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PIATTS1I0UTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOTTBtfAE
MOinUY, NOVEMBER 1, 19.'W.
Greenwood epartmeimtS
Prepared in the Interest of the People of Greenwood and Surrounding Vicinity
James Green was looking after
some business matters in Omaha for
a time on last Thursday.
Mrs. A. .P. Weibke was a visitor
for the day one day last week with
friends and relatives in Lincoln.
Oscar Reese of Ashland was a visi
tor in Greenwood on last Sunday and
was the guest with Phillip Reese.
Ernest Turnbull and family were
guests for the day last Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. -Birds-all.
Art Heir was called to Fremont on
last Thursday to look after some busi
ness matters, he making the trip in
his car.
O. F. Anderson was a visitor in
Lincoln on last Monday where he
was looking after some business
there for the day.
Fred Ethrege and Louis Long were
visiting with friends and also look
ing after some matters in Platt3
mouth on last Sunday.
Wilbur Birdsall and family of
Ashland were visiting for the week
end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.
R. Birdsall of Greenwood.
Mrs. P. E. Clymer entertained on
last Thursday the Owl Clnb, where
there was a large number in attend
ance and a most enjoyable time was
had.
A number of the members of the
I. O. O. F. encampment were over
to Ashland on last Thursday and
were attending the lodge meeting
there.
Nels W. Emelund. Tom Wilton and
Glen Rouse were in attendance at
the football game which was staged
at Kansas City on last Saturday af
ternoon. John Stohlberg of Lincoln was in
Greenwood during a few days dur
ing the past week, and was assist
ing in the" bookkeeping at the lum
ber yard.
Andy Schliefert of near Manley
was in Greenwood on last Thursday
and was looking after his candidacy
for the position of commissioner of
the second district.
The Bryan meeting which was
held in Greenwood on last Wednes
day was attended by many of the
people of Greenwood and the sur
rounding territory.
Mesdames Myra Howard and Eva
Hoenshell were visiting at Ashland
on last Tuesday where they were
guests with their friend. Mrs. Essay
McNurlin, formerly of Greenwood.
C. W. Sanborn and wife of Lin
coln were visiting in Greenwood on
last Thursday, they driving over for
a visit of a short time with P. A.
Sanborn and son for a few hours.
W. C. Boucher has been on the
sick list for the past few days was
confined to his bed for some time but
is reported as being better and able
to be down town a few days since.
C. E. Mathis has been putting a
roof on the crib at the farm east
of Greenwood, and getting it in readi
iess for the protecting of the crop
of corn which was so hard to raise.
W. E. Hand was assisting at the
lumber yard for a few days during
the past week, the business being so
good for a time that Mr. Hart did
not have time to keep his books up.
Will Harvey of Utica, was a visi
tor in Greenwood one day last week,
being the guest at the home of C. E.
Calfee Sunday and also was visiting
at the home of O. A. Johnson on Mon
day. George Bucknell and wife were
visiting at Beatrice for the day on
last Thursday, they driving down in
their car to visit with friends as
well as to look after some business
matters.
Mrs. E. A. Landon and Miss Cath
erine Coleman were over to Ashland
on last Saturday where they were
attending the styleshow and also
were the guests at the home of Mrs.
Ella Marshall, a sister.
Uncle George Burks of Proctor
Colo., who was here last week with
a load of potatoes which he had
grown on his farm near that place
after disposing of the tubers depart
ed for his home in the west.
E. M. Jardine has accepted the
agency of the Overland cars and last
week disposed of one of the excellent
cars to L. C. Marvin who will use
it to carry the mail in and we can
say be has made a good selection.
J. M. Hart and wife of Waco
where Mr. Hart is engaged in the
elevator business were over to Green
wood last Sunday and were visiting
at the home of his brother, Frank
HarU of the Searle Ohapin Lumber
company
Fred Patterson, accompanied by
his daughter, Effie Sherra, and Mrs.
Edna Shannon were visiting in
Greenwood on last Thursday and
were looking after the. elusive vote,
which Mr. Patterson waDts for elec
tion to the office of county surveyor.
Mr. and Mrs. .P. A.' Sanborn were
called: to Atlantic, Iowa last week
on account of the death of their
friend, Mrs. James Signal, daughter
of their friends Mr. and Mrs. Clark
Swaggart, with whom the Sanborns
lived near . neighbors for a number
of years.
