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VOLUME XXVI II
I'L. ATTSMOUTII, XEI5RASKA, THURSDAY", APRIL!, 11)08.
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PLATTSCa
TELEPHOQE GSCaPAn V
Why the People of Cass County Should Patron
ize the Same, and Why It Should Cover
Every Inch of Territory in the County
While on our trip in the western part
of the county the past week, we noticed
that the Plattsmouth telephone lines did
not cover several sections that it ought.
This of course is no fault of the com
pany, for at several points we noticed
that farmer lines were conducted, but
at the same time being connected with
the Plattsmouth lines, which of course
they were compelled to do if they ex
pected to get communication outside of
their immediate vicinity. While in some
instances these farmer lines perhaps
answer the purpose in a local way, they
do not give the services at times de
sired. While at Eagle last week we made
some inquiries regarding the farmer
line which has headquarters in that
place, and found that, while the line
seems to be giving pretty fair satis
faction, there is considerable work at
tached to the keeping of the line in re
pair. Dr. Jester is secretary of the
company, and while we were in his
office several farmers, from different
directions called to have the lines re
paired which had been cut or pulled
down or some other complaint. The
doctor remarked that while he received
$50 per year for his services, the duties
of the position was more annoyance to
him than it was worth. Complaints
continually coming in of this nature,
it appeared to us that it would be bet
ter for the stockholders of this line to
turn the same over to the Plattsmouth
Telephone company and become stock
holders of the company that pays good
interest on the money invested. While
the Plattsmouth company has toll lines
into that town, and they are connected
with the farmers line, it seems to us
that it would be less trouble to have
the whole business controlled by a com
pany, who are continually on the look
out for the interest of their patrons and
constantly improving their system in all
sections of the county.
The same conditions exist also at Alvo
and Murdock, only at the latter point
the farmer line is connected with the
Fire Destroys Property
Last Thursday evening a fire started
at the M. A. McCready home, owned
by Ezra Hammer, the former Monroe
house. They were smoking meat in
the wood shed, filled with many articles
that usually are placed in a storage
room Mrs. McCready and Mr. Mc
Cready's mother were both home, but
he was on the road traveling. When
the fire was first observed the inside
was all ablaze and active work was be
gun to keep the house from burning.
It was one of the hottest fights ever
put up as there was only three or four
feet between the buildings. The weath
er boards and shingles were frequently
on fire, but the bucket brigade stayed
with it manfully and saved the home.
Most of the furniture upstairs was car
ried out, but nothing was removed be
low. Some of the boys were a little
scorched by flames. Lack of sufficient
hose prevented the fire company from
reaching the building. Weeping Water
Republican.
The Law Suits Us
We object to having our business
controlled in the matter of extending
credits to our patrons from Washing
ton or any where else. We think the
publisher, who knows the conditions
and who is most interested, should be
allowed to made any sort of contract
that is not against public policy nor an
infraction of good morals. Ashland
Gazette.
Every once in awhile some little one
horse paper jump up to object to the
law ruling the newspapers, as regards
the paper to subscribers who are sever
al years in arrears. This is the only way
some of them keep up a circulation.
The Journal has not come across one of
its patrons who objects to cash-in-advance
system. They rather like it. In
fact, within the past week we have re
ceived over thirty new additions to our
list, and eveyone paid a year in advance.
It hot hard work to keep subsribers for
a newspaper that is a newspaper. And
so it goes.
