THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918.
PAGE FOUR.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Oe plattsmouth journal
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trd at Potfflc at Plttamuth. Nb.. as oead-elaM mail mattar.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
The income tax next.
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Twclve hundred dollars brings it.
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Send and get your blank report.
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Everyone has to pay that has an
income.
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Atout the only thing that is safe
to export to Russia just now is the
I. W. W.
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The trouble with the dove of peace
Germany is putting ou exhibition, is,
that it looks too much like a buzzard.
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These two week vacations don't
help any one but the teacher. They
are indeed a detriment to the young
er pupils.
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The winter is about the same all
around us except in Chicago, where
they enjoyed a fine blizzard Satur
day and Sunday.
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If you're doing your bit, do anoth
er bit. That's two bits for which
you can buy a War Savings Thrift
Stamp, and that is still another bit.
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General Crowder's estimate of fifty
thousand slackers in the United
States includes only military slack
ers. The income tax returns haven't
started in yet.
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Provost Marshal General Crowder
asks that the conscription law be ad
ministered, by local boards with com
mon sense and sympathy, a. mixture
that it must tax human ingenuity to
concoct.
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An Eastern newspaper recently
published an article on "How to Live
on $33,000 a Year." We have never
been able to do it, and since read
ing the article we have no hope for
our future chances along that line,
either.
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Senator Kenyon of Iowa has intro
duced a bill reducing the pay of
senators and representatives $2,509
a year. "We mention it at this time
so you will know about it. Don't
forget it, for you'll never hear of it
again.
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Every time the Berlin Vorwaerts
tells the truth about the govern
ment, it is suppressed for three days.
So you sec what a short and ugly
sort of man an editor must be to
print a regular dally paper in Ger
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"Bill" Haywood says there is
"nothing in common between the I.
W. W. and tho Bolsheviki," and
since the Bolsheviki have shown some
disposition to disagree with Prussia,
it looks as though "Bill" might be
right about it.
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However, choking on one's jokes is
not the most satisfactory method of
suicide. In the first place, fatally
funny jokes are so rare that it would
be cheaper to die by eating radium.
Then, what is killingly funny to one
man might make another so sad that
his health would improve and his
despondency disperse, and all desire
tor suicide v.ouia give way to a
gloomy happiness and a wretched
desire for longevity. The old-fash
ioned ways of suicide are far from
satisfactory, but they're the best we
have in the long run.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure it you must- take an
internal remady Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is taken internally and acta thru
tho blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicina was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. It is com-
nosed of some of the best tonics known.
combined with some of the best blood
purttlers. The perfect combination of,
tho ingredients in Hairs CJaL&rr.v M-cai-tinr
is what Droducea euch 'wonderful
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There should be plenty "coolness"
put up.
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Sooner or later the finger of sus
picion comes to a point.
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The gold brick always shines the
brightest just before you grab it.
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The collector of the wages of sin
never goes away empty handed.
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The wise man never puts the ad
vice of a stranger in the same pock
et with his money.
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In dealing with Russia the Ger
man militarist evidently do not care
who makes the speeches so long as
they make the terms.
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Horse meat has become "pure
food" in many of cities of the coun
try. Perhaps it is, but we don't
want any of it in ours. Yet awhile,
at least.
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While waiting for the arrival of
the overcoats the quartermaster's de
partment bases its prediction if an
efficient army in the spring on the
loss of the survival of the outfitted
est. tot-
Embroider a couple of yellow ap
ples on the crown near the brim,
and attach both ends of a string to
it, and the derby hat can be made
into something as useful as a
knitting bag.
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. After the Revenue men get a
whack at the farmers there's going
to be a whole lot of book keeping
done on the farms. It will pay ev
ery man to keep an exact copy of
all disbursements and receipts this
year.
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We can grin and bear it even if
non-essential traveling is eliminated
so far as to exclude summer vaca
tionists. If we crave the sight of
summer resort postcards, we can
resurrect the ones we received last
year.
