Prairieland Talk ...
Lincoln Favored by Experts
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—Lincoln is one of the country’s fa
vored communities visited by the experts that fly
here and there to tell we plebians all about it.
One such recently to talk in Lincoln comes
from Southern California and bears the title of
doctor, not an M.D. or Ph.D., but a “plant physiol
ogist,” if you know what that is.
The homesteaders south of the Elkhom in the
Dry creek flats knew nothing of
“plant physiology,” but they
knew how to plant seed, cultivate
the growing plants, gather the
ripened fruitage and haul off
wagon loads of fine potatoes such
as only sandy loam can produce.
The cow men beyond the Dry
creek country jiever heard of
price supports or meat eaters’
conventions; they just looked af
ter their herds and traded in the
fall roundup of beeves for what
ever the market afforded. Romaine
The gentleman from the Cal- Saunders
ifomia center of such learning says climate has
has more to do with taste of food products than do
soil and water. Maybe that explains why a Califor
nia-produced vegetable or fruit is a beauty to be
Q hold but tasteless as a stick of basswood.
If you want a good spud or tomato or melon,
pluck it where it grows on sandy land in Holt
county.
The message of scientific men traveling about
has an appeal. How many of us hear the cries of
hungry children in distant lands where famine and
disaster have struck. Visit m distant lands of Af
rica. Hear the cry, “Hobus!” coming from starving
children, from gaunt mothers and hungry fathers.
Hobus—bread, food, something to eat. Or across in
o Asia, in sorrowing Korea, in flood and storm
wrecked portions of the earth. The hungry and
homeless and gownless! It is for the relief of such
that my churctf leaders have appointed a day for
all to bring their offering. I will do my part to
pass a loaf to that little starving lass in famine
land!
Holt ^county’s share of the $3,040,757 of state
•ehool funds is $57,457. Boyd county gets $20,
596; Wheeler county, $9,061; Garfield county,
$11,226; Rock county, $35,118. The money comes
from school land leases and liquor licenses.
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Eighty years ago there was one telephone, the
creation of a Yankee. Today there are 95 million
telephones in use the world over. . . The Kansas
judge who sentenced those four Iowa adventurers
to 30 days in jail rfers to them as “badly spoiled
little girls.” . . The sandhills cowboy blew his
top mstead of bowing out gracefully for the for
farm woman to step up with a fat hen for Vice
Presilent Nixon’s plate at the GOP founders' day
banquet. Yes, we are the Beef State, but we also
raise chickens, for the most part the care and pride
of prairieland sisters of the soil. . . Another course
has been added in public schools — stuff the stu
o dents with hog meat at the lunch hour. . . Turning
to the back page of the first section of the Lincoln
0 Sunday paper this morning, I met Editor Cal of
The Frontier pictured along with a story of Save
the-Trains, of which Mr. Stewart has been an ac
tive promoter. O’Neill for years had six passenger
trains daily. Those days north-Nebrsskans got to
Lincoln by train. Now they can not come to the
capital city direct by train without going into
Omaha.
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Another magninficent school building has re
cently been dedicated in southeast Lincoln. Clergy
men, public officials and school teachers perform
ed the rites of the dedication, while hundreds of
fathers and mothers visited the wonders of this
modern temple of learning which has 118,518
square feet of floor space and was built at a cost
of $1,775,918.11, including equipment and the 37
acres of land comprising the grounds. It is a part
of the school district carrying a six-million-dollar
bond indebtedness.
The town of Tilden, half in Madison county
and the other half in Antelope county, was first
known as Burnett, which got on the map and in
vited public attention, when in 1884 the late Addison
E. Sheldon started a paper there known as the
Burnett Blade. There were newspapers every
where in prairieland those days to get in on the
land notices required to be published, $7 each,
when a homesteader “proved up,” that is, applied
at the government land office at that time in Nio
brara and later in O’Neill for a patent or govern
ment deed to his claim. Mr. Sheldon’s Blade sup
ported the republican candidate for president,
James G. Blain, who was defeated by Grover
Cleveland, the democratic candidate. In later years
as secretary of the Nebraska State Historical soci
ety, Mr Sheldon was a Charley Bryan democrat.
