MONDAY,' OCTOBER 13rjjj& PAQZ TWO i ram Alvo Department MAKERS OF GASS COUNTY I Thomas Wiles Dr. Chas. Tarrish, Veter'narian. Elmwood, Nebraska. Call day phone, 7: nipht, 58. tf-x Dr. llombeek was called to Man Icy to look afte rsorae business mat ters last Thursday morning. Mrs. II. Bergrman was a visitor at the h'.ime of her parents in Louis ville and looking after some busi ness matters in Omaha on last Thursday. Sunday when Mrs. McXurlin enjoy- j I-!- , fl a visit with two of her brotners . . , . . limn In J i II Hi: aim Jjliliuua r in o in - v . 4 rttVXi Ifl SEnSSI iV --tr .Mo., and thre on '"th'rTlth rhl,c7herPer,a!"Cd i- - The arerTtswUh'' So gather with each other man then pix ypars of agJ rc CVM. Seybert and wife came down j movl;rt to Mnis tounty Jowa? in iS5l from Ilavelock, Mrs. II. . ?ebertiand settled on a farm six miles south and son, Isaac, of Dunbar, Neoraska, . cion,voo,t Whifn thev pure-based from the Mormons. At that time ' M.UIICV HCIUC ITEMS were also here, and were later join ed by W. H. Seybert and son Jen The Ilev. l!i?i;ins, pastor of the j,;i;s an,i the absence cf the re- St. Patrick's Ctti.olic church of Man- It y, was cal- I o Omaha on a--t Thursday t after some busi ness matt"" jo-.-ph v-. " was looking after matters at t' - i"isf.o2Ieo and Mr. Tt. Borpman's t... tKning the absence of Mr. II' n at the iostniaster's convention at Chicago. Joseph Macer.y purchased a forty acre trait of laud from Fred Kreck low lyiup on the road between Louis ville and Murdnck and which is now onuri' d by John Habel. Charles Sena t'er was a business fiill.r at the villa::? of Manley from maiuing brother. A. F. Seybert, was the only thing that prevented a re union of all the brothers and the Filter. The time was spent in visit ing and in disposing of the fine din ner that had been prepared and the royal hospitality that is so charac teristic of the McXmiin home. It . rnmr .Ida v-s2 73 i Win. Stewart was called to Lan- I caster couuty, where be had tome, a well work to look after last week. g , John W. Banning and wife were . visit ing with friends at Neh.iwka last A Sunday, driving over in. tneir auto. J. L. Pilkington, the mason, went to Eliiiwood last Thursday, where he was to assist in the construction ot a storm cave there. WILL WINTER IN FLORIDA From Wednesday's Iaily Hon. V. II. Newell and daughter, Mrs. Frank I. Shopp and daughter. Miss Marjorie. have departed for J , ... Ti.M-.wini Florida, where they exper t to spend 1115 I. (lilt? Ul lUi'iUt n lent, x iiui tu.tj r. . doming and was Jooking after the the winter months at Miami ami wants of his customers lor gasoline other pomts in the "rii.lrn ... and escape the rigors of the northern anil mi-. i... t. z . ; .. -Mr i r?otl, nf M.nlov n,iv Hnw. v.iau-r mat la in of (Iieer.wood were in attendance at the niettir.:: of the federal grand jury! ...uucu .... .....Uu t.me vii;iti.,g with hig daUghter8 last vetK. . . j!(,rv.r! aTul McConk and enjoy- ll. ui rman, poFimaster oi -uanie, j tI. nianv D0ints ot interest in ' lie- . 4i, who is now in ins eigniy- seventh year and not in the most ro bust health. While the family are the south Mr. Shopp will spend was a visitor at i Jucago. wher went as a delegate to the Xational convention cf lVMmacters and alo to vifit with his brother who makes his home there. A. I!. Humble who bid in the sta tion at Union on the Missouri Pacific, tfcepo localities. OPENING RESTAURANT From Monday's Daily The new restaurant of T. D. gave the place up again and bid in ; ; isrown. wea Known proprietor oi me the station at Maniey again, and will , Erov.n's Park at Xebraska City, m-iV- his home here. Mr. Humble has oper.r.l in this city todoy. Mr. Drown bc'fiie verv cl'-sely attached to the 'stated today. The restaurant is lo I.,ople of Manley and is very loath to 'rated in the roori for.n. rly ccfupid jr-ave- I1'?' tl:e Earclay and Graham cafe and " Tluodcro Harms the merchant, has' witI ',!? rn, in the niost up-to-loto i..., ui. i,..,,..,,,-, a.,M.n f . Mi-'T.ner ar.d every possible service U IVl in V 11 I 1 living . , . , . , - . iiino Lr fh,. t np.nv .