Prairieland Talk ...
A Worthwhile Heritage
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—In cities, towns and rural
districts of Nebraska the schoolhouse opened
this morning, the country school with a few boys
and girls who come astride a pony, busses pick
ing up others in more populace districts, city
children rushing off to make up
the groups that spend a few
hours in the environment of
culture conceived as the latest
e thing for school kids.
Mothers this morning were
in high gear getting little sister
dressed and combed and then
march away with her for her
first day in kindergarten, a
little one facing life’s joy and
pain and this day taking the
first step in education that is to -
guide them through life’s Romaine
storms. Older ones already on Saunders
their way and those whose school days will end
tomorrow with a diploma.
Parents sacrifice to give their children an
education, which after all is only preliminary.
Life’s greater lessons are out where youth con
fronts the stern reality of making a go of it in
an unfriendly world. And today as the great
institutions of learning enroll a multitude of
young America there are out here on prairieland
snowcrowned grandfathers and grandmothers
walking into the shadows of the sunset who got
a start in life’s lessons in the sodhouse and hay
bum er days and developed rugged character, self
reliance and human sympathy in that universal
school that teaches mankind to root hog or die.
And so from these hoary heads young
America today has a worthwhile heritage.
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Anyway, a degree bestowed, but first well
earned at the University of Nebraska, doesn't
always spoil a fellow for a common job. Over
a few blocks from where the guy who writes
Prairieland stuff holes up lives a gent with
the university honors upon his educated brow
now holding a job as a meatcuiier, and prefers
it to teaching school or driving a milk truck.
* * * •
Another holiday weekend and 574 are re
ported killed by what is written down as acci
dents, some doubtless unavoidable, others invited
through carelessness . . . Driving while in his
cups an Omaha gent drew a fine of $500, the
gent who poured the firewater into the cup not
mentioned ... A 14-year-old lad got in bad
with the FBI for impersonating the president
of the United States but the president may act
like a kid on occasion and it seems to be OK . . .
Some hundreds of prairieland Shriners and diners
will invade McCook for the Shrine day cele
bration ... A 79-year-old patriot down in
Wayne county stands up and tells the district
court its none of the court’s business how he
lordships his own home. The judge had ruled
that the mistress of the mansion, the oldtimer’s
lawful spouse, should have better treatment,
a monthly allowance and the use of the old
man’s credit. . . Three bales of Holt county
hay scared the daylights out of a salesman from
Hastings when the hay slipped from a truck-load
on highway 275 down about Wisner and landed
on top of his automobile. . . A patriot down in
Adams county comes up with some interesting
figures. He says there are 21,220 people on the
federal payroll in Nebraska telling us what to
do as compared to 12,050 school teachers direct
ing young ideas how to shoot at the scholastic
prizes.
* * * *
Mr. and Mrs. Ed F. Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Harrington, Mrs.
Hazelett, Miss Mary Hurley, Miss Maggie Hor
iskey and Miss Anna Lowrie composed a party
of O’Neill citizen- to board a Great Northern
train (now the Burlington) in O’Neill on an
excursion trip to Duluth, Minn., on a day in
late August, 1900. Most of those composing that
group, if not all, long since laid down life’s
burdens. And railroads no longer hold out
excursion inducements at reduced rates to get
you to go places... That year the members of
the Nebraska Press association chartered a
special and made a tour through Colorado and
Utah, D. H. Cronin joining the group at Omaha
. . . The voters of Knox county that year voted
to move the countyseat from Niobrara and it
was located at the center of the county officially
known as Center.
* * * *
There beside the road lay a rusted tin can,
just one that goes into the two million tons of
scrap iron and 12,000 tons of tin Americans
throw to the moles and bats every year.
> The work and influence of one woman 100
years ago brought an end to slave labor in the
United States. It was in 1852 that the book
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” set the North aflame to
bring an end to slavery in the cotton states. It
was written with pen and ink by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, the mother of six children, and often the
babe of the lot in her arms as she wrote. Mrs.
Stowe was a daughter of Henry Ward Beecher,
the greatest preacher of modern times. The story
of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” touched a sympathetic
chord on the score of the slave trade often sep
arating a young child from the child’s slave
mother. What logic and reason couldn’t do human
sympathy did and the fugitive slave law was
nullified, even the author of that law Senator
Bird helped fugitive slaves make their getaway.
