P tin el and I aik .
Holt Pioneers Remember Den
By ROMAIN'E SAUNDERS. ReUred, Fortner Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—The evening of May 5 he was
struck bv an automobile seven feet from his
dooryard and picked up a broken and bruised old
man and taken to a hospital. One week later. Den
Hunt closed his eyes in death. The funeral was
held Wednesday, May 15, in St. Teresa Catholic
church of which he was a mem- r
. burial in Calvary cemetery t
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m Lincoln,
He is survived by his wife,
the former Nellie Cronin, sis
ter of Dan and Bill Cronin, pio
n<. r> of the O'Neill community;
son. John C of St. Louis, Mo.;
daughter, Eveline Powell of
Wellsvllle, NY: son, George
Hunt of Lincoln, and four
grandchildren All relatives from
out of the state except two
grandsons in Mississippi were Romainc
with Mr?,. Hunt for the funeral Saunders
and for some days previous.
All in the O’Neill community of pioneer days
will remember the Hunt and Cronin families.
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After eight months spent in Scandinavian
lands, a friend is back in Lincoln. He found condi
tions in those countries comparable to our own,
with the American dollar a password admitting
you anywhere. Prices are high, labor unions on
strike and tying up transportation so that he had
difficulty in getting to the sea where he could
board a ship for home. Banks in Copenhagen,
Denmark, pay up to seven percent interest on de
posits and with the Yankee instinct to make a
penny, my friend deposited a few* thousand to
draw that high rate of interest.
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Now that primary election returns from the
various agricultural states have spoken, demo
cratic politicians arc disheartened over the fail
ure of their “farm revolt” preachments to pro
duce results. Mr. Truman dodges It by taking
off for a sojourn in Europe.
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A neighbor came over to borrow a spade. A
professional gent, but explained he learned to use
a >pade on a farm up in Butler county digging post
holes, just this evening would plant a tree. Across
the street at Sally’s there has been hedgerow'
trimming today. On up the street a property own
er is offering her apartment house for sale for 30
grand The night nurse next door is still at rest.
Promoting the candidacy of a friend for tomor
row's primary, Prairieland Talker hands out cards.
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The individual who keeps busy accomplishing
worthwhile things is a target for the envious
critic who does nothing.
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The lawyer defends the criminal, seeks to
ti msform legal penalty into mollifying ointment.
That is professional service—for a fee. The private
tizen defends the criminii, belittles the crime
Ttie nidge frees the prisoner w'ho he feels in his
soul is guilty. That is judicial duty.
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This is the time of the year to make plans
for that summer vacation, which is only a few
months away.
From a field of seven candidates. Fern Hub- j
bard Orme was the high man—or high woman—
at the primary election seeking a place on the
November ballot as a candidate for the legislature
in the 20th district after a judicial try on the part
of other candidates to keep her out of the pri
marv Sn another native of O’Neill makes, good
Mrs Orme was for a number of years a lone fe
male figure on the Lincoln city council, has been
active in public affairs, educational and child wel
fare work and has University of Nebraska and
Colorado university degrees. In it all. memories
of life on the open prairie of Holt county as a child
and girlhood friends in O’Neill when the Hub
bards moved into town remain with her as a cher
ished picture.
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Lilac bloom adorns the bush, hedge rows are
robed in white, tulips blush and nod in the wind,
foliage in silken green waves in treetops, lawns
and gardens beneath heaven’s blue are again
fresh and green, salesmen and peddlers are on the
go from door-to-door, neighbor women in pairs
or groups settle the world problems and Joe, the
milk man, comes eoatless, the egg man comes with
a sack of hen fruit and says he gathers 500 eggs
daily from his flocks. Grain fields and garden plots
orchard and berry patches promise fruitage. Bright
days for months ahead, herds an summer range,
beast and bird out where the sky is blue and the
freedom of green gowned prairieland theirs.
Boys and girls, fathers and mothers, grandfathers
and grandmothers of prairieland, they, too, know
life at its best.
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During the 4Vi months this year up to the
middle of May, Nebraska had 105 traffic deaths.
