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th tatc Historical 6o tnon Neb rot. xsxiv. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1917. No. 190. i BEP- RESENTATiyES Commercial Club Serve Lunch to Sev. t-ral I'tojiU Who Coe Here tu J.jmI. Ov-r Shops, Y.ic. Frr-m Tut s r:. Thi nouii ti:0 t-rlicor:: an 1 (lit octor of ihe Commercial club entertained at i-.:n'-hc(.M at the II .u-I Riley a number o the Burlington officials, who were h'.-Tc to !(k iiftcr the company affairs at the '-hops. Covers were laid fcr t went y. inelud-'ng the dhectors of the TV. e iun nn v.a: presided over l.y President William A. Robertson of the Commercial club, who intro 1 : . j the (IlfTi-rr.t raiiioad eiicials for a few i -('marks. Mr. Fran!: T. Parrow, of the engineering department, spoke f.f the pleasure that be felt at meeting i u!J friends while here, and of the warm feeling- th:;t had existed be tween the city and the officials of the ccmpary. Mr. Sexton of the real es tate department of the Burl inert on at Lincoln, told of hi? visits to Platts mouth in the years pone bv, when he was connected with the real estate de partment of the railroad, and that in the years that hud parsed the city of Plattsmouth l.a1. become very closely interested in the thin.es that benefit 1 oth. and that it was always a pleas ure to be in the city, where such cor dial treatment was receive!. Judge Jesse I.. Root, solicitor of the Bur lington, of Omaha, was introduced an; received a warm welcome from his ckl friends. He stated that the rail road certainly would not pa-s Platts mouth by in the improvements of th: year that have been planned, and would see that the city was treated as well as it was possible in the way cf improvements. The general atmos phere of the gathering was one cf pleasure at the opportunity of meet ing with th? railroad representatives and showed the cordial feeling of the people of Plattsmouth for the great railroad system in which they are so much interested. C, A, RAWLS REFUSSES 10 RON REAVftP run i Fr"m Tneslr;y. Pni'y. The republican city committee has b en informed that Aito-r.ey C. A. Rawls, who was schctcd a? the candi date for mayor on that ticket at the city convention en Saturday eve rt In r. declines the honor of the nom ination, and make-j it necessary to se lect someone eke for the position. Mr. Ilav.Is has a very extensive law prac tice that requires his whole time, and he feci? that he car.net sacrifice the interests of his clients in looking after the many things that are constantly being broueht to the attention of the mayor of the eity. It is quite probable that there wih be a nuirfber of other withdrawals on the different tickets before the time of election, as a num ber of those drafted for service are not enthusiastic over the prospect of making the race and rac: ificing their time. So far there has Le?n no action taken by the republican committee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the with drawal of ZM r. Rawls. In this connection w'uh the candi dates for the city offices, it may be stated that in the Third ward the re publican convention selected James W. Hoimes v.-z their can-iidute for the council instead of Ed Weaver, as was stated in the Journal last evening, and who will be the opponent of John Vondron for the councilmanic honors ROADS GETTING BETTER. From Tuesday's Tailv. Persons arriving in the city from the country districts report that the roads are getting in very fair shape considering the wet weather that pre vailed last week, and that a few days of good weather would enable the roads to be put in first class shape generally. The past winter has given some good roads, that have been boon" to the auto owner, and up to the past week have been so that they could be traveled with case bv automobile. MDi IMP"! 01 CtiTEBTnifc HARD TIME WITH CATTLE. From Tnpsrtav's raily. A few days ago Luther Hall, the stock raiser of near Union, purchased two cars of cattle at Sidney, Iowa, and arranged to have them shipped to South Omaha and thence to his home at Union. The cattle reached South Omaha all right but about this time the rumors of the impending railroad strike came on and the Mis souri Pacific refused to accept the cattle for shipment to Union. It was finally arranged that the Burlington bring them to Plattsmouth where they were unloaded and Saturday Mr. Hall and son drove them to Union to bo placed on the Hall farm for feed in :. A MAP SHOWING ' THE POST ROADS OF THE COUNTY Frrm Tuesday's I":-ily. The county cletk's office has just completed a map showing the different post roads of the county, which is to be placed at the disposal of the state engineer's office for use in preparing estimates to cover the plans for the use cf the state and federal aid road lav that is soon to be placed in opera tion. The federal aid law is to take in the question of area, population and the number of miles of post roads in each county of the state. There is on the estimate made by the county clerk, "00 miles in round numbers of post reads in the county, and which covers in a very thorough manner