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THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1938. ' PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SEVEN Weeping Water Mrs. Clint Wilkinson was in Platts mouth last Wednesday, taking an as rcrtment of flowers to place on ex hibition. They were very line and von first prize. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ctirsten, jr., and family were guests last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Askew. Mr. and Mrs. Carsten reside coutheast of Avoca. V. W. Davis was a visitor in ri3ttsniouth Tuesday morning of this week to have his car tested and re turned smiling as the car passed muster in fine shape. Miss Evelyn Moore, who is teach ing in the schools of Eagle, was a visitor at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Moore for over Sunday where she enjoyed a pleasant visit. . Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cole of Los Angeles arrived in Weeping Water, Avoca and Nehawka last Sunday and have been visiting with relatives and friends since. Mrs. Cole is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Sheldon while Mr. Cole is a son of Walter A; Cole. Postmaster Sterling Amick and wife following their visit at the na tional convention of the American I.cgion at Los Angeles, have been spending some time visiting friends on the west coast. They were guests for a time at the homes of Penziel and Randall Oldham. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Deles Dernier of near Elmwood were host and hos tess at their country home last Sun day, having as their guests Stuart Rough of Nehawka who came via Weeping Water and was accompanied by his sister. Miss Agnes Rough. All enjoyed a pleasant day and an ex cellent dinner. Thomas Arthur Wiles, residing vest of Weeping Water was in Om aha last Tuesday, accompanying Earl Oldham, who was trucking some Etock to the big city, and on his return brought 24 calves back with him for Mr. Wiles who will pasture them on some two hundred and mor acres of fall wheat. Visited Old Friends. Alfred Gilberson. formerly making his home in Weeping Water but for the past more than fifteen years a resident of Lincoln was visiting with friends in Weeping Water. He was accompanied by a nice, Miss Ruby Cooley, a daughter, of the sister of Mrs. Gilberson who; makes her home in New York. They visited afth? home of Mr. and Mrs. Markf 'Wiles, the latter being an aunt of Miss Cooley. Home From Southern Missouri. Mrs. Thomas Dickson, whom it will be remembered was placed in a hos pital at Springfield. Mo., where she underwent a serious operation and was very ill for some time. Mr. aud Mrs. Dewey Iioedeker drove to Mis souri where Mrs. Boedeker, a daugh ter of the patient, remained to care for the mother. Mrs. IJoedeker was DI SURE TO GET AH AMERICA'S STANDARD TIME! Get trustworthy tine in a smart IngersoU watch. Yankee is the smallest and thinnest pocket watch at $1.50. Chrome-plated eae, dear numerals, nnbreak able crystal. . THE TRACKIg Endurance makes star performers n the track! Last in r edpes make Star Single-edge Blades star per formers on your face! TiXade since 1880 by the mTentors of the original safety razor. s ... 7. :ij s -srmi n acu; a able to return the fore part of the week and brought the mother with her, who now is feeling fairly well and showing good gains. Entertained Friendly Ladies. Mrs. Emerson Dowler, a member of the Friendly Ladies, was hostess to the club Wednesday of this week, this being the Initial meeting of the fall and winter season. The ladies enjoyed the gathering and were served a very delightful luncheon at the close of the meeting by the hostess. City Market Makes Changes. The City Market has been rather crowded, and have recently made changes in the arrangement of goods and counters, in an effort to make a place for the customers to get about as well as themselves. The meat counter which heretofore has been on the west side of the room has been shifted to the north end of the room. Mrs. Torrence Fleming Very 111. Mrs. Torrence Fleming, formerly of Weeping Water, now making her home with her husband in Los An geles, has not been in the best of health of late and at this time is in a hospital where she recently under went a major operation and follow ing which she was very seriously ill, but has been showing slight improve ment. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming have a host of friends in Cass county who are sorry to learn of her illness. Jr'rs. Howard Johnson Passes. Mrs. Howard Johnson, formerly Miss Vera Rockwell, who has been in the hospital at Lincoln where she onderwent a major operation, passed away last Fridaj. The funeral was held at the Chris tian church last Monday, with inter ment at the Weeping Water cemetery. The Hobson funeral home of Weep ing Water was in charge. Mrs. Johnson who has a host of friends in the vicinity of Weeping Water and Manley, has been a patient sufferer and has borne her suffering in a spirit of patience in the hope of regaining the health which the disease was robbing her of.Her many friends regret the loss of this ex cellent woman. She is survived by the husband. the husband, two daughters and one son. She was born at North Bend, coming to Manley when .two years old. She also leaves three brothers and one sister. . ' .: " Visited in Weeping Water. Tuesday of this week three men were visiting in Weeping Water, they being Frank Farnham of the Ne braska Masonic Home, formerly of Walthill; Oscar Gapen. who is 76 years of age and who was born on a farm south of Plattsmouth, living there for 6 4 years, and twelve years ago moved to Plattsmouth. There were four brothers and two sisters born on the same farm as well as all the family of six of his -children born on this farm. The third of the trio was Orlando Coon of Osceola, Iowa, who will soon be seventy years old. He was never in Weeping Wa ter before, and last Tuesday was the farthest west he had ever trav eled. Finds Sister Very Sick. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Keckler de parted some time ago for Los An geles where at Glendale, California, a sister of Mr. Keckler is very ill. While everything possible is being done she still remains very poorly. However, they found the two little grandchildren, son and daughter of Mary Philpot feeling fine. Back From Recent Trip. Clifford Kirkpatrick and Hubert Cappen who were in the west for the past week, visiting in Kansas, Den-. ver, the Colorado mountains at Estes Park and went up on Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs and also spent some time in Wyoming, returned home last Monday. THE AWFUL PRICE YOU PAY FOR BEING NERVOUS Quivering verrem can make you old and . haggard looking, cranky and hard to live with can keep you awake nights and rob you of good health, good tunes and jobs. What you may need is a particularly Food woman' tonic and could you ask or anything whose benefits are better proved than famous Lydia E. Pink ham's VeRp table Compound? Let its whole some herbs and roots help Nature build up more physical resistance and thus help calm your shrieking nerves, give more energy snd make life worth living again. More than a million women have re ported benefit why not let Pinkham's Compound help YOU. too, to go "smil ing thru" trying times like it has other grateful women for the past S genera tions? IT MUST BE GOOD! 9 Nehawka Rev. A. Lentz of near Cedar Creek was a visitor in Nehawka last Mon day. While hauling coal Rolland Sut ton had the misfortune to get one of his fingers between two large lumps of coal, with the result that the finger was severely pinched. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Nutzman of south of Nehawka, uncle and aunt of the late Keith Ost, were in Cali fornia when the accident which took the life of the young man occurred. Word from the Veterans' hospital near Lincoln where Clifford Trotter has been receiving treatment for some time for rheumatism, is to the effect that he is showing good improvement. As an inducement for the people to come to Nehawka to trade, bingo games have been provided Saturday evenings on the street while enter tainment is provided for the children in the Auditorium. This will be con tinued each Saturday evening for the present. Return to Western Home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Carrithers of Long Beach, California, who have been visiting here for some two weeks departed for their home Monday eve ning. Mrs. Carrithers was formerly Miss Martha Vallery and a sister of Mrs. F. R. Cunningham where they have been visiting for some time. Hold Family Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Steffens were host and hostess at a family dinner last Sunday at their pleasant home in Nehawka. Those present were the parents of Mr. Steffens of Lor ton, P. C. Cunningham of Norfolk, Frank Horstman and family, of Tal mage and Frank Webber and family of Palmyra as well as Miss Gloria Cunningham of Norfolk. Many Attend Karnival. During the past week it would seem that nearly everyone in Ne hawka who could get away were in Plattsmouth attending the King Korn Karnival and found it a won derful place to enjoy themselves. Also last Sunday a large number of the members of the churches were over to the religious rally and parade which was a portion of the carnival. Rev. Small had a part in the program last Sunday. . ... -. . n 4i' Death -Takes Excellent Young Man. The King of Shadows loves a shining mark, so ran the sentence in the old time grammar. And it has been proven this time in the case of a most excellent young man, Keith Ost, who met.his death in an auto accident last Sunday. We read of startling accidents of people killed, but it seems rather common place until it comes to our neighborhood when the startling enormity of the death comes to us. Keith was a grad uate of the Nehawka schools, hav ing high standing and was counted as one of the finest of young men. Ke will be sadly missed in the com munity. Passing of Excellent Man. A man among men was E. L. Nor ris, who passed away last week and was buried Monday of this week from the Methodist church of Nehawka of which he had been almost a lifetime member. Mr. Norris was for nearly 70 years a citizen fo Cass county and one who was very highly re spected. He had made his home here for many years and always bore the Highest respect of his neighbors and friends. He was always feeling best when he was able to do some good