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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1958)
Prairieland Talk— Grim Reaper Dominates Page One By ROM AIN E SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51« St. Lincoln 6, N'ebr. IJNOOIJs The grim reaper takes a toll oi i life wi O'Neill and community. Page one of a recent issue of The Frontier was devoted almost entirely to the many straightened for the grave. Among the desolated homes, that one down at Or chard where are left three small motherless child ren excites more than ordinary human sympathy and that father needs and will doubtless have any help any neighbor can bestow in caring for those little ones Charley Jones, the O’ Neill businessman whose life ebbed away as the fruits of another highway crash, I did not know, he being among those who have found their way into the metropolis of the upper Elkhom in more recent years. But I knew a Charley bonders Jones, a son of the George Jones family of pioneer days. That Charley Jones and Prairleland Talker were pals back in the 1880's In early manhood he became a resident of Colfax county, as I also did for a few short years, while Charley ended his earthly sojourn in Colfax. He served as a state senator at one time. I think there Is a sister and a brother of the Charley Jones I knew living in O’Neill at present. • • • Is there a greybeard left in O’Neill who as a kid saw the butcherers "dress" a beef at the slaughter house down by the river? Pulled in by the nose, the critter’s head anchored to the floor, a speciman of the genus homo of cave man endowment steps up and swings a maul a time or two landing on the bovine victim’s head, grabs a butcher knife and cuts a slit down the cow’s throat. Community slaughter houses are no more, but cave man methods of butchering continues in multiplied numbers at the packing plant centers. Now congress takes a hand to bring about humane methods of slaughter. A measure in congress pro vides that the federal government will buy meat only from the packing houses that have accepted methods of slaughter. If a man must kill to eat can he put the victim to death painlessly? • • • At break of day this spring morning I hear the call of the turtledove, the bird perched some where in a high treetop. Gone to southern regions for the winter, the birds are with us again, fluttering about, nesting, giving us their poetry in song. At dawn of a spring day Ray Bly down thefe in Swan precinct steps out and looks across the farflung landscape to where the prairie rooster struts be fore his harem now nesting to bring forth a brood of prairieland’s feathered wonders—baby chicks. At Swan and Long lakes wild ducks come to swim, and high in the heavens above on wide spread wings floats the golden crested eagle stately and still as a ship at sea. Spring has come again as nature moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. ms name is t'ectersen, -a native of the land of Hamlet the great Dane, but for more than 60 years in his adopted Yankeeland. He is an ad mirer of Harry White down there in Wyoming precinct and has some acquaintance with that community as his son was at one time pastor of the Free Methodist church out a short dis tance from Amelia. Told me today that he had talked at midnight with his brother over in distant Denmark. It was 7 o'clock in the mom in Denmark, midnight in Lincoln. Mr. Pedersen had scoured up a little on his native language to speak again with his folks back home". A wonder of the times in which we live — pick up a gadget and talk around the world. But ’ I wonder. How did that human voice just a little more than 1,600 years after the beginning of the world's history warn a populous planet of a com ing flood waters? Maybe they had long distance telephones, too. Something over a half-century ago telephones came into O'Neill. My first ex perience telephoning, I called a gent over in Boyd county, talked with him and boasted about it to my wife when I got home. Talk! No end to it! But where are the silver-tongued orators— the Sam Houstons, the Abe Lincolns, the William Jennings Bryans? • * • The mayor of the city of Beatrice, down in Gage county, is an old railroad section hand. He is quoted as saying he will not allow “railroading of any city business while he sits upon the throne. O'Neill’s mayor is a cattle rancher and no doubt he “dehorns" some situations regularly with his own brand of approval. O'Neill's first mayor had no occupation other than holding office. A doc tor, an editor, an undertaker, a carpenter, a law yer, a man of letters have served as mayor of O’ Neill and one banker was clothed in the ruffled robes of mayor for two or more terms and main tained the peace and dignity as best he could of a frontier town. • • • How many million of these $$$$ do you want? Just forward your order to your best beloved con gressman or U. S. senator. But you may be too late. One of the latest to reach for the millions comes out of the air. For