THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1930.
PAGE SIX
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
AVOCA NEWS
Henry Jourgensen was over to Om
aha Monday of this week looking af
ter sonic business matters for a short
ti:r.e.
Frank Dean and family of ilur
dock were visiting at the home of
Grandfather and Grandmother Elmer
Corbin.
II. M. Lur.i was visiting friends
and relatives in Lincoln last Sunday
enjoying a very fine visit there with
his friends.
Sheriff Homer Sylvester was a
caller in Avoca on Monday evening
cf this week looking after some offi
cial business.
John Bailor moved to the Elmer
Cortnn p:ace o.er in me llclt3i
. . . .i : ,-lil.,T
hnod cf North Branch where
he Willi.
Jarr.i the coming summer.
Charier, i'armenter with the family
moved to near Nehawka last Satur
day and wiil farm the William Aug
ust rlace the coming season.
Jack Jourgensen of Weeping Wa
ter, was in Avoca last Monday and
was trucking corn from the seller
in the country to the elevator.
There :s mucli corn moving at this
time, keeping the elevator very busy
and at the time there is a brisk de
mand from feeders for the cereal.
Elsie Pomeroy who has been visit
ing here for the past week or more
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ruby
Dreuary, returned to her home at
Cozad last Tuesday.
Lieutenant Powell of the CCC camp
ay Weeping Water, was down to
Avoca to see II. M. Lum, the lumber-
man regarding mateiials for
ing cf a three stall
1.1 n
camp.
Jack West who has been farming
on one of the Vincent Straub places
southeast of town last week moved1
to South Omaha whe're he has secured
a position in the stock yards of that
Tlace.
Superintendent of the Avoca school
accompanied by the good wife and
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Hallstrom were
over to Lincoln last Saturday night
attending the state basketball tour
nament. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hcnninrj and
kiddies were over to Cedar Creek and
Louisville last Sunday where they
were visiting with the families of
both Mrs. Hennings and Elmer. They
enjoyed a very fine visit.
W. H. Eogaard and son, Clyde,
were enjoying a visit last Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Z.
Thomas and the kiddies. Mrs. Thomas
is sister of Clyde and daughter of
Postmaster W. II. Bogaard.
Clifford Gray and family moved to
Plattsmouth Friday oZ last week
where they are expecting to make
their home and where they have been
assured of employment. It wa3 impos
sible either to secure employment or
a place to live in Avoca.
Mr. and Mrs. George Shackley who
went to southern Texas, last fall
where they have been spending the
winter in the mild climate of the
south, are returning to Avoca this
week after having enjoyed a very de
lightful time while they were away.
Leslie Potts was a business visi
tor in Plattsmouth Saturday of last
week and also was on over to Omaha
where his business trip called him.
He also met and visited with hi3
brother, Verle Pott3 who has been
VISIT our self-serve depart
ment. You'll be amazed at the
bargains you'll find there all
tagged as to size and price for
your convenience.
Women's Shoes
$.98
WH have taken from our regu
lar stock of Quality Shoes a
group of short lines and placed
them in our self-serve depart
ment at one low price. All are
higher priced shoes. Widths AA
to C; Sizes 4 to 9. Not every
size in each style, however.
HERE are smart-looking, good
fitting Quality Shoes at a real
low price.
Fetzer Shoe Co.
We do High Grade Repairing!
Budget Shop
Bulletin
Shoes at Big Savings
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making his home in the county seat
for some time.
Roy A. Pierce who has been farm
ing some miles southeast of Nehawka
last week moved to one of the irms
of Vincent Straub near Avoca, where
he will farm for the coming summer,
and was in town securing some ma
terial for making repairs to the house
on the farm.
Paul Ottens Very 111.
Paul Ottens, well advanced in
years, has been very ill at his home
in Avoca for some time and is kept
to his home and bed. Everything pos
sible is being done for the patient,
but still he remains very critical.
Married at Nebraska City.
Ilarlin Maple, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Maple and Miss Adaline Boiler
... to Nebraska City
V ... "
'last Saturday and were married, com
ing back to surprise their friends.
They will make their home in Avoca
but will farm on the farm of Har
lan's father north of the city.
Played Basketball Here.
A colored basketball team known
as the Harlem Globe Trotters were
here and played the Avoca basket
ball team at the high school gym on
Tuesday evening of this week.
Attended Funeral Friday.
