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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1905)
mouth Sroutma volkmi: XXV rLATTSMOL'TII, NKliUASKA, Til UIJSDA V, .Il'LV L7, I )).. ni aik:k :-o Platte TART CURB-STONE JOSHINGS Culled, Clipped, Penciled and Prepared for the Readers of the Journal. Htn- wir- li-r heart iiii Iht sl' e. Ami tlcti Is how. c IIDCllTstitlllt. She h;tjM-n to 4llxil:iy lxl;iy A "; il" li:iiiioiiil on Iht h:uii. When tlie widow ceases to weep her weeds soon dry up. Warm days and cool nights make an admirable combination. This is haying time and all tlie farmers have the hay fever. Arc you not glad, this weather, that you havn't got big whiskers? Marriage lias soured tlie sweet dis position of many a fair maid. Look out for a wedding soon. We promised to not give any names this week. The love of money is the root of all evil and most people are digging for the root. Keligion is sure to nave a queer taste to the man who only takes it once a week. To the youth in love whose salary Is $o a week an ice cream sign looks like a nightmare. A wife is sometimes known as a man's better half and sometimes as the whole tiling. Remember the date Wednesday, August 2. That's the date for the Woodmen picnic. Many a girl's usefulness has been spoiled by some fool friend who told her she was pretty. Before a candidate places himself in the hands of his political friends he should sew up his pockets. A widow never calls for help when a man attemps to kiss her. It is usually the man who needs help. It is usually the man who doesn't know the secret of success who is will ing to impart it to others. Some men are por because they are honest and some arc honest because they are rich and can alTord to be. A genuine toper considers life far t o short V waste any of it imbibing bis fuvoi ltt beerage through a straw. When a man deliberately walks into trouble b violating the law. he should not feel sore if a newspaper prints the I news. j Alter teaching the ag" of thirty a! woman has no further use for birth-1 days until ,he gets in the grandmother class. ! Man wants hut little tn-r- 1 low . ll's not no hanl to i i --t ; Itui unman. ll-.-s In r Hi lit- heart. Wants cvt-ry tiling sh-i When a man is ensured in beating a j carpet it's up to his ife to be around and see that he doosn'l put bis thoughts it, to words. The largest crowd that has been in Plattsmouth for many years is ex pected here on Wednesday, August 2. Will you be anions the number? Some mother of this town is stand ing in the shadow of a great trouble, and there may be others if these night buggy rides continue without chape r ones. ISritiir your family with ou when you come to the Woodman's picnic, Wednesday, August 2. Ilemernber the wife ai d the boys and girls want to enjoy a day oil occasionally. The tobacco trust is fighting the anti-cigarette law passed by the last legislature. That was to be expected. The trut is the enemy of the pood government and decency in all things. A Missouri girl committed suicide because she thought that her fiance was too good for l.er. If she had waited until after they were married, she might have found out her mis take. An old bachelor of this city says he 'doesn't ionsidr a girl baby worth kissing until s!ie is sweet sixteen." And then some of tl e n ar so darned ugly, that we'd want to be blind folded to kiss them. business in the city has been re markably quiet for a few weeks, with the exception of Saturdays. Just wait until the bumper wheat crop is threshed and the corn laid by then watch trade in Plattsmouth boom. A Kansas City ju lee recently de cided in granting a divorce, that a married woman had a perfect right to search the husband's troupers for loose change. The custom having re ceived judi.-ial sanction, hide your money under the sidewalk befoie en tering the house. Some girls in this town are sewing the seeds of ruin an i disgrace.and they are not excluded from the "upper tens," either. The Journal has given the alarm in previous issues, and if a sensation should break out any old day the parents alone will be to blame. The best place for girls after dark is under the protecting wines of their mother. THE GREAT M. W. OF A. PICNIC At Plattsmouth, Wednesday, August 2, Will Undoubtedly Be a Grand Success. SPECIAL TRAINS WILL BE RON The Local Committees are Exceedingly Busy Engaged In Arranging Affairs. A GRAND BIG DAY FOR OUR LITTLE CITY J. XV. Harnett, president and, P. I. Devol, treasurer of the Omaha Wood men, were in the city last Thursday and in conjunction with the local commit tee arranged all details for the big Modern Woodmen and Royal Neigh bor picnic to be held August 2. Special trains will arrive from Oma ha at 9:00 and 9:30 a. m. The parade will start at 10:00 a. m. It will be headed by the B. & M. band. Then will come lady foresters and