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THE NEWS-HERALD
IIATTMOIJr H. NICHWAHKA
Entered at the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska,
as second class mail matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY
THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publishers
P. A. BARROWS
E. A. QUINN
RATES OF
One Year in Advance, $1.50.
Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85.
JANUARY 6, 1910
If there is a sheet on the face of
the earth, the regions below, or the
heavens above, which is more un
truthful, more unfair or more unre
liable than the democratic organ
which plays such doleful music from
the Dougals county metropolis, the
editor of this paper would be glad to
behold it in all its unrightousness. It
has been trying to educate the people
io much into the belief that there is
nothing desirable which can come
out of the administration of President
Taft, that when the President begins
to show that he knows what he is
doing, the World-Herald continues
its campaign of mirepresentation,
instead of announcing to its readers
that it was mistaken in its forecast.
In the daily papers of yesterday morn
ing the dispatches from Washington
announced that a bunch of railroad
presidents had called upon the presi
dent for the purpose of trying to have
him cut out his message to congress
dealing with the transportation prob
lem, or at least to have him modify
it in their favor. These same dis
patches announced that they were
unable to do anything with President
Tuft and left the white house in a very
dejected frame of mind. The World
Ilerald however either could not read
right or else deliberately attempted to
deceive its readers. Finding noth
ing the dispatches which would
tend to place the president before
the people in an unpopular manner,
it threw a scare head on its front page
conveying the ides that the railroad
magnates had influenced the presi
dent to delay his message to congress.
By a perusal of the dispatches it will
be seen that they came away feeling
that their efforts had not been pro
lific of any desirable results. The
question which naturally arises in the
mind of every fair minded man is
"Does the World-Herald deliberately
deceive its readers or is it naturally
ignorant and cannot distinguish be
tween right and wrong " .
Wrhcn a groeeryman has to pay a
bigger price to the wholesale house
for his sugar and molasses, he raises
the price to his customers to corres
pond, and while the customer may
kick a little, he will, if he is a fair
minded man, see that such a course
is the only one for the groeeryman if
he wants to continue business. If
the clothing man has to pay the whole
sale clothing house more for his suits
he sells to the retail trade he raises
the price and the customer pays it.
If the prices of hogs and cattle goes
up the butcher has to raise the price
of his meat at the market to corres
pond and the customers take it, and
the business judgement of the butcher
nn I do not blame him. Hut let the
newspaperman raise the subscrip
tion price of his paper to corre.-pond
with the price of the material
bought of the wholesale house, or
. print all ; home because the
', rendy print house is compel! d to!
rai e the price of the nady made!
nrli,h, then the people commence to!
kick, threaten to slop the piper end in !
the end, ii the ne.vspapei man has not '
cppil.d enough to stand the t'-s :e
cither has to give up I u.-i:u-.--.;. eul'
(! ) n the size of hi - paper, r.i. e tl.e.
prize, H' uis'cba! .-ome cf I he ' . 1 j
it!-;! t out a poon r pap- r in cn'er .
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papeman gets it oui:;:; ami t:;.
He. has to pay I lie advance for I he raw
pre. h'f ami if he attempts to i;,;-.c
the price of the finished arti"V to
correspond the stuff i- olV.
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Editor
Magager
SUBSCRIPTION
Six Months in rdvance, 75c
Nebraska Telephone No. 85
Last week's issue of the Union
Ledger contains the announcement
of the marriage of its editor to a young
lady who will assist him in his jour
nalistic career. Her duties will be
to meet him at the door as he comes
from his offico escort him to the
dining room where he will have the
pleasure of forgetting his troubles at
the ofuce and while he feasts on the
good things which will be provided for
him. This may not seem very much
like newspaper work for her but just
the same she will be the power be
hind the throne, or rather the one who
if the editor gets a good meal, he can
go back to the print shop and do a
good job either with the pen or the
stick as the case may be. You can
always tell by the tone of an editor's
editorials or his news items what kind
of a meal he had for dinner. While
the Ledger has always shown that the
editor has had good things to eat there
is no doubt but what it will continue
to shine as before. The Daily News
and the News-Herald both extend
congratulations to the editor and his
new wife and wish them a Happy
New Year and many more to come.
