Prairieland Talk—
No Moon Trips for Old Settlers
By ROMAINE MI NDERS, 4110 South 31st St., IJncoln 6, Nebr.
1JNCOIJS The day I got the word of the
gathering of prairieland patriots in their an
nual picnic—to which 1 was invited to make a
talk an accident befell me that put my good left
leg out of service for sev
eral days
The old settlers get to
gether, not to solve the world
problems, not to plan trips
to the moon nor unravel the
mysteries of life troubling
the minds of men today
They come together to clasp
hands with friends, to look
into laughing eyes, to talk
face-ti>-face with neighbors,
to have social contact and
to look out upon farflung pra- Saunders
irioland robed in silken green; to look back a
cross the track and think again of the struggles
of bygone years, happy now to rest in the lap of
plenty.
They had struggles, tragedy left its sorrow
laden token at a few doorsteps.
The oldtimers survive, men and women who
stand today clothed in the serenity of nobility
bom out of die struggles of other years. Life on
prairieland has shaped human destiny to rap the
old settlers in the robes of God-fearing, law a
biding and patriotic citizens.
There Is another John — John the barber.
Told me today that 40 men got in anti out of his
barber chair yesterday, each handing him one
dollar for tin* haircut. The next day was not
much different. Another John comes to mind,
John Smoot, the Fourth street barber in O’Neill.
Only in Smoot’s day the village streets had neither
oame nor number. John got 25 cents for cutting
a guy’s hair and maybe he gathered in $40 in a
month at it. Rut he and his bride, a McAllister
beauty, lived well, owned their home, a horse
and buggy, and John was the town's colored show
feature at the old rink when he blacked his face,
put on white gloves and gave us "Old Black Joe’’
while Jim Triggs fingered the stringed instru
ment. We hear the gag now "high cost of liv
ing" as the cause of it all. It cost something to
live in John Smoot s day, too, and there were tax
collectors about also. Barber John of today thinks
forty-a-day hardly enough for modem demands
and savings accounts so Mrs. John draws pay as
t teacher.
The day has been hot; shades of evening
now gathering and night will soon come and
wrap about us the mantle of darkness, hide us
away from blazing sun ray; and all is hushed,
not a breeze in motion and we’ll just sweat
it out another night, sheet and blanket thrown
aside to lie there in nature's unclothed nudity
until the earth has made another turn and the
pink glow of dawn ushers in another hot Aug
ust day.
They call it the Elolt County Fair now. In the
Jays of childhood of some down at Chambers,
whose hair is turning gray, it was tne South Fork
fair. Another county fair season has come and
gone, another hay halers’ performance tied in
the bag, another gathering of old settlers pas
sed out of the picture. Now the great event of the
year gets going at Lincoln August 31 when an
other state fair opens. The opening day is Editor’s
day and maybe we’ll see a few Holt county
scribes down here taking in midway performances.
Editor Cal comes up with tus newspaper phil
osophy on the use of capital letters in printing and
writing. When Prairieland Talker was a bright
young student (or was he thick-headed?) in Miss
Evans' grammar and literary classes, we were
taught to capitalize names, proper nouns, titles
preceding names of individuals, names of polit
ical, religious, social and such organizations that
designated a certain group. Newspapering has
gone to the commonplace, literary beauty brush
ed aside and the rhetorcial use of capital let
ters abandoned. But let your sons and daughters
take heed to what their literature instructors at
i St. Mary’s and O'Neill high school teach them.
And Prairieland Talker will continue to dignify the
Capital City of our great state by capitalizing it as
he has occasion to refer thereto, trusting that Ed
itor Cal will use my stuff as I write it or not at all.
Our honorable governor down at the state
house is referred to by the elasay newspaper
guys as Vie, our country's chief executive is
Ike. Only here in the I’SA can you do that. A
Britisher spoke out something like that, refer
ring to the queen and was kicked in the pants.
Senator Hruska has sent me a copy of a
report submitted by J. Edgar Hoover to the sen
ate committee of which Mr. Hruska is a member.
Mr. Hoover’s somewhat lengthy and exhaustive re
port deals with what he, as a government official,
gathered looking in on the 16th annual convention
of the Communist Party in America, held in New
York City this last spring. Just a line from Mr.
| Hoover's report tells it about ail: “Their double
| talk, duplicity and gyrations make them all
I masters of the Big Lie,” Mr. Hoover also says
that contrary to their claims the Communist party
in this country has not severed connections with
home base Moscow. Well, J. Edgar, out here on
prairieland we are still Republican and Demo
cratic patriots.
