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r ) THURSDAY, MAY. 31, 1028. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE F0T7S Nehawka Department! Prepared in the Interests of the People of Nehawka and Surrounding Vicinity Especially for the Journal Readers. Two Cents per Day for Your Ice in 1928 ICY BALL The new marvel. See it work at Lundberg's. Nothing: to get out of order. Priced very reasonable ! Ask for Demonstration at the Garage Olaf Limdbergh Nehawka, Nebr. J. E. Woods, the painter and de corator has been papering the house Of J. Sutphin. Hoy Klaurens and the wife were visiting in Nehawka from their home at Firth during the greater portion of last week. IWnry Wessell and the wife were visiting for the afternoon at Nebras ka City on la.t Sunday, they driving over to the bis city in their car. On last Monday a Lincoln firm was engaged in the repairing of the Sheldon Manufacturing Co.. building and placing it in good condition. Stewart Hough and wife were visiting with friends in Omaha for the day on last Sunday, they driving over to the big town in their car. C. M. Chrisweisser and the family were enjoying a visit with friends in Omaha on last Sunday and were also liging the new car a little exercise. Miss Unidine Shrader was looking after the telephone exchange for the day last Sunday during the absence of Mrs. Wolfe and daughter, Gladys. C. I. Adams and his son Burnell. have been painting and decorating their homo during the time when the business at the store has been rather slack. John Chrisweisser tin loaded a car of coal from the Farmers Elevator hauling it to the customers about town, making a very strenuous day's v.-oi k. F. It. Cunningham was moving 1 raw mill from the Sioll faint i". last Monday to the farm of W. Wolph where he lias a large amount of lumber to saw. Albert Wolfe and the family were enjoying a visit with friends and re latives in Omaha for the day on last Sunday, they making the trip to the big city in their car. J. W. Murdock and the family were visiting in Nebraska City last Sunday, they going to attend the con test of Bible study, which was held there during the afternoon. IWt L. Philpot of Weeping Wa t'i representing the Chevrolet cars, was a visitor in Nehawka on last Monday morning and was looking after some business in his line. II. W. Kellogg of Omaha, a 1 fiend of E. A. Kirkpat rick, was down to see his friend on last Monday, but as Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick wore in the western portion of the state they missed his visit. Mrs. Albert Willis was suddenly taken with an attack of acute ap pendicitis on last Sunday and was hastened to the hospital on last Mon day where she underwent an oper ation for relief from the attack. John Chambers and wife and Mrs. Frank Lemon were visiting from last Friday until Monday evening of this week at the home of a sister of Mrs. Lemon at North Bend, they driving over for the visit in their car. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rough over to Weeping Water on last called there to atteend the of the late Albert Harmon, who a world war veteran, who had been enjoying good health for time past. dav, eral was not some were AMERICAN LEGION A DANCE A Plattsmouth, Neb.-Saturday Night Barn Yard Twins Orchestra FREE LUNCH GO CENTS Herman Shumaker. while employ ed on the farm of Earl Worlick north of Nehawka was overcame and pros trated while engaged in milking, by a dizzy spell which cameo ver him, but after having rested for a time he was feeling much better. W. II. Kruger and family and E. J. Kruger and family were over to Plattsmouth on last Sunday, where they were enjoying a visit with Harry L. Kruger and family and were making a portion of the fam ily reunion which was being held there on last Sunday. On last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mason, Sr.. and their son. Thomas, were over to Omaha, they driving in the car ow Tommy, and were visiting with relatives and also to see about their little grandson and nephew, which has been kept there since the death of its mother. Dow Hoback of Los Angeles who has been in the west for the past twenty-five years, and where he is engaged in the real estate business, arrived in Nehawka late last week, and has been visiting with his bro ther. D. F. Hoback for the past week, as well as with other of the relatives. Mrs. John Opp. who has been so ill for several months, is reported as be ing much improved, and is showing improvement with each succeeding week. Mrs. Wm. Black of Omaha, a sister of John Opp. was a visitor in Nehawka, and enjoyed a visit for a wee!:, reiurnlng to her home late last week. C. D. St. John and the family who have been visiting in the western portion ( f the state for the past week, are well pleased with the condition which they found the crops, and re port that the wheat is looking fine and the corn coming also in good shape. They will expect to retu. n Hiring the week. During the psst wee's: Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Sheldon have been er.tei taiuing a number of relatives and friends, and had as their guests ; for the occasion Daniel McClaiey. of ; Alma. California. Mr. Nelson Pollard ; of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and James ', .1. Pollard who has been