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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1954)
Prairieland Talk . . . Two Classes of Needy By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired, Former Editor The Frontier LINCOLN — The week of November 28-De cember 4 has been set out by congressional and executive order as Salvation Army week. That organization will then observe its 75th anniversa ry in the United States. Started first in Europe, it is now about every where administering to the spiritual and material needs of the unfortunate. Other groups are doing a similar work and many communities provide a “chest fund” to help the needy. There are two classes of needy citizens—those brought to such a state through illness or misfor tune, and a class that may be described as bums. One such came into a wel fare center recently in need of clothing; said he was an Indian from the Omaha tribe. He didn Romaln# have to explain that he was li- Saunders quor soused as that was very evident. Some clothing was dug out for him and he left without it, saying he would return to get it, but he had not shown up at last accounts. • « » Summer has folded its tents like the Arabs and silently stolen away. Today the north wind moans across the land with threatening clouds high above and reaching to far horizons. The weather prophet says a freeze for tonight. Gather perishable fruits out in the open, pluck the red rose and bring in the pumpkin. Flowers will fade, dead leaves fall, the prairie take on its brown gar. merits and the bright tints of autumn flash here and there upon the vision. It has been a long, hot summer and now again a change of seasons marches down the highway of time. The season has brought abundance to prairieland. Summers page away, harvest is over, cows are rounded in from summer ranges and their calves taken from them and the bawling of bereaved cow mothers comes from crowded corrals. It is soon over and cattle wander off to fill up on buffalo grass. • • • With memories of past experiences when marching German armies "crossed the Rubicon" France is leery of arming the Teuton tribes, as proposed by "the powers," • • • It is 23 years this month that Tom Morris, a druggist in O’Neill in the late ’80’s and until the late ’90's, died and was buried at Battle Creek. He had conducted a drug store there after leaving O’Neill. . . It was in October that year (1931) that the Holt County Economy league was organized to urge economy in county government, the head ache then, as now, being the taxes. . . The ladies of the First Presbyterian church were putting on a “chicken pie” dinner. Did you get yours? . . John Protivinsky’s grocery store was broken into and goods to the value of $75 stolen, supposed to be the work of hungry transients with which the community was being over run. . . Emil Sniggs, the town horseshoer for many years, was getting wide publicity on account of The Fron tier's story of his three tons of horse shoes still on hand. • # • What Colonel Doyle would have called a “gullywrasher” dropped its wet blanket over the section of Nebraska where the capital city has been built about daybreak the morning of Octo ber 1, continuing throughout the forenoon. It was a timely visitation for the fields sown to wheat in this corner of the grain belt. City householders also can coil up their lawn hose for winter stor age. Val Peterson has readied a avil defense arm | into Nebraska again and taken another gent from . the newspaper job to be added to the staff of ■ workers in that setup. This time Val’s capable arm stretched out as far as Neligh and now Emil Reutzel, jr., editor of the Neligh News, takes off for Washington, D.C. How the fellows do grab onto i it! Running the government is more attractive than publishing a Nebraska countyseat weekly paper; or maybe it’s the several thousand-a-year salary that looks good to a small town editor. « * # Wanned over stories of hunting buffalo with attendant fiction continued io be dished out by students of the past. About time for some genius to come up with a thrilling story about prairie chicken hunting. * * 0 Peter Sullivan, 80, formerly of the Michigan settlement near O’Neill and a brother of Mrs. Lawrence Barrett and Paul Sullivan of the O'Neill community, died September 30 in Lincoln where he had lived on South 19th street for many years. Funeral was held on Monday, October 4. So an other passes life’s portal in the capital city who had known happy days and hardships pioneering on the open prairies of Holt county. * « • Possibly inspired by the persecution of a pa triot in the United States senate, two red spies posing as army men were escorted through a midcontinent military setup by a credulous gent in uniform. They saw it all, bowed graciously out ; and chuckled to themselves as they walked away over what easy marks we are. Over there in Mos cow they are looking on with glee over some things done in official circles here in America. 000 An ex-convict entered a country home upon the pretext of looking up a fictitious name in the telephone directory, flashed a gun, demanded money. Result—one dead, another may die, the young desperado headed for the pen, maybe the death cell. About time to get tough with the young toughs. 