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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1951)
Editorial k Businas* Offices: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered the postoffice 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 ot 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. __ Rev. Wieczorek Makes Address LYNCH — The memorial day program sponsored by the Lyncn American Legion post and auxil iary were held Wednesday, May 30, at the Lynch theater. Rev. John Wieczorek gave the address. ■ ■ ■' ■ ■ ■■■ ■■ ■ e* Other Lynch News Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, of North Platte, spent several days visiting in Lynch last week. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wendt, of Gross, visited the latter's sister, Mrs. Nata Bjornsen, and daugh ter recently. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pech, of Winner, S.D., came Monday, May li Famous Continental SILVERWARE FREEI Tea'll treasure It for years to some ... .a set of beautiful Continental Silverware. Get as many pieces as you need rive piece starter set consists ef teaspoon, tablespoon, dinner knife, fork, and salad fork. The beauty ef this fine sllverplate.. .made by one Of America's famous silversmiths... ti sure to please. Guaranteed for serv< Ask your Sioux Brand Feed Dealer ter more details. SIOUX IRAND Poiltry Fill Tour Sioux Brand Dealer will be glad to show you how to make real profits With your poultry this season. Right new he has a folder of helpful poultry hints.. .FREE., .It outlines a program Shat will mean more poultry profits tor yen. TRI - STATE HATCHERY Phone 90 — O'Neill 28, after Mrs. Helen Pech, who visited them at Winner for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Papstein, of Spencer, visited relatives here Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Court ney and Eugene and Mrs. Helen Pech, of Denver, Colo., were Sat urday, May 26, dinner guests at the Clarence Kolund home. Mesdames Andrew Hansen and Blair Drickey, of Spencer, were business visitors here Wednesday, May 30. Mr. and Mrs. Swan Anderson visited relatives in Wausa Sun day, May 27. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schissler, of Lincoln, spent several days re cently visiting at the Guy Hull home, also with other relatives here and at Butte. Robert Zink, of Caldwell, Ida., is here visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mulhair and family were in Spencer Thurs day, May 31, visiting at the Jonas Johnson home. Archie Nelson, of Gordon, vis ited relatives here the first of last week. Gary Nelson motored to Wayne Sunday, June 3, with his mother, who will attend summer school there this summer. Supt. and Mrs. G. L. Campbell left Friday, June 1, for Wayne where they plan to spend the summer. Mrs. J. Speltz, sr., of Hastings, spent several days here with rel atives. Rev. J. Keith Cunningham and family returned home Thursday, May 31, from a several days’ stay in Norfolk. Ardith Moffett left Sunday for Wayne where she plans to attend summer school. She plans to re turn to Allen again this fall to teach the intermediate grades. Deloros Thieson returned home from Anoka Friday where she closed another term of school. Mrs. Helen Pech, of Denver, Colo., was a Saturday, May 26, overnight guest at the Veldon Lee home. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Jehorek visited with the F. Martinek fam ily at the Corkle farms near O’ Neill last week. Donnie Christensen, of Picks town, S.D., is visiting his grand parents, the Elmer Christensens. Mr. and Mrs William Vesely and Denise, of Verdel, were in town Thursday. Mrs. Eddie Cassidy and daugh ters, of Ft. Randall, S.D., called on Mrs. Inger Levi here Satur day, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Lightfoot and Nancy, of Bristow, : visited Mrs. John Hewitson Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schoch enmaier and family, of Bonesteel, S.D., visited relatives here Sun day, May 27. Lightning Destroys Farm Shad— Lightning struck and fire de stroyed a shed on the Sylvester Zakrzewski farm northeast of O’ Neill, during an electrical storm Wednesday morning, May 30. Mrs. Zakrzewski reported that 5 hogs were killed. The Zakrzewski family had gone to Easton, Minn., for the burial services of Mrs. Zakrzew ski’s father, Andrew Wytaske, who died Monday, May 28. DEARBORN |»|AM»|W REAR-ATTACHED lYlUllEK