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COMPLETING
A VERY LARGE ,
SIZED TASK
CONGREGATION OF METHODIST
CHURCH ARE SECURING LAST
OF IMPROVEMENT PLEDGES
AMOUTS TO OVER $10,000
New Parsonage and Extensive Im
provements in Church Carried Out
by Efforts of Membership
From Tuesday's tally.
The members of the Methodist
church of this city last spring
launched a very extensive program
cf improvements and which at that
time was estimated at $10,000, 'in
cluding among other things the erec
tion of a modern parsonage for the
pastor of the church as w-'il!, as
changes in the lot and church build
ing that would make it a strictly
modern structure and one of the
most up-to-date church buildings in
this portion of the state.
This program of improvement has
been handled in 'a very able manner
by the building and finance commit
tees and as the result the cost has
been held almost within the original
sum as proposed, despite the fact of
the very high prices for all building
material. The membership of this
church does not number any large
number of wealthy members as the
largest portion are those in modest or
comparatively small means, yet the
amount asked for the work has all
been subscribed outside" of ' a few
hundred dollars and shows the spirit
of the members of this church. Rev.
J. E. St. Clair, 'assistant to Bishop
Stuntz ii the Nebraska financial
work spent four days here the last
week assisting the pastor and board
of the church in raising the funds
and the canvass among the members
was very successful and no one out
side of the church was asked to do
nate to the cause that has added so
much to the appearance of tha por
tion of. the city where the church
property is located.
The church building has been giv
en a thorough overhauling and new
electric wiring installed as well as a
larger and more up-to-date furnace
for heating and in the basement new
and modern toilet rooms installed as
well as a complete sewerage system
in both the church and the new par
sonage. The tower at the southeast
corner of the building which has
been in an incompleted condition for
years past has been finished and the
top of the tower bears a large white
cross, the emblem of the Christian
faith and which by a special light
ing effect at night carries its mes
sage over the hills of the city as the
illuminated cross is visible for sev
eral miles and stands in its snow
white purity the signal of the teach
ings of the church that has brought
to the world the message of hope and
love and faith.
The new parsonage which is now
nearing completion is a building that
is a credit to the city and certainly
stands as a monument to the push
and interest cf the members of the
Methodist church and for the first
time the ministers who labor In the
work of the church will find a home
the equal of any in the city, where
they can reside In comfort and carry
on the work of the church. The
-building is made in the semi-bunga
low type and has nine rooms laafl
two bath rooms and is modern -from
top to bottom and built especially
for the uses that it Is intended.'From
the commodius porch the study! lof
the pastor opens and her the mem
bers of the church can vis4t the of
ficee of their pastor without the ne
cessity of disturbing the remaining
members of the family. The base
ment of the parsonage is equipped
with wash rooms, furnace room.
which contains a large modern hot
air heating system and cellars for
fruit and vegetables, al lof which are
provided with concrete floors and
made thoroughly sanitaiy and mod
ern in every way. The building is
provided with the best of electric
wiring and fixtures as well as a com
plete sewerage system. The exterior
of the building is finished in while
stucco and with fireproof that makes
it a very substantial structure.
Around the parsonage and church
concrete walks have been placed as
well as a large concrete retaining
wall on the east side of the lot that
makes the property one of the best
and most complete In the city,
j The success of the building roo ce
ment Is due largely to the effort of
the building committee composed of
W. F. Evers and R. B. Hayes and
their- advisory committee although
the two gentlemen have had charge
of the supervision of the building
activities and have with the valu
able aid of G. O. Swinniker, the con
tractor, been able to hold tne work
with the original figures despite the
constantly mounting cost of all ma
terial. Rev. A. V. Hunter has also
labored long and earnestly for the
completion of the work and his per
sonal efforts has aided materially in
having the work put across.
PATIENTS HURRY TO
AID HINDU PRINCESS
Villagers of Snyder Testify in Favor
of Women Charged With Practicing
Medicine Without a License
From Tuesday Dally.
H. H. Antles of the department of
public welfare, attended the trial at
Fremont last week of Warchoochee
Aryerno, called a princess, who was
charged with practicing without. a
permit from the state, and who was
bound over by the court to appear
for trial, her bond of $1,000 being
immediately furnished by Arthur
Frahn and J. J. Dickey, Snyder
bankers.
