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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, J916.
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JOHN HESS
DIED AT HOME
IN WABASH
Funeral was Held at "Wabash on
Friday, July 7, at 10 O'clock
A. 31.
From Saturday's Daiir.
Johnlless, one of the oldest pioneer
settlers and highest respected citizens
of Cass county died at his home at
Wabash on Monday. He has been in
failing health for some time and for
the past few months has been confin
ed to his home.
M. Hess was Lorn in Holstein,
near Hamburg, Germany, August
5, 1830, where his father, Hans
Yocurr., was a farmer. His father died
in the old country when Mr. Hess
was nine years of age. To escape mil
itary service in the German army he
sailed with his brother for America,
arriving in New York City, April 5,
1853,' their final destination being
Davenport, Iowa, where he resided
until 185G. He removed from Daven
port to riattsmouth, Neb., intend
ing to go down into Kansas, iut on
account of the Kansas and Nebraska
troubles he stopped at Plattsmouth,
where he worked until the breaking
out of the civil war, when he enlisted,
June 11, 1SG1, in Company A, First
Nebraska infantry, under Dr. R. R.
Livingston. In the spring of 18(12
the regiment of which he was a mem
ber was under the command of Gen
eral Grant, and participated in the
battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh.
From the latter battle field they went
to Corinth, Miss., and were attached
to the command of General Lew Wal
lace. After the evacuation of Corinth
they went to Memphis, Tenn., and
Helena, Ark. From Helena they were
sent to Missouri under the command
of General Steele, stopping at Pilot
Knob. From there they were dispatch
ed to Cape Girardeau,. Mo., then to
St Louis, where the First Nebraska
infantry was mergered into the First
Nebraska cavalry. He, with the con
solidated regiment, took an active
part in the Arkansas campaign.
Before leaving Omuha he was made
a corporal, and when the First regi
ment was mergered into the new cav
alry he was made a seageant. While
in the Arkansas campaign his term
of enlistment expired, he was return
ed to Omaha, and there honorably
discharged on the 12th of August,
1801.
In 1850, Mr. Hess married Miss
Emily Graves, who bore him four
children Frederick A., George I)., J.
Johnson and Emily. He lost his wife
by death. He came to Elmwood pre:
cinct, and homsteadod on eighty acres
of land. In 1885 he contracted a sec-
ond marriage, with Mins Lois Gor
don. No children were born to them.
Mr. Hess purchased his present'
home farm in 1879, which he thor
oughly improved.
He prided himself on the fact that
he was one of the earliest Nebraska
pioneers.
He was the youngest of a family of
six children. He was a consistent
member of the Lutheran church. In
politics he had always been a stanch
republican, but had never sought or
held any public office, as he prefered
the quietude and enjoyment of his
own home.
Funeral services were held at Wa
bash on Friday at 10 a. m. and inter
ment was made in the Wabash ceme
tery. Elmwood Leader-Echo.
DISTRICT COURT ON TODAY
From Friday's Dally.
Judge Begley came down from Pa
pillion this morning to hold a short
session of the district court as there
were a number of matters demand
ing his attention and the morning
was put in hearing motions and tak
ing up the litigation that was pend
ing. Judge Begley is having his office
in the court house fitted up prepara
tory to his moving to this city and
will have his office prepared in the
proper way for his use by the install
ing of his library and office fixtures.
The commissioners will have the
room fixed up in a proper manner for
the occupancy of the judge as it has
not been used to any extent since the
death of Judge Travis.
Stewart's Phonographs, only $5.00,
at Dawson's, Plattsmouth, Neb.
ENJOY A HIKE OVER THE
HILLS SOUTH OF TOWN
From Friday's Dallv.
A number of the young ladies of
the city yesterday enjoyed a hike
some five miles south of the' city
where they wandered over the hills
and bluffs along the Old Muddy and
enjoyed themselves as only such a
jolly party could. Boating was en
joyed by the members of the party
and dinner and supper enjoyed be
neath the welcome shade of the trees
and bluffs and in the cool of the even
ing the members of the party re
turned homeward. Those who were in
the party were: Misses Minnie Welsh
and Frances Berry, Omaha; Margaret
and Mildred Schlater, Mary Margaret
Walling, Teresa Weber, Catherine
Weber, Helen Johnson, Helen Egen
berger and Barbara Ptak.
BIDS ARE ADVER
TISED FOR PAVING
WASHINGTON AVE.
From Friday's Dally.
