THURSDAY. NOVEMBER, 21. 1021.
f AGE TWO
PLATTSYOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Notice to
My headquarters hereafter will be at the
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I am still seiiing Chevrolet Motor Cars? and
Trucks and will be able to take care of all
my old customers as well as new ones All
repair work and supplies can be had t. the
O. ft. Garage or phone me at my residence,
no.
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CHEVROLET DEALER
LOCALNEWS
From Monday's Ia!ly.
William Timblin. cf near Alvo.
was in the city today to take up his
work as a member of the petit jury
pane! in the district court.
Attorney C. K. Tefft. of Weeping
Water was in the city for a few
hours today looking after some legal
matters at the court house.
K. II. Boyles and Charles Borne-nu-ier
of near Elm wood, came in
this mcrnirg to spend a few days
hero :.; membcrs'of the jury panel.
Jolfn Trice and family of Weeping
Water veTv' in the city yesterday for
a few hours visiting with friends
and looking after some matters of!
business.
Willi -.in Muenehau, of Eagle, was j
among the members of the Jury to
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arrive tms :mrmn on me tanj -n-
souri Pacific train to take up their
dutieii in court today. j to the chamber of Commerce.
Will SbopD f ame out from Chicago "An even great reduction in naval
Faturniiy niht for an over Sunday j armament than that proposed is pos
xht nt home, returning to resume fible. practical. Armaments to a
his duties in the Windy city on No. prcater or lesser degree, are 'forts of
2 yesterday afternoon. folly. When a country supports a
II. E. Dailev. who has been en-j'tig army or navy there arises, at
gaged in home'steacling in Wyoming, ! some time, a man or group of men,
but who has for the pat few days' decirous of putting it to the test, to
been visiting with friends, departed . determine if it comes up to their ex
for Weeping Water to visit. I pectation under fire. Then the world
Mr,. Marv Frady and Mrs. E. L. has burst upon it such a cataclysm
Brown departed .vesterday for Kirks-'tfas the recent, world war. There is
ville. Mo., where they will eater Ahe'f rav,e danger the world will remain
Stfll "hospital-"there for treatment;! in lts p,fe3t;nt Sta,te of Caof afiS
being eent there by Dr. H. C. Leo
pold of this city.
Paul Billion, who has been en-
gaged in working at the farm of j tsnore the plea of their people of dis
George Kaftenberger, west cf this aimaraent should be 'scrapped' when
city, ieoaric! this afternoon lor
Ashland to spend a few days and will
depart on Saturday for Chicago.
Dr. J. F. Brendel came up yester
day fn in his home at Murray and
met D-. T. J. Dwyer, xt Omaha, who
is looking after the treatment of Dr
B. F. Urendel, at Murray, and who:
has been
very poorly for some
months.
W. F. Gil'.cpie departed Saturday
evening for Pan Antonia. Texas,
whrr? he will spend a thort time
visiting with W. E. Rosencrans and
wife iiV.il also looking after the sale
of certain real estate interests he has
in that city.
From Tue?1aVn ra!1y.
Frank II. Johnson of Weeping Wa
ter an l Jay Johnson of St. Joseph,
Mo., were in the city today for a few
hours looking after some matters att
the court house.
Henry A. Guthman of Murdock
wa-i in the city today for a few hours
cry
fc tT IS GAFEN OUR . BANK
OU CAN GET THE BIGGER PART OF A "WISH-BONE," BUT
IT WLL DO CU MO GOOD UNLESS YOU TRY FOR THE THING
YOU WISH FOH.
"WISH" 1 O GET AHEAD. AND ONLY WISH, AND YOU WON'T
GET AHEAD. BUT TRY TO GET AHEAD BY BANKING. THAT
MONEY YOU HAVE IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW AND YOU
WILL GET AHEAD.
WE INVITE YCUR BANKING BbblNESSl
ITanrers
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LEY,
attending to some matters of business
and visiting with his mother, Mrs.
F. R. Guthman.
Yesterday afternoon in the county
court license to wed was issued to
George Sell and Verla E. Bates, both
of Weeping Water, and the young
people will be married in that city
at the heme of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bates.
A lazy liver leads to. chronic dys
pepsia and constipation weakens
the whole system. Doan's Regulets
(30c per box) act mildly on the liver
and bowels. At all drug gtores.
PLEADS FOR DISARMAMENT
Kearney, Nov. 22. "In disarma
ment of nations, as advocated by
I President Harding and set forward
by Secretary Hughes, sets the hope
of the world stated' Josephus Dan
iels,
ex-secretary of the navy, who
TrtJr5!l
a large audience at the
vhodist rlmrrh here and who snoke
as the burdens of war, past and fu
ture are shouldered upon its-people.
