IfMattemoutb 3ouinai fOL. NO. XXXIX. PLATTSMOTJTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1924. NO 74 DEATH CALLS CASS COUNTY PIONEER LADY MRS. ABIGAIL E. SMITH PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF NINETY ONE YEARS SATURDAY A RESIDENT HERE SINGE 1858 Pioneer of Rock Bluffs and a Lady Universally Loved and Es teemed by Friends. From M nday's Daiiy Death called early Saturday eve ning one of the oldest residents in Cass county. Mrs. Abigail E. Smith, at her home on the farm near old Rock Bluffs where for the past sixty-six years she has made her home and at the ripe old age of ninety-one years and five months. Grandma Smith, as she has been known for many years to the resi dents of this portion of Cass conn ! was one of the fast disappearin types of the pioneer women ot the west and her life's story Is closely interwoven with the romantic his tory of the early settlement of this portion cf Nebraska where her life has been spent. The deceased lady, who wa?. a daughter of the late Frederick A. Seybolt and wife, was born in New York. October 4. 1832, and spent her early eirlhood there and in her first flush of maidenhood was married to Harrison Smith, alo of that local ity and who has preceded her In death many years ago. It was in 1S58 that the young couple came to Cass county. Nebras ka, locating in Rock Bluffs, then a flourishing village of some 500 per sons and one of the leading cities of the new territory that was just sprineine: into beintr In the' great western empire of the L'nited States. In common with the other residents of that early day .Mr. and Mrs. Smith endured the common hardships of the first settlers and lived to see th hopes and drenms of a real homeland arise in the community where they had located and the great civiliza tion of the nlntenth and twentieth centuries come and change the fron tier into one of the greatest states of 'he American Union. Mrs. Smith has been called upon often in her lifetime to bow her bead under the rod at the command of di a'h and preceding her journey to the great beyond were the husband and two children. Willard R. Smith, who died in 1885 and a daughter. Mrs. Flora Chalfant. There remain to mourn the passing of the mother ore son. George S. Smith, as Well as n number of grandchildren and sev eral nelces and nephews. The funeral services: wore held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late home nestling among the hills which the departed had loved so dearly and the last rites were celebrated by the I Rev. H. G. McClv.sky, pastor of the I First Presbyterian church of this I city and the services largely attend-I ed by the old friends of the deceased and hor family. The body was con signed to rest in the Young cemetery i where the other members of the fam ily are resting to await the final summons when all things of earth shall pass away. NEBRASKA CITY MAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Heston Green. Brother-in-Law of B. C. Hyde and Well Known in This City, the Victim. Prom Monday's Dally Relatives and friends here of Hes ton GrceiL who has been making his home in Nebraska City for some time, were shocked to learn of the un timely death of Mr. Green Saturday by suicide, Mr. Green was a brother-in-law of B. C. Hyde of this city. The Nebraska City News has the fol lowing very graphic account of the unfortunate affair: "Heston Green, 51 years old, em ployed in the cellars of the Morton Gregson packing plant here, commit ted suicide by shooting himself thru the right temple with a 32-calibre revolver in the garage at his home between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets and Third avenue, early this morning. His death was instantan eous. "Green had eaten his breakfast as usual thi morning according to his wife. Afterwards, he went out north of the bouse to crank his car pre-. paratory to starting for the packing Oiant. but ha failed to return to the ' house to tret his lunch which his wife paid a tribute to the memory of the j Standard Bearers. The children was wrapping for him. His little deceased. The body was laid to rest i and the program was under the di dauphterf 12 years old. went to the in Oak Hill cemetery beside that of rection of Mrs. Edward Roman and garage to see what delayed him and, the wife. The pallbearers were thj was a very beautiful spectacle as the fcund hiiu Jvftig on the floor dead. two sons and four sons-in-law, Jo- young people showed the different "The girl inun.Miiatcly called her .eph and Cyril Kalina, Joe Pallister scenes from the work of the