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PI v WISELY fOXJSA FAGS nvx Manley News Items Mr. and Mrs. Theo Harms were visiting and looking after some busi ness matters in Omaha last Tuesday afternoon. Father Harte of the St. Patrick's Catholic church, of Manley, was a visitor at Plattsmouth and Omaha on last Tuesday afternoon. Clyde Jenkins, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is still con fined to his bed, and although he is slightly better is Etill quite poorly. Herman Dall has added a stock of farming- implements and supplies to his blacksmith shop and is offering this new service to the community. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Huse, of Jack son, were visiting for the day last Tuesday at Manley, guests at the home of Messrs and Mesdames John C. Rauth and Walter Mockenhaupt. Herbert Stelnkamp and wife, from Oklahoma, were visiting here for a few days, being guests at the home of Herbert's father, A. Steinkamp, who is now feeling quite a bit better. 'When J. C. Rauth went to York to bring Mrs. Rauth heme, he was ac companied as far as Utica by George Rau, who stepped off there and was pk-ked up by the Rauths on their re turn journey. The opening ball game of the sea son in the new league, played at Man ley a week ago Sunday, with Alvo as their opponents, was won by the vis iting aggregation by a score of 7 to C. It was a very good game. Arrangements have been made for the holding of religious services at the Manley community church, the services being in charge of the Rev. Starkey, of Weeping Water. A cor dial invitation is extended to all. Miss Mary A. Murphy was a visi tor in Omaha for the greater portion of last week, where she was attend ing the wedding of a niece, Miss Eliz abeth Murphey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Murphey, to Joseph Acoma. The wedding rites were celebrated at one of the Catholic churches in South Omaha. Rudolph Bergman and Win. Keck ler were over to ehawka last Tues day, where Mr. Bergman was looking after some business. In the evening, with Mrs. Bergman and a sister, Miss Edna Koop, and Mrs. Marion Koop, they went to Omaha, where they at tended an Alumni Nurses' banquet at the Clarkson hospital. Golden ' Wedding Anniversary May 9th, fifty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mockenhaupt were united in marriage, and in order to properly celebrate the event, their daughter, Sue, planned a wedding party for the parents and the same was celebrated at the Mockenhaupt home. Among the guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Roman Meier, of Louisville; P. A. Mockenhaupt and family, of Green wood; A. V. Mockenhaupt and fam ily, of Alvo; John Mockenhaupt and family and Walter Mockenhaupt and family, of Manley; John Ayres and wife, of Lincoln; August Stander, of Elmwood; Frank Stander and wife, of Omaha, and Mrs. Catherine Ear Lardt. of Manley. A sumptuous din ner was served at one o'clock. Died in Omaha Henry G. Schwind, of Omaha, and formerly of Manley, died at his home there on last Sunday, at the age of E5 years. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, with interment in an Omaha hospital. Mr. Schwind form erly conducted a store and was post master here, being succeeded by Ru dolph Bergman in both positions. He is survived by a wife, Grace and a son. Clarence, also two brothers, John Schwind and Peter Schwind, both of Perrygrove, Ohio, and a sister. Mrs. F. E. Boone, of Perry Grove, Ohio. Celebrated Seventieth Birthday John C. Rauth was born seventy years ago, May 9, 186S, and ha3 re sided in and near Manley for more than forty years. The occasion of his seventieth birthday wa3 duly cele brated by his wife arranging an en tertainment for a few friends, with a sis o'clock dinner served at their country home. Among those present to enjoy the fcur course repast and participate in a few games of the ever popular pinochle were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rauth, Walter Mocken haupt and wife, Father Patrick Harte and Miss Sue Mockenhaupt, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rauth. A splendid time was had and many good wishes were extended to Mr. Rauth for the further enjoyment of ether equally fcappy birthdays. EOOSEVELT LANDS JOB Lot Angeles. Gilpin Air Line3 announced the appointment of El liott Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, as general manager effec tive Immediately. Phone the new to Tic. 6. Bryan Signs the Old Age Pension Bill