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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1916)
LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Mao Eckloberry is spending a wook with friends in Omaha. F. C. Plolstickor returned Wednes day from a buslne&s trip to 'Ornnha. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Fottor, of Drady, ' moved to this city tho first of this weok. Mrs. Shipley, of Mystic, In,, arrived this wook to visit Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dnrnoll. John Don camo down from Sidney Tuesday to spend a day or two with his family, Miss Nina VanDoran has been in Ogal'nlla this weok attending ttho county fair. Miss Nora Andorson returned from Omaha Wednesday whoro she visited for a weok. Mrs. I'. J. O'Drlon, of Omaha, Is ex pected to arrlvo hero noxt wook to rcsldo In tho future. Mr, and Mra. J. II. Stono and chil dren Jeft at noon Tuesday for Omaha to remain a week. W, P. Snyder loft Wednesday for Ogalalla to attend tho county fair and transact business. Mrs, II P Henckle will return this evening from, a visit with frionds in Omaha and Hastings. 11." D. Baker has boon transacting business in tho contral part of the strito for several days past Mrs. J. W. Adams returned Wednes day from Omaha whoro sho visited for ton days with frionds. Mrs. Edward PuUoff, of Sidney, who visited her slstor Mrs, Elmer Coatos this weok, loft Wednosday. .Miss Lllllnn Eaton, wly had been visiting frionds In Omaha, Toturnod hqmo Wednosday evening. Mrs. Fred Loudon and daughter, who have boon visiting in Grand Isl and will xoturn homo tomorrow. Mrs. Buckley, of Portland, who vis tcd hor son N. E. Buckloy, has gone to Stromsburg to visit relatives. Mr. Iind Mrs. Victor VonGootz loft Wednesday evening for Omaha to spond u week with tholr daughters. Harvey VanDoran has returned from Rawlins whoro he assisted In furnishing music for entertainments. Aillhur Alien, deputy county clork, will go to Lincoln noxt week to attend tho stnto grand lodgo of Odd Fellows T. M McQInnls of Kokomo, Ind arrived horo a fow days ago to accor. a position in the Amon tailoring Bhor Josoph Schatz, who has been taking treatment for rheumatism at Excel sior Springs, is expected home tomor row. Mrs. Gregory Schatz roturnod Wed nosday evening from Denver whoro sho visited her daughlter for two weeks. Mrs. Goorgo Kanoff, of Grand Isl and, who had boon visiting Miss Edith Wondoborn for a weok, left yesterday morning. J. E. Wclcott, manager of tho Mar shall Oil Co., spent the greater part of tho week here on nuslness and vis iting friends. , Misses Vora and Mario Dough, who went.to California Bovernl weeks ago, have decided to remain thoro and at tend school. Farm nnd Bnnch loans at lowest rates nnd best terms. Honey on hand to close loans promptly. 43tf BUCHANAN & PATTERSON. Dr. C. L. Hoopor, of Lowollen, vis aed with Dr. and Mrs. F. J. "Wurtele this week while enrouto to New York to spend several wcoks. Shall We Discard Local Option and Adopt State Prohibition ? Under the existing Local Option Law, it lies within the power of the citizens of any community in Nebraska to adopt local prohibition for "their own city, town, or village. In every community in this state absolute control over this ques tion lies in the hands of the majority of the voters. No interference from the outside is possible; nothing can thwart the wishes of the majority in the city, town or village, with respect to the question of license or no license, Many communities in this state have availed themselves of tho power granted to them under our Local Option Law, and have adopted local prohibition for their own community. Where there is a dominant LOCAL public sentiment in support of that policy, it is possible to make the no-license policy respected and obeyed. There are, on the other hand, many communities in this state where it is the opinion of the majority of the citizens that the license policy is better adapted to their own. community. Where that is the prevailing sentiment, the community is permitted, under our existing Local Option Law, to license the sale of alco holic beverages subject of course to the provisions and restric tions of the general state law. In