Pairieland Talk
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tutions are said to be repeaters.
Whether this indicates hopeless
criminal tendencies on the part
of many convicts or that they
“repeat” because they find our
stonewalled bastile a good place
to live has not been disclosed.
• • *
Some drains on public funds
are noted in such things as a
navy ship gong to midocean and
sending up a rocket that attain
ed a height of 106 miles, the
sending of a gent with a doctor
title by the wildlife service to
/ Iran, Syria, and Turkey to look
over the feathered denizens of
the deserts with the view of lo
cating some specimens to be
transplanted to the Arizona and
California desert regions. Junk
ets are on most of the time at
public expense that are of no
value in the general welfare of
the people.
* * *
Before the repeal of the late
lamented 18th amendment the
bootleg liquor business was held
up as one reason for repeal, lhe
federal revenue sleuths now say
$1,000,000 a day is lost in liquor
tax through the operation of il
> licit stills.
• • •
The expedition has returned
to Istanbul from Mt- ^rmat,
having found no trace of Noah s
ark reported some years ago to
have been discovered. Another
try will be made next year._
Attend State Legion
Convention—
Dorrance Crabb, commander
of Simonson post 93 of the Am
erican Legion, and J 0 h n
Grutsch, Holt county service of
ficer, were among those attend
ing the state Legion convention
at Lincoln over the weekend.
, royal theater
_ O'NEILL —
Thursday. August 24
Don Benny and Mary Beth
Hughes in
SQUARE DANCE JUBILEE
Laughs and thrills! Don t miss
it.
Adm. 42c plus tax 8c, Total 5(k
Children 10c. plus tax lc.
Total lie
Friday and Saturday
August 25-26
M-G-M's Great Adventure of
The West!
Bloodthirsty Apaches Holt
White Girl In
AMBUSH
t Starring Robert Taylor, John
Hodiak, Arlene Dahl with Don
Taylor, Jean Hagen and John
Mclntire.
Adm. 42c plus tax 8c, Total 50c
Children 10c. plus tax 2cj
Total 12c
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
August 27-28-29
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall
and Doris Day in
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN
With Hoagy Carmichael, Jua
no Hernandez, Michael Curtiz,
Jerry Wald.
Adm. 42c plus tax 8c. Total 50c
Children 10c. plus 2c tax
Total 12c
Matinee Sunday 2:30
t Wednesday, Thursday
Olivia de Havilland, Montgom
ery Clift and Ralph Richardson
in William Wyler’s
THE HEIRESS
With Miriam Hopkins, Mona
Freeman, Vanessa Brown, Sele
na Boyle.
Adm. 42c plus tax 8c, total 50c
Children 10c, plus tax 2c,
Total 12c
Primary election returns for
Holt county show 5 votes down
in my home precinct of Swan.
The 3 townships comprising the
precinct turned up with the
votes of the members of the
election board. Similar showing
was made by other precincts. It
will cost the county $10 a vote
in these precincts, a sufficient
reason for doing away with pri
mary elections, if there were no
other reasons.
The result in the county dis
closes, too, that natives and
some of the oldtimers were giv
en preference over the later ar
rivals among those seaking nom
inations.
Miss Hoffman, a native (
daughter of pioneers, retains
preeminence, as does also Ed
Hancock, a native son, and too
an oldtimer out of the grasslands
of southern Holt, Sheriff Hub
bard.
Because of the general feel
ing of resentment over paying
taxes, it is little short of a mir
acle if an incumbent of the as
sessor's office gets more than
one chance at the job.
My friend, Lloyd Gillespie,
has held the office I believe
longer than any that went be
fore him and his losing another
nomination is the heritage of
that office.
Ira Moss, if not a native of
the county he is the next thing 1
to it, and I don’t think his fa
ther, the late Charley Moss, ever
missed a Republican county con
vention. No one has arisen in
the past quarter century to chal
lenge Ira in the Republican pri
mary.
• • •
Facing now the radiant glow
of life’s sunset, a friend who
spent his productive years from
the age of 12 onward as a tiller
of Nebraska soil says soil con
servation has become a racket
which is another means of draw
ing on public funds to maintain
alleged experts togged out in
pressed trousers, bow tie and
all going about the country lec
turing on how to manage farms.
It is his considered opinion that
if this generation of farmers
must depend on the gents wit
white collars and bow ties tell
ing them how to do them stuff
they better get off the farms.
Conservation racket, labor rack
et, political racket and even
the sacred things of life have
fallen into the unsanctified
hands of religious racketeers.
