Prairieland I alk—
McClure Belongs in Hall of Fame
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., I.Iim'oIii 6. Nebr.
LINCOLN Three Nebraskans of a tong ex- ]
tine! generation of prairieland patriots, Buffalo
Bill Cody. Frank North and Edward Creighton,
have l>een voted into the National Cowboy Hall of
Fame at Oklahoma City.
One of the three, Creighton, doubtless had ex
as a cowboy ranching in the
territory reaching from Knox
county to Platte Cody was a
buffalo hunter and North an
Indian scout.
Why not hang up a token
In that hall of fame for Jim
Dahlman, the cowboy mayor
of Omaha; also one or more
of our notables that sat in the
saddle. Bob Ingersol or Hay
McClure. And if there is
a hall of fame for cowgirls Routine
the names of Holt county’s ’
own Minnie McCutchen and Ssunders
Belle Shields should be inscribed in gold upon the
walls of the hall.
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Ls the cigarette on the way to the bygones?
Maybe not yet, but manufacturers of the little
white rolls of nicotine have an ear to the ground.
The most popular weed that grows was converted
into snuff in colonial days. Then it was pressed in
to a plug labeled "JT” and fine cut came along—
something to make you chew and spit. Next the
clay pipe and lady nicotine was set to smoking;
then the cobpipe and crook-stem brier. Here they
go today everywhere with a cigarette stuck in
human mouth converted into a smoke house. But
scientists, not radical agitators, find a connecting
link leading from diseased human lungs and heart
to the cigarette package. The abstainer thinks
there might be a bit of pleasure in a chew of to
bacco hut wonders where the fun can be in draw
ing in a mouthful of smoke and blowing it in your
face. Many have quit the habit since the talk of
cancer and heart disease has come from scientists;
many more take their chances and will die happy
with a fag sticking out from withered lips.
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Is your outlook discouraging? Look up! Some
years ago I stepped into a bus one evening at a
bus station in Los Angeles. My destination was
Denver. Traveled that night and the next day at
evening pulled into Las Vegas. Here another bus
driver takes over. Checking my ticket .the bus driv
er said he could not get to Salt Lake City in time
for me to catch the bus for Denver; he ran into
fog every night and arrived late at Salt Lake City.
It was important that I get to Denver at the time
tip{>ointed for my arrival there. What could I do—
the outlook was discouraging. I sat bactk in my
seat and looked up! There was no fog. and we
arrived in Salt Lake City on time. I am neither
priest nor preacher, saint nor church officer. Did
there come from out the heavenly courts that night
a celestial being to hold back earth’s cloud of
gloom in response to a call from one of earth's
needy creatures. And that lone creature knew his
prayer had been answered. Look up!
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I stood motionless and silent for a moment at i
an early hour this morning out in the open, snow
under foot and turned my vision heavenward. There j
to look upon sublime, starry world. One star high
out there in trackless space shone in golden glory
above the others I took to be the planet, Jupiter,
which—astronomers tell us—is fourteen hundred
times larger than the globe on which man dwells,
the planet’s vast expanse of surface sufficient to
accomodate a population one hundred times more
numerous than all that have ever lived on earth
since time began. A planet of such magnitude ap
pears but a luminous speck on the nocturnal sky
suggests something of the vastness of untrod re
gions that some guys down here on this ball of
earth talk of lighting out to see what is going on up
there. I turn away from the picture of unexplor
ed regions and conclude to hang around on prairie
land, yet inspired with a sense of reverence and
awe.
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Statehouse workers now on a 40-hour-week, five
days, eight hours of the 24 counted a day.
Lincoln city workers now ask the same. The 40
hour week makes up the industrial picture today
and some labor organizations propose a still short
er work period. Wonder how a young guy, now an
old guy sitting at the typewriter as this is compos
ed. stood it rolling out at five in the morning,
heading for the Hiendrickson's store and staying
on the job until 10 at night, six days a week, ever
stood up under it. He didn’t—two months of it was
enough for him. One concern employing 800 is
closing up here in Lincoln, the explanation being
that union labor pay demands cannot be paid any
longer. Another "labor note’’ has it that 640 Ne
braska workers, mostly in Omaha will have a share
in $98,000 "back pay" for the past year. Want a
job? A dynamite factory in New York has jobs
open.