State Officers of Fraternal Order of Eagles Witness Signing of Bill Friday Afternoon Governor Bryan signed S. F. Ill, the old age pension bill, Friday after noon in his room at the governor's mansion in the presence of a delega tion of citizens that sponsored the measure and whose national organ ization, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, has labored for years for the enactment of a similar bill until they have seen it adopted in twenty-three states, Nebraska being the latest. Those witnessing the signature of the governor on behalf of the state organization of Eagles were State President M. L. Killian, Fullerton; State Secretary Frank A. Matthews, Omaha; state committee on old age pension, Judge C. W. Britt of Omaha, chairman, Andrew F. Moran, Nebras ka City; Vernon W. Pope, York; Charles' L. Meyers, Lincoln; Ernest Hahn of Fremont; William M. Bar clay of Plattsmouth. Governor Bryan talked enthusias tically of the bill, stating that he had long fought for such a measure and expressing the belief that the people of Nebraska should be grate ful to the legislature for its passage and thanked the committee on old age pension for its activity on be half of the bill. The delegation, with Secretary Porterfield, representing the governor, posed for a group photo graph on the porch of the mansion. Judge Britt of Omaha said that every effort had been made to put teeth in the bill so that persons not deserving should not become eligible to an old age pension in Nebraska. In other states where cost3 of pensions are mounting high, ineligibles are being weeded out of the list. The bill is an experiment and hav ing been somewhat badly patched with amendments, may have to be corrected by future legislatures some of its sponsors say. The act i3 not to become a law until Aug. 10. As amended one must be 65 years of age to be eligible to a pension. The monthly maximum pension Is 520. Every adult in the state must pay an annual tax of fifty cents to be levied by the county board. No other tax is to be imposed. If this cum is not sufficient to pay pension ers on the list the fund will be pro rated. As there will be no funds on hand in most county general funds to pay until the county board assesses the fifty cent levy, it is not likely a pension can be paid anyone until next year. A commission of five appointed by the county board is to serve as a pension commission without pay. This commission is authorized also to receive donations in trust for the pension fund of a county. Pension money due a pensioner shall not be subject to assignment, attachment, execution or otherwise. Applicants for pension must apply in writing to .the county old age pen sion commission, and the commis sionshall fix the amount to be grant ed, not exceeding $-0 a month. The applicant must be 65, a citizen ot the United States for fifteen years and a citizen of the state for fifteen years, but occasional absences from the state for a total period of tnree years shall be permitted, and absence in the service of the state or the United States shall not be consider ed. Twenty-five years residence in the state, five years immediately preced ing application having been spent in the state, makes on eligible. No one having a child or other relative charged by law -with support of the applicant, shall be eligible. Those having an income of more than $300 are not eligible. i RIFT SEEN IN PARIS RULE Paris. The life of the French government may soon be at stake in the fight between Premier Dala dier and former Premier Herriot over war debts payments to the United States. A wide breach between them, their partisans said, has bean caused by M. Herriot's insistence that France pay the 119,000.000 interest over due cincc Dec. 15 and the refusal of M. Daladier and the cabinet to do so under present circumstances. Daladier, goaded by the Herriot resistance, now is represented in some quarters as willing to default the June 15 payment as the easiest means of avoiding being caught be tween Herriot's popularity and the chamber's stubbornness. Hugo Meisinger of Cedar Creek wa3 a - visitor in the city Saturday for a few Lcusr and while here was a caller at the Journal to renew his subscription for another year. ORGANIZE CLUB The school girls of District 41, or ganized a 4-H Sewing club, named the Six Sewing Sallies. The leader is Marie Speck. The meeting was held for the elec tion of officers. The following were elected: President, Phyllis Speck; secretary and