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VOLUME XXX
PLATTSMO UTTI, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1911
NO 01
liUIER, LOUISVILLE BANKER, IDE
VITAL MISTAKE III CHOOSING CAREER
He Took Up a Busbies Career When He Should Have Put on
Overalls and Gone Into the Workshop, There to Tinker, Dream,
and Invent, and Make Good Living.
From San Francisco- comes a
dispatch giving Carey A. Manker's
own account of his life, an un
usually interesting life, to say the
least, and one in which there is
a strong moral. Manker had many
friends in this county, and the
dispatch is published in full:
EmerVm, the philosopher,
found that for every man there is
a river of action, broad and deep
and free from, shoals, down which
he may sail to success. Just one
great thing that each man was
born to do.
When Carey A. Manker left his
Indiana farm home thirty years
ago to make his fortune in the
world, he made a first and vital
mistake. He took up a business
career when be should have put
on overalls and a jumper and gone
into the workshop, there to tinker
and dream and invent and make a
good living as an expert mechanic.
llanker's story is pathetic in
the extreme. It does not take
much charily to look upon him as
a deluded man. It only takes a
few moments' talk with him. His
flvil angel, he Rays, is J. H. Ncus
tadt, formerly an automobile sup
ply man in St. Louis, and until a
few weeks ago in the same busi
ness in San Francisco. Manker
came to San Francisco with the
express purpose of finding Neus
tadt and gelling help from him.
but he learned that Neustadt had
gone to Oregon.
With his last hope crushed. Ihe
doubts and longings of Ihe years
Kolidificd, he look the action Jhat
be hopes will clear awav Ihe slale
for him.
"I went to pearl in 1008," he
said. "I look a little money that
T had made in Ihe real eslale
business in SI. Louis and some
others gave rue and started a
bank.
"I was always something of a
mechanic, however, and found my
chance for Hie pleasure in life in
trying to invent something. I.
finally perfected, as I thought, an
invention to increase Hie speed of
motor boats. It was called Ihe
hydrocurve. I began to experi
ment in a small way with spare
money, and it seemed to work all
right.
"Then I started lo form a com
pany. I took some friends in and
we capitalized at $9,000,000. Some
of Ihe folks thought that was a
lot of money, but it is small when
you consider what a good boat
business is.
CEDAR CREEK WINS
ANOTHER BALL GAME
Cedar Creek Team Wins Game
From Springfield by a Score
of 8 to 0.
Cedar Creek added another
clean victory to the list when they
fduit'out Springfield on Ihe local
lot by a score of 8 lo 0. The
features, as usual, was Ihe per
fection of Connor's pitching, al
lowing but Ihreo scattered hits
and issuing one pass Ootsch for
the opponents was touched up for
a number of good swats, but had
he had the support it would have
resulted in a few less scores, as
errors were responsible for three
of Ihe runs. The strikeout
column was a little unbalanced,
Connor securing 15, while (iolsch
got 8. This was a hard proposi
tion for our colls, as Mr. Oolsrh
has tossed some nifty ball for our
little tribe and they seemed irrita
ble upon learning of his opposi
tion. However. Mr. Cot sen will
play Hie remainder of the season
with us, so we can have as many
games as we wish ami always
have a fresh Iwirler.
Kelly was there SinnLiv ;:: i )
with Hie stick, as ii-unl. n n it Ji ff
Salberg connected for three l ae
with a man on.
1 he lies! catch of
the game is also
credited to this
"I here formed the acquaint
ance of J. II. Neustadt, a St. Louis
automobile man, with whom I did
business occasionally. I told him
of the invention and he became
interested in it at once. He offer
ed to take hold and organize the
company right and make it a big
success for all of us.
"We had the company reor
ganized at $300,000 and we start
ed to build a big motor boat to
use as an exhibition in selling
stock. Well, something went I
wrong all Ihe time with Ihe boat.
I think we were defrauded in gel
ting bad engines. It cost me a
great deal of money. Neustadt
did not sell any stock, but kept
urging me lo put more money into
it and get it all started right be
fore we sold stock. I put some of
the money of the bank into it.
