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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1951)
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. Thia newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Terms of 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. Hiatt Inducted mt Ft. Old— Pvt. Gordon Arlo Hiatt. 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arlo A. Hiatt, of O’Neill, was recently inducted into the army and began 16 weeks of basic infantry training September 6 at Ft. Ord with Company I, 19th infantry regi ment, Sixth infantry division. Private Hiatt is a graduate of O’Neill high school and the Uni versity of Nebraska. Upon his I graduation he yas employed as an assistant highway engineer. 3 Ewing People on WOW Eastern Tour Three Ewing residents. Mrs. S. W. Brion and Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Summerer, will depart today (Thursday) for the radio station WOW-sponsored East coast, Can ada and New England farm study tour. Another member of the tour from the O’Neill region will be Mrs. Julia Braddock, of Bassett. “Voice of The Frontier” , . . Mon., Wed., Sat., 9:45, WJAG. 3 = DAYS - 3 Thurs. - Frl - Sat. t ONLY! While they last, these are MEN’S WORK SHIRTS - Blue or grey chambray, sturdily stitched for long wear, full cut sanforised. Reg. 1.29 value. Sixes U’/a to 17. You savel Each---.$1.07 MEN’S WORK SOCKS First quality full-bodied cotton. Random color. Sizes 11-11 Vi-12. Stock upl 5 Pair. I MEN’S TWILL WORK SET - Rugged twist twill in grey or tan. Sanforized. Compare for wear. Buy now and save! 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The day of execut i o n came and he stood bound awaiting the volley of bul Saundars lets when 2 men stepped up to him. one the United States representative, the other representing the British crown. Each draped the flag of his country over the condemned man. each in turn addressing the firing squad, “Now shoot if you dare!” And they did not shoot. It was in the darkest hour of the 1860’s when the Confederate army led by Stonewall Jackson swept north through Virginia in to Maryland that an old patriot looked out of a window waving the stars and stripes. The poet has her say, “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag!’’ Stonewall Jack son, who had faced belching can on and walls of bayonets, qua vered at such a sight. “Halt! The dust-brown ranks stood fast.” A bit of cloth, the emblem of a peo 'ple. Insult the flag at the peril of your life, at the risk of setting the world aflame with bursting bombs and roaring guns. m * * The auditorium, the galleries, the vestries, were crowded to the limit. The first words of the speaker jarred us into attention, "‘I have returned a frightened man from months of travel a round the world.” Saluting the stars and stripes at his right hand, he unfurled a red flag and said its shadow lay upon a billion of earth’s people. ''Americans know nothing of what is on the other side of the world." r And then in vivid outlines and blood freezing detail he painted the picture as only a gifted orator could paint it. Everywhere the speaker went, among Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus and other Or iental faiths he found an implaca ble hatred^ of Americans and Christianity. Everywhere is the red flag of communism and ev erywhere he saw banners reading, “Americans, go home. We don’t want your Christian religion.” Asia’s estimate of Christianity is in terms of bombs and belching guns Is that the footprint some emisaries of the Cross have left across the earth? The speaker brought to his i hearers much information that i does not get into the newspapers. I The Voice of America telling of industrial, social and livmg con ditions in the United States is vio lently resented and does more harm than good, the speaker said. In South Korea, where we are supposed to be the agents of free dom and deliverance, banners are displayed, Americans get out; you have ruined our country. The only Americans getting out are the blood - stained and broken bodies of the sons of fathers and mothers in Nebraska and every other state. FOR YOUR FULLER BRUSH ! PRODUCTS Sm or Call Pat Hynes Phono 15S-W O'NEILL Napoleon once said: "China sleeps. Let her sleep. If awak ened, God only knows what will happen." China has awakened from cen turies of slumber. So have the millions of Asia. And as the blood of our boys cries unto us from Asiatic ground some commercial interests here at home send sup plies into the camp of the enemy. The speaker told of seeing great quantites of American goods be ing taken into China. The enemy is well supplied with airplanes and fighting (machines. Buddhist, Moslems, Hindus are frightened into the camp of the communists by ficticious tales of American imperialistic designs which if brought to fruition Christianity will be forced upon them, which thing they violently resent. "Eph / Special for September only! You save $2.75 during our big layaway Advance SALE! Donfield topcoats New Reg. $39.75 lip-lined and other part wool and wool coats m s Small down payment holds your coat on LAYAWAY Pay little by little I Buy your Fall needs now I It's as easy as A A Just when you are thinking of buying a new topcoat, McDonald’s whacks $2.75 from the price, this month only. 