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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIT! WEEPING WATER A. Brandt of Alvo purchased a new Model A Ford sedan of the Cole Motor company on last Friday, which he is thinking one of the very best cars. W. A. Rose of near Avoca pur chased last week a new standard Model A Ford coupe which he will use for his transportation and that of the family. Fred H. Gorder, county commis sioner, was a visitor on last Tues day at Alvo. Eagle and Murdock, looking after some business mutters for the county. II. K. Frantz. formerly a banker at Eagle, but who has been making? his home in Lincoln for some time past was a business visitor in Weeping Water on last Tuesday afternoon and was meeting a number of his old time friends. "CANNOT PRAISE FAMED KQNJOLA HIGHLY ENOUGH" Enjoyed Mother's Day. J. S. Williams and wife and their daughter, Miss Hazel, drove over to Omaha on last Sundny where they with their two other daughters. Miss Cassie and Vera, enjoyed a very fine visit and also the celebration of Mother's day at Carter Lake. Accents Position at Council Bluffs. Willie Fisher, a friend of Otto Nobel, the baker for the Williams bakery, who has been visiting in Weeping Water with his friends for the past two weeks, just having ar raived from Germany, has accepted a position with the Kerbecek Bakery at Council Bluffs. Iowa. The place where Mr. Otto Nebel worked before coming to Weening Water. Aged Woman Receives Stroke. Mrs. Rosie D. Barnes, widow of Hie late Judge Thillip Barnes, who has been making her home on the south side alone, suffered a very severe paraletic stroke on last Sat urday night and falling to the floor, remained in a helpless condition un til found on Monday morning when George 'Met calf went to deliver a spe cial delivery letter which had come to her. When Mr. Metcalf v.ent to the home he knocked and received no response and going to a neighbor he asked that neighbor to go with him and entering the home found Mrs. Barnes lying on the floor. She was plac ed on a bed and a fire built and medical services secured. Mrs. Barnes has remained in a very cri tical condition, owing much to the stroke and the long exposure fol lowing before she was found help less. The luisband died a number of years ago. and the children, one son, Bhillip Barnes, jr., a traveling sales man making his home in Minnea polis, Mrs. Myrtle reck of Califor nia, and Mrs. Lena Ralston being the children. The news was immediately flashed to them. The son, Phillip Barnes arriving here on Tuesday ar ternoon. Every care is being given to the aged lady that she may recover. Kidney Trouble Banished, Nerves Soothed Grateful Lady Wishes Others to Know of This New Medicine ...v?i:.. Will Begin Bard Concerts Soon. With tins wof k the Weeping Water band began its practice under the able leadership of the former leader, and while they have kept in good condition they will soon he in tip ton condition and ready for any and all musical work. They will give their accustomed excellent concerts in a short time. An .Lsceuent Xiticiiig xn-'u.ac. The patrons of Johnson's Cafe find ji'e wit inn t g with its newly painted in and tastefully arranged, but meals they serve are jum not invitin terior also the MRS. LEWIS SISBACH, JR. "Konjola rut me back on my feet after months of suffering," said Mrs. Lewis Sisbach, Jr., Chaseburg, Wis consin. "I suffered for months with a very severe kidney ailment that resisted all my efforts for relief. I was extremely nervous and not a day went by during all that time, that I was not subjected to terrible pain. I could not sleep at night and had little, or no appetite. My whole sys tem was becoming badly run down and worn out. "My sister persuaded me to try Konjola. At the end of the second bo tie, I could see a little improve ment in my condition. I continued with Konjola until I had taken five bottles. At the end of this time I was as well as I have ever been. I had no trace of the back pains, my kidneys were functioning as they should and I am gaining in strength, energy and weight. I am free of all pains and inconveniences, and all credit for this change in my health goes to Konjola. It is a wonderful medicine and I cannot praise it highly enough." Konjola is designed to give thor ough and lasting relief. Like any worthwhile treatment, this great medicine should really be taken over a period of. from six to eight weeks in the more severe cases. Used thus, the results will amaze you as they have countless thousands of men and women. Konjola is sold in Flattsmouth, Nebraska, by Mauzy Drug Co., and by all the best druggists in all towns throughout this entire section. His son immediately hastened with the father to Lincoln where the in juicd member was dressed and he made as comfortable as possible. as f.stef'.il. Loses Two Firgers. Henry Hunteman, while working some machinery on tne tarm last Tuesday morning, had tne miforune to get the two miilcUe fingers on his right hand severed. wHh cm 3D SEED CORN Choice St. Charles Red Cob (Corn White) Reid's Yellow Dent Seed Corn Germination 95 Per Cent New Bags FBEE Corn must suit you or money back.. Price $300 per Bushel Frederichs Seed Company Phone 53 Greenwood, Neh. Celebrated Seventy-Eighth Birthday. Yesterday at