Prairieland Talk . ** . .
Who Inspired These Monuments
B* ROMA1NE SAUVDERS. Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN A friend in O’Neill who comes
from pi meer Holt coUnty stock writes to me ex
pressing his interest and recounting activities to
ascertain who may have been the inspiring spirit
back of community institutions that have grown
up through the years.
He has learned that O’Neill enjoys an out
standing library “institution”
because of devoted efforts to
secure a public library in the
community on the part of
Mi* Anna O’Donnell. She,
too, comes from pioneer
stork, her parents oponing
the first hotel in O’Neill,
Miss. O’Donnell was one of
the Valley House. Doubtless
Mv* O’Donnell was one of
the active promoter* of fine
new public school buildings.
Miss O’Donnell served Roma|ne
many years on the city school Saunders
board Rev. M F Cassidy
promoted the founding of St Mary's academy
and the Academy Dramatic group furnished
funds for the construction of dramatic perform
ance* that drew large crowds. Of that group the
only one now in O'Neill is Mrs. Charles Stout.
Perhaps m> friend who writes from O’Neill
would like to know of others for who a monu
ment stands The Knights of Columbus were re
sponsible for the K. C. hall, T. V. Golden for a
mnrti m hotel, Archie Bowen for the fine build
ing on Douglas street that is occupied by the
R«n Franklin dime store, the Old Fellow lodge
for a building on Fourth street and O. F. Biglin
and D H. Cronin the buildings to the south of it
on the same street. Congressman M. P. Kinkaid
secured the postoffice building, Judge R. R.
Dickson and Banker S. J. Weeks promoted Die
building of a fine new courthouse, on a wall m
the hall which hangs an engraved tribute to
Holt county pioneers written by Clyde King co
tahorating with this humble pilgrim.
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Just how many of the 528 proposed mea
sured dropped into the legislative hopper this
■caaion of the state legislature will be parsed
aari approved as laws remains to be seen. Many
ml these are of merit, others important only
to the senator that framed the bill. The bill
that if enacted into law will give the state
an elected superintendent of education instead
ml the present board will no doubt meet with
approval throughout the state.
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1 now demand a salute. Gov. Victor E. An
derson sent Prairieland Talker by mail today,
gold seals, blue and orange ribbons and all 8
richly engraved state document commissioning me
an Admiral «f Nebraska’s Great Navy. So if you
should see me floating up the Elkhorn in a battle
ship lake off your hats. I don’t know that the
governor could select one who knows less about
directing the movements of a navy vessel, but my
commission provides that “all officers, seamen,
tadpoles, goldfish under his command be obedient
to his orders as Admiral.” So I take the exalted
***»t on deck resolved to see that our great navy
retains its good standing enjoyed in the past.
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A “poor farmer" of southern Nebraska,
with his cultured wife, has taken off on a win
ter visit to friends in Missouri, Texas and may
mingle with the throngs in sunny southern Cal
ifornia before returning to their country estate
a two-hour drive from the capital city.
February. Again we lift the curtain and
look down the highway of time. There on mem
ory’s screen unrolls the tragic picture of a cold
February night in 1884, the night Kid Wade was
.taken from Sheriff Ed Hershiser by the vigil
anters and hung to a whistling post near Bassett
in what was then Erowm county.
Wade had been in the custody of a fine
fellow from Brown county and was turned over
to the sheriff of Holt county to be brought to
O’Neill for trial on charges of being a horse
thief. The vigilanters got into the picture fear
ing some of them would be involved in like
I charges if Wade got into court. Ten years later
the remaining members of that organization,
in December, 1894, hung Barrett Sco t at the
Whiting bridge on the Niobrara. Scott, who
had been county treasurer, was the oftginal
new dealer”—handed out county funds to help
some facing tough times, the latter day ‘‘new
dealers” hand out federal funds.
The one goes down in history as a bene
factor of mankind; the other as a criminal hung
for his crimes.
