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PACUS FOUR
PLAJITgZIOTJTH SEMI-. WEEKLY JOUHHAI.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1930.
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Groceries & Meats
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We make it our practice to
furnish absolutely the very
best goods at a price within
the reach of all. Highest price
paid for Country Produce.
R. D. STINE
Union, Nebr.
Wm. Tillman and wife were visit
ing with friends and relatives in
Omaha on Tuesday of this week and
also looking: after some business mat
ters as well.
Wr. Highlield of Plattsmouth, rep
resenting the Iowa-Nebraska Light
& Power Co., was looking after busi
ness for the company in Union on
last Tuesday.
A. L. Becker was hauling cord
wood to Lincoln during this week
with a truck, making a trip a day,
and also being able to return with
a load of goods.
M. R. Steele of Council Bluffs has
been painting the home of Daniel
Lynn and fixing the place up. in ex
cellent condition, and will be jU3t
fine when the folks return home.
Wayne Fletcher has been looking
after the work at the Union schools,
as care taker as his father Mr. Edgar
Fletcher who is at the hospital where
he is very sick and where he has
been for some time.
Mrs. A. L. Becker who was in
jured in an auto accident which
happened some weeks since is get
ting along nicely at this time and
is able to be up and about the house
with the aid . of crutches.
i L. R. Upton and wife were over
to Lincoln on last Sunday where they
went to accompany their daughter,
Miss Sara, who is attending the state
university for her last year as she
will graduate with this school year.
Harold Xickles cf Ponca City,
Oklahoma, who accompanied Frank
Bauer home last week, returned to
his home and work in the south on
last Monday and was accompanied
by his daughter, Punkie, who has
been visiting here for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. II. W. C.riffin enter
tained on last Sunday at their home
in Union and had. Mrs. E. M.-Griffin
and daughter, Frances, of Platts
mouth, and Mr. and Mrs. Lucean
Carper as their guests for the oc
casion. A very pleasant day was had
and one which all enjoyed.
Pan Lynn and wife and Jack LM
gett and wife and Robert E. Hastings
departed,, driving on last Tuesday
for Exeellsior Springs, Mo., where
they will remain for some two weeks,
and where they will take baths and
treatment for their health, a number
of them being afflicted with rheu
matism. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baker spent the
week end visiting and enjoying the
programs at KFNF7 and KMA, attend
ing church services rendered by Mr.
James Pearson at KFNF. Betty Ann
especially enjoyed the children's
party at KFXF and also had her first
experience at the microphone, in
which she gave a clever little read
ing. The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Episcopal church was made the more
pleasant last week when the ladies
met at the home of Miss Gussie Robb
by the fact of the presence of Mrs.
Luther Halt of Snohomish, Wash
ington, being a guest she being a
former member, and was visiting here
for a short time with relatives and
friends.
Mrs. E. E. Leach who has been so
severely ill with Neuritis for so long
is reported as being somewhat im
proved of late and with the aid of
a cane can get about over the house
and feels that she will still con
tinue to improve. Mrs. Leach has
been enjoying a visit from her J
friend, Mrs. A. W. Propst of Nebras
ka City.
A. R. Niday who has been farming
the Banning homestead south of Un
ion for the past few years moved
with the coming spring to the Mrs.
Elizabeth Easter farm, smutliwest of
Union, where he will farm for the
coming year. Tle Banning Estate
farm will be worked the coming sum
mer by Mr. Albert Snell. who has
formerly farmed west of Murray.
Flemming W. Robb was a visitor
in Union for a short time on last
Saturday coming to take his daugh
ter. Miss Jane, home, who has bcei
spending some two weeks here, and
also the good wife, end Mrs. Win.
Kraup, who has been here attend
ing a meeting cf the Ladies Aux
iliary of the Episcopal church which
was held at the home of Miss Gus-ie
Robb.
