Prairieland Talk
"O'Neillites In Lincoln"
Hy ROMA IN E SAUNDERS. 411J South 51st St.. Lincoln 6. Nebr.
Two that I know of early day citizens of O'Neill
came to the end of life's journey in the city of
Lincoln on the highway. Charley Hall a politician
and had served as sheriff of Holt County and a little
Inter in life lie and his wife and
son and daughter came to the
city of Lincoln to make their
home. Charley got into service
in the city police department
and when on a race after a
runaway prisoner he met with
it on the highway. And so was
laid away among the dead. Den
Hunt was the other. Hack In
the 1880s a young lad in O’Neill
and got into the brick laying B j _|
work. Some sixty years ago he
and his wife, who was the lUmskn
sister of Dan and Will Cronin, early pioneers, came
to Lincoln to make their home. And then came to
his end on the street in front of his home on 51st
and O Street in Lincoln. His wife and their son are
still making their home in this community.
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I recently had a telephone visit with Lou Nissen,
our one time mail carrier from Atkinson to Amelia
and back again to Atkinson. He and his wife have
been living quietly and happily together these win
ter clays here in Lincoln. And has had no word
during these long winter clays from his sister and
her husband up by Amelia. And he plans a trip up
there when the weather is more favorable.
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Each day at the noon hour we get it. The wea
ther story of what's going on in the way of weather
at Valentine, Norfolk, Grand Island, Broken Bow
and other places, hut never anything from O’Neill,
(vimt has liecome of the O'Neill weather man?
I have a letter from Mrs Fred Harvey, a former
O'Neill girl wl»o now lives in Shawnee Mission.
Kansas. She is the former Doris Kurtz, daughter
>f Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kurtz. At Martina Cafe and
Bakery where she was employed she says that she
met lots of people among whom was the man she
married. He was in O'Neill with his father Inlying
Holt County Blue Grass Seed for a seed company
in Kansas City. She writes, "Thank you Mr. Saun
ders for the trip back to O’Neill each week,” (not
that often now,) "that I make in happy memories—
and of the mention of the many familiar names of
those who played their part in my memories of
happiness since the late twenties.”
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One of the last notable events at the old skating
rink in the west part of town was the funeral of the
noted congressman M. P. Kincaid. Many notable
events had been held there and now it is no more.
There have been funerals and processions to the
grave yard to lay away the remains of some of
the town’s notables liesides Kincaid, R. R. Dickson,
John Mann, M. F. Harrington, Neal Brennan, Fred
Gatz, J. J. McCafferty and others. Their bodies
now at rest on the hill in the abode of the dead
where you and I are now headed for.
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My son George was born in O'Neill on South
First Street over sixty years ago. In 1941 he passed
to his rest under an operation in a city in Calif
ornia where he had been for a number of years.
In 1941 I went out to the mail post, jne forenoon
after the mail had arrived from Atkinson and there
was the notice of the death of my son George. My
wife and I got ready at once and she took off for
California to attend the funeral and I went to Lin
coln to spend the winter there at the American
Printing Company. And now some eighteen years
ago my wife breathed her last and her remains lie
up here on the hill where I expect to be someday.
Editorial
Judge Your Paper As a Man
(The following editorial was written by famed
Editor William Allen White of the Emporia. Kan,.
Quxotte iu^'.XB.)
. The attitude of a man toward his family paper
reflects pretty accurately the man's attitude toward
life, wrote a philosophic observer.
If the man is critical, persnickety, joyous when
he finds a small fault, and sniffy when he sees an
honest aspiration that man has a bad heart. He
rejoices when others fall because be has kept his
legs only by the accident of circumstances.
If. on (lie other hand, the man sees the palpable
errors of a newspaper with a smile of sympathy, if
he views the foibles of its editor with kindly toler
ance, if he takes comfort in the honest efforts of the
ed ‘or to speak the faith that is in him, that man
is living a good clean life and if he falls — as every
hu man creature may at any day — a thousand
helping hands will stretch out to him, and in his
trouble lie will be annointed by the kindness of his
friends, which after all is the sweetest balm in this
big world.
