Prairieland 1 alk—
Thursdays Are Eventful
By ROMAIXE SAUNDERS, 4110 South Slat St., Lincoln 8, Nebr
LINCOLN—Thursday, the fifth day of the week
The new year—1959—will lie ushered in on
Thursday, Christmas comes on Thursday, the an
niversary of the hirth of the compiler of Prairie
land Talk (after 88 years) falls on Thursday, and of
course, the great American Thanksgiving comes
year-by-year on Thursday.
Lincoln and the region
round about had the first snow
fall of the season on Thanks
giving day. And I had my first
Thanksgiving dinner at a Kan
sas home of a grandson. We
traveled 200 miles south under
a clouded sky with neither
■now nor rain falling, on
through Beatrice to Fair
bury, to Belleville and Con
cordia, Kans., to the outskirts
of Salina.
Citizens of cities and towns KoimUne
enjoying the holiday, others like Saunders
us on the highway rolling toward the dinner table of
a son and daughters and the countryside stretching
beyond human vision over hills and valleys. The
ample dinner, the bright eyes of a sweet little girl
looking into my one glimmer us she was kissed good
bye.
Snow began to fall around 3 o’clock and a half
hour later we headed for home over the snow blan
keted highway, pulling safely into the home driveway
some five hours later.
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A district court jury up in Sheridan county ren
dered a verdict of not guilty in the Grandsinger case.
The brief comment of the presiding judge, as he !
read the verdict, was unusual and wholly uncalled
for. The young man held in custody and in court for
four years fell into the arms of his attorney and ex
claimed "Thank God" when he heard the words not
guilty! He walked out from the clutches of the law
for the last time, a free man. But there was a killing
there in Cherry county, by no means the first, prob
ably not the last. Will the hand that was stained with
the blood of that highway patrolman in 1954 yet be
identified beyond just suspicion?
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The death of Mrs. Louise Heiss at the age of
four score and four years removes another of the
pioneers of the Page community. She was one of
the French family which cast anchor near the town
of Page before that town was started. For some
thing near 77 years Mrs. Heiss knew that community
as home. One-by-one the pioneers we had known are
falling to sleep in the sleep of death from which there
is no awakening while time lasts. The last of our pio
neers, who made the prairies of Holt county to grow
a stack of corn and pasture the herds, will respond
to the summons of the death angel. Others carry on
until they, too, join the procession to the abodes of
the dead.
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The Fugate girl, recently found guilty of mur
der by a jury of five women and seven men in I vin
cas ter county court, turns to religion for consola
tion, asks for a clergyman to come to her prison
cell. If as a child she hud received what she now
seeks her hands may not have been dipped In hu
man blood. In childhood Caril was deprived of
what every child should learn at tlieir mother’s
knee.
• • •
Homer Campbell writes from Seattle, Wash., re
calling a trip he made 75 years ago when he hauled
a traveling salesman from Fremont to a county
store out at Eagle Mills, received as pay a 10-dol
lar gold piece, then headed for his parents’ home
stead home near Atkinson, retired from hauling
traveling salesmen around and found himself at
the Atkinson Graphic shop setting type for Harry
Mathews. At 88 Homer now devotes himself to the
care of his invalid wife.
Editorial—
Atkinson, Nebr.
November 25, 1958
Dear Mr Saunders:
In last week’s issue of The Frontier, in your
Prairieland Talk, I noticed that you had received a
letter from Trudy Schultz. (Not Audrey as was
stated in your Talk). Trudy is my little great niece,
her mother, Lorraine, is my niece, the former Lor
raine Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Floyd R
Johnson Both families reside there at the Lazy F J
ranch on Eagle creek about two miles southeast of
Rock Falls.
My sister-in-law, Mrs. Floyd Johnson, is the
Rock Falls correspondent for The Frontier.
I visited the Schultz family, also the Johnsons,
when Glass Eyes was three-days-old. Her mother
brought her down from the hills for a drink of wa
ter for the first time I am a little envious of Glass
Eyes as she is living now at my girlhood home.
