot
ball coaches.
* * •
CIO bosses ordered an as
sessment of members to raise
a slush fund to be used in O
i hio at the next senatorial elec
! tion to defeat Senator Taft
j This has aroused citizens all ov
er the country who are making
voluntary contributions direct
to the senator to aid him in
a campaign to meet this chal
lenge. It can not be that the
voters of the great state of O
hio approve of boodle being
brought in to influence their
choice of a senator.
One less federal agency io
tell us what to do. Rent con
trol for Nebraska has term
inated and the director of
the setup has folded his
tents like the Arabs and si
lently stolen away.
• • *
There are some things in
this hard old world that start
the flow of the milk of human
sympathy. This is one of them.
I don’t know if the garnish
ment was dismissed but
through the help of the news
papers a fund as been contri
buted to see that this bereaved
father and mother will have a
new and adequate home of
their own.
* * *
Scientist announces a new
theory of the origin of the j
earth and a half column is
taken up to tell it. A world
notable of three thousand
years ago said it in these 10
words: In the beginning God
created the heavens and the
earth.
* * *
Streets and highways are
cluttered with automobiles and
traffic tragedies will continue
to be a part of the picture.
* * *
College and university at
tendance has fallen off. The
GIs have become BAs and i
PhDs. 1
I don’t know a lot about
that Brannan plan but don’t
see why the printers and bak
ers and soap makers are not
included with the farmers to
be assured “parity prices”. The
theory seems to be reduce
prices to the consumer and
maintain a high level for the
producer, the farmer get a
dollar for his patotoes and the
housewife buy them for four
bits.
The federal treasury will
lake up the slack, but, of
course, this is passed on to
the patriots who are lucky
enough to have incomes in
another tax grab.
The parity price program
now has the government load
ed down with millions of bus
hels of potatoes, millions of
pounds' of butter and cases of
eggs, dried and canned fruits,
co n an other grains and the
officials custodians find they
have got into something they
don’t know what to do with.
How long we can continue to
go forward under a program
of government created artific
ial values remain to be seen.
* * *
Nebraskans may feel a par
donable pride in the recogni
tion the state has in high
places. Gov. Peterson will be
one of the speakers at the for
um sponsored by the New
York Herald-Tribune on the
25th, with such notables as
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Her
bert Hoover and others. . . .
One gent lets it be known
that he wants the job of chair
man of the GOP in Nebraska,
an attorney down at Fairbu.y.
. . . I wonder what the busy
Nebraska housewives think of
that Yankeeland notable dame
whose exercise consists ef
turning the mattress of her
bed in the morning—or is it
about noon? . . . While the
mills of the gobs have been
grinding exceedingly slow in
the trail of 11 communists in
distant New York exceeding
agility was shown this week
here in Lincoln. The gent was
arrested on Tuesday and sen
tenced on Thursday to six
years in the penitentiary for
attempted rape of a 15-year
old. . . . Gov. George T. Mick
elson heading a party of 15
from South Dakota are sched
uled for the 19th to come in
and look us over and get the
dope on Nebraska’s power set
up.
• * •
Maybe there is an over
stock of an issue of postage
stamps the department has
plans to convert into cash.
The windows of postoffices
display a colored beauty
of the printing art announc
ing Letter Writing Week, to
begin October 16. Stamps
are not offered at reduced
rales.
• • •
Col. W. S. Barlow, U. S.
army retired, of Roswell, N.
M-, considered it reprehensible
to give small children toy
guns for play things, and cites !
specific incidents when this
practice lead to tragedy. He
considers it “terrible and
crazy” which parents should
do something about.
It was the A-bomb that
brought Nipon to his knees
and not a broadside from na
val guns, notwithstanding the
claims of a navy notable who
seems to be afflicted with
green-eyed envy.
• • •
I think six ladies ' uniformly
dressed would look nice as
pallbearers and dispel the
somber gloom of funerals.
Washed Gravel
Your Truck
Loaded or
We Deliver
SCHRAD BROS.
Ewing — Phon* 9-r-OS
r *
“’is**
Ufr i»- iw kr
TW Iihim C»
WAA! Our 2*°
HONIMMVOON IS .
k Ruinso,thanks
f TO THIS SPKSLtSf'
l SaaOKY OLD j-'i
^RANOS j fyju
r- -
GfT SMART.\OUNet_Ove
K INSTALL AN LP <*AS >
I RAN»e-ITS QUICK- <<^
•XcUTAN-SCONOlA'CAL^jf.
justlik* r^F*
OOWNTOVWN'. )
ECCvd^i
^ WHAT X
W ONOER^UU,
L-P (PROPANE) GAS CAN BE OBTAINED OF ... .
Ralph N. Leidy ... O’Neill
Visitors from Eli
Honored in Dinner
SANDCREEK — Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Hipke and boys
attended a family dinner at
the Jesse Mellor home near
Atkinson in honor of Mrs.
and Mrs. Lloyd Starr, and
Hipke’s aunt and uncle, Mr.
family, of Eli, on Sunday, Oc
tober 9
Others present at the Mel
Leonard Chaffin and family,
lor home were: Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mellor
and baby, all of Atkinson;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Summer
er and daughter, of Ewing;
and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hipke,
of Springview.
Other Sandcreek News
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Starr
day afternoon callers at the
and children, of Eli, were Fri
Russell Hipke home.
Miss Coreen Sweet called on
Mrs. Russell Hipke on Satur
day.
The bad wind on Monday,
October 10, did considerable
damage to trees and hay stacks
in this community. Russell
Hipke’s windmill was demol
ished by the gale.