members of Pansy Camp Xo. 10, R. X. A., visit ing Foresters and Neighbors; Omaha camps; Washington county camp; cass county camp; Cass camp No. 3:52 M. W. A. Head Consul Talbot. A cash prize of $10 00 will be given for the cent of camp having the largest per members in parade. The parade will proceed from the B. & M. depot up Main to Sixth; Sixtli to Pearl; Pearl to Chicago Ave, and thence to the ground. Mayor Tiering will give an addressof of welcome at the grounds. There will also be speeches by A. R. Talbot, Mrs. Fleming and others. Three hundred dollars has been pro vided to be given in cash prizes. The Elks w ill play a game of ball with the Woodmen and $15 will go to the win ners. Other events win be as follows: Foot race for ladies, 50 yards; foot race for girls under 13 years, 50 yards: foot race for men, 50 yards; sack race; boys' race; spoon race; potato race: egg race: Plattsmouth-Turner exhibition; three, legged race; t nir or war north of Platts vs south Platts: Foresters' drill; Junior drill: individual Fores ters' drill. For all of the above events liberal i prizes have been oifered. There will i !.. 10 for the Turner exhibition; $5 for j tug of war. Three prizes of $50, $30 and 20 for the Foresters' drill; three prizes of 25. $15 and S10 for the Junior drill and smaller cash prizes for all t he other events. There w ill also be prizes for fattest Woodman, the shortest Woodman, the j bravest Woodman and the lightest i Woodman. All prizes will delivered by Fred W. Ebidger. Henry R. Gering has charge of the concessions; F. R. Ballance isnjanager of the grounds: H. S. Barthold is mar shal of the day with several aides. The Elks rooms have been selected as headquarters for the officers' asso ciation for the day. Lunch baskets and parcels will be checked free of charge at the grounds. A rate of 5 cents for bus fare from the the depot to the grounds has been se cured The town is today being billed with large posters advertising the picnic. Much credit is due both the Omaha and local committees for theenergetie and businesslike way in which they are pushing things. The picnic of August 2nd promises to be one of the most successful ever held in this vicin ity. Yhy it is Thus. Five ears ago there were a half dozen applicants for every country school. Now the schools are advertis ing for teachers. What makes the ditTi'rence? It would seem to he tl e higher requirements for a teacher. It is not so easy to get a certilieate as it was a fev years ago. se the poorer teachers have been forced out of the business and into other fields. On ac count of these higher reouirements the teacher's salary should be higher than wa paid by country schools several years ago. It takes more time and more schooling and therefore more iuune to ilr the teacher for work. Country school teacher have mploy ment for only seven or eight months in the year and it is not easy to find re numerative work through vacation. They have to live twelve months on what they make in seven or eight Often too, they have to attend sum mer schools to better fit themselves for work. Most of them find it im possible to save anything out of tlie $25 or S4 ) per month salary they make. They shoull receive 845 orS50. Better pay brings better teachers. Plattsmouth Leads tt)e State. Julius Pepperberg, the cigar manu facturer, calls attention to the follow ing facts: "In the Omaha Bee of July 20 is an article giving in detail the ex ports of Nebraska for the year 1104. Among other things we find that Ne braska shipped 207,500 cigars to her neighbor states, and of this number 135,300, or over half, were exported from this city. About 95 percent, of this number were 'buds,' which means that more 'buds' were exported in 1104 than all other brands manufactured in the state." Who said Plattsmouth wasn't a manufacturing town ? EN ROUTE FOR GERMANY The Boys Land in New York City Safety, Where They Spend a Few Hours. in Nkw York, July 19, 11K)5. To the Editor of the Journal : As there are a good many of our friends who are interested in our jour ney to Germany, I will write a few lines from New York. In the first place we thank them one and all for the courtesy shown us when we left dear old Plattsmouth. We arrived at St Louis Sunday at 7.30 a. m.. and after a few hours' rest we went to see the world's fair grounds. Many are the buildings there yet which give evidence of this great exposition, but the Chicago Wrecking company is de stroying what cost millions of dollars to build. The Tyrolean Alps will be left unmolested, the city having bought them for $75,000. St. Louis has some beautiful parks. We went to Forest Highland park, which Is one mile from the exposition grounds, where there is all kinds of amusement for young and old. After spending all day Monday in the city, we left at 9 29 p. m. over