On last Wednesday J. II. F. Ruge
and brother, Gus, received a notice
of the passing of his last remaining
uncle, Charles Ruhge who was past
eighty-five years of age. He had re
sided at Edgar ior a number of years
and formerly made his home here. On
Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. F.
build-;Ruhgo and Gus Ruhge and Louis Car
e at ine.etpn. sr.. drove to Edcar to attend
the funeral, returning home later in
the evening.
CRIPPLED CHILDREN CAMPAIGN
The national Easter Seal campaign ;
will reach its peak at the Easter
season, starting March loth. Platts
mouth should be ready to take its
place in the fight to provide sufficient
funds in this state for the care, cure
and education of the crippled child,
and to wage an active war against
the major cause of crippledom, in
fantile paralysis.
Mrs. Howard Capwell cf Elmwood,
chairman of the county committee,
reports "There are 3 crippled children
for each 1,000 population. On this
b;3j
s Cas3 county would register
sixty crippled children. Figures thru
out the state and nation show that
during a depression a large percent
age of these children co not receive
the proper care."
From surveys made in Nebraska it
has been estimated that there are
7,000 crippled children ia our state.
Membership in the Nebraska so
ciety for crippled children is 1 per
year. Club or group memberships
$10 annually.
If you feel that you could make a
contribution to this cause enclose it
in a letter to Mrs. Howard Capwell,
Elmwood, Nebr.
WANT VOLTAGE REDUCED
Omaha. A petition bearing 103
signatures was presented to Omaha
city council Tuesday demanding an
amendment to its franchise, forcing
the Nebraska Power company to re
duce its voltage in residential sec
tions to 115.
The company, the
petitioners
charged, a short time ago arbitrarily
increased its power to 120 volts. An
I increase in expense due to the neces
jsity of purchasing new fuse3, tubes
for radi03 and damage to other elec
jtrical appliances resulted, it was
charged. The raise in voltage was
'coincident with an announced reduc
tion in rates. The -petition was re
jf erred to the city electrician for in
; vestigation.
Phone news Items to No. 6.
Saturday, Exarch 21
n mm m m 9
uni aren s anees
Good sturdy Shoe3 for toys and
girls Oxfords and Strap styles.
Brown or Black Sizes to 2.
$ -00
Feizer Slice Go.
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
DOLLAR DAY
Dance to be
a Feature of Jaf
ferson Day
Young Democrats of County to Honor
Eirth of Party Founder Pres
ident Roosevelt to Speak.
Franci3 Hetherington, president of
the Young Democratic club of Cass
county, today announced that he had
notified Frank Wickhem, president of
the Young Democratic Clubs of Am
erica .that his organiaztion was join
ing some 2000 other Young Demo
cratic clubs throughout the nation in
simultaneous Jefferson day dances in
honor of the father of democracy on
the evening of April 13th, Thomas
Jefferson's birthday.
The forty-eight state presidents,
the national committeemen and com
mitteewomen of the Young Demo
cratic Clubs of America will hold a
! regional conclave in Balimore dur
ing the day. At 10:30 p. m. eastern
standard time. President Roosevelt
will address them and a gathering of
some 20,000 guests from Maryland
and nearby states. Most of the party
leaders will attend and the Maryland
club officials say it will be one of
the largest political gatherings in
the history of the state.
The president's message is to be
broadcast over a nation-wide hookup
and Jefferson Day celebrants all over
the country will listen in. As ex
plained by Mr. Wickhem. a large
number of the clubs were, for various
reasons, unable to hold Jackson Day
dinners and many of them have in
sisted they be given another oppor
tunity to show their loyalty to the
party and to help financially both the
democratic national committee and
the Young Democratic clubs' nation
al organization. Each ticket to the
dances will produce a profit and a
substantial portion of the money sent
to the national committee will be
given to Mr. Wickhem's organization
to be spent during the campaign to
bolster up club activities.
It was explained that the plan is to
hold cotun.e dances of the Jefferson
ian era, but the dancers of this com
munity have vouched their prefer
ence to a modern dance. Therefore,
the local Young Democrats have en
gaged the popular Rhythm Kings
band, the orchestra that made such
a hit here for the Easter dance last
year.
The dance in Cass county will be
held in Plattsmouth at the Amer
ican Legion hall.
ACCEPT PEACE CONFERENCE
Washington. President Roosevelt
expressed hope that the forthcoming
pan-American peace conference not
only would result in practical ac
complishments but would cement
friendly relations among the people
of the '.vestern hemisphere.
