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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1889)
il Tne Evening Herald. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. Or. 4. HalUhary h I ho tsrlaitre right to uhb Ilr. Strlnaa'M l.oral Antbtlc for th I'lul- Kxlractlua of Teeth In thlcitjr. Office KocWwood Itlock . Ir, Wither, ItontUt, L'nlon lilork. CITY CORDIALS. The pay car arrived this morning from Omaha on No. 10. Itcguinr council meeting tonight, considerable business anticipated. j It has been decided to hold the A. O. U. W. ball at Fitzgerald's hall in stead of Kockwood. It occurs "Wednes day night. District Clerk Showalter is now making out notices of trials for the at torneys to serve for the coming term of the District court. St. Marry 's Guild rallied their quilt off last week and No. 23 vras the lucky umber, which was held by Fred Ebiu jrcr. The Guild made $25. - All members of the A. O. IL are re quested to meet at Fitzgerald's hall Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Business of importance. By order of Secretary. 2t The ladies' a.! society of the M. E. church will meet Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, at the residence of Mr. Jlouse lvorth, Main street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Rev. F. S. Blayney made a very In teresting talk to young men at the Y. M. C. A. hall yesterday. - His subject waa serving two masters an impossibility from either standpoint of spiritual or worldly prosperity. A telegram was received yesterday by Judge Russell, announcing that his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Horace II. Russell, was dangerously ill at her home near Weeping Water. Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell went out by carriage and returned this morning. There will be a strong Attraction st Boyd's cpera house, Omaha, Thursday, Friday and Saturday bights' and Satur day matinee this week. The brilliant spectacular play. "The Twelve Tempta tions," will be presented with all its gor geous scenery and will be seen by a large number of Platt3mouth people. Yesterday's issue of the Omaha Herald created quite astir amongsociety people, having a large amount of spnee devoted to the Belles of Nebraska, whicli list was lead by the charming Jli&tresses and Misses of Plattsmoutb, Quite a number of engravings from photographs were published and many highly compli mentary remarks were made. Plattr mouth always takes the lead. Thursday night of this week an fintertainment befitting the season will b jj'iren at the Lewiston M. E. church near Three Groves, the proceeds of which g to the paator. Extensive preparation; are being made and there will be served a table supper and ice cresm. Yocal and instrumental music will be the order of amusement; and all are invited to come, especially vocalists. The nights are now moonlight and if it ts not cloudy it will make a pleasant evening drive for the voung men with their best girls. Dave Babbington was very unfor tunate this morning. At 10 o'clock, in the arrival of the pay car, he got his check and had it cashed, and receiving Lis money in bills he roiled them up and bound a rubber aroun 1 them and placed the money in his pocket; Going to tin depot, then to the store house and tht-n home to dinner. After dinner he felt for the money and it was gone, a hole in the pocket reycaled the probable exit of the tills. He retracing of his steps fad cd to find the money. Dave will always have a warm spot in his heart for tin tinder if he shows up to divide. The plan of closing all -the stores and business houses of Plattsmouth at 8 o'clock in the evening has never yet been successfully operated, nor with even one class of stores, but there , docs not seem to be any reason why it cannot be done without inconvenience to any ne. Saturday night might be excepted and any other night when there is a large gathering of people in town and in holi day purchasing time, and here pay-day might also be excepted. At Lincoln then is a movement on foot to close all cloth ing and dry goods houses at 8 p. m. com mencing April 13, and in Beatrice and several other Nebraska towns S o'clock is generally observed as the closing hour. More especially could this time of closing be established in our city now, if mer chants are willing, without inconvenience to any one, whil tight hours is the time of employment at the shops. Tte subject has been suggested to the Her ald by merchants themselves, and it ecm3 to be a plan thoroughly practice-. Lie, but the adopting of it lies with the merchants. Saturday Judge Chapman readered a decision in a case at Lincoln which has created