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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, TIIUKSDAY. FEBRUAUV I4,iy0$-
VOL. XLVI NO. 8G
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WEEPS TEARS
OF SORROW
The World-Herald is Simply
Bursting With Anguish
and Other Things
TRIES TO POINT TO
AN OBJECT LESSON
Talks ol Pernlclousness of Politi
cal Manipulation.
The action of the State Normal
board in voting to dispense with the
services of President Crabtrce of the
Peru Normal is siczed upon for a
tcrific outcry by the democratic
World-Herald, which sheds great gobs
of inky tears over this great wrong
for which the cruel partisanship of a
republican board is to be blamed. We
do not have sufficient knowledge of
the merits of the case to pass judg
' mcnt on the question whether or not
it is for the good of the Peru Normal
school to have a new head. But wo
, are sufficiently familiar with the hab
Q its of our amiable contemporary
V - to detect its lamentations and tears
to be oi tne crocoaue vaneiy. nen
it tries to point an object lesson of
the perniciousncss of political manipu
lation of educational institutions, it
is merely using good precepts with
which all agree, to cover up a con
spiracy hatched in the' late democratic
legislature to annex the Normal
schools to the democratic machine,
which conspiracy happily failed, but
for no fault of the democratic wire
pullers.
Nebraska's Normal schools have for
years been under control of a State
Normal board, made up of seven mem
bers, two of them elective state offi
cers and five appointed by the gov
ernor, so that one goes out each year.
In the natural course of events
through appointment by the present
democratic governor, the democrats
would have secured adequate repre
sentation on the board, and if the
democrats were continued in power
in Nebraska long enough they would
secure complete control of the board.
But this slow process was not fast
enough,and to a bill was introduced
and passed legislating out of office
altogether the existing Normal board
and substituting for it another board
similarly constituted, but with five of
the seven members to be named anew
by the present democratic governor.
To get this bill and other partisan
bills through, Governor Shallcnbergrr
had to make a deal with a republican
state senator, the consideration being
the appointment of the senator to
the board in utter and open defiance
of the constitution, which expressly
prohibits such appointment.
Only the inability of the democrats
-to draw a law and enact it in legal
THE men that bought overcoats last
week at our "Wind Up" sale are con
gratulating themselves. There are still a
very few left. If you can find your size, you'd
better snap it up. 3 prices.
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We're not teasing you to take them at these
prices, but we want you to know that such
bargains can be obtained in your home town.
Say Mister, we are getting in some swell spring duds
C. E. Wcscoffs Sons
The Home of Satisfaction.
and valid form prevented the success
ful consummation of this political as
sault on the Normal schools. It was
whispered at Lincoln that if the demo
crats succeeded in capturing the Nor
mal board, Presidet Crabtrce of the
Peru Normal was to be retained and
the President of the Kearney Normal
decapitated and his place' and the
places in the two new Normal schools
were to be given to good democratic
claimants. The supreme court knock
ed out the new Normal board law,
and the democrats who were counting
on it to help them connect with
the pay roll found themselves hoist by
their own petard hence these cro
codile tears. Omaha Ike.
THE KIND OF POLICY
THAT DID NOT PAY.
Catered to Tough Element Too
Long and Lost State Insti
tution. The city of Crawford is in sack
cloth and ashes, and some' of its
prominent men are in jail. It is a
case where repentance comes at a
late day.
For years Crawford took pride
in being an "open town." The people
thought it brought business and it
did, of a certain kind. There were
open gambling houses and a red light
district, and a great abundance of
saloons per capita.- The citizens
took a pride in prize fights, and they
had Jim Dahlman there to deliver
Fourth of July orations."-.,
Crawford wanted the new normal
school, and it was certainly located
right on the map to get it. But
the wide-open policy was a bar. to
the securing of any good institutiort.4
A year ago this paper made Bucha
suggestion, only to be sharply . re
primanded by the Crawford press.
