PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.
W abash Nevs
John Cardwell and the family de
parted last Wednesday for Bremer,
Missouri, where they expect to visit
old friends until about the first of
the year, returning in time for the
opening of school.
August Wendt and family enjoyed
a fine Christmas dinner at the home
cf Mrs. Wendt's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Sehoeman, at Louisville,
and later were supper guests of the
father of Mr. Wendt, Gust Wendt
and a daughter who resides with
the father.
Charles Meade and family, who
reside east of Murray, are spending
the holidays at their old home town
of Fairplay, Missouri. The Meades
were neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Sher
man Hardaway, when they all lived
in Missouri, and recently visited at
the Hardaway home here.
Funeral of Mrs. Smith
Albert Tool and family were at
Weeping Water last Wednesday af
ternoon, going to attend the funeral
of the late Mrs. Mary Orton-Smith,
who was a cousin of Mr. Pool and
his brother, C. E. Tool, of Weeping
Water. Mrs. Smith died at her home
in Omaha last week after a short
illness. Her mother. Mrs. W. S. Orton,
who has been making her home in
California, hastened to Omaha when
she learned of the illness of her
daughter.
Mrs. Smith was in the neighbor
hood of sixty years of age at the
time of her death.
Sawing Much Wood
Hobart Hansen has had his wood
sawing outfit going pretty steadily
cf late, sawing a supply of wood for
L. R. Stanley. He was assisted by
Guy Hinds, the supply of fuel going
tr keep the fires going at the store
and home of Mr. Stanley and also at
the W. S. Hardaway home.
A good number, mindful of the
severe weather last winter, are get
ting a supply of wood in readiness
for any emergency and will not have
to be at the mercy of dwindling fuel
supplies when the severe winter
sets in.
Presented a Fine Program
The students of the Wabash
rehools under the direction of their
teacher, prepared a very pleasing
program, which was given last week
in conjunction with the closing of
school for the Christmas holidays.
A number of the patrons were pres
ent to enjoy the program.
The schools closed Wednesday and
will remain closed until Monday,
January 4th.
Visited Son in Elmwood
Mrs. H. H. Gerbeling, hearing of
the illness of her son, Orville Gerbe
ling, at his home in Elmwood, im
mediately departed for his home,
w here she went to do what was pos
sible for the son who was ill. Mr.
Gerbeling was improved on Wednes
day and his mother returned home
Wednesday afternoon.
Historic Home Burned
William Murfin and wife, who
have been living for a good many
years in their home in Wabash that
was known as the Cole home, recent
ly moved to the home of W. F. Lang
horst to care for Mr. Langhorst, and
left their home vacant. Last Friday
right about the midnight hour, fire
was discovered in this historic old
house, and there being no means of
fighting the flames, the home was
burned before assistance could be
obtained from any of the neighbor
ing towns having proper fire fight
ing equipment.
This house was one of the histori
cal landmarks of the community. It
was built in the late eighties by Wm.
Cole, a cousin of Bert Austin, who
row resides in Ohio. In 1SS9, Steph
en Hulfish and son, William Hul
f.sh, who were then engaged in busi
:v;ss at what was then known as
Eushberry, located about midway be
tween the present sites of Murdock
and Alvo. concluded to move to
Wabash, then a young and grow
ing town. They purchased the Cole
home and engaged in business here
for a number of years. Later the
place was sold to Henry Murfin and
Lccame the home of the Murfin fam
ily for many years, the children be
ing reared to manhood and woman
hood therein. William Murfin, a son,
was a small lad when the parents
first moved there, and has made his
home there ever since until a few
weeks ago, when -they moved to the
Larghorst property to tare for Mr.
Murfin.
Cass counLy ;ias no bonded in
debtedness, as, like the state, we
have paid cash for our hard sur
faced roads and other improve,
rr.ents as we went.
AVOCA NEWS
Henry Hauschild has purchased a
new 1937 Chevrolet four door car.
Dr. J. W. Brendel was called to
Lincoln on Tuesday afternoon of last
week to look after business matters.
John Maseman and Morris Ruhge
were in Nebraska City last Tuesday,
where they were doing some Christ-!
mas shopping.
H. M. Lum, the Avoca lumberman,
was at Syracuse last Tuesday attend
ing a meeting of the lumber dealers
of this district.
