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VOLUME XXVII
VLATTSIOUTJI, NEIiKASKA, THURSDAY, 4ULV-I 1J)0T.
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TC!li ECaiSLECa IF
AMERICA'S OBITY
Respecled Throughout the Vorld and Loved
by Every True American
SHOULD NEVER
Address Delivered by
Day
Before ihe
Corps
By request of
Corps of this city
the Woman's Relief
the Journal publishes
the following
this auxiliary
address delivered before
to the (',. A. R. on Flag
lay. The reason
it was not published
sooner was for the
lad that we could
pot find room:
Our National Flag
The history of the stars and stripes,
our national flag, shows a gradual de
velopment. As early as 1774 a flag with
thirteen stripes is said to have been
tised by Captain MarkK? of the "Phila
delphia" Light Horse." In 17", .Messrs.
Lynch, Harrison and lr. Franklin were
apjiointed a committee to consider a
national flag. They recommended a
field of 1: stripes, hut with a canton
like the British flag. Many devices
were employed before the present tie
sign was adopted by congress on June
1-1. 1777. which may properly be called
the birthdav of the American flag.
A committee of congress. KoIrt !
Morris, George Ross, accompanied by
Cer.era! Washington, visited the up-holster;.-
store of Mrs. Betsy Ross on
Ar:h street. Philadelphia, and engaged
her to make a model flag. Washington
with his pencil, drew a rough draft for
her to follow but his stars were six
poirted and Mrs. Koss suggested the
five points as being more symmetical
an I was adopted. This was the first
United States flag. In 1705 congress
ordered that two more stripes should
be added to represent the two new
states that came into the union (Ver
mont and Kentucky) but in ISIS the
original design of thirteen stripes was
re-established and stars were to be add
ed for new states that came into the
union. Flags carried through the war
of 1SI2 had fifteen stars; those of the
Mexican war had twenty-nine stars;
those of the civil war thirty-rive; those
of the Spanish war forty-five; and on
July 4th we will have still another star
added. In 1M" the f.rst flag of American
bunting was hoisted over the capital in
Washington.
Such is the history of our flag which
stirs the hearts of ail old soldiers ar.d
patriotic people and whose sac-redness
should be instilled into the hearts of our
young; and every boy and girl should do
honor to the flag that has waved over
the heads of so many sacrifices for
country and whose folds in every coun
try stand for protection of American
rights.
Who could be prouder than the bear
er of the flag during the wars? and who
so lovingly guarded it during the strife
and how many would spring to the res
cue when the standard bearer was
struck down.
One of the saddest things to the Con
federate heart was the giving up of the
old tattered flags under whose folds
they had marched through so much sor
row and now after all these years they
are being restored the cruelties of war
are all forgotten ar.tl they rememoerj
Card cf Thanks
We. husband ar.d children of the late
Anna Eva Meisingcr. beloved wife of
J. B. Meisir.ger. wish to extend our
heartfelt thanks to those of our neigh
bors and friends who so kindly assisted
during the sickness, and at the time of
her death, and also for the many beau
tiful floral offerings, tokens of the
friendship in which she was held.
J. B. Meisixger, sr.,
axi Children.
A cleansing, clean, cooling, soothing,
healing household remedy is DeWitt's
Carbonized Witch Hazel Salve. For
bums, cuts, scratches, bruises, inset
bites, and sore feet it is unequaled.
Good for Piles. Eeware of imitations.
t DeWitt's. It is the best. Sold by
. Fricke & Co.
TRAIL IN DUST
Mrs. L. A. Moore on Flag
Woman's Relief
in this Gily
only the brave, loving commander w ho
1 guided the flair, and who followed to
the end.
j "Forgot the strife; r.o lines divide;
I but former foes stand side by side, " and
j pealing forth there will come the cry
j that there is one flag, one country for
j us all, and when danger threatened, the
; old soldiers of the blue and the gray
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! win say:
i
"Kor ,-:;r f-;is-l:l like devils
H it !- t 1 lie war was dime.
Your l.aml m-t mine in fririi'lly -la-..
' 1 1 r two hearts l.eal as ne.
! ttliiiM tl you down at Vic;v-,i'.:i tr.
Yd uli'k'l inv ul Kim.
t n maity a ii I1 we iM-i.-ll
When neitiiei viciorv won.
I'.-.lt now when oant'er t liieatens.
No north. tiDsoutli we 'now.
I 'istlrr t he liasr we -t antl to-el her.
