The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, August 29, 1921, Image 1
Nelrasfca ?fite Einteri- VOL. no. zxxvni. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921 KO. K MUCH TRAFFIC IS i ; Nebraska Railroads Being a Fairly Good Business. Enough to Keep Amy of Men at Work Much traffic is row being movcil on the lailroad lines of Nebraska. Ne brask.i farmers are going to market and if the markets were good the amount of traffic moved would be .much greater. A slump in the cattle "market, wlien the ranire cattle move ment has just begun, and advice from the mai V ets to keeD awav. has had t i:.- isTect necessit v s on shipments." altho the'tln- publisher for raising money to pay; bills ,ias al-o who otherwise forced might many to ship have waited a while longer. Monday mere than S00 cars were delivertd to the Omaha livestock yards. It is said that even with this heavy shipment all the cars were spotted and unloaded before S:".( in the morning. The railroads are point ing to that as efficient service. The Burlington on that day alone handled i!Td -ars. not far from half the total delivery. The Burlington ni now loading alou: i'00 cars a day and the supp!y of equipment is keeping up with the lema:id. A heavy bulge in wheat and corn prices might m ore- t ii.in double this amount, but with a rather un satisfactory market, the volume of shipnu-nts Ls kept down. With a doub ling of the amount shipped it might be difficult to supply equipment as readily as needed. There has been u slight increase in the volume of ctal shipments, -i 1 1 h er than the railroads would like to that kind of traffic is still much low vte it. The roads continue to store some coal fr future use. hut com mercial storage i.s much less than many expected it to Ik at this time of year. This kind of traffic is moved i freely when offered, and there is n ccngesti')ii 'f this sort of tonnage anywhere. There is some northwest lumber traffic but not a great deal. Recent changes in the rates were expected to make a marked kind of tonnage, but increase in tins the increase has been much less than looked for. Thi light amount of building gains on in this territory. Pull traffic holding at present lev els is belived to forecast a steady run cf grain, coal and livestock far into the winter, which at no time will be come heavy enough to c.iu;e conges tion unless forced puward by an un expected upturn in the markets. ASK FOR RETURN OF REV. HUNTER Congregation of Church at Meetinc Last Night Petition for Re tention of Pastor. From Thursdays Dally. The regular quarterly conference cf the Methodist church was held last evening at the church and was quite j largely attended by the membership, j One of the chief matters taken up by the meeting was ihat of asking for the retention of Rev. A. V. Hun-1 ter in charge of the church here for) the ensuing year, anu me matter wn; be laid before the presiding bishop at the conference of the church which v. ill open at Lincoln in September. Rev. Hunter is completing hi? third year in the church in this city and has established himself so firmly as a part of the community life that it would be a source of great regret to the citizens if he were to be sent to other fields of work. Mr. Hunter has been interested in the welfare of the city as a whole as well as the advance and progress of his church and has been most success ful in his pastorate here, both in the increasing of the church membership and in the material improvements of the church. $12,000 having been rpent in the hist year in the church and parsonage and the care of the grounds. The Journal sincerely hopes that the conference can ...... its way clear to assign the genial suit clever Metho dist pastor to our clutch here for an other year at least. TOUCHES IMPORTANT MATTER. The Plattsmouth Water company, through their manager. L. H. Cush man. is now- endeavoring to reach all the patrons of the company possible in the district where the new paving is being put in. to urge them to see that their service pipes from the wat-j er mains are in good shape In number of cases the pipes nave neen in use over quite a long period of vears and now that the streets are about to be paved, it would be well to look them over and replace them with new pipes if necessary. This matter if attended to ;n le much cheaper for all now con holes rerned and save havin to rip the naving later to get at the ser vice pijes. The newer pipes will ort reDlacing for a long time. not but the eld pipes that nave ueen in ior the past twentv-nve or tnirty years will in a snort, mue nr ici"jh"s and certainly should be promptly at tended to. Blank Books at the Journal OSce. REMEMBERS THE FORCE From Thursday's Dally. j This morning when the Journal' force was sweating and laboring 1 o i