?rairieland Talk
Tell Your Doctor
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 1st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
A writer for a popular monthly publication says
^tell your doctor everything". I with I had. But
wa> not doctoring me I was paying the bill for
Ms doctoring another, doctoring a putient. If he
ttorvi anything he should have known no medical
treatment could do anything for that sick one But
■hen a twenty payment on account was handed to
Ooc, an eager hand grabbed it. Among the "every
feing I should have told that doctor, but didn’t,
Mould have been this: If you are honest you will
my to me, "keep your money, I can do nothing for
Jus sick woman." Another doctor associated with
s we traveled the highway of life. I may not have
»ld him everything but I think he understood my
fllgli regard for him as a friend, as a physician ever
rrady to help the needy though he knew they could
apt pay as well as minister to those who had a well
flBled wallet. His remains are up there in the abode
tt the dead, where lie others, the great and the
■nil! the good and the worthless. "Tell your doc
Mr everything," but he may not like to hear it all.
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In token of having reached a full century in the
March of human history written upon the scroll of
fime the hands of landscape
artists have layed out a "sod
tetie it" on a busy thoroughfare
it our Capital City. Human feet
gBss by. human eyes look upon
Me scene, human voices sound
its praises, hut automobiles stay
■ut From 11th to 13th on O
•tree: the sod retreat lays robed
n velvet green. Not native
prairieland sod thrat buffalo
Romalne
roamed over a hundred years
■go but the imported grass of un er*
at today's city lawns. These hands of mine in the
Itoog ago layed up sod walls to build not a human
abode, but a cave to store human food. Now here
« the Capital City human bands have given a touch
at beauty and simple delight that I am constrained
to call a "Sod Retreat".
On the go during the hours of daylight, at rest
and thankful for the quietude and hush of night.
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There on lower 4th street where Billy Slocum
toul a stock of sugar, salt, tea, and coffee and other
towery goods that were the stock in trade in the
village of O’Neill 75 years ago, The Frontier editor
las reared his editorial sanctum and while Jerry
fens his bits of wisdom, Jim as business manager,
mts at a desk figuring out what next. Gen, the young
Mdy at the cashier’s desk does the real work of
mpervising the affairs of O’Neill’s oldest business
ancem and drops into the till what keeps the busi
ness going and the bright literary light burning as
aash customers come in. Billy Slocum—where is he?
£ong dead, forgotten. One surviving customer at
toast remembers Billy. As a lad, I was sent to
Bis store to l>uy a whole half dollar’s worth of sugar,
toout all you could carry those days.
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To raise money for cemetery improvement, some
IDung ladies of the Catholic church held an ice
aream social at the M. F. Harrington residence an
awning in July. 1901. . . . William Robinson of the
Chambers community was called to the home of his
farents in Missouri by the death of his father. . , .
Rev Bartley Bhijne, an early day superintendent
jT schools in Holt county, later the first pastor of
toe Methodist church in O’Neill, was living in retire
■aent on his claim near Page. ... A daughter was
horn a day in July that year to Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Morrison . . . Frank Pixley went to his former
home town in Iowa on a visit. . . . Mrs. R. J. Marsh
took the morning train for Omaha. . . . Mr. and
Mrs John Hancock of Inman had business in O’Neill,
tl The Frontier office and elsewhere.
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The last day of April brought summer heat to
toe Capital City—81 above at noon. Housewives
raking their lawns, greeted passersby with a word
of delight for sunshine. A good day for retired
social security beneficiaries to loaf out in the shade.
. . . Gov. Brook’s Sunday closing measure was
killed in committee, the sesen senators voting as
one to kill the bill. Opposition developed more pro
nounced than sentiment favoring the proposal. . .
Helmer Halderson of Newman Grove is dead after
60 years in law practice and literary achievements
He was 85 years of age, had written the story oi
frontier life in Platte, Madison and Boone counties
... By act of the state legislature Delaware re
stores the whipping post, 40 lashes if the thief is
caught.
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The following letter tume to me recenly from a
native son of Holt county, Will Spindler, and as 1
blush a bit over the compliments lavishly given,
believe information it brings to me will be ol
interest to The Frontier readers. And may I sug
gest that Mr. Spindler and his gracious life's com
panion be extended and invitation to the next Ole
Settlers gathering in that community where Will was
a boy. His letter follows:
Dear Mr. Saunders: Thank you very much for
the nice things you ssiid about me and my book,
“Kim of the Sandhills’', In your PRAIRIELAND
TALK column of THE FRONTIER under date of
April 10, 1959. It gave us a fine surprise and you
may be sure that we truly appreciated it. Your
column was even headed, “How About It, Will?”
which made me feel real important.
