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VOL. XXXIV.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916.
NO. 72.
MONTHLY
MEETING OF TIE
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Several Committees Appointed and an
Interesting Address by Lee
Sharp of This City.
From Friday' Dally.
The Commercial club meeting las
evening was not as extensively attend
ed a? it should have been, owing to
the home talent play which was pro
duced at the Parmcle theater, and
those who failed to attend missed a
rather interesting meeting and a
ppiendid talk by Lee C. Sharp on some
of the things which had been accom
plished in his shop and foundry here,
c-; well as some of the things he ex
peered to do in this line.
President Wescott announced his list
of committees of the club, as well as
the board of directors of the organiza
tion for the ensuing year as follows:
Directors T. H. Pollock, R. F
Patterson, C. W. Baylor, J. P. Falter,
E. A. Wurl, A. L. Tidd, Philip Thier
olf, William Baird. E. J. Richey, C. C.
Parmele. John Gorde-, Frank Bestor,
L. L. Wiles, R. A. Bates.
Committee on Membership E. A.
Wurl, August Cloidt, Henry Goos.
Committee on Publicity A. L.
Tidd. R. B. Windham, R. A. Bates, G.
R. Olson. L. C. Sharp.
Committee on Railroads T. H. Pol
lock, C. C. Parmele, Will Clement.
Harry Thomas.
Lookout Committee William Bar
clay, J. II. McMaken, Claus Boetel, I.
X. Cummir.gs. W. P. Cook, E. B.
Perry, G. W. Olson.
Committee on Good. Roads E. J.
Richey, William Baird, L. L. Wiles,
John Gorder, J. II. McMaken, C. W.
Baylor.
Committee on Council F. M. Bes
tor, R. F. Patterson, J. P. Sattler, A.
L. Tidd.
Committee on Industries, New and
Old J. P. Falter, Philip Thicrolf,
John Nemetz, Frank Schlater.
Committee on Entertainment W.
A. Robertson. Clyde Fuller, Jess
Warga, Dr. O. Sandin, G. II. Mc
Maken, John Hatt.
Committee on Pl?.ttsmouth Needs
Mrs. William Baird, Mrs. E. A.
Wurl, Mrs. G. II. Falter, Mrs. E. C.
Hill, Mrs. G. L. Farley, Mrs. C.,L.
Cailson, Miss Bern?ce Newell, Mrs.
James Allison.
Fred Daw?on, who had been ap
pointed as a committee to look up a
location for an athletic club, reported
that Coates' hall was the most likely
location that could be found and that
the apparatus used in the German
Turner hall could be secured and
placed in the hall if the committee
would guarantee lhat it would be
kept in good shape and returned to
the hall in as good condition as it was
at present.
President Wescott urged that the
attendance at the club meetings should
be better and that the members of the
Commercial club should regard the
meeting night as one which demanded
their attendance.
The avenue paving was discused at
some length by the members and citi
zens present and all were of the
opinion that the work should be car
ried out as soon as possible. J. II.
McMaken, as one of the property own
ers who would be subject to being
taxed for the Washintgon avenue pav
ing, stated that he was very much in
favor of the proposition and from ex
perience knew that the work was very
much needed. All the roads leading
into the city were in need of some
method of keeping them in passable
condition and the paving was the best
way to solve the pro! lem. The paving,
Mr. McMaken stated, would more than
double the value of property along the
avenues and he was strongly for it.
Chief of Police Barclay reported
that there had been fourteen families
move into the city and two move out,
which made a good showing for the
increase in the population of the city.
He also spoke a few words of praise
for the management of the Hotel
Riley, which under Mr. Grippen was
showing a great deal of improvement,
and he thought that as an advertise
ment of the town that there was noth
ing better than a good hotel, and the
Riley deserves the support of the busi
ness men
This sentiment was also j
expressed by President Wescott, who
urged the merchants to endeavor to
have their salesmen who dealt with
them stop at the hotel here instead of
rushing into Omaha for their hote
accommodations.
