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r THURSDAY, MAflCH 25, 1938. P4ATTBM0TJTH SESEW7BCKLY JOURITAX PAGE SIX II t SPECIAL Poultry Prices for Saturday March 27 Hens, per lb 25c Smooth leg Sprir j,s . 22c Stags, per lb 18c TO BE DELIVERED AT Peoples Produce Co Cash Buyers of Poultry Butter and Eggs H. G. Klinger, Prop. 145 South 6th St. Plattsmouth - - Nebraska BURN TRASH AND WEEDS Parties residing in Plattsmouth pricinct are hereby requested to burn all trash and weeds along the roadways in the precinct. These weeds interfere with the grading of the highways and the proper drainage of the same. See that your weed are destroyed at once. C. C. BARNARD. m22-4tw3td Road Overseer. 1 Ross Shopshire Pleads Guilty; Given Parole Owing to Family Young Man Taking Adding Machine Is Shown Clem ency During Good Behavior From Monday's Dally This morning in the district. court Ross Shopshire. the young man charged with breaking and entering the office at the lumber yard of Crane, Curyear & Murty at Manley. was given a hearing before Judge James T. Bcgley. Tlio vniinsr man was charged in a complaint filed by County Attorney W. G. Kieck, with the crime or DreaKing and entering which carries with it a penitentiary sentence for the ofliense and to this charge the prisoner en tered a plea of guilty a charged. Owing to the condition of the fam ily of the unfortunate man as well as his own apparent remorse at the off ense the recommendation was made to the court that leniency be given him in the sentence. It was decided by the court that the prisoner pay the cost of the prose cution and the damage that he had caused in the robbery and with this the sentence was suspended during such time as shall conduct himself properly and not make any further violations of law. The young man was paroled to Sheriff E. P. Stewart and will report to the district court here at each opening of the terms of the district court. ATTEND JEEITZA CONCERT From Tuesday's Dailv A number of the Plattsmouth mu sic lovers were at Omaha last even ing, where they enjoyed the recital given by Madame Jeritza at the audi torium under the auspices of the Tuesday Musical club. Among those going from this city were Jack Mc carty. Damian Flynn. Miss Cather ine Schneider. Miss Vyral Fossler, Mrs. E. H. "Wescott and Miss Minnie Guthmann. Phone us the news! Saturday, March 27thj has been set aside as FORDSON DAY thoroughout the United States, Farmers, in this section are invited to attend the demonstrations to be held at Wslle on the Louisville Road, There will be an interesting display of the most up-to-date farm implements - each one representing a step toward efficient and more profitable farming practice -demonstrations on the use of Fordson power for farm work something of value for every farmer, owner or tenant. Plan to take advantage of the entire program that we have arranged. alhmoulh lot Ta Farm Mortgages and Larger Nothing Safer! Searl S. Davis Farm loans Investments Insurance Real Estate PURCHASE FORDSON TRACTOR From Monday's raily The store department of the local Burlington shops has secured a fine new Fordson tractor that will be used in the shop delivery work of the store department and which adds to the labor saving and efficiency in hand ling this part of the shop work. The local store department -has been using a tractor in their delivering work for some time and find that it is a great assistance in getting the work handled promptly and effici ently. When baby suffers with eczema or some itching skin trouble, use Doan's Ointment. A little of it goes a long way and it is safor for children. 60c a box at all stores. , r mm ik..-,. ..- .... . . . ' Fan s Compa IN HONOR OF BROTHER Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Teegarden were host and hostess to sixteen at a dinner party at their home Friday in honor of I. W. Teegarden, of Long Beach, Calif. The guests were seated at one long table. A large bowl of sweet peas on a mirror adorned the center of the table. The hand painted cards were the work of Mrs. A. G. Street of Los Angeles, Calif. Five of the guests who have birthdays in March, were favored with cards ap propriate to the occasion, tucked neatly within their napkins. Those so favored were Mr. I. V. Teegarden, Mrs. Thos. Murtey, Mrs. Edna Shan non, Mrs. L. P. Wolcott and Mrs. E. G. Steckley. One of the novel features of the dinner was the fish course, which comprised small steaks cut from a ten pound fresh salmon shipped from Seattle by Miss Jeanette Teegarden, i and which arrived early Friday Friday morning. The guests included Mr. I. W. Tee garden of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. ' Edna Shannon, of Plattsmouth, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Steckley of Lincoln, : Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Colbert, Mr. and j Mrs. Thos. Murtey, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wolcott and Mr. and Mrs. F. II. Gorder. The evening hours were i spent in reminiscing. Weeping Wat-! er Republican. UOIICU' MACARONI A body builder that children enjoy. Serve Gooch's Best Macaroni. iviw.