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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919.
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YOUNG PEO
PLE MARRIED
ON SATURDAY
RUDOLPH SKALAK AND MISS
LOUISE HANASEK UNITED
IN HOLY MATRIMONY.
RESIDE ON WINTERSTEEN HILL
Where Groom Has Provided a Home
for His Bride Only Few in
Attendance at Ceremony
From Monday's Daily.
Saturday afternoon at 2:H0 at St.
Luke's rectory occurred the mar
riage of Mr. Rudolph Skalak and
Miss Louise Hanasek, both well
known and popular young people of
this community.
The ceremony was simple yet im
pressive, the beautiful Episcopalian
service being performed by the Rev.
Oliver II. Cleveland, of Omaha, rec
tor of St. John's church of that
city. The wedding was very quiet,
the only persons in attendance be
sides the immediate bridal party be
ing Mrs. Cleveland. Madame and Mrs.
W. S. Leete, Miss Sophia Neumann
and Mr. Frank Smith.
Following the wedding the young
people returned to their cozy home,
which they have prepared and where
they will make their future home,
on Wintersteen hill.
A very delightful wedding lunch
eon was tendered the young people
at t lie home of the parents of the
bride, where the relatives gathered
to shower the newly weds with their
well wishes for their future happi
ness and success.
Both of the contracting parties
are held in the highest esteem by a
very large circle of warm personal
friends who will learn with pleasure
of the intention of these two esti
mable young people to journey down
the stream of life together.
The groom Is an employ of the
P.urlington in this city and a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Skalak, and is
a young man of sterling integrity
and worth and whose manly charac
teristics have won him many warm
friends. The bride is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hanasek and a
young lady of much charm of per
sonality and one who is held in
very high esteem by the large circle
of friends with whom she has been
a favorite since childhood.
DELAYED ON JOURNEY.
From Monday's Dally.
From information received by
friends in Omaha it seems that
Lieutenant Floyd Harding and wife,
formerly Miss Edith Dovey of Platts
mouth, have been experiencing a
delay on their journey to the far
east where Lieutenant Harding has
received an assignment to the Amer
ican forces in China. The Harding
family sailed several weeks ago from
San Francisco for Tiensein. China,
but the army transport on which
they were making the journey was
compelled to lay in at Honolulu for
repairs .to its machinery and a
week was spent in the capital of the
Hawaiian islands. The arrival of
the Harding family at their destina
tion in China this week is looked
for.
YESTERDAY WAS DUCK DAY
Yesterday was a day that suited
the duck hunters. The migratory
birds were to be seen in abundance,
both on the wing and hovering in
the placid waters of the bayous along
the river, as they paused in their
journey southward. Despite the op
portunities afforded, we have heard
of no large killings on the part of
local sportsmen.
TO BE OPERATED UPON
From Monday's Dally.
John Palasek. Jr., was a visitor in
Omaha yesterday with his father at
the hospital and Mr. Palasek, Sr..
will be operated upon this morning
in an effort to give him permanent
relief from his illness of several
months" duration.
Daily Journal, 15c a week.
PROGRESSING VERY
SATISFACTORY
From Monday's Dally.
Reports from Omaha state that
Adam Fornoff. Sr.. who is at the Im
manuel hospital in that city is pro
gressing very nicely and as well as
could be expected under the circum
sances of the case. Mr. Fornoff has
been in very serious condition for
some time and his attendants state
that hjs progress has been just as
satisfactory us was possible under
the circumstances.
CHANGE IN LOCA
TION OF LAUNDRY
E. C. Harris Purchases Gorder Build
ings on Lower Main Street
To Move November 1st.
From Monday's Dally.
The Plattsmouth Steam Laundry,
which for several years has been lo
cated on south Fourth street, be
tween Main and Pearl streets. Is to
have a new home after the 1st of
November, and will be located in
the Gorder building on lower Main
street.
Mr. E. C. Harris, the owner of
the laundry, has completed a deal
whereby he becomes the owner of
the three buildings owned by John
F. Gorder and the Gorder estate and
preparations are now being made
for the removal of the machinery
and fixtures of the laundry to the
new location, the move to occur on
or about November 1st.
This place will give the new owner
a location on the Main street of the
city and also will permit the fur
ther enlargement of the plant as the
needs demand. John F. Gorder, who
occupies the two east buildings, will
remain there with his agricultural
implements and harness shop until
the 1st of March, when he will seek
a new location.
