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'Hlattemnioutb Journal. VOLUME XXVII PL.ATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY i) VJ01 JOTTINGS FOR THE JOLLY S!crt Paragraphs Prepared and Purloined For the Readers of the Journal. Tt.- llfp of T-lly doth r-minl ui That wr, too, ran make a fuss, A ml, l-iart inir, l-av- Ix hlinl us, 'l'oolli-marks on tin- Vtojus. The baseball season may now be con sidered as formally opened. We do a lot of thinking about the weather, b'lt it doesn't do any pood. Don't expect to tower above your neighbors by standing on your dignity. When a girl pretends she doesn't eat ; .'Jy it's a sign she is trying to grow thin. Advocates of home Industries are not always industrious when they are at home. Many a many begins his charity at home by cutting down his wife's allowance. Writ- all nr sins In im-iii-H! Ami our virtm-s all in ink; Ami far niui-li t-tt-r I ii jiilt.rni'iit lay, think. When a bachelor flatters a girl she is apt to mistake him for Cupid's ad vance agent. A man never boasts that he doesn't know the meaning of fear when his wife is present. Only two months in which to pro perly prepare for a safe and sane Fourth of July. There seems to be plenty of garden truck on the market, notwithstanding the cool weather. You will always get the hearty ap proval of at least one person when you please yourself. It isn't always a case of "snakes" when a man sees things double. Per haps he's not a bachelor. It's an easy matter to induce the world to laugh at you: all you have to do is laugh at yourself. "What will be the chief issue in HK)S? ' ;some ask anxiously and the only sure answer is calendars. Ilappiness is merely the ability to realize that things are seldom half as bad as it is possible for them to be. A married man never fully realizes what be is up against until he has met every one of his wife's relations. The festive oyster has retired for the present, but will be with us again next September, if the weather will permit. Don't sit around and wait for op portunity to knock at your door. Go and knock on the door of opportunity. It's a fenny thing bow so many widows think they ought to wear yellow hair for mourning the second year. It is said that ice is to be cheaper this year, but citizens of Plattsmouth will believe this when they see the bills. Of late years by the time winter has climbed off the lap of spring it is sum mer time and we have been done again. Some men swear because they are mad and others just to keep up the conversation, while they are hunting for a word. Der man dot hits his t'umb mit de hammer und says "Much obliged mitouid svearing is agoot choke onder recording angel. The man who thinks he is always right dees more harm than the one who is willing to admit that be is sometimes in the wrong. If you can get a little girl to laugh at a boy while you are punishing him your chances of reforming him are something over 5X) per cent better. People have given up the idea of cleaning up their surroundings on ac count of the backward spring. The first of June will note a rustling effort in that direction, however. A retired farmer of this city says he remembers distinctly of getting up be fore sunrise on the first of May fifty years ago, and planting watermelons, following up an old tradition that this would result in a good melon crop, lie was eleven sears old at the time and is now After the spriDg decorative artist gets through with your house, in order to get rid of the smell of fresh paint, the American Housekeeper tells us, "Slice a few onions and put them in a saucer over night in the center of theroo.ii." The Housekeeper should have added: To get rid of the odor of the onions, sell the house to the insur ance company. A Plattsmouth citizen, actiDg upon the advice of a friend, recently used this recipe for clearing his home of rats: "Catch a big rat, wire bells around bis neck and let him loose. The bells will scare away all the rats." After two weeks of trial, he now de clares there are but three courses open to him catch that rat, move, or com mit suicide. JUNIORS TO THE SENIORS Annual Reception at Coates Hall Last Night was a Grand Success HALL WAS BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED The Entertainment is Said to Have Sur passed All Former Events of Its Character Friday evening at Coates' Hall the Junior class of our High school tender ed the annual reception to the Seniors and it is said the same, for uniqueness and entertainment, surpassed all form er ones. The reception opened up at :00 o'clock and as the guests entered the hall where they were met by the re ception committee, their eyes fell upon a large "OS." And when convey ed to the large ball they were dazed by the beautifully lighted and decorat ed rooms. Here they were each pre sented with a unique program in the shape of a penant with "Jr." upon it. The hall proper was decorated in