Prairieland Talk . . .
Frank Martins Have Celebration
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By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Ernest Beaver of Deaver, Wyo.,
sends us the story of the golden wedding anni
versary of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin of River
ton, Wyo., which Mr. and Mrs. Beaver drove the
224 miles one day last month to attend. They
were among 150 guests to visit the Martin home.
The Beavers and the Martins are former Holt
county citizens and continue ______________
contact here through the med
ium of The Frontier. Mrs. Beav
er is a daughter of the Hodg
kins, early settlers .of the Red
bird country, and a sister cf
Mrs. Hugh O’Neill, other pio
neers of the Niobrara river
country in this county.
Frank Martin is a son of the
late Bennet and Mrs. Martin of
O’Neill and has two sisters,
Mrs. H. W. Heriford and Mrs.
Mabel Henry. Mrs. Martin was
also an O’Neill girl, Emma
Romaine
Saunders
Weekes, a sister of the late S. J. Weekes of the
O’Neill National bank. They were married in
O’Neill in 1902.
Frank, after riding the range up on the White
river, got into construction work there and when
the section homestead law was passed he and
Mrs. Martin moved to a homestead in Loup
county. They went to Wyoming in 1915 and are
now located 34 miles out of Riverton.
Time has wrought changes in the population
of the community, but there are still in this
part of the world representatives of the Gall
aqer, Gatz, Sullivan, Brennan, Donohoe, Gold
en, Gillespie, Biglin, Cronin, McManus, Stan
nard and a few other families that make it for
the Beavers and the Martins in our neighbor
state to the west not a strange place.
The shadows of life’s sunset gather for Mr. and
Mrs. Beaver, but I take it that Ernest is still
going strong at 77 and his letter head tells me
he is in the fire insurance business. He says: “I
enjoy the Prairieland Talk column in The Fron
tier and is about the only reason I continue tak
ing it,” because of the scarcity of familiar names
that get into the paper. So maybe this is a hint
to the oldtimers to stir up a scrap or something
whereby they may get some editorial attention.
The newcomers have taken over the heritage of
the earlier generations and are doing a splendid
job.
The town of Deaver, located in the Big Horn
basin, was named for a one time citizen of O’Neill,
D. Clem Deaver, who was an official of the
United States land office at O’Neill. He later be
came immigration agent for the Burlington rail
road. Mr. Beaver says he acquired a homestead in
the Basin 34 years ago which is now occupied by
his son.
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver entered into their nuptial
vows in 1898 and Mrs. Martin, then young
Miss Weekes, assisted in serving the wedding
dinner which Ernest recalls “in those good old
times was a real dinner, and not like the dainty
refreshments served now.” It was interesting to
hear from you, Ernest, and no doubt many Fron
tier readers will learn of you and the Martins
with pleasure.
» * *
Latest published figures of what it means to
American homes places the number of casual
ties in Korea at £14,310. The mountain of
treasure is nothing compared to the dead and
broken bodies of our boys who go down in the
burning hell of battlefields.
* * *
Those who specialize in such things say the
bumble bee is not constructed for flying. The
bee doesn’t know this so goes ahead and flies . .
Young salmon swim the Columbia river down
stream tail first, head always against the cur
rent . . . Saluting the United States flag on the
platform the speaker said the American who
works with his hands is a millionaire compared
with the thronging millions in more than 40
countries he had visited, and after seeing con
ditions behind the iron curtain is amazed at the
efforts of communists to so enthrall our people . .
Ethiopia has sent its first representative to Rome
since Mussolini over run their country in 1935 . .
Some patriot has decided that no matter how
low the dollar goes there will be a lot of folks
after it. _
A letter from an official in a distant state
would leave no guessing who was thus address
ing me only 'his name is in print on the letter
head, as his written signature discloses that his
early training in penmanship must have been
sadly neglected ... A friend of mine took over
the steering wheel, his wife beside him, rolled
westward over prairieland, mountains and desert
to Southern California. They went to bid good
bye to their daughter as she was leaving for
India to do medical missionary work. Another
daughter of this couple is in similar service in
Cario, Egypt. The father of those girls not so
many years ago was a drunken circus musician,
and now is a respected and substantial citiden . .
Soldiers of the Roman Legion were decorated for
valarous deeds but the soldier who saved the
life of a Roman citizen was above all. Is it a
hangover from the Caesars that an American
noncombatant received the congressional medal
of honor for saving wounded soldiers who fell
in battle . . . Ireland’s Blarney castle, including
the Blarney stone, fish ponds and all, are up for
rent, owner explaining something has to be done
to meet taxes.
