PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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THURSDAY, JA2TUAEY 10, 1935.
Passengers are
Getting Back to
Railroad Travel
Drastic Rate Reduction Bringing In
crease in Revenue fcr First
Time in IIany Years.
St. Louis. A drastic rate reduc
tion has brought passengers back to
southwestern lailroads, and revenues
have started upward for the first
time in many years. "With passenger
rates trimmed almost 50 percent at
the start of 1&34, three major lines
here reported revenue increased lor
the year ranging from 3 to 7 per
cent. Fassenger volume was up more
than 50 percent on most lines.
Puzzled executives. laced with an
nual reports that had shown steady
decreases since the advent of auto
mobiles and paved highways, trim
med their ticket costs a year ago in
a grim gamble, with passenger busi
ness as the stake. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas
passenger revenue for
19 3 1 was higher than the preced
ing year for the first time since
1920. The St. Louis-San Francisco
passenger revenue for the year was
about 7 percent better, the first up
swing in a decade. Missouri Pacific
trains carried 55 percent mere per
sons in 1934 than in 1933, the first
time volume had shown an increase
in years.
Executives genially poin'ted to
the rate cut as the factor that re
vived rail travel. An added attrac
tion to travelers was the Innovation
of air cooled trains. Passenger travel
at the St. Louis gate for the Kaiy
was 11 percent higher by revenue
during the 19 3 4 holiday season.
An indication of what the up
ward trend in revenue means can be
found in the records of one of the
lines. Its passenger revenue in 1920
approximated 19 millions, with more
than S millions persons riding its
trains. By 1933 passenger revenue
had dropped to $1,S35,170 and the
number of passengers to 452,047.
The average distance traveled
showed an increase, bringing out the
fact that inter-city highway travel
was a factor cuuing deep into rail
road revenues.
With rail travelers increasing, the
executives are hopeful that the an
swer to their immediate problem has
been found. "It proves to us," said
J. V. Nourse of the Frisco, "that
people want to ride on trains, and
will do so when they can afford it.
Our problem is to make the cost to
them attractive, and still show an
operating gain. The year just closed
makes 19 35 look hopeful."
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The modem cansrster is a "punk," said Col. Robert E. Dalton, last cf th
notorious Dahon"gans of the '90s, a3 he posed for this picture in Chicago,
lie -w&s pardoned by the late President Roosevelt and is now a respected
citizen end deputy fcheriif in Mississippi.
SUFFERS FROM LNDULGENCE
From Tuesday's Dally
Officer David Pickrel when mak
ing his tour of the streets last night
discovered a youth sleeping on the
platform at the Burlington station,
suffering from what seemed to be an
overload of some potent liquor. Ef
forts to arouse the youth were fruit
les and securing the assistance of
Sheriff Sylvester, the youthful Rip
VanWiukle was taken to the city Jail
to rest up from the overload of li
quor. Inquiries developed that the
young man was apparently located
at the camp north of the city and
the officers there notified but the
condition cf the victim was such that
an all night rest was thought best
and he remained at the jail until this
morning.
Estimate for
Expense of Cass
County Prepared
Relief Llakes Necessary Larger Sum;
Appropriations for County Fair
and Farm Bureau.
The county commissioners have
made their estimate of the expense of
Cass county for the ensuing year, thi3
being approved at the meeting of
the board Tuesday, Commissioners
Chapman and Gorder were in attend
ance at the meeting, Commissioner
Pitz being ill at the time.
The amounts required for the var
ious funds for the year were as fol
lows: 1935 1934
General fund $ 6G.O0O $ 59,000
Poor relief 30,000 15.000
Road fund 35.000 36.000
Bridge fund 30,000 31,000
Mother's Pension. 6,000 5,500
Soldiers Relief 1.200 1,200
?16S,200 1147,700
The Cass County Agricultural so
ciety filed their request for an ap
propriation for funds for the county
fair in 1935 and the board approved
the request for the $2,000 to defray
the expense of the fair.
The Cass County Farm Bureau also
made their report for the past year
that they had expended the sum of
J2.S00 in the various activities of
the bureau and their budget for the
coming year asked a like sum and
which was approved by the board.
