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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1957)
Prairieland Talk— ‘Sees Nothing’ Traversing Holt By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51*t St., Lincoln 6. Nebr. LINCOLN A more recent arrival from be yond the Mississippi to prairieland, now day-by day seated at a desk here in the Capital City with whom I meet from time-to-time, had been out in the state rolling down the highway that passes through Atkinson and O'Neill. She reports that she "saw nothing," nothing to that lady's vision means no mountain peaks, no stately mansions, by the side of the road, no crowded human haunts. To her, to others enthral led where crowds are on the go. God's great outdoors means nothing, the endless sweep of open country reach ing to distant horizons robed In summer green, in autumn brown, bird and beast and hu man life at its best meant Romainc “nothing " Saunders But to prairieland dwellers it is home, it is land of freedom, the land of grass-robed beauty and endless charm. • • • “We are close behind the reds” a federal of fMal la quoted an saying. Behind tue reds—I hope notl Behind nobody, much less the crimson (fated Muscovites and the slant-eyed Orientals. Or does the one quoted mean we have been dip pod in red dye. If any O’Neill friend has he should go down to the Elkhorn at once. Jump In aad wash it off. Behind the reds—let us ever stay behind, ahead, for beyond and removed from any red-tinted philosophy of Ufe. • • • The father of a little six-yeaiMJld girl in Los Angeles gave the child a dose out of the wrong bot tle and death would result if something wasn’t done in a hurry. Before taking the child to a med ical center she was told what dad had done by mis take. The little miss went to her room and came out with six pennies, all that had been in her piggy hank. She then drew up her will bequethlng to each of her parents three cents. The doctors at the medical center extracted the poison from her stomach and she was returned home well and sound and her six-cent estate will not be probated. • • • The hunting season has taken a few thousand deer this season out of the magnificient wild life of prairieland. More than half a hundred White Tails bit the dust on the predries of Holt county. Rifle bullets brought the beautiful creature of the wiki down that lays at the feet of a "lord of crea tion’’ who stands before the camera and smiles, rhe antlered monarch of the plains once had an even chance for life—dog and man on horse out to bring him down, but bounding away on fleet limbs a fruitless chase is left far behind. Two desolated homes, two grief stricken fam ilies in a South Dakota community. Two 15-year old lads lying today in the abode of the dead. It is the same old story; just another tragedy of the highway. Returning from a hunting trip four young friends aboard and the car crashed into a bridge railing two in the bloom of youth found dead. No, it is not the first; nor wiJ] It be the last. Day by day death lurks along the highway; day by day in homes throughout the land the sad re frain of sorrow sounds. And on mankind goes marching to the grave. Some day will be heard a Voice out of eternity the call to come forth. "And the dead in Christ shall rise first.” • • • The full iniMtn hung high ill the western heavens this early morning. 1 stood In long si lence gazing moonw&rd. The man in the moon waved no red banner, no hark of a dog came front out a distant moonbeam nor did a “revolv ing space ship” take off on a trip to Mars. But the moon bathed the farflung pralrieland in soft light as the moon has done since hung out there by the hand of the Creator “to rule the night.” * * • If champion liars are worth anything that guy who saw a "spaceship” down at Kearney should have a place at the head of the class. . . A little white cottage by the roadside. I see them step up to unlock a door and hear a woman's voice, "O, it is good to get home!” . . . For the fourth time citizens of Aurora voted down a school bond proposal. . . The two ladies in the seat just in front of me were at it yet as I left the bus at my destination; world problems were doubtless all settled when they finished. . . I count 21 journey men printers who did their stuff in O’Neill before the days of the linotype slugs. Four of them wore dresses. . .Dates of happenings in November—1. All Saints' Day, Library of Congress opened 1897. | & Election day, Kansas adopted woman’s suffer I age 1912. 11—Veterans day, Ephriam Blackburn hanged for invading Spanish Texas 1807. 