Prairieland Talk "No More Country Stores" By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 Sny (Indian) on a gallop to get a cake of soap or a sack of sugar, Komalne and Mrs. Henry would come Saunders driving in from the Henry homestead to the west, stock up on household necessity s at the Mineola mart ot trade 7f> years ago. And in southern Holt no store now at a sj*4 called Inez, once a trading center. So it is at Green Valley, Swan Lake, Harold, Blis... !. 111: and I >• ioit. But Amelia survives with two s’otvs, a post office, a tilling station, a loafers headquarter.; and the flowing wells. And Charn bers remains the metropolitan center of trade of southern Holt county. * * * My home at that uni with my beloved life com panion u. in a hern Halt county. One day neigh bor lay . nd I went on a business mission to the ranch I , vout of an aged gent we wished to see. And Ihor.- he was old bachelor eowpuncher in his abode making doughnut a pile of the rich brown freshly baked gcxxlies in a dish on a table. He was not happy to learn of our mission lo see him, hut hospitality forever in the land of grazing herds. So we had front John's open hand a feast on doughnuts. Yes, •hat old puncher could make gotxl things to eat is well as rope and brand a steer. * * * One red ri[>e tomato for one dime. The hand that plucked that tomato from the vine may get one penny of my dime. * * * Over 100 in the shade the last few days of June. Then the evening of July 1 dark clouds, the roll of thunder and an inch or more of cooling showers here in the Capital City. And the sun shines again this morning out of a cloudless sky as airplanes go roaring by. * * * A night on the prairie in the long ago—a throb bing that ebbs and comes and the night marches on to the beat of Sitting Bull's Ghost Dance drums. And Sitting Bull and 85 Sioux shot down at Wounded Knee. After a little more than six months in session at our million dollar State House the legislature adjourned at the end of the first week in July and the law makers headed for home. Senator Frank Nelson now back home doing his bit to wind up another summer’s work on the ranch but maybe to loaf away the days out in the shade of a home grown grove of trees. * * * Clinton Lowrie, son of the Rev. and Mrs. N. S. I.«wrie, thought he had to make a trip north to the Kagle creek country a week in the early 1890's. Induced me to go with him. Toward evening came to where Clint had a mission of some sort, stopped u a home to learn that we were at the right place, the home of the parents of Will H. Spindler of 'Yesterdays Trails,” as I guess it now. We were taken in, fed and lodged for the night hospitality >t the horse and buggy days. Clint was a Presby terian preacher s son. We got up in the morning preparing to go to church services held in a school house. And at that service the preacher's son from i vv i told the few that came out that Sunday morn ing what he had come there for. What it was I know hot now. ( ivil defense hideout when in danger hunt your hole in the ground, a shelter under ground. Pioneer pruirieland patriots had their "storm cave." Yes, iust to the north of my homesteading father’s dwell ing out on Holt county prairie was the cyclone • tve and when those dark threatening clouds off •° ,iK’ west I .rought on a raging storm into the eave we could duck and spend the night in peace mil safety. And it wasn’t a bad place for sister and 1 to go to on a hot July night. No air conditioning t!tost* days, no electric fans, no indoor toilet or bath room. Rut we survived and are here yet. * * * July 4, 1961 a calm, hot day. And again memory look me back 80 years to the Independence Day is lien my elder brother, who had come home for a visit from where he had a job on a farm, handed me, his 10-year-old brother, a 25 cent coin for my 4th of July fun. Now, 80 years from happy childhood days and the afternoon of Independence Day I sat on a bench in the shade with my good friend from Holt county. Lew Nissen, at my side. We visited and watched the boys playing ball, grownups pitch ing horseshoes and gents and ladies parked here and there on benches or on the sod of the campus of Union College, where a 4th of July picnic gathering was held. An unusual Independence Day celebration, friends visiting with Irienris and kids having their fun. At the evening lunch hour there it was spread on tables, a free feed for all. And later in the eve ning a hit of fireworks, motion pictures and water melon “bedtime" treat. Editorial Check Those Home Repairmen The Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company recently issued a word of warning to homeowners in this area. Their advice is ‘‘Be sure you know the individual or company you're dealing with when you're considering furnace repairs or a new fur nace." There are usually one or more local, reli able businessmen in your own community who are well qualified to handle the cleaning and repairing of your old furnace and the installation of a new fur nace. Kansas-Nebraska is not interested in depriving any scruplous operator of business. They are only concerned with stopping the operations of the gyp artists. Homeowners would do well to heed this timely advise, not only in selecting their furnace repair man but in any number of instances