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MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI . WEEKLY JOUSNAL PAGE TV0 Alvo Department Phillip Linrh and Art Dinges were tailed to Lincoln one day last week to look after some business and drove over to the big town in the car of the latter. S. C. Boyles shipped a car of very fine cattle to the stock market on last Monday and also accompanied them to market to see them disposed of. The cattle brought a very satis factory price. V. Went fall and Ferdinand Reich man n purchased a combined harvest er and thresher and are now able to narkct their wheat direct from the li Id. thus doing away with much of the work of getting the grain to mar ket from the field. Win. Coatinan and wife, parents of R. XI. Coatman and their daughter, Miss Gladys, all of Weeping Water, were visiting for a few hours at the home of R. XI. Coatman of Alvo, on last Wednesday, they driving over in their new Whippet. J. H. Wyehel and son, Harry, com pleted the cultivation of their corn on last Wednesday and are feeling pretty good over the matter, thank you. They have their crop in ex cellent condition and are ready for other farm work now. W. I... Copple purchased for him self and the family one of the cele brated Chevrolet coaches from the I'hilpot garage and which they are linding onfc of the very best autos made, and will give this excellent couple the best of service. Wm. Browne, an operator of the tractor, and W. II. Warner as the di rector of the binder, were hustling with the completion of the harvesting of the wheat crop of C. S. Boyles, which consisted of nearly 150 acres, they getting the grr.in all cut by the end of the week. XIr. and XIrs. C. II. Kirkpatrick, who have been spending the past month with friends in Wisconsin, vis iting at Janesville. returned home on last Sunday morning, arriving at Omaha on an early train and being met there by XIr. and XIrs. John B. Skinner, in their auto, who brought them to Alvo. XI is. Ruby XlcXIasters, who has been visiting for some time at the home of her parents, XIr. and Airs, .lohn K. Woods, departed on last Tuesday morning for her home at Hutchison. Kansas, and was accomp anied by her brother, Virgil Woods, who will visit in the sunflower state for some six weeks or two months. That the public might be better accommodated at the store of R. XI. Coati'an. he has installed a new air service, which is automatic in its workings. This free air for the autos is so arranged that when the pres sure gets below a certain point, the electrically operated pump starts and continues pumping until the higher pressure is reached, when it is auto mata ally tripped off and does not run tiain until the pressure goes down to the low point. Were Married Enroute Last Monday morning with their Chevrolet, and just the car for two, Carl Hosenow and Miss Pauline Snaveley departed from Alvo, with t';e intention of visiting for a week or ten days at Shell Lake. Wisconsin, where lives an uncle of Xliss Pauline, and where they were anticipating a most pleasant time. This popular couple stopped at the first county h-.-at town en mute and were there united in marriage, and as they went ;iay lovers and single, when they arrived at their destination at Shell Lake, they were man and wife. They iire enjoying a very pleasant vacation r.nd visit with relatives there. They will return the last of this week or the first of the coming week, to make their home here where the groom is engaged in business, and where the 1 ride and groom both have a host of lii-nds to welcome them back. During the period of their absence the barber shop of XIr. Rosenow is being looked after by their friend. Sheriff Fifer. The bride is the ac complished daughter of XIr. and XIrs. L. XI. Snaveley, while the groom is the son of XIr. and XIrs. C. F. Rosen iv. The Journal joins in congratu lations. Electrically Equipped Elevator On last. Wednesday there was a crew of workmen of the Nebraska Power company in Alvo making some changes in their lines and installing p new motor at the Ilehmeyer eleva tnr and in the future XIr. Ilehmeyer will use electric power for the opera tion of the elevator. Simon will for the present leave the gas engine in stalled as it is. as a matter of protec tion should anything happen to the r.cw source of power. BETTER REPORTS SOUGHT Washington, July 12. Plans for the imnroverr.ent and co-ordination of weather forecasting for aviators eo that storm disasters such as that nt Litchfield trophy balloon race at Pittsburgh may be avoided were msde here today at a special com mittee meeting of army, navy and civilian weather and aviation ex perts held under the auspices of the National Aeronautic association. "Weather