mission mother, who In turn notified neigh- of Omaha. Joe Wales and George field and also was interspersed with bors of the tragedy. Friends of the Hladeky of Council Bluffs. a number of very inspiring songs j family called Chief of Police Turley j Cook and Sheriff Ryder. W. F. Mo i ran. county attorney, and Herman ; Karatens. undertaker, went to the I Green home and found the body on the garage floor. It was rigid and a sack had been placed under the head. "The revolver was lying on his j right hand which had been doubled I up even with the arm pit. Examina tion showed that the bullet had pene- I traced his riirht temnle arwl lodsreil lover his rih7 eve Ft dW not nass through his entire head - r i "A note explaining Green's act was found in his vest pocket. In part it said: 'I see where I am a-going. I want to go before it is too late. God bless you and me. I want to go be- I fore I harm someone els "He apparently died instantly and without a struggle say those who ex- amined the body. Mrs. Green, when ini.rviev-rjl toM nffiers tli.it her j husband was a man of few words and did not talk of his personal affairs, She said he was out frequently at night and that they probably knew more of his wanderings than she had been told. 'He always carried a gun,' she added. "Green had lived in Nebraska City about a year, coming here from Knox, Iowa, where he had conducted a gen- era merchandise store. He is sur vived by his wife and four children, the youngest five years old. Two of the children are married. "No iniuest will be held nection with the death." in con- WILL START THE FIRST WORK ON HOME ADDITIONS Plans Not Quite Ready For Bidding On Euilding But Excavation Will Be Made. From Monday's Dally The first steps towards construc tion of the new addition to the Ne braska Masonic- Home will be taken up at once as the call for bids for the excavation for the building has been called for by the board of control ann will be made under the supervi sion of the board. The site of the addition has been decided upon which will permit this preliminary work to be out of the way when the construc tion of the building is started. Owing to the fact that there are a few details yet to be completed as to the building proper the bids for the building itself have not been called for and will be taken up later and the contractors civen an opportun ity of making bids on the construc tion of the building and this will probably be in the next few weeks. W, R. YOUNG NAMED AS DEPUTY SHERIFF Sheiiff E. P. Stewart Appoints Well Kncvrn Auctioneer to Position Who Files His Eond. From Monday's Daily By the action of Sheriff E. P. Stewart this morning in filing the appointment of V. R. Young, or "Rex" as he is better known, Cass county has a deputy sheriff for the first time since 1!13. The last ap pointed deputy sheriff was M. E. Manspeaker. who held this position under Sheriff C. D. Quinton up to the time that the sheriff took over, the charge of the jail and the du ties of jailor when the new building was completed. Mr. Young's appointment will meet with quite general approval by those who know him and there is no doubt that he will make a splendid' o.'ficial in every way as he is pos sessed of all of the qualifications of a good and faithful law enforcing officer. Mr. Younc has been largely engaged in the conduct of his work as auctioneer for the past few years and in 1022 was the candidate for the republican nomination for sher iff and received a very large vote both on that ticket and on the pro gressive ticket altho he was defeat- d by a narrow margin by C. D. Quinton. The appointment will be acted up on at the next meeting of the board of county commissioners and up to that time the arrangements as to whether he will assume the duties of a jailor and custodian of the jail will not be determined upon. FUNERAL OF JOHN KALINA From Monday's Dally Yesterday afternoon the funeral services of the late John Kalina were held from the home of his son, Cyril Kalina. on South 11th street, and attended by a very large number of the friends and neighbors tb pay) their last tributes to the memory of : this fine old gentleman. The ser-1 vices were conducted by the Rev Prachnesky of Omaha, who was an- old friend of the familv and who ELMWGOD MER CHANT RECOVERS STOLEN GOODS Cmaha Detectives and Saunders . I Lccnty &neritt COVer ioot in Sensational Said. From Monday!! Daily As the result of the weakening of 2 men arrested at Wahoo some time ago. on Saturday there was staged at Omaha a sensational raid, conducted by members of the Omaha detective force and the sheriffs of Saunders and Washington counties, and which bron.'