Death still stalks the land, now on high
ways, streets and in the air—and the killer goes
on his way as did those who strung up Wade
and Scott.
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This out of mid February, 1906: W. R. Butler
was on a business trip to Rock and Brown coun
ties. . . Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Adams were visiting
in Dixon, 111. . . Dr. Flynn reported a daughter
bom to Mr. and Mrs. Lockard . . .Frank Mann,
Mike Sullivan and Pat O’Donnell were down from
Atkinson to see the home folks. . . C. B. Scott
WAS over, at Butte in connection with his work
as court reporter. . . Dr. Gilligan reported the
birth of a baby girl at the Herman Oeber home
north of town. . . Fred Barnett was the new own
er and operator of the Cress restaurant. John O’
Maley was to become manager of the Nye-Snyder
elevator. . . Hay McClure came up from the
ranch via Ewing.
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Eyes wet, sorrow laden, horror haunted, a
30-year-old mother of three sits this last day of
January in a gloomy cell in the Lancaster coun
ty jail. Some where along the highway the ra
diant glow of life’s guiding star for that woman
went out, enveloping her in trouble as a cloud.
After a day of battle of words she killed the man
she had married. He lies under the sod, she to
face a charge of murder, and the children en
tering upon life with such a heritage. What should
have been a happy home on Calvert street now
a desolated house, no football heard going from
room to room, no childish laughter. When the
moral and spiritual vision becomes clouded irres
ponsible acts follow. And the law takes over.
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The sunrise burns across the sky—
Arise from the couch on which you lie.
The call comes from heaven’s flaming tower,
’Tis once again the waking hour!
Activities of day have now begun
To keep us going ’till set of sun.
Everywhere footsteps on the go—
Paddy and Mike, Tom and Joe.
We hear their footsteps along the wray
Inspired by love for Mary, Kate and Mae!
And little Sam and Jim and Jack
That they will have luds upon their back.
Editorial
Keep Power by Spending
“They say, ‘You cannot cut taxes, you can
not end or minimize Korean losses. You cannot
stop inflation. . . ’ What kind of stuff is that—
don’t and can’t? Of course, we eand and will!”
These words were spoken by Canlidate Eisen
hower on October 22, 1952. in his first election
campaign They have been disinterred in the past
several weeks and made a challenge to conserva
tives on eapitol hill, who contrast Ike’s former
invigorating attitude with his present surrender
to new dealism and iUiitiitable spending.
The fact is—so say those who mingle with
denote leaders of both parties—that a strong be
hind-the-scenes bipartisan effort is under way to
plan ways and means of cutting the Eisenhower
budget
Sen. Harry Byrd (D-Va.) claims it could be
cut $4 or $5 billion and he said so publicly Sun
day.
Byrd and GOP Leader Styles Bridges are said
to be working together very closely just now.
While the Byrd figure is regarded as rather
hopeful, there are some in the know who say,
“Don’t be surprised if they cut it by $3.5 billion."
There looms the possibility that many senat
ors may support a motion to send the budget
back to the budget bureau with a request for
it tine? This hinartisnn Hpvplnnmpnt is
aided by the flood of mail from constituents
demanding economy.
Nebraska’s own Sen. Roman Hruska (R)
sounded off with very serious misgivings about
the overwhelming budget Ike is pressing for.
Meanwhile, at a weekend meeting in Chicago,
a group of oil-line republicans gathered at a rally
• the Abraham Lincoln National Republican club.
Senator Jenner (R-Ind.), former Sen. Welker
•f Idaho, former Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah
and Sen. McCarthy (R-Wisc.) called for slashes
hi spending.
Senator Jenner, commenting on fiscal policy,
said
“This new American government (Eisenhow
er new republicanism) has one object—to keep it
self in {lower in spending.”
Mr. Welker recalled the 1956 campaign slo
gan and sail:
"We are told we have peace and prosperity
a iidvvii t c*cvu tiny jK’tltC, cilHi l wuuuci u wui]
funny money is prosperity!”
