Prairieland Talk
"Horse Race To Chicago"
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
Some 70 years ago Nebraska cowboys took part
in a one thousand mile horse race, from a point up
in Dawes county to Chicago. O’Neill was on the
route at these riders and a number of them stopped
here for a rest. I>oc Middleton
tieing among that number as
Doe could not pass up his old
stamping and camping com
munity. One of the Dawes
county riders eoud not con
tinue in the race ami was sick
when he reached O’Neill Harry
Gillespie, brother of the late
Uoyd Gillespie took that sick
riders’ [dace and headed for the
stopping place at Buffalo Bill’s
show grounds in Chicago. The Ronaaiiie
race was inspired by some Hauwdrrs
ranchers who had gone to raising a fancy breed of
horses, to show us what their fancy nags could do.
But a little buckskin bronco of our grass robed
Prairieltnd won that thousand mile race. A comic
feature of that race to we westerners was the Hu
mane Society back in Massachusets sent out a gent
from that eastern state to see that the cowboys
took care of their horses. Each rider had three
horses.
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We hear a complaint that school teachers are
not lieing paid enough. Now the story comes of a
retired school teacher at her death left over three
million dollars she could not take with her to the
abode of the dead. Pioneer school teachers out on
the prairie were paid 18 to 20 dollars a month, and
that poor girl teacher out by Dry Creek who lost
her life in that ’88 blizzard had been getting 16
dollars a month. Some thirty years later Mrs.
Saunders, my wife, pulled down thirty dollars a
month substituting a few weeks for the absent
teacher.
Two Indian women who claimed to be sisters
and said they were from the Rosebud Reservation
in South Dakota were recently in the section of our
Capital City in which Prairieland Talker now calls
home. These two Sioux “squaws” were well groomed
in the dress of the white ladies, spoke clearly and
were around selling hand made flowers, going from
door to door to find customers. So it has come to that
with our Indian neighbors to the north of Holt
county.
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Birthday and Christmas greetings come from
friends far and near. And again how lovely to have
cheering words from that lady him in a De Yar
man home in O’Neill, now a housewife in a New •
England state. And friends in Seattle, Wash., send
greetings again with a touch of literary beauty and
lovely charm. Mr. and Mrs. Segelman once lived
in O’Neill, they now in a distant northwest state
and say they are interested in Cal Stewart’s under
taking in the Capital City and will subscribe for his
Sun. They in the northwest, the DeYarman daugh
ter in the far northeast. Others here and in dis
tant states send greetings and I thank them all.
There are those in Chambers and nearby who
knew and esteemed Mrs. Ethel Hammer, who with
her husband Ezra Hammer published a paper, The
Chambers Sun. disposing of their interest In and
near Chambers some twenty or more years ago and
went to Idaho. Mrs. Hammer, now a widow, her
husband layed away in the abode of the dead,
Ethel making her home in Parma, Idaho, where she
has a brother and other relatives. Prairieland Talker
recently had a cheering letter from Mrs. Hammer
who thus remembers her friends as the Christmas
season approaches. It is always grand to get word
from friends of the long ago The Chambers Sun
was taken over by a native son of that community
and he and his wife continued to publish a newsy
sheet for a few years, then closed shop. I had done
duty in the Chambers Sun plant at times, and now
Southern Holt county’s flourishing village has no
print shop, but The Frontier has a newsy Chambers
department in each issue of Holt county’s oldest
newspaper, oldest business of any in the county.
Mrs. Hammer was a good newspaper gal in her day
down at Chambers, and now lives at ease out there
in southern Idaho.
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Even a dark cloudy day in early December re
tains a touch of autumn beauty on Prairieland. The
grass rolled Prairieland brown and faded floral
beauty, but with the prairie wildings still about,
the call of the coyote to his mate, the jack rabbits
about at night in search of an apple tree from which
to peel the bark upon which to feed, the rabbit’s
winter grub. Here and there lay banklets of snow
and the landscape at rest until the dawn of a
spring morning and beauty blooms again on Prairie
land. But this is winter, so Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to you all!