We are retiring from the IT. S. Indian Service
this coming October 24, after 30 years of service,
all of which have been here on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation of southwestern South Dakota.
We have bought a home at Gordon, so Mrs. Spind
ler and I will both be returning to the state of our
birth (mine 25 miles northwest of O’Neill—near
Phoenix—and her's, the former Lulu Coon—near
Gordon). Then I hope to get caught up on more
writing, perhaps add another book or so to my
present list of five, which are ‘‘Comrades of the
Lone Star”, “Lure of the Hills”, “Rim of the
Sandhills”, “Badlands Trails”, and “Tragedy
Strikes at Wounded Knee”. Of these, only the
two latter are still in print and may still be
purchased directly from us (Will Spindler,
Wounded Knee, S.D.) at $1.00 per copy postpaid
for each book. The three out of print were large,
rloth-bound books, while the latter two are paper
bound and smaller. We still have a copy of the
fine review you gave my “Rim of the Sandhills”
in 1941.
We still continue to enjoy your PRAIRIELAND
TALK column very, very much, and It Is always
the first thing we read when we get our FRON
TIER. It is truly a splendid column in one of Ne
braska’s finest newspapers. There are few auth
ors left who can anywhere near approach your
inimitable, colorful, pituresque, romatlc style
of writing that goes straight to the heart so force
fully. We also like the new picture of yourself in
your ten-gallon hat. I still stick to my ten-gallon
hat and boots, as do so many here in our vast,
“wide open spaces” of the Pine Ridge.
Many thanks again, Mr. Saunders, and our
very best regards to you.
Sincerely, Will Spindler.
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The night was dark. At intervals flashes of light
ning followed by awakening thunder. Rain—and the
month of May starts soil-soaked as nature opens
her hand to bring to prairieland another season’s
bountiful store. Morning comes and sunlight glows
across the city. The despised dandelion is in bloom,
the bright yellow bits of gold dotting here-and-there,
the lawns robed in silken green. Trees and flowers
and birds. I see on a grass-grown landscape crow’d
ing up to where human feet pass by on the sidewalk,
a bed of blue beauties. I pause, that floral bloom is
irresistible. The Hand that tints the blue above
has spared a choice bit to lay at our feet!
editorial
About That Parade
rhe young man from the Rodeo Assoc ration sp
ared before the O’Neill Chamber of Commerce
at their last meeting and asked those men what
taey thought of a parade in connection with the
«mra.l rodeo. .
He was concerned about that parade and fought
with mixed emotions. He voiced the opinion of
man> people when he said that it is better to have
m> parade, than one not well planned or one not
well participated in.
The decision was then made to take a poll oi
businesses.
That poll has shown that the businesses do want
m. parade.
Now it is up to all of us to follow through, to
participate as well as we are able, and with as much
imagination as possible to give the people of our
ttade territory something to remember.
You do not just fall into a good parade. It will
lake hard work. It might take some night hours, but
8 can be one of the finest promotions for O’Neill
and the businesses of O’Neill.
The art of parade making, although not easy
enn result in a feeling of satisfaction that can be
glared by all the employees of the businesses. This
•an become a "shot-in-the-arm” for the local re
tailer. It is a good chance to promote good will
among the employees as well as the customers.
It's Hospital Week
(From the Ord Quiz)
Each year Hospital Week is observed during the
particular seven days which include May 12, the
iirthday of Florence Nightingale, the famous "lady
with the lamp".
U is hard to imagine today’s hospital, public
Health agency, or other health or medical facility
without the nurse.
It is equally hard to believe that the profession
af nursing would have reached its present high level
af development were it not for the work of Florence
nightingale in the nineteenth century.
She deserves much of the credit for initiating the
•forms which set in motion tl* nursing profession
w we now know it.
This was her contribution, her legacy to us. The
nurses who serve you today heave back of them the
theory and practice of training for a profession.
A person who is well and who has had no serious
illness in the family rarely thinks what it would be
like if there were not enough hospital beds to go
•around, and qualified doctors and trained nurses
to care for the ill.
Statistics indicate that one out of eight of us
will need hospital care within a year. When such a
time comes, hospital facilities, medical care, and
nursing services become very important.
Against pain and suffering, against unnecessarily
prolonged illness, your hospital is your personal
defense.
In recent years the hospital has taken its place
along with the church and the school ’as an agency
of essential importance to the welfare of the com
munity.
Be an Ord hospital booster. (Editors note: This
applies to our own home town of O'Neill as well. Be
an O’Neill hospital booster.) It is on guard for
you, ready to serve you when you need help.