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Out there this January morning, in all its un
trod purity, a blanket of snow covers the land
scape. No wind to drift its white loveliness into
impassible heaps All is calm. The heavens above
are hid from view by the cloud curtain that through
that through the night let fall a half foot of snow.
So far no blizzard has swept by my window. I think
it has been mentioned in the past that a printer in
O'Neill in pioneer days, O. C. Bates, coined that
word blizzard. Have you known the fury of a
prairieland blizzard by being caught out a day like
January 12, 1888? Can you assemble a more fit
ting group of letters to tell it? B-l-i-z-z-a-r-d flashed
into the fertile brain of Printer Bates as he stood
by a window setting type for The Frontier that day
in January, 1888.
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It was the holiday season in the year 1901. Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Weeks spent a few days with friends
in Tekamah. . , C. W. Lowrie, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Lowrie, for many years in O’Neill, and Miss
Maude Hullhorst were married at the bride’s home
in Lincoln. . . J. P. Mann, a pioneer O’Neill mer
chant but at the time in business in Chicago, spent
the holidays in O’Neill. . . G. W. Smith went to
Stuart to deliver and install a piano he had sold
to a resident of the town. . . Az Perry, building a
railroad on paper from Atkinson to the Niobrara
river, returned to the job after a week spent in
Sioux City and was inspired by results of his mis
sion to capitalists at Sioux City. . . A dress mak
ing parlor was. ready for business at the location
over Bentley’s store.
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In my mail recently was a cheering letter
from the Pierce household down by Amelia. The
lady of the house assures me she will see that
Frank furnishes the treats when I show up down
there again, so I will anticipate having an ice
cream cone with him some day.
Wally Mullen writes me from Los Angeles and
sends me the midwinter editions of Los Angeles’
two great newspapers, the Times and Examiner,
both loaded with interest especially to a newspa
per “has-been.” Most of the printers in southern
California must have been called to Los Angeles to
get out those large editions.
Editorial—
f Terrible Terry’ Is on the Way!
Terry Carpenter, the political maverick from
out Scottshluff way. is firing a barrage at Nebras
ka businessmen in general and Omahans in par
ticular.
When Robert Crosby was governor he adopted
an "operation honesty” policy with reference to
adjusting and distributing the tax load. The idea
was theoretical and sounded good, but didn’t work
and led Mr. Crosby to his Waterloo n politics.
Just what "Terrible Terry" has in mind isn't
exactly clear by virtue of his talk and double-talk.
Apparently, though, he has political aspirations.
As head of the Nebraska legislative council’s
committee on tax law violations. Terrible Tcit>
will lx- in O'Neill Friday, February 21. He has
forwamed some Holt businessmen he wants a com
plete breakdown of and detailed information on
the actual physical inventory and list of equipment;
cost figures and method and rate of computing
depreciation; copy of federal income tax report,
and any other information which substantiates the
accuracy of the amounts turned in as required by
state tax commissioner.
Carpenter Is one of the best headline grabbers
in the midwest as revealed in his historic Joe
Smith blurt) at the republican national convention.
He is uncanny in his sense of timing of utterances
when it comes to enhancing the name of Terry
Carpenter
Equalizing the tax load is a virtuous task, but
Terry's hit-or-miss salvos won’t solve anything.
The unicameral legislature has been making gains
In the right direction and, after all, it’s the legis
lature as a whole that will make changes in the
tax law’s.
Meanwhile, roll out the klieg lights, flash
cameras and microphones, "Terrible Terry’ is
on the way!
Schweitzer Is Young at 82
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, at age 82, has return
ed to the jungles of Africa after a three-month va
cation in Europe. Although some of his friends
suggested that he retire because of his advanced
age. Doctor Schweitzer decided to return to Africa,
where his work has won him worldwide fame.
Doctor Schweitzer operates a hospital at Lam
barene, in French Equatorial Africa. With him
on his return trip is a granddaughter, who is 18
and who will serve as a nurse in the hospital.
It will be remembered that Schweitzer aban
doned a career as a promising musician, back in
1913, and went to Africa to serve as a medical
missionary.
