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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1911)
14. 5? Weseoti 's Sons THE HOME OF LE Social Workers Have a Fine Time at the Hospitable Home of R. B. Windham. . From Saturday's Daily. Tho delightful parlor nuislcale given by the Soical Workers of the II. E. church at the hospitable home of Mr. It. B. Windham last evening was a flattering social success, as well as In a flnanical way. There was a large number in attendane, there Toe ing several from other denominations there, and the entertainment was most thoroughly enjoyed. Each number on the program was of such high character as to be worthy of 6)ecial mention, but lack of space, as well as time, prevents. Tfi'e program was opened with an Instrumental duet by Mi?s McPanicI and Mr. Whelan, and then there were some readings by Mis3 Mildred Cummins and Miss Ellen Windham, vocal solos by Mrs. E. II. Wcscott and Miss Ferris York, a vocal selection by a quartet composed of Misses York, Windham, Brady and Mrs. Hayes, and an Instrumental selection by Miss Etha Crabill. Mrs. William flaird and Miss Grelchcn Donnelly were un able to be present. When it was found that Mrs. Balrd would be un able to attend and furnish a reading, Miss Ellen Windham kindly consent ed to give one. Each' number was given at their best and brilliantly ex ecuted, and we might add that a Plattsmouth audience does take pride In her talent and never hears from them any too often. In addition to the above mentioned numbers, the program was greatly In creased In Interest by the three read ings given by Mrs. Beth Brown of Hurray. Mrs. Brown ocmpleted her study of elocution In the east and this Is the first time a Plattsmouth audience has had the2 pleasure of hearing her recite, and she kept her hearers thoroughly at attention by her finished style and manner of re citing. Mrs. Brown showed marked eloutlonary talent and the capable manner in which she handled her readings showed careful training and preparation. In her reading entitled "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," she was accompanied on the piano by little Miss Mae Loughrldge of Mur ray. Following the program a silver offering was taken, In which the ladles realized a neat sum. After the offering had been taken tho large Ho! for EVE I Our next trip to Falfurrias, Texas, where we have sold to more than 50 satisfied customers, will be on MARCH 21st! Better come and join us. The railroad fare will be $27.50 round trip of 3,500 miles. Our little boat trip from Corpus Christi to Ar ansas Pass, the New Deep water harbor by way of Ingelside, a distance of 30 miles, will please you. We will leave here Tuesday morning on Burlington train No. 4, arrive in Kansas City 4 p. m., leave at 5:30 via "Katy," arrive in San Antonio Wednesday 7:45 p. m. On return trip will visit Houston and Galveston brick in ten days. W. E, Rosencrans & Son,- THE REAL ESTATE MEN The complete John R Sfpfcnn 1 befound at our store including the new nobby shapes for young men. Notice our west window. SATISFACTION - company participated in a pleasant social time and were served with de licious ice cream and cake by Misses Garnet and Florence Cory. It was a delightful occasion throughout and greatly enjoyed by those fortunate enough to be present. to FANGER WILL ENTER BUSINESS IG1 HERE M. Fanger, who for many years was in the mercantile business In this city, and who removed to Omaha several months ago, where he was in business, has concluded to come back to Plattsmouth and enter the samo pursuits as before he left this city. The building formerly occupied by him will be renovated throughout ana tastily arranged for his occupancy In as short a space of time as possible. Mr. Fanger expects to open an entire new stock of goods, and his spring opening will consist of all up-to-date goods. Mr. Fanner done a large business here and he hopes, by fur nishing the right goods at the right prices to regain all his old patrons. Mr. Fanger has many friends In Plattsmouth and Cass county who will be glad to welcome him back to our city. From Friday's Pally. This village had its first touch of bank robbery last night. The Bank of Union being broken Into, but little of value taken, the total loss being 15 cents from the stamp