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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1961)
Prairieland Talk "We're Happy as a Lamb" By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51st St.. Lincoln 6. Nebr. Sixty, seventy or more years ago you met a Mullen at every street comer in O'Neill. Where are they now? Well, on the south side of O'Neill's main drag between fourth and fifth streets is parked Leo day after dny. In California is another of the Mullen family who recently wrote me a cheer ing letter from which I also gather that Wallie has mem ories of life back here. Who does not who got started on the highway of life in the O'Neill community where all knew and loved and respected their neighbors. Mr. Mullen sends me copies of the I»s Angeles Times which seems to be for the late Remain* Republican candidate for presi- Saondew dent, Mr. Nixon, for governor of that great Pacific coast state. Glad to hear from you friend Mullen and I assure you that I continue to cherish the memory of yr>u and your once numerous trilie in and around O'Neill. • * * The citizens of earth in many lands are in trouble under the dictates of ruthless rulers. And here we are enjoying peace and plenty, happy as a lamb in this land of Uncle Sam! • • • Saunders county just to the northeast of our Capital City leads the state this year in com pro duction Will Holt county have the most turkeys this Thanksgiving season? Their home was at Blair by the river that runs between Iowa and Nebraska. Husband, wife and five children killed in a highway crack-up, a little lad the one survivor of that family. * * • A few more than 400 families moved into Lin coln during September, probably coming to our Capital City for educational advantages the uni versity and colleges afford. * * * Friends who sent me papers and publications to read should now be thanked and told that after 91 years along the highway of life I have but one eye and my vision so poor I do not read, my daugh ter reading to me the letters and messages that come from friends. I am still able to see the type writer keys and so can typewrite my Prairieland Talk. * * * No more the circus tents down by the railroads, no more the traveling show troups at the old rink such as the Kickapoo Indian Sagwaw outfit and no more the happy roller skating parties. * * * A gloomy sunless day. No smiling face is near, no out stretched hand to wipe away the tear. Then from out of the distance comes a voice: Keep going oil the run! Tomorrow you will have some fun! Mrs. Witherwax of Spencer writes me a good cheering letter from which I learn that she was bom near Scottville in northern Holt county and was related to that unfortunate Barret Scott, who was waylayed by Vigilanters on his way home to O’Neill from a trip out north, taken to the Whitting bridge and hung, his body dropped into the icy waters of the Niobrara river a cold day in Decern l>er, 1894. Mrs. Witherwax seems to have spent her childhood in the Scotville community, married and settled in Boyd county and has memories of life as it was and is today on Prairieland. Another good letter comes to me from Mrs. Mary Haggerty Law son of Columbus, she being a native of O'Neill, a daughter of the Billy Haggerty family, and recalls with pleasure the ups and downs of life in the days ■tow gone, expresses her sympathy over my recent tumble and breaths a prayer for my recovery, as did many others, and here I am on the go again. Mrs. Lawson identifies herself as "your Scotch Irish friend.” Her dad was Irish, her mother Scotch, l>ut Mary is a Prairieland patriot, a citizen and native of Nebaska. • « * After some sixty years out on the grass robed beauty land of southwest Holt county, Howard Berry and his guarding angel, Mrs Berry, now make their home in O'Neill. I hope to see them when footsteps again may carry me along the streets of the good old home town of my youth. I had understood Mr. and Mrs. Berry had looked over the desert sand lands of states to the southwest of us but concluded that Prairieland was the best for a home for them as they have come to retirement age so here they ire in O'Neill where from time to time they can go to the open country. * * » That young Miss who killed mother and dad over in Cedar county because they would not consent to her going out on “dates” is now in the state prison for such as she to serve out a thirty year sentence. No dates now only such as direct the lives of convicted crime doers. * * * My son, Glenn, came out from Ohio recently to spend a few days with his father, sister, brother and friends. Glenn and his wife Florence now live in Dayton, Ohio. Their son, who was bom in O'Neill, as was his father, is in educational work, an in structor in a college in a Michigan city. In the 193vVs Glenn was the linotype operator in The Frontier print shop. He and Florence and their little son went to a New England state whei'e they lived