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THUESPAY, JULY 3, 1924. PLATTSMOUTH BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE Murray Department 1 Prepared in the Interest of the People 1 he "Glorious Fourth" Again! If any of our illustrious forefathers could come back, now, to their 'land of the free' they would spend months and months in trying to see and understand all our latest in ventions. Yet we like to believe and know that none of them would sacrifice one single principle of freedom and justice for taint ed wealth or polluted position. We reverence and honor those staunch men who insti tuted, governed and builded this land of ours on the prin ciple of The Brotherhood of Man Murray State Bank Murray, Nebraska SLOGAN There is No Substitute for Safety Mrasek & Rn liter sold a hay stack er to Eugene Fitch last week, which he will use in making his hay this jun.mer. Postmaster V. S. Smith w;;s calleu to Plattsmouth to look aft'T joine business matters for a short time on Tuesday. W. P. Cook of Plattsmouth was SOENNICHSEN'S 2 for Saturday, My 5th 48-lb. sack Piilsbury flour $1.85 Gallon cans apricots 65 Gallon cans peaches 60 Frank s sauer kraut, 20c can, 2 for .35 Otoe hominy, per can 10 Tomatoes, No. 3 size cans, 2 for 35 Tomatoes, No. 2 size cans, 2, for 25 Corn, 2 cans for 25 Sifted peaas, 2 cans for 35 Monarch pork and beans, 2 for 25 Peaberry coffee, per lb. . . . : , .35 Pink salmon, per can 20 Kellogg's corn flakes, 15c, 2 for 25 Post toasties, large size 15 Jar rubbers, 10c dozen, 3 dozen for 25 Mason jar caps, per dozen 35 Glassware Specials Star cut glasses, each $ .10 Star cut pitchers, each 1.00 6 lemonade glasses and pitcher 2.75 Ice tea tumblers, 10c each, 6 for 50 Horse shoe tumblers, 6 for .25 Glass lemon or orange juice extractor 10 Highest Market Prices Paid for Your Produce The U till Fhone No. 12 of Murray and Surrounding Vipinity Especially for the Journal Readers visiting with friends and looking af ter some business matters in Murray on last Tuesday. T. J. Brendel was looking after business for the state at Tecumseh and vicinity during the greater por tion of the week. J. V. Pitman was looking after some business matters in Flattsinourh last Tuesday afternoon and made the trip in his auto. Mrs. Flora Sans has purchased a new Essex coach auto which is be ing used by the family with a great degree of satisfaction. Chris Miller, who has been stay ing at Milford for the past six months, has been visiting in Murray for the past few days. Uncle C. X. Barrows has been put ting in his idle moments painting his home in Murray and is getting the place looking very fine. John Farris purchased a new two row machine for the cultivating of his corn, gettine the same from the firm of Mrasek & Richter. Uncle Chris Schumaker. of Weep ing Water was visiting with his son, Edward Schumaker and was a caller in Murray cn last Tuesday. E. J. Wasson and the family, of Havelock were visiting last Sunday at the heme of the parents of Mrs. Wasson's parents, Mr. and Mro. J. E. Hatchett. W. J. Philpot shipped two cars of hoge to the South Omaha market on lat Tuesday, while DeForest Philpot also had one car on the market the same clay. Mesdames O. A. Davis ami E. S. Tutt were visiting with frienls aud looking after some shopping iu Om aha on last Tuesday, making the trip in their car. The firm of Puis & Mrasek is do ing a good business and sold one evening this week four sets of fly nets after supper. They are think ing business very good. Mark Burton, of Nehawka, has been doing some painting at the new home of C. D. Spangler, and has been getting the interior of the house In readiness for occupancy. Roy Gerking has been suffering quite severely from an attack of lum bago which almost put him out of the running for a few days, but is some better at this time. Harry G. Todd shipped two cars of very fine cattle to the South Omaha market on last Monday evening, and which proved to be able to bring near the top price of the day. C. D. Keesee, who has been having so serious a time with a hand which became infected from a slight wound is now getting along nicely, though he is still carrying a very sore hand. Mrs. Sadie Oldham and Alex Stor ey, accompanied by Mrs. Arthur Cop enhaver, were visiting and looking after some business matters in Lin coln on last Monday, making the trip in their au'o. Eugene Graham is assisting at th-; farm of Charles Mutz with the work which is just now crowding the E5 nnfohsen Go. Murray, Nebraska farmers of this vicinity and his as sistance comes at just the right time and in the right way. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McCracken were entertaining on last Tuesday at their home the mother of Mr. Mc Cracken, Mrs. J. H. McCracken, of Kellerton. Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Calkins, of Omaha. C. M. Chrisweisser, of Nehawka was in Murray last Tuesday, but he was not feeling the best as he had been picking cherries at the home of Jerome St. John and fell from a tree, tearing one of his sox. He however is slowly recovering. Mrs. G. W. McCracken is antici pating a most enjoyable Fourth of July, as she is to have her sister, Mrs. H. L. August ie, of Maloy, Iowa, and the family which includes the hu?band and children, spend the na tion's natal day with her C. X. Meyers of near Weeping Water, who has been in the hospital , di uuiaua xui mrinc ujii, is m uj im ported as being quite seriously ill from an abcess which has formed in his bowels. It is hoped that this ex cellent gentleman will soon be able! to be out again and return to his' horne. I Mrs. George E. Nkkles, who has ' been at the hncnital for some timP. where she was receiving treatment, is making some substantial improve ment and it is hoped that she will be able to return to her home in Murraj in a short time and that soon her health will have been en tirely restored. Messrs Eoedeker and Wehrbein shipped two loads of cattle from the Murray station to the South Omaha ; stoc k market on last Monday even-' ing and Mr. Boedeker w-s on the; market on Tuesday to see the stock sold. They brought a very fair price : and showed an increase of weight for j the time of feeding of about 500 i pounds each. j Miss Beatrice Rawls, who has been j making her home with her aunt, ' Mrs. W. S. Smith, for the past ear, departed for Butte, Montana, on last ! Monday where she will visit tor two ! mnntlic sat t ho hnmu rf n'trrrta and was accompanied as far Lin-. ' coin by Attorney C. A. Haw Is and' Schedule Allows but 34 Hours For wife of Plattsmouth and Mrs. W. S. j t . tlj. th;, Smith, of Murray. Lew ork Flight. Willie LintneF and Miss Gladys! Course Fully Lighted. Mrasek wtre seeing some very fine country last Sunday when they took j A new era in transportation will a trip which included Nebraska City j he reached today with the inaugura and then across the river into Iowa ; tion of the night airmail schedule and then to Council Bluffs over to J across the United States. Fiying on Omaha and then home via Platts-!a schedule that calls for a flying mouth, which made a most pleasant i time of 34 hours and 43 minutes trip and afforded them a view of j from the time the first plane starts some verv tine eountrv.--- 'from New York until fhe mail is de- Mrs. Frank Albin. who is - sister I livered at San Francisco, the air of Mr. George Xickles. and who has rrail service will have speeded up been at the hospital in Omaha for i hy three times the fastest possible some time, and who had been e cpect- delivery yet effected by modern ing she would have to undergo an I transportation. A similar result will operation, but fortunately the lady is.be had by the eastward flights, which E-ettinir bv without the ordeal and is also showing some improvement and her many friends are hoping that she wiil soon be on her way to per manent recovery. Celebrated Eis Birthday r, , ; , y , Vk -c. , ? , O. Latta passed the S6th mile post and is feeling very fine, thank you. He and son James departed on last Monday for Hastings, where they went to celebrate the birthday and also to celebrate the birthday of the nation as well on July 4th, tomor row. Are Visiting Here Mr. W. A. Scott and his father, Mr. II. II. Scott, of Toueka. Kansas. arrival in Miirnv last MfTnrlnv af- ternoon, having driven from their i heme to Murray during the day. ! They found the roads very good and! made very good time coming. Mr. Scott was very much pleased to see his many friends in Murray and they to see the former Murray citi zen. He however returned in time to get home for the celebration of the Fourth. Cass and Otoe County Kight It has been arranged that Monday Corn Sheller for Sale A Marsailes cylinder sheller and Titan tractor in good working order for sale at an attractive price. Mrasek & Richter Peterson Hardware Co. Murray, Nebr. Farm Machinery FOR SALE 2-row Lister Cultivator $87.50 . This new cultivator is one of the latest and best. Also Dempster 2 row shovel cultivators. Prices right Fred Beverage Murray, Nebr. If id; of the re tilers of tbe