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Editorial & Business 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 of Circulations.
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Recovers from Hurts
Suffered in Mishap
EWING—Friends have receiv
ed word from Mrs. J. C. Kay, in
California, that she hopes to be
able to come to her home in Ew
ing in the near future.
Mrs. Kay was injured several
weeks ago in a car accident and
is convalescing at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Alice Maxwell, in
California.
Other Ewing News
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Rockey re
turned Friday from their wed
ding trip. They were sightseei ig
in Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Harris and
family went to Fremont Sunday.
They were guests of their daugh
ter and her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Merchant, and Mrs.
Harris’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Fink. Before returning
home, Mrs. Harris will go to Om
aha for a physical checkup.
Miss Esther Schram, former
director of music in the Ewing
public school, was calling on
friends in Ewing over the week
end.
Mrs. Joe Tomjack, accompanied
by Mrs. Louis Tomjack, were
fuests of her daughter and hus
and, Mr. and Mrs. L. Herley,
and family, of Clearwater, on
Thursday.
Mrs. Percy Grass, of Rosebury,
Ore., recently visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smith.
The Grass family are former res
idents of the Ewing vicinity.
Mrs. May Gemmill returned
Friday from Schaller and Kins
ley, la., where she had visited
relatives the past month.
Mrs. Leslie Cary and daugh
ters, Leo la and Nila, returned to
J ake Andes, S.D., on Tuesday,
J une 19, after spending a few
di >.ys at their home in Ewing.
Mrs. Wilda Carr and daughter,
M ary Catherine, spent the week
end in Ewing. They returned to
Lincoln on Sunday where Mrs.
Carr is attending the University
of Nebraska.
Mrs. Victor Marquardt and
daughter, Joan, returned to their
home in Laurel after spending a
few days visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Marquardt.
Mrs. Martha Hill and daughter,
Anna Mae, are enjoying a vaca
tion from their duties at the Hills’
store. Mrs. Peter Hientz is in
charge during their absence,
der construction.
A nice addition to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen is un- j
Miss Carol Wulf is now em
ployed at the county assistance
office in O’Neill. She is a gradu
ate of the class of 1951 from the
Ewing high school.
Mrs. Agnes Bartak spent ‘•ev
eral days visiting at the home of
her daughter and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Vance Bennett, and
family, returning home Saturday.
Saturday evening a large
crowd was present for an open
air concert given by the Ewing
high school band, which began
at 8 and continued for an hour.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wunner
returned home Thursday after
atives at Norfolk and Stanton,
spending a few days visiting rel
Ed Urban, well-known ranch
er and farmer of the Goose Lake
vicinity, and Mrs. Millie Boll
witt, of Ewing, were married at
Valentine Tuesday, June 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Whitmore
and family, of Atwater, Calif.,
called on friends in Ewing le
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Larson,
of Lincoln, who were guests of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Larson, returned home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Lounsbucy
and daughter, Gerlyn, spent 5
days last week in Omaha visiting
with Mrs. Lounsbury’s sister and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Welsch. Mr. and Mrs. Lounsbury
returned to work Monday morn
ing at the J. M. McDonald store
after a 2-weeks vacation.
Prairieland Talk—
Pioneer Woman Couldn’t Write ‘Home’
for Lack of Price of Postage Stamp
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — In the death ot
Mrs. Sadie Shanner another pio
neer of eastern Holt county has
joined that innumerable caravan
from whose bourn no traveler re
turns.
Mrs. Shanner of late years had
been living in Arkansas with her
sons, Paul and
Luther, who
went there
with a herd ol
Guernseys from
the Page com
munity, being
induced to do
so by men at
the college of
agriculture of
that state when
no encourage
_ . ment came
Homaine from a like in
Saunders stitution in
their native state. Mrs. Shanner
was the widow of the late James
Shanner and they were both a
mong a generation now about all
gone who pioneered in the Page
community before Page was on
the map of Holt county. They had
come here from Indiana.
One day in the long ago Mrs.
Shanner sat in her 1-room home
stead abode reading a letter from
the folks “back home.” And that
letter was stained by a tear drop
as she read the closing line, “Why
don’t you write?”
She did not write because she
did not have the price of a post
age stamp. Hardship was the lot
of many homesteaders. The Shan
ners raised their boys, developed
one of the best farm properties
in the county, were leaders m the
community and in connection
with their other interest had a
picture show business in Page
James Shanner was prominent
in the political activities of the
Barret Scott period and had a
brother, L. T. Shanner, who serv
ed as state senator.
The boys have brought their
mother home to rest beside their
father in the Page cemetery.
