VOL. NO. TTTTTY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1924.
NO. 104
VERY PLEASING
PAGEANT OFFERED
LAST EVENING
'"The Challenge of the Cross at the
Methodist Church bv Members
of the Choir.
From Monday's Daily
Last evenin.tr at th? worship hour
at the First Methodist church the
members of the eongregat ion were
treated to a beautiful r r.dition of the
paeeant. "The Challenge of th?
"ross" given by the young men's
choir of the church and the seven
younsr ladies of the church who pave
the leading parts in the pageant in
a very pleasing manner. On the
platform at the east of the church
auditorium had been arranged the
large cress, representing as it did
the christian faith and teaching and
surrounding these were smaller
crosses, which represented the var
ious tria;s and burdens that are made
the lot of the members of the faith
the world over and through which
they win their fight in the attain
ment of the life of the true christ
ian. The parts in the pageant were
taken by Clara Mae Morgan. Virgin
ia Beeson. Helen Pfoutz. Florence
Cecil. Helen Wescott. Sarah Hector
and Ruth Jacks. The invitation
to the cross was given by Miss Mor
gan and the other ladies took their
parts very realistically to their roles.
The members of the young men's
choir also assisted in the program
and gave several appropriate hyms
that fitted in with the rendition of
the program. ;
0FFICLLLS MAKES REPORTS.
from Monday's Daily
The various officials who are
reports of the fees earned and collect-
eu in eaeir c-inres ior eacn quarter,
01 tr.e ye-ir. nave comp.'iea v.itn tne
. . . ,
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or. file with the county clerk. '
County Clerk Georee R. oayles re
ported the sum of $59.70 in fees
earned and collected, while Mr.
Sayles actin:- as sheriff, in cases in
which Sheriff Stewart was iutereottJ
received $10.
County Jude-e Allen J. Dwwn re
pi.ued the sum of $C04.90 for the
quarter and Clerk of the District
Court James M. Robertson reported
the sum of 970.75
Sheriff E. P. Stewart who has con-
ducted a busir.e
i;l Jm;m;..t;
of his office was able to report the
pum of $22.43 zs having been earn
ed and collected in the- office, this
includes the fees received from serv
ing pnpers from other courts as well
as lo'-al courts and which are known
as "foreign" fee?.
CONVENTION JIAEXS NO CHOICE.
From Monday's Dully
This afternoon the national demo
cratic cm vention adopted a resolu
tion that carried with ls, ayes to
release the delegates from u.ny
pledsr-3 or instructions as to their
votes. This did not apply Chairman
Walsh stated to the states that had
unit rule in operation, and the result
of the succeeding bui'ot. the eighty-
third showed very little chance al-l
tho tiie McAdo') strength was less'
than it was: cn the first ballot of the
morning but showed more strength
that hod been in evidence earlier in
the ce-.-sion. The vote on the lead-' c-ived notice of the fact that she
e-rs fhtv-c d McAdoo to have 416 and ! has been aw arded the prize in the
Smith 5 07. j essay contest of the W. C. T. U.
The convention then adjourned society which recently met at Union,
until 7:"0 o'clecl: this evening which 'the subject of her essay being
will be 5:30 central time. Many of ; "Prohibition Lessens the Margin of
the leaders are he.peful that some! Risks in Accidents." Miss Pfoutz is
compromise candidate may be de-'nov; arranging an essay that will be
velopM r.ud among those are scn.1- ,
tor C;.rter r.lp.ss. senator Samuel M. '
. . -T t -II- Tl.i..;. ll'.vn
liaiston ana jui.h w. imus i
Virginia.
DEPARTS FOR COLORADO.
Fr"m Tuesday's Daily
S. S. Chase and wife and son,
Stuart ('has;, accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Max Worden of Baldwin.
Iowa, have departed for the west
where they eipect to spend the great
er part of the summer on the large
farm of Mr. Chase near Holyoke.
