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VOL. XXXIII.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, .MONDAY', JUNE
NO. 101.
MAY DEPOSIT
MONEY BY MAIL
AFTER JULY 1
Evry Person Ten Years Old or Over
May Open a Postal Savings
Bank Account July 1.
From Friday's Daily.
Every person in the United States
ten years old or over may ojen an
account in a postal savings bank
after July 1st, according to an in
structive leaflet on the Postal Sav
ings System just issued by Post
master General Burleson. This im
IKrtant extension of the service will
le made possible by permitting per
sons living in communities so sparse
ly settled as not to justify the de
signation of their local postoffices as
regular postal savings banks, to open
accounts by mail.
Governor Dockery, third assistant
postmaster general, who has direct
supervision of postal savings, was so
impressed by appeals from all over
the country too pen savings accounts
by mail that he took up the task some
weeks ago of working out a feasible
and safe method for meeting a de
mand well illustrated in a letter from
a Saline county Missourian, who re
sides many miles from a postal sav
ings bank:
"Having a few hundred dollj.rs from
fifty years of hard and assidous labor
and skimping economy on the part of
my wife and myself, we concluded to
deposit it in the Postal Savings Bank
of . We wrote to the post
master at that place and received re
ply to the effect that none but patrons
of that office could deposit in that of
fice, which is very disappointing news
to us. Our little farm is not large
enough to support us and land is so
high that it is impossible for us to
buy more with what little ve have
saved and we are so old that 've can't
labor much now and we would be so
glad to lay by at least enough to put
us away in decency."
Under th-i plan adopted by the post
master general for opening accounts
by mail an intending depositor, resid
ing where there is no regular de
signated postal savings bank will ap
ply to his local postmaster, who will
see that nacessary identification data
is prepared and forwarded to a near
by postoffice authorized to accept de
posits. The intending depositor will
then be given permission to forward
his first and subsequent deposits by
money order or registered mail direct
to the postmaster at the banking
point for which receipts or certificates
will be issued. He may withdraw all
or any part of his postal savings by
mail and on demand, together with
any interest that may be due him.
The new leaflet points out that any
person ten years old or over may open
an account in his or her own name;
that an account may be opened by a
married woman free of any control or
interference by her husband; that
postoffice officials are forbidden to dis
close to any person, except the de
positor, the amount of any deposits,
that withdrawals may be ma le with
out previous notice, and that the gov
ernment guarantees to repay all de
posits on demand with accrued in
terest. A NOVEL AND ATTRACTIVE WIN
DOW DISPLAY AT WESCOTT'S
From Friday Daily.
Quite a novel and attractive window
display has been prepared at the store
of C. E. Wescott's Sons in their west
show window that certainly shows a
great deal of originality and skill in
the preparation. The background of
the window has been prepared by hav
ing narrow strips of straw tacked in
the form that they will spell the
words, "straw hats," and this was se
cured by taking a hat to pieces and
using the material to make the letters
with. This is the work of J. L. Mei
singer, one of the clever clerks and
window dressers. The window itself
is devoted to the display of neat and
attractive Palm Beach suits that are
quite seasonable now.
Paints and Oils, Gering & Co.
DEPART FOR THEIR SUMMER
HOME UP IN MICHIGAN
From Friday's Ia!lv.
After about six weeks in visiting
the scenes of their early days in Glen-
wood and at Plattsmouth, Neb., Rev
H. H. and Mrs. Oneal left this morn
ing (Thursday) for Des Moines, and
from there will go to Joliet, 111., for
a visit with their son, Rev. E. W.
Oneal. From Joliet they go in a few
weeks to their summer home at Bay
View, Mich. Their visit at this time
has been one of the most pleasant in
years, as they met and mingled with
many old and dear! relatives and
friends and thereby have renewed
their youth in these associations. May
they come again and thus keep up
those associations of days that have
gone by. Glenwood Tribune.
