Nebraska Newspapers

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VOL. NO. XUV
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.
NO. 33
Many Improve
ments Mark the
Spring Season
Business Houses and Residences Alike
Are Being Made More Attrac
tive by Improvements.
From Thursdays Dally
The past several months have seen
a great deal of improvement in the
city in a great many ways and par -
'J in 1 1 ' r w ci y ui l ilTT ucuci-
ment of the various business build
ings as well as the residences over
the city.
In the downtown district there has
been many changes made that have Tne out of lown guests were Mrs.
added to the attractiveness of the Thomas Sullivan and Mrs. Traver, of
business action and which have Omaha, and Mrs. Frank D. Burgess,
been large factors in making the,of Salina Kansas, former resident
buildings more attractive in both the Wo whrt nnw moving to Omaha
interior and the exterior.
The use of the paint and brush
has made a great many of the exter
iors of the buildings present a won
derful appearance and Jending to
the entire business section a much
needed improvement.
Several of the stores have car
ried on extensive remodeling chang
es in the interior of their buldings
that have added to the appearance
as well as the convenience of the
stores and among these that have
and are still engaged in the work
of remodeling are the H. M. Soen
nichsen, the E. A.Wurl and the new
Red and White grocery stores as well
as the building that is being occu
pied by the Ghrlst Furniture Co.
Perhaps one of the most out
standing improvements that has
been made is the rebuilding of the
structure on South Sixth street
which was formerly used by the pop
factory and which has been in a
state of partial dissolution for sev
eral years. The property .was secur
ed by the Building and Loa associa
tion and rebuilt and is now a real
attraction to that part of the city
and is occupied by the Maytag Co., as
their distribution headquarters and
display rooms.
The last few months has seen as
much improvement over the city as
the entire record of 1927 would
show and is an indication of the fact
that the entire community is making
its advancing strides again, after the
post war period of depression. Other
improvements are being carried on
in the shape of remodeling and re
decorating of places and which will
make the year record breaking in
the number of improvements that
have been made.
Some of these changes have not
been so costly but they have added
much to the appearance of the busi
ness section, while others will cost
a great deal, one of these being the
remodeling of the Hall building on
South 6th street which is to be used
as a motion picture theatre.
The total of the changes made will
amount to many thousands of dol
lars and certainly speaks well for
the first four months of the year and
if the ensuing summer is prolific of
improvements as the first few months
of the year 1928 will set a very high
standard of improvement in the city.
PRESENT FINE PROGRAM
F.rom Thursday's Dally
A group of the local members of
the Plattsmouth Women s club were
at Papillion yesterday where they
were the guests of the ladies of that
city and gave a very delightful pro
gram at the home of Miss Ida Fricke,
one of the leaders in the musical
Avork of the Papillion club.
The program was along the lines
of the study of the Indian music and
in this connection Mrs. E. H. Wescott
gave a very interesting talk on the
history of the Indian melodies and
throughout the program the theme of
the music of the native American
was heard. Mrs. James T. Begley,
soprano and Mrs. E. H. Wescott, con
tralo, gave several of the Indian
songs while Mrs. Robert Reed was
heard in a group of the Indian selec
tions, played very charmingly on the
piano, and Mrs. A. D. Caldwell pre
sented a group of melodies in violin
selections.
The ladies were well pleased with
their visit to the Sarpy county city
and received many expressions of
the pleasure of the ladies on the fine
program of the songs and music of
the original American manthe Red
Man.
DEBATING CLUB HAS TREAT
From Thursday's Oany
Last eveniner the members of the
debating team of the High school,
which has had a very successful sea-
son. in their work on the platform in
the south central school debates, had or miss onarp, wno are now compiei
an additional pleasure afforded them ing their school work here will be
in the treat given by their coach, R. pleased to learn of her success in
F. Patterson, who by his splendid completing her four years of High
work, has given the local schools one school work,
of the best teams in . a great many
years. STILL VERY POORLY
The young people motored to Ora-
aha. where Mr. Patterson entertained ; From Thursday's Dally
them at a theatre party at the newt The reports received here from
Orpheum and after several very pleas- Lincoln state that Miss Claire Green,
ant hours the young people motored former resident here, is quite poorly
back to their homes here. Those at her home in the capitol city and
enjoying the event were: George her condition has caused a great deal
Thacker, Marie Sperry, Henry Mar- ,of apprehension to the members of
shall, Hazel Harkins, Mary Swatek, her family and the many friends,
Doris Young and Dorothy Brink. both at Lincoln and in this city.
ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE
From Thursday's Dally
Miss Minnie Guthman was hostess
yesterday at a very charming May
bridge breakfast at her home on
North Fourth street, and which was
enjoyed by a group of the friends.
There were eight tables arranged
and the settings were in the bright
and colorful garden flowers that ad-
ded a very pleasing touch to the scene
of enjoyment.
In the playing, Mrs. Karl Brown,
or Pfinillion. was awarded the first
ri7 while Mrs. J. A. Donelan was
awarded the second and Miss Lucille
Horn the third, the consolation prize
; - je - ng awarded to Mrs. Maldon D.
. iJrOWn.
In the entertaining and serving,
Miss Guthmann was assisted by the
Misses Marie and Lucille Horn and
ir icnri rirnwn
to reside.
Elks Name J.
W. Holmes as the
New Secretary
Postmaster Will Have New Honor
as the Secretary of the Elks
and Golf Club.
From Thursday's Dally
Last evening the members of
Plattsmouth lodge No. 739, B. P. O.
E. held a special meeting at the
club house on North Sixth street, to
take up the matter of the filling of
the office of the secretary of the
lodge which was made necessary by
the resignation of Charles W. Hula,
the present secretary, who finds that
his insurance business will not per
mit his devoting the time that the
office should have.
The fact that the Elks have the
country club and golf club affairs as
well as their own routine lodge busi
ness to handle has made the office
of the secretary of the lodge a real
task and one that will take up a
great deal of time of the secretary.
The lodge voted to elect to the
office James W. Holmes, who has
been active in the lodge work for a
number of years and also has been
the president of the golf club for a
number of terms and Is thoroughly
conversant with the two organiza
tions and which will make him an
exceptionally valuable man in the
position of secretary. The new sec
retary has been a great booster for
the Elks as well as the golf club and
his election to the secretaryship as
sures the right man in the right place
in this important time when the
Elks are putting over the country
club and golf course proposition and
with his ability and business man
agement Mr. Holmes will be the
logical man.
FINE ORCHESTRA
From Thursday's Dallv
Jess Williams and his Songsters, of
Lincoln, who played for the Ameri
can Legion dance last night, is an
other of the fine orchestras that has
been brought here by the Legion for
its bi-weekly feature dances since the
opening of the Legion community
building last Fall, but as usual the
past three months with the mid-week
offerings, the crowd was barely large
enough to pay the expenses of bring
ing the orchestra here.
The basement dance hall in the
partially completed Legion building
as fully as cool as any out-door pa
vilion, but it is hard to make the
dancers understand this, and then
there are others who just naturally
prefer the park pavilions, anyhow.
The Legion has a Decoration night
dance booked for next Wednesday,
with music by the Orioles, and expects
to have a good crowd on account of
it being a holiday.
GRADUATES IN WASHINGTON
From Thursday's Dally
Friends here of the Lee Sharp fam
ily have received announcements of
the graduation in the class of 192S
of the Wenatchee, Washington, High
school, of Miss Helen Sharp, the eld
est daughter of the family. Miss
Sharp was a student here for a num
ber of years during her young girl
hood and since the removal of the
family two years ago to the west,
has been attending the Wenatchee
schools, where she has completed her
Anal High school work. The many
school friends and former classmates
King of Trails
Bridge Soon to
be Resurfaced
State to Call for Bids for Placing
Rock Asphalt Surface on
the Roadway.
From Thursday's Daliy
The King of Trails bridge over
the Platte river which in the next
two or three months will become a
structure that will be free to travel,
is to be given a thorough re-sur-
! facing of the roadway of the bridge
before the bridge becomes a free
I structure.
