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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1958)
• ' , , , ' •- * * ,*«. Prairieland Talk— Scenery Aplenty in Nebraska By RO MAINE SAINDERS. 411* South 51»l St., Lincoln 6, Nebr. Ul'KJliLN i nave stoon wnere waters u& uir * a cific wash the sands of the shore. Have looked out upon the dark waters of the Atlantic, have beheld the mighty Niagara plunge over the falls, stood on the shores of our great rivers, seen the mountain peaks and wonders of the Rockies, the boast and pride of those who dwell nearby. __ Have you set foot, raised an admiring eye and stood in prideful admiration before the works of mail and the wonders of nature at Arbor IzxJge' near Nebraska City; been in and around our 20-milli<m-doUar state capital building or looked out at a thousand acre Nebras ka wheat field? Have we nothing of inter est to show your tourist vis itors? Take them to the lakes in Cherry county, to the Long Pine canyon where seven springs of life giving water gush from the rocky cliff. Bring them to Goose Lake, to Swan • I^ake In the beautifully grass robed prairieland of the flow ing well belt of southern Holt county. Remove your garments a hot summer day and step into the cool ing waters of the Elkhorn. See the branded herds grazing to the full and stop at a ranch house where you will receive a cordial welcome and be invited to sit down to the grandest feed you ever heard of. Visit the mystic charm hinds of the Eagle creek, tne Nionrara. me Redbird, the Blackbird, and stand for a silent spell on the openp rairie robed in silken green stretch ing to the horizons all around. Scenery—you have It here on prairieland drawn by the Master Artist's hand. • • • It was in the summer of 190.1 that a ball game was billed to come off on a certain Sunday l>etween the O'Neill l»all team and an aggregation of young women known as the Boston Bloomers. Members of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, head ed by their pastors, drew up and circulated a pe tition to the city authorities not to allow the game to be played on Sunday. The group met in front of Mayor Jack Harrington's office on North Fourth street and held an informal meeting outside under a tree, the mayor being out of town. A stranger appeared on the scene and lectured the petitioners, offering to head with a $5 donation a fund to take care of an old man sick and penniless among us. He referred to an old man by the name of Pope who had holed up in an abandoned hotel building where the K. C. hall now stands. The Bloomers came later and the the game was pulled off on a "week day." The petitioners’ committee included these citizens: F. B. Cole, H. R. Stocking, W. R. Butler. E. H. Benedict, L. G. Gillespie, A. H. Inger soll. • • • In discussing delinquency we should say that our .youngsters are pretty good considering the handicap the boys and girls are under resulting from disinterested parents. n r aiRA/n * ' v "— ■■—■*—o — to aging eyes again to recall what they had seen in thelon g ago. Oran Bbwen and Prairieland Talker gave each other the "so long" when we left O'Neill a hot summer day in 1894 to go each his separate way. Today we meet again and what stirred not in the memory' of the one the other lift ed the curtain. Oran is a son and only survivor of the Bowen family which lived in O’Neill in the early 90 s when his father served as county judge. Oran has spent a lifetime in educational work l>ut some time ago retired as a professor in the Wayne State Normal. His life’s companion died three months ago. He continues to reside in Wayne and was in Lincoln to visit his daughter and family, also to be present at a function held by Wesleyan uni versity, where he had once been a student. As a young man Oran taught school in Holt county, and at one time headed the Atkinson high school. The years have furrowed his bjjow, faded auburn locks, left a wrinkle here and there, but he continues ac tive and on the go, forever young in spirit. • * • If you don’t find It on the map it may have gone to the moon. • * * Mrs. Herman Marts of Nebraska City' heads the Nebraska Council of United Church women, a group of church sisters promoting the idea that “God wants unity,” hence they are for church union. For 75 years or more there has stood on the hill on O’Neill’s North Fourth street St. Patrick’s church where the Catholic believers go to worship, two diocks east oi me ruurui outo grocery store stands the church where Methodists go to services and have gone for three quarters of a century. And a Secord and Everett streets has for the same period of time stood another church where still another group have assembled through the years. Other church groups have erected al tars in the old town. All look forward to the same ultimate goal. Church unity—the barrier in the way, we all want to be with our own crowd. • • • One of those teenagers so much