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Praineland Talk . . .
Challenge Arouses Bravery
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—Fifty-six years ago an advertise- i
ment in a London, England, newspaper read: Men |
wanted for hazardous journey, small wages. The
advertisement mentioned some of the difficulties,
bitter cold, dangers, months in the dark, safe re
turn not likely, but honor and fame if successful. It
was signed by Ernest Shackleton, explorer of Arc
tic regions. It seemed anything but attractive, yet
there were many applicants to join the group for
the “hazardous journey.” A challenge to courage
ever has its appeal.
When I was a lad in the long ago in the Wis
consin community where we lived, if a kid want
ed to pick a fight with another
lad he put a chip on his shoulder
and dared the lad to knock it off.
The dare was always met by the
chip being dislodged, accompan
t ied by a punch in the snoot of
the challenger. There is some
thing about a challenge that
arouses the bravery of men. Ad
venture, hazards, dangers are an
incentive to do and dare. Diffi
culties, problems, the element of
chance brings out the heroic in
men. A song writer makes this Romalne
appeal: Dare to be a Daniel, dare Saunders
to stand alone, dare to have a purpose firm and
dare to make it known!
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Down the highway of time the seasons come
and go, the hand that formed the lily has given
us the snow\ When it is gone green verdure will
adorn the lawn. Bud and blossom and leaf-deck
ed tree are pleasant things to see, and waving
fields of grain and stacks of new mown hay out
where countless herds are feeding all the live
long day. Then autumn tints and diamondstud
ded dawn too grand to tell. And so it’s nature’s
changing scene that inspires this bit of doggerel!
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Maybe there is a corporal’s guard in and
around O’Neill who were here in February, 1903,
when P. J. Handley of Spencer returned to his first
love and spent a day of two in O'Neill. Clyde
King was out from Moline, 111., for a week’s so
journ with home folks and friends. C. H. Stowell,
postmaster at Francis, Wheeler county, had busi
ness in O’Neill J. J. Dishner of Columbus, a broth
er of F. J. of O’Neill, put up with Frank overnight.
" Charles Cole was in Amelia looking after business
and visiting his sister. Judge and Mrs. Dickinson
of Omaha spent a few days in O’Neill at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. S. J. Weekes. L. C. Chap
man and Capt. R. F. Cross were “down from At
kinson Monday.” R. R. Dickson said he would pay
$5 for the return of his “black and white pointer
dog.” A farewell party was held at the Odd Fellows
hall for Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Newell, who were leav
ing for Seattle, Wash.
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Out there in Hollywood, Calif., the movie and
TV center, surprising things may show up on the
screen. Recently at a “queen” doings a woman
came into the picture, her head thrown back like
a trotting horse tight-reigned and a weight down
behind so she could not lower her head. The mas
. ° ter-of-ceremonies inquired into her condition and
was told she fell last April on the street wnen in
Atkinson, injury resulting to her vertebra. She
had memories of Atkinson.
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Industry in Russia, we are told, is now a
near approach to our own. So the Muscovites
have gone capitalistic, too!
Explanations, investigations, ghost hunts and
all disclosures considered, still there will be lin
gering questions in the minds of any who care a
rap about it why John M. Neff, an attorney down
at Lexington, should toss $2,500 at a South Dakota
senator to add to his “campaign fund.’’ A lawyer
has the privilege of ducking behind the shadow of
a client. This Mr. Neff has done and assures us the
campaign gesture had no bribery significance as
related to a bill before the senate. Charitable cit
izens trust that is so. Mr. Neff is said to be record
ed as a lobbyist at our statehouse in behalf of Tex
as oil and gas interests, his client. Politicians are
ever ready to make mountains out of mole hills.
Lexington, the countyseat of Dawson county, is
in the news otherwise. A gifted lady of the com
munity, Mrs. Barmore, heads a group of Nebraska
women crusading for the elimination of publica
tions dealing in smut.
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A once notable, Thomas E. Dewey, thinks
the country is sunk unless Ike can be persuaded
to serve a second term. As a nation we are old
enough to furnish any number of capable natives
to take on the job of president.