turn for a needy friend or neighbor. Some three years ago he had a toe which became infected which while treated by the best phy sicians, was not easily helped. He was taken to the hospital where he remained for a number of months and then returned to the home on the O street highway. He fought a great fight for his life and health. The funeral and burial was held from the Methodist church Monday, conducted by Rev. Leuker. Interment was at the Mount Pleasant cemetery north of town. A quartet composed of Mrs. Har old Dodson, Mrs. Melvin Sturm, Ver ncr Lundberg and Albert Anderson sang beautifully a number of sacred songs. YOUR MONEY ' BACK IF DA' DON'T M -rWOn I K 111 -- rc f j- JP" r rC..,V '"&'Lt7 from RmJ Squill, all f ij' ' raticide recommended 1 1 ? fT yU-S.Den.AeT.Biil.ll " ' f'J 1533). Ready-Mixed, tow II I "( C'SJ horoea. J5 and $1.00; Po.'f I -I ''Uf ( der. lor farms. 7S. All 1 V) Drug and Seed Stores. I f' ' Damage each rat does If r2j cot y W-00 1 year. K-R-OCo, T sT" Springfield. O .l..H..."H-H"I-I-M"I .M- 4- Cass County Farm Bureau Notes Copy furnished from Office of Co. Agent Quackenbush New Sorghum Ruling Liberalization of regulations under the 1938' federal farm program al lowing sweet stalked sorghums to be put in silo for ensilage purposes in all but 15 Nebraska counties was an nounced by the Cass County Agricul ture Conservation Committee. The new ruling, announced origin ally by Claude R. Wickard, regional farm program director, applies to all counties except the folding: Dixon, Dakota, Thurston, Wayne, Cuming, Burt, Dodge, Washington, Douglas, Sarpy, Otoe, Johnson, Nehama, Paw nee and Richardson. The regional of fice set up the dividing line in the new ruling on the basis of September 1 condition of corn. Sweet-stalked sorghums will be clas sified row in Nebraska, except the 15 counties, the same as sweet-stalked sorghum fodder, sudan pasture and hay and other emergency livestock feed crops. Prior to liberalization, putting of sweet-stalked sorghums such as atlas sorgo, and the amber canes into the silo classed them as soil depleting. The new ruling does not apply to the rain sorghums such as milos and kafirs which are still classified as ioil depleting. 4-H'ers Take Part in Korn Karnival. Cass County 4-H club members Look part in the Korn Karnival at Plattsmouth Saturday afternoon when ihey entered a float in the parade and later presented a short program from the platform. The main event of the program was a style show presented by 22 clothing club girls. The girlst(imodled cotton, silk and woolen dresses and suits, also kitchen aprons, and children's clothing which they had made as part of their 4-H work this summer. A part of the program was given to a presentation of a pageant en titled, '"The Quest," depicting the aims and objectives of 4-H club worh Songs by the entire 4-H club group helped round the program. Hold Program Planning Meetings. Program planning meetings are be ing held, in every precinct. . in the county to which all Tarm families in terested in a stabilized 'agriculture and homemaking program for their precinct are invited.' The purpose of the meetings, which have , been ar ranged for by the local committees, is to plan work for the coming year in 4-H clubs,' women's project clubs, crops, livestock rehabilitation, re forestation, soil and moisture con servation, weed and insect control, or along any other line of extension work desired. The extension agents have been asked to assist with these meetings and help in planning an agriculture and homemaking program that will fit the needs of the community. Time to Organize Winter 4-H Clubs With the close of the 1938 club jear, it is time to think of 4-H club projects for the winter months. Hot Lunch and Keep-Well projects cor relate very nicely with school work and many rural school teachers find it advantageous to organize these clubs in connection-ith regular school work. Baby Beeves and western lambs to qualify for 1939, should be purchas ed soon and feed records started. For estry clubs also afford an interesting project for winter an3 spring months. As a special inducement to .boys and girls to organize 4-H forestry clubs, the Extension Service will furn ish a maximum of 25 trees to each boy and girl enrolled in a forestry club, provided there were three clubs organized within the county before February 15, 1939: Trees will be from the regular Clarte-McNary stock and will be furnished only for farm planting. Either broadleaf or ever green seedlings will be. furnished. We advise committees interested in organ izing forestry clubs to organize early as the supply of trees of the state is limited. '' Jn many rural schools and others where there is very little equipment and little money to spend, hot lunches are a difficult task. Under such con ditions, serving a varied menu which meets the food needs of the children is enough to challenge the efforts of the most ingenious. But the rules arc 6imple in a 4-H Hot Lunch club. Warm, appetizing, well - balanced lunches help keep youthful minds and bodies in trini to make the most of their schoolhcod davs.' Better lunches always result in better class work. It's obvious to teachers, and statis tics . prove they are right. A Hot Lundh