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PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916.
FAGC X.
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ft PEOPLE OF
PEACE BUT ARE
READY TO WAR
Administration Means Business in Its
Preparedness Plan Day and
Night Speeches.
rrom Tuesday's Dally.
Chicago, Jan. 31. The United
States has made preparations for im
mediate war as far as the navy is con
cerned, although the present naval
force is inadequate in size, President
Wilson declared tonight in an address
before several thousands of people in
the auditorium here.
We mean business," he said in
speaking f the preparedness plans
f the administration. We have given
;o the present fleet of the United
States an organization such as it never
had before. I am told by Admiral
Fletcher," the president said, '"and we
have ruidi? preparation for immediate
war hi far a? the r.avy is concerned.'
The army, the president said, as at
pivscr.t constituted, "is not large
t r.ouch even ior the ordinary duties
of peace.
Repeats Warning to Hasten.
The president repeated his warnings
that no time must be lost in strength-ir.i.-vg
the iefenses of the nation. He
declared the government was doing
everything it could for preparednes.
"When I see rorr.e of my fellow citizen-
spread tinder wheir the sparks
ere falling. I wonder what their ideal
f Americanism is. the president said.
America, the president said, had
been cruelly misjudged by the nations
i.ow at war.
"I know that on the other side of
the water ther? has been a great deal
r.f cruel misjudgment with regard to
the reasons why America has remain
ed neutral. Those looking at us from
a durance do r.ot feel the strong
: ul.-ts of i kals and principles that are
H us. They dj not feel the conviction
f Arneiica that our mission is a mis-.-ie-!i
"f peace and thnt righteousness
iar.not be maintained as a standard
3 i the midst ef arms. They do not
icrdire that back of all our energy we
r.rc a body of idealists much more
leady to lay down our lives for a
thought than for a dollar.
"They suppose, sonr of them, that
wt ;uc holding off because we can
r':?ke money while others are dying,
he nv-t cruel misunderstanding that
: ;.y nation has tver had to face so
v-opi; that it seems almost useless
i try to correct it because it shows
that the very fundamentals of our life
:.ie i t comprehended or understood,
llabrs Brought About Present War.
Rulers, rot public opinion, brought
:.ln;t the present war, Mr. Wilson de
clared.
T thank Cod there is no man in the
United States who has the authority
to bring on war wihout the consent of
the nation.
"The task of the United States," he
."aid, "has been to assert the principles
ff law in a world in which the prin
ciples of law have been broken down
"We are not thinking of invasion of
the territory of the United States,"
the president declared. "That is not
what is making us think. We are not
s-sking ourse'lves shall we be prepared
only to defend our own homes and our
wn shores. Is that all we stand for?
To keep tha door shut securely against
our enemies? What about the great
trusteeship set up for liberty of na
tional government in the whole west
ern hemisphere? We stand pledged to
see that both the continents of Amer
ica are left free to be used by their
people as those people choose to use
them under a system of national pop
ular sovereignty as absolutely unchal
lenged as our own."
Paces Great Chicago Crowd.
The president arrived in Chicago
from Milwaukee shortly after C p. m
and was driven to the hotel. Later he
went to the auditorium which was a
riot of red, white and blue, swung
in festoons from rails and boxes. Back
of the stage hung the American coat
of arms on a field of blue. Four gal
leries beside the main floor were white
with faces. Many had sought in vain
to obtain tickets and were turned
away. Twelve hundred policemen held
in check the sidewalk throngs, clear
ing the street entirely of traffic be
tween the hotel and the auditorium.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago occu
pied a seat on the stage near the pres
ident and Governor Dunne of Illinois
was in a box.
The entrance of the president was
heralded by the playing of the "Star
Spangled Banner." The crowd stood
and applauded. Mrs. Wilson did not
enter with the president, but sat in
a box. The president spoke in part as
follows: .
"A. year ago when the war in Eu
rope had been six months in progress,
1 take it, it would have seemed incred
ible to all of us that the storm should
have continued to gather in intensity
instead of spending its force. A year
ago it did seem as if America might
rest assured without any great anxiety
and take it for granted that she would
not be drawn into this malestrom. But
six months ago was merely the be
ginning of the struggle."
