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ffebr. Efafe Historical Society f"m jk VOL. NO. L PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1934. NO. 46 TIL Burlington Officials Pay Visit to City President Ralph Budd and Party Visit the BREX Shops and Nor folk Packing Co. Plant. Wednesday afternoon a distin guished party of Burlington officials were in the city for a short time to visit the local properties of the com pany. The party comprising Presi dent Ralph Budd of the Burlington; Edward Flynn, operating vice-president; F. R. Mullen, general superin tendent of the lines west; C. J. Roh- witz, the general passenger and freight agent, and their assistants, arrived in Pacific Junction Wednes day morning and inspected the plant there. The party arrived in this city in the afternoon and their car was switched to the shop yards where they made a visit of inspection of the buildings owned by the company and now used by the Burlington Refrig erator Express Co., and the Norfolk Packing Co. The party made a thorough tour of the plant once used as the freight and passenger car shops of the Bur liington and were well pleased with the condition of the plant and the busy working of the forces there In the car repair and packing work. Mr. Budd expressed his pleasure at the condition of affairs at the for mer shops and the fine way the work is being carried on by the lessees of the property. From here the party continued on to Omaha and from there will go over the lines west to inspect the general conditions. LEAVING FOR THE WEST From Thursday's Daily Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Westover and children. Janet and Ruth, are depart ing Sunday on an auto trip that will take them through a large part of the west country and take up several weeks. Their trip west will be through the Rocky mountains and Yellowstone park to Salt Lake City where they will visit for a short time and then continue northward to Seattle and Vancouver. They will then travel south along the west coast, enjoying visiting at several places in California. They expect to stop at Oakland and San Francisco where Dr. Westover's twin brother, B. G. Westover, is now located and will then visit at Redding, California with Mrs. D. C. Mathes, a sister of Dr. Westover and another brother, William, at Sacramento. Before re turning home they expect to visit a number of the national parks in the west. During the absence of Dr. West over from the city, his practice will b looked after by Dr. R. R. An derson of Omaha, a member of the staff of Dr. Herbert Davis. TO ATTEND PICNIO The Plattsmoth Business Men's Ad club at their meeting Wednesday at the Hotel Riley received an invi tation from the Mynard Community club to attend the annual picnic of the latter organization to be held on next Wednesday. The invtiation of the Mynard club was accepted and the Ad club mem bers and their families are preparing to attend the picnic in full force and to enjoy the fine time that the My nard people have always prepared for their friends and guests at these an nual events. The Ad club also had as guests of the day Officers Dave Pickrel and Roy Stewart of the night police force, who were invited to be present and discuss with the members the matter of the traffic regulations and what suggestions they might have in the matter. ATTEND FUNERAL From Thursday's Daily County Attorney W. G. Kieck, County Treasurer John E. Turner and Sheriff Homer Sylvester were at Eagle today to attend the funeral services of the late Ed Carr. The services were at the Methodist church at Eagle and attended by a very large number of residents from all sections of the county. ATTENDED FUNERAL OF NIECE ! From Thursday's Daily Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Fleming were called to Diller, Nebraska, to attend the funeral yesterday of Mrs. Joe Carpenter, oldest daughter of Mrs. Fleming's sister, Mrs. Belle Oakes. Mrs. Carpenter was instantly killed last Saturday in an auto accident south of Beatrice. She was born in Cass county and spent the first few years cf her life here before moving elsewhere with her parents. The accident responsible for her death occurred when a large oil truck sideswiped the car in which che and several others were driving, throw ing it into the ditch. Murray Boy Suffers a Very Severe Mishap Frank Linder, 12, Falls Against Glass Lamp Shads and Cuts Back from Shoulder to Hip. Frank Linder, 12, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder, residing southwest of Murray, was severely injured Wednesday at the family home. The boy was sitting on the edge of a bath tub and lost his balance, falling backward into a glass lamp shade which was shattered and the broken glass very badly lacerated the back of the youth. . The glass cut deeply from the shoulder to the hip the back was cut and injured, the cuts being so deep that the shoulder bone was exposed as well as several of the ribs. The boy was hurried to the office of Dr. R. W. Tyson at Murray where the