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Kb. Stit Historical Soc. be moutb journal. SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION EIGHT PAGES VOLUME XXIX FLATTSMOUTT1, NEBRASKA, MONDAY JULY 30, 1910 NO 55 platte PNm OF RETURN RILL OF Several Members of the Party Invest in Land There and All Are Enthusiastic Over Lone Star State. County Treasurer Frank E. Schla ter and ex-County Clerk W. E. Rosen crans, returned last evening on No. 14 from a ten days trip to Texas and Oklahoma. These gentlemen were ac companied by County Commissioner Jordan, whom they Interested In Tex as lands. Messrs. Schlater and Ros encrans had visited the same section before but not at this season of the year. Both gentlemen have Invest ments In the southern Texas country and are so well pleased with what they bought there that they are will ing to recommend the country to their friends. In an interview with Mr. Schlater, the Journal representative was shown cotton In the ball, and also the seed as It comes out of the cotton at the gin. There Is a cotton gin in almost every town and village, and there the planters market their crop. The first crop Is coming In now and is begin ning to be ginned. The farming In that county, mostly by proxy, having the cotton harvest ed largely by Mexican help, where the negroes are not available. The cotton stalk contains many balls on each, and It stands In the hill some thing like corn here with probably three or more stalks In each hill. Mr. Schlater counted not less than fifty two bowls on one hill. The cotton be gins to open up Its ball commenc ing at the ground and the balls are picked off first by the laborers go ing between the rows. By the time the field Is gone over for the first picking the pickers can begin again. There are a great many cotton seed FUNERAL OF IS. Laid to Final Sleep in Beautiful Oak Hill Cemetery. The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Eliz abeth Horn took place this afternoon from St. Paul's church in this city at 2:30 o'clock. The casket was fol lowed to the cemetery by a large pro cession of sympathizing friends and neighbors of the bereaved family. The deceased was born June 11, 1828, in Boelsten, Hessen Durmstadt, Germany, her maiden name being Margaret Elizabeth Lannert. She emigrated to the United States when twenty years of age and took up her home at Lancaster, Pa., in 1848, and in 1 849, she was joined in marriage to Jacob Horn with whom she lived happily until death took her husband from her In 1884. Mrs. Horn came with her husband to Nebraska In 1857, and here she has made her home, rearing her children, all of whom have long since married and established homes of their own. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Steger and was beautiful and Impressive. The pastor taking for his text, verse 15 of 29th Chroni cles: "For we are strangers and so journers as wera all our fathers; our days are as a shadow, there Is none abiding." ; The music consisted of a hymn by fho choir: "Suss und Ruhig 1st der Whlummer," and a solo bv Miss Emma Falter, entitled: "rw wnm ! Frleden." The Ladles Aid societv of the church attended In n h,iv th,.. showing the high esteem in which the deceased lady was held by the mem bership of the church. The deceased will be deeply mourn ed by all who were fortunate enough to know her. She was one of the most consistent members of her church and a liberal supporter and contributed freely of her means for the aid of the church. Those from out of town, relatives of the deceased, who attended the funeral were: Mrs. William Hagen dorm, Mrs. Chris Koehnke and Geo. Horn of Hay Springs, Neb.; Mr. H. L. Anderson of Alliance, Mr. and Mrs. Loutenslager, of Orchard, Neb. The pall bearers were as given In the obituary statement in the Journal of the statement In the Journal of the 27th Inst., being the six Melslngcr brothers: MessrR. J. M., P. 1L, Con rad, Jacob, George P., and H. J. Mels inger The floral tributes were numerous mm HORN PRAISE FOR TEXAS rnis located throughout both Texas auu Oklahoma where the seed Is worked Into different kinds of pro ducts, such as oil, oil cake, meal, using every part of the seed, even to the hull which Is ground and used in the manufacture of the oil cake. The country .between Plattsmouth and southern Texas, Kansas, Oklaho ma, Arkansas, did not appear as pros perous to the traveller as the Texas country. The intervening territory has suffered more from want of rain than we have here, or the country bordering the gulf. The climate down there was a surprise to the northern visitors, the breeze from the gulf was what modified the great heat of far ther'north. Although the land owned and visited by Messrs. Schlater and Rosencrans Is situated some score or more of miles