in the public thinking today passes the door each morning be fore 6 o’clock. He is not out at an early hour to engage in acts of lawlessness but is traveling his route delivering the morning papers. And after this job is done then home and prepare for school. A young fellow seated on the grass and lening against a tree on the college campus was studying his textbook when I happened along. Said his home was in Minnesota and he would return there as soon as school closed, work during the vacation months to earn money so he could come back in the fall and resume his college studies. Many such as these two teenagers everywhere, but the kind that are so prominently in the news are the few lawless ones. • • • * The development of printing is the cause of much wasted paper. • * • You can very often see farther ahead by look ing behind you. Editorial— ‘What's Wrong with Parents'? • .« i_i We should spend less time wondering wnat s wrong with the youngsters" and spend a little more time wondering "what's wrong with the parents.” Over the coffee the other day we were talk ing with a man who has spent more than his rightful share of time in youth work, about wheth er or not most communities were "over organiz ed” on activities, clubs, fraternal organizations and the like. It is the children that are suffering from the "over organization of their parents." Not only are we turning over to the teachers the full responsibility of educating and disciplin ing our children but we are turning over to the Sunday-schools and churches the complete respon sibility for the religious training of our children. In too few homes is there any help with schooling or with religious training. If that isn’t bad enough then we are also turn ing over to the girls’ and toys’ organizations our responsibilities for character training . . . and an even bigger responsibility—companionship. Our coffee companion told us that he had _a . L. 11 o D».r Cent if umrlf ft UI1PVPV wHich iiKtui:, ** in»v — showed that only one father out of every 10 had a definite relationship with his sons for an activity. How many fathers take their sons hunting. Ashing, hiking, camping, or even driving? Not many. On the tmsis of that survey about nine out of every 10 boys have to find their companion ship outside the family circle. All of our organizations are essential and de sirable but no parent can absolve himself from his personal obligation to his children. Their should be home interest shown in the child’s studies. There should be more religious instruction given in the home to supplement that done by the churches. And, above all, no organization, Girls' or Boy Scouts, "can serve as an adequate substitute for the companionship that should come from a parent. There are people who judge every individual by the size of his bank account The Alms-Giver Prom Omaha World-Herald Lyle C. Wilson, the able political writer for the United Press, commented the other day on one of the remarkable sights to be observed on the in tCtlldllt'iou --- Great Britain, he noted, is one of the nations on rich old Uncle Sam's dole; she receives a huge check from Washington every year to help pay her defense costs. And what is the condition of Britain’s treasury, that she should need this subsidy0 Well, the conservative government has pro posed a balanced budget for next year. In ad dition. it plans to offer the people a tax cut of 300 million dollars. In addition, it expects to have a surplus of one billion dollars at the end of the year. This is Britain, the country which is on the re ceiving end of the international dole. What about the United States, the country which is on the pay ing end? Its budget is not balanced. It is facing a def icit estimated at anywhere from five to 10 billion dollars. And if the people are given any kind of a tax cut. the deflcit will be just that much greater. In the circumstances, which of these allied na tions should be helping to support the other? Mr Wilson might have added that, on the world scene, the United States enjoys a number of distinctions. It is the only nation which gives alms to otner sovereign nauuna. u uic- vnrc operates more or less habitually at a deficit. 