Neb Stale Historical
3omn
VOLUME XXXI.
PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1912.
NO. 24.
BARl L KIMl, FORMER PUIIIS-
Mil 'ill 10 HUH FOR MAYOR
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Friends at Belle Fourche, South Dakota, Secure Large Petition for
HU Candidacy and His Election Assured Mr. Kirkham Was
Former Publisher of the Plattsmouth Journal.
The last issue of the Northwest
Post, published at Belle Fourche,
South Dakota, comes to us with a
long article announcing the can
didacy of H. L. Kirkham for mayor
of that city, by petition, said
petition being so extensively sign
ed by many of the leading busi
ness men and citizens of Belle
Fourche that Mr. Kirkham could
not consistently refuse. "Bart"
was reared in Plattsmouth, where
he possesses many friends, in
cluding the Journal force, who
would delight in an opportunity to
vote for him, and who hope he
will be triumphantly elected. Mr.
Kirkham is one of the publishers
of the Southwest Post, while
Rush Fellows is his partner, and
under his own signature, Hush
has the following to say in refer
ence to Bart's candidacy:
. "Before going into the platform
matter I desire to say something
about Mr. Kirkham's past career,
lie was born in the city of Platts
mouth, Nebraska, March 28, 1870,
the same year that I arrived there
from Michigan as a journeyman
printer. lie received his early
education in the schools of that
city, but at the age of li entered
the olllce of the Plattsmouth
TIE FLOOD SITUATION
IN THIS PART OF STATE
Railroad Men Expect Break With
in the Next Twenty
four Hours.
From Tuesday's Dally.
The ' Burlington reports that
the melting in the daytime and
freezing at night may save the
situation. AI Ashland there are
inonsl"r slabs of ice left on the
lowlands within Ihe cily limits,!
the water having run out from,
under them during the daytime1
thaw. If the Burlington has
serious Irouhle on its Omaha
Lincoln line Ihe trains can be run
over the through line from
Plallsmoulh lo Ashland and
thence to Lincoln.
Floods are expected in the
famous Pappio bottoms, for Ihe
Hats are already vast lakes.
covered with a Ihin coaling of
ice and snow. The Big Pappio is
climbing steadily toward the crest
of its banks and the immense
sheets of ice are breaking and
floating away with a racket to
rival the Niagara. It is feared
Ihat Ibis usually placid stream
will duplicate its performance of
a few years ago and attain n
width of a couple of miles. The
farmers fear thai Ihe spring
planting on this land will be ter
ribly delayed or, perhaps, abso
lutely prevented. Such a flood
would endanger Ihe old Union
Pacific line near Papillion.
Most of the roads are ready for
any emergency, with dynamite on
hand to break Ihe gorges ami
sandbags and rocks lo protect
trackage and bridges.
The river at Omaha rose .2 of a
foot in Ihe past Iwenly-four
hours, and stood this morning at
10.2 feet above low water mark.
The flood slage here is nineteen
feel, so that the river is now near
ly nine feet, below flood slage.
At Kansas City the flood slage
is twenty-one feet, and Ihe river
is now at 1 i.8, having raised .8 of
a fool in twenty-four hours. At
Plallsmoulh Ihe raise was .3 of a
fool, at Blair .5 of a fool, and al
Sioux City .3 or a fool. At Kan
sas City and St. Louis Ihe water is
within six feel of Hood slage, and
Ihe water has not fairly started
as yet from the upper valleys.
Burlington Traveling Engineer
F. R. Wbillaker relumed from
Omaha on Ihe morning I rain to
day, where he has been looking
after company business for a
lime.
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Daily Journal and there learned
his trade. Years later he pur
chased the plant and with a part
ner made good in the business and
made a little money. My acquaint
ance with him was not formed un
til the spring of 1898, when with
my family I came back to Platts
mouth after an absence of
eighteen years, and started the
Daily Post in opposition to Mr.
Kirkham, who was still running
the Daily Journal. Later on,
about twelve years ago, he sold
his paper and for a few weeks was
idle. Soon after I sold my daily
plant, which I was shortly com
polled to take back by foreclosure
of mortgage which I held, but in
the meantime the life of the daily
had been "killed" and I continued
the paper as a weekly, taking Mr.