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A husband and father had secured work after
weeks of job hunting. The wife and mother of the
one little child of the couple were awaiting the ar
rival home in the evening of the husband and
father to join them at the table loaded with good
things that had been made possible when the first
pay check came in. A messenger came to that
home to tell the waiting wife that her husband
fallen from a high point on a building where he
was working and had been killed. A Nebraska farm
wife and mother went to the bam to call her teen
age son who had gone out to fix something under
neath the car. She found her son under the car
crushed to death, the jack having failed to hold.
Why the sting of crushing sorrow lurking every
wh ~e?
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Two young fellows who had tasted the fruits
plucked from the forbidden walks of life and were
serving time in the state prison for a none-too
serious offense against ordered society, while en
joying the confidence of prison guards as “trusties”
walked away, added another crime to their life’s
record, tasted the sweet morsel of freedom,
shackled by the fear of being seen, for one night.
In the morning of what they planned that the sun
would rise on a day of liberty, police officers
at St. Joseph, Mo., caught one hiding on the roof
of a building, the other huddled in a truck. A
lengthened term now begins behind prairieland
prison bars.
* * *
If you have lived to be the last of the family
tree, and now at 83 are heart-whole and fancy
free; so, when you have died, earth’s smiles and
tears end for your tribe.
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Roy Cochran, 13 years at a government desk
in Washington, D.C., at one time our governor and
before that as a highway engineer “chewing the
rag” with Supervisor Jesse James over the Holt
county end of highway 11 from Burwell to Atkin
son, is back in Lincoln. Pat Kennedy, after basking
in Arizona and California sunshine for some
months, is back in Amelia. Farmers seem to be
satisfied with their “deplorable condition.” A prai
rieland patriot just acquired an 80-acre farm down
in Burt county at $300 an acre. No place quite
equal to Nebraska.
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Will There Be Another Mitchell?
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“The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell,” the
story of a martyr for the cause of air power, grip
ped hundreds of theater-goes here this week. The
film play, although not historically accurate in
every detail, unmercifully chided army and navy
brass for beating down their infant air arm while
trying to protect appropriations and prestige of
their own services.
The Royal theater’s film play was high drama
most of the way, pointing up the frugal existence
of the army’s “air corps” in those years following
World War I during which our victorious armies
were hastily demobilized and, in “friendly aciton,”
we sank much of our navy. The war had been
fought to end all wars.
Mitchell, a son of a New York senator, an air
hero in France, and a professional soldier, put his
career on the line to tell his countrymen about the
complacency in the army and navy department
high commands. He clearly violated military law
to spread the story. He was ridiculed in the court
martial by telling the court that aircraft in the
“foreseeable future” would fly faster than sound
and would be carrying bombs, passengers and car
goes across the continents and across the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans in a matter of hours.
Mitchell was found guilty and he was stripped
of rank and uniform. President Calvin Coolidge
later intervened and suspended the sentence.
Mitchell, an unrelenting exponent of air power,
made the headlines for months. He died in 1936
on his Virginia farm w'here he raised livestock and
potatoes.
Unification of the services is said to have
taken place about 10 years ago. But one wonders
if' the die-hard professionals of the Billy Mitchell
era have changed much. We know there are co
; lossal expenditures in research, purchasing, etc.,
conducted separately by the services in this jet and
hydrogen age. And we wonder if another martyr
like Mitchell must come along before there is final
and pure unification.
15 Ways to Ruin Your Town
j 1. Don’t say anything good about your town.
Be the first to point up its shortcomings.
2. Refuse to work on any committee. Tell them
“I’m too busy.” Anyway, it’s easier to criticize
than to help do things.
3. Squawk about your taxes, then fuss because
the streets are not kept up.
4. Talk cooperation, but don’t do any work for
your town unless you get paid for it.
5. Look at every proposition in a selfish way.
Never consider what it will do for the town as a
whole.
6. Don’t support your local retail stores and
industries. Claim the prices and services of other
towns are better.
7. Don’t do anything for the youth of your
town. Think of them as potential delinquents. En
courage them to move away when they grow up.
