Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1916)
L '.V' MONDAY, NOVEMBER i3, 1916. The Nehawka Mills are now Rolling and Manufacturing the Letter LloDD FLOUR! The Popular Cass County Brand of Flour EVERY SACK GUARANTEED! Also a Full Line of By Products! C. D. ST. JOHN, Prop. JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller. For Sale by Hatt & Son, Plattsrnouth, Neb. and Puis & Gansemer, Murray, Neb. LOUISVILLE Courier It was some election, but we can't all win. Ray Mayfield is on the sick list this week. Forest Bronson is on the sick list this week. Emil Denning has been on the sick list recently, but has almost entirely recovered. George Reichart was attending to some business matters at the county seat Saturday. Miss Isa Nichols, who teaches at College Hill, visited her parents near Greenwood over Sunday. Miss Alta Schliefert went to Ash land Friday to visit over Sunday at the home of her uncle, Fred Bornman. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stander drove to Greenwood Sunday to pend the day with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Berger. W. A. Wood, who is in the photo graphic business in . Lincoln, came down Tuesday to cast his vote. Mr. Wood's two little daughters are now living with their maternal grandmoth er in Grand Junction, Colo. He in forms us that they are well and doing nicely in school. Cass county farmers are meeting with severe losses from what is termed corn stalk disease, perhaps for want of a better name. Martin Sjogren lost ten head of cattle recently which were valued at $70 a head. Ira Parker, living in the same vicinity, lost one head and Gus Bornemeier of near Elmwood, is reported to have lost thirteen head. UNION. Ledger. Emmett Morton is limping on one foot, the result of running a pitchfork in his foot. W. B. Banning and Rae Frans were -in Nebraska City attending a meeting of the Keystone Pipe company Mon day night. Work on the new Baptist church building is progressing rapidly. The brick work on the first story is almost completed. Ed Shoemaker, who has been out west looking after some auditing of Farmers' Union books, returned home Friday night. All campaign scores should begin . to heal now, and those throwing bricks A at each other should begin to realize that it is all in the game. Agent G. S. Swanson and family left this morning for Osceola and Ord, where they will spend fifteen days with home folks. Mr. Swanson is taking his annual vacation. Everett Hunt is carrying one of his hands around in a sling and also has a big cut on his head, the result of falling off a car Monday night while riding on the running-board. John Larsh arrived here the latter part of the week from New Mexico, where he has been seeking to better his health for the past few months John looks a lot better than when he was here some time ago. Creed Harris is no more a liar. He came in with four ears of the finest corn that we have seen this year. This makes him clear to us and also clears up his name before the readers of the Ledger. We are beginning to believe now that Creed can tell the truth if he has to. We'll bet two to one that the cul prits who placed that ornamental de sign on our office door Wednesday morning are as wet as we ever dared m 9 44444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 V v 99 to be. The only difference probably is that we have shown our wetness in the open while those, in all probabil ity, who placed the sign, do their's behind the door. WEEPING WATER Republican Ora Dawson of Gandy arrived Tues day to attend the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. B. Dawson. Mrs. Emory DeWolf, who had been visiting her husband's mother, Mrs. E. J. DeWolf, returned to-Iowa Tues day. Joe Hall, youngest son of our former Dr. J. E. Hall of Alexandria, Ind., was visiting in town a couple of days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Benson and son were Lincoln visitors Saturday. Mrs. Benson was consulting "a spec ialist in regard to her health, which has been very poor of late. Frank Jameson came in from Chase county the first of the week, where he had been shooting prairie dogs. He said there were a few live ones left and he went back the next day to fin ish the job. Mrs. Ben Nottingham of Tobias, who had been spending three weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cappen, returned home Friday morn ing. She was accompanied as far as Lincoln b her mother. John McKay received word the first of the week that Mrs. N. M. Satchell of Oskaloosa, la., had been stricken with paralysis and was not expected to live. Mrs. Satchell is well known here bv old settlers as she and her family lived west of town for many years. Casey Pellsbury went to Malvern, la., Tuesday, to invoice a harness shop