Injuries were dressed, il requir ing some thirty stitches to dose the wound and the young man was then taken on home to recuperate from his rather unusal and painful accident. HAVE FINE MEETING The Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church met at the home of Miss Marie Vallery, who was the hostess for the evening. Marie Vallery is the new president of the Guild and had charge of the evening's program. The scripture lesson was read by Gertrude Vallery. Reports were given by the dele gates who have returned from the conference at Bellevue. Ruth Warga and Eleanor Olsen gave their im pressions of the conference and their remarks were enjoyed and appre ciated by those at the meeting. The business meeting followed and at which time it was decided to discon tinue the Guild meetings for the re mainder of the summer. However, the members will work on the pro ject, that of preparing dolls for the children at Ganado Mission where they will be sent sometime this fall. Also the penny bag plan will be con tinued for the rest of the year. The meeting was adjourned and the hostess served tempting refresh ments which were appreciated, thus bringing to a close another fine meet ing. DECLINES PETITION Henry H. Bartling, of Nebraska City, for whom a petition was filed asking htat his name be placed on the primary ballot as a candidate for the republican nomination for state senator from the second district, has declined. Mr. Bartling has notified the sec retary of state that he will not ac cept the petition and will not be a candidate for the office. He is at this time the chairman of the Otoe coun ty central committee. Mr. Bartling served as state sen ator some twenty years ago and was the author of the Bartling bill that permitted Sunday baseball in the state. RETURNS TO CHICAGO From Thursday's Dally This morning Miss Alice Louise Wescott returned to Chicago after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wescott as well as the many old time school friends. Miss Wescctt will resume her work at Evanston where she is connected with the Northwestern university. Phone the news to No. 6. Large Siim for Road Work to be Distributed (church at about 1:30 and traveled Four Miles on "0" Street Road East by car' and truck. Some eighty-five of Elmwood Included in Work ! of the youngsters went in one big for This Summer. j trck driven by Mr. W. H. Porter of j Union. The afternoon was spent in Governor Bryan has announced the usual way with swimming, the location of approximately games and fun for all and concluded 000,000 of the $4,000,000 federal with a big picnic supper. This an road funds allotted to Nebraska un-jnual event is one that;is greatly en der a program worked out by Statej joyed by tlie members and friends of Engineer Cochran and himself. Of, the Sunday school. this amount he assigns about $3,-; 00 0,000 to federal system work and $1,000,000 to work within cities and villages. The location cf feeder roads is sooin to be made pubic. The distribution and allocation of the funds is assumed to be the same as last year, 50 percent for federal highways outside of cities, 25 percent on feeder roads and 25 percent for development of federal highways within cities and villages. The total amount allotted to the state is about one-half the amount received last year. Bryan said that the object of the grants being to give employment the distribution must include 75 per cent of the counties and so this wide distribution places the improvements in small areas and small mileage. Some improvements must be under taken on feeder roads where it has not been possible to establish pro jects for relief out of the 50 percent to be used for federal roads or out of the 25 percent for use in cities. Projects in this section of the state include the following: Elmwood corner east four miles on East O street, Lincoln, grading and pavement, 110 thousand dollars. Syracuse to Dunbar, eight miles, gravel, 15 thousand dollars. Hastings to Adams-Clay county line, live miles, grading and pave ment, 170 thousand dollars. Exeter, west toward Fairmont, four miles,' grading and pavement, 110 thousand dollars. Lincoln west on O street, one mile, 25 thousand dollars. Verdon, east to connect with pave ment and west two miles, total of four miles, grading and pavement, 135 thousand dollars. Aurora, east to Burlington cross ing, three miles, grading and pave ment, 85 thousand dollars. West of Dorchester, viaduct over Burlington tracks, 85 thousand dol lars. Fairbury west to river bridge, half mile, eliminate overflow pavement with new bridge and grade, 20 thou sand dollars. The city council committee is tak ing up the matter of securing relief on the condition of Sixth street from Vine to Pearl which paving is in bad shape and it is hoped to have the federal aid extended to make pos sible the replacing of the present paving. CANDIDATE TO SPEAK HERE Congressman Edward R. Burke, democratic candidate for United States senator, will speak in Platts mouth on August 9th at 8:30 