''o'.orado. The party will reach
ther.- in time for the wheat harvest
and will assist in the gathering in oi
the crop which has in the last few
vears be--n nuite large. The Chase
family have been spending their
nunitlKTS in tne wesi ior a uuinun
of years and enjoying the life out in
the open and in the farm work. The
Chase- farm is well situated near
Tir.ivnio nri is near the farms owned
bv A. G. Cole, formerly of this city
and that of C. D. Quinton.
ENJOYS PICNIC PARTY.
From Monday's Daily
VPitprdav afternoon a number of
the ladies of the city enjoyed a very:
fine time near tne misauui inn
ferrv landing in a picnic party. The
members of the party were Mesdames
T Sullivan. Bennett Chriswisser,
A B Taylor, W. T. Smith and Mrs.
Marv Spenser, all close friends and
as.socia'tes. The ladies had come pre-
pared with well filled baskets of the
tr pat and in the dis -
nno-il of these were assisted by Mr
W. T. Smith, who reports the pic-
nlc as a real success.
HAS A CURIOSITY.
From Monday's Daily
This morning C. H. Lewis, the
drayman was down in the main part
I of the city and had with him a real
curosity in the vegetable kingdom
in a potutoe plant where the tubers
instead of growing in the depths of
jthe earth were found to be prowing
on the main plant above ground.
' There were some twenty of the tiny
i potatoes; growing on the plant and
! not one on the roots where they
! should have been growing. Mr.
Lewis thinks that he has a plant
that would make Burbank envious
and it is certainly a renl curosity
and the plant is at the Jo.irnal office
! if there is anyone who does not be
llieve this statement.
VIRGEL OELZENE
ENTERS A FLEA OF
GUILTY TO CHARGE
Louisville Resident Bound Over on
Charge of Possession of Liquor
Sentenced.
From Monday's Eatly
This afternoon in the district court
Virgel Ielzene of Louisville, who has;of this county and western Iowa and
been confined in the countv jail fori for this reason he wishes to get in
the past several weeks as the result
of being bond over to the court on
the charge of possession
of intoxi-
eating liquors, changed his
guilty to one of not guilty.
plea of
Mr. Delzene had at the trial of the
case in the county court entered a
plea of not guilty but has since de
cided to change this, and accordingly
today before Judge Begley the priso
ner changed the plea to guilty.
The court imposed on Mr. Delzene
ia sentence of from six months toithe defeated the Union "Riukydinki"
nnera te
the indeterminate sentence law.
As t,e penitentiary is
penitentiary is greatly 1
CrOWl'pd it is not knnWTl 1ll5t VlIlPIl
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rnp nrisoner car. up rransierred to rnp'
utate institution.
FORMER RESIDENTS.
From Monday's Daily
Tiie Journal has just received a
letter fronia former Plattsmouth
resident. Miss Margurite Porter, who
with her mother. Mrs. William Por
ter, is now visiting at Seaside. Ore-
I gon, where they are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. R. O. Ralston and family. Mrs.
Pnhtnn hoirrr the ol.lcr I n nrhtor nf",uc ''lu,c it-ini. iic .u,u o.ijz n-.
I
; Miss Margurite taught the past
year in the sixth grade in the public
school.-; at Lebanon. Oregon, and hasi
been re-elected to teach there thei
icoming year and will also continue!
her musical studies under Prof. T. P.
HaKer of Astoria, and who was form-
erly with a studio in Omaha.
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Miss Porter states her sister. Miss;
Myrta Porter, dean of the girls in the
East Denver schools, is teaching a
i..a ui it-aiis i-i me summer suuuoi
of the University of Colorado at
Boulder. I party from Omaha coming via trucks
The many old friends of the family j to enjoy the day in the country and
will be very much pleased to learn of j which pressed on the store for sup
their new home and their successes ; i.lies needed. Mr. Patterson is
in the west.
WINS ESSAY PRIZE.
EmiUv
Pfoutz.
Mi:--:- Irene
daughter of
E. Pfoutz.
h.' re -
presented at the state contest of the '
w . t. :. I. society. Hie success of i
ll If 1 ! 1 i i.- mnr.. 1 Z 1
mi- mm- iuu- ir. must inems auuitie granted a degree or divorce irom
Pvtl. worthy of the interest and,Thelma Lee Lloyd. The petition of
thought that she has given to the
subject on whicn she is writing.
