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i PAGE F0XT3 PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTJEHAE 'r MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930. State Masonic Home Here Place of Great Beauty Extensive Landscaping of Grounds Presents Wonderful View from Webster Boulevard. Of the many points of Interest in the city of Plattsmouth there are none more attractive to the eye or more inspiring in the ideal on which It is founded than is the Nebraska Masonic Home, established here in 1903, and which is the haven of the aged and ailing of the Masonic frat ernity and the Order of the Eastern Star. Here, in the declining days there are the large group of kindly old gentlemen and ladies at the main Home while at the new infirmary there is sheltered and cared for those on whom sickness and the ailment3 of advancing years laid a heavy hand and here in the Home that their fraternity has founded they find rest and care until the close of life. The Home in its original scope comprised the dream of George V. Lininger, of Omaha, and a group of the Masonic leaders who visioned the place where, when eld age came creeping on, and the infirmaties ren dered the activities of the members of Masonry and the Star no longer possible, they might come and spend j the declining days protected from the harsh battles of the world, where they could dream out the few re maining years. In the year 1903 the Nebraska grand lodge of the Masons voted to establish the Home at Plattsmouth, and the residence property that Lad been the old home of Hon. Francis E. White, was offered as the site of the Home and accepted, the realization of the hopes that had been a goal of the members of the order since the early eighties. The White property was but the first small step toward what is now the Masonic Home and a few years later a large addition was built to the older house and when this was ready there were a large number ready to come to its shelter and care, the rooms being arranged and furnished by lodges, chapters and command- eries of the Masonic bodies and the Eastern Star over the state. Soon the Masonic Home associa tion secured additional ground for the Home plant, and the city of Plattsmouth, to aid the work closed sections of Fourteenth and Thir teenth streets that the grounds might be included in one great plot of land that could be adapted to the use of tbe Home. With the Home being filled and many cases of the residents being of a-nature that required constant at tention and care, it was voted by the K t ". IV--' f e 4 ; -, MR. and MRS. D. A. YOUNG Mr. Young is Oldest Male Resident of Nebraska in Point of Years Lived in the State Came Here from Mills County in 1855 Oldest Settler in Nebraska in Point of Years David A. Young Enjoys This Distinc tion; Came to Nebraska in the Year of 1355. South of this city on the farm that his father pre-empted in the early fifties resides David A. Young, who enjoys the distinction of being the oldest male resident cf the state in point of years that he ha3 resided in Nebraska. Mr. Young was born March 22, 1851, just south of the pioneer town of Glenwood, his par ents, William and Rebecca Young, having located there after their mar riage in Missouri, coming to Glen wood in 1849. In 1S55 when David A. Young was four years of age, the family removed to Nebraska and landing at old Rock Bluffs, located in a short time on a farm west of that place and which is still In the Young family and on which Mr. Young has made his home for his lifetime with the exception of a few years spent in the northern part of the state. Mr. Young recalls well the privations of the early days and grand lodge to have erected on the Home grounds a second building, the infirmary, in whose cause Hon. John R. Webster proved a great champion and on his motion the sum of $125,- 000 was appropriated for the erec tion of the new infirmary building and at the session of the grand lodge in June, 1925, the corner stone of the, new building was laid by the Hon. Charles A. Chappell, of Minden, then the grand worshipful master stl. COMPOSITE VIEW OF NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME GROUNDS AT of the Nebraska grand lodge, there I being a great gathering of the Ma- part in the ceremonies and to view the Home and Its surroundings. The infirmary was completed In the fall of 1925 and while there were but few occupants at the outset, the infirmary has proven its worth as the place to shelter the sick and bed- j fast, and today the building is filled to its capacity. The rooms of the in firmary, modern in every way, equip ped with all the latest comforts, hos pital beds and every convenience, has been furnished by the Masonic bodies t e, i -. . j "I" - tin ' si the fact that his father, with the aid of other settlers procured logs in 1S5G to build the first home and part of whicli still stands on the old homestead as the monument of the pioneer father and mother, both of whom rest in the cemetery not far from the scenes of their daily life in pioneer days. . On March 22, 1876, Mr. D. A. Young and Miss Anna Mann, also a daughter of one of the pioneer fam ilies of the county, were united in marriage at Plattsmouth by Judge W. H. Newell, then the county judge cf Cass county. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Young has been very pleas ant and of the family circle of seven children, six are living, Dallas Young cf Chicago. Mrs. E. O. Lyman of Vail, South Dakota, Albert A. Young of Murray, Mrs. Ona Lawton, who resides at the old home, W. R. Young, deputy sheriff of Cass county and Mrs. Guy C. White, who reside at riattsmouth. EURLIIIGTOIJ CUTS TE.IE Chicago Reduction of thirty min utes in the Denver limited's running time between Chicago and the Colo rado metropolis was announced Thursday by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. The train, now in its forty-third year, will make the westward trip, in twenty-five hours and the eastward run in twenty-four hours, forty-five minutes. over the state, each giving with lov ing thoughtfulness, that the sick and helpless might have every comfort and care. The large and spacious buildings set In a grounds whose beauty and landscaping has few equals In this part of the state and are well worthy of the Home that Masonry has erect ed here. On the east of the Infirmary building a sunken garden with its pool has been made of what was ' P ft x5 A . Sf-V 7ZTS xkr-rrAC "Wi Ltr? 4-f' yi once a most unsightly spot, through the grounds are beautiful shrubs and trees and in the summer the bright hued blooms add their part to this restful home surrounding. The affairs of the Home are under the direction of a board of control that comprises the most distinguish ed members of the order in the state, headed by one of the loved and hon- ored citizens of Plattsmouth, Hon. James M. Robertson, as president of the association, which position he has filled for many years, and in which he finds true pleasure and happiness in serving those of his McKelvie plies to At lacks by Mr. Marsh Asserts Opposition to Limiting Pro duction Inconsistent Sees Progress Hade. Lincoln, Neb., May 14. Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the federal farm board, today gave to the press a letter he had written to Fred A. Marsh, state university regent. A preface to the letter refers to at tacks on the grain marketing pro gram of the board, "circulated exten sively through the state from Oma ha." "The question is: 'Who is respon sible for these attacks and who is paying for their circulation?' " the preface concluded. The former Nebraska governor dealt at length with the issues rais ed concerning the farm board's activ ities. "I cannot conclude without re marking upon the strange anomoly when a regent of the state univer sity of Nebraska, an institution that receives hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal funds to promote education and practice in improved methods of farming and marketing," he said, "places himself squarely in opposition to another agency of the government that is designed to do jthe same thing. I might better have would emanate from the United States Chamber of Commerce." "Remarkable Statement." "It seems you accepted author ship for a certain full page advertise ment in the Central City Republican, under date of April 3, entitled: 'The farm board the chain store The American farmer The three-way sword,' " the governor wrote Marsh. "Our mutual friend. Hon. Edgar Howard, playfully had this inserted in the Congressional Record and re ferred to it as a 'remarkable state ment!' In that I agree with him." McKelvie went on to deny the al legation in Marsh's statement that farm machinery is sold at a lower fig ure to foreign farmers than to the American farmer. No Cut Rates Abroad. ' Had you taken the time to read the testimony of Chairman Legge be fore the agricultural committee of the senate, when members of the board were being considered for con firmation," the letter continued, "you would have discovered that the company of which he was formerly president, never has sold a dollar's worth of machinery for export at a lower price than for domestic use. - "Let us then proceed from that point. Implement manufacturers are brethern that are dwelling here In the last days. Mr. Robertson has long been a leader In Nebraska Ma sonic circles and has served as grand high priest of the grand chapter of the R. A. M. of Nebraska, and also as the grand commander of the grand commandery of the Knights Templar of Nebraska. The superintendency of the Home is held by William F. Evers, who has brought to the position unusual executive and business talents, as well as a pleasant personality that has made it possible for him to serve the difficult