♦
Morning has come, the last morning in Novem
ber. I will walk today where I have walked other
days, hope to meet a bright eyed smiling little girl
or boy and make another little friend happy with a
bit of candy. And may meet an aged lonely old soul
and pause again to cheer a fellow traveler along
life's highway.
* * *
In 1881 the world to an end will come, was a
get off that frightened me as a 10-year-old. In the
year 1901 day and night will be no more for
many of us if not all.
* * *
It was a shock to many in our Capital City to
read one evening in their evening newspaper a
letter from a citizen who seems to have turned
Bolshevik and joined the Russians trampling an im
pious foot upon the word of God, the Bible the book
that outnuml>ers all other books in circulation with
its messages to mankind. Where today is the author
that could write the 23rd Psalm, the 13th chapter of
First Corinthians, the story of creation, or the
preacher or orator who could give us something
comparable to the Sermon on the Mount? Yes, the
Communists raise a voice against the good and
beautiful we have known, and what have they to
offer? Steps along the highway to synagogues of
Satan.
Editorial
He Said It Best
This is what the beloved Will Rogers thought of
the weekly newspaper:
"Take away my ham. take away my eggs, even
my chili, but leave me my newspaper.
"Even if it has such purely local news as ‘Jim
Jones came home last night unexpectedly and blood
shed ensued,’ or ‘Jes Bushyhead, our local M.D.,
is having one of the best years in his career,
practically speaking but they just won't pay him
when they qet well,’ and 'election ain't far off, and
everybody is up for office that can sign an applica
tion blank.’
"Now all that don't seem much news to you. But
it is news, esptcially when you know the people and
they are your own folks. So, no matter how punk
you think your local newspaper is, let them take it
away from you for a while and see how you feel.
The old newspaper, I think, is about our biggest
blessing.
"So let’s read and be merry, for tomorrow the
paper may not have enough ads to come out.”
But, Mr. Dillon, He Told Me to 'Git'
The Neligh Leader
Whirling and clattering a helicopter came out
of the Kansas sky Monday and nestled down on the
lush bluestem pasture land.
Out climbed Interior Secretary Stewart Udall
and other dignitaries for a stroll on the prairie.
A site Secretary Udall hopes to turn into a national
park.
There to greet them was a lean weathered
Kansas rancher, Carl Bellinger.
Rancher Bellinger spoke first. “Get off this
land, your’re trespassing.”
Now few words in the American language are
easier to understand than, "Git.”
Secretary Udall. a westerner himself, got the
message immediately. Cutting his stroll short, he
climbed back into his helicopter and “Got”
With hurt feelings the secretary commented,
"It’s too bad when a member of the President’s
cabinet tries to take a walk on a hill he is told to
get off.”
With respect to Secretary Udall, it is not too
bad! It is instead, just wonderful! And what makes
it even more wonderful is that this Kansas rancher
could tell the President himself to “Git.”
Now here is propaganda that should be broad
cast throughout the world. This is what makes the
United States.
It's not only that Mr. Bellinger had the "right”
to boot a member of the cabinet off private property
that is important; but that he had guts enough to do
it in protecting what he thought was right.
This type of American was overlooked by Japan
and Germany prior to World War n. The lesson
they learned has been ignored or forgotten by the
communists.
Mr. Bellinger has demonstrated to the world
that it's still alive.
Price Fixing Confusion
From the Omaha World Herald
I he Department of Agriculture has charged
seven meat packers, three food chains and two pro
ducers with “manipulating or controlling lamb
prices, and restricting competition in lamb buying.”
Secretary Freeman called the charges “gravely
serious.”
If the same business firms were engaged in
the marketing and processing of some other farm
commodities—wheat, for example—they would be
required to comply with the price manipulation and
restriction of competition which Mr. Freeman car
ries out under the directive of Federal law.
Confusing, isn’t it?