The Blade was a four-page, seven-column sheet,
two pages “patent” and two pages the product of
the editor and his printer. Publishers of weekly pa
pers got $1.50 a year for their literary and news
comments. Sheldon went to Dawes county in 1887
to become a prairieland homesteader and Josiah
Coombs took over the Blade but moved to Boyd
county to start a paper when that strip of the Sioux
reservation was organized as a county.
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Young Nebraskans to the number of 29,000
are interested in 4-H club work and to them
“juvenile delinquency” has no appeal. How many
know what the “H” stands for? I did’t, so called
the ag college. Here it is—H: Head, heart, hand,
health. That covers human aspirations, but for
what it has to do with the cattle industry on
prairieland, ask the kids.
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Prairieland is far removed from Mediterranean
lands. Out of the vaulted blue above us sunbeams
fall upon our fair and peaceful land. In sight of
the restless waters of the Mediterranean or out
upon the islands, Hebrews and Egyptian, Greek
and Roman, Anthony and Cleopatra — scenes of
slaughter throughout the centuries, of romance,
and the pathway across its tossing billows of apos
tles of spiritual life and world conquerors. A
churchman has now been banished from the sea’s
largest island. A beloved disciple of the Dord
spent his last days in exile on a lonely island of
the Mediterranean and wrote the sublime message
that closes the story of redemption. Exile, banish
ment, the stake has awaited many of whom “the
world was not worthy.” “For him who fain would
teadh the world, the world holds hate in fee—
for Socrates, the hemlock cup; for Christ, Geth
semane!”
General Coburn post, Grand Army of the Re
1 public No. 251 will decorate Morquet chapel at
Leonie May 30 ((1903). A general invitation is ex
tended to all to attend and participate.—Hi Hodg
kin, John Hubby, adgt., commander. . . Persons
metioned May 21 of that year: Ed F. Gallagher is
in Omaha on business. N. D. Jackson of Neligh
in the city on business. L. C. Chapman and Alex
Searl down from Atkinson attending court. Miss
Florence Mullen was up from Page. Cashier O’
Donnell of the O’Neill National made a business
trip to Boyd county. Miss Rosa Hudspeth, the ver
satile editor of the Stuart Ledger, paid The Fron
tier a fraternal call. Mrs. William Laviollet visited
friends in Omaha.
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Looking out of the window of youthful vigor
down the highway ahead a writer sees it as a time
of “weariness and monotony of advanced age.” The
golden glow of declining day, the calm of evening,
the beauty of a prairie sunset are symbolic of “ad
vaced age,” which need not bring either weari
ness or monotony, but life’s period of peace and rest
after days and years of battling for an existence.
The happiest guy I know of is in his 91st year and
doesn’t own a nickel’s worth of property. Now,
too, churchmen seek to unite all faiths. There will
be no unity because this is an age when men and
women think. States talk peace. No peace because
all want it their way. Are you headed for the
“weariness and monotony” of advanced age? You
have seen life, you have memories—rejoice!
Editorial ....
Profiting from Uncertainty
Those who make a business of guessing about
politics owe much to Mr. Eisenhower. For a year
they profited from the uncertainty as to whether
he would run again. After that was settled he
seemed willing to play the guessing game with
them about frlr. Nixon and the vice-presidency.
But now he has dealt them a cruel blow: He will
have nothing more to say on “that subject until
after August.”
At least once a week it had been possible
for newsmen and columnists to concoct intricate
interpretations of press conference remarks. They
would unreel finespun theories that the white
house wanted to test opposition to the vice-presi
dent—or that the republicans were faking uncer
o tainty to deprive the democrats of a single, fixed
C target.
Now the political prophets are interpreting the
president’s latest statement — that he would be
“happy to be on any political ticket” with Mr. Nix
on—as handing the nomination to the Californian.
But already it is being pointed out that Mr. Eisen
hower did not say, “I want Dick Nixon for vice
president.” The guessers are not easily stopped.
Next week they may avoid any mention of the
vice-president and merely ask, “Mr. President,
would you be happy to be on any political ticket
with Governor Herter—or Former Governor Dew
ey—or Secretary Humphrey?”