Rev. W. A. Taylor and the good
wife hitched up the limosene on last
Tuesday morning, notwithstanding
the fact that it was the day for
the Union Business Men's Club, and
away they went for Shenandoah
Iowa, where they saw the sights and
at the same time enjoyed the ride
and the broadcasting stations, with
the many people there from different
portions of the country.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. P. K.
Moore of Lushton drove over to Un
ion where they were guests at the
home of their son, W. E. Moore for
the day. Mr. Moore returned home
while Mrs. Moore remained and on
Monday was accompanied by her son,
Wade Moore, to Omaha where she
entered the St. Joseph hospital where
she will be treated and observed for
a time to ascertain the condition of
her health.
Union Wins Game.
In the ball game which was play
ed in Union on last Sunday between
the 11th Street Merchants of Oma
ha and the home team, a very testy
game was had, with the results in
doubt until the final windup, when
the home team won over the visitors
by a score of 7 to 6.
Union Schools Doing Nicely.
The enrollment of the Union
schoosls is slightly less in the grades
as there is now only S2, as compared
with a slightly larger enrollment for
the past year. However, the high
school has a larger enrollment this
year than formerly as they have en
rolled fifty students in the four
classes of the high school.
Business Men Eat and Talk.
With a number of the business
men of Union away and others not
able to be in attendance, there was
but fourteen at the dinner and a
motion prevailed that a warrent be
drawn on the treasurer for three dol
dars to make up the number to twen
ty which would in a manner pay for
the serving of the dinner to the lad
ies who had the matter in charge.
Mr. Anderson, the vice-president of
the club, officiated on account of
the absence of P. F. Rihn, who is in
the hospital. An order was also is
sued for the sending of flowers to
Mr. Rihn at the Immanuel hospital
where he underwent an operation on
Tuesday of last week. Also resolu
tions conveying the sympathy of the
members were the sense of the mem
bers present at the dinner and which
were sent.
able to see to get about there though
it is pretty dark.
See the Big Bla3t.
Last Monday Floyd Saxton and
Santa True, were called to Lincoln
to look after some business each, Mr.
Saxton to secure some repairs for
machinery and to visit with rela
tives, while Mr. True went to see
about the compensation which was
coming to him; from the accident
which caused his injury and long
spell of idleness. The state officers
having the matter in charge to com
pel the insurance company paying
the amount which was due him. Both
gentlemen being so close to the place
where the accident occurred when
the oil train caused such a'catas
trophy, went over and viewed the
ruins, which cost some seventy thou
sand dollars.
Lincoln Nation
al Bank Robbed
of 40,000 Today
Phil Hall, Greenwood, Injured by
Bandits As He Besists
Command
Will Build Extra Room.
Wm. Tillman, living east of Union
was m town on last luesaay ana
was figuring on the necessary ma
terials for the erection of another
room on their home as they have
not enough room for their use.
Gave School Faculty Welcome.
The Woman's Club of Union on
last Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Frans, gave a
very dellghtrul reception to tne
teachers of the Union schools, which
consisted of a very appropriate pro
gram, a social hour and a very ap
petising luncheon. Besides the fac
ulty whom where honor guests, the
meeting consisted of the "teaching
force which is as follows: James
Marsell, superintendent; L. C. Un
land, principal; Miss Griggs, assist
ant principal; Miss Genevieve Rus-
ell, sixth, seventh and eighth grade;
Miss Cordelia Roddy, fourth and
fifth, while Mary Chase teaches the
primary.
Visits Men's Club.
Robert Troop of Plattsmouth was
a visitor in Union for a time on last
Tuesday, and was a guest for dinner
at the Union Business Men s Club
Mr. Troop, who is past SS years of
sge, came to this county when it
was rather new, and just following
the civil war assisted in building the
Union Pacific railway, and later re
turned to Davenport, Iowa, where
he had lived during his childhood,
altho he was born in Ireland. In the
early seventies he again returned to
Nebraska, this time to Cass county
and for a number of years engaged
in farming, and later moved to
Plattsmouth, twenty-five years ago,
and engaged in business for a num
ber of years, but has retired and has
lived in Plattsmouth during the past
few years. He was a soldier in the
civil war. and was taken prisoner.
and was for a number of years In an
army prison in Texas, and was ex
changed after having remained there
for a time.
