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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1958)
Prairieland Talk— Treasured Memories in Hometown tty BO MAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 0, Nctor. LINCOLN An interesting letter has been re reived from Lucile Cress Hull, a daughter of the Cress family of other days in O'Neill. Lucile with two daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jake Pfund make their home in Galt, Calif., a grape and other fruit growing region. She says in that community may be seen the old “diggins' " where the '49-ers hunted for gold. Lucile treasures memor ies of her girlh<K>d years in O’Neill and between the lines we see a longing to walk again our streets. While still living, Billy McNiehols visited I^ucile and they Walked again in mem ory from the North Western depot to St. Patrick's Catholic church, from the courthouse to the Burlington depot, and all those then there in business, Ibxiialnc or rather back in Lucile's and ** Billy’s days, were in the picture. They talked and visited until 3 o’clock in the morning. Maybe thinking to better themselves, men and women go to far away places to make their homes. The home they have left behind, the associates, those they had known, the experiences and the old house that was home are forever treasured mem ories. Well, Lucile and you daughters of Jake Pfund, I reach a hand across prairieland, mountains and deserts and give you a handshake, if not a kiss. • • • I have been invited to come to O’Neill and get In on the cheer, the handshakes and the prairieland bounties when another old settlers’ picnic comes up August 25, and the invitation mentions it as the “guest-of-honor.” What could be more gratifying than a gathering of this kind, to grasp a friendly hand, to look into the eyes of those we had once known now long parted, to mingle with and talk to Jim and Joe and Mary and Kate, to feel the throb of human fellowship once more? If nothing prevents Prairieland Talker will take off for O’ Neill to get in on the pleasure of this picnic date. • * • Recession—what does it mean? Mostly talk and printed fiction. I walked the busy streets of down town Lincoln today, people everywhere in stores buying and bartering, crowds on the go along the streets, huge trucks, automobiles in end less streams rushing along. City buses loaded as usual with housewives arms full of bundles just purchased at some big store, public eating places where scores straddle a stool and stow away the grub Recession—nothing to it! • • • Some wit comes up with this one: Foreign country—A place where the people tell us Amer icans to go home and leave them a loan. • • • The editor or some functionary at The Fron tier through whose hands Prairieland Talk goes may think the compiler of this department needs correcting at times. By adding a two-letter word these masters of the queen’s English had it that I stood ’’up” by the grave of a departed friend. I had not been lying down nor sitting down, but with another walked to and stood by the open tomb. Adding that word of two letters interrupts the lit erary trend of the line. The sun this sweltering August day glow's out of a clear blue sky moving on across green rob ed prairieland to usher in the calm twilight hours As I passed along a residential street in homes a long the way contraptions to beat the heat were roaring away, but none in those homes invite the sweating passerby in to cool his fevered brow. But well it may be so; the passerby is soon at a mart of trade where refrigeration reduces the hot Aug ust day to November’s chilly breath. Rains and sunshine across prairieland have robed the land scape in charming velvet green and laid in our lap the abundance from field and garden, orchard and farflung grasslands. • » • It was in August, 1900.