la A; DC VOL. No. XLVI PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930. NO. 29 Bridge Opening May 1 6th to be Gala Occasion Shcps and Stores to Close During Afternoon Many Accept In vitation to Luncheon. The largest crowd in Plattsmouth in years that is what is confident ly looked forward to on Friday. May lGlh the occasion of the formal opening and dedication ceremonies of our new Missouri river bridge. A crowd of 28 notables from Lin coln, other delegations of two, three, four and more from towns east and west, including mayors. Chamber of Commerce officials and newspaper editors the mails are daily bringing in, acceptances to attend the noonday complimentary luncheon that starts i lie afternoon's program off in proper manner. The luncheon will be held at the Legion community building and pres ent indications are that the entire service equipment for 200 banqueters will be brought into use. Following the luncheon, comes the parade of floats and decorated cars, bearing the distinguished guests, and followed by cars of the hundreds of local and out-of-town people, to the parking site on the east side of the river. The parade will be led by the 17th Infantry band of Fort Crook, one of the finest musical organiza tions of the middle west. To be Half Holiday The dedicatory ceremonies and christening of the bridge are to begin at 2:30. being held on the high pla teau just west of the Nebraska ap proach to the structure. In order that the ceremonies may be attended by all Plattsmouth resi dents, every effort i3 being made to secure a half holiday for all store keepers, clerks, county officers, shop men and school children. Superin tendent Baird of the Burlington rail way shops, has arranged for permis sion to close on Friday afternoon in stead of Saturday and operate a full day Saturday and it is -quite probable the DREVX shops will be able to give their employes a half holiday. The school board has granted permission for the closing of the schools that af ternoon and the attendance of the school children at the ceremonies. The retail Bection of the Chamber of Commerce is co-operating in the hope of having every business place in town closed at least during the hour and a half required for the dedica tory program. An effort is also be ing made to have a half holiday de clared for court house employes. In this manner, practically everyone will be able to get out on the street and mingle with the crowd, ride out to the bridge and attend the ceremon ies there. The bridge company is throwing the bridge open to free traffic thru out the day and evening and the American Legion will give a public dance at its community building in the evening to help provide enter tainment for the visiting crowds. Casco Milk to be Used State papers are beginning to give publicity to the opening and during the coming week the name of Platts mouth will be read by more people than any other town in the middle west. The combined circulation of the sixty daily and weekly newspap ers in Iowa and Nebraska to which news stories and photos of the bridge have been sent totals well over one million readers. Among the features drawing pub licity from the alert publishers is the plan of President Wescott to have the bridge christened with "milk" Casco "certified" milk from the contented cows of farmers who are patrons of the local creamery. Wheth er this plan is carried out verbatim, or the fluid of the grapes grown on yonder hills below the bridge site is substituted for the ceremonial, it has been unique enough to gain the at tention of the editors and helped to get space advertising the new bridge and its official opening. Outsiders are invited to come to Plattsmouth bridge opening day; those who live here are urged not only to be present themselves but to write their friends in nearby places, inviting them to also come and at tend the festivities. ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE From FrJday' Dally Mrs. James G. Mauzy was hostess yesterday at a most charming 1 o'clock bridge luncheon at the pleas ant home on South Ninth street. Through the rooms of the home the bright spring flowers lent a touch of enchantment to the scene and here the time was spent in the fas cinations of bridge following the de lightful luncheon. In the playing Mrs. John A. Grif fin was awarded the first prize with the second honors being secured by Mrs. Carl Ofe while Mrs. Walter Tritsch was awarded the consola tion honors. In serving and entertaining Mrs. Mauzy was assisted by Mrs. John II. Hall3trom, Mrs. Harley Wiles and Mrs. John B. Livingston. Mrs. Elmer Wetenkamp of Omaha was an out of town guest at the most delightful occasion. FORMER RESIDENT HERE From Tliursday's Dally Yesterday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Vroman and daughter, of De troit, Michigan, were in the city for a short time visiting with relatives and old time friends in this locality. Mr. Vroman has been away from this city the greater part of the time for the past