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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1961)
THE FRONTIER, O'Neill, Nobruka, Thurmlay, November 16, 1861 Prairieland Talk "Bus Ride Costs 25 Cents" By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51*t St.. Lincoln 6. Nebr. Added to the high cost of living down here in the Capital City comes the high cost of riding. City txjses at first hauled one from one part of the city to another street comer for 5 cents. Then it was raised to 10 cents, then 15 and now 25 cents to ride a city bus. The cost of walking is up, too. Today $15 for a pair of $3 shoes to walk in. But we still sleep in our own beds. • • • Aft«T days of clouds, rain and gloomy weather the sun shines in all Its golden glory this November morning. Autumn days will soon pass away and another winter with its north R«»malne winds sullen moan. This must Maunder* be to bring another spring and summer time, the prairieland landscape robed again in velvet green, silken leaves on lofty trees fluttering gently in the breeze and birds singing as they fly about. But winter days now just ahead, but no longer bobsled rides to the music of sleigh liells as we glide over the snow. * • * Killy McNichols, Montana Jack Sullivan, Mike Horiskey, Frank and Killy Biglin are today but memories for a few of us. Yes, those friends are gone, gone the way of all mankind, from babyhood to the grave mankind marches on. But our dear friends leave behind memories that help the living along life’s highway. Mike, where are you today but up there on the hill where I saw you laid to rest a few years ago, and you and I and that lady friend of us both travel no more down to the Swan 1-ake region, but I go it once more today in memory. Rest in peace, Mike, Billy, Jack, Frank and Billy. Anri may we meet again in a better world beyond this Vale of Tears. * * • At noon Novemtrer 3 the radio weather man told us in the Capital City that there were seven inches of snow up at Atkinson, my home town some years ago. Atkinson always did things in a big way. * * * The fun goes on over at Berlin. When it will break out into a great tragedy is today unknown. Through the centuries one group of earth’s in habitants have had another group by tbe throat. Kill and conquer and we of the genus homo go strutting down the highway of time. * * * Printer-Editor-Captain Stewart now has a post office lw>x down in Capital City. I have not, yet, bumped into Cal, but hope to any minute. In the 1880's O'Neill's principal store was run I by M. M Sullivan at midway of the block west of the First National Hank building. Sullivan was doing a big business when all at once it was learned that he was "broke” and the store closed up, and com mon town gossip had it that two of M. M.'s half dozen or more clerks had robbed him and thus put him out of business. At that time there were five other bits of grocery and dry goods stores doing business, Mann & Hecker, Hagerty, a store where the M and M now is, Schram Bros., across the street south of where the bus depot now is and Mack and Grey's little store across the street from the Sullivan store. In front of that Sullivan store there stood at times a beautiful saddled pony that the grandfather of Neil Ryan rode in from his ranch in the Emmet country, the rider stopping his mount in front of the store, dismounting and dropping the bridle reins to the ground. Cow ponies would stand thus without being tied, and we young fellows looked on with a bit of envy. The Sullivan family lived in rooms above the store. The last I knew there was one of that family now in O’Neill u/hn l»nm in th;it «;tnrn hiliMint* * * * The sun shines out of a cloudless sky this morning. May our walk along the highway of life today, radiate that which may cheer a fellow traveler going our way. * * * Grandma Adison, a pioneer wife and mother. We cherish the memory of our pioneer men who contributed much to the development of the region we know today as Holt county. But little is said or written concerning the pioneer women without whom the pioneers would have been helpless. Grand ma Adison and her husband were early day settlers a few miles northwest of the village of Mineola, settling out. there before the Mineola community was thought of, lived there and Grandma was the mother of three daughters and two sons, one of these three daughters becoming the wife of The Frontier’s first printer, later editor of the Dustan Dispatch, and then editor of the O’Neill Item. After their sons and daughters were grown and gone all but the youngest son, Grandma's husband died, she sold the farm and moved into O’Neill, having a home built on Fremont street between Second and Third streets. Her son, Fred, having taken to carpenter work, built the house for himself and mother to live in. There Grandma Adison made her home from about 1900 until her death some 50 years ago, and she a pioneer wife and mother now no more, her remains in the abode of the dead upon the hill, one at least in the person of Prairieland Talker cherishing her memoy. Editorial Please...No Forced Redistrictinq! An effort is being made by the state