from the gulf, yet the gulf breezes and their effect on the atmosphere was very noticeable. Both gentlemen were pleased more than ever with the country and the crop prospects there. Mr. Schlater Is a good Judge of a cattle country, and he saw herds of cattle there In Texas which had done well and fattened on the range. The country is adapted to diversified farming and the more enterprising farmers of the north once get Interested and take hold down there they can make It pay, and not have to go through the long hazardous winters of this climate. Mr. Jordan was so well pleased with what he saw, that he picked up a nice piece of land and will no doubt take more as he eccs the country de velop. and beautiful, being silent memen toes of the love and regard felt by the donors toward these estimabe character of the deceased. Inter ment was made at Oak Hill ceme tery. Entertains Sunday School Class. From Friday's Dally. Mrs. W. B. Elster very pleasantly entertained the members of her Sun day school class of the Presbyterian church at her home yesterday after noon which the members of the class appreciated much and report a fine time. Mrs. Elster had prepared several guessing contests for the entertain ment of her guests and these, Inter spersed with social conversation and music, furnished plenty of amuse ment and developed a lot of merri ment. The pleasures of the after noon were further augmented when the guests were Invited to the dining room when a dainty luncheon was served and to which the guests could not help but do full Justice. The members of the class present on this occasion were: Vera and Mabel Brown, Margaret Wohlfarth, Emma Cummins, Ellen Ley da and Edith Ballance of Lincoln. Look Well to Your Cistern. From Friday's Dally During this continuous hot and dry weather people cannot be too careful with their cisterns; Several days ago in the city or Et. Louis a pint of water was takcm out of a cis tern and analyzed by a chemist and it was found to contain thousands of germs. When rain begins to fall the water should be turned out of the cIs,ern until tne root haa been thor ,oishy washed of all accumulations of dust and other harmful sediments Let a rain barrel stand out until the water In It runs low and It will be full of wlgglers. It Is practically the same with a cistern In dry and hot weather. Remember, death lurks In foul cisterns. Now Is the time to give your cistern a thorough cleaning because It will not be long until rain will come. Late Com Will be Poor. , A. P. Crlswisser of Mt. Pleasant precinct transacted business In Platts mouth last evening. Mr. Crlswlsser was on his way to Omaha with Rtock, or rather he had sent a load to the yards the night before. He says the corn will not Btand many days like Wednesday and many fields which had been planted on old ground were badly damaged. Corn on new ground or on meadow land looks fairly well yet. Mr, Crlswlsser thinks riant will not do much this year. T Which Should be Heeded by Every Voter in the County. Voters who may regard the primary law as something to be looked lightly upon and who view it as a law that can be violated without punishment would be surprised to find themselves In jail for half a year or In the peni tentiary for a term of years, or bo compelled to pay a fine of $500. These are some of the penalties that can be imposed for violations of va rious provisions of the primary law. In fact any act declared an offense under the general election laws con cerning caucuses and elections shall also in like case be an offense in all primaries. Sections 3327k, Wheeler's statute, for the year 1909, makes It unlaw ful for any person to vote at a pri mary under the name of any other person or to vote without the right to do so; to prevent others from voting, fraudulently deposit in the ballot box or take therefrom any official pri mary ballot; to give or agree to give any money or other valuable thing to any person as a consideration for his vote at a primary; to accept or receive any money or other valuable thing for one's vote; to agree to ac cept any money or other valuable thing in consideration of filing or agreeing to file as a candidate or not filing or agreeing not to please a can didate; to agree to receive or accept any money or other valuable thing In consideration of withdrawal as a candidate are offenses that are pun ishable by Imprisonment In the coun ty jail not less than one month nor more than six months. A Jail sentence of the same dura tion may be Imposed upon anyone who shall offer, or with knowledge of the same, permit any person to of fer for his benefit any bribe to a vo ter or induce him to sign any election or nomination paper, or to accept any n.inU 1 II.