He made that statement to his
pres3 conference in formally an
nouncing receipt of replies from all
nations except Paraguay favoring
his proposal that the conference be
held sometime tnis j-ear in iiueno3
'Aires. A similar reply from Paraguay
is expected soon.
MURDERER BULLS SELF
Dijon, France. Michael Rosa, an
Italian scheduled to be guillotined
soon for killing two men, killed him-
self in an effort to escape from prison.
He knocked down a guard as the lat
ter entered his cell, and managed to
reach the prison balcony. There,
however, chained hand and foot, he
plunged to his death.
LLOYD'S OFFERS WAR ODDS
London. War is at least six
months off, according to the latest
quotations by Lloyd's. The odds: A
European war in six months 9'1
to 1 against; French troops entering
the Rhineland zone within the next
j three months 4S1,2 to 1 against;
j two days ago Lloyd's refused to quote
lodds cn a European war.
TWO TO PENITENTIARY
North Platte. Gerald Foster and
Glen Slankard were sentenced to
twenty-one months at hard labor in
the Nebraska penitentiary when they
pleaded guilty in district court to
charges of entering a grocery store
Dec. 18. Similar charges were dis
missed against Leslie Larson and
Wilfred Tabler.
NOTICE
After April 1st, the following den
tal offices in the city will be closed
Thursday afternoons the year around.
Dr. P. T. Helneman, Dr. F. R. Molak,
Dr. W. V. Ryan. ml6-2tw-10td
A navigable Missouri river by
1937 is the promise of Missouri
river development boosters.
AUCTION SALE
Saturday, March 21
There will be offered for sale at Pub
lic Auction, beginning at 8 :00 P. M.
Household Goods of
Al! Kinds
At the comer rcom of the Journal
Building, 4th and Main Streets, in
Plattsmouth These household
goods arc from the residence of A. B.
Smith and are in the best of shape.
Terms of Sale Cash
REX YOUNG - - - Auctioneer
AffaMa Growers
io Benefit from
Soil Conserving
Fred Wallace, Gibbon Farmer, Out
lines Benefits of Several
Classes of Producer.
Kearney, Neb. Alfalfa growers
will benefit from the new soil con
servation act as well as other farm
ers, says Fred Wallace, if Gibbon,
chairman of the Nebraska AAA corn
hog board of review.
Discussing a resolution of alfalfa
growers at Cozad recently, in which
tests were raised against increased
alfalfa production under the new act,
Wallace said:
"The benefit payments (under the
new act) will go to those who already
have big acreage of such soil-conserving
crops as alfalfa, as well as to
farmers who agree to increase their
present small acreages of such crops.
"The program will be just as fair
to the man who has almost all his
land in alfalfa as it will to the man
w ho hasn't much land in soil-conserving
crops right now. And when the
big alfalfa producers include their
benefit payments with the market
price of crops, I think they'll be fully
repaid for co-operating. Those pay
ments, along with the market price
of the crop, should more than take
care of any possible sag in the market
caused by new alfalfa acreages." 1
Wallace commented on the Cozad
resolution on his return from Chicago
where he attended a conference of
farm interests, which suggested pro
cedure lor carrying out the new farm
act.
WITTE FOR RELIEF UNITY
State NEIIA ' r:dm4n:slrator Witte
said Monday hef favored any unified
Douglas county, relief setup that
would enable thi federal government
to withdraw froin the relief picture.
. The proposed welfare board would
be a wise move, he thinks, but it isn't
for him to decide a3 the problem be
longs to the county commissioners.
Witte said his organization would go
ahead with liquidation of the Douglas
county relief administration unless
the situaiton is clarified at a meet
ing of tbe county board. lie was to
confer with Director C. F. McNeil
cf the DCRA at Omaha before con
tinuing east by plane. Witte met
staff division executives of the NERA
here during the week end. Altho now
a member of the field staff of the
social security board, Witte still di
rects the federal relief program in
Nebraska.
OWN PRESIDENT'S CHAIR
Falls City, Neb. A cherished pos
session of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Rush
is a large rocking chair once owned
by Rutherford B. Hayes. President
Hayes had the chair made for a per
sonal friend. Bijah Joy, at tho time
the latter was editor of the Detroit
Free Press. Joy in turn gave it to
James Quimby, a close friend, and
eventually it fell into the hands of
Quimby's sons, Theodore and Henry
Quimby, who were in partnership
with Rush in the printing business
at Greenwood, Ind. One day the
printing office caught fire and Rush
saved the chair. Mr. and Mrs. Rush
named their oldest son Quimby after
the Quimby brothers, and the famous
chair was presented to the Rush
family.
