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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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All This Js Woman s Business
(Guest Editorial by Mrs. Edgar Stauffer, Page)
Is your home a filling station? Homes of today are sometimes,
rather acidly, called just that. Everyone is so busy with things out
side the home, some critics say, that home is only a place to fill our
stomachs and change clothes to go again.
The dean of home economics, Elizabeth Lee Vincent, of Cornell
university, says that is what a home should be, but not just for
food. The most important way in which today’s home can help to
build a better world is by being a spiritual filling station as well—
a place for the family to draw on for a new calmness, peace of mind,
and a feeling of security to meet the wear and tear on the spirit!
That kind of home is the homemaker’s first responsibility.
Bcause today’s backyard has stretched out to include everything
that affects the family, today’s homemaker, through home demon
sration clubs, is taking an interest in community and world affairs.
Good bea*tb “ an important factor. Home demonstration clubs
in Nebraska have encouraged interest in nutrition and other health
problems, such as immunization and health insurance plans. In 1951
Holt county clubs sponsored the tuberculosis mobile unit’s chest sur
vey in the county, scheduling the unit in every town in the county
hWnS m.Cluded blood typinS- This project is to be continued
_ 1 b°XeS ?aVe been refurbished with addresses that may be
nry ^ JTwu Kltchen tours have encouraged homemakers to
plan or remodel their work centers to conserve time and energy
Family relations, a new project which is being stressed this
« STiST1 contest to induce club memb- * -d
*»rnfHOme a"d/aiIVly have always been the theme of home demon
r„,o„n«r^,,how ,hat -1—
Record Crowds
Witness Play
LYNCH — The Lynch senior
class presented the three-act
comedy, “For Pete’s Sake,” to
record crowds both Wednesday
and Thursday, April 23 and 24
The cast included Kenneth
Stewart, Bud Spelts, Ruth Eiler,
porene Huber, Joan Rosicky.
Lawrence Kalkowski, Gordon De
kay, Urela Nowood, Pauline An
derson, Douglas Butterfield, La
nora Bjomsen and Orpha Tuch
Supt. and Mrs. G. L Campbell
were directors.
Other Lynch News
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick King
and sons spent Sunday, April 20
at the parental George King home
in Stuart.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kalkow
ski spent the weekend at the
home of their daughter, Mrs. Cy
nl Burbach, and family in Wynot.
Mrs. Lettie Sedlacek and Mr
and Mrs. George Sedlacek and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Tony
Scheinost, and family, of Butte
were Sunday visitors at the Lloyd
Mills hortie.
Mrs. John Hewitson spent Sun
day at the home of John Light
foot near Bristow
Robert Conklin, of Spencer,
V*e ^irs* of the week at
Cal Conklin home here
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Blair and
Lleanor, of Spencer, spent Sun
day at the Don Stewart home in
Lynch. -
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters, of
Verdel, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
^ni?n!C1« a!}d baby- °* Spencer,
Spent Sunday at the Mrs. NaU
Bjornsen home.
.. ^r- ar)d Mrs. Buss Greene vis
Sunday^6 ^lvm ^naPP home on
AJlank„Hammon visited at the
Arthur Hammon home in Colome,
S D^, on Wednesday, April 23.
*nriM?nd Wil,iam Stauffer
ke Q?d Mrs William Teadt
Ke and Sharon were Butte vis
itors Wednesday, April 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Norwoodi vis
ited at the Theodore Norwood
home on Sunday.
Cpl. Eldon Hammon spent Wed
CeSlay’ ^pril 23- visiting his
brother, Phillip, and family.
e;Mr- ai?d Mrs. Jerry Sixta were
Smux City visitors Tuesday, April
Clara Vlcan returned to her
work in Lincoln Sunday after a
week s visit at the parental Thom
V.lc«n home Pfc. Leonard
left for Oceanside, Calif., after a
10-day visit at the parental home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hansels re
turned Sunday for their home in
Sioux City after a weekend visit
here with relatives. Mrs. Hansel
1S the former Arlene Fusch.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Placek and
Sunday afternoon at
the (Minnie Milacek home
Naomi Mar?ton, RN, who has
assisted in the Sacret Heart hos
pital for some time, left for Oma
ha Tuesday, April 22, where she
plans to remain several weeks
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Mulhair and
Mrs. Bertha Cooper visited rela
tives in Niobrara Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Mills and
sons, of ScottviHe, spent Sunday
at the parental Lloyd Mills home
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brady, sr., of
Dorsey were Lynch callers the
first of last week.
.Mr. n ***. ^rS- Daniel Kirwan,
of Ft Randall, S.D., visited at the
Theodore Norwood home Sunday
Bartling-Whitlock
Easter Nuptials
Miss Edna Bartling and Robert
Whitlock, both of Sioux City,
were united in marriage on Eas
ter Sunday April 13, in the
Concordia Lutheran church
Sioux City. Reverend Meyer per
formed the ceremony.
