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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1956)
*- • * - -** —t——*” • *—, . : 7 •, , * . • * *. . Prairieland lalk . I at Home Where Grass Grows Hi BOM.MM SAL'NDERS. Rrvjrrd. Former Editor The FronUcr LINCOLN Standing at a bus depot in Grand Island waiting to board the public conveyance that would land me among friends and former neighbors in Holt county, a native son of the em pire of Holt walked up to me and extended his hand Cap Addison, who operates a ranch a few miles east of Atkmspn, had been in Grand Island to see their daughter, who is a bookkeeper and accountant for a £**-*■'/ ^ business organization of Grand * Island. Cap is more at home in the saddle out where the grows than m the* streets of a city, he was headi for home on “my bus". He is son of the late John Addison o thi Minneola country, a pioneer as also John's parents in that section of Holt county. Miss Ad dison now resides in Grand Is ud Shi- is a graduate of Atkin- Saunders son high school and one of the Romaine fourth generation of Holt county Addison families. An aunt of Cap’s before her death a few years ago was Prairieland Talker’s sister-in-law Out of the march of time of the piissing years a few friends of other days survive and the prairie land still stretches its endless miles robed in aut umn gold as generations come and go. In O’Neill the first to extend the welcome hand was at the home of Mr and Mrs L G. Gillespie. Lloyd has outlived all other business or professional citizens of the town and still writes insurance after 63 years I had known him from kneepants days, now crowned with a head of white glory and he and his wife are the only survivors of “our crow'd” of youthful alla-Ly and maidenly charm of the long ag< Other O'N II friends of the long ago, wrinkled brow and graying locks, smiling face and cor dial gre< tings. Walking the byways of other years, J shipped at the home of the late Jim llarnish, eovnty treasurer something like 40 years ago. i-td found Miss Ituth llarnish living contentedly hi herself in the house where she was boro. An O’Neill friend of many years invited me to ridi with him to Atkinson and after his business there disposed o* took me to the land of hay stacks. grass and cattle, a short visit with Mr. and • Mr? George Meals in their pleasant ranch home south of Atkinson, then on past Holt creek and I the Charley Peterson herds grazing on meadow lands and to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T Baker for a handshake and a little friendly chat with Tom and Ruth, who had just returned from a prairie fire a mile or so away from where Mrs. Saunders and 1 formerly made our home. Robed in autumn colors prairie land is today a thing of beauty. With haystacks and countless ! herds grazing on the farflung grasslands. Holt. county friend? are cordial and happy. • • » shall wc blush for shame that a statehouse oI fni.il, riding the highways in a state owned ear, was arrested, fined heavily for drunken driving, pleaded guilty, paid up and sought to square himself with the public by handing to his superior in office his resignation? ♦ * * Pwelve days until election. A notable presiden tial campaign in that it has been a tame affair, only the candidates have an interest in the out come They have exchanged courtesies and in sults. a lone mugwump here and there with a rial of venom berates both political parties and even the newspapers that once had an active part in political affairs do not indicate which group they favor The little interest in this pre sidential election indicates that Americans have well provided for homes, grub, glad attire, auto mobiles for vacation trips and to roll to the food markets in which they stock up for another week; factory workers draw over $100 a week, vacation on full pay, bonus and social security j and other benefits accumulating. Ann Hunt, a student at our state university and a citizen of Lincoln, dismounted from her saddle to be seated on the throne of “rodeo queen", whatever that may stand for in our modern honorary circles. And what is this, the cowpunchers and bronc busters strutting in the classic halls of universities. Shades of Hay Mc Clure, Mike Calahan, Tom Kearney and Bulldog Bill! The memory of the booted and spurred wild guys of the open range perpetuated by the modern tame affair called a rodeo. It would be interesting to see a rider at these functions rope a wild one on which the hand of man had never been laid, throw him to cinch on a saddle, bridle and blindfold a horse as that creature’s first ex perience with human kind, get him up on all four, mount, snatch away the blindfold and go six feet in the air at the first jump. From out of the frontier days is nothing to remain with us but a feeble reminder of the horse and rider * • • Somewhere in the restless waters of the North Atlantic ocean float the bodies of 50 patriots from the Lincoln air base, beside the airship crew of seven. Fifty-seven American horror haunted homes in peacetime as one more tribute to man’s struggle to overcome time and space. • • • Nebraska citizens here and there dispose of their prairieland holdings and comfortable homes where there is peace and safety in quiet communities to move to California