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MEETING
OF CLUB
Commercial Club Meets and
Elects Delegates to the
State Association.
ROAD PROPOSITION
GIVEY GOOD BOOST
I dition of the meal factory to the city's
i manufacturing list would mean a big
i drawing; card for the surrounding far
! triers and would make a new market
; for some of their produce.
The committee on pitting out an
! illustrated pamphlet of Plattsmouth
was civen the consent cf the clui) to
1 secure estimates on the approximate
; cos; of publishing such a hook and, in
all pru'babilill's, one v. ill lie issued
', before many inons have il.ipse.!.
I TIic committers on the proposed
' editor's convention a:id club banquet
; were advised V) push the affair
through for this spring and before the
adjournment ol the evening meeting
it was voted to have a special session
of the club Thursday, April 7.
A. S. Will Makes the Club a Very
Generous Oiler In the Matter
of Paving Chicago Avenue.
Very interesting meeting of the Com
mercial club ot tins city was neiu at
Coates Hall last evening, at which
delegates to the State Commercial
Convention at Columbus, April 27
and 28 were elected and definite ac;
tion as to the paving of Chicago
avenue taken.
The meeting was not very largely
attended, and in the absence of the
president and secretary, the vice
president, H. M. Windham took the
chair and C. W. Maylor presided at
the book.
One of the first matters of import
ance brought up was the reading of
a communication received by the sec
retary of the club from the authorities
at Washington, wherein it was stated
that it was very possible that Platts-
mouth could secure the services of
a government road expert from the
Department of Agriculture. The club
had written in the hopes of getting
such a man, and in reply, find that if
Norfolk and other Nebraska towns
are interested enough to use such a
man, he will be sent out here at once.
IfUie man comes, he will likely
jr . i ... .
r' do some demonstrating work on the
'"'ty roads probably Washington Ave-
rrftPT and give a number of lectures
on the building of roads. On the move
mcnt of Mr. Tidd, it was voted to ask
for the services of Mr. W. L. Spoon,
a representative of the Secretary of
Agriculture, who is familiar with the
road conditions in Nebraska.
In the matter of macadamizing
Chicago Avenue, it was voteed to se
cure a civil engineer to estimate on the
city's share of expense of the undei tak
ing at once. Mr. A. .S. Will has agreed
to furnish the teams for hauling al
the stone to the street and to do all
the preparing of the street ready for
N inrge to the city oif they will do the
rT of the work. This most generous
otter should be greatly appreciated
by the citizens, who ought to taki
.Jnlil if tint ni'tt tr it iwl tiitu'h : i
to a lmish. it .Mr. ill goes into
this undertaking he wants to see ii
dune right, the street properly gnul
ed and the telephone poles set out ol
the way, leaving a street, which, as
platted, measures SO fed. The stone
road in the center would measure
about 20 feet, leaving ample gutter:
on the sides for the carrying off of
the water. There would have to be
some changes in the arrangements of
the culverts, but these changes would
nut be of very much expense. If it is
thought ad viable by the people, this
good citizen is willing to show what
this road is like by laying a section of
it in front of his residence to prove
it's worth for these kind of roads
It was voted to prepare a petition
signed by the members of the club
to be presented at the next round
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McCauley Discharged.
Charles McCauley, the Plattsmouth
boy v ho has been in the county jail
since last September, with the excep
tion of the time when he was wander
ing over the country as a fugitive, was
yesterday discharged from custody on
motion of County Attorney Tyrrell,
who caused the complaint against the
prisoner to be dismissed. McCauley
was charged with burglary, it being
alleged that he entered the residence
of Frank Watson on North Tenth
street, during the daytime, Septem
ber 2. McCauley was taken to the
court house from the jail yesterday af
ternoon and asked by the county attor
ney if he would plead guilty. He
stated that he had gone to the Watson
ionic for the purpose of committing no
offense. He would not, therefore,
plead guilty. The county attorney
onsidered the case against the young
man a weak one, and there fore tlis-
missed it. McCauley was one of the
men who escaped from the jail last
September. Several weeks later he
was picked up on the erects of Platts
mouth. He stated thu-i, he was heart
ily tired of being a fugitive, and would
rather be in jail than constantly dodg
ing the officers. State Journal.
