Prairieland Talk
"Woman with Modern Ideas"
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
She came and sat beside me as I loafed in the
shade; said she was waiting for the incoming city
bus to haul her home. I>o you mind if I smoke, she
then asked. Oh, no, but I do object to a lady doing
so on general principles. Oh,
many of them do today she
countered, lighted her fag to
puff away and made an un
daughterly remark alx>ut her
“crabby old mother” who lived
in a downtown apartment with
her and her husband. Got up to
walk to the bus stop, got aboard
and was gone. A few minutes
contact with an up-to-date wife
and mother. And another
modern wife and mother came Horn nine
later into the picture. Knowing Saunders
that I was alone while daughter and son-in-law were
away on the summer's vacation trip. This other lady
baked delicious cupcakes and had her man of the
house bring the cakes to me. And down my throat
they went one by one.
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Another time President Kennedy tunes up his
gifted voice and tells us all alxtut it as he sees it.
The president is doing the job as best he knows
how. not as a partisan but as an American citizen.
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Another good rain wets the Capital City com
munity as July was ending the hot summer days.
Now' August and “roastin’ ears” in front of you at
the dinner table.
Another morning. The sun starts again its silent
golden trip across the bright blue sky above our
prairieland. Yes, the heavens declare the glory of
God and the firmament showeth His handiwork.
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The old man with cane in hand to feel his way
along the street was approached by a young boy
who told the old fellow that a child’s plaything was
on the sidewalk just ahead. And then that little fel
low hastened ahead and cleared the walk for the
old man. A child with a thought for others. We hear
much about juvenile delinquency. I,et us hear more
about juvenile helpfulness.
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State Senator Fern Hubbard Orme goes today on
her first trip to northwest Nebraska, a visit to the
country of old Fort Robinson, now a Nebraska State
Historical Society museum.
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A city to tlie south of us down in Kansas, the
one time home of that woman booze bar smasher,
they have turned sanctimonious and if you sell a
loaf of bread on Sunday you go to jail. But a hungry
citizen may buy a slice of bread and butter and not
l>e molested. What’s the difference—one business
place open, another business place closed "by law.”
Homer Campbell of a pioneer Holt county fami
ly writes mo from Seattle, Wash., that it has at last
come to him, he and his aged and invalid wife are
now being cared for at public expense. Homer was
a typesetter in the long ago at The Frontier print
shop and at the Tribune here in O’Neill and played
a horn in the O'Neill comet band; worked as a
printer at Atkinson and Stuart, was one of the force
in the composing room of the Sioux City Journal,
and then to that Pacific Coast state; had written
works that were used as text books by university
students. On August 7 this year Homer reached his
HI st birthday, a long life of service to his country and
a friend to all. Homer and I swam and splashed
about in the Elkhom to the south of a village called
O'Neill. Now we are both old and I trust the hand
i f "old age assistance” does not have to reach out
my way as it has Homer’s but I know of no one as
deserving of it as my boyhood pal, Homer Campbell.
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Some days ago a lovely letter came to me from
a lady over at Bristow who I have not had the
pleasure of meeting in person. She writes of en
joying what she reads week by week in Prairieland
Talk and mentions that good couple down by Amelia,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce, being related to some
of her folks Ihrough the sacred ties of the marriage
altar. My friend north of the Niobrara river was
interested in the “blacksmith” story in this depart
ment some weeks ago. And now she writes that we
all may know that there is at least one blacksmith
left in Boyd county, an aged patriot Mr. Martinson,
82 years old, standing six days a week at his anvil
in his Boyd county town and the smithy and his aged
wife maintaining their home just across the street
from the blacksmith shop. I am glad to share this
information with Frontier readers, and thank you
much for your good letter, Mrs. Shattuck.
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My daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. H.
E. Eno, are back in Lincoln again after a three
week outing that took them to that great city on the
southeast coast of Florida where they have a son
living. A swim in the ocean was an exciting experi
ence for these two prairieland dwellers. Daughter
reports that many of the million that make up the
population of that community speak Spanish and
the clatter of Spanish talk is heard on all sides.
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Prairieland is clothed in summer green, a clus
ter of floral bloom adding a bit of color to the scene.
The song of birds, the croaking frogs, the jackrabbit
hopping about, the hungry coyote trotting here and
there, the bull snake crawling through the grass,
birds awing and we hear them sing, the golden
crested eagle soaring high on out stretched wings.
The genus homo? Oh, he just sits in the shade and
does nothing.
Editorial
Meanwhile, Back Home
Have you asked your neighbor lately how he
thinks the Administration’s doing?
