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PLATTSMOUTH
WEEKLY JOU11NAI
THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1930.
Union Department
Prepared Exclusively for The Journal.
For the Best
& Meats
SEE US
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.
Mrs. Fred Clark aud the others of
the family were over to Omaha on
last Sunday to see her son, Clifton
Clark, they driving over to Omaha
in their auto.
Joseph Dare and James Fitzpat
rick, were over to Weeping Water
on last Tuesday where they were call
ed to look after some business mat
ters for a short time.
Among those who have during the
past few days had the city water In
stalled are W. A. Taylor, C. H. Whit
worth and George Stites, the latter
having it placed in the filling sta
tion. Roy Upton was called to Omaha on
last Tuesday to look after some busi
ness matters, he making the trip via
the bus, and while he was away Mrs.
Upton was looking after the affairs
at the store.
Martha Upton, was a visitor in
Lincoln on last week going over on
Friday and visiting with her sister,
Miss Sara until Sunday evening when
she returned home, arriving in plen
ty of time for school.
Robert McQuinn and wife of Hard
ington. Ark., and cousin of Mrs.
James Fitzpatrick were visiting here
for a number of days last week, and
also visited in Omaha for a few days,
returned to their home in the south
on last Monday.
Dr. D. E. Hansen of Xehawka, who
recently located there and having
formerly been located t tnnaiia, was
a visitor in Union on last Tuesday
morning and was a caller on his bro
ther physician. Dr. W. W. Claybaugh,
these gentlemen having been friends
for some time.
Allison Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Clark, who is located at Fori
Crook, where he is in the army of
Uncle Sam, was a visitor at the horn
of the parents on last week from Fri
day until Sunday. Dan Mathews al
so of Fort Crook, was a visitor with
him at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Clark.
Luther J. Hall who with the good
wile have been visiting here for some j
time past with friends, will depart i
for thtir home at Snohomish, Wash.,
on Tuesday of next week. They have I
enjoyed the visit, here very much
and are now having visited with
their friends willing to return to
their home in the west.
Word was received that former
Miss Ina LaRue but who is married, I
is at a hospital at Omaha where she
bu underwent an operation and is I
recovering. Her many friends here,
and she has a host of them, wlil be
pleased to hear of her improvement
and all hope she may soon be well
and able to return home again.
Mrs. Sarah McC:'ne of Hershey,
was a visitor in Union for a few
days with her many friends here,
she formerly having resided here.
D. Ray Frans, the lumber man,
and he is a good one at that, accom
panied by Mrs. Frans and Jirimie,
were over to Murray yesterday. Wed
nesday, where they were in attend
ance at the wedding of Charles H.
Boedeker, jr.. and Miss Frances
Stewart, which occurred on Wed
nesday afternoon.
with his tractor, and from other
causes, departed on Wednesday eve
ning for Pheonix, Arizona, and was
accompanied by Mrs. Harris, they
driving in their car. They will ex
pect to spend the winter there and
will make their home tnere much
on account of the hope that Mr. Har
ris health may be improved.
Hears Father Is Dead.
Mrs. Eugene Roddy received the
sad intelligence that her father had
died on last Monday night, and in
company with her husband, departed
early Tuesday morning for the home
of the parents at Fullerton where
they went to assist in the stress
times of the passing of the parent,
and to do what they could for the
mother in this hour of her affliction
and grief. Mrs. Roddy has the sym
pathy of her many friends in her
hour of sorrow. A mor.e detailed ac
count of the life of the father of Mrs.
Roddy will be given in the paper the
coining week.
Public Warned
to Call Halt on
Rising Taxation
Bankers
in
Shown Per Capita
1923, $22.66 In
1928, $77.39
Tax
Place Shower Bath in School.
The Board of Education of the vil
lage of Union recently had a shower
! bath placed in the Union school to
'accommodate the ball players who
after the practice and their games
like to have a shower bath and a
rub down.
Some Read, Some Don't.
Yes that is a fact, some people
read and some do not. Recently the
enterprising grain dealer, Geo. A.
Stites had placed a sign on his ele
vator, not afraid that some one
would run off with it, but that it is
a mark of ownership. While the sign
is plain and high on the elevator
some are seeing and some are not.
i). Ray Frans also has a neatly paint
ed sign on his lumber office, his name
painted and many see it still some do
not seem to notice it. We were for
tunate in having our attention called
to it, else maybe we would not have
seen it either. This is significant i;;
that the title of the firm is now "D.
Ray Frans" ami not "Fraus Bros.
Lumber Co." The world please take
notice.
