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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1960)
Prairieland Talk "Last of the Kings" By ROMAINE SAUNDfcKS, 4110 S.Hith bu.t St.. Lincoln 6, Nebr A friend of my youth for many years a citizen at the state of Washington writes me of his having contact with Rate King, brother of the late Clyde King and the youngest of the pioneer King family that came to Holt county from Ohio. The elder Mr, King and Mrs King left O'Neill some 70 years ago, following their daugh ter, who had married Dr. Shore, to that Pacific coast state Rafe served as a clerk in the Jake Pfund store on lower 4th street, where later the J. P, Gallagher store was opened. The others went to Washington but Clyde lived on in O'Neill to _ „ Remain* the end of his days. My Washington friend writes that Saunders Rafe sent him a number of photographs of pioneer people and their homes and places of business. Among these was a picture taken in The Frontier shop, at that time in the Milerd building where now stands the imposing Safeway store building. The picture of The Frontier place of publication shows Clyde King, D. H. Cronin and myself at work there. The Frontier was published in that building for a time, then back to its place of beginning on south fth street. Now on north 4th street in commodious quarters. * * * The officer I had dropped in to see was out; his secretary was at her desk, as the women often are keeping the affairs of mankind on the go while the gent bearing the title of official may be idling time away. She told me she had received word from her mother in distant Florida that Donna the hurri cane had blown the roof from their house and poured in more than a foot of water; water everywhere but none to drink. He had been to California and brought his mother home with him, so hot out there they were glad to get back to cool prairieland a late Septem ber day. The eclipsing of the sun the last day of summer, now early autumn’s calm peaceful days. • * * Frost will pluck the golden rod, turn to brown summer’s green sod. The fragrance and beauty of the prairie rose you cannot then hold to your nose, and little creatures of the wild turn up their toes. Then comes winter with north winds sullen moan, and heaps of snow where prairie rose and golden rod had grown. Seasons come and go, the last of these we all shall know. • * • The two honorable gentlemen seeking entrance to the White House have had their say in public de bate. Yes, a candidate for the high office of presi dent says nice things, and we like to think they mean it. He was bom in o new, as a babe watched over by a loving mother, the pride of a devoted father. Childhood, youth, manhood- and today that babe born in O’Neill is a college professor in a Michigan city and his admiring granddad is parked here in our Capital City at a typewriter turning out Prairie land Talk. "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” • • • Two nights of pouring rain and we in the Capital City are well washed. This another morning as September draws to a close, calm under the golden glow of the orb of day and a cloudless blue sky. So all is lovely with just a step ahead to the month of October when autumn tints lay colorful scenes across the land. Vacation wanderers back again at their jobs. Yes, there he was this morning, coat off and at it again, visions of mountains, forests and endless miles of prairieland now fading before the pile of bills, letters and orders on his desk. • • • Atiout one hundred years ago Montgomery Ward started a mail order business in Chicago. Branch mail order places bearing that name sprung up in other cities. For sometime the concern has main tained a shopping center on north Tenth street in Lincoln. Today they have an immense building or group of buildings in east Iancoln surrounded on all sides by “free parking.” • * • Unfortunate citizens that have become mentally ill, once known as crazy, in out state institution for such here in Lincoln, a vast building, instead of being helped by the force of workers the story comes that these unfortunate inmates are abused and life made still more miserable for them. Instead of a kindly word or helpful treatment some young smarties pull off abusive acts at times. The next session of our state legislature should investigate and remedy the wrongs there. • • * The dew of night was on the floral bloom as I passed that way when morning came. The beauti ful flowers, blue and red and the golden yellow bloom. Yes, pause by the blooming beauties and ad mire nature's touch of color adorning little clusters of flowers. Then walk on as a bit of