11 owes more money than all other governments oi the earth combined. Charley Jones Will Be Missed O’Neill mourns the loss of a business leader who died of injuries suffered in a two-car highway crash. C. E. Jones, 69, manager of Central Finance Corporation here and president of the Chamber of Commerce, fought gallantly at St. Anthony s hospital to overcome injuries suffered Tuesday April 22. But the internal hurts were so severe his heart gave up about six days later. Mr. Jones was fragile in build yet indefatigable in nature. The eve of his accident was spent al his office seeing people and administering C of C affairs. Early the following morning he was ofi on a business trip to Lynch and it was 9:15 o clock while the city he served was coming to life—he was returning from that trip and was fatally in jured at the outskirts of the city. His work took rum over mucn oi nuiui-tcnuoi Nebraska and he was widely-known. Upon being elected president of the Chamber, he injected extraordinary zip and vigor into the civic organization with a view toward getting things done. He took it upon himself personally to establish contacts and place C of C membership at a record high with little assistance from others. During his one-year term of office, which was so abruptly terminated by fate, Mr. Jones set ou1 to lay the groundwork for better things for our city'. He was the motivating force in the experi mental move to "boost” television signals. He led the Chamber in the revival of farmer-ranctier re lationships. He was a leader in the revival of in terest in the Niobrara river basin development. He was dedicated to inducing industry of some sorl to our city in a plan that was only in its infancy. Charley Jones, as he was familiarly known, will be missed. A mother whose daughter loves dogs was sur prised when she returned from a trip and found the household now has four dogs. There was one wher the mother left. "Skippy”, the original pet, now claims "Champion”, "Twinkles” and a little gold en pup still to be named as newly-found compan The “good neighbor” policy can be applied with some benefit right here in O’Neill. High prices are often caused by buyers, as well as by sellers. FrontTer CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher Entered at the postoffice In O’Neill, Holt coun ty, Nebraska, as second-class mall 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 of Subscription: In Nebraska, 52.50 per year; elsewhere In the United States, 53 per year; rates abroad provided upon request. All sub scriptions payable in advance. When Y»u Si 1 Were Young . . . Recognition for Junior Normal — Special Edition Is Published 50 Y ears Ago The Frontier put out a special "Junior Normal" edition. Pictur ed on the front page were Supt. H. K. Wolfe, principal; Supt. J. G. Mote: Supt. N. C. Abbott; J. L. McBrien, state superintendent of public instruction; Florence W. Zink, county superintendent and Katherine linton. Other mem bers of the Junior normal faculty not pictured were Supt. Charles A. Mohrman, Miss Eunice Ensor and Supt. T. N. Fleming. . . Mar riages: Miss Clara Kestenholz. living three miles southeast of Emmet and Oscar O Bradley of Inman and Miss Nellie Worthen of Plattsmouth and William Car son of Atkinson. 20 Years Ago Joe Pongratz, a farmer living about 12 miles northwest of O’ Neill, was severely burned and shocked when struck by light ning while in the barn. A watch in his pocket was melted and his shoes and socks burned from his feet. He was burned on his chest, • | abdomen and legs, . . Deaths:, j Frank Allen, 49, of O'Neill, of a i , heart attack; Mrs. Maryr Bausch, about 77, of O’Neill, of a heart attack. . . The Emmet postoffice j of Emmet was robbed of $33, re ported John Conard. postmaster. . . . Among those receiving spe cial mention at the revue of dan cing pupils of Miss Lorraine Welte at St Mary's academy were Ben nett Hertford for his soldier dance and soft shoe double time, Her betta Russ for her waltz clog and Donna Gallagher for her ballet. 10 Years Ago I »eatns; fercy rs. .sweet, •n, a father of five children, was kil- j led in a tractor upset on his place near Stuart; Joseph Martin, 57, a befriender of children, died in his sleep. Mrs. Frank A. Searles, 48, a farm wife, who had been ill the past five years; Robert E. Chittick, 80, a pioneer Stuart mer chant, civic leader and a former Holt county treasurer. . . The body of Pvt. Robert W. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude I. Miller, living near Atkinson, was returned for burial. His body is the first of Atkinson’s WW n cas ualties to be returned to the Unit ed States from military cemeteries abroad. . . Mrs. J. K. Ernst was the oldest mother present and Christine Herley was the young est at the mother-daughter ban quet held at the Methodist church . . . Twenty-three candidates were initiated into the Knights of Co lumbus. One Year Ago Mother M. Agnesine of St. Mary’s academy celebrated her silver jubilee in the Sisters of St. Francis order. . . The new $20, 000 combination parsonage-office of the Methodist church was ded icated by Bishop H. Bascom Watts of Lincoln. . . Preparations are underway for the golden ju bilee of Sr. M. Delores in We* Sisters of St. Francis order. . . The cornerstone of the Christ Lu theran church was layed. . . Andy (A. G.) Johnson and his wife set out with two fine race horses for the Ak-Sar-Ben track at Omaha. Chill in House; Man, 87, Chops 4 Loads Cottonwood Albert Klingler, 87, noted a chill in his house Friday morn ing in the southwest section of the city. He decided to do something about it. He chopped four wheelbar row