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PIATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920.
NEBRASKA SAFE DRIVER NAMED
Lincoln, Aug. C. Lynn Douglas
Miller, 40, Cedar Bluffs candy, sales
man, Thursday was named "Nebras
ka's Safe Driver" ana will represent
the state at the safety motorcade in
New York city, Aug. 31. Walter V.
Powell, Trenton, was named alterr
nate.
Miller, records disclosed, has driven
342,000 miles without an accident
and without a traffic violation of any
kind. In the past 10 years he drove
242,000 miles and in the past 12
months he drove 30,000 miles.
Miller, who works for Mrs. L. It.
Tipton of Fremont, was selected by
Mayor Charles W. Bryan, Lincoln;
J. E. Lawrence, Lincoln editor. The
judges acted for the C. I. T. Safety
foundation, the Omaha Motor club
and the Lincoln and Nebraska Auto
mobile clubs.
The judges selected Miller on the
basis of character and ability, the to
tal number ofmiles he has driven
without accident or traffic violation.
Every state in the union is to be rep
resented at the motorcade.
SKUNK SCURRIED
Chautauqua, N. Y. While 7,000
persons were listening to George Brit
ton, "operatic singer, Wednesday
night, a skunk walked onto the stage
in the open air auditorium. Britton,
who was singing a spiritual, sudden
ly stopped singing, then broke into,
"I Got Plenty of Nothin.' " The
skunk scurried for the woods.
PLATTSM0UTH
Tuesday. Wed., August ll-12th
M'M.IOilT
MARGARINE
Mb. Carton. 2 for
29c
Si Mil!'. SWKKT IILIJ
COFFEE 4 7C
3 lbs., 49i; Mb. bag.-.-3-
Casco BUTTER tc
Solids. Mb. Carton
Hershey's COCOA 4f 4 C
Mb. Can
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PEACHES
Bushel, $2.29. Quart-
K lCV l.AIUiK Y ASllINCiTOX
Blue PRUNES 7QC
Can them Now. Crate
I'WCV ( AI.IKOItMA
Bartlett PEARS
25c
Box, S2.49. Qt. Basket.
Calif! GRAPES jjnC
Sccdkss or Red Malaga, lb.
C A I.II-OUM V
TOMATOES
rirrn, Eed Ripe. 2 lbs.
swi:i:t
Porto Rican YAMS
U. S. No. 1. 4 lbs
25c
Quakei
Ped Wheat
Regular
Packages
2 for.ES
NECK BONES
Fresh, Meaty, 3 lbs
BEEF HEARTS
Young, Tender. Lb
HAMBURGER
Freshly Ground. Lb
i--ii:s!!i,v iMti;iAiu:n
PORK SAUSAGE
(In Bulk). 2 lbs
CUBE STEAKS
Choice, Tender. Lb
PORK CHOPS
Choice Center Cuts. Lb.
AIOIOI ICS til AI.ITV "
MINCED HAM
or BOLOGNA. Lb
10c
$c
IQc
2c
25c
22c
10c
25c
Fillels of FISH
2 lbs.
Balloon Brand
Soap Flakes
5-Ib. Pkg. - -
Indian Valley
TOMATOES
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27c
People Listed
More Money for
Taxation in '36
Increase Largely in Livestock and
Automobilas Show Land
Valuations Up.
Official figures compiled by State
Tax Commissioner Smith shows that
the assessed valuation of all prop
erty in the state increased this year
from $2,030, 243,533 to $2,060,835,-
108, an increase of $30,591,635.
These figures coming from county
assessors have been adopted by the
state board and the levy for this year,
1.7 C mills on the dollar, will be made
upon the valuation so returned and
equalized by the state board.
The increase is largely accounted
for by the higher valuation of cattle,
horses, hogs, and motor vehicles on
hand April 1, the date of the assess
ment. Corn increased in bushels but
not in value, while wheat on hand
April 1 decreased in bushels and
value. Lands and lots decreased.