neither case, is a policy forced on a community from without. The principle of Home Rule prevails. It is now proposed' to substitute for this policy of local self government, the policy of state-wide prohibition. This prohibition policy is not intended for the relief of communities in which the no-license policy already prevails, but is designed to FORCE such a policy on other communities against their will. r 1 The result, as the experience of other states has abundantly established, would be disastrous in every city and town on which prohibition is forced. It means, where dominant local sentiment is opposed to prohibition, lax enforcement of the law, the dividing of such towns into bitterly hos tile factions, the reign of the spy and of the in former, the rapid growth of crime and in the end it means higher taxes. Against the substitution of such a system for that under which Nebraska is now operating, everyone having the best interests of the people of this state at heart, should solemnly protest. The Nebraska Prosperity League OPPOSED TO STATE PROHIBITION. IN FAVOR Of LOCAL OPTION. HIGH IJCENSE IWdeat, L. F. CROFOOT Treasurer, W. L, COAD Secretary, J. D. HAYNES Sead lor our literature. OMAHA, NEBRASKA m The Stroke Oar D WILLARD BLAKEMAN A Mad Woman Br ALAN HINSDALE NO OILS OB SALTS NEEDED. Tho only discovery in years for Stomncli, Lifer, Constipation, DIzil noss and Headache. T. W. B. TABLETS. At Stone's Drug Store. A number of young men, mostly col icglnns, were Hitting In a group on tho forwurd deck of a North river steam or. They were going up to Pougli kccpslo to a bout race of collcgo crewa on tho Hudson. An elderly man sat near them listening to their talk and enjoying tho exuberance 'Of youth which enmo bubbling out of them. Presently ho drew his chair near them and said: Your talk takes mo back a good many years. I pulled In the race of 180 between Harvard and Yale, a raco never to be forgotten by mo on account of a curious culmination con nected with It." "What was that, sir?" Tho man hesitated. Presently ho said: "I'll glvo It to you, but under stand that I don't put any Interpreta tion on It. "I was at Harvard tho year I have mentioned. Yalo had beaten us for several years. Wo had lost several consecutive races, uud this year wo were especially nnxlous to break up tho run of ill success and get sonio en couragement Into our supporters by winning a race. Thoso who could go back in collcgo affairs said that there had been no success since Wllklns had been captain of tho crew and stroke at tho eamo time. We hadn't tho. coarhes in thoso days you boys havo now and wcro moro dependent upon somo single member of. tho crow. "I was captain of that crew of ISC and made It up myself. I expected to bIvq tho stroke, but a couplo of months before the regatta I was taken ill and when tho raco was about to como off had not sufficiently recovered to row atall. I had u hard time to find a man to tako my place In tho crew, nnd as for getting one who could give the stroke nnd carry tho crew to a posslblo success It was Impossible. The evening boforo the regatta I was sitting in my room nt the House alone and feeling very blue when there came a tap at my door. I said, 'Come in 1 and a young man en tered who was one of tho most strik ing fellows In appearance I over saw. Ho wus very thinly dressed, and tho muscles stood out all over him. Tho only thing against him for strength was that ho was very pale. " 'Going to get licked tomorrow?' he said. " 'I suppose so. Who nro you?' " 'I'm a Harvard man. I reckon I'll havo to help you out Can you use me?' 