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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1909)
HI ihttt JJL Ji.Ji uA EWSMERALpa,. TWICE A WEEK N fVS. F::il.:;.fH Nov. 5. I-.'l HtKAl.li. E.tab:ishwJ Apiilli. IS CWolu!utl Jan. 1. 1 1'LATTSMOUTII, NKIJKASIvA, THUIisDAY", Al'KIL .'!), 10' VOL. XLV NO. DO if i Carries Hancl- Some Stock Fanger's Dep:rt;r.ent Store in This City is One of the Bestir, the State. The News-Herald does not believe that the people generally of Platts rmmth and vicinity appreciate some of the stocks of merchandise carried by Plattsmouth merchants. And we be lieve that this is partly the fault of the merchants themselves in not properly advertising their goods. Our location bo near the Omaha market and the lib eral advertising done by merchants in that city results in a considerable amount of trade going to the metro polis that should and could be retained here. Many of our merchants can and are underselling the Omaha houses every day, and as soon as they can convince the public of this fact just that soon will we cease to hear the cry against Omaha trading. Notable among our merchants whq undersell the Omaha stores is Mr. Fanger of the Department Store. Mr. Fanger handles, among other things, the famous Wooltex and Sunshine gar ments for women and thild.-en. These poods have a national reputation and are carried by the best stores of the large eastern cities, and arj known to be the acme of perfection. Mr. Fanger carries a full line of them and his prices are lower than are received by Omaha houses. And it stands to reason that he should sell them lower. His rent is cheaper.his clerk hire is cheaper, his taxe3 are lower and he is not re quired to spend so much for advertb irg. Mr. Fanger's stock is a credit to the town and when our people come to realize that they can buy the same gar ments for less money we shall no longer bj troubled by our people going out of the city to do their shopping. Prof. Davisson Will Speak E. Ii Wescott, secretary of the com mercial club, has arranged with Prof. A. E. Davisson, head of the agricultur al college of the State University, to deliver an address on "Alfalfa" at the next regular meeting of the club w hich will be held at Coates hall at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, May 13. Mr. V. C. Hamilton, leader of the band, has given assurance of some fine band music. All who are interested in growing or feeding alfalfa should be present to hear this lecture as Prof. Davisson is the best posted man in the state on this subject. The farmers are invited. The lecture is free. Be sure to hear it. New Bank Examiners. Governor Shallenberger has appoint ed a chief clerk of the state banking ; Iward and seven examiners, but has j not appointed a secretary for the board ' -a position that pays $3,000 a year. L. j M. MielenZjOf Eagle, is to be chief I clerk and George Faber of Blair is to be assistant clerk, C. II. Beaumont, of Wouldn'l You Ralher Have a Hansen Glove Than AnyOther Glove You Ever Heard 01? ""ON MADEl Of course you would. Every man that's ever worn very many gloves feels that way about it. We have the complete line here to show you. Every kind from 50c to the best $3 automobile gauntlet. Silk lined driving gloves $1.50. Genuine buckskins $1.25. 0. E. Wescott'sSons "WHERB QUALITY COUNTS" For dress wear we have the imported Perrins Glove. Madrid, and l'. W. Erwin, of Omaha, republican.!), were reappointed examin ers. The others are Harry Dowling of Grand Hand, Charley O'Malit-y of Om aha, I,. 11. Tate of Omaha, Floyd Soy bolt of Lincoln. E. H. I.ui'-.hart of Til den. Mr. I.uiivhart was formerly county treasurer examiner and was a can didates lujt J'ali for the nomination for state auditor at the democratic pri maries The chief clerk is to receive a salary of 51.5(h) a jear. No specific amount is mentioned in the law for the as sistant, but each examiner is to re ceive $1.S(J') a year and traveling ex penses. Lincoln Journal. Accept our congratulations friend Mielenz. Mr. Mielenz is one of the bright, capable and industrious young men of Cass county. He has held the position of cashier of the Bank of Eagle, and has a ho;t of friends in this county, who are pleased to note his promotion. Saloons Get License City Council Holdi Meeting and Transacts Large Amount of Routine Business. The city council held its regular meeting Mr. lay evening with all mem bers present. The license coinmi'.tee reported that all applications ar.d bjnds for license were in due form and recommended that licenses be issued to P. F. Goo?, Ed. Eger.berger, H. E. Hand. A. Git.se, Ei. Doi at and J. E. McDaniels. Gor ing Co. a:vl