I am Mrs. Ethel Brown of Atkinson, the form
er Ethel Johnson, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace R. Johnson. Eagle creek pioneers. Mother
came to Nebraska with her parents and family
when she was 10-years-old from Lawrence, Mass
Her parents were the Gordons, Papa was horn at
Peoria, 111. I think he came to Nebraska with his
parents and family when he was 14-years-old. Both
families, Johnsons and Gordons, took homesteads
adjoining on Eagle creek. I don't know' in w'hat
years, but they were all here to weather the bliz
zard of 1888.
I have heard them relate many interesting
tales of that blizzard. I can remember hearing papa
tell that he and his youngest brother, Elmer, had
gone to the cornfield in a bobsled after fodder when
the blizzard struck. He said Uncle Elmer laid
down in the back of the sled. He could faintly see
the road that way. He guided papa’s driving by
calling "gee” and "haw” whenever the horses be
gan to pull out of the road. My uncle John (Jack)
Gordon was working away from home, at a farm
home I think at the Gregs.
He was sent to O'Neill that morning with 1k>1>
sled and team for groceries for the Greg family.
He was about halfway to town when Ihe storm
struck. Neither he nor the horses could face it any
longer, so he unhitched the team and turned them,
faces to the sled. Then he turned the sled over, on
top of himself, and kicked and pounded all might
to help keep from going to sleep and freezing. He
was found next morning by someone who had gone
in search of him. He had just given up the battle
and was numb and was going to sleep. He was so
badly frozen that his health was never good after
wards. Yet he lived to be over 80-years-old.
I read also in When You and I Were Young of
last week’s Frontier, in the 20 years ago items, of
my father’s death. Needless to say I hadn’t forgotten
papa. But it doesn’t seem possible that it was 20
years ago that God granted the old pioneer his fi
nal award. Mother passed away 27 months later.
As for myself, I have lived 10 years across
the 50-yard-line, and am no spring chicken any
more. I have seen the team and buggy change into
the present automobile and airplane age and the
lowly kerosene lamp and lantern, (my brother
Floyd, and I used to carry and hold lanterns for
papa while he did the chores and milking. Now we
just push a button and — ...
Well, Mr. Saunders, I guess it's time to close
my letter now so will do so, hoping you have a very
merry yuletide.
From a pioneer daughter,
MRS. ETHEL JOHNSON BROWN
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O'N'eill has no passenger trains rolling in
and out, but does have bus service to the east, to
the west, to the north and to the south. In the long
ago it was Charley Downey's stage to Niobrara.
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Why not a gift subscription this year?
O’Neill Stores Brimming
Never in O'Neill's history have stores been
so jam-packed with Christmas merchandise and,
we might add, with yuletide shoppers.
The title of north-Nebraska's Christmas city
rightfully belongs to O'Neill. A tour of the gaily
decorated stores will convince you that O'Neill
offers just about everything anybody could be hunt
ing for to complete his or her gift list.
The columns of The Frontier have been pro
claiming this fine assortment of gifts for several
weeks now. Stores have been brimming with buy
ers and most retail stores are pointing to sales
figures ahead of sales marks for corresponding
periods in recent years.
In keeping with policy established several
years ago, the Chamber of Commerce lias under
taken to add new yuletide decorations each year.
This year the lamp posts are festooned with season
al decorations, complementing the strings of color
ed lights and other traditional decorations.
Yes, O'Neill is north-Nebraska’s Christmas
city in every detail shoppers will do well to come
here from a considerable distance in order to find
unexcelled selections and bargains for yuletide
gift-giving.
Congress Four Weeks Away
A new congress of the United States will be
meeting in four more weeks. Both republicans
and democrats will be nominating their candidates
for the presidency in little more than 18 months.
Richard Nixon, among republicans, is far out
front. Nelson Rockefeller appears to be a possibil
ity and there is a beating of drums in his behalf
by the left wing of the GOP party. You'll note
Life magazine manages to give "Rock'' the buildup
each week, much as the groundwork was laid a
few years ago for Dwight Eisenhower.
Adlai Stevenson appears to us to be the most
probable compromise for the democrats, and young
John Kennedy is more likely to be favored for
vice-president than for president. Then there is
Lyndon Johnson of Texas who is another demo
contender. If the political influence is shifting
westward as fast as the population, we might find
a Californian (Nixon) at the head of one party
and a Texan (Johnson) heading the other.