Mr. Antles was surprised at the
reception accorded the prisoner at
the court house by people from
around Snyder who said they had
received benefit from her healing
powers. Many or tnese people were
well-to-do citizens of Snyder.""
A Fremont newspaper man who at
tended the trial tells the following
story:
Witness after witness, young girls.
old men and women, and men in the
prime of life, took the stand to say
that after doctors had failed, the
simple medicine and salves of War
choochee had helped them. Among
these was Mrs. Hans Schnoor, blind
for seven years, who paid Warchoo
chee $350 and believes her sight is
being restored. Another of the
Schooner family on the stand m was
Rudolph, who had paid the princess
$375. Warchochee herself said that
she was born in Jamaica of a Hindu
mother and Cherokee father and
that at four Tears old. In Cheyenne,
Wyo.. she bad discovered her healing
powers. She traveled with Buffalo
Bill's wild west show as rider, dan
cer, fortune teller and 'doctor.
"The spirits tell me what Is good
for people," she said. "I can neith
er read nor write. I would dream
about it. Try to "find the herbs I
see In my dreams. Try them on my
self first, and then give the medicine
to them. The only thing I can do
is wait fo rthe spirits to help me."
All of Snyder in the region where
she has reaped fees amounting to
$10,000 will tell stories of the help
from her treatment after doctors and
surgeons have faIled.VVarchoochee's
defense was that it Is not necessary
for her to procure a physician's li
cense, since the remedies she gives
are only household remedies and her
first reliance is the divine spirit.
State Journal.
ENTERTAINED CAMP FIRES
From Tuesday Daily.
T,he ladies of the city yesterday
afternoon entertained the members
of the visiting campfires who were
here to attend the Campfire day at
the Bargains Circus and the young
people were very delightfully enter
tained at the M. W. A. hall for sev
eral hours following the parade. The
ladies had provided a fine musical
program and dainty refreshments of
ice cream and cake added to the en
joyment of tne occasion. The Canfp-
fire girls were later entertained at
the moving picture theater until late
in the afternoon when they returned
to their homes well pleased with the
very pleasant time afforded tbem.
August Fautsch and Ernest Fautsch
of near'Manley was in the city for
a few hours today looking after some
matters in the office of County As
sessor Farley.
Blank books, Journal office.
RED SOX WIN
ONE AND LOSE
ONE AT HOME
DEFEAT NEHAWKA VISITORS 23
TO 3 LOSE TO SCHOENING
CO'S TEAM 12 TO 5.
LARGE CROWD OUT SUNDAY
Visitors Prove Bunch of Heavy Hit
ters Secure Two Home Runs
in a Single Inning.
Prom Monday's Daily..
The base ball fans were treated
Saturday and Sunday to some great
exhibitions of batting practice, both
on the part of the Red Sox in the
Saturday game and the Schoening
Hardware company team yesterday
afternoon. The result of the two
games was a wjn and a loss for the
Sox.
In the game Saturday afternoon
there was little chance for the visi
tors from Nehawka as they were de
cidedly outclassed and also were not
able to have ail their first string
men appear on the diamond and the
result was that the Red Sox secured
some very valuable batting practice
and base running experience as they
won the conflict by the score of 23
to 3. Joe McCarthy did the tossing
for the Sox and was very effective at
all stages of the game, .keeping the
visitors guessing throughout. The
20th Infantry band was present at j
the game and gave a number of se-
lections which livened up the fans
not a little. The Red Sox were all
shaken up" in their line-up Saturday
owing to the inability of several to
play. .Manager John Wolff appear
ed behind the bat while Eddie Grado-
ville romped around the third sack
and Pete Herold officiated at second-
In the game yesterday the atten
dance was the best for several games
and the fans witnessed the Sox slip
to defeat at the hsnds of the Schoen
ing Hardware company team of Coun
cil Bluffs who more than Justified
their reputation of being one of the
fast organizations of the Iowa city
and they early nailed the game se
curely and the ninth inning rally of
tie red hose team failed to shake
them from the lead. The visitors an
nexed their first run in the second
Inning and holding the Sox down to
no scores the battle appeared to be
one that was going to be a real game,
but in the fifth and sixth innings
the Bluffites proceeded ' to clean up
on Mason and added seven more
to their list. In the sixth innin?
two home runs were secured by the
visitors, one of these coming with
two men on the sacks which result
ed in a total of four runs being net
ted for the -visitors in this frame.
