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PUEIISIIED SEJII-IVEEXLY AT PLATTSMOUin, NEBRASKA
Kitert-tl at PostofTlee. Hl tMinont h. Neb.. a oud -ola mall matter
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PES YEAR IN ADVANCE
A bolshevik is a lirainstorni en
tirely surrounded by whisker?.
:o:
The only thins tliat could make a
labor party popular in lh?3 country
Is a little- labor.
:o:
We're going to need that 2-cent
piece. They will soon be selling
matches one at a time.
:o:
A womfln changes her r.iind even
more frequently than her frock. On
ly most women you sec have mere
mind than frock nowadays.
:o:
"Do handsome hu.-hand piy?"
asks a Sunday paper. The usual ex
perience is that, whether handsome
or not. they pay just the same.
Kansas miners are rtrikinr
attain, in protest t'i tir.;e :"-ti:i-l
an anti-strike law. Wluit i
guess as to Howat happened '
:o:
If
i signal i:i:.r to i;
v.r Marconi thinks i possible, v.o
hope to poodn;-'; it isn't the hegiti
ning of an interplanetary debate .:
a lea. cue of planets.
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a search for the u;:1i"-t woman in
New York v!ien so many worthy
residents of that city are out on the
road with theatrical compani-'.
If it i?n't Mars wi-ii;ng to ;v.;!
us. perhaps it's Venus trying to
vamp us. And Mars" intentions are
martial. Venus' would be marital.
So let us hope Mr. Marconi is right,
and that it's Mars. uJter all.
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Speaking of manyirrr a cert:;:"
man. a Plattsmouth i;;rl s;M. ' ilt's
all right to rut! around v. i-!. l.u 1
couldn't, st ind l i'.n ai a steady di
et." Diet th.i" a pood word fur
those who con." i-.lr a hushniul a
meal ticket.
in silver and partially because of
the business habits of the country.
Something of the same kind is now
observed in Germany. Foreigner's
whose sources of income are abroad
find that while they must pay high
prices for everything in the money of
the country they can still live
more cheaply than in the United
States in terms of American money.
Certain things like books have ad
vanced in marks only two or three
fold, while the foreign value of the
mark is loss than one-tenth of the
old figure. This favorable time to
buy in the old country is being tak
en advantage of liberally by shrewd
foreigners.
Why do tiot the Germans put up
their prices to correspond with the
depreciation in the mark, especial
ly on foreign ord?rs? The Municii
correspondent of the Evening Tost
finds that two causes contribute to
tii is anomalous condition. A .state
of profound discouragement exists
In Germany. People have become
so hopeless of the future that they
sell valuable rugs, paintings, books,
works of r.rt and jewelry of all
kinds at prices far below their
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1J 1 I I ,11 l.llllf. ..-,aiTi. int.- ill'Mlf lu
-nvo something out of the wreck in
duces business men to offer low
prices on foreign shipments, because
they wish to turn their goods into
foreign credits in the hope that
hey may bo able to escape (he on-fi-catory
taxation that everybody
believes will be levied for a long
time in Germany. The countrv Is'
:emg jam low. m snort, by a psy
chological rather than a financial
panic.
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giving room for popular fear of
crippling the system might ersily
yield disastrous results to the en
tire work of the convention.
m. tlSmiar-
PLOYES ENTERTAINED
Young Ladies Given Dancing Party
at Hotel Rome by Head Offi
ficers of tha Company.
From Monday's Datly.
In the series of entertainments
planned by the M. K. Smith company
of Omaha for their employes in the
plants throughout the state, th
young ladie.s employed in the Platts-
mouth factory were most delightful
ly entertained on Friday evening at
the Hotel Rome in Omaha. The
voung ladies, accompanied bv Miss
Marv MeCuire. the efficient fore-
lady, as chaperone. departed for th?
metropolis on the Missouri Pacific
and remained until the midnight
train. The entertainment was held
in the beautiful ball room of the
Rome and the members of the party
spent several hours most delight
fully iii the pleasures of the dance
and the very enjoyable evening pro
vided for them.