the differ ent sections of the county from one end to the other. The blue print will be rent to State Engineer Johnson for use in making the plans for the hand ling of the funds that will be at the disposal of the state for good roads work. The movement for good roads ertainly should reach Cass county as here are very few in the state that have a more complete system of good roads, and the population, in the neighborhood of 24,000, should war- ant this county receiving a liberal ap propriation from the good roads fund f the government and the state. m. F. PALMER, PIONEER MERCHANT, DIES AT LOUISVILLE Yesterday, at his home in Louisville, Emi! F. Palmer, pioneer merchant of Cass county, passed away at the age of C2 years, as the lesult of heart fail ure, following a prolonged attack of the grippe. Mr. Palmer during his esider.ee in the county had been a rcminent f.gure in public affairs and n the 'business life cf the community n which he made his home. Mr. Pal mer had been engaged in the general merchandise business in Louisville for many years and was among the best cnov.-n residents of that community, vhcre he was held in the highest es teem by those with whom he came in touch. Mr. Palmer had served as mayor of Louisville for several terms, and also on the board of education, md his best efforts had been toward the uplift of the community in which e made his home. He was a very strong republican in politics and took a keen interest in the affairs of the party in the state, but had never held fnce aside from those in his own home town. Mr. Palmer is survived by two sons, Harry O. and Arthur L. Palmer, both of whom are engaged in the practice cf law in Omaha. The funeral will be held at Louisville and will be private. MUCH-WIDE SEARCH FOR RELATIVES END IN BLUFFS Council Bluffs, la., March 21. After a seai-ch for missing mem bers of the family dating since the civil war, Mrs. Alice Townsend and City Detective Frank Lee, both of Council Bluffs, have discovered that they are first cousins and have been iivirg in the same town for the past twelve years. Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping v"aicr was in the city for a few hoars todny. COUNTY ATTOR NEYS GET A SLIGHT RAISE Some in Smaller Counties Benefitted Under Bill Agreed 'to County Judge Term the Same. Lincoln, Neb., March 19. The house spent considerable time today on a bill to raise the pay of county attorneys, sending it to third reading, amended beyond recognition. Very few county attorneys will be benefited. Those who will be are as follows: In counties of from f,000 to 12,000, pay raised from $800 to $900; coun ties of from 12,000 to 1G,000, from $850 to $1,000; counties of 1G,000 to 18,000, raised from $1,100 to $1,200. The house declined to approve a proposed constitutional amendment lengthening the term of county judges from two years to four years, although it had previously passed a ill giving other county officers, by statute only, a quadrennial tenure. Messrs. Radke, Peterson and Flans burg tried vainly to have it raised over the adverse report of a standing committee. Change in Mileage. Because the legislature of 1915 in creased the mileage allowance of sher iffs from 5 cents to 10 cents, the house voted to do the same for county su perintendents when they travel around visiting rural and village schools. The bill was sent to third reading. A bill requiring the owners of gar ages and repair shops to keep a record of automobile numbers and owners, which was said to have the backing of the state sheriffs' association and automobile clubs, received the O. K. tamp of the whole committee. It car ries a maximum penrdty of two years in the penitentiary or $500 fine, or both, for violations. The purpose is to aid in detecting thefts of automo biles. State-Owned Elevators. Nobody had a word to say, one way or the other, on the McAllister bill for a constitutional amendment per mitting the state to establish and op erate terminal grain elevators, and it was advanced to third reading. Cities of 1,000 to 5,000 population are authorized to create sewer dis tricts and make the improvements at the cost of property benefited, under the terms of H. R. No. 358, which was placed on the third reading calendar. CANDIDATES FOR CITY OFFICES GOES BEGGING From Tuesday's raily. The candidates for office in the city election in a number of the offices do not seem to be very desirous of mak ing the race for the positions which they have had thrust upon them, and cannot really be blamed for this when it is considered that the city offices are only for one year, and makes it most annoying for the person making the race to have to get out and make a campaign for an office which pays a very small salary and is filled with all kinds of petty annoyances. The fact of the matter is that a city of this size certainly should be given some relief in extending terms of the city officers to two years, as it was former ly to give those who are elected an opportunity of getting something ac complished before they are forced to face another election. Those who serve in the city