"These representatives of nations
.nwtmhipil at Washington who would
they return home. Maybe their gov
ernment might meet a likefate," he
stated.
Mr. Daniels approved the stand of
Secretary cf the Navy Denby in con
tinuation of his shipbuilding pro
gram until cessation is ordered ty
the disarmament conference. He ex
pres?d himself as opposed to can
cellation of the European war loan
in that it would have no effect upon
economic conditions.
STRAYED
' Ctnvnl frnm tit v nsetnro entlth.
.11 . ".11 . . V . - . ... J ' . t V. , u V
west of Cedar Creek, one light red
muley steer. Weight about 450
or 500 lbs. Anyone seeing same
pierce take up and notify
A. O. AUL.T,
Cedar Creek, Neb.
To feel strong, have good appetite
end digestion, sleep soundly and en-
joy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters,
j the family system tonic. Price, $1.25
State Sank
WAS
Kt-RRASKA
OBSERVANCE OF
THANKSGIVING
! 3 DAY IS GENERAL
DAY IS ONE THAT IS REC0GNIZ-
ED THROUGHOUT NATION
AS GREAT HOLIDAY.
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TO'REKDER UP OUR THANKS
For the Success or Happiness that
Has Come to Us as Individuals
or Nation as a Whole.
From Wednesday's Dally.
From the distant rocky shores of
New England to the far west where
the sunset kisses the waves of the
Pacific tide, the nation will tomor
row render up their thanks for the
happiness or success that has come
to the individual or to the nation as
a whole on the preservation of peace
and tLi restoration of the country
from its war time condition.
The custom of Thanksgiving owes
to the Puritans of New England its
inception, following the landing of
the Pilgrims on the coast of the Cape
Cod country. The first Thanksgiving
was in November of 1621, follow
ing the landing of the Mayflower pil
grims the year previous and was the
first occasion of its kind to bs des
ignated by the government of the
colony. The inspiration of the Puri
tan settler has come to the succeed
ing generations until the nation ap
points the last Thursday of Novem
ber as the event on which the peo
ple are asked to make a public ex
pression of their thanksgiving to the
Almighty for the welfare of them
selves and their country.
" President Abraham Lincoln in
1862, in the midst of the great civil
war. was the first .president to give
official recognition to the day and
since that time each president has
proclaimed the last Thursday in No
vember as the day of Thanksgiving.
The day is not alone one of spirit
ual observance but in th delights of
home gatherings, sports and recrea
tions, the residents of the various
communities find expression of their
feeling of thanksgiving. In this city
there will he the usual gatherings
at the homes of the city and in ad
dition there will be two football
games in the afternoon, as football
has claimed this holiday as assured
ly as baseball has that of the. Fourth
of July or. Labor day, and tae p?r
sons who enjoy a great turSey din
ner canifvear. off tbeir surplus en
ergy.' in rooting :at:The.'g'am es. "
Whether we have? 'much or little
to be thankful for we should render
up our thanks to the Ruler of all
mankind on this day and as'x for a
continuance of the blessings for the
year that lies before us until the
coming of the next Thanksgiving
day.
U. S. SENATE VOTES TO
ADJOURN THIS EVENING
Washington, Nov. 22. A concur
rent resolution was adopted by the
senate late today to adjourn sine die
tomorrow night after a vote is token
on the tax bill. The resolution now
goes to the house, where it is' ex
pected to be acted upon favorably.
The fenate, in executive session
tonight, endeavored to clean the
slate of presidential nominations and
more than 200 was confirmed.
Nomination of Henry Lincoln
Johnson, negro republican national
commissioner for Georgia to be re
corder of deeds for the district cf
Columbia, was rejected.
Plans for .the adjournment of con
gress tomorrow virtually preclude
any iction on pending resolutions
to order Work on battleships stJDied
white the ami cmft-rence irf In srs
sion. .;.uator King, democrat, Utah',
sought to obtain committee i.nipn
on his resolutions to this effect and
was promised by Senator Page, re
publican. Vermont, chairman, that a
poll of the committee would be taken
to determine whether the question
had been taken up. epublican lead
ers declared an adverse decision was
certain.
PROHIBITION TO REMAIN
London, Nov. 22. Sir Arthur
Newsholme, formerly member of the
ministry of health, discussing prohi
bition in America on America on his
return here after a two years viit to
the United States, hammered anoth
er nail into the lid of the "medicine
chest."
