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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Entered the postoffice at O'Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec
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CELIA NEWS
Alice Focken spent the May
3-4 weekend with Darlene Tasler.
Sunnyside 4-H club members
and their parents met at the Joe
Hendricks home Friday evening,
May 2.
Duane Beck. Lawrence Smith,
Edward Ross, Emil Colfack and
O. A. Hammerberg helped Frank
Kilmurry with the cattle Wed
nesday afternoon, April 30. Mrs.
O. A. Hammerberg visited Mrs.
Kilmurry.
Mrs. Asa Woods and brother,
George Glazier, were dinner
guests at the Conrad Frickel
home Friday, May 2, and supper
guests at the Mark Hendricks
home the same day.
Sunday, May 4, Donnie Frick
el and Buddy Focken attended a
young people’s picnic at Cleve
land church.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Scott went
to Lincoln Wednesday, April 30,
and returned home Friday eve
ning, May 2.
Sunday, May 4, dinner guests
at the Milton McKathnie home
were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Rouse, Miss Mildred Keyes, Mar
vin Rouse and Leone Mullen, all
of Inman, also Mrs. Emma Mc
Kathnie, of Atkinson.
Celia Homemakers club will
meet with Mrs. Clarence Focken i
Wednesday, May 28, instead of
with Mrs. Emil Colfack, as re
ported in last week’s news.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks,
visited the Leonard Chaffin fam
ily Thursday, May 1. Mark and
Joe Hendricks helped Mr. Chaf
fin with his work.
Clarence Focken worked from
Monday, April 28, through
Thursday, May 1, wiring Marvin
Focken’s house for REA.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith
and family were O’Neill visitors
Tuesday, April 29.
Mrs. Joe Hendricks and Viola
Kahn attended the countywide
cancer meeting sponsored by the
extension clubs in the county in
O’Neill Tuesday, Aprit 29, and at
tended the rural music festival
in Atkinson that evening.
Joe Hendrciks helped Mark
Hendricks on Friday, May 2.
POSTMASTERS NAMED
President Truman has sent to
the senate these postmaster nom
inations for Nebraska: Gerald E.
Belt/, of Brunswick, and Melvin
F* Jacoby, t^f Spencer.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Corp.
C. E. Jones, Manager
O'Neill : Nebraska
When You & I Were Young. . .
Merit Martin Now
Snigs’ Bookkeeper
50 Years Ago
Hay McClure was up from his
ranch. . . . Williams and Davis
were awarded the contract for
the erection of the Presbyterian
parsonage. . . Merit Martin has
accepted a position as a book
keeper with Emil Sniggs. .. Work
will begin on an extension of the
Holt County Telephone company's
lines from O’Neill to Amelia. . .
Miss Alice Hunter, of Lincoln,
field secretary of the Young Peo
ples Society of the Christian En
deavor, will lecture at the Pres
byterian church. . . L. C. Wade
was in Atkinson on business.
25 Years Ago
Dennis Criss, of Stuart, passed
through O’Neill with a new
Studebaker Big "6” Victoria mod
el. Mrs. R. E. Gallagher and P.
F. Van Allen came up with him
from Stuart. . . Attorney W. J.
Hammond returned from a few
days trip to Perryton, Tex. . . .
Mr and Mrs- O. D. Staney spent
last week visiting their cousin,
Mrs. R. V. Eidenrniller.
10 Years Ago
Charles Melena, who has the
contract, for the new Mabel Gatz
store building, being erected .ad
jacent to the brick occupied for
many years by the Council Oak
store has the work well under
way. . . Mrs. Ardis Heiss, of Page,
accepted a position at the Ben
Franklin store. . . The ladies of
the O’Neill country club will hold
their annual May tea.
1 Year Ago
A special North Wetsern train
will bring 100 Omaha business
men into O’Neill on a booster trip
... The retiring president of the
O’Neill Lions club, L. D. Put
nam, will entertain the members
of the club and 5 guests at the
Town House. . . O’Neill’s new su
perintendent of schools will be
Delbert E. Nelson.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Farr and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Johnson spent Sunday at the
home of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Grothe, near Em
met.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd McRoberts,
of Broken Bow, spent Sunday at
the home of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Grothe.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alberts
and son, of Emmet, were Sunday
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Abart and Mrs.
Frank Kubichek.
Weekend guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Sullican and
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Clossen and
daughter, Patty, and Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Sullivan, of Lin
coln.
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1 Prairieland Talk —
General Ike Rides Without Defined
Political Principles, Doesn’t Know Score
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The afternoon held
the lure of glad sunshine. I sat
on a bench beside a friend, feet
at rest on the carpet of grass, the
green beneath, the blue above
Romaine
Saunders
foliage on tree
and bush op
ening to new
life, the long
branches of the
weeping w i 1 -
lows swaying
in graceful mo
tion as the soft
south breeze
went by. High
on a stately
pole floated the
American flag,
stripes of blue
and red on a
white cloth,
stars in a field of blue, the em
blem of free men floating aloft
this sun-kissed afternoon. Betsy
Ross, you whose hands formed
it in colonial days of long ago,
the flag floats today here where
I spend a quiet hour and beside
me sits one who came in his
youth from a distant foreign land
to take refuge under its starry 1
folds and defend its honor. That
flag floating in the breeze high
above the treetops is the symbol
of all that free men cherish of
our national heritage, and what
that patriotic woman of the long
ago framed with devoted hands
as the emblem of 13 colonies now
floats not merely at the top of
that pole a few yards from
where my Danish friend and I
are seated but waves its silken
folds everywhere as the emblem
of a people that other nations of
earth look to for leadership.
