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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1958)
Prairieland Talk— July Morn on Prairieland! By ROMAINE SAUNDEB8, 4110 South Slst St., Lincoln 8, Nebr. LINCOLN A July morning. It is inspiring to stop out into the open as l that bright orh of day first appears above the eastern hon/nti. turn your eyes to the west and behold the beauty of the blue canopy of heaven spread alxive green robed prairieland. At early morning the sky is bathed in rich blue and the rising sun touches the green . of earth with silken glow. The blue and the green, nature’s colorful adornment The flor al bloom of spring now faded, the morning glories at dawn Komaine of a summer's day tinted with Saunders the bright blue that also spreads across the morn ing sky, and the leaf of lordly cottonwoods lift their silken green to the blue above. A July morning on prairieland! * * * Speaking of tloing a landoffice business, The Frontier of July 12, 1900, said that Register Weekes and Receiver Jenness of the U.S. land office reported receipts for the year to be $87,750. . . . The Holt OOP's met at Dickson’s office an evening in July that year and stirred up the political pot and got it to lioiling by organizing a McKinley & Roosevelt club . . . Bat Sullivan, while shelling com at Jerry' Kelley’s place north east of town, had one hand badly injured when caught in the sheller. Brought into town and upon examination. Dr. J. P Gilligan deemed it nec- . essary to amputate three fingers. . . . Judge E. J. Doyle and wife of Grand Rapids, Mich , were in O'Neill visiting at the homo of his brother, D. A Doyle. . . . Mrs. D. H. Cronin and children were visiting Mrs. Cronin's relatives in Randolph. * * * That little gal Involved In the Stark weather crimes must stand a district court trial on murder charges. Poor kid—missed It so early In life. Train up a child in the way It should go and when old he will not depart from It. * * * Among the files of several state newspapers 1 that the Nebraska State Historical society has j microfilmed, The Frontier is listed, including all from 1901 to 1956. A stack of The Frontiers- five feet high—will lie given to anyone desiring them, or they will be disposed of in some w'ay. There may Is? citizens of O’Neill or in the county who would like to have that stack of papers telling of the affairs of the community for more than 50 years. If so, they should so notify the State Historical Society, 15th and R sts., Lincoln; then come to Lincoln prepared to take away a five ft. stack of papers bearing the brand of The Frontier. * * * Ah I think of the many thousands of care Inc u m be red men, of the cities and nations that have risen and fallen, why grunt around with a toothache? On see doc and have it pulled. One a native of New York who had spent much of his life in Colorado; another a native of Den mark, now bowed under the cares of life for more than 90 years, wrinkled, hair snow white; another Ixirn in Alabama, a charming lady now serving as editor of a group publication; another a native of Kansas whose life span of 70 years traveled the Dakotas; still another I saw today, a native of England, walked the streets of London, visited Wales, Ireland, Canada and told us the history of these lands from the time Caesar's Roman legions ran into a stone wall and met defeat at the hands of nick - throwing, club - swinging Welchmen, on down to date. Now here they are, Nebraskans all, and the foreign-born looking with pride and rev erence on the stars and stripes as the flag of their adopted country. • • • Mis name is Shoemaker. Not one of the fam ily at O'Neill by that name. Bom south of Lincoln in Gage county, now at the home of his parents on a 200-acre farm in Lancaster county north of Lin coln and manages the plantation of corn and wheat, corn “laid by” and wheat harvested the first week in July, a "bumper” crop. And they have 100 head of cattle, a sizeable herd for any part of prairie lands corn belt. Just another of our state’s indus trious, intelligent law-abiding and church-going young citizens whose formal education ended he told me with the eighth grade. Such as he all across our great state that fills the bread baskets of towm and city dwellers, lives a contented life out in the open and pays tax on all his holdings. * * * I have just read a column of “O’Neill News”. The name of only one native of the old town ap pears in that column. Where are the others — t h e Brennans, Manns, Dicksons, McCaffertys, Bentleys, Merediths. Martins? All are gone or just don't make “news”. And from whence spring the newcomers? Why anchor where Gen. John O'Neill came to a halt when traveling prairie land in search of a homesite for his colony? The strangers to such as Prairieland Talker are here for the same reason the pioneers were, to estab lish homes. And where would you find a more cordial community in which to hang up your hat? * * * The Hand that paints the gold of sunset is the Hand that ]M>ints out the way from which 1 hope never more to stray. • • • The Pinkermans, the Hulls, the Mellors, out there