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O'NEILL, NEBR.
CfrRPntJ. W STEWART. Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Entered ^he postoffice at O'Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec
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Just What Is Prosperity?
We hear a great deal nowadays about the "unprecedented
prosperity” of the nation. We are told that never in all history has
our national income been as high as it is today. Let’s look at our
prosperity, and see if it is genuine. •
Suppose you saw a man whose hard-working parents left him a
half section of good Nebraska plow land, free of all encumbrance.
That man starts out by mortgaging an "80” for all that it will bear.
He uses his money to put up new* barns, to erect a new house. Folks
look at this fine farm and say, “There’s a man who is really pros
perous.”
He decide* that he needs a whole layout of new and modern
machinery and he mortgage* the second "80." Then he decides
that he and the good wife deserve a trip to Europe and a winter in
Florida, *o he slap* another motgage on an "80." He buys high
priced cars for the family. He really travel* in *tyle.
And folks are sure that here’s a fellow who is readly making
money hand over fist. During a period of years he has taken a fine
Nebraska farm, free of all encumbrance and has slapped a mort
gage on it, a mortgage that covers every acre. He sits down and finds
that he started with $64,000 worth of land and that now his equity
is only $30,000.
uo you imagine iur one moment inai ne wuuia consiuer inai ne
had enjoyed unprecedented prosperity? No matter what the neigh
bors might think, he’d know that he was traveling in quite the op
posite direction.
Back in 1932 the United States had a debt of less than 20
billion-dollars. Today our debt is close to 300-billion. And our
party in power calls attention, to our era of "unprecedented pros
perity."
What do YOU think?
40 REGISTERED
HEREFORD BULLS
Consigned By
Joe W. Fitzgerald
MitchelMUe, Iowa
AT AUCTION
Atkinson Livestock
Mai ket
ATKINSON, NEBR.
THURS., NOV. 15th
2 O'CLOCK P.M.
• This is the third year that Mr.
Fitzgerald has sold all of his
bulls at Atkinson. His offering
this year are all coming 2-years
old and strong in the breeding of
Wyoming Hereford Ranch. They
are sired by WHR LAUNCELOT
6th — WHR TRISTAR 29th —
ROYAL RUPERT. All are T.B
and Bangs tested and gauranteed
breeders. These bulls should
prove of interest to ranchers de
siring a number of bulls of the
same type and breeding.
Atkinson Livestock
Market
Atkinson, Nebraska
Harris on Wesleyan
Choir Rosier—
Guy Harris, son of Mrs. Esther
Cole Harris, of O’Neill, has been
included on the roster for the
Nebraska Westleyan university
male chorus, released by Direct
or Leonard Paulson.
The organization is already
making plans for an annual
spring concert tour during which
42 concerts will be presented.
Harris is a junior and is ma
joring in music and speech.
CELIA NEWS
A group of 20 neighbors gath
ered at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Schlotfeld for a Hallowe’en
party on Wednesday evening,
October 31. Paul Johnson took
the prize for being the most at
tractive "lady” present,
Bob and Leon Hendricks came
home from Kansas where they
are attending school. They arriv
ed on Hallowe'en night and re
turned on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chris
tiansen were supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks on
Thursday, November 1.
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AMEtKA'S QttAUTY IEEI
t'rairieland Talk—
Prairie Chicken Champ of Game Birds;
Pity They Were Slaughtered En Masse
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The prairie chick
en is enshrined in the memory 1
of the oldtimers as the grand
champion of Nebraska game
birds. In spite of game laws
these birds are disappearing
from prairieland and it is hoped
something can be done to con
serve and enlarge the remnant.
The early settlers found them
in great numbers and, pity be it,
they slaughtered them in great
numbers though not so much the
settlers on the
land as the
hunters that
followed the
settlements. I
never shot ma
ny prairie
chickens but in
riding the
range have dis
mounted in an
effort to pick
up a fluffy lit
tle ball of
downy feathers
Saunders when running
onto a mother
prairie hen with her brood. It al
ways proved fruitless as the
mother hen scurried away and
the little brown balls concealed
themselves in the grass.
It is the entire responsibility
of the mother prairie chicken to
look after the young. The cock
bird struts his stuff during court
ship which includes a sizeable
harem. But he has interest in
the upbringing of a family.
Near my last prairieland home
in southwest Holt county there
were still a few prairie chickens.
They do not get along well with
the pheasants, an imported bird
and an imposter in the reasoning
of the prairie chicken. The chick
en is not migratory but if condi
tions are favorable lives its life
in one neighborhood. Beside the
ruthless slaughter of these mag
nificent birds the mower and the
grazing herds have contributed
to the destruction of grouse and
chicken^. They are primarily
grass birds.
The plover and the curlew
have also gone from the prairies
and are seen no more. In Okla
homa, Texas and New Mexico are
found prairie chickens somewhat
smaller than our Nebraska chick
ens, which would indicate that
the northern birds attain to
greater size.
