Prairieland Talk—
Clambake Missed with Regret
By RO MAINE MI NDERS, 4110 South Slat St., Un.oin 6. Nebr.
LINCOLN Pramoland Talker had a date
Monday. August 12, at* the Holt County Old Set
tlers' picnic at the Elmer Devall grove m the
Meek locality.
But I couldn't keep the appointment.
I took a fall last Thurs
day. The little accident 1
met with rendered me un
able to get around. I am
sorry to have missed the
okl settlers' clambake, but
felt I had hetter not under
take the trip with my game
leg. I asked Editor Cal on
the “Voice of The Frontier" j
on the morning of the cele
bration to convey my greet
ings to praineland friends
Kouiaim- at the picnic. I had in
Saunders Grandma Sarah Hull and
her descendants, the members of the Searles,
Nelson, Borg. Karel, Van Every families — to
mention only a few.
If another leg is not cracked up by early'
October, I hope to pay a visit to Holt county'
friends once more.
The onward sweep of time carried us into
another summer month of 31 hot days, molified now
and them by visits from without the north polar
regions on the wings of the wind. The etheral blue
spreads in undimmed beauty across prairieland,
robed still in its summer gown of green, dotted
here and there in colorful floral bloom and at every
such as our fathers saw a century ago. Green robed
prairieland lies today beneath the curtain of blue
above But where the footprint of beaded moccasin
once was seen now rolls the pale face on rubber
tired wheels. When Chief Big Foot from over on the
reservation now known as Boyd county saw for the
first time John Mann come down the streets we
now call Douglas riding a bike he blurted out,
White man lazy- sits down to walk! White man has
done other things but he can not detace what the
Hand of nature has laid in velvet green across
prairieland. So memory leads again to where hoots
have pressed the sod, where prairie hens budd
their nests and meadowlarks sing, where the golden
crested eagle soars on out-spread wing, stately and
still as a ship at sea, and where a human hand
reaches to you and friends greet you with a smile.
We have today the PhD, doctor of philsophy.
Ancient Greece had the first doctor of philosophy
in the person of Socrates who is reputed to have
brought an end to his philosophic thinking when
he drank from the poisoned cup. The Greeks de
fined philosophy as an attempt of men to find out
what is real. Any old man or woman knowing
nothing of PhD science hut who have come down
the highway of time can tell you what ‘is real"
when the shadows have begun to lengthen, when the
low descending sun of this mortal pilgrimage may
soon go out, when the once raven locks have turned
white and furrowed brow and wrinkled chin, hatt
ing step and limping limb have marked the pass
ing of the years life’s outlook becomes focused upon
the sombre and inexorahle realities, and you do not
need a PhD or a Socrates to tell you what "is real.”
Ahother of the dwindling remnants of pioneer
patriots of the O’Neill community has been laid
away among the abode of the dead. Tom Enright’s
parents were among the natives of Ireland making
up the colony that started things in and near the
little village that became the county seat of Holt
county. Most of Tom’s 80 odd years passed over
his head right here in this community and now’ after
many months of physical suffering he is at rest. A
few still survive who came out of the time of cov
ered wagons, saddled cow ponies and two-gun
booted and spurred range riders where now the
streets of the old town are crowded with cars and
trucks and togged up gents and charming ladies
step about.
What you don't know will not hurt you;
what you do know may spoil your fun. Ignorance
is bliss; ‘tis folly to be wise. But ignorance that
Is the child of fanaticism is neither blissful nor
wise.
An interesting letter has come to me trom
Mr. and Mrs. Segelman, farmer citizens of the
O'Neill community, now holing up in crowded
human haunts in the far northwest Seattle, Wash ,
They cherish memories of prairieland and friends i
back here Gifted with a rare sense ot literary j
niceties they write of them in fulisome praise.
