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The Avoca News Ko.ii G-itiierea taoii Week by Miss Opal Lewton spent Funday in Avoca. Mrs. Annie Nelson was quite sick last week. John Zink still has faith In his rabbit trap. Rex Fennel was over from Syra cuse Saturday. Mrs. Edna Madsen Is vloitin.; Av oca relatives. W. J. Smoots and wife were at Ne hawka Saturday. Emil Amanda was over from Syra cuse Wednesday. Edward Hensley was here from Berlin Saturday. Miss Pearl Harmon is clerking for Zlmmerer & Glllln. Fred Hillman and wife were here from Berlin Monday. H. G. Wellensiek spent Sunday with Lorton relatives. Miss Neva zook was at Auburn over Sunday visiting. Dave Straub made a business trip to Kansas last week. Zimmerer & Glllln held a coat and suit sale Thursday. Mrs. M. D. Marquardt returned last week from Lincoln. E. Morley and W. A. Rose were at Omaha Wednesday with stock. Miss Pearl Rockwell of Weeping Water, Is visiting Ayoca relatives. Dr. Kaar, the dentist, was here from Weeping Water Wednesday. Mrs. Fred McGrady was at Weep ing Water the flrs of the week. The wearing of the green was very much In evidence here Wednesday. ad Waldrlp says St. Patrick Is a better man than the Fourth of July ever was. L. W. Fahnestock and family now reside on the Fred Westlako farm nor'h of town. Geo. Durham left last week for Bertrand, where he will work on a farm this season. Ora E. Copeg is the man with the goods when you get ready for your paint and wall paper. , Little Johnny Rudge has been quite ill but is much better at pre sent. Miss Bertha Smoots was out of school Tuesday on account of sick ness. Mr. and Mrs. Wright, parents of Mrs. Sam Johnson have been on the sick list. Prof. Zink and wife enjoyed a vis it from Panama relatives a few days this week. J. C. Zimmerer, wife and son, Os car, were Omaha visitors Tuesday and Wednesday. Earl Harmon was down from Om aha several days this week visiting his' parents west of town. A number of the Avoca Odd Fel lows expect to attend a district meet lng of that order at Nehawka Fri day. If you hear strange sounds when you call up centraL don't be fright ened; it Is only tbe chickens peeping, as they hop out of the eggs In the In cubator. Avoca High Bchool Notes. The literary club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs M- G. Kneedy Mon day evening. Refreshments were served and a very enjoyable time was . . ' V.. VI !.,' naa. Marie Dowley, Ruby Yonkers, Har nld Harmon and Charles Everett been sick the pst week. The county eighth grade examina Hnn will bn ffiven at the Avoca school April fifth, and sixth. All pu plls in the eighth grade who Intend to do high school work next year are expected to take- this examination. Death of Old Resident. Phllo P. Peckham, one of the old est residents of Avoca died Saturday evening. March 18,1909, after an III ness of only a few days. Although Mr. Peckham had been quite feeble for the past year his death was not expected. He was born Aug. 15, 1839 at Cold Water, Mich,, and in 1866 was mar ried to Surinda A. Wilcox. To this A, D. S. Peroxide Tooth Powder Tho A. D. S. has created a masterpiece In Peroxide Tooth Powder. If you have ever used A. D. S. Peroxide Cream you will greet with much satisfac tion the arrival of their latest creation, Peroxldo Tooth Powder. It cleanses tho teeth, preserves them from decay, renders them white, by Its anti septic properties. Hardens the gums and Impnrts a delightful odor to tho breath. Price 25c a box. ORA E. COPES, a Special Reporter for This Department of the Semi-Weekly Journal union five children were born one 44th Illinois infantry. Those surviving: Mrs. Jno. Mc Farland, Mrs.Gustav Buss. Jno. Peck ham and Mrs. R. O. Hutchins. Mr. Peckham was a veteran of the Civil war, being a member of the th Illinois Infantry. He was for a number of years pro prietor of the Oxford hotel at this place. Rev. Andress conducted the service after which the body was laid to rest in the Avoca cemetery. Mr. Peck ham leaves a host of friends to mourn him. Physical llreak-Down We wish to call the attention of our readers to the approach of the season when everybody feels some unexplained weakness both of mind and body. He is easily tired, f'nds no pleasure In anything. The cir