- . ''-T- RKABVCUT kJ SPAGHETTI m p k 1 ft 'ji i! VA dot 1 Sb-Sy zz. 1 I J 12 Bridge Case is Under Advise ment by Judge Final Arguments in Suit Involving King of Trails Bridge Made Yes terday Decision Later. That the gross income from the Pollock bridge over the Platte river owned by the Plattsmouth Auto and Wagon Bridge company was $46,099 in 1923, $46,000 in 1924, and $36, 497 in 1925, was the testimony giv en by Thomas II. Pollock, plaintiff in the case of .Pollock against State En gineer Cochran. Governor McMullen and State Auditor Marsh in Judge Shepherd's court Monday afternoon. The plaintiff is seeking to enjoin the state from buying a bridge built by the King of Trails Bridge company near the Pollock bridse, which has been offered to the state as a state and federal aid bridge. The income from the bridge was brought out when the plaintiff took the stand in the afternoon. i The case was argued and sub mitted to Judge Shepherd Monday evening. A brief was submitted by the defendants in writing and the plaintiff's attorney is to submit a brief by Saturday, the court reserv ing ruling until after briefs have been submitted. That the state could not legally use the appropriation of $200,000 in the general appropriation by the legislature in 1925 for the purpose of purchasing a bridge from the King of Trails Bridge company; that bids were not submitted on the bridge ac tually built a3 required by law, and that the highway construction ap proehing the bridge was never submit ted to bids was the contention of the plaintiffs attorneys, H. II. Wilson and A. L. Tidd of Plattsmouth, in argununts to the court. I t was con tended by Mr Wilson that the title of the act was such that the building of bridges could not be construed as one of the purposes for which the' money could be used. I He pointed to the provision of the constitution that provided that no bill could have more than one subject, clearly expressed, in the title and claimed that the money ap-, propriated was for the purpose of conducting the state government and: not for building bridges. Competitive Bids. The contention of the plaintiff's attorney on the matter of competi tive bids was that the bridge had been built by a stock company with the express intention of turning it over to the state and that by hav ing the bridge built in this manner and purchased by the state, the state was acting contrary to the intent of the law. It is a bad precedent to set to allow bridges to be erected in this manner. It was contended that if this is sanctioned by the court it will lead to the formation of other companies for the erection of bridges instead of having the bridges erected by the counties and the state. Cass and Sarpy counties and the state should have asked for bids, and this manner of erecting bridges should be followed in the future. Leonard Flansburg, presenting ar guments for the defendants, declar ed that the provision of the law pro vided for the use of the money for the purchase of bridges. The build ing or purchasing of bridges is one of the functions of the state govern ment and the money in the 1925 ap propriation could be used. If the theory advanced by Mr. Wilson ap plied, the state would have a hard time to function, and all the appro priations would be nullified. The bridge had been built by private en terprise and the requirement of sub mission of bids did not apply to the state. The bridge company had a right to build the bridge as it saw fit. The railway commission also had the power to appraise the value of the bridge and the state to purchase it. While the highway construction was not submitted to bids as required by law, the state engineer, in good faith, had ordered it done and the state would be obliged to pay a reasonable amount for it as the state received the benefit of it. Mrj Pollock was put on the stand in the afternoon and stated that the Pollock bridge was built in 1911. iMr. Pollock is president and treas urer of the company. It is on the main road between Omaha and Kan sas City. lie described the bridge and testified as to the action of flood waters at this point and the point of the new bridge. He testified that he was offered $16,078 for the Pol lock bridge as appraised by the rail way commision but would not sell it for that. He said that about $35, 000 would have purchased it. State Engineer Cochran on the witness stand stated that he had been offered $20,000 and Mr. Pollock said that there was some additional money offered for the toll house and other improvements but that a definite sum, as he remembered, had not been offered. The plaintiff attempted to show that $900 had been paid in attorney fees that had been included in the price of he bridge as made to the state by "the bridge company. At torney Robertson of Plattsmouth, who was attorney in two cases brought by the bridge company against the Pollock company said that he had received $100 fees and it was included in incidentals submitted in the bridge cost. When the plaintiff rested, the defendants stated that their witnesses had been used by the plaintiff and had proven their case. Later however, George E. Johnson, former state engineer; Charles M. Coff, state bridge engineer, and En gineer Cochran