Prairieland Talk—
Mrs. Connoly Sweat at Oven
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South Slat St.. IJncoln 0, Nebr
Five and a quarter million dollars is the pnce a
New York concern dealing in bread pays for a bak
ery tossing its loaves out in about every state but
headquartered in Omaha. Mrs. Dan Connoiy sweat
as she worked at her oven in her little bake shop
down the street to the west from where O'Neill now
has stoplights I saw her there in tears taking the
five-cent loaves from the oven,
in tears because her Dan was up
the street guzzling booze instead
of helping at the little bakeshop.
That was back in the 1880's. Yes,
Mrs. Connoiy is no more. And
no more is there a Neil Brennan,
a Wes Evans, a Tom Morris, a
John Mann, a Jess Mellor, a
Tom Tierney, a John Horiskey
— these and others who walked
the streets and lent a hand in
making O'Neill a desirable place
to call home. And Dan Connoiy
has taken his last drink at the Sssmaers
bar, Mrs. Connoiy shed her last tear, made her last
five-cent loaf of bread!
* • •
It was a week in August, 1901, these items ap
peared in The Frontier: Henry Martfelt has the
thanks of the editorial family for a mess of green
com . . , The fixtures for the O'Neill National Bank
arrived and arc being installed . . . Emil Sniggs was
a passenger for Norfolk . . . Miss Coykendal return
ed home from a trip to Omaha . . . Clara Zimmer
man was down from Atkinson visiting the homefolks.
. . . The ladies of the Catholic church spread banquet
tables in the open near the church and fed good eats
to a crowd of hungry citizens, the money taken in
going to support church activities . . . Mr. and Mrs.
E. P Hicks were home from a trip to New York
and into Canada . . . The summer had been dry and
hot- then it rained.
* * •
My little friends are gone that awaited my
coming over on the comer expecting to get a
bit of candy, and the little girl with a smile on
her sweet childish face as she hands me a
cookie, now gone with mother and dad to a
distant state to be seen no more.
• • •
Autumn days aglow with sunlight. I look out of
my window beyond which stands the walnut tree,
the fruitage of which has been gathered in and now
from its high spreading branches the dead leaves
fall. Autumn days when summer heat and summer
storms are over, fruits out of the toil of another
season gathered. And down the highway just ahead
comes anotjier winter, then overcoats, caps and mit
tens. So let it come and bring to poet and artist an
inspiriation of spirit as they may look out upon the
farflung landscape robed in winter's white.
Walter O Malley, one of the few survivors of the
boys who sat in his saddle and followed the herds
in the days of the open range of northern Holt coun
ty, writes me that he and Lloyd Gillespie were to
take off late in October for a visit to the Ft. Randall
dam and invited me to join them. It Would have been
one more pleasure along this life's journey to have
joined them.
Both of these friends know that Ft. Randall was
a military' post where soldiers kept an eye on Spo^
tedtail’s braves, came over to O'Neill at times to
have a bit of fun.
The widow of Captain Hooker, who died in serv
ice at Ft. Randall and was buried in O'Neill, lived
for some time two blocks east of the public school.
Mr. Gillespie has a life time memory of 81 years,
from infancy to the present ,as a resident of Hok
county and knows its history from early days down
to the present.
* * •
Mr. Clausen has stood for 41 years clipping and
shaving in his barber shop at the Golden Hotel,
about the time that building has stood at Fourth and
Douglas streets. And through those years Mr. C.
has stood each Sunday in the choir loft in the Pres
byterian church and raised his voice in the songs of
Zion. It is such as he and the others like him that
constitutes the large group of substantial citizens
of O'Neill.
• • *
Childhood, youth, maturity, old age, then the
end of the earthly pilgrimage. ItaN your life’s
plantings borne thorns that have torn you until
you bleed, or brought forth rich fruitage for
eternity?
* • »
October 15 and 80 above. Our Indian summer
floated in from the equator. The bright days and
calm nights of autumn on lovely prairieland. So it
is as I write today. When this appears in print Oc
tober draws to a close, another November and an
other election, next the Thanksgiving feast, followed
by visions of another Christmas. The days come and
go; no hand can stay the rising of the sun nor wipe
away the golden glow of sunset nor pluck a star from
yonder Milky Way. And as the days come and go
we may count our blessings one by one as we walk
along life’s toiling, lengthening way.