Can he say anything but “yes” and open it all
° up again?
To be sure the vice-presidency has assumed new
importance in recent months, largely due to the
ability pf Dick Nixon. Much more attention has been
given the office. Time was when the vice-presi
dential candidate simply went along for the ride.
Not so now that Nixon has so greatly enhanced the
prestige of the post.
Now We Need Something Else
Many, many farmers have come to agree with
the Benson statement that if rigid price supports
were the answer to the farm problem there would
be no farm problem now.
Rigid price supports were just the thing when
they were first devised and for the purpose for
which they were applied, to encourage high pro
duction in war time when the desire was for every
bushel that every available acre would produce.
Our trouble was that we clung to it too long after
the emergency was over. The people for whom we
raised that food now howl to high heaven if we
even speak of giving it to their people. They have
their economics to think about.
So let’s forget the political aspect and real
statesmen of both parties get together on a farm
bill that will really put the farmer on a firm
0 foundation.
The big people in this world usually leave off
the big titles.
I Miscellany: Ever see such an Impressive array
I of pens and pencils in a single shirt pocket as ex
| hibited regularly by Richard (“Dick”) Perry, O’
Neill postoffice clerk? . . Somebody suspended a
deer head from the flagpole at the O’Neill school
auditorium. . . What’s in a nickname — “Kelsey”
Coyne, “Babe” Kilpatrick, “Chick” Cronin,
“Chickie” Artus, “Boy” Gatz, “Chaw” McManus,
“Duke” Kersenbrock, “Hap” Miles, “Deed” Mur
phy, “Curley” Washacheck, etc?
Can you top this? Within the current school
year, Billy Van Every, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Van Every, has had whooping cough, measles,
chickenpox, mumps. Dick Mace, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Amie Mace, jr., has had mumps, chickenpox
and measles—in quick succession.
Some childhood diseases seem to be losing
their virulence, but a check of the advice to the
lovelorn columns indicates that 14-year-old girls
suffer as much as ever from the three-day heart
break.
Better load up the family for that last one- or
two-day fling because the spring work, baby chicks
and windup of school affairs are just around the
comer.
Students of O’Neill’s two high schools sat in
during a jury trial in Holt county district court
recently—a fascinating lesson in civics.
Initiative is a combination of brains and en
ergy, but blah-blah-and-bustle can sometimes fool
people.
Now that winter is officially past, we can give
serious thought to our spring and summer plans.
Municipal elections in Nebraska cities and
towns are just around the comer.
Frontier
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt coun
ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under
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Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,530 (Sept 30, 1955)
When Yon and I Were Young . .,
‘See America First’
Urged by Railroad
St. Pat** Day Not
What Used to Be
50 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Parker
visited in Norfolk at the home of
their daughter. . . Miss Minnie
Mohr of Hainsville was married
to Frank Mott. . . H. A. Trow
bridge of Page completed a house
for James Mullen. . The C&NW
railroad announces a “See Am.
erica First” promotion with a
round trip ticket from Chicago,
111, to all Pacific coast points at
$75 from June until September.
. . . J. P. Mellor arrived home
from Omaha where he had his
appendix removed. . . Denny Hunt
of Atkinson has accepted a posi
tion with the John Deere Plow
company.
20 Years Ago
St. Patrick’s day isn’t what it
used to be. Pat Shea was loyal to
the custom of wearing of the
green and Tom Enright rejoiced
he didn’t have to serve on the
jury that day. . . Mr. and Mrs. H.
G. Asher of Page were here on
business Tuesday and visited Mr.
and Mrs. George Van Every. . .
James Davidson believes he and
Mrs. Davidson hold the record of
any householders in Holt county.
They have never lived in rented
quarters and have never moved
since their marriage in O’Neill
over 40 years ago. They have
raised a family of 11 children
and have 14 grandchildren. . .
Miss Regina C. Ruther, who teach
es near Stuart, spent the weekend
in Inman with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Ruther, sr.
10 Years Ago
St. Joseph’s of Atkinson won
the class C state basketball cham
pionship at Lincoln over St. Fran
cis of Humphrey, 38-33. . . Bob
Parkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.