The county board also decided that
the rate of pay for road work would
be the same as in 1934 with the ex
ception that the amount for team
work would be increased to fourteen
cents per hour.
The salaries for deputies and clerks
in the various offices at the court
house will remain the same as in the
3-ear 1934.
MARRIED AT COURT HOUSE
From Monday's Daily
This morning at the office of
Judge A. II. Duxbury occurred the
marriage of Mrs. Vera Dalton of Om
aha and Edward Cotner of this city.
The marriage lines were read by
Judge Duxbury in his usual impres
sive manner and following the wed
ding ceremony the bridal couple re
turned to their home in the south
portion of the city where they are
to make their home in the future.
The many old friends will join in
i their best wishes to Mr. and Mrs.
Cotner for many years of happiness
and success.
"Sea it before ycu buy ft."
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Postage Stamp
Allowance Stirs
Representatives
Members Decide to Increase Allow
ance for Answering Letters of
"Folks Back Home."
The Nebraska house, torn between
conflicting desires, to give an eco
nomical account and to furnish serv
ice to the constituents back home,
Monday voted to increase the daily
postage allowance to members from
8 two years ago to 12, from 24 cents
to 36 cents, increase of $12 for each
working day of the session.
Twenty-six measures, new and
amendatory, were shot from tne
house hopper, running the total to
date ot fifty-three as against thirty
six for the first four days two years
ago. Two measures deal with old age
pension, one is the horse race or pari-
mutuel betting bill, in response to
popular mandate, which creates a
state racing commission with a paid
secretary at ?2,400, restricts licenses
to non-profit associations carried on
for civic purposes or livestock exposi
tion for promotion of breeding, and
there are numerous school tuition
bills.
Another permits depositors of fail
ed state banks to select a local re
ceiver while one suggests that where
a defendant proposes to introduce an
alibi as his defense, notice shall be
served on the county attorney as
to where defendant claims to have
been at the time of the alleged of
fense. There is a bill providing that
bonds of political subdivisions shall
not be issued except on 51 percent
vote, another prohibiting transfer of
funds unless financial conditions
justify it and a measure setting up
the financial pins for bindweed erad
ication. Another Stamp Act.
Lester Dunn of the Lancaster dele
gation has a little stamp act of his
own fqr introduction, perhaps on
Tuesday. Without charging bad
faith on the part of state officers,
appointees and other helpers, past or
present, Mr. Dunn provides that the
state tax commissioner shall set
apart in his office a mailing room
and shall install therein one or more
pejstage stamp metering machines.
All first class and second class mail
and parcel post matter, registered
mail alone excepted, shall be deposit
ed by all state workers at the cap
itol in this room.
They have such a law in Iowa,
adopted two years ago, according to
Mr. Dunn, and it allegedly has
brought about economy and tax re
duction. He said that it will gne
a fair picture of where the postage
goes and perhaps will prevent use of
state postage on private mail. He
doesn't charge that this is being done
or that the democrats are more lib
eral in use of postage than were the
republicans when the latter were in
power.
Cone of Douglas did not press his
point, raised previously this session
and in other years, that all letters
be posted by members be left with
the chief clerk, latter to attach post
age. He merely recalled this thought
to the membership.
Lusienski, democrat of Platte,
moved that the allowance be 24 cents
per day per member. Steele of Kim
ball, offered the amendment to in
crease to 36 cents. Other members
from the west joined him, it being
the contention that constituents from
the tar west, cannot personally meet
the legislators because of distance
and that correspondence is the only
alternative.
"We have much important legis
lation of a serious nature in which
our constitutents are interested,"
said Steele.
Diers of York, opposed the amend
ment as did several others. He and
Finnigan of Madison said they have
stamps left from two years ago. The
matter was not fought along poli
tical lines but rather along the geo
graphy map. W. F. Haycock of Cus
ter, democratic floor leader, said
that he spent $25 for postage in ad
dition to his allowance two years
ago and expects to do so again.
Can Turn Then Rack.
