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TMRTY-SEVENTII YEAR.
NORTH PLATTE, riEB., JANUARY 21, L921,
No. 4
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LOCAL PLANE
TO WASHINGTON
KOJITH I'LATTK AIRCRAFT COM
I'AN'Y SKNRS TWO SHU'S-OX A
LONG TM1
Just us tho sun was peeking over the
bousotops yoetohlay morning two air
planes bolonglng to tho local company
Htartctl on their thirteen hundred
mllo trip to tho National Capital. In
tho passenger seat of ono ship was
Mrs. H. IT. Wheeler and in tho other
was Mrs. Draper Smith. Thoso ladles
aro to take Nebraska's electoral voto
to Washington.
This Is tho first time that a woman
has over carried tho doctoral vote of
any state to tho National capilol and it
is tho first timo auyono has mado such
a trip In an airplane. Noel Bullock of
this city is pilot of one of tho planes
and ono of tho air mail men will pilot
tho other. Stops will bo mado at East
DosMolnes, Davenport, Chicago, Bry
an, Cleveland, Brookvlllo and BoUo
ionte. On each piano will bo printed
tho words, North Platto Aircraft Co.
Dologations will moot tho ladies at all
utops and they aro to bo entertained by
the Nebraska crowd while in Wash
ington. Tho planes used will bo the
Laird Swallow, which wore selected
because of their efficiency and- de
pendability. :;o::
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION TO
OPEN IIERK
No definite data has been set for the
opening of tho School of Instruction
-which the North Platto Aircraft Co.
will maintain in this city. Six pupils
have paid tho necessary enrollment
fee- to date and others aro prospective
students. Anothor ship will be
added very shortly according to tho
plans now worked out by Manages
Ytichards. It will bo several weeks
1 -fore active instruction will begin as
ive weather at this time Is usually
o severe for such activities.
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Miss Mablo McFarland who has at
tended tho local school for a number
of years left tho first of tho week to
,1 end school vatBodford,Iowa:
Leypolflt '& Mooro shipped to South
Omaha tho early part of tho week a
half dozen or more cars of cattle
which they have been fcedln.g on
ranches near town'.
A local junk denier tells tl;c story
of a man who shipped a cow hldo
to Grand Island and received a letter
from him that he owed him 25c. Tho
freight was more than the value of
the hide.
Georges
The Wonder Man
in
ROBERTSOIV-COLE
ire's the Man With tho Punch and the Smile.
He Has If in the Ring
He Puts It On the Screen
In an Absorbing American Society Drama. Directed by
John G. Adolfi This is not a Prize Fight Picture.
At The SUN, Only.
Two Days, Tuesday and Wednesday.
We are now Ready to
Crowds that jammed
We have just received a quantity of U. S. Army All-Wool Blankets, U. S. Army
U. S. O. D. Breeches; Officers and Army Work Shoes; Officers Mackinaws and
OF OTHER MERCHANDISE.
"Be Convinced See For Yourself"
OPEN FOR INSPECTION
U. S. ARMY GOODS
501 Dewey St. T
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LOCAL HRKHOYS GUESTS OF T1IK
nOTHKXllUltU ROYS MONDAY.
NIGHT.
Tho following is clipped from tho
Gothenburg Times and givos a brief j
account ol uiu uumiuoi aurvuu iu iuu
fireman of North Platto and Sidney
who stopped at Gothouburg on their
way to tho stato convention at York:
Tho visitors wero taken in cars and
shown tho sights in and around tho
city and othcrwlso entertained until
six-thirty, at which time a lino ban
quet, prepared and sorved by thej
Uebekahs, in I. O, -O. F. hall, was on
joyed. During tho repast music was
furnished by tho Gothenburg City Or
chestra composed of tho following:
It. A. Grcnslit, II. L. Williams, II.
M. Williams, John Akron, Richard
Jansscn, Miss Ireno Hanbo, Miss AIlco
Kyolson, C. T. Winters, Ed Erb, Stan
ley Erb and E. C. Jones.
