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POULTRY WANTED DV Glarinda Poultry, Butter and Egg Company. To be delivered at Zuckweiler fc Lutz's, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Friday, October 18, . (('raws to Be Empty.) Sick ami Unmarketable Poultry Not Wanted. We will pay Cash as follows: II KNS, per pound . . Kc SPRINGS, per pound 8 TURX, per pound 7c DUX, fat, full feathered, per lb Lc GEESE, fat, full feathered, per lb oc ROOSTERS, per pound 4c LAND AND CORN KEEP PAGE Every Year Will See Higher Values for Land That the limit of high prices for land which will produce corn and other grains has not been reached, is evident, by the continued high prices realized for the products which are obtained from the soil. With corn at "0 to G5 cents and with a prospect of it selling higher, there is a great impetus given to the real estate dealer and the owner to re quire a greater amount of money for the land which he has to sell. Here are the opinions of two of the most success ful grain men in Omaha as to what they think will be the result. "The entire corn area of the world is now under cultivation." said W. C. Sunderland, a prominent Omaha grain broker. "This producing area can't be increased, while the consumption and demand are always increasing every day. Values of corn lands are bound to go up .V to loo j.er cent at least in a very few years. With present high prices, farmers are not anxious to sell their lands except at fancy figures, for they are getting bigger returns from their investment than any other class." The same opinion is advanced by other dealers, among them E. A. Nord strom, secretary of the Nebraska Hay & Grain company, who said: "Fifty cents a bushel for corn is lound to increase farm land values and there is no indication that prices will ever be lower." Was After Cattle. Jesse Lawther, who moved from this county to Coalridge about two years ago. came in Tuesday for a short visit with his parents and the parents of his wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Norris. He came to Omaha for a load of feeding cattle and took advantage of the op portunity to spend a few hours at the old home.- Mr. and Mrs. Norris came to Plattsmouth with him this morning to catch the early Burlington train, but were too late, and were compelled to take the M. P. for Omaha. English Spavin Liniment removes Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses; also Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring Bone, Stifles, Sprains, Swollen Throats, Coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. A wonderful Blemish Cure. Sold by Gering & Co., druggists. We Are Now Needing That Money. To all who know themselves indebted to the undersigned, for work done with either machine, and especially those whose accounts have been running for one, two or three years, we have to say that we are needing the money. Call at the office of W. F. Gillispie and settle. Since the quarantine the second time we are needing the money badly to meet expences and pay bills coming due. Will you. whom we have accomo dated, now come and settle up. Robert L. Propst. Thayer Propst. Laxative Fruit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Does not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom ach, liver and bowels. Rafuse substitute. Pries BOo. FOR SALE BY F. G. FRICKE Are Rushing Work at Home The committee having the building of the new wing at the Masonic Home in charge were in the city this morning and looked over the ground and the grading being done at the Masonic Home, and were well pleased with the way the work is being pushed forward. The firm who have the building in hand was represented here by Mr. Fred Hoye, and in conversation with a reporter said that they expected to begin the laying of the brick for the wing by the first of the corning week. The only thing which he think:; could possibly delay the work would be the getting of ma- terial as rapidly as is desired. Besides Mr. Hoye, the architect, J. R. Guth and one of the head canpenters, N. J. II elding were in the city looking after the work, as well as the committee of the Grand Lodge, consisting of F. E. White, J. R. Webster, Geo. H. Thum mel, Millard M. Robertson and C'has. Denharn. They are all well pleased with the way the work was beinf taken hold of and felt sure that the spirit of the builders persuaged an early com pletion of the contract. CRUSHES A WAY GAR Stock Extra Smashes Info Regular Train Last evening about 10.30, while the Burlington freight train. No. 30 was doing some work at Oreapolis, a stock extra coming from the west and destin ed for Omaha ran into and mashed the way car of the regular freight and de railed two cars. While the work was being done a flagman was se.it back, and when the work was finished the engineer of the regular train, by a whistle signal called in the .flagman in order to come to Plattsmouth the end of their run. The flagman came in and before the regular train could be gotten out of the way the stock extra was into them, with the above results. Roy Kline who had been to Cedar Creek to visit his parents and while returning was sleep ing in the way car, and brakeman Wal ter Speck, seeing the extra approach ing, and unable to stop it. rushed into the way car