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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1912)
-The Plattsmouth Journal t 1 fc&llshelSeal-fttklyit Plitlssoihl, Netraski CZD R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postolfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-clas matter. J.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE IIav ou done it yet? ln it right now. If not, Who'll lie thi; new post mailer :i! Amapi'keir :o: Now is (lie lime for all good Santa Clauses lo (rot busy. :o: A safe and sane Christinas is promoted by parly shopping. The eold storage egg trust wouldn't work its shell game on the people this time. :o: The Journal for the next two Nveeks will be a pretty good index of the bargain counters in IMatts mouth. :o: Only two more weeks till Santa Claus will he with us in great slyle. Remember the poor chil dren of l'latlsinouth. :o: The di'inocials will have ten majority in the legislature on joint panoi, vuiirii is gonu enmigu f ir all prael ieal purposes. :o: It i plenty of lime to go else where to do your Christmas shop ping when you can't find what you want in the home stores. Sometime Mr. Carnegie must feel provoked enoiiL'h a to lie al inost tempted lo let the country die pi"r in-lead of himself. :o : Sin f the big Kuropean pi i we r speak of themselves as peacemakers. Their increaiu army and navy Inidu'els doii'l ex actly look it. The only institution greater than a page ad is a two-page ad. :o: Are you thinking about that good resolution adopt for 11M3? you intend to :o:- No package is too big to carry the Christmas Seal and none too small to be without one. :o: What is an armistice All Kurope is looking up the word and finds the dictionaries de fective. :o: What really troubles a presi dent is not the March storm on inauguration day, so much as the fierce storm of office-seekers be fore and after that date. :o: The wife of (ienernl Sickles has saved her husband from his creditors, but she cannot save him from the old reaper, who is coming along with his sickle. :o: Nebraska keeps ahead on every thing'. She now can boast of a champion prize-fighter Luther McCarthy, who whipped Jim I'lyiui. Neb. McCarthy is from O.Neill, Only nin little shopping days left. :o: Now is the time to get it while gettin's good. :o: Christmas trees and Christmas slickers are here, and there's no excuse for further delay. This is the season when the cost of giving is apt lo be a bigger problem than the cost of living. :o: Send your Christmas presents now and save the postmaster and his assistants an awful lul of oxl ra work. :o: -:o:- :o: No gold lace and glittering swords, pompoiiss colonels will mark the induction of (iovernor Morehead. Simplicity will reign supreme in I he inaugural cere monies, :o : I'.very wife, every husband. every daughter and every young man who is thinking of getting married should see "Bought and I'aid For" at the I'armele theater The Japanese are now eating beef -(i thai the) can grow tall. If I hey do iiil actually grow tall, they will at least become associat ed with tall prices. :o : : A sulTragelle threw her shoe at a magistrate down in Kansas. The earnestness of a woman who Ihrew her sole into the cause she talking' for cannot be qnes I h'tied. Women are cheerfully acting on the advice to do I hoi r Chrisl- mas snooping early. nut. as sua!, they will do most of their buying in Hie mad scramble of tin osing days, when the men start in :o: M i'. Carnegie is said to have 1 -:o:- The first all-woman jury in Kansas began its deliberations with prayer. This is a decided improvement over a game of scveruup, a some all-man juries have. done. :o: The vigor with which the holi- lay trade will lireak loose in I'latlsmoul h next week will be a wonder. lion't wait, you folks who believe in doing your Christ mas shopping early. :o : The holiday season shouldii t lie a eold-blooded season, but out of good fellowship and good cheer Keep that idea in mind and try yourself lo make Hie joyful season one that all around you can fee Hie good cheer. It is reported that a stale-wide crusade is to lie begun against dealers for selling cigarettes. It i", stated that prosecutions are to be commenced on dealers general ly who sell cigarettes and tobacco in any form lo boys under 18 years of age. I,e it come as soon as possible. :o: at unlay night. :o;- Oovernor.elecl Morehead Js his home in fall City looking over upplical ion for appoint ments lo be given out by him in a few weeks. It is a sure thing that the applicants who visit him in person, unsolicited, will not fare as well as some of those who remain away ami let the governor nee his own judgment in regard to Mich matters. lanned a final gifl of $475,000,- niMI through his idiilanlhronie irusiccs. i ins is aiioul llie size of Uncle Sam's investment in the anama canal, which also sug gests peace on earl I), good w ill to man. :o: 1'here are 1 '. inmates of the ee insane hospitals in Ne braska, not to mention the manv who are housed in county jails am! provide saniloiims because llie slale has not been able to build fast enough to provide room for all. Lincoln Star. :o: The harvester trust, which is being conv icted in court of having bribed legislators in Kansas, North Dakota and other stales, is Hie same harvester trust of. which Mr. Perkins, who stands at Amag edden is director and the chair man of its finance committee, :o: The Omaha Trade Exhibit never made a more truthful assertion than this: "The merchant who doesn't carry Christmas presents in stock good enough for his own family lo send can't blame the rest of Die people of his com munity if Ihey also feel superior lo hi goods." :o: The biggest damper If President-elect Wilson proves as good a winner as Taft a loser, llie country is safe and the people should be happy. :o: Somebody remarks that what is wanted in the egg market is some means of taking age out of stor age. Or of taking old out of cold. Or, better still, of taking greed out of middlemen. :o: The New York World believes that presidents should go into office on the first Monday in De cember. Hut wouldn't that be taking snap judgment on the California reluming boards? :o: The commercial club has made an excellent record for the sea son of 1012. Now let everyone interested in the continuation of llie good work resolve to do more to help the chili do belter in 191. 'I. :o: If President Taft insists on making appointments at this late hour of hi administration, Hie democrats should vole against coonfirmation. That's the way the republicans would do with demo cratic appointments. :o:-i The Nebraska hull inoosers. or progressive, as they have chosen lo call themselves, have declared that, they will not fuse with Hie republicans again. II would be heller for them to wait until 'asked by I he republicans for a fusion. :o: The lale university should be removed out of the city limits, un less the people of Lincoln put up money enough to extend the limit s of ils present location. Lincoln wants everything in sight, but they don'l waul lo put up the money to secure what Ihey waul. :o: Make it a good Christmas by Who will be speaker of the new' house of representatives of Ne braska? ..There seems to be plenty of candidates. But very few of them are old members of the house. The responsibilities are great, and the one selected to till the position should be one of firmness and who knows how to wield the gavel. :o: iov crnor-elcrl Hodges of Kan sas is imi slow in lelting it be known that the democrats, hav ing won in I hat slale, Ihey are go ing to gel the offices, especially those in which he has the say-so. "To the victors belong the spoils!-' And this should hold good in every state where the demo crats have been victorious. :o: "Bought and Paid For" is a play containing a fine lesson to young married people and will prove of much interest to those who contemplate matrimony. It is, indeed, the greatest play of the age. Those who fail to see "Bought and I'aid For" at the I'armele. theater tomorrow night will regret it all their lives. :o: Those who are thinking of "turning over a new leaf" on the last day of the old year, should be Ihiiiking pretty hard in that di rection. Not many days unlil the dawn of the new year, and there nre many new leaves you can turn over in the old hook that should he taken seriously al heart by many in Plattsmoul h. There are very few exceptions. :o : There is talk of passing a law Ibis winter by the Kansas legis lature that will recjuire a jury lo be made mi either of men or wom en exclusively. The argument is made that it will be impracticable lo have a mixed jury in a hard fmighl case where Hie jury inighl be locked up for I wo or three days in an effort lo reach a verdict. Many men declare Ihey will imt permit Iheir wives to serve on such juries. In order In min imize the number of family jars lo llie limit llie proposal law is be ing considered very seriously. 