The chances are that he—like millions of other
loyal Americans - will talk about what the govern
ment is doing alwut the foreign situation.
Well, we don’t like the frigid war any more than
the next fellow. But the sad fact is that while we’re
moaning about Moscow, the administration is ham
mering together a 10-program domestic welfare
state plan that would annihilate our basic American
liberties.
Each of these programs includes a plan to
increase centralism the central government con
trol of the vital elements of our economy.
Here's what the 10 programs would do:
1. Control factory location. 2. Control wages in
local intrastate business. 3. Control local school
systems. 4. Control production and distribution of
power. 5. Control city development. 6. Control the
employment market. ?. Control hospitals . . . and
ultimately medicine. 8. Control the farmers. 9. Con
trol the market place. 10. Control of capital accum
ulation through tax tinkering.
Or. to put it in two words:
Control us.
CORVALLIS, ORE., GAZETTE-TIMES: “We
would like to launch a vigorous protest against a
ruling by the U. S. Internal Revenue Service which
will not permit a privately owned business—cor
poration, partnership or individually owned—to
charge off as an expense any advertising which at
tempts to sell the opinions of its owners if these
opinions are contrary to those held or a policy set
by the Federal government.”
Plenty of Strings
Supporters of federal aid to education say that
Washington will dole out dollars without any strings
attached. However, the facts show otherwise, as
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States
points out. Whenever the U. S. Office of Education
has passed out money, it has exercised controls.
The Chamber cites a list of specific examples.
Among them: The Office of Education dictated cur
riculum and administrative practices of a guiding
and counseling institute in Tennessee. Under the
same Office's regulations a language laboratory in
an Illinois school must remain idle when not used
for teaching modern languages; it cannot be used
to teach Latin. A federal employe threatened to
remove a school adding machine from a. Minnesota
school if it were used for any purpose but science—
the government had helped buy the machine. In
Alabama the government set minimum wages to be
paid on a school building for whose construction
federal funds were used.
So it goes. And no one should be surprised.
Back in 1942 the Supreme Court held that “it Is
hardly lack of due process (of law) for the gov
ernment to regulate that which it subsidizes." That
pretty well tells the whole federal aid story.
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Frontiers
50 YEARS AGO
William Monahan and Miss
Rose Gallagan, both of Atkinson,
were granted a marriage license
by County Judge Malone Mon
day . . . Last week Elmer Mer
riman purchased the pop factory
of Charles Sanford and will take
possession at once and will com
mence supplying the trade with
everything in the soft drink line
. . . The county board of super
visors has made application to
the secretary of the navy for one
of the largeguns that were on
the battleship Maine to be placed
in the courthouse yard in this
city . . . Charles Rice loaded his
machinery on the railroad cars
and is shipping the same to O’
Neill where he will start in the
laundry business.
25 YEARS AGO
Hogs went at the Atkinson
Livestock market from 75 cents
to $1 lower and cattle went at 25
cents lower than a week ago with
best fat sows at $8.50 to $10.35,
and best yearling steers at $4.80
Miss Edith Canady and
Harold Summers, both of Middle
branch were united in malriage
at the Methodist church in O’
Neill Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 11
p.m. . . . Last Wednesday Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson cele
brated their 40th wedding anni
versary with all of their children
and grandchildren present . . .
The annual meeting of the O’Neill
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union held election of officers
August 3 at the home of Mrs.
Frank Oberle; Mrs. Elsie John
son is new president. . .Miss
Merle Ohmart, O’Neill, and Ar
thur Rosenkrans, Dorsey, were
united in marriage August 5 at
Anoka in the home of the Rev.
Chester Anderson.
10 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Guy Cole, Emmet, injur
ed her back in a fall from a step
ladder at her home Wednesday
morning . . . Nebraska state rail
way commission gives permis
sion to Chicago & Northwestern
to discontinue passenger trains
21 and 22 . . . Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Tomlinson mark 55th wedding
anniversary . . . Well-known Holt
county farm woman, Mrs. Ray
Noble dies August 6 on 50th birth
day . . . Cpl. Paul Hartigan.
Page, returns to states after
serving nine months in Korea . . .
E. W. Anderson of Sioux City,
announces that arrangements
have been made to purchase the
Danceland location on highways
20-281 where a drive-in theater
will be constructed.
