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VOL. No. XLVI
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930.
NO. 32
Class of 1930
Holds Baccalau
reate Service
Rev. 0. G. Wichmann, Pastor of St.
Paul's Evangelical Church
Gives the Sermon.
Prom Monday's Dally
The baccalaureate services, the
message that announces the opening
of the final week of the school ac
tivities for the members of the grad
uating class, were held last evening
at theFirst Presbyterian church, the
large auditorium of the church being
filled by the members of the class
and their relatives and friends.
The seniors of 1930, some fifty
nine in number, entered the church
in a body and with members of the
teaching force were ushered to seats
at the front of the church.
The church was very attractively
arranged for the event and made a
very impressive setting for this not
able event of the school year.
The organ processional was given
by Mrs. H. F. Goos and who also
served as the accompanist for the
various musical offerings of the
choir.
The invocation was offered by the
Rev. Harry G. McClusky, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church while
the benediction was offered by the
Rev. Harold E. Sortor of the First
Methodist church.
Rev. O. G. Wichmann of the St.
Paul's Evangelical church had been
invited by . the members of the class
of 1930 to deliver the commencement
sermon and gave a very fine address,
filled with words of wholesome advice
to the young people and the message
of the higher ideals to which they
should set their feet along the path
way of life as they finish their school
work and start in on the battle of
life.
The choir of the church gave a
very beautiful anthem, "Festival Te
Deum" by Buck, while Miss Ruth
Lindsay, director of the choir was
heard in a very beautiful selection,
"The Lord Is My Light," by Speaks.
This will be the last of theformal
events of the graduation time until
the commencement exercises which
will be held on Friday evening at 8
o'clock at the high Bchool.
GIVE FINAL PROGRAM
Prom Monday Dally
The final convocation program of
the school year at the Plattsmouth
high school was presented this morn
ing at the auditorium and with a
very highly entertaining musical pro
gram of musical offerings given.
The program was under the direc
tion of Miss Martha Gorder and with
Chester Lund officiating as the mas
ter of ceremonies, for her efforts the
students are very appreciative of the
work of Miss Gorder, her efforts add
ing greatly to the success of the
morning convocation.
The program was in the nature of
a 1930 review and with the numbers
given below as a part of the enter
tainment featured:
"Where the Golden Daffodils
Grow," Miss Gorder and the orches
tra. "Garden in the Rain," Madge Gar
nett. Margaret Shellenbarger, Miss
Gorder.
"A Story" "A Quarrel," Charles
Nowacek, Miss Gorder.
"I Walked Home from the Buggy
Ride," a special comedy offering by
Madge Gamett.
"Baby Sister Blues," Miss Shellen
barger and Miss Gorder.
Orchestra feature.
"Ain't ch." Miss Shellenbarger.
"Memories" and "Old Mill Stream,"
hv orchestra and trio.
"Little Red Schoolhouse," orches
tra and trio.
"Bye Bye Blues" by the trio and
orchestra.
Dnrinrr the nrogram Mr. Rothert,
athletic coach, presented the mem
bers of the track team with their
letters for the excellent work of the
1930 season, tlose receiving their let
ters being: Garland McCleary, Gil
bert Hirz. Mott Frady, Cecil Hen
nings, James Begley, George Win
uontt . Clarence Forbes, Kenneth
Trively, Merle McCrary, Richard Ed
wards, Chester Wiles, John uaiioway
WILL OPEN NEW STORE
C. II. Martin of the local Red &
White 6tore. was at Omaha today
whpre he was assistinc in the pur
chase of a stock of goods for a new
Red & White store that tney are
opening at Springfield and which will
ho nnerated bv Stuart Chase, who has
been here for the past year assist
ine Mr. Martin. These gentlemen
have been very successful in their
store and with the ability and the
pleasant personality of Mr. Chase
ntt the manaeer of the new store that
is being opened at Springfield, it
should prove a great success. ir.
Phnup has erown to manhood here
and is a fine young man and who
with his family will prove a great
asset to the people of Springfield as
a part of their citizenary. The new
store will be opened for business on
Saturday, Mr. Martin states.
VERY PLEASANT EVENT
From Monday's Dully
The home of Mr. and Mrs. "Mick
ey" Duda was made very happy yes
terday when a fine five and a quarter
pound daughter arrived to share the
future years with the happy par
ents. The little one has been chris
tened Joan and with the mother is
doing very nicely. The occasion has
brought much pleasure to the mem
bers of the family circle and especial
ly the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Duda and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Kaufmann. The many friends will
join in their well wishes to the little
lady for future years of happiness.
