optima
VOL. XXXV.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917.
No. 46.
CONGREGATION
SURPRISES PAS
TOR
I9HT
HOME" TO FULL HOUSE AT
THE PARSONAGE.
REV. IIARGETT AND WIFE "AT
GOOD TIME INDULGED IX
Tokens of Esteem Deposited on the
Table as Weil as Heaped All
About It on the Floor.
From M'fdncpilaV.s Tnilv.
Last evening t litre was to hr.vc
l'.'rn held a meeting of the officers
and teachers of the Sunday school of
the Christian church, at the parson
age. Rev. llargett and wife 'were
expecting the crowd to be of con
siderable magnitude, as the. Loyal
Sons were going to divide time with
the Teachers' meeting, but when the
membership of the church began to
pMMr into the home in such force and
numbers as to fill all the rooms, and
to pi!? packages and bundles on the
tabier. and place filled baskets on
the floor until it looked as though
the table would be buried, Mrs. Har
nett and her surprised husband be
pn to think that there was some
thing else in the air. There were
ro many that when the crowd which
had gathered at Prother and Sister
IMcketts. to bide the time of their
surprise "attack," had finally gotten
in there was no room to sit down
and even standing room was at a
premium. S'iil the people continued
To come. Incidentally, this has solv
ed a perplexing question that of
f i: -ai f M-mlanc-et the ehurcb
meetings. Arrange for a secret meet
ing, of which the pastor is to know
nothing, and when the? time comes
the church will be so filled as to oc
cupy al! available room.
The evening being a most pleas
ant one, the young folks repaired to
the church grounds and there en
gaged in games, which served to re
lieve the congested condition of the
heme. After those present had ad
justed themselves, Mrs. Jesse Brady
supped to the piano, and striking up
the strain of America, all joined in.
singing it with such vim and spirit
as moves the world along. After this
K Icier Thomas Wiles pronounced an
invocation. This was followed bv a
program consisting of music ard rec
itations. The Men's quartette, con
sisting of A. M. Sanders. W. D. Was
sell, Jesse Brady and B. A. M?Elvain
ha.d a large number of fine selec
tions up their sleeves, which they
produced, and which were encored to
the last echo. Mrs. Wassell also
contributed to the program with a
special selection, Una Crook gave a
reading and Ina Crook a piano solo.
During this time the pastor and
some of the members of the Loyal
Sons class were arranging a New
Years meeting in honor of the sol
dier boys at the front, who are affil
iated with the church and its var
iniis organizations.
, The Loyal . Workers, the woman's
organisation of the church, Lnd who
du things, not by halves, but by
wholes had a beautiful quilt. 'Which
they had arranged to give to the pas
tor and wife. When the program
had been concluded, the teacher of
the Loyal Sons in a short 'talk pre
sented the present and also the heap
of bundles and baskets -which sur
rounded and surmounted the table, to
the pastor and his good wife, wish
ing them to accept as a token of the
friendship and love of the member
ship. This was responded to by Rev
Ilargett, who, in a beautiful little
speech, told of how much the gifts
were appreciated, not from their
value alone, but mostly because of
the feelings which prompted their
giving. At a late hour they dis
persed, wishing their pastor and wife
the .best cf all good things which
come with this life.
LET OLD GLORY FLOAT
IN THE BREEZE
Prom 'Wednesday's Daily.
When we seen the flag flyins
frcra the staff on the Hotel Riley
yesterday, and which soac to be the
Hotel Wagner, we thought how it
would look to have some of days
pretty soon set aside as the time
when we would all come- cut in a
new dress with flags. The flags
which were put out some time since
have all become dirty, bedraggled,
and 'worn out, it is time to fix this
matter up with new and clean flags,
that will be in keeping with the
sentiment and the love of country.
We should set a day and have every
home and place of business say by
their putting out 'Old Glory' tl.at
"Here Lives an American Citizen,
who loves his country an dis willing
to sacrifice for it, whether it be in
l.iood. property or work, any way to
serve the country who. has made a
home which is safe, and guarantees
safety to you and your families." Get
a new flag where the old one l.ss
worn out and where you have nove
get one and join the throng of patriots.