twelve years, having been located at Omaha before going to Detroit. Mr. Vroman has been en gaged in the practice of law for the past few years and is en route to California where he expects to locate. While here he had the opportunity of meeting a number of the old friends altho the many new people here and those who have reached manhood and womanhood since his leaving has made him somewhat of "a stranger in a strange land." Forger Works Checks on Sev eral Merchants Small Checks Are Cashed at Several Store Before the Valnless Paper Revealed From Thursdays rarty This city was visited yesterday by a forger who while apparently not an expert was able to get away with a considerable number of checks whose value is estimated at from $30 to ?40 unless other of the kited paper should make its appearance later. The young man visited several of the stores and according to the po lice he used the name "Carl Maize" as the person in .whose favor the checks were drawn. The first person to discover the bad paper was George Conis of the Palace Shining parlor where the young man called shortly after the noon hour and purchased a box of candy and some cigarettes, tender ing a check of the Farmers State bank made out in the sum of $6 and which was signed by the name of Martin Nelson, a well known resi dent of near this city. The young man was given the change and left the shining parlor and Mr. Conis having occasion to go to the bank later took the check with him and on presentation it was pronounced to be a very rank piece of forgery. The check had been marked "for la bor" and which had a great deal to do with disarming suspicion in the minds of the clerks in the stores where the checks were cashed. Places visited by the forger include the H. M. Soennichsen Co., and Bestor and Swatek. Mr. Conis states that the young man was light complected, five feet six or seven inches in height and wore a dark colored topcoat or heavy raincoat and also wore a black hat. The police department have sev eral clues that may lead to the iden tification of the man passing the forged check and which leads to the suspicion that the party is one who has been residing here for some time. DEATH OF RETIRED MERCHANT Fred Diers. 67. retired merchant, died at his at Madison Wednesday evening after an illness of several 'years. At one time he was financial ly interested in the Diers stores in several Nebraska towns. With his brother, John, Mr. Diers operated a general store at Fuller- ton, Neb., from 1897 to 1902. Then he came to Madison, where he ran a department store for the rest of his active life, and from where he supervised Diers stores at Platte Center and Hooper. Failing health forced him to re tire from active business in 1927. With Max Hosteter, She-lton, Neb., Mr. Diers was one of the or ganizers of the Federation of Ne braska Retailers in 1906. He was active also in Madison civic affairs, and for many years was a member of the board of trus tees of the Presbyterian church there. Surviving are his widow, one son, Harold M. Diers of Omaha, and three brothers, Henry of Lincoln, William F., well known merchant of Louis ville and Louis of Montana, and a sister, Mrs. W. F. Towner of Auburn, Wash. The funeral will be held at Madi son Presbyterian church at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. A. II. Eggleston, pastor of First Presby terian church of Kansas City, Mo., who during his early ministry was Mr. Diers pastor at Madison. Rev. Mr. Eggleston will be assisted by Rev. James Horton, the Madison pastor. MARRIED AT COURT HOUSE From Thursday'!" Daily Yesterday afternoon County Judge A. H. Duxbury was called upon to join in the bonds of wedlock Alda Mae Benda and Paul P. Brink, both of Madison, Wisconsin. The wed ding party after the ceremony, re turned to Omaha and from which city they are motoring back to their home in the Wisconsin capitol city. The wedding was witnessed by Bill Metcalf of the Klopp Co.. of Omaha. I and Miss Lillian White, deputy in j the office of the county judge. 'New Brooms Ably Presented by the Seniors Presentation by the Members of the Class of 1930 Very Cleverly Given Large Audience From Saturday' Dally In recent jears the members of the graduating classes of the Platts mouth high school have selected plays of hirh character from well known stage successes as the class play of the year, but none has proven more entertaining or pleasing than that which the class of 1930 selected and which was presented last night at the Parm-ele theatre. The play was one based on the age old struggle of the experience of age and the optimism of youth, the desire to supplant the old order with the visionary idealism that proved unequal to the task. The story was laid around the lives of Thomas Bates, broom manufacturer, Thomas Bates Jr., his son and cri tic, who was given full control of the factory by the father to try out his ideas as to management which were radically different from that of the father, but which brought with it the