the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, arriving. at Cincinnati the next morning at 7.30, and at 11 o'clock we reached the Allegheny mountains. To describe this trip of 200 miles would rill the whole Journal. . so 1 will only sav that it is worm uie price to take this route. We went through IS tunnels, being in one three minutes. Then again the train wound its way along the hillside. On one side we saw a creek fully 75 feel below, and on the other side the mountains reached about 100 feet above us William Kaulmann said be wouldn't want to be found dead in that coun try. ''''I vve had to agree with him on that point, but for sightseeing it can't be beat. About 0 p. in. we again had clear sailing. We arrived in New York this morning at 8.30. All along the road small grain looked to be all right, but the corn was very poor. In some places it had tired. We will leave tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. We all went this afternoon to view the Deutschland. Billie says, "Noah's ark could not compare with it." He can hardly talk today from using his lips too much on the train. Yours truly, Rli. Ramskl and Party. P. S. Henry Kaufmann look the I job as night watchman, but before J long he was sound asleep, when Rillie took his place and would not let us sleep. To MaHe Matters Move. The only trouble with Plattsmouth when she desires to make a success of any movement that is for the benefit of the city is to get the right parties at the head of it. It then moves along smoothly to a successful comple tion. Take the Woodmen's picnic, to be held here Wednesday, August 2, for instance. When the proper parties took the arrangements in hand, headed by Mayor Gering, the amount deemed necessary for this purpose was soon raised. Our business men, most of them, always subscribe liberally to such events when they are visited by those who make things move. The biggest crowd that has been in Platts mouth for years w ill be here August 2. And all because men are at its head w ho w ill do all in their power to bring i a big crow 1 here. Cass County Gets $2,177.54. Mate T;eaurer M enson has re funded ,J.,tU.;'; to i: e counties that paid it into the state treasury in the form of a tax inheritances. lie old this by iitv-ction !' the legislature which parsed a iav refunding th.? mopey and directing lhat it be used for improving the public highways. The fund has been accumulating for a rw years, but has not been used be cause the legislature never made pro vision for its use. Owing to indiffei ence of taxing officers it is believed the inheritance tax was seldom collected when justly due. The an ount re funded to our county is $.,! "7.54. L. G. TODD SERIOUSLY HURT The Old Pioneer's Horse Runs Away With Him and Throws Him Out of the Buggy. Last Thursday, after the livening Journal had gone to press, we received a special telephone message from Union stating that L. C Todd had been the victim of a serious accident Mr. Todd had driven out on business to one of his farms during the day in a one-horse buggy. He was returning to town about 3 o'clock, when the horse took fright at a train and ran away Mr. Todd was thrown to the ground and dragged several rods by the terri fied animal. A gang of section men who were working close at hand has tened to his assistance, picked him up and he was taken to his home. A physician made an examination and found the collar bone dislocated. Oth erwise his injuries consisted of bruises. He was reported to be resting well to day after his exciting experience. Mr. Todd is 75 years of age, but still has a good constitution. He is one of the best known men in the county, living taken an active part in county pontics, ana also having been nomi nated at one time for governor. Mr. Todd is a pioneer citizen of Cass county, and all his friends would re gret to hear of his injuries proving fatal. They wish hkm 'sbeedy re coverv. THE BALL GAMES SATURDAY Cedar Creek Wins First and Rain Inter - feres With the Second Game. The Cedar Creek aggregation of base ball players drifted in from their town Saturday. They were a promising look ing team even in civilian clothes, but when after dinner at the Riley they appeared in their battle green uni forms they looked positively menacing. The R. & M.'s went up against them first at 2 p. m. This game lasted two Ik L'-s and the Cedar Creeks just ate mem up at the rate of 10 to 3. Thus encouraged the boys from the Creek entered the second game confi dent of victory, but here they had recond without their ho.st. The Elks led off with two scores in the first in ning and three in the second, while Cedar Creeksgot two gouse eggs in the same innings. In the third the Cedar Creeks got in two runs on a lly that looked very much like a foul, but was allowed by the umpire. This seemed to brace up the visitors. A human bellows took his place at third