THE "DEAD MAN,"
WHEN RESCUED, WAS
VERY MUCH ALIVE
From Tuesday's Dall.
This morning as the members of
a
crew of a south-bound Missouri Pa
cifiic freight train were passing the
old Livingston farm along the right
of wav of that railroad, about half
way between this city and Mynard,
they were rather startled to see lying
on the snow near the tracks the
body of a man who rppeared to be
lifeless. The train crew, on reaching
Mynard, notified the agent there of
the fact of the man lying in the field,
and that it seemed as though he was
dead. The authorities here were
notified and Sheriff Quinton hastened
cut to the scene of the supposed
tragedy and found the "dead man
very much alive, although consider
ably chilled from spending the night
by the small camp fire and suffering
from a badly charred trouser leg a
the result of during the night of get
ting his pants into too close range of
the camp fire, and for a short time Mr
Blake, as the man gave his name
seemed destined to ascend in a chariot
of fire. The sheriff brought the un
fortunate man to this city and gave
him a feed and he will probably be
allowed to continue on his way south
to Leavenworth. Kansas. Mr. Blake
came from Grand Island, he stated
and had walked a greater part of the
distance through the cold and snow to
reach this point and was not serious
ly injured by his stay in the cold last
night.
ELKS ABANDON MEET
ING ON ACCOUNT OF
THE HEATING PLANT
From Wednesdays Daily.
The business houses and residents
in the Coates' block last evening hac
an experience not unlike that of Com
Peary when he braved the dangers of
the artic lands to discover, and there
are a few who state that the tern
perature ;n the building was a great
deal colder than that of the artic
This condition of affairs was due
largely to the fact that the boiler used
in the heating plant of the building
was found to be in need of repair and
made it necessary to shut down from
early in the afternoon until long af
ter midnight. The enforced shut
down proved very inconvenient, both
to those residing in that building, as
well as to the Elks, who also secure
heat from this plant, and the regular
lodge meeting of the Elks was
abandoned owing to the chilly condi
tion of the building. The Gem thea
ter was also among the sufferers, as
it secures its supply of heat from
this source.
SIMON CLARK, SUF
IN EAR, IS BETTER
From Tuesday's Dallr.
Simon Clark, who for the past four
weeks has been suffering a great deal
from a gathering in his ears, is show
ing signs of improvement and his
condition is much more satisfactory
than it has been since he was first
visited by the affliction. Mr. Clark
has not been able to carry on his
duties at Ihe shops, owing to his ill
ness, and has been kept in a great
deal of pain by the trouble. He is
now taking treatment of a specialist
in Omaha and feels that he will soon
be on the highway to recovery.
For Sale.
Good span mares, weight 2,000 lbs.
Inquire of J. E. Tuey, or 'Phone No.
207-W. 1-20-tfwkly
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
FER NG
GATHERING
Always beara
the
Signature of
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Card of Thanks.
We take this means of expressing
cur heartfelt appreciation of the sym
pathy and kindness shown us at tr.3
time of the death of our beloved hus ¬
band and father and the kindness f
our friends and neighbors will be
long remembered most gratefully an 1
we trust that they may meet with tl a
same loving sympathy. We also de
sire to express our appreciation of
the beautiful flowers given by the
Royal Neighbors, W. O. W., the em
ployes of the Soennichsen store, the
S. S. club, J. II. McMaken and Nelson
Jean.
Mrs. A. N. Long and Family.
THAT FESTIVE LITTLE
ANIMAL. THE GROUND
HOG, ONTO HIS JOB
From Wednesday's DaCy.
Today was groundhog day and the
festive lit le animal, who is supposed
to possess the real dope on the length
of the winter season, on popping out
of his hole certainly had ample op
portunity this morning to cast all
kinds of -shadows, as the sun was up
bright and early and on the job
Groundhog day is an old tradition and
to the skeptical it would seem thnt
the winter keeps right on regardless
of whether he sees his shadow or ii.it,
and the advent of the robins in the
springtime is the only real messeng
er of the closing of ihe winter season
that can be depended upon. With the
prospect of six more weeks of winter
staring him in the face, father will
continue to see that the furnace or
baseburner is kept running full blat
and that the family do not suffer from
the cold.