Whiterock Cockerels for Sale.
I have a few choice Yhiterock
cockerels, I will sell for $1.50 each, if
taken at once. Phone 11C0, Mrs.
James C. Roddy, Union, Neb. s!82tw
Undergoes Operation Tuesday.
Philip F. Rihn, one of the hustling
business men of Union, has been
feeling quite badly for some time
and on last Saturday morning was
taken with very severe pains in the
admonal region, and upon examina
tion by Dr. XV. XV. Claybaugh, it was'
found that he had a very severe case
of hernia. He was hurried to Oma
ha and to the Immanuel hospital,
where it was expected that he would
be operated upon y Dr. Roetter but
as he was away, the operation was
postponed until Tuesday, the time
being set for 10 o'clock.
Feed For the Mules.
George A. Stites, the grain dealer.
was shipping corn in the ear to St.
Louis this week, he making the pur
chase from John Niday and Ben
Martin, the corn in the ear is a spec
ial oruer ior use in tne mines and
is for the mules which never see the
light of day. They live in the mines
and work out their life under the
ground hauling coal, and there they
die. There is another side of this
life which we all do not know, and
this is a bit of it. The mules ac
customed to the darkness and are
TV?
at Old Settlers Picnic Grounds
Union, Ne&?
Come and Have a Good Time
Saturday Nile, Sept. 20-Union, Neb-
Regretted Not Being Here.
A letter from Julius A. Johnson,
brother of our townsman, Walter
Johnson, who makes hi3 home at
Neodasha, Kansas, which tells of a
very pleasant trip which Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson had visiting the Ozarks
Arkansas and Missouri, where
they sure enjoyed the trip and had
ust returned home. Mr. Johnson
said that they were expecting soon
to visit the old time friends and rel
atives in and about Union.
NEBRASKA'S BEST CROP
The great yields of corn, wheat
and alfalfa, not to mention the many
other great resources of the state of
Nebraska, are after all not to be
compared with the greater crop of
Nebraska babies, the future citizens
cf this and other states. One of the
young ladies of Cass county, Beverly
Ann. Brubaker of Murray, who is
between two and three years of age
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Brubaker of Murray, has been desig
nated as the finest child of her class
in the better babies contests at the
Nebraska state fair. The little lady
Is a fine and attractive specimen of
Nebraska childhood and the parents
as well as the people of Cass coun
ty can feel well pleased with the fact
that the Murray baby has been set
apart as the best in her class.
MANY ATTEND FAIR
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 17. A gang
of seven bandits, armed with pistols
and machine guns, robbed the Lin
coln State National bank this morn
ing of an estimated 40 thousand dol
lars in cash and one million dollars
in securities.
Phil Hall, cashier of the bank.
and former adjutant general of the
Nebraska National guard, was felled
by a blow on the head, with the butt
end of a gun, when he refused one
robber's command to open the safe.
He suffered a slight scalp wound
XV. E. Barkley, a director of the
bank, slow to obey the command-to
lie down, also was felled, and more
seriously hurt. He was carried from
the bank, stunned and bleeding pro
fusely.
Siren Clears Way.
The robbers entered the bank at
two minutes after 10 o'clock, and
eight minutes later had cleaned the
counters and tellers' cages of cash.
swept some securities from desks and
one safe into their pockets, and es
caped, driving rapidly south through
Lincoln. Their car was equipped with
a siren, which warned traffic to one
side as they speeded toward the open
country on the Cornhusker highway
The bank, at Twelfth and O
streets, is on one of Lincoln's busiest
corners. About 40 employes and cus
tomers were forced to lie down dur
Ing the robbery, and several persons
entered the bank while the bandits
worked, were also compelled to lie
down.
Four Enter Bank.