he and his brother have bought there. The plan now is to move the Pellsbury Bros.' harness shop from this place to the Iowa town in the course of a few weeks. We are sorry to see these men and the family leave town and we sincerely hope they may prosper in their new home. A recent issue of the Omaha News contained a snap shot of some of the Brownell girls who have been taking part in the "make believe" political campaign being conducted in the school, and conspicuous among those in the group shown was the picture of Miss Dorothy Murtey. The girls have carried through a campaign even up to the point of casting their ballots, that was just as real as if it were a "sure nough" campaign. Miss Mur tey was in a group of Wilson boost ers. NEHAWKA News 4 4 4 A bouncing baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Opp last Monday week. R. C. Pollard recently sold another of his young male pigs to R. E. Don ahue of Cedar Rapids, la., for $350. Mrs. Henry Behrns, her daughter, Sophia, and Miss Lenna McReynolds were Omaha visitors Saturday. Mrs. Clayton Rosencrans of Platts month came down Sunday afternoon for a short visit with relatives. Mrs. Stoll of Berlin, Neb., an aunt of the Duckworth family, is here vis iting them this week. Mrs. Otto Carroll has return d from a trip to Garden City, Kan , where she went on business. We demand government ownership and operation of campaign factories. "" ii5i" 55Sl" TiSi The campaign just closed developed competition that was simply fierce. Mrs. F. Burdick, who had been vis iting her daughters in Omaha for a few days, returned home Sunday aft ernoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Crom of Nehawka left Tuesday for DuBois, Neb., to be present at the wedding of a friend. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ost autoed down from their home near Ashland Sunday and spent the day at the Ber ger home, north of town. Just about the happiest girl in the community is Miss Ler.na McReynolds Upon her return from school Monday evening she was agreeably surprised to find in her home a Conservatory Grand player piano, a gift from her parents delivered that afternoon by the Gaskill Music company of Ne braska City. Maud's Best, the champion sow which Mr. Pollard formerly owned and which carried off the highest hon ors at the National Swine show in Omaha a short time ago, died last week at some town in Iowa. After the show in Omaha, Mr. Pollard sole3 this sow to a Mr. Silver of Cantril, la., for $600. She was on exhibition at the time of death, and a post mor tem revealed indigestion as the cause. IN PLATTSMOUTH & FORTY YEARS AGO. 4 44 WW'C 4 Thirty-one cars of hogs left Platts rnouth on the morning train for Chi cago, one day last month. A case before Judge Sullivan came up of a son suing his mother on ac count of old matters commencing ir. Germany. Grand Master George W. Liniger Deputy Grand Master R. II. Oakley and Grand Lecturer Hiram Ryder oi the Ancient, Free and Accepted Ma sons, visited this portion of the Ma sonic world on Tuesday evening, anc were received by Plattsrnouth lodgt No. ( in due form. The visit was a very- pleasant one on both sides. We congratulate the grand master on his happy faculty of putting an unpleas ant but honest truth in the least of fensive manner. His visit was timely and is received by the brathren here as a much needed innovation (practi cally it is an innovation of previous custom) beneficial to the officers and members of the lodge visited and to the grand officers in thus becoming better and more personally acquainted with Masons throughout the state. We were very much pleased with the grand master's visit, we don't want In make him proud, but say squarely, if he can carry the reforms he now con templates he will deserve the highest honors Masonry can offer him now and evermore. Another Sad Case. About 2 o'clock this morning a young man by the name of Daniel W. McCurdy arrived in the city from Tip ton precinct, close to the Cass county line, for three coffins, in which to lay away the remains of three boys by the names of Sterling P. Lewis, aged 12 years, Bennie Hicks, 9 years, and Eddie Howard, 11 years, who came to their death by eating what they thought to be the root of the water lily. Our informant says that the Lewis boy had dug up a root of the water lily yesterday afternoon, sup posing it to be wild artichoke, and took it to the house of Mr. Hicks, where he divided it among the boyrs above named. They partook of it and were shortly after taken with spasms, in which they died. Sterling died in less than a half hour after eating of it. and the others in about two hours afterward. Milk, coffee and other antidotes failed to have the desired effect. Dr. Root of Greenwood arrived shortly after Sterling