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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
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Prairieland Talk . . .
Building First Convent Took Courage;
Fire Later Left Heap of Ashes
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN— The O’Neill high
school and St. Mary’s academy
have each graduated a large class
of bright looking young people
this year.
From the ashes of what was
known as “the convent” a large
boarding school
has been devel
oped. The insti
t u t i o n was
started at a
time when it
took courage to
put up any
thing more pre
tentious than a
sod house. At
the laying of
the corner stone
Pat Hagerty, a
Romaine corpulent and
Saunders Iri*hm“’
did the honors
of passing the collection plate
among the assembled onlookers
and with grunts of encourage
ment urged everybody to “chip
in.” Everybody was hard up but
the one thing they had plenty of
was a willingness to help and
Pat raked in a sizable collection.
Den Hunt, who with his wife,
the former Nellie Cronin, live at
51st and O streets in Lincoln,
was the boss of the construction
gang. He was heart whole and
fancy free at that time but not
long afterward he and Nellie
were married. Both were of pio
neer families in Holt county,
Mrs. Hunt being a daughter of
the county’s first probate judge.
Now in life’s twilight upon in
frequent trips to the scenes of
life’s early romance they see a
great institution of learning
where Den in the long ago laid
the first brick.
Blood stainft the highways, hu
man flesh is crushed under the
wheels of moving trains. The
railroads coming into O’Neill
have been the scenes of acci
dents. Where the highway cross
es the Burlington tracks east of
town the lives of two young men
from Inman were crushed out.
At the North Western ^iepot at
the foot of Fourth street a citi
zen of Stuart met his death un
der the train. On a day in June
in 1936 the mangled body of a
man was found by Dave Miller,
section foreman, lying on the
North Western right-of-way west
of O’Neill a few miles. From a
paper in his overall pocket it
was learned that the man was
Frank McDermott, of Bassett,
who was on his way to take a
job at Graver Bros, ranch on the
South Fork. A1 Kittendorf, resid
ing in the Redbird country, was
found by his son frozen to death
in a snowdrift. He had gone to
O’Neill on foot to get a few
things for Christmas. Two re
cently taken to hospitals as the
result of falling, one is home,
the other under the sod—"under
the sod and the dew waiting the
judgment day ” Childhood, youth,
maturity, age and life’s fitful
dream is over. And not a mortal
on earth who escapes the mem
ory linked with the dead.
* • •
The ladies have an organ
isation they call Nebraska
League of Women Voters. How
much of prairieland woman
hood is included may mean on
ly Lincoln and Omaha, as
there reside the chief func
tionaries, but we understand
the worthy purpose to be to
support the best gents for of
fice, even if that means a vote
against friend husband.
• • •
Bushes along residential
streets are aflame with white
bloom, gorgeous flowers of pur
ple, red and yellow adorn stal
wart stems within a setting of
green and trees wave a velvet
plumage in the soft sum m e r
breeze. . . Water from a peak in
Glacier National park in Mon
tana drains into three oceans,
Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic. . .
The ancients employed honey as
a medicine—and lived a century
or two. . . Martin Van Buren,
the 8th president of the United
States, was the first called to
such a position who was not
born a British subject. He was
born after the Revolutionary war.
. . . After reading some 600
words of a lady journalist on
“What Is German Youth Think
in?” you are left wondering
what German youth thinks of
the layout. . . Walter Raecke,
democratic candidate for gov- j
ernor, has had a tussel with
pneumonia. . . Columbus voters j
defeated a proposal to issue
$345,000 in bonds for sewer ex
tension. . . Ralston voters ap
proved a $500,000 school bond
issue. . . Dodge has dedicated a
$120,000 parochial school. • .
Three Lutheran synods, Nebras
ka, Kansas and Midwest, are
uniting as one.
• * *
Now that little spot in New
England marked R.I. on the map
comes up with the culprits that
pulled the biggest holdup since a
gent stood by a light post with
a machine gun at 13th and O
streets here in Lincoln, while his
pals went in and gathered in a
basket the deposits and assets of
the bank and made their get
away, while blue - coats stood
nonplused at a safe distance.
! When t was a legal voter and
served on the election board
down in Swan precinct about the
time this department was pro
mulgated, the observation was
indulged that what is needed ov
er in Europe is plenty of melon
patches. The watermelon is a
great neighborhood friendship
maker. I hope they are still
planting melon patches down
there in Swan. There is nothing
like the melon to foster neigh
borly feeling. So today I resur
rect the watermelon sentiment
expressed at that time. “Well,
Joe,” says neighbor, Jim, “how
were your melons this season?”
“Didn’t plant melons this season
so have none.” And as neighbor
Joe talks to the “women folks”
neighbor Jim goes to his melon
patch and comes in with a big
one under each arm for Joe to
take home "for the kids.” There
is something about a melon that
makes you feel that way and if
that sort of a spirit could take
over among men military activi
ties would come to an end.
• • *
With many citizens all over
Nebraska I have been friendly
with and regarded Gov. Val Pet
erson as an able executive. He
has been three times honored by
Nebraska republicans. It is re
gretable that at a time when
there should be party unity if we
can do anything toward cleaning
up questionable conditions in the
national government that our
governor has seen fit to take mil
itant action in the matter of who
is to be nominated for president
that creates division and con
tending factions within the par
ty. This began with the govern
or when he challenged Senator
Butler, but was defeated in the
primary and now assuming to
tell the Nebraska delegation to
the Chicago convention what to
do is being resented by his for
mer friends and supporters. He
still holds state office and that
should be his first consideration,
and we will all have the right
to love him still.
• * •
Some 15 years ago Charley
Peterson and the late Jesse
James went on a cattle scouting
trip that took them into Arizona
and west Texas, but came home
[ not trailing a herd. Jesse told me
there were plenty of cattle but
the owners were asking 8 cents
and he and Charley could see
nothing in them at that price. It
is more than 50 years since La
mont & Richards brought in 2,000
head of wild-eyed ones from Ari
zona at about $5 a head and ran
them on the flats out in the
Minneola country. Widner, of
the Ditch company, brought in a
few train loads from Mexico that
couldn’t take the Nebraska bliz
zards and broke the ranch.
• • •
Some years ago a mule from
Holt county was shown at the
national western stock show held
in Denver, Colo. Two mules were
exhibited by Harry Henderson,
of Lancaster county, one of these
having been acquired of W. F.
Tasler, of Holt county, and was
said to be the smallest of the
long-eared tribe extant, weight
94 pounds. The other exhibited
with the midget was said to be
the bigegst of his tribe, weight
2,200 pounds. The little fellow
was a colt, the big boy harness
broke.
* * *
As late as the year 1903 Holt
and adjacent counties were re
garded as a “mission field.” That
year E. E. Dillon was sent into
the territory by the American
Sunday-School union. Mr. Dillon
made his headquarters in O’Neill
and got Sunday-schools organ
ized in rural districts and none
of the products of those schools
ever became inmates of our pe
nal institutions. Girls and boys
thus brought up became the “salt
of the earth.”
*
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I met a gent on the street re*
cently who had just landed from
Texas to take a job on a Nebras*
ka farm. He told me portions o{
Texas were suffering greatly
from drouth.
Dr. Fisher has his home for
sale. Contact him if interested.
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