DAILY PERSONAL NEWS
Short Items of Interest, From Satur
day Evening's Daily Journal
Dan Landers wa3 a visitor in Omaha
today.
Mrs J. L. Root was a visitor in Oma
ha today.
L. II. Peterson and wife visited Om
aha today.
Victor Anderson visited in Lincoln
and Havelock today and Sunday.
John E. Thompson and wife were
visitors in Omaha this morning.
Misses Mary and Anna Bird were
visitors in Omaha this afternoon.
John Hennings, of Cedar Creek, was
a visitor in the city this morning.
Mike Rys, of Cedar Creek, came in
this morning to visit with his family
over Sunday.
Henry Thierolf, of Cedar Creek.came
in this morning, looking after some
business matters.
Miss Maxwell, of Fremont will sing
an Easter solo at the Methodist church
tomorrow evening. i
D. C. Morgan, deputy county deck,
is having his house frescoed and other
wise brightened up.
Edward Kjple departed for Omaha
this morning, after visiting in the
city for the past few days.
Mr 3. O. M. Streight departed for
Wilber, this state, where she will visit
with relatives for a few days.
Frank M. O'Neal was a business vis
itDr in the capitol city this morning,
going on the early Burlington train.
Mrs. Fred Gorder is having her house
painted just north of the Plattsmouth
Hotel. Val Burkel is doing the work.
John L. Hardroba was a visitor in
Omaha this morning, going on the early
Burlington train.
Baxter Smith, the contractor, was a
visitor in Omaha this morning, looking
after some business matters.
Stuirt Janda was a visitor in the city
for the past few day 3 with his parents
and returned home this morning.
Frank A. Cloidt departed this after
noon for Creston, Iowa, where he will
be the guest of friends for several days.
Mrs F. R. Whittaker and little girl
were visitors with friends in Omaha to
day. C. Herman and wife were visitors in
Omaha with friends today, and will re
main over Sunday.
V. II. Russell was a passenger to
his home at Ashland this afternoon,
where he will visit over Sunday.
Henry Born was a visitor in the met
ropolis this morning, having some busi
ness matters to look after at that place.
Mrs. Ward Clark, and Mrs. Joseph
Wales, were passengers to Omaha
this morning, where they will visit
for the day.
C. S. Wheeler, traveling engineer of
the Burlington, was a visitor in the
city last evening, departing for Lin
coln on the late train.
Mrs. W. M. Thomas and sister, Miss
Evelyn Taylor, came in last evening
from Omaha, and will visit with their
parents over Sunday.
Albert Hunger was a passenger to
Omaha this morning from Rock Bluffs,
where he goes to look after a position
with some railway there.
C. W. Theobold, for some time work
ing with Frank McElroy, the tailor,
departed for Creston, Iowa, this morn
ing where he has accepted a posi
tion. Mrs. A. Mott and little daughter, of
Creston, la., came in last evening and
are visiting with her friends, Mrs.
Richard Hale and family for a few
days.
Mrs. E. E. Monroe was a visitor in
the city last evening a guest at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
Barnhart, where she will visit for a
days.
Wm. Kennedy, of Havelock, is visit
ing in the city, a guest at the home of
of his parents, Mr and Mrs Jas. Ken
nedy, south of the city, for a few
days.
Miss Alice Kerr, who is who is work
ing at the. institute at Glenwood, is
visiting in the city, a guest with her
mother, Mrs B. C. Kerr and family over
Sunday.
Airs Thomas Julian departed for her
home in Omaha this morning, after a
visit in the city for some days past,
the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs
J. W. Barwick.
James Long, of Yuma, Colorado, was
a visitor in the city this morning, be
tween trains with friends, departing
on No. 4 for Malvern, Iowa, where
he will visit for a few days.
T. J. Will and wife departed this
morning for Lincoln, where they will
visit for some time with friends, and
will then continue to Nelson, where
he will also visit before returning.
W. II. Seybert, of Cullom, was in
the city today.
Ed Mason and wife were visitors in
Omaha today.
C. W. Carey of Springfield, visited in
the city today.
II. C. Hurt was a passenger to Lin
coln this afternoon.
Clyde Hodson was a brief visitor in
Omaha this afternoon.
D. A. Young, from near Murray, was
a visitor in the city today.
, Miss Harriett Carlson was a -visitor
in Lincoln this afternoon.
Chas Beverage was a visitor in the
city today from.west of Mynard.
. Adam Kaffenberger was a visitor in
the city today from near Cullom.