I Sweet
8
High Grade
99.50 Purity
97.00 Germination
ner Bushel
Lowest Price
in Country! fj
Q
re to Hurry Q
Ycu will Have to Hurry
I lUarga Hardware
Telephone 400 ,J
Tells Sarpy
Constable of the
Speed Limits
President of Nebraska County Attor
neys Association Caught in
Sarpy County Trap.
How the president of the Nebraska
County Attorneys association in
structed a constable and justice ol
the peace in Sarpy county about the
state maximum speed law, with a su
preme court justice's wife as a wit
ness, was related at Scottsbluff by
County Attorney Rush Clarke.
Clarke, president of the county at
torneys association, his wife and Mrs
E. F. Carter, wife of Supreme Court
Justice Carter, were on their way
from Omaha to Lincoln. Clarke, anx
ious to get to Lincoln to attend a
meeting of a club, was traveling
about 65 miles an hour.
"I was flagged down by a con
stable," Clarke said, "who wanted to
know where I as going in such a
hurry. I told him. He asked me how
fast I was going. I told him that,
too. He asked me if I knew what
the speed limit in Nebraska was. I
said yes. Then he said I was exceed
ing the speed limit by 25 mile3 an
hour he insisted the maximum was
50 miles an hour."
The constable, charging Clarke was
"one of those wise guys," took the en
tire party to the farm home of a
justice of the peace. There Clarke,
after some persuasion, was able to
call the Sarpy county attorney. He
explained the situation, and the
county attorney told Clarke to pro
ceed ith his trip. The trio walked
out of the farm house, the constable
trailing behind.
"What did he (the county attor-
jney) tell you?" the officer demanded.
"Just what I was trying to tell
you," Clarke retorted. "The speed
limit in this state is a rate which is
reasonable and proper."
The constable, when last seen, was
thumbing thru his pocket copy of
the Nebraska traffic laws.
SIX ROBBERIES CLEARED UP
Norfolk, Neb. Six crimes, includ
ing a filling station robbery near
Madison, two automobile thefts and
three schoolhouse robberies, have
been solved by Norfolk police since
the arrest Sunday of Henry Boettcher,
26, while he was asleep in a house
here.
Shortly after his arrest Boettcher
admitted to Police Chief Blatt that
he broke into Thomas Ambroz' filling
station nine miles west of Madison
Friday night and stele a large quan
tity of merchandise. Police recover
ed a part of the stolen goods. Boett
cher later in the day told Sheriff
Henry of Madison where he sold the
remainder of the merchandise. Chief
Blatt and Sheriff Schwartz of Pierce,
then arrested John Schnable of Nor
folk, on a charge of purchasing and
having in hi3 possession stolen prop
erty. OVER 2,000 CROWS KILLED
Creston, Neb. An airplane was
used Sunday In the third Platte coun
ty crow hunt of the season. The
plane succeeded in routing out huge
flocks of the birds with the result
that more than 2,000 of them bit the
dust. About 35 persons took part in,
or witnessed the slaughter, including
several parties from Lincoln and Om
aha. The hunt was staged on the
farms of William Oeltjen, Fred Craig
and Carl Loseke, near here.
As in the other hunts a crow ban
quet is planned at which the birds
shot Sunday are to be cooked and
eaten by the hunters. The move to
exterminate the crows is on recom
mendation of experts at the college
of agriculture. Large numbers of
the birds were destroyed in previous
hunts here this winter.
GEORGE EDjiIUND F0SS DEAD
Chicago. George Edmund Foss,
72, former Illinois congressman
whose interest in naval affairs won
him the title of Father of the Amer
ican Navy, died Sunday at his sub
urban home. Foss was a member of
the committee on foreign affairs for
four years. In 1902 Foss conceived
the idea of establishing the great
lakes naval training station at sub
urban North Chicago and induced a
group of citizens to donate land as a
site for the project. Twice he was a
candidate for the senate on the re
publican ticket, in 1908 and again in
1918, but was defeated both times.
SALESMEN WANTED
MEN WANTED for Rawleigh Routes
00 families. Reliable hustler
hould start earning $25 weekly and
ncrease rapidly. Write today. Raw
Dept. 6BC-2S1-S. Freeport,
111. m5-12-l-zt
Gardener's Bargain
,ov SATURDAY Only
This List for 51-00
2 Its. Red Onions and 1 lb. White Onions $ .25
Lettuce -10
Early Radishes .
