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MONDAY, JAN. 25, 1932. PLATTSMOUTH SEUL WEEKLY JOUEHAI PAOB TT70 A Legion Building PLATTSKOUTH January 27th Ralph Birch and His Detroit Vagabonds! Ask anyone who heard them last Wednesday! Dances discontinued at Naeve'8 Park. : Plattsmouth Legion in vites you to come here to dance. Dancers, 75 Spectators, 35c Ladies Free Two Gun Crow ley Put to Death in N. Y. Prison Twenty Year OH Desperado Execut ed in Electric Chair at Sing Sing Prison Ossing Francis "Two-Gun" Crow Ify went to death Thursday night in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, a slight smile being the only trace cf the bragidoccio which character ized the criminal career the twenty year Id gunman pursued from his early teens. "Hello, Sarge," he said to a guard as he was led into the execution chamber to be electrocuted for the slaying of a Long island policeman. He looked at the thirty-five specta tors and then as the electrodes were Manley News Items Rev.'Father Harte, Otto Harms and Harold Krecklow were over to Om aha last Monday, where they were attending the auto show. Herman Dall and Paul Flemming were over to Omaha on last Friday, where they were looking after some business matters for a short time. Grandmother Lawrensen, who re fides in Weeping Water, was in Man ley on last Friday, coming to attend the funeral of the late Wm. Rauth. Charles E. Cook, a long time friend rl the late Wm. Rauth. was over trcni his home at Plattsmouth last Friday to attend the funeral of Mr. Itauth. Mr. and- Mrs. - Frank Standtrr,- of Omaha, the latter a sister of thelata Win.- -ifauthr'were h"own- from .-theirt- home to attend the funeral of the brother. John Gruber was over to Union on last Friday, where he secured a new snow plow for this station, which will be used to clear the roads in this vicinity. Fred Falischmao and the family were ever to Louisville on last Sun day, where they were guests at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Taylor, parents of Mrs. Falischman. Wm. Heebner, who is making his heme with his parents north of Avoca '.vas a visitor in Manley on Friday of last week, coming to attend the fun eral of the late "William Rauth. Adolph Steinkamp was rather poorly during the early portion of last week, but had improved greatly and was able to be about town dur ing the latter portion of the week. Last week Otto Harms departed for -fnrshaltown, Iowa, where he is visit fug fnr a time and was accompanied i n his departure by his friends, Har old Krecklow and John Bergman, - ho went as far as Omaha. August F. Krecklow. who operates tli gaiage and also the truckline, was kept to his home and bed for a j-.uir.ber of days during the past anley Co-operative Grain Ass'n. Manley, Nebraska Balance Sheet Dec. 31, 1931 Current Assets Cash in Manley State Bank (Sch. A-l) $3,351.50 Cash on Hand 36.77 Accounts Receivable (Sch. A-2) 3,081.59 Xctes Receivable (Hugh O'Brien) 464.00 Inventories (Sch. A-3) 335.00 TOTAL Current Assets $ 7,268.86 Investments First Real Estate Mortgage, Cass county Farm 5,000.00 Fixed Assets Land, Buildings. Equipment $9,927.56 Less Allowance for Depreciation- 1,838.38 $8,089.18 Residence $2,400.00 ic-33 Allowance fjr Depreciation- 420.00 1,980.00 -Furniture and Fixtures $ 454.33 Less Allowance for Depreciation. 202.19 252.14 TOTAL Fixed Assets $ 10,321.32 TOTAL ASSETS $ 22.590.18 Not Worth Capital Stock Outstanding 1 3,975.00 But-plus January 1, 1931 $19,124.75 Trofit for 1931 ,. . 662.93 $19,787.68 Ltss Dividends Paid 1,172.50 Surplus, December 31, 1931 $ 18.6X5.18 NET- WORTH, December 31, 1931 $ 22,590.18 hastened to his legs he said to Robert Elliot, official executioner: "inai one on the leg isn't tight enough." Then, as an electrode was fitted to his head, Crowley said, "tell mo ther I appreciate everything she did. Thank Mrs, Lawes." His foster mother and her daugh ter were his late visitors, had been active in his behalf from the time he was captured last May in a New York apartment house In a spectac ular display of gunfire until they had exhausted all hope for a com mutation of the death sentence he received for slaying Patrolman Fred erick Hirsch. When the current was broken prison doctors pronounced him dead at 11:07 p. m. Outside Sing; Sing's walls seventeen year old Helen Walsh, Crowley's one-time cu-PPtlipnrt sat in an automobile. 