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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1935. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE r EAGLE NEWS ITEMS Ernest Underwood Is the owner of a new 1935 V-S Ford. Hubert Stewart attended an Ep worth League convention at Martel last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Trimble and Merna Stradley spent Sunday with relatives in Palmyra. Miss Josephine Rockenback is re covering nicely from an appendicitis operation at a Lincoln hospital. Sunday guests cf Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Underwood were Mr. and Mrs. Diller Utt and family of Havelock. Mrs. Guy Jones and son, Jack, went to Omaha last Thursday, where they are visiting at the E. A. Miller home. Mr. and Mrs. John Iteitter and son, of Lincoln visited at the home cf Mr. and JlA. Charles Trumble last Thurs day. Kermit Stewart left Sunday morn ing for the east where he will spend the summer attending Columbia Uni versity. Miss Audrey Fishburn of Chap man and Floyd Hursh of Grand Is land are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hursh. Mr. and Mrs. Orvill Allen and fam ily from near Emerald made a short stop in town on Tuesday morning of this week. Rev. D. J. Schuyleman is attend ing theological school at Nebraska Wesjeyan, which will be in session for two weeks. Supt. and Mrs. J. II. Adee and fam ily left on "Wednesday for a short vacation. They visited relatives at Gandy and Porter until Sunday. Mrs. A. M. Trumble went to Lin coln Saturday, where she planned to fcpend several days at the home of Mrs. Marie Trumble and family. Mrs Carl Handrock entertained at a miscellaneous shower at her home Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Edna Peekham, who will be wed to Lyle Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius McCarthy, cf Burwell, arrived early Thursday xnorning and visited with Mrs. Mc Carthy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Burns on Memorial Day. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Allen and fam ily and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen and Jack of Lincoln and Mr. and Mrs. George Althcuse and family enjoyed supper last Thursday evening with Mrs. S. E. Allen and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Morgan. Guests at the W. B. Hursh home, on Thursday were Mrs. OUietBurns, of Colton, California, Mr. and Mrs. Will Ossenkcp, cf AValton, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ferguson and little daughter of Bloomfield and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hursh, of Lincoln. Relatives of Guy Jones were vic tims of the flood at Trenton. Mr. Jones and a sister, Mrs. Charles Sweet, of Palmyra, went to Trenton by plane Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jones return ed Monday evening. He reports the bodies of bis aunt, uncle and cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and son, Spen cer, have not yet been found. Mrs. Frank Hardy and daughter and Paul Johnson came from Ericson and were here for the Memorial ser-, vices held in Eagle last Saturday. They made a short visit with rela tives and friends before returning to Something Nude i Jj $-... . .. ..(K&JitJt -All 3- till' & f 1 i '-iA w 111 Uv f 1 ; A- . - - '.. k A i 'i$ r y h -r v 4 f ' - I - " i : I - " I V fi'.. ;: !vf.; .: . SwS.V. -:".. . . .:::: :v. ( ' i"- V '- s - , f " ' A ball game in there? The old knothole in the baseball park fencewas never like this. Previewers are pictured peering through chinks in the fence enclosing Zoro Garden at San Diego Fair where a nudist colony flourishes. To see the nudist exhibit if yoi; can't find a knothole costs - - two bits. their home in the western part of the state Friday morning. The Hardy family were residents of this com munity for many years before mov ing to their present home in 1912. Mr. Hardy passed away a few years ago. Former Eagle Girl Weds Miss Avis Burdick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Murdick, and Claire Helmsdoerfer were married at the nurses' home of the Lincoln Gen eral hospital at 8:30 Wednesday morning, May 2 9th. Rev. Ray Hunt read the marriage lines. After the reception, Mr. and Mrs. Helmsdoerfer left by motor for Los Angeles, where they will make their home. Mrs. Helmdcerfer is a graduate of the Eagle Consolidated schools, at tended the University of Nebraska and is a graduate of the Lincoln Gen eral hospital school of nursing. After graduation she served for six years as supervisor and during that time was director of the state nurses as sociation for two years. Mr. Helms doerfer attended the University and was a member of Sigma Chi. Congratulations are extended to this young couple by their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Burdick, Ray