The robbers drove up in a Buick
sedan, parking across the street from
the bank, and leaving one man in the
car, armed with a machine or a
riot gun. Two stas'ed outside the
bank door, and four went In.
The bank is of the open type,
with nd high cages, and with officers'
desks in plain view of the lobby
(Jet em up was tne loud corn
mand from the first of the robbers,
and startled customers and employes
looked up to see the four men, with
guns advanced. -
Missed Part of Cash.
Edgar Orth, one of the tellers, said
all of his cash was taken. Stuart
Tabor, another teller, had several
thousand dollars in a drawer the.rob-
bers missed
Several outside the bank, who saw
the robbers enter, believed them to
be guards transferring money, as
they entered the door, with guns in
their hands, and their appearance
aroused no suspicion.
State Sheriff Condit said the car
the robbers sped 'away in bore the
Iowa license No. 97-13557. This is
a Sioux City number, belonging to a
Chevrolet registered in the name of
Howard Sween, living on route 2
south of town. Sioux City police were
going out to question Sween, whether
his car of plate3 was stolen.
One-third Negotiable
Condit said that he believed the
robbers had another car parked out
side the city limits, to aid their get-
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f;iry;,"uf:rA!Lse"" :" Residents and Social leaders
set of iicfns nintea 'hrw fh 'p- Discuss Plans for Year's Work
braska No. 11-1011, also has been 70 women, president and social
reported stolen. Condit furnished leaders of extension project clubs met
the description of the several cars Thursday and Friday, Sept. 11 and
and licenses to noliee in all narts of 12 to discuss plans for the coming
the state year's work. Miss Mary Ellen Brown
Of the securities taken, it was said led the discussion for the presidents
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Ihe temperature at which
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izes and combines tcith
air is the "end point."
This temperature determines goodness of gasoline how com
pletely it hums how much power it develops.
So the new Red Crown Ethyl was given an "end point" suit
able for instant power in the coldest weather for extra power
when the motor warms up.
Use new Red Crown Ethyl in all your motors and notice how
quickly your motor starts -how rarely you have to 6hift gears
how much quieter and more powerful your motor is. You'll
discover that this distinctly finer gasoline is also an economical
fuel a real luxury hut not an extravagance.
At Red Crown Service Stations and Dealers everywhere
in Nebraska.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY 07 NEBRASKA
"A Nebraska Institution"
COMPLETE REST ROOMS AT STANDARD OIL SERVICE STATIONS
: FilRM BUREAU NOTES
Copy- tor this Department
furnished by County Agent
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From Wednesday's Dally
A great number of the residents
of this city and vicinity were at
Weeping Water today where they en-
juyeu lue uig uuss cuuiuy imr auui .7,' T nnd thia rontorp arminrt nunlifioa
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vieweu wie many exmuns oi agncui-i - VL- 111,1 tions for nn ideal nrAsirlAnt Invs rle-
tural products, stock and the school
showings. The court house was be
reft of a great many of the officials'
as they were in attendance at the
fair and also attending the speaking
at which Ralph Mosley of Lincoln,
candidate for congress, and W. II.
Fitzer of Nebraska City, candidate
for state senator were the speakers.
Among those going from the court
house were County Treasurer John
E. Turner, Register of Deeds Miss
Jessie M. Robertson, Sheriff Bert
Reed and Mrs. Reed, C. E. Ledgway,
candidate for clerk of the district
court.
to be negotiable. Half of the bonds
and other securities taken were the
property of the bank, and half the
property of customers.
Mrs. Henry Kuhmann was a visi
tor in Omaha today, going to that
city on the early Burlington train.
FACULTY PICNIC
The members of the faculty of the
Plattsmouth schools held their an
nual picnic at Naeve's Park Tues
day evening. A sumptuous feast had
been prepared wHh chicken as the
piece de resistancer The committee
which had charge of the preparation
of the food was composed of Miss
Weyrich, chairman, Miss Nolting and
Mr. Kvasnicka. The task of planning
entertainment was left to Mr. Wood
ward, chairman. Miss Helen Struble
and Miss Tadball.