Mrs. Whitlock is the daughter
of Mrs. William Hinze, of O’Neill
She graduated from the O’Neili
high school in 1944.
Frontier want ads bring results I
! Prairieland Talk —
Eli Hershiser Retrieves Run-Away
Duo Setting Out for Adventure
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Somethin* like 10
or imore years ago the following
story was run in this department.
While the Sioux have left our
borders and
adventure lures
the youth in
other ways than
at the evening
campfire the
story may b e
worth telling
again as a
hunch to young
America of to
day as well as
general amuse
---—_ ment So it is
Romaine reproduced as
Saunders *£«&. alley
of the drug store on a mild sum
mer morning, Eli Hershiser ad
justed the gear on a little brown
broncho preparatory to mounting
for a long ride. On the range of
the Spade ranch with Johnnie
Kearney, Eli had won his spurs
and now he was about to set out
on his unusual mission. There
was a frantic mother in town
A
f whose untamed but harmless off
spring had left the domestic cor
ral and she had enlisted the old
range rider to round him up and
run on the household brand- 1
see Eli has had a birthday cele
bration. Had I been in O’Neill at
the time he would have had an
other guest. But the story.
Hay McClure and the Tierney
boys had rigged out a light wag
on outfit, each supplying a horse,
and started north to the reserva
tion, what is now Boyd county.
The lure of Indian life called to
them to leave the haunts of
civilization—the lure of the open
air, the open sky, the long reach
of prairie, the mystic silence of
woded slope, the footprints of
beaded moccasin by the Nio
brara s troubled waters, the curl
ing simoke of wigwam, the savory
venison roasted at campfires, the
oc*or °f sweat on racing ponies.
'I hey had been gone a night
when Mrs. McClure got Eli out on
the trail. After a day in the sad
dle he pulled up at evening on a
knoll and spotted the boys’ outfit
near the river in the valley a mile
below. Dismounting, he went
into camp for the night. At day
break he rode into the slumber
ing camp by the river and roused
the boys. There was a show of
protest at the great adventure
ending in ignominy. But the
boys were hungry. Visions of sit
ting about the campfire and par
taking of roast leg of antelope
had ended in stark emptiness- So
it was a case of surrender.
Eli filled them up on the less
romantic but substantial bread
and cheese when they reached
Bill Nollkamper’s at Eagle Mills.
The boys requested that when
they got to town they be taken
home without being seen, but
the obdurate Eli told them he
would herd them straight for the
main street.
They got home and the thrill
ing adventure closed with one of
mother’s good square meals. And
so the beckoning vision of youth
broke on the cold, hard rock of
reality.
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Turn to page 73 of the May
Readers' Digest and you will
see a very good likeness of the
late Moses P. Kinkaid, one of
O'Neill's notables of the pio
neer period, later a member of
congress and author of the sec
tion homestead act that gave
to homesteaders in the Sixth
congressional district of Ne
braska 640-acre homesteads.
Hearsay has no Standing in
court. Judicial consideration de
mnds facts, not run'tor. Yet our
lives are built on hearsay. The
adult has heard it said that he
was born on a certain date in a
certain year. He observes that
date for his birthday. The re
corded facts of history come to us
as hearsay- Astronomical and sci
entific discoveries are mere hear
say to most of us who neverthe
less accept such as facts- I have
seen neither the atom bomb noi
its work of destruction. Through
hearsay I know it is. Through
the medium of hearsay we know
there are such places as Moscow,
London, Rome, Jerusalem and
some of us take off to prove hear
say to be a fact by visiting these
places. Our knowledge of pres
ent and past world events, what
this notable or that notable says
or does comes to us not so much
from personal observation but
what others have told us. (Maybe
our courts should loosen up and
give “hearsay” a hearing.
* * •
You may primp and powdei
and doll up, but you are only kid
ding yourself. The passing years
are leaving the marks of time
Let’s forget this worship at the
shrine of youth and be men and
Women who have put away child
ish things. Youth belongs in the
realm of sports and folly. Ma
turity and age must guide the
destiny of mankind. It is pitiful
ly silly to see the bald heads and
men and matrons with snow
white hair trying to act kiddish.
It’s only a sign of second child
hood. After 35 how folks guard
the secret of their age! “I have
been young. Now I am old, yet
I have not seen the righteous for
saken nor his seed begging
bread,” I can say with old King
David. Grow old not gracefully
but happy that you can still do a
man’s work, or at least wash the
dishes for Ma.
* * *
A few items of community in
terest of 52 years ago: Hank
Mills went to Boyd county to ex
hume the remains of Mrs. B. F.
Roberts for burial here in Pros
(Continued on page 7)
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