—Con Keys had “900 sacks of good flour" he wanted to trade for money. . . . Merrimans furnished beds as well as meals that year. . . Mrs. R. H. Mills visited friends in Meadow Grove. . . Lucile Meredith was spending a few days in Atkinson. . . Miss Tillie Mullen re turned from triy ot Lincoln. . . Mrs. Az Perry of Atkinson w'as in O’Neill visiting Mrs. McCarthy. ... A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mullen on August 1 that year. . . Several members of the Methodist church of O’Neill were attending the Neligh district camp meeting at Oakdale. • * * Nellie Cronin, a sister of Dan Cronin, onetime county treasurer of Holt county, and Bill Cronin, one of the posse that captured the cowboy who shot Sheriff Barney Kearns, as a girl sat on a stool in the basement of the O’Neill National Bank build ing and set type for C. C. McHugh, publisher of the O’Neill Sun. Nellie later became the wife of Den Hunt, now Den’s widow'. She is enjoying a vis it at her home in Lincoln from her daughter and granddaughter from Buffalo, N. Y. Some left in the O'Neill community who remember the Hunt and Cronin families. Mrs. Hunt has traveled life’s highway for four score years and enjoys good health. • • • August 1, 1819—Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick”, born. August 3, 1857, first express office opened in Omaha. August 7, 1789, U. S. as sumed control of all lighthouses. August 12, 1898, Hawaii became a U. S. territory. August 18, 1807, gas lamjjs introduced in London. August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare, first child of English parents bom in America. August 31, 1847, Illinois adopted its state constitution. • • • The publisher and editor of the Albion News, Jack Lough, will add another star to his crown by publishing two weekly papers for Boone county cit izens, one to appear on the Albion scene on Mon days, the other on Thursdays, the day about all Ne braska weekly papers float out from the press. The Fremont Tribune when Ross Hammond was editor came out three times a week. They are go ing to try it down at Albion twice a week. • * • Letter postage Increased a third, the postal hoys thinking to rake In more money. You write a friend once a month. Write now every three months. That’ll fix ’em down there in D. C. Lo cal, state and federal taxes—now a boost In the cost of mailing to my sons and daughters who are anchored in distant places. Editorial— Family Doctor Shares Joy, Sorrow Death last week claimed Dr. Oscar W. French, 66, who was closely identified with the health and well-being of hundreds of families for 35 years. He was virtually a lifelong Holt countyan. The only’ period in which he was out of the county was that time spent in preparing for his profession of physician and surgeon. His first practice was at Ewing. From 19-2 un til 1938 he practiced at Page. Thereafter and un til a crippling stroke suffered Thanksgiving day, 1955, he practiced at O’Neill. Death of a family doctor is unlike the passing of other neighbors. A family doctor shares the in timacies, heartbreaks and troubles of a family. He shares in the joy of birth and the tragedy of death. A family doctor observes life in an analytical sense. He is confronted day-after-day with prolonging of life on one hand and, on the other, the inexorable visitation of death. The church overflowing with people who came to pay final respects at the funeral hour bespoke the esteem in which Doctor French was held in the hearts and minds of many. Doctor French was the victim of a severe stroke suffered that hallowed day in 1955. He clung tenaciously to life for months in the hospital here, finally went to his home, only to be faced again with extensive hospitalization in another city. His death announcement came almost simul taneously with news that younger medical talent was coming to O’Neill. While there was no correla tion, The Frontier takes occasion to note the ironic timing. Although inactive and an invalid for 2% years, Doctor French was regarded as the family physi cian in absentia for many until his death came. Think for yourself and act upon your judg ment, whatever' results will tie what you deserve. Children already have too many advantages. For instance, they don’t have to raise children. Perverted Vandalism There is a new candidate for the title of the meanest man in town. Vandalism has been noted at the O’Neill cemeteries. At one grave, which has been visited several times a month during the growing season by the bereaved, repeated place ments of geraniums and other potted plants have been molested later by vandals. There have been other reports for willful damage. This type of vandalism strikes us as the work for a preverted mind. How any human could salvage any good from a living plant stolen from the grave of a departed person is more than we can understand. One of these days we will know the truth, in the meantime, we must grope with it best we can. The Great Nautilus (Lincoln Star) When the atomic powered submarine Nautilus cruised comfortably under the ice fields of the Ar tic, showing