THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Trend Toward
Population Loss in
Small Towns
the Nation. The willingness of young
men to devote a month to this train
ing program for better citizenship is
proof of good-will in the generation
on which will presently devolve the
maintenance of our social and politi
cal institutions.
"I commend the Citizens' Camps
to all fathers and mothers and to
young men of suitable age in the
hope and belief that the camps will
show themselves as useful in the
future as they have been in the past.
Yours faithfully.
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER"
Mr. Capwell advises all young men
who want to take advantage of the
wonderful training and physical de
velopment available at these camps to
submit their applications as soon as
possible, as ii is expected that a suf
ficient number to fill the tamp quota
will apply early this summer, and
those who wait may be too late.
The government pays all necessary
expenses for attendance at these
camps, including cost of travel, food,
lodging, laundry, and medical atten
tion. For application blanks or fur
ther information, see Mr. Capwell
or write to The C. M. T. C. Officer,
89 th Division, Fort Omaha, Nebras
ka. SEED AND POTATOES
Tested Reid's Yellow Dent. $2.50
bu.; Dakota 12 Verified Alfalfa, $15.
75: Grimm. 18.50; Nebraska.
$16.75; Sweet Clover, $4.50: Alsyke.
$13.50; Kaffir, $2; Millet, $2; Cane,
$2; Rape, 1220; Sweet Corn. 15c.
Late Rural Potatoes, seed and eat
ing, $2.25; Sudan, $7.50 cwt. Y. O.
Starting Mash. $4.25; Chick Feed,
$3. Johnson Bros., Neb. City.
esources
General Indications in Partial Census
Reports Indicate That Towns
in This Section Lose
Call No. 6 with your order fox
job printing.
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Best security for the savings of more than
2,500 members, amounting to more than $1,
500,000, is found in Home Investments,
largely
En First Mortgage
L?ans on Homes
At Home, to Home people and under Home
management, for ours is an Association own
ed and managed by Home people
Co-Operating
for Mutual Benefit in
Savings and Loans
The privileges and advantages of membership
open to all in our territory.
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W. Metz, President Wm. H. Pitzer, Secretary
Tornado Sweeps
Through State of
Texas Tuesday
Two Score Are Dead in the Toll That
Storm Takes in Scattered Sec
tions of the State
Dallas At least forty-four per
sons were killed Tuesday in a series
of tornadoes which struck in widely
scattered sections of Texas, with the
probability that the toll will be
swelled when disrupted wire com
munication is restored.
The communities of central Texas,
near Waco, including Frost, a town
of 1,000, which was demolished,
bore the brunt of the storm, which
apparently swept on, into south .ten?
tral Texas, striking at Runge, near
San Antonio.
The list included twenty-eight un
identified dead, two unidentified dead
at Frost.
A negro baby snatched from his
mother's arms by the twister, whose
body has not been found.
A fifteen year old boy reported
dead at Ensign, near Frost.
An unidentified man near Kenedy.
ilrs. Otto Fuhrken, near Kenedy.
Eight out of a family of nine Mex
icans on the farm of Louie Duder
stadt, near Kenedy.
Count of Dead Difficult
Broken communication lines to
the stricken cities made an exact
count of the dead difficult.
Reports to the Waco News-Tribune
indicated that nine or more
persons were killed in communities
in McLennan, Hill and Navarro
counties, three at Brookings, one at
Abbott, three at Bynum, and two
at Mertens.
The known dead were:
J. C. Kleespie, San Antonia (Ran
dolph Field.)
Near Frost, Navarro county, , Lee
Roy Bagley, nine month; Gad Bogan
and Tom Bogan, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Bowman. J. D. Lee, Ed Patterson,
Al L. Bell and child, Mrs. Lee Wooley
and child.
In Hill county, Mr. and Mrs. E. F.
Iabell and their child, Brandon.
An unidentified Mexican killed
near Spur.
Near Runge. Karnes county, Fer
dinand Machost and his wife, three
children of Pancho Villareal.
W. M. Fly, of near Mertens.
A Mrs. Ilcff and Charley Wolf,
Spur.
A Miss Anderson of Massey.
State Journal.
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IRON CAUSES FERE
From Wednesday's Tat7v
A small fire at the home of Joseph
Stodola near the Columbian school
caused considerable damage to the
residence yesterday. One of the mem
bers of the family had been using an
electric iron and had forgotten to
turn the iron off when getting
through with it and as Mr. Stodola
was at work and Mrs. Stodola in
Omaha, the iron continued to heat
until it fired the table on which
it was placed and the fire gaining
headway started a lively blaze that
soon spread over the kitchen. The
fire was discovered by the neighbors
and who sounded the alarm and at
once hastened to the home and start
ed to battle the blaze until the fire
department could reach the scene and
saved the home. Mrs. Ralph Ilitt,
Mrs. Phil Ilirz, Mrs. Gus Kopp and
Joseph Dostal, who reside near the
Stodola home proved very effective as
firemen and in keeping the flames
from spreading. As it is, the fire
will cause more or less loss to the
home and require the kitchen being
repaired.