The sunbeamA come out of a clear blue sky this
morning. Who today on street or highway will
he pirked up a mangled and broken body? Traf
fic accidents are growing in number and the
human hand is helpless to bring an end to the
slaughter.
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The ladies get a “pon pon" hairdo for 10
bucks, the latest in the female crown of glory.
Their granddads had their hair cut pompadour
for two bits.
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The next presidential inauguration day, Jan
uary 20, falls on Sunday. The congress has taken
action to have the inauguration the following
Monday. The upsurge in church-going seems to
have flowed Into the halls of congress. Church at
tendance once a week the past year is said to have
been 50 million Americans. Where were the other
100 million—at the synagogues of Satan?
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Along the country’s highways the annual take
from trucks held up and robbed is estimated to
be a hundred million dollars in value. Liquor, to
bacco and food products to fill the capacious maw
of man is the plunder highwaymen gather.
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According to the bureau of census 31,392,001!
Americans changed their place of residence the
past 12 months. Couldn’t meet the monthly in
stallments?
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The human race is mysterious, partly because
of tVe number of people who say one thing and
mean another.
Editorial . . .
Weeklies Remiss in Duties
News item from the Sunday edition of a Ne
braska daily newspaper:
Nebraska voters might have done a
more intelligent job of marking ballots in
the primary election had they received
more guidance from the state’s weekly
newspapers. State Sen, William A. Mc
Henry of Nelson said Saturday. He describ
ed himself as “disgusted" with the turn
taken by some of the races and mourned
the passing of the days when most every
town had two newspapers—one republican
and one democratic—and editorialized on
every candidate from dog catcher to pres
ident. , .
The Frontier and most north-central Nebraska
weeklies should hang their heads in shame. As a
group, we have been remiss in not keeping the
public adequately informed.
During the recent primary election The Fron
tier had virtually nothing to say, editorially, con
cerning any of the candidates, although in its news
columns sketchy backgrounds were offered. How
ever, in previous elections we have endeavored to
enlighten voters by setting forth, editorially, how
candidates stood on certain issues. Generally
speaking. The Frontier’s editorials and the pithy
comments of a wise and seasoned observer, Ro
mainc Saunders, represent more “homegrown”
opinions and editorial comment in a single issue
than offered by any combination of a half-dozen
other newspapers operating in the area.
Even so, we have been lax in our obliga
tions Voting in the republican nomination for
lieutenant-governor in last week’s primary is an
example.
A chap by the vote-pulling name of Griswold
(his Christian name is Marvin) outdistanced
three other contenders. Mr. Griswold is no kin of
Dwight Griswold, now deceased. The latter had
served as governor several terms and died while
in the United States senate.
Holt countyans, apparently, thought they were
voting for Dwight because Marvin Griswold, a
thirtvish carpet-layer in Lincoln, received 310
votes. Dwight Burney, a conservative Hartington
farmer who has represented Cedar and Knox
counties in the state legislature for 12 years, who
was speaker of the last session of the unicameral
and who has been acting lieutenant-governor, fin
ished second in Holt with 288 votes. Carl G. Swan
son of Omaha, former state treasurer, received 222
votes, and Ernest M. Johnson, a Chadron attor
ney and former member of the state normal board,
received 111 votes. Burney and Swanson were in
a neck-and-neck race for the nomination at the
state level, and Burney is the apparent winner. But
Mr. Griswold finished a strong third] and thereby
lies the irony.
Tradtiionally a good Scandinavian name, like
Swanson or Larson, automatically pulls a heavy
vote in Nebraska. This L another curious twist.
Irish, Germans and English, who are not prone to
vote for one another, can mark an “X" in front of
a Scandinavian name with equanimity and the
Scandinavians, God bless ’em, gain representation
in the statehouse out of proportion to their num
bers.
A few years ago a bus boy at Offutt air base
_his name was Olson—ran for governor and he
• fared pretty well by pledging to square a circle.