. Mrs. R. J. Richie was a visitor with
relatives in Omaha this afternoon.
Mrs. Chas. Bell, son. Willie and
daughter, Ethel, were visitors in Om
aha this afternoon.
Al. Funk, Ed. Reynolds, Monte
Franks and Ralph Mullis were visitors
in Omaha this afternoon.
Fred Hesse, of Havelock, is visiting
in the city, a guest of his mother, and
will return to his work tomorrow.
Wm. Kriskey, wife and children are
visiting with friends and relatives in
the city over Easter from Havelock.
Geoge Perry was a visitor at Watson
Missouri, this morning, where he is
looking after some business matters.
C. F. Richards, of South Bend, was a
visitor in the city this morning, looking
after some business at the county seat.
Roy Savage was a passenger to Om
aha this afternoon, where he goes to
get some material to open the Alcazar.
Deputy Sheriff Manspeaker returned
this morning from Louisville, where he
was looking after some business mat
ters R. O. Wagner, of Havelock, came in
this morning, and is visiting with the
parents of his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Ballance.
Mrs. Harry Newman, of Council
Bluffs, was e visitor in the city this
morning a guest with her sister, Miss
Lizzie Kroehler.
J. L Bumes, of Louisville, came in
this morning to appear in the case in
which he is charged with selling liquor
without a license.
Earnest Horn, from Cedar Creek, was
a visitor in the city today with some of
his school friends.
C. H. Taylor, of Union, was a visitor
in the city this morning, looking after
some business matters and visiting with
friends.
Mrs Dr. T. J Todd, came in this
morning from Wahoo, and will spend
Easter with her parents, Mr and Mrs
Henry Mauzy.
J. C. Peterson, jr., of Havelock,
came in last last evening, and is visit
ing with his parents over Sunday, re
turning to work tomorrow.
Mrs. Jesse Heiner, and son, Bert, de
parted this afternoon for Bellevue,
where they will spend the Easter with
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shipley and wife.
H. R. Neitzel and family came in last
evening from Murdock, and will spent
Easter at the home of Mrs. Neitzel's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Guthman.
A. Edwards and wife, departed this
morning for Cherryville, Kansas, and
Yelton, Oklahoma, where they will
make an extended visit' with relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Frank Rand returned home to
South Omaha this afternoon, after hav
ing visited in the city for the past few
days, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John McNurliu.
C C Mitchell, of Havelock, was a
visitor in the city this morning, looking
after some business matters and mak
ing some improvements on his place in
the south part of town.
;. The crushed rock has arrived for the
foundation under the A. O. U. W. halL
and is being hauled to the the grounds,
preperatory to the beginning of the
work, , the first of the week.
Mrs. Stella Pierson, of Avoca, Iowa,
departed this afternoon for her home.
after having visited in the city and
west of town wtth her daughter, Mrs
Fred Warner and husband.
Mrs. D, O. Hewitt, after having
visited in the city for some time, de
parted for her home at McCook, join
ing Mr. Hewitt who was transacting
businees in Omaha during the morning.
We were both pleased and a bit sur
prised to see our old time friend, Geo.
E. Sayles step off the train this morn
ing and walk up town. Mr. Sayles has
not been in the city before for a num
ber of months, having been confined to
his bed for a long time, and is now able
to come to town again. This will be
good news to his many friends.
R. D. Blunt was a visitor in Omaha
today.
Oscar Nord was a visitor in Omaha
this afternoon.
Mrs Eli Manspeaker was a visitor in
Omaha this afternoon.
Engineer John Snead was a visitor in
the capitol city this afternoon.
M. L. Furlong, from Rock Bluffs,
was a visitor in the city this morning.
Mrs. A. F. Bradford, of the Masonic
Home, was a visitor with friends in
Omaha this afternoon.
George Mc Daniel was a passenger to
LaPlatte this afternoon, where he will
play for a dance, this evening.
C. W. Slocum of Boston, Mass., was
a visitor in the city this morning, look
ing after some business matters.
C. F. Vallery was a visitor in the
city from west of Mynard this morning
and is looking after some business mat
ters. Mrs. L. Klein returned to her home
in Omaha this afternoon, after having
visited in the city with her mother,
Mrs. B. Hempel.
W. A. Taylor and John Campbell,
from near Rock Bluffs, were in the
city this morning, looking after some
business matters.
Miss Belle Hulfish departed for her
home at Elmwood after having been in
the city for the past few days taking
the teachers examination.
