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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1955)
Prairieland Talk . . . Nebraskan Becomes Moslem By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier t Txmrvr xt a ~^a: xr.i i__» • ^ _• _ : ^ -w wuu w * w iuu vx xiwuxaoxva o ^/x ax— I rie’and, now in Turkey, will become a Moslem as a condition imposed by a dark-haired maiden if she becomes his bride. Youth or maid will join most anything at the dictation of Cupid. Maybe a few sincerely, more hypocritically. This Nebraska lad, unlike the Persian youth in Sir Thomas Moore’s story of “Lallah Rookh,” does not seem to care what he joins if he can have the Turkish beauty he wants. The Persian youth had scaled a dizzy height in pursuit of “that tyrant Arab,” only to find a trembling dove in the person of an Arab maid. Emotions' of the ages stirred. But no; she was not a Persian maid * and away he plunged i» loyalty to the faith of his fathers. Are there no more maidens fair on prairieland that our boys go to distant lands to find Romaine a life’s companion! Do the hun- Saunders dreds of millions in the Moslem world also have an appeal? Shall I join a setup because there are lots of them? But listen—talking to a few followers there was One who said, “Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.” Mohammedans, Brahmans, Buddhists comprise 65 percent of the world’s peo ples. And here goes a Nebraska guy to join them to get a bride when he could have one from a choice selectiorf of prairieland beauties. Maybe he wants more than one. * Instruction, slogans, stated periods, drive carefully and other preachments are having lit tle or no effect to reduce traffic tragedies. Ten dead on the highway down by Waterbury at one blow, six at another destiny of death and five at the third crackup and one at other points where death waited that day. Human hands, human eyes, human senses being what they are, the traffic tragedies multiply. * * * Mrs. Graham left in tears. Thus the story ends of the visit of a young wife to her husband behind prison bars. It was her first visit since he was jail ed to that Denver, Colo., man charged with plac ing the explosives that blew up an airplane and took the lives of 44 aboard the plane, including the mother of the accused. Yes, tears came to the heart burdened wife. Not only she, but sorrowing souls whose near relatives were on that airplane, and so the tragic wreckage leaves other horror haunted lives. Who planted the explosives, John Gilbert Graham or some other agent from a syna gogue of Satan? Graham said he did, then said he didn’t. Conjectures had lead a trail to a powerful group of which Graham was the agent. This is un thinkable, although in the days of Harry Orchard and the Western Federation of Miners, similar crimes were frequent, one such resulting in the death of a. train load of strike breakers, another killing a former governor of Idaho. The responsible parties for those crimes of a half-century ago were caught and prosecuted, some spending their days in prison, others deported. Graham, or who ever is guilty, should be made to suffer. * * » South Dakota has just 95 square miles area more than Nebraska, our state having 77,520 square miles and South Dakota 77,615 square miles. Kansas has 82,158 square miles within its boundaries. The Pacific ocean spreads across 71 million square miles, the Atlantic 34 million, the Indian ocean 28 million. vyiu Vfi U1C CULL LVillUO U » Wivv *“**0 prophesying tempest and snow just ahead. The sun glows golden in the blue canopy above that we call the sky and under which we strut, live out our days and die. Lift not imploring hands to that ethereal blue. It, like you and I, is helpless, too. Lift supplicating hands and look farther beyond the hands of Orion down the avenue of light emanating from the throne of the Infinite. And here we helpless pieces of the game we play upon the checkerboard of days and nights (to borrow a line from an Arabian poet) are then lifted from our blundering ways. The hand that writes on the scroll of time neither pauses nor backward goes and the record it traces neither tears nor regrets erase, but there are smiles in place of tears as nothing is seen that record to disgrace. * * * A 19-year-old miss, Nancy Isrig, is a fresh man at the state university starting on a career to become an engineer. Maybe the inspiration arises from the work of her dad, who is an en gineer in the state highway department. * * * A lady of mature years and crowned in snow white glory has been treading the streets of the community for 17 years going from door-to-door taking orders for the products of a manufacturing concern that turns out toothpaste, shaving dope, bedroom cosmetics and many dainties for dolling you up. Her sales have amounted to $32,000 and she keeps going from household - to - household where not alone the commercial instinct is put to work but that fundamental human impulse, “Did you hear the latest?” is bandied back and forth. The old gal had employed her husband as delivery boy and collection agent but he died in harness and now she manages the business single handed and promotes the interest of the ladies’ discussion club. % * * * Lunar property contracts on the market. The man in the moon will have to move over. . . A CIO contract with a Connecticut concern provides that women employees are to be given two days a year to get hair waves. . . Lincoln’s west O street mil lion-dollar overpass is to be dedicated with appro priate ceremonies today (Thursday). . . 