ENJOYS FISHING PARTY.
From Monday's rally
The pleasant home of Chris Beil
family in the vicinity of old Kenosha
was scene of a very' pleasant fishing!of action is given as desertion.
party the week end and Sunday. Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Yost and daughter!
of Omaha and Mrs. W.. P. Sitzman
and daughter were there over Sat-
uruay enjoying tne nsning ana the
outing and were joined yesterday by
Margaret and Elizabeth Sitzman,
Miss Dorothy Sattler, Paul Sitzman,
ciuu iuc yaiij tuaiiciuuru uy .nr. .
I P. Sitzman and who joined the other
'members of the party in the fishing.
I All returned home last evening after
!a fine time.
INJURED DOING WELL.
From Monday's Daily
The parties injured here last week
in the overturning of the truck of
the Collins Oil Co., are now doing
very nicely altho Mrs. Clara Thomp-
avu, ui iv&uoci nuu ou unm
injured is still at the hospital in
Omaha where she was taken for
treatment and care for her broken
limb. After examination there at
the hospital it was developed that
there were three breaks in the leg
instead of two as was first thought.
!an additional break being found
'Just below the knee and the nose of'
Mrs. Thompson was also found to
be fractured.
WOULD SEEK IN
TEREST OF FARM
ERS IN MILL HERE
Mr. Eirchey of the Machine Shop and
the Alfa-Maize Mill Desires Co
operation of Farmers.
The Alfa-Maize mill situated at
Third and Pearl street is now under
the management of Mr. Birchey, w ho
also has charge of the machine shops
here that were formerly operated by
L. C. Sharp, and the new manager is
vey anxious to get in touch with
the farmers of this community in an
effort to secure their co-operation in
making the mill a practical paying
proposition if possible.
The chief factor that Mr. Birchey
desires. so he informs the Journal is
just what the farmers of the com-l
munity and those who produce alfalfa'
corn or other feed for forage, would '
think of the operation of the mill ,
as a custum mill where fhey could
hrir p t li i r liar r t p nm i rwl ba vo it f
ground into feed and forage for the
use on their farms and at a very low
figure. The mill is here and Mr. Birchey
feels that it could be made of the
greatest advantage to the residents
touch with the farmers of the county
and discuss with them the proposi-
tion regarding the
operating of the
mm a i nit- mutual ouiouiasc ii uuiu:... .1 r. , ; . Cc-io
the null owners and farmers
r,,r-r.,
SLUGGERS WIN FIFTH VICTORY,
From Mondays Daily
Yesterday afternoon the
Bo-
hemian Sluggers" of this city won
t Vi r . i r fifth viptrin rvf tli cqsoti -1 i r,
1 . u - "in 1 v - i v. " j v. 11
he locals were very effe-ted at
the critical stages of the ramo and
t)mi i- (ti.rv nf Qrnhnila nn,l U'roixi I
I 11V I 1 ltLl,V . K i ' . H t . V AV-JVI
- u - nc vnrt nc ot ttie iwct nnr ic i
the dwellers from the hills of old ,
Liberty safe at all stages of the game,
Hoback and Eaton did the tossing '
tor tne L nion boys wniie Milt Liar-
ence the veteran baseball player who,
useu to piay tne national pastime
back in the barehanded days, did
the receiving and played a game
j equal to the more youthful members,
of his team. ,
The sluggers are preparing to go "
to Omaha where they will play one.
one ofthe teams there and are an
wins for their team.
SAYS BUSINESS GOOD.
The new Fat-?rson cash stniv :-.t
th. old city of Lock Bluffs, ew.iel
b, I red Patterson t.rd which is mia-j
aged bv Efia Patterson, his daughter.