People read their hometown papers
from * start-to-finish, McHenry comments,
but most papers don’t run editorials any
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more. I take eight papers in my district
and only once in a while do I find an ed
itorial .1 honestly think that if the papers
would tell the facts about the candidates
you’d have more intelligent voting.
Senator McHenry Is correct on at least two
points: (1) Weekly newspapers have been remiss
in their duties of informing; (2) people read their
hometown papers—the whole thing—from start
to-finish.
In discussing the matter with State Sen. Frank
Nelson of O’Neill, he said he regretted people gen
erally are not more conversant with the voting
records of the unicameral senators. A veteran
campaigner. Senator Nelson said he encounters
lots of misinformation.
The Frontier accepts these remarks from Sen
ators McHenry and Nelson, published and in
formal, as a challenge to better inform its readers
in the future.
George of Georgia
The decision of U.S. Sen. Walter F. George
(D-Ga.) not to seek a seventh term in the senate
takes from that august body one of its most influ
ential members. Mr. George will become President
Eisenhower’s personal representative in the reshap
ing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Mr. George’s withdrawal from the senate
takes from the Eisenhower administration its
wisest and most effective ally in the development
of bipartisan foreign policy.
Cooperation Mr. George has given the Eisen
hower administration as an opposition leader has
often been dramatic and invariably carried high
qualities of conviction.
Ads Can Be Misleading
The federal trade commission has by official
action made a claim that it has fhe right to regu
late advertising by health and accident companies
writing insurance in this country. Whether they
have the right or not, we do not know. It would
seem that perhaps the regular postal regulations
relative to fraudulent advertising through the
mails would be enough to take care of it.
One thing we are sure of and that is that
there should be some stricter supervision of health
and accident insurance. Of course, such advertising
may be misleading without being fraudulent or
false. Very often what is left unsaid is more mis
leading to the policy buyer than what is said.
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CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
ARTHUR J. NOECKER apd ESTHER M. ASHER.
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On 1 5 Day Leave
Pvt. Jack Lieb (above) re
turned home Saturday, May 12.
from Camp Chaffee, Ark., :
where he has completed his
basic training. He is spending
a 15-dav furlough with his
family and friends.
When You and 1 Were Young ...
Early Settler at
Leonie Succumbs
Men’s 2-Piece Suits
Quoted $6.50 to $16
50 Y'ears Ago
A daughter was reported May
12. born to Albert and Kate Ep
penbach. . . Hiram G. Hodgkin,
one of the early settlei-s of the
Leonie community, died. . . The
Misses Sadie and Nellie Skirving
entertained at a miscellaneous
shower for Miss Margaret Hall.
At a sale at the P. J. McManus
store, ladies’ white duck oxfords
sold for $1.25 to $2, men’s two
piece suits were $6.50 to $16. . .
Mrs. George E. Butler of Ewing
ran a nail into her foot last week
and is having quite a serious
time . . Matt Sageser, Carl and
John Thompson, all of Newport,
were visiting Frank, John and
Dode Sageser of Chambers the
first of the week.
20 Years Ago
Ben J. and Henry Grady, un
der the name Grady Brothers,
had their grand opening of their
grocery and meat market. . . Har
ry Lansworth and Miss Marie
Grutsch were married. . . Mr. and
Mrs. Warren MeClurg and Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Hopkins, all of
Inman, had baby daughters. . .
Myrl Burge was valedictorian and
Ralph Johnson, salutatorian, of
thi O'Neill high school graduat
ing class.
10 Years Ago
Jay Farnsworth of Portland,
Ore., and Hal Farnsworth of Page,
brothers, were reunited last week
after 28 years. . . Harold Winkler
and Harold Gene Claussen of Em
met found two coyote pups and
Winkler took them home as pets.
. . Emil Sniggs, 83, pioneer
blacksmith, died. . Virginia
Podany was valedictorian and
William J. Froelich, jr., saluta
atorian, at St. Mary’s academy.
. . . Pat O’Connor, 87, a pioneer,
died at Lynch. . . Miss Doris Har
vey of Page and Leonard E.
Wright of Chambers were mar
ried. . . Playing at the Royal
theater, “The Virginian,” starring
Joel McCrea.