treasurer, Marie Lentz; Song leader, Freda Fornoff; yell leader, Maxine Jordan; pianist, Iola Burmeister; vice president and news reporter, Pauline Jordan. Miss Baldwin, the county assist ant agent was there to help us or ganize. We are going to meet every two weeks at the members homes. The next meeting will be held at Pauline Jordan's, May 23. Pauline Jordan, Reporter. Appraisers to Pass on Land for Road Purposes State Highway Department and E. E. Leach of Union, Unable to Agree on Price of Land. From Saturday's Dally This morning in the county court itction was taken on the applica tion of the state highway department for the appointment of appraisers to adjust the price of land condemned for road purposes near Union. This land is the property of Ed ward E. Leach and wife, Jessie D Leach, adjoining Union on the east The construction of the new paving made necessary the securing of ad ditional land to widen the road and make it safer to the motorists at the intersection of No. 24 and highway No. 75. The grading has left the property of Mr. Leach considerably above the level of the highway and makes it impossible to get in and out of his driveway. Acting on the application of the state department Judge A. H. Dux- bury named as the appraisers in the matter C. R. Troop of this city, O. A. Davis of Murray and Henry Knabe of Nehawka. HOARDERS CLING TO GOLD Washington. Gold hoarders paid little heed to the government's threat of prosecution last week when only S6.564.000. in gold. was. turned in. Since March 8, when President Roose velt stopped the use of gold as a cir culating medium, $758,595,000 has been returned to federal reserve banks, making their total gold re serves reach $3,442,134,000. For sev eral weeks after the president's ac tion gold poured into the treasury in huge amounts, and again, after his' executive order in April setting May 1 as the final date for returning the metal under penalty of a $10,000 fine and ten years imprisonment, it was returned in sizeable quantities. The increases recorded in the weekly report of the federal reserve board also showed that the money in circulation continued to decrease as additional banks reopened. On May 10 the total amounted to $5,892,000, 000, a drop of $1,646,000,000 since March 8. The amount cf federal re serve notes in circulation decreased $45,616,000 to $3,349,753,000 in the week, bringing the total drop since March 8 to $865,247,000. As the cir culation decreased the gold back of the notes increased from $2,727,604,- 0C0 last week to $2,764,392,000 on Wednesday and brought the ratio of gold to federal reserve notes in actual circulation to 82 percent. j The circulation of the new reserve bank notes increased $6,746,000 to a total of $62,805,000. The amount of these notes in circulation in mid- western districts was: Chicago, $13,- 311,000, Minneapolis, $401,000, and Kansas City, $441,000. A. 0. U. W. MAY TURN liUTUAL Grand Island. Debate over a pro posed change of the A. O. U. W. or ganization from a fraternal to a mu tual insurance group occupied the greater part of the time Tuesday aft ernoon at the organization's bien nial grand lodge session here. The matter was made a psecial order of business for 11 a. m. Wednesday. From the discussion it appeared that the present trend of opinion favors a change to the mutual form. The auditor's report revealed a balance of $1,443,994 and total dis bursements last year of $S13,317. The report of the auditing commit tee was adopted by unanimous vote. II. L. Fletcher was re-elected grand master. Election of other officers will be held Wednesday. R. Kettelhut, one of the well known residents of near Nehawka, was in the city Thursday and while here was a called at the Journal of fice to renew his subscription. A BED DEAL Treat yourself to a New Deal by buying a new Spring Suit. If you are suit minded, step in and see what we have to offer at 015 1S 20 GIVEN SUEPKISE DINNER A very pleasant surprise dinner was tendered Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Appleman of Alvo, Nebr., when twenty of his relatives gathered at his home Sunday, May 7th to com memorate his seventieth birthday. Mrs. L. B. Appleman, the hostess, served a bounteous dinner. The ban quet table, which is a family heir loom, and has greater stretching pos sibilities than most tables today, was stretched out to eighteen feet in length across the spacious Appleman dining room. A white linen banquet cloth was spread and the table set with haviland