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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1952)
editorial ft Basinets Offices: 122 South Fourth Stress CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—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 ix\ the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. 80 Attend Father, Son Banquet, Ewing EWING—The father and son banquet was held last Thursday evening at the Methodist church parlors. Eighty fathers and sons were present for the occasion. At 7 o’clock the guests were seated at long tables in the color fully decorated room. Bouquets of spring flowers and candles were used as centerpieces. The menu included rhubarb cocktail, salad, scalloped potatoes, ham loaf, baked beans, hot rolls, pic kles, jelly, cherry pie ala-mode and coffee. Wilbur Bennett acted as toast master. Dewitt Hoke gave the fathers’ "Toast to Sons” and the response was given by Clayton Hoke, his 7-year-old son. A solo "This is My Country," was sung by Marcus Pierson. Warren Cook, of Norfolk, was guest speaker. Pranks of child hood and jokes on father brought a chuckle from the audience as memories were recalled. In a more serious thought, he brought to mind the importance of under standing and trust in father and son for each other, with a deep respect by the son for his father. In conclusion, ha strassad tha need for iha simple home life with its teachings as being tha first stepping-stone to success and happiness. Honors went to Albert Larson and Andraw Olson for being the oldest fathers present, and Bob bie Walker received the honors for being the youngest son. Mr. Larson again won honors Lin Mowers Sharpened The Factory Way Tnl Ilk* tha way your ■omr nhi through heavy Bim whoa it’s bom ■lurpaad oa oar pre ciiion miehint. A few minute* her* will un you bean la the aua. Hand $2.00 — Power $2JS0 Pete’s Saw Shop Phone 43 lw O’Neill with his son, Don Larson, with sons, Larry and Lyle, making up a three-generation group. Dewitt Hoke presented gifts to the oldest and youngest guests. The banquet was sponsored by the Women's Society of Chris tian Service of the Methodist church with the following mem bers in charge: Mrs. P. V. Sai ser, Mrs. Earl Billings, Mrs. W. A. Brown, Mrs. Andrew Olson, Mrs. Albert Larson, Mrs. John Wunner, Mrs. Jessie Angus, Mrs. Allan Pollock, Mrs. Ray But ler, Mrs. Henry Fleming, Mrs. R. G. Rockey and Mrs. Florence But ler, who made up the kitchen and menu committee; Mrs. Florence Ebbengaard, Mrs. Leland Welke, Mrs. Waldo Davis, Mrs. Frank MacNeill, Mrs. B. Carlson, din ing room table committee; Miss Anna Van Zandt and Mrs. Har old Harris, receptionists. Reception Held for New Pastor EWING-Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Bomer and sons, of Ewing, were guests at a reception held in their honor at the recreation room of the United Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening, June 4. Forty members of the congre gation were present. ‘‘Pound" gifts were given Rev erend and Mrs. Bomer, many which will help stock the pantry shelf. The Bomer family arrived In Ewng recently. Reverend Bomer is the new Presbyterian church pastor. Departing Ladies Ara Fated — Mrs. Larry Johnson and Mrs. Alice Bridges were guests-of honor at a farewell party at the home of Mrs. H. J. Lindberg. The party was sponsored by members of the MM club. A 7 o’clock buffe< supper was served followed by bridge. Mrs. Susie Hubbard was the high score win ner; Mrs. Alice Bridges, second high; Mrs. Fred Saunto, all-cut. "Voice of The Frontier” . . . WJAG, 78# k.c. . . . Mon., Wed., Sat., 9:45 a.m. ! Prairieland Talk . . . Old Rail Depot Never Again Will Be Gathering Place for Swains and Maidens By ROMAINE SAUNDERS Protect Plants * KRILLIUM loosens soil * PEAT MOSS conserves moisture | * VERMICUL1TE is ideal for starting plants * RA P1D GRO is a water soluble fertilizer * DDT kills potato bugs * CHLORDANE kills squash gugs, potato bugs and crab grass * Large DUST GUNS, Hudson.... $ 1.50 * Pressure Sprayers, 3-gal., only .. $6.75 LEIDYS -- >hone 410 I TRACTORS NEW 30 FERGUSON Dearborn Machinery of All Kinds Will Work on either Ferguson or Ford Tractors New 7-It. Combines, Complete with Swinging Hitch $1,325 New Jeeps and Willys 4-Wheel Drive Pickups Another Carload of WiUys 1952 Cars in Stock New Corsair Henry J Deluxe Cars. Complete with Overdrive and Heater. 5 Tires, FUled with Gas $1,595.00 Delivered in O'Neill $395.00 Down Balance on 24 Months Payments USED CARS — TRUCKS — JEEPS 51 Hoory J 46—Ford 47—Frazer Manhattan 46—Chevrolet Truck 2 46—Jeep speed axle, good box, 41—Chevrolet priced right 39—Mercury 42—Dodge Truck OUTLAW IMPLEMENT CO. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA OPEN FROM 7 TO 9 EVENINGS o_ | LINCOLN—The railroads, that is the human element, were for the past two years tentatively under federal supervision. At a depot in an average Ne braska countyseat town where I waited to board an early morn ing train, there was stuck to a wall of the dreary, deserted waiting room printed directives of the government agencies, in teresting to a curious citizen principally because of verbosity. Federal agen cies seem to strive to outdo the compilers of dictionaries in mult i p 1 y i n g words and when you have read a “direc tive” you are left wondering what it is all about. And as -— you stand Remain. ^ ™ Saunders lom depot, not even a gent in the sacred pre cincts enclosed by gloomy walls there to sell you a train ticket you wonder is this a sample of government railroaidng? That morning two others came to the depot, a horny-handed son of toil from out on the plow lands who had come to meet his daughter on the incoming train and a village squire who was there to pick up the mail. I understand the railroads are to be back now in the hands of men who know how to run them, but the old depot will never again be what it once was, the gathering place at train time for village swains and coy maidens. • • • Don't be cock sure you fel lows who are boosting the two leading prospects for the re publican nomination for pres ident. A ''dark horse" with a silver-tongue flow of flowery or oratory could stampede the delegates and walk off wi th the nomination. * * * On Memorial Day in O’Neill I was on my way to the ceme tery with the floral tribute left annually in memory of the dead. At First and Douglas streets a red truck barred the way, when I heard a voice ask, “Where are you going?" Looking up and there at the steering wheel was Ralph Leidy. I was invited to climb in, go with him to his home have breakfast with him and Mrs. Leidy, and then he | would take me to the cemetery or any place I wanted to go. Such cordiality, such warm-hearted hospitality is a tradition with many O’Neill people. Mr. and Mrs. Leidy have a pleasant home in a section of the city which until recent years was open prairie with the town “ball park” where Atkinson and O’Neill clubs went to bat until one or the other drew blood, now occupied by many home makers like Mr. and Mrs. Leidy. I made the mistake of getting an early dinner thereby finding it necessary to pass up an invita tion to dine with Editor and Mrs. Stewart at their home. And had I yielded to all the cordial invitations to “step up and have a cup of coffee." It might have resulted in a shortage for others. • * * You may not know what he is saying, but a Sioux Indian doesn’t stutter . . . The elephant population of the United States is put at 264. No cowboy has yet undertaken to develop a native herd ... A billion-dollar A - bomb plant is the next, scouts now combing the Ohio river force of workers to consist of 4,500 citizens . . . The supreme valley for a location, the initial court explodes the president’s claim that he can take over any industry and the one-man boss of the CIO tells 650,000 steel workers to walk out on strike ... A teacher in one of the Lincoln high schools is retiring after 40 years school work and the men and women who were her pupils more than 20 years ago are coming from far and near to give her a "blowout” and maybe a mink coat. * * * Boys' stale and girls' state —two worthwhile annual gath erings at the capital city that is leaching the youth lessons in government organisation and doing much to fit them as intelligent and understanding citisens. Early June. The eapitol city is garbed in the bright colors of floral bloom, with peonies hang ing their clustered heads from stalwart stems in great profusion and it’s an inviting walk down a quiet street perfumed with the fragrance of pink roses; stalks of iris tipped with bloom of in comparable beauty, tulips, the yellow and blue and red of a nameless cluster o f flowers, hedges of spirea banked in t he white radiance of blossom time, all too soon to fade; elm and ash and birch waving green plumes and the slender fingers of the poplar pointing to the sky. And there are householders whose sense of beauty has given way to the stem reality of supplying the dinner table and they have a garden of corn and beans and tomatoes and peas and a flock of chickens. • • • U.