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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1905)
fblattstnoutb oucna volumi: XXV PI.ATTSMOUTII, XEHKASKA, THURSDAY, SKITKMIII-K lN, 1M)5. tube 3 TART CURB-STONE JOSHINGS Culled, Clipped, Penciled and Prepared for the Readers of the Journal. "Throw away t old straw hat. '"Tispxnl for iioltiln' now. "Co i.Iioji it i:p ami mix with lr;in! "Ami f --! ii to th- nut." .Some men make ;i specialty of f'irt Ing with t rouble. A lawyer isn't necessarily a begger because he plea Js for money. A crank is a man who will not rer mit his neighbors to turn hi:n. J lie newspaper that deceives its readers, lo-es their confidence. Diamonds are trumps during court ship and dubs aft t marriage. Too many sermons are aimed at the pocket books of the congregation. l'ity may be akin to love, but kin ship does not always indicate friend bhip. It is a w ise mother w ho knows exact ly where her daughter is when not at home. A man may imacine that his head is going round when in reality its only the wheels. Some jokers are as artless as their jokes are pointless. The News editor for instance. When you see a woman dragging a child down the street she is leadingan unhappy life. Once there was a man who tried to serve two masters and he was arrest ed for bigamy. Have you noticed that the straw hat and the owner seem to be getting tired of one another. While a man's w ill may be law in the case of a married man tiie law is seldom enforced. It sometimes happene that when a yjung man dotes on a irirl Iter father acts as an antidote. A smart man may not know all that people think he knows, but lie knows a Jot of other things. As an old bachelor says it's as danger o js to send "kisses by mail as it is to "deliver them in person. It ain t at all difficult for a man to have the patience of Job if the boils happen to be on his neighbor. A w oman considers her social obliga ti ps of more importance than her h;:band"s business obligations. N' v hn I'oriif t !aNoTitf s-aon Whi'-h tht iitrt irorr-. attract: A:iI it hriiii.s aairi ilieft-l!ow V. hoi:, n out l-t w-fii tin- ai'Is. But the proof of the pudding is in the manner in which the quests look at each other and say nothing. He who believes that seeing is believing is the one gold-brick pro moters like to do business with. Most married men arc wedded to art but they don't tind it out till the honey moon begins to bump the bumps. Trying to tie independent without capital is aboutas satisfactory as learn ing to be a prize fighter from a book- After a woman discovers that her nose irets red every time she cries she doesn't try it on her husband so often A homely tirl gets a lot of attention from all the girls of her acquaintance if she happens to have a good looking brother. Nothing is calculated to make a girl sj weary as the sight of a young man she admires acting silly over some other irirl. I'erhaps vou never had the pleasure of meeting the best man that ever lived, Adolphus, but if you marry a widow you are sure to hear of him frequently. The school season is now at hand. Try and manifesta little more interest in such affairs. It is your duty, and time so spent is well spent in more ways than one. Women are about to succeed in knocking the word "obey" out of the marriage ceremony, i ney knocked it out of real life about the time our grandfather was a boy. There are a number of young boys here in Plattsmouth who need to be kept at home at night. Parents should look after their boys before they get into trouble that will make their hearts ache. The Biley hotel corner is becoming loafers headquarters" again. The police should scatter these fellows, es pecially of an evening w hen the smart Alecs assembles there to "guy" young ladies as they pass to and from the postofrice. The parties who removed the collar case from Wescott's are well known, and their actions upon the streets hereafter will be closely watched by the police. The next time suspicion rests upon them for such work they will have to answer to the charge in the courts of justice. KILLED AND THROWN FROM THE TRAIN Tragi c Fate cf a Former Plattsmouth Boy Who Was Looking for Work. DOUBTLESS SANDBAGGED BY TRAMPS Body Brought Back to Omaha, Where He Has a Sister Living for Burial. WORKED iS OMAHA BEFORE GOING EAST Under circumstances indicating that lie had been murdered and thrown from a train, said the Omaha World- Herald of Friday morning, the body of August Julius of 2224 Grand avenue, this city, was round .Monday morning near the Lake Shore tracks at Bryan, O. The body was sent by the Bryan authorities to Omaha, where it was received Thursday morning by Un dertaker Taggart. Julius was 21 years old and left here about three weeks ago with his brother, John, to look elsewhere for work. He had been employed in the Kirkendall shoe factory and carried a card in the shoemakers' union. At Hannibal, Mo., John turned back, but August, though he had little money left, continued on, intending to go east. His relatives had heard from him but once or twice until the tele gram announcing his death came to them. The verdict of the Bryan coroner announced that voung Julius had probably been sandbagged by tramps and thrown from the train. Money is hardly thought to have been the in centive, as lie had T" cents in his pocket when found and his brother thinks he could hardly have had much more than that left by this time. The two Julius boys lived w ith their sister, Mrs. J. V. Schmittroth, 2224 Grand avenue. They came to Omaha about live years ago from Plattsmouth. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of Mrs. Schmittroth and interment will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. The unfortunate boy will perhaps be remembered by some of the Platts mouth people. His father resides in this city and works in the II. M. shops: his name is Fred Julius. Didn't Know About It. A certain newspaper man in Iowa relates an experience which might shed some likiht on the mail order business. He was at the depot and saw a farmer friend receive a set of harness from Chicago. He attempted to prove to the latter that he was making a mistake as any of the local dealers would furnish him the same goods just as cheap and the profit would be kept at home. "But," said the farmer, '"this is the first time I nave neara mere is a harness shop in this town. 1 have taken your paper for rive years and have never seen a line of advertising in it about such an institution in all that time. Hut you n V.nt 'I i i r -l (t f i has L-ont mn rrt art " Poor Woman. It is stated that nearly every out- of-town visitor to the state peniten tiary has a desire to see Mrs. Lena Margaret Lilly, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of her hus band. In most instances these visi tors go away sympathizers with her cause, in some quarters it is pre dicted that in course of time these sympathizers will generate a public sentiment which will result in her her release. Lincoln News. At the Parmele Theatre. Mr. Walker Whiteside, starring in the romantic comedy,"David Garrick's Love," is an artist of the rarest at tainments. He some time years ago did battle for honors in the world of the stage, and he was returned the victor. Successes have been his for years, but with that success there has not come that affectation which mars the performance of so many other wise good actors. Quiet and un obstrusive, thinking mostly of bow he may better present his play, Mr. Whiteside has won for himself a last ing place in the hearts and tbe minds of the theatregoers of the present day. Tbe play will be at the Parmele Fri day, September 29. If you are a judge of a (rood smoke, try the "Acorns" 5 cent cigar and you will smoke no other. Couldn't Save is Money. The stork diappears, and we look into the cradle and behold a male child. After running the gauntlet of measles, mumps and chickenpox he enters school. At the age of ten he is the terror of the neighborhood. At twelve he is an apprentice in a print ing office. At eighteen he has acquired two cases of long primer type and an Army press and is the editor of a country newspaper. At twenty he is married. At thirty he is bald-headed, stoop-shouldered and is t lie father of a large family. At thirty-iive he is a corpse in a cheap pine coffin, and as oOO delinquent subscribers tile past his bier for the last look they are heard to say, "He was a good fellow, but he couldn't save his money."' WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS While in a Trance for Five Days a Woman Saw Heaven and Hell. To die. to be received in heaven and hell, to be resurrected and told by God to preach what she saw to the people here below, are the strange experiences related by Mrs. Lottie Clark, of Ies Moines, Iowa, who a lew weeks ago was restored to health by a miracle while on her death bed. From her visit she claims to have learned that the world will soon come to an end, the water turn to oil, and the whole set afire. At first few people believed even the story of the woman's remarkable re covery after she had lain in a death stupor for five days and physicians had given her up. Hut now the members of the Presbyterian mission have been convinced not only of the miracle of her recovery, but also of the truth of her wanderings through heaven and hell. Mrs. Clark has never read the Hible, but she told of things which the Hible proclaimed, and so confident now are the neighbors that she has been called upon to teach them that she has been invited to preach at the Southeast Eight street Presbyterian church next Sunday. Iam positive that I saw a vision accorded to few here below," said Mrs. Clark. "It is daily becoming clearer, and a few nights ago I was compelled by