Paper Reflects Some Man
A newspaper is like a man — because generally
it reflects some man and it should be judged as
a man should be judged, largely and on the whole.
No man lives a perfect life; no editor prints a per
fect paper. If an editor is honest, he is bound to
offend someone, the editor is namby-pamby and
flabby. The same thing is true of the average man.
A newspaper is hound to make mistakes; in getting
news it must necessarily take hearsay.
But. if. in the long run and in the main, day
a Per day and year after year, a paper stands for
dt ency, for honest thinking and clean living, if it
sjieaks fair for those who are trying to do good,
ind condemns sneaks and cheats and low persons,
that is a good paper.
Every newspaper and every man has to ask
for charity from its friends. If a man or a news
paper got its desserts, life would he a series of
miseries.
If AH Truth Were Known
Every man takes more from life than he gives;
he is in the red at the bank of public kindness, for
no one can give to mankind all he takes from civil
ization, which is mankind’s gift to him.
♦The same again is true of a newspaper. It is
weak and human in errors; it gets much from the
;imes that now are; it gives less to them than they
lo to it. The modern newspaper could not have run
n other times. So when the reader condemns a
newspaper, he should stop and think what would
tappen if he too were judged on his merits with all
he truth alxnut him known to men.
In The Sight Or All Men
The faults of the newspaper are plain — after
the paper is out. A man’s faults may be hidden.
There are deeds done in darkness. But the news
paper cannot do them; what it does for good or ill
must be done in the sight of all men.
So when you find something in this paper or
any other that displeases you, gentle reader, hold
your temper and your tongue; think what would
happen if the editor knew everything you did and
said. And if the Lord could forgive Mary of Mag
lalen — judging her in a large way, crediting her
many virtues and her good deeds against those that
were weak, may not erring human men overlook
an occasional three-line item that they find in their
tamily newspaper?
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W. E. (Bill) JONES COMPLETE CLOSING-OUT SALE
At Auction
FRIDAY. FEB. 22. 1963
12:30 o'clock p.m.
I have sold my land and am retiring, so will sell all personal property at
auction. Sale will be held on the home place located 4 miles west of
Plainview, Nebr., on No. 20 and 3^2 miles north, or 4 miles south of
Creighton, Nebr., on No. 13 and 1 mile east.
Ml rlcAD ur 1-AiMtT anuuj waiilc
168 Head of Straight 3-year-old Angus Cows—All bred by Jay Cole of
Merriman, Nebr. Officially calfhood vaccinated for Bangs. Bred to start
calving April 1, to Throener Bros, registered Angus bulls. This is the finest
group of cows I have ever owned. Sell any number buyer desires.
4 Registered Angus Herd Bulls—Very Choice. All 3-year-olds, bred by
Throener Bros, of West Point, Nebr.
15 Head of Dairy Cattle—6 Holstein 3- and 4-year-old milk cows; 3 head
of 2-year old Holstein cows; 1 Guernsey 2-year-old heifer; 1 Brown Swiss
cow 7-years-old; 1 Brown Swiss 2-year-old heifer and 3 Swiss heifer calves
5 to 7 months old. All are excellent quality.
U HEAD OF BRED SOWS—10 Hampshire gilts bred to McGuire boar for April farrowing. 4 Cross
bred sows to farrow last of February. 1 Registered Hampshire boar. McGuire breeding.
MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT
Case 500, 1958 gas tractor. Case Model 210, 1958 utility type tractor, wide front, power steering, hy
draulic lift, 2 manure buckets and snow scoop. IHC 200 tractor with qnick hitch. Mounted cultivator,
2-row lister quick hitch attachment fits 200 tractor. Case 2-row mounted cultivator. 4-section.24-ft
IHC harrow. N'o. 120 12-ft. EZ Flow fertilizer drill. 14-ft. IHC hay rake. Large size Case P.O. take
off and belt driven manure spreader. Large size New Idea manure spreader. 12-ft. IHC self-propelled
windrower. Model No. 59. like new. 12 real good 16-ft- feed bunks. 3 self feeders, 10 and 12-ft. 2
steel hog feeders. 4 automatic cattle oilers. Du AH hay boom. new. Hydraulic hay fork. 16-ft. hay
rack mounted on 5-ton rubber tired gear. 140- bushel grain wagon with hoist mounted on 5-ton rub
ber tired gear. New Idea gear with flat bed. 7-ft. quick hitch IHC mower. Int. 10-ft. grain drill. Air
compressor. 5 steel farrowing crates. Grain-O-Vator Sears No. 60 automatic feed wagon. Mayrath
32-ft. elevator and motor. New Idea S8-fL elevator and motor. DeLaval No. 618 cream separator.
