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1 MEETING OF CLUB Commercial Club Meets and Elects Delegates to the State Association. ROAD PROPOSITION GIVEY GOOD BOOST I dition of the meal factory to the city's i manufacturing list would mean a big i drawing; card for the surrounding far ! triers and would make a new market ; for some of their produce. The committee on pitting out an ! illustrated pamphlet of Plattsmouth was civen the consent cf the clui) to 1 secure estimates on the approximate ; cos; of publishing such a hook and, in all pru'babilill's, one v. ill lie issued ', before many inons have il.ipse.!. I TIic committers on the proposed ' editor's convention a:id club banquet ; were advised V) push the affair through for this spring and before the adjournment ol the evening meeting it was voted to have a special session of the club Thursday, April 7. A. S. Will Makes the Club a Very Generous Oiler In the Matter of Paving Chicago Avenue. Very interesting meeting of the Com mercial club ot tins city was neiu at Coates Hall last evening, at which delegates to the State Commercial Convention at Columbus, April 27 and 28 were elected and definite ac; tion as to the paving of Chicago avenue taken. The meeting was not very largely attended, and in the absence of the president and secretary, the vice president, H. M. Windham took the chair and C. W. Maylor presided at the book. One of the first matters of import ance brought up was the reading of a communication received by the sec retary of the club from the authorities at Washington, wherein it was stated that it was very possible that Platts- mouth could secure the services of a government road expert from the Department of Agriculture. The club had written in the hopes of getting such a man, and in reply, find that if Norfolk and other Nebraska towns are interested enough to use such a man, he will be sent out here at once. IfUie man comes, he will likely jr . i ... . r' do some demonstrating work on the '"'ty roads probably Washington Ave- rrftPT and give a number of lectures on the building of roads. On the move mcnt of Mr. Tidd, it was voted to ask for the services of Mr. W. L. Spoon, a representative of the Secretary of Agriculture, who is familiar with the road conditions in Nebraska. In the matter of macadamizing Chicago Avenue, it was voteed to se cure a civil engineer to estimate on the city's share of expense of the undei tak ing at once. Mr. A. .S. Will has agreed to furnish the teams for hauling al the stone to the street and to do all the preparing of the street ready for N inrge to the city oif they will do the rT of the work. This most generous otter should be greatly appreciated by the citizens, who ought to taki .Jnlil if tint ni'tt tr it iwl tiitu'h : i to a lmish. it .Mr. ill goes into this undertaking he wants to see ii dune right, the street properly gnul ed and the telephone poles set out ol the way, leaving a street, which, as platted, measures SO fed. The stone road in the center would measure about 20 feet, leaving ample gutter: on the sides for the carrying off of the water. There would have to be some changes in the arrangements of the culverts, but these changes would nut be of very much expense. If it is thought ad viable by the people, this good citizen is willing to show what this road is like by laying a section of it in front of his residence to prove it's worth for these kind of roads It was voted to prepare a petition signed by the members of the club to be presented at the next round il.. 1 ll ' I- 1 .4 I l rieriing, mai mis worn nc pin mroiigi McCauley Discharged. Charles McCauley, the Plattsmouth boy v ho has been in the county jail since last September, with the excep tion of the time when he was wander ing over the country as a fugitive, was yesterday discharged from custody on motion of County Attorney Tyrrell, who caused the complaint against the prisoner to be dismissed. McCauley was charged with burglary, it being alleged that he entered the residence of Frank Watson on North Tenth street, during the daytime, Septem ber 2. McCauley was taken to the court house from the jail yesterday af ternoon and asked by the county attor ney if he would plead guilty. He stated that he had gone to the Watson ionic for the purpose of committing no offense. He would not, therefore, plead guilty. The county attorney onsidered the case against the young man a weak one, and there fore tlis- missed it. McCauley was one of the men who escaped from the jail last September. Several weeks later he was picked up on the erects of Platts mouth. He stated thu-i, he was heart ily tired of being a fugitive, and would rather be in jail than constantly dodg ing the officers. State Journal. In Honor ol Mrs. Ed Barker. Mrs. J. M. I.eyda delightfully en tertained, Wednesday, six ladies in honor of Mrs. Ed Barker' of Plain view, Neb., who is the guest of her mother, Mrs. O'Niell. . These ladies were memheis of a card club when Mis. Marker resided in Plattsmouth and the affair