GASS COUNTY RURAL
CARRIERS MEET AT
WEEPING WATER
Prnn Friday's Dallv
The annual meeting of the Cass
County Rural Carriers' association
was held at Weeping Water Monday
afternoon, May 31. The heavy rains
of the previous week had made the
roads impassable for automobiles, but
in spite of that fact there was a very
large percentage of the carriers in
attendance. The various subjects of
interest to the carriers were taken up
and discussed fully, and all felt that
much benefit was derived in being
present and taking part. Mr. John
Konkright, president of the Nebraska
Rural State Carriers' associations was
present and took a lively part and in
teerst in ,the program, being the prin
cipal speaker of the meeting, by in
vitation. The old officers were re-elected for
the coming vear as follows:
Presi
dent, K. L. Kniss, Murray; vice presi
dent, Charles F. Rosenow, Alvo; sec
retary and treasurer. Miles M. Allen,
Plattsmouth. The next meeting will
be held at Weeping Water on May 30
(next Decoration day), and as a full
attendance is desired, all carriers re
member the date and try to be
present.
FUNERAL OF MRS.
ANNA M. FISHER
THIS MORNING
From Saturday's Dally.
This morning the body of Mrs.
Anna M. Fisher, a former resident of
this city, was brought in from Oma
ha, and the interment made in Oak
Hill cemetery, where the husband
now sleeps his last long rest. The
death of Mrs. Fisher occurred at
Omaha on Wednesday, as the result
of a stroke of paralysis, which the
lady had been stricken with three
weeks from the day of her death,
and she never recovered from the
malady, but continued to grow worse
until death came to her relief.
Mrs. Fisher was born in Baden
Baden, Germany, sixty-four years ago
and came to America when quite
young, and later was married to Mr.
William I). Fisher. Mrs. Fisher came
to Plattsmouth in 1887, and made her
home here until 1905, when they
moved to Omaha and had since made
that city their home, and three years
ago Mr. Fisher passed away in that
city and the funeral was held here at
Oak Hill. To mourn her death Mrs.
Fisher leaves two daughters, Mrs. R.
E. McLennan and Mrs. Ira O. Gor
man, of Omaha, who with their fam
ilies, accompanied the body here this
morning. A large number of friends
from Omaha accompanied the funeral
party to this city and assisted in the
laying away of this old friend and
neighbor, while a number of the old
friends from this city were present
at the grave. The services were con
ducted by Rev. H. G. McClusky of the
Presbyterian church at the grave.
The death of Mrs. Fisher was quite
a shock to the former neighbors and
friends in this city, who had not
learned of her illness until the death
message was received here. She was
a member of the Loyal Mystic Legion
of America.
Wall Paper. Gering & Co.
MAY MEAN EN
LARGMENT OF
YARDS HERE
Burlington Railroad Company Files
Suit to Get Possession of Bottom
Lands Adjacent to Tracks.
From Saturday ranr.
A case that is filled with import
ance to the residents of Plattsmouth
has just been filed in the United
States district court at Lincoln by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
road company, against the City of
Plattsmouth, its mayor, as head of
the city government, and forty-five
other defendants who have asserted
claims to the land on the Missouri
river bottom east of this city and ad
joining the right-of-way of the plain
tiff company. The railroad being in
corporated in the state of Ililnois,
brings the suit in the federal court to
settle the question of ownership of
the land east of their right-of-way,
and which thej claim they are entitled
to have and hold as their property.