0 0 0 Omaha and Sioux City packing plants are said to be slowing down operations. Fairbury, down in Jefferson county, has a packing plant operated by four brothers, sons of the man who started the business in 1935, R. D. Rhoode. The plant has an annual output of more than 10,000 cattle and 5,000 hogs. * * * The state board of control people say they want $26,500,000 to finance the operation of the 16 state institutions under their supervision for the two-year period beginning July 1, 1955. The institutions include the mental hospitals, reforma tories and penal setups. * . • The battered remains of a little boy found by workmen in a field excites a momentary horror and is then forgotten. But a desolated home in Sioux City will not forget. And what brought this revolting tragedy to a home may never be known, 0 0 0 Out scouting across prairieland in the long ago two gents stopped at the home of a settler to get milk and butter. They were asked 10 cents j for a big lump of butter and nothing for the milk. Ten cents meant a lot to a pioneer woman, but she had milk to throw away. 0 0 0 -All the labor of man is for his mouth, yet is his appetite not filled.—tEcclesiastes 6:7. Editorial . . . Help Yourself! a simple rormuia— iraaing at nome —migm be considered trite after having been bashed around quite a few years. Yet it carries consider able meaning. A homely interpretation of the formula re cently was offered by the Nashua (la.) Reporter as a means of possibly attracting one hundred new residents to that small community. Reading the article inspires one to apply the principle to your own town. O’Neill is a growing city offering most all the services and facilities of larger cities; yet there are those who are bent upon buying a suit of clothes, a dress, a coat, an automobile or a jag of lumber at some metropolitan point. While the practice of trading away from home is not a critical matter here, a widespread adoption of the “trade-at-home” theme could produce amazing results. In an editorial, the Nashua editor explained: “If every car, new suit of men’s clothes, new hats, dresses, etc., for milady, shoes, radio sets, television sets, drugs, gasoline and tires, hardware, heating plants, produce and feed, groceries, print ing and other items used or needed in everyday liv ing and business were to be bought from local sup pliers, you would notice some of these things be gin to happen: “Your local printer would have to add a man or two to handle the printing; your clothing dealer would need an extra clerk, maybe more; your fill ing stations would put on more men; your radio and TV dealers would need more help, and could offer even better service; your hardware and other hard line dealers could and would expand their services; your auto dealers would sell more cars, more cars would require servicing, and more mechanics—and so on down the list. “All these workers would come from the age brackets which is the family-raising era. The aver age family, the census people say, is 4.2 people. So multiply each extra job and you have a sizeable increase in our population. “More population means more students in our schools and the opportunity to add more courses and instructors, thus making the schools more at tractive than ever. More population adds the op portunities of our doctors and other professional people and merchants. “All by trading at home! “Think about this, you people who save a few dimes, or even dollars—or think you save them— when you buy or order away from home. A little of the golden rule applied right now, right here at home, would be the greatest shot in the arm the town could have. “So easy to do! “The dollar spent away from home does the community no good. Let the home fellow make the dollar. Eventually it benefits everyone. “Forget the grouses and gripes about ‘the oth er buy’ for six months to a year. Spend your dol lars at home. And within a year, you’d never know the old hometown—in community understanding. improvement axiu gexxerax au-cuuunu gaxiia. A Ait better the town gets and looks, the more others will want to come here. It’s a golden circle that helps everyone.” A Cattle State, Too (Crest Editorial from Nebraska State Journal) Probably most persons in and out of the state think of corn and Nebraska synonymously but there is another industry that accounts for a large portion of the state’s income—we mean the cattle industry- This was highlighted last week by the eighth annual Sandhills Cattle association sale held at Gordon. This sale in the western part of the state drew buyers from seven states and 2,734 head of cattle sold for $392,115.55. Iowa led the parade by buying 42 loads. Seven loads went to Pennsyl vania, six to Illinois, two each to Minnesota, Michi gan and Wisconsin. Four loads came to eastern Ne braska. Gordon entertained its visitors royally with a barbecue and a program which featured Sioux In dian dances. B. D. Berkheimer told the visitors, “We believe we produce the very best cattle in the world right here. Excellent foundation stock, regis tered bulls mean you are getting cattle almost in the registered class. Sandhills cattle are developed physically so they are the best possible type to feed.” Nebraska's sandhill area is unique and is one of the richest grazing sections in the world. But many eastern Nebraskans probably know more about California, Iowa and New York than they do about their own sandhills. Now that the black top roads are stretching out that way, Nebraskans might find a tour of the section that grows the cattle that eat the corn of the Gornhusker state most interesing. Front® j CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher | Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Si. Address correspondence; Box 330, O’Neill, Nebr j Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt I county, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter I 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 in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided on request. All sub scriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,335 (Mar. 31, 1954) News, Views and Gossip BY THE EDITOR ^ .