is the one blind spot left in aviation," said Porter Ad rms, president of the association, who opened the meeting. "Xlechan ieally a degree of certainty has been reached, but weather is still the great uncertain quality, and we want to work out a system of forecast ing and alternative routes by which storm areas may be avoided." XIrs. Joseph Kelly was a visitor at Omaha and Council Bluffs today vhere she will enjoy an outing and vith friends. Gernau Polite Puppies for sale. James Earhart, Murray, Ntbr. CANNING CLUG PICNIC Realising the importance of mak ing a creditable exhibit at the fairs, the Sunshine Canning Club discussed this phase of the 4-H work at the annual picnic at Daughterty's grove, Friday afternoon, July 6. The County Agent, XIr. L.R. Snipes, helped the girls decide various details. In re sponse to roll call the leaders, Lucile Christenson, gave a comic Intepre tation on deeper thinking using the nursey rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard." It was one of the good things she brought home to her Club girls from her Club Week trip. Mr. Snipes gave a talk on club work. He told the members they ranked well in 4-H club activitiies. Since the June meeting the girls have added cherries, red and black raspberries, plums, currants, peaches, gooseberries, mulberries, carrots cherry preserves, currant .jell, goose berry jell, rhubarb conserve, mock raspberry jam, currant jam and ap ple butter to their variety of canned products. Lesson X is Jellies, Jams, Butters Preserves and Conserves and the members are learning the methodr and receipts by trying them on avail able fruits. Marvel Skinner leads in reportinr the greatest number of jars canned She has 84. Edith Robertson is sec ond with 77 jars. Xliss Christenson directed club songs and games. At the close of the business ses sion Mrs. Frank Daughterty served iced lemonade and members and guests indulged in an outdoor picnic luncheon. At the next meeting, July 26, at Xliss Christensons' home, poster mak ing and judging canned products will be features of the afternoon program. The following receipe found In Re vised Lesson I is a favorite: Rhubarb Hot Pack Baked Prepare rhubarb in such lengths with peeling on. Add one fourth as much sugar as rhubarb by measure and bake until tender in a cevered disn. Pack boiling hot,"' in hot sterilized jars and process 5 minutes in boiling water. A jam recipe that originated in the Robertson kitchen is to use one cup of the remaining ruhbarb syrup and one cup of sugar to two cups of prepared mulberries. Simmer till thick. Pack boiling hot in hot ster ilized jars. Seal. Edith Robertson named the jam "Mock Raspberry. Edith Robertson, News Reporter for the Sunshine Canning Club of Alvo. Old Violin in the Role of Al laddies Lamp Brings Joy to Little Betty When Handling Shows It's a Stradivarius Rye, N. Y.. Betty Dyer wanted to learn to play the violin, but her chances of persuading her father John F. Dyer, to let her have violin lessons didn't seem very good. XIr. Dyer was a member of the Rye Po lice Department and supported a family of eight on a salary of $157 a month with an occasional "extra" earned by work as a private chauf feur. But 10-year-old Betty kept on talk ing about violin lessons until XIr Dyer, bent on humoring her if it could possibly be done, remembered that "somewhere in the attic" there was an old violin. Rummaging around, he finally found it in an old trunk. He noticed the words "Antoniu? Stradivarius" inscribed on the inside of the instrument. The initials "A. S." were printed in a circle, followed by the word "Cremolius. That was where the Dyer's good fourtune started. Now, Mr. Dyer is planning to build a house of his own and to send his four girls and two boys to college. He has resigned from the police force and has several banks accounts. A friend to whom he showed the old violin told him that if it was really a Stradivarius it was valuable. Someone offered him $1200 for the instrument, but XIr. Dyer refuser' that and took the violin to New York where it was appraised at $45,000 and it was later sold for $60,000. So XIr. Dyer's financial problems are solved and Betty will have her violin lessons. PICNIC NEXT WEEK Rain may be looked for the com ing week we base this prediction on the fact that rain and the Sunday school picnic seem to go hand in hand, and the Methodist Sunday school which was scheduled to hold their big annual outing several weeks ago but had to postpone the event on account of rain, is again going to try the picnic on next Thursday. The picnic is no small job as the school numbers over 250 and required a great deal of effort to get the an nual event staged with transportation, grounds, etc., to