In their petition to the district
court the railroad company sets up
that the congress of the United
States, on July 2, 18C4, amended the
act authorizing the construction of a
line of railroad and telegraph from
the Missouri river to the Pacific and
granted to the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad company of Iowa a
right-of-way through the then ter
ritory of Nebraska from the mouth
of the Platte river westerly to a point
of connection with the Union Pacific,
and authorized the respective railroad
companies to acquire any lands or
premises that might be necessary and
proper for turntables, standing places
for cars, depots, station houses or any
other structure required in the con
struction and maintaince of such rail
road. That the congress of the Unit
ed States, in 1809, authorized the Bur
lington & Missouri River Railroad
company of Iowa to sell, assign and
convey to a railroad company to be
under the laws of the state of Ne
braska all rights granted to them un
der the act of congress, and by virtue
of this the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad company of Nebraska
was vested with all franchise, prop
erty, rights and privileges under the
act of 18C2 and 18G4.
That subsequently the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad in Ne
braska did construct its line of rail
road from a point on the Missouri
river near the mouth of the Platte,
and thence in a westerly direction to
a point on the Union Pacific railway,
and that the plaintiff, in 1888, acquir
ed all rights of the Burlington & Mis
souri River railroad in Nebraska, and
operating the line of railroad through
this county, and that its line is laid
across the bridge spanning the Mis
souri river, and is laid on the right
bank of said river to a point in sec
tion 20, township 12, north, range 14,
east, and continues from said point
northerly and northwesterly to the
city of Kearney on the Union Pacific
lailroad, passing through sections 20,
17, 18 and 7, township 12, north,
lange 14, east, in Cass county, Ne
braska.
That at the time the patents to the
City of Plattsmouth and Wheatly
Micklewait, its mayor, were made by
the federal government, for sections 7
and 18, in township 12, north, range
14, east, the said sections were frac
tional sections and bounded by the
Missouri river, and that at that time
the river flowed on the west side of
the Missouri valley and formed the
eastern boundary of the tracts in the
above mentioned section acquired by
the Burlington & Missouri River rail
road in Nebraska, upon which the
company constructed its railway and
station and depot grounds, all of
which the plaintiff later purchased.
In the year 1889 the Missouri
river's current changed gradually
from the west side of the river and
accretions of land began to form on
the bank of the river, attaching to the
premises of the plaintiff company.
The petition further states that on
or about the first day of April, 1895,
Charles A. Weldy entered upon said
accretions and fenced in and took ac
tual possession of all accretions lying
east of section 18, in township 12, and
all that accretions lying east from
the original bank of the Missouri
river, and Weldy held actual posses
sion of the same until May 1, 1902,
when he sold his interests to Edward
Fitzgerald and Frank E. Schlater,
and they then, on May 1, 1907, sold
their holdings to the plaintiff com
pany.
The railroad company, in their peti
tion, contend that the parties claiming
the title to the land have no legal
right to the same and that the land is
composed wholly of accretions that
are constantly taken upandabandoned
by those claiming title, and that it is
impossible to set a definite boundary
owing to the shifting nature of the
river.
The petition of the railroad com
pany further states that they main
tain in the City of Plattsmouth large
repair shops and switching yards and
at times store large numbers of cars
and that it contemplates in the future
the use of said accretions for that
purpose, and has returned said prop
erty to the state board of equaliza
tion of the state of Nebraska and has
paid taxes on the same. Through the
fact of the railroad company having
been in open and adverse and con
tinuous possession of the territory
contended for for more than ten
years, and that each defendant be re
quired to plead to the petition of the
plaintiff and that the title of plaintiff
to the land in question be quieted.
This move of the railroad company
certainly looks like business and the
opening up of an opportunity to en
large the holdings of the railroad here
by larger switch yards on the bottom,
and this certainly would be an ideal
place to locate a railroad yards and
would be one of the best in this sec
tion of the west. The contentions of
the railroad company look mighty
f-trong in the holding of the land. If
they are successful in their suit it
would not be surprising to see plans
for enlarging the yards carried out at
once. In the case, Attorney William
A. Robertson is assisting the other
attorneys for the railroad, including
Byron Clark, Judge Jesse L. Root and
W. J. Weingarteu of Omaha.
MRS, MIKE WARGA.
SR. OPERATED UPON
FOR APPENIDCITIS
From Friday's Daliy.