- ...L.11. .... Mini urine, wneiner sum urioe or promise of gain be offered or accept ed before or after such signing, or any person who shall sign more nomi nation petitions than there are posi tions to fill in any kind of offices. Any person who shall forge any nomination papers shall be deemed guilty of forgery and on conviction punished accordingly. Any person who being in possession of nomina tion papers entitled to be filed, shall wrongfully suppress or willfully fail to cause to be filed at the proper time and place, shall upon. convic tion be punished by Imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months or by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or both fine and Imprison ment. Bobbed at Pacific Junction. O. M. Streight who was in Pacific Junction last night reports that a white man was held up near that place by a nigger and a white man and robbed of about $600. He says he was unable to get the full partic ulars, but It would seem that all the parties had been attending the races at Red Oak, and no doubt the rob bers had their man spotted. No clue to the robbers had been ascertained up to the time he left the Junction. A white man and a nigger, two sus picious looking characters, were at the depot In this city early this morn ing, but the police In this city had not been apprized of the holdup, or they might have been held here on suspicion. Accident nt Shops. Joe Zltka met with an accident to day which caused him quite a little discomfort, and until the doctor had examined It, he was fearful that one bone of his leg was broken. Mr. Zitka was working at his usual stunt In the boiler shop, and while lifting a heavy timber to be placed on a bench, the timber slipped and struck Mr. Zitka's leg, tearing quite a rent in his overalls and underwear. The force of the blow pained him so much that he went Immediately to the surgeon. On examination It was found no bones broken. After hav ing the Injury dressed, the Injured man went back to work. Nearly everybody will want a state daiiy during the political mix-up now going on and the Lincoln Journal cuts Its price to January 1, 1911 to $2 with Sunday or $1.50 without. You know why the Journal Is the paper to give the straight of what Is going on and you'll got a lot for your money If you rend In right away. mm m The Telephone (ilil. ' The telephone girl sits still In her chair and listens to voices from ev erywhere; she hears all the gossip, she hears all the news, she knows who Is happy and who has te blues, she knowns our sorrows, she knows our Joys, she knows every girl that is chasing the boys, she knowns of our troubles, she knows of our strife, she knows every rubberer on the lines, she knows every man that talks mean to his wife, she knows every time we are "out with the boys," she hears all the excuses each fellow empolys, she knows every woman vvho has a dark past, she knowns ev ery man who's Inclined to be "fast." in fact, thew's a Becret neath every saucy curl of that quite demure-looking telephone girl. If the telephone girl should tell us all that she knows it would turn half our friends Into bitterest foes; she would sow a small wind that would soon be a, gale, en gulf us In trouble and land us In jail; she could let go a story (which gaining In force) would cause half our wives to sue for divorce; she could get all the churches mixed up in a fight and turn ail our days to sorrowing nights; In fact, she could keep the whole town in a stew If she'd tell a tenth part of the things she knew. Oh! brother, now doesn't It make your head. whirl when you thing what you owe to the telephone girl? Brighton News. A Disgrace to the City. There Is one street In Plattsmouth that from present appearances has not had a lick of work done on it In many years. That is Marble street from Chicago avenue to Eleventh, and strange to say, we have a member of the city council living on the same. No one drives on that street unless compelled to do so, and some of the deep gullies are really dangerous to pass over. Why no attention has hern paid to the dilipidated condition of this street we are unable to fath om. We have repeatedly spoken to both members of the council in the Jhlrd ward In regard to VA. i'.ter, but as yet no attention has been paid to our appeals. Two days work by the street commissioner and hlH force would make this street appear respectable. Sample of Wheat. Mr. James R. Hunter returned from Hitchcock, in Beadle county, South Dakota today, and left with the Journal a fine sample of wheat, which was taken from the field of John F. Heineman. The wheat Is good and Mr. Heineman had 200 acres of the same kind. Mr. Hunter made a circuit of fifty miles and found the crop In the vicinity com ing up to the sample, and will aver age from 25 to 30 bushels per acre. There are quite