Horses and Mules for Sale.
I have fourteen head of excellent
horses and mules for sale, they are
well broken to work. Will either sell
or trade. What have you?
o23-2tw. E. E. Leach, Union.
There Seems a Difference.
i A short time since James Fitzpat
: rick desired to dispose of his cafe
business and so advertised. The mat
I ter ran along for a time and finally
i lie thought he had better keep the
i bnsiness and so said. Just then inr
quiries came in and he could have
Bold a number of times, but he don't
want to sell now.
Nominate Precinct Officers.
A few days since the two parties,
democrats and republicans, held their
caucuses and placed in nomination
the following tickets. Democratic:
P. F. Rihn. justice; L. G. Todd, as
sessor, and Jay Austin for road over
seer, while the republicans, Ivan
r.alfour. assessor and J. C. Niday as
road overseer.
Finds Four Skeletons.
While working on his home near
the Union schools, which is under
laid by a ledge of stone, W. L. Stine
found four skeletons which he cal
culates must have been there for
more than a thousand year1;, which
would place the one who lived there
and were buried on the ledge of rock
as living in the tenth century or only
half of the Christian era. This would
place the lives of the people who liv
ed at that time among the? dark ages,
hut as there was not anything known
then of America, it is still much in
doubt from his calculations what
kind of people they were. They may
have been Aztecs who later were
credited with the having of the semi
civilization of Mexico. Safficienl that
the skeletons were in a good state of j
Celebrates Birthday.
Darleen Lou Swan was four years
old on Wednesday Oct. 15. So in the
afternoon a number of her little
friends accompanied by their mothers
came to help her celebrate. The af
ternoon was spent playing rimes and
having their pictures take- . After
lunch was served, the birth lay cake
was cut and her presents opened
and admired. Those present were
Dorothy and Ida Clarence, Dorothy
and Mary Garrison, Betty Mae Aus
tin. Mildred and Margaret Opp, Ruth
Ann Finkle. Evelyn Pearsley, Irene
Kinkle, Bobbie Smith, Harold Willis.
Bobbie Pearsley, Jimmie and Bobble
Finkle, John Wesley Rhuman, Fred
McCarroll, Joan Swan, Margaret
Hammond and Darleen Lou Swan.
New Orleans, La. The "Let
George do it" attitude of the public
is costing American municipalities
future revenues now being spent on
luxuries, while administration of
these municipalities is being in
trusted to politicians who have no
business ability, said Silas H. Strawn
of Chicago at the concluding ses
sion of the Investment Bankers' As
sociation of America convention here
Wednesday.
Cities must adhere to their budg
ets, said Mr. Strawn, who was head
of the Citizens Committee which
rescued Chicago from financial dif
ficulties this year, in warning the
investment bankers on the present
great increase in the nation's tax
burden.
Public indifference is the principal
cause of the increase in municipal
taxes, which is more than 100 per
cent to every 20 per cent increase in
population, the Chicago attorney
said.
"The average business man is so
engrossed in his own affairs," he
said, "he does not know our public
expenditures absorb 14 per cent of
our national income and that our per
capita taxes in 1923 were $22.66, as
against $77.39 per capita in 1928. If
! he is a stockholder in a corporation,
he probably has not though of the
fact that 30 cents out of every dol
lar of its profit goes for taxes.
"How much larger can the tax
burdens become without taxation?"
the b:mkers were asked. "Has not
the time cothe when the taxpayer
must have more concern about the
manner in which his rapidly increas
ing tax contribution to the cost of
government is spent? Public officials
are more often concerned about get
ting burget increases than decreases.
"Now is the opportune moment for
every municipality to get its house
in order by consolidating its tax con
suming units, by putting its taxing
machinery on a natural scientific
basis, by carefully preparing and ob
serving its budget, by incurring no
unnecessary obligations and by In
augurating and pursuing a plan of
most rigid economy. This imposes on
the banker the task, if not indeed the
responsibility, of taking an active
and vigorous part in the govern
mental affairs of his city."
After giving the bankers a picture
of the situation handled by his com
mittee in Chicago, where, he declar
ed, "a sate of anarchy was immin
ent." Mr. strawn added:
"May I indulge the hope that our
Chicago experience may result in the
organization of citizens' committees
in other cities, not in an emergency
to meet a crisis, but to commence
their work early and pursue it with
vigilance to the end that the holders
of municipal securities may confi
dently rely, not only upon the legal
ity, but upon the soundness of their
investments. Such committees are al
ready at work in several cities,
among others the city of New
Orleans."
