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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1909)
The MewsHeralb TWICE A WEEK PLATTSMOUTJJ, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTKMHEll ;!3f VJOit VOL. XLYI N0.4& Soldiers' Home Badly Managed Board Has Practically Agreed That Conditions at Grand Is land are Not Desirable. The board of public lands and build ings, which investigated the charges against Commandant Eli Barnes of the soldiers' home at Grand Island, pre ferred by Adjutant Joseph McGraw, has not yet made its formal report, but has practically agreed that the report will be to the effect that the home is not being conducted as it should be and that there is a lack of harmony among the employees and consequently dissen sion amone the members. Insofar as the charges of graft in concerned, the board will report these charges were not sustained. The report will show that the mem bers in the hospitals are not receiving the kind of food they should receive and that the farmer has not done as well as he should have done. It was brought out in the evidence that several fist fights has occurred bttwetn employees and the manage ment had permitted the home to run down and it was in a deplorable con dition. While members of the board are of the opinion that it would be to the best interests of the state if both Com mandant Barnes and Adjutant Mc Graw, as well as the surgeon, Dr. Swigert, were discharged, they will doubtless make no such recommenda tion, but will simply report that under the present management the home is not being conducted as it should be. The fact that Commandant Barnes , has set aside the rules adopted by the board and installed a new set of rules came as a surprise to the board, though the governor stood by the commander, inasmuch as he said he had not signed the rules of the board. The rules of the board have been in force for some jtars, it being the opinion of tha mem bers that they stand until changed. Such also was the opinion of the attor ney general and the supreme court as evidenced by the quotations from the rales in a recent Cdta regarding the pension money of the soldiers. Governor Shallenberger has adjutant McGraw's resignation from his place "in the soldiers' home, to take effect Oct. 1. It is Laid that Mr. McGraw admitted to the governor that it was useless for the two to try to co-operate. Governor Shallenberger did not indicate who the next adjutant would be. . Poland China Sale. As will be seen from a reference to our advertising columns, E. M. Smith will sell 36 Poland China hogs at 1 o'clock p. m., October 11, at Kainey's livery barn in Union. This stuff is strictly Expansion Wan 36278, Onward Price 57756 and S. P. of Perfection Blood. The lot will be thin fleshed but no better blood lines can be found in the state, and if you are in the market for the class of hogs it will pay you to investigate. Toilet Goods. Weyrich & Hadraba. suit of clothes. It should not be. Price will take care of itself if the quality is 0. K. What you want is to get the price and quality to aree. This you will find done here. Our best selling line is $20 to 35, but for the man who may not want so fine a suit we have an extra value in a pure all worsted suit, with fine Sicilian lining and haircloth front for $15. Come in and see it. C. E. Wescotf s Sons "Where Quality Counts. THE HOME OF SATISFACTION. A Subscription Campaign. Wc wish to call the attention of our readers to the ad in another part of the paper in which we are making a special rate both for the campaign and for the balance of the year. This rate will just about pay for the paper it is print ed on, but we propose to make a cam paign for subscribers between now and the first of the year and make this rate so that all can give the paper a trial. At this rate you of our regular sub scribers who wish to have your friends take a good paper can send it to them, making them a present for the balance of the year. All subscriptions will stop after the time subscribed for, or with in a reasonable time after, unless a re newal is received at tho regular rate. Therefore, no one need to refuse the paper on the grounds that the subscrip tion will be allowed to accumulate against them. If you receive the pa per you will know some friend is send ing it to you as a present, and that you will not be required to pay for it up to the time it is paid for. Louisville's Celebration Hustling City Up the Creek in Carnival Attire Today, To morrow and Saturday. J. R. Noyes was in the city Tuesday with a bunch of boosters for the Louis ville carnival which commences today and lasts the