SUSPEND ROAD
IMPROVEMENTS
r.1RS. FRED STADLE
MAN DEAD
Passed Away After a Long
TELLS
A TALI
FlIU
The Merchants and Business Hen Generally
in ibc Towns Along the Missouri
Pacific Kick Against it
The following iwm the Elmwood
Leader-Echo illustrates the situation in
towns on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
and surely demonstrates how little the
company car for the business interests
of these towns. The M. P. depot here
is nearly a mile from the business
center of Plattsmouth, and :since the
taking out of the 'phoeaeait the station,
all communication between the city and
the depot is shut off. Only ilast Satur
day the passenger train going south
was nearly two hours late, nd those
wholdesired to take that train were
compelled to stay at the depot all that
time, or come back up town, wHen
heretofore they could have disked if the
train was on time, and stayed up town
during these hours. The 'phone was a
convenience, not only to the merchant
as well as to those who desire to go
and come, and for the sake of the piti
ful sum of $1.50 per month, the people
are deprived of this accommodation.
The Leader-Echo goes after the rail
road company in the proper manner:
"The telephone has been removed
from the depot at Elmwood as well as
at many other points along the line of
the Missouri Pacific railroad. The rea
son assigned for this is that prior
hereto the Plattsmouth Telepohne com
panylhas been furnishing gratis the
several 'phones in the various depots
along this line and ordered their re
moval because the company would not
pay for retaining them. It seems that
the law as it now stands attaches a
penalty to a telephone company for
furnishing a corporation free 'phones
hence their removal.
"And why should a corporation be
furnished a free 'phone any more than
THE DOG AND
THE WELL.
Make Louisville, Nebraska, Known
Throughout the World.
The Christian Herald, as nearly every
body knows, is a weekly paper publish
ed in New York City by Dr. Louis
Klopsch, who is editor and proprietor.
The Herald is read by the English speak
ing people in every country on the globe.
It is published in the interests of gen
eral christian civilization the world over.
Perhaps no publication anywhere, has
the general circulation throughout the
world as has The Christian Herald.
Wherever the scourge of famine strikes
a people in China, India or Russia,
Dr. Klopsch, with his Christian Herald,
lead in gathering food for the starving.
This great paper also collects and
publishes incidents seemingly small, yet
from which the most powerful, strong
est and most convincing christian les
sions are impressed on the mind and
heart.
In this instance, it is the faithful DOG
that is made to teach a touching, in
structive, beautiful christian lesson.
And the incident of the dog and well
has now, through The Christian Herald,
made our beautiful little city of Louis
ville, Neb., known to every English
speaking people on the globe.
Below we reproduce from the last
issue of The Christian Herald the fol
lowing: Saved by a Dog.
"A dispatch from Louisville, Neb.,
reports that a young man of that city
has been restored to his family through
the sagacity and fidelity of his dog. In
returning to his home after an excur-j
sion he fell into a dry well about two
miles from the farm. He sustained se
vere injuries in his fall, including a
broken leg and the fracture of two ribs.
He was unable to move and his cries
were not heard by the people who came
near the well. Two days and nights
passed, and he began to think he would
die of starvation, when at last, rescue
came through his dog. After he fell in
to the well the dog went home; when,
after barking and whinning, he set off
again for the well. He continued this
until they followed him thither and drew
his master to the surface.
It would be well if Christians were as
much in earnest as this dog in trying to
save those who have fallen on life's
journey and are helpless to save them
selves. They have better reasons than
he for their efforts, for Christ is ever
ready to go to the rescue when help is
sought."
The Lucky Quarter
Is the one you pay out for a box of
Dr. King's New Life Pills. They bring
you the health that,s more presvious
than jewels. Try them for headache,
biliousness, constipation and malaria.
If they disappoint you the price will be
cheerfully refunded at F. G. Fricke &
Co., drug store.
STS
I a mere company or an individual? Cor
poration, companies and individuals do
not have 'phones simply for their own
convenience, but for the convenience of
their businessandja general accommoda
tion to the public. People in business
have learned that it pays to be accom
modating and that, too, even if there
be a little expense attached to the ac
commodation. "If the Missouri Pacific for its own
convenience saw fit to locate its dopot
at Elmwood a quarter of a mile from
the business center of Elmwood and
fully a half mile for many of the citi
zens of Elmwood, and in addition per
sists in running its trains at any old
time they happen to get here instead
of schedule time, there is no equity or
justice in the company's not accepting
and paying for a 'phone the same as
others, in order that the traveling pub
lic may, without walking to the depot,
know at about what time they may ex
pect to leave, if they desire to travel.