experience the son bought at the price of hard work and the real ization that the methods of the father was, after all, the best. In the role of Thomas Bates, Sr.. and Thomas Bates, Jr., Robert Livingston and George Sayles were splendid and gave very forceful presentations of the main roles of the play and were sup ported by a very able cast, chief among the characters being "Ger aldine Marsh," housekeeper and sec retary of the Bates' family and who won a permanent place in the family circle as the wife of Thomas Jr., Miss Marjorie Am making a most delightful presentation of this char acter. The role of the daughter, "Ethel Bates" was taken by Mis3 Marie Vallery and that of her sweet heart "Wallie Nowell." by Chester Lund, while Miss Jeanne Parker as "Florence Wheeler," one time sweet heart. otTom" . also added to the romantic touehes of the play. The part of "George Morrow," oil stock salesman, who later won "Florence" from "Tom," was taken by Gerald Sperry, who made a most realistic "blue sky" salesman, while ' Charles Nowacek was seen in the role of "Williams," the old family butler, giving a very fine rendition of the part and Miss Alice Taylor was chosen as "Margaret," . the house keeper that had stood all that she would of the bad temper of the head of the Bates household. The other members of the supporting cast in cluded Warren Farmer as "Mr. Kneeland." the factory superinten dent, Ira Mumm as "Rev. Phillip Dow," the soliciting clergyman and friend of "Tom," Fred Wehrbein as "Simpson," the much promising deb tor of the Bates' and Roy Turner, who was cast as "Nelson," the labor agitator, each of the young men giv ing a very striking rendition of their roles and adding much to the inter est of the situations that developed in the sequences of the drama. The members of the class made their expression of appreciation of the aid of the public in the success of the play through Frank Schack neis, class president, who also pre sented Miss Mary Jane Tidball. teacher of dramatics in the high school and who had the direction of the very successful play. Miss Tid ball deserves a great deal of praise for her work as she has directed the last three class plays and scored out standing success for the school. During the intermissions and as the curtain raiser the orchestra com posed of Donald Rainey. violin; Wini fred Rainey, piano; Marvin Tritsch and James Comstock, cornets; John Albert. Robert Hall, Donald Cotner, Edward Egenberger, saxophones, and Sam Arn, drums and director, gave a very pleasing musical contribution to the evening entertainment. Miss Margaret Shellenbarger, out standing musical artist of the high school, gave the refrain of several of the numbers of the orchestra in her usual artistic manner that always makes her appearance on a program a real treat. The play as a whole was one of the best the school has given and the director and young people can feel well pleased over the success of the presentation. ASKS FOR DIVORCE From Saturday's Dully An action was filed today in the office of the clerk of the district court in which Lula M. Vanlangingham is the plaintiff and William J. Vanlan ingham is the defendant. The plain tiff asks that she be given a decree of divorce and the custody of the minor children. The petition of the plaintiff states that they were mar ried at Pawnee City, December 6, 1911, and that the defendant has for the past seven years neglected and refused to support the plaintiff and children. Bernard Galloway, one of the stu dents at the state teacher's college at Peru, was here today for a visit over the weke end with the relatives and friends after attending the track meet at Wesleyon Friday. DEATH OF FORMER RESIDENT From Friday's DHy The news was received here today of the death yesterday at Chicago of Gardner Dal Jonets, a resident here many years ago .and the only son of the late William D and Nancy Jones. Mr. Jones who was in the neighborhood of sixty years of aire, was born south cf this city near olj Rock Bluffs where his family were early settlers and was roared to man hood in this community. When reaching manhood he engaged in telegraphing for sono years and later removed to Chicago where he has made his home for a great many years. Mr. Jones was married and in addition to his own family is sur vived by one sistt r. Miss Olive Jones, librarian of the Plattsmouth public library. iingineers nere to Survey Route for Gas Lines Missouri Valley Gas Co. Has Force Here to Lay Tentative Route for Line Into This City From Friday raAy Yesterday a force of engineers and surveyors arrived in this city to sur vey over a tentative line for natural gas mains from Louisville into this city, the force being representatives of the Missouri Valley Gas Co. This company is projecting a line from the Kansas natural gas fields to Omaha, taking a route near the center of the county and planning to cross the Platte river at Louis ville with the line onto Omaha. The company will place lines in the towns and cities