considerable interest since it came into the district court. R. B. Graham, the present mayor, was elected April 2. At that time he was alderman from the Fourth ward. The republican from the Fourth ward expecting Graham's seat in the council to be vacated by his reaigua- tion, nominated one Cooper for the place. On April 1, Graham tendered his resig nation as a member of the council to the council. Opposition being manifested by some of the members the resignation was referred to the committee on elec tions. On the city election, April 2. Graham was elected mayor and Cooper got nearly all the votes in his ward, there being no opposition. April C, the votes cast on the 2nd were canvassed by the council but no action taken on Cooper's votes. On April 8, the resignation of Graham was accccptcd and a call made for a special election in the Fourth ward to fill the vacancy. Cooper and W. S. Hamilton were the principal contestants, and this time Cooper got left and Hamilton was taken into the council. Cooper then filed a mandamus writ in the district court. The issue was, whether Graham's resignation became operative April 1, or S- if the latter, then there was no vacancy to be filled at the election of April 2, and if the resignation took effect April S, then Cooper is not entitled to the office, as there was no vacancy at the time of his election to fill. There is a further ques tion brought up which is, whether the city council had authority to call a special election to fill the vacancy oc casioned by the resignation of Graham. The judge held that under the law a mandamus wa uot the proper remedy, but a quo warranto proceeding, which is also pending in the court in the ense in which Cooper prays that Hamilton be declared uU enfifled'to the office, and that he is entitled to the oice aud or dering his enstallment therein. CONfWOM COMMENTS. A. Stone Mason: "When I came to this county fifteen years ago I used to laugh at any one mentioning frost-bitten s?one, but I have learned better since. This piece of stone I am trimming now could be easily split by clipping outward. I have helped lay much .fine foundation stone quarried here in old Cass, but when we come to handle any that has laid out during hard winter we have to watch for the frosted pieces. R. B. Windham: I am going to have the Herald strike ma off one hundred slips with the editorial printed Saturday entitled "Plattsmouth,1 to send to for eign capitalists and manufacturing firms with which I frequently have occasion to correspond. It would be an excellent plan for eyery business house in town to have some printed matter of that kind at band and when sending a business letter abroad place one of them in; it would successfully advertise the merits of the city and keep the advantages of the place in circulation for the benefit of fon ign capital. Key. II. B. Burgess: 1 am so glad to sec that the plans for electric motor pow er and manufacturing have been success fully carried through, and think it should meet with every encouragement. Its a grand thing, and nothing can equal it to benefit the city. It is such a magnificent power and light. Plattsmouth has all the natural advantages for a city, but has been somewhat looked over, but her time has come and she cannot help mov ing rapidly forward. . Mr. Vanarnaman: This is the place for a city. She could hardly be expected to be an Omaha all at once, but the way is opened up to an unlimited growth. The $S0,000 court house, elec tric plants and hotel with all other ex tensive priyate and public improvements is just what will doit. Plattsmouth will make a fine town, and if I didn't have great faith in the futura pf "Poor old Plattsmoutb," as the saying used to be, I would not be here today. An Observer: Some looming improve meats and enterprises haye recently struck PNttsmouth, but I want to tell you they hit the right place.and there is many more to follow. These new movements and investments of capital are only the pre liminary steps to establishing a great city Located as she is, with resource after resource, Plattsmouth's advantages to ward all capital ormanufacturing firms are inviting and exceed the privileges offered by any neighboring town, and every dollar invested here now while property is nt reasonable figures is worth three invested in a towo where property is high and one that is already overstocked with factories and capitalists. How It Would Have Been One hundred years ago, or thereabout, George Washington selected the District of Columbia as the seat of the new gov ernment his valor and wisdom had cre ated. The place selected was not, nor never has been, the center of the nation of