8. Write unsigned letters to The Frontier ed
itor, demanding more for your money from the
city council, school board, or county commission
ers, instead of attending their meetings.
9. Demand special treatment from your police
department. Raise cain if anybody expects you to
obey traffic and parkling laws.
10. Accuse anybody who serves in an elected
office of being a publicity seeker (or a crook).
11. Never attend any meetings called for the
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good of the town. If you do, don’t have anything
to say, then find fault afterward with everything
that was done.
12. Don’t attend your church regularly. Your
contributions at Christmas and Easter will support
it easily.
13. Don’t take time to vote in local elections.
Howl because the town is run by a clique.
14. If you have good town leaders, don’t com
mend them for the things they do. Take a jealous
attitude and say nothing.
15. Don’t do any more than you have to to
support your civic clubs, Parent-Teachers’ associa
tion, Boy Scouts, firemen, etc. Others will willing
ly and unselfishly give their time and money to
make your town a better place in which to work
and live.
In this great land of ours an almost anony
mous small-town Nebraska attorney can become
a national figure overnight. We refer, of course, to
John Neff’s appearance in the capitol before the
senate committee and the source of the 25 one
hundred-dollar bills bestowed upon South Dakota’s
Senator Case.
This prince is giving out statements about
what Grace Kelly will and won’t do after they get
married, and in this town there have been a lot
of wedding presents that had to be send back just
on account of stuff like that.
A magazine article claims that a man who
doesn’t smoke, drink, keep late hours, steal glances
at pretty girls or overeat, can look forward to a
long life. But why?
The upcoming O’Neill and Atkinson basket
ball tournaments for high school teams, class B
and C, respectively, signal that spring is not far
behind.
Come now some teenage boys wearing bleach
in their hair. One blond school kid, we under
stand, intends to transform his thatch into red.
An outstate paper remarks how good the two
flies aboard Noah’s Ark had it. They had a horse
apiece.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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—2,530 (Sept. 30, 1955)
Out-of-School Class in Progress
Handicraft classes are one of the many phases of the Nebraska
school for community living now in progress for out-of-school youth
at the University of Nebraska. Projects include everything from
ceramics to leather tooling. Hard at work (left-to-right) are: Shir
ley Ross of O’Neill, Mrs. Tom Sheffrey of the university extension
division, Donnar Mailer of Oakland, LaVerne Speckman of Elk
Creek and Tom Straka of Lexington.—U of N Photo.
When You and I Were Young . . .
R. A. Haskins Plans
Stuart Newspaper
Publication Will Be
Called Advocate
50 Years Ago
R. A. Haskins has made ar
rangements to start a newspaper
at Stuart, to be known as the Stu
art Advocate. Haskins is a Stuart
boy but has been in Boyd county
a few years. . . Mike Flannigan
was called to Iowa by a telegram
informing him of the illness of
his wife, who went to Des Moines
to visit her parents. . . Mrs. Nels
E. Cain, 39, died at her home.
She was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Thompson, who were
among the earliest settlers along
the Eikhorn river east of O’Neill.
. . . Miss Sadie Skirving went to
Lincoln to complete her steno
graphical education. . . The mem
bers of the Presbyterian church,
assisted by some of the best mu
sical talent in O’Neill, will give a
musical entertainment at the Op
era house for the benefit of the
church.
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20 Years Ago
Another blizzard reached here,
making all roads impassible. . . i
While coming to work, Dean
Streeter froze the fingers on both
hands badly, which will cause
him to refrain from attending to
his duties in his barbershop. . .
William Murray of O'Neill and
Yvonne Breiner were married at
Emmet. . . George Geary, one of
the pioneer residents of Inman
township, died at his home six
miles south of Inman. . . Mrs. F.
M. Meyer entertamed the ETO
club at her home with bridge and
a luncheon. . . The fire alarm
shrieked its warning about 6:10
a.m., with the temperature well
below zero. Some ashes dumped
near some boards in the furnace
room of the Golden hotel caused
a small fire.