28—Nor folk (Nebr.) Journal published 1877. • • • In the southeast Nebraska eornbelt the me chanical compickers had not got on the job by the second week in November. The human hand can husk an ear of com if the shucks be wet or dry. Not so with these modern "pickers"—for them it must be dry. November 10 the shining orb of day began the work of drying up the com belt after many days of clouds and drizzle, and by Thanks giving day the com may all be gathered in. The horse and wagon com grower had his crop in the crib before the "picker” farmers got at their com harvest and had the field of standing fodder to turn his livestock into. • • • Thinking of Christmas gifts? Give a year’s sub scription to this fine family journal. Editorial— Tax Money Gets Purified Henry Corke, a loyal subject or her majesty and a thief by trade, was hauled into a London court the other day. The charge was failure to buy social security stamps required of all work ers under the government insurance act. In England the worker buys these stamps and sends them to the proper ministry, a process which is accomplished in this country by a pay roll deduction. Mr. Corke announced that as a thief he was unemployed and therefore not liable for the tax. But the judge found another section of the act which applied to “non-employed” persons who ac cumulated, in the course of their nonemployment, at least $436.80 per year. He reasoned that Mr. Corke must have derived at least that amount from his profession in order to subsist, costs being what they are. So he ordered him to cough up $44 .80 in hack social security stamps plus a fine of $5.60 for falling to register under the insurance plan. This put the government in the position of knowingly and willfully receiving stolen property, but Mr. Corke did not think of this and it might not have done him any good, anyway. Function aries of big government, wherever it occurs, be come singularly insensitive to other laws when there is a tax to collect. Many in this country will no doubt sympa thize with Mr. Corke’s plight. The slot machine operator, for example, who goes to considerable trouble and expense to reach a working agree ment with the police, often is tripped up by some inspector from Washington because he hasn't bought a slot machine stamp. Or the of ficial who is unexpectedly accused of not paying income tax on bribes received. No matter how tainted one’s money, it ap parently becomes purified in the hands of the tax collector. ‘Little Rock Address’ (By nomas J. Anderson In the Arkansas Farmer.) Fourscore and seven Mondays ago my su preme court brought forth on this continent a new constitution conceived in Washington and dedicat ed to the proposition that all segregationists are bayoneted equal. Now we are in a second Civil War, testing whether that Black Monday or any other Monday so conceived and so dictated, can long be endured. We are met in a great battle- I Held of the Little Rock Central high school Our paratroopers have come to desecrate a portion of that field as a final resisting place tor those who there gave their all that states rights might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this for the sake of our enemies throughout the world, to whom we’ve given $80 billion since the second World war to make the world safe for democracy. But in a larger sense, we cannot carry New York, New Jersey, Michigan, nor even the United Na tions unless we integrate everything. The brave paratroopers who are living there have restored us into the good graces of Russia, NAACP. Africa, and Mrs. Roosevelt, far above my own poor power to add or subtract. The South will little note nor tong remember what we say here, but it can nev- j er forget what we did here. It is for us, the Mod em Republicans, to do this before the democrats beat us to it It is rather for us to be here dedicat- | ed to the great integration campaigns remaining : before us,—that from these honored paratroopers we take increased devotion to that cause for which we gave the last full measure of dictatorship,—that we here highly resolved that these states rights ■hall not have died in vain—that these States, un der Sherman Adams, shall have a new birth of freedom,—and that government of the Supreme Court, by the paratroopers, and for the minorities shall not perish at the next election. Find Strength for Your Life America is a nation of strengths. It industrial might gives her people the highest living standard in the world. Its powerful defenses safeguard her heritage of independence and freedom. America is a nation of strong people. They have courageously resisted the cold war tactics of an alien doctrine. They have bravely stemmed the advances of aggressors. America is a nation of shining ideals. It has held proudly in trust "the preservation of the sa cred fire of liberty,” as George Washington called it. It has always been a nation "under God,” as the Pledge of Allegiance states. America is a nation of growing s .iritual strength. In its early years, hardly more than a tenth of its citizens were connected with religious groups. Since then we have put on much spiritual armor. Today 60 percent of us are church and synagogue members. More than half of us attend worship services regularly. We are on the high tide of deepening interest in religion. A French visitor to our shores in 1830, Alexis de Tocqueville, expressed his amazement at the power of religion exerted upon the life of the na tion. He found in America that the spirit of re ligion and the spirit of freedom “were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.” Thus did the French writer discern the source of our strong freedoms—our recognition of our de pendence upon God. During November, Americans are urged to do just that. The month is set