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O'NEILL. NEBR.
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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.
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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*
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«*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.
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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. __
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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 an<f, Vi Mile West
of Neligh, Nebraska
Wednesday, October 17,1951
— 1:00 P. M. ON THE PREMISES —J
Legal Description
Southwest Quarter (160) and West Half of Northwest Quar
ter (80) of Section 1, Township 25, Range 7, West, in Ante
lope County. Nebraska.
The Land
160 Acres excellent Elkhorn bottom soil and 80 Acres of
rolling land. 157 Acres under cultivation, 10 Acres alfalfa,
25 Acres meadow, balance pasture, yards and orchard. 4
The Buildings
Good 7-room House, modern except heat, with good brick
basement under part of the house, REA on farm, 3A mile to
school; Double Corn Crib and Granary, 24x18; Good Well
and Mill, water reservoir with water piped to yards; Barn,
20x40, with hay mow and 12x40 lean-to for stock cattle^'
barn has stanchions for milk cows; One 1500-bu. Steel Grain
Bin and two 800-bu. Circular Corn Cribs; One 1000-bu.
Granary; Two Hog Houses, one 16x24 and one portable hog
house with self-feeder for six sows; One 40' Chicken House;
One Brooder House; One Garage; Good Feed Yards and
Loading Chute.
Terms
20% Day of Sale, balance to be paid when final seiiUemenl
is made on or before) March 1, 19S2, when possession ■yill be
given. . *
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Inspect this Farm, See the Owner—
ELMER A. PETERSEN
NELIGH, NEBRASKA
Adolph & Don Zicht, Norfolk. Nebr., Auctioneers
Jerry Brown, Norfolk, Nebr., Realtor
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What’s the fastest-growing
. line of trucks in America?
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IOOK around you—in cities, on farm si the power plants, the broad-shouldered
■J at terminals and loading docks— chassis—the way a GMC handles.
wherever goods are moved on wheels. A , « , .. . , ...
Ask about the tons they ve hauled,
More and more, the pay load’s packed the miles they’ve logged —the nip-and
on a GMC. tuck schedules they’ve licked time
^ou see those letters on medium and an^ a^a‘n*
heavy Diesels, the most economical Ask these cost-wary haulers why they’ve
workers in their field. For GMC means made GMC the fastest-growing fleet in
first in Diesel power. the land.
You see gasoline-powered GMC’s They’ll tell you it’s because GMG i9
front-running the highways of America the finest motor truck made.
-pace-setting delivery of the necessi- If you’ll come irif we>u 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
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PHONE 370 O'NEILL
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