Looks Over Pro
posed High School
Athletic Field
Prof. M. I. Evinger of the State
University Here to Help
Plan New Grounds
Prof. M. I. Evinger, of the college
of engineering of the University of
Nebraska, was here Saturday to visit
for the day and to look over the pro
posed athletic field at the old tourist
park, which it is proposed to have
remodeled and arranged into a field
where the high school athletic events
can be held and fill a long felt want
in this way.
In addition to the park which has
been owned by the city for a great
many years, the board of education
has secured property that adjoins the
park on the west and south and giv
ing them all of the land that may
be needed in making the change nec
essary to place the field in first class
shape.
While the ultimate plans call for
the erection of a stadium in the na
tural bowl of the grounds, this will
hardly be taken up this year but the
park will if possible be graded off
and placed in shape so that the high
school football games may be played
there this year.
Prof. Evinger is one of the best
known landscape engineers in the
yest and was one of those to plan the
Lincoln civic center and several
public grounds In different sections
of the state.
THE BOYS IN BLUE
The Lincoln Star of Sunday had
a very interesting account of the
fast fading hosts of the Grand Army
of the Republic who are this week
holding their state annual encamp
ment at McCook. The grand army
of the republic in 1892 had over
9,000 veterans enrolled while at
this time there are only 470 of the
veterans left in the state who had
served under Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan in the great civil conflict.
Among the group of pictures of the
old veterans that accompanied the
article was that of Col. M. A. Bates
of this city, who for the past three
years has been the commander of
John McConihie post of the G. A. R.
Col. Bates will celebrate his 88th
birthday on June 2nd and while no
longer able to be active in the affairs
of the Grand Army he still retains
the greatest interest in the work of
the veterans organization. The local
post was established in April 1884
and at the present time but few are
left of the once thriving organization
of several hundred. John Fight, Rob
ert Troop, W. H. Venner and A.
Shellenbarger are among those of
the old veterans who are still with
us.
BUS LINE CEASES BUSINESS
The Rogers bus line that has been
operating between this city and
Omaha, the oldest established line
in this section, has ceased its activ
ities, the last trip of this line being
made at 6:30 last night. Mr. Rogers
purchased the line of Ike Gilinsky,
who for several years operated the
line under the name of the DeLuxe
line, operating from Omaha to this
city long before the graveling of No.
75 and before the paving of the road
had even been thought about.
There however, are a number of
other lines still serving this locality.
the Cotner line, local organization,
as well as the Missouri Pacific and
the Interstate lines operating through
this city, which with the railroad
service makes it possible to go some
where at almost any hour of the day.
Mr. Rogers has found that the pa
tronage was not sufficient to war
rent the continuance of the line.
RECEIVES RECOGNITION
Leonard Worley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Worley of Lincoln, former
residents here, has been given recog
nition at Harvard university where
he is a student. Mr. Worley has been
interested in natural history and was
a very brillian student at the Uni
versity of Nebraska in this particular
line in which he has majored. He has
Just been awarded the Walker prize,
an annual award to the student pre
paring the most outstanding essay
on natural history subjects. The
award is one that the Nebraska
young man feels proud of attaining
in a university as great as Harvard
The young man is a grandson of Mrs
V. V. Leonard of this city.
Eighth Grade
Graduations
on Saturday
County Program Will Be Given at
High School in This City
at 1 p. m. Saturday
One of the largest eighth grade
graduations in the history of the
county will be held in this city on
Saturday by Miss Alpha Peterson,
county superintendent, the exercises
being held at the Plattsmouth high
school building at 1 o'clock.
