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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1957)
Prairieland Talk ‘Docy Mathews Made Fortune By ROMA INK SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51st St, Lincoln 6, Nebr. The Frontier is 77 years along the highway highway of time, the oldest business institution in Holt county. Started in the year 1880. it has not missed an issue in the passing years. There were one or two trading posts in the pioneer town when Mr. Mathews arrived here from Monroe, Wise., with type and an army press and launch ed a newspaper that still sur- p ^ vives and which in early >#*• r • ^ days had much to do in in ducing settlers to come to the Rlkhorn valley country. ^ Mathews accumulated a small fortune publishing land notices and “touching" aspir ing politicians springing up on the prairie. Pat Hagerty’s' trading post, located where1 the Golden hotel is today, was t the lone mercantile center ini_ early days. John McCarter- f Komaine ty Started a hardware store | Saunders followed soon after by Neil Brennan. J. P. Mann opened a store about the year 1883 and Charley Schram soon after. The First National bank was organized about that time, continuing today as next oldest concern in business continually since it opened for business. Father Smith cared for the spiritual, and at times temperal, interests of the members of St. Patrick’s church. Rev. Bart ley Blaine organized and served as pastor of the Methodist church. Wherever there was a pioneer settlement there you would find a Methodist preacher. Schools began on the pioneer oasis. little frame building where the Outlaw food mar ket now is was O'Neill’s first temple of learning with Professor O’Sullivan teaching the young pio neers ideas on how to shoot, though the kids might give him pointers on how to knock down a deer, catch a three-foot pickerel or flush a covey of prairie chickens. Business, education and church ministry have come a long way since those early days and The Frontier has enlarged its sphere of usefulness and public service through these 77 years. • • • A farmer friend located in Nebraska s rich grain belt two hours drive southwest of Lincoln tells me at present It Is the opposite extreme from what it was a year ago. So wet by early May not much could be done In the fields but the winter wheat is looking good. Corn planting had not begun at the time of our visit. • • • One more victim of the strenuous public life as it is at our nation’s capital has been taken to the abode of the dead. Senator McCarthy is now but a memory, and that soon forgotten. My boyhood pal at the 10-year period on the high way of life back there in Green county, Wiscon sin! was a McCarthy, but he probably in later life had not become the father of the Wisconsin senator that was a thorn in the flesh to many of his colleguos in the senate. The least that can be said of him is that he was no mere senator oc cupying a seat in the chamber that makes nation al history. His name sounds Irish, it may be Scotch But lie had the Irish genius for public service. May he rest in peace! I The lilacs are in bloom, adorning in fragrant clusters, bushes that have grown up along the way; tulips in gold and yellow tinted beauty I add their charm of color to the season’s early floral display. Lawn chairs and porch bench have been brought out again and we sit once more outdoors where sunsliine glows in radiant splendor without the valted blue above. It is the mild month of May leading on to summer days. And so the seasons come and go, bringing to each life’s experiences—a child born, a friend, a dear one laid away in the abode of the dead. The liv ing carry on joyfully these bright May days and as the month draws to a close there comes a day when we stand by a grave in that abode of the dead and place a floral tribute there in memory of the dead. “The dead know not anything;” we turn away to go about the affairs of the living and far and wide across prairieland Mother Earth blooms with the fruits that will sustain the living. • • • He was a well groomed, dark skinned gent from Jamaica, one of the West Indies, where it is summer every day. We had a little visit. He is in Lincoln attending college to prepare for enter ing u<pon educational work in his native land. He experienced his first winter conditions as we know them in Nebraska. Our brief visit seemed to be one of the pleasant incidents that bring him pleasure so far away from home. Another young man, a Spanish speaking native of Central Amer ica, in Lincoln taking studies at the same college, he too planning to enter educational work, who I contacted today was apparently under a home sick spell but is sticking it out until he finishes and becomes a college graduate up here in North j America. m * m The railroad section worker who earned a dollar and a dime a day at one time saved | money and brought him a home. Come, fel lows, tell ’hem how to do it! • • • The honorable secretary of defense, Mr. Wil son, says the “cost critics” give him a pain. The “cost" of most everything gives most of us a pain. A community food market advertises that you can have three ears of sweet corn by handing over twobits. That’s just what I got as a kid prairie land farmer in the long ago for a bushel by the wagon load of corn at Dan Toohill’s pioneer flour and feed eorncrib a block east of where the Gold en hotel now stands. Now it is interesting to learn that Mr. Wilson’s "pains” stem not from the cost of things but from the countrywide bellyache over the cost of life’s necessities. * • • Shall maidens fair and youthful gallants “go steady"? Some highbrow now far past the ro mantic sign post along the highway of time turns over in his sleep, gets up to write up his night mare. Go steady—why not? That’s about the way it has been since Adam looked into the lov ing eyes of the world’s first sweetheart. And Joe and Ann and Jack and May will doubtless prolong the “steady” habit heedless of what any old stiff has to say about it. Editorial Joe McCarthy