16,700 beef cattle were sold at the Sandhills Cattle association sales and shows held at O’Neill, Burwell, Bassett, Valentine, Gordon and Alliance. . . In the interests of “economy,” busybodies have come out with a changed typewriter keyboard. . . The highways are no respecters of persons; Rev. John Troyer, pastor of the Mennonite church at Beaver Crossing was a highway victim near Seward. * * * Six Russians fell before the firing squad at Moscow the other day. The decree had gone forth that the six native Muscovites must be shot for “conspiring” to overthrow the government of the reds and go “capitalistic.” The reds among us in Yankeeland preach the overthrow of our national and state governments that guarantee to all a way of life as each individual chooses to make it and replace that way of life with one ordered by a group of dictators. None of these promoters of de struction have faced a firing squad and continue to enjoy the blessings of freedom among us while devising sinister schemes to destroy that freedom. * * * Ray C. Johnson, serving his ninth term as state auditor, will be a candidate again and probably will be reelected, having entered his name last week to appear on the primary ballot for the re publican nomination. The duties of some state and county offices are such that the longer an official serves, the more efficient the service rendered. County judge, district judge, superintendent of schools, state auditor, railway commissioners are among those and maybe the term of office should be lengthened. Editorial . . . . Bridges Usually Bear Up Grace Noel Crowell once wrote a memorable poem about a bridge. It concerned the weary, fearful, traveler who viewed with horror the prospect of trying to cross a deep, treacherous chasm that yawned below. The only way to cross was by a rickety, flimsy, makeshift bridge. The concluding line of the poem was the reassuring thought that “strangely enough all the bridges I have crossed today have borne me up,” or words to that effect. So many of us are crossing so many of our bridges long before we reach them that our daily existence has become a torment instead of a joy, an ordeal instead of a glorious adventure, torture instead of satisfaction. There is more than one woman and more than one man in our community who never saw an apple blossom or a tree last spring, never saw a flower, never heard a robin singing to its mate after a summer’s shower, never once saw the riot ous gold and scarlet of the countryside this autumn. It was not because they were physically deaf, dumb or blind. It was because they were so men tally imprisoned in a dark pit of despair and wor ry about the bridges they thought they faced that never once did they see or hear .the beautiful world about them. Palace Guard “Washington observers are — it is generally agreed — a thick-skinned lot, accustomed to the sordid realities of national politics concealed by the headlines and high-sounding comments of ed itorial writers. Nevertheless, even the most hard ened watcher of the Washington scene displays some disgust with the efforts of the palace guard ' to get President Eisenhower to run again.” Thus begins an article in a recent issue of the upcoming Washington newsletter, Human Events. “In the past 20 years, the quadrennial exer tions of these camarillas who surround (and us ually shape the course of) presidents are a fa miliar phenomenon. No one who has once caught ‘Potomac fever’ likes to relinquish power and the members of the palace guard (1953-’55) are no dif ferent than their predecessors. On October 1, right after the president’s stroke, Human Events warn ed that this would be one of the big factors in the interregnum government. Not only power, but fear VX biiv ivoo vi a jvu-kjj oviut wiiv nxxgub CVCU, m these busy times, find it difficult to get another— prompt these denizens of the white house to work frantically to ensure continuance of they key posi tions. It is a genuine fear; few in the capital doubt that if, for instance, Nixon would take over the reins of power, he would clean house in the white house. The prevailing suspicion of what the guard is plotting was well expressed in a broadcast on November 8 by NBC commentator Earl Godwin. “’Hie indelicacy, not to mention cruelty, of these efforts to get a sick president to continue to bear the burdens of his high place has caused even some very cynical observers here to lift eyebrows. “One ‘caper’—details of which have begun to leak out—is described as follows: The white house crowd worked on various private friends and so cial companions of the president, to persuade them to write letters to the president (when he was in Denver) strongly expressing the' hope that the ill executive would run again. Some of these friends of Ike have yielded and, it is said, their letters suggested that only the president can maintain the present high level of business prosperity and can save the ‘spirit of Geneva.’ “The president’s reaction to such communi cations is not known,” the article concludes. Worthy Trying Arthur J. Riedesel, publisher of the Ashland Gazette, comments upon a recent movement to bring new industries to Ashland, calling attention to the fate of small communities which waited too long to diversify their source of income. He wiites as follows: “A lot of communities of our size or there abouts scramble madly to diversify the sources of their income, but too late. Sloth and lethargy in many cases have resulted in a town dying as a trading and community center. When the collapse of the town becomes clear, committees are organ ized to do something about it. Usually they can not.” No doubt hundreds of persons will throng the streets tonight (Thursday) for the annual yuletide window unveiling. Coming up next week are bo gus dollar days under the auspices of the Cham ber of Commerce. ___ Every time the government gets into the business of trying to distribute the milk of human kindness, the milk turns sour. There is no substi tute for individual responsibility. Sometimes the Thanksgiving turkey lasts longer than normally would be expected. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, Nebr. Established in 1880 — Published Each Thursday _____ « Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt coun ty, 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; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided on request. All subscriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,463 (Mar. 31, 1955) When You and I Were Young . . . Irish Martyrs Honored in Omaha Jury Acquits Sunday Ball Team 50 Years Ago A jury of 12 men, good and true, acquitted the Fremont ball team, which was charged with violating the statute by playing baseball on Sunday. . . Will Da vis, a former O’Neill typograph ical artist, is spending the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis. . . The entertainment given by the ladies of the Episco pal church was a successfu af fair. . . Mrs. L. G. Gillespie is visiting in Tilden. . . Ben F. Con ant of McHenry N.D., and Maud Waring of Middlebranch were married. . . The United Irish so cieties of Omaha and South Om aha joined in a memorial dem onstration in commemoration of the martyrs, Manchester, Al len, Larkin and O’Brien. Speaker of the evening was E. H. Whelan of O’Neill. . . A dance was given at the McKathnie home. 20 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Gillespie returned home from Lincoln, where he had been the past five weeks attending the special ses sion of the legislatue. . . The ladies of the city are soliciting funds and new and used toys to enable the children of the less fortunate to have a nice Christ mas. . . C. B. Yamell, local man- ' ager of the Golden Rule store, was m an automobile accident south of Atkinson while returning home from a state managers’ meeting at Holdrege. . . Consid erable excitement was created in the southeastern part of the coun ty when it was reported that a little boy was lost in the sand hills. Crowds of fanners were out looking for'the lad. He was found asleep in a sand blowout. The little boy is the three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Miller, who live on the Garver place southwest of Ewing. . . Mrs. Josephine Peshek, 70, died in the local hospital following an operation for the removal of a foot. 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Allen Van Vleck of Woodbine, Wash., arrived here and will make their home in O’ Neill. . . Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mc Kenna and son of Lincoln came to spend Thanksgiving here. . . After more than half a century, R. E. Chittick of Stuart has sold his drug store and retired from an active life that involved not only his personal business prob lems but a great interest in the public affairs of the community. . . . Margaret Thornton and Clay Johnson were married. . . The girls’ interest group met at the Reverend Kattner residence in Page. . . Biglin Brothers were notified of the death of Margaret Gibbons at her home in Butte, Mont. . . Twenty-two ladies rep resenting nine project or women’s clubs, met at the assembly room of the courthouse. One Year Ago The high school pep club at Inman sponsored a penny carni val. . . Col. Evar Peterson, assist ant administrative officer for the Nebraska national guard, confer red with a Chamber of Commerce group here. Possibility of estab lishing an armored tank guard company was discussed. . . No one was hurt when an O’Neill-bound bus from Valentine overturned on slippery U.S. highway 20 east of Stuart. . . Mrs. Clayton Johnson of Orchard left for St. Louis, Wash., to join her husband, who is stationed there. . . Mrs. Nora Henderson of Page observed her 83d birthday anniversary. Real Estate Transfers WD—F. J. Gilg to Wendell J. Nelson or wf 8/30/55 $400-Lot 1 Gilg & Swenson’s subdivision-O’ Neill. WD—Frank LeMunyan to Ro bert E. LeMunyan & wf 11/21/55 $9,000-E% 5-28-15. r—— Morris Pongratz Heads Club— The Grattan Flats 4-H club held a meeting Friday, November 18, at the home of Richard Ernst. Members received their achieve ment day ribbons and Holt coun ty fair money. The club received 15 blue ribbons, 10 red and 11 white ribbons, and $33.80 in award money. Officers were elected: Morris Pongratz, president; Barbara Way man, vice-president; Richard Ernst, secretary; V e 1 d a Ernst, treasurer; Connie Brockman, news reporter. Projects for next year include birds, entomology, sewing, health, tractor, garden, calf and “Let’s Help Mom and Dad.” Next meet ing will be in January.—By Bar bara Wayman, news reporter. Chambers News Thanksgiving day guests in the Alvin Tangeman home were Mr. and Mrs. Jerald McClenahan and two sons of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tangeman and son of Scottsbluff, Mr. and Mrs. Arlin Tangeman and two sons of Lodge Pole and James Tangeman of Lincoln. Thanksgiving day dinner guests in the H. C. Walter home were Marilyn Walter of Sioux City, Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert Hoge and family, John Walter, sr., and Mrs. Al Dierking. Mrs. Sarah Adams of Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Christianson and family of Ewing and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Adams of Atkinson spent Thanksgiving in the Robert Turner home at Grand Island. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stevens, accompanied by Mrs. William Turner, drove to Grand Island on Friday. The Stevenses went on to Polk to get her mother, Mrs. Rowena Larson, and returned to Chambers. Mrs. Turner remained in Grand Island visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner, and family. On Sunday, Mr. Turner and son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Thomson, the baby and daughter, Susan, drove to Grand Island and brought Mrs. Turner home. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Penner of Lincoln spent Thanksgiving wttAtuu wnu lid pcUCUtd, 1V1X. and Mrs. Joe Daas. Mr. Penner attends the state university. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McClen ahan and two sons of Omaha spent the weekend with his par Clenahan, and Jack and her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Omar Mc ents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Tange man, and Kay. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Young and two sons spent Thanksgiving with their son and daughter-i^i law, Mr. and Mrs. Francis YouAg, and family at Kearney. Mrs. Hugo Sprecher of Ogden, la., was a weekend guest in the Duane Summerer home. Mrs. Joe Daas taught the Val ley Center school Monday as Mrs. K. N. Adams, the teacher, was ill. Thanksgiving day guests in the E. R. Carpenter home were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Medcalf, Bobby and Kathy of Sioux City, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stevens, Cherilyn and Terry and Mrs. Herbert Stevens of Atkinson and M. E. Carpenter of Chambers. Thanksgiving day guests in the Wayne Smith home were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Peltzer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walter and Mrs. James Platt of Chambers, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shonka of Burwell. Mrs. C. E. Tibbets had as her guests for Thanksgiving dinner Mr. and Mrs. Tom Osborne of Wisner, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Os borne and Sharon of Winner, S.D., Mrs. Genevieve Bell of Ne ligh, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Os borne and family of Atkinson and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Osborne and family of Chambers. Guests in the E. H. Medcalf home on Thnaksgiving day were Mr. and Ms. Norman Medcalf and children and M. and Mrs. i Allen Mller and family of At kinson, M. and Ms. P. T. Avard and Patty of St. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Ben W. Medcalf and chil dren of Sioux City and Mrs. Wil liam Medcalf of Chambers. Marilyn Walter, student nurse at- Sioux City, spent Thanksgiv ing weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Walter, and boys. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Hodgkin and children, Judy Jo and A. J., of Denver, Colo., were Thanksgiving weekend guests of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Hodgkin. Vivian Harley came from Sew ard, where she is attending col lege, to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Harley. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Carpenter and M. E. Carpenter were in Ne ligh and Oakdale Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor of Appleton, Wise., came Tuesday, November 22, and visited with his father, Isaac Taylor, his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Taylor, and fam ily and brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Green, and children. All were dinner guests Thanksgiving day in the Glen Taylor home. Mr. and Mrs. William Turner accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Larson of Page to Ainsv/orth last Thursday where they spent the day with Mrs. Walt Synder. Mrs. Synder is Mrs. Larson’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harley vis ited their son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Duke Struebing, and family at Grand Island Sun day. Ronnie and Ellen McKay of O’Neill spent Monday and Tues day with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harley, while their parents were in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thorin and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Winter mote and Norma Rae spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Thorin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson, at Ewing. Anoka Marine in Big Exercise— ANOKA—A major amphibious exercise involving 25,000 marines, 20,000 navy personnel, 300 air craft and 125 ships, was complet ed November 18 off California. Among those who took part with the First marine division, Camp Pendleton, Calif., was Ma rine Cpl. John M. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Anderson of Rt. 1, Anoka, and husband of the former Miss Arlene R. Seeba of Guide Rock. O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Prescott of Hartington were Saturday callers at the Marvin Anderson home. They went on to Johnstown to visit Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Day and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O’ Hara and family. They were ac companied by Mrs. Bertha Pres cott. Venetian blinds, prompt deliv ery, made to measure, metal or wood all colors. — J. M. McDon alds. tf Mr. and Mrs. Russell Yusten were in Wagner, S.D., Saturday on business and were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nohr and family. Charles Marston of Dorsey was a Thanksgiving dinner guest at the Harden Anspach home. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Anderson spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyers and family at Atkinson. Thanksgiving dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Yusten were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd John son and family and Don Van Bur ens. The Johnson family were also supper guests. Alice’s Beauty Shop (In Former Apparel Shop Location) . : Phone 263 — O’Neal Round bales are easy to handle and feed — no broken bales, no loose hay, no tangled wires or twine. No matter how many tons you put in the bam, every bale will come out whole and firm. You couldn’t buckle a round bale even if you tried.- Drop ’em in the mow from a hay fork if you like. They just don’t fall apart. Best of all, round bales are better feed. Leaves are rolled inside... safe from shattering and weather. 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