When the state normal board went
out west to hunt for a place for a
school where the young ladies of
western Nebraska could go for train
ing, they gave Crawford only a pas
sing glance, and located the school
elsewhere.
The lesson was a hard one. The
Crawford newspapers now admit that
the wide-open policy was the reason,
and they are weeping over what
Crawford missed. And they are
calling for an immediate reform.
And in the midst of their contrition
and repentance they sec officers of
the law sweep down upon some of
their prominent men and upon some
of the city officials for aiding and
abetting law-breakers and wide-open
policies.
The lesson will be well learned
Jim Dahlman will not be the next
celebration orator at Crawford, and
the "Ebony Gladiators" and the
"Montana Kids," will not hold
prize fights in that town for the
entertainment of the various denizens
who heretofore infested its precincts,
The day of awakening will in the
long run prove a most profitable
day to Crawford. Slate Capital.
10
A MURRAY
RECEPTION
Glad Hand and Best Wishes
Extended to Prominent
Departing Citizens;
FOUR GOOD FAMILIES
LEAVE CASS COUNTY.
Reception Tendered Them by
Members ol Church and Neigh
bors. Double weddings arc not unfre-
quent in this land of proserous farmers
but a boublc reception multiplied by
two is of more rare occurrence, yet
such an event was pulled off by the
energetic ladies of the Presbyterian
church of Murray on the 9th inst.,
when in honor of four departing
families, all of whom were connected
with the church and congregation
a grand reception was held. In the
evolution of events of the past year,
bur of the leading farmers of the
vacinity of Murray, disposed of their
real estate holdings and together
with their families will on the coming
of spring depart from Cass county and
their native state, and try their fort
unes in other states. The four gentle
men rcfered to and in, whose honor
together with their families, the fare
wcUjkaf hcld-are; Frank M. Young,
Jr., Val Gobleman, Lee Harris and
J. II. Spangler. There men are all
old settlers in this part of the county
and for aught we know were born
in Cass county, and have become a
part of her institutions to the extent
that it is hard for us to give them up.
It is seldom that a rural community
is called on to lose, at one time, four
of its most substantial citizens, and
these men and their families will be
missed from the community in many
ways. It was in recognition of their
worth to the community that the
ladies of the Murray church put
their heads together and planned a
reception for the departing members.
In the near future Mr. Young
who came to Cass county several
years before the writer was born,
came as a lad with his father and was
in the territory when Cass county
was organized, will remove to Minne
sota. J. II. Spangler, a native of
Cass county and who has resided
within the confines of Old Cass all
all his life, will go to South Dakota,
and Mr. Harris within the next year
will in all probability remove to
Oklahoma where he has real estate
interests, and Mr. Gobleman will
go to South Dakota. While the
the church and the community is
loath to give these estimable people
up yet we realize that it is every man's
privilege to go where fortune smiles
Nothing had been left undone by
the ladies which would in anyway
add to the success of the occasion
The different committees were on
hand at the church at an early hour
and a splendcd repast was ready to
be served at the noon hour. Some
little idea, of the preperation required
may be had, when it is understood
that 135 persons sat down to the
sumptuous spread.. Not the least
among the number was Colonel Bates,
of the Journal, who it is said after
the banquet leaned heavily on his
cane.
A fine program had been arranges
for in the afternoon consisting o
music vocal and instrumental, inter
spcrsed with readings and speeches
When the hour of parting came
many, ninny were the expressions
of regret felt by the good people of
Murray and vicinity at having to
bid goodbye to their much cstcence
neighbors and friends. The goo
wishes of the entire community will
follow these estimable people where
ever they go, and if it should happen
that their .contemplated change of
climate does not prove to be con
genial they will find the latch string
of the doors in this community always
out, and a warm welcome for them
within.
DIAMOND -
DIDDINGS
Some of the Stuff That is
: Flying Around in the
Western League.