E. Parkins, was the principle
winner in the Nebraska Inter
collegiate association’s contest in
Lincoln He is eligible to compete
in the national oratorical contest
in Chicago, 111. . . E. J. Mack has
come down from Atkinson to
make his home with his daughter,
Mrs. James W. Rooney.
One Year Ago
George R. Sanders, 84, a Holt
county resident since 1880, died.
. . . Rev. and Mrs. J. LaVeme Jay
returned from Hawaii after a
Christian Advocate tour of two
weeks . . Pfc. Richard D. Hytrek
of Stuart is a member of the hon
or guard of the Fourth infantry
guard in Germany. . . Gustave L.
Hoppe, 88, who resided on a ranch
south of O’Neill, died at his home
in Gordon. . . little Judy Skrdla,
3, died of leukemia in Atkinson.
»
Eagle Bustiers Dairy
Group Elects—
PAGE—The dairy section of the
Eagle Hustlers’ club met at tiie
home of Gerhardt Luebeke Tues
day, March 13.
The following officers were
elected: Charlotte Luebeke, pres
ident; Mary Lou Loubeke, vice
president; Donna Crumly, secre
tary; Joyce Summers, news re
porter, and Janice Crumly, recre
ation leader.
The hostess served lunch.
The next meeting will be at the
Roger Bowen home March 27.
Newly-Bom Sons
Are Named—
Joseph Lod is the name given
the new son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Janousek.
The Don Rileys have named
their new son Thomas Phillip.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cohn have
chosen Mark Jeffrey for a name
for their new son.
The Frank McKennys have
called their new son Thomas
Craig.
Mrs. Underwood’s
Brother Dies—
Mr. and Mrs. John Underwood
and family attended the large fu
neral of her brother, Joe Van Ert,
79, of Norfolk.
Mr. Van Ert, who had been ill
a long time and a patient at Our
Lady of Lourdes hospital in Nor
folk, was buried Saturday from
the Sacred Heart church in Nor
folk.
Complimentary Dinner—
Mrs. C. J. Gatz, president of
the women’s board of the Country
club, and her fellow officers, the
Mesdames Marvin Miller, Dale
French, G. Owen Cole, John G.
Stuifbergen and Verne Reynold
son, had charge of the compli
mentary dinner Wednesday eve
ning.
Honored on 64th
Anniversary—
Vic Halva was surprised Satur
day evening at his home by a
group of his friends in honor of
his 64th birthday anniversary.
The evening was spent in playing
pitch and visiting. A lunch was
served at midnight by the hostess.
Linda Rae Coats
Little Miss Linda Rae Coats
celebrated her eighth birthday
anniversary last Thursday at
a party. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Milford Coats.
McKamys Entertain—
Mr. and Mrs. Don McKamy en
tertained at a St. Patrick’s day
party for five couples.
Mrs. Nelson Hostess—
Mrs. Richard E. Nelson was
hostess to the Bridge club Tues
day evening.
MM Club Meets—
The MM club met on Tuesday,
March 13, with Mrs. Esther C.
Harris.
Ewing News
Callers at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Lee recently were
Theodore Schueth and Ed Fer
guson of Ewing, Henry Drayton
of Orchard and Mr. Hemenway
of Clearwater.
Mrs. Anna Savidge and Mrs.
Floyd Lee made a business trip
to O’Neill Wednesday, March 14.
The Young Matrons Pinochle
club was entertained Tuesday
evening, March 13, at the home
of Mrs. R. H. Shain with Mrs.
Ralph Munn as assisting hostess.
Guests were Mrs. Leland Welke,
Mrs. Archie Tuttle and Mrs.
Charles Rotherham. Score win
ners were Mrs. Welke, Mrs. Tut
tle and Mrs. Arthur Kropp. A
lunch was served by the hostesses.
Mrs. Hazel Kimes and sons,
Dean and Dal, spent Sunday,
March 11, at the home of her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Watson McDonald; and
family. They also attended the
meeting of the Upper Room soci
ety and Methodist Men in the
evening at the Methodist church.
“Distinction Through Acces
sories” was the lesson presented
by Mrs. Lynn Fry when the Seek
and Share club met at the home
of Mrs. William Lofquest Tues
day. March 19. Fourteen members
were present. Craft work was dis
cussed at the business meeting
conducted by the president, Mrs.
