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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927
Gas Tax Measure
to General File
Only
Two Members Vote Against
Sending Bill to Floor for
Treatment.
The three cent gas tax measure or
one of them, II. R. 53. was reported
out Tuesday evening by the house
committee on revenue and taxation
two members vet ins in the negative.
rr-1 - . . , 1 ... tli. forivttz.t I
1 lit Lilt It a lM-.-l'l-M ". lotpr
whether privately or publicly owned
out of the business of selling electri
cal appliances.
REHEARING CALLED FRIDAY
ON FRENCH'S APPOINTMENT
Washington. Feb. 22. Another
hearing on the renominatlon of La
fayette French, jr., of Minneapolis,
as federal district attorney for Min
nesota, will be held Friday by a sen
ate judiciary subcommittee.
Favorable report on the appoint
ment was ordered Monday by the
judiciary committee, subject, how
ever, to the wishes of Senator Ship-
stead, farmer-labor, Minnesota, who
in the day asked that the case
committee of the whole, carries sev- i j)p rt,0pened so spokesmen for dry cr
eral amendments and coiistitutt s a j Kanjzatior.s in Minnesota, who are
Handing committee jul stitute to the i ,m.tt.s( ;.- the reappointment might
measure mmvime.i i i.t-preeni..-, . r.i
tive Mitchell of Iir.castcr.
Backed ty n.-arly r.U of the county' vnBt. -, .xtxtt-o
cmniiior..r orcar.i.at ions of th?NEW YORK BNJU
Mate, the bu has pro'.-;:bly Xlrav.nj SIZES UP, HENRY FORD
more p-tit ior.s. pro and con "iliar j
anv measure unless it be the bill tax-' Washington, Feb. 19th. A New
York banker s sizeup or Menry i-ora
German Girl
Plans Tour of
World by Auto
Seeks New Motoring Worlds to Son
quer; Expects to Be in U. S.
in May, 1928.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES
4.
There is a growing demand that a
larger part of the time in the school
he employed in teaching the boys and
girls trades, and how to do the things
that go to build homes, produce ne
eessities from the soil, and perform
the tasks for the upkeep of the com
munity.
Life Insurance
Payments Mount
More Than Billion and Half Paid Out
During Last Year and as
' Dividends.
Omaha "Omaha Daily News"
merged into "Omaha Bee."
irr- n
Berlin Looking for new motoring
worlds to conouer. Clairenore Stin-, dedicated recently,
nes, daughter of the late industrial j
magnate, Hugo Stinnes, is to attempt!
a tour around the world by auto-.
mobile, starting from Berlin in May. "
Fruulein Stinnes, v.-ho has already Scribner 200 feet of fire hose to be
won fame by her exploits in Europe, ' purchased for fire department here.
will be accompanied by two median-I
icians. Thev will travel in three' Fremont Chicago & Northwestern
cars of German make.
The bill provides thrt one-third of went into the record Friday at the
hearing betore tne ooara oi tax ap
peals on the petition of former Ford
shareholders against the $30,000,000
bak tax levy.
Waddill Catchings, a partner in
the firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
and
the rrcptvid throe cent gas tax snali
1 . apportioned to the several coun
ties in the ration which the total
rui'r of motor vehicles In the
oTsniy bears to the grand total. The
r lion of motor vihicl. s between the
o:r.ti.s thi.ll be determined by the! was a government witness, and in
r.-:rr.)'-r of v. hides in the respective ! commenting on the Ford car, said
, ir.tiis on May l.". 1027. r.n.l on Ford had "sublime confidence in
i -. thrrifi.ir Thn rr.nnov so an- this ridiculous-looking thing and
r... ;icnd shall be transmitted montn
Iv l,v the
i stuck to his single-type mouei like a
'i- i,i- thf f:itrt trp.iAiirer to the court- bulldog.
ty treasurers of the several emintie;
cn the tusis of automobiles license
fe--s and tho money sn apportioned to
tvh coui.ty treasurer to the county
ro.ui fund which shall be expended
for construction and maintenance up
on roads in the county net included
in the stste hiI'way system.