F. G. Fricke were also granted druggists permits. Upon, motion of Dwyer, the city will purchase 15J feet of new fire hose. And the city treasurer was ordered to make a report at the next meeting of the condition of the different city funds, the amount issued for the fiscal year, and the amount paid out from each. Dwyer also inUoduced an ordinance providing that garbage . must r.ot be dumped within rods of the Burlington station nor more than 50 feet from the first running channel of the Missouri river. Elects New Principal. The board of education held a special meeting Monday evening to electa new principal to succeed Professor Brooks. Professor Benjamin. Harrison, at pre sent principal of the Ravenna High School was selected to fill the vacancy. Professor Harrison comes highly recom mended as an educator, and the board feels that a wise selection ha3 been made. Birthday Party. Last Monday evening the home of Mr. ar.d Mrs. D. P. Jackson was the scene of a very happy party, the occa sion being the eighteenth birthday of their daughter, Miss Bertha. The eve ning was spent at various amusements, after which delicious refreshments were served. These attending were Misses Lillian Thompson, Jennie Bat ten, Cecil Hackenberry, Mattie Larson, Ina Hatt, Hazel Tuey, Be39te Brendell and Elizabeth Kerr. Soennichsen's I i Innovation I Ha an Ambition to Conduct the j Beit Store in Plattsmouth. j i i I H. M. Soemiiehsen has decided that ! I he wants to handle a larger portion of j the grocery trade of Plattsmouth and - vicinity. He is well equipped to gratify his ambition, having one of the best i i stocks in this section of the state, has I I ,t fi;J.-.l..,4 l,;., l. ...!,.. , v ii hi. -?pin vv t i, tua v il : i its ni e lirui ivuua and obliging and he makes prompt de liveries. In another part of this paper Mr. Soennichsen makes a strong talk for your grocery business. His an nouncement contains a coupon which if presented at his store any time Satur day will be exchanged for a full pack age of gold dust, the famous cleaning preparation. There are no strings tied to this proposition nor do you have to spend a nickel in the store. Simply cut out the coupon and bring-or send it to the store and receive the gold dust free. A Souvenir Opening Formal Opening of J. W. Larkin & Co. Will be Held Saturday. J. W. Larkin & Co., successors to W. C. Irwin & Co., have an announce ment in this issue of the NkwsHerald of a grand opening w hich will be held nsxt Saturday, when every lady caller will be presented with a handsome Japanese fan. Mr. and Mrs. Larkin take this plan of becoming acquainted with our people and we feel sure that the reponse will be generous and N that m.ny will avail themselves of the op portunity at that time of calling and seeing one of the finest racket stocks to be found in this section of the coun- try. They also handle books, stationery, i school sunnliea. etc' "" ---. Good Roads Make Business In a late issue of the Farm Journal appears trie paragraph below quoted: "It seems incredible that there are millions of sane men and women who would rathe live a cramped and often squalid and half staived life than to live a w holesome and ample existence on a few acres of their own in the country. ' ' "Massachusetts rigures that stone roads can be kept in repair for $i0 a mile per year. These Yankees always seem to have more horse sense than most other folks." The number of people who would not indorse the statement in the first par agraph is so small as to be negligible and the natural impulse of the man who reads it is to look around for an oppor tunity to acquire the necessary land. There are tew who cannot do this. The second paragraph fits a local condition to a nicety. Ihcre is a stretch of country on the Missouri River bank between the t. B. & Q. bridge and Rock Blufc that is admirably adapted to raising all kinds of fruit trees and garden truck. The chief object in the way of the development of this tract is its inaccessibility. For the people of Plattsmouth to derive the benefits of this most naturally tributary territory they mttst aid in procuring the road to tap it and it seems to be calling upon them to do so for there is most excel lent road material underlying it in the shape of a limestone deposit easily worked. If the money spent in ferries and pontoon bridges to attract Iowa trade had been expended in good roads around and adjacent to the city we should by this time have been reaping some of the benefits. If you doubt any of this, J. E. Bar wick savs he knows how. Anniversary Celebrated The members of the local lodges of the I. O. O. F. and the Rebekahs Mon day evening celebrated the 90th anni versary of the founding of Odd-fellowship in America. Judge Bceson deliv ered the address of the occasion. A large attendance was present from both orders. Refreshments were served and an excellent social time was enjoyed by all present. Miss Anna P.'laum of Falls City I ns been visiting several days in this city with her sister, Mrs. S. C. Brccken-ridge. Second Church ol Christ, Scientist. Sunday school, 9:1." a. m. l'i vine service at 11 a. m. Subject 'Everlasting Punishment." Mid-week meeting Wednesday even ing at S o'clock. Cimivh is located on Sixth itreet, two blo.