-, w.sivon to the public by Mr and was ver seriously ill a number of d ivs, but is showing some im provenunt. It is hoped that he will soon look a Alfred Lovell. who with his broth er has been visiting at Manley and j SOME FINE GRAPES the guests at the home of J. C. Rauth J for some time rast, departed lastrom Wednesday's Dally Wednesday for Columbia, where he! J. H. McMaken, councilman of the Drown ;!rd his assistants. Those who ap- jpreei;: te a good first class restaurant I v. ill find that Mr. Brown will add a be able to be out again and reasmg add.t.on to the other alter his business. i n:sh cIaES eatin bouscs of the C!ty- will visit for some few days with a I second ward, who has a large vari very dear friend, and then continue ! c-ty of grapes at his home in the on to his home at Chappell. j north part of the city, remembered A. F. Kuuth and family and Miss' the Journal office yesterday with a Anna P.auth. who is attending school : P no basket of th:s fruit and which at Grand Island, drove over to Man-joTercd a large number of the differ ley one day last week and spent lent colors of the grapes and all were Sunday at the heme of J. C. Rauth ! most delightful. Mr. McMaken has and Herman RauU) and wife, enjoy-! taken a great deal of care of his ing the visit very much and return-, fruit and the result is that he has a ing to their home last Sunday even-! place that i3 one of the attractions ing. 1 lrf t,!at Part of tbe citJ'- Walter Mockenhaupt wrs a visitor- at Omaha one d.iy last week, going to bring Mrs. M .kenhaupt and their ton Arthur fcrme. Arthur had been at the hospital and his mother had been looking after him, following an infection caused" by stepp'ng on a nail, which caused blood infestion. He is however getting along nicely at this time. RECEIVES PLEASANT NEWS. , Front Wnln'-'tky-s Daily The announcement has been re ceived here of the birth of a fine little daughter to Rev. and Mrs. A. V. Hunter at the Methodist hos pital in Omaha, where Mrs. Hunter has been for some time. The mother and little one are both doing nicely and since the arrival of the new daughter the pastor has been wear ing one of those nr.tomistic smiles Will Do Some Work The Modern Woodmen of Amer ica lodge at Manley is to have on to morrow (Tuesday) evening, October t that will net wear off. The Hunter 14th, work and have three candidates ! family are now located at Grand for initiation into the mysteries of (Island and the little Miss Barbara woodcraft and for the past few clays I Jean Hunter will in a short time t e they have been pepping up the goat j able to take up her residence in the whi h they use for that purpose. It ' new home. is claimed they have been giving the' animal plug tobacco and the distill-! TTfiTTT VTTT rpnvr rTTTO td extract of corn as a tonic as well! x'luliA MILE GEOVE CLU3 as Kr,od. wholesrme substantial food. Last rvening there was a very cn The are to re the Royal Bumper thusiastic meeting of the democrats Sfvir K R,,b:-nErrc" WJlos cf Kight Mile Grove precinct at the ana W in lU o ,-er. All are looking ncii srhooi hou3e WPSt of th,s (.itv fur a most fcxcft.ng time. t somo ( ht miles am, a Celebratc Li-t Ti. faiiit lionif I . wtx.-d, Mr. ai. ' lebrated the tlicfr marri;-',c '"'h Aniiiversary. . their beautiful : Alvo and Elm li . John Elliott, Sr., rtii ih anniversary of Forty years atro last Thursday, Ot tobt-r ftL, John Elliott and Miss Xellie Edwards were united in marriage at Champaign, 111., and after two years can.e to Xebraska and have made their home on the same plae where they are living now, making 3S years of continuous cultivation of the farm. There were gathered at the old home for the eve nt the children and their families, they being Earl, of Elmwood. who with his wife were present, Di k and wife and the ir lit tle one. ;rare (Mrs. Frank Melvin) and husband, of Murdock; Mrs. Ruth Slothowfr and family, of Lin coln; John Elliott, Jr., who lives on the farm. There was also present Dick Elliott, Sr., a brother of John Elliott, who came down from his home in Lincoln icr the event. ENJOYED A REUNION From Tuesday's Dally The home of Mr. and Mrs. John McXurlin in this city was the scene very Davis and Bryan club was formed to aid the campaign in that section. The officers chosen were: Mrs. P. E. Tritsch, president; P. A. Horn and Mrs. Rudolph Meisinger. vice presidents; Mrs. Ralph Meifinger, secretary. The new organization is taking a hold in line shape and should have a number of Interesting