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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1958)
Prairieiand Talk— To Hear About Western Badmen By HO MAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51st St. (Jacob 6. Nebr. IJiNUUUN ITio annual meeting or me neoras ka State Historical society is to be held September 27 at the Lincoln hotel in IJncoln. The feature speak er, Nyle Miller, connected with the Kansas histori cal group, is going to tell us about Western Bad men. Maybe the stories of Laramie Pete, California Joe, New Mexico Kid and may be our own Doc Middleton. With the gallantry of a true knight the Western badwomen are not to be mentioned, so the memory' of Calamity Jane. Arizona Kate and Holt county’s Belle Shields will not lie revived. Another s|>eaker at the Lincoln meeting, Wayne Gard of Dallas, Tex., is to revive memories of the old cattle trails, over which count less herds were driven by the cowboys from Texas to Nebras ka and Dakota territory. It was from one such groups of range riders that Holt coun ty inherited the notorious Doc Middleton and Billy Reed who killed Sheriff Barney Kearns. And as I stand in front of the K. C. building at Third and Douglas sts., when I visit O’Neill, out of memory’s treasured store comes the picture of the Arcade hotel that occupied that corner before there were any KC’s and whore I stand Barney Kearns fell with a bullet in his heart. • • • niniiB iviki your menus linin' io«, urop a tear and you sigh alone. Your friends have troubles enough of their own. We are a moving throng along the highway of life, day after day its Joy and strife. Somewhere down the lane we lay down the burden, smiles and tears—$100 as a down |»ayment, $50 a month until ... no more. • • • By the death of Delia Halloran Downey at Bur well recently the last of a pioneer family that made their home two miles west of Inman in the long ago has layed down life’s burdens. I knew Mrs. Downey as a girl and all of her folks. Her father, John Halloran, wielded a paint brush in O’Neill in the early 1880’s, coming to O’Neill each morning from his Inman township homestead, returning after the day’s work. He did the painting in O’ Neill’s first school and in the first Holt county courthouse. In later years the family was com fortably situated on their ranch with abundance of life’s material things. I know as I worked there the summer of 1887 and we were fed five times a Jay, Delia bringing us a lunch to the hay field midforenoon and again midaftemoon. After the death of her husband Mrs. Halloran spent her last years in the home she bought in Burwell. • • • Maybe we’ll hear about Laramie Pete California son when he esmes down to the next session of the state legislature to put through a bill out lawing those noisy lawnmowers. Prairieland patriots down at ixortoiK nave per fected an organization known as the Elkhom Val ley Historical society. The name implies that the promoters may reach the length of the region through which the stream flows for matters of his torical interest. The story of the Thompson-Mc Evony settlement on the Elkhom before there was *‘a village called O’Neill” has been told in these columns, as has been the story of the O’Connell camp before there was a village called Atkinson. Is there a lad in O'Neill who will walk down Fourth street, cross the railroads, on down to the Elkhorn river bridge? Stand on the bridge and toss a cork into the flowing waters; those waters will flow into the Platte down near Fremont, flow on to join the waters of the Missouri at Plattsmouh, on across Iowa and mingle with the waters of the Mississippi, flow ing on south to empty at last where he Gulf of Mexico opens wide a wet mouth. Somewhere in those gulf waters the cork dropped from the bridge at O'Neill may be seen floating out to sea. • • * Forsake the crowded haunts of men for a day, roll out across green rolled prairieland w'here the meadow larks sing, where tall stalks of com grow row upon row, where beef herds are seen in pas tures green. Yesterday we traveled five Nebraska counties west of the Capital City where prairieland is clothed in the silken gown of summer’s growing things, crossed the Platte river flowing bank full just below prairieland’s third city, spent the day with a few hundred citizens of this great state at an educational institution that has growm and func tioned for many years in a charming rural com munity where the students, boys and girls, receive their high school training away from the crowded centers and where nature opens wide the door to its prairieland wonders. Fathers and mothers, grand fathers and the grandmothers were there yesterday from the far reaches of Nebraska, from Falls City to Chadron, from Omaha to Scottsbluff, to plan r_ At_C..1_ iUk HIV kUIUtV 9 9 9 Agriculture’s Hall of Fame is proposed down at Washington to be located at a spot in the midwest "to honor the farmer’s tremendous contributions to our national well-being." says our Senator Hruska. Maybe the senator can induce the promoters to erect their temple on Nebraska soil, dedicate it not only to the clodhoppers of the farms but to the wives and mothers in the farm homes, whose con tribution to our “national well-being” should not be overlooked. • • • An