was in the form of a re- uniun. Music and ' cards were the chief amusements of the afternoon. I he decorations were green and white, the place cards being little shamrocks. The hostess served a delicious two- course luncheon and was assisted be her mother, Mrs.. Emma Dcfibaugh, and daughter, Miss Ethel Leyda. Those enjoying Mrs. Leyda's hos pitality were Mesdames Ed. Marker, Chester II. Smith, J. M. Johns, 'W. C. Tippens, Wm. Schmidt mann and the hostess, Mrs. J. M. Leyda. plums. This is to be accomplished J w hose nuddlc contains but a small by playing the morning games in foi r i amount of ooze where some distant towns, after which the clubs will jump ' ancestor perhaps had a slight trace of in the sftemoon to the other cities. Here is the Fourth of July program: Fremont in Seward, a. in.; Kearney in Fremont, p. m. Coii'inbus in Kearney, a. m.; Kear ney in Columbus, p. m. Hastings in Grand Island, a. in.; Grind Island in Hastings, p. rn. Supeiior in lied Cloud, a. m.; lied Cloud in Superior, p. m. Lin coln News. Tom Fairweather, president of the Sioux City club, lost out in his race for alderman this week. Lincoln and Omaha play a series of games before the season opens begin ning with April 2 and 5 m Omaha. The Lincoln dates will be the 14th and 15th. Schoolmaster Jones has notified the Lincoln mamagement that he will be ready for business April 50. With the pitching staff which Lincoln will have it will mean that Johnnie w ill not have to pitch other pitchers' games, but will only be required to take his turn with the rest. This means he will be classed among the classiest of the pitchers of the Western this season. It has alwavs been the. luck that he had to overwork himself and as he result he was not able to deliver the goods he otherw ise would. The Cubs got bumped again Tues day by the Naps. This makes the second game that his bearship has had to succumb to the men from Ohio. The score was Cubs (i-6-2, Naps 8-9-1. Chicago Sox No. 1, 7-15-1; Fresno 0-G-1 . Such was the score of the game at Fresno Tuesday. Sox No. 2 and Portland played a re markable game Tuesday in which neither side score. Sox, 0-5-0; Port land, 0-6-0. Catnnitz, one of Pittsburg's star pitchers who has been holding out, has at last come into the fold and has signed a 1010 contract. Catcher P.illv Sullivan of the Chi cago Sox. stepped on a rusty nail Sat urdav just after the game and is at the present time in a very serious condi tion from blood poison. He lias been delirious for some hours and his wife was wired to go to his bedside. real gray matter. This Marithon race business is gct- ting to be some business in more ways i than upon the circular track. Last J year we witnessed the Maruhon at ! Los Angeles (hiring the Elks' eonven- tion in which the Hopi Indian lad from Arizona staggered across the tape after completing a run of 2(5 miles, while his less enduring competitors flopped fits after covering but half the distance. We crossed our finger's then and vowed never again to wit ness anything so extremely foolishly and brutal. Why, a Jurez bull fight in comparison is as tame as a deacon's morning invocation long side aJournal writetip of a city council meeting. Last week out in Frisco the (iOO's held a Marithon dance. There's only 597 now. After dancing for 41 hours without even spitting on their hands for a new hold, the dance was called off and two of their members hur ried before the board of insanity who pronounced their cases hopeless. An undertaker and kind friends did d in their power for the third, and then we sometimes wonder why men drink. X SOME SORTS Written by "Our Devil" with the mallet.) tof'fmish, and it was suggested that the members attend the council meet ing in person to lend their efforts in the securing of the new paving. Three del-gates, E.II.Wescott, J. I' Falter and A. L. Tidd were elected to attend the convention of commer cial clubs at Columbus in April, their traveling expenses to be paid out of the club's treasury. The alternates H. H. Windham, A. S. Will and Ray Patterson were also elected by the club members. The proposition of having some sort of a fall entertainment to draw the people into the town was discusse ut length and in conclusion it was voted to have die chair appoint a com mittee of 20 farmers and 10 club men to work up a fall event in the nature of a combined stock and agricultural uliow and merchants carnival to be held on some spot centrally located for the citizens. The big sand bar just east of the city was spoken of by one of the leading boosters as an 1 ideal place for such an affair, where a few wooden buildings could be erected and a race track constructed at a very small cost. The movement toward getting an alfalfa meal factory established in the til was revived by Mr. Tidd and the I rtion was carriedd to have a com- I ,nittee of 15 farmers and 5 citizens ap !..i.l l.i iiuiltiT nn mill dn I JHMII It'll liU iun. viiv. ...v... t all in their power to introduce such Y' a concern iu the locality. The ad-p A New