Gus Meline, democrat of Buffalo,
speaking for the amendment, said
that those who do not need the
twelve stamps daily may turn the
surplus back and for this he received
a hand. Eremer, democrat of Ham
ilton, said that crop failure and wel
fare legislation call for more cor
respondence than Curing other ses
sions while Sullenberger of Dawes
said that it is not economy to ignore
the constituents back home. Wacht
ler of Douglas and Strong of Sheri
dan spoke for the Steele amendment
while Porter of Boone opposed. Bock,
veteran democrat of Butler, proposed
a saving on gas with use of the choke
on house oratory. Record vote on the
steel amendment and twelve stamps
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In c&se of &n flcciderb
ENSURE JITH
Passing of an
Old Resident
of Elmwood
Richard Tolhurst Is Laid to Rest
Today at ELnrvvcod Passed
Away on Monday.
From Wednesday's Daily
Funeral services were held at Elm
wood today for Richard Tolhurst, 80,
whose death occurred in that place
on Monday. The services were held
at the First Methodist church, Rev.
W. B. Bliss conducting.
Richard Tolhurst was -oorn at
Gravcshead, England, in 1S53, com
ing to America in 1S72 and located
in Illinois where he was engaged in
farming until 18 So wht-n he was
married and later came west to Ne
braska. In the year 1S91 the family located
on a farm near Elmwood and have
since made their heme in that com
munity and where Mrs. Tolhurst
passed away a year ago.
Mr. Tolhurst was a loyal and ac
tive member of the L 0. O. F. and
active in the work of tha Methodist
church.
Pie is survived by two children,
Harry, of Ra3mond, Nebraska, and
Mrs. George W. Blessing, of Elm
wood, the latter the wife of the pub
lisher of the Elmwood Leader-Echo.
The many friends will join in ex
tending their sympathy to the mem
bers of the family in their hour of
bereavement.
DEATH OF AGED LADY
From Tuesday's Dally
The death of Mrs. T. S. Jones,
widow fo the late John Henry Jones,
S3, occurred today at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Robin
son in the south part of the city.
Mrs. Jones is a long time resident of
the city and has a large circle of
friends who will regret to learn of
her passing.
The arrangements for the funeral
services have not been fully decided
upon until word is received from
members of the family at distant
points.
The body is at the Sattler funeral
home who will have charge of the
funeral direction.
daily was 65 to 2.
The house finance committee, first
jf the standing groups to step into
harness, met late Monday and re
ported out the two legislative pay
bills. H. R. 25 and II. R. 26, by Hay
cock and others. One measure ap
proyiriates $120,500 for salaries of
members and officers while the oth
er appropriates $70,000 for salaries
of employes, mileage of members and
incidentals, also $10,000 for print
ing the house and senate journals.
The amounts are practically the
same, a few dollars less, than those
of two years ago. George E. Nickles
of Cass is chairman of this import
ant committee. He was a member
two years ago and is the sole sur
vivor of finance. The committee
named Ed Lusienski of Platte secre
tary. o
FJow
. more than ever before
it is unsafe to drive a car without
good Insurance to protect you!
Public Liability
Property Damage
Collision
Fire - Theft
INSURE AGAINST THESE RISKS
with
Bisxbury & Davis
Bepresenting the largest and Oldest
Insurance Companies in America
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J Cass County Farm
Bureau Notes
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Copy furnished from Office
of County Agent wainscott r
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Economical Food Buying.
Many people think that "economy
in the food budget" must mean, eith
er a decrease in the total food value,
or foregoing many items that make
appetizing meals. In selecting low
cost foods one must select those
which will also meet the health
needs. Try some of the following sug
gestions and see for yourself if be
sides aiding in lowering the grocery
bill they also help to add variety to
the meals:
Lard is the cheapest cooking fat on
the market.
Substitute flour for corn starch.
One pound of dried fruit goes as
far as four pounds of fresh fruit.
Cabbage is usually the cheapest
leafy vegetable.