died. The doc tor, we learn, is now engaged in ana lyzing the root. Journal. The Herald was informed of this case Tuesday morning, since then Mr. McElwein tells us another child has died, making four. LISTEN AND LOOK. Go to southwestern Nebraska with Vallery & Cromwell over the Union Pacific, eight hours' run from Omaha, who will then show you through Keith, Perkins and Chase counties, and will guarantee nobody to have any better land and bargains listed. Our rate from Plattsrnouth, round trip without any other expense, will be $14.50. Also have autos to drive you until you find out what you want. Leaving Plattsrnouth every Sunday evening. Phone or write Frank Val lery, Murray, Neb. tfd&w George Albert and wife of Sidney, Mont., who have been here enjoying a two weeks' visit with relatives and friends in this city and in Cass county, departed on the early Bur lington train for Omaha to spend the day and from there start on their J westward trip. PLAXTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL URGED TO SAVE FREIGHT BILLS State Railway Commission Cautions Shippers to Retain Them Till Rate Fight is Settled.. Shippers in jobbing centers of Ne raska are urged by the state railway commission to save all the freight nils they pay while the fight over he increased rates which recently vent into effect is pending, because f the new schedules are knocked out hey will then be entitled to recover '.he excess from the railroads. In a ulletin issued this week, the state ailway commission gives the follow ng account of the rate controversy: Increased class freight rates went nto effect in Nebraska on October 25, ind cover all shipments, other than hose moving under commodity rates, letween johing centers in Nebraska and all sections in this state. These ates will remain in force for an in lefinite period. The increases are very substantial, as shippers will soon discover. The estimated increase in these rates for Nebraska is from 10 to 100 per cent, lepending in the distance hauled and nticles shipped. These increases af- "ect such a volume of traffic that if L.hey remain in force a year it will Tiean added freight charges to the leople of Nebraska approximating ?1, 200,000. It should be understood that these ate increases do not as yet affect hipments between towns not known '.s jobbing centers. An application has been made to the Nebraska com mission to have the commission-made ates of 1914 cancelled as to these out ide towns, but the commission has not acted on the application. Protests are already beginning to lour in upon the commission against hese increased charges. In some in stances the commission is blamed, the 'dea of the complainant shipper being hat the increases were alolwed by 'he Nebraska commission. In other "nstances the complaint goes to the lestructive effects of the new rates .nd includes an appeal to the Ne braska commission for aid. The steps by which the present lass freight rates in their increased imount were brought about ought to ')e fairly well known to the people of Nebraska by this time as there has jeen considerable publicity to the liti gation which has accompanied the ad vancing purpose of the Nebraska car riers. Not Work for State Body. The commission finds it necessary, however, in view of the complaint be "ng lodged with it to state again that the advances made were in spite of the protest and the vigorous opposi tion of the Nebraska commission and the federal court, and carriers have succeeded tempoiarily in installing the new rates. The fomrmr-.-ion'i position has been and is that the rates are not warranted, that the Interstate Com merce commission erred in its reason ing on the finding by which the. car riers have been enabled to push up their rates. The history of events in October leading up to the present situation can be briefly stated. After the car ilsrs had prepared t.it'.r scheme of 'ates, based on the Tnierstuie Com merce commission's d-.,?.-i r, and had petitioned the Nebraska commission to cancel all the state-m-ule rates and Nebraska classification No. 1, an ap plication wr.s made by 1 lie carriers to Ibe federal couit for a restraining or der against the commissi -.1 to prevent it from interfering wirh the new scheme of rates. Th commission ap peared before th? con-: at Sioux Falls, S. D., and challenged jmir.dk tion un der the circumstances. The court took jurisdiction and set a date for fur ther hearing at Omaha on October 10 before a circuit judge and two district judges of the federal court. At that hearing the Nebraska com mission resisted the efforts of the car riers to secure a temporary injunction against the state authorities, but lost. The court issued a temporary injunc tion against the shippers in general forbidding them to interfere in any