drawer, a revolver and box of cartridges. Evi dently the crime was committed by amateurs probably by some of the tramps that are allowed to Infest the town, possibly by local talent. The robbers did not try to blow open the Tault. Entrance to the building was made by breaking the glass above the door at the northwest corner of the build ing and opening the door. A blue Jacket and lot of matches were left on the floor of a rear room. Indicat ing that the robbers left In haste, probably frightened away before they could finish the work. Philip Becker of west of the city and one of the energetic young farm ers of Cass county, was In town to day looking after some business mat ters. While here he called and re newed for the Dally Journal another year. Texa s! I IE CITY SCHOOLS IF 0 III Superintendent Abbott Issues Or ders of General Interest. At yesterday's general meeting of the teachers in our public schools, Superintendent X. C. Abbott Issued the general orders that follow and gave the second of his series of talks on the "Inspiration of Art and Literature." We believe that these orders, showing the comprehensive scheme of conducting our schools, will be of general Interest to our peo ple: Xo formal examinations In classes C, 1, 2 and 3. Those in grades above 3 will be excused, as formerly. Ex aminations will be held on Wednes day, March 22, at the time that the classes would ordinarily recite. The third quarter concludes wi'h the work of Friday, March 21. All cards will bo handed to pupils Just before dismissal at noon on Thurs day, March 30. Children who are ready to start to school will be admitted to the C clas3 ou Monday, April 17. This will give them six weeks of school experience before the opening of the school year next September. Parents and teach ers are requested to consult with the superintendent at the earliest oppor tunity illative to these beginners, so that adequate provision may he made for the little folks. The superintendent finds that many people have failed to see him at times when thry have eagerly desired to do so, because, hitherto, there has been no definite office hour. To avoid this contingent y tho hour from 3 to 4 is now definitely set aside as an office period. Regular monthly reports are due nt the office by noon Tuesday, March 7. Questions for the quarterly exam inations must be handed in to the office for approval by Thursday, March 9. Each High school teacher will prepare questions for the rlassi s of which he is Instructor. . Examina tion questions for the other classes will be prepnrcd according to the fol lowing assignments: Eighth, Arithmetic Miss Hcisel. Grammar Miss Ileisel. History Miss Bell. Spelling Miss Applegate. Fovonth, Arithmetic Mrs. Morgan. Grammar Miss Hawks worth. History Miss Hawkswonb. ' Geography Miss Applegate. Sixth, Arithmetic Miss Hawks worth. Grammar Miss lhisol. Geography Miss Applegate. Spelling Miss Baird. History Miss Baird. Fifth, Arithmetic Miss Ftaats. Language Miss Cole. Geography Miss Folsom. Spelling Miss Baugh. There will be no further Instruc tions relative to Industrial geography for the fourth quarter. The teachers will follow the assignment already outlined for them. Mr. Mnllls has set aside Tuesday and Thursday as the days when he can best attend to your wants as to the matter of school supplies. Please remember this and do not send pupils on other days. Specify exactly what you want. The superintendent will arrange small conferences of groups of teach ers who are doing work along similar lines very soon. Such a conference of High school teachers held recently seems to have effected splendid re sults. The superintendent will appreciate It If every teacher In the city schools attends the county association to be held In this city Saturday, March 11. You cannot afford to get out of touch with the general work of education In Nebraska. . Harry Todd and wife or near Mur ray motored to Plattsmouth last even ing and looked after business matters In the county seat. Mr. Todd called at the Journal office and renewed his subscription for another year. Mr. Todd Is one of the pushing, progres sive farmers of that vicinity and a pleasant gentleman to meet. Harry Vanfleet removed yesterday from his Pearl street residence to a residence on South Tenth street. Do