Statesmen, philosophers, preachers, editors fail
to surmount the Gibraltar but a frail little woman
touches the tender chords and humanity is
swayed.
“Oh! ever, when the happy laugh is dumb,
AU the joy gone and all the anguish come,
When strong adversity and subtle pain
Wring the sad soul and rack the throbbing brain;
When friends once faithful, hearts once all our
own, x
Leave us to weep, to bleed and die alone;
When fears and cares the lonely thought employ,
And clouds of sorrow hide the sun of joy—
Then the best counsel and the best relief
To cheer the spirit or cheat the grief,
The only calm, the only comfort heard,
Comes in the music of a woman’s word.”
Looking down across the years now gone
onlv one stands in the picture who ever felt like
saying she hoped to never again see the cruel,
heartless woman she called mother. A young
woman who I once met felt that way. Over this
picture wg draw a curtain. Women as minister
ing angels are everywhere, from the mother
tenderlv caring for the little ones to grandmother
who tries to make it a little easier for grand
dad. Does the nation, the community face a
problem? Womanhood will find a way out.
* * * *
Whether the intention was to get away from
the highway traffic, a desire for adventure or
just one of those things you do not knowing
why, we left the highway and turned onto a side
road that led to the crest of a low hill. Reaching
that crest and starting down the other side,
there at the roadside below us stood a man with
gun at his shoulder pointed our way. To add
to the scene a frantic woman, half in and half
out of a car ahead of us was trying to stop the
car that bad started to roll down hill, she was
knocked over and lay on the road while an
elderly woman occupying the back seat of the
runaway auto sat there terror struck. Bang! The
fellow with the gun got his rabbit and the rim
away car came to a stop in the ditch at the side
of the road, while the woman who was knocked
over was rescued unhurt by a young fellow of
the party, and we passed out of the picture
breathing easier.
• * • •
Egypt, the oldest existing monarchy, has
a new ruler, the military forces ousting one
tyrant to make way for another. The Russian
military did the same, replacing one tyrant
with a worse one.
• * * •
Seven-year-old clergymen are a novelty.
Lincoln has had a visit from a child preacher
and he has gone out to North Platte to call sin
ners to repentance. One of those church groups
of this city of churches and schools that sprang
from the once gorgeous temple presided over
bv a glamour girl in Los Angeles, Calif., were
edified and entertained by Little David, a 7
year-old boy who with his father spent a week
in the capital city, the little fellow preaching
each night with the force and conviction of the
seasoned pulpiteer. The novelty of it all assured
a full house each night. Over 100 years ago very
young children in European countries were in
spired to get up in meeting and called upon
sinners and hypocrites to shed their filthy rags
%of unrighteousness. Apparently the field both
*at home and abroad has its abundant growth
of tares and maybe more children will have to
come to the help of priest and preacher.
* * * *
It seems to be the fellows who take a trip
once a year who do the sqawking about the
highways. A number of states are now adopting
the toll system to finance highways. If the tax
payers of various communities want the concrete
to drive on they might bond the townships to
get the roads built and establish toll rates to
take care of the bonds.
Would Fire Bring Tragedy?
A home catches fire in the United States ev
ery minute and a half. Of the 300,000 homes that
will burn this year, yours may be one.
Are you properly insured? Or would a fire
be a financial tragedy?
In an August Reader’s Digest article condens
ed from Nation’s Business, Don Wharton tells
what to do to prevent a fire becoming a ruinous
economic loss. First, make sure you have enough
insurance. The cost of replacing your home has
greatly increased, but if you’re like the majority
of home owners you haven’t increased your in
surance in proportion.
Know the hazards you can be protected
against, and insure against all that can be fore
seen. The standard fire policy covers only dam
age from the fire, lightning, smoke, and the means
used in fighting the fire. “Extended coverage,”
available at an extra premium, insures you
against many dangers, such as windstorm, ex
plosion, aircraft, vandalism, falling trees.
Read your policy thoroughly, to understand
what you have insured. Many people fail to re
cover sums due them because they aren’t aware
that their policies cover certain losses. You may
be insured, for instance, against damage by fire
to property away from home.
You can save money by paying your pre
mium every three or five years, rather than an
nually. Be sure your property is specifically de
scribed and its ownership correctly stated. A pol
icy in your name can lead to trouble if the house
is in your wife’s name.