'She wept and refused to talk. Viun irf i' n.'' - birthday after he entered Sing Sing, was described by his attorney as the son of servant girl and a private policeman who never married her. Shortly after birth he was taken to the home- of Mrs. Anna Crowley, whose name he used. State Journal. OMAHA PEOPLE WARMED A question as to the majority of a young lady applying for marriage license was brought up Thursday at the office cf County Judge A. H. Duxbury when the applicant gave her age as eighteen and also that this was her second marriage, hav ing been previusly married at Glen wood. Iowa, in 1929. but later had secured a decree of divorce. The court decided that the marriage re moved the minority of the applicant and that she was to be considered of legal age. The ceremony uniting Warren Sorrelle and Bernice Westover Hin kle. Was then performed by Judge Duxbury and the wedded couple sent on their way rejoicing. The wedding was witnessed by Mrs. Lee Sorrelle. Miss Estelle Bucinski and Earl Powers. week. He has since been making good improvement and is at the shop at work again. Making Wrecker for Service August Krecklow, who has so many stalled cars to pick up out of the snow and mud recently, has built a new wrecker, which will make the handling of the disabled cars a much easier task. Track Body for Sale I have an excellent truck body, with grain body and stock racks that have been cared for in the very best cf shape and are in excellent condi tion, that I can offer for less than the material would cost to build. AUGUST F. KRECKLOW, I' ll Manley, Nebr. M f.i ..... , Funeral. of William Eauth The funeral of the late William Rauth, who passed away in Platts mouth on last Tuesday morning, was held in the St. Patrick's Catholic church on Friday of last week, the services being conducted by the Rev. Father .Harte. Interment was in the Catholic cemetery north of Manley. There were many friends present to pay their last honors to this excel lent man. The pall bearers were se lected from among his intimate ac quaintances and were Rudolph Berg man. Frank Bergman, George Mey ers. Frank and Gust Stander and Rasmus Winters. Among the relatives present were Earnest Bargman, of Toledo, Ohio, an uncle of the deceased; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lovel. of Chappel, the latter a sister of Mr. Rauth; Mrs. Frank Grauf, of Plattsmouth, sister, also Mrs. August Glaubitz, a sister, of Plattsmouth, together with her son, Albert Glaubitz and wife, and Mrs. Rose Kelley, a sister, all of Platts aouth; Wm. Glaubitz and wife, cf southeast of Avoca, the former being a nephew of the deceased; John C. Rauth, brother; Herman Rauth and wife of Manley. Early History of Plattsmouth is Recounted Continued from page one. And in case of failure so to do to re-deliver said bonds to said county Commissioners or . their legal representative: under a penalty of $300,000. The President of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners and the clerk of said Commissioners are here by authorized to execute and de liver to the said railroad com pany or its authorized agent, the sum of $200,000 in bonds of $1000 each drawing ten per cent interest per annum, inter est payable annually with in terest coupons annexed. Said bonds to be delivered to said railroad company or its au thorized agents when accepting in writing within thirty dr.ys and this resolution and agree ing to remit the said two years interest and to build and oper ate the said railroad wilhin six teen months from date hereof through said county in the re delivery of said bonds uni'er a penalty of $300,000. In witness whereof we have this day set our hands and seals to this resolution this 3rd day of June, 1869. A. CARMICHAKL. James O'Neill, J. U. Moore. (Seal) Board tt Com missioners. At a meeting of the Commissioners on the next day, or June 4, 1869, Mr. Theilsen appeared again and indi cated that the contract as drawn by the Commissioners would be accept ed by the. railroad company and he asked that the President of the Com missioners and the County Clerk go personally to Burlington and secure the signatures of the officials. On June 16th. the contract was accented in writing by the company and signed by H. Strong as authorized agent. The Commissioners acknowledged re ceipt cf the acceptance and 200 bonds of $1000 denomination were issued. Chief Engineer Thielsen gave a writ ten receipt for bonds with Dr. R. U. Livingston as witness. In reference to two points dis puted later, it should be noted here that the contract between the Burl ington and the city of Plattsmouth said nothing about maintaining the offices of the company in Plattsmouth while the agreement between the county and the railroad company specified that the Burlington would agree to maintain "business offices necessary to the successful operation of said railroad." While it is evi dent that it was generally understood at that time that Plattsmouth -.was to be the business .headquavers of the Burlington '& Missouri in Ne braska, this conclusion is not clart fied in the written contracts. -sr.