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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1911)
Mil iiinli Illl v iMiiDniiCMCiiTC iimic nrrii mnz II IliirilUvLlilLlilU llnlL ULLIi illnUL IN S SIIICE I ii Eyery Department Has Been Overhauled, Much New Machinery Ha Been Placed, and an Entire Different Aspect Pervades the Entire Surroundings of the Shops. A Journal reporter walked' through the Durlinglon shop yards a few days ago and observed some of Ihe many valuable im provements which have been made very recently. The turn-table at the coach shop has been enlarged and rebuilt, and the back shop turn-table is in process of re building. At the boiler house Ihe large brick smokestack has been replaced by one of steel; the draft of the new stack is augmented by a fanning mill apparatus, the fan being operated with a separate engine. Within the boiler room a great change has been affected, the four 18-foot boilers having been taken out and replaced with three huge 21-fool boilers, Ihe diameter of which is nine and one-half feet. Tho position of the boilers has been changed from fronting south to an east front, placing the fire ing box of each in easy access to Iho large new coal chute into which coal is dumped from above a carload at a lime. Each of the great boilers have a double fire pot, and two men are kept busy shoveling coal into them, each man having three (Ires. Al Rcn ncr and II. T. Hallcu man the .shovels for the day shift, while at night one man is all that is re quired to keep up the steam, John Cotner being the man doing the night job. One additional man is required to wheel the cinders from tbo room to a car on the track outside. In addition to furnishing power for all the machinery of the shops, tho entire system of buildings is heated with steam from the great boilers. The new arrangement for supplying coal to Ihe boilers is very convenient and involved a groat expenditure- of money in grading, (ieorge Poisall, with his five teams, were three weeks doing grading for the coal dump and large new scrap dock. On the east of the boiler room a coal bin with a capacity of several cars of steam coal, and so constructed as fo run the coal toward Ihe boiler, has been erected, over which a track is constructed and the coal cars, with apparatus for dumping from the bottom, are easily un loaded, thus saving a great deal of bard nianuel labor. The new scrap dock between the boiler house and the otlice of the lumber yard is a valuable and convenient addition, the ground having been covered with two or three inches of crushed rock. In the lumber yard Superintendent1 Ha i rd has recently caused thirteen cars of crushed rock to be spread upon the ground, covering the en lire yard. This is not only a great lire protection, but furnishes a solid lloor for the men to walk on and in rainy weal tier keeps the men out of the mud, which I hey very much appreciate. In the kiln-diyed lumber shed the reporter saw piles of ma hogany lumber worth $208 per 1,(100 feet, cherry worth $90 and poplar, fir, quarter-sawed woods of various kinds used in coach building. There were various other Im provements not mentioned above which have been made since Mr. Haird look charge of the shops a few years ago. The storm water sewers have been cleaned out, greatly increasing (heir capacity, and Ihe entire area of the interior has greatly improved under his management. The old board fence from Ihe first gale northward has been replaced with a neat woven wire fence of sufficient height to keep trespassers off the company's property. Annexed to Omaha. Plat I -mouth has annexed Oma ha without the knowledge or con sent of our people. The Pollock- hull' wagon bridge over the Plalte river did it. It's a good thing for both cities, and as it is a loll bridge it will probably paj; a handsome dividend to the own ers, whose enterprise is to be commended. The bridge gives" a through t Kansas City on the west side of the Missouri river, and a good roads associa tion has been organized to put it in good condition and keep it so. This road will be much traveled by automobiles. Omaha Examiner. UNION THMHNG MEET ING AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH One FLED WITH OVERCOAT BE LONGING TO ANOTHER Hearing