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O'NEILL, NEBR. °
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Christmas Party
at Stewart Homs —
The Bar X project club Christ
mas party was held on Friday,
December 14, at the home oi
Mickey and Betty Stewart with
all members but one present.
The husbands and children at
tended this party with us. There
were games and children’s records
were played and Christmas carols
were played on the piano. There
was a grab bag and treats.
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Ice cream and cake were served
to the children with stick candy
favors. r
The adults played cards and
consumed plates of homemade
candy. Ice cream, cake and cof
fee were served by the hostess be
fore returning home. A
High score in cards went to
Genevieve O’Neill and Ray Mar
garitz; low score to Agnes Stew
art and “Swede” Wabs.
There was a “mystery sister’’
gift exchange.
Next meeting will be held Jan
uary 15 with Mrs. Arthur O’Neill.
By Leone Wabs, reporter.
Family Gathering
at Young Home —
A Christmas eve family dinner
party was held at the home of
Mrs. Guy Young on Monday eve
ning, December 24. Those pres
ent were her son, Pfc. Stanley
Young, of Ft. Belvoir, Va., Rev.
and Mrs. Harold Young and sons,
of Eskridge, Kans., Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Huston and son, Dickie, of
Kansas City, Mo., and Mr. and
Mrs. Carol Summerer and son, of
Ewing.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cava
naugh went to Omaha Sunday to
meet their son, Pvt. Quentin Cava
naugh, who is stationed at Ft. Bel
voir, Va., and who will return to
O’Neill with them to spend the
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clements
went to Pilger on Sunday to visit
her sister and on Monday they
went to Lincoln to spend the holi
days with their daughter and hus
band.
Friday evening callers at the
home of Mrs. Carrie Borg and
Marvel were Mrs. Howard Rouse
and Mrs. Paul Nelson.
Mr. ami Mrs. Henry Rohrer, of
Creighton, are spending the holi
days with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Clyde.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mlinar and
2 daughters were Monday guests
at the home of Mrs. John L.
Smith and family.
Frontier want ads bring results!
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| Prairielancl Talk—
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Tom Salem Never Refused Credit to Anyone;
Could Supply What City Stores Couldn’t
By ROMAINE SAUNDER**
LINCOLN—Tom Salem was
perhaps the most widely-known
of any who have lived in south
west Holt county. During his
years behind the counter in his
old-time country store in Amelia,
where you could get anything
from a spool of thread to a block
of salt for the
cattle. Tom nev
er refused any
one credit'and it
was not unusual
to run a bill
with him of
more than
$1000. He trust
ed everyb o d y
and everybody
was a friend of
Tom. How he
did it was some
thing of a mys
tery. The ac
counts were
kept on bits of paper he kept on
a spindle. I said to him one day,
Give me a ledger and that stack
of accounts you have on that wire
spike and I’ll post them up so you
will know who owes you.
Tom said, Oh, I’ll do that sonae
day. His stock of merchandise
was unlimited and when an order
was received at the Omaha whole
sale houses from Salem at Amelia,
the standing instruction was to
get it out to him at once though
the truck drivers had to miss
others.
Mrs. Saunders at one time sent
to Lincoln for a certain kind of
garment. It could not be found in
the big stores up and down O
street. Then she sent to Kansas
City and it was not found there.
Then she went to Salem’s in Am
elia and found what she wanted
among his amazing collection of
merchandise.
Tom helped with hundreds of
dollars his people in his native
Syria, and had an open hand for
needy at home and abroad. He
cherished his American citizen
ship above that which many na
tives do.
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Windows are coated with ice. A
foot of snow iays in white purity
across the earth. Mercury in the
tube out on the post has dropped
to 10 below. A few householders
have ventured out to clear the
sidewalks. A car here and there
groans and chugs while the
wheels spin and the impatient
gent at the steering wheel feeds
in more gas. An hour later he is
still there. The pines an cedars
are dusted with ermine. The win
ter of ’51-’52 has taken us to its
cold embrace in mid-December.
