Prairieland Talk . . . Hotel Dining Rooms Disappear By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Exclusive of those now a part of the business life of O’Neill there have been 10 hotels operating in the town. The first was an, open house located about where the Burlington roundhouse is now and conducted by a genial gent by the name of Sparks. One of the early ones was the Valley house lo cated where the Davidson plumbing shop now stands and was conducted by the O’Donnell family, some of whom are still among us. The next in order of chron ology was the Commercial ho tel where Colonel Moore now presides on lower Fourth street. A block south of the Commer cial, or rather at the south of the same block, was Ed Evans’ three - story frame hotel that Romaine burned down one windy day. Saunders Where the Knights of Columbus hall now stands was the Arcade under the management of John Ziemer, who later had a hotel a few doors to the east on that street. On the south side of the same street was Hotel Evans, the jolly Wes Evans and his estim able wife catering to the elite of the community. At a much earlier period the Mitchell house was in operation about where the ladies now get their permanents and other beauty needs on the north side of Douglas street between Fourth and Fifth. On the opposite side of the street the Og den house functioned with Charley HemstTeet receiving the guests, and latex a pugnacious gent by the name of Chissem took over, first having run a hotel where the posioffice is now located. Hotels at that time served meals, Mr. and Mrs. William Beha of the old Commercial hotel and the Western being about the last that main tained dining rooms. There were also a few pri vate homes where the mistress served meals to such notable bachelors as Judge Kinkaid, John Hecker, Pat McManus, John McDonough and some others. Moreover, there was a livery bam for each hotel, an alcoholic victim down by the Burlington tracks on Third street looking after hotel guests from the country and stabling their horses when he was sober. * * * * To demonstrate what they can do when of a mind to really work, knights of the saw and ham mer of Lincoln’s carpenter union put up a house in five days. . . More partisan hogwash. With what holy horror are the political saints in con trol in Washington shocked because friends of the republican vice presidential nominee contributed to a fund to help him out on his campaign ex penses. . . The Nebraska library commission has books that talk, volumes of fiction and also of facts, now available for the blind. Machines ne cessary to play the talking books are available on a loan basis by writing to W. C. McMillen, su perintendent of the school for the blind at Ne braska City. . . The Empire state building in New York CitJT, the tallest man - made thing in the world, has been struck by lightning 226 times the 10 years- . . A soldier World War 1^ re ceived a government chesic recently for $2i,?63 back pension and is now paid $57.50 monthly. . . A laboratory costing 10 million dollars will be built on Plum Island off the coast of New Lon don, Conn., for research work in foot and mouth disease in cattle by the department of agriculture. * * * * Today daughter-in-law, assisted by her moth er’s capable hands and more or less under moth er’s directions, filled a cargo of glass jars with golden pears, blush-ripened peaches and that popular product of gardens, the red ripe tomato. This has been one of the last in a series of “can ning bees,” whereby storage shelves have been filled row upon row. So when autumn’s lengthen ing shadows merge into the sombre hues of win ter the family may feel a sense of security, if not thumb their noses at that functionary known as food price stabilizer. * * * * The least important official job makes an important guy out of the least important gent in the community. > The dean of the Kansas State college has written learnedly denouncing “organic farming” as bunk and carries the torch for the commercial fertilizers. There are several notables around over prairieland who missed life’s opportunity to win college degrees but who have made observa tions, carried on experiments on their own, and out of the experiences of a lifetime know that much that comes from agriculture schools at tax payers’ expense is pure bunk. Prairieland rolls out the bales of hay and puis the fat on the steers today as it did a half oenlury ago and not an ounce of commercial fertilizer has ever touched the country. Our back yard this spring was introduced to commercial fertilizer. The yield was a little above normal in quantity and somewhat below in qual ity, products having a toughness and lacking the good flavor of those grown normally. After all, isn’t snow and rain nature’s way of fertilizing? The Kansas gentleman fears “organic farming” is going to “damage the status of important agri cultural research.” Maybe so. But it produces quality spuds, onions and sweet com. • • • • During a high wind a day in September 52 years ago Mrs. LaRue, age 35, met her death at the family