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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1962)
Prainfiland Talk "Story Of Times Gone By" lly ROMA IN E SAUNDERS. 411) South 51st St.. Lincoln 6. Nebr u M> triend. Will 11 Spindler, up west of O’Neill several steps tells me Ins latest little lxx>k, "Yester day's Trails”, is in the hands of many public offi cials of South Dakota, the |>uhlic libraries and schools As bis story of times that are gone pictures life as it was in the Indian country of south western South Dakota it will lie of interest to those liv ing today in that historic region rather than to those of Prairie land and Elkhom valley coun try. Maybe some day the gifted Will If. Spindler will come home again to Hoi* county and with his charming wife call O’Neill Korn nine their home, so go out a bright Haandrra summer day to look upon the scenes of Will's kid days in the lieautiful land of northwest Holt county. • * * Our Capital City has a few young devils. A group of these have l>een hauled up for their dirty work going along with hammers in hand smash ing automobiles parked along the street. * * * Much rain these August days in the Lincoln community Gardens, farm crops and all outdoors Jove* Men, women and kids up and on the go. * * * Again I have seen friends of other days, clasped their hands and visited with them. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hancock came to see me while in Lincoln recently. They had been in O'Neill and vicinity vis iting their son and daughter and hobnobbing with friends Claude was for some years connected with the O’Neill National Hank and their son is county treasurer of Holt county. Their home now is in Ins Angeles. Calif. • * * The machine age. A machine has replaced human hands to milk a cow. Maybe that accounts for tin* high price of milk these days. Seventy years ago Milk Man Weisgarber went from home to home in O’Neill with his big can of milk in his one horse oulfit peddling fresh sweet milk for 5 cents a quart and a little more for good measure. Five times that now lor a little bottle of milk. The milk man that comes to the door today has in his collection of cow juice what he calls "half and half”, said to lx- half milk and half cream hut is no better than me whole milk Milk Man Weisgarber brought to us each day. Editorial The Gibbons family that lived in the 1880 * a few door* below the post office on South Fourth street had a plot of ground in the block to the west just south of where the Presbyterian church that they proposed to keep always as part of their bit of General O’Neill'* colony. But today that block from Third to Second streets has all been taken over by modem home builders. Gibbons — gone and forgotten. * • • The three-story hotel building that stood two blocks south of O'NeiH’s main drag in the 1880’s is no more as may be said of other places of busi ness and pleasure in that block, but one still sur vives, the old hotel building that was there first of all. But Rosco Conklin and Lena, one time sweet hearts are there no more. * • • What is love? If you would know thy mind must teach alone—Two souls with a single thought, two hearts that throb as one. • • • We have it direct from President Kennedy, no let up on federal taxes. Taxes, ever have been, ever will be. Public demands cost money. W'alk up and pay your taxes ... A few farmers have begun it, disposed of their costly power machinery and farm again with horses. A horse will eat an ear of corn and give the farmer a bushel of it for that one ear ... He is out in far distant space, on another world or in the bottom of the ocean, that Russian reported from their native land . . . Mid August and the biggest and best crop of string beans ever gathered out of Prairieland gardens. * ♦ * W. D. Matthews left his native home town in southern Wisconsin, came to O’Neill and founded its leading newspaper The Frontier. Ended his day in a southern state but cherished his memory of life on Prairieland. The word we had from him in 1931 down there in Arkansas was a note of praise for it all up here, closing with "Ah me, those good old days”. * * * Doctors have done much in times past to help not only the sick but those in need of food. Dr. Conley was one such an early day medical