Mrs C. H. Valway, of Marshall,
Missouri, departed for her home this
afternoon, after having visited in the
city with her sister, Mrs Mike Lutz
and family.
Jesse Davis, of Marysville, Missouri,
was a visitor in the city with friends
last evening, and this morning departed
for Omaha on the Burlington.
A. Dailey, of Valisca, Iowa, was in
the city this morning for a while await
ing a train for Omaha, where he goes
to have an operation performed for ap
pendicitis. Sam Campbell was a visitor in Om
aha this morning, from near Murray,
driving up and going on the early Burl
ington train.
E. G. Bradley, of the Burlington
shops, departed this for Missouri Valley,
Iowa, where he will visit over Sunday
with his parents.
Mrs. Martha Barrett, of El Reno,
Oklahoma, departed for her home this
morning, after haying visited in the
city for some days past, a guest of her
sister, Mrs. O. J. Gilson.
Levi Rusterholtz, wife and daughter
Mrs. Stephen Beckner. came in this
morning from Murray and departed for
Omaha, where they have some business
matters to look after.
There are at the county superintend- j
ent's office taking teachers examinat-
ions additional to those of yesterday, !
Maxwell Adams of Plattsmouth; Misses
Marie Otte and Lydia Squires of Wab
ash, Miss Hazel Jameson of Avoca.
A special service of song appropriate
Easter will be rendered at the Meth
odist church tomorrow evening. This
service will conform to the spirit of the
meetings now in progress at the church
and part of the time will be occupied by
Rev. Randall.
Miss Ethel Lydia departed this morn
ing for Omaha, where she goes to meet
her mother, Mrs. J. M. Lyda, and
grandmother, Mrs. Emma Deffendach,
who are visiting in the metropolis, they
all returning this evening.
Mrs. W. J. Partridge departed this
afternoon for Weeping Water to visit
with her father, G. M. Marks, for a
few days and will in company with go
Beatrice to visit her little son, who is
in an institute at that place.
R. D. Dalton departed for Glenwood,
this morning where he will meet his
father, J. M. Dalton, from Valisca,
Iowa. They will visit Mrs. Emma
Moore, a sister of Mr. Dalton, living in
the country, south of Glenwood.
Miss Minnie Doering departed this
morning for Omaha, where she goes
to visit with her brother, August Doer
ing and family, and especially a little
niece, who has just lately come to
make her home with the Doering
family.
Are Now At Work On Plant
D. O. Hewitt was a passenger to
Omaha this morning, where he goes to
purchase wire and other materials for
the installation of the electric light
plant which he and his two sons, Willie
and Glen, are putting is at Orleans.
Besides the electric light plant which
they are putting in, they will also do
the pumping of the water for the city
water company, which will add materi
ally to their income, as they are to re
cieve ten cents per 1,000 gallons. Tne
poles for the plant are on the way and
much work has now been done towards
the building of the plant which is being
pushed as fast as possible.
Mrs. Parmele at Glenwood Hotel
Miss Hallie Parmele and Miss Ellen
Pollock were visitors with friends in
Omaha this afternoon and Miss Hallie
said at the Burlington station that her
mother, Mrs. C. C. Parmele, was at
the Glenwood Hotel at Riverside, Cali
fornia, at the time the elephant, which
the press dispatches gave an account of
yesterday of having ran wild, and
caused stampede of the guests of the
hotel, killing one woman by crushing
.her with its tusks against a way.
IMPOSSIBLE TO
PLEASE EVERYONE
The Lowering of Main and Sixth
Streets Now the Subject of Dis
cussion. It has been almost a year since the
flood which proved so disastrous to our
city, and ever since that event which
occurred on Saturday night, July 6, the
people and especially the business men
along Main and Sixth streets, have been
agitating and devising ways and means
to prevent another. There has been
many ways suggested, and the city
council has been very guarded in its
procedure upon the matter. They have
given several open meetings to which
all property owners were invited to dis
cuss the matter, and at which many
propositions were submitted, some want
ed the work done one way, and another
in another way. The majority however
were in favor of lowering the streets,
believing that would prove the most
desirable and cheapest way of prevent
ing future floods.
The city council adopted the plan of
lowering the streets, and are advertis
ing for bids to do the work. Now comes
to the surface a few kickers and would
rather have it done another way, but it
is too late to talk about a change now.