The city council has authorized the
advertising for bids for the paving of
Washington avenue and this great
public improvement is brought one
step farther toward completion and
should le the greatest public im
provement of the year in the city
and means a great step forward to
wards better streets in tne city. The
cost of the paving while it will be
quite heavy will be more than repaid
in the saving of work on the street
and the attainment for that part of
the city of a fine paved street that
will bring a great advantage to the
property owners and make what is
now very poor building lots into
some of the best sites for fine homes
in the citv. The sewer that will be ex
tended along that street next year
will carry the filling of the creek
past where it parallels the avenue and
make it possible to make a fill there
that will make the property most de
sirable in every way and if the old
terra cotta works property is -secure
as a park it will make that part of
the city one of the best that anyone
could desire to live in and the plans
for the improvements along Wash
ington avenue should receive hearty
support from the people.
With the spirit of progress stir
ring throughout this state Platts
mouth cannot fail in its part if it ex
pects to keep the place in the ranks
of the progressive cities of the state
and while the expense may seem
great at the start it will be more
than repaid in the benefits derived
as a result of the improvements made.
SOME BUSINESS IN DISTRICT -COURT
THIS WEEK
From Saturday's Dall.
During the session of th"e district
court yesterday Judge Begley passed
on a number of matters covering the
litigation pending in his court and
hearing the motions of attorneys.
In the case of Edwin Jeary against
Lizzie Langhorst, et al., a petition to
quiet title, the default of tie de
fendants was entered and the peti
tion granted as prayed for by the
plaintiff.
In the case of Velma Cassidy
against the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy and the Burlington relief, a
motion to make amended petition
more specific was overruled by the
court, which the defendant railroad
company excepts.
In the case of E. G. Shallenberger
and C. A. Atkinson against Cyan-
thia- Ina Sutley, a hearing on the
temporary injunction issued to pre
vent the defendant from turning off
water from the barber shop in the
Hotel Riley, the court found for the
defentands and made the injunction
permanent upon the furnishing of a
bond in the sum of $200. The de
fendant excepts and is given 40 days
to prepare bill of exceptions.
DANCE JULY 22.
The T. J. Sokol society will give a
socfal dance at their hall on Satur
day, July 22. Music by the Holly or
chestra. Everybody invited to attend.
DEATH OF FOR
MER PLATTS
MOUTH LADY
Mrs. Maria Jane Brooks, Passes
Away in South Omaha at
the Age of 80.
From Saturday's Dally.
Mrs. Maria Jane Brooks, for many
yeas a resident ot 1'lattsmoutn ana
the mother of George and Ben Brooks
of this city passed away yesterday
afternoon at her home in South Oma
ha after an illness covering several
weeks of pain and suffering. Mrs.
Brooks had reached the eightieth
milestone on life's journey and her
life has been one of faithful Christian
service for those she loved the best
and with- whom she delighted to be
able to care for. The family resided
here for a great many years where
the husband first engaged in switch
ing in the local Burlington yards',
and some twenty years ago the fam
ily removed to Omaha where they
have since made their home and
where Mr. Brooks was killed a few
years ago while engaged in his work
in the Union Pacific railroad yards.
Since the death of her husband Mrs.
Brooks has made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. G. M. Straley in South
Omaha and it was there surrounded
by the three children that this faith
ful and loving mother closed her
eyes in the last long sleep that knows
no waking on this earth. Mrs. Brooks
was a member for years of the Meth
odist faith having joined the First
Methodist church in this city years
ago and up to the time of her death
was firm in that faith. The funeral
services of this good woman will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the home of Mrs.- Straley,
Thirty-sixth and M streets, South
Omaha, and the interment had there.
She has been ill for quite along time J
and the complications arising from I
an attack of gall stones together with
her advanced age. made her recovery
impossible and for twenty-four hours
preceeding death she was unconsci
ous. She leaves the three children and
several grandchildren to mourn her
death.
A STRANGER IN AN
UNFORTUNATE CON
DITION ON HIGHWAY
From Friday's Daily.
This morning Sheriff Qainton was
called out several miles northwest of
the city by several of the farmers re
ading in that locality to take charge
of a man who had been sleeping- along
the roadway since yesterday morning.
The man was brought in and turned
over to the county attorney for exam
ination. The man who gave his name
as Frank Coleman, stated that he had
come west from New York City about
a year ago and had been working at
odd jobs through the western states.