Blind as a bat, but no means helpless. All
call him John. He stood this morning at a bus
stop awaiting an outgoing public transportation
setup on which he could find a seat unaided. He
makes with his own hands door mats and was
■ going down to some residential street, feel his
way from door-to-door with a white painted stick
the blind carry. How is business, John? To this
question came the answer, Not very good. Spring
and winter bring demands for door mats. How
he knows where to get off or on busses is a
mystery, but bus drivers wi 11 tell you the blind
people, of which there are a number in Lincoln,
are less of a transportation problem than are
many who can see.
I have traveled the highway of life; have
known its joy, its sorrow, its strife. And 1 have
loved all life, its joy and strife; the turns in
the road where we lay down our load and pause
to rest by the way. I love what was seen day
by-day, flowers that bloom, birds that fly and
the blue of the summer sky; to look into laughing
eyes of friends we meet and a word of cheer for
those we greet. The joy of life, laughter and
lilting song and the swinging stride of the man
who is straight and strong. I have loved the
grass-robed prairieland and the silent spell of the
hills, the rain that falls and winds that blow and
the ermine purity of the new-fallen snow.
A downtown bank takes a page ad in the
evening pa|>er to boast a little of its banking
achievements as it celebrates the 50th anni
versary of its money-hiking existence, and tells
of its few hundred millions in resources.
Editorial—
Somebody Moved the Bases!
Dr. Clarence Manion, former dean of the
Notre Dame university law school and a conser
vative spokesman, recently had the pleasure of
publicly debating Norman Thomas, longtime
leader of the socialist party and its candidate sev
eral times for president. They first debated soc
ialism in 1933. The latest debate and comparisons
with the first make interesting study.
Concerning the 1933 debate, Doctor Manion
now reflects: "I was standing firmly on home
base, staunchly defending the constitutional and
political status quo. Mr. Thomas was far out in
left field trumepting for the economic and polit
ical revolution.
"In our most recent debate, it was Norman
Thomas who was defending the status quo, while
I was practically outside the ball park. Yet
neither Mr. Thomas nor I have changed our
fundamental positions since 1933. However, in
the meantime, it is quite obvious that someone
has reairanged the bases and relocated the grand
stand."
For, said Mr. Manion, while Mr. Thomas
is a professing socialist, he has never been em
powered by the electorate to put his program into
practice. That has been done for him by prac
ticing socialists who do not identify themselves
with the socialist party but call themselves a
variety of things, ranging from "liberal demo
crat” to "modern republican". They have espous
ed the whole Thomas platform and written it in
to law.
Our guess is Mr. Thomas is content with
things as they are, and that is why he defends
the political status quo. In losing, he has tri
umphed. Doctor Mannion claims the country has
made greater strides toward socialism under
Roosevelt, Tinman and Eisenhower, particularly
in the fields of federal spending and welfare leg
islation, than if the socialist pltaform had been
adopted back in 1933.
We assume that most republicans and demo
crats don’t recognize themselves for socialists,
nor do they usually think of Mr. Eisnehower, for
example, in this character, but, thanks to Mr.
Thomas, they are now enlightened. The authority
is the leading socialist of the United States and
six times candidate of the socialist party for pres
ident. If he can’t tell socialism when he sees it,
or a socialist when he sees him, then noliody can.
Those Pesky Capital Letters
The Frontier editor has been engaged in a
friendly word battle with Prairieland Talker with
reference to the use of capital letters and Mr.
Saunders, in lines above, chides us a bit. Now it’s
our turn.
In the paragraph concerning the state fair,
he submitted county fair with a capital “C” and
a capital "F”. However, he used a small *‘s” and
a small "f" on state fair. He, therefore, holds that
that capital city should carry the large "C” on
txjth words. How he distinguishes, tor example,
the relative merits of capital city and state fair is
beyond us. We would print a line involving both
references thusly: The Nebraska state fair will
open next week in Lincoln- the captial city.
For kicks we consulted The Chicago Tribune,
which proclaims itself as the world’s greatest
newspaper. Its editorial style (and policy, too)
have always appealed to us. Random excerpts
with use of capitals in The Tribune’s style:
Portraits of famous persons of the
19th century made by Mathew Brady, not
ed Civil war photographer, went on ex
hibit yesterday in the Chicago Historical
society in Lincoln park . . .
Neil H. McElroy, president of Proc
tor & Gamble company, today won unan
imous approval of the senate armed ser
vices committee as the new defense sec
retary . . .
A solemn requiem mass will be said
at 11 a m., Monday in Immaculate Con
ception church for the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Joseph P. Morrison, 63, who died Wed
nesday in Lake Forest hospital . . .
The Tribune, in the profession, is said to
favor capitalizing the Diety and The Tribune,
and “knocking down” to lower case almost ev
everything else. The illustration is on the ridculous
side but serves to point out that use of a mini
mum number of capitals is fixed ix>licy with the
great Trib.