•John Deere 4-row planter with 160 rods of wire, fertilizer attachments. 4-row J.D. cultivator. Case
12-ft. hay rake. Surge 3-unit milking machine. Shop tools of all kinds and a little furniture.
TERMS ■ CASH — Lunch will be served. This ad will appear but once — Save for reference
W. E. BILL" JONES. OWNER
Dean Mosher. Creighton, & Ernie Weller, Atkinson, auct. American Natl. Bank, Creighton, clerks
Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
John H. Hopkins, O'Neill, stu
dent at Creighton and ball idol
of the university, will be ap
pointed deputy sheriff to succeed
Adam Sloup, who has been nam
ed deputy state oil inspector. . .
Tom Donlan suffered between
$400 and $500 damages by fire
at his residence in the north
part of town last Saturday night.
. . .Miss Ruth Evans gave a pi
ano recital at Inman last Fri
day evening. Those attending anc
participating from here were:
Miss Evans, Misses Elsie and
Martha Mills, Grace Stanley,
Marion Thomas, Harold Zimmer
man and Edgar Carscallen. . .
Whether the groundhog had any
thing to do with it or not, our
fine climate took a sudden tum
ble with the close of January
and inside of twenty-four hours,
the mercury dropped down the
tube about seventy degrees. It
got down to ten below and kept
hovering around zero for several
days.
25 YEARS AGO
Daniel J. Cronin and Miss
Mary Morrison were united in
marriage in this city on Febru
ary 13, 1888. Next Sunday the
Cronins will celebrate their 50t!
wedding anniversary. . .Nexl
9unday the Cronins will cele
brate their 50th wedding anni
versary. . .Mrs. Ellen Gallaghei
died at her home southwest oi
Inman last Thursday evening af
ter an illness of several months
at the age of 83 years. . .Count}
Attorney Brennan of Butte, was
looking after legal business ir
this city last Tuesday. . .Mr. ant
Mrs. Melvin Ruzicka returnee
Tuesday from a few days visil
with relatives and friends al
Redfield, S. D. Mr. Ruzicka says
incur is quae a nine snow in tnal
section of South Dakota. . .Judge
Dickson and Reporter McElhaney
were over at Butte last Monday
where they had a short term ol
district court, returning home the
same evening. . .O’Neill friends
received word Monday of the
marriage of Miss Margaret Nolan
formerly of this city to E. Scott
Pursley at Denver.
10 YEARS AGO
Henry Lofflin has succeeded
Burl Munsell as manager of
Gambles store here, one of the
largest company-owned stores ir.
Nebraska. . .A petition was being
circulated Wednesday and being
signed by O’Neill taxpayers and
freeholders asking the city coun
cil to consider a 40-thousand-dol
lar bond issue for swimming pool
purposes. . .An estimated three
thousand person, exceeding all
expections filed through the doors
last Thursday and Friday to
view O’Neill's first annual auto
show. . .A fall on the ice on Sun
day, Jan. 26 was blamed for the
death of Frank Belmar, sr., 70,
retired Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad section foreman. . .
On February 1, Miss Muriel
Niles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Niles of Scottsbluff mar
ried Ardell Bright, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ramon Bright, O’Neill.
5 YEARS AGO
Army Pvt. Donald F. Wewel,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wewel, Stuart, was killed Sat
urday, Feb. 1, when the car in
which he was riding left the
highway and crashed. . .James
(Jim) Tomlinson, son of Richarc
Tomlinson, O'Neill, was present
ed a trophy for the best sports
man of the 21st annual golden
gloves held in Norfolk. . .Fernan
do Lagos of Argentina, S. A., who
is a student at the college of ag
riculture at the University of
Nebr. was a guest of Lyle Heiss
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Heiss, Page. . .