ABRAHAM TOWNER
A NEBRASKA PIONEER
Brief Sketch of the Life of Old Time
Resident of Cass County and
Pioneer of Butler Co.
From Monday's Dally.
Mrs.. William Gilmour returned
home last Saturday afternoon from
Surprise, Nebraska, where she has
been in attendance at the bedside of
her brother, Abraham. Towner, one
of the Nebraska pioneers, who pass
ed away at his home in Read town
ship. Butler county, on Sunday, Oc-
tober 12th, at the ripe oia age oi a.s
years.
Mr. Towner was a native of Mis
souri and came to Nebraska when a
mere lad and was one of the persons
erecting the first home in what-was
later the town of Rock Bluff, Cass
county. At the outbreak oi me civn
war he enlisted in the Union army
and served in It until the close or
the war.
After the war Mr. Towner again
returned to Nebraska and located on
a farm in Read township in the
then new and unsettled portion of
the state known as Butler county,
and has made his home on the home
stead since that time. He leaves to
mourn his death three sisters, Mrs.
Dora Tissue, of Seward, Nebraska;
Mrs. Susan Cutler, of Modale, Iowa
and Mrs. William Gilmour, or this
city. Two children also survive me
death of the father, Mrs. AT" P.
Brown, of Surprise, and B. S. Town
er, of Surprise. He also leaves one
nephew, James Gilmour, of Ulysses,
Nebraska.
GETS TOES MASHED.
From Monday's Daily
This morning Ed Vejvoda, one of
the helpers in the Burlington black
smith, shop was handling a heavy
piece of iron when it fell striking
his left foot and mashing several of
the toes quite badly and necessitat
ing a hurry up call to the office of
the company surgeon where the in
juries were dressed and the patient
made as comfortable as the injuries
will permit. As a result of the acci
dent Ed will be compelled to take an
enforced vacation for a few days.
Although Journal wani-ads cost
but little the results they bring are
wonderful. Try them.
A CHARMING
HOME WEDDING
SOLEMNIZED
MISS ELIZABETH FALTER AND
DR. CLINTON D. HEINE
MARRIED SATURDAY
TO RESIDE AT HOOPER, NEB.
Where Dr. Heine is Engaged in the
Practice of Medicine Bride
Taught School There.
From Monday's Dally.
One of the prettiest weddings of
the fall season occurred Saturday af
ternoon at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob P. Falter on North Third
street, when their daughter. Miss
Elizabeth, was united in marriage
to Dr. Clinton D. Heine, of Hooper
Nebraska. The wedding was very
beautiful in the simplicity and im
pressiveness of the occasion. The
rooms of the charming home were
arranged in a decorative scheme of
yellow and white, the seasonable
chrysanthemums
ms with their beauty
adding to the settings
and radiance
of the hanDv event.
Preceeding the wedding ceremony, ' listed in the navy at Omaha and was
Mrs. George II. Falter, of Falls City, 'at once sent east to the training sta
played in a very artistic manner thejtion where he remained a short
beautiful Nevin "Love Song" and as time and was then assigned to duty
the last notes of the melody were
hushed, Mrs. John W. Falter sang
"At Dawning," by Cadman, the ac
companiment being played by Mrs.
George Falter. Following the rendi
tion of the charming vocal number,
the young people whose lives were to
become as one entered the parlors
and assumed their station before the
minister. Rev. H. G. McCluskey, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church,
who read the marriage lines in u
most impressive manner, .the beauti
ful ring service of the church being
used. The bride was most becom
ingly gowned in a brown tailored
costume, carrying Mrs. Ward roses.
The bridal couple were unattended.
After the wedding ceremony a
most delightful two-course wedding
dinner was served to the bridal
party and relatives in the dining
room or the home wnicn nau Deeu
prepared with the decorative plan
of yellow and white as in the parlors.
The dinner was under the supervis
ion of Mrs. J. H. Donnelly and the
serving was carried out by Misses
Clara Wichmann and Mary Margaret
'Wajing
Dr. and Mrs. Heine departed by
automobile Saturday evening for a
short honeymoon and will be at
home after November 15th to their
friends at Hooper, Nebraska.