He arrived in this city the Fourth of
July and learning that there was
some bridge work at South Bend or
in that vicinity decided to go there,
and accordinly purchased a ticket
over the Burlington. He left the
"stub" at Oreapolis, but failed to get
on the other train as he was feeling
rather sick and weak from lack of
food accordingly decided to rest be
fore continuing his journey and ac
cordingly laid down in the shade some
distance from the Oreapolis station,
and was soon wrapped in the arms of
Morpheus and failed to awaken from
his Rip Van Winkle repose until too
late to catch his train and decided to
rest some more and acordingly con
tinued his sleep until his presence
was noticed by a number of the peo
ple residing in that locality, and the
the sheriff notified, and brought him
back to this city The man seemed
perfectly harmless and was suffering
from the lack of food as he said he
had only 35 cents in his possessions.
He was anxious to secure some work
and it is hoped he will be able to
land something in this locality where
he can secure enough coin to care for
himself.
George Snyder came in this morn
ing from his farm home to look after
some matters at the court house.
DEPARTED FOR HIS HOME
IN MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA
From Saturday Daiiv.
Last evening Alex Ballance of
Michigan City, Indiana, who has been
here for a few days visiting with his
brother, William Ballance and fam
ily, departed for his home in the
east. He has been at Denver where
his brother Robert Ballance is quite
ill suffereng from a stroke of pa
ralysis which he sustained last April,
and the brothers, William of this
city, Sam of Lincoln, Frand of
Benton Harbor, Michigan and Alex of
Michigan city, Indiana, all were at
Denver to spend a few days with
their sick brother and the time that
these gentlemen passed together was
most pleasing to them all.
CROSS PETITION AND
ANSWER FILED IN ASH-
LOCK DIVORCE SUIT
From Friday's Dally.
In the divorce suit of Connie Ash-
lock against Pearl Ashlock which has
been pending in the district court
since 1914, an answer and cross pe
tition was filed today in the office
of District Clerk Robertson by the
defendant on permission from the
couit. The answer denies the allega
tions of the plaintiff and states that
the defendant has at all times con
ducted herself as a faithful wife and
further charges the plaintiff with
cruelty and abuse and the use of vile
and profane language on the part of
the plaintiff toward the defendant
and further that during their married
life the defendant was compelled to
live part of the time at the neigh
bors and that in November, 1914, the
plaintiff left home aVul has not since
that time contributed to the care or
support of the defendant. The de
fendant asks for a absolute divorce
and the restoration of the maiden
nr.me of the defendant, Pearl Tuttle.
C. L. Graves of Union appears in the
action for the defendant.
FORMER PLATTSMOUTH
BOY ARRESTED FOR BIG
AMY IN CAPITOL CITY
From Saturday's Dally.
A badly mixed up matrimonial af
fair is reported in Lincoln where
George II. Bax of Omaha has been ar
rested on a charge of bigamy and has
signed a statement as to his having
brought 15-year-old Ilattie Shaffer
from Omaha last Monday and mar
ried her on Wednesday, although he
was married to Frances Williams in
Omaha, July 11, 1909. The man claims
that his wife told him she was going
to get divorce last fall and he ac
cordingly proceeded to get into matri
monial game again with results quite
serious to himself. The parties in the
case are well known here as the man
in the case resided here during his
boyhood days where his parents
made their home, and the young man
who married the second time, is a
step-grandson of Mrs. Ben Decker,
residing south of this city, and it
was thought at first by the Omaha
authorities that the young people
had come to Plattsmouth and Sheriff
Quinton was notified to be on the out
look for the bigamist, but they hit
for the state capital and were arrest
there by Sheriff Hyers of Lancaster
county.
The arrest of Bax was made on
complaint of the girl's aunt, Mrs.
Ilattie Winscott, a sister of the girl,
Mrs. Edith Bax, wife of a brother of
the groom was a witness of the mar
riage and swore that the girl was 18
years of age. Bax wras bound over
to district court.
AFTER AN INSANE MAN
From Saturday's Dallv.
Sheriff Quinton motored out to
Cedar Creek this afternoon where he
wasf called to look after Redmond
Burke, a quarry man, who is report
ed as having become insane and re
quired being looked after. The sher
iff will bring the man in and turn
him over to the county insanity
board for examination. '
THE RED SOX
TAKE ANOTHER
GAME SUNDAY
Defeat the Burgess-Nash Team
Omaha by a Score of 4 to 0,
in a Spirited Contest.
of
The Red Sox yesterday afternoon
took into camp the Burgess-Nash
base ball team of Omaha by the score
of 4 to 0, in a very spirited contest
and for the first seven innings the
score stood 1 to 0, until in the eighth
the locals drove Hasson, the pitch
ing artist of the department store
aggregation to the bench when he
blew up and it was necessary to re
place him with Sullivan who was also
touched up in a lively fashion by the
Sox batters. The fielding of Parriott,
Beal and Fahenstock made the game
interesting with some very fast work
and Mason in the left garden snagged
several long drives off the representa
tives of the Omaha store. In the
opening inning Carmady for the Burgess-Nash
combination secured a
nice long drive to the left garden that
netted him two bases, he was sacri
ficed to third by Lehr who retired,
Parriott to Craig; Charmquest struck
cut and Jimmio Sutey ended the
agony by a grounder to Fahenstock
and was thrown out at first, leaving
Carmady on third and unable to
score.