Journal knar of any social event or item of Interest In this vicinity, and will mail 8 xme to this office. It will ap pear under this beading. We want all new items Editob night be set a part for the visit of those who may desire to witness this year's show and initiation at the Ak-Sar-Ben den in Omaha, and all the Murray people desiring to get a tick et of admsision can do so by calling at the Murray State bank. Remem ber the date, July 7th, is Cass and Otoe county night at the den, and ar range to go. Sabbath School Notes ' W. F. Graham. Pastor Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Preaching services at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Junior at 3 p. m. Intermediate at 7:15 p. m. Mid week prayer meeting Wed nesday at S p. in. You are cordially invited to at tend all services. '"In this actual world, a church- ktj. C(,nimunity a mn hayt? aL;ill.on community where ed aud scoffed at or ignored their religious needs is a community on the rapid down graJe." Theodore Roosevelt. r , , A Aiorray will ceivjrace Even at a late hour the people of Murray, not wanting to go elsewhere got together and concluded they would have a celebration aud accord ingly appointed committees, and all got busy and like all things when people have a mind to work, they roon had all arrangements made for a celebration and got out bills tell i ing the people. The matter of hav ing a community spmt olten does things when it would be considered impossible otherwise. They are sure enterprising and posted a bill on the car of the Journal man. and this got some free advertising. NIGHT AIRMAIL IS TO START ACROSS 0. S. THIS CORNING win te made in 6Z nours ana o min- utes of flying. Each plane is equipped to carry six hundred pounds of mail, or ap proximately 24 thousand letters. Changes of planes and pilots will D niaae " f 1X , V1 A ha. Cheveane. Salt Lake City and R Tbe new MrTice be con. ,t , r,,,P n- c-hHi i trifir tt.P;1,pr OP fiarv-n ho considered. Stupendous Lierhtinar Protect. The weather handicap must be met as it has in the past, but to overcome the handicap of darkness, the most stupendous lighting proj ect ever attempted, has turned the entire course of 1.4C0 miles, which the mail pilot must traverse during the hours Of darkness into a bril- liantly lighted aerial pathway along w hich the travelers of the air at night may feel as secure as in the brightest day. Almost a thousand billion candlepower will be utilized in lighting up the course. Two half-billion candle power bea cons, throwing their light a half de gree over the horizon, one revolving completely three times a minute, and the other every ten seconds.will di rect the flyers to the landing place at Fort Crook field. The light from these beacons is visible on a clear night for more than a hundred miles Simular beacons are located approxi mate! fifty mile"? apart along the entire course of the night flight. At intervals of three miles between tliese stations acetylene beacons of F thousand candle power, visible for nine miles, will flash at the rate of 150 times a minute. Three Planes From East. R. J. Pape of Chicago will pilot the first plane to arrive in Omaha on the eastward flight, and Frank Yag er will bring in the plane from Chey enne. Every precaution hss been taken to make the new schedule not only a r3Cord breaking one in the element of the time, but to make it as safe as possible for the men who do the fly ing. The planes are equipped with lights, and will be visible everywhere along the course during the night flights. The first plane leaves "New York at 10 a. m. eastern standard time, and at G a. m. Pacific standard time. Another will leave Friday. Three planes will be required to transport the westbound mail out of New York and Cleveland, according to a wire received at the airmail held isst night Dy tan t;gge, su perintendent of the airmail service Two planes will be required to carry the mail from New York alone. Egge stated, and an additional plane will be needed to handle that waiting at the Cleveland and Chicago fields. The amount of this which will be for Omaha distribution, he said, will be offset by the mail address to cities in the west, and three planes will probably arrive here, tonight from Chicago Instead of the one orig inally scheduled. FLAG RIPPED WITH KNIFE IT IS LEARNED American Emblen Dishonored by a Japanese Fanatic Kegret Over the Incident. Tokio, July 1. The cutting down of the American flag at the United States embassy here Ly an unidenti fied Japanese was