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The- Plattsmouth - Journal
f- published Semi-Weeklf it Plillsiasll, Kebriski dZD ,
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Poetoflice; at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa second-class
matter.
fl.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE
Democratic County Convention.
The democrats of Cass county
are called to meet in delegate con
vention in the city of Platlsnioutli,
Neb., on Saturday, July 15, 1011,
at 2 o'clock p. in., for the purpose
of selecting sixteen delegates to
the democratic stale convention
to he held in Fremont, Neb., July
2'. 1 1 1 i , and to transact such
other, business as may legally
coin' before it.
The basis of representation in
h!U) convention shall bo one dele
gate for each 12 voles or major
fraction thereof cast for tho
domo'craHo electors for president
in 1 008. The primaries for the
selection of said delegates shall
he. held at tho usual place in each
precinct or ward on Friday, July
14th, 1911, and the representation
will lie as follows:
Precinct Delegates
Tipton 13
Stove Creek 5
Kim wood 9
Weeping Water 5
Louisville. 8
Ml. Pleasant 7
Nehawka 1
First Hock Bluff 10
Weeping Water, 1st ward. ... 3
Weeping Water, 2nd ward .... 2
Weeping Water, 3rd ward .... 1
Gerenwood 8
Salt Creek 10
South Bond 0
Center 9
Avoca 7
Kight Mile Grove 12
Liberty 10
Second Rock Bluffs ,6
Plattsmouth 12
Plattsmoulh, 1st ward 7
PliUsnioulh, 2nd ward 13
Plattsmouth, 3rd ward 13
Plattsmouth, 4th ward 8
PiftUsmoulh, 5lh ward 7
Total 202
It is recommended no proxies
he admitted and that tho del"-
jjates present cast the full vote of
their precinct. '
J. S
If people weren't so proud they
would live in the cellar these hot
days. Hut .they'd rather fetand 30
degrees superfluous heat than
look at an ash barrel.
:o:
The young folks home from col
lege have acquired the scientific
truth, that the best way to keep
cool is to sit in the shade and
watch dad hoe the garden.
:o :
People who complain because
the boys persisted in making a
noise July 4th should rather be
pleased that they do not send off
their fireworks in the house.
:o:
It must be a great deal of satis
faction to ex-fiovcrnor Shallen
berger to have his administration
vindicated by the highest court in
the state.
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Livingston,
Chairman.
frank Livershal.
Secretary.
Small potatoes will be thank
fully received at this office.
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No trouble about the corn crop
in Cass county now.
The law passed by the last
legislature works the penalty
pretty severe for corrying con
cealed weapons. We print the
section referring thereto in an
other column of the Journal.
:o :
Decline in the marriage rate is
sometimes attributed to the men
tal superiority of women, but any
youth who walks up boldly to the
ice cream parlor can have any
thing in sight for two months
now.
:o:
Inquiry into express rates next
The little consumer looks puny
beside the fat trusts, but he has
itcijuired possession of a gun thpt
makes (he big fellows look un-
' easy. .
:o:
Only thirteen killed in the
"sane Fourth" this year. Tho
commercialism of the age is amiin
manifested in unwillingness to
pay the undertaker's bills in a
patriotic service.
:o:
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S'plcndid rains all over Ne
braska Saturday night. Hood
enough.
:o:
It is reported that it will lake
at 'east 70.000 cars to move the
lumper wheat crop hanosled In
Nebraska this year.
States. This year, with the crop
a partial or complete failure over
a large portion of the United
States. This year, with the crop
States, ami potatoes worth 3 a
bushel or more, it is to be hoped
that Canada will have a big yield
and that the reciprocity treaty,!
will become effective in time for
consumers in this country to get
potatoes free of duty from
Canada.
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He sure to attend the conven
tion Saturday.
:6:
Only four more days for filing.
Oct in on the ground floor if you
ore a candidate.
: :o:
If you can possibly get away
from home come In to the con
vention Saturday .
:o:-
Harmony always brings forth a
genuine good feeling. Don't for
get that.
:o:
The harvest is nearly over in
Cass county and the farmers are
feeling pretty well, thank ou.
:o :
They say in passing through
the county you can almost see the
corn growing, it is popping up so
fast since the recent rains. "
:o:
Are the auloniobilists comply
ing with the law in speed here in
town? It will be well for some
of them to look a little out.
:o:
The rain Saturday night was a
general thing all over Nebraska.