offices do so without practically any salary, and are handi capped by the fact that when they are getting familiar with the workings of the office they are thrown into another campaign to be returned. If the state legislature was desirous of passing any law that was badly needed, it would be one to place this city in another class. It would save the people great deal of expense each year in holding the elections and give the city officials a much better opportunity to accomplish something. Dietrich Koester of near Weeping Water and Henry Wohlen of Avoca came in this afternoon to look after a few matters of importance in the ccunty court. SUFFERING FROM BLOOD POISON From Tuesday's Bailv. This afternoon Dr. P. J. Flynn and wife departed for Omaha where Mrs. Flynn is to take treatment in that city for a case of blood poison from which, she has been suffering for a short time. The many friends of Mrs. Flynn trust that she may soon recover from the affliction and be re stored to her usual good health. BRIDGE CONTRACT LET TO THE MON ARCH ENGINEERING GO, From "Wednesday's iJaily. The board of county commission ers at their meeting yesterday took up the matter of the application of Ed ward Kelly, of Manley, for a license to operate a pool hall in that village on a petition offered by some thirty two of the free holders and it was voted by the commissioners that the ieense be granted as the sentiment of the residents of the village was greatly in favor of the proposi tion as Mr. Kelly has operated a very desirable pool and billiard hall. The county commissioners also took up the opening of the bids for the bridge work of the county for the ensuing year and on checking over the bids it was found that the Mon arch engineering company of Falls City, the present contractors, were the lewo't bidders and according were awarded the contract for the bridge work. The commissioners are making the bridges of the county permanent as each new bridge is put up, and this is found to be much more satis factory than that of the old wooden structures that has in years past caused the county a great deal of money for their upkeep. The Monarch company has done very satisfactory work since they se cured the contract nd have delivered the goods in the way of bridge work. ENTERTAINS PLATTSMOUTH COLONY AT LOS ANGELES From Tuesdav's Daily. The Plattsmouth colony at Los An geles, Cal., held a very pleasant social gathering last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Elson, when Mrs. Elson entertained a number of friends in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ryan and Miss Fanny Mc- Dougal of Nebraska City. After a pleasant evening light refreshments were served and pleasant memories of olden times served to entertain the guests most delightfully. The mem bers of the party were unanimous in voting the occasion a most delightful one. The guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wescott, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Clark and daughter, Miss Lo- retta; Mr. and Mrs. A. Quinn, Mrs. J. R. Cox and daughter, Miss Helen; Mr. and Mrs. Benton Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Waybright, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Holloway and Mr. C. W. Sher man. GUILTY OF A STATU TORY CRIME YEARS AGO, NEVER PUNISHED The county authorities have quite a problem on their hands in dealing with a party residing in the vicinity of Louisville, and whose actions have been brought to their attention, but just what course will be taken with him has not been fully determined up on. It seems that several years ago the party resided across the river from Louisville in Sarpy county, and while living there it is alleged was guilty of a statuatory crime upon one of his family but his has been so long ago that the statute of limitations has placed him beyond the reach of the Sarpy county authorities, while since that time he has removed to Cass county. The wife of the man has not lived with him for several years but two daughter remain at the home and it is to have them placed else where that the authorities are think ing of taking steps in the case. The matter has attracted more or less at tention in Louisville and the surrond ing territory where the principals in the case have made their home for a great many years. PIONEER LADY way Bu I i i Mrs. Julia Thomas, Consort of the Late James W. Thomas, Passed Away Dtrring Last Nipht. It was a great shock to the commu nity this morning to learn that Mrs. Julia E. Tlicmas had passed away dur ing the night at her borne on Pearl street. This morning when the daugh ter, Miss Alneita Thomas, entered the room where her mother war. sleeping she found that the Master had called her home to rest, and it came as r. great shock to the family to learn that the belcved mother had been taken from them. Mrs. Thomas had been sick only a few days with the grippe and had apparently been improving yesterday, and it w:i-v not thought that her condi Lion was, serious. Mrs. Thomas was one of the pio neers of this community, coming heie in 1857, when a child of 7 