some mysterious power to preach what I have seen while dead." "Heaven is a wonderful place," said Mrs. Clark. "I crossed the Hlack river before reaching the gate at which stood St. Peter." va "I saw and talked with God," said Mrs. Clark, "and after seeing both heaven and hell was ordered to return below and preach what I have seen. Heaven is divided into two parts, the first the most beautiful. Hack from the gate are three thrones. In the center sat God, on the right was Jesus, while on the left is Gabrael. He had his big trumpet. From the throne passed down a hill covered with the most beautiful grass. At the foot of this was a most magnificent park, where the people were lying about Here were fountains, the water spark ling like diamonds. In a lake near by were gold fish of inconceivable beauty Through this lake the people walked without difficulty, the waters ap parently parting as they stepped upon them. Here grew fruit of every des cription, with splendid forests and water of the ocean nearby. People of different nations seemed to have sepa rate places, and in another part were cannibals and heathen. I also saw queer looking people who seemed to come out of the ground. "In the second part of heaven was a beach, which appeared cool and invit ing, and people spent their time walk ing along it. "Hell is a horrible place, but not at all like it is usually pictured. Below a hill is a sandy beach, but the sand is red hot aud the water which laps the shore is boiling. The people there have their faces drawn up in horrible agony and their hands are clasped as if in awful misery. I shudder even now when I think of it. "In the first part of heaven the peo ple are all attired in bibical white, while in the second they wear blue robes with golden stars. I had no guide through the journey but it seemed as if piece by piece these things were shown to me. "I was told also during my vision that the end of the world was not far distant. The exact time of the mil lenium was not told to me, but it will be soon, I am sure, and the people here below had better get ready for it "The way the end will come was shown to me as in the revelation. The grass and leaves will wither up, while the water turns to oil and all will burn together." Dr. Elster, Dentist, Waterman Block. Did Not Run (?way. Mrs. Kelly, of Greenwood, mother of Francis Kelly, who was reported to have run away from home September i, ueciares mat it was an a mistake. She says the boy did not run away but got on a freight train with some other hoys expecting to get off at the switch a short distance away. The train did not stop there and the boys were car ried clear to Lincoln. They returned home the next day. The police here were notified about midnight to be on the lookout for the boy hut they re ceived word at o'clock the next after noon that he had come back home. Lincoln Journal. EXPELLED FROM MINISTRY Blakemore, the Weeping Water Divine; is Terribly Crushed. FOUND GUILTY OF GROSS IMMORALITY. He Stiil Claims That His Prosecution Was Concocted by Personal Enemies. a spaciai irom lecumsen, .eo., says that Bev. Frank Hlakemore, the Weeping Water divine, who was tried at the M. E. conference at Falls City last week for gross immorality was found guilty and expelled from both ministry and church. At the time of Blakemore's suspen sion from the church at Weeping Water, the Journal published an ac count of the same, and that gentle man tooK exception to, ana pro tested so earnestly against the charges, that the Journal felt inclined to retract what it had said in reference to the matter. Now, that the Bev. gentleman has been convicted "in the house of his friends," there will be no threats of prosecution in giving the particulars of his conviction. The specal says: "While some were of the opinion that the preacher was guilty of the erime cnariren. mat or trross im morality with prominent women of his congregation, still they believed that the affair would be whitewashed "The decision of the jury in finding the minister guilty was arrived at after only a short deliberation, and the divine announces his intention of ap pealing the case, alleging spite work on the part of those who brought the charges. "The case is the gossip of nearly every home here as the pastor was one of the prominent men of the town Others connected with the case had also borne good records in the eyes of the public. "Thirty-live witnesses were examin ed and twenty depositions were read. Everything was behind closed doors and the testimony is said to have been racy and in the case of one or two wo men scenes of hysterics followed. "The case was hotly contested, the church being represented bv the Bev. S. A. Bright of Junction City, Kan., Bev. G. W. Isham of University Place and the Bev. W. M. Batch of Lincoln "Mr. Blakemore was represented by Bev. J. T. Biley of Oklahoma City, Bev. II. E. Evans