Booster In Town. He is a Booster all right, but he came mighty near being an Irishman. He arrived in to n ery early Friday wearing a uoostcr button of the most approved style and has been voted a member of the Commercial Club. Assistant to the secretary is his title but his superior officer w ill be expected to do all the work, for some time at least. Hilt Wescott may be only five fett high, but he is standing up straight this morning smiling his broadest and as he hands out the cigars he whispers gently, "it is a boy." Congratulations to the proud and hap py parents and may all their troubles be little ones. X Declined. I appreciate the honor conferred by the Citizens Convention by nomi nating me for Councilman m the Fourth Ward, but owing to personal plans, I cannot accept, and therefore must decline the nomination. George Mallancc. OMAHA MISSIONARY MEETING A SUCCESS Big Gathering ol Laymen at the Banquet In that City Last Mght TUFF LUCK FOR JIM If it took our old friend Ilosencrans twenty minutes to shave a man, Halley's comet seventy-five years to reappear and pork selling at $10 in Omaha, w hat w ould the pi ice of cheese in Hong Kong Five or six decades before the mighty Columbus had a thought that new- lands were to be found far Mother o'er the seas, another "crazy Shi (don's individual sprung a prophecy Prophecy upon the inhabitants at that time w hich branded her as a subject for the "foolish factory," but if those who ridiculed her verse at that time could but sit up and take notice today, they would have to ad mit that Mother Shipton was there with the goods, so to speak. Fol lowing is the article as first published in 14 IS, and later reproduced "just for foolishness" in 1CG1: Cairiages without horses will go And accidents fill the world with woe, Round the world thoughts will fly In the twinkling of an eye. Water will yet more wonders do, Now strange but yet they will be true The world up side dow n shall be And gold be found at the root of a tree. Through hills men shall ride And no horse nor ass be at his side. Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk; Iu the air men shall be seen In white, in black, in green; Iron on the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found and shown In land that is not now known. Fire and w ater shall wonders do, England shall at last admit the Jew The world to an end will come In eighteen hundred eighty-one. This prognosticator of centuries ago had a most wonderful foresight as the above shows. If the author had been satisfied when the wandering Jew built his bungalow over in London, instead of going a step further and trying to outdo the man who wrote the bible, she would have scored a complete triumph. While Teddy is coming in for his share of the glory just at present, it might be well to hand a little bunch of praise to his daughter-in-law o be, Miss Alexander, whom Teddy Jr. will wed in the flower month. Too much credit cannot be given the little miss for her intentions to marry an America Of course we w ill say that is her duty, and that she deserves no credit. Not so today, when the fond parents of a Fifth avenue heiress have their elec tric orbs open to the sight of a title, such as a duke, a count, a noaccount or a prince. An American boy for Miss Alexander, one who has brains VI,V'V'V'V'V,V',UlWVVWi AAAnnAAAAnnnnn SOUTH BEND njt xjtnjmji njt xjmjmjmjmjtnjmjt ui i AnnnAAAAiniAAAAi Sam'l Long is an out of town visi tor this week. E. Stutzenegger left for Troy, N. Y., the middle of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln spent Sunday at the Kaneff home. Miss Hamilton went to Murdock Friday evening to spend the evening with friends. Mrs. Towle and sons of Wabash visited with relatives here Sunday Josic Kaneff and Alma Hansen arc visiting in town this week while Mrs. Kaneff is spending the week with her daughter Mrs. II. C. Hansen in Louisville. A new well is being dug near the pump station on the Rock Island this week. J. A. Meaty and his force of men have left for their work on a division of the Rock Island near Lorton, Kan. The damage due to ice on the bridge at this point was not what it was an ticipated to be. F. D. 1 1 ill and son of Omaha spent Sunday with home folks. Mrs. Rent of Ashland is the guest of the Sam'l Long home this week' Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hill and daugh ter spent Sunday with the Wallick family in Lincoln. II. P. Long journeyed to Omaha Monday morning on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kline and daugh ter came in Sunday noon to be the guest of the W. I), family. A show was given in town Friday evening and was considered by all a very good one. Slight of hand perfor mances withtraincd bird made an in teresting program. Ross Hill made his regular trip to Lincoln Sunday, where he is receiv ing rinstuetions on the violin of Hagen- ow. A moving picture show is billed to be attheM'W. A. hall, Mar' 25. M. F. Dill returned from a few days visit, in Lincoln, Saturday evening. The Laymen's