china, silver and ir ridescent crystal and cut glass. At either end of the table was a twenty four inch pink candle tied with a bow of green and pink tulle. In the center of the table a huge birthday cake with seventy little pink candles, stood high on a crystal cake stand. The dinner consisted of: Fresh Fruit Cup Ripe Olives Sweet Pickle Relish Hot Parker House Rolls Concord Grape Jelly - Butter Roast Chicken - Dressing Mashed Potatoes Califlower with Drawn Butter Creamed Fresh Garden Asparagus Comination Fresh Vegetable Salad, Italian Style Roquefort and American Cheese Saltines Coffee and Cream The piece de resistance was the huge angel food birthday cake, baked by Mrs. W. V. Byers, decorated with white icing and p?ck rosebuds. The 70 candles were lighted by the host at the completition of the main course. As the candles burned brightly several telegrams and mes sages from absent members of the family were read. , At this point Mr Appleman was presented with many lovely and useful -gifts. The candles were extinguished as the host cut the cake into forty slices. Mr. Harry Appleman served twenty crystal glasses filled with -delicious ice cream which he himself had made for the occasion. This completed the dinner, the rest of the afternoon being spent in recalling old days and happy rem iniscences of the children spent with their Uncle Ben. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Appleman, Atlantic, la.; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Appleman, Alvo, Nebr.; Mr. Charles Appleman, Alvo; Billy Williams, Jr., Atlantic, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burst, Green field, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Farley Young, Lincoln, Nebr.; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Appleman, Lincoln; Mrs. Al Trahern, New York City. N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Linch, Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Byers, Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Appleman, Alvo. Congratulatory messages were re ceived from Mr. and Mrs. Roy Camp-. bell, Minneapolis; Miss Evelyn Camp bell, Minneapolis; Mrs. Mildred Wil liams, Fairfield, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Martin, Dallas, Texas. DOING NICELY From Thuraay' DJly Mrs. V. V. Leonard returned home from the Clarkson hospital, Omaha, this week following an operation from which she is recovering satis factorily. EVEN if you can say you never had an automobile accident or a 'close shave' ycu still need automobile insurance for you can never tell what the oth er fellow may do. Insure with Searl S. Davis Ground Floor Sates Bldg. PLATTSMOUTH w a i Red Ball High way to Receive New Surfacing Highway from Murray to Eagle to Be Regraveled as Well as the Eagle-Murdock Roadway The Red Ball highway from Mur ray west to Eagle is to be resurfaced this season, the state highway de partment announces, and has called for bids for the fifteen and two-tenths miles of the highway. This will place the highway in the best of shape for the season as the gravel has worked off a great deal in many places on the roadway. The state is also to regravel the six miles of highway from Eagle to Murdock and which will be let at the same time that the Murray project is taken up. The bids are to be opened on June 1st at the office of the state highway department and which will allow the work to be carried out as soon as possible. This will give the county a fine surfaced road across the center of the county which the resurfacing will put in good thape for an all season highway until such time that it may be paved. THE AFTERMATH An Injun sprawled in a time worn sedan Tanking up on the now legal beer; He'd left his wigwam away out at Cheyenne, And was quaffing the brown liquid cheer. He drank to his friends in his far off home As he chortled in gleeful pride, With his face sunk deep in the flowing foam From a tankard on hand at his side. His voice went up as the "suds" went down; Soon he warbled a glad rounde lay Of his fame as a warrior in his home town. And of deeds he'd performed in his day. His jargon got mixed his tones fainter grew As his toga about him he furl ed; Till the potent fumes of the -amber brew - Left him stark and "dead to the world." Came the morn with the dull pangs of remorse That deep down in his vital3 sank, As they brought to his mind in fullest force A memory of "bowls" he drank. He searched his clothes for a dinky "thin dime" To purchase just one "pony" drink But he'd squandered his all on a "high old time" And it left Mr. Lo "on the blink." He was plumb out of wampum likewise out of gas Afar from his loved native wild; And he yearned for his home but alack and alas, He was helpless and meek as a child. So the boys filled the tank of his empty sedan. And after a brief spell of rest, They started him off on the road to Cheyenne To his wigwam and home in the West. "K" KANSAS WHEAT CROP SMALL Topeka. Altho conditions im proved slightly in the last month, Kansas, the county's chief wheat producing state, faces the prospect of the smallest crop in more than a dozen years and one that promises to be less than one-fourth of its re cord harvest in 1931. A winter crop of 58,486,000 bushels has been fore cast by the federal and state agri cultural departments, on the basis of a crop condition rated at only 55 percent of normal as of May 1 and abandonment of 48 percent cjf the acreage sown last fall. The two west ern tiers of counties and most of those in the southwestern portion of the state are not expected to produce enough wheat to plant a new crop. (FARMER SHOOTS DAUGHTERS El Reno, Okla. Apparently anger ed because his two young daughters went motoring with two youths, Ed Etheridge, Canadian county farmer, shot the girls and then killed him self. Bernice, 12, was killed and Elinor, 13, was wounded dangerous ly. The boys were not harmed. The girls were shot at the corner of a cemetery at the northeast edge of El Reno after they had alighted from the boys' car and started to walk to ward home. FORD SELLS HIS INTEREST New York. The sale by the Ford Motor company of its interest in the Universal Credit corporation to the Commercial Investment Trust cor poration was completed with the signing of contracts, according to a joint announcement by Henry Ford and Henry Ittleson, president of Com mercial Investment. The Ford com pany, it was stated, will receive ap proximately 30 millions for its inter est. The Universal corporation for several years has been the financing organization of the Fords. "The reason we are selling the finance company is very simple," Ford said in the announcement. "We are essentially manufacturers and the finance company is essentially a banking business. We want to sepa rate the two." RESUMES OPERATIONS The good news that the Independ ent Crushed Stone Co., of Weeping Water, had resumed operations for a good long time, was good news to not only th9 some 25 men who are working full time, but also to the citizens of Weeping Water who have no direct interest in the quarries. When more men are working at good wages, we all prosper, and more money i3 in circulation for us all to spend. It makes a great deal of dif ference when a payroll of several hundred dollars is coming into the community each week or if it is cut off. The men are busy getting out crushed stone for a large paving con tract and several carloads of crushed stone are moving out every day. We are hoping and praying that the weather man will give us a good deal from now on and let us have some good weather in which the men can get a good lick at their work. Many have been out of work for several months, only for a few days now and then, and this news i3 certainly wel comed by them. M. T. Koop and Clyde Fitzpatrick, directors of the operations at the plant, are very optimistic as to the length of the contracts and are look ing forward to a full summer of work. We are pulling for the boys and hope that they continue to get orders to keep their men busy the full time, or better yet, that they must put on a night force and work a full 24 hour day. Weeping Water Republi can. HAVE TIGHT OVER CHILDREN Grand Island. G. Mead, 3C, of Omaha, was arrested by citv and county authorities and taken to Greeley to be held pending the out come of injuries suffered by E. E. Hall, 45, farmer a mile and a half southwest of Spalding. Sheriff Sanders said he apprehend ed Mead after receiving a descrip tion of an automobile telephoned by Acting Sheriff Scott of Greeley coun ty. Sanders said Hall was injured severely in a fight, with the left side of his face caved in and his scalp lacerated. The injured man was treated at Greeley. Mead's story, Sanders said, was that he and Mrs. Mead went to the Hall place Wednesday morning. Hall and Mrs. Mead were divorced about six years ago. The Meads went there to get the son and daughter of Hall and Mrs. Meade, who had been stay ing with Hall for several months. Hall, Mead told