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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1962)
Prairieland Talk "A Bit of Bone and Fat"* By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 411) South 51ft St., Lincoln 6. Nebr. He and his wife were on their homestead some three miles east of O'Neill. We had recently mov ed to town a mile or so beyond where he lived It was 75 years ago, a calm autumn time on Prai rieland. That homesteader and former neighbor came to our house in southwest O'Neill and talked my mother into letting me come to his place and help with the fall work, saying when he butchered a beef he would bring mother a goodly chunk from a hind quarter. So the next morning I mounted my black horse and to that gent’s prairieland homestead I went and worked for him for a week Romaine or more. Payday came and Hauiider* that day my bo6S came to town and handed to m; unsuspecting mother a bone with a bit of fat mea cxi it the “nice chunk of beef” I was to get for mj week’s work, a bit of bone and fat to throw to the dogs. That gent has long since kicked the buckei in a town a hundred miles to the east of O'Neill where he had made his home for a time. My mo ther lived on without that choice chunk of beef, and her remains are at rest today in the abode of the dead up on the hill. * * • After several months 1 have word again from • • • Miss Coykendal, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Cress. Mn Taylor. A group of ladies known and admired an envied, who walked the streets of O'Neill whe you and I were younger and now but a memory Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Cress ended their days in on Capital City, the families having moved to Lir coin some 60 years ago. Mrs. Taylor studied la' and was admitted to the bar she located in Boy County. Miss Coykendal stuck it out to the las in O'Neill with her parents. * • • She was bom 85 years ago in New York stats came as a child with her parents to Boone count} Nebraska. Lived her life as a Prairieland fan girl and farm woman until recent years makin her home with her daughter in Lincoln. The las day of July Mrs. Clark was layed to rest in th ' alxxle of the dead. She lived for a time in th Amelia community, was the m' 'her of the hus band of my eldest daughter who was bom in O Neill sixty years ago and who with her husban lives today in New Mexico. They came to LincoL to see Mother Clark layed away and participat in the last rites of burial. * * • August, the hot mid summer month came to u cool and calm, with the landscape robed in lovel; green, stately trees in full leaf and prairie rose ... ui cai ui utrvtri so auunaani anc from the gardens the thrifty house wife gather! string beans, red ripe tomatoes, com to cook or the cob and other good things to eat. It was some 68 years back on the scroll of time in the montl of August and all summer long the hot winds blew and nothing grew on farm or garden. So those wh< could pulled out for distant parts. Weather con ditions make us happy or sad. The blizzard of Jan uary 12, 1888, was a day none will ever forget who lived at that time, men and women frozen to death, the prairie a scene of what a winter storm can do. But this mid-summer month the prairie is robed in rich green to form an inviting scene, so we “are happy as a clam in this land of Uncle Sam” while loing our bit along the way. * * * Summer evenings in our youthful years we went to that school section southwest of our town abodes, stripped off and jumped into the clear in viting waters of the Elkhom river. A swim, a dive and splashing about. Now- it is the bathtub or washdish. * * * “Let us gather up the sunbeams all along the way, casting off the thorns and chaff” as we tra vel life’s highway, giving some fellow traveler a helping hand instead of a kick in the pants. Homer Campbell out at Seattle, Wash. As lads in the long ago Homer and I were chums and each learning the printers trade as it then was in O’ Neill, Homer in the basement of the bank build ing that still stands on the comer, I in the old Frontier headquarters back of the then postoffice. Homer's parents homesteaded in that beautiful region of southwest Holt county, later came to O’Neill. August 7 this year Homer is 92 years of age, arriving at that milestone along lifes way nearly four months before I do, my birthday being