Rutabagas or the yellow turnip
can be purchased at a reasonable
price. It is an excellent source of
vitamin C so can be used to add vita
min C to the diet. Occasionally use
it raw with apples or cabbage.
Grapefruit is inexpensive at this
time of the year. Since they are
eiual to oranges and tomatoes as a
source of vitamin C it is in the in
terest of both economy and variety
to use them while the price is low. 1
Peanuts are rich in fat, protein,
phosphorus, vitamin B, and are a
fair source of iron.
Potatoes in some form once a day
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are especially important in me buan
ood budget they rre inexpensive,
rich in iron, fairly rica in vitamics
and they are filling.
Grain Sorghum Seed Supplies.
Supplies of genuine atlas sorgo
seed will be extremely short tnis
spring, P. H. Stewart, extension
agronomist at the Nebraska college
of agriculture says. He warns that
much seed offered as atlas sorgo will
net be "true atlas."
Atlas has proven its value for Ne
braska conditions as a forage and en
silage crop, Stewart says. Unfortun
ately in 1934, the demand was so
great that much seed sold in good
faith through regular seed channels
turned out to be other varieties. Seed
of this so-called atlas will probably
be on the market in some localities.
One variety, hegari, may be avail
able to farmers for spring planting.
It has produced slightly heavier
yields of cured forage than black
amber sorgo during a o-jeur ytnuu
in Nebraska experimental station
tests and was unsurpassed in grain
production. It should prove satisfac
tory as an emergency forage crop. As
a forage crop, it should be equal or
superior to blackhull kafir and gro
homa. Because of its shorter height,
hegari will not yield nearly as large
a tonnage as atlas sorgo and other
tall sorgo varieties. The seed is rath
srift and starehv and may give
some trouble in securing stands al
though it should be less troublesome
than feterita. In any case, the seed
should be treated with copper car
bonate before planting.
Home Accounts.
Eighteen women living in Cass
county kept a complete record in
193 4 of the expenditures, meals
served, home products used, amount
cf income and the source of income,
and turned their books in to the
Home Agent for summarization.
These books, kept by women living
in various parts of the county, will
give a fairly accurate picture of the
income and outgo of money in the
average farm home in Cass county.
Many of these women are wives of
farmers who keep record books shov
ing the expenditures, etc. for the
farm, thus the two books give a com
plete history of the farm and home
business for the year. Thirty heme
account books have been placed with
homemakers for use during the year
1935. It is not too late to start keep
ing an account book. If interested,
call at the Farm Bureau office. You
will be given a book and help from
time to time during the year in mak
ing the rroper entries.
From Bags to Bugs.
Women's project club members will
have an opportunity to learn how old
woolen, cotton and silk or rayon ma
terial which they may have stored
away. in closets and rag bags, may be
converted into hand-made rug3 for
the home. Braided rugs, hooked rugs
and woven rugs in various shapes and
sizes, and in many color schemes, will
be demonstrated at the project lead
training meetings which the!
ers
Home Agent will hold at the follow
ing places:
Louisville, January 14th; Elmwood
January 16th; Nehawka, January
17th; Murdock, January IStk; Weep
ing Water, -January 21st; Murray,
January 22nd; Eagle, January 23rd.
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taann infant s:n cf Erunc Riohavd Hauptmarn, is !:own with
his mcthcr cut for a stroll at rieiruntcn. 17. J., where his father is
on trirl fcr the murder of the Lmatersh. baby.
The very earliest fioor covering in
the Middle Ages v.-ere rushes and
sweet-smelling herbs strewn cn the
floor. The French began to braid the
rushes as early as the fifteenth cen
tury. These early braids were
straight strips with no attempts to
turn corners. The Pilgrims brought
this knowledge cf braiding with
them, adapting it to the use of rags
and cornhusks. From this time for
ward, the home made rug craft has
developed, first from one cf neces
sity to the later one which is more cf
a pleasurable pastime for American
homemakers.
Each generation of women lu.s
added something to the art until to
day the hand made rugs vie with
those made in factories for beauty
of color, design and durability.
