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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1927)
PAGE FIVE THURSDAY. DEC. 8, 1927. PLATTSMOUTH - SEMI - WEEKLY JOTJENAL Tk a new CAR WILL BE HERE 5aturaav9 Uec0 1 U Beautiful new low body lines Choice of four colors 55 to 65 miles per hour Remarkable acceleration 40-horse power engine Four-wheel brakes Standard selective gear shift Hydraulic shock absorbers 20 to 30 miles per gallon of gasoline Theft-proof coincidental lock Typical Ford economy and reliability IN AND SEE IT 9 ON DISPLAY ONLY ONE DAY PLATTSMOUTH MOTOR CO. 4. IN DUST RIAL NOTES tt. The American People and Indus tries are working toward greater con venience, comfort and efficiency in all directions. Lyman Bids being considered for graveling here. Claims on Road Fund Exceed the I Gas Tax Receipts Condition Is Said to Have Been Caus ed by the Early Completion of Highway Projects. it-Id v.i iu: Holdrego Firemen bancuct here recently. 1 "Edison New baptistry at Christ ian Church dedicated. Scribner Work progressing idly on new Milligan building. Lyman New in operation. sugar factory Creighton Interstate Power Com pany rebuilding its lines between this place and Hartington. Unusually heavy expenditures from the state gasoline tax fund and the motor vehicle license fund during the past three months have brought both to the stage of exhaustion, and at the present time there are contract ors claims for work done, estimated to total half a million dollars more ' or less, which have been approved l ore by the state engineer's office but are : being held back in the code finance i department because the money to pay tnem is not on nanu. The reason for this condition, as ! given by I'mance becreiary isietKer rap- Wymore Farmers and business men here operating to secure cheese factory. i North Piatt e- vh-e Company auction. j and others at the capitol, is that the open fall season in Nebraska with almost entire absence of stormy i weather, has allowed the contrac ! tors to continue operations steadily 1 and to finish up a good many pro jects which, under other circum stances, would have gone over until ' spring for completion. As a result. w- r ii- c 'claims have accumulated so fast as estem Public Ser-. A n tVio ro-cmio "nminf intn Albion This town inspected by insurance companies with respect to tire hazards and rates. makes electric rate re- the treasury month by month from easoline tax and motor vehicle li- ' cer.se payments. Neligh Interstate Tower Comp:uy state Treasurer Stehbins' books constructing transmission line from wiu show a balance of about $272,000 litre which will compl- tc connection j tne gasoline tax fund at the close as far as Petersburg with Sioux Falls. cf business for November while the license fund shows $39,000 on hand. Valentin e Improvements T i t i r g made here by Inttrst:.tr Power Company. Shelton First National bank be organized here. to There are claims enough awaiting payment to wipe out both balances and leave the state owing several hundred thousand dollars more. All Tjfed for Head Work, j The present depleted status of the , ,. , . gasoline tax and motor vehicle li- North Platte Establishment of CfnA funds is different from that canning plant wanted i Nonh Platte whicll cxj?ted during the summer and Valley, fall of 126. The ?2, 000, 000 com- bined deficit in thetwo funds at that Bladen Large poultry shipments . tilne was due t0 the fact that the being made from this vicinity. i nioney on hand had been borrowed by the general fund to pay miscel ncw s laneous running expenses of the I state. This time, the money has all ! gone into the channels for which it Nebraska investment in ntanufact-; was appropriated, but the disburse uring establishments increased dur- ment3 have been piling up faster ing last decades from $65,000,000 , than receipts would take care of to $245,000,000. jthem. 1 It appears from the records that Fremont SIS0.O0O new Lutheran : approximately $3,728,000, of gasoline Hos-pital building under construction tax money has been paid cut in 11 Pender Thurston County's court house dedicated recently. here. months of the calendar year, while '$1. 061,000 or thereabouts has been Over two-thirds cS. feed consumed I represent completed work that the Nebraska farms is home produced. 1 state engineer's office has approved. f BI3LE SCHOOL LESSON -s Sunday, December 11 By M. S. Brisks V- Golden Text: "God having of old time spoken unto the fathers, in the prophets by divers portions and by divers manners, he hath at the end of these days spoken unto U3 in his Son." Heb' 1:1-2. The Heroism of Service The prophet is not necessarily tell ing of things which are to come to ' the command of Jehovah should speak as dark as it possibly could, and sin the word and the rain should come, and evil doings had left the people This was for the teaching that the in an almost hopeless state, many people should serve God and him were looking forward to the time alone. The people, after they had when the redeemer should come, and been chastised, were obedient for a of which we shall study the coming while and after some prosperity they week. True, the Christ was coming, again forgot the Lord