The last issue of the Lincoln Trade
Review was something you ought to
read. Its showing of the state was
very flattering and while flattering it
was true. In its showing of the past
ten years there is some very interest
ing information. On corn as also
on oats, the year 1905 was the banner
year for the last ten years, Nebraska
raising that year. 203,551,772 bushels
of corn and 78,552,878 bushels of
oats. 1902 was the best year for
wheat, the state raising 52,72(5,451
bushels, though the year 1900 was
close to it with 52,288,092 bushels.
The poorest corn crop was in 1901
when the state raised only 109,141,810
bushels. The poorest wheat crop was
in 1900 with only 24.S01.900 bushels,
and the poorest oat crop in the same
year with 37,778,572 bushels. The
products of the Nebraska farms the
past year amounted to $402,579,085.
Don't you wish you were a Nebraska
farmer.
It is strange what obstructions arc
laid in the pathway of some men
when they undertake to establish a
paper in some community which needs
it. Generally the newspaper frater
nity all over say good things about the
first edition and boost it all they can,
but oceasionly some fellow has no bet
ter business than to dash the bright
hopes of the new paper's editor to
the groung with criticism. A couple
of weeks ago the Franklin Journal was
issued with bright hopes for the future.
The edit.:- v.j feeling good ut ihe
ma.. nice things which was said by
his brethern of the profession, He i
mad now. And he has good cause to
iie. He read in the Red Ch ild Ad-j
vertiser that the new paper was a
w.-m a democratic slice t and if Editor
Campbell ev r meets Ih.t Advertiser!
in : n there is g. !:; to lie . :,;n 'thing do-!
Indications point at this time to,
a;re:it work on t!.e pail of ihe prisuit j
c imj-'v. If Ihv-hieht Taft has his
way I'ctc v. ii! lie v, oik done which v i!l '
huh ep tic M!,ic!;er-i. ,-hnl no the
h'eke- it! d pni t i fh-ht (he fault 1
toder. I' -h'.oj.l ,,, ivm-trd'cro.!
that "Litre bodie.i move slowly" and
m should a!-o he ivmenil err.! that they
;.. nerally ihi a rood job and tun out
i'i the h i., ! article. IVe-i-
hnl Taft i.s a :rc,e body, as n jmi t
he has !. en i dueatctl in a school which ',
weighs matters carefully and takes
time to render judgment. It will
be found that in this matter when
judgment is rendered that all that
the people are entitled to will be given
them if congress follows out the wishes
of the president.
The much vaunted Oklahoma bank
guarantee law is in hard lines. It is
rumored that Governor Haskell may
call a special session of the legisla
ture to do something to save the law
from the cold grave. The suprerr.e
court decisions in Nebraska and Kan
sas against a similiar law have had
much to do with the feeling in Okla
homa that possibly the law is not all
that it was expected that it would be.
The conditions which have been
brought about by the failure of the
Columbia Hank & Trust company
in which all of the guarantee funds
arc tied up has put a damper on the
enthusiasm of the people who were
former advocates of the law in Okla
homa. And now some fellow has sent out
the announcement that Jim Elliott
of the West Point Republican wants
to go to Congress. Then the Madison
County Reporter rises up and says
that the Republican party could go
farther and not fare any worse. We
don't Bee how the third district could
be much worse off than it is now any
how. One thing is sure and that is
if Jim Elliott was representing the
third district he could show those fel
lows down at Washington a few things
on stud poker which to say the east
would be more commendable than
insurging against their own party.
POP ARGUMENT.
Colonel Brown, of the Kearney Hub,
is a strictly temperate man, but we
believe this will not prevent him from
appreciating the force of this figure of
speech as it comes from the Des Moines
Tribune: "An insurgent movement
that docs not insurge is like a bottle
of pop that has stood open for a day
and a half." Central City Nonpariel.
And an insurgent movement that
does insurge is like that same bottle
of pop when it is openred. First a
noise, then slops over and gets stale.
