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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
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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
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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
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Look who's crowding
the low-priced three
That’s not just our say-so. It’s
what car buyers have said with
their hard-earned dollars, year
after year.
We think you ought to find out
for yourself what these other
folks haye discovered. ,, t,
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We think you ought to find out
why so many Buick buyers are
trading in one of the so-called
“low-priced three.”
We think you ought to compare
the size, compare the per
formance, compare the price,
because we know what you’ll
find out:
If you can afford a new car, you
can afford a Buick.
Why not find out for yourself
what’s behind this popularity?
'frt. »iri n yrnrv
The price of a car has a lot
to do with the number of
folks who can afford to own it.
So the leaders in sales —for
almost a generation—have
been three cars whose bid for
popularity has included a
potent price appeal.
But who do you think is right
on their heels? Who has led the
field, outside “the low-priced
three”—ever since 1938?
*
Well, sir, the name is Buick.
\ou get more pounds of read
automobile when you buy the
Buick pictured here.
You get more power. "You get
“big-car feel.”
"Ybu get an honest-to-goodness
Million Dollar Ride.
"You get, in other words, an all
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Pfu. Thmto, Too, On RO ADM ASTIR
AIRPOWER carburetion
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2-Door 6-Passenger
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MODEL 48D
(illustrated)
4-Door 6-Passengar
SUPER
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MODEL 52
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PHONE 370 O’NeilJ