Before Grand Jury. From Friday' Dally. W. J. Slreight and C. S. John son went to Olenwood today to testify before the grand jury in a hearing in which Alex Hunter is charged with Hie murder of John Wagner. Wagner's dead body was found on Ihe morning of October l.r under a trestle a mile or ho this side of Pacific Junc tion. Mr. Johnson was among the first to view the remains after tho discovery by the crew of No. 4, while Mr. Slreight prepared the body for burial. The circum stances surrounding Ihe death seemed to point to murder, and Hunter was the last person seen in Wagner's company before his dead body was discovered under Iho trestle. The grand jury of Mills county has been in session for several days and Mr. Slreight has re ceived several 'phone messages requesting his presence before the jury, but. could not spare the lime to go until (his morning Hunter will be defended by a strong firm of criminal lawyers, Messrs. (Seining & (Senung having taking his case. They will make a strong light for their client, and Ihe evidence being wholly eir cumslantial, there is abundant opportunity to create doubt in the minds of the jury. The fact that Hunter lied when .some of Ihe Mills' county olllcers were look iug for him may lie urged as Ihe act of a guilty man and may be against him in the eyes of (he jury. Undergoes Operation. Mrs. John Albert and her daughter, Emma, went to Omaha yesterday, where Miss Albert entered Inimanuel hospital, ex peeling to undergo an operation today for some lune trouble of one of her legs. Mr. Albert, her father, went to Omaha this morn iug to be present when Ihe opera tion was performed. You've got Mi L 3 i ,7" . ' J T'J a good thing, Uncle Hold on to it! So have we some mighty good things for Thanksgiving "dressing." Part of the pleasure of the great National feast day is in feeling right, in dressing your body to harmonize with the hale and hearty atmosphere of the day. You'll look right and you'll have real reason to be thankful if you wear our "Quality Clothes" rightly priced from $20 to $10. Spruce up! Dress up! We Close at Noon on Thanksgiving C. E. Wescolf s Sons Thief Captured at Pacific Junction and Coat Recovered and He Is Given a Swift Kick. Saturday night David King, who is been roustabout a I, Ihe Perkins (del fur the past week, suddenly isappcurrd, taking with him a 8 50 overcoat belonging to Orval Kint, a boarder of (be house. I'he thief took the coat from a rack Hook in Hie ouice wiuie Mr. Kinlz sal, reading a paper, not wenly feet, away, and walked past him and boarded No. 14 for I'a- cilic Junction. A few minutes afler be left the office Mr. Kintz went to take his coat to his room and discovered it was missing. He, with I'd Drat- ner, hastened to the Murlinglon station ami 'phoned to Pacific Tunc) ion, giving a description of e man, as well as the coat, and Mr. Ream, a Durlinglon detective, began search for King at once and soon found him strutting through the wailing room of the station with Ihe coat on his arm. King was seized and the coat, which he claimed he had purchas ed in Omaha, was taken from him. In order to make sure of the man Ihe detective 'phoned for a de scription of Ihe property in Ihe pockets, which Mr. Kinlz furnish ed and the property was found in e pockets as described. It has developed since (hat dur ing the afternoon Saturday King look a good pair of shoes worth $:L50 from the hotel and sold them to a second-hand dealer for $1. King came to Platlsnioulh about a week ago and never U.fld where he was from, only saving that his home was where he took his hat off. John Cory, proprietor of (he 'crkins, gave him a job and he was an excellent worker and got along line until Friday, when he asked his employer for if I with which to get a shave and some things at the store, but he was noticed to be drinking shortly nf- er. A few minutes before he left the office with the coat he sal In a chair and appeared to be asleep, but it seems he was only acting the possum uulil the proper moment o lake the overcoat. In District Court. Orders and decrees were enter ed last week by Judge lravis in important litigation pending in the district court as follows: In Hie case of Haskell vs. Davis, a suit to timet title wherein Ihe Wetencanip