The Sox were able to win two runs
in the seventh Inning that wiped
out the hopes of a shut out and
while the visitors were able to an
nex four more in the eighth and
ninth, the Sox came back strong in
the ninth and ran In three scores.
McCarthy, who relieved Mason in the
seventh inning did good work in the
box and was well supported by Eddie
Gradoville, the reliable backstop -of
the Sox. Grassman in left field was
able to gather in a number of the
outs for the locals.
For the visitors Lewis, the secand
sacker, was tfce bright star, as his
fielding was fast and clean. The
Bluffs team as a whole were a good
batting organization and this con
tributed to their victory.
A REAL SNAKE STORY
From Monday's Dally.
An unusual story of the activities
of the snakes in robbing bird's nests
comes from near Mynard where a
snake was killed at the farm of W,
H. Venner, Just after completing his
work of raiding the honle of one- of
the birds,. The Venner family were
preparing to " retire Saturday night
wehn one of the family heard a noise
outside one of the windows as if a
large object had fallen or struck the
ground. A glance in the dark failed
to reveal anything and a flash light
j was secured and flashed out in the
j direction from, which the noise had
I come and a large bull snake dis-
covered lying on the ground at the
foot of a tree that stood some twenty
feet high. Mr. Venner at once has
tened out and secured a hoe and pro
ceeded to put Mr. Snake out of com
mission. It was then found that the
snake had a two-third grown bird
protruding from its mouth and its
tail was tightly wound around the
form of another bird which had been
crushed to death. The snake had
evidently teen up in the tree where
the birds were fond of building their
nests and hadmade a raid on the
birds and in some manner had dis
lodged and fallen to the ground.
The tree was of very smooth bark
and the snake must have experienced
much difficulty in geiing up into it
to secure the birds, j
RECEIVES FINE OF
$100 AND COSTS
Tom DsWolf of Weeping Water is
Assessed This Amount Before
County Judge Beeson.
From Monday's Daily.
As the aftermath of the collision
on Washington avemie between a
Ford that was in the possession of
Tom DeWolf, of Weeping Water, and
the horse and buggy of Ivan Taylor,
Mr. DeWolf was arraigned before
County Judge Beeson Saturday af
ternoon on the charge of having pos
session of liquor, some of which was
found in the car after the smash-up
and on which the Com; plaint was
based. The charge of transportation,
of liquor was withdrawn against the
young man and he was fined $100
and costs which is the penalty fixed
by the laws of the state for the of
fense. The fine was paid. and the
young man returned to his home.
No disposition has been made of
the car that was. the cause of the
mix-up as- yet. and the bu:-?gy of Mr.
Taylor still stands on the parking on
Washington avenue, where it was
hurled in the wreck Friday night.
Both the car and the buggy were
going west on the avenue at the
time of the wreck and the buggy
was hurled over on the parking near
the Heisel residence.
Ivan Taylor, one of the victims of
the wreck, suffered the fracture of
one rib,, but is now able to be around
although still feeling the effects of
the bad shaking up. ' Mrs, Taylor is
also able to be around, although she
is still suffering from the severe
bruises a'nd the shock of the acci
dent. While the accident was very
regrettable the friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor feel thankful that their
injuries were no worse and that the
occupants of the car escaped as eas
ily as they did from the effects of
the wreck.
CANDIDATE FOR
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
From Monday's Dally.
Owen P. Stewart, candidate for
State Superintendent of Public in
struction, was a pleasant caller at
The Beacon office Monday. Mr. Ste
wart is an old Cass county citizen.
having taught his first school in the
Fete Eveland district, between Elm-
wood and Murdock, in 1889. He was
acquainted with a number of the
older residents' of this section, and
Will Muenchau was one of his school
pupils. He has been constantly in the
school room since those days, and is
amply qualified for the position to
which he aspires. Cass county ought
to go for him strong. Eagle Beacon.
AFTER THE SPEEDERS
From Monday's Dally.
The special speed officer secured
by the city put in a busy time yes
terday as well as Saturday night in
looking after the speeders on the
avenues as well as those, who run
without their tail lights burning.
The authorities have received many
cpmplaints about cars running with
out tail lights as well as trying to
see how fast they can drive along the
avenues and streets and accordingly,
the' city has secured a special man
for this purpose.
