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To Thomas Alva Edison more than
any other man does the modern
world owe its amazing progress. He
was the greatest inventor of all time
and principally because he devoted
himself to creating useful" things.
Without them the rapid advancement
of commerce and industry would not
have been possible.
-.Edison did not invents the tele.
phone and typewriter, but his im
provements made these inventions
successes. Half the Portland eement
produced in America is made in Edi
son kilns. He invented the phono
graph, the stock ticker, motion pic
tures, street car, mimeograph, stor
age battery and that Aladdin's lamp
the incandescent light and has a
thousand odd patents to his name.
His was the first bold -conception
of the application of electrical energy
for all purposes, particularly for
power, light and heat. The machin
ery for making electricity in the
giant power houses which dot the
cities of the world and for distribut
ing it was developed from a multi
tude of his inventions. The vacuum
bulb, which we call an electric globe,
and which Edison wa3 the first to
make, is also used in the rectifier
for changing alternating current to
direct current, or the reverse, and it
is also the radiotron, the foundation
of radio, which picks up silent elec
trical waves and transforms them
into sounds.
Edison's genius he called it hard
work was wholly self-developed.
He came from Dutch stock, his peo
ple arriving in New York in 1830.
He was born in Milan, Ohio, on Feb
ruary 11, 1847. Fortunately for him
his mother, who was Miss Mary El
liott, had been a teacher in high
schools in Canada. Tom Edison was
backward in school and soon tired
of it, and it was from her he learned
much as a child. At 11 he was the
proud owner of a laboratory in the
basement of his home, which was
'then in Gratiot. Mich., and to make
sure no one would tamper with it he
marked "POISON" on each of 20 6
bottles.
The first employment of the boy
who was to become the greatest in
ventor of all time was as a newsboy
on the Grand Trunk with a run be
tween Port Huron and Detroit. His
time off in Detroit was spent in the
Public Library. On the train he
printed a "Weekly Herald," some
times selling as many as 400 copies.
When the Civil War began Edison
bribed telegraph operators to give
him bits of important news which
he hurriedly set up and ran off a
hand press. His price for his paper
varied with the importance of the
news it contained.
The budding genius had a labora
tory on the train, also, and one day
a stick of phosphorus fell on the floor
and started a fire. The conductor put
him off after boxing his ears hard
enough to cause the deafness from
which Edison was to suffer for the
rest of his life.
In 1S63 he became an operator at
the Grand Trunk Station at Strat
ford Junction, Canada. There was
little to do all night except to tele
graph the word "Six" every hour to
show he was not asleep. Edison in
vented a contrivance to do this for
him. One night he let the train get
by him and he left hurriedly, becom
ing an itinerant operator. Drifting
into Boston in '6S he invented a
stock ticker but business generally
became bad and he went to New
York.
While sitting in the office of the
Gold & Stock Telegraph Co., the in
strument stopped. Edison fixed it and
was made manager with a salary of
$300 a month. He improved the in
strument and formed Pope, Edison &
Co., electrical engineers and general
telegraph agency.
With the proceeds from a patent
sold to the Western Union Telegraph
Co. Edison set up a plant of his own
at Newark, N. J. 'One of. his earliest
inventions was the automatic tele
graph which could send and receive
3,000 words an hour. He took the
typewriter and made the practical
Remington out of it. In 1873 he
went to England and sold his auto
matic and quadruple! telegraph sys
tem. He had 45 inventions to his
credit and 5 plants operating in New
Jersey.
Devoting all his time to invent
ing Edison neglected to pay his bills
until the sheriff came to collect them,
but this dignitary always got the
money.
Edison's carbon telephone trans
mitter was sold for $100,000 to the
Western Union, which was in bitter
competition with the Bell Company.
He tested 6,000 vegetable growths
before he found the proper filament
for incandescent light and the bam
boo he adopted was eventually dis
carded for metal.