p. m., under the auspices of the local Burke-for-Senator club. Mr. Burke originally planned to spend a day campaigning in each county in the state, but he was de layed in Washington after the ses sion eclosed while he worked with officials of Public Works and Agri cultural Departments on projects of vital importance to Nebraska. "Congressman Burke is going to bring the New Deal to Nebraska and to Nebraska Democrats," said Judge Quigley of Valentine, Burke's cam paign manager. "Congresman Burke served four years without compensation as pres ident of the Omaha school board, taking control when the board was in serious financial distress and be fore he finished he developed a model organization and one which has been copied extensively In other cities," continued Quigley. "Next, Omaha sent him to congress where he demonstrated unusual abil ity as a statesman and where he was unusually active in behalf of all projects affecting Nebraska," said Quigley. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness, sym pathy and floral tribute at the death of our loved one. Mr. Vernon Earl and Children, Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. Smith and Family. SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC More than two hundred members of the Methodist Sunday school en joyed a fine outing and picnic at Riverview Park in Omaha Thursday afternoon. The group left the Preparing Way for Second Round of Kittenball Decide That Only Lc-agua Members and Those Paying Entrance Fees to Play on Open Dates. The board of control of the kitten ball league which has charge of the grounds as we.Il as the lighting facilities cf the Athletic park, to gether with the managers of the teams, met at the office cf Dr. R. P. Westover on Wednesday, evening to discuss plans for the season. The first round of the season will hz closed the next week and the plans for the second round discussed but the drawings for the second part have not as yet been made. There is the desire on the part of a new team composed of the young men from the FERA camp north of the city to enter the second round and if another additional team can be secured a twelve club league will te in operation the rest;of the season. It was decided that the use of the park and lights on Wednesday, Sat urday and Sunday be rfeirittenLtaJLlie league teams thatr have paid their entrance fees. The championship games .will be played in the fall when the two lead ing teams or more if they are tied will battle out the supremacy of the league. SHOWER FOR BRIDE Mrs. Elton Cacy, formerly Miss Muriel McClellan of Missouri, was given a shower on Wednesday, July 11 by the Sunnyside Girls' Room club of which she is a member, at the home of Mrs. T. J. Cacy. The main feature of the afternoon was a mock wedding. Those taking part in the wedding were: groom, Mildred Cacy; bride, Anna Marie Rea; best man, Eleanor Minor; maid of honor, Alice Wiles; ring bearer, Kathryn Armstrong; flower girl, Eleanor Giles; bride's father, Made line Wiles, and minister, Lucile Wiles. Virginia Trively, soloist, san "I'll String Along with You." accom panied by Lois Giles and Grace Louise Wiles, who also played the wedding march. Later in the afternoon several games were played. In honor of the occasion Muriel was presented with a number of very attractive gifts. At the close of the afternoon, very delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. T. G. Cacy, assisted by Mil dred and Muriel Cacy. PHIL L. HALL OUT OF RACE FOR CONGRESS Phil L. Hall of Greenwood has withdrawn from i the congressional race in the First district because of the demands made by his work in connection with failed national banks. He issued this statement Thursday: "Having been petitioned by my many friends to file for congress in the First district in Nebraska, I find it impossible to serve in my present capacity under the comptroller of the currency and at the same time be a candidate. I am therefore withdraw ing my name as a candidate. "The constructive relief that the comptroller's office is accomplishing for depositors of failed banks in help ing to bring us out of this national calamity, makes it an Inspiration to be a part of that organization. "I wish to thank my loyal friends among the farmers, business men, laboring men, ex-service men and the ladies for their expression of confi dence in my ability to hold that high office." Death of Form er Resident at Union, Oregon Mrs. J. Q. Connally, Resident of Near Murray for a Great Many Years Dies at Age of 82. The fact of the death of Mrs. John Q. Connally, old time resident of Cass county, was received here by the members of the D. A. Young family, the death occurring on Monday, July 2, at Union, Oregon. Mrs. Connally was a daughter of one of the pioneer families of Cass county, she being formerly Miss Belle Mann, born and reared to woman hood in the vicinity of Rock Bluffs, later being married to John Q. Con nally and the family made thei,r home for a great many years in the Miirrnv rnmmnnitv. Snntf