And, then, just think of the "gul
ly washers" that Kansas has re
ceived. :o:
The building of the Platte river
wagon bridge will bring all the
south, west and north travel
lurnugli Plattsmoulli. I hat is
one thing certain.
:o:
If the, democrats work together
in harmony from now till election
day they will carry Nebraska, as
sure as the election is held. Then
be up and doing.
:o:
Don't forget the democratic
county convention in Plattsmouth
Saturday, July 15. It is import
ant that every democrat attend
who enn possible get here.
The only person who has not
suffered from the abnormal torrid
season is Senator Lorimer. The
nre siarieu under mm was so
brisk that Dt in the shade seems
mild.
:o:-
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grand good time at Nehawka on
the ij h of August. Well, there
is no better place to hold the log
rolling than Nehawka. and the
people of the entire community
will join in showing the boys one
of the best times they ever en
joyed in Cass county. So make
your plans to ailend.
:o:
The grass is shooting up again
and pasturage is becoming whole
some for stock.
:o:
The showers are not so very
large, but they are often enough
to suit everybody.
:o:
The farmers are putting in
every daylight hour at work and
have not been fooling away much
time in town.
:o:
The world has long recognized
that Texas' greatest need was
water. On July 22 Texas will vote
on the question of state-wide
prohibition.
:o:
The cord atmosphere of the
past few days has been the means
of renewing life and energy in
many people, as well as helping
out the corn crop.
:o:
Colonel John T. Sulli an of New
Orleans was elected grand exalted
ruler of I lie Order of F.lks at
Atlantic City yesterday. He was
chosen on the first ballot.
:o:
The people in the southwestern
part of the state are preparing to
fight grasshoppers. Reports say
that' millions of them have made
their appearance and have already
commenced on the corn.
:o:
The delegates to the Fremont
convention should be selected
from every section of the county,
and those who desire lo serve as
such delegates should not be
backward in "speaking out in
meeting."
:o :
, Don't forget the county con
vention next Saturday arternoon.
A new county committee is to be
selected. Read the call and each
precinct will know the number of
delegates I hey are entitled to.
of his administration. Judge
Root has made good, and his
home people will give hiiri a big
boost for the nomination. We
heliee he is deserving of such
recognition.
:o:
Judge Cornish bus derided
against the jail proposition. Hut
that is no sign the jail is not
badly needed. A new jail would
be a saving to the taxpayers of
Cas- county in the long run, and
they all know this as well as we
do. Ami we believe the largest
taxpayers of the county, generally
speaking, voted for the proposi
tion. :o:
It must be a pretty severe blow
(o Lincoln that it did not get the
democratic slate convention. At
least one would judare so from
the manner in which one of the
papers up at the capital is trying
to belittle the democrats for tak
ing the convention to Fremont
r remout may not no quite as
large as Lincoln, but what it lacks
in population it makes up in
hospitality.
:o:
"The way to navigate is to
navigate, is tne slogan under
which the Kansas City Missouri
River Navigation company was
organized, capitalized and oper
ales. That corporation, with
capital siock oi i,25U,uuu, 13
demonstrating the value of the
long neglected Missouri river as
an artery of commerce and wil
prove that the best way to contro
railroad rates is to water the rates
instead of the stock of railroad
companies. If Omaha would get
a move on herself like Kansas
City, we might have had naviga
tion from Kansas City to Omaha
and we'll never have it unti
they do.
WEEPING WATER. .J.
Republican. . 4.
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Horn To Mr. and Mrs. Eugena
Colbert, on Monday, June 3d, an
eleven-pound boy.
While doing some repair work
last week, K. Hatnour cut an
artery in his right thumb with a
piece of glass.
A. L. Upton is quite sick suf
fering from a stroke of paralysis.
It is to bo hoped his sickness will
change for the better soon.
H. H. Henningson, an engineer
from Omaha, was in town Mon
day and in company with Mayor
(iorder. made the rounds of th
own, mapping out the course of
the electric light poles.
William Morse was plowing
corn last Thursday and his team
ran away. One horse received a
bad cut ami would have bled to
death if Dr. Tuck bod not arrived
in good season to care for the
wound.'
Miss Ida-Morse writes that she
landed at South Hampton, Eng
land, June 20th, and the' next
morning left for Brighton, where
her uncle, Thomas (iibbon, re
sides. She says it is cold there.
She had a pleasant voyage and is
feeling fine.
While the average yield of
wheat is reported at 30 bushels
per acre, a few are falling below.
