Frontier Editorial It Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. CARRnT.rTw 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. Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere is the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Mrs. Susan Longstaff and son, John, of Waunita, spent several days last week visiting friends here. The Longstaffs resided here a number of years ago when the late Reverend Longstaff was Presbyterian pastor. Mrs. Martha Souk up, of Lead, S.D., spent the weekend with rel atives here enroute to and from the Matthews-Franssen wedding at Lincoln. Mrs. Soukup is an aunt of the bride, the former Magdalen Ann Matthews, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Matthews. Presbyterian rummage sale, Thurs., FrL, Sat., Oct. 11-12-13. First door east of Apparel Shop, O'NeilL 22-23c65 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cearns and faimily of Atkinson, were business i callers in O’Neill Friday, October 1. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clements went to Grand Island, Sunday to get their son, Cpl. Robert Clem ents, who will spend a 20-day leave at the home of his parents. He is stationed at Denver, Colo. Mrs. Katherine Craig and son, Billy, visited her sister and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Donohoe, of Fremont recently. Brownie troop 3 met at the school on Monday, October 1, and elected officers. Linda Seger was elected president; Carol Donavan, secretary, and La Veena Strong, treasurer. Miss Mae Rogasch and Ed Tun nicliff, of South Sioux City, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beilin, on Sunday, September 30. Venetian blind*, prompt deliv ery, made to measure, metal or wood, all colon.—J. M. McDon ald Co.. O'NeilL Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Holly and family spent last weekend in Om aha visiting friends. Mrs. Augusta Lindberg was a guest of Mrs. Carrie Borg, Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clark and family, Mrs. Francis Clark and Ronnie and Mrs. James Donohoe drove to Columbus on Thursday, October 4, to see the new son of Mr. and Mrs. George Peter son. Mrs. Frank Clements and son, Cpl. Robert Clements, went to Omaha on Wednesday, to visit Mr. and Mrs. James Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beilin left Friday, October 5, to visit relatives and friends in Sioux City, Boyden and Rock Rapids, la., and South Sioux City. In Rock Rapids they visited with a brother < f Mrs. Beilin’s whom she had not seen for 14 years. They returned to their home on Sun day. Mr. md M-s. Robert Brown w^nt to Spalding on Sunday to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Shade, of St. Paul, were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chaney. DR. FISHER, Dentist. adv Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Adamson and daughter, Judy, and Darrel Adamson went to Fullerton on Sunday to visit relatives. Mrs. Stanley B. Anderson, John Charles and Helen Anne spent last week in Kearney at the home of Mrs. Anderson’s mother, Mrs. Ann Hendrickson. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Anspach were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Givens and family at Stuart. Miss Mavis Forsch spent the weekend at the home of her par ents in Butte. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bazelman and Connie Jo were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Vander snick and family at Ewing. Guests Sunday, October 7. of Mr. and Mrs. George Janousek and daughter were Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Ronkar. of Bellwood. _ - ■ — »■■■ ■■■ ... Don’t Bury Your Money In a Hole... Place your savings in the Occidental Building and Loan Association where semi-annual dividends make your dollars multiply and where your savings are safeguarded by adequate reserves, sound State laws and experienced management. Building & Loan Association Organist* 1*89 Hem* Office Omaha See Your Local Agent C. E. YANTZI, Agent Phone 520. O'Neill Loans. Insurance k Collection* —ii i.i. i i i i— «*EYA PAHA COUNTY HEREFORD ASSOCIATION’S Fall Bull Sale SPRINGVIEW, NEBR. In Sale Pavilion ai 4-H Building Thursday, Oct. 18th Sale starts at 1:30 p.m., C.S.T. Lunch on grounds 65 - REGISTERED HEREFORDS -65 51 COMING 2-YEAR-OLD BULLS—2 2-YEAR-OLD BULLS 2 TRIED SIRES—10 COMING 2-YEAR-OLD OPEN HEIFERS CONSIGNORS Paul Gierau. jr., Wewela, S.D.; Robert Lewis, Spring view; Leon Larrington, Springview; N. D. Nelson, Spring view;. Dak* Nicholson. Springview; Max Nicholson, Spring view; M E. Potter, Weweila, S. D.; W. E. Ripley & Sons, Springview; F. E. Titus & Sons, Springview; Artice Went worth, Mills; F. E. Wentworth, Mills; Francis Haugen & Son, Brocksburg. All Animal* Will Be Tested tor Out-State Shipments FOR CATALOG, WRITE W. E. RIPLEY, Sales Mgr. Springview, Nebr. COL. CHAS. CORKLE. Auctionaar I Prairieland Talk — O’Neill’s Moses P. Kinkaid Only Other Nebraska Congressman to Die in Office By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—A ship bearing an unusual cargo steamed through the Golden Gate one day recent ly and proceeded to the army dock on the Oakland side of the bay. There, flag-draped caskets bearing 579 dead were un loaded, mute evidence of some of the price America is paying for the war in Kor ea. More than 85,000 casualties have stained the battle fields. Some of these have brought Saunders deso 1 a t i o n to homes in the O’Neill territory. The call comes now for 55,900 more draftees for next month. Several hundred of these will be taken from prairieland homes. A year from now how many will be numbered in another cargo of flag-draped caskets to be unloaded at that Oakland army dock? From a poem written long ago by Kate Putnam Osgood, telling the story of the harvest on other battle fields, I take a few stan zas. Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass He turned them into the river lane; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadow bars again. Under the willows and over the hill He patiently followed their so ber pace; The merry whistle for once was still. And something shadowed the sunny face. Only a boy! And his father had said He never could let his youngest go; Two already were dead Under the feet of the trampling foe. But after the evening work was done, And the frogs were loud in the meadow-swamp Over his shoulder he swung his gun And stealthily followed the foot-path damp. Across the clover and through the wheat, With resolute heart and pur pose grim. Though cold was the dew on his hurrying feet And the blind bats flitting startled him. Thrice since then had the lanes been white, And the orchards sweet with apple bloom; And now when the cows came back at night The feeble father drove them home. For news had come to the lonely farm That three were lying where two had lain; And the old man’s tremulous, palsied arm Could never lean on a son’s a gain. • • • Looking the part of an honest to-goodness farmer he was up to the capital city from Clay county the other day. Among other things in his part of the world he said they were going to have some corn, 60 bushels to the acre. Also the government bond bait is being side-stepped in favor of $175 an acre Nebras ka land. . . Mayor Anderson, of Lincoln, is asking for the Repub lican nomination for governor. The primary for nominations falls on April 1 next. . . Jim Rooney has drawn fire from an official of the state educational setup over some things Mr. Rooney has called attention to in the school land lease contro versy, and in effect calls the secretary of the O’Neill Chamber of Commerce what Teddy Roose velt once referred to as the --—^ shorter and uglier word. Mr. Rooney can take care of himself in such a case and probably has forgotten more about school lands than his critic ever knew. . . . Up the street a few blocks lives a family, both father and mother classed as the handicapped. The father is rather badly twisted from some accident, but has hands that can work and has a job that earns a livelihood for himself and wife, who is also deformed of foot, and their 2 children. A father and mother with handicaps but asking no odds of anyone. • • • The azure pigment has turned to gold and crimson above prai rieland’s western rim as the first day of October folds up, merges into a quiet, warm night. A short space ago birds in a seeming endless stream winged their way past the open door to take refuge for another period of darkness in the tops of distant trees. The day has been warm, 80 degrees. The shade. Coatless, shirtless men, summerclad women, barefoot cop up on the comer kept in the kids and dogs with tongues hanging out suggested a day in mid-August. A day to spend in the open. I sat for an hour this after noon with a companionable old-timer on a bench among the trees and flowers and grass, along a busy street. There is where you get the picture of life as it is from day to day in which your friends, your neighbors, the common herd to which you be long. the "salt of the earth," are acting each his part. Newspapers deal with the un usual, the accidents, the crimes, the political and official, mar riages, births and deaths. It is' not new when a truck is being unloaded and the furniture taken into a house where a family of newcomers is moving in. If the truck goes into a ditch and up sets, that’s news. It is not news with a stream of cars racing to and-fro along the street unless one of them kills a victim. Nei ther is it news to tell of a moth er with her children finding an afternoon of pleasure out among the flowers and trees. Students, stalwart young men. lovely co eds. children of the grade schools, men and women entering food stores and coming out with arms loaded, the activities of the day of an industrious and peaceable people. This is community life not mentioned in the news. • • • I don’t know as there were any of the Holt county stalwarts, unless it be Frank Brady, who tossed in their $25 for a spot at the banquet table with the 1,000 sturdy party members who are and listened to Senator Taft over in Omaha the other day. Taft, not an avowed candidate to come up at the next national Republican convention, though who of the nation’s great do not take a glimpse toward the White House, is one of the few solid statesmen at a time when dis cerning minds in the national scene are especially needed. The convention delegates, of course, will look the field over and num inate the one whom they deem will be most acceptable to the voters. • • «P The death of Karl Stefan calls for a special election in the Third congressional district. His passing is the first death of one serving in congress from Nebraska since M. P. Kinkaid’s death in 1922 which left a vacancy in the then Sixth Nebraska congressional district. Mr. Stefan served the Third district, or more properly was elected repeatedly from the Third district, and in a broader sense served the nation as a true American, which he became by adoption. He ranked among the best in the house of representa tives. was a clear thinking prai rieland statesman and beside all