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cicfy IPs? n cs, a r s rv, vol. nu. m PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937. NO. 95 Pig 1 1 j Louisville to Seek State Aid tor rree &ridge Desire to Have State Pay Balance on Bridge and Make it Free to the Public. The reports from Louisville are To the effect that a general movement is to be made to try and secure state in; and co-operat ion i:i making the bridge over the Platte river at that i ia.o a toll free structure. Tiie present bridge was erected sev eral years ago by the Louisville Bridge Co., replacing the ancient v. ooden structure that for many years s:anr.ed the Platte and which was a constant source of expense in repair ing to Cass and Sarpy counties. The present bridge was erected tin ier the provisions of the state law that provided for the erection of the s.rucrure. 1he state of Nebraska pay ing half, of the cost and the half of Cass i.nd Sarpy counties being paid from tolls on the bridge, collected by thc counties. The law has been followed but the residents of the community feel that too g'eat a time must ealapse before the bridge tan Le toll free and they uesire very much to have the state take mine action to take up the re- ma i.iJer of the once. cost of the bridge atj De'egations from civic bodies and citizens are expecting to take up the mutter with Governor Cochran and oiher state officials to try and secure favorably action on their free bridge plan. FORTY-FOUR CHILDREN'S E00KS ADDED AT LIBRARY During the past three weeks forty f "tir new books have been added to t? e children's col'e-otion in the city library. They will give new zest to the reading list for the second semester of school. Among the group which arrived this week are Child's Historv of the World and Child's Geoi graphy of "the World by V. M. Hilleyer. A book c:i Toy's Bird House Architecture will start noys thinking about the lvturn of spring birds. A pictorial history of the Consti tution and the Supreme Court of the United States of America deals with iv suhje.ts from the beginning to most recent actions. II. G. Wells has one of hi? dev.-r and unusual books among the collection. The Ad ventures of Tommv. Aeronautic subjects retain their popularity. In response tie library has added to the call a book on T'-ansport Airplanes and a book of; , t L ..... i i.. ... ... v. vw.1....v.. IU-: , .'.IlUli.IYaDlUllVItilt Miscellaneous books that are out-the place for Folkerts, and to take standing among the collections are jail the profits, until May 1. 1937. Jungle Babies by Edith Kaighjwhen. for further consideration of Eustace, Adventures of Perrine, Ev-jS50, represented by an automobile, erydav Good Manners for Boys and be was to receive a bill of sale. Girls by Ernestine Louise Bodt, and j After Fitifrock took control Fol a book on Coping Saw Carpentry. I kert's beer license was revoked by A series of books telling stories of different countries by Frank Carpen - t-r ave (,ron. now on the shelves for chil- DEATH OF CHILD The home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edwards was saddened Saturday night when their four months old daughter. Dixie Jean, did at the family home in the south part of the c:.ty following a short illness. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, j Bcv. J. W. Taenzler, pastor of the! First Christian church officiating and , the Ilorton funeral home in charge. Th little one is survived by the parents and a brother, to whom the deepest sympathy of the many friends v.-ill be extended. FLU HITS SCOUTS The fiu germ seems to have visited the local Boy Scout organization and three of the scouts have been confined to their homes as the result of the co'ds and attendant high fevers. Billy Rosencrans. II, Burton Rishel and James Sandin are three of the boys that are on the sick list. Rosen crans and Rishel were to have taktn part in a program at the Rotary to day but were unable to be present. "SHORT" MELTS SNOW From Monday's Daily Employes of the Iowa-Nebraska Light a: Power Co., repair force wire !.;; sy today in checking a short in the elet tralier line on the south side j of Main street between Fifth and Sixth streets. It was noticed this ; morning that the snow around one of the gas leads was melted and experi ments showed that there was some gas escaping as it started to burn. j The workmen in excavating around jtlie gas line found that apparently ! there was a short in the electrolier il:ne in that vicinity as the dirt w as J warm and steamy. The small gas j lei k was repaired and the workmen are cne.kmg the electrontr line m lope of locating the short. It is thought the conduit cable was dam aged when parts of the curbing were repaired last summer. Mrs. McCarroll, an Old Resident, Dies Early Today F.esidnt of Liberty Precinct for Many Years Dies at Home of Son in This City. From Monday's Dai'.y i This morning at the home of her I son. Harry McCarroll and family. Mrg Xute McCarroll, S2, passed away after an illness of some duration. Mr. McCarroll was one of the early residents of Liberty precinct a:id one of the last of the hardy pio neer group that had aided in the development of that section of Cass county. Kate Douge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Douge, was born in the state of Iowa in 1S54, her parents coming to Nebraska in 1 S 5 G and she has cinee made her home in this county. She was married to Wil liam McCarroll, also a member of one of th? pioneer families in that pre cinct, he preceding her in death March 3. 