waking Mr. Kline got him out of the way car just in time to escape the no doubt fatal result which would of happened. The way car was badly smashed, and derailed, and two other cars one a car of lumber and the other the bunk car of the bridge gang of which Oscar Sampson is the foreman. The bridge crew had been at Cedar Creek working and were coming into this place in order to go to work at Bellevue, but owing that the freight late, they came in on a hand car had they been on the train and which was to bring in their car being asleep, the probabilities are that the loss of lives might have been serious. The regular train No. 30 which was ran into was delayed at Oreapolis until morning in getting on the track so they could get to the end of their run. The property loss is not great, and very fortunate it is that no lives were lost. Inspect Missouri Pacific Track. Last week the Missouri Pacific suf fered from a visitation of mishaps due to the softening of the roadbed by the heavy rains and for three or four days the train schedules of the road were knocked into a cocked hat. The first wreck of any importance was one that occurred near Union. The working train that was sent out to clean up this wreck crushed througn a rotten bridge and a number of cars were des troyed. It was a wonder that someone was not killed. Trains were derailed near Weeping Water on the north end and Verdon on the south end with the result that the road was blocked on both sides f oa hours. Trains were held in the yards here until the latter became so congested that they would not hold an other car. The railroad commissioners heard of the series of wrecks and on Monday Commissioner Williams made a trip over the road with the rate expert, going as far as Auburn. The demoralized con ditions that existed as the result of the first fall rain shows what must be ex pected through the winter and it is thought that the investigation of the road commissioner will result in another urgent order to railroad officials to be more thorough in the work of repair and to hasten it along so as to get out of the way of winter weather. Afflicted with Sore Eyes for 33 Years. I have been afflicted with sore eyes for thirty-three years. Thirteen years ago I became totally blind and was blind for six years. My eyes were badly inflamed. One of my neighbors insisted upon my trying Chamberlain's Salve and gave me half a box of it. To my surprise it healed my eyes and my sight came back to me. P. E. Earls, Cynthiana, Ky. Chamberlain's Salve is for sale by F, G. Fricke & Co., and Plattsmouth Drug Co. Shortnand Taught. I would be pleased to receive a num ber of students in shorthand and type writing. Will state terms on applica tion. Miss Waterman, 716 Locust St., Plattsmouth. THE W. C. T. U. CONVENTION Meet In Lincoln and Have Large Attendance. The twenty-third annual convention ! of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Nebraska began last night at the Second Presbyterian church in Lin coln with a banquet, the first in the history of the organization in Nebraska The affair was attended by about 300 persons. After the supper a program of toasts was carried out. The Program The program which was carried out was as follows: "Our Guests," Miss Elizabeth M. , Covell, Omaha. "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union," Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, nation al president. Remarks, Miss Anna Gordon, national and world secretary. Remarks, Miss Wintringer. "The Church and Reform," Rev. S. Z. Batten. "Our Mothers," J. L. McBride, state superintendent public instruction. Vocal Solo, Miss Maude Kendall. Remarks, Mrs. Olive A. Moore. Dreams and Dreamers," Rev. F. W. Emerson. "Formation," W. L. Stephens, sup erintendent Lincoln schools. There will be morning, afternoon and evening sessions Wednesday and Thurs day, and while the work will be princip ally of a business nature, there will be many features of interest to all who care to attend. Wednesday evening President Stevens will deliver an ad dress on "The Two Oars of the Temper ance Reform." The union now has about 250 local unions in the state, with a total mem bership of 3,500. During thirty-three years that the organization has been at work in Nebraska there has never been a time when the interest was as great as it is at present or when results were more plainly discernible. The present state officers are: President, Frances B. Heald, Osceola. Vice president, Susanna K. Daily, University Place. Correspondina secretary, Emma L. Starrett, Central City. Recording secretary, Matilda E. Pat terson, Omaha. Treasurer, Annetta Nesbit, Pawnee City. STANDARD OIL WAS REJECTED A. B. Allen Refused to Accept Car at Ashland Much of the Product Below Grade Is Nebraska to be the dumping ground of water logged oil? Oil Inspector A. B. Allen has been endeavoring to make the answer a negative one. Nearly all the Standard oil, he stated, seemed to be on the "ragged edge" of the legal test, while much of the product was clearly im possible. He rejected a car of oil at Ashland this morning. Similiar action may be taken in regard to a car at Nebraska City. An expert from the east is hur rying to Nebraska to ascertain the ex act trouble. Nearly all the oil scarcely grades above 100 degrees flash