Miss Eleanor Hoehne, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. O’
Donnell of O’Neill, was capped
at St. Catherine’s school of nurs
ing, Sunday in Omaha. . .Annua]
pay increases ranging from $1,
000 to $1,300 for major county of
ficers was authorized Friday at
a meeting of the Holt county sup
ervisors.
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
Charles Facquier passed
through Chambers Saturday on
his way home from O'Neill, the
board of supervisors having ad
journed until the 11th. . Jack
Keller became a reader of the
Bugle with this issue, having
subscribed Monday. . A good siz
ed crowd was present at Fred
Fitches sale Tuesday in spite ol
the cold weather, and things sold
at a good prize. . .The WCTU wiL
meet at the home of Mrs. R C.
Wry on Thursday. Feb. 13 at 2:3t
pm. . .Ben Wood was very sick
the first of the week with Lum
bago, but is getting along fine at
the present writing. . Dr Corbet
will be in O’Neill every day be
ginning Dec. 1. . .A large crowd
was in attendance at the play
‘ Down in Maine’’ given in the
Band Hall last Thursday evening
and from all reports it was high
ly appreciated.
25 YEARS AGO
Paul Wesley Hardy and Peggy
Blanche Hartman surprised their
many friends and relatives in
California Jan. 15 by slipping
quietly away to the Wilshire Wed
ding Chapel in Hollywood where
they were married. . .Leo T.
Adams was transacting business
in Grand Island, last Thursday.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
Adams and they called on the
Wilber Edwards family at Cush
ing. . Mrs. Letha Cooke has pur
chased the Lynn Hanna residence
as Lynn and family plan to leave
for Idaho some time in the near
future. . .Mr. and Mrs. Eldon
Brotherton of Eugene, Ore., are
the proud parents of a fine 7%
lb. son, born to them on Febru
ary 1st. . Mrs Malvina Strom
quist and children left Friday for
their new location at Wheaton,
Mo. We understand that Leon
Hertel’s expect to move on the
Stromquist place in the near fu
ture.
Pages Past
50 YEARS AGO
Maden Funk loaded a car load
of hogs at Stafford Friday for
the Omaha market. Raymond
Heiss finished husking 130 acres
of corn on the Leonard Heiss
farm last Friday, the day before
it snowed like fury. Some 25 ac
res of thrown down corn made 50
bushels to the acre, hard to pick.
. .Alva Townsend invites you to
hear songs from Cuba over the
store radio. . .A. T. Crumly, a
lad of twelve, daily manifests in
dividual progress in the under
standing of dairying and enjoys
the privilege of milking cows,
separates his own milk and de
rives $6 a week there from. . .
B. H. French was first prize win
ner with ten ears of white corn ;
at the Annual State Seed Corn
show, also first prize on single
ear dent.
About 175 attended the annual
feed when the Page Farmers Un
ion held their annua] meeting.
Board re-elected were N. G. Mil
ler. Anton Nissen and Dave Bow
en. The Young Married couples
Sunday School class met in the
church basement January 5 tc
eat oysters and pie. The raw oy
ster eating contest ended in a
tie between H. L. DeLancey and
L. G. Bernholtz. . Elyda Ken
nedy was a 9unday visitor in the
Henderson home. . .Buv Wanser.
W. I. Gray, J. E. Smith, J. R.
Weber and Art McClure hunted
south Sunday and bagged 53 rab
bits. Mrs. C. A. Townsend drove
to Chambers Friday night to in
stall officers in the Rebekah
lodge. . .Mrs. L. R. Dillard vis
ited relatives in Fremont this
week. . .John Soukup and family
settled in Lodi, Calif. . .Mr. and
Mrs. George Hunter celebrated
their fourtieth wedding anniver
sary with a surprise party.
40 YEARS AGO
Harry Clausen was quite ill the
first of the week. . .The Misses
Wood, Murphy and Trowbridge
went to Wayne Monday to attend |
the 9tate Normal. . .A. E. Riggs j
see us for . . .
