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moufcb ournal. . SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION EIGHT PAGES- VOLUME XXIX PLATTSMO UT11, NEBRASKA, Til UBS DA ir FEHRUA11Y 3, 1910 NO lo 5 P 116 Oil KB T up mni By trxpayers Committee Meets With Great Success in Securing Signers to Petition to Create New Paving District. Plattsmouth will pave the streets about the proposed public building. This has been definitely determin ed, as a majority of the property own ers in the proposed paving district have agreed to the project. This is the first step toward making Platts mouth succeed. Messrs. Parmele and Schmidtmann this morning took around the peti tion creating the proposed district and they found no one to refuse to sign It as far as they had canvassed up to eleven o'clock. In fact, they were most pleasantly surprised when they approached the property owners in the blocks affected by the improve ment and found them so enthusiastic in their desire to affix their names to the petition. While they had enter tained no doubt of unltimate success ia getting the required number of signers they were not altogether pre- pared for the success which attended their efforts nor the enthusiastic man ner In which property owners greet ed them. The committee feels that Plattsmouth Is finally on the right road now and that the boom which has started in is a permanent one The disposition to improve the city is such that they do not now fear a halt and they feel that the end of the year 1910 will see substantial pro gress in all lines in the city. The petition which creates a new paving district provides for paving Fourth street from Main to Vine, Fifth street from Main to Vine and Vine street from Fourth to the west side of Seventh street. This makes a total of five blocks with three inter sections and promises to furnish a lot of work for labor during the coming spring and summer. It Is going to be an Immense aid to the city in more than one way. It means a protection ft FREE and build ' Charles C. Parmele, chairman of the committee to secure signers to the petition, and the largest property owner affected by the proposed dis trict, was in a happy mood this morn ing when he found how easy it was to make Plattsmouth succeed. He wore a smile all wool and a yard wide when asked as to the success which was crowning his efforts: "We haven't had a kick, he Baid. Every body is satisfied and there is going to be no trouble In getting them on the list. I think personally, that the district should have included the block between Sixth and Seventh on Pearl street and believe we will talk to the property owners on that block and see what they say to it. I must say I am deeply gratified to find the people all pulling together as they are and that they want the work done at once." Wm. Schmidtmann who is the other member of the com mittee accompanying Mr. Parmele on his trip after signers, spoke in a simi lar vein: "It is mighty nice, he said, to find the property owners all of one mind as they are on this and to find that there is no dissention among them as to paving these streets.. Our block Is all in line right now except the St. Paul's church and we have assurance that they will be In with us. I am really surprised at the una nimity of sentiment among the prop erty owners." D. O. Dwyer who is the third mem ber of the committee to secure the adoption and who has been acting as the legal adviser of the commit tee, expressed himself as more than pleased at the outcome of the work which had been done up to noon. He said: "I can show what! think about it by saying that I drew the petition IKE. POLICY The Public No Doubt Will Feel Somewhat Leary of Such a Scheme and Wonder Where the Company Will Profit. to the present pavement on Main and for the committee and was the first Sixth streets of incalculable value. The material which will be used will be brick, this having been used upon Sixth street long enough to demon strate that It is the ideal pavement for the small city while It is much less expensive than granite blocks. It has been proposed to add to the man to sign my name to It. I be lieve It to be a good thing and that the council should proceed to order the election at once, or as soon as the petition is presented. As I was detained in my office this morning, I could not get out to do active work toward securing signers but I am proposed district that block on Pearl glad to hear of the progress which street running from Sixth to Seventh jig being made. I am in hopes that as property owners In that part of the he government will appropriate the town have become thoroughly sick of i balance of the money which had been the offensive condition of that street 'appropriated for the site to paying for and want something permanent done j the paving around the village and with it. It Is said that some of the this will relieve the city of that much more prominent property owners in 'expense. As it Is, the city will have that block want thestreet macada- to pay for the three Btreet Inter mlzed instead of paved and that this sections and the board of trustees of has caused a hitch in the arrange-the public library will have to ar ments for paving It. However, be range for a levy to cover their share that as it may, it looks aa if some- of that paving. On the whole, 1 am thing will be done with that block, glad to see the matter underway and and that speedily. glad to know that the people want Another scheme which has been the work done" suggested and one which is receiving I Messrs Parmele and Schmidtmann consideration from property owners 'with the paving petition this morn in the district affected is the crea- lng having canvassed the entire dis tion of another paving district to 'trlct covered by the limits of the pro cover the half block south from Maln'posed district found that practically on hichey, Third, Fourth