Delays are always dangerous, and to
stop now and wait to submit other
propositions, may result in a worse
disaster than that of a year ago. The
council have had their plans and specifi
cations prepared and submitted to con
tractors, who may desire to do the
work. It will be several weeks yet be
fore the work is started, and when once
commenced it will be several more ere
the work is completed, and it behooves
every citizen to do all in his power to
aidjthe work instead of standing upon the
street corners and kick about the man
ner in which it is being done.
The city authorities are doing the best
they can to prevent another flood, and
you know, as well as we know, that we
cannot stand another like that of last
year, and continue to "hold our own."
Then keep quiet, and let the work pro
ceed. Returning From England.
Mrs. George E. Dovey has received
word that her daughters, Misses Alice
and Ella Margaret, will arrive in New
York on next Tuesday. It will be re
membered that they went to England
about a year ago, where they have been
studying music during their absence.
On their arrival in New York Miss Alice
will accept an offer from a first-class
opera company, while Miss Ellen Mar
garet, after a few days-sojourn in the
metropolis, will proceed direct to her
home in this city.
Code of Blue Laws
According to the Auburn Republican
the new city council of that town is
preparing an ordiance to give the citi
zens of that town a dose of the old
"blue law," which were enforced in
Connecticut in colonial days. These
laws were:
"No one shall travel, cook victvals,
make beds sweep house, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath day."
"No woman shall kiss her child on
the Sabbath or feasting day."
"No one shall ride on the Sabbath
day, or walk in his garden, or else
where except reverently to and from
the meeting."
In Vermon anyone guilty of rude pro
fane or unlawful conduct on the Lord's
day, by shouting, hallooing, running,
riding, dancing, or jumping, was fined
40 shillings and whipped on the naked
back not to exceed ten stripes.
The New Haven code ol laws ordered
that profanation of the Lord's day
"shall be punished by fine, imprison
ment or corporal punishment; and if
proudly, and with a high hand against
the authority of God with death."
In 1656 Captain Kemble of Boston, a
wealthy and influential man, sat for
two hours in the public stocks for his
"lewd and unseembly behavior" in kiss
ing his wife "publiquely" on the Sab
bath day, on the door step of his house,
when he had just returned from a three
years' voyage.
Returns From the West
J. G. Richey, manager of the Cass
Land Company, has just returned from
their ranch at Grenada, Colorado,
where he has been, and says things are
looking very nice out there. While
there he sold a water right to a farmer,
a neighbor, who has been living ajacent
to the ranch, for some twenty years,
H. M. Noble, for his 160 acres, for
four thousand dollars. As the Cass
Land Compony have water sufficient
for their own purposes and for the
furnishing of some ten or twelve sec
tions or forty or more times as much as
sold, their water supply is a very
valuable asset of the company.
A Pair of License
Marriage licenses were issued today
to Walter J. Schneider aged 25 and
Miss Marie Blotzer, aged 20, both of
Louisville, and to F. J. Komrof ske, aged
21, of Seward and Miss Louise Roeber,
age Louisville.
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Hay Bo Compelled to Reopen Offices as of
Old for the Benefit of Patrons The
Missouri Pacific in the Limelight
It is a good guess to say those rail
road companies which have shut up
their telegraph offices because of the
operation of the nine-hour law will
have to open up again, says the Oma-
ah Bee.
The Gadd complaint from Broken
Bow, where the telegragh office is now
closed at night, was taken up by the
State Railway commission this morn
ing, but the complainant had business in
court and he asked that the matter go
over for the present. There were
present at the informal hearing repre
sentatives from several towns on the J
Missouri Pacific who said that road had
closed up its telegraph offices in many
instances, making in impossible for
shipped to order cars by telegraph or
secure information regarding the ar
rival of cars.
The question for the commission to
decide is whether this action of the
Missouri Pacific is in retaliation for the
enactment of the nine-hour law or
really because therailroad is not justi
fied in keeping open the telegraph
offices. In cases where the telegraph
instrument has been relegated to the
brush pile, the wages paid the station
agents have been reduced from $50 to
$25 a month.
The commission is in possession of
information that th? closing of the
telegraph offices has really caused a
loss to the Missouri Pacific. One man
has informed the commission of one
shipment of cattle of fourteen cars
which would have gone over the Mis
souri Pacific had the shipper been able
to find out when he could secure cars.
There being no way to telegraph, he
A Great River Traveler
Hon Frank Shinn of Carson was in
town Tuesday to attend the opening of
court and dispose of some legal mat
ters. Mr. Shinn is anxious to close his
legal business for the summer and leave
it in the hands of his partner while he
takes his annual vacation. For twenty-
two years he has taken a trip upon some
river of the United States or some sea
coast trip. This summer, the twenty
third, he will make his vacation irip on
the Missouri river. He will goto Kan
sas City and travel by boat to St. Louis.
