Prairieland Talk
"Smile For Everyone"
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 South bist St., Lincoln 6. Nebr.
I drink again the memory’s mellow wine, and
there he is dressed in the fashions of seventy-five
years ago. walking up the street and a smile for all
he met. Three buildings remain on that street today
that Jim Triggs walked by in
the long ago—the Holt County
Bank building and two frame
buildings down the street, the
Guinn and Gibbons buildings.
Jim Triggs, his brother, George
and their father and mother
built and lived in pioneer days
the house that still stands just
east of the lumber yard on lower
Fourth street. The Triggs family
came here from Indiana and
Jim could tell you of the
Chicago fire as he was with a
company of firemen that fought that great fire. So
in O'Neill Jim was always about the first to do some
thing if a fire broke out about town. He could play
baseball, hang wall paper and paint, read but little,
was always there when anything was to be seen and
heard at the old Skating Rink opera house, but never
darkened the door to a church. A character that
everybody knew if they didn't love him. And after
being away from the community some 15 years I run
onto Jim here in the 1930 tough times, he then a
withered little old man, now- dead.
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This now is the month of May. And there it
hangs where I can see it day by day, a little May
Day token prepared by childish hands, the hands of
my little friends whose home is nearby, a May basket
brought to me by two young friends who have stored
in their chilish minds a loving thought for others.
• • *
A writer writes of the glories of messing around
with a hoe in a garden or walking distances for
physical exercise. Somehow the soft cushioned easy
chair has to many a greater appeal than digging in
die dirt to raise a bit of garden products. And as
my son says, why dig in the hard earth to raise an
onion or tomato when for a few cents you get all
sorts of fresh garden stuff at the store.
• • •
All is lovely the country over as we come now
to another presidential election time. No tariff is
sue, no free silver, no problems of state, business or
employment to wrangle aliout. So it looks now that
this coming presidential campaign Yankeeland may
hark back to the 15th century and go over it all
again and support or oppose the one candidate be
cause of his religion. No political issues hut we must
have something to enliven a presidential campaign,
so get loaded with your campaign thunder.
A Gentleman of the Cloth announces to the public
that the recently discovered ruins at the bottom of
the Dead Sea over there in the Middle East is the
wreckage of Sodom and Gomorrah. Moses, who lived
some five thousand years nearer the time of the
destruction of those ancient Synagogues of Satan
tells us that "brimstone and fire from God out of
Heaven fell upon those cities and burned them up.
• • •
Their father is in the state prison, their mother
a she devil who with her "boy friend” were found
by authorities beating and abusing her children, at
mealtime giving them dog biscuits to eat. Lincoln’s
capable police woman stepped in, jailed two adult
demons and put those starving, neglected and beaten
children in Cedars Home, just a mile or so out of
the city where such as they are cared for. Father a
criminal mother of the synagogue of Satan—what a
start in life those two little ones have had and how
could even one prairieland mother turn so against
her offspring!
• * *
She came to see me an evening recently, my
granddaughter. Her school teacher had asked those
in the history class if any of them had ancestors who
fought in the war in the ’60's to come next day to
class and tell about it. Yes, I told granddaughter, her
great grandfather, my father was in that war and
was with General Grant’s army when the last of the
southern army laid down their arms and the war
was over. One incident in my father’s war experience
granddaughter would tell her teacher and class. Her
great grandfather stood in battle line loading and
firing at the enemy when his captain ordered him to
the rear. Father then discovered he had been shot.
His company captain was Captain Frease who came
to O'Neill later and went into the lumber business
tvith Barnett, they later selling their lumber and
coal business to O. O. Snyder.
* * •
Cut out the property tax and give us sales and
income tax, is the demand of some and have gone
about with petitions for any and all to sign to put
the proposition up to voters. Income tax, we have
it now. May we never have in this state a sales tax.
• * *
A little excitement down in Madison county, a
county official down there being charged with pocket
ing something over $4,000 of county funds. Holt
county has had some of that in days now gone and
the last official of Holt county so involved was hung
for doing in a small way what the late President
FDR did in a big way and was regarded as a bene
factor of mankind.
• * *
The sky is blue, the landscape is robed in sum
mer green. And we walk abroad and look with
pleasure upon the scene.
Editorial
Valley Taxpayers Apathetic
Ord Quiz
Most folks will agree that Fred A. Herrington,
former Nebraska State Tax Commissioner, knows
the tax situation as well or better than any other Ne
braskan.
Mr. Herrington is quoted in the Clay County
News at Sutton as predicting the Nebraska tax load
will almost double in the next 10 years.
He expects an increase by 1969 of 137-million
dollars over and above the 161-million dollars levied
in 1959. Uncle Sam will donate 40 per cent of the in
crease, but the state is liable for the other 60 per
cent.