and Fifth every property owner signed the pe streets and the block on Pearl be- titlon, there being several out of the tween Sixth and Seventh. This would city Just now and a few non-resi-Include alley Intersections at Itichey, dent owners who will bo seen later, Third, Fourth and Fifth streets and then interviewed the county commis a street intersection at Seventh and sloners now in session with the re Pearl which the city would 'have to suit that the board proceeded to sign The Journal was recently offered a good thing which it had to unfor tunately or fortunately as the case may turn out, turn down. It offered to give the people too much for their money and the Journal la wary of 'Greeks bearing gifts." The beautiful scheme as proposed by the smooth-tongued agent who lab ored with the publisher for several hours was in effect to give the sub' scribers of the Journal a free Insur ance policy. This policy is to be is sued by the North American Assur ance company of Chicago and pro Ides for a stated amount for about half a dozen different Injuries. It is not a blanket policy covering all injuries from whatsoever cause but it ia limited in the number of injuries and the manner in which they happen The scheme was presented by an agent for the Peerless Advertising company who asked the publisher to buy of them 1,000 application blanks for $30 or at the rate of 3 cents a piece. This was the first cost. In addition there is what is known as a registration fee of thirty cents on each policy Issued. This makes the cost of each policy to the publisher thirty-three cents and the proposition is to add fifty, sixty, seventy cents or one dollar to the price of the paper and give the subscriber this beautifully llthograpohed policy of insurance for one year. As the case was presented to the Journal the insurance company gets nothing for Its policy, but It Btands pood for accidents of limited class, This looks like a pretty scheme to help the public by a phllantropic in surance company and in fact,. .It looks altogether too good for the publisher of the Journal to want to monkey with. How the company is going to keep in existence and still not take in any policies is shrouded in deep mystery but they claim they can pay. Sizing the entire situation up, the Journal concluded that It did not care to give away such a bargain. It rrefered to give its patrons some thing which it knew they would have no trouble with and if they sustained injury It wanted them amply pro tected. The Journal has not been Informed as lo whether this company is auth orized to do business In this state but if it is, it would appear that Its management Bhould be investigated as they seem to be handling Insur ance at a remarkably low price. Whether other papers have been approached with this proposition or not the Journal is not informed but it certainly looks like too much of a good thing. There are few people or corporations nowadays doing busi ness for their health and the Insur ance company which tries it must in evitably let loose of some of its sur plus capital before it finishes. Visits City. William Stohlman, the jolly and hustling citizen of Center precinct and Democrat committeeman from that bailiwick, was in the city today and while here called at the Journal office, renewing his allegiance to the paper and making a pleasant visit with the editor. 13111 is one of the kind of Democrats who are a holy terror to his opponents and while keeping an eye on the interests of the party in his own precinct, he also manages to get over Into some of the adjoining precincts and disturb their peace of mind. He returned to his home on the Schuyler tann this afternoon. ST. HOIKS DM HIIII6 Plattsmouth Merchants Have a Beautiful Line of Valentines REV. Jill. BAIRD PIDflEER II EH For Years Dr, Baird Was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of This City Death a Great Shock to Community. put iff. Whether this goes through or not remains to be seen. One thing is sure the paving dis trict north of Main . street will be he petition by a majority of the mem hers. Messrs. Frledrich and Chair man Jordan attached their signa tures to the petition while Commis- ereated. The city In this case will sloner Swltzer 8tood alone ln hU at have to pave the three street inter-it,tud8 of objecting to help Platts iectlons spoken of heretofore and also j mouth succeed, the space on Vine in front of the It vlrtaully completes the task and public library. It will also have to assures the paving of the new dls pave on Fifth and Vine where the trlct. The two members of the eoun new postofflce building Is to go. This ty board who signed the petition were makeB a large expense upon the, city ' actuated by the proper spirit, having but it is a necessary one. So far no in mind the fact that Plattsmouth one has been heard to oppose it. jls the county seat town and the larg Plattsmouth wants the public est in the county and that what helps building and wants it right now and Plattsmouth helps Cass county, the only way to get It is to go after Plattsmouth people naturally feel It and make conditions such that grateful toward them for their ac Uncle Sam must carry out his Btart tlon. Union to the Front. j Matt G. McQulnn, one of the good citizens of Liberty precinct, came up last evening from his home to attend to some business matters in the city last night and this morning. Mr. McQulnn reports matters ln his home neighborhood as rather quiet except that there is a great amount of build ing being done in Union and that rush work is being put In to get the new buildings In shape for occupancy. He says that Union presents quite a different appearance from what it used to present before the wave of progress struck it and that it looks now what It is, one of the best towns ln Cass county. The new hotel is be ing put into shape as quickly as pos sible for occupancy and it promises