Mrs. Alice Perdue of Omaha was in
the city Friday and Saturday organ
lzing a special class in Americaniza
tion work among the Ladies of the
Maccabees of whichshe is deputy.
Dr. B. F. Brendel of Murray and
Wes Clark of Union were in the city
today for a few hours looking after
some business matters.
BIG WHEAT CROP IS
JUST ABOUT SAVED
Northern Kansas and Southwest Ne
braska Ccunties Have Produced Big
Yields oi Unusually Good Quality
General Superintendent Ed Flynn
of the Burlington has Just returned
from a trip to the western Kansas
branches of the road, where he in
spected fire damage north of Oberlin,
and looked over the wheat fields
in the territory tributary to the St.
Francis line.
Mr. Flynn went over the St. Fran
cis line with an inspection engine,
came back and traveled over the
Oberlin line with a Ford car, fitted
for track use. After an inspection
of a large part of that line and ap
praising the damage where a fire,
supposed to have caught from a spark
from a Burlington engine, burned
between 600 and 800 acres of wheat
readv for harvest, he drove across
country to Oxford, Neb., on his re
turn to Lincoln.
"Norton county, Kansas", said Mr.
Flynn, "estimates its wheat yield at
2,000.000 bushels., an average of
twenty bushels to the acre, including
hundreds of acres of volunteer wheat.
I am told that many fields of volun
teer wheat are averaging twenty
bushels to the acre." The threshed
grain is heavy and of unusually good
quality.
Mr. Flynn says the published re
port that two thousand acres ot
wheat had been burned by the fire
was grossly exaggerated. Engineers
are now measuring the fields and that
indications are that the damage will
not include much more than 80tt
acres of wheat land. The fire start
ed in a field that had not yet been
harvested and ran through it like
wildfire. Dry weather had been ex
perienced for several weeks and the
entire country was about ready to
burn up. Since that fire showers
have come and conditions are much
better there.
Mr. Flynn says the wheat fields
out that way are one of the greatest
sights man ever beheld. The farmers
out that way have made good this
year and haven't a thing to worry
them. Many are harvesting" with a
combination machine and hauling the
wheat from the field to the car, giv
ing the railroad the worry 'over
sweating and heating grain and furr
nishing cars to move it In.
A new situation has arisen out
that way. The railroads for the time
being has furnished more, cars than
are being loaded and some of the
surplus cars are now being turned
back to eastern" Nebarska in the hope
that eastern Nebraska people will
load old grain when they can get a
fe wears. Out in Kansas and west
ern Nebraska after harvest began
people only brought to market new
grain. Some of that is being moved.
Very little old grain is being loaded.
Mr. Flynn learned that very few
farmers have provided storage capa
city for their grain this year and
that probably shipping conditions
will be about as bad this year as last,
with grain lying on the ground
awaiting cars for shipment.' Rail
road men had hoped the experience
of last year would induce grain grow
ers to provide granaries in advance
of threshing time.
Ai-KS FOR DIVORCE
From Tuesday's Dally.
An action for divorce was filed in
the county court this morning en
titled Lillie M. Sheffield vs. John T.
Sheffield, and in which the plaintiff
asks for a decree of divorce on the
grounds of extreme cruelty. In the
petition of the plaintiff it is stated
that the parties were married at Ne
braska City on September 26, 1912,
and have since resided at Union.
The plaintiff also asks for the cus
tody of the three minor children and
a suitable amount of alimony for the
hcase and education of -the children.
Charles L. Graves of Union appears,
for the plaintiff In the case. TJT.e
defendant is . In the employe of the
Missouri Pacific running through
Union.
Robert Newell, wife and children
of nearsjsouth Bend, who have been
here visiting with their relatives and
friends, departed yesterday afternoon
for their home.
Elmer Hallstrom and wife of Avo
ca. were in the city over Sunday vis
iting with relatives and friends. .
THRESHES FIRST WHEAT
From Monday's Daily.
The wheat harvest is now on in
full blast in the vicinity of Murdock
and on Friday last the Elliott Broth
ers threshed out the wheat of Oscar
Zink and Clarence Ohm and the re
sult has been that the wheat on the
farm of these gentlemen has shown
an average of twenty-five bushels to
the acre. The wheat Is of the finest
quality and the result of the crop is
very satisfactory to the farmers who
have been awaiting the result of their
farming effort. The wheat in that
portion of the county is fine and the
prospects are for a splendid crop that
will add materially to the flour bar
rel of the state.
