The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, February 15, 1915, Page PAGE 2, Image 2
. !1 PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 2. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13. GO TO OMAHA TO PLAY THE BENSON HIGH SCHOOL TEAM The High School Team of This City Gains Another Victory by a Score of 26 to 16. The Plattsmouth High school bas ket ball warriors journeyed to Omaha yesterday afternoon, where they en gaged the team representing the Ben son High school last evening, and as a result of their skill and prowess emerged victors by a score of 21 to 10, and their victory was well earned, as the Benson team are some goers and played a good, hard game throughout, but were not able to overcome the Plattsmouth boys, whose throwing of baskets was most sensational, and in this line Kay Iirson, Arthur White rnd Frank Marshall were the most successful and covered themselves and school with glory by their field goal.?. The boys report that the hall in which the game was played was very poor and this did not allow the best pos sible game to be played, but at thitt they were able to get away with the victory. The success of the team will be pleasing to their friends and 'admir ers in this city, who have watched the work of the boys with interest, and they have been practicing most dili gently for the past few weeks and their training is shown in the ease with which they were able to go through the representatives of the Omaha suburb. Those who have be come interested in the matter state that the team this year is one of the best thit has represented Platts mouth for some years and will make a fine record before the season is over. They have so far played only one game in this city, when defeated by the South Omaha High school, but have a number in prospect which they have the brightest hopes of an nexing to their list of wins. The local High school team is com posed of the following: Arthur White and Raymond Larson, for wards; Frank Marshall, center; Carl Cunningham and Wallace Hunter, guards. Death of Rev. Greene. The many friends here of Kev. S J. Green were shocked Wednesday by the sad news of Mr. Green's death of pneumonia at his home in Shenan doah, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Green an their three children were well known in this community, as they lived here a number of years. Sam Compton and Ben Rich left on the midnight train Wednesday night for Shenan doah to attend the funeral. Weep ing Water Republican. F. G. FBICKE 8 CO.'S STORE VISITED BY HUN DREDS OF PEOPLE TODAY SHOWER GIVEN IN HONOR BRIDE AND GROOM WHOSE uirnniMC nnnnnc eimniv ILUUilVU UUUUI1U JUUUrtl Krotn Saturday's Dally. A very pleasing china shower was given at the comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jochin, near Manley, last Sunday evening in honor of the lat- ter's sister. Miss Dora Scheel, and Mr. Frank Reaster, whose wedding occurs Sunday, February 14, at the German Lutheran church, north of Murdoch. The evening was spent most de lightfully in playing games and social conversation until near the midnight hour, when a most eJegant supper was served. A jolly good time was enjoj ri iy all and tne bride-to-be was howered with a large number of the mo.-t beautiful and costly gifts in china. Those present were: Misses Marie, Clara, Emil, Adele and Martha Stohlman, Edna and Mable Mann, Elsie and Gertrude Hartman, Etta and Lydia Gaebel, Dora, Rose and Adelaide Scheel, Rose and Louise Wagner, Helen and Marie Lau, Mol- lie and Emma Kraft, Esther and Olga Votrler, Mable Wendt, Ada Strattman, and Elsie Oesteich of Milwaukee, Wis consin; Messrs. Fred, Willie an! Walter Stohlmann. Fred and Louis Gaebel, Will and George Kraft, Arnold and Oris Schleifert. Charles Lau. John Scheel, Martin Gefe, Lawrence Kreck low, Ernest Mann, Leonard Wendt, Frank Reaster. Ed and Henry Wag ner, John Sass. John Wagner, Fred Joe-him, Louis Sherman of Oklahoma. Car! Brush of Wisconsin; Messrs. and Mesdames Louis Krecklow. Reinhard Scheel and children, and Mr. an! Mrs. Ed Jochim and children. Mr. and Mrs. Reaster, after the wedding tomorrow, will leave on a honeymoon trip to San Francisco, where they will visit the Panama-Pacific exposition for a few weeks, and will be at home after April 1st to thrir many friends at their farm home near Manley, Nebraska. Frnm Saturday's T)iin. This morning the F. G. Fricke drug store was a seething mass of human ity for a few minutes when several hundred persons called at the stofe to take advantage of the offer mad to give away free some i00 fine gold fish, two of the fish being given with a 25-cent purchase of the Rexal! toilet preparations. The special offer was made for 10:30. and long before that hour the prospective customers began to gather, and by the time the hour for giving away the fish arrive ! the store was literally swamped, as the rush numbered several hundred, all eager to be the first to be waited on, and inside of fifteen minutes the entire f00 fish had been disposed of. The gold fish were little beauties, and with them was given a handsome lit tie glass in which they could be kept, and as a result of the generous offer of the Rexall company there are some 2"0 homes here that will be bright cned by the handsome gold fish as an ornament, as well as having in them a number of the excellent prepara tions turned out by this company. It was a most successful advertising plan and the large number in attend ance proved its entire sucess, and had there been more of the fish they could easily have been disposed of. CLAUDE G. TIGNEH HfiD miss minnie driimm MARRIED AT UNION From Satuniav's Dally. At 2, o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Baptist parsonage in this vil lage, occurred the wedding of Claude C. Tigner of Rock Bluffs precinct, ani Miss Mamie Drumm of Bartlett, Iowa, Rev. Wiliiam A. Taylor officiat ing. The wedding was a quiet affair, the ceremony taking place in the pres ence of the two official witnesses. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Fitch, who accom panied the young couple. The bride is an estimable young lady whose home has always been near Bartlett, Iowa, and although she has only a limited acquaintance here, it is known that she is a very popular lady in the neighborhood where she made her home. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tigner, resi dents of Rock Bluffs precinct for many years, and there the young man grew up from boyhood. He is a gen tleman of exemplary habits and character, a young man who merits the friendship and esteem of all who have formed his acquaintance. We are informed that they will make their home on a farm near Murray. Union Ledger. THE MATTER OF A STREET II CAR L The Twenty-fourth or May Not Very Favorable Date for Hold ing the Same. The matter of the street carnival company that was seeking for a date here on the week of the 21th of May, seems to be looked upon with disfavor by the members cf the Improve 1 Order of ReJmen, who were figuring on taking up the propositon and put ting it through. The Willmuth Car nival company is one of the best, ?n the country at the present time and would offer to the people cf Platts mouth an attraction worth while. One of the greatest objections urged by the committee against the holding of the carnival in May was the uncer tainly of the weather, which at that time of year is ant to be decidedly wet. and damp, and particularly so on the bottom land east of the Burling ton tracks, where it was proposed to hold the carnival. The committer, however, have not entirely abandoned the hope of being able to handle the carnival and will try and secure it for the late summer cr early in the fall, when the weather conditions will be more reliable. Ihe arranging lor ami hamiung o one of these carnivals means the out lay of a great deal of money and. the aciifice,cf much valuable time by those who interest themselves in it, and for this reason thev are not so anxious to dasii into the affair, and especially so in the early spring and summer when the general condition would not be the best for handling it. The committee met yesterday after noon to discuss the matter, and after debating it over among themselves dee'ded to lay the proposition ove until later. As the result of the carnival Inst year the lodge only re.i!i;:c:l some thing like three or four dollars p-ofit after a great deal of wo: k, and thc'.r efforts were not really appreciated by the majority of the people, although everyone enjoyed the carnival to the limit when it was able to get the company located on one of tne Pidj st'e-ets of the city, after much "rag chewing." Moves Into the City. Saturday George M. Hild completed hia moving into the city from his farm home near Mynard, and is now occupying the comfortable home he lecenlly purchased on Pearl street. Mr. Hild is one of the successful f aimers of the county and will make a nioz acceptable addition to the city and us interests, and he and his estimable family will be assurred of a hearty welcome on coming to Plattsmouth. SURPRISE GIVEN P. AND MBS. FRED AGKEBT. . WHO EXPECTS TO LEAVE CITY CAR OF INDIANS PASS THROUGH PLATTSKGUTH FOR PANAMA EXPOSITION ED MILLED, FIREMAN ON SIOUX CITYLINE. MEETS WITH PAINFUL ACCIDENT New Daughter .Makes Appearance. From Saturday's Daily. The news has been received in this city of the arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Koontz, in Columbus, Neb., of a fine new (laughter, which made her advent there on Thursday, February 4th. Mrs. Koontz was for merly Mis Helen Chptran of this city, and the friends here will extend their best wishes for the welfare of the little daughter. From Saturday's Dally. ' Ed Miller, who is employed as a fireman on the Sioux' City line of the Burlington, a few days ago met with quite a painful accident that might easily have resulted in his death. Hi was called out for service during the snow blockade on the line from O'Neil to Sioux City, and it was at Royal, on this line, that the accident occur red. The locomotive was beinz wa-J tcre 1 for the trip and Ed was stand ing on the tank back of the loco motive reaching for the lever that controlled the flow of the water, when his foot slipped and he fell off back wards to the ground and struck on the back of his head with great fort"?. John Sneed, the engineer, heard the noise of his alighting and looking around d iscovered Miller lying on the ground apparently badly bunged up. He was taken on into Tlainview where he was given medical attention, and it was discovered that no bones were broken, but he was very sore md stiff from the effects of the fall. From I"ii.I;iy's Daily. Yesterday a carload of the real true nie:ican Indians passed through tlv ; cuv over ti e .Missouri i 'acute bound 'or San Francisco, where they, arc t e a feature at ihe Panama-Pacifb exposition. The Indians are fror: the Pine Ridge agency in South Da kota, and there were some fifty in the party and ail were attired in their raditional garments and headgear md were hri-rht and intcllicrent an .'poke and read English very fluently. They will be one of the attractions at ihe exposition, where the government is sending them to take part. Then is a great fascination and attraction to the great majority of people in the inuians, wno are rapidiy vanismng from our midst, and al! who were at the depot were attracted at once by he warriors and squaws on the train and they were the object of admira tion utni! their departure. from f i idav's Dally. A most pleasing surprise party was given last evening at the cozy home of Mrs. M. E. Manspeaker by the drill team of the local Woodman Circle lodge in honor of Mrs. Fred Ackert, one of the members, who is soon to leave this city. The event was a complete surprise on the guest of honoi and a mo.st delightful time was enjoyed by the guests present on the happy occasion. The evening was spent in gam as of different kinds, which were interspersed by a number of musical selections by Mrs. Larson, which were greatly enjoyed by the company. At a suitable hour most Iclicious refreshments were served, which added greatly to the pleasure of the occasion, and it was a late hour when the jolly party departed fo; their homes, expressing, however, their regret at having to lose Mrs. A eke it from their midst, but wishing her much happiness in her new home, wherever the might locate. -: IN PLATTSMOUTII FORTY YEARS AGO. 4- m WWW Mrs. J. M. Beardsley spent a day in town this week. Mrl Martindale, an old teacher here and a mighty fine little man, called on the Herald the other day. Bess Woodhurst, he of former peni tentiary fame, dropped in on us for a pleasant chat Monday. YTilliam Y'oung, esq., is one of our oldst settlers; came here March 5, 1555, settled on T. 11, R. 13, Sec. 12, was first county surveyor, and laid first road from O'Neill's house to Weeping Water. Benjamin Briggs, esq., of South Bend, called on the Herald last week. Mr. Twitchell bade farewell Plattsmouth last week and set to his face toward New York. Although Mr. T. has been among us but a short time he leaves many warm friends behind him who regret his departure very much. Our handsome surveyor general, John R. Clark, visited us Saturday. SEEPING WATER WANTS ' A CARNEGIE LIBRARY IN THEIR LITTLE GiTY I'roiij I-'riiiay's Daily. Our neighboring town of Weeping Water seems to lie very desirious of ic-curing a city "library that will be a credit to the city, as the following 'pecia! from that city indicates: The executive committee of a li brary a.ssoe ia t ion formed a fe-.v Has L'scd Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for 20 Years. "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been in my household for the past twenty years. I began giving it to my children when they were small. As a quick relief for croup,. whooping cough, ami ordinary colds, it has no equal. Being free from opium and other harmful drugs, I never felt fraid to give it to the children. 1 have recommended it to a large num ber of friends and neighbors, who have used it and spe-ik highly of it," writes Mrs. Mary Minke, Shortsvilie, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. Registered Jersey Bull for service. C. E. Babbitt, Tlatts- mouth. l'-2-2mos-wkly months ago, has recommended to the citv "ouncil that a Cai regie library riocordtion he submitted to the voters cf the city at the annual spring elec tion. There is strong sentiment in favor of such a move, but it is not ! i e vn whether enoi-gh will favor the 'evyh-.g of a pcrnvinent tax required '"or the support of such an institu tion. There has been talk of attempt ing to maintain a local library on i smaller scale and using one of the buildings abandoned by the Wcep- ng Water academy, which closed its b'ois last spring. The prevailing c .lament, however, is in favor of put ling the Carnegie proposition to ; vote James Hall, esq., has all his corn planted, the work nicely done up about the farm, and says he was in Saturday getting the young and sills dressed up for Sunday. That's James' little joke, you know. Mike Murphy started for Kearney Monday, but Billy Stadelmann drank all his baggage up and he couldn't go. Another new base ball club in town, the "Stars." L. A. Dorrington. cap tain; Lee Sharp, secretary; H. C. Cut ler, treasurer. The Herald was pleased to make the acquaintance of Dr. A. Root of Eight Mile Grove at Louisville the other day. Lightning struck at Charley Yates' house the other night, in spite of all the telegraph wires and rods he has put up about there. For further par ticulars see Yates himself. S. R. Ross, pastor of the Christian church at Glenwood, Iowa, and at this place, called on the Herald Saturday. He is a very pleasant person to meet. Mrs. Dr. Wiley of Three Groves has gone back to "Old Jersey" to see her brother, who is very sick. The Her ald would like to see old Jersey, too, this summer. THE ANNUAL MASK BALL AT GERMAN HOME A GRAND SUCCESS SATURDAY NIGHT Paints and Oils. Phone 36. Gerins &. Co. Wall Paper. Gering Ac Co.. Phone 6. CASTOR 8 A For Infants and Children. Titf Kind Ycu Have Always Bought Bears the Siaatur of The annual mask ball given at the German Home Saturday evening was attended I y a large crowd, which fill- ad the building, and the evening was pent in dancing, which was most heartily enjoyed by every one of the jolly crowd present. The costumes were not extensive, but there were quite a number of very attractive ones that served to allow their pos sessors to glide through the dance without anyone being aware of their iden'y until the hour for unmasking rolled around. When the Plattsmouth orchestra, under the leadership of i'on Svoboda. struck up the grand march the merry markers moved througn the dance hall before the judges, who, after delibc-ating for ome time, decided on J. E. Browning. as a colored man, for the fu st gentle man s prize; M. u. Johnson, as r German butcher, seeureJ the. secom gentleman s prize. Ihe nrst lames prize was given to Mrs. George Gobel- mnn, as an Indian maiden, whiie the econd was presented to the Quc-?n of learts, as represented by Miss Emma Fred MeCauley, Ludwig Miller and 'rank Smith. After the unmasking the festivities continued lor a few hours and the large crowd all felt that they had had a most pleus-.nt. time. We want to say a good word for our friend, Roberts, the expressman No more obliging young fellow can be found. He is always prompt and rcadv, charges moderate, and now, with a new team and plenty of work, he ought to be a happy man. He is hrppy, for who wouldn't be, when he has a load of pretty schoolmams every muddy day. By the way, Rob ert is more energetic than the city council, for furnishing a movable sidewalk to the High school in wet weather. Try and emulate him, oh, worthy fathers. Census Returns of Cass County by Precinct Plattsmouth, 2,016; Roc Bluffs, 1,148; Liberty, 1,135; Avoca 477; Elmwood, 505; Louisville, 375 Tipton, 541; Eight Mile Grove, 593 Stove Creek, 481; Salt Creek, 437 Center, 510; Mt. Pleasant, 324; Sout Bend, 388; Greenwood, 056; tota 10,885. High School Entertainment. Constipation. When costive or troubled with con stipation take Chamberlain's Tablets. Ihey are ea;.y to take and most agreeable in effect. Obtainable every The High school entertainment on last Saturday evening was a meritc success. We have never seen Fitz gerakl hall so full since we have lived here. Prof. Wightman deserves great credit for the arrangement of the pro gram, which gave us such pleasure The teachers also, who drilled the scholars, must have paid great atten tion to their duties, and have shown an aptitude in making wise selections to fill the different places, that might well be imitated by the politicians and people of this country when selecting public officials, committeemen and persons to fill other important posi tions of trust. Most of these teach ers being ladies, it is a feather in their cap, showing that they recognize true merit and are willing to give it a place full better than the men who claim sometimes to monopolize all the good sense there is lying round loose i nthe world. The exhibition was held in Fitz gerald hall, which was filled to over flowing, not less than 600 persons, adults and children, being present. After some very pleasant recitations by scholars a great and glorious pyramid of beautiful young missas as the stage would admit of, 20 feet, a galaxy of smiling, innocent and beautiful girl faces greeted the ad miring audience. Then some recita tions, tableaux, and the "school com mittee" burst upon us. A very happy dialogue in which the absurdity of the ordinary mode of judging the qualifications of a teacher, was most happily shown up. One young lady (inspectress) in sistea on the poor blushing, modesc damsel of a school teacher, who was an applicant, having a thorough kovvledge of Latin because her hus band's cousin, Dr. Livingston, thought that a sine qua non to every- good education. Another insisted on algebra because she had studied it two weeks and al most became mistress of its mys teries, and still another allowed that superficial attainments might do for Boston, Omaha and such places, bat here in Plattsmouth nothing but the highest attainments and the loftiest scholarship could gain a certificate, Eva Marsland, a very small lady, recited her piece in a charming man ner, speaking clearly and distinctly. Little Miss Hoffman gave us "Rid ing on the Rail" in the very happiest vein that any little Miss could do it, and when she said the baby squalled, the baby did squall down in the audi ence in dead earnest, and then she laughed and we all laughed. Miss Anna Livingston spoke very clearly and it was not necessary to move "that she be embarraised" for it would have been carried to the negative at once. Then came the drama of "Five Cen turies," a historical piece repiesenting by tableaux, spoken pieces and pan tomime, the record of the centuries since Columbus discovered America. It was very well executed throughout. The speaking of the Declaration of Independence was particularly ap propriate at this time and was par ticularly well done, every lad taking up his part here and there, wherever he might be in the audience, at just the right time and place, and as their clear, honest young voices rang out the great and solemn truths, enunciat ed in that wonderful piece of com position, we feel that they are being properly prepared to take part in thi real drama of life in a few years 2nd that they will enlist heart and soul under the banner of truth, liberty and equality. General Gage and the Boston Boys was very good. The funny little Ger man piece by Sammy Hinkle, th capture of Major Andra, the Fugitiv Slave, were all well tendered and re ceived a due amount of applause. The illustrated history of the form ing of the states, one after another represented by young ladies dressed j in appropriate costume, was very fine and was pronounced by some as the masterpiece of the evening. Poor Kansas looked rather doleful Nebraska looked plump and round and laughing, as we all hope she is will be now and everymore. These various exercrses occupied much time that the program was cut short at "Decoration Day." We are informed that two more figurative and emblematic displays as fine as any given were thus per force omitted. We were 'very much pleased with the bright and intelligent manner in which all the scholars who came be fore the audience acted their parts. It is the hardest thing in the world generally to get children to "speak up as it is called, nere tncy ciiu, irom little Miss French to the largest scholar there. Somebody deserves great credit for their drilling, and they themselves deserve the approba tion of parents, teachers and audience for diligence in committing their parts and obedience to instructions in speaking them. It is the duty and right of a news paper to some extent to criticise, cor rect and award praise or blame. An overdose of either does no good. Fulsome adulation or indiscrimin ate blame never encourages to better efforts or check wrong-doing. We express our honest opinion above on the well-doing of those who acted and while acting, but we shall speak equally as plain in condemnation of the disorderly conduct of many in the room and some of those on the stage when their parts were over. The room was so noisy that many of the best points in all the pieces were lost by the greater part of thea tidience. Cannot the young people see that they destroyed the effect of their own ex ertions, or that of their brothers and sisters whom they came to see and car, by keeping up Buch a noise and chatter? AN extra pair of trousers will double the life of your suit Get' a pair by ail means but be sure they have the "OUST label. It's your guarantee of perfect materials, workmanship, style and wear. We have the regular or peg models in all fabrics, and you'll con- I sider the prices lovi. C. E. Wescott'sSons Everybody's Store 1 CO mm c cm Funeral of Little One Held. This afternoon occurred the fun eral of the little year and a half old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry roisall, who passed away Saturday evening atter a short illness. Ihe little one was born on September $, 1913, and in their hour of grief the parents will receive the deepest sym pathy of their friends. The services were conducted by Rev. F. M. Druliner and the interment made in Oak Hill cemetery. M. Tritsch, refracting optician, at Gering & Co.'s Wednesday and Sat urday evenings. Examination free. I Ml Do You Find Fault With Everybody? An irritable, fault-finding disposi tion is often clue to a disordered stom ach. A man with good digestion is nearly always good-natured. A great many have been permanently benefit- d by Chamberlain's Tablets after years or suffering. Ihese tablets trengtheu the stomach and enable it appeared as the curtain rolled up. to perform its functions naturally. From the base of the apex, as high J Obtainable everywhere. Spring woolens and fashions from V. Price Sz Co., are here and ready for the selection cf your Easter clothes. Moi men of this community aie learning each season what the perfect satisfaction of wearing these custom tailored clothes means to them. Even if you don't want a suit just now, you can make your selection, while the assortment is at its best, and have the suit delivered whenever you choose. The suit must please you perfectly when it comes or need not take it. Prices range from $20, to $45 Manhattan Shirts Stetson. Hats eg a E9 S3 )