2SBBE FrontS
JAMES CHAMPION, Co-Publisher
JERRY PETSCHE, Editor
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Unicameral Planning
Another Bingo Bill
CAPITOL NEWS
By Melvin Paul
Stutehouse Corre*p«>Bdent
The Nebraska Press Association
LINCOLN—The Legislature i s
! going to make another try at pas
sing a Bingo bill.
This time it is the one proposed
by Gov. Ralph G. Brooks, as a
I substitute to the measure he ve
Itoed on grounds it lacked proper
enforcement.
The new bill is slated for pu
j blic hearing May 18 before the
Legislature's government commit
| tee—the same group that had
Worked on the other proposal, LB
86.
Brooks vetoed LB 86, anil the
Legislature sustained the veto.
There was little or no fussing
on the floor over the original Bin
go bill. This came only on a
move to override the governor's
veto.
Playing of Bingo was auth
orized last November by voters
who approved u Constitutional
amendment.
The new bill submitted to the
Legislature by the governor is LB
719. It proposes the State Agricul
ture Department as the enforce
ment agency.
Brooks, in the bill—drafted af
ter conferences with interested per
sons would prohibit playing of the
game on Sunday, and require
games to start no earlier than 10
a.m. and last no longer than mid
night.
The proposal calls for a manda
tory tax of 10 per cent of the gross
receipts, with half to the city or
county involved and the remainder
to the state.
Holders of Bingo licenses could
hold no more than 10 daily ses
sions per month, with the limit
on amount of prizes per session
at $750. The operator could have
no more than $1,500 per session
in gross receipts.
Only persons 21 years old or
more could play the game, win
ners could take cash instead of
prizes and licenses could only go
to groups in existence 5 years or
more who are non-profit in nature
and so recognized by the federal
government.
Churches, the state fair and
county fairs also could be licensed
under the bill.
Secondary Boycotts
The bill to outlaw secondary boy
cotts in Nebraska is causing as
much or more controversy after
it became law as during its stormy
battle in the Legislature.
The ruckus began when Gov.
Ralph G. Brooks let the bill, LB
560, become law without his sig
nature.
He then issued a statement
blasting State Sen. Ray Simmons
of Fremont, principal backer of
the bill, and said die measure is
"lopsided" agaist labor, and tries
to regulate something already ta
ken care of by federal laws.
Simmons fired back at the go
vernor, stating the chief execu
tive's claim the bill will be inef
fective is not true.
Simmons said the state attorney
general’s office had found LB 560
constitutional.
Donald Devies, manager of As
sociated Industries of Nebraska,
also got into the fight, charging
the Brooks attack against LB 560
"is so obviously an attempt to
soothe the feelings of certain or
ganized labor leaders and return
to their good graces that it hardly
merits comment."
A secondary boycott involves
economic or other pressure by
union firms against a non-union
group, usually involved in a situa
tion where a union is trying to or
gaize worgers in the non-union firm.
A bill offered by the governor
calling for a State Labor Relations
Act was killed in committee.
I- niversity Policies
There has been plenty of behind
the-scenes work and confusion on
a controversial resolution intro
duced in the Legislature by Sen.
Jack Romans of Ord.
The resolution later was with
drawn by Romans and he told the
Legislature the University of Ne
braska Board of Regents would
investigate hiring policies at the
school's law college.
Such policies were the subject
of the Romans resolution.
However, the regents, in a let
ter, said they had not gone un re
cord for an investigation of hir
ing procedures at the college.
They merely had said if Romans
had any information he wished to
present, the board would receive
it. the regents letter stated.
Romans said he would present
his material to the regents for
their study.
Hie Ord senator indicated any
action beyond presentation of the
material would depend upon what
the regents did about the infor
mation he sent them.
Salary Fights
There has been no variation this
session in the hop and skip atti
tude of legislative action on pay
boosts for state officials.
In the same week, the lawma
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kers killed a bill, at the final vo
ting stage, that would have boosted
salary of the secretary of the State
Library Commission, but in tenta
tive action approved a pay hike
from $8,000 to $9,000 per year for
the Insurance and Agriculture Di
rectors.
A move to chop the pay of the
state engineer from $13,500 per
year to $10,000 was defeated.
Frontiers
Ago
MOST OF I S REMEMBER
Ov er 500 Holt county rural school
students joined together in two
separate choruses and sang under
the direction of Merton Welch of
Norfolk and Mrs. Etha Walters of
Chambers, at the eighth grade pro
motion exercises here May 13, 1953
. . . .During the 1952-1953 12 month
period, the polio receipts from all
sources amounted to $9,504.53. . . .
