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About Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1888)
jtHSftA-rntjKSDAY JUNE U, I8i8. The continued cold, wet weather leaves us with a Clothing than we care for at this season of the year. Ve have de cided to push the prices down that will move the entire stock in a very short time, as we must Iiavemoney. Men's 3:ivy lilne Suits (Colors v:irra.ntel) reduced to . . . . $ 9.00 Mod's All Wool Cheviot Suits reduce.! to . 10.00 lioys' Cotten Worsted Suits Iovk' Union C:isimfr Suits J - - - - - - - JJooys' All Wool Suits .sf and Sample Hats worth :J.00 and Underwear For 25x 50 and double the price. AVE BOUND TO CLOSE THEM OUT ! And the Public shall have the benefit of the same. Call and examine them in the Opera House Building Ld -Extent! a cordial invitation to all LINE :-: OF For the spring and summer trade. We take pride in showing a handsome line of Dress Goods, White Goods, Hamburg and Swiss Embroideries, Buttson, Dress Trimming, Shawls Jerseys Hosiery, 23.ibboxis, Etc. -A KIJSSrl-ri.ASS 9m Are you aware that we carry a complete line of MENS, LADIES and CHILDRENS SHOES. "We carry as large a stock as is carried in the city to winch we INVITE - YOUR - ATTENTION. It will pay you to look through our line of Glass and Queensware, .Sinner and CJtiam'ber Sets We have a large and well selected stock of Plain - and - Decorated - Vare, Of the best French and English make?. . C. BOVEV & larger Stock of 2.50 5.00 ----- upward. $3.50 sold lor one-half. 75 cents each, eold elsewhere at A HE to come antl look through their :-: GOODS LINE - ODS. soil 7 Qhitkuwuth yjcchhj IQcraUl KNOTTS BROS, Publishers & Proprietors. CITY BRIEFS. From Wednesday' Daily. Mr. Frank Cranmer is able to be around again after a slight attack of 6un stroke, which lie recti Vid last Sunday. A gentleman of our acquaintance wast asked last evening by his wife, what he wanted for supper. His reply was, just a common every day supper, only give me more supper. Jie is more easily satisfied than some of the Smith family. The fair given nt Fitsgerald's hall last night was a success socially and financially. Not so many were present, probably, as there would hayc been, had the evening been cooler, but as it was, nil present seemed t thoroughly enjoy thoinselves. Matilda Fletcher lectured last even ing at Rockwood hall to rather a small house. All present seemed to thoroughly appreciate her speaking and became quite enthusiastic at times. Iler subject was, "The way of the World," in which she made manv zood hits. If the evening had been more agreeable, she w ould pro bably haye been greeted by a large audi ence. She left this morning for Dcs Moines, via Omaha, where sh will take a vacation for some weeks. A surprise party was given Miss Nota Eikenbary last night bv a number of young people from here and the sur rounding country. Miss Nta is a daugh ter of Mr. Henry Eikenbary, whose farm is about three miles southwest of the city .V very enjoyable evening is reported, antl the party did not break up uptil the small hours this morning. DanciLg was the main amusement of the evening. About eight couples were present from here, who had hard work lighting the elements on their return. The Bohemian band gave the city goon serenade this morning. The music was very nice and gave the people a hint that a good time was in store for them if they would only join the merry throng and give up their tedious labors for halflay. A huge number went out to the fair grounds this atternoon to take in the picnic and sec the ball game between the Council Bluffs nine and the Plattsmouth btys. Each team feels confident of sure thing, and it is expected that a good game will be the result. A full report of the game will be given in tomorrow's issue. Mr. C. S. King, editor of the Utah Daily Union called on us this morning. Mr. King ad fj. J. Pet tee, formerly of this oflice and city, are proprietors of the Utah Daily Union and the Stinday UtaJi Times at Ogden. He reports that they are doing nicely. Mr. King is travel ing with a handsome car gotten up in Salt Lake City to advertise that city and Utah. This car is furnished very hand somely both inside and outside, and car ries a sample of all the products and man ufactured articles of Utah, and Mr. King represents the city of Ogjep, He left this morning for Cincinuatti. We hear some representative citizens talking of improving the county square in this city. One says build a ciiy hall and eort house to cost, say $25,000, and thinks the amount vould be had by priyate subscription; another says yes, who shall we go to and what steps shall we take fo gef; the city hall antl court house started. The prcjjey fVners of that part of the city are improving their property,, new homes are going up and they begin to tiiijik j.he ccunfy Square should be improved. Citizens cpje to the" front and let u have a city hajl and court house, ail'l thereby have u wore secure hold on the county seat. We are sorry to learn that it is the intention of Mr. M. A. Ilartigan to move hjs family fror; lUattcn;.qitlj and ."go to Hastings. They have built themselves a reputation which no one need be ashamed of, and they have endeared themselves to all with whom they have had an ac quaintance. The