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FLOODING THE CITY WITH THEM Sears Roebuck &, Co. Have Tools to Do Their Work With Injury to the Home Merchant. CATALOGUES CONSIGNED TO PARTIES HERE IN TOWN And Not Only Left at Eiery House in the City, But also Placed in Farmers' Buggies and Wagons. AN OUTRAGE UPON OUR BUSINESS MEN Every newspaper in the west should denounce the .Sears, Roebuck ,!fc C;. method or dealing with the people. We are all interested in building up our own country. At least we ought to be. Here we live and prosper. We are neighbors and friends and it is by help ing one another that we are enabled to prosper. A matter has come to our notice within the past few days that need airing. Some persons in l'lattsmouth have become the willing tools of one of the greatest catalogue houses in the United States, and it is just such peo ple as the tools we have reference to that has helped to make such. Every day large quantities of Sears, Koe buck & Co. 's catalogues are consigned to their address at thisstation. They are shipped by freight prepaid. These are taken and distributed in the city and vicinity for the purpose of secur ing orders for this house, and it has its result. Mail orders are w hat they are after, and in many instances receive. And what do these willing tools re ceive fordistributing these catalogues? They are promised a prize of some kind a pocket knife, a bogus gold watch, or something else that is just as bogus. I'ox, after lox of these cat alogues have arrived here and have been distributed. It is the aim of the Journal to show the people who have been favored with one of the cata logues how utterly preposterous it will be for them to gain any thing by sending to Sears. Roebuck & Co. for such articles as they may need. They will perhaps send you some little article that you may desire at about cost, with the expectation of yetting you to "bite harder" next time. And if you keep on "biting" they will "rope you in" for a big order after while. This is the way they do it, if you are sucker enough to let them toy with, you till you are good and wise be fore you learn that it is always best to trade with those who have helped to build up your town while you have helped to build up a mammoth busi ness for Sears, Koebuck & Co. This catalogue business if kept up will ruin the west. It will ruin the towns and villages where the work is plyed as it has been in Plattsmouth. If you are a farmer you know that towns cannot live without your help. If towns are not prosperous people want to move out of it. Property goes down in value, empty business houses are in every direction, your farms be comes less valuable in price, and every thing goes to the devil generally, while Sears, Koebuck & Co. get your money to help build up mammouth buildings in Chicago, all through the catalogue scheme. Shun these destroyers of home trade and home property. Burn the cata logues left at your house, set the dogs on the next person who enters your door yard for this purpose, and take your rank again among the people who believe in the motto of "home first and the world afterwards." The Journal will give one month's subscription for every Sears, Koebuck & Co. catalogue brought to this oflice within the next two weeks. If we succeed in getting as many as we ought to, we propose to have a bonfire in front of our office two weeks from tonight. This is no josh. We want the catalogues and mean what we say. Give it to Them, Dick! There are still a few beys in town who are artlicted with "running off of the mouth" during divine services in our churches. Koys. if you could com prehend how loathsome you make yourselves in the estimation of those who go to hear th? sermon, you cer tainly would stay away till you learn decorum, or bridle your whispering gibberish in respect to those who do not appreciate your fal.se idea of eti quette. Do you think sensible girls appreciate your supposed Smartness? I k old men and women applaud your brainlessness? For shame, boys, re spect the house of God if you have none for yourself, the minister or the congregation. Nemaha Register. Dr. Elster, Dentist, Waterman Block. Accident at Weeping Water. A special from Weeping Water says: "The stone quarries here seem to be having more than their share of acci dents lately. Last Saturday George Dutllcld was thrown from a stone car, and had one of his wrists broken. Yes terday morning Sanford Cogli.er, jr., fell from thecrusher about twenty-five feet, lighting on his head, and sustain ed a bad scalp wound, and other seri ous bruises, though no bones were broken. lie remained unconscious most of the day yesterday, but seems to be getting along very well today. Struck by Lightning. The residence of William Hunter, in the northwestern part of the city was struck by lightning during the elec trical storm Wednesday, but as to the extent of damages we did not learn. The residence was formerly owned by Fred Lehnhoff. It was insured. RUNAWAY PROVES FATAL Miss Ella Miller Succumbs to Injuries of Friday. The following we take