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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1912)
1C DC DC DOC 3C DC oc DC 3P The Plattsmouth Garage Co. -School Dresses- for Misses and Children! IE WARGA &. CECIL, Proprietors L Ready for Business! . n Our Large Fall Line Just Arrived Practical Education One of the Keynotes of Modern Progress and All Should Catch On. FROM! Corner Sixth and Vine Streets, Plattsmouth, Nebraska ran MR NO DWe want you all to feel that we are going to look after the emergency end of your car's needs. Don't worry if you break down. Our "Service Department" will HpUvpr vmi SunnlipQ nnrl Tirpi nuifklv nnrl prnrmmipnllv Fvprvthind wp fipll you will be absolutely guaranteed. The Plattsmouth Garage Company A SQUARE DEAL TO ALL! WARGA & CECIL, Proprietors Agent for the Inter-State Automobiles. PRESTOLITE AGENCY VERY INTERESTING LETTER FROM SOU TO MOTHER Bruce Rosencrans Gives Par ticulars of Great Disaster at Ocean Park. From Tuexday'H Dnlly. Ocean Park, Sept. 4, 1912.-- My Dear Mother: I received your big, long letter ft few days ago uml another one of the .same brand this morning, and although I am so muddled up at prcHent, I will try and write you a short letter that will answer tho purpose until I have more time. Suppose hy this time you have read the accounts of the ter rible fire we had here last night seven Mocks burned, including the new J? 1,000,000 pier and $350, 000 dance hall. There isn't enough left of Ocean Park to resemble a flyspeck on a map. I have seen but few fires in my time, the largest the Heardslee furniture store in Klmwood, and have often thought I'd like to see a real one. Well, I did last, night for sure. Fire broke out'on the big pier, and as everything is like paper,' not having had a rain since last! May, it leaped from building to building, taking brick, stone and frame like oil. 1 think I shall write the Journal a letter tonight and you can read it. The thing was something awful. I was down on the ocean front and saw the big dance hall, the finest in the west, catch lire, anil in seven minutes by my watch it was the prettiest. sight and still the most terrible one could con ceive of. Saw with my own eyes seven men on the end of the pier, that reaches out n quarter of mile over the water, their way cut off by the lire ami wailing until it got so hot that, they had to jump into the ocean. I say a young man's clothes catch (Ire when n sheet of fire swept out of a win dow over him and he jumped, a ball of fire, into the water. A terrific wind was blowing, and breakers were running so high that it was hard work for the life guards to get a boat to them. Once the boat stood on end and was overturned by n wave, and one man was drowned before help reached him. I helped carry one of them up the beach into a house and we worked over him for twen ty minutes until he came to. There are some 10,000 people living along the ocean front, and all packed up and moved their be longings right to the water's edge, before they could cover I hem up with sand, many had their cloth ing burned by flying embers. The sights and all were awful to look at, and the cries of women and children who had been driven from their homes with nothing left but the clothes they had on their backs. The fire ate its way up our street, Pier avenue, within three or four doors of my office. Our stu(T,vns all carried out, but you know what fire, water and handling will do to furniture. My ofllce oufit is all shot to h 1, broken up and battered out of fchapc, but I'm happy when I think of the hundreds (800) made homeless and over $3,000,000 loss of properly, that mine was only fifty. Look at this: Loss, $3,000,000. One dead, 15 missing, 75 In jured, 35 rescued. Total refugees, 1,500. Buildings destroyed, 225. Fire fighters, 700, from all towns within sixteen miles. Fire burned from 4:30 till midnight. Cause, one lit He cigarette. Nearly all of the J.os Angeles lire department came down, and (host! auto wagons can run some. The water supply was on the "bum," I mean the pressure, and the streams were unable to reach above the first story of-lhe build ings. Several buildings were blown up to keep the (lames from spreading, and it happened that I was on lop of an ollice building several blocks away and heard an awful explosion and saw a fifty gallon gasoline lank go hundreds of feet into the air, until it re sembled a nail keg and lighting just back of our ollice as fiat as a piece of sheet iron. All gas tanks were emptied and the town was without light for a lime, and no gas for cooking pur poses for twenty-four hours. All the eating places were burned and it was either walk to Venice and wait your turn for a handout or starve. Thank the T.ord, I have heed eating at Mrs. Mowery's. She having no lire for some time, had to heat our water for coffee over an oil lamp. Speaking of the San Francisco fire, we had one on a small scale all right. Things look bad around here for true. Mother, it is impossible to put on paper and picture the thing as bad as it was. Men that were wealthy yesterday are broke flat today. Millionaire Fra.er