bring forth another issue of the daily j illuminator, there came a most' pleasant variation of the usual rou tine of work. when Hob Creamer, head drink mixer at the Morgan Sweet shop arrived on the scene with in dividual packages of ice cream which were presented to every eirtploye of the Journal by Mr. .Morgan. The ice cream was of tin- celebrated home made variety that Guy has made as famous in this community as the pro duct of Milwaukee was to that city. The remembrance was certainly ap- predated bv all of the force from down. VERY PLEASANT BRIDGE LUNCHEON Mrs. J. A. Donelan and Daughter, Miss Margaret Hostesses to a Number of Friends. From Thursdays Iaily. The plea-ant home of Mrs. J. A. Donelan and daughter. Miss Mar garet, on north Sixth street was the scene yesterday of a most charming ly arranged 1 o'clock bridge luncheon wh-;i 1 1 j - hoi-t esses entertained a number of their friends at this de lightful game. Seven tables were arranged with the color scheme of the decorations in yellow, summer flowers b'dr.g use"d in profusion in the rooms where the merry party had gathered. The after noon was ui.ioue in that the games instead of being in the nature of pro gressive brids-e, included individual prizes at each table and the ladiei di.-played great skill in the games. Prize-, were secured by Mesdames Herbert Belt: Henrv McMaken W. A. Robertson. C. G. Fricke. W. A. Swearingen and Albert Deepen, of Omaha, as well as Miss Barbara Ger ing of this city. The occasion was one of more than the usual sociability and the ladies enioved to the utmost the utlignt- ful hospitalitv afforded them. SHOULD SHOW THE TEACHERS GOOD TIME Social Features Important Part Entertainment to be Provided Cass County Pedagogy. of The annour cement of the fact that the teachers' institute of Cass coun ty w ill bo held here on Thursday and Friday of next week should at once start the Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies preparing to en tertain the fair young teachers who will be guests of the city for the two days. It has been suggested that one of the features cf the stay of the tetichers in our mid? be an automo bile trip over the many attractive drives of the community, to thor oughly acquaint them with the real beauty of Plattsinout h as a home town, and at the culmination of which a big watermelon feast for the tecchers and their friends would be in line. A theatre party is also suggested for one of the evenings that the teachers will be with us. Let's get busy and show the teach ers of Cass county that Plattsmouth is on the job when it comes to enter taining the ladies to whom are in trude the important task of edu cating the young. WRITES HOME HE IS EN JOYING THE EASTERN TRIP Emil J. Weyrich. who departed the last of the week for the east on his vacation, has written back to t be friends here that he is having one of the times of his life in New York City and vicinity. Mr. Weyrich is row spending a part of the time each day at the Edison laboratories at Orange. New Jersey, just across the river from the big city, and where the Edison recreations are prepared for the market. He has also been making good use of the spare time in the nation's metropolis, having looked over, the interesting sights of Wall street. St. Paul's and Trinity church, two of the oldest historical buildings of New York. Emil also made a trip out in the harbor to visit Bledsoe's Island, on which is located the stat ute of Liberty, that keeps watch over a I 1 lie entrance 10 ine (;reai jeyuunt. and while there climbed to the top of the statute, from" where a great view is obtained over the harbor and city. A trip up the tower of the Wool worth building was also one of the points of interest visited and this f. 1 story building arising to the height of 792 feet gave a great view of the city and the surrounding country. However the most enjovable por- tion of the -trip is undoubtedly the time spent. in looking over the great T - II 1 . , i r . . jui!iiu jjidiii. uiiu oeiore reiurni'is Mr. Weyrich will also visit othr large concerns whose products he handles at the store in this city. Elank Books at the Journal Office. WILES FAMILY HOLDS ANNUAL REUNION MEET GATHER AT THE CITY PARK AT WEEPING WATER, LARGE NUMBER PRESENT From Friday's Iaily. The annual reunion of the mem bers of the Wiles family was staged yesterday at the city park in Weep iiu: Water and proved one of the most pleasant -that the family has h-ad in many years and also one of the mo-t largely attended as there was estimated to have been 275 mem bers of the family at the park at the dinner hour and during the program h-ul It required sixty-four cars, to the members of the party in addi tion to those who had come by train to the scene of the picnic. More auspicious weather conditions