-Furthermore, it will be noted that the county bonds were delivered to the Burlington immediately after-acceptance of the contract by the com pany while a resolution of the Com missioners announcing the election to vote the bonds specified that they were to be delivered in three parts: 40 when the first ten miles was complete, 40 when the second ten miles was complete and the remain der when the line was built to the west end of the county. Again, the written contract does not contain this specification and it later became the basis of a suit to repudiate the bends on the part of the county Commissioners. But the issuing of the bonds com pleted the financial overtures of Plattsmouth, Plattsmouth precinct and Cass county to the Burlington & Missouri railroad company. Other precincts in the county took similar action to encourage railroad build ing, some of which applied specifical ly to the Burlington and others to different proposed lines. Rock Bluff precinct asked the county Commis sioners to permbit it to vote 10 of its assessed valuation to be given to the Burlington if it would cross the Missouri river at that place. Tho election was held and the vote wa3 G5 to 20 in favor of the bonds hut they were never issued as the :rail road did not cross at Rock Bluff. Weeping Water precinct voted 2S .to 11 for a bond issue to the amount of 10 of its valuation for the Burl ington & Missouri. Three other proposed railroads were seeking bond aid in Cass coun ty about the same time. These were: The Weeping Water & Platte Val ley, The Trunk Railroad and the Omaha & Southwestern. On Febru ray 20, 1871, a meeting of precinct representatives was held with the County Commissioners to consider bond issues for the benefit of these three roads. Five precincts were not represented. Plattsmouth was repre sented by Mr. S. Duke. This group adopted a resolution not to recom mend a bond issue until the railroad company had actually made a pre liminary survey of a route and filed a copy of it with the county Com missioners. This activity on the part of the precincts was due to a desire to se cure a north and south railroad in addition to the east-west line which they had in the Burlington. On July 22, 1872, the Commissioners pro posed to submit a $20,000 bond is sue for the benefit of the St. Louis & Nebraska Trunk railroad provid ing ten miles of the roadbed wera completed for iron and ties and that it came through Plattsmouth. Rock Bluff asked permission to vote $29, 000; Oreapolis $16,000 and Liberty $12,000. In view of these requests for precinct bonds, the Commission ers decided to call a county-wide election on November 30. 1872 on the question of issuing $130,000 county bonds bearing ten per cent interest and maturing in twenty years for the benefit of any railroad frcci the southern limits of the county and which must pass through Platts mouth. Some opposition to this pro-i posal began to manifest itself for a petition was received by the Com missioners November 20, 1872 ask ing them to modify the election call to read "for any . railroad! which would come .from the southern lim its of the county up the Weeping Water Valley to Ashland." In addi tion, the petition asked a subsidy of $5, COO per mile for the benefit of the Weeping Water and Platte Val ley company. The Commissioners ac cordingly ordered 1 the election post poned until December 28. 1872. An other petition boon . followed asking postponement cf the election from December 28th to January 25, 1S73 and this was also granted. The votes on this proposal as amended were canvassed on February 4, 1S73 and it was declared that the bond issue had carried 91G to 654. The Coun ty Clerk and the Commissioners were ordered to fign the bonds' and within a few weeks, a representative of the Weeping Water and Platte Valley appeared and certified that thirteen miles of road had been com pleted and asked for payment on the bonds of $5,000 -per. mile, and his claim was ordered, paid. The city of Prattsmouth 'was in terested in a iVorth'arid south rail road through its : corporate limits. On August 1C. 1871, Mayor White appointed a committee to confer with the officers of the Trunk Railroad company with a view to induce them to .bring their line through Platts mouth. On September 5, 1S71, at a called meeting cf the Council, a spe cial election was aiinoui.ced for Octo ber C. 1871 to vote on the question of issuing $30.00 in bonds to the Trunk Railroad. company. The bonds, if voted, were to be delivered if the line entered the south part of the county ?nd was built through Platts mouth and was completed by July 4. 