'I asked him a lot of questions about "what class ho was in, what course ho was taking, when ho had entered, when he would graduate, and could get nothing definite out of him. He said that ho was an expert oarsman and If I would put him on tho crew nnd any one after tho raco attempted to provo that ho had no right to be there it would bo tlmo enough to be moro explicit. Tho collcgo needed a victory, and after a victory It would pluck up. "I fully agreed with him as to the necessity of a victory and arranged with lain to bo nt tho boa'thouso as tho boat was about to be put into the water. Ho was there, all right, and when In rowing togs his framo was a Bight to behold. I've never seen better biceps In my life. When tho crew en- tcred tho bout ho took tho stroke. "What a sweep ho gave tnaf'oar of hlsl It seemed a feather In his hands. And his stroko was so perfect that, though there was not a man behind him who had over been in n boat with him before, there was no difficulty In all of them keeping perfect tlmo with him. "The boat shot out Into the middle of tho rjver, where tho faces of tho crew wcro not very plain to those on shore, and I was glad of It, for I had my doubts about my stroke's right to bo thore. Tho boats lined up and made a start at tho first signal to go. "Thero wus a notlceablo difference between tho work of tho two crows. Now and again somo Yalo man would send up tho spray, but not a man In tho narvard bout struck a cupful of water on tho recover. ' It was all In the leadership of tho stroke. "Our fellows took tho lead from tho first and kept It around the stake boat nnd won tho raco by a good hundred yards. It was the prettiest won race I ever saw. When I got to tho boat houso tho men had carried In tho boat I looked around for my stroke, bat didn't see him. Ono of tho crew said ho had Just gone up tho bank. I fol lowed, but ho was nowhero to bo seen. "It would tako a lot of tlmo to tell you what was said about tho intro duction nt tho last moment of a now and unknown man. There was much adverse criticism, and It fell principal ly on inc.. One thing I heard startled me. Sovcral persons who had known Wllklns when ho was In college de clared that my stroke was ho. I won dered If ho had como back and goc into tho crew without letting mo er any ono know that ho was doing what bo had no right to do. I learned where Wllklns lived and wroto a lino to him asking If ho would kindly tell me where ho was on the day of the regat ta. What do you suppose was tho re ply? His father wrote mo that he had been very 111 for some tlmo and died the ovenliAfc before the race. "Now. young gentlemen, I don't wish any comments on my story. I have none to make myself. I have simply given it to you as, according to my eenaea, It occurred. I stay have dream ed It" , When I married Lucy sho was the personification of modesty, timidity, shyness. She was equally mercurial. Ono moment tho world to her was a garden of roses, tho next a universal cemetery. I was clerking on $70 a month when I married hor, nnd wo went to live In a cottage standing by itself on tho out skirts of tho city. Tho nearest house was half a mile away. Of course wo couldn't afford to keep a servant, so Lucy wns cook and housemaid. Fortu nntely her mother had taught her how to prepare viands for an ordinary meal, and I usually got homo from business In time to help hor with the dinner. Our only trouble wns Lucy's loneli ness while 1 was away, as I was all day except Sunday. Wo had not thought of this when wo engaged tbo cottage. Indeed, wo were too young alul Inexperienced to think of most of our necessities. Every morning when I left my wife sho would cling to mo so that it was hard to get away from her. But In tho evening when I re turned tho happy smllo on her face and light In her eyes wero delicious. Our cottage was two stories and a half high. Tho half story was nothing more thnu an open spaco under the roof. It was approached by a rude Btalrcaso and entered by a trapdoor In Its floor furnished with a bolt under neath. We would have used It for a storeroom, which means a placo for family accumulations, but nothing had as yet accumulated. Indeed, wo hadn't enough to furnish tho house. One day on returning from business I hnd reached a wood through which 1 usually made a short cut to tho houso nnd was passing through It when I heard a shot, which seemed to como t$ om tho direction of my home. I ran through tho wood, but befora emerg ing from it heard another shot fol lowed by tho sound of tbo falling of shattered glass. Visions of my llttlo wifo being murdered lent me additional speed, and, clearing tho wood at a bound, I had a view of my house. Under, a window in tho garret stootf my wlfo with my fowling piece in her hands, pointing it upward. Her back was toward me, so she, did no't see