The Frontier believes that an anti-capital let
ter campaign, consistently administered, is easier
for the contributors, editors, typesetters and, most
important, the readers. Thus you’ll find bake
sales, prayer services, midweek worship services,
rosaries, masses, council meetings, banquets,
reunions, statehouse, communion, etc., without
"caps”. Right or wrong, we hold there is a bit
of virtue in being consistent.
Please, dear readers, keep the editorial con
tributions coming. Let us worry about the “caps”
—the most abused instrument in the king’s Eng
lish. Or is it King’s English?
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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
tion, National Editorial Association and the Audit
Bureau of Circulations.
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When You ami 1 Were Young , . .
Anthrax Cause for
Circus Cancellation
OHS-Creighton Prep
Game Recalled
50 Years Ago
Mr and Mrs. George of Mit
chell, S. D. have been visiting her
mother. Mrs O. E, Davidson Mr
George worked for The Fron
tier twenty-three years ago . .
The little two-year-old son of Mr.
I and Mrs Lewis McDermott of In
, man. died. . . Miss Mary Lorge
returned to her home in Randolph
after visiting her aunt, Mrs. D.
H. Cronin. . . The girls basketball
team wont by train to play Bas
sett and lost. 1 to 2. As our girls
are not used to being out in the
dark and the grounds being
strange, they did not put up the
game they are capable of. . .
Mrs. Cynthia Watson, 75, of In
man, died of typhoid fever.
20 Years Ago
Thomas Barrett, 75. one of the
earliest pioneers, died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Alice
Minton. . George Bowden died at
the home of a son in Minnesota.
. . . The circus, which was to
have appeared here, W’as cancel
led belause of anthrax and sleep
ing sickness among horses here.
. . . Marriage licenses: Emil Ko
ta s and Miss Floretta Houton both
of Atkinson; Myron McClure of
Long Pine and Miss Bessie Irwin
of Creighton; Mike Bonenbergerof
Atkinson and Miss Velma Johnson
of O'Neill.
10 Years Ago
Richard Christen, 13, of Page,
was injured seriously in a hay
rake accident. The team of horses
he was driving got out of sontrol
j and the toy was thrown from the
rake. . . Sam Robertson reports
hail has visited his place three
times this summer. There win be
no wheat, oats, rye or corn. . .
Deaths: Mrs. Evelyn Artothnot,
69, in California; Mrs. Edna Sel
den, 54. of Valentine; Mrs. Louise
Peterson. 51; Mrs. Hannah Dahl
sten, of Ericson. mother of Mrs.
Carl Asinius. . . Joe Murphy of
Kansas City, Kans., who is visit
ing his sister, Mrs. M. P. Sulli-'
van, recalled the time O’Neill
high school played the heavy fa
vorites, Creighton Prep and the
score was 7-7. Joe made the
touchdown.
One War Ago
Mi', and Mrs. II. D. Grady cele
brated their 50th wedding anni
versary. . . George Koch, 77, was
injured and later died when the
horses he was driving ran away.
His wife, who was with him, had
to walk six miies for help. . .
Jerry DLx, 11, of Butte was drag
ged by a horse and rendered un
conscious.
Lynch Youngsters
Win Over Orchard
LYNCH — The Lynch Little
league baseball team accompan
ied by their manager, Alvin Car
son, played the Orchard Little
league at Orchard Thursday night
and carried home the honors, 11
to 10. Lee Bjornsen is manager
of the Orchard team.
Goes to Chicago —
Mrs. George H. McCarthy, Kay,
Lynn and Jimmy drove Mr. Mr
Carthy to Columbus Sunday,
where he joined Robert Dorsey of
York. They departed for the
Palmer House in Chihago, 111.,
where they are attending the 75th
annual meeting of the supreme
council of the Knights of Colum
bus. They expect to retorn the
latter part of the week.
Debby Marston, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marston of
Lincoln, is visiting her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harden
Anspach.
Mrs. Maude McIntosh of Mea
dow Grove was a weekend guest
of her son and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. William W. McIntosh and
boys.
Mrs. C. L. Littrel of Chadron
is visiting her parents, the Wil
liam S. MacKinlays this week.
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Jolene Micanek,
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United at Lynch
LYNCH — Jolene Micanek.
youngest daughter of Joe Mi
canek. jr.. of Lynch, ami Elton
Miller, son of Mrs. Emil Miller of
Wakefield, wore married at
Christ Lutheran church at Lynch
Saturday afternoon. August 17.
Mrs. Miller is a graduate of the
Lynch high school
Roth Mr. and Mrs. Miller have
attended Wayne State Teachers
college They will make their
home on a farm near Wakefield.
Other Lynch News
Mr and Mrs. Edward Streit
vacationed in the Rlaek Hills the
past week. Marlene and Lynn
Streit have been staying with their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Haselhorst, during their parents'
absence.