test. Last Saturday Mr. Allen rejected a car of oil at Beaver City and several other cars are under suspicion and may be rejected. Mr. Allen has been in formed by the Standard' Oil company's agent for the state that an expert is on his way from the east to make a chemi cal analysis of the oil and determine what is the trouble. The company is compelled to ship back rejected oil or mix it with oil of a very high test in order to bring it within the Nebraska statutes. Either is costly and the company is sending its expert to make analysis so that future carloads will be up to the standard. Many of the car loads of oil passed by the Nebraska in spectors are right at the legal test. One Glass in the Morning "I wish to bring you the good news that I am perfectly well again after having suffered for such a time with a stomach trouble. j know now that Triner's Elixer of Bitter Wine has a great curative power. I used only one wine glass full in the morning and re ceived almost immediate relief; in a month my sickness disappeared. The air is heavy here and those of a week constitution should use this remedy, in order to gain more strength. William Tomic, Graveland Park Seminary, St. Paul, Minn." Triner's American Elix ir of Bitter Wine is tha most valuable remedy for weak and sickly persons, as also for nervous and dispondent per sons, because it will give them a healthy appetite, a perfect digestion and new energy. It is also recomend ed to those having vomiting spells, es pecially in the morning; it is good for every stomach, young and old, healthy and sick. The purity of this remedy is guarenteed By U. S. Serial No. 346. At drugstores. Jos. Triner, 799 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, III. I. 0. 0. F. Meeting. At the meeting, at Omaha, of the grand encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which is to be the initial gathering of the fifteenth annual session of the grand lodge, was somewhat delayed Tuesday morning be cause of the absence of Grand Patriar ch, E. S. Dimrnick. Mr. Dimmick had been suddenly called to Wisconsin be cause of the death of his mother. Grund Senior Warden, W. G. Purcell of Broken Row called the meeting to order at 11 a. m. in the Odd Fellows' hall. Fourteenth and Dodge streets. The work of the encampment was wholy of an executive character, con sisting of the secret work of the order, the submission of the reports and was continued during the aftertroi, involv ing the election officers and other ritual work. At 8 o'clock this evening the encamp ment degree will be carried out. A special session of the grand lcxlge will be held this evening at Creighton hall, Fifteenth and Harney streets, for the purpose of conferring the grand lodge and past grand degrees. The Rebekah assembly convenes this evening at the Workmen temple. Be tween 500 and GOO of the delegates are in the city and the incoming trains bring additional members. The session of the grand lodge gives promise of be ing the most largely attended of recent years. The grand lodge will convene in Creighton hall Wednesday at 9 a. m. The address of welcome will be deliver ed by Harry E. Burnham on behalf of the city, with repones by Grand Master J. E. Morrison, W. G. Purcell and Miss Katherine Jackson the respective heads of the various Odd Fellow bodies. The business session of the Rebekah assembly will convene immediately thereafter in Odd Fellows' hall. At 1:30 p. m. Patriarches Militant, the uniformed body of the Odd Fallows' organization, will give a competitive drill for the prize cup, now held by Ezra Millard Cantonment of Omaha. At the afternoon session of the Odd Fellows' grand encampment these new officers were elected: Grand Patriarch -W. H. Purcell, Broken Bow. Grand Senior Warden U. S. Rohrer, Hastings. Grand High Priest-J. P. Carson, Lincoln. Grand Scribe I. P. Gauge, Fremont. Grand Treasurer -Frank IJ. Brant, Omaha. Grand Junior Warden W. H. Crellin Lyons. Grand Representative--W. D. Craw ford, Lincoln. Among the prominent Odd Fellows who are attending the state convention is George L. Loomis of Fremont, the fusion candidate for supreme judge. For a number of years he has been af filiated with the order. He is a dele gate to the grand lodge, and arrived Tuesday forenoon with a dozen of his fellow townsmen to take part in the session of the grand encampment held yesterday. Enjoin the Board. A temporary writ of injunction was issued tuesday byCounty Judge Mullin on application of R. B. Howell, in his own and behalf of all other members of the Soldiers' home, against members of the State Board of Public Lands and Build ings and the commandment of the home, restricting them from collecting any part of their pension money as at tempted by recently established rule No. 17. This action of the board has caused intense resentment and the members of the home have joined in a determination to fight the case. They have engaged W. H. Thompson as at torney. The petition, which is a volum nious one, sets forth that such rule at tempts to take property without due process of law, is unconstitutional and unauthorized by any law. The action of the board has caused interest among members of the home. The board recently passed an order col lecting a certain per cent of the pen sions of all soldiers drawing over $12 a