The bill really means tht while
collection of the three cent tax shall
be along the same lines and in the
same manner a collection of the two
cent tax. distribution of the addi
tional one ter.t shall be on a differ
ent basis with the thought in mind
He valued stock in the Ford com
pany, as of March 1, 1913, at $5,000
a share.
SCAN WASHINGTON LETTER
Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 21.
Whether George Washington wrote
the letter in the possession cf Al
fred H. Clark, Kansas City artist.
j will be determined by a committee of
handwriting experts and historians.
The letter will be sent to Charles
Moore, head of the National Fine
j Arts commission and chief of the
congress.
that counties may develop a system manuscript division of the library of
.f farm to market roads along the
lir." of stcte highways.
The house committee on cities and
towns recommended indefinite post
ponement ef H. K.'TS, by Druesedow
of Douglas, putting public utilities, j nal 0Tic.
Easiness stationery, programs and
all kinds of job printing at the Jour-
"Every bit of the trip will be by
automobile, except the oceans, which
are scarcely practicable for motor
ing,' she said, in talking or ner plans
Railroad will replace five steam trains
with electrical cars out of Fremont,
costing $35,000 each.
Primrose Work progressing on
to a correspondent for the Associated j "ew Waymire Restaurant building in
Fress.
Still in her 20s, the daughter of
the man who for years held a good
part of Germany in his industrial
grip, appears hardly more than a
young girl. Her comely, firm fea
tures, however, give an impression
of her power.
Her western continent destination
will be the southern part of South
America, with" visits to Chile and
Argentina, motoring thence north
ward to Central America and throngh
Mexico into the United States.
She expects to reach the United
States in May, 1928, but is not ready
yet to announce her itinerary. She
will return to Germany probably by
wav of New York, Spain and France
in 192S.
Fraulein Stinnes held the foremost
place among German women auto
drivers in 1926. Her most notable
feat was in winning the south Ger
man reliability tour of 500 miles.
One of the greatest literary suc
cesses of the year is "The Cutters,'
the latest work of Bess Streeter Ald
rich, Nebraska's own authoress. For
sale at the Bates Book & Gift Shop
New York, Feb. 20. Life insur
ance payments during the year 1926
totaled $1,584,634,490, according to
the summary prepared by the Nation-
ter publication having made these
computations annually for many
years. Of this sum the veterans' bu
reau reported total payments of $43,
61S.000. The other life companies
paid in death claims, matured endow
ments, annuities, disability claims
and additional accidental death bene
fits. $S69. 670,000, and in dive.nds tc
policyholders and for lapsed, surrend
ered and purchased policies $671,
340,000.
The list of payments in Nebraska
are.
Auburn E. M. Boyd $
Aurora Name not given
Bethany C. E. Cobbey
Butte H. A. Olerich
Callaway John Matz
Elmwood C. S. Aldrich
Cknoa Name Not given
Gering W. E. Garden
Hay Spring B. F. Johnson
Ilershey Frank Glenn
Laurel James Hay
H. A. Berg 10,000
Lincoln G. O.Risdon 13,000
Loomis Name not given 10,000
Malmo T. G. Holtorf
Oakland A. B. Peden
Omaha L. L. Kountze
M. C. Peters 155,000
W. A. Ahmanson 125,000
Name not given 40.000
this town.
Harvard New post office building
to be erected in this place.
Creighton Tri-State Utilities Co.
rebuilding its distribution lines in
Creighton.
Pauline Work progressing gravel
ing Pauline highway.
Columbus Plans being discussed
for construction of community build
ing at Columbus.
Star Carload of
from here recently.
cattle shipped
. Bridgeport New warning signs be
ing placed at railroad crossings in
this vicinity.
Fort Crook Improvements to be
made to King of Trails Highway be
tween riattsmouth and Fort Crook.
Deposits amounting to $275,517,
917 reported by S83 state banks of
Nebraska at close of 1926.
Fremont Bids requested for con
struction of $75,000 new dormitory
for women at Midland College.
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Winside Several streets of city to
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u yuveu ueiii 111115 suui iij.
