THE FRONTIER, O’NHU, Nebraska, Thursday. October 22. 18M
Prairieland Talk
'Come Back and Kiss Her'
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
PRAIRIELAND—COME BACK 3-36-1 EDIT L —1
After twenty-two years with the wife of his youth
whom he had pledged a life's devotion, the low
down whelp beat her brains out with a hammer.
Where was that? Right here in
Lincoln, the Capital City of our
prairieland state. Life together
terminating in a quarrel that
straightens the wife for the
grave, the husband behind pris
on bars. Angry words, a death
and the murderer yet to pay
the penalty. If you are aroused
to the point of verbal combat
with your life’s companion just
walk out and cool off — then
, . , , Bocnaln*
come back and kiss her.
• • • Saunders
At one time our governor, not so long ago, now
in federal diplomatic service in Denmark, Val Pe
terson, has been home again down at Elgin and
says it will always be his home. The little Antelope
county town did it in grand style for their honored
guest as only prairieland patriots know how to do it.
Come on, Val, when the robe of state is layed aside,
and be one of us again.
* • •
The sun glows bright fhis noonday hour; now
soon we gather at the table and start to devour.
Then the afternoon passes away, night again writes
the record of another day.
* * *
I recently set foot for a few hours on Holt coun
ty soil, where lingers treasured memories. We, son
Ned and wife and two of their four children, rolled
up there and back to the crowded human haunts
of our Capital City in a day. Stood at the hallowed
spot where lies Ned’s mother, my life’s companion
and other dear ones. Then on to visit friends where
the silken green robes the landscape south of Atkin
son and then on to the old Riley ranch that got
going under the guidance of three brothers in 1883,
now owned and managed by Mr. and Mrs. T. T.
Baker, Mrs. Baker being a daughter of the last
of the Riley brothers. It was a bright sunny day
_a ~ 11 ni,.n» ♦!-»/» umi; nmirinl.'inH Ihv llPHllt lfllll V
(uni •/ m
robed still in summer green. And Gaisin George
Meals still has the bay mare I sold him as a 4
year-old, now at the ripe old age of 26, and still
a beauty. On a recent visit to the community of
my last happy home in Holt county we rolled slowly
by where home had been, house, buildings and
other things that go to make home out on prairie
land. Now all gone — only the trees left through
which the autumn breezes may whisper. Where
are they? Not only they, but where are Jay and
Rose Roblyer, Mr. and Mrs. Will Riley, the Car
I«nter family, the Vanlooms, Fred Watson, Jessie
James and the elderly Mr. and Mrs. Berry—these
all resting in the alxxle of the dead. Mrs. James,
widow of Jessie, may be still in Atkinson, Mrs.
Watson in Stuart, a daughter of the Rileys and her
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Baker still on the ranch
and maintaining the hospitable home. And that
prairieland patriot, Howard Berry, with his life's
companion, now living alone in the land of Howard s
Editorial
Depreciation On The Farm
<Vdar County News — Hartlngton, Nebraska
Economists have long said that the tax laws
prevent business and industry from laying aside
adequate sums to cover depreciation of plant and
equipment. Thus, the laws stand in the way of
technological progress that would result in more
and better jobs, and in more efficient and econ
omical production of goods and services for all
the people.
Agriculture, farm experts now point out, is in
a comparable position.
For instance, the Internal Revenue Service rule
is that good and average farm buildings should be
depreciated for tax purposes at 2 per cent per
year and cheap buildings at 2Ms per cent. Thus
it takes two or more generations to write off farm
structures w’hich are not monuments but are, in
stead. tools of farm production. In today's rapidly
changing agriculture these tools usually become ob
solete before they are completely worn out, and
it Is no longer realistic to say that a farm building
has a useful life of «l or ou years.
It is estimated that the value of farm struc
tures. other than dwellings, on farms with gross in
comes of $5,000 or more is $16 billion. At a 2Vi per
cent rate, annual depreciation comes to $400 mil
lion. In tliis day and age, that is far too low a fig
ure, and it tends to place the farmer in a strail
jacket, in which he loses the flexibility needed for
an efficient operation.