"We will soon catch up," on over-
mniciir.g, the result or easy money
and business optimism," the report
of the association's real estate secur
ities committee declared when ac
cepted Wednesday.
N0RRIS ON "IRREGULARITY"
Closing Out
at Sacrifice
20 Heating Stoves; 5 Kitchen
Ranges; 5 Oil Stoves; 6 Oil Heaters;
3 Combination Ranges; 2 Gas Heat
ers; 5 Gas Ranges. Also
Beds, Bed Springs, Mattresses,
Chairs, Rockers, Library Tables, Din
ing Tables, Buffets, China Cabinets,
Card Tables, Breakfast Sets, Bridge
Sets, Couches, Steel Cots, Sanitary
Cots, Pictures, Mirrors, Dishes, Pans,
etc., all at bargain prices.
We still have a 4-piece Hollywood
Walnut Bedroom Suite, was $165.00,
now $39.5 Also Dinet set.
Congoleums, Office Furniture; 3
Writing Desks; Paper Cases; 1 Safe.
One almost new Wardrobe Trunk at
a big sacrifice.
So many things we cannot take
space to mention nearly all of them.
If you are looking for real bargains
ccnie in and see us now.
Remember, we still sell from the
wholesale floor and make you a spec
ial price on any and all purchases.
Open Evenings While
Closing Out
Ghrisf Furniture Co.
118-122 South 6th Street
Telephone No. 645
PLATTSMOUTH - NEBRASKA
Government
Income Shows
a Falling Off
Decrease of $62,471,504 in Present
Fiscal Year Compared With
That of 1929.
(Political Advertising)
(Political Advertising
Washington A decrease of $6;
Jessie M. Robertson
Republican Candidate for
Register oS Deeds
Will appreciate the support of Cass county voters at the election Nov.
4th and if re-elected will endeavor to merit the trust reposed in her.
Wickersham
Group Break
is Rumored
HEIR TO MILLIONS WEDS
preservation and indicated that care
had been exercised in the burial of
the bodies.
Will Spend Winter in Southwest
Stirling Harr's who has not bee:,
in the very best of health Lir r:cic
time past owing some to the injury
which he sustained some time ago
Baltimore Miss Anne Seddon
Kinpolving. Baltimore debutante who
:urned newspaper reporter for two
years, Saturday become the bride of
John Nicholas Brown, scion of one
of the east's wealthiest families. A
score of policemen had to call on by
standers to help them control the
crowd which blocked traffic near old
St. Paul'rf Protestant Episcopal
church where the ceremony was per
formed by the bride's father, the Rev.
Arthur B. Kinsolving, the rector.
The heir of his grandfather, John
Carter Brown, for whom Brown uni
versity at Providence, R. I., was nam-
W 1 T - I V W MM cto auo V II CO I 1 1 '7 I 11.11
esl baby in the world" upon his birth
in 1900. He was graduated from
Harvard college in 19 22.
Call No. 6 with your rush order
for Job Printing.
I WIPJTEH! I
Are You Heady f o? II?
Now is the time to put on a new Roof and make all
needed repairs. Pricea are low on material. How about
your winter coal? Fill 'em up again. Let me sell you
your requirements. We both profit when you buy of
D. RAY FRANS
Union, Nebraska
Nebraska City Completing their
second address for Tuesday, Senator
Norr's and Attorney General Soren
sen spoke here Tuesday night. They,
with Governor Weaver, had been
j beard by voters at Auburn during
I the afternoon.
The sNator devoted most of his
talk to his record "as an irregular
in the senate." He said it did not
get him anywhere at the pie coun
ter, but that he had protected the
interest of the people of the coun
try. He told of his part in the Bal-linger-Pinchot
controversy in the
Alaskan coal field investigation dur
ing the time he was a member of
the lower house, and of his fight
against Joe Cannon as speaker of the
house.
Mr. Norris said his democratic
opponent, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, was
a member of the house at the time of
the Alaskan coal field inquiry, and
had been given credit thru his news
paper recently for turning a white
wash investigation into a real in
quiry. The senior senator explained his
vote against the tariff by saying su
gar, lumber and cement boosts were
unnecessary and increase the price
of paving of highways $1,000 per
mile in cement costs.
Mr. Sorensen spoke of his rec
ord as attorney general and said if
elected he would continue in the
same manner.
Stories Grain Credence at Judge
Kenyon's Offer of Resigning;
Judge Is Silent.