STORIES OF
OLDEN DAYS
IN NEBRASKA
FRANK HARRISON HAS INTER
ESTINO ARTICLE DEALING
WITH LONG AGO.
TOWNSITE BOOMS BY DOZEN
Many Cities on Paper Originated in
Plattsmouth in Early Terri
torial Days Here.
From Monday's Pally.
In the latest of the series- of ar
ticles covering the early history of
Nebraska. Frank A. Harrison, in the
Lincoln Tribune gives some Interest
ing facts in relation to the settle
ment of this county and the forma
tion of towns over the eastern part
of the state, as follows:
The earliest entry on the records
of Cass county is the copy of the leg
islative act fixing the boundary early
in the session of 1S55, but the sec-
Innil cntrv is an older document. It
the greatest of good feelin
THE REFERENDUM LAW
One good thing about a motor
show is the chance to sot accun5nf
ed with dealers whoso stock i; not
stolen cars, which you have to give
up as soon as you have paid your
money over to a man who has jitt
disappeared around the corner.
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It has become plain that the bol
fhevists are determined to work
themselves into our good graces.
They are now urging longer work
ing days, and frequently exercise
the death penalty on punk actors and
poets.
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Oklahoma druggists, according to
a recent ruling, may sell whisky to
flu patimts by the pint. Putting
tho emergency out of the question
for the moment, is that 'vhat pro
hibition is going to amount to the
decision of internal revenue collect
ors? :o:
A MORAL PANIC
When Mexico was on the silver
standard American travelers found
many things the-e amazingly cheap
when figured in terms of gold. This
was partially because labor was paid
INVESTMENTS
Public Service Corporation
Paying
1
Can be had in amounts of
$100
PAUL FITZGERALD,
Investment Securities
First National Bank Bid's, U
umana, nee g
Ml, M ; q I I ,M J, ,
Tli" constitutional convention
fiii'is itself nr. a delicate and diffi
cult ground when it conies to read
justing the initiative and referend
um rrovi:cns of the orctitution.
There are fi v s-ubjects of legisla
tion m w!:'C!i tiie details give more
play for personal opinion and for
bad faith than this. To defeat the
initiative and referendum it is nev
er necersary to oppose the princi
ple. It is necessary only to insert
some innocent looking provision
to rend it inoperative. When the
legislature of 1911 submitted the
existing law the initiative and ref
c rend urn had no open opponents.
Put so many members were bent on
depriving it by impossible petition
requirements and impossible de
mands as to votes required to pass
initiative measures that a winter's
fighting was required to get a work
able plan through.
There is the chance, too. of ren
dering such an act unworkable by
changes made with the most friend
ly motives. Here is a proposal, in
tended to obviate the evil of paid
petition circulators, to require sign
ers to go before a public official to
sign. Obviously that would make
it impossible save by the expendi
ture of enormous sums of money, to
get the number of signers usually
required. A vote for such a provi
sion without radically reducing the
petition percentages would be a
vote to kill the initiative and refer-
i endum. Put how great ought the
reduction be? Nobody knows, for
the plan has been nowhere tried.
! Put for the addition of the wo
. men to the electorate, the conven
j tion would have been justified In
j leaving the subject untouched. This
'change makes reduction in the old
petition percentages necessary
What is done will need to be done in
the utmost good faith. There is no
part of the constitution, probably,
over ivhich the public is more sen
ritive than this, their means of ul
timate control of their state gov
ernment. Any proposed changes
These occasions
between is t,ated October 20, 1S54. being the
I artiils nf I nenpnorilt ion of the
the head offices of the company and K'lattsmouth Town company. The
the employes of the various plants j proprietors were Samuel Martin and
and have aided great I v in the effl- James O'Xeill of Plattsmouth. Josepti
cient operation of the various fac- Sharn 'f Columbus. Lafayette
. T . .. .. w Xuckols and Manley W. Green, of
tones. In this connection it may be Glenwood. Iowa, and P. F. Mass. of
stated that trie Plattsmouth plant isst. Joseph.