5 YEARS AGO
Navy Chief Duane Thorin, for
mer Chambers and Neligh man,
writes war story, ‘“Ride to Pan
munjom” to be published in Oc
tober . . . Mr. and Mrs. Henry
W. Tomlinson Sunday were hon
ored by 100 friends at a picnic
dinner to celebrate their 60th
wedding anniversary . . . Rain
fall aids dry pastures in almost
daily showers . . . Cecil Baker,
manager of the O'Neill office of
Kansas Nebraska Gas company,
is transferred to Fullerton office;
his successor is Kenneth Curren
. . . Mrs. Delia Harrison was
crowned queen of the 56th annual
Holt county old settlers' at picnic
. Norman Walter, Chaml>ers,
will be ordained as a minister of
the Lutheran church August 12;
in September he and his wife
will leave for Formosa.
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
There is now nearly a sure
prospect that southern Holt coun
ty is going to harvest a record
breaker crop of com . . .H. B.
Burch went out to the C. E. Burch
ranch Wednesday to put up hay
■ C. M. Smith and daughter,
Nellie, came in on the stage yes
terday, moving his family to
Chambers to live in the Mary
Sageser house . . . Born to Mr.
and Mrs. John Haake August 15
a son . . The O’Neill Stage is
considerably improved by hav
ing some attractive lettering
placed on the cover . . . John
Walters who lives four miles
northwest of Chambers received
a bad flesh wound by running a
rifle cleaning rod into his left
hand . . . Florence Wintermote,
who was so severely injured re
cently by having a horse fall
with her, is now greatly improv
ed.
25 YEARS AGO
Pioneer Postmistress Sarah
Jane Ballagh, daughter of Robert
and Nancy McLeod, died July 24
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
A. A. Chambers of Burwell . . .
Mr. and Mrs. William Turner
went to O’Neill Tuesday to help
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Tomlinson, celebrate their 40th
wedding anniversary ... A pretty
wedding took place at 8 o’clock
Sunday morning August 2 when
Miss Wilma Nolte, Lynch, be
came the bride of Prof. Herman
Gimmestad, Fremont, in the
home of the bride’s parents . . .
A prairie fire southwest of Beav
er Valley store did considerable
damage to the farm buildings
and possessions of Clarence
Greeley.
Atkinson News
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Skrdla. ac
companied by Mrs. Mable Robert
son of Chambers went to Arcadia
last Wednesday. Mrs. Skrdla and
Mrs. Robertson were two of six
judges for the annual flower
show at Arcadia. Arcadia has
been recognized for its beautiful
shows and Atkinson can be just
ly proud to have accredited jud
ges from our area to serve our
many flower shows about the
state.
Mrs. Opal Keating left last
Wednesday for Denver where she
will spend two weeks visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Devall,
Steven, Cindy and Tim. She will
also visit her son, Keith. Another
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Keating and family,
are also expected to be in Den
ver for a few days to visit his
mother and other relatives.
Mrs. Kenneth Schultz, Mrs.
Walter Puckett and Mrs. Earl
Earl Coxbill were hostesses to
a prenuptial shower Saturday
evening at the Puckett home
for Miss Carolyn Skopec, daugh
ter of .Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Skopec, of Stuart. Miss Skopec
will be married August 13 to
Gary Aten, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Aten, Ainsworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin McClurg
and Marcia, Broken Bow, Mr.
and Mrs. Warren McClurg, Bas
sett and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mc
Clurg and Donna and Mr. and
Mrs. Glen McClurg, all of Atkin
son, drove to Council Bluffs Sun
day to visit Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Miller. Mrs. Miller is a sister of
Elmer, Warren, and Glen Mc
Clurg. They returned Sunday
night.
Mrs. Emma Kazda came Sun
day to visit her son and daugh
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Kazda, for a few days. She ex
pects to return to Omaha the lat
er part of the week.
Mrs. Kay Boyd was a last Sat
urday caller at the home of Mrs.
William Wefso.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Osborn and
family returned last Saturday
night from a vacation trip to var
ious points in the Black Hills. The
Osborns encountered a variety of
weather conditions while in the
Hills. Along with the hot wea
ther they drove in snow near Cus
ter, S. D., and also showers and
accompaning hail storm while
touring in the hills. They visited
at Columbus before returning
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Osborn
and family, Ord, and Marie Os
born, Lincoln, were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Osbom. Wilbur is a brother of
Dick and Marie Osborn is Dick’s
sister.
Mrs. Harvey Wahl returned Sun
day evening from Valentine after
spending the past two weeks in
the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Haas and son, Bryon.