where an un known representative of an out of town firm offers his product and services at a supposedly cut rate. \n inferior product, a hidden high interest rate in the contract, or sloppy, unproffessional workman ship can change a seemingly bargain price job into one of much higher cost than the homeowner was led to believe he was paying. And most important of all, a job done by a local, reputable dealer will he guaranteed to be done right. The local businessman will do here long af ter the transient salesman has moved on to another town. A political-appointee clerk in Chicago’s Sanitary District recently lost his S550-a-month job. Reading his story makes us wonder a bit about all this weep ing and wailing by governments, local, state and federal, all desperately seeking new taxes and heavi er taxes. "The cost of government, like everything else," our taxing bodies tell us, “has gone up.” Most any citizen will agree with that, of course. But these governments make it sound as if they’re lead ing a hand-to-mouth existence, that it’s the duty of the taxpayer to cough up, tighten his belt and make do. It’s about time that a few citizen committees did a little probing themselves into how their tax money is spent. This discharged clerk, for instance, was fired only because of a payroll scandal that dis closed several workers were merely signing in and signing out, never doing any work. The scandal did not blossom from any government investigation, of course, but was brought to light by some digging on the part of newspaper reporters. The clerk says no one ever gave him any duties. This is just one case of local government corrup tion, one that was brought to light. Chicago has no corner on such goings-on, we can be sure. With a little prying, similar cases could be brought to light in almost any city, county, state government, and of course, at the national level, too. One can’t stand at a polling place and give a voter $2 to vote his way. He’d end up in jail. But taxpayers are gullible enough to go right on paying taxes to pay salaries to political henchmen for doing nothing at all. Sioux City Journal Stockman — President Julius A. Stratton of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology observes: "The world into which we were born is gone; we have little or no idea of the world into which our children may grow to maturity. It is this rate of change, even more than the change itself, that I see as the do minant fact of our time.” Frontiers o Fred Barclay, down from Stu art last Monday, says they have had three good rains and that the corn crop will be much ahead of the average yield. . .Miss Bess E. Cotterill, graduate of the em inent pianist Emil Liebling of Chicago, announces that she will take a limited number of pupils. . . Paul Humphrey of this city, private secretary to Congress man Kinkaid was married at Vernon, Tex., June 28 to Miss Blanche Stevens, daughter of Congressman Stevens of Texas. . The German Lutherans living northwest of this city and south of Emmet are building a new church in Emmet. . .The mem bers of the Epworth League at Inman will give a pie social at the Opera house next Thursday. 25 YEARS AGO Tiie County Assistance commit tee offices will be moved from the Gatz building to the jury room upstairs in the courthouse. . .H. L. Lindberg took over the bulk station of the Eby Oil company and Chauncey W. Porter took ov er the filling station on west Douglas street. . .O’Neill Food Center advertises i can salmon. 9 cents, pound coffee, 19 cents and 32 oz. Pork and Beans at 10 cents. . .Emil Sniggs retires from blacksmith shop after 55 years. . .Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Vail ana son move to Miles City. Mont. . .Demand for new cars still continues. . .Thomas Donlin topped the South Omaha market last week when his hogs sold for $10.35 per hundred. 10 YEARS AGO John Berigan, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Berigan, will conduct the Municipal band at the June 30th concert. . .Mother Mary Ber trand has been appointed super ior-elect for St. Anthony’s hospit al. . .Mr. and Mrs. WiUiard Nap rstek and daughters leave today for Plainview where he has pur chased a drug store. . .Misses Veronica and Mary Kathryn Coyne this weekend will be visit ing the Low Countries of Europe . .Over 10,000 people expected at Neligh's annual July 4th celebra tion. .Lions club seeks more sidewalks in city. . .Miss Carol Pofahl, Ewing, becomes bride of Willis Rockey. . .Henry Reimer, son of County Judge Louis W. Reimer and Mrs. Reimer, success fully passed the Nebraska State Bar examination. 5 YEARS AGO Ezra Moor, pioneer of Holt county, dies June 23. Funeral services held at Inman. . .The marriage of Marjorie Sire and Richard D. Johnson performed June 22 at Butte. . .Richard E. Tomlinson has signed to teach “ag” class at Wagner, 9. D. . . Mrs. Frank Clements is installed as president of St. Patrick’s Al tar society. . .James Luft escapes injury in car-truck collision west of Norfolk. . .4,000 turkey poults perish in blaze. . .Holt county oats crop “pretty sick”. . .Char les W. Sloan, Atkinson, dies un expectedly. The Long Ago At Chambers 50 YEARS AGO A three act Drama will be play ed in Chambers July 4, and will be given by the Band Boys in their new tent. Admission 15 and 25 cents. . Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Starr June 29 a 12 pound boy. . .Hazel Kapple fell from a I Z4ML i i ___■■ We desire a Distributor to stock our famous Sports Shelf with name brand sporting equipment. Service food, drug and variety stores with displays of Hunting, Fishing, Base ball, Football, Basketball, Golf, and all other indoor and outdoor sports equipment. Operate from Home—NO KNOWL EDGE OF THE SPORTING GOODS BUSINESS NECESSARY-we in struct you in the servicing of the ac counts that we establish for you— Cash income can start immediately. This business can be operated ia conjunction with your present occu pation or full time. An immediate minimum cash investment of $1495.00 is required. OUR REPURCHASE PLAN COVERS ANY UNSOLD MERCHANDISE, tf you are sincere and desire a focal interview, write at once giving name, address and phone number. wagon yesterday morning break ing her arm just below the el bow. . .B. T. Winchell and E. E. Perrin were inspecting roads near Jesse Frarys last week . .Mrs. F. H. Charles spent a few days with Mrs. Gus Hoppe in Francis last week. . .The Union District Sunday School convention will be held in Chambers July 14, H. F. Dyke, secretary. . .A double wed ding took place in O’Neill Mon day when Miss Myrtle Wood and Mr. Jas. Horton, and Miss Emma Horton and Joe Bradshaw were married by Judge Malone. 25 YEARS AGO Art Rowse and son are truck ing blue grass seed this week. . . Mrs. R. A. Ballagh returned home Sunday from Chambers where she has been caring for her mo ther, Mrs. William Gumb. . At torney George Clark was to re turn home yesterday from several cases being held at Lincoln, Nor folk and Wilber. . .Ivan, one of the twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walter of this city under went an appendectomy June 23. . Swan Lake in South Holt county is being restocked with almost 10,000 good-sized bullheads. . .A miscellaneous shuwer was given at the home of Mrs. Jennie Wil cox Saturday afternoon in hon or of her daughter, Dorothy, who will soon become the bride of Nelse Rassmeuson of San Fran cisco, Calif. Inman News By Sirs. James McMahan Mr. and Mrs. Duaine Krueger of Woodward, la., spent a few days last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Karl Keyes, Mrs. Amelia Moore, Mrs. Pauline Anderl and Francis. Mr. and Mrs. Krueger, Mr. and Mrs. Keyes and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sholes and son were Fourth of July guests of Mrs. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sholes and family of O’Neill and Mrs. Helen Sholes of Buhl, Ida., visit ed Rufus and Violet Sholes Wed nesday evening. Mary Morsbach, who is em ployed at Neligh, spent the week end visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Morsbach. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rogers of Granite Falls, Wash., came Sat urday to visit Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Clark and other friends and rela tives. Mrs. Rogers and Mr. Clark are sister and brother. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Johnson and family of Omaha spent the Fourth of July visiting Mrs. John son’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Morsbach. Yvonne Smith of Aurora, Colo., spent the weekend visiting Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith and Mrs. Anna Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Cadwal lader and son of Newport spent the weekend visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cadwallader and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith. Inman Commerical club met Monday evening at the Watson Hay office for the regular meet ing. Several matters of business were discussed. Mr. and Mrs. David Morsbach ! attended Campfire services at the RLDS church in Clearwater Sun day evening. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Mearl Sparks and son at Clearwater. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Oberle of Minneapolis, Minn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. B. South and also relatives at O’Neill and Em met. Mrs. Albert Anthony, Mrs. Leo Harte, Mrs. Walter Ficfc and Mrs. T. G. Hutton attended a TOp club meeting at the Sam Bun wistle home near Ewing Wed nesday evening. Joe Peters, who is employed at Norfolk, spent a couple of days last week at liis hlus . 150,000.00 Jndivided profits . q85 05 Total Capital Account* . ~ 448 085 05 Total Inabilities and O&pibiJ Account* 3 7gg 624 81 MEMORANDA .ssets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes . 659.625® I, O. D. French, Cashier, of the above-named bank do hereby lare that this report of condition is true and correct to the best of my nowledge and t>elief. O. D. FRENCH, flashier We, the undersigned directors attest the correctness of this report f condition and declare that it has been examined by us and to the est of our knowledge and belief is true and correct. I?. N. Cronin, J. B. Crady, Julius D. Cronin, Directors Ask your dealer about a real cool extra cost option-Chevrolet air conditioning Corvair 700 Club Coupe. A ‘d-door budget-minded beauty with thistledown handling, rear-engine trac tion and quick-stepping, sassy performance. Nomad 9-Passenger Station Wagon. 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