association of school boards to determine the feeling of indivi dual school l»oard members on compulsory forma tion of K-12 units throughout the state. The questionnaire asked if school board mem bers favored or opposed a law requiring that all children in Nebraska must attend a K-12 unit by 1965. As we understand it, the association is NOT ad vocating that this be done. It is seeking to deter mine the feeling of individual members only. The vote among O’Neill school board members was 2-2 and one abstention. This is probably in dicative of the vote throughout the state, although a preponderance of favor could be expected in the larger schools. We hope no law is ever passed to require com pulsory redistricting of the state in all K-12 units. We don’t oppose K-12 units ... we just oppose the method. Force redistricting, while effective, will cause so much grief and dissension between neigh bors, friends and families that it will take years to heal. And such a law could cause endless delays in law suits, injunctions and intentional violations that it could be rendered ineffective. The problems involved in enforced redistricting are staggering. Transportation . . . always a big factor in our area of the state, would render pro hibitive the attendance of some small children. The cost of getting small youngsters to school through snowy periods would be staggering and the situation will grow only worse as our rural popula tion continues to drop. There is a spot of hope, however. By a normal attrition the number of school dis tricts in the county have been reduced. This same factor will reduce still more districts, until one day the K-12 unit for each child will become a reality. Stiffened teacher requirements along with higher salaries and other ever-increasing costs will bring along a more voluntary type of redistricting. Several cases can be cited of small rural dis tricts consolidating to form a slightly larger dis trict. These are the first steps in the direction of the all-K-12 plan. Within a few years, we predict that these recently consolidated districts will again con solidate and for still larger districts either within themselves or by joining a town school. Admittedly this is a slower process but one much more in keeping with the democratic process. We are seeing far too much of the government in school, business and the rest of our everyday life now. This enforced redistricting could be the big wedge that would put the government in the school business in a big way . . . forever! Enforced redistricting could work such financial hardships on rural communities that they, in des peration, would have to turn to federal aid to com ply with the state law. This, we believe is the think ing behind some advocates of enforced redistricting. As it stands now, schools are able individually, to decide which books their students will use. If and when our schools come under the control of a federal administrator (which could happen if the federal aid idea gets much more widespread) then one un attainable man will make the decisions. Within a decade the textbooks could be teaching the con cepts of the party in power whether we liked it or not. Time To Wake Up One of the mysteries of the times in the United States is why such a large percentage of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, figuratively speak ing, turn socialistic when elected to public office. Before they became public officials, they would have screamed their heads off at the suggestion of the state or federal government setting up shop in competition with them. But once they don the dress .if officialism, too many of them change and vote to have the government compete with or eliminate their neighbor’s business. The Dallas Morning News recently said edi torially, ‘‘The nation's doctors . . . stand against government (socialized) medicine. In this fight they have been in the front lines since the 1930’s, and ! what they are doing is the biggest story in your lives: Will you and your children remain free, or will the government take you over? “So when doctors fight to protect themselves, they are fighting to protect you and your right to invest in a business of your own and run it as a free enterprise. “Through the years . . . The News has warned that the Tennessee Valley Authority was only the starter of a government effort to control the utili ties. Now the government manufactures a fourth of all power. We warned that ‘minor’ federal pro grams, like school lunches, were only a springboard ... to federalized schools. Were we wrong? “We warned that bureaus like CAB and POC would eventually be used to control the affairs of private airlines and programing for TV and radio stations.” Yes, your turn may be next unless you oppose the extension of federal and state competition with private enterprise. The Way To Oblivion A man from Mars listening in on world argu ments as to freedom and peaceful coexistence would be completely confused. Half the people of the world don’t know the meaning of freedom. The other half have become so used to having it, with out any effort or sacrifice on their part, that they