The program of the exercises will
be as follows:
March
Invocation Rev. II. G. McClusky
Flag Salute Class of 1930
Piano Duet Faust
Irene and Dorothy Riester
Address of Welcome
Supt. R. E. Bailey
Response Miss Wilnia Benjamin
Vocal Duet, "Voices of the Woods"
Rubenstein
Beatrice Rawls, Florence Lancaster
Jane Boedeker, Accompanist
Address State Supt Chas. W. Taylor
Piano Duet, "Intermezzo Russe"
Franke
Edith Foster, Martha Upton
Presentation of Awards
Violin Solo
(a) "A Garden Dance G. Vargas
(b) "Out of the Dusk to You"
Dorothy Lee
Willis Cole
Mrs. Roy O. Cole,
Accompanist
Presentation of Diplomas
Co: Supt. Alpha C. Peterson
Saxophone Solo
(a) "Springtime in the Rockies"-
(b) "End of a Perfect Day" Bond
Rosemary Friedrich
Mrs. Nick Friedrich,
Accompanist
Benediction
The following is a list of the
graduates:
Dist. No. 2 Teacher, Mrs. Knth-
enne iiirasiey. n;iizaDein w lies.
William Gilmour, Martin Stava,
Helen Gilmour, Eula Pace.
Dist. No. 3 Teacher, Miss Fran
ces Uvingston. Elmer Phillips.
Dist. No. 5 Teacher, Mrs. Helen
Morris. Homer Wilcox, Joseph Haus-
laden, Fred Hull. Fern Potts.
Dist. No. 7 Teacher, Miss Freda
Klinger. Dale Hansen, Nora Hos-
char. Verdon Keil.
Dist. No. 8 Teacher. Miss Sadie
Dill. lone Barnard, Ruby Sutton.
Dist. No. 9 Teacher, Miss Esther
Tritsch. Mildred Alexen, Mildred
Heil. Norene Kaffenberger. Ellen
Kelly, John Kelly, Mildred Murray, j
Dist. No. 11 Teacher. Miss Mamie
Maher. Charles Crunk.
Dist. No. 13 Teacher, Miss La
Von Frans. John Roddy, Stewart
Smith.
Dist. No. 1 4 Teacher, Miss Doris
Hogue. Golda Schomaker, Donald
Hatcliff. I
Dist. No. 15 Teacher. Miss Ruth j
Hogue. Sterling Ross, Robert bch-
lichtemeier.
Dist. No. 17 Teacher, Mrs. Bessie
Garret. Velma Ackley, Mildred Bur-
bee. Fern Conley, Harold Dukes,
Paul Davis, Edith Foster, Hattie
Griffin, Arduth Martin, Dorothy Tig-
ner, Martha Upton.
Dist. No. 19 Teacher, Miss Birdie
Mae Johnson. Malcolm Pollard, Rob
ert Pollard, Wilmer Harshman.
Dist. No. 20 Teacher, Miss Mad-
sen, calvm jarsien.
Dist. No. 23 Teacher, Mr. Lloyd
Ranney. Dorothy Spangler.
Dist. No. 25 Teacher, Miss ivian
Livingston. Barbara Spangler, Kus-
sell Spangler, Jack Vallery.
Dist. No. 2S Teacher, Miss Helen
Vallery. Clayton Dooley.
Dist. No. 29 Teacher, Miss Aiarie
Meisinger. George Mayabb.
Dist. No. 30 Teacher, Miss Helen
Iverson. Gerald Keil. Theodore
Stoehr, Ruth Shogren, Thyra Baum-
gart, Dorothy Seimoneit.
Dist. No. 31 Teacher, Miss liora
Soennichsen. Donald Penton.
Dist. No. 33 Teacher, Miss Mar
tha Jameson. Max Amelang.
Dist. No. 34 Teacher, Miss Mil
dred Nelson. Ashley Boiler, Lewis
Bachl.
Dist. No. 36 Teacher, Miss Osyth
Kemp. Margaret Kelly.
Dist. No. 37 Teacher, Miss Fran
ces Wiles. Frank Bierl.
Dist. No. 38 Teacher, Miss Inez
Mendenhall. Frances Hansen.
Dist. No. 40 Teacher, Mr. Edgar
Cole. Chauncey Woolhiser.
Dist. No. 41 Teacher, Miss Esther
Albert. Emmons Meisinger, Cather
ine Meisinger, Marion Speck, Eugene
Meisinger.
Dist. No. 42 Teacher. Miss Eliza
beth Nolting. Glenn Kaffenberger,
Martha Kaffenberger, Alberta Par
riott. Dist. No. 45 Teacher, Miss Vera
Anderson. Willis Cole, Frances We
tenkamp. Dist. No. 47 Teacher, Miss Eliza
beth Tritsch. Helen Heim, Maurice
Group, Wayne AhL Elinor Sprieck,
Elmer Sprieck, Gladys Tennant, Opal
Tennant.
