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O'NEILL. MEBJL
’ CARROLL W STEWART. Editor aad Publisher
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Girls' Trio to Sing
Gershwin Selection
Three young ladies’ voices will
be heard in a Gershwin number
at the Saturday, June 23, concert
by the Municipal band. The
voices will be those of Barbara
Bennett, Phyllis Harmon and
Verle Ralya.
The program;
“Star Spangled Banner.’’ by
Key; march, “The Huntress,” by
King; march, “Law and Order,"
by Alford; waltz, "When Irish
Eyes Are Smiling"; overture,
"Orpheus,” by Offenbach.
March, “The Thunderer,’ ’by
Sousa; vocal trio, Gershwin selec
tion.
Overture, “Light Cavalry," by
Von Suppe; "Galop Majestic,” by
King; hymn, “Nearer My God to
Thee,” by Monk; march, "Stars
and Stripes Forever,’ by Sousa.
Calabrala Anniversaries
With Picnic Dinner—
Mrs. Tillie Anderson, of Laur
el, and her brother, Herman Mey
ers, of Atkinson, celebrated their
birthday anniversaries with a
family dinner at Ford’s park Sun
day afternoon.
Those present at the picnic
were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pokor
ny and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Black, of Spencer; Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Neiman and Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Meyers and family, of
Atkinson; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lued
ke, of Wisner; Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Luedke and family, of Lin
coln; Mr. and Mrs. James Meyers
and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Meyers, of
Orchard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Meyers and Mr. and Mra. Waldo
Morrison and Billy, of Royal; Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Prescott and fam
ily and Mrs. Tillie Anderson and
Janet, of Laurel; Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Itohert
Lamb, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Anderson, of O’Neill.
GOES TO CONFERENCE
AMELIA—Glenn E. White, of
Amelia, was one of the official
delegates who attended the 23d
fuadrennial conference of the
tee Methodist church of North
America at Hillsdale, Mich., June
13-26. Elected by members of the
Nebraska conference of the Free
Methodist church, Mr. White, ac
companied by Reverend Lugins
land, Free Methodist pastor at
Amelia, arrived in Hillsdale Wed
nesday, June 13.
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LYNCH NEWS
Leroy Barta, of Verdigre, visit
ed friends and relatives here on
Sunday.
Rev. John Wieczorek returned
home from Ashland on Thursday,
June 14, where he had spent 2
days superintending the cleaning
of his resort cabin following the
recent floods in that locality.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Holtz, of Nor
folk, came Sunday to visit their
children and families here, name,
ly Orville Holtz, Harlan Holtz,
and Mrs. Elmo Barnes. A picnic
dinner was held at noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Barta and
Evelyn, of Dorsey, visited at
George Bartas Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Peed, of Verdel,
visited her sister, Mrs. Ina De
kay, at the Lynch hospital the
first of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hoy
and daughter were Butte visitors
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pinkerman
visited relatives in Holt county
the first of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Deloss Malcolm
and family, of Bristow, called on
Mrs. Josephine Boska and son on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mills, of
Riverton, Wyo., were dinner
guests at the Lloyd Mills home
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kir wan, of
Ft. Randall, S. D., visited at the
T. C. Norwood home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Peters
and son, of Verdel, visited at the
home of Mrs. Nata Bjornson on
Sunday, June 17.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pishel and
family, of Verdel, visited at E. V.
Mulhair’s Sunday. Dale Mulhairs
were also there.
Marlin Barnes celebrated his
birthday anniversary on June 14
with birthday cake and ice ertam
topped with strawberries.
Orville Holtz went to Creighton
on Monday, June 18.
Mrs. W. T. Alford returned
home Thursday, June 14, from a
week's stay in Omaha and other
points.
The Alford brothers, of Omaha,
are home for a visit at the parent
al W. T. Alford home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rosicky, Jo
an and Billy Paul returned home
Friday, June 15, from a 10-day
visit with Mrs. Rosicky’s sister
and family in Indianapolis. Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hasen
pflug, of Danbury, la., returned
to their home after an extended
visit with relatives in Knox and
Boyd counties.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Norwood,
of Lincoln, are visiting at the
Guy Norwood home. The factory
where Wallace is working is on
a strike so Wallace and family
are here visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mills, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Norwood and sons
and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mills, of
Riverton, Wyo., and Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Norwood, of Lincoln, en
joyed Sunday, June 17, dinner
together.
Tone Bell and Urell Norwood
were in Waverly from Saturday
until Tuesday.
Frontier for printing!
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Prairieland Talk—
‘Sliver Jim Triggs Helped Fight Chicago
Fire, Played in Band, Organized Ball Club
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — For the informa-]
tion of The Frontier’s intelligent
compositor who thinks it ought
to be ‘‘Silver.’’ James Triggs’ hon
orable title was ‘‘Sliver.”
He was a little guy who hit O -
Neill along about 1894 with his
father and mother and 2 broth
ers. He was a
lively gent and
maybe that
gave him the
nick name. A
character in his
own right, “Sli
ver” was
known by ev
erybody and as
a young blood
was quite a
Beau Brum
_ , mell. Moreover,
Romaine he had a his
Saunders tory. The Triggs
home before coming here was in
an Indiana town close to Chica
go.