block was involved. Decree was entered for plaintiff. In the case of Parmcle vs Itoedeker, to quiet title (o real estate near Louisville, A. L. Tit was appointed guardian adlitem for the minor heirs and J. M l.evtla was appointed referee to file a report wit bin (en days. In the case of Reynolds vs. Kolircll, a suit for rent, the de fault of defendant was entered and decree as prayed. Forbes vs. Williams, a suit lo iiuiel title, default of defendants were entered ami decree for plaintiff. A 53 Sundays This Year. man in this town who is up 'ALWAYS, THE KOKE OF SATISFACTION" in mat Denial ics, ami wtio has a nose for Ihe unusual, calls atten tion lo the fact (hat (here will be an extra Sunday, (his year, mak ing 53 in ttll for Ihe first day in Ihe year was on a Sunday and the last day of Ihe year will he on a Sunday. This is Ihe only year in which (he people now living on earth will be able to go to church 511 Sundays 111 a year, for this freak of (he calendar will not oc cur again short of I Oil years. of the Most Interesting Meetings Ever eHId in the City. Last evening at Ihe Christian church the union meeting of the Christian Endeavor of the Chris tian church ami the Endeavor of the Presbyterian church was a de cided success, both in attendance ami the interest manifested at the meeting. This beiu ga Thanks giving service, there was much in terest on that account. The sub ject was, "Echo of Peace and Mlcssings." The addresses were in line of that theme. The meet ing was opened by the singing of "Let the Lower Lights He Burn ing," by the society; afler which Ihe invocation was pronounced by Thomas Wiles of Ihe Christian church, followed by a duel by Mr. ami Mrs. (1. V. Livingston. The lirsl speaker was Thomas Wiles, who spoke on the subject of the "Church Militant." In handling his subject Mr. Wiles took ui) the history of the church, beginning at the first of (Senesis, and fol lowing the mosti mporlant events down to the present, lime, showing the trials which the early church had lo pass through and the strength which hail been gathered by Ihe opposition which had been encountered in the ages. He also showed Hit; condition of the church in general for the con tinued lighting for the principal for which it stands. C. A. llawls followed Willi the subject, "Today's Optoinisni," and in the course of his lalk said that it bad always been his nature to look on the bright sjde of every sunjcei; even vvlien reverses came he had not spent his time grieving over spilled milk, but had gone on trying lo make the best out, of the opportunities as they were presented lo him. He cited history to prove that the world was growing belter and the con ditions that existed during the limes past, both as Ihe history of Ihe people and as compared with the conditions which obtain now, all conclusive that we live in a more enlightened age than at any lime in t he past. County Attorney C. H. Taylor followed with the subject of "A Heller Age," and said, as the speaker preceding him had pretty well proven the assertion of his proposition. that lie would take up Ihe matter in the light of church history. He began at the time of Nero and, following Ihe history of the church, showed its advance ment and the power which it was vvejlding for good and its effect on the betterment of society and its iniluence upon the making of bet ter laws. Miss Mathilda Vallery then favored the meeting with one of ner cnarming solos, vvincn was a very pleasing feature of the even ing's entertainment and was en joyed by all present. C. C. Hudson followed on the subject, "Fullness "of Harvest," showing Ihe results of Ihep hint ing of the seeds of civilization in past ages lo reap Ihe present times; also Ihe planting of the seeds of Christianity by Ihe Master some nineteen hundred years ago, ami (lie Christian church starting with but a hand ful of members and little in iluence at the end of the first century, resulting in the condi tions of Ihe church and its world wide iniluence at this day, and Ihe age in winch we live, the harvest results of Ihe seeds sown in (he days when Ihe Savior was on earth. Tlie last speaker was Phil Rhil, who talked lo the subject of "Peace on Faith," and showed Ihal while wars prevail that a bet ter condition