Personal property as a whole, includ
ing livestock and including the valu
ation of railroad, and motor vehicles,
increased fro ma total of $442,532,
55S to $479,556,689, an increase of
37,024,131.
Land Valuations Up.
Lands and improvements de
creased in acreage and value, from
46,758,936 acres to 46,689,217. The
valuation of lands and improvements
dropped from $1,140,719,997 to $1,
136.629.S34, the average per acre
dropping from $24.40 to $24.34. Lots
dropped in valuation from $446,990,
97S to $444,648,649, altho the lots
increased in number from 556,674 to
500,031. The average valuation per
lot is $793.97.
The average valuation of cattle
April 1 was $26.42 a head as com
pared with $23.38 the year before.
The number of head found by assess
ors was $2,547,927 compared with
$2,488,476 the year before. The valu
ation of cattle increased from $58,
1S2.223 to $67,326,768.
Horses decreased in number from
562,851 to 533,339, but the valuation
increased from $21,701,550 to $24,
130,986, the average being $45.25
as compared with $38.53 the year
before.
Mules decreased in number from
53.S39 to 49,523 and the assessed
valuation from $3,282,255 to $3,20S,
11S, but the average value increased
from $60.96 to $64.78 per head.
Dogs are not shown by number but
their assessed valuation dropped from
$1,275,400 to $1,229,630. They are
assessed at about $10 each.
Wheat on hand April 1, assessed
at an average of 72 cents per bushel,
was valued at $1,990,204, as com
pared with $2,9T4,636 the year be
fore. Assesscrrs found 3,753,190
bushels as compared' with 3,892,527
the year before.
More Corn.
Corn was valued at 35 cents per
bushel. There were 15,834,536 bush
els as compared with 11,224,149 the
previous year. It was assessed at $6,
207,741 as compared with $7,970,
430 the previous year.
Popcorn valued this year at $36,
350 was assessed last year at $12,
430. Hogs took a leap this year. There
were 97S.491 head assessed at $10,
932,050 as compared Avith $7,553,-
969 the year before, the average per
head increasing from $8.55 to $11.17.
Merchandise on hand increased
from $37,562,668 to $34,409,511.
Motor vehicles, assessed under a
new law requiring them to be taken
from the automobile registration list
in the county treasurers offices were
valued thi3 year at $41,509,357 as
compared with $27,324,829 last year.
The number of vehicles taxed in
creased from 329,577 to 381,623.
Diamonds and jewelry found by as
sessors short's a total valuation of
$734,780 as compared with $787,520.
Electric light and power companies
were assessed on a valuation of $20,
405,643 as compared with $20,684,
238 last year.
Domestic fire insurance companies
were assessed on a valuation of $428,
711 as compared with $368,105, while
foreign fire companies were increased
from a total fo $3,825,951 to $54,
398,887. For the first time building and loan
association gross earnings appear in
the completed tax schedules and in
the report at $3,205,527. The tax at
40 cents per $100 totals $12,882.
The law does not say where the
building and. loan tax should go. Tax
Commissioner Smith said he believes
it ought to go to the counties.
Intangible property shows an in
crease in valuation. Class A, money
or its equivalent, Is listed at $48,059,
189 compared with $46,883,276 last
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Joseph Costa and his Lockheed plane
First transatlantic attempt in 1936 is expected to get under way
.shortly when Joseph Costa, of Corning N. Y., takes off on a non
stop flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Portugal. Costa
will make the attempt in a Lockheed plane, powered with a Pratt
and .Whitney wasp motor. The aviator is shown above with the
plane at Roosevelt Field, L. L
year. The tax rate on this property
is 25 cents per $100. Class B, secur
ities, notes and accounts, totaled
$62,901,208 this year compared with
$57,198,279 the previous year. The
lax rate on this property Is SO cents
per $100. Money and securities add
ed together increased from a total of
$104,0S1,555 the previous year Other
findings:
Telephone companies were given an
increased valuation from $17,239,3S6
to $17,299,591.