-ks south of Main street. The public w cordially invited to all services. The reading room in the Coates block is open ever Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at It-moon from 2 until! 5 o'clock. Decoration Day Exercises Decoration Day comes on Sunday this year and the G. A. R. will hold their services on Saturday, May '), and they invite all organizations of this city to participate with them on this occa sion. The graves will be decorated dur ing the forenoon and services will be held in the Opera house at 2:110 p. m. The Memorial sermon will be preach ed at the Presbyterian Church May 23, by Rev. Salisbury and all soldiers of any wars are earnestly requested to attend. Committee, Tiiomah W. Glenn, J. H. Thrasher, J. W. Johnson. W. L. Pickett Returns W. L. Pickett and wife returned Sun day from a month's visit in Evansvillc, Indiana. Mr. Pickett is much improved in health and will resume his position as agent for the Burlington the first of the month. Value of Women's Clubs Discussed by a Writer in Ladies Home Journal. the In a goodly-sized town there are six women's clubs, having a combined membership of 214 of . what were,-1 was told, "the best women of the town." These clubs, I was fnrther told, were "a potent factor of the town." They hold weekly or monthly meetings. When I asked what was discussed at these meetings I was told "the best in literature, art, science and civics particularly civics." These disscussions, I was assured, "were most uplifting," and that through them the women's club ha3 been productive "of the high est good not oiily to the members but to the town itself." In a booklet issued by one of these women's clubs the following paragraph occurred: "Recognizing the past which woman's influence can play in the up lift of a community it has been the special aim of the woman's club to direct a large part of its work to the uplift of our beautiful town until today the conditions that surround us art superior to those in the vast majority of communities and make our lovely town a model to the country!" So I walked around the town for days to see the things that been done to make this town "a model to the conntry," and these are some that I saw: All the windows in the eight school buildings in the town were hermeti cally sealed each day ten minute9 after the pupils left, and not a crack in them opened when the children assembled the next morning; on Saturdays and Sundays they were closed all day. The most worthless quack "patent medicines', -those that had again and again been exposed in the public prints-in every drug store in the town and used by "four-fifths of the peo ple," so the druggist told me, and, as I found out, by the club women them selves! The dirtiest and absolutely vilest public drinking-cups I have ever seen at public fountains, being constantly used by both the filthiest corner loafers and the loveliest children! Stands outside of candy-stores, and push-carts with candies, exposed to all the dust that was Hying around the streets and eagerly bought and eaten by the children! The worst looking billboards filled with posters advertising plays, the pictures of which would be enough to condemn them to any decent com munity, prevalent all over the town, next to the schools, leading to the public square, and in two cases noxtto, or directly opposite, the ' leading" churches of the town! On the grt unds of the eight school buildings there was not a wisp of grow it g things, n:.d yet in the woeds of that 1 vicinity were to be hud the most beauti ful Horn in America, easy to trans plant. In one square I counted an assembly of no fewer than nineteen children's nurses gossiping with men, absolutely oblivious to the doings of their charges; some of the little children lying on theie backs in their carriages with their eyes in full glare of the sun; one child with a filthy rat in his carriage; an other child sprawling on the ground, where he had fallen out of his car riage! i Vandalism by children ran riot in the town; it was a common complaint among the residents