were put on the stand by the defendants. Engineer Coff testified that the Platte river in Nebraska has no banks as far as bridge building is concerned. He was asked by the km aMpl' Admired! A well dressed man is always admired, whether it be in the lobby, on the street, at the lodge, at church or anywhere that dressy people meet. Take the same man, dress him in shabby clothes and you would "pass him up." Clothes don't make the man but they help a lot. Dress Well and Succeed! Our prices $20 to $50 - guaranteed values! C. E. tftfeseott's Sons 'See It Before You Buy It! ' ' plaintiff's attorney if he could tell where the banks were, and if he could not how did he know from what points to build the bridge? He replied by saying that he knew where they ought to be. Engineer Cochran also tetified that the land along the Platte is about on a level with the water, for a half mile or so from the stream. Mr. Johnson stated that pro vision had been made for placing a viaduct over the railroad later as re quired for federal aid. At the morning session A. L. Ogle, State Engineer Cochran, and George E. Johnson were on the witness stand for the plaintiffs. Mr. Ogle was the engineer for the K. of T. bridge com pany. State Journal. Mrs. K. D, Clark Passes Away at Weeping Water Sesident of Cass County for a Long Period of Years and a lady Beloved by Friends. After an illness of many weeks, Mrs. Eliza Clark died at her late home in Weeping Water on Sunday, aged nearly 82 years, having been born in New York City in the month of April, 1844. Mrs. Clark, whose maiden name was Eliza Westervelt, was united in marriage with King David Clark in the east in 1S63. and after but a few years' residence there she and her husband came west and lived for a short time in Weeping Water when that was a town just starting, and then returned to Car son, Iowa, where they lived for a number of years and later removed to Percival, Iowa, where they were en gaged in farming for some time. Some thirty or more years ago, the family came to Cass county, Nebras ka, locating for a time in Union, then a town just beginning, and later at Avoca, at both of which places Mr. Clark was engaged in the mercantile business. Leaving Avoca, they went to Ne hawka and later to Weeping Water, Mr. Clark continuing in the mercan tile business in both towns. Two years ago, while sitting on the coun ter of his store at Weeping Water, Mr. Clark dropped dead. Since that time the store had been conducted by the wife and son, William Clark. To the union of this couple there were born four children, they being Charles Clark, who died a number of years since; William Clark, of Weep ing Water, who has been conducting the store since the death of the fath er; U. w. C.iarK, wno is engageu iu the hotel business at Union, and reu Clark, a farmer residing near Union. At an early period in her life, Airs. Clark embraced Christianity and had been identified with the work of the Methodist church for nearly three quarters of a century. The funeral is being held this af ternoon at the Baptist enurcn in Union, with a short service at the home before leaving for Union. The service is being conducted by the Rev. W. A. Taylor, a friend of the family for many years. Interment is to be in the cemetery west of Union. Trv Journal Want Ads. It pays. Then tell the world about it through the journal Want Ad co. urui. - DEATH OF MRS. HAUSLADEN From Tuesday's Daily Yesterday afternoon at the family home south of this city occurred the death of Mrs. Michael Hausladen, death coming as the result of a very severe attack of double pneumonia and from which the patient failed to rally, gradually sinking into the sleep that knows no awakening. In her last days the deceased lady had the care and attention of the loved ones of her family circle but their efforts were vain to check the ravages of the malady that ' was to claim her life. Frances Tongratz was born in Germany, May 28, 1880, and grew to woman hood in that country, coming to America in 1902, locating at Plattsmouth where she has since made her home. She was married in Plattsmouth to Michael Hausladen February 22, 1905, and in 1915 the family located on the farm south of this city where they have since made their home. To bless the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Hausladen there were born six chil dren, five daughters and one son. Sister Floraberta and Sister Ann Ed iwna. both in convents in Indiana, Sophia, Rosa, Berta and Joseph at home with the bereaved husband and father. There is also a brother, George Tongratz residing at Atkinson, Ne- braska and a sister. Sister Ann Ger eona at the convent at Lafayette, In diana. Mrs. Hausladen was a devout mem ber of the Roman Catholic church and the services will be held at the St. John's church in this city Wednesday morning at 10:30 and the interment made in the Catholic cemetery here. Maps of Cass county, showing every man's farm can be had at the Journal 'office. Price 50 cents each. I , 3!b . nn sne uayiair: The ultimate achievement in a wedge suit. Broad,' well set shoulders. A lean body line. Trim and smart. Just one of the Spring models of KUPPENHEIMER Good Clothes!