Dist. No. 49 Teacher, Miss Alice
Hagan. Lucille Reese, Herman Rau.
Dist. No. 50 Teacher, Miss Beu
lah Little. Frances Brown, Neva
Hoback.
Dist. No. 51 Teacher, Miss Mabel
Mendenhall. Albert Hill.
Dist. No. 56 Teacher, Miss Clara
Rainey. Rosemary Friedrich, Wil
liam Griffin, Florence Lancaster,
Beatrice Rawls, Joe Richter, Mor
gan Stewart, Mona B. Tilson, Gomer
Worthan. Darlene Harold.
Dist. No. 57R Teacher, Miss
Florence Zaar. August Thun.
Dist. No. 57 Teacher, Miss Hazel
Iverson. Lloyd Carnicle, Bernard
Dill, Cloe Armstrong.
Dist. No. 5S Teacher, Miss Eula
Reed. Ben Euell.
Dist. No. 59 Teacher. Miss Mary
Capwell. Verna Miller, Opal Kuehn,
Richard Kuehn.
Dist. No. 64 Teacher, Miss Delia
Neben. Thelma Fisher, Dorothy
Klemme.
Dist. No. 66 Teacher, Miss Fern
Mendenhall. Richard Rhoden.
Dist. No. 70 Teacher. Miss Edna
McCrory. Bernice Oehlerking, Flor
ence Earhart, Anna Kirkpatrick, Clif
ford Kirkpatrick, Harry Walters.
Dist. No. 71 Teacher. Miss Golden
Keech. Lizzie Marie Kirchof, Fred
die Albers.
Dist. No. 72 Teacher, Miss Muller
Shackley. Irvin Borje?on, Alice Bor
jeson, Willis Lorenson.
Dist. No. 73 Teacher, Miss Jean
ette Schroeder. Everett Jardine.
Dist. No. 75 Teacher, Miss Norma
Kunz. Velma Walradt. Marie Moc
kenhaupt. Dist. No. 77 Teacher, Miss Ber
nice Wade. June Peck, Minnie Baier,
Adeline Boiler.
Dist. No. 78 Teacher, Miss Fern
Spangler. Lloyd Ward.
Dist. No. 79 Teacher. Mrs. Louise
Drumke. Irma Lefler. Carl Vogler,
Gladys Shelhorn, Edward Heil, Ruth
Stohlman.
Dist. No. 80 Teacher, .Mr. Harold
Grier. Norene Engelkemeier, Char
lotte Mayfield.
Dist. No. 82 Teacher, Miss Louise
Kirker. Otis Keller.
Dist. No. 8 3 Teacher, Miss Eve
lyn Moore. Roy Wade, Lorene Wege
ner. Dist. No. 86 Teacher, Miss Helen
Larson. Hilda Gakemeier, Hulda
Gakemeier, Curtis Grabow.
Dist. No. 89 Teacher, Miss Ona
Graves. Merle Riekman, Gerald Zoz,
Helen Zoz, Robert Zoz, Rose Zoz.
Dist. No. 91 Teacher, Miss
Blanche Little. Gerald Puis, James
Schafer, Florene Schafer.
Dist. No. 95 Teacher, Miss Fran
ces Bronn, Euford Phillips.
Dist. No. 96 Teacher. Miss Wilma
Benjamin. Herman actswul, James
Breckenridge, Lorene Dall, Marguer
ite Bergman. Virtus Haws, Harold
Honer. Robert O'Brien. Dorothy Rie
ster, Irene Riester, Willard Rohr
danz, Viva Rueter, Loretta Sheehan,
Eileen Sheehan, Clara Keckler.
Dist. No. 97 Teacher. Miss Louise
Rummel. Verla Core,- Merrill Mei
singer, Anna Hofacker.
Dist. No. 98 Teacher, Miss Muriel
Cole, Dortha Reese, Lloyd Colbert,
Clarence Rueter, Harold Richards.
Dist. No. 101 Teacher, Miss Doris
Parsell. William John, Lorene Nic-
kle, Gladys Malone, Geraldine Lenz.
Dist. No. 102 Teacher. Mrs. Bess
Skinner. Rosa Williams.