If the reasonable rate of 10 per cent were al
lowed, farmers would lie able to set aside $1.6 billion
for reinvestment in the farm business. The resull
would l»e increased efficiency, and lower cost food
and fiber for the American people. And in the long
run, the government would gain added tax reve
nues, because of improvement in farm income.
Here is a proposed tax reform from which all
would gain -the farmer, the government, and the
consumers of the nation.
Reorganizing Defense Department
The Huron Lake News—Huron 1-ake, Minn.
Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor of the New
York Times, reports that the Administration's much
publicized and longawaited plan to revamp the De
fense Department lays stress on increasing the
power of the Secretary of Defense and the Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It would, apparently, lessen the powers of the
three secretaries of the services. Since the pro
gram was worked out by a committee headed b>
the Secretary of Defense, this would seem to bo
the logical line to have been followed by the group
Over in Congress, several powerful Senators
and Congressmen have announced that they fee
the power of the Secretary of Defense should be
reduced, or at least the number of assistant secre
taries and Defense offices should be drasticallj
curtailed. Bills to that effect have been introduced
The opinion of veteran newsmen in Washington
is that the new defense concentration or unification
plan was worked out by the group President Eiserv
youth, their son and daughters away in homes
of their own.
* • •
The ladies of the Amelia community have their
Club meetings and so keep abreast of the times,
informed on world events and their own commun
ity interests, as do the ladies of other communities
of Holt county, from Deloit to Dustin, from Dorsey,
Redbird and Star to Green Valley. One of the most
recent Club social events in the Amelia community
which was given a paragraph in the Amelia items
appearing in this family journal was at the home
of Mrs. Bernie Kennedy, near neighbors of the
Prairieland Talker’s household when it functioned
in Swan precinct. Probably Bernie sat off in the
comer and looked on as the group of ladies buzzed
away. Miss Lindsey w-ho gives Frontier readers
the news from down there, makes her home with
her mother in Amelia and besides gathering news
has a little grocery store to look after. And Amelia
at one time had a newspaper, the Journal. And
Dustin had a newspaper for a time in the 1880’s,
the Dispatch. The village of Mineola, long gone and
forgotten, had a newspaper, the Sun that shone
on the settlers of northeast Holt county.
• • •
Some twenty years ago he was the Democratic
candidate for governor of Nebraska; went down to
defeat. Now it appears that State Senator Carpen
ter concludes if he could not make it as a Democrat
he would go after the Republican nomination for
governor. If nominated and elected next year, we
are assured of a chief executive down at the State
House who will be doing things whether we like
it or not.
* * *
Does that additional one cent gasoline .tax add
another mile or two to the gallon as you roll over
the highways?
* * *
It was a week in October in the year 1906. —
A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. George Weingart
ner . . . S. J. Weeks and F. J. Dishner were in
Omaha on business . . . Mrs. J. P. Mann and Mrs.
Ed F. Gallagher departed on a trip to Chicago . . .
D. J. Cronin spent a few days at Avoca, la. . . .
What was said to be the greatest political gather
Ulh **• JVUIU »» UO I'Ul UU U infill IliUl »» VVI\ Ul UIV
court house. Republicans blowing off big . . . Deb
orah Gibbons, of the pioneer O'Neill Gibbons family,
sent friends "back home” cards announcing that
she was a candidate for county superintendent at
Butte, Mont . . . O. F. Biglin, the town’s funeral
director, was called over to Spencer, not to bury
the dead, but on a real estate deal.
• * •
The morning of October 9 Capital City dwellers
awoke to see the first bits of glittering jewels Jack
Frost touched the streets and lawns with this sea
son. The yellow leaves of autumn had already fall
en from stately trees and now are brown and with
ered . . . And so the changing seasons come march
ing down the year's lane, next the snowfall but no
more the jingle of sleighbells, only the rumble
and roar of cars on streets and highways and air
planes snorting away overhead.
hower appointed, without much coordination or con
sultation with the President, and that he may or
may not approve of all of the specific recommenda
tions in the government proposal—headed for Con
gress and Capitol Hill consideration after the Easter
recess.
This lack of presidential origin, or Eisenhower
authorship, may weaken the Administration’s pro
posal. We think the President is perhaps bettei
versed in this field than any other American—he
certainly should be—and that he should have sat
in on the meetings of the committee and gi%en his
active and detailed help in the formulation of the
new plan.