that the town hail "the worst children of any place for miles around." And upon inquiry I found that some of the "worst child ren" belonged to the officers of the six wemen's clubs. I saw one boy de liberately tear up a most beautiful flowering shrub, ana when I stopped i him and asked him where his mother was he answered that she was "spout ing hot-air at n woman's meeting at Mrs. J's." The humorous ami yet pathetic side of this incident is that the mother of this tender-spoken young barbarian was a "wonderful speaker on motherhood," as an admir ing follow club-member told me after wards! This woman was, by-the-way, so impregnated with the spirit of "motherhood" that, last Christmas, she bought ready-made filled Christmas stockings for each of her four children! "They save you so much trouble," she explained, "and really, you know, the children appreciated them just as much!" One afternoon, hearing that the "leading woman's club was to hold its "regular Thursday meeting,"! ventured iu puuiuer in. ine suojeci announced for the meeting was "The Modern Up lift." The meeting had been railed fcr three o'clock; I arrived at three thirty. There were five small tables in the room, and around them stt the members of the "leading woman's club" playing bridge for money! I was apologetically told that the "real meet ing" was over-so "The Modern Up lift" must have been disposed of in less that thirty mnrates, and, by the watch, the women played bridge until quarter-past six! "Bridge," as a matter of fact, and for high stakes, was rampant among the women in that community; the women were "bridge-mad," as some of the husbands told me at the club, one husband going so far as to tell me that his wife had lost more than a hundred dollars already that week, "and the way she is playing," he added, "I YOU'LL appreciate, when you come to us the pleasure of do ing business; we believe it can be I I C.pr-i,M .W kf M.rt & m rfnMlft fUiwirz yK! Uj I guess she'll drop a hundred more." This estimble woman happened to be the president of one of the women's clubs: a common gambler! And these were some of the visible results of the efforts of fix women's clubs whose constant meetings had been "productive of the highest good tothe town," to say nothing of one of of the clubs in particular whose efforts had resulted (!) in making their town "a model of the country."-From the Ladies' Home Journal. A Clubbing Proposition The News-Herald has made club bing arrangements with the Kansas City Weekly Star, and to all new sub scribers paying one year in advance for the News-Herald the Kansas City Weekly Star will be mailed ono year free, also nil subscribers to the News Hkkai.d who will pay up arrears, and one year in advance, will be presented with a complimentary subscription to the Kansas City Star. The Star is recognized thrcughout the Southwest as one of the strongest weekly new jiapers printed, and we feel that many of our subscribers will tike advantage of this offer. Wedding Belli. Yesterday at high noon at the home of Prof, and Mrs. J. W. Gamble oc curred the marriage of Miss Vesta D. Eafon, daughter of Mra. Gamble, to Mr. Herman L. Thomas. Dr. J. F. Baird performed the ceremony in the presence of the immediate relatives of the contracting parties. The bride is a very estimable young lady and has n host of friends in thiB county who wish them a long and hap py life. The groom is a son of Dr. M. L. Thomas, of Bartlett, la., but who was formerly located at Union. The yoi-ng man is intelligent, industrious and ambitious. He is employed as tel egraph operator at Ft. Crook, which place will be their future home. The News-Herald extends' to them" Its good wishes. W. K. Fox is in Omaha attending the grand lodge meeting of the Royal Ar canum. Gertrude Boyd has filed a suit in the district court praying a divorce from her husband. They were married Aug., 21, 1907. She also asks to have her maiden name restored, which was Ger -trude Kunsman. i made a pleasure; it is to us. We get a lot of real satisfac tion in providing our customers with clothes as these; it's all a friendly transaction; you can always bring back what you don't want; we don't want your money if you don't want our goods. Glad to have you come in and try on some of our one, two and three button models, some have regular pants some medium pegs and others ex treme peg tops. For the old middle-aged and the young. Shades all leaning toward gray, a few browns, but very few. We know you'll be pleased if you see them. Suits from $7.50 to $39.00. THE HOME OF Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Manhattan Shirts, Stetson Hats. S.oJ.sTnd working Totte. r