accept political trends that would destroy it, with out thinking. Centralized authority that emerges from the welfare state and government in business in com- i petition with its owti citizens, evolves eventually! into socialism and communism. In the name of' freedom and liberation of a people, government then tells the individual what to do, and shoots him if he resists. When people become mere sen-ants of public of ficials rather than their masters, freedom no longer exists. A government that guarantees freedom is one that protects individual opportunity and owner ship of property, not one that restricts and destroys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When people forget this they are on their way to oblivion. BILL RICHARDSON. Publisher BRUCE J. REHBERG, Editor Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, S2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, S3 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 oaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Asso ciation, National Editorial Association and the Audit tureau of Circulations. Frontiers Ago 50 YEARN AGO Joel Coykendall, 87, resident of this county since 1880, died at his home in the western part of the city Thursday morning . . . Last Saturday afternoon and night the mercury registered about 4 below zero and the wind blew at a 60 mile clip . . . Joe Mann entered into a contract the first of the week with the firm of Morris, Mann & Reilly of Chicago and will enter into their employ January . . . W. K. Hodg kin, who graduated from the law department of the State Uni versity last spring, has opened up a law office in tthe rooms of Judge Kinkaid over the Nebraska State Bank and has entered upon the practice of his profession. 23 Y KARA AGO According to plans outlined by the state highway department the close of 1937 will see a hard surfaced road from O'Neill to Omaha over highway No. 8 . . . O'Neill high wins over Neligh gridsters 27 to 6 ... A large crowd of ex-service men. their relatives and friends were in the city Wednesday to help the boys of 1918 celebrate properly the 18th anniversary of the great con flict; practically all the business houses closed at 11 a m and re mained closed . . . The OHS class of 1926 held a reunion of 11 members Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs George Mc Carthy. 10 YEARS AGO Two hundred guests help Mr. and Mrs. William C. Kelley cele brate their 55th wedding anni versary Sunday . . . November 24 Mrs. Joseph Axtell, Stuart, brought to the midwest by her parents in 1866 for her health, w 11 reach her 100th birthday an niversary . . . Eleven Holt county selective service registrants will leave today for induction into the armed forces . . . Otis A. Kil patrick. 72. O’Neill cattle buyer, died Tuesday morning. Nov. 13. at Sacred Heart hospital In Lynch after several months hospitaliza tion . . . O'Neill business firms will unveil Christmas windows November 28 ... A west-Holt county pioneer, Martin Miksch Sunday was honored in celebra tion of his 91st birthday anni versary. 5 YEARS AGO Diagonal parking Saturday was restored to Douglas street and South Fourth street after an ab sence of more tluin a year . . . Jim McGinn and Gene O'Neill. St. Mary's academy grid main stays, landed berths on the all Niobrara Valley conference my thical grid team . . . Mrs. Ida Noble, 92. who had been in ill health about a year, died Wed nesday . . . Mrs. Tony Lech. 50. died late Sunday in a Norfolk hospital . . . The Balers of At kin-on high and the visiting O' Neill high Fugles battled to a 7-7 tie Friday night in a North Central conference game. The Long Ago At Chambers SO YFAKK A<iO The Womans CTiristian Temper ance Union will meet at the home of Mrs H F Dyke November 23 . . . Ony Anderson will run the hotel ami telephone central at Amelia this winter . . Mr IJen hart has moved into his new house ... A party of young jieople from this vicinity attended the dance at Chambers Friday night . . . F. 11 Leonard has bought a farm in Missouri . . . E, L Feyerherm, Amelia, is re covering from his recent illness . . . Albert Adams. Plain City. O , brother of Edward Adams of Chambers, died at his home last Saturday evening . . . Gladys Baker, Ha/el Bell. Edna Gleed and Grace Robertson who spent a short vacation at their homes last week returned to their »,,«».mt . .i j school in O'Neill Monday . . . Mr. Whipple bought a bunch of shcev of Mr. Mietke Monday S3 YEARN AOO Miss Margaret Marshfield. At kinson. tiecnme the bride of Mr. Ronald Watson. Amelia, at 11 o' clock the morning of Armistice Day at the Methodist parsonage m Atkinson . . . The T. S. and Art Doolittle families. Maurice Kennedy. Ann Mlkus and Alhert Smith helped Karl t Audit tie cele brate his birthday Wednesday night . . Members of the (iood Cheer Workers club met with Krma Illy Friday and worked on Christmas gifts for the Ortbopoe dic hospn.ii Sams of the seniors students are planning te take teachers' exams next Sat urday at O'Neill Chris Mad sen is retiring from ranching and moving to Oregon He is plnnniiAK a public sale November 25. 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