Kirkham in as a working partner,
and wo continued the business in
that way until we came to Belle
Fourche in 1902.
"Arriving here we were in a new
field and among si ranters, and
yet our success has been far br
yond our expectations, and those
who were, here when we arrived
know that we had no easy sled
ding for the first few years, but
we are still in business and he is
now an equal partner."
Possesses Valuable Relic.
Fred ltainge is the possessor o
a valuable relic ol l tie civil war
days, it being a copy of the New-
York Herald of the date of Apri
IS,- 18S5, th day following the
assassination of President Lin
coln. The paper was then owner
and edited by James (Jordon ien
net I and had been a newspaper for
thirty years. The front -page has
every column draped in black, the
first column containing a (lis
palch from Secretary of War
Slanlon to Major Oeneral Dix at,
New York, dated Washington
April IT), 1:30 a. in., and begin
thus: "This evening about 9:30
o'clock, at, Ford's theater, the
president, while silting in his
private box with Mrs. Lincoln
Mrs. Harris ami Major Rathburn
was shot, by an assassian, who
suddenly entered the box and ap
proached behind the president."
The paper also contains an ac
count of an attack on Secretary
Seward earlier in the evening with
a dagger, and Ihe assassin use
the same latin words shouted af
ler (he shooling of the president
being Ihe motto of Ihe state of
Virginia, "Sic Semper Tyrannis."
The paper is full of news from
the front concerning llie armies
of Ihe United Stales. Mr. Ramgt
prizes Ihe relic very highly.
Looking on the Rosy Side.
With Ihe melting of Ihe most
bountiful supply of snow this
slate has had in many years past
farmers are beginning lo make
plans for Ihe coining season
With Ihe doctrine of belter seed
corn suit eciioing in their ears
and wilh assurances that they
must proceed systematically in
their work, if they would be sue
cessful, most of the ruralisls are
palling themselves on the bac
for Ihe more material blessings
I hey have received from nature
Plenty of rain later on, and a like
amount of sunshine, tempered
just enough lo' bring out all the
best there is in the soil, will work
wonders here in Nebraska and
will make up for some of the
laxities of overworked or un
systematic, farmers. The years
however, when nature is more re
ticcnl in lavishing her blessings
upon the stale brings home the
full effect of modern tillage cam
paigns. Then people are apt to
listen with both ears lo what the
professors are saying'. Lincoln
News.
W.J. I nomas of ( Imaha, mem
her of Ihe 1912 executive slalT foi
the Reliance Life Insurance com
puny of Pittsburg. Pa., is in Hi
It 1 Mi
ciiy looKing nner iiiisines lor a
short lime.
How to Kill Your Town.
Buy from peddlers as much and
s often as possible.
Denounce your merchants be
cause they make a profit on their
goods.
(ilory in the downfall of a man
who nas done mucn to jjuuu up
your town.
Make your town out a bad place
and knock it every chance you get.
Refuse to unite in any scheme
for the betterment of the ma
terial interests of the people.
Tell your merchants that you
an buy goods a great deal cheap-
r in some other town and charge
hern with exortion. If a slrang-
r comes to your town tell him
verything is overdone, and pre
dict a general crash in the near
future.
Patronize outside newspapers
to the exclusion of your own and
then denounce yours for not be
ing as large and as cheap as the
ily papers.
If you are a merchant don't ad
ertise in the home paper, 1. .1
ompel the editor to go rise-
where foi advertisements and
howl like a sore-head becauso he
oes so. Buy a rubber stamp and
use il. it may save you a lew
dimes and make your letterheads
and wrapper look as though you
,vere doing business in a one-
horse town.
If you or" a farmer, curse th':
lace where you trade as the
meanest on arin. laiK .'us over
o vour neighbors and tell them
the men a iv robbers and thieves
I will make your properl lunch
ess valuable: but you don't cure.
Hold Annual Meeting.
From Tuesday's Dally.
