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Our Large Fall Line Just Arrived
Practical Education One of the
Keynotes of Modern Progress
and All Should Catch On.
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Plattsmouth, Nebraska
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WARGA & CECIL, Proprietors
Agent for the Inter-State Automobiles. PRESTOLITE AGENCY
VERY INTERESTING LETTER
FROM SOU TO MOTHER
Bruce Rosencrans Gives Par
ticulars of Great Disaster at
Ocean Park.
From Tuexday'H Dnlly.
Ocean Park, Sept. 4, 1912.--
My Dear Mother:
I received your big, long letter
ft few days ago uml another one
of the .same brand this morning,
and although I am so muddled up
at prcHent, I will try and write
you a short letter that will answer
tho purpose until I have more
time. Suppose hy this time you
have read the accounts of the ter
rible fire we had here last night
seven Mocks burned, including
the new J? 1,000,000 pier and $350,
000 dance hall. There isn't enough
left of Ocean Park to resemble a
flyspeck on a map. I have seen
but few fires in my time, the
largest the Heardslee furniture
store in Klmwood, and have often
thought I'd like to see a real one.
Well, I did last, night for sure.
Fire broke out'on the big pier,
and as everything is like paper,'
not having had a rain since last!
May, it leaped from building to
building, taking brick, stone and
frame like oil. 1 think I shall
write the Journal a letter tonight
and you can read it. The thing
was something awful.
I was down on the ocean front
and saw the big dance hall, the
finest in the west, catch lire, anil
in seven minutes by my watch it
was the prettiest. sight and still
the most terrible one could con
ceive of. Saw with my own eyes
seven men on the end of the pier,
that reaches out n quarter of mile
over the water, their way cut off
by the lire ami wailing until it
got so hot that, they had to jump
into the ocean. I say a young
man's clothes catch (Ire when n
sheet of fire swept out of a win
dow over him and he jumped, a
ball of fire, into the water. A
terrific wind was blowing, and
breakers were running so high
that it was hard work for the
life guards to get a boat to them.
Once the boat stood on end and
was overturned by n wave, and
one man was drowned before help
reached him. I helped carry one
of them up the beach into a house
and we worked over him for twen
ty minutes until he came to.
There are some 10,000 people
living along the ocean front, and
all packed up and moved their be
longings right to the water's edge,
before they could cover I hem up
with sand, many had their cloth
ing burned by flying embers. The
sights and all were awful to look
at, and the cries of women and
children who had been driven
from their homes with nothing
left but the clothes they had on
their backs. The fire ate its way
up our street, Pier avenue, within
three or four doors of my office.
Our stu(T,vns all carried out, but
you know what fire, water and
handling will do to furniture. My
ofllce oufit is all shot to h 1,
broken up and battered out of
fchapc, but I'm happy when I think
of the hundreds (800) made
homeless and over $3,000,000 loss
of properly, that mine was only
fifty. Look at this:
Loss, $3,000,000.
One dead, 15 missing, 75 In
jured, 35 rescued.
Total refugees, 1,500.
Buildings destroyed, 225.
Fire fighters, 700, from all
towns within sixteen miles.
Fire burned from 4:30 till midnight.
Cause, one lit He cigarette.
Nearly all of the J.os Angeles
lire department came down, and
(host! auto wagons can run some.
The water supply was on the
"bum," I mean the pressure, and
the streams were unable to reach
above the first story of-lhe build
ings. Several buildings were
blown up to keep the (lames from
spreading, and it happened that
I was on lop of an ollice building
several blocks away and heard an
awful explosion and saw a fifty
gallon gasoline lank go hundreds
of feet into the air, until it re
sembled a nail keg and lighting
just back of our ollice as fiat as
a piece of sheet iron.
All gas tanks were emptied and
the town was without light for a
lime, and no gas for cooking pur
poses for twenty-four hours. All
the eating places were burned and
it was either walk to Venice and
wait your turn for a handout or
starve. Thank the T.ord, I have
heed eating at Mrs. Mowery's.
She having no lire for some time,
had to heat our water for coffee
over an oil lamp. Speaking of
the San Francisco fire, we had one
on a small scale all right. Things
look bad around here for true.
Mother, it is impossible to put
on paper and picture the thing as
bad as it was. Men that were
wealthy yesterday are broke flat
today. Millionaire Fra.er lost
everything and made the remark
tonight at the Chamber of Com
merce, "I'm no belter at the
grocery than the Mexicans out
here on the car tracks." I saw a
woman this morning that had a
fine big home burned to the
ground, saving nothing but her
two children, and heard her say,
"My (iod, T have lost everything;
all I have left is these two little
girls, what clothes we have on
our backs and $50 in cash." And
so it went, peace be to her ashes.