Amen, Mr. Kennedy
By Congressman H. R. Gross (R-Iowa)
Speaking at the University of Virginia Law
School Forum, Charlottesville, Virginia on Decem
ber 12, 1960. the Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy,
father of the President, had this to say:
“We have never wanted a part of other people’s
scrapes. Today we have them and just why. noboby
quite seems to know. What business is it of ours to
support French colonial policy in Indo-China or to
achieve Mr. Syngman Rhee's concepts of democracy
in Korea? Shall we now send the Marines into the
mountains of Tibet to keep the Dalai Lama on his
throne? We can do wrell to mind our business and
interfere only where somebody threatens our busi
ness and our homes.
“The policy I suggest, moreover, gives us a
chance economically to keep our heads above water.
For years. I have argued the necessity for not
burdening ourselves with unnecessary debts. There
is no surer way to destroy the basis of American
enterprise than to destroy the initiative of the men
who make it. We will, erf course, continue to have
to pay and pay heavily for our defense. But what
have we now in hand for the billions that we have
spent abroad? We can no longer afford this luxury;
we dare not afford its consequences to our own
security. Those who recall 1932 know too easily the
dangers that can arise from within, when our own
economic system fails to function. It we weaken it
with lavish spending either on foreign nations or
in foreign wars, we run the danger of precipitating
another 1932 and of destroying the very system
which we are trying to save.
An Atlas whose back is bowed and whose
hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms
left to deal with his own defense. Increase his bur
dens and you will crush him, or attack him from
behind and he cannot turn to defend himself. This
is our present posture. It strangles our might”
This is one Kennedy speech I can endorse whole
heartedly. and it's too bad the President apparently
doesn't agree with his father.
F rontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
Fur coats for Christmas gifts
are advertised at the P J. Me
Manus store at the following pn
ces: Genuine Bear coat, $27.50;
Russian calf coat, $20-$35, Rac
coon heavy fur, $75; Black Dog,
$18 50-$25, and Kangarootail trim
ming, $30 . Miss Mary Sullivan
entertained a party of friends at
her home Wednesday evening in
honor of her brothers. Jack and
Dan, who are visiting here over
the holidays. . A hay barn be
longing to William Knitter at Stu
art burned to the ground last
Thursday destroying 600 tons of
hay. . Nelson Van Every received
bruises when his horses became
frightened at an automobile and
threw him in the ditch while
bringing a load of loose hay to
town Monday.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lowery,
Meek, are the proud parents oT
a baby girl bom to them at the
Lynch hospital November 25. . .
James W. Trigg, better known as
saver, uiea Monuay at tng
home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Sanders. . .Mayor John Kersen
brock will be host to the mem
bers of the O’Neill high school
football team and their mothers
at a dinner December 17 in the
Presbyterian church basement. .
.Thirty-eight sign applications for
the re-organization of a Lions
club in this city. . .Crows are
less numerous here than for a
number of seasons; probably con
gregated where some grain was
raised last summer. . .Supervi
sors Reimers, Walters, Carson,
Steinhauser and Sullivan left Mon
day for Omaha to attend the con
vention of county commissioners.
10 YEARS AGO
The Rev. Sam Lee. York, is in
stalled as the new pastor of First
Presbyterian church here, suc
ceeding the Rev. Ralph Gerber
who went to Lexington in Octo
ber. . .Mail carrier, Ernest Ro
senkrans, Lynch, sights Bobcat on
route. . .The Holt county chest
x-ray survey will begin in Stuart
Tuesday morning. . .Herbert Gid
esen, 28, has clothes torn from
him in power-takeoff accident;
suffers fractured led and bruises.
. .Mr. and Mrs . Bert Fink,
Page celebrate 40th wedding an
niversary December 16. . .Cpl.
Gene Cavanaiugh has been trans
ferred from New Brunswick,
N. J., to Germany. . .SMA Cards
capture city basketball title by
defeating the OHS Eagles 30-28.
5 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tams, Ew
ing, will be honored at an open
house reception in the Methodist
church parish in observance of
their 50th wedding anniversary. .
