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f PAGE SIX SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL THURSDAY, iMAY 8, 1924. a i pesMssaiggMg Low Summer Excursion Fares VIA- The BURLINGTON to the West's great vacationlands Effective May 15th to the Pacific Northwest and California. Effec tive Jane 1st to Colorado, the Na tional Parks, and other tourist and resort regions. VARIED ROUTES STOP-OVERS To all the cool, colorful Rocky fountain Regin Everywhere West in fact the Burlington provides a service that anticipates your every travel wish. It BE takes you you back comfort. R. W. MAKE A GOOD SHIPMENT From Wednesday's Daily Several days ago the firm of Chas. Troop & Co., extensive breeders and shippers of live stock and hogs, no ticed that the hog market was much better in St. Louis than at either Omaha or Kansas City and accord ingly they had two cars of fine Cass DANCE SATURDAY HUE f Eagles' Hall -r 8 The Eagles will give an- A J. other of their pleasant social dances at the Eagles hall. r Music by Kroehler Orchestra ADMISSION Gents, including tax 75c Spectators, inc. tax 33 LADIES FREE Tailored to hold their shape and to hold your confi dence. You can't wear style; you can't wear price. It's sturdy needlework on fine fabrics that make the Sii foundation for style and value. Kuppenheimer GOOD CLOTHES are expertly, carefully and honestly tailored. They you the satisfaction of shape-retaining clothes. $ 35 to $50 "Value" is our motto, You can't buy a Rolls Lets put either a bell or a tax or both on every cat in town. Lets save the song birds. Whatduuay? there and brings in perfect travel CLEMENT, Ticket Agent county porkers shipped to the mar ket at St. Louis and with the result I that they realized a very neat sum for. their close study of the market, as the hogs at St. Louis brought a profit of 30c a hundred net over the price of the Omaha market. This shows that it pays the stock shipper , to keep a close watch on the market. FILES SUIT IN COTJET Fiom Wednesday's Daily In the office of the clerk of the di ;rict court today application was filed by Margaret H. Heade, guar dian of Thomas Chalmers Clarke, in competent, in which the guardian asks license to sell real estate to which Mr. ('large holds title, the pro cods may be applied to the payment of debts of the said incompetent, and to assist in securing funds for his cr. re. The parties are non-residents of the sttae of Nebraska, living in Gurnpey county, Ohio. For regular action of the bowels; easy, natural movements, relief of constipation. try Doan's Regulets. 30c at all stores. PWi fH The H give and Quality will rot down. Royce at a Ford price. EAGLE MARSHAL SCARES YEGGS WITH HIS GUN WILLIAM NOEEIS IS REAL HEEO IN HOME TOWN BECAUSE OF FIGHT HE MADE. ROBBERS CUT COMMUNICATION Telephone and Telegraph Lines Sev ered by Farties Before Making Attempt at the Bank. From Monday's Dally The village of Eagle is still throb bing with the intense excitement that followed the attempted robbery early Saturday morning of the Farmers State Bank of that place, and for his real bravery in the gun right with the yeggs. William Norris. j the town marshal, is receiving the i just tribute of his fellow townsmen ! for his good work. After the gun fight and the escape of the robbers. Mr. Norris and Merit' ' V. Lanning. cashier of the bank, drove five miles to a farmhouse to telephone word of the attempted robbery to Lincoln as all lines of communication between Eagle and the outside world was severed by the yeggs before starting in on their work. i The story of the affair as related by Mr. Norris is a thrilling one and that he was not a victim of the gun fire of the robbers is almost a mir acle. Norris had just started out from the building of the State bank ! of Eagle, where he makes his head quarters at rjight, to make a round of inspection, when he heard a tap ping sound. It was dark. There was dim. ! "It sounded like somebody tapping the rim of an automobile wheel." he said, "just like you do when you're changing a tire and the rim is stuck. 1 But it aroused my suspicions be cause I didn't think anybody would be changing tires at 2:30 in the , morning. "I was trying to locate where the sound was coming from, when I heard the explosion at the bank, just a block away. I started up the street from tne bank. Then I heard a much louder explosion. When I v:is haii-way up the block, on the other side of the street from the building at the corner, thinks , that fellow is there for no good, so I let go at him . He fired back a couple of times and I ran to the cor ner just opposite him. I got in the shadow of the building and saw, an other of the bandits standing just across from the bank to the north. I shot twice at him. Then one of the bandits fired a shotgun charge of buckshot at me. and it strucK the window of a hardware store, just above my head, shattering the glass. 