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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1951)
.Frontier Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. ' CARROLlTw. STEWART, Editor and Publisher “ Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered UvTpostoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Prairieland Talk — South of Tracks No Place for Ball Park; City’s First Diamond Now a Built-Up Area By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN —Any oldtimer, if any yet grace the O’Neill scene, could have told the sporting fraternity that south of t h e railroad tracks is no place for ball games. We used to swim from the rail road to the next section line and set tlers out that way swam their horses to town. I note a move is on Saunders to get up on the gravel flats to play ball. The first ball diamond offici ally and publicly recognized in the comunity was in the block now cluttered with buildings and houses on the north side of Doug las street betwen First and Sec ond streets. Then, when a more extensive field was needed to accomodate a few developing homerun slug gers, ball grounds were layed out on the open prairie east of town, south of Douglas street, grandstand and all! Next move was to the north east on the hill, where at one time was held a socalled county fair consisting of horse races, ball games and other sports. U Famous Continental SILVERWARE FREE! You'll troaauro It for years to corns ... .a sot of boautlful Continental Silverware. Got as many pieces as yon aood. Five ploco starter sot consists of teaspoon, lablospoon, dinner knlfo, fork, and salad fork. Tbo beauty of this fine silver-plate.. .made by one Of America's famous silversmiths... la sure to please. Guaranteed for serv. too. Ask your Sioux Brand Pood Dealer for more details. SIOUX BRAND Paaltry Fill Tour Sioux Brand Dealer will bo clad to show you how to make real profile with your poultry this season. Rlcht now ho has a folder of helpful poultry hints.. .FREE.. .It outlines a procram that will mean more poultry profits •or you. TRI - STATE HATCHERY Phone 90 — O’Neill Mother’s day, May day, Mem orial day and the floral bloom on plum and apple trees. As the typewriter responds to the touch today, thunder rolls in deep tones and clouds open their treas ure store of rain. It is altogether fitting that a day be set apart in the bright month of May when in a special way mothers of Am erica have our attention. A new generation of mothers has the past year been entrusted with their first child. Young moth ers, mothers experienced in guid ing the footsteps of youth, and grandmothers, all may feel the thrill the day brings. One way to observe the day would be for father to take over the care of the children and let mother have a day to herself. I would not overflow with gush, but to the mothers of Prairieland now living has been committed the destiny of their children, and to our mothers who have passed beyond the shadows of life’s sunset we weave a wreath to their memory. * m * In the cas« of Mr. Young, late of the liquor commission, he would have been in much greater public favor by grace fully resigning instead of mak ing a determined effort to hold on to the job. • • * A group of the editors of some of the country’s notable newspa pers at a gathering in Washing ton, D.C., called attention to what most informed persons have known for sometime. Official Washington covers up important matters, dishing out for public consumption only such informa tion, or misleading information, as it pleases officialdom. The same cover up policy has filter tered into state and city govern ments in various sections of the country. In times of strained relations with foreign powers, it might be well to be cautious a bout divulging anything that would give aid and comfort to a potential enemy. This being used as an alibi to keep the homefolks in ignorance of some things that are going on in of ficial circles. But they are de ceiving nobody, and the ballot box is still inviolable. A white-haired patriarch down this way is still campaigning for William Jennings Bryan. Mr. Bryan made 3 attempts to break into the White House, but, of course, he was on the wrong side of the Mississippi river at that time, and the “crown of thorns” and “cross of gold” did not have the appeal that is always attached to the idea of the “full dinner pail." Moreover, Mr. Bryan launched into the hopeless task of reforming the democrats. • • • Perhaps the chiefs of staff think they'd better line up with the commander-in-chief lest they too get the ax. • * • Booze hounds have been liberal with the amber stream among the men entrusted with legisla tive authority this session of the unicam. Dictation and bribery on the part of this element is what brought about the Volstead act. It can do it again. Lobby and a form of bribery has be come a profession. It has all too much to do with national and state legislative bodies. • • • State Senator Dwight Burney, of Hartington, has been trying to fix over things so Nebraskans will pay taxes every day. Most folks think once a year is enough. _I I LIVESTOCK AUCTION I I EVERY TUESDAY I I We sell both cattle and hogs on Tuesdays. From now on, 9 9 hog auction starts at 12 o’clock noon, followed by auction of 9 9 cattle. 