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Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brady and
Mrs. Brady's parents. Mr. and |
Mrs. C. A. Bare, of Lynch, went
to Scottsbluff on Friday to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Bare and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Bare and family. They returned
home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Vinzenz
and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gettert j
and baby, of Atkinson, were Sat-!
uradv guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leo 1
Brill. I
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mlinar and
son, of Stuart, and Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Leder and sons, of Am
elia. were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Smith.
Venetian blind*, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal or
wood, all colon.—J. M. McDon
ald Co., O'Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lamb, of
Dixon, were Sunday afternoon
guests at the home of Mr. and :
Mrs. Marvin Anderson and fam
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Givens
and 2 daughters spent Saturday,
October 13, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Harden Anspach.
Miss Doris Aim and her broth
er. Ted. left Saturday for Crooks
ville and Armington, 111., for a
visit with their sister and broth
er and their families.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Prescott, of
Stanton, spent Sunday with his
mother. Mrs. Bertha Prescott, and
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Anderson
and family.
DR. FISHER, Dentist. adv
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Farran and
2 sons, of Meadow Grove, came
Saturday to be the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Allen. Thev
eturned home on Sunday.
Edward Campbell, Jr.,
To Wisconsin Post—
Edward Campbell, jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Campbell,
left Thursday for Green Bay,
Wise., where he has accepted a
position with the Wisconsin Pub
lic Service company.
He went by way of Chicago,
W., where he met his cousin,
William J. FrcJich, jr., Creigh
ton university student, Omaha.
They went to South Bend, Ind.,
Saturday to witness the Notre
Dame-Southern Methodist foot
jall game, won by the Metho
iists, 27-20.
Mr. Campbell left Chicago
Monday for Green Bay; Mr.
Prolich returned Sunday to his
itudies at Omaha.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
WD—May Belle Lines to Alma
Lines Ross 10-8-51 $1- Part of
Outlot C- Inman
WD—Lew A. Carter to Minnie
darnel 10-11-51 $1600- W^SE'A
13-29-10
WD—Charles Vequist to Albert
T. Widtfeldt 10-2-51 $1- SWy4
Sec 24-31-13
QCD—Sophie Novratil to Rob
ert Novratil 10-27-44 $1- Lots 7 &
B Blk 16 Hazelett’s Add- O’Neill
Mrs. Grenier Has
Birthday Party—
A surprise party was held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Grenier on Sunday night in hon
or of Mrs. Grenier’s birthday an
niversary.
Cards were played with Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Lowry winning
high. Mrs. D. N. Loy and Robert
Schulz, low, and Mr. Loy, travel
ing. _
Frontier for printing!
Prairieland Talk —
Housecleaning Needed in Washington
But Vacuum Cleaner Needed to Do Job
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—They all say ’taint
so.
Of course, with friends at the
court they get away with denials.
The vehement
outbursts pro
claiming their
virtue cast a
shadow of
doubt. It is
hardly proba
ble that charg
es of red sym
pathies would
be made in
volving impor
tant public of
-ficials without
Saunders foundation o f
, , , ' fact. Riding on
a bus the other day I feil into
conversation with a lady who sat
beside me, a stranger, when she
expressed some pretty definite
convictions concerning the na
tional official picture and felt
that a thorough housecleaning at
Washington is the crying need of
the hour.
Many citizens feel the same.
Even some who enjoy a seat on
the gravy train say it. but when
it comes to doing something a
bout it that will cut off the arriv
al of the train, that is not so like
ly. The administration and other
elements of government have it
within their realms of activity to
do the housecleaning but show a
dispositicin rather to sweep the
rubbish into a corner under the
table.
It will take a vacuum cleaner
to do a thorough job.