.ht to licht Pome SS.000 in ftol- en merchandise that had been brot to the metropolis and disposed ot among a number of parties in Om::ha and which was recovered for the owners. j Among the outstate merchants who suffered loss was L. F. Langhorst. of Klmwood, whose store was robbed the last part of November and of which there had been no trace found of the thieves until the raids made in Omaha, and as the result. Mr. Langhorst . will recover a goodly amount of his stock. Glen Morse, awaiting sentence at Wahoo with Ellis E. Hahn for loot ing the Tony Kritz general stcre at Werton, Nebraska, were the men who gave the first intimation of the loca tion of the stolen property. Hahn and Morse, in their confes sions, implicated Roland Lowe of Herman, Nebraska. 'who was arrest-, o1 vDcttirrtav anrl hrrmtMit in Omnb V V. V..'.. 1 U1IU . ' - ' ...... v. . He was named as one who helped in the robberies. , Morse was brought to Omaha in custody of Sheriff Jerry Dailey and County Attorney Ernest Schiefelbein of Wahoo. Sheriff Mohrens of Blair also accompanied the officers in the cleanup which was staged by Detec tives Palmtag. Lickert, Donobue. Danbaum. Buford and Brigham. When the loot had been taken into the detective bureau and piled ou tables, chairs and desks, the room took on the appearance of a general merchandise store. "These robber gangs are a real menace to the small town merchants of Nebraska," said Mr. Langhorst. who accompanied officials in the seizures. "We have made a hie dent in their operations and will have the rest of them in jail before long." Believes Three Gangs Operate Lantrhorst said he believed there were three gangs operating. The finer quality of merchandise, he 3j.id, had been shipped out of Omaha. Raids on small town stores reached such a stage last year, Mr. Lang horst declared, that he organized the Merchants' Mutual Burglary Insur ance company. Merchants lost be tween CO and 75 thousand dollars worth of merchandise last year, he said1, of which between 12 and 15 thousand dollars worth had been re covered. He praised the Saunders and Washington county officers and the Omaha detectives for their co operation in recovering the loot Saturday. C. W. Watson, secretary of the Federation of Nebraska Re tailers, also spoke highly oftheoffi cers'work. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our axprecia tion of the many acts of loving kind ness and sympathy shown during the illness of our loved one. Grandma Smith, and to the members of the Eastern Star, the B. P. O. E.. and Social Workers Flower club for tjje beautiful floral remembrances and kindnesses. G. S. Smith and Fam ily: Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Chalfant: Mrs. H. F. Hendricks; Vern Hen dricks; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dailey. MISSIONARY SOCIETY GIVES FINE PAGEANT Fiftieth Anniversary of Foreign Mis sionary Society of Methodist Church is Observed. From Monday's Dally At the Methodist church yesterday the observances of the day were largely in the hands of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the church and a very interesting pro gram was staged during the morning and evening services. At the morning service Mrs. Celia Gates, of Omaha, district secretary, was the speaker and gave a very in teresting and able address on the work of the church in the foreign mission fields and as the speaker was a lady of world-wide travel and had by personal experience been in touch with the mission fields, she was able to give her auditors an in timate glimpse into the various fields. At the evening service the mem- ber.s of the church were treated to a very fine paereant presented hv the children s branches of the mission work in the church the Lierht Bearers, the Ki and 1iyinns that added to the interest I of the occasion. ! The offering of the evening was taken for the mission work and tor the special fiftieth anniversary of the societv that was being observed. PRIZES AWARDED IN CONTEST From Monday's Daily For several days past the west window at the shoo store of Fetzer & Co. has housed a very unique ex hibition of the strength of the well known Goodnit hosiery. One of the ladies' stockings made by the Good nit company was fastened in a frame and from it suspended a large weight and the patrons invited to make guesses on the weight that this tine piece of hosiery was supporting. There was a large number of answers given and the reward was made Sat urday. The stocking had held up 119 