• * •
Mrs. Den Hunt recalls the days when as a girl
she was employed as a clerk in the J. P. Mann store.
From time to time a man maintaining an office on
the upper floor of the First National Bank building
came into the store and gave them the name of a
boy of a needy family that they were to fit out with
clothing and shoes and he would pay for it. That
thoughtful citizen with a heart and purse open to
help any in need was the late M. F. Harrington.
Editorial—
Principle or Expediency?
What shall the American voter do this autumn?
He is usually importuned to vote against things.
He is told that, if he has been unemployed or if farm
income is down, it is the fault of the incumbent party.
If he has a son of draft age, he is warned that the
success of one party at the polls may bring on war
and that the other party, if retained in office, will
insure peace.
Expediency, which has become the guiding phil
osophy of the politician, now afflicts also many of
the mentors who advise the citizenry in the press.
The cry is that the government owes the citizen a
living and that the government must provide jobs
no matter how much it costs or how big the deficits
in the treasury. Runaway inflation and eventual
bankruptcy are dismissed as “impossible." Govern
mental paternalism is deeply imbedded in the polit
ical doctrines of today, irrespective of the fiscal con
sequences.
To be in favor of taxing heavily anyone who has
the brains to earn a substantial income is called
“liberal.” To insist that private enterprise and in
dividual initiative should be the basic American plat
form is derisively regarded nowadays as "reaction
ary."
The drift plainly is towards socialism—the mast
ery of the state over the individual. Nobody is ready
to admit that such a course has been deliberately
set—not even the factions that seek control of the
democratic party today. But the trend is inevitable if
present-day “liberals" can continue to masquerade
under the cloak of benefactors to the common man.
The democratic party in the North really favors
socialism, though it never uses the term. The dem
ocratic party in the South holds just the opposite
philosophy, and if it had not been for democratic
leaders from the South in the last session of congress
who repressed some of the spenders in their own
party, America now would be facing economic dis
aster.
The republicans, on the other hand, have a "mod
em” clique that apes the radicals in the democratic
party. The conservative republican in many a state
feels he is being pushed out of his own party except
when the campaign funds are being solicited every
two years.
What shall the American voter do who believes
in the right to work without being compelled to join
a union or any organization in which he does not
conscientiously believe? What about the right to
“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” without
the extortions of government or the oppressive hand
of union monopoly? When will we find out how much
money was really spent by the labor unions to elect
their candidates in the current campaign? Will a
congress which has been elected through union funds
investigate itself?
The voter who wishes to be true to America’s
finest traditions must vote for principle as against
expediency. He must support those candidates who
have an understanding of the conflict in America
today between freedom and totalitarianism.
The “popular" philosophy nowadays is that the
end justifies the means and that, if the constitution
doesn’t provide a reform, the supreme court may
order it anyhow'. Precedent is disregarded as old
fashioned.
Yet the year a principle was bom has nothing to
do with its validity. Human nature doesn’t change
the fundamental rules of conduct just because 2,000
years have elapsed since the Gospel was preached
by he Disciples. The martyrs who suffered toture
for Christianity’s principles were not cowed by suc
cessive defeats. They were true to their consciences
—they knew' that right must win in the end
Woodrow Wilson once said: “I would rather lose
in a cause that some day will triumph than to tri
umph in a cause that I know some day will fail.”
How many of us on the American political scene
today actually care enough about principles to risk
defeat or "unpopularity” in espousing them
Men of character are needed who, on becoming
candidates for office, will champion fundamental
principles and stick to them irrespective of whether
this will win the election in a particular year.
The progress of parties goes up or down in ac
cordance as the quality of the candidates reflects
the determination of the voters themselves to see
certain principles of government maintained.
Americans do not want a dictatorship by any
branch of the government in the guise of a democ
racy, nor a liberalism that is based on coercion.
Hitler in 1933 followed the letter of the German con
stitution when he rose to power. We all know the
story of what his subsequent usurpation brought to
the world. Yet the real story—the indifference of the
German people who acquiesced — seems never to
have been driven home to those people in the democ
racies who still worship the doctrine that the end
justifies the means and who believe that expediency
is to be preferred to principle.