Natural Gas
Interests Seek
Location Here
Several Companies Would Cross Mis
souri River Here With Pipe
Line and Serve City
The natural gas interests which
are now moving into Nebraska with
plans for serving many of the cities
in the east and central parts of the
state.
This city has been looked oves by
several of the companies and it is
the understanding that several are
negotiating to secure a crossing over
the Missouri river bridge at this
place for their pipe lines.
The local company, the Iowa-Nebraska
Light & Power Co., which
is joined in one of the large com
panies that are planning lines to
Des Moines and Chicago, are planning
to present to the city council at the
next meeting a schedule of rates for
the service of the patrons, their fran
chise under which they are operating
serving to permit them to extend
their lines into the city.
The council also has before them
a proposed franchise of one of the
many companies that will come this
way in the extension of the natural
gas lines and which will be ready
for action at the next meeting also.
The prospects are that the natural
gas lines will be in this section of
the state and in operation by the
fall season to serve the needs of the
residents of this section of Nebraska.
ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE
On Saturday evening Miss Mar
garet Scotten was hostess at a very
charming bridge party and which
was enjoyed by some five tables of
the ladies who spent the evening in
the fascinations of this pastime. In
the playing Miss Amelia Martens was
the winner of the first prize, Mrs.
Louis Ward Egenberger, the second
honors, while the consolation prize
was awarded to Mrs. F. I. Rea.
At a suitable hour dainty and de
licious refreshments were served by
the hostess who was assisted by Miss
Marie Fitzgerald.
Journal Want-Adi get remits.
Find Jury Trials
Result in Too
Many Acquitals
Case Against Ross Dennis Dismissed
on Request cf the State Sher
iff at Lincoln
From Tuesday's DaTTv
This morning a dismissal was filed
in the office of the clerk of the dis
trict court in the case of the State
of Nebraska vs. Ross Dennis, in
which action the defendant was
charged with having sold liquor to
the representatives of the state at
Weeping Water.
The dismissal was made by Coun
ty Attorney W. G. Kieck on the re
ceipt of a letter from State Sheriff
W. C. Condit in which Mr. Coudit
recommended that this action be
taken as the defendant had filed his
application for a trial by jury and
which in the opinion of the state
sheriff would prove an unnecessary
expense to the state to try as in most
of the jury tried cases there were
acquittals given.
This case is one of several that
arose when liquor was purchased in
this county by evidence men of the
state, two of which cases were tried
last week and resulted in acquittals
of the defendants and which led to
the action of the state sheriff in ask
ing for a dismissal of the case.
The decision here was affected a
great deal it was thought by local
officials by the fact that one of the
evidence men had himself been ar
rested in Otoe county for violation
of the prohibition law and also the
evidence was largely the matter of
the widely seperated version of the
alleged sale between the evidence
man and th defendant in at least one
of the cases.
BEATS SCHOOL TEACHING
John G. McHugh, who back in the
nineties was the superintendent of
the Plattsmouth city schools, has
traveled far from the time that he
was engaged in guiding the destiny
of the schools. When leaving, this
city Mr. McHugh decided that he
would apply his talents elsewhere
than in the school room and located
in the north, Minneapolis and Winni
peg being his home for many years.
He however, has accepted a position
as an executive officer of the Chase
National bank in the merger of sev
eral large banks and which gives the
Chase bank resources of some $2,
800,000,000, coming from Minnea
polis where he has been interested
in the Bancoporation at that place
and which controls a great many
banks in the middle west.
HERE FOR VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Shrader are
here for a vacation at the home of
Mr. Shrader's parents, they coming
here from Herman, Nebraska, where
Mr. Shrader has just closed his
school work for the year. He has
served as the superintendent of the
public schools at Herman and has
had a very successful year in the
school work and has been re-elected
for the position that he has so cap
ably handled. Mr. Shrader has been
in Bchool work since graduating here,
completing his work at the Peru
State Teachers college and then en
tering on his work in the teaching
profession, teaching his first year in
the extreme western portion of the
state and then going to Herman to
take up the superintendency at that
place.
FINE PIECE OF WORK
The east window of the Wescott's
store has a very beautiful . piece of
work of the photographers art in a
picture of the new traffic bridge
over the Missouri river. This pic
ture was enlarged by Mr. McFarland
from the photograph that was taken
here several days ago and the large
picture was tinted in oils by Mrs.
McFarland and makes a very fine
picture and one that has attracted a
great deal of attention from the
residents of the community.
