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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1910)
NEBRASKA STATE LEAGUE Organization of a State Base Ball League Has at Last Been Formed. PRESENT TROSPECTS LOOK VERY MCE. Hasting, Fremont, Grand Island, Seward, Superior and Red Cloud the Towns. Delegates from Fremont, Seward, Huttings, Superior, Red Cloud and Grand Island perfected a temporary organization of a state league of base ball teams in Grand Island yesterday and at midnight adjourned to meit at Hastings on Monday evening next to adopt the constitution and by-laws which will be drafted in this city tomorrow by a special com mittee consisting of the Messrs. Pal mer of Fremont, Morgan of Seward and Sicvers of Grand Island. Temporary organization was per fected by the election of Attorney J. L. Geary as chairman and A. F. Buechlcr as secretary. Manager Rour ke of the Omaha team was present and aided .very materially in framing up the outline for the organization. The meeting passed upon various propositions as an aid to the constitu tion committee tomorrow. All of the six towns named made formal application to enter a state league, and the temporary secretary was instructed immediately to communi cate with Secretary Farrell, of the national association of baseball clubs, for protection of the territory cal culated to be embraced in the Nebra ska 'league until formal application could be made. It was declared the sense of the meet ing that each club put up a cash bond of $500 that it will play out the sea son, and that for the general league expenses after organization is per fected assessments be made by the board of directors; that for immediate expenses each club pay J25 to the treasurer to be elected at the next meeting; that the salary limit of each team, including manager, shall be $G0O: that after the first two weeks of play'ig n team carry more than twelve men, exclusive of manager; that visiting and home teams have an equal division of general admissions the home team reserving grand stand receipt; that no general admission be less than 25 cents and that the visiting team be guaranteed J50 per game played; the matter of playing games during rainy weather or wet grounds being left temporarily with the home team. Four of the six towns represented informally declared their choice for president of the league to be Henry Sievers of Grand Island. Manager Rourke consented to re main over tomorrow to assist the constitution committee. The tempo rary officers were instructed to in vite any further cities that show an interest to attend the meeting at Hastings Monday night. It is proposed to have a schedule of about one hundred games for each lub. The schedule committee will be appointed at the Hastings meeting. Washington Warbles. The time may come when Senator Brown will be held in grateful remem brance by inventors throughout the country, many of whom may not even know him now. For Senator Brown has followed the precedent set by other western statesmen who might be mentioned, and by nutting it to work has awakened the slumber ing Committee of Patents, of which he is Chairman. It is a picturesque committee. It suggests the romance that surrounds the inventor and the" genuis. That romance has been latent, but the i i n i t i i AcbrnPKa M'nator s loucn nas roused It ITnnn linu enrillirr in ia itrnnuta of both inventors and their attorneys UUil. BUim'i iiiii, nun iiiuj utmi: iu nuuist llirni in n field lontr Tieirlectcd Senator Brown proposes a. number of amendments to patent laws; but most most important, he advocates a pat ent court. The senate has recognized this move by appointing a stenographer to report hearing which are to be held on the matter. And Senator Brown surmises that there will be not only hearings, but results. The Republicans of Nebraska who live in Washington most of them believe in President Taft. At least i. : t,n inrlirution from the snccch- UlttV lO v . that were made at a meeting or " . . II! -U..L ..I th Nebraska iwpuouoaa uuu oi Washington held recently. Quota tion at any length of the remarks made there is, of course, hardly possible- in the limits of this litter. But the keynote sounded was that Mr. Taft is endeavoring to support not only the polities' outlined by Roosevelt, but was going farther even than his predecessor in advocating progressive ard remedial legislation. W. K. Andrews, Senator Burke tt, Judge J. R. Webster, M. C. Snyder, and other familiar rampaigne is in Nebraska spoke at the met ting, which was generously represented by Neb raska Republicans in Washington. One speaker referred to Taft's utterances on the conservation ques tion, and assured the members of the Club that before Congress had ad journed this session, a natural conser vation