the Senior colors, red and white. In two corners of the large hall, the cozy cor ner and punch bowel were presided over by Misses Barbara Clement and Mildred Cummins, who shared the honors of the evening. At the south end of the hall a large "07," illumi nated, showing up very prominently during the entire evening. Upon entering the refreshment room which was decorated in cherry and black, the Junior colors, a large "08" showed up in fine order. Here refresh ments, consisting of ice cream, in Senior colors, was served with cake. During the evening two very inter esting contests were included in the exercises. The popular song contest was won by MissClara Weyrick. The guessing of the meaning of names of the Senior class was in the following order: Our Seniors. 1. The edge of a precipice: a human being Brink-man. 2. A necessity for every plant Root 3. A Confederate general; the hero of Santiago Lee-sley. 4. A letter of the alphabet; a verb meaning to change partially F-alter. 5. The German for peasant Bauer. 6. One who strips trees of their bark Barker. 7. A musculine name used both as a Christian and a surname Jess. 8. The plural of one sent to watch other's movements Spies. 9. A boy's name; a male child Robert-son. 10. A great navai hero Jones. 11. A soiled spot; a wagon for trans portation of goods Sulli-van 12. Small bodies of water Brooks. 13. Air in motion; thigh of a bog Wind-ham. 14. The German for butcher Metzger. 15. A letter of the alphabet; ani mals of the monkey tribe M-apes. 16. A common Irish prefix; a letter of the alphabet; a boy's name Mc-F.l-roy. 17. The name of a prominent drug gist in our city Fricke. IS. A word meaning pure White. 19. A wind instrument of music Horn. 20. An imitation; syllable e-n; a form of dance Mock-en-haupt. 21. What fish bite on Bates. 22. An article used in printing; a letter of the alphabet Tiep-el. 23. The German for cherries; the German for leaf Kuchenblatt. 24. The name of a prominent grocer in town Soennichsen. 25. A place in France for the un identified dead; an indefinite article Morg-an. 26. A digger of minerals Miner. 27. A number of vehicles preceded by the letter B B-riggs. 28. A masculine Christian name Thomas. 29. The past tense of a verb; syl lable 1-e-r Sattler. This contest seemed to be by far the easiest of the two, and great vnerri ment was created therefrom. During the evening the following program was carried out: Instrumental duet Misses Helps " " solo.. Miss Ethel Ballance Reading Miss Vesta Douglass Instrumental solo. . ..Charlotte Fetzer Instrumental duet.Misses Soennichsen At a very late hour the guests de parted feeling highly delighted with their magnificent treatment by the Juniors. No doubt the reception to the Seniors of the Plattsmouth High school by the Juniors is an event to be long remembered by the Seniors as one of the happiest of their lives. ! Through Assessing. John Albert of Cedar Creek, called Monday to renew for the Old Re liable another year, and informed us that he had turned over the assess ment of Eight Mile Grove to the coun ty clerk this morning. Mr. Albert has assessed Eight Mile Grove for a num ber of years and has not only proven a competent official but is always among the first in completing his work. But one man "beat him to it" this year and he was the assessor from Weeping Water. WORTH 10 MILLION DOLLARS That's What J. E. Buckingham Says in Regard to the Snow Storm of Friday Morning. "Million dollars rain are no longer considered in this great and growing west," said J. E. Buckingham, assist ant general passenger agent of the Burlingtsn Friday morningtoanOma- ha Bee reporter as he finished reading the Burlington's daily report, which showed that from four to eight inches of snow had fallen all over the entire western and southern portion of Ne braska and had extended over north ern Kansas and eastern and northern Colorado. "That was a $10,000,000 snow which fell last night for it has given moisture in large quantities to the entire wheat belt, putthe pastures in fine condition and made the ground just right for the corn crop. The fruit had been damaged before and besides in the western part of the state, where the snow was of especial value, there was not much fruit to be injured any way.". Snow fell on the St. Francis branch of the Burlington to the depth of from two to four inches and there was three inches around Akron, which is in the midst of the dry farming area. There was six inches at McCook and eight inches at Arapahoe and Chester and seven inches at Oxford. The Union Pacific reports show it snowed all the way from Omaha to Green River. Glenwood Abroad. The Glenwood Granite works the past week received a nice recognition in a rather peculiar way. The mother of Governor Sheldon of Nebraska some months ago ordered of the Glenwood works, a beautifrl monument for her late husband, Lawson Sheldon, to be placed in the cemetery at their home town