December 4 which was also the birthday of my good wife who now rests in her grave. * * * The night is done, and another day has come. May we have a bit of fun as along life’s highway we walk and run. * * * The “news”. We get it—our three dollar a year weekly newspaper, two dollar a month daily paper -these gone over then turn on the radio for a few minutes until TV time. And neighbors Jack and Jane tell us the rest, so we know it all and do some of it at little or no cost. What’s the news Jack and Jane? Editorial * Food For Thought At the risk of turning the editorial page into a poet's comer we offer the following poem by Edgar A. Guest for your consideration this week. We also include a thought for the day by Grenville Kleiser and last but not least a paragraph from an editorial in the Tulsa Tribune. They’re short and to the point. We enjoyed reading all three and we hope you will. TAKE SIDES! Take sides! This is no time to be Indifferent to our country’s fate. A world in trouble waits to see How freedom settles problems great. Take sides! Whatever choice we make, Democracy is now at stake. Take sides! At us the tyrant sneers, The despot shouts that we have failed. Back goes the world a thousand years. If we shall falter, thus assailed. Take sides! Democracy requires The faith and courage of our sires. Take sides! 'Tis liberty at stake And all the cherished dreams of man! Our fathers fought for freedom's sake; Now ours the task which they began. Take sides! And let a worn wrorld see The triumph of democracy! —Edgar A. Guest CARLSBAD, N. M., CURRENT-ARGUS: “Here is an illustration being circulated on Capitol Hill to show the enormity of President Kennedy’s $92,500,000,000 spending program for next year: If you give your wife $1,000,000 dollars, and tell her that she can go away and spend it at the rate of $1,000 per day, she would be back in three years broke and asking for more money. But if you give her $1,000,000,000, and tell her to spend it at the same rate of $1,000 per day, you would not see her again for 3,000 years.” TERRE HAUTE, IND., TRIBUNE: “Americans generally seem to hold the notion that democracy is not democracy unless it follows our pattern . We must not . . . willfully impose our ways on people who have other ideas. Yet at the same time we must be careful not to strengthen the anti democratic forces in any country. The general truth operative here is that the situation in Latin Amer ica, as elsewhere, cannot be viewed in terms of black and white. We can neither insist on exactly our kind of democracy, nor can we let our aid fall into the hands of those who want no kind of de mocracy at all.” m£.l>kus.c<, MASS.. FREE PRESS: “For years we have been on an ever-increasing price spiral. It would be difficult to say where it began or its cause, but as the cost of goods went up, labor de manded more pay. Although government profited by increased business, it demanded more spending and so taxes increased. The cost of unemployment benefits were increased to meet the rising costs of living, so the extra cost on business made the cost of goods increase. And so on and on and on. Of course, while all this is happening, thrifty people retired on their savings and those on pension and fixed incomes, are the victims of the squeeze.” JEFFERSON, OHIO. GAZETTE: “The Wash ington economic advisors have proposed that gov ernment continue its heavy spending program and at the same time cut taxes. It’s a neat trick if they can do it.” FLORENCE, ALA., HERALD: “The old saying: The government is the servant of the people' eught to be changed because the government, liiro serv ants, is getting too expensive for most folks.” - BILL RICHARDSON, Publisher BRUCE J. REHBERG, Editor Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, f? 5Q per year; elsewhere in die 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 iureau of Circulations. There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sym pathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will. —Grenville Kleiser There's nothing like a little judicious hell-raising on the part of a few courageous citizens for giving life to a community. A community, like an indi vidual, tiirives on a good name, and you don't get a good name by just painting it on the water tower. NEW HAVEN, MO.. LEADER: “In the begin ning, the United States was certainly