"The American public," he said,
"will endorse the action already tak
en and will insist on its continuance
and extension, and prohibition, in my
view, wi! remain in operation as
the law of the land."
, Sir Arthur views the question from
t-etandpoint of the persons made
tHUffer in consequence of other per
80i .drinking.
) .'liberation of the many from un
fair conditions rather than personal
liberty, which might easily become
Jicenre, is," he says, "the present so
cial desideratum. The case for com
pulsion and it is a good one, is that
moral suassion acts slowly on minor
ities and meanwhile multitudes of
innonent persons continue to suffer.
ana" the community suffers in pocket
anf.in efficiency."
REVOKES CHARTER OF
KANSAS MINE STRIKERS
Pittsburg, Kas., Nov. 19. The
provisional government of District
14, United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca,' today issued a "proclamation to
all locals ana members or tn-e dis
trict, revoking the charters of locals
which did not resume work on No
vember 16, and suspending the mem
STILL VERY POORLY
From Wednesday's Dallv.
Tli a manv f-4onr1a nf the Mioses
:iaii auu j,iziie iiuusun, iuiuici ica
idents of this city, will regret very
much to learn of the condition of
Miss Lizzie at their home In Glen
wood. Miss Lizzie Hobson was taken
the latter part of July with Neuritis
of the left hand and arm. rendering
her practically helpless, still is suf
fering from this ailment and shows
little prospect of improving.
TAMING THE MIS
SOURI, OUTLAW RIVER
Government Engineers Planning to
Take Up Work and Try and
Hold It in Channel.
The United States government en
gineers are planning to take up the
tr.sk of coercing the Missouri river,
known as the outlaw among the
streams of the; country and from
their heaquarters ,at Kansas City are
planning a campaign that will in
clude all parts of the river from Fort
I3?nt(.n. Montana, to the point where
the Missouri empties into the Missis
v'epi nci'.r Alton. Illinois. This will
include more or less work along the
rier near this city where the task of
kt '.'ping the river in its presentchan
n?l has been a large sized job.
In speaking of the matter the
, .S ate Journal has the following state-
nfiits from the engineers who are
tr.king up the work:
"The task of the river engineers
!s- to persuade and corce the Missouri
river into 'staying out,' and to coax
U out of its long-time custom of
changing its channel whenever the
v.him moves it.
"This may sound like an exaggera
tion, but to anyone who has spent
the day on the- river with the army
engineers, and has seen the Missouri
rv'ting away at a corn field with
wicked energy, swallowing up earth,
?orii, weeds, fences and trees, seems
?rnietinies as if the river eventually
hrul . personality, and an outlaw one
tit that. And while, carrying away
fi-rru land from one bank, somewhere
p'.-c it is equally busy, piling up sand,
mud and driftwood, making land out
-f what was river a few days before.
Then. too. the river has a habit of
occasionally clogging its own chan
nel, building sand bars so long and
o high that it. needs must become
road and shallow, in order to con
tinue its restless course.
"It is a constant struggle, but it
3 not a hopeless one, and the engi
neers point with a measure of justi
n?d pride to those places along the
jtrtam where they have built dikes,
.vhich resulted in the making of land;
o the concave, bejids where revet
ments have sapped the river from
?utting its baMc. Given a dike on
: q4t , mri rf-Tevetment on the
j?hj r$ yJul J(r!s&n- diligence, so that
nna!l" brefcki'rnay be repaired before
they become serious, the river engi
neers bay they, can keep the stream
fairly well anchored.
"Fifty years 'ago. before the com
ing of the railroads, . the Missouri
v.as the great weFtern artery of com
nerce? and steamboats plowed its
waters as far as Fort Benton, Mon
tana. NKnowing how difficult it al
ways is for the railroads to handle
great wheat harvests, one wonders
why it Is not possible for- the river
to Landle some of this traffic.
"The engineer quietly tells you
that it is possible, then he goes on
and explains the wo general reasons
why it is not beitg done. One is that
there is now very little money for
improving and keeping up the river.
"The cther reason is that many
mistakes have been made in the type
of towboats used. Boats designed for
any other rivef in the world but the
Missouri, have been ueed, and be-Ci-.use
of the shifting depths of the
river, have failed. With all its dis
advantages, there is a good deal to
bo said, according to the engineers,
for the old paddle wheel steamer,
side wheeler or stern wheeler, that
draws little or no water, which con
dition is ideal for service on the
Missouri.