could rot have been desired and it made the occasic n one of the rarest enjoyment as in the pleasant shade the members recounted the history of the family and reneweed the ac quaintances of th rlativs who wre living at distant points and who had come back to the original family .home for the reunion. It hur been many years since the tot-fathers of the Wiles family first settled in Mills county, Iowai. and Cass c unty. Nebraska, and in the in tervening years the family has grown both in numbers and influence in the community until it is one of the lead ing families of this portion of Ne braska. For a number of years it has been the custom of the family to meet alternately in Iowa and Nebras ka bu? ihis year the meeting decided that as the park at Weeping Water was so comfortable that they would gather there next year. The t Ulcers elected for the associ ation were: Kay Wiles, Weeping Wa ter, President; Thomas Wiles. Platts mouth. treasurer; Mrs. J. K. Wiles. Plattsmouth. secretary. The members of the family partic ipated in a great picnic dinner, the ladies having brought with them a great array of the good things to eat and th-? camp fire served ice cream to the jolly family party. One cf Hie features of the day was the 1 asehall game between the vari ous members of the family and which afforded great amusement for both the players and the onlookers. A pro gram af speeches t;nd songs also add ed to the deversion of the occasion md it was late in the afternoon when the reunion was brought to a close. Those to attend from this city were Thomas Wiles and wife. C. H. Warner, wife and family. J. E. Wiles and w ife. L. L. Wiles, wife and fam ily. Dr. J. H. Hall and wife, and At torney T. F. Wiles and family of Om aha. CONSTRUCTS ARTIFICIAL LAKE. Phillip Hild. who resides west of Mynard. has inaugurated an artificial lake cm his farm that promises to in sure a supply of ice during the win ter, together with fishing and bath ing for Mr. Hild and his friends dur ing the summer. W. J. Partridge, the dynamite and blasting expert, of Weeping Water, was secured to look after the work, and did a most excellent job. The hollow shaped bowl, which is CZ feet in length. :io feet in width and S feet deep, was formed in an instant, when the various charges of dyna mite and blasting powder which had been placed in the ground at close intervals, were toucbeel off. Three hundred pounds of dynamite and 25 kegs of blasting powder, costing up wards of ?200. were "btrrieJ." each charge being so arranged as to ex plode simultaneously with the others. When the blast was touched off, the spectacular effect was one that many a motion picture director would have been glad of the opportunity of pho tographing. The country was shaken for miles around and a moment later (lie excavation bore testimony to the powerfulness of the explosives. A small stream runs near the pro posed lake, and with a hydraulic ram and ordinary pipe line, water can be constantly pumped into the lake with very little expense. In order to se cure a sufficient heati of water to properly operate the ram a small concrete dam will be placed in the stream. RETURNED FROM RANCH L. F. Langhorst and daughter. Ethel, and C. G. Bailey and daugh ter, Hettie, returned Saturday even ing from an auto trip to the Lang horst ranch near Sugar City, Colo. They report a great trip and a splendid time. Mr. Langhorst brot along samples of corn and wheat raised on his land and it looks good. It rained a good share of the time while they were there, but this did not prevent them from enjoying the ranch life. They report that Wil liam LangJiorst and Arthur Schneid er are enjoying their work there and are at it from morning to night. . E1 mwood Leader-Echo I We appreciate your co-cperation in helping -us to publish all the live news of the community. Call No. 6, 3 rings. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL From Thursday's rniVv. Mrs. A. A. Alexander, of Rose ville. California, who was called lure by the news of the f-mUb n death of her father, George Grebe. Sr.. is now at the Ford hospital in Omaha, suf fering from a nervous Ireakdown. j Mrs. Alexander has a very severe 'attack of the nervoti-ness as the re sult of the suddenness of the blow that has fallen on h-r family. She had a very serious illness at the time of the death of 5ir. Alexander's father last year and had hardly re covered from this when the death of her own father occurred. r POLICE COURT CASE DRAWS ATTENTION ! ealinS on Complaint Against John Violation of Tr: arhc llales Dismissed From Friday's Dally. This morning -the hearing of the complaint filed ag.itt John Sattler Jr.. for driving his car on the wrong side of .the street, was staged before Judge Archer and th:' case attracted almost as much attention as the Still man case in New York, judgingf rom the spectators who were on hand. The police officers who had made the complaint lor the city were re presented by City Am ; rnc-y C. A. iiawls while C. E. M ir'in was the representative of the defendant. The affair crccurred on last Satur day night near the Punnele theatre and th? Wagner h tel when Officer Chandler flopped Mr. Saltier, who was driving his car on the left side of the street, and notified him that he would have to answer for the vio lation of the law. and at the time :he ca.