mond and Arthur and Mrs. William Wheatley were present for the mar riage services. Miscellaneous Shower As a pre-nuptial courtesy to Miss Edith Nelson, twenty-five guests were entertained at the home of Mrs. Marie Trumble in Lincoln Saturday after noon from two to five Games were the diversion of the afternoon, after which a humorous sketch of the life cf the honored guest was read. Miss Nelson found her gifts by following the instructions placed in balloons. While the refreshments were served, the guests enjoyed a group of piano duets and soles played by Ernest and Mary Ann Trumble. M. E. Church Notes D. J. Schuyleman, pastor. G. II. Palmer, Sunday school superinten dent. 10 a. m., Sunday school. Weather conditions have caused our attend ance to drop somewhat, but if possible at all let us try to be present next Sunday morning. 11a. m., Morning worship. During this hour the Sunday school will pre sent their annual Children's Day pro gram in song and verse. The public is cordially invited to be present. 7 p. m., Epworth League. COZAD MAN CHEATS DEATH IN FLOOD Cozad, Neb., June 4. The boiling Platte river almost claimed G. A. Matz, 70, president of the First Na tional bank of Cozad and a prom inent cattleman. Trying to ride his horse through the river to herd cattle out of the bottom lands Monday, he was swept from the saddle. He snatched for the horse's tail, but missed and had to swim. Rains, Crops, Prosperity. Bet ter days are here again. Under the Sun Price Sentenced; Started Serving Life on Friday Motion for New Trial Overruled Ap peal Bond Set at $15,000 by Judge Earl Peters. At 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon Clarence Price was led from the county jail under the gray skies and through a mist which promised to become a rain, across the street and into the court house, where in the court room, filled with acquaintances from Pacific Junction and Glenwood and the usual number of those to whom courtroom procedure is inter esting, he was brought before Judge Earl Peters to receive the sentence of life imprisonment in the peniten tiary at Fort Madison at hard labor. Judge Earl Peters of Clarinda, be fore whom Price had been tried, and his court reporter, B. O. Bruington, of Council Bluffs, arrived shortly after 1:30 o'clock. County Attorney W. H. T. Wellons and special prose cutor, Carl H. Cook, and Attorneys N. S. and C. T. Genung, who de fended Price, arrived in the court room just before Price entered, pre ceded by Sheriff W. S. DeMoss and followed by Deputy Sheriff E. V. Cooney. He was closeted for a short con ference with his attorney, N. S. Gen ung, who had been appointed by the court when he was indicted on April 6 for the murder of his grand-niece, Edith Kuhl, 13-year-old Pacific Junc tion high school girl, on the night of March 20 in the home of their aunt, Mrs. Rita Graham, in Pacific Junc tion, where Edith and her sister, Helen, 17-year-old Pacific Junction senior, were staying alone with Price, Mrs. Graham being in Illinois at that time with a sick relative. Emerging from the counsel room Price, clad In blue shirted overalls and a gray coat, walked with his at torney to the bench where Judge Peters read the verdict of the jury which on May 22 had found him guilty of first degree murder, ask ing: "Do you know any reason why I should not pronounce sentence up on you at this time?" Price, maintaining the same un emotional calm which had character ized him throughout the trial, re plied in a low, calm voice "No," whereupon Judge Peters without any comment pronounced the sentence and announced that the appeal bond would be $ 15,0 00. The motion for a new trial which had been filed in the office of the Mills county clerk of courts about 1:00 o'clock Friday by the attorneys for Price, was overruled by Judge Peters. The defense has 90 days to appeal. No appeal has been filed as yet in the clerk's office here. Attorney N. S. Genung spoke briefly with Price, bidding him good bye as he left the courtroom with Deputy Sheriff E. V. Cooney, who started at once with him for Fort Madison, accompanied by Allen Watts of Pacific Junction, and Frank Plumb of Center township, both mem bers of the county board of super visors. Glenwood Opinion-Tribune. AGRICULTURAL AGENTS HELP The agricultural college extension service has made its full facilities available to the Red Cross and other relief agencies In the flood area of the state, H. G. Gould, acting direc tor, said late Tuesday. "Our agricultural agents in the area have been instructed to co-operate 100 percent with all relief agen cies, as In the past, in rehabilitating the people who have had their homes, property and livestock swept out from under them," Gould declared. Agents in all affected