in the Redbird community, names and people surviving the days of Doc Middleton, Kid Wade, the Dutchers and the vigelanters—the days when it took courage to face what might come up out of the gulches any day. The pioneers met it in the spirit of those of the frontier times and their sons and daughters now carry on in one of the most delightful communities of prairieland, the God fearing, industrious citizens of the Redbird. * * * John locked his door, drove from Lincoln to Minneapolis to spend the Fourth with his mother. Give us more Johns! Editorial— Iowan Offers Words of Wisdom A Spencer, la., department store owner, in addressing a Minnesota city's Chamber of Com merce, made this observation which bears re peating: Merchants within a town or city are not competing with each other but with shopping centers in other nearby cities. And thus it is of utmost importance that all businessmen, com petitors and others, work in harmony for the pur est* of enticing the maximum amount of business from their own trade area. “When that can l>e achieved 100 percent, then your town will be 'on the map’ not through any promotion of gimmick but through a spirit of cooperation that will help to make that town the best in which to buy ” The Frontier editor wishes to add a remark or two of his own to the, above words of wisdom uttered by the Iowan. A closely-knit community of !)usinessmen is bound together by an active Chamber of Com merce. One cannot function without the other. What’s the situation in O'Neill? Too often the Chamber of Commerce receives only token support from many of the business men The number of card-carrying members is al,out half what is should be. A few of the officers are burdened with work and after completing their term of office vow "never again" to serve the organization. Others, trying to do a conscien tious job as officers, find their business imperiled as a result of their servi.ce in the field of com munity endeavor. This, generally, is the picture in anybody s town. In part it is a sign of the times when high taxes and intense competition are sufficient rea son to hew to the line. If a Chamber of Commerce is to function to its utmost efficiency and the business fraternity of our city (or any city) is going to move ahead in respect to other shopping centers and other centers of professional, wholesale and trade ser vices. there will have to be harmony and cooper ation. And more than 15 or 20 should attend the meetings of the civic body where policy is form ulated. Great Era of Goof-Offs What is wrong with modern America, especial ly as concerns the current business recession, was sun'med up in rather dramatic terms the other dav by the head of a large advertising agency, who finds that mediocrity of salesmanship (his chief concern' is only part of the national inclination to seek the easy way and lie willing to settle for some thing less than the best, according to the Omaha Daily Journal-Stockman. “For this in America,” he said, "is the high tide of mediocrity, the great era of the goof-off The land has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility. 4'It (America! is populated \%ith laundry men who won't iron shirts, with waiters who won t serve, with carpenters who will come around some day maybe with executives whose minds are on the golf course with spiritual delinquents of all kinds who have been triumphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis at ‘the new leisure’. “We may lack a few of the refinements of ■ Rome’s decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day cof fee break. And, if you want to, you can buy for $275 a jeweled pillbox with a buit-in musical alarm that reminds you—but not too harshly— that it’s time to take your transquilizer.” What this generation of Americans needs to learn, then, is that work itself is honorable and fun, and that the only real reward life offers is the thrill of achievement—using one’s God-given talents, standing on one’s own two feet, doing something useful and enjoying it. Individually, the "goof-off" is nothing new to this country, hut when an entire people lean toward the goof-off’s habits and outlook, deterioration and decay are al ready well advanced. Parallel for the Books There is an interesting parallel in the re actions of two different agencies following the Nebraska supreme court's July 3 rulings. , Following a decision favoring Chicago & North Western railroad in an appeal from the state railway commission, the railroad officials ! summarily discontinued the last two passenger trains serving north Nebraska. The road did not wait for the 20-day lapse for a mandate from the high court to the commission. The rail barons thumbed their nose at a state railway commission j directive which insisted the trains be kept on pending the final order from the commission. Also on July 3 the high court held that Caril Fugate of the famed Starkweather murder spree is to be tried in Lancaster district court, the man date to Lancaster county officials would follow, and the high court ordered Fugate to be tried in October. If Lancaster County Attorney. Elmer Scheele, the prosecuting attorney, behaved as did the North Western legal chiefs and thumbed his nose at rules of the high court, he would have during last week trundled young Fugate into any court handy and proceeded to try the kid. Never brag about something you expect to do. Wait until it is accomplished and then let others pass judgment on it. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Entered at the postofflce 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 of Subscription: In Nebraska, 52.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, 53 per year; rates abroad provided upon request. All sub 1 scriptions payable in advance. When You A I Were Young . . . Judge Harrington’s ‘Diamond’ Is Winner Outperforms Spokane and Wise On 50 Years Ago A crowd of 1.500 persons attend ed the Fourth of July races and other sports at fair grounds Dia mond. owned and driven by Judge Harrington: Spokane, owned and driven by William Froelich; and Wise On. owned and driven by J. B. Mellor, were entered in the driving race. Diamond won the first heat. Spokane, the second, and Diamond, the third and the race. Spokane camr in second and Wise On. third. The free-for-all was won by Pat K., owned and driven by Dave Star.nard: Spok ' ane was second Tom Nolan took i first money in the 100-yard foot [race with Herb Hammond, sec ond. Jim Harding was first in the boys’ race and Donald Gal lagher was second. Charles Pet erson carried off first money in the fat men’s race. In the dog race. Will Gatz owner! and drove the dog that won, Jim Weeks was second and Jim Harding, third, '['he tug-of-war was won by Grat tan township under Tom Coyne over Rock Falls captained by Thomas Gallagher. The ball game between the O'Neill Pick ups and the Peelers was a com edy of errors. The Peelers won 16-4. Coyne and Murphy formed the battery for the Peelers and Ryan and Messner performed for the Pickups. . . J. P. Gallagher purchased a half-page ad on Ihe front page to tell of his “big murder" on summer fabrics and other items. Children's oxfords are selling for 50 cents per pair; all callicoes, 5 cents per yard; hack combs are reduced 50 per cent. . . Pat Connolly and Miss Sal lie Slattery were married in 20 Years Ago Water rates were reduced tie cause of the abundance of water. For the months of July, August and September for lawn and gar den purposes the rates will he: First 10,000 gallons at 30 cents $3.00; all over that a 10 cents per 1,000 gallons. . . Romaine Saun ders write in "Southwest Breezed’ Black Beetles have been ruinous to potato patches, in some instan ces making a complete cleaning of the vines. The only way found thus far to get rid of them is to “smash the infernal juice out of them”. . . Death: Mrs. Seth M. Adridge, 79, of Anoka, a resident of Holt from 1883 until recent years. She and her husband came to Nebraska in a covered wagon. 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thor son celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. . . Joseph Brinker, 61, of Butte suffered a heart at tack while working in the har vest fields. . . The boiW of Rich ard C. Young, one of the two brothers killed in World War H, was shipped to the United States for burial. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Young, have request ed that the body of their other son, E. Lester Young, who was killed on Okinawa, lie sent home for hurial. Richard was killed on Anzio beachhead. . . Vernie VanConnett, 68, of Page miracu lously escaped drowning in a one-car accident. His car hit a windrow of oil mat on U. S. highway 275 west of Norfolk and dived into a water hole. His only injury was a thumb scratch. He crawled from a window of the water-filled car. One Year Ago Deaths: J. Victor Johnson, 83, a longtime Holt resident and a na tive of Sweden; Mrs Fay. Doty, 17. who died at a Yankton, S. D., hospital Mr and Mrs Clarence J Dobbins of Page quietly cele brated their 50th wedding anni versary. . . A fund for Alva Parks, of Deloit. a one-armed farpier and rancher, and father of eight children, was launched by friends for rehabilitation purposes. Returns from Speech Session in Pittsburg LYNCH Miss Grace Mannen of Lynch returned last week from Pittsburg, Pa,, where she pre sented a paper at the tWth meet ing of the Alexander Graham Bell Speech association for the deaf. Delegates were in attendance from Australia. Canada, India, I Brazil and the Netherlands, as well as the United States. Miss Mannen * who has been supervisor of speech and auditory ; training at the Nebraska School for the Deaf in Omaha will teach at the Lutheran School for the Deaf in Detroit this coming year. liquor Commission Dismisses Charges— The state liquor control com mission has dismissed charges filed against three wholesale Ix-er distributors who allegedly sold beer to retail licensees who had de linquent licenses. The charges were dismissed 1 against Jessie Marie Gatz of O' Neill, and Alfred and Wilma Mc Collister, doing business as Val entine Beverage Co., of Valentine, for lack of sufficient evidence to sustain the charges. Christine Herley celebrated