Prairieland Talk
"Sunny Days Ahead"
By ROMA1NE SAUNDERS. 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6. Nebr.
February ended and March l>egan bringing
to the Capital City of our Prairieland state, sub
zero weather, the coldest ever known, and in the
house the furnaces still roaring. But sunny days
are ahead with flowers and trees and the summer
green.
* * *
State Senator Orme was one of a group of
State House dignitaries that had a 7 o’clock break
fast party, a cold morning late in February, the
earliest that any of them had got of bed a’l win
ter. O, what fun it was Senator Orme told me.
* * *
Neil Brennan was from Scotland, Father Cas
uly from Ireland, Fred Gatz from Germany, Mike
Harrington from Canada. And J. D. Cronin, Ed
ward Mann Gallagher and Ben Gillespie from
O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska.
* * *
Our national hero who circled the earth high
in the heavens at 1700 miles an hour speed has
l>een asked to come to our Capital City that city
and state notables may do him honor. And the
Dan and Dick Jones, pioneers who settled our
praireland and started us on the way to become
a great state, these were laid away in the abode
of the dead to be forgotten,
* * *
Have had no word from Will Spindler up at
Gordon for some months. Are you, Old Timer,
sitting at the fireside writing another story of
hay burner days?
Have not had word from my good friend Wal
ter O'Malley for six months or so. Trust Walt
has got through this long cold winter out haying
his beeves without a frozen nose. If I get to O'
Neill at Memorial Day time I hope to see him
on a street corner.
• • *
My son. who graduated from the Berry school
in Swan township over west of Amelia and later
completed his '“book learning" at the Univer
sity of Colorado and today makes his home with
Bobbie and their two dear ones in southern Cali
fornia, spent a weekend with us in Lincoln early
in March. Yes, it is a happy moment when you
look into the eyes on one of your own dear ones,
hear again that deep bass voice and clasp the
hand of one of your own sons or daughters. Ro
maine, for that is his name, came to Omaha by
airplane, was met there by his brother Ned and
they rolled to Lincoln on rubber tires. Romaine
left Lincoln Monday by airplane five hours to
Boston. After his mission to the east is over a
plane takes him from New York City to Los
Angeles in a little over five hours. Five hours —
it took his dad just that to go home from a trip
to O'Neill along the highways to the Amelia coun
try.
* * *
Hotel Evans was our first class institution on
Douglas street l>etween Third and Fourth streets,
the business place and home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wes Evans, their son and daughter. Mrs. Evans
was of the Potter family, her brother and sister
in a ranch for a time in southwest Holt county
and they later coming to O’Neill to engage in
business. The lifeless forms of Mr. and Mrs.
Evans are at rest in the abode of the dead here
in O'Neill. Their daughter the last I knew and
her husband were in Idaho. Their son, one of the
classy young bloods to be see on our streets, was
living in a town in Illinois the last I knew. So
those we had known and esteemed lay down and
die, their offspring find homes and a livelihood
elsewhere.
* * *
In a city in another state a woman went to
i window in her place of abode and jumped out,
anding lifeless on the earth five stories below.
What had come into her life to inspire this way
3f ending it we know not. But this we know, “Be
not deceived for God is not mocked and what so
•ver you sow you shall also reap.”
* * »
We were at her funeral yesterday at a down
town funeral home, a dark uninviting place. But
that aged woman straightened for teh grave knew
us not as we looked at her lifeless face. Her suf
fering is over, now at rest in her grave. Yes,
"The living know that they shall die but the dead
know not anything.”
Editorial
A Nebraska Steak
^IMhma V-WUIIIJ own ;
Nebraska had better get on its toes before Iowa
succeeds in a conspiracy which would give midwest
residents the wrong impression.
We’re speaking of the proposal to introduce an
“Iowa steak’’ to promote Iowa livestock products.
The cut of sirloin with bone and fat removed,
they tell us, was designed by meat specialists at
Iowa State University.