balance of the week From a glance at the oflicial program which they were distributing one is at once impressed with the fact that a fine lot of talent has been secured lor the occassion and that the Louisville people are after Plattsmouth's scalp in the entertainment line. Haley & Fitzgerald's challenge band of sixteen pieces has been engaged for two big concerts daily, a boxing match has been arranged for Thursday even ing, a big ball game each day, a big shooting tournament ' for Friday," platform dance every evening and all the free attractions which are usually to be found at event3 of this kind. Louisville furnished her full quota of the attendance at Plattsmouth's big carnival, and it is to be hoped that she will not be disappointed in her attend ance from here. She has made great preparations, has a fine program en easred. and all may be assured of a fine entertainment. M. E. Assignment. Below is given a complete list of the assignments of pastors in Cass county as made by the Methodist Episcopal conference which adjourned in Lincoln the first of the week: Eagle-J. W. Davis. Elmwood-J. R. Woodcock. Louisville-G. M. Jones. Murdock and South Bend-Samuel Keiser. Mvnard and Eight Mile Grove-W 0. Harrcll. Nehawka-J. W. Farr. riuttsmouth-W. L Austin. Union -D. N. Poston. Wabash -W. B. Cornish. Weeping Water-J. C. Street. PRUCE Too many times people make price the important consideration in buyiner a Governor John son Dead Dies Tuesday Morning After Four Days of Intense Suffering. John Albert Johnson, three times governor or Minnesota, died at a.ii) o'clock Tuesday morning at Rochester, Minn., after four dirys of intense suf fering following an operation for in testinal trouble. John A. Johnson was in every essen tial a self made man. Born in the town of St. Peter, Minn., July 28, 18C1, of humble parentage, his father and mother having been Swedish immi grants, the boy managed to attend the puDlic schools until twelve years of age when his father died and the cre of his mother and younger brothers fell upon his shoulders. He com menced work as an errand boy in the drug store, later securing an interest in the St. Peter Herald and becoming its editor. He soon became recognized as a lcadtr in the democratic party and when the time :ame to nominate a democratic governor in 1904, he was named for the place, was elected and twice re-elected, in a state which was Btrongly republican, and if he had lived would have doubtless earned the demo crats banner in the next presidential campaign. Adolph 0. Ebcrhart, the new gover nor, is also of Swedish parentage, and is a republican. The Editor Sees Things. It was our pleasure last week while attending the Nehawka fair to accept the hospitality of Hon. and Mrs. E. M Pollard at their nice home near that town and to take tix o'clock dinner in comnanv witn Governor Sheldon, Su- f preme Judge Fawcett and Laurance II Daft at their residence on Friday even ing. It is certainly going some when a congressman, a governor, a supreme court judge and a candidate for a county office gtU a chance to cat at the. -tame table with an editor and we hope they feel their oats as much as we do be cause we had the privilege of being in such company. Saturday Mr. Frank Sheldon drove up to the house with his automobile and we were taken over the country and saw the nice farms in that locality. The Pollard farm of twelve hundred acres is a model place and we were much impressed with their fine 125 acre apple orchard. They are kept busy at this time of the year as they do an immense business in the shipping of apples. They have a large five story ware house in which is situated their own cooper shop where they make their own barrels used in the shipment of the fruit. They buy also large quantities of fruit from the farmers in that locality and ship it to all points of the country It is a large and extensive business and has been built up from what was form crly the homestead of the elder Mr, Pollard who took it a3 a government claim something like titty or more years ago. As one stands upon the hill and gazes oft! over that beautiful 1200 acre farm he can hardly realize that fifty years ago it was a wilderness inhabited by Indians with nothing to show the handiwo k of the white man But Nebraska is a state of development and the wilderness of fifty years ago is now the Garden cf Eden of America, To Leave Plaftsmou'h. Fred Lentz and wife.of Plattsmouth Ncbr., came Friday of last week to at tend to business matters and visit at the home of the lattcr'a brother, Frank W. Lentz. While here Mr. Lentz purchased the G. L. Berger and Louis Jensen farms southwest