CITY COUNCIL IN
A QUIET SESSION
Go Through Customary Business and
Adjourn at Early Hour
Last Night
CHIEF OF POLICE .
RESIGNS
William Shea Appointed Councilman of Fifth Ward to
Succeed Fred Rezner.
(From Tuesday's Dally)
The city council met in regular ses
sion last evening with all resident
members present. It was a very un
eventful meeting and no action was
taken on any important questions.
After the entertainment of the special
session a week ago, last night's meet
ing was a tamo one. The minutes
of the last two meetings were read and
adopted without any opposition, fol
lowing which was read a communica
tion asking the city for better fire
protection in the west par t of the city
signed by Adolph Koubek and seventy
five residents of that district. A
fire hydrant was asked for, to be
placed at the corner of Main and
Spring streets, at which place it would
be 400 feet west of the nearest hy
drant now in use. The paper asked
for immediate action on the matter
as i9 was considered an urgent case.
It was referred to the Fire and Water
committee. A communication was
read asking that the grade lie estab
lished in the property of Mrs. Dina
Campion, Henry A. Schneider and
John Leyda in order that a permanent
walk may be laid at once. The matter
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The resignation of D. L. Amick,
chief of police, was read and upon the
action of Councilman Ncuman, ac
cepted. The mayor has not decided
on the proper man to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Mr.
Amick, but will name the new chief
at the next meeting of the council.
A communication was read from City
Attorney Itamscy in regard the to
condemning the old milll on Chicago
avenue. It was stated the mill was
originally owned by J. A. and W. II.
Egcrton, the latter having died, leav
ing his share of the property in the
possession of a minor daughter and
was rclerreu to tne . M roots unit Burlington engineer make an osti
Alley eommittec with the roght ti act. I mate of the cost which would fall
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It is very essential that every man, woman and child
in the City of Plattsinouth be counted by the census man.
This will be impossible unless you take hold of the matter
your self and assist in the work.If the census this year should
show a loss for the City it might mean a great loss to us in
many ways. It might mean the loss of our public building
and certainly every resident of the city is interested in the
matter of seeing that building erected. If your name has
not been taken by the Census enumerator it probably
means that he has been to your house and you were not at
home. It is therefore up to you to see that yourself and
every member of your family are counted.
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every name is on it that belongs thereon. Make it a per
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POSITION
on account of kegal difficulties that
might arise, the attorney requested
that two weeks more be given on the
matter of tearing down the building
which was granted. The clerk was
ordered to notify the city attorney
of the fact that the mill was situated
partly on city property, jutting six
or eight feet out into the street.
A report of City Treasurer C. G.
Fricke showed the amout on hand o
$10,171.39. This report was referred
to the proper committee. Reports
were read from the different foremen
of the fire department, showing the
fire-fighting apparatus to be in a first
class condition.
In a report of the Streets, Alleys
and Bridges committee made by Mr.
Weber, an account was given of the
recent visit to the Burlington shops
by a special committee appointed to
look over the proposed drainage alter
ations that arc to be made along the
creek bordering the shops in order
to carry off the water during the heavy
rains. The plans made by the rail
road met the approval of the council
members and it was asked that the
upon the city, but up to date, no such
estimation has been received by the
clerk. It was moved by Mr. Weber
that bids be secured for cement walks
and crossings according to the speci
fications used for the work two years
ago, so when improvements of this
kind are asked for, the approximate
cost of the same may be known. The
estimated bill amounting to $35 for
the proposed stand pipe for the street
sprinkler to be erected at Ed Egen
berger's corner, was prsented, The
bill was referred back to the proper
committee for an itemized statement
of the proposed work. Mr. Neuman
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reported that he had scouted around
in the alleys looking for gasoline tanks
of grocery and hardware men, but none
could be found, but there was a shed
in the rear of John Bauer's estab
lishment that looked suspiciously like
it might have contained the oil ut one
time. The frame shed in the rear
of the cleaning works which was or
dered torn down at the last session was
said to be Standing in the same condi
tion as always and the builder of the
structure was given two weeks longer
in which to get busy with his ax and
knock the shed down.