me. "You miserable, contemptible thlngl" she cried to somo invisible object "I Just wish you'd give mo half a chance; I'd teach you how to break up my china set that my mother gave mo for a wedding present." "For heaven's sake, Lucy," I cried, "whom are you talking to?" Sho was so angry that either she didn't see mo or wouldn't notice me. I saw tho frightened face of a man for n fraction of a second at tho window in the garret and heard a simultaneous report from my shotgun, followed by moro falling glass. I sprang to Lucy and, seizing tho gun, wrenched it out of her hnnds. "What does this all mean?" I said sharply. "That miserable thing up there has broken all our best furniture; tho din ner set Aunt Harriot gave mo and tho tea set mother gave me." , "Who is ho? What is ho? Where does ho como from?" , "He camo into tho houso pretending ho wanted something to cat but, find ing mo alone, ho demanded money. I told him I had none to glvo him, and ho began to break things and threat ened to kill mo with a long knlfo if I didn't 'give him all tho cash thero was in the house. I told him ho'd And it all hidden under a rafter In tho storeroom. Ho went up there. I fol lowed him nnd bolted tho door after him. I ran downstairs, expecting to faint on tho sofa, but, seeing tho wreck of our things, I began to get mad. Tho moro ruined pieces I found tho madder I got Seeing your gun standing in a corner, I took It and, going outside, saw tho man at tho window. Ho had mado a r$po of some stuff ho'd found in tho garret and was going to let himself down when I shot nt him and drovo him back. Just think of that beautiful tea set that my mother" I had heard enough. I told Lucy to go somewhero nnd telephone a pollco station, whllo I relieved 'her of her sentry duty. Tho man's face appeared at tho window ngnin, nnd sho tried to snatch tho gun from mo to get another crack nt him. I told her to go at once, and sho went off, turning onco or twlco to ftro an angry look nt tho win dow. After sho had gone I spoko to tho mun and told him lio micht na won muko no effort to get away, and bo quiet This ho know without my tell ing him, and I had no trouble with him till a patrol wagon came with sev eral policemen nnd Lucy. Tho rascal was let out of his trap and taken awny. Tho excitement being over, Lucy wag quito ready for a "good cry" on my skouldor, but I think this was not so much duo to being let down as at tho loss of our belongings, which conkl not bo restored by punishing the man who had broken thorn, for ho had nothing to pay with. However, when our relations and. friends heard tho story of Lucy's trap ping tho robber and her "maduess" at his having broken up her Drouortv. they duplicated everything ho had smashed, so that -wo were not only as well off as bofore, but I was relieved or anxiety at leaving my wife unpro tected during the day. However. when our lease expired, fearing that some other burglar might frighten her without making her mad and thus get bb aavanrage or ner, I decided to sove lto the city. Notice of Petition Estate No. 1445 of Herman A. Erlvr deceased, In tho County Court of Lin coln County, Nebraska. Tho State of Nebraska, To all per sons Interested In said Estalto tako no tice that a petition has been filed for tho appointment of Ernest Tramp as Administrator of said Estato which has bcecn set for hearing heroin on Qdtobor 20, 191G. at 9 o'clock a. m. Dated Sept. 8, 191G. GEO. E. FRENCH, s2GolC County Judgo. Notice of Decree of Heirship. Estato of Sarah E. Campbell, deceas ed, In tho county court of Lincoln county, Nebraska. The heirs, creditors and all persons Interested in said estate, will tako no tice that on tho IGth day of September 1916, Llda E. Lucas an heir of said decedent, and claiming titlo by mosne conveyance from all tho other holrs of said decedent, filed hor potltlon horeln alleging that tho said Sarah E. Campbell dle'd ln'tosltato on or about May 2th,.191G, a resldont of Lincoln county, Nebraska, and at tho tlmo of hor death sho was tho owner of, In fee slm'ple, tho south half, tho northeast quarter and lots 1 and 2, of section 2, In township 1G north, range 27 west Gth P. M,, in said Lin coln county, Nebraska, and that no application