Leonard Vlcan was in O'Neill
Sunday, August 11, where he was
sponsor at baptism in the Catho
lic church there for little Jose
phine Marie Maly, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Maly,
jr.. of O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorie Micanek
they visiter! the Raymond Hav
ranek family. They then took a
motored to Missoula, Mont., where
plane for California to visit the
Delbert Haselhorst family. They
plan to return home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Moffett
ami sons, Harry and Russell and
and Mrs. Ardith Johnson spent
last week vacationing in Wiscon
sin They visited relatives in
Della Field. Prairie Du Oiione,
Boscobel and Milwaukee. On
their return trip home they stop
ped at the “Little Brown church
in the Vale” at Nassau, la They
returned home Tuesday. August
13.
Dorothy Purviance, Harlan
Ileiser, Sally Shaw, Arlene Bir
meier and Geraldine Stiefater re
turned home last Thursday from
Wayne where they had been at
tending school.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Haselhorst.
Marlene and Lynn Streit and
Douglas and Emery Moody visit
ed the Melvin Haselhorst family
in O'Neill Thursday afternoon.
tT ■ ■'
Mrs Joe Sleehta, sr,, assisted
Mrs Eldon Sedivy, south of Red
bird, last week cooking for
threshers.
Mr. ami Mrs. Janies Maly, sr.,
visited their son. James, Jr., ami
family in O’Neill Sunday, August
n.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Audiss and
Dianne of Butte visited at Beryl
Moody’s Thursday afternoon.
Mrs Hannah Stmt ii'tumed
i home from Wichita. Kans.. where
she visited at the Leonard Streit
! home.
Mr. ami Mrj. Ralph Papstein
were business visitors in Nio
brara Friday, August 16.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cassidy visit
ed Mrs. Inger Levi at Norfolk
Friday.
Mrs. IxHiis Novak and daugh
ters spent Tuesday afternoon, Au
gust 13. at Bill Mahlendorfs.
The Don Allen family returned
liome Thursday, August 15 from a
week’s vacation at Lake Okoboji,
la.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence John
son of Omaha, Mr. ami Mi'S.
Evvalt Miller of Winner, S. D.,
Mr. and Mrs. Dan McKenzie of
California, spent several days vis
iting relatives here. The women
are sisters of Eddie. Harry, Patsy.
Leroy and Charley Mulhair of
Lynch.
Mrs. diaries Donnelly of Co
lome, S. D., is here visiting her
mother, Mrs. Dan McKenzie, and
husband.
Mulhair Families
Picnic in Park—
LYNCH The Charles Mulhair,
sr., families held a family picnic
at the Lynch park Saturday even
ing, August 17.
Out-of-town members attending
were: Mr .and Mi's. Dan Mc
Kenzie of California; Mr. and
Mrs. diaries Donelly and four
children of Colome. S. D.; Mr.
and Mrs. Everett Miller of Win
ner, S. D.; and Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Johnson of Omaha.
Mlinar (iuests—
Sunday dinner and supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Mlinar were her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Larson of Clear
water, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Swdovv and family und Henry
Swdovv all of Stanton.
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O'Neill News
Mrs. Larry Bourne and family
of Omaha arrived last Thursday
to visit her mother, Mrs, Mildred _
SVyant for 10 days. |
Sharon and Buren Smith erf,
Bidden were guests of Suzanne, i
Scott and Sally Stewart from hist |
Thursday until Saturday. They |
attended the Holt rounty fair
;md Rodeo.
Sr M. Rose Marie of St. Fran
cis Mission, S. D., made the re
treat at St. Mary’s academy last
week. She is a graduate of St.
Mary's academy and was a class
mate of Mrs Norman Gondering
er.
Hie Methodist ladies are hav
ing a rummage sale, August 22,
28, suul 24 in tile Odd Fellow*
small ludldiug on Smith Itli street.
Mr. and Mis. Roy Humrich
and sons returned Wednesday
from their vacation One of the
1 ugh lights of the trip was visiting
with Mr, anil Mrs. Eldon Ramsel
and sons of Cblorado Spring
Colo, formerly of O'Neill.
Miss Lorna Mareellus was home
for the weekend. She attends the
School of Commerce in Omaha
She expects to arrive Friday to
spend two weeks here before the
fall semester starts.
Mr. and Mrs Ted McElhanoy
and Miss Jennme returned Satur
day from their vacation in Den
ver, Colo., with their daughter
Miss Marjorie and in the Tetons
and Yellowstone Park.
Mr ami Mrs. George T, Rohert
son arrived last Tuesday to get
their children, who had tven visit
ing their grandparents. the George
C. Robertsons. They left Satur
day.
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