culation of the blood is too sluggish for the quick change of winter Into spring. His system needs a lit tie stimulant, in order to bring all organs In activity In this re spect nothing is better than Triner'a American Elixir of Bitter Wine. It stimulates the stomach and nil di gestive organs to work, drives all waste matter from the body and fills the veins with pure, rich blood. It is a natural purifier of the blood and everybody suffering from the usual spring symptoms, especially from a physical breakdown, should use It now. It is excellent in all maladies of the stomach and bowels, of Mr. and Mrs. George Lincoln clears the mind. At drug stores. Jos. Triner, 616-622 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, 111. Meoiley (Special Correspondence.) Misses Anna and Katherine Mur phy went to Omaha Tuesday to spend the day with their aunt, Mrs. Mary Murphy. Mrs. Nellie Smith and son Michael drove down from Elmwood Friday morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bartz. Miss May Reed was th.e guest of Miss Maggie O'Leary over Sunday. Miss Maggie Wolpert and Mrs. Charles Gerlach were Omaha visitors Thursday. August Stander hauled in eight loads of hogs Tuesday for shipment to Omaha. Michael Honer came from Kansas last week for a visit with his brother Will. , Mrs. Joseph Droege came out from Plattsmouth Thursday evening to at tend the funeral of her cousin, Mrs. Bartz. Albert and Michael Tighe left Fri day for Greeley county, where they will look at land with a view to pur chase, should they see any that is satisfactory. Dick Boom moved his family and household goods out to the Qunn farm last Friday. Clyde Jenkins is recovering from a severely sprained ankle. Mrs. E. Banghart went to Conland Wednesday to be present at the wed ding of a relative, and to visit with friends. Mrs. Ed. Pankonin came in on the morning traLn Tuesday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Schafer. . The funeral of Mrs. John Bartz took , place Friday, at ten o ciock, from St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Requiem High Mass was celebrated, after which a large number of friends accompanied the funeral to the Col lege Hill cemetery, where Interment was made. The pall bearers we're: Charles Murphy, Frank Stander, C. E. Mockenhampton, John Murray and John. Tlghe and August Glan-I bltz. A freight went through a bridge a mile and a half north of Manley Monday afternoon. Seven cars left the track four of which were badly shattered. Waldemar Soennlchsen,, wife and baby who were called to the city by the death of Mrs. Wm. Wohlfarth, returned to their home at Snyder, Neb., this noon on the mall train. THE DRUGGIST, Avocak, . Nebr&aka.. epSlirtlTiiilt 0 STRAUB u IS THE HAM THAT SELLS AUTOMOBILES Farm Implements and h WAGONS AND BUGGIES Be sure and see him when you need anything in his line. 0 Nebraska ZDCDQ Amenda & Mohr DEALERS IN Wines, Liquors land Cigars Avoca, Neb. .Surprise (Jatlierinn. Last Saturday evening at the home living three miles east of Cedaj Creek, was a scene of much pleasure and merriment, the occasion being a surprise gathering given In hon or of Miss Marie Ottes' twentieth birthday. The affair aws planned and carried out to a most enjoyable end ing and an elegant three course luncheon was served by Mrs. Lin coln. At the late hour of half past twelve the guests departed for their homes wishing Miss Otte many more such happy birthdays. The guests were: Misses Cora and Edna Mels- Inger, Marie Otte, Dora and Marie Sander, Mary, Maggie and Emma Albert, Luella Kaffenberger, Martha Lincoln, Lula, Kate and Mary Mela- Inger and Hazel Barrett, Messrs Henry and Philip Albert. Henry San jer, Fred and Mike Kaffenberger, Elmer and Clarence Melsinger, Balse Melsinger, Oliver Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. George Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lincoln, Mrs. Barrett. , Farm for Sole. i I am offering a farm for sale two miles southwest of Mynard at ninety dollars per acre. Also one 3 miles south of Murray. Earl V. Cole, -Mynard, Neb. The Tlattsmouth Telephone Som- pany js engaged in getting out a new directory of its subscribers. Your name should be sent in to T. II. Pol lock General Manager, at the tele phone