The Nebraska State Journal issued
a Sunday edition with a write up of
that thriving city and its suburbs
which was very interesting reading,
and more especially at this time when
the eyes of the world are on her on
account of her dry condition relative
to the absence of saloons. The con
ditions shown do not warrant the as
sertion that Lincoln has lost anything
by the absence of the wet goods em
poriums. The editor of the Journal in speak
ing of the sugar fraud investigations
does not let slip an opportunity to
make the matter look bad for the presi
dent and says that the "rotten perfor
mance smells to heaven." We would
like to know what the Journal editor
knows about the smell around heaven.
He hasever been closer than South
Omaha.
A preacher killed hirr.cfi the other
day because his choir did not get along
without quarrelling, lie miust have
been new at the preaching business
or he would have know that a choir
which got along ami somebody didn't
get mad oceasionly certainly were on
the verge of sprouting wings and had
an early order in for harps.
And now another expedition i.s bc-
in; fitted out to discover the route
really taken by Dr. Cook. Here's hop
ing that it is discovered that Dr.
Cook is the true discoverer. Sonic
how or other we cannot get ov r the
idea that Dr. Cook is not the fraud
which present indications would lead
one to believe he miirht be.
I,.I i r..i t. .I... u.:. 1.....1 ....
v. ill not be '.onoa l't d to : uh r from i
tiie pai''i' of heel" r aftir he has si t
tled all ciaio ; t ., a;. 'lies! ,i:,i. He i
v ill h.i'f -oui'-l hiinr like m ven mi!-'
hen doll,, is h !' whit h wh' '.o a I m;.; '
ways towah! giving I im a start again,
and a!: ii w ill i. t ... me in L pie,f the
Wolf fl'Oill the i'iii !'.
It is estimated that the products
of the farms of NchiMska for the sen-
son of 1909 arc about four times the
total output of gold from the United
States and its possessions. Every
farm in Nebraska which has been
properly cultivated has been a gold
mine to its owner during the past few
years.
President Taft refused to change
bis message to congress last Monday
when a bunch of railroad presidents
I called upon him for the purpose of
influencing him to modify his mes
sage. The railroad men left the white
house very dejected. Democratic and
insurgent papers please take notice.
This paper was offered one dollar
a column to print the plate matter
sent out by the Merchants and Manu
facturers Association of Omaha. We
turned it down. We want advertising
all right, but that kind does not find
its way into the columns of this paper
under the present management.
The Blaine County Rooster is a
new paper which conies to us bearing
all the car marks of prosperity and
evidence that the boys behind
it are of the right sort. It is printed
in Dunning ami if the paper does not
make good it will not be the fault of
the proprietors.
The blizzard which has struck us
this week reminds one very much of
the old time storms which made Ne
braska notorious for its blizzards and
which the very mention of a "Ne
braska Blizzard" made the cold shivers
run up and down a man's spinal column
The Wright Brothers have enjoined
Glenn Curtis from riding through
the air with his air ship. We have
heard of people acting as though they
owned the earth, but this is the first
time that a fellow has ever claimed that
he owned the atmosphere.
John D. Rockefeller has been select
ed as foreman of the jury which is to
probe into the white slave traffic in
New York city. He ought to pour
oil on the troubled waters in sufficient
quantities to produce results.
And now beautiful Los Angeles is
getting hers. For forty-eight hours
she was cut off from the outside world
by storms which Bwept over the city.
Railroad grades were swept away and
the city was flooded.
A lot of Indians indulged in an
automobile ride out in Colorado
Sunday over the ground formerly
covered by them on the broncho.
What a change for the red man.
Gaynor, the new mayor of New York
has turned the Tammany gang of
office holders out and they will now
be compelled to work for an honest
living like decent people.
The financial operations of the gov
ernment for the month of December
showed a balance to the right side of
over two million dollars.
The Union Veterans Republican
club of Lancaster county has endorsed
Senator Burkett for reelection to the
United States senate.
Notwithstanding the protest of the
World-Herald Judge Lurton has ta
ken his seat as a member of the U.
S. supreme court.
Did you write it 1910 the first time.
EN DANKRUPTCY.
In 1 he United States District court
for the District f Nebraska, Lin
coln division.
In the mailer of While Brothers,
Charles 1,. Vv lute and Par.! A. White,
"Bankrupts. Case No. (;).