Missionery move ment which culminated in a series of meetings covering Thursday, Fri day, Saturday and Sunday iu Omaha, began Thursday evening with a ban quet in the auditorium in that city to which over 1400 men sat down and enjoyed a fine supper. It would be useless for us to go into details regarding the opening session, suffice it to say that those who did at tend enjoyed something they prob ably never will have another chance to see. When you take into consid eration that the very best there is in the world is gathered together and is traveling around the country holding a series of seventy-five meet ings iu different parts of the United States, you can see what those who at tend have a chance to enjoy and those who fail to attend, miss. These meetings will continue the rest of the week closing Sunday with a mass meeting in the Omaha audit orium at 3:30 in the afternoon. Homer C. Stunz of New York City and George Sherwood Eddy of India will be the speakers. We do no care if one is interested in foreign missions or not, he cannot afford to miss this chance to hear something from somebody he probably never w ill get another chance to hear. The local people who attended the banquet last evening were Rev. Moore, Luke Wiles, Richard Osborn, M. A. McElwain, George Farley, Mert Pol lock, Thomas Pollock, C. C. Wescott and P. A. Marrows. Rev. Steger, John Albert and Leonard Morn went dow n this morning to be present at some of today's meetings. Projects Wedding Will Be Postponed Until More Convenient Season. FIRST OFFENCE, BUT TOO LATE NOW Got In Bad Company and Will Probably Have to Take Ills Medicine. iAAAAAAAAAAAAi DIAMOND DUST iVVVVVVWWW' iAAAAAAAAAAAAi The Nebraska State League held its schedule meeting yesterday at Sew ard and adopted a playing schedule of 112 gums. President Despain of the Lincoln club, met with the state leaguers and was tendered a vote of thanks for his assistance in the draft ing of the schedule. The league sea son is to open May 10 and close September 10. An innovation was the adoption of a schedule which provides for a series of only two games be tween any two clu bs. This wil enable any club in the circuit to play its seven opponents within a period of fourteen days, avoiding long stays at home and keeping up the interest in the game. This arrangement wil add to the transportation expense but the league directors held to the belief that they would be money ahead by keeping the teams on the jump. Red Cloud is to open at hew ard, Superior at Fremont, Hastings at Columbus and Kearney at Grand Island. The schedule provides for in the dome that besets his shoulders an even division of the Fourth of July ' and not a titled excuse of humanity Something Good Tonight. Lively, farce comedy will hold the boards at the Parmcle theatre, tonight when the William Grew Stock Co., return to this city for their weekly visit. The popularity of this talented company is rapidly increasing, and if the large number of applicants for member ship in the Once-a-Wcek club stand for anything, it's proven beyond doubt that the amusement loving public of this city are anxious and will ing to support a stock company of merit one night a week. Mr. Grew has selected a comedy of Stirling worth entitled, "Is Marriage a ' Failure " for his return engagement tonight The play is from the pen of a well known French play write. A. Plaudel, and has been adapted for use in this country by A. Daly. The play enjoyed a successful run in this country, and proved one of the real hits of the season. In the character of Adclphus Doubledot, a rising young musician, Mr. Grew will have a part well suited to him, and Miss Pettes w ill be seen in the leading female role, that tf Diana, Doub'cdot's first wife. All the members of the Grew company will be in the cast, Taylor Rennet, Edna Sevier, Robt. Enders, Iy Mowman, Frank Hettcr iek, Sam Meharry, Edith Spencer Graydon Fox and Manuel Snyder w ell know n to Omaha audiences joins the Grew Company this week playing an important part. (From Thursday's Daily) The hearing was held this morn ing before County Judge Meeson of the two men arrested in Louisville Wednesday for the burglary of the clothing store of Moone & Davis at Weeping Water. One of tho men, James Lynch, age 23, has been em ployed for several years past in a shoe factory in Minneapolis. He told a patheytic story to the judge that this was the first time he hud ever gone wrong, and he showed a photograph of a young lady he expected to marry in the fall. He, with the other man. Hairy C. Harrison of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to the charge, waiving examination. Their bond was placed at $500, but not being able to sign for them this morning, thev were placed in the county jail, to await their trial in the district court, which will probably be held Saturday. The penalty for such a crime is a peniten tiary term of fiom one o ten years. The two pnsoners do not seem to be of very mean disposition. and it is thought that the real leader of the