. 94 hunters get deer in 5-day
hunt. . .Harry R. Smith purchases
C. E. Lundgren building to
house Smith Implements. . . Reed
Tomjack, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Tomjack, invites parents on
cruise aboard the SS Bodonian
Straits. . .The Holt chapter of the
Nebraska Small Schools associa
tion schedules meetings. . Jtoy
Rhodes, 67, Stuart, a World War
I veteran, dies December 10 in
Lincoln hospital.
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The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Kapple took baled hay to
O’Neill for L. Fluekey Tuesday.
. .F. E. Graves will have a sale
Saturday and expects to leave
with his family next week for
their home in Wisconsin. . .Mrs.
Graham from Kansas is here on
a visit to her son, Charley Gra
ham. . .George Anderson took
a load of hogs to Emmet the
first of the week. . .Barnums
Hardware advertises rocking
chairs at 75 cents and up. . .
Smith Brothers advertise Christ
mas candy and mixed nuts at 15
cents per pound.
25 YEARS AGO
One-year-old Dodge sedan ad
vertised for sale at $575 by Bob
Star’s Garage; two-year-old Ford
coach with mohair upholstery and
dual horns, $385. . .Mrs. J. E.
Summerer, 38, dies December 3
at her home southwest of Ewing
after many weeks of illness. . .
Grant A. Turner died early Wed
nesday morning at the home of
his son, William W. Turner in
Chambers. . ,T. E. Newhouse is
the president of the American
Red Cross, Chambers branch. . .
Arthur Runnels will be at the
Chevrolet Garage December 12 to
buy furs. . .Santa Claus will be
on the streets of Chambers De
cember 19 with candy and nuts
for the kiddies.
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George Klabenes jr sou of Mr.
and Mrs. George Klabenes sr,
left Monday fur Omaha where he
enlisted Tuesday in the United
Slates Army for three years He
will go to Camp Carson. Colors
do.
Mr and Mrs. Charles Curtnght,
with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Sc hr age
as co-hostesses, entertained the
YML card club at the Curtright
home Monday night. Prizes were
won by Mrs. Robert McDaniel,
Earl Snider, Mrs. Ileen Schmitz
and Bob Middleton. A Christmas
gift exchange was held A carry
in lunch was served at die close
of the evening.
Kenneth Hurtig, Ewing, spent
Monday evening in the Howard
Luben home.
Mrs. Darrol Peters underwent
an ajjpendectomy in the Lutheran
Iwspital in Norfolk Tuesday.
Mrs. George Wrenholt went to
Seattle last week, being called
there by the serious illness of
her mother.
The senior class play “NU
Wits” which was to have been
presented Friday, Dec. 8, has
been postponed, according to di
rector Donald Dupliey. A new
date will be named later.
The second in a series of three
classes in Civil Defense instruc
tion was held Sunday with 55 in
attendance. Kenneth Shtbata is
t ho mein
Melvin Lund suffered injury to
his left leg Wednesday while do
ing chores. Ligaments were torn
and he was taken to a Neligh
doctor for treatment.
Tre Youth Fellowship of the
Methodist church plans to visit
homes in town Sunday evening
and do some Christmas caroling
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Carey are
the group sponsors.
Christmas lighting is displayed
on Clearwater’s main street. The
lights were put up Friday. The
decorations were new last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Snidef
and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hale went
to Crawford Friday to visit in the
home of Mr. Hale’s brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Luben
and the Otto Hubei family visit
ed in the Carl Hubei home Sun
day night.
Mrs. Gertrude Friedenburg vis
ited in the H. M. Wintz home ov
er the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brittell and
daughter, Betty, Albion visited in
the Mearl Sparks home Tuesday
evening.
Try the Frontier Want Adn
By Mn. Ralph Broohboaaer
Weekend guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. George Jeffrey
were Mr. and Mr*. Robert Mit
chell, Julie and Jeffrey. Omaha
and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brandi.
Twin Falls, Ida. Ollier guests
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Ger
ald Fahrenhotz and son, Basseli
William Jeffrey and Mrs
George Jeffrey motoretl to North
Platte Friday where they visited
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Ednusten. Mrs. Glen Fah
renholz returned to her home at
O’Neill with them that evening
Wendell Strop* shelled corn at
the Clarence Finch sr. and Bryan
Finch farms Tuesday, Dec. 5.
