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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1913)
-The Piattsmouth Journal - dD Published Seml-Weeklj R. A. BATES, Entered at the l'ostolf.ce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as seeond-clas matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE STOOD UNDER THE MISTLETOE i She stoo.l tieiiealli (he mistletoe, 1 Hie liulelier s boy was there; Uul he (Hit not the custom know, Or else lie didn't dare. A plumber and a tramp or so Were seen to pass that way. She stood beneath the mi.-t b-toe Eleven hours a day. The outcome was a dreadful blow Unto this ancient miss. ,Shc stood beneath the mistletoe And never got a kiss. :o: Only one more day to consider that new resolution. :o: The old year appears to be go ing out in a blaze of autumn sun shine. It is a beautiful finish for a splendid year. o ' Even eggs will be transported Jiy parcels post. The rural mail carrier may soon be complaining that the yolk is heavier than he can bear. Five years from now, according lo a fashion authority, hoop skirts will be in general use again. Hut cheer up; the world may come to an end before that lime. Who knows? :o: Mr. Morgan's .statement that it is impossible to organise a money trust is discouraging. Hut of course his saying so does not make, it so. :o: Nineteen seperalely named grades of eggs are on the market. Probably the eighteenth and nine teenth arc handled by men in oxygen helmets, with long shovels. :o: Ir. Mary Walker is confident that a strong odor of onions, maintained continuously, will drive away contagious diseases. Those who prefer an abiding odor of onions lo contagious diseases will no doiilil be interested. :o: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Call wants American women lo adopt the trousers costume of the Chinese women and go barehead ed. Hut why is Mrs. ('.alt so strongly opposed lo matrimony? If is certainly a good institution. :o: If you have fail ti preach il; if yon have doubts bury I hem ; if you have joy share it; if you have sor rows bear it. Find the brightest , side of things ami help others to a sivbl of it also. This is the sure-1, way and only way lo pass through the year HH.'l cheerful and happy. Try it. :o: In speaking of the parcels post the New York Kvening Journal ends a long editorial on the sub ject as follows: "If the merchants in the country, ami the local editors throughout 1 lie country, understand the parcels posl as well as mail order houses under- stand il, they would know thai the parcel:; post will prove to be the greatest blessing the country edit ors and country storekeepers have ever known. With the parcels post the local merchants' pros perity must increase at once. And with Hie parcels post the country editor .' ill, for the first time, come inlo his own. The parcels post will yie to the country merchant u deli cry system as good as that of I he greatest, city department store, and to the local editor full vu!"r "or his important services to f at ion." Of course we. can not pule what the New York paper says on the- matter, and can only hope that its words will prove true. It will lie all right if they Jo, a - d it will be all wrong if they don't. at Platismoutii, Nebraska Publisher. L Now iv l!M;f. We t, . n ' t like 1. t:i ,n, j vvjj j,,, a rj,( jf t In- people chouse lo make il so. -:o:- I II may lie li ne, as fieneral Wood alleges, that more money is spent annually for automobile (ires than for the upkeep of the navy, but what does it prove ? Certainly not that Ihe cost of the navy mainten ance is too small. :o: j There is one good resolution that all progressive citizens can adopt with good grace, and that is to adopt a resolution lo do all Ibcy can in the year 191.1 for the benefit of Plattsmouth. :o; As Plattsmouth has been more prosperous in 1912 than any other city of Ihe same size in Nebraska, it should encourage everyone who has the true interests of the town at heart to renew their efforts for l'Jl.'J in their good work lo "See Platismoutii Succeed!" :o: We admonished the young ladies in the beginning of the ex piring year lo do their husband shopping early. Hut it seems that many of I hem failed lo heed our advice, and now- Hie final rush is on. Although the rules of the new parcels post admit, of the trans portation through the mails of eggs, butler and poultry and Other farm produce, we have heard of none of the mail order houses offering to take this produce at Ihe highest market price in ex change for goods. If farmers would actually attempt such a transfer they would soon learn the relative value to I hem of the mail order house ami the country store. Omaha Trade Kxhibit. :o: Many of Hie best observers of affairs political in Washington, express the opinion that Mr. Wil son is himself going to be Ihe president and that bis conferes will be men of all factions of the democratic parly. Mr. Wilson goes inlo the higher olllce with a good record as a state executivt behind him and with a betlcr sup port, so far as Ihe best business and political sentiment of Ihe country can be support, than any president elected in many years. :o: President Tall has concluded lo accept the professorship in Yale university. This wives him S.VOOII ii venr and li.'iv him frii lie did think at llsrl of practicing law, but he says that if he shouli do I his he would find himself be. fore judges whom he had himself appointed. I'elicacy, therefore