Thirty six O'Neill high school sen
iors graduated at the May 19, 1953
commencement exercises. . . .The
new Gateway Motel, an elaborate
21 unit tourist court which was un
der construction several months at
the east edge of the city, formally
opened May 18, 1953.The
O’Neill Lions Club sponsored a
beauty contest among O’Neill love
lies. . . .One thousand persons
gathered at the school gymnasium
May 8, 1953 as the O’Neill public
school kindergarten pupils put on
"The Big Show”.Larry
Fox and Elizabeth Schaffer were
crowned king and queen of the
O’Neill high school senior class
at the junior-senior banquet and
prom.Nine O’Neill high ea
gles qualified for the state track
meet, at the Burwell relays. As a
team, O’Neill placed second.
THE CENTURY TURNS
The Christy Bros. Big 5 Ring
Circus, advertised as the newest
big show in all the world, was in
O’Neill about this time in 1930
.Mr. and Mrs. Tyler of Til
den were in O’Neill a day in May
of 1930, promoting a hospital for
O’Neill to be operated along com
munity lines, permitting all of the
physicians of the county to have
equal rights. . , .TTie new Ford tu
dor sedan was advertised in this
week's issue of the Frontier for
J500.A Hereford cow, owned
by 1km McCarthy, a rancher south
of O'Neill, gave birth to triplets
.The O'Neill leather works
was one of the busy places in O'
Neill. They reported sale of harnes
ses this week in 1930 to Scott
Hough. Roy Way man and D. D.
Murphy. . Clair Brooke, Atkinson,
filed for County Clerk on the De
mocratic ticket. T J. Coyne filed
for Supervisor in the 3rd district
on the Democratic ticket Death:
James C. Connelly of O'Neill, May
10, at his home.
TI1K KKONTIKU \V\S YOl'Nti
In May of 1X99, the printing
plant, formerly used in the publi
cation of the O'Neill Sun, was
moved to Spencer. A Mr Miller
purchased the plant from John Me
Hugh, who had taken it on mort
gage. . . .Albert Newill has Knight ;
the widow Keys farm one mile i
ix»t1h of Enjmet . . William Kmt ;
ter of Stuart brought down a tho I
roughbred t>ridle pup for Bert New
ell. O’Neill had a few specimens
of the canine that would do to put j
up at a dog show.Con Keys i
remodeled his flour store building |
so as to have an outside entrance |
to the upper story.Han Cro- |
nin hauled out a loud of lumt'er ]
and shingles to erect more acco- I
modating quarters for his large
feathered flock.Sam Thomp
son moved his pop factory- into the
building just south of the Galena
Lumber company's office and is
preparing to build an addition
thereto.Editor Cronin
went to Wayne Monday to attend
t * ,
a gathering of trio Northeast Ne
braska Press Association. . . ,
Deaths hight-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs V. V Rosenkrans of
Dorsey, died of lung fever;
Charles, two-year-old son of Mr.
anti Mrs. Conrad Whetlaughfer,
north of O'Neill, died of spinal
mengttis.
Please phone us your news!
, i
Paul Shierk
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PUBLIC AUCTION
The following real estate, dwelling and personnal property will be sold at public auction at the place
located from the northeast corner of Inman and north from the Davis filling station to first corner and
then east to the end of the road. It is located on the west side of the road.
Friday, ay 22
Sale starts at 1 P.M.
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4 Bedroom dwelling with one acre of land. The house has electric lights and the school bus runs past
the house. It is located on the mail route. There is a garage and shop, a small cave and a garden
is now planted and growing.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
3 — Beds, complete I — OH heater with (an 2 — Kitchen tables
2 — Library tables 1 — CVtok stove Several other chairs
2 End tables i — Magic Cheil gas range 1 — Clipboard
1 — Platform rocker . , ...
1 — Electric refrigerator Dishes, fruit jars, house plants
2 — Rocking chairs
1 — Davenport with 2 matching chairs ' — Electric washing machine Many other articles too numerous to men
1 — Wood burning heater 1 — Buffet tion.
TOOLS
Maytag engine with pump jack Ix>,s •* han<i tools, Hammers, Wrenches, Saws.
Emery grinder with motor Some used lumber, fence posts and other miscellaneous items.
Vise, Shovels, Forks, Brace and Bits
— ..... .
Anyone wishing to sell other property may do so at this sale. Please contact Let Johnson or Ed.
Thorin before the date of sale.
TERMS: Terms of personal property, Cash. No property to be removed until settled for.
Terms of real estate: 25% advance payment date of sale. Balance when Abstract of
title and Warranty Deed furnished purchaser.
Possession of premises as soon as final settlement has been made.
Let Johnson & Laura Wyant, Owner
ED THORIN AUCTION SERVICE, O'NEILL, NEBR. ED THORIN Auctioneer
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