1S73. The preposition of the city had to be accepted by January 1, 18 72. The result 'of the election whs as follows: . ' Ward 1 For the Bonds .88 2 3 Total 63 104 .255 Against the Bonds 3 0 il But the delivery cf the bonds was not made for as late as April 6. 1S72, the Council still hoped for favorable action on the part of the Trunk com pany. Mr. E. G. Dovey addressed the Council on this date relative tc send ing a committee to St. Louis to meet the officials of the Trunk linVand Mr. Dovey, M. Lin -White and R. R. Livingston were appointed. Dr. Liv ingston declined to serve and Dr. John Black was "appointed in his place. Since the original proposition had expired January 1, 1872 because the company had failed to accept it, renewed activity, on the part of the Council and its ' committee resulted in another elect ion to authorize bonds to the amount : of $50,000 bearing eight per cent and -to be held in trust by 'three free-holders until June 1, 1874. At this time, if the railroad Avns completed td' the corporate lim its, half of" the-'bonds would be de livered, nd . the,. ialnce when com pleted tjirough the county. The eJcc tiop was'hldA-l'gus't 'Sf,'lS"74 with' ihe following reu'ft:''' For the bonds, 217: against the bonds, 4. Cut again, by. the date of the ex piration of the date of acceptance, the railroad had not been built. On January 17, 1S74, the Council ap pointed a committee of. two to confer with the County Commissioners and correspond again with the officials of the Trunk Railroad. But the matter' was closed without result when the committee just referred to reported March 7, 1874 that they had con sulted the officers of the company In both Omaha acJ Lincoln but that nothing definite -had been concluded. On March 21,' 1873. the Council expressed an interest in the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad. It was generally believed that this line would follow the Mis souri river and a committee of Platts mouth citizens was appointed by the Mayor to confer with the officers of the road and to ascertain if this was their plan. The only advantage here would be that the line would run near to Plattsmouth on the Iowa side of the river and also afford a north and south rail connection until a road would be built through Platts mouth. . It was with the hope of securing this direct north and south line through Plattsmouth that it was pro posed to aid the. Omaha & South western. Representatives of this company came to Plattsmouth to stir up enthusiatsm for a bond contribu tion and a mass-meeting was called for November 21. 1870 to consider the matter. D. H. Wheeler presided and the meeting was largely attend ed. The Omaha & Southwestern agents explained .that the road could not come through Plattsmouth be cause the Burlington & Missouri al ready had the river route west but they would build through Cass coun ty for $150,000 in bonds.- Dr. Liv ingston expressed the opinion that the county would not vote the bonds but that some of the precincts might. Mr. J. C. Stfford of Rock Bluff stated that his town would- vote $50,000 and donate land to the rai!road,com pany. if they would .build through there but "not a dollar otherwise." After considerable discussion. Dr. Livingston moved that a committee of two from each precinct call pre cinct meeting and get an. expression from the people 'relative' to voting precinct bonds. ' The Plattsmouth precinct . meet ing wa.s held on-, the afternoon of December 2, 1870. at the county court house. Mr. Jacob Vallery Jr., was chosen chairman and Mr. II. D. Hath away, Secretary. After some dis cussion, a motion was made to give $25,000 precinct and $50,000 city bonds but the motion was tabled un til a second meeting could be held in the evening. At this time, it was de cided to delay action until a survey of the proposed lined had been made by the Omaha and Southwestern. It was evident that Plattsmouth was not particularly Interested unless tho road came through the town. precinct meetings in other towns revealed the fact that each town wanted to be the headquarters of the Omaha & Southwestern: Rock Bluff clr- renewed the proposition already re ferred to. Weeping Water offered $25,000 in bonds and to subscribe $25,000 in stock. Eight Mile Grove precinct agreed to vote $35,000 in bonds but wanted stock in return for this amount. The whole matter was dropped, however, for the Omaha & South western was taken over by the Burl ington & Missouri July 19, 1871. The Omaha & Southwestern was be gun in 1869 from Omaha to the Ptatte riyer where it obtained track age rights over, the Burlington & Missouri to Lincoln. It was the sec ond rail project in the state. Platts mouth wps not to have a north and south rail connection until the Mis souri Pacific