1 m glad I wasn't tall. "Just across the street from me to the north was a lumber yard, and while I was blazin' away at the two bandits a gun blazed away from among the pj.es of lumber anu a bul let whistled past, striking the wall just beside me. Then I saw that there were three of them and that they had me surrounded. I dropped on my stomach and emptied my gun on them. I tried to crawl backwards on my stomach like a crawfish to the alley, so that I could run down to the bank and get my shotgun which I kept loaded with buckshot. But I finally just stood up anu made a run for it. "When I got the shotgun and re turned the robbers nad gone." Believes Wounded One Norris fired fifteen shots at the robbers. He believes that he may have wounded one of them. Two bul let holes in the building on the cor ner just north of the bank, and be side which the robber was stationed by the tree, show, from the line of Norris' fire and the place where the robber was standing, that the two bullets passed within a very few inches of the robber. The wall beside which Norris was standing when he did most of his shooting is generously dotted with bullet holes around the corner where the first robber was standing just beside the bank, show that Norris was making it rather warm for him, too. The fourth robber is believed to have been working inside the bank building during the time the firing was going on. The situation inside the vault was a serious puzzle to officers who were working on the case Saturday. The vault door, which had been dyna mited is not a heavy door. It is made of two plates of steel, each about a half Inch thick. It was bad ly bent, but still locked this morn ing. At the same time, within the vault, was the great, heavy bank safe. The doors, weighing perhaps five hundred pounds each, stood open, at right angles t othe safe, one of them torn completely off the upper hinges and hanging at an angle from hte lower bent hinge. Eobbers Miss a Chance The time-lock on the cash com partment within the safe was torn completely off its hinges, and lay on the floor in front of the safe. It is an extraordinarily heavy door, little more than a foot square, but weighing nearly two hundred pounds. Officers believe that the bank safe in the vault had not been closed; that the robbers did not get into the vault at all, but that the combustion from the explosions In tho outer door was sufficient, with tne extreme weight of the itc doors themselves hanging outward, to wrench the doors off their hinges. The robbers probably never knew that within this door, which resist ed their two first explosions, the way was entirely clear to the cash. mmmmmmmommtmm Your AotqIsYour Pass Omaha's Greater Amusement Center Jree Attractions Jhrillingmes Swimming JheLicensePlak I on vour car itill taentiw you as entitle vou to free. 1 paring ma tree i aamission to tne i ; park far yourself j Had it not been for the brave bat tle of the marshal, it is believed, there is no doubt but that a third charge would have been placed in the vault door, and that it would have fallen. But the battle was getting too hot for comfort and re inforcements were beginning to I come, as the townspeople hearing j the firing, hastily pulled on a few , clothes and rushed into the streets. Norris has been chiefly bemoaning the fact that he did not have his shotgun with him. "I would have gotten one or two of them, if I had had it," he said. "And that was the first time I ever mdae my rounds witaout it as long as I can remember. I keep it loaded with buckshot and from the distance I had to shoot from, I would cer tainly have got one of them, per haps two." Four hundred telephone wires wore cut by the robbers, just out side the telephone office, before they started work, putting every tele phone in Eagle out of commission, except one. Aud nobody knew that one was in commission. It was the 'phone of the Peters' bakery just next to the telephone ohiee. and the wire runs directly into the switch board without passing through the cable containing the rest of the wires. The telegraph wires at the rail road station were also cut, and the yegs carried a ladder from the sta tion to the telephone cables. Six wires lead out of the power plant, and one of them, the one which carries the current to the street light on the corner beside the bank, was cut. The