meetings before the campaign t loses. The meeting was addressed by Hon. W. B. Banning, Earl Towle, J. A. Capwell, D. C. Morgan and W. H. Puis and who had the pleasure of meeting the many fine citizens of that section of the county, who were prevent at the meeting. D. O. Dwyer uiso spoke tor the national ticket. Glen wood was called Coor.ville. In IS 54, when young Thomas was nine years old, they crossed over into Xebraska, purchasing a portion of the farm near the Catholic cemetery of the Indians, Chief Kirkwood be ing the principal chief, they having at that time an Indian village where . Oak Hill cemetery now is located,: just east of the top of the ridge. , Here Luke Wiles built a log.hou.-e 14x1'", and later built a lean-to, in which they lived. This was the scop'-' ping place of the U. S. stage coach; and oftentimes from two to twelve passengers on the coach stopped at ; their home for the night. ; Dr. Donelan was the first physi cian in the new country, he and his sijter Anna boarding with ihe Wilt s J family. Among the early settlors! who were here when the Wiles fam- j ily came were Stephen Wiles, Lafay- I ette Todd and Henry Schafer. Sam j Martin had a trading pot down no.r ; the river where the city finally started, he being the first, and with,-' Joe Brown, who opened his store lat- ; er, were loc ated v.-lit re the Burling ton station now stands, then right on the river's edge. j Late in the fall of 1854 the In dians burned their village and went : over to where Luke L. Wiles' home now stands and stayed until spring, j In IS 55-56 the senior Luke Wiles split the rails himself and fenced i:i somo GO acres and in 1S5G raised the first crop of spring wheat, the 30 acres being put to corn. In 1S50 and 1S57 there were many rumors of In-I Man raids but none ever material-j iz;ed. They had settled along Four; Mile c reek and Eight mile creek ami the Weeping Water, where there was plenty of water and much wood. The first preacher in the new com munity was Elijah Gibbs, a Baptist, who was soon followed by a minister of the United Brethren faith, who traveled in a L'iff. a big- two-wheehl vehicle used considerable at that time. VjnblLkti tonkin- after some business IrVrt-ri?iM3r 'at Lincoln last Tuesday, m hJ:rl?f?kTWii4 I trio with their auto. fl DEMAND I wife were matters aking the Sfciw re P Worfr Best Tonic Over 100,000 people have testified that TAN LAC Las relieved them cf: Stomach Trouble, Indigestion, j Heartburn, Palpitation, Rheumatism, Mai-Nutrition, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Loss cf Appetite, Less of Weight, Torpid Liver or Constipation. "Ask Anyone Who Has Taken TANLAC" For Suit Br AH Good DmxrIU i C. Boyles and wife were visit- w ing in Lincoln last Saturday and also h were in attendance at the tootnan game between Nebraska and Illinois. .J Wm. Wiggs and family, of Colo- j rado Springs moved to the Quell- horst farm south of Alvo last week and will farm there the coming sea- -5 son. ! George Yaeger, who is at Hct ; j; Springs, is reported as making some .l substantial improvement in his -& health as a result oi. the treaimera he is taking there. Carl Wcsscll, of Xehawka and wife H wore -visiting last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Coat-i man. ami also was Mr. Ben Riley, o Weeping Water, the day being most , t pleasantly spent. Harry Appkman and wife were cn-j joying the football game between the'q Xtbit.ska team and the Liinois team hj which was staged a week ago last j Saturday, and pronounced the play-jjj me: ootii si'les exceiiont. Orville Quillhorst and George j Hardnock and wife were attending: a saie just over in Kansas, where! they drove in their auto last week, I am. iir:ir which nisre. Mr. Oilillhoi'st i I When you're young - you've a wide choice of style, shade and pattern. No style is quite as becoming to the young man as the easy-flitting Er-.gHfh suit. No shade is more attractive than the new Crush ed Lavender. No pattern is neater or smarter than the new shadow stiipes. There here in the new Kuppenheimers at Kirschbaums at Copyright 1914 $35 7.X:iBAia!l!l.WlAJlVX is expecting :to farm the coming -. thur Mo?ensen am, fam, ,Ieu Iova who wag here for 8C Paul Coalman ias u new i Splitaen- Mocnstn aRd j. Mogt.nfc.onf' y , and ;v5tn L. B. Appleman w ZTl?r