home, known then as the Little post office in southern Holt, being crushed by a fall ing building. Previously during a severe wind storm the LaRues lost heavily. . . October 4 of that year O’Neill was favored with a visit from the man who believed in “step softly but carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt, who addressed a crowd in O’Neill from a platform near the rail road. . . That same autumn Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas stumped Nebraska for the republicans. The nearest the Kansas former populist female firebrand got to O’Neill was down at Broken Bow. . . While the political pot was boiling that October one O’Neill hunter garnered five barrels of prairie chickens which he shipped to market. . . . Politics got so fancy that fall that the repub lican county committee imported a notable orator who could address the German population of Stuart, Atkinson and Deloit in their mother tongue. . . And J. P. Mann was advertising to throw in a $300 piano if you bought goods at his store. * * • • Maybe Ralph Kelly had all he wanted and a little more than the Graphic plant could han dle of hay days advertising, but a former Holt county printer is led to wonder why a full sheet poster announcing Atkinson hay days last August bore the imprint of a Los Angeles, Calif., printer. Holt county printers at one time made a specialty of chromatic poster work. * * * * Robert Crosby, himself an experienced legis lator and now the republican candidiate for gov ernor, thinks our state legislature should be di vided on party lines—that is, eliminate the some what meaningless nonpartisan idea in selecting 1 state senators. The governnor and other state of- 1 ficers, except the court judges, are political party men. An old democratic warhorse, the late Ed gar Howard of the Columbus Telegram, was agin’ the nonpartisan idea, which sprang primarily from the mugwamps. t * ♦ * Emil E. PlaCfek, a Wahoo banker and regis tered democrat, says turn the rascals out both in Washington and Lincoln. . . Congress and the president provide the military establishment with $46,610,938,912 for a period of 12 months, to which a churchman refers a bit regretfully, say ing the fighting forces have 25 times more money than all churches of all denominations combined receive to carry on the work of peace through righteousness. * * * * A comparison of home and traffic accidents noted in the capital city discloses that the home has it by four to one. Home casualties include stubbed toes of barefoot kids, skinned shins and tumbling out of bed. Kitchen accidents account for singed fingers picking up a cooking dish and cuts occasioned by the slip of a knife. Maybe the home folks outnumber those in the street bri gade 100 to one. Gov. Adlai or Gen. Ike? -*—a *2—-~ -i Beware the Peddlers * (From the Wayne Herald) * There are reports that book salesmen are again making the rounds in the Wayne region. Every time these high pressure salesmen "work the territory" somebody gets stuck. Warnings against dealing with traveling then and women have been issued time and again. However, each day, week, month and year there are more "victims." Most of the deals offered by these salesmen are legitimate, in a sense. You generally do get something in return for your money. But it is seldom what you think you are going to get. Wayne business houses have become the "goat" in many of these transactions. Salesmen contact farmers or residents and make sales. The purchaser generally gives a check. The salesmen waste no time in getting to a local store where they buy some small item and cash the check to pay for the purchase. Sometimes the victim gets to thinking the deal over and decides he got the worst of it and calls the bank and stops payment on the check. But, the salesman no longer has the check and some local businessman is stuck when he tries to deposit it at the bank. The businessman can go back on the sales men’s "victim” and ask payment but many times the person writing the check might be a good customer and, to avoid a scene, the merchant "just writes the deal off." If, after numerous warnings, area residents are going to insist on “being stung," then they should get stung and not any innocent third par ty. If you enter into an agreement with traveling salesmen, you are fair prey and should consider yourselves as such. It all boils down to this—there are few, very few, items traveling salesmen can offer you that your local merchant cannot — and if you have any complaints your local merchant is going to be around to lend an ear. You'll get better returns for your dollar spent and have fewer regrets if you trade locally. There will be six amendments to the state constitution placed before the voters on the No vember 4 Nebraska ballot. Government steadily gets more complicated. There’s more-and-more talk about the urgency of good roads in Nebraska. And more-and-more people are now convinced that money is the all important factor. If you didn’t have your fill of pancakes, sau sage, etc., in O’Neill Tuesday it wasn’t the fault