a mere pittance, say between 16- and 20-million-dollars, the air force say they will “successfully impact a payload on the moon.” Successfully impact! Whatever that stand for? A patriot thinking to stir up public interest gets off this in 24-point type: "Elections are for voters, not candidates.” No candidates, no votes. Elections are the Yankee way of puttting their representatives into office and most of us like to go the polls and put the X where we think it should be. • • • I only walk where other feet have trod; I only see what others had seen before life’s end laid them under the sod. where now only grave mark ers lean. _ Editorial— Our Town Needs Doctors O’Neill's professional directory lists six doc tors of medicine. Two are relatively young men. The four others range in age from 60 to 80. One of the senior group has been inactive for several years because of a stroke. Two others in the same senior group have been hospitalized and are in fragile health. The other senior doctor works early and late and is a tired old man. It is a wonder any of the senior doctors are with us by virtue of the pace they have followed down through the years. Waiting rooms for both old and young doc tors are filled, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to induce overworked doctors to make housecalls And quite a number of people in this community receive medical attention elsewhere. O'Neill could certainly use one or two more physicians and surgeons. Ideally they might well be specialists in different fields and be relatively young men. We have a magnificent hospital that is ad mirably staffed and equipped and easily could schedule work of additional doctors. Making Decisions Is Important While everyone likes to meet a child that is well-disciplined, very often disciplining a child to ttie extent that he is not given a chance to make any decisions can be very harmful to the proper development of the child. It is very important that parents and others, who are charged with training children, allow young people an oppor tunity to make decisions each day. Allowing a child an opportunity to select the clothes he will wear on certain occasions often benefits the child, although the mother may lie a little emharassed at times. It also pays dividends to give a child some say as to which chore he would prefer to do. The psychology of deciding whether he would prefer to help with household chores or clean up the front lawn makes the young member of the family feel that he is a eo-worker in a joint enterprise, rather than a pri vate in the rear ranks and is simply taking orders. We have even heard about the mother who kept two bars of soap in the bathroom so that her two-year-old could make a choice each day as to whether to use the white or the green soap. The young man or woman who is allowed to make decisions at all stages of life (in line with their maturity and judgement! will develop Into a responsible citizen less likely to have a mental breakdown than the individual .whose parents have sheltered him from decisions. Law Loop-Hole Must Be Closed (Pierre County Leader) In 1957 the state legislature amended the laws of Nebraska as to defining where an auto or truck must be registered for the purpose of taxation A few poorly chosen words appeared in the law and the result was that any person living in a town but owning a farm could register all his motor vehicles in the precinct where his farm was located. On a new automobile this could mean a tax saving up to and perhaps even over $100 per year, an amount not to be laughed at. The vehicle registration law reads in part as follows: "The owner must register his car in the county in which he resides or is domiciled or con duhts a bona fide business." The test of the law came up in Crete where a two-car owner living in Crete was also a part turner of a ranch in Wheeler county. This man registered his two cars in the rural area where he "conducted a bona fide business" and avoided the high city tax levies in Crete. Registration of automobiles is over for this year and the legislature is sure to plug this loop hole very soon before there is a big rush to move autos and trucks to rural areas at a tremendous tax loss to cities and villages. Needed: Better Salesmanship For years we have heard considerable about prospects of irrigation in the Niobrara river basin. Most of the enthusiasm has emanated from Ains worth. Ten years ago the proponents told us irrigation was 15 years away; they tell us now it’s still 15 years away. Somehow the Ainsworth people have not put the story across, either in Washington or right at home. Within a stone's throw of Ainsworth there was organized opposition to the Ainsworth project at a congressional hearing last week in the nation’s capital dealing with the dollar side of the Ains worth project (estimated cost 26-million-dollars). If the overall irrigation development plan has merit, a colossal selling job is needed both at home and in