Can be attached to the Ford Tractor In a matter of minutes, detached even faster. You can switch to cultivating or any other B_ Job, and back again to mowing In a hurry. Can cut up to 35 acres a day, makes sharp, clean turns, backs Into corners. Improved, straighter drive reduces vibration to a mini mum for smoother performance, longer life. Cutter bar is lifted and lowered by Ford Tractor Hydraulic Touch Control. An automatic release permits cutter bar to owing to rear when It hits an obstruction. Cutter bar can be tilted to four positions. Tapered roller bearings In Pitman Drive. « ft. or 7 ft. cutter bar. If you want a reel mower, see this new Dearborn Rear > Attached Mower before you buy! y- GALYEN TRACTOR CO. AmA ATKINSON, NEBRASKA Prairieland Talk— * □khorn Reaches Half die Length of Nebraska in Verdant Loveliness Br ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN— The valley of the Elkhom has been compared to the valley of the Nile. It reaches in verdant loveliness half way the length of north Nebraska. A drive out across the green robed earth on a day this early summer is an inspiration * • the city-weary dweller. The northern part of the state in contrast to the treeless south ern section dis plays the heavy foliage of lord ly trees that in many places hug the high Romaine ways. The pay Saunders off has come for the planting of shelterbelts and the dense silver and green sheltering highways add a pleas ing aspect to the vast reach of open country in prairieland. Beauty is not alL Material blessing abounds in the black soil of cultivated fields, rolling hills of grasing lands and ex tensive grass -grown prairie. On a drive to O’Neill Memorial day we moved across a portion of Lancaster, Seward, Butler, Platte, Madison and counties to the west. It was a holiday but many farm ers were in the fields at work plowing or planting corn. From the cribs of old corn seen on ma ny farms a com crop failure this year will not entail Nebraskans in the com belt going “down into Egypt to buy com.” It was rain ing when we drove onto Douglas street and as we passed the Le gion hall people were assembling for the day’s doings. At the ceme teries floral tributes were being brought in. Here we met friends. They are thinning in ranks as years roll on and another genera tion has come to visit the graves. The streets and homes of O' Neill reflect the hopes and as pirations of the new generation and homes and buildings now occupy the once vacant spaces. Returning, we traversed the Elkhorn valley to the end at Fre mont. It is now in lush bloom and the limpid waters of the Elkhorn fill to the full the river’s concav ed shores. Cattle browse in the grass lands of the upper headwa ters and in the Beemer country are hundreds in feed lots Ceilings on beef prices seem not to have discouraged those in the cow country. • • • Hugh Coyne and Pat O’Donnell were part of the picture on Doug las street when encountered the other day. With something akin to the wistful we fell to compar ing the picture today with that of the period when the covered wagons and cowboys’ saddle nags were common on the streets. The trail to Deadwood in the Black Hills followed the Elkhorn valley. Maybe something of the wistful felt by we 3 on Memorial day inspired a patriot to put into verse his feelings as he tore asunder the black soil with a filow along that Deadwood trail, t may not stand out among the classics of American poetry but it has something of the frontier crudity of the “Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim.” He writes: PLOWING UP THE TRAIL Plowing in the field, I could hear a murmur and a wail, As back and forth I went plow ing up the Deadwood Trail. Could it be the songs the freight ers sang at the close of day. When they rested, weary at the camps along the way? Perchance I hear the hunter’s sig nal low. As on some distant hill he sights the buffalo, Then I hear the thunder of the hoofs in a cloud of dust— To stop the stampeding herd was a cowboy “must.” Now we grow our products, ship them from the state, Have them processed and ship them back by freight. Are we more contented in this modernistic way Than when the freighter ind the cowboy had their day? Now the cowboys and the freight ers have all passed out— Gone o’er the Great Divide, the camp fires died out.