U.S. News & World Report predicts the spend
ing trend will continue upward when the new con
gress convenes. Aid to depressed areas will be fav
ored, also school aid, scholarships, more economic
(less military) aid to friendly countries abroad,
no backing away from agriculture aid, big high
way and public works programs. That magazine
predicts labor laws will be changed somewhat
and there’s not even an outside chance of a bal
anced budget.
Fiscal ’57 Figures Ready
Our state governments work through such a
maze of bewildering financial systems, we are told,
that the census bureau, which makes it its business
to figure such things, runs close to a year behind on
tallying up just exactly how much money the states
spend in any given year. But the bureau has finally
made it for fiscal 1957, and what it finds will warm
the cockles of few taxpaying hearts we know. In the
aggregate ,the states racked up a record $21,084,660,
000 up 12 per cent from the previous year (federal
spending climbed only 4 per cent.)
Since fiscal 1956, says one observer, when legis
latures set to work on the backlogged needs for
schools an droads, hundreds of small hikes (and
some big ones) in taxes and debts have let the 48
state governments push up their total annual outlay
at a rate 15 times as fast as what we thought was the
spender of all spenders, Uncle You Know Who.
Records Should Be Kept
The director of the Nebraska Historical society,
Dr. W. D. Aeschbacher, recently told the Saline Coun
ty Historical society it is extremely important that
all records of the military men and women of Saline
county should be preserved.
The Wilber Republican reported the speaker
compared the observance of Armistice day 40 years
ago with the observance of Veterans day now. He
also stated it is possible the day may not be ob
served at all 40 years from now. This indicates a
need to preserve all military records, he pointed
out.
Please Everybody
There is one gift that will please every mem
ber of the family—not just at Christmas time but
for 52 weeks out of the year. We are suggesting
to you that you give a gift subscription to The
Frontier. The cost amounts to only a few cents
each week, yet it is a year-around reminder of
the giver. An attractive gift card will be sent to
the person or persons for whom the subscription is
intended. And the subscription rate is only $2.50
per year in Nebraska; $3 per year elsewhere; $2
per year for men and women in the armed forces.
£ Frontier
Box 330 - O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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 newspaper is
a member of the Nebraska Press Association, Nation
al Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of
Circulations.
Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per
year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year;
rates abroad provided upon request. All subscriptions
payable in advance.
When You & 1 Were Young . . .
O’Neill Gridders
Wallop Norfolk
Hunter, Horiskey Are
Officials
50 Y'ear* Ago
Miss L. Pearl Peeler, daughter
of Mr and Mrs. James Peeler of
Lynch, and Edward L. Davies of
Ewing were married. Miss Goldie
Martin played the wedding march.
Attending the couple were Miss
Edith Evilith and Burl Martin. . .
O'Neill high school football team
beat Norfolk, 5-0. O'Neill players
were McNichols, Hunt, Gallagher,
Campbell, Kane, Biglin, Simmons.
Golden, McCafferty, Hanley and
Kelley. Referee was Hunter and
umpire was Horiskey. . . Mrs. L.
G. Gillespie is visiting at the
home of her parents in Minneapo
lis, Minn. . . Mrs. J H. McPhar
lin and children returned after vis
iting relatives in Pantrey. Ia. . .
Miss Lillian Carlon of Denver,
Colo., is visiting her sister, Mrs.
J. A Shoemaker.
20 Years Ago
Ail eye witness account of the
Montana Jack Sullivan-Stan Ket
chel fight, which appeared in the
Omaha World-Herald about 15
years ago, was reprinted in full in
The Frontier. The writer was
Thomas T. Mulvey. . . Two O'Neill
native sons died in Colorado John
K. Bellar and Bernard McGrevy.
. , . Charles Norton left for his
home in Salt Lake city after be
ing here about a month during the
illness and death of his father, M
F. Norton.
10 Years .Ago
The Frontier had 28 pages jam
med packed of Christmas news
. . . The bodies of Sgt. John M
Gallagher, son of Mr. and Mrs
John M. Gallagher of near Inman,
and Sgt. Dewey C. Newton, son
of Mr. and Mrs William Newton
of Emmet, arrived in the United
States for burial. . . Romaine
Saunders is to be the editor-in
chief of the diamond jubilee edi
tion of The Frontier. . . Asked
what they wanted from Santa
Claus when interviewed by The
Frontier's Mrs. Santa Claus, Kath
leen Weier, , said "I want a doll
or doll buggy. I have two broth
ers. They both are good Bruce
wants a wood carving set. And
that’s all.” Theodore Strong, 8,
wanted "A construction set, a
banjo and a cash register. 1 have
some toys I don't play with any
more and I'd like Santa to give
them to some other little boy."