In 18S2 he built the Drat electric
railway at his plant at Menlo Park,
N. J., and at the same time Jnvented
and" JnstalledVaip electrical 'power
plant there, the first of Its kind In
the world. .
Edison spent five years and $2.
000.000 o na plan and plant at Edi
son, N. J.; to extract ore from pow
dered rock by magnets, only to lose
it all by the discovery of great quant
ities of high grade ore in the Masaba
range, which rendered his process
profitless. His fortune was gone and
he was heavily in debt, but Edison
took the blow philosophically.
"I can always get a job as a tele
graph operator at $75 a month and
that is enough to take care of all my
personal requirements," he said.
Edison's "personal requirements"
were meagre. In 1890 he was meas
ured by a tailor and all his suits
thereafter were made from measure
ment. He cared little for the honors
showered on him by governments and
scientific associations. One diplomat
who called at his plant with a medal
found him covered with grease and
in his undershirt. He refused to go
to England to accept on LL. D. de
gree offered by a great university.
Edison's friendship with John
Burroughs, Henry Ford and Harvey
Firestone was one of the greatest
things in his life. Each summer they
met at Sudbury, Mass., and at Fort
Myers, Fla., each winter.
During the last years of his life,
Edison was busy with a scheme for
extracting rubber from goldenrod at
his place in Fort Myers. His death
was the culmination of years of dia
betes, Eright's disease and stomach
ulcers, which necessitated the 84-year-old
inventor remaining on an
almost exclusive milk diet.
The great inventor was married
his second time in 18S6 to Miss Mina
M. Miller. He had five children,
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., Charles Edi
son, Theodore Edison, Mrs. M. B.
Oser and Mrs. John E. Sloane.
L0CALJJE17S
From Monday" Pally
Mrs. J. B. Higley of Council Bluffs
i3 here to spend a short time at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. George
Barr and family, also Visiting with
the old time friends.
Mrs. Henry Becker and Miss Anna
Bauer of Union were in the city Sat
urday afternoon to spend a few hours
visiting with friends and looking
after some matters of business.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mathieson of
Sioux City, Iowa, were here Sunday
to visit at the home of the parents
of Mrs. Mathieson and Mrs. William
Rice, Sr., the mother, accompanied
them back home for a short visit.
From Tuesday's Daiy
Bert Crawford of Hartington, Ne
braska, is here visiting with rela
tives and friends for a short time;
and is planning to move to this lo
cality if he can find a suitable farm.
Mr. and Mrs.. O. W. Briggs and
children. Fern and Jack, of Beuna
Vista. Colorado, are here for a visit
at tht heme ef Mr. and Ms. William
H. Woolcott and family.
Mr. Guy JMUler and Mrs, Royal
Miller of Winner, South Dakota, ar
rived here Monday afternoon for a
visit at the home of Mrs.- Miller's
father, Fred Kunsmann and the
other relatives and old friends in
this community. '
From Wedsesdays riny
County Attorney W. G. Kieck was
at lyouisville today where he was
called on some matters of "business.
Phillip Schafer of west of Murray
was here today for a few hours at
tending to some matters in the coun
ty court.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Tillman of near
Union, who have been visiting here
at the home of Mrs. J. F. Clugy, sis
ter of Mrs. Tillman, have returned
to their home. '
D. C. Tucker, of Alva, Oklahoma,
an old time resident of near Murray
and Nehawka was. in the city today
to visit with the old time friends
in this community. - Mr. Tucker is a
brother of the late Mrs. W. B. Vir
gin, and .was called here by. her
death the past week.
If you want the test in school im
plies for the least money, toy at the
Dates Book and Stationery Store in
Plattsmouth,
LOOK OVER TAX EEC0HD
From Wednesday's Dally
T. F. Reed of the real estate and
tax commission of the Missouri Paci
fic railroad, was in the city today,
making his annual visit to check over
the tax records at the -office of the
country court relative to the taxes
on the railroad property.. Mr. Reed
is one of the veterans of the railroad
in this line of work and has made
annual visits here for the past twen
ty years. He states that Caaa county
has a fine set of records and very
little discrepencies have been found
in the long years that he has made
this county.