Den Hunts Spend
Weekend Here—
Mr. and Mrs. Den Hunt, of
.Lincoln, both among earliest
settlers in the O’Neill colony,
spent the weekend in O’Neill
visiting in the H. D. Gr^dy
and Mrs. Margaret Stannard
homes and with other relatives
and old-time friends.
The Hunts were accompan
ied by their son, George, of
Lincoln; their daughter, Mrs.
Evelyn Howell, of Wellsville,
N- Y., and by their grand
children, Joan Hunt, of Lin
coln, and Kay Howell, of
Wellsville.
A mason by trade, Mr. Hunt
helped build the McBride and
McEvony building (now known
as the Gallagher store build
ing), as well as numerous
other buildings and houses.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were
married in O’Neill more than
a half-century ago. Mrs. Hunt
is the former Nellie Cronin.
Mrs. Derickson
New President—
The Star Get-to-Gether club
met with Mrs- Boyd Boelter
Wednesday aftermoon, Octo
ber 12, at her home. There
were 12 members and five
visitors present.
Each gave a pet peeve for
roll call. The project lesson
dealt with colors in the home,
demonstrated by Mrs. Dale
Revell and Mrs. Robert Mil
ler.
Officers were elected for
the coming year. They are:
Mrs. William Derickson, pres
ident; Mrs. Ray Siders, secre
tary and treasurer; Mrs. R. E
Tomlinson, vice - president;
Mrs. M. E. Davis, song leader;
Mrs. Boyd Boelter, recreation;
Mrs. William Hansen, health;
Mrs. Ewalt Miller, reporter.
The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Ro
land Miller on November 9, in
the evening with the families
of the members invited.
At the close of the after
noon, Mrs. Boelter served a
lunch. —Mrs. Mrs. Ewalt Mil
ler, reporter.
Visits Reviera—
Richard D. Tibbetts, seaman
apprentice, USN, of O’Neill,
recently visited the French
Riviera on a 10-day leave j
when the destoyer USS (
Haynsworth, of which he is a j
crew member, put in to Golft
Guan, France. Leave parties
to Paris and othe points of
interest in France have been
arranged for the crew.
Mss. Dorr Hostess—
PAGE—Ms. A. L. Dorr was
hostess to the Contact bridge
club last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Keith Weyer, of Essex,
la., was a guest. Mrs. Melvin
Smith was high score winner
and Mrs. Herbert Steinberg
held traveling.
“Voice of The Frontier” . . 780
on your dial ... 9:45 a.m. three
times weekly.
Real Estate Transfers
WD—Ralph B Mellor to Es
ther Mai lor 10-7-49 $15,435
NEV4 26- NWV4SWV4 3 6
SWV4 SE^i- SWti 25-33-15
NWy4- SVi 1-32-15 WMiNWy4
5- NEV4. SEV4NWt4- NEy4
swy4 6-32-14 SEy4 28- NEV4
N%SEy4 33- NWy4- WV4
NEVi- N%SWy4 34-33-14.
WD—Mary E Allen to Clar
ence Farr 10-8-49 $1100- Lot
2 Blk B-- Lyons Add- Emmet.
WD—Mary Bose to Lidwina
Lane 10-11-49 $1- Lot 7- Part
lot 8 Blk 1- Stuart.
WD — Martha Hartland to
Ray Wilson & wf 10-7-49 $2 -
400- NM>NWy4- SE»4NWy4
NEy4SWy4 13-32-10.
WD— Ray Wilson to Leon
Mellor & wf 10-11-49 $600
NEV4SWy4 13-32-10.
WR—R M Pease to Howard
Peters & wf 9-26-49 $800- Lots
6- 7-8-9 Blk 45 Riggs Add O’
Neill.
WD—Grace L Smith to Ar
thur W Kopp 10-10-49 $320
Lots 7-8-9 Blk 34 Pioneer
Townsite Co Add Stuart.
Mrs. Walker Entertains—
PAGE — The Just-a-Mere
club met with Mrs. E. A.
Waiker Friday afternoon with
six members present. Guests
were: Mrs. Ralph Nolte, of
Oshkosh, and Mrs. Wilton
Hayne. The afternoon was
spent playing rook.
Frontier for all kinds of
printing. adv
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Corp.
C. E. Jones, Manager
O'Neill : Nebraska
Those cold
winter nights
are coming I
Keep your family toasty warm!
THRIFTY
SLEEPWEAR
Women’s/ girls’ flannelette gowns
Come see our big selection of warmers.
1.98 Soft, gentle cotton in plain colors or
stripes. Plain style, neatly ruffled or
to $3.98 braid trimmed. Sizes 34 to 48.
Women’s warm flannelette pajamas
If you prefer pajamas, don’t miss this
2.79 offering. Solid color or novelty print
cottons. Tailored, square neck, fringe
to $3.98 trim or Peter Pan styles. 34 to 40.
Girls’ sizes 8 to 16 . . .
$2.49 to $2.98
Boys’ favorites! Flannel pajamas
These full-bodied flannels keep the
C * QQ chill away. Middy or notch collar coat
' 11 • 0 style. Soft stripes. 6 to 18.
L Men’s, A, B, C, D . . . . $2.98
Men’s heavy flannel print pajamas
□Extra weight for extra warmth. Full
cut for extra comfort. Middy or
coat style. Stripes or figures. Sizes
A* B, C|
Child’s famous Nitey-Nite sleepers
riQn They’re well protected in these soft,
70 firmly-knitted cottons. Choose from
if 1 or 2-piece styles with Gripper Fasten
ers and elastic backs. Assorted plain
Sizes 0-4 colors.
Sizes 4-8#
$2.29
for best choice, shop today!