"The river is navigable, say the
engineers, and with sufficient time
and patience, it can be made man
ageable." SPANISH WAR VETS RELIEF
The $5,000 federal fund for the
soldiers of the Spanish-American
war, which is in the hands of Gov
ernor McKelvie, is to be use'd to set
tle the various amounts that are still
due the veterans from their service
pay.' Among the names of those to
whom money js due appears several
Cass county men who were in the
Nebraska regiments in the Spanish
American war: Cecil B. Jack, Co. M.,
1st Neb.; Hiram C. Spencer, Co. C.,
2nd Neb., and Charles L. Spencer,
Co. B., 3rd Neb.
BOX SUPPER AND PROGRAM
There will be -a box supper and
program held at the Cullpm school
in district No. 30 on Friday evening,
November 25th. Everyone Invited
and the young ladies urged to. bring
their boxes.
' KATHERINE MATHES,
Teacher.
FARM LOANS
Lowest rates, 5, 7, 10, 15 and
20 years. . G. M. McClerkin, at the
Bank of Cass County, Plattsmouth,
Nebraska. tfd
Phone the Journal office when yon
are in need of job printing of any
kind. Best equipped shop in south
eastern Nebraska. .
t DR. H. G. LEOPOLD
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NEBRASKAN THRU
TV0 INDIAN AVARS
Jason Wade of Alliance Tells Inter
esting Experiences of Early
Days in Middle West.
Alliance, Neb., Nov. 22. Jason. B.
Wade, Nebraska pioneer, is probably
the only man now alive in western
Nebraska who went through two In
dian wars without, as be expresses it,
"seeing an Indian." Mr. Wade, whose
home is at Alliance, has had 2U varied
and interesting career as pioneer,
frontiersman and early settler, locat
ing 1n Nebraska in 1871 on a home
stead near Orleans.
Young folks, as well as the older
ones, delight in hearing Mr. Wade
tell of early days in Iowa and Ne
braska. He was born in Michigan
in 18 48 and was the oldest of a fam
ily of ten children. The family moved
to Illinois by px team in 1852 and in
1854 to Boone county, Iowa, in the
same manner. - Mr. Wadevsays that
the first negro he ever saw ferried
them across the Des Moines river.
In 1855. the Sioux Indians rose and
attacked Fort Dodge, but the Wade
family were not attacked, although
warned of their danger. The only
Indians they saw were some peaceful!
ones of "Old Johnny Greene s tribe.
Mr. Wade says. The pioneers suffer
ed untold hardships and privations
in Iowa; one cold winter they lived
practically on elk meat and made
shoes from the hides of the animals.
In 1871 Mr. Wade and several
companions came by ox team to the
location where Orleans now stands,
on a buffalo hunt, using a prairie
schooner in which to live on the trip.
They killed wild turkeys along the
Republican river, but the fowls were
so easily killed that they only lasted
about one season.
The next spring Mr. Wade and hi3
wife and child settled on a homestead
near Orleans. Supplies -were scarce i
and hard to get and money was so
Ecarce that the men wore Fhirts made
from flour sacks. The drouth came
that summer and all the crops that
were not burned up were destroyed
by the grasshoppers. Mr. Wade says
that "if it hadn't been for the buffalo,
elk, deer, antelope, jack rabbits, cot
ton tails, wild geese and cranes, as
well as the grouse and fish, together
with the flour and money sent by
friends in the east, we surely would
have starved to death."
During the fall of 1873, accompan
ied by three friends, Mr. Wade went
to McCook, Nebraska, which con
sisted of but three log houses, with
one store which also served as a
postoffice. They bought their sup
plies there and then camped on the
Republican river to hunt buffalo.
One night Mr. Wade lost his com
panions and spent the night alone,
wrapped in the 6kin feof a buffalo
which he had killed .and skinned.
They secured a. number of buffalo,
packed the meat in barrels and sent
the hides to Fort Wallace for sale,
getting $1.50 each, more than a cow
hide is worth today.
In the fall of 1873 there was an
other Indian uprising and Mr. Wade
was appointed a corporal in the com
pany organized to fight them, but the
Indians did not reach the Orleans ter
ritory and he passed through the
Indian war without seeing any In
dians. The next spring Mr. Wade and his
family returned to Boone county,
Iowa, where he purchased a farm and
lived for twenty years, engaging in
farming. But the lure of the fron
tier held him and he again came west
in 1908, locating on a Kinkaid home
stead in Garden county, southeast of
Alliance, which he proved up on and
which he still owns, although he
makes his home in this city.
