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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1908)
y y y IS ji' ! I. Lll7, '.S Mai. hich: 2)1111 Are Always the Gheapest! Correct in every particular. Correct in Weave; Correct in Workmanship; Correct in Styles, and always Correct in Prices. Such are the goods can be found at our store. Everything in Gent's and Boy's Ready-toWear Cloth ing and I urnishings. Un. MIy PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA WHEN THE KETTLE SINGS It's a sign of coal satisfaction, Want to hear the music In your kitchen? Easy order coal from this oUlce and yard. Th output of the Trenton mine the fuel we handle has no su perior anywhere, its equal In few places J. V, EGENBERGER pun IIC PUttsmonth No. 21. nunc iu.il no. an. puiishouth, mum. Dost Time to See the Southwest Every first and third Tues day of each month, low-priced homeseeker's excursions are run over the lines of the : : : Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain into the rich and resourceful farming rcgionsof the South west. It is a splendid chance for the Northern and Kas tcrn farmer, r.fter his wheat is gathered, to combine a pleasure and propecting trip. Write for rates and literature to HUGH NORTON, Agent M. P. Ry I'latUmouth, Neb. rrhePlantbehindtheSuif B llil l " NEWS OF THE COUNTY Louisville Krum llie Courlvr. Horn to Mr. and Mrs. I'. ('. .hx.k- iii:ui. Tuesday, December S, it girl. Mrs. Pete SpiviinliT returned from the hospital Saturday. She stopped iu Louisville mul lsdted over Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. V. A. t. horn. i Mrs. ('. 11. .la field Is at the St.! Joseph hospital in Omaha where she underwent a successful operation for a tumor on Wednesday. Reports j from the hospital state that she Is doing nicely. The work of repairing the Free Methodist church, which was so bad ly damaged In the cyclone which vlsl ited this city May 12, has been com pleted and will be again opened for worship on next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sprleck enter tained about thirty of their friends at their country home last Saturday evening. A sumptuous banquet was served and all voted Mr. and Mrs. Sprleck many thanks for their kind hospitality. A little son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chan Helm on Saturday, De cember 5, but on Sunday the little one was taken from them by death. The funeral occurred from the family residence at eleven o'clock Monday, conducted by Elder 0. W. Mayfield. At about five o'clock last Satur day evening fire broke out in the engine room of M. L. Williams' ele vator and but for hard and quick work the building would have been burned, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars. The fire originated from an over heated stove. The dam age was small and was covered by In surance. This is another proof of the need of water works, as the next fire may not be handled ho easily. Union From Hie Ledger. Lee Applegate. and wife arrived home Tuesday morning from Kansas City, where they spent several weeks taking medical treatment. V. W. Tracy and wife, who have lieen spending several weeks with relatives and friends in Iowa and various points in this state, came In rrom Omaha yesterday to make a diort visit with friends here, and will ;o to Lincoln today. P. C. Kngell, one of the pioneer citizens of this county, disposed of his Union property and departed Wednesday for Klinger Lake, Mich., o make his permanent home. Mr. Kngell has many friends here who hope he may be contented and pros perous in his new home. Mrs. Manila P. Graves of Rock Bluffs, mother of the Ledger man, passed through here on the forenoon train yesterday, going down to Peru to visit her son Julian D. Graves and wife. Although more than 87 years of age she can make journeys alone without any trouble. A letter received yesterday from our son Harry Graves In forms us that he Is now Installed in his new position as city editor of the Journal at Falrbury, Neb. He says it Is a splendid position on a good newspa per In a good little city and that he proposes to be a winner. Caleb Katon and wire are proud of the new addition to their family circle, a line boy born Sunday eve ning December 6. A very nice little present notwithstanding Cale's big sock was not hanging up to catch a Christmas present so valuable. Mrs. Mary F. Grimes, the aged mother of Mrs. Claudius Everett. Is now In a very weak condition at the Everett home northeast of this vil lage, and her death Is expected at any moment. She has been 111 with cancer for some tlu.e, and it is cer tain that she cannot recover. Nehoovka, (From the Heglsler.) Senator Thomas and his son were down from I'lattsmouth last Monday In their automobile. While It was cold they claimed the roads were line for nutomoblliiig. Sam. Humphrey has returned to speaking the 'mother tongue"' again, his bunch of Austrlans quit the other day and lie has another lot of fel lows who can talk I'nlted States. Morris Doughty was taken very III at school. Tuesday morning. He was removed to Mrs. Rutherford's and Dr. Walker was railed, lie recover ed sufficiently to be taken home In the afternoon. Harry Swltzer accompanied by his wife and little daughter came In on Thursday evening for a visit with the home folks, the first visit In twelve years, lie Is looking well, doing well y y y and has ;i .:!!!; i.iih'!, n ; - ('v.