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Talker Makes Speech
EOMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St. Lincoln 6, Nebr.
Former Editor of The Frontier
LINCOLN—Last night it was my priv
ilege as “orator of the evening” to stand before
an assemblage of superanuated ladies and gents
Who have come down the highway of time for at
least 65 years
A party for the fathers and mothers, grand
dads and grandmas, assembled not to dance and
cutup, not to solve world
problems or plan trips to the t
moon. but to shake hands,
look into aged but laugh
ing eyes, to meet others and
to talk with them face to face.
Some of that group had
traveled the road under the
guiding hand of heaven for
more than 90 years, have little
left but memories dear that
bring forth at times the scald
ing tear, more often bringing
to them inspiring cheer. In- Romalne
teresting guessing games, mu- Saunders
«lc, readings followed the introductory speech and
for some two hours the aged of the community had
their fun.
And just the evening before some hundreds
•at enthralled as the Golden Chords, 50 young col
Ugt students in choir-robed formation, sang the
•ongs of Zion. The inspiring high sopranos and
deep rich male voices lifted the audience above
the clouds for a time. Many musical instruments
•re heard in the land, but none of these can com
pare with the human voice.
Music hath charms to sooth the savage breasit;
Voices of the singers are stilled; the old timers
have had their fun; we are down to earth once
more
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From 1885 until the early 1890 period home
steaders in Holt county were proving up, as it
was known, acquiring title to the quarter sec
tion of prairleland. Many homesteaders had be
came such not to make it their permanent homfe
but to acquire title to the land, borrow what
money they could and mortgage the land, then
take off for other fields to conquer. This brought
into O'Neill a group of loan agents who advertis
ed “eastern money” to loan on land. Many home
steaders were “plastered” with a thousand dollar
mortgage, the representative of that “eastern
tnony” getting a rakeoff when he placed a loan,
tgian agents have disappeared from the Holt
county scene and now a group of insurance
agents too numerous to mention has taken over
the old town. My friend, Lloyd Gillespie, who
Ventured into the insurance field while “loan
agents” were still thick in 1893, continues to pro
tect property losses and lives via the insurance
Coute, as evidenced by his periodic advertise
ments in The Frontier.
• • •
i just pulled on the leather boots bought at an
^VNeill store for $3 about the year 1938 prepara
tory to going out in the snow and wet to get in on
the make believe bombing performance and “civil l
defense” monkeybusiriess put on in a surburban
Community of the capitol city today. Important
personages, the governor, state senators and
Other officials, will join the plebeians taking it all
In. Should I meet any who would like to have a
pair of boots that last forever for such occasions
aa this I will tell them they can get them at any
atore in O’Neill.
The state legislative group down at the state
house sidesteps increase of tobacco tax—enjoy
ing their smokes at the same old price. . . That
drunk and disorderly editor has “resigned”. . .
Inventors have yet to come up with squeakless
door hinges. . . Scandals bom of union labor
groups pass up the International Typographical
union, printers, starting out as “devils,” are the
saintly intellectuals of the country’s industry'. . .
Is the barber pole, striped in gay colors, a thing
of the past, gone the way of the horse and buggy?
. . . Three high school girls drowned in the Eel
river in Indiana, the car they were traveling in
skidding on the graveled road and plunging into
a watery death—just three more tragedies of
highway travel, three more desolated homes. . .
Householders are out raking lawns, planting rose
bushes, spading and digging—the annual spring
inspiration.
The Hon. Val Peterson has been to town again,
not to rally the civil defense forces at a traffic
jam and fire at 48th and O streets, but to address
state university students. News guys say our ex
govemor was silent respecting the Denmark dip
lomatic job, though Val may have whispered
quietly to a friend here and there that he is ready
to represent Uncle Sam in Copenhagen. When
once the executive or federal bee buzzes in your
ear it is fatal. Somebody has to take oyer and
there are men even ready to put on the mantle of
state and federal authority and strut in official
circles until a cold hand reaches out of the un
known and lays them away.