was built in 1891. The successes ot the negotiations in railroad matters covering a period of a decade, caused a feeling of high enthusiasm and excitement in Platts mouth. This atmosphere wi.s reflect ed in The Plattsmouth Herald which could not refrain from writing with editorial 'glee that Plattsmouth had secured the prized Burlington & Mis souri instead of Nebraska City. The Herald of June 7, 1S69, reprinted a dispatch from the Nebraska City News in which the editor of the lat ter explained thvi he had conferred with Chief Engineer Thieisen and that Nebraska City was satisfied that her claims were fairly considered and that she wr.s resigned to the fact that she h:id nothing to expect from ihe Burlington & Missouri at that time. Jubilant over the earning or the latter, Ihe editor of The Herald could not refrain from commenting on the "speculative nature" of the Union Pacific and expressed doubt as to its future. Thi3 was further evidence of the rivalry between Om aha and Plattsmouth in the early period. The Herald wa3 of the opin ion that the only hope of Nebraska City wan to secure the Platte Coun try road which was owned by the Burlington & Missouri but suggested that "it will probably take more greenbacks than Nebraska City has." The Nebraska City Press was sour in its rejoinder when it denied that Plattsmouth would really get the Burlington unless "the citizens will make a quit claim deed to the entire hamlet and surrender the narrow ra vine which comprises Plattsmouth and perhaps the company will build a way station on the way to Orea polis." - The Lincoln Journal commented that "the Plattsmouth Herold is put ting on airs over its brand new piece of bread and butter, the railroad. But a little town ought not to make faces at other little towns when it gets a slice, even if there is an inch of sorghum on it." Now witlv the financial arrange ments completed for the coming of the. Burlingtou & Missouri as we have already described and the con tracts signed, Plattsmouth now pro ceeded with arrangements' for actual building operations for the tracks and shops. "The town was beginning to fill up with railroadish-looking in dividuals." remarked the Platts mciitli "Herald: "The ' Ceremonies for breaking the ground were announced for three o'clock on Monday, July 5. 1S69 and a committee of twenty three Was named to complete the program. On the appointed after noon, the vicinity of the court house was crowded. Carriages carrying the Plattsmouth Brass Band, county, city and railroad officials were arranged in line. ' Members of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Good Templars fra ternities marched on foot and "there were citizens on horse-back, citizens in carriages and wagons" to cele brate the coming of the Burlington to Plattsmouth. Short addresses were made by Dr. R. R. Livingston, T. N. Marquette, attorney for the railroad and Mr. S. Duke. Following this, Mayor D. H. Wheeler, "amid strains of music and deafening phouts from the multitude, turned the first shovelful of earth on the Burlington & Missouri in Ne braska!" He handed the shovel to Col. Peck. Engineer in charge and he passed it to John Fitzgerald, con tractor for the sixty miles west of Plattsmouth. He handed it to Mr. A. Carmichael. chairman of the County Commissioners and the in augural ceremonies were completed. In September, 1869, "The Amer ican Eagle," the first locomotive to be used by the Burlington, arrived by boat and "gave its first scream on Nebraska soil. Enthusiasm was fur ther increased when it was learned that a special excursion was contem plated as soon as sufficient track had been laid. The city Council took no tice of this in resolutions in "con sideration cf the completion of the Burlington and Missouri and it be ing as we have dreamed the intention to run an excursion and that distin guished citizens of the United States will be here" a committee of Alder men and citizens was appointed to raise the necessary funds and make arrangements for this event. This committee was composed cf: Wheatly Mickelwait, H. D. Hathaway, Jacob Vallery, T. N. Marquette, E. A. Wig genhorn, W. N. Erwin and R. R. Livingston. The eeetion of the Burlington from Red Oak, Iowa, to East Plattsmouth wiis completed January 1, 1870 and westward to Lincoln July 26 of that same year. From the earliest history of Platts mouth. the Missouri river had been crossed by ferry boat and this sys tem continued to be used by the rail road altho as early as July, 1870, the Burlington made sounding and surveys with a view to building a bridge but this was not done until 1880. The first ferry boat used by the Burlington was "The Gallatin" in 1869. It towed a barge equipped with