- le. 1 Col. He w ill ! e hen- i :ii t'i i :t mas ilin:u r wiih pii'ili. i. William Tinker, wl.o !" r b.u d Hilly "(ni 1 ! .ill's iiiteii in ihe bar ber ship at thi-; place, :i rived here Tcesdav n:i rnin. '"''1 v. i 1 1 be fuun.l at his headiU artei , ii jol.i.nv en ie spot and rei'dv in lake care of ear business. .1. .M. Smne left yesterday evening fur Oklahoma where he will spend the Winter with his sen I. ester at Cherokee. He was accompanied by Mrs. l.uelnda Hall w ho noes to islt her son Lester, who Is located a short distance fn in Cl.erokcc. Tuesday n largo bunch of nini lotls went out Into the' country to hunt the festive cotton tail, and lit the close of the afternoon they had thirty-eight of the small variety and two Jack rabbits. No casuallt ies wre reported and no stock killed so we think the crowd did remarka bly well. Charles Scott Stone returned from Omaha Friday, where for the past three weeks he has been laying at the Merchants hotel too ill to be moved. Charley declares the next time he gets sick he will select a cheaper place than the one above. He was In Murray on Tuesday. fcfmwood From the header Kc'lio. W. T. Richards has sold his farm adjoining Wabash to Henry (lorbe ling at $ 1 1 2.50 per acre. Mrs. and Mrs. F. J. Fitch, of Oma ha, are the proud and happy par ents of a nine pound baby girl, born last Friday. The brick for the new I'lattsmouth Telephone building arrived Friday, and work on the building was com menced Monday. While out in the yard yesterday noon Mrs. Henry Posser slipped and fell on the lee and snow, sustaining a fracture of the left arm just nbovt the wrist. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Earl died Thursday evening of last week. The sorrowing parents have the sympathy of the commuiil ty. Itepresentative-eleet 1). Smith was was confined to his home the first of the week with a very severe cold, contracted while attending the fun eral of ('apt. White at Palmyra last Friday. There Is some talk of taking up a collection for a headlight for the M. P. night train. The lodge boys are afraid the engineer will lose his way some lark night. T. H. Pollock came out from I'lattsmouth Tuesday to look after the construction of the new brick building which Ut being erected here for the use of the Plattsmouth Tele phone Company. While going out after a pail of coal one evening this week Ed. Iang horst slipped on the Icy porch of his home and took a header down the steps with more force than was net essary. While no bones were broken he was completely "wlnnded" for several minutes and has several sore spots to remind him of the event. The coal has not yet been heard from. HALF SISTER III THIS CITY Man Hunting Father Tells Weird Story of Search. Council muffs, in.. Dec. 14. Al though he Is himself a rover, mid has been since he was years of age, Charles J. Feezell, a young man re siding at present at the St. Joe ho tel at 623. South Main street. Council IllulTs, and who says he has recently been engaged In railroad work for the Rock Island and Northwestern roads, Is engaged In a hunt for a trace of his father, J acne Feezell. He has not seen his father ..mee he was himself only ,'J years old, some nineteen years ago. It seems accordlngto the story told by young Frezoll, that his father and mother separated at Ccntralla, Kan., when he was about 2 years of age. The baby boy was taken by the moth er to the home of her brother near Crocker City, Has., and nothing fur ther was heard of the husband and father, except that about a year later he visited his baby son, now grown to manhood and returned to ('en tralla. He completely dropped from view there, and nothing was ever discov ered of Ills whereabouts. No word has ever been received of his death, though until recently he had some half-brothers living In Illinois. When little Charley was about 7 . E 8 Buy Useful Gifts for Ellen! There are plenty of them. Let us name a few speci9"v good things that you can buy here in'five minutes time and thusdis pose quickly of a good share of your shop ping troubles. :::::: Buy Him a Good Manhattan Shirt at $1.50 or $2.00 or a FERGUSON at 50, 75 or $1.00 0 Or Buy Him a Box of the Genuine Holeproof Sox at $1.50 or Silk Lisle at $3 a Box of 6 Guaranteed. 