Ray Kreider had 11 acres of
wheat, that average 38 bushel
per acre and sold for 70 cents.
Bert Jameson harvested a little
better than 5,000 bushels off 200
acres.
While making his rounds on
route No. 1 last week, Herbert
Ralnour, rural carrier, met with
a misfortune. At Tom Akeson'9
while the rig was entering the lot
the wind blew the gate and caught
the buggy amidships. The hor9e
kept on going and the vehicle
was tipped over, the top being
completely wrecked and the har
ness badly broken. Mr. Ratnour
righted his buggy and came in
through the hot sun in the after
noon, changing harness at Mr.
Akeson's.
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Wolgast is lightweight cham
pion now, and will he, like John
son, try lo get into society by
over-speeding his automobile?
:o:
After expressing his reveVenl
by selling off firecrackers, the
American youlh heaves a sigh of
relief at (he (bought (hat (his toil
sonic duty is again performed.
:o:
Tho holiest people in these
warm days have been those who
took a cold balh (o cool off, and
gol tho w arm read ion (hat always
results from the plunge.
If worst comes to worst, (he
iceman can explain that he is only
following the precedent (lie sugar
trust pursued so successfully for
years.
:o:
A Massachuetls judge rules
mat man is master in Ms own
home, but never yet have we se
cured more or better pica by quot
ing the revised laws.
:o:
Wc used to think that (he big
thermometer outside the drug
store indicate interest in scientific
rncteorolgy. Now we suspect it is
a part of the scionliflc manage
ment of the soda fountain.
Reading the Declaration of In
dependence is a traditional way
of celebrating July 4lh, but as the
small boy reads one of his own
on the front walk at 4 a. ni. any
thing else is superfluous.
:o: I
According to Referee Kvans
Chief Donahue must walk the
plank. Holds him guilty of con
niving at the violation of (he laws
i the state and advises that he
be ,used from olllce. This re
port must now be acted upon by
(he supreme court.
:o:
Standpatters in congress re
ceived a body blow when the sen
ate killed the Root amendment to
the reciprocity treaty. The amend
ment was only a pretense, gotten
up for (he purpose of killing the
democratic free list amendment,
that's all.
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The call for (he democratic
county convention lo meet in
Plaltsnioulh on Saturday, July
15, appears in this Issue of the
Journal. This convention is for
the purpose of selecting dele
gates to tne state convention at
.Nrcmont on Tuesday, July 25. II
is ery essential that every pre
cinct be represented at the conn
ty convention.
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Canada raised about 05,000,
000 bushels of potatoes last year,
1 it 1 loo ver a fourth as manv as
were produced in the Unite
Cass county is all right; 1 She
has the largest wheat crop ever
grown, the oats are a fair crop
and the indications are that the
corn crop will be abundant. There
is no use going away from Cass
county to better yourself. You
can't do it.
:o:
Champ Clark and Folk hao
about come to the conclusion that
the democratic nomination for
president is between Governor
Harmon of Ohio and Oovernor
Wilson of Now Jersey. That'9
about the way it looks to the man
11 p a tree.
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Cass county is entitled to six
teen delegates to the Fremont
convention, and every precinct
should be represented on that
delegation. Come in Saturday
and help select them, and may
be you will want to be one your
self.
:o:
eeus seem 10 do, growing
higher and higher in some parts
of the city. The property own
ers know that this should not be.
1 ...
r.en u you are a renter you
should have sufficient pride to cut
the weeds around your abiding
place.
:o: .
Norris Brown will have a hard
row to boo ia securing the nom
(nation for senator. We can't see
anything particular that Senator
Hrown has done for Nebraska
that gives him any right to ex
pect another term. And Mils Is
the way a great many republicans
feel about the matter.
:o:
Preparations are being made to
give the Modern Woodmen
The house democrats have
shown good faith in passing liills
for tariff revision. There is
mighty little indication of a
similar spirit on the pari of (lie
democrats of the senate.
:o:-
Laws are made for th' protec
tion of the people, and it is some
one s duty in every coinmunitv to
see (hat they are enforced. Laws
are no good unless there are
officials to enforce them.
The 40,000 odd rural free de
livery carriers in the United
States sre to receive salary in
creases as a result of a decision
reached by Postmaster General
Hitohflocki The order w ill provide
for the disbursement during the
current fiscal year of $4,000,000,
which will mean an increase of
100 over the present salary of
900 for all carriers on standard
routes. In the current year the
rural service will cost the govern
ment about $40,000,000, the esti
mated loss being about $25,000,
000. The postmaster general ex
pressed the belief that the parcels
post system, under proper man
agement, would insure the main
tenance and extension of the rural
free delivery service as a self
supporting branch of the postal
service.