107 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Gillette
are rejoicing over the arrival of a
baby son. . . The Eagle Creex <i-H
club met at the J. B. Mellor home
with all members present, lmo
gene Lanman was voted in as a
ne\y member. . . Frank D. How
ard, one of the pioneer residents
of this city, died at his home af
ter an illness of several months.
. . . Miss Grace Martin of Dallas,
Tex., and Virgil J. Chase of Page
were married at the Evelyn Gray
home at Page. . . The O’Neill high
school and community will be
host to two basketball tourna
ments in the next few weeks.
These will be the “B” and “C”
classes of thifc district. . . St.
Mary’s basketball team traveled
to Atkinson to lose to a powerful!
St. Joseph team, 34-22.
One Year Ago
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce voted unanimously to
recommend a two-hour parking
limit for the consideration of the
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city council. . . Edward Hagen
sick, 79, of O’Neill was struck by
a car driven by John Plessel. The
accident occured near the corner
of Eighth and Benton streets. . .
Mail service to northwestern Ne
braska will be discussed with
postal officials at Omaha by
members of the Save-the-trains
association. . . Holt and Boyd
county bankers were awarded
commendation certificates b y
Mayor Glen Cunningham, former
Omaha mayor, who is now head
of the U. S. saving bond sales in
Nebraska. . . The youth fellow
ship of the Stuart Community
church held vesper service at the
church. Rev. D. D. Su led the
worship.
Jerry Schaaf Heads
Elkhorn Club—
The Elkhorn Valley 4-H club
held its reorganization meeting
Sunday, February 5, at the Her
man Grothe home. Thirteen mem
bers were present.
Newly elected officers are: Jer
ry Schaaf, president; Donald
Schaaf, vice-president; Kathleen
Grothe, secretary-treasurer; Mau
reen Schaaf, news reporter; Lynn
Gallagher, song pleader; Terry
Gallagher, recreation leader.
Next meeting will be held
March 4 at the Elmer Schaaf
home. — By Maureen Schaaf,
news reporter.
MNO Extension
Club Formed—
The MNO Extension club was
organized Tuesday, Feb. 7, at the
Duane Gray home. Officers are:
Mrs. Richard McLain, president;
Mrs. Joe Tennis, vicepresident;
Mrs. C. R. Foree, secretary
treasurer; Mrs. Arnott Buxton,
song leader; Mrs. Duane Gray,
publicity.
Mrs. C. R. Hill and Mrs Joe
Tennis gave a demonstration on
deep fat frying.
It Happened In NEBRASKA—
The problem of keeping an adequate water supply at frontier army poets was even
more difficult after the regulations of 1841. These required soldiers to bathe once
a week, wash their feet twice a week! The men bathed in the dining room after
[supper, using half-barrels for tube.
DID YOU EVER NOTICE—when folks are gathered
to hear old stories like this, or to discuss yesterday’s
game—a refreshing glass of beer makes the party so
much more enjoyable? For beer is a friendly beverage.
It tastes so good—fits every occasion. Enjoy it!
NEBRASKA DIVISION • U. S. BREWERS FOUNDATION, 710 first Nat l Bank Bldg., Lincoln, Nobr.
Roseler-Ruff Rites
Scheduled in Oregon—
BASSETT—Mrs. Harold Shaw
has received word that her niece,
Miss Lois Jean Roseler, will be
come the bride of Michael L.
Ruff at Salem, Ore., on Saturday,
March 3. The rite will take place
in the First Methodist church.
Miss Roseler is the oldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Roseler.
For many years her father was
employed by the Merri Bottling
works in O’Neill.
Miss Roseler has been employ
ed by an insurance company in
San Francisco, Calif., since her
graduation.
Letters to Editor
Butte, Nebr.
February 9
Editor, The Frontier
Dear Sir:
See in today’s Frontier a pic
ture of an army tank. What in
the world do you need a thing
like that in O’Neill for? Surely
you don’t expect an Indian up
rising or something like that!
I admit I am dumb, but I hope
you can put me wise on this
tank deal. Maybe it is just some
thing for the men to play war
games with.