first that a ship could and second that an atomic submarine fitted out with nuclear weap ons is almost impossible to defend against, official United States went all out to commemorate the feat. The news was mainly for Russia which can re flect that it can hardly gain a nuclear war advan tage in outer space that cannot be easily coppered under water. For the United States, it was a rather belated celebration because the Nautilus has been around several years now and its capacities should have been as apparent the first few months of it life as they are today. Despite that the nation has been slow in building a fleet of atomic subs and was never quite as carried away with the great weapon it had developed as it should have been. With all our talk about charity and helping our fellow man, few of us ever hurt ourselves by gen erosity. Never take the problems of life so seriously that other people fail to take you seriously. How’s this for a definition: College-bred—a four-year loaf on father’s dough! Few newspaper offices refuse to accept sub scriptions out of office hours. When you put off work until tomorrow you pul off profits until next week. | __________ Sooner or later, and sometimes sooner, the aggressor runs into a brick wall. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wil derness of warning —Lowell. Two fools meet when one runs another’s life and the other permits it. There is one way to make a newspaper sue cessful: Print the news. A free press, to work in a democracy, must be a really free press. You can look back to 1957 but we prefer tc look forward to 1959. j Frontier CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publlmbei v - 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. nils 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 You & I Were Young . . . Townspeople Want Good. Fast Team Club to Be Fielded for Two Months 50 Years Ago The city levy is gradually de creasing, which is a pleasing bi of information to the taxpayers From a levy of 52 mills a few years ago, it is now down to 31 mills. . . J. F. O'Donnell and D H. Cronin canvassed the town tc ascertain if sport lovers would sup j port a good, fast ball team foi 1 August and September. The) found many interested persons. A board of directors was chosen and the first game will be Sunday . . . Judge Malone issued a mar riage license to John E. Lesline ol Persin, la., and Alice May Nor ton of Stuart. . . Mabel and Jessie Keeler went to Anncar to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs Hugh Carr. They brought homo several quarts of buffalo berries. 20 Years Ago Margery and Bob Rees of Amel ia and Dale Curran and Donald Vequist of O'Neill attended the third annual wildlife conservation camp at Seward. . . The winner of the first caddie golf tournament at the O’Neill Country club was Bill Biglin. . . O’Neill has been grant ed $50,000 through WPA for street and sewer work. . . The Misses Jane Mains, Betty Biglin, Jean | McCarthy and Ethel Tasler enter tained at a picnic in honor of Mona Melvin, Mary Jeanne Ham mond and Kathleen Kelley. 10 Years Ago John McHugh, 82, Chappaqua, N.Y., a former O’Neill banker. who later became president ot tne Chase National bank in New York, died. . . Other deaths: Pat H. Keys, 47, a lifelong resident of Holt county; Grace Olive Sundell, 45; Ceril Johnson of Monowi. . . Betty Scripter was the hay days quren. . . Kathleen Flood is the solist at the band concert. One Year Ago Miss Sandra Davis was chosen hay days queen. . . Deaths: Sharon Kaup, 16, of Atkinson; Nick Schwindt of O’Neill; Mike Tomjack, 84, of Ewing. . . Light ning killed three head of range cattle at the Merrill Anderson place at Redbird. . . The Lions club erected a hospital sign on Douglas street. The letters are in a large arrow pointing in the di rection of the hospital. Xun Visit Relatives— Sr. M. Calixta of Madison, Wise., and Sr. M. Brendan of Oklahoma, City, Okla., arrived Friday to visit Mr and Mrs. F. N. Cronin until Tuesday. Other guests were Miss Genevieve Biglin and Miss Nora McAuliffe, both of Sioux City, who were here for the weekend. Guernsey Herd Acquires Prefix AMELIA—Mr. and Mrs. Frank lin J. and Agnes Mae Malena of Amelia have reserved the prefix “Ranch Floralane” for the use in naming their purebred Guernsey cattle, according to the American Guernsey Cattle club. This was announced Wednesday by the club’s headquarters in Peter borough, N.H. This new prefix has been placed on