Frequently, in these lines we point out that a
man is only as old as he feels. Obviously, Doctor
Schweitzer is young at age 82. One of the things
which has kept him young, and which is the point
of this editorial, is the fact that he has followed
his conscience and applied himself to a labor of
love. _
More specifically, Doctor Schweitzer has the
satisfaction of knowing he is contributing some
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thing to mankind, to the uplifting ot humanity, ana
to his fellowmen. With that satisfaction, and the
spiritual enthusiasm which results, one manages
to stay poung. There is a lesson in the example
for all those who care to learn it.
Childe Harold Persists
The first round in the struggle between Harold
Stassen (who wants disarmament and a summit
conference wtih Russia) and John Foster Dulles
(who is opposed to these ideas with certain excep
tions) has been fought this month in the nation’s
capital.
All observers agree the secretary of state has
the upper band—for the moment—-over Harold, the
secretary of peace.
Meml>ers of the house of foreign affairs com
mittee laughed at the jest of one member who re
marked hopefully: "Childe Harold fired his six
shooter at Dulles, and President Eisenhower has
now taken from Harold the gun.’’
The idol of today pushes the hero of yester
day out of our recollection; and will, in tum, be
supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.—Wash
ington Irving.
True contentment depends not upon what we
have. A tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a
world was too little for Alexander.—Colton
The mistake of optimistic people is not in ex
pecting too much of the future, but in exacting too
little from the present.—Tyler.
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Two men look through the same bars; one sees
| the mud, the one the stars.—Frederick Langbridge.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret
if we cannot keep it ourselves?—La Rochenfoucauld.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wild
erness of warning.—Lowell.
Frontier
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When You A 1 Were Young . . .
S-Year-Old Child
Burned to Death
Plays with Matches
in Barn
M War* Ago
A five-year-old child of Charles
Sanders of Lynch, presumably
playing with matches in a bam
was burned to death. Several
hundred dollars worth of grain
and property were destroyed. . .
A splendid showing is made in
the annual report of the county
officers of the Ijoard of supervis
ors. Treasurer Hamish turns in
the largest excess for the year
1907 in the history of the county.
... A woman on a train enter
tering Milwaukee asked the con
ductor how long the cars stopped
at Union station. He replied:
“Madam, we stop just four min
utes, from two-to-two to two-two”.
The woman turned to her com
panion and said "I wonder if he
thinks he’s the w'histle on the en
gine!”
20 Years Ago
A fire of unknown origin broke
out in the J. F. O’Donnell home
when no one was home. . . Biff
Jones, athletic director of the
University of Nebraska, spoke to
members and their guests of the
Atkinson Service club. . . Mr.
and Mrs Ernest Beaver of Den
ver, Wyo, visited relatives here
and in Boyd county. . . Romaine
Saunders reports in Southwest
Breezes in The Frontier that in
Lincoln the evening paper has
gone from three cents to a nickel
but oranges were available for
a dime a dozen and spuds at 15c
a peck. . . The following children
rceeived 90 or above in their se
mester arithmetic tests in the
third grade: Richard Morgan,
Donna J. Richards, Elsie Hobbs,
Richard Fcnderson, Lois Sterner,
Guy Harris, Alta Boatman, Rich
ard Tibbets, Naomi J. Knepper.
10 Years Ago
Miss Elja McCullough, Holt
county superintendent, was elect
ed secretary of her state associ
ation. . Deaths: Benny Rockford,
22; Mrs. John H Rustemeyer, 79,
mother of Mrs. Sumner Downey;
Frank Hubby, 77, of Butte; Sam
uel Derickson, 88, of Dorsey.
Mrs. James Kelly, Mrs. Ina Wolfe
and Mrs. Ed Matthews left for
Winslow, Ariz., for a visit in the
home of their sister and husband,
Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Wright. . •
Ray Siders of O’Neill was elect
ed chairman of the board of su
pervisors of the Holt county nox
ious weed district
Thomas in Study of
Fish Population
Bob Thomas of North Platte,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thomas
of O’Neill, and George Kidd, also
of North Platte, last week helped
inaugurate a new study in the
annals of the Nebraska fish and
game commission.