—Ed Dartt. • • • Young America in O’Neill and nearby communities is going to miss Ira George. He had a way with the kids. And under his su pervision the O’Neill schools have become something more than just another town school, another place to shove the youngsters off for the day. I was a spectator at the fair in Chambers a few years ago when Mr. George was there with his fine group of young peo ple composing the O’Neill band. Talking with one of the boys he said of their leader, “He is a great guy.” Mr. George now goes to a larger field and the well wish es of his young friends of the O'Neill schools and parents of the community will go with him and his wife and son. Since early times O’Neill has had a group that could toot the horns and beat the drums. But until Mr. George took over school kids were not considered “band material.” At an early period in the town’s history there were such musicians as John Smoot, Homer Campbell, Pat Biglin, Denny Cronin, George Merritt, Emil Sniggs and some others, with the high stepping Silver (“Jim”) Triggs doing the honors in the lead. Ladies in the band! That was an innovation we credit to Mr. George. • • • We are multi-millionaires all! We are going to invest in the next 2 years $165,000,000 in our state officials, and they had bet ter watch their step how they do the job. As a state we have be come great and rich. The recent ly adjourned legislature provid ed for increases in appropriations to enable the various functions of state government to operate during the biennial period. The senators shied at the much moot ed “road program” but before they closed their brief cases they laid upon stepdads the legal re sponsibility of the care and sup port of stepchildren. Big Land Auction A Complete Liquidation of the JOHN LAIRD FARMS & RANCHES 2,266 ACRES Holt County, Nebraska THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH 1 O'Clock P. M. ________ Sale will be held at the CLEVELAND COMMUNITY CENTER Located 2 miles west and 1 2 miles north of Stuart, Nebraska. Rain or Shine — No Postponement Selling in tracts of 80 to 698 Acres—Both improved and unimproved. Some of the 1 best combination places in the county -; Refer to last week’s issue of this paper for ad describing every tract in detail — or write either of the auctioneers for sale bill—or better still call Elmer McClurg, Telephone 2253, Stuart, Nebr., and ask him to show you the properties. JOHN TIUSSELL FULLERTON, NEBR. • Agent for the Owners Elmer McClurg, Stuart, Nebr., and Ernie Weller, Atkinson, Nebr., Auctioneers It was soon after the close of the war between the North and the South. John, a blue-clad sol dier, sat in a wagon drawn by oxen. A maiden sat beside him. On the road they met a preacher. “Mary, here’s our chance,’ said John. Without the formality cf license or legal document the preached tied the knot. The oxen were headed for prairieland, where there were free home steads. The years rolled on, and one day John heard the final bu gle call. When Mary asked for the soldier’s widow pension official dom wanted to know what she had to show that she was that soldier’s widow, "Me, I’ve got 5 boys.” • • • Two hundred and fifty flight nurses, each in her turn, fly IS or 16 hours without sleep, rest or food to care for the ship's cargo of sick and wounded sol diers being flown from Tokyo tb Hawaii. ‘These nurses know,” says one of them, ''as most Americans do not, that this war is the worst in our history—not in scale but in its almost unbelievable primitive intensity." It is hand-to-hand butchery, face-to-face slaugh ter. Just who is responsible for Americans being drawn into the Korean trouble? • • • Fifty a month for a shack in which to house your family. And that is said to be “cheap rent.” I recall the good old days when I rented a 5-room house to a wid ow for $5 a month, $1 per room. But I didn’t get the $5. However, it seemed better to have the place occupied than empty, besides some satisfaction in giving a wid ow a lift. , • • • Like the lady who declared she would not trade an acre of her home state of Texas for all of Nebraska, I wonder if Secretary Marshall hasn’t overdone it. Arguments of defense in ex tenuation of a murder often sound silly. Down in Saline coun ty there was a killing a year ago. The one whose inebriated finger pulled the trigger was given a life sentence. Now the supreme court is being beseeched to. re- * vamp the verdict and sentence. 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