look after, loads of ice cream and lemonade to provide and sanies and amusements to eet lined up. so the pastor of the church, j the Sunday school superintendent and teachers will have their hands! full. It is to be hoped that the weather) man will behave on next Thursday and allon- the picnic to ba staged and the usual soed time enjoyed by the jyoung and old especially the kiddies of the younger grades. Plattsmouth the Ideal Home City; Like Ancient Rome, is Situated on Seven Hills Beautiful Surroundings, Splendid Churches, J Schools and Homes Home of Burling- j ton Shops and Other Industries ! ONE OF OLDEST TOWNS IN THE STATE Incorporated in 1855 by Act of Territorial Legislature Was Outfitting Point for Wagon Trains Enroute to the West Home of Nebr. Masonic Home From Friday's Dally Plattsmouth. county seat of Cas3 county, one of the greatest agricul tural sections of the United States, is ideally situated as the gateway to the great west, the first city in Nebraska on the great Burlington railway sys tem to greet the traveler from the east, and where in the coming months a great auto and wagon bridge will span the waters of the Missouri river just below the railroad bridge, to link the states of Iowa and Nebraska to gether and provide a needed part of the great transcontinental highway system. The city of Plattsmouth shares with Omaha. Nebraska City, Brown ville, Bellevue and Decatur the honor of being numbered among the older cities of the state, the first settle ments of the territory of Nebraska in the early fifties, and while many other communities that sprung up and flourished in those early days when the steamboat and pony express were the means of communication, have vanished and passed into obliv ion, these places still enjoy the fruits of the years of progress of the state of Nebraska. Plattsmouth was in corporated in 1S55 by act of the Ter ritorial legislature, at that time be ing a group of some six or eight log cabins and a few pioneer stores lo cated along the banks of the great Missouri, and from where the trains to Denver and the west were outfitted to battle their way over the plains and many times face death and de struction at the hands of the Indians that roamed the prairies in large numbers. The city now has a popu lation of 5,000 persons. This city was made the site of the first shops of the Burlington & Mis souri river railroad in the seventies, and while this great system has many shops in operation at points along their great, line from Denver to Chi cago, Plattsmouth remains an import ant point on the Chicago, Burlington fc Quincy railroad, which maintains its coach shops here, employing sev eral hundred men the year round. Plattsmouth is situated on the main line of the Burlington from Chicago to Denver and the main line of the Missouri Pacific from Kansas City to Omaha, the shipping facilities permitting rapid and prompt service to the farmer and stock raiser to the markets of Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. There are twenty-six trains and busses operating in and out of this city every day to all points east, west, north and south. Plattsmouth is nineteen miles from Omaha, the state metropolis, and has a large number of residents here whose business activities are in Om aha, and is rapidly becoming a popu lar residential site for those who work in Omaha, but prefer to enjoy a home in the attractive surroundings of the smaller city. Here is located the great Nebraska Masonic home, a plant valued at up wards of $300,000. and which in the ultimate plans of the association will become one of the greatest of the nu merous state homes, with a valuation of a million dollars, devoted to caring for the sick and aged members of the Masonic fraternity, their wives and widows, as the declining years of life's span come to them. The Home grounds, which include some twenty acres, is one of the real beauty spots in eastern Nebraska and the r.iecca for many visitors from var ious Masonic bodies over the entire states. The infirmary building, latest addition to the group, erected by the Masonic Home association and equip ped by the contributions of the var ious bodies of the Masons and East ern Star, is one of the most up-to-date buildings of its kind in the west, pro viding a place where the sick and bedfast members of the Home are cared for with expert medical atten tion and nursing. It has every con venience, including a fully equipped operating room, diet kitchens on each floor and other conveniences seldom found in even the best hospitals of the land. The Home also has a large build ing that is equipped for the care and comfort of the residents who are in a state of health that permits their daily