position with the great est tactfullness in handling the af fairs of the Home and seeing that the residents there are given every con sidration and care. ITEW BRIDGE AT NIOBRARA Press d itpatches from Niobrara, within the past few days state con tract has been let for erection of a Missouri river, bridge at that point, connecting Nebraska with So. Dakota. selling their machines for export at the same price as in this country. Is this an offense, considered in connec tion with the advice of the farm board to the American wheat farmer to r9duce acreage? "Probably the use of these imple ments will facilitate an expansion of wheat production in foreign coun tries. That would come about any way, for every country that can grow wheat is redoubling its efforts to do so, American machinery or not. The American farmer never can compete in the world market with cheap lands, peasant labor and low water transportation , of foreign countries that produce wheat. Bread is the stair" of life and no country is going to subject itself to the control of that essential food by any foreign country, if it can avoid it. Maybe thi3 would not come about as soon were it not for the use of American farm implements, but to disregard the fact that it will come about, and in the meantime not to provide against a thing that is inevitable, would be to play the ostrich. Sees Progress Made. "The farm board sees no practical way to make the tariff on wheat ef fective, except to reduce production to a domestic consuming basis. "By and large, the program of the federal farm board has been and will be to assist in developing a farmer owned and farmer-controlled market ing system for the American farmer. In this measureable progress is be ing made." World-Herald CITY TO II0IT0P. MARTYR Chicago Homage to the courage of Joseph Altmeier, business man martyr in the war against crime, will be paid at a public funeral to be held for him Friday. Industrial and civic leaders will gather in Chicago tem ple, skyscraper sanctuary for the ser vices, which have been planned by the Chicago association of commerce. Altmeier died on Tuesday of a bullet wouund inflicted Monday by a bandit he had planned to trap. Two bandits also were slain. Last July Altmeier volunteered for the war against crime after his butcher shop had been bombed by extortionists. He became an undercover man lor the state's attorney, vowing he would give his life if necessary to aid his city. Three religious leaders, Rabbi Louis L. Mann of Sinai temple, Dr. John Thompson of Chicago temple and Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, dean of University of Chicago chapel, will eulogize Altmeier. POPE INSPECTS DOME Vatican City Pope Pius, noted for his ability as a mountain climber, Wednesday climbed up into the dome of St. Peter's to inspect cracks which Vatican engineers are endeavoring to repair. THE BEST WATER One of the natural assets of which Plattsmouth can feel truly grateful is that of the water supply that is given to the city by the Plattsmouth Water Corporation, of which Lynn O. Minor, is the local superintendent. The plant of the company pumps the water supply of the city from large wells on the bottom land northeast of the city where the water brought PLATTSMOUTH from the wells is treated in a na tural process to remove any excessive iron in the water and is then passed after being air treated, to the set tling basins, and then pumped into the standpipe that in turn serves the consumers of the company and also the city for fire protection. The water has been found to be as pure as any in the country and is of a very high standard by test. The city has been free from many of the troubles of other communities over their water supply, with an abund ant and pure supply of the best wa ter In the state. 12 Men and 7? 1.4 ',57- V" are & Dgyo in Pacili Tvro Steamers Ruchir.? Full Speed to Rescue cf Army, Navy Fliers Ocean Is Rough Honolulu, May 14. Army and navy airplaner, and surface ships rushed lte today to the rescue of four men who fell with an army bombing plane into the ocean and were joined by three rescuing planes, which with ty'eir crows of eight, wore helpless upon the rought waters. Scvcrrl . hours l;iter all four planes and 12 men were tossing upon the Pacific. The army men dropped vlth para chutes into the ocean between the island cf Oa'm and H'.iwaii, while a fourth plunged into the water with the fiiiling bomber. The men Lieutenant T. L. Boyd, rrmy reserve, Washington, D. C. ; tnff Serjeant II. Alexander of Ken nedy, Ailp..; Str.ff Forgennt J. Booker of Brooklyn and Private II. L. Cowan of Fyricu.-". N. Y.. wore taken aboard a navy seaplane whicli Hew to their rnd. The seaplane, however, was un r.be to ripe from the rr.ught sea. Roaring to their pssistance, two army amphibians and a navy sea plone, which were believed to carry eifTht men, descended in an heoric effort to save their comrades, but were themselves at the mercy of the sumbling waves. W.