and wandered but the people were not looking for after mammon. The prophet Elisha his coming in the way he did. They and later Amos each giving good, were looking for an earthly leader, sound counsel and warning the peo- Who would again restore them to a pie against the sins which they were pinnacle of power. The prophets had committing. But as sure as they said that he should come as a little sinned they had grievous times and child and it was a great surprise to had to pay pennanre for the wrong the people as well as the rulers when jacts which they committed. the babe was born in a manger of I Micah, Hosea, Isaiah all came as a the stable connected with the inn at i warning to the people to forsake Eethlehem. It was not until Christ their evil ways and return to the fcad crown to man's full estate and Hastings Swift & Company build- j disbursed fro mthe motor vehicle li ing down town produce station on j cense fund. This does not include .outh side of first street between Bur--tiie estimated half million of claims llington and Lincoln Avenues. now in the hands of the finance, de partment awaiting payment, which Ov on As favorable weather still prevails Schuyler Contract let for surfac-; over a large part of the state and ing highway leading from Schlemmer highway operations are being pushed farm one mile north from Lincoln ns rapidly as possible by contractors highway. ' anxious to get through and get their nioney, it looks as though the gaso- Steinhaure Iowa-Nebraska Light line tax fund and the motor vehicle and Power Company purr'M's plant ! license fund areboth likely to stay here ar.s is furnishing electric service j behind for two or three months be at this place and Euchard. I tore a breathing spell comes when ' t winter forces stoppage of work. Spencer Northern Nebr. Power Exact Figures Not Revealed. Company raising elevation of power. Finance Secretary Meeker, when service of the one true God. There were times of refreshing from the dam on Niobrara river. Pass, though they Aid in many cases whpn tfae people djd the leil oi me luiugs which nc lu u.xy pen. The prophet is one who speaks the divine will and tells the words which Jehovah gives to his people. When verythinr coes a!on: like a song, it but when everything seems to go crosswise, and nothing seems to fit in the place where it was intended to fit. then the mettle of a man 13 sorely tried. When every one does the things had performed many miracles and had been rejected by man and cruci fied and risen from the dead and ascended to the Father from whence he had come, that the people began to see that he indeed was the one who should redeem all the Israel of thing, and then again there was the falling away. But the prophets did not meet with a very friendly re ception, for they told the truth, and this was. grievous for the rulers or God. Out of the darkness came the is easy to live the good and just Hie, t,af1 a vnrf1 fim in th .... ,,u: - Lin vn. uui Kiitss ui iiie ciuuu. iuc delivering of their message to the rainbow of hope is ever seen by man people, although some heard them kin(i an(j nttle does he think that gladly, but the rulers would have it is a promise and a token to the none of the advice of the prophets world of the goodness, long suffering and even had them stoned and many and forebearance of the loving Fath of them put to death. Still the proph- er anu that he is waiting ever ready questioned about the matter Wed nesday morning, declined to give the IvIcCook ?10,000(1new city hall tc j total amount cf unpaid contractors' be built here. j claims, but he admitted that there j were a fwyetaoiioodhasbktaogkqhrd There is substantial increase in, are a number of them in the depart acerage of all wheat in Western Neb. ' ment's possession. Mr. Meeker said j he would prepare a statement and Fullerton Stronger street lights ! give it out to the press Thursday, being installed. I State Engineer Cochran was out !of the city on official business, and Ewiug Coniratt let for new .'his departmental assistant said they bridge to span Kikhorn River r.ei e. i wouiu preitr 10 nave any lnioriaa- . i tion regarding tne situation come Cozad $20,000 bond issue voted from him. for extension cf water system here.! ine wncie troupe, it was suggest- ifj, arises irom tne tact mat many Herman Post office building here contracts were awarded during the summer and early tail witn tne ex- pectation that they would run over er-Jtill spring; but on account of the t weather being mild and favorable i for highway construction during being remodeled and enlarged. Fremont Odd Fellows Lodge ecting $60,000 building here. .... , . . ... . i v' 1 -" - v i aiiu inai no is naiLiuK c ti i can j which he should .things ;go nicely and etg continued with their heroic mls. sh biessinrg on man more in there is no trouble, but when people go the wrong way. and do the things they should not, things are all awry and topsy-turvey. As we sow so shall we reap, and sion as servants of Jehovah, warning abundance than he is able to eniov the people of their evil ways and the Christ is the hope of the world and penalty that was in store for them. the prince of peace. He will ever Each prophet had a ray of hope