* * m
Like Caesar’s Roman legions
who were great onion eaters, the
army leaders thought the boys
needed onions, so steps were ta
ken to secure the desired prod
uct. A committee of the house of
representatives made inquiry in
to the purchase, discovering that
28K separate moves were made to
get that consignment of dried
onions. The process is thus de
scribed:
"The order was date-stamp- j
ed. time - stamped, examined,
routed copied, typed, receipt
ed, entered on other docu
ments, underlined, described,
key - punched, card - punched,
coded, tabulated, checked,
matched, filed, discussed, re- |
viewed, reviewed technically,
then just plain reviewed, and—
indexed, analyzed, mailed, ab- j
stracted, printed, registered, in
spected, sorted, noted, stored,
transmitted and vouchered."
To speed it on the way in pur- j
suit of onions, it passed through
18 government departments and
was all but worn to shreds pass
ing through the hands of 110
messengers. So that’s red tape!
Argentina exports canned prai
rie dog, and they think it quite
something over there beyond the
Alps. . . Excessive heat in Tex
as caused 44 deaths, and the lack
of rain resulted in $25,000,000
crop loss. . . Medical authorities
put the number of handicapped
citizens a t 23,000,000, causes
ranging from paralysis to lum
bago. . . A jet - propelled sled
traveling 80 miles per hour is
expected to do something for ex
plorers in Arctic regions. . . . One
million deaths from auutomobile
crack ups since 1900. . . It is esti
mated that there are fewer than
800 grizzly bears where once they
were numerous in timbered re
gions. . . Fifty thousand voices
joined in the “Singing on the
Mountain” convention in North
Carolina recently. . . A Nebraska
mother and her 4 children met
tragic death in a fire caused by
a kerosene explosion. ... A navy
transport docked at Seattle,
Wash., with 2,786 Korean war
vets aboard returning home. A
mong them were 26 Nebraska
boys. . . September closed with a
balance of $15,663,362 state funds.
Good luck to the “antlered
monarch of the waste.” Men,
your worst enemy, are after you
again, with license to kill, with
slugs to throw into you. You are
frightened once more, ears erect,
soft hazel eyes gazing in fearful
wonder to catch sight of the ob
ject from whence came an alarm
to those erect ears. Stealthily
that object moves into position
and a gleaming line of steel lev
els toward an alert deer. He
falls. The rifleman cuts a jug
ular and he bleeds. How do you
feel as you stand over a * fallen
beautiful creature?
In the blue above you see a
bird awing, stately as a ship at
sea, and then it lies at your feet
with a broken wing looking up
at you with frightened eyes. A
creature of the air with beautiful
plumage winging its way to its
winter home that never more
will be home.
Another season has broken on
the shore of the sea of time. And
here they come to the slaughter.
Do you feel an urge to kill? Try
your luck stalking a mountain
cougar, a prairie wolf, a rattle
snake.
“The stag at eve had drunk his
fill,
Where danced the moon on
Monan’s rill, ,
^\nd deep his midnight lair had
made
In lone Glenartney’s hazel
shade.”
Prairieland is flooded with the
mellow light of mid - October
days. From the glow of dawn un
til evening shadows gather and
enfold the landscape the tinted
beauty of autumn is spread a
broad for us again. The sun rides
its burning chariot across the
azure depths above and disap
pears beyond the prairie rim in a
splash of molten gold. Tonight
nearly a full moon will ride high
in the southern sky, overshadow
ing the flaming Pleiades and ob
scure the belts of Orion. The
night air comes out of nature’s
cold storage and .dusts the earth
with jewels that sparkle in the
morning light and touch the sum
mer foliage with a brush dipped
in flaming colors. A few more
weeks and the remaining summer
tints on foliage and floral bloom
will wither and drop to earth to
be blown across the land. And
next the bold visits of sweeping
winds out of the ice packs of po- j
lar regions.
* * •
Sen. Frank Nelson will try it
again. Theie is little doubt but
what he will be coming to the
statehouse for the third time.
Senator Nelson, along with other
outstate legislators, has been
holding in check in Omaha, Lin-]
coin and Fremont delegation
that tries to run things, and
makes it possible for the rest of
the state to have something to
say about it. Frank has repre
sented his district during 2 ses
sions of the legislature in a way
to recommend him for a third
session.