The extra money, Herrington says, will be need
ed for highways, health, and natural resources.
Federal aid to education, if is comes, would mean
further state spending.
The regrettable thing about all of this is the
apathetic manner in which Nebraska taxpayers are
viewing the problem, Herrington said.
He predicted there will be hearings on budgets at
all levels of government, but “not more than 20
voices will be raised against the increased spending.”
Herrington said he has attended literally hund
reds of budget hearings at all levels while in office.
"And,” he added, “I have never seen or heard
a private citizen take a stand against increased
spending. Silently, Mr. Taxpayer has sat and watch
ed local taxes rise from 69-million in 1940, to 155
million in 1950 and 216-million in 1959, an increase of
213 per cent.”
There was a vivid example of what Mr. Her
rington was talking about in Ord about a month ago.
Don Clement, new farm representative for the First
National Bank, announced a meeting to discuss for
mation of a Valley County branch of the Fair Tax
Association.
The meeting was well advertised through the
Quiz and by postcards and phone calls by Mr. Cle
ment.
Only three persons showed up, Mr. Clement and
two others.
After waiting around for an hour Mr. Clement
announced: “I guess they are not interested in fair
taxes. I'm through.”
With an active campaign for additional forms
of taxation, such as sales and income taxes, going
on, it behooves Nebraskans in all walks of life to
take a greater interest in their government, especial
ly in the taxing situation.
Changed Policies
Nebraska Signal — Geneva
The April issue of The Nebraska Newspaper, of
ficial publication of the Nebraska Press Association,
carried the opinions of several Nebraska weekly
newspaper publishers on the question of publishing
or not publishing names and facts about juveniles
who get in trouble with the law.
Most of the publishers, including The Signal’s
Tyler Edgecombe, pointed out that several years ago
they withheld names of juvenile offenders on the
theory the transgressions may have been a first of
fense and that one brush with the law’ might end the
lawlessness. All of the publishers, however, pointed
out they have changed their policy. They now feel
when such cases become court records they should
be reported, including names and with the facts as
brought out in court given in full.
It might be mentioned that the public sometimes
fails to distinguish between brushes with the law in
which nothing is filed and there is no court action
with cases in which records are made. Most news
papers refuse to print gossip or second hand infor
mation, also results of investigations which do not
become matters of record.
We feel sure the publishers quoted in the article
and others over the country who have changed their
policy about juvenile misdoings have done so re
luctantly. We might say they have been foiced to
make their change because of the general failure of
the youths, their homes and society as a whole to
“learn the lesson.” They are now trying the other
approach in which full publicity will help steer the
juveniles away from crime.
Those who live in communities where juvenile
delinquency is only a minor problem may forget the
problem really is national and that statistics show
juvenile offenders may come from all types of homes
and all communities.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, seems to support the views of Ne
braska editors who would turn the light of publicity
on juveniles along with older lawbreakers. In an ad
dress in Chicago recently, reported in The Christian
Science Monitor, Mr. Hoover made several enligh
tening statements, including the following.
“For many years we have seen the advocates of
soft justice, the coddling of youthful criminals, and
easy clemency gain more and more control in high
places. Now we can see where they have brought
us—to an avalanche of crime and terror which
threatens decent citizens everywhere.”
The FBI director also said “No generation has
ever before witnessed such extreme sadism, sacri
lege, and senseless brutality as that practiced by the
young thugs who have turned their hacks on God to
join the surging juvenile underworld.”
These statements, backed up by convincing sta
tistics, and the views of Nebraska weekly newspaper
publishers should give all of us something to think
about. They should move us to take steps as families
and communities to remove the causes of juvenile
misdeeds. Also, they should make readers under
stand why publishers will, in most cases, insist on
publishing the record when youngsters are brought
into court and will reject the pleas of those who
would have the publishers “keep this out of the
paper.”
JAMES CHAMPION, Editor and Co-Publisher
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
lA#t©T©N
Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AtiO
F. W. Schroeder has closed his
cigar factory here and will leave
next week for Nevada, Mo., where
he will open a cigar factory. Mr.
Schroeder has been doing a splen
did business here but he believes
there is a better opportunity to
spread out in the Missouri town, as
it contains 12,000 people, and is
without a cigar factory, than there
is in O’Neill . . . The bam and
granery of M. J. O’Neill in the rear
of his residence was destroyed by
fire last Sunday afternoon. Loss
about $350. The bam was quite
close to the Burlington tracks and
an engine was switching, making
1 up the evening freight train, and it
j is supposed that a spark from the
1 engine started the fire . . . C. E.
