The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, June 21, 1951, Page 2, Image 2
Editorial k ltd— Office 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. MEBJL ’ CARROLL W STEWART. Editor aad Publisher ^ 1W0_ptlbii^4 Each Thursday Entered the postoffice at O'Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, aa sec ond-dam mail matter under the Act of Concrete of March 3, 1878. This newspaper Is s member of the Nebraska Press Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Tar— el 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. 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. “Voice of The Frontier," 780 kc. MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Corp. 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! Attention, HAY MEN! A SICKLE GRINDER, POWER DRIVEN, ELECTRIC OR GAS! Something New — Something Useful • Low cost operation, this machine grinds a seven-foot sickle in twenty min utes or less for the small sum of ten cets or less for operating cost! When operated according to directions, it WILL NOT BURN the section. And the sec tion will maintain the correct bevel until worn out. This machine is safe to oper ate and can be operated by anyone old enough to work in the hay field. • It is no longer necessary to take time off to take your sickles to town to get them ground. Just get a gas powered machine and grind them in the field or an electric machine and grind them at the shop. This machine was patented by the B.&N. Sickle Grinder Co., and is manufactured by the Henke Manufac turing Co., Columbus, Nebr. GUARANTEED TO DO THE JOB, AND WILL SAVE YOU TIME, WORRY AND MONEY AND IS PRICED TO SELL. ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION THIS MACHINE MAY BE] KEN AT NORWOOD REPAIR SHOP Ewing, Nebr. B.&N. Sickle Grinder Co. Box 272 — Ewing, Nebr. * Perfectly Mated 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 JUNE 23 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 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