0 Or Buy Him One of Our "Superba" Neckties All Silk at 50 and 75c Have some handsome ones in Xmas boxes 75c. II Or Buy Him a Box of Crown Suspenders 0 These are the finest Sus penders made and cost 7.1c, jl.2.r and $1.50-put up in handsome Christmas boxes. If you buy Othe satisfaction of knowing it is first-class X in quality and up-to-date in style. On this dwuuum ii win uu inu more appreciated. 0 years old his mother married a sec ond husband and went to live with him in the Ozark mountains In Ar kansas. When her boy was about nine years he had a disagreement about 4 o'clock one morning with his stepfather, and the man ran out after a whip. "He had never whipped me be fore," said young Free.ell In tcllingef the escapade, "and I made up my mind not to let him whip me then. So while he was gone I tied up a change of clothes and slipped out of a window Into the darkness and ' I. It the train" Into the woods. I went first to Sprlnglleld, Mo., ami later to Inavale, Neb., where I stayed for three years. My mother never knew what became of me, as I did not write and mourned me for dead un til I returned of my own free will. I guess 1 had some of the roving blood of my father, all rUht." When the sen attained the ago of 15 years he made an Ineffectual ef fort to trine his father, but at that age he could make little progress. After that attempt the search was given up until about three mouths ago, when he was again Induced to take It up.. He relates n story of having vis ited a fortune teller about that time who Informed ,ni, wlihout any illestiolis being asked, that lie was In search of Information about his father, who had long been loM. He was asKiired by the fortune teller that his father was not dead but lllng Iu Colorado. lie has since been searching for Wescott's "Where Quality Counts." ' I ft i i n MM 8 him a gift here . Wescott's "Where Quality Counts." his father and hopes to secure Home track of him. lie places such cred ence In the statements of the fortune teller that he contemplates n tour of Colorado In the effort to locate his father. Feezell says that his mother died about three years ago. His only rel ative aside from his father, are a full brother, rctddlng at nine Light, Wash., three half Bisters at Tabor, la., and one half sUter at I'latts mouth, Neb. Ills rather, If still ll Itlg, as he believes him to be, Is about 4H years of age. This Is Worth Heading. Leo. F. Zellnskl, of GS Cibson St., Iluffalo, N. Y., says. "1 cured (In most annoying cold sore I ever had with Ilucklln's Arnica Salve. I ap plied this salve once a day for two days, when every trace of the sore was gone." Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee at F. ('.. Frbke & Co.'s drug store. 25c. (hmmI Farm for Sale. dood 160 acre farm, 2i miles southwest of Oreapolls, 0 "j miles northwest of I'lattsmouth, good Im provements. Water Is plentiful. For particulars and terms see C. J. ilalmcs, riattsinouth. lmo. Dr. Hess' Slock Food scientific compound for horses and cattle. Hess1 Slock Food guaranteed to give results. F. G. Fircke & Co , PruRjr'itg. oris Or Buy Him One of Our Hamdscmc Silk Mufflers either in Square or Keeper, nt 75c, $1, $1,50 $2 and $2.50 or a I'hoenix Knit at 5()c. 0 Or Buy Him a Leather Suit Case OR ENGLISH GRIF! We have the newest ami latest at prices $3 to $15 0 Or Buy Him a Pair of Good Warm Fur-Lined Gloves or Mittens orajmirof imported IVrrin's Kid Gloves .$1.50, $2 mid $:. 0 Or Buy Him a Fancy Vest 0 or a Smoking- Jacket or a Stet son Hat, or a Silk Umbrella or a Hox of Linen Handker chiefs or a fine Linen Night (iown or I'ajamas. you will have oltds 0 ...TO THE GULF COAST COUNTRY... Every 1st and 3rd Tues day in Each Month Orer the Missouri Pacific Railwij $23.65 Round Trip. Tickets Good 25 Dirt Can stop off anywhere going or com ing. Train leaves I'lattsmouth, Neb., 12.03 a. m.; arrives Kansas City Tues day morning 6 o'clock-making conneo tions with the fast train going south to the Gulf. We will have a private l'ull man Dining Car (Julia). 5(1 cents for births and 3ii cents for meals. We are closing out a ranch near Kl Campo, Texas, of lfi.(KH) acres, at22.50to$30.W) per acre, on easy terms. We have sold over one-half of this land to farmers who will at once commence to improve their lands, build good houses and barns. Also lands near Edna and Vic toria. If you want to make this trip with us, let us know In time to get you a ticket. Iluy your ticket over the Missouri Faci lic to Kansas City; Santa Fe Railway to Houston, Texas, and from Houston to San Antonio over the G. H. & S. A. Railway. JOHN MURRAY, Ir TEXAS LAAD AGENT. P. 0. Box 605 Plattsmouth Neb. Comb and brush sets Oerlng & Co.
