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VOLUME XX VI II
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MOXDAY, MAKCII :i), 1908.
NUM1S12H II
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And Discuss Plans of Work, Valuations of
Properly, Both Real and Personal, and
Other Halters of Interest that
Gomes Before Them
The deputy assessors of the county
were all in the city Friday and in con
sultation with County Assessors II. M.
Soennichsen, as to what should con
stitute the valuations of property,
when they should go to work. The
question of land valuation took up a
good deal of the time and elicited a
number of good ideas from the differ
ent members of the assessor's force.
Deputy Clerk D. C. Morgan explained
to them that a recent decision had
placed the value on a piece of land
what it had sold for recently if such
sale had been made, unless that con
sideration had been put lower than
the surrounding land was valued at.
All agreed that land values had ap
preciated during the past four years,
and were willing that the assessment
should be raised. Should the assess
ment remain the same, the board of
equalization at Lincoln would raise it.
After a good deal of discussion, the
matter was left to the assessor from
each presinct, and he was to be guided
by the prevailing price of land, as per
the exchanges made in his precinct in
recent years, and the prices which the
land would bring upon the real estate
market. The average value of land in
the county, according to the assessor's
books for the past four years was
$00.20, and the amount assessed was
$12.04. It was the opinion that the
vatuation should be meterially raised.
In the consideration of the valuation
of personal property, they were to be
guided, as a rule, something near what
the property is worth, and in the matter
of cattle, the assessed valuation was
thought to average about $5.00 which
would place all cattle over or near one
year old at $25.00, per head; but even
with these guides the deputy asssesor
was to be governed by what the true
value of the property really is as told
by their best judgement. In the mat
ters of elevators, they were assess the
amount of grain on hand at the first of
April, and the amount handled, the
capital stock in the business. Farmers'
Make the Roads Better.
E. J. Mougey and J. A. Doughty, j
two of the Journal's staunch friends j
from near Union, were in the county j
seat looking after some business mat
ters todajr, and of course paid this office
a brief but very pleasant call. They
drove in and are not slow in expressing
their opinion in regard to the rough
roads as they came nearer to Platts
mouth. They say the farmers in their
locality join each spring as soon as the
frost leaves the ground and drag or
float the highways and in a few days
travel they are perfectly level. They
suggest this sort of a plan as a great
advantage near the county seat. Mr.
Mougey's daughter who is attending i
school here returned home with him to (
spend Sunday.
A Delightful Affair
Thursday, at the home of Miss Jen
nie Batten, occurred another jolly meet
ing of the Griggs. The usual merri
ment reigned. The guests were enter
tained by vocal selections by Misses
Elizabeth Kerr and Bertha Jackson,
which were thorought enjoyed by ail. I
In a contested flower game, Miss Ina j
Hatt won the prize and Miss Lillian :
Thompson was consoled for her lack of j
imagination by a long stick of candy, j
After enjoying the delicious buffet j
luncheon, and listening to an interest-
ing reading by Miss Lillian Thompson, ;
the guests departed, having spent a !
most delightful evening.
Turning Classes Doing Nicely
Frank Slatinsky of Omaha was a
visitor in the city Thursday, coming
down to give the regular lesson to the
classes which he has at the Sokol Turn
er's halL These classes are making
good progress, and numbers about 24
in the young ladies' class, which are
exceptionally fine in the kind of work
they are doing. The young men's
class is one that will compare in work
with any in the state.
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I elevators were to come under the same
mode of ascertaining their true worth.
In the matter of stocks of banks, the
number of shares which each individ
ual held, and in all cases the assessor
was to copy the last bank statement
and send in the copy. County Assessor
Soennichsen instructed the deputies to
send in the schedules when they had
accomulated five or ten, so that the
county clerk could be working upon
them.
The deputy assessors were instructed
to be sure and get the number of the
school districts and the road districts
correct, as an error in the schedules
would go through the books until it
came to the treasurer's office, where
the taxpayer would make a kick upon
it and cause the matter to be looked up
and corrected through the whole set of
books, causing much more work. Mr.