NEW PASTOR HERE
FOR THE CHRISTIANS
Rev. A. G. Hollowell, Formerly of
Church Here, Returns from
Gilette, Wyoming
Froji Monday's Dally.
Last evening Rev. A. (J. Hollo-
well, for several years pastor of the
Christian church in this city, re
turned and preached his first sermon
for the new pastorate before a very
pleasing congregation, and the new
minister received a very cordial wel
come back to the old home.
Rev. Hollowell has been for the
past year at Gillette, Wyoming, and
is leaving his charge there for the
purpose of taking over the Platts
mouth church. His return here will
bring much pleasure to the many
friends of the worthy pastor and his
family 'as they were very popular
with not only the members of their
congregation but the public outside
of their church as well.
Rev. Hollowell will preach here'
for a few weeks and then return to
Wyoming to bring his family back to
this city to take up their residence
and prepare to resume the work of
the church.
The Christian church here has
been without a pastor for several
months following the acceptance by
Rev. L. W. Scott of the call to the
Elmwood church and it is a great
pleasure not only to the members of
the church but to the church people
of the city in general that this orga
nization can now take up their work
as a part of the Christian forces of
the city.
VISITING OLD FRIENDS
From Tuesday's Dally. l
This morning Clare Thomas of
Long Beach, California, arrived in
the city coming from the east where
he has been spending a short lime at
Detroit and South Bend, Indiana,
where he was called to look after
securing a number of automobiles
for their garage at Longeach which
is, operated by Mr. Thomas and his
father Walter L. Thomas. JJe re
jorts the automobile business on the
curst as booming and the only draw
back being the difficulty In securing
sufficient autos to supply the trade
at the ;r2sent time. While here Mr.
Thomas w'll enjoy a visit wit "a his
olj irientf; and relatives and ei3oc.s
to leave tomorrow on his Journey to
the poast.
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PLATTSMOUTH
AWARD MADE ON
i SALESMANSHIP
Gentleme nand Ladies Employed in
Stores During Bargains Circus .
Receive Rewards.
From Tuesday's Dallv.
During the progress of the Bar
gains Circus In this city, a competi
tion has been had between the clerks
of the various stores for the largest
sales during the first week of the big
event and the result of this compe
tition has been decided by the Judges
as follows:
. Lady Clerks.
First Prize Mis. Cecelia Kalasek,
Wurl's store.
Second Prize Wilma Rainey,
Busch's store.
Third Prize Mrs. Kate Minor,
Soennichsen's store.
Fourth Prize Miss Helen York,
Dovey's store.
Gentlemen Clerks.
First Prize Don Arries, Fetzer's.
Second Prize Erail Hild. Wes-
cott's.
Third Prize Harley Becker, Fet
zer's. GAMP FIRE GIRLS
HOLD FINE PARADE
Feature of Campfire Day Seems Many
in Line and Young Ladies Present
Fine Sight as They March Along
(from Monday's Dallv
The crowning features of Camp-
fire day at the Bargains Circus was
reached this afternoon when the
young ladies staged a parade in
which the organisations from Piatts-
mouth. Glenwood, Nehawka, Union
and Crete participated. The parade
was headed by the band of the Jesse
James shows and the members of
the campfires swung along to the
snappy music of this organization as
well as that of the Van Barr colored
band 'which headed the second sec
tion of the parade.
Special prizes bad been prepared
for the various campfires and the
Judges passing on the relative ap
pearance of the various organiza
tions in the line of march selected
the prizes as follows:
First place, Kezhekone Campfire,
Plattsmouth; second place. Waugh
bonsiewoc, Glenwood; third place.
Lithona, Union.
The Judges of the parade were:
Mrs. John Lyon, Mrs. E. A. Webb.
Rev. A. V. Hunter, Aubrey Duxbury,
Charles Petersen, V. R. Geher. Fred
P. Busch. C. C. Wescott, and Carl
Schmidtmann.
The parade was very pleasing and
the young folks presented a very
charming appearance as they swung
along the line of march from Sixth to
Fourth street and from where they
countermarched to the starting
point.
Misses Elizabeth Bajeck and Ellen
Noltlng motored over to Alvo yes
terday where they visited for the day
with friends.
L. J. Mayfield and wife of Louis
ville, were in the city yesterday for
a few hours attending to some mat
ters of business. ,
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