To tit'lit tle .'iiDinon f-."
Our poet said so beautifully: "Jupiter,
a Clod of war, gave to America a tri
umphant banner, fora piece of blue sky
i 4 1 i- . I t 4. - t
"K """" ..tcc-
the rai"h)W to st"Pe jt with red and
seved some hriht stars on to make UP
uici viiory. mis nanner saia ne is a
flag for the free. ' '
There never can Le a song written
that will express more to a patriot than
"The Star Spangled Banner." When
we say "Oh, long may it wave," it is
more than singing it is a devout pray
er of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher
in an address in 1S61, tells what the
flag means to many Americans. He
says : "Our flag '-arries American ideas,
American history, and American rights
and feelings. Beginning with the col
onies and coming down the path of time
in its sacred and glorious heraldry, it
has gathered and stored this supreme
idea: divine right of liberty in man.
Every color means liberty; every star
means liberty. Not license, but liberty
through law and laws for liberty. It is
not a namted rag. It is a whole nation
al history. It is the constitution. It is
the free people that stand in the gov
ernment on constitution."
Every child should be taught to sing
"The Star Spangled Banner" reverent
ly and to always do honor to our na
tion's flag and never to desecrate objects
and to salute when it passes along the
streets.
Mats on :
Alonjf the streets there comes
A hlare of hv-.trles. a ruPIc of drums:
A hash of color het.eath the sU.v:
Hats off:
The t.::t: is ja--.irii.' by.
HI :io and crimson and white it shines.
1 ver the stee l-i ii-.el ordered lines:
Hats off:
The colors before us f!y;
l:.:t ir.ote than the fiat is jasir.sr.
Sea tit'lits and land tii-'hts. trim and treat.
l"ouriit to make and save the stale;
Weary marches and sinkir.tr ships.
Cheers of victory on dyinjr liiis.
Iays of plenty and days of iea-e.
March of a strontr land's swift increase.
Kiual justice riirht and law.
stately honor and reverent awe.
Sisrn of r. nation, j-'tfat and strontr.
To ward her ;eoi!e from foreijrn wror.tr.
I'ride and t'lory and honor, all
I.ive in the colors, to stand or fall.
Hats off:
A I t he st r ets liiete comes
A filare of Icitries. a rufiie of !:-.irr..
Ami loyal hearts are i-at!n hisrli.
Hats off:
The !!:.:.' is pas'm;r by.
Buys Opera House Block.
Mrs. A. E. Hobbs has sold the Hobbs
opera house block to L. F. Langhorst,
the general merchant, who has been
needing more room fcr some time. Con
sideration So.Ooo.Oo. Mr. Langhorst is
to have control of the building July 1,
but does not expect to occupy it until
about the first of September. Mr. Lang
horst says he intends making a lodge
room of the upper story. Swarts &
Weichel, the present occupants of the
building, have not yet decided on a new
! location. Elmwood Leader-Echo.
Gorder Buys Well Machine
To satisfy a claim of H. Par.konin of
Louisville, some well machinery belong
ing to Klaurens & Maitland, was sold
Saturday for $100 August Gorder being
tha purchaser.
GOOD FOR THE
BURLINGTON
Vill Obey the Law and Maxi
mum Rate io Take Effect
July 5, 1907
The Bnrlington road which is ex
pected to join the other roads In seek
ing to enjoin the railway commission
and the commodity maximum freight
rate law, Friday notified the com
mission that it would issue tariff sheets
July 5 in compliance with the commod
ity rate law, says the State Journal
The message came from J. E. Kelby,
attorney for the Burlington. He did
not promise that his road would desist
from litiiration to test the validity of
the maximum rate bill. The Burling
ton was one of the roads that moved
the supreme court to permit the removal
of the state's injunction suit to the fed
eral court. This suit was an applica
tion for an injunction to prevent the
railroads from violating the two-cent
fare law and the maximum rate law,
the anti-pass law and from violating
orders of the railway commission. As
the Burlington joined in the attempt
to remove the case to the federal court
its action now in notifying the commis
sion that it intends to put in force the
maximum rates July 5, the date the
law goes into effect, causes eonsidera
ble comment at the state house.
IS ARRESTED
III OMAHA
Frank L. Boyd in the Toils as
a Forgery Suspect
The Omaha Bee gives the following
particulars of the arrest of Frank L
Boyd on suspicion of being a versatile
operater: "Frank L. Boyd, who gave
as his address the Iler Grand hotel, was
arrested by Officers Patullo and Davis
Wednesday afternoon as a forgery sus
pect. It is believed by the police that
Boyd is the real culprit in the case fcr
which Jim McAvin of Eighteenth and
Center streets was arrested by mistake.