for some year. And my son Romaine flew in from a New England state to spend two nights and a day with us. His home is in the Los Angeles, Calif., community and he travels by air for the corporation he is identified with. Breakfast in Lin coln, dinner in Los Angeles. Glenn gets here and back liome on rubber tires. Editorial He Hasn't Lost Yeti Jack Paar, the cube of the tube, whose frantic antics are beamed into the livingrooms of millions of American homes each week is at war with the press. This in itself is nothing new for Mr. Paar has been jousting with the newspapers through most of his hectic career. King Arthur's Knights could have taken lessons from Mr. Paar for he has yet to come out second best in any of his tilts. We can’t help thinking that the free publicity awarded to the Tonight show has been a major factor in in creasing its popularity. Those viewers who have been “unlucky?” enough to miss one of Mr. Paar’s exhibitions are always able to read a full account of it in their morning papers. And if Mr. Paar feels a particularly sterling performance coming on all he has to do is hint to the press that he has something up his sleeve and they jump at the chance to alert the public that Jack is at it again. Jack's latest tirade seems to center on the pre mise that newspapers in general arc warmongering, libelous and untruthful and are corrupting the nation's morals by accepting ads picturing girdles and Maidenform bras. It is comforting to know that Mr. Paar is watching out for us and has discovered just what the cause is of the nation's moral decay. It is also interesting to note that the television broadcasters can point to their charts and say that fifty million people spend between five and six hours a day watching television and yet maintain that television is not in part responsible for what the American people are like today. If fifty million people spend that much time watching so much television and it has no significant effect, that incredible waste of human time is the most damming indictment that could be made. It would mean that those fifty million may just as well have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads and that they don’t have the emotional response of fifty million tadpoles. It is comforting to know that five nights each week we can turn on the tube and invite Comedian Jack Paar into our home and give us the lowdown on Dorothy Kilgallen and the American press. And, oh, yes, Jockey shorts — B. J. R. Sfc Frontier 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. N ATIO N M. I Tgt IA t They're Tough Questions Nebraska Signal We were among those who received question naires from Senator Carl Curtis asking how much federal income taxes people in the various income brackets should expect to pay. We note several newspaper editors have answered the questions in their columns, giving some very interesting angles and views on the questions. Our first reaction was similar to the editor who stated he did not plan to answer the questions and that he didn't think he should be expected to do so. Rather, it was his position that he expected Senator Curtis and our other representatives to use their judgement in deciding how much we should pay. Another editor expressed the opinion we should expect to pay all we have to pay in order to meet our obligations to ourselves and to the peoples of the world who seem to be dependent upon us for leadership and a certain amount of financial as sistance. We will confess frankly we have not as yet filled in our questionnaire and we don't believe we will be able to do so unless we can get more information than we now have upon which to base our answers. The trouble is families in the same income bracket may have different expenses because of such factors as illness and perhaps because of the difference in local tax rates affecting people living in various communities. Of course, the tax laws at tempt to allow for this but it still is difficult to say that people with cerain incomes should pay so much in taxes. We don’t know what Senator Curtis had in mind when he sent out the questionnaires. He cer tainly doesn't plan to use our answers to help him start a campaign to fix tax rates based upon our desires. If he does it would seem the government may be short of funds even sooner than it is ex pected to be under present rates. We suggest the senator might have asked two other questions we believe we can answer. He could have asked how much taxes we would like to pay. Most of us would answer none. He also might have asked how much taxes we are willing to pay to keep what we have and preserve world peace. We believe most of us would answer we refuse to place a limit on what we will pay for those purposes. W e don t believe the above remarks will be much help to Senator Curtis but we might comment we think the questionnaire has been of value to all of us. It has served to make us see that