-e attracted the attention of a large number of the spectators who were nearby when the arrest was made and many stories were given of the affair. . At the trial th- defendant pre sented .their side of the story i:i that the crowded condi.ioa of the street and the number of cars parked there made it a matter of necessity to drive on the wrong side of the street and the defense also presented claims of the language u.-ed oa the occas ion by the police. After hearing th-e.fiiatler fully the court dismissed the action against Mr. Sattler. WELL KNOWN PHYSI CIAN SERIOUSLY ILL Dr. B. F. Brendel, of Murray. Con fined to Home at Murray by a Case of KicLnev Trouble The many friends over Cass count y will regret ver much to learn of the serious condition of Ir. 15. F. IJrer. del of Murray. one of the . oddest doctors in the county. The genial doctor has in the last few weeks suffered a very severe at tack of sickness v.hhh has resulted in a severe affliction of the kidneys that has made his condition quite serious. He has been kept confined to his home the greater part of the time during the last month and his fam ily and friends are hopeful that in the near future he may be able to show decided signs of improvement and to again resume his former ac tivities. The doctor has left such an active life for years that the con finement has proven very trying to him during the weeks that he has compelled to remain at homo. STREET BADLY WASHED. The South Fifth street hill has un doubtedly suffered the most erosion of any of the curbed streets in the city as a result of the recent rains. For some time the roadway has been below the curb and gutter lines, and the inevitable result has been that the water has taken its course down the center of the streets, leaving the curbing and guttering stranded high and dry. Each succeeding rain fur ther increases the depth of the water ways, and now at the corner of cars crossinc the intersection with greater speed than that of a snal and then with the risk of breaking a spring. The most satisfactory and least expensive course to follow in the long run is paving, but under inability to get that done at the present time, the next best solution lies in grading up the street until the center of the roadway is as high or higher than the curb line, and then rounding it off, so the water will naturally run in the gutter. UNDERGOES OPERATION From Friday's Dally. Yesterday morning at the Fenger hospital in Omaha, Miss Margaret Buttery was operated on for append icitis, from which she has been suf fering for some time. The patient has been suffering from chronic ap pendicitis and in order to give her relief it was decided to have the op eration performed and it has proven successful. Frank Buttery, father of the young lady was at the hospital and reDorts that she has rallied very I nicely from the effects of the opera- 23 for Omaha and Lincoln and ac ! tion. . companied by the two state officials WHERE THE TAX MONEY IS EXPENDED More than Half That Levied Here Goes to Maintain School Sys- j tern Total 41.6 Mills With a school levy almost 50 per cent higher than that of any district in the count; arol a city levy :'0 per cent above that of any other town in the county. Plattsmouth citizens face a 41.0 mill tax 0:1 their assessed valuation, '.hich i. the e.juival nt of 4.1 (i p-r cent. Time was when 4 per c-nt interest was considered O K on gilt edi-'.e investments; now; taxes alone take that much. That is." of course, overlooking the fact that there is some variance between t.s-. sessed and real valuation figures. I Of this amount 2o mills goes toj maintain the sihool district ami an j additional 2 mills to meet school district bonds, making a total of 22 1 mills or more than hi.lf of the taxes we pay, necessary to the support of our public school system. Extensive si root lights and other modern conveniences bring the city levy up to 1I5 mills. Eagle and Mur dock. the ne-xt most expensive town governments in the county, cost the taxpayers 10 mills. Other towns in the county vary around 5 or 0 mills, I w ith the exception of South liend. ' v.