The state engineer is calling for
bids for placing on the bridge a road
', way surfacing of an inch and a half
r of rock concrete to replace the pres
;ent gravel surfacing of the bridge
and which will offer a greater wear
ing resistance to the heavy travel
than the gravel.
The work as announced ia to be
commenced on June 15th and will be
completed on July 1st, just prior to
the time that the structure will
probably be opened as a free non
toll bridge.
The bridge has been purchased by
the counties of Cass and Sarpy and
the state of Nebraska, the counties
paying their half of the cost of the
bridge as well as the interest on the
structure through the medium of
tolls and the travel that has passed
over the bridge has now practically
paid for the cost of the building of
the fine steel and concrete structure
and also the incidental expenses that
have been incurred, including the
salaries of the toll keepers and the
other maintenance and costs of the
bridge.
The attainment of the free bridge
is a great advance toward the elim
ination of the only toll bridge in the
state that spans a state stream and
will be the result of a campaign of
many years to secure a bridge of this
kind and which was made possible
by the Plattsmouth and Omaha group
of men that erected the bridge and
later sold it to the state and the two
counties with the object of securing
the free bridge.
FUNERAL OF HARRY WHITE
From Thursday's Dally
The funeral services of the late
Henry White were held here on Wed
nesday afternoon, the body arriving
.from Omaha on No. 24 over the
Burlington, and being taken direct
to the Oak Hill cemetery where a
short service was held by the Rev.
Harold E. Sortor of the First Meth
odist church. A number of the rela
tives and old friends were present
at the last rites. The pall bearers
were from the old friends being
Fred G. Morgan, C. F. Vallery, Guy
White, O. G. Dovey, William
Schmidtmann and W. J. Streight.
Mr. White was an uncle of Mrs.
Frank J. Morgan of this city and also
a great uncle of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Horn of Hay Springs, Nebraska, who
with their son and daughter were
here for the last rites.
GOES TO HOSPITAL
Froir Saturday's Dally
Mrs. Ruth Thomsen, of this city,
was taken to Omaha yesterday, where
she entered the Immanuel hospital
at that place and will be under ob
servation and treatment for some
time in an effort to locate the cause
of her illness, from which she has
suffered for some time. It is not
known whether or not an operation
will be necessary, and which will have
to be determined by the examinations
and observance of the patient.
The many friends over the county
will regret to learn of the illness of
Mrs. Thomsen and trust that it may
not be of a serious nature and that
she may soon be able to return home
to this city.
ATTEND OMAHA CHAPTER
From Thursdays Dally
Last evening a number of the
officers and members of Nebraska
Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons,
motored to Omaha where they at
tended the meeting of Bellevue chap
ter and where the degree work was
conferred on several of the local can
didates. Members of the high school
faculty that were advanced to
the degrees In the chapter and had
desired to complete the work before
; the commencement of the summer
vacation and summer school work
' that would take them from the city
and accordingly the Omaha chapter
wsa secured to give them the needed
degrees.
WEDDED AT COURT HOUSE
From Thursday's Daily
Yesterday afternoon at the county
court occurred the marriage of Miss
Georgia W. Conley, of Weeping Wa
ter and Francis W. Benedict of Glen
wood. The marriage was performed
by Judge A. K. Duxbury and was
witnessed by the parents of the
bride, Mr. and Mrs. George Conley.
After the wedding the bridal couple
returned to Weeping Water where
they expect to reside in the future.
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Blank books at the Journal office.
A PLEASANT MEETING
From Friday's Dally
On Tuesuay afternoon the Social
Circle club met at the beautiful coun
try home of Mrs. Frank Moore, east
of Murray. The afternoon was spent
visiting and discussing the plans for
the social meetings that will be held
during the summer season until the
resumption of the regular study per
iod, in September.
The club leaders have made their
last trip to the office of the county
agent at Weeping Water, completing
the lessons for the present season,
and which will be resumed with the
new lessons in the coming fall.
With the delicious luncheon served
by Miss Margaret Moore and Mrs.