OUTH
Nebraska (Bell) telephone lines, and
we cannot see any good reason for this,
either. While we have no particular
grudge against the Nebraska (Bell)
telephone company, the people generally,
who have had occasion to use the latter,
before the building of the Independent
line, know that they charged such
exhorbitant rates, that to some extent,
it was considered robbery. Such charges
would have been continued to this date,
were it not for the gentlemen who con
ceived the plan of an Independent sys
tem. The Independent telephone system
J now reaches out all over the states of
Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
It is a system in which many of the
farmers have invested money, and are
well phased with the per cent received
upon their investments. An invest
ment in the stock of the Plattsmouth
telephone company is as good as bank
stock, and the Journal is honest in the
belief that the day of these farmer
lines is drawing to a close. They must
have connection with the outside world,
and the time will come when they will
be unable to do so. While such lines in
this county have connection with the
Plattsmouth company at present, and
every town in Cass county has a Platts
mouth telephone pay line, we believe
that farmers could better afford to
transfer their lines to this well organ
ized company than to attempt to keep
up a local system. They will find in
the long run that they are furnished a
more reliable system, and that instead
of the bother of repairing the lines such
work is looked after by an experienced
electrician and manager. The old say
ing that "what is everybody's business
is nobody's business," and when the
storms come the farmer won't have to
get up the next morning and rush off
to town to report that the "line's down"
near his home. Such matters are con
stantly looked after by competent men.
We would like for our friends to think
of the suggestions here made and hope
they will profit thereby.
UNION BAZAAR AT
CEDAR GREEK
Held Last Saturday Night by
Ladies of the Church and
the Members of the
Degree of Honor
For a general good time, to liquidate
the church debt, and to go to the bene
fit of the Degree of Honor of the A. O.
U. W., tha ladies of Cedar Creek and
vicinity gave a very enjoyable bazaar
last Saturdry evening. The evening's
entertainment consisted of a most de
lightful supper, and the serving of ice
cream afterwards, and the sale of the
cakes and things that were not used, at
auction. The amount realized was
something like $114, which will be used
in the first place to pay off the church
debt of the Union Church, the remaind
er to be turned in to the treasury of
the Degree of Honor. This looks good
to us, where the different organizations
of a city can work in unison for the
good of the different societies of the
place. The result as well speaks for
the good way in which they conducted
the affair.
Land Men Busy
J. B. Dodson, of the Dodson Land
Co., of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in
the city Saturday, and will remain a
few days in the interests of the com
pany that bears his name. The Dodson
Land Co. is one of the largest in the
western country, probably transferring
more land than any other land company.
They are new planning for a trip to
the famous Panhandle county of Texas,
where on their last trip a few days ago,
they sold 30,000 acres of land to the 150
home-sceners that accompanied them
on the trip. At the stopping point in
Texas they own eighteen automobiles in
which the buyer is shown the vast
amount of land, they have for sale. If
yon feel interested in this land proposi
tion, it will pay you to see Frank Stan
ley, the Cass county agent, as to the
term of the coming excursion.
ANOTHER PIONEER
PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Margaret A- Patterson,
Galled Home, After a
Sickness Extending
Over a Few Weeks
Last Saturday evening, Mrs Margaret
Patterson, passed away, after a sick
ness of a few weeks, with a hardening
of the arterial system, at the advanced
age of 75 years. Mrs Patterson has
lived in Plattsmouth, for nearly thirty
years, continously, first coming to this
place in 1857, with her husband, Am
brose Patterson, returning to the east
a short time after and coming back in
1879. Miss Margaret A. Richey, was
born in Washington county, Pennsil
vania, where she lived during her girl
hood, and was there united in marriage,
with Ambrose Patterson, a brother of
Fred Patter f on, in 1855, removing to
this place two years later.
They resided for a short time at Rock
Bluffs, which was at that time a thriv
ing city, and after a short residence
(probably two years) returned to the
east and resided in Philadelphia, for a
short time, thence removing to New
Jersey, where they resided for about 11
years.
From there they returned to Platts
mouth, in 1879, and has lived at this
place ever since. Here, Mr. Patterson
angaged in the livery business, and
while looking for a car of stone for the
building of the foundation of a new
livery barn, was ran over and killed by
the cars in 1886. Of the union, four
children born Mrs. F. A. Murphy, who
with her family, are now in Havana,
Cuba, where Mr. Murphy, is stationed
with the regular army, and Miss Mae
Patterson, who has made her home with
her mother, Ada Florence, Irene Estelle
and a son, who died in infancy.
The funeral services will be held
from the late residence of this esti
mable lady, on tomorrow (Tuesday)
afternoon, the Rev. J. T. Baird and
J. H. Salsbury conducting the services
and interment to be made in Oak
Hill cemetery.