headquarters. Henry Prosser, Contracting, Plastering, Brick and Stone Work, Concrete Foundations and Walks. : : : : : ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Thone 107, Elmwood, Neb. DR. E. R. KAAR DENTIST - Will make weekly trips to Avoca every Wednesday, beginning Wednesday, Au gust 19. Office with Dr. Ilrendel, Ap pointments can be made withhim. I u t ! i i u Alvo (Special Correspondence.) The Stroemer Lumber and Grain P.rrnnny JilnnJ o CRT of ftOJJS Wed" nesday to South Omaha. Mrs. Mary Hadknock returned Thursday evening frcm an extended visit in Iowa. Several of the Alvo high school pupils went to Lincoln Friday morn- ng to attend a session of the legis lature. Those going were Misses Aletha Rouse and Estelle Griffin Misses Ray Parsell, Alfred Griffin and Messrs. Ray Parsell, Alfred Stroemer, Orvll Prouty, Earl Ben nett and Prof Jacobson. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hess returned Monday from Los Angeles, Cal., where they spent the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Curyea re turned Sunday from their wlnter'8 so journ In Texas. Wm. Uptegrove returned from Red- field, South Dakota last Friday. Philip Lincoln was called to the deathbed of an uncle at York and departed on the evening train Mon day. Mrs. Carlton Guillion was taken real sick quite suddenly last Monday morning. Frank Cook Is visiting in Platts mouth this week. H. S. Ough and son Chester were Lincoln visitors from Sunday till Tuesday. .Miss Flora K. Lloyk's was a pas senger to Lincoln on the evening train Saturday. John Kunz 'and Geo. Ohlerklng shipped hogs to South Omaha Tues day morning. Claus Ohms was a passenger to Omaha Tuesday. Miss Orpha Mullln came home Fri day evening from Murdock where she Is teaching. She returned Sunday aoon. Uncle Henry Snoke is at home again with his daughter Mrs. Emma Cashner. Wood Ralney went to Plattsmouth Tuesday via Omaha. Herman R 'Neltzel of Murdock spent a few hours In Alvo Wednes day forenoon. Perry Cook lost a fine Holsteln cow Tuesday. George Oliver moved Into Aunt Mandy Linen' 8 house laBt week.. Will Mlckel has moved to Mon tana to make his future home. Administratrix Sale. The eighty acres belonging to the Dalton Estate located 2 miles North and 1 mile West of Ashland, Neb., will be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday, March 20th, 1909, at 2 o'clock p. m., at Ashland, Neb., In front of the postofflce. This farm Is improved as follows: Five room house, barn large enough for 14 horses, besides granary and large hay mow, chicken house, hog house, tool house, two wells and watering tank, good cave, 60 acres in culti vation and 20 acres In fine hay moad- ow and plenty of all kinds of fruit. Per Mary Dalton Hempel, Administratrix. Typewriter Paper The best and most complete line to be found in the city at tbe Journal office. Notice ef Application for Liquor License, NOTICE la hereby gvn to til persons Inter wted and to the unlillc. that the under- ultraed. H. K. Hand, hu Hied till petition and application In the office of the city clerk, of the city of I'lattmnoulh, county of Cam, and late of Nebraska, an required hy law, alirned by the required number or resident free-holder of aald city, vettlnff forth that the appli cant In a man of reNiiertahle character and Handing and a resident of the atateof Nehra ka.indpraylniftnatallcoii.se may be luiued . . V 1.1 11 1? l ... .I.a - - I- n. . I Hi umDMUIl. r.. Iknu IUI tfiv nftiQ uimivi I iplrltuoua and vinous liquor for the period of one year from the date of the hearlnir of aald application in a bulldlnv lliiated on lot eleTen and twelve. (II and I-') In block twenty aeren, (27) In the first ward of the aald city of nailttmouth, Nebraska. II. K. RAND, Applicant. marrn iiin, iwv, REMOVAL v Great reduction in price on re maining stuck. Sale com mences SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 20th! Now is your time to secure a strictly high grade instrument at a low price. We have aimed to carry the grade and kind of Pianos that would please par ticular people. OWE TUNE ANO REPAIR PIANOS O Plattsmouth Music Company PARIS WIRE STRIKEJBRQWS City Practically Isolated From Rest of France. POSTMEN DECIDE TO QUIT Railroad Employees May Go Out In Sympathy Mail