rails and could carry three cam at one time. "The President" was brought to Plattsmouth In 1870 and was large enough to transport five freight or three passenger cars at one time. The "Vice-President" was used between 1874 and 1880 when the bridge was built. During the winter months when the river was frozen over, wagons were used as transfers for freight and passengers and usually gave employ ment to twenty teams. Sometimes rreight was placed on slides and dragged across and this method was considered better than wagons un less the ice was thinning. Such methods of crossing the river had j an element of danger and accidents due to breaking ice were frequent occurrences. On onje occasion, a wa gon, team and freight valued at $435 were lost and the driver was fortun ate enough to escape with his life. No cases of fatalities to drivers were found in the newspaper files and in many cases, the team could be vci. During one week In February, The Herald listed four freight wagons which had fallen through the ice. In each case, the team v? able to break the harness and be resctied but the wagons and freight were lost.. On November 18, 1869, Capt. II. E. Palmer of the N. J. Bond & Co.. of Plattsmouth, shipped the first con signment of wheat by rail from Plattsmouth. The Herald pointed to , this as "marking a new era in the history of our city." On December 16, 1SC9, the first regular pasenger train arrived in Plattsmorth at eleven o'clock in the mornir and continued on to Chicago. Since the running of the can: ever the Burlington & Missouri was her alded as opening a "new era" i: the history of Plattsmouth, let u ; ex amine the effect which the railroad had upon the business and economic life of the town. One of the first noticeable changes was the marked increase in p;:ula tion. When the first trains came into Plattsmouth, tho population was es timated at 2, 447. In 1870. this fig ure was advertised as "between three and five thousand" and was prcbably nearer the three thousand mark as it was merely a newspaper figure. In the decade following, this number had reached 5,873 by the federal census of 1880. In June, 1871, The Herald noted that "hundreds of strangers are com ing to Plattsmouth seeking homes on the rich, cheap lands. We can ac commodate thousands more and will extend the right hand of fellowship and give a kindly welcome to all in this garden of America." Both freight and passenger business in creased rapidly. All rolling stock of the road was pressed into service and even passenger trains were com pelled to attach freight cars. To sell its government land grants in Nebraska, the railroads were ac tive in organizing colonies of immi grants to come west from eastern states and European countries. A Michigan-Nebraska colony was or ganized at Detroit and took up land in Adams county and the fare from Detroit to Lincoln was quoted at $21. An Illinois-Nebraska colony was formed at Abingtou, Illinois, to lo cate in r'illmore county. The Burl ington opened an agency of the Cun ard Steamship line at Plattsmouth to arrange for the immigration of European relatives of settlers already here. In Liverpool, the Burlington opened an agency under the direction of Mr. M. H. Wilson to locate colon ists in Nebraska". ' ' ' ' 'V "! Land was cheap and sold rapidly altho city lots were at a premium. The sale of railroad lands in Nebras ka for March, 1871 was reported at 2, 788, .93 acres, averaging $9.35 an acre. The D. II. Wheeler Co. at Plattsmouth offered one hundred city lets for sale at prices ranging from $75 to $250 each. The total valua tion of town lots in Plattsmouth in 1871 was estimated at $438,000. Business in all lines of merchan dise increased accordingly. In April. 1871, The Herald devoted a half column describing a shipment of six cars of cattle to Chicago and antici pated the growth of the cattle indus try around Plattsmouth, asserting that "we have room enough and grass enough to fatten all the cattle in the country." During wheat har vest season of 1S71, an average.. of ten cars of wheat a day was shipped to Chicago. In July, 1S71, an aver age of from three to five cars of cat tie and hogs were shipped to Omaha every week. In the same month, 95 wagon loads of grain came into Plattsmouth in addition to 10 immi grant wagons and 6 loads of hay On another July day. The Herald re ported 9J. wagons on the main street of Plattsmouth and during corn har vest, the Burlington shipped out an average of 10 cars of corn daily Grain during the first part of June, 1871 marketed in Plattsmouth aver aged from 400 to 500 bushels a lay. Building in Plattsmouth during the period of railroad building went on apace.' Shipments into Plattsmouth became