one of the best that the comoanv The third record is a quit claim
operates and has turned out a large Jepl of a tlaim UP n "bachelor's
- . . . . I creek" from Charles F. Wolcot to
amount or tne very best worK. Hie ...,,,, m;i.,.i tv,0 -nnci,i.
factory here now has 50 machines ration was $120. and the transfer
in operation and over f0 ladies are I took place February 15, 1S55. Two
now engaged with the company in niontiis later tne owner soiu me piuce
, . . j for $250. showing the first rise in
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i ieai fhiuii- in ia wmm
l or tne splendid time afforded I Momentous in the early history was
them the ladies of the Plattsmouth I the event which was chronicled on
factory are verv aoDreciative
ion ui ine e. muii
association" at a meeting held at
the residence of Wilcher Caldwell
January 20. 1SS5, "for the purpose
if deliberating upon the best method
of securing justice, promoting the
prosperity, peace and honor of our
From Monday's Dmfv. I -ountrv. and adonting measures for
The warm weather of the past I the same.'
few davs has brousht on an in- I At this meeting B. Cole presided
c reuse in th ni-mlwr f eoc f fl alm ieSuiuiiuu iuuh..-
I -rnl n rii.iro ppnpral meeting was
j.epui.e,, i.. me cuy neaun auu.ori- neld on Marcn 19.
.icn :ii,u ine pnysicians 01 ine city Tne regulations provided for the
are kept busy looking after the pa- I ?Iection of three persons for three
express their delight at the delight
ful dancing party.
FLU CASES SHOW INCREASE
Pleasant was one, and it bad a large
square for the location of the "West
ern university."
Most of these towns are now for
gotten, even by the old inhabitants.
In later years there were occasional
outbursts of town planting, but nev
er like the days of '50 and '57.
It is curious that the Cass county
people did not stop at the boundary
of the county in those boom years.
They laid out several towns in Lan
caster county, each of which was to
become a metropolis because of Its
proximity to the salt basin. They re
corded here those early towns as
follows: The city of Haren, January
It. 1857; Salt Spring City, with 121
blocks, December 31, 1850; Salt City
January 10, 1S57; Douglas, January
17, 1857; which latter was declared
to be located just north of the city of
Chester in Lancaster county.
Rome of the reading matter that
went into the records describing
these Lancaster county cities sounds
like modern oil land literature. Salt
Citv, for instance, is officially de
scribed as "being beautifully situat
ed in a delightful and healthful lo
cation in the valley of Salt Creek
within one-half mile of the great salt
basin of Nebraska, and forty miles
west from Plattsmouth. the terminus
of the burlington & Missouri rail
road." The men who framed this
document made a bid for capitalists
by showing that the water of the
salt basin was 12 to 15 per cent salt,
purer than that In common use, "ach
galon of water producing one pound
of salt." The discovery thus early
of the B. & M. railroad is interest
ing.
fT4o ofitc TVn n
good
Chesterfield
A REAL pal that'
Chesterfield.
Look at its record.
Three million smokers
less than five years on
the market! Two words
explain it
$v "They Satisfy!"
NOW AT THE HOSPITAL
taking treatment. but has :liov.:i
little improvement and liaj derided
From Monday's Dally. to take treatment at the Omaha in-
John Gauer, of Cedar Creek, is at titution. Tlie host of friend-; of
the Clarkson hospital in Omaha, this genial ami pleasant izeio l-i::.i n
where he has been for the past sev-trust that lie may continue to : how
Numerous companies were formed tral days and his condition is report-improeme:t until he i, ;;ble tu te
at Plattsomuth to manufacture salt'
in Lancaster county, and salt shares
were numerously floated. One of the
companies which filed its articles on
June 21, 1856. made a claim of 8,000
acres surrounding the Lancaster
county salt basin.