Allen Vernon, everyone surely enjoy
ed the occasion to the utmost and
which aided in the: completion of a
very fine afternoon, and the ladies
were convinced of the fact that the
hostesses were most royal entertain
ers. The next social meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Ezra Albin
on June -9th.
Red and White
Store Opens to
the Trade Today
Consolidation of Chase Meat Market
and Handy Way Grocery in
New Establishment.
From Saturday's Dally
This morning the Red and White
grocery and meat market, located on
Main street, between Fifth and Sixth
streets, opened its doors to the pub
lic after several days in which the
decorators have been busily engaged
in placing the store room in the most
perfect of condition.
The new store represents the con
solidation of the S. S. Chase meat
market and the Handy Way grocery
owned by Hilt Martin, son-in-law of
Mr. Chase.
The exterior of the building that
is occupied by the new firm is a
very bright and attractive sight as
it has been painted in the very rich
tones of the r"i ,v.th ths rpotless
white trimmings, while the upper
portion of the building has been done
in the tones of deep green and man-
ing the whole structure one that at
tracts much attention.
The interior of the store room has
been finished in spotless white, the
ceiling and walls, the large ice stor
age room for the meats as well as
the shelving and the bins for the
vegetables and fruits are all in the
clear and spotless white. The dainty
red flowers that are a part of the
decorative plan also aid in the beauty
of the new business house.
The task of the removal of the
stock of Mr. Martin was completed
last evening and everything was in
readiness today when the opening
hour came to bring the Red and
White store -into existence and
adding a very attractive feature to
the business section of the citj".
GO OUT ON SEARCH
From Saturday's Daily
Last evening Sheriff Bert Reed was
called out to spend several hours
searching for stolen property that it
was claimed had been taken from
some Burlington box cars at Orea
polis and also endeavoring to locate
parties that had robbed a bunk car
at Ashland and who were suspected
of having come this way, following
the railroad line it was thought.
Special Agent Young of the Burling
ton was here and assisted the sheriff
In the search but which failed to
reveal the parties or any trace of
the stolen articles, altho the sheriff
spent the larger part of the night
on the hunt.
STILL IN HOTEL BUSINESS
From Thursday's Dally
Many years ago there was a well
known hotel man man, Joe, Opelt,
engaged in the conduct of hotels at
Nebraska City and also had charge of
the Riley hotel in this city. The Ne
braska City News-Press tells of a re
cent visit that John W. Steinhart,
well known citizen of Nebraska City
paid to the west and which included
among other places visited, Nogales,
Arizon, and where he stopped at the
i Hotel Esplendor. The manager of
the hotel is Clyde Oplet, a son of
Joe Opelt and who was a little lad
when the family resided In Platts-
, mouth some thirty-even years ago.
IMPROVING NICELY
From Friday's Dally
The reports from the St. Joseph
hospital state that Mrs. Prank Woos
ter of this city, who was operated
on there Wednesday afternoon, is
now doing very nicely and with the
present rate of improvement the pa
tient may soon be on the highway to
recovery. This is most pleasing news
to the friends here and are hopeful
to have this estimable lady back
home again.
Mrs. John Weber and children,
Joe. Catherine, Josephine and Teresa,
came down from Omaha last evening
to attend the commencement, exer-
cises of the Plattsmouth High 'school
; and to visit with the old friends.
Class of 1928
Say Farewell to
Hi School Days
One of the Largest Classes in the
History of the School Are
Given Diplomas.
From Saturday's tjaTi?
Last evening another class of stu
dents passed from the threshold of
the Plattsmouth high school, com
pleting their four years of work in
the final grades and which entitled
them to the coveted parchments that
gave them the distinctions of high
school graduates and representing a
return of the energy and interest
that they had given to the school
work in the period that they had
been members of the great democracy
j of the American high school.
The class of 1928 of the Platts
mouth high school wag one of the
largest that has been graduated and
was exceptional in the fact that a
very substantial majority of the class
were boys, thirty-four of the class
being young men and twenty-five
young ladies, this being the first time
in the history of the school that the
masculine portion of the class had
exceeded the feminine in the point of
numbers.
