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CHRISTMAS GREETING SECTION VOL. LI, NUMBER 91 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935. t I 1 Christmas Brings Greetings from Business Houses More than Three Score Join in Ex tending Best Wishes to Friends and Loyal Patrons. ' This issue of the Journal, the last to reach its readers before Christ mas day, brines greetings and well wishes from more than three score I'lattsmouth business firms by far the greatest number to carry such cards in recent years. Generally speaking, business has been good in Plattsmouth during the past year, and people have come here to shop from greater 'distances than ever before. The Plattsmouth trade territory, like the ripple in the water faused by a stone, is ever widening as the automobile wipes out distance barriers. And the stone that ripples the water in this instance is advertis ing. During the past year numerous co-operative trade events have been sponsored that have attracted increas ing numbers of patrons to Platts mouth to trade. In appreciation of this and the fine Christmas trade they have enjoyed, local merchants are extending their heartiest well-wishes through , the medium of Christmas greeting cards on these pages of the Journal, and are joined in this happy custom by the publisher and members of tire Journal force. It has been a pleasure during the past year to work with and be in strumental in carrying the Platts nouth message of shopping economy to the furthermost corners -of Cass county and far beyond its borders. As a result of this concerted effort to attract" trade to Plattsmouth, we have had numerous .reports of shop pers here during the Christmas sea son who have never been accustomed to coming here to trade before. And we are confident they went home pleased with the quality and price of the goods they bought here. So, in these pages, we bring you the personal messages of appreciation and well wishes of a large and rep resentative group of Plattsmouth stores who have appreciated your friendship and trade during the past year and want you to know it. WGMAN SANTA AT FALLS CITY TO SERVE 200 MEALS Falls City, Dec. 23. Two hundred needy Falls City children are already calling Mrs. Blanche McCoy "Mrs. Santa Claus." The big-hearted cafe, proprietor, with the aid of friends, is promoting a big dinner for the youngsters on Christmas day. The guest list was carefully pre pared with the aid of school teach ers and Mrs. Orra Swisegood, county relief director. WEATHER NEAR ZERO LAST CHRISTMAS DAY Plattsmouth folks shivered last Christmas in temperatures almost as low as they were Friday morning, the coldest day of the present winter. . Christmas morning there was a misty rain with the mercury dipping to four above late in the day. 1 SiisHF Good if I rWr-Z. Cheer If I I YOU and to yours in our commun- & fcj? W I ity may this indeed be a Christmas of ifei Wf km js START ROLLING SIXTH STREET With brick work on the South Sixth street sewer, nearly completed, the task of building catch basins and lateral drainage-ways is under way. City officials were able to procure a six, ton tractor roller in Lincoln Sat urday, which was delivered on the job Monday morning and is now be ing used to roll the sub-grade. Engi- i neers say the permanence of paving is dependent upon the sub-grade and it is desired to get the street thor oughly rolled and compacted before Ihe ground freezes. HERE FROM PERU Miss Elizabeth Wiles, a student at Peru State .Teachers' college, arrived Friday to spend the Christmas holi days here with relatives and friends. The Journal will appreciate all news items phoned to No. 6. TO YOU and to yours in our commun ity may this indeed be a Christmas of m 'Zftar not. for brljolo. 3J brittrj DISPATCHES CIGARS THIRTY-FIFTH TIME Ed Bartling, Nebraska City seed man, dispatched a box of cigars to Hugh Norton, Panama, Neb., for the 35th time Friday. At the turn of the century, Mr. Norton, then of Brock, did a "good turn" for Mr. Bartling, then a boy. The Nebraska City man never forgot it and every Christmas since then he has sent Mr. Norton a box of cigars. Norton is now a retired Missouri Pacific agent at Panama. "The good deed he did me is a long story," said Mr. Bartling. "I just want to call the good turn to the attention of Boy Scouts." I $ & m m i m I ; gt,pt p S - gps - 1 jg . . k yon nlau tibhtnc of nrr at Uni PLEASANT RIDGE CLUB PARTY The Pleasant Ridge - Project club had their Christmas party at the home of Mrs. L. A. Meisinger. All members were present and there were three visitors. The afternoon was spent playing Bunco and there; was an exchange of gifts. In the Bunco games, Mrs. W. G. Meisinger won the high honors, while the consolation prize was won by Mrs. L. A. Meisinger. The club presented Grandma Hild with a very useful gift. At the close of the afternoon, a delicious lunch was served by mem bers of the club. ,' News Reporter. MERRY CHRISTMAS May that Holy Star of Christmas Which led wise men long ago Shine upon you, guide you, bless you Through the year, where e'er you