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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1951)
Editorial & Business Office*: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. — CARROLL wTSTEWART, Editor and Publisher_ Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday -EnteredThe^ostoffice at O’Neill. HolTcounty, Nebraska, as se^ 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^ Term* of Subscription: IrTNetosiska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. __ Prairieland Talk— O’Neill and Atkinson Discuss the Belt but Chambers Folks Have the Hay! By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — The first home stead entry in America is said to have been for 160 acres in Gage county, Nebraska, the homestead er being Daniel Freeman, a sol dier on the Indian lookout in the 1860 s. But the idea of free home steads was of ancient origin. Joshua established the first pub lic land office in 1444 BC. Twelve counties or colonies were laid out in the land now known as the Near East, a county appointed to each of the 12 Hebrew tribes. These counties or colonies were divided into what amounted to homesteads and allotted to fapri* ilies. Under the U. S. homestead acts, the homesteader pays a fee when he makes claim to a homestead and another fee when he "proves up.” So it is not altogether "free.” Joshua exacted no filing or proving up fees. The family al lotment was perpetual. There is land now available in Alaska for homestead entfy. Six months residence is required to obtain government patent to 160 acres. Four years residence was the requirement in the sod house homestead days in Nebraska. A large section of Nebraska a half century ago was opened to a full section of 640 acres for homestead entry. • • • The U. S. reclamation bureau has plans for boring through the Rockies at the continental divide to bring water from the west slope to the east to wet 322,000 acres. DR. GILDERSLEEVE. OJ) OPTOMETRIST Permanent Offlaeo In Hagenelck Building Phone 1ST O'NEILL NEBR. Eve* Examined . Qlaeeee Fitted A wave of righteous indigna tion has swept over the patriots up at Valentine. It had been car ried about on that deadly tongue of gossip that the countyseat of Nebraska’s largest county was also the seat of communist de signs on our American heritage of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Of course, Valentine didn’t get excited when 2-gun guys shot up the town, soldiers from Ft. Niobrara came in and painted the city and the free-and easy dames walked into the sa loons and swung a foot to the top of the bar, but to say they have a hornet’s nest of reds is going too far. That the worthy citizens of the metropolis of that great cattle empire have turned to saintly ways will be *urprising as well as gratifying to old-timers who knew the town as she once was. * ♦ • While O’Neill and Alkinaon debate which end of the belt i* whose. Chambers folks can tell the world they have the hay. » • • The red earth of the Southland makes pf its rivers streams of blood. The red waters gurgle be neath the bridges like a gory flood, and are anything but invit ing in which to take a plunge. Eastern Nebraska has a river called the Blue. It should be Mud. The Platte and the Loup and the Elkhorn and the Niobrara flow a clean tide over the sands that seem to say, Jump in; the water’s fine. But watch your step if you can’t swim. One of the first things pioneer kids learned was to float upon the water and dive to the bottom, keep away from the poison ivy and heat the other fellows to tying shirts into knots. * • • A young man who earns a live lihood by risking his neck met with disaster participating in an airplane show in town the other dav. Riding on the hood of a fast moving automobile his trick was to grasp a rope lader let down from an airplane flying low, climb the ladder to the plane. A slip up in detail and the stunt perform er was on the pavement and drawn along for a distance bv the automobile. The hospital had an other "traffic accident’’ to nurse hack to his life’s precarious acti vities as a stunt showman As the ancient Romans got their thrill I out of the sufferings, of victims in the arena, so we moderns thrill over a nitwit risking his neck in a fool performance. 0 0 0 Some of the fellows up at JDm met keep alive the spirit of the pioneers, who eschewed meetings and resolutions and delegations and went at the job and did it when something needed to be done. Down Lincoln way patri ots have been gathering in meet ings and beating the air over flood control for the past 2 or 3 years. Groups gathered at these meetings come with a collection of confused ideas of what “ought to be done" and nothing is done. There are times when streams are flooded and the water responding to the law of gravity seeks an outlet. If you are in the path of that outlet your feet will get wet if nothing worse. August 11 saw the latest flood and erosion con trol confab at the capital city and what will be the result in actual shovel work will be watched with interest. • • • Mr. Truman hopes to see "forward looking" men sent to congress from Missouri valley states. Maybe what congress needs is some backward look- i ing fellows who see us drifting from the early moorings and have the courage and ability to head the government back to old paths. • • * The cattle industry continues to be the target for the tax fixers at the state house. If this industry is made to suffer from excessive tax burdens something should be done about it that will arouse the state to an understanding that will bring results. The gents mak ing up the state board of equali zation may not know a Shorthorn from a Hereford but they no dbubt have a sense of fairness if all the facts are known. Nebraska cannot afford to tax one of its greatest sources of wealth to death. The sword will not wipe out communism. Ideas are not to be crushed that way. When Chris tianity ‘‘turned the world upside down’’ pagan Rome burned its adherents at the stake and threw them to the wild beasts. When Christianity came into control and split into factions they too light ed the fires of doom for opposing ideas. The ideas lived to spread the world around. Communistic error can be overwhelmed with the clarion voice of liberty and truth, not by the bugle call to battle. • • • Prairieland lies serene and fresh under a blue sky, endless miles of verdure beautifying the landscape. Southern and eastern skies spread in sombre gray across the hot land. The green of earth and the blue of the heavens make for nature’s picture in Ne braska unrivaled throughout the land. • • • The atom bomb is said to be obsolete. A biological product wipes out all living and an army may move in 12 hours later and take over, it requiring but that length of time for the new death dealing substance to oxidize and disappear. ♦ • • Census takers last year reported 25,619,000 males under 19 years of age. Lightning Strikes Alfalfa Stack, Stuart STUART — Lightning struck and burned a stack of alfalfa hay on the Ben Kaup place just south of Stuart during the rainstorm on Sunday afternoon. The heavy rainfall prevented further damage. Other Stuart News Mrs. Ruby Jones and daughter, Joan, of Madrid, la., visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zink. Mrs. Jones is a sister of Mrs. Zink. Mrs. Alice Christenson and sons, of Boston, Mass., visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kruger from Wed nesday, August 8, to Monday. Mrs. Christenson and Mrs. Krue ger are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. George Elwell, of Beatrice, and Mrs. Hester Tim mons and son, Miles, visited over the weekend, August II, with Mr. and Mrs. Art Runnels and Mrs. Elvira Smith. Mrs. Elwell and Mrs. Timmons are sisters of Mrs. Runnels and Mrs. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Slayma ker and family and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Keidel and Dick were Sun day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zink. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McMullen, of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Angler enjoyed a trip in the Black Hills and Badlands from Monday, August 6, to Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kettlehut and Ruth Ann, of Bennett, Mrs. £>ema Johnson and daughter, Mrs. Carrie Jenson, of Palmyra, re turned to their homes on Thurs day, August 9. They have been visiting at the Clarence Johnson home and with other relatives and friends. Mrs. Johnson is Clarence Johnson’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mulford, son, William, and daughter, Laura, left for Rogersville, Mo., Thurs day evening where they attended the wedding of their son. Linden Mulford, to Miss Loretta Berry on Sunday, August 12. Mrs. Blanche Mollohan, of Bell ville, 111., came on Saturday, Au gust 11, to visit Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Coffman. Mrs. Mollohan is a sister of Mrs. Coffman. Mrs. Sena Johnson and daugh ter, Mrs. Carrie Jenson, of Palm yra, called at the Berlin Mitchell home on Tuesday, August 7. Mrs. Lena Ruther and son, Lawrence, returned to their home in Springview on Friday, August 10. They have been visiting with Mrs. Frances Roberts. Mrs. Harvey Kettlehut, of Ben nett, called at the Gilman Davis home on Tuesday, August 7. Mrs. R. A. Coffman and Mrs. Frances Roberts spent Thursday, August 9, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Luther Jackson in Atkinson. B. H. Coffman and son, Henry, Miss Dorothy Webb and Miss Ed na Thomas, of Kansas City, vis ited with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Coffman the past week. B. H. Coffman is a brother of R. A. Coffman. Mrs. Estella Bachman is vis iting with her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Gillette at Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brainard and family, of Naper, and Miss Janice'Timmerman, of Sutton, visited with Mrs. Edith Atkinson on Fridap, August 10. R. A. Coffman and Walter Gill went to Kansas City on Tuesday, August 7. Mrs. B. J. Jensen’s sister, Mar garet, returned to her home in. New Orleans, La., on Thursday, August 9. Krieter Now With Photo Unit— Attached to the navy’s only air craft carrier - type photographic squadron is V. F. Krieter, avia tion machinist’s mate, third class, USN, of Redbird. Krieter entered the navy May 17, 1948, and re ceived his recruit training at the naval training center, San Diego, Calif. The squadron, based at San Di ego with composite squadron 61, whose primary mission is aerial reconnaissance, is responsible for much of this work being done in the Korean area, flying from vari ous aircraft carriers to record in formation of the battle areas. Gonderinger Home Scene of Gathering— ATKINSON—A family reunion was held Sunday at the Charles Gonderinger home. It was to have been held on the lawn of the hostesses’, Mrs. Mary Weber and Miss Anna Coufal. Among those attending were: Miss Rose Coufal, of Pueblo, Colo.; Mrs. Julia Groeger, of Stanton; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Groe ffer and son, of Gregory, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gondering er and family, Peter and Quen tin Ramold and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gonderinger and family ?vxr ^£lss Kathryn McCarthy, of U Neill. g Repair with Gordon’s Glue (uritli a postu-ar trade-in in good condition) Now, under new credit terms, you get more time to pay, and pay less, far less every month! Own the Fashion Award Car of the year for as little as $3-4 a month...no cash down payment needed if your trade-in car is a late model! Today’s best buy is the Henry J — and the time to buy is today 1 See your Kaiser-Frazer Dealer today! 4* ’1333. Delivered at ITiilea Run with federal laves paid (with S tires). Only de lose bumper guards, end local tan (if any) additional. 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