CAPTAIN L D. BEN
NETT AN AiO ON GEN
ERAL DODGE'S STAFF
From the Long Beruh (Cal.) Tele
gram the following concerning a w.il
known former Ncbraskan, now a re:i
dent of California, is taken:
"The fact that in Long Beach lives
at least one veteran who was a mem
ber of the staff of the late Geneial
G. M. Dodge, the last surviving cons
commander of the civil war, is giv n
to us by ex-Senator S. L. Thomas, a -o
formerly of Ntbracka, now a result :t
in our city.
"Captain L. D. Dennett, whose a re
is 84 years, was General Dodge's p o
vos marshal while his command v.
stationed at Pulaski, Tcnn., said S n
ator Thomas.
"Captain Dennett was a member of
the Thirty-ninth infantry and w is
with General Sherman's army on its
famous march to the sea."
This mention of a former resident
of Pkittsmouth, Neb., will be of int r
est to his many old firends in that city
and elsewhere in the state.
Captain Dennett settled in Platts
mouth soon after his army life ended,
married a daughter of Shepherd Duke,
one of the early settles of Cass coun
ty, and there his children were born
and raised, and both he and his fam
ily took an active part in the life of
the state, county and city.
Mrs. Carrie Dennett Wilson is the
only one of his children now resident
in Nebraska. She makes her home in
Omaha with her son. Lloyd Dennatt
Wilson, grandson and namesake of
Captain Dennett.
Captain Dennett is still hale and
hearty, with the exception of a par
tial parlaysis of the lower limbs,
somewhat impeding his walking. His
Plattsmouth friends well remember
his genial, courteous manner and his
interest in all pertaining to his form
er soldier life.
Dert Fickler in the Limelight.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Dert Fickler has decided to take
chatge of Cal Woo J and has matched
several men already. Cal is now in
Norfolk undergoing some rigid and
strenuous training preparatory to the
initial match. Cal has had consider
able experience and shows good ma
terial for development. His build is
almost perfect and his habits have al
ways been the best. Mr. Fickler is an
old hand at the wrestling game and
feels confident that in Cal he has a
coming wrestler. A match is to be
pulled off at Pilger next Wednesday
evening, February 2, between Cal and
J. J. Jensen of Omaha. Stanton
Register.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE 7-room house, 2 lots,
barn and outbuildings; 3 blocks
from Columbian school. Inquire of
Homer Shrader. ll-3-tf-d&w
KANSAS CITY GROWD
PLEASES PRESIDENT
Appeal Made to the Risibilities With
Declaration That There Is Not
a Day to Be Lost.
BIG ARMY DOCTRINE CHEERED
Kansas City, Feb. 2. President
Wilson tonight demanded that steps
be begun during the present month
to back him up in defending American
lives and commerce abroad. His de
mand met with shouts and applause
from an audience of 1(5.000 persons
who waved American Hags, leaped to
their seats and cheered. When the
president ceased speaking he leaned
forward and asked the great throng
to join him in singing "America." The
band played softly, the audience stood
and the words of America's national
anthem came in a glorious burst of
song from 1(5.000 throats.
The big crowd was for the presi
dent from the start. It waited patient
ly an hour to see him and cheered
itself hoarse in a three-minute dem
onstration when he appeared. Six
teen thousand heard him; twenty
thousand were turned away, and ten
thousand more tried to glimpse him
as he left his hotel for the hall.
Appeal tot he Multitude.
"Why, some men in Washington
are questioning whether we could get
the 500,000 men for which the gov
ernment is asking," he said at one
point cf his address. '"Would they
volunteer?" he asked.
A man in the far end of the hall
shouted, "Yes."
In a moment the crowd was in an
uproar. Scoies of men echoed the
sr-hout, "Yes, yes!"
President Wilson smiled and held
out his hand. "Why I believe," he
said as the tumlit died, "you could
raise the 500.000 men in almost any
state. I believe you could get 5,000
men right here in this audience.
"I have been thrilled by the exper
ience of these last few days," the
president said, "and I will go heme to
Washington and tmile at the gentle-
mon Mho say the United States is
not awake. The gallant men who sit
on the hill in Washington and make
our laws are going to deliver the
troods ." The crowd cheered. "Don'
misunderstand me they are going to
deliver the goods because you want
the goods delivered."