AGED MASON DIES AT THE
MASONIC HOME TUESDAY
From Wednesday's Dailv.
Last evening after, laying in an
unconscious condition for the past
week the result of a stroke of pa
ralysis. John A. Roclefer who has
made his home at that institution
for the past twelve years, died at
the age of ST years. The people of
this city will well remember when
hut a few years since he was the
man who carried all the mail from
the PostofHce to the home, and al
ways made two trips to the Burling
tion and then back to the home for
tion and then bac kto the home for
a health exercise. Mr. Rodafer was
born in Virginia, near the town of
Finville. and lived in Iowa for many
years of his life, being during the
sixties one of the leading coal op
erators of that state. He came to
Nebraska and to Omaha during the
latter part of the ninteenth cen
tury, and there joined the Masonic
lodge No. 1, where he kept his mem
bership during the remainder oi his
Jife. The remains were taken to
Omaha this afternoon over the Bur
lington, and the interment made at
Forest Lawn Cemetery of that place.
Mr. Rodafer, during the past few
years, has. lost rapidly, and while
unil within the past few years was
bright, and With a great intellectual
capacity, lost his mental acumen, his
mind becoming almost a blank.
During the early years he was a
very agreeable and pleasant man to
greet, and always cheery when you
met him, having a pleasant good
maroning for all. and an inspiration
to all whom he came in contact with.
UNION AIID PLATTSMOUTH
COUPLE JOINED IK MARRIAGE
From Wednesday's Daily.
Miss Mario Swoboda and Florence
II. McCarthy, the former of Platts-
tnouth and the latter of Union, slip
ped it over on their friends, and
made good on it, too, for nearly half
a week, when they hied themselves
away to Lincoln last Saturday. They
there repaired to the parsonage of
the Catholic church and were united
in marriage by the Rev. Father W. j
F. Bradley.
Miss Marie Swoboda, the bride to
this union, is 'one of Plattsmouth's
fairest daughters and a young lady
of much ability who is accomplished
and ha3 a good business education
coupled with much experience in a
reat many lines, having been with
the telephone people, in the banking
business, and for the past year clerk
in the office of the county judge.
which position she resigned but a
short time ago.
F. II. McCarthy, the groom, is
engaged in the grain business at
Union, and is a man of more than
ordinary ability, genial and a good
fellow, as well as a fine business
man and an excellent citizen.
The newly married people -will
make their home at Union. They be
came acquainted when the bride was
employed in the bank of J. M. Pat
terson at Union. The Journal joins
with their many friends here and
elsewhere in wishing them a happy
and prosperous journey through life.
Well, its time for another trip to
Chase county, and Rosey is going
again next Sunday evening. Are
you ready for the trip now? You
1 surely have been thinking of this
trip long enough to have made up
your mind to go. See Rosencrans
now for reservations for. Sunday eve
ning.
HOW RECLASSI
FICATION WILL
.AFFECT YOU
A ERIEF OUTLINE FOR BENEFIT
OF JOURNAL READERS OF
WHO WILL BE CALLED
PERCENT TO GO NOT SO LARGE
la Agricultural Class Not Over 31
Per Cent of Total and May
be as Low as 12 Per Cent
Prm Wednesday's DUv.
Just how the new law will be ap
plied in the selection of the men
when the call comes for more under
the draft regulations is a question
of considerable moment to all those
liable for service, as well as depen
dents and others near to them. In
fact everyone is interested either di
rectly or indirectly in knowing who
are to be called and when.
All of the some ten million regis
tered men, who have not been taken
already, will be subjected to being
questioned and examined for service,
although they may have once been
exempted from call under th? work
ing of the first draft. When -the
HARRY LAUDER'S PRAYER FOR AMERICA
AND THE ALLIES
Let us remember that we are all cit
izens of a great nation AMERICA.
