Prairieland Talk
"Rescued by Elder Brother"
By ROMAINL SAUNBERS, 41 li) South 51st Sf., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
President and Mrs. Kennedy have a three-year
old daughter. Little Miss Kennedy thought she
would like to have a swim, so jumped in the swim
ming pool; but instead of floating on the water the
little gal sank to the bottom. A
grown up lady onlooker saw it,
plunged in and rescued the little
'•nr. Radio and newspapers gave
us the story. Prairieland Talker
many years ago was a three
year-old; went with older kids
and an elder brother to a near
by [x>nd of water, stripped off
with the others to have a
“swim" but I was to stay on
a bit of the pond where there
was shallow water. Slipped off Ibunalm*
and down I went once, twice Saunders
and was about to go the third and last time when
brother, Ezra, who had rushed to my help, pulled
me out and the water that had about filler! me up
came out of me. No radio or newspaper notice of
that childish event. But I have survived.
* * *
A friend at Page sends me a copy of the printed
Story of the Rev. Hartley Plain, a pioneer Methodist
preacher on the prairies of Holt county, the builder,
organizer and first pastor of the Methodist church
in O’Neill that stood from early limes until recent
times where the present fine church building of the
Methodists stands today at 531 E. Clay street. The
Rev. Plain and his bride came in their youthful days
to the prairies of Holt county from Michigan, the
ministers of his church then know as Circuit Riders,
which meant going from place to place. As publisher,
editor, state senator and former federal official,
the late Denny Cronin, said many times the priests,
and preachers of pioneer days came here not to get
rich but tc. minister in a spiritual sense to the citi
zens. Yes, the story of the pioneer Methodist mini
ster is interesting and will no doubt be read by
many. The Rev. and Mrs. Plain made their home
in later years in Page community. I believe he
served at one lime as county superintendent of
schools. The printed story of this pioneer church
and school man has his picture and his young wife
by his side: also a picture of the church he built
in O'Neill and a picture of the Methodist church
and parsonage in Page.
* * *
Lew Nissen left his Lincoln home the morning
of July 10 to go up to Holt county to spend a week
with relatives and friends at Atkinson and in the
Amelia community. Lew invited me to go with him
to disembark as we pulled into O’Neill, hut I had to
Ik> in Lincoln at that time.
Editorial
Daughter and her life's companion who see that
dad behaves are on a three-week vacation trip that
takes them to the southeast limits of this Land of
Uncle Sam. Son-in-law has three weeks off duty on
full pay, but was touched before leaving on that
trip for $75 income tax. In my working days we had
no time off on full pay nor were we touched for
inc ,me tax. Big pay today and big expenses. What
next? Well, we should be ready for it with a smile
or a frown.
* * *
Two from the same household—the one a saint,
the other a sinner. From the same orchard a sweet
apple and a bitter one. The good and the bad travel
life's highway side by side.
* * *
Dr. J. P. Gilligan came to O'Neill from an
eastern state when a young man. Established his
office and "surgical ward” in a little back room of
the old Holt G>unty Bank building. The doctor served
the community for many years, married and
established a home and reared a family, served as
mayor of O’Neill and after moving from the old
Lank building had commodious quarters over the
drug store he and his brother-in-law, Charley Stout,
had some three doors west of the First National
Bank. After a life time of treating the sick among
is the doctor now lays in the abode of the dead
"up on the hill.” Mrs. Gilligan, the last I knew, was
living in Omaha.
* * *
O'Neill still has two banks and two newspapers.
At one time there were four banks and I count eight
newspapers that once were edited, published and
printed in a little country town bearing the honored
name O'Neill. At the comer of what is now Fifth
and Douglas street and just across the street from
MeCafferty’s hardware store in a building later
taken over by Toohill’s “butcher shop” the town’s
liist newspaper was there l>orn and died. Others
that came and went were the Holt County People,
the Tribune, Free Press, Item. Sun, Beacon Light,
Alliance Tribune and a sheet bearing the name
Democrat. And The Frontier outlived them all.
* * *
Public officials in state and nation serve their
country, of which you and I are a part. The corn
grows, grass is green, flowers bloom, birds sing.
And up there seated upon a golden throne He has
a watchful eye over all including you and I.
* * £
Mike Horiskey, Montana Jack Sullivan, Billy
McNichols and L. G. Gillespie with us no more only
in memory. But we smile and extend a hand as
along life’s highway there comes still hale and
aearty Walt O’Malley, Henry Grady, Hugh Coyne,
Cal Stewart and other long time friends.