Soennichsen also cautioned them about
getting the road tax and the poll taxes
right. The meeting as it was held will
be a great benefit, especially to the
ones who have not did any of this kind
of work before.
Among the deputies present were the
following:
Tipton Henry Snoke.
Greenwood L B Appleman.
Salt Creek W E Pailing.
Stove Creek W C Bartlett.
- Elmwood W O Schewe.
South Bend CT Richards.
Center J M Carper.
Louisville John Groop.
Avoca Jos. Zimmerer.
Mt. Pleasant Will Puis.
Eight Mile Grove G. P. Meisinger.
Nehawka John Wunderlich.
Liberty Jas. J. Reynolds.
Rock Bluffs-Geo. S. Smith.
Plattsmouth Precinct William Rum
mell. Weeping Water City J. I. Corley
Weeping Water Precinct Dietrich
Koester.
riattsmouth City First and Fourth
ward, James Rebal; Second, P. E. Ruf
ner; Third and Fifth, A. D. Despain.
Get the Wrong Train
Miss Florence Davis of Union was a
visitor in the city for the past few
days, a guest of her friend, Miss May
Larson, and departed this morning for
Omaha, where she will visit with
friends for a short time before return
ing home.
At the Burlington station this morn
ing, Miss rlorence, mistook the Chi
cago train for the one going to Omaha
and was carried up well toward the
elevator, before she noticed the mis
take, and when the train was stopped
had to run back in order to catch the
train for Omaha.
Depart For South Dakota
On the afternoon train Frank Boyd
departed for Aberdeen, South Dakota,
where he is engaged with the Milwau
kee railway, and will also take a home
stead. His neighbor N. E. White will
also go. Mr. White has been in the
employ of the Milwaukee at Manilla,
Iowa, for some time past as foreman of
a construction gang and will do the
j same business for the railway in Da
! kota.
Mrs. Roy Dodge Some Better
P. E. Ruffner came down from Om-
aha Friday morning and is looking after
some business in the city. He reports
that his daughter, Mrs. Roy Dodge, is
greatly improved, and is ble to be out
again for short walks, wThich in pleasant
i news to her many friends in Platts-.
j mouth. It is hoped that she may be
entirely well in a short time.
Looking After Internal Revenue
E. S. Critchfield, of Omaha, deputy
internal revenue collector for the dis
trict of Nebraska was a visitor in the
city last evening looking after some
business matters in regard to the in
ternal revenue. While here he was
making inquiry regarding the condition
of the schools, as to how the supply of
teachers was as to the demand.
ANY JOIN
THE FIGHT
At Louisville Yesterday, The
Quiet Was Broken, and
Some Heads as Well,
Now Mended
Yesterday the quiet little city of
Louisville was distrubed by the clash of
resounding arras and breaking of a few
heads, as an incident to a jug of fire
water being brought from Cedar Creek.
J. II. Burnes, conducts a resturant, and
a temperance pool hall, and endeavors
to keep the place in the best of shape,
but some outside influence and bad
boose, worked havoc to the reputation
of the place and the city as well yester
day afternoon. It being Sunday all
were supposed to keep, within the paths
of rectitude, but the jug of boose which
come someway from the city down the
track, got things going the wrong way.
In the disturbance which followed the
deep draughts of the fire water, Geo.
Shoeman jr., was struck over the head
with a chair in the hands of one Sail
ing, which layed the Scalp open for some
distance along the left crest of the skull
in the repairing of the broken head it
required seven stitches of the medicine
man to close. The young man is feel
ing far from the best this morning.
The affair in the city did not rest well
on the mind of Mr. George Dalezne,
the mother-in-law of the wonded man
and she paid a visit to the place of Mr.
Burns and with a blow streightfrom the
should,sent the proprietor"to grass" at
the first blow, he was then under the
doctors care, and has been in bed since.
Many of those engaged in the affair
would be glad had the occurance not
have happened. The legal issues are
being tried today.
