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VOL XXXIII.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, APRIL
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NO. 82.
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Warning to Oilier Children Who Have
Repeatedly Been Advised to Keep
Off the Terrace and Wall.
From Fririay's Dal?r.
Little Dorothy Persinger met with
a very serious accident yesterday aft
ernoon while on her way home from
school. She was coming down High
School Hill, and upon reaching the
residence property of Col. M. A. Bitei
the decided to try and have some fun
playing along the high concrete wall
running along the terrace on the
north of the property, and upon which
it is the custom of the school children
to recklessly slide down without re
gard to the danger, although chey
have often been warnc-d of the danger
of falling from the wall by Mr. Bates,
as well as a number of the neighbors
and the school teachers, but this does
not apparently influence the childre?i,
and the little girl is now suffering
r.s a result of this very foolish habit
of running and sliding on the gra.ssy
terrace down to the concrete wall.
Dorothy had gotten upon the wall
and walked to the east end, where :t
is ouite a distance to the concrete
walk, and then started to slide down,
doubtless thinking that, she would stop
when she reached the top of the con
crete wall, but this was not the case;
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s.s .--ne went rigm over me wan unj
onto the hard concrete walk some ten
feet below, falling with great force
and breaking her right arm, as well
as bruising the left arm badly and
her face was bad'y scratched and
marred up. Some of the companions
and those who witnessed the accident,
hurried the little girl to the office of
a physician, where the injury was
dressed.
This accident is to be greatly rep-retted,
but every effort has been
made to keep the children from get
ting on the wall, and in fact barb
wire was stretched along the top, but
this has been torn down by the chil
dren and they recklessly climb over
the wall,, regardless of their safety,
and as a result of this the little girl
was injured yesterday afternoon.
BE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY
OF GASOLINE BEFORE GO
ING FAR AWAY FROM HOME
From Saturday's Dallv.
The first of the "run-oct-of-gaso-line"
accidents has been recorded for
this season among the automobile
drivers of this city, when yesterday
rfternoon two of the young men of
the city decided to take a spin out
in the country for a few hours. Every
thing was lovely for a few minutes
; nd the driver felt thrilled with en
thusiasm as the car sped along, but
roon the speed slackened as the engine
began to give warning of the fact that
the supply of fuel wa3 going to the
bail, and in a few seconds the car
stood still and it was discovered upon
investigation that the supply of gaso
bne had been exhausted, and the
driver was compelled to face the
stern necessity of walking about a
mile to the nearest relief station,
where- they might procure some of
the needful gas from one of the kind
1 eartcd residents of that locality, and
soon they were on their way rejoic
ing and burning the miles of roadway
up with their speed as far as the
rough condition of the roads would
allow. It is safe to bet. however, that
after the walk forced upon the driver
of the car that he will not in the
future be caught without the neces
sary fuel.
Col. J. H. Thrasher arrived home
Saturday afternoon on Xo. 2 for the
first time since he has been at Lincoln
in attendance at the. meetings of the
state senate. The colonel is one of
the custodians of the senate chamber Hopkins, Missouri, to Wathena, Kan
End has been kept mighty busy with sas. That the weather is fine and
his work and greatly enjoyed his visit everybody is planting potatoes and
back home with his family, departing oats. That some have their gardens
this morning for Lincoln to resume i made and that the roads are dry and
his duties. J dusty and everything in fine condition.
To Be a Rare Treat.
From Frlday Dally.
The rehearsals for the Elks' mins
trels, which is to be given on nex
Thursday evening at the Farme!
theater, are progressing nicely and
the boys have gotten the entertain
ment down to a point where it is safe
to assure the public that it is going
to be the warmest proposition tha
it has ever been the good fortune o
the residents here to witness. Being
all home people, it will be appreciated
the more and the music and jokes
prepared are all of a very high order
TO BREAK ALL RECORDS
BY THE USING OF THE
VERY BEST SEEDS
From Friday's Da'ly.
The time is short! Every man must
get busy. There should be a meeting
in every school house to:
Establish the one best variety of
each kind of grain for your neighbor
hood.
To grow and to breed it up to its
highest efficiency, so that it may b
sold pure and unmixed in car loads.
To fan out the trash and immature
seeds.
To treat seed grain diseases with
formaldehyde.
To test all seeds in cloth Rag-Dolls
or blotting paper, arranging that
each boy and girl do the testing for a
different farmer-partner.
It is important as never before to
see that your soil and seed-bed are in
proper condition. Do "not wait for
somebody to start it. Arrarige for
your own meeting at once.
Sample of either the Rag-Doll Seed
Corn Tester or the blotter tester for
small grains, for a two-cent stamp.
Crop Improvement Committee,
COUNCIL OF GRAIN EXCHANGE,
Chicago, Illinois.
REV. H. G. M'CLUSKYWILL
DELIVER THE BAGGALAURATE
SERMON TO GLASS QF 1915
From Friday's Daily.
The senior class of the Plattsmouth
High school held a short meeting yes
terday mowing and selected Rev. II.
G. McClusky of the First Presbyterian
church to deliver the baccalurate ser
mon to the class of 1915. The sermon
will be delivered at the Methodist
church Sunday evening, May 23d. The
class has been quite fortunate in se
curing the services of Rev. McClusky,
as he is one of the leading pulpit
orators of the city and his address to
the young people on this important
event of their lives is certain to be
worth while. The young people com
posing the class just about to step
into the world from the portals of the
school will certainly appreciate the
sermon that this able gentlemari will
undoubtedly favor them with.
The senior class this morning met
and completed arrangements for the
graduation exercises, by the selection
f Miss Ruby Edgerton as the vale
dictorian and William Richardson as
the salutatorian of the class of 1915.
The graduating exercises will be held
on Wednesday evening, May 26th, at
the Parmele theater, when the mem
bers of the class will bid farewell to
their work in the Plattsmouth High
school and start out on their career in
the world.
Asks to Sell Real Estate.
Fmm Friday's Dallv.
This morning a petition was filed in
the district court by Emmons J.
Richey, as guardian of Norman E.
Dickson, minor, asking that he be al
lowed to sell certain real estate in
which the said minor has an interest,
ii order that the money may be in
vested in a more paying proposition.
The property involved consists of real
estate in this city and is valued at
some $725.
We are in receipt of a communica
tion from Mrs. Lina Kildow, in which
she states that she is moving from
E-
MEHTS NEEDED ON
During Vacation the Board Should
See That the Necessary Improve
ments Are Made.
From Saturday's Daily.
Several times in the past the fact
cf the present poor equipment of the
public schools, and especially in the
High school, has been brought to the
attention of "the public, and those
familiar with the situation have urged
the necessity of taking some action
that would allow the needed changes
and additions made to the schools to
place them in the proper shape where
they can be on an equality with
schools in other cities of the same
size in the state.
It is to be regretted that in a gen
eral program of improvement this
mportant part of the city's life should
nave been allowed to have become
somewhat remiss. Most of the school
buildings, and especially the Central
building, is badly in need of having
many improvements and changes
made that would tend to place them
n first-clas3 shape, while the High
school is very much cramped for the !
proper handling of the education of
the young men and women along the
modern lines that would give them an
equal chance with their fellow men in
the way of education and training.
While it is probably possible to give
to the boys and girls the rudiments of
the education they should have, it is
ut of all question in the present
building and quarters to come any
where near turning out the young
men and women as they should be
with all the training that a modern
education insures to them
Those who have visited other High
schools in the different towns of the
state realize the advantage that the
modern courses of education con-
ribute toward the finishing of the
oung people for their place in the
world. One of the leading things in
the modern school life is that of man-
al training that gives the boy an op
portunity to secure an insight into
mechanical work that will prove of
asting benefit, and the domestic
science training for the girls is of
equal value to them in preparing them
for the care of their homes in the
future. To have these, however, it
would be necessary to have buildings
specially arranged, and this is im
possible in the present school build-
igs, and the time is not far distant
hen the necessity of increasing the
ize of the school building becomes so
necessary that a modern building will
have to be erected.
A FORMER PLATTS
MOUTH CITIZEN DIES
AT HAVELOGK, NEB.
A message was received in this city
Saturday afternoon from R. N. Stani
forth, at Havelock, announcing the
fact of the death in that city of his
stepson, William Stitzer, who for
many years was a resident of this city.
Mr. Stitzer was some 60 years of age
and made his home in this city for a
long period of years, from 1869 to
1894, when he removed to Havelock,
where his mother, Mrs. Staniforth, re
sided. While here he was engaged
as a salesman in several of the fur-
iture stores of the city, being con
nected with the stores of Henry Boeck
and later with the firm of Streight &
Sattler and I. Pearlman. He was a
gentleman who possessed the highest
steem of his fellow men, and those
who knew him best speak in the high
est terms of his worth as a friend and
citizen, and the news of his death is
learned here with the greatest of re
gret. The message did not state the
cause of his death.
Mrs. Frank Burgess and daughter,
Miss Rena, who have been here visit
ing at the home of Mrs. Burgess' par
ents, departed this afternoon for
Omaha, from where Mrs. Burgess goes
to her home at Cedar Rapids, Neb.,
while Miss Rene goes to Peru to re
sume her studies there.
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SCHOOL BUILDINGS
AN EXCELLENT
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lie UNION
John Pearsley, One of Cass County'
Best and Most Respected
Cilizens, IsiDra-1.
The entire community mourns with
the relatives on account of the sud
den death of John Peirs!ey, realizing
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Bom in 1810 Near Glasgow, Scotland.
March 27, 1915, at His Home
that his passing away removes from
our midst one of the most highly
esteemed citizens, his death coming
after so few days of illness and before !
it was generally known that he was
seriously ill. He had slight attacks
of stomach trouble at times during
the past three years, but they caused
him very little inconvenience. Other
wise he had been in good health un
til a week before his death, when he
suffered an unusually severe attack
and a physician was called, but heart
trouble followed and he and the rela
tives realized that his condition was
very serious, in fact, he. expressed the
opinion that death was near and that
he was fully prepared and anxious for
the end to come. He was a devout
Christian man and had his own ideas
as to ceremony, and it was his desire
that no display be made after his
death, and in deference to his wish
there were no funeral services held
here. Sunday evening the remain?
were taken to the depot and the rela
tives accompanied them to the village
of Vesta, in Johnson county, and in
terment was made there beside the
first wife, whose death occurred there
in 1876. At the cemetery near Vesta
short song and prayer services were
held.
John Pearsley was tha youngest of
six brothers, their father having died
in 1847, and their mother six y2.11 a
afterward. In 1853, with two of his
brothers, John came to the New Eng
land states, where he grew to man
hood, and later located at Morrison,
111., where he was married to Susan A.
Scoggs on October 1, 1S68, and hec
death occurred November 10, 1876, at
their home near Tecumseh, Neb. Th?y
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were the parents of a son and daagh-jin the musical line is well known to
ter, Art O. Pearsley, who resides near! all of the music-loving public of the
Union, and Mrs. Mattie Becker, who
resides in Omuha. Mr. Pearsley's
second marriage was October 21, 1877,
to Miss Ellen Parrish, at Tecumseh,
and they resided there until 1S90,
v. hen they came to Cass county an.
located on a farm three miles north
cast of Union, and later they resided
two years in Plattsmouth, then came
I luck to tliis neighborhood and resided
Ion a farm southwest of here. In 11)0
they went to the Pacific coast and
lived fifteen months at Forest Grove,
Oregon, then returned and made their
home near here until 1909, when they
became residents of this village.