of Des Moines and Bev. T. B. Abbott of Geneva. "Mr. Blakemore was expelled from both the misisti y and the church. He is terribly crushed." The charges against Blakemore were personal in their character, tbe most serious being that of gross im morality. Some of the women mem bers of his congregation at Tecumseh were involyed but their names were hushed by the church authorities and none of the testimony concerning their alleged relations with the preach er was permitted to leak through the doors of the church where the trial was held. Some Nice WorH. The Glen wood Granite Works brought over Friday raouments to be erected to the memory of Sophia, wife John Krager, in Eight Mile Grove cemetery and another to be erected over the grave of Mrs. Harriet Kiser, late w ife of James Kiser, in Oak Hill cemetery, near this city. Both are handsome pieces of work and reflect great credit upon the workmanship of the Glenwood Granite works. Ramge Property Sold. August Gorder has purchased the Fred Ramge property now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Mary on Lincoln avenue, for which he paid $4,000. Mr. Gorder buys the property through the Nebraska Central Building and Loan Associaiton of Lincoln, and includes 19 acres of land. The residence was erected by Ed Oliver. Dr. Marshall, work. Dentist, guaranteed LEAVE ON A LONG TOUR j j Nebraska's Favorite Son and Family De part on a Long Tour. MAY THEY ALL RETURN IN SAFETY The Parting of Mr. Bryan With the Com moner Boys an Interesting Evsnt. A COMPLETE OUTLINE OF HIS TOUR That great friend of the people, lion William J . Bryan, departed with his family Wednesday last for their con templated tour of the world. The Lincoln News, in speaking of t his tour, says: "Thursday was a day of leave-taking over around the Commoner, fur at 2 p m. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, their son Wil liam and their daughter Grace, started upon their world-girdling tour that may keep them away for nearly two years. "They will go from Lincoln to Om aha over the Burlington, leaving at the hour stated. At Omaha they will board the California express over the Union Pacific, which leaves that city at 4:20 p. m.. proceeding direct to San Francisco. From that port they will sail September 27, going via Honolulu to Japan. "The family is anticipating much pleasure from their visit in Japan, where they will be the guests of V. Bryan Yamachito, the young Japan ese student well known in this city, who came, to this city and voluntarily adopted Mr. Bryan as his godfather. The young Jap's name was Yamachito Yainachito, but before leaving this city he took Mr. Bryan's name and now calls himself Y. Bryan Yamachito. "It is said to be the custom in Japan for the young men to select their own godfathers, and those who come to this country sometimes exercise their prerogative here. This was clearly the case with Yamachito, who re mained some four or five years in the -Wn home whi.e pursuing his stud les. making himself useful to the fam ily meantime and very much endear ing himself to its members. I pon obtaining his degree from Nebraska university last year Yama cmto went to c. l,ouis, where he was attached to the Japanese exposition, and thence he proceeded to Tokio. wnere ne nas since married and is teaching a successful private school Yama," as he was familiarly known here, will be the guide of the Bryan family during its travels in the land of the mikado. rom japan tne tourists will pro ceed to China and later to the Philip pines. The length of their visit there is quite uncertain, and for that reason it is not now known whether they will go next to India or to Australia and ew Zealand. If Mr. Bryan finishes his investigations and studies in the Philippines in time to permit of his visiting India during the winter, he will go to India first, but if the winter is past before he has seen all he wants of oriental America, he will go 30 Australia and New Zealand, return ing to India the following winter. The visit to New Zealand will be a long one, for there are many social and eco nomic problems and conditions there that will make an interesting study, especially in the line or public owner ship. From'either New Zealand or India, as the case may be, the family wiil go to Egypt, and thence to Greece and Palestine. So much of the second spring abroad as may be left after the achievement of the foregoing itiner ary and the ensuing summer will be spent in Europe. During the summer they will visit in Norway and Sweden and will spend some time in Germany and Switzerland. We expect to be back some time within two years,"said Mr. Bryan this morning, "out no definite limit lias been fixed for our visit." "While away Mr. Bryan will write frequently to his paper, covering his wanderings and observations, and it is understood that some of his letters maybe printed in other