When they got as far as Cigars,
Coffee, Cigarettes, with C. It. Fraslor
acting as toastmastor, responses wero
mado as follows:
Welcomo ..Mayor E. J. Loutenhelsor
Gothenburg D. D. Price
Firemen Harry L. Williams
111 Chief Arthur Johnson
Flro Fighters Rev. Arthur Soundy
Tho Axis W. M. Stobbins
Why Wo aro Hero F. H. Tobin Sidney
The Orator of Western Nebraska
Will It Bo a Dry Convention ..
J. R. Basklns
Let 'Er Buck Geo. W. Wllklns
SIX THOUSAND MEN HANI) OVER
THEIR ARMY DISCHA RGE
PAPERS
Tho War Department has just pub
lished a list ot CG00 discharge certifi
cates hold In Washington because tho
Department has not got tho proper
addresses of the owners and therefore
cannot delivor them.
By far tho greater portion of these
discharges wero sent in with claims
for bonus, travel pay or back pay.
Thoy wore sent out to the addresses
given when tho claims were made, but
tho owners had moved.
Tho owners may get their dis
charges by writing to the "Miscellan
eous Accounts DIvison, Finance Office
U. S. Army, Washington, D. C." giv
ing sufficient data to identify them
as tho proper owner of tho discharge
i certificate. The data required to bo
given is: Full name; rank, organiza
tion and station at time of discharge;
Army serial number? dnto of enlist
ment and date of discharge; present
address: and address to which tho dis
charge is to bo mailed. This must bo
in.thoownora,bandwrltinB'nndlslBncrt
by him. ......
Any ono interested may see the list
at the local Army Recruiting Station.
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Installation of officers of Rcbekah
Lodge will be held at tho Odd Fellows
Hall this evening. Refreshments will
be sorved.
V," R. Mnloney returned this morn
ing from Omulia where. ho has been
attending the meetings of the Km-
balmon'fl Board.
Carpentier
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CROWDS
Serve the many People that
our doors to its Capacity.
RECEIVED
Merchandise at Less Than
nnlr Fnr TT C ARMY
INTEREST IN BIG
LOCAL CONCERN
OM! INSTITUTION THAT BENE
FITS XOHTH PLATTE AND LIN
COLX COUNTY.
The I.oypoldt-Ponnlngton Co. or
ganized lioro as a corporation about
a year ago has just closed its business
for tho first six months of its fiscal
year. Tho total business dono during
flin felx months nndlnrr .Timmirv lst'mllnn tn twn mllllmi mn lumilvnil
was "?1J25,000. At tho same rate dur-
in
thdQuext six months the total for
the year will bo over two and a half
million dollars. This is a big amount
of money for ono local concern to,
handlo and shows tho resources of tho Mind lottora per day to two hundred
business. North Platte Is tho homo of- and forty thousand letters por day at
flee "with branch offices at Omaha, constantly decreasing cost per mllo.
Maxwell, Ogalalla and Ilershoy. The Hun established only regularly travel
payroll usually takes care of more ed air way in world and compiled
than twonty-flvo employees. The main onlv authentic cost date for ovor ono
business Is in hay, grain and seed with million miles of flying. Has mado It
many other lines carried in the retail possible to ndvanco forty-eight thous
dopartment. About ono-fourUi of this and Pacific Coast letters twenty-four
Ir done in Lincoln County, tho rest hours dally going west and similar
being distributed over several states. : amounts east. Makes it posslblo to
It ships hay into nearly every stato avo vast amounts Army aeronautical
in tho union, having oxtonslvo con- ( matorlal from junk heap and turn to
tracts with corporations, privato in- unefitl purpose of bringing Atlantic
dlvldunls and govorment departments nnd pacific const closer- togothor. Has
Last year It handled over 4,000 cars of
hay and grnln. Its records show that
there is no other concern in Nebras
ka Which handles ns great a quantity
of hay in a year as it does.