Lee C. Sharp, in ?.n informal man
ner, told a few of the things which
were being accomplished at his fac
tory and foundry m this city. While
the work did so far was largely of a
preliminary nature, il had cost him in
the neighborhood of $8,000 and each
dav was being improved. There was
no reason why Plattsmouth should
not have as good a foundry and manu
facturing plant as my town in the
country, as it has all the facilities for
shipping and is situated between the
west and Chicago. The plant here
was being thoroughly prepared for the
purpose he had new equipment en-
and castings of all hinds and for this
purpose he had new equipement en
tirely in the foundry, as well as new
macninery in tne rr.am snop ana a
first-class heating plant to assist in
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allowing the work to be carried on
with success. A picture of the new
tractor manufactured by the plant
here was shown by Mr. Sharp, which
attracted a great deal of attention
from the members present. Mr.
Sharp stated that only the highest
class of mechanics were employed in
the machine shops and there was no
reason in the world why there should
not be a plant here employing several
undred first-class machinists at high
wages it the business was handled
properly, and he was going to endeav
or to see that the plant here was made
a winner, as there was a great deal of
work they had been compelled to pass
up owing to the fact that they were
not in a position to handle it at the
present time.
MISS HOSE BULIfj IN
JURED IN THE BRIDGE
ACCIDENT IN OMAHA
From Friday's Daily.
Miss Rose Bu-lin arrived home last
evening irom umani, wnere sne is
employed, being called here by the
erious illness of her mother, and yes
erday morning had a very exciting
experience, being a passenger on tne
street car which collided with the auto
truck of James Murray on the Doug-
as street bridge, and which accident
resulted in the death of Mr. Murray
and the hurling of his car over the
bridge to destruction sixty feet be-
ow on the railroad tracks on the Ne
braska side of the bridge. Miss Bulin,
when the collission occurred, was
thrown to the floor of the car by the
force of the shock, and while she was
pinned in this position someone step
ped on her hand during the general
excitement and panic and mashed a
ring she was wearing into the flesh of
her finger, and it was found necessary
to have the ring cut off from the
finger, which was badly bruised and
swollen as a result of the accident.
Miss Bulin, however, considers herself
ucky that the accident was not more
serious.
iTTER OF MATTHEW
CEDING VS. MBS. VIL
MA CASSITY, SETTLED
From Friday's Dally.
A settlement has been reached in the
county court in the case of Matthew
Gering against Mrs. Velma Cassity,
and the estate of James Cassity, in
which the plaintiff sought to collect
attorney fees for services at the time
of the death of Mr. Cassitv in the
Burlington yards in this city. The
amount decided upon as the amount
of the fee was $300, which has set
tled the matter, as Mr. Gering with
drew his civil suit for $1,000. Mrs.
Cassity and son, Earl, received $7,000
from the Burlington railroad as a set
tlement of all claims as the result of
the death of Mr. Cassity, who was
employed as a switchman by the rail
road at the time of his death.
Mrs. Ben Meuchau of Eagle, who is
here visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Smith, departed this morn
ing on the early Burlington train for
Omaha, where she will spend the day.
A QUEST FOR A
GOWN" LAST NIGHT
AT THE PARMELE
The Play Was Well Rendered by Home
Talent, and All Performed
Their Parts Well.
From Friday's Dallv.
The Parmele theater was well filled
last evening by a delighted audience
to witness the production of "A Quest
for a Gown," was was presented by
the young people of this city under
the auspices of Fontenelle chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution. The play, which was a
pleasing musical comedy, was present
ed in a most creditable manner by the
young people and afforded a most de
lightful entertainment to all who were
present.