Vernon Rothchild, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Rothchild, is
expected home Thursday of this
week to spend a furlough with his
parents and relatives He has
been stationed at Ft. Bliss, Tex.,
where he has received his basic
training.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kazda
took Alfred’s mother, Mrs. Em
ma Kazda, Omaha, to Yankton
Monday to visit her brother, Ed
Kreiger who is 86 years old.
Mrs. Lurlin Collins and family
will come from New York Satur
day of this week to spend a few
weeks visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Rothchild,
and other relatives and friends
and to attend the wedding August
19 of her brother, Vernon Roth
child to Gayle Siebert, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Siebert,
Atkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wefso
and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Colfack
were Sunday dinner guests of Dr.
and Mrs. J. W. Carlson, Scott and
Sheryl at Crofton.
Mr. and Mrs. William McKin
ley, and daughters, 0. G. Randol,
Ponca, and Sandra Stevens, At
kinson, were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. George Randol in
Atkinson. Mona Rae Randol re
turned to Atkinson with the Mc
Kinleys after spending the past
week in Ponca. 0. G. Randol is
George Randol’s father and is 92
years old. When the McKinleys
returned to Ponca Carol, Linda
and Kathy McKinley remained in
Atkinson to spend a week with
their cousin, Mona Rae.
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Phone 289 O'Neill, Nebraska
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Cadet John Ries
Completes Training
Cadet John N. Ries, 20, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Ries, At
kinson, completed six weeks of
training at the Army Reserve Of
ficer Training Corps summer
camp at Fort Riley, Kan., July 28.
During this training Cadet Ries
received practical experience and
instruction in tactical, technical
and administrative subjects, with
special emphasis placed on the
duties of a second lieutenant in
an infantry unit. More than
1,450 cadets from colleges and
universities throughout the coun
try attended the training which
began June 17.
Ries is a student at Creighton
university.
Inman News
By Mrs. James McMahan
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stevens of
Lansing, Michigan spent Wednes
day evening visiting their uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Kelley and Kay.
Mrs. Leo Harte and daughter
Donna and Mrs. Albert Anthony
and daughter Gaylene spent
Thursday in Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kelley vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Don Kelley and
daughter and Ned Kelley in Nor
folk Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Morsbach
and family returned to their
home at Rapid City, South Da
kota Friday after visiting Har
lan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Da- -
vid Morsbach, for a week. -
Mrs. Anna Smith visited Mrs.
Eva Murten at Blair on Monday.
She accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Trowbridge of Page who
made a business trip to Omaha.
Miss Barbara Keil is a medical
patient at St. Anthony’s hospital
in O’Neill.
Mrs. Anna Smith entertained
her group of the WSC9 on Wed
nesday afternoon at her home.
The hostess served lunch to the
group at the close of the after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tjessem and
daughters of Maywood, 111., ar
rived Sunday for a visit with
Mrs. Tjessem’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Clark.
Richard Keil returned Saturday
from Terminal, Tex., where he
has been visiting his aunt, Mrs.
E. B. Reinhart for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anthony -
anl family visited Mr. and Mrs. ■
John Hoffman and family at I
Clearwater Sunday evening.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Reynolds andI
family were Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Schiessler, Sioux City, la., Mr.
and Mrs. Teddy Schiessler and I
family, Coleridge, Nebr., Mr. and I
Mrs. Guy Hull and Mr. and Mrs.
Veldon Pinkerman of Lynch,
Nebr., Mrs. Irene Carsten of
Bonesteel, S. D., and Mrs. Faye
Pinkerman of O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hull of
Lynch were Friday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds
and family. The occasion was the
35th wedding anniversary of the
Hulls.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sobotka and
family of Columbus visited Mr.
Sobotka’s father John S<<botka on
Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Reynolds and
daughters accompanied Mrs. Guy
Hull of Lynch to Neligh Tues
day.
Mrs. Albert Reynolds and
daughters spent Thursday visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hull at Lynch.
The following surprised Mrs.
Vaden Kivett, who has recently
received her college degree from
Wayne State, on Friday evening
at the Kivett home. Mr. and Mrs.
Howai-d Jackson and son, O’Neill,
Mr. and Mrs. James Coventry,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hansen,
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. Lyle Abney, Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Tompkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Anthony, Mr. and
Mrs. James Sobotka, Mr. and
Mrs. Merle DeLong and Mrs.
Lewis Kopecky. The group pre
sented a gift to Mrs. Kivett and
lunch was served at the close of
the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sobotka and
family and John Sobotka went to
Valentine Monday to visit Har
old Sobotka who is employed with
radio station KVSH at Valentine.
Ned Kelley of Norfolk spent the
weekend visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Kelley and Kay.
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