Mayor Brown For Governor
A number of Mayor Brown's friends
are urging him to come out as a demo
cratic candidate for governor and it
will not be at all surprising if he should
do so. Mr. Brown has made Lincoln a
most excellent mayor, he is a practical
man in every sense and would make a
good governor for this great state.
Lincoln Herald.
We can say this much for Mayor
Brown, that he has served the people
of Lincoln most efficiently and faithful
ly as their chief executive, and we have
confidence in him that he will do the
same for the people of Nebraska if
elected governor. No better man in the
state for the position.
Purchased Some Fine Cattle
At the sale of fine stock yesterday at
Glenwood, Iowa, the boys who went
from this place made purchases, and
among them was the purchase of three
head by Elbert and Glen Wiles, consist
ing of a short horn bull a cow and calf.
John Wehrbein made almost a like
purchase, while Chas Peacock bought a
bull and two cows. They were shipped
in this morning and are a fine lot of
cattle. The farmers all over the coun
try are becoming convinced that it pays
to keep the best breeds and give them
the best care, for they eat no more grain
nor require no more housing than a lot
of scrubby stock from which no one can
expect any results.
Goes to Portland, Oregon.
Thomas Jefferson O'Day, the genial
editor of the Nehawka Register, de
parted Thursday for a trip to Portland,
Oregon, and Central Washington. In
his absence, the Register wfll be in the
hands of his son, Ray O'Day and Dr.
J. A. Pollard, the latter doing the edi
torial work. In this respect Bro.
O'Day can be content on his trip that
his paper is in excellent hands. While
Ray is a very bright young man, and
will see that it is kept fully up to the
standard, Dr. Pollard will furnish the
news and do the editorial work. We
wish Bro. O'Day a pleasant trip and a
safe return.
EXCURSIONS WEST
ANY DAY OF WEEK
Good Farm Lands in Nebraska,
Colorado and V'yoming
Good farm lands in any size farms,
both improved and unimproved, and on
terms to suit purchaser. We run ex
cursions west on any day of the week,
and the Texas Panhandle country on
the first and third Tuesday of each
month. One and one-third fare for the
round trip. If you want a good home
iu the Sunny South, and wish to learn
moje of the particulars, see
Frank Stanley, Plattsmouth.
A Slight Correction.
In the report of the Oldham birth
day anniversary, published in Thurs
day's Journal, the types made us say
that Mr. Oldham was born in 1945 and
that he was married to Miss Story Dull.
We have positive proof that the types
are infernal prevaricators that is they
lied. What we did say is that Mr. Old
ham was born in 1845 and married Miss
Sarah M. Storey, the accomplished and
charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Storey who ware among the
earliest settlers of Cass county, and
formerly owned the farm now owned
and occupied by Mr. W. E. Dull, near
Murray.
GIVE AN EXCEL
LENT PROGRAM
At Hurray Thursday the
Aeolian Quartet Greeted
Dy Large Audience
For the benefit of the Christian church
at Murray, the Aeolian Mixed quartet
of this place, gave a concert at Mur
ray to a crowd which was well pleased
with the performance, as well as the
committee who had the matter in charge,
by the good receipts which go to aid the
rebuilding of the church building. From
the first, the overture, "Rustle of
Spring." by Miss Verna Cole, to the
last, "Good Night," by the entire
club, the interest was intense, and the
demonstrations of delight pronounced
to a marked extent. The fourth num
ber "I'd Like to Go Down Souf.Once
Mo," by the entire quartet and the
eighth "Twilight," by Mrs. Gamble,
were the ones, if possible of distinction
that elicited the greatest amount of ap
plause and gave greatest degree of
satisfaction. The whole entertainment
was well received and the people parti
cularly well pleased with the evening's
enjoyment.
Another Citizen For Plattsmouth
Joy of more than the ordinary kind
has reignsd in the household of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Parker in the noith-
west portion of the city since Thurs
day morning, caused by the appearing
of a youner American, who bids fair to
take his portion of the work of making
the America of the next generation, on
which the people of today will be glad
to say, is conducted by our children.