lost everything and made the remark tonight at the Chamber of Com merce, "I'm no belter at the grocery than the Mexicans out here on the car tracks." I saw a woman this morning that had a fine big home burned to the ground, saving nothing but her two children, and heard her say, "My (iod, T have lost everything; all I have left is these two little girls, what clothes we have on our backs and $50 in cash." And so it went, peace be to her ashes. T intended sending you a tele gram, but they were burned out also and couldn't do it without go ing to Los Angeles, and I was too busy to do that, but you knew I was all right or you would have heard something. We only lived a few blocks from where the fire happened, and you may vest assurred that we packed things in a hurry around our house. Chips of fire as big as your hat flew over our house and n good many of Ihetn happened to light on us at that. We car ried our stuff to the water front and said good afternoon to the whole cheese, but we moved back the same evening and everything is O. K. We are loo busy around the dump adjusting insurance to write the Journal a letter as I wanted to, but you might have dad give a reporter a few notes of this letter and have him write it, as there are a lot of Plattsmouth people who would be glad to read about the thing, having been here, and wondering, how the deal looks. We are paying something like $10,000 in claims today in our company alone. Lovingly yours, Bruce. Tired of Life. From TuPNdny'B Dally. A special from Alliance, Neb., under dale of September y, gives the following in reference to the suicide of a former lady teacher of Weeping Water: Elsie Daley, 25, teacher in the Box Butte county schools, killed herself Sat urday night in a hotel here by inhaling fumes of chloroform. She left a letter to her parents at Weeping Water explaining that she was tired of the world and asking their forgiveness. 0 CELEBRATES HIS SEVENTY- From Tuesday's Dally. Our friend, J. A. Walker, of Murray, came up yesterday after noon to attend the funeral of the late Canon II. Burgess, and was a pleasant visitor at the Journal headquarters. In our conversa tion Mr. Walker chanced to re mark that today Tuesday, Sep tember 10 was his 7ith anniver sary, and considerably over half that time has been spent right here in Cass county. Our old friend is always genial and in a happy mood when not ailing, and yesterday he was feeling pretty good. There are but few better and more reliable men I ban James A. Walker in Cass county, and as old age comes creeping along it is but natural when one arrives at the age he has to begin to realize I hat his days on this earth are gradually becoming less. Yet we were surprised to see him looking remarkably well yesterday, and with good care he is very liable lo live many years to enjoy the comforts of life, surrounded as he is by a happy family ami all that is necessary to make life en joyable. We are proud to number Mr. Walker among I he Journal's staunch friends, and we hope he may live to see many more birth day anniversaries. "PI IN FULL" IN EXCELLENT COMPANY From Tiuesday'g Dally. One of the best plays that has been staged at the Parmele in a long time was "Paid in Full" last night. The incessant rain of the evening kept many away that otherwise would have been pres ent. It is very unfortunate for those who love a good play, as those who were present highly praise the manner in which this company present "Paid in Full." The company is not a large one, but Ihe beauty of it is every actor and actress js an artist. The company deserved a full house, but under the circumstances it was impossible. Those who braved the storm, however, were well paiil for their courage. If the company comes this way again, and with' favorable weather, it will be greeted by a full house. JUDGE TRAVIS TO DECIDE From WodnoHilny'i Dally. According to tho Omaha News, Judge Travis has notified Chief of Police Uriggs and Sheriff (Jus Ilyers of Lincoln that he will ren der decision Thursday morning on their request for a change of venue from Sarpy county. The judge was to have decided Tues day, but did not because neither officer was present. They are charged with man slaughter in connection with the killing of Hoy Blunt, when three escaped convicts were killed or captured in a man hunt last spring near Springfield. MM-M-MHHM-M"M-H I . ! Queen Quality Oxfords, ! the $3.00 quality, your j choice at $1.25. t E. Q. DOVEY A SON. From Wednesday's Dally. September, fall weather, school. These three things are associated in the minds of almost every youngster in the nation today. To most of them, it is a happy time, meaning relief from the heat of the long .summer and a return to the joys of -school life, the irk someness of which in the late spring are forgotten by this time. Few people today hesitate to agree that the children should go to school regularly. The school which is known to the neighbor hood in which the children live, be it grade or high school, is con sidered desirable for the children of that neighborhood to finish'. Tho substitution of grade schools for the country district