There are many and many times that
some farmer, who lives at a distance,
and is expecting some express or
freight could be saved an extra trip to
town, if he could communicate with the
agent by 'phone.
"It is now stated that many of the
offices along the line will no longer be
telegraph stations and, while Elmwood
has not been listed yet, no on could
forecast when such an event might
happen under the general retrenchment
orders.
"We will welcome such a change in
the Missouri Pacific management as
will bring to the people such accommo
dations as their needs and business re
quire." the political line so distinct to the
average voter that he would know at a
glace how to cast his ballot.
There is a division of opinion in our
nation as to which shall predominate,
the money power or the people, and
this must be threshed out at the polls
! before the affairs of our nation will be
come settled. Let our political lead
ers name a stand-pat democrat against
Mr. Taft or a stand-pat republican
against Mr. Bryan, and then sit up and
take note and watch the independent
voter, and they will learn someting in
1908. P. P. Vallery.
Returns From New Mexico.
This morning, J. C. Coleman returned
from a week's visit at and near Las
Vagas, New Mexico, where he has lands
for sale in conjunction with his son, A.
L. Coleman. Mr. Coleman was well
pleased with the couutry, and brought
back with him some of the products of
the country among which was some
oats, very nice looking, and said to yield
fifty bushels per acre. He also had two
varieties of wheat, one of spring, which
yielded 37J bushels per acre, winter
wheat, which went 28 bushels.
Mr. Coleman has some very nice look
ing speltz also, which is much raised
there. He brought with him a parsnip,
pulled from the ground where it had
been all winter, which measured 3J
inches in diameter and was 19 inches in
length. A box of earth which he had
was red and 'was composed of volcanic
ash, very rich, having a trace of sand
in it. Mr. Coleman says there are
numerous people making their homes
in this section and the lands are selling
at $14 per acre.
New Barber Shop
Jesse P. Perry will in a few days open
a new barber shop in the Coates block,
in the room formerly occupied by Judge
Beeson. Mr. Perry is well known in
the city, and is a good barber and we
see no reason why he should not get a
good trade. Even handicapped by the
fact of being up stairs, he sould still
have a good following of his friends
which are many. We predict for him a
good trade in his new location. He is
fixing up his room in first-class shape,
and when it is complete, will be as nice
ly appointed as any place in the city.
In District Court.
This afternoon before Judge Travis
was heard a case between John Gower
and Edwin Davis and others in which it
was sought to cancel lease for gravel
pit lands, and quiet title of same.
. Rheumatic Pains Relieved.
B. F. Crocker, Esq., now 84 years of
age, and for twenty years . Justice of
the Peace at Martinsburg, Iowa, . says:
"I am , terribly afflicted with sciatic
rheumatism in my life arm and right
hip. I have used three bottles of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it did me
lots of good." For sale by F. G.
Fricke& Co.,
Missouri Pacific Carrying Re
trenchment fo the Limit
Following the wholesale dismissal of
employes in every one of its seventy
three departments, the Missouri Pacific-Iron
Mountain railway system has
indefinitely suspended all road improve
ments, only a small force of mechanics
being retained to look after ordinary
repair work, says the Lincoln Journal.
About 50 persons are affected by the
shakeup in the St. Louis general offices
of this company, the average salary of
each being estimated at $65 a month.
O. G. Jones, assistant, paymaster of
the company, who had been connected
with the Gould railroads about thirty
five years; Horace G. Clark, former
superintendent of the Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain; Messrs. Klien and
Edgar of the legal department, and two
clerks who have acted as secretaries to
General Manager Sullivan, are included
in the list of dismissals.
In the operating and mechanical divis
ion of the system, about 3,000 have
been discharged.
Orders to cut down the payroll are
said to have come direct from President
Gould in New York. In nearly every
instance the employes were discharged
on one day's notice.
Ladies' Aid Met Yesterday.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Chris
tian church held their regular weekly
meeting at the home of Mrs. A. J.
Graves, at which a large number were
present. ' The regular order of business
was disposed of, after which the after
noon was very pleasantly spent in
social conversation, music and lunch.