And, as prairieland inspiration still lingers, they
walk away from the crowded haunts to loaf awhile
where nature spreads enchantments along the
shores of the mighty deep. The Frontier goes to
Mr. and Mrs. Segelman week by week and is
doubtless read from page one to the last page,
ads and all. And now I will say, thank you friends,
for writing
Friends, sons and daughters, grandchildren
took the last look at her today as she lay robed
for burial. A mother, a grandmother, a resident ot
the community in which I dwell, the days, the
months, the years wrote upon her brow the marks
of four score and four years and the earthly pil
grimage of another noble prairieland woman ends
at the grave. This capital city of over a hundred
thousand has its desolated homes day by day that
know the tears of grief stricken fathers and moth- |
ers, of sons and daughters and sweethearts. Yes i
from the cradle to the grave the sad refrain of
sorrow stills the tune of joy along the way
If North Nebraskans want passenger train
service they should get out from behind the steer
ing wheel and take a seat in a chair car. Or
maybe railroading is on the way out to join the
horse and wagon junk pile.
The furnace of the sky brought the heat up
to 100 this late July day, inspiring many to head
for the Muny rink w'here the ice is spread in cool
length across the open space for skaters to glide
about on. There are ways of making ice without
the aid of Jack Frost or north pole breezes and j
ice skating on a hot July night is a strange
combination that draw's crow'ds.
A young fellow was fined $10 and costs in
Lancaster county court for making off with a
watermelon at a food market. In imposing the
fine the judge said when he was a boy they swiped
melons in the field. Any kid can go to a melon
patch and sneak out a melon, but it takes a clever
young guy to pull the trick at a food market on
a busy street.
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Qn f HTOnctin t me tnf t ion im thiitm in hjctnrir*
northwest Holt is no more. Shades of the indomit- ;
able Mrs. Dustin, of my brother Ezra and his {
Dustin Dispatch! A once community of go-getters
north of Stuart swept away by the remorseless
march of time, but Dustin precinct is still on the
map.
Guest Editorial
Ken McCormick in The Stanton Register
It worked for Postmaster Summerfield so
now State Engineer L. N. Ress is trying the same
tactics to defeat the petition drive to halt the seven
cent gasoline tax.
Summerfield curtailed postal service to coerce
the congress into granting him more funds. Ress
has spelled out specific road projects that will be
abandoned if the one-cent addition to the tax
passed by the legislature is short-circuited by the
petition.
By dealing in specific cases, Ress is utilizing
the strongest weapon at his command. For instance,
in Stanton county alone more than $700,000 worth
of road building will be cancelled if the tax does
nnt m intn effect These nroipcts werp to have
been the widening and resurfacing of highway 275 j
from the spur to the Wayne junction and the bitum
inous surfacing of hiway 15 south of Pilger for
about five miles.
In addition to this, Ress claims the county
will lose about $7,500 for its share of the added
tax. Stanton county got $84,255 in state money for
roads last year and the estimated share would be j
$91,700 under the new law.
We are not in favor of the added cent to an j
already high gas tax. But on the other hand, we |
do favor improved roads.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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Captains 1 earn
William Edwards (above) I
captained a softball team that
won intramural honors during j
the summer session at the Uni
versity of South Dakota at Ver
million. Edwards left Sunday to
attend coaching school at the
University of Nebraska. He is ,
cage coach at O'Neill high.
When You aiul I Were Young ...
Lewis Sullivan
Drowns in Pond
Youth, 11, Considered
Good Swimmer
50 Years Ago
Lewis eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mike Sullivan, drowned in a
pond while his parents were in,
town trading. The lad was 11- j
years-old and was considered a
good swimmer. . . Miss Maud I
Howard is in Fremont visiting re-1
latives. . . John Sturdevant of
Stuart, the next clerk of the|
court of Holt county, is passing]
out cigai's not on the strength of
his candidacy, but because he is
the father of a new son. . . Miss
Catherine Grady is in Chacago,
111., to select millinery for a new^
shop she and her sister, Missi
Margaret, will operate.
20 Years Ago
Mrs. Bridget Gallagher, 86, a|
pioneer, died at her home. . .