along the rourse of the pipe line that are in short distances of the main supply sources. The representatives of the com pany that are now here are not fa miliar with the plan of the cor poration as to the ultimate destin ation of the line beyond Omaha. W.RPulsV Files for Coun ty Assessor Decides to Seek Another Term in the Office Which He Has Filled So Acceptably County Assesor W. II. Puis, one of the few democratic occupants of the court house, has decided that he will again seek this office and accord ingly has filed his intention with County Clerk George Sayles that he will be a candidate for the democratic nomination at the forthcoming pri mary on August 12th. Billy has proven one of the best of county officials and has several times been honored by the people of Cass county, serving in the state legisla ture prior to being named as county assessor and has held this office for two terms and has grown to be an expert in this line of work that makes his services very valuable to the people of Cass county. This is the first filing for the posi tion of county assessor and there is no doubt that Mr. Puis will receive the nomination without contest from his party at the primary election. ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schulhof, for manv vears residents of Platts mouth and making their home for the past six years at Los Angeles, Cali fornia, are announcing the marriage of their youngest daughter. Miss Bertha. The wedding of Miss faehul- hof to Mr. Albert B. Bishop occurred on Saturday, April 26th at Los Angeles. The news of the wedding will be of great interest here to the friends of the family and the school day associates of the bride and who will join in their well wishes to thi3 estimable couple. Mr. Bishop is engaged as field rep resentative of the Edison Electric company at Los Angeles and is one of the successful young men engaged in this great corporation. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop will continue to make their home in Los Angeles. SELECT TEACHERS The board of education at their meeting this week elected two addi tional teachers to fill out the list of the teaching force for the coming school year, naming Miss Johns of Lincoln as a kindergarten teacher and also electing Miss Dora Bender, again for another year, she having been teaching here for the past sev eral months in succession to Miss Kit tle, resigned. The teaching force for the year is now getting well organ ized, and unless the inroads of more tempting offers, or the lure of Cupid invade the teaching force the Platts mouth school should have a fine force of teachers ready to take the helm in handling the school work next fall. Veteran Editor Sends Congratu lations on Bridge J. A. Gardner, First President of As sociation to Urge Bridge Across the Missouri River Here. From Saturday's Dally -Hie local Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from J. A. Gard ner, formerly editor of the Eagle Beacon and now publishing a paper at Lewellen. Nebraska, in which he sends his greetings for the bridge opening on May 16th. Mr. Gardner is net only running a paper in the west part of the state but is also seeking the republican nomination for lieu tenant governor at the coming pri maries. The letter follows: "Lewellen, Nebr. May. 8. "Mr. C. C. Wescott. "President, C. of C. "Plattsmouth, Nebr. "I want to congratulate you, and through you the Chamber of Com merce, the progressive men of Platts mouth and Cass county and the en tire State of Nebraska, upon the com pletion and dedication of ths Mis- J. A. GARDNER souri river bridge, a project in which I have been permitted to play a small part, and an achievement which we all feel proud of. "At this time my mind reverts back to one severely cold night more than four years ago, when the first general meeting was held at Eagle in response to a call issued by my self. Your Chamber of Commerce had a bridge committee and was alive to the importance of such bridge, and welcomed the co-operation of others in the movement. As I remember yourself and more than a score of en thusiasts from Plattsmouth attended this meeting, driving 40 miles on the bitterest night of the year. Also Bert George and Chas. Roper came out from Lincoln to aid in the good work. At this meeting the Cass County Bridge and Highway association was formed with myself as president, H. E. Frantz as secretary and Senator W. B. Banning as treasurer. There were also delegations from Elmwood, Weeping Water, Louisville and other points in the county, and it was here that the idea of a program of eight bridges was incubated and the cam paign opened which culminated in this and other bridges. At the invi tation of other towns, meetings were held at Elmwood, Weeping Water, Plattsmouth and Louisville, at the latter pl?ce a delegation from Omaha having learned of our activities, came down. "This meeting resulted in my call ing a statewide meeting at Omaha, over which I presided, and at which time a state association