For the past few weeks the mem
bers of the company have been practic
ing very diligently on the musical com
edy under the direction of Mrs. Laird
and Miss Alderman, the producers of
the tuneful offering. A great deal
of the success of the show may be
ascribed to the efforts of Mrs. Ellen
Pollock Minor, regent of the local
chapter of the D. A. R., who has ar
ranged a great many of the details to
bring forth the successful production
and assisting the talented ladies who
have had charge of the actual drilling
of the young people in the different
roles and in the chorus.
"A Quest for a Gown" is laid in
three acts and throughout there are
many clever and catchy musical num
bers introduced, which served to hold
the attention and interest of the audi
ence, and in these the High school or
chestra at-sisted very, much by ;their
rendition of the score of musical
comedy.
Miss Edith Dovey appeared as the
eading lady of the production and
around her role as "Margaret" was
woven a very pleasing love story, and
in her part Miss Dovey was most
pleasing and displayed a great deal of
talent and charm of personality. As
Ronald Drane, a society leader, who
had fallen in love with "Margaret,"
Wade Martin, of Fremont, was excep
tionally clever, and by his part in the
play added very much to the pleas
ing manner in which the play was
given. Jennings reivers as "oi. t air-
ry," the grandfather, was right at
home in tne roie ana maae a nit in
his part, as am jmiss ureicnen Con
nelly as "Daisy," the sedate grand
daughter. As "May Drane," the
world wise New York girl, Miss Bar
bara Clement was most charming and
added a pleasing touch to the play.
One of the cleverest of the company
of young people was Bruce Rosen-
crans, wno appeared as uutcny, a
hotel registar, and both in appearance
and in his clever acting he kept every
one laughing, and certainly as a
German comedian was exceptionally
good. The role of "Brown," the un
dertaker, in love, was taken by Ben
Windham and in his baffling love, as
well as his desire to boost his busi
ness, he pleased everyone. Carl
Schmidtmann as Mr. S.-A. R. of the
old soldiers' committee, carried out
his part in excellent shape.
Don Randall, "a jily young dream
man," was enacted by Major Hall in
manner that won new laurels for
this exceptionally clever young man.
n the roles of Mrs. Famlitree and
Mrs. D. A. R., Misses Bernese isew
ell and Ellen Windham did their part
toward making the production a big
success. The one big hit of the entire
performance, however, was that of
June Marshall and George Dovey, who
as the two "bellhops" throughout the
play were much in evidence, and in
their specialties were of the very best
and pleased everyone. In the specialty
given by the "Old Maid," the audience
were given another treat which was
much enjoyed.
While the principals were given the
chief opportunities for displaying their
talents, the members of the chorus
added very much to the general suc
cess and pleasure of the musical num
bers and all of the young ladies and
gentlemen taking part deserve great
credit for their work. While it is im
possible to devote the space to an ex
tensive review of the musical comedy,
it was one of the most pleasing that
has been shown here and reflected
credit upon all those taking part.
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Seeks Citizenship Papers.
From Friday's Dallv.
Two of the residents of this city
have made application in the office of
the clerk of the district court for their
final citizenship papers and will be
passed on at the next meeting of the
distirct court to take up such mat
ters. Thomas Sedlock, a native of
Bohemia, who has been a resident o:
the United States since April 7, li02
was one of the applicants, and Max
Pfitzmayer, a native of Germany, who
arrived in this country May 21, 1908
was the other. Both of these gentle
men have resided m this city since
their arrival from the old world
PBED WAGNER HAS
GREATLY IMPROVED
HIS RESTAORANT
From Saturdav's Daiiv.
There has been quite a number of
improvements made in the restaurant
of Fred Wagner, which will tend to
increase the facilities of the restaurant
and add very much to the comfort and
pleasure of those who are patrons of
this home of good things to eat. One
of the improvements is a large, fine
hotel range which is the finest in the
city and ample to care for all the de
mands that may be made upon it. It
is a "Commander" range and is pro
vided with two large ovens which will
take care of the baking of the
restaurant, while the top space on the
stove will be ample for all needs. In
additoin to this, Mr. Wagner has the
gas range for use, and the two will
allow him to handle all kinds of busi
ness from the largest to the smallest
order. New washing sinks for dishes
have also been placed in the kitchen
with all the latest devices for saving
time and labor. Everything in the
kitchen is strictly sanitary and up-to-
date and Mr. Wagner feels he has as
complete and up-to-date establishment
as can be found in a town of this size.