her 12th birthday anniversary, July 4. Dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Gillespie and family. Veteran Lawyer H. E. Donohoe (above), a native of O’Neill, was one of seven Lewis county, Washing ton, lawyers honored last week for having completed 50 years or more in the practice of law. The banquet, sponsored by the Lewis County Bar as sociation, was held at the St. Helens hotel at Chehalis where Mr. Donohoe practices law. Five of the state's nine su preme court justices were pre sent and three retired judges of the Washington high court. Mr. Donohoe was born and reared northeast of O’Neil. He is a brother of T. J. and P. C. Donohoe, both of O’Neill; Mrs. Mary MacLeod of O'Neill; and Mrs. George Agnes and Mrs Ben Grady, both of Norfolk, and Eugene of Detriot, Mich. The Frontier Photo. Boelter C lan in Annual Reunion STAR The descendants of the late Ernest and Mary Boelter held their annual reunion Sunday at the park in Verdigre. A picnic dinner was held at noon The af ternoon was spent visiting, taking and viewing pictures. pitching horseshoe and playing cards. Those present for the occasion were: Mr, and Mrs Roy Boelter and family; Ijeonard Boelter and chil dren; Mr. and Mrs. John Leiding; Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Boelter and family; Mr. and Sirs Reno Boel ter and family. Mr. and Mrs. Al N'rt Boelter and Merle; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Boelter and Jim; Mr. and Mrs Wayne Boelter and family; Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Waring and Artec; Mr. and Mrs. Ewalt Miller and Barbara; Jt*1 Boelter; Mrs. Hattie Boelter; Miss Irma Juracek, Mrs. Roy Sivesind. The 1959 reunion will be held the second Sunday in July at the Verdigre park. Other Star News Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Wilhalm and family and Mr. and Mrs. Vin ce Cunningham and famil> had supper Saturday evening with Mr and Mrs. Lyle Johnson and fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Vince Cunning ham and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Price and family at Lynch. Mr. Cunning ham and Mrs. Price are cousins. Mrs. Hattie Boelter was honor ed on her 72 birthday anniver sary at the home of her daughter Mrs. Gerald Waring, and family Monday evening, July 14. Bill llibbs, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Arthur Hibbs. at tended the funeral services of a relative in Lincoln Wednesday, June 9. They were accompanied by Mrs Ray Siders who v isited her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Russel, and family in Lincoln. They returned home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Vince Cunning ham and Kay and Barbara Miller returned home Friday night after spending three days in the Black Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Miller were also guests at the Ewalt Miller home for the birthday anni v ersary supper for Sharon Cun ningham Tuesday. June 30. Mr. and Mrs. Boh Sholes were in Omaha last week where Mr. Sholes received medical atten tion. The Star Get-together club was (Kistponed last week and will be held this week with Mrs. Roland Miller as hostess. Miss Strope Is Leaving for Haiti EwiNG Miss Leora Strope, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W Strope of Orchard and niece of Mrs. Andrew Olson of Ewing, left Sioux City by plane Tuesday, July 8. for Haiti where she goes as a medical missionary. She has spent several years in preparation for this work. For the past year she has done nur sing at the Antelope Memorial hospital at Neligh and is known by several in Ewing who have been patients. Miss Strope plans to be gone for three years. Ewing News Mr and Mrs. Ben Larsen en I tertained the following guests 'Friday: Mrs. Aletha Haspenpflugg of Pierce, a niece, who was ac companied by her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bongo and son of Massachusetts, Mrs. Mae Pruden and her daughter ami husband. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kirkpatrick, and three sons of O'Neill. Mr. and Mrs. IVwitt Gunter accompanied their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs David Barton to visit Wednesday, Jul\ 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs Russell Graver, who live 10 miles south of Long Pino. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Cloyd on Sunday were her parents. Mr. and Min George Timmerman of Plain view and Mr, and Mrs Leslie Brokavv and family of Norfolk Mr. and Mrs. Claus Sievcrs of i Gillette, Wyo„ are guests at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Everett Ruby, Hazel Ruby and Klsi< j Chase, Misses Mary Catherine Carr and Judy Wanser of Omaha ac companied Mr. and Mrs. John ! Dierks of Nebraska City to Ewing Sunday to spend the day j with relatives. _ Accounting AND BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Morgan Ward ACCOUNTANT Golden Bldg. — Phone 414 O’Neill, Nobr. Here are your three favorite flavors—Lemon, Orange and Lime—deliciously blended into one refreshingly new summer time treat! Try a family-size half-gallon today. 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