Jolene Stutz, 2Ii>, said: “Toys, a
crib, table and chairs and bring
my little sister some toys '. Judy
Sullivan, 3, quipped: "I’ve got to
get a shovel and a dollie I want
Santa to bring Jackie a shovel
too. I want chairs for my tea par
ty. one for one side and one for
the other side I want a baby bug
gy for my dollie, Susie". Linda
Stuifliergen, 2, remarked: "I just
want toys whole toys" Virginia
Lawrence. 2. wanted "A doll and a
book." Jimmy Sullivan. 4 said "1
want a wheelbarrow, a shovel, a
farm with horses and pigs, a ma
nure spreader and a tractor".
Mary Louise Ray. 2, said: "I want
a tricycle and a table and dolly".
Christine Herley, 24. wanted "A
tricycle and a present". Karen Rae
McKim, 7, said "I want a magic
skin doll and a watch". Keith Mc
Kim, 8, wants "A sled and a cop
set Kenneth McKim. 9, said that
he didn't know at first, but ui*>n
thinking it over: “Guns and 1
wouldn’t mind a wagon". Jimmy
Richter, 7, said “1 want two pairs
of boxing gloves, a truck with a dirt
digger on it and an electric train,
a toy stocking with marbles and
stuff like that". Betty Jean Rod
ent, 7. "I yint a pair of skates".
Betty Jo Turner, 5, "I want a dolly
and a doll buggy". Ronnie Ross, 7,
wanted "Boxing gloves, a tool
chest, bow and arrows, a truck
with a dirt digger in it and a bas
ket and basketball" Billy Joe
Pruss. almost three. "I want a lit
tie wheelbarrow, a table with lit
tle chairs and for Johnny, a little
bed and candy Sue Ann Gonder
inger, 2*2, "Santa Claus is going
to bring me a toy horn and a tele
phone and he's coming to town".
Mike Gallagher, 2, “A top and a
waindeer". Larry Godel. 6. "A
garage, a truck and a pair of ice
skates". Patty McKenzie. 4, " 1
don’t know yet 1 want fur mit
tens ,a doll and a puppy dog." Bil
ly Eby. 6. "A bowling outfit and
a bike". Bobby Eby, 6. "Why do
you ask me. If l tell you will 1 get
it? Well cowboy boots and a
bike". Bonney LawTence, 6. "A
sled and a doll, l believe". Jerry
Jurgensmeier, 6. "Boots with a
pocket for a knife in them, a
tractor and a gun" Ronnie Holly,
6, "A bike, a sled and ice skates
and that’s all". Donna Marie l*in
gan, 2, "A rocking chair, a trike,
a rubber ball and a rubber dolly".
Jean Marie Ijohaus. 2*2. "A dolly
and a doll buggy". Jimmy Dusat
ko. 4. "A trike, candy and story
liooks".
One Year Ago
Deaths: Clarence A. (“Red")
Booth, 51; Dr. Edwin B. Bradley,
78, of Spencer; August W Bollwitt.
66, of Ewing; Mrs. Orville Cook.
63. of Walnut; Frank F. Peter, 31,
and Fsley 11 Borrall. 81. of Butte.
. Our Celia corespondent, Mrs.
D A. Hammerburg, rated a head
line with "Coon Poulation Declines
by 15". . . The community TV
drive for (toasters reached S3.AH'
Legal Notice
(First |Hih. lVo. 11, 11158 >
Francis D. I>k\ attorney
NOTICE OK IIGAIUNE. OP
PETITION It'lt FINAL
SETTLEMENT OF' AtVOIW
COUNTY COURT OF HOLT
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
ESTATE OF J. VICTOR
JOHNSON, DECEASED
THE STATE OF NEBRASKA.