Out Of All Reason
Proposed new postage rates would increase
postal costs for small-town weekly and daily news
papers by an average of 254 per cent—and would
undoubtedly force many of them out of business.
That is the gist of figures compiled by the National
Editorial Association, and presented by an Associa
tion spokesman to the House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee.
Almost everyone agrees that something must
l>e done about the Post Office deficit, which is cur
rently tunning in the vicinity of $700 million a year.
But a rate increase such as this on the smaller
newspapers coming as it would on top of other
rate increases amounting to 89 per cent which have
been imposed during the last 10 years—would be
out of all reason. The carrying of newspapers and
magazines, like the carrying of letter mail, has been
regarded as an essential public service ever since
this government began. It is thus comparable to
the military forces, and it has rarely been argued
that is should wholly pay its own way.
On the other hand. Post Office services of a
purely commercial nature should most certainly
pay their own way which means that the charges
should honestly cover Ixith direct and indirect costs.
The salient example here is parcel post, which com
petes with private tax-paying carriers at the local
as well as the national level. It is not in any sense
of the word a basic function of the Post Office De
pot tment and it has been operated at an enormous
cumulative deficit over the years. It would seem
that substantially increased parcel post charges
should be a first step in dealing with the Post Office
deficit problem.
ELLSWORTH, WISC., HERALD: “The Defense
Dept, spends half of the national budget. $42 billion.
Half of that is for the procurement of goods ....
One provoking figure is that 86 per cent of the $21
billion spent on materials is being handed out by
military officers to industry without competitive bid
ding .... Since 1947 Congress has been recommend
ing that the system of awarting contracts without
competitive bidding be adandoned save in extremely
rare instances. But the practice continues. You
can’t blame the military for wanting it to continue.
It makes things ‘more flexible.’ It’s also one of
those reasons you'll whistle a long time for a tax
reduction.”
DALLAS, TEX.. NEWS: “Freedom of choice
should apply to labor unions the same as to any
thing else. If a man is FORCED to join a union in
order to gel a job. then allow deduction of union
dues from his pay envelope in order to keep his
job- THAT ISN’T AMERICANISM!”
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From the Illinois Medical Journal: “It is a
strange paradox that the American people are in
tensely interested in their health, yet they spend
more money on smoking and drinking ($16.6 billion) '
than on drugs, hospitals, and physicians combined
(15.4 billion i according to the U. S. Department of
Commerce. In addition, they complain about the
cost of medical care but are willing, if not anxious,
to spend comparable amounts on their socially
pleasant poisons -tobacco and alcohol.”
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Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
A very pretty wedding was so
lemnized at 10:30 when Allen P.
Nesbitt was united in marriage
to Miss Josephine Howe. . .A
large delegation of O’Neill people
attended the Fourth of July cele
bration at Ewing last Tuesday. . .
James O’Connor, who lives upon
his farm just a half-mile north
of this city, is erecting a neat cot
tage on his lots on Douglas street.
. .Peter Greeley of Phoenix, one
of the pioneers of Holt county, is
in the city today attending dis
trict court. . .Another Holt coun
ty pioneer dies, Cyrus H. Bentley,
passes away last Saturday after
noon.
25 YEARS AGO
The county board Wednesday
had the new courthouse insured
for $20,000, this being the first
block of insurance taken out. . ,
Activities have shifted from
street paving to work on the side
walks where a few spots are in
need of new walk. . .Threshers
at J. B. Ryan’s ranch started yes
terday on 180 acres of rye which
is yielding about six bushels to
the acre. . .C. B. Yarnell left
last Friday for Hendley for a few
days visit and to bring back Mrs.
Yarnell and children who have
been there the past month.
10 YEARS AGO
Northeast Holt county was
hard hit about 3:30 p.m. Monday
by a hail storm that inflicted
spotty damage over a wide terri
tory. . .Tax collections exceed!
$1,122,039 during past fiscal year.
O’Neill Rockets defeated Sunday
on Page diamond, 10-0. . .Joy
Tuch, Verdei, becomes the bride
of Robert R. Wilson, Redbird,
at Verdei June 22. . .Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Watson, Amelia, cele
brate 55 years of marriage. . . |
Birthday party held Monday for!
Judy Sullivan, six year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Sullivan.
5 YEARS AGO
A group of 12 Turkish agricul
turists is touring Holt county. .
Mrs. Archie Tuttle, Ewing, is in
jured by thrown firecracker. . .
Mrs. W. J. Cronin, 80, Ewing,
dies June 29. . .Page Roller Rink
opens July 13. . .Polio vaccine is
more plentiful in Holt county. . .