Even though you may have
reached that period of life when
you have no more future than a
snowman, there’s something about
the arctic season that holds an ir
restible charm.
“I have loved the first keen kiss
of the frost
That is wine and fire to the
blood,
And the wheel that cuts through
the frozen ruts,
And the roar of the mountain
flood,
And the mellow peace of the Sab
bath morn .
And the homeward turn in the
lane, , , , ■
And the lamplight glow and the
falling snow
That beats so softly on the
pane.”
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Any day, most any hour of the
day they may be heard; just turn
the button on that little box that
sits on a shelf In every home. And
if we don’t know what “ought to
be done” we are pretty dumb.
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. A half hour this morning I was
amused if not edified by what
came over the air from the store
house of worldly wisdom em
bodied in the ample brains of pa
triots at a great university. One
! by one they stood before the mike
to tell us what they thought of
the mess stirred up in Washing
ton by the veil of secrecy being
lifted by congressional investiga
tions and the raw deals exposed to
the sunlight These men of learn
ing, one and all deplore the scan
dals.
Yet among them their talks dis
close more or less confusion of
thought that characterizes the
world’s thinking today. One
thought expressed this morning
remains with me.
A hugh and cry is raised over
the few entrusted with govern
ment business who have done
wrong and all eyes are upon them
while the thousands plugging
along and doing their level best
to fulfill their place in the great
business of federal activities are
lost sight of. The university group
hopes there will be no white
washing.
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The printers must be hard
pressed. The Frontier shows up
down this way a week after it is
printed. I got calls at different
times from both D. H. and George
Miles to come in and take up the
slack but no SOS call comes in
the present press of holiday ads,
and I don’t know whether con
clusion assumes it to be superan
nuation or lily white hands unfit
to juggle type. (Editor’s note: The
superannuated Saunders hands are
always welcome inside our por
tals. But we’ll have you know
The Frontier is turned over to
Uncle Sam’s helpers every Wed
nesday night. It’s hard for us to
explain why a week is required
for the paper to reach you. The
Ernest Brinkmans, formerly of
O’Neill, tell us their copy usually
reaches Lincoln on Friday morn
ings.)
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Prairieland was wet with 5 feet
of rain in 1951, the weatherman
says. . . The deer population has
been reduced by over 700 killed
by the hunters this season. . . Al
len Kennedy, living near Four
Corners down toward Bartlett, is
charged with motor vehicle homi
cide in Antelope county court, a
10-year-old boy living west of El
gin reported killed in the traffic
accident. . . In 43 years of motor
ing 1,000,000 traffic deaths have
gotten into the statistics. . .
Among the* half-million from
many lands were iu,uuu Ameri
cans who visited the Fatima
shrine near Lisbon, Portugal, as
1951 holy year drew to a close.
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A Nebraska editor, Mr. Law
rence, of the Lincoln Star, thinks
maybe Judge Thomas F. Murphy
of the federal court id a New
York district can do the job, but
believes Gov. Tom Dewey is the
one to put on the trail for a clean
up in Washington. Dewey cer
trainly did a job of that kind in
New York. Whether the Truman
move for a cleanup at this late
date as another election draws on
is for political effect or otherwise
is everybody’s guess.
• • •
In the 6 years functioning
Alcoholics Anonymous has
taken 120,00 folks out of the
ranks of firewater consumers.
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A woman selected a suit in a
New York swank establishment
but her check in payment would
not be accepted unless the lady
could identify herself. “Have you
a new one dollar bill?” she asked
the manager. It was produced
and she pointed to the signature
in the lower left hand comer,
Georgia Neese Clark, treasurer of
the United States. She got the
suit.
• • •
Mr. Seaton hopped from the
editorial scantum down at Has
tings to a seat In the U. S. sen
ate and it is now Senator Sea
ton, a new face in official cir
cles of the community where it
Is said he was born. Nebraskans
have two strangers in the co
gressional group at the nation's
seat of authority.