* * *
Henry Wallace announces his
‘withdrawal from the Poll£ca!
group calling themselves Pro
gressive. This may be the first
step for Hank on his return to
his first love, the GOP. Others
succumbed to* the lure °t P P
lism free silver, progressives
and* other off-brand party’ move
ments only to return after dw
illusionment to the solid poh
cal faith from which they had
wandered.
* * *
Russia has 40 percent of the
world’s 2 billion inhabitants
within the scope of the com
munist circle, as compared to
130 million over which ancient
Rome held sway.
• • *
The Nebraska Library associa
tion has plans for a state meet
ing October 26-28 to be held in
Lincoln, when officers of the as
sociation will be elected. The
State Teachers’ association will
also be in session in Lincoln on
those dates, so the school libra
rians will participate in the
meetings of the library group.
* * *
The Lincoln telephone direct
ory lists 285 Johnsons, besides
some Johnsens and a sizable
list of Johnstons. Scandinavia,
Bohemia, Germany and Italy
have contributed largely to the
settlement of Nebraska.
* * *
Now it’s hybrid sweet corn,
about as “sweet” as a stick of
wood.
BEELAERTS ARE
HONOR FAMILY
ATKINSON — The Ameri
ean-Legion sponsored Hay Days
celebration drew to a conclu
sion last Thursday night, Au
gust 17, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Beelaert and 3 children, of Page,
revealed as the honor farm fam
ily.
The Beelaerts lived 4 miles
southeast of Page and they were
selected \after nominations and
voting had narrowed the field
to 3 families—the John Warn
ers, of Atkinson; the James Al- j
lyns, of Stuart; and the Bee- |
laerts.
Other highlights of the sec
ond day of the program in
cluded the establishing of a
new world's record in hay
cabling. Winners of the con
test were Charles Dobias and
Willard Ratliff. Their record
time was little over 5 minutes
In baseball, the Atkinson Le
gion team defeated the O'Neill
Legion, 8-7, while Atkinson
Towners blasted the T i 1 d e n
Towners, 12-6.
Placement in the 4-H talent
show follows:
Tie for first — Green Valley
Bluebirds and Perry Dawes, of
the willing Workers club; sec- i
ond — Bob Sanders, Sons of
the Soil club; third — Lloyd
Fusselman, of near Page.
Parade results and identity
of Hay Days royality was an- ;
nounced in last week’s issue of
The Frontier.
Atkinson Livestock Market’s
‘'Circus Day” entry won the
grand overall prize.
Miss Margaret Rohrs, 18, At
kinson high senior this fall, was
crowned hay queen Wednesday
night, August 16. CeTemony was
forced indoors when rain spoil
ed on otherwise perfect day.
Her princess was Miss Janet
Judgd, St. Joseph’s hall gradu
ate this spring. Honor of hay ,
king went to Robert Clifford,
Atkinson rancher.
Prince was Edward l Ed
die" Albright, who was un
able to be present, having re
ported earlier that day to the
Holt draft board for preinduc
tion physical examinations.
Charles E. Chace, who was
in charge of Hay Days arrang
ments, estimated attendance es
tablished a new record.
Teachers Tour
in NYC, Philly
The conducted Eastern tour
for Nebraska school teachers,,
headed by Miss Elja McCul
lough, Holt county superintend- .
ent of public instruction, spent I
Monday, August 21, in New
York City and Tuesday, August
22, in Philadelphia, Pa.
The instructors will visit
Washington, D. C-, before head
ing westward.
The 10 Holt countyans on
the junket, besides Miss Mc
Cullough, are Thelma Young,
Barbara Trowbridge, Leona
Beckwith, Alice Sammons, Mar
cella Tomjack, Eileen Krysll
Lucille Mitchell. Anna Carson.
Genevieve Vanderschnicht and
Vaulda Welke.
Bill Eisley Goes
To California—
Bill Eisley left last weekend
for Santa Cruz, Calif., to make
an indefinte visit with his sister,
Mrs. Irene Nutcher.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nutcher,
of Turlock, Calif., arrived Sat
urday to take Mrs. Nutcher and
Mr. Eisley to the West coast.
Mrs. Nutcher lived in O’Neill
until 1897 and recently had been
here on an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Ashton and
daughter, Jacqueline, of Oma
ha, visited in the Eisley home
on August 12-13-14.
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WHAT'S YOUR FIGURE?...on the call, we
mean? If you make a sale — or a buy — that’s
one thing. If not... well, you can see how diffi
cult it is to put a price on value of a call. It
is easy enough to base price on actual cost.
Here’s our figure. We get it by adding up
costs of wages and
materials plus a small
profit. It amounts to a
few cents per call. The
profit is a tiny part of
what you pay, yet it is
just as important to
you as to us. For a fair
profit tells everyone
that the business is
sound and healthy and
therefore a good place
to invest neiv money.