aside as religion in American life month During this period a nation wide program, including observances in thousands of communities across the country, emphasizes the importance of religion in personal, family, com munity and national life. The program is the ninth annual one sponsored by the committee on Relig ion in America Life, a non-sectarian laymen’s group composed of members of the major faiths and supported by 24 national religious bodies. America’s Biggest Worry What is the biggest worry for Americans to day? A Gallup poll shows that it is integration and racial discord. People were asked: “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country to day?” The answers: Integration, racial problems _ 29 per cent Keeping the peace, foreign policy, dealing with Russia _ 26 per cent Economic, money problems _ 12 per cent Defense, preparedness _ _ 7 per cent Sputnik, missies__ 6 per cent Other social problems __ 4 per cent Farm problems_2 per cent Miscellaneous_5 per cent None, can’t say_9 per cent 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. Terms ot Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year: elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided upon request All sub Whiw You * I Were Young . . . Horses Frightened; Inman Man Killed Edward G. Johnson Is Victim 50 Years Ago D. A Huston, whose ranch is I six miles south of Chambers. helped fight one of the worst ! prairie fires along with the help | of E. R Benson. The fire, which came within four feet of the Hus I ton buildings, destroyed about ! 15,000 tons of hay. a number of j cattle sheds and outbuildings, hay I presses, stackers, rakes, mow ers and other farm machinery were either destroyed or badly damaged. . . Edward G. Johnson of Inman was killed when his horses became tightened of a train and started to run. . Mrs. j Margaret Morgan, 70, died at the | home of her daughter, Mrs. William Dexter, near Page. 20 Years Ago Miss Mattie Melvdna Ross and l Cecil Clyde Miller were married in Bhtte. . . Mrs. Ruth Morgan, Mrs. Hazel Boatman and Mrs. F. I Wyant visited the third grade 1 this week. . . The Lions club are conducting a membership drive. . . . E. L. Hailey of Stanton and H. F. Nash of Lincoln are the state patrolmen to be stationed here. . . Mrs. Roy Judge and family of Pleasant Dale have I moved to town. 10 Years Ago Miss Kathleen Mack of Atkin son, Arthur Jurgensmeier of O’ Neill and Zane Cole of Emmet were killed in an airplane crash. . . . Other deaths: Edward Fran cis Carney of Emmet; Mrs. Frank Fallon. B. J. Shemwell of Grand Island, formerly of O’ Neill. . . The 400-acre Niemand farm-ranch, five miles northwest of Chambers, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harvey of Page, was sold for J51 an acre. . . Max Thramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Thramer of Ewing, was shot by an accidental gunshot wound in the hand. One Year Ago Thieves entered the Finkbine store at Inman and made off with a varied loot. . . Mrs. Eliza beth Erdmann arrived from Ger many to visit her daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Hel mut, and little Michael. . . Deaths: Mrs. S. J. Weekes of Omaha, formerly of O’Neill; James J. Murphy, 78, of Stuart; Mrs. Ida Noble, 92; Mrs. Susanna Gathje of Atkinson; Mrs. Tony Lech, 50, of Atkinson. Work & Fun Club Plans Yule Party VENUS—The Work and Fun club met with Mrs. Max LeMas ter, Wednesday, November 13. Twelve members and one visitor, Mrs. Elvin Hamilton of Ewing, were present. Needle-work and walnut meats were picked during the afternoon. Christmas party was planned which will be held on December 11 at the Vlasta Pospeshil home. Mrs. LeMasters served luncheon at the close of the afternoon. Other Venus News Misses Vlasta and Viola and Rita Pospeshil motored to Os mond Sunday November 10, where they were guests at the Edwin Zetterman home in hon or of their fifth wedding anni versary. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Soucek and daugh ter and family. Thirty-two ladies attended the shower given in honor of Mrs. Arthur Sufficool, a recent bride, Sunday, November 10. The af fair was held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finch. She received many gifts. Mrs. Max LdMaster and Mrs. Nonnan Kohoke were hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Suffiool gave a free wedding dance at Winnetoon Sat urday evening, November 9. Dale Dorr was doing repair work for Max LeMaster Wednes day, November 13. Francis Boelter was a caller at the Evans brothers home Wed nesday, November 13. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brookhous er were Tuesday, November 12 visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Brookhouser of Bat tle Creek. Gets License Owen H. Parks (above) has received from the state of Ne braska a license to practice massage. Mr. Parks has com pleted a post graduate course in compression and massage from Rochester, N. Y., receiv ing his certificate April 25, 1955 Massage is considered an aid in helping to stimulate circu lation and relieving pain. The Owen H. Parks massage salon is established at his residence at Page. Mrs. Reimer Notes 94th Anniversary EWING—On Sunday, Novem ber 17, Mrs. Minnie Reimer cele brated her 94th birthday anniver sary. The day was celebrated with her family at her home with a birthday dinner. She is the mother of Judge Louis Reimer of O'Neill, Mrs. Roy Johnson of Neligh. Mrs Scott Clow of Den ver, Colo., Otto Reimer of Lin coln, Mrs. Fred Harpster, Henry Reimer and Mds. Anita Lee of Ewing. Mrs. Reimer enjoys fairly good health for her age and is able to be around her home in her wheel chair. Dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reimer and Elayne and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harpster. Notes Birthday— The following ladies Wednes day, November 13, helped Mrs. Minnie Higgins celebrate her birthday anniversary: Mrs. Ed Loomis, Mrs. Bernard Katzor, Mrs. Herman Boettcher and Mrs. Josie Anderson, all of Spencer; Mrs. Rosa Bowers and Mrs. John Storjohn, both of O’Neill. Angel food cake, sandwiches and cof fee -were served by the self-invit ed guests. Attend Funeral— Mr. and Mrs. William J. Froe lich and daughter, Miss Mary, at tended the double funeral Tues day, November 12 of a 14%-year old friend of the latter’s, who was killed in an auto accident with a friend in Sioux Falls, S. D. They drove to Sioux City from where Mr. Froelich left by rail for Chicago, 111. FARM LOANS MTLA, owned by fanner*—for farmer*. *avc* you money whoa you borrow. Low in ter eat rate*. Dependable. Loans for moat any constructive purpose. For full information about a loea oa t lead, pleeae Elkhom Valley NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSN. O’Neill, Nebraska LYLE P. DIERK8. Secretary-Treasurer Member Federal Land Bank System 4-Burner Gas Range Magazine Back Dining Table and Chair Side Board Davenport and Chair Kitchen Table and Chain 3—Beds, complete Lawn Furniture Chest of Drawers Some Cooking Utensils Wardrobe Rack Linens Radio Several Lamps Book Stands Numerous other articles too .Antique Whatnot numerous to mention TERMS: STRICTLY CASH Loretto Enright, Dwner I Col. Wallace O’Connell, Auctioneer Ewing News Miss Donna Mlnarik and niece, Peggy Schroeder. were dinner guests on veteran’s day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick (?u i ningham and daughter at Page. Mr and Mrs. Dwight Schroeder and da Jghters were visitors in Omaha on Sunday, November 10. They were accompanied by Mrs. Schroeder's parents and grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mlnarik of Ewing and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Serr of Clearwater. While in Omaha, they visited Mr Serr's parents. Mr. and Mi's Jacob Serr, also a sister. Mi's. C Rusie and family. Roy Briggs of Corvallis, Ore., and his daughter, Mrs Nancy Florchutz and daughter, Monica of Newark. Del., were guests at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mrs. Grace Briggs. They left by plane from Omaha on Friday to go to Mr. Brigg s home at Corval lis. Robert Tams, jr., of Lincoln and Jerry Tams of Omaha were weekend guests at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert Tams, sr They attended the Junior class play Friday evening at the Ewing school auditorium in which their sister. Carolyn played a pail, Jim Pruden. jr., and his moth er. Mrs. J. L. Pruden, transacted business in Omaha on Wednes day, November 13. DELOIT NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reimer of Lincoln were dinner guests at the Reimer home in Ewing on Monday, November 11. They spent the weekend at the E, L Sisson home. Mrs. Frank Miller was hostess to the HEO club on Thursday The lesson "The Lady and the Law " was presented by the presi dent, Mrs. Ralph Tomjaek. Plans were made for the December meeting and covered dish dinner at the Henry Reimer home on December 12. Gifts will also be exchanged. CLAUDE FARKHIVAT ORCHARD Clark Parkhurst of Creighton, father of Donald Park hurst of Orchard, diet! unexpect edly Friday, November 8 Funer al ser\ ices were conducted Mon day' November 11 at Creighton DR. II D. UILDKKSLEEVE OPTOMETRIST Northeast Corner of 4th & Douglas O'NEILL, NEIRR. Phone lt>7 Office Hours: 9-5 Ky«»» Kx« mined Uhmm Fitted Monday Thru Saturday NEW 58 FORD Proved and approved around the workM r.M.r. Now at Lohaus Motor Co., O'Neill TW whole wide world was Us tost track I Yes, the 58 Ford is the car that circled the world to prov* its stamina, dependability «nd driveability. From Honeycombed grille to Safety-Twin taillights the 58 Ford is a steel-sculptured beauty that’ll win your heart like it won hearts around the world. Power? Ford’s got it aplenty! And it’s economical power, too. 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To supply their ever-increasing needs for electricity at the lowest possible rates, Consumers’ more than 117,000 customers are looking solely to the District. To meet these increased needs, Consumers is planning and constructing additional facilities... including the atomic power plant at Hallam. Hus plant not only will supply an additional 100,000 kilowatts of needed power, but will contribute immeasurably to the expansion of Nebraska’s agricultural and industrial economy. Youcandependon... CONSUMERS Wherever the need... We’re there with the power we re mere with the power