"I'm but a strantrer liere:
Heaven is my home;
Earth is a desert drear.
Heaven is my home;
Dansrers and sorrow stand
Kound me on every hand.
Heaven is my Fatherland
Heaven is my home."
"Oh! to be at home airain.
All for which we're sitrliinr.
From all earthly want and pain
To lie swiftly flyinsr.
Looking home, looking home.
Towards the heavenly mansions
Jesus hath prepared for me
In His Father's Kingdom."
Takes Time By Forelock
Uncle Henry Boeck, not to be trou
bled with the floods whether they come
or not is making preporations, that will
eliminate the matter as far as he is
concerned. He is building a retaining
wall around all the windows of his store,
which will keep out the water. He is
also building retaining walls in the ally
in the rear of the store which will be
necessary when the grading bring in
the lowering of main and sixth streets.
We like the way uncle Henry is going
after this matter as he is getting in
clear for the work so that no one will
have to wait on him when the time
comes to do the work on the streets.
Now if all others who know that they
will have to do the similar kind of work
will only get it done and be ready it
will faciliate the work of grading and
lowering the streets when the time
comes.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davis Sick
J. A. Davis and son, O. A. Davis of
Murray were in the city Friday. Mr. J.
A. Davis departed on the evening train
for Brock on Missouri, where he goes
to see his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis,
who is making her home at that place
with a daughter, Mrs R. A. Beckman,
and from they just received a message
saying the Mrs. Elizabeth Davis was
very sick, with but little hopes of her
recovery.
Highest Honors
We have just learned " that Maple
Grove school district south-west of
Nehawka carried off the honors in the
examination for graduation from the
eighth grade last spring, Stuart Rough
and Rowena Pollacd getting the high
est grades of any pupils in the county.
The year before Ethel Rough of the
same district stood second in the eight
grade examination, being surpassed on
ly by Victor Sturm of Nehawka village
school. Nehawka Register.
A Remarkable Run
Says the Lincoln Journal: "A fast
but not remarkable run was made by
the Burlington from Omaha yesterday
with a special train bearing Madame
Yale. The special left Omaha at 12:28
p. m., and arrived here at 1:33 p. m.,
or sixty-five minutes for fifty-five miles,
an average of a little better than
fifty miles an hour. The train made no
stops. As regular trains are carded at
forty-five miles an hour between stat
ions, railroad men do not regard a fifty
one miles an hour spurt for an hour or
more unusual. The record between the
two places was made a number of years
ago and is said to be a little better than
ten minutes faster than this run. En
gineer A. N. Young made the run yesterday."
VERY UNHANDY
FOR THE VOTERS
A Change in the Voting Precincts of
Tipton and Greenwood Very
Much Desired.
For a number of years some of the
voters of both Greenwood and Tipton
precincts, have been deprived the right
of franchise, from the fact that they
have had to go a great distance to ex
ercise this right. While at Alvo last
week, we learned that citizens, who
virtually reside in the town, were com
pelled to go to Eagle, seven miles dis
tance, to vote, the Tipton precinct line
running right up to the town one of
the streets of Alvo being the line.
Then the Greenwood precinct line, of
which Alvo is the voting place, rum; up
to within two miles of the town of
Greenwood, which is the voting place
for Salt Creek precinct, and the voters
are compelled to go about seven miles
to vote. ;
It seems tc us that this situation
could be remedied in some manner.
Year after year voters are thus depriv
ed of their voting privileges or else
spend a whole day going to and from
the polls.''"" The voters in the vicinity of
these two voting precincts think a
change should be made by taking a
strip of territory off of Tipton and add
ing it to Greenwood, and then a strip off
of Greenwood and annexing it to Salt
Creek, thus making the distance to each
voting precinct easily reached.
We believe if the residents of the two
precincts can call a meeting and arrive
at some definite understanding regard
ing the matter, the commissioners would
gladly make the change, which is so
badly needed. The gainer in the tran
saction would be Stove Creek precinct,
of which the town of Greenwood would
not have the slightest objection.