man in O'Neill. Not so capable a physician, but what he lacked in medicine knowledge he made up in kindly helpfulness to those he learned of in need, the doctor's home in O'Neill was two blocks west of where the post office now stands and where he died in '86 or '87. The End Is Not Yet The Administration’s medicare bill, providing medical benefits to all persons drawing Social Se curity payments, was the most bitterly debated and fought measure of this year. Supporters and oppo nents used every weapon at their command in efforts to get their way. A temporary decision came on July 17 when the Senate voted the bill down. An idea of the im portance of the occasion is found in the fact that this was the first time since February that all 100 %enah>rs were present. “Temporary" is the correct word. For the end is not ye*. The President has made it clear that the whole weight of his office will be used in an attempt to obtain a favorable decision next year. He will, as we editorialized earlier this year, place his prestige on the line. It is ho[H'd that the bill’s opjtonents arc equally determined and aggressive. For the arguments against it. even in the amended form the Adminis tration at length approved, are powerful. Indepen dent authorities say the Administration estimates of *he cost — something over a billion a year at the start are far too low. Even so, the benefits offered are generally inferior to those provided by private health insurance, which legions of elder ly people possess. Worst of all, the bill is not based on need. It simply takes an arbitrarily selected group and provides benefits whether those con cerned need them or want them. Certainly the approach taken by the Kerr-Mills bill, voted last year and now in effect, is an infin itely preferable one. It is solidly based on need and it places administrative authority where it be longs — at the local level. If, as some argue, it is inadequate, that fault can be corrected by amend ment without destroying its underlying philosophy. The medicare scheme, with its shotgun ap proach, would create greater and more difficult problems than those it is supposed to solve — not the least of these being the precedent it would es tablish of widespread Federal control over medical practice and services. S ^VS ^ 7^ ' ' > ' v-' ' v . ;,:'•> -■ - ;x ■. 7-^ 4 •: Picture of a Pontiac * *. • ; ':. -7... SS&Sg&SS^; S W • •JSSSx-AS:*;-: *?>.' •„• • <SSS85SSN«s :•:••• • 5SSSS--:::x ■—.•:••• .•«■:• n . etitive ear that holds its value better than Pontiac ‘ -VSWv .^V -S'K-I.wOMCw a'C - - 4 v. xff iiiv.. (if you've got the idea that owning a Pontiac is not only fun, but smart you're right) SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER FOR A WIDE CHOICE OF WIDE-TRACKS AND GOOD USED CARS, TOC Wm. Krotter Company 305 West Douglas O'Neill, Nebraska Frontiers Ago 50 YEARS AGO Concert at the K. C. hall, Miss Rose Fallon, Chicago-Philadel phia grand opera company. . . Rev D. J. Malone preached at the Methodist Church in Inman last Sunday in the absence of Rev. Neiman. . .Mrs. George Klintobe and daughter, Bernice, were Inman visitors this week . .A good size delegation of O’ Neill people went down to Ne ligh this morning to attend the races in that city. . Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hancock are rejoicing over the arrival of a daughter who arrived and took up her resi dence for at least the next six teen or seventeen years at their home last Saturday. 25 YEARS AGO Dr. L. A. Burgess was elected as a member of the board of ed ucation Monday evening, filling the vacancy caused by the resig nation of L. E. Downey. . .In tense heat has been the record The Frontier i . for the past week. . Public school to begin fall term Monday, Sept. 6th . 4-H Achievement day here Saturday. Thirty-nine 4-H clubs will be present. . .Mrs. Thomas Greene entertained at a waterme lon party at her home Tuesday evening in honor of her niece, Mary Catherine Regan 1* YEARS AGO Dance, August 23, music by the Aces of Rhythm Orchestra . . Pool enthusiasts bold anotlier meeting. . .Marriage license was issued to John Robert Bengali and Miss Nancy Catherme Froe iich, August 15. They were mar ried August 16 in St. Patrick's church, O'Neill. . .Future Sub scriber, Dr. and Mrs. G R. Cook, a daughter weighing 7V» pounds, born August 18. . Mr. and Mrs. Amie Mace, jr., were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Merle Sparks. 