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It is not jet decided whether
Nebraska is for Taft or I.a Fol
lelle. Shotwell says it is for the
president, while a lot of the rank
and file say it is for the Wiscon
sin senator. And when It conies
to a show-down we believe La
Follette will win.
-:o:
Taft is expected to veto all
tariff measures, is the reason the
G. O. P. leaders are willing to
pass the free list and woolen
schedules. Hut Senators Hrown
and Hitchcock both believe the
president will sign (hem.
:o:
Vio Rosewater is a pretty wise
guy. While they are saying all
manner of things about his con
nod ion with the Shotwell Wash
inglon interview, he remains at
home in the woodshed and keeps
on sawing wood just the same.
:o:
We know that it is a pretty
busy season for the farmers, hut
they can lay off one afternoon to
come to the convention Saturday
Most of them usually go to some
town in (he county on Saturday
afternoon, anyway.
:o : .
Hon. Jesse L. Root has filed for
supreme court judge, lo which
position he was appointed by Oov
ernor Sheldon in the dying hours
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Llving at Home.
The Fellows family are finally
settled in (heir new home across
(he river, just west of tho Kirk-
ham residence, and have one of
the finest views of the Hlack Hills
from their front porch that can
be found in the city. The next
lime they move it will not be in
any other house in Belle Fourche.
Hello Fourche (S. D.) South
west Post.
Mr. Henry Heineman of Alvo
transacted business in the county
seal today and dined at the Per
kins house.
CATARRH
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HAY FEVER
ELY'S CREAM BALM
Applied Into the nostrils
I ouleWy absorbed.
CIVtf RILIKP AT ONCI.
It cleanxes, (toot hen, heals and protects ths
diseased meinhrann remitting from Catarrh
and drive away a Cold iu tho Head quiekly.
Restores the Senses of Taste a ml Smell.
It is ey to line. Contains no injurious
drug. No mercury, no eoeaino, no mor.
phine. The houautioM remedy.
Price, 50 rents at Druggists or ly mail.
ELY BROTHERS. 56 Wirrtn St., New for
NEHAWKA. 4.
J News.
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The country is a beautiful sight
now, with the deep dark green of
the growing corn and the golden
fields of grain.
F, ft. O. kelson had -a team get
away from him one day last week
'.while harvesting and one of the
horses was badly cut by the
binder.
Mrs. D. C. West and daughter,
Gladys,, left last week for a
month's outing in Colorado. They
are fortunate in being away dur
ing the heated term.
Fred Linville and family,
brother-in-law of Dick Chriswis
er, are here from Heaver City on a
visit to relatives. He says crop
conditions out there are very poor.
Mrs. C. C. Chapman and chil
dren of Ashland came iu early
Monday morning in an auto
mobile. She was accompanied by
Miss Phille Opp, who had been
visiting her sister for some time,
A traveling photographer has
been in town this week, but did
not do much business. Our peo
ple can "make faces" enough this
kind of weather without having
their pictures taken.
Saturday Henry Heebner at the
farmers' elevator took in 67 loads
of wheat from live machines that
were running in the neighborhood.
J. S. Rough has the biggest yield
reported so far, one field making
43 bushels to the acre.
Mrs. V. S. Norris is sweltering
through this heat handicapped by
a broken collar-bone. One day last
week she was picking cherries
from a ladder and in some man
ner it slipped, precipitating her to
tho ground, a distance of five or
six feet. Medical assistance was
summoned, the fracture reduced,
and she is getting along as well
as could be expected.
Orin Pollard was the victim of
a runaway last Saturday that
bruised him up somewhat, but is
thanking his lucky stars it was no
worse. They were making hay out
at M. H. Pollard's when the team
Orin was driving became fright
ened and ran away, turning the
rnck over and pinioning Orin un
der it. The horses were unin
jured and nothing broken, but the
young man was bruised and skin
ned up until ho will be sore for
some time.
County Attorney Taylor went to
Louisville last evening ami spent
the night with his friend, Mr.
Palmer, and left for Murdock this
morning, where he has some
county business to look after.
George Porter, the Hep sales
man, arrived in the city today and
will spend a couple of days here
looking after business for his
paper.