A hard working lowbrow
downtown was fined $10 when he
admitted the fact. He had gone
from his room to the bath (to
which others have access) in the
nude, all fixed to take a dip with
out further preliminaries. This
was said to constitute “indecent
exposure.” Better get the new
born infants covered up before
there is a chance to file an “in
decent exposure” complaint with
the clerk of the court.
* * *
A Texas gent with a profes
sional title who had been married
) times was shot down by one of
the disillusioned dames who at :
Dne time bore his name. It is
neither gallant nor safe to toy
with the emotions of the fair and
lovely branch of the genus homo.
* * *
“The strictly confidential lip- ,
stick that keeps your private life
private.” Something I see adver
tised I infer is for the ladies.
Some of those fellows down in
Washington probably would like
to hear about it.
• • •
]
Don’t give up in despair. There i
s always a chance. In one week <
he average age of applicants for (
narriage licenses in Lancaster ]
county was 49 years.
• * •
The 3 R’s still stand. Some one !
reminds us that there are also 3 I
S’s. 1—Something to say. 2—Sav
t. 3—Stop.
—The Frontier Engraving
Reed Tomjack and his broth
er. Terry.
★ k ★
Reed Tomjack, Navy,
Sees World in Hurry
(Editor’s note: Reed Tom
jaek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Tomjack, of O’Neill, has writ
ten the following sketch of a
navy cruise around the world
in a letter to his parents.)
At Sea
September 5, 1951
Dear (Mom, Dad and Terry:
This is a line to let you know
I m still OK. I haven’t written
for quite some time and know you
are worried and also mad. Yes,
I know you haven’t heard since
we left New Orleans on July 4. I
am very sorry and am sending a
“peace offering” in hopes of being
forgiven.
(Two beautiful matching Lo
Coultre watches).
Have been seeing a lot of world
since I came back off leave and
if you have a map of the world
igndy, you can follow me and un
lerstand.
We left New Orleans July 4,
sailed to Bremerhaven, Germany,
nade port July 17, left July 19
'or New York City, got to New
'fork July 27. Left there August
and sailed again to Bremerha
^en, Germany. Not much time to
ook around, just like passing the ,
;dge of town.
Got to Germany August 10 and
eft again August 12, went past
he Rock of Gibralter on August
5, stopped in Oran Algeria,
vhich you know, of course, is in
'Jorth Africa. Made Port Said
Cgypt, August 21, paused very
ew moments and continued same
lay, passed through the Suez
anal that day and night. Em
>arked at Columbo, Ceylon, on
August 28. Stopped for a day at
laigon, French Indo China. Left
September 4 for Tokyo and the
;ood old U.S.A. (I hope).
I picked up a couple of watches,
hope you like them. I sure
thought they were beauties and
hope you do to.
I will try to write more often
but will not send any more gifts
like these. (Ha.)
I am afraid these will have to
last through mom’s day, dad’s
day, Christmas, New Years day
and any other day you can think
,of
Say hello to everyone for me
and write when you can.
Your son,
REED
Verdell Greene, of O’Neill, en
listed in the navy on October 10,
and was transferred to the naval
training center at San Diego,
Calif., for his recruit training. He
is in the first group of married
men to enlist into the branch of
service of his choice as the draft
is now taking married men.
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This being a land where it is every
man’s right to dream of getting
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guaranteed by the Constitution—it
happens that a great many people aspire
to own a Buick.
But too often they start with a lesser car
first — from a feeling that Buicks are
something you have to build up to grad
ually, as your take-home pay improves.
So—if you have any such notion—we’d
like to set you straight, right here and
now.
^ou don’t have to hope and dream and
wait. If you can afford a new car — the
first car you buy can be the Buick
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Its price tag says so. Its low cost of
operation says so too.
We know that it looks like a lot of money.
That’s what makes it such a buy.
We know that it has a long list of features
found in costlier cars, and that it rides
and handles like cars that sell for a great
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Hut that simply means that—at its price
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