• • •
A Baptist church In Akron, O., claims to
have “the world’s largest Sunday school”,
7,000 of them, and will construct an addition
to their temple to seat an additional 3,000.
• • •
Rain last night. Wind moans across the city
today, leafless twigs and nude limbs of trees
blown about—a day to recline in an easy chair
awaiting another day when the sun glows like
fire and the sky above is like one shining soft
sapphire, and you walk abroad or down a grass
robed lane where morning glories bloom and the
birds sing, there to breath the open air full and
deep and look unspoiled nature full in the face.
In the crowded human haunts we hear today the
rushing wind blowing up another rain, and the
lady next door who has a washing on the line
fluttering in the wind may have some mending
to do when she brings that washing in.
• * *
Three souls by horror haunted down by
Kearney. Father, mother, the two young daugh
ters of the household went to the field to round
up their calves. One daughter, 13 years of age,
separated from the three, struck down by a bolt
of lightning and lay there liveless. There are
many desolated homes day by day. Two just
today in the community where I am. Two aged
women respond to the rollcall of eternity. The
old will die after a lifetime of joy and pain; a
child in the bloom of health struck dead in an
instant. That father and mother and sister down
in Buffalo county wipe away tears, sorrowing
hearts grieve on.
* • *
Girls are jumping rope, boys tossing the ball,
big league professionals at it again, hay days
and rodeo coming next, county fairs and a trip
to the lakes. How’s your budget?
Editorial
Test Your Kids and Yourself
By Reed O'Hanlon, jr., in the
Blair Pllot-Trlbnne
The average parent, whether he says it in so
taany words or not, is interested in getting his
youngsters educated to the point where they’ll at
least know what’s going on around them and be
able to fit into their world—and also qualify for a
Job so they can carry on.
We hear much about our young people not be
fog very smart. We hear that teachers quite often
Can’t seem to teach nowadays. We hear all sorts
Ot versions about what’s happened in the last 10
to 15 years since "modem” educational processes
became popular.
Frankly we never did lean toward the "mod
em" school which seemed to veer away from
PH basics of reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic,
history and geography. But we hear the trend
Is now reversing itself, so we will dismiss it for
this item.
We have looked over some of our own chil
dren’s books lately, and discover that all of us
parents might well dip into them of an evening and
pat re-smarted.
For instance, do you know offhand the name
Of the second president of United States?
What is “pi”?
What is a noun?
Do you know the definition of a right hy
potenuse, assuming you went to high school.
What is a simple fracture, in the study of the
body, or a compound fracture? In finance, what
Is the difference between simple interest and com
pound interest?
A little whisk some idle night, through your
Idds’ homework schoolbooks, or through that sel
dom-used Book of Knowledge set, might be quite
revealing to us parents.
There ARE some things they still have in
School which we all think we know but which
We’ve forgotton long since—and which they’re si ill
leeching in the schools.
Let’s not get too rough on our educational
System until we realize what they’re supposed to
be teaching—and whether they are.
—And, say, speaking of children’s education,
how many of you parents can even yourselves an
swer a couple of simple questions which can’t be
included in the public school curriculum:
What is Christmas? Easter?
What are the Ten Commandments?
Is it the O. K. to make a million bucks through
knowledge you acquired, if you have to cheat
or steal to get it—if you don’t get caught, that is?
These are items you’re supposed to be teach
ing them at home, or that your particular church
Is. If your kids don’t know this part—about the
Spiritual and moral side beyond their brief 70
years on earth—either you’re remiss or your
church is—far more than the public school teach
ers you criticize because Johnny can’t write. A
growing child who can’t answer these last ques
tions is far worse off than one who can’t recall
Napoleon’s legions, nor remember who was chief
justice in 1920. And so are you, who worry about
the misserable teaching of algebra these days.
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Avoid Fat* and Stress
If you want to escape heart disease, avoid fats
and stress.
This advice is one of the “New Weapons
Against Heart Disease” described by Francis and
Katharine Drake in the May issue of Reader’s Di
gest.
According to new research, you may be able
to absorb fat or stress without bringing on heart
trouble. But you probably cannot do both. The
Reader’s Digest writers say that faulty use of fat
by your body is dangerous when combined with
emotional pressue and tension.