Burch has been awarded the con
tract of carrying the mail for the
next four years on the Dorsey and
Turner routes. He receives $1,598
per year for the Dorsey route and
$1,498 per year for the Turner
route.
25 Y EARS AtSO
Plans have been completed for
adding additional rooms to the
Golden Hotel and work will start
thereon the first of the month . . .
Last Monday night thrives got away
with two four-month old calves
from the pasture of Den Murphy,
a mile and a half north and a mile
and a half east of this city. Mr
Murphy missed the calves Tuesday
morning from the pasture upon in
vestigation saw where they were
taken through the fence and load
ed in a truck or a car on the high
way, a little north and west of the
pasture . . . According to the daily
press, representatives of the gov
ernment are insisting that the first
highways to be improved with hard
surfacing in the state, with the as
sistance of federal money, are to
be those that will be available for
use in case of military movement
of troops. Among the roads listed
for improvement for this purpose
is 281.
10 YEARS AC.O
Justin 'Grandma” Zakrzewski
visited here from Friday until
Tuesday. Saturday a lunch was
given in her honor at the Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Zakrzewski home.
Saturday evening the family had
dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Zakrzewskis . . . Over 60 relatives,
friends and neighliors attended the
90th birthday anniversary of Mrs.
Mattie Johnson, known affectionate
ly to the rural residents north of
O’Neill as “Grandma” Johnson
... A host of friends and neighbors
Sunday surprised Mrs. Charlotte
Honeywell on her 83rd birthday an
niversary ... A party of 40 friends
and relatives surprised Mr. and
Mrs. James Dobias Sunday on
their 25th wedding anniversary
near Atkinson . . . George Mc
Carthy, veteran route 1 O’Neill
mailcarrier, Monday evening was
elected secretary of the Nebraska
Knights of Columbus at the con
clusion of a 2-day session at Nor
folk.
5 YEARS AGO
The voters in a special election
in Atkinson Tuesday approved a
155-thousand-dollar bond issue for
the construction of a new element
ary grade school building. The
count: 322 costs “for” the proposal;
219 "against” ... A former Holt
county sheriff who substituted
good will for the Smith and Wesson
revolver during a dark and critical
era in frontier history on Tuesday,
May 10, celebrated his 105th birth
day anniversary. Charles W. Hamil
ton quietly noted the anniversary
at the home of his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Rafe King,
at Port Angeles, Wash . . Expect
ing to entertain in the Thursday
Evening Bridge club and having to
cancel that in favor of a relative’s
self-invited dinner date, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Troshynski were totally
unprepared to greet more than 50
guests who arrived by surprise to
help them celebrate their silver
wedding anniversary.
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 VICARS AGO
Messrs W. R. Bell and John Al
ii erson were in town Monday and
while on their way home the horse
took fright at some children and
cows and tipped the wagon over
breaking the shaffs out. The
gentlemen were unhurt except a
severe shaking . . , Mrs. G. O
Disney and children and Mrs. Er
nest Majors and son started Mon
day for their new home at Rocky
Point, Wyo. George Majors accom
pained them to look over the
country ... John Bogart informs
us that parties have been appro
piating some of his property that
he left on the farm when he moved
to town, he says that unless it is
returned at once he will convince
the parties that he knows where it
went . . . Mr. and Mrs. Fred But
terfield started yesterday for Wal
nut Grove on a visit of a few days
. . . Wade Grubb moved last week
into the house just vacated by
Arthur Fluckey.
25 YEARS AGO
Arnold Sorensen broke his arm
last Saturday, while pole vaulting.
The pole broke throwing him to the
ground breaking his left arm just
above the wrist. The accident hap
pened at the Geane Lambert home
where the 4-H culb was holding a
meeting . . . The windows in the
Chambers Bakery have been art
istically decorated the past week
. . . Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Ross, a daughter at th£ O’Neill
hospital last Sunday, May 12 . . .
A number of friends and school
mates gathered at the Ruben Pelt
zer home Wednesday night and
pleasantly surprised their son, Bob
bie on his tenth birthday. They
spent the evening playing games
. . . Word comes from Emmet of
the death of Eugene Luben, 38, a
former resident of Chambers, who
died last Saturday at his farm 4
miles south of Emmet, as a result
of an accident. He apparently was
thrown from his saddle horse as
the animal bolted when lightning
struck near by.
A Poem
From Mrs. Eby . •.
—OUR MOTHER—
From out the misty somewhere
as soft as the coming night,
There came a call from the Mas
ter dear and we know it must be
right.
The call was for Mother, who had
been our stay through sad and
happy years,
Though we know it’s God’s will,
our faces are wet with burning,
scalding tears.