In Honor ol Mrs. Ed Barker.
Mrs. J. M. I.eyda delightfully en
tertained, Wednesday, six ladies in
honor of Mrs. Ed Barker' of Plain
view, Neb., who is the guest of her
mother, Mrs. O'Niell. . These ladies
were memheis of a card club when
Mis. Marker resided in Plattsmouth
and the affair was in the form of a re-
uniun.
Music and ' cards were the chief
amusements of the afternoon. I he
decorations were green and white,
the place cards being little shamrocks.
The hostess served a delicious two-
course luncheon and was assisted be
her mother, Mrs.. Emma Dcfibaugh,
and daughter, Miss Ethel Leyda.
Those enjoying Mrs. Leyda's hos
pitality were Mesdames Ed. Marker,
Chester II. Smith, J. M. Johns, 'W.
C. Tippens, Wm. Schmidt mann and
the hostess, Mrs. J. M. Leyda.
plums. This is to be accomplished J w hose nuddlc contains but a small
by playing the morning games in foi r i amount of ooze where some distant
towns, after which the clubs will jump ' ancestor perhaps had a slight trace of
in the sftemoon to the other cities.
Here is the Fourth of July program:
Fremont in Seward, a. in.; Kearney
in Fremont, p. m.
Coii'inbus in Kearney, a. m.; Kear
ney in Columbus, p. m.
Hastings in Grand Island, a. in.;
Grind Island in Hastings, p. rn.
Supeiior in lied Cloud, a. m.;
lied Cloud in Superior, p. m. Lin
coln News.
Tom Fairweather, president of the
Sioux City club, lost out in his race
for alderman this week.
Lincoln and Omaha play a series of
games before the season opens begin
ning with April 2 and 5 m Omaha.
The Lincoln dates will be the 14th
and 15th.
Schoolmaster Jones has notified
the Lincoln mamagement that he will
be ready for business April 50. With
the pitching staff which Lincoln will
have it will mean that Johnnie w ill not
have to pitch other pitchers' games,
but will only be required to take his
turn with the rest. This means he will
be classed among the classiest of the
pitchers of the Western this season.
It has alwavs been the. luck that he
had to overwork himself and as he
result he was not able to deliver the
goods he otherw ise would.
The Cubs got bumped again Tues
day by the Naps. This makes the
second game that his bearship has had
to succumb to the men from Ohio.
The score was Cubs (i-6-2, Naps 8-9-1.
Chicago Sox No. 1, 7-15-1; Fresno
0-G-1 . Such was the score of the game
at Fresno Tuesday.
Sox No. 2 and Portland played a re
markable game Tuesday in which
neither side score. Sox, 0-5-0; Port
land, 0-6-0.
Catnnitz, one of Pittsburg's star
pitchers who has been holding out,
has at last come into the fold and has
signed a 1010 contract.
Catcher P.illv Sullivan of the Chi
cago Sox. stepped on a rusty nail Sat
urdav just after the game and is at the
present time in a very serious condi
tion from blood poison. He lias been
delirious for some hours and his wife
was wired to go to his bedside.
real gray matter.
This Marithon race business is gct-
ting to be some business in more ways
i than upon the circular track. Last
J year we witnessed the Maruhon at
! Los Angeles (hiring the Elks' eonven-
tion in which the Hopi Indian lad from
Arizona staggered across the tape
after completing a run of 2(5 miles,
while his less enduring competitors
flopped fits after covering but half
the distance. We crossed our finger's
then and vowed never again to wit
ness anything so extremely foolishly
and brutal. Why, a Jurez bull fight in
comparison is as tame as a deacon's
morning invocation long side aJournal
writetip of a city council meeting.
