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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1952)
Editorisi at Durness Offices: 122 South Fourth Street CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday • — Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Child Allergic to Easter Candy! ROCK FALLS—A local ranch er bit the dust with his saddle horse on top the other day. A lady slammed the barn door so hard she almost dismembered her thumb. One family got stuck three times before arriving at their Easter dinner. A trucker abandoned his stuck truck. The crowning tragedy of them all! A 4-year-old was allergic to Easter candy! Other Rock Falls News Dinner guests at Alden Brew ers Easter Sunday were Mr. and and Mrs. Bill Murray and Sharon and Lois and Don R. Brewer. Dan Waegli called on Albert Widtfeldts Tuesday morning, April 15. Dinner guests at Roy Margritz’ Easter Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. John Derries and daughters from Royal and Mr. and Mrs. John Schwindt and sons. Mrs. Frances Curran spent Tuesday, April 15, at Roy Mar gritzs’. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Storjohann and faimily were guests at Roy Margritzs’ Monday evening, April 14. Guests for dinner at the Albert Sterns home Easter Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Strong and children, of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sterns and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Davis, of At kin. Mr. and Mrs- Bill Claussen called in the evening. Mrs. Don Rakes was a dinner guest at Floyd Johnsons Friday April 11, and visited at the John Schultz home in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stems Evelyn and Doris and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Strong and children were dinner guests at the Elmer Slaymaker home near Atkinson Friday, April 11. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and children were Easter Sunday guests at the John Grutch hoime in O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Strong and children returned to Omaha aft er several days vacation at the Albert Sterns home. Dinner guests at Dan Waeglis on Easter Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stott and children, of Oakdale, Mrs. Martha Olesligle, Marie Olesligle and Leroy Karris from Tilden and Mrs. Henry Ve quist. Miss Doris Sterns came Thurs day from Lincoln to spend Easter vacation at home. Mr- and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and Rita, attended the Pinochle Pi rates party at Arthur O’Neills on Friday evening, April 11. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Claussen I ! were dinner guests at Claussen Brothers near Emunet Easter Sun day. Henry Vequist had a new trac tor delivered Monday, April 12. The dust won’t have a chance to settle around there this summer. Janice and Tommy Vequist spent Friday night ana Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Henry Ve quist home. Earl and Ivan McClenahan were supper guests at Bill Claus sens Thursday, April 10, and play ed cards. Diner guests at the James Cur ran hocne Easter Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Dale Curran and children and George Curran. In the afternoon they drove to Ft Randall, S.D., dam. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Claussen went to Mrs. Clevish’s funeral on Monday, April 12. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Davis, of At kinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Strong and children, of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs Albert Sterns and Evelyn were evening guests at the James Curran home Wednes day, April 14. Dinner guests at Blake Benson on Easter Sunday, April 13, were Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Benson and family, Carroll O’Neill, Mrs. Ma mie O’Neill. Several of the group drove to Yankton, S. D., in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ott and Mr. and Mrs- Francis Curran and daughters were dinner guests at the Alvin Ott home in O’Neill on Easter Sunday. School children in the east school had vacation when the teacher was ill with measles. Orville Thoren and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Karel drove to Verdel Easter Sunday to view the Mis souri river flood. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Miller and children were Easter Sunday guests at Bob Worths in O’Neill. It was also a birthday anniver sary celebration for Ardyce Mil ler and Mrs. Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Larsen and children were supper guests at the Francis Curran home Wed nesday, April 9. 