The bride is one of Plattsmouth's
most talented young ladies and one
whose loss will be deeply felt in the
social circles of the city, where she
has been very popular. Mrs. Heine
is the youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Falter and has spent her
girlhood in this community where
she graduated from the Plattsmouth
schools and later from the state uni
versity and has been engaged in
educational work for the past few
years and with the greatest of suc
cess. Mrs. Heine was for four yeans
a teacher in the schools at Hopper,
and it was while teaching there that
the young people met and their ro
mance has developed into the con
summation of the happiness of mar
riage. Dr. Clinton D. Heine is one of
the best known and popular young
men of Hooper, where all are his
friends and he Is held in the highest
respect and esteem by those with
whom he has come into contact. He
is an honor graduate of the Rush
medical college of Chicago, making
a specialty of surgery, and spent a
year in post graduate work. Dr.
Heine was also in the service of his
country during the late war, serving
eighteen months with the army. He
was commissioned as a lieutenant in
the medical corps and while in ser
vice in one of the field hospitals of
the army in France was promoted to
the rank of captain for his splendid
work in the care of the wounded
He returned to the United States the
latter part of July and at once re
sumed the practice of his profession
at his honie in Hooper, where he is
associated with his brother. Dr. W.
Howard Heine, and where they have
a very large practice.
To the young people the best of
wishes of their friends in, this city
will be extended for a long and very
happy journey through life.
The out-of-town guests attending
the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Heine, parents of the groom,
and Misses Lydia, Kdith and Gre.t
cheu Heine, sisters of the groom, of
Omaha, and Mrs. George H. Falter
and children, John, Philip and Sa
san, of Falls City, Nebraska.
CHARLES S, DOVEY
ARRIVES IN CITY
Young Man Who Has Been in Navy
Sinre Early in 1917, Reaches
Home Saturday Evening.
From Monday's Dall.v.
On Saturday evening Charles S.
Dovev reached his home in this city
after his discharge from the navy
and is once more free from the re-
strictions of milita:
vey was discharged
y li.fe. Mr. Do
x week ago, but
has been enjoying a few days' visit
with relatives and friends at Chicago
and Ues Moines before returning to
his home in this city,
This young man was one of the
first from this city to enter the ser-
vice when in company with lien!
f - - , . . I
i "Windham and George Kennie. he en
on the battle fleet
of
the country,
the greater
Mr. Dovey has
served
part of the time. on the battleship
""Kentucky," one of the big seagoing
forts of Uncle San and his experi
ences during ,t he 1 war were varied
and exciting. ;V ... - - -
The Kentucky was on duty with
the Atlantic fleet and had much ser
vice on the high seas between this
country and Europe and assisting in
the work of ridding the seas of the
U-boats which had been sent forth
to prey on the commerce of the allies
as well as to menace the transports
of the American army and Mr. Dovey
was able to have a part in subdoing
the sea monsters.
It is unnecessary to say that the
arrival of the young man home has
been the source of much pleasure to
the father and sisters and brothers,
who rejoice that their loved one has
been returned safe and sound from
the dangers of war.
ANOTHER SAILOR IS
BACK IN CIVIL LIFE
Asa Frakes, Returns Home to Enjoy
a Visit with Old Friends
in This City.
From Monday's Daily.
When the call of war came in the
spring of 1917. many of the young
men of the community rushed to the
aid of their country by enlisting iS?
the service of either the army or the
navy and among these was Asa
Frakes, a young man who for a
short time previous to the outbreak
of the war had made his home in
this city.
Mr. Frakes has served his country
faithfully and wen in inc. nav .
the United States and has according
ly been given an honorable discharge
from the armed forces of the nation
and on Saturday afternoon arrived
in this city to visit with his relatives
and friends.
It has been a great pleasure to
the many friends of this young man
to welcome him home after his very
worthy service on the high seas.
The young man is looking fine and
has all the appearances of having
stood the service in the navy in
fine shape.
TO UNDERGO OPERATION.
From Monday's Dally.
This morning at the Immanuel
hospital in Omaha Mrs. L. F. Terry
berry of this city was operated on
in the hope of giving her permanent
relief from her sickness. Mr. and
Mrs. C. II. Warner, parents of Mrs.
Terryberry, the husband, L. - F.
Terryberry and her sister, Mrs. Wil
liam Wetenkamp were at the hos
pital to be present during the time
of the operation.