It’s a time for loyality to principle, loyalty to
fundamental constitutionalism, loyalty to the Amer
ican system of private enterprise as opposed to all
forms of socialism. It's a time for loyalty to con
science as one enters the voting booth.
—By David Lawrence, reproduced
with special permission from
U. S. News & World Report.
Miller Faced by a Comer
It appears on this eve of the forthcoming election
that A. L. Miller, republican congressman from Ne
braska's sprawling Fourth congressional district,
will be faced with the sternest opposition in his 20
odd-year career in the house of representatives.
Donald McGinley of Ogallala, a democrat, is
the foe.
McGinley is a member of a prominent western
Nebraska ranching family. He served in England
with the air force during World War II, received a
law degree at Georgetown university in Washing
ton, D. C., practiced law and has served two terms
in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature.
While in his early legislative career at the state
capitol he was aligned with two other socalled
‘\roung Turks" (J. Monroe Bixler of Harrison and
Joseph Martin of Grand Island) in some wild legis
lative plans. McGinley soon broke away and has
hewn the conservative line since.
McGinley is a thinker and a student and
shouldn’t be swept off his feet by demo party dis
ciplinarians if he should be elected.
McGinley is campaigning on the proposition of
offering "real representation".
Miller’s stock absorbed a beating after Miller
attacked Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson and
then, at the insistence of cattlemen and many farm
ers, he did a flipflop, denying he was after Benson’s
scalp in the first place.
Miller no doubt will win it, but McGinley is a
comer.
You can not find time; time finds you as each
new day we start again down life’s highway. So here
we come, get out of our way!
^s^eFrontTer
Box 330 — O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This newspaper is
a member of the Nebraska Press Association, Nation
al Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of
Circulations.
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When You & I Were Young . . .
Kennebec Woman
Gets Land Choice
Many Holt People
Lottery Victors
50 Years Ago
Mrs. Mary A. Melser of Kenne
bec, S. D., was tfie first to draw
a claim in the Tripp county draw
ing and she has first choice of all
the land on the reservation. Holt
county received 25 numbers out
of the first 1,000. Lucky Holt
people from the complete list in
order of the drawing were: G. A.
Goodman, O’Neill; J. L. Gapter,
Emmet; John J. Melvin, Page;
H. L. Madison, O'Neill; Ralph L.
Butler, Ewing; Paul S. Falk,
Page; Hyacinth Nightengale, At
kinson; G. B. Hodges, O’Neill;
Joseph Brownlow, Clearwater;
Lizzie Barnes, Atkinson; Toney
C, Lockman, Stuart; Frank
Zahradnicek, Atkinson; Henry Bar
tels, Phoenix; R. E. Cook, O’
Neill; Lela Garwood, Chambers;
L. B. Hanaman, Ewing; Frank H.
Bayer, Page; Mrs. Ellen Keyes,
O’Neill; Nettie Schrier, Harold;
Adam Martin Payelmaus, O’Neill;
Adelbert Fauquier, Bliss; Cather
ine Cosgrove, O'Neill; Nate Me
Graw, O'Neill; Hattie Cooper,
Chambers; Elmer Carey, Ewing;
Charles Hitchcock, Atkinson;
James Kelly, O'Neill; John Heen
an, O'Neill; Joseph E. Bigler,
O’Neill; H. H. Fry, Ewing; Jay
H. Butler, Inman; R. M. Barrett,
O'Neill; William R. Shaw, O’Neill;
Joe Wedigo, Stuart; Miss Mary
Shoemaker, Inman; William Mey
er, O’Neill; R. P. Fleming. Atkin
son; Elizabeth Kraft, Stuart;
Frank Valla, O'Neill; Albert
Szlachetka, Atkinson; W. E.
Chase, Ewing; Lawrence Hard
ing, O’Neill; George Ord, Page;
F. Boehme, Atkinson; W. Berry,
Stuart; Fred Zeicke, Atkinson;
John Walker, Page; F. Dutter,
Atkinson; William Gordon, O’
Neill; A. L. Fleming, Atkinson;
Thomas Donohoe, O'Neill; John
Pruss, Emmet; Mary McCabe,
O’Neill; Nora Sullivan, O’Neill;
George Jennings, O’Neill; John
Hart, Stuart. . . Married: Almond
B. Smith and Miss Dell Morrison,
both of Newport; Albert Kazisek
and Miss Anna Kaplin, both of
Stuart; John W. Reece of Norfolk,
and Mrs. Mary Reese of Salix.