the officer, at' tacked Mrs. Mead when she went in to the house to get the children's clothing, and Mead, attracted by her screams, went to her rescue. Mead claimed Hall struck him with a corn knife, cutting a gash in his scalp, and struck Mrs. Mead with a ham mer. Airs. Mead told authorities she was given custody of the children. After the affray, the officers said, the Meads left the Eon, Jack, 12, in Spalding, and kept Peggy Joyce, 10, with them. Mrs. Mead told authorities she would tend juvenile officers after the boy. PANAMA SUSPENDS PAY Fanama City. The Panama gov ernment ordered temporary suspen sion of the interest payment due May 15 on a 12 million dollar debts con solation lean negotiated in 1928 with the National City bank. A com munique stated the government was compelled to adept the course owing to monetary conditions and the possi bility of a considerable deficit dur ing the coming month because of a continued decrease in revenue. REFORMATORY GIRLS BURNED Manila, P, I. Trapped by bars, eleven girl inmates burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Philip pine training school for girls, a gov ernment reformatory. Police, assert ing they suspected arson, questioned a matron regarding efforts made to release the victims. Eighty-oneJn-mates escaped from the building. Grand Chapter Eastern Star In stalls Officers Mrs. Mary Faroham of Loup City la Named as the Grand Worthy Matron Wednesday. The Nebraska grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, installed officers at the Scottish Rite temple at Lincoln Wednesday night and an nounced Lincoln as the city in which the 1934 grand chapter convention will be held. Officers who took their places Wednesday night are Mrs. Mary Farnham of Loup City, worthy grand matron; William B. Wanner, Falls City, worthy grand patron; Mrs. Clara B. Bathen, Lincoln, associate grand matron; Harry Proffitt of Hastings, associate grand patron ; Mrs. Rose M. Owens, Omaha, worthy grand secretary; Mrs. Blanche Wat son, Norfolk, worthy grand treas urer; Mrs. Margaret McPherron, Om aha, worthy grand conductress, and Mrs. Laura Nicholsen, Wisner, as sociate grand conductress. Prominent members of the grand chapters of Iova, Kansas and Wyom ing were present at Wednesday's ses sions. The Kansas group included Mesdames Olga Philip, Evelina Coch ran, Maude Clossen, Rose Swallow, Maude E. Wayman, Bermetta M. Miller. Artie Harrison, and Pearl Smith. REAL DEPRESSION PARTY On Thursday evening, April 4, a real friendly hard times depression party was given at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. James Tigner, who are now living on the old George Rhoden farm west oi Mynard, where they have resided for the past year, and this party gathering was given in honor of the first year in this home. The whole affair was a complete surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Tigner, and there were about forty-five friends and neighbors who came with well glled baskets with not a sign of de pression times in a Eingle basket, but their costumos represented real hard times. After an evening of pleasure at cards and various other games, about midnight these baskets were spread before the guests, and the good cats contained iir those baskets pro-red the feature of the evening. Prizes were offered at the card games, which were won by Mrs. John Blotzer, first ladies, and Dan Koscher, first gents. Bernard Meisinger captured the booby number. There were a num ber of real costumes for the occasion, and were in keeping with the long days of depression, but a few hours of much pleasure to all. NOTICE Whereas, William Saucke. convict ed in Cass county, on the 28th day of May, 1932, of the crime of jail break ing, has made application to the Board of Pardons for a parole, and the Board of Pardons, pursuant to law have set the hour of 10 a. m. on the 13th day of June. 1933, for hear ing on said application, all persona interested are hereby notified that they may appear at the State Peni tentiary, at Lincoln, Nebraska, on said day and hour and show cause, if any there be, why said application should, or should not be granted. HARRY R. SWANSON, Secretary, Board of Pardons. N. T. HARMON. Chief State Probation Officer. ml 5-2 w GOES TO HOSPITAL From Thursday's Daily George L. Kreager, who has been quite poorly for the past several days. was taken to Omaha today where he will be placed in a hospital there for treatment. 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