from the South Omaha department of the World-IIarald of last Tuesday, which refers to Miss Ella Miller, who is a niece of Mrs. Kate Oliver of this city, the young lady who sustained injuries in a runaway accident Friday after noon, and who died at the city hos pital Sunday morning: "Miss Miller never regained con sciousness after her terrible accident. She was returning from her home in the country with her cousin. Miss Fern Eades, Twenty second and I streets, this city, and her sister, Katie Miller, when the horse took fright on South Twenty-fourth street and ran away, it was never Known wnetner Miss Miller jumped or fell from the buggy, but she was dragged a distance of half a block and her head terribly bruised. She was taken immediately to the hospital and every effort made to save her life. "Miss Miller's death is considered inexpressibly sad. She was but 24 years old, talented, educated and refined, with a beautiful character and a disposition which endeared her to all who knew her. She was a daugh ter of Mrs. Anna Miller, a well known widow, living about three miles east of Papillion. Her mother, two; sistersand five brothers survive her. The family is highly esteemed. "Brief funeral services were held at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Charles I). Eads, Twenty-second and I streets, at noon today and the final services will be held at the Union church at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The ser vices were conducted by Rev. Wm. Nicholl of Bellevue, assisted by Rev. R. L. Wheeler f thiscity. Interment was made in the Haley cemetery." The above was unintentionally crowded out of the Journal yesterday. Funeral of Mrs. Rector. A special from Weeping Water yes terday says: "The funeral of Mrs. Kily Rector, whose death was report ed yesterday, was held yesterday at 2 o'clock, in the Mennonite church and was largely attended. Rev. Miss My ers conducted the exercises. Mrs. Rector, whose maiden name was Cop pie, was born In Indiana in 1344, and moved with her parents to Barry coun ty, Missouri, at an early day. Here she married John Swindle and in 1862 came, with her husband and parents, as retugees from there to Cass county. Here her first husband died and she married Riley Rector in 1370. She leaves nine children two by her first husband the youngest fifteen years old, her husband and a large number of other relatives here and in Jeffer son county, Nebraska and in Kansas. The fi re was caused by the explosion of coal oil. Mr. Rector is seriously but necessarily fatally burned." Can You Eat? J. B. Taylor, a prominent merchant of Chriesman, Texas, says: "I could not eat because of a weak stomach. I lost all strength and ran down in weight. All that money could do was done, but all hope of recovery vanish ed. Hearing of some wonderful cures effected by use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, I concluded to try it. The first bottle benefited me. and after taking four bottles, I am fully restored to my usual strength, weight and health." Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and cures. Sold ty F. G. Fricke .Sc Co. and (Jering & Co. PERRY'S Restaurant Fresh Oysters in any style Short Orders Regular Meals Our Spa eJjIties. If vou are hungry we can supply you with the pick o: the market Zth door East of Cass Co. Bank REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION Names cf Those Nominated in the Weep- j ing Water Convention Today. to the Journal.) The republicans of Cass county met in convention here today and nominated the following candidates: Treasurer, W.T.Adams, of Plattsmouth precinct: Judjje, A. L. Tidd, of Plattsmouth: County Clerk, W. W. Perry, of Elm wood pre cinct: Sheriff, Carl I. Quinton, of Avoca precinct; County Superinten dent, J. W. Gamble, of Stove Creek precinct; Register of Deeds. Henry A. Schneider, (renominated); Coroner 15. I. Clements, of Stove Creek precinct. There was quite a contest for coroner, the present incumbent feel ing not any too good over his defeat. At this hour nominations for com missioner and surveyor have not been made. Home From the City. Ain't it nice to get home after a trip to the city where all is rush and hurry: where you are a very small integral in a mighty throng: where you have to keep your eyes peeled to dodge the street cars, the wagons and the automobiles to preserve your be ing; where people look at you askance as much as to say, "Hello, Rube," where you feel as friendless as a yellow dog: where you have to put up at a hash house and the waiter brings your soup to you with his thumb submerged in its depths and the pie he serves you is mucky and stale ain't it nice to drop back home to the little rural town where they call you "Rill" or "Jim": where the dogs loll around in the shade and the chickens roost on the front door step; where you get the best eatin' in the land and 'where the most interesting topics, the weather and the crops are discussed, and where you pile in about ! p. m., and pile out about 5 a. m. to greet "Old Sol" just going to work. Ain't it