you want an AUCTIONEER? If you do, get one who has Experience, Ability, Judgement. Telegraph or write ROBERT WIKINSOH, Dunbar, Nab. Dates made at this (fTre or he Murray State Bank. Good Scrvic Reasonable Rates DOUBLE SUICIDE IN COUNGIIJLUFFS Man and W:man Found Dead at tli3 Formers H:ms, BOTH TAKE CARBOLIC ACID. Bodies cf Christ Christensen and Un known Woman Are Found After Having Been Dead for at Least Three Cays, According to Indications. Council Bluffs, la., March 4 A toast of death in carbolic acid ended the lives of Christ Christensen and an unidentified woman at his cottage, 1310 Twenty-second avenue. The bod ies of the pair were found by curious neighbors. Christensen and the woman have been dead lor no less than three days, ui cording to the indications discovered lu the Investigation of tho case by Coroner Cutler. Partially dressed, the bodies were found in the bedroom, side by side. The lips of both were burned by the acid, which evidently caused death. A half pint bottle of carbolic acid, hn'f emptied, stood by tho bed. Both died apparently without a struggle. Christensen was about fiity-fivo years old; his companion about forty five. A brother of Christensen is be lieved to bo living in Atlantic, la. VVATSCN SUES FOR $50fCC0 Mason City Physician Hurt in Cross ing Accident Asks Heavy Damages. Bode, la , March 4 Fifty thousand dollars is what Dr. Kd Watson of this place wants as damages for Injuries received by him In an automobile train accident, occurring at Fort Hodge. Nov. 21 last. It Is alleged that while Hr. Watson was attempting to cross the track of tho company with Charles Meyers that his machine was struck by a train which was backing up at an excessive rate of speed, with no warning lights and no signals. Ac cording to the doctor's story, the train hit the machine and It was dragged fully 1 00 feet. Mr. Meyers was killed outright. Dr. Watson has just been dismissed from tho Fort Dodge hos pital and hi's come to his homo here. He states that ho cannot walk without assistance. REMARKA3LE CORN TEST Hundred Kernels of Ida Grove Farmer Score 10"! Per Cent. Id-Grove, Ta March 4. W. O. Stewart, one of Ma county's funnels, who always carefully selects his seed coin in tho fall and as carefully testa it every spring, has just made a re markable test in which the 100 kernels ho tested In a seed tester of his ovn Invention produced 101 sprouts, one of the kernels producing two sprouts. The double sprout was sent to Pro fessor llolden nt Ames and, In a letter, he says It was n freak of nature such as Is found once In n long time, but cannot be explained. H hays the test of Stewart's corn shows remarkable results and the Iowa Slate college asks for a price on some of his seed. ROAD EXPERT IS CAUSTIC Declaration Des Moines Traction Hope lessly Involved. Des Moines, March 4. At a meeting of a committee of citizens held to consider the street car situation, C. 12. Collins, an expert employed by tho city to investlgnte the advisability of city ownership, reported that In his opinion the city can own and operate the system at a profit, lie said: "Your car system here Is rotten. The only solution Is municipal owner ship. A private corporation could never untangle the affairs of the city railway. The bonds ure in bad condi tion and repairs are needed badly. I find that no one department of the trac tion company Is progressive." Commission Has Complaints. Des Moines, March 4 Tho Iowa lallroad commission prepared com plaints to submit to tho Interstate commerce commission, lu which twen t ,n'o Iowa railroads are mado de-fend-nts. Tho railroads are chaiged with violation of the western classifi cation freight rates Into and from Des Moines to out of state points, In that they charged higher rates than provided In the schedules. Receiver for Bank of Kelley. Des Moines, March 4. R. F. Orae ber of Sheldahl has been appointed receiver for the Bank, of Kelley by Judge French, referee In bankruptcy of the federal court. Mr. Graeber filed a bond of $8,000 and will nssumo charge of the Institution supposed to tave been wrecked by the disappear ance of its president, E. J. Penfield. Bankers Meet at Mason City. Mason City, la., March 4. Tho exec utive council of the Iowa Bankers' as sociation met here to consider tho dato for