The officers of Tho Leypoldt-Pcn-nlngton
Co. are D. M. Leypoldt,
J'rosldont; L. P. Jopson and H. L.
Pennington Vice-Presidents; S. M.
Soudoiv Secretnry-Treasuror. These
offlcors with M. L. OverBtreot, Wil
liam SImants, E. J. Vandorhoofv I
P. Murray and W
F sinrr ooiiHtihiio
tho Board of Directors.
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FIVE" CHILDREN WITHOUT SUP
PORT AND EACH WANTING A
-GOOD HOME.
Tho Board of Public Wcfare has
livo children between tho agos of 3
und .IS years who will want a place
to live in the near future. Tlrey arc
bright children who liavo had limited
educational, advantages., and , yetato
notJSpTtdlh5' awy -sense --of '.the "word.
Anyone whp will, consider giving any
of these children a homo should sec
Jk II. VanCleavc, President of the
Welfare, Association.
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Three basket ball games will be
played at tho Franklin Auditorium
tonight. Tho first game nt,7:30 will
lie between the Maywood High School,,,,,,, nizn in tlm Htntn which lms not
girls and tho Senior High girls. At 8
o'clock the Brady High School boys
will play tho SXmior High boys. At j-0 intensive drlvo Is expected but the
8:30 the Maywood High hoys will! opportunity should bo afforded for
play tho Junior High boys. I every citizen to glvo to this cause.
Announcement is being mado of the Wednesday tho maximum temporn
annual ball of the International As-, turo at North Platto, according to the
soclation of Machinists and Helpers, IT. S. Wealhor Burenu record was tho
Lodge No. 180, which will bo held at same as tho maximunat Los Angeles
K. C. Hall. Monday, February 7th. for tho' samo day.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
NOliTH PLATTE EQUITY ASSOGIATION
at the close of business December 31, 1920.
ASSETS
Furniture and Fixtures - r - fi.207.74
Merchandise 0,305.02
Accounts Receivable i..'-.-, 2,703.17
Bank Balance . '. 204,71
Cash Account 1,191.18
I .", 1. 82
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock 1 : ?lUrl.-00
Notes Payable 4,050.00
Surplus r.. -J. .'188.27
Advance Interest Paid . 7C.CG
$1.",((1.82
Tho Annual Stock Holders mectiiiK will bo held at tho K. P. Hall. C02V,
Dewey Street, Monday evening, January 31, 1921, nt 8 p. m., central time.
A. R. LBAVITT, Secrotary.
were turned away, on account of the Enormous
Manufacturers Price.
CnffcRQ QTCM
UVVJU UJAJll
AIR MAIL SERVICE IS N()V ONE
YEAR OLD AND STILL HHOW-IX.
J. li. Sdbnstlan, President of the
North Platto Air Terminal Co. has
Jut rocolvort a radiogram from A.
It. Dunphoy, Division Suporlntondoht
Air Mall Service, Choyonne, which
8n in part
In ono year Air Mall Service has
expanded from Washington. New
York, Chicago, nino hundred mllos
one way to lnoludo to Minneapolis. St.
Louis, Omaha, Choyonne, Salt Lake,
Rem, San Francisco, approximately
thirty-four hundred miles ono way.
From fifty operating nlrplanm nnd
twenty pilots to ono hundred and
twenty ships, fifty pilots: from fivo
hundred and fifty thousand scheduled
thousand sohduled mllOK per annum.
Operating dally In winter weather at
ulx.vc seventy-flvo per cent, perfor
mance In summor above clghty-flve
per cent. From carrying sixty thou
equivalent of throo complote Nero
Squadrons at work at smnll fraction
of cost of maintaining them In army.
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LINCOLN COUNTY MEDICAL SO-
CIETY HOLDS BANQUET
I WEDNESDAY.