Washington, Oct. 19. Recurrent
rumors that the W lckersham commis
sion is on the verge of an open
break on the prohibition issue gained
fresh credence in the capital foday
following published reports that
Judge William S. Kenyon, of Fort
Dodge. Ia., a dry member, recently
submitted his resignation to Presi
dent Hoover.
Judge Kenyon, according to the
story being repated among those
close to the commission, offered to
withdrew from the group several
weeks ago when the dry law debate
approached the showdown stage and
the president persuaded him to re
main a member. It was said further
that the immediate occasion of the
dispute was the question of industrial
alcohol control and that the commis-
sion since has agreed with Judge
Kenyon's ideas.
Prohibition Outstanding.
Reached by telephone Saturday at
Omaha, where he has been sitting in
the Eighth district federal circuit
court. Judge Kenyon was quoted as
refusing to confirm or deny the re
ports, explaining that he could not
talk about the affairs of the commis
sion. The commission at .present is not
in session. Alter a series oi meetings
the last two weeks it adjourned Fri
day until after the November elec
tions. Prohibition was known to be
the outstanding question at issue dur
ing the meetings, but Chairman
George W. Wickersham studiously
avoided any commitments as to the
trend or outcome of the discussion
while the other members referred all
inquiries to him. Wickersham said.
however, be hoped a prohibition re
HAMPSHIRE BOARS FOR SALE
port would be ready for congress in
December.
Turmoil Indicated.
Despite the cloak of secrecy drawn
around the commission's proceedings.
signs have turned up from time to
time strongly indicating inward tur
moil over prohibition recommenda
tions, the disputes centering upon
Does the commission have author
ity to report on the wisdom or un
wisdom of prohibition or should it
confine its work to methods of bet
ter enforcing the dry laws?
If it finds prohibition unenforce
able should it say so?
Should it deal with prohibition as
the chief objective of its investiga
tion?
Or should prohibition be subordin
ated to studies of general crime con
ditions.
Mr. Wickersham has stated that
so far as he is concerned he believes
if the commission finds prohibition
unenforceable it should say so. The
only other member who has made a
public statement is Kenneth Mackin
tosh of Seattle who recently declar
ed that the commission ought to "go
to the guts" of the prohibition ques
tion. Other members are understood
to have divergent views. World-Herald.
COAt COMING FROM EUROPE
I still have a number of very fancy
Hampshire boars, right for service.
See me for what you need. Harry M.
Knabe, Xehawka, Xeb. ol6-4tw.
The cake which President Hoover
trip was baked by an 11-year-old
boy. If we understand correctly the
nature of young folks, credit must
be given the young chef for resisting
eating it himself.
Xew York Continued shipment of
anthracite coal from Russia, Ger
many and Great Britain, to be sold
in competition with the American
product, was described Tuesday as a
menace to the United States coal in
dustry by Eliot Farley, president of
the Deleware, Lackawanna & West
ern Coal company. The recent bar
ring of Russian coal by the Canadian
government will tend to increase the
: large tonnage shipped to eastern
ports, he said "and will have the ef
fects of unstabilizing the American
anthracite industry and of throwing
a large number of American miners
out of work at a time when the na
tion is already facing a business
crisis.'
471.504 in government tax receipts
in the first quarter of the present ;
fiscal year as compared with the same I -period
last year was announced Sun- j g'
day by the internal revenue bureau. I
From July 1 to Sept. 30 the govern- j
ment income from all tax sources j
was $708,363,707 as compared with
$770,835,212 in the first three j
months of the last fiscal year. The j
major part of the decrease occurred j
last month, when the tax collections J
dropped to $48,847,552 from $593,
983,224 for September, 1929.
Only six of the thirty-six classes
Of taxes showed increases and they
were minor items. Income taxes reg
istered the greatest drop, being $55,
740192 less than collections in the
first three months last year. Corpor
ation tax collection declined $14,055,-
350, while individual income tax re
ceipts decreased $41,684,842. The to
tal income tax receipts from July 1
to Sept. 30 was $553,725,824, com
posed of $302,675,618 corporation
taxes and $251,050,206 individual.
Where Increases Come.
The six classes that showed in
creases included tax on recitfiers, re
tail and wholesale liquor dealers,
manufacturers of stills, etc, case
stamps for distilled spirits bottled in
boncl and brews, retail and wholesale
dealers in malt liquors. The increases
in these divisions totalled only $274.
The tobacco tax was the only gen
eral subdivision that showed an in
crease, and this was due to a jump
in the manufacture of cigarets and
cigaret papers. Cigarets paid $97,
S81.500 for the first quarter compar
ed with $96,020,214 last year, while
cigaret papers paid $413,373 this
quarter as against $376,096 a year
I ago. The total tobacco tax, However,
was only y.4oo more in tne nrsi
quarter of this year, due to decreases
in large and small cigars, large cig
arets. snuff and chewing and smok
ing tobacco.