of Nehawka, Neb. The monu ment was recently finished and placed in the Nehawka cemetery. Last week Mrs. Sheldon died and her funeral was attended by many of the friends of the governor and legislators from all over the state. It was one of the largest funeral ever held in Nebraska. The beautiful family monument she her self had selected bad just been com pleted over her last resting place. The incident and the monument were the subject of much comment by the many notables who visited the cemetery, and the Glenwood company received a large share of praise for their splendid work. Glenwood Opinion. Sixty-Third Birthday. Mrs. Wm. Edgerton celebrated her sixty-third birthday lastSaturday, and the occasion was a very pleasant one to this old and most highly respected lady's many friends, a goodly number of whom were present to assist in cele brating the day. In addition to a number of the friends at home and all the relatives, Mrs. Delia Jones, of Bellevue, Mrs. Cora Reynolds and Mrs. Edith Gunn, of Omaha were present. Mrs. Edgerton resides two and one half miles south of town, and has been a resident of Cass county for nearly fifty years. She can truly be termed one of the pioneer ladies of the county. A Rather Flimsy Excuse. The following is taken from the reg ular Lincoln correspondence of the Omaha Bee, and as an excuse for the republicans carrying the city, this is certainly one of the most flimsy: "Considerable interest is being taken in the campaign by the republicans because it has become galling to them to think of a republican city being pre sided over by a democratic mayor and they are also looking forward to the campaign next year, when Mr. Bryan may be the democratic nominee for president. Lincoln doesn't want a democratic mayor to welcome the vis itors to see the Commoner and neither does it want it to be under the lime light unless a republican mayor goes there too. For these reasons as much as any other, the republican organiza tion is determined to win. Mayor Brown was elected by about 600 at the last election, though the city is nor mally 1500 to 2000 republican, but that election was due to the lack of organization more than anything else.'' PLATTSMOUTH ENTERPRISES The Livingston Loan and Building Associ ation Forges to the Front Rank of Such Institutions. A Plattsmouth institution that is forging to the front is the Livingston Loan and Building association, orga nized in January 1889, as a monument to the late Dr. R. R. Livingston. Starting with 200 shares in force, while today it has 2184 shares of $200 each in force. Its capital stock to start with was $478; today it is $74,901, making it the largest financial institu tion in Cass county. Like all institu tions of this character, it depends up on its officers and directors for its suc cess. Their very careful management is shown when the statement is made that tbey have not a single piece of property on hand of any kind, and in the transaction of $400,000 worth of business, have only $58 in deliquent dues interests and fines, extending over a period of nearly 19 years, which is certainly a record to be proud of. Mr. D. B. Smith has the honor of being its president for 18 years, and Henry R. Gering, secretary for 17 years; Dr. C A. Marshall, vice presi dent; Carl G. Fricke, treasurer; Thos. Walling, solicitor, with the following board of directors: D. B. Smith, C. A. Marshall, Fred G. Egenberger, J. Henry Herold, Wm. A. White, Wm. Holly, II. M. Soennichsen, Wm. Ilass ler and Henry R. Gering. To give you an idea of their growth their monthly interest receipts have grown from $6 per month to $773 per month. Every one agrees that it is one of the best ways to save money and it is equally as good to make a loan and build or pay for a home. Every one of our readers should take an interest in such an institution and thus assist in building up the town and keep your money at home. Take a Sign. The sign proposition that has been proposed by many of our people on the newly built fence around the ball park, has been turned over to a committee, who will look after the same. This committee have been instructed to call on the business men, make the contracts for the fence and do the painting. This committee is composed of Mat Joy and A. L. Richardson. When you are approached by either of these gentlemen do not turn their proposition down until you have con sidered same in the manner in which it is presented. You will derive more direct benefit from a movement of this sort than the active members and officers of the Red Sox ball team. You are not paying the full cost of produc ing the space for your ad, but simply assisting to defray the expense of the same. By all means take a sign and thusly assist the ball team in erecting a good enclosure and a grand stand, where you can witness the games the coming season with pleasure. The fence is nearly completed and the sign work will be commenced