go. OFE OIL CO. Ne5Xcn v. RAILROAD TRAVEL IS HEAVY Chicago. Santa Claus gave Amer ican railroads the highball for the best Christmas run since 1929. The holiday rush reached a new peak with the exodus of students from college towns. Terminals at this crossroads were crowded. Some of the lines add ed extra trains, sections and cars to accommodate the increased patron age. Some of them have been using extra facilities, principally for mail and express, for as long as ten days. A canvass of the lines showed they estimated a 10 to 50 percent improve ment in yuletide travel over last year, in some cases the best since Wall street laid that epochal egg 6 yrs. ago. m m For , "Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kipr1 thp airls and made them cm . . J WEIICH was Tery reprehensible of that genial Mother Goose character, but, after all, a good deal of latitude should be allowed the boys around the holidays. Perhaps he might even be con tent with these Yuletide Kisses: Beat the whites of four eggs until stiff but not too dry. Fold in one cup sugar, one teaspoon almond flavor and one cup canned moist cocoanut. Drop by small spoonfuls on an un greased brown paper. Decorate tops with tiny red and green can dies or with fine candy shot in mixed colors. Bake in a very slow oven at 250 degrees for forty five minutes. ' A Holiday. Pudding r" 'Steamed Chocolate Pudding: Cream two tablespoons butter and one-half cup sugar, and add one well-beaten egg. Add one and a quarter squares melted chocolate. Sift together one and an eighth cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder and one-eighth teaspoon salt, and add alternately with one fourth cup evaported milk com bined with one-fourth cup water. Pour Into a well-greased tube cake tin or a pudding mold, and cover tightly with an oiled paper or a regular cover. Steam ore and a half hours. Turn out and serve 'with the following sauce: Raisin and Nut Sauce: Cook one-half cup seedless raisins in one cup water until plump and the - water entirely- absorbed. Cream one-half cup butter with itwo cups confectioner's sugar. THE FIE ST CHRISTMAS Two thousand years ago Augustus Caesar issued a decree that all the world was to be taxed. So amongst the many who went to Bethlehem to pay their taxes were Joseph and Mary, a humble and line couple of Jerusalem. Arriving there, they found the town crowded with strangers who, like themselves, had come there on a similar mission. The inn was filled to overflowing and no place could be found to stay. Mary was with child and Joseph wanted to protect her and make her comfort able, but no room was to be had. So the couple sought shelter in the stable beside their tiny donkey. The stable was a cave or grotto in the rocks with crude wooden mangers filled with hay. Here, in the thirty- I f 2? w m I w 1 GOO i i A Mix until smooth one tablespoon j flour and one tablespoon .water, add one cup boiling water and cook till thick and creamy, then add to the creamed butter and sugar. Add the raisins and one-, half cup chopped vacuum packed walnuts, and . flavor with brandy or vanilla, as desired. Serves eight. Minco Pie Traditional Minced pie is traditional at Christmas dinner, so lefs give Geoigie this Delicious Mince Pie: Line a pie tin with pastry and pour in half the contents of a 1-pound can mincemeat. Slice two bananas and ..spread over next, sprinkle with one-fourth cup sugar, then add the rest of the mincemeat. Pour over one-fourth cup fruit syrup from canned pears, pine apple or apricots, and cover with top crust. Bake thirty minutes In a hot 425 degree oven. Make3 one pie. Or, if Georgie has cast an envi ous eye on that other Mother Goose character, the Queen of Hearts, who is addicted to tarts, he can still get his mincemeat in these Brcndicd Mincemeat Tarts: Turn the contents of two 1-pound cans mincemeat into sauce pan and cook gently for four or nvo minutes. Remove from fire and add one-half cup brandy. Mean while, iiave tart tins lined with rich pastry, fill with the hot mince meat and cover with upper crust. Bake in a hot 425 degree oven for from fifteen to twenty minutes. Makes eiht o ten tarU." third year of the reign of Herod, Jesus of Nazareth was born. Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger. Here the shepherds, to whom angels had announced the Saviour'H birth, came to kneel beside the humble bed and lay their gifts before the Babe whom they adored. Because this Babo was born, the whole world rejoices and celebrates Christmas. Joy, peace, love, humil ity all the great truths of Christian ity came to the world with His birth. The basis of modern civilization lies in the little town of Bethlehem. Under the new federal serurlty law, newspapers and other industries will be taxed in 1936 and employees be ginning in 1937, based on a percent age of the payroll. fa ft (to ,. w ,. WISHES v- i ft hearty good cheer. May the holidays bring you great happiness and may future years bringmore. BESTOn & S17ATEK CO. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBR. g & m,. A m- EDonat'c Beet Tavern