counties have been helping in rescue work and will do all humanly possible to re lieve the presnt situation. People will need seed, feed and livestock and the agents stand ready to do their part, Gould said. Everett Winter, secretary of the Nebraska Farm Bureau federation, also declared his organization is ready to do anything possible to help relieve the present situation. Winter and Gould planned to leave Lincoln late Tuesday for the flood area to confer with relief of ficials in offering their support in getting seed, feed and other supplies. Val Kuska, Burlington colonization agent, planned to accompany Winter and Gould. ASK POTATO CONTROL Washington. Altho crop control appears destined to face a constitu tionality test in the supreme court, a congressional potato bloc pushed for ward its plans to restrict commer cial production of the nation's sec ond greatest food crop by making potatoes a basic commodity. AV0CA NEWS The Avoca streets were being drag ged last Monday, placing them in ex cellent condition following the heavy rains. Mrs. Martha Ruge was a visitor for over the week end at the home of her friends and relatives in Ne braska City. Ruth Ruge who has been making her home in Lincoln where she is employed was a visitor with the fam ily over the week end. A little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Henshaw who has been so se verely ill with pneumonia, is re ported as being better at this time. Lester Potts with his truck was over to west of Eagle last Sunday afternoon where he went to bring two horses to Avoca for Harry Mar quardt. Harry Marquardt was a visitor in Plattsmouth last Monday evening where he had some business matters to look after at the office of the county Judge. Albert Sill and wife and Mrs. Ed Morley were over to Plattsmouth last Sunday where they were attending the flower show which was in pro gress on that day. Henry M. Masement and wife and John Nutzman and ife were over to the homeof Fred Nutzman last Sunday where they were visiting, Mr. Nutzman being very ill. Elmer J. Hallstrom and family were over to Plattsmouth last Sun day where they were called to at tend the funeral of the late Harry M. Wilcox of that place. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kokjer of Avoca were over to Crete last Sunday at tending the graduation exercises of Doane college. Their son, Jordan, Jr. is a student at the college, but only in the Junior class. John Hoffman and wife were visit ing for. a short time last Sunday aft ernoon at the home of Mr. Fred Nutz man south of Nehawka, as Mr. Nutz man has been quite ill for some two weeks and who is at this time report ed as being better. Supt. L. L. Larson of the Avoca schools and wife and Miss Anna Ma rie Sailing who have been spending a week visiting at the home of the parents of Mr. Larson at Ewing, re turned home last Sunday after hav ing enjoyed a very pleasant visit. Otto Housechild who was so se verly injured when a bolt of light ning struck him and killed the horse on which he WAs...riding, came home some two weeks ago and was able last Monday to come to town for a short time. Otto is showing im provement and hopes to be entirely well in a short time. Former Resident Dies. Mrs. E. H. Sims of Lincoln, wife of Mr. Sims, who was formerly a teacher in the Avoca schools, died following an operation on last Friday. The funeral was held at Lincoln last Sunday. Many will remember when Mr. and Mrs. Sims resided here. Mr. Sims has been teaching at Cozad the past year. A number of the people In Avoca were to Lincoln to atend the funeral, among whom were Carl Tefft and wife, Ernest Gollner, Mrs. Rawalt and son and others. DOANE ALUMNUS TELLS GRADS OF DUTY TO PUBLIC Crete, Neb., June 4. Dr. John Bauer, a Doane alumnus, now direc tor of the American public utilities bureau, was the speaker at Doane college commencement today. Charging stand-patters with great est responsibility for the advance of radicalism in the country, Dr. Bauer warned graduates that their princi pal individual problems are over whelmingly public in character. Dr. Bauer declared that there has been gross exaggeration of the rela tive inefficiency of government as compared with private business. President Edwin B. Dean con ferred the degree of doctor of busi ness on Dr. Bauer and of doctor of divinity On Rev. Frederick Lyman Hall, superintendent of the Ohio Conference of Congregational and Christian churches, a Doane alumnus. QUADRUPLETS PASS TWENTIETH EIRTHDAY Hollis, Okla., June 4. Not greatly impressed by their record as the only quadruplets in medical history to reach maturity, the famous Keys sis ters Mary, Mona, Roberta and Leota celebrated their 20th birth day at their home here Tuesday. The attractive young women have just completed