At room (115 lirandeis Building
in the city of Omaha, Douglas county,
Nebraska, before Charles (!. McDon
ald, referee in Hanl ruptey :
Notice is hereby givdi that on the
J'Mh day of December A. D. M)'.),
iwiirri: m:oTU!.!:s, chahll's
I.. WHITE and PAUL A. WHITE.
i re duly adjudicated bankrupts,
land that the fir.-t nit etinjr of creditors
I.iiihlimr, in the t i'y i f ( hi aha. Doii"
h. ; county, . bra. ska, on the ITlli day
of Jamiaiy, A. D. I'.IJO at one o'clock
in the ai'tei noon, at which lime the
croitors may attend, prove iheir
c'ain.s, appoint a trustee, ex
amine tl.e bankrupt, and transact
such othtr business as may propel !y
Collie lu folo said laeelini;.
Dated at ( nucha, Xebia-' a. Januarv
:h'd, V. D. 11 Itl.
Charles G. McDonald. J
IU 'fence . i
WEEPING WATER ITEMS.
From the Rtpublica.
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George Corley came down from
Omaha to feast on good things Christ
inas and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs." J. W. Bullis invited
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. LWolcatt, Mrs. II.
B. Wolcott and D. H. Mills and wife
to Christmas dinner.
Mrs. DeWolf and Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Peterson went to Plattsmouth
this Wednesday to visit.
Mrs. Troop of Plattsmouth was
here attending the funeral of Julia
Willis.
Mrs. J. M. Leyda came over from
Plattsmouth Tuesday for a few days
visit with her mother, Mrs. Dcfibaugh
and sister Mrs. Olive.
W. W. Carter was running a hand
corn shcller last week, and his mitten
got caught in the crank, twisting his
arm so severly that it laid him up
for some time.
It was a twenty five pound turkey
at the E. E. Day home Christmas and
those besides his family to dine were
Walter Cole and wife, Mrs. G. W.
Norton, Mr. and Mrs. Polhemus and
Dr. F. P. Reed and wife.
That nice turkey Doctor Shannon
purchased for Christmas fed J. M. Tee
garden and family, I. W. Teegardcn
and family, and Mr. and Mrs. D. T.
Dudley and Mabel.
Henry Woodford came down from
Bridgeport, where he has been sur
veying for the U. P. railroad. He
was accompanied from Lincoln by
Miss Bayard, to spend Christmas, re
turning Tuesday via Omaha.
With Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Lyman
for Christmas dinner, were gathered
O. R. Lamb and wife of Grant, and
Charles Lyman, Mrs. Ncwschafer, O.
G. Coglizer and family, and Miss
Hazel Ailing of Lincoln. This was
not a pre-nuptial dinner, although
invitations are out for the wedding of
Charles Layman and Miss Ailing to
take place Januery 12th. The lr.de
and groom to be expect to accompany
Mr. and Mrs. Lamb to California.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
UnitmLedgcr.
Miss Mary Foster, county super
intendent was down from Plattsmouth
to spend Christmas wjHi her parents
returning to Plattsmouth on the Sun
day evening train.
Mrs. Nicholas Klaurens of Murray
changed cars here last Saturday af
ternoon on her way home from Ne
hawka where she had been visiting
with her parents.
A. E. Whitlow, Mo. Pacific operator
at Plattsmouth, was here last Sat
urday to eat Christmas dinner with
his brother, Geo. F. Whitlow and
family.
Col. Robt. Wilkinson, the well
known auctioneer, was over from Dun
bar on Monday and was calling on
some of his Union Friends. Col.
Wilkinson certainly has a pair of
leather lungs, for he has been ofticiatinir
at pub'"c sulci ;.!most every day the
past lew weeks.
Attonny II. G. Wellcnsiek of Avoca
was in town a short time Monday
afternoon on his wav to the eoimtv
seat to attend to some leH busi
ness.
Mont Rob!) was down from My
nard last week to spend Christmas
with his family on the farm. Mr. Robb
was accompanied by L. J. Guzincr
a bookkeeper in the Norfolk asylum
a position which lie held during the
time Mr. Bob!) was steward e.t that
institution.