A report was made by Mr. Kurtz
of the Cemetery committee giving
the improvements deemed necessary
by the members of the committee
their visit to the grounds last Sunday.
He recommended that the five acres
of new land be plowed up and seeded
to alfalfa or wheat in order to kill off
the gophers which are greatly damag
ing this piece of property at present.
It was explained that the street to
the new cemetry was in a very bad con
dition and in order to permanently
repair it, the road bed would have to
be filled in with rock and gravel.
Other repairs on the roads were found
to be necessary and it was moved by
Mr. Kurtz that $300 for the work
be taken out of the business tax fund
and placed in the cemetery fund for
the carrying out of the work. Here
a discussion arose as to whether it
was legal to make such a transposi
tion of money. Mr. Dwyer made
an amendment to the motion, limit
ing the amount to be spent on the cem
etery to $150. His amendment was
lost and the committee was given the
authority to proceed with the work,
being allowed the sum of $300.
A few minutes intcrnission was taken
when an official count was made of the
votes cast at the special election
held last Tuesday. The votes were
found to be 358 for the issuance of
bonds and C4 against, showing a ma
jority for he issuance of 294 votes.
It was moved and carried that a
side walk resolution be drawn up
and served on the property owners
of certain lots on Fifteenth street,
between Locust and Oak. The clerk
was requested to bring a list of all per
sons who had, not paid in the occupa
tion tax by the next council meeting
in order that the amount might be
collected by the chief of police. The
motion was carried that proper tiling
be ordered for the new road work
which is to be done in the near future
on the avenues.
One of the important events of the
evening was the appointment and
affirmation of William Shea to take
place of Councilman Fred Renner of
the Fifth ward, who has recently
moved from the city.
To close the meeting a numnber of
minor repairs and improvements were
ordered in the streets and walks around
the city including a motion to have
the old bridge on Clair street, near the
OJNcil place removed and a large tiling
in it's stead. At Rock and Fourth
streets some steps were ordered
placed in a safe condition. Grading
was ordered done for a permanent
walk to be laid on the Joseph Peters
place on Ninth street and it was moved
to have a side walk notice served on
Mrs. McVicker, for the building of
a new walk. Following a few other
minor motions, the meeting was ad
journed. The bills allowed:
Nebraska Light Co., light $ 1.1$
Henry.Trout, salary 2.8.00
Neb. Light Co., mdsc 3.00
II. M. Young, salary 10.00
D. L. Amick 50.00
W. A. O'Neill 28.40
Olive Jones, salary 25.00
James Donnelly, salary 4 . 50
Library expense 2.00
W. C. Joy, painting 11.00
M. Archer, salary 30.00
John Bauer, mdsc 3.40
Platts. Phone Co, rent 6.00
James Rebal, street commission
or 24.00
I H- Kbersolo, rent 12.00
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. JJ. Kishol, labor 20.00
August Bach, rent COO
Philip Harrison, labor. . . . t .
W. B. Flster, expense
Louis Dose, labor
Ben Rainey, special police. .
William Ilasslcr, labor
John Harkins, labor
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2. 87
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22.00
9.90
3.33
Election bills, $3.00 each, for clerks
and judges:
John Corey, Fred Black, W. D.
MessersmiUi, William Hartweek, !.
II. Thrasher, J. Johnson, W. B. Rishel.
John Kopia, John Weyrich, Henry
("loos, George Weideman, Henry Jess,
George Sayles, K. Ptak A. Despain,
A. X. Sullivan, Anton Nitka, J. C.
Peterson, August Tartsch, Louis Dose,
August Bach, Fd Polan, John Yor.
drau, Fritz Heinnch.
Postponed.
Owing to the illness of Rev. L. W.