The smaller towns and cities in
this section of Nebraska are seem
ingly barely holding their own in
population or showing small losses
as the check of the census returns
is made public from the office of
Supervisor Harley O. Parsons at Lin
coln. In Cass county in the towns that
have been completed and listed.
Greenwood is the only one that has
secured a gain over the last census
in 1920, altho Louisville will show
a substantial gain in population al
tho the returns from that place have
not as yet been checked.
The town cf Elmwood shows 513
for 1930 as against 533 for 1920 and
Stove Creek precinct of which it is
a part has 9 93 inhabitants as against
1.07S at the 1920 listing.
The population of Greenwood as
given is 404 as against 340 at the
census ten years ago while Salt Creek
precinct has S50 persons as against
CS7 at the last census and eighty
seven farms are listed in the pre
cinct. The returns show that the town
of Nehawka has 29 S residents with
no figures available as to the 1920
population.
The population of Alvo is given
as 158 for this year as against 179
at the previous census while the
population of Greenwood precinct is
given as 507 with 571 as the figures
for the 1920 returns. There are 121
farms listed in the returns.
South Bend village has a popula
tion of 99 under the present returns
as against 143 at the previous cen
sus while the return sfrom South
Bend precinct show a population of
544 as against 627 at the last cen
sus. One hundred farms are listed.
Avoca town has a population of
222 for this census as against 231
at the last census and Avoca precinct
592 population as against 667 in
1920.
Mt. Pleasant precinct has a popu
lation of 56 S in the present census,
showing a gain as they had but 516
at the 1920 census.
The population of Weeping Water
precinct is given as 616 for this cen
sus with no comparing figures for the
previous census.
The returns from Sarpy county
state that Papillion ha3 a popula
tion of 718 as against 666 at the
1920 census, Fort Crook, including
the army post has 719 persons us
against 779 ten years ago, Gretna,
in the west portion of the county has
477, . wiila at,tbe ,4920 census they
were credited ' with 4 91. Bellevue
village has a very pleasing gain in
population with 1,017 with the 1920
figures at 695. La Platte precinct
has a population of 4C7 for this year
with 387 as the figures for 1920,
a very pleasing gain.
The completed returns from this
city have not as yet been released
but on the three wards that have
so far been reported the population
of this city will be near the 4,000
mark.
FUNERAL OF MBS. GBAD0YILLE
From Tuesflay's Taity
This morning the funeral services
of Mrs. Frances Gradoville were held,
the cortage leaving the home of the
son, Peter Gradoville at 8:45 and
the requiem mass celebrated at the
Holy Rosary church at 9 o'clock,
the Rev. Father Jerry Honcik being
the celebrant.
The church was filled with the old
time friends and neighbors and the
wealth of flowers attested the deep
feeling of love and esteem in which
the departed lady was held in the
community.
The interment was at the Catholic
cemetery near the city and the pall
bearers were selected from the old
friends, they being: Henry Stark
john, Joe M. Sedlak, William P.
O'Connell, Henry Grimm, T. II. Ka
houtek and George Weaver.
Those attending the funeral from
out of the city were: Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. O'Donnell, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Pitner. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grimm,
Mr. and Mrs. John Wrabitz and chil
dren, Nadine. Florence and John,
Mrs. Harry Williams, all of Omaha.
The deceased lady was born at
Priban, Bohemia, on June 24, 195S,
and was married in her native land
to Thomas Skoda, the family coming
to American in 1SS0. They first set
tled near Wahoo and where they
made their home for a number of
years, the husband and father pre
ceding the wife in death. Later Mrs.
Skoda and family came to Platts
moulh and where she was married
to John Gradoville. She is survived
by the husband and five sons. Fred
Skoda of Omaha; Tom of Atlantic,
Iowa; J. J. Skoda, Leigh, Nebraska;
Ralph Skoda, Plattsmouth, and Peter
Gradoville, Plattsmouth. There are
also two sisters surviving, Mrs. Pro
haska, residing in the old home in
Europe, and Mrs. Rose Kirvanek of
Los Angeles.
PEEP ABE TOE C. M. T. C.
Mr. J. A. Capwell of Plattsmouth,
who is the County Chairman for the
C. M. T. C, has just received a copy
of a letter written by President Hoo
ver commending the Citizens' Mili
tary Training Camps. The letter
reads as follows:
"THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
April 19. 1930.
Mr. George F. James
National Executive Secretary
Chicago, Illinois
My dear Mr. James:
"The Citizens' Military Training
Camps have through ten years proved
themselves important agencies of
physical and moral health in the
individual and of civic welfare in
iibiic Aycteoo
At late home of Mrs. George Vanderbery,
in Murdock, Nebr.
Saturday, May 10th
Commencing at 1 :00 O'CIock Sharp
The household goods of the late Mrs. Vanderberg will
be offered for sale at Public Auction on the above date.
These consist of Beds, Chairs, Rockers, Lounge, Rugs,
Carpets, Stoves, Kitchen Utensils, etc. A large quantity
of furniture, all in good condition, going to the highest
bidder. Terms will be made known on day of sale.
L. B. GOUTHEY
H. A. Williams, Auctioneer H. A. Tool, Clerk
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