which it is the capitol. and now many of our citizens have to travel thousands cf miles to reach the capitol of their country. If H. G. Race, the accom plished editor of Weeping Water, had been.running his paper at the time of Washington's location of the capitol he would have terrified Washington by saying: "You are acting the hog in ele gant shape." (fBiiil 0 losing til S & o OF OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF i na 0(111 Having concluded to discontinue this Department, we have thrown on our Middle Counter our Entire Stock, which we are offering at a price that in most instances the material could not be purchas ed for. 25 cents buys a White or Colored Dress trimmed with Em broidery. (50 cents buys a Dress that was made to retail for $1.00. T5 cents comprises everything that sold as high as 1.25. Si. 00 buys a very neat Dress in White or Colors, well worth $2.00. Our 1.50 line of Dresses have been reduced from $2.50. At 2.00 you will find some excellent values worth double. -At $2.50 very cnoice and fine; the material is w-rth what we ask for them. $3.00 takes in everything in the Line that sold as high as $0.60. The sizes run from 1 to 12 years of age, and in every case we will cheerfully refund the money it not fully a advertised. Do not misa this opportunity to lay in a stock of these goods,-as you may never get another chance to buy them at so low a figure. The Largest Line of Children's Embroidered Mull Caps in this city. Wo are showing an elegant line from 20c to $2.00 each. PERSONALS. J, Iv- P, Carper is in from Rock Bluffs today. W. L. Wells, of Pouth Bend, was in the city today. Miss Ella Copeland returned to Omuha this morning from a visit at the home of W. R. Furdy.. E. W. Fenton, of the grain nrni &f B. K. Windham & Co., of Glenwood, Iowa, was in the city this morning. P. J. Foley, of Brainard, Minn, stopped in the city yesterday to visit at Mf A. Dixon's. He was enroute with the con ductors' excursion to Denver. Dr. J. II Hall left this morning as one of the delegates to the grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. to be held at Hastings. The other delegates are Messrs. Gutsbe, Henry Weckbach, Frank Morgan and F. E. White, and will follow tonight or to morrow. SELF DESTRUCTION. An Awful Seen In a LoVnsvlllo Home by the Suicide of an Aged Woman. Yesterday a special telephone message came to Coronor Boeck and also to The Herald, announcing the suicide of Mrs. Sarah Stevens at Lwuisville, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph W. Griffin. Coronor Boeck telegraphed back that if it were a clear case of suicide his services would not be needed and did not go out. J. W. Griffin is foreman of the Omaha Land Company's stone quart ies at Louis ville and highly respected. Ilia mother-in-law, Mrs. Stevens, wno has lived with him has been a little demented, and yes terday at 11 o'clock a. m. accomplished the destruction of her life in the kitchen by cutting her throat with a razor. Her daughter stepped into the room just in time to be. a witness to the awful act and catch her mother in her arms. The vil lige of Louisville was greatly excited over the occurrance and the daughter who saw, but not in time to prevent the act, was for hours distracted. Death came to the old lady five minutes after the razor had done the work. She was about seventy year9 of age. The funeral will occur tomorrow.' Lost: $40, one $20 and two $10 bills between Cass County bank, the depot and the B. & M. store house. Leave at Dovey's stare. Finder rewarded. Dave BABBrxoTOX. The Hkbaxd Job Rooms are tht most complete in the county. Inn Freeze your ice cream with the lightning freeztr j sold by Johuson Bros. 9vlm ONE THOUSAND CONDUCTORS of Railroad Trains Pass Through Plattsmouth for Denver Yesterday morning the largest body of any one class of men that has went over the "Q" and B. & M. passed through thi3 city in all the railroad luxury the times can afford. It was the "Q" excursion for railroad conductors going to Denver to attend the twenty first annual conven tion of railroad conductors of the United States, Canada and Mexico. The excursion was in three divisions two of eleven and the other of twelve cars, thirty-one of which were elegant Pullmans, making three of the grandest train of cars that ever hauled an excur sion party, and these cars were loaded by railroad conductors from all eastern, south-western, northern and Canadiau states and provinces, representing every railroad in eastern North America. Tne use of the Pullman coaches was tendered the conductors free of charge, and the road way, engine and train men were generously supplied by the "Q." The