Miss Weyrieh's committee did a
fine piece of work in planning the
menu as well as the games arranged
for by Mr. Woodward's committee.
To Miss Kaufmann was assigned the
iasK oi collecting tne necessary
revenue and Mr. Reeder took care
of the transDortation.
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ENJOY FAMILY PARTY
On Sunday the home of Mrs. Jess
Dysart at Union was the scene of a
very delightful family party when
the cousins gathered to honor Mrs.
Minnie Sell of Lebanon, Pennsyl
vania, who is visiting her brother,
V. T. Arn and family in this city.
The cousins all were born in Ohio
and the gathering afforded a very
delightful opportunity in renewing
old times in their native state.
The members of the party had
brought with them well filled baskets
that served to provide the means of
a sumptious picnic dinner and which
was eajoyd to the utmost by all of
the members of the party.
"Smile
at the
Ache"
Ordinary pains h ead
ache and neuralgia, muscu
lar pains, functional pains,
the headache and congested
feeling of a cold in the
head haw quickly they
disappear when you take a
tablet or two of
DR.MILSO
i
Dr. Miles' Aspir-Mint is the
new, stable, mint-flavored tablet
that is making people all over
the country "Smile at the Ache"
Yonr druggist has them.
15c and 25c Packages
1 ..lc 3te8.-, .srrei
rived from being president and the
problems which a president has to
meet. The general decision regard
ing the many, many problems which
confront a president, seemed to be
that if each club member does her
part and feels her responsibilities
many of these problems would be
eliminated.
Social leaders studied the quali
flcations for song and game leading.
under the direction of Mrs. Newton
Gaines of Lincoln. The possibilities
of a song contest among the clubs
was discussed and the social leaders
will take it up with their clubs at
their first meeting this fall.
Project Leaders Training Meetings
Training meetings for project lead
ers of the Convenient Home Equip
ment and Accounts Clubs, will be
held during the next two weks.
At this meeting the leaders will
discuss plans for the year's work,
study reports and discuss "Simple
Trici:s In House Work."
Meetings will start promptly at
1:00 p. m. Following is a schedule
of dates for training centers and the
clubs which will be represented at the
different centers:
Tuesday, Sept. 23rd at Congrega
tional Church, Weeping Water, Gold
en Rod, Clover Leaf, Housekeeper's
Union, Oak Leaf, Weeping Water Ex
tension, Pleasant View.
Wednesday, Sept. 24th at Mrs. Eva
Bailey's Elmwood: Willing Workers,
O St. Club, Pairview, Blue Bird,
Morning Glory, Cottage Homemakers,
Center.
Thursday, Sept. 25 th at Vera
Lancaster's home, Alvo: Mothers &
Daughters Council, Sunset, Woman's
Reading Club, X-L Club, Greenwood
Achievement Club.
Friday, Sept. 26th, at the H. A.
Tool home, Murdock: Hungry Hust
lers, Four Square, Happy Homemak
ers. Tuesday, Sept. 30th, M. E. church,
Louisville: Klondike, Fairview Work
ers, College Hill, Glendale, Poverty
Point.
Wednesday, October 1st at Audi
torium, Xehawka: Four Corners,
Maple Grove, Union Woman's C!v-,
Triangle.
Thursday, October 2nd, Christian
Church, Murray: Social Circle, Sunny
Side, Riverview, Merry Workers,
Homemakers, Four Mile Community,
Home Circle.
CHESTER WHITE BOARS
I have a number of very fine
Chester White boars, ready for serv
ice, for sale. Also new blood line
for former customers. Eligible for
registration. 'Address Paul Mann,
Manley, Nebraska. sll-8tw.
RESUMES STUDIES
Jean Spangler returned to Lincoln
to resume his studies at the Univer
sity of Nebraska, after spending his
vacation at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Spangler of My
nard. Jean is a P. II. S. graduate of the
class of '26, and after completing his
chosen course, at the close of this
semester, will engage in farming at
his home
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