her home in Weep ing Water, Mrs. Sarah Metcalf, formerly Miss Sarah Suppers, widow of the late Richard Metcalf, celebrat ed very Quietly her seventy-eighth birthday. Mrs. Metcalf was born at Dunkirk, Ohio, on May 9, 1S50. When a young girl she with her parents came to the west, formerly to Mis sciiii, in a covered wagon and after maining there for some time came tc Nebraska, settling near Weeping Water, where she was united in mar riage with Richard Metcalf. The husband dying a number of years ago. She has many friends in Weep ing Water, who extended greetings ar.d cli wishes. Married on Wednesday. On Wednesday of this week. Miss Beulah Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Little, was united in marriage with Louis Deickman, of near Nehawka, the wedding lines being read by the Rev. George A. Morey, pastor of the Methodist church, the marriage occurring at high noon at the home of the par ents of the bride. The young people will make their home at the farm home ot the groom near Nehawka. The bride is well and very favorably known to a host of admiring friends in ard about Weeping Water. The goom is an exemplary young farm er living near Nehawka and a young man honored and respected by all who know him. The Journal, with their many friends, are extending lest wishes for a long, happy and uic-ful life for this fine young couple. Stranded Scow Started Rich Chicago Section Picturesque Captain Used to De fend Squatter's Eights With Musket Chicago An old scow, stranded on a Lake Michigan sandbar jutting out from the foot of a Chicago street in 1886, is playing an important role in this city today. For on the land that accreted to the site of the wrecked vessel of cne Capt. George Wellington Streeter has sprung up a skyscraper district so rich that it is hard to say just where its values are going to stop. Captain Streeter, who was the picturesque, odd sort of person from whom legends are made, claimed all of the new land by virtue of squat ter's rights and defended the soil he lived on, at times with a musket, at times in court, for 3 5 years. His heirs still keep alive the claim. And well they may. A portion of the territory, formed by the drifting of and by dumping from building ing excavations, is now valued at Sl, 000.000 an acre without counting buildings, say real estate men who deal in property of Streeterville, as the section has been named. North western University has a down-town campus in another part of the area which it values, ground and build ings, at $15,000,000. On still newer land stands the Furniture Mart whic h figures its investment also at $15, 000.000. Building on this property has pro ceeded on the assumption that the Streeter claims are invalid, for the family has never been able to win a final legal victory. The old captain, who "homesteaded" on the lake in a cabin made out of his scow and later in a house he built there, gave much entertainment to Chicago newspaper scribes for years but did net gain any ground for himself. He asserted that his squatter's claim was federal territory and that accordingly neither the authorities of Chicago nor those of the State of Illinois had anything to say about it. It was under United States jurisdic tion only, he held, because it was originally in lake waters. He called It "The District of Lake Michigan." and for many years Chicago jovial ly referred to the weedy section as "Streeter's Deestrick." Time and again wealthy property owners along the shore tried to dis possess him. His place was a nuis ance, they said. He violated city ord inances. Captain Streeter, garbed in a silk hat and an ulster and with the air of a revolutionary patriot, re pulsed them with an old gun while his wife come to his aid with a ket tle of boiling water. The most dra matic episode in his long defense of his claim, however, came when his trusted lieutenant, William H. Niles. declared himself "military governor" of the district and threw up intrench ments to keep out the city and state officers whom he claimed had no right there. "A "municipal navy" was organiz ed hastily to meet his move, and the situation was met somehow or other without casualties, but not until 16 patrol wagons of policemen had been called out, according to newspaper accounts. All this time sand continued to drift in around the scow. Excavators clumped their burdens there, too. Streeter's claim became a part of the mainland. After many ups and downs for Streeter, the Superior Court of the State gave a decree against his claim in 1918. The captain went into "exile" on a houseboat on the river, but he still wore his silk hat proudly. Curiously enough, for all his melo dramatic action, Streeter had a cer tain solid standing. His title of "cap tain" was honestly won in the Civil War. A Grand Army of the Republic escort was accorded him when he passed on at the age of SO. And while neither he nor his heirs have succeeded in proving their rights to the almost invaluable terri tory, neither have their opponents finally concluded the case. The Chi cago Title & Trust Company guar antees all the land sold in Streeter ville and thereby takes upon itself the duty of defending property own ers against claims of the family of the man who squatted. But the case may continue to drag on for years, real