For this little pioneer mother of
ours was one of those rugged
souls,
When the going was hard and the
road was rough, when hard times
and drouth took their tolls,
She’d smile a sweet smile and
trudge along, thankful for what
she had.
Reassuring all in her gentle way,
“Oh well it isn’t so bad.”
For her simple faith had gripped
the throne; She believed God’s
plan was best.
Helping others she smiled right
through no matter how hard the
test.
As years rolled on better times had
come but she never laid down
the load.
Whether working at home or for
the church she loved, or the
stranger beside the road.
Always unselfishly doing her best,
she endeared herself to all,
Doing the tasks no one else liked
to do Humbly counting them
JSSk health her spu’d
^JSfJnd h" h’“b
never skid s*1i\ could
Do«nd the u“*,1)l£ » Ml.
%£< yon b.™ !««>
tM> 1““*fd torenJW
Your mansion ^ that eter
compiete "with deeos u*»
ru^y tost" h-r min and we're
Our loss is t*” *V”, hricht land
looking away to that bright lai
above. ... nieei around
When again T* w *, tender
the throne the one
111 ,D«U. smart Eby> j
Smoke from;
"Brandin' I
Iron" Crick
By J. C. Kudd
It was at.^nngal0fnfthe Brandin'
Every citUen atorK^ding> Even
Iron made it to the claims
scratchin'
and kissin the t jn the entry
ta’fbtafhatcffi.B jacket and re
srin
new meed ««t. bo,,^ ^ You
TYufy" and "Because. ’
The br.de wa> led In by Abe Cgy.
in ,he absence f ’ ldn-t cotne..
trary old squirt dreM over
she wore a law tup (Lena
some kind of Dummy'"'
says. "Nylon '■ g smack dub
and a veil thatltl , ,,nbbled down
over Her face and dnbbl^ ^
her back clean .k rosos
carried a bouq gefher good,
that werent tiedI K, llOUqUet.
(Lena again. that way,
iSSidT-rEvS '»d white .«in
! slippers on. s)n0(i up with
Mrs- A'ex gQwn that 8he
her in a long y ..... in and car
couldn’t have s< d q{ a thing as
J ried the same vvore white.
the bride only the rose* flower
Little Mindy Go^ a biue
Kirl vSffeUaSo he mud and got
one but feu int° theV had to hold
I all messed up so th y 1 rush
"g !!* grkcllTtolet cleaned up
‘Sd1’toStw'Ke. Pit* “..or
“n”ushfonn lie only dropped them
WA« * ThiV.oS
S^Wt'uteyni'cked inm plenty
,0A.« S.W w». '^""nas has
j dance
I Bobby Layne Orchestra
I Butte. Nebr. I
j Legion Hall I
I FRIDAY, MAY 13 l|
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hit the cough drops heavy ami did
a (me job of reading the marriage
lines. 1
Everyone was itching to get a
glimpse of the bride ami when Art
raistxi the veil to kiss her you
could have heard a pin drop. She
appears to lx' a real nice girl ]
Looks like Elizabeth Taylor only
older and plumper with a mus
tache.
After presiding over the bar
beetle (They served sandwiches,
relish, muleshoe coffee and wedding
cake) and the reception for 200
honeymoon to visit relation at
guests they left on a two weeks
Sleepy Eye, Minn , and Coon
Rapids, la.
Dr. H. D. GILDERSLEEVE
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined—(Hasses Fitted
Contact I-enses
Phone 167 — O’Neill, Nebr.
Hours 9-5—Mon. thru Saturday
Closed Wednesday
* i «* * • ' i
Old Man Chinn finished off the
day with this parting advice to
the groom. "A woman, a dog or a
walnut tret' the more you beat 'em
the better they be!”
See you next week.
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WRESTLING
In Atkinson At The
Atkinson Livestock Market
Sales Pavilion
FRL NIGHT, MAY 13
3 BIG BOUTS
IN THE MAIN EVENT
Otto Von Krupp vs. Doug Gilbert
ALSO
Jack Pesek vs. Emil Dusek
Kathy Starr vs. Judy Glover
TICKETS ON SALE AT WILSON DRUG
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‘if ; °-*-3-e7»-J" More eloquent than any words is the silence of
the 1960 Cadillac in motion. Eloquent, too, is the
delighted look of the man who has just driven one
for the first time. It says so unmistakably, “Never
before, a car to compare with this!” It is a literal
fact that you must concentrate to detect the sound
of a 1960 Cadillac—except, of course, for the gentle
whisper of the wind and the soft hum of the tires
on the pavement. Your authorized Cadillac dealer
invites you to try this unique driving experience.
VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED DEALER
A. MARCELLUS CHEVROLET CO.
127 No. 4th St„ O’Neill, Nebr.