. . . Deaths: Martin Maloney, 80,
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. John Hickey, two miles
north of town.
20 Years Ago
A Hallowe’en party for the O’
Neill children was held at the re
creation center. . . Delegates to
the WCTU convention in Hastings
were Mrs. Elsie Johnson, Mrs.
Mary Uttley and Miss Meta Mar
tin of O’Neill; Mrs. Goldie Stauf
fer, Mrs. Mary West and Mrs. Car
penter, all of Page. . . Deaths:
Mrs. Cora E. Murphy, 76, south
east of Page, Elmer B. Ernst.
... A family reunion was held at
the Milo Benson home near Op
portunity.
10 Years Ago
Truman wins over Dewey. . .
P. J. ("Pat”) McManus celebrat
ed his 90th birthday by washing
the windows of his home. . .
Deaths: F. O. Hammerberg, 83,
of Atkinson; Mrs. Robert Ford,
62, of O’Neill. . . Miss Ireneia V.
Mullen has enlisted in the WAC’s.
. . . The body of Pfc. Robert G.
Peltzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reu
ben Peltzer of Chambers, was ac
corded full military honors during
final burial in the Chambers cem
etery. He was killed in action
near Hottenheim, Germany.
One Year Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Reed Risinger of
Venus celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. . . A feature
story was written about Mrs.
Henry Meyer of Clearwater, who
received a cornea transplant in
Iowa City, la. . . Deaths: Fred
L. Carey, 81, of O’Neill; George
Robertson, 69, of Stuart; Ed
Wayman, 64, of O'Neill. . . Floyd
Kaasa, a farmer near Lynch, has
named a calf "Sputnik" because
it holds its head high and tends
to go around in circles.
Visitors Sunday—
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sindelar
of Norfolk came Sunday to
visit Mr. and Mrs. Orville Sinde
lar and family. They also came
for Mrs. J. M. Pixley of Fuller
tn, who took care of the Orville
Sindelar children while their
mother was in the hospital with
the new baby
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
Re-Elect
ROMAN L
HRUSKA
REPUBLICAN
UNITED STATES
SENATOR
This ad Mid Cor by Bruaka Cot Banatar
!■ Am Blddall. York. (Nab.) CRN.
' Studies Flute at
School of Music—
Miss Mardy Jo Johnson, a 1957
| graduate of O’Neill high school,
I has begun her sophomore studies
toward a bachelor of music in
flute at the University of Roches
ter's Eastman school of music.
Rochester. N. Y.
Miss Johnson, the daughter of
Mrs. Robert Evans, 328 Douglas
: st., was a former student at Ober
j lin college. While at O'Neill pul>
I lie school, she was a cheerleader,
j drum major and homecoming
gueen, member of student council
I and president of the band. She
j was the winner of the John Philip
Sousa award.
This fail marks the beginning of
the university’s 109th academic
year and the 37th for the East
man school of music.
Letters to Editor
Editor:
I wonder if parents shouldn't
think a little the day before their
children go trick or treating. I
love to have the little ones come
to pay me a visit and look for
ward to seeing them every' year.
Last year more than 70 children
called. I had planned for about
the usual number, 40. Twenty
five children came in one group1
and were displeased when my
treats were exhausted. They
lived seven and eight blocks
away. I knew about three of
them, or at least had heard the
last names of three of them. One
boy, about 10, just held his sack
open and said he had gone
around town once and had to go
home for another sack—by the
way, the very largest kind avail
able. I wonder if that is the pur
pose at Hallowe'en? How any
parents could let a child eat that
much candy is beyond compre
hension.
When my dear little friends and
neighbors came last year all my
treats were gone, I had to
resort to money. My special bak
ed goodies had gone to little ones
I didn’t know. Maybe the word
spreads from one group to anoth
er, how good or bad the treats
are.