It’s the new money,
attracted by hope of
return, that gives us
the funds to expand
and improve the serv
ice. That's why profit
means progress for
your phone service.
NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Good Run Cattle
Here Last Week
There was a good run of cat
tle on the O’Neill market Thurs
day and quite a few more of
the good yearling steers and
heifers. The demand was very
good on all classes of cattle, ac
cording to Verne and Leigh
Reynoldson. managers of the O’
Neill Livestock Market, and the
market held steady with the
previous week’s sale.
Some light yearlings topped
the market at $31.50 and sold
. on down to $26.00 for plainer
! kinds. Heifers, in the same
weight and quality, sold from
$29.50 down to $24.00.
The hog run consisted mostly
of sows— the lightweight sows
bringing up to $22.75. Heavier
weights sold on down to $20.50.
Butcher hogs ranged from $24.60
to $24.35.
Venetian blind*, prompt
( delivery, made to measure,
i metal or wood, all colors—J.
M. McDonald Co.. O'Neill, lltt
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WSCS to Meet Again
on August 24—
CHAMBERS—Mrs. Loa Hub
bard and Mrs. Cora Tompson
entertained the Woman’s Socie
ty of Christian Service at the
home of Mrs. Hubbard Thurs- j
day, August 10. Twenty - three i
ladies were present. The presi
dent, Mrs. Charles Grimes, op
ened the meeting and led the
business session. Mrs. Platt led
the devotionals and Mrs. Fran
cis Thorin gave the lesson on
“The Pillars of the Earth,” with
other ladies assisting.
A lunch of pinwheel sand
wiches, vegetable salad and ice
tea was served at the close of
the meeting.
The next meeting will be in
the basement of the Methodist
church on August 24 with a
covered dish luncheon.
Do not go through life with
out teeth. Everyone will like
you better with dentures. —
Dr. Fisher. Dentist. 2tf
WELCOMES YOU
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Opens Tuesday, Sept. 5
— 9 A. M. —
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Fully Accredited
North-Central Association
and University of Nebraska
Kindergarten
Thru
Twelfth
! Grade
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All rural high school
students should bring
their Free Tuition
cards on day of regis
tration.
A list of desireable
rooming places is on
file at the office of the
superintendent.
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College Preparatory—
For those students who expect to
attend college or a university we
offer a full curriculum which is ac
cepted in any college or university
in the United States.
Commercial—
Full commercial course including
two years typing, two years short
hand, bookkeeping and office prac
tice.
Special Room—
Atypical children will be cared for
in our special room under a spe
cially-trained supervisor.
General Course—
This course is suited to students
who are not enrolled in the above
mentioned courses.
Vocational Agriculture—
We have a modern shop and all the
finest facilities for training.
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Athletics—
Two well - trained, experienced
coaches will handle the intramural
and inter-school athletic program,
including football, basketball and
tuack. (A physical education course
also is expected to be offered to
I girls.)
| Normal Training—
Our normal training graduates are
qualified to teach their first year
in rural schools without acfyditional
training.
Fine Arts—
We offer a full course in dramatics.
Remedial speech training is avail
able in both the high school and
the lower grades. Both instrument
al and vocal music will be offered
throughout the school. (Foreign
languages will be offered if there
is sufficient demand.) We have
homemaking available to girls on
a three-year basis.
Library—
Our library facilities recently have
been expanded to accomodate 60
students at a time.
OUR FACULTY
IRA GEORGE _ Superintendent, Band and Orientation
HOWARD DEAN _ Principal, Basketball Coach, Biology and
Mechanical Drawing
MARVIN MILLER _ Science, Social Science, Football Coach
ESTHER KINNIER - Commercial
VIOLA HAYNES . Science, Social Science. Visual Education
ALICE FRENCH _ . -- Mathematics. Library
NETA BELLINGER_ _ _Home Economics. English
CLAIRE TOMJACK _ Normal Training
CECILY SPAULDING-----English and Speech
ROSEMARY VONDRACEK - Vocal Music
BERYL GERDES _vocanonax Agricuiiuxe
GRACE PETERSEN__Kindergarten
CATHERINE FRITTON First Grade
LORETTA ENRIGHT __Second Grade
HILDA GALLAGHER Third Grade
LU VERNE SCHULTZ_1- Fourth Grade
RACHEL BETTENHAUSEN__Fifth Grade
LEONA SHOEMAKER _Sixth Grade
ALICE FRITTON_Seventh Grade
WINNIE MULLEN __Eighth Grade
FLORENCE SCHULTZ_Opportunity Room
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