citizens here, all of them, regret to see them make such a move, and feel sorry to think they could not be contented in this thriving little city of ours. But as it is their intention to go, and all arrangements have been made for their departure soon, we would ask them to kindly remember their old home, where people live who have hearts ever open to receive them, should they ever be discontented anywhere else and wish to return to old Plattsmouth. Our best wishes go with them and may suc cess ever be within their reach. The New Fair Cround. The work is progressing . nicely Pii the new one-half mile track and the grudiiig Is bejng rapidly done. With new grounds, new track, aud nevy build ings for the fair of 1SSS, Plattsmouth ought to have a grand fair. Ourcitizeus ihoultl do everything in their power to help any movemaut looking towards that end. Take hold as one man, Let platts mouth be a unit on all mntters that tend to the prosperly of our growing city let her boom ltt hor roar let her go Gallagher all along the line. From Tuesday' Daily. Drs. Siggins and Schildknecht am mtated Win. Lushinsky's great toe this morning. Messrs. George Weidnian, John Lutz and John Bauer, three of our prominent Dutch citizens, left this morning for St. Louis, where they go to "take in the great American Saengerbund. Mrs. Coverdale has closed np the roverdale house, fired the boarders, and started for Missouri Valley, Iowa, to join her husband. We are sorry to see her go, but wish her success in her new home. Messrs. Jessie Hoot and H. L. Keister, two of our esteemed young lawyers, re turned last evening from Hock Bluffs, where they left a case pending which had been plead by them, feeling quite confi dent of their success on the return of the jury- Mayor Richey has more occasion than ever before to be fiiendly to his pal pony, "Sampson," Avhieh carries him around town good-naturedly. Mr. H. is suffering from an injury which he received to his foot a short time ago, rendering him unable to move with as rapid a pace as usual. Messrs. Georga Mann and Charley Dabb were in Omaha yesterday making arrangements for an infant daily. Mr. Green, brother of Sig. Green, of this city, is also in connection with the firm. They expect to have a'l arrangements complet ed antl be ready for work in a few days. We wish the boys success in their new adventure. Mr. Sherman, the esteemed editor of our local contemporary, though quite moderated and toned down in some ways which were prominent a short time ago, as an emblem of pure cheek, has not yet lost all his nerye, and is still possessed of considerable uncalled for gall which appeared extraordinarily prominent last night at the council chamber. Sometime ago both papers here were asked to tender bids for printing for the ensuing year. The IIkkald sent in their bid, whuh had been figured down to a reason able close point, and committed it to the council for consideration. Mr. Sherman, it appeared, was dull of comprehension, and not wishing to send in a bid, until lie had heard the bid from the Herald so that it would furnish him a good foot hold and make things easy, (he could have a sure thing by bringing in his bid shaded enough lower to secure the work), he wrote out a lengthy request, asking that every article which they wished him to bid on be more clearly shown up, as it was, he said he would not know how to bid. It did not require a Philadelphia lawyer to underdstand his scheme, when he took the trouble to be present when the bid from this office was made puLlic Last night he showed tlje nerye we speak of bv coming forward at this late hour with his burnt offering, asking it to be accepted by the council. The council re ferred it to the committee on printing, but we are certain the gentlemenly coun cillors will never consider such a move as that, and they certainly could not unless by showing injustice to honesty. Such an intrusion of preseryed cheek should not be looked ::to. From Monday's Uuily, Since a bandana handkerchief is the Thurnian emblem, how would a smoke cured ham do to represent Cleveland ? Lincoln Journal. O. M. Andrew, assessor of Tipton made his return to county clerk 0'iitch- held today who informs us that his book was correct in every respect, which makes it the prUe ppcinjit returns for this year. Every column was filled according to law and correctly footed up and proven. A boy about ten or eleven years old by the name pt Levi patent wag f blown from !?? horse yesterday wlnje out riding and received a seyerescrdp wound, lie was taken to Dr. ;l;H"iccLfs office and the wound sewed up. He is not so seriously injured but what he will recov er in a sl;ort time. A team of horses belonging to Phil lip Horn, a farmer residing at Four Mile Creek, were left tied in front of Mr. Mike Schnellbacher's residence last Saturday evening. They took fright at something and succeeded in breaking loose and making their escape. They moved up Fifth street hill at a rapid pace and stopped themselves by running into a house on the other side. Xo great dam age was done, excepting a little injury which one of the horses received. Mrs. Elizabeth Mason, of Four Mile Creek, died last night after a lingering illness. he ha3 been unable to mqve about for some time, having been