Certainly Defense Secretary McElroy—only re
cently brought out of private business into the gov
ernment—has limited experience. Yet he is the man
who headed the team to draw up the reorganiza
tion. What a loeical thine it would have been to have
called upon an experienced citizen to head this
team!
In any event the necessity of overhauling oui
defense system is of the utmost importance. Al
ready it has been postponed too long. It is not a
political issue, but politics are creeping into the
picture. Eventually we are going to get around tc
one uniform defense organization, without all ihc
overlapping waste and duplication which now char
acterizes our multi-billion dollar "out-dated” de
fense effort.
So Let's Get Ready
Neligli Leader — Neligh, Nebr.
General Chiang Kai-shek has announced that he
will invade and "liberate” the Chinese mainland
in 1960.
What part he plans for the United States in this
invasion wasn't mentioned, but it must be a majoi
one. Without U. S. aid, the General would have dif
ficulty keeping his little island under control.
The battle cry will undoubtedly be the same as
used in the Quemoy crisis: "We’ll never surrender
go get ’em Yanks!”
JAMES CHAMPION, Editor and Co-Publisher
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Frontiers,
Ago
,V» YEARS AGO
An article taken from the Bas
; sett Leader and appearing in the
Frontier read as follows: The
northwestern railway company has
a force of linemen at work in the
, vicinity of Ainsworth installing a
' telephone line between Long Pine
1 and Chardon as an experiment, the
railroad company having recently
appropriated $40,000 for thiA pur
pose.The Inman Amusement
Club gave an oyster supper . . . .
Dan O’Donnell, Inman, shipped
120 head of fine steers last week.
... Andrew Mulligan departed for
King, Cherry county, where he
planned to spend a short time with
his sons and then expects to go to
Idaho where he will locate. . . .
Frank Phalin departed for Aber
deen to register for the Dakota
land drawing.Jerry Lakey
of O'Neill planned to move on C.
T. Allen's farm in the north part
of the county.Mr. and Mrs.
O. O Snyder went to Lincoln to
attend the grand lodge session of
the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, which was in session there . .
. . Death: Matthew Mechale died
at his home northwest of O'Neill
at the age of 72 years.
20 YEARS AGO
L. G. Gillespie was advanced
from he officer of Grand Senior
Warden to the ofice of Grand Pat
riarch of the Order at he annual
Grand Encampment at the I. O O.
F. state convention held in Lin
coln. . . .Fifteen men and women in
the Star and Dorsey neighborhood
went to the Frank Hunter home
i and did a real days work. Mr.
Hunter being ailing all summer
! had not been able to do a days
! work since July. . . .Bruce Rum
i mel received a promotion from
the Interstate Pow'er company for
whom he has been working the
I past six or seven years.
| E. J. Sessinghaus, Omaha, the
architect for the picture show- was
in O’Neill on business. . . .Deaths:
John H. O'Neill, 73, son of the late
Gen. John O Neill; John N. staf
fer died at his home in the north
west part of the city; Howard Vin
cent Burch, 34, dropped dead of
a heart attach at his home while
sitting at the table eating lunch;
Mrs. Edith Schollmcyer, 63, at her
son Ernest’s home in Crofton;
Samuel A. Taft, 57, died at the
home of Leo Schneider southeast of
this city; Mrs. Lucinda Neal, 89,
O’Neill County Assessors Fred
Mufford, 69, O’Neill died of a
heart attack.
10 YEARS AGO
Over 140 calves including com
mercial and 4-H were shown and
I sold at the annual Sandhills stock
j er-feeder calf show and sale. The
champion stocker-feeder honnors
were taken by Donna Herring
ton's, Bassett, hereford steer and
it sold for $50.50 per hundred to
Fred WitheriU of St. Peters, Minn.
.Mrs. Lois Harris, Lynch,
was nearly overcome by gas fumes
while sleeping at her residence. .
J . . .The first in a series of Dol
lar Days merchandising events in
(O’Neill was a “big success". . . .
