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PAGE FOUR PLATTSMOUTH Rwr . WEEKLY 70TTBNAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933. MURDDCK ITEMS 1. 1 Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Tool were vis iting In Lincoln on last Wednesday, where Harold was also looking after some business matters. Mrs. L. Neitzel returned from her eight day vacation last Monday. Mr. Neitzel had tor go after her to Have lock, If he wanted his cook home. Mr. and Mrs. John Scheel were over to Ashland on last Wednesday, where they were attending the fun eral of a long time friend, Mr. Blair. Mrs. Merle Gillespie departed last week for Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where she will spend some four weeks visiting with her mother, who resides there. L. Neitzel was called to Ithaca, Nebraska, last Sunday to preach the funeral sermon for an old friend of fifty years ago, Herman Hageman. Burial was last Tuesday. Mrs. Neitzel accompanied him on the trip. Matthew Thimgan and son, Victor are at this time putting in their best licks with the chopping and hauling of wood for use during the winter which is a wise thing to do during the fine weather we have been en joying. Henry Brandt, of Louisville, wa3 a visitor in Murdock on last Wednes day, looking after some business mat ters. Mr. Brandt is a contractor and builder by trade and manages to keep busy most of the time by getting out and hustling for business. Mr. and Mrs. Gail McDonald, of Hampton, where Gail is rural carrier, stopped in Murdock to see Gail's mother. Mrs. Hannah McDonald. They had been at St. Joseph, where they were visiting for a few days at the home of the mother of Mrs. Gail McDonald, who makes her home in that city. Mrs. J. R. Kelley, of Plattsmouth. was spending a week with her daugh ter, Mrs. O. E. McDonald, and while here they also visited at Ashland at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Meyers, Mrs. Meyers being a grand daughter of Mrs. Kelley. Mrs. Kelley returned to her home in Plattsmouth on last Wednesday. Messrs Bryan and Lacey McDon ald are improving their spare time during the afternoons, chopping and sawing wood to have it ready for the winter. That Is certainly a wise thing to do. Instead of waiting until the wood Is badly needed and a blizzard raayJue rasing Tia, fine fall weatfcr we have been having should enable everyone to get ready for winter. Joins Forestation Forces Paul Baldwin and sister, Opie. of Weeping Water, were visiting at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bauer, prior to Paul's scheduled departure last week for one of the reforestation camps. This makes two of the grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Bauer who have accepted work with this department of gov ernment activity to give men work. John Wilson, of Lincoln, the ether grandson, took up this work late last week. Showing Seme Improvement Mrs. Henry Heinemann, who suf fered such severe injuries when their car was struck by a truck some two weeks ago and who was in the hos pital at Omaha for some time, re turned heme last week and is now convalescing, but is compelled to re main in bed until the fractured bones shall knit. She is making fair pro press and feels that she is getting along as well a3 could be hoped for. Her many friends trust it will not be long before she will be restored to her former health. Making: Gcod Record Picking Messrs. Earl and Guy Martin, of Cedar Bluffs, who are nephews of Mrs. L. Neitzel, week before last pick ed and cribbed with a corn picker, 3,500 bushels and last week were able to do even better and cribbed a total of 3,600 bushels. Not so bad. Celebrated Birthdays Mrs. Jcseph R. Kelley, mother of Mrs. O. E. McDonald, was born in Plattsmouth on November 77, 1860, and the daughter, Mrs. McDonald, was born on November 4th, 18 S3. The birthdays coming so clcse to gether, they selected last Wednesday as the proper day to celebrate the passing cf their natal days. They had a very fine dinner which was enjoy ed by the family cf Mrs. McDonald and also Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyers and their little babe. Celebrated Silver Anniversary John 11. Buck and Miss Lena Brauchmueller, who resided in the vicinity of Greenwood et that time, were united In marriage on Novem ber 4, 190S, at Greenwood. In com memoration of the event they had a celebration of the passing of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on lasT Sunday, November 5, when some sixty of their friends called to see them and a mcst sumptuous dinner was served. During the past quarter of a century a very fine family has grown up as the offspring of this happy and Industrious couple. They received many tokens of the love and honor of their friends together with well wishes for