The annual meeting of the
Presbyterian church was held last
veninir, when very satisfactory
reports were made by the sec
retaries of the different branches
of the church work. Among the
societies reporting were the
Ladies' Aid, Ladies' Missionary
ud Ladies' Auxiliary all of which
-bowed a prosperous condition of
the work in hand. Officers were
elecled as follows for the present
year: James Robertson, treas
urer; Henry Zuckweiller and
James Robertson, elders for three
years; (. L. Farley and John
Bauer, jr., trustees for three
years. The officers of Ihe Sun
day school were re-elected with
the exception of assistant super
intendent, lo which position
James Robertson was elected.
C. M. Cherry Here.
From Tuesday's Dally.
C. M, Cherry of Weeping Wa
ter, one of Ihe rock-ribbed demo
crats of Ihe county, was a Platts
mouth visitor today and paid the
Journal editor a pleasant call
Mr. Cherry is an ex-soldier who
fought for the preservation of the
Union from '02 lo '05, and was
one of the men who helped to
save the day of Shiloh and carries
a rebel bullet in his hip today as
a memento of his valor at that
lime.
High Water Again Troubles.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Mont Slreight, express mes
senger, going east on No. 4 this
morning, slated that the water
was up Ihe rails along the Papio
The bridge gang have been work
ing al. this portion of track and
have cut a hole in the grade and
put in a bridge to drain Ihe water
off above the track, but Ihe great
amount of snow melting yester
day was too much for Ihe open
ings lo carry off.
Fashion Plate Artist.
J. F. Rys, a former Platts
mouth boy, who had a taste for
drawing in his school days, is now
making good in a lucrative posi
lion as a fashion plate artist in
Chicago. J. F. Rys lives at 1751
Armetage avenue, Chicago, where
he has a nice home. Roy Holly
had in Ins possession yesterday
half a dozen samples of his work,
drawn and painted on ordinary
pasteboard, which so much re
semnicu uie lasinon plates seen
in Ihe leading style journals of
the country that one would think
he was in sure enough artist's
sludio.
Tom Smith, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. Tom
.moiIIi, al Rock Bluffs Tor two
months, departed for Lincoln, Il
linois, yesterday nflernnon, where
he is farming wilh his brnlher-in
law, Mr. Marquette.
THE SECOND CONGER
T
Will Be Qlven at the Parmele
, Theater Tuesday Night,
April 16.
Another musical treat is in
storf for our people. The mem
bers of Ihe Burlington band, at
their regular meeting Tuesday
night, made arrangements for
the second of a series of con
certs to occur at the Parmele
theater on Tuesday night, April
10. ; These entertainments are
given, as all have been informed,
Lir Ihe purpose of purchasing
new; uniforms for the boys. In
connection with the program
furnished by the band, between
intermission, a number of mov
ing pictures by the Majestic
theater manager will be shown.
And all for the low admission of
25 cents.
Tie Burlington band is already
one of the finest musical or
ganizations in the state, and one
that every citizen of Plattsmouth
should be proud of, and in order
Ihat our boys should make thu
proper showing with other bands
I hey should be appropriately uni
formed, and they must have some
financial aid in order to secure
them. While citizens of other
towns go down in their pockets to
secure uniforms for I heir bands,
our boys do not feel like asking
our people lo do likewise, and
have simply hit upon the concert
plan, where everyone could give
their til tie mile, and he well paid
in a good musical entertainment.
Professor Schuloff and the
members of his band have made
rapid strides during the winter
months and our people will be
amazed lo note (he advancement
made. The pride of any city or
town is a line musical organi.a-
tionvand not only that, but such
nil up-lo-dale organization as the
Biirlinglon band is a bit.' adver
tisement for Plallsmoulh. Every
one can allonl to purchase a
ticket lo I his concert, even if I hey
cannot attend, and show lo the
boys that I hey appreciate their
efforts lo build up a musical or-
inization I hat cannot be excelled
m Ihe west, .vow, get ready for
the concert and let nothing inter
fere with your atendance on Tues
day nighl, April 10.
E'eaautlful Signs Going Up.
Frank Oobelman, Ihe artistic
sign painter, has recently put up
some line jobs of this sort. Miss
Mers, the Sixth street milliner.,
has just had a beautilul gill let
tered sign erected ove? ilu en
trance to her new establishment.