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Morning glories bloom be side the way, pale flowers in white and blue and red. Flower gardens, aflame with color, per fume the air with fragrance. Stal wart aster stalks are crowned in gold and red and purple bloom. At a householder’s home today I saw trees laden with ripening pears when I lingered in passing for a visit with the patriot living there, then out on his lawn up rooting grass growing among the clover. I said to him, “Let it grow, You are taking out the grass God put on Nebraska prairieland and encouraging an imported plant to take over.” Prairie grass, if let a lone, will run out objectionable plant growth as well as grass not native to this region. Summer floral display puts on its gayest colors as autumn approaches, but we often slight the violets till the lovely flowers are gone, nor prize the music till the sweet voiced bird has flown. And the season marches on, but we have today. • * • A bit of humor was injected nto a case up for trial in Judge Harrington’s court a day in 1905 when Anthony Healy was in the toils for having ridden away bn a horse belonging to J. P. Galla gher. When asked if guilty, he replied, “You bet.” This drew a fine of $100. Horses were worth going to court those days. Take one now off a fellow’s hands and maybe he will pay you for it. In that year it was discovered that the O’Neill school district was in the red nearly $23,000. A short time previous to this discoverey the Elkhom Valley bank went on the rocks and with it $2,000 of school funds, Mr. McGreevy, president of the bank, being the school treasurer. Dr. J. P. Gilli gan was appointed school trea surer and through his efforts and those of others the financial strin gency that embarrassed the school board and flabbergasted the town was eventually worked cut. • • • The Nebraska state fair, one of many throughout the nation, brings together the material evi dence that there lies a productive land ready at hand from which is being turned out by enterpris ing citizens a remarkable quanti ty and variety of the things that make for comfort, contentment and a well ordered home life. Ag ricultural exhibits, maybe not quite up to those of some former yoars, but a surprise to many who thought wre had been flood ed out of crops this year. Live stock, machinery, hand craft, poultry and the hundreds of things exhibited tell thg story of activity in prairieland. * • + Romans were better fighters than writers. But for a pastoral picture of rural life in prairieland we can well turn back some cen turies to Virgil. Easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless; And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex’d with quarrels, undis turb’d by noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys. • * • In the lobby of the observatory of Mt. Hamilton, California, is a plaque with the following inscrip tion; James Edward Keeler Director Lick Observatory 1890 - 1900 Surveyed God’s beauteous firma ment unrolled Like to a book new writ in gold en words, And turned the azure scroll with reverent hand And read to man the wonders God hath wrought. * * • This corner of prairieland was denied a celestial show the morn ing of September 1 when the sun went into eclipse. Clouds curtain ed the open firmament and gra cious relief was granted the swel tering city after days of scorching sunbeams poured out without stint. • * • A state university prof rushes into print to assassinate the char acter assassin. Probably a few pa triots are the target for slander but it rolls off like water off a duck’s back. As there are quite a few shysters loose in the world not getting what’s coming to them there is probably more truth than “assassination” in what gets out about them. Stuart High Picks Cheerleaders— STUART — The Stuart high school pep club of 41 girls held an election of officers on Friday^H afternoon, September 7, Deloris^H Hamik was elected president;^® Theo Weichman, vice-president: M Marilyn Varilek, secretary, and H Jean Cobb, treasurer. The cheer leaders chosen by " popular vote of the entire student body are Joan Burhans, Maureen Batenhorst, Shirley Shald and Kathy Seger. Mara U Mm Carraat Waak'< Jlngla (No. 9)