and Messages Held Up and Business Handicapped. Troops Held in Readiness, Paris, March 18. The letter carriers have joined the strike of the telegra phers, telephone operators and mail clerks employed by the postofflce de partment. Eight hundred postmen em ployed in the delivery of newspapers and parcels went out this morning. The strike movement gained greatly throughout the day, Paris being prac tically Isolated from the rest of France and France from the outside worlu Eight thousand strikers met and passed a resolution to maintain the struggle to the bitter end. Premier Clemenceau declares the government Is ready for a fight and will not recede in its determination to force the strikers to the wall. A very sen ous situation, however, has arisen through the inability of the govern ment to communicate with Its foreign representatives and the strikers cut the private telephone wire connecting the Elysee palace with the various ministries. Troops are held In readi ness at Versailles to reinforce the Paris troops in case any demonstra tlons of a serious nature occur. There Is an alarming rumor that the seem tary of the railroad employees' union has promised to order out these tueu In a sympathetic strike. . Only two men are now working on the trunk telephone line to London. It Is expected that within a few hours all of the employes of the post, telegraph, telephone and pneumatic systems will be out. Telephone ser vice in Italy has ceased. It Is estimat ed that throughout tbe country not less than 10,000,000 letters and 250,000 telegrams are held up. M. Barthou mlnUterof public works declared that all strikers who did not resume work within twenty-four hours would be considered as having re signed. TRANSPORT LOGAN AGAIN AFLOAT Troopship Pronounced Seaworthy and Will Continue Her Voyage. Honolulu, March 18. After having passed' three days and nights, with twenty-five feet of her bow fast on a reef just opposite her slip in this hur bor, the United States army transport Logan was refloated and tomorrow will sail for Manila. Examination of the hull of the troopship by divers has fulled to reveal any injury result ing Irom her grounding and the vessel has been pronounced seaworthy and able to continue her voyage to the Ori ent. The Logan was refloated only after she had been lightered of her cargo, after numerous attempts to drag her off, in which the British cruiser Cambrian and three tugs participated, had failed. Hayes Granted New Trial. St Louis, March 18. S. R. Hayes, cashier of the First National bank of Lexington, Okla., who had been sen tenced to live yoara in the penitentiary by the United States district court of Oklahoma on a charge of having made a false report of the condition of his bank to the comptroller of the cur rency, was, by an opinion of the Unit ed States circuit court of appeals, granted a new trial. Southern Pacific Indicted. Corson City, Nev., March 18. The federal grand jury has returned an In dlctment against the Southern Pacific railroad on a charge of granting se cret rebates to the California Sugar and White Pino agency. The alleged rebates are said to have been dlscov ered accidentally by the interstate commerce commission. Fifteen counts re mentioned and tbe total fine could be 1300.000. . ' Alleged Train Robber Arrested. Fort Collins, Colo., March 18. John Potts, who Uvea in a solitary cabin twenty-five mile from here, and E. J St. Clair, a cowboy employed by Lady Moon on her ranch, near Fort Collins, were arrested, charged with holding up a Denver and Rio Grand Western trnln at Military Junction just outside of Denver, on Feb. 27. National Banks Barred From Guaranty Toneka, Murch 18. Kansas natloua banks will not be allowed to pnrtic pate In tho bunk dcpoHlt guaranty law DnsHPH by tho leMBlature. Lawre:w Why Take Alcohol? Are you thin, pale, easily tired, lack your usual vigor and strength? Then your digestion must be poor, your blood thin, your nerves weak. You need a tonic and alterative. You need Aycr's Sarsaparilla, the only Sarsaparilla entirely free from alcohol. We believe your doctor would endorse these statements, or we would not make them. Ask him and find out. Follow his advice. 