DIED SATURDAY IN
PENNSYLVANIA
Mr. G. S. Armagost, Father of Mrs
John S. Kali, of Heart Failure
Visited Here Last Summer
Mrs. John S. Hall received a message
Sunday telling of the sudden death
of her father, Mr. C. S. Armagost, at
Reynoldsville, Pa., of heart failure. It
will be remembered that Mr. Arma
gost and wife visited here last sum
mer, and returned home in the fall.
Mrs. Hall cannot go to the funeral as
it would require until near Thursday
for her to get there, and that would be
too long a delay. Mr. Armagost was
70 years of age and was married to
Miss Elizabeth Pence in 1865, of which
union was born nine children seven of
whom are now living the oldest being
Mrs. John Hall. The remainder living
in the east, and mostly at or near the
place where the father died. It is not
known when the funeral will occur.
Departs for Fort Worth.
C. G. Grimes, who has been here for
the past two weeks visiting his mother
and other relatives and friends, depart
ed Nonday morning for his home in Fort
Worth, Texas, going via the Missouri
Pacific to Lincoln. Charley :s an old
Plattsmouth boy, and is now employed
in the Division Superintendent's office
of the Rock Island at Fort Worth, as
chief clerk. J3y doing his work good
and being most competent in all the
branches of that department, he has
held the position for several years, and
no doubt will continue to hold the posi
tion as long as he desires to do so. The
Journal's best wishes attend him.
Box Social.
The teacher and pupils of Rock Creek
school will give a box social and enter
tainment on Friday evening, April 10th.
Everybody cordially invited. Ladies
are requested to bring baskets.
IM. UE
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A Few Words to Those Who Want to Retain All
We Have How, and Secure More,
If Possible.
The Journal desires to say a few words
in the interests of the future welfare of
our city, and if possible convince our
property holders that we must do some
thing to retain what we have, and se
cure more, if we can. We are going to
be very plain about the matter, but it
will be done in such a manner that no
one can possibly get offended.
In the very first place the principal
business men of Plattsmouth seem to
take no interest in the public affairs of
the city. They apparently turn a deaf
ear to every proposition that comes up
for the betterment of the condition of
affairs. All they seem to care for is to
remain in their store and shops, "wait
ing for something to turn up" in their
favor. We have opportunities to bene
fit our condition repeatedly, but these
business men would lay back on their
oars, until they could ascertain whether
or not it would make them double the
investment. By the time they could do
this, some other more energetic, pro
gressive community had grabbed the
enterprise from them. These are the
circumstances of which we do not avail
ourselves, nor think of action until it is
forever too late.
What are our merchants doing to in
crease the business of the town? Noth
ing. What are our property holders
doing to improve the situation? Nothing
whatever. They also seem content to
sit idly by and see opportunity after op
portunity pass to get manufacturing
establishments here that would not only
enhance the value of their holdings
one-third more than it is worth today,
but it would encourage others to come
here and assist in building up Platts
mouth to its proper standard with other
LITTLE BUILDING
IN NEBRASKA
n-tr it f ii' ., o corporations which have always been of
Difficulty in Getting Money the Se- I record as owing them to the Chicago,
rious Thing Encountered. I Burlington & Quincy company. Deeds
must be filed in ninety-eight counties
The Lincoln Journal say: Railroad j in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyo-
men wno nave oeen in loucn wun tne
powers that be say that there will be
little or no building in Nebraska this
year, excluding double track and im
provement work. It is claimed that
the Union Pacific will begin double
tracking west of Kearney if crops turn
out good and there is no further check
to business, whiie the Missouri Pacific
has planned to do some line rebuilding
in this state during the season. The
Northwestern has begun some track
improvement worK in the northwest
part of the state, and the Burlington
has been hiring trackmen for some
time. Several car loads of laborers
have been taken northwest through
Lincoln for work on the Wyoming dis
trict. Ti. 1 1j1ja1 J 1 f 1 t
Ib ciaimeu mai e west ena or tne
Burlington railroad is the big end at
this time, so far as traffic origination
for keeping the wheels moving, but the
inability to get money to build new
lines will not permit of the construc
tion this year of the new main line up
the Platte Valley from Kearney to
Bridgeport. It is claimed, however,
that the building of this line is a de
finite and essential part of the big
scheme for developing the system in
the west and that it will be built when
conditions will permit of the use of
such a large sum of money as it will
cost.