leng years of wed ded happiness yet to come. HUNTING NORFOLK HETEOR Norfolk, Neb. Northeast Nebras kans are still searching for the large meteor which blazed across the sky and scattered large balls of lire early Monday morning. Its crash to earth caused a tremor thrucut this section. C. D. Perry, of near Elgin, describes the fall of the meteor as follows: "My wife and I were the parties south of Elgin who caw the meteor fall Monday morning. We had been call ing and had some chores to do when we arrived home at about midnight. All at once the whole surrounding countryside was lighted up almost like daylight. This lasted about 5 or 10 seconds. "About fifteen minutes later a ter rific detonation occurred like a dou ble cannon. The sound ecaoed and rumbled and shook everything as thunder does. "Birds and pheasants by the thousands were startled, and cried out in alarm." It is believed that the meteor may have fallen in the sparsely populated sandhills region to the west of Nor folk. WORRY BRINGS CONFESSION Omaha. Worried and unable to sleep because he had forged a gov ernment check for $S a year ago, Wsltpr K. Potrrr.on. 42. unemnloveri packing house worker, save himself ! up at tne Lnitcd btates district at torney's office, and Thursday was or dered htld for St. Paul, Minn., au thorities. Teterson entered the attorney's of fice and told Miss Alice Chase, chief clerk, he had a confession to make. To Secret Service Agent Harry Coop er he related that in Austin, Minn.. in September, 1932, he had stolen a government compensation check, and had cashed it. NOTICE OF SPECIAL. ELECTION Retire is hereby given that on the day of November-1933, at the M. V.'. A. Hair in the "Village of Mur- 'lui tt, -oeiJi iiaua, it tiiei-iai tiding nall no neld for voting upon ant there shall be submitted to the quali fied electors cf paid Village, the fol lowing preposition: 1. Sh3ll the Village of Mur deck. Cass county, Nebraska, issue its bonds in the sum of Ten Thousand Four Hundred Dol lars ($10,400.00) in denomina tions of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) each, with one bond in the amount of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00). said bonds to Le issued at any time during the years 1033 and 1034, due in twenty years from their date of issuance, to draw interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent G9c) per annum, payable semi annually; principal and interest payable at the office of the Coun ty Treasurer of Cass county, at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, said bonds to be negotiable in form and to be designated as "Mur dock Water Bends," the said bond3 to be redeemable at the option of said Village at any time after five years from their date? Said bonds to be sold for the purpose cf obtaining money with which to construct a water works system to be owned and operated by the Village of Mur dock, Nebraska. And shall the proper officers of said Village be authorized to levy and collect taxes, in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and collect ed, in an amount sufficient to create a sinking fund a3 required by law, and to pay the interest on said bonds, and the principal cf said bonds as the same ma ture, on all taxable property of sa'd Village? The taxes so lev ied not to exceed the amount authorized by law. The ballots to be used at said elec tion shall have printed thereon the snid proposition as herein provided and in addition thereto the follow ing: "For i:-suing Ten Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($10,400. 00) of Water Bonds of the Vil lage of Murdoch, Cass county, Nebraska, and for said tax." "Against issuing Ten Thous and Four Hundred Dollars ($10, 400.00) of Water Bonds of the Village of Murdock, Cass county, Nebraska, and ' against said tax." Said election shall be conducted and the result thereof ascertained In all respects as the general elections In said Village are conducted. Said election will be opened at 9 o'clock in the morning and will con tinue open until 7 o'clock in the evening of the same day. Dated this 21st day of October, A. D. 1933. S. P. LEIS, Chairman Village Beard of Trustees, Murdock, Nebraska. Attest: II. J. AMGJWERT, " -Village Clerk. 023-4 m 17 m PLATTSMOUTH IJ -m it- THE HAZEL GScOWEIl -in- David Cclasco's Big Srr.ash Comedy Kit! 81 ALSO VAUDEVILLE Doors Open Show Starts KIB8 10c - 7:C0 P. M. L 3 . 