A telephone message received this
morning from Havelock gives further
particulars of the illness of Mrs. Mike
Warga, sr., of that city, mention of
which was made in the Journal yes
terday. It seems that Mrs. Warga
was taken with a very acute case of
appendicitis and the critical condition
of the patient made it necessary to
call the husband and children home
from this city, where they were in at
tendance at a funeral. She was
operated on last evening at the hos
pital in Lincoln, and this morning
was reported as resting as easy as
could be expected under the circum
stances, although it was too soon af
ter the operation to fully determine
the outcome qf the operation. The
friends here will await anxiously
lurther word from her bedside, trust
ing that she may recover, although
the case is a very severe one.
FRANK SHEVAL, A CAR REPAIR
ER, INJURED AT THE SHOPS
From Friday's Dally.
Yesterday while Frank Sheval, a
car repairer in the employ of the Bur
lington, was engaged in holding a bar
for his partner, who was sledging
some rivets in a freight car on which
they were working, he was unfortun
ate enough to receive a rather painful
injury', as the sledge in the hands of
his partner missed the bar and glanc
ing off struck Frank just above the
eye, inflicting a rather painful and
annoying injury that necessitated the
services of a surgeon to dress and
several stitches were required to close
the wound, and as a result of it Frank
will take a short layoff from his
duties.
Looking After Children.
From Friday's Dailv.
Rev. J. A. Murray, Lincoln district
superintendent of the Nebraska Chil
dren's Home feociety, was in town this
week working in the interests of the
society. Aryone who would like to
take a child into their home may ad
dress him Ht University Place, Neb.
BANK CHECK FOR
GER HAS A BUSY
DAY IN THIS CITY
The Bogus Check Man Works Some of
Our Business Men to the Tune of
S43, and Fails on Others.
From Saturo v'b ran.
As the result of the visit of a man
giving the name of Hans Jensen to
this city yesterday afternoon several
of the business men of the city are
mourning the fact that they have in
their possession worthless checks to
the amount of $43, as far as reported,
although there may be others who
have not as yet reported the fact.
The man, who is described as being
rather tall and dark complected, as
well as slim in build, first visited the
clothing store of P'alter & Thierolf in
the afternoon and picked out a pair of
pants and a shirt, the whole amount
ing to $4.50, and stated that he would
go out to the Missouri Pacific depot
and secure the money of the man he
had been working for near Union, as
he was at the depot assisting in un
loading a new Ford car which they
had purchased while in Omaha. Later
in the afternoon he visited the cloth
ing store and tendered a check for
$23, which was made on a blank
check of the Plattsmouth State Bank
and had the name of the Bank of
Union written in on it, and signed by
C. II. Peterson. As there was a
party by that name residing at Union
nothing was thought of the matter
and the difference in the price of the
goods and the check, given the man,
who then departed, although he was
seen later on the street, but it was
not discovered until this morning that
the man named Peteror had no ac
count at the bank at Union, and the
check was worthless, and then Jensen,
the man passing the check, had dis
appeared. Adolph Geise is also a victim of
the man, as he cashed a check similar
to that passed at Falter & Thierolf's,
but for the sum of $20, and as the
man purchased a case of beer he ten
dered the check and was given the
change by Mr. Geise, and then de
parted. Before the man, Jensen, visited the
saloon of Mr. Geise he called at the
store of William Holly and asked to
see a raincoat, which he was shown
by a clerk, and asking the price, ten
dered the $20 check, but Mr. Holly
declined to easily, it, and the man
stated he would go up street and get
it cashed, and was shortly afterwards
seen to enter the Geise saloon, jand
about 7 o'clock, meeting Mr. Holly
on the street, told him that he had
gotten the money at Geise's, but he
failed to call for the coat.
The man, it is claimed, had traded
some at the Falter & Thierolf store
here and they were not in the least
suspicious of him until the bank at
Union had informed them that the
check was worthless, as no person of
the name of Peterson had a checking
account or money on deposit there.