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In China grows a tree the fruit of
which yields soap. The shell of the
nut, moitsened and rubbed, gives
forth lather. Small boys climb trees
to steal the nuts and frequently fall
out and come to America and start
aundries.
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Is the local Defense Council do
ng its duty? We simply ask for
information. We have not heard of
it doing anything lately, and It is
said that there are matters occurring
n Plattsmouth every day that need
their immediate and direct atten
tion.
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If the government's tentative plans
are carried out, you will be able to
go to Chicago on only half as many
trains as you can now. This terrible
hardship may shrink in aspect some
what if you will only remember that
you can't ride on more than one
at a time anyhow.
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A Chicago physician says the rea
son two persons get tired of kissing
each other is because each kiss con
sumes so much electro-chemical ener
gy. As a remedy for this unfortu
nate condition, a kissless day has
been suggested to young lovers. In
that case, let the kissless day be
Mondays.
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The rather sudden death of W. K
Fox has cast a gloom over the city.
where he was reared, and his friends
were all those who knew him and
universally respected him. Person
ally very popular in Cass county, he
was elected to numerous positions of
trust, principal, among which was
two terni as county treasurer. He
was ajso well known and highly re
spected especially among the demo
cratic Icadcra throughout Nebraska
Peace to his ashes.
TB0B BOYS IN. TRAINING.
The World-Herald is in Receipt of
the following letter t
"I have just heard through a letter
I received from Camp Funston of the
letter written by a Mrs. McConnell
and published in the Bee a few days
ago. As I did not read her letter I
do not know all she said, but my
letter referred to what she had to
say about the blankets and about the
swamp.
"I have been told by a number of
boys from Funston that they were
well clothed, well fed and well hous
ed, and I think they are too busy and
too patriotic to notice a few discom
forts. I am proud to say my son is a
soldier and not a kicker. He said:
If she will show me ten men who
have only one blanket apiece I will
eat the blanket. And as to the
swamp, when we go out to drill we
march through about four inches of
tfust."
"The governmeut is training these
men to fight as only strong, healthy
men can fight, and for that reason if
no other they will have the best care
that can be given them. I am not
writing for publication, but to ask
you, Mr. Editor, to please say a few
words of assurance to other mothers
of boys at Camp Funston."
Figures given out by the war de
partment last Saturday show, that
during the first three months of
training at all army camps and posts
there died, out of 900,000 troops,
,391 men. This is at the rate of
six men out of every thousand per
ear.
In IS 98, the year of the Spanish-
American war, the death rate was al
most three times as great 17.43 per
thousand due almost entirely to in
sanitary conditions in camps, to poor
food and poor housing.
For previously healthy young men
who are not in the army, the death
rate at ages 21 to 31 is approximate
ly 8 per thousand. In other words,
the average young man at the aver
age army camp during the three
month period had a 23 per cent bet
ter chance of living than if he were
at home.
In these figures we think the moth
ers of boys who are in training to
fight their country's battles may find
both reassurance and comfort.
It should be remembered, too, that
conditions during the first three
months were the worst. There was
an actual shortage of clothing and of
other essentials, and there were de
fects in sanitation and housing ar
rangements that have since been ex
posed, denounced, and are rapidly
being cured. The second three
months period should and will show
marked improvement, and a reduced
death list.
In saying this this newspaper does
not present itself as a wholesale
apologist for the war administration,
nor as the unrelenting critic of those
who have complained of conditions.
The senate investigation has brought
out very plainly the fact of ineffi
ciency in the early months of the
war, just as the World-Herald pre
dicted it would. There were boys in
the training camps who tuffcred un
necessarily and there were those who
did and might have been saved but
for dragging delay and red tape. That
this should be true is lamentable and
the American people have a right to
denounce it.
Having said this much, it is only
fair to add that conditions in Eng
land, in the first months of the war,
were far worse than in the United
States, and that conditions in the
Mothers Thank Us
Keep your growing girls free from colds
and weakening coughs and you are help
ing them to healthy vigorous womanhood.