, , , . i i : : ii
has
been doing a fine business it is(
reported and which is very good in
what Senator Pat Harrison would
iterm
i store
"these republican times." The
was visited Sunday by a large
planning the installing rf a gas
seiving station in a short time that
will be able to supply gas and oil
to those who wish it. As one of the
old settlers
remarked, "Rock Bluffs
is coming into its own
and the com-
!1"""11 - niucn p-eait-u uu
their
new business house.
ASKS FOR DIV0RE.
From Tuesday's Dally-
This morning in the othce or l lerh.
of the District Court James M. Rob-
t rtson an action was filed bv George
Anderson Lloyd by his attorney
William A. Robertson, asking that he
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.the plaintiff states that they were
were married on June 4. 1924 at
Louisville, Nebraska. The cause
of the action is given in the peti-
tion as cruelity.
Another petition for divorce is
that of Fred Charles Druecker vs.
Alda Margaret Druecker. The cause
TRENCH CAVES IN
From Tuesday's Dally
This morning the workmen at theillfr nf fripnfis at bridere in honor of
site of the Nebraska Masonic Home
innrmarj nunamg naa a very nar -
row escape when a large section of
the trench that is being dug for the;were very prettily arranged with1 scene of action. There was no trace
foundation of the building caved in- I the garden flowers in a color schemetfound of the parties who committed
Just before the cave-in there hadjof yellow that added to the pleasant-' the act and Vicent has had his faith
been a number of workmen in theneSg of the surroundings. Tables ' in the honesty of the residents of the
trench the last of whom had only.were piace(i for twelve and in the 'old home town badly shaken and
climbed out a few moments before ! contests, Mrs. Waldemar Soennich-' will be forced to purchase another
several teet or earth gave way and!sell was awarded the first prize while
filled up the excavation. The amount Miss Eleanor Burnie received the
. ia iu vwn i eyune
some time to clean up and will cause
a further delay in the erection of
the building.
WILL UNDERGO EXAMINATION
From Monday's Daily
This morning Mrs. J. R. Vallery
departed for Omaha in company
with her daughter, Miss Grace, and
her physician. Dr. T. P. Livingston,
and will receive treatment there as
well as an X-ray examination as the
result of her injuries received many!
months ago when she fell and injured
one of her lower limbs.
FIRE DESTROYS RESIDENCE.
Mondav afternoon at 3 o'clock the
residence property of Frank Bashusj
in the north part of the city was dis-j
covered to be in flames and being ;
outside of the fire limits and a great 1
distance from the flr" hydrants it '
.was entirely destroyed. The mem
bers of the family and the neigh-'
bors were able to sav the household : Some Twenty Residents West of City
goods from the iiames however and Would Be Placed in Country
the loss will not be as serious as it School Districts,
might be to the owner. This is thei
property on North Kurhth street:
formerly known as the John LeesleyJ
place. The fire is thought to have !
been caused from an overheated
stove.
BOY SCOUTS TO
SPEND FORTNIGHT
AT SCOUT CAMP
Will Leave
on Thursday Afternoon
For Camp Quivera to Spend a
Ten Day Period There.
From Tuesday's Daily
The members of the Boy Scouts of
Plattsmouth who find it possible to
do so will leave on Thursday after
noon at 1:C0 for Camp Quivera.
near Cedar Creek where they will
spend a ten day period enjoying camp
life under the euptrision of the
Scout officials.
The parents cf the boys who have
f-hlT ll 1 UlU 11 4.1 U LUlll LW 1 1 . : -T L 111
i;t is estimated that there will be from
twenty-two to twenty-five of the
'Scouts to take the trip out to the
icaniD for the period alloted them.
Harlev F. Cecil will be in charge
of the Plattsmouth contingent at
4 . An M n n .1 : 1 i -v : n
Lilt I : 1 J 1 1 II illlil ID UCtlLllMLillU d tit Ft Ml
a time as the bovs in tiie delights of
nd being an officer
I will escape the routine of guard and
z p. which are featured as strong! v!
in the Scouts as well as the armv.
-T-l 1, t l, 1 V.