of the Chamber of Commerce. O Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the October issue of Successful Farming magazine, give their answers to a battery of questions submitted by the mag azine’s readers. In the only question-and-answer article con cerned solely with questions from farmers, the candidates answer such queries as, What should be the place of the farmer and agriculture in our economy today? Governor Stevenson says, “I don’t pretend to know a great deal about farming, but I don’t have to be sold on the proposition that the pros perity and happiness of all our people are insep arably linked with the economic well-being of our farmers ... I know that food and its distri bution will do much to shape the kind of world we will live in during the next half-century.” General Eisenhower’s answer is, “I have said the American farmer is the foundation stone of democracy, and I think this is a correct descrip tion. . . Farmers traditionally are the most inde pendent of all people and we must keep them so . . .” Both men are decisive in their answers to the question, What will you do about corruption in our government? Says Stevenson, “One corrupt public official is one too many. If there is democratic dirt, let’s clean it up and turn the flashlight into every dark comer.” “Graft and incompetence,” says Eisenhower, “are inevitable consequences of one party’s being in power too long.” For those on the federal pay roll who fail to maintain their trust with the public, Eisenhower asserts, “. . . the punishment ought to be swift and severe, and it will be.” The two candidates are at least in partial agreement on the question of U.S. foreign policy. Eisenhower speaks of “peace and security of those nations with which we must trade in order to exist,” while Stevenson says, “Let’s not kid ourselves that we can be anything but interna tionalists. . .” 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 paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska $2.50 per year; elsewnere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WD—John Q Hossack to James Q Hossack 6-18-52 $1- NWY4 19 25- .13 All 24- E'/zEVz- NWy4NEy4 23- All 25- NEy4NEy4- S%NEy4 E%NW%—E%swy4 — SEy4 26 SEy4 27- E^NEy4- E^SEy4 34 NE%- NWy4- N^swy4- SE1/4 35-25-14 TREAS DEED—J Ed Hancock Co Treas to Anna M Cole 9-25 52- pmt of delinquent taxes SEV4 9-25-13 WD — Benjamin Oetter to Ralph Simpson 9-25-52 $5500 Lot 42 & So % lot 43 Blk A Goldens Subdivision- O’Neill QCD—Anna M Cole to Ray mond Beed 9-16-52 $1- SEy4 9 26- 13. BUTLER SPEAKS (Editor’s note: Text of Sen. Hugh Butler’s remarks at a re publican rally here Friday fol lows:) I have been very critical of the lavish scale oLour foreign as sistance spending for a good many years. I have fought and voted against these programs time after time, and tried to at least trim down the size of the appropriations. I don’t know if all of you real ize what gigantic sums we are spending for the benefit of for eign countries or how these ex penditures affect our own com 1 munities here in Nebraska. Just j to bring it home to you, I have I worked out a tabulation on a per capita basis showing the cost to each county and each city and town in Nebraska. The total cost of all our var ious foreign assistance programs for the past 13 years, since 1940, including the money appropriat ed for this present fsical year amounts to $110,287,000,000. All that money comes out of the tax payers of America. A share of that burden that must be carried bv your city, O’Neill, is $2,215, 310. The share that must be car ried by Holt county, is $10,874, 559. I know that when some pub lic improvement is needed, such as a new school, and a bond is sue is proposed to pay for it, those proposals generally receive the most careful consideration and discussion by all citizens of your community. They can’t be approved without a vote by the people, and any such program is always looked over very care fully before you agree to bond yourselves. Unfortunately, these proposals for spending for foreign assist ance are not taken to the voters for authority. In effect, your fed eral government has placed a bonded debt on you for the a mount I mentioned, $2,215,310. I do not believe you would ever have approved any such sum if you had had a chance to vote on it. If we look at the figures on the total national debt, the pic ture is even worse. As of last August 30, the public debt a mounted to $263,000,000,000. Translating that debt down in terms of your city here, the share of the debt that must be paid for by O’Neill amounts to $5,282,781. The share for this county, Holt county, is $25,932,224. The financial problems of your national government are no dif ferent from the financial prob lems of your local government or your county government. These debts of tthe federal government have to be paid for by the tax payers of communities all over the country in just the same way that you have to pay off any bonds you may issue. O'NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Ray Winter and Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Knick man have returned to Lincoln after spending several days vis iting at the home of Mrs. Win ter’s father, John Valla. Mr. and Mrs. George Peterson, j jr., and family and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schomberg of St. Ed ward were Sunday guesta at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Peterson, sr. Wednesday evening, Septem ber 24, dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Osenbaugh were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hudson of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Parks and daughter of McAllister, N.M., visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parks. Harold and Wayne are brothers. A/2c Stanley Young, who is stationed at Kelly Field, San An tonio, Tex., is home on a leave of absence because of the serious illness of his father. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Miller of Lincoln recently visited at the Harry Ressel and J. W. Ressel homes. weexena guests at me nome of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Peterson were Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Kur ran of Lincoln. Miss Barbara Peterson, who is employed in Sioux City, spent the weekend home with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Peter son, sr. She was accompanied home by Miss Helen Parker, also of Sioux City. Mr. and Mrs. James Mullen recently spent five days at St. Paul, Minn., visiting Mrs. Mul len’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Quinn. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ressel and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ressel drove to Rapid City, S.D., on business and then went on to the Black Hills before returning home. They were accompanied by George Boydston. Mrs. Echo Hanna of Wood Lake visited recently at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ral ya. Mrs. Hanna is Mr. Ralya’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bruder of Atkinson were Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rumbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rubeck and Mr. and Mrs. Milford Coats and children drove to Concord Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Johnson. They also stopped in Wayne to visit Lloyd Rubeck’s mother, Mrs. Viola Rubeck. George H. Pace of St. Joseph, Mo., is here visiting his mother, Mrs. Amanda Pace, and sister, Mrs. John Quig, also his sister, Mrs. C. C. Collins, and his niece, ! Mrs. George Friesen of Eugene I Ore., who spent the weekend here. | State Capitol News . . . Reenactment of Measures Similar to Gas Tax Increase Seen in Offing LINCOLN—Nebraska’s legislat- < ors this week were thumbing through a .121-page report, prob ably the bulkiest ever issued by a legislative committee. It is the controversial findings of the committee studying highway fi nance under the chairmanship of Omaha’s Sen. Karl Vogel. Newsmen were told some months ago that the committee had decided nothing; the prob lem of road revenue was to be bucked back to the legislature. But the report instead called for re-enactment of measures similar to the gas tax increase and regis tration fees boosts killed in the 1950 referendum. The committee said voters who knocked out the revenue laws two ago “now appreciate the state’s predicament and problems and would favor these bills should they have an opportunity to express their opinion again.” The committee members man aged to take a stiff poke at the trucking industry with, “It is generally believed by state high way engineers that overloading of trucks is the cause of a great deal of damage to roads in all sections of the state.” Then they sought to soften the blow by reporting that trucking is a vital industry in America and “should not be subjected to unnecessary harrassment. At the same time it should be prevented from destroying millions of dol lars invested in public roads and should pay its fair share ... of highway costs.” Other committee findings: Toll roads are not the answer to Nebraska’s highway problem. There’s nothing seriously wrong with the state highway department. The department should be giv en more authority in law to post weight limits on roads. * * * Nixon— The Nixon affair was closed this week but capitol politicians still found it something to ponder over in the coffee shop. “Maybe I’m cynical,” a veter an GOP wheelhorse said, “but I thought the whole thing was corny. On the other hand, my wife liked it. Anyway you can’t quarrel with the fact that the hundreds of telegrams sent out of Nebraska to Washington have gone a long way toward rallying republicans here in favor of the ticket. Now we have two popular candidates instead of just one.” Meanwhile, the politicos were wondering the significance of the wire State GOP Chairman David T. Martin of Kearney sent to Na tional Chairman Arthur Sum merfield urging that Nixon be kept on the ticket and Eisen hower should fire his advisors. It’s an open political secret here that Martin has been feud ing since the Chicago convention with Sen. Fred Seaton