About this time the record shows
that a commission was formed to lo
cate the seat of justice in Lanca-ster
county, and on May 10, 1S55, William
Kempton and William Carfield made
report that they had proceeded to
Lancaster county, but had failed to
find any settlements and did not
know the boundaries, so they came
back to wait for further develop
ments. They met again July 7th,
1S5C, and 'located the "seat of jus
tice" at Chester on land owned by
William Whit more "on the east bank
of the southeast branch of Salt creek
about three miles above the junction!
of said branch with the main Salt
creek."
Three towns were platted near
where Ashland is now located, each
one being sure of greatness because
of its being near the California trail
crossing. O. I. Mason was one of
the proprietors of the town of Ash
land, which went on the Cass coun
ty records December 24, 1S57. This
location was in Cass county, but'
was later transferred to Saunders
county.
ed as somewhat better as the result; ur:i to his lu.me.
of treatment. '
Mr. Giiuer has been at the Mayo Jf jt's jn t:e stationery line, Call
hospital at Rochester, Minmsota, at the Journal office.
EL uwlv' sr- : j
tients. The cases are not however
severe but in complance with the
state quarantine regulation the
homes where this malady is located
will be quarantined in an effort to
stamp out the malady and prevent
ing its rpread. A number of cases
of .scailet fever are also reported in
months, one of whom should "be
! styled principal, unto whom all com
plaints should be made, and whose
duty it shall be when the complain
ant has declared that he cannot ob-
ain justice, to visit the offender for
the purpose of conciliating the parlies."
In case of failure in this peace
irrand the principal was to cite the
different parts of the city which are! offender for trial. In case of finding
being ouarantined and isolated I sainst htm, provision was maue ior
emoving me ouenuer wim ins kuuus
rom the premises and the principal
ivr.lUK.NS TO LINCOLN I was empowered to call on any or all
oersons to assist in carrying out the
From XTnnrtav-B ni7v I decree. Stringent penalties were
TWO JACKS FOR SALE
I have two large Jacks, one 6 and
one S years old, which I am offering
for sale. The younger one especial
ly large. Their colts can be seen
here. Address or telephone me.
E. K. LKACH.
Msw-tf) Union. Xeb.
For Sale Fur robe. See William
Rice at Richey lumber yard. Ctd-4tw
Your Fordson is here!
NOW it is here you can get one. Simplicity to
an unusual degree yet with a ruggedness and
durability that enables it to accomplish a
remarkable amount of work.
4f -A
Burns kerosene the cheapest fuel. Can be oper
ated by anyone. Turns in the close places. Four
cylinder engine. - Thermo syphon cooling system; all
fc forking parts enclosed. Improved air washer.
The students of the nniversitv of made for failure to help, including a U-i'"I-"-f-i-fi- f
Nebraska who have been enjoying a
veV-end visit here with their rela
tives and friends at the completion
of the first semester of the schoo
year returned today to resume their
studies at the big Nebraska educa
tional institution. There are quite
ieclaration that the persons should
no longer hold a claim in this local
ity.
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A laier amenuraein. pruvmtu inui .
If a man knowingly Jumped a claim,!
'he shall be disowned by the so- V
liety by not assisting him to raise,' f
ind by not borrowing from or lend-
lending to him." Any person advis-i
W. A. E0BERTS0N,
Lawyer.
East of Riley Hotel.
Coates Elock,
Second Floor.
a number from this city attending I ing or assisting in the Jumping of a ,1,,'i"iWTVriV'l,VW,T"l'
the university this term and all are -lainl was Punished in the same man- 1
doing fine in their special lines of s " - '
studies. Misses Jessie Robertson. I Inil(l name for a vigilance committee.)