What Byrd, Bridges, Jenner, Welker, Lee and
McCarthy are talking about points up wnat The
Frontier has trumpted for some time.
There should be a coalition of conservative
democrats and conservative republicans jointly
operating under the banner of a conservative
party. Let the free wheelers in both GOP and
demo ranks be the liberals.
Otherwise, a few years from now, there
night be a resurgence of the democratic party as
the conservative order and the do-gooding “new
republicanism” will go down—and out—as liber
als.
Such an about-face would be too much1
More on Redistricting
Gaesi Editorial, Bill Plourd in Nance Count;
Journal, Fullerton
State Sen. Hal Bridenbaugh of Dakota City
has introduced a bill in the Nebraska legislature
to ajbmit a constitutional amendment permitting
ihe people to vote on abolishing the state board
of education.
Under the present, plan, the board, elected by
the people, appoints a commissioner of educa
tion and sets his salary. The Bridenbaugh amend
ment would abolish the board and provide for
the election of a state superintendent of public
instruction by the people.
This was the plan formerly in effect in Ne
braska until the people voted in the new state
board plan. The senator says the new plan has
made the office of state school executive less re
sponsible to the people, and that he thinks it
would be better to return to the old plan.
Some commentators say this would be “a
backward step.” It might be, but we can’t im
agine an executive elected by the people coming
out for a thing like the unpopular K-12 proposal
to force all schools into consolidations regardless
of their own wishes.
Unless the present system is careful not to
abuse the privileges the people have given it, and
unless it keeps in mind the fact that public offi
cials are the servants and not the masters of the
people, it will be inviting a change back to the old
system that has a direct responsibility to the
voters.
in oraer 10 iorce scnooi reaisixicung, me
“accreditment” of some of the state’s smaller
town schqols is being threatened by the powers
that be. Maybe some of these schools would be
smarter if, instead of quarreling with any rural
people who are unwilling candidates for financing
new town school buildings, they shifted their at
tack to those who are ruling now that a school
must be big to be efficient.
How Much Is a Billion?
A fellow the other day gave us an elementary
accounting of how much money is a billion dol
lars.
It runs like this:
If you started in business or in farming in
the year 2000 B. C., and lost $1,000 a day EVERY
DAY, you would still have 750 years to go before
going broke.
When a person is no longer anxious to do
better than well enough, he’s done for.
When you throw mud at someone you’re the
one who is losing ground.
CARROLJj W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER,
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When You and I Were Young ...
Sign of Spring;
Whiskers Come Off
Dave Grovesnor la
Minus Thatch
50 Years Ago
Timothy Hanley, aged father
of T. D. Hanley of the drug tirm
o Pixley and Hanley, died.
Two signs o spring: One woman
had her carpets and curtains on
the line and Dave Grovesnor had
his wishkcrs removed. . . A new
ly-married bookeeper said lo his
wife, "I wish you could make
bread like mother.” The young
wife smiled and retorted, "Well,
John, I wish you could make th?
‘dough’ that father used to make.”
iTne subject was never brought
I up again. . . Mrs. Lewis and
Walter, also Frank Haynes and
wife, were visitors at James
Garins home.
20 Y'ears Ago
An Archery ciub was added to
the recreation association . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Puckett and
Jimmy were in Emmet for the
first time in a month because of
the snow . . .Martin Devall is
fast becoming the champion gum
ehewer, or was it paper wads?
. . . Mrs. Larry Coleman enter
tained the EOT club. Winners
were Miss Edna Simonson, Mrs.
Ralph McElvain, Mrs. Glenn
Saunders and Mrs. W. J. Schendt.
10 Y'ears Ago
Miss Corrine Kubitschek was
: crowned queen of the Mardi Gras
at Duchesne college in Omaha
I . . . Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Tomlin
| son have a little daughter, weigh
i 614 pounds . . . Deaths: Lee Cal
j kins, 55, of Ewing; Mrs. Pete
Brown of Chambers . . .Celebrat
| ing his 93rd birthday anniversary
was Charles Fauquier . . . Clar
ence Ernst is the new farm bu
! reau president; Ora Yarges of
Stuart, vice president; Mabel
Hammerberg of Atkinson, secre
tary, and Glen White of Amelia,
treasurer.