loads of cottonwood lum ber and hauled the fuel into the house for the space heater. He's confident the wood will hold out now until "sometime j next fall.” ' Letters to Editor Orchard. Nybr. Plyase send us an extra copy with account of Mr. and Mrs. John Mohr golden wedding. We can vouch for some of their experiences when the Mohrs were farming northwest of O'Neill for we were married and had two children. Nina ami Leonard. John needed help picking corn in the fall of 1908 or 1909 and we were “snowed in" at their home That year it began snowing in the fall and snowed nearly every week during the rest of the win ter. John didn't get his corn out till spring. John could tell you more of his hardships that winter. We were married in 1904 at my wife’s home (the John Elsburry home) in Atkinson, and 1 worked for Mr. Elsburry in the dray bus iness. helping unload coal and lumber, and I also worked in the lurulier yards there. Later I worked for Edd Eby, who was running a livery stable in Atkinson. I drove over the prairies in and out of Holt. Later we moved to a farm in Green Valley township, 16 miles south west of Atkinson. This farm w'as owned by Mr. Eby but sold in the fall. We then moved back to At kinson. In 1915 I began railroading for the North Western as a section hand for Joseph McDonald, now deceased. I was made foreman and ser ved under three road-masters— John Suellman, Isaac Lakin and one sent out from Chicago I was given a leave of absence on account of illness and in 1932 was disqualified for further ser vie. Had 18 years with C&NW without a serious accident. We raised five boys, two girls, all are living and have families. Keep up the good paper. W. K. BUCK O’Neil! News 9 Mr. and Mrs. Dale Thierolf and family went to Columbus Sunday to visit her narents Mr and Mrs. Harry Andrews. Saturday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tomlinson were Sgt. and Mrs. Harold Dexter, Cpl. Don Anderson and Sgt. Jack Steb bins, all stationed at Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Waring had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Heiss, Mrs. Al ta Finch and Mrs. Ethel Waring all of Page. The Heiss children, Janice, Mickey, Rodney, Barry and baby Shari were Friday over night guests of their grandpar ents, the Warings. Little Shari al so stayed over Saturday evening. Supper guests of Bobby Wil liamson Sunday at the Town House were his mother, Mrs. Harold Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Billie Marcellus and Miss Betty Miles. Mrs. Janet Bauld and Gary of Omaha spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Enright. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Worth were Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wetzler and family, who moved recently from Gregory, S. D. to Verdigre, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wetzler and fam ily of Omaha, Mrs. Mary Wetzler and Mr. and Mrs. Junior Worth, formerly of Omaha. Monuments of lasting beauty made by skilled craftsman of the J. F. Bloom Co. . . . monuments from the factory of the con sumer.—Emmet Crabb, O'Neill. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Mott were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pierson and Mrs. Dan Pierson, all of Torring ton, Wyo. They have been visit ing relatives here and in Ewing the past two weeks. Miss Mary Joan Donlin, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Don lin, was home for the weekend from St. Elizabeth’s School of Nursing in Lincoln. Sr. M. Eugene, Miss Genevieve Biglin and Miss Nora McAuliffe, all of Sioux City, arrived Friday to spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Cronin. Try our want ads! "'■■■ in——. CESSES® Friday and Saturday May 2-3 DOUBLE BILL UNIVIISAl-INTIKNAIIONAl PrattMl JAMES STEWART AUDIE MURPHY ion IRELAND «owm MALONE |jS£H=r~L| PLUS CARTOON Sunday, Monday, Tuesday May 4-5-6 TO COMMEMORATE THE IOOth ANNIVERSARY OF The Miracle of Lourdes Ctmtmm FRANZ WERFEL'S of BERNADETTE Miss JENNIFER JONES PLUS CARTOON Wednesday and Thursday May 7-8 _ ^\omtSSSamm r—pry ' eorawue TWO CARTOONS — BUCK NTTES Church Notes ■METHODIST (Page Inman) Rev Lisle E. Mewmaw, pastor PAGE Thursday, May 1: Annual lad ies' May breakfast, 9 a.m.; jun choir, -1 pm Saturday, May 3: Junior high membership training class, 2 p.m ; high school class. 3 p.m Sunday, May 4: Sunday-school, 10 a.m.; worship. 11 am.; 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 6: King's Daugh ters' meeting. 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 7: Chancel choir, 8 p.m. Monday, May 12; Commissions will meet at 8 p.m , followed by official board meeting. INMAN Sunday, May 4; Worship, 9:45 a.m ; Sunday-school, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 7: Choir prac tice, 8 p.m.. and MYF. Thursday, May 8: Woman's Society of Christian Service meet ing, 2:30 p.m.; official board meeting, 8 p.m. TOR llOTH CHURCHES Friday, May 2; District con ference at Plainview, beginning with registration at 1 p.m., fea turing an address by Bishop H. Bascomb Watts at 2 p.m . travel logue at 7:30 by Mr. and Mrs. Watts concerning their recent mission tour of the Far East All church leaders and any others who can are urged to attend, both afternoon and evening. Monday. May 5: Sub-district \ ministerial meeting at Lynch. 