Frontier sponsors O’Neill Day at
Madison horse races. . .Fund hits
$2,798 for Leonard Lorenz, 35,
Middlebranch farmer who lost
both arms in baler accident. .
7,000 bushels of grain destroyed
in fire at C. G. Pratt farm near
Bristow. . .Showers boost pas
tures and crops.
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The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Maud Blake had a lively
runaway Thursday but fortunate
ly escaped unhurt. . The Vaude
ville and Moving Picture Show of
Duncan and Devere's has been in
Chambers all this week, and it
has been first class in every res
pect with clean, entertainment. .
Link Lowery had a fine colt kill
ed by lightning Thursday. . .The
Rev. G. A. Barker of Silver City,
la., spoke to the IOOF on their
Memorial Day anniversary at
which time he had a very large
and appreciative audience in the
Band Boys tent.
25 YEARS AGO
Florence Lillian, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Kincaid, be
came the bride of the Rev.
George Basil Anderson, son of
Mrs. Bertha Anderson of Coquil
le, Ore., June 15. . .Mr. and Mrs.
Craig Baker entertained Sunday
in honor of Mrs. Baker’s mother
Mrs. Art Johnson's birthday. .
A big July 4 celebration planned
here with races, parade, band ■
concert, ball game, show, fire
works and dance. . .Coming to
the Golden Gate Theatre, “The
Milky Way” with Harold Lloyd
admission 25 and 10c. . .The
Helping Hand club met at the
home of Mamie and Marjorie
Sammons Thursday with a pic
nic dinner.
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Phone 788
Inman News
By Mrs. .James McMahan
Mr and Mrs. John Buhlmann
jr. and family of Bartlett visited
Mr. and Mrs. James Banks and
Roger Wednesday evening. Mrs.
Elizabeth Eslick and Dot left Fri
day for Chadron where they will
visit Mr. and Mrs. John Banks
They have been visiting Mr. and
Mrs. James Banks. Mr. and Mrs
Dale Banks and family of Omaha
visited Friday morning with th*
James Banks family.
Mary Morsbach visited her par
ents, the D. Morsbach’s Saturday
evening. Perry Dawes, O’Neill was
also a guest in the Morsbach
home Saturday evening. Mr. and
Mrs. M. M. Crosser and family,
Neligh, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Morsbach Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Crosser
and family of Neligh visited Tues
day in the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Miller and Mr. and
Mrs. David Morsbach.
Mrs. W. E. Kelley and daughter.
Kay, and Ruth Ann Hanson visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Don Kelley and
daughter at Norfolk Saturday af
ternoon and also Mr. and Mrs
James Kelley at Madison.
Mrs. Ethel Siders spent the
weekend in Laurel visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Miner.
Gene Butterfield, who attends
college at Grand Island, spent
the weekend visiting his parents,
Mr and Mrs. Bill Butterfield.
Mrs. Violet Sholes and Ralph
attended a Conard reunion at Ne
ligh Sunday. The reunion was
held at the Neligh park.
Ronald Coventry of Omaha
spent a couple of days last week
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Kenneth Coventry.
Mrs. .lames McMahan attend
ed a stated meeting of Sym
hony Chapter OES Thursday
evening at O’Neill.
Lee Conger and two children
of Independence, Mo., visited his
mother, Mrs. Lee Conger, for a
few days last week.
i
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon dholes
and son returned to their home
in Fullerton Thursday after visit
ing Mrs. Amelia Moore for a
couple of weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Clark and
family of O’Neill visited Mrs. Vi
olet Sholes Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hurt*
jr. and family and James
Ilarte sr., all of Bulil, Ida.,
came Sunday to visit Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Ilarte and family ami
other relative* and friends for
a few days.
Mrs. James Kelley and sou,
Neal, of Madison visited Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Kelley and Kay
Thursday.
Mrs. Vaden Kivett spent the
weekend at her home. She attends
summer school at Wayne.
Mrs Leo Harte and Donna
and Mrs. Louis Vitt spent Wed
nesday in Norfolk.
DANCli
Ash Grove Hall
To The Music of
YON'S MERRY MEN
SUNDAY, JULY 23
Admission 50c
... a glass of beer
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same way, so is a glass of good beer.
Beer, the light, sociable refreshment, belongs with
good living. But even more than that it is a
symbol of our political freedoms and rights which
Nebraskans hold so highly. It is the right of
choice — between a cup of warming coffee and a
fnendly glass of beer. A right that should belong
to every man — everywhere.
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