21 Enrolled in U of N Course Twenty-one persons from O' Neill and nearby communities have been enrolled in a Univer sity of Nebraska off-caimpus class meeting once a week in O’Neill. Students in the nine-week course, elementary literature, are mainly public school teachers who earn regular university credits for graduate or undergraduate work. The class at O’Neill is one of 46 being sponsored by the Extension division this spring More than 1,000 teachers and other inter ested adults have enrolled. Registered in the O’Neill class are: Helen Irene pallagh, Amelia; John H. Bauer and Joan M. Ly don, both of Ewing; Catherine Boyle, LaDona Mae Crawford, Marie Schneider, Romana Schnei der, Leah Mae Serck, Twila Mae Sobotka, Leona C. Troshynski, all of O’Neill; Helen E. Braddock, Hazel L. Park and Ruby J. Parks, all of Page; and Leola B. Cary, of Atkinson. Also registered are: Lois Jean Doty, of Spencer; Marjorie B. Kelley and Dotty Dee Moore, both of Inman; Maureen C Mur phy, of Emmet; Willa W. Scholl meyer, of Redbird, and Marian J. Sievers, of Chambers. Frontier want ads bring results! M Prairieland Talk — Female Carries Liquor Appeal to Lincoln; Gal Dispensers—Whither Are We Headed? By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LuN(JUL,iN—A strip oi soa in a jungle of buildings. Forever on concrete and footsore, a lady took to the grass a pitiful little spot of green set off from the fray pavement, t may have touched the memory of a city weary woman who in other years had known the free dom of endless miles of grass lands out a cross the sweep . of the prairie. Romaine Many have be Saunders come prisoners of artificial things. It is called art. architec tural masterpieces. I, too, have seen some of these things. And I have lived intimately amidst the works of the Master of Art, that which transcends the artificial—the pink glow of ear ly dawn breaking over the silent gold, the streaks of yellow and crimson of a praireland sunset, spell of the hills, the flash of the stars glowing out of the night sky, the full moon moving in majestic grandeur in its ap pointed course in the depths of eternity. I have seen the living green of summer with its splash of floral bloom and have known the fra grance of apple blossoms and the prairie rose, the brown of autumn and the bright tints of falling leaves, and in winter the prairie as it lies silent under a blanket of snow. I have felt humbled before the quiet constancy of lofty mountains and a little sense of the puny arm of flesh as I have stod and watched the ocean roll its foaminq tide upon the sands. i nave neen interested but lit tle in the classics of song, but the notes of the meadow lark and full throated morning song of the cardinal are irresistable. The songs of Zion sung by worship ers in some humble church are nearer the heart than the throb bing tones from a pipe organ, and the song pouring from the throat of a robin perched on the bough of an apple tree touches the soul when the warblings of a prima dona fail to interest. • • • Paul Wagner, Governor Peter son’s assistant, has been up to South Sioux City, his home town where he publishes the Dakota County Star, and tells me all but about 20 percent of the city has been flooded and thousands have had to abandon their homes. His newspaper plant is in the dry spot and so has escaped dam age from the swollen Missouri as has most of the business sec tion. Mr. Wagner says about 1,000 citizens of South Sioux City have found refuge in the high school building that has been converted into barracks with cots provided and the Red Cross has taken over the school kitchen to provide meals. Others of the city have found temporary homes with rel atives or friends in Homer, Sioux City and other places. Dakota City, the county seat, has suffer ed some but not to the extent of the damge in South Sioux Ci ty, perhaps 40 percent of the town not being touched by flood waters. Mr. Wagner’s family is in Lincoln and his mother lives in South Sioux City but has gone to the home of a relative out of town. • • • President Truman cpme put and took a look at the' bloated Missouri river and said, “It is time for action.” I don’t know how many times that has been said by others in the past 60 years or more. I recall coming from Los Angeles, Calif., early in this century in early June. Ari zona, the Texas panhandle and New Mexico bore the evidence of the “never rain” region. We hit the valley of the Kaw and from then on everything was flooded, railroad bridges washed out and the same talk we hear to day, "Let’s do something!” Gov ernor Peterson referred to the president’s visit as a pep talk, •and sent out a call for the state senators to come in and author ize an appropriation for flood re lief. As has been mentioned be fore in this department, once the O’Neill community had to deal with the pride swollen Elkhom river and the patriots at that time forever prevented another mile-wide river at their door by the simple method of ditching. Niobrara got out of the way of overflow waters of the Missouri river by moving the town. • * * Down at Bartlett the villaqe board declined to renew a li cense for a woman to dispense fire water to Wheeler county ranchers, so she goes to Lin coln with an appeal from the action of the village board. Has the qTeed for gain or the ne cessity of the times become such that the gentler sex has become involved in a business that has been exclusively for men? And whither are we headed when the women get behind the bar to dispense the amber stream and contribute to the proces sion of red noses? * * * Ruth Thompson, member of congress from a Michigan district, like many others who have climbed to the top, got there by personal effort and by giving