T intended sending you a tele
gram, but they were burned out
also and couldn't do it without go
ing to Los Angeles, and I was too
busy to do that, but you knew I
was all right or you would have
heard something.
We only lived a few blocks from
where the fire happened, and you
may vest assurred that we packed
things in a hurry around our
house. Chips of fire as big as
your hat flew over our house and
n good many of Ihetn happened
to light on us at that. We car
ried our stuff to the water front
and said good afternoon to the
whole cheese, but we moved back
the same evening and everything
is O. K.
We are loo busy around the
dump adjusting insurance to write
the Journal a letter as I wanted
to, but you might have dad give a
reporter a few notes of this letter
and have him write it, as there
are a lot of Plattsmouth people
who would be glad to read about
the thing, having been here, and
wondering, how the deal looks.
We are paying something like
$10,000 in claims today in our
company alone. Lovingly yours,
Bruce.
Tired of Life.
From TuPNdny'B Dally.
A special from Alliance, Neb.,
under dale of September y, gives
the following in reference to the
suicide of a former lady teacher
of Weeping Water: Elsie Daley,
25, teacher in the Box Butte
county schools, killed herself Sat
urday night in a hotel here by
inhaling fumes of chloroform. She
left a letter to her parents at
Weeping Water explaining that
she was tired of the world and
asking their forgiveness.
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CELEBRATES HIS SEVENTY-
From Tuesday's Dally.
Our friend, J. A. Walker, of
Murray, came up yesterday after
noon to attend the funeral of the
late Canon II. Burgess, and was
a pleasant visitor at the Journal
headquarters. In our conversa
tion Mr. Walker chanced to re
mark that today Tuesday, Sep
tember 10 was his 7ith anniver
sary, and considerably over half
that time has been spent right
here in Cass county. Our old
friend is always genial and in a
happy mood when not ailing, and
yesterday he was feeling pretty
good. There are but few better
and more reliable men I ban James
A. Walker in Cass county, and as
old age comes creeping along it is
but natural when one arrives at
the age he has to begin to realize
I hat his days on this earth are
gradually becoming less. Yet we
were surprised to see him looking
remarkably well yesterday, and
with good care he is very liable
lo live many years to enjoy the
comforts of life, surrounded as
he is by a happy family ami all
that is necessary to make life en
joyable. We are proud to number
Mr. Walker among I he Journal's
staunch friends, and we hope he
may live to see many more birth
day anniversaries.
"PI IN FULL" IN
EXCELLENT COMPANY
From Tiuesday'g Dally.
One of the best plays that has
been staged at the Parmele in a
long time was "Paid in Full" last
night. The incessant rain of the
evening kept many away that
otherwise would have been pres
ent. It is very unfortunate for
those who love a good play, as
those who were present highly
praise the manner in which this
company present "Paid in Full."
The company is not a large one,
but Ihe beauty of it is every actor
and actress js an artist. The
company deserved a full house,
but under the circumstances it
was impossible. Those who
braved the storm, however, were
well paiil for their courage. If
the company comes this way
again, and with' favorable weather,
it will be greeted by a full house.
JUDGE TRAVIS TO DECIDE
From WodnoHilny'i Dally.
According to tho Omaha News,
Judge Travis has notified Chief of
Police Uriggs and Sheriff (Jus
Ilyers of Lincoln that he will ren
der decision Thursday morning on
their request for a change of
venue from Sarpy county. The
judge was to have decided Tues
day, but did not because neither
officer was present.
They are charged with man
slaughter in connection with the
killing of Hoy Blunt, when three
escaped convicts were killed or
captured in a man hunt last
spring near Springfield.
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E. Q. DOVEY A SON.
From Wednesday's Dally.
September, fall weather, school.
These three things are associated
in the minds of almost every
youngster in the nation today. To
most of them, it is a happy time,
meaning relief from the heat of
the long .summer and a return to
the joys of -school life, the irk
someness of which in the late
spring are forgotten by this time.
Few people today hesitate to
agree that the children should go
to school regularly. The school
which is known to the neighbor
hood in which the children live,
be it grade or high school, is con
sidered desirable for the children
of that neighborhood to finish'.
Tho substitution of grade schools
for the country district schools
and the addition of high school
work to the grades inevitably
means the raising of educational
standards in any community to
that extent.