Both the parents and this young man
are getting along in fine shape, and are
receiving the congratulations very be
comingly. MUST PAY OR
GET NO MEAT
The Meat
Dealers Organized Last
and the Man Who
Evening
Deos Not Pay Will Not
Get Credit
Thursday for the protection of
themselves and for the people who do
pay the cash, the meat dealers of this
city formed an organization for the
purpose of working nearer and towards
a cash business. It has been the ex
perience of the dealers that in the
credit business there is more or less
loss in all credit sales and to eliminate
the bad accounts and the one who
makes them is the prime object of the
organization, the proceedings of which
meeting appears elsewhere. It is a
fact that in a credit business the man
who pays for what he purchases pays
for the losses sustained by reason the
one who dees not pay. The paying
customer pays, and the dealers has to
pay as well, and why should not the
one who seeks to beat his bill pay as
well or go withoun? It is true that
some are not in position to pay, but it
is not expected the the dealers has to
keep such in meat. He pays his tax
as well as anyone, and if it is the duty
of anyone to furnish the meat it pos
sibly the county's.
"Bert" Is Doing Well.
Albert Fickler, who left Cass county
a few years ago to take up his future
home in northern Nebraska, arrived
here Thursday on a short visit to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Fickler, south
of town, and the many friends in this
city and surrounding country. "Bert"
as he is known to every one, is now
located near, Stanton, and is in every
way. meeting with abundant prosperity.
On this trip he came to South Omaha
with two cars of fat cattle, and we are
pleased to mention by the way that he
met with one of the best markets of
the season. He will remain here only
a day or two.
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The Report of Superintendent Gamble of the
Trip of the Teachers to Washington, and
Observation on the Eastern School
Systems, as Compared
With Ours
Relative to the experiences, inci
dents, and observations, which were
coupled with the trip made by the Ne
braska superintendents, of which J. W.
Gamble of our city was member, he
has spoken in his report to the board j work, and the idea of its nobility, in
of education af well as in an address to j stead of against it. He said, "Teach
the teachers of the city, and as many
other as could come to the High school
on last Tuesday afternoon. In sub
stance he has said in his report, that
on the trip, the Nebraska delegation
was fortunate in that it had a private
car from Omaha to Washington. They
being all Nebraskans, and of the same
occupation, the fact made them all
akin, and the journey was one of pleas
ure and put them all in a proper spirit
to do the work which was for them to
do on their arrival. At Washington at
the convention which they had traveled
so far to attend, the opening exercises,
were began by a prayer by Bishop
Cranston of the Methodist church of
which Mr. Gamble spoke very highly,
and was followed by an address of wel
come by "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who
said, that in all the conventions w
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would be held in the city of Washing
ton. and of which he exnected a frood
many, none would be of more import- j found the very best of accomadations
ance than the one which it was his i as to buildings appointments and ap
pleasureto then be addressing For, ' Paratus' but U,e c,ass of students,
said he, making of the generation ! mosty children of well-to-do parents,
n. v, i had required a habit of laziness, which
of our institutions, the stahilitv of onr
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government, are in the keeping of the
teachers of our public schools. He j
congratulated the assemblage on beintr
so lar and the renresentatives so in-
tpllitrpnt lnnk-inrr and wplpnmwl tViom
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ment of the United States. Henry
McFarland, president of the commis
of education spoke on the same line as
the Speaker Cannon, and was re
sponded to by Superintendent Soldan,
of the St. Louis schools, who, in a very
neat and eloquent talk, thanked the
speakers for the city of Washington
and the nation for the welcome ex
tended. Then followed James S. McElroy,
president of the consolidated car heat
ing company, of Albany, New York,
who spoke to the idea, that the High
school graduate is good for nothing
when he leaves school. The course of
study is wrong. It is not practical. He
said the schools offered nothing help
ful except reading, writing and mathe
matices; that when he had left school
he had to be taken and made over
again, begining to learn the things
which he should have learned in the
schools when younger. He said that
coupled with the High school should be
manual training, with the accent on the
manual training; that the muscle should
be trained as well as the mind, and
from his position of an employer of
men, it was evident why he thought
and held as he did. On the day follow
ing they listened to Senor Chavez,
secretary of the department of instric-
tion of Mexico, which was delivered in
Spanish, and of which the hearers got
nothing but the gestures and facial ex
pression. The matter of uniformity of
text books was discussed, without any j
definite decision. The question of
student government, or as
called citv !