MOTS IF SGML
TEflBMEBS EHEflOSD
State Authorities Uphold Pedagogue in Re
signing Regardless of Signed Contract
and Cite Supreme Court Decision
Is it a good defense for a lady school
teacher, when an application is made
to revoke her certificate for violation of
contract to teach, to show that she
could not get a boarding place in. the
school district? County Superintendent
E. A. Murphy of Knox county has de
cided that the defense is good in the
case of Miss Grace Johnson, and he has
been upheld by State Superintendent
J. L. McBrien, says the Lincoln News.
The question of whether the lady
teacher was able to cook her own meals
did not enter into the case. The county
superintendent believes no court in the
state will hold that a teacher is com
pelled to build a house, and undergo
unusual hardships, to pay an unjust or
exorbitant price for board or to submit
to gross indignities in order to continue
a term in school. Miss Johnson quit
teaching and Herbert Rhodes, as direc
tor of district No. 3, asked that her
certificate be revoked on the ground
that she violated her contract with the
district without sufficient cause. This
is an important question in Nebraska
where an effort is being made to hold
both school boards and teachers to the
terms of their contracts. That the
once common custom of a teacher board
ing round is not in vogue in this state
is shown by Miss Johnson's testimony
that she applied at seven different
houses for board and was refused.
County Superintendent Murphy's writ
ten opinion reads somewhat like the
decision of a judge of a court. It is as
follows:
Since this is the first case of its kind
in this county and in it are involved
questions of general importance to
school teachers and school officers I
will take this opportunity of defining
the position, of this office on the several
points, legal and otherwise, which have
been raised in this case.
Has a county superintendent power
to revoke a teacher's certificate for
violating a contract to teach without a
sufficient cause?
I hold it under section 13, subdivision
9, of the school laws of Nebraska for
1907, that a superintendent has such a
power, since a person who will violate
a solemn obligation is neither a fit per
son to teach nor to associate with child
ren. Has a teacher a right to resign under
any circumstances?
The supreme court of Nebraska has
decided (Bays vs. state, 6th Nebraska,
176) that a school board has a right to
discharge a teacher for sufficient cause
and I think the equity demands that
both parties to a contract have the
same general right, and, therefore, I
think that a teacher has a right to re
sign for sufficient cause.
Is inability to find a boarding place
at a reasonable distance from the school
house and at a reasonable price a suf
Illness from Cancer of
the Stomach.
Mrs. Fred Stadleman died shortly
after one o'clock this afternoon at her
home in this city, after a lingering ill
ness. Mrs. Stadleman with her hus
band has lived in the city for a number
of vears and she is known bya host of
people who will regret to hear of her
death. Her son Will was here but yes
terday and returned to his home at
Norfolk, little thinking the end was so
near. No arrangements have yet been
made for the funeral, but will be an
nounced as soon as made. We will give
a full account of her life and last illness
in another issue.
Entertained Her Friends.
Yesterday afternoon at the pleasant
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Robertson,
Mrs. Robertson entertained a number
of her friends, at an informal luncheon
General social conversation was the or
der of the afternoon, and was inter
spersed with music and was capped by
serving a delicious two-course luncheon
at five o'clock. Those present to enjoy
the delightful occasion were Mesdames
Wurl, Wolforth, Rheinackle, G order,
Dawson and Burgess and Miss Louise
Gorder.
Sells Missouri Farm.
W. H. Wynn yesterday sold his farm
in Missouri, which he purchased a few
years since, on which he traded his
property here to J. W. Sage, for $50
per acre. When buying the place he
paid much less, but the general advance
in land hsts made Mr. Wynn some
money.
ficient cause to justfy a teacher in re
signing? I do not think that there is any court
in the state of Nebraska that would
compel a teacher to build a house, to
undergo unusual hardships, to pay an
unjust or exorbitant price for board or
to submit to gross indignities in ord &
to continue a term of school.
I do not consider that under present
conditions $3 or $3.50 is either an un
just or exorbitant price to ask for
board.
While I hold that a teacher before
resigning should make a diligent and
reasonable effort to secure a boarding
place, I no not think that she is under
any leagl or moral obligation to go on
her knees to beg for one, since a teach
er is, or at least should be, a lady en
titled to be treated as such, and a per
son who is not fit to live in the home of
any patron of a school is not fit to in
struct their children.
While the board is under no legal
obligation to secure a boarding place
for a teacher, I think that since upon
the school board devolves the duty of
looking after the general welfare of
the school, any school officer who has
the interest of his school at heart will
assist the teacher to a reasonable extent
in this respect.