may not know that in a northern section of that much glor ified Pacific coast region they may be swept away by floods or daylights scared out of them by earthquakes, while in the southern end of a ength.v state chocked with smog and fog or tramped under foot by the millions strutting about. Just for a few' week’s visit you may pluck an orange from a tree, smile, pack up and head east. at * A generous soul donates $10,000 to the Metho dist church at Page for enlarging the ediface and beautifying the interior. Citizens of Page have been a church going people. Methodists at Inman have observed the 75th anniversary of the found ing of that church by the pioneers. Inman, too, is a church going community. Circuit riders of the Methodist faith were the pioneer church builders of Holt count' and churches stand here today as monuments to the memory of Bartley Blain and his compatriot, Rev. Bargeldt. The church going people are the “salt of the earth”. * * * I can see no reason for a change in the nation al administration hence will vote for Mr. El senhower and his running mate. Nor is there a sufficient reason to replace our present governor, so Mr. Anderson will also get my vote. As I favor Nebraska women having a say in making our laws, Fern Hubbard Orme, an O’Neill citizen in her girlhood days, now of Lincoln, gets my vote to represent the 20th district in the state legislature. Get out and vote, prairieland pa triots! ' F rontTer ARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER, Associate Publishers Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt coun t 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 pier year; elsewhere in the United Stales, $3 per year; rates abroad provided on request. All subscriptions ire paid in advance. litcd (ABC) Circulation—2,559 (Mar. 31, 1956) # DRAFTING YOUR FUTURE ... ten ''ears from now Im’s • pndhdsnt The brain* and hands of this engineer are dialling a future far you al most beyond iieiprihmnenA toture^inwhrch Caught teyMHIhmmtdieieetrieearrice. Some day in the future yen’! he neing electrical ap pbanoas and deriom ef which you haven’t heard. At W**J bee the preepect ef ahnoet limitlem ex pending ueee ef electricity preeenting untold epportunitiae fer enriching eur daily livee through the broadening of Nebraska's economy. Consumers Public Power District is aware of these things heciuse its stuff of experts makes a business of planning for the future. This height future will pay tremendous dividends to you-wbather as a homeowner, farmer, bnwnai man or indimtriaMst-in the countless ways that aaly dependable, lower cast electric service can. Your planning engineer is another friendly rep resentative of the smooth-working Consumers team which performs countless important tasks to help you live better... electrically. His is another in the series of links in Consumers op erations bringing you low cost electricity geared *o your needs today and tomorrow. > * • As// n/iW a/ Hm Consumers 4,120 mile network of electric power reache* CONSUMERS electric Service foe tour comers of foe state end serves 356 communities ___ [bSSSS^BIIII * ^ . • • , . ' When You and 1 Were Young . . .* Earliest Snow in Make Visit Ross and Bigler Visit at Ray 50 Years Ago A son was born to Mr and Mrs George Weingartner. A ! marriage license was issued to Henry Sprinkle and Laura May Thurlow. both of Stuart. . Mrs. Henry Lusher has returned from the hospital at Omaha much im proved. Colmer Ross and Joe Bigler of Ray spent a pleasant evening at Charlie Bigler’s place. Glenn Anderson of Star has had to stay out of school this week to help care for his father’s herd. He is greatly missed by his teacher and classmates. . . This is the earliest snow in Holt county for the past 18 years. -U i ears Ago Mrs Vinton Simonson won the consolation prize and Mrs. Lee Farran the chair prize at the Alpha club meeting held at Mrs. A. Auker's home. Della Hansen had her tonsils removed. . Miss Velma Johring is the new secre tary in the county superinten dent's office. . . Mrs. Harry Little and Beverly Joan, who have been visiting her parents, the Alex McConnells of Emmet, left for their home in Wausa. . . Frank Farnik of Verdel and Miss Libbye Havranek of Atkinson were married at the Methodist t. rsonage by Rev. A. J. May. 10 Years Ago Miss Sylvia Stone of Long Branch, N.J., became the bride of Sgt. Ben Asher of Page. . . . James Johnson, son of the Lo Johnsons, celebrated his eighth birthday anniversary at a weiner roast for eight boys. . . . M ss Martha Janousek was toast mistress at the Catholic Daugh ters banquet. . . Leonard and iss. who had been hospitalized Ivan Heiss and Mrs. Merwyn French of Page went to Sioux City to bring back Mrs. Leonard three weeks. . . The crack Re i kah drill team of Inman con ferred a degree during the state Odd Fellow and Rebekah con dition at Norfolk. One Y'ear Ago Charles Skopec, jr., showed his nome grown movie entitled, "The New Frontier”. It was very well received. . . E. L. Sisson and his wife of Ewing celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary while Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benash, the latter having been born during the '88 blizzard, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. . . . Two hundred and