Lincoln $1,200,000 twelve-story
theater and office building contem-
Z$ ' plated for construction in this city.
1 !T
urccerv ano i.eat
These goods are about at cost.
Phone 239
or Pay-Day and Saturday
We bought them right
Spsda
Znzky
overstocked. The follow prices will save you
and
money
are
f
Mere are-Some Low Prices
on
L lt.LC
f
f-CI
Irish CoLMer Potatoes
S2.00 bushel
Red River Ohio Potatoes
32.25 bushel
Fancy Ru.ssi Potatoes
$1.89 bushel
Hershey New broom manufactur
; ing plant established here.
12,626
10.000
15,134
26,000
15,000
10,000
10.9 44
10,062
24.442
10.011
11,000
14,900
11,000
130,000
Joseph K. Hyde '
N. A. Spiesberger
Name not given
E. J. Anderson 1S.000
Name not given 15,00 0
Name not given
J. K. Chamberlin
W. 11. Koenig .
, 0
20,000
19.29S
14.000
10.000
10,000
G. W. Summer 10,000
Name Not given 10,000
Name not given 10,000
Osceola M. E. Bittner 16,500
Palmyra G. W. Eggleston 11,553
S. Omaha Name not given 10,000
Stanton W. T. Sehlueter 10.000
Sutherland L. V. Applegate 12,00)
Three individual claims for insur
Grand Island ;$100,000 appropria
tion asked for erecting new federal
building in this city.
Farnam Standard Oil company
erecting new storage tank In this
town.
Loup City Farmers Co-operative
Gas, Cream and Produce company to
erect gasolinfe tanks here.
Alliance 50 carloads of Nebraska
seed potatoes shipped from here dur
ing January.
Central City Work to start soon
V on $65,000 ne postoffice building in
Cane Sugar
7 lbs. for
49c
Crackers
2-lb. Caddy
29c
Graham
Crackers
2-lb. Caddy for
32c
Fig Bars
Per Pound
12c
Ginger
Snaps
Per Pound
Uic
CHICK
FEEDS
Cluck Scratches
and Mashes
With Buttermilk
and Cod Liver Oil.
We will carry a
full line of this
quality chick feed.
lour
eciais
Sweet Tcoth, per sack .... 2.05
White Seal, per sack 2.C5
This Flour sold under an absolute guarantee. If
it is not as good as other leading brands of Flour,
eorae and get your money back. Fair enuf, isn't it?
Sweet Tooth Pancake Flour
You will get wonderful pancakes from this flour.
Kise up full and bake brown very delicious.
4-lb. sack, 25c
Gallon Syrups
Karo Gallon Dark 47c
Karo Gallon Light. ....... .53c
Dried Fruits
PRUNES 10 lbs. for .95c
RAISINS 4-lb. sack 45c
APRICOTS Per lb 25c
PEACHES Per lb 20c
WHITE FIGS 2 lbs. for 25c
Meat Specials
That will Help You to Cut Your
Daily Living Costs
BOILING BEEF Per lb 10c
CHOICE BEEF ROAST Per lb.. . .15c
HAMBURGER Per lb 15c
PORK SAUSAGE Per lb .20c
BEEF STEAK Per lb 19c
Highest Market Price Paid
for Farm Produce
Come and get your share of our Bargains. We
guarantee you will be satisfied with the quality
of our goods, or we will refund your money.
IES25ZI
CANNED
FRUIT
Pears
40 Degree Syrup
No. 2 Cans
Four for
89c
Burbank
Peaches
Heavy Sprup 2
Size 4 cans for
-
i
1 1 ci
I 1 17.50
frlmon
t Blair Nebraska Gas & Electric Co
may furnish electric current to this
city, and ill build substation outside
ty limits.
Ains worth Creamery here shipped
6 pounds of butter during the
th of January.
i Kearney New cheese factory may
u.S be established in this town.