In the light of the evidence intro
duced before me, the charge that Grace
Johnson "refused to perform her con
tract for the sole reason that she was
offered a better salary at another
point" is untrue and utterly without
foundation and should never have been
made, much less sworn to.
The question for me to decide, there
fore, resolved itself to this: Did Grace
Johnson, before resigning as teacher
of District No. 3, or trying to secure
another school, use due diligence in en
deavoring to secure a boarding place?
I have her undisputed testimony,
given in the presence of the entire
school board of said district No. 3, that
before entering into said contract with
said district No. 3, she notified- the
director, Herbert Rhodes, that she
would have to secure another boarding
place after Christmas and that subse
quent to the time of looking for an
other school she applied for board at no
less than seven houses in district No. 3
and was refused; and that then, acting
on the advice of County Superintendent
Marshall, she sought another school
and resigned.
While it may be, and probably is,
true that Miss Johnson proceeded hast
ily and did not use the best judgement
or act with perfect good faith in this
matter, I do not feel that the evidence
that was introduced would justify me
in taking the very grave step of re
voking her certificate.
The petition is therefore denied.
E. A. Murahy.
Connty Superintendent.
IF ITCH
The Writing Desk at the Perkins House Con
tains Many Old Advertisements Nov Gone
Out of Date
To a stranger, as he looks at the writ-j
ing desk in the lobby of the Perkins
House, seeing the cards of the busi
ness firms, finds but two of the people
he can see at the present time. Those
are the Bank of Cass County and
Robert Sherwood. The desk which has
been there about a quarter of a century,
contains at the top, Godfrey Fickler,
of the lower Main street meat market.
Mr. Fickler is now on the farm, not
having been in business for years. By
the side of this one is the card of J. V.
Weckbach, then in the general merchan
dise business, and who died some twenty
years ago. F. F. Guthman of the Union
Bakery, has not been in the city for a
score of years, while W. S. Wise, who
at that time was a practicing attorney
and real estate dealer in the room where
Annual Meeting
Last night at the church occurred the
annual meeting of the congregation of
the Presbyterian church. Reports from
all the different departments of the
work were heard and they showed sub
stantial progress along all lines of en
deavor during the last year. The re
port of the church treasurer showed
practically all bills paid up to date and a
small increase in the church benevo
lences over the year previous, and this
in spite of the effort which has been
made to raise the church debt. The
attendance at this meeting was ex
ceedingly gratifying, being the large
est at any such meeting during the last
three years:
Mr. Thomas Pollock was re-elected
to serve three years on the session, Mr.
J. M. Roberts was re-elected to serve
three years as a trustee and Mr. Wm.
Warga was elected to succeed Mr. J.
Waterman on the board of trustees.
Mr. Wm. C. Ramsey was elected
church treasurer for a term of one
year. The following officers were
chosen for the Sunday school for the
ensuing year.
Superintendent Geo. L. Farley.
Assistant Superintendent J. E.
Douglass.
Secretary and Treasurer Miss Hod
gert. Assisant Secretary Miss Alma Lar
son. Librarian Miss Estelle Baird.
Pianist Miss Esther Larson.
Assistant Pianist Miss Helen Clark.
Chorister J. H. Salsbury.
A general sense of self-congratulation
pervaded the meeting and it closed with
the expressed hope that the ideals for
the spiritual welfare of the church dur
ing the next twelvemonths, might come
as near realization, as did the ideals
for the material welfare of the church
during the last year.
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healthy look, puts the sap of life in
your system, protects you from dis
ease. Hallister's Rocky Mountain Tea
has no equal as a spring tonic for the
whole family. Tea or Tablets
Stations Closed, Confusion Results
A special from Nekraska City, under
date of March 11, says: "Two Mis
souri Pacific frieght trains nearly had a
collision at the edge of the city last
evening. A heavy train from the south
had been given the right-of-way and
was climbing the heavy grade, north of
the city, when the engineer noticed an
other train bearing down on him, and
he reversed the engine and backed down
the grade just in time to prevent a
head-on collision. The telegraph offices
north of here being closed the incoming
train understood they had the right-of-
way. Since the telegraph operators in
small s tations north and south of this
city have been discontinued, several
trains hi ve had close calls of going to
gether. Vhe railroad men are becoming
afraid to iTin very fast between stat
ions where there are no operators, fear
ing they will meet other trains."