RETURNS FROM FUNERAL
Dr. J. S. Livingston returned home
Saturday from Denver where he was
called by the death of Joseph La
Fountaine, step-father of Mrs. Liv
ingston, who passed away the first
part of the week after an illness of
some duration. The funeral services
were conducted at the St. Luke's
Episcopal church at Denver on Thurs
day, the funeral being conducted by
Father W. C. Middleton, formerly
rector of the St. Luke's church in this
city.
BRING IN MORE SCALPS
From Tuesday" Daily
This morning William Strabel of
Elmwood was here and brought with
him seven coyote scalps as the re
sult of his prowness as a hunter and
which were turned in at the office
of County George R. Sayles and the
possess or of the scalps was given
the bounty of $14 for the bunch, at
the rate of 1 2 each as provided by
law.
HANDY KIDS AT MURRAY
The Walters Kandy Kids of Omaha
will be the opponents of the Murray
Red Sox at the Murray ball park on
Sunday in what promises to be a
real game. The Kandy Kids have had
a good showing this season in their
games, having won from the Reitz
Radios and were also the opponents
of the Father Flannigan team at
the Western League park in a benefit
for Father Flanningans Home. The
team was the second team in the
American Legion Junior League at
Omaha the past season. The Mur
ray Red Sox have been going good
and will be a worthy foe for the fast
bunch of Omaha youngsters.
Urge Adoption
of T. J. Sokol
Park by City
Trustees Offer Use of Land and $600
to the City for Swimming
Pool, Urge Action
The board of trustees of the Tel
Jed Sokol society, who some time
ago adopted at their meeting a reso
lution relative to the giving to the
city of the six lots comprised in the
park owned by the society on west
Pearl street and also in addition
voted to donate the sum of $600 to
be used by the city in the construc
tion of a swimming pool in the park
for the use of the community.
The matter will no doubt be sub
mitted to the city council as the
members of the trustees are anxious
to learn by June 15th just what at
titude the city will take in regard
to the acceptance of the offer the
only requirement made that the city
shall designate the property as the
Tel Jed Sokol park.
The trustees state that the base
ment of the building which was
recently burned down is 40x100 feet
and that it would be possible to ex
tend the proposed side of the pond
some fifty feet farther. It is the be
lief of the trustees that the site of
the large frame hall could be readily
adapted to the use of a swimming
pool by the clearing out of the form
er basement and the use of the walla
as the outer support of the swim
ming pool and could give a depth of
from one foot to ten as might be
wished.
It was the expressed desire of the
society however, that the site be
used for a swimming pool and which
they believe could be made possible
by a very little cost.
COMPLETE PAVING WORK
The Roberts Construction company
which has had the contract for the
placing of the concrete paving from
the north end of John R. Webster
boulevard to the Platte bottom near
the Stull place, have completed the
laying of the pavement and the work
men who have been engaged in the
work of construction are now out of
work for the present until the com
pany opens up a new contract. This
concrete paving will be followed by
the section of road which the Allied
Contractors are to place on the north,
starting in where the concrete ends
and carrying over the Burlington
crossing at Oreapolis.
The work of paving has been fol
lowed with bad weather conditions
last fall and this spring and which
has retarded the completing of the
various sections of the paving work
and making it most inconvenient to
the travelers between this city and
Omaha.
DEATH OF LITTLE BABE
From Tuesday Da.Hr
Last night at 11:30, John, the
sixteen months old son of Mr. and
Mrs.' LeRoy Covert, passed away at
the family home on Wintersteen Hill,
death coming as the result of an at
tack of pneumonia that followed a
severe case of the measles. The lit
tle one has been critically ill for but
a short time and the death came as
a very severe blow to the family. The
little one was born on December 24,
19 2S, and he is survived by the par
ents and three brothers and three
sisters. The funeral arrangements
are not as yet made awaiting word
from Kearney where the eldest bro
ther is located, as to whether or not
he can come here for the services.
PAINTING UP CONTINUES
The paint up and clean up week
which was staged here a short time
ago was not the limit for the good
work that is being done in the com
munity, as several of the business
houses as well as the residences of
the city are being repainted and
decorated for the coming summer
while several more are in prospect
to be made spic and span for the
summer season. One of the latest
to be given a retouching is the ex
terior of the building occupied by
the Bestor & Swatek hardware store
which now looks in very classy shape
for the coming season. These im
provements all add to the general
appearance of the business section of
the city.
AH Idnfis o? ImsTness stationery
printed at the Journal office.
Capture Store
Robbers at Green
wood Early Today
Two Former Convicts Frcm State
Prison Detected and Caught
Red Handed in Robbery
t From Wednesday's Dally
' Late last night between 12 o'clock
and 1:30 this morning the city of
Greenwood, in the west part of Cass
. county was stirred by the robbery of
, the store of Anderson & Cope and the
capture red handed a few moments
later of the robbers by Marshal
' George Trunkenboltz, State Sheriff
W. C. Condit and Deputy Weigant.
The first intimation of the rob
bery was when Walter and Alonzo
Stewart were returning to their home
, at Greenwood when they noticed two
men acting in a strange manner and
notified Marshal Trunkenboltz and
the men detected the two strangers
breaking into the general store of
Anderson & Cope on the main street
of the town. Mr. Trunkenboltz call
ed the state sheriff's office at Lin
coln, this being much easier to reach
than to have called the Cas3 county
authorities and in a very short time
State Sheriff Condit and Deputy
Weigant were on the scene.
I The robbers had a car concealed
some distance from the store and here
t the 1 robbers had carried a portion
j of the loot and the officers awaited
there until one of the robbers came
j out with part of the goods to load
into the car and then Marshal Trunk
enboltz placed the man under arrest
and Sheriff Condit and Deputy Wei
gant arrested the other man, boths
j being caught red handed.
j The goods that were stored in the
i car and piled out to be made away
I with was estimated at $500.
i Ab soon as the arrests were made
the two prisoners were taken on into
Lincoln by the authorities to be
placed in custody there until the
Cass county officers arrived to take
them to Plattsmouth.
It 1b claimed that both men caught
in' the robbery are former convicts
: and served a term for forgery.
I Sheriff Bert Reed and Deputy
Sheriff Rex Young were at Lincoln
and Greenwood today to investigate
, the matter and assist in the attempt
! to find out the full extent of the
operations of the two prisoners in
the store robberies that were fre
quent the past winter.
CALLED ON SAD MISSION
From Wflnaay'i Dlfy
Dr. E. J. Gillespie departed this
morning for Ashland to Join the
j members of his family to attend the
funeral services of the husband and
father. M. J. Gillespie, which was
held at 10 o'clock today at the St.
Patrick's church at Gretna, near
j which place the Gillespie family re
sided for many yearB. The death of
I Mr. Gillespie occurred on Sunday at
the family home at Randolph, the
I end coming quite suddenly as the
result of heart trouble of several
year's duration. Following his death
Mr. Gillespie was brought to the home
of his daughter. Mrs. Daley at Ash
land, where it laid in Btate until the
' funeral service.
The deceased was one of the pio
neer residents of Sarpy county, com
ing to the vicinity of the present
town of Gretna many years ago and
he has spent the greater part of his
j eighty-one years of life in that com-
.munity.
j The lives of Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie
jwere blessed with thirteen children
of whom eleven are Btill living to
'share with the wife and mother the
! sorrow that the death of this highly
esteemed citizen has brought.
I In his bereavement Dr. Gillespie
iwill have the deepest sympathy of
the many friends in this community.
MARRIED AT OMAHA
The announcements have been re
ceived here of the marriage on Tues
day at Omaha of Miss Ona Agnes Mc
Cormick to Mr. Carl Joseph Droege,
' a former Plattsmouth young man.
The bride is a daughter of Mrs.
Wilhelmina McCormick, and has
been reared to womanhood in that
ciay and is a young lady of the rar
est charm of personality.
' The groom is a son of Mrs. Lena
(Droege and was born and reared in
this city where he has a host of
i friends who will learn of his new
happiness with the greatest of pleas
ure. Mr. Droege has been for several
years engaged at Omaha in the mail
service and is a young man of the
highest character and one whose
friends are limited only by his ac
quaintanceship. RECEIVES GOOD NEWS
The anouncement has been re-
ceived here of the birth cf a fine
little ighte pound daughter to Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Hennis at their home
at Beatrice. The Hennis family were
residents here for some months. Mr.
Hennis being employed at the Mauzy
Drug store and both made a very
large circle of friends while here
and who will be greatly pleaBed to
learn of the good fortune that has
come to them.