Dared to Trod Now that most of the eulogies have been offered in behalf of the late Sen. Joseph McCar thy (R-Wisc.), The Frontier begs to offer its bit. This newspaper was steadfast in backing McCarthy during and after the senate investiga tion of subversives in government. While some agreed with Joe in principle they undermined his efforts by ubhoring his tactics. Others simply hated McCarthy and said he was barking up a tree. There were several big libel suits slapped against Joe, but none was made to stick. The liberals in government, the do-gooding news writers, television and radio commentators at tacked Joe at every turn. They tried to disgrace him on income tax matters, they assassinated his character, some even attacked his war record. The communist organ The Daily Worker coined the word “McCarthyism” and the do-gooders took up theme—precisely to Moscow’s liking. The liberals pounced on Joe with consider ably more vindictive than Joe ever attacked any one else. Sure, Joe trimmed Major Peress down to size and Senator Joe was never proved wrong about Peress’s subversive connections. Yet Peress was promoted and Senator Joe wondered why and by whom. The decorated General Zwicker (we won’t question his war record) certainly is unfit to wear the uniform if he protected higher author ities during a senate investigation. The military must always be accountable fully and completely to the highest civilian authority. Joe’s greatest sin was that he dared to brave the trail in pursuit of the communists and anti anti-communists. The liberal publications, columnists and tonsil artists on the air, by their relentless attacks dur ing and after the senate hearings, contributed to Joe’s decline in spirit and in health. They rode herd on him to his Appleton, Wise., grave. The Frontier, however, nominates the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy as one of the brave patriots of all time. As far as America is concerned, he almost single-handedly opened the American front in the cold war against communism. Many important personages wanted to jump into the fight as an ally but few had the courage. Joe will go down in history as the Twentieth century Paul Revere, for his awakening of the American people to the grip the enemy had on our own who occupied sensitive positions in gov ernment. Joe spurred defense thinking, for which, actually, the pentagon should now award him a posthumous medal. Joe’s demise poses new problems. Who is there on the same national scene who will wade in and sacrifice himself on the same altar? Ironically a Nebraska woman, Mrs. Hazel Hem pel Abel, was crowned the 1957 American mother in New York, while Joe’s casket was be ing lowered into the wooded lawn at Appleton. At the height of the McCarthy feeling in the land Mrs Abel was a short-term candidate for the United States senate from Nebraska. She allayed any fears she would censure | McCarthy while campaigning in O’Neill. She told The Frontier she, personally, had helped to arrange for Joe’s appearance before the Repub lican Womans club of San Diego, Calif. She in dicated to us privately—not for publication—that she was in Joe’s corner. Mrs. Abel went to the senate. The “get McCarthy” crowd needed her vote when the condemnation matter came up. They needed it badly because her name began with “A” —a critical vote on the roll call. They got her vote which started Mr. McCarthy on the decline physically and spiritually. Zwicker: A war hero who permitted his per son to be tainted by clamming up before a senate investigation committee. Mrs. Abel: No doubt a wonderful mother but way off base the moment she stepped into the political waters much too deep for her to fathom. She belatedly wishes the condemnation could be stricken from the records. Joe McCarthy: A tombstone for the Appleton farm boy, an Irishman with guts who dared to probe where others feared to trod. Historians write objectively. When all the extraneous pros and cons on Mr. McCarthy are tom away, there will stand a martyr ... a man who single-handedly took on the Kremlin and opened a vital front in America’s cold war . . . j a Twentieth century Paul Revere. May 10 Last Day of Bondage On May 10 the average American served a theoretical “last day of bondage”, so far as 1957 taxes are concerned. What he has earned up to that time just about covered his bill for the year. What this means is that taxes in the United States currently take about 36 percent of all our earned income. Putting it another way, all that we earned during the first 130 calendar days is needed to support our own governments of one kind and another. Will the “last day of bondage” come earlier in the year—or will it come later? So much for 1957. What of the years ahead? That depends on wether the people really want cheaper government, with the reduction in government activity that will involve, or just want to talk about it. Every billion dollars cut from the over-all cost of government would permit it to come one day sooner—and, conversely, every billion dollars added to that cost would delay it one day longer. That brings up a slogan which is 100 percent relevant. Here it is: “I’ll take less from govern ment—if government will take less from me.” CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER. Associate Publishers Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt coun ty, 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- I tion, National Editorial Association and the Audit i Bureau of Circulations. Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, (2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided on request. All subscriptions I are paid in advance •• ^ •• * , *•*•* Miss Haven . . . sugar con trols weight. Demonstration Set Friday at Atkinson ATKINSON*.