7CA w Co. . Lowell, Mas. The endorsement ol your doctor will certainly greatly Increase your confidence in Aycr's Pill is a family laxative. Liver pills. All vegetable. M your doctor about them. O. Murray, comptroller of the cur rency, nothled W. W. Bowman, secre tary of tho Kansas Bankers" associa tion, tLat such a ruling had been nude by his office. Mentana Pioneer Dead. Missoula, Mont., March IS. Alfred Cave, one of the best known of Mon tana's early settlers, died here. He was born in southern Iowa in 1S29. He came to Montaua in 18ii5 and es tablished a packtraia business be tween Fort Benton and Walla Walla. Nevada Senate Kills Bank Bill. Carson City, Nev.. March 18. The senate killed the deposit guaranty clause of the banking bill. COOPER CASE IOAN0S OF JURY Opinion Prevails at Nashville That No Verdict Will Be Reached. Nashville, Tenn., March 18. With indications that the jury was still far from an agreement, the opinion be gins to prevail that a mistrial will be the termination of the case against Colonel D. B. and Robin J. Cooper and' John Sharp for the slaying of former United Stales Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Hart has declared his inten tion of holding the jury together for a week or two if necessary to get a ver dict. The costs In the case have been enormous and it Is realized that a sec ond Jury to try the case never could be secured In tvis county. Attorney General McCaru looks for a verdict. ENGINE PLUNGES INTO STATION Four Killed and Thirty Injured In Accident at Montreal. Montreal, March 18. Four persona were killed and thirty others were In jured as the result of the blowing out of a wash-out pipe on the locomotive hauling the Boston express, three miles out from the Windsor street sta tion. Scalding steam filled the cab and the engineer and fireman were forced to jump. Tbe train, without a guiding hand at the throttle, dashed into the station, through the granite wall Into the women's waiting room, and then into the rotunda, where the locomotive, after demolishing one mas. slve granite pillar, was brought to a standstill by another. Tbe four persons killed were sit ting In the women's waiting room. They are: Mrs. J. B. Nixon, her thir teen-year-old son and two-year-old daughter and Elsie VUllers of Mon treal. A score of men were knocked down when the train crashed through Into the rotunda. An investigation of the causo cf tho accident disclosed that the break in tbe Loiltjr was on the tirer.ia.i s ..iuB. FlreniHU Craig jumped i.t onto unJ landed in a snowdrht practically uu- injured. Ho run down tbe l.uk alter the train. Half a mile mrther he found Engineer Cunniusr.um lying un conscious by the rails, ills skull had been fractured. Cunningham has not regained consciousness and is not ex pected to live. The train crew had no idea there was anything wrong un til tbe train was nearlng the station. Then the. conductor, noting the exces sive speed at this point, applied the airbrakes. They were not strong enough to hold the train with the loco motive pulling against them, but they did check tbe speed. RYAN DISCHARGED FROM CUSTODr Evidence la Insufficient to Hold Al leged Swindler to Grand Jury. Hot Springs, Ark., March 18.--George Ryan, who had been arrested, and' held under a SIQ.OOO bond for mis use of the malls la connection with the operation ol tbe alleged swindling gang headed by J. L. Maybray at Lii tie Rock, was discharged from the cus tody of officers by United States Com missioner Leslie. Two weeks ago Ryan had been tried and Mr. Leslie an nounced tbe evidence Insufficient to hold him to the federal grand Jury, but gave the federal . attorneys two weeks in which to file additional brief in the case. Ryan ie wanted' at Coun cil Bluffs, la., but refuses to go bo cause of a minor charge here which prevents his removal unless this coun ty relinquishes its claim on him. Flying Machine Is Christened. New York, March 15. What Is said to have been the first christening of an aeroplane In the history of the world took place at Morris park, under the ' auspices of tbe Aeronautical society. Practically all the ceremonies which attended the launching of a ship were performed, Including the breaking of a bottle of champagne on one of tha steel bars of the machine. The spon sor named the new craft New York No. 1.