activities, and where every com fort is given the members of this great family. There are now some sixty-two residents at the Home, 25 at the Infirmary and 37 at the Home proper. The Home i3 in charge of William F. Evers, as superintendent, and Mrs. Cna Lawton as matron, and the busi ness affairs of the Home are managed by the board of trustees, of which Hon. James M. Robertson, of Platts mouth, is the president. The Masonic Home is one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the west and many states planning the establishment of homes for the aged Lave had representatives here to look over the Nebraska Masonic Home as a model institution. Plattsmouth has one of the high est ranking high school systems in the state of Nebraska and the gradu ates of this school hare occupied many high positions iu the affairs of the state and nation in the years past. The school system consists of j jthe High school building, a $175,000) structure. Central and Columbian i grade buildings and four smaller j j grade buildings in different parts of i jthe city, where the 1,200 children of jthe school are given their education. (Every facility for a modern and up i to-date school system and the very j best educational opportunities is af i forded the young people of Platts- mouth and this section of Cass coun ty. ' Religiously this city has represen tatives of all of the leading churches iof the country and the residents give 'splendid support to these churches j ,and the many creeds of the Christian j faith dwell together in unison in giv-; ing the word of the Master to the! 'residents of this locality. In the list 1 of churches are St. Luke's Episcopal, f St. Paul's Evangelical, St. John's and, Holy Rosary Catholic, First Metho dist, First Presbyterian, First Chris tian, Christian Scientist and Holiness, all of whom hold their regular ser vices and have large and active con gregations to carry on the religious ! work of the community, j The location of Plattsmouth on the ! graveled King of Trails highway brings hundreds of tourists through jthe city each day from all parts of jthe country and this being one of the principal north and south highways !of the nation, is a great connecting jlink between the north and south j borders of our country. The King of Trails bridge over the Platte river erected by Plattsmouth and Omaha jmen, has just been made a free bridge and gives a wonderful highway sys tem from Winnipeg, Canada, to Hous ton, Texas. Plattsmouth has a large and beau tiful public library building and the , library has a circulation of 3,600 j volumes per month, being the first library in the United States in per rentage of circulation per capita. The library is equipped with one of the largest and best school reference de partments of any library in the entire United States. In this city there has also been completed the first unit of the com munity building, erected by Hugh J. Kearns post No. 56. of the American Legion, costing $17,000, with the es timated cost of the completed build ing. $40,000. The funds for this first unit were raised by popular subscrip tion and proceeds from activities eon- I ducted by the Legion over a course of six or seven years. Plattsmouth has one of the best systems of paved streets in the state, and the paving is being extended each year to cover every section, and this with an extensive sanitary and storm sewerage system makes the city among the most progressive in east ern Nebraska. Plattsmouth 13 situated in the heart of the greatest agricultural section of the United States and Cass county, Nebraska, ranks as the most produc tive of the entire county according to 'government figures. The staple crops of the county are corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa and smaller farm crops. The Missouri valley is one of the greatest fruit growing sections of the nation and every variety of fruit is grown here, apples and grapes being the staples of the fruit crop. The splen did railroad and trucking facilities of Plattsmouth make it a great shipping point to all parts of the country. A large co-operative creamery is organized and work will be started in the next few weeks on the cream cry and cheese factory which is own ed and operated by the farmers of this section of Cass county. P!attsmouth has two of the largest banks in the eastern part of the state, the Plattsmouth State Bank and jthe Farmers State Bank, both operat ing under the laws of the state of .Nebraska and the guarantee law that .has saved to the citizens the sum of I $26,000,000, since it wa3 enacted in 1911. The business houses of Plattsmouth embrace every line of commercial ac tivity and are large ana equippea 10 compare with the stores