Fred McCart, 2M> miles north of
the Danceland corner, reported to
the holt county sheriff’s office
100 chickens were missing from
his place.A fire which is
believed to have originated in an
upstairs room as the result of a
defective chimney destroyed the
Mrs. Frank Prewitt farm near
Atkinson. . .Tom and Ronaald Res
sel and Allen Porter were the O’
Neill public school students to com
pete in state livestock judging con
test in North Platte.A
farewelll dinner was held for Mrs.
i May Throckmorton, Star commun
ity who was leaving for Missouri
|.Litte Virginia Lawrence,
1 celebrated her third birthday an
niversary.
FIVE YEARS AGO
The Chicago & Northwestern
railway system is considering
taking appropriate steps to dis
countinue the only two remaining
passenger-mail-express trains op
crating in this section of Nebraska
.Rev. C. P. Turner, 72, a
Protestant minister has been sign
ed to perform pastoral duties at the
rural Center Union church.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson, Ew
ing, celebrated their 48th wedding
anniversary at their farm home. .
. . .Don McKamy of O'Neill blew
a 2 Vz foot long rattlesnake into
bits with a shotgun while duck
hunting.Several hundred
persons out to greet the Nebraska
republican caravan.Members
of the recently appointed Nebraska
state highway advisory commission
MILLER THEATRE
ATKINSON
One Show Nightly 8 o'clock
Fri.-Sat. Oct. 23-24
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Sun.-Mon.-Tups. Oct. 25-26-2’
Wed.-Thurs. Oct 28-2*
The REMARKABLE
MU PENNYPACKER
■ ■ I ■■ o—g cotoa kr H UM
CLIFTON WEBB
DOftOTHY McBUIRE
CHABLE8 COBtBdl
planned to arrive October 27 to
devote the following day to in
specting the proposed routes for
U. S. highway 281 linking the
junction of 281 and state highway
12 (in Boyd county I with the South
Dakota highway system.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Mitchell of
Orchard were honored for their
55th wedding anniversary.
Deaths: Dr. Claude Edward Bre
wer, 73. Atkinson; Rev. Asa Wood,
former pastor of the Wesleyan
Methodist church at Atkinson;
Daniel T. Dalton, 55, O'Neill of a
heart attack.
Venus News
By .Mrs. Ralph Brookhouser
Richard Cook, who was a pati
ent at a Sioux City hospital re
cently is now at home. He has his
back in a cast to correct a back
injury.
Franklin Uhlir, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Uhlir was one of the
FFA boys of the Veidigre high
school attending the national con
vention at Kansas City.
The group left Sunday, October
11. Enroute they spent Sunday
evening with their instructor, Mr
Rowe's relatives at Gretna. Others
from the class attending were
Paul Stroval, Gary Hord, Larry
Viterna and Kenneth Meyers. They
expected to arrive home Thursday
evening.
The work and Fun club met with
Mrs. H J. Le Masters on the after
noon of Wednesday Oct. 14 with
13 members, two visitors and for
mer members, Mrs. Archie Cleve
land and Mrs. Lyle Metties, both
of Ewing present.
The group quilted for the hostess.
New officers were elected; Mrs.
James Podany, president; Miss
Vlasta Pospeshil, vice-president,
and Mrs. Albert Pospeshil secre
tary-tresurer. each member rec
veed a gift and card revealing the
nut-shell friends of the past year.
The hostess served lunch. Mrs.
Fred Uhlir will have the Novemb
er meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey and
I twins were O'Neill visitors Saturda
October 10.
Tom Sladek was combining sor
ghum feed at the Ora Caskey farm
October 12.
Donald Kinmson accompanied
Harold Cihlar to Sioux City Oct. 13
where both received medical at
tention.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stepanek
of Clarkson and Mrs. Mary For
man of Verdgre visited at the
Fred Uhlir home Sunday, Oct. 11.
Mrs. Uhlir in a niece of the Stepan
eks.
Albert Pospeshil and Max Le
Master were busy this week fixing
phone lines.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Caskey
and daughters were Thursday eye
ing visitors at the Archie Moser
home.
Visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs Ralph Brookhouser and Ray
on Tuesday, Oct. 13 were Mrs.