loveliness lin gers and join for another day in the rumble and rush and roar of neighbors and friends. * • • His home was with the family on Everett Street some three doors east of the Presbyterian church. He and Prairieland Talker were youthful pals; he now living in Minnesota and writes me that he will soon come to a southeast Nebraska town to settle some estate and proposes that we get together and live the old days over again. That’s Billy Lowrie. Editorial Please Be Careful “Bang! Bang! You’re dead!" Sound like a child’s game? It is! Yet, many adults play the game unin tentially—with real guns. Every year about 2,400 persons are killed ac cidentally by firearms. The main victims are per sons 15-24 years of age and children under 15, in that order. Many of the firearms fatalities come in off-hunt ing months, such as during the summer. Firearms take about 200 lives every month of the year. Ex clusive of home deaths, people using the weapons kill 1,200 persons annually. The 1,200 away-from-home firearms deaths don’t always involve hunting. Records show only one out of three away-from-home firearms deaths result from a hunting accident. In Illinois, for example, more deaths in a recent year came from such assorted activities as playing tvith a gun, handling a gun and target shooting than from actually hunting. How can such accidents be avoided? The follow ing safe gun handling rules can certainly help Treat all firearms as if they were loaded. Don’t release the safety until just before you shoot. Never fool with a lethal weapon, loaded or un loaded. Don’t clean a firearm when other persons are present. Make sure all cartridges have been re moved from the weapon. Keep firearms unloaded and out of the reach of children and irresponsible adults. And last, and most important of all, never point a weapon at anything you don’t intend to shoot. Right of Way Courtesy Farmers have every right to take up half the highway, even when there’s a smooth broad shoulder they could pull onto. However, there are some good reasons for pull ing off when your tractor and implements present * traffic hazard. One is common courtesy. It’s maddening to the driver who must ’’hit” the brakes while you demand your rights. Safety is another reason for pulling on‘o the shoulder when your equipment menaces auto mobile traffic. According to Major James Machholz, assistant chief of the Iowa Highway Safety Patrol, an average of about 50 fatalities a year involving farm equip ment take place on just one state’s highways. You might be seriously injured or killed if a vehicle hits your equipment. The sadness of injury or death makes your right to half of a paved highway somehow seem not so important after all. NOGALES. ARIZ., HERALD: ’’It's against the law for a candidate or his supporters to buy votes, but there's no law against his party voting in Con gress to ‘give’ blocs of voters something out of the general tax pot. There's no law either, to keep Con gress from giving away more than is in the pot— and leaving an I. O. U. to be paid off later by the very voters Congress purported to ‘help’—or by their children. "Well, if ‘help’ is what we want, ‘help’ is what we ll get. And more government controls, more taxes, more debt and more inflation to go with it.’’ The Changing Face of Farming An editorial in the Antigo, Wis., Daily Journal, muses on some of the changes that have taken place In American farming. It says: “In past generations, the farmer depended heavily on his neighbors. His church, his school, and his cheese factory were local community institutions, everyone of which he helped to build and he felt he had definite responsibilities to them. "But today local institutions mean less to him or are gone entirely. His markets are broader, his con tacts are wider, yet he may know little about the neighbors across the road.” This means that the farmer has become more and more dependent on others—even as others have become more and more dependent on him, in the complex society in which we all now live. The Antigo Journal points to various instances of this, one being: “He no longer grows 'fuel' for horsepower in the form of oats and hay but gets it from the city in the form of tractor gasoline and oil,” 'l’here is no doubt that there have been losses because of the inevitable changes that have over whelmed agriculture. But the gains outweigh them by far. Mechanization of farm work, in which gas and oil for the tractor have replaced oats for the team, is a top example. It has eliminated a vast amount of drudgery. It has cut costs. It has made possible land reclamation and conservation practices that would have been impossible in former times. And it enables a smaller farm population, working a more or less fixed acreage, to meet the needs of a swelling total population. WEBSTER GROVES, MO., NEWS-TIMES: “The fundamental principle of democracy is that the members of the nation have to decide what they want. That seems to be where the trouble comes— too many millions of moderns, debased by a steady diet of violence and fantasy on the screen and air, lack the ability or moral stamina to decide any thing.” BILL RICHARDSON, Publisher BRUCE J. REHBERG, Editor Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year, rate abroad provided upon request. All subscrip tions payable in advance. 