• • »
Tb.9 brethren and sisters
wanted to fix up their church
but didn't know where to get
the funds to pay for it. The
pastor solved the problem by
volunteering $500 reduction in
his salary. Give us more such
pastorsl
# « •
Some modems have it that the
day at the beginning of time was
7,000 years. Upon this hypothesis
there was 3,500 years sunshine, a
like period of darkness. The an
cients had a long night of it. Mo
ses, who lived some 4,000 years
nearer the beginning of human
history than we moderns, put it
down in writing that “the eve
ning and the morning” constitut
ed a day.
* * *
Governor Peterson has taken
the plunge. Senator Butler may
soon follow and the special elec
tion in the Third district falling
upon the important date of this
humble pilgrim’s birthday anni
versary political activities bid
fair to keep up interested if not
particularly enlightened.
Kansas has bred some notable
women. There was Carrie Nation
of hatchet fame. Not the least to
emblazon her name upon time’s
embellished scroll is that of Ma
ry Ellen Lease. In the days of
hot winds, prolonged cloudless
skies bver prairieland and politi
cal upheaval in an effort to rem
edy in legislative halls the effects
of drought the lady firebrand
from Kansas took the stump for
the populist crowd. Then again
nature smiled on prairieland,
buds unfolded, wheat fields wav
ed in golden grain, grass lands a
gain were green and William Mc
Kinley was seeking election for a
second term as president, with
W. J. Bryan the second time a
candidate. Down at Broken Bow
the Kansas lady, who had re
nounced her former political con
nections and joined the McKinley
campaign spellbinders for a
price, met the polished demo
cratic editor from Omaha in de
bate. The Frontier editor in an
issue in late September, 1900, had
this to say of what happened at
Broken Bow: “Msr. Lease caused
Mr. Hitchcock, of the Omaha
World-Herald, to withdraw from
the arena a crestfallen and van
quished foe.” McKinley was
elected for his first term prom
ising everybody a "full dinner
pail,” and nature came to his side
with abundant yields of the stuff
that goes into dinner pails. The
full dinner pail determines how
a lot of folks vote.
Are all the birds that float
for a day on sandhill lakes
worth the annual toll in human
life taken by the hunting acci
dents?
• • •
A Negro, believed to have
spent 2 years at the job, dug
himself out of jail by tunneling
more than 7t) feet under ground,
which maybe should entitle him
to freedom. . . An Illinois school
teacher accumulated an estate
valued at $1,000,000 which was
left at his dearth to be used for
education. The poor teachers. . .
An 84-year-old gent, on crutches
for years, threw away the sticks
and walked out of the door of
Calvary temple in Los Angeles,
Calif., claiming a miracle of heal
ing. . . When his mother fell over
in a faint, her 3-year-old son
pushed his high chair to the fau
cet, turned on the water and re
vived his mother. . . Seventh
Day Adventists, of the Southern
California conference, reported
last year $5,033,467 contributed
by members of the church, $3,
254,461 being their tithe and the
balance mission offerings. The
tithe pays the preachers who get
their pay checks as regularly as
factory workers. . . Below zero
the 1st of November hit prairie
land and the mountain regions.
. . . Inspired by firewater, he be
gan beating up on his wife, when
their 13-year-old son assumed
the heroics and sent the old man
to the hospital with gunshot
wounds. The boy calmly told po
lice he did it to protect his moth
er.
• • •
O'Neill citizens, among the
many undertakings for plea
sure, for profit or for the wel- [
fare of victims of hard luck j
and the hopeless, had a Chil
dren’s Home society at one
time, the purpose of which was
to place orphans or under priv
ileged children in good homes.
Mrs. W. T. Evans, of Hotel Ev
ans. served as president of the
society; Miss Anna Lowrie, sec
retary, and E. H. Benedict, fi
nances. A number of children,
once in a while one who was
believed incorrigible, were well
placed and thus given a start
in life.
• • •
Some of the community’s de
vout patriots have had a special
season of prayer in the interests
of peace. Now if they can find a
way to corral the warlords and
knock them in the head the dove
of peace will find footing again
in a war tom world.
A little fellow whose parents
pay for his schooling in one of
the parochial schools maintained
in the city, told me of his school’s
Hallowe’en party. Those in his
grade met at the school and then
went about from door-to-door
giving away apples. A reversal
of the “treat or trick” juvenile
demands that have become some
thing of a nuisance. These paro
chial school children after the
round of dispensing apple cheer
returned to their school for an
evening of fun and a marshmal
low roast. A ckn of yellow paint
thrown on the window of a bus
iness place Hallowe’en night
could not have been the work of
these children.
• • *
The sword devoureth one as
well as another, was the observa
tion of King David as the result
of his many wars. Pfc Robert G.
Miller, of Clearwater, is one from
prairieland just reported devour
ed by the sword in Korea. Cpl.
Mynard G. Morrow, of O’Neill,
and Pfc. Thomas C. Moser, of
Randolph, are 2 more from prai
rieland reported wounded in the
raging hell in that unhappy land.
• * •
Senor Tito says his military
might will be employed against
Russia in the event of our in
volvement with the northern
bear. Uncle Jo probably suspects
other national groups to be in the
same mood.