the stato convention, which will bo held in this city. The mntter was referred to Secretary Hall of Des Moines, but It Is probnhlo the week of Juno 24 will bo selected. Supervisor P. H. Moe Dead. For-st City, In., March 4. P. II. Moe, county supervisor, died at a ho tel here of heart disease. He lived at Scarville. BPUMENBURG FOUND GUILTY (Magazine Writer Given Two Years In Sing Sing Prison. New York, March 4. After a Jury j In general sessions court had cousld I pred the evidence for fifteen minutes It brouitkt in a void id of guilty of for cry nla,t Hronghton Brandenburg, the m te writer, and Judge Swann sentence! Mm to Sing Sing prison for a term of from two to four years and BROUGHTON BIUNTU-.NT.UUO six months. Tho defendant almost collapsed win n sentence was pro nounced. Brandenburg, who was charged with j forging and cashing a check Tor t 0 last summer, has figured In court pro ceedings for tho hist two years, noia bly In connection with tho sale under falso pretense of an article purport ing to have been written by the lato Grover Cleveland.- WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS ELEjtf OFFICERS Dr. Inez C. Fiiiitiiok ol Ltala tala' Statu President. Lincoln, Marth 4. The officers for the coining year were elected by tho Woman Suffrage association as fol lows: President, Dr, Inez C. Phil brick of Lincoln; vice president, Mrs. Anna Kovanda of Table Uock; record ing socretary, Mrs. Ada Shadier of Omaha; coi responding; secretary, Miss Mary II. Williams of Table Uock; treasurer, Dr. Kmma A. Demares of Koca; first auditor, Mrs. Julhi N. Cox of Exeter; second auditor, Mrs. Frank Harrison of Unco n. Each of tho clubs was cullid upon In turn for n pledge. Table Kock and Omaha each promised to give dm lug the year and tho society from Jtoca pledged $20. Other cities pledged $3 and ?15. The newly elected piesl dent promised $25 as a personal sub scription, as did Miss Williams. A few pledged smaller amounts. The ex pense of bringing speakers to the con vention left tho club with n sma'l deficit, which was cleared by tho sub scriptions. Tho afternoon program consisted of a series of nddrefsos by university profeshors and townsmen, who told of tho political equality question as viewed from the Ptand point of tho so cial worker, tho university woman and the editor. Tho resolutions commit tee expressed the views of the conven Hon on tho Edwnrd Bok situation and the work of eastern anti-suffragists who sent to the legislature marked copies of papers with unfavorable opinions expressed. REPORT ON COLD STORAGE Committee Recommends Reduction of Period Considered Safe for Food. Washington, March 4. Senator Iley burn, chairman of the committee on manufactures, reported to the senate the result of the investigations of that committee Into the question of how long articles of food should be kept In cold storage without endangorlng the henlth of tho consumer. The re port recommended a number of changes In thr I)dgo bill as Intro duced. Tho recoinniC'datlon Is that the following articles held In cold stor age for the periods Indicated, Instead of ono year, shall be regarded as hav ing been adulterated within tho meaning of tho pure food law: Beef, seven months; veal, four months; pork, four months; mutton, four montliB; lamb, threo months; poultry, three months; gnme, threo months; flsh, three months; eggs, threo months; butter, threo mouths. No eggs should b placed In cold utorage, the report says, that are pro duced during the hot months. Such eggs are of an Inferior quality. Testi mony showed, according to the re pert, that eggs produced during the summer would not keep In condition fit for use even lu tho most favorable conditions more than three months and that often In less than a month they would bo unlit for food. Many Fail In University. Lawrence, Kan., March 4. Of more than a thousand students enrolled in the college at tho University of Kan sas, 49(5 have failed, according to an nouncement made by the faculty. i ", x '" I, f Y 4. s x..X AN! I -TREAT BILL BETS CLEAR FIELD Houss tocemmeafs lira Evans MeasuH fcr Third Readies. PUBLICITY BUREAU DISCUSSED McKelvie Bill Providing for an Appro priation to Advertise State's Re sources Is Placed on General File. Talk of Sifting Committee. Uneoln, March 4. Tho Evans anti treat bill, which makes a saloon keip er liable for violation of the exkting stato law which prohibits treating at a bar, was recommended lor tliirJ leading in the house and wlil bo put to a uto. Evens Introduced t'.so sin h bills ami one of them was found to bn defective and liidefluile'y postpor.eJ sevcrul days n.;o. 