was formed, with John Hopkins as president and Judge Begley a member of the execu tive board. This state association carried the bridge program before the legislature., and while the bill sponsored was not entirely success ful (owing to the opposition of part of the Douglas county delegation) a bill was passed, a sort of 'Enabling Act' which has in a measure been a benefit to the enterprise. Whether credit goes to the Chamber of Com merce or the Cass County Bridge and Highway association for initiating the program, or whether the State Bridge association is credited with 'carrying-on,' the fact is that with out the untiring work of Henry Schneider, Judge Begley and other Plattsmouth boosters, the present dedication ceremonies would not have been possible. I rejoice with you in the achievement, which means so much for Plattsmouth and Cass coun ty. Keep on carrying on with the C. of C. "J. A. GARDNER." DiOEE COYOTE SCALPS From Friday's Dally P. C. Otte of near Wabash has proven another of the successful hunters of the county as he came in yesterday with the scalps of eight coyotes, one old one and seven cubs. Mr. Otte shot the mother coyote and was able to capture the young ones iu their den. t? I 4 tZ - t t I - - r' IS, SUNSHINE ERINGS PLEASURE From Thursday's Dally The sunshine of today proved a real treat to the residents of this lo cality in every walk of life and es pecially to those whose labors are either on the highway work or in the sand pits north of this city. The road work has been tied up for the past several days and it was impos sible to proceed with the praving operations on highway No. 75, north and south of this city. The curtail ing of the road work has also lessen ed the output of the gravel pits but with good weather the paving work and graveling projects can be re sumed and this of course, will mean that the pits will be operating at their full capacity in the next few weeks unless the rain interferes. Masonic Grand Lodge to Visit Here June 3rd Will Jlotor From. Session at Omaha to Pay Visit at the Nebraska Masonic Home Here The Nebraska grand lodge of the A. F. & A. M. which opens its ses sions at Omaha in the first part of June, will make a visit to this city on Tuesday, June 3rd, the announce ment has been received here. The grand lodge will make the trip from Omaha by autos and plan to arrive at the Home shortly after the noon lunch hour and will spend the afternoon in looking over the specious and handsome building and the surroundings of the Home until evening when they return to Omaha to resume their activities in the ses sions of the grand lodge. The visit here will bring all of the officers of the grand lodge, mem bers of the Home board and hun dreds of the distinguished Mason? of the state to take part in the visit. FUNERAL OF MRS. MARSHALL Fmm 8aturdyp ttenr . This morning the body of Mr4. Laura Marshall, widow of the latJ Dr. C. A. Marshall, arrived from Los Angeles where her death occurred last Saturday morning and was taken to the Streight funeral home where the services were held. At the long time request of the departed, the services were private and attnded only by th members of the family. Rev. H. G. McClusky, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of which the departed was long a mem ber, held the services and gave words of comfort to the members of the be reaved family circle. The Presby terian quartet composed of Frank A. Cloidt. L. D. Hiatt, II. G. McClusky and R. W. Knorr, gave two num bers, "Jesus Saviour Pilot Me" and ; "Reck of Ages." At the conclusion of the services the body was borne to the last rest ing place in Oak Hill cemetery. H. M. Soennichsen. W. T. Adams. H. F. nrc- XT' H TVi.onnt t C A Pawls nnfl ! C. E. Martin, old friends and r.eigh- bors being selected as the pall bear ers. The members of the family here were Mr. and Mrs. Pe-ttys, the latter a daughter of Mrs. Marshall, and Frank Marshall of Los Angeles, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Marshall of Nebras ka City and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mar shall of this city. ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE Mrs. M. D. Brown and Mrs. G. R. Holcomb were hostesses this week at two very charming 5:30 bridge teas at the home of Mrs. Brown in the Herold apartments on North Fifth street. The home was beautiful in the decorative plan of the rainbow hues and in which the attractive spring flowers were used as a part of the plan of decoration. On Wednesday evening the con tests resulted in Mrs. L. W. Egen berger receiving the first prize, Mrs. C. M. Gradoville, the second, and Miss Marie Fitzgerald the consola tion prize. Mrs. J. A. Griffin assisted the hostesses at this event. The playing on Thursday evening resulted in Mrs. J. A. Griffin receiv ing the first prize, Miss Amelia Mar tens the second and Mrs. E. J. T iDv tlio pnnmla Hon honors. At this pleasant event Mrs. John Sat- tier, Jr., assisted the hostesses. VERY HAPPY EVENT From Saturday Dally