nice? You bet! TaHen to the Asylum. The county board of insanity, con sisting of Dr. E. W. Cook, J. M. Rob ertson, clerk of the district court, and County Attorney C. A. Rawls, went to Greenwood Tuesday and examin ed Miss Pearl Sampson, 17 yearsof age, and pronounced her a fit subject for the asylum for the insane in Lincoln, where she was taken by Sheriff Mc Bride this afternoon. The cause for her mental derang ment is supposed to have been heredity, as her grandfather and two cousins on her father's side were similarly effect ed. Her parents died when she was a child, and an uncle and aunt have since cared for her. Piano Contest. The latest count of the votes in the piano contest resulted as follows: Eagles' Lodge 393,868 Methodist Church 242,914 Helen Goos 160,719 KatholikySokol 193,039 Blanche Murray 113,631 Essie Buttery 21,356 Zetta Brown 9,510 Presbyterian Church 7,836 Ethel Saffer 3,807 Christian Church 1,283 Forgot the Bride's Name. All sorts of funny things happen in Clerk Gourly's office when people apply for marriage licenses. Mr. Gourly says that about the fun niest thing he has witnessed in the 15 months he has been in the office was that of the man who forgot the name of his fair intended. This was some months ago. The man hailed from Hillsdale. It was his second matrimonial venture and it appears that the name of his bride-to-be had not become very firmly fixed in his mind. She was a widow about 50 year old, which was near his own age. When Clerk Gourly asked for the woman's name in order to fill out the license the man could not think of it. Neither could the fellow that was with him whom he brought along as a witness. The result was that the two men had to hike back to Hillsdale on the next train to find out. Glenwood Tribune. Now is the Time. Right now is the time to display fall and winter goods. People are yet un decided as to just what they want, and iroods tastily displayed may suggest something that you have and result in a sale. This is the day of hustle, and you must hold your own with other towns. A well displayed advertise ment in the Journal is w hat will draw customers to your store. Business men everywhere are hustling for fall business, and Plattsmouth merchants must do the same. People will ap preciate your effort to get them to your store, and will come more .wil lingly after they are convinced that you intend to make things more at tractive, in prices as well as surroundings. County Superintendent. County Superintendent Wortman will have no trouble in securing a re nomination at the democratic conven tion at Elm wood. The Courier has always contended that politics should not enter into this otlice and we will i make the prediction that Superin tendent Wortman will be re-elected, providing lie has given satisfaction, if not he will be defeated, and anything that the newspapers or politicians can say for or against him will cut but lit tle figure when the voters go to the polls next November to select a head for the schools of Cass county. In every school district he must have his friends or his enemies. It all depends on whether he has made good during the term just drawing to a close. Louisville Courer. That's so. The Courier could have gone farther, however, and stated the conceded fact that Superintendent Wortman has made an ideal superin tendent and has given well-nigh uni versal satisfaction. He stands at the very front among the county superin tendents of Nebraska, being one of the few who hold professional life cer tificates, lie is one of the most cap able and obliging men in that office, or any office, that Cass county has ever had. He ought to be elected unanimously to a second term. WHY MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE Some Yery Sensible and Truthful Hints On the Subject.) Tae St. Louis Woman's Magazine has the following, which is too nearly true to be lost: "Married life is dull, because it is a partnership in which there is no equity When a woman signs a life contract with a man at the altar she puts more capital into the firm than he does. She gives whatever money she may have: she gives the love of her heart; she gives the work of her hands; she gives all the intelligence she possesses; above all, she gives herself. She takes the same risks the man does; if finan cial trouble comes, she must endure poverty and privation; if mistakes occur, she must suffer for them: in all the labors and losses of the firm she is an equal partner, but she is not an equal partner in its profits and per quisites. She is a silent partner, with no voice in the managment of the firm, yet she must stand for its debts. She gives her earning capacity to it, yet she is expected to be grateful for getting her living out of it. She has no idea of whether she lias a right to draw much or little money out of the business, yet she is blamed if she spends too much. "No such unjust arrangement could continue lor a minute between men in business, and it ought not to be countenanced between men and wo men. The two principal things that make the life of the