12:30 p.m Wednesday, May 7: Midweek prayer hour, 9 a.m. Read Acts 20:25-32. Sunday, May 11; Rural Life Sunday observance in both chur ches. Sunday, May 18: Page church dedication dav with Inman coon erating. CHRIST LUTHERAN (O’Neill) I “Church of the Lutheran Hour” Seventh anil Clay Streets Rev. A. S. Gedwillo, pastor Thursday, May 1: Men’s club meeting, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2: Church ded ication committee meeting, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3: Confirmation class meets, 9:30 a.m. Sunday. May 4: Sunday-school, W. Fricke, superintendent, 9:45 a.m.; worship and holy com munion service, 11 a.m. An nouncements are by registration. This will be the last official wor ship service in the “old church home.” “The Lutheran Hour” on WJAG 4 p.m. Monday, May 5: Church coun cil meeting. Tuesday, May 6: The Northern Nebraska Pastoral conference begins at West Point. IMMANUEL LUTHERAN (Atkinson) Rev. A. S. Gedwillo, pastor Sunday, May b: Worship and holy communion service, 9 a.m. Announcements are by registra tion. Sunday-school, S. H. Brauer, superintendent, 10:15 a.m.; '"Hie Lutheran Hour” on WJAG, 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 6: The Northern Nebraska Pastoral conference be gins at West Point. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wetzler and girls of Omaha vsited Mrs. Mary Wetzler from Friday until Sun day. Visit New Granddaughters— Mrs M J. Golden returned last Thursday from a visit in Symma. Tenn., with her son-in-law and daughter, Capt. and Mrs J. T. Butcher and daughters and at Kansas City, Mo., with another daughter and her husband. Dr. and Mrs Richard Owens and fam ily. The Butchers and Owens family have new daughters. Mr. Golden met his wife in Omaha Monday. April 21, and they re turned home last Thursday. Guard Convention-— Mr. and Mrs. Ben E. Vidrickson and Mr. and Mi's. Robert Stevens attended a national guard conven tion in Grand Island Saturday af ternoon and Sunday. Musicali‘ rogram— Miss Aivara Ramin, vocal direc or at O’Neill public school, will hold the annual musical program of the grammar grades on TMes day evening. May 6. Mr. and Mrs. Junior Worth, formerly of Omaha, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lindberg and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hurley and family were in Onawa, la., Sun day and Monday. Money To Loan! Household Goods, Personal Property, Cars, Trucks, Farm Equipment LOW RATES HARRINGTON Loan and Investment Company ROYAL THEATRE O’NEILL Thursday May I Jeff Chandler, Orson Wells, Co loen Miller in MAN IN THE SHADOW Go-starring Barbara Lawrence, Ben Alexander, with John I-arch, t Royal Dane, James Gleason. Vi olence and fear gripped this land of the lawless . . leaving one man to fight alone against a force of evil that vowed to smash the laws Fri.-Sat. Mu Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, 1 Joint Ericson in DAY OF THE BAUMAN Cinemascope in Eastman color, j Co-starrhtg Roltert Middleton, Marie Windsor, with Edgar Buch anan, Edward Franz, Skip Ho meier. Cora site obeyed only one law . . . the law of her lips! Sun.-Mon.-Tnes. May 4-5 (t BON.I OCR Tit 1ST ESSE Cinemascope and technicolor. Francoise Sagan, an 18-year-old girl, looks back at that fabulous summer on the Riviera with five unconventional people competing for 'kicks’, pleasures and love. Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seltorg. Wed.-Thur*. May 7-8 THE BROTHERS KUO Starring Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, with I .any Gates, James Darren, Harry Bell aver. Matinee Saturday * Sunday 2:30 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday and Saturday admission— Adults 50c: Children under 12, 12c, Free If accompanied by par ent. Wed., Thurs. Family nlte, family admitted for two adult tickets. ■' -i * Everyone Remembers Mother.. . The perfect Mother's Day Gift for her day . . . Pang burn’s Milk and Honey Chocolates in l>eautifully decorated Satin Gift Pack ages ! Make your selection now! GILLIGAN ' REXALLDRUG — O’NEILL — SAFEWAY OPEN on SUNDAY Beginning Kay 4, the O’Neill Safeway food store will be open each Sunday: 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. New Weekly Hours Sunday thru Friday 8 a m. to 830 P m Saturday 8 a.m. to 930 P-m Sunday Surprise Values Safeway will offer extra special Surprise Values each Sunday. See them identified in the store. You’ll profit greatly by getting your share of these in-store fea- j tures. I Shop at SAFEWAY any day — Sunday thru Saturday ■