and shouted encouragement to the hosts ot Cedar Creek trembling on the verge of defeat. And it seemed his efforts did good. The Elks circled the diamond in the fourth and the Cedar Creeks followed suit. In the fifth the Elks turned in enough coupons for three runs and the visitors cheerfully hand ed in a like number. Meantime a cloud had risen in the north and advanced upon the teams. The first half of the sixth was in pro gress with the visitors at the bat when the rains descended and the floods came and put an end to the game. It was the best game seen on the local grounds this season. The Elks were more evenly matched than by any other team. It must be conceed ed that the men from Cedar Creek can play ball almost as good as the Elks. Carmack was hit with the ball in the first game and had a finger sprain ed and in the third inning of the sec ond game the ball struck Ballance on the middle finger of the right hand, breaking the skin and splintering the bone. A physician dressed it. Following is the score by Innings: H. & M 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 03 Cedar Creek. ...1 2 0 5 2 0 2 1 0-10 Elks . Cedar 2 3 0 Creek 0 0 2 A Big Wheat Crop. Will and Henry Hayes are rejoicing over their big wheat crop, which they threshed, last week. They had in 80 acres, which averaged 32 bushels per acre, or 2,500 bushels, which they sold for T6 cents per bushel, bringing them in the neat sum of $1,945 00, or $24.32 per acre. That's not so worse. Rring in your wheat stories, gentlemen. Who's next? Elm wood Leader-Echo. Hurrah for "Windy!" The Journal received a message about 2 o'clock Saturday informing us that Mr. and Mis. Wil Vallery are the possessors of a bouncing baby boy, born today. Cur informant also says that "Windy" is hopping around like a chicken with its head cut off. Moth er and little are doing nicely. Lorn? live the little stranger To enloy a ripe, old age. Always a comfort to his arents. And liecome very frrtat sage. Accident Near Manley. The following is taken from the Manley correspondent to the Weeping Water Republican : "News reached here Monday of a probably fatal acci dent which occurred several miles west of here on tlie farm of August Oelerking. While Mary Oelerking was driving the team attached to the hay fork the heavy iron pulley in use es caped from the rope and Hew up, strik ing the girl on the head and fractur Higher skull. Medical assistance was at once summoned, and, although the unfortunate girl was alive at last ac counts, but slight hopes of her recov ery are held out." RILEY HOTEL BLOCK SOLD John K. Teare, a Monmouth, Illinois, Bank er, Becomes the Owner. CONSIDERATION 65,000.00 DOLLARS Eight Hundred Acres of Land in Audrain Coun ty, Mo., Taken in Exchange. HAS FAITH IN PLATTSMOUTH'S FUTURE XV. W. Coates sold the Riley block Saturday to J. K. Teare, of Monmouth, 111 , taking as exchange 800 acres of farm land in Audrain county, Mis souri, the consideration being $05,000. Mr. Teare, the new owner, is a banker at Monmouth, and takes the Riley as a permanent investment. He has been in the city a few days, and is well impressed with the business as pect of Plattsmouth. He is a conser vative, but experienced investor, and his purchase of the Riley is in itself an indication of the prosperous and prom ising condition of Plattsmouth. The Riley block was built in 189 by J. E. Riley at a cost of $85,000. For a long time the property was very much cgiscted and allcwed to run down, but within the last two years s-everal thousand dollars have -been expended on it, consisting of a general overhaul ing and some remodeling. New ten ants have moved into the building, and the income has been increased from all sides, making the Riley one of the best income producing properties in Plattsmouth. Frank Dunbar, w ho has so success fully managed the hotel end of the property, will continue to run the house, having recently entered into a ten year lease. The deal was made by 11. R. Wind ham, and has been pending several weeks. Mr. Coates expressed himself well pleased with the trade, and while the Journal would like to see Platts mouth property remain with Platts mouth people, yet Mr. Coates still re mains one of the largest propeity owners in our city, and Mr. Teare has expressed himself as being willing to try and assist Plattsmouth in getting some new industries. It is by no means a had idea to have outside capi talists interested in Plattsmouth prop erty. Men so interested naturally exert themselves to build up the town where their money is invested. Very True. The very best thing in this week's Commoner is tlie tribute paid by llich ard L. Metcalfe to the institution of marriage. Met. holds that in spite of the record of divorce mills, which merely register the weaknessof human nature and the poor judgment of those who don the matrimonial harness