8: CO P. M. ADULTS 25c Mekaskans m National Corn Husking Sherman Henrikstn of Lancaster County, National Champ ; Harry Brown cf Eeein, 2nd. West roint. Neb., Nov. 9. Nebras ka had never produced a national cornhusking champion until now in all the nine years of farmland tour ncys. Today two Nebraskans won first and second places in the tenth annual event here. There was glamour, color, tense ness in the crowd of 35 thousand as a lazy loudspeaker oh, so slowly started: "And the winner is Sher man Ilenriksen, young Lancaster county farmer. Folks, the home coun ty boy, Harry Crown, of Beemer, fin ished second." Shouts, yelling, applause, fancy hollering fairly shook the Ben Stalp acres as Nebraskans rejoiced; as they proclaimed to a freezing blue skyj that Nebraska had at' last ' produced h nrn n it fr ; years produced blue ribbon corn. Slowly, 1C huskers from eight other midwestern states fell into their respective places. Each place, no matter how lowly, was awarded applause. Victory No Surprise. The victory was no surprise to Ilenriksen. Three times he wa3 an also ran in state contests. This year he won at Cozad. Then he spoke: "I'm going to win the national, too." He did. Even when he drew the day's worst land he never complained. His rows were spotted. An old hay stack base left inconsistent stalks of maize. He set out, never questioning his bad break. Seventy rods away he turned ahead cf the field. Then the crowd, too unruly to be handled by mounted legionnaires, trampled the corn down before him. "After the turn, all the corn was on the ground," he said later. And, his referee asserted, this had handi capped him at least four bushels. All Loads Low. But at the final bomb, he was far ahead, and his load looked large and clean. It weighed 2,075 pounds, by far the largest. The fallen stalks had not kept him from bending for every ear, ins gleanings deduction being but 62 pounds for 20 pounds of glean ings. Husks in his load were higher, however, than the other four money winners, nearly nine pounds. His net total was 27.62 bushels, far short of the 36.92 bushel world record set last year. DIVORCE CAUSED BY BRIDGE Chicago. It was all in the cards. Last spring Mrs. Rubie Bringman Sled suit for divorce against her hus band, Conrad. She charged that her husband was an expert contract bridge player, the wasn't so good, and the husband unbraided her be cause of her blunders. Before, how ever, the case came to court Mrs. Bringman took bridge lessons and so improved her game that, when the hunband subsequently met her at a bridge party, she said, he asked her to come back, which she did. There was, then, a new deal until Wednesday. Wednesday, along came Mr. Bringman, divorce complaint in hand, for filing in superior court. The allegations his wife became .so in tolerant of his bridge ineptitude that on one occasion she beat him and on another threw cards in bia face. The husband won his decree. PLATZ Fri. THEATRE Nov. rsr-vw ' SIMPLE SIMON" COMING TO TOWN FRIDAY NIGHT The next play to be presented by the Hazel . McOwen Stock company, Friday, November 17. at the Platz theater, will be "Simple Simon," one of the greatest hits to be produced by the late David Belasco. It is not based on the Mother Goose character, nor is it a simple play. Just what it has to do with this old-time "whoopee mer chant" will be 6hown during the ac tion of the play, with results guar anteed to be somewhat surprising. It is certain that there will be a thousand laughs for the audience be fore the final curtain. There will be the usual four acts of vaudeville, en tirely different from any shown on the first two visits, and two hours of entertainment for all children from 1 to 100 is In store for all who at tend this modern Mother Goose fable. ine McOwen company has set a Ciigh standard cf entertainment in their first two " plays, but Ralph Moody, managing director of the troupe, informs us "we ain't seen nothin yet!" The company, he says, has a host cf fine plays in their reper toire, the best of those shown during their nine months' run at the Grand theater in Davenport, Iowa, last win ter. Only the mcst popular of these have been selected to be presented to their Plattsmouth friends on their weekly visits this winter. NORMS DISCUSSES TAXES McCook, Neb. renator rorris, in an address before the McCook cham ber of commerce Wednesday pleaded for a revision of the governmental system and provision for a one-house legislature. "You can take one step to reduce taxes locally," the senator said, "that of owning and operating your own electric light plants." "One half the officials of the state could be eliminated or be substituted for without near; the expense and with more ability and economy in government." He called the present governmental system as old as civil ization." "One thing important m any leg islature is that there shall be no pow er anywhere in it to permit the shift-! ing of responsibility. I am not claim ing that the members of the legisla ture are not honest." A paid group of lawmakers was urged by the sen ator, in a plea for, ."business" in gov ernment. ' TO REVIEW BRIDGE PROJECT Washington. . IThe ,proposed Farnam Street bridge at Omaha will be