DEATH OF A
PIONEER NE
PAPER
WS
IAN
M, L. THOMAS. RESIDENT OF CASS
COUNTY IN SEVENTIES.
DIES IN CALIFORNIA.
WAS EDITOR OF A PAPER HERE
Cass County Chronicle, Published at
Plattsmouth in 1878-SO by Mr.
' Thomas Went to Lincoln
v'n-m Tuesday's Daily.
From -the Grant County Vidette.
published at Pond Creek. Oklahoma,
we learn of the death of M. L. Thom
as, editor of the Vidette, and one of
the early newspaper men of Nebras
ka. Mr. Thomas died at Alhambra,
California, where he had gone on a
visit at the home of a daughter.
Mr. Thomas resided in Cass coun
ty in the period of the seventies,
coming here from Ked Cloud. Ne
braska, and first located at
ville. where he conducted a
Louis-
news-
paper for a short time and later camewho is engaged in handling special
to Plattsmouth in the year lS7S,;cement work for the United States
i - 1 . .. , .f I .-. . t 1 rn n 1 '(.ill tt ! ,
where his naner was the organ ot
the democratic and independent in
terests of the county, in opposition
to the Herald, then conducted by J.
A." MacMurphy. Mr. Thomas later
sold his interest in the Chronicle
and removed to Lincoln, where he
was associated in the management
of the Lincoln Journal and also the
Sun, an independent paper.
Mr. Thomas returned to this city
in 1890 and for a few month: con
ducted the Cass County Independent,
but later sold his paper and departed
for the west where he remained un
til removing to Oklahoma. He was
well known by the older resident
here and was a cousin of the Thom
as brothers. S. L., George W., James
and Thomas Thomas, all of whom
have passed away with the exception
of Thomas J. Thomas, who resides
in Omaha.
The following from the Federated
News of Alhambra. gives the par
ticulars of the death of this pioneer:
"Last week this paper told brief
ly of the sudden death of M. L.
Tlomas, a veteran newspaper man
of the middle west, who with his
wife had arrived two days before
from their Oklahoma home with the
view of spending the winter in Al
hambra at the home of their daugh
ter, Mrs. Earl Grimes, at 350 South
Granada. His death took place on
Friday morning.
"Mr. Thomas was a native of
Ohio, having been born at Marietta
March 21, 1849. and consequently
was in his 71st year.
"He was one of the early pioneers
of Nebraska, going to that state
more than fifty years ago, and was
well known in that section of the
country, particularly in newspaper
and political circles.
"Mr. Thomas was for forty-fwo
years actively engaged in journalis
tic work during .the stirring period
of development in the middle west.
and counted among his friends and
associates such well known men as
Bill Nye, Eugene Field. Walt Mason,
William Allen White and others.
"His newspaper activities carried
him to many points in Nebraska and
for some time he was connected with
the Nebraska State Journal and the
Daily Sun at Lincoln. Other points
in NebJ-aska where he owned and
edited papers were as follows: The
Chief at Red Cloud; the Chronicle,
at Plattsmouth; the Republican, at
Holdrege and the Republican, at
Bcnkleman.'
"Later Mr. Thomas removeu iu
Yuma. Colorado, where he was own
er and editor of the Pioneer.
"Some twenty-four years ago he
wont to Pond Creek. Oklahoma,
where during the intervening per
iod he was publisher of the Grant
County Vidette. He was also post
master there for eight years under
the Roosevelt and Taft administra
tions.
Mr Tiinmas is survived by a
widow, three sons and a daughter,
all of whom were here for the burial
"A. L. Thomas, the oldest son, Is
in the printing business in Kansas
City, Mo. The second son, Roy W,
j Thomas, Is engaged in the lumber
, industry at h.vereu, asningum
anil Larue Thomas, the youngest son.
lives at Pond Creek, where he was
associated with his father in news
paper work and where he will con-
e as publisher of the Vidette.
The daughter, Mrs. Grimes, re
cently came to Alhambru, and her
husband. Earl Grimes, is cashier of
the Lamanda Park bank. The widow
will remain here for the present with
her daughter.
I "The funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the Turner parlors under the aus
pices of the Alhambra Elks lodge, of
which order the deceased was a
.member, and the ritual was read by
Exalted Ruler H. S. Parrell. Burial
took place in Los Angeles at tlie
Hollywood mausoleum."
