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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1934)
THURSDAY. JANUARY 4. 1934 FAGS FOTJS PIATTSMOUTH WHEN IN PLATTSMOUTH ITEiig KIEDDe E2)aSE?57 is conveniently located (comer 5th and Main Streets) to give you Quick, Efficient Service We Duy Poultry, Eggs and Cream Paying Top Price Every Day in the Week IHIome EDaSffy OUR SERVICE ALWAYS SATISFIES We Don't "Skin" anybody but we can Handle Your Hides! Highest Prices Paid at All limes Nehawka Bank of Nehavka Insures Deposits of Its Customers One of Leading Banks of the County Conies Under the Provisions of New Insurance Law. MASS FLIGHT TO HONOLULU The Bank of Nehawka, one of the leading banks of the county, has been notified that their bank has been ac cepted as a member of the association that will have the advantages of the Federal Deposit Insurance corpor ation, created by the banking act of 1933. This act provides for the insurance of deposits up to $2,500 for each de positor and is one of the new laws that became effective on January 1st. The insurance fund is secured by in surance on the member banks and gives to the depositor the protection of this powerful piece of federal leg islation. The people of Nehawka are pleased that their bank with its usual fore sight" and interest of their customers is-adding this protection to their al ready strong bank. WANTED Alfalfa or red clover hay. Platts mouth Feed Yards. Tele 377 in day time or 376 in evenings. d28-tfw Barred Rock roosters, 73c; four miles southeast Plattsmouth. M. G. STAVA. jl-3tw San Francisco. Six navy seaplanes will attempt a mass flight from San Francisco to Honolulu probably next month, navy headquarters announc cd definitely, the first flight in more than five years over the longest all over water airlane in the world. The planes ordered to make the flight un der the leadership of Lieut. Com Knefler McGinnis recently flew in group from Norfolk, Va., to San Diego, by way of the Panama canal They will be permanently stationed at Pearl Ilarbor, the navy's mid-Paci fic base on the Hawaiian island of Cahu. The distance from San Francisco to Honolulu is 2,400 land miles. There is no land between. Pearl Harbor is a pleasant glide beyond Honolulu. TO ASK AID FOR EDUCATION Omaha. Superintendent Anderson of the Omaha public schools, Thurs day was advised that congress, when it meets next week, will be asked to provide federal funds "to help meet the crisis in education." Dr. Ander son is a consultant of the joint com mission on the emergency in educa tion, appointed by the education as sociation and the department of superintendence. The situation will be placed before the president, Dr. Anderson said. If congerss doe3 not act promptly the educators hope fo radministrative ac tion. The commission has discovered, he said, that 2,000 rural schools have closed and that schools of many towns and large cities will be forced to home of Mr. and Mrs close by March 1. Mrs. Oren Pollard was a visitor in Bethany at the R. N. White home several days the past week. Miss Evelyn Wolph accompanied her brother Paul to the Organized Agriculture meetings in Lincoln Tuesday. Miss Lois Troop is spending the week with friends and relatives in Plattsmouth and is enjoying the visit very much. Mrs. Ruth B. Pollard and grand son, Robert Pollard, were Sunday. visitors at the A. H south of town. Mr. and Mrs. William Gorder were guests for the day last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wehr bein, the ladies being sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Conant Wolph and daughters drove to Clarinda, Iowa and spent Christmas with the An dersons, parents of Mrs. Wolph. Mrs. Harry Ross has been quite sick at her home south of town from a gall bladder attack. She is improved at this writing but i3 not able to be out. Mrs. Fred Wessel was called to Beatrice Wednesday by the death of her two-year-old sister from whoop ing cough. We extend sympathy to her at this time. Mr. Oren Pollard won tnird on his shelled corn exhibit in the Nebraska Crop Growers association contest at the Organized Agriculture meetings in Lincoln this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Rhoden