One Year Ago
W. F. Grothe, 74, of Emmet
died. . . Mrs. Etta Shriner, wid
ow of the late R. H. Shriner, was
buried in Iow»a. . . District 232
received an AA rating, one of 16
in the state to qualify. . . John
Joe Uhl and Pat Hickey were
discharged from the armed ser
vices. . . Mrs. Margaret Waller,
77, mother of W. W. Waller, died.
. . . Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Manson
received the Rural Youth adult
'award for year around work with
the organization.
'l o Omaha—
The Misses Shirley and Betty
Schultz left on the midnight train
Friday to visit their sister, Mrs.
Bernard Spry, Mr. Spry and chil
dren at Rayston. They’ll be gone
about a month.
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M.D.
Robert M. Langdon,
M.D.
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MEMORIAL DAY
MAY 30
No AUCTION At
Butte Livestock Mkt.
See You
WED., MAY 23 and JUNE 6
Thank You
DR II. D. GILDERSLEEVE
OPTOMETRIST
Northeast Corner
of 4tli & Douglas
O’NEILL, NEBR.
Phone 167
Eyes Examined-Glasses Fitted
Office Hours: 9-5
Monday thru Satudray
3oyd KC s Hold
Dinner at Butte
LYNCH — The Boyd county
Oughts of Columbus council
leld its May meeting in the Am
rican Legion hall on Thursday
•vening. May 17
Members from Bnnesteel. S.D..
Ftutto, Spencer and Lynch were
n attendance
Plans were completed for the
tinner which was held at Butte
Sunday, May 20, for the Knights
it Columbus members and their
families.
highth Grade Grads
Receive Diplomas
STUART—Following 8 o’clock
mass Sunday, May 20, 10 eighth
giade pupils of St Boniface
school received their diplomas.
They were Connie Coufal. Sally
Brewster. Jeanette Jardee, Julie
Schafer, Marlene Schmaderer.
Annette Givens, Lois Schaaf.
Joyce Scholz, Lois Givens and
Rolland Kaup
New Bingo Version
Inaugurated—
PAGE—Mrs. Dale Stauffer was
hostess to the members of the
East Side Kountry Klub. Mrs
Roger Bowen and Mrs. Harold
Kelly presented the second hall
of the lesson on “Sewing New
Fabrics.” A new version of tin
bingo game featuring music, was
presented for entertainment.
All members were present ex
cept Mrs. Norman Trowbridge a1
whose home the June session will
be held. Mrs. Alfred Conner and
Mrs. Frances Van Every volun
teered to attend the meeting a
the courthouse w'hen Judge D. R
Mounts will explain the selectior
of a jury. Lunch was served.
Plan Fund for
Pulpit Chairs—
STUART—The Women’s soci
ety of the Community church me
last Thursday in the church base
ment with 16 members present.
Devotions were led by Mrs
Berlin Mitchell. A new memoria
fund was pledged for a set ol
pulpit chairs.
Mrs. Harry Cowles, Mrs Wilbui
Moon and Mrs. Ray C.rcenficlc
will serve as a committee for tht
memorial.
Lunch was served by the host
esses, Mrs. Z. X. Marshall, Mrs
Walter Ouart and Mrs. Free
Tasler.
COMMISSIONED
STUART—John Obermire, sor
of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Obermire
was commissioned a lieu
tenant following his graduation at
Gary air force base near Sar
Marcus, Tex., on May 9.
Lieutenant Obemire has beer
transferred to construction wit!'
bama and has moved his familj
there.
Page Pupils in
Term-End Picnics
PAGE—The Page school closed
on Friday with picnics as a clos
ing feature. The kindergartners.
parents and friends went to the
i age park for their picnic. The
intermediate and sixth, seventh
and eighth grades, with Mrs. Ha
zel Park and Mi's. Faye Taylor as
teachers, took their pupils to
°lainvi«*ve for «hcir picnic. They
oiler ska tod Jerome Alien took t
the lush school students to the
Neligh park They also roller
skated
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