Documentary stamp taxes which
advanced during the stock market
boom dropped away $7,936,343,
showing a decrease from $24,606,
196 in the first quarter of last year
to sl6,642,h3o this year, ut this de
crease $3,507,556 occured last month
as compared to September, 1929.
Declines Elsewhere.
Taxes on bonds of indebtedness,
capital stock issues etc., and on cap
ital stock sales or transfers, which
had increased during the stock mar
ket boom, dropped off $1,350,770 and
$5,314,147, respectively. The playing
card tax declined from $954, 5S4 in
the first three months of the last
fiscal year to $827,701. Miscellaneous
taxes dropped from $3,330,402 for
the first quarter of the last year to
$1,3 9,138 for the same period this
year.
The greater part of the decrease
in tax collections waa due to the drop
in income taxes collected last month
as compared to those received in Sep
tember last year. The collections this
September were $497,288,740 as com
pared to $542,065,837 last year.
Among the major tax items only
those on the transfer of estates of
descendents showed an increase, ad
vancing from $9,549,12S in the first
three months last year to $13,318,
330 this year. State Journal.
"One Good Term E&esetfves Another"
John EL Turner
Republican Candidate for Re-Election
for Second Team
An Efficient and Strict Business Administration of the Office of
County Treasurer is assured by re-electing the present Treasurer.
Your Support will be Appreciated
Election Tuesday, November 4th
Five Years Village Marshal
of Greenwood
Born and Lived in Cass County AH My Life
BeKccs,atc Candidate 0?
County Sheriff!
Your Support will be Appreciated at Nov. 4th Election
J. L. Stamp
Candidate Sor County Treasure?
on Democratic Ticket
Believing that I am fully lalified to fill the above
office, I respectfully solicit your support at the Novem
ber election. I will appreciate any and all favors the
voters may give me in their selection for this position.
DEATH FROM PERITONITIS
Omaha Because his blood was of
a rare type that could not he readily
matched with that of four normal
classes of human being?, Leonard
Bekdahl, ten, of Craig, died here Sun
day morning while attendants stood
by helplessly, unable to do anything
to check peritonitis that developed
from El cold.
Twenty-four persons. including
prominent Omaha business men, the
boy's parents, and other relatives and
nurses, doctors and even a prominent
surgeon who had been called in on
the case, volunteered to give blood
in a transfusion, necessary to save
the lad's life, but none had the need
ed tvpe of blood. Some relatives
came as far as from Winnebago, Neb.
for the blood tests and even Satur
day night, when the end was near,
Omahana who bad learned of the
case suhmitted in vain ior cue lesis.
The boy was the pnn of Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Bekdahl of Craig. He com
plained of " sore throat a week ago
last Saturday. Saturday peritonitis
developed, and he was then brought
to the hospital here. He lapsed Into
unconsciousness Wednesday. Accord
ing to the physicians the boy could
have been saved with a quart of pro
perly matched blood.
Lillian G. White
Candidate or Register of Deeds
on the Democratic Ticket
"Her record as clerk in the office of County
Judge proves her well qualified for the office."
Your Support at the Polls will be Sincerely Appreciated
You All i
Know -
Bert'
Reed
for Sheriff
of Cass County
Your Vote will be Appreciated
NEBRASKA TEAM IS THIRD
Cleveland A team of dairy prod
ucts judges from Kansas State Agri
cultural college Monday night won
sweepstakes honors in the annual in
ternational judging contest or tne
American Dairy Science association
here. O. E. Ross of the University
of Illinois won the individual judg-
ne competition. Fifty-one students
from seventeen schools participated.
Mississippi A. & M. college won sec
ond placa in team judging. The Uni
versity of Nebraska won third place.
DUR0C JERSEY BOARS
I have some excellent husky Duroc
Jersey Boars for sale. Address me
at Nehawka or come see them. Otto
Schaffer, Xehawka, Neb. ol6-8tw.
Legal and commercial printing oflj
all kinds at the Journal office.
'Worthy and Well Qualified'
C.
CAST YOUR VOTE
FOR
E. Ledgway
Republican Nominee
FOR
Clerk of the District Court
Five years a deputy in the office he now seeks.
Quiet, courteous and thoroughly efficient in the
discharge of his present duties, he will serve well
the citizens of Ca3S county if elected on Nov. 4th.
Your Support will be Appreciated!