bless man if he will only come to and sunlight which they held out to turn, in faith, believing that he is able when the people are avaricious and the peoplCi teUiug them how tbey tQ cieanse aj1 from their sing and tof; dishonest, are given to lying, and where no man's life i3 safe the wrath of the Almighty is sure to come as the people have brought it on them selves bv their sinful actions. When 1 a 0 lL. -1 .1 I. ... A. - would ne Diessea n mej wuuiu uui Mess them and make of them a new return to the service of Jehovah. creature. For did he not say, "He The prophets told the rulers that that cometh unto me, I will in no the people would be carried away, wise cast out." 1, : ,.V tn V. nnca rvf Tempi xrn Q litpr- ' everj-thing was going wrong, God . tt wnen tney were tameu aaj au made captives they never did return. In the case of Judah, while they sent word to the people by prophets, saying that as they had sown to the wind, they should reap to the whirlwind, and it was even so Israel was for a people BATTLE RATE QUESTION Chicago, Dec. 6. Southern rail road leaders today started a battle iviuu. aim i l J 1 - . , . ; 4. 1 . - . brought up out of Egypt, were carried away they were permit- before the jnterstate commerce com- u . ti u ted after seventy years of captivity, r.ipKifm SPf.vcin!ran niHnstmpnt nt im- lui ct Jjcupic t lillwil n if cuut au, uui , . . 1 j . - - v v' they having lived in idolotrous Egypt return am. imu. & " port rates and a lurtner equalizing Of ' 3 "t'l" , ...1. !.- for so long, and then when they wus a ulUKUl1 r tr,- n neoDle surrounding the land trou3 Canaan where they still saw Canaan were jealous of the return oi ancT advancing claims for a higher export rate on snipments tnru tne arrangement on export rates, with eastern road3 opposing their tand . 1 - mm m T 1 J M V, idols and continued to worship at "e cnuctren oi israei uuu "u. the shrine of man-made images. their rebuilding the walls of Jeru- This wa3 the great sin of the Is- salem. raelitcs and the matter of idol wor-'; Still the destiny of God and man ship was fostered and encouraged by was again in the making of a peo political causes, and encouragement pie through whom should come the was civen to this practice, that po- Christ, the Savior of the world. It schemes might be brought litical about. Elijah Comes First Elijah,, the Tishite, came out of the 'tall grass, and no one was look ing for him. especially Ahab, king, rate on gulf. Nearly 150 representatives of the various roads involved, .which in cluded all of the important eastern and southern systems, appeared at the hearing, presided over by exam- the returned Israelites were able to even form a semblance of a nation, and with the wars which followed they were as many times bested as they .were able to win decisive bat- tlao Gr xxVi o,n Vi - k Y A r f 4 a t f of Israel, and his first message was , : h kin dom of Judah and tc .the king, whom the -said on account. come and the Romans of his sins was to suffer with the ; ,, v r. 4v rest of the people by a drought that j JJ -SSe Vei St 2S tn until orrTtHn(rn.!nilIloas111 10 De lne very Dest mere was through great tribulations that j iner Bcat- Alligned with the south- dried up, and was only to end at the will of Elijah, and thn he left until it should be fulfilled when Elijah at was in those days Light from the Darkness When the future looked just about ern roads were a number of north em systems interested in gulf traffic, while several important western roads sided with eastern forces. Those, who wish to have their names placed on the Christmas cards should get their orders in at once at the Bates Be ok & Gift Shop. Se lect, your cards, bring in the plate with your name or have the cards printed. Hastings Construction will be gin soon on fourth large factory here n new industrial district on West !d street. There one farm for persons in Nebraska. every eleven virtually the whole fall season, the work has progressed at a much faster rate than had been calculated in ad vance, which has caused the money to be paid out more rapidly than anyone anticipated. 1 Contracts have been awarded in ilS27 for a total cf about $5,500,000. There were also a considerable num- Warm Wearabis for Gold Weather! Wool Underhose, per pair 75c Wool Gloves for Children50c to $1 Wool Gauntlet Gloves, for Misses and Women 75c to $1.25 Children's Silk and Wool Eose95c Children's Vellastic Union Snlts98c Children's Unit Sleepers 98c Infant's Wool Vests 65c to $1 Women's Outing Gowns $1 Separate fleeced garments for lit tle tots, 2 to 4 years, each 50c Jersey Bloomers for Women and Children, at only 49c Knit Wool Caps, for warmth and cold weather comfort 45c to 65c tykzH.M.Soennichsen Go. The Store of Bh Values" went into effect on April 1, 1925, (and 19 minutes after they took off. that contractors have ever got so far! They were not disheartened by ahead of their schedule as to ex- failure Saturday, however, and an haust all the money on hand. The 1 nounced another start would be made state engineer's office awards con- Sunday in the hope that they may tracts every year in anticipation of j remain in the air longer than 52 future revenue; but heretofore the ' hours and 