was obtaining as the years went by. He cited Ihe inler v'ention of the United Stales in Ihe person of ex-President Roosevelt, when he offered Ihe good services of this country lo settle the dif ficulties at the lime of Ihe Russian-Japanese war, and the re sult of thai offer as consumated in the treaty of peace which ef fected al Portsmouth, N. II., and (he elTorls of (his country (0 keep on friendly terms with all nations. THANKSGIVING DAY Thursday, November 30th MENU . Fish Potatoes Celery Siveet Potatoes Salad Olives . Pickles Cranberry Sauce Oranges Grapes Nuts Everything but the Turkey at this store Corner. Sixth and Main St. Jio, ones - BtLLtj-' SURPRISED ON HER Wm BIRTHDAY Miss Ola Kaffenberger Meets Many Frlend3 on Her Return From School at Plattsmouth. Last evening a very large crowd gathered at the Kaffenberger home lo a surprise party for Miss Ola. it being her sixteenLi birthday. Miss Ola, who attends the Platls nioulh High school, was not brought home until after the merry crowd had gathered; but you never can tell who might be on Ihe line, for Miss Ola had heard what her inolher said when talking to a neighbor over the telephone in regard to the com ing social event, although she was al Platlsnioulh and the parly her mother was talking to was four miles west of there. However, this did not dampen the evening's pleasure, for all was merry until a very late hour. Many enjoyable games were played and some splendid music furnished by Miss Mayme Heil. Miss Ola re ceived many beautiful presents. Al niidnight a two-course lunch con was served by Mr. and Mrs. Wehrbein, Mr. and Mrs. KafTen berger and daughters, Foldye and ("JImIvs. . Those who participated in this enjoyable occasion were: Misses Mayme and Adelaide. Heil, Helen and Emma Ducchler, Vera Propsl, Pheme Richardson, Viola Decker, Mattie Larson, Lornie Meisinger, Luealla and Mabel Kaffenberger, Mildred Snyder, Clara Parkening, Edith Haumgart, Mina and Ola Kaffenberger; Messrs. Wayne and Dwight Propst, Louie Haumgart, Mike and August Ka(Tenbenrcr. j Rudolph Heil, Hugo Meisinger, I Earl Heeker, Emil and John Park ening, Fred ami John Duechler, I'.ryan Snvder, Sam Rhoden and i John Kaffenberger. All departed at a late hour, declaring they had had a very nice time and wishing Miss Ola many more such happy birthdays. Has His Eye on Office. II. 0. Wellenseik of Syracuse has given up the banking business and gone on the farm, whero he can recoup his health and have plenty of time, between crops, to look after bis law practice and groom himself for county at torney next year. Mr. Wellenseik says that as long as the other Syracuse statesmen get into the political game he sees no reason why he should not shove his caster into the arena and get his feet damp with I eh political dew. He has no desire to go to the legislature, but simply lo put his feet damp with the political dew" I rid court room anil prosecute the criminal and law digressors. Nebraska City News. " John Hennings of near Louis ville visited his Plattsmouth friends for Ihe day, having come down on No. 4 Hi is morning. Box Social and Program. Reserve Saturday evening, De cember '. for the box social ami program at the Pleasant Ridge school, better known as the Deck er sell-it.!, District II, eight miles west of Plattsmouth. Mallie Lar son, Teacher. 2lvv-3td. Rosenorans A Sons Remove. Rosencrans & Sons have re moved their real estate otlice to the room the first door south of the new postofllce building in the Krug building. They will have line ouarlers when I hey get matters thoroughly arranged, and invite their friends lo drop in ami see I hem. Their new offices are much more centrally located and con venier.l for Iheir business. "P. &. D." tho new oo cigar, made in Platlsnioulh. Try one. Our aim is to please and satisfy our cus tomers, by giving them value for money received. Our unlimited variety of patterns and styles of cloth ing will enable you to choose something along conserva tive lines, or if you are a fancier of freakish ideas we are here to obey your commands. Take a half hour off and drop around to look over our line of Men's Clothing and Furnishing Goods. "Let us Overcoat you for Winter and save you money." WM. HOLLY 3 Plattsmouth, Neb. MEN'S OUTFITTER EXE