and Mr. and Mr3. E. J. Boedeker were visiting at the home of Mrs. Boedeker's broth er, Arnold Fitzpatrick, In Omaha, one afternoon the past week. The James Kitchen family of Lin coln were visitors at the Oren Pol lard home Sunday and Monday. Mr. Kitchen joined the Nehawka boys in the wolf hunt Sunday. Mrs. Bertha Shrader was in at tendance at the funeral of Mrs. Mary E. McConnaha on last Sunday, from her late home in Omaha, and was also visiting at the home cf her sister, Mrs. George E. Nickles, of Murray. Fred Ycunjr and mother. Mrs. Ellen Young, of Genoa, who have been vis iting for the past three weeks at the Omar Schlich temeier, are to return to their home in the central portion of the state af ter this week. V. P. Sheldon i3 wearing a smile that simply won't erase. The cause of which is the fact that there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Sheldon, of Stella, a fine baby daughter, thus making Vilas a grandfather. All are doing nicely. Robert McConnaha, great-grandson of Mrs. Mary E. McConnaha, was a visitor here for a few days, being a guest at the home of the parents of Mrs. McConnaha, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Stone and also attending the funeral of the great-grandmother, Mrs. Fred Gwilliam3 was operated on for appendicitis at the St. Cath fit .Tnhn Vrnmp erine's hospital in Omaha Tuesday morning. At this time she Is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. Chester Waldo is staying with the family during her absence. Misses Doris and Marie Anderson were the guests of Margie Ruth and Virginia Pollard at a duck dinner last Thursday at the Hall Pollard home. The young ladies were joined by Zola Smith and Imogene Pollard for a sled ding party, The amount of bonds to be issued In this case to take care of the 70 per cent will not exceed $16,400, al though the cost" of" Installing the new system will be considerably in excess of that sum. " One of the provisions of the grant is that work be given local unemploy ed and the beginning of the work at an early date will provide employ ment for a considerable number at this particular season of the year, when work in the stone quarries is at a standstill. The proponents of the waterworks proposal feel highly elated at their success in putting the proposition over and say that the coming sum mer will see the culmination of their plan of providing an adequate water works system for the town. Visited at Crete Mr. and Mrs. John Stuart Rough were In Crete last Sunday, where they went to visit at the home of their daughter, Mrs. D. II. Wilson and fam ily, and where they also found Mr. and Mrs. . II. Elsie of Hastings. Mrs. followed by game3 and Elsie is a sister of Mr. Wilson. Robert. The funeral services were held at Blair and the Interment was in Mount Pleasant cemetery north east of Nehawka, near where she had spent so many pleasant year3 as the wife of the true "Country Doctor" of those pioneer days. Rev. E. S. Pangborn conducted the funeral service. ... . - I . ll a popcorn. All naa a very juny nine. Mr. and Mrs. J. Marion Stone en-; tertained the following guests for New Years dinner: Messrs and Mes- dames C. F. Harris, Sterling Harris, Former Citizen Dies at Blair Mrs. Mary E. McConnaha, a form er resident of the neighborhood north of Nehawka, for more than thirty Lee Faris, Vance Harris and Alvin, yearS( but who left this vicinity many Fulton Harris and Mies Bes3 cat kins, all of Union and the Hall Pol lard family of Nehawka. All did jus tice to the fine dinner prepared by Mrs. Stone. The Anderson family held a fam ily reunion at the Dan Anderson home last Sunday. Those present for the happy .occasion were Alfred An derson and family of Omaha: Mrs. Bedella Stander and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth White of Louisville; Mr. and Mrs. -Fred Marquardt of Avoca; Al- years ago, passed away at the home of a son In Blair last week. Remains were brought to Mt. Pleasant ceme tery for interment last Sunday. In company with her husband, Dr. John McConnaha, they resided a few miles noith of Nehawka, where he was the only physician for many years and where most of their seven children were