Harrison L. Gayer the candidate
for county clerk on the democratic
ticket, was a visitor in Greenwood,
and was the guest of O. D. Sherman,
living northeast of Greenwood who
was introducing the genial candidate
and who was making many friends
during his visit.
C. E. Calfee who has partitioned
off the work shop from the other
portion or the building, has added a
stock of shoes which is meeting with
great demand, and which is adding
to his line of leather goods. Drop
in and see him when wanting some
thing in this line.
Week before last the democratic
candidates were at Greenwood, and
met a merry reception from the
citizenry, and were met with the
glad hand, the people of Greenwood
wanting to know the people who are
to be the officers, whether be one or
the other of the oplitical parties.
Mrs. J. I. Carpenter and son, Doug
las, were over to Ellis on last Sun
day where they spent the day with
T. J. Carpenter and family who for
merly resided in Greenwood. (Mr.
Ellis is conducting a garage in Ellis
and doing nicely. Mrs. J. I .Carpenter
and son returned home Sunday niht.
Greenwood
Folks Visit Yel
lowstone Park
Find the Views of Nature's Wonder
land a Seal Treat Lemon
Family Write of Trip.
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They Had the Goods.
Sure they had the goods and were
desirous of giving them to their! Leaving Greenwood on Thursday.
friends the minister of the Metho- August 19, we visited relatives at
dist church and family. On Last Aurora, Ravenna and Alliance,
Wednesday afternoon and evening reaching Moron, Wyo., a distance of
me memoersnip of the church or- 25 miles from the nark on Friday.
ganizea a move which culminated in August 26. From Moron we took a
tne presenting of gifts to the Rev. side trip to the Teton mountains and
F. W. Alexander and the family, each Jackson lake. This is indeed beau
of the guests and members taking so tiful. The Grand Teton has an al-
much of a commodity. The people are I titude of 13,747 feet. The level of
want to call this a pound social, but Jackson lake from which these
they could take 11 pounds if they mountains riso is at G733 feet of al-
desired and many of them did that titude. The Grand Teton which was
very thing. However, the social was covered with snow rises more than
a very pronounced success and was 7,000 feet from the lake. This coun
enjoyed by pll as well. try has been known as Jackson Hole
for many years as it was the last
Eebekahs Doing Good Work. I refuge of the desperado of our west
The Rebekah Assembly have been I ern life. It was here the James
doing some good work of late and I brothers lived in safety and raided
on last Tuesday at their meeting I distant countrysides at leisure.
iniaiated into the mysteries of the We entered the southern entrance
Rebekah degree of Odfellowship six! of the park on Saturday afternoon
of the excellent women of Green- during a drizzling rain. A Hunger
wood. Following the meetine and the I station is located here and all tour-
conferring of the degrees, a sump-lists are required to stop, register
tious banquet was held at which all and pay a fee of $3 per car before
did full justice. Those to become entering. All guns are sealed at
members of the decree were. Misses I these stations too. No guides are
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Nettie Clarke, Edythe Harris, TJvon I needed as wonderful roads have been
West. Margaret Coleman. Osythe built through deep cul canyons,
Kemp and Mrs. Carl Hammer.
YOUNG PEOPLE ENTERTAINED
some buildings at the home of West
ley Hill, has completed his work,
and is again back in town and was
letting the coal sheds at the Peter
son Grain company down on their
foundations which had been left to
ripen v.'hen they were constructed.
Phil L. Hall was looking after
some business matters at Seward,
David City, Osceola and other places
in the state. He was also looking
after his campaign for state treas
urer, and it looks lige be was going
to be the successful candidate, for
he is making lots of friends in his
campaign.
O. F. Anderson who has been re-
across towering mountain ranges, be
side rippling streams and into for
ests. Hotels and camps have been
erected to provide comfortable ac
commodations in the most distant and
inaccessible places. Free camp
From Saturday's Dally
A verv delightful Hallowe'en nartv
was held last evening at the home of grounds have been provided for those
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCartv on vho wish to bring their own equip-
South 10th street, when the Misses ment and camp out. Of all the na
Dorothy McCarty and Olga Delhart tional parks Yellowstone is the wild-
entertained a small number of the est and most universal in its appeal
school friends and associates at a There is more to see there, different
most delightful Catherine. The home sorts of things, more natural won
was arranged in the orange and black I ders more strange and curious things
of the season and with the hours and more variety
passed so merrily in trames of alii Yellowstone was created a national
ovnnt v, v,.-irarlr hv thp At nf Pnneress in 1872.