-.. fr Crosby’s Game Nebraska’s Gov. Robert Crosby buzzed into town Friday for a shortlived visit. As commander of the state’s national guard and as an airplane pilot in his own right, Huskerland’s number one citizen had been “weathered - in” at Spearfish, S.D., and was an hour or two late reaching O’Neill. Purpose of Crosby’s O’Neill stop was to appear before the as semblage at the annual meeting of the Niobrara Basin Develop ment association, in session at the American Legion auditorium. An account of that meeting may be found elsewhere in this issue.) Crosby was met at the Munici pal airport by Jim Rooney, a Niobrara director, who was in charge of arrangements for the O’Neill meeting, in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, and Bill McIntosh, also a basin booster and active Chamber member. The governor had acquired a substantial appetite on the solo flight downgrade from the Black Hills. After having been met at the airport and after having rounded the West O’Neill comer enrcute to the auditorium, the right honorable governor begged of his reception party an oppor tunity to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich before proceeding fur ther. The car immediately was drawn to the curb and Govern or Crosby ducked into Myrt’s cafe, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Mike M. Langan. Mr. Langan moved right up with a glass of water and asked his latest customer for an order. “I’m Gov. Bob Crosby,” the vis itor said by way of introducing himself. “Governor Crosby!” exclaimed Mike, caught completely flatfoot ed. At this point Mike began to fumble the ball a little. While Langan was procuring the hot beef and necessary utensils, the pink-cheeked, 5-ft. 6-inch chief executive - airman moved across the room to a booth. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sobotka were seated there, enjoying a midafter noon cup of coffee. “Hello, folks,” the stranger be gan, “I'm Governor Crosby . . . and how are things with you?” “Governor Crosby!” they blurt ed in unison, obviously shaken. They were somewhat ill at ease even as the discussion shifted to such things as crops and weather. The governor hurriedly swept down the food and moved on to the Legion club, continuously apologizing to the reception group for being late. He con ceded he has come to enjoy hitting folks cold in introducing himself and studying the vari ous reactions. v “When there's a campaign on j I’d be accused of politicking by j doing this sort of thing,” he ex plained. (The governor was de feated in the primary' election by [ Rep. Carl T. Curtis in a bid for a U.S. senate seat.) “It’s all over and I can enjoy it now.” The Frontier’s society' editor was not swept off her feet when the governor breezed in for a Quickie chat. “I’m Gov. Bob Crosby,” came the voice across the counter, ex tending his right hand of fellow ship. “I’m Mrs. Henry Schlueter,” re torted the social scribe. “May I help vou, Governor?” —CAL STETWART To Indiana— Pvt. Donald Becker left Wed nesday' for Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Ind., where he will attend stenog- I raphers school until March. He j had been visiting his parents, Mr.1 and Mrs. L. A. Becker, since Sat- ! urday. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Vent eicher and family of Norfolk were Sunday guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sauser. Jerry, 4, remained with his grandpar ents and will visit them for a week. Mrs. F. S. Brittell and daugh ters visited over the weekend with relatives in Neligh. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT WM. GRIFFIN Republican FOR RE-ELECTION COUNTY ATTORNEY Of Holt County NOVEMBER 2nd Appreciates Tour Vote! When You and I Were Young... Trods Boyt::J Paths in Wisconsin Frontier Editor Away 26 Years 50 Years Ago Romaine Saunders, associate editor of The Frontier, has de-' parted for a visit with relatives at the home of his boyhood at Monroe, Wise. It has been 26 years since he has trod the well remembered paths and the “old man” is of the opinion the famil iar scenes and objects will be few and far between. . . Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Snyder returned from a month’s visit to the Pacific coast cities of San Francisco, Sacra mento, Oakland, Portland, Seat tle and Tacoma. . . Roscoe Moore was arrested in Omaha and re turned to Belle Fourche, S.D., where he is wanted for horse stealing. . . Fred Barnet and Miss Martha Cress were united in mar riage at the Presbyterian church. I Reverend Bowen performed the ceremony. . . The Sturgeon Music j Co. of Norfolk wants an organ and piano salesman with team to work in the country. No experi ence is necesasrv. 