-here the finances are in such good shape that no levy was made this year. Pray tell us, South Bend, how j do you do it? j The total county levy is but 3.S ' mills, of which more than one-third j goes to the County General fund. The County l:ridg? and the the County Road greater part funds split equally of the remainder. The state government asks for a similar amount- mills. Of this. the fraction three-tenths mill goes toj the fund for the magnificent new cap-i io! building less than one-hundre h I part 01 me taxes we Here in ciatis mouth pay. Prior to this year levies have been ha: -ed on a one-fifth valuation, wliu-h accounts for the seemingly much higher figures Converting the li'Ll tax levy in Plattsmouth to figures np pl.'cr.ble to the; former method, vould provide an assessment of 20S mills. Last year's levy was 187.07 mills. ATTEND FAMILY GATHERING A number of the Spangler broth ers, their mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Spangler. and other relatives and the ir families drove- to Miller. Neb., Friday, and Saturday, to attend a family gathering on Sunday at the Chrisman at Miller. Neb. There were 1 forty relatives present. The occasion I was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Philip ! Chrisman's 40th weeding anniversary j which occurs a little later, but it was j convenient for the relatives to meet: at this time. The party visited another sister. Mrs. IJocis S'ander and family at Archer, also brother Charley Spang-! ler at Oconto, and their old friend and neighbor. Will Kennedy and, fam ily at Kim Creek. Among those who drove out from Cass county were Peter Spangler, daughters. Olive and Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spangler and family. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Livingston and fam.ily and Mrs. Elizabeth Spangler. Mr. and Mrs. Johin Spangler and family of Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spangler and family of Platts mouth. also a siter, Mrs. Dent Hisrhts and husband of Hastings. Ia. They had a fine trip, reaching horn" Tuesday night. No mud or rain to bother, in fact Pete Spangler said they saw some places the corn had suffered from want of rain. RETURNS FROM COLORADO From Friday's Gaily. This morning James K. Pollock returned home from an outing of two months in the southwestern portion of Colorao. near Pagosa Springs, where he has a ranch located in the heart of the unsettled portion of that country. The outing was one that thoroughly appealed to Mr. Pollock, and he had his fill of hunting and fishing as the mountain streams abound in the finest kind of game fish and the mountain country has bear and deer in plenty for the ! nur-,te Mr. Pollock was given a real rest as aside from the occasional wander er off the beaten path of travel, there was no one to disturb his peace and he was able to spend the time as he wished. He returns greatly refreshed and invigorated for the work of the fall and winter and feel ing that he had an outing that cer tainly will be hard for anyone to equal. VISITORS IN THE CITY From Friday's Ialiy This afternoon George Koster, state fish and game warden and W. J. O'Brien, state superintendent of fisheries, were here, coming down from South Bend to secure the state fish car that has been at the shops here undergoing repairs. Mr. Koster is one of the busy men of the state, as he has charge of all the violations of the fish and game laws, and which are very numerous,, especially in the western part of the state. The ear was sent out this afternoon on No. RETURNS FROM CONVENTION From Friday's JJatly. James Ptacek, who was the dele gate from the Plattsmouth local of the Carmen of America to the inter national convention of the organiza tion held at Toronto. Canada, re turned home yesterday aft' moon. Mr. Ptacek has had a great trip and reports that the convention was one of the greatest that the labor organ izations has held for years ami one that was filled with much interest to all lines of of railroad labor, es pecially at this time when the rail road situation is being brought to the forefront in the disputes be tween the road owners and the em ployes and which are be.ing threshed out before the labor boards. SHOP MEN HAVE AN OTHER BALL GAME This Time the Coach Shop are the Opponents of the Boilermakers Ard Win Exciting Game From Friday's I-aily. Ixist evening the followers of the sport of baseball, who are employed in the Purliugton shops, gathered at the Eagles park to witness a combat between the team of the boilerniak ers and that of the coach shop. The coach shop team has just be-en organ ized and embraces a numier of the well known players of the Eagles and the late lied Sox. including Hill Mason. William Patrick O'Doanell, and Georgie Nelson, and proceeded to start right after the foat ef their opponents but found that the boiler makers were not as easy as had been imagined and it not been for the