of the larger cities and serve the trade territory of southeastern Nebraska with the best that the markets of the world can give. Plattsmouth has every incen tive to bring the buying public of this section of the state. Two large hotels serve the travel ing public in this city and which are operated very successfully, the Main hotel, European plan, and the Hotel Perkins, American plan, serving the needs of the public. In addition to the Burlington coach shops at this point, the Burlington Refrigerator Express Co. maintains its repair shops at this point and em ploys a force of men the year round in handling the car repairing of this nation wide company. , Plattsmouth has everything that goes for an ideal home community. and its citizens find comfort and hap piness in this city of the everlasting hills and to those who have lived here and later moved away, Platts-, luouth always brings the thought cf "Home," the place where the sweet est memories and the happiest days are found. t Drive A Graham-Paige 614 with four speeds forward, standard gear shift is at your disposal. We want you to experience personally the unusual performance of this moderately priced car. Main Street, between L0CALNE7S Dr. Heineman, Dentist, Hotel Main Bids., Phone 527. From Thursday's IaIlv R. A. Young, old time resident of near Weeping Water was here to day to look after some matters of business. Hon. William Ritchie of Omaha was here last evening for a few hours attending to some matters of business while en route home from a trip to the south part of the state. Henry Sander, who has been at Imperial, Nebraska, for the past few days, has returned home and reports that the conditions there are of the very best and the crops look excel lent. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morgan of Lawton, Oklahoma, are here to enjoy a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Seybert for a few days and en joying the points of interest in this locality. Mr. Seybert has spent the past two months at Lawton with the Morgan family and returned home with them. Reuben D. Stine. the Union mer chant, and George Johnson and wife, of Burwell, Neb., were in this city Tuesday afternoon, attending to business matters and visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had been to Union to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Catherine Stine, mother of Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Henry Muzik, of Deweese, Ne braska, is here for a visit at the homes of her sisters, Mrs. Joseph F. Hadraba and Mrs. Joseph Wooster, and on her return home the- last of the week she will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Wooster and son, who are driving to Deweese and thence to South Dakota for a visit with the rel atives of Mr. Wooster. From Friday's Tjaily Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping Water was here today to look after! some matters of business at the court house for a short time. Carl Cunningham, former Platts mouth young man, now a resident of Pawnee City, was here last evening and today looking after some matter? of business. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tuey and daughters of Elko, Nevada, are here to visit at the home of Mr. Tuey's brother, Don Seivers and family and also with the many old time friends. Mrs. Harry Puis of Omaha, who has been here visiting with relatives and friends, returned this morning to her home in the metropolis, going to that city on the early Burlington train Rev. Clinton Swingle of Winfield, Kansas, who has been here visiting for the past few days departed this morning by auto for his home and fvas accompanied by Miss Mildred brum who will visit a sister who resides near Winfield. In coudormauce with our -regular practice of printing borne dry facts during the Lot eatLei1, it is hereby announced that prohibition ageutfa occasionally gut on a still hunt. with 4 speeds (Suralhiaimn Pange Agemiesr Fred G. Ahrens, Manager 4th and 5th Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Pioneer Woman Who Tilled Fields in Wild Days, Dies Mrs. Sarah Ann Owen, Eighty-One Became Head of Large Fam ily in .860 Shelton, Neb. Mrs. Sarah Ann Owen, SI. who braved the perils of warring Indians and tilled the fields for sustenance after she came to Ne braska in 1860, died at her hame half mile east of Shelton Friday, af ter a long illness. Only oy a remarkable display of energy, courage and character did Mrs. Owen endure the hardships of isolation from comforts of civiliza tion, severe winters and necessity for constant vigilance against the raids of Indians. It was an accident that Mrs. Owen settled near here. Born in England in 1S47, her maiden name was Sa rah Ann