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The cheerful soul who loves a
I .~
o
white Christmas had that pleasure
in prairieland and could have 12
feet of it if they went up to
Tripp county, S.D. 0
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Anyway, the gent who puts on
his act to win the favor ol a fair
miss knows that”s the kind of a
guy he ought to be.
20 Cases Smallpox
In Dorsey Locality
50 Years Ago
T. N. J. Hynes, Mike and Will
Fallon and Mike Sullivan are
here from Park City, Utah, to
spend the holidays. . . There are
some 15 or 20 cases of small pox
in the Dorsey community some
25 miles northeast, of O’Neill. . .
Miss Maggie Coffey, of Spencer,
is spending the holidays with her
parents here. . . Fred Gatz took
advantage of the first cold snap
and cut ice. . . Parnell Golden is
home from Lincoln. . . J. P. Mann
has been shaking hands with his
many friends in O’Neill the past
week. . . The cold wave has sub
sided. Snow is fast disappearing
under the melting rays of a warm
sun and the streets are sloppy as
a day in April.
25 Years Ago
Miss Irenia Biglin went to
Sioux City for a short visit with
friends. . . Miss Loretta Ryan ex
pects to leave soon for Chicago,
ill. . . Mr. and Mrs. Vem Sageser
and Mrs. M. L. Sageser were
shopping in O’Neill. . . The farm
residence of C. M. Ernst, 2
miles north and 2 hi miles west of
O’Neill burned to the ground. . .
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mains, of
Stuart, spent Christmas at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ar
buthnot. . . The WCTU will meet
with Mrs. H. M. Uttley. . . Miss
Mariam Golden came home from
Columbus.
10 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Crabb
went to Wagner, S.D., to visit
their son, Verle, and family. . .
Mr. and Mrs. James Rooney went
to Tecumseh, being called there
by the illness of Mr. Rooney’s fa
ther. . . Miss Mary Brophy came*
home from Grand Island. . . Mrs.
Henry Bauman spent the week
end in Aikmsun. . . Howard
Graves, Junior Harris and Rob
ert Lowery arrived from Balti
more, Md., to spend the holidays
with relatives. . . Miss Martha
Switzer entertained 12 guests at
her home at a miscellaneous
shower in honor of Miss Jane Jef
frey. . . Mrs. C. J. Gatz enter
tained the Delta-Dek club.
1 Year Ago
Santa brought 2 babies for
Christmas: Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Layh, a son, Rickey Lee and Rev.
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and Mrs. Robert W. Olson, a son,
John Robert. . . Two new Holt
county officers will assume their
duties. Leo Tomjack, sheriff, and
William E. Wefso, assessor.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
QCD—Martin Hamik et al to
Mary Hamik 5-11-48 $1- Lots 2 &
3 Blk 16- Atkinson
GRD DEED — Edward L.
Schneider Grd to Max-y Hamik 12
12-51 $200- 2/21st lnt in Lots 2 &
3 Blk 16- Atkinson.
WD—Morris L Harmon to Wm
J Froelich 3-3-51 $3600- Ett
NW% 19-29-11
WD — Theodore W Strong to
Andrew Wettlaufer & wife 12-12
51 $3500- Lots 13-14-15 Blk G- O’
Neill & Hagertys Add- O’Neill
WD—Kenneth Werner to Nio
brara Valley Electric Membership
Corporation 11-28-51 $25- WVi lot
i 9 Blk F- Perkins Annex- Cham
bers
WD—Howard M Perkins to Ha
zel I Nielsen-Richard E Perkins
& DeWight D Perkins 9-29-51 $1
NEy* 7-25-11
WD — State of Nebraska to
Charles Clauseen 12-10-51 $1280
SWy4 36-30- Range 13
Howard Friedrlck arrived home
Saturday, December 22, from Chi
cago, 111., where he attends an
electrical school. He is spending
the holidays with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. P. O. Friedrick.
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Our devout
that
may grow
throughout
tho yoar
1952
R. H. “Ray”
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