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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1952)
Editorial at Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Strew CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher”” Established in 18 8d—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 tn tiie United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Family Flies from Hawaii to Lincoln EWING—James Ruby, who has been stationed on the Hawaiian Islands with the navy, arrived un expectedly last week for a six-day leave. Mrs. Ruby and children ar rived in Ewing last Thursday from Honolulu, having traveled by air from the Islands to Lin coln. Mr. Ruby expects to be as signed at Norman, Okla. Other Ewing Newa Sunday, April 27, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sanders and family and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lee spent the day at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hawk. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Funk and daughters were 6 o’clock dinner Stests at the home of Mr. and rs. Mark Sehi on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Shiffbauer received a telephone call from their son, William, of Oklahpma City, Okla., on Wednesday, April 30, stating that he is being trans ferred to Camp Chaffee, Ark. Corporal Shiffbauer has just re turned from a year’s active serv ice in Korea and recently spent a 30-day furlough in Ewing with his parents and other relatives. Mrs. Frank MacNeill, of Oma ha, came Wednesday, April 30, to Ewing where she will be a guest at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Rockey, until she receives her orders to sail for Ja pan to join her husband, Lt. Frank MacNeill, who is on duty there. Mr. and Mrs. R. G- Rockey went to Greenfield, la., Sunday, April 27, on business. They re turned home Tuesday, April 29. Deanna Emsic was a passenger on the early train Frday morning to Omaha where she spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bmisc, at Ft. Crook. Deanna has made her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen, to finish the school term, since her parents moved the first of March. Mrs. John Walker entertained the Young Matron’s pinochle club at her home on Friday evening. Guests were Mrs. Gerald Chalupa, Mrs. Richard Edwards, Mrs. L. P. Dierks and Mrs- Ralph Munn. The hostess served refreshments after the games. Wayne Kruntorad is hoime on furlough from Ft. Riley, Kans. On his return he will be trans ferred to Ft. Benning, Ga., for further training as a paratrooper. Wayne is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kruntorad. Mr. and Mrs. William Wulf drove to Clearwater on Thursday to visit at the home of Miss Min nie Neiderheider. Eleven ladies gathered at the home of Mrs. Melvin Napier on Thursday, April 24, to form a home extension club which is sponsored by the county exten sion ag'ent. Election of officers was held with the following re sults: Mrs. Manuel Fredericks, president: Mrs. Melvin Napier, vice-president; (Mrs. Dale Napier, secortary an dtreasurer; Msr. Ar chie Johnson and Mrs. Duane Jensen leaders; Mrs. Wm. Lof quest, news reporter. It was vot ed to name the organization Seek and Share club. At the close of the meeting a dessert luncheon was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Archie Johnston on May Mrs. Gene Ruby and children are guests at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Eacker. Mr. Ruby is being transferred to Rapid City, S.D., from Phillip, S. D., and at present has been un able to find a house. Mrs. Everett Ruby, accompan ied by her son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. James Ruby, were Norfolk visitors on Friday. Mr. Ruby, of the navy, is enjoy ing a six - day leave before his transfer to Norman, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen and daughter, Ann, went to St. Paul Friday to spend the weekend with Mrs. Jensen’s sister and brother in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rickert, and daughters. Frontier for Drinting! , Prairieland Talk . . . Both Cause and Instrument of Life’s First Remembered Injustice Now Are Deceased By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — It's a dull day when the busybodies can’t find something to keep things stirred up. Doping the city water supply with an organic poison in the background for the moment, now its public housing. Most folks look after their own housing and it is their business if they elect to hole up in a remod eled chicken coup, a trail er nouse, a one time barn or a swank architec tural getup in an “exclusive” neighborh o o d. Lincoln’s M a yor Anderson thinks the ag itation of the busybodies, sec I __ onded by the ' venerable State Romaine journal, is more baunders or less hooey. About the happiest chap I ever ran across lives in a barn in a city suburb, his quarters unswept and table from which he eats loaded with cans and unwashed milk bottles parked beside the bath tub and stool. Yes, he has a bath but don’t believe ever gets into it. But, wrinkled and old, “paddles his own canoe” and seems su premely happy. Others who busybodies worry about are satisfied with their lot in life and prefer to be let alone. Others would complain anyway no matter where they lived. Of course, we are out of the sodhouse period, but as Joe Mann once said, we probably got away from the sod house too soon and with all the modern shakedowns, does life hold the sweet content ment our fathers knew? * * * Ewing at the eastern edge of Holt county and Stuart on the west are well represented in the news stories from week to week in The Frontier. It has been some years since I was in either of these communities to tarry for a time. Clarence Selah’s Ewing Item, later John Tromersshauser in the journalistic field in eastern Holt, and John Wertz of the Stuart Ledger, succeeded by Rosa Hudspeth, had piquant paragraphs that made their journals looked forward to and and awaited for from week to week, with one or more citizens in a perpetual stew fearing they would be the next to get not very complmentary news paper attention. The exchange of editorial courtesies between “es teemed contemporaries” has dis-4 appeared from the printed pages along with the pungent and some times humorous thrusts in the di rection of certain citizens. And those were times when gents con sidering themselves under susi cion didn’t wait until