If you have a fire, don’t sign any statement
until you’ve discussed it with your agent, and
don’t settle with the adjuster for any figure he
suggests. Most adjusters are fair, but you need
professional opinion—that of a good contractor,
for instance—in estimating the true costs of re
pairs.
Tit for Tat
(Lincoln Journal)
Colorado’s fair name is being besmirched
again—by the communists, says the Denver Post.
It seems that in a big get-together for the East
German youngster in Dresden, Ilse Trocha was
presented a watch because she captured 17,111
larvae of “Colorado beetles” which were attack
ing communist potatoes. Says the indignant Post,
potato bugs were first identified 130 years ago
before there was a Colorado and if the commies
persist Colorado will be inclined to retaliate by
o^e—ing a watch to the American youngster who
can dig up the most Russian thistles. These actu
ally did come from Russia and can be an awful
pest.
One at a Time Please!
A long-time Nebraska political tradition is
that Omaha shall furnish one of our United
States senators. For 12 years, Hugh Butler has
been that senator, succeeding Burke, Howell, and
Hitchcock. This year, he will be elected to anoth
er term.
But we now find another Omaha man run
ning for the other term in the senate in opposi
tion to our Former Gov. Dwight Griswold. Does
this other candidate claim, and do Omaha people
believe that Omaha is entitled to two United
States senators?
The more purely agricultural section of this
state believes that they should furnish one of
the members of the senate from this state. Dwight
Griswold is exceptionally well qualified to be
that member. He has spent his life in the farm
and livestock area of this state. He has the integ
rity, ability and experience to do a splendid job
for us. And what is very important, Dwight
Griswold has proven under pressure that he has
the temperament to work with other people and
get things done.
We want Griswold.
Who’s Giving to Whom?
Over in Europe they’re getting mad at Santa
Claus. We offered to give certain nations certain
economic aid if they would pledge themselves
to maintain certain defense forces.
They took the aid but didn’t keep their prom
ise. Now we propose to cut the aid and increase
the military aid. And how they are howling.
Which indicates what this newspaper has sus
pected right along; that we’re getting nowhere
in fighting communism by economic aid,
Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
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—Harold S. Leise to Har
old S. Liese & Pauline C. Liese
as joint tenants. 10-17-51. $1.
SWV4 2; SEy4 3-30-11.
WD—Charles L. Taylor to
John R. Gallagher 9-25-52. $150.
Lot 3, Blk. 50, McCafferty’s Ad
dition to O’Neill.
REFEREE’S DEED — Charles
E. Chace, Ref to Joseph E. Koci
8-28-52 $12,000 SEy4 22 NEy4
28-26-12
REFEREE’S DEED—Charles E.
Chace, Ref., to W. A. Smith. 8
16-52. $2,000. Part of SWy4 20
26-12 Two acres.
Administrator’s Deed — Louis
Reimer, Adm. to Scott Connor.
2-23-39. $74.89. Part of N% NWy4
2-26-9.
WD—Scott Conner to Sammie
E. Conner, 9-3-52. $1. Part N%
NTWl/i 9_9fi_Q
WD—Otto Terrill to Edgar E.
Stevens. 6-30-49. $40. Lots 5 and
6, Blk. 24. Page.
WD—Fd C. Smith to Loraine
Smith 8-27-52. $1. % Interest in
lot 9. Blk. 1, Baker’s 2nd Add.,
Chambers.
WD—Carl Asimuc to Tony Asi
mus. 8-30-52. $17,280. $2592 cash.
$14 688 3-1-53. WVfe NEy4 section
2-30-12.
WD—Harry E. Ressel to Gor
don D. Johnson. 9-5-52. $1,000.
Part of F%55Wy* 19-29-11.
QCD—C. W. Conklin, et al to
Esther Mellor. 6-12-52. $125. Part
of <SFy4SEV* 32-30-14.
WD—Bess;e M. Clearv to Alex
At Clement Clearv 8-23-52. $3,500.
Lo+ 1. pik. 16, Atkinson.
WD—Frank J. Emsick to Rov
Homer Rutherford & wife 9-4-52
$5,000. SEy4 4-27-9.
When You & I Were Young . . .
Harmony in GOP
County Convention
Progress, Prosperity
Party to Win
50 Years Aero
O. F. Biglin is building an ad
dition to his furniture store . .