95 c
Blue Plums
Heavy Sprup 2J
Size 4 cans for
79c
Apricots
No. 2J Size Cans
Four for
95c
Pineapple '
Broken Slices
Per Can
27c
Fancy White
Cherries
4 No. 2 J Cans
95c
Green Gage
Plums
Heavy Syrup 4
No. 2J Cans
it i-l nQ n a AT 11 ni'ninol filaif vi nlotif
4 vuu uui.j7a i. ictlll
I sold to privately owned electric com
pany.
Loup City Western Public Service
company purchases properties of Ne
braska Electric Power company here
Scottsbluff Six miles of
main laid in Scottsbluff.
new gas
Overton New restaurant building
being erected on Front street.
Scribner Scribner-Uehling road tc
pe graveled soon.
Blue Hill 14 new stop signs being
j installed at main street intersections
of city.
95c
Neligh Western State Public Util
ities company contemplating construc
tion of generating plant here.
Kenesaw Chemical apparatus tc
be purchased for fire department of
town.
Juniata Extensive repairs
made to stockyards here.
being
Beaver City Work to start soon
on new sewer system and paving pro
ject in district No. 1 of this city.
Fairmont Work commenced on
construction of new Fairmont Cream
ery building here.
Hyannis Approximately 19,000
worth of furs shipped from here recently.
Niobrara New toll bridge may be
constructed across Missouri River neai
Niobrara.
Schuyler Bids requested for con
struction of new bridge in this town.
FU9
i --
arnival
Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday!
Elks Home, Flaffsmouth
Ford-Tu-Dor Sedan Given Away!
Valuable Door Prizes!
Dancing Each Night at 10:30
E THERE!
Degnon. subway builder, had $134,
800. William II. Ahmanson, presi
dent of the National Fire Insurance
company of Omaha, had $125,000
Dr. John Clarke, director of the
New York state museum at Albany,
carried $28,140. Augustus O. Bourn
of Bristol, R. I., ex-governor, Is list
ed with $24,593.
Tournaments
Command More
Attention
High School Teams Spending More
Time at District and Invita
tion Meets This Year.
MARKETING HAY ON GRADE
ance exceeding $1,000,000 were paid
in 1925, all three on men under sixty
and by an odd coincidence, death in
each case came with scarcely any
warning, terminating an active life.
Solomon Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh
banker, ge fifty-six, was stricken at
a dinner he was attending while on
a visit to New York; he died a few
days later. Mr. Rosenbloom was an
internationally known philanthropist
has donations having been chiefly to
Hebrew educational and social insti
tutions in this country and in Pales-j
tine. Insurance paid, $1,767,000.
Horace A. Saks, New York mer
chant, active head of Saks & Co..
ige forty-three, died of septic poison
ing caused by a boil on his face. Mr
Saks was at work up to two days be
fore his death. A ten year business
policy for $1,000,000 had been taken
out on his life payable to the trus
tees of a mortgage on the new Saks
fifth avenue department store. In
surance paid, $1,201,000.
Julius 'Fleischmann, yeast manu
facturer, former mayor of Cincinnati
age fifty-two, died suddenly while
playing polo at Miami Beach, Fla.
The taxes on hi3 estate ran into
many million3, and the executors, bo-
cause of lack of sufficient ready.
funds to meet the taxation, were
compelled to sacrifice valuable secur
ities. Insurance paid. $1,049,249.
In addition to the three million-
dollar claims, twenty-one payments
ranging from $300,000 to $SOO,000
were made in the United States and
Canada, two of these on the lives of
women. More than 300 claim pay-;
ments of $100,000 and over are list-;
ea. rne insurance, in numerous
cases, included business
en out for the protection
The matter of deciding district
honors took the major role in the
state during the past week, with the
basketball season among the high
schools drawing nearer to the big
meet of the year at Lincoln on March
10, 11, 12. More of the same are
booked for the coming week.
In the individual dual conflicts
the Hastings and Lincoln quintets jof feed
marcneu on wiin returns uiiuiuiieu
in the state. Hastings turned back
Omaha Tech, with the team slightly "FEED
oSf form on their basket tossing, but
the five regained their stride against
Benedict again the following even
ing. Lincoln slipped Central another
defeat, sweeping the Omaha series
clean, to leave no question as to
who will be rightful title holder in
More than foO carloads of alfalfa
hay have been shipped out of Dawson
county on federal grade by tlie farm
ers' Dawson county hay shippers as
sociation since the organization was
formed December 20 of last year.