Washington—selling on a higher and more effective plane than has been done thus far. Teddy Was a Giant Theodore Roosevelt, the 26t.h president of the United States, was bom October 27, 1858. Congress has created a centennial commission to conduct a year-long observance, ending on the centennial of his birth. To many persons living today, the name Roosevelt means Franklin Delano, the 32d presi dent and a distant cousin of Teddy. But T. R. is one of the four giants of Amer ica whose head is chiseled in stone along with Washington, Lincoln find Jefferson in the colossal profiles at Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This unique work of sculptors is one of the world wonders and has been viewed and admired by hundreds of thousands of persons from near and far. T. R. stood for virile, responsible citizenship The observance of the centennial anniversary of his birth is well timed, because right now there is a need to restore an understanding of funda mental values of America. As long as some people have enough to eat, they are satisfied with conditions as they are. ^jfi- Frontier CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Entered at the postofflce tn 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 of Subscription: In Nebraska, Q.3U per year; elsewhere in the United States, 53 per year; rates abroad provided upon request All sub scriptions payable in advance. When You * I Were Young . . . M. Dowling Heads O’Neill National O. O. Snyder Named Vice-President 50 Years Ago Deaths: Gabriel Razelman, a native of Belgium; Harry Jewell, an old pioneer and a Civil war veteran, who lived a mile and a half west of Inman: Mrs Susan Ernst, a native of Candada; Mrs. Henry (Sarah Ellen' Rausch, a native of West Virginia, died of blood poisoning. . Newly elected officers of the O'Neill National Bank are: M. Dowling, president; O. O. Snyder, vice president; S. J. Weekes, cashier; board of di rectors: the above and J. P. Gil ligan and H. P. Dowling. . . A wedding of interest took place in Inman when Miss Estella Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Clark and Floyd E. Keyes, son of Supervisor Keyes, were mar ried. The bride’s attendants were the Misses Ina and Mildred Clark, cousins of the bride and Miss Drue ilia Tompkins and Miss Mary Smith. . . Receiving naturaliza tion papers were John Biershek of Page, a native of Bohemia; Wil helm Frederick Brehmer of At kinson, a ative of Germany; John Minahan of Swan, a native of Ireland and William Ernest Lueben of Emmet, a native of Germany. 20 Years Ago John Maher, at one time a res ident of Kid Hill in O’Neill, and who in '98 oined the American army opposing the king's Spanish forces in Culpa, found a pal in the former king and they were cruising in the Mediterranean. . . In the days that are gone. O’Neill has made front page news in the sport world with Dominick Mc Caffrey and Montana Jack Sulli van. This week our own quiet, non-assuming, native and genteel William Biglin hit the front page. He made a hole in one. This is the second time he has made a hole in one on this same hole. In the 25 years of existence of the club, this is the first time this has ever been accomplished. 10 Years Ago Clyde Bowen is recovering from injuries received when he fell from the roof of the country club. . . . The Frontier's Spring edition contained 22 pages. . . One hun dred and seventy-one students in the eighth grade received diplo mas. The highest rural awards went to Joellyn Backhaus, Betty Kramer, Fred VanVleck. Charles Hamik, Maxine Park, Roxanna Simmons, Jacquette Mosel, San dra Gilman. Nickolas Sojka, Lynn Prewitt, Patricia Vandersnick, Wilda Stamp and Dick Kaup. Highest town school awards went to Paul Fetrow, Barbara Bennett, John Bode and Donald Calkins all of O’Neill; Faye Moses of Stu art, J. C. Graves and Gene To^i jack of Ewing and Leona Fix of Amelia. One Year Ago Deaths: Howard McConnell, 47, a rancher, died when his tractor went out of control on the high way; Mrs. Pauline Nickolite, 77, of Ewing; Lionel Siefken, 40, an O’Neill beverage manager, of a heart attack. . . A former Orchard woman, Mrs. Oscar Hanson, the former Evelyn Strope, testified in a federal court in California, that she had been an undercover agent for the FBI while a mem ber of the communist party nine years. . . Mr. and Mrs. "Bill” Strong celebrated their 50th wed ding anniversary. LITNDBERG MEMORIAL (Creighton) Week of May 3-10 Admitted: Mrs. Orville Ame son of Niobrara; Frances Mas den of Verdel; Mrs. Joseph Eg gerling of Creighton; Christ Hammling of Hartington; Mrs. James Breece of Creighton; Kathryn Jean McManigal of Creighton. Dismissed: Hans Rohwer of Creighton; Mrs. Bessie Sukup of Verdigre; John Franek of Ver digre; Mrs. Gerald Homan and daughter of Creighton; Mrs. Orville Arneson and son of Nio brara; Frances Masden of Ver del Mrs. Joseph Eggerling and son of Creighton; Mrs. Joseph Beran of Verdigre. — Hogs Cattle Have Auction Will gladly sell your LIVESTOCK Every Wednesday