Dick O’Malley, who has been
at Park City, Utah, the past six
weeks, has returned home . . ,
The republican county conven
tion which convened at the
courthouse was one of the
most harmonious and enthusias
tic ever held in the city and each
delegate expressed himself con
difent that, the battle of ballots
in November would result in
favor of the party of progress
and prosperity.
25 Years Ago
A son was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. James Kelly . . . County
superintendent Luella Parker
drove to Lincoln, taking John
Robert Gallagher and Helen Toy
to enter the spelling contest at
the state fair . . . O’Neill high
school opened the 1927-28 term
with an enrollment of 172 stu
dents. This is the largest enroll
ment in the history of the school
. . . Henry Bausch of near
Phoenix is in the hospital with
a broken left arm which he sus
tained when a team ran awav.
Mr. Bausch is somewhat handi
capped as this is the only arm
that he possesses.
10 Years Ago
Dr. Brown purchased the Miss
Anna Donohoe rooming house
on the comer of Clay and Sec
ond streets and Doctors Brown
and O. W. French will move
the O’Neill general hospital
there . . . Housewives are urged
to join in the tin salvage cam
paign . . . The Tri-State Pro
duce plant was destroyed by
fire.
One Year Ago
Miss Rosalyn Bosn, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bosn, grad
uated from St. Elizabeth’s hos
pital school of nursing in Lincoln
. . . Mr. and Mrs. William Wulf
of Ewing have been married 50
years. . . The O’Neill area was
hit by a violent wind and rain
storm .
NEBRASKA
ATTRACTS NEW
INDUSTRIES
Almost every week an
nouncement is made of an
other new industry locating
in Nebraska. A $1,000,000
new factory at Nebraska
City ... a $25,000,000 new
factory at LaPlatte . . .
others will be announced
soon.
Nebraska offers unusual ad
vantages to new industries
—central location, a wealth
of natural resources, favor
able labor situation.
Our citizens can well be
proud of these advantages,
* and of the rapid accelera
tion in the state’s industrial
growth.
And they may be equally
proud of the state’s taverns.
Nebraska tavern owners
ha\ e earned a national repu
tation for vigilance, for
striving to operate in the
public interest, for main
taining clean, orderly, law
respecting places.
NEBRASKA DIVISION
United States
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T,fou'*v E foundation
710 First NaCI Bank Bldg.. Lincoln
State Capitol News . . .
V-E Indemnification Bill Encounters
Only Token Resistance in Special Session
LINCOLN—Inspectors of the
state and federal bureau of ani
mal industry moved into the field
this week to begin implementa
tion of a program to crack down
on vesicular exanthema, the hog
disease which brought about a
special session of the Nebraska
legislature.
The first shipment of about
6,000 hogs quarantined for V
E will begin moving into Oma
ha stockyards this weekend in
sealed railroad cars and trucks,
according to State Veterin
arian E. P. Anderson. The re
maining 5,000 will follow next
week, he said..
Appraisal of the quarantined
animals was scheduled to get un
der way this week with repre
sentatives of the two government
agencies computing the amount
to be paid the owners. The fed
eral and state governments will
split equally the difference be
tween what the hogs actually
bring on the market and their
meat value.
* * *
Action —
The state agriculture depart
ment began action on the cam
paign to wipe out V-E within
minutes after the adjournment of
the special legislative session
which appropriated $200,000 for
indemnification payments.
The bill encountered only to
ken resistance as it moved
through the legislative machinery
and on final passage, only four
votes were cast against it. They
were by Sens. Hugh Carson, Ord,
George Syas of Omaha, K. W.
Peterson of Sargent and Herbert
J. Duis of Gothenburg, All but
Duis had also voted against the
bill providing for the indemnifi
cation formula and he rose to ex
plain that he was casting a dis
sent to the appropriation because
the bill provided no time limit
within which owners of diseased
hogs would have to apply for pay
ment.
* * *
Hurdle —
A companion bill, one to outlaw
the feeding of raw garbage to
livestock, had a higher hurdle to
clear.
A determined attempt by Sen.
Chris Metzger of Cedar Creek to
kill the measure failed but the
opposition continued to fight
right up to adjournment day. As
the bill came up for final passage,
Sen. Charles Tvrdik of Omaha
moved that the bill be moved
back to select file to strike the
enacting clause, that is, kill it.