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 news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Asso ciation, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. NATIONAL EDITORIAL c^l*#<OTI0Ni Frontiers Ago 5« YEARS AGO C. E Stout, M. J Enright and Patrick Kilmurry left for Omaha last Monday morning and will spend the week viewing the sights in that cky. . .Arthur Ryan is en joying a visit from his father W. J. Ryan of St. Joseph, Mo this week . T. J. Birmingham returned Sunday evening from a two week's visit at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Mrs. Birmingham was with him and left Excelsio: Springs for Darlington, Wis. when she will spend a few weeks visit ing relatives and friends. . .Mrs C. P. Hancock and son Edmund came down from O’Neill to In man last Friday to visit relatives a few days. . .Miss Marion Olive Willard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Willard of Worcest er and Lt. Owen R. Meredith 27th U. S. Infantry, son of Mr and Mrs. John H. Meredith of O’Neill were married Wednesday evening at Worcester. 25 YEARS AGO The special election for the purpose of voting on the issuance of $61,000 in bonds for the erec tion of a new court house and jail in this county will be held on Tuesday, Nov 12, 1935. . Last Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Van Every in southeast O'Neill was held a family reun ion which brought together 52 persons who partook of a delic ious dinner and told stories of , old days and npw as had been noted in this and other sections where the members of this fami ly tree reside. . .Tom Baker , made a run after a fat furry coon in the moonlight Tuesday Sir Coon’s short but active legs carried him beyond the danger zone and he was soon lost to vision when he took to the hills. . .Ira Moss and H. L. Lindberg left the latter part of last week for Wyoming where they expect | to put in a week hunting game. . . Mrs. Guy Cole visited friends in Stuart Tuesday. 10 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klingler quietly observed their golden wed ding on Saturday, September 30 TTiey received scores of congrat ulatory messages and a number of personal visitors in their home. They were feted with a family dinner at noon at the home of their son, Melvin. . .Raw, damp weather restrict attendance Tues day as the cornerstone for At kinson’s new Memorial hospital was laid at a 10 a.m. ceremony . . .George Garhart, 55, O'Neill, submitted to surgery early Wed nesday in Methodist hospital in Sioux City. He suffered two brok en legs in an unusual accident in the O’Neill railroad yards on Thursday, September 28. . .A franchise was granted to the Kan sas-^Nebraska Natural Gas Com pany at the O’Neill city council meeting Tuesday night. It also authorized the purchase of school traffic electric signals. . .Herman Becker, a 33 year-old O’Neill farmer who had lived in Holt county only a few months, was instantly killed about 7:45 p.m. Saturday when struck by a car. 5 YEARS AGO Mrs. Esther Downey returned Saturday from an extended sum mer tour of Europe. Among the countries she visited were: Aus tria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France. . .Seventeen agricul ture specialists from Turkey in the Middle East spent Monday af ternoon and night at O’Neill and early Tuesday studied the Earl Coxbill seed plant in Atkinson. . , Harry Ressel was reelected chair man of the Holt county Agricui ture Stabilization Conservation committee Wednesday, Septembei 28. . .Forty-six carloads of stock er-feeder cattle were sold here Wednesday in connection with the | annual sale sponsored by the I Sandhills Cattlemen’s association ] . .Effective October 8, Mr. J. C Nordmeyer will be the manager of the Osborne Shoe Store, re placing William W. Watson, whe is moving to Omaha. . .Deaths: Robert E. Strong, 65, of Norfolk j and a former resident of O’Neill; Mrs. Clara Tucker, 87, of Ewing and Sister M. de Chantel, the for-1 mer Bridget O’Donnell