County Attorney W. G. Kieck, the prosecuting attorney of Cas coun ty, today was forgetting ail cf the hard and trying ordeals of his of fice to enjoy the experience of be ing father to a fine and attractive seven pound daughter, Marilyn Jean, who was born yesterday at the hos pital at Omaha. Mrs. Kieck and the little daughter are both doing very nicely and Bill is without doubt the happiest man in the whole commun ity. The many friends here are join ing in their well wishes to the proud parents and the winsome little daughter. JUUlIICU rfUU ilUUiitUb A.' j equipped to turn out anything froms calling cards to sale catalogs. I John Svoboda Suffers Injury at Ball Gam While Practicing Local First Sacker Collides With Homer Spang Icr, Outfielder frra Satnrdavr'rt Dully John V. Svoboda, clerk at the Farmers State bank and the fir.-st j sacker of the Murray Red Sox base ball team, is confined to his bf ine j today as the result of a scv re in- ijury that befell him during the pre liminary practice last night at Mur ray btfore the Bearded Beauties Murray game. Homer Spangler, one of the local outfielders, was engaged in batting up Hies to the Murray playe-.s and John v.ms at his usual station at the fist sack, when a short high pop up fly was knocked a short dis tance between the home plate and first base and Homer started after the ball at th same time that John sought to assist him by catching it, neither player apparently seeing the other in their watching the ball and both men came together in a bad tmash up. It is thought that the head of Spangler hit Mr. Svoboda. who is considerably taller, on the chin and he took the count. The in juied man was giverr treatment ar.il brought on home to this city in a semi-dazed condition and this morn ing was still badly afiected by the accident and had not fully regained his faculties. The game was played with the men available and the result was fi to 3 for the Bearded Beauties, which team loaned the Red Sox a hurler, Holly, who pitched a good game against his team mates. Hans New man, the battling shortstop was not in the local lineup for the game and made necessary the shifting of the Red Sox line up. LOCAL HAN STARS In the track meet at Wesleyan uni versity field Friday afernoon, Bern ard Galloway, Plattsmouth young man attending Peru teacher college, .featured as one of the stars of the meet in capturing the mile and two mile run and ranked as one of the leaders in the scorers of the meet. The nine firsts were taken by Teru men. Sams ran the 100-yard in 10.4 seconds and the 220 in 23.2 seconds for firsts. He also won the broad Jump with a leap of 21 feet 1 inch. Schaffner took first in the 120 yard high hurdles in 16.9 seconds and won the pole vault, clearing the bar at 11 feet 6 inches. Williams ran the 440 in 52,6 seconds. Galloway did the mile in 4 minutes 50.8 sec onds and the two mile in 10 minutes 59.8 seconds. Millhollen threw the javelin 14 S feet 2 inches, and Peter son and Sudgen tied for first in the high Jump at 5 feet 7 1-2 inches. Sams, Peru sprinter, was high point man of the meet with 15 points won with his three first places. Schaffner was second high with 11 points. Johnson of Wesleyan and Gal loway of Peru were both next high with 10 points each. EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS K'rom SattTilsys Ean The Eagles at their meeting held on Thursday evening selected the of ficers for the ensuing year to pre side over the aerie affairs and the following group of live wire mem bers of the aerie were named: President Henry E. Hitzcrnn. Vice-President William II. Wool cott. Chaplain J. E. Lancaster. Secretary John E. Schutz. Treasurer James Rebal. Conductor Richard Otterste ir.. Inside Guard George McFnrland. Outside Guard John Mei: ir.ger, Jr. Trustee Harry A. Lightbody. Physician Dr. R. P. Westover. The next meeting will be on May 22nd and it was voted to suspend th regular business and enjry a social evening for the members and their families and one that should prove a real delight. There will be dancing and refreshments ETved. RECEIVES FINE PROMOTION Glen Rawls. who has for the past eight years been connected with the Svmons stores at Butte, Montana, one of the largest establishments in the Pacific northwest, ha? just been appointed as superintendent cf the store and has charge of the force of some 500 employes. Mr. Rawls, a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rawls ot this city, first entered the retail business in this city when he served for a number of years as clerk at the Wescott clothing store here. Some eight years ago he started in with the Symons store at Butte in one of the subordinate clerical posi tions and has since made good in his advancements up the ladder of the firm's employes until now when he is one of the leaders in the busi ness affairs of the great firm. The many friends here of Mr. Rawls will be delighted to hear of his success and which he has so wen ueservea by his energy and close attention to business.