—A demonstration in cookie baking and a talk on the importance of sugar for good nutrition will be given by Nancy Haven, home economist for Western Beet Sugar Producers, on Friday, May 17, in the home economics room of the Atkinson high school for leaders of home extension clubs from this area. Miss Haven's visit here is be ing sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Indra, home extension agent for Holt county. “Proper nutrition and diet is the American housewife’s most important responsibility,” Miss Haven said, "and sxigar has a paramount role in controlling weight." Miss Haven’s demonstration will include a discussion of the use of equipment in cookie bak ing, decorating cookies and the display of cookies for parties and club affairs. Following the demonstration club leaders will have a work shop session where they will try their hand at baking a batch of I cookies. I _ Redistricting Is Talked at Chambers CHAMBERS— A redistricting meeting was held at the Cham bers school Friday evening, May 10. Time was spent in an informal discussion of the redistricting problem, but no action was taken. Strope Is Tank Crewman— ORCHARD—Army S2c William W. Strope, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Strope of Orchard, re cently arrived in Germany for duty with the second armored division. Specialist Strope, who just completed basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., is now a tank crewman in the division’s 29th Tank Battalion. He was a farmer before enter ing the army in January, 1957. Cole to Direct Sandhills Sale— G. O. (“Bud”) Cole of Emmet has been unanimously elected manager of the special Sandhills Cattle association sale to be held October 2 at the O’Neill Live stock Market. Once again a steak fry will be held on the eve of the sale at the Country club here. Annual meeting of the Sand hills association will be held Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, at Gordon. Entertain Guests— Sunday, May 5, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Brock Reynoldson were Mr. and Mrs. George Burrows, of Platte Center, Mr, and Mrs. Dwayne Green and family, Mrs. Clarence Reynoldson and Fran ces of Albion. ■ Visits Tilden— Mr. and Mrs. Ed Paulson and famiily spent the May 4-5 week end in Tilden visiting their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Mag wire and Mx. and Mrs. Chris Paulson. BIG ENOUGH to do a perfect cooking job! SMALL ENOUGH to fit any kitchen! the \mSkelqas STARLIGHT RANGE MODEL SK-1487 59995 D — O’NEILL — O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wells and family, Mrs. Mary Wetzler, Lor ene Wetzler of O'Neill, and Mrs. Leon Odenback and son of Sid ney, Mont., visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wetzler in Herrick, S. D.. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Grutsch and sons visited Mr. and Mrs John Grier in Laurel on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Green and Mrs. Clarence Reynoldson of Al- I bion were Sunday guests of Mr. I and Mrs. Verne Reynoldson. Mrs.! Clarence Reynoldson will stay to j attend graduation of grandson, Jimmy. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones and her sister, Mrs. Esther Morgan. | went to Polk Saturday to visit j their brothers. Dr. and Mrs. Enid | Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Peterson. They returned Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hunt and family went to Omaha Saturday to visit her mother, Mis. E. W. Devereaux, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cavanaugh and his brother, Don, visited the men’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 James Cavanaugh of Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bright and family spent Sunday afternoon in I Stuart with her parents, Mr. and j Mrs. Harrison Hovey. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Godel of | Grand Island arrived Saturday I to spend mother’s day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Godel. Another son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Don Godel and Randy of Ord were here Sunday. Alien Martin attended a dog shpw in Norfolk recently. He left last Thursday for Omaha. Elgin Ray, Richard Struhl and and Stanley Longnecker attend ed a lumber sales meeting in Ainsworth Tuesday, April 30. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Weyrich visited his brother, Gus Magdanz who is ill, in Craig on Sunday, May 5. , Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fox and boys of Ida Grove la., spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sobotka. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Curry and Jerry of Kansas City, Mo., [were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Becker. , Mrs. William Hubby of Neligh was a guest of Mrs. Carrie Borg and Miss Marvel from Tuesday, May 7 to last Thursday, May 9. Mr. and Mrs. John Beilin were in Springview Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Carr. David Schaffer, who is a stud ent at Creighton university in Omaha, visited his mother, Mrs. Clara Schaffer over the weekend. He brought along another student, George Moseley, as a weekend guest. Marvin Anderson and sons, Larry and Gary and Jim Donohoe made a business trip to Dixon Sunday. Mr .and Mrs. F. S. Brittell went to Valentine for mother’s day to visit their daughter and son-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Dickie Fernau and Joyce. Make Plans for Daily Bible School EWING—A meeting was held Thursday evening at the annex of the United Presbyterian church to discuss and make plans or the daiily vacation Bible school to be held June 10-14. There w ill be all day sessions, except for the kindergarten and the nursery classes, which will be dismissed at noon. Three churches will partici pate—Church of Christ, United Presbyterian and Methodist. A larger attendance is expect ed than last year. Mrs. William Spence will be the superintendent and Mrs J. L. Pruden will be the secretary. Materials were given to the tea chers and helpers to begin prep aration of lessons. The pastors. Dr. William H. Ross and Rev, Lav Brigdcn, were in charge of planning the meeting o M ill LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. William J. Froe lich left Sunday for Chicago, 111. 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