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Mr. Raecke's program for "sweeping changes"
in Nebraska's election laws will have no appeal
to Nebraskans who think this is no time to be
ripping our state government to pieces with
fantastic experiments.
* * ♦
It was a bright day in April, life awakening
on prairieland after being locked in the embrace
of the winter of 1932. The soulful young couple
stood upon a sandbar as the crystal waters of
the Elkhom lapped at their feet, the canopy of
heaven over them, the full flush of romance
glowing on maiden cheeks and luster sparkling
in manly eyes. Here in nature’s free and open
world two young lives were united in wedlock,
a wedding by the river south of O’Neill, the only
one the officiating clergyman had been called
upon to solemnize in such a setting. The marriage
was of record at the court house but licensing
official and clergyman had pledged not to divulge
the names of those who had conceived the idea
of such an unusual nuptial bower. Now after
20 years of life’s struggles together may the ro
mance of that hour have bloomed into full
fruition of a happy home.
* * *
Cheer up, old timers! They're coming around
to the Doc Townsend idea. President Truman
made effective the law adding another five
spot to social security payments. Here comes
Gen. Ike with a hint of greater things for the
hoary heads if he makes it to the white house.
* * *
A few prairieland dwellers report seeing
mysterious objects moving across the skies. The
mind’s eye can imagine seeing strange things.
There comes within the range of our good optics
a lot of things. We take it seriqusly or as comed
ians according to our mental slant. In A. D. 33
there stood by the guilded temple in old Jerusa
lem One who looked down the centuries as well
as penetrating the shadows in human lives as
silk-robed great of the land, shepherd clad in
garments of the wilderness, destitute widows and
mendicants of the streets thronged by, when He
turned to a few followers and drew a picture of
world events, closing with these words, “and
fearful sights and great wonders shall there be
from heaven.” Is this the beginning?
* * *
The first week in August runs out bringing
autumn rains. From out of a gray sky there comes
a steady drip, wet hour after wet hour, builders
and other outdoor workers having had to lay down
their tools and take to cover. From seemingly
endless days of solar heat within an hour the
sweat is washed away, the dry earth drinks its
fill, a chill hangs over the city and night closes
in starless and very wet.
Mr. Truman's senatorial candidate in Mis
souri was snowed under by an avalanche of
votes for the other fellow. Is President Truman
done and that the trend of the country?
* * *
To General Eisenhower and Governor Stev
enson: We expect your campaign speeches to be
seasoned with common sense, your programs for
administering the duties of chief executive as
you see it and no personal verbal jabs at each
other, as becomes American patriots.
Auto Tax Amendment Vital
Nebraskans will be confronted with a half
dozen proposed constitutional amendments when
they go into the polling places on November 4.
One of them is particularly important: The
proposal to change the method of taxing automo
biles.
Under the present system the tax is not uni
form and there is widespread chiseling, particu
larly by prsons who buy cars in Nebraska and
then leave the state before any taxes can be
levied or collected.
The present system also encourages evasion
of the minor type in which the auto owner sells
his car just before it is assessed and thus es
capes the payment of taxes. The constitutional
amendment would change this, too. Under the
proposal, taxes would be paid when license is
purchased.
The change also would ease work in the
county treasurer’s office.
A Service to Us All
(From Blair Pilot-Tribune)
Who is God?
A simple question — but half the people of
Blair or any other town or city in America could
n’t answer it without a dozen fumbles.
Three nuns this month gave up well-deserved
vacations to come to Blair and teach elementary
Christian doctrines to 100 Catholic youngsters of
the city.
They, and the other people who conduct both
summer school sessions and regular Sunday
school classes in some 10 local churches, deserve
this community’s gratitude.
In this age, when godlessness and sheer ig
norance of God’s laws seems the rule rather than
the exception, it is heartening to see people take
over the thankless task of inculcating in our
youngsters some of the principles we adults seem
to have missed.
This nation was founded and became great
on the dependence we all owe—and then acknow
ledged—to God; since becoming great, our nation
seems too willing to forget it.
And then there was the cynic who said an
appropriate wedding march would be “The Bat
tle Hymn of the Republic.”
Teaching is often the effort to persuade
younger people to accept the conclusions of an
other generation.
Highway fatalities in Nebraska, like those
everywhere, are often unnecessary and always
too numerous.