ENJOYING VACATION
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Maxon. Former
ly of This City, but Now of
Canal Zone, Visit Peru.
From Tuesday's Dallv.
The relatives of Mr. and Mrs. V.
E. Maxon in this city have received
word that they are spending a few
I months
in Peru enjoying the sights
of the land of the Incas. Mr. Maxon,
I
erovernment in the canal zone at
Ancon. has received his vacation and
taking advantage of the samo de
parted from Panama City for Lima,
Peru, sailing some two weeks ago.
He will, while at Lima, look into
some special concrete work for one
'of the large American firms that is
(doing a great deal of work in the
big bustling city of the southern
continent.
Mr. Maxon , Is quite enthusiastic
over the prospects in South America
as a future for a rustling business
man and is very hopeful of locating
there when his work in the canal
zone is finished.
During his stay in Panama he has
had an opportunity! of getting in
touch with the Spanish speaking
races and feels that with the Ameri
can energy ' and commercial spirit
the markets and nations of the south
ern continent furnish a bright pros
pect to the persons who will take ad
vantage of them.
MEMORIUM."
Just a year ago the 19th of Oc
tober we lost our dear beloved son
and brother, Sergt. George Henry
Kopischka. who died for his coun
try. Gone but not forgotten.
MR. AND MRS. CARL KOPISCHKA,
AND FAMILY.
MR. AND MRS. ADAM HI EL.
MR. AND MRS. DON NORMAN.
"That Printer of Udell's." one of
Harold Bell Wright's good stories.
ti sale at the Journal ofUce.
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Carry On!
1
J These are times of stress and a great
many individuals are growing pessimis
tic over the future.
tfl Consider conditions a year ago today.
Then face the future with optimism
and a thankful heart. We are passing
thru that period of reconstruction or
adjustment which we well knew must
follow war.
3 Cheer up! Keep your bank account
growing. Buy wisely; spend wisely
and think straight. All will be well.
First National Bank
"The Bank
FILES SUIT
AGAINST THE
MO. PACIFIC
C. LAWRENCE STULL ASKS DAM
AGES IN THE SUM OF ?1CC0
FROM RAILROAD CO.
ALLEGES GROSS NEGLECT
In Matter of Allowing Dry Grass
to Accumulate Along Right-of-Way
Hear His Farm.
Prom Tuesday's Dally.
C. Lawrence Stuli has filed suit
in the district court against the Mis
souri Pacific railway company ami
Walker D. Mines, U. S. director I"
railroads, asking a judgment in l'
causes of action aggregating $l.t)M.
In the first cause of action, Mr. Sti.M
alleges in his petition that on ( -tober
22, 1915, the defendant ii i 1
allowed dry grass and other combus
tible material to accumulate alom;
t he right-of-way adjoining ti e prem
ises of the plaintiff and on the above
date passing locomotives caused
sparks to light in the grass and other
materia t hat caused a fire and spread
to the premises of the plaintiff, re
sulting in the burning of eight stat!:s
of hay, containing one hundred toi:.-,
at the market value of $12.50 p
ton and for this judgment in th"
'sum of $1,200 is asked. Damage
the meadow land of the plaint iT .a
the sum of $100 and to the groin. d
in which the hay stacks ttood in tl:!
amount of $75 is also asked.
' In the "Second cause of action the
plaintiff states that on January 2,
1919, a freight train owned and op
erated by the defendant compa;
ran over and killed one red cow
the value of $125, one rel ste
valued at $100, one red vealer. v.,' ;
$35, and crippled one black calf
ued at $20 and injured one r !
to the amount of $10. It is r
by the plaintiff that the 1 f
company allowed its fences
broken down and out of pr :
pair to keep the cattle off tl.
of-way. Damage is asked in
of $290 for the killed nr.-; .
cattle.
FOR SALE.
Chester White ;o;irs T -Prices
reasonable and full i .
furnished free. Satisfaction '.r
anteed or money refunded. Call or
write your wants. C. Bengen. .':
nard. Neb.
TURKEYS FOR SALE.
Three full blooded brown turkey
gobblers for sale. George A. Shrad
er, Nehawka, Neb. 13-4tw
Where You Feel at Home.
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