making his i home at Los Aneeies as well as a ! sister of the Pollard boys, Mrs. j Sallis Johnson also of Long Beach They coming to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Helen A. Pollard, their mother. A young man named Murphey of near Eagle was a visitor in Nehawka and Union with the Edmiston fam ily, and with two young lady twins and their mother, went to Platts mouth, where they enjoyed the Shriners band concert and visited there until evening and as they were returning and a short ditance south of town, they were blinded by glar ing headlights and not being able to see the road, ran into a ditch, injur ing Mrs. Edminston and bruising the other members ofthe party as well as damaging the car. John G. Wunderlich and the wife were over to Plattsmouth on last Sunday, where they enjoyed a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rosencrans and also enjoyed attend ing the concert which was given by the Shriners which was held at the grounds of the Masonic Home. On their return they were accompanied by Mis Etta Schwartz, who has for the past four years been teaching school at Thermopolis, Wyo., and who came home for a visit during her vacation, she will teach in the schools of Sheridan the coming year. Miss Schwartz went to the west sev eral year since and there took a homestead which she perfected a number of years since, and has the place at this time. C. D. Keltner was beautifying the city of Nehawka on last Monday by the cutting of the grass and weeds about some of the residences and cleaning the places up. thus making the city more attractive. Burial Vaults You care vell for your loved ones while alive. One of our concrete vaults protects their remains when buried. An absolute guarantee. MILLER & CRUDER. tf-N Nehawka. Nebr. Held Family Reunion. On last Sunday at the home of Dairy L. Kruger and family, was held a reunion of the family, which, was greatly enjoyed by all who were present. The mother. Mrs. C. E Davis' of Perry. Oklahoma, who has been visiting with her sons, Harry L. Kruger and family of Plattsmouth, .1. E. Kruger and family and W. 11. Kruger and family of near Nehawka, and ! red Kruger and family of Una dilla, Fred Snodgrass and family of Gretna, were all present at the re union and enjoyed the occasion very much. Mrs. Davis who is the mother of the Kruger boys and Mrs. Snod grass being sisters. LI i Cg3 few f Liji' 3A Sustains Injuries in Wreck. Last Sunday when Harry McVey was going from Nehawka to his home on east 'O' street road, and had stop ped at the entrance of 'O street, as the law commands, and had started to enter the highway, after looking, and having to put his car in low to proceed, was intercepted by a car of A. D. Skinner of Nickerson. who had come over the hill from the east, and was upon the car oi' Mr. McVey before it was possible for him to get out of the way, and with the result that the car of Mr. McVey was over turned and badly damaged as well as Mr. McVey badly injured. They came out of the wreckage with many bruises and cuts . The man was re sponsible for the accident stopped and as be carried indemnity insur ance, it is probably some settlement will be effected. Are You Prepared for the Sfar Days SOON TO COME? Use a McCall Printed Pattern and make garments cool to wear and cool to look at. Organdy for Beautiful Summer Dresses. Flowered Patterns and Plain in Pastel Shades and white washable. Fine Voile in Dainty New Patterns. Nothing is more practical for summer wear than cool, sheer voile. The printed patterns offer almost unlimited choice. Pa SHEL M I Telepl O U CI ESTABLISHED 1888 ione 14 Nehawka, Nebr. Where Customers Feel at Home . Celebrate Birthday Anniversary The birthday anniversary of Mrs. John Nutzman of Avoca was cele brated very properly on last Sunday, when about sixty young people, all her friends, gathered to celebrate the passing of her birthday in a proper way. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Klaur ens and son, Roy and wife, who were also accompanied by Mrs. Emma Burdick and Mrs. John Degley of Omaha, and Mrs. Ted Hanson and son, Lyle, and as wellas Mrs. Lena Frans who i-j making her home in Omaha were present. A most de lightful time was had and all en joyed the excellent dinner, which was brought by the friends in attendance. Visiting Friends in Nehawka Some time since Mrs. Arthur Wolph, and Fred Anderson who are both making their home at Los An geles, came to Imperial, Nebraska, where they joined with the family of Henry Meyers and they all driving to Nehawka, where they wil visit or some time. Accompanying Mr. Meyers was four of his children, they being Clayton. Paul, Everett and Ethel, who are visiting with the Anderson boys, Mrs. Meyers who re cently died being their sister. They will also visit at Nebraska City with relatives and friends as well. Erect Tombstones. The firm of Miller and Gruber have just erected a monument at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery at the resting places of G. W. Cheney and Edwin Johnson and also a cover for the graves of Addison Boedeker and Mrs. Charles BoedekW, who rest in the Eight Mile Grove cemetery. i All local news is In the Journal. lion eeoioes' STRANGE Rl TES Ordeals of Pain Undergone by African Natives Are Past Belief. Cape Town, Africa. Cape