what would today be called an under-developed country. Every day life in the towns and cities of the colonies that had gained their independence from Great Britain was not much different from life in the towns and cities erf the Roman Empire. Tools and methods had changed little in two thousand years. The new Nation had no net capital; in fact, it was heavily in debt and operating on borrowed money. There were no railroads, no factories, no steel mills. Many Dther countries were far ahead of us in the prin cipal economic assets of the time. "The United States had only one asset of major importance—and that was not an economic asset at all but a political one. It was the idea of a strictly limited government.” Frontiers Ago 50 YEARS AGO i Don't miss the band concert ai 1 noon daily by Savage Bro s, con cert band. . .Anton Toy moved his general store the first of the r week to the Reka building, for merly occupied by Charles Reka v as a cigar store and ice cream , parlor. . A good sized delegatior of O’Neill people went down to * Norfolk to witness Ringling Bro’s. circus which exhibited in that city. . .During the rain storm last Tuesday evening lightning struck the residence ol t Dominick McDermott, Sever i miles northwest of this city, and g it was burned to the ground. t 25 YEARS AGO e A meeting in which all inter e ested in Prospect Hill cemetery r are asked to attend, is planned for Monday. . .Owen A. LaPrath and Miss Edna Adamson, both of 1 O’Neill, were issued a marriage t license on August 6. . .Reports of > anthrax outbreaks in Holt county have been greatly exaggerated a‘*u nave tauaiu many leuiinria and ranchers much unnecessary '> uneasiness. . .The O’Neill base / ball club will hold a benefit dance at the K. C. hall Wednes I day. i 10 YEARS AGO The new well to supplement O’ Neill’s inadequate municipal wa ter supply has been completed. 1 503 gallons per minute can be pumped from the new well. . . i Miss Judy E. Martin became the bride of Pvt. Robert K. Shaw, July 26. . .Miss Marlene Mal colm and Daryle Beckwith were united in marriage August 9. . . Dance, August 9, music by the Aces of Rhythm Orchestra. . . Three mild cases of polio report ed in Holt County. 5 YEARS AGO Holt County pre-fair competi tion was held at the O’Neill school auditorium Tuesday, Au gust 6. . .A group of ladies sur prised Mrs. Jack Dailey on her birthday Tuesday afternoon at her home. . .Miss Sandra Davis is crowned hay day queen. . .Re gistration for the St. Mary’s Aca demy 1957-58 school term will be gin the last week of August. . . Thunder showers continue to break the heat and boost agricul tural prospects. The Long Ago At Chambers 50 YEARS AGO Sheriff Grady was down from O’Neill Monday in company with county attorney Whelan and Mr. Phalin, to suboena witnesses for the Gillette case. . .Clark Hough is building a new 30 foot addition to his livery bam. . Mr. and Mrs. Mullaley returned from Jackson last week, where they have been looking after their wheat crop. . .Roy Alderson was badly bruised and trampled Tues day while harnessing a team of mules. The mules crowded him between them and crushed him quite badly. 25 YEARS AGO Chambers base-ball team won their third successive game, with the score standing 12-2 in their favor, when they matched their skill with the O’Neill team. Ed Thorin and wife and baby were in town Saturday. . .Miss Mildred Brodham is assisting with the work in “Lill’s” Cafe this week. . .The firm of “Smith & Smith”, with their force of employees, enjoyed a social time Tuesday evening, and tried to forget the hot weather by consuming large quantities of ice cream. Chambers News By Mrs. E. R. Carpenter Mrs. Duane K. Miller returned home Thursday from St. An thony's hospital where she had been a pneumonia patient for over a week. Mrs. H. E. Richards, Chadron, who has been assisting in the Duane K. Miller home while her daughter was in the hospital, re turned to her home Friday, ac companied by her granddaughter Diane. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Haussler, and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Haussler and children. Holbrook, and John Sharp, Texas, came Thursday! and visited until Friday with her father, John Walter, and other relatives. They were overnight guests of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Ro bertson. Judy Smith departed Sunday for Olympia, Wash., where she ~ -I THE MAN FROM EQUITABLE ASKS Farmers and Ranchers, Businessmen, Professional Men and Women Do You Want More Life at New Insurance Low Cost? For Information Write HARVEY TOMPKINS Inman, Nebraska LET THE MAN FROM EQUITABLE BRING YOU PEACE OF MIND will be a guest of relatives anc later visiting her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs. Ed AverUl and son Sekiu, Wash. She plana to returr about August 18. Funeral services were conduct ed Friday at the Memoriai Baj> tiat church for Bert Farewell with the Rev. Earl Schwenk officiat ing Music was furnished by Mrs Schwenk and Mrs. Wayne Rowse Pallbearers were C. V. Robert son, Dean Rowse, Wade Davis Art Hinricksen. Lloyd Hoerle anc Lyman Robertson. Burial was ir the Chambers cemetery. Mrs. Letha Cooke had a birth day party Friday for her grand daughter, Debbie Cooke. Shef field, la., who is visiting her Present were a number of friends her age and also her three greai grandmothers, Mrs. Sarah Ad ams, Mrs. Etta Keller and Mrs Mary Gleed, also two grandmo thers, Mrs. Lloyd Gleed and Mrs Letha Cooke. Not always is a 1 year old girl so fortunate as tc have 5 grandmothers and to have them all able to be present al her birthday party. The dolJ birthday cake was baked anc decorated by Mrs. Vernon Smith MYF of the Methodist churcli held an ice cream social Wednes day evening. They report the af fair a success. Mrs. Joe Daas completed her summer course at Wayne State Teacher's College and will be home the remainder of the sum mer. She will teach the Gleed school this coming year. Mrs. Clifford Campbell and in fant son returned home Wednes day from St. Anthony’s hnsnitnl Klabenes and Kenneth Thomson Attending the exercises were Mr and Mrs. Emil Klabenes, Mr. anc Mrs. Edd Coday. Mrs. Harems Fry. Mr. and Mrs Willard Thom son and Mrs. Kenneth Weller Chambers, and Mrs. Anna Coday Atkinson. Kenneth Weller. Cham tiers, received a master degree in science and education at th< Saturday exercises. Sunday guests in the Eiki Coday home were Mrs. Anna Go day, Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Jakt Miller and three boys, l^akewuod Calif . Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fr> and Mr and Mrs Robert Kla benes and son. Chambers. Gary Holcomb. Lincoln, spem the weekend with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Geiser, Lin coin, visited her brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs T. E Newhouse and other relatives over the weekend. Rena Coppac was admitted ti St. Anthony's hospital, O'Neill Sunday. Mrs Mao Hubbard who hac undergone major surgery at ar Omaha hospital returned horn* Saturday. Her daughter, Mrs Charles Grubb, who had beer with her brought her home. W H. Crawford made a trip to Sioux City, Friday to visit his son. Arlo Crawford, at the Meth odist hospital. He reports thal Ario will be there at least an other week before they can set the broken arm. Mr. and Mrs Wallace Mitchell and family, Wichita, Kan., came Sunday and visited over Monday with his brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tracy and family. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kilty and daughter, Phyllis, and Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Grimes were Sunday dinner guests in the Charles Cool idge home. Mr. and Mrs. LaMont Miller and family were Sunday dinner guests of Joyce Summers, Page. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McNair and daughter, Ginger, Battle Creek, spent last week with his parents in O'Neill and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Mikkelson, Cham bers. Wilmer Warner, who was killed in a car accident west of Cham bers Friday, was a nephew of Mrs. L. W. Taggart, Danneborg, formerly of Chambers. A group of friends, relatives and neighbors gathered at the Lavern Hoerle home Sunday eve ning for a “pot luck” supper in I - ' " ' — DR. D. E. DAVID OPTOMETRIST Complete Visual Care Contact Lenses By Appointment Phone 2101 8pr veer, Nebraska O’Neill. Mrs. Cordia Smith was admit ted to St. Anthony’s hospital, O’ Neill, Friday. The Rev. Earl Hess was called to Purdin, Mo., recently because of the death of his brother-in law, John Molloy, Kirksville, Mo. The Rev. Hess and his brother were in charge of the funeral services. Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Miller, Lincoln, came Saturday to bring her brother, Larry Damme and sister, Cheryl Damme, home af ter spending a week with the Millers. The Damme and Miller families joined other relatives at a family gathering at Clearwater Sunday. Mrs. C. E. Wintermote enter tained at dinner Thursday eve ning in honor of her husband’s birthday. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wintermote, Norma and Janet, Leonard and Arthur Wintermote. Visiting over the weekend in the Clare Coulthard home was his sister, Miss Lettie Jean Coult hard, Elgin. Graduating Saturday, Aug. 4, from Wayne State College and receiving B. A. degrees were from the Chambers area, Robert RANCHERS — FEEDERS SELL US YOUR USED BURLAP BAGS BRING BUNDLED BAGS TO: 225 So. 4th St., O’Neill, Nebraska (c/o Neil Ryan) WE PAY: 5c for Good Bags — 3c for Bags with Holes Bags must be Bundled and Tagged or they will not be accepted Bags accepted Day or Night Nebraska Bag Co. 74th and Main Streets Ralston, Nebraska Ph. Omaha 733-6200 16 and 20 1 ■■ 1 ■ ■ -. — - ... honor of Mr. Hoerlc's birthday. Mrs Pearl Hoerlr who had I undergone surgery In an Omaha hospital was expected to return home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs, Harry Cooper. Winner, S. D . came Friday and visited until Sunday evening with 1 his brother, Mr and Mrs. L. V. > Cooper. Other guests arriving Thursday were Mrs Hale Os borne and Debbie and Mrs. Shar on Nelson and children, who came here from Wisner where they had been visiting the Tom Osbornes. Hale Oslx.rne came Friday and the family, including Mrs Nelson and children, left Monday for Ft Collins, Cblo. Mr and Mrs. William Jutte and Pete Brown attended a picnic for Mr. and Mrs. leonard Brown, O'Neill, Sunday Mrs Wood Jarman who has been rec upera ting from a fall is reported improved and has l>een able to go out for a car ride sev eral days in succession. Mr. and Mrs. Uoyd Winter mote and girls spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thorin, Columbus Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Noli. Genoa, were overnight guaarta Sunday in the William Turner liome. much Unproved since hia recent illness and may aoon be able to return to hia employment. Joel Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell, Omuha. stayed with hia grandparents. Mr. anti Mra. George Jelfrey and family laat week. Clarence anti Junior Finch bait'd hay for William Vn»min laat week. Kokcoe Groelmg injured hia fore-finger Sunday while working with a belt on lua combine, Mrs. Marlin E. Tuaha and children, Woodbrklge.Va., accom panied Mra. Ral|>h Hroukhouaer to Brunswick Monday afternoon, where they visited in the liome of Mr. snd Mrs. Hugh Urookhouser. Tuesday, July 31, Mra. Tuaha and children and Mrs Hrookhouaer visited in the home ul Mr. and Mrs Floyd Kiiuuson and Family. Mrs. Kmmson and Mra. Tuaha were former school mates. Members of tlie Help U club held a picnic August 1 in the Page Park. Twelve members and one guest, Mrs. Marlin Tusho, were present. Cards were played and Mrs Junior Finch and Mrs. Ella Finch, and Ethel Waring were trie winner*. Mr and Mr*, Sidney Faulhab er motored to Schuyler July 25 to visit in the Pnul Baker home. Their two grand-daughter, Susan and Barbara Baker, returned home with their grandparents that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Porter visited at the home of Mr and Mrs. Ora Caskey and sons Sat. Mrs. Vincent Jackson and Mrs. Archie Moser helped Mrs. Harry Caskey with papering Wednesday. Locksmithing (ieneral Repairing of I»ckn of All Kinds Cars • Homes • Ruslnessen See Joseph P. Shanner 112 Ho. 4th O’Neill i^arue weuer is in cnarge oi the Co-op office while t»i«- BUI Logeman family are on vacation in Colorado. Mrs. Mae Trennepohl. Neligh, left Saturday after spending two weeks with her son and daughter in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Donald May and family. Venus News By Mrs. Itaiph Brookhouner Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finch sr. and Rick Howerter, Guyinon, Okla., visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rliode, Laurel. August Block returned home to Mitchell, S. D., after spending the past two weeks here with his children, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Block and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kinnison. 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