Poultry valued last year at $2,012.-
921 is this year listed at $1,229,630.
Threshing machines, headers and
combines last year numbered 13.S90
and were valued at $1,347,530. This
year 14,296 are listed at $1,573,378,
or an average of $110.05.
Tractors are increasing according
to assessors. Last year 42,235 valued
at $4,955,969 were listed. This year
53.919 are listed at $S,S68,045.
Watercraft are assessed at $98,445
as compared to $42,170 last year. The
number is not shown.
Electriol refrigerators last year
numbered 37.S60, valued at $1,S98,
895. This year there are 4S, 020' as
sessed at $2,443,770.
HAVE EASY VICTORY
For the second time this summer
the Chevrolets and the Donat's Fal
staff kittenball teams assembled at
Athletic park to battle for the cham
pionship, this time of the second
round of the kitty ball league. The
Chevies definitely took full and un
disputed possession of the second
round leadership by the score of 12
to 0.
The Donats were helpless against
the pitching of Kennedy and they se
cured but two hits for their part of
,the performance and through the
nine long, long, innings but six of
the beverage venders were able to
decorate the bases and then not for
long.
The game had proceeded nicely un
til the seventh inning when the
Donats weakened and the Chevies
added five runs to take an overpower
ing lead that assured them of an
easy victory.
The box score of the game was as
follows:
Chevies
AB R II PO A E
Spangler, cf 5 2 2 0 0 0
C. Smith. If 5 1 0 2 0 0
C. Sund'om, ss 4 1.2 2 2 0
Ashbaugh, c 3.1 1 11 0 0
Krejci, 2b 4 2 3 1 0 1
Svoboda, lb 3 2 2 5 0 1
Malik, rs 4 10 2 10
W. Smith, 3b 4 2 2 3 1 0
H. Sund'om, rf 3 0 0 1 0 0
Kennedy, p 4 0 0 0 1 0
39 12 12 27 5 2
Donats
AB R H PO A B
Stevenson, If 4 0 10 10
Kalina, 2b 4 0 0 1 0 0
Clark, ss 4 0 0-4 2 0
Vanland'ham, rf 4 0 0 1 0 1
Porter, cf 3 0 0 0 0 2
O'Donnell, lb 2 0 0 10 0 1
Rhoades, 3b 3 0 115 2
Arganbright, 2b 2 0 0 4 3 0
Seitz, c : 2 0 0 3 0 0
Mayabb, p 2 0 0 0 1 0
Dasher, p 0 0 0 0 1 0
31 0 2 24 13 6
PLANE BREAKS IN TWO
Rennes, France.-Four army fliers
were killed near here when their
plane broke in two during maneuvers.
PREDICTS A WAVE OF FLOODS
Chicago. Selby Maxwell, the man
who forecast last winter's heavy
snows and this summer's drouth
months ahead of time, said Thursday
a wave of floods would soon develop
in the United States. lie predicted a
long series of rains would push rivers
over their banks from the Gulf of
Mexico to Canada, washing out the
drouth. The first ripples of the flood
wave had already appeared on the
nation's weather map, he asserted,
pointing to swollen streams in Colo
rado. 'Recent rains had filled streams in
the southeastern states, the long
range forecaster went on, and it was
here he expected the high water to
make its earliest appearance.
By September, he declared, the
Mississippi would probably be on an
other rampage. Maxwell hazarded no
guess at the seierity of the floods,
which he forecast by astronomical
formulae based on the way the moon
wobbles in its orbit. These lunar
variations, which the U. S. navy plots
two years in advance, he said, influ
ence the movements of the polar
mass, which in turn decides the
weather. i -
CLOSE ARMORY THEFT CASE
Thursday at Sioux City, Iowa,
Judge Robert C. fccott, in the U. S.
district court wrote the final chapter
to the theft from Mason City, Iowa,
armory in 1932 of twenty pistols and
two rifles.
On October 10, 1932, the pistols
and riflo3 were stolen and a search
was started over the central west.