He argued that since the em
ergency clause had already been
struck, which would mean the
measure wouldn’t become effec
itve until December 6, the legis
lature might just as well wait un
til its regular session in January
to take action.
The City of Omaha, he plead
ed, would face a serious crisis
if the bill passed because it is
without funds for municipal
collection of garbage and pri
vate operators would not pick
up the garbage for feeding hogs
if they had to cook if before
feeding it.
But supporters of the measure,
who stoutly maintained that the
feeding of raw garbage caused the
outbreak of vesicular exanthema
in Nebraska last June, voted him
down and the bill passed 27-14.
Joining the Omaha senators in op
posing the bill were Sens. Ray
Babcock of Sidney, Hugh Carson
of Ord, William Hern of Chad
ron, Chris Metzer of Cedar Creek,
K. W. Peterson of Sargent, Lefty
Williams of Kearney and Charles
Wilson of Norfolk.
* * *
Assistance —
The legislature gave its unani
mous approval to Gov. Val'Peter
son’s recommendation that the
old age assistance ceiling be
raised from $55 to $60.
Earlier, the members had back
ed down from their position of
supporting Omaha Sen. Sam Kla
ver’s proposal to make the ceil
ing $65. Those who at first
agreed with Klaver to add an
other $5 to the ceiling and then
voted to lower it to $60 were Sens.
H. K. Diers of Gresham, Herbert
J. Duis of Gothenburg, George
Frazier of Oxford, O. H. Liebers
of Lincoln, Richard Marvel of
Hastings, William Moulton of Om
aha, K. W. Peterson of Sargent
and George Syas of Omaha.
Senators who voted with Kla
ver during the first week of the
session but did not vote later are
Arthur Carmody of Trenton, Carl
Lindgren of Campbell, W. J. Wil
liams of Kearney and Charles
Wilson of Norfolk. Carmody and
Wilson were absent.
* * *
Blanket Tax —
There were no votes against
the bill to refund to taxpayers the
1951 blanket school tax declared
unconstitutional this summer by
the Nebraska supreme court.
This tax was effective only in dis
tricts that operated schools with
Jess than five pupils or had no
school at all but contracted for
instruction in other districts.
Also passed without opposition
were bills authorizing the state
agriculture department to buy
test animals for use in disease re
search and apropriating $5,000
for the purpose.
* * *
Farewell —
The legislators were bade fare
well by Gov. Val Peterson who
had twice called them into special
session since adjournment in 1951.
He urged the members to de
vote their time and energy to
their campaigns for reelection and
the Cornhusker football team.
He said he thought that in all
three sessions the legislators had
“done a grand job.”
O’Neill’s State Sen. Frank Nel
son reached OTNeill late Friday
after the 11:20 a.m. adjournment
He said he wouldn’t for the world
miss “Grandma” Hull’s 97th birth
day anniversary dinner. It’s the
big event of the year in north
east Holt county.
Frontier for Drinting!
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is; I am compelled by law to issue Distress Warrants for ;»S
is: delinquent Personal Taxes this month and turn them over <:>
to the Sheriff on or before October 1st.
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::: estate taxes in the County Newspapers for three weeks be- ,
\l\ ginning the first full week in October. Any real estate tax $;
■>; paid by noon of October 4th can be taken from the advertis
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:i; the information. :::
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sonal tax please give the precinct or village in which the
| property is listed.
J. ED HANCOCK
County Treasurer . i
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AT O’NEILL
American Legion Auditorium
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th
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We’ll tell you the answer to that one —
it’s the figures on the price tag.
For some reason, lots of people just can’t
believe they can buy a Buick at a price so close
to “the low-priced three.”
Maybe it’s because a Buick seems so much
better and bigger.
Maybe it’s because they think Buick has so
much more power and room—which is true.
Maybe it is because so many distinguished
people own Buicks—which is also a fact.
But the fact remains—// you can afford a new
car, you can own a Buick — so let’s see what
you get.
You get the thrilling power of a Fireball 8
Engine, that's a gas-saving high-compression
valve-in-head—as much power as you can get
in cars costing $300 to $400 more.
You get as much room as you'll get in cars cost
ing hundreds of dollars more.
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million dollars to
You get the silken sm
Drive.*
You get big-car comfort,
Don’t take our word for
for yourself why so many
up to this great car this
Equipment, accessories, trim and
without notice. *Standard on
cost on other Series.
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