con fined to her home for a long time with the terrible disease, dropsy. The has suffered intense agony for time until death came as a welcome relief. Her home is at Reading, Penn., and she was 81 years, 9 months and 5 days old at her death. She leaves four sons, all well-to-do farmers, who mourn her loss. She will be buried tomorrow in the Oak Hill cemetery near this city. -A team of go to-sleap horses took a scare last Saturday eyening with a buggy attached to them and did some damage. No one as yet is certain aa to what was the cause of the scare, but if we give our opinion we would say it was the procession with the large display of the bandana let loose on the street. If the crowd had any money left after mak ing such an extensiye purchase, the owner of that team would ask them to pay damages, but his knowledge as to the ex tent of their pile, at present, is too good to ask such a thing of them. Our reporter seeing Judgo Sullivan mount a car step last night, asked him if he had marte up his mind to h ave the city and where he was going. In reply he just stated that he was going seuth on a little business trip. Wonder if he didn't go to Washington to renew the patent on his ballot box We learned the patent run about last election time. Mr. John Loga . of Omaha, was in the city over Sundt.y visiting his daugh ter, Mrs. Chas. Whitney, and her husband He was the first man ever mariied in that place having resided there over thirty years. A short time ago the city offered a fine property to the first couple who had been married in Omaha, l ie applied for the property antl has good chances of securing it. Miss Minnie Gilmore, the accomplish ed daughter of Mr. P. Gilmore, the great band-master, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and will remain until Thursday, when she will join her father at Omaha. She paid Plattsmouth quite a compliment by stating that she always enjoyed a visit to this place, and also saying that we have a very pleasant little city. Miss Gilmore has acquired quite a wide repu tation as an authoress and poetess, having written several popular books and being correspondent for seyeral prominent east ern papers. She is visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. M. O'Rourke, sister of Mr. Gil more. A tool chest and tools belonging to a Mr. Pcnurie, of Omaha, who is em ployed as carpenter on Mr. Ballou's new house in the western extremity of the city limits, was stolen from the building sometime between Saturday evening and this morning. lie would not extend to the man his congratulations should he find out his whereabouts, for he has taken away his only means of work which he valued at $70. Such a man as that thief never stole the tools with the intention of working them himself, because, such a man with such a profession does not need to work. He can either sponge on the county by sleeping behind bars or sell his stolen goods and make his escape. A fake whose name is unknown, and whose character any farther than the exhi bition he made of it here, we care less to know, came to our quiet little city last week and for a few days worked it in fine style. His nerye and cheek were as prominent as the sun at mid-day, judg ing from the scheme we heard he worked on some of the ladies here. Ife came in contact with some people who think they can buy silver dollars for seyen'y-five cents, and being so unsuspicious made extensive purchases from his line of goods. He had a case full of lamp wicks which he was no doubt the sole proprietor and inventor of, and induced a large number of them to purchase by stating that by the use of them they could econ omise in the vise of coal oil or gasoline. He claimed &ne gallon could be made to last six mouths, and something like the system of measuring gas, at the end of six months, you would have just the same amount to pay for using a light the whole time or oulya quarter of the time. It would surely last six months. We don't know how lie managed to make dupes of so many people, but by the num ber of soi.e heads, there v. ere more than a few victims who dropped onto the new scheme as a paying investment. When he sold them he threw in a small slice of advice telling iiCtn not o, use them for tvenfcy-foiir hours, stating tlat they could not be used successfully before soaking them in oil fCr i w i-hgt5l oi t;me ;or they would not give as brilliant a light unless treated in that way. Some of them are soaking yet for lack of brillian cy and are likely to soak. He said he was only allowed to sell 1500 in each place. Tie probably wished to infer by that that he was not allowed to remain in one town longer than the twenty-four hours which were used in soaking them. One lady, for fear such an opportunity would never present itself again, made quite an extensive purchase stating that while he was right there and she had a good chance that she was going to buy him out. So she did, and after a thor ough investigation of her investment, found them to be common, eyery day, rapidly exhaustible, red colored, fake hemmed, poor investment lamp wicks. We sympathize with them in their sad bereavement, and the only chance for satisfaction is gone by, so be contented and keep your eyes open for tuch a wick-ed man should one ever put in his appearance again. Do not look for the same one as he surely left Plattsmouth without buying a return ticket. From Friday's Daily. We are sorry to learn that the wife of Rev. Hampton has not yet realized any marked change for the better, and is today very low, -The wedding of Mr. Jesse L. Root and Miss Evelyn Wise will take place thin evening at nine o'clock at the resi dence of the bride's father, Mr. J. N. Wise, postmaster. They are both popu lar young people here, and we join in with their numerous friends in wishing for them a blight and prosperous future. Mr. Henry Waterman, and family, who left heie a few days ago tu route to New York, missed their train cast from Chicago which occasioned an inconven ient delay. But not being able to remedy their misfortune, made the be.