Discussing the railroad situation
Mr. Reed stated that the railroads
have a , real problem to face in the
general condition of the country and
their own shrinking passenger and
freight business, ' matters that are
giving all of. the .executives of the
railroads a great deal of concern.
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Soap gajrirj Csmonstrations.
Mrs. Thfifty . Hp use wife, if you
had an opportunity to learn bow to
save $15 to $25 annually on one
essential item of your household ex
pense, would you be interested in
learning it? Then attend one of the
soapmaking and stain removing dem
onstrations to. be held in Cass coun
ty on October 26 and 27, as per the
following schedule:
Mrs. Henry Sturm's, Nehawka,
October 2, 10 a. m.
Christian church, Murray, October
26, 2)0 p. m.
Methodist church, Louisville, Oc
tober 27, 9:00 a. m.
G. A. R. Hall, Elmwood, October
27, 1:30 p. m.
Miss Martha A. Rath, home eco
nomist for the Penn. Salt Mfg. Co.
will be present to teach and demon
strate soap making and stain remov
ing. There are many home soapmakers,
but not all of them understand soap
making. The soapmaker who under
stands soapmaking can apply correc
tive measures to remedy errors in the
process, because she understands the
cause that produced the error. Miss
Rath's demonstration will explain
the principles of soapmaking. the
causes of errors, and how to apply
corrective remedies so that a soap of
high grade quality will always be the
reward achieved for the soapmakers
labor and time.
Would you like to make your own
toilet soap? You can make the best
quality of toilet soap. It keeps the
Ekin smooth and velvety and saves
your dollars.
Have you ever put lye and fat to
gether to make soap and it remain
ed lye and fat for some time and
later combined to make soap? There
is no need of the long wait for soap.
When you understand soapmaking
you will get a soap in a few minutes.
lias the . glycerol . (brownish li
quid) separted out? It should be in
corporated in the soap. The demon
stration shows the causes of sepa
ration, how to avoid it, and how to
overcome it wfcea it oeeurs. Has your
soap been greasy - on top after it is
male? That fault is also easily cor
rected. Do you have scrap fats, fats
have become ranoid (sour)? Tbey
that darkened from nse and fats that
can be made Into while ' sweet fat
ready to make excellent soap. Come
to the demonstration to learn how
to take the guesswork and failures
out of soapmaking.
Store Surplus Vege
tables in Clean Cellar
The basement or cellar to be used
as storage space for vegetables should
be thoroughly cooled off and clean
ed before this year's crop is put in.
Rubbish and loose dirt from last
year's storage should be removed.
The walls and floor might be spray
ed with the bordeaux mixture or
whitewashed- if there has been spoil
age in the storage room. If the vege
tables are dug on a warm day they
had best be left outside in a pro
tected place until they are thorough
ly cooled. Root crops and potatoes
may be stored in open crates and
shallow racks,, but but in no case
should they be piled in a tight bin
and covered with a lot of dirt to
shut off the air circulation. A false
floor will permit ventilation under
the vegetables.
Learn ' Modern Cuts of Lamb.
The advantage of using all cuts
of lamb rather than a selected few
will be pointed out by Prof. W. J.
Loeffel, in charge of meats work at
the University of Nebraska, and Max
O, Cullen of the National Livestock
and Meat Board at the demonstra
tions which will be given Wednes
day, October 28th at Plattsmouth.
This feature has been arranged with
the hope of bringing to local women
information which will prove helpful
to them in their task of preparing
these everlasting three meals a day,
365 days a year.
In the case of lamb, many of the
possibilities of this meat have been
overlooked, according to Professor
Loeffel. Consumers have been in the
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Hugh J. ICearns Post, Am.' Legion, Presents
"The Early Bird" -
A 3-Act Gtogc Ploy
Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 28-29
PLATZ THEATRE, Plattsmouth
A modern American Cemedy built along business lines. Fourteen in
Cast, under direction of L. D. Eiatt, old time Theatrical Producer.