their sophomore year at Baylor university in Waco, Tex. The girls are planning a concert tour. All are accomplished musicians. The quadruplets are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Flake M. Keys of Hollis. Several additional contracts are to bo let soon for river develop ment work in this vicinity. Flower Show Brings Out Many Fine Entries Eespite Unfavorable Weather Condi tions There Is Large Showing of Plants and Cut Flowers. The riattsmouth flower show, spon sored by the Plattsmouth Garden club, opened its door Saturday and continued over Sunday to give the residents of the community the op portunity of seeing the many varieties of flowers shown. The show this year was held at the Knights of Columbus hall, both floors of the building be ing used. In the main hall cn the first floor was shown the collection of iris that was remarkable in the large variety offered whose delicate shadings and markings made them a real treat for the flower lovers. The colorful poppies and dainty daisies in several varieties were shown in the main hall to add their riot of color to the floral beauty. One of the novelties shown was a pot of the "Dutchman's Pipe," a plant that is little known and which attracted a great deal of attention from the visitors at the show. Both in the main hall and on the second floor exhibits were miniature rock gardens that lent attractiveness to the show and showed a great deal of skill on the part of those who arranged the dainty settings of the gardens. The gardens were the work of Pauline Pitz, Robert Yelick and Charles Schimerhorn, one of the floral fanciers of the city. The exhibits on the second floor showed a number of the bouquets and here a few of the roses that had braved the backward season were shown. One of the features of this section was the collection of cactus that had a large variety of this desert plant. Fine collections of pansies and cornflowers were also a feature of the exhibit on the second floor and added their beauty to the scene. The show is the result of the splen did work of the local garden club that has in the past two years de veloped an interest in the garden and the love of the beauties of nature that is making the surroundings of the homes of the community real ob jects of beauty and truly outdoor living rooms. The protracted wet season held back many varieties of flowers for exhibit but despite this fact the show just closed was a most commendable offering of the floral beauties of the season. In the show itself a great deal of credit is due A. L. Till, the chair man of the show committee, who has been untiring in his work in prepar ing for the high event and with his committee they can feel well pleased with the result and point to a larger and more brilliant show for the 1936 season when conditions may prove more auspicious. Prize Winners. The Second Annual Flower Show proved a wonderful success, and the exhibits of flowers were superior to those exhibited at the Flower Show a year ago. The judges at the Flower Show were Mrs. Arthur E. Rapp of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Miss Julia Svoboda of Plattsmouth, and the Flower Show committee especially desire to ex press their appreciation to the judges for their earnest effort in the judging of the exhibits and their fairness and impartiality. Below is given the names of the winners and the number of prizes won by each: Miss Margaret Bauer, 1 first, 1 second; Mrs. Frank Bestor, 1 first; Miss Clara Bookmeyer, 1 second; Miss Mae Bookmeyer, 1. first, 2 thirds; Ellen Gertrude Cloidt, 1 first; Mr. Frank A. Cloidt, 2 firsts, 1 second; Mrs. John Cloidt, 2 seconds; Mrs. John W. Crabill, 4 firsts, 1 second; Mrs. Emma Egenberger, 1 first, 1 third; Amelia Frederich, 1 first, 1 second, 2 thirds; Mrs. Lillian Free man, 2 firsts; 2 seconds, 1 third; Miss Dora Fricke, 1 third; Margaret Fricke 1 second. 2 thirds; Mrs. Henry Goos, 2 firsts, 1 second; Mrs. Oscar Gapen, 1 first, 1 second; Miss Anne Harris, 2 firsts, 3 seconds, 1 third; Mrs. C. E. Hartford, 1 first, 1 third; Frederick Jasper, 1 first; Frank Karvanek, 1 first, 2 seconds, 1 third; Miss Ella Kennedy, 1 second; Miss Sophia Kraeger, 2 firsts, 4 seconds, 2 thirds; Mrs. George Lushlnsky, 1 first; Mrs. Geo. B. Mann, 1 first, 1 second; Mrs. Hanna McDonald. 1 first; J. II. Mc Maken, 1 first, 1 third; Mrs. J. E. Meisinger, 2 seconds, 1 third; Mrs. J. M. Meisinger, 1 third; Mrs. L. O. Mi nor, 1 first, 1 second, 1 third; Mrs. R. M. Painter, 1 second, 1 third; Mrs. J. H. Palacek, 1 first; Mrs. Alice Perry, 2 thirds; Mr. Julius A. Pitz, 2 firsts; 3 seconds; 3 thirds; Mrs. August Roessler, 1 second; Mr. Charles Schermerhorn, 1 second, 1 third; Mr. Floyd Shanholtz, 1 third; Mrs. Earl Shanholtz, 1 first, 1 second; Mrs. Vilas Sheldon, 3 seconds; Mrs. Bertha Shopp, 2 firsts; Mrs. Eloise Smetana, 1 first, 1 second; Mrs. Henry Starkjohn, 1 second; Mr. Theo dore Stark john, 3 firsts. 