Thousands of mothers have written let
ters of thanks, telling what
Foley's Honey and Tar
bas done for their daughters in ridding
them of coughs that "hung on" and
weakened them just at the age when the
young girls required all the physical
strength they could command.
Foley's Honey and Tar is noted for its
quick effect on coughs, colds and croup.
Mrs. Ada Sanders. Cottentowo. Tenn,
write: "We use Foley's Honey and Tar aa
our btst and only cough remedy. It never fuili
to cure our two girls when they have cold.
"SOLD EVERYWHERE."
United States, with a million men
provide for, were immensely better
than during the Spanish-American
war with its 100,000 men.
Our war departed did not make a
perfect score; there are some ugly
blotches on the record, but it is a
much better score than was made in
C1 or '98, and it was made in the
face of enormous difficulties and
handicaps. And the mistakes and fail
ures and stupidities are being rap
idly searched out and ruthlessly ex
posed. Today, we think it fair to say
with very few exceptions the men in
uniform are well fed, well housed,
well clothed, and are afforded the
best sanitary protection, medical
service and hospital facilities.
World-llerald.
What a soft old world this would
be if our off days and dir days oft
J . m
i always arrived logeuier.
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The worst thing about short
skirts and pink hose, is the tendency
among our young men to niarry in
haste.
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One of our exchanges says:
Germany should win this war, it
wouldn't be necessary to die to go
to Hell."
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When you have saved up enough
money to buy a quantity of oil slock
take it and buy a government bond
or War Stamps.
AUCTION
The undersigned will sell at Pub- j
lie Auction, at my farm, in Eight J
Mile Grove, opposite Eight Mile
PUBLIC
Grove cemetery, 9Vj miles southwest .Should this be true, it means an in
of Plattsmouth, G'f. miles northwest , creased employment for labor here.
of Murray, on
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 1918.
Commencing at ten o'clock a. m.
the following described property to-
wit:
Six Head of Horses.
Consisting of
One black horse, seven years old.
weight 1350.
One bay mare, three years old,
weight 13o0.
One mare twelve years old, weight
350.
One team bay ponies, smooth
mouth, weight 2000.
One sorrel colt, two years old.
Iline Head of Cattle.
Three milk cows, giving milk, four
ars old.
One cow, giving milk, three years
old.
One caw, will be fresh soon, three
years old.
One cow will bo fresh soon seven
yenrs old.
One heifer, one year old.
One cow will be fresh soon, three
years old.
One cow, eight years eld.
Ten Brood Sows, All Ered.
Farm Implements.
One Turnbull wagon, good as
new.
One wagon with good hay rack.
One low wagon.
One spring wagon.
One top buggy.
Two sets of one and one-half inch
harness.
One set of one and one-fourth inch
harness.
One Sutley Riding lister and drill,
combined.
One Alfalfa disc, new.
Two Pony Decring Hinders.
One Osborne mower.
One Tiger hay rake, 11 -foot.
One 3-scction harrow, lG-foot.
One drill corn planter.
One Badger riding cultivator.
One New Departure cultivator.
One two-hole corn shellcr. . with
elevator.
One Gear grinder.
One hog rack.
One folding sawing machine.
One 35-gallon iron kettle.
One Buckeye broadcast seeder.
One Engate seeder.
One two-horse power gasoline eng
ine.
One circle saw.
One cement mixer.
One pump jack.
Seventy black locust fence posts.
Eighty Oak fence posts.
Sixty-five hedge fence posts.
One Economy Chief separator.
4,000 feet of lumber.
Household goods and other articles
too numerous to mention
LUNCH SERVED AT NOON.
TERMS OF SALE All sums cf
$10.00 and under cash, all over $10
a credit of from six to ten months
will be given purchaser giving bank
able paper bearing eight per cent
from date. All property must be
settled for before being removed.
. A. B. KRAEGER, Owner.
C0I. W. E. YOUNG, Auctioneer.
R. F. PATTERSON, Clerk. .
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GROWl'H AND UPBUILDING
0? ?LATTS?,IOUTH.