Popular Prices
Entire Main Floor, 50c Balcony Seats, 35c
Seat Reservations beginning Monday morning. Oct. 26th
Mail Orders addressed to Leo Boynton. riattsmouth,
will receive prompt personal attention
habit of thinking lamb in terms of
enly chops and legs, whereas there
are many other cuts which afford
palatable dishes if properly prepared.
Neither is lamb limited strictly to the
spring months as it used to be, he
said. Advanced methods of produc
tion have made it possible to pro
vide the market with quality lamb
the year 'round.
In a demonstration of lamb cut
ting at this meeting Mr. Cullen will
explain the different cuts and how
to identify them. He promises a
number cf revelations In this dem
onstration in the way of modern
lamb cuts. The modern cuts are oc
casioned by the present demand for
small, attractive cuts of meat, Cul
len says. The housewife will not use
the large "chunks" of meat as sold
in years past. She wants small por
tions of attractive appearance. I
cal housewives should find it to their
advantage to become acquainted with
the modern cuts which will be made
at this meeting.
Women are urged not to forget
the time and date of the meat lec
tures and demonstrations Wednes
day, October 28th, at the High School
Auditorium, Plattsmouth, at 10:30
a. m. and at the Public Library,
Plattsmouth, 8 p. ni.
GIVEN A SURPRISE
A very pleasant surprise was Riven
Mr. James Bridgewater, Jr., in honor
of his twenty-second birthday. Tur
day evening, at the home of Mildred
Carlburg.
The evening was greatly enjryed
in playing games and having contests
of various kinds. At a late hour ;i
dainty luncheon was served by the
hostesses. Miss Mildred Carlburg ar.tl
Mrs. C. D. Carlburg.
Those enjoying the occasion were:
Dorothy McCarthy, Clifton Hardiso:i,
Raymond Kc-lleson, Earl Winscott,
George Winscott, Frances (Irlffen,
Elsie Rice. Jt-nnie Rice, George Lus
chinsky, Terry Minncir. Ruby Shel
don. Opal Sheldon, Hubert ripr.
Opal Haley, Carroll Sutton, Laurle
Conelt, Jame3 Iiridgewater, Mildred
Carlburg, Edna Carlburg. Glen Carl
burg, Mr. and Mrs. C. I). Carlburg,'
The Journal Job department
equipped to turn out anything frcm
calling cards to sale catalogs.
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PROVIDING
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Never before have you had opportunity to see assembled under one roof
THE FOLLOWING SPECTACLES:
The finest specimens of blue-blooded live
stock in the land drawn to this national ex
position from every section of the United
States.
Men and women whose names have become
famous in such shows as those put on at
Cheyenne Frontier Days and the Pendleton
Round Up.
CTcrcc? CZzzzd Evcxls
For saddlers and roadsters. Featuring many
of the best known stables in the country.
Including bronco-busting, bulldogging and
roping events offering spills a-plenty.
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4-H ClzzZ) CcDy Occf Show
Put on by the farm boys and girls of Nebras
ka, Iowa and adjoining states. 1 ,000 animals
expected in this show alone.
Wild UPcZiia & Mexican Steers
A herd of 75 untamed animals will partici
pate in these Rodeo events.
"LliZxlolzt"
The. horse that has never been ridden.
Gcrgcczis Array of Exhibits
Including these featuring Nebraska's agricul
tural and community resources, as well as
unique and educational government displays.
Pigeon Ghzz
- Nebraska State Pigeon Association's annual
show.
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IHKJ rO to join the throngs which will spend a week in Enter
tainnnt end Education at Omaha, commencing Saturday, Oct. 3 lot.
Prf Cci Entcrins ib Gity Iron . nil Dircstions
Cjb3 ILC7 EloCC3 a Effort on all railroads ccrvinff Omaha during Show Veek
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