Mul it has not yet become com
mon throughout the great west to
think of sending the children on
to institutions of higher learning
outside the immediate locality
where they live. Even in Nebraska,
which is claimed to have one of
the largest percentages of college
people compared to population of
any state in Ihe union, only a
small percent of those who might
do so lake advantage of the op
portunities to "go uff to school."
Admittedly, it is not always
possible for many to secure any
thing of an advanced education.
Mure than one boy or girl who
would gladly work hard for a
chance lo do further school work
cannot possibly have such an op
portunity. Perhaps in some i
cases it is just as well that the!
chance is not offered.
Hut at the present time there
are few fanners throughout thei
west who cannot afford the time!
and the expense of letting the boy
or girl
away from home
school for a ti;
Perhaps they
do not care for a classical col
lege course, aimed as a prepara
tion for professional life. Hut
few of then will refuse a chance '
at a practical scientific course or!
a course in pract ical agricull ur". '
These . courses may be made as!
long or as short us circumstances
permit. Hut we believe it is sel I
dom that they will not pay in big I
dividends not only to the student, j
themselves, but. to their families j
and the communities where theyi
live. Practical education is one
of the keynotes of modern prog',
ress and the ignorant farmer of
tomorrow will be as much a back
number as the uneducated busi
ness or professional man today.
Ice Cream Social.
The ladies of Eight Mile drove
church will give an ice cream
social Saturday evening, Septem
ber 14th, at the home of Charles
Mutz, one-half mile south of the
church.
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UP!
You can always buy
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COME IN AND
Fanger's Department Store
V. ZUCKER, Manager
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Familiar Features Well Known to
Hundreds of Plattsmouth
Citizens.
A familiar burden in many
homes.
Thejiurden of a "bad back."
A lame, a weak or an aching
back
Often tells you of kidney ills.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for
weak kidneys.
Here is Plattsmouth testimony.
Fred W. (iuenther, Main street,
Paltlsmouth, Neb., says: "Doan's
Kidney Pills are the best remedy
I ever used for kidney complaint.
I had sharp pains in my back
which made it impossible for me
to stoop. I also had trouble with
my kidneys and I found it hard to
do my work. When I saw Doan's
Kidney Pills advertised, I got a
supply. After I used two boxes I
was well. I am glad to recom
mend them."
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo. New York, sole agents for
the United Stales.
Remember the name Doan's
and take no other.
Base Sail at Cedar Creek.
From Wednesday's Dally.
A number of the young men
of this city organized a ball team
Sunday and drove out to Cedar
Creek, where I hey crossed bats
with the second team of that
place. When the smoke of battle
rolled away Ihe Cedar Creek boys
discovered they had been up
against the steam roller, being
defeated by a score of 14 to 3.
The batteries were: Cedar Creek,
Oobelman and Meisinger; Platts
mouth, A. Hula and Speck.
For Assessor.
L. A. Tyson, republican, can
didate for county assessor. Re
sided in Cass county 46 years.
County clerk of Cass county 4
years. Your votes solicited.
Frank Oobelman, painting and
paper hanging. 4-9.
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goods cheaper at this store
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Thanks to Friends.
From Tuesday's Dally.
To the Editor of the Journal:
Allow mo the privilege of ex
pressing to the community,
through your columns, my loving
thanks for (he love and honor to
my late husband, Canon II. B.
liurgess, shown by the beautiful
services of the church and various
orders yesterday. Many years of
residence here makes it hard for
me to leave Plattsmouth and my
heart is touched by all this kind
ness. Mrs. II. H. Burgess.
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V E. Q. DOVEY & SON.
1G0 acres in Red Willow county,
about live and a half miles west of
Indianola; mostly level land; 120
acres under cultivation; some
pasture. Can be bought for .?',
700.00. Time given.
100 acres in Loup county, Ne
braska; somewhat rolling; 30
acres under cultivation, 5 acres in
alfalfa, some good hay land, bal
ance pasturage. Price $1,000.
A fine $i,000 residence in
Plattsmouth for $2,100 if taken
soon.
Two colt ges, one with 5 rooms
and the other with 3, for $325.00
each. It would cost twice this
much to duplicate the same.
A number of nice 5 and G-room
cottages, at from $800 to $1,000.
We have a number of desirable
vacant lots for sale at from $50
to $100.
WINDHAM
Investment and Loan Co
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the weather is damp or dry
there is no coat so useful as
one of our English Slip-Ons.
They're light, yet tight. At
our prices you can afford to
have one. In fact you can't
afford not to have one.
Prices
$5 to $25
C. E.
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