years, and had since made her home here, endear ing herself to all who knew her by her kindly ways and gentle treatment of her friends. Julia E. Child was born November 10, 1850, at Walnut Hills, Ohio, and when a child came to Nebraska with her parents, Judge and Mrs. A. L. Child, and located on a farm near Cedar Creek, where they resided for a number of years, later removing to Plattsmouth, where they made their home for several years in the home place on Wintersteen hill. She was married in June, 1879. at Plattsmouth, to Mr. James W. Thomas, and the family have since made their home in this city. Mrs. Thomas had for years been a member of the Woman's Re lief Corps and a very able worker in the society and one who will be great ly missed. She leaves to mourn her death five d?.ughters,Mrs. Jaccb Hoff mann, Julesburg, Colo.; Mrs. William Seay, Mrs. T. J. Will, Miss Alberta Thomas, Plattsmouth, and Miss Daisy Thomas of Lincoln. One brother, H. P. Child of Kansas City, and one sis ter, Mrs. Laura E. Simmons of Law ton, Okla., are also left to mourn her death. The funeral services will be held at the Methodist church on Thursday aft ernoon at 2:30, and will be conducted by Rev. T. A. Truscott, pastor of the church. JOHN MEISIN6 CELEBRATES SEVENTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY The country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Meisinger, Sr., near Cedar Creek was the scene of a most pleas ing gathering on Friday, March lf.th, when the children and a large num ber of friends gathered at the home to assist the father in the observance cf his seventv-fourth birthday anni- vertary. The time was spent very delightfully in visiting and having a real social time such as can only be enjoved beneath the hospital Meisin ger roof and the home rang with merriment for several hours as the members of the party enjoyed them selves to the utmost. The children of Mr. Meisinger as a rememberance of the occasion presented him with a beautiful Morris chair that will be enjoyed to the utmost by the father as a token of the love and affection of his children. The members of the party had come with well filled baskets of good things to eat and these were at a suitable hour opened and a feast prepared that everyone did ample justice too and which prov ed a most delightful feature of the happy occasion. It was a late hour when the members of the party re turned home wishing Mr. Meisinger many more years of happiness. Those in attendance were: Messrs and Mes dames John Meisinger, Dave Jardine, Philip Schafer, Anton Meisinger, John Gauer, Frank Salsburg, John Busche, Mrs. Mary Schafer, Louis Meisinger, Jr., Philip Fornoff, Elmer and Albert Schafer, Earl and Leroy Meisinger, WTillie and Raymond Jar dine, Floyd Gauer, Misses Freda, Florence Gauer, Myrtle, Pearl and Lena Jardine, Helen Meisinger. Wanted Girls at the Plattsmouth 'Steam Laundry. Apply at once. PASSES A SEVERAL GALLONS OF OIL A olUL Harry Wilcov, who resides on Wash ington avenue, is mourning the loss of several gallons of coal oil which he hr.d si .red in a snail :;he.l a short dist i-ncf; from the residence. Mr. Wilcox lias had the oil for some time ana not needing it for any use did not pay any particular attention to the oil until yesterday when Mrs. Wilcox went to the shed to secure son-:.' of the oil and found it missing. The person taking it must have been very smooth as the door was kept locked the greater part of the time and :t is seldom that all of the family are away from home. However Mr. ' ;Ieov states that be will have a new sapid of oil in a few d-ys and if the 1 arty taking the first two gallons rur.; out they should call again. ME FOR 010 PEOPLE OF THE K.ANDL.S, A Committee From Local Lodge Visit With Nation Ledge Officers at Omaha in Regard to Location Tl committee' from the local lodg.? of the Knichts and Ladies of Secur ity were in Omaha List evening to at tend the me.-tinir ol the lodge in that city and to meet the national officers the order, James W. Kirkpatrick nar.,N.:u pre.-'.cer.t; jr.nn . .-:jra-h.-.ms, national secretary and Harvev Sontrer, national trustee and W. Binv, national treasurer, who are on a tour of the country looking over the different lodges of the order. The national oficers are taking up the proposition of the location of the pro posed old people's and orphan's home I and hospital and investigating con ditions in different portions of the country where the home may possibly be located. The committee from this city impressed upon the officers of the national council the advantages of this city for an institution of this kind with the general healthful con dition of this city together with its railroad and other transportation ad v.'rit.uv:; that would make it very convenient to estaolish a home here that would be of easy access from all portions of the country. The city of (im"1i i is also a contender for consid eration as a place of location for the proposed institution and the mem - bers of the national council were shown over different part of the city bj- a delegation from the Commercial club of that city. The