'Hie hi 1 puts a heavy responsibility upon a n:i!ix:a keeper or his employees to prevent any sort of treating. Tho McKolvKi bill for an appropi la tum of $J.",oihi fur a htnte publicity bureau was also considered and was placed on the general i. The ionise spent most of the morning In a discus Kion of tin) two pure seed bil's, which are tin for consideration. Ono by Hardin and Sanborn Is said to dlsei lm liuite In favor of the seed boose as oinp'et itoi s of the farmers who want to sell seeds and It. was opposed on that ground, li it it was finally recom mended for third reading. In the senate the first attempt at agreement upon a r ifting committee to con over tho lec.islaiion now undei consideration ami throw out tho loss Important measures was made, but was unsuccessful, nut the appoint im ut of sm h a committee was made a sperlal order for Wednesday. Til" senrte passed Hm ton's bill against wire tnpp'ng, making It a fel ony to make illegal connections with n telegraph wire for information oi for sti aling pow er. Brewers' Occupation Tr.x. Ga t of Clay tried In tho home; to git bis own bill for an occupation tax of $:),iKiii upon breweries before tha house without running tho risk of los ing It In the committee, but failed. Hn introduced a motion to have It re ferred to the committee of the wholo The motion was objected to as untali, even by some of thr dry members and the sp"aVcr ruled It out of order. The Gait bill would put a severe bur den upon tho breweries and for that reason Is seriously opposed by the wet members, and the author wa pfrald of havlog It shelved In the com mlltr? without ever getting a debate upon It. Tho scnnl" received n letter from Secretary of the Interior i:i!llnget staling that the resoutlon relating t i the Klnkald bill extending tho Unm of payment on reclamation proj-cts had been receU.ul and taken Into consid eration. CHARGES AGAUIST THOMAS Kelley Tells of Alleged Shakedown of Postal Employees at Omaha. Omaha, March 4. Wlu n the repn1 sentatlve of the civil service coniinis slon starts to Investigate the charies preferred by letter Can lei TIllol...on against Postmaster Benjamin V. Thomas, he will have paced before him tho detailed story of W. A. Kelley, superintendent, or registry, who says ho was pressed Into service by Post master Thomas to do the colli'ctlug ol political contributions Inst fall. Kelley has put his statement in writing, and sworn to It as an affidavit. In It ho gives tho amounts and the names of tho postal employees who were "touched " Hi' snys the money was paid over to Thomas In the federal tul'dlng. Smallpox Epidemic at Waithill. Wal'.hill, Neb., March 4. The schools of Walthin have been closed, children are not permitted on the streets, all amusement places have been closed and tho state board of heath Is considering placing tho town under quarantine because of the prev alence of smallpox. There are thirty or forty cases now under quarantine. German Military Auto Runs Amuck. Berlin, March 4 -A military trans port automobile, of which tho driver Lad lost control, dashed full speed through a company of Infantry. Four teen men were Injured, six of them, Including a lieutenant, seriously. The chauffeur was attempting to avoid tho column by turning out of the road when his machine got away from him. Dun Sees Improvement. Now York, March 4 R. O. Pun's Weekly Review of Trade sas. The general trend during the week has boon townrd Improvement. The rail way rate finding und the prospect of an extra session of congress have not, prevented further progress toward the roestabllsbmeiit of business confi dence and activity. Asbury Splcer Escapes From Jail. Jackson, Ky, March 4. Silencing by display of revolvers a crowd of prisoners who attempted to alarm their keepers, Asbury Splcer, a Har gls clansman, led a Jail delivery here at midnight. Three other prisoners escaped with Splcer, whose appeal from a conviction for murder Is now pending In the stuto courts.