Emil Bartos and daughters. Even
ing visitors were Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Caskey and Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Caskey, Suellyn and Joan
Nancy, Janice and Emilio Bartos
Ray Brookhouser left for Nor
folk Oct. 14 after a two week va
cation which he spent with his
parents.
Marvin Vavak visited at the
Clarence Finch home Tuesday Oct.
13.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Finch and
Mr. and Mrs. George Heggemeyer
and Eddie were among those who
attended the com husking contest
at Neligh Monday, Oct. 12.
Deloit News
By Mrs. Harry Reimer
Everyone is invited to Halloween
Fun night at the St. Johns school
house, north of the store, on Fri
day, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. Eadh family
should bring two pies and cups for
the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack
left by bus from Omaha on Thur
sday, Oct. 1 for a trip. They visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beaudin
and family in Pittsburg, Penn, and
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ray and dau
ghters in Orlando, Fla. Also a
cousin and family in Texas.
They plan to be home this week
Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Spahn spent
Friday evening at the Henry Rei
mer home.
The Deloit Pinochle club held
a party for the members and their
husbands on Wednesday evening
at the Frank Bohn home. Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Kruntorad and Mrs.
Anton Shavlik were guests. Louis
Pofahl and Mrs. Paul Funk won
high score, Harold Werkmeister
and Mrs. Charles McDonald, low.
Lambert Bartak won traveling
prize.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Spahn and
family were dinner guests Friday
at the Ewald Spahn home.
Mrs. Fred Harpster was able to
return home from the hospital in
Tilden on Thursday.
On Thursday Mrs. Lambert
Bartak and Mrs. Bill Gibbs took
Danny Gibbs to the hospital in
Norfolk. He was hospitalized for
several days, suffering with a cold
and flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Rartak were
supper gu sts at the Lowell Jen
sen home in Neligh on Friday ev-,
ening .
Mr and Mrs. Henry Reimer were
Sunday dinner guests at the Horn
home in Plainview.
The H. E. O Club attended aeh- j
ievement day in O'Neill on Tues-*
day.
The rural Holt county Teachers
took their 7th and Sth grade pupils
to O'Neill on Thursday for a con
servation meeting.
I'Mn Larson of O'Neill and Mrs
H. Reimer. who teaches in Inman
attened a dinner and meeting of tin
Holt county town teachers in O
Neill on Tuesdav evening. Oct. 13
Temperature was 19 degrees or
Friday night Compieking has lie
gun.__
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
Farmers State Bank
of Ewing, Nebraska. Char’er No. 16C0 at ttie close of business or
6 OCTOBER 1959
ASSETS
Cash, balances with other banks, Including reserve bal
ances, and cash items in process of collection S 225.15.5.11
United States Government obligations, direct and guaran
teed 410,501.3!
Other bonds, notes, and debentures ... — —. 1.000.0C
Loans and discounts (including $714.97 overdrafts! 537,811.6!
Bank premises owned $750.00, furniture and fixtures
$3,770.00 --- 4,520.0c
TOTAL ASSETS fWIMH*
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and eor
pormtions 3 S3 IS IS
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 420.0t
Deposits of United States Government (including postal
savings) ... ---- 26,320.4(
Deposits of States and political subdivisions 204,259.1
Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) 10,100.(X
TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,064,254.75
TOTAL LIABILITIES _ $1,064,254.71
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital* 50,000.01
Surplus 50.000.0C
Undivided profits 11,731.4)
Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capital) 3.000.00
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS S 114,731.41
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACXX)1tNTS S1.l7S.!iS(i.iJ
•This bank's capital consists of:
Common stock with total par value of $50,000.00
MEMORANDA
Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for
other purposes (including notes and bills rediscounted
and securities sold with agreement to repurchase) $ 310,875.0(
I, Richard S. Brion, President, of the above named bank, d<
hereby certify that the alwve statement is true to the l>cst of my know
ledge and belief.
RICHARD S. BRION, President
CORRECT-ATTEST: Maud Brion, M. B. Huffman, LaVeme M. Brion,
Directors
An exciting new decade is about to begin for America
—a decade filled with promise and hope and great
expectations.
And wouldn’t it be thrilling to ride into the sixties
with a new Cadillac car of your own!
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years ahead—and for the man who hopes to make the
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So if you’re looking forward to the wonderful decade
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