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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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Lynch Alumni
Hold Banquet
LYNCH — Mrs Mack Mahan
of Butte, was master-of-cere
monies at the first annual Lynch
high school alumni banquet held
Tuesday evening, May 27. C. J.
Tomek, of Butte, member of the
class of 1909, represented the
oldest class.
In 1915 the Lynch high school
became a 12-grade school. Each
class since that date was repre
sented. A dance followed. Among
out-of-towners present were:
sented.
Miss Eva Barnes, Mr. and Mrs
Mack Mahannah, Mrs. Allan
Koscan and Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Tomek, all of Butte; Mrs. Mary
Dunkak, and Mr. and Mrs. Her
man Schochenmaier, all of Bone
steel, SD.; Mr. and Mrs. Free
man Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Bartos and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
McKenzie, all of O’Neill; Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Pinkerman, of Scott -
ville; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schissler,
of Sioux City; Miss Mary Rysavy
and Mrs. Alyce Anderson, of
Omaha; Mrs- Walter Martin, of
Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Farran, of
Meadow Grove; Mr. and Mrs.
Cyril Burbach, of Wynot; Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Cranford, Mrs.
Rose Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs
Harrison James, all of Spencer;
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Barta and Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Vomasek, all of
Walnut; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Haselhorst, of Spencer; Mrs. Inez
Cummings, of Canada; Mr. and
Mrs- Bert Doby, of Lyman; Mr.
and Mrs. Irwin Schultz, of Nor
folk; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fox, of
O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schis
sler, of Stuart.
Other Lynch News
Mrs. Herbert Whetham, Edith
and Marian, of Omaha, spent
decoration weekend with the Ed
Whetham and Martin Jehorek
families, also with relatives in
Spencer
Mrs. Martin Jehorek and Max
ine were Spencer visitors on Fri
day.
r~--—
Mrs. Jake Serk, of Spencer,
was a Lynch visitor Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vonasek,
of Walnut, spent Friday, May 30,
at the Beryl Moody home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Placek
and sons visited' relatives in
Wagner, S D., Sunday, May 25.
Frank Vlcan, of Creighton,
spent Sunday, May 25, with rel
atives in Lynch and Monowi.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kalkow
ski, Mr. and Mrs. George Kal
kowski and Deloris and' Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Schochenmaier and
family, of Bonesteel, S.D., were
Sunday, May 25, visitors at the
Albert Kalkowski home
The school children and their
teacher and parents of district 35
held the annual school picnic at
the school Sunday, May 25.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nemic and
Mr. and Mrs. William Hambek
and family, of Spencer, were
Sunday, May 25, dinner guests at
the Martin Jehorek home.
Mrs. Bernard Mahon and fam
ily spent Sunday, May 18, with
relatives in Sioux City.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
QCD—Rolla O Newton to An
na D Newton 8-5-40 $2000
2/9ths Int in NEVi 19-29-15
QCD—M Ava Ruby to Anna
D Newton 7-29-40 $1- 2/9 Int
NEVi 19-29-15
QCD—Anna C Spence to Anna
D Newton 9-2-40- 2/9 Int in
NE'/< 19-29-15
WD—Cordia B Smith to Ver
non L Smith fc wf 5-27-52 $1
Part of SEV4SEV4 19-26-12
WD — Pat O’Connor et al to
Phillip Sherman 1-2-47 $1500
Outlot 43- or Part SWV4SEV4
30-29-11
QCD—John Waters to Phillip
Sherman 1-2-47 $1- Outlot 43 or
Part SWV4SEV4 30-29-11
REFEREE’S DEED—Ralph S.
Kryger, Ref to Herbert Ruroede
10-24-51 $11,225- N%- SWl*
WVfcSEVi Sec 15-26-9
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schro
der, of Grand Island, were me
morial day visitors here. He
has been a member of the Grand
Island police force for the past
10 years. He is a son of the late
August Schroder, who came to
1 O’Neill in 1914 and operated a
I livery barn. !
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j Prairieland Talk . . .
Latest Bid to Split Holt Empire
3 Ways Came in September, 1904
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—From the turnover
in population that goes on from
year-to-year there may not be
many patriots left who recall the
county division movements with
designs to slice up the empire of
Holt.
Things have taken a turn now
so it has been proposed to con
solidate coun
ties. A few
years ago it was
even thought
advisable to
con s o 1 i d a t e
states, like Ne
braska, the Da
kotas, Montana
and Wyoming
coming under
one state gov
ernment.
There came a
Romaine <|ay in Septem
Saanders ber- . 19f04- thtat
the last county
division proposal came up when
a petition was presented to the
i board of supervisors asking that
the matter be submitted to the
i voters to make three counties out
! of Holt, the west half to be
known as Meadow county with
Atkinson boosters having visions
of a courthouse in town, and the
south half of the the east half to
be known as Elkhom county,
with Ewing the countyseat. Holt
county was to have the rest, with
O’Neill the capital. At the same
time James Brown, Frank Brain
ly, Oliver Thompson and James
A. Jarvis presented a petition to
the board to deed a certain strip
of land to “disgruntled citizens of
this county.’’ Increased taxes
frightened Holt county patriots.
As you see, Holt county re
tains its original boundary lines!
* * •
The state oldage assistance is
not wholly satisfactory and may
be never will be. It should ever
be borne in mind that what prai
rieland now is we have as an
heritage from the aged whose
toilwom hands built the founda
tion for a great commonwealth.
Many of them now find them
selves without means because of
drouths, hot winds, bank fail
ures, sickness or some disaster.
And what they may have saved
out of life’s storms in the way of
a little home is pounced upon by
the state. I wonder if the men
in the legislature who made that
possible do not feel the shame of
it. Most of those who have to do
with applications for relief have
a heart, but others take an atti
tude to humiliate the aged father
and mother. Maybe they should
keep in mind that so far as pro
ductive work is concerned they,
too, are on the relief rolls. Some
few of the smaller foreign coun
tries have solved the assistance
problem by setting up a univers
al pension system. “For ye have
the poor always with you ” The
Lord thus stated a fundamental
fact of human history. As intelli
gent men, maybe it is time to
deal with “relief” in a sensible
way.
• • •
The student schedule in ma
ny institutions of higher learn
ing closed with the fraternity
brethren putting on some
rough stuff at the sorority sa
cred precincts. The coeds seem
ed to like it.
Of the attractions that enter
tained a vanishing genration in
the old skating rink that stood
on Douglas street between Sec
ond and Third not many out
classed the piano performances
of Blind Boon, the Negro musical
prodigy. In his introduction of
the blind Negro pianist, his man
ager gave a brief history of the
performer, concluding by saying
Boon was “non compos mentis.”
This pleased the simple minded
Negro hugely. But one evening
as Boon stood by the piano while
his manager spoke to the audi
ence and when he concluded
with the customary information
about mental deficiency Boon
picked up the piano stool and
hurled it at the manager. Some
where he had learned the mean
ing of “non compos mentos-”
* • •
A dry and sunscorched season
in the 1930’s one thousand head
of hungry steers from the Belle
Fourche country of South Dako
ta a day in midsummer found
feed and grazing room at the old
McCarthy ranch in the Inez
neighborhood and more hungry
beeves were brought in later.
That year some 15,000 head of
cattle from dried up ranges of
South Dakota, Wyoming and
Montana were brought into
southwest Holt county’s grass
lands. Much hay also was hauled
oui.
* * •
I have seen a letter mailed in
London, England, which says the
public is not being informed of
the true picture which it claims
is leading rapidly to another uni
versal war. In Russia, experi
(Continued on page 7)
DR. H. L. BENNETT
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