That ve are what our forefathers made
us Freemen and that we never will
in any degree subject ourselves to the
dominion of German Prussian rule.
We believe what God says: We
should love our enemies, but God does
not expect us to love his enemies. -
It is not for glery, riches or honors
we fight, but for Liberty alone, which
no good man loses but with his lite.
HARRY LAUDER.
momentous job of securing this data
shall have been completed, a system
of classification, covering five differ
ent classes insofar a3 their order of
liability to service is concerned, will
be made up. The first four of these
will be liable for service while those
in the fifth will be exempted and dis
charged as provided by the regula
tions in effect.
Class One
Undoubtedly the number in this
class will be larger than in any oth
er single class, as in most sections
of the country one-half or even more
of the men registering are single.
as shown by the records. It is thisj
class which will be first called to
service and it will be composed of
single men, together with such few
unmarried men as their call to the
service off the nation will not dis
turb the reasonable support of their
dependents. Out of the industrial
and agricultural classes there will be
seggregated into this first class all
men who have not especially fitted
themselves for the vocation on the
grounds upon which they would
claim exemption, so that the incur
sion into the labor supply, will ef
fect but a small percentage of un
skilled labor.
Class Two
Should the necessity of calling on
class two become imperative, the
demand must be made upon the ag
ricultural industry as it is in this
class many of the agricultural men
will be placed. An adjustment will
also- be necessary to replace a small
percentage of skilled labor thus re
moved to thet front with men who.
while occupying no pivotal or impor
tant position, can serve industry or
agriculture better than their wholly
unskilled brothers.
Class Three
Should the demand for troops be-
come so great as to necessitate draw
ing past class two, it would mean
that that Nation would have to begin
to commit itself to the endurance of
some hardship, and an adjustment of
agricultural and industrial pursuits
would be made necessary in order to
meet the occasion. In this clars there
are to be taken a very small percent
age of persons upon whom others are
dependent for support, as the inten
tion is not to break up the closest
and most sacred family relationship
The field of agriculture and industry
will be invaded to the extent of tak
ing in a small percentage of men who
have not specialized themselves and
those who occupy pivotal positions.
Class- Four
In this later c!ass will be found
men who will be taken as a last re
sort. Before this class is reached it
is perfectly safe to say that by the
addition of the men secured from
preceding classes and those having
attained the age of 21 since the date
of registration and p?rhaps the call
ing of 18- 19- and 20-year old men,
we will have at loast five million
men in the field, and will yet have
available al those of this class.
Class Five.
Class five will be composed of
those given absolute exemption and
no matter how urgent the need, an
other registration would probably be
resorted to before men of this class
are called to service.
There is one thought which might
concern us, and that is this: The
workings of the draft are to deal
! !
i !
entirely with the supply of labor,
which is divided into thirty-two clas
ses of approximately one million men
each, thus making thirty-two million
male laborers in the nation from
which to draw the supply for array
needs. These classes, however, com
prise men from the age of IS to 50
years, there being about one million
men available for each year of age.
The calling of men from "1 to 31
therefore makes available but ten
million men, or but ten-thirty-seconds
(31 per cent) of the men en
gaged in each of the thirty-two
classes of labor. Thus, when selec
tions from class two have been made,
while it will be trc:o that almost the
whole of men between the age of 21
and 31 will be called, there will yet
remain behind in the agricultural
and industrial classes approximately
sixty-nine per cent of those engaged
in that profession, and when the ex
emptions for dependencies in this
class shall have been allowed, the
number called ' will be reduced to
about 12 per cent, leaving eighty
eight per cent at home. These figures
will apply in nearly a like ratio to
other industries, and the taking of
so small a percentage of men from
any profession should not serve to
work a hardship thereon.
Order Maintained.
The order of men in the reclassi
fication will, be maintained in their
respective class in accordance ' with
their 'draft' . number. ; By this we
mean that of two men included in
class one, whose numbers are 276
and 5S1, the former will come ahead
of the latter in order of liability for
service the same as he now, does un
der the present regulations. But, of
course, the H 581 man in class one
would be drawn ahead of the 119
man, or whatever the case might be.
if the latter was included in any of
the later classes.