NEW STATE
LEAGUE
FOR NEBRASKA.
SIi Good Towns Get Into the Game
with Prospects ol More to
Follow.
A piece of good play was pulled
off at Grand Island this week when
Hastings, Superior, Red Cloud, Fre
mont, Seward and Grand Island
took the first steps for the formation
of a Nebraska state league. With
two more good towns, say South
Omaha and Kearney, the league
ought to be a success. An SOO
salary limit ought to be sufficient
to get some good material and also
keep expenses down to a place where
the clubs could come out on the
right side of the ledger at the close
of the season. It is proposed to have
a 100 game schedule.
The announcement of 'President
O'Neill that the annual meeting
of the Western league will be held
in Chicago on the 10th ought to be
met with many peons of joy by base
ball, managers all over the circuit.
It is so all fired nice to have Chicago
in tHo Western League, for it makes
it so handy to go there for the meetings.
There is however one bad. feature
of the matter which somehow ought
to be remedied. It compelles the
president to pass through Western
league territory in going from his
home in California to his office in
Chicago.
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Tho sunflower whisky which the
dopests of the sporting journals down
in Topeka imbibe too freely of is of
a very peculiar brand. It gives an
nlargemcnt of the "me nerve and a
correspondingly shrinkage of the
'you" organ. The man who imbibes
too freely is apt to See right opposite
of what they think they observe and
in consequence the swelled up con
dition of the doperinskys down there
is easily accounted for. With them it
is nothing but Topeka, and all other
clubs in the Western arc as nothing.
That is mighty good dope to play
before the season opens, but it wont
hit the ball after the umps calls
"play" in tho gentle springtime Annie
dear.
If those Topeka newspapers ad
jectives think that Lincoln and Omaha
will not be in the running in the year
A. D. 1910, they are sadly out of
plumb. We will bet the best man
on either the Lincoln or Omaha
team against the poorest one in the
Topeka nursery (and that means
the whole bunch) that either Lincoln
or Omaha wins more games from
Topeka than she wins from either
of the others. This is no bluff, but
a matter of good judgement.
The formation of a new base
ball league which will take in towns
in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri,
as set forth in the St. Joe New-
Press, would probably bo a good
stunt to pull off if it could be done,
but as far as this city is concerned
we see nothing which would tend
to give any strength to the above
assertion. If Plattsmouth should de
cide to enter any league. we would
rather see her in a good strong Neb
raska State league in preference to
any mix-up with other states.
It is now settled that First Baseman
Jiminie Kane will return to Omaha,
Boston having released him to that
club this week. This will put Omaha
in the winning class and will menu
that tho other clubs will have to
play ball when 'they go up against
Rourkc's darlings.
The sale of Jack Pendry to Spokane
Washington by Omaha, takes from
the Western a mighty fine little
player. Pendry's good . stick when
a hit was needed has won many a
game from Omaha, and his acqui
sition by Spokane will strengthen
that club immensely. As a pinch
hitter Jack lias demonstrated his
worth many a time.
President O'Neill will pass through
the Western league territory in a
few days. Pleaso note that wo say
"pass through."
Pop Fyler wants to como back
to tho Western. Thero was a time
when such an announcement would
have set half a dozen managers to
work keeping the wires hot in an
effort to sign tho old man before
some one else got in his work. But
Pop is not as young as ho used to be.
Twenty years ago, when he was in
his prime ho was quite young, but
now the shades of winter are getting
in their work, and unless the old man
has come into his second childhood,
it is doubtful whether ho would be
able to hold them on the bases as of
yore. Pop should remember that the
Western is about fifty per cent faster
than it was when ho left it, and while
there are thousands of fans who
would be glad to sec the old man come
back and make good, tho chances
are that he would not bo able to keep
up with the present pace or tho pace
of the coming season which
is destined to bo swifter than ever
before.