Sheriff Quinton was informed of the
affair and is now attempting to get
a trace of the man, who is thought to
have gone to Omaha on the 7:45 Mis
souri Pacific train last evening and
then lost to sight. The new law in
this state makes the passing of a
worthless check a very serious of
fense and the man, if caught, will
have to suffer the consequences.
ORGANIZE TEACHERS'
UNIOIN TRAINING CLASS
AT THE M. E, CHURCH
From Friday's Dally.
Last evening there was organized
at the Mathodist church a teachers'
union training class among the teach
ers of the Sunday schools of the city
for the purpose of making the work
more syst2matic and effective, and
some ten of the teachers were pres
ent to take part in the meeting, which
was one very profitable to all present.
This class is organized for the pur
pose of assisting in putting the Sun
day school work on a more effective
basis and should prove a very valua
ble addition to the Sunday school work
of the city.
HEAVY DOWN POUR OF RAIN
HERE EARLY THIS MORNING
From Friday'" rally.
At an early hour this morning a
very heavy rain visited this section
which, whi'e it was of short duration
caused a liberal downpour and the
streets were soon well filled with the
flood water from the hills, but little
damage is reported from this locality
as a result. The storm visited this
citv between 4 and 5 o'clock this
morning, although threatening all
night to burst forth. In the western
part of Nebraska and eastern Colo
rado the storm was most intense and
the Burlington this morning was suf
fering from the effects of washouts
on their Denver line. No. 10, due at
1:40 a. m., was some eight hours late,
while No. (J was five hours tardy.
CASES IN COUNTY AND
PROBATE COURT FILED
FOR ADJUSTMENT
From Friday's Dally.
Yesterday a petition asking for the
probate of ihe last will and testament
of John D. Rough, deceased, was filed
in the county court. The deceased
was one of the old residents of the
vicinity of Weeping Water and leaves
an estate valued at $7,300 personal,
and $100 ieal estate. William A.
Robertson apjears as attorney for the
petitioners.
Petition for the administration of
the estate of John C. Wolf, deceased,
was filed in the county court by Fred
G. Wolf, a son, who states in his peti
tion that the deceased, who was a
resident of Cass county and was pos
sessed at the time of his death of real
estate valued at $1,000 and personal
property at $200. The petition asks
for the appointment of Lafayette Mil
ler as administrator.
A suit was filed in the county court
by the Mishawka Woolen Manufactur
ing company against L. F. Langhorst
of Elmwood asking judgment in the
sum of $90.93 for goods alleged to
have been sold by plaintiff to defend
ant on or about January 13, 1914, and
for which they ask judgment.
OPEN HOUSE ON
THEIR GOLDEN WED
DING ANNIVERSARY
From Saturday's Dally.
On Tuesday, June 8th, at their
home in this city, Mr. and Mrs. Jos
eph W. Johnson will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary, and in
commemoration of the happy event of
fifty years ago will hold open house
at their home from 2 to G o'clock in
the afternoon, when their old friends,
as well as the older citizens of the
city, can join them in celebrating the
happy event that they are able to
observe together. There are no more
worthy or highly esteemed residents
in Plattsmouth, and on the approach
ing happy event they will be showered
with good wishes and congratulations.
There will be no other invitations is
sued and all old friends and neighbors
are invited to join in the happy oc
casion. MICHAEL HILD AND FAMILY
MOVE INTO THEIR NEW HOME
From Friday's Dally.
Yesterday Michael Had and family
were busily engaged in moving their
household effects from their home on
Granite street to the new home on
Main street, where they will make
their home in the house formerly oc
cupied by J. M. Meisinger and wife,
which Mr. Hild has recently had fixed
up in fine shape, with modern im
provements, and this will make them
an ideal, comfortable home in the
future.