They began a study of Lake
Maloney to determine the fish
population of the lake. Both are
district 4 fishery supervisors for
the game department.
Patterned along lines of simi
lar projects in other states where
the studies have proved useful,
the objectives of the Maloney
undertaking are: 1. To obtain an
estimate of total fish population;
to evaluate removal of undesir
able fish; to evaluate theoretical
management practices; to obtain
more information of present fish
population; to evaluate effects of
water level fluctuation and tur
bidity on basic food fauna and
vegetation and reproduction of
fishes.
Mr. Thomas is a graduate of
Colorado A&M college. A pic
ture story concerning the Mal
oney project appeared in the North
Platte Daily Telegraph-Bulletin.
Star News
Mr. and Mrs. Ewalt Miller visit
ed with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Boel
ter last Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Waring
and Arlee and Mrs. Hattie Boel
ter were dinner guests at the
Lysl Johnson home Sunday, Janu
ary 19.
Several from this community
have joined the bowling leagues
in O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Linquist,
Donnie and Vicki had supper
with the Lysle Johnson family
Friday evening.
Melvin Miller called at the
Ewalt Miler home Saturday.
Gerald Waring accompanied
Lysle Johnson to Sioux City Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs Lysle Johnson and
family visited at the Ewalt Miller
home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Miller spent
Sunday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ewalt Miller and
family.
Frontier for printing.
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CHAMBERS Miss Bonnie
| Grimes was recently awardee
membership in the Eaton chaptei
of the National High School honor
ary society of the Eaton, Colo,
j high school.
She was one of six che>sen ou
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She is a junior, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Grimes, former
ly of Chambers, a granddaughter
of Mrs. Genevieve Bell and Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Carpenter of
Chambers.
Andersons, Whethams
Make Moving Plans
REDBIRD At the Merrill An
derson home Friday evening, Jan
uary 17, a group of neighbors
gathered for a farewell party for
the Andersons, who will be mov
ing to their new home near At
kinson in the near future.
The evening was spent playing
games and visiting, after which
refreshments, supplied b y the
self-invited guests were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Whetham
are making plans to move to
Newcastle, Wyo., where they plan
to make their home.
Alfred Traux moved recently
onto the L. D. Putman ranch west
of Redbird where he will be em
ployed by Mr. Putnam.
Other Redbird News
Lorell Pickering, who is teach
ing school in Omaha, accompan
ied Mr. and Mrs. Gene Libby here
from Omaha to spend the week
end with homefolks. Due to the
icy conditions on the highways
they left their car here and re
! turned to Omaha by train.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Krogh and
| daughters attended a house
warming party Friday evening
' January 24, in honor of Mr. and
, Mrs. Russel Woeppel of Ewing.
Dinner guests at the Merrill An
i derson home Sunday, January
26, were Mr. and Mrs. Clair An
derson of Long Pine, Mr. and
Mrs. George Anderson of Ains
worth, and Ralph Anderson of
Martin, S.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kamphaus of
Bassett moved some machinery
Saturday to their new home
which they recently purchased
from the Merrill Andersons’.
Attend Wedding—
Miss Hilda Gallagher and Mrs.
Leona Shaemaker and daughter.
Maureen, attended the wedding of
a daughter of a college friend of
Mrs. Shoemaker in South Sioux
City Saturday. They w'ent on to
Sioux City and returned the same
day.
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Cronin were
in Sioux City Friday to visit Mrs.
Cronin’s sisters, Sr. M. Eugene
and Miss Genevieve Biglin.
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\ Isit I’HTMlU—
The Misses Carolyn M u f f.
Helen Hynes, Barbara McCarthy
and Charlene Mahony were home
over the weekend to v isit their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Muff,
Mrs. Loretta Hynes, Mrs. and
Mrs George M McCarthy and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mahony.
Lyons to Winner—
Sgt. and Mrs. James Lyons and
family and Mr. and Mrs. L. M.
Merriman were Sunday guests of
Sgt. Lyons’ parents, Mr. and Mrs
D. B. Lyons, who live on a ranch
near Winner, S.D. Sgt. Lyons will
be leaving next week for an as- |
signment in southern Germany.
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