£. Sen, and Mrs. Fred A. Seaton, of Nebraska, arrived early last week by plane from • • Europe and with them came a boy of 6 and a girl of 4 whom the Seatons have taken to then heart and home as their own, homeless children from the wreckage of wartom lands. The Seatons had previously adopted two children but felt two were not enough and now they have be come mother and father to four four homeless waifs. These acts of human sympathy on the part of Senator and Mrs. Seaton transcend anything Mr. Seaton can do in the United States senate. • * * Who would have thought that the potato would ever be come a luxury to a Nebraskan? Do the folks out on prairie land feel themselves above "bugging" a patch of spuds in these days of $300 cows? I have seen and heard and felt and known something of life—-its joy and pain, its smiles and its tears, its heartaches and its thrills, its sorrow and its re joicing, its burden of human want, its hunger and its feasts. I have seen its crowded cities, its stately buildings, its monu ments to men, its boulevards and show places, its mansions and white cottages, its sin and its hallowed places; the hatred and bitterness and envy and rivalry among men; heard the rumble of great machines in centers of in dustry and stood in humility in the presence of surging ocean tides; I have gone to the moun tain summit where astronomers have built their observatories and search the skies into the realms of distant worlds through telescopes. I have been out alone on a starlit night on the wide sweep of prairie trusting my fate to a little bay horse under me— yet it has been on memorial day standing by the grave of the long lost loved one that the meaning of life becomes more fully sensed. • * • If Jimmie Davidson, Wes Evans, Jake Hershiser, Jimmie Gallagher or any of the earlier tribe of fishermen were here to tell us th catches exhibited as northern pike would be known as pickerel, the fish native to the nectar of the sands in Holt county. Now all you Nebraska patriots who voted down the gas tax, look out. You may be in for it as out laws. The busybodies now ques tion the legality of the referendum that passed upon the proposed added tax for road work. If “we the people” are not the final authority in such matters we may as well install a Joe Stalin to tell us what to do. • • • See some Nebraska editors have proposed a get-to-gether to build highways on paper. What any newspaper guy knows about building highways is not worth a plugged nickel but we are not lacking in the gall to make a bluff at anything. W alton-Jackson Nuptials Read A quiet wedding ceremony took place at the O’Neill Pres byterian parsonage at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 6, when Miss Irene Jackson, daughter of Andrew, of Venus, became the bride of Donald Walton, son of Mr and 'Mrs. Barton Walton, of O’Neill. The single-ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Samuel D. Lee. The bride appeared in a navy blue street-length dress with white accessories. Her attend ant, Mrs. Oscar Pruden, wore a navy blue dress with rose acces sories. The bridegroom wore a blue gray pin stripe suit and his at tendant, the bride’s father, wore a navy blue pin stripe. For the present the couple will make their home in O’Neill. Dr. Fisher has his home for *ale. Contact him if interested. 2tf REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WD—Sumner E. Copple to Mil lard W. Ellenwod & wife, 5-3 52, $9,000. WVz 2-30-14. WD—Lawrence R. Johnson to Harry D. Gildersleeve & wife, 5 8-52. $14,900, Part of NEViNWVi 30-29-11. WD—Chiles L. Wright to Troxell E. Green & wife, 12-26 51. $1,500. NWViNEVi 4-25-13. WD—Charles L. Wright to Al bert Ritterbush, 12-28-51, $1,500. NEViNWy* 4-25-13. WD—Alice E. Bridges to Roy D. Johnson & wife, 6-2-52. $10, 500. West 35 ft. lot 4; East 25 ft. lot 5, Blk. 14, O’Neill. WD—Margaret A. Biglin to John T. & Ambrose E. Biglin, 1 18-28, $1. SEy4 9-28-12. WD—C. N. Wyant to Rose Ann Whidden & husband, 8-21-50. $2, 500. Part of lot 7 Baker’s First Add., Chambers. WD—Robert D. Adaims to Rose Ann Whidden & husband, 9-13-50. $3,200. Part of SWy4, 20-26-12. WD—Fred Kohlschmidt to Wal ter P. Elley & wife, 6-5-52. $11, 000. NWy4 See. 29-30-14. WD—Ernest Dodd to Lavern H. Campbell & wife, 5-1-52. $16,000. NM- 30-31-15. WD—Nelda Brechler to Ger hardt Luebcke, 5-12-52. $8,500. CPU M.M.Q WD—Helen Soulek to Veldon B. Pinkerman & wife, 6-5-52. $9,600. w^Nwy4, SEy4Nwy4, swv4swy4sEy4,35-32-10. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Asher and daughters, Evalyn and Donna, and Mrs. Asher’s mother, Mrs. Charles Chambers left Saturday, June 6, for Cheyenne, Wyo., where Mrs. Chambers will remain to visit relatives. The Ashers plan to spend two weeks vaca tion traveling through Western states. They will return home by way of Kansas City, Mo. MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Corp. C. E. Jonas, Manager O'Neill Nebraska .. DANCE .. AT O’NEILL American Legion Auditorium ACES OF RHYTHM ORCHESTRA SATURDAY, JUNE 14th Admission: 75c and 50c COMING: Watch for dates for Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra DANCE —★— to the ACES OF RHYTHM Sunday, June 15 STUART AUDITORIUM Rodeo queen nomination dance. Each admission good for one vote at door. American Legion Rodeo JULY 4-5-8 - ^utWSMWWUXXAx^. Trade Now! Enjoy Extra Features, Space! ^ CORONADO "Super 8” ! 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