the papers were in the mails but dashed in and grabbed one hot off the press. Early in life children learn that sometimes they are handed a raw deal. The tragedy of life in war torn lands is written in sorrow laden lines on the troubled face of childhood. The rightful heri tage of children in all lands is not destroyed homes but the joys of hapy faimily life. In lands of peace and plenty children are made to suffer unjustly at times. Teachers in schools may have their favorite that ought to have a whaling but an innocent one gets it instead. In early childhood I learned that life can be unjust. In what now is known as second grade a hoy older and larger than I was sat at the desk behind me. One day in school he whistled so the whole school heard and the stern look on Miss Willy’s face turned in our direction as she demanded who whistled. The curley-head ed lad behind me hung it on me and I got it- He could lie better than I could speak the truth. Moreover, his dad was one who had to do with hiring teachers. A few years later I visited the I scenes of imy early childhood. At a business place I saw a sign 1 “Schucie Clothing Store.” The boy’s name was Billie Schucie who put that over on me in the i long ago. I entered the store to learn that it was run by two sons of the guy I was looking for. I was told Billie was dead. Miss Willy, the teacher must long ago have returned to the dust of the earth as she was near ing middlelife when I was her pu pil. The cause and the instrument of my first remembered experi ence of life’s injustice were both dead. The victim still writes his weekly grind. * * * The day is dark and dreary. Gray clouds in sullen grandeur cover the vaulted skies. Cold wind beats rain in your face and the sodden earth reeks with damp odors, water spurts under foot as you walk and where the concrete ends mud takes over, birds have taken refuge in protected spots. Street traffic is only a necesity. In a very real sense we are all wet this day of April in the capitol city. Floods threaten the Missouri river communities and the hardy sons of the soil are con cerned if not worried over the season’s planting. Up there above the sodden earth, above the gray curtain that hides what lies be yond, the sun still shines and the silent stars hold to their course in the depth of eternity. And now I hear the call, Come and eat! Yes, in spite of rain and clouds and winds moaning through treetops we from out on prairieland eat. * • * The Frontier has outlived a number of “esteemed contempor aries.” O’Neill’s first paper was The Holt Record, published by Niobrara parties. T. V. Golden and G. M. Cleveland floated the Banner for a time. There was the Tribune, Free Press, Holt County Peopie, Item, Independent (not the Holt County Independent but a partisan organ sponsored by lo cal interests and run by an im ported ex-preacher by name of messenger and a harmless little fellow by the name of Wood), Al liance Tribune, Sun, Beacon Light. In addition to these bright journalistic stars enlivening the OWeill scene, other “esteemed contemporaries’’ that lived for a time in Holt county and passed to the grave yard of newspapers after the gravy platter of land notices was licked clean were the Stuart Ledger, Atkinson Plain Dealer, Dustin Dispatch, Amelia Journal, three papers at Cham bers, one following the other, the Eagle, Bugle and Sun, Shamrock Pickin’s, Minneola Sun, Page Re porter and Emmet Echo. What a galaxy of glittering literary tal ent Holt county had displayed in its weekly papers. The editors were first of all printers with but one or two exceptions and the exceptions were the first to fade out. The papers were read, not that much space was devoted to news but for the scorching one editor dealt another, for the sub- i lime eloquence framing a simple story of a trip to Dorsey, the beauty of the word picture of some local event and the heart touching pathos when a home was left in mourning. • • • Fifteen hundred Americans with an itching palm for ex ploring other worlds have their applications in for reservations on the first trip to the moon. One woman says, take me to Mars—anywhere to get off the earth! With something like <5,000 ' people driven from their h*mes in flooded districts there 4 a real and pressing need that struck just about overnight, j don't know why we talk an^ write so much about the nee-t of flood water control and do so little. Rivers must spread out when there is more water than the channel can carry and the safest way is to build towns and country homes far enough back from the river's brink to be out of reach of the backwash. • * • Dr. A. L. Soresi, a Brooklyn sur geon of note, is promoting a plan among surgeons to make it com pulsory to have motion pictures taken of surgical operations. He thinks this will be a means of eliminating “much of the guess work which now exists.” . . The Los Angeles Rain Bonnet com pany is turning out a hat for la dies that is to serve the purpose of an umbrella. I saw a dainty miss out there one rainy day with a Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times covering her fair head, which may have given some gent hunch to turn out a rain bonnet. . . A lamp contriv ance that turns on a light when the telephone rings just intro duced will be a help against cracking your shins on a stool when you roll out of bed at mid night to answer a telephone call . . A puncture-proof tube made 1 3f butyl rubber is something now in travel equipment, the pro moters claiming the tube will out vear several sets of tires. . . Alco holic drinks consumed in the Jnited States is just under 3 bil ion gallons yearly, with Wash ington, D C., guzzlers toppiHg the list in per capita consumption. * * * A young man took his life by the bullet route. He was a stu dent of philosophy with high rating at the state university. Philosophy can destroy faith in the simple varilies of life. "Ig norance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." • * * In 1932 Dwight Griswold, then a resident of Gordon, was a can didate for governor. In 1952, now a resident of Gering, Mr. Gris wold becomes a candidate for United States senator. It is some what thankworthy that we have citizens both capable and willing to take on official responsiblites with the attendent public gripe that is involved. Attend Derby— Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 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