John Pearsley was one of Cass
comity's bet cilizens whose motto
was to do right at all times and in all
things i.nd wrong nobody, ami it
well known that he strictly followed
that policy. He was a good Chris
tian man who.;e church membership
extended back more than forty years,
and its teachings were his guide in
his daily life. Always happy and
Dcd at 8:20
m Union, Neb., A;
Saturday Morning,
red 75 Years.
jovial, he imparted that same feeling
to his companions on all occasions,
i'"t' that same disposition manifested
itroir during his. last hours, it being
his request that his friends be admit
ted to his room to greet him. His
c'oatli is a great loss, r.ot only to the
relatives, but to this community,
where his influence was always for the
betterment of his associates, and
many sorrowing friends extend sin
cere sympathy to the bereaved widow,
?i:u and daughter. Union Ledger.
ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS
MISS SADILEK WILL NOT
ASSIST MISS KNOFLICEK
From Saturdays Dallr.
Miss Helen Sadilek, who had ex
pected to be able to assist at the re
cital of Miss Agnes Knoflicek at the
Parmele theater on Wednesday even
ing, April 7th, finds that she cannot
come here on account of illness. Miss
Sadilek has bson feeling quite poorly
for several weeks, but attempted to
carry on her work, but has been order
ed by her physician to refrain from
further musical work for some time
until she i3 restored to health. Miss
Knoflicek has been very fortunate,
however, in having been able to secure
the assistance of -Miss Emma Cum
mins, the talented pianist of this city,
who will play the accompaniment for
the different numbers on the program
at the recital. Both of these talented
ladies were btfrn and reared here in
liatismouth and their wonderful work
city.
Mrs. J. M. Fades, who has been
visiting in Omaha w-ith relatives and
friends, came in yesterday morning.
GLORIOUS
TIME TO CLEAN
OP THE CIT1
Don't Wait for the Mayor to Issue a
Proclamation, but "f,'o to It" and
Do the Work Now.
From Saturday's Dally.
Now with the warming breezes and
the first buds on the trees announcing
that the glorious springtime is again
with us and soon all nature will take
on its robings of the season and the
time of rejuvination be at hand for all
hings. It would be highly appropriate
in this opening of spring to proclaim
a general clean-up day throughout the
city, and it should be heeded by every
loyal citizen as a time when they
should add their part toward making
the city as clean and neat as possible
by seeing that all the waste and
trash that has accumulated during the
winter months is cleaned up and haul
ed away or placed where it will not
cietract from the appearance of the
homes or business houses of the city
All debris that can should be burned
up and the lawns raked and put in
proper shape and the residence section
of the city placed in a condition where
t can be pointed to with pride by the
owners ot tne homes mat lie scatter
ed over the hills of Plattsmouth.
There is nothing prettier than a
well-kept residence and surroundings,
and if the debris is not cleaned up
around the places there can be no
beauty and only the appearance of
shiftlessness on the part of the per
sons residing there. Not only is the
residence part of the city ready for
a general clean-up, but the alleys in
the rear of the business houses, which
have allowed quite an accumulation
of dirt at the rear of their building to
prove not only an eyesore, but also a
general nuisance.
Mayor Sattler will probably
designate a time shortly for a general
clean-up day in the city, but if anyone
has time they should get busy without
waiting for the necessity of a
proclamation and see that their resi
dence property or business houses are
placed in good shape for the spring
and summer season, and then they
can rest assurred that they have ful
filled one of the requirements of good
citizenship. Let the work commence
at once and continue until every piece
of property in the city has been clean
ed up in proper shape.
THE ROADS LEADING
INTO TOWN GETTING IN
MUCH BETTER SHAPE
From Saturday's Dal?r.
The farmers from out in the coun
try driving in this morning report
that the roads are getting in much
better shape than for months and that
this is the first opportunity that has
been given when traveling is anything
like comfortable, and quite a large
number of the residents of the sur
rounding country took advantage of
the occasion to drive in for a few
hours' visit in this city. The farm
ers are generally preparing for spring
work and a great many of them have
been able to get cut in the fields for
a jittie 01 tne worK preparatory to
putting in the crop for the summer,
but this has been retarded somewhat
by the heavy snows, but from now on
the work should boom on the farm.