Officers visited this community to lo
cate several of the missing pistols
that had been disposed of and the
final result was the arrest of William
Dero'ssett of Omaha and Emmanuel
Marsh, who gave Plattsmouth as his
home.
Thursday morning both men made
a plea of guilty to the charge of
stealing the pistols and rifles and
were accordingly sentenced to five
years each in the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kansas.
BISHOP ABANDONS EFFORT
Rome. Bishop Michael Gallagher
abandoned his efforts to present to
the Vatican what he called a "pretty
picture" of Father Charles E. Cough-
lin's political activities.
Preparing to leave for Austria
Monday, the bishop said the absence
of Giulio Cardinal Serafini, perfect
of the congregation of the council,
the Vatican's disciplinary body, cause
him to forego his effort to dispel any
possible doubts as to Father Cough
lin's activities.
The bishop added the discussion
anyhow probably would be "super
fluous." TO PLAN ROLL CALL
Falls City, Neb. Five counties
comprising this district will send
delegates to a Red Cross meeting here
Aug. 31, at which plans will be form
ed for the annual Red Cross roll call,
according to District Chairman Virgil
Falloon. Counties represented will
be Pawnee, Nemaha, Johnson, Otoe
and Richardson. National Red Cross
officials will be in attendance.
Gov. Landon to
Open Eastern
Swing Aug. 22
G. 0. P. Nominee's First Speech
at West Middlesex, Pa. ; Hears
Favorable Reports.
Gov. Alfred M. Landon, republi
can presidential nominee, will make
his first campaign speech in eastern
territory at West Middlesex, Pa., on
Aug. 22, following with speeches at
Chautuqua, N. Y., Aug. 24 and at
Buffalo Aug. 26.
This announcements was made at
Topeka Wednesday after the G. O. P.
standard-bearer revealed he had
reached an agreement with the west
ern trunklines committees for im
mediate reduction in railroad rates
for movement of livestock from
drouth areas to suitable grazing
lands and for shipment of feed and
water to one-family, small-herd
farms.
Plan Announced.
Resulting from conferences called
at the request of Governor Landon,
the plan provides governors of drouth
states may designate county commit
tees to handle the movement of live
stock, feed and water, with depart
ment of agriculture agents designat
ing drouth areas.
Adding to enthusiasm at Landon
headquarters were the results of
Tuesday's Kansas primaries, which
were said to have shown republican
superiority in the sunflower state.
Tidings of a republican swing in
Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio also were
brought to the governor by visitors.
The address at West Middlesex,
birthplace of Governor Landon, will
be at 3 p. m., while his speeches at
Chautaqua and Buffalo are to be de
livered at night.
Since West Middlesex is in the
heart of a vast industrial area
6,000,000 persons live within a radius
of 100 miles a crowd of at least
100,000 persons was expected to hear
Landon in his dynamiting of the
Roosevelt "new deal."
Itinerary Unknown.
His itinerary to and from the east
ern battle-ground was yet to be an
nounced, though he was expected to
go one way and return another in a
special train.
Showing of the republicans in Kan
sas, believed by Landon supporters to
be typical of the farm belt, switched
attention for the present to the east
ern front. Though the republicans
in Kansas did not have a single ma
jor contest to bring out a heavy vote,
their candidates rolled up about 100,
00 0 more votes than did the demo
crats, who had many hot fights.
Townsendites, having failed to cap
ture the senatorial or gubernatorial
nominations in the democratic party,
were expected to register their pro-
i
test against the Roosevelt adminis
tration by either taking a "walk"
or voting for Landon on Nov. 3. It
is too late to have the name of Wil
liam Lenike, Union party nominee,
put on the ballot in Kansas.
Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa,
told Governor Landon the outlook for
him carrying the tall corn state was
"very bright." From Governor Frank
D. Fitzgerald of Michigan, the presi
dential nominee received an encour
aging report on republican prospects
there.