I lit. II It- Ml lit I II ) L 1-1 I t UtlIL mil IT.
required to take onlv their blankets,
and what clothing and toilet articles
as are necessary as the cooking and
other details are handled by the
permanent personell of the camp and)
the visiting scouts are required onlytp
to supply such assistants as may be
needed in the kitchen, and for camp'on the treasni
detail
BULLFORNIA'
PLEASES A LARGE
DELEGATION
Cass and Otce County Nights at the
Ak.5ar.Ben Den Draws a Large j
, , . , s
Crowd to Eniov tiie Froliclc.
From Tuesday's T'ally
Last night was the day set apart
at the Ak-Sar-Pen den in Omaha fnr;isC4. and the date of the warrant
Cass and Otoe counties, and there was on July 4, 1SG4. a few days past
was a very large attendance of the sixty year? ago. Even in those
ri irlr.ntc frnm nil nvr fi(ifl inn of the i.im.ar ...f-c? i- .'icm c li o ita crrt r l
tn ...rtirin.rr in the1!,,-" ",.o, i c-,w;?
. . . .
tronc and tun mat tne inigius oiithe state. The warrant was signed
the Ak-Sar-Ben had arranged for l-y Jacob Vallery as chairman of the
their visitors. ! county board of commissioners and
The Plattsmouth delegation was T'.urv.ell Spurlock as the countv
U11' '"' "s '"" ;-v u"';merK.
ioaus muhiu me jum u m r-ian i
metropolis anu tne visitors irom inis and dated .November 6. 1S65, and was
city were fortunate in not being jn payment of witness fees to James
picked as the candidates for the ; Valentine, and signed by Isaac Pol
initiation ceremonies and therefore iar(j as chairman of the countv board
all had a chance of witnessing the
working cf the Omaha wrecking crew
on the "unfortunate" Billy Rau.
tjie genial Manley banker was among
those selected by "Samson" to take
thn in irinr ion work as well as was
Mr. Toplift. one of the voung farmers
Gf near Murrav.
'
The show. "Btilliornia. was one
nf the best that has been given bv
the Omaha boosting organization
and their satires on the tourists in
the far west was a real scream and
'showed the greatest of cleaverness in
I expressing a plain truth in the role
of a musical comedy.
ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE.
From Tuesday's Dally
Yesterday afternoon Miss Elva Hart
ford entertained very delightfully at; home of Mr. Janda and this morning
tier hnme on north 3rd street, a nmn-!when Vincent came forth to view
; Migs jIari0n Mauzy. one of the forth -
l(1(1min brides of the late summer
Thp rooms nf tiip hnmp
,Second prize and the guest prize.
awarded to Miss Mauzy. At an ap
propriate hour a very delicious two
course luncheon was served by the
hostess who was assisted in serving)
by Miss Helen Wurl. Those enjoy-
ing the pleasant occasion were
(Mesdames Waldemar Soennichsen.
George I . Dovey or Chicago, t loyd
Hardingof Lincoln. James G. Mauzy,
Evi Spirer, Sidney Bell, Edward Wil-
cox. J. D. Hawksworth of Lincoln,
Misses Ruth Shannon, Eleanor Burn-
ie. Elva Hartford and Marion Mauzy.
Tiien let
ARE YOU out of a Jot)?
ius helD find you one.
BOARD OF EDO-
CATION REJECTS
THE PETITION
From Tiif-suay'F Dully
The board oT education
coccinT) lnct n i 'Vl t iliwt ;n
at tlieir
for their
consideration the petition of some
twenty residents of school district
No. 1, residing west and northwes
of the city limits and in which the
sought to have their land placed
outside of the district for taxation
purposes, and to the Stull and Jean
districts instead.
There is something over 1,000
j acres otiana
represented in the pe-t
e amount of tax money'
tition and tl
derived in the neighborhood of $2.-'
500. and the board of education from'
1 the standpoint of economy decided
that it would be best to reject the
petition as presented and voted to re
tain the lands of the petitioners in
the district as it is now constituted.
The granting of the petition would,
in the opinion of the board of edu
ation place the added burden on the
other taxpayers of the district and
they felt that this would be unfair
to the other residents of the district
who would secure no additional bene
fits from the increase in taxation.