tomor row. Bill Defective. It has been found that n. R. No. 211, by Gliem of Red Willow, permit ting abstracters to give surety bonds and providing a penalty for failure to follow the provisions of the law with respect to abstracters contains no re pealing clause either in the title or in the body of the bill. The law purports to amend a section of the statutes but it fails to contain the constitutional requirement with regard to mention of the section. Abstracters were ex ceedingly anxious for this bill to pass and recently formed an association in order to compel the inforcement of the new law. Death of Mrs. Campbell. Mrs. Mark White went to Omaha Tuesday to attend the funeral of one of her western Cass county lady friends who died in the city Sunday. The deceased was Mrs. Artemus Camp bell, who of late years was a resident of Omaha, but at the time she and Mrs. White formed the acquaintance, resided at Elmwood; also at Murdock. Mrs. Campbell was quite well known to many Cass county people removing from Murray west as far as Elmwood and Murdock. The funeral will be held at the late home in Omaha. Realty Transfers. II. Bennett to Frank Tappen, lot 4, and part of lot 3, block 4, Alvo. Con sideration $1300. Kansas Town & Land Co. to David Thimgan, lots 1 to 9, in block 1 and lots 1 to 9, in block 10, Murdock. Con sideration $525. C. A. Register to W. J. White, lots 1 and 2, in block 8, Plattsmouth. Con sideration $25. Never Fear for the Judge. The News regrets that Judge Sulli van of Plattsmoiith has pefmltted himself to be used as defendant in the friendly suit instituted by the state against the user of a railroad pass be cause should the case be decided against the defendant that the judge would be compelled to pay his fare. Should he walk up to the ticket oflice and buy a ticket there would be a case of heart failure and we are not ready to go to Mr. Sullivan's funeral. Ne braska City News. ROCK QUARRY PlOPOSITION The First Locating Men Arrive in Platts mouth This Morning. Locating Engineer T. L. Phelps and assistants, Wm. Crisman, J. F. Gaule and A. B. Cooley all of Omaha, arriv ed in Plattsmouth Saturday to in spect the surroundings of the proposed stone quarry which we hope to have established near Plattsmouth in the very near future. The above named gentlemen are the advance represen tatives of the company to simply as certain what might be the output of the quarry proposed by Messrs. Newell & Atwood, and whether or not suflici ent stone may be found in the big hills south of town to justify the company in laying their side tracks to the quar ry, which is nearly two miles down the river, and which would necessi tate the expenditure of several thous sand of dollars in building. We do not understand that it de pends wholly upon the returns made by the above gentlemen as to the fu ture movements of the company, but the general superintendent of bridges, C. II. Carteledge of Chicago, will be in the city in a few days to further in vestigate the matter and at which time final returns will be made as to the company accepting the proposed offer of the stone quarry promoters. We certainly hope that both delega tions may find the location a favorable one and that they will lose very little time in laying their siding to the place of operation. This may all de pend as to the quantity of stone found. First Game of the Season. On next Saturday afternoon the Red Sox will hold the first game of the sea son at the Chicago avenue ball park. The visiting team comes from the Un ion Pacific store house in Omaha, and are fast players too. The game pro- ises to be a good one, and tbey should be greeted with a large attendance on the opeuing game. The game will be called at 3:30. Admission: Gents 25; ladies and children 10c. When your back aches it is almost invariably an indication that some thing is wrong with your kidneys. Weak, diseased kidneys frequently cause a break down of the entire sys tem. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills afford prompt relief for weak kidneys, backache, inflammation of the bladder and all urinary troubles. Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co. A Big Mortgage Filed. The Omaha Bee says: "The Inde pendent Telephone company has filed with the county clerk a mortgage to secure the issue of $3,300,000 of bonds recently authorized by the corpora tions. The mortgage covers all the real and personal property of the com pany, including the franchises, con duits and other appliances as runs tc the Title Insurance and Trust com pany of Los Angeles in trust for the bond holders.'; FARM FOR SALE. A Rare Opportunity: The fine sec tion of land lying one mile south, and one mile east of Greenwood, Cass Co., Neb., we offer for sale in quarters for the next thirty days, at prices far be low any land in the vicinity of like character, and on very easy terms. The land has been lying in timothy and clover a large portion of it for more than ten years and is now in the finest condition for farming. It is all under fence, one quarter is high ly improved, with large house, very large barns, cribs, shedding, orchard, fine tree etc. There is no better land in Cass county. If you are thinking of buying a farm you cannot afford to lose a day's time in looking this land over. It will go quick. For further information call or write to Ckooks & Richardson, Exclusive Agents, Lincoln, Nebraska. 