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Frank Rouse who has been movinst'adies will long very pleasantly re- The park proper is 62 miles longn;
member. At a suitable hour daintvlirom norm to souiu, mut-a iuc
refreshments appropriate to the oc- and has an area of 3.348 square
casion were served by the hostesses I miles or 2,142,270 acres. It contains
and Mrs. McCarty that added to the geysers. mud volcanos, mineral
rnmnletinn nf ihe event Thnso whn snrines. colored DOOlS and similar
were present were Waunita Schwen-1 manifestations of nature. There are
niker, Marie McFarland, Frances found 4,000 hot springs, large and
Lamb. Florence and Margaret Nel- small, 100 geysers, big and little. It
son, Lillian Lamphere. Mildred Carl- has made many rushing rivers and
berg, Catherine Stava and Olga Del-1 charming lakes, well filled with trout
hart and Dorothy McCarty.
EE-ELECT MSS GEKING
waterfalls of great height and large
volume, dense forests of pine, spruce
cedar poplar and aspen with occa
sionally a dwarf maple and a thicket
of willows. It. has areas of petrified
TTVnm eireiv nrorinpt anA wafd in
r-.co mintv .nmAa n-nrH roioM I forests with trunks standing and a
your democratic county treasurer J wide variety of wild flowers of bril
htso tt -,i k ci, I liant hues erow in profusion. It has
presenting the Buick in the three n-a th ffi0 tllo nu: of canyons one of which presents an un
counties of Cass, Sarpy and Saunders the taxpayers and the patrons of th equaled spectacle of golden colors,
moved to Wahoo last Thursday where office, She nas made good. " Mammoth is the capital of Yellow-
VOTE FOR
A,
Mo
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FOR
jnumsomi
FF
A resident of Cass county for ten years!
Not controlled by any individual or organization!
Will enforce all laws without fear or favor!
A man fearless in the discharge of his duty!
Of right age (32 years) to make a good sheriff!
Pledged to efficient service at any time and
under any circumstance!
The kind of a man Cass county needs!
A Vote for Johnson is a Vote for
Fearless Law Enforcement
He has no friends to reward or enemies to punish and
will be fair in the discharge of his duties. at all times!
he will be nearer to a portion of the
territory which he works personally,
he having representatives here in
Cass county at both Weeping Water
and Plattsmouth.
Mrs. Art Reese, who has been hav
ing very poor health for some time
A vote for her means appreciation
of a faithful servant of the people.
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stone. There are omcers or aamin
fstration. the park postoffice, the
pest in places. They are very fond
AUTO ACCIDENT
Robert Beck and his wife, resi
was at the hospital in Lincoln where dents living southeast of town, were
it was aaviseu mat sne nave ner v,0 viima a g.;.nt unrih
teeth out, which has been done and of town Sunday night. Their car was P5nk eIlow and brown
it is honed that her health will in ctnb h o unVnum t,mir I The Yellowstone gey
a short time be improved. Mr. Rouse badiy demolished in addition to the nowned the world over, because of end-of the bridge the road enters a
was over to Lincoln to see the wife ifPi ata' pi, td ni- their size, power, number and variety wilderness of trees, nothing has ever
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who was some better, and which was ' ,vns brought to town bv Clias. Ed
government information bureau and of bacon, sugar and sweets and if it
museum, and Mammoth Hot Springs, is iwi wnere mey can suieu 11 mey
The hot waters here, heavily charged will surely be uninvited guests dur
,Hth iiro have hnilt nn tier unon tier I ing the night. At two dizerent
mill ituiv nun -r r .
nf terraces mainly white but f re- camps our neighbor campers lood box
nuentlv colored bv mineral and vege- was torn open by the bears and food
... i a i
table deposit, in delicate tints 01 wkm.