20 Years Ago William D. Langan was one of 19 of the Fourth division to re ceive a Verdun medal from Aug ust Borglum, French consular agent in Omaha, on behalf of the citizens of Verdun. . . Agnes Swanson and Oliver Ross were united in marriage in the rectory of the Catholic church. Rev. B. J. Leahy officiated at the cere mony. . . C. W. Conklin was elect ed commander of Simonson post of the American Legion. . . The town of Spencer is considering bankruptcy. The city is without funds to redeem bonds held by the state board of education lands and funds purchased between 1923 and 1931. 10 Years Ago Mary Petr, 92. died at her home southwest of O’Neill. Mrs. Petr had been a Holt county res ident since 1885. . . Lt. Robert J. Early was awarded the air medal lor meritorious achievement. Lieutenant Early recently return ed from the Far East where he has been for the past year. . . Lt. James R. Herre, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Herre of O’Neill, and Miss Carlyn Carter were united in marriage at Liberal army air base. Liberal, Kans. . . Farmers desiring to secure trees for shel terbelt and windbreak planting next spring from the supervisors of the Holt soil conservation dis trict are urged to make their res ervations now. One Year Ago A fire touched off by the ex haust of a car belonging to a door to door salesman raged over a 10-mile tinder-dry meadow be fore it was finally brought under control. . . O’Neill’s businessmen are ready for the second annual pancake day to be held on the m ain floor of the Knights of Co lumbus building. Personnel will serve in three shifts. . . Duane McLain, 19, confessed in O’Neill to the slaying of Karen Talbot, 13, who disappeared from the streets of Rushville in late Aug ust. . . Wesley Slaymaker suffer ed a painful hand injury Monday when his hand was caught in a block and tackle while he was moving hay. O’STILL LOCALS Rev. Thomas De Backer of St. Agnes parish, Omaha, visited from Sunday until Tuesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. DeBacker. Mrs. J. F. Carroll and sons, Bill and Mike, of Chanute, Kans., ar rived Friday to visit for several « t weeks with her mother, Mrs. w. J. Biglin. Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Thompsen of Arcadia, Calif., were last Thurs day guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. F Btckenhauer. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Klopens burg of Cozad visited Saturday at, the home of her aunt, Mrs. E. J, Eby. A/2c James DeBacker left Sun day for Ft. Warren, Wyo., after visiting over the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. De Backer. Frontier far printing! Charter No. 5770 Reserve District No. 1* Report of the condition of the c O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK of O’Neill, in the state of Nebraska, at the close of business on OCTOBER 7, 1954 Published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under Section 5211, U.S. Revised Statutes ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve bal ance, and cash items in process of collection $1,050,607/38 United States Government obligations, direct and guar anteed .,2,230,404 69 Obligations of States and political subdivisions . 88.321.6t .Corporate stocks (including $4,500.00 stock of Federal Reserve bank) . 4,500.00 Loans and discounts (including $1,170.39 ovedraftsj . . . . 434,036.4] Bank premises owned $3,000.00 . 3,000.00 Other assets .;. 358.02 rx Total Assets . SZMlJtZi.lt J \y LIABILITIES i Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor porations . $3,084,934 46 Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings) . 101,790.28 c Deposits of States and political subdivisions . 180,251.07 Deposits of banks . 172,560.68 Total Deposits .$3,539,536.43 _ c Total Liabilities . S3.539.536.43 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital Stock: Common stock, total par $50,000.00 . $ 5OJ9QO.0O Surplus . 100,000.00 Undivided profits . 121,691 67 Total Capital Accounts . S 271,691.67 Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts $3.811.228.14 MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities for other purposes . $ 440.090 00 I, J. B. Grady, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. » J. B. GRADY. Cashier Correct — Attest: Julius D. Cronin, E. F. Quinn, F N. Croo:r. Directors. State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of October. 1954, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of th bank. (SEAL) ALICE E. BRIDGES, Notary Public My commission expires July 25. 1956 (This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders It Happened Id NEBRASKA The earliest “Nebraskans" known to the white man were the Paw nee Indians, believed to have lived here longer than any other tribe. They dwelt in houses made of earth and timber. First they built a framework over which they piled earth and brush. These were much like the early pioneer sod houses. _ . . . , J . . NEBRASKA DIVISION Far removed from these early days is the Civilization which brought new respecta- United States billty to tavern operation. Today's taverns Breuers are well-regulated business establish- PnunAation ments, respected by all! 710 First Nafi Bank Bid* , Lincoln — I—1.1——I. II ■■ 11 ..in. 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