Tho Lincoln County Medical Society
held a banquet at tho Pacific Hotel
Wednesday ovenlng and olected offlc-
efs for the coming year. Tho officers
.are Dr. V. tuens, president; Dr. J.
S. Slmms, vice-president; Dr. T. J.
Kecr, secretary-treasurer. Tho' con-
sor committee consists of Drs. Mc-
Cabo, Fettor and Selby. Delegate to
tho Stato Medical Socioty, Dr. O. B.
Dent. Now members this year aro Drs.
McKlrahnn ad McRoyolds of this city
and Briggs of Horphey.
Leonard W. Trestor, for nlinost
threo years connected with the Ne
braska State Olflco of tho Red Croqs
i2vytor.,u-K6od'"nart ot the.tlmo act
ing director for Nebraska, was lit the
city- .y.ostordny. Mr. Trestor is active
ly engaged In buslnoss in Omaha now
but is taking a little timo to act as
executive secretary for tho European
Belief Committee of which Horhort
Hoover is president. Ho was a callor
at The Tribune Office and oxplnliied
that North Platto Is tho only city of
,,, community contribution to
iflm o.niiHn nf Mm o.lillilrnn nf Ktirnnn.
O. D. AH-Wool Shirts;
Wc ol Sweaters. LOADS
SALE.
Next To Crystal Theatre
North Platte, Nebraska.
FARM BUREAU
GETS SUPPORT
! A1LM M ltEAU APPROVED 1IY THE
LINCOLN COUNTY COMMIS.
S10NEKS.
At IIm meeting lust Monday, tho
Board' of Connty Commissioners of
Lincoln County racolvcd a petition
friJiu tho officers of tho 'Lincoln Coun-
Jj Farm Bureau asking for an ap
propriation lor mo oxponses ot uio
Burenu. Tho Board decldod that It
could not do moro at tho prosont tlmo
than to guarantee tho expenses up tp
$300 a month. After tho now levy is
made in July tho Commissioners may
appropriate as much as $5000 a yoar.
This Is In accordance with tho laws
of tho stato.
ATTRACTIVE PROG II AM GIVEN RY
PUPILS OF ST. PATRICK'S
SCHOOL
A play entitled "Dorothy'' was given
Wednesday and Thursday evenings ot
this week by tho pupils of tho High
School at St, Patrick's School. A good
sized crowd attended and all woro
woll ploascd with tho presentation.
Sovornl nniBlo numbers addod to the
onjoymont ot thoso prosont. Tho pro
ceeds, will bo used for church im
provements. On account ot lack of
spaco wo aro unnhlo to glvo tho cast
ot characters which included about
twenty pupils but wo nro assured that
each took his or her part woll and
brought crodlt to the teachers who
trained them.
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PUBLIC WELFARE ASSOCIATION
MEETS AND ORANIZES FOR j
THE YEAR. I
At a meeting of tho members ot the
Public Wolfaro Association at the
Cltyi Library last evening, tho follow
ing officers woro elected for tho com
ing year: J. II. VanClcavo, proslde,nt,
Mrs. II. R. McMIchnol, vlcoprcsldent,
Mrs. Norman Loudon, secretary and
Mrs. Ireno Crnno, treasurer. A com
mlttco consisting ot Mrs. Bogue, Dr.
McRcynolds and Mayor Strbjtz was
appointed to Inform tho public of tho
work being dono by tho Wolfaro, As
sociation and tho. 'president was nuth
o'rlzcxl to appoint a com'mltteo to se
cure memberships In tho association.
Tho nttendanco was fair and the In
terest good.
Tho Literature, Music and Art De
partment of tho Tho Twentieth Cci
tury Club will moot at three o'clock
at Fireman's Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 2G.
Tho funeral of B. M. Lambert will
bo, hold from tho Methodist Church
this afternoon at 2:30. Tho remains
will bo hurled In North Platto Ceme
tery, His life is being pernpred for
our next Issue.
A Few Years of Rent Saving
Will Pay For This Home
Hn No. 2W
Why not make that rent
own?