a number of Cass county men owning lands within the district visited by Mr. Hunter who will be pleased with his report of the prosperous condition of that country. The sample brought down by Mr. Hunter can be seen by those Inter ested by calling at the Journal of fice. Money in Dairy Cuttle. J. Hatt & Son have been doing a great cream business this season. Every Saturday this firm pays, to the farmers for cream the neat sum of $100. The firm Is prepared to test each batch of cream which comes to their store, and the cans are weighed up as soon as they are brought In, then weighed bark after the cream Is emptied out and tested. The cream brings a price according to the amount of butter fat contained In It. And this Is arrived at very satisfac toriiy with the tester. A ten gallon can full of the best cream will net the farmer $11.50. The price of but ter fat Is now 23 cents per pound, having slumped a cent within the last few days. At this rate the cows kept on the farm are about as profit able as any other animal owned by the farmer. Fred Bonne Injured. Last Monday morning Fred Ronno who was out at his son's place, Frank Ronne, met with quite a serious ac cident. He was going to drive over to Frank Pankonin's and his two grand-children, sons of Frank Ronne, climbed In Jhe buggy. Before Mr. Ronne could get seated, the horse gave a Jump and ho was thrown out. The muscles were torn from one hip, he was bruised on the head which struck a rock, also on the elbow and legs. Both boys were thrown out as the horse ran, and one was cut over the left eyo and both bruised. Dr. Welch attended them and Mr. Ronne was brought to town later Weep ing Water Republican. lliPTno nnpniMTrn viuiunnuGEftYMicn AGAIN LOSES OUT Count Holds That Democratic Filing for Two Tickets Are Legal. A special from Lincoln under date of July 28, says: Judge Lincoln Frost today sustained the demurrer of the state against the restraining order se cured by Victor Rosewater, prohibit ing Secretary of State Junkin from certifying to county clerks the names of fusion candidates for office who have paid only one filing fee. The supreme court cannot be convened until September 1, two weeks after the primary. Therefore the case will not be appealed and Secretary of State Junkin Is at liberty to Bend out the names of canfildaies Just as he would have done nad Rosewater not resorted to his political trick. When Informed of the dissolution of the restralng order. Junkin said this afternoon that he would certify the names of all candidates Imme diately to county clerks. With this done and with the county clerks warn ed that the names first sent them did not probably complete the filings, ballots In the various counties will be prepared In plenty of time and the Rosewater maneuver will have had no practlcall, effect whatever. Judge Frost delivered an oral opin ion saying that he could not agree with the state's attorney that Rose water had no right to maintain the suit. He said also that possibly by construing the primary law as a whole the allegation that every pe tition required a filing fee might be sustained. However, he addod that he did not care to overturn which hnd been in force for three years unless he were thoroughly convinced that the attorney general had been wrong. Judge Frost indicated that ho was a long way from Vlng sure of this. Because of this and' because" of the fact that a mistake had been made by the secretary of state In follow ing the opinion of the attorney gen eral that only one filing fee was required, the mistake could not be corrected at this time. Ho refused to grant the Rosewater contention. John O. Yeiser, attorney for Rosewater, admitted defeat and that he has no Intention of doing anything further by Faying, "I guess all that remains for us is to beat them at the polls." Movch Today. M. Fangcr who is removing his stock to Omaha, will get the last of his goods off today. Matt Jirousek who has been engaged for several days packing the odds and ends of the stock completed his task this afternoon. Mr. Fanger wid open a Btore on Slxteentn street, Omaha, opposite the postoffice building. This Is a busy part of the city and, no doubt, the Plattsmouth merchant will speedily build up a good trade. The people of Plattsmouth have found Mr. Fanger to bo a gentleman in every respect and a pleasant man to deal with, and we are loth to see so en terprising a merchant leave us. It Hus Happened. Word reached the Journal this morning that the Stork which had been hovering over the homeHtead of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Woolcott In Elm wood for some time, deposited with them a bouncing baby boy, whom they call all their own. Our Informant reports that when Floyd was apprized of the fact that he hunted up the