She rests under the soil made
sacred by the sacrifices of the pi
oneers, who had lonely hours out
on open prairie as they struggled
to redeem a wilderness that this
generation now enjoys as a fruit
ful heritage.
As soon as they dispose of their
Arkansas holdings, Paul and Lu
ther plan to return to Holt coun
ty and will bring their herd of CO
purebred Guersey cows.
Mrs. Shanner was bom in Sal
isbury, Ind., February 10, 1881.
Death occurred June 19. She and
Mr. Shanner were married at
Salisbury September 11, 1881.
Two years later they came to
Holt county and began the life oi
homesteaders 2 miles northwest
of what is now the town of Page.
That homestead was their home
until the death of Mr. Shanner
1929 and for some years after
Mrs. Shanner and the boys re
mained in the old home. And
with other real estate holdings,
the original homestead is part of
the Shanner estate.
In 1897 Jim Shanner brought
the first registered Guernsey sire
into Holt county.
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V acationists are touring the
country. This generation gets a
round. They thought they were
doing something a half-century
ago when they left the bounda
ries of Holt county and got up
to the Long Pine Chautauqua
in a North Western coach for a
weekend. And those gatherings
attracted some notable talent in
music and oratory that was
worth the price of admission.
• • *
Lo, this only have I found, that
God hath made man upright: but
they have sought out many in
ventions.—Ecele. 7:29.
Frontier for printing!
The federal constitution opens
the program of “We the People”
by declaring: “All legislative
powers herein granted shall be
vested in a congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a
senate and house of representa
tives.” First off, the colonial pa
triots under Articles of Confed
eration tried out the 1-house leg
islative body. It did not prove
satisfactory so in framing the
federal constitution a twin legis
lative body was provided for,
one branch to complement or act
as a balance wheel for the other.
States generally adopted the
same plan. But a brilliant idea
sprouted in Nebraska and we
went back to the colonial plan of
adding to our endless code of
laws, a heritage of doubtful value
from the late George W. Norris.
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For the first time in a genera
tion farmers in southeast Nebras
ka are in the slumps. They say
they have neither money nor
growing crops. Fields have been
converted to mudholes. That’s the
picture at the beginning of sum
mer. The gloom may be lifted
during the next few months and
the cheering glow of dawn re
place the twilight. Henry Grady,
Mike Horisky, Lloyd Gillespie
and a few others around O’Neill
will recall their kid days on prai
rieland when all faces gathered
the blackness of despair — and
then the exodus was on. All be
cause of a rainless period of a
bout a year. River bottom farm
ers now are in despair because
of too much rain.
* * *
I wonder how this slaughter
over in Korea "protects our free
dom." No foreign overlord shakes
his banner of slavery in our faces.
Yet this blood bath our young
men are drawn into unblushingly
has been fostered to “protect our
freedom." And now how does
freedom, looking on from her
mountain heights, regard the pic
ture? We play the hypocrite to
excuse the holocaust in far off
Asia by the subterfuge of pro
tecting our freedom. To protect
our freedom and the American
traditions we better get busy at
home.
• • •
A little spot of ground in New
York City was sold for $125 a
square foot. The Black Hawks
got the equivalent of 2 cents for
the same plot of land. Millers
hold you up now for 4 bits for 5
pounds of flour. Con Keys, next
door to The Frontier, sold crack- i
erjacks 60 cents for a 50 pound
bag. A holdup is punishable by
prison confinement. Maybe such
treatment will need to be restor
ed to bring down prices.
• • •
The last will and testament of
a British admiral of the navy pro
vides that none of his heirs shall
share in his $212,800 estate who
smoke, drink, gamble, use face
powder, cremes, lipstick, scents,
nail polish “or anything but good
soap and water.”
• • •
Worms were having a feast on
tender tree leaves, and then a
frenzy of excitement for fear the
trees were to be denuded. June
draws to its close with a heavy
mass of foliage covering the trees
more abundantly than ever.
# • •
Up in Canada they let you have
a yearly take of $400,000, but
each dollar over that is taxed
$1.88.
Mrs. Guy Beckwith
New WSCS President
EMMET — The WSCS of the
Methodist church, of Emmet, held
an election of officers for the
fiscal year at the home of Rever
end and Mrs. Hughes in Atkinson
Thursday.
The results were as follows:
Mrs. Guy Beckwith, president:
Mrs. Woodrow Gaughenbaugh,
vice-president: Mrs. John Conard,
secretary-treasurer.
After the business meeting was
held a lunch was served by Mrs.
Hughes.
Other Emmet News
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fox were
Sunday afternoon visitors of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Newton and fami
ly
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Heeb, of At
kinson, were Monday callers of
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Babl, Lu
Ann, Arnold and Lionel.