thirtv-six , yoars ago the faniily movid to Qre. jgon and located at Union where they have since resided. At the time of her death Mrs. Con nally was eighty-two years of age and was preceded in death by her husband who passed away a few months ago. The deceased lady was a sister of the late Mrs. D. A. Young of this city and cf her family there remains but the one sister, Mrs. Garnet Willi ver of Morehead, Iowa. The funeral services were held at Union on July 5th and the body laid to rest at the Union cemetery beside that of the husband. FUNERAL OF JOHN BOUREE John Bourke was born in Canada near the city of Toronto and when a small boy came to the United State3 and located in Iowa for a short time, then came to Nebraska, settling near Manley with his parents, where he VesI&ecI"for many years, but removed from there and located in Omaha for a time, then moved to Council Bluffs, where he remained the rest of his life. Mr Bourke was a devoted member of the Catholic faith. He died last Thursday at the late home in Council Bluffs, the funeral being held from the St. Patrick's Cathclic church of Manley on Saturday, July 7th. Mr. Bourke was past seventy years of age, and leaves a family of chil dren, eight daughters, all married. and two sons, single, with the bro thers and sisters who are Mrs. Ellen Smith and Mrs. George Bickart, both of Elmwood; Tom Bourke, a brother, died some years ago and and had also the wife of Mr. John Bourke; Mrs. Charles ,Tighe who has died; Dan Bourke of Omaha; Mrs. Katie Ash of Council Bluffs; Wm. Bourke of Mur dock. Mr. Bourke had gone to work on the Fourth of July but had stopped work as he was feeling quite badly and coming home was not feeling so badly until midnight when he was taken worse and passed away just before midnight. The interment was made at the Catholic cemetery at College Hill. CAMP NEEDS FURNISHINGS The' Boy Scout cabin at Camp Wheeler, south of this city, is in need of some furniture to complete the Interior and making ti very cozy and comfortable for the boys on the week end trips. The need is for fittings for the living room of the cabin, lacking chairs for the room and could use either the straight back or rocking chairs in the cabin. There is also need for additional tables, both kitchen and library type. The residents of the city who have furniture that they are replacing or have planned to discard could make no better use of it than to donate the same to the Scout cabin and help get it fully completed before the close of the summer season. The Woman's club sponsored the china and kitchen shower that pro vided dishes for the cabin, the W. R. C. and Clarence Cotner gave brack et lamps for the illumination of the cabin and several individual don ations were made of various articles, and now is presented the opportunity of giving needed furniture for the cabin and which will be appreciated by the Scouts and the committee. Phone the news to No. 6. RETURSS FROM HOSPITAL Harry C. Goodchild has returned home from the St. Joseph hospital at Omaha, where he has been for the past eleven weeks. ( Mr. Goodchild was injured in an auto wreck near Wakefield, Nebraska, being taken in to Omaha where he has since been cared for. He suffered injuries to his face as well as a severe fracture of the left arm and which is still in a cast but will be taken out of the cast in the next two weeks. Mr. Good child is well pleased to be back home and able to be around after a long stay in the hospital and the host of friends are delighted to have him with them. Platte River Sediment Prob lem forEngineer Silt and Sediment Emptying From Platte Into Missouri Makes Im provement Work Hard. The sediment washed from the mouth of the Platte river into the Missouri at their junction three miles north of this city, offers a problem that is now being taken up by the U. S. army engineers as a part of the Missouri river improvement pro gram. The improvement work is progress ing both on the north and south of this section of the river and the Platte-Missouri section will be one of the largest and most difficult when it is undertaken. Captain J. M. Young, district army engineer, at Omaha Friday stated that because of the excessive sedi ment the mouth of the Platte pre sents a difficult engineering prob lem in connection with preserving the Missouri river channel. Plans for the work at the mouth of the Platte are now being Worked out in the office of Captain Theodore Wyman at Kansas City, preparatory to the presentation to the war de partment and which is preliminary to the letting of the contract for the work at this point. RECEIVES NINETY DATS From Saturday's Dally This morning a hearing was held on the complaint charging Walter Burke with assault and battery on his wife, Agnes Burke, filed by County Attorney W. G. Kieck. The complaining witness testified that the defendant had struck her on the head with a club during an alterca tion between them at their home in the south part of the city, inflict ing a large gash. The defendant con