DEATH COMES TO THE
RELIEF OF MRS. ANNA
BULIN THIS MORNING
From Saturday's Daily.
This morning at 3:30 o clock Mrs.
Anna Bulin, one of the most highly
esteemed ladies in the city, passed
away at her home on Lincoln avenue
after an illness of some duration, be-
ng a sufferer from cancer of the
tomach. Mrs. Bulin had not been in
the best of health for the last year,
but it was only in the last two months
that she was thought to be dangerous-
y ill, and has since gradually grown
worse until her death.
Mrs. Bulin was born in Austria
some nity-iour years ago ana was
married there to Mr. B. J. Bulin. Later
Mr. and Mrs. Builn came to America,
and for the past twenty years have
made their home in Plattsmouth,
where their family has been reared
and where they have been esteemed
among our best citizens. The death
of Mrs. Bulin comes as a severe blow
to the husband and children, who will
miss the loving care and attention of
the faithful wife and mother more
than words can tell, and in their grief
the heartfelt sympathy of the entire
community will go out to them in
their loss. Besides the husband, eight
children, James, Otto, Joseph, Edward,
Marie, Rosa, Barbara Bulin and Mrs.
red Rice, are left to mourn the death
of this good woman. All the children
reside in this city with the exception
of Mrs. Rice, who lives at Boy Rivers,
Minnesota.
The funeral services of Mrs. Bulin
will be held from the late home Mon
day afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be
in charge of the Bohemian lodge, the
C. B. J., of which she was a most
aithful members.
Unintentionally Omitted.
From Saturday's Dally.
In the account of the performance
of "A Quest for a Gown" in last even
ing's Journal the name of Miss Edna
Petersen was omitted from the list of
those who had an important part in
making the play a success by their
part in it, and we take this means of
giving Miss Petersen the credit that
is justly due her for her charming
rendition of the character given her
in the performance.
FOUR MILE GREEK
A
E
in
High Water Drowns a Couple of Good
Horses, and Herman Gansemere's
Hired Man Has Nirrow Escape.
From Friday's Daily.
The warm weather of the past three
days has melted the snow and ice
wnicn lor me past iwo monuis nas
l : - 1- -T A a .1 l
lain over the hills of this section of
Nebraska and the result has been
that in this time a gruat deal of water
has been poured into the creeks and
small streams throughout this section
and the conditions are almost as bad
as in flood time in r-arly spring.
The Pappio creek, just above La
Platte, in Sarpy county, has been on
a rampage for the past two days, and
railioad employers are kept on the
job to try and keep the floating ice
at the mouth of the stream where it
empties into the Missouri from form
ing a gorge and doing a great deal of
damage, but despite their efforts the
stream has overflowed the bottoms and
the Missouri Pacific line from this
city to Omaha was out of commission
this morning and it was necessary to
detour the trains around the washout
to reach the metropolis. The mid
night train over this road last night
ran very slowly for a mile or more
through the water which covered the
tracks and was quite late in reaching
this city. The Burlington has so far
been more fortunate in this respect,
as the Missouri Pacific has borne the
greatest part of the flood, being situ-
ated farther away from the mouth of
the Stream.