5 YEARS AGO Workmen this week hoisted the steeple for the new Christ Lu theran church building. . .Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Krugman spent Sun day at Fort Randall, S. D. . . Stinker Day, sales open Friday morning and continue until all merchandise is gone. . .Marriage licenses were issued tc Ronald Lane McClellan, O’Neill and Marybelle O'Conner, O’Neill, Au gust 16 They were married Au gust 17. . .Future subscriber, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Havranek, a son, Jerold Edward, weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces, born August 16 The Long Age At Chambers SO YEAR* AGO Miss Eihei Bernard gave a par ly to a number of her little friends last Saturday it being the occasion of her fifth birthday. . . Roller Skating and Band Concert in the Band Hail, Saturday night . , A large number of Cham bers people are attending the O' Neill Race Meet this week . . Gail Porter is helping Mrs. Oak er attend central this week 25 YEARS AGO Jack Kellar is again clerking m the Smith & Smith store . Born to Mr. and Mrs Richard Schipman on Monday, August 23, a fine 10 pound son. . Mr and Mrs Lloyd Gleed and daughters, motored to Grand Island, Sun day. Ewing News By Mrs. Harold Hama The Rev. Paul Andrea is the new minister for the Riverside Free Methodist church near Ew ihg, He will make his home with his family at Amelia where he will serve the church there They are expected to arrive Monday Hev Ernest, Chambers, who has been in charge of the two chur ches plans to move to Alma, wuh his family, where fie will also have charge of the church Mrs Edna Lofquest accompan ted by Mr. and Mrs Hubert Browning, Madison, and Mr and Mrs Howard Miller, Ewing, went to Creiglon Thursday. August If. where they attended the funeral of a relative, Mr Fred Foraberg Bonnie W'elke, 17, showed the grand champion cow at the Halt County Fair at Chambers last wick, The Hereford row, Bom, has won many high hon ors before at fair*. She was en tered in the open class compe tition. This in the fourth year, MU» W'elke, has had a cham pion breeding heifer In IB), champion and rewrite chain plon breeding heifers in l%u ami this year the champion cow. Bonnie is a member of the Happy Hollow 4-H club Her brother, Milan Wrtkc is a lead it of this club. Bonnie will be a senior this fail in the Ew ing high school. Mr ami Mrs. Jerry Tornjack and children went fc> Goose Lake Sunday where they met tier par ents, Mr and Mrs Everett Tay lor and Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Murray and family, Oakdale, for a picnic dinner and an afternoon of water spurts Mr. and Mrs Alfred Doud had as their guests from Tuesday to Thursday. Mr and Mrs Ed Hoff mu. Steven and Geutge C*«ae», North l’latte. They also visited at the Clarence Ui*el and Edna Lofqucst fK»me» Overnight guests Thurwlay at the home of Mr* Edna Lolqueat were Mr and Mr* Ed Huffman and two e>!i b I'.atta. Mr» Fern Bollock and Mr*. Edna Lafqueat utteodad the Wes leyan Methodist Camp Wetlnea day evening and all day Sunday at Atkinson Mr and Mr* Ray Butler, who accompanied Mr and Mr* E D. McDonald and family, Norfolk, on a vacation trip through the Black Hill*, returned home Fri day New officers for the Missionary Society of tlie United Presbyter lan church wrcre elected during tlie meeting Thursday afternoon at tl*e annex of tlie church Elect ed were Mr*. Wayne Shrader, president; Mr* Archie Johnston, vice president; Mrs. Ralph Shra der. alternate; Mr* Lynn Fry, chairman for the thank offering The meeting opened with a devo tional period conducted hy Mr* Archie Johnston. Mr* Richard Napier led the prayer circle Member* were requested to turn ui all clothing donation* to be sent to Alaska by ReiAember 1. Refreshment hostemca were Mrs. Z H. Fry. Mr* Dale Na|>ier and Mrs Richard Napier Try The Frontier Want Ads — It Pays I FIRST STOP X M'DONALD'sl 1 \ J. M. MtPQNAlD CO. I " ■■■HI Blouses and capris... college For school days ahead! favorites to make leisure Boys’ sport shirts and and learning lots more fun! . , . . , tapered casual slacks. 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