Town, Afi 'iea, I hi Imnio of the witeb doctor and sinister ju-jus. still believes in trial by ordeal. In small native vil lages in the heart of the bush the re ligious fanatics perform their strange rites often and it is hard to compre hend how they ean make their bodies do the things they do. writes W. J. Makin iu the Chicago Tribune. It is rather unusual, however, to discover an ordeal taking place in one of the big oiiies. One occurred re cently in Durban, whvre a large In dian population resides. Several whites, including two doctors and my self, were invited i witness a Hindu (ire walking ceremony at I be Unibilo temple. Several Soutris, or sacred Hindus, their bodies skewered with pins and steel instruments, were to walk across a door of red embers. When we arrived on the scene, six tons of firewood were Mazing in a huge lion lire. The (lames lit up the crowds of dark faces waiting to see this extraordinary ordeal. In time tin. logs were reduced t glowing charcoal, and these embers were spread out evenly in a bed "I by Id feet. This lire pit was roped off from the huge crowd surrounding. Walk Glowing Carpet. The glowing carpet was no sooner prepared than the sound of tom-toms beaten frenziediy and reed pipes wail ing were heard in the distance. Then the Soutris appeared, all naked to the waist and displaying their bodies skewered with steel pins, .aid with weights dangling from the pins. On-gray-haired woman n sixty years had her tongue skewered These bum::n pincushions walked straight toward the bed of live coals and without a qualm fac d the drift of hot ashes strrred by the breeze. One of the Sou tris was walking on nails fixed to the soles of wooden sandals. While the tom-toms sounded and the reed pipes screeched these Indians walked slowly round the lire bed. The heat was so great that the whites ami the crowd of onlookers had to stand a few yards away. Then the torn turns rose to a frcn-y. and the Soutris. one after another, calmly walked across the tire, their feet sinking into the red embers. They appeared to feel no pain, cither from the steel pins in theii bodies or the tire lh;:i should have blistered their feet In fact, several of them made the jour ney across the be.l of tire twice and even thrice. After the fire walking the two medi cal men, Doctor Gohlb-rg and D.ietoi Witkins, were allowed to examine the feet of th Soutris. They four d tbe-i to be entirely free fri.m burns blis ters. Doctor (joblliei i; told me that lie could oITer no physiological explana tion for t lie healthy condition of these Hindus, for the moment they were re lieved of the pins and sk:wcrs Ih-y were normal men and women. The similingly showed their feet to the Europeans to prov; that Ihey wer unharmed. The steel pins when withdrawn drew no blood and the wounds were barely discernible. The woman who walked through the fire has done so year by year for the last ten years. She ap peared to faint when the ordeal was over, but one of th- Hindu priests in sisted that she was merely throwini: off the innei volition. The Soutris after the lire walking gathered ashes from the (ire and dis tributed them to the clamoring crowd, who regal d the ashes as a good omen in keeping off ill health. Danes on Swords. The fire-walking ceremony has some resemblance to ; nnthor Asiatic ordeal, the Khalifa, often performed by the Malays in Cape Town. 1 have wit nessed several of these ceremonies and must confess that there is inu.-h that is inexplicable in them. The Khalifa usually takes place in a Malay house. The cerem.ny begins with a reading from the Koran, ami then the tom-toms work the worship ers Into a religious frenzy. Short native swords are produced, and the Malays hack at themselves without, however, drawing blood from any f the cuts on their limbs. Some of them are able to dance with bare feet on the upturned blades f sharp swords, others saw at their pro truding tongues, while I have seen one dancer who could twirl a sword in the sockets of his eyes without appar ently injuring himself. Much of this may be merelj clever sword play, with the spectators half hypnotized by the incessant thumping of tom-toms and the swirling clouds o incense. Hut like the tire walkers these Malays can skewer their bodies with long steel instruments, puncture their cheeks, and be nailed by the ears to large blocks of wood without any blood coming from the wounds. At tub last Khalifa 1 saw in Cape Town the collection was made toward the end of thi ceremony by an old.MiIay with three skewers protruding front his mouth and piercing his cheeks.. Good-by, Mergenthaler New York. The latest way to set type is by a movie. A Hungarian ma chine described here ly its agents does away with type metal. When uu operator touches a keyboard a letter is photographed on a ruuning film, which is projected on a zinc ulate. tiie iirst really modern oil range "Full porcelain enamel finish.. New design . . Grouped burners Built-in live heat oven . . New heat indicator One of 24- What a delight- . . $.-750 S.c It is the leader ful change from ! of 24 beautiful new the old-time kitchen stove! 