One proposition offered bv the
petitioners in support of their con-jjail and that they should have an op
tentions was that the added tuition : portunity of tiling a supersedius bond,
from the ountry districts to he high : Objection was also offered to the in
schooi would make up he difference ' junction by the defendant Tidd, as it
in the loss of tax monev but this was so braced as to interfere with
view was not shared by the mem
bers of the board.
OLD TIME COUNTY
WARRANTS FOUND
1 John L. Tidball, Sr., of This City Has
Two Interesting Old Time Cass
County Warrants.
jn the east show window of the
y. Wescott's Sons store there is
Uiinun twn nid timf warrants drawn
ry or Cass county, ana
which are in the possession oi Jonn l..
Tidball, Sr., who has owned them for
more than fifty years and having
them placed away in some of his
papers failed to find them until re -
cently and as they are sixty years old
the payment on them is considerably
overdue.
The warrants came into possession
r.f Vr TiHhpll nmnv veirs ren in
j '
jiMismess dealings witn one james
v aieiuiue, in
wnose iavor the war-.
rrnts nre drawn- b'
t f'? they
cme to l.ght.
na f thii n-amr
by Cass county and
One of the warrants is for the sum;n!: tiiat ir. Quinton is the sheriff of
of 75c and numbered 1443, and was
!in payment of witness fees before!
tbe grand iurv in session in June
. .
nie otner warrant is ior .ou
and Mr.Spurlock as the county clerk
The warrant was No. 2,000.
The two warrants have attracted
much attention from the old resi
dents of the city and the county
officials at that time are among the
leading figures in the early history
of Cass countv.
LOSES SPARE TIRE.
From Wednesday'!! Dally
Vincent Slatinsky, who was a form
er resident here, and who with his
family is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Cyril Janda. may have to
make his return trip to Sedalia,
Missouri, minus the spare tire on his
Ford as the result of the unkind act
of some pearson last night. The car
of Mr. Slatinsky was left at the
the car he discovered that the spare
' tire with the rim had been taken
and the party committing the theft
had made their sretawav from the
of the tires before
home.
starting back
RECEIVES PLEASANT NEWS.
From Wednesday's Daily
This morning C. H. Lewis and wife
of this city received the glad news
of the arrival of a new grandaughter.
' a fine little seven and a half pound
daughter being born at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Amel Stillger at Santa
Ana, California, yesterday morning,
The mother is doing fine and little
Marion Loraine is the finest little
ladv in the land, states the happy
father in the message. Mrs. Stillger
was formerly Miss Bertha Lewis of
this city.
WELL VISIT AR-SAR-REN.
From Monday's Daily
i This evening will be Otoe and
Cass county night at the Ak-Sar-Ben
den and a number of the Plattsmouth
people are planning to motor up to
the big town up the river to enjoy
the play of the Knights of this year,
"Bullfornia" and the initiation cere
monies. There has been no orga-,ni:-e(!
delegation planned from this
jcity hut Cuy Morgan has secured a
i number of tickets for the big show
for those that desire them. Murray
and other towns of the county will
nave a very large representation at
the den timisht it is expected
? COURT SIGNS
INJUNCTION OR
DER HERE TODAY
Judge Stueffer Siens the Injunction
Directed Against C. D. Quinton
and Other Defendants.
From Wednesday's Daily
This afternoon Judge C. C. Stueffer
of Omaha motored down to hear the
answers filed against the temporary
order asked by Sheriff E. P. Stewart
against C. D. Quinton, A. L. Tidd, A.
F. Sturm and Relph J. Haynie.
The defense offered the plea that
the injunction was not the proper
means of securing possession of the
his legal practice and would prevent
the bringing of other actions to re
gain the office of sheriff.
The plaintiff, through his attor
ney. Judge Ben S. Baker, of Omaha,
pointed out that the possession of
the jail by the defendant Quinton
was an obstruction to the discharge
e.f the full duties of the office of
sheriff by Mr. Stewart and that this
should be corrected. The possession
by the sheriff of the jail was a part
of the office and to which Mr. Stew
are was entitled as the actual ac
knowledged official of the county.