Free Building Helps
Our Service Department has dctuilctf workim nlnn mwl
1
costjestiniatcs for this and many
which are FREE to you. Come
you home plans that arc sure to
iuiiul, uu iuuko unu, uuuuuiuy, nnu we n ten you just wliat it
will'cost to build. This service costs you nothing, and it will
save you a lot oi aimless'liguring
Act Nowl
Waltemath Lumber & Coal Co.
PHONE 20.
AN AlUPLANJ' MANUFACTURING
PLANT IS HEING CONSIDERED
, FOR THIS CITY
The North Platto Airoratt Co. la in
communication with responsible par
tics looking to tho construction in this
city of an alrplnuo factory to manu
facture an Improved piano for dis
tribution from this contor. Reed
Davis, of tho local company has his
plans and drawings nearly complotcd
nnd whilo vory littlo can be learned
about tho general construction of tho
ship, It is known that tho main idea
ImB boon approved by export engin
eers. Whilo in the cast n short tlmo
ago, Mr. Richards, manager, closed
a deal which will mean much for
North Platto when It Is carried out.
For trade reasons It is not rondy for
publication.
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LINCOLN COUNTY RED CROSS
CHAPTER ORGANIZED FOR
THE YEAR
At u meeting of the Board ot Di
rectors of tho Lincoln County Chaptor
ot tho American Rod Cross, hold yes
terday tho following offlcors woro
olected for tho yoar 1921: Miss Anna
C. Krnmph, President; W. J. O'Con
nor, vlco-prosidont; A. W. Shilling,
secretary; R. D. Blrgo, trcasuror.
Thoso with the following fivo directors
form the oxecutivo committee ot tho
Chaptor, Mrs. Chaa. Bogue, Mrs. R.
F. Cottoroll, Senator W. V. Hoagland
S. M. Soudor and Wilson Tout.
NORTH PLATTE SKhT" TO WEL
COME TRAVELERS BY DAY
AND NIGHT.
Tho Chnmbor ot Commorco Is erec
ting a largo sign on tho Union Pacific
rightrof-way Just cast ot tho parking
at tho depot. Tho sign bears tho
words "Welcomo North Platto But
fnlo Bill's Town Population 10.4CG
North Platto Chambor ot Commerco.'
Tho sign Is for the purposo of giving
information to travolors who aro pass
ing through tho city. It will bo 12x30
foot and lightod by electricity at
night.
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At the regular meeting of Harry B.
Drawn Cump No. 11 U. S. W. V., De
partment ot Nebraska, (North Platto)
hold January 17, 1921, tho following
officers woro installed: Luthor I.
Tuckor, Commandor; Tim O'Kcofe Sr.
VIco-Commimdor: Charles Hanor. Jr.
Vico-Commnndor; A. W. B"rown, Of
ficer ot tho Day; John W. Roland,
Officer ot tho Guard; E. K. Moody,
Trustee; Charles' H.-CroBuyk Adjutant ,
Edward W. Scharman Quartermaster
A. E. Boll, Patriotic Instructor; A.
W. Shilling, Chaplain; Howard Mc
Mtchnel, Historian; Julius Hogn nnd
llobort Weeks, Color Sergeants.- '
Miss McDormptt, representing tho
Welfnro Section of the Red Cross, has
been spending ihls weok In town on
business coimectod with tho proposed
employment of a pormnnont wolfaro
worker, Tho expense of maintaining
the workor. will be bomo by the city,
tho Rod Cross and other organiza
tions. VOl! are paying for the
' house you live in, who
ever holds the title. If you
are a renter, you are pay
ing for i'hc houcc for your
landlord and when you get
through, he'll have the deed
and the house, and you'll
have a hunch of worthless
rent receipts.
money pay for u 'home of your
Q J- w ftV
other homes, large and small
in and talk it over. We'll show
appeal to you for their conven-
about plans and prices.