her best to every undertaking. Early in life she needed a job, tells one who had listened to her in an ad dress at a public function. She was given employment but prom | ised for not more than six i months. That six months job lasted for 18 years because she made herself indispensable by thorough attention to the work and hours of overtime without additional pay. She deplores the spirit now taking hold of young and old, “do the least you can for the most you can get.” She even tually left her job to prepare for marriage when her fiance met a sudden and tragic death. She then became interested in the i study of law and was admitted to the bar in Michigan. It is a natural step from the august precincts of a court room to pol itics. And the next adventure was her election to the lower house of congress. Young America, you may be able to get by for a time by doing as little as you can for as much as you can get, but that doesn’t lead to the top. And if | the top is never reached there is soul satisfaction in doing your I very best. • • • “Early in the morning of July 18, 1867, three men on horseback set out to locate a capital site for a new state which had been admitted to the Union slightly more than four months earlier.” I am quoting J. E. Lawrence, president of the Nebraska State Historical society and editor of the Lincoln Star. Those three men were John Gillespie, Thom as P. Kennard and David Butler, who became Nebraska’s first governor. Locating a state capital geographical centers were not considered. The population center was looked for. A spot in south east Nebraska was decided upon by these three pioneer plainsmen after looking over the country from their camp on a ridge that is now Pioneer park and the city of Lincoln was officially on the map as our capital city. And now where the tepees of the Pawnees dotted the valley of the Salt a great city of the pale faces stands. m m m Uncle Sam has over 70,000 sec retaries and stenographers em ployed, yearly pay from $2,950 up. . . After two and a half years’ work at a cost of 100 million dol lars the federal setup created to check the equipment of the army, navy and air force to ascertain how sayings could be effected have given it up as a hopeless un dertaking. One headache — 800 types of screwdrivers four and eight inches long. . . According to census reports there are now 19 single girls over 14 years of age to each 100, compared with 34 who were heart whole and fancy free 60 years ago. . . W east of the Mississippi and K to the west are the prefixes for new radio station letters. • » • Mrs. Lucy Matheson, who died recently at her home in Los An geles, Calif., as a young woman living in O’Neill performed the duties of office girl for the late Moses P. Kinkaid, at that time one of the bright legal lights of the O’Neill community. Mrs. Matheson’s death followed two days after the death of her ne phew, Albert Meals, also of Los Angeles. He was a cousin of George Meals, of the Atkinson community, and was born in O’ Neill about the year 1893, the j youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. I George W. Meals. • • • When a candidate for the nom ination for governor of Nebras ka has to spend a small fortune in a primary election campaign we are well on the road of boo dle politics. It is by no means ne cesary nor do the rank and file in either party want it or approve of it. O'NEILL LOCALS George McCarthy went to North Platte on Tuesday, April 15, where he helped make ar rangements for the Knights of Columbus state convention to be held on May 4 and 5 at North Platte. Miss Gertrude Sullivan, of Omaha, spent the weekend in O’Neill with relatives. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Miss Rita Troshynski and Edwin L. Rome, which was solemnized at St. Joseph’s Catholic church, Atkinson, on Saturday, April 19. DR. H. L. BENNETT VETERINARIAN Phones 316 and 304 — O'NEH.i MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE ! Central Finance Corp. C. E. Jones, Manager O'Neill : Nebraska LAND AUCTION Saturday, May 3 I To be held on the premises. 320-acres \ unimproved, located 4 miles north and 2 miles east of Atkinson, Nebr. Legal description: WJ/2 of Sec. 2 Atkin son Township. I 20 A. now in pasture and ; Ipasture and 30 or 35 acres more that may \ be added by changing the fences, balance in cultivation. Immediate possession. Terms 20 per cent day of sale, balance cash or will give terms to responsible party. For particulars write or call: S. E. COPPLE 126 N. 11th St. Lincoln. Phone 2-6958 OR W. L CUMMINGS 2317 Burlington, Lincoln, Phone 5-1673, Owner*, or L. L. BLAUVELT, Auctioneer, 1721 West O St, Lincoln, Phonee 2-5U7, 5-9572 MILLER THEATRE — Atkinson, Nebr. — Fri.-Sal. Apr. 25-26 jUmSAtAOTAMOtKA'S /u*n* nwmafo j L_i ,_ Sun.-Mon.-Tues. April 27-28-29 1 Tltiu H«UK TM Mil ^SSBS^j *m DIM 1 ATI 01 JASfS CASUS iffl C H If PIS WUHAW HAMMS Wed-Thurs._Apr. 30-May 1 ncTta kauk A, A-JC« UCHU im uaiffli scan sown twtsV -l MMMMMIMHSb^ LVtPMOtAM mt(OtAMM<fS For You Feeders who want "One of the finest supplements for growing stock we've ever used." say' cattlemen. And they re right! 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