Every prospect points to one of the
most successful years in the history
of the west and a bounteous crop for
the season of 1915.
Telegraph Service Omitted.
BYom Saturday' Dally
Owing to an accident in the office of
the American Press Association in
Omaha early this morning the reg
ular telegraph service supplied to the
Evenitig Journal could not be filled and
it is necessary to omit that feature
from tonight's paper. Our readers
will please overlook this circumstance,
as it was utterly impossible for the
press association to send out the
plate service as usual.
Sell your property by an ad in The
JournaL
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Returns Home From Hospital.
From Saturday's DhIt.
This afternoon Mrs. Jacob Mason
returned home from Omaha, where
for the past two weeks she has been
at the St. Joseph's hospital in that
city recovering from an operation for
gall stones. Mrs. Mason is feeling
much better since the operation and
her family and friends are hopeful
that she will continue to improve and
regain her former good health. Mr.
Mason visited the hospital this morn
ing an accompanied his wife home.
JUDGE ARGHER GIVES
HOBO AN INVITATION TO
"GET UP AND GET"
From Friday's Dallv.
This morning Ben Case, a wanderer.
was present in the court of Judge M.
Archer to explain how he came co be
in a warlike condition last evening
when he had invited the whole world
to step in and he would clean them up.
ps his courage had been augumented
by numerous portions of "red-eyj'
and it had a most baneful effect on
Ben, as he continued his demonstra
tions a little too long and was gather
ed in by the strong hand of the law
and confined to the new city jail fcr
the evening, where he could vent his
wrath on the cold, unfeeling walls of
the prison without danger to anyone.
Ben, it seems, should have been named
Hard Case, when brought before the
court stated he was a butcher bv
trade, and arriving here had fallen
by the wayside and imbibed too froc-
y of the flowing bowl. The jucV,
after carefully considering the evi
dence in the case, decided that the city
would be better off without the pres
ence of Ben and gave him unt'l the
triking of 10 o'clock to get himself
hence, and the gentleman lost no time
in carrying out the orders of the
burt and departed in the direrlior. r.f
Omaha.
ANNUAL CONGREGA
TIONAL MEETING OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
'rnm Saturday's Dally.
The annual congregational meeting
of the First Presbyterian church was
held Wednesday evening in the church
in this city, at which time the reports
of the different officers were read,
covering the year just closed and the
officers of the church and Sunday
school for the year chosen. As elders.
B. Shopp and Henry Zuckweiler
were chosen. Trustees of the church,
John Bauer, jr., and A. G. Cole; treas
urer, L. O. Minor. In the Sunday
school the following were selected to
carry on tne work: Superintendent,
L. Farley; assistant superintend
ent, J. M. Robertson; secietary, Mis.
argaret Hodgert; recording sec
retary, Ada Mann; enrolling sec
retary, Mattie Larson; librarian,
Estelle Baird; organist, Blanche
Sayles; assistant organist, Verna
Cole. It was decided by the meeting
to continue the evening meetings that
have proven so successful in the last
few weeks.
STANDING OF THE CANDI
DATES IN THE PIANO CON
TEST AT EASTWOOD'S
From Saturday's Dally.
Mrs. Philip Rhin
Miss Josephine Warga . .
Mrs. II. W. Klinger
.342,705
.23r).L65
.170..V-W
-Miss Klara Bizanz 144.81 r
Miss Tiliie Halmes 127,765
Miss Violet Keil 109,7 .r5
B. Church 10',10
Miss Helen Horn 102,050
E. Sunday School 101,770
Presbyterian Sunday School. .101,760
Miss Grace Nolting 100,695
Miss Vera Campbell 100,230
Mrs. J. McGee 100,285
Mr. Charles Isner 100 040
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iss Bessie Wiles 100,00
This is the last month of the piano
contest. Buy from your favorite
friend due bill and pledge of patron
age cards, which are good in trade at
our store. Watch for the list of
premiums to be given away.
G. P. EASTWOOD.
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