manner with these higher rates, which went into effect October 25, until after the case had been heard on its merits. At the same time, the court required a bond from each carrier in the sum of $50,000, out of which, in case the railway company lost their suit, the shippers are to be reimbersed for the higher freight rates paid. ( Still to Be Tried Out. This case will come on for hearing the latter part of November or in De cember before the federal court on its merits and the Nebraska commission will there make its fight against the higher rates. Very likely, no matter what the position of the lower court is, the case will . be carried to the United States supreme court. In the meantime the higher rates will remain in effect, covered by bond from time to time in sufficient amount to pro tect shippers during the litigation. Nebraska jobbers at interior points objected vigorously against the new rates, alleging that they would put them under a serious handicap, or else would actually put them out of busi ness. Petitions for suspension of the new i ates were filed by these jobbers, with the Interstate Commerce commis sion, which rejected the prayer to hold up the new scheme until after a re hearing. Meanwhile the higher rates are be ing charged and are being collected against all classes of freight moving either from or to the jobbing centers of the state. Shippers are urged to retain their freight bills on goods received from or shipped to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Council Eluffs, Sioux City, Omaha, Plattsrnouth, Nebraska City, Fremont, Lincoln, Norfolk, Beatrice, Columbus, Hastings, Grand Island and Kearnev until after the settlement of the litigation and the final determina tion whether or not these increased rates shall stand. If they do not stand a refund will be due to each shipper. HEAVY BATTLES IN FRANCE AND ALSO IN RUSSIA Germans Enter and Hold Russian Po sition Slavs Gain Danube Towns. London, Nov. 12. Violent fighting is again in progress at various points on eastern and western fronts, but no great damage in the positions of the opposing armies has yet been report ed. General Haig's men, in an attack on the Thiepval-courcelette area, Lon don relates, has taken 1,000 ards of the Regina trench. The other portion cf this trench was taken October 21. Berlin says that only a small portion of an advanced trench was entered. Crown Prince Rupprecht failed in an attack against the French lines in the neighborhood of Denicourt, south of the Somme, Paris records. Berlin states that a French attack in the Sailly-Saillisel sector was repulsed. In aerial combats on the western front the Germans' brought down ten en tente aeroplanes and the French put five German machines out of action. Petrograd says that parts of trench es near Skrobowa, northeast of Bar anovichi, taken by the Germans, have been recaptured by the Russians, but Berlin asesrts that all attacks in that sector were repulsed. On the Narayuvka front the Ger mans entered a Rusian position, Ber lin claims, and held it against five .ounter attacks. Petrograd, however, says that German attacks in this re gion were, repulsed. Russian and Rumanian advances in Dcbrudja, toward the Tchernavoda- Constanza railway line, continue Petrograd reports the occupation of two more towns along the Danube be tween Hirsova and Tchernavoda. A belated official report from Sofia ad mits entente successes, but Berlin con tinues to report no change in the area under Field Marshal von Mackensen's control. Unofficially, it is reported, Von Mackensen has been driven back to the railway line. Both the Austro-Germans and Ru manians claim successes along the Transylvanian-Rumanian frontier. South of Predeal Berlin records an advance for Archduke Charles, while Bucharest claims the capture of a trench near Dragoslavle and of Mount Frurtzile on the left bank of, the Alt river. Official reports indicate a renewal of activity on the Macedonian front north of the river Cerna. In the re gion south of Polog, Berlin says, the entente trcops have gained some ground. Except for a small Italian advance on the Carso, there has been no activity of moment on the Austro Italian front. Now Lookout. When a cold hangs on as often hap pens, or when you have hardly got ten over one cold before you contract another, lookout for you are liable to contract some very serious disease. This succession of colds weakens the system and lowers the vitality so that you are very much more liable to con tract chronic catarrh, pneumonia or consumption. Cure your cold while you can. Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy has a great reputation. It is re lied upon by thousands of people and never disappoints them. Try it. It only costs a quarter. Obtainable everywhere. The Florslieim Shoe is for men for the particular man the ir.cn who cares. Wearing Florsheims ives ycu the comfort cf "Natural Shape' lasts -without sacrificing style and finish for your individual taste. Every day ve are showim& more men the advantages of wearing Florsheims we'll add you to our list if &iven the opportunity. They're the best men's shoes made priced at $5.50 and up. FetzerShoeCo. Better Shoes GERMANS SORE OF FINAL VICTORY Chancellor Expresses Confidence That Allies Will Co Down to Defeat. Official Declares German People Are Fighting for Their National Existence. Amsterdam, Nov. 10. (Via Lon don.) Chancellor von Bethmann-IIoll-weg, in his speech before the Reich stag committee yesterday, expressed the conviction that Germany was cer tain of final victory. The chancellor is quoted in reports published here as having said: "England and France in 1915 guar anteed to Russia tentorial rule over Constantinople, the Bosphorus and the western shores of the Dardanelles with its Hinterland, while Asia Minor was to be divided among members of the entente. The annexation inten tions of our enemies include Alsace Lorraine, which the League of Peace is to guarantee them. Such a policy, of course cannot form a basis for an effective peace union. Germany, is ready at all times to join a union of the peoples and even to place herself at the head of such a union to restrain a disturber of the peace. Not in the shadow of Prussian militarism did the world live before the war, but in the shadow of a policy of isolation which was to keep Germany down. "Against this policy, whether it ap pears diplomatically as an encircle ment, military as a war of destruc tion or economically as world boycott, we, from the beginning, were on the defensive. The German people wage this war as a defensive war for the safety' of its national existence, for its free development. We never pre tended anything else, never intended anything else. Not otherwise can be expected this display of gigantic force, this inexhaustible heroism unexam pled in all human history. "The enemy obstinately wills to war with the calling up of military mater ial and auxiliary forces from all parts of the world. These efforts harden our resistance to still a greater determina tion. Whatever England can still bring up of strength and England's command of strength has its limits it is predestined to fail before our will to live. "This will is unconquerable, and we await the enemy's recognition, and are confident that this recognition must come." Sales bills done quickly at the Journal. PACE 3. !i !!' ----- CJTt " n We term it a "Classic" you ivill, too SIGNS OF DANGER That Should He Heeded by Platts rnouth People. There's serious danger in neglect ing any weaknc? of the kidneys. The warning that nature gives should not be overlooked. If troubled by too fre quent passage of the kidney secre tions; burning or scalding; if the secretions are highly colored and contain sediment when left standing if you have backaches, too, with frequent headaches and dizziness, make up your mind that your kid neys are affected and begin u.-ing some reliable kidney remedy. Deaths from kidney disease have increased in the United States alone, 72 per cent in the last 20 years. The risk is great you can't aford to delay. Platts rnouth people rercommend Doan's Kidney Pills. Can you ask for better proof of merit than the statement of this Plattsrnouth resident? Mrs. J. M. Hiber, 1403 Vine St., Plattsrnouth, says: "Once in awhile I get a dull ache across my kidneys, but a few doses of Doan's Kidney Pills soon overcomes this trouble. I cculdn't recommend a better medi cine for backache and kidney com plaint." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Hiber had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Hair work and hair dressing to or der. Ladies, bring your combings. Patronage appreciated. Call at rooms upstairs in Gorder BIJg. Mrs. J. R. Mershon, late of Des Moines, la. 10-21-O.A.W.dlylmo Milk in Winter. Why do your cows give less milk in winter than they do in summer? Just because nature does not sup ply them with grasses and green food. But we have come to the as sistance of Daie Nature with B. A. Thomas Stock Remedy which con tains the very ingredients that the green fe?d supplies in season, only, of course, in a more highly concen trated form. We guarantee that this remedy will make your cows give more milk, and better milk with the same feed. II. M. Soennichsen. Puis & Gansemer. GuyT Crook who has been here vis iting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cronk, departed this morning for the state capital where he is en gaged in the insurance business. FOR SALE. Base burner and kitchen rang4, in good condition. J. E. Mason. n-8-2wk?d 1