Elva Hartford. Eleanor Burnie, I Levi G. Todd, later very prominent1
Mary Rosencrans. Ralph Holmes. I n the history of the county audi
Robert Kroehler and Merle Rainey I state- Presided as president. J
are among those who are taking the , 111,8 eariy Dan" ,L U l e 1
o k lan',,,'' lu,fled that none of their laws or decis
Mork at the university and were I , , rt
" 1 ififiH wcrH 111 lmijiiu ine tuuuu)
here for the week-end. I "the well known sauatter law which
was adopted last summer." It also
FEAR IS WORSE THAN ?f ,a.l , l ffE
iiAVir.'G Ml.yJ ITSELF I a claim." Droviding the reauired im
provements are made. The secretary
Don't get excited! The fear aids I of the association was to receive 25
the epidemic and kills more victims I ceiLts for each claim record, and the
tin,, tw;, ' .1 I committeemen were to receive $1 a
than the flu. Drive away this non- ,,av whpn , aPtio
sensical fear which destroys vour I -qhi n ih, rrmlA fonnilation of
resistance! Take Triner's American I law laid down by the settlers in the
KHvir nf niiior -. I absence of reeular law. in a com-
luc rr, I
l,i.i , . , 1 lu unity wuere suuu taiuc x. ah.
liable remedy tor keeping bowels quette M. u Reese and Samuei Max-i
open. All the experts agree that I well three of the greatest jurors of
the elimination of waste matters in I the west.
the intestines and lowering local Tne flrst appearance of Marquette
congestion builds up the resistance k deeJ ag a witness on December 19.
and increases the general body vital-1 1856. and the county recorder, not
Jty. Triner's remedy cleans the j being familiar with the name of the
bowels and keeps them clean andlnew comer Put it in the records. "T.
The'Oliver No7 7 Plow
The Oliver No. 7 answers every requirement. Uni
form plowing in all soils a ruggedness that enables
it to stand the severe strains. And the combined
rolling coulter and jointer buries all trash t the bottom
of the furrow; the stop device maintains an even depth
of furrow.
; Come in and see the Fordson and the Oliver. We
sell them and know they will please you.
T. H. Pollock
Telephone No. 1
ge,
Piattsmouth, Neb.
strengthens the entire system. Re-
beter known right away, for in the
fuse imitations, accept only Triner's next two years a majority of the fil-
American Elixir of Bitter Wine! lings bear his name as attorney or
Your dealer In mPftiinoa voo nior. I notary
thP fn-,w " Plattsmouth, aided by the Mills
- u ""u-I county crowd across the hiver, be
inner s Angelica Bitter Tonic, came an incubator factory for hatch
recommended after fever attacks; ling out town sites. In 1856 and
Triner's t'ouirh Sedative c,, . 1 1857 a good share of the farm land
trin. an excellent gargle and nose was Kenosha, with eighty-seven
douche (nose douche dilution is one I block3. Other towns were Rock
part of Antiputrin to four parts of Bluffs- Try. Weston City, Woodland'
iMUou-orm v t uiay L.uy. wiuiamspori, raranei
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
City, Valley Forge, Louisville, Glen-
S. Ashland ave- Hole raiaHnni. avam. Smtthland.
fo. Ashland. Otopolis. Bradford City,
Company, 1333-43
nue, Chicago, 111.
Weeping Water Falls, Montevallo,
aue larm mues soutn OI venna. Centewtle. Tvsonville. Bluff
Plattsmouth. Good soil; lots of tim
ber, wild hay meadow. 7-roouj house
and outbuildings, good..
dale. Salina. St. Charles City. Gre
nada, Rockland City and Mount
Pleasant. In one year three towns
Idlmlniv'tA V. .Via (ronir.Q TlVl i u I ri1!!.
lin.OQW ifng t,, A -l-T -VI. I "O ,jK Hit fct",'
J -J -t,w 1KZ. . A..TA1LOR. ler nf tlm onu.tv w.ro nlalUH Mniint
The Ford Sedan is the favorite family car, seats five comfortably. While an
enclosed car with permanent top, it has large windows, and may in a minute be
changed to a most delightful open car with always a top protecting against the
sun. In inclement weather it is a closed car, dust-proof, water-proof, cold-proof
Finely upholstered. Equipped with electric starting and lighting system and
demountable rims with 3-inch tires all around. A real family car. Anybody can
safely drive it. It has all the conveniences of an electric car with the economy
which goes with Ford cars, low cost of purchase price, small cost of operation
and maintenance. Won't you come in and look at it?
Foiiock
Phone No. Plattsmouth, Neb.
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