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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Entered the postotfice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec
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When You & I Were Young. . .
Dogs Assist in
Slaying Wolf
50 Years Ago
John Mosher, of Dorsey, was
delivering trees about the city. . .
F. M- Harrison made a trip to At
kinson where he intends to pur
chase horses for the market. . .
While Mr. Cooper and boys, of
Chambers, were away from home,
a large wolf chased by Bard Kan- I
na’s dogs was cornered in Mr.
Cooper’s corral. Mrs. Cooper arm
ed with a club, attacked him
and with a few well-directed
blows, had stretched the wolf on
the ground where he was quickly
finished by Mr. Cooper’s dogs.
25 Years Ago
A real hail storm visited this
city about 9 o’clock. . . Peter W.
Duffy, promoter of the running
race meet, has received many fa
vorable letters from race horse
men stating that they are going
to be here for the meet. . . George
Agnes is driving a new Stude
baker sedan. . . Dr. and Mrs. J.
P. Gilligan went to Nebraska
City for a short visit with their
son, Dr. John Gilligan.
10 Years Ago
Commercial club elected new
officers. They are J. D. Cronin,
president; Dr. O. W. French, first
vice-president; Melvin Ruzicka,
second vice-president; Bennett
Grady, treasurer. . . Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Hayes moved Friday to the
Melvin Klinger apartment house ,
on Fremont street. . . A surprise '
party was given at the Bob Lar- '
sen home Monday evening, hon
oring Bob on his birthday anni- !
versary. . . Miss Nana Beha, who
spent a month with her parents, '•
returned to Brooklyn, N.Y. 1
i
1 Year Ago
Miss Claryce Johnson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs- Bruce John
son, of Walnut, will be the O’
Neill delegate to the annual Corn
husker girls’ state activities in
Lincoln. . . Post office is ready for
mail delivery. . . New traffic sig
nals are being installed.
DELOIT NEWS
Joyce Demaiay and Elayne
Reimer spent Tuesday night at
the Henry Reimer home.
Martha Kinney spent the
weekend at the Maynard Steams
home. She attended the funeral
of “Grandma” Nyrop on Friday
at Park Center.
Marlene Reimer, who is at
tending the university at Lin
coln, spent Easter vacation with
home folks.
Anita Lee and son visited Mr,
and Mrs. Scott Clow at Johns
town, Colq., last week.
Mrs. Jewell, of Dallas, S.D.,
spent the week at the Ralph
Tomjack and John Bauer homes.
Howard Temple, of Thedford,
spent Easter vacation at Henry
Reimer’s.
Farm bureau met Tuesday
April 8, at Seamans. The next
meeting will be May 6 at the An
ton Shavlik home. Doughnuts,
sandwiches and coffee will be
served.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Harpster
were O’Neill visitors one day
last week.
It was snowing Friday and
farmers were trying to sow oats.
Mr. and Mrs. Elvon Kinney
and daughter spent the weekend
at the James Squire home.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ray and
daughter, of Omaha, spent the
weekend at Tomjacks.
Spend Easter
with Son—
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Petersen
and daughter, Miss Jane, left
Friday to spend Easter with their
ion and brother, Don Petersen,
i student at Kemper military
ichool, Boonville, Mo.
Complete flood news coverage,
WJAG, 780 kc. adv.
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1 Prairieland Talk —
hundreds of fcmployers in Small Firms
Don t Fare as Well as Employees
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN— The story is told
of a poor widow who walked five
miles one stormy winter night to
get a doctor for her sick child.
By the sacrifice and devotion
of that mother and the medical
skill of the doctor there was pre
served for Europe In future
years a great
statesman. That
child was Lloyd
George, the fa
ther of social
security that
has been adopt
ed ip many
countries and
now for 10
years or more
functioning in
the United
States. Many
branches of ser
vice are now
Saunders covered by “old
age and survivors insurance.”
And there is talk of extending it
to the army.
As amended by the 81st con
gress some features were reme
died that experience disclosed
needed changing. It is not alto
gether ideal yet. The money to
finance the setup comes from the
two branches of industry, em
ployer and employee. It is so ar
ranged that the employee retires
with an old age pension but the
employer who has an equal share
with the employee in creating
the fund gets nothing for what he
puts into it. And it is doubtless
true that in hundreds of cases
the employer operating a small
business does not get as much fi
nancial return out of his business
as the employee.
♦ * *
Taxidermists have mounted
many animals, birds and reptiles
that are shown at the university
museum. I know next to nothing
about where they get those spe
cimens. However, the story is
told of the boa constrictor that is
seen in the reptile section. This
snake wrapped in clammy coils
about a fair young snake charm
er was one of the attractions at a
carnival showing in Lincoln. The
crowd of spectators was horri
fied to see the boa tighten its
coils about the young woman and
her face turn livid as her breath
was being crushed out of her and
her doom seemed certain.
A man among the spectators
who had come from regions
where these reptiles are known
stepped forward to release the
woman from the deadly coils but
at first was ordered back by car
nival attendants who were only
making matters worse by prod
ding at the snake. Finally the
stranger was permitted to take
over. He closed a capable hand
around the snake just back of its
head and choked the life out of
it. Coils relaxed and the woman
faint and near lifeless was re
leased. So the museum acquired
a perfect specimen for mounting.
If anybody likes such a thing it’s
there to look at.
• * *
A Lincoln housewife visited a
large city retail estalisfcment that
has been doing business about
ever since the town started. She
was looking for a living room
item of furniture that would
somewhere near match her
chairs. When the salesman was
told the type of upholstery with
which the chairs were finished
was showing signs of fraying out
in places he asked what make
chairs they were. Being told, he
remarked on the inferior qual
ity of that particular make of
chair. “You didn’t talk that way
when you sold them to me,
snapped back the lady. And a
wind-bloated salesman was some
what deflated.
* * * ✓
U.S. postal service handles
125,000,000 letters daily. . . Two
hundred fifty million gallons of
petroleum products are used dai
ly in the United States. . . The
farm of Colonel Smith in Scott
county, Va., yielded last season
191.36 bushels of corn to the acre.
. . . Don Koehler, of Chicago, 111.,
towers skyward eight feet two
inches; his twin sister is five feet
six inches in height. . . The
wealth of experience is one pos
session that has not yet been tax
ed, observes the Santa Fe mag
azine.
* *' *
Two young teachers from
Scotland visiting America to
get a slant on our teaching meth
ods. They are reported to have
made it from New York across
the continent to Fresno, Calif., at
a cost of $19.50. These Scotch
lassies can teach us something a
bout economy in travel.
• * *
The plot thickens. At Newbold
Morris’s first move to dig into
fur coat deals, gambling, corrup
tion and crookedness he gets
the ax. Then his chief, McGrath,
got it. Let’s see—this is presiden
tial year. Let ’em alone; they
will make their own political
grave—yard.
♦ * •
If what I say in understanding,
or write,
Can lift a burden from one
lonely heart,
Or cast a ray of light into the
gloom of night,
In this great universe of God’s
I have a part
Every seat was occupied by a
patriot. Others stood leaning a
gainst walls. The city fathers had
announced a public hearing on
the proposal to fluonnize Lin
coln’s water supply, 'the mayor
rapped for order, then asked all
to stand for a word of silent
prayer. Dentists and M.D.’s were
seated in a solid row in front and
one by one made their little
speech in favor of doping the
water. When their 55 minutes
w-ere up tne opposition took ov
er. Dr. C. T. Betts, of Toledo, O.,
had been secured by the group
opposing fluorinizing and he took
the floor to make some of the
claims of the dental group look
like a plugged nickel. One of the
speakers who followed Doctor
Betts said of the claims of the
dentists that it was the first time
he knew of that group promoting
a program that according to their
claims would put them Out of
business. The meeting had open
ed with a formal request for di
vine guidance. And then to pro
pose putting an admitted poison
into the wells seemed to some of
the spectators like saying the
Creator didn’t know His stuff
when the veins of water were
placed in the earth.
• ♦ •
We respect our tribal tradi
tions, but that doesn't mean
you can't change your opinions
simply because that's what the
family believed for genera
tions.
* * *
It was what Mike Horiskey
would call “a peach.” Tempera
ture in the 80’s and sunlight
streaming from a fair blue sky.