club organized in your school now will be a boon to both teacher and pupils. Keep-Well clubs are also ao interesting extra-curricular sub ject for rural schools as they add interest to the study of health and hygiene, and physiology. Boys and girls planning to feed baby beeves or western lambs are loking around for animals now. Baby beeves should be on feed not later than December 1st, and western lambs not later than November 15. The agriculture agent has information as to where these animals r.:ay be purchased and if interested ,ct in touch with him for more information Frosted Sorghums Cass County farmers arc advised this week that frost-damaged forage sorghums should be cut immediately to conserve the maximum amount of roughage. Forage sorghums when frosted to any material extent, will dry up and sooner or later there will be considerable loss due to shattering. Quality of forage is not affected one way or the other by frost injury. The chief damage comes from the fact that many fieldsof later varieties are still succulent and growing. Thus, there is a loss in potential yield by an abnormally early frost. As to grain sorghums, the agricul ture agent says they can be left stand ing to determine for sure the extent of injury by frost. If there are some leaves left the crop is immature, there may be an advantage in leaving the crop stand to get more maturity. If frost is heavy, the plants mav be killed. In such case, they should be cut immediately if they are the var ieties which will lodge sucn as early Kalo, kalo and sooner. In anv case where the grain is ripe, the crop car be cut with a birfder or header. Important College Meetings Two statewide farm meetings of importance are scheduled for the Ne braska college of agriculture early in October. They are the Rooter's Day on October 7 and Poultry Field Day on October 6. Many Cass County farmers attend either or both meet ings. Rooter's Day the swine or hog meeting will stress rehabilitation plans. One feature will be a talk by Bruce Hussell of Omaha concerning: "A brood sow for every farm." He will discuss how landlords and tenants can benefit by having roughage and drouth-resistant crops planted on farmsf Poultry Field Day will lay emphasis upon improved management of , farm flocks. A tour of the poultry farm is scheduled for the afternoon. Of particular interest will be a test now being conducted to determine the feed ing value of various varieties of grain sorghums and their ability to supplj vitamin A to the poultry. POLICE GUARD MURDER RELICS FOR 37 YEARS WASHINGTON (UP) Mementoes of murder and mayhem bulge from trunks of the police department here. For. 37 years the department has been saving the weapons and tools of killers, thieves and rioters. The collection includes a knife that pierced the heart of Mary Brown one summer evening. The knife, still stained with the blood of its victim, is stored away carefully with clothes of other victims of violence. Oldest item in the collection is a piano stool that was used to blud geon the life out of a blende school teacheA 37 years ago. Policeman Steve Goggins, caretaker of the weapons, can't remember the name of the victim, but he plans to keep the piano stool another 37 years in the hope of taking it to court some day to help convict the teacher's mur derer. Goggins still keeps the mattress on which Beulah Limerick was found shot to death seven years ago. Three persons have been held to the grand jury and one man tried for Miss Limerick's murder. None was convicted. But Goggins is keeping the mattress just in case. From the ceiling in one room hangs a nail-studded club carried by a vet eran during the bonus riots. The prosperity and easy-flowing money era are represented by assorted loud speakers, dice cages and other gambling equipment. One of Goggins' prizes is the shoe of one Robert Taylor not the movie actor. The shoe was the first one Washington police ever fitted into the plaster cast of a foot-print found at the scene of a burglary. Because of the shoe, Taylor was convicted. LIBRARY'S RECORD ODD EL CENTRO, Cal. (UP) The city library is declared to have grown on a remarkably mathematical basis. Started 30 years ego, it is now worth $30,000 and has just 30,000 books on its shelves. Subscribe for the Journal. Boom Swells in Far East's Monte Carlo Macao, Once Hong Kong's Rival, Profits by War Blockade Slump Began in 1841. HONG KONG (UP) Oldest Eu ropean outpost in the Far East, Macao is resuming its importance as a commercial trading center with China. Macao is situated on a small pen insula in the mouth of the West river 35 miles from Hong Kong. The Por tuguese established themselves there in 1557 and immediately fostered the goodwill of the Chines? and the early history of the colony shows that Macao was the premier pert of entry in South China. In the Protestant cemetery in Macao todaj may be seen the graves of American seamen from Boston and Salem, relics of the days when there was keen American competition with Great Britain for the tea trade of South China. The British admiral. Sir Phillip Senhouse is buri?d there, also Lord Henry Churchill, captain of IT. M. S. Druid names which link up with the early days of the East India com pany and the tea