McAvin closely resembling a man who
passed several checks on the Drexei
shoe store and the Regent shoe store
and he was held for the crime. Thurs
day morning, however, he was released
as innocent. The bad checks had been
taken from the books of the Kimball
Automobile company. One of them was
for 12 and payable to J. Mann.
DEPARTED FOR
THE PHILIPPINES
The Regiment to Which Lieu
tenant George R. Guild
Belongs
TheOmahaWorld-Herald of Saturday
morning cor.taines the following:
"The departure of the Thirtieth infan
try for the Philippines from Fort Crook
today takes two daughters and a grand
daughter out of an Omaha family, that
of Mrs. Lowe. Three of her daughters
have married into the regiment, Mrs.
Murphy having recently manned Lieu
tenent G. B. Sharon, and before that
Miss Marie Lowe married Lieutenent
George R. Guild, and previous to that
Miss Blanche Lowe became Mrs. Ben
Wade. The latter, however, does not
go to the Philippines, her husband hav
ing a detail which keeps him at Colum
bus barracks." Lieutenent Guild is a
former resident of Plattsmouth having
been reared in this city.
Returns From Washington
I E. S. Tutt came in Saturday from
emngnam, w asmngton, wnere ne nas
been making his home for the past two
years. Ed expects to remain here
about two months, w hen he will return
to the west which he says is a fine
country. Bellingham is a city of about
35,000 where he was engaged as grader
of lumber for the Bellingham Bay Lum
ber company. John D. Tutt, his fa
ther, was with him in the west for
a wnne out couia not stana the climate
so he returned some time since. Miss
Mary Tutt, a sister of Ed. was also
out there for awhile. There lives in
Bellingham now Fred Barger, Frank
Hassen and wife, and Sylvester Mc
Guire who have made their homes here
in the past.
A New Man
There is now a new proprietor of th
billard hall in the Waterman block. His
name is A. J. McFarland, and he seems
to be an exceediugly clever gentleman.
Mr. McFarland proposes to run a quiet
and orderly place, and we hope he will
meet with good patronage.
Gets New Machinery
Mr. Craig, of the glove factory, Fri
day was unpacking and placing into his
glove factory a large invoice of the
latest dies for the cutting of gloves
and mittens that can be secured. In
this invoice there are dies, which in all
amounted in weighed 1,040 pounds, and
had to be unpacked before they could
be taken into the factory. Among
other things he has a button machine
that alone cost him .$100. With the ad
dition of these late devices he will be
better equipped for the coming season's
work. Among the late executions in
the art of glove making, is a ventilated
gauntlet glove, the like of which is not
known anywhere else. These gloves
are especially made for warm weather
service, and are adapted for the use of
railroad men, engineers, firemen, swieh
and brakemen.
MEDAL CONTEST
LAST NIGHT
Miss Marie Robertson Wins
First Prize and Miss Jose
phine Vallery Second
At the Methodist church, to a deeply
interested audience, was given the
medal contest Thusday and the judges
who were kept secret, awarded the
medal to Miss Marie Robertson, her
recitation, entitled, "The Brave Hun
ter's Child." The second was Miss
Josephine Vallery. Miss Robertson's
rendition was exceptionally fine and was
received with rounds of applause. Miss
Vallery's was a fine piece of work and
it was difficult to distinguish between
the two. County Attorney C. A. Raw's
made a fine talk in the presentation of
the medal, in which he encouraged them
all in the work they were doing. In
these contests Mrs. Moore is making
many sacrifices for the good of the
children, and is doing a great work and
one that should be apqreciated by every
citizen in Plattsmouth.
JOINS IN THE RING
Missouri Pacific Takes Sides
With Rock Island and
Union Pacific Roads
The Missouri Pacific railroad Mon
day joined with the Union Pacific and
the Rock Island in attacking the author
ity of the state courts in the injunction
suits of the state to compel these rail
roads to observe the laws enacted by the
last legislature imposing a 2-cent pas
senger rate, and establishing a maxi
mum freight rate subject to the action
and change of the railroad commission
created by the same legislature. The
Missouri Pacific came into the federal
court ana hied a transcript ot the pro
ceedings before the supreme court to
date, an answer to the suit filed by the
attorney general in the state court, and
a cross-bill in which the legislative acts
are attacked and an injunction ask
ed for restraining the state from enforc
ing the enactment.