Anyway, may I make a sug
gestion to you mothers? Could
n’t you limit your children's cal
ling to within three blocks to
friends and neighbors who wel
come them? Maybe a specia1
friend living farther would be an
exception. Perhaps if you par
ents who don’t care, won’t heed
this suggestion, maybe the won
derful teachers in school would
mention it. Nowadays there are
some parents who expect the
teachers to make ladies and gen
tlemen of their offspring with no
help from home. I rather think
this is the exception rather than
•the rule.
I plan again to bake all sorts
of decorated cookies for my little
friends. I want them to come,
but when a mob comes all at
once, I can’t even let them in—
there’s not room in my little
house. I like to have them come
in and try to guess them and have
them try to scare me. I do get
scared, however, when I see
groups of 10 and 15 with no words
of greeting, just their sacks open.
I'm afraid some parents have no
idea where their children are this
night and whom they call.
A LOVER OF CHILDREN.
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Verdigre, Nebr.
Just a note to say "thank you"
for your help on the canned food
shower and the benefit dance
given for the Tony Mudloff family
by the Ash Grove auxiliary.
We sincerely appreciate your
help both in the paper and on the
air. We turned over 63.50 to the
Mudloffs following the dance held
at the hall Saturday night. Oct
ober 18.
Thank you again.
Mrs. Marvin Johnson
Ash Grove Aux. pres.
Mother, Small Son
Escape Serious Hurts
SPENCER A Bristow farm wo
man and her 17-months-old son
narrowly escaped serious injury
about 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Octo
ber 23, when their northbound car
overturned after going over the
top of a hill north of here. Mrs.
Oliver Nelson and son, Douglas,
were enroute to their farm home,
which is north of Bristow’.
As the car crested the hill the
driver saw’ the highway construc
tion equipment in the road. In
applying the brakes the 1955 Dodge
went into a ditch and overturned.
The child, standing in the seat be
hind the mother, was unhurt.
Mrs. Nelson was taken to O'Neill
by her husband for medical at
tention. She was not hospitalized
and suffered only shock and
bruises.
Mrs. Nelson is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Mashino of
Redbird.
Phone us your news—51!
Prices Start at
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GILLESPIES
O’NEILL
Frosh at ‘U* on
Scholarship—
Out of the 281 freshmen who are
attending the University of Nebr
aska on $100 regents' scholarships,
13 are from Frontierland.
They are;
Matthew Beha, jr.. and Michael
Liddy, both of O'Neill; Hale Hol
comb of chambers; Helen E. Con
don of Creighton; Michael Voor
hies of Orchard; Lynn E. Bongo
of Neligh; Judith Brunke and
Caryl K. Craven both of Plain
view; Marilyn K. Clark of Elgin;
William A. Buckendorf, James F.
Panzer and Marcia 1. Weber, all
of Bassett, and Charles T. lV>ty
of Butte.
The scholarships were awarded
on the basis of a statewide com
petitive examination given stu
dents last spring who ranked
I scholastically in the upper quart
I rr of their high schools,
LEAVING ON Oil ISK
EWING Oscar Eaton. F. N..
| son of Mrs. John Kuther of Ewing,
will leave December 12 on a nine
month cruise. He is aboard the
I'SS Salisbury Sound AVIS.
Oscar reenlisted in the Navy June
11, of 6 years. He enlisted for
the first time in October, 19f>f).
Mining to Missouri—
INMAN Mr. and Mrs Justin
Butterfield and family of Inman
are leaving the first of next week
for Ozark, Mo,, where they will
make their home on a dairy farm
LYNCH Mr. and Mrs. Frank
SovotKxia took their infant son.
Frank jr., to Omaha specialists
for a medical checkup.
DANCE
American Legion Ballroom
O’NEILL
The Younger Band
Saturday, November 1st
Admission: 90c Per Person
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
KNOW YOUR BALLOT
No. 302 VOTE FOR 0
Bingo Amendment
By voting FOR No. 302 on your General Election Ballot you
will be granting permission for your Legislature to enact
legislation governing the operation of Bingo Gamea by non
profit associations that have been in existence for a period of
five years immediately preceding the application for license.
THE NEBRASKA VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS who co
sponsored the Initiative petition drive that placed this issue
on the ballot, would sincerely appreciate your support at the
polls.
The Ballot is easily identified; JUST LOOK FOR NO. 302, AND
VOTE FOR.
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