C. O. Evans called at the Jef
fney Bros home Tuesday, De
cember 5.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Butter
field, Atkinson, were Sunday eve
ning supper and evening guests
at the home of the former's sis
ter, Mrs. Ottie Mitteis.
Mrs. i^avada Ernest accompan
ied Mrs Ralph Brookhouser to
Brunswick and Creighton Mon
day. Those attending a Christ
mas party at the home of Mrs.
r«ai wc’gifci at v.m^niun muii
day were Mrs. Clarence Finch
sr., Mrs. Ottie Mitties, Mrs Sor
en Sorensen jr, Mrs. Brookhou
ser, Mrs. Irene Williamson and
Mrs. John Steinberg, Page.
The Work and Fun club Christ
mas party was held at the home
of Mrs. H. J. LeMasters Thurs
day. A luncheon was served at
noon. All 12 members and one
visitor, Mrs. Merle Mitties, were
present. Several games were
played. Those receiving prizes
were Mrs. Max LeMasters, Mrs.
Lavain Hines, Mrs. Merle Mitties
Mrs. Fred Uhlir and Vlasta Pos
pichal. A "grab bag" gift ex
change was held. Dessert and
coffee were served at the close
of the afternoon. Mrs. Lavain
Hines will have the January
meeting
The anniversary calenders of
the Orchard high school were
delivered this week by the Band
Mothers.
Sp. and Mrs. Darrell Grass and
sons left for their home at Rapid
City, S. D., after a two-week
furlough spent with their parents,
Mr and Mrs. Arthur Grass, Page,
and Mr. and Mrs. George Hegge
meyer and Eddie.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey and
twins were Sunday visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Porter, Orchard.
Mr. and Mrs. George Jeffrey
and Paul Lee were Norfolk
visitors Saturday, Dec. 2.
Orchard Grade School
Will Present Operetta
ORCHARD An operetta.
"Merry Christmas. Mister Snow
man." will tie presented by the
grade school children Thursday
evening. Dec 21.
R. M. Cowling will supervise
the operetta assisted by the
grade teachers. Mr Mdteis.
dancing director; Mr*. I’ark
hurst, costumes; Mr* Qrlm.
chorus music, and Mr* Carann.
dialogues The t»and will present
numl>ers and the high school girls
chorus will give vocal selections.
Accident Victim
Dismissed from
Creighton Hosp.
VERDIGRE Mrs Donald
Vejvoda, Lawler, la . was disrrus
sed fmm the Creighton hospital
Friday, following hospitalization
for care of injuries sustained in
a car-train accident Thanksgiving
evening a mile south of Verdi
gre.
Mr. Vejvoda is still in the hos
pital suffering neck Injuries, a
cracked vertebrae and torn
muscles as well as bruises Mrs
Vejvoda had lacerations on one
knee ami heavy hrulsss alaait the
face and body
Both Mr amt Mm Vejvoda
were raised in Verdiicre ami were
graduated from the Verdigre
school Mm. Vejvoda Is the
daughter of Mm. Oinrlotte Dole
zal, Norfolk The couple has three
children.
Mrs. Micanek Is
New President
Of Society
LYNCH Mm I >wlght Micanek
was elected president of the Mary
and Martha Society of the Otrtst
Lutheran church, I.ynch, at the
monthly meeting held in the
church hasemcnt Thursday after
mam
Also elected for the coming
year acre: Mrs. Arthur tU-ldaff,
tire president: Mrs. Hale llts
serf, treasurer; Mm. Ilandd
Mtouiek, wsieUn, luwt Mrs
Hmsii tluhor, correapondlnf
secretary.
Pastor Burgdorf led tlte group
In devotions anil Itte topic study
'Hie members prepared "kiddle
kits” of combs, |tcncils, wash
cloths, etc , to la* sent overseas to
children.
Mrs Dale Dessert was hoateas.
Mrs Gay Hull attended as a guest.
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