train divisions were taken in charge at Pacific Junction by divisions as follows: First section drawn by engine 203, Robt. Smith engineer, J. W. Harding conductor; section two, engine 227, Warren, engineer, II. K. Waldrou. conductor; section three, engine 108, Ford engineer, Secor, con ductor. These train crews have charge from Pacific Junction to Hastings. The trains passed through here between 5:10 a. ra. and 6 o'clock, and arrived in Den ver at 10 o'clock last night. There wer in this excursion probably one thousand conductors and many more arrived in Denver today from other directions, so that the population of Denver will be materially increased for a few days and her hotel accommodations tested. Last year the order of conductors held their convention at Toronto, Canada, and the vear before at New Orleans. Buy Furniture at Boeck's. Those who delight in looking at fine bedroom suits and upholstered furniture can be completely gratified by stepping into the furniture store of Henry Boeck, corner Main and Sixth etreets. - You can purchase at this store any furniture from the common chair to the finest uphol stered. See my fine Alaska Refrigerators and bargains in odd pieces. . a - . . Hexkt Boeck. NO SMOKE OR SMELL To I lie new COAL Oil, Stove just recelvedat Johnson Dros. Call and nee them. . They will not explode. Lames 50c. on the Ladies' Fancy Balbriggan Hose reduced from 50 to 25 cents. At 50 cents pair we are offering our entire line of Ladies' Four Thread Colored Lisle Hose, worth double. At 75 cents pair we are offering our entire line of Ladies' Spun Silk and Silk Plaited Hose reduced from 1 and 1.50. Children's Fancy Balbriggan Hose at 25 cents pair, worth 50. At 35 r-ents pair our entire line of Children's Extra Heavy i'lain and Bibbed Lise Thread Hose, reduced from 73 cents. At 50 cents pair our entire line of Children's Verticle Stripped Lislo Thread Hose, worth double or money refunded. Vou cannot afford to miss this opportunity to buy Hosiery enough to last you all season, for at these prices they do not cover tliQ first cost to manufacture. FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY Wo will continue our Dress Goods Sale for a Short Tiipej remember our prices are way below the regular prices, and a glance over our. Stock and Prices will convince you that you can save money by buy. ing your goods of us. AT $5.00. Our line of Spring Jackets hold at SV.50 and &JO.00 - ryflncfci to S5.00. At CosL Only 60 Days frlore. Time is flying and our goods are selling. Don't wait until we are out to Pueblo for you will never get such prices as ive are offcriny. Ladies Kid Toe, 75 ct Slippers, will a " Low tjrescenr, l cupper, v.ui sell lor 1 00 " Oxford Tie, 1 73 Low Shoe, " " i jjq Glaze Dongola, flexible, 2 25 blioes will sell for 1 85 Fine Glazed Dongola, flexible, 3 00 Shoe, will sell fi,r 2 40 hand a a u a " French 44 " " 4 50 Glove Grain, S. S.y 1 50 Shoe, will sell for We also have a great many bargains in Mens, Eovs, Misses and Childrens, that we have not space to mention. It will be to jour interest to call and get prices before buying elsewhere. W. A. REMEMBEE Business is done on business prin ciples at Wescott's Boss Clothing House. Goods sold at an honest price without impositions. Unr music, to which we referred in a former notice, will start up today to the tnne of One Hundred Fine All-WoolCassiinere Suits for Men, sizes from 34 to 42, at the nominal price of Ten Dollars; no variations to this tune. These Suits are plums for close buyers, being fit ters and sellers from the best man ufacturers. Don't fail to see them. Don't tail to buy them. You save from Five to Seven Dollars on a Suit over anything in the market. Also One Hundred Boys Suits All-Wool and very desirable in Style and Make-np, at the exceed ingly low price ot Six Dollars and JTiftjr centa.. BOBGK ii's toil $1.00 Bargains. sell for 50 turned 3 UO Shoe, will fetll for 2 40 u (t n it 3 00 3 75 90 Also One Hundred Children's Suits, All-Wool, beautiful styles, at $4.00 and $5.00 each. No tlouse carries better Clothing, few as good, and at these prices yo.u ought to be charmed. We will introduce you to our Underwear in our next notice. -C. E. WESCOTT, The "Bogs" Clothier. Ice-Ice ice. e nave started our auu ana are ready to contract and deliver ice in any quantity. IIaying the lest ice in tbe city we guarantee satisfaction to all Telephone 72. " tf H. C. McMakew & So. thSB Sale A fine Emerson piano, cost 1110.00 cash. Reason for felling, leav ing the city. Apply to Mr. D O McEntee. First Natioaal Dank tf Q!HL ATED to do general home work. For particulars enquire at tb. residence of A. R Todd. 4 d6t Y