ducted his own defense and question ed the witness as to her having struck him on the jaw as well as leg but which was denied by the wit ness. A neighbor, aroused by the trouble had come to the door of her home and testified as to seeing Burke strike his wife. The court after hearing the evi dence imposed a sentence of ninety days in the county jail, the limit al lowed to the court, for the offense. Mr. Burke gave notice of appeal of the case and bond was fixed at $500 and until supplied the defend ant to remain in the custody of the sheriff. TAKE TRIP INTO STATE From Saturday's Dally Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Lillie are leaving tonight on an auto trip into the southern part of the state, mak ing a large number of the commun ities in the interest of the candidacy of Mr. Lillie for the democratic nom ination for commissioner of public lands and buildings. They will tour through Richardson, Pawnee, Gage, and several other of the southern counties. WELL CALL MORE C. C. C. MEN From Saturday's Daily Mrs. C. A. Rosencrans this after noon received a telegram from Lin coln that Cass county had been as signed six additional members of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The call is for young men from 18 to 26 years of age and who may register at the office of Mrs. Rosen crans. The young men are to report on July 18th at 5 p. m. Hog-Corn Con tracts to Reach Peak in August Agriculture Department Sets Cass County Amout at $20,566.75 on Contracts. With more ihan one-third of all county corn-hog allotment commit tees authorized to prepare regular contracts for the final signatures of producers, distribution amors corn hog farmers of approximately SI 30. 000,000 in first installment corn-hog checks is expected to be the near peak load by late July or early August, the Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration announced today. The approximately 1,200.000 con tracts are of two types. One in cludes a rider signed by th- pro ducer, agreeing to accept necessary adjustment in the production tig ures on which the payment is based, and entitling him to receive th" pay ment before the adjustment is made. First installments on S4.253 contracts of this type had been paid through July 9. The second or "regular" contract must be signed twice by the pro ducer, once before adjustment is made in the figures, and again when the final adjustment has been mailt1 and the amount of payment d'-finitely determined. On July 9 first install ment payments on 3G.124 contracts of this type had been made. Allotment committeemen in 754 of the 20C8 counties participating in the corn-hog program are finishing or have already finished the routine work of typing adjusted figures into the "regular" contract forms and obtaining the product rs' second sig natures. States farthest advanced with this work are Alabama, Cali fornia, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa. Mis souri, Ohio, Utah, Virginia and Wash ington. Adjustment of contracts fig ures in over 90 per cent of the par ticipating Ohio counties lias been completed and contracts from over 40 counties are on the way to the administration offices in Washing ton, D. C. Good progress u reported from other states, including the corn belt Etates of Kansas. Illinois. Minnesota, Nebraska and South Da kota. Disbursements on first installment corn-hog adjustment payment checks through July 9, total $7. 702,070.45. The amounts paid by states are: Alabama, $13,350.05; Arkansas, $677.20; Indiana, $GS. 239.25; Iowa, $5,212,315.70; Mary land, $2,C3C,00; Michigan $CS0.OO; Minnesota. $1,039,595.70; Missouri, $975,178.70; Nebraska, $23,964.00; Nevada, $1G,4S0.00; Ohio. $2S.C27.- '05; South Dakota, $99,202.20; Vir ginia, $2,230.35; Washington, $S5, 079.50; West Virginia. $8,557.20; Wisconsin, $125,197.55. The total discursements through July 9 repre sent payments on 84,253 early pay ment contracts to producers in 29 G counties, and on 36,124 regular pay ment contracts in 112 counties. JUST SO SEWERS CLUB The Just So Sewers 4-II club met Wednesday. July 11th at the he mc l Gertrude Wood. The meeting was called to order by the president. After our business wc judged our holders. Velma McBride's was con sidered to be the best work. We started cur laundry bags this week and hope to get them don- be fore the next meeting. After the meeting was adjourned we played a few games and were then served a lunch afttr which we de parted for home. CERTlllIDK WOOD, News Reporter. OLD RESIDENT HERE From Friday's Dally M. M. Beal, a resident here for many years, was in the city today to visit with the old time friends and neighbors. Mr. Beal is now mak ing his home at Sigorney, Iowa, where he has been since returning from California. Mr. Beal was for many years engagtd here as a paint er and decorator and while here was a very active leader in local republi can politics. It has been very pleas ant for the old time friends to meet Mr. Beal and renew the acquaintance ship of this genial gentleman.