bill, backed by Pits. Taft, of as wide scope, or wider, than the ideas of Roosevelt, would be enacted into law. The hearing of the Rallinger affair has proven a great drawing attrac tion. One of the larger committee rooms in the Senate OHice has been utilized, and all the available space has been crowded each day by interes ted listeners, Ixith from Washington and other parts of the country. No disclosures thus far se-tm to hav lessened Pinchot's popularity, thoi'gh it is dawning on a careless public that Mr. Taft's dismissal of the forester is no evidence of his lack of hearty sympathy for the conservation of natural resources. THE GREW COMPANY AT THE PARMELT. Gave a. Good Performance to a Good Sized Audience. The Grew Company which played their first engagement at the Parmele last night in the production the "Invader," pleased the audience, a good sized one, in good shape. The company is well balanced and Mr. Grew is well supported by his com pany. There does not seem to be a week spot in the caste, every actor doing his or her share to make the play a success. Mr. Grew in the person of Carson Bland, the "Invader" who from the poorest of circums tances becomes a power in Wall street, and the efforts of a member of the street to not only break Lim financially, but also his home. and run away with his wife, makes a thril ling situation all through the piece. Miss Cleveland as the leading lady is very fine as is also Miss Monroe. Mr. Grew made the audience a little talk between acts in which he promised to keep up the char acter of the productions to the stan dard deserved by Plattsmouth au diences and said he would return next Friday evening with a production which would require the full company to be present, the Invader only re quiring about two thirds of the people with him. He has established a cir cuit consisting of Omaha, Council Bluffs, Lincoln, Plattsmouth and one or. two other towns, appearing in caeh one once a week It is to be hoped that when he re turns next week that the house will be crowded for the company is worthy the patronage of all. , AGED MAN BREAKS ARM AT WRIST. Ben Marler Residing Near Mynard Falls on Ice and Is Seriously Injured. Ben Marler, an aged gentleman residing with his son F. A. Marler near Mynard had the misfortune to fall last evening while out in the yard, breaking his arm. The injured man is past ninety years old and is very active, but through some mis chance slipped on the ice and fell with such force as to cause a fracture of the arm at the wrist. Dr. Cummins dressed the wound and the aged sufferer was made as comfortable as possible. In Omaha Hospital R. E. Young, of near Murray stopped for a few hours in Pint ts mouth today enrouto. from Omaha where he had been visiting his brother Iiu at the hospital. Lou was com pelled to undergo an operation Mon day, owing to the bad condition ( his leg which was broken some eleven or twelve weeks ago by a mule slip ping on the ice and fulling on him. Dr. Allison performed the operation and took out three pieces of decayed bone. It will be some weeks before the fracture will be well. Wlulc in Omaha Mr. Young took a run down to the stock yareto at South Omaha, and saw Dave Rankin, the Holt County Mo., farmer buy eighteen loads of steers for his feud yards. SENATOR THOMAS Tells of Experiences in His New Home at Long Beach, California. THINKS CALIFORNIA A GREAT STATE. Takes a Fisting Trip and Helps Land a Ferocious Man Ealing Shaik. Ex-Senator, S. L. Thomas, of Long Beach Cali. made the News office a pleasant call today. Senator Thomas is well pleased with his new home having changed from Cass county to thr.t summer resort last autumn. Mr. Thomas had the pleasure of going on a fishing excursion with his son Walter and the Captain of a fishing boat some weeks ago. The boat was some forty or more feet in length, and when the party got out of sight of land and some eighteen miles from shore, you may appreciate Senator Thomas' feelings riding over a choppy sea. Notwithstanding the uneasy sensation brought him, he and his son cast their lints over board for fish. Mr. Thomas had been provided with a line about one hundred feet long and a heavy cord, while the captain fished with a line ten times the length expecting to catch cod fish at a depth of about a thousand feet. Mr. Walter Thomas soon succeeded in landing a shark about four feet long which the Captain pronounced a "Man esting shark." After some time another shark was landed, which the Captain said was a woman eating shark, this fish was somewhat larger that the fi-sh, but otherwise the Senator could ste no difference, and requested the captain" to explain. He said"if you had noticed closely you would have seen that the first shark had three rows of teeth. It was a man