V • •
The 2 Americas’ 16,212,000
square miles is divided thus:
Mountains and desert lands 18
percent, forests 30 percent, prai
rie lands 40 percent, cultivated
lands 12 percent.
When You and I Were Young. . .
Merchants Sell Out
Jugs After Election
50 YEARS AGO
A farewell party and dance
was given at the home of James
Ray and wife, in honor of his
daughter, Miss Ada. . . The re
tail grocers of O’Neill have dis
posed of every jug on the market
Tuesday was election. . . O. F.
Biglin is now agent for The
Lightning—the lion of hay presses.
. . . Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Dux
burry, of Caladonia, Minn., ar
rived in the city to visit their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ad
disen. . . Pete Ward, Emmet Mc
Bride and Harry Reed came down
from Hot Springs, where they
were working during the summer
. . . Bob Bitney came from Atkin
son. He is working in Alliance.
25 YEARS AGO
A prize and the honor of be
ing the best old time waltzers on
the dance floor, was awarded to
Mr. and Mrs. John Dumpert, of
near O’Neill, by the management
of Oakview park at Venus,
of Oakview park at Venus. . .
Mrs. Neil Brennan, Mrs. L. A.
Burgess and Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek
entertained at the second of a se
ries of three 7 o’clock bridge din
ners. . . Mrs. Dave Stannard re
turned from a visit of several
months at Rangely, Colo., with
her daughter. . . Misses Lila Smith
and Marjorie Gillespie enter
tained at a Hallowe’en party. . .
Mrs. Mike Gallagher left to spend
the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Baker, of Casper, Wyo.
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Green have
moved to the home formerly occu
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Bridge. . . Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Loy
were in Page at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. J. M. Kennedy. . .
Miss Mary Elizabeth Flood was
pleasantly surprised Wednesday
evening when 16 of her friends
came to her home for a party in
honor of her 16th birthday. . . Eim.
met Moore went to Omaha on bus
iness. . . Mrs. Seth Noble, Mrs. A.
Cowperthwaite and Mrs. R. H.
Shriner spent Monday in Grand
Island. . . Sgt. Francis J. Soukup
spent the weekend visiting friends
and relatives. . . Lloyd Evans
came up from Omaha and was a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. William
Gatz.
WD—Jessie R Metcalfe et al
to Harlan P Reber & wf 3-12-51
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Out of Old Nebraska . . .
Winnebagoes Came
to State As ‘Guests’
It was customary for sotme of
the Indian tribes of old Nebraska
to pay each other extended vis
its. Dr. Robert C. Farb, profes
sor of history at Simpson college,
Indianola, la., describes one such
visit in the September issue of
“Nebraska History,” the quarterly
magazine issued by the state his
torical society.
This was the visit of the Win
nebagoes to the Omahas in the
winter of 1863-’64. It was no or
dinary visit, but a sojourn lasting
more than a year and resulting
ultimately in the transfer of the
Winnebagoes to a reservation in
Nebraska.
The Winnebagoes, once masters
of lake and forest in the north
country, found themselves after
the Minnesota Indian uprising of
1862 at Crow Creek agency on
the hot, dry prairies of Dakota
territory.
When a drouth in 1863 com
pletely destroyed their crops,
they sent a delegation of 5 to
the Omaha agency to request
that 150 of the most destitute
of their number be allowed to
live with the Omahas until the
Great Father in Washington
make adequate provision for the
tribe.
The Omahas agreed, but instead
of 150 the entire Winnebago na
tion of more than 1,200 men, wo
men, and children descended upon
the hospitable Omahas. They did
not all come during the winter;
those who did, however, stayed
and the remainder came on dur
ing the next spring and summer.
So many guests on the reserva
tion constituted a serious problem
for the Omaha agent, Robert W.
Furnas (later governor of Nebras
ka). He contracted with John
Patrick, of Omaha, to furnish
flour, beef and salt for the Winne
bagoes—the flour at 3 V* cents per
pound, the beef at 8 cents per
pound, and the salt at 4 cents per
pound. Patrick was to furnish
one pound of flour and one of
beef per day for each Winne
bago on the reservation. Salt /
was to be furnished at the rate of
4 quarts per 100 persons.
There was concern, too, that
the presence of so many Winne
bagoes might cause trouble be
tween the 2 tribes. To fore
stall this, the Omaha chiefs, led
by Joseph La Flesche, drew up
a stringent set of regulations for
their guests.
Drunkenness was to be seve
ly punished, as was "dancing to
excess," gambling, and setting
fire to the prairie or woodland.
To help the Winnebagoes sup
port themselves, the Omaha gave
them the privilege of cultivating
100 acres of bottom land. The
government furnished hoes and
seed to those who wished to work, f
and a fair crop of corn was raised
in 1864 despite the dry weather.
Some of the Winnebagoes aug
mented their income by hiring
out to neighboring farmers in
Iowa as well as Nebraska.
Ultimately, the Omahas were
persuaded to sell a part of their
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