Prior to that time the orders for hay
were handled thru the county farm
bureau organization, made up of the
men who produce the hay, is building
up a reputation for honest dealing
with the dairy men and stock men of
other sections of the country, selling
another Nebraska product on a guar
anteed basis, and improving their own
methods of handling hay so it will
meet with the popular demand of the
boyers. Carloads have gone as far
east as Rhode Island and New Jersey
and many of them have gone to Chi
cago and Wisconsin, the buyers writ
ing or wiring here for loads of cer
tain grades of hay and taking them
at quoted prices without ever seeing
the hay. The local manager of the
association is handling the shipments
and licensed federal inspectors estab
lish the grade on the hay as it i3
loaded. While much of the hay has
been sold in eastern states many car
loads have gone into southern Ne
braska to the farmers who aro short
THE FLOCK
PROJECT"
STARTING
Poultrymen of the agricultural col
lege are starting on the new project
of the extension service which is to
be known as the "Feed the Flock
Project." They will go to a number
of counties of the state to work with
county extension agents and the farm
ers this month and next, then return
to the same counties about the time
the young chicks are needing good
feeds, and again later in the year
when the poultry raisers are think-
firms and corporations with which
the insureds were associated as im
portant executives.
The list of 1925 claims includes
number of heavy payments under
policies on the lives or women, as
the state after the state tournament,
which will be called without any
Omaha entries.
Games of the past week have some
far reaching evidence along with the
Lincoln and Hastings standings.
A. - 1 . 1 Ll 1
reie moveu uu iuvva.ru lu nuse u lng of tneir housing and equipment
the season, using Kearney as a step- for the winter. Gn this first round of
ping stone, 20 to 9, and Kearney is meetings, they will stress earlv hatch
one of the stronger teams of the state. Ings of chicks and the handling of
Omaha Tech recovered sufficiently blg bunches of chicks to save squip
from its beating at the hands of ment and laDOr. They will propose
Hastings to trounce Grand Island on that the young chicks be fed a dry
Saturday night. mash mixture from ths time they be-
Norfolk Beaten Twice gin to eat it until they are grown.
Norfolk also fell before the strong One of the most important things to
Beatrice quintet Saturday evening. . come out of the project will be the
University Place indicated for cer- use of dry mash for all the chickens,
tain that the basketball sport in the young and old. Clean ground, clean
suburban school is of class A caliber equipment, feed and water going to be
by a decisive triumph over Norfolk stressed thruout the year,
in an earlier game. Fremont turn-
bled beside the road at the hands of INVESTIGATING MURRAY FIRE
a .Lincoln team that went wild on
basket tossing Saturday night.
Havelock after tasteing of the
Crete medicine, returned to Wahoo
decisively. South Omaha won a 22
to 19 victory over Grand Island on
Friday night. The Aggie high five
lost a tight struggle to Superior Ray Wiles, on the farm occupied by
on the following evening. Holdrege Kari ionc;ister. nrrlvi in h ritv to
policies tak-ihunS a 23 to 7 defeat on Nelson high investigate the fire and if possible to
tion of the an(1 Curtis Aggies walked off with PeCuro some information that might
From Monday's Dally
This morning L. J. Butcher, repre
senting the fire warden of the state
and former state sheriff Tom Carroll,
representing the insurance company
that had insurance on the barn of
the long end of a game with (Jamb- iP11(i t tii. -r.-ohnc-n-. ,, ,
ridge. Ravenna more than doubled SOn or persons who were Instrumental
the count on the Genoa Indians, in the starting of the fire that destroy
while Aurora defeated Seward. rd the barn ad also at the same time
Some queer turns of fate were seen robbed the house of Mr Lancaster of
in the district and invitation tour- $400. ThP ipm.v -. -.,-,i -in
follows: Julia N. Chapin. Springfield, i ney? which took place in the past have several parties in to discuss the
Mass., $545,000; Hattie M. Ogden r.VK unurn' ,)e,aten verai umes fire and also with Mr. Carroll visited
Chicago, 111., $526,250; Luna Scott,
Los Angeles, Calif., $219, 2S1; Min
na Feuerbacher, St. Louis, Mo.,
t wees. Aunurn, oeaien several nmes nre and also with Mr Carroll
this season, downed the strong Platts-: the scene of the fire today a
! mouth aggregation in the final game views of the ruined barn
'of the M-I-N-K tournament at Peru, : '
nd took
Lillian A. Chatman. Bos-1
to take class A honors. The Chadron
$75,473; Bertha L. Frank. c A title went to Sterling. Colo..