InaAn-l-thformetwowee, is, but he has it and is liking it very well. Probably it. is something like an auto or something to ride in, who knows? Charles Appleman, who makes his home with hid brother, L. B. Appie mun, has been confined to his bed tor som time with an attack of pneumonia, but is showing some im provement though still unable to leave his bed. Will E. Heier, who is a rustler when it comes to working, put iu CO acres of wheat in two days, and has it was severelv cold and there -,r Ia of lSba taught t.ie home many blizzards. one of them the Xt' St1V UJ f nM ,v-,f .Lr.t,.,i i ,,0 i ct Tabor college, where lie conti Mrs. Marvin Allen departed this morning fur Council Bluffs where she will spend the day with friends and looking after some matters of ouaincss. Charles C. Parmele, who was here visiting with relatives and friends, -.-turned thi3 morning to his home i.i the metropolis. Misses Gladys Las 1 and Esther Heaby were amone the visitor tn Omaha today, going to that city on .. of a very pleasant gathering on last the early Burlington train CaEI for a Show Doyyrs! See us for Deering and McCorrnick Tractors and Plows the best made. Ask us for a demonstration. We will come and show you how they work. Goat man Hardware Co. ALVO -: -:- -:- NEBRASKA perienccd in this pa of the country. The snow was over four feet deep on the level and had drifted to several times that depth J in many places, being impassible for days. During that winter Andrew Stain killed 56 deer and in the early spring took the frozen hind quarters and skins to St. Joseph, where he exchauged them (or. ..grUltvs that were needed here. .As new settlers began coming ih, claim jumping became a very com mon practice and a vigilance com mittee was organized to check their depredations. One of the incidents of the activity of the committee con cerns the forced crossing of the river on the floating ice of the Johnson brothers and a man named Kelly who are supposed to have been drowned, although there is no authentic in formation on this point. In 1S55 a iog school house was built on the Wiles farm, located just north of where L. L. Wiles now lives and a Miss Ward was the first teach er. The following year a frame school house was built down town, located in the present third ward of Platts mouth, then known as Gospel hill, near the Perry Gass home and was used jointly as a school, church and court house. Mary Stocking was the first teacher of this school. The first term of district court vas held in this building, the grand jury having previously met in the brush, a clear ing being made large enough to ac commodate them. In 1858 Luke Wiles moved back to Mills county, Iowa, and Thomas Wiles, then only 13 years of age, c on tinued to live on the place until in l$i',2, during the early portion of the Civil war. when he enlisted in the army at the age of17, joining Co. B, Z'Jtli Iowa volunteers, leaving August 12th of that year, and serving three years in the Union army iu Arkan sas. On April 20. 1864, Mr. Wiles was wounded in the battle of Sabine riv er and was in a hospital at Little Itock for four weeks;-when he was furloughed home for thirty days and th-n returned to the army. In February, 1865, Mr. Wiles made a confession of the Christ and was baptized in the Arkansas river at Little Hock, becoming a member of the Christian church. In the latter part of February with others he took a transport to Uenvalle Bluffs, Ark., and then to Xt-v Orleans, for a stop of a few days. From there they took train for Mobile Bay, land ing at Fort Morgan for another stop of several days and then marched to Fort Spanish, which was evacuated, they going to Fort Blackley at the mouth of the Tom Efgby river. Short ly after th?ir arrival the Union army stormed the fort and took several thousand prisoners and coming into possession of the railroad station and some 4 0 locomotives of the Mobile &l Ohio railway. About this time they received word that General Lee had surrendered to General Grant on Ap ril luth, 186a, and in a few clays news came of the assassination of President Lincoln. While at Mobile, Mr. Wiles wit nessed an explosion of ammunition tuat destroyed a portion of the town. About June -first his company took shipping for llio Grande river. land ing at Brazon, iSantiago, near