eater all right. The last shark had no teeth at all." Mr. Thomas later got a bite on his hook from a fine large fish, pro- bally a white fist, and was just about to land it in the boat when his line gave away and the fish and hook disappeared in the blue water of the ocean. It was great sport, and for a landsman without experience on the water, eighteen miles .from land in a small boat, is not so inviting as one would at first think. Mr. Thomas will visit in Cass county for two or three weeks before returning to his western home. TEMPERANCE COMMITTEE MEET AT UNION. Forces Appointed lor Campaign Purposes Lay Future Plans. The committee appointed by the Temperance committee tf the Cass county Sunday School Association, met at Union on the ,8th inst. and organized for work. The chairman of the temprance work of the associa tion is Rev. C. II. Burdock, and the committee appointed to assist him in formulating plans for practical campaign work next fall met with him on this oceassion. It is the purpose to unite all of the tempi ranee voters on one proposi tion, probably, county option. There is to be no thiid party movement, but the temprance forces expect to work within their own parties and sec to it that the proper men arc no minuted at the primary next fall The aim is to have some legislation put through the next term that will be a blow to the liquor traflic in Nebraska. The leaders in the move ment say that the people who desire such legislation, have the balance of power and if the y stand united for a single proposition that it can be made to win. Tim e is to be something doing all the while when the campaign opens, and ihe politicians who have roosted on the fence in the past, would do well to take a tumble to themselves and alight on the right side. - In Judge Archer's Court. In the case eif the Oliver Typev writer Co. vs E. G. Lewis, a replevin case the cause was continues! at the request eif the defendant. In the case of Mrs. Gertrude Morgan vs Irene Murphy motion and affidavit of defendant for continuance for 30 days wai filed and tho case con tinued to March .11 at 10 A. M. HAYWARD WILL RUN Chairman of State Republi can Committee Has at Last Spoken. WILL MAKE FIGHT FOR NOMINATION Announcement Made at Lincoln Last Mfiht That He Will Enter Race. Col William Hayward, Chairman of the State Republican committee and Secretary of the National Re publican committee has decided to make the race for the republican nomination for congress, so the morn ing papers state. 'I his announcement was made in response to a letter from a friend who urged him to get into the race. He will tender his resignation to the state committee as soon as they arc ready to receive it. THE STAGE AND THE GIRL. What Robert Edeson says About the Stage Struck Girl The stage-struck girl, like the poor, we have always with us. No 'Village is too small to boast of its would-be "Juliet." Show me a city large enough to support a busine-ss college, and I will show you one that supports either a "dramatic school" or a teacher of cloeution, whose pupils hope some day to shine before a real audience. There arc styles in stage-struck girls, as in art anel in gowns. There was a day when the stage-struck girl was a creature ef tears, emotions and wild schemes for eluding watchful parents. The stage-struck girl of a decade back thought she must simply run away from home to court success. , To-day all this has changed. The stage' is regarded by girls as a serious career. They prepare for it by more or less stuely. They enter upon the career with the full consent of their parents. The average letter which I receive from a stage-struck girl to- tlay reads something like this: "I have been seriously considering the stage as a profession. I feel the need of a career and I think my tai nts arc largely dramatic. I am a graduate of College, w here I specialized in English literature and tlic drama, and I have done some w ork as a member of the Dramatic Club, which attracted atten- tion. I would be glad to accept even tho smallest role in your company, etc." That is the sort of letter which makes an actor or a manager sit up and take notice. It is the sort of let ter which should make the mothers of daughters do likewise, and that is why I have accepted the eelitor's invitation to talk through the columns of his paper to the girls of this city who arc thinking of "adopting the stage as a career." You se-e, I epiote literally from a letter now at hand. To be'g'm with, le-t us understanel each other thoroughly. It is not my intention to poke fun at the stage struck girl. A lot ef us have learned tei take her seriously. I am only asking the mother anel the girl to consieler the matter as seriously as we, who stand in ne ed of capable leading jr