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Large air planes accompanied by station ships equipped for Arctic work, are the means proposed ,b the Norwegian government for finding in the north ern wastes traces of the lost dirigible Italia and itsp ersonnel of IS. The plan in detail has been sent to Home for approval by the Italian government. An Italian aviator ar rived here from Stettin Monday night and conferred with the Italian min ister on the plan. Lieut. Luetzow Holm, who started from Horten Monday in a seaplane to join the sealer Hobby at Tromsoe, reached Hergen at 4.:50 p. m. He, took off again at 6 p. m., and hoped to arrive at Tromsoe early Tuesday. If all goes well the Hobby with Lieu tenant Holm's machine aboad, may reach Kings Hay late this week. Lieutenant Holm was tho spear point of three expeditions, with a fourth in prospect, which were Mon day night ttying to get aid to the j exploring party of Gen. Umberto No-, bile. , .. Amundsen Gjves Aid. J Included among the men pitting; their knowledge of fhe inhospitable polar regions against the disaster which may have overtaken en. Um berto Nobile were Roald Amundsen,' noted polar authority, and ('apt. Otto Sverdrup, famous as an Arctic ex plorer, who are giving their counsel to the Norwegian government iu pre paring for an extensive relief expedi tion. ...... The base ship Citta I)i Milano was held up outside of King's t Bay by ice floes that blocked its progress, and the steamship Hranganza was en route from Tromosoe, . Norway, to ' Spitzberger to help In the search. I In accordance with the theory of Capt. Riiser-Larsen, who probably will head the main Norwegian relief! expedition, that the Italia came down upon the ice soniewnere norm oi Spitzbergen, Lieutenant Holm will explore the north and northeast coasts of Spitzbergeu. Every meteoro logical condition indicated thatthe Italia must have came clown north of its base, in Captain Larsen's opin ion and an air survey of this district appears to oITer the best prospects of finding the missing airship. No Word of Ship. . . ; . Capt. Riiser-Larsen was the right hand- man of Amundsen and Ella worth iu the 1926. expedition, of the Norge aud has had much experience in flying in the northern regions. He also is a dirigible expert and has a reputation for resourcefulness and courage. While every radio station in Nor way and in Russia, particularly in Siberia, strained every attention to catch some radio , word from the Italia, . nothing was heard. There were all sorts of rumors iu Oslo as to the fate of the airship, but all lacked confirmation. Further light on a mysterious mes sage picked up in California Sunday reporting that the Italian was in distress and asking for help was shed Monday by receipt of word at Washington that the United States naval transport Chaumont, stationed near Tientsin, China, had picked up an almost identical message Sunday night. There appeared some doubt as to whether the message heard in Cali fornia was directly from the Italia, bu the Chaumont's message indicated clearly that it had been sent out as an ordinary message from a station, probably from Vladicostok, notifying other stations ,of the plight of the dirigible. Omaha Bee-News. NEW ALTITUDE MARK SET WANTED TO BUY Cows. Heifers and Calves. Inquire of T. H. Pollock or L. C. Likewise. Phones No. 1 and 36, Plattsmouth. A British economist says that our tariff prevents Europe from sharing in American prosperity. This state ment seems to imply that there really is sufficient prosperity to go around. Philadelphia, May 28. A new American record for seaplanes carry ing a useful load of 1,000 kilograms was established by Lieut. Zeus Sou cek, navy pilot, today when he flew the navy plane PN-12, to an altitude of more than seventeen thousand feet. The American record was 7,979 feet, made at San Diego, Calif., some years ago, by E. E. Doleczk in a F-5L flying boat. The exact height reached by the plane, which already this month has broken three world's records for sea planes type, will not be known, 'navy official said, until the official bara graphs carried in the plans are cali brated at Washington. In his flight of 2 hours 48 minutes and 10 seconds, Lieutenant Soucek hoped to better the world's altitude record but failed by approximately two thouFand feet. Record in this class is 19,196 feet, established at Altenhiem, Switzerland, on July 18, 1927, by Richard Wagner in a Der nier Merkur. CONGRESSMAN INJURED IN OFFICE AT CAPITOL Washington, May 25. Represen tative Charles A. Mooney of Cleve land. O.. was injured in his office a the capitol tonight and assisted to his home. Upon inquiries at his apartment it was paid he had sus tained a severe cut in a fall in his office and that a, physician had been called to treat the wound. It was added that his condition was not re garded as serious and that he was resting comfortably. To the Farmers of Cass County i Nebi- . ' - - The Farmers Mutual Fire and Live Stock In surance Company was organized 34 years ago in Cass county; for tHe protection of Cass county farmers. During this time we have paid our losses promptly and the rate we have charged has been pleasing to all our Policy holders. ... IF you are riot a niember of our company, r see .one of our Directors or write to J. P. FALtER, Secretary, at Platts mouth, Nebr.; arid we will be glad to give you full information regarding rates, etc. Farmers Mutual Fire and Live Stock Insurance Company X 7