It would l>e included on menus right along with
“filet mignon’’ and the “New York cut’’.
We raise our voice in protest.
Everybody knows that Nebraska steaks are tops.
The gourmet’s special prepared in South Sioux steak
houses attract Iowans like a duck to water. (We
substantiate the Nebraska steak claim by pointing
out that even though the meat was processed in
Iowa, the beef came from a Nebraska feed yard.)
Then, too. Omaha has long been known as the
steak capitol of the midwest.
The Nebraska license plate carries "The Beef
State" slogan.
Nebraska had better come up with a cut of
steak all its own.
We re looking forward to the day when we can
lean back in a chair at a local steak house, never
bother to look at the menu, and say to the waitress:
“Make mine a Nebraska cut, medium, please.”
Frontier
BRUCE J. REHBERG, Editor
BILL RICHARDSON, Publisher
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Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
Edward Malloy, the 13-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Malloy of Emmet, died at their
home Friday from pneumonia. .
. Dr. Lyons Mullen returned to
his practice in Detroit after
spending three months with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Mullen. . The regular spruig
term of district court convened
in this city last Monday with
Judge Dickson on the bench, C.
B. Scott as court reporter, and
H. R. Mills and William Arm
strong, as bailiffs. . .The O'Neill
Commercial club, organized last
month, held a banquet at Evans
hotel and held a discussion con
cernmg the new hotel and library
to be built here. . .The O’Neill
high school has sanitary drink
ing fountains.
Zo 1 fc-AK* AV.U
A surprise birthday party was
held March y lor Mis. William
Menish in celebration of her 88th
birthday anniversary. . .Last
rites held Sunday for Mrs. Susie
Horiskey, 69 , wh died at her
home here Friday. . .Nine bulls
bring average oi nearly $250 a
head for R. E. Lucas, Page, at
a North Central Nebraska Here
ford Breeders association sale in
Valentine. . .Ray Eby and Ralph
Beckwith have rented a building
and under the name of the E & B
Motor company will hand the
Chrysler and Plymouth cars. . .
Mrs. Conie Gokie returned home
from the Stuart hospital Thurs
day after undergoing an appen
dectomy. . .Jerry J. Mabula will
open a meat market in the build
ing formely occupied by Med
lin’s Market.
10 YEARS AGO
O’Neill is shocked by murder
of Police Chief Chet Calkins, 51,
whose bullet-riddent body was
discovered about 2 a.m. Friday
at the wheel of his cruiser car.
. .Chief Aviation Pilot Duane
Thorin, Chambers, is officially
reported missing in action in the
Far East. . .Don Cunningham,
well-known Sioux City market
news reporter, will be principal
speaker of the Holt County Ex
tension service March 19, , .Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Oetter enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker
fit a dinner in honor of Mr.
Parker’s birthday Saturday. . .
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ressel quiet
ly observe their 61st wedding an
niversary Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Ressel.
. .The Martez club met at the
home of Mrs. M. J. Golden Tues
day evening following dinner
the M & M cafe.
& Y IS AltS AUU
F. J. Dishner, former mayor,
dies of heart attack March 11
at his home. . .Holt county pop
ulation has increase of 436 per
sons in census of Commerce; Al
lan Van Vleck is retiring pres
ident. . .Woman’s club plans li
brary benefit style show. . .St.
Mary's Cardinals lose to Cedar
Rapids by one point in the class
C cage playoffs. . .Friends hon
or Mrs. Don Drey, the former
Bonnie Jo Jefferies, Ewing, mar
ried March 3, at miscellaneous
shower. . .Elizabeth Schaffer’s
original satire presentation at the
Co-Ed Follies at the University of
Nebraska, wins first place.
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
Wilson Smith lost a valuable
mule Monday morning from lung
fever. . .The Chambers Bugle is
now located in the Potter build
ing on Main street. . .Mike Fleek
has rented the Charles Conarro
place and is moving on it where
he expects to make his home the
coming year. . .The ladies of the!