The school auditorium was wholly
inadequate to accommodate the
crowd that assembled to enjoy the
graduation and long before the open
ing of the program standing room in
the auditorium was at a premium
The program of the commencement
was carried out in the most pleasing
manner and the class under the di
rection of their sponsor, R. F. Pat
terson fully carried out their part
of the program in making the occa
sion a success in every way.
It was promptly 8 o'clock when
the notes of the processional march
was sounded by Charles Nowacek,
member of the class of 1929 and one
of the brilliant musically inclined
students of the school. The class en
tered in their grey gowns and the
mortar board caps and presented a
very fine appearance as they took
their places on the platform, they
filling the stage of the auditorium to
its capacity.
As the class reached the stage the
invocation was pronounced by the
Rev. O. G. Wichmann, pastor of the
St. Paul's Evangelical church, who
gave the plea for the divine blessing
of the young men and women who
were completing their school work.
The class had the pleasure of en
joying a very fine musical offering in
the solo given by Frank A. Cloidt,
well known local vocalist and also
secretary of the board of education
and who had as his number, "In
victus," by Bruhn, the accompanist
being Miss Estelle Baird.
The salutatory was given by
George Olson, the second highest
ranking student of the class and who
on behalf of his fellow students as
sisted in the expression of pleasure
at their attainment of their success.
Mr. Olson stated that he recalled the
sensations of the twelve years before
when he had entered the school for
the first time, that the class appre
ciated the successful co-operation of
teacher and parent in advancing
them through the school, serving the
class each year until this time when
the responsibility of serving became
the duty of the members of the class
when they too must take up their
duties. The class must serve their
community and their friends in the
future as others had served for them
in the past.
The valedictory address was given
by Miss Fern Jahrig, the highest
ranking student of the class, gave
the farewell for the class to the
school where they had labored for
the past four years in completion
of the high school work, Miss Jahrig
picturing the pleasure that the
graduation brought, as well as the
feeling of regret that the members
of the class all felt at the partings,
the severing of many friendships and
the development of new interests in
life. She spoke of appreciation of the
class to their parents, who had made
the sacrifices that were necesssary in
the completion of education of the
members of the clas. to the teachers
who had trained through the grade
and high school years the minds of
the students and also to the board
of education and the citizens of
Plattsmouth who had provided the
opportunit' of the high school educa-
i tion. The class should make loyalty
their motto and bear this to their
school, their home and the friends
that they make along life's way.
The class of 1928 had an excep
tionally pleasing speaker as the or
ator of the commencement exercises
in Prof. H. E. Bradford of the state
university, whose subject was that
of "The Magic Touch," the speaker
taking the story of Aladdin and the
wonderful lamp, which required but
the touch of the hand to bring
hurrying to the service of the owner
of the lamp, the genii that would
serve the every wish of the owner of
the lamp. To the young man or
woman there was a magic touch in
life that they alone possesed, no
gift could bring them certain things
of life, success, wealth, fame and
friends, save their own magic touch
of service and which they must exer
cise to bring forth their dearest
dreams attainment.
In his opening the speaker called
the attention to the trend of the
times that had brought more and
more young people through the high
school, how a few years ago small
clashes were the rule in all schools
and now larger and larger classes
were leaving the schools, the parents
giving their children greater op
portunities in the way of education.
This was true largely of the boy and
girl from the farm where the parents
were now giving their children the
sania opportunities that had in the
past been held by only a few in the
cities, today the boy and gill of the
farm coming to receive their final
education in the high school because
their districts could and would send
them to the accredited high schools
for their education.
In discussing the magic touch of
time Mr. Bradford recalled the fact
that twenty years ago when a com
mencement speaker offering the
statement that music and the human
voice would come over the air with
out wires to convey them would have
been laughed at, that if a man had
foretold that young man would one
morning step in his plane in New
York and thirty hours later step cut
on the landing field at Paris, he
would have been thought foolish, yet
time with its magic touch had ac
complished this.