support, must consider women for our it. Mary Anderson was what we to day would term a "stage-struck girl." Julia Arthur was stagc-strue-k. Belle Archer, who, in her prime, was one ef the cleverest light comediennes the American stage has ever known, ran away from school to join the original production of "II. M. S. Pinafore" in Philadelphia. To ge't right down to a gre-at basic truth, it is not what a girl is be fere she joins the profe'ssion, but what she does afterward that counts. Gener ally her chief offence is youth, but she will outgrow that, particularly if bc- hiiul ytiuth lie ambition and geiejel se'iisc. t The American stage to-day is sadly in neeel of girls with brains anel com mon sense. A pretty face is an neleleel asset, 'but !t will not carry a'girl to real success unless supported by grey niatter, ambitiem anel common se nse. Given ordinarily good features, good carnage, tho ability to carry smart clothe:s, which comes largely from good carriage, and quantities of grey-matter, and I'll back any Amer ican girl for success, against the murtly pretty face which lasts a sea- son or two in musical comedy chor uses. I speak now from the heart. When we were ready to east "A Man's A Man," the problem of securing a lead ing woman to play the role of Peggy Hewitt, grew from a mere still hunt for ability into a tragedy. In four days we tried out .three leading women, each capable of looking the part, each capable of jMirtraying cer tain phases of Peggy Hewitt's many sided character, but not one possess ing the grey-matter to give a satisfy ing performance. Here was a girl with adorable dim ples and gentle, clinging ways, who could piny the pleading wife, but she could not understand the mental an guish of the wife who thought herself forgotten and who yet determined to show the world a brave and smiling face. There was a statuesque crea ture, who looked the typical New Yorker, who delivered her cynical speeches with a verve that was dclec table.Jbut when it came to moments of despair, of homesickness and deso lation in the play she was as hard as tacks. Finally, thanks to the failure of an other play, Miss Josephine Lovcft, my present leading woman, was "at lib erty," and Mr. Harris engaged her on the instant. Our troubles were over, but tlay after day my thoughts have traveled back to tho three young women who had the opportunity to play Peggy, and who could not do it simply because they lacked not beauty, carriage, distinction, enuncia tion and persoual charm, but the abil ity to concentrate. One girl in particular gave a inost flippant reading of some very tender lines. She raced through a fine speech as if the judge's stand were just ahead. After correcting her repeatedly, I sat down patiently to explain just where she was wrong, and what do you sup pose was her answer. "My elear man, don't expect me to take a rehearsal seriously. I always give a corking performance before an audience, but here before a few actors, you can't expect me to be emotional or to show what I can elo." But that was just what I did expect and just what every star and manager expect of a player. In rehearsal there is no putting off 'till to-morrow what must be shown to-day. Another young woman argued over the meaning of almost every line she read. Presumably the playwrights, the producer in charge of the rehear sals and myself had given months to study out the real interpretation of those lines, but this young person of strong opinions and an exalted idea of her own- cleverness, wasted pre cious time, delayed rehearsals, and drove us all to distraction by refus ing to adopt our interpretation and to work on lines suggested for her by more experienced minds. These memories of trying days for the manager and the star should carry their message to every girl in this city who tliinks she would like to join our profession. Success on the stage is won not through any one characteristic, but through a curious combination of many. The stage- struck girl should have good health to withstand the strain of long hours, eonstftnt traveling, poorly cooked food. She should be above all things adaptable. No stenographer or de partment store clerk would think ef defying her chief, without expecting immediate dismissal. But many a stage-struck girl thinks she could do this and escape on the score of the "artistic temperament." Tl e stage-struck girl must possess enorn ous capacity for work. It is not cnoiif h to- study your lines and go throigh the part as the stage-director requires. If you are to advance you must grow me ntally. You must leai n to expand your part net in woiels or what is known as stage businefs, but in characterization, the natural strength which you put into your interpretation, the personal mag net'sm which you