Information like this has developed from re
search spurred by President Eisenhower’s heart
attack. His case focused public attention on the
toll taken by heart disease. Every day of the year,
a thousand Americans—of all ages—die as a re
sult of coronary attacks such as the president suf
fered.
The article says overweight is only partly the
danger that fat brings to your heart. Greater
danger comes from poor burning of fat in your
body. When this process is not working well, fat
stays on the inside of your adteries. These depos
ists partially cut bff the flow of blood. When
this happens, you get warning by feeling the pains
of angina.
You cannot avoid stress as easily as fat in this
jittery age. But avoiding it is wise for everyone_
and coronary patients must do so. The rule is
“take it easy," at work and recreation.
This is that busy season of the year when
there is a rash of school activities and when farm
ers and ranchers are busy from early until late.
But there are recompenses in nature’s new life and
lush green.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER,
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When Too St I Were Young . . .
Hicks on Market
with Hogs, Cattle
Three Carloads to
South Omaha
50 Y'ears Ago
John N. Johnson of Inman and
Mrs. Ida B. Schwinck of Wisner
and Thomas Quilty and Miss Nora
O'Malley were married... Marri
age license issued to Fred P. Oet
ter and Miss Georgia Simpson
both of Bliss. . . E. P. Hicks and
son, Steve, went to South Omaha
with two cars of cattle and one
car of hogs. . . S. P. Miller of
1 Fhoenix died at Atkinson of
heart trouble. . . A surprise party
was given for Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Berger by their brother,
John and Mr, and Mrs. O. B.
Hatch. •. . Mrs. W. A. Brown of
Page, who has been visiting her
daughters in Jackson and Pender
the past four weeks, has returned.
20 Yew» Ago
Mrs. H. H. Mitchell of Jeffers,
Mont., renewed her subscription
to The Frontier and enclosed a
note stating she likes to hear |
what’s happening “in the old j
hometown”. Mrs. Mitchell, the |
former Katie Sullivan, says she j
enjoyed a visit last summer from
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Birmingham
and J. D. Cronin. She’s on the
best highway between Butte and
Park and would enjoy seeing old
friends. . . Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
George of Escondido, Calif., have
twin sons. Mrs. George is the
former Sara Simmons. . . Eliza
Bigler, who lived here with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Moler for several years, is ser
iously ill in a S. D. hospital.
10 Years Ago
Deaths: William G. Beha, 80;
James Morrison, 70, in Gregory,
S. D.; John J. Porter, 71, of
Chambers; Gerald Fallon, 31,
killed by lightning; Garrett
(“Garry”) Benson, 01, of Cali
fornia, formerly of Ewing. . .
Little Carol Joan Riffey, who
weighed a bare three pounds at
birth a year ago, is receiving
congratulations from her proud
parents and doting relatives. To
day she is strong and healthy. . .
Patricia DeBolt celebrated her
11th birthday anniversary at a
1 party . . . Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
j Gavin of Emmet were given a
farewell party at the Vern Beck
1 with home. They will make their
home in Scottsbluff.
One Year Ago
Neighbors of Lowell Clouse
disced and planted 110 acres of
oats and barley for him. . . Also
aided by neighbors were Marvin
Richter and Elwyn Robertson. . .
Deaths: Mrs. John R. Krotter of
Spencer; Fred H. Tucker, 61, of
Chambers; Samuel Noring, 60, of
Inman. . . Mr and Mrs. Frank
Cranford of Lynch celebrated
their 50 wedding anniversary, al
so Mr. and Mrs. John Holliday of
Orchard. . . Stanley Johnson of
Celia was surprised on his birth
day anniversary. . . Miss Beveriy
Jane Chase of Atkinson was mar
ried to Gordon H. Weyermuller
of Chicago.
Center Union Awaits
Annual Homecoming
Center Union Sunday-school,
with Rev. C. P. Turner as pastor,
is holding its annual homecom
ing, Saturday and Sunday, May
4 and 5.