without rJrst getting acquainted, the institution of marriage is sacred above all other contracts and one of the most successful of a!l heaven-ordained com pacts. If there were more disserta tions on how to make home happy and fewer labored editorials going to show the advantage of the country of electing this instead of that bunch of politicians to office, newspapers would be more useful and interesting w ithal. Lincoln Journal. Hurt at the Gas TanK. Three of the workmen on the gas tank were hurt this afternoon. They were working on the interior of the tank near the top when in some way they lost their balance and fell to the hard steel bottom of the tank. One of the men, Bill .Sage, was rather badly injured and was taken at once to a doctor. Mr. Sage is a large man and for that reason, perhaps.sustained the greatest injury. Be had a cut in his head and a sprained ankle which will lay him oil for some time. Base Ball Friday. The Bellevae base ball team will meet the Elks next Friday at 3 p. m. at the ball grounds. Admission 25 cents. Ladies free. BIG SENSATION AT LOUISVILLE A Citizen is Charged With Seducing Two Innocent Little Girls. WIFE DISBELIEVES CHARGE And is Not Worrying Much Oyer Her Hus bands Serious Troubles. ACCUSED HAS DEPARTED FROM HOME i From th' CourU-r.) '1 he Courier is not accustomed to printing communications where the authors do not sign their names, hut as there has been so much comment in regard to the charges against Geo. McDonald, we print the following let ter, received in the mails Thursday, and will leave the readers to draw their own conclusion. Here it is: "Mr. Editor of the Courier: -We would just say that this base scandal that is going around the community alxiut fleo. McDonald we believe to be an infamous falsehood made from enmity and child persuation, and we think that all of those whoare so ready to believe and hel p operate such scandal to break hearts and homes will take their bible and read the eighth chap ter of St. John and a pply it to them selves. There wont be one left - no not one and the question will be, 'Where are thosr;, thine accuseis.' A rniKMi,. George McDonald has been a resi dent of this vicinity for a number of years and is personally known by al most every man, woman and child in the community. The story to'.d about him is of a most damaging nc ti re and if he is Innocent there is no one who would go farther to assist him in prov ing his innocence and clear I he c'i, Tgu against his character than the editor of the Cour'er. The story that comes to the Courier is that he has been guilty of the i K.st hellish crime of the seduction of t.v.o little gi rls. aged trn and twelve ais respectively. Our informant tuilliir states that McDonald hasleftlor p.iits unknown. The crime, it is said, was committed on one of t he girls over i;e year ago but the other of a more re cent date. A Courier repoiter called at, the Mc Donald home on Thuisday evening. Mrs. McDonald, when asked if she ha! any statement to make said: "I have nothing to say further than 1 believe in the innocence of my hus band and am satisfied that as soon as those girls feel that they dare tell the truth that they will own up th:tt it is all a lie, gotten up to ruin George." "I am told that your husband runaway. If he is innocent why he leave?"' was asked. "He just couldn't stand to has did ave such a charge thrown up to him by the men at the clay pit, where he was working. The .story first got out on Thuisday or last week. He first, thought he would pay no attention to it, but the men kept twitting him arid it wor ried him so he had to quit work. And then you know that if George had been arrested and those kids told th'i story that they tell now he wcul.i have went to the penitentiary in spite of all he could do or say." "Do you know where your husband went'?" was asked. 'I have not the least idea. lie never told me where he was going." "But I am told you have sold your cow and expect to follow your hus band," said the reporter. "I have not sold my cow, but I ex pect to sell her because I cannot take care of her. I may go away from here myself, but not to follow him. No, I could not live with him until he has cleared himself of this charge. Some people expect to find me sheddii g tears and crying my eyes out over ti e matter, but I tell you I am not built that way." Continuing. Mrs. McDon ald said: "The parties back of all this talk wanted to spread the report asfar as they could, but now I understand they are just as anxious to keep it out of the papers. This is not the first time they have tried to make trouble for us. The truth will come out sooner or later." Mrs. McDonald lives in a cottage in the south part of town with her 1-j ear old babe, and if she is worrying much over her husband's trouble she is too gritty to let it be known to tbeoutside world. V.