$ YQO CAN
HELP TO FIGHT
TUBERCULOSIS
WAR TIMES MAKE THIS DREAD
LISEASE DOUBLY DANGER
OUS TO OUR PEOPLE
EACH HAS H!S OWN PROBLEM
And May Kelp to Work Out a De
crease in Spreading of Disease
and Thus Stamp It Out.
From Wednesday's Iiailv.
The concluding part of a message
entitled "Your Tuberculosis War
Problem." sent out under the auspices
of The National Association for the
Study end Prevention of Tubercu
losis, d'-tail the individual problems
of citizens of New York City or of
Plattsmouth, as follows:
"In view of what has been raid,
YOUR war tuberculosis problem may
be stated, therefore, in terms of fit
neos. Your problem, first of all,
r;?Lans that you must help in the
campaign against tuberculosis oy
keeping yourself fit. No matter
whether you think you are fit or not.
,-ou owe it to yourself, to your city,
to your country, to be examined by
a reliable physician in order to as
certain whether you are fit. Do you
appreciate thai: out of every 100
men who are examined, hardly more
i nan one or two are found to be free
from physical defects tr disabilities
ind that ninety out of every hundred
if these men who are so impaired do
not know that anything is the mat
icr with them? The only way in
which yen can keep fit is to find out
whether you are defective or that
your health is impaired in any way.
Neglect of little defects means ser
ious disease later on.
"In the second place your prob
lem involves helping by keeping
your family fit. It is not enough
that you be examined, but your, fam
ily, including every member of your
household, should be examined at
'east oifce a year and oftener in
many cases. our ooys ana gins
hould be trained in personal and
community hygiene. No better op
portunity than the Modern Health
Crusaders Leagues, organized under
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tubercu
losis, for boys and girls is offered to
your children. Here they can be
taught how to take care of them
selves and how to assume the prop
er community health obligations.
"In the third place, your problem
involves the helping to keep others
in this community and throughout
the nation fit. This means giving of
your time to a certain extent if need
be, and particularly giving of your
money to help support the organized
public health activities of this coun
try. The Red Cross Christmas Seal
sale is upon us and the anti-tubercu
losis movement needs three times the
money that it had last year if it is
going to meet the serious responsi
bilities that the war has put upon
t. Your problem means in a real
sense giving to this movement buy
ing Red Cross, Seals. It means also
supporting every effort that goes to
ward the improvement of public
health in this community and in
the country as a whole. What if it
does raise the taxes! Better to pay a
few dollars more in taxes than in un
dertakers' and doctors' bills. What if
it means some sacrifice! There are
thousands of men and women who
are sacrificing vastly more than you
are called upon Jo give, both in mon
ey and effort, for the sake of your
health and the health of your child
ren. Can you afford to stand by and
refuse to support the movements
that seek to benefit you and your
town when others are shouldering
the responsibilities that should be
yours?
A SURPRISE PARTY.
Frn Tuesday's Pally.
Friday evening a very pleasant
surprise was given- Master John
Hale in honor of his twelfth birth
day. The children played games,
which they enjoyed, which afforled
them much pleasure. As a remind
er of this deliffhtful occasion the
guests presented Jotjn with a fine
music roll. During the evening this
jollj' company were entertained with
piano selections contributed by Mar
garet Jay, Hazel Covert and Goldie
Sivey. while a number of the child
ren sang. At a suitable hour a
laintyand delicious birthday lunch
eon' was served and at a late hour
the children, after wishing 3Iaster
John many more happy birthdays,
departed for their homes.
Those in attendance were Rose
and Lillie Thacker. Marie and Cor
delia Black. Margaret Jay. Clara
Johnson. Clara Miller. Mary and
Dorothy Mayfield, Marie Kopp,
Goldie and Helen Sivey, Flora Meis
inger. Hazel Covert. Maggie Hames.