that, and transcending all that, he was a man of the people. • • • They are not what they once were down there in Buffalo county or that 15-year-old Tex as kid would have been slapped to sleep and his bean shooter taken away from him. __ —---i CATTLE AUCTION At Atkinson, Nebraska EVERY MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVERY MONDAY, starting at 12 o'clock noon — WE SELL CALVES AND YEARLINGS. This is the day to bring in your calves and light yearlings. EVERY TUESDAY, starting at 10:30 A>L. we sell butcher cattle and small consignments of other classes of tattle until 2 o'clock P.M.. following which we sell carload lots of stockers and feeders. LIST YOUR CATTLE IN ADVANCE AND GET FULL ADVANTAGE OF OUR EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING! We are holding a SPECIAL ALL ABERDEEN ANGUS AUCTION—On Friday, October 19th. This sale is sponsor ed by the Holt County Aberdeen Angus Association, but is open to all Aberdeen Angus breeders who wish to consign cattle. Listings should be in our hands not later than Oc tober 10th to be properly adverised. Get in touch with us now if you are interested in selling your blacks in this auction. ATKINSON LIVESTOCK MARKET Atkinson, Nebr. The boneyard at the universi j ty museum is enlarging. Anoth ' er mine of prehistoric skeletons ; has been found out in the state I and that has set the highbrows guessing again. It is quite won derful what is being constructed down there at the university out of bones buried long under the drifting sands and where bones are lacking to build the thing the imagination has created sticks and plaster fills. Dig ging out bones and uncovering works of the ancients is proba bly a lot of fun—when the state pays for it. * • • The hogs, a few cows, are writing the finish to the hopes of planters who went forth at apple-blossom time to plant com in the Weeping Water communi ty. From time to time during the fleeting years this has been the practice when there was nothing much to husk among the corn stalks. Now there is less livestock in the crop growing sections of the state, reductions having been made in the number of cows and pigs kept because of the market value of the grain raised. • • • Latest records place the num ber of medical doctors in the United States at 209,040. A sprin kling of these in the capital city have telephone service in their automobiles for which they pay $25 per month. The service is in the radio realm and if a call comes from only a block away it is rated long distance on the M.D.’s monthly telephone bill When You and I Were Young . ., Firemen Take Over Old Electric Building 50 YEARS AGO T. V. Golden had a house moved onto his lots south of the Lowrie place and is building an addition to the same. . . Messrs. O. O. Snyder, E. H. Thomson and H. R. Henry went to Kearney, Monday, to attend the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Nebraska . . . There will be a social dance at the rink on Friday evening. . . Alonza Thurman and Sheridan Thurman returned from Iowa, where they have rented farms . . . Miss Kittie Bright went to Kear ney Monday as a delegate to the grand assembly of Rebekahs . . . County Clerk John Lee is on duty again after several weeks confine ment to his home with typhoid fever. . . The members of the fire department have been at work the past week getting their new headquarters in condition to oc cupy. The city has bought the old electric light house near the pumping station and given it to the department, which has put in new floors and made some other improvements. 25 YEARS AGO The Ewing sale pavilion, one of the largest of its kind in this sec tion of the country, was burned to i the ground last Saturday morning . . . H. W. Tomlinson went on duty as city policeman last Sun day. . . Ed Burge, James Davis, Jack Davidson and Bert Gunn went up to the Marsh lake coun try in Cherry county on a hunt- I nj, and fishing trip. . . Melvin Klinger and John Warner visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clausson on Tuesday. . . Miss Marjory Dick- | son came up from Neligh and 1 spent the weekend with her par- | ents. .. Attorney M. F. Harrington 1 and Attorney George Harrington were attending court in Butte the first of the week. . . Dan Davis | fell this morning and broke a j bone in his hand. I 10 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Porter ac companied their son, Ralph, who has been here on a 15-day fur lough, to Glenwood, la. . . The an nual stag party was held at the Country club Wednesday evening, this being the closing event of the year. . . Mrs. Irving Johnson entertained the 99-FF Bridge club at her home, Thursday evening * . . . Miss Constance Biglin re turned Saturday from North Platte, where she had spent the past 10 days visiting. . . Miss La none Miles, of Norfolk, spent Sun day visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Miles. . . Supt. War ren McClurg and family were guests at the Harold Miller home in Neligh. PUBLIC AUCTION 240 - ACRE ANTELOPE COUNTY IMPROVED FARM 2 Miles West on Highway 275. 1 Mile North anu show you why ties of peace and war. we think they’re right. You see nimble bantamweights of the family —the highest-powered to 2-tonners made—outpulling, outhauling every other truck in their class. liver wonder why GMC is gaining a greater percentage of the industry than any other truck-maker? i— Ask the truck drivers themselves. Cce the confident way they talk of general I MOTORS A. MARCELLUS PHONE 370 O'NEILL You'll do bottor on a oeod truck with your GMC doalor ,