Gade incident to the labor of packing,
moving and fitting up his home in
our midst he will not be aide to attend
the reception proposed in his honor
on Tuesday evening the 10th inst.
The reception therefore, is postponed
to Tuesday evening the 17th inst.
All invitations are extended to that
evening.
SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD
ONE FOR THIS TOWN
A Fine Scheme Which Proves Suc
cessful For Bucking Cat- x
alog llcuses-
Merrliants know that the catalogue
houses use furniture and lines slocely
relating to furniture as leaders"" in
their catalogues and their advertising.
A Fremont furniture house, and we
may say a house that believes implicit
ly in newspaper advertising as evi
denced by its remarkable business,
uses a novel weapon in its fight against
the inroads of the mail order houses
in Fremont territory. Besides keeping
a Shears, Sawbuek catalogue handy,
these enterprising merchants also carry
in stock a number of pieces of cheap
furniture which correspond exactly
with the goods so glowingly and elab
orately descirbed in the four color
catalogues.
When a prospective customer comes
into this Fremont store and looks at
the furniture, remarking that the cat
alogue houses can give him such and
such a price, the merchant immediately
shows him the cheaper grades of fur
niture as advertised by the catalogure
houses, and explains to him the utter
uselessness of buying such cheap,
shoddy furniture. This argument
usually works well ; but if the purchaser
insists upon burying such goods, the
furniture man sells it to him and at
a lower price than the catalogue
figures.
Furniture dealers, like dry goods
and clothing merohants, are finding
out slowly but surely that it pays to
advertise. No matter how good
a stock they carry or how good their
prices might be, they know people will
not be reliably informed unless adver
tising spaoe is used liberally and per
sistently. Nebraska City Press.
Improving Bakery Shop.
James Y. Kasper who has recently
purchased the baking establishment
of Y. T. Kuncl is making a number of
improvements at his place of busi
ness and will soon have the interior
of the bakery in such a shape that it
will not be recognized by Mr. Kuncl
himself. Mr. Kasper is an old ex
perienced hand in the pastry business
having worked with the dough for
thirteen years. He learned his trad
in Bohemia and Germany and holds
a numnber of diplomas for bakery
work in the old country. For six
vcars he worked in the New
England and other bakeries of Omaha
but for the past few years he has not
been employed at the work.
The last two or three davs he has
been busy with the scrubbing brush
until the shop shines like a Lincoln
penny, and some good examples of
the local sign painters handiwork now
adorn lie windows. I no new proprie
tor seems to be a hustler. He is not
satisfied with the arrangement and
equipment of the workshop and is
adding new shelves, tables, etc. The
oven will be somewhat changed in
order that more satisfactory work may
be done with it. If the trade seems
to demand it, he will serve light lun
ches, sandwiches, etc., later on, but
for the present he will put in his time
at the bakery business alone. It is
his plan to depend entirely on his
store trade and he is not expecting
to do any delivering or route business,
A LETTER FROM
THE SUNFLOWER STATE
D. F. Klser Talks to Ills Old Friends
Through This Paper.
Wakeoney, Kan., May 0, 1910,
Dear Editor As I promised to give
vmi our local news I will try again
Mv son Yorn and I are batching here
and we enjoy it hugely. We got an
immense rain last night and it is
raining yet. We had a dry lake here,
but now it is nearly full of water and
contains many frogs and small fish
and strange as it is nature has done
it all. 'Some corn here was planted
about five weeks ago, but I think if
they get a good stand they will re
plant for the weather has been so cold
that it retarded its growth and gave
the cutworms a good chance to get
their work in. Although it has been
quite -dry here wheat looks fine and
grass is from one to eight inches tall.
I will tell you about my beat. I went
to Denver and Golden and while nt
Golden I climbed an almost inacces
sible mountain and on its summit I
thought I saw gold in the rocks. I
took samples and had them tested
and was told that it was only a mix
ture of scum and ormolu, and I want
to say that the hardest work I ever
did that far was in ascending that
mountain, but harder still to make the
descensiou whereupon I decided to
quit the mountains and take to the
good rich level country like we have
at Wakeenoy, and yet they farm those
plateaus and say they make money.