Jim belonged to the fire de
partment of his home town and
when the cow kicked over the
lantern and started the fire that
wiped out Chciago, "Sliver” was
one of the firemen who combat
ted the flames. So out here he
got a fire-fighting group organ
ized, was in the band, and was
the catcher for the first organized
ball club.
shrining him as a hero of the Chi
cago fire.
He passed out of the picture by
the route all flesh travels in the
early 1930’s.
• • •
Hundreds of tons of them have
been destroyed and dumped into
the sea. But a baked poptato to
day is something of a luxury.
The week of June 11 opened with
the retail price of $3.40 per bush
el. That would have been a
knock out in the Bohemian set
tlement of sod houses over on
Dry creek, the Irish from upper
Michigan northeast of town and
the Scranton, Pa., folks to the
northwest, who sold tons of the
best spuds ever grown to Mike
Sullivan, John Mann and Pat
Hagerty for 11 cents per bushel.
1 ventured into the potato grow
ing business just once. Two 4
horse loads were taken by ranch
ers at 50 cents the bushel. They
were no penny pinchers. But those
2 loads enabled the amateur a
gronomist to take care of an ob
ligation with the banker that oth
erwise might have proved humil
iating or even disastrous.
• • •
Af any guaas you care to
make. General Wedemeyer has
not been trying to save his own
military skin. What ho has told
that senate committee comes
straight from him without fear
and trembling over reaction at
the White House.
• • •
What is it that induces men to
enter the arena and take off on
the marathon for public office?
The emoluments are not such as
to constitute a prize worth striv
ing for in view of the mud bath
that many are subjected to. In
the realm of the higher offices of
state and nation it resolves itself
into either the jackass vanity
with which so many of us are af
flicted or lofty patriotic motives
to put across a program that we
think enhances the public wel
fare, incidentally the thought of
"making a name” sprouting the
while in cerebral recesses. Then,
too, most specimens of the genus
homo have their ego lifted if they
can be exalted to the pinacle of
"boss.” Well, we must have pub
lic officials and most of them are
doing a conscientious service.
Those who do not are soon sent
to the scrap heap.
• • •
Editors of some of our Nebras
ka daily papers are writing col
- •'
umns of sundried editorials tell
ing us what ought to be done to
curb the wrath of the pride-swol
len Blue, arrogant Salt creek and
other swollen streams. But it is
something of a tragedy that the
editors arc wasting printers’ ink
on the desert air.
This flood business has been
with us since before this gen
eration of able editors came in
to the picture.
A half-century ago a country
town editor, Denny Cronin, put
across a state aid bridge law that
gave local communities needed
assistance in bridge building. Den
ny didn’t do it by the “heavy ed
itorial’’ route but went to the
legislature and fought the thing
through as a member of that
body. What has become of state
aid for bridge building? I go out
over the state from time to time,
mostly to the great grasslands
and find neither tom bridges nor
impassable highways.
What is the matter with Ne
braska highways? They are a
bout like they are elsewhere—
Kansas. Colorado, New Mexico,
Arisons. Nevada, California
and in many states to the east
you can't travel 40 rods in a
straight line.
The main trouble is our Ne
braska highways, as in other
states, were not laid deep enough
to carry the heavy traffic now
racing over them.
• • •
The Platte today ripples over
the sands, its limpid waters from
shore to shore as we fancy it did
when the first wagon train on
the Oregon trail halted by the
river and made camp. It is a
beautiful stream and this early
LIKE NOODLES ?
summer hurries on to the muddy
Missouri with a full volume of
clear water. The moderns roll a
cross the stately bridge. The pio
neers wallowed and swam their
teams from shore to shore. The
Loup and the Elkhorn contribute
to the flood emptied by the Platte
into the Missouri. The valleys of
Nebraska are well watered and
maybe some day more direct use
will be found for its streams.
I crossed the Elkhorn south of
O'Neill a day recently. That
stream, the bridges over which
you travel as you head for Fourth
street, revived memories. It is
where we had spent long summer
evenings bathing in the nude in
those cooling waters, where we
had hooked out 5-pound pickerel
and had our share of trouble mov
ing the McClure herds out into
the grazing lands, urging reluc
tant 2-year-olds through the wa
ter or across the bridges. There
were 2 of them borne up on
wooden piers, to which a steer
might get caught v/hen we would
rope him and pull him to land.
Prairie fires swept up to the
river brink and sometimes leap
ed across. Wooden bridges have
been replaced by concrete. But
concrete cannot bury memories
in its solid embrace. So out of the
memory of years now gone I
turn to a poem of Longfellow’s.
And I think how many thousands
Of care-encumbered men,
(Continued on page 7.)
Dr. Edw. J. Norwood, O. D.
Op torn* trial.
from Crawford, Nebraska,
will be in O'Neill on
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the standpipe that stood 110
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burning buildings and was
soon on* day as ho leaped into
a mooing buggy to stop a run
away team.
He was the first at the holo
caust that reduced to ashes the
Bridges mill and looked on help
less when the old Potter house
and the convent went up in
flames. He was as improvident as
he was daring.
The community gave him fit
ting burial. An Omaha paper
once devoted more than a column
to the picturesque “Sliver,” en
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