A sign of a good public servant is ability to
make good use of modem avenues of publicity.
What people think is not always what
they say.
Danger in Water Sports
Summer brings vacation days, with most of
the people of the nation spending more and
more time in the out-of-doors.
Unfortunately, some of these outings,
which should bring pleasure and relaxation
to everyone, result in tragedies that bring sor
row to happy families.
Many accidents are attributed to carelessness
in the water. The surf attracts millions, with in
evitable drownings, as venturesome individuals
go out too far. Inland lakes, ponds and rivers
likewise claim their victims, with non-swimmers
occasionally getting into deep water with fatal
consequences.
Accidents take a terrible loll of life in this
country every year. It is well, therefore, to cau
tion everybody about the dangers that lurk in
water, known as well as unknown.
Parents, who read this article, might permit
it to remind them to give a warning to their
children, with particular emphasis upon the need
of caution in the water.
Today in the federal government we have
615,567 more typewriters than we have people
to use them.
A matter of pirnciple is often a cloak to
conceal an exhibition of selfishness.
Something to remember: The divorce racket
never breaks up a happy marriage.
Tolerance, it seems, is the art of not believing
in your kind, whatever it may be.
Say what you please, and say it a number of
times—somebody will eventually believe you.
A match is a little thing but it can become a
big fire.
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Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt county,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
WD—F. J. Gilg to Thomas W.
Schoberg and wile, August 9,
1952. $10,500. EM> lots 20 & 21,
Gilg & Swenson’s Subdivision to
O’Neill.
WD—Minor Varilek to Joseph
A. Krysl 8-12-52, $8,000. Lot 14,
Blk. 6, Hallock’s Add., Stuart
QCD—Anna Davidson to Owen
Davidson 8-11-52 $100 Lots 9 &
10, Blk. 1, Fahy’s Add., O’Neill.
WD—Joseph W. Rocke to Jo
seph W Rocke and wife, 8-13-52.
$1 NWy4 31-30-14; SWy4 25; all
36-30-15.
WD—Anna M. Shald tb Bertha
Kohlschmidt and husband, 8-12
52, $1700. Lots 10 & 11, Blk. 14,
Hallock’s 2nd Add., Stuart.
When You and I Were Young ...
Jacob Pfund Is
O’Neills Mayor
Storz Beer Vault
Is Looted
50 Years Ago
It is something unusual for
Holt county farmers to be wish
ing for dry weather, but dry
weather will ripen corn and sun to
cure the hay is what is needed
now. . . Joseph N. Johnson, a
farmer near Swan, was in town
making proof on his homestead
. . . Jacob Pfund is now mayor
of O’Neill. . . Some wandering
willies or perhaps local light-fin
gered gentleman broke into the
Storz Brewing company’s beer
vault one night last week and
when they left several cases of
beer accompanied them.
25 Yars Ago
Dean Streeter and Bernard
Mathews will open a barber shop
in the Henry Cook building. . .
“I have 1,000 bushels of apples
for sale—all kinds. I am located
10 miles north of O’Neill and one
half mile south of Joy—John
Bushart.” . . Betty Ann Maxey,
the 2-year-old trotter owned by
John Biglin and Ralph Bryant of
Hastings, broke her own Nebras
ka record for a half-mile at the
Adams county fair.
10 Years Ago
Freeman L. Knight, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. L. Knight of Oppor
tunity, has enlisted as a naval
aviation cadet. . . The Steel
Creek 4-H club was revealed as
third place prize winner in the
scrap metal salvage sponsored bv
the Ak-Sar-Ben. The group will
w i n $30. . . D onald Loy o f
ONeill left Kearney the first
of this week for the United Air
Lines in Cheyenne. Wyo., where
he will be employed as a radio
repairman.
One Year Ago
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lybolt of
Chambers are celebrating their
50th wedding anniversary. . .
Four O’Neillites, members of Si
monson post 93 of the American
Legion, were delegates to the
State convention. They are: Julius
D. Cronin, John Grutsch, P. B.
Harty and Glea H. Wade. . . Capt.
Herbert O. Brennan. O’Neill jet
fighter pilot in the Far East the
ater, has rounded the 100th mis
sion mark. »
Rock Falls News
(Last week’s news)
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and
Mr. and Mrs. James McNulty
and LaDonna returned Tuesday
from several days vacation in
the Black Hills. They visited
Wind Cave, Mount Roosevelt
and other points of interest re
turning through the Bad Lands
of South Dakota. Rita, Janice
and Tommy Vequist stayed at
Henry Vequists’.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes and
Lynda were dinner guests at
Oswald Drueke’s Thursday. Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Young and
Bobby of Ravenna were also
guests there.