1022. Mrs. McCarroll is survived by two sens, A. M. McCarroll of Union and Harry McCarroll of this city. The body was taken to Nebraska City to await the funeral services which v. ill be held at Union. SEEKS RETURN OF y250 The matter of the license of a beer t?vern at Nehawka, formerly oper ated by Harvey Folkerts, has again taken the spotlight as a suit was filed Saturday in the Otoe county court at Nebraska City, by William 11. Fin frock against Folkerts. seeking the rcturn of ?2 50. According to the petition Finf rock j entered into contract with Folkerts to purchase a tavern in Nehawka. j the Nehawka village board and the jstate liquor commission. Finfrock was tild h couldn't operate the place on Folkert's li'ense. Finfrock gave the key to the tavern back to Folkerts, Uld him in a notice he wanted to rescind the contract with him. Now he is suing to rescind the contract and get his $250 hack. REFEREES GAME Fred A. Rothcrt, former athletic coach of the local schools, was the referee in the Nebraska City-Falls City basketball game Friday at the former place. The Oteans scored a 25 to 24 victory over the conference champions in the last second field goal by Berthold. guard which was in Nebraska City the air as the gun sounded. Mr. Rothert is now engaged in business at Auburn but retains his keen interest in basketball at which sport he scored a great success both as player and mentor. HERE FROM ELMW00D From Monday's Daily B. I. Clements and sons, Attorney Guy L. Clements and V. G. Clements. 1 and Bryant street, of Elmwood were here today to spend j Councilman Schutz complimented a few hours attending to some mat-J Councilman Tippens and the street tcrs of business and visiting with force in getting the sidewalks clean fi lends. jed off so well, Thursday and which .UUill.ll Hears Reports and Talks Snow F.ayor Tushinsky end Councilman Rebal Kept from Meeting; by Flu Fire Chiefs Report Read. Frnm Tuesday's Iaily The city couuci'. h.e'.l its first meeting of the month last evening w ith President E. A. Wt i.li of tf.e j j council presiding. Mayor George j . T.iishiiisky as well as Councilman j j Frank Kebal being among the t'.u vic- , time and unable to be present. The usual first of the month re ports wire presented by the various ofti.i.ils and read. City Clerk Albert Olson reported that in December he had collected $452.56, City Treasurer M. I. Brown reported the city funds at $12,093.40. which were deposited at the Plattsmouth State bank. Chief of Police Joe Libershal reported one arrest and others who had paid in fines amounting to J2tf.r0, Police Judg" C. L. Graves reported that $S.25 had been paid by two eustom e' s on their fines. And Then the Snow. Councilman Tippens of the streets, alleys and bridges committee re ported that owing to the snow 1 hursc'.ay he had to have additional men and that Ivan Taylor as well as George Taj lor, members of the street force were on the sick list. Councilman Webb stated that it was impossible to clean up the streets frnni the snow owing to the condi tion of the funds and that he had been forced to turn down several residents of his ward. Councilman Tippens stated that he could have the maintainer out if the council wished to scrape the snow off the (-finer of the street in the resi dential districts and pull the snow away from the curb and to the cen ter oZ the street along the business streets. Councilman Brittain of the fifth v. ard asked that something be done along Bryant street from Lincoln to Chicago avenue, it being impossible to geT. in or out with a car and im possible fo.- a phvsician to get into hat section if needed. Councilman Vroman suggested that a caterpillar might be used to pack down the snow so that it might make roads passable. Councilman Bestor opposed the plans for snow moving, stating that last year the city had spent $S00 in trying to get off the heavy snow of last February. He did not think the opening of all streets to the front doors of the residents should be ex- pe-tec Discussing the physicians Mr Bestor stated that he thought that if they reached a reasonable distance from the place they were called, that they could make it. The great est trouble of the blocked streets was that of hauling fuel. The condition was bad but finances made it im possible to do anything. Councilman Brittain replied to the onjections that he had always paid his taxes and felt that he as well as other taxpayers had a right to have their roadways opened. Councilman Bestor replied that his ward paid three times the tax of the fifth and in that ward and that they were not receiving near the amounts that were paid out for street im provement work. Councilman Tippens stated that while Mr. Bestor