born. Dr. McConnaha passed away many years ago and Mrs. McConnaha with the children moved elsewhere, some Arrived in Nehawka 44 Yea4rs Ao Nels Anderson arrived In Nehawka on New Year's day. 1890, just forty four years ago, and for a number of years was engaged In working in the stone quarries here. Later, for a per iod of ten years, he was engaged in the restaurant business In Weeping Water. Some 26 years ago, he en gaged In the operation of an amuse ment parlor in Nehawka and has since that time been one of the best workers for the welfare of the town cne could expect to find anywhere, al ways an energetic booster for Nehaw ka. Best regard3 to you, Nels! Former Citizen Dies Charles Brandt, who was at one time engaged in frmlr.g near Ne hawka, and later conducted a busi ness enterprise at the location where J. H. Steffen. Is now engaged In th a neat profit has been made on tie business transacted. As a result. dividend cf five per cent will b de clared on the stock of the company, together with a one cent per bushel dividend on what praln was purchas ed by the company from its own mem bers, which will make an nverare earning of about IS.2S per share for holders of one share and more for those having nore share. On account of the unprofitable con duct of the Luine5s during the d prefsion year r.f 1932, the manager. J. S. Rough agreed to a 25 por rent cut In hi salary, which vtzs v be made good if the business made er.uf money this last year to take rare r.f the dividends and other fipen.'f . a-.l lay up enough additional to rare fr the salary cut. This ha been rfr,r.e, end so the rr.anajrcr ha3 suffrd no loss In his salary, du to his efficient manr.tr cf looking after the bu.inK. It wcul'l rrem that times are mmin? back to where a rea?r r.able pre St can once more hi r.ade on the conduct cf business cr.terprl.-ics ar.d that it cne of the most healthful ?!?ns apparent on the business horizon today, for with an crrrtunity to make a legitimate profit all buines firm will lx? found once more reay and v. illir.? to extend mercantile line, but who during thejthcJr PcrvIfe ai,d RO r,lt aftfvr THE State Baek TAKES PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT It has complied with all the demands of the Temporary Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit 'Insurance iration Dep Corpoi and that Your Deposits Are Wow Insured! ACCORDING TO SAID LAW Our Policy always has been, is now and in the future will be that our depositors shall be SECURE in every Dollar they Deposit in our Bank. IPlaftOsGisioiaftb State DBannEi FRANK A. CLOIDT . Cashier H. A. SCHNEIDER President bert Anderson and family and the settling one place and some another. Louis Ross family of Nehawka. Mfss Ellen Rose, who has been making: her heme in Kansas City, where she has been working for a Missionary instltjrtion, has been vis- uing nere tor ir.e-, past weeK. tsne re turned to her work early this week. While she was here she assisted in the moving of her father to another Mrs. McConnaha united with the Methodist church early in life, and continued as a devout member and a faithful follower of the lowly Naza- rene throughout the years. The children who are left to mourn the departure of this 86-year-old pio neer woman are Elmer, Ernest, Rob ert, Mable, Lula, Pauline and Earl to attend the last sacred rites inci dent to the laying away of their mother to await the resurrection morn, they being Earl, Elmer and house after he had resided on the the youngest. Three sons were here rarai for tne past nearly 70 years. Mr3. Hall Pollard just recently re ceived a gin box of soap from a Massachusets soap company as a mer chandise prize and; the announcement that she was a winner in the the In ternational Canning Contest at a Century of Progress, Chicago. Offi cial award3tterc nor to be announced until Dec. 31 and Mrs. Pollard is anxiously awaiting this announce- ment. Mrs. Miller Christensen has been enjoying a visit 'f for the past few weeks from two sisters who make their home at Dover, N. J., traveling via bus on their way out here and making just one thousand and twenty-five miles to 'reach here. The young ladies say that times are great ly improved in the east