The t our Mile creek, west of this
city, has also been running at flood
stage and is reported as being impas
sable at a number of points, owing to
the creek having overflowed into the
oadways, and in a number of places
it was up over the floors of the small
er bridges last night, and tnis was
the cause of a very serious loss to
Herman Gansemer, one of the leading
young larmers, who is moving oacK
to Cass county from Cedar county,
where he had been residing for the
past two years. Mr. Gansemer tras
engaged with his hired man in moving
his stock and household goods from
the depot in Mynard out to the farm,
where he will reside during the com
ing year, and in order to reach the
arm it was necessary to cross the
Four Mile creek west of Mynard. The
creek was up and the water standing
over the roadway in a number of
places when they arrived to try and
cross, and Mr. Gansemer succeeded in
rossing all right with one team, but
as the hired man attempted to drive
onto the bridge he missed the struct-
ure and in an instant tne team ana
wagon had been swert into the waters
of the creek and before the team could
be reached both horses, valued at
$400, had been drowned, as well as a
number of chickens which were in the
wagon. The hired man had the great
est difficulty in reaching the shore,
and if he had remained only a few
minutes more in the water would have
drowned
A number of hogs were in
the wagon, but these were saved from
drowning. WTiile quite a loss, it is
brtunate that the young man employ
ed by Mr. Gansemer was not drowned
n the angry waters.
JOHN UNDERLICH
HAPPY GRANDFATHER
OF A FINE DARY BOY
News was telephoned to this city
at an early hour this morning that
ohn Wunderlich, candidate for the
democratic nomination for sheriff, had
become a proud grandfather, as the
stork visited the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Adams, at Nehawka,
early this morning and left with them
a fine new son and heir. The mother
and little one are reported as doing
nicely and the addition to the family
has been most gratifying to the genial
grandfather, as well as to the other
members of the family.
ON
BOOM
Ai
DONG
DA ) G
IV. D. WHEELER FILES FOR
COH CIMI5SIU
From Saturday's Dallv.
This afternoon William D. Wheeler
filed his-intention to become a candi
date before the democratic primary
for the office of commissioner from the
First district. Mr. Wheeler is well
known to the voters of the county,
having filled the office of sheriff for
four yer.rs and county treasurer for
four years. The office of commission
er is held at present by Julius A. Pitz,
who is also a democrat and a candi
date for re-election for his second
term.
COOPLE
, FED. 16
From Saturday's Dally.
On Wednesday afternoon, February
16, at 2 o'clock, at Trinity M. E.
church in Lincoln, occurred the mar
riage of Miss Pearl O. Weichel, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Weichel of
this city, to Mr. Pl;ny R. (Dick) El
liott, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Elliott,
residing northwest of town. Announce
ments of the marriage, which were
given out immediately, served as quite
a surprise to the many friends of the
joung couple, although it was quite
generally known that they were to be
married soon. Rev. Tompkins, pastor
of the Trinity church, spoke the words
which united the lives of the happy
young couple. The ceremony was wit
nessed by Roy Cole of Plattsmouth,
second cousin of the bride, and Richard
Elliott of Lincoln, uncle of the groom.
The bride, a graduate of the Elm
WOod High school, is cne of our most
I charmine' and a.emYiHshed vouuc
ladies. The bride and groom are both
well and favorably known here, having
been born and reared right in this
community. They come from highly
respected families, and they enjoy a
very wide circle of friends, with whom
the Leader-Echo is pleased to join in
wishing them the fullest measure of
joy and happiness as they journey
through life together.
Mr. Elliott has rented the farm four
miles northwest of Elmwood belonging
to the bride's father, and they will
soon go to housekeeping and be at
home there after March 15th. Elm-
wood Leader-Echo.
ADAH KURTZ IS liJ
VERY SERIOUS CON
DITION AT THIS TIME
Mrs. Adam Kurtz and son, J. F.
Gabler, departed this morning for
Omaha in response to a message an
nouncing that Mr. Adam JKurtz was
gradually growing weaker and with
a serious relapse was not expected to
live through the day. Mr. Kurtz has
been in very poor health for the last
few months and was taken to Omaha
two weeks ago to be placed under the
carp of a snecialist in the hoDes that
he might be benfitedf but the weakened
condition of the patient, with his ad
vanced years, made the case a very
serious one and he has not shown the
desired improvement and last night
his condition became such as to de
mand the calling of the family to his
bedside. This serious condition of Mr.