That man Duckey Holmes is a
pretty cute old chap, but he can't
quite cut tho pancake when he tries
to put one over on Don Despain of
the Antelopes. Duckey wanted that
new catcher Clarke which Lincoln
purchased of Toledo before Duckey
was signed up as the manager of the
latter club, and so he quietly slips
down to Lincoln nnd tells some of
the boys that Clarke is a has been,
knowing full well that someone would
adviac Xkspain to let Clarke go. -Then
when the Lincoln manager had been
told of the frightful error ho had made
in signing Clarke, Duckey slipped
over to base ball headquarters and
tried to buy the catcher's release.
It didn t work. Duckey is now at
home trying to think up a new one to
pull off on the Lincoln management.
THE PROBATE COURT
IIAS A BUSY DAY.
Thos. 'Murtey Appointed Ad
ministrator Wilson Easterday
Estate.
Judge Beeson was kept busy today
in probate matters, his attention
in the early part of the day being taken
up with the hearing of. the petition
of Eliza J. Keckler, of Mauley, ask
ing the appointment of Thomas Mur
tey, the well known Weeping Water
banker as administrator of the estate
of Mrs. Kcckler's uncle, Wilson Eaater
day. The deceased was never married
and left as his heirs, three brothers,
three nephews and three nieces. One
of the nephews is a citizen of Maid
stone, Saskatchewan, Canada, and
under the Nebraska law as inter
preted by the attorney for the estate
cannot inherit. The brothers ex
cept William of Benson, and one
and one niece, Mrs. Keeker and the
nephew, save the one in Canada
are all residents of Ohio, nearly all
of them residing neat Woostcr.
Mr. Murtey was appointed adminis
trator and will proceed to wind up
the estate.
The court then called up the Wil
liam II. Edgerton estate and adjusted
the final report of II. M. Socnnieh
sen, administrator. The sole heir
to the estate is an only daughter,
Lcona M. Edgerton, of whom 0. C.
Dovey is guardian. The property
of the deceased will now pass to the
heir and be managed by her guardian.
"Here's Hopelng."
Any one who reads the Plattsmouth
newspapers cannot but feel that the
newspaper men of the old town are
a live bunch and are burning mid
night oil in their endeavor to build
up the town. It requires a whole
lot of elixir of 1 f o for some of the
dead ones down there, and the Courier
hopes to see the "boys succeed in their
undertak ng to ' See Plattsmouth Suc
ceed.' ' Lo u iisrillc Co u n'cr.
CRABTREE
WILL FIGHT
Does Not Propose to be Set
Down on by the State
Normal Board.
FORMER CASS CO.
MAN A SCRAPPER.
Students Go on a Two Days Strike
to Show their Loyalty to Prin
cipal. News of the action of tho state
ward of education in its meeting
at Nebraska City last night, when it
adopted a resolution requesting tho
resignation of President Crabtrce,
of the Peru normal school, caused
no great surprise as the action was
in a measure anticipated. The stud
ents, in order to show their loyalty
to the president, adopted something
of an innovation, which might bo
termed a two days Btrike. Today
all remained from their classes, and
tomorrow the eamo course will bo
followed, but, the plan is to rcsumo
work as usual Friday.
That President Crabtrce will not
voluntarily resign at the close of the
term, as requested by the board, is
nearly a foregone conclusion. The
fight is only begun"President Crab
trce ia.. quoted. m . paying today," -
In County'Court.
In the county court today tho mat
ter of the final settlement of the
estate of Lydia Todd, deceased, was
down for hearing, but owing to the
absence of the attorney for the estate
D. 0. Dwyer, tho matter was con
tinued until his return from Michi
gan, where he was called by the
death of his aged father.
For Spring
Selling
We have just received some new
high collar cravanettes made of
all wool cassimeres and worsted
materials. Prices ranging from
$13.50 to $22.50
Any time you're willing, we'll be
glad to show you.
Falter & Thieroll
Value Giving Clothiers.