would prevent him from pursuing this course. With the Yale pro fessorship he can wabble about make speeches, deliver addresses and shine as an ex-president, a position that eminently suits a lazy man. :o: Oeneral Patrick II. Harry, a grizzled veteran with one arm, has just been appointed lo the posi tion of commandant of the na tional soldiers' home at Los Angeles, (leneral Harry has long been a conspicuous citizen of Ne braska. He has served in the legislature from Greeley county and was adjutant general of the stale militia for a time. The position that comes to him is one of importance and he is highly favored in getting it. The soldiers' home at Los Angeles is one of the sights of that wonder ful city. Don't forget! The Journal office Is prepared to do all klndi of fancy Job work. Qlve ua a trial. Welcome .New Year, welcome, may yrni do a well as the oi. Frank Munsey is now support ing 'ilin in the New York Press, Hie pap"!' lie ti tit ti t lo lioost M.oosevelt. W'ouldii'l that cork von? :o: There is a rumor that one of Hi" F.nulisli suffragelles threw a brick at Sanla Clans, but no one li.-Iii'M's hey are get ling mean iioimh lo do (hat. :o: : Those" soul hern cities thai, are lling Nebraska's supply of the early winter snow need not feel mibarrassed. There will be no tard feelings. :o: Some people are so super stitious that I hey predict ev il for the new year because of it being 1913. They don't like the 13. Hut they will have to write it that way, just the same. .o: An Idaho editor refused to print a Roosevelt speech on Idaho justice, through fear of contempt of court. It has come to a pretty pass when people fear the wrath of the courts more than the wrath of Roosevelt. :o: Mary Gardner says she has lost twenty-five pounds by staying on the water wagon. That might by in impressive temperance sermon if it were not that many thousands of good women who have never been off the water wagon have each gained more than that. :o: Holchkiss, the Grand Island cilizen who indicted inhuman punishment upon an adopted son for Hie alleged offense of having iroken into the house to get a few apples, was sentenced to a term of sixty days in jail by the court. He has appealed for a new trial and given bond. He lied the boy up by the thumbs, gagged him and removed his clothing be fore applying a buggy whip mercilessly. The rock pile, is serving its best purpose when men like this are working on it. :o: It is a somewhat odd circum stance that while the year just closing has witnessed the adop tion of the most important in novations in the hi-tory of the poKtoiiice department, the same year was marked by a poslollice order that is iclrogressive, stupid and will cause a great amount of inconvenience to the public. The closing of stamp and delivery win dows and the refusal of the de partment to allow hotels and other institutions to get their mail on Sundays offers a strange contrast lo the enterprise of the postal savings banks and Hie parcels post. II is understood that after January 1, Sunday mail deliveries lo hotels will be slopped and travelers must either go without I heir letters or wait over at points of delivery an entire day In either case a hardship will be imposed upon a large part of the public and no real saving will re sult. :o: Governor-elect Morehead has announced the following appoint ments: W. T. Kenton of Kalis City, warden of the penitentiary; Ilev. N. T. Harmon, Lincoln deputy warden; Ilev. P. 0. John son, Tecumseh, chaplain of the penitentiary, and Phil Hall, Lin coin, adjutant general. Mr. Ken ton has been elected sheriff o Richardson county four terms in succession, and his selection is a good one. He was born and rear ed in Richardson county. The deputy warden is the present chaplain of the penitentiary, and Rev. P. C. Johnson was chaplain of the penitentiary previous to the tragedy that occurred last summer, and was kicked out be cause he told Aldrich tho condi tion of affairs in that institution Mr. Hall is a son of Dr. P. L. Hal and if he is a follower in the foot steps of his illustrious father he cannot help but be the right kin of man for most any position. Good-bye, Old Year, good-bye! :o: Hoosto for everything that is Hood for Plattsmouth in 1913. K.vitv citizen should be a booster. The Falls Cily Journal trep.; pays Ihe following compliment to W. T. Kenton, Governor-elect Morehead's appointee for warden of the penitentiary, which dem-ou-dra'es (he high esteem in which Sheriff l-'enlon is held in his home town and county: " io crnor-elect Morehead and Sheriff Kenton have authorized the announcement of the appoint ment of Mr. Kenton as warden of the slate; penitentiary. II. has been generally understood that Sheriff Kenton was lo receive the appointment, but until today no authorized statement has been given out. The State Journal stated that for family reasons Mr. 'enton had declined the offer of penitentiary warden and had ac cepted that of state fire warden. his was a mistake. While we are glad Mr. Kenton has been ap- ointed to such a responsible position we are sorry to have' him and his family leave our cily and county. As county sheriff he has been indefatigable in his efforts o delect crime and punish offend- rs and perhaps no county officer has received greater praise and ommendation for duty well per formed than Sheriff Kenton. We feel thai he is in every wav pialilied for this responsible posi tion arid will exert everv effort to ive to (he stale the best dial is in him for Ihe management of the penitent iary." :o : We hear little of the "little 'red chool houses" in these days, but their successors, the rural chools, are rapidly coming inlo their own, according to the na liona! bureau of education. After a period of long neglect, it is de faced that the rural schools are in process of regeneration. A bulletin just issued slates that xperienced teachers with es sential knowledge of rural life and acquainted with the needs of (be ommiinil ies they serve are doing for the rural districts what the pioneer teachers of former gen- rations did for Hie city and town. Old ramshackle buildings have ceil lorn down and replaced by il.lract.ivf little buildings, not, necessarily larger lhan those they displace, but constructed on lines of beauty and utility. Attention is called lo the fact that for near- y a century American education has developed considerably as a city and town mailer. Now it is held that better rural schools will have a tendency to -equalize the ulvantages of the city in educa tional opportunity and will meet a greater economic need by in creasing the efficiency of the com ing generation as producers on Ihe land. :o: THE HAPPY NEW YEAR. Tonight "when the cock crows to mark Ihe hour of twelve," Ihe year of ll I "J will be ended and Ihe new year of 1913 will be before us. Kach of us will make somo new year's resolutions, either formal ly or informally, and proceed to break them in the next few weeks, as we did a year ago and the year before thai. Hut really New Year's resolu tions don't mailer. They are a harmless sort of amusement for those who look upon them in that light and hardly more than that lo those who try to lake them seriously. The man who makes a resolution just because it is New Year's, usually intends to break it when he makes it. If he didn't he would make the resolu tion some other time and stick to it. The year 1912 has been, wo be lieve, a pood year for most of our readers. With trouble and dis aster in some parts of the world, Nebraska, Cass rounty and Plattsmouth have been blessed with their share of prosperity, pood crops, good weather and average pood health. No storm n of a really serious nature, or dis aster of any kind has visited this section. Everyone has prospered and has a right to be glad for the year thai is so near over. The Journal wishes for each of its readers a very Happy New Year, not just as happy as the past year, but much better. None of u. no matter how well he a prospered, but is sorry for some thing- which have happened in the year ju-t closing. None of all our readers but will base some thing to regret, we fear, when the year 1913 has passed into history. Hut the Journal hopes and trusts that Ihe year which will arrive in a few hours will prove, for each one of its leaders, a belter, hap pier year than the' last. Let every one for whom we make this wish make one resolution and let that be to be decent and give the world and society a fair return for what he expects to receive from them, then the dawn of 191 i; will mark the closing of a year which has not proven a failure or disap pointment to many. Again the Journal extends to not only every pa'-.i of the paper, but to every person, the right hand of good fellowship and wishes thein all a most prosperous and Happy New Year. DICKINSON IS DEPOSED M, J. Knell) Appointed General SUPT. MERTSGHEIMER RESIGNS Disagreement Among Eleven Receiv ers in Charge of Company Brings About Shakeup Dickinson Retains Place of Vice President. Kans:s City, Jan. 1. Edward Dick inson has been deposed as general manager of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railway and M. J. Knelly, formerly a division superintendent for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, named in his place, according to an announcement from the railway headquarters here. The resignation of Frederick Mertscheimer as superin tendent of motive power also was an nounced. Disagreement among the various re ceivers who have had the railway company in charge for several months Is said to have brought about the shnkeup. Counting the receivers ap pointed for the subsidiary companies nnd those named in different states, eleven receivers have charge of the Orient company's affairs. There are three for Kansas and Oklahoma, two for Texas, two for Mexico, one each for the Kansas City Outer Belt Rail way company and the Townsite com pany, two for the International and Union Construction company, the last named concerns being subsidiaries of the Orient. It was stated that Mr. Dickinson re tains the place of vice president, but liaa merely a "thinking part" in the affairs of the road. 16 OFFICIALS INDICTED C, H. and D. Heads Charged With Manslaughter. Indianapolis, Jan. 1. Sixteen offl ctals and directors of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway and two trainmen were Indicted on charges ol Involuntary manslaughter by the Marion county grand Jury in connec tion with it& Investigation of the wreck on that road in a suburb on Nov. 13. Sixteen persons were killed when a passenger train ran Into an open switch and collided with a freight train. Those indicted: Daniel Willard, president; George F. Randolph, vic president; George M. Shrlvcr second vlco president, Tlaltimore; W. C. Loree of Cincinnati, general manager; II. B. Voorhees of Cincinnati, general super Intendent; R. B. White of Indianap oils, division superintendent; 0. 