has been mado In tho said stato for tho appointment of an ad ministrator. That sho loft surviving hor her husband Wesley F. Campbell, ago G5, residing at Garfield, Neb.; Minnie G. Slver, a daughter ago 43, residing at Garfield, Neb.; John F. Campbe" a son age 41, residing at Smith Conter, Kan.; Llda E. Lucas a daughter aged 39, residing at Shel ton, Neb.; Susan E. Campbell a daughter aged 32, residing at Orange, Calif.; Rosa M. Spafford a daughter aged 30, residing at Omaha, Neb. That all the debts of said doccdent have been paid and praying that reg ular administration be waived and a decreo bo entered barring creditor and fixing the date of her death and the degree of kinship of her heirs and the right of descent to said real es tate. Said petition will be heard October 27th, 1916, at 9 o'clock a, m., at the office of the County Judge In said county. GEO. ,E FRENCH, 03-20 County Judge. Notice. To Herman Elnsltein, Matilda Ein stein, Leopold Einstein, Max Einstein, Helen Einstein, Daniel Theodore Ein stein, and Gretchen Clara Einstein, and the unknown owners and unknown claimants to tho North one-half of the North one-half of Section Twenty-six,. Township Sixteen, North of Range Twentyinine, West and being the heirs, devisees, legatees and personal repre sentatives of Louis Joseph Einstein, Herman Einstein, Matilda Einstein, Leypold Einstein, Max Elnsein, Helen Elnseln, Daniel Theodore Einstein, and Gretchen Clara Einstein, Defendants. You will tako notice that on itho 13th day of September, 1916, Wesley T. Wil cox and John J. Halllgan, plaintiffs herein filed their amendment petition In the district count of Lincoln coun ty, Nebraska against said defendants, the object and prayer of which Is for a partition ot tho North half of the North half ot section twenty-six, town ship sixteen, North of Range twenty nine, west of tho 6th P. M. In Lincoln County, Nebraska, equally between the plaintiffs and the defendants; one-half to the plaintiffs and the other half to the defendants; and if said land can not bo equitably divided that tho same bo sold and ou't of the proceeds, tho cost of these proceedings bo paid, that tho plaintiffs be paid one-half of the money which they have paid out for taxes on said land with interest, and that tho balance of the money be divided one-half to the plaintiffs and one-half to the defendants. You are required to answer said amended potltlon on or bofore tho 30th day of October, 1916. Dated Sept. 14th, 1916. Wesley T. Wilcox and John J. Halll gan, Plaintiffs. sl7-ol3 A Notice. Tho undersigned, residents of North Platte, Nebraska, hereby associate themsolves together (as a corporation under tho laws of tho state of Nehras ka and to that end certify: I. Tho name of tho corporation shall bo Waltemath Lumber & Coal Company. II. Tho principal placo of huslness shall bo North Platte, Nebraska. III. Tho general nature of tho bus iness is to carry on a twholesalo and retail lumber and coal business and to do all things, to transact all business in cidental to the management, operation and dovelopment of such business. To own, buy, sell, lease or mortgage roal ostato. To construct or repair build ings, bridges, sidewalks or other structural works. To operate a. store of paints, oil, glaBs and other mer chandise Incidental thereto. To store, buy or sell hay and grain, to do any and all other acts and things and to oxerclso any and all powers which a corporation or natural person could do and exorclso and which now or f hereafter maybe authorized by law. IV. Tho capital stock of this cor poration shall bo Twenty-five Thous and Dollars, fully paid at tho tlmo of organization. V. Tho tlmo of commencement of business shall bo Septembor 1st, 1916 and of Its termination September 1st, I960. VI. The highest amount of indebt edness at any time shall not exceed two-thirds of Its capital stock. . VIL Tho officers of this corpora- tlon shall bo president, vlco-prosldent, secrotury-treasuror, a general mana ger and a board of three directors se lected by the stockholders at their annual meeting to bo hold the first Monday In January oi each year at their principal office. HENRY WALTEMATH, FRED WALTEMATH, WILLIAM F. WALTEMATH, Incorporators.
