Independent Grateful For Many Contributions

The Independent is grateful to numerous sources for the pictorial content of this Souvenir Edition, "The Day St. Mary's Burned."

Special credit goes to the O'Neill Photo Co. whose files of photographic plates and negatives span many years. The Sisters of St. Francis made available certain old photographs. Individuals who lent pictorial material from personal collections included Neil Ryan, Clay Johnson, jr., Mrs. H. J Birmingham, A. M. Beelaert of Orchard. Others made submissions which do not appear but were of valuable assistance in selecting the photographs. The Atkinson Graphic furnished some of the fire-fighting photos.

Persons submitting narratives were acknowledged.

Material was collected, edited, and composed by The Independent. Presswork was accomplished by the Sun Newspapers of Lincoln, Inc., on a latest type web offset press. The firm is headed by Carroll (Cal) Stewart, who was owner and publisher of the O'Neill Frontier, 1946-1959.

Extra copies of the Souvenir Edition are available though the Independent, P.O. Box 360, O'Neill, at 75 cents per copy.

If you wish to preserve your copy care should be exercised in protecting from sunlight. Although printed on a special grade of white paper, the stock is newsprint.--THE PUBLISHERS