The Saturday evening sen ice
will begin at 8 o’clock. Rev.
Don McFarling of Scottsbluff,
the general missionary of the
American Sunday-School union,
will be the speaker of the even
ing and show pictures of the
work.
The service will begin at 10
o’clock Sunday morning with de
votions and the Sunday-school
lesson by Missionary Hollings
head. The morning message v. ill
be by the district superintendent
of the American Sunday-school
union, Rev. Kenneth Sonder of
Omaha.
There will be lunch of sand
wiches and pie. Coffee will be
served by the ladies of the
church.
The afternoon service will be
gin at 1:30 o’clock. There will
be a debate: It is easier to live
for Christ today than in the days
of early church? Special music
will be by the male quartet of
the Baptist Memorial church of
Chambers. Reverend McFarling
will bring the message.
Singspiration service beginning
at 7:30. The evening message w:U
be by Reverend Sonder.
O’Neill News
Guests Monday, April 22, of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Paulson were
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Quakset and
children of Tilden and^Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Maguire and children of
Ewing.
Mrs. Pat Sullivan spent the
Easter weekend in Omaha visit
ing her daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
John McGill.
Easter guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Sivesind were Mr. and Mrg.
Roy Sivesind of Sidney.
Easter callers at the ranch of
Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw
were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kamp
haus, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pet
ers and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shaw
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van Voor
tiis and son, Kip, of Albion spent
the Easter weekend with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Van
Voorhis.
Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Ray and [
Mary spent Easter in Gothenburg
/isiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
tfugh Ray.
The Johnsons and Tap Toe. owned by Buy Wanser . . . '<'t out
on race circuit.—The Frontier Photo.
Johnson Starts
Racing Season
(Continued from page 1.)
Flower Show, a five-year-old, is
owned by Andy.
“They’ve both got a lot of race
left in ’em,” he declared, “and
you’ll be hearing from us at
Ak-Sar-Ben (Omaha), Columbus,
Lincoln and South Sioux City.”
The season will close at South
Sioux. Mr. Johnson is hopeful
that track, starting its second
year, will have a successful seas
on.
"I’ve got a little investment in
that one,” he stated seriously.
A year or so ago the Johnsons
were given a jolt when their best
horse, Crack Time, suffered a
heart attack.
“We were giving her a workout
one morning, she shook a mom
ent, the jockey dismounted, and
Crack Time laid down and died.
Too young to die, too”
On the circuit the Johnsons live
in a comfortable trailer house,
like most of the other track peop
le do in this era.
Other Holt horsemen on the
circuit are C. L. (Jack) Sison of
Ewing, Jasper Hitchcock of O’
Neill and Atkinson, and James
Kelley of Inman.
The race people form a rather
close assoiciation in this sport of
kings.
“Earnings aren’t much when it’s
all said and done,” observed Mr.
Alice’s Beauty Shop
Res. 3 doors west of Texaco
125 East Douglas
Phone 263 — O’Neill
! Johnson. "It’s the sport of it . . .
the stuff gets in your blood and
| you can never quit."
The Johnsons reared a family
of seven children. The oldest,
Hiram, looks after the farm
while the folks are at the tracks.
(A tape-recorded interview
with Mr. Johnson was broadcast
on the "Voice of The Frinfier’’
program Wednesday, May 1,
WJAG, 780 ke).
Frontier for printing.
O'NEILL LOCALS
An Easter dinner was held at
James Boyle home. Those present
were Sgt. Donald Boyle and wife
and family of Junction City,
; Kans.; Edgar Boyle and wife and
family of Page; Mrs. Robert
Trowbridge and family of Oma
ha; Patrick Boyle of Lexington;
John Boyle of Osmond; and Gay
Ion Boyle.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Haskins
of Central City visited Friday,
April 19, with Mr. and Mrs. C.
Holmes. Mrs. Holmes and child
ren returned with them. On Eas
ter day Mr. Holmes went to Cen
tral City after them.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shierk spent*
the Easter weekend in Marshall,
Minn., visiting Mr. and Mrs. Har
old Benson and family.
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