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SECTION 2 Pages 7 to 10 she VOL. NU. Ill FLATTSJIOUTH, NEEEASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936. NO. 18 V FT M urray Don C. Rhoden and wife have pur chased a new V-S Ford car. Earl Terhune, the Murray barber, was looking after business matters in Nebraska City Monday. Shrader Rhouen and Alen Camp bell were in Lincoln last Saturday, where they were looking after some business for the day. Mrs. D. C. Rhoden was in Council Bluffs for a visit over the week end, and Mr. Rhoden went over Sunday to bring the wife home. Van Allen was called to Omaha on Monday to look after some business matters in connection with the auto repair shop he conducts here. Russell Overhaulser is assisting with the work on the Marion War than farm while Mrs. Overhaulser is caring for the cream station. Harold Philpot was in Omaha last Friday with a car load of cattle and i found a very good market with his stock bringing right close to the top price. Hallas Akin, of Plattsmouth, sales man for the Ruse Motor company, was looking atter some business mat ters in Murray on Monday of this week. C. R. Troop and W. O. Troop have Leen buying corn from the Murray elevator for the feeding of the cat tle in their feed lots at the home of the latter. Mrs. Henry C. Long has been in poor health for some time and al though she is feeling some better at this time, she is not fully recovered i from her illness. A. G. Cisney was at Syracuse last week for the community sale, bring ing back with him an excellent span of mules, which he will use. for farm work this summer. Guy Wiles, of Plattsmouth, was looking after some business matters in Murray the first of the week and was visiting with George E. Nickles during his stay in town. Earl Merritt has been working on the interior decoration of the Mur- ray Presbyterian church and will soon have the building nicely dec orated, making it a place of beauty. W. O. Troop attended the weekly community sale at Syracuse last Aveek and brought back a span of very fine mules which he purchased there. He will use them for general farm work on his farm. William Sporer and son Charles and Martin Sporer and family were in Omaha last Saturday, where they went to purchase a number of fruit trees which they will set out on the various farms here and will endeav or to grow an orchard. Corner Warthan, who has been down with pneumonia for several weeks, is reported as being some better and is getting on fairly well, although it will be some time be fore he is able to be out again and so he can get back to his work. George Troop had the Mrasek Transfer company deliver his cattle some twenty-four head which he has been feeding for several months to the Omaha stock yards in time for Monday morning's market, when he received a good price for them. William Sporer and son, Charles, accompanied by Martin Sporer and wife, were at Glenwood. Iowa, one day this past week on business, de siring to purchase a monument for the late Mrs. Lucy Sporer, wife of William and mother of Charles and Martin. C J. Stewart, the merchant, who has been in poor health on account of a severe attack of. lumbago which kept him confined to the house, is reported as feeling much better and is able to be at the store now, al though far from enjoying his usual good health. Herman Frederick and Tommy Troop and Misses Lois Troop and Dorothy Drucker went to Lincoln Sunday evening, where the young ladies are attending the University of Nebraska, the young men taking the girls back to resume their school work after a week-end home visit. George E. Nickles, candidate for the Unicameral legislature, was a visitor in Plattsmouth last Tuesday, and also went over into Sarpy coun ty, where he was calling on friends and looking after his political fences in anticipation of the primary elec tion this coming week. Working at Nebraska City Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frederick are at this time very busy with the work at the seed office in Nebraska City, so have secured Mrs. Fred Drucker of this place to care for the children during the rush season. Will Write History of Murray Dr. G. H. Gilrnore, who is a great historian and a lover of the unusual in nature, has made a search of the jnast history of this part of the coun try, unearthing many Indian mounds and other information of interest. He has in mind the writing of a his tory of Cass county, which will take some time to complete. Dr. Gilrnore has written a story of the life of Mrs. Sadie Oldham, who was SS years of age Friday of this week, which appears in this issue cf the Journal. Mrs. Lopp Very Poorly Mrs. Lopp, the mother of George Lopp, who has been in rather poor health for some time past, was so serious last week that it was deemed advisable to take her to the hospital in Omaha for treatment last Thurs day. However, she was able to re turn home Srnday feeling quite a bit better as a result of her treat ment. Seed Corn for Sale Ninety day Strawberry, Iowa Sil ver Mine, high germination. Call Ne hawka telephone 2 691. FRANK SCIILICHTEMEIER, a9-Mp; al6-Np Murray, Nebr. Daughter Comes to Cheer On Friday at an Omaha hospital, there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fay Herriger a fine baby daughter, who. with the mother, is getting along very nicely. The proud father, Mur ray blacksmith and daughter Roma, together with Mrs. Harry McCulloch, were in Omaha Sunday to greet the new daughter. Visited with Friends Here Mrs. Marie Melburn and son Rich ard, together with her sister, Miss Leona Davis and Miss Harriet Mel burn, came over from Lincoln last Friday evening to visit over the week end at the home of J. A. Davis and daughter. Miss Loa. They re turned to Lincoln Sunday evening, with the exception of Miss Harriet Melburn, who will visit with friends and relatives here for a week. Loses Two Fingers Uet Warthen, who was assisting with the sawing of wood, had the misfortune to get his hand too near the rapidly revolving saw blade and had two of his fingers severed. The wound was very severe and the young man was rushed to a hospital in Om aha after first aid had been given by Dr. Tyson. The accident occurred on Friday and Bert remained at the hospital for treatment until Sunday night, when he was brought home and is getting along as well as could be expected, but he has a very sore hand and one which will keep him from his work for some time to come. Fifth Wedding Anniversary On last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Troop was celebrat ed the fifth anniversary of their wedding, which was enjoyed by a large number of their relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Troop and Tommy as well as Avis Troop of near Murray as well as Victor Wehr bein and Miss Lois Troop, who was home from Lincoln, where she is at tending school, Martin Stava and son Ed Stava and Kenneth McCarthey and wife were at the home of George Troop for the day and a very fine dinner and to wish them many years of happiness. Gets into the Ditch Jesse Domingo, Cass county repre sentative of the Omaha Bee News, who drives over the county regular ly in his work, being so he cannot walk while looking after his work, last week had the misfortune to have his car slide into a ditch near the United Brethren church north of Nehawka during the time the roads were slippery from melting snow. Being unable to get out, he had to stay there until someone came aloug. As soon as the fact became known, his friends in the neighborhood came and put his car back on the solid roadway again, so that he was able University Selects Desert Queen i 2 Edith McMahon Something different in the way of a campus beauty "contest was staged at University of Arizona at Tucson where Edith McMahon, home town co-ed, was chosen desert queen, crowned 'with a ten gallon sombrero and presented with a bouquet of desert wildflowers. Her throne was net a cactus, however. ' to proceed on home. Surely it pays to have a lot of friends. Charles A. KcSeynolds Charle3 Augustus McReynolds, the son of Nelson McReynolds, was born in Oregon, Missouri, August 6, 1S56. He died March 2S, 1036, at the home of his daughter, Myra Chase, of Om aha. At the age of six years, he moved with his parents to Nehawka, and since that time has resided near Murray. In the year 1882 he was joined in marriage to Martha Ettinger and to this union were born one daughter, Mae, and one son, James. In the year 1SSS Mr. McReynolds was married a second time, to Paul ine Brown. To this union were born two daughters, Myra and Pearl. There are left to mourn the pass ing of the deceased, three daughters, Mrs. Pearl Reed, Mrs. Myra Chase and Mrs. Mae Beam, four grand children and one great grandson. The funeral service was held from the Murray Christian church Tues day afternoon, March 31st, conduct Cherry Trees Bloom in Capital 's-rV i 2 ... Iff. . W t.' ib tii J3k' - ai v : t Adrienne ToITV I Mist It's cherry blossom time again in Washington where the cameraman icaught this artful picture of the dainty blooms with the capitol dome silhouetted in the background. Miss Adrienne Tolan, daughter of Congressman J. IL Tolan of California, inset, is the attractive youn ladyholdics the bouquet. ed by W. A. Taylor. of Union. Inter ment was in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Underwent an Operation Mrs. L. M. McVey, who has been in very poor health for some time past, "was taken td tue Bryan Memor ial hospital in Lincoln last Sunday and on Monday morning underwent an operation for the restoration of her health. She rallied nicely after the ordeal and it is hoped will soon be restored to her former good health. Celebrate Passing of 88th Birthday Tomorrow, Friday, April 10, Mrs. Sadie Oldham, will celebrate her SSth birthday, surrounded by a num ber of her friends who will gather to assist in a proper celebration of the event. Mrs. Oldham, whose maiden name was Sarah Story, was born on April 10, 1846, in Pennsylvania, and came to Nebraska when seven years of age, when this state was but a territory, with many Indians malting their homes here. Harking back to the old days, there still remains a dome in silhouette 1 ' . -V.'. 6V rJt-ijSs ...... ij-jp. . --v. r . i :, -. t . 4- 7 I FRA.NK PARKER INVENTION American I went out to Dearborn last month and. among other things, took a quick glimpse at the great museum of American inventions whicbVMr. Ford has assembled in Greenfield Village. It is a liberal education in Americanism to s.tudy the develop ment of industrial progress from the primitive tools of the list settlers, J step by step to the marvelous ma- emnes or today which can do every thing but think. It is hard to name an invention of importance which did not either originate in America or gets its first practical use in this country. No where has the truth bean better dem- trail running from northwest of Mur ray through the town and on over to the river where the Indians were went to go for water. This trail is still noticeable, as it ha3 not been obliterated b3- the repeated plowings which the years of farming have re quired. Mrs. Oldham recalls the time when ox teams were plentiful starting out of Rock Bluffs for the west, taking goods to the mountains, with Denver the objective. She says the ox teams were as plentiful on the streets of Rock Bluffs as autos are on the streets of Murray now. When she was twelve years old, the family went from the home place southeast of the place now owned by Mrs. Ada Farris, to a point several miles northwest of Murray (where Verle Smith now resides) to work, taking food along to be cooked for their dinner while there. The salt war forgotten and Miss Sarah set out on foot over the wild prairie and traversed the six miles, securing the siU and getting back in time for it to be used in the preparation of the noonday meal. They resided on the place south east of Murray for twenty-one years, when she moved to a place near the townsite of Murray, where she has since resided, making eighty-one years of her eighty-eight years of life epent on the two farms. Her father, David Story, built the house where Verle Smith now re sides sixty-four years ago. In young womanhood. Miss Story as united in marriage to H. L. Old- j ham. There was born to this union i two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Young! and Miss Fay Oldham, the latter to gether with the husband and father, H. L. Oldham, passing away a num ber of years ago. Some three years ago, Mrs. Old ham fell and broke her hip, which has left her a cripple since that time. ( During the past winter she has also gone through a serious illness, these two things serving to prevent her from getting about as she would have liked to, but withal she is very cheer ful and enjoys meeting her many old friends and recounting the early days of this community when modern-day conveniences were undreamed of. She will have a number of friends with her for dinner on her birthday and is also to be the recipient of a shower of birthday cards. Mrs. Ona Lawton, of Omaha, whose birthday falls on the same date as that of Mrs. Oldham, is celebrating the pass ing of the event with her good friend. The Journal takes pleasure in ex tending to Mrs. Oldham its very best wishes, along with those she is re-! ceiving from scores of others, and we J trust she may enjoy better health in ! the days to come and be surrounded j always by many friends to cheer her J in her declining years. Her part in bringing the raw prair- j ies cf the west to their present high j state of cultivation has been a di3- j tinct contribution to the good of our present day civilization and the' hardships those early day pioneers i went through cannot be accorded too ' J much appreciation day generation. by the present- i onstrated of the old proverb: "Neces sity is the mother of invention." The pioneers of America had to be in ventive. Starting out with not much more than their bare hands, they had to improvise means of conquering the new world. I think we have done a pretty good job of it so far, but invention has not stopped yet. j 9 PIONEERS their problem The two American inventions which enabled cur forefathers to con quer the wilderness were the curved axe helve and the long-barrelled Ken tucky, rifle. The pioneers had to clear and set tle a forest country filled with lurk ing savages and dangerous wild beasts. The straight-shooting Ken tucky rifle protected them against the dark terrors of the forest, while the free-swinging axe helve enabled them to develop a new and more effective technique for clearing the land for their farms and building their log houses. For the first 250 years, America was handicapped by a shortage or labor. We had to invent machines because there wasn't enough man power. And, in spite of all of the present unemployment, men engaged in big manufacturing industries tell me there is still a shortage of genu inely skilled labor. MACHINES operators The greatest contribution America has made to the world, it seems to me, is our engenuity in building brains into machines. I never go through a modern manufacturing plant without seeing some new ma chine which minimizes the need of intelligence on the part of the man who operates it. The engineers who designed and the tool makers who built it put their brains and skill into the machine itself, so that the most unintelligent laborer can run it. One of the most complicated de vices that we had to turn out during the war was the recoil mechanism for the French 155-millimeter howitzers. The problem of making them was put up to a big Detroit automobile factory. It took three months to de sign and build the automatic ma chines to do the job. I went through the factory in 1918 and found every one of these automatic machines be ing tended by a chunky Polish girl in a sriiock. It took no muscle, it took no skill or training, to produce, by aid of the machine which could almost think, an apparatus In which (Political Advertising) (Political To the Voters of Cass and Sarpy Counties : I am soliciting your support at the Primary Elec tion APRIL 14, 1936. As I was born and raised on a farm in Cass county, and having been engaged in farming for a number of years myself and since 1916 have operated a lumber yard at Murray. I have been continuously in close contact with the people of small town communities, throughout an agricultural section of the state. I be lieve I am in a position to know the struggle that is being made by the taxpayer. Having this experience and serving in the last two sessions of the Legislature, during one of the most crit ical times in the history of the state. As my voting record will show and most especially in the last session when I served as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and the actual figures will prove, I stood for ECONOMY in every State Department, and for a reduction wherever possible, but not to the point to hinder efficient operation, and for conservative leg islation. For your consideration, I will quote the following figures from property tax for all purposes: The request of all State Departments was for $15,243,615.52. The Governor recommended $11,616,064.00. Your Chair man recommended $11,550,453.85 a saving of nearly four million dollars from the amount requested. The peak year for all taxes was 1926, when the total reached $66,028,255.00, and declining in the year 1935 to $43,878,947.00 making a reduction in the cost of state government of $22,149,308.00. If you approve of my record, I again solicit your support on Primary Election day. GEORGE E. NICKLES. I every part had to be accurate to a thousandth of an inch. UNEMPLOYMENT answer I think the ultimate answer to the problem of unemployment will be a tremendous increase in the num ber and variety of so-called "labor saving" machines. Only by providing that port of machinery can most of the unemployed be employed, profit ably to industry and to themselves. The machine makes it possible to pay wages which the unaided, un skilled worker could never earn. One of our great American discoveries has been that the more machines are set to work making useful goods, t lie greater the demand for the goods, because they can be sold cheaper, and so the demand for more machines and workers to tend the machines in creases. With all the talk about the great army of unemployed there are twice as many people at work today in the United States as there were thirty years ago. Yet our population is far from being twice what it was in 1900. CHEMURGY . tie-up "Chermurgy" is the name for the new line along which industry is de veloping. It means the application of chemical processes to raw materials to convert them into usable commod ities. Both industrial and. agricul tural researchers hold out great hopes that through chemurgy farm prod ucts may make a larger market by their conversion to industrial uses. In the Ford factory at Dearborn 1 saw one important application of chemurgy. Many parts of the Ford car, including some of the interior fittings, are made of a compound de rived from soy beans by chemical pro cesses. Soy bean oil is an essential part of the lacquer with which the cars are painted. We are going to hear much more of chemurgy. Every forward-looking person realizes that the ultimate solution of the problems of our economic life lie3 in a closer tie-up between agricul ture and industry. Chemurgy holds promise of going a long way toward solving tlfat problem. You wouldn't &tarl out on a long trip intending to drive a few miles the first day and then rest up for a week or a month before continuing. Yet that's the way a great many merchants conduct their advertising campaign. Lit tle wonder it doesn't get results. Persistent, steady effort is what counts. Advertising) (Political Advertising)