discussed in the lower house of the diet today while it was officially indicated that a special meeting of the cab inet might be held to discuss the af fair. The matter was reported to Premier Kato today during a session of the house of representatives. With Foreign Minister Shiderara and Home Minister Wakasuki the pre mier immediately left the chamber for a conference as to what action should be takfcn. Following the con ference a most thoro police search for the man who cut down the flag wa3 ordered, together with an inves tigation into all phases of the affair. A formal statement of the cutting down of the fi:ig was issued by the foreign office. "I realize what the American flag means to the Amer ican people," Minister Shidehara said in making public tbe statement, "and we are most regretful that this has happened." ftment of Foreign Office. The foreign office, statement read: J A u:in apparently about twenty-; seven years old secretly entered the ; compound of the United States em-j bassy, lowered the embassy flac andi then made prood his escape. His ac-j tion was discovered Lv several po licemen dispatched thither in con nection with anti-American dem- in the citv since moning. t "I regret this incident exceeding-! ly," Minister Shidehara told Jeffer-j son Caffery. the American charge' d'affairs. when the latter called to report the matter to him. The baron p.dded that the affair was causing! the government great worry as well j as regret. Premier Kato, he said.i had ordered, first, the apprehension of the P.aT cutter at any trice andj second, the mot rigorous police i search and investigation. "I hone that no American believes this incident represents the senti ment of any thinking Japanese or has the approval of any member of our intelligent or responsible class es." Raron Shidehara concluded. The remnants of the flag, now in possession of Charge Caffery shows that the flaer proper was ripped with a knife from the canvas band where-! by it was joined to the halyards. Only the band was left, with a few clineinc: shreds of the flag itself. Torbirls Publishing Incident. The police have forbidden publica tion of news regarding the incident in local newspapers. The discussion in the house of rep resentatives followed the introduc tion of an ardent resolution chanc ing the order of the day and permit tine an interpellation of the govern ment of the flag incident by Chuji Shimooka.one. time vice minister of home affairs and leader of the ken seikai. the strongest party in this parliament. "The government extremely re grets the United States flag inci dent," Home Minister Wakatsuki de clared in replying to the interpella tion. "The government will exercise increased precautions to guard against such incidents in the future." In his address on the subject Shi mooka expressed the regret of -the house of representatives that any such demonstration should have taken place. He asked the home minister to explain "in order to avoid my misunderstanding by the Amer ican people." "The eovernment has not inter fered with proper expressions of re gret and resentment against the dis criminatory immigration bill," Wa kttfiuki replied. "But the govern ment has instructed the police not to permit any repetitions of such inci dents as the Imperial hotel affair (v. here ruffians broke up a dance at tended by foreigners) which do not represent the will of our people. They oppese such outrages." COURT HOLDS WIFE MUST OBEY SPOUSE Southern Judge Upholds Plea of Husband for Obedience Inter pretation of Law With Teeth to it. Montgomery, Ala., June 29. The age-old marriage vow con taining the word "obey," fast tending toward obsolescence, was given an interpretation with "teeth" by the Alabama court of appeals when it upheld, in effect, the right of a husband to abject to his wife'8 employment of adventitious aids to her tupposedly natural beauty. It is the imperative of a man's wife to obey, the court held. The wife in question had curled her hair against the expressed wish of her husband. In rendering the opinion, the court also decided it not only was the right but the duty of the husband, in absence of proof of bad character, to fix the domicel of his children, irrespective of the mother's wishes The ruling was made in reversing a lower court which had issued a writ of habeas corpus to Mrs. Macon Sparkman to recover cuctody of her daughter. Following domestic incompatibility aa a result of his wife's curled hair, it was said, Mrs. Sparkman left her husband, taking the child. Late: Sparkman recovered the daughter and placed her in his mother's home. Mr. Sparkman filed petition for a writ of habeas corpus and the lower court ordered Sparkman to produce the child. This order met reversal in the apellate tribunal.. BE CONVINCED for yourself that Journal want ads pay. r. Laf L X S 3 a ik& ft Every man, woman and child to after d the free en tertainment by the Community Club. sflondgy Evening, July 7th FRr!E fFRE3'iVIENT?! GORGEOUS FIRE WORKS DISPLAY HERE JULY 4TII Celebration Committee Eas Spared Ho Expense on This Feature of the Entertainment Those who may be under the im pression that the fireworks display here on July 4th will consist of a bunch of roman candles, a few sky rockets and a number of "flares" of dazzling light, are due to receive a happy surprise. Times have char. god greatly, even since Plattsmouth l.-vst celebrated, a dozen years ago, and what may have been In vogue then is decidedly out of date now. Witness, our automo biles, and a hundred other things. And so it is with fireworks. The up-to-date display of a decade ago would be considered in the. class of lawn fete3 now, so great has been the strides made in this line of in dustry. And whereas, the earlier dis plays were fired from an elevated platform and consisted wholly of aerial lighting effects, the new style fireworks are fired from the ground, being divided into four distinct clas sifications, namely: Arenic illumina tion, aerial illumination, bomb shells and massive set pieces, consisting of lettered and figured designs that are mounted upon specially prepared framework and can be seen for a great distance where the view is not obstructed by trees. The display to be fired here Fri day night comprises a large array of arenic lighting effects, consisting of splines, mines, etc., while the aerial Franklin County (III.) Uul The Very Best on the Market for the Purpose! Banning Phone 21 Puis & Mrasek We are now open and reatly for busi ness, prepared for tin work and repairing1 of all kinds in our line. We will handle and carry all farm machinery repairs. Farm machinery in stock for your in spection and selection. Also a line of good harness. Puis & W. H. Pals Murray, H ere to Serve You There has been a demand for a business house to serve the farmers in this community and we have se cured the John Deere line of implements and will keep a complete assortment. See us for anything in this line of farming machinery. . In the matter of repairs, we will carry and supply you in all needed farming machinery repairs no matter what line. We also handle American woven wire fencing, fence posts and barbed wire. - Warehouse and business in Murray at Peterson's Hardware Mrasek & MURRAY -:- - display is composed of a limited number of old style sky rockets and a large number of the nw style rocket bombs, which produce the same effect but eliminate the danger attendant when large numbers of the heavy stick roclrets are thrown into the air. The bombshells which diff- er from the rocket bombs in tbe na ture of the contents released com prise ten each 15, 12 and 9 inch size, all fired from large steel mortars buried in the ground, and 30 or more of the six-inch size. The set pieces are eleven in num ber and include several with a fire frontage as great as 15 by 50 feet. Near the close of the hour's program a European battle of scarcely more 'than a minute's duration (short but full of the real old pep that made the boys hunt the dugouts in the stir ring world war days) will be follow ed by the set pieces, the American Legion emblem, the Red Cross and and the grand finale of the show, "Our Flag" emblazoned ia fire and most realistic. All of these pieces are 10x10 or larger in size. The most suitable place for firing the display that could be found is along the old river front at the foot of Main street, where both tbe aer ial and the ground displays may be seen from the surrounding hills, as well as more plainly by the crowds that will throng the ground adja cent to the Burlington tracks. As the nearest spectators should be from a block and a half .to two blocks from the display, a "made-to-order" location for firing it, and one where spectators might drive in their cars has been impossible to find without going beyond the outskirts of town, which would prevent many not having cars from seeing it at all, so the river front ground has been selected as the most suitable. Blank book at Yonroal office. & tickles Murray. Neb. Mrasek Joe Mrasek Nebraska Richter Bros. : - - -:- NEBRASKA mull