-rd of the plight of the army and the navy fliers w;is flashed ashore and two i?!ter-island steamers were ordered foil speed to the rescue. World-Herald. APPEALS RULING ON FAILED BAITS ACCOUNT Lincoln, May 14. Contending that dii ?S,072 savings account in thf f- il3l First State bank of Paw nee City, which he was administer ing as guardian for Frank M. Tanny hill, a disabled world war veteran, is; federal government property and should bo eon.sidered as a preferred claim against the guaranty fund, D. W. Osborn appealed to the supreme court Wedne'sday from an rdverse district court decision. INTERSTATE BUS TO ISSUE MORE STOCK: Lincoln. May 14. To permit fur ther expansion of facilities, the Inter state Transcft Co., bus subsidiary of the Union Pacific system, applied Wednesday to the state railway com mission for authority to issue 67. 747. more shares of common stock given a par valus cf $10 each. Read the Journal Want-Ads, Journal Under Present Owner ship for 28 Years Established in 1881 by C. W. Sher man; Robert A. Eates Present Owner and Publisher. The history of the past forty-eight years in Cass county is covered by the Plattsmouth Journal, founded in this city in 18S1 by C. W. Sheiman, and which has for the past twenty eight years of its career been under the guidance of the present owner, Robert A. Pates. The paper was originally a weekly and in the trying years of the eighties and nineties had a career at times also as a daily, the ownership changing hands sev eral times until in 1902 it was sold by the then owners, W. K. Fox and George P. Mann, to Mr. Bates. The owner of the Journal, It. A. Bates, came here from Silver City, Iowa, where he had been engaged in the conduct of a paper at that place for a number of years, altho he has been practically in the newspaper same for the greater part of his life time, being associated in the business MASONIC HOME with his father, Col. M. A. Bates in newspaper work in Missouri prior to that time. When purchasing the Journal Mr. Bates was associated with his brother, T. B. Bates in the conduct of the paper, but later secured tbe fulj control in the first year here and has since conducted the paper. Un der his control the paper was made a real success and an able bu::nc policy placed the veteran paper il the county on a firm foundation, an". gave the people of the countjr a stable and reliable medium of news and advertising. - Mr. Bates in 1905 established the J - .-1 '-:-Jy HON. JOHN P. SATTLER Who Has Served City as Mayor Almost Continu ously Since the Year 1909 NORTH PLATTE MAN GETS COMPENSATION Lincoln, May 15. The state labor obard Thursday awarded Cecil A. Mott, North Platte. ?14.40 a week until he recovers from injuries suf fered in a fall from a beam. NEW VIAnTTT nvrD Ccmpr. ) 'J j ;?tr st! ,X J-r U'r-:? . . - -Ml " isms Part of Scenic Driveway Known as Livingston Kn Leading to New Missour Riv ESlon Rad Evening Journal, the daily edition of the paper and which has been con tinuously published, while the for mer weekly was made Into a semi weekly that serves the residents of every section of Cass county. When taking over the paper here Mr. Bates had his father, Col. M- A. Bates, come here to assume the edi torial department of the paper, and while he is now nearing in a few weeks his eighty-eighth milestone, he is still able to take part in the daily task of making the paper, man aging the editorial department of the paper. The plant Is modern, and one of the best in the smaller cities of the state, the old equipment being ban ished by the piesent owner as fast as possible after his securing of the paper, and three linotypes, a modern flatbed press and the latest in type equipment now being rased in the daily task of making the Journal. In the preparation, printing and handling the Journal some seventeen persons are engaged. TO EZE7E FOUR CLASSES The new Plattsmouth bridge is de signed to serve four classes of vehicu lar traffic, namely: 1 Local, promoting greater inter city friendliness and sociability. 2 Movement of stock via truck OF THE FUTURE irom all over southwestern Iowa, af fording a most direct route and elim inating congested city traffic over Council Bluffs and Omaha streets. 3 Tourist traffic desiring a most direct route from eaist to west, with added opportunity of viewing new Nebraska capitol building, the archi- i tectural wonder of the age. 4 Pleasure driving during the zximmer months, affording divergent round trip route for Council Bluffs and Omaha autoists. We are' glad you are here.' Come again. -if . JS. -t-ff.- SEARS-ROEBUCK & CO. ANNOUNCE REDUCTION Chicago. May 15. Sears, Roe buck & Co.. Thursday announced price reductions amounting to about 10 per cent affecting nearly all lines of its merchandise, including auto mobile tires. curn n-T a ui I'ige,