average couple dull are bickering about money and the lack of some subject of conversation of mutual, absorbing interest. A real partnership, based on justice between husband and wife will supply both of these deficits. . . . All that women hate, and get upon their nerves and makes them seem greedy for money is the feeling that they are being treated unjustly that they are not getting a fair divide. There is not one woman in ten thousand who, if her husband will candidly explain financial situa tions to her, (and treat her justly,) will not gladly and cheerfully do her part of the economizing. Women, as a rule, do not know what their hus bands can afford, and, having no in centive for economizing through lack of knowledge of the financial con dition of the firm, and because they never hear or see any tangible results of their saving, they readily find excuses for any extravagance. You never hear of a woman who is taken into active partnership in the matri monial firm and who is treated justly as a partner, complaining because she has to work hard and economize." Makes Another Change. In a letter to his father, Paul Rob erts informs him that the lumber company in whose employ he is, have transferred him to Spearville, Kan., near Dodge City. Paul seems to be in demand by the company, and in open ing new yards Paul is generally sent ahead to open up business and get things in running order. EVERYTHING IN READINESS The People cf Elmwood Freparing to Ac commodate a Large Crowd Next Tuesday. Ei.mwood. Neb., September 11 Special to the Evening Journal. Ar rangements are already perfected to accommodate all who attend the dem ocratic county convention next Tues day. The ladies of the Degree of Honor have arranged for a big dinner, and the Knights of Pythias have given them the use of their hall in which to spread their feast. They will be pre pared to feed all that come. The people of Elmwc-od will give the democrats cf Cass a warm welcome. TWO HAPPY HEARTS JOINED The Marriage of Mr. Joseph W. Banning and Miss Minnie Taylor. Wednesday evening, at the home of Mrs. Barbara A. Taylor, southeast of town, occurred one of the most pleas ant social events of the season, the marriage of Mr. Joseph W. Banning and Miss Minnie Taylor. The wed ding was attended by only the near relatives, no attempt being made ( have an elaborate display. The wed ding march was played by Miss Shel don, of Avoca, and as the melodycame forth the bridal couple entered the handsomely decorated parlor, attended by Miss Pearl Banning, sister of the groom, and Mr. C. H. Taylor, brother of the bride. Rev. A. L. Folden was in waiting, and as the party halted before him he pronounced a very pretty and impressive ceremony and conclud ed by introducing Mr. and Mrs. Jos eph Banning. Congratulations fol lowed, after which an elegant wed ding supper was served, and nothing was lacking to make it an affair that was all happiness and joy unlimited. In honor of this marriage a reception will be given this evening at the resi dence of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Banning, south of this village, to which a large number of their friends have been invited. This marriage unites two of our most popular young people. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Barbara A. Taylor and the late Henry P. Taylor, one of the pioneer frniilies of this county. She is a very popular and accomplished young lady whose ami able disposition has made friends of all who were so fortunate as to form her acquaintance, and a favorite among her associates. The groom is a young business man of this village, well known as a gentleman of exemplary habits and character, energetic in business and public affairs and popular in social circles. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Banning, residents of Wyoming precinct for many years. They will make their home in this village, and every citizen will gladly welcome them as permanent residents and valuable additions to social circles of our town. The Ledger joins their numerous friends in extending hearty congratulations and wishing them many years of happy and prosperous wedded life. Union Ledger. How Newbery Was Killed. In speaking of the collision at Ne braska City Junction yesterday morn ing, the Nebraska City News says: "The freight train was a heavy one. In the rear was the caboose, next was a coal car and then came four "bunk" cars filled with negroes, who were be ing taken north to work for the com pany. In the caboose was Conductor Newbery, of St. Joe, who was being taken to Pacific Junction to take charge of a train he being what is called a dead head. He was sitting in the cupola asleep. When the engine struck the caboose it was with such force as to raise the coal car in front and it played havoc with the four cars in which were the negroes. It was raised just sufficiently high to take off the top of the cars and give the in mates a good scare. Mr. Newberry was instantly killed, a large timber striking him on the back of the head and pinning him so that the body was