trio was the man that made his es cape. The authorities at Lincoln, were notified cf the case, but up to press time, they had not beeu able to get on his track. CITY OF KEARNEY GOES WET AGAIN Special Election Tuesday Decides that Wet Goods are Needed In Kearney. Kearney decided Tuesday that as a preliminary to securing the next state capital building it w ould be neces sary to have a little wet goods to celebrate the occasion and so voted by a majority of twenrty-five to have the saloon help on the work. The result of the election shows that the "wet" wards went wetter than last year and that the "dry" wards went wetter also. VMVVVVVVVVWV1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAi X ALVO iiMMUUUUMMyiyyu AAAAAAAAAAAAA Miss Lola Reed of Omaha came in on No' 17 Saturday for a weeks visit at her home south of town. L. M. Appleman and family drove to Ashland Saturday. Frank Look spent Saturday and Sun day in Plattsmouth. Geo. Ryan was a passenger for Lincoln Monday evening. Clay Foreman spent Satursayand Sunday in Omaha. Miss Stella Shusley spent Monday shopping in Lincoln. A. 11. Weichel and family were guests at the home of Mena Kctzels Sunday. Mrs. J. IL Strocmer was a Lincoln visitor Monda and Tuesday. Witl Sutton returned from Denver Monday where he has been visiting relatives the past two weeks. Mrs'. Gladys Amowert and baby of Murdock spent several days at the home of her parents this week. Miss Anderson of Weeping Water is visiting Mrs. Geo. Shusley this week. Mrs. C. A. Gullion spent Saturday and Sunday in Greenwood with rela tives. Mrs. Lemon of Murdock visited at the home of Adam Hildebrand's Sun day and Monday. Mrs. Etta Cashner of Lincoln and Mrs. Rob llartman of Kanuss City are visiting lelatives around Alvo this week. Installs Ice Cream Parlor. J. E. Mason, the Main street con; fectioncry man, has felt the effect of the warm spring weather and is mak ing a considerable improvemti.t in his place of business. He is chang ing one of the rooms in the rear of his building, thta was formerly used as a store room, into au attractive little icecream parlor for the convenience of his hot weather patron. At pres ent he will install three new tables and if his trade grows so large that he cannot comfortably accomodate it in the new room that he is fixing up, he will convert the other room of the building into one of a similiar kind and put in a neumbr more tables' Ladles Auxiliary Entertained. The members of the Ladies Aux iliary ef the Presbyterian church and their friends were enterta ncd Friday evening at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Schneider. The affair was in the nature of a St. Patrick's day gathering and the Irish shade of green prevailed every w here. The large num ber of guests .iat down to a delicious two course supper at seven o'clock, the table decorations bf ing fern leaves and shamrocks, and the same color scheme was cairied out through the course of the meal. Following the tempting repast the time was ph asantly , spent in games and a short promm was rendered consisting of two vocal solos by Mrs. Gamble and Gladys Sullivan, a reading by Miss Newell and an instrumental selection buy Miss Verna Cole. Narrow Escape lor Old Lady. A very serious accident was nar rowly prevented at the Murray resi dence in Mynard Friday morning. Clothing on the bed in which Grand mother Jean, the well known old lad', was confined was, in some manner, set on fire and the flames were slowly eating their way toward the helpless woman iu the bed, when one of the occupants of the house happened to enter the room and discover the blaze. The fire was quickly smothered with little damage except the burned bed clothing and a few charred places on the bed, but the excitement of the accident and the room full of smoke was quite a shock to the good old lady. Teachers Exams. The monthly teacher's examination of Cass eoi nty is being given toduy at ti c office of County Superintendent Miss Mary Foster in tl c court house building. The young pedagogues who are taking the test are Misses Grayce Mailey, Marie Kunz, May Durbin, Messis. Ralph I'hley and William Hoi ttger, residei.ts of Klmwood. Miss Eva and May Pickwell of Murdock, Miss Meitha Smoet of Weeping Water and Misses Ethel Wiles and Alpha Andrews of Avoea. Mrs. Henry Ohrt of Calhoun after spending a number of days at the home of her brother and sister, John Iverson and Mrs. Nelson of this city, left this morning for her home town. Notice to Pay Up. In the most friendly manner pos sible I desire to notify all who are in debted to me in any amount that I will expect a settlement of their account at the time of the coining pay day. It is absolutely imperative that all bills be paid and no further notice will be given. If you owe me in any sum, you will avoid additional ex pense and legal difficulties by calling upon me at the time specified. If I owe you, present your bill and you will get your money Again I say that this is positively the last notice. 70475 t-f M. Fanger. I- 1