schools and the addition of high school work to the grades inevitably means the raising of educational standards in any community to that extent. Mul it has not yet become com mon throughout the great west to think of sending the children on to institutions of higher learning outside the immediate locality where they live. Even in Nebraska, which is claimed to have one of the largest percentages of college people compared to population of any state in Ihe union, only a small percent of those who might do so lake advantage of the op portunities to "go uff to school." Admittedly, it is not always possible for many to secure any thing of an advanced education. Mure than one boy or girl who would gladly work hard for a chance lo do further school work cannot possibly have such an op portunity. Perhaps in some i cases it is just as well that the! chance is not offered. Hut at the present time there are few fanners throughout thei west who cannot afford the time! and the expense of letting the boy or girl away from home school for a ti; Perhaps they do not care for a classical col lege course, aimed as a prepara tion for professional life. Hut few of then will refuse a chance ' at a practical scientific course or! a course in pract ical agricull ur". ' These . courses may be made as! long or as short us circumstances permit. Hut we believe it is sel I dom that they will not pay in big I dividends not only to the student, j themselves, but. to their families j and the communities where theyi live. Practical education is one of the keynotes of modern prog', ress and the ignorant farmer of tomorrow will be as much a back number as the uneducated busi ness or professional man today. Ice Cream Social. The ladies of Eight Mile drove church will give an ice cream social Saturday evening, Septem ber 14th, at the home of Charles Mutz, one-half mile south of the church. mWMm ' "Slip UP! You can always buy J than anywhere else. COME IN AND Fanger's Department Store V. ZUCKER, Manager ocz 2t tZ3iiiIiMI Familiar Features Well Known to Hundreds of Plattsmouth Citizens. A familiar burden in many homes. Thejiurden of a "bad back." A lame, a weak or an aching back Often tells you of kidney ills. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Here is Plattsmouth testimony. Fred W. (iuenther, Main street, Paltlsmouth, Neb., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills are the best remedy I ever used for kidney complaint. I had sharp pains in my back which made it impossible for me to stoop. I also had trouble with my kidneys and I found it hard to do my work. When I saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised, I got a supply. After I used two boxes I was well. I am glad to recom mend them." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United Stales. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Base Sail at Cedar Creek. From Wednesday's Dally. A number of the young men of this city organized a ball team Sunday and drove out to Cedar Creek, where I hey crossed bats with the second team of that place. When the smoke of battle rolled away Ihe Cedar Creek boys discovered they had been up against the steam roller, being defeated by a score of 14 to 3. The batteries were: Cedar Creek, Oobelman and Meisinger; Platts mouth, A. Hula and Speck. For Assessor. L. A. Tyson, republican, can didate for county assessor. Re sided in Cass county 46 years. County clerk of Cass county 4 years. Your votes solicited. Frank Oobelman, painting and paper hanging. 4-9. I ILL goods cheaper at this store BE CONVINCED! 3C 1C DO Thanks to Friends. From Tuesday's Dally. To the Editor of the Journal: Allow mo the privilege of ex pressing to the community, through your columns, my loving thanks for (he love and honor to my late husband, Canon II. B. liurgess, shown by the beautiful services of the church and various orders yesterday. Many years of residence here makes it hard for me to leave Plattsmouth and my heart is touched by all this kind ness. Mrs. II. H. Burgess. 4-H-H- "l-H-H -H-I-H- HrHr .j. Queen Quality Oxfords, .J. the $3.00 quality, your choice at $1.25. 4 V E. Q. DOVEY & SON. 1G0 acres in Red Willow county, about live and a half miles west of Indianola; mostly level land; 120 acres under cultivation; some pasture. Can be bought for .?', 700.00. Time given. 100 acres in Loup county, Ne braska; somewhat rolling; 30 acres under cultivation, 5 acres in alfalfa, some good hay land, bal ance pasturage. Price $1,000. A fine $i,000 residence in Plattsmouth for $2,100 if taken soon. Two colt ges, one with 5 rooms and the other with 3, for $325.00 each. It would cost twice this much to duplicate the same. A number of nice 5 and G-room cottages, at from $800 to $1,000. We have a number of desirable vacant lots for sale at from $50 to $100. WINDHAM Investment and Loan Co For Salo! Whether the weather is damp or dry there is no coat so useful as one of our English Slip-Ons. They're light, yet tight. At our prices you can afford to have one. In fact you can't afford not to have one. Prices $5 to $25 C. E. Wescott's Sons Always the Home of Satisfaction