Butte Livestock Market Insurance All kinds Ranch and Farm Loans Hail Insurance on growing crops We Pay Claims — SEE OR CALL — R. T, GASKILL INSURANCE AGY. AI, GASKILL, Mp. Office phone 710 — Ret. 169-J — O’NEILL — Help U Club Holds Two Meetings VENUS — The Help U club held a card party last Thursday at the Page Improvement club building with Mrs. Ora Caskey, Mrs. Inin Held and Mrs. Vin cent Jackson as hostesses. Pitch was played at five tab les. Gerald Waring and Mrs. Clarence Finch received the prizes. Ora Caskey and Mrs. Gerald Waring won low. Mrs. Waring also received the trav eling award. Lunch was served at the close. Mrs. Alta Finch entertained the club Wednesday, May 7. Lunch w'as served at noon. Present were 12 members and three visitors — Mrs. Leroy Cunning ham, Mrs. Kenneth Heiss and Mrs. Elizabeth Bragge.. Embroidery work was done for the hostess. Mrs. George Jef frey was awarded the door prize. Mrs. Bryan Finch will entertain the club in tw'o weeks. Other Venus News Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker and infant daughter, Susan Marie, arrived Friday night to spend the mother’s day weekend with Mrs. Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Faulhaber. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Davey j of lie Ho vue and Leonard Davey, jr., of Plattsmouth were Friday overnight guests at the Ralph Rrookhauser home. On Saturday they looked after their farming interests at the place where Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ickler and family reside. They returned to their home that eve. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Spath and family of Lincoln visited at the home of Mrs. Spath's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Finch on Tuesday, May 6. Mr. Spath attended the funeral of his cous-j in, Dale Fullerton, at Amelia | that afternoon. Mrs. Elizabeth Bragge a n d son, Harry, and his wife of El pa, Ore., left Sat unlay for their home. They had enoyed a 10-day vacation hen* at the home of the former’s brothers’ the Jeffn*y brothers. Mr. and Mrs, Roy Hansen and family were Sunday, May 4, vis itors at the Ora Caskey home. Sunday evening, May 4, visit ors at the Ora Caskey home were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Caskey and Suellyn. The Smith Construction com pany of Verdigre has been work ing on the John Holliday farm filling ditches and completed the job Wednesday, May 7. Miss Karolyn Held of Lin coin visited with her parents ov er the May 3-4 weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Boelter calk'd at the W, H. David home near Amelia Tuesday. May' 6. Wayne Henderson of Orchard; was working at the Ora Caskey place Tuesday, May 6. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finch j were Wednesday, May 7. eve ning visitors at the Bryan Finch j home, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey were O’N’eill visitors recently and cal led on Mrs. Harry Caskey at St. , Anthony’s hospital Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Finch went to Grand Island Saturday, May 3. and visited with their j daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Val Pitchier, and family. The Finches returned home the! following day. Junior Rokahr was a caller at the Ralph Rrookhauser home Monday, May 5. Glen Waring was repairing the Middlebranch telephone line on Monday, May 5. Several polos | had been blown down by a re cent high wind. Mi's. Paul Cihlar and Mrs. Har old Cihlar and Sherri visited at the Ralph Brook housor home Sunday, May 4. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gettert and family spent Sunday, May 4, at Floyd Gettert home in Atkinson. 1JS Pupils Get Rye Rxiuus— PAGE The eye testing project sponsored by the extension clubs was commenced Thursday and concluded Friday morning at Page with 122 pupils having the exam ination Mrs. Pan Troshynsld, Mrs. Kdgar Staufer. Mrs Melvin Carson ami Mrs. Norman Salt/ were in charge of the machines while the clerical work ws handl ed by the members of the Golden Rule extension club working half day shifts and included Mesdames Calvin Harvey, Harold Asher, Joe Beelaert, A T Crumly, Don Nis sen. Melvin Held and Harry Hnrp per. The actual tabulations will be done by the Northern Optometrist association ami reports will tie sent to the parents from there Other Pace News Woman's auxiliary of the dis trict 57 school invited the l adies of the school district to the home of Mrs. Kenneth Asher in tin* in terest of the poppy day drive. Cards furnished the entertain ment. Mrs. Pan Tmshynski re ceived the low score token and Mrs. Frank lleelaert was high score prize winner. Mesdames Robert and Calvin Harvey, Mel vel Held, Tony Mudloff, Leo Nou hauer and Kenneth Asher were hostesses. mmm Prices effective thru Saturday, May 17, in O’Neill ^u/ift'ninn Switt’B; 3‘Ib JWIII Illliy all-purpose shortening.Can Beef Raviolas Chef BOY-AR-DEE .. .^Can : 19-oz. Qy|r 51%-oz. .Pkg. OtL.Pkg. 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