Point In.n.tl lighthouse. On August first tr.ey continued on to Xc-w Orleans, ncre on August 6th they were mus tered for discharge, and on August 2;, 1865. the subject of this . sketch a as discharged from service at Uav- ei pert. Iowa. While in camp, Mr. " Wiles pur- t :c'd some school books an-! In the at this time seeded 100 acres of fall school, -wheat and has it in good condition. year This should be a good paying crop nucd j for the coming year. his studies for three years. John Skinner, the hustler, who Mr. Wiles wjis united in marriage drives the truck of R. M. Coatman, to Miss -Barbara J. Linville on Janu- was a visitor in Omaha one day last ?ry 2nd. 1SGS. and on January 14th week with a load of stock for Ben moved on the farm two miles west Swaiison, and on his return brought cf Plattsmouth. This union was home a range for the hardware store blessed with four children. The third, which had been sold to E. D. Friend, a daughter 'Francis, died at the ago Frank Edwards and Earl Elliott cf , three years and four months, departed one day last week for Holt I.orc-n M. Wiles, the eldest, graduated county, where they went to enjoy a from the Platfsmouth High school, week or so of an outing which will and received his Bachelor and Arts consist of fishing and hunting. W'hile sltgree from the Arkansas univer- they ore away, W. H. Warner will s,ity. engaging in the ministry as a look after the chores, at tlie home of p.astor of the Christian church. Can- Mr. Edwards. i:a Grace Wiles, the second, gradu- David Simpson, father of William. ted from the Plattsmouth High Simpson, cf Alvo, who has been here Kihool and later attended Cotner uni- accompanied by the wife during the icrsity, where she graduated with serious illness of his son on the con th B. A. degree. C. L. Wile3, the valeseence of the son, returned on youngest, after hr.ving graduated last Thursday morning to his home from the Plattsmouth High school, at Bernard, Kansas, where he is en a!so graduated from the business de- gaged in farming, partment of the Drake University at W. J. Althouse, vith the help of Des Moines, Iowa. his sons and neighbors, have been Mr. Wiles was a member of the constructing a new machine house, school board for eight years and which will care for the farming ma taught tiiree years. In 1S84 he tork chinery, and as the prices of taa a homestead and timber claim in chinery are high enough at this time Frontier county having nearly four il is well that they be cared for, as yeais to apply on his time, which he to buy often impoverishes the owner had served in the civil war. of a large farm. Mr. Wiles also took a pre-emption Win. Simpson, who has been in claim for which he pai l $1.25 per hospital at Lincoln for some acre and thus acquired a goodly time, where he underwent an opera quantity of land. tion for the removal of a tumor or While living in Frontier oountv, puss cist from the nasal passage, is he with a rui.it. ir of others organic- reported as doing nicely at this time cd the first Bible school in Frontier an(' was able to be up and about county, he with a number of others last week and it is expected that he ctj;anized the first Bible school in v-ill soon be able to be at home.- Frontier comity, where they remain- C. II. Kirknatrlck and wife de ed until 1SSS. when the children parted a few days since for the east wre getting to that ago where they and will visit in Wisconsin at the needed school facilities and the fam- former home of Mr. C. H. Kirkp'at- ily moved back to Plattsmouth. Mrs. rick, where he has not been for a Wiles died in 1907 and Mr. Wiles number of years and will this time was again married on August 22, expect to remain for some three lf)or, this time to Mrs. Catherine weeks. They will surely have a Palmer. They moved to Plattsmouth, good time while visiting there and where they have since resided. Mr. will enjoy seeing the old time Wiles became a member of the Chris- friends and the old time places nan cMurcn m I'lattsraoutn in isu.s l,. ii. Appleman, who with his ar.d during his residence here has brother, Peter O. Appleman, were been an o nicer in the church all the hunting in Holt county for some two time. Mr. Wiles has been in the weeks and also looking after some Bible school work all his life and lands which Mr. Ben