pounds for a period of eight days and shows the splendid quality of the material of w iiich the stock ing is made. The hosiery is also me diant priced at from $1.50 to $2. The first prize winners were Mrs. George Sayles, Miss Grace Trover and Miss Dorothy Svoboda, the sec ond prize to Mrs. E. J. Rummell and the third prize to Mrs. Fred Munim, Mrs. C. D. Quinton and Mrs. J. E. Shultz. ! DEMOCRATS ISSUE CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION Cass County Will Have 19 Delegates' at State Meet at Omaha on , Thursday, May 1st. From Tuesday's Datiy The official call for the democratic state convention has been made by the chairman of the state central committee, Tcm S. Allen, and will base the strength of the convention as one delegate for each 125 or frac tion of votes cast for James M. Cox for president in 1920. Under the call Cs.3 county will have 19 delegate3 to the state meet ing which will be heid at the audi torium in Omaha or Thursday. May 1. The county conventions to se lect the state delegates will be held in the various seats on April 24th. The committee recommends that no proxies be allowed at the conven tion. The delegation from Douglas coun ty will have 149 members and that of Lancaster county 69 at the meet ing. The other counties whose quo tas will exceed that of Cass county are Gage, 21: Custer, 22: Richard son. 22; Buffalo will have 19 dele gates. HOUSE VOTES AH TO STARVING GERMANS Resolution Appropriating' Ten Mil lion Dollars to Boy Food For Women and Children. Washington. March 2 1. Disre garding party lines, the house to night adopted a resolution to appro priate $10,000,000 for the purchase of food supplies for destitute wom en and children in Germany. Sent to the senate by a vote of 210 to 97, the measure stipulated that food stuffs are to be bought in the United States and transported to Germany in shipping board ves.-els. Three hours were devoted to de bate after which a score of amend ments were offered. Only one, by Rpresentative Jones, democrat, Tex as, which provided that the supplies should be purchased wherever pos sible thru farmer organizations, was adopted. 165 to 6S. Amendments rejected by viva voce vote included one? by Representative Burtneas, republican. North Dakota, to confine the supplies purchased to wheat and another by Representative Fald. farmer-labor. Minnesota, to in crease the appropriation to $20,000, 000. Representative Fish, republican. New York, author of the resolution and a former service man, led the fight for adoption, whjle Representa tive Connolly, democrat, Texas, di rected the attack against the meas ure. Representative Burton. Ohio, de clared the resolution to1 be constitu tional, while an opposite view was taken by Representative Tucker, democrat, Virginia. The Ohio mem ber said it afforded an opportunity for "charity" and needed relief. Mr. Tucker insisted it would tend to con solidate the German vote, but would mean nothing as a relief measure, because but two and one-half cents per day was available for each of Germany's 2.500.000 children. R. H. Thorpe, former congressman Of Lincoln, was here yesterday after- ! noon and last evening visiting with friends and also looking after his po ; litical interests. John Sattler. Jr.. who has been visiting with friends at Lincoln for a short time, returned home this af- i ternoon. Rudolph Wallenpren was a passen-! ger this afternoon for Omaha to visit for a few hours with friends. BOARD OF EDU CATION TO LOOK UP BOND ISSUE With Additional Members Board To Take Steps to Invest and Re tire the Bonds. From Tuesday's Dally The board of education which has just received two new members to their official body. Searl S. Davis, who has succeeded A. G. Cole, and Frank A. Cloidt. who will replace Frank E. Schlater, met last evening and decided to take up the matter of trying to get a more satisfactory ar rangement of the finances of the school district which has in the last few days been diacussed to some ex tent. The board found that there are at this time $65,000 in twenty-year bonds outstanding against che school district which covers the cost of the new high school building in this city. As one of the members states these bonds are drawing live per cent interest. It is the desire of the board of ed ucation to at once take up with the bond holders the proposition of call ing some $20,000 of the bonds if pos sible and to this extent reduce tho indebtedness of the district. At this time the bond holders could find more attractive bond investments at a better interest rate than the school