USE HOSIERY BANK, AD
VICE OF LINCOLN MAYOR
Lincoln, Nov. 19. If they must
carry money downtown, Lincoln
women are requested to secrete it in
their stocking or their dress, in a
proclamation issued today by Mayor
Frank C. Zehrung. His edict .was
to get the co-operation of women in
stamping out the crime wave of
purse snatching and jewelry, theft.
The mayor asks women not to carry
purses dangling in their hand, and
to put their jewelry in the bank.
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And for this reason
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THAN ICSGaVINC?-
" Too busy to woik. all day today! ,
Thanksgiving.
But we'll "Talk Turkey" to you 'til noon then we close.
Everything you'll need to look your prettiest.
Special men's pure silk knit ties, 95c.
Have you seen the new VanHeusen collar?
C. E. Wescott's Sons
'EVERYBODY'S STORE
SEC
STATE TAX BOARD TO MEET
The state board of taxation will
meet Wednesday at 2 o'clock at the
state house. In executive session the
board will pass upon its right to re
assess property that, is alleged to
have been improperly omitted from
the tax rolls last April. Its right to
do so this year has been challenged.
If the board decides it has power to
enforce the provisions of the new law
which went into effect in August,
long after property had been listed
for assessment and county boards of
equalization had acted, it will then
decide what charitable, religious and
educational institutions are operated
for gain and therefore taxable. In the
event it desires to enforce the new
law this year and it finds property
had teen omitted it will appoint spe
cial assessors in counties where prop
erty was omitted. These assessors
will then value the property and it
will be listed for assessment 'subject
to appeal by owners. Business col
leges, colleges supported by church
contributions and other educational
institutions, lodge property, hpspi-l
tals in Omaha and Lincoln and other,
cities in the state, are dn the list of )
property which the board is to pass
upon as to whether it was improper
ly omitted for taxation last April.
The state board comprises Governor
McKelvie, State Tax Commissioner
W. H. Osborne, State Treasurer Crop
sey, Secretary of State Amsberry, and
Auditor Marsh. Mr. Cropsey is in a
hospital in Rochester, Minn.
SNOW AND SLEET REPORT
ED ON THE WEST COAST
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 20. The
storm which yesterday gripped Ore
gon and Washington, spread east
ward into Montana tonight and while
temperatures there were not greatly
changed, some of the snow which
had been falling further west began
to be evident in Montana.
East of the Cascades the snow
turned to sleet, which tore down
many wires, and then to rain, Around
Portland precipitation totaled three
to four inches. Streams are bankful
and rising.
Railroad traffic from the east into
Portland is paralyzed and eight
trains are maroned along the Colum
bia river. Efforts to reach them by
boat or overland failed today.
Itch, Itch, Itch Scratch, Scratch,
Scratch! The more you scratch, the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment.
For eczema, any skin itching. 60c
a box.
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we close at noon today - Thanksgiving Day!
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LONDON JOURNAL
SAYS U. Sr MUST
FINANCE WORLD
FAILURE OF GERMANY TO MEET.
INDEMNITY SPELLS DISASTER
"America Can Stabilize Credit" by
Banking Scheme, Declares the
Times Will She Do It?
London, Nov. 20. Unless the
United States shoulders the burden
of world financing, only a miracle
can avert the financial catastrophe"
ever drawing nearer, the Sunday:
Times declares today. ' . - .
It regards the limitation of arma
ments as an accomplished fact, for
which it gives credit to the United
States,, jind says, it is hoped J hat the
America ns'-ill display equal coir-
age nd "foresight in coping vrith tue
menace cf world finance. ;'v
"America alone can stabilize credit
by devising some scheme for financ
ing the nations .hovering on the
brink of insolvency," it says.
"No one imagines Germany is
able to pay 500,000.000 gold marks
January 15. In ,the event of her
failure to do so, the difficulties to
French finance may prove insuper
able, and if France follows Germany
in bankruptcy, the crash may well
bring down the whole edifice of
European credit.
"In such an event the United
States will suffer incalculable loss.
The only way out is for America to
observe the precedent set by the
Bank of England when it saved
American credit in a minor crisis by
drawing gold from the world to loan
whero it was most needed.
"America holds the world's gold
today. The time is short, for, should
Germany fail to pay, France may
march 'into the Ruhr region and then
who can say what disarmament pro
posals may not vanish in the smoke
of war?"
For baby's croup. Willie's daily
Cuts and bruises, mother's sore throat,
grandma's lameness Dr, Thomas'
Eclectic Oil the household remedy.
Yonr ad will carry punch if yon i
write it as a plain "selling talk" in- '.
stead of trying to fuss it . up with !
frills and exagerations. ,
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