Xi n TN n n 8 322 Going on at the Department p Store of i ' - i i i i a, 0 1 is a 8 tip 8 ,.;- ; "V i-.--A: . I . 4-?fA ft b: ' -- h: ; ,4 fn, I ML - K V V -ff J ;4 , 8 Owing to the lateness of the Spring season, we find ourselves heavilylloaded with all kinds of Spring Merchandise. Cloaks, Suits, Skirts and Spring Jackets the popular Wooltex make, and everything in our Millinery Department will be included in this Great ReductionCSale. We will also make the same reduction on all our Wash Goods. Kmliroirleries niul Kinp Hrwinrv X i.suu.uu uuorin ot r ne K Ostrich Feathers 1-4 ff Means a $3.00 Article for $2.25 Is this worth your time and attention? 75 cents faved, and you get a strictly high-grade and seasonable article, when you buy here. Your choice from the swellest line in the city. This is your golden opportunity, one that you seldom find. No carried over stock. Everything bright and new, and just at the right time. We have a small fortune invested in this department, and we must sell the goods; you need them and we need the money, and at the prices we are going to offer you they should change owner ship almost immediately upon investigation. We want your pat ronage in this line, and want you to avail yourselves of this op portunity to buy good goods cheap. Don't fail to call and see ua during this Great Reduction Sale. r 1 The Department Store Man, Plattomouth, Nebraska For Alfalfa Xi;lit. ! number of post canls and Invitations 1 to various members of the club aiui the farmers of Uie adjacent country.; fircat is Aclvi'i-tistiiK. Cliaiiiiin WciMlng. This talk on advertising by the! Thlg oon 00ClirrP,i v,,ry pk.,l8. Wichita (Kas.) Eagle will prove good , , nonin weddlne at th.- rosv home One of the best meetings yet held ! U1C v umuiv v icti v- ... . . if...n 1 11.1. ... -I for the next regular meeting which I , , s, ' . , 7 . rCad,ng niaUt'r l0r "'cn nn,US 0t i of Prof. J. W. Gamble and wife, the an in una in.-nmu ..u your town. co n t rntt 1 ii k parties b.'infi Mr. Her- to be consiaerea an invitation to yoa to come and hear where you can help yourself and help Plattsmouth. takes place on Tuesday night, May 18. An especial effort is to be made at this meeting to interest the farm ers from this vicinity in t'pe meetings of the club. To this end the meet Ins will be largely an "Alfalfa gath ering and that sto' k food will be the principal article for discussion. In addition there will be other import ant subjects taken up but this la to T)e made the leader and the possibili ties for Its development will be con 8i4ered very carefully. There Is no more fruitful field for the cultlva lion of this plant than lies around this city and in this Immediate vicin ity and the meeting will give every possible consideration to methods of utilizing It. Secretary Wescott, of the Club, has Tecelved from Prof Davisson of the Ft ate university at Lincoln, an ac ceptance of the club's Invitation to address It at thla meeting on "Al falfa" and no better speaker on the subject could have been chosen. Prof. Davisson is the head of the agricultural department of. the Uni versity and is recognized authority upon plant life. He comes expressly 1o speak to the farmers of Eastern Cass County and to show them what they can do by putting some of their land into alfalfa. In addition the discussion of an alfalfa meal plant will be had and the men of the town will be shown wherein it would pay them to erect such a plant. The meeting cannot fall to be of great In terest and everyone should n'tend. One feature which will adt to the local interest will be the first ap pearance of the young man's band which will play for the club. This tmnd has been practicing regularly during the pasl winter under the di rection and leadership of W. C. Ham ilton a man especinlly well fitted to take charge of them and develop their talents in the music line. The band Is composid of young men of more than ordinary ability and they deserve to be commended for the as siduous practice they tiave put in and encouraged to continue to de velop their musical training. This band will play on Tuesday night, May 18, at the big "Alfalfa'' meeting Becretary Wescott expects In ad' dltlon to tbe notice which It here given of the club meeting, to Issue a Don't hesitate if you don't receive a written invitation but come anyway for It mc-ans money to you. The date ought to be Jotted down for future reference, Tuesday night, May 18. The meeting place Coates Hall. la no otner country 01 tne worm m!U, l. Tliom: s of Fort can so many people able to rtad and rrook nn( ss Vl.Bta jv Kn(on 0f write, ue round as in tnese tnueu,hi3 (.tv Tlie cm.m0ny was per- More CliuiiKeable Weather. April weather yesterday develop ed more freaks and gave this section an exhibition of showers with shall hailstones sprinkled In. A high wind also blew during the evening and in the night a very high gale swept down on the city from the northwest. It is reported that a number of small outbuildings were overturned and that loose articles were blown about. The wind in this Immediate vicinity reached a veloc ity at times of about sixty miles an hour regular tornado speed. West of -the city the wind during the early part of the evening was very severe and considerable hail fell. It is not believed that the local fruit crop was damaged while the gardens were not far enough advanced to suffer. The wind w.i3 general In the night all over the eastern part of the state and It is reported that several towns in the north and northeastern portions of the state were severely damaged by the wind. The storm of the early evening developed Into a small cy clone north of here and tore through Sarpy county destroying small out houses and fences andoverturnln ( houses and fences and overturnlnA telegraph and telephone poles. At rtollevue the wind blew down the smoke stack on the furnace rcom of the college and hurled It Into one of the rooms of the girls' domltory. No one was Injured, however, and the damage was nominal. It served to lve the natives a bad scare