biggest barrel In town and hollowed "papa" down In to hear how It would sound. He Is certainly the happiest man In tho universe, and has worn out two pairs of shoes dancing to the tune of "Yankee Doodle." May the llttlo son live long and prosper, Is the prayer of the Journal. Will Have Somn Corn. Mr. H. Boughman who Is farming he Dovey section west of Plattsmouth a few miles, was in the city last even ing on business. Mr. Boughman is one of the farmers In his neighbor hood who was hard hit by tho hall but be thinks with a good rain very shortly, much of his fields will come out and make some corn. The small grain crops were heavy but his oats were considerably damaged by the hail. Tho M. W. A. orchestra goes to Ce dar Creek for an evening's engage ment tomorrow afternoon. This is a popular musical aggregation of this play outside the city. WF.F.PIXtl WATF.lt. (Republican.) George Towle says that his 22 acres of wheat averaged 28 bushels per acre. Born To Mr. and Mrs. Johu Bourke on Friday, July 22, 1910. a daughter. Charles Thllpot says they threshed about 1800 bushels of wheat. The fall article was good testing 62 or 63 pounds, going 17 and 18 bushels to the acre. Will Sitzman has moved over.froni Plattsmouth and Is located In the L. Lacey house. His goods arrived on Tuesday. Mr. Sitzman is employed on the Republican. E. Lee Holden went to Des Moines last Friday to Join his wife and from there they will go to novi Springs, Wyo., where Mr. ifcivTon has been elected principal of the schools. A card received from Sioux Falls, ' S. D., stntcs that on Saturday, July 23, 1910, there was born to Jr. and Mrs. Fred Evans, an 8-pounds glii. Hurrah! It's better late than never. Congratulations. On Wednesday evening, July 20, the benutlful residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Miller in the east part of the city was the scene of much Joy and happiness when their daughter, Miss Bertha was given in marriage to Mr. Arthur Garfield Kennedy of Spcarflsh, S. D. The Hencger Bros., met with quite a loss last week. They had finished threshing for Andrew Olson and were taking their machine to another farm, when out by W. A. Colo's In making a turn, the separator tipped over, damaging It to the extent of $300 to $400. They sent In for a new separator. Arrived Homo Today. Miss Minnlo Guthman who has made a tour of the east visiting New York, Boston and the larger cities, returned today. Miss Guthman left Plattsmouth with the party that went by special train to the Boston educa tional meeting, departing from this city about June 30th and has been gone' almost a" month. Miss R. C. Vorndran met Miss Guthman In Chi cago and accompanied her to Platts mouth this morning. Miss Guthman had ft most enjoyable vncation, but was glad to get home agnln. Fine Corn. Vimn Fildny'H Dully. C. L.. Creamer, living west of Rock Illuffs, brought to this office today a sack of ronsting earH taken from one of his fields and desired us to sample same. The seed from which this corn grew was bought by Mr. Cream er from California last spring when ho returned from that state. Tho corn looks like it would bo very toothsome and we believe It will be. We desire to thank Mr. Creamer for remembering us so kindly. From Frldny'g Dally. Will Speak on "Millions of Money." The membership and congregation of tho Presbyterian church are look ing forward to next riunday morning's sermon with much expectancy. Rev. L. V. Cade will take for the subject of his discourse at that time "Millions of Money." The services at this church, have been Increasing In in terest and the congregation is grow ing in number each week slnco Rev. Gade took charge of tho church. Enjoy Fleet He Fan. The M. K. church people on last Wedensday evening at their prayer meeting enjoyed their usual service, and, although the evening was unus ually warm their room was cooled by an electric, fan which was furnished through the kidness of Jesse Perry. Tho Wednesdny evening meetings are Increasing In both Interest and num ber, and the membership Is alive to the spiritual value of the mid-week meeting. Married in Omaha. From Friday's Dally. Mr. Cornelius Bengen and Miss Ireno Bradway, both of this commun ity, were Joined In marriage yester day in the city of Omaha. Both the bride and groom are well known young people in Plattsmouth. Mr. Bengen Is a prosperous young farm er, residing near Murray, and tho Journal extends congratulations, and wishes the happy pair a long life and prosperity. Social a Grand Success. The Ice cream social given by tho Stonehocker Military band last even ing was a grand success, both finan cially and socially. Tho band gave some dozen or fifteen selections' that were well appreciated by tho crowd. The boys netted about $30.00 from the entertainment.