Lorenz Brothers, dealers in groc
eries and meats, also have one of
Mr. Oobelman's handsome gilt
lettered signs suspended over the
entrance to (heir store. V. Vejva
do, Ihe Sixth street tailor, also
has decorated Ihe front of his
store and shop wilh a sign which
for beauty and neatness is a
credit to that portion of Ihe city.
This popular artist has just
completed a large sign for Sinilh
& Mauzy, Ihe druggists, which
was erected Monday. This is one
of the most attractive signs in
Ihe city, being twenly-lwo feet
long and about two feel, in width,
wilh imported raised gilt letters,
which stand out prominently to
view. Mr. Oobelman has also
just completed a large double
sign for Nelson, Jean & Co., which
will be suspended in front of
I heir place of business al once,
at Ihe elecalor al Ihe Missouri
Pacific depot.
Par ken ing-Peterson.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Al. the residence of Ihe bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson,
of Ralston. Neb., tomorrow at
high noon -will occur the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss
Flhel Peterson, lo Mr. Otto II
Parkening, son of our esteemed
leiiow citizen, Chris I'arkening
and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Parken
ing and son, John, and daughter,
Miss Clara, departed for Omaha
this afternoon lo be present at
the wedding tomorrow. John
Parkening will be best, man for
his brother. Otto II. I'arkening
holds a fine position wilh the
Western Union and he and his
charming bride w ill lake up I heir
residence in Omaha.
BY BURLINGTON BAND
COUNTY JUDGE ALLEH J. BEESOII
SURPRISED Oil FORTIETH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Beeson Surprises Judge by Inviting the Members of the Cass
County Bar to the Beeson Home Where a Splendid Five-Course
Dinner Awaited the Them Judge Presented With Chair.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Judge A. J. Beeson completed
forty years of his earthly career
yesterday, but he was never more
completely surprised in this long
and eventful period than last
evening, when on arriving at his
home about (1 o'clock he found
fourteen husky members of the
legal profesh all anxious to have
a case heard at once. The Judge
invited the "gentlemen with end
less tongues" into his parlor, and
he was again surprised, on peep
ing into the dining room, to find
a banquet table spread ami covers
laid for twenty and the same ad
orned with shining silverware and
cut (lowers. It then dawned on
the Judge that he had been the
victim of a surprise party which
had been planned and carried out
by his good wife lo perfection.
After a few minutes' conversation
the hostess invited the Judge and
his brother lawyers to the dining
room and the festal board was
soon surrounded by a congenial
company of gentlemen.
Mrs. Beeson was assisted by
Mrs. 1). O. Dwyer and Mrs. F. C.
Hill, both in serving and enter
tainment. An elegant live-course
dinner was served, the first
course being oyster Cocktail, and
Ihe finale ice cream and cake ami
coll'ee. At Ihe close of the dinner
hour Hon. R. B. Windham asked
the attention of the banqueters
for a moment, as he desired to
make a few remarks, and took oc
casion to thank Mrs. Jleesou- for
her splendid hospitality and her
kind thought fulness in having Ihe
members of Hie Cass county bar
present to assist in celebrating
e Judge's birthday. He thanked
Mrs. Beeson for thus bringing-
e bar together and alTording an
opportunity for the members lo
touch elbows in a common pur
pose. Mr. Windham then re-
erred to the lime when he and
Judge Beeson were boys together,
he first having met the Judge
about thirty-two years ago. lie
referred to Judge. Beesou's de-
DEATH AT THE AGE
Mrs. Thomas an Invalid for Fif
teen Years and a Great
Sufferer.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Mrs. Frances Thomas, Ihe aged
mother of Mrs. Anderson Davis,
of near Fight Mile drove, died at
Ihe home of her daughter, Mrs.
Davis, last nighl. Mrs. Thomas
has been an invalid for fifteen
years and a great .sufferer from
rheumatism.
Frances W iles was born near
Laporle, Indiana, March 1(5, 1821,
being past HI years of age at Ihe
lime of her death. When she was
quite young her parents moved
lo Andrew counly, Missouri, where
al nboul Hit1 age of 1H she was
married lo Fdward Ncely. Four
children were born lo lliem, only
one of whom survives, namely,
Mrs. Susanna Davis, wife of An
derson Davis of this county. Mr.