was chairman of the streets, alleys and bridges com mittee, that the greater part of the first ward streets had been paved. Mr. Bestor replied that he had paid heavy taxes for the paving work as had the other residents. Mr. Tip pens joining in that he had also paid his on the North Sth street paving. Councilman Webb suggested that residents might follow the suggestion made at Nebraska City that the resi dents take the snow from the walks and fhefr side of the streets ' and place on the lawns to conserve the moisture for the spring and summer needs. Councilman Vroman stated that the fifth ward covered a large terri tory and that there were only two helped very much over the city. Councilman Schutz then tossed ad ditional snowballs into the scene by moving that the city maintainer be used in the business section to pull the snow away from the curbs and out into the roadway where it could be scattered. Councilman Bestor objected to thejCerner Announces Dates for Senior use of the maintainer to pull the snow away as it had not been done in the nearly thirty years that he had been i business. The pulling of the snow would only benefit pa iking and that the streets were now open for travel Councilman Johnson Joined in the objection to pulling the snow to the center of the street, reciting the ex perience of a few years ago w hen the snow was pilfd high in the center of the streets f r w eeks. The motion of Schutz to have the maintainer used on .Main and Sixth street was lost by a vote of six to three, Tippens. Schutz and Brittain vr.ting for the motion while Bestor. Webb, Hall. Puis, Johnson and Yro- lir.an voted no. Report, of Fire Chief. Fire Chiet Dr. O. Kandir reported that for the year there had been thirty-seven fire calls and fire rural calls. The value of the bi ndings on fire wos $49,050; content.--, ?2.7G5. In surance on buildings. $2G.7f0; in surance on contents, ?12.."0. losses on b-jildings. $5,350; loss on con tents. SIS.SIO. Sparks from chimneys had been the largest cause of fire, thirteen be- ii.g recorded, six had been caused by rubbish fires, four from chimneys burning out and three em shorts in w ii ing- in i ars. The Round Table. The matter of a bowling alley ap plication in which the applicant ob jected to the occupation tax, was re ferred to the judiciary committee for action. More time was granted the fire and water committee in rtv ' J to b'ds on rubber coats for the firemen as not all had placed bids. The police committee reported favorably a bill for ?4.50 from Dr. I.. S. Pucelik for services to city prisoners. Councilman Webb of the tax and property committee of the council, urged that the finance committee be present at the forthcoming tax sales to protect the city's interests. Chairman Bestor of the WPA com mittee reported that the city had not been able to get a settlement about the 4SS cement sacks that were unaccounted for on the Sixth street paving job. A resolution was passed by the council and addressed to Ray Woodward, federal representative arking that an investigation be made of the matter and the disappearance of the sacks be probed. Councilman Schutz asked that the city clerk draw up a list of those de linquent in occupation taxes and that oi:e of these be placed in the hands ol the finance committee and an ef fort be made to see that the taxes were collected. The following bills were allowed by the council: All-Makes Typewriter Co., re pairs $ 10.00 W. J. Hiner, police 3.00 IT. L. Kruger, paint 14.05 Fred G. Ramge, trustee, rent and glass 55.50 C. A. Ruse, gas and oil 22.34 George Taylor, st. work 1.40 F. II. Gerbeling, chains 6.50 O. Sehrader, shovel snow 5.00 Franklin Kief, same 5.00 Frank Cheval, same 5.08 P:ll Reed, same 5. OS II. W. Johnson, tractor work ' 5. SO George Taylor, street work with team 33.60 George Taylor, placing fire barrels on viaduct Ivan Taylor, same Ivan Taylor, street work John Kubicka, same C. A. Ruse, truck rental 1.S0 1.20 24.00 20.65 29.40 Continental Oil Co., gas and oil IS. IS Flatts Water Corp. 483.96 F. G. Fricke Co., supplies to police - - F. II. Gerbeling. tire H. M. Soennichsen, material lowa-Nebr. Light and Power Co., lowa-Nebr. Light and Tower Co.. lights, city hall Nebr. Municipal Review 1.S0 15.00 2.49 9.91 .75 W. H. Schmidtmann. supplies to police 2.45 Lincoln Tel. & Tel. Co. 2.65 Dr. L. S. Pucelik : 4.50 Miss Ethel Vignery of Concordia, Kansas, is spending the week-end w ith Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Iletrick. Second Semester Dramatic Program Plans for School ?ky. Declamatory Contest ar.d English Plays. "Growing Pains" has been selected as the senior play this year. It was hosen by a committee composed of Harriet Goos. chairman, Marjorie Tidball. Elmer Newton, and Earle Taylor. Lumir Gerner, instructor in dramatics v. ill coach the play. He will be assisted by Miss Katherine Luke-, senior sponsor. Samuel French is the author of the play. It depicts the age of adoles cence and has some clever lines. The play has a beautiful setting, that of a Spanish home. It was very success ful in both Omaha and Lincoln last year. This class presented