-t of it, and, alter registering at the Palmer Hons.-, took advantage of their opportunity of viewing the great metropolis of the wi st, which attempt, we learned, they were successful in. They also visited Niagara Falls, spending a day there. A very pleasant surprise party was afforded Mrs. J. C. Eikenbary by her husband and a large number of her friends. After Mr. Eikenbary had invit ed some of their friends to be present at his house that evening and made all the necessary arrangements for a lively time, he invited his wife to take a drive in the country, which she did, and after remain ing away all day, returned to find their friends gathered at the house to welcome them. Yesterday was her :i!)th birthday, and the event will ever be remembered by that lady as a most enjoyable one for her. " Jim Chambers," a prominent mem ber of the canine fraternity, and a noted "scrapper" of his order, caused some excitement and amusement yesterday through a dislike he had cultivated for one of his brothers, and without giving any warning to his antagonist, jumped onto him and did not let up until his blood-thirsty desire was gratified. "Jim" h is added another one to his list of vic torious "scraps," giving a very sorehead to his opponent. Before he completed his job, however, Will, his guardian, put in an appearance and furnished hii'i with hoot ammunition, We must have trampled on the tocu of the Journal again judging by tho lulling of hair we received at their hands in last evening's issue because we clipped a few lines from the official paper as a re port of the last meeting of the city school board. They wish to receive credit for it, and from all appearances worked themselves up to such a state of excite ment that sleep for them last night would certainly have been out of the question. But if they will tke a lt-Lt for a while nd let up crying, wc will credit them with the report which we published. They seem to forget the council proceedings they clipped from The IIkkai.d a short time ago to the ex tent of about a column and we never even gave them away, and only credited it to their unconscionable gall, never say ing a word, A rather painful accident iiappcueu yesterday afternoon, the victim being Miss Lena Weckbach, daughter of Mr. Henry Weckbach, a prominent grocer of this city. She and Miss Julia Bilstein had started out late in the afternoon on horseback and had been riding around the streets for some time apparently tak ing in all that was to be seen and enjoy ing themselyes immensely. As they wero moving up Third street in the yknUy o; the B. it M. shops v, Uh giv.at rapida., the stirrup attached to Miss Weckbach a saddle broke, throwing her violently the ground on "her left shoulder. She was immediately carried to her home and Dr. . R. Livingston, sr., soon arrived and after he had examined her injury,' announced that she had broken her col lar bene. The injury, though very pain ful, U not seiious, and with the exertion of a little patience, she will come around all right and feel thankful she escaped so narrowly, sudden death. B.i.e exhib ited great bravery in standing the opera tion of setting the broken shoulder so well. From Thursday's Il;iily. Mr. J. G. Richey's boy, who has been seriously ill for the last few days with a celd which had settled on hu lung3, is resting somewhat easier today and they have some hopes for his recov ery at present. Rev. W. B. Alexander, realizing this morning that the day would gradually grow more sultry, hired a vehicle and took his family out to spend a day in the country toenjoy the refreshing breezes of some pleasant groye in the vicinity of the city. The democratic convention nomin ated Judge Thurman today for vice-president, and the democratic ticket reads 'Cleyeland and Thurman." We suppose the democrats will have a big blw-out tonight, so we advise our readers to not get scared if they hear a queer noise in the streets. This morning we learned of the death of Mrs. Chas. Swan, who died at 9 o'clock last night. She has not been feeling well for some time, but was still able to be around until a few minutes before her death. Her complaint, it Is claimed, was heart disease, and she died very suddenly. She was a resident of Liberty precinct, about twelve miles south of here. She will be buried to morrow at 10 a. m. in the Three Grove cemetery. The members of the family are intimate friends of Mr. Eikenbary. i it '! ) ..( 'it' i V i . 'I f v ; V ' at V i It: r 1 'f fi. Mi PH. 1.