General Eisenhower has no
I claim on the republican nomina
tion for president from a party
standpoint. Having intimated his
willingness to be of service to
either the democrats or republi
cans in that capacity it sets the
general apart without defined
political principles. Moreover, as
1 view it he doesn’t know the
score. He has done a good job as
i military man but what does he
enow of the domestic affairs of
the nation? Our military setup is
the most watchful of all the
branches of government. If it
were not so tragic what goes on
in the pentagon in Washington
would be laughable. Another
hopeful is Mr. Stassen, a univer
sity man, an entertaining speak
er who knows how to gracefully
with business sense should take
over as chief executive. In my
judgment the man best qualified
for the job whose name will
come before the national repub
lican convention in July is Sena
tor Taft. He is thoroughly in
formed on our domestic matters
and has the courage to deal with
the labor union bosses in a way
to serve the best interests of both
employer and employee. Ike
comes home from abroad as a
hero in many minds. So did Her
bert Hoover in years now gone.
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The Rebekahs and Odd Fellows
came to town. Also another
group from the plow land and
some from the cow country with
riding togs to put on a show, a
sorry imitation of the real thing
we once knew out on prairieland.
Among the lodge people pictured
in the papers it brought a throb
of pleasure to at least one old
timer from Holt county to see
on page 1 Mrs. Blackmore, of
tkinson, pictured with a group
of Rebekah officials. I know lit
tle or nothing about lodges as
.uch but they are doing a work
in their homes for the aged and
or orphaned children that com
nends itself to any sensible per
son. The lodge people had a lot
f things to keep them busy two
Jays one weekend. The farm
joys can stir up plenty when
hey come together. But did you
•ver see an honest to goodness
puncher rope a little brown
ironco raw from the open coun
try, maybe having to throw him
o get the saddle and bridle on,
olindfold the trembling cayuse,
et him up and swing into the
addle, remove the blindfold and
see the rider stay with his plung
.ng mount or get tossed into the
mnch grass? One of these doll
'd up dude riders wouldn’t last
ong at the game.
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The story comes out from
Washington to the effect that
Governor Peterson will enter
the field of oratory in behalf
of General Eisenhower for the
republican nomination for pres
ident. Not denying the govern
or the Yankee privilege of
choice but in taking the stump
to boost for Ike he will be out
of harmony with the majority
rf Nebraska republicans who
favored another in the prmary.
Moreover. I can't conceive of
the propriety of a public offi
cial taking time from the du
ties of his office for speeches
for any individual candidate.
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Another poor sinner has paid
the price of folly and gone
through the death chamber at
the penitentiary. He died as a
poor sinner but as a repentant
one who sought peace with his
Maker. Maybe this is why exe
cutions are delayed for so long
after a revolting crime. The
death of one convicted of first
degree murder is a legal process
in Nebraska. There are those
who decry it but they might feel
different if their 16 - year - old
daughter was the mutilated vic
tim of a fiend. Death or life im
prisonment is left for the jury to
decide. Therein may be a strange
conception of justice. Why should
one convicted of first degree
murder be spared and the other
sent to the death chamber? Has
not one who murders another
forfeited his right to life? The
ancients thought so and off came
the murderer’s head. And listen
to a Divine decree: “Whoso shed
eth man’s blood, by man shall
his blood be shed.” The death
sentence may not discourage
crime. Neither does life impris
onment.
April 30. If was 16 years ago
that a Texan came into the
Swan and Josie territory of
southwest Holt county and ar
ranged for a layout to run 7,500
white faces that summer. Tex
as range beef got good feed one
year.
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Two within the week who had
arrived beyond the alloted years
of three score and 10 have been
taken to the hospital with brok
en hips. An elderly gent took
one too many turns in his bed
and hit the floor. An ambitious
old girl with a yen for neatness
and order dropped from a lad
der when washing a window.
These two incidents resulted in
trips to a hospital. If a vener
able sister finds it incumbent
on her to mount a ladder for any
purpose it might be advisable to
attach a pillow to any vulnerable
spot of the anatomy, or if still a
vailable make use of one of those
marvels of the 1890’s known as
a bussel.
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The governor, the mayor of
Lincoln and a few others took
off by air for Washington, D.C.,
to labor with the powers that be
in behalf of getting an air base
“reactivated” within cannon
shot of the capitol dome. But
they landed in North Carolina
because of storm conditions. That
seemed to be the forerunner of a
doomed mission to the stately
pentagon where they encounter
ed the discouraging word that
Nebraska’s air base development
was at a standstill because of a
“lack of funds.” If the military
doesn’t see a million dollar sur
plus it’s a lack of funds with
them. Lack of funds—that’s what
most of us have a surplus of, a
flat purse. But that does not pre
vent us from doing our stuff and
getting our three squares a day.
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A gent comes from Illinois to
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ten uo xx we axe tu «avc ucttei
schools we must load up with
more tax money. Nebraska
schools are alright and an im
ported highbrow can’t frighten
prairieland dwellers into making
a wild dive that calls for more
taxes. By better schools is not
meant better educated kids but
added frills for their entertain
ment. •
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Annotate the mooted question
of an auditorium in Lincoln one
patriot writes “it must be borne
in mind that the cities of Seward,
Crete, Beatrice, Wymore, Wilber,
DeWitt, Ashland, Wahoo, York
and other towns take much plea
sure in coming to Lincoln” to
take in the doings at public func
tions. We take it he means the
■itizens of these cities named.
Vs I understand it, Lincoln does
not contemplate the towns mov
ing in bag and baggage.
Visit Kirkpatricks—
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Summers
and Mrs. Cora Kirkpatrick were
mother’s day guests at the home
of their son and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Kirkpatrick.
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