One Year Ago
Deaths: Mrs. Mabel Krotter, 82,
of Stuart; L. L. Keeler, 75, of
Anoka; Otto Butler, 64, of Nio
brara; Edward*Joslin, 82. . . Mar
riages: Miss Jacqueline A. Hoke
and Donald D. Kloppenborg; Miss
Emma Jean Tomlinson and Jack
Hawk.
Redistricting Study
to Be Conducted
The Holt county rural school
redistricting committee met last
week at the assembly room of the
courthouse with all members pre
sent.
Lyle Dierks of Ewing was
elected chairman and Harry Mit
chell of Atkinson, vice-chairman,
for the coming year. It was de
cided to have a Holt county re
organization study made of the
county schools some time during
the year.
Other members of the commit
tee are George Collins of Atkin
son, Howard Oberle of Dorsey,
Pete Frahm of Amelia, Frank
Schmidt of Page and Miss Alice
French of O'Neill.
Choufani to Return
to Native Lebanon
CHAMBERS — Shakib Chou
fani went to Omaha with
Frank Porter to make arrange
ments to return by plane to Bei
reet, Lebanon, Asia Minor.
Mr. Choufani, a nephew of Joe
Daas of Chambers, came to the
United States in September 1956.
He has been with relatives in Ne
braska and worked for a time at
Lansing, Mich.
Chambers Polio Drive
Brings in $277.94
CHAMBERS—The polio drive
here totaled $277.94.
School collections amounted to
$28.54; clubs and organizations,
$21; mothers’ march, $95; indivi
dual contributions, $9.50; coffee
hour, $22.74; peanut sale, $30.26;
bake sale, $46.50; coin collectors,
$13.30; theater collection, $11.10. J
DRS. BROWN
& FRENCH
— O'NEILL —
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vice.
WE SOLICIT your business
We will be pleased to assist
you—farmers, ranchers, busi
nessmen.
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Phone 106 — O’Neill
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OPTOMETRIST
Northeast Corner
of 4th & Douglas
O’NEILL, NEBR.
Phone 167
Office Houra: 9-5
Eyes Ex a mined-Glasses Fitted
Monday thru Saturday
Echoes from the \ alley
Virginian Sells Out
By MRS. MERRILL ANDERSON
Lots of folks peruse The Fron
i tier with special interest in the
j many farm sales.
This was the way a sale was
.billed March 1, 1840 down in o1.'
) Virginy:
Having sold my farm, am
leaving for Oregon territory by
team Will offer for sale as
follows:
All ox teams, except Ben and
Buck. Tom and Jerry.
Two milch cows.
Grey mare and colt.
Pair of oxen yoke
Iron plow with mold boird.
550 fence rails, 10-ft.
60-gal. soap kettle.
10-gals, maple syrup.
20-lbs. mutton tallow.
300 hoop poles.
20-gals. Johnson-Miller whi
| skey.
32-gals apple cider.
40-gal. copper still
Oak tan leather.
Dozen real hooks.
Dozen wooden pitch forks
32-calibre rifle.
50-gals, soft soap.
6 head of fox hounds, all
smooth mouth except one.
At the same time, I will sell
six Negro slaves—two men.
35- and 40-years-old; two
boys; two Mulatoo women, 40
years-old. I will not separate
them.
Terms on sale. Plenty to eat
and drink.
0 Neill News
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Bartak and
Mrs. Anna Savidge of Ewing
visited the Harry Savidges here.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Miller
were near Royal Sunday to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Curtis.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Nel
son were in Adrian and Worthing
ton. Minn., for the week-end,
where they visited relatives and
friends.
Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs.
George Janousek and Mr. and
Mrs. William Mattern attended
the community concert, The Bos
ton Pops orchestra, in Grand Is
land.