and other members of Citizens for Eisen hower. Martin thinks the original Ike backers are insisting on too big a voice in the conduct of the campaign. ♦ * * Resistance— Applications of two big Nebras ka telephone companies for rate nixes ran miu siem uppusiuun before the state railway commis sion last week. The Omaha grain exchange, a powerful force, filed a motion with the commission asking the dismissal of the application of Northwestern Bell. Earlier, the Jefferson county farmers union filed a similar motion in the ap plication of the Lincoln Tele phone and Telegraph company. * * * Caravan—' The republican campaign car avan started down the home stretch this week. Appearances today (Thursday) are scheduled for McCook, Curtis, El wood, Arapahoe, Holdrege, Alma, Franklin and Minden. On Friday, the candidates will hit Hastings, Red Cloud, Super ior, Clay Center, Geneva, He bron, Deshier and Fairbury with Saturday stops at Beatrice, Te cumseh, Pawnee City, Humboldt and Auburn. Next Monday they’ll be in * Crete and Tuesday in Nebraska City, Plattsmouth, Bellevue, Pa pillion and Blair, and on Wed nesday in Tekamah, Oakland, West Point, Pender, Walthill and Ponca. INMAN NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Hartigan of Norfolk are spending a few days visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Watson and with other relatives and friends. Many from the Inman com munity attended the dedication of the new St. Anthony’s hos pital Wednesday afternoon, Sep tember 24, in O’Neill. Mrs. Albert Reynolds enter tained a group of ladies at a party Friday afternoon at her home. After the demonstration the hostess served a lunch. Graydon Hartigan of Alma spent the weekend visiting his mother, Mrs. Marye Hartigan. Ralph Sholes of Sidney spent the weekend visiting his mother, Mrs. Violet Sholes. Harlan Morsbach, Don Lines, LeRoy Moore and Lawrence Stevens, who are employed at Rapid City, S.D., spent the weekend here with relatives. Miss LuElla Watson of Atkin son spent the weekend visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Watson. Miss Grayce McGraw of At kinson spent the weekend here. Larry Sawyer of Stuart spent ■ the weekend visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Sawyer. Harold Neilsen, who attends college at Norfolk, spent the weekend visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Neilsen. Mrs. E. C. Goodin and family of Valentine spent Sunday visit ing Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Alex ander. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Noe and family of Waterbury spent Sun day visiting Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. James McMahan returned Sunday evening from a two week vacation through Col orado, Kansas, Missouri and part of Nebraska. The YM club met Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gannon for a regular meeting. Cards furnished the en tertainment and lunch was served. Arbutus Rebekah lodge met in regular session on Wednesday evening. September 24, at the IOOF hall. Members of the Re bekah lodges at Clearwater and Chambers were special guests. Entertainment for the evening was in charge of Marjorie Kel ley, Doris David and Estella Keyes. Refreshments were serv ed by Elsie Krueger, Helen Van Horn, Emma Moore, Ethel Tomp kins, Grace Luben, Carrie Mc Mahan. Mareta Nielsen and An na Smith. i j Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson of O’Neill spent Thursday after noon visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Coventry and family. Mrs. Lottie Thompson left on Sunday for Grand Island where she will make her home this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brit tell and daughter, Betty Jean, took Mrs. Thompson to Grand Island and visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Thompson and sons. Members of the RLDS church held an ail day meeting at the church Sunday. A basket dinner was served on the church lawn at noon. Many members and visitors were present for the meeting. Mrs. Sadie SheDhard of Johns town spent the weekend here with friends. --- Mrs. Helen Starlin and Mrs. Winnie Barger went to Lincoln ; Sunday and returned Monday. | While there they visited relatives ; and friends. I j Donis Hoffman Is 3-Years-Old CHAMBERS—A birthday an niversary party, in honor of the third birthday anniversary of Donis Hoffman, was held at the Bernard Hoffman home Friday evening, September 26. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoffman, Pete and Diane, J. S. Hoffman, Mr and Mrs. Elmer Wandersee, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hoerle and Mrs. Fred Wandersee. 11 Guests at Party— Saturday afternoon a party was given for Johnny, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Osenbaugh. Eleven little guests were pres ent. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Osenbaugh. DR. H. L. BENNETT VETERINARIAN Phones 316 and 304 — O'NEILL — MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Corp. C. E. Jones. Manager O'Neill : Nebraska DR. J. L. 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