What had won for the men and
women of America had been the
power of thinking, the forciful and
strong minds that had gone from
the beaten path of thought and
found new inspirations that had
given the world a greater vision and
greater attainments. The boy or girl
leaving school should strive to at
tain that which their ambition called
for. they should try and make suc
cessful the dreams that they might
have as to their future profession
or place in life.
To the fathers and mothers the
speaker gave the message of th
magic touch, asking the question as
to whether or not the child would
have the same blind and unshaken
confidence and faith in the parent
at seventeen they had at five when
the parent was the whole world to
them. It was the duty and the re
sponsibility of the parent to live
their own life with their children, to
keep their interest, their realization
of the needs and desires or
the child in their mind and to guide
and counsel the young' man or
woman.
The address was one of the best
that has been heard for many years
at commencement and the speaker
held the closest attention of the audi
ence until the close.
Superintendent R. E. Bailey, who
presided over the meeting introduced
W. G. Brooks, superintendent of
schools of Burlington, Iowa, and also
a former superintendent of the local
schools, who gave a brief expres
sion of his appreciation at being
present and recalled many of the
incidents of his school work here
and of the fact of the graduating
class had Just commenced their school
work in the grades while he was still
the superintendent here.
Mrs. L. O. Minor, regent of the
Fontenelle chapter of the Daughers
of the American Revolution, gave
the presentation of the history prize
that was awarded to Henry Wooster,
one of the high ranking students of
the class.
Superintendent R. E. Bailey also
gave the Palmer awards that had
been given to members of the nor
mal training class for their excellent
work in their penmanship which is
under the direction of Miss Marie
Kaufmann, supervisor of this de
partment of the city schools. The
members of the class receiving the
reward were: Florence Wiles, Loa
Davis. George Olson, Marie Nolting,
Gretchen Warner. Gladys Bushnell.
Marie Sperry, Mary Ellen Vallery,
Frances Wiles, Ona Graves, Eula
Reed and Doris Hogue.
One of the delightful features of
the program was the saxophone num
ber given by Frederick M. Gorder,
one of the graduates who has been
active in the musical as well as the
athletic life of the school and whose
accompaniment was played by Mrs.
John F. Gorder, his mother.
The scholarship awarded by the
church colleges of the state was pre
sented to Miss Fern Jahrig, honor
student, by Superintendent R. E.
Bailey.
The class of 1928 was then pre
sented by J. V. Simons, principal of
the high school, who gave the class
a fine tribute and recommended them
to the board of education to receive
the diplomas that they had earned.
The diplomas were then presented
by Dr. F. L. Cummins, president of
the board of education. In a few well
chosen remarks and which Dr. Cum
mins recalled that when he gradu
ated over forty years ago the clas3
had numbered Just eight and which
was then the largest class that the
school had graduated. He stated the
school was proud of Its graduates and
wished them well. He then gave the
diplomas to the following members
of the graduating class:
Donald H. Born, Alive V. Bulin,
Gladys Ii. Bushnell, George Allen
Caldwell, Ellis E. Champlin, Alice
Colvin Crabill, Loa Davis, Margaret
Lucille Engelkemier, Bernard I. Gal
loway, Ralph E. Gansemer, Frances
Tinsley Ghrlst, Frederick Maurice
Gorder, Ona M. Graves, Wllber S.
Hall. Lucille Hatt, Doris Hogue, John
G. Horn, Charles E. Howard, Olive
Winifred Huffer, Virgel G. Hutton,
Fern Jahrig, Ruth L. Janda, Noble
A. Ki6er, Bernard H. Klinger, Law
rence Leonard, Henry R. Marshall,
Isabel M. Marshall. Ralph A. Mason,
Fred M. McMaken. William Nelaon,
Marie G. Nolling. Pauline Nowasek,
Ralph W. Olsen. Edwin George Olson.
Edward Francis Patterson, .Merritt
E. Patton. George W. Perry, Donald
It. Pittman, Eula Mae Reed, John E.
Sander, Don Franklin Schneider,
Oliver J. Schneider. Dean F. Snyder,
Marie Sperry, Frances M. Stewart.
Lester K. Stout, Wm. Newton Sulli
van. Dorothy E. Todd, Mary Ellen
Vallery, Mai ga ret L. Vetersnek.