bonds and Mr. Davis is hopeful of be ing able to have these bonds retired. The board has also been advised that it can invest the sinking fund of the school district and the secur ities that are approved by the laws of the state include the state and county bonds. I". S. government bonds and the warrant of the school district and if in no other way the board of education could invest in its own warrant? and save the higher rate of interest for the school dis trict and realize a neat sum each year ou the sinking fund that would aid in cutting down the indebted ness of the district. While the city council last eve ning was instructing its finance committee to meet and advise with the board of education in regard to the school finances over which the board has complete control, the board of education appointed a similar committee on confer with the council and between thes two bodies there should be a clearer understanding of the financial situation of the city and the school district that will be beneficial to both. SHOWING IMPROVEMENT From Tuesday's Daily The many friends of Mrs. Minnie Ptdkard will be pleased to know that she is doing very nicely at the Swedish Mission hospital in Omaha where she was operated on the first part of last week for an attack of appendicitis and that her condition is very pleasing and that she was able yesterday to take some food for the first time and is feeling very much improved and it Is hoped that her stay at the hospital is to be of short duration and that seh may be ' soon be back home again and resume her work in the local postoffice. ISSUES DISTRESS WARRANTS From Tuesdav's Dnily In an effort to collect taxes due the county for a number of years past Miss Mia T. Gering. county treasurer, ha issued distress war rants against the delinquent taxpay ers that numbers 800 and may be more by the time all of the warrants are issued. These have been turned over to Sheriff E. P. Stewart and will be served on the parties on whom the treasurer has levied the warrants. MOTION TRUTH OF ANY MILITARY PACT Berlin Donbts Authenticity of Alleg ed Secret Treaty Between France and Czecho-Slovakia. Berlin. March 23. Doubt of the authenticit v of the text of an alleged secret military pact between France, and Czecho-Slovakia. recently pub-1 Mshed in good faith. , George Bern-1 TaTeblatt. is now being freelv ex-) pressed in sections of the Berlin press. The newsnapers are of the opinion that Wolff was the victim of international forgers. Vorwaerts. the socialist organ pro nounces the pact a plain forgery, al though it assumes the text was pub lished in good faith. Beorge Bern hard in the Vossissche Zeitung, also questions the genuineness of the pact, and also cites textural pecular ities in support of his contention. Incidentally Bernhard expresses the suspicion that German official quar ters inspired the exposure, which he asserts is bound to pro.e inimical to German interests abroad and equally disastrous to Germany's re lations with her eastern neighbor, j Mrs. W. F. Krisky returned this morning to Omaha wl.ere she is tak ing treatments there of a specialist. STORK GETS BUSY From Monday's Daily The stork has been a very busy bird in this locality in the past forty-eight hours and as the result there are a number of new arrivals here that add to the delights and pleasure of a number of the homes in this city and vicinity. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cran dall in the west part of the city a fine sou and heir arrived Sunday and at the home of Mr. end Mrs. O. W. Reeves a bouncing little girl. The tarm home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lohnes near Cedar Creek was also made happy by a fine son and heir who arrived there Saturday evening. RECEIVES OFFICIAL NOTICE From Monday's Daily The apostolic bulls, officially no tifying the Rt. Rev. Monsignor F. J. Beckmann of Cincinnati, Ohio, of his appointment as bishop of Lincoln, arrived yesterday from Rome. The date of the consecration of Monsig nor Beckmann has been set for Thursday. May 1. at the cathedral at Cincinnati and the date of his in stallation as bishop of Lincoln has been set for Thursday, May 15, at the cathedral at Lincoln. CARS CRASH ON SLIPPERY STREETS HERE YESTERDAY n , a. l vr t t. j Tin. v, i xuriunaieiy une is liijmeu nucu Cars of Chet Taylor and Rob ert Connors Collide. From Monday's Dally The summer season of auto acci dents was formally opened yesterday afternoon when at the intersection of 6th and Main streets the autos of Robert Connors and Chester Taylor" collided and while