ordained clergyman friend of mine has a car, his wife has a car and their one child, a daugh ter, has a saddle pony. Shades of Rev. Bartley Blain, of Father Smith and the other pioneer gen tlemen of the cloth who bumped over the trackless prairies of Holt county in lumber wagons or bare back astride a buckskin bronc. But my clergyman friend could hardly get around that way now as he has five states under his watchful eye. Editorial— Fooled by Phony Bird The English are funny people In the American way of thinking. But they are honest at heart. This particular story, borrowed from the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press tickled our funnybone a bit. There is an organization of bird listeners in England which gives a prize every spring to its first member who hears a cuckoo. He doesn t have to catch the bird or even photograph it. All he has to do is hear it and claim the reward. His word is not questioned. No witnesses are needed. If a man says he heard a cuckoo you just take it for panted he heard one and that's all there is to it. Righto. But this year there has been a bit of stir, doncha know old chap. The winner went back to the spot where he heard the first cuckoo and list ened again. He hadn’t seen the bird. He d only heard ft. Then he heard it again. Something was wrong. As he faintly suspected he’d been hearing a farm er’s cuckoo clock. It wasn’t a real bird and his ears had fooled him. So he dutifully returned the reward, whatever it was, and admitted his mistake. The day was saved and the purity of English cuckoo listening is unimpaired. Wonder what would happen if we had a simi lar contest over here. Would we dare give a prize for the biggest fish ami take the fisherman s word for ft? Bet the size of the whoppers that won the prizes would be exceeded only by the stories of those which got away. Democracy develops demagogues because there are those willing to believe what they hear without knowing whether it is true or false. Ronald Colman Though it has been weeks ago, we cannot let the death of Ronald Colman pass without a word. We liked the way one newspaper reporter describ ed him, as one who "set the standard for class on the screen.” Colman. a native of Britain and a veteran of World War I. who saw action at the first battle of Ypres, had a debonair charm that always gave his fHm portrayal an element of interest above the average level. He never starred in a flop, so far as we know, snd the restrained sophisticate he invariably sug gested won the hearts of movie fans in all parts of the world. Of all his roles, it is interesting to note that Colman preferred that of Sidney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities", and the unforgettable "Beau Geste." But he made many movies and played oppo site the great female stars from the days just af ter World War I to the days just after the Korean war a span of some 35 years. And he was recent ly voted second best among all male actors of the century (Charlie Chaplin was first and Laurence Olivier tied Colman for second place.) A good entertainer, with discretion, good taste, and the ability to maintain interest and suspense, is a rarity. Such an actor was Ronald Colman and in his passing the screen loses one of its great talents. An object in possession seldom retains the same charms which it had when it was longed for.—Pliny the Younger. This Is Education Education is not something that is done for a student or to a student. It is no laying on of hands, not putting on of robes, no pouring in of informa tion. Education is what the student does for himself in the way of developing his own powers. Teachers can help; so can a curriculum and an atmosphere of devotion to things of the mind. But ultimately the problem is utterly the student’s. If he would be an educated man, then he must give his best effort to the arduous, the unpleasing, often discouraging task of disciplining his mind to the point where it is an effective mechanism knowing full well that the trained mind is the most powerful instrument in the whole world—Oias. W. Cole, Pres., Amherst College. Every man has two educations—that which is given to him, and the other, that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds, the latter is by far the most valuable. Indeed, all that is most worthy in man, he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that, that constitutes our real and best nour ishment. What we are merely taught, seldom nour ishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves. —Richter. Common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth; so people come faster out of a church that is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.—Swift. There is nothing like a supper to bring out a large crowd. We're thinking of the estimated eight hundred persons attending the recent Sunday even ing outdoor affair at Emmet’s Church of the Epiphany. Open your purse and your mouth cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.—Zimmerman. When the average American shouts for unity, he means that other people should fall in line with his views. Even if genius is 90 percent perspiration you can afford no more than ten percent brains in your work. Someone has said that you can shear a sheep any number of times but you can skin him only once. Even if a man doesn’t eat shrimp, there is no excuse for getting mad with those who know no better. He prayeth best who loveth best all things, both great and small.