reviewed before Secretary Dern of the war department next Wednesday by a delegation reprsenting Omaha and Council Bluffs. The public works administration recently denied an ap plication to build the bridge on the grounds the existing bridge across the Missouri river, only a block from the proposed structure, was sufficient to handle traffic. Meanwhile, Senator Thompson ar ranged a meeting next Tuesday be tween Secretary Dern and Chancel lor Burnett of the University of Ne braska, for discussion of a proposed armory at the university. It is being advanced as a war department struc ture to be financed by the public works administration to house the university's R. O. T. C. corps. TO PAY THEIR OWN WAY Omaha. City commissioners, who had planned to send a delegation to Washington in behalf of Omaha PWA projects, changed their minds about paying the group's expenses. Last week the council authorized Commis sioner Trustin, Congressman Burke and Assistant City Attorney Klutz- nick to go at city expense, the money to be taken from the city sewer bond fund. F'nance Commissioner Dan Butler, absent last week, said Tuesday the action was "obsolutely illegal." The three were to go primarily to press Omaha's application for $905,000 for sewers, but Klutznick also intended to present a $1,000,000 application for Omaha's housing projects. PROJECT TO COST H0RE Hastings, Neb. Cost estimates for the Tri-County irrigation and power project have been advanced from $27,000,000 to $42,000,000, officials here said, largely as a result of NRA wage requirements. No greater acreage will be ditch ed than the original plans specified nor will more water be used, accord ing to Dr. D. W. Klngsley, district president. Clark Mickey, engineer for the pro ject, and R. O. Canaday district sec retary had not returned from Omaha where they went to present to offi cials of the state public works ad visory board data required in an ap-. plication for a federal grant. Johnson Advises the Midvest to Remain Patient Blames Traduction Inflation' for Fart of the Farm His in Speed De livered at Omaha. Omaha. Facing his second farm belt audience in seven hours. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national NRA ad ministrator, Wednesday night des cribed the NRA and the agricultural adjustment administration as "Siam ese legislative twins which cannot live apart." A near capacity audience of 5,000 at -the city auditorium cheered fre quently as the NRA chief outlined what the administration has done and is doing in its recovery program. particularly referring to agriculture. There was no heckling. As he had done earlier in the day at Des Moines, General Johnson counselled a sensible patience thru- out the middlewest, a sensible real ization of what President Roosevelt has already done for relief of agri culture and a sensible co-operation to ward the fulfillment of the whole na tional recovery program. "It is as much the business of Sec retary Roper and myself to guard the life of AAA as it is to guard NRA, and it is as much the business of Secretary Wallace and George Peek to guard NRA as it Is to guard the AAA," Johnson said. "It is also your business,'" he add ed, "to guard both as it is to guard your political civil rights and poli tical liberties, for they are your charters of economic freedom." Told to Study Record. Johnson related how In seven months the administration already has undone much of the disaster brought on by twelve years of what he described as Ignoring the welfare of the farmer, and urged his hearers to study the record and see for them selves what had been done. He outlined what he described as the havoc due to reckless inflation of production regardless of the consum ing capacity of available markets, and pointed to the folly of striking at the effectiveness of the recovery ad ministration thru obstructive tactics on the part of the very persons it is aimed to benefit. Johnson struck also at critics of the administration who can offer no other course than that which led to the depression in which agriculture finds itself. He warned of listening to the "same old voices" of those who have learned nothing from the national crisis in which they them selves had a part. Johnson reasserted his belief that the "great, brave mass of the Amer ican people" are solidly behind Pres ident Roosevelt's recovery program. Holds Out Hope. "They know that Franklin Roose velt proposed a plan designed to help every depressed element of our popu lation industrial, agricultural, fi nancial," he asserted. They know that his plan has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into distressed farm areas and is about to pump hun dreds of millions more to release frozen bank deposits, prevent farm foreclosures, finance corn holdings at a higher price than