Neely died after s'lune years, and
later, about Ihirly-llve years ago,
the subject of this sketch was
again married, this lime to
Abraham Thomas of Mills coun
ly, Iowa. No children were born
lo Mr. and Mrs. Thomas ami
about fifteen years ago Mr.
Thomas died, leaving Mrs. 'Phoni
es, who was then an invalid, quite
alone, when she came to Cass
counly lo make her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Davis.
Mrs. Thomas leaves surviving
her one brother, Captain Isaac
Wiles, and two sisters, Mrs.
Rachel Adams and Mrs. Rebecca
Akeson. all of Ibis counly. In her
early life Mrs. Thomas was a
member of the Bapl ist church, but
of lale years she held her mem
bership in Ihe United Brelhern
F NINETY-ONE YEARS
ceased father and paid him a
tribute of being one of the ablest
members of the Cass county bar.
Mr. Windham then presented the
Judge, on behalf of the Cass
county bar, a flue leather up
holstered rocker.
Judge Beeson responded in a
neat speech, acknowledging his
complete and very agreeable sur
prise in having his brother law
yers with him. lie had under
stood that Ihe children were to
give a little birthday dinner, but
Ihe pleasure of having the bar to
dine with him had not been an
ticipated. He then thanked his
wife for making the occasion
memorable and paid a tribute lo
the wives and mothers of (ho
members of the bar. In a
hutnerous vein the Judge related
bow one member of Ihe bar had
taken him for a walk about i p.
in. down toward Ihe river, but ho
finally excused himself ami was
just on the point of starting homo
al a (iiiarter lo six, when another
member "paced him around I lit)
poslollice block and lo Mr. Wind
ham's olllce" on a pretext Ihat
there were some important papers
there he should inspect. While,
he was thus enlerlained his
brothers had cliu'ibed I lie hill ano"
taken possession of his home.
After dinner the bar amused
themselves and Ihe Judge by
smoking, playing cards ami spin
ning "yarns" until a late hour,"
when Ihey adjourned, wishing Ihe .
Judge forty more years of use
fulness. '
Regrets were 'phoned by J. II.
Ilalileman, W. 0. Ramsey -ami
others. Letters of regret wero
read fi 'mil Judge J, L. Moot ami
Judge B. S. Ramsey.
Those present were: Charles
S. Aldrich, Flmwood; C. I',. Tefft,
Weeping Water; M. Archer, R. U.
Windham, D. O. Dwyer, C. A.
Rawls, A. L. Titbl, M. S.. Briggs,
J. M. Leyda, Thomas Walling, V.
A. Robertson. J. K. Douglass, N.
C. Abbott and Clerk of the Court.
James Robertson.
church ami was a consistent
member of this organization for
many years. The- funeral services
will be held Friday at 12 o'clock
iioon al Ihe resilience of Mr.
Davis, a few miles west of Murray.
Here From Nehawka.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Henry Schoemaker, from near
Nehawka, was in the city a few
hours Ihis morning, en route
home from Sonlh Omaha, where
he had been wilh a car of cattle,
which were on the market yester
day. Mr. Schoemaker came down
from Ihe city yesterday evening
and remained over nighl ami whs
a pleasant caller at Ihe Journal
olllce this morning, lie says lie
mr with a very good market,
owing lo I he fact Ihat he had
good slulf, bill never experienced
such a slow market. There wns
a vast amount of slock placed on
sale Ihat looked as though they
had passed a very hard w inter and
were nothing buf hide ami bones,
ami of course brought a very low
price.
Departs for Arkansas.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Mrs. L. Schullz departed fop
Monlicello, Arkansas, yesterday
evening on No. 2. Mr. Schullz
went a month or more ago wilh
Iheir car of farming implements
and household goods, and has
been pleased wilh his new home
and Ihe prospect for a good crop
this season.
Gray Taken to Penitentiary.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Harry Cray, the confessed
burglar of Ihe Nehawka depot,
who was arraigned before Judgo
Travis and received senlence
some days ago, was taken lo (ho
penitentiary this morning by
Sheriff Quinlon lo begin his sen
lence al hard labor.
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