fixing tax rates is a mighty complicated and delicate pro position. We appreciate what our respresenatives are up against and we wish them well. Ralph T. Moore writes, in Oregon Voter: "The subject of increased federal aid to education is the present source of much controversy in the Congress. And. few people stop to consider that the phrase it self is both fallacy and lacking in basic logic. For "hat is contemplated is actually a diffusion at public school costs that takes from certain States and gives to others in accord with the proposed formu la. It is essentially a money matter, with education only incidental and wholly dependent upon the pre sumption that the bigger the spending the more the education, a pure fallacy too obvious to admit at argument" Frontiers Ago 50 YEARS AGO O. O. Snyder went to Lincoln last Tuesday to attend the an nual meeung of the IOOF Grand Lodge. . Mr. and Mrs J. A. Donohoe returned last Thursday evening from their wedding trip to the Pacific coast and wtre m< t at the train by a dozen automo bile loads of ycjng people who escorted them to the home of Mr. Donohoe s mother for an infor mal reception. . .W. L. Shoemak er returntd from Douglas, Wyo., last Monday where re had been following the Black Hill circuit with his pace, Doctor Jim P. . . C. A. Smith arrived in the city from South Omaha last Thursday the Burlingt n depot here as night and will tukt charge of the Burlington depot here as agent. 25 YEARS AGO O'Neill high school football team met the Bassett high school team last Monday afternoon and the locals to >k the boys into camp for the first time in five yeats with a score of 6-0 . . . Arthur^ F. Melcher, Atkinson, and Mi:.s Bernice Trese, Orchard, were granted a marriage license in county court last Monday. . .Far mer Page minister, the Rev. M. E. Gaidl, ditd at Pae.f Jur.cti n, la., the forepart of the week. . . The first of the school dances at St Mary's academy was held last Monday evening . Mr. and Mrs. J K. Ernst celebrated their 40th wedding anmvtrsary Sunday. 10 YEARS AGO O’Netll Municipal band, com posed of music students from both O’Neill public school and St. Mary's academy, will participate m band day activities October 20 at Wayne State Teachers college. . Gene Cantlon, manager of Gambles store since August. 1917, will leave Friday for Oxford where he has purchased a dealer owned store. . George McCarthy, O’Neill, is re-named secretary of the Nebraska Knights of Colum bus. . -Sgt. Edwin C. Hansen, son of Mrs. Mary Hansen, has re ceived the bronze star for meri torious service in overseas com bat. . Mrs. Anna M. Brown. 93, Holt county resident since 1881, died October 17 at her home in Chambers. 5 YEARS AGO A caterpillar tractor and 11 stacks of hay were destr yed by fire Monday on the Dewey Sch li fer ranch 14 miles south of O' Neill. . .Vincent Thiele, Ewing, Merwyn French jr., Page, and Dave Keidel, Stuart, nominated for awards in the Sioux City three-state soil ccnsevation pro gram, have been declared Ne braska winners in the compe UUi^ . .Rites are held Ocu her at Ewing St. John Catholic church for Gottlieb A. Bauer, 73. who died October 12 at his home south of Ewing. . .Darrel Dexter, son of Mrs. Olive Dexter, O’Neill, has been president of his class for four successive years. The Long Age At Chambers 54 YEARS AGO About 25 friends of Miss Gla dys Baker surprised her Satur day evening, a pleasant time was spent by all present. . Rev T H. Evans is holding a revival meet ing near Bartlett at the Sand stone schoulbou.se and he is hav ing grand success W Calkius, Jas. Grimes and F. D South are attending IOOF Grand Lodge in Lincoln this week . Presbyterian Aid met today with Mrs Fred Kiltx. . .M Beaty and A P No ble went to Elgin last week re naming heme Saturday with a load of apples . B. G Hanna contemplates building a new house. . Ten of the little school mates of Violet Smith, and her teacher, Miss Adams, surprised her with n party at her home Monday to bid her goodby before her departure for Lincoln where she w.il take medical treatment. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Wilma Wilson, eldest di*aghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson of Chambers and Mr Har vey Brandon of Esbon, Kan., were married in Goring August 17. . Tuesday evening abdJt 100 of the friends and neighbors of Mrs Luella A. Parker went in on her a; her heme north of town to help her celebrate her birth day. Monday 40 Chambers men went to the Brotherton ranch and killed 1000 crows which were scared into the trees by a plane so the men could shoot them . . One of the small daughters of Mr and Mrs Austin Anderson suffered pamful outs and bruises when she fell out of a moving trailer. . .Wednesday evening fine broke an around the chimney on the roof at the summer kitchen at the Charley Fauquier Jr. home, causing roof damage. PLANNING A WEDDING? 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