Fred Marquardt and Albert Bremer
were in Syracuse last Wednesday,
where they attended the regular
weekly community sale.
Ernest and Dorothy Gollner, both
of whom are now staying in Lincoln,
enjoyed spending the Christmas sea
son at their home here.
Henry Kammon was hauling ma
terial for the new home which he
is building on the farm north of town
which he recently purchased.
Elmer J. Hallstrom, Avoca bank
er, was called to Plattsmouth last
Tuesday to look after some business
matters, making the trip in his car.
John Ruhge and family of near
Manley were visiting with friends
and looking after some business mat
ters in Avoca Tuesday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Marius Nelson, of
Nehawka, spent Christmas day at
the home of the parents of Mrs.
Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sail
ing, where they enjoyed the day most
pleasantly.
John Marquardt drove his new
auto to Lincoln one day last week
and brought Mr. and Mrs. Frances
Marquardt to Avoca to spend the
Christmas season at the H. H. Mar
quardt home.
H. M. Lum spent Christmas day
at the home of relatives in Verdon,
where he enjoyed a very fine dinner.
The Avoca schools closed Wednes
day and will not reopen until Mon
day, January 4th.
Postmaster W. H. Bogaard and son,
Claude, were enjoying their Christ
mas dinner with the family of A. Z.
Thomas who arrived from their home
in Shenandoah, Iowa, for the Christ
mas day and dinner last Friday.
The happiness of the Christmas
season was made the more pleasant
by the coming of a very fine little
son to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Meyers, this making the ninth
son and just enough for a baseball
team.
Frank Sands, who formerly resided
in the vicinity of Avoca. but who
moved to Weeping Water, where
they have made their home for some
years past, with three of his sons,
were visiting in Avoca on Tuesday
of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marquardt
were at Louisville last Sunday, for
a visit at the home of the mother
of Mrs. Marquardt, Mrs. Berdella
Stander. Returning home in the
early evening they were supper
guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
J. W. Brendel.
Walter Norval, who resides in Lin
coln, but formerly lived here and
for a good number of years worked
for various farmers in the country
surrounding the town, was a guest
at the Wm. Strable home a number
of days this past week and enjoyed
meeting many of his old time friends
and acquaintances here.
Friends Gathered for Christmas
At the home of Rev. and Mrs. J.
M. Kokjer on Christmas day there
were gathered a number of relatives
and friends to properly celebrate the
occasion. Among those present were
the family of Henry Maseman, Jor
dan Kokjer, who is teaching school
at Franklyn and Miss Helen Allis,
who is a student at Doane college.
Furnished the Christmas Tree
Fred Marquardt has a row of very
nice cedar trees growing on one of
his places and when a tree was desir
ed for decorating the church for
Christmas he and the Rev. J. M.
Kokjer went and selected a very ap
propriate one, hauled it to the church
and with much care got it into the
assembly room of the building, where
a little later they erected it and had
the tree trimmed with tinsel orna
ments and lights all ready for the
placing of the presents thereon.
On Thursday evening the program
that has been rehearsed for some
time was given, followed by the dis
tribution of gifts and treats for all
the children. It was a most pleas
ant and happy occasion and all are
thankful tj Mr. Marquardt for his
interest in the event which prompted
him to contribute the tree.
Henry Sudmaim Home
Henry Sudmann. who was confined
to an Omaha hospital for some time
recovering from a broken leg which
he Bustaintd in a fall, was recovered
sufficiently to permit him to return
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home last week. His brother John
went over and brought him home,
and following his arrival he has been
showing good improvement.
Spent Christmas at Union
George A. Stites, of Union, came to
Avoca last Friday (Christmas day)
morning, and securing Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Tunnell, took them to Union,
where they spent the day at the
Stites home. Mrs. Tunnell is the
mother of Mr. Stites.
Visiting with Relatives Here
Alfred Shriver, of Onita, South
Dakota, accompanied by his daugh
ter. Alberta, of Brookings, arrived in
Avoca shortly before Christmas day,
and along with Mrs. Shriver, who
has been in Nebraska some time re
ceiving treatment for her health, all
spent the day at the home of Mr
and Mrs. William Maseman, the lat
ter a cousin of Mrs. Shriver. We are
glad to report Mrs. Shriver has been
showing good improvement of late
which will be pