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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1935.
NO. 30
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Schewe-AImy
Wedding is Held
at Murdoch
Beautiful Ceremony Held at Home of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schewe
Last Saturday.
On Saturday evening, IIay 11th.
1935, at 8:00 o'clock, in the presence
of about forty immediate relatives, a
very beautiful and impressive wed
ding occurred at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Schewe near Murdock, Ne
braska, when Miss Virginia M.
Schewe, their only daughter, was
united in marriage to Mr. Harold E.
Almy, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Almy of Greenwood. Nebraska, Rev.
K. R. Knosp, pastor of the Murdock
Evangelical church officiated and
read the marriage lines which made
these worthy young people one for
life. The impressive ring ceremony
was used.
The sitting-room of the home was
beautifully decorated with white and
yellow streamers which centered in
the chandelier and widening to the
north window and coming to the floor
in the foreground of which were bas
kets of lilacs, bridal wreath, tulips,
and snap-dragons, and midway be
tween the window and chandelier
from the streamers hung a large
white wedding bell.
Preceding the ceremony, the Misses
Ruth Marie and Rhoda Neitzel play
ed a piano duet entitled. "Minuet"
by Mozart. Mrs. O. H. Zeigenbein
of Ashland, played the "Lohengrin"
wedding march when the contracting
parties took their places beneath the
large white wedding bell.
The bride was very beautiful and
charming, -being attired in a blue lace
dress. The groom was dressed in a
conventional blue.
' Immediately after (he ceremony a
very delicious wedding dinner wasi
served, in charge of Mrs. Charles
Long and Mrs. Chester Elseman. The
solor scheme of white and yellow was
further carried out in the menu. Miss
Helen Harrison of Norfolk, Nebraska
had charge of the guest book.
Mrs. Almy is the only daughter of
Mr. and MrB. Paul Schewe and is a
graduate of the Murdock high school
and has taken two years of study at
the state university at Lincoln, and
for the last six years has been em
ployed in the Farmers and Merchants
National bank at Ashland, where she
has been one of the efficient and com
petent bookkeepers. 'She is well
known in' the vicinity of Murdock
and counts "her friends by. her ac
quaintances. Mr. Harold E. Almy is a graduate
of the Greenwood high school and
also a graduate of the state univer
sity at: Lincoln where he has taken
a course In business administration.
Mr. and Mrs. Almy were the re
cipients of many useful and lovely
gifts. Their many friends at Murdock
and Greenwood Join in wishing them
much happiness and Joy in their
home which had been completed Just
recently at 4 673 Mayberry st.. Om
aha, Nebraska, and where the latch
string will be out to their many
friends.
POPULAR TEACHER RESIGNS
The board of education has re
ceived the resignation of Miss Evelyn
May, one of the popular teachers in
the city system, the resignation to
be effective at the close of the pres
ent term.
Miss May is laying aside her school
-work here to become the bride of
Mr. Carl R. Keil In the early sum
mer. She has been a teacher In the
Plattsmouth schools for the past five
years and has had charge of the fifth
grade at the Central building dur
ing this time.
The patrons of the school will re
gret very much to learn of the re
signation of Miss May, but will ex
tend to the young people their best
wishes for the happiness that is
awaiting them in the future.
TAKES NURSING POSITION
Miss Bernese Arn, who has been
engaged in the nurse Inspection work
of the Plattsmouth city schools, de
parted Sunday for Craig, Nebraska.
Miss Arn will take up her work as
trained nurse, being called on a case
that will probably demand her serv
ices for the next three or four weeks.
"VISIT HERE SUNDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Grassman and
son, Billy, Miss Laura Grassman and
Joseph Manacek, of Omaha, were here
Sunday to enjoy the day with Mrs.
Btlle Stoner, their mother and other
of the relatives. It had been plan
ned for a Mother's day dinner at the
Hillard Grassman home but which
was prevented by sudden illness in
the Grassman family. While here
they were guests at the home of Mrs.
R. A. Rates, sister of Mrs. Stoner and
with whom she is spending her vaca
tion from her duties at Glenwood.
City Pays a
Tribute to Its
Mothers Sunday
Services at the Churches Bear Theme
of "Mother,"; Many Home
Gatherings Held.
Mother's day in this city was ex
tensively observed in many home
gatherings held in all parts of the
city, personal visits to mother as well
E8 messages and letters to make the
day one of pleasant remembrance.
The churches of the city stressed
the theme of Mother in all of their
services, the sermons being laid along
the line of mother and of undying
faith of a mother's love for her child
under any condition.
Musical numbers at the churches
alao carried many of the beautiful
songs of Mother's day to bring fond
memories to all who had gathered.
One of the always impressive ser
vices is that held by the Y. M. B. C.
of the Methodist church in their
silent tribute to their mothers, liv
ing and dead, a flower appropriate
to the occasion being deposited in
the memorial urn by each member of
the party. There was a large attend
ance at the class and a most beauti
ful program.' This year the "mother," ;
selected to be given tribute for all
mothers of the class was Mrs. Koebel,
mother of Earl Koebel, class vice
president. There were also many delightful
home gatherings and dinners that
brought many here from out of the
city to spend the day with their loved
cnes.
WILL TEACH AT FAIRMONT
Joseph Krejci of this city, well
known athletic star, has been elected
as a teacher in the high school at
Fairmont, Nebraska, for the coming
year. Mr. Krejci is a graduate of
the state teacher's college at Peru,
where he was outstanding in his ath
letic work, all state center at bas
ketball for his four years as well as
at guard for the football team of the
state teachers college. He later
taught at Ord, Nebraska and Grant,
New Mexico, where he was very suc
cessful in his work.
He will be engaged in teaching
manual training, athletics and his
tory at the Fairmont school for the
coming year.
The many friends of Mr. Krejci
are well pleased that he has been
called to the position at the excel
lent school at Fairmont and where
he will without doubt be a most valu
able member of the faculty.
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
William Starkjohn, who has been
quite poorly for the past several
days, was taken to Omaha Saturday
afternoon where he was placed in the
St. Joseph hospital for treatment and
a rest. Mr. Starkjohn will probably
be there for some time under treat
ment and the many friends are hope
ful that he may be able to return
home greatly improved in health and
able to resume his usual activities.
He was taken to Omaha in the Sat
tler ambulance and stood the trip in
excellent shape.
RE CUBE MANY PLANTS
This morning the Norfolk Packing
Co. received at their main factory
here a consignment of some 200,000
tomato plants. These plants will be
distributed to the signers of the
tomato contracts and should bring
in a large crop of the tomatoes for
use at the factory. The excellent
rains have proven a real boost to
vegetation and the crops this year
should keep the plant busy In their
operation.
Golden Wedding
of Mr. and Mrs.
Phillip Sauter!
Friends Join in Pleasant Greeting:
to Them at Nebraska Mascnic
Home Last Evening. i
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From Tuesday's Daily.
Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Sautcr, who have since "1926 made
their home at the Nebraska Masonic
Home, were tendered a very pleas-
ant party in honor cf the fiftieth
wedding anniversary of this estim-
able couple. !
The friends at the home as well
as a number from over the city gatli-'
ered at the handsome parlors in the:
infirmary building where they tend-
ered a reception to the bride aud
groom of a half century. j
In honor of the occasion Mr. and
Mrs. Sauter received a large number
of cards and messages from friends
from many localities and also rc - -
ceived a fine bouquet cf tulips as a '
token of the affection in which they(
are held at the Home. A fine wed-
ding cake also served to add to the !
pleasures of the bridal couple. j
During the evening a program was
enjoyed, violin duets by Rachel Rcb-
ertson and Billy Evcrs, a trumpet
solo by Raymond Evers and a clever j
dancing number by little Miss Maryj
Evers to add to the pleasures of the
occasion. i ne accompaniment was
played by Miss Vestetta Robertson.
Among those attending the reception
were Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Robertson
and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Evers.
Martha Ellen McKinne and Phillip
Sauter were married May 13, IS 85
at Pekin, Illinois, the ceremony tak
ing place at the home of Mrs. Wag
enseller, a sister of the bride, in the
historic mansion where Abraham
Lincoln had made his home when at
Pekin. on iiis law business.- At the
time of the wedding Mr. Sauter was
located at Fremont, Nebraska, trav
eling for a wholesale grocery house,
and the young people then came on
to Nebraska, making their home at
Neligh for a time and then locating
at O'Neil. After a few years they
returned to Illinois, but the lure of
Nebraska again called them - west
ward and they located at . Platts
mouth in 1891 and where for six
teen years they made their heme.
Mr. Sauter was engaged here in busi
ness until in 1907 when they moved
to Califronia where their son, Phillip
was located at Hanford. Later on
account of the health of Mr. Sauter
they came back to Nebraska and lo
cated at Omaha where they resided
until coming back to Plattsmouth to
spend their declining years.
In the many years they have been
happy in each other's society and;
the only real sadness that came into
their lives was the passing of the
only son a short time before they
came here to make their home in
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The many old friends here will
Join in their well wishes to this es
timable couple and trust that they
may enjoy many more such happy
occasions in the future.
ENJOY FAMILY DINNER
The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Becker was the scene of a very pleas
ant family gathering Sunday when
the children and grandchildren came
in to spend the day there and to
honor Mother's day. The occasion
was featured by the fine dinner at
the noon hour and the remainder ofsnP irom lEe rormer l"c
the rlav snent in vfoltfne- nnrt n PT1. Illotel Plattsmouth. to the second floor
eral good time.
Those attending the happy event
were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Becker, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Becker and daughter,
Mary Lou, Mr. Henry Horn and
daughter, Helen. Marion, Marie, Hil
lard, John, Phyllis and Shirley Speck,
and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Becker.
ENJ0Y BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS
Mrs. Earl Terryberry and Mrs.
Fred Kaffenberger, of near Cedar
Creek, were here Sunday to enjoy a
short stay and while here paid a visit
to the home of County Commission
er and Mrs. Julius A. Pitz. The Pitz
I home is now very attractive in the
artistic garden setting of the early
spring flowers and among which the
showy tulips are featured. The ladies
spent some time there and were well
repair for their trip in the enjoyment
of the floral beauty.
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VISIT AT LDTCOLN MOTHER'S DAY
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A Cloidt and
Mr; and Mrs. D. A. rficisncrans were
at Lincoln Sunday to visit -their
daughters, Maxine Cloidt nad Mary
Anne Rcsencrans. The Pi Beta Phi
sorority was staging a mother-father
dinner in honor of Mother's day at
their sorority home and which was
attended by a large number of the
parents of the ladies from many near
by localities.
There was a wonderful dinner
served for the members of the visit
ing party and the girls of the sorority
presented a fine program to add to
the enjoyment of the occasion.
While at Lincoln the Plattsmouth
visitors had the pleasure of meeting
Miss Louise Dickson, daughter of
the late Wayne and Mrs. Cleo Apple
gate Dickson of this city. Miss Dick
son is making her home at Lincoln
with her grandmother, Mrs. Apple
gate, attending the University of Ne
braska where she has many friends
and is a young girl of great charm
of personality.
Miss Rosencrans has been nomin
ated by the Big Sister Board of the
Big and Little Sister organization
for the school year of 1935-CG. This
sisterhood is one dedicated to aiding
the young girls on their entrance into
the university and through the time
that they are becoming accustomed
to the campus life. Miss Rosencrans
is to be given her initiation Tues
day evening into her new work as
a member of the Sisterhood.
OPENS BEAUTY PARLOR
Mrs. Hulda Weidman has removed
her beauty parlor and hairdressing
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of the Bekin building at Sixth and
Main streets.
The new beauty shop has been
very attractively arranged and rede-
corated for Mrs. Weidman. being in
tones of green and cream and affords
& .. .. L I : seised a large numoer all over
1 lntt:nicutn "cnitry iJuyers si . ,. . TT.
. -r. tT vi I section of Cass county. His goin
her a much more spacious work roomjgfarch fQr the car u was found a
as well as a waiting room for the
patrons of the shop.
The new shop was ready and open
for business this morning after the
completion of the decorating and
moving Sunday.
ASSESSOR REPORTS
John Hopkins, assessor of Weeping
Water precinct, was the second of
the precinct assessors to complete his tier funeral home Friday afternoon
work and filed his report today with at 2 o'clock. Friends may call at
County Assessor W. H. Puis. The the house between 10 and 12 Friday
rssossors are completing their work , morning. SerTices will be for rela
and there will be increasing num-'J tives, neighbors a,nd close friends
ber? file their returns from now on. Jonly.
f Death of Wm.
Starkjohn at
Omaha Tuesday
Prominent Resident of Community
Called by Death After Short 111
nesss Long Time Resident.
Tho community was profoundly
j .'shocked late Tuesday afternoon when
the message was received here of the
f j death of William Starkjohn, 75, who
I I cn Saturday evening had been taken
to Omaha for treatment.
! Mr. Starkjohn in the last few years
had suffered to some extent from
rheumatism and of late from other
complications but up until a very
few days before taken to the hos-
I j pital he had been able to be around
I j and visit the friends as usual and
I j lacking after his business affairs
i i uown town.
Mr. Starkjohn was one of the best
fcncv.n residents of the county and
! n. ireutleman of nleasant personality
I i that readily made friends and pos
this
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A . fol no or-'ir rT r u hn will hn PTPfl 1 I V
wn:iam H starkjohn was born in
rchv.VSf Germany. Nov. 4, 1859.
ui(d Mav 14 1935- He v,as a son o
MnsJalena and Theis Starkjohn.
vriiiiam came to America with his
parents in the year 1S6S. His parents
bettled at Nehawka until the year
isco when they moved to the farm
: six miles west or lattsmoum.
where he made his home until the
year 1909, then moving to town with
his brother, Theodore, with whom
he made his home during his life-
; time.
He was confirmed in the St. Paul's
Evangelical church of which church
he a lifelong member.
To mourn his passing are his bro-
tber, TueodoriBiMhirr ncphewa. Henry
Starkjohn, Will Tritsch, Ed Tritsch.
and Mrs. Anna Parkening. One sis
ter, Mrs. Philip Tritsch and three
brothers have preceded him in death.
ATTEND GRAND LODGE
The grand lodge of the Rebekahs
of the state of Nebraska was opened
at Omaha Tuesday and brought a
large number of the order to the
state metropolis for the sessions
which were held at the I. O. O. F.
temple. -
The session was one of the largest
that has been held and there were
many present from the various
lodges, the eastern cities sending
very large representations to the
meeting.
From this city there were in at
tendance Miss Marie. Kaufmann,
grand chaplain and who had an ac
tive part in the proceedings of the!
lodge, Mrs. D. C. Morgan, Mrs. L.
McFarland, noble grand of the local
lodge, Mrs. Fred H. Mumm, Mrs. T.
E. Olson, Mrs. Anna Hasse, Mrs.
Harry Kruger and Miss Ella Ken
nedy.
The Plattsmouth ladies enjoyed
the meeting very much and in the
fraternal associations found at the
meeting.
RECOVERS STOLEN CAR
From Tuesday's Dally:
Last evening when Marion Taylor
was returning from Omaha in his
Purant touring car, he reached the
top of the hill near the John Elliott
farm when the gas was exhausted
and the car faltered on the home
ward journey. Mr. Taylor was forced
to leave the car and come on into the
city to secure some gas for the re-
i mainder of the journey. On his re-
k. lhe caj. wag niissing and tbe
matter at once reported to Sheriff
Homer Svlvester. who started on a
few moments later near the Stull
farm some distance north of where
it had been left by the owner, some
one having apparently turned the
car around and coasted to the place
where it had been left.
FUNERAL OF WM. STARKJOHN
The funeral of the late William
Starkjohn will be held from the Sat-
HERE FOR A VISIT
Monday afternoon Mrs. W. A.
Propst of Nebraska City, with her
father, C. S. Johnson and father-in-law,
R. L. Propst of Lake Worth,
Florida, were in the city to spend a
short time with the old friends and
neighbors. Mrs. Propst has been
been spending the greater part cf
the winter in southern California
and old Mexico and has recently re
turned home. Mr. Propst is here from
Florida to spend the summer with
relatives.
Jury Selected
to Try Price on
Murder Charge
Seven Men and Five Women Chosen
at Glenwood to Pass on Case
Trial Opens Thursday.
A jury to try Clarence Price, 4 9,
Pacific Junction, la., for the brutal
murder of his great-niece,, Edith
Kuhl, was completed late Tuesday at
Glenwood. It is composed of live
wonien snd seven men. All are farm
ers or farmers' wives with the excep
tion of Mrs. Inez Hicks, of Emerson,
who is the wife of a carpenter.
The panel follows: Mrs. Grace
Linville. Glenwood; Raymond Kruse,
Silver City; Mrs. Alice Fickel. Mal
vern; Mrs. Lydia Dalzell, Hastings;
Charles Reynolds, Silver City; John
Bostedt, who receives his mail from
Council Bluffs postoffice; Millard
Curtis, Malvern; Mrs. Nellie Wheel
er, Glenwood; Ed Schoening, Silver
City; Scott Edie, Hastings; Mrs. Inez
Hicks, Emerson, and Kenneth
Bea,
Henderson.
Defense Plans Withheld.
N. F. Genung, chief defense coun
cil, goes to Des Moines to appear be
fore Iowa supreme court in another
case. - ' Jtims of the ravages of war were to-
Neither - Genung, nor his brother.be found still carrying on the bur
and co-council, C. T. Genung. would ( den that their service had laid upon
say what their defense would be. them.
They indicated, however, that itj The address was one followed
probably would be woven around the -with the greatest Interest by the
tale of Price of frightening off a members of the club and was u fine
prowler he had heard about the
house earlier in the evening.
Helen Kuhl, 17, si6ter of the dead
girl who was also brutally beaten,
had told of this alleged incident
when she awoke from her long coma
in a Council Bluffs hospital.
Expect 41 Witnesses,
Forty-one witnesses may be call
ed, chief among whom will be Helen
Kuhl, who has not yet fully recover
ed from her experience. Others in
clude: Sheriff William De Moss, Glen
wood; Police Captain Fritz Francks,
Omaha, who aided De Moss in thefations.
investigation; Dr. J. P. Cogley, Coun
cil Bluffs, and - Dr. D. W. Harman,
Glenwood, who treated Helen Kuhl;
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kuhl, the girl's
parents; Dr. Arthur C. Drown, Coun
cil Bluffs specialist;
City Chemist!
W. H. Campen, Omaha, and John
Cooney, Glenwood cleaner and dyer,
who inspected the clothing and fur
niture in the boarding house where
the murder occurred, and a doren or
more neighbors of the Kuhl family j
m h"acinc junction.
The trial, it was predicted, will
last more than two weeks. District
Judge Earl Peters is presiding.
Little interest was taken in
the
trial Tuesday. In contrast to the
huge crowds which swarmed the
courtroom Monday, the chamber was
but one-third full as attorneys con
tinued plying questions to the ven
ireman. WILL ENJOY VISIT HERE
Mrs. Thomas Walling, S.-., who for
the past seven years has made her
home on the west coast, is expected
here in a short time to enjoy a visit
with the Robert M., and Thomas J.
Walling families and the many old
friends in this city as well as at
Omaha. Mrs. Walling is expected at
Kansas City Friday and will stop for
a visit at the home of her brother,
Edward McHugh, at Atchison and
later with her brother, Morris Mc
Hugh and family at Falls City and
then come on to this city to join the
other members of the family.
Edgar S. Wescot.t of Lincoln, was
here Sunday to spend the day visit
ing with his parentB, Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. Wescott and observing Moth
er's day with the home folks.
State Comman
der Iowa Legion
is Rotary Guest
W. C. Eathke, of Glenwood, Gives Ad
dress at Meeting of Plattsmouth
Eotarians Tuesday.
William C. Rathke, of Glenwood,
commander of the American Legion
of the state of Iowa, wus the nuest
speaker at the meeting of the Platts
mouth Rotary club, he also being a
member of Rotary in his home city.
The meeting was under the had
ership of Fred Lugsch, war veteran
and who was a member of Co. I,
lCSth infantry in the world war and
of which Mr. Rathke had been a
member.
Mr. Rathke discussed the program
ot the American Legion, the various
aims and objects of the organization
and its similarity in many ways to
that ot the Rotary club in commun
ity service and frank and friendly
understanding of each other in the
daily course of life, lie also pointed
out that the only measures of legis
lation that had direct veteran origin
was that of the relief and care of
tho disabled veteran and his de
pendents. Other measures that had
come had been at the hands of a
grateful people and congress in the
years since the close of the Kreat
war. The Rotary organization as Mr.
Rathke pointed out was one that
would carry over several generations
while with the American Legion its
program must be carried to accom
plishment in the next ten to fifteen
years ere the veterans by age become
unable to carry on the work, as with
the passing of its membership the Le
gion or other service men's organ
izations would cease to be. He re
lated many of his experiences at Vet-
pran hospitals in Iowa where the vic-
clean cut exposition of the purposes
of the Legion of the nation and the
community in which they made their
homes.
Searl S. Davis of the local com
munity service committee of the club
outlined several projects that had
been considered, among these being
a community band, the planting of
trees along the highways and along
the avenues of the city, a city swim
ming pool, a museum In which pic
tures and historic documents and
trophies of early life in Plattsmouth
might be preserved for future gener-
There were present as guests.
Wayne D. Choate, editor of the Glen
wood Opinion-Tribune, J. J. Adams,
of Sheridan, Wyoming, E. A. Webb,
adjutant of the local American Le-
gion post and Robert G. Reed, of the
Legion.
ENTERTAIN FOR FRIEND
The home of County Treasurer
and Mrs. John E. Turner wus the
scene of a most charming miscel
laneous shower on Saturday after-
noou.
honoring Miss Alice Jamctt,
whose marriage to I red A. Kuthert,
will occur in the early summer. Mrs.
iurner unu miM
were the hostesses at the pleasant
( occasion.
Throughout the room tne urigni
the
colored early spring flowers added
their charm to the scene and made
a very pretty setting for the after
noon. Bridge was the chief diversion of
the occasion and In the playing Miss
Dorothy Downey was the winner of
first honors and Mias Estelle Ealrd
of the second.
Miss James was presented with
many handsome remembrances by
the friends that will accompuny her
into her new home.
In serving the hostesses were as
sisted by Miss Lillian Garrett and
Mrs. H. F. Goos.
The guests were members of the
teaching force and a few friends. Miss
Clara Rothert, of Bellevue, a sister
of Coach Rothert, being an out of
town guest.
Miss Ruth Janda, of Omaha, was
here Sunday to spend the day with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Janda and the many friends.