of Atkin-! son. The Long Ago At Chambers il years ago C. J. Barnum made a trip to Lincoln this week. . last week a deal was consumated whereby W. J. Doherty, Edward Adams and I. Baldwin purchased J. C. McGowens interest in the Cham bers State Bank. . _Dr. Colman and Dr. Fouts are both in the lime light this wee* as both are posses sors of new autos. . W W Stev ens and Mr. Bolton of Sioux City, visited over Sunday at C. M Smiths. . .Mr and Mrs J. C. Mc Gowen and C. L. McGowen and two children left Monday for Cal ifornia. . .H. L. Smith made a trip to O'Neil] Tuesday. . Last Wednesday, Sept. 28th Miss Rach el Ballentyne was united in mar riage to Ellsworth V. Wintermote by the County Judge in O'Neill at high noon. . Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Coppoc and Fern Smith visited at C. M. Smiths Sunday. 25 YEARS AGO Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Mrs. Mary MacLeod and Hen ry Lohaus, son of Mr. and Mrs Bernard Lohaus of Humphery. were married Tuesday morning at St. Cecelia’s cathedral by Rev S. J. Zukowski . . .Mrs. LaVerne Harley came home from the O’ Neill hospital last week. . .George C. Smith had the misfortune to crack a rib one day last week when a stirrup broke and he fell from his horse. . The 4-H Cook ing club girls will hold an in vitation party in honor of Char lotte Crandal and Kathryn Woods who have had perfect attendance during the meetings held this summer and fall. Smoke bom "Brandin' Iron" Crick By J. C. Fudd Weather’s been pretty brisk along the Crick the past week. Little sizzle sozzle of a drizzle every now and then but no big freeze has come on yet. Every one can tell it’s fixin’ to be Indian summer of Squaw winter one of these days. Lena took off for the Seemly Seamers last Thursday afternoon and Yours Truly swung into action. Put up the wood heater, (Pretty near busted a gut doing it alone) brought the bench in from off of the porch, hunted up the spittoon from where it’s been stashed all summer and had everything lined up for a dog fight when Lena got home. By Gravy, she fooled me, never opened her head. Folks has been dropping in steady come evening. Like to warm up and blow off to their neighbors whilst soaking up some free heat. Had just about a capacity crowd (as they say on TV) last Friday evening when Rev. Peebles come in. Head all wrapped up in a piece of old wool blanket. Sinus dealing him fits. Said he'd got to the place where he’d try anything to get relief short of chopping his own head off. Otty Camber poked his head from around behind the stove and asked the Rev. real concerned like, if he ever thought of going to Thermoplis or one of them places and taking the hot mud Fall Planting FLOWER BULBS Tulips Hyacinths Crocus Daffodils Narcissus Grape Hyacinths 4 to 45 Bulbs per package 66c per pack PATTON’S BEN FRANKLIN O’Neill, Nebraska Notice! We have received the 1959 Distress Warrants from the County Treasurer. The first notices are being mailed, it is our duty to collect these taxes in full, in cash or by levy on personal property. We will call on parties concerned and expect payment. If necessary will levy on and seize enough personal property to cover warrant and all costs, and costs of sale. We have no alter native, this is a Have-to-Case. After January 1, 1961 all unpaid personal dis tress warrants will be advertised in local papers ? same as real estate. ! LEO S. TOM JACK Holt County Sheriff treatment The Rev said he’d | thought of it but couldn’t see his way clear to go right now. Well that set everyone off Quite a argument developed as to whether 1 it took that special kind mineral loaded mud to do the Job or if any kind of mud would work if it was kept at a steady tempera ture. Finally. Otty claimed, mot everyone believed him! that he'd read some place that any kind of adhesive would work if it was applied for an hour at a time and kept at the same tempera ture throughout. "It's a shame." he says, "that you don't have some way to keep some of that clay from the Gorey hill hot for awhile," "Ret you would get re lief in nothing flat.” (The bugger was thinking all the time abut the Reverend’s new automatic try pan that he got for a birthday gift from his folks the week be fore)”. "Be tempted to try it out," says the Rev. "If I had any way to keep that heat regular." “Wel-1-1,” says Otty. scratching his head, " you could use that new skillet, couldn't you?” "Not for a week, says the Rev. looking him right in the eye. "My little banty hen run off from her nest and I’m finishing out hatching the eggs in it.” That really cut Otty off at the pockets. Nobody dast laugh, no body was sure if he meant it or