Last week out in Frisco the (iOO's
held a Marithon dance. There's only
597 now. After dancing for 41 hours
without even spitting on their hands
for a new hold, the dance was called
off and two of their members hur
ried before the board of insanity who
pronounced their cases hopeless. An
undertaker and kind friends did d
in their power for the third, and then
we sometimes wonder why men drink.
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tof'fmish, and it was suggested that
the members attend the council meet
ing in person to lend their efforts in
the securing of the new paving.
Three del-gates, E.II.Wescott, J. I'
Falter and A. L. Tidd were elected
to attend the convention of commer
cial clubs at Columbus in April, their
traveling expenses to be paid out of
the club's treasury. The alternates
H. H. Windham, A. S. Will and Ray
Patterson were also elected by the
club members.
The proposition of having some sort
of a fall entertainment to draw the
people into the town was discusse
ut length and in conclusion it was
voted to have die chair appoint a com
mittee of 20 farmers and 10 club men
to work up a fall event in the nature
of a combined stock and agricultural
uliow and merchants carnival to be
held on some spot centrally located
for the citizens. The big sand bar
just east of the city was spoken of
by one of the leading boosters as an
1 ideal place for such an affair, where a
few wooden buildings could be erected
and a race track constructed at a
very small cost.
The movement toward getting an
alfalfa meal factory established in the
til was revived by Mr. Tidd and the
I rtion was carriedd to have a com-
I ,nittee of 15 farmers and 5 citizens ap
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t all in their power to introduce such
Y' a concern iu the locality. The ad-p
A New Booster In Town.
He is a Booster all right, but he
came mighty near being an Irishman.
He arrived in to n ery early
Friday wearing a uoostcr button
of the most approved style
and has been voted a member of the
Commercial Club. Assistant
to the secretary is his title
but his superior officer w ill be expected
to do all the work, for some time at
least. Hilt Wescott may be only
five fett high, but he is standing
up straight this morning smiling
his broadest and as he hands out the
cigars he whispers gently, "it is a boy."
Congratulations to the proud and hap
py parents and may all their troubles
be little ones.
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Declined.
I appreciate the honor conferred
by the Citizens Convention by nomi
nating me for Councilman m the
Fourth Ward, but owing to personal
plans, I cannot accept, and therefore
must decline the nomination.
George Mallancc.
OMAHA MISSIONARY
MEETING A SUCCESS
Big Gathering ol Laymen at the
Banquet In that City
Last Mght
TUFF LUCK
FOR JIM
If it took our old friend Ilosencrans
twenty minutes to shave a man,
Halley's comet seventy-five years to
reappear and pork selling at $10 in
Omaha, w hat w ould the pi ice of
cheese in Hong Kong
Five or six decades before the mighty
Columbus had a thought that new-
lands were to be found far
Mother o'er the seas, another "crazy
Shi (don's individual sprung a prophecy
Prophecy upon the inhabitants at
that time w hich branded her
as a subject for the "foolish factory,"
but if those who ridiculed her verse
at that time could but sit up and take
notice today, they would have to ad
mit that Mother Shipton was there
with the goods, so to speak. Fol
lowing is the article as first published
in 14 IS, and later reproduced "just
for foolishness" in 1CG1:
Cairiages without horses will go
And accidents fill the world with woe,
Round the world thoughts will fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water will yet more wonders do,
Now strange but yet they will be true
The world up side dow n shall be
And gold be found at the root of a tree.
Through hills men shall ride
And no horse nor ass be at his side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk;
Iu the air men shall be seen
In white, in black, in green;
Iron on the water shall float
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In land that is not now known.
Fire and w ater shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit the Jew
The world to an end will come
In eighteen hundred eighty-one.
This prognosticator of centuries
ago had a most wonderful foresight
as the above shows. If the author
had been satisfied when the wandering
Jew built his bungalow over in London,
instead of going a step further and
trying to outdo the man who wrote
the bible, she would have scored a
complete triumph.