"Then I don't know exactly
what happened. I know that Neus
tadt held me back at a lime when
two or three weeks more would
have made a success of the whole'
thing. He would not let me do a
thing, and finally I lost. I was
like a crazy man. I did not know
what I was doing.
"This was in the winter of 1 908,
ten years after I had come lo that
I own.
"When I saw I hat all the money
had been used and that the hank
was insolvent I asked my lawyers
what I should do. They told me
that. T ought to recover my health
flrsl of all and try to pay Ihe
money back.
"I was living in St. Louis at the
tHne and one. day. December 2 4, I
went up lo Pearl, locked the bank,
turned the keys and everything
over to the lawyers, and took my
family away. I thought that a
few months' rest would settle my
nerves and that I would be ready
to go back and fix everything up.
"Hut. I found differently. I look
my family to Central America and
fiilinil tin I hiiro T f'limn hnnl
to Ibis country and sent my wife
and four children to her parents
in Eagle, Neti., aim went lo Min
nesota. "I worked gradually west, until
I got lo Placer county, California,
where I suffered a sunstroke while
working as a carpenter. Then I
came lo San Francisco, where I
gave myself up.
"I never did a wilful wrong. I
did not rob my neighbors. I in
vested I heir money in what I
thought, was a fine thing. My
only hope in life now is to pay
I hern back."
notable first, sacker. The base
runners were held close, by Con
nor ami when one did make a
break he found Hie ball in second
station territory.
Next Sunday will be the big day,
Cedar Creek having secured the
crack Creenwood hunch and also
Ihe Plaltsmouth team to battle
with. This will warrant any one
Iheir money's worth lo make a
long drive to witness a double
header. Ice cream, lemonade, pop
and other confectionery will be
sold on the ball grounds and a
cordial invitation is extended to
fishing and outing parlies, as
there are ideal lakes and plenty
of short grass and shade lo war
rant a good lime lo all. Come
out and be convinced.
Card of Thanks.
We lake this method of ex
pressing our most sincere and
heartfelt thanks lo those neigh
bors and friends for Iheir kind
ness and assistance during Ihe
illness and death of our dear wife
and mother. Also for floral
tributes.
Isaac Nelson.
L. W. Nelson.
Mrs. D. R. McNurlin.
Mrs. C. L. Martin.
'iss (iiaee New 1 1 i'n n eli rclurn
loday from Lincoln, bringing
a guest. Miss Ruth Sexton of
el
as
; Lincoln, who will be a guest, at
(he Abbot I home for several davs.
A Friend From Elmwood.
From Tuesday's Dally.
The Journal- force was agree
ably surprised when our good
friend, Floyd Wolcott, ofElmwood,
stepped in upon us this morning.
Mr. Wolcott is vice president of
the First National bank of Elm
wood and one of Ihe most highly
respected citizens of Cass county.
His business career from boyhood
has been one of which any citizen
should feel proud, and the Jour
nal is proud to number him
among its most valued friends.
Mr. Wolcott departed for his
homo this morning.
GREAT GATHERING AT
TODD HOI SUNDAY
One Hundred and Fifty People
Heard Musical by Party of
Omaha Musicians.
An affair look place Sunday at
the country home of A. L. Todd
which was given only brief men
tion yesterday because of an in
ability to reach the Todd home on
I ho telephone.
Saturday at 5 o'clock a party of
musicians came down from Oma
ha and were taken to the Todd
home. They had supper at the
home of Mrs. E. R. Todd and then
separated to the several Todd
homes, where they remained all
night.
Sunday afternoon a musical
was given at the A. L. Todd home
which was attended by 150 peo
ple. This proved a delightful
affair, for the music was excel
lent and the gathering itself was
a very pleasant affair.
The musicians went home
Monday morning with a better
idea than ever of the Todd hos
pitality. This is Iheir fourth trip
here and they will return again
in three weeks to be the guests
of Eddie Todd and family.