The women will have an opportun
ity to see for themselves rugs made
from burlap, old underwear, overalls,
ticking, corduroy, etc., vlncn
fee 1
would ordinarily think not fit for
anything more than rags. They will
be shown the proper methods for
stripping, pressing, braiding, weav
ing or hooking, all of which are one
of the steps necessary in making a
certain type of hand made rug.
"Intermediate Credit."
Ninety million dollars leaned to
farmers without dealing directly
with a single farmer. Odd though it
seems, that is the record of the Fed
eral Intermediate Credit Bank cf
Omaha, which is peihaps the least
understood member of the Farm j
Credit Administration's big family j
of banks. During 1934 the FICB cf j
Omaha supplied low-interest credit j
to some 20,000 farmers and stock-j
men in Io wa, Nebraska. South La-j
kota and Wyoming, closing loans to
taling $22,550,000 for the busiest,
year in its 12-year career. Lv.t it's j
a pretty saie oc-i max. r.ci 01. e um
10 farmers know exactly Iki.v he can
reach this cheap money market.
The intermediate banks are net
authorized to do a fecc-to-faee busi
ness with farmers, but supply crvJit
through various local !oa:i corpor
ations. Some-limes called the "ie
serve banVs of agriculture," they
are, in effect, wholesalers of farm
credit.
Contrary to popular belief, they
rl.T rsr-.t lnn'i cvverr.rLiC'" t mercy.
Their luan funds are obtained thru j
tho sale of bonds to the investing j
public. These bonds are rated t-:
highly by investors that the Inter-j
mediate Credit bank obtains money
at exceedingly low interest rates. In
turn, this favorable interest rate is
passed along to H12 local financing
concerns whose paper the banks dis
count. Ai present me uuauu lait-j
is two percent. The local financing
corporation cr concern may charge
the borrower not mere t,:an rer-
cent above what the Intermediate
Credit banks charge.
Thus, credit is available at pres
ent to farmer-borrowers at not more
than 5 percent. The local financing
corporation uses the spread of 3 pcr
cen tinterest for operating expenses,
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to build v.p a reserve f.-r lcs.
to cfl'ect the hazard asju::.ed
uc-rsir.g the paper.
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:iety is the
the Iutcr-
mediate
mcst oi
Crcdlt Ba:.k's lil'e.
tho losns di.-countc-J
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Omaha i.j'.:k ha-.
been c :i iiv-
ai.d tiers lea::
ative maiketi:
been made on
s to fanr.eis' co-v ;-er-;g
association have
the se curity c f ware
house rec
ipts and bill,
ping d'-icum
lading r
other
h--r tl-, !t rin documents (ovi r;i."
such staple agricultural cum:n.unu.
las wneai, iiasseeu. corn taiu yum
I grains; wool, alfali'a and ciuvvr
scec3, ana tea::s.
The procedure lor s-ecurln:: tho
credit is tipple. Ary farmer or live
stcck producer v ishing to maV.e u:
of the Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank's facilities may apply tj a Pro
duction Credit As?' ciatii-n. a:.
cu!t jral credit corporation, a live-
5-t:xk 1' an company, a bant
fir.anck.! institution in
liis 1
caliiy
the privilege cf di; hunt
V ill', li litl o
ing paper with or obtaining lnns
frcm tie intermediate bank. Vcur
ity cn most oT the 1934 loars con
sisted of range end breeder ftock,
dairy cr.ttlc. sheep and goats and mis
cellaneous livestock.
Mr. and Mrs. John Alwiu were at
Lincoln Sunday where they sjm nt the
day visiting at the home of an aunt
of Mrs. Alv.in and with eld lriends
there.
Shrewd shoppers
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KjTLosienj
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four.i th vvis
com cr buying
letter h'-sicry.
That's v.hy so
r.zy insist cn
stockings by
Mur.zir.wc-r.
They're rude
with Mur.sl-.g-v::r's
ur.usuil
care. That's
why
vv::r
so !cr. anJ crc so ecor.o:c:.l. All
th: smartest sha-es in the sL;cret,
clearest, loveliest stockings you've
every seen. And the prices are
reasonable. Ccme Li and tec them
today.
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