If in the final determination, the
case should be adjudged otherwise.
.v.. v, , ,1,1 . i
P(i
bv ther nlatntiff and that all the
; plaintiff asked of the defendants was
j obedience of the order,
After hearing the argument of
J counsel. Judge Stueffer entered the
!court or(jer granting the temporary
injunction and fixed the bond to be
j supplied by Mr. Stewart at $1,000.
J The injunction, as stated before in
( tne Journal, covers the possession of
,t, . k ,.i, ; v. ; . ; r
iuc luuuij jxii, nic yiuuiumug Ul
stopping payment of the salary of
Ir ctewart and the renreseutations
j being made to others that Mr. Stew-
only recenuj i art js not the legal sheriff, or caus
ing notices to be Dublished numort-
e county.
SECURING HAIL INSURANCE.
The farmers of Cass county are
preparing to protect themselves
jagainst a repetition of the serious
1 nni'stni
hailstorm of two years ago that did
so much damage in this section. The
state hail insurance law is providing!
the means of the protection to the
farmers and so far County Clerk
George R. Sayles has written up
seventy-three of the hail policies, as j
he is the official representative of thei
department of the state having the
insurance in charge.
A STRONG BANK
Character
It is highly desirable for every man
to build up his credit in other words, to
make sure that he could secure a loan or
buy goods on credit if necessary.
That is why it is important to settle
up all your obligations promptly; to be
come known as a man whose word can
be depended on.
Character counts! Keep up your
credit by showing your character.
The Bank What
JOHN W. DAVIS
NOMINATED BY
DEMOCRATS
LONG DRAWN OUT BATTLE END
ED AT 1 O'CLOCK THIS AF
TERNOON. STATES CROWD TO SUPPORT
On the lCSrd Ballot the Changes Are
Made That Put Over the Form
er Ambassador to England.
From Wednesday's Dally
The long standing deadlock
of the democratic national con
vention was broken this after
noon at New York when the
nomination of John W. Davis of
West Virginia for presidency of
the United States was made on
the 103 ballot.. The 102 ballot
the changes made during the
roll call put the nomination of
the West Virginia man over.
The opening of the national con
vention this morning was marked by
the elimination of the leading figures
in the race, William Gibbs McAdoo,
who released his delegates last night
on the 99th ballot and Governor Al
fred E. Smith of New York, who this
morning notified the delegates that
were supporting him that they were
at liberty to vote for their second
choice.
The withdrawal of the two leaders
from the race brought John V. Davis
of West Virginia to the fore with
Underwood also receiving a part of
the Smith strength and Hon. E. T.
Merdith of Iowa some of the strong
McAdoo following. Senat r Walsh
of Montana also received a large
vote -on the opening ballot of the
morning. The southern .legation
seemed largely to favor Davis and
the western delegations Merdith,
while the Underwood strength was
largely from New York and Alabama.
Ohio was found largely supporting
Davis while Illinois and Pennsyl
vania delegates were badly scattered
giving all of the candidates votes.
At the conference held of the Mc
Adoo forces there was some discuss
ion of a united support of Gilbert M.
Hitchcock of Nebraska, Thomas J.
Walsh of Montana and E. T.
Merdith of Iowa, William Jennings
Bryan was very much against the
pushing of the candidacy of former
Senator Hitchcock and urged more
the Merdith support.
The 101 ballot, the only one taken
in the forenoon today had the follow
ing results: Davis, 31C; Underwood,
2255; Walsh. 98: Merdith. 130;
Glass, 69; Smith, 121; McAdoo. 62;
Robinson, 225; Gerard, 22. There
were a large number of scattering
votes given for James M. Cox, Homer
S. Cummins. D. F. Houston and
Josephus Daniel.
Ben Hankinson and son, Nate,
were passengers this morning for
Lincoln where they will visit for the
week at Capital Beach, being on the
entertainment program there with
I their wire act.
IN A GOOD STATE
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Gounts!
You Feel at Home!"
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