N. C. ANDERSEN
Leader Distributes
80 Ribbons—
INMAN — The Victory Boys’
and Girls’ 4-H club held its first
monthly meeting at the school on
Sunday, January 29. After the
regular business meeting, Mrs.
Walt Fick, leader, handed out a
total of 80 ribbons won by the
members during 1955. The club
voted to give $5 to the polio fund.
Next meeting will be February
26 in the afternoon at the school.
—By Bob Ruther, news reporter.
Make Plans for
Blue and Gold Banquet—
Cub Scouts, den 2, met Feb
ruary 8 after school and discuss
ed the display in the J. M. Mc
Donald Co. window.
Next week we will work on
decorations for the blue and gold
banquet to be held this month.
We gave the living circle and
had cookies for lunch.—By Mike
Gallagher.
Serves in Far East—
ATKINSON — Serving aboard
the destroyer USS Alfred A
Cunningham, a unit of destroyer
squadron 13, in the Far East is
Eugene H. Wahl, radarman sec
ond class, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Wahl of Atkinson.
Venetian blinds, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal or
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
alds. tf
Paul Shierk
INSURANCE AGENCY
O’NEILL, NEBR.
Insurance of All
Kinds
Res. Ph. 235
Legal Notices
(First pub. Feb. 16, 1956)
Fromkin & Fromkin, Attorneys
Omaha, Nebraska
Julius D. Cronin, Attorney
O’Neill, Nebr.
NOTICE OF GUARDIAN’S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
DOUGLAS COUNTY, NE
BRASKA.
In the Matter of the Application
of CATHRYN ADLER, Guard
ian of the Estate and person of
William J. Douglas, an Incom
petent for leave to sell Real
Estate.
Doc 473 No 63
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of a license issued to me,
Cathryn Adler, Guardian of the
person and estate of William J.
Douglas, an Incompetent, by the
Honorable James M. Patton, a
Judge of the District Court of
Douglas County, Nebraska, on the
10th day of October, 1955, for the
sale of the real estate hereinaf
ter described, I will sell at pub
lic vendue to the highest bidder
for cash, at the front door of the
Court House in the City of O’
Neill, in Holt County, Nebraska,
on the 12th day of March, 1956,
at the hour of 11:00 A.M., the fol
lowing described real estate, to
wit:
The entire interest in and to
the North 12 feet of Lot 19, and
all of Lots 20 and 21, Morning
side Addition to Atkinson, Holt
County, Nebraska.
Said sale to remain open one
hour.
Dated this 15th day of Febru
ary, 1956.
CATHRYN ADLER,
GUARDIAN
of the person and estate of
William J. Douglas,
an Incompetent. 42-45
Rex W. Wilson,
M.D.
Robert M. Langdon,
M.D.
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
128 W. Douglas St.. O’Neill
Phone 138
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DR. H. D. GILDERSLEEVE
OPTOMETRIST
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Northeast Corner
of 4th & Douglas
O’NEILL, NEBB.
Phone 167
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Admission: Adults, $1 ; Students, 50c
Household Goods
AT AUCTION
AS WE ARE moving to West Virginia., we will sell at public
auction the following described personal property on the
premises, located one block east of the Lohaus Motor Co., in
O’Neill and three blocks south OR three blocks south of the
Library Corner, on —
Saturday, Feb. 18th
SALE STARTS AT 1:30 P.M.
Couch and Chair Electric Ice Cream . ,
Platform Rocker Freezer
Coffee Table (two matching Baby Bed
stands) Kitchen Stool
Maytag Washing Machine . ,
Floor Lamp Chjld s Sted
High Chair Child’s Large Blackboard
Blond Bedroom Suite on Stand
Clothes Hamper Extra Chairs
Bed and Springs Upright Secretary Desk
Gym Set Fruit Jars
5-Pc. Chrome Breakfast Set Dishes
Small Cabinet Snow Shovel
TERMS: Strictly Cash
John Thomas, Own.
COL. ED THORIN, O’Neill, Auctioneer
DON FRANKLIN, Clerk
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