to be a big help to the town as well as a paying Investment. Mr. McQulnn returned to his home this morning on the M. P. train. Philip Fornoff of Pekin, 111., came In this morning to make a visit with Adam Fornoff and other relatives and friends west of the city. The young man expects to spend several weeks In this vicinity where he has a great many acquaintances and where he is assured of a fine time. Joe Dell and wire wuo nave been In this neighborhood since Inst fall visiting with his father, Chris Dell and family, departed this afternoon for Portland, Ore., where they form erly were stopping before coming The near approach of St. Valen tine's day, Feb., 14th, calls forcibly to mind the change which has come over the observance of the day with in me past rew years, lime was when Valentine's day was a day sac red to lovers alone but nowadays things have changed and husbands send valentines to wives and wives to husbands. Mothers send the pret ty missives to daughters and daugh ters to mothers while the son also remembers the mother and sister and the mother and sister the son. This change ln the observance of the day has had Its effect on business and where formerly there was a small stock of cheap and inexpensive valen tines carried in stock, today the stores have nice large assortments which really make a handsome gal lery of beauty. The dealers In Plattsmouth are no exception to the rule and this year they are carrying a greater stock than for years past. Where thirty, forty and fifty dollars worth of this stoob was considered .large several years back, today the values amount Into the hundreds and many of the business houses carry stock valued at $300 to $500. Among local dealers John Nemetz this year is carrying one of the larg est and most expensive stocks. His valentines range in price from the very sum to several dollars ln value, the higher priced ones being real works of art and worthy of careful preservation. The prevailing Interest in aeronautics is exemplified in the design of many of the handsome val entines to be seen on his counters. There are dirigible balloons, their baskets occupied by lovers, there are monoplanes similarly Joaded, there are biplanes with a pair of cooing and billing lovers at the wheel and there are other innumerable examples of up-to-date flying machines. And these are only a small part of de signs which have been put out to attract the purse Btrings of the love lorn. , Henry Herold is another dealer carrying a thoroughly up-to-date stok with all the latest and hand somest designs whtch brilliant minds can produce. Mr. Herold's stock also Is much larger than formerly car ried and it Is one well worthy of looking at. There are designs ln each one of thees two large and attractive stocks seperate and distinct from the other and both stocks are splendid in assortment. Another unique idea this year is that of sending valentine photo graphs. These make handsome and Interesting gifts suitable to the sea son and the day and the idea has taken well all over the country. In this city the Greenwald studios are making these a specialty this year and some handsome photographic valentines are the result of their ef forts. J. W. Larkin is another who Is in the market this year with a hand some lino of vclentines comprising the lateBt patterns and prettiest designs. Died Baird. Dev. John T.. D. D.. at his home rn Plattsmouth, Nebraska, of neuralgia of the heart, at 5 o'clock p. m., on Tuesday, February 1, 1910, aged 72 years, 1 month and 2S days. Funeral on Friday afternoon, February 4, 1910. In terment at Oak Hill cemetery, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The news last evening of the sudden death at his home in this city of Rev. John T. Daird, for more than thirty years pastor of the Pres byterian church ln this city and one of the most widely known and re spected of the Nebraska clergy, came as a great shock to all ln this city. While It has been known tor several days that Dr. Daird was quite ill and some little apprehension had been felt the great mass of the people were not prepared to hear of the sudden and fatal termination of his Illness. Neuralgia of the heart was the affection which had seized upon him, the sickness only becoming acute a few days before his passing. The attending physicians had not looked for bo sudden a change in the pa tient's condition and his death proved a most sad surprise. Dr. Daird had long been a land mark in annals of Nebraska Presby terlanism and he was known through out the length and breadth of thestate as a learned divine. Aside from his high standing in the church which he had devoted his life to, he was known and esteemed as one of the best men in its confines. He was ln his lifetlrne, the exponent of broadj liberal minded and charitable views. He was one of the surviving clergy men of the old school who believed in the uplifting of his fellow men feel with them. He was a loving and kind father, a noble husband and for everyone beyond his immediate family circle, he was a most dear friend. Rev. Dr. John T. Daird wns a na tive of the state of Ohio, having been born in Cincinnati on December 3, 1834. Ills early boyhood was spent in that city and Us vicinity and at the proper age, his chosen field of work, that of the ministry, was taken up. Preliminary to this, the young man Daird entered Yale college and ln the year 1S5S, he graduated with high honors. To complete his course and to fully prepare for his work in tho field of ministering to men's bouIs, he took a course at Prlncton theological seminary, then, as now, a remarkably high class school for the ministry. He was graduated from Princeton in the , year 1861, and returned to Cincin nati where he was licensed by the Presbytery of that synod. This was at the time when the country was rent and torn by civil strife, wtien brother fought with brother and fath er with son