estate men say. Whether future historians will portray the old cap tain as a hero defending his rights or a notorious imposter remains to be seen. There will be no doubt. however, about his good judgment in land values. Large size iaps of Cass county on tale at Journal office, 50c each. Figure if You Please! Shopping Baskets 25c to 79c Cut glass Water Sets, rose color, only 1.50 Green Ice Tea Sets for f139 Large Mirrors, size 10x18 inches $1.19 Lare Framed Pictures, size 13x17 inches 85c End of Trail, Lone Wolf, Little Boy Blue and others. Electric Table Lamps, price, complete eaC 32-piece Dinner Set for only $3.95 23-piece Tea Sets, priced at $2.95 Sleeping Water Variety Store Weeping Water, Nebr. TOWN IS NEAR STANDSTILL Washington Of 4S6 cities of 10,- 000 or more population thus far re porting the 1930 census, Pittsburg, Kas., has come closest to standing still. IMttsburg, present population 1S.051, has one person less than in 1920 when the census figures showed 18,052. Among 30 cities of the 486 that showed decreases, 18 were in New York, Pennsylvania, and the New England cities. The rest were wide ly scattered thru the south, midwest, and Rocky mountain regions. Twen ty were in Texas, a state -which has also been showing great gains. Houston was by far the largest of the 39 cities among the 486 which showed an increase of more than 100 per cent since 1920. Other towns of more than 25,000 in that list were according to the rate of increase Glendale, Calif., 62,607, increase 362.5 per cent; Orlando, Fla., 27, 263, increase 193.7 per cent; Amar Illo, Tex., 43,089, increase 177.5 per cent; Greensboro, N. C, 53,422, in crease 168.9 per cent; and Durham N. C, 52,026, increase 139 per cent Plione your Job Printing order to No. 6. Prompt service. Introductory offer on this NeW csp3rps?p IPMf WfWPk 71? Probably vou have wanted to enjoy the ad vantages of cooking w ith Skelgas, but have not wanted to discard your old stove. To introduce an entirely new Skelgas 6tove, the 570, the most beautiful stove vre have ever seen, we are making a very unusual offer. We will pay $30.00 for your old stove and apply the money on this new 15 feature Skelgas stove. Vr e are doing this to make it possible for you to enjoy the advantages of gas cookery without having to sell your old stove at a great loss. 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Put in food, light the oven, set the regulator, then go about your work or even to town. Return at meal time, and find the food perfectly cooked. Appeals to women who like to save time and who want to do other things than cook all day. 19 Self -Supporting Oven Racks. Supports are Etrong enough to hold up loaded oven racks. Speedy Broiling Oven. Broiled foods are the epicure's delight. Foods never fat-eoaked or bard to digest. Perfect for cooking steaks, chops, bacon, ham and fish. C Sturdy Cray Iron Legs, fully enameled. Made of best grade gray iron. Legs are typical of the sturdy construction throughout. No flimsy sheet iron or light steel parts ased. Only fin est gray iron and 20-gauge Anuco enameling stock used throughout. SWATEK Plattsmouth, Nebraska If till S-352 Stimson Yfill Testify on Nava Pact Today Chief cf American Delegation Wit ness Before Senate Committee ; Adams to Follow. Washirgton, May 11. The sen ate foreign relations committee will begin examination of the London naval limitations treaty tomorrow in public hearings with Secretary Stim son, chief of the American delega tion, explaining its details. The secretary of state is prepared Dr. Joe J. Sti&al Chiropractic Thysican SCHMIDTMAXX BUILDING Specialty Nervous Liver .Kidney Sun-Ray assistance for Ton eilitis, Sinusitis, Piles. X-EAY and LABORATORY v ...... to go into exhaustive expansion of the pact which binds the United States, Great Britain and Japan to a new oasis 01 navai limitations. Secretary of the Navy Adams, an other of the American delegation, will follow Mr. Stimson before the committee. He will relate the effects of the treaty upon the navy. lie will be followed by Admiral William V. Pratt, chief naval admiser at the Lon don parley. The two American delegates will be supported before the foreign re lations committee by two others of their delegation Senators Robinson (dem., Ark.) and Reed (rep., Ta.) Chairman Borah of the committee has announced no plans for the hear ings beyond the attendance of these three witnesses. He is hopeful of completing consideration of the pact within a week or 10 days and getting it before the senate. As soon as Secretaries Stimson and Adams have appeared before the for eign relations committee unairman Hale of the senate naval committee will launch the hearings he has de manded to ascertain the full effect cf the. treaty upon America's naval plans. Secretary Adams will be the first witness before the naval committee and Senator Hale is planning to get started by Tuesday cn this hearing, which .will run concurrently with the foreign relations hearings. . . . Awnitinsr thp ripvplnnmpnts nf I these hearings, most of the senate is withholding judgment on the naval treaty, although President Hoover is confident of its ratification. World- Herald. Phore us th& news. Ko. 6 For this Week & Next Our Price pes? 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