file with the club and from now on Mr. and Mrs. Malena will have exclusive use of it. In fact, “Ranch Floralane” will be their trademark in the Guernsey wor ld. The American Guernsey Cattle club is a non-profit agricultural registry organization serving some 40,000 purebred Guernsey breeders from coast-to-coast. Return Hme — Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jonas re turned Sunday from Van Nuys, and Venice, Calif , where they spent a month visiting relatives. Mrs. Jonas returned Monday to her work at the Lee store. ROYAL THEATRE O’NEILL — j Tlmrs. Aug. 14 DAMN CITIZEN Starring Keith Andes, Maggie Hayes, Gene Evans, Lynn Bari, Jeffrey Stone, Ann Robinson. “Give ’em dames, dope and dice and they’ll play ball!” Shocked millions who read about it in the Reader’s Digest, American Week ly, Colliers. . . now, you can see the true story of Louisiana, one of the most vice-ridden states in the union . . . and of the "damn cit izens” who had the guts to buck and break it’s corrupt machine. Fri.-Sat. Aug. 15-11 Paramount presents Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace. MARACAIBO Technicolor, Vista Vision. Co starring Abbe Lane, Francis Led erer and Michael Landon, with Joe E. Ross. Just a drumbeat away from the savagery of the jungles ... a billion dollar lake of oil explodes into flame. One man struggles to stem the blaze ■ far below the flaming surface of Lake Maracaibo! i Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Aug. 17-18-11 KATHY’ O’ The picture that likes people! A Universal - International picture starring Dan Duryea, Jan Ster ling, Patty McCormick, Marj Fickett, with Sam Levine, Marj Jane Croft. Hear the new hit song "Kathy O”. Cinemascope ir Eastman color. She shocked you in "The Bad Seed” now she’ll rock you in a whole new wonder ful way! Matinee Saturday & Sunday 2:3fl Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday and Saturday admission— Adults 50c; Children under 12, 12c, Free if accompanied by par l ent. Wed., Thurs., Family Nite, family admitted for two adult tickets. ■US® i Lew Fine . . . emcee anti co | median. Atkinson Set for 1958 Hay D a y s Appaloosa, Parade, Free Beef ATKINSON The 1958 hav davs program will feature Nebraska's first invitational all-Appaloosa horse show', a children’s pet pa j rade, free beef barbecue, hay ' queen coronation and a show time | revue. The 18th annual celebration in ! this hay country capital will be j a one-day affair Tuesday, Au gust 19 It’ll be an all-day pro gram, starting early and ending j late. The affair is under the spon sorship of the Atkinson Chamber of Commerce and the Elkhorn ! Valley Qurter Horse association. The all-Appaloosa horse show and parade will involve $1,600 in cash prizes to the breed’s finest horses. This ancient breed w'ill perform at halter and in performance classes. Halter classes start at 9 a m., at the Atkinson Live stock Market parking lot. The children’s parade will move up Main street at 11 a.m. Families and groups attend ing the celebration are urged to bring picnic lunches at noon. Free coffee will be served in the park. Starting at 1 p.m. at the grandstand in the park there will be Appaloosa performances. The free barbecue will take place between 5 and 7 o’clock at the park. “All you can eat and free coffee,” that’s the offering. Beef will be brought in from Char ley W. Peterson’s Lazy F ranches and barbecued in a hickory pit. The coronation pageant and show time revue will begin at 8 p.m., under the lights. Hay queen candidates are Charlotte Berry, Marlene Beck, Clara Thurlow, Jean Moeller, Mary Ann Siebert, Karen Kaup, Donna Humphrey and Mary Schaaf. Lew Fine will be master of ceremonies and comedian at the pageant and coronation. Preston Love orchestra will be featured, also Jean Hamilton, Tommy and his girls. Winnie Winston will be top vocalist. The coronation ball at the Crystal ballroom will climax the day. To Black Hills— Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weier and family spent from Tuesday August 5, until Friday in the Black Hills They witnessed the passion play. Try Frontier want ads if you wish to buy or sell! Celia News Mr and Mrs. Wess Foote of California, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shattuek of Bristow and Mrs. Omer Poynts of Stuart visited at the Mark Hendricks home Satur day, August 8. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hendricks and family called at the Connie Frick el home Sunday evening, August 3. Mr. and Mrs. George Beck call ed at the Duane Beck home Fri day August 8. George Woolstrum of Ansley returned on furlough from the i army Sunday. He spent Thursday and Friday at the Mark Hend ricks home. Mrs. Bert Freeman and two sons of Anselmo called at the Mer rill Anrerseon home Saturday eve ning, August 2. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hendricks and sons. Mark and Greg, arrived f at the Mark Hendricks home Sun day, August 3, to spend two weeks | with them. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hendricks and family called at the Mark Hend ricks home Friday, August 8 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chajffin j and family called at the Merrill I Anderson home Monday evening. | August 4. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hendricks | and family spent Friday, August 8, working at the Wesleyan Metho dist conference camp grounds six miles east of Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Anderson called at the Merlin Anderson home at O'Neill Saturday, August * Mrs Vic Frickel went to Valen tine Wednesday, August 6, to get two of her sons, David and Glen, who have been visiting with their aunt. Mrs. Jerry Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Frickel. Glen and Gerald spent Thursday and Friday on business at Norfolk and Omaha. Peggy Armold visited with Vick ie Frickel Monday afternoon. Dorothy Marshall of Stuart spent Thursday through Sunday with Kdith and linda Chaffin. Markita Hendricks spent Sun day, August 3, with Vivian Thur low. Clifford Peppers of Omaha, ar rived at the George Mintle home Friday, August 8, to spend a week with them. Mrs. Fern Morsett anil son, Charley, of Royal. Miss Mary Jane Napier of O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Napier of Orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Sieheneder, and Mrs Ixvrraine Zahridnicek and daugh- j I ter were dinner guests at the John I Sieheneder home Sunday, August 3. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Poynts and Mrs. Mark Hendricks attended the wedding of Terrance Wilson in Sioux City, August 9. Mr. and j Mrs. Omer Poynts live on the Wil son ranch and work for Terry and his father. Mr. and Mrs. Thilo Poessneck od and family called at the Hans Lauridsen home Sunday evening. August 3 Mr. and Mrs. George Mintle, Mr. and Mrs. Hans I^auridsen and family, Jim I^auridsen, Mr and Mrs. Duane Miller attended a pic nic dinner at the home of Duane Mintle in honor of the birthday anniversaries of George Mintle and Bob Lauridsen. Mr. and Mrs. John Sohwindt and Bonita Sohwindt calk'd at the Hans Lauridsen home Monday evening. Mark Hendricks, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hendricks of Manhattan, Kans.. visited at the Joe Hendricks home Saturday morning. August 9. Mrs. Bill Obermire and sons, Gary anil Ricky, called at the Hans Lauridsen home Tuesday. August 5. Gary and Ricky stayed for dinner with Leroy Lauridsen. Mrs. Hans Lauridsen and son, Leroy and Rodney Oslx>rn, visited with Mrs. Francis Wnhs Wednes day afternoon, August 6 Mr. and Mrs. Loon Hendricks and sons, Mark and Greg, called at the Paul Nelson home Friday evening, August 8 Jim Lauridsen, Boh and Leroy were dinner guests at the George Mintle home Wednesday, August 6. Hans a n d Bobby Lauridsen spent Wednesday afternoon, Aug ust 6, in Butte, on business. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks and Arlin, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hendricks and sons called at the Connie Frickel home Sunday eve ning, August 3. Mf and Mrs. Merril Smith and son, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kline vis ited at the Mark Hendricks home Friday, August 8. Mrs. Kline and Mrs. Hendricks were classmates in Atkinson high school. Mrs. Mabel Hammerberg and relatives visited with Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Anderson Monday after noon, August 4. -- 9 Visit j Our ► Sidewalk ! w Display ; FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th j > STINKER DAY I IN O’NEILL > > i < af UVIl'K UiJJ lTTTTWTyyTTTrai > i » 0 LONG JOURNEYS ARE JUST JAUNTS TO A CHEVY"! * ■* Once you're at the wheel of this new Chevrolet, far-off places suddenly seem closer. Here's the kind of VIVID V8 ACTION that cuts country miles down to size. Hire's the kind of restful ride and zestful response that whets anybody's taste for travel! 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