Euck Finn last year and big things are expected of them in their senior play. CharaeteiS will be chosen for the play within a week. Practice will start alter the semester. The play v. ill be given during April. Declamatory Contest Dramatic, humorous, oratorical, ai d extemporaneous readings will be given for the local contest during February. The winners will parti cipate in the sub-district. It is hoped that hey will do as well this year as last when the team won the sub- (district and participated in the dis trict contest at Blair. Many new readings and 1936 cut tings are to be used. Milo Price is working with Mr. Gerner in the de partment. Those that have register ed for the declamatory contest thus far are: dramatic Joan Hall, Lelia Fike. Iola Rosencrantz, Jeanette Hirz, Maiy Jane Mark, Eleanor Minor. Marjorie Tidball, and Alice Firz; extemporaneous Jack Barton, Robert Woest, and Gavin Farmer; humorous Mary McCarroll, Clara Toman, Betty Kalina. Conine Druck er, Ruth Webber, Wilma Swatek, a'.'d James Sandin; oratorical Junior Devoe, Harold Stewart, and Bale Bowman. Senior English During the next nine weeks the senior English class will study play production. At the close of the period Mr. Gerner will divide the class into three groups, each of which will pre sent a one-act play. The students will direct the play, make the scen ery, and take care of the make-up. They will make use of the theory learned during the quarter. The one act plays will be given before the public March 19. FAECCHIAL SCHOOL PROJECTS COMPLETED WITH SEMESTER As semester examinations near, the children of the parochiaF school are completing a number of interesting projects. The sand table in the first, second and third grade room displays an esiiimo project. Iolls in eskimo dress as well as polar bears, sleds and dogs are in evidence. A community history has been worked out by the members of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. They have sought records and interviews t? find the stories of the olde'St house, oldest church, beginning of use of electricity, and railroads in this city. Five minute talks in the seventh grade English class have proved a worthwhile training for public speak ing. The students in the parochial school are taught to talk without notes." Eighth grade pupils have been studying public speaking quite in tensively during the semester. Citi zenship in the community has also been stressed in the English course. ATTENDS SHERIFF'S MEETING From Tuesday's Daily This morning Deputy "neriff Cass Sylvester departed for OmaJia where he spent the day attending the State Sheriff's Association that is holding their sessions at the Hotel Paxton. The association has a fine program of talks by leaders in law enforcing in the state as well as officers of the Cmaha nolice department. Henry Deals, former Douglas county attor- . ney has a part on the program in Jthe matter of evidence gathering. j AD CLUB ELECTS From Wednesday's Parly F. P. Busch was reflected presi dent of the Plattsmouth Ad club at the luncheon this noon at Hotel Plattsmouth. Charles Pease will prrvice as vice president and W. H. Pols as treasurer. Discussion eif the peddler menace in Plattsmouth followed the election. A motion that the planning commit tee outline a "home buying" pro gram and report at the next meet ing was adopted. Guests from the school were Lumir Gerner and Clark P.oggess. Coach Boggess expressed the grati tude of the students for the tennis shoes furnished for gym work. Warren Si harfenbei g. new sales man in the Iowa-Nebraska light of fice, was also a guest at the luncheon. Rep()it of membership showed '17 active. 15 were present. County Com missioners Hold Annual Meeting Receive Reports and Prepare Program for Coming: Year Make Esti mate of Expense for Year. The board of county commission ers met Tuesday afternoon at the court house in one of the official "annual" meetings. There was pres ent E. B. Chapman, chairman: Ceorge L. Farley, vice-chairman and Fred H. Gorder, junior member. County Judge A. H. Duxbury made the appointment of Miss Minnie Hi!d as deputy in his ofiice for the en suing year, which was approved by the hoard. The Casii County Agricultural so ciety filed its annual report for 193G, showing receipts of I3.92S.C5, with expenditures of ?2,62S.31, leaving a balance of f 1.300 for the year. Real estate and equipment of the value of $5, C03.CC was also reported to the board. Application was made for an appropriation of $2,000 for the year 1037, which application was ap proved by the 4oard. The Cass County Farm Bureau filed its report and statement of the ex penditures of 52,500 for 1936 and application for a similar appropria tion for 1937. which was approved and the request allowed. Raymond J. Larson of this city vas appointed a member of the soldier's relief commission for a term of one year and Ben A. Olive of Weeping Water for a term of three years. Dr. J. W. Brendel of Avoca, was named as the county medical advisor f e r the coming year. Prices for road and drag work were made by the board as follows: Road overseer, per hour, single hand. 30c; with team. 45c; man single handed, per hour 20c, with team, per hour. 3ic. Dragging. 