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O NEILL, NEBR.
CAKKOEL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Establish ad in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Entered the pustoilice at O'Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec
ond-class man mailer under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association,
National EOiiuriai Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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All subset ipuon* are strictly paid-in-advance.
Mock \Veddmg on
Zltti Anniversary
Mr. ana Mrs. ben Miller cele- !
bra tea meir -out w euumg anni- i
versary mummy, ieoruaiy 24, at
then auiiic* wiui open uouse in
the aitcinoon ana evening.
Onxy one auenuant was present
for me ceieuranon—Art Haul, of
Ewing.
Mi . Miner and Miss Clara Hauf
were uiuteu in marriage In bai
las, s.b., reoruary 24, ia27.
All J ennuren were present for
the ceieorauon. iney are: Mr.
and Jgfft riaie Fink, of Page; Mr.
J»hd mrs. George U*tter, of Ew
ing, ana bois, at noune. iney have
one granuemia, Georgene Getter.
About i iu relatives and friends
called tnruugnout tne afternoon
and evening.
A hiocn wedding was "golem
nueu” m tne atternoon with
Beaufora Sears, as tbe "minister.”
Mrs. J. B. Sears, as "groom"; Mrs.
John Mitcnell, "bride"; beLoris
Koppieman, ' Destman;" Lois Mil
ler, "briaeairnud;” bobby Koppie
man, bnaes lather;" George
Oetter, organist; Gary Sears "ring
bearer,” ana Georgene Oetter,
"flower girl.”
Movie pictures were taken by
Robert Miner.
Refresnments were prepared
and servea by Mrs. Bob Tomlin
son, Mrs. Fred Timmerman, Mrs.
Nels Linquist, Mrs. Robert Miller
and Mrs. Ewalt Miller,
A 4-tier weuing cake decorated
with roses and lattice was the cen
terpiece for the table.
It was baked by Mrs. Fred Tim
merman and Mrs. Robert Miller
and a single layer cake was fur
nished by Mrs. John Mitchell and
Mrs. J. B. Sears.
The Millers were presented
many gifts.
Norfolk to Salute
Rura. Homemakers —
Norfolk on Thursday, March 13,
will salute the outstanding rural
homemakers of northeast Nebras
ka.
Invitations have been sent to
180 prominent homemakers in
Holt, Cedar, Dixon, Dakota, An
telope, Pierce, Wayne, Thurston,
Stanton and Madison counties.
The annual rural homemakers
recognition program is sponsored |
by the Norfolk business and pro- !
fessional women's clubs and the
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
Miss Fern Henderson is program
chairman for the BPW group.
The homemakers will be enter
tained at a luncheon, which is to
be followed by a short business
session and program.
Visit Harleys—
Mrs. Melvin Marcellus and Mrs.
Howard Manson called on Mrs.
Ralph Beckwith and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Arthur Harley and fam
ily on Thursday, February 28.
67 Pounds Sausage
Consumed by 225
STUART—An estimated crowd
of 225 people consumed 67 pounds
of sausage and 37 pounds of pan
cake flour on Tuesday, February
26, at the men’s council pancake
feed. The men, an organization
of the Stuart Community church,
made $175.
Other Stuart News
Mrs. Bertha Kohlschmidt and
M°lvin plan to return to their
home this week. They have spent
the winter with relatives jn
Washington state,
Mr. und Mrs Mahlon Shearer
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wilson to Ainsworth on Wednes- I
day, February 27, to attend the
funeral rites of Elmer Hewitt.
Joe Timmerman, ot Sutton, was
here on business Thursday, Feb
ruary 28.
Rev. Orin Graff left on Friday,
February 29, for Forreston, 111.,
where he accepted an invitation
to speak on Sunday. Miss Eloise
Rustad spoke in Rev. Graff’s
stead at each of his 3 churches,
Atkinson, Cleveland and Stuart.