9 H For a good return, bring or ship your livestock to the B B market that has the best outlet. Our chargee are ne 9 ffj more, and probably lees than you hare been paying 11 8 elsewhere. K ■ Phone Atkinson 5141 9 I ATKINSON LIVESTOCK MARKET I S Atkinson. Nebraska H Look Behind You, Boys South of the North Western tracks and a mile or so west of the then “downtown”, Theo. Walmer built an attractive sub urban home on 6 acres of land, with barn and other buildings. At the time he was in the flour and feed business on upper Fourth street. That suburban property sold for $1,000 and the Walmers moved from the state. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Boynton were the purchasers, coming here from Iowa. Mrs. Boynton was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walt Rathbone, who were O’Neill pio neers. • * • The Nebraska statehouse con tinues to be an attraction for visitors. A Sioux City bus was down the other day with a load of visitors to look the situation over. Most every day high school groups breeze in on the dull routine of the legislative sessions, which for the. most part affords neither entertain ment or instruction. In the summer of 1900, an O’ Neill merchant advertised ladies’ shoes at 98-cents the pair. Today in the show windows along O street are displayed little dainty nothings of women’s footwear at $6.95 the pair. That is the way they have of saying 7-dollars now. At the next window you may run on to a pair of men’s boots with a $16.95 tag hung on them. Outrageous prices, we say. We have become enslaved to the custom of keeping up ap pearances. • • • Seed stores axe quoting bluegrass seed up to $1.25 a pound. This seed may come from the meadows of Holt county, so city lawns derive their velvet carpet, and city dwellers their roast beef from Holt's verdant grasslands. * * * Some convicts over at the pen itentiary have been showing their resentment of regulations relat ing to inmates of that institution. If they do not like it they should have thought of that before en tering upon a course of crime. One gent who goes to the electric chair next month seems to think he is a guest in a high-class hotel. His revolting crime was such that it excludes him from any prison favors. • • * Values are relative; that which one person does not want anoth er does. And so the wheels of barter and trade keep rolling. Miltonvale Choir Visits Home— CELIA— The a cappella choir from Miltonvale Wesleyan col lege, Miltonvale, Kans., of 25 singers, their director, Prof, of Music Edwin Foote, and wife, and also a bus driver, Robert Howland, were Tuesday after noon, April 24, guests at the Mark Hendricks home. They were supper, also over I night, guests at the Hendricks ] home. About 10:15 Wednesday morn ing they left for Sloan, la., where they sang that night. They also had 2 services each day the rest of the week and were to arrive in Miltonvale Monday evening, April 30. Mrs. Joe Hendricks did the cooking. Mrs. Lawrence Smith al so assisted Mrs. Hendricks. Robert Hendricks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks, is a member of the choir. O'NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Allen visited Mrs. Leslie Stewart, of Plainview, over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Asimus spent Tuesday, April 24, in Lin coin. Mrs. Dean Ramsier, who for 3 weeks has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Anderson, went with them to Hastings Sunday. There they met and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Charles And erson, of Benkleman. Mrs. Ram sier then returned to her home in Wray, Colo. Dr. Fisher, Dentist. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lower and family spent the weekend in Fre mont. Mrs. F. M. Brennan and Miss Bernadette Brennan visited their niece, Sister Benedict Joseph, at Hartington Sunday. Mrs. Billy Ernst returned Tues day to her home in Amelia after having visited Mrs. Thersa Mur ray for a few days. NOTICE! / BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MEETING ★ The Holt County Board of Supervisors will meet as a Board of Equalization on May 7th, 1951, for the purpose of hear ing complaints and equalizing the assess ment of property. ★ They will be in session May 7th, 8th, and 9th, and if necessary may be in session for as many as 50 days. RUTH HOFFMAN County Clerk . McDonald's greets the sunshine season! . a ' * • > 9 Exciting selling of crisp, cool cottons and Bemberg sheers, gg 95 value-priced! Fea,”el And 4,5 wr Deluxe Bembergs Festival cottons Look your prettiest... and keep your coolest, too, in summer time dresses you’ll find at McDonald’s during this big fashion event! 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