118 North 11th St. Don't Pay Alimony. to be divorced from your appendix. There will he no occasion for it if you keep your bowels regular with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Their action is so gentle that the appendix never has cause to make the least complaint. Guaranteed by F. G. Fricke & Co., druggists. 25c. Try them. MORE AR0UT OUR "DONNY" The 6overnor Couldn't Help Making Don Despaln Labor Deputy Governor Sheldon didn't want tn make Don Despain a deputy labor com missioner, but he justcouldn't help it, says the World Herald. That Is tin situation as Indicated by a report made to central labor union last night by Tony Donahue. Inasmuch as tins labor commissioner has charge of tin? enforcement of laws regulating child and female labor as well as others in which union labor is vitally Interested the labor organizations take a vital interest in the chatacter of the person who holds down the job. While union labor had no single can didate for the position it did not want Despain, since he has never had any interest in common with labor of any sort. It did have hopes of seeing any one of half a dozen candidates in the place who might have been depended upon to see that labor laws arc thor oughly enforced. As a result of the refuasl of the gov ernor to recognize union labor In this appointment Mr. Donahue called upon him for an explanation. As Mr. Don ahue reported the governor had to ap point Despain. "He said he justcouldn'tgetaround it,,' said Donahue. "He explained that the present appointment is only for a year and said that anyone who objected to it might call upon him and he would explain fully and to their complete satisfaction." FILES CLAIM FOR DAMAGES In Justice Archer's Court Wm. F. Gillis pie Brings Suit Against the Mis souri Pacific Railroad Co. In Justice Archer's court Saturday Wm. F. Gillispieof Mynard started a suit against the Missouri Pacific rail road company in which he avers several causes of action, alleging that they have directly brought several losses upon him by their negligent manner in transporting grain from his eleva tor at Mynard to points of consign ment. From the petition it would seem that Mr. Gillispie has exhausted ev ery possible effort to get an amicable settlement with the company. The dates of the shipments were all in the fall of i;K)3, and in the several ship ments, the decline in the price of the corn shipped, under what it should have been at a reasonable time for transporting said grain from Mynard to the plaintiff's consignees aggregates a loss of $139.62, for which plaintiff asks judgment against the defendant company with 7 per cent interest from the 17th day of October 1903. In the second cause Mr. Gillispie says he loaded 1,100 bushels of corn in their car at Mynard on the 2nd day of September, and it did not reach St. Louis until the 2nd day of October, and during which time corn had de clined seven cents per bushel in price, which netted the plaintiff a loss or $77.00. Several other causes foi ac tion are given in the petition, but the losses in them are not so great as the above, but the time consumed in the transportation is about the same. Mr. Gillispie has secured the serv ices of Matthew Gering and through him the suit is filed in Justice Arch er's court. Hurried meals, lack of exercise are the main causes of dyspepsia. A Ring's Dyspepsia Tablet after each meal aids digestion, improves the appetite. New Phone Company Officers. At a meeting of the stockholders of the new Independent Telephone com pany of Omaha Monday the same of ficers and directors were re-elected for the coming year. The oilicers are U. S. Grant, jr. of San Diego, president; F. II. Stow, vice president: F. .S. Graves, secretary and C. E. Bittinger, treasurer. The directors of the com pany are W. F. Kly and F. H. Stow or Omaha and U. S. Grant, jr., of San Diego. The work of installing the Omaha plant is now under way and large forces af men are being put to work as fast as they can be secured. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. There is probably no medicine made that is relied upon with more implicit confidence than Chamberlain"s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Dur ing the third of a century in which it has been in use, people have learned that it is the one remedy that nevrr fails. When reduced with water ari l sweetened it is pleasant to take, re sale by F. G. Fricke & Co. and A T Fried.