and everyone is locking forwaffrto an era of pros perity during the coming year. past number of years ha3 been a resi dent at the Cass county farm home near Plattsmouth, passed away there last week and was burled last Satur day at St. John cemetery northwest of Nehawka. Mr. Brandt came to this vicinity more than forty years ago. After suc cessfully farming for a time, he gave up that vocation and traded his S0- acre farm to Mr. Bryer for the store which he conducted for seme time. later disposing of the business to Thomas Cromwell and still later on drifted to other places. He was in Lincoln for a time and also made his home with Henry Ross, later going to the county home to reside. He will be remembered by many of the older in habitants of Nehawka and vicinity. Rev. E. S. Pangborn conducted the funeral service. nes., romethln-that few folt lik d--Ing with the di ru raging out lor k of the pa?t f?w years. Made Money in 1933 The Nehawka elevator which, dur ing lysz. was not auie io make any profit, moreover to come out quite even with the board, has a different story to report this year, as an audit of the books shows that during 1933 Lctdel Last Cars HcrAj Many trainload.-? of t'no harp bn leaded and shipped from hc-e during the pxst few months, but the bzin n!ng of the New Year .aw a tempo rary cessation r,r thi wr.rk. a the l;i-t two car were leaded out Monday. When spring open u; and work m the rirer i? resumed li full sinr. the quarries &;r.u'n re.-ume opera tion, as there are orders on fH now for vast quantities of tor.e with prc pecu of more if the enlarged river project is approved by the fr.rthori ini? consrres". For the present, how ever, everythinc is quiet at the quar ries ar.d the sound of blasting opera tions will be heard no rrore for a v.-hill?. The men who are thrown out cf v.-crk will fcr the most part be able to find ther employment, however. as the municipal waterworks project gets under way in the near future. try If you have sometnrng to sir r a Journal Want-Ad. .. ... :? United Brethren in Christ. Rev. Otto Engebretson, minister NEHAWKA CHURCH Bible church school at 10 a. m. Let us have a ful. attendance on the first Sunday of the new year. Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. m. Evening w-orship service at 7:30 The Woman's Society meets with Mr3 Sutphin Wednesday, January 10. Prayer and Praise meeting Wed nesday evening at 7:30. We had a large crowd at our watch night service Sunday evening in spite of the disagreeable weather. I am sure all were blessed by being there. OTTERBEIN CHURCH Bible church school 10 a. m. First Sunday services of the new year at 11 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 7:30. The Woman's society meets with Mrs. Krucger thi3 week. The Y. P. S. C. E. meets at the Davis home Friday evening, January 5th. "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22. Will Have Water System At the third trial for securing a waterworks system in Nehawka of adequate size to take care of the needs of the town, both in the matter of consumption and fire protection, the proposition was carried by a vote of 135 for to 55 against, or slightly over 71 per cent. The. statutory re quirement to pass a proposal of this kind is 60 per cent. In 1931 a similar proposition was lost by seven votes, but this time the result was different. A very thorough campaign had been carried on before the date of the election last Saturday. Under the PWA arrangement avail able to towns and cities, the govern ment will donate 30 per cent of the cost, while the remaiaiof 70 per cent must be borno by the municipality. T T T T T T T t t T T T T T T f t T T t T T T t Y r T t 5 r T T T T ? r Vs) Ml Decisive reductions on all Fall and winter apparel. Every Coat, Hat, Dress must be cleared from our stock quickly. It's your big opportunity to save money so don't fail to take advantage of it. COATS $16,75 $24.75 Valnes COATS $24.75 $32.75 Values COATS S19.75 $27.50 Value t V t t f Y y v V t DRESSES $2.98 Values to $0.75 HATS $1.00 $1.05 Values DRESSES DRESSES $12.75 Values to $19.75 HATS $1.98 $3.95 Valnes T Tfca Ofcop c5 Personal Ccrvico $3.98 Values to $0.50 HATS $1.49 $2.95 Values ? V i I Ji my