—Coleridge. »4IS_FronttE6 CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publlshei 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 of Subscription: In Nebraska, Q.SU per year; elsewhere in the United States, 53 per year; rates abroad provided upon request. All sub scriptions payable in advance. Tonsorial Artist Works on Fourth Generation D. H. (“Harry") Clauson, O'Neill barber who has operated at the Golden hotel 41 years, this week began cutting hair for the fourth generation of members of the Ed A. Clark family of Inman. Mr. Clark, an early settler who moved onto a tree claim southwest of Inman many years ago was the first Clark to sit in Clauson's chair. He died in 1930. Eugene (Ed’s son) is pictured at right. How ard (son of Eugene' is shown at left, and the little fellow in the chair is Gene, one of Howard's two sons. Howard and his English-torn wife, Joyce, and the toys recently returned from England where the family had lived three years. Howard is an air force sergeant and will be stationed at Offutt air base near Omaha. He has toen in service 16 years.—The Frontier Photo. When You & 1 Were Young . . . Norton Proposes New River Course Elkhorn Would Be Straightened 50 Years Ago Candidates for county offices so far are: County Attorney—L. C. Chapman, republican; E. H. Whel an, democrat and populist; Durant Hunt of Page, socialist; super vicor, First district—Henry Hen ning of Sand Creek, republican; Third district—John A. Golden of O’Neill, democrat and populist; Fifth district—J. D. Grimes of Chambers, democrat and populist; Seventh district—Conrad Kramer republican, and N. D. Seger, democrat and populist; H. A. Alien of Atkinson, republican from the west end of the county. . , Sur veyor Norton is preparing a plat of a route for the proposed straightening of the Elkhorn south of O’Neill. . . Abraham F. Rouse, who was born in Oakland county, Michigan, died at the age of 75. A veteran of the Civil war, he came to Holt county in 1880. 20 Years Ago Thomas Crimmins of Atkinson celebrated his 100th birthday an niversary. He is Holt county’s oldest citizen. . . Morris Kirk patrfck was injured when he ran oyer a snake while riding his bicycle and he swerved into a car. The accident happened north of the old Elkhorn R. bed. . . Eva Protivinsky is still looking for the culprit who tied a toy bomb to her car. . . Miss Maxine Harrington Is visiting friends at Long Pine. 10 Yean Ago A strange coincidence happen ed with two brothers, Albert Kir schmer, 71, who lived on a farm southeast of Page, and Herman Kirschmer. who lived in Germany. They both died on the same day and were buried on the same day. . . John R. Gallagher is the new Legion commander to suc ceed Glea Wade. . . Hayland be longing to the estate to the late Joseph McDonald brought in $80 an acre. One Year Ago Ronald Dean Mitchell, 16, of Butte was fatally injured when he was thrown from the car in which he was riding. . . Datid Shald, 8, of Stuart died from Internal in juries when a horse kicked him . . . Michael Dean Arehart, 17 months old of Ewing, drowned in a stock tank at the home of his aunt and uncle. . . Marvin Odell Sandall, 8, of Bassett, was stricken while riding a bicycle and was dead upon arrival at a hospital . . . Other deaths: Thomas H. Enright, 85, a longtime resident of Holt oounty; Mrs. Theresa DR. H. D. GILDEBSLEEVE OPTOMETRIST Northeast Corner of 4th & Douglas O’NEILL, NEBR. Ph. 167 — Office hrs. 9 to 5 Byes Examined — oiaeaee Fitted Monday Thru Saturday Closed Wednesday 35TH ANNUAL ■ NEBRASKA’S I BIG ■ RODEO I Aug. 13-14-15-16 P BURWELL I four Afternoon Performance* jy:' at 1:30 P.M. fg WILD HORSE RACES fe Write loi 711 M Call Diamond 6-7873 kj BURWELL, NEBR. I Kramer, 91, of Atkinson; Mrs Margaret McMillan, 79, of Miami Fla., formerly of ONeill. Range Judging Meet Slated August 19 VALENTINE- All 4-H mem bers, FFA members and adults are eligible to compete in the state range judging contest to be held Tuesday, August 19, at the Ft. Niobrara wildlife refuge at Valentine. The state contest is divided into 4-H individuals and team competition, FFA individ uals and team competition, and adult individual competition. Starting the program will be registration at 10 a.m. (CST). An invitation is extended by the Cherry county extension service and the Cherry soil & water con servation district to all those in terested. Contact county agents or work unit conservationits in Holt or adjoining counties for more de tails. Anspach Is with GM Lamp Division Keith E. Anspach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harden Anspach of O’ Neill, is enrolled in the junior ac countant program at the Guide Lamp division of General Motors at Anderson, Ind. Keith was graduated from O’ Neill high school in 1948 and re ceived his bachelor of science de gree from the University of Ne braska in February, 1958. He majored in business administra tion. He is married to the former Mavis Forsch of Butte. They have two young sons. Try Frontier wants ads , * { ' . .. . ... . O’Neill News Mrs. E. W. Devereux spent last weekend with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hunt Mrs. Hunt and the children ac companied Mrs. Devereux to Omaha for a week. Mr. Hunt went down for them and spent the weekend there. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beckwith and three children of North Platte are spending a week’s vacation with her mother, Mrs. Lod Janousek Mrs. Walter Johnson and Linda of Page spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Johnson. Sun day guests were Mrs. Boyd Boel ter and EcSth. Last Thursday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hastreiter were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hastreiter of Humphrey. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Adamson, Don Adamson and Jim Adams spent Sunday in Dallas, S. D., visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Day. Carolyn Thrappe of San Fran cisco, Calif., is visittng Mr. and Mrs. William Griffin for the sum mer. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Anson and family and Mrs. Katherine Thiele Sunday visited at Dewayne An son’s home. Mrs. W. H. Harty expects to spend the weekend of August 16 and 17 in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Camp bell left Tuesday for Green Bay, Wise. Their son, Edward, will be married Saturday, August 23 at Green Bay. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe McLeish were Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Peterson of Stratford, la. Mrs. E. F. Buelow of Racine, Wise., arrived Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs. J. J. Harrington. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Herley were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smithson and Dick of y' ' » ’ ’ v -t .; ■ CRAFTSMANSHIP ANOTHER GREAT CADILLAC TRADITION » Enter a 1958 Cadillac, and you will find visual evidence of i its superb craftsmanship on every hand—in the careful tailor ing of its seat cushions ... in the exquisite workmanship of its appointments. And this infinite care of construction exists, as well, in every unseen aspect of the car’s design—as you will sense the instant you take the wheel. Won’t vou try it soon? ij STANDARD OF THE WORLD FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY ■*. * VISIT TOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED CADILLAC DEALER A. MARCELLUS CHEVROLET CO. 127 North Fourth 8t. — O’Neill, Nebr. eorward rtou urn Villisca, la , formerly of O'Neill. Monday guests were Mr. and Mrs Robert Miller and three sons of Walla Walla, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Harding and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Riley left Saturday for a vacation. Harlen Sawyer of Sheridan. Wyo., is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Frank Grenier. Wednesday evening, July 30, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ramold were ! supper guests in Inman of Mr. ! and Mrs. James Gallagher. Sat ! ui-day they were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs Ed Boyle. Mr and Mrs. B. E. Wanser of Hartington came Wednesday, July f .10, to get their daughters, Col leen and Jane, who had been visit ing their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Froelich. A Sunday overnight guest of Mr. | and Mrs. John Donohoe were Mrs Virgil Graber and Randy and Jerry of Meadow Grove. Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Margaret Pribil were her sister, Mrs. Mary Dusatko, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hines and William Roach of Page. Joe Cavanaugh was announcer at the Seward rodeo Monday and Tuesday and over the weekend he will be at Genoa. Mrs. John McGill and Joan of Omaha arrived Saturday for a week's stay with his mother, Mrs. Pat Sullivan Miss LaVeta Lehn spent the weekend in Wuhoo with relatives. Mr, and Mrs. Ewnld Haase of Ellsworth, Kans., arrived Mon day to visit her sister and family, Mrs, Ben E. Vidricksen, Rev. and Mrs. lXm V Olmstead and sons returned last Thursday from a three day stay touring the Black Hills and the Badlands. Pauline Walston and Castle Crain of Kedfield, S. IV. were guests of Winnie Barger from Friday until Sunday. Electric Motors Rewinding — Rebuilding tXUI 248-W — 24-hr. Service Northwest Electric O'Neill Notice to Land Owners Section 39-5 I 2 of the Nebraska Statutes requires that all land owners mow or des troy the weeds along the roads upon which their land borders. If the land owners do not do this the County Board shall cause same to be done and all expenses will be assessed against said property. If you have not already done this mow ing, please cooperate and see that it is done by September 1, 1 958. HOLT COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FRIENDLY FIX IN'S Combine % cup eoch of brown sugar, chill tauco, final/ choppad onion and boar with % cup mustard, 1 tip. Worcestershire, colt and pappar. Bring to o boil, ilmmar 5 minutes. Boife hamburgari whila broiling. Tho cool refreshing tasta of beer—the tantalising aroma of outdoor cooking. Thoso are tho things that make sum* mar evenings on the patio such happy, carefree occa sions. Servo boor well-chilled when next you ontortaln. NEBRASKA DIVISION United States Brewers Foundation 812 Firgt National Bank Bldg., Lincoln .. . ' ....•