I would not climb that old mountain
again for all their old table land and
the mountain sides included, for there
is no real soil there, it is all sand
rock and gravel, and around Denver
it is nearly as bad, and if thev could
not irrigate white beans could not be
raised there.
Vet by heavy irrigation their poor
land produces nearly anything ex
cept corn. We have just eaten our
last mess of fish which we caught with
hook and line about six weeks ago.
You might think that they arc rather
stale, but they are as good as when
caught and now that we have no more
on hand we will play hooky again.
e have no graphaphone and no other
artificial music, but the different
kinds of frogs that descended into
our lake last night by rain produce
quite a euphony, anil as long as they
low and chirp such congenial sounds
IMison will get no foothold here.
I wrote you before and if you want
me to write again please send me a
copy of your valuable paper and I
will write again and try to give you
all the news. Yours trulv.
1). F. Kiser.
Have Supper In Park.
A novel birthday surprise was car
ried out on Robert Hayes, general
foreman of the Burlington shops,
last evening when a number of his
friends got next to his red letter day
and prosceeded to make preparations
for celebrating it. The lady members
of the crowd got busy early in the day
and made plans for a picnic supper to
be served in the city park and by noon
everything was under way for a gen
uine picnic spread. At six o'clock the
lunch was spread out on the city park
lawn and it was certainly a hard one
to boat. There appeared to be enough
sandwiches, cookies, cold meats, etc.,
to feed a regiment, but when the din
ers got busy, with their appetites
whetted by the outdoor air they
found that there was not enough left
over to feed the birds.
It was the occasion of "Bob's"
sixteenth birthday, at least that was
what he said, and the maneuvers
of the crowd wore not in any way
caught onto by the victim until he
was steered through the park on his
way home from work by G. G. Gould,
chief clerk at the shops. It was in
deed a surprise for "Bob" to find the
crowd lying in ambush for him with
the bountiful meal. He readily ran
up the white (lag and sat down to
supper with his hosts. Those present
were Misses Genevieve Howard, Pearl
Nichols, Ktha Crabill, Mr. and Mrs
G. B. Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gobelman, Mrs. L. I'. Shaulis, George
Mann and Robert Hayes.
Balloons at Fort Omha.
This week is all the same aviation
week at Omaha, ns the big balloon
tests made by the government are to
be pulled off at that city. Already the
big air bags have been given a few-
trials and with the present weather
there is no reason why much cannot
be accomplished along these linos
Balloons will be sent up every day
and if we keep our eyes open
perhaps wc may be given an idea of
how Uncle Sam will do things in the
air when he gets mixed up with an en
emy.
The new German cigar shaped bal
loon was inflated Sunday afternoon
and given trial trip to see how it would
work. The balloon bag is of the same
model as the German war balloon
with wings of canvas running paral
lei with the bag for the purpose of
assisting the balloon in maintaining
its equilibrium and for better faeili-
tiesin guiding it.
The bag had a capacity of 25,000
cubic feet. It will be used as a captive
balloon whoolly for school purposes
Captain Chas. Chandler arrived at
Fort Omaha yesterday and will have
charge of the pratical aeronautics
dusing the presence of the officer stu
dent class of twenty which arrived in
Omaha today from Fort Leavenworth
"Kids' Get the Fever.
The lads of the seventh and eight!
grades in this city have got the base
hall inicn oe and nave lormeil an as.
sociation 10 work olT some of the of
foots of the fever. They have been
circulating a paper since Saturday
getting subscriptions fur the support
of their icain and have sucoi'decd in
net tins together the sum of $10
which will bo used fur traveling ex
penscs when the aggregation make
it's toilrs. Saturday they have arran
ged to play the Weeping Water boys
at that place. Negotiations are on
foot for a game the following week
with Glonwood. The title bearers
of the association are Yorn Long,
captain; Roy Denson, manager; Glen
Eil wards, treasurer.