Richard Chrisinger, Harley Meising
er, Arthur Cotner. Glenn Weaver,
Frankie Sivey. John and Glen Hale.
Charles Jay, Guy Kiser, Mr. and Mrs.
Hale, Mrs. Jay, Mrs. Cooney, Mrs.
Meiisnger, Mrs. Mayfield, Mrs. Shaw.
PRESBYTERIAN LADIES MET
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
From Wednesday's lally.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Pres
byterian church held their regular
meeting yesteroay afternoon and
were entertained in a most delight
ful manner by Mesdames John Gor
der. Mary Allison and C. I). Quinton,
at the pretty home of Mrs. Gorder.
There were a large cumber of the
members and their friends in atten
dance, many taking advantage of the
beautiful day.
The early hours of the afternoon
were given to the usual business ses
sion, after which the ladies devoted
the time to the Red Cross bandage
work, and considerable was accom
plished in this grand work, which
pleased the ladies very much, as
they feel that one cannot do too
much or have too much done in the
Red Cross work. Army knitting was
another feature of the afternoon's
entertainment, as the ladies engaged
in social conversation. The hostess
served a dainty luncheon, which was
very appropriate to the Thanksgiv
ing season. A few moments were
then spent in a very pleasant social
time and the ladies dispersed, de
claring Mesdames Gorder. Allison
and Quinton most excellent enter
tainers.
WIL SOON BE A
WIRELESS OPERATOR
A letter from Louis Kirschenblatt,
who is located at Vallejo, Calif.,
where he is attending the Govern
ment Radio school, receiving instruc
tions in wireless telegraphy, writes
his mother Mrs. H. Waintroub, tell
ine; that they are getting along in
fine shape, an dthat he will be
through his studies in February, at
which time he expects to be placed
on some vessel or a shore station for
actual service as a wireless operator.
Complaint Almost Gone
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MAKE HAUL OF
BOOZE HERE
TWO AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR
CYCLE CARRYING UNLAW
FUL COMMODITY.
GOT 1400 PINTS OF WHISKEY
One Captured in the City and Other
at Platte River Bridge Five
Men in the Party.
Last night, acting on information
which had been furnished of what
was ged'ig to happen, officers from
the state capital made a coup here of
two automobiles and one motorcycle,
all containing loads of whiskey,
which was destined for Omaha. In
the coup they captured five men.
One of these were captured in the
city while the others was nabbed at
the Platte River Bridge. In all it
is reported that 1400 pints of whis
key was captured. It looks as though
some ones Thanksgiving celebration
had been nipped in the bud. The
plan of safety first would be a good
one, that is to obey the law. Just
as we go to press it is difficult to
furnish the names of the parties in
the case, as it being thanksgiving
and not court in session.
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From Tuesday's Lally.
Herold Hager of Lincoln, a son of
Frank Hager, who was a machinist
in the Burlington shops here a num
ber of years ago, but who some twen-.
ty-five years ago went to Lincoln.
Herold was visiting with friends in
this city and departed this mornins
for his home in Lincoln. Mr. Her
old Hager has been a geologist in
Kansas and Oklahoma and has given
up his work, to enlist in the services
of Uncle Sam. He will go to the
Great Lakes training school where
he will take a course in Radio tele
graphing, for the navy department
NOW OUT OF THE HOSPITAL.
From Tuesday's Daily.
Percy Wart hen one of the mem
bers of the "Dandy Sixth" which
went from this city, and who has
been in the hospital at Camp Cody
for some time past is reported to be
so improved that he is now released
from the Hospital, and is again with
the boys doing his stunt at drilling
as before.
"WANTED A good, steady, gen
tlemanly salesman to handle a
Ward's wagon in Cass County. No
experience needed. For full partic
ulars write promptly to Dr. Ward's
Medical Company, Winona, Minne
sota. Established 1S56."
For Sale Smith Premier Type
writer. Wide carriage. In good
condition. J. E. Barwick, Phone No.
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