Mr and Mrs. John Weichman
and daughters returned Friday
from a trip to the West coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Berlin Mitchell
were in O'Neill on Wednesday,
February 27, on business.
i lie w omen s society oi me
Community church met Thurs
day afternoon, February 28, in
the church basement. The devo
tional program was given by Mrs.
Jane Cobb, Mrs. Joy Greenfield
and Mra. Vernon Heyne. Several
business letters were read from
Miss Uniola Adams, a former Holt
county girl, who is now a mission
ary in Liberia. A quota for na- \
tional missions was voted on and
accepted. This quota of new
clothing and room furnishings
will be sent to a mission school
in New Mexico Lunch was
served by the hostesses, Mrs. Fred
Zink, Mrs. George Keidel and
Mrs. John Newman.
New Priest lo Say
First Mass —
ATKINSON—Kev. John W. Mc
Nally, newly-ordained Catholic
priest, will celebrate his first
solemn mass at St. Joseph’s Cath
olic church in Atkinson on Tues
day morning, March 11. He is a
son of John and the late Agnes
McNaly and was born in Detroit,
Mich The family moved to a
farm near Emmet shortly after his
birth.
NONE HURT
CLEARWATER—There was a
collision Saturday morning at the
intersection of U. S. highway 275
and Clearwater’s main street. A
semi-truck, driven by Burtsell R.
Carter, of Gering, and a passen
ger car, driven by Rev. Roger
Hayes, of Clearwater, figured in
the accident. The semi-, owned
by General Wholesale, upset. No
one was injured.
Frontier for printing!
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SHELHAMER FOODS
Phones 56 . 173 — O'Neill
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Help from Outside Promoter Not Needed
When Time Came for ONeilTs ‘New’ Hotel
nv ROMAINE SAUNDEPC
LINCOLN — Mayor D. A.
Doyle, Councilmen Brennan,
Fallon, and Cowperthwaite, S. J.
Weeks, J. P. Mellor and a few
others representing the business
interests of the town sat during
an evening in
the long ago
with 2 repre
sentatives of the
press in a room
over the Galla
gher store. It
was not an of
ficial meeting
of the city
council. Rather
these men, of
ficials and pri
v a t e citizens.
Romaic had met to en
Saunder* tert?m Prop
osition for a
new hotel to be made by what
appeared to be a professional
promoter .
There was felt a need in the
w»*uwu»uij iu* a muuci II Mif
proof hotel. In short, the propo
sition from the gentleman who
had landed in town only that
day was for O’Neill business con
cerns to put up the cash and he
would go ahead with the build
ing program. Those men in that
meeting had heard of such things
before.
Mr. Weeks took the floor and
gave the promoter to understand
that if O’Neill citizens were fur
nishing the money they could
look after the building without
outside help.
Tom Golden, who was also at
the meeting said nothing. His
answer stands today on the
corner of Fourth and Douglas
streets.
During the excavating and put
ting in of foundations Mr. Gold
en was down there in the base
ment among the workmen. He
would gather up a handful of
the sand and gravel which forms
the underground deposits of
much of the country north of the
Elkhorn, examine the structure
and in the end directed that it
be used in the concrete work of
the building.
He said to me one day as we
watched the program of base
ment digging and pouring of
concrete, "Fifty years from
now the material right here at
hand will be used for building
and those that follow us will
wonder why we sent away for
building material."
Golden was an early riser.
Soon after daybreak he might be
seen Coming down the hill from
his home on "Kid Hill” and he
was the first office man to be in
his office anywhere in town.
What was open prairie between
“down town” and the crest of
the rise in the ground dignified
by being called a hill is now
cluttered with houses.
The Golden hotel, modern and
fireproof, was the second build
ing in the town to reach up a
bove 2 stories. The first was the
frame building on lower Fourth
street known as the Evans, then
later the Potter house. It burned
to the ground one windy day in
summer and left Ed Evans, own
er and proprietor broke.
The Golden is efficiently man
aged by a son of the builder, M.