23 minutes, the world's receipts have always been sufficient record set last August by John to carry the work as fast as it went along. LEANS TO BIRTH CONTROL New York, Lec. 4. Birth control as a solution of the problem of over population was urged today by Dr. Ristics and Cornelius Edzard, man aviators. Ger- BESUME GOLD SHIPMENT New York, Dec. 6. Shipment of $1,000,000 in gold to England to morrow was arranged today by the International Acceptance hank. It Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of will be the first transfer of the metal Park Avenue Baptist church. Before ! to London since the exchange rate a congregation that included John j on sterling cables reached parity D. Rockefeller, jr., the minister said i about two months ago. that at present the world's popula- j Some surprise was expressed in tion is being doubled every sixty banking circles here when the an years of less. "In the United Slates I nouncement was made. Altho the re we are sufficiently anxious over the j cent advance of sterling exchange situation that we have checked im- had carried the cable rate up to migration," Doctor Fosdick said. $4.88 1-4, it was held in many quar- "There is only one solution the iters that the point at which the scentific control of birth rate. We should take the shackles on the phy sicians and tell the nation there is no hope for the solution of the pop ulation problem except in the scien tific control cf the birth rate. You cannot trust God to bring everything off all right if you let the earth's population double every sixty years. If we sow that, we shall reap star vation, unemployment, physicay and moral decay." ENDURANCE HOP COMES TO GRIEF San Francisco, Dec. 4. Rough air currents Saturday halted the attempt of Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian world war ace, and Lieut. George Pond, U. S. A., to set a new endurance flight record. The fliers were forced to bring their monoplane to earth at Mills field here two hours transfer of gold is profitable had not yet been reached. SCHOOL SUPPLIES Buy your school supplies at the Bates Book and Stationery Store, where you will find the big line at the right price. Everything that you will need for the school year will be found here.. We have placed in ar. exceptionally large line this year and we are in a position to please you in anything that yon may want. The cards of the Christmas season now cn display at the Eates Bock & Gift shop are beautiful in design and those who call early can have the opportunity of selecting the best of the stock. here " " hpr of contracts finished un durine I Nebraska has 416.000 tecs weet clever this yct'.r, increase 15.3 per cent over last year. i the early part of the year which had f.f!been carried over from 1926. . thus 0r! adding materially to the total out- i lay. The federal government pays! I approximately half cf the total con- FI. !nntim rio m ! ,'-t..-..c'rtruetion cost. About $3,000,000 rep Elimmation of 10 to i i...uB, ou. !e .o Etata.a cT,nro f totn, IS hSTliwythroush Neor,Sk, pfo. Prndltur for highway building for I 000,000 or more for maintenance, all ned. eled r,,,.v.t etrt w hPtnP r- vhich the state Par8' The state'S .in total bill ror highways this year. Alliance Over $20,000 obtained from potato" crop on lbO acres Oi. Box Butte County laud this year. Lincoln SI, 000. 000 new Burling ton station here officially opened. Elm Creek New system installed in building here. steam-heating Elm therefore, is in the neighborhood of $5,000,000; and of that amount fully; $4, COO. 000 has been paid out already, j Huge Outgo in 3 Months. Since September 1, payments for highway construction and mainten ance combined have aggregated over two million dollars. The September expenditure was $790,000, that for Theater October about the same, and Novem- 000. Brunswick-'Brunswick En ter-t ; ln SectemberT S C G 90 00 prise" is new paper uemg puaiisueu . , nnn : VnvAni. nere- - ber, or $1,633,000 altogether. The i ' ,.T. . .,),' rest of the money disbursed was from Nebraska ranss scond among states motor vehicle 1Jcen8e fund production of corn, wheat and sugai j GaBoHne tax revenue goes mainly Deets- ! for high way construction, but about Sterling Main street being graveled. $1,000,000 a year is diverted from it to help meet the. eost of -mainten-j ance. The state gets 30 per cent: of motor venicie license iees, amount- Grant New Perkins county court inff abcut $ltloo,00O a year, and house dedicated recently. j ugea ail tllis for ujajntaining high- Call No. 6 with your order foT'is Jjob printing. is the first ti: gasoline tax law was le since the enacted and Surprise Her with Chinaware A border composed cf fruit and leaves in natural colors, the center shows a group of colorful fruit and foliage. 100 Piece Set $55.00 The "CHIQUIT A" Pattern cn SILVERN" shape, in the wonderful PAREEK body made by JOHNSON BROS., LTD, Stoke-on-Trent, England Now is the best time to shop for Christmas. We have more time to show you our Dinner ware and Glass stock. See our large stock of Toys, Dolls, Mechanical Trains, Etc. Place your order for Chrisimas Trees now. We will store them for you until wanted. 37 Vers of Service We deliver PhcneVJ