9 Are you in doubt a.s to what to choose for the Christmas Gift for relative or friend? A visit to our store will suggest at once many useful and fitting articles. Many are solving this question by selections from our extensive line of Watches, Jewelry, Diamond Rings, Cut Glass Silverware, Sterling Silver, Novelties, Toilet Sets, etc. No charge for engraving J. W. CRABILL, Watchmaker and Jeweler. Attention, Farmers! My Dear Farmer Have you your own farm or are you renting? I have land in Minnesota, cut over timber, from $10 to $15 per acre. One-third cash, balance at 6 per cent. I have good, smooth land in Stevens county, Minnesota, from 8 45 to $65 per acre. This land is sold direct from the own cf of the land. No land company in this deal. I also handle the best land in eastern Oklahoma. Corn runs from sixty to seventy bushels to the acre. Now if you want land try me and see. I deal with no agent. If you come with an agent you must pay him your self. Write or call, Henry Ilummels, 1 121 North 26th St., Lincoln, Neb. Farm for Stale. 135-acre farm, four miles from town, between 50 and CO acres under plow, 7 acres hay land, bal ance pasture. Running water. Seven-room house and other im provements. Inquire at the office of Ravvls .v Itoberlson. 10-10-tf-vkly Wood Wanted. Those of our subscribers who desire fo pay iheir subscriptions in wood are requested to bring it in before the roads get bad, as we desire to place it in the dry. Come in with it. hoys, right away. IE state Bought and Sold ON COMMISSION! insurance Placed in Best Companies! - Farm Loans and Rental Agency Virgil Uullis ROBERT WILKINSON DUNBAR L.J. HALL UNION Wilkinson & Hall -AUCTIONEERS- Drives Off a Terror. The chief executioner of death in llie winter and spring months ii . .. i. ,..,i are colds and grip. In anv attack Th.e ho,d'ng ?f successful sales is bv one of these maladies no time 0UJ hne- .ur interests are with the should be lost in taking the best seller when it comes to getting every medicine obtainable lo drive jt 01iar your property is worm, ror off. Countless thousands have found this to be Dr. King's New Discovery. "My husband believes il has kepi him from having pneu monia three or four times," writes Mrs. George W Place, Rawsonville, VI., "and for coughs, colds and croup we have never found its equal." Guaranteed for all bronchial affections. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free al F. ft. Fricke & Co. open dates addiess or call either of us at our expense by phone. Dates can be made at f.he Journal office. WILKINSON & HALL- Watch for our Xmas ad. You will stay at home and buy at Eastwood's. on any town is people who pretend to have some pride in Hie building up and the prosperity in the town they have chosen lo make their home and going out of town lo do Iheir Christ mas shopping. The man who has the least interest in his town will not do it. remembering, in addition to the i rest, someone more tin fori umtl e, ill or lonely. Help those who are j unable to help themselves. This is the way to exercise the true Christian spirit, and I he proper hour is during the Christmas cheer. :o: IT Hie siilVragelles of this ounlry are to enjoy the ex periences of I heir, sisters in Eng land are enjoying, Ihey had bel ter nol make any further attempt lo Iry lo control politics in America. The suffragettes in the old country are having what some I oriii it, "one h I of a lime!" :o: . In the Heath of O. C. Morton Nebraska City loses one of its most enterprising citizens. He was one of the city's most ener getic citizens always having an eye lo the best interests and to ils upbuilding. He was an inces sant worker, a thorough-going business man, and his dealh will be greatly fell' by the business in terests of Nebraska City in gen eral. :o: After many years of wailing on official favor, Saul a Clans has now gained the formal recognition of of the jiostolllce department and hereafter will receive his mail along with the rest of us. Why the genial old fellow who never did anv body any harm, but whose long life has been a general benediction should have been de nied I he use of the post al servico could never he understood especially by (he youngsters. -SUGGESTIONS! - l!udnute f -Palmer the two best and oldest PERFUME manufacturers in theU. S. Our new stock has just ar rived. Better take a look now and get your first choice 10c to $5.00 Manicure Sets Traveling Cases for ladies and gentlemen of Ebony, Rosewood and genuine PARISIAN IVORY nil made very compact and of the latest design $1.00 lo $9.50 STATIONERY 10c to $5 per box Our this year's stock of gift stationery, has never been excelled in the city. We' give you the best for less money. Hudnet's Perfumes F 0 Liggett' Chololatei Dennison's Xmas Supples Palmer's Perfumes CIGARS! All Kinds! All Sizes! All Prices! for men who KNOW! Special attention given to lady purchasers Candies! 80c-LiggettY Chocolates-80c You could not find auy better if you looked over the United States. Our Holiday Boxes are excellent 60c -Fenway's Chocolates -60c 3 XMAS c beals, Kibbons, and in fact everything to make your gifts more attraction. WeJ sell only Dennison's because they are the best. 0! Yes! Red Cross Stamps too lc each.