Oliver. In I860 she and her parents and six other children all converts of the Mormon faith, left England, their destination being Salt Lake City, Utah. Bought Wagon at Florence At Florence, now a part of Oma ha, they purchased a wagon, two yokes of oxen and two cows, and with other families took the Mor- AAAM mon trail up the valley of the Platte out to teachers, priests or agricul river on the north side of the stream, turists who undertake to tend it in Near a point known as Wood a way to serve as an object lesson River Center (now Shelton), the to the peasants. front axle of the Oliver wagon gave1 These libraries and reading rooms wav. coniDelliner a nail lor repairs The family camped beside the trail, and the broken wagon was taken to the ranch of Joseph E. Johnson, who combined the business of postmaster, merchant, blacksmith, wagon maker, editor and publisher of the Hunts man's Echo. Unabel to find seasonal timber, a tree was cut and the repair was made with erpen wood. But before the Oliver family had progressed 10 miles the B-reen timber began to bend. The mother suggested they return to Wood River Center and spend the winter. This they did, erecting a log hut, with a sod and dirt roof Father Goes On When spring came the father zealous in the Mormon faith, in sisted on continuing the journey to Salt Lake City, but the. family de murred and remained behind. Sarah Oliver became head of the family, and with her children engaged in raising corn and vegetables, the sur plue of which was sold to emigrants passing over the trail, and to people at Fort Kearney, nearly 20 milee away. In IS 64 Mrs. Owen was one of those who gathered at the stockade iu Wood River Center, when it was reported that Indians were on the war uath. .: Mrs. Owen saw the completion of the Union Pacific railroad across the plaint. Married in loii Iu 1S72 her mother died and thej forward! Five chassis sixes ar.d eights pwces ranging from $860 to $2485. Illustrated u Model 614, 4-passenger Coupe, with 4 speed transmission. . All prices o. b. Detroit. Opposite Court House s following year she married Joseph K. Owen, who came to this com munity from England a few - years after the Oliver family arrived. Mr. Owen who died several years ago. was deputy sheriff of Buffalo county in pioneer days, served as county commissioner several terms and was active in lodge circles. Mr. and Mrs. Owen were the par- !ents of seven children, four of whom are living: Mrs. W. D. Kirkland. Mrs. Thomas G. Tritt and Miss Anna Owen of Shelton, and Joseph E. Owen of Crawford. Neb. All of the children except the latter, were at the bed side when the end came. A sister of Mrs. Owen, Mrs. Jacob Rice, now lives In Spokane, Wash. CULTURE BR0T TO VILLAGE BY NEW LIBRARY SYSTEM Sofia Every community in Bur garia is, by a recent law, obliged to set aside public land for the upkeep of a public library, the State con tributing in each case 12 acres of land for the same purpose. Further support for the library is made up of appropriations from municipal governments and contributions from the schools. Thanks to this law libraries am' reading rooms have increased in on; year from 800 to 2000. The whole enterprise is idrected by the Minictry of Education. Connected with most of the tillage ' libraries and reading rooms are mo- del gardens and fields, planted on the library property. This land is rented aiw maiumm man ?,.. adults at which competent persons give instruction not only in elemen tary subjects, but in popular and practical branches such as farming, domestic economy, sociology, food values, hygiene and the like. There are also special lecture courses, thea tricals and moving pictures. Some of the largest reading rooms have excellent moving picture outfits and give helpful programs at a very cheap price. At present no less than SO village? are putting up new buildings for their libraries and reading rooms. Every year, during the summer vacation, special obligatory six weeks library courses are given to the li brarians, who gather in Sofia from all parts of the country. Each one who attend is given his traveling expenses and his living ; expenses during the period of the course. LINCOLN WILL ENTERTAIN LEGION AUXILIARY HEAD Lincoln, July 13. Mrs. Irene Mc Intyre vW'albridge. national president of the : American Legion auxiliary, will be entertained by unit No. 3 on July 27. Following an automobile tour of the city, which will include a visit to the state capitol, Mrs. Wal biidge and officers of the auxiliary will be entertained at noon lunch eo!!. A business and social meeting, at which Mrs. Walbridge will speajc. will be held in the afternoon, fol- lowed by a reception and tea. r r 1 ff i TiT ?1 r it U i i k