The Omaha party was as fol
lows: Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Clark
and sons, - Edwin, Richard and
Robert; Mrs. Minerva Jackson,
Misses Hazel Wilcox, Then Steph
ens and Minnie Richards, and
Charles Worthington and Ernest
Schoedsack.
FUNERAL DF ALBERT MAR
SHALL ATJEJSON, IOWA
The Body Was Laid Beside That
of Wife, Who Died in Platts
mouth In February.
From TueMtlay'd Dally.
Short services were held early
Ibis morning by Rev. Cade at the
home of Mrs. A. W. Smith for her
father, Albert Marshall, who died
shortly after midnight Sunday.
The remains were sent this morn
ing to Denison, Iowa, for burial.
In Hie parly were Mrs. Smith
and her son, Fred Smilh of Car
son, Iowa, and Clark Marshall of
Ituslinell, HI. Mrs. Smith's sister,
Mrs. Kale Ringer, and her brother,
Waller Marshall, both of Oma
ha, will meet llieni at Omaha and
go to Denison.
The funeral services were held
at Denison at, 3 o'clock this after
noon, the body of Ihe deceased
being laid beside that oT his wife,
who died here on February 22.
The funeral was held from Ihe
home of a brother of Mr. Mar
shall.
A Case of Carelessness.
Oeorge Slander, living four
miles northwest of town, came
very nearly losing four slacks of
wheat Jhc other day by the pure
cnrelessness of someone passing.
The four stacks were near Ihe
roadside, and Ihe parly who pass
ed threw a lighted cigar or match
in Ihe grass along Ihe road. This
ignited the grass and the. fire was
making good headway in Ihe di
rection of Ihe wheal stacks when
discovered. A moment longer and
Mr. Slander would have lost
several hundred bushels of wheat.
People should be more cnreful in
(browing aside lighted cigars and
matches, as uch carelessness oc
casions halt Hi" fires in the coun
Iry. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Foster came
op from T'nion Saturday evening
and spent Sunday with Mrs.
Foster's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. Ct. Larson, reluming home on
Ihe midnight Irain over Ihe Mis
souri Pacific.
PROGRAM F0
CM
nstiuie
Big Attendance of Cass County
Teachers Expected at Weep
' ing Water August 14-19.
Programs are out for the an
nual session of the Cass County
Teachers' association, to be hebj
at Uie Congregational church a't
Weeping Water August it to 19.
The institute will be conducted
by Miss Mary F. Foster, the coun
ty superintendent. The announce
ment to teachers concerning at
tendance is as follows:
All teachers who expect lo
teadh in Cuss county, or expect to
receive Cass county certificates,
or have elementary slate certifi
cates registered in this county
during the ensuing year, are re
quired lo attend this Institute.
Attendance at another institute
will, not be a substitute for at
tendance at Ibis institute. At
tendance at summer school will
not be considered an excuse from
attending institute.
In planning for an Institute Ihe
county superintendent has in
mind the needs of his own county,
and . makes plans accordingly.
Therefore, in order to be prepared
to teach in Cass county it is
necessary that you attend the
Cass county institute.
The entertainments and lect
ures are;
Tuesday Evening At Ihe Con
gregational church, Miss Sheehan
will give a song recital. This re
cital will be - followed by an in
formal reception lo Ihe teachers
and their friends.
Wednesday Afternoon At 2
o'clock, Superintendent N. C. Ab
bott of Ihe Plattsmouth city
schools will deliver a lecture on
"The Inspiration of Literature
Thursday Evening At the
Congregational church. Mrs. Lil
lian Dobbs Helms of Lincoln and
Mr. Harry F. Huntington of
Crete will give an enterlainment
consisting of vocal selections and
readings.
The, institute program follows:
FORENOON
:.fU lo . Opening exercises
and music.
U lo !):15 Primary Reading
Miss Sheehan
History Supl. Clark
!:J5 lo 10:30 -Oraininar
I r. McKenny
10: id to 1 1 :in Scl I Hygiene
Supl. Clark
11:15 to l-.:00 Lecture
Dr. McKenny
AFTERNOON,
t :il0 lo 2:00 Music
Miss Sheehan
2:00 to 2:10 (Monday, Tues
day, Thursday and Friday),
Drawing Miss Sheehan
2:00 lo 2:40 Principals' and
High School Teachers' Round
Table Dr. McKenny
Rural Teachers' Round Table.
Supl. Clark
2: 15 lo 3:30 Lecture
Dr. McKenny
3:30 to 1:00 (Tuesday and
Thursday Reports, etc
Supl. Foster
The county teachers' examina
tions program for Friday and
Saturday. August lHlh and 19lh,
in school building at Weeping
Water is as follows
FRIDAY.
Forenoon Hookkeeping, men
ial aril limel ic, civics, penman
ship, orlhography.
Afternoon Theory and art,
English comp., drawing, agri
culture, physiology,
SATURDAY.
Forenoon Ceoinelry, algebra,
reading, arithmetic.
Afternoon Hot any, physics,
history, grammar, geography.
Regarding the instructors, the
circular issued by the county
superintendent says:
Miss Elizabeth Sheehan is a
primary teacher in Ihe Lincoln
city schools, and has appeared in
many of (he largest ami best in
sliliilcs in our stale. Miss Shee
han will have charge of the work
in music, primary reading and
drawing.
Superintendent L N. Clark of
Hie Weeping Water schools needs
no inlroduct i.'ui lo Hie teachers of
Cass county. He has been our co
worker for a number of years, and
has always kept in touch with our
country schools. He is therefore
in a position to be of much help
to us. Superintendent Clark will
have charge of Ihe work in his
tor, school hygiene and the rural
teachers' round table.
Dr. Charles McKenny, president
of the Stale Normal school at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, is considered
one of Ihe best institute instruct
ors in Ihe United Stales. Dr. Mc
Kenny will deliver Iwo lectures
each day on pedagogical subjects,
and will also have one period
each day in grammar and will
conduct tho principals' and High
school teachers' round table.
F.
DIEDUSI HIT
Heart Failure Brought About
Death After Serious Illness
of About Two Weeks.
From Tuesday' liilly.
Mrs. Maggie. O'Fallon McElroy,
wife of Frank MrF.lrov. died at
11:15 o'clock last night at Ihe
home on North Ninth street, after
an illness extending over a period
of two weeks and a half. Death
was due lo heart failure and
nervous troubles. She would have
been 5ft years old on August 20.
She was morn in Host on, Mass.,
ugust, 20, 1855. Her family
moved lo Nebraska City when she
was an infant, settling near that
place. In 1879 she became the
wife of Frank McElroy. Twelve
years ago Mr. and Mrs. McElroy
and family came lo Plaltsmoulh
and have been here ever since.
Mrs. McElroy leaves three chil
dren, Florence, Mary and fiene
vieve, ami three sisters. Mrs. S. P.
Morrison ami Miss Mary O'Fallon
of Omaha, and Mrs. Kale Hegley
of Aurora, Neb. The children and
the sisters were at the bedside
when death came.
The funeral will lake place
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
from St. John's Catholic church,
Father Shine conducting the serv
ices. The burial will be at Ihi
Catholic cemetery.
The family desires lo announce
that the body will lie in slale at
i. i .
rue riome Wednesday ariernooii
and Thursday forenoon.
PLATTSMOUTH GETS
But Rest of the County Appears to
Have Been Slighted by
Jupiter Pluvious.
The heaviest rain of the sum
mer fell in Plaltsmoulh last even
ing between 5 and ft o'clock, the
amount of rainfall being esti
mated all the way from a half
inch lo an inch. The rain did not
last long, but came down hard and
fast, while if did last.
The rain appeared to come
from the northwest, crossing the
river ami giving Ihe Iowa side a
good soaking. Southwest and
south of Plaltsmoulh there seem
ed to be Hille rain, according lo
reports that have reached town.
At Mvnaril, Murray and Nehawka
and several oilier points only
light showers or no mm at all
fell.
Home-Grown melons.
From TiiPHilay'H Pnlly.