head officers while not express ing any opinion as to the most like ly point for the establishment of the home gave the impression that it would be more to their preference to have the Home located in a smaller town where it would be possible to have a considerable tract of land for use in agricultural purposes and that would not entail the cost that a lo- cation nearer to a larger city mignx, but thus far the plans of the officers are indennite ooth as to the location n we-1 as to the cost of the institution jut it is estimated that the cost of establishing the home will range from sSOOWO to $1,000,000. The local lodge will continue their ; work in boosting for the home and it j imu uorremeter, in oeger, j.iui is hoped to have more definite facts ! Mene'enhall, Ed Earnest, J. A. Cap in a short time in regard to the I well. needs of the home and the assistance, I any, that will be asked by the national council. In the effort to secure tne home the local lodge should have the hearty co-operation of every person in the city to boost for the proposi- tion. ne subject will be taken up later by the committee of the Com- mercial cluo of the city to assist the 'odge in their work MRS. FLYNN IMPROVING The many friends of Mrs. P. J. Flynn will be pleased to learn that she is progressing very nicely from her attack of bloood poisoning and it J seems as if the malady had been checked. It will be sometime before she fully regains the use of her arm but the affliction hss yielded to the tpeatment and promises complete re covery for the patient. SGHOOL FIGHT AT ELffiOOO AND VICINITY The Scho.iI Board Wants the Acquisi tion of More Territory, While Pen pie in Outside Districts Object This morning County Superin tendent Miss Eda Marrjuardt, County Commissioners Snoke, Heebner and Pitz, and County Clerk Frank Liber shall took up the matter of the in creasing: of school district No. i., composing the village of Elmwood. This petition was filed with the county board on Mirch loth, stating that the Elmwood school was one maintain ing ten grades and with a territory embracing but three sections of land and asked that the board of com missioners and the county superin tendent make the changes necessary to give the district six sections of land as provided for under the pres ent laws covering that subject. The petitio" of the Elmwood board cf education however has hard sled ding in the h i.rir.g as the petition was opposed b ' a large delegation from the territory .surrounding the town of Ehr.wcod and districts No. o.'l, 24, r!, fil and 101, in the neigh bor hood that would be affected by the change in the districts hid rep resentatives present at the meeting to protest in a vigotous manner against ;.nd change in pre.-ent boun dries of the district that would take off from the adjacent school d:tricts any of their land. -:e oojectors to the petition were represented ty At torney Frank Tyrell of Lincoln, who presenting their side of the case stated that the Elmwood .-cboo! board had not given any reason why the change should be made or the neces sity for the same and also that thtio was not a single resident of any of the adjoining districts that cared U be placed in the Elmwood district. He offered to introduce the witnesses present from the protesting school districts to show that it would woik a hardship on the residents f the other schol districts to have the change in the territory made. George Oehelreking, a member of ire school board in district "1 testified that it would injure the district in which be resided and niiike it hard to maintain the proper school in th district and also that his district was free of all bonded debt while that of Elmwood was not it would be unjust for the residents of his j district There was none of the members of the Elmwood school board present to appear and give their side to the commissioners. The interests of the Elmwood school board was in the hands of Attorney Joseph A. Capwell who presented their side of the proposition and urged that the board of commissioners taVe. action that would give the Elmwood district the additional sections ::.-ked for. After hearing the arguments presented en both sides and the testi mony of the objectors, the matter was ui.tn u-uei a.i.-.-.- . '. j officials. Amo"g those attending the meeting from the vicinity of Elmwood were: Oscar Miller, Richard Deles Dernier, Will Rosenow, Elmer Boyles, Henry Hayes, Gus Bornemeier, Ed Dorr, Marion McCrary, George Oeheln-brig. ir-n c T , I LITTLE ONE IS IMPROVING Maxine, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frink Cloidt, who has l.rer ouite i'J for the past ten days , s.a(7erjnT from grippe and stomach J trouWef s row reported as showing much improvement and it is thought is m the highway to recovery from her illness. This will be pleasing news to the many friends of the fam ily throughout the city and who trust that ih" little one may continue to improve. FERRY NOW llU.nuG The ferry over the Missouri river is now in comission and those desiring to cross the river at any time will be accommodated. John Richardson.