Gretchen C. Warner, Edgar Street
Wescott. Florence E. Wiles, Frances
E. Wiles, Linville L. Wiles. Clement
Theodore Wostcr. Henry T. Wosfer,
Robert E. Wurl, Marie Wright.
Recital Given
by Jack McCarty
a Real Siicces
5
Large Number at the First Methodist
Church to Enjoy a Real Treat
Lust Evening.
From Friday's Daliy
Last evening the auditorium of the
First Methodist church was filled by
a very much interested group of the
music lovers of the city to enjoy the
vcice recital by Jack McCarthy, tal
ented Plattsmouth young man, who
is now carrying on musical studies
at Chicago.
The church platform was very
tastefully arranged ith the summer
garden flowers and made a very at
tractive setting for the beautiful
musical treat that was given to those
attending.
Mr. McCarty was assisted in the
recital by the delightful accompani
ment of Mrs. Robert G. Reed, whose
artistic touch gave added beauty to
the numbers.
The clear sweet voice of Mr. Mc
Carty showed in the recital the
marked progress that he has made in
his musical work in the Chicago
musical colleges and his offerings
gave the promise of a very brilliant
musical career for this Plattsmouth
young man in the future years.
The opening group of the num
bers included the cratming riiJ loved
melodies of "Drink to Me With Thine
Eyes" nnd "Believe Me If All Those
Endearing Young Charms."
In the second group was foundj
brilliant and colorful selections that
the talented young vocalist gave a
wonderful rendition and included
"Little Silver Ring" by Chaminade,
"Fairy Story by the Fire" by Meri
kants and "Would God I Were th
Tender Apple Blossom."
The difficult number, "O Del
Amato Ben" and "Nina" embraced
the third group of the numbers of
fered by Mr. McCarty.
In the closing group of numbers of
Mr. McCarty was the beautiful and
loved "Songs My Mother Taught Me"
by Dvorak, "The Dark Blue Eyes of
Springtime" by Ities and "The Banjo
Song" by Homer.
The string quintette composed of
Mrs. A. D. Caldwell. Miss Martha
Gorder, Miss Jean Caldwell, Dick
Avard, Ira Mumm and George Cald
well gave two wonderfully present
ed selections, "Prayer and Rondo"
by Weber and th "Minuet in G" by
Beethoven, the skillful handling of
the difficult selections being very ar
tistically presented.
Mrs. Robert G. Reed, who is one
of Plattsmouth's most artistic musi
cians, was heard in two offerings.
"The Second Mazurka" by Godard,
and "Polishinelle" by Rachmanin
hof. An appreciation of the fine pro
gram was expressed in the fine silver
offering which was given by the
music lovers of the city.
DOES HAVE FETE TIME
From Thursday's Dallv
Yesterday afternoon tho Benovel
ent and Patriotic Order of Does held
a most delightful business and social
meeting at the Elks club and with a
very pleasing number of the members
present. The hostesses of the event,
Mrs. A. G. Bach, Mrs. A. W. Cloidt
and Mrs. Edward Brantner had ar
ranged a very pleasant time at bridge
.and In the playing of this fascin
ating game, Mrs. Fred Lugsch was
given the first prize and Mrs. Frank
: M. Bestor, the seer nd.
' The hostesses served dainty and
delicious refreshments during the
course of the evening that were very
much enjoyed by all of the mem
bers of the party.
"LEST WE FORGET"
One of the large show windows at
. the H. M. Soennichsen Co., store on
upper Main street, bears a beautiful
window that carries out the idea of
Memorial day and the Shirley pop
i pies blooming emid the green of the
vendure, the little green lent and the
white crons, speaks of the undying
dead of America that sleep on a for
eign soil where they had fought val
iantly and died. The display is ar
ranged by the ladles of the American
Legion Auxiliary who are to conduct
a campaign for the sale of the mem
orial poppies in this eity. The Aux
iliary makes use of the funds receiv
ed to aid the disabled and sick vet
erans of the world war that are 6till
;in the hospitals of the nation.