William Ferguson, living four
miles south of town, Is Hie first
man to bring in a load of water
melons this year. He came in
yesterday with a load of line
melons and had no trouble in re
tailing them out in a very short
lime. Those who purchased say
Ihey were lino in every resperf,
and Mr. Ferguson gels credit of
being Ihe flrsl on Ihe market with
melons raised in Cass county.
To Enter Tournament.
From Tuemlny'B Dully.
Oeorge Falter ami Paul Morgan
went to Omaha today, where Ihey
will practice for Ihe National Clay
Cuii r I. Tennis tournament, which
opens there the laller part of Ihe
week. This is a tournament in
which some of Hie leading players
of the Foiled Slates enter. The
local boys do not expect anything
but valuable experience in the
contest, and if Ihey last more
than Ihe first round Ihey will con
sider themselves fortunate.
For a goou dc anione. tell trie mae
to rive you a "Gut Hell."
s
R1KIELR0Y
NEIGHBORS THRESHED
I
Neighbors Do Royal Act for Well
Known Farmer While He If
at Funeral.
Charles E. Cook, a farmer liv
ing southwest of town, belioves
that there are some mighty good
people in this world, and that a
bd of I hem arc nis neighbors. Mr.
Cook's mother-in-law, Mrs.
Dreamer, died the middle of last
week at the home of her daughter,
near Alvo. Mr. Cook was intend
ing lo thresh Ibis week, and came
here Thursday to arrange to have
it done Saturday. The funeral of
his mother-in-law took place Fri
day, and while he and his family
were attending it. his neighbors
went lo his wheat field and
threshed Ihe wheal, the wives of
the farmers doing the cooking for
them.
Words could not express Ihe
feelings of Mr. Cook when he
came home nnd found out what
his good neighbors had done. Ho
has a card of thanks In this issue
in which he expresses his ap
preciation.
Card of Thanks.
To those good men and women
who so thoughtfully came to my
farm and threshed my wheat for
me while I was away, I desire to
express my most, sincere thanks.
When neighbors prove themselves
such royal "good fellows" as my
neighbors have, I can only think
that all of heaven is not in the
future. I regret that I cannot find
words lo adequately express my
feelings.
Charles E. Cook.
ISS RUBY DENSON
DIES AT L
Tuberculosis Was Fatal to' Qlrl
Who Formerly Lived In
Plattsmouth.
From Tiii'mluy'ii rnlly.
Miss Ruby Denson, a former
resident of Plallsmoiilli and a
frequent visitor here since mov
ing away, died al .'I o'clock this
morning, in Lincoln, Nebraska,
following a year's illness with
tuberculosis. She was
2t
years old. She was the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. ,1. Denson.
She lived with the latter, who is
now Mrs. L. M. Fox.
Two uncles, Fred Denson and
J. R. Denson, live here; another
uncle, J. H. Denson, lives at
Council Muffs, and Mrs. Simon
Hansen, an aunt, lives at Ne
hawka. Miss Denson was well
known here by the younger set.
BIG NEHAWKA BARN IS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
And Results in a $2,000 Loss for
William Ost, With but $766
In Insurance,
From Tiii-mliiy'H Pally,
The large barn beolnging to
William (1st of Nehawka was
struck by lightning last evening
and was destroyed by lire. The
disastrous boll, came during a.
very light shower, which fell at
about ft o'clock. The contents of
the barn included considerable
hay, grain and farm machinery.
Ost places his loss at $2,000, with
$7fi insurance in the Farmers'
Mutual Insurance company.
The rainfall at Nehawka was
very light, not being sufficient to
do corn or pastures any good.
Segrave Answer Filed.
The attorney for John Sea
grave has filed Ihe answer iu tho
case of Margaret Seagrave vs.
John Seagrave. She was given a
divorce by Judge Travis of the
district court on June 3. Mrs.
Seagrave filed a pel it ion asking
I hat Ihe decree be set aside so
that, she could obtain nliinonv.
Ballots to the Printer.
County Attorney D. C. Morgan
has prepared the primary ballot,
and delivered the copy to tho
printer. There are five separate
ballots, one for each parly.
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