"Billy" Sunday, the Man, and His
Message at the Journal office for
$1.00. This work contains the heart
of Mr. Sunday's gospel message. Come
in and get yours while they last, as
we only have a few.
Wall Paper. ' Gering & Co.
REUNION OF FOR
MER PLATTS
MOUTH PEOPLE
Held at the Windemere Hotel in Santa
Monica in Honor of .Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Marshall.
The Evening Journal is in receipt
of the following interesting letter
from C. W. Sherman, one of the old-
time newspaper men of Nebraska, arid
for a great, many years publisher of
the Journal, that gives an account of
a delightful reunion of the former
Plattsmouth people residing in south
ern California. Mr. Sherman has just
removed to that locality from Oregon,
and is well pleased with his new
home. The letter is as follows and is
dated from Los Angeles:
Editor Journal, Plattsmouth, Neb.:
Brought together at the invitation
of Mrs. Edna Eaton, one of the pleas
antest parties it was ever my for
tune to attend, took place in the
spacious parlors of the Windemere
hotel in Santa Monica, near this city,
Saturday evening last a reunion of
people who formerly resided in Platts
mouth and Cass county, in honor of
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Marshall, Mrs.
Eaton's father and mother, who have
been isiting on the coast for a time.
To me it was indeed a happy occasion,
as I had only recently arrived here
from southern Oregon, and had seen
but a very few of these people during
the past fifteen years, and to me it
seemed as if I had been bodily trans
planted into the old town and among
old-time friends and neighbors of the
ong ago. It was delightful to wit
ness the many happy greetings of
friends long separated, and to hear
the expressions of delighted enjoy
ment at the reciting of talei of the
olden times. If there had been differ
ences between them these were for
gotten, and only the pleasant occur
rences were remembered. During the
evening the guests were treated to a
most delightful concert by a number
of trained vocalists, and the assembly
parted at a late hour, only regretting
the neecssity of separating.
Following is a list of those par
ticipating in the happy event:
Messrs. and Mesdames Morgan Way-
bright, C. E. Wescott, James M. Pat
terson, Ben Elson. Harvey Holloway
and Harvey Albert and Marian Hol
loway, Frank E. Hartigan, Mr. C. W.
Sherman, Mrs. John R. Cox, Miss
Helen Cox, Mr. II. E. Spencer, Mrs.
Louise Smith Scott, all of Los An
geles; Mrs. M. B. Murphy, Senator
and Mrs. S. L. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Thomas, Mr. II. S Austin and
son, Mrs H. G. Thomas, all of Long
Beach; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis of
Fullerton; Messrs. and Mesdames
Will Stadleman, Nelson Murray,
Frank Johnson, E. E. Eaton ami
Laura Elizabeth Eaton, Miss Fostene
and Corine Murray, of Santa Monica,
and the guests of honor, Dr. and Mrs.
C. A. Marshall. C. W. Sherman.
VERY NARROW ESCAPE
FROM SERIOUS FIRE AT
THE HOTEL RILEY
From Saturday's Dally.
This morning about 11:30, while the
work of preparing dinner was in pro
gress at the Hotel Riley, a blaze was
discovered in the room just above the
kitchen, and which was undoubtedly
caused by the over-heating of the
large sheet-iron dome that hangs over
the cooking range and which is used
to convey the grease and odors from
the stove to the roof. This accumula
tion of dirt and grease in the dome
caught fire and the intense heat pro
duced a small blaze in the vacant
room above and also filled the rooms
and hall with a blinding smoke. As
soon as the blaze was discovered the
alarm was turned in and the citizens
responded nobly and soon the small
ines of hose placed in the hotel for
fire protection were pouring a stream
on the source of the fire, and as soon
as the fire department arrived the
streams soon had the fire under con
trol. There was but little damage
done to the building, owing to the
prompt work of the citizens and fire
men. "Old Hickory" was on the job.
as usual, with the fire department.