Mrs. Floyd Johnson and Linda
visited relatives at Grand Island,
Stapleton, and Hershey from
Thursday until Monday. Mrs.
Theresa Breiner accompanied
them. They attended a family
reunion Sunday at North Platte
where one hundred fifteen of the
relatives were together.
Several families attended the
hay days in Atkinson Mondav
and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Waegli
were guests at Bill Claussen’s
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes and
Lynda visited Louis Browns on
Thursday evening.
Miss Spaulding of Wauseca,
Minn., is a guest at Floyd John
son’s this week.
The Pleasant day club and the
Eagle Creek 4-H club had a pic
nic at Bill Claussen’s Sunday. Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Ott were guests.
Mrs. Dan Rakes demonstrated
textile painting.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Margritz and
girls were guests at Bill Claus
sen’s Sunday evening.
Miss Doris Sterns and Kathryn
Shriner of South Sioux City were
weekend guests at the Albert
Sterns home.
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Hunter and1
daughters of Burbank, Calif., were
guests at the Roy Margritz home
from Thursday evening until Fri
day afternoon.
Mrs. Anna Brown and Dave Ve
quist, jr., of Lawrence Kans., were
supper guests at the Albert Widt
feldt home Wednesday evening
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Claussen were
dinner guests at the John Grutsch
home Thursday. SC
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Davis and
Evienne Barnes were dinner and
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Sterns Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Margritz and
girls visited at the Francis Cur
ran home Friday evening. Mr
and Mrs. Bert Ott, Mr. and Mrs
Alvin Ott and son were guests for
the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sterns
and family were supper guests at
the Albert Stems’ Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yantzie and
Peggy of C hadron, Mrs Levi
Yantzie, visited the Bill Claus
sen’s Saturday morning
Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Wanser of
Holly Springs, la., and William
Montgomery of Omaha spent the
weekend at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Froelich. Mrs. Mont
gomery, who has been Visiting
her parents for the past two
weeks, returned home Sunday
with Mr Montgomery. 3
State Capitol News . . .
Bernard P :yle Succeeds James Quigley
as Head of Nebraska Demo Machine
LINCOLN—Walter R. Raecke,
the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Nebraska, laid a couple
of his cards on the table last
week.
In one of the better keynote ad
dress of the political year,
Raecke told his party’s state con
vention at Grand Island that Ne
braska’s election laws need a
first-class overhauling and that if
the people of the state want more
and better roads, they’ll have to
pay for them.
Raecke said he doubted the
formation of a highway commis
sion would build any more roads
in Nebraska—“certainly (it is)
not a cure-all for our road prob
lems—but, he went on, “we be
lieve in a democratic government
and if this is what the people
want, they are entitled to it.”
The Central City lawyer who
is making his second bid for the
governorship thinks the state law
should be changed to make the
outcome of the Nebraska presi
dential preferential primary more
binding upon delegates to the na
tional convention, or else have
the delegate candidates identi
fied on the ballot with the presi
dential candidate they support.
And he called for repeal of
the Nebraska pre-primary law
which provides for party en
dorsement of state candidates.
“Since the delegates to the con
vention are permited to vote in
favor of endorsing as many can
didates as they wish, no clear cut
decision showing a preference be
tween candidates is actually
shown,” he said. In addition,
“the abjective of elminiating so
called name candidates has not
been accomplished.” This was
considered a reference to the vic
tory of Frank Marsh of Lincoln,
a political newcomer, over Sec
retary of State James S. Pittenger
in the last GOP primary. Marsh’s
father, who had the same name,
was secretary of state for many
years.
Boyle-ing Point —
The heated democratic conven
tion reached the Boyle-ing point
late in the afternoon with the
^failure of the rebellious “new
life” wing to push McCook Law
yer Frank Morrison into the na
tional committeeman’s spot being
vacated by crafty James C. Quig
ley of Valentine after 16 years.
Instead the post went to Ber
nard J. Boyle, a long-time Oma
ha party worker and manager of
the ill-fated campaign of Okla
homa’s Sen. Robert S. Kerr.
The vote was 208-177. Serious
inroads into the Douglas county
delegation plus almost unanimous
outstate support won the post for
Boyle over the determined efforts
of Omaha and Lincoln “new lif
ers.”