clippers. Slump Eean in 1S41 For centuries Macao v as the prin cipal trading center between China and the West, but the cession of Hong Kong to Great Britain in 1841 marked the start of Macao's commer cial decline. Hcng Kong was made a free port and, although the Portuguese au thorities tried to compete by reduc ing their customs dues, their trade dwindled, the harbor silted up and eventually the principal merchants migrated to Hong Kong. Macao consequently was relegated to be chiefly a pleasure resort and to balance its budget authorities were compelled to seek sources of revenue other than from merchant trading, chief among these being the opium and gambling monopolies which made the colony self supporting and gave it the name of "Monte Carlo of the East." However, in recent j-ears there have been attempts to revive the colony's trade and these efforts have been enhanced during the last year by the outbreak of hostilities in "the Far East. Macao now has joined Hong Kong as a main source of supply of the interior of China through Canton. Tonnage Grows Fast Due to the Japanese blockade in the waters adjacent to Hong Kong, Macao offers qui.ker and safer ship ping facilities up the West river, and statistics for the latter half of 1937 show that the tonnage calling at Macao was more than double that of the first half-year. Macao's principal fishing indus try has been revived. Previous to the hostilities. Canton and the interior depended on the fisheries at Swatow, Amoy and Kwongchowan in French Indo China. Now, returns show that Macao has almost recaptured premier place in the supply of China's enormous demand for dry and fresh fish, run ning a close second to Hong Kong. The match-making industry also has been stimulated by the war in China where the main match manu facturing centers are now occupied by the Japanese. Refuge for Chinese With Hong Kong, too Macao's population has been swelled by the influx of Chinese refugees. Due to its proximity to the Chungshan coast district of south ern Kwangtung, Macao is brought closer to actual warfare than Hong Kong. Japanese naval operations are carried out from various small is lands in the vicinity of Marao which have been seized as supply bases and it i3 no uncommon sight for th Macanese fishermen to see a Japanese tilla of destroyers patrolling just outside the three mile harbor limit. Nevertheless, like Hong Kong, the colony of her oldest ally, the Portu guese colony remains unruffled and complacent with the economic im provements the war has brought, and there i.3 every indication that the Oriental turmoil is bringing riches to the coffers of "the Monte Carlo of the East." CITY HALL HAS GARDEN DULUTK, Minn. (UP) The Du luth city hall lawn has become the site of an agricultural experiment. Someone planted radishes and let tuce on a 6 by 8 foot patch of ground on the lawn, but nobody would ad mit it. Cass county rtas no tsontfed In debtedness, as, like the state, we have paid cash for our hard sur faced roads and other improve ments as we went. USED II 15 AN y Sure' me oMclE Tfr4 TO 5AY.fi BACHELOR .Jn ATTACHED MAN WH ANY IADY HAY STICK TO OR cSETSTUCrCOht SCHOOLS SERVE VITAMIN LUNCH CLEVELAND (IP) Cleveland junior and senior high school stu dents are learning their A-B-C's only this time they contain vita mins. School board lunchroom author ities are teaching 43,000 boy and girl patrons of school lunchrooms what to eat to-obtain the vitamins necessary for health. "We are interested in more than the economical conduct of the school lunchrooms," Frank C. Moore, direc tor of the lunchroom authorities, said. A lunchroom supervisor. Miss Mary Hemmersbaugh, seconded Moore's statement. "I want to see that students gain health instead of indigestion from their eating habits." she said. "I think a good nourishing lunch consists of two slices of bread, but ter, a half-pint of milk, nome meat, potatoes, spinach and salad." Miss Hemcrsbaugh sai dthat the students who eat the most are the boys studying industrial arts. "They know good food and are economical in their choice. They pre fer beans, macaroni, meats, pota toes and the heavy foods," she said. But she added that they are vitamin-conscious and do not pass up green salads. Cleveland students have not been educated away from a hearty con sumption of the hamburger and "hot dog," however. They eat, on the average, 2.100 pounds of hamburger and 875 pounds of wieners every week in the school cafeteria. , On the other hand, they consume big quantities of healthful foods, toq,. j; puring the last school year thpy drank 1,300 quarts of milk and ate eggs, 1,100 cases of them. WINDSOR HALTS CATTLE RAISING ON 'E. P.' RANCH CALGARY, Alta. (UP) The Duke of Windsor is going out of the cattle raising business. . W. L. Corlvle, manager of the Dukes famous "E.P." ranch at High River, Alta., has been instructed to stop raising cattle and to sell the ranch's famous herd of shorthorns, now comprising about l.'Jo hcai, by auction on Sept. 20. 'The ranch, however, will continue raisirg horses, sheep and ponies. The Duke purchased the ranch about 20 ears ago and stocked it with some of the finest shorthorn cattle that could be found in England. 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