eighty persons were served at the annual home coming banquet at Stuart. . . . Miss Mary Coleman, of Atkinson and Lt. Jerry D. Henderson of friends helped Mrs. A. W. Hub Stuart were married. . . Nineteen bard of Chambers celebrate her birthday anniversary. Amelia News Mr. and Mrs. William Fryrear. j Mr, and Mrs. William Thompson and Herman Nissen of Atkinson were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce. % Mrs. Amy Slaymaker of At kinson has been staying at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Dick Doolittle, and helping care for her new little grandson. Bob Adair and Dale Doolittle w'ent to Cody Saturday to do some hunting. Mrs. Adair and Jerry stayed with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art Doolittle, while they were away. Mrs. Edgar Peterson and her father, Pat Kennedy, and Mrs. Delia Ernst called on Art Wald man at the Atkinson hospital. Miss Marcia Widman cele brated her 14th birthday anni versary Friday with a dinner prepared by her mother, Mrs. Clyde Widman. Guests present were her grandmother, Mrs. D. L. Fancher, and uncle, Virgil Fancher, and aunt, Miss Eunice Fancher of Ainsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Link Sageser. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hiatt re ceived word Sunday of the death of Mrs. Hiatts brother-in-law, Clarence Knuff of Coquille, Ore. The Hiatts were not able to at tend the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ott of O’ Neill and Mrs. Etta Ott were l dinner guests Sunday at Mr. and j Mrs. Floyd Adams. The occassion I was in honor of the birthday an- . niversary of their son, Don Ad ams, whose birthday anniversary | was October 14. Mr. and Mrs. John Cearns and J their daughter-in-law, Mrs Don nie Cearns, of Scottsbluff came j Sunday and visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. William Fryrear. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schade, Mrs. j Lindsey and Florence Lindsey! drove to Burwell Sunday and visited Mrs. John Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Kennedy, Larry and Harold, Miss Janice Prewitt, Mr. and Mrs. Darrel j Slaymaker of O’Neill visited at1 the Dick Doolittle home Sunday. Mrs. Stella Sparks and Lonnie were also guests. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wehland and three children of Holdrege Shirley and Leonard Renken of Ragan came Saturday night and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earnie Johnston. Mrs. Wehland is a niece of Mr. Johnstons. Mr. and Mrs. Merton Fisher of Bonesteel, S.D., visited at the Paul Fisher home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn White and fam ily were other guests there. Dr. Donald E. David OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted Phone 2101, Spencer, Nebr. Ponton Insurance FLORENCE PONTON, Prop. Insurance of All Kinds & Bonds Phone 106 — Golden Bllg. _ ife Miss Sharon Rotherham is shown being crowned queen at the Ewing high school home coming Friday night. Ray Tur ner, football star and senior attendant, does the honors. — The Frontier Photo. Amelia News Mr, Frances Lewis of Whit tier. Calif., was visiting friends and relatives in this community last week. She stayed overnight with Mrs. Delia Ernst on Wed nesday. Mrs. Edg;ir Peterson took her to the Charlie Cavanaugh home Thursday evening, where she visit d a few days before go n to Laurel to vsit her brother and family there. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Schmit ■'re visiimg her mother, Mrs. Helen Pokorny, and family. They have been in the southern states where Mr. Schmit is with the army. Miss Marilyn Thompson enter tained her brother, Gene Thomp son, and family at Sunday din ner. Lloyd Waldo helped the Roy Fullerton’s move their household furniture to the George Fullerton place Sunday. They plan to move there in the spring. Mr and Mrs. Harlan Dierking and Cynthia visited at the Fran cis Keefe home near North Loup Sunday, October 14. Mrs. Vern Sageser returned home Sunday evening from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Min ter, at Council Bluffs, la., and other relatives at Nemaha. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dusatko and family of Emmet visited at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Adair. Harold Chapman of Topeka, Kans., and Wilbur Chapman of San Francisco, Calif., visited their mother, Mrs. George Withers, and Mr. Withers a few days last week. The Knudsen family of Schles wig, la,, were business callers at Harlan Dierking's Tuesday, Oc tober 16 They purchased cattle from Mr Dierking. Mi and Mrs James Curran of O'Neill'. brought . Mrs, Francis j Lewis to Amelia Wednesday, Ofc ! tobcr 17, to visit Mrs. Delia Ern-' st. They called on Mr and Mrs. Ralph Rees in the afternoon . Chart! > Sigma u accompanied U>«* Meals boys to Morrill last w ci-s He visited his son. Cleve. tvi daughter. Mrs. Bob (lads! Sawvel Tde> brought back - a load of potatoes. ' ... Mrs Jennie Adams of Atkin son spent a few days last week in the Elmer Coolidge home vis iting Mrs. Pearl White. Mrs Ray Whit«* of Martin, S D . brought Mrs Adams to the CoolidgOs and also) visited .Mrs. White Mr. and Mrs Charles CuoUlge and Kenneth visited at the El mer Coolidge home . 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