and Rev. Daird entered upon his task on the. borderland where this strife rolled hack and forth and where the utmost exert ions of the ministry were called in play to stem the tide of the terrible Internecine warfare. For three years he labored in this vineyard and by pjrecept and example he strove to call men to Christ even when condi tions were most unfavorable. ' . It was In 1864 that Rev. Daird entered the field in Nebraska, locat ing at Drownvtlle and in that town he remained for ten years preaching the word. At the conclusion of his service there he came to this city. through - the. intercession st diving where he accented a call to the First power of sentiments. Ho was both within and without the church, most highly esteemed as a shining example of a most christian gentleman aim an ideal citizen. In this city where the best years of his life had been spent and where his work for the church had borne Its ripest fruit, none knew but to love and respect him. Here he had raised a family bringing them up within the straight and narrow way and making of them the most ideal examples of what a good and true father can do. Of late years, Dr. Balrd's health had not been such as to permit him to do much active work ln the ministry and the closing days of his life had been much as the last days of a good ship which has made Presbyterian church over which he destined to preside until some three years ago when falling health prompt ed his retirement, he being succeed ed by Rev. J. H. Salsbury. Dr. Daird aside from his work In the ministry in this city had taken great Interest in the progress of Pel levuo college, a Presbyterian institu tion, and for many years was a trus tee of that institution. Tho degree of D. D. wns conferred upon him at tho time of his graduation from Prince ton Theological seminary and later the degreo of LL. D., was given him by Dfllevue college for which he had done so much. In addition to this Dr. Daird had during the long period of his stewardship on the church here acted as stated clerk of the Nebraska Its last voyage and anchored within City Presbytery and t'ue Presbyterian the haven to await in peace and reslg- synod of Nebraska. nation the close of its allotted time. Dr. Dalrd's life closes that of a man truly great of one whose great est and most lasting monument, will be the good words of everyone with whom he came ln contact, of their utmost esteem and reBpoct and such respect as amounts almost to venera tion. To the entire community his passing is that of one of Its best citizens .and one who can illy bo spared. Especially does his loss fall upon the score of the stricken to whom ho had ever ministered and whoso burdens and sorrows he had made his own. To those who are left within tho darkened home there Is no healing words which can ex press the deep sympathy which all George Hlld and Joe Dell were passengers on the morning train for South Omaha where they will visit the cattle market and see what the can pick up in the way of good cat tle. Mr. Hlld is a good Judge of the animals and if he runs across some here. Mr. Bell accompanied tbem to bargains, he will undoubtedly take this city this morning. advantage of them and invest. The matter of opening a road from the ferry below the brldgo to this city was put under headway yester day by County Clerk Morgan who ap pointed County Surveyor Fred Pat terson to go and view the proposed road. Upon the completion and filing of his report with the clerk, the mat ter will be taken up by the county He is survived by a wife and five children, the latter being William N. Daird, son, now at Salida, Col., Mrs. George L. Farley, and Misses Caro line, Estella and Florence Daird, all of this city Tho funeral will take plnce on next Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian church where the' long years of his life were spent. The services will bo conducted by Rev. Thomas L. Sexton of Lincoln with whom Dr. Daird had maintained the most intimate and cordial relations and with whom he baa followod church work for more . than forty years. Interment will be had at Oak Hill cemetery west of this city. Mont Dollfhtfully Entertained. A delightful afternoon reception was given at the home of Mrs. J. L. Thompson on last Friday afternoon, the occasion being a reception tend ered Mrs. Dr. A. A. Randall by the Indies of the Methodist church. Mrs. Randall who is the charming wife of the former pastor of the church and who now resides at Osceola, Neb., Is a favorite among the ladies of the church and they gathered to the num ber of forty to pay their respects. The afternoon being most delightfully spent, there being a musical program of much merit, Mrs. L. A. Moore being in chargo of It and the num bers being especially selected for the occasion. This was followed by a very fine three coutbo luncheon, one worthy tho hostess and greatly ap preciated by the guests. The occas ion was most memorable, not alone In the hearts of tho guest of honor board. This will probably be up for hearing at the next meeting of the Mrs. Randall, but ln the hearts of all board. present. Jan. Fitzgerald coming Home. Miss Marie Fitzgerald departed this morning for Omaha expecting to re turn on the noon train with her undo James Fitzgerald, who has been hav ing a long siege at the hospital In that city. Mr. Fitzgerald is getting along nicely now and is well on the way toward good health, the only ser ious drawback now being his weak ness the natural result of a long ill ness.. This will speedily be overcome by attention to developing his trength and he will soon be able to be about town and meet his many friends. H. S. Vernon of Antelope county. Neb., who has been visiting with D. J. Reynolds and family, departed this morning for Thurraan, la., where he will make a further visit with other relatives before returning to this home. He Is an uncle of Mrs. Rey nolds of this city.