EXCURSIONS WEST
ANY DAY OF WEEK
Good Farm Lands in Nebraska,
Colorado and Wyoming
Good farm lands in any size farms,
both improved and unimproved, and on
terms to suit purchaser. We run ex
cursions west on any day of the week,
and the Texas Panhandle country on
the first and third Tuesday of each
month. One and one-third fare for the
round trip. If you want a good home
iu the Sunny South, and wish to learn
more of the particulars, see
Frank Stanxey, Plattsmouth.
alive to
second-rate cities of Nebraska. Those
who will not help themselves when they
can, do not deserve assistance.
Another thing, Plattsmouth furnishes
less amusements during the summer
season than any town of its inches in
the state and why? Because many of
our merchants are too close-fisted to
assist in furnishing entertainments that
will, to a great extent, increase their
business, and bring new faces to town
occasionally, and who could be induced
to do their trading here for all time to
come. Plattsmouth should double its
business, but it can't be done with a lot
of "slow-pokes" pulling back all the
time and discouraging everything that
is intended to benefit us all.
Now we come to the point that wo
desire to arrive at, and that is this: If
the people of Plattsmouth do not awaken
from their present slumbers of inactivity
and do something that will put new life
I into our city, you can depend upon some
thing occuring ere many more snows
fly, that will make you wish you had
heeded the good advice given you by
the Journal free of charge, and in the
interests of those who have an interest
in the future welfare of Plattsmouth.
We know just exactly what we are
talking about, and as all the property
interests we have in the world is right
here, we feel as deeply interested in
the future of the city as anyone can
possibly be, and it is not through choice
that we warn our people against the
inevitable which will surely come if we
do not arouse from our apparent lethargy
and "all pull together" for the welfare
of Plattsmouth, and success will surely
crown our efforts if we do our work
properly.
Transfer Subsidiary Lines
The Lincoln News says: The UurF
ington railroad is now filling deeds trans
ferring its subsidiary lines from the
ming- and gouth Dakota. The deed
s arc-
said to be elaborately worked out affairs,
and to prevent mailing them and to
get them recorded and the deed back
for the files, special trips are being
made to county seats by Right of Way
Agent Westervelt and his assistant,
Mr. Saxton. On Korne of the branch
lines it has been found best to travel
on special trains because to use regular
trains would require twenty-four hours
at each town, where with a special
many town3 can be made in : day.
There are nineteen subsidiary corpor
ations which have transferred their
railroad property to the parent company
In one instance, that of the Bu.'lington
& Missouri R. R. company, the deed
was made in 1868, but never recorded,
, but the larger number of other defccU
, are of quite recent makinff
j It is claimed that tke riUr of thf.ge
deeds will simplify the work of taxation
and assessment bodies, and that the de
sire to accommodate state officials in
these matters is the cause for the
smaller companies taking this action.
It is understood that the organization
of the smaller company will be main
tained, however, for legal reasons.
Gering Loses Out
Clerk Davis today received from
Judge Green his decision in the suit
over attorneys fees in the Edward
Brantner damage case brought by Gil
lilland & Logan against Mat Gering of
Plattsmouth. The Glenwood law firm
filed a lien of 11200 on the judgment
money paid by the Burlington a few
months ago to Clerk Davis. The court
orders the money paid to Gillilland &
Logan. Glenwood Tribune.
Complete Oreopolis Rip-rap
Yesterday Foreman W. H. Russell
completed the riprap work at the bridge
near Oreapolis, which has been under
construction for some time and has re
quired the service of a good many men,
and last evening'layed off his gang of
men, consisting of thirteen, until he
shall go to Columbus to work, which
will be sometime yet.