Now's th ? time to take Rocky
Mountain Te.' It drives out the germs
of Winter, builds up the stomach, kid
neys and live.-. The most wonderful I
spring tonic 10 make people well, i
You'll be surpri sed with results. 35c, j
Tea or Tablets at Gering & Co. i
Greatest sprin r tonic, drives out all l
impurities. Makes the blood rich.
Fills you with warm, tingling life.
Most reliable spring regulator. That's
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Tea or Tablest at Gering a Co.
Earl Leesley is reported as being
very sick with rheumatism, so he can
not get out of bed. He has to be
handled with a sheet and packed in
cotton. He has been in a serious con
dition since last Saturday evening .
DAYS
Coates & Falter have their office, has
been in the Hawaiian islands for over
fifteen years, the name of Peter Merges,
the shoe dealci, where John Schiap
pacasse is now, lives in Portland, Ore.
Joseph Schlater had a jewelry store
where Harry Kuhney now has his bar
ber shop, while Smith & Black Bros,
were druggists in the place where John
Bauer new is, then know as the Rock
wood block, and A. Salsbury was a
dentist up-stairs, Solomon & Nathan
occupied the rooms now occupied by the
Journal, while Fred Gorder, Fred Her
mann, E. Sage, Sherman & Howard,
(publishers of the Journal at that time)
W. B. Brown, laundry, M. B. Murphy,
groceries, and P., B. Murphy, proprietor
of a pool and billiard hall, completes
the list.
Must Keep It Up
We were talking to a Plattsmouth drug
gist the other night about advertising
generally, and among other advertisers
mentioned were some of the leading
patent medicine companies. This man,
who has several years experience in
the drug business, has watched closely
the rise and fall of medicines. He stat
ed as a matter of fact, the largest ad
vertised medicines are the greatest
sellers, and they sell in about the pro
portion to the amount of advertising
they do. He mentioned one medicine
in particular that years ago was so ex
tensively advertised that the name of
this medicine was a household word and
every child in the land was familiar
with it. This company, however, got
the idea that they had advertised
enough, and that their medicine would
sell on its merits without any further
expenditure in advertising. But they
were wrong, just as other ex-advertisers
are wrong. This medicine is now
soldom called for, and is scarcely known,
while other advertised medicines have
taken its place.
This is only another illustration of
what advertising, or the lack of it, will
do.
Given Up to Die.
B. Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia street,
Evansville, Ind., writes: "For over
five years I was troubled with kidney
and bladder affections which caused me
much pain and worry. I lost flesh and
was all run down, and a year ago I had
to abandon work entirely. I had three
of the best physicians who did me no
good and I was practically given up to
die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recom
mended and the first bottle gave me
great relief, and after taking the sec
ond bottle I was entirely cured." Why
not let it help you? F.C. Fricke & Co.
Wedding at Elmwood
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Schick sr., west of Elmood, at 11 a. m.,
on Wednesday, March 4th, occurred the
marriage of Miss Louise F. Schick, sec
ond daughter of Wm. Schick, to Mr.
Otto F. Stege, second son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Stege aud a twin brother of
Wm. Stege.
Punctualty at 11 o'clock the soft
strains of Mendelsohn's wedding march
played by Miss Marie Engleking, the
bridal party entered the room, led by
the officiating clergyman. Rev. Tourne,
pastor of the German Lutheran church,
and took their position, with Miss Min
nie Schick as bridesmaid and Mr. Her
man Stege as best man, when the so
lemn ceremony was performed in the
presence of the immediate relatives of
the contracting parties.
The bride was attired in a blue lawns
down costume. The groom was attired
in the conventional black.
The time until late evening was in
formally spent in light games and social
enjoyments. The bride and groom re
ceived many useful and handsome pre
sents. Mr. and Mrs. Stege will be at home
to their friends on the Stege farm, one
mile east of Elmwood. The Leader
Echo extends congratulations. Leader
Echo.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Both
Agreeable and Effective.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has no
superior for coughs, colds and croup,
and the fact that it is pleasant to take
and contains nothing in any way injuri
ous has made it a favorite with mothers.
Mr. W. S. Pelham, a merchant of
Kirksville, Iowa, says: "For more than
twenty years Chamberlain's Cough Re
medy has been my leading remedy for
all throat troubles. It is especially
successful in cases of croup. Children
like it and my customers who have used
it wil. not take any other." For sale
by F. G. Fricke & Co.,