In the Sox part of the first Beal
retired on a fly to Carmady at short;
Parriott was retired on a grounder
to Hasson who threw the runner out
at first. Fahenstock then started the
mill to going by a clean hit to short
center and on the hit of Herold to left
garden advanced to second and scored
on the rap of Smith to short; Huff
placed a hot grounder to Hasson that
he could not handle but Smith was
caught at the second station when he
slid over the base.
There was nothing doing in the
scoring until in tne eigntn inning
when the locals by the active use of
their war clubs added three runs to
their score and put the game on ice
as far as they were concerned as the
ead was too much for the demoral
ized aggregation from the metropo-
is to overcome and they were easy
to win from. Mason and Craig, who
vere the first up for the Sox in their
lalf of this tragic inning were walk
ed by Hasson who seemed unable to
ocate the plate and they were follow
ed by Beal who with a clean hit to
eft field brought in the two runs and
le later pilfered second off of Mr.
Sandau, the back stop of the visitors,
and was sacrificed to third by Par-
iott. Fahenstock hit to the right gar
den and Front who was filing in here
for the visitors dropped the ball al-
owing Beal to score and giving the
runner a safety. Herold was safe on
a grounder to short and followed by
Smith who was hit by the pitcher;
ahenstock was caught off third by
Lehr and retired and Huff ended the
inning with a little grounder that was
handed by Sandau and the runner
put out at the firt station.
The visitors were unable to come
back in the ninth and weie blanked.
Connors pitched a good game thor-
oughtout and the visitors were able
to secure only two hits off his de-
ivery while seven of the Omaha lads
were fanned out on the slants of Con
nors.
The folowing is the summary of
the game:
RED SOX
AB. H
PO.
3
1
0
7
0
0
0
2
14
A.
0
6
2
1
0
0
4
0
0
E.
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
Beal, cf 4 2
Parriott, 3b 3
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
Fahenstock, ss. . . 4
Herold, c 4
Huff, 2b 4
Smith, rf 3
Connors, p.
... 4
Mason, If 2
Craig, lb 1
Total 29 5 27
BURGESS-NASH
AB. II. PO.
13
A.
1
O
4
0
0
0
0
4
o
E.
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
Carmody, ss.
Lehr, 3b. .
Charmquest,
Sutey, cf. .
Front, rf. . .
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
5
0
.0
14
0
1
0
2b..
Farley, lb 1
Denney, If 2
Sandau, c 4
Hassen, p 3
Total 29 2 24 13
BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT FOR
JACOB VALLERY, DECEASED
From Saturday's Dally.
N. J. Feeman of Omaha, a prom
inent monument dealer of that city
has just completed the erection of a
beautiful monument on the Jacob
Vallery, jr., lot in Oak Hill cemetery
that is a beautiful piece cf work and
is made of Vermont granite. Mr. Fee
men has a number of other specimens
of his artistic work in this beautiful
silent city and one of the first large
monuments in the cemetery, that be
longing to A. B. Smith, was erected
by Mr. Feeman in 1872. He has also
placed monuments there on the lot of
F. R. Guthmann and. Mrs. E. G.
Dovey, all of whom are of the most
artistic finish and great beauty.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CONVENTION AT
WEEPING WATER
The democratic county convention
for Cass county will be held at Weep
ing Water on Tuesday, July 18, as
this location was decided upon at the
county central committee meeting on
Saturday at Elmwood. This conven
tion will be for the purpose of select
ing delegates to the state convention
that will meet at Hastings on July 25,
and if possible every delegation
should be complete and ready to take
part in the meeting and at the pri
maries to be held on Saturday even
ing at the usual meeting places. The
call for the convention with the ap
portionment for the diferent pre
cincts will appear in the Journal on
Thursday. Every precinct should
select delegates who will see that
every precinct is represented at the
county convention and also at ' the
state convention.
The committee meeting endorsed the
candidacy of L. F. Langhorst for the
position of state chairman and passed
a resolution asking the county con
vention to endorse him for that po
sition.