The new factory of the Sprague
Tire and Rubber Co., to be erected in
Omaha at 18th and Izard, will scon
complete the financing of their or-
1 rcr-nization. It is expected that the
- factory building will be ready for
business on or about the 1st day of
July 1918, at which time they will
start turning out about 200 tires and
'ISO tubes per day. The new factory
will have twice the capacity as the
plans of the company originally call
ed for, owing to the fact that the
stock of the company has come into
such popular favor with the public.
The question of ample funds for the
financing of the busines is now an
assured fact. Mr. Sprague, the presi-
dent of the company is well known
throughout the state and especially
well known in Omaha, where he has
been in tho Tire and Rubber business
for the past 32 years. During the
nr.st 20 years as president of the
j Omaha Rubber Co., he built up for
j that organization one of the larg
"If j est jobbing business in a Tire and
) lubber goods in the United States.
The people of Plattsmouth are also
not unfamiliar with the name of
j Pprague, as the Sprague Mfg., Co.,
is at present operating here through
the Western Machine Works, which
is connected with the Sprague Mfg.,
Co. The work of the Sprague Mfg.
Co., alone mean much to Plattsmouth
as already they employ a large
wolcirg force of expert mechanics,
many of whom have already removed
here, with others to come. As the
business expands it is expected that
the Western Machine Works will do
n great deal of tbe work connected
with the engineering department of
the Sprague Tire and Rubber Co.
p.nd the consequent growth and
prosperity of the city. About 37
tire companies are at present located
in Akron, Ohio. There is no special
reason why they should be so located,
but the fact remains thc-y are and as
a result the people of Nebraska, are
paying freight boh ways, freight
on the raw material passing through
Omaha to Akron and then on the fin
ished product reiihipped to the con
sumers here.
It is a geed idea to keep Nebraska
money as far as possible at home.
Ruild up our own smoke? stacks first
and thus furnish employment to the
thousands of young men and women
of our own state, who are forced to
leave our homes every year, seeking
employment in the large manufac
turing cities, because of the lack of
manufacturing industries here.
LOYAL SONS AVAIL
SERVICE FLAG
I'rotn Monday's Daily.
Yesterday morning: in tbe place of
tbe regular services at the Christian
Church, was held the services and a
beautiful program, of unvailing the
service flag which the Loyal Sons
class of the Christian Sunday school
liatj made for the members of the
class which have gone to the service
of the country.
A large muuWr of the friends of
those who were away was present,
v.nd others making a large crowd,
who wished to honor the ones who
j had gone to service. The services
'were began with the congregation
led by the chorus singing Gloria, fol
lowed by an invocation by Rev. Ilar
gett, when another number was
rendered, after which tho entire
congregation standing all saluted the
flag. Coming then was the scrip
ture lesson, and tho Male Quartette
rendering "The Red. White and
Blue."
C. K. Whitakcr spoke on the
"Causes of the War,' occupying live
minutes, in giving a history of the
incidents which preceeded and led
you to the war, showing it was de
signed by Germany to subjugate the
satire world. He was followed by
Clarence Stennor, who spoke to
"America's Part." Mr. St-nner had
given considerable study to his sub
ject, and wp.s able to tell with preci
sion his idea of what part America
would play both in the struggle, and
the conclusion of the great conflict.
It was only after having found noth
ing else to solve the problem, that
America got into the struggle, and
now it is devolving upon America
for man power, for munitions, and
for something to fued the world as
well. In the end, America is to say
what kind of a peace we are to
have, alid what are to be the guaran
tees for the perpetuation of that
peace when it comes.