A bold bad burglar made his ap
pearance at the Rest haven hotel last
Saturday night ami took possession
of a room without the formality of
making his presence known, ami when
he departed next inoniinir Gennn.
Stites' extra suit of clothing and sev
eral small articles belonging to Vernon
Am disapptared with him. The fel
low was stt ii arming town Saturday
evening and Sunday moinim;, hut
sailed away before the theft was dis
covered, and is not expected to call
hit -r.
Eetrcn.
Mr. and Mrs. Gi,l
iw ilh r ,-ec( h, , .1
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.'amily of San ."i, ( 'ah
iieh'.-i'ven
(.. C. Kiplmm-r ami fami!..- of ;
Lincoln .-neiil ( 'hristn.as wii h H!t b'
aunt Mr Gisliwiller.
Mi'v litla Me-.- and .-d.-t.-r ccm,
Crabtree are isiiimj at homo thning 1
the holidays. . ;
John Adams and son Jay went I.J
Omaha .Wednesday to attend the
poultry show. Jay has some of his
fine Buff Orpington chickens on ex
hibit there.
Roy Winfrcd of Weeping Water
visited Vic Manspeaker Wednesday.
Noel Mainners team became frigh
tened at the train Sunday morning
and overturned the buggy breaking it
it up considerable. After running
a short distance they were caught by
Dr. Dihel who happened to be near.
NEIIAWKA ITEMS.
(Special Corretpcndencc.)
Dr. Walker returned home today
accompanied by his mother Mrs.
James Walker and his sister Mrs.
Gilmore both of Murray.
George Young of Alva. Okla., is
here visiting his brother Lew, who has
a leg broken caused by a mule falling
on it.
James Baker brought the body of his
wife to Union on the midnight train.
She died at Dccautur, Neb., of con
sumption. Thomas Baker, father of James
Baker took suddenly illlyesterday and
was not expected to live through the
night.
Havelock Items.
Mrs. D. P. Down depaited for Platts
mouth Wednesday where she will
spend the New Year.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tighe returned
Monday morning from Portsmouth
where they spent Christmas with Mrs.
Tighe's parents.
Two hundred and eighty dollars
worth of postage stamps were sold
at the Havelock postoffice in eight days
during the Christmas holidays.
Depart For Peru.
Misses Emma Falter.aStanfield Jones
Vesta Douglass and Delia Tartsch
left for Peru this afternoon on No. 2.
They expected to catch a special at
Pacific Junction, which is to bring
the students in from Omaha and Coun
cil Bluffs.
J. W. Edwards and his father A.
Edwards were passengers to Ne
braska City on the morning train
today. The latter will go before the
pension board at that place for ex
amination for increase in pension.
The ex-soldier now draws $24.
Dr. C. A. Marshall returned this
morning from Kansas city where he
he went on business and was acectn- t
panied part way by Ids son, Ralph,
whio returned to his sehnol Ki.t,!;
...wa kj
after spending the Christmas vacation
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wuii ins pai ems.
C. A. Thompson of Grand Forks,
S. D. iS tllC ffllfst. ff fiaa p.
White for a few days. Mr. Thomp
son is the assistant Superintendent
of Construction and Building of the
Liuversiiy at urand J orks.
Miss Anna Miehnelnn r.r n.,..i.
.... HUSH-
ville has been the guest during the
vacation of her friend Miss Christina
Hansen in this citv Ttoil, ,
j unite
ladies departed for Peru last evening
,u u; year &i scknool.
Miss Bertha Jackson frt lifnnJ
Grand Island this morning where she
is attendii g business college. Mrs.
Jackson finishes her course next Juno'
when she will be equipped for any
position in hr line.
Miss Guendelin Bonn ,!nr,n,t.i ....
finish the school year, having SJ)rnt
her vacation with relative in this
city.
.....vi .Ma yruidwiio has hern spend-
Hill (lit 1...I.M.. . i . '
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-S .- oouoays uiui her paru.tn j
this city returned to IVns last evening
where shejaltending the Normal.
Win. Robert,,, is expected home
from Lincoln today where he has been"
on legal Inisini ss.
'! Horn and Minnie Sage both
lwi at Phitlsniouthwere ,ar-
ingthe i"-wyearri"l:t.
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