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O'NEILL. NEBR.
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Prairieland Talk—
O’Neill in Past Has Known 3
Bank Failures at Same Stand
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — For the second
time an earlier generation of the
O’Neill community felt the wal
lop of financial logs by the clos
ing of the Elkhorn Valley hank in
1904.
Patrick Hagerty and his broth
er-in - law, Bernard McGreevy,
were the bank’s
officials and
both took to t he
tall timber and
were gone be
fore i t became
known that the
bank was clos
ed. McGreevy
was later locat
ed in Arizona
and returned to
O’Neill where
Romaine he,w“ ke** in
jail for a time
Saunders on the pretext
of forging notes.
A bank failure (there have
been 3 at the same stand in O’
Neill) brings us face to face with
life’s reality of our dependence
upon the cold cash. Within the
realm of my own family the blow
has fallen twice, my widowed
mother being the first victim.
Such losses cut deep and be
sides the money involved vindic
tive hatred sears the soul.
One of the most bitter of the
depositors at that time was Jim
Coyle, who soon after the settle
ment with the depositors pulled
out for other parts. The receiver’s
report showed there were depos
its of $53,781.28 and total liabil
ities of $56,487.95, with something
over 40-thousand-dollars assets.
In an open letter to the depos
itors of nearly 2 columns length
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published in the O’Neill papers
Mrs. Hagerty offered to turn over
her entire property in settlement
“if let alone.” This property Mrs.
Hagerty claimed would meet (JO
percent of the loss. A check for
$746 payable to Mr. Hagerty as
back pension was put on the
altar in the offer for a settlement.
Mrs. Hageriy's letter ex
pressed sympathy for the de
positors, her prostration at the
turn of events and while her
name appeared as vice-presi
dent of the bank she held but
one $100 share.
Her letter also called attention
to the many that were still ow
ing Mr. Hagerty for goods when
he was in the merchantilo busi
ness. And now the banking bus
iness had come to an end because
of loans made that could not lie
collected.
The loss sustained by toil-worn
depositors was real. The tragedy
in the Hagerty household was
real. Pioneers of the 70’s now
facing life’s sunset and set adrift
in strange places to renew the
struggle for a livelihood.
• • •
The Nebraska Historical Soci
ety, a quarter of a century ago
holed up on the university camp
us, then in a basement on Lin
coln’s 16th street over which the
late Addison Sheldon had visions
of seeing a building erected for a
permanent home for the society,
and for a number of years occu
pying quarters in the state house,
will move again. Contracts are
made for a new building for the
society on the university grounds.
In respect to the many visitors
going through the capital build
ing that has been an ideal place
for the many exhibits the society
has gotten together and a conven
ient place for reference in search
ing records.
• • •
The notables flying to Korea
to look things over take the next
plane out. No, we’ll not read of
any of them shouldering a rifle
to take the place of a war-weavy
soldier.
A Massachusetts couple by
• the name of Drinf-.water were
taken into custody for dealing
in firewater without a license
.... The Vets administration
in Washington has 53 acres of fil
ing cabinets filed with records,
after 70,000 feet of such records
were destroyed. . . There are 1,772
daily newspapers in the country
with a combined circulation of
54,000,000 .... Yolande Betbeze
of Mobile, Ala., as Miss America
poured a quart of water from
the Hudson river into the Seine
as a good will gesture to the
French on the occasion of the
observance of the 2,000th an
niversary of the city of Paris.
... An airplane crash in the Col
orado Rocky mountains brought
death to the 50 occupants of the
plane, passengers and crew
.... An American soldier in
Korea wrote to his mother that
he was the only one left of his
squad, the others members of
that group had either killed
themselves or gone crazy.
• • •
Lay down the guns at ihe 38th
parallel. And what has the har
vest been? Death, desolation,
heartache, ruined cities and fair
lands ravished, horror-haunted
childhood and sorrow - laden
mothers and fathers. The count
less voices of our brothers’ blood
crieth unto heaven from the
ground to put a stop to this mon
strous thing that takes the lives
and wrecks the bodies and minds
of the youth of all lands. If not
another shot is fired and warring
men go home, what have we
done?
* * *
So Washington will send bil
lions more of American dollars to
"our friends” of the decaying
countries of Europe. Maybe it
better be ascertained if the toil
worn hands that produce billions
in this land of the free and home
of the brave are still willing to
dig into their jeans to support the
rabble of old Europe that better
go to work and cut out the snarl
ing and scrapping that seems
to be their chief occupation.
• • •
No doubt the queen of the
household finds the endless plan
ning of the daily menus some
thing of a bore. The boss of a
kitchen in Kansas City, Eve De
Marino, has the job of planning
for 2,500,000 meals a year an air
plane service provides for their
yearly passenger list. The meals
are frozen and distributed to
"sub-station” kitchens from San
Francisco to Gander, Newfound
land.
# • •
Friedrich W. Hardach, director
of the great Krupp works, an
nounces that never again will
they turn out munitions and in
struments of war. Krupps sup
plied Germany with its tools of
slaughter in 2 wars and now de
vote their whole effort to turn
ing out equipment that makes
for peace. They have 70,000 on
the payroll.
* • •
Of all the gall. Claiming to
stand on constitutional rights by
refusing to answer questions,
when they belong to an outfit
that would overthrow the gov
ernment and tear to shreds the
constitution they now hide be
hind. A traitor to his countrv has
no such thing as constitutional
rights.
• • 9
Just say tomorrow will bring
rain and the intervening 24 hours
will establish you as a reliable
weather prophet. Assume che ti
tle of “doctor,” and start out
“seeding” clouds in a wet season
and you become a rainmaker.
Farmers are about ready to gang
up and hang the rainmakers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold K. Wil
liamson spent the Fourth in Page
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Williamson.
IVY-DRY
•nd quickly, gentiy, safely dr,os up blisters o’
POISON IVY
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MARTHA BOHLSBN, home economist
4or television station WOW-TV, invites you
to give a name to her special CINCH Cake created for
summer picnics and outings. This is a two-layer marble
cake made with CINCH White Cake Mix and CINCH
Oevii's Fudge Mix, topped with a white and chocolate
Icing. It's a cinch to make; just add water, mix and bake.
EASIEST CONTEST YOU EVER ENTEREOI
WUNItJI KULtS
Write the name you have chosen for Martha Bohlsen’s
•r CINCH Cake, and your name and address, on the back
of any CINCH box top, or a reasonable fascimile. Send
ft to Martha Bohlsen, WOW-TV, Omaha, Nebr. You may
, A send In as many entries as you wish, but write each entry
on a separate box top.
! 2* ^ contest closes midnight Friday, August 31, 1951.
All entries become the property of Martha Bohlsen,
WOW-TV. The desicion of the judges will be final.
•^TJhere are the prizes
WRST PRIZE a $269.95 General Electric 8-cu.
ft. Refrigerator, Model NCS-8H.
SECOND PRIZE a $44.95
General Electric Automatic
Roaster, Model C-24. Temper
ature is thermostat controlled.
THIRD PRIZE a $39.95 GenerarEkctric
Triple-Whip Mixer, Model M-9,
with speed selector, three
beaters and juicer.
See Martha'* special CINCH
, Cake, and prizes, every
Monday at 3P.M. on
WOW-TV.
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