Mrs. L. F. Pickett then gave a
reading "Wrap Me in the Flag" with
an accompaniment by Mrs. Ilargett,
which was very touching and many
an eye was wet with honest tears,
ere she had concluded, and on finish
ing; spread the flag over the pulpit,
Mrs. George Goodman then followed
QftlSdren Cry
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
ia xiss for ever over 30 years, has borne the signature of
- and has been made under his per-
-W-trPb-r S(mal supervision since its infancy,
.Guaz Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and 44 Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Iz&suits end Children Experience against Experiment,
What is CASTORIA
Castcria. i3 a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, l&orphine nor other narcotic, substance.. Its
ce is its guarantee. For mere than thirty years : it has
been ia con&tant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness. arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
tho assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
zmmm CASTORIA always
Bcars the
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CtNTAUB CO
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with a history and work of the Red
Cross, giving their origin, and aims,
with what they are doing to the
soldiers. Miss Myra Stenner then
spoke for the Y. W C. A. telling of
their work, their aims, and the his
tory, what they have done and are
doing for the girls and women con
nected with the army. Then came
a special number by the church
chorus, "You Can Do Your Share."
Thomas Wiles, a veteran of the Civil
War, spoke to the subject of "Sold
iers of Today and Yesterday." Elo
quently and in a touching manner
told of the experiences of the boys,
cf the revolution, the war of the
rebellion and Spanish American war,
and the struggle which iu operation
now detailing the manner of fighting
and the experiences there.
Then followed a number oT the
quartette, composed of Jesse Brady,
A. M. S. Sanders, W. D. Wassell and
B. A. McElwain the "Boys of the Old
Brigade." Miss Fern Xeill gave a
reading entitled "Somewhere in
France" which was an ode to the
soldier who is there now from Amer
ica, doing his portion.
M. S. Briggs. the teacher of the
Loyal Sons, spoke of the class, its
mission, their vision of service, and
the boys members of it, who are at
the various places over the world,
some in France, some in England, on
the Ocean, both Atlantic and Pa
cific and those who are in the camps
of America, saying "We have not
tried to teach the boys war, but we
have endeavored to teach them Loy
alty." Miss Esther Godwin followed with
a reading of a message from each one
of the boys, and an appropriated
scripture quotation, telling of their
army experiences, and impressions.
This story told where they were,
what they were doing, and their
hope for the peace which is to come.
Following a number entitled "Un
furl the Banner" by the quartette,
was the unveiling of the service
'lag. O. C. Hudson called the roll
name at a time, while Doris Wain
ftott'and Aleta Steiiner, removed a
small flag which had covered each
Portege Tires Best Yet-
also the cheapest per mile as the following list will show:
COST OF 5,000 MILES FOR FORD CAR
(Two front and two back Tires)
PORTEGE $64.70.
Sprague $82.40 Goodrich $84. 1 1
Ajax ...$97.37 Goodyear $90.08
Kelley-Spgfld $101.30 Pennsylvania ..... $88.80
Fisk : . $ 1 05.54 Firestone $9 1 .22
U. S. Tires ....... $96.05
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for PORTEGE TIRES
PLATTSMOUTH - - - NEBRASKA
for Flctchcr'o
Signature of
star, as the name was called, placing
the small flags in a flower vase,
which when completed filled the vass
and made a beautiful bouquet. Fol
lowing each name Rev. Hargett read
a verse in response to the reading.
There were eighteen stars on the
flag, and one which had been report
ed later, making nineteen. ' The
names as called were, Harry Win
scott, Cassius Carey, Wayne Allen,
Henry Stull, Earnest Stenner, Ralph
Allen, Ralph Lair, Jesse Tower, Glen
Neil!, Perry Neill, John Brooks, Rob
ert Jones, Eugene Vroman, Oliver
Harvey, Leon Stenner, Thomas Isner,.
Albert Godwin, Percy Warthen and
George K. Nelson.
Following this was a. singing by
the congregation, "America" with
the invitation by the pastor which
was responded to by five people be
coming members.
Her Trouble Is Gone.
Mrs. Thomas H. Davis, Montgom
ery, Ind., says, she had trouble with
her bladder and had doctored for
several months without relief, when
Foley Kidney Pills were recommend
ed and she commence using thm and
got relief. They relieve backach,
rheumaticpains, stiff, swollen joints
and kidney trouble. Sold every
where. '
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