Adolph Wosch, a nephew bearing
tho same name as that of his uncle,
Adolph Wosch, tho Main street shocjj
maker, arrived m the city last night
from the old country and will make
his homo with Mr. Wosch in this city.
Petitions for probate of wills were
filed today in the county court in the
estate of Edwin U. Todd and of
William Coatcman.
PRESENTS THE
APPLICATION
Senator Burkett After Free
Mail Delivery For
Plattsmouth.
EVERY HOUSE IN TOIVN
MUST BE NUMBERED
Government Inspector Will Be In
Town Soon to Investigate
Conditions.
(From Tuesday's Dally)
Word was received today at the
postoffico of an application made at
Washington by Senator Burkett for
the installation of a free mail delivery
in this city and be was informed that
an inspector of the government would
e sent to Plattsmouth in a very short
time to investigate the claims made by
the authorities that the town is now
ready for carrier service. This cer
tainly is a bit of welcome news for
Plattsmouth and things are beginning
to look like Uncle Sam is in earnest
when he promises free delivery very
soon, l ne application lias reached
the Senate in a very short time. It
was written by the Commercial club
secretary and sent with a communi
cation of Postmaster Schneider not
more than ten days ago. It must have
met with the hearty approval of the
Senator for it suffered no delay and
was brought before the Senate much
sooner than was even hoped for.
One of the conditions required in
every town before free delivery of
mail is granted, is that each residence
and place of husincpb bo numbered
and all the streets named and recorded.
There arc many stores and homes
that need the street numbers brighten
ed up a little in order that the inspec
tor will be able to see them at first
glance. If your house isn't numbered
you had better get busy with the paint
brush, find the correct number for the
place ami label your abode in a con-
spieious place, so the inspector will
not find this a reason for holding back
the free delivery proposition. It is
also required that the postal receipts
amount toS10,000 orover.PIattsmouth
has bren equalling this amount for a
number of years and some years 15f?s
ft this mark many hundred dollars
behind. The indications from the
past quarter are that they will exceed
$11,000 for the ensuing yesar. An
addition of well over $"100 has boon
given the receipts this month by the
mail being distributed by the new phot
ograph machine house and when the
alfalfa mill is started it will mean
another big contributor.
The recent action on the paving
bonds which means the city will pave
the intersections and the street sur
rounding the postofhee, takes away the
stumbling 6tone that existed there,
concerning the erection of the new
government building for according
to law, streets surrounding the fed
eral building must be permanently
paved and permanent side walks laid
to correspond. Now the street will
soon have a surface of paving brick
and will be in fit condition for as fine
a building as Uncle Sain can possibly
give.
There is no doubt but what the
mail business in the city is on tho
boom.One of the proofs of the fact is
that sizx months ago there were in the
neighborhood of seventy-five boxes
which were not in use at the building
while every one is rented today and
there is a waiting list of at least twenty
five. This alone means quite an iu
erease in the receipts, for by the re
ceipts of an office is meant all the
money taken in from stamps, box
rents, etc., but it does not include
fees or money orders. Another sign
of tho increasing business is the ad
dition of another member to the ofliec
force a short time ago.
Free delivery of mail will be a big
step towards a metropolitan city and
it will not only be n matter of great
convenience to every person in town
bu. will give ( inployment to four or
five men to act as city carriers. Carrier
service will boa great boon for Tlatts
mouth.
Card ol Thanks.
We wish to sincerely thank the
many friends, both known and un
known of our late husband, father and
son, who so gratefully remembered
us in our recent bereavement, by
flowers and words of consolation.
We wish to bestow especial thanks
to the Degree of Honor, the railroad
organizations of which he was a mem
ber, and to the High school classmates
who did so much to lighten the bur
den on our hearts.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Herger.
Mrs. Emma limner.
Carl and Harold Rentier.