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Methodist church met last week
with Mrs. Jerome Grimes and ail
report a good time and a fine
dinner. . _At the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Tangeman March
10 occured the marriage of their
daughter, Pearl to Mr. Herman
Holcomb. . .Grimes Bros, had
the misfortune to lose their black
Percberon stallon “Mike" from
colic last week. . .After an ill
ness of about three week, Ben
jamin Otter died March a.
2$ YEARS AGO
Dr. E. J. Oxford suffered a
heart attack Saturday and is
critically ill in St. Joseph's hos
pital in Omaha. . .Town has mad
dog scare and residents are
warned to be on the alert for
queer acting dogs . Interment
is made at the Page cemetery for
Mrs. Mary E. Lumason, 89, wi
dow of civil war veteran, John
Lamason; she died March 1 af
ter suffering pneumonia and flu.
. A new 4-H club, the Blue Rib
bon Heifer club, is organized. . .
A haby boy was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Harley March 6. . .
Mrs. Erwin Adams is recovering
from an emergency appendecto
my at the Norfolk hospital. . .
Neighborhood friend charivaried
Mr. and Mrs. Guy New Monday
night.
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By Mm. Fred King
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Mrs Lavern Held received two
broken fingers, a cat in the palm,
and a badly bruised right hand
March 3 when closing a gate af
ter her husband had gone through
with a hay wagon. In some way
the wagon rolled backwards in
flicting the injury and her hand
was caught between the wagon
and gate Neighbors assisted in
opening their driveway so Mr.
Held could take her to get med
ical aid. Mrs. Held is a patient
at the Neligh hospital.
Mrs. George Heggemeyer enter
tained her sewing club at her
home February 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Moser en
tertamed the anniversary club at
cards on the evening of Thurs j
day, March 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brookhou-1
ser called at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Lota Brookhouser j
March 3 and at the Martha Buc- j
hendahl home at Norfolk
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Caskey
were recent dinner guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lavein
Caskey and family.
Gary and Larry Caskey stayed
with their grandparent*. Mr. and
Mrs Edwin Porter, from Feb
ruary 2b. to March 2. Betty and
Dale Von Seggn-n and Nelda
Vruoman stayed at the Lester
Roff home Monday night. Mar.
2.
Harold Alder called at the
Ralph Brookhouaer home March
2. Frank Pierce attendi d a town
ship meeting at Center Friday.
Mar. 2.
Patrons on the Vrrdlgre tele
phone lines began to use Ihelr
dial telephones March I.
Mr. and Mrs Harokl Cihlar vis
ited at the homes of Mr. and
Mrs Donald Kmmson Thursday
evening, March 1.
r*
The roada were ao badly Mock
ed that the snow plow* wen
having many difficulties getting
through tlie deep «*»» drift*.
Mr mid Mr*. James Poda»y
and soiTvisiled her mother Mrs
Mary Valqunrdsen and Johnnie
Monday, M»r 5.
Paul Shierk
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The Frontier started it’s long drawn out career
in a building on south Fourth street and for many
years hung out there. Today it is in a building a
block north of its old home where the printing force
now live, move and have their
fun. Just across the street on
the north side of the alley O’
Neill’s first exclusive grocery
store got going in the late
18H0's when Jake Pfund and
wife came to town from Mon
roe, Wis., where Prairieland
Talker was l>om in the long
ago. There were other stores
thnt sold groceries and also _
other household necessities
, , . Korn nine
from a pan to a tooth brush,
but Jake stuck exclusively to Haimdem
the food stuff and enlarged to larger quarters from
time to time, ending his business activities here
at Fourth and Everett Streets. Mrs. Pfund, like
many wives and mothers, was a devoted church
worker and a member of the Methodist church,
some large stores now in O'Neill handle only
foods, groceries, fruits, vegetables and meat but
at the meat carving block none can out do the late
Fred Gat/.