(Jet Up cn Hind Legs and Talk.
The president said the time har:
come for him to ask his fellow cit
izens to "pet up on your hind leg
r.nd talk and tell the people who rep
resent you what the nation desire
and demands! The thing that every
body in a democracy is listening fo
i.s the tramp, tramp, tramp of the
facts.
"I have come to ask you what is
back of me in this task of preserving
r.t once the peace and honor of this
country," the president said, "the
judge on the bench has the law be
bind him, with its baliffs, sheriffs
national guardsmen and the United
States army, but if you ignore in some
foreign capital what the president
argues as the rights of the people and
government of the United States, what
is there back of it?
"It is necessary that I should come
and ask you this question because
don't know how long the mere wore
and insistence of your government
will prevail in maintaining the honor
and dignity and power of the nation
"There may come a time I pray
God it may never come, but it may
come in spite of everything we can
do when 1 shall have to ask, 'I have
said my say; who stands back of it?
Where is that force by which the right
and majesty of the United States are
to be vindicated and asserted?"
Need Declared Immediate.
The president declared the need was
immediate and that fiction should be
begun within the present month.
"I assure you there is not a day to
be lost," he exclaimed. "Not because
there is any special crisis, but be
cause I do not know twenty-four hours
ahead what will happen.
"The future doe-; not depend on us,
but upon commanders of ships and
of submarines and upon blockades and
upon many other men. big. and little.
"I have read editorials," he said,
"sneering at then umber of notes sent
abroad by the government and asking
whv the government did not act. In
these same papers I have seen editor
ials against the preparation to do any
thing whatever effective, if these notes
are not to be regarded. Is that the
temper of the United States? It may
be the temper of some editorial of
fices, but I know it is not the temper
of the people of the United States."
A wave of applause swept over the
gathering. A voice in the gallery cried
"No" and the crowd yelled again, "No!
No!"
The president warned his hearers
New
ties
every
week.
These '
are the
hard to
get, bright
colors
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that most of the munition factories of
the United States are on the Atlantic
seaboard and that, therefore, the na
tion must be ready to repel the first
attack in order to avoid disaster.
"We are witnessing a cataclysm and
God only knows, what the issue shall
be," was the way ho prefaced his
address in which he asked his audi
ence to keep coll, but to uphold the
judgment of the government in its de
mand for a larger, more effective
means of national defense.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN FIGHT
REJOICE OVER ARRIVAL
OF NEW GRANDDAOGHTER
From Wednesdays Dally.
A message was received here this
morning by Mr. and Mrs. John Fight
from Omaha announcing the arrival
of a fine new daughter at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sullivan, in
Omaha, at an early hour this morn
ing. Mrs. Sullivan was formerly Miss
Hattie Fight and the new grand
daughter is most pleasing to the
happy grandparents, and being the
first child in the Sullivan family is the
object of a great deal of interest, as
well as affection. Th? friends of the
family in this city and vicinity will
extend their best wishes for the future
welfare and happiness of little Miss
Sullivan.
A BRANCH OFFICE
BE E!
ED IN CHICAGO
Last evening Gus Olson of the Olson
Photo Co., of this city, departed for
Chicago, where he goes on a mission
that should mean a great deal to the
company in this city, and that is the
establishing of a branch office in the
Windy City to handle the business of
the company in the eastern cities and
towns. Mr. Olson expects to secure
a suitable office and a manager who
will be wide-awake and on the job in
looking after the business of the com
pany and by spring have the eastern
branch office in good running order.
The extensive mailing list in Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio possessed by the
Olson company means that a great
deal of business can be secured there
and the management proposes to see
that it is developed to the fullest ex
tent. It is the general plan of the
Olson company to establish branch
agencies in all the larger cities of the
west an3 middle west in order to m-
cieasc the business, and these will be
taken up as lapidly as possible and the
offices opened in order to secure the in-1
creasing business from the new ter
ritory. The Olson company is con-
stantlv crowing and its success is a
pleasure to the residents of Platts
mouth, where it has been nurtured
and boosted by a few faithful and
steadfast friends, who saw the pos-j
Abilities of the work and are now re
alising the;r success.