journals and periodicals. A great many friends have called to extend kindly wishes for the pleasure and profit of their voyage and safe return. Yesterday there was a characteristic farewell ex change of greetings between Mr. Bryan and his large office force. When they had assembled Mr. Bryan spoke to them for a few minutes, telling them how eagerly he had anticipated this trip, yet how, when it came time to go. he regretted to go away so long from among them. He told them of the pleasure their relations had brought him, anu -ttributed to them much of the success of his enterprise. "It had been arranged among the I employes that Will M. Maupin should speak back for them, arid Maupin said afterwards that lie had prepared a nice little speech for the occasion, but that when he got ready to deliver It lie could not think of It. On behalf of the force he presented Mr. Bryan with a very fine fountain pen, marked with his name, as a reminder that lie was expected to write every member of the force a letter at hast once a week dur ing his absence." HOW TO MAKE A GREAT CITY Mayor Gering Gives Omaha People Some Excellent Pointers on Advertising. Henry B. Gering, by request of the Omaha News, gave the merchants and business men generally of the Nebraska metropolis some very timely sugges tions in the Sunday edition of the pa per on the matter of building up a great city. Mayor Gering is not a cit izen to make suggestions simply to have others carry them out. but he is honest in his assertions, and if we had a few more enterprising merchants just like him, it would not be long till Plattsmouth would take on a new im petus. The Journal reprints his most excellent suggestions in the hope that they will prove as applicable at home as in Omaha. An excellent half tone of Mayor Gering also accompanies the article: 'This subject is an unusually large one, covering as it does a very large field, but the writer will be brief and state one or two reasons how he believes Omaha can le made a great, city. Advertise its wonderful advantages, for geographically it is one of the best situated cities in the United States, with a wonderfully growing country upon all sides. What it lacks and al ways has is the proper systematic ad vertising. Hardly a man in Omaha is able to give a stranger in Omaha the proper idea of its si.e, wealth and wonderful resources and advantages. A great many people are able to tell of the advantages it has in their particu- ar line, but the fact is that "Omaha people dw rtot know Omaha,'' and the class who seem to know the least and who should know the most are the jobbers and manufacturers. They come in direct touch with all the re tail merchants of the country, and if they would spread the enthusiasm to the retail merchants it would soon spread to everyone. "Djn't talk stop all tbe time to your country cestomers, but talk "( )m aha" pull and keep pulling for "Om aha:" build up the enthusiasm of the newspapers by a liberal system of ad vertising, not only of your business, but Omaha in general; make everyone know what "Omaha" really is, not. spasmodically, but systematically. "See what Stickney has done f.r Omaha, just by advertising Omaha as a grain market, and in less than three years it rises from the bottom of the ladder to the very top rung as a grain market. "pvery line of manufacturing and jobbing business can be built up in the same way; true, not as rapidly, but very fast. The building of a great city depends largely upon its jobbing and manufacturing interests, alow rate of taxes, cheap and economical fuel, good schools and an honest and economical administration of city affairs, uood raiiroad facilities all of which Omaha has or should have. Her splendid depots, good streets. tine residences and business blocks, are fine advertisementsof her splendid ad vantages and leave a good impression upon every stranger that visits Omaha. Advertise liberally, put all the facts in a clear, honest, matter of fact way, so that every stranger may know just what Omaha is. No visitor should ever be permitted to go out of Omaha without the facts about it. "Every jobber and manufacturer should see to it that his customers are in possession of the facts about Om aha. "In conclusion I will say that Oma ha has grown, not because of its adver tising, but in spite of it. "Advertise Omaha properly and in five years she will double her popula tion." The Last of Her Insurance. Mrs. Barbara Bookmeyer, widow of A. Bookmeyer, deceased, received 000 through A. J. Graves, secretary of the Mystic Legion, the amount of in surance he held in that society. This is the last to report. The deceased was insured in the following fraternal societies: Bohemian lodge, l,ooo: Modern Woodmen, S2.000; Woodmen of the World, 1,000, making in all .V 000 that has been paid to the widow by tbe different fraterna' societies. f. L - - xj . .y -r '.