exert over your nudience, which can all be summed ' P the word "sincerity." The play wright can give you ine meisi ciiaini ing lines, the stage director can give you the most carefully thought-out business, and the manager the most beai t'ful of Parisian raiment, but rn- less you give forth sincerity, you can not succeed as an netress, and sin-' " r rerity is built on brains, the grey-1 ftirneen at lira funu fuir inhs neirth matter which I eonsidcr infinite ly ! w"t t'ii. TLi- Lmily of tho more important as nn unset, thru a Seised have b.cn cimplitely prra Cupel's bow mouth, eyes like vtlvet trrretl, his aged father who had al- pea 's, and a dimplce! chin. Duy New Hack. Parniele & We-hrbcm t''C e-i ti r- c! tcrprwng Piarl sire-el livery IK'Il lave added a new 812(H) ruobe r Ji.vd lack to their cnnpnunt lh.se ge-ntlem.-n are going ; to help '.n e Plattsmouth M.e-eee.1 by making their customers eomfeirtable when riding over the city. This is the sent of enterprise which brings suc cess, anel the traele will be quick to take note of these improvements. Mrs. Le-peld, returned to LaPlatto this afternoon, having visited with Mrs. C. A. Marshall and family for a short time. FUNERAL SERVICES Last Sad Rites to Another Popular Plattsmouth Woman. MRS. BENTON KINKEAD LAID TO REST. Funeral Service From Residence Two O'clock This Alternoon. The funral services over the remains of Mrs Benton Kinkcad was held at the re'sielence on North Tenth street at 2 o'clock this afterneiem, conducted by Rev. Luther Moore, pastor ef the Christian church of which the deceased was a consistent member. The funeral was atteneled by a a large number of sympathising ncigh beirs anel friends of the bereived family The music for the occasion was fur nished by a quartet composed of Mrs. Mac Morgan, Miss Minnie Me Kay, B. A. McElwain and Mr. G. L. Farle'y. The floral tributes were many and beautiful, attesting the eleep rewpect and high regards enter tained by the donors toward the deceased. Among those from out of town who came to pay repi'et to their de parted friend were: Mr. and Mrs Shinn, of Nebraska City, Mrs. Young of Stanton and Mrs. Hull of Lincoln. Mrs. Benton Kinkeael, formerly Miss Cynthia A. Vest, was born near McArthur unio, in isoiv where she grew to womanhood, and in 1S71 was married to Benton Kin keael. Mr. anel Mrs. Kinkcad resident in McArthur for about five years, when they made up their minds to try their fortune in the west, and accordingly Mr. Kinkcad came to Plattsmouth and was here several months before sending for his wife anel family, consisting of two small chiltlren ageel about three and five. The deccase-el was an areh'iit ad- herant of the Christian church, and was a kind anel obliging neighbor a true friend, mid a ftitlful wife and fond mother, and she will be greatly missed in the community. She leaves behind to memrn her smlelen depar ture Rem anel two daughters, Ralph of Seattle, Miss Ijiura who is teaching at Lincoln and Miss Etta, of Stanton ami her husband, Bentein Kinkcad. She also is survivcel by a brother anel two, sisters, her brother Anelriw J. Vest, resides at Loogoe tec Indiana. One sister, Mrs. Mant Crow at McArthur ( hio', and Mrs. Belle Allen also in Ohio. Two sisters prt.ee:eehd Mrs. Kinkcad to the unknown world. The dccvitseel had a r otherly pride in her chiltlren and hael planned with them to remove to Seattle hi Jure of this year and there occupy. a home purchased by her son Ralph aid her daughters. Miss Etta wb his just completed two years cf bee aid craft work in Chicago, also ex pected to join them and she and Miss Laura go into this as their chosen professiem. This plan will be earrieel out by the remaining members of the family. Mr. Kinkead anel family have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad be rievement. The palbcartis were The nas Wiles Juelge Join: son, T. W. Cfc r.n. Frank Johnson, Guy and Jee MlMaken. FUNERAL ROBERT KINDILL AT MOUNT HOPE. ; ervlces Attended By Larre Num ber of File lids ai;d Nefthfcois. Ytnterelay l.fumoon it 2:30 oe curriel the funeral ef Robert C. (Ktndidl the ui.fortuin.te you.g fain- i ways regareicei tins, ms tuny se n wun jso niuiii title t-t iuii, ceiulel lit. t be com 'feitleei, and l.iul to be restrained from ! t:iKii g 1 is own life'. I The funeral was held at Mt. Hope I I. .....I n.iu .! K,. .... ,, - pti, l.I(.rKinillI1 from Nt.i,raska t,. Hn(J hv,vy ft(t(,mk,d hy m,- )ll)(8 nll(l frimk T,. prorcs. M (Q ,)(, th(! , t cvcp HUM II. mill nno iiiimih ru iv un longes seen in that community. Interment was hael in the olel Union cemetary north tif the village. John Hennings a prominent fanner of near Louisville, was a Plattemoutk visitor toelay, called here on business. J. P. Falter returned from Fremont on the morning train today.