Appleman had has been a teacher of some class, there, returned home last Sunday most generally the adult class. At The writer was fortunate enough to the present time he is teacher of the enjoy a prairie chicken dinner which adult Bible class and an elder in the was the result of their hunting ex l'luttsmouth church. perience and we can say that the dinner was excellent and the chick- ilrs. William Woolcott and child- en done just to a turn by the excel ren departed this morning for York, lent cook, Mrs. Appleman Xebraska, where they will enjoy a Simon Rehmever ami wife nf Ai-i short time there with relatives and entertained friends from wtr,' friends and enjoying a short outing. Water and other points last Sundav. i , at v,li(h time fhey had a most en-iH in&. r... ii. wescoii ami uaugnter. Movable eatherine- Ti,Pro M133 Helen, were among the visitors for the occasion Louis Hawkins and! in um inu today wnere tney enjoyed wile, of Clarion. Tn n rhr,-s u,j, : i.ic veiling wun ivirs. a. h. meyer and wire, of Otoe; Carl Reh- Hunter and daughter at the Metho- lEt hospital. . Rehmeyer and familv. Prsnt Tavwi and wife, Mrs. Nel3 Sogaard and ! children, G. Rehmeyer and wife, Ar-j Borne time was in the departed clersr-n, cnuins, made a trip to Wi3-ifor Ilis nme 1Q Iowa after having consin, where they visited relatives visited for some time. He was ac for ome two weeks and had a most ' companied by Mrs. Appleman and c::L-el!ent time. They had never b'-en ' daughter when coming here, they re there before and spent the time with 1 maining here for a visit at the L. D. cousins, unc les and aunts, and has j Appleman and Harry Appleman a most enjovable time, both going t llc:i;es while, the men were in the and com ing and while there. They north and on a week ago last Sun made the trip in the coupe of Edwin ; day v,m- 'Williams, of Atlantic, came ead found the roads very fine. Theyovcr an1 took tho wife, who is the were well pleased with the country ! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter I. there and tell of good crons existing Appleman and Mrs. Appleman home most of the way on the triD and there as well. rcter I. Appleman, of Atlantic!, and al.;o visited for the day. Advertise your v-tata. u Sshafer Brothers Ulnlh Annual Dcroo 1 Ooar and Silt I This sale will be held at the Otto Schafer farm, 9 mile3 northvest of Nehawka; 8 mi!e3 northeast of Weeping Water; 6 miles west of Murray; 5 miles eat t and 5 miles south of Louisville, commencing at 1:00, P. M., on Friday, October flih, WA Free Lunch Will Be Served at Noon Standard -Bred Single 33 a Flattsssauih Pta 3504 Mynard, V T 4- IT Pearson's BARBER SHOP The Home of Good Work Mcnley - - Nebraska Elmer Pearson, Prop. 45 Head 36 Gears 9 Gilis v We have the best herd this year we have ever offered for sale. The offer will consist of 45 head of Boars and Gilts. These animals possess first-class blood lines and what is also necessary individual quality and merit. They have been bred and fed with the idea of utility and are not overloaded with fat, but in prime condition, full of vigor and ready to give the best returns to the pur chaser. For our old customers we will have plenty of new blood, not related. We are offering two exceptional litters in this sale one by Stilts, the Missouri Champion and one by Super Colonel 5228 1 3. We take pride in calling your attention to these splendid animals. fusUL 0i0S Mail bids may be sent to our auctioneer or fieldmen, in our care they will be handled on the square. . . All these hogs have been vaccinated with the double treatment and are considered immune. G0iiRAt!JTEEEvery gih ani boar guaranteed to be a breeder. If any fail to be, they may be returned to us and the purchase price will be refunded. Notice must be given within torty-five days after the sale, and animal must be in same condition as on sale day. We will take back any animal bought on a mail bid and fails to prove satisfactory. TERS OF SALE Cash or bankable note bearing 8 interest from date of sale. You are cordially invited to be. with U3 on Friday, October 1 7th, and take dinner with us, whether you buy or not. WRITE FOR CATALOG ' Nebraska v -:KK:WH-W-HH Nehawka, Nebraska Col. H. M. Cruse, Auctioneer Murry State Bank, Clerk' Frank Anderson, Fieldman, Duroc Journal L-VtJ'. '