Icicle Radishes
Spinach
Carrots, y2 longi 10
New Stone Tomatoes .10
Eeets, Detroit Dark Red .10
Wakefield Cabbage .10
i2-lb. Alaska Peas .15
Vz-lb. Stringless Green Pod Eeans .15
Regular Price of This Assortment $1.35
Note No Changes or Returns from the Above List!
estor
Telephone 151
ORDINANCE KNOCKED OUT
Falls City, Neb. District Judge
Raper Saturday afternoon knocked
out a Falls City ordinance imposing
a $209 occupation tax on new mer
chandising firms. lie ruled the tax is
not a revenue producer but a penalty
and the amount is discriminatory and
might be unreasonable in some cases.
The ordinance provides for re
fund of the $200 if the concern re
mains in business a year. Its purpose
was to eliminate fly-by-night con
cerns. Judge Raper granted a per
manent injunction' forbidding the
prosecution of C. C. Bridges, man
ager of the Earl E. May Seed com
pany Falls City branch. Bridges was
arrested for failing to pay the $200.
INSTRUCTOR CHANGES MIND
Hastings. That youth in Germany
does not want war and would not
go to war was the contention of Miss
Clara Altman, professor of German,
in the finale of the Hastings college
faculty lecture series here. She spent
last summer in Germany. She left
Germany with a feeling of favor to
ward Hitler's experiment in govern
ment, in spits of her dislike of his
attitude toward the Jews. She added
that Germany's recent occupation of
the Rhine territory has altered her
attitude somewhat, and she 13 less
certain now than two weeks ago that
German youth would net fight.
EIGHT IIILE GROVE
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Sunday, March 22
10:30 a. m. English services.
Wednesday, March 25, the ladies
aid will meet at the church. Hos
tesses, Mrs. Phillip Hennings and
Mrs. A. Lcntz. All are Invited to at
tend. Sunday, March 2D
10:30 a. ra. The semi-annual con
gregational meeting will be held in
connection with the services.
mum iPESiiLS
Saturday, March 21
Regular $1.50 and $2 Fountain Pens. . . .$1
Picture Frames $i
School Day Stunt Books SI
Graduation Memories Books SI
Boys' Baseball Gloves, leather lined .... $1
SEE OUR WEST WINDOW FOR OTHER
OUTSTANDING DOLLAR VALUES
Following Good Friday and Saturday
Ladies' Hand Bags, Black, Brown and Blue 69
Histcry Paper, be3t grade, 500 sheet ream 32
Stationery, some fine va!ue3 at. . . 390
Sewing Cabinets, Red or Green 59 5
Men's Baseball Gloves, all leather $1.S5
Soft Balls, 250 to $1.65
Soft Ball Bats, 500 to $1.75
Flash Lights, complete 490
18-piece Bridge Set, Pink or Green $2
Colored Napkins, 100 in package 100
Green, Pink, White or Yellow
afces IBooIk Store
Corner 5th and Main Plattsmouth
iwatek Co,
Plattsmouth
CURTIS LEFT $187,000
Washington. The late Vice Pres
ident Curtis left an estate valued at
$187,000. This was disclosed when
his will was admitted to probate in
the District of Columbia supreme
court. Justice James M. Proctor ap
pointed as executors Curtis brother-in-law,
Edward E. Gann; his son,
Harry K. Curtis and his secretary,
Miss Lola M. Williams. The bulk of
the estate consisted of stocks of the
American Tobacco company, the
Eastman Kodak company, General
Motors, U. S. Smelting & Refining
company, Wrigley, and others. At the
time of his death, Feb. 8, Curtis
owned real estate in Topeka, Doug
las county. Mo., and Kay county Okl.,
valued at a total of ?12,000. He had
$3,300 cash in a bank.
BLOW TO GOV. TALMADGE
Atlanta. A three-Judge superior
court dealt a blow to Gov. Eugene
Talmadge's financial "dictatorship"
by holding state funds can not be
withdrawn from depositories without
an appropriations bill.
T IIAY be your home
next tliat will be de
stroyed by fire! Protect
yourself from financial
loss by fire by insuring
with this agency.
Searl S. Davis
OFFICIOS: 2M rLOOII
Platts. State Bank Bldg.
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