While Teddy is coming in for his
share of the glory just at present, it
might be well to hand a little bunch
of praise to his daughter-in-law o be,
Miss Alexander, whom Teddy Jr. will
wed in the flower month. Too much
credit cannot be given the little miss
for her intentions to marry an America
Of course we w ill say that is her duty,
and that she deserves no credit. Not
so today, when the fond parents of a
Fifth avenue heiress have their elec
tric orbs open to the sight of a title,
such as a duke, a count, a noaccount
or a prince. An American boy for
Miss Alexander, one who has brains
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Sam'l Long is an out of town visi
tor this week.
E. Stutzenegger left for Troy, N. Y.,
the middle of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln
spent Sunday at the Kaneff home.
Miss Hamilton went to Murdock
Friday evening to spend the evening
with friends.
Mrs. Towle and sons of Wabash
visited with relatives here Sunday
Josic Kaneff and Alma Hansen arc
visiting in town this week while Mrs.
Kaneff is spending the week with
her daughter Mrs. II. C. Hansen in
Louisville.
A new well is being dug near the
pump station on the Rock Island this
week.
J. A. Meaty and his force of men
have left for their work on a division
of the Rock Island near Lorton, Kan.
The damage due to ice on the bridge
at this point was not what it was an
ticipated to be.
F. D. 1 1 ill and son of Omaha spent
Sunday with home folks.
Mrs. Rent of Ashland is the guest
of the Sam'l Long home this week'
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hill and daugh
ter spent Sunday with the Wallick
family in Lincoln.
II. P. Long journeyed to Omaha
Monday morning on business.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kline and daugh
ter came in Sunday noon to be the
guest of the W. I), family.
A show was given in town Friday
evening and was considered by all a
very good one. Slight of hand perfor
mances withtraincd bird made an in
teresting program.
Ross Hill made his regular trip to
Lincoln Sunday, where he is receiv
ing rinstuetions on the violin of Hagen-
ow.
A moving picture show is billed to
be attheM'W. A. hall, Mar' 25.
M. F. Dill returned from a few days
visit, in Lincoln, Saturday evening.
The Laymen's Missionery move
ment which culminated in a series
of meetings covering Thursday, Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday iu Omaha,
began Thursday evening with a ban
quet in the auditorium in that city
to which over 1400 men sat down and
enjoyed a fine supper.
It would be useless for us to go into
details regarding the opening session,
suffice it to say that those who did at
tend enjoyed something they prob
ably never will have another chance
to see. When you take into consid
eration that the very best there is
in the world is gathered together
and is traveling around the country
holding a series of seventy-five meet
ings iu different parts of the United
States, you can see what those who at
tend have a chance to enjoy and those
who fail to attend, miss.
These meetings will continue the
rest of the week closing Sunday with
a mass meeting in the Omaha audit
orium at 3:30 in the afternoon. Homer
C. Stunz of New York City and George
Sherwood Eddy of India will be the
speakers. We do no care if one is
interested in foreign missions or not,
he cannot afford to miss this chance
to hear something from somebody
he probably never w ill get another
chance to hear.
The local people who attended the
banquet last evening were Rev. Moore,
Luke Wiles, Richard Osborn, M. A.
McElwain, George Farley, Mert Pol
lock, Thomas Pollock, C. C. Wescott
and P. A. Marrows. Rev. Steger, John
Albert and Leonard Morn went dow n
this morning to be present at some of
today's meetings.
Projects Wedding Will Be
Postponed Until More
Convenient Season.
FIRST OFFENCE, BUT
TOO LATE NOW
Got In Bad Company and Will
Probably Have to Take Ills
Medicine.