of town with the intention of moving here sometime in the not far distant future. Elm wood Leader Echo. Al O'Neil has purchased and re modeled, repaired and ropainted the cottage just west of the Missouri Pa I cific tracks on the cemetery road and . has moved into the same. He now has j one of the neatest appearing homes in ! the city. A party of land seekers headed by I Geo. L. Farley left Tuesday for Al i berta, Canada. A good many hundreds j of acres of land in that vicinity U owned by Cass county people, and fo i faJ as the News-Herai.!) knows all holders arc making money. John Bauer believes in Majestic ranges-he buys them by the carload and sells them on their merit, White Lead. Weyrich & Hadraba. The Nehawka Social Fair Our Correspondent at that Place tells of many Good Things , on Exhibition there. The fifth annual meeting of the Ne hawka Social Fair Association was held last Friday and Saturday. It was success in every particular. The weather was just cool enough for pleasure, and the rain a day or two be fore Imil laid the dust. The crowds were therefore in a mood to enjoy the splendid exhibits of grain, fruit and stock, and tho games, and the music of the El m wood band. The corn and apple exhibits were superior to the same exhibits at the state fair, although not so large, this was owing to the fact that they had about two weeks longer to ripen in. . There was more corn than any other tsingl exhibit. The Silver Mine white corn attracted a great deal of atten tion, and made a fine impression on the corn raisers and undoubtedly is a com ing favorite. L. C. Todd exhibited a half bushel of yellow the cars of which were all from 12 to 15 inches long. There were about 15 samples of red corn which was fine, and which seems to be a favorite variety for early feed ing, as many of the ears arc fully ma tured and hard. The yellow corn lay in great golden ricks each ear as big as a stick of stove wood, and representing car loads of high priced beef and pork. Robert Viall took first prize on white corn and Jos Deles second. Mcrrit Pollard stood first on yellow, and Geo, McConncll second, Claude Johnson car ried oft blue ribbon on red corn, and Robt Viall the red ribbon. There were displays of pop corn which turned all thoughts to next winters evenings when the popper comes in fashion, and the the taffy skillet is brought out. Hi. KontU ef Union had on exhibi lion some Lannaa corn which was a curiosity as each grain was covered with a separate shuck. A common remark, after looking at the corn was, "Why! I thought there was a drought in Nebraska this year." Then with a chuckle at their own wit the men turned to the exhibit of apples which stood'near by. The display was not as large as three years ago; but the apples were good size and highly colored, which added to their appear ence. Unfortunately we were unable to get the awards on the apple exhibit. Flowers stood next to the fruit, and considering the dry weather the display was uite good and well arranged. Owing to the dry weather the show of vegetables was not what it would have been with rains. But there was a good display of potatoes, squashes and pumpkins. But there was enough tomatoes, cabbage, beans, radishes and other vegetables to give variety to the display. There were only a few coops of caickens, but they showed goad points, scoring up to 92. Over in the needle work department there was a display that would make the Irish lacemakers, and the French embroiders go out in tho swamps and die if keen envy. And why shouldn't they if they wanted to I don't blame j them, for these things were all made ; by royal hands American queens. ! There was French embroidery, Honiton j and Dutchess point lace, Battenberg, , Walluchcn embrodery.Spadm enibroid- j cry. Hardangor.Erjchet lace and fancy' work that would drive a niecr editor ! man crazy if he tried to remember the looks or the nam- of them all. There was a noticable display in embroidery make by Mrs. Isaac Pollard, consisting of half a dozen pieces and all made since she was a grandma many year.'