Opinion here in Lincoln was al
most unanimous that the choice
of Boyle will be a big help to
Raecke in Douglas county where
he was beaten by more than 10,
000 votes two years ago. Boyle is
expected to be able to deliver a
big part of the Catholic and labor
vote in the state’s biggest city.
* * *
Hi-Jinks —
Those weren’t the only polit
ical developments of the week.
Here in Lincoln there were some
rather odd goings-on.
Mrs. Mary Kenny, a Lincoln
housewife who is Qften in the po
litical columns—she was a candi
date for president in the April 1
primary, filed not one but two
parties with the secretary of state
with the announced purpose that
both would support General of
the Armies Douglas MacArthur
for president. *
.Skeptic capitol newsmen asked
the ubiquitous Mrs. Kenny—who
is a kind of latter-day sufferagette
—how the old soldier might be
elected.
“Why, by writing in his name,”
she said, as though it were a fool
ish question.
But, protested the reporters
under the U. S. constitution,
citizens don't vote on the presi
ential candidates themselves,
but on electors pledged to them.
A convention would have to be
held to name such electors.
“I dont think I’d care for a
convention,” she said, “That’s a
lot of responsibility.”
Meanwhile, the group got a
brushoff from the Great Man him
self. In a copyrighted interview
in the Lincoln Journal, Col. L. E.
Bunker, MacArthur’s aide, said
“No one has the general’s sanc
tion to back him politically.
These people are not authorized
to use his name that way.”
* * *
Talk —
The state veterinarian, Dr. E.
P. Anderson, would like to see
Nebraska meet its neighboring
states to talk over a program for
indemnifying farmers for hogs
through the control program for
vesicular exanthema.
Meanwhile, it appeared less and
less likely that Gov. Val Peter
son would call a special session of
the legislature to provide for
state funds for the indemnifica
tion project. Officials believe
farmers, who will not suffer more
than a fractional loss on each hog,
can file their claims now and
wait for the regular session, con
vening in January, to appropriate
the money.
* * *
Hike —
The state railway commission
has been asked by the Northwest
ern Bell Telephone company for
a rate increase. No specific
amount has been asked but the
petition seeks “fair and reason
able rates.”
After granting wage increases
recently won by a CIO union, the
company said, its earnings will
be between 3.35 and 4.75 percent,
depending on what base is used,
and this is inadequate.
“Some 5,300 Nebraskans are
part owners of the company, hav
ing an average stake in the busi
nes of about $3,420,” a spokes
man said. “We don’t want to raise
rates but inflation forces us to do
it.”
Mr. and Mrs. August Troshyn
ski and Miss Lome Judge of At
kinon and Leo Tuscin of Galion,
O., spent Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minton and
son, Dick. Leo Tuscin is enroute
to his home in Ohio after being
discharged recently from the air
force
O’NEILL LOCALS
John Joe Uhl and Pat Hickey
left Thursday, August 14, for a
two weeks vacation.
Mr. and Mrs James Kelly took
their son, James jr.. to Norfolk
Monday from where he took the
bus for Omaha where he will be
inducted in the marine corp.
The Misses Jean Marie and El
len Kay Lohaus are visiting in
Lincoln at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. V. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs Fred Deutsch,
Mrs. Nelson Barth and Mrs. Mar
garet Agnes of Norfolk attended
the wedding Saturday of Miss
Nancy Froelich and Robert Beri
gan and visited relatives.
Weekend guests in the home of
Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek
were Mr and Mrs. Richard Bogan
of Grand Island and Dr. and Mrs.
Paul Kubitschek of Council
Bluffs, la.
Mr. and Mrs. John Foster and
son, of Lincoln spent the weekend
with Mrs Foster’s mother, Mrs.
F M. Brennan, and attended the
wedding Saturday of Miss Nancy
Froelich and Robert Berigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minton
sr., and son, Richard, and Miss
Mary Alice Judge spent a few
days the past week visiting rela
tives in Council Bluffs, la., and
Omaha. They returned home
Friday, August 15.
Frank Froelich and nephew,
William Froelich, jr., left Satur
day on a fishing trip to Sas
katchewan, Canada.
Richard Minton, RNSN, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Minton, sr„ left
Monday for San Diego, Calif.,
where he is stationed in the navy.
Miss Helen Kubitschek left Sun
day for Detroit, Mich., where she
will teach.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leidy vis
ited the gladioli show in Sioux
City Sunday. The affair was held
! in the Sioux City auditorium
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