manager of the power plant told newspaper representatives Saturday that the fact that the yegs knew the proper one of these six wires to cut. convinced him that they knew the ground thoroughly. No one except somebody who had ex amined these wires and ascertained beforehand, would have known enuf to cut that wire, .he said. The plate glass windows were completely blown from their sashes by the explosion which wrecked the vault. The robbers entered the build ing by jimmying a side window. A number of empty cartridges were found beside a telephone pole in the rear of the bank building, showing that one of the robbers emptied his gun and reloaded it there. BOY SCOUT NOTES The executive committee of the Boy Scouts at its session this week took up the matter of securing as sistance for Mr. C. H. Peden, scout master of the local troops, who has been laboring so faithfully in the upbuilding of the scouts. The board has recommended to the national council that Henry Leacock and Jo-j seph A. Capwell be commissioned as' scoutmastirs and the new scoutmas ters will be placed in charge of Troops Two and Three. The local Boy Scouts will occupy the period from July 10th to July 19 at Camp Quivera near Louisville which is maintained by the Lincoln Boy Scouts and where the Platts mouth boys had such a delightful time last summer. Another of the activities planned for immediately after the close of school is a two day hike of the boys under the supervision of C. H. Ped en, to Camp Gifford, the camp of the Omaha scouts, where they will en joy a short recreation period. FOR SALE. TRADE OR RENT Several Plattsmouth properties, from one lot to five acre tracts Good terms. What have you to trade? Frank E. Vallery, phone 606, Pattsmouth, m2-ltd, ltw Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for dis ease. For pure blood and sound di gestion Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drug stores. Price $1.25. 0$ IE ; an out-of'iown 1 I guest and will 1 MAY MUSICAL FES TIVAL IS HELD AT WESLEYAN COLLEGE Number of Very Interesting Numbers Given at Methodist University By the Musicians. From Tuesday's Daily The first May music festival was held May 5 and 6 at Nebraska Wes leyan university in University Place, under the direction of Dean Parvin Witte of the college of fine arts. Three concerts are being held. Mes dames Allen Taylor and Raymond Havens of Kansas ity and Messrs. Carlcton Cummings and Howard E. Preston of Chicago presented a var ied program this afternoon in the university auditorium with a larg; .md appreciative audience. Mrs. Tay lor sang a group of very modern songs by Winter Watts, the purpose of which is to present thru melody the atmosphere and Bounds of Ital ian life at Paestuni, Amalfi and Flor ence. Mrs. Havens' best effort was in a number from Brahms, Verge bliches Standchen. Mr. Cummings was a former student in the Wesley- an conservatory. His tenor voice wonderful in strength and sweetness. He was accompanied at the piano by Miss Freda raham who was former ly an instructor at Wesleyan. Mr. Pieston delighted his hearers with Damrosch's presentation of Kipling's ff.mous poem. "Danny Qeever," which he sang with much dramatic effect, j The purpose of Dean Witte in in- stituting the May festival which he hopts wil become an annual feature at wesieyan is 10 maintain anu ex - tend musical culture in Nebraska, .Many are nere trom out state to en- jov iiit'Sf cunt t'l is. iviits riuii'iitv Macbeth of the Chicago civic opera company, appeared m tne evening concert of May 5. NEWS From Monday's Dally Judge James T. Begley departed 'his morning for Omaha and Papil lion, where he will hold a session of Hie district court. Elmer Hallstrom and family, of Avoca. wire here over Sunday visit ing with relatives and friends, mak ing the trip via the auto route. Glen Rutledge of the Nehawka En terprise was in the city todav for a few hours looking after some busi- ness affairs and visiting with friends in the county seat. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Buttery tnd little babe returned tuis morn ing from Blue Hill. NebrasKa. where they have been visiting with rela- tives and friends for the past days. few George P. Heil came in Saturday from his home near Cedar Creek and made a pleasant call at the Journal office, where he renewed his subscription to the semi-weekly edi tion of the Journal. Blair Porter of Omaha was here over Sunday visiting with relatives and friends. Mr. Porter has just re cently recovered from an attack of pneumonia and is still feeling the effects of his long illness. Mrs. Thomas Walling and son. Ed mund, Ed McHugh and sister, Mary McHugh. motored to Murdock yes terday afternoon, where they spent the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. McHugh and family. George P. Horn of Omaha was, here over Sunday visiting at the, home ot his brother. Henry Horn ana taniily. and enjoying a visit with the old friends and while here was a pleasant called at the Journal office. A. F. Boedeker. of near Nehawka. was here today for a few hours vis iting with friends and looking after some matters of business and took advantage of the occasion ot his visit to Plattsmouth to call at the Journal office and renew his subscription to the paper. H. N. Smith and wife of Lafayette, Indiana, who are enroute for Califor- LOCIL National Our buying power as members of the U. N. 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Mrs Rmitn was formerly Minnie Ballinger of Weeping Water and they will visit at that city as well as Denver on their way to the west coast. From Tuesday's Dally Herman Keike of near Murray was in the city today for a few iiours looking after some matters of business at the court house in which he was interested. William Starkjohn departed this morning for Gothenburg. Nebraska, where he will look after his land interests in that vicinity and ar range for handling the farm work for the coming year. From Wednesday's Daily George W. Snyder came in this ; morning from his home west of My - hisnard and departed on the early Bur l lington train for Omaha to spend a uew nours. C. A. Caldwell, who resides at the Nebraska Masonic Home, was in Om aha vesterdav to visit with his son. Dr. A. D. Caldwell and also, it is i stated, to vote for Mayor Jim. i Fred Rose, Lincoln Creamer, and S. j. ttougn 01 near .enawsa, auu E. H. Norris of near Avoca. wereition and here vesterdav for a few hours at-1 Carey of tending to some matters at the court house. Fred Menchau and J. D. Allen of j Eagle were in the city today and while here Mr. Allen was a caller at the Journal to renew his subscrip tion to the Old Reliable and also for a most delightful social visit. ARRIVAL OF LITTLE DAUGHTER From Wednesday's Dally Yesterday morning at the Univer sity hospital in Omaha was born a fine little seven pound daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lewis of this citv. The mother and little one are doing very nicely and the occasion hftfl nrnvpn :i vprv nlnfnnt nnp to ; the proud jthat there father and he is feeling is no other person in the world quite as highly honored as he has been. When baby suffers with croup ap ply and give Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil at once. Safe for children. A little goes a long way. 30c and 60c. at all drug stores. lomma wt rv Try tbv 30 alone is at least $5 to $7.50. Wescott's Sons ON THE CORNER- NEBRASKA DEATH OF A FORMER RESIDENT OF COUNTY Harvey Barker Passed Away Yester day Afternoon at 1 0 'Clock at Home Near Oxford. From Wdnenday' Daily The message was received here yesterday afternoon by the relatives announcing the death of Harvey Barker, a former well known resi dent of this county and a son of the late Sam Barker, one of the early settlers in this portion of Nebraska. The death of Mr. Barker came af ter an illness of some duration in which he has been a sufferer from tuberculosis and for which he has made his home near Oxford, Nebras ka, in hopes of being benefitted by ' hifrh an drv atmosphere of that portion of the state. The deceased was fifty-four years of age and had for the past twenty years been living in the vicinity where his death occurred. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. William Wetenkamp of this city, S. A. Barker of near Mynard. Mrs. George J. Meisinger of this city and Mrs. Emma Baldwin of Pacific Junc- a brother-in-law of A. C. near Mvnard. The funeral service will be held at Oxford on Friday afternoon and the interment made in the cemetery at that place. FOR SALE Egs hatched at 4c each. Baby chix of Barred or W. Rox, Reds or W. Wyandotte, each 15c. S. C. W. Lpgharn chix, D. W. Young strain. 124e. Hatching egga $6.00 per 100 at farm. Mixed chix assorted heavy varieties 10c. Murray phone 1981. Mrs. Irene Bengen, Mynard, Nebr. flnvthine7 Advertise It. HOW'S THIS? JT ALL'S CATARRH MEDICINES will do v nat we claim for It rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MKDICTNE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves the catarrhal inflammation, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces, thus assisting to restore nor mal conditions. Sold by druggists for oyer 40 Yearr F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo. O. Let us show you. I V