Thursday afternoon guests of
Mrs. Joe Winkler were Mrs.
Charles Abart and Mrs. Lucy
Earls.
Mr. and Mrs. John Makohus, of
Omaha, returned to their home
Monday, June 25, after spending
some time visiting Mrs. Mako
hus's mother, Mrs. Wedige, who
was recently taken ill by a heart
attack. They have also been vis
iting Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wedige
and Van, and Mr. and Mrs. Er
nest Wedige.
Miss Mary Lou Conard was a
Friday overnight guest of Eliz
abeth Schaffer at O’Neill.
Ed Winkler, of Butte, was a
Wednesday evening, June 27,
caller of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Winkler, and Bob.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Troshynski
and Miss Betty Thomas were
Friday evening visitors of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Murphy and fam
ily.
Jo and Larry Gene McConnell
spent last week visiting their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
McConnell. They were employed
at the blue grass yards.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Weichman
and son, Ricky, of Stuart, were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Winkler and Bob.
Mrs. Lloyd Johnson and family,
of O’Neill, were Sunday after
noon callers of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Foreman and family.
Mrs. Jack Murphy and Maur
een were Wednesday evening,
June 27, callers at the Mike Tro
shynski home.
Mrs. Ed Heeb, of Atkinson,
was a Thursday overnight guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Babl and
family.
Misses Mary Lou Conard and
Jeanie Cole spent from Sunday,
June 23, until Friday, June 29,
visiting Mr .and Mrs. Carl Mc
Grew in Seward. They also spent
some time in Lincoln.
Mrs. Bob Cole accompanied
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Humpal, of Atkinson, to Lincoln
last week where they spent Wed
nesday and Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Perry, of
O'Neill, were Friday evening
callers of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Per
ry and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wedige
spent Thursday and Friday in
Stuart visiting Mrs. Wedige’s
mother.
Mrs. Maude Sesler, Mr. and
Mrs. Neal Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Sesler and family, all of Val
entine, were Sunday visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Farr.
Mr and Mrs. Fred Saunto and
family, of O’Neill, were Friday
evening callers of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex McConnell.
Blue grass harvesting is well
underway in the Emmet blue
grass yards and the surrounding
community.
Miss Norma Lou Foreman was
a Wednesday, June 27, overnight
guest of Mrs. Wayne Fox and
sons.
Miss Maureen Schaaf and Miss
Strong were Friday overngiht
guests of Judy Anderson.
Laible Family Holds
Gathering—
ATKINSON — Honored at a
large family gathering Sunday,
June 24, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Laible were their
daughters, Sister M. Lorenzo,
R.N., and Sister M. Raynardus.
A lunch was served in the late
afternoon to 70 relatives.
Those present were: Sister M.
Lorenzo, R.N., of Beaver Dam,
Wise.; Sister M. Raynardus, of
Bensenville, 111.; Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Buscher and family, of
Breckenridge, Minn.; Mr. and
Mrs. Rudy Laible and family, of
Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Straka and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Laurence Kran r and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Leo Kramer, George
Laible, Mrs. Joe Ramold and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tunen
der and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Timmerman and family, all of
Atkinson; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Eng
ler, Mrs. Mary Laible, Mrs. Mary
Kramer and sons, Joe and Louis,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Laible and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deer
mer and family, all of Stuart; Mr.
and Mrs. Cyril Peter and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gettert,
of O’Neill.
Those unable to attend were:
Mr .and Mrs. Vincent Smedley
and Joe G. Laible, of Winnetka,
111. Mrs. Smedley and Joe are
daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Laible.
PAGE NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sweet, of
Lewiston, Ida., came Wednesday,
June 20, and visited until Mon
day, June 25, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Glen Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harvey,
Mrs. Leonard Wright and son
and Mrs. Calvin Harvey and sons
drove to Elm Creek on Sunday,
June 24, to visit at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Stauffer.
The Improvement club held a
strawberry festival at the Held
building Saturday evening, June
23. The affair was well patroniz
ed.
The American Legion auxiliary
sponsored a dance at the Legion
hall Saturday evening, June 23.
Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Wilcox,
son and daughter. Miss Barbara
Trowbridge and Miss Carolyn
Russell left Sunday, June 24, for
Ponca state park. Miss Russell
and Edward Wilcox attended the
MYF camp where Reverend Wil
cox and Miss Trowbridge were
instructors. Edward Wilcox won
the contest, “Why I Like to Go
to Camp,” in the intermediate
group of the MYF in the district.
The prize was the trip to the
camp.
The Fellowship Sunday-school
class of the Methodist church
held a party for the members and
their families in the church par
lors Tuesday evening, June 19.
There were around 50 in attend
ance.
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