0. Murray, George W. Perkins, I F. Loree, II. P Davison, Frederick W Stevens, Joseph Wood, E. R. Bason, F. D. Underwood. Harry Bronner and Norman B. Ream, officials of the rail road; Carl Cross of Indianapolis, brakeman on the freight train; Willli York or Indianapolis, engineer on th freight train RAIL OFFICIALS ARRESTED Three Charged With Manslaughter In Connection With Wreck. Bridgeport , Conn., Jan. 1. Vlc President Henry J. Horn, Genera! Manager Benjamin R. Pollock and DI vision Superintendent Charles N Woodward of the New York, Now Haven nnd Hartford railroad wero ax rested on bench warrants here, charged with manslaughter In conneo tion with the wreck of the Springfield express at ' Westport on Oct. 3, la which seven ocrsons wore killed. FARMERS DO NOT LIKE TAX LAWS Secretary Odsll Inquires Abast Rural Gonditicns. OF REPLIES. Eighty-one Per Cent of Those Sending Replies Declare That Some Change Should Be Brought About Seed Co-n Situation Demands Caution. Lincoln, Jan. 1. Secretary Fnmk G. Odell cf the Nebraska rural life com mission has completed an analysis of several hundred replies, which he sent wit some time ago to the farmers of the state covering every county, tend ing to show there is dissatisfaction over the taxation law. Among the men who answered the questions sent out SI per cent said they regarded the tai laws unsatisfactory. Fourteen per cent suggest a remedy by the en tire abolition of the personal tax; 11 pe cent declare in favor of a removal of the tax on Improvements on real estate and substitution of the single tax; S per cent thlnV that the income tax is the only remedy, Trhlle 5 per cent want larger exemptions. Follow ing are some of the questions asked, with the answers brought down to a percentage: "Are the schools In your nelghbor fcood training boys and girls satisfac torily for farm life? Yes, 11; no, 89. "Do the farmers In your neighbor hood get the. returns they reasonably 6hould from the sale of their prod ucts?" Yes, 35; no, 65. "Are the renters of farms in yonr neighborhood making a satisfactory living and accumulating profits whtcii tend to enable them to become owners of farms?" Yes, 23; no, 17. "Are the farmers and their vive about you organized to satisfactorily promote their mutual buying and sell ing interests?" Yes, 8; no, 92. "Have the farmers In your neighbor hood satisfactory facilities for doing their business in banking, credit, In surance, etc.?" Yes, 82; no, 18. "Do the farmers and their wives and families In your neighborhood get together for mutual lmprovebent, en tertainment and social intercourse as much as they should?" Yes, 17; no, 83. "What In your Judgment is the most Important single thing which should be immediately done for the better mont of farm life in Nebraska?" One, practical education for farm life; two, good roads; three, co-operation In business. Farmers to Be Cautious. Professor C. W. Pugsley, director of agricultural extension, states that ex amination or corn at the corn shows thus far held Indicates that while tho seed condition is much better than at this time last year, the seed corn sit uation is such as to demand caution on the part of farmers. Institute work ers fled corn containing a large per centage of moisture and liable to se vere Injury in case of excessive cold. The Jppnrtment recommends that all seed corn tie selected as speedily as possible and put in a dry place and that careful tests be made for ger mination before planting. Up to the present time, according to Professor Pugsley, dead ears have been found In nearly all exhibits nt the corn shows. Indicating that it is not safe to plant without a preliminary test. Inspection of Guard. Lieutenant F. C. Test, Twenty-sec-end infantry, special Instructor for the Nebraska guard, has been ordered by the war department to begin the '"spection of the Nebraska guard Jan. 10, 1613. The inspecticn will begin with company C of the Second regl tnert.. at Nebraska City. At tJie con clusion of the Inspection of the Ne braska guard Lieutenant Test will In spect In ancther state. Golden Wedding at Callaway. Callaway, Neb., Jan. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Rohe't M. Dickson celebrated their golden wedding at their home, neven miles west of here. Some fifty relatives and friends were present. Fifty years ago at Danville, 111., Rob ert M. Dlckron and Miss Mary Ann Wells were united in marriage. They are the pa'jits of ten children, six of whom ar . now living. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson came to York county, Nebras ka, In 1W, and In 1882 moved to Cus ter county, where they have since re sided. Roth are In excellent health. Curtis Has New Light Plant. Curtis, Net)., Jan. 1. Curtis took on a ful! glory suit when the big dy namo la the electric light Jower hous and accumulators were for the first time called upon to do fluty. The plant Is an ample one, ownod by the city, and will be fully utilised by a large per cent of our people. 24 IN STATE SANITARIUM Douglas County Patients at Kearney Tuberculosis Hospital. Kearney, Neb., Jan. 1. Potcr Elsas eer. county con mlsaloner of Douglas Munty, arrived in Kearney, bringing with him eight patients from Omaha end Soutb Omaha for treatment In the slalA tuberculosis hospital, which Imreasea the number of patients now being treated to twenty-four. Thrb patients were discharged as sufficiently benefited to return to their homes, where they can care for themselves.