1 second; Mr. Joseph Stodola. 1 first, 2 seconds; J Miss Albina Svoboda, 1 first, 1 third; !! am)irlf!JllliJ)Ih7li vm i H iVUt: i' i Difference in Qasoline You'll be surprised agreeably surprised at the differenct you notice when you run your car for the first time on a gasoline that contains Tetraethyl. And it's easy to tell whether the gasoline you buy does contain this valuable anti-knock fluid. Simply look for that little metal sign (re quired by law) on every Standard Red Crown pump. Tetraethyl is the finest known anti-knock fluid the very same valuable fluid which (in larger quantity) goes into premium-priced gasoline. You get it now in every drop of that famous Live Power gasoline Standard Red Crown. HERE'S WHERE YOU GET IT: Standard Oil Ssruice Station 747 Vine Street, Plattsmouth ATTEBERRY GARAGE Union, Nebr. HARTFORD SERVICE STATION . Plattsmouth, Nebr. STANDARD Mrs. A. L. Tidd, 4 firsts; 3 seconds, 2 thirds; Mr. John Vanllorn, 1 sec ond; Mrs. Jennie Whalen, 1 first; Mrs. Luke Wiles, 1 first, 2 seconds; Mrs. Clem Woster, 1 first, 1 second; Mrs. Clara Wescott, 1 first, 1 second. The above is the list of the win ners of the prizes as designated and if there has been any error in keep ing the record in the name of the party receiving the prizes, if they will communicate with the chairman of the Flower Show committee, Mr. A. L. Tidd, corrections will be made. The Flower Show committee es pecially express their appreciation to the donors of the prizes and also to the winners of the prizes as well as to everyone who entered and every one who visited the Flower Show. FIRST KAIL TO FLOOD ZONE Omaha. Mail will be transported by bus and auto beginning Tuesday into the southwestern Nebraska flood zone, where railroad service is para lyzed or disrupted. J. A. Quinn, as sistant superintendent of railway mail service at Omaha, said the first mail will go to McCook which has received no mail since May 29. Effort is being made to establish temporary emergency star routes out of Ogallala to twelve or thirteen towns and out of Superior as far west as possible, probably to Mc Cloud, he said. The routes cut of Oxford to St. Francis, Kas., and out of Republican City of O'Derlin, Kas., virtually are hopeless, he believes, since the ram paging republican river ripped out highways and bridges between those towns. The auto mail service will con tinue until railroads have repaired tracks and bridges. P. T. A. TO COLUMBUS Columbus. Neb. The board of managers of the Nebraska congress of Parents and Teachers, meeting here Monday selected Columbus as the site of the annual convention of the organization.. The 'convention will be held Oct. 22 to 2 4. Mrs. B. F. Langworthy of Winnetka, 111., national president, will be the prin cipal speaker. Lincoln also invited the convention. CARL KEIL Standard Servisman Plattsmouth It Makes a Real Married Women Have Longer Life Than the Single Figures From Life Insurance Com panies Show Record as to Length of Life of Women. New York, N. V. Of interest to the annual crop of June brides is the fact that by becoming a bride she betters her chance of living to a ripe old age. For stasticians of a leading life insurance company re port, that while the death rate for spinsters in the ager periods between 15 and 34 years is lower than that for wives, after age 3 4 married women have a progressively lower death rate than spinsters. From age 20 through the greater part of their lives, both spinsters and married women have a lower death rate than widows or divorced women. In the age period 15 to 19 years, while married women have a death rate of 6.0 per 100,000, divorced women have a rate of 4.4. but widows have a death rate cf 10.4 in theso years. These facts are gleaned from the records of the death rates for wom en, classified by age and marital con dition in the Death Registration States lor the years 1924-1928. tho latest year for which reports aro available. A significant fact, pointed out by the statisticians, is that at all ages under 35, wives have a higher death rate than spinsters. Quoting from a government report, prepared by Pro fessor Willcox of Cornell University, they say: "If women who marry aro healthier at the time of marriago than women of like age who do not marry, and it seems probable that marriage acts as a selective agency for both sexes, although not perhaps with equal force, then the higher death rate of wives may plausibly bo ascribed to the results of child bear ing, especially the birth of the first child." Farmers are optimistic follow ing the spring rains and foresee prospects of a bumper crop.