the cars were both damaged to a greater or less extent the occupants of the cars were un injured and this is a very fortunate phase of the accident. The car of Mr. Taylor was com ing west on Main street and the driver was preparing to make the grade leading up high school hill as he neared the intersection and thot he would clear the intersection be fore the car of Mr. Connors which was going south on Sixth street reached the intersection. The rear portion of the car of Mr. Taylor was struck by the front of the Connors car as it was just pass ing the intersection. The force of the impact caused the windshield in the Connors car to break and the broken glass rained on the occupants of the car but luckily without cut ting anyone. The two cars skidded on the slippery street and turned completely around by the force of the collision and the two front wheels of the Connors car suffered some damage and the right rear wheel of the Taylor car was cracked in the accident, the owner of the car later stated. The car of Mr. Taylor was thrown over against the curb ing on the Main street park and it required some little work to get the car in running shape but it was pos sible to run It off from the scene of the accident under its own power. The car of Mr. Connors was taken to the garage and the damages esti mated by the owner at some $23. Blank books at Journal offie. er with C6?dialit HARMONY! The ideal relationship between bank er and customer is one where neither works for the other, but each works with the other. By keeping a good balance in your account, by taking care of notes promptly as they come due, by taking your banker into your confidence, you not only en able the bank to help you to the fullest extent, but you help the bank to grow in strength and usefulness. The First National Bank invit' md offers real, whole-hearted co-operauort. the First National Bank THE SANK WHERE ,OU H'eg;i- AT H OMK PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA "The Bank Where You Fee ? Home!' JUROR IN JAIL, CASE TO BE RETRIED AS THE RESULT Jud l;e Begley Trying Case in Omaha Finds Juror Had Wandered From Bight Path From Tuesday's Daily Judge James T. Begley, who has been in Omaha the past week hold ing court for Judge A. C. Troup, who has been quite sick for several days, had a very unique experience with the jury in a $60,000 damage suit and the whole case wil have to be retried after having progressed as far as the arguments of the attor neys in the case. When Judge Begley opened court in Omaha Monday morning it was found that one of the members of the jury panel was missing and a short delay was had in the hope that the missing juror would appear on the scene but he came not and the court then dispatched a deputy sheriff out to round him up. After a two-hour search the deputy found Jim Hansen, the missing juror, occupying a place in the police station "bull pen" serving out a $10 fine for being drunk. The court attempted to secure the agreement of the parties to go on with the trial of the case with elev en jurors but without success as the defense objected t' this plan and the court was then dled to dirmisi the jury and set - ase for re-trial. The police turutd tho juror over to the sheriff and en court was re sumed Judge Beglev heard the state ment of the juror ol till having DMO intoxicated and sent him to jail for twenty days for contempt of court. BOY SCOUTS ARE GIVEN A TREAT P. E. 0, Ladies Serve Members of Youths' Organization With Refreshments. From Tuesday's Dally The members of the Plattsmouth Boy Scouts are considering them selves very fortunate over the fact that they were the recipients of a very fine feed last evening at the conclusion of their regular meeting at the high school gym. The boys in the earlier part of the evening held their investiture ser vices and five new members were giv en their tenderfoot degree and al lowed to enter into the scout work and the officers of the various troops assisted in the carrying out of the ceremonies. This was followed by the regular "sing" by the sixty-flve boys and then tho setting up exercises under the diiectlon of W. G. Kieck and in which the boys found the greatest of pleasure and healthful exercise In the various lines of physical drill provided by Mr. Keick. The close of the evening was de voted to the enjoyment of the trat that the P. E. O. ladies had prepared in the domestic science department of the school and which was served to teh boys in the gym and certain ly will be very pleasantly remember ed by all of those in attendance. vict? '