suspended in the air, his blood drop ping to the floor of the car." Corn Crop a Hummer. Nebraska is assured of a splendid corn crop, but if frost does not appear before the end of two weeks, permit ting the late planted crop to mature, the harvest gives every promise that it will be one of the greatest harvests known in the history of the state. In his weekly bulletin on crop conditions in the state, Director Loveland of the Nebraska section of the U. S. weather bureau. Tha past week was cool with maxi mum temperatures quite generally below 80 degrees most of the week. The minimum temperatures, however, were not low for the season, and the dally mean temperature averaged two degrees below normal in eastern counties and one degree above in western. The rainfall of the past week was above the normal in most parts of the state. It exceeded two inches in most of the southern counties and in some places exceeded three inches. In northern counties the rainfall was generally less than 1 inch and in some places less than one-half inch. Rents Will Tumble. Messrs. Parmele and Pollcck of Plattsmouth and an Omaha gentle man by the name of A. B. Hunt, are asking the city council of Omaha for a franchise to operate an independent telephone exchange. When an inde pendent company does get started in the metropolis they will rind phone rents taking a tumble. The Bell Co. has had the monopoly there for years, and their charges are exorbitant. Be sides the good they will do Omaha subscribers, the independent w ill bring business from outside towns. Weep ing Water Herald. F0LEYSH0NEMAR Stops the coub and hemlr luni Arm Crushed In Thresher. L. F. Johnson, a young unmarried man, who was working with a thresh ing outfit, had his loft hand and wrUt, crushed in the cogs of the threshing machine last Friday, south of Ash land in Cass county, near T. T. Young's place. They had finished one job and were going to another when theaccident happened. Johnson went to throw off a belt something he had often done when his hand caught in the cogs, crushing it clear to the wrist. He was taken to T. T. Young's whore Drs. I. I). Jones, of M unlock and (J. W. Meredith of Ashland attended him. His hand was so badly mangled that amputation about half way to the elbow was necessrry. From Young's Mr. Johnson was taken to his sister's, Mrs. Holsingers, where lie is being taken care of by a competent nurse, and doing nicely, everything consider ed. Ashland Journal. THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION Rates to and From Elmwood Over the Missouri Pacific R. R. Arrangements have been completed for two special cars to be run from Plattsmouth to Elmwood on the morn ing of Tuesday, September 1!, to con vey delegates and others along the line to and from the democratic coun ty convention. The rates have been figured down to the lowest possible notch from the different stations, which makes the round trip as follows from Plattsmouth and intermediate points: l'lattsmouth $1 AO Mynard I 40 Murray 1 2Ti Union 1 00 Nehawka 80 Weeping Water .00 Wabash 20 THE FJRST GROUND BROKEN Appropriate Services at the Masonic Homa This Afternoon in Honor of the Event. (iround was broken last Saturday for the new addition to the Nebraska Home, by the members of the Home. Each of the following named persons throwing one spade full: John Han nah, I). C. Sutphen, John S. Duke, G. W. Wilson, Mrs. McColm, Mrs. Nancy Miles, Mrs. A. B. Wallace, Mrs. S. J. Parr, L. A. Manlove, L. F. Sallee, Mrs. Kate Civer, R. H. Conner, H. P, Rust, Miss Bessie Civer. Others who threw a shovel full were W. J. White, Dr. E. W. Cook, Rev. H. B. Burgess and Mayor (Jering. Mr. Manlove spoke in behalf of the inmates of the Home, Mayor (Jering for the city and Rev. Burgess took for the subject of his remarks "The Power of Association," and closed by saying "God bless every Mason in Nebraska and throughout the entire world." Dr. Cook was asked to tell some thing about the medicine he had mixed for the patients, and responded by saying "That he could mix some that they could not tell what was." He also said it was a pleasure to pre scribe for the patients in the Home, and that he only had March and April to prescribe, but wished he had the other ten months." A good social time was then enjoyed by all. V. V. Leonard took two pictures of the group. A Broken Arm. Mrs. Frank Kroulik fell on the side walk in front of Louie Egenberger's grocery store last evening and frac tured the bones in her r'mht arm near the wrist. She had drove up with her horse and buggy and hitched the same to the telephone pole to go into the store. As she stepped upon the walk she in some manner slipped with the above result. Dr. Livingston re duced the fracture. Mr. and Mrg. Kroulik resides north of the cemetery, the former is a boiler-maker in the Union Pacific shops at Omaha. Columbia Cylinder Racords 25c each they are extra loud, hiyh speed moulded, which for sweetness of town, volume and durability far surpass all others. Large stock to select from. Phil. Sauter, Sixth Street Plattsmouth, - Nebraska