though. At Omaha a terrific hail storm took lace in the early evening and the loss to hothouses Is said to run well Into thousands of dollars. Electric signs were also damaged to some extent. The midnight storm did damage to signs, awnings and tbe like in Lin coln and Omaha, tbe total amount of which will reach' pretty high Into the hundreds of dollars. States of America. In no other conn- try of the world can so many people, capable of forming correct Judgment of men and things, bo found as in these United States of America. In no other country of the world can so many people, earnestly endeavoring to advance themselves morally, in tellectually and financially, be found as In these United States of America. What brought this condition The public schools? Yes In art. But even more tho newspapers and magazines, of which 23,000 are published in this country. What makes the issues of these publications possible? Advertising. Without advertising the great ma jority of newspapers and magazines would go out of business entirely; the remainder would be forced to eliminate their mfost expensive and, there, most valuable features. Some one has said that the advertiser has endowed literature and art in America. Whosoever said It spoke wisely, for the statement is true. The debt owed by America to the adver tiser Is a great one. There are some points of Interest about the United States of America, also about advertising. In no other country of the world can an article of general worth be brought into universal use so rapidly as in the United States of America. In no other country Is it possible for the purchaser so easily to select the best and most suitable of articles which he Is to purchase as here. What makes this possible? The answer is ad vertising. WhenspoBking of the country's great products they used to say that cotton was king. Latterly corn wore the crown. Some day some wise man with a strong and healthy Imagination will compute the amount spent in these 23,000 newspapers and periodicals, In bill boards, street cars, barn paint ing, novelties catalogues exhibitions of all kinds and his figures will as tonish the world. Great Is advertising! firmed at high noon by Rev. J. T. Baird and was beautiful and Im pressive. The only attendants at the wedding were tbe Immediate rela tives of the contracting parties. The groom Is quite well known In Cass County, being a son of Dr. M. L. Thomas formerly of Union, and a young man of most exemplary hab its and unimpeachable character. He has been a lifelong companion of the young lady who becomes his bride, they having both gone to school to gether under Prof. Gamble and hav ing for ten years been close friends. At present Mr. Thomas Is employed by the Missouri Pacific Railway as operator at Fort Crook and has ex-! cellent prospects of advancement. The bride Is the handsome and ac complished daughter of Mrs. J. W. Gamble, a young lady with a great number of friends and one very Justly popular with all. Her many friends unite in wishing this charming young lady a long and very happy married life. The happy couple will make their future home at Fort Crook. The newly wedded couple depart ed this afternoon for Bartlctt, la., where they will visit for Borne days with the groom's parents, remaining there until about June first after which time they will be nt home to their friends at Ft. Crook, Neb. I'lione Company May lluilil. Thos. II. Pollock of Plattsmouth came over Monday driving ono of tho company's fine Iluick cars. When we (luestloiifd him regarding paint ing tli o poles of the ttdrphouo he said they were contemplating Im provements here In the m-ar future. They had some time ago an engineer here from Kansas City who was In the town for a week making a map of the residents served and estimating and planning for the putting in of cables. The work of this man in cluded Havelock, Plattsmouth and Weeping Water and the company is now in possession of plans of all these places. They are putting In several thousand feet of cable at Plattsmouth. At Weeping Water they expect to build a suitable building and the plans they have will be carried out when arrangements here have been made as to location. Weeping Wa ter Republican. August Mumm Is visiting this af ternoon in Omaha being a passenger on the mall train for that city. WANTED A stripper at Budlg's cigar factory. Strode Is Deputy. Judge J. B. Strode, one of tho best known members of the I.ancaster county bnr, has been appointed by County Attorney Tynll to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of the deputy county attorney, jTharles E. Mason. The place was offered to Judge Strode as soon as Mr. Mason tendered his resignation, but he did not accept until Tuesday afternoon. Judge Strode Is a former congressman and one of the oldest practlcloners In the rlty. Lincoln Depnrtnu'nt Oma ha Bee. John Albert tho prominent cltl en of Eight Mile Grove precinct. came down this morning on the Schuyler train and spent the day looking after matters in the city. ('nine over iu Auto. J. A. Bauer and daughter Miss Mabel, and Warren Richards, from Wabash, were In the city today, look ing after some business matters. Mr. Richards took the Burlington train for Omaha to spend the day, re turning to the city to night, to take up their auto Journey ror home. Mr. Bauer, who is one of the Journal's valued friends paid us a short visit this afternoon. Miles Standlsh, the well known farmer from near Murray, was In the city today looking after business. Ia a conversation with a Journal rep resentative he expressed the belief that it would be found that fruit was more seriously Injured than generally believed by the cold snap and. th the crop would be shorter than ex. pected. Mr. Standlsh who Is one of the county's good farmers is much put out over the continued cold and Inclement spring and hopes for. an tarly break In it. He drove home this evening. 8 nninn n R n rsv ra r TO All that's new and Up-to-dato n Make your selections while the line is complete now eiriimg i Druggists