After a four-days stay in the park
The Yellowstone geysers are re-1 we leu via couy roau, just at tue
witness sports in broncho busting,
steer roping, bull dogging, wild horse
racing, giving spills and thrills never
to be forgotten.
We reached home on Wednesday
evening after a most pleasant trip
of 27,00 miles with excellent roads
all the way and found crcp3 looking
better than any place we had been.
THE LEMON FAMILY.
good news for her many friends.
wards. The truck did not stop and
of action many erupt at more or less I been changed even the fallen tree3
intervals, the most remarkable andjoemg anowoci to remain wnere tne
Earl Hurlbut and wife and Exerett they had no clue to the idenity of best known of this type being "Old rut mess nana or elements iaia mem
i Tin in.. jj tT- i t- t l. c.iti,rni" i.-v.i-.ii flino-a o isft foot ml. J low as nas so many otnerpiaces
Copes and wife were over to Lin-i the driver. Weeping Water Repub-
in
coin on last Tuesday, where they
were attending a wedding of Miss
Myrtle Copes, who was united in
marriage to M. R. Motheen cf Wich
ita Falls, Texas, where the newly
married couple will make their home
in the future. The wedding occurred
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Anderson of Lincoln.
lican.
umn of boiling water and live steam I the park.
FOB SALE OE RENT
The Dr. Flynn residence can be
purchased much below the real value
and exceptionally good terms given
The house is fully modern. Inquire
at Bauer's garage, Tel 98. o2S-2wsw
FOR SALE
Pure bred Duroc
Young, Murray, Neb.
Have you anything to sell? Tell
the world about it through the Jour-
Greenwood All Right.
Sure she is and a good town at
that, and the man who says she is
not is either misinformed or pre
judiced. We asked a man the other
day what the news was and he said
he did not know anything, or he
would not be living in Greenwood. Of
course we know this was a josh, butlnai's Want Ad department.
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juu kiiow mui mis is me low u ui
your choice, and you should make it
the very best town possible. Make
it the best place to live in, the best
place to do business in and a town
which one would be pleased to visit
in and have his friends live in. Then
there would be plenty of news and
plenty of business and all will have
plenty of friends.
boars. A. A.
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Knou the Absolute Facts!
You Want the Best Motor Car
Value Your Money will Buy
But you cannot know true Motor Car Worth without
an Exhaustive Demonstration. We are here to show
you the superior quality of the
New and Better Buick
Call on us at any time for a thorough demonstration.
No charge or obligation to buy. See Bert Reed, of
Weeping Water, or J. B. Livingston, of Plattsmouth!
Greenwood, Nebraska
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into the air every 65 minutes. Some
of the other large ones play at ir
recular intervals of days, weeks or
months. Some small ones play every
few minutes. Some burst upward
with immense power: other hurl
steams at angles or bubble ana
foam. Old Faithful, the most fa
mous of all geysers hurls in the air
every 0 5 minutes a million and a
half gallons of water or 33,255,000
gallons a day. This would supply
a city of 30,000 inhabitants.
The Grand Canyon is vast, a cross
section in the largest part measures
2.000 feet at the top and 200 feet at
the bottom with 12 feet of depth.
The Upper Fall is 109 feet, the Low
er or Great Fall is 30 S feet in
height. What makes it a scenic fea
ture of first order is its really mar
velous coloring. Standing upon a
platform at Artists Point, whicn
puishes out almost to the center of
the canyon, one seems to look almost
vertically down upon the foaming
Yellowstone river. To the south a
waterfall twice the height of Nia
gara rushes out of the pine clad
hills and pours downward. a rom
that point 2 or 3 miles from wnere
vou stand and beneath you widens
out the most glorious of color you
will ever see in nature. The steep
slopes, drooping on each side a
thousand feet and more from the pine
topped levels above are streaked.
spotted and stratified in every shade
of the rainbow. From the canyon we
followed the road northward to Mam
moth where we viewed some beauti
ful scenery crossing the Dunraven
Pass after which we made the ascent
of Mount Washburn whose elevation
is 10,317 feet this being the highest
Don't entrust that job of motor re- we had been up at any time ana
; . . . .,. from this point we had a wonderful
pairing to men who are not familiar view of the park. Thi3 Climb sure
with your engine or one of similar made the engines boil as it was a
monnfaTir nn t,,v steep 12-mile grade on low gear. The
manufacture. Our auto repair me- increa8e:in the number of wild ani
chanics are thoroughly trained: men mnisr in the: nark is very, noticeable,
who can hi Tplif1 on tn fcnrrlU'" this because of xthe.careful'prQtdction
engine satisfactorily.