government, in which the
schools are '
organized, and a mayor, chief of police, !
councilmen, attorney and other offi
cers, were chosen by the students who
exercised the functions of preserving
order, and conducting the school like
a municipality, trying and punishing
offences which took that much out of
the hands of the teachers, and was
very successful where tried, and backed
by a teacher with a good deal of ex
ecutive ability, but with a teacher
weak in this regard was rather worse
in its effect than otherwise.
On Wednesday the Nebraska teach
ers were given an audience, in east
room of the White House by the presi
dent, who spoke a few moments, tel-
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ling them of all the bodies of people
which he had received, that none oc
cupied so important a relation to the
welfare of the nation as they. He said
that the schools should educate toward
the boy he is expected to earn his own
livelihood, to be able to hold his
own in the rough work of actual life.
Teach the girl, that so far from it be
ing her duty to avoid all labor, all ef
fort, that it should be a matter of
pride to her to be as good a housewife
as her mother was before her." With
this he left and was at work at his
office before the teachers had gotten
out of the room. We visited the schools
of Washington, and found the buildings
excellent in every way, and it being
Longfellow's birthday, found them
reading Longfellow, while the schools
are good we were more favorably im
pressed with the manual training
classes. The High school was just
about what would compare with ours,
we visited a colored school, where we
found conditions the same as white,
only they had colored teachers just as
j good, but the students was two years
older for the same grade. We visited
the schools at Baltimore, where we
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I nau IJiaceu inem as compared
with the
! Plattsmouth
students, about three
years behind. That is the same grades
there contained students about three
! vears older than our average
here for
I same grade.
From here we went t
went to New York, licing allowed to
question a class in the six grade, was
informed by a little girl that Nebraska
was a grazing state, and had many
i large ranches, and raised some oats
and barley, but were not so sure about
corn. The work I was most interested
in was that of domestic science, which
is began in the third grade and carried
to the eight grade, where the girls art
taught to sew, and when they pass the
eighth grade can make their own
dresses. I secured some samples of
the work done by the fourth grade, and
it was with some difficulty that I per
suaded them to let me have the sam
ples, but when explained that it was to
take away out west and that they
would be furnished more material, I
conld have gotten enough to have gone
into the wholesale business, but my
means of caring for the samples would
not allow me to accept but a few. At
this building I addressed the little
folks, who evidently though that I was
to be a western cowboy or an Indian,
and were disappointed when they found
only an ordinary man. There was the
tenement school with the finest build
ing in the city of New York, with
baths, manual training for both boys
and girls, and trained nurses, and
physicians when one was sick. The best
equipped school, being in that location
was to overcome, if possible, the bad
influence of the surrounding. Another
was the detention school, where the in
corrigables and where the round-up
truants were kept. In one school we
found a teacher trying to teach schol-
ars who sPoke 22 different language.-
VVIJ1LU ,mu very poor oraer ana was
worse than the tongues spoken at the
auempt 10 duhq me tower oi i;ate!.
In New York City I found the best
and worst schools of any visited during
our entire trip, while at Philadelphia,
we found the best school buildings, the
boys' High school being the best in tne
United States. Returning, it was with
a great deal of pleasure to fine the
schools here running as nicely and
smoothly as when we took the train
starting on our journey, and which I
am justly proud of the cordial support
and co-operation of every teacher in
our city schools, who have so nobly
carried on the work, without a jost !e
or a jolt during our absence.