AFTER LAGR1PPE WHAT?
F. G. Prevo, Bedford, Ind., writes:
'An attack of lagrippe left me with a
jAvnrn rrmfrh T tried evervthing. II
cot so thin it looked as if I never
. jv -v e " i "
would get well. Finally, two bottles
f Foley's Honey and Tar cured me.
am now well and back to my normal
'eight." A reliable remedy for coughs,
colds, croup. Sold everywhere.
MAY
5TABUSH
Let's Trade Places
ft :i w- a i 3 l - !
for a little while. It would perhaps be a good thing for
both of us. For instance if you could just sit here in our
office and view the market situation as it looms up before
us, we wonder what you would say and what you would be
apt to write in this ad. If you could read the letters we
get from the big manufacturers and hear the tale of woe
from the traveling men as they come around, you would
say "it's time to get under cover." You would come to the
conclusion we have, that any merchandise of the good old
reliable quality at the old price is a bargain. On the
other hand, if we were in your place and had given no at
tention to the market, no doubt this would look like idle
talk, but we assure you it is not. Come in and let us talk
it over. We have some rare bargains for you that we fear
we shall not be able to duplicate very soon.
Men's Suits and Overcoats $9, $12, $14, $19
Corduroy Glove 10c 3 for 25c
Wescotf s
"Everybody's Store"
LAND FOR SALE.
120 acres, 4 miles southeast of
Weeping Water; 100 acres plow land;
$5,000.00 worth of improvements.
Price $110.00 per acre.
200 acres, 2 milos northeast of Wa
bash, Neb., good all-round farm, well
improved. Price $150.00; good terms.
I have many others that are good
bargains. Write or call on me for
what you want. John Colbert,
Weeping Water, Neb.
A want ad will bring what you want.
Extracts From Speech Eilade
by President at Milwaukee
"I always feel a serene confidence in waiting for declaration of prin
ciples of men who are not vociferous, who do their own thinking and at
tend to their own business."
"I have not supposed that men whose voices seemed to show a threat
against us represented' even the people they claim to represent."
"I know when the test comes
America."
"The trouble makers have shot
ineffectual. Their tall: costs nothing.
responsible talkers in our midst. All
hire a hall and they will abundantly
"Thero is no precedent in American history to show that we hare ever
been aggressive."
"There is daily, hourly danger
strained to do things which are absolutely inconsistent with the rights of
the United States."
"The People are not going to
ernments rathen than people and do
bring forth."
"We are working out American
American nulses are beating a little
x -
because there are incalculable elements of trouble abroad which we cannot
control. I would be derelict in my duty if I did not tell yoj that it is abso
lutely necessary to carry out this program now."
"Those lines of red in the flag are
shed bv men who loved the liberty of
bid that we should have to use the
but if it should again be
integrity of those ancient and honorable principles that flag will be glorified
and purified again."
Manhattan Shirts
Stetson Hats
Say!
We have
a shirt
proposition
too good
to tell.
Come in
and see it!
n
Sons
Farm for Sale.
160 acres, 2 miles west arid Vz
mile north of Murray, Neb. Good new
house of six rooms and hall. Barn for
12 head of horses, plenty of grainery
room, double corn crib and other out
buildings. Plenty of good water. A
snap for a short time at $150.00 per
acre. See John Colbert,
Weeping Water, Neb.
1-31-tfwkly
Come to The Journal for fine sta
tionery. every man's heart will be for
their bolt. They have been loud, but
we can control the ir
we have to do is to encourage them to
advertise their own folly."
that they (other nations) will feel con
choose war, but we are dealing with gov
not know what an hour or a day will
problems a little faster, because
faster: because the world is in a whirl;
lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly
their fellow men. God for
blood of America to freshen the color
necessary to assert the majesty and the
on Overcoats!
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To close out we have reduced the price on
31 of our overcoats 20; It would be
poor policy to offer our entire stock of suits
and overcoats at a reduction this season on
account of the uncertainty of the market.
We are ever ready to meet competition
though, and the wise-buyers are going to
take advantage bf this reduction. The
sooner you come in the more benefit you
will get out of one of these body warmers.
Carhart Overalls
Hansen Gloves
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