$100,000;
n,ion0 T n 9 7 t. isriagcpon nowever annexed tne
Dusin. New York. N. Y.. $35. OSS : I lass " I'runaui uuu inereiiy kcP. us
Emma T. C. Duback, Sante Fe, N
QUARANTINE USED CARS
Mex., $20,050.
Prominent Men Among Claimants.
A study of the claim payments in
1925 reveals the names of a number
of persons who were prominent in
various fields. Alfred C. Bedford
president of the Standard Oil com
pany is shown to have carried $405,-
000. William Green, ex-president of
the United Typothetae of America,
had $256,009. Michael H. DeYoung,
publisher of the San Francisco "Dally
Chronicle." is listed with $220,000
insurance. . Frederick William Upham
of Chicago, ex-treasurer or the repub
lican national committee, her $197,
500. Andrew J. Fletcher, well known
shipbuilder and president of the Am
erican Locomotive company, carried
176,511. Herbert Parsons, New
York city republican leader, had up
wards of $300,000. Julius .Flelsch-
mann yeast manufacturer, naa
409,249; Solomon Rosenbloom, Jew
ish philanthropist, was insured for
$1,767,000. Victor Lawson, editor
and publisher of the Chicago "Daily
News" had $91,600. Seymour L.
Cromwell, ex-president of the New
York stock exchange, carried $121,-
Clinton Rossiter, former presi
flnM fl .lrl "Trt.r Poll O O Tlnrnor-
of used automobiles in and near Gold-'30S.
field today were under "quarantine": dent of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
imposed by the government invest!- company, had $80,570. Jarvis A.
gators while they searched for some Wood, president of the Poor Richard
300 cars alleged to have been stolen club, had $48,453. Julius M. Mayer,
from the various Pacific coast cities ex-United States judge, is reported
and resold here. jto have carried $40,073. Michael J.
slate clean
Fairbury swept the Jefferson coun
ty meet clean, taking class A and the
reserves won class B. Class C went to
the Fairbury third team. In the
Adams county meet, Hastings junior
high was the winner.
NO HOPE FOR THE FLIERS
New York, Feb. 20. The last hope
for the safety of the two army avia
tors believed to have crashed in the
surf Thursday near Island Beach sta
tion. New Jersey, was swept away in
last night's blizzard.
With wires a hopeless Ungle un
der the double beating of wind and
sleet, no reports came today from the
force of fifty which was scheduled to
keep up their search throughout last
night, but the most optimistic were
ready to concede defeat. Even had
the flyers. Lieuts. Willard J. Harris
and William A. Gray, made their wav
safely to shore, it was considered im
probable they could have survived
the weather of the past thirty-six
hours.
S. W. Bell and C. A. Rosencrans en
Joyed the oportunity of a holiday
yesterday to take a trip to Gretna and
Sarpy county to boost the forthcoming
Elks carnival to be held in this city.
Federal Land Bank
(of Omaha, Nebr.)
Farm Loan
EX-BOXER DENIED BAIL
San Francisco, Feb. 22. Eddie
Hanlon, old-time light-weieht boxer.
ho is accused by the slaying of Walter
R. Noonan, during a brawl in Han
Ion's cafe early Sunday, was denied
bail in police court Monday.
The Lowest Rate ever
offered on Farm Lands
36 YEARS TO PAY!
NO RENEWAL COMMISSIONS!
For Fall Infortnation
SEE
T.H. Pollock
j riattsmout-i, near.