Kurtz will be greatly regretted by his
many old friends in this city, who had
been hoping that he might find relief
in the treatment afforded him in
Omaha.
Receives a Fine Cockrel.
From Saturday's Dally.
This morning C. C. Wescott,
the
re-
Buff-Orpington chicken, fancier,
ceived from the Roger Poultry yards
of Sioux City one of the finest cokrels
that has been brought into this city.
The bird comes of the purest strains
of the Buff-Orpingtons and is without
a blemish or any off-coloring, being a
perfect golden buff with a large fine
double comb. It weighs in the neigh
borhood of ten pounds and will make
a splendid addition to the yard of Mr.
Wescott, who has mighty fine birds
which have received many prizes from
the judges of fine poultry.
ELMWOOD
MARRED
L COL
WEDNESDAY
SERIOUS SHOOTING
SCRAPE OCGORRED
THIS AFTERNOON
W. P. COOK SHOOTS AKI.O
M'CLAREX, WHO WAS AN
OCCUPANT OF HIS HOUSE.
The Trouble Grew Out of a Dispute
Over the Rent of House
Owned by Cook.
This afternoon shortly after .1
o'clock a very serious shooting scrape
occurred at the residence of W. P.
Cook, and as a result of which Alio
McClaren received a very serious gun
shot wound in the small of the back
from the weapon in the hands of Mr.
Cook.
As far as could be ler.rned as we go
to press the affair grew out of a dis
pute over rent which McClaren was
owing Cook. lr. Cook had decided
to eject the McClaren family, who
lived in a part of his residence propj
erty, and accordingly had piled the
household goods out in the yard.
Mrs. McClaren had gone to the
residence of one of the neighbors and
secured someone to notify htr hus
band. He came home at once and dis
covered the fact that the household
goods were all out of the house and
the door locked. He at once kicked
in the door leading into that part of
the Cook house which he had been oc
cuyir.g and, he states, that as he did
so he discovered Mr. Cook in the
house armed with a shotgun, which
McClaren states, he threatened him
with. McClaren then say.1? he grab
bed the gun and attempted to push it
to one side just as Mr. Cook pulled
the trigger, and the shot tore a glanc
ing wound across the small of Mc
Claren's back.
The neighbors, aroused at the shoot
ing, notified the authorities, and Mc
Claren was conveyed to the off.ee of
Dr. E. W. Cook, whera the injury was
dressed. While the injury is not in
any way fatal, it makes a very nasty
wound.
Mr. Cook was placed under arrest
after the shooting to await the out
come of the case.
E
PEASE'S MILLINERY
This morning Miss Murphy, who is
to have charge of the trimming de
partment at the millinery store of
Mrs. Emma Pease, arrived to take
up her duties in this splendidly equip
ped store. Miss Murphy comes very
highly recommended from the house
of Gage Brothers, of Chicago, makers
of the wonderfully popular line of
Gage Brothers hats, which are known
all over the country, and the new
trimmer is experienced in all lines of
the business and will be able to afford
the ladies of Plattsmouth a rare op
portunity to secure as fine and up-to-date
millinery as can be found in any
store in the country. It is the desire
of Mrs. Pease to afford her patron
the best and largest line of modern
millinery that can be bought, and with
the services of the artistic trimmer
there will be no reason why the most
discriminating lady cannot find what
is desired in the way of millinery at
the Pease store. The ladies in search
of millinery should call "and see the
beautiful array of hats which are be
ing prepared for the trade by Miss
Murphy and her assistants.
Married at the Court House.
From Friday's Dally.
This morning at the court house
County Judge Beeson united in mar
riage Mr. Dwight Propst and Miss
Clara Prohaska. Both of the young
people reside in this city.
MISS MURPHY ARRIVES
AND IN GHARO
OF MRS