. And the sofa pillows. All sizes and ' shapes, and covered with the most , b-'antiful and bewildering designs What man is there but that would like to get an armful of them and go out 1 under a tree and lay a day and dream, and forget all about Cok,IVary the north Pole and the south dimension. ,Tlurc were festoons of quilts all around the walls of the room. And they were covered with all sort of designs. There was the old fashioned ' log cabin design.tho old fa-diioiu'd floial designs, the modern mathematical and line figure designs, an. 1 the up to date designs which I ok.s like a personal predcliction punch on the h -a I with a pole. The silk quilts were miracles of work and color., and one of them was j Continued to 8th page. I Death ol Mrs. Hisse. Friends in this city were shocked Tuesday morning to receive tidings of the death at an Omaha hospital of Mra. Lillian K. Hasse, after a lingering ill ness which extended over a period of several months. Deceased had many friends in Cass county.having formerly resided in this city and Weeping Water. For about ten years she held the position of clerk in the office of the county judge where many volumes of records in a fine spencerian hand will long stand as a monument to her skill and will com mand the admiration of all beholders. Funeral services were held yesterday at 2:30 o'clock from Jackson's under taking rooms at 1705 Leavenworth St. Those attending from this city were C. C. Parmele, Mrs. James Donnelly, Mr. and Mrs. William Street, Judge and Mrs. B. S. Ramsey. Mrs. E. II. Wescott, Mrs. E. E. Eaton, B. A. Mc Elwain and G. L. Farley, the last four named forming a quartet which sang at te services. President Visits Omaha William Howard Taft Says that "Paprika Schnitzel" is the Finest Ever. William Howard Taft, president of the United States, arrived in Omaha at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon on his grand tour of the west, and for up wards of seven hours spent one of the most strenuous limes of his life in be ing entertained. Upon his arrival of his special car he wat escorted through an avenue made by the officers in the crowds of cheer ing people that filled the Union station to a waiting automobile, and tho en tainmcnt commenced by a tour of the city, .through the wholesale, business and residence sections, past many pub lic and private Bchool buildings where the pupils Jined up.,by .their, teachers waved him a wvicnme with small American flags, then back to the Om aha ciub for a $20 dinner, where 150 knights of Ak-Sar-Bcn and a few others were seated, and finally to the den of King Ak-Sar-Ben, where the singers and jesters put on a special production of the beautiful oprey "Paprika Schnitzel" for the benefit of the presidential party. When the party a little before 11 o'clock, under the glare of thousands of colored lights that flooded the streets, where the president's special cars were attached to a special train, a welcome as strenuous as it was cordial was ended. Copyright ivV ty Hart icturfner Ac Mir The Home of Hart Schailner & Marx clothes Manhattan Shirts Stetson Hats Commissioner Proceedings Small Amount of Routine Busi ness Transacted at This Meeting. Board of County Commissioners met prusuant to adjournment, present M. L. Fricdrich and C. R. Jordon, Mr. Switzer being absent. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved, whereupon tho follow ing business was transacted in tegular form: GENERAL KUND Wm. Peters, team to farm $400 00 C. R. Jordon, aaly. and ex p 26 00 M. L. Friedrich, same 24 50 Louisville Courier, printing 1 50 Stander & Stander, funeral J. Studler 30 00 Neb. Telephono Co., tolls and rent 5 23 Lorenz Bros, mdse to poor 2 50 Wm. Wehrbein, livery. 3 00 Hatt & Son, mdse to poor... . 10 00 Hans Johnson, same 10 0(1 J. R. Pierson, oath to election board, refused 2 50 Zuckweiler & Lutz, mdse to farm 34 81 J. W. Hickson, labor 8 00 Dunkak & Mascman, burial of pauper L. B. Egenberger, mdse to poor. 45 00 16 00 95 3 00 John Waterman, lumber J. E. McDaniel, mdse to farm.. Allen J. Beeson, cost bill 112 11 E. M. Smith, fees in Clarence case 7 40 ROAD FUND A. D. Hathaway, road work R. D. No. 11 $216 75 W. S. Jordan, same No. 6 3 60 Guy Parsell, same No. 6 3 60 Art Giver, same No. 6 4 00. Frank Parsell, same No. 6 2 60 J. II. Buck, same No. 5 7 90 Lee Amett, culvert, No. 14 ... . 80 00 Wilson Concrete Co., same No.l. 70 75 A. N., Specr, lumber No. 8 49 55 B. Beckman.road work No. 10.. 193 75 W. C Bartlett, same No. 15. . . . 12 00 BRIDGE FUND. Wilson Concrete Co., culvert... $160 00 N. Constin. Co., bridge repairs. 453 13 Ben Beckman, same 16 50 Board adjourned to meet October 5 1009. W. E. ROSENCRANS, County Clerk. Justus Lillie is making soma im provements in his residence property in the second ward which will quite materially add to the appearance of the Bame, consisting of cement walk? around and leading up to the door. You're Interest ed In Fall Clothes CO Else you wouldn't be reading this add; being inter ested we invite you to come in and spend a lit tle time in trying on some of our new things. No one in town show ing as large, or nobby p line as ours. No old ones in here either. 00 Suit and Overcoats J $10 to $30