so heavy that it was reported difficult to secure cars and locomo tives. The Herald viewed this con dition as "health for the B. & M. and for the country tributary to it." To further encourage passenger traffic, the railroad reduced its fare to five cents a mile April 10, 1871. Dupr ing the month of April, 1870, from 75 to 100 new homes were under construction in Plattsmouth and it was customary to rent homes several weeks In advance. One lumber firm in Plattsmouth, Kershaw & Waugh, received 150,000 feet of pine in one month and ordered 200,000 more. Business was at such a peak in 1869 that The Herald predicted a popula tion of 20.000 by 1871. Still the paper complained of a "woeful lack of business houses and urged the town to offer $15,000 as a bonus for a new hotel. "Build Houses" became the slogan of The Herald and month ly rentals ranged from $40 to $90 a month when houses could be ob tained. The effect of the railroad on the price of merchandise was to bring about a gradual reduction and an Increase on marketable commodities. Stores advertised their wares at "be fore the war prices." The shipping rate to Chicago was reduced nearly one-fourth and the producers were rejoicing that the difference went into their pockets. " Comparatively little coal was used in Plattsmouth except by the blacksmiths prior to the building of the railroad. Then the price dropped from $24 a ton to 7.50 a ton. The valuation of the county when the bonds were vot-. ed March 27, 1869, was $2,000,000. Ladies TocCcry There's v Gossard for Every Budget I No matter how small your dress allowance, yourword robo can boast a Gossard. Inexpensive dresses toko on such lovely linos when worn overa Gossard foun dation that your friends will never guess their modest cost...Speakfng of cost,thei 6-Inch hook oroundketchedIsonh $2.500 value such as you can only find in Gossardsl It's of pink rayon batiste with elastic sections over the hips... Model a8a $2.50.... Semi -uplift brassiere of figured , crepe de chine is model 692. Gossard Aftev.-tbe Burlington buflt through Plattsmouth., the. valuation of. Platts mouth" precinct' alone1 wicseStiMatefl" at $10,000,000 and' lower sxN were predicted. Receipts- from passenger and freight buesiness done by the Burlington in Plattsmouth alone was estimated at $40,000 a month. But despite the increase of busi ness activity and population during the period 1869-72, law enforcement was reported good and Marshal Mur phy was publicly commended "for keeping the city very quiet since the advent of the railroad and he de serves much credit and some pay." The enthusiasm of Plattsmouth may be said to have reached It3 emo tional acme when The Herald, re ferring to a speech in Congress by General J. A. Logan who suggested that the national capitol be moved west, advocated Plattsmouth as the logical point. In support of its claim, The Herald quoted from n Chariton, Iowa, paper to the effect that there were "only four impor tant, points in the United States at present: Plattsmouth, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.". -(To Be Continued )' BONDS PAST DUE AT MISSOURI VALLEY, IA. Missouri Valley, la.. Jan. 21. At the city council meeting Tuesday night it vas revealed that the city fund lacks $3,085 to retire " bonds past due. ... City Treasurer "Frank Burke re ported $5,000 in sriret, ipiprovpmcht bonds, with interest, are unpaid. The interest to March 1 will bring the total to $5,375. The city has $990.4 4 on hand in the Improvement fund, and the county treasurer has $999,31 to be turned over to the fund. ' J Unpaid paving assessments the city believes it can collect total $300. still leaving the city $3,085".25 short. The council has decided that to re tire the bonds different committees must trim their budgets. Missouri Valley is another railroad shop town situated like Plaltsmouth, wnere striking shopmen were forced to move elsewhere after losing the bitter railway strike of 1922. desrt Ing their properties and Icttintr ac cumulated taxes go unpaid, which is doubtless responsible In" no small measure for present financial diffi culties. , UILITABY RULE ATTACKED Oklahoma City Attacking mili tary control of th oil field. H. O. Marshall, head of the Marshall Oil company, ordered state troopers to stay off his lease. ' "80 lone am tho rnrnnfo tAn maim mission has charge of proration regu-r latlons. military authoriti hnM salaries are paid of oil Held companies no ngni 10 enforce the rules," riniH asserted. Lieut. Col. ilurrav. In otiim nt tbe oil field trooos. raniUH -"w bhh - go OB the Marshall lease to enforce proration laws any time they are be' The eommindir he said, for increasing the number of troops patrolling tbe field.