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The Nebraska State League held its
schedule meeting yesterday at Sew
ard and adopted a playing schedule
of 112 gums. President Despain of
the Lincoln club, met with the state
leaguers and was tendered a vote of
thanks for his assistance in the draft
ing of the schedule. The league sea
son is to open May 10 and close
September 10. An innovation was the
adoption of a schedule which provides
for a series of only two games be
tween any two clu bs. This wil
enable any club in the circuit to play
its seven opponents within a period of
fourteen days, avoiding long stays at
home and keeping up the interest
in the game. This arrangement wil
add to the transportation expense
but the league directors held to the
belief that they would be money
ahead by keeping the teams on the
jump. Red Cloud is to open at hew
ard, Superior at Fremont, Hastings at
Columbus and Kearney at Grand
Island. The schedule provides for in the dome that besets his shoulders
an even division of the Fourth of July ' and not a titled excuse of humanity
Something Good Tonight.
Lively, farce comedy will hold the
boards at the Parmcle theatre, tonight
when the William Grew Stock Co.,
return to this city for their weekly
visit. The popularity of this talented
company is rapidly increasing, and if
the large number of applicants for
member ship in the Once-a-Wcek club
stand for anything, it's proven beyond
doubt that the amusement loving
public of this city are anxious and will
ing to support a stock company of
merit one night a week. Mr. Grew
has selected a comedy of Stirling worth
entitled, "Is Marriage a ' Failure "
for his return engagement tonight
The play is from the pen of a well
known French play write. A. Plaudel,
and has been adapted for use in this
country by A. Daly.
The play enjoyed a successful run
in this country, and proved one of
the real hits of the season. In the
character of Adclphus Doubledot,
a rising young musician, Mr. Grew
will have a part well suited to him, and
Miss Pettes w ill be seen in the leading
female role, that tf Diana, Doub'cdot's
first wife. All the members of the
Grew company will be in the cast,
Taylor Rennet, Edna Sevier, Robt.
Enders, Iy Mowman, Frank Hettcr
iek, Sam Meharry, Edith Spencer
Graydon Fox and Manuel Snyder
w ell know n to Omaha audiences joins
the Grew Company this week playing
an important part.
(From Thursday's Daily)
The hearing was held this morn
ing before County Judge Meeson of
the two men arrested in Louisville
Wednesday for the burglary of the
clothing store of Moone & Davis at
Weeping Water. One of tho men,
James Lynch, age 23, has been em
ployed for several years past in a shoe
factory in Minneapolis. He told a
patheytic story to the judge that this
was the first time he hud ever gone
wrong, and he showed a photograph
of a young lady he expected to marry
in the fall. He, with the other man.
Hairy C. Harrison of Kansas City,
pleaded guilty to the charge, waiving
examination. Their bond was placed
at $500, but not being able to sign
for them this morning, thev were
placed in the county jail, to await
their trial in the district court, which
will probably be held Saturday. The
penalty for such a crime is a peniten
tiary term of fiom one o ten years.
The two pnsoners do not seem to
be of very mean disposition. and it
is thought that the real leader of the
trio was the man that made his es
cape. The authorities at Lincoln,
were notified cf the case, but up to
press time, they had not beeu able to
get on his track.
CITY OF KEARNEY
GOES WET AGAIN
Special Election Tuesday Decides
that Wet Goods are Needed
In Kearney.
Kearney decided Tuesday that as
a preliminary to securing the next
state capital building it w ould be neces
sary to have a little wet goods to
celebrate the occasion and so voted
by a majority of twenrty-five to have
the saloon help on the work.
The result of the election shows
that the "wet" wards went wetter
than last year and that the "dry"
wards went wetter also.
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Miss Lola Reed of Omaha came in
on No' 17 Saturday for a weeks visit
at her home south of town.
L. M. Appleman and family drove to
Ashland Saturday.
Frank Look spent Saturday and Sun
day in Plattsmouth.
Geo. Ryan was a passenger for
Lincoln Monday evening.
Clay Foreman spent Satursayand
Sunday in Omaha.