HITLER 3LAS ROYAL GUESTS
Berlin. Reichsfuehrer Hitler of
Germany entertained a large num
ber of royal guests at luncheon. In
cluded in the party were King Boris
of Bulgaria, the crown prinda of
Italy and his sister. Princess Maria,
the crown prince of Greece and the
crown prince and princess of Sweden.
Two sons of Premier Mussolini,
Bruno and Vittorio, also were the
dictator's guests. Bulgaria's queen
came to Berlin with her consort to
undergo a minor surgical operation,
said a report from Sofia.
'HOPPER RUINS HOLIDAY
Grand Island. A lone grasshopper
spoiled the vacation of Mrs. A. A.
Flynn and her son and daughter of
Dorchester, Mass. If the grasshopper
hadn't hopped in the window, the son
wouldn't have opened the car door,
and if he hadn't opened the car door
Mrs. Flynn's purse containing $180
wouldn't have fallen out. Mrs. Flynn
reported her loss to Grand Island po
lice and sent an S.O.S. to Mr. Flynn
for money to return home.
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
The ladies of the Mynard church
will serve home made ice cream, cake
and coffee at the church parlors, Fri
day evening, August 14. Serving
starts at 6 o'clock. The public in
vited. al0w-al3d
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Wednesday Specials
Victor Cake Flour, pkg 18c
West Best. Flour, 48-lb. bag $1.39
Sugar, 100-lb. bag $5.19
Syrup, dark, 10-lb. pail 49c
Dog Food, Strongheart, 1-lb. tins,
.2 for ISt
Apple Jelly, 2-lb. jar 230
Corn, standard Evergreen, No. 2
tin, lOt; 3 for 29c
Corn, medium can, 3 for 250
Crackers, Soda or Graham, 2-lb. . . . 190
Tomatoes, Linko, No. 2y2 can, 2 for . 250
Corn Flakes, Millars, large, 2 for . . 190
Catsup, 14-oz. bottles, 2 for 250
MEAT DEPARTMENT
WHERE QUALITY PREVAILS
Dold's Sterling Bacon, lean and
sweet, 1-lb. layers. 310
Minced Ham, per lb 150
Corn fed Shoulder Beef Steak. . .170
Home made German Summer
Sausage, per lb 310
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FIRE LOSS AGAIN RISING
The national fire loss, according
to the National Board of Fire Under
writers, Is again on the rise. During
the first five months of the year, it
was some $20,000,000 in excess of
the loss experienced in thesanie period
of 1935.
It is possible that part of the in
creased loss is due to the fact that
property values are somewhat high
er now than they were a year ago,
and anotTier part to increased indus
trial activity, which naturally in
creases fire hazards. Even so, Amer
ica's fire loss is nothing short of a
disgrace, and is a black monument to
human carelessness, human ignor
ance, human indolence.
It cannot be too often repeated
that at least eighty per cent of all
fires, minor and great, are prevent
able. The fire that consumed a splen
did home could have been prevented
had wiring been checked and repair
ed the fire that destroyed a church
could have been prevented had the
heating plant been periodically in
spected the fire that destroyed a fac
tory could have been prevented had
inflammable liquids or solids been
properly stored and handled. So it
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The inevitable fire, that nothing
could have prevented, is as rare as
hen's teeth.
This summer, as usual, the coun
try has undergone a number of ser
ious forest fires. More will occur be
fore the fall rains set in. The great
human causes of such fires are sparks
from faulty smokestacks, donkey en
gines, careless disposal of smoking
materials, and ignorance as to build
ingand extinguishing camp fires.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
magnificent timber, the growth of
centuries, have thus been burned to
ashes. Wild life has been cremated
as forest nres roar across miles or
territory.
Fire is a calamity and it is like
wise a crime. And the fact that most
persons who start fires do not realize
their guilt does not mitigate the re
sults of their offense. No American
is so far beyond "school age" that he
shouldn't take lessons in fire preven
tion. Cass county fia no Bonded In
debtedness, as. like the state, It
has paid cash for its c ravel reads
and other Improvements. That9
a mighty good policy to pursue.
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