Alfred Napier. At the April
meeting, artificial flowers will be
made. Mrs. Melvin Napier and
Mrs. David Anson will be in
charge. Lunch was served by Mrs.
Walter Miller.
Mrs. John Wunner went to Nor
folk and Stanton on Friday to
spend the weekend with relatives.
She returned home Sunday.
Mrs. Jerry Tomjack was sur
prised last Thursday evening
when 25 friends and neighbors
arrived at her home to make the
acquaintance of their infant son,
Steven Jerome. A variety of
games furnished the evening’s en
tertainment. Mrs. Tomjack and
Steven were presented a baby
buggy as a gift. Refreshments
were served by the following
hostesses: Mrs. Richard Edwards,
Mrs. Elvin Hamilton and Mrs.
Archie Tuttle. Out-of-town guests
were Mrs. Everett Taylor and
daughter, Phyllis, of Oakdale,
Mrs. Harold Jacobsen of Harlan,
la., and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack, who
lives in the Deloit neighborhood.
Rex W. Wilson,
M.D.
Robert M. Langdon,
M.D.
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
128 W. Douglas St., O’Neill
Phone 138
Mrs. Elvln Hamilton and daugh
ter, Diana, were guests last Thurs
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Raff at Orchard.
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hamilton
and daughters were 6 o’clock din
ner guests on Monday evening,
March 11, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Max LeMasters.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jacobsen
of Harlan, la., are guests this
week at the home of her niece,
Mrs. Richard Edwards, and fam
ily.
Received a shipment of the new
Winchester model 77 automatic.—
Scovie’s Western Auto, O’Neill.
44-45
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edwards
and daughters, accompanied by
their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Jacobsen of Harlan, la., attended
the Ice Capades in Omaha Tues
day evening, March 13.
Relatives arrived Sunday eve
ning at the Ray lunk home to
join the family in ce ebrating
Ronnie’s third birthday anniver
sary. Ice cream ano cake were
served for refreshments. Present
were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Spittller,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Regan and
family of Ewing, Dr. Leo Spittler
•ind son of Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Doud were
hosts to a one o’clock dinner Sun
day, March 11, at their home,
honoring the birthday anniver
sary of their daughter, Shirley.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Doud and family of Bartlttt.'
Mrs. Ralph Eacker and daugh
ter, Mrs. Gene Ruby, were Neligh
visitors on Monday, March 12.
Mrs. Anna Pollock spent Fri
day and Saturday, March 9-10, at
the home of her son, Don Pollock,
and family at Neligh.
Mrs. Walter Sievers of Omaha
were guests on Monday, March
12, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Nuby and family.
A/2c Max Angus and wife, who
have been guests for a few days
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Angus left re
cently for Milford where they are
guests at the home of his brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Merle Angus. From Milford, they
planned to go to Plainville, Kans.,
to visit Mrs. Angus’ parents pe
fore returning to Smoky Hill
AFB at Salina, Kans., where Air
man Angus is stationed.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Doud and
Shirley were guests Sunday,
March 4, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Doud and family near
Bartlett
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleming
were entertained Thursday eve
ning, March 8, at a 6 o’clock din
ner at the Perry Saiser home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Angus was a
guest last week at the home of her
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
; Mrs. Lloyd Angus. Mrs. Angus
I is convalescing from a recent ill
ness.
a
Dr. Edw. J. Norwood. OJD.
Optometrist.
from Crawford. Nebraska,
will be in O'Neill on
At the Hotel Golden
SATURDAY. MARCH 24
9 AJd. to 5 PJ4.
Eyes Scientifically
Examined
Glasses Properly Fitted
Notice to Taxpayers
Assssment schedules are coming in slowly. In O’Neill ws
have only about 10% of the schedules in and assessing time
is over half gone.
We have plenty of time to assist yon now but we won’t
have the last week. Please cooperate with the assessor and
have your assessing done as early as possible.
All unlicensed trailer houses and motor vehicles must be
listed on personal schedules.
WM. F. WEFSO
Holt County Assessor
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