Miss Stella Shusley spent Monday
shopping in Lincoln.
A. 11. Weichel and family were
guests at the home of Mena Kctzels
Sunday.
Mrs. J. IL Strocmer was a Lincoln
visitor Monda and Tuesday.
Witl Sutton returned from Denver
Monday where he has been visiting
relatives the past two weeks.
Mrs'. Gladys Amowert and baby of
Murdock spent several days at the
home of her parents this week.
Miss Anderson of Weeping Water
is visiting Mrs. Geo. Shusley this week.
Mrs. C. A. Gullion spent Saturday
and Sunday in Greenwood with rela
tives. Mrs. Lemon of Murdock visited at
the home of Adam Hildebrand's Sun
day and Monday.
Mrs. Etta Cashner of Lincoln and
Mrs. Rob llartman of Kanuss City
are visiting lelatives around Alvo this
week.
Installs Ice Cream Parlor.
J. E. Mason, the Main street con;
fectioncry man, has felt the effect of
the warm spring weather and is mak
ing a considerable improvemti.t in
his place of business. He is chang
ing one of the rooms in the rear of his
building, thta was formerly used as
a store room, into au attractive little
icecream parlor for the convenience
of his hot weather patron. At pres
ent he will install three new tables
and if his trade grows so large that he
cannot comfortably accomodate it
in the new room that he is fixing up,
he will convert the other room of the
building into one of a similiar kind and
put in a neumbr more tables'
Ladles Auxiliary Entertained.
The members of the Ladies Aux
iliary ef the Presbyterian church and
their friends were enterta ncd Friday
evening at the heme of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry A. Schneider. The affair was
in the nature of a St. Patrick's day
gathering and the Irish shade of green
prevailed every w here. The large num
ber of guests .iat down to a delicious
two course supper at seven o'clock,
the table decorations bf ing fern leaves
and shamrocks, and the same color
scheme was cairied out through the
course of the meal.
Following the tempting repast the
time was ph asantly , spent in games
and a short promm was rendered
consisting of two vocal solos by Mrs.
Gamble and Gladys Sullivan, a reading
by Miss Newell and an instrumental
selection buy Miss Verna Cole.
Narrow Escape lor Old Lady.
A very serious accident was nar
rowly prevented at the Murray resi
dence in Mynard Friday morning.
Clothing on the bed in which Grand
mother Jean, the well known old lad',
was confined was, in some manner,
set on fire and the flames were slowly
eating their way toward the helpless
woman iu the bed, when one of the
occupants of the house happened to
enter the room and discover the blaze.
The fire was quickly smothered with
little damage except the burned bed
clothing and a few charred places
on the bed, but the excitement of the
accident and the room full of smoke
was quite a shock to the good old
lady.
Teachers Exams.
The monthly teacher's examination
of Cass eoi nty is being given toduy at
ti c office of County Superintendent
Miss Mary Foster in tl c court house
building. The young pedagogues who
are taking the test are Misses Grayce
Mailey, Marie Kunz, May Durbin,
Messis. Ralph I'hley and William
Hoi ttger, residei.ts of Klmwood. Miss
Eva and May Pickwell of Murdock,
Miss Meitha Smoet of Weeping Water
and Misses Ethel Wiles and Alpha
Andrews of Avoea.
Mrs. Henry Ohrt of Calhoun after
spending a number of days at the home
of her brother and sister, John Iverson
and Mrs. Nelson of this city, left this
morning for her home town.
Notice to Pay Up.
In the most friendly manner pos
sible I desire to notify all who are in
debted to me in any amount that I will
expect a settlement of their account
at the time of the coining pay day. It
is absolutely imperative that all bills
be paid and no further notice will
be given. If you owe me in any
sum, you will avoid additional ex
pense and legal difficulties by calling
upon me at the time specified. If I
owe you, present your bill and you
will get your money Again I say
that this is positively the last notice.
70475 t-f M. Fanger.
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