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O'Neill, Nebraska
wrote uk to send but Reporter to
Lomax, 111. . .News of Mae Dai
ley's and Susie Lamb's death
from fighting fire started by an
oil stove m their room, both well
known in Page. . .Clifford Frink,
the rustling newsboy, sells the
Grit as well. . D. A. Jones owns
a three year old, 500 lb. Du roc
sow which gave birth to 30 pigs
in one litter and aaved 13 of
them, a record litter.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gray were
hosts to the parent-teacher meet
ing Friday evening. An elegant
luncheon was served after the en
tertainment. Professor Doyle, in
his speech, made the startling as
sertion that cigarette smokmg
was becoming fashionable among
the idle rich women and warned
the association to stand together
to stamp out that evil. . .Mrs.
Charles Greene left for Burr Oak,
Kan., to the bedside of her sick
mother, who died before her ar
rival.
Riverside News
By Mrs. Lionel Gunler
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Fry and
family, Mrs. Kitty Fry and the
Lee Fink family were supper
guests Wednesday at the Willie
Shrader home.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Andre and
family were dinner guests last .
Sunday at the Dave Pollock
home. Mr. and Mrs. Art Buss
hardt and family called in the
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Ahlers and
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Horn
visited at the Chet Taylor home
last Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Hoke and
Clayton visited at the Ralph Shra
der home Friday evening.
The Wayne Shrader children
stayed at the Wilbur Bennett
home while their mother and Ina
Bennett went to Omaha for Wil
bur Bennett who had surgery last
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Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Waller Miller
went to Omaha Friday morning,
returning home Saturday, thru
children stayed at the Howard
Miller home during their ab
sence.
Mrs. Bert Fink helped at the
Melvin Napier home Thursday
Mr and Mrs. Howard Miller via
tied at the Napier home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Fry. Mrs
Kitty Fry and Mr and Mrs. Wil
lie Shrader visited Mrs. Otto Ret
ke last Tuesday afternoon in the
O'Neill hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. H Fry, who
have been vacationing in Cool
idge, Am , left for Ixime Satur
day morn mg, to be with his sis
ter. Mrs. Otto Retke. who is sick
in the Lady of Lourdes hospital
in Norfolk.
Steve Napier visited at tlx*
George Keller home Sunday uf
ternoon.
The Forum group had a waf
fie and sausage supper at Un
church annex Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fry, Mr,
and Mrs. Lynn Fry, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert McDaniel, Mr. and Mrs
William Lofquist, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Napier, Mr. and Mrs
Don Larson and Mr. and Mrs
Wendell Switzer were guests
Tuesday evening at the Dale Na
pier home.
Mr and Mrs. Willie Shrader
and family aixi the Ralph Shra
der family were supper guests
i ..
Thursday at the Archie Johnston
home.
Mr. and Mra. Earl Iheiauu ate
dinner Thursday at the Walter
Woeppel home
Mr and Mra Amos SwiUer
visited at the Ora Switzer home
last Sunday afternoon.
Mra. Web Napier received wont
that her slater, Mra Maiale Law
rence, passed away Thursday *1
ternoon in a hospital at Parson,
Kan She had pneumonia and
heart trouble. The funeral wm
held in the United Presbyterian
chui'ch. Ewing, Sunday afternoon
at 2 p m
Mrs. 1 Miuiy Miller suffered a
stroke Thursday morning and
was taken to the Tildas bot
|>it.il in an ambulance. Mrs.
Dal** Napier and Mrs. Metvtn
Napier visited her Friday after
noon
Mr and Mrs Wayne Fry, Mr
an*l Mrs. Lynn Fry and Otto Ret
ke t*M>k Mrs Otto Retke to the
Lady of Lourdes hospital m Nor
folk Friday
Mrs. Ora SwiUer received word
that her cousin Clifford Butler,
died suddenly Friday in a doc
tor's office in Wyoming
Mr and Mrs. Ed Walters and
family, <'ha rubers, were suppei
guests Wednesday at the John
Napier home In honor of Ed Wal
ter's birthday anniversary.
Terry I*ofquiat was an over
night guest Wednesday of hteve
Miller
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