It was what any oldtimer on
prairieland would call “a wea
ther breeder.” But we had the
full throb of enjoying summer
sunshine for a day. Yesterday we
were in a gold-kissed summer
garden, loitering about coatless
and hatless. The robes of winter
hung in moth-ball scented ward
robes. Last night angry elements
of nature burst upon us in raging
fury, announced by the light
ning’s red glare and the growl of
storm clouds. Beating rain, rag
ing wind came out of the night
and as we arose this morning
from troubled slumber the green
and gold of yesterday are now a
blanket of snow on roof and gar
den and street and a grey curtain
is drawn across the heavens. To
morrow may see the return of
yesterday’s gilded landscape.
♦ * •
An 34-year-old citizen of the
capital city of more than ordi
Inary prominence came to the end
last week that awaits alike the
great and the humble. A Lincoln
editor bestowed upon the dead
fulsome and worthy praise, with
the kindly observation that “the
age of a man is not his physical
years.” I wonder why something
1'ke this was not in the writings
of this editor with reference to a
patriot lb years younger than the
old man for whom he has woven
a literary wreath when writing
of that younger man who has
been chosen by Nebraska repub
licans as their choice for U.S.
! senator.
• * *
My beloved spake and said un4o
me,
Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of the singing of birds
has come
And the voice of the turtle is
heard in the land. — From
Solomon’s Song.
♦ * *
Property assessments in Holt
county in 1951 totaled $34,330,139.
It is an increase in the past five
years of over 10 million dollars.
In 1947 the property assessments
for the county were $23,565,813.
For the entire state the assess
ment was in 1951 $3,007,385,740
as against $2,316,658,238 in 1947.
• * •
One student of the genus homo
thinks the straight and narrow
path would probably not be so
narrow if more people walked
on it.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Allen
and family and Sgt. and Mrs
James Lyons and family went to
Omaha Friday, April 11, where
they attended the ice follies,
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Anderson
left Tuesday on a 2 weeks vaca
tion trip. Their first stop will
j be in Lincoln, where Mr. Ander
son will attend a utility conven
tion on April 17 and 18.
Miss Mavis Forsch spent the
weekend in Butte at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Forsch.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Babl and
daughter, Diane, and Mrs. Vannie
Newman were Easter Sunday din
ner guests at the home of Mr- and
Mrs. William Schiessler and Bev
erly, in Ainsworth.
Mrs. Rose Davey, Mrs. Hilda
Jones and Jackie Lee Sunderland
accompanied by Mrs. Hardin Ans
pach went to Omaha Sunday aft
ernoon.
Mr. and Mrs- E. O. Hile, of Co
lumbus, were weekend guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Janousek. Mr. Hile returned to
Columbus Sunday. Mrs. Hile re
mained in O’Neill for a short vis
it.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Phillips, of
Harvard, were weekend guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean
Reed.
Council Bluffs
Kin Flood Refugees
STUART—Mr. and Mrs. Mah
lon Shearer learned by phone
j call, their daughters’ families.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Grace and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ra
dar, were evacuated from West
Council Bluffs on Saturday be
fore the flood reached them. Both
families went to relatives in Om
aha.
Other Stuart News
Volunteer firemen answered a
call to the Robert Borran trailer
house about 8 o’clock Friday
night when an overheated oil
stove threatened the house. There
was no damage done.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Borran
and daughter made a business
trip to North Platte on Saturday,
April 12.
Miss Lorraine Coats, who
teaches at Knoxville, la., came j
Friday to spend Easter with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norris
Coats and family.
The Herbert Newman, jr., fam
ily moved from Stuart to the
Henry Fuelberth farm in the
Cleveland community last week.
Miss Donna Krotter and Miss
Nan Cowles, University of Ne
braska students, spent the Easter
weekend with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Krotter and Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Cowles.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McClure, of
Council Bluffs, la., visited from
Tuesday, April 8, to Friday with
Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Shearer.
Mrs. McClure and Mrs. Shearer
are sisters.
Mrs. Mahlon Shearer was host
ess to the Improvement club on
Wednesday afternoon, April 9,
Nine members and three visitors
were present.
Mrs. Rose Davey, Mrs. Hilda
Jones and Jackie Lee Sunderland,
of Valentine, and Pfc. and Mrs.
Charles Marston, of Denver,
Colo., were Easter Sunday din
ner guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Hardin Anspach.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bazelman,
and Connie, went to Orchard and
were Easter Sunday guests at the
home of Mrs- Bazelman’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Reed.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Benson,
Mrs. Mamie O’Neill and Carl O’
Neill were Easter Sunday dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Blake Benson.
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