Wednesday, February 6, guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Jones j
were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hull1
and son, Claude, of Niobrara.
Monuments of lasting beauty
made by skilled craftsmen of
the J. F. Bloom Co. . . . monu
ments from the factory to the
consumer. — Emmett Crabb, O'
Neill, phone 139-J. 37tf
Jim and Greg Janousek, child
ren of the George Janouseks, are
expected home Sunday from Co
lumbus, where they spent two
weeks with their grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hile.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hull came
Saturday and they and Mr. and
Mrs. Preston Jones visited their
mother, Mrs. Sarah (Grandma)
Hull. I
28 Attend Meet of
Christian Mothers
EWING — Twenty-eight mem
bers were in attendance at the
meeting of the Christian Mothers
of St. Peter’s Catholic church
when they met Tuesday evening,
February 5, at St. Dominic’s hall.
Mrs. Ralph Munn presided at
the business session in the ab
sence of the president, Mrs. Allan
Pollock.
It was decided to participate’
in the home talent show which
is a heart drive benefit to be
held Tuesday February 19, at
the school. Arrangements were
also made for the dinner and re
ception of the Vandersnick-Cun
ningham wedding at St. Domi
nic’s hall.
Pinochle and pitch were play
ed. Scorewinners for pinochle
were: Mrs Agnes Bartak and
Mrs. Lester Bergstrom; for pitch,
Mrs. R. B. Krachie.
Refreshments were served b
Mesdames Joe Tomjack, A. M
Beelaert, Mrs. Leo Hintz and Mrs.
Monic Martin.
Other Ewing News
Merton Dierks has enrolled
for the second semester at the
Kansas State college at Manhat
tan and has begun his studies
there.
Merle Lee of Omaha brought
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Lee, home from Omaha where
they had spent the week visit
ing him anti his sister and hus
band. Mr and Mrs Harold
Brown.
Mr and Mrs. Louis Latzel and
children of Omaha were Friday
overnight guests of his parents,
Mr, and Mrs. George Latzel.
Mr and Mrs. Raymond Saisor
and family of Omaha were week
end guests at the home of his
father. Perry Saiser.
Supt. L. Carter, Coach Fritz
Reifort, Addison Slothower of
Ewing, accompanied by Supt.
Kenneth Shibata of Clearwater,
attended the Kansas university
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and Ni'hraskn tvudietbaQ game jt
Lincoln Saturday evening.
Richard Christen of Rockford,
111., and Mias Leona Summers of
Pago were 6 o’clock dinner and
evening guests Saturday at tin
home of his grandmother, Mrs
Marie Beelaert of Ewing.
John Gallagher
Attorney-at-Law
First Nat'l Bank Bldg
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! HEREFORDS !
| AT PUBLIC AUCTION )
* O’NEILL LIVESTOCK MARKET 1
1 O’NEILL, NEBR. I
! Tuesday, February 19th J
| SHOW 10 A M. SALE 1:30 P. M |
| 26 BULLS—11 Sr. Yearling bulls; 12 Jr. Yearling Balts; |
" 3 2-year-old bulls "
( 7 FEMALES—4 Bred heifers; 3 Yearling heifers. )
! d ALL popular linos of Hereford Brooding are represented )
Bulls are big, rugged individuals, ready for service. Heifers t
| suitable foundation stock. All officially calfhood vaccinated, w
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1 For ('atalog: address: r
\ Holt County Hereford Breeders’ Assn. }
J KIETH A. ABART, Sale Mgr. |
CHARLES CORKLE, Norfolk, Auctioneer
I HAROLD HARMS, Valentine, Judge *
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NATIONAL ELECTRICAL WEEK-FEBRUARY 10 16
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C. C intLUUN
Director, District 3
MARK T. MOORE
Director, District 4
R. A. FREEMAN
Director, District S
GUY L. COOPER
Director, District 6
H. G. GREENAMYRE
Director, District 7
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