corn has enjoy ed for years, pay wheat and cog bene fits and raise the price of livestock as it has already raised cotton and tobacco. They know that all these great efforts are Just about to con centrate on a further upward push. "The list of benefits of what Franklin Roosevelt has done for agri culture in seven months directly and indirectly becomes tiresome and monotonous from its recitation even in condensed form it is so var ied and so great. "I know that in Nebraska there has been a good deal of complaint about,, the farm "load administration. Give it a chance. It was a terrific job and it is now getting under way at a pace which grows faster by leaps and bounds with every week that passes. "Unless I mis3 my guess, you are going to feel the concentration of all these powerful influences out here in the next few weeks." After four years of "economic hell," Johnson Bald, the country is now en gaged in a "terrible siege," in which some would rather "see the recovery program abandoned than to accord the few sacrifices asked of htera." DEAD ANIMALS WANTED Call The South Omaha Rendering Works. Tel. MArket 4626. F. Cramer, R. F. D. 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John Elliott, a member of the Alvo Hardware and Implement company, was looking after some business for the firm in Lincoln last Wednesday. Mayor Arthur Dinges was a visitor in Lincoln on last Wednesday morn ing, called there to secure some need ed repairs for the repair shop at the garage. George Braun and wife, of South Bend, were visiting in Alvo on last Wednesday and were guests of Mrs. Braun's mother, Mrs. William Yeager, for the afternoon. Rex Peters of Greenwood and E. A. Miller of Omaha were callers in Alvo last Wednesday afternoon, coming to consult with Simon Rehmeier, the grain man, on some business prop ositions. Soren Petersen was the driver of a truck hauling corn for Simon Reh meier on Wednesday afternoon and in company with the wife and kiddies, were looking after some business and visiting in Lincoln on Thursday. George Foreman, who has been busy picking corn, reports that the corn is exceptionally good, making in many instances over 60 bushels to an acre. Mr. Foreman had to lay off from the corn picking last Wednes day to butcher a hog for the family larder. The Woman's Missionary society of Alvo and vicinity were holding a very interesting meeting at the home of their fellow member, Mrs. Delia Sut ton on last Wednesday, and were busy looking after the work of their soci ety, that of aiding with the mission ary movement. Sherman Wolfe was putting in some of the time when he was off for day or part of a day in making stove wood for the coming winter, as he is now getting in only a short week with the railroad and is com pelled to supplement his work in order to come out even. The Woman's club, of Alvo, were They're Mr. and r- -- ' " 1 !! !' 1 ' 1 ' 1 yohnny Weissmuller.and Lupe Teles, screen stars, will be seeing each other acroa the breakfast table from now on. In fact they v. been doing it for some time, for they wer married at Las VSas. 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Young Lad Very 111 Allen Edwards, the 2-year-old son cf Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Edwards, who ha3 been confined to hi3 bed with a very serious illness, pneumonia, still remains in a very serious condition, despite the fact that every effort is being put forth that professional nursing and medical skill can exert in order to restore the little man to health. He has been very low the past week. Mother Dies in North Mrs. Helen Davis, wife of Mr. Davis, the operator, received word of the death of her mother, who has been making her home at Minneap olis. Her death occurred on Tuesday and the remains were shipped to Beatrice, where the funeral was held on last -Thursday. Don. Davis met the' funeral cortege at Omaha and ac companied the remains to Beatrice. AUTO LABOR TROUBLE ENDS Detroit. The automotive indus try's most extended and widespread labor controversy was believed ended with announcements by II. J. Klinger, spokesman for the Pontiac Motor Co., and Harry Spencer, of the Mechanics' Educational society, of an agreement on terms in Pontiac, the last point of difference in the seven weeks strike of tool and diemakers. The first step toward peace came in Detroit last week, and was closely followed by agreement in Flint. Thousands of skilled tool and die makers returned to work in plants in the two cities, leaving only Pontiac with difficulties unsettled. Wednes day night's announcement, which spokesmen said will return 500 work ers to the Pontiac plant, is believed to have ended the strike. LOST A crutch on highway between Plattsmouth and South Omaha Mon day. Will finder please call the Journal office. Mrs. Tarzan Now