He will the go to Sioux City and
travel up the Missouri river. He has
traveled upon the Ohio and Tennessee
rivers. He has traveled the Hudson
river Albany to New York. Down the
St. Lawrence. Has been on the Col
umbia river. Has traveled along the
Atlantic sea-board and on the Pacific
coast line steamers. He tells us the
most beautiful trip he knows is along
the Mississippi river from Dubuque,
Iowa, to St. Paul, Minnesota.
UAVLAVil
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Mag
While Returning Homo From the City, Be
tween the Hours of Nine and Ten
Where, Oh Where, Aro Those
Electric Lights
Last evening while he was returning
home from the city, P. S. Harrison
was waylayed by someone who followed
or was laying in wait, who struck him
from the darkness, knocking him down,
and beating him up in a horrible man
ner. They releived him of what change
they could get, but hearing , someone
coming fled in the darkness which was
almost thick enough to be felt. The
man who was coming behind was J. W.
Johnson, who lives just north of Mr.
Harrison, who hearing the melee hur
ried to the spot to find Mr. Harrison
lying on the walk in an almost helpless
condition. Mr. Johnson kindly assisted
Mr. Harrison home, and did what he
could for his comfort before leaving.
The occurance happened on Seventh
street, scarcely one block north of the
foot of the avenue. It is supposed that
someone knew about Mr. Harrison hav
sent his cattle to Omaha over another
road.
The State Railway commission haa
authority under the law to order tele
graph offices reopened at railroad sta
tions as a public necessity, and unless
the railroads make a mighty good show
ing at the coming hearing, it is a safe
guess to say this will be done.
The report of the Missouri Pacific to
the State Board of Assessment of the
amount of business it did in Nebraska
during the last year is enough to start
the "sob squad." This road did not
follow the lead of the Northwestern
and increase the value of all its prop
erty, but took another tack and re
ported an immense loss in its business.
The value of its bridges and depots and
warehouses and other buildings of the
right-of-way is about the same as re
ported a year ago.
The passenger earnings, operating
almost a year under the 2-cent passen
ger law, show a decrease of about
$65,000; its freight earnings, under the
operation of the Aldrich law, show a
decrease of about $400,000. The de
ficit for the the state for the year, ac
cording to the report, is $139,679.90.
The operating expenses of the road
have increased over last year in Ne
braska about $187,000, notwithstanding
the telegraph operators have been
thrown out of their jobs and their
wages as such stopped.
The Missouri Pacific has been com
pelled to spend much money by the
orders of the railway commission in
making its roadbed safe for travel, but
just how much has been spent in Ne
braska improvments i3 not set out in
the report. Whether the financial
flurry cut down the freight and pas
senger business is not set out, and
neither is any reason given for the
falling off in receipts.
It would look as tho Mr. Shinn ought
to be placed upon the river commission
as he has had such a liking for inves
tigating streams, He knows more of
river navigation than many men who
are upon the river commissions of the
various states. Glenwood Opinion.
Water Tank Being Removed.
W. II. Russell, with his crew of men,
are today loading the water tank, which
the Burlington railway have maintained
at Oreapolis for more than a quarter of
a century, for shipment to Lincoln.
Since the severe storm which visited
this section the sixth of last July, which
blew down the wind mill, the place has
not been used as a water station by
the Burlington. So many other places
near, makes it unnecessary for the
maintainance of this station.
For Sale
A 200 Egg Sure Hatch Incubator, a
folding bed in good condition and
medimum sized refrigerator. For par
ticulars inquire of Mrs Will Taylor,box
20, R. F. D. No. 1, Plattsmoutl..
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LAST dDSHT
ing to go home that way and knew he
had some money with him and took
this opportunity to waylay and rob
him.
This morning Mr. Harrison's face
and eyes were all swelled up and bore
scratched and bruises from the rough
handling his assailant gave him. There
has been a number of strangers around
the city, who look tough enough to
commit most any crime, and no doubt
it is the work of some of this kind of
gentry, who have done this job. To
get hold of someone who would retali
ate in kind would be a good lesson for
them. This is only another evidence
that it is well to get a move on and
have the long promised street lights
installed. If it is not possible for one
company to put them in, give a fran
chise to another and then probable we
might have some lights.