TO A1J. CONCERNED:
Notice is hereby given tlial a |>c
tition has been filed for final set
tlement herein, determination of
heirship, inheritance taxes, (tvs
and commissions, distribution of
estate and approval of final ac
count and discharge, which will
l*e for hearing in this court on lkv
cember 31. 1958, at 10 o’clock, A
IjOUIS VV. RE1MER.
County Judge
(COUNTY COURT SEAL'
33-35c
Mr. and Mrs E. K. Cleveland,
sr., of Orchard. Tuesday. IVrem
lier 2, mined to O'Neill. 1 hey are
living at 210 N. Third st They
are the parents of Donald Cli ve
land and E. E. Cleveland, jr . both
O'Neill residents.
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AS WE HAVE decided to quit ranching and farming, we will dispose of the following described personal proper
ty at public auction on the premises, located 20 miles north of O’Neill on U. S. Highway 281 and AVi miles west;
OR I 3 miles south of Spencer on U.S. 281 and 4/i miles west; OR 8 miles north of Atkinson, 6 miles east and 3
miles north (all on State Highway 1 I), 4 miles east, I mile north and j/2-mile east (road well marked), on
Monday, De mber 22nd, 1958
(In event of adverse weather and road conditions, sale will be held Monday, December 29, 1958)
Sale Starts at I 2 O’clock Noon Lunch on the Grounds
113-Head of Angus and Dairy Cattle-113
56—Angus Young COWS, some with fall calves, 7—Shorthorn MILK COWS coming 3-Years-Old,
Others to calve in early spring * jjpjriprvo
13—Coming 3-Year-old Angus HEIFERS,
* -H-.pH™ 30—Summer Angus Fall CALVES
4—Coming 2-Year-Old Angus HEIFERS ^ BUlLS
THESE ARE outstanding Angus cows with lots of size and they are of good 3
ages. This is truly a reputable herd and calves from these cows have been top- Including coming two-year-old bull; one coming three purebred hull;
ping Angus sales each year. one aged registered hull.
25-One-Year-Old MIXED HENS ... 65-Barred Rock PULLETS . . . 12x12 BROODER HOUSE, good
135-Tons Gc:J PRAIRIE HAY ... 240-Tons ALFALFA HAY ... 200-Bushels OATS
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I Full Lines of Farm & Ranch Equipment I
1953 IHC Super M Diesel
Tractor
1944 IHC H Tractor
1946 IHC Farmall B Tractor
1941 John Deere B Tractor
15-Ft. IHC Disc
3—IHC 12-Ft. Hay Rakes
Three-Rake Hitch for
H Tractor
No. 24 IHC 7-Ft. Mower
No. 7 Trail Mower
No. 238 IHC Cultivator to fit
H r M tractor
McC. Three-Bottom Tractor
Plow
10-Ft. McC. Disc
No. 24 Mounted IHC Corn
Picker, fits H or M
1958 Du-All Loader with manure
bucket, hay basket and
pushoff
Buzz Saw to fit John Deere B
tractor
Crop Sprayer
Four-Row John Deere
Powrtrol Eli
G-I Hammermill
Sweep to fit John Deere
tractor
Heavy Duty Underslung in
good shape
Center Mounted Winch with
short stingers to fit M tractor
2—Rubber-Tired Wagons
with boxes
Mounted 1HC Lister
to fit H or M tractor
Homemade Posthole Digger
1955 Half-Ton Ford Pickup
1949 Chevrolet Two-Ton
Truck
Air Compressor
12-38 Tractor Chains
Hay Cage — Pump Jack
Bulldozer with snow blade
20th Century Electric Welder
Smith Gas Welder
300-Gal. Fuel Tank and Stand
Other Fuel Barrels
Vise — Post Drill — Tools
Hand Corn Sheller
Cream Separator
Some Used Lumber
Three-Section Harrow
Many other items too numerous
to mention
HOUSEHOLD GOODS include Copper-Clad combination on Skelgas-wood range, good condition
TERMS CASH: No property removed until settled for.
EARL & JOSEPHINE STORJOHANN, Owners
COLS. LESTER PEARSON, Spencer, FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
and WALLACE O'CONNELL, O'Neill, Auctioneers O'Neill, Clerk