Marvin Van Every, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Van Every, was]
cut and bruised when a team ofi
mules he was working ran away
and through him in a barbed I
wire fence. . . 0. E. Ott of Tenn
essee. a former resident, arrived ]
to spend several weeks with his ]
son, L. A. Ott. Having left here 22
years ago, Mr. Ott was truly sur- ]
prised at the progress which had
taken place. . . Edward McBride
of I>os Angles, Calif., a former!
resident, died.
10 Years Ago j
Miss Kathleen Flood, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Flood, won a
‘‘highly superior” as a soprano in
the midwest division of the nat
ional high school music contest
and has been awarded a $1,200
four year scholarship at St. Mar
y’s college in Xavier, Kans. . .
Little Miss Ellen Doohoe, 7. dau
ghter of the Clarence Donohoes,
escaped serious injury when she
was run over by the rear wheel
of a tractor while working in the
hay field. . . The following have
been nominated to compete in
the regional soil conservation
programs: Calvin and Jiames Al
lyn of Stuart; Hershel Miles of
Dorsey; Ray Siders of O'Neill
and L. R. and Harvey Tompkins
of Inman.
One Year Ago
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson
celebrated their 60th wedding an
niversary. . . Mrs. Delia Harri
son,78, was crowned queen at the
annual Holt county settlers’ pic
nic .. . Lightning struck the Har
ry Van Horn ranch near Ewing.
No one was injured.
DR. II. D. GILDERSLEEVE
OPTOMETRIST
Northeast Corner
of 4th & Douglas
O’NEILL, NEBR.
Phone 197
Office Hours: 9-fi
Kyes Examined —Glasses Fitted
Monday Thru Saturday
O’Neill News
Mr. and Mrs Dean Van Every
and family of Omaha stopped in
to see hu parents, Mr. and Mrs
George Van Every. Sunday They
were on their way to Denver. Co
lo., to buy a new truck Their
children stayed out at Dorsey
with their grandparents, Mr and
Mrs. W. L. Brady.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Krause of
Sioux City came Friday. August
2, to spend the weekend with her
parents. Mr and Mrs. D. D. IV
Bolt. Friday Mrs Krause called
home saying that her husband's
grandmother had died in Sioux
City
Mrs Wilson Shungar and three
sons of Keneeaw arrived last
Thursday to visit her sister. Mrs.
IVan Reed. Mr. Reed and Miss
Paula.
Jim Froelieh, Jim Becker and
Eddie Gate arrived home from
Mtnocqua Wise whore they
spent their vacation Miss Marde
Hirmmgham who was also there
came home Monday.
Mr, and Mrs, lHiane Miller
spent last week at Buffalo, Wyo.,
with friends Their children Stay
ed with their grandparents in
Fremont and Stanton. The Mil
lers also stopped in to see Mr.
a rat Mrs Paul Baker in Omaha
Mrs. John Carroll and children
left Saturday for their home in
Denver, Colo., after visiting her
mother Mrs William J Biglm,
for two weeks
Mr, and Mrs Guy Beckwith
were guests of Mr and Mrs. C.
K Johnson from Saturday until
Friday at Waverley.
Mr and Mrs. Francis Better
were supper giH'sts of Mr and
Mrs. Clifford Burival Sunday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs I.eonard Davis
left Monday for a two-weeks va
cation to Colorado and other West
ern points.
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farm and ranch the hope ot tne nation ior me iuu
dinner pail Another fruitful season draws to a close
and now just some weeks ahead the tar llung
landscape will put on her charming autumn colors.
Then this prisoner in the crowded haunts of men
hopes to stand again on the sod-covered earth out
where he was before the lure of the city called.
Some friends that we had known out there now are
sleeping the sleep of death, but others carry on.
Yes, life goes on today we are here, tomorrow
gone and life goes on with other footprints pressed
upon the sands of time where we had trod.
So President Ike has a million! Why not, he
heads tile land of the free, the home of the dollar
chaser and arrogant capitalist, where kids of
penniless parents become corporation presidents,
industrial giants and able statesmen. And some
even rise to he newspaper editor.
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