not. See you next week. Ir- "1 Homemakers Corner... By Catherine Imlra Home Extension Agent Let’s talk a bit about potatoes today. This favorite vegetable for the money spent on them gives a high return in food value. Vita min C, thiamine, niacin, and iron, phosphorous and potassium are all found in this popular item. Here are some pointers for buy ing and storing potatoes. Buying: Best quality potatoes are firm, ; smooth, and well-shaped. They are free from cuts, blemishes and decay. Look for potatoes that are rea sonably clean; it’s hard to judge the quality of potatoes covered with dirt. Washed potatoes may be found in some markets. Avoid potatoes that show green color on some part of the sur face; the green portions have a bitter taste. For the least waste in paring select potatoes that are regular in shape and have shallow eyes. Before buying a large quantity of potatoes it‘s a good idea to buy a small sample first and try them to see if they have the cooking qualities you want. Us ually it is impossible to predict cooking quality from the appear ance of potatoes and, except for potatoes labeled as bakers, cook ing quality is seldom indicated on potato labels. Most homemakers like medium size potatoes best for general use. It’s easy to estimate portions with potatoes of this size, and there is less waste in paring than there is with small potatoes. Small po tatoes are sometimes preferred for boiling whole, large potatoes for baking. Storing: Stored properly in the home, late-crop potatoes will keep for several months; early-crop pota toes will keep for several weeks. Look the potatoes over before storing them. Set aside any that Do You Knpw Your Neighbor? -Know Yaw Neighbor** i> not a contest There are no pr^es gisen or correctly identifying the person Return!. The only reward U the atisfachon of knowing your neighbor l>a.st week's Guess Who was George Janousek, the friendly grocer it the Fourth Street Market. .iifc - nSiiK * £*im ' * I low many of you have met this man? are bruised or cracked to use first. Keep potatoes in a cool, dark place. For best keeping and cook ing quality store at tempertures of 45 to 50 F. High(T tempertures are likely to cause sprouting and shriveling. Lower temperatures for even a w»*ek or two may cause potatoes to develop a sweet taste because some of the starch in the potatoes changes to sugar. Pota toes that have become excessive ly sweet in storage can be im proved in flavor by keeping them at room temperature (70 to 80 F.) for a week or two before using them. Potatoes should be kept in the dark because light causes greening of the skin and the flesh under the skin. This green ing lowers eating quality. Because potatoes keep better if there is some circulation of air around them they should never be stored in an air-tight contain er. Don’t place potatoes on a damp cellar floor.. Put a board or some other kind of insulating material between potatoes and floor. Potato Strips with Cheese 3 cups raw potato strips (cut as for french fries Me cup milk 1 tablespoon butter or margar ine 1 teaspoon salt Popper Me cut thinly shaved process cheese 1 tablespoon finely cut parsley Put the strips into a greased baking dish and pour the milk ov er them. Dot with butter or mar garine and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover and bake in a hot oven (425 F.) for 40 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender. Sprinkle with cheese and pars ley and bake, covered, for 5 minutes more. 4 servings, 2/3 cup each. The Home and Garden bulletin 55 “Potatoes in Popular Wavs" is available from the United States department of agriculture. Phone your news to las Announcing... DOUBLED CAPITALIZATION TO BETTER SERVE YOU ! IN ORDER to better serve the farmers, ranchers, commercial and other borrowers in our area, the O'NEILL NATIONAL BANK has increased its Capital structure from $50,000 to $100,000. Our shareholders authorized the increase September 26, 1960, and the U. S. Comptroller of the Cur rency approved the doubled capitalization effective September 30, 1960. THIS IMPORTANT STEP was taken for two reasons: First—to meet the increased requirements of a healthy, growing community,- Second— to further extend our leadership in the banking field. O'NEILL and the O'NEILL NATIONAL BANK look forward to the future and march forward together h3nd-in-hand! TO OUR ESTABLISHED CUSTOMERS we say "thanks" for the oppor tunities you have given us to be of continued service in all phases of bank ing. TO PROSPECTIVE NEW CUSTOMERS we extend an invitation to use our expanded banking facilities. O’Neill National Bank CAPITAL $100,000 - SURPLUS $150,000 Member FDIC