Let Engine Men
Do the Job
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Garage
Phone 58
afforded them. Hunting' Is 'prohl&u
ed except - with a camera.-' Besides
many bears and : buffaloes there are
antelope, deer, moose and elk whicn
SHOW C0-0PEBATI01J,
For miles the highway stretches
out ahead through the otherwise
trackless forest, skirting the shore
of large and small lakes of surpass
ing beauty. Twenty miles out the
character of the country changes, the
density of the forest grows less as
the ascent of the west slope of the
Absaraka Range begins, the way be
comes more rugged, the timber stunt
ed. Shortly the top is reached and
we passed through Sylvan Pass and
within an hour's ride we were fol
lowing the Shoshone National Forest
winding and twisting with every
curve in the river the road let us
through some beautiful scenery until
we reached stretches of cactus and
sage brush alongside green fields of
wheat and alfalfa the miracle of ir
rigation. We next passed' through
the beautiful Shoshone canyon which
is a six mile gorge formed by almost i f
perpendicular mountains rising above
the river to a tremendous height,
through the canyon and along the
mountains this road has bc-en blasted !
through solid rock passing through
as many as 5 tunnels in a single mile
gradually rising, the road brought us
to the top of the great Shoshone Dam
which is used to irrigate a hundred
thousand acres of Wyoming land.
After a short stop at the dam we
proceeded through the remainder of
the canyon until at last we emerged
on the planes, just ahead a short
distance and we reached Cody, the
home town of the late Col. William
F. Cody better known the world over
as "Buffalo Bill" for whom the town
of Cody, Wyo., was named and where
we spent the night.
Our next day's drive -brought us
into the city of Thermopolis where;
we spent a short time. Here are
located the Big Horn Mineral Hot
Springs, owned and controlled by the
state of Wyoming. Here every year
thousands of people bathe without
cost to them. The baths are espe
cially noted for. rheumatism as ; well
asj other ailmants.r
We also stopped at Casper, Wyo.,j
an oil city. We saw at least 200;
wells at work in the process of pump
ing oil. From there on to Cheyennei
Nothing succeeds like success:
nothing cooperates like co-operation.
Mr. Ellis, commissioner of the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, wish
ed to extend to all who so splendidly
assisted in making the "Booster"
meeting a success, his thanks in be
half of that organization.
There were more cars than needed
due to the fine response from the
men of Plattsmouth, and this office
wishes to express its deep apprecia
tion for this splendid service.
The band was fine didn't jTou en
joy it? The boosters were in good
mettle, and Plattsmouth enjoyed very
much their short visit with us.
Omaha as an asset to Plattsmouth, is
the way to look at it. "Eighteen
miles from Omaha," makes Omaha
attractive to Plattsmouth, to out
siders, to prospects, and Plattsmouth
has a great deal to offer Omaha in
the way of splendid suburban homes!
Beautiful scenic sites; pure cool un
surpassed drinking water; fine
churches; paved streets; good light
ing system; splendid library, ac
cedited schools and in fact, every
thing that goes to make home life
better, attractive, clean, beautiful
and happy with less of the destruc
tive influences often met in the larger
places.
W. G. DAVIS,
Sec'y C. of C.
Journal Want Ads cost but little,
and they sure do get results.
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we were .fortunate to see. iuetetiie capuax city ot Wyoming, wuere
animals are harmless when no at-1 vre again spent the night. Cheyennt
tempt is made to annoy or interfere i th ortstos-tcr of ths famous fron
wlth them. ' The barsar quite a tier days celebration, here thousands
Harrison L. Gayer
CAP GAYER"
Democratic Candidate for
County Clerk '
Well qualified for the office by education
and training. Graduate of the Nebraska
State University.
Resident of Rock Bluffs precinct and
farmer for eight years.
Veteran of 28th Infantry, First Division.
Member American Legion and Disabled
Veterans' Association.
Your Support Tuesday will
be Appreciated
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