J. Golden.
• • •
Every 2 minutes some patriot
in the USA becomes insane over
it all. Every 35 minutes there is
a suicide, a leap from the high \
bridge into the cold waters of
San Francisco bay, too many
sleeping pills or anything that
will bring the end to life’s fitful
dream. Radiant sunlight, starless
night, joy and pain and the bark
floating on the tide of time of
those who have lost sight of the
guiding star goes over the brink.
In a moss-grown cemetery in a
land over sea is the grave of the
author of “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard,” and on the
tombstone has been chiseled
“Peace, perfect peace.” Yes, the
silence, the loneliness of the
grave is inviolate. So the suicide
thinks. Peace, such peace as may
be found in release from haunt
ing memories and life’s harsh
visitations. Is that all? Is there
not a better way? But here comes !
rny 5-year-old granddaughter, i
her full round face beaming. She ,
was coming with a lunch for me,
a roast leg of chicken and cut of
cherry pie. What a blockade to
wreck a train of gloomy thought! |
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The Frontier records the death j
of Mary McLaughlin, neglecting
to mention that nearly a half
century ago in the days of hand
set type Miss McLaughlin was a
compositor with The Frontier
force that turned out the weekly
edition. She had a sister per
forming the same functions for ■
the Independent. Merritt Martin,
whose death is also recorded, was
one of a lively but exemplary
group of young Methodists a
half-century ago that functioned
in the religious social and cul
tural life of ONeill.
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It is loo bad that an other
wise jolly gentleman should
become a pathetic figure by
being the husband of a queen.
• • •
The dog population of the
country is said to be 29 million
. . . Active volcanoes now num
ber 450. . . . There is estimated
to be more plant and animal life
in the oceans than on the entire
land area of the world. ... A
basket of food which cost $10 in
1939 now costs $23.44. . . . Scrap
ped car collection in 1951 totaled
3 million, the average age a little
more than 7 years. ... A Lincoln
couple who own a small home
and work to earn the money to
maintain it find their entire tax
and insurance load this year to
be nearly $1,000, $600 of which is
for federal income tax. . . . An
other highbrow comes to town to
tell us the Muscovite setup is to
force a new civilization in our
part of the world. Thought we
already had it.
• • •
With dope to sell representa
tives of certain interests have
come to Nebraska to fluorinize
our water supply, saying it will
kill germs. No doubt. And it kills
animal life. A recent discovery
reported gives us to understand
that 1 spoonful of human tears
will correct anything suspicious
in 100 gallons of water. We have
given 200 barrels of human
blood; now how many will come
forward with their teardrops to
“fluorinize" the wells? Not one
cent of cost to harrassed tax
payers. But I trust that the gush
er in front of Blake Ott’s filling
station down there at Amelia
will be spared the defilement
even of our tears.
• • *
After a sundrenched yesterday,
this last morning in February we
awoke to a landscape spread ov
er with a 3-inch blanket of moist
snow, nature’s gift to earth for
renewal of fertility that does
more to stimulate growth in the
vegetable world than all the ef
forts of man with artificial means
of fertilizing. It is said if you are
past 40 don’t shovel snow. All
right—let it lay.
* • •
Lee Rankin, a Lincoln attor
ney, flew to the home of his par
ents in south central South Da
kota last week. He reports 2 feet
of snow on the level, roads clos
ed and settlers in that territory
completely isolated. His father has
been unable to get to town or re
ceive mail since December 25.
Ranchers have sustained losses
among their herds and provisions
were running low in some house
holds. Efforts were being made
to open the roads but Mr. Rankin
thinks there can not be any ex
tensive travel until the spring
thawup.
• • •
With the population of the
earth increasing at the rate of
75,000 a day maybe there is
something to this idea of birth
control. Some are frightened at
the mention of such a thing sup
posing it means murder, where
as it seems to imply, don’t get
something started.
Dick Ernst called on Garry
Brewster on Sunday, March 2.
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