in experience of the tankers on the bas es they might have been playing yet. However, the coach shop has the palm as the final score was 7 to " in their favor. For the carpenters Bill Mason was selected to do the heaving and "Shorty" Burbridge donned the mask and pad to stop what might come his way while for the boilermakers "Liz" Luschinsky was sent to the mound and Tom liabb, the veteran catcher, placed back of the home plate to hold the drives of the pitcher. The game wan close and the coach workers received the surprise of 4heir young lives in the manner in which their opponents lobbed the hall and chased around over the old lot. "Liz" is reported to have scored a greit deal of applause when he was able to retire William Patrick on the strike out route. In addition to the former first team players, the coach shop also had Cecil O. York in the lineup, which may lead to the game being disputed by the boilermakers on ac count of the professional record of York, who was the mainstay of the Watson, Mo.) team before coming to this city. Both tams are feeline: fine over the game and willprobably have a meet ins later on the diamond while the blacksmith team also are looking both of them over for a future date on the lot. EYE SPECIALIST HERE L. R. Hertert, the eye sight spec ialist, at the B. A. HcElwain Jew elry store, Plattsmouth, Neb., every Wednesday, from 10 a. m. to C p. in. Glasses correctly fitted. Consulta tion is free. IP : vf- !?n .m 1 - m Settling the Banking Question! Those who bring their accounts here gen erally leave them here. The service rendered makes for permanency. It will meet your requirements today and tomorrow. A connection made now will set tle the banking question for all time. And settle it satisfactorily. THE Fl RST NATIONAL BAN K THE BANK WHERE PDMTSMOUTH HEADS NEBRASKA SHERIFFS AGAIN C. D. Qaxutcn cf Plattsmouth Re elected President cf Nebraska ShtrLTs for Fourth Time From Krldsive i.-uii Sheriff C. I. Quinton relumed home this morning from North Platte where he ha-, been in attendance at the ei n flit ion of the a-s viat ion of sheriffs of Nehraska. Sheriff Quinton has boon the head of I lie association for th past ili ree veils and had it all figured out that he would lay aside' the oliice this year but the as sociates in 1 h" law enforcers refused to hear to this and named him for the for. th time ti head the organiza tion. Peter Duffy of O'Neill, was nam ed as secretary-treasurer of the asso ciation for another term. The bunch of law enforcers had one of the times of their lives at North Platte and Sheriff Salisbury of Lincoln county proved a real host assisted by -the live wiles of North Platte and vicinity and kept tUe visitors on the go' most cf the time. The mee ting was opened at the North Platte court hou-e and hardly had the slit riffs gotten down to business than they were thrilled by the news that a gang of "bandits" robbed one f the leading jewelry stores of the city and they hastened out to find the "bandits" making their getaway The parly was hastily loaded in cars and taken -ut to the Coady ran:-) where the bandits were supposed to have lied and from then on there was something doing all the time as a real wild west show was staged that would have beaten anything that had been enacted in the palmy days of the wild and woly west. The final chapter in the entertainment was a big chicken dinner that gave the visitors their final appreciation of one of the livest towns in the w est. ENJOYS FAREWEIL DINNER From Friday'r Dally Last evening Miss Honor Seybert entertained in honor of her brother, Jennings Seybert, who leaves tomor row evening for Dayton, Ohio, and for th; occasion a number of the young friends of Jennings were in vited in to enjoy the. most delightful dinner that had been provided. The young men spent the hours following the six o'clock dinner in a most delightful informal manner at games and music and when the hour for departure came wished their young friend a pleasant trip and a most enjoyable time on his vi-it east, we re: John Ptak Those to attend the dinner Otto Trilety.- Jack McCarthy, Egenberger, Herold Fitt, John and Jennings Sevhert. Mrs. C. A. Marshall, Jr.. oT Day Ion, who has been here visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Sey bert, will have Saturday evening for the east and Jennings will accom pany his r,ister back to her home. WORKING AT GARAGE From Thursday' Jatlj Charles Til ton. who was formerly engaged in the conduct of the taxi line in this city has now accepted a position in the Iteo garage of Ed Mason and is busy looking after the needs of the patrons of that es tablishment. Charley is a thorough automobile man and will be found n. most valuable man in the garage work. . 1 1 YOU FEEL AT M O AA EE "NEBRASKA. . m . 'If-