The Union Pacific moved first in the
matter, followed by the Rock Island a
few days later, and now the Missouri
Pacific is taking the same action, word
ing the answer and the cross bill in very
near the same language save that the
Missouri Pacific appends a statement
of the business of the railroad of the
state for the year ending June 30, 1907.
By this statement it is shown that the
road is operated at a loss during the
present schedule of passenger and freight
rates, and showing that its loss would
hare been much more severe had the
present rates then been in force.
On School Board 33 Years.
J. M. Meisir.ger was in from Eight
Mile Grove pecinct Saturday, and made
this office a very pleasant call, and
stated that he had resigned as a mem
ber of the school board of district No.
41, after a continuous service of 33
years. This makes a pretty good rec
ord, and one that any man could well
be proud of when it is taken into con
sideration that there is no pay in this
office.
Spends Vacation in California
Rev. J. E. Houlgate departed for
Omaha Tuesday, where he secured
tickets for Los Angeles. Calif., and
met Mrs. Houlgate and the children
who went up on the Missouri Pacific on
the forenoon train. They expect to be
gone about three weeks and will be for
the first three weeks at South Pasedena,
California. Rev. Houlgate has been a
very hard worker, and this vacation is
very much needed, and coming at the
heated portion of the year, makes it
doubly welcome in his case. We hope
they will have a very enjoyable outing
and come back refreshed and re-invigorated,
that it is said the salubrious
climate of California will give.
THE PRIMARY
ELECTION LAW
Voters Cannot Be Too Veil
Posted on the Subject
The new primary election law is now
in effect, and the Journal jumps at
every opparitur.ity to post its readers on
the matter, believing that every voter
should fully understand the man
ner in which all candidates are to be
nominated by the parties in the future
in Nebraska.
The first election under the new law
will be held September 3, in every pre
cinct in the state. All parties will par
ticipate in the primaries, and will nomi
nate their officers according to the forms
prescribed in the law. Under the rules
as adopted, at least sixty days prior to
September 3, Governor Sheldon will
have to issue a proclamation designat
ing the offices that are to be tilled. He
will send a copy of this proclamation to
each county clerk. Thirty days before
the primary is held, the candidates or
their friends must file a written applica
tion with the proper authority. Twenty
live qualified electors of the same party
as the candidate must sign this applica
tion ur.lessit is presented by the candi
date himself.
When the twenty-live voters present
this application, it will read as follows:
"We, the undersigned qualified electors
of precinct, county, in the
state of Nebraska, affiliating with the
party and residing at hereby re
quest that the name of - be placed
upon the official primary ballot of the
said party for the primary election to be
held on the day of in
as candidate for the office of
- , and I pledge myself to abide by
the results of said primary election and
will qualify if elected."
The papers for officers elective in
more than one county must be filed with
the secretary of state. For city officers,
the application must be made to the
city, and for county officers, to the
county clerk.
At least twenty-five days before Sep
tember 3, the sedretary of state mu-t.
send the names of all the candidates to
J the county clerks who must publish them.
The secretary of state is directed to
certify out all the names riled to each
of the county clerks. This means that
the names of all the candidates for con
gress, all district judge candidates, all
float legislators or senators must be
certified out to each county clerk
whether they are to be voted upon or
not.
The filing fee for the office of United
States Senator will be 50; that of can
didates for state officers, members of
congress and district judges, 10; that
of candidates for county, legislative and
city offices, 5.
Only those voters who state their
political affiliation will be permitted to
vote at the primary election. In country
precints voters must state their party
and they will be handed the ticket con
taining the names of the candidates of
that party. In cities, when the voter
registers, he must state his party affilia
tion if he wants to take part in the pri
mary election.
Visits Iron Mountain
Frank Swallow living south of the
city departed for Mountain View, Mo.,
where he will look at lands with the in
tention cf purchasing. Mountain View
is situated in the south central part of
Missouri, in Howell county, and well
up in the Iron Mountains. It is claimed
that the climate is very healthful and
the country productive, it being at so
high altitude, the air is pure and free
from many of the disagreeable features
which many southern countries possess.
increase !n UOSIOI Living
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snow cnac cne increase in cne co.ii oi
living in that city is some sixteen per
cent higher than it was a year ago,
which is substantially true of cities
and towns all over the country. It
therefore follows that the man earning
2.00 per day a year ago will hav
get 2.32 per dav now- to be as
to ;
veil j
off as then, which is considerably more
than the average increase in wages.
Some of the laboring men, if this kec-ps
on, will begin to find a little space, we
fear, between- the cover of that dinner
pail and the dinner underneath.
A Fine Team
W. M. Barclay took that fine black
team of his to Omaha Monday and
sold them to the Willow Springs Brew
ing Company for the magnificient sum
of $500. This looks like a big price for
a team, but when the team arrived in
the metropolis all eyes were uponthem,
many declaring that it was one of the
finest teams that entered that city.
In a Nut-Shell
A town that never has anything to do
in a public way is on the way to the
cemetery. Any citizen who will d'
nothing for his town i.i helping t dig
the grave. A man cursing the town I'tirin
ishes the coffin. The mail who is so self
ish as to have no time from bis business
to give city affairs, is making a shroud.
The man who 1 :ll not advertise is driv
ing the hearse ie man who is always
pulling back from any public entcipr i-c
throws bouquets o:i the gravi-. The
man who is so stingy as to be bowling
hard times preaches the funeral, Kings
the doxology, and thus the town li s
buried from all sorrow and tare.
CARELESS 11 P.
TRAINMEN
(n Consequence of Vhich a
Lady Passenger is Seri
ously Injured
The early morning train going nrth
on the Missouri Pacific railway, which
is abont o'clock was about an hour
late Friday morning, and its stop was
very brief, and for many reasons was
briefer than was for t he convenience
of many of the passengers.
For this station this morning there
were many passengers, and among the
number was Carl E. Anderson and wife
whose home isatli02O S. 20th street, Om
aha. They were in the sleeper, and when
the station was called started to get o:f
the train, but as the door of the car
was locked they passed through the
day coach, and by the time they were
at the door to get off, the train bad be
gan to move, and in stepping oil' Mrs.
Anderson was thrown down byfhe
force of the train, and rolling over the
end of the ties at the north end of the
station platform, sustaining some very
severe injuries and bruises, it. M.
Sayer, a traveling man from Paducah,
Ky., had just stepped from the 4 rain,
and the night operator, Richard Hale,
both rushed to her and nicked he
up
and assisted her inVj the waiting r-'m.
Her husband was just behind her carry
two grips, jumped off after her throw
ing the grips as he jumped, landivg
quite a distance further north. Besides
these were others to get ofF, some three
or more persons could not get oT at
all and were carried to Omaha.
A hack was called and Mrs. Anderson
was taken to the Hotel Riley ;;nd ;i
physician was called and an examination
made as the extent of her injuries. It
was found that .she had sustained u
sprained ankle and shoulder blade, also
a contusion of the left lower limb ex
tending from the ankle to near the
knee, and bruises over the chest &::
shoulders. Dr. Cuummins was the .at
tending physician.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are artists
who are looking for a location to estab
lish a school ( instruction in landscape,
portrait and fancy sign painting. They
have been located at 520 North Hth
street, Omaha, heretofore, and had
tickets for this point.
More Money for Normals
A Lincoln special to the Omaha Bee
contains the following: "Senator Jesse
L. Root of Cass county, who has been
speaking at one of the junior normal
schools cm educational subjects, has
written to Superintendent McBrien say
ing that the appropration for the ju
nior normals should have been greater
and that the Doran bill for aid to weak,
districts should be extended rather
than diminished. Senator Root was
the head of the finance committee of
the senate, ar.d as such he had to do
most of the cutting on appropriations
to keen the state from becoming mort-
gage.1 and r.ecame very near taKmg a
vhack at the $30,000 appropriated for
the aid of weak districts.
Married at Eleven
Tuesday morning a blushing girl of 1 S
summers, wearing an Alice blue dress,
with a hat which looked like a
garden
of roses, looking beautiful, and her na-
tive beauty, heightened by the faintest
of blushes as the judge asked her if she.
would take the man in whose hand re
posed her own right hand, was Miss
Ethel Carrie Hindman as she stood in
the court room and plighted her troth
to the man she loved, and became the
bride of Finneo Elton Becksteau, aged
22, and both hailing from Bellvue, Ne
braska. With them were Karl Ing
heimand Miss Margarette Bradly, friends
who came to see the ceremony per
formed, and to become accustomed to
such celebrations.
For Sale
Kimball piano,
great sacrifice.
An upright
condition at a
at this office.
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