MOTORCYCLE STRIKES
STRIKES A PIG AND RID
. ER LANDED ON ROAD
While returning from the motor
cycle races at Nebraska City last
evening, Carl Womburg, one of the
racers from Omaha, met with a very
severe accident, while he was return
ing to his home in the metropolis.
The accident occurred seven miles
south of this city when the motor
cycle on which Womburg was riding
collided with a small sized pig and
the rider of the machine was thrown
quite a distance and suffered the
fracture of the right collar bone. The
young man states he was coming
along at a good rate of speed when
suddenly the pig dashed out of the
weeds by the roadside and of course
darted out in front of the machine
causing the accident and its own
death as pig was killed almost in
stantly when the motorcycle struck
it. A number of other motorcycle
riders were coming along at the same
,time and the injured man was placed
in a side car and brought into this
city where his injuries were dressed
at the office of Dr. Livingston and he
was able to proceed on homeward, the
journey being made in one of the
sidecar machines. The motorcycles on
which Womburg was riding at the
time of the accident was quite badly
mashed up in the melee.
GET IN BAD FOR SPEEDING
Yesterday afternoon Chief of
Police Barclay got into the game of
stopping the speeding on the streets
of the city and stopped City Clerk
Warga in his car and the one driven
by Mr. Ossenkop of Louisville, who
were coming up Main street after the
base ball game at a rate of speed
in excess of the limit of the law and
the two drivers were required to put
up a cash bond for their appearance
in court this morning and failing to
do so the amount was confisticated
and added to the city treasury. The
authorities are enforcing the law as
far as possible and without fear or
favor.
PLATTSMOUTH BOY
LEAVE FOR THE FRONT
IN FIFTH REGIMENT
The Fifth regiment of the Nebras
ka national guard, ready for service,
departed yesterday for the border,
leaving Lincoln over the Missouri
Pacific and running by the way of
Union to Kansas City where they
will be transferred to the south.
There were three sections carrying
the regiment and at all the stations
a large crowd was present to witness
the passing of the boys for the front.
One of the members of Company E
of Lincoln is a Plattsmouth boy,
John Palasek, who enlisted at the
time of the call of President Wilson
for the national guard, and he is now
one of the enlisted men who will pro
tect the interest of our country. At
Union there was a large crowd pres
ent to see the soldier boys on their
way. A few of the boys were given an
opportunity to visit with'their friends
at Union while the train was await
ing orders, but the stop was not long
when the journey to the border was
resumed.
C. W. WICKERSHAM,
THE CLOCK MAN, KILL
ED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
From California comes the news of
the death at Caliente, in that state
ox (J. W. WicKersnam, a weaitny
jeweler of Bakersfield, and for sev
eral years resident of Plattsmouth in
the late eighties and early nineties.
Mr. Wickersham was killed in an au
tomobile accident when the automo
bile which he was driving became un
controlable, and turned turtle, strik
ing a fence and fell back, killing
Wickersham instantly and seriously
.injuring his son.
Mr. Wickersham was engaged in
business here for a number of years
and at the time of the building of the
court house in 1891, he left this city
for the west and has since made his
home on the coast. He has been very
successful in his business ventures on
the Pacific coast and was very weal
thy at the time of his death.
REDMAN BURKE, OF :
CEDAR CREEK, SENT
TO INSANE ASYLUM
This morning the county board of
insanity was busy with the case of
Redman Burke, a quarryman of
Cedar Creek, who was brought in
Saturday by Sheriff Quinton and M.
E. Manspeaker on complaint of the
residents of near the quarry. The
man is of a very violent nature and
clearly deranged mentally and has at
several times hade threats as to what
he would do for those who had cross
ed him in any way. He has been in
the state hospital before being sent
up from Douglas county and came
back to Cedar Creek about two
months ago and worked for a few
days but was apparently in a bad
mental state. Of late he has grown
very sullen and cros and several
times threatened to burn and blow up
the boarding house where he was
staying as well as blow up the ma
chinery used in the quarry. The fact
that there is a large amount of dy
namite and other explosives kept
around the quarry made it very dang
erous to have the man around. He
carried a large knife all the time and
this he threatened to use on the sher
iff and Mr. Manspeaker when they
went out there Saturday to put him
under arrest. The board will try and
get in touch with Douglas county au
thorities in order that the man may
be sent to the hospital from that
county. Burke, it is claimed, has no
relatives in this country.
Dr. G. II. Gilmore cam up this
morning from his home at Murray
to visit for a few hours attending a
session of the board of insanity. He
was accompanied here by J. A. Walk
er who came up to visit with his old
friends in the county seat and while
here made the Journal office a most
pleasant call and spent some time
visiting with the editor.