10 foot drag, round trip, per mile 55c; tight foot drag, round trip, per mile 50c. The board made the estimate of ex pense for the ensuing year and which was as follows: General fund $ Poor Relief fund Road funel Bridge fund Mother's pensions Soldier's Relief 08,000 3 4.0 00 32.000 29.000 5.500 1.200 Trr T . HQ 7 im J V J I . i 1 J " . - wv. The estimate is slightly above that of 193fi caused by the very heavy demand of the relief fund. The levy for the year is made from this esti mate, the levy cannot be larger than the estimate but may be lower if the commissioners can see their way clear by the time of the levy in June. HOLDS COURT IN SARPY From Tuesday's Iaily District Judge William G. Kieck, who has been working at lining up his dockets for the three counties of jfvom January 5th to Friday. January his district, was at Papillion todayjSth. when they were able to get on w here he w ill hold a session of court, i their way. Many tourists w ere In the few days on the bench Judge caught on the highways and suf- Kteck has cleared up a large number of matters that have been pending ( and preparing to take up the regular term work. J With the calling of the petit jury ( for service in Cass county. Judge i Kieck will have a visiting judge here! to try the criminal cases in which he is barred by reason of his work as county attorney in the cases. Casco Creamery Renews Lease in Plattsmouth Farmers' Cooperative Out of Debt; Dividends Expected on Ln vestnier.t in 1937. From V.'ed tisd:i y "s Iaily Casco creamery renewed its lase for five years from the stockholders of the Farmers' Cooperative Creamery company at the meeting at the Lewis te.n community center last evening. The creamery was built seven years aeo in Plattsmouth. It has been un der the management of G. K. Hetriek during the past five years. This year the debt was paid and the stockhold ers may expect dividends during 1937. A.tA. Wetenkamp and J. W. Mur dock were reelected directors of the. Cooperative. Fifty attended the m"-t-irsr. A program was given following the business meeting. A skit by the I.ewiston community center was un der the direction of Mrs. Loyd Shu b?rt. M. G. Churchill gave v iol in and guitar numbers and Re v. Lloyd Shu bcrt of Murray gave vocal numbers. Reports at the meeting showed that 208. 04C pounds of butter have been made in the creamery during the past year. About 25 per cent of t'ae pretduct was consumed locally. Shipments were also made to Omaha and Chicago. The butter is sold un der the "Sunlight" brand in Omaha. Score rating; on the plattsmouth butter, based on salt, quality, and moisture, s-tands at 92. This butter was used on the new Pullman trains during their demonstration trips. As a market for farmers of this community, the creamery las been a greit benefit. It purchased 63,401 pounds of poultry for which it paid $9,519.15. 2500 cases of eggs were bought during the past year fer $15. 10?. $51,E07.1S were paid local farmers for 1C6.592 pounds of butter fat. The creamery paid $4500 iur labor and supplies. All cream purchased is made into butter. 250 gallons of cream are churned at a time. The cream is placed in a heating vat whi. h brines it to a temperature of 155 degrees F. It is left there 30 minutes then trans ferred through strainers to a vat in which it is cooled to a churning tem perature (44 to 5 4 degrees F. . The cooled cream is placed in a re volving churn. It revolves about 4 5 minutes then the buttermilk is drain ed t)ff and the butter is washed and salted. About 900 to 1000 pounds of butter are made at each hurning. The butter is packed into cartons and placed in a cedd room at about 42 degrees F. Later it is cut into pound or quarter pound prints ready for retail. Another enterprise that is being introduced at the creamery is going to add to the farmer's profits. Egg3 will be candled and bought and sold by grades. This will mean higher prices for the better eggs. HAVE STARTLING EXPERIENCE Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davis return ed home this morning from their va cation trip to the west which includ ed a visit in southern California, the Boulder dam and also be ing snow- oounu in .-ri.oiia. i uey wt'itr iii i om- i panied by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Davis, ! parents of Howard, to the west and the party started home as the west country v. as commencing 10 ft el a touch of winter. When they reached as far as Williams. Ari.C'tia. they commenced to encounter deeper snow and at Williams further progress was blocked by snow that lay five to six feet on the level. They were more fortunate than a great many of the auto parties as they were ablo to secure garage space and quarters at a hotel curing their enforced stay fered many hardships whil.; car3 w ere parked four deep in the main street at Williams, unable to gain parage space. -It was estimated that oxer 200 cars w ere stalled in the show bound town. The parents made the return trip by train to avoid the cold and snow. 1 phone news items to No. 6.