month. The petition filed today says such action is equivalent to taking property without due process of law. Burried in Rock Bluffs. Thomas Smith, who has lived many years in Rock Blugs and was known by most people in this city and the sur rounding vicinity, has for many years been troubled with a cancer, but being pure grit has fought off its insidious ad vances, and has kept up and going when many a man would have given up and laid down and died. Mr. Smith, while well advanced in years, has kept going and would not even give up to take his bed until the last. He was at last overcome with the encroachments of the disease of many years, and passed away last Friday. He was buried at Rock Bluffs, the place where he has spent so many years, a neighbor and a friend to all. In the little village his kindly and daily greeting to . every in habitant thereof will be missed, since his pleasant good morning has been stilled by the Death Angel. . Poultry Wanted Highest cash paid for poultry, deliver ed at Mynard any day in the week. Tel. 3 O. W. F. Richardson. SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY Friends of J. V. RodeferGive I Dinner at Masonic Home i The members of the fraternity at the Masonic Home has a special dinner to day, in commemoration of the coming to this country of the grand old man who is making his home at the institu tion, Mr. .1. W. Rodefer. He was born at I''iii''astle, Virginia, a. id removed to Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia, j when less tnan one year old. At this j place he spent his youth. At the age of j twenty-six, after having lived for a quarter of a century in the mountainous ! portion of Virginia, !.e followed the i . x . ... star oi empire west. Slopping at Keo kuk, Iowa, where he lived from 1 .",; to 1872, and where he married. At the time that he came to this place, it was a great wholesale supply depot, for the country surrounding, and is still a city with many wholesale houses. After a residence here for sixteen years, he re moved to the city of Council Bluffs, where he made his home for thirteen or fourteen years. From there he took up his residence in Omaha, where he lived for a period of twenty-one years, at the end of which time he came to Platts mouth. He has made his home here for two years and while here he has made many acquaintances who are all well pleased to number Uncle J. W. Rodefer, the genial gentleman whom we see taking his morning constitutional almost every day in the shape of a walk to the Burlington station back, from the Home, as among their friends. On this, his 77th birthday, his many friends greet him as a type of the grand old man, who has filled his life full with good work and good deeds, and now, as he meets you on the street, he always has a cheery good morning for all, and the greetings which he gives is an en couragement to all. With his fellows at the home he is an encouragement and a source of help. The celebrating of the event of his passing this mile stone in life's journey, is a token of the deep friendly feeling which his friends entertain for him. Mr. Rodefer, became a Mason in lSt'5 in the city of Keokuk, joing Blufl" City lodge of that place and remaining a member of it while living there, when going to Council Bluffs he transferred his membership to that place, where he remained a member until he moved to Omaha, where he attached himself to Nebraska lodge No. 1. At that place he still holds his membership. During all the time that he has been a member of the fraternity, he has ever practiced their teachings, always emphasizing the princaples of charity and brotherly love. He has taken 32 degrees but at the present time has dropped all but the Blue Lodge. They Were Really Smooth. A six-foot man, well proportioned, but showing that the snows of marry winters had rested upon his locks, and the suns of many a hot and scorching summer has kissed his full and rounded cheek, if not the lips of some fair one, alighted from the morning Burlington train, and with all the tenderness of his wholesolcd nature assisted a fair young woman, just past the giddish, girlish, period of young womanhood, be ing fair to look upon, and a tall well proportioned blond, with the sweetest of a smile playing around her well formed mouth, and a preceptible saucy sparkle in her rougish eyes, to alight from the train. They, with the abandon of those who know no one knows them, strolled up the street. They were well acquainted with Aug ust Gorder but were particular to wend their ways so that he would not catch a glimpse of them. By, a round, about course they gained the court- house, where they secured a lisence, and made inquiries for a minister, who would for get all about the affair for a season. At the court house there were plenty of cigars to the janitor and the officials who smoked, which was filled with some kink of a drug, which made them forget all about the occuraece until a day or so shall have elapsed. We also think that a box of candy caused the same kind of an effect on other people as well. Their action of course arrous ed a suspision in our mind, and we be gan to put things together, and plac ing our ear to the telephone, we listned and heared a voice well known to be that of A. A. Randall of the Methodist church which said, ' "who told you there was a wedding"and he would not give up the names but admitted he had per formed the ceremony. At the station waiting for the fast mail to bear them home, in conversa tion with the reporter, they admitted the matter all but the names, which they would not give up. They went away happy, and we wish them all the happiness they can obtain from this mysterious life, and that they may be as successful in winning the smiles of the Goddess of Fortune a3 they were in keeping their names a secret from the public. Loom Ends of 12 1-2 cent Silkoline 6J cents a yard, three to twelve yards long, three yards wide. Fine for com fortables at Coates Dry Goods Co. DISASTROUS FIRE AT ELr.1V00D Miss Edna Miller Badly Injured By Jumping From Window A special to the State .Journal from Klmwood under date of yesterday says: At 1 o'clock yesterday morning the modern $.,(io farm residence of the late '.. P. Marl, live n.ilc-i rv rt h ami t wo ! west of Klmwood, was tot ally dest royed by v. thought to have originated from j the furnace. Nothing vas saved but. a piano, parlor carpet aiid some clothing. Miss Edna Miller of this city who , t "aches in the Zz district, hoarded at the Karl home, and was terribly j injured by jumping from :!) upstairs j window, a distance of twenty feet, fall ing on the cement wall., where she was disco-, cvd soon, after, .. lien" a ladder wa:i feeing taken to her w indow. Miss Miller was c alled in plenty of lime to get out of the house, but e ideiitly re mained to put on most of her clothing, not coming down stairs when called, as was supposed by members of the fam ily. When she tried to get down the stairway it was too late, and she re came frightened and attempted to climb out of the window and fell. Members of the family soon discovered she was not with them and hastily carried a lad der to her window, only to discover her unconscious form beneath the window. She was carried to a neighbor's and doctors summoned from Klmwood and M unlock, who found her left arm broken, jaw fractured, head terribly cut and face and head bruised. She will recover if internal injuries were not received. There was $."00 insurance on the house, it is reported. Had the wind been blowing the barn and out buildings would have been destroyed, as they were near the house. Telephone News Service It is estimated that nearly 2,000,000 cords of wood are used every year in the manufacture of paper in the United States. Of all this paper 500,000 tons go into the printing of newspapers arid thousands of acres are stripped of trees to supply the insatiable demand for printed matter. The problem of paper supply for the future grows more acute as time passes and it is suggested that the newspaper of the future may be like the Telephone- K 'wi.Tm-n i of Bud apest. This institution whic h c an hard ly be called a newspaper, supplies 20, 000 subscribers with news over 1,100 miles of telephone wires. From 8 o'clock in the morning until ten at night reports of current events market figures, musical and dramatic criticism, lectures and scientific and political addresses are talked in the microphones for the benefit of subscrib ers. The different subjects being hand led according to a schedule annouced in advance. The cost of the service is about two cents a day for each sub scriber. The plan is not without its disad vantages. Unless the subscriber hap pens to be at home and at leasure when the news is telephoned he must either go uninformed or buy an old-fashioned printed sheet. W. A. Shannon Improving. Oliver Edmonds and wife returned home last evening from Grand Island, where they have been to visit Mr. Ed mond's father, who is very sick, and on account of whose sickness Mr. Edmonds and wife were called there. Grandpa Edmonds was much improved, and bids fair to still make more improvement, and was so, that the folkscould return. While awaiting a train at Lincoln Mr. Edmonds went to see W. A. Shannon, who suffered the loss of one leg and a part of one of his feet some time since by slipping under the wheels of a train at Friend. It will be remembered that Mr. Shannon was employed in the local switch yards of the Burlington here, and was known as "Hi" Shannon. lie is just getting out for the first time, and it is hoped that he may make a very rapid recovery. Was Here Forty-two Years Ago. Chas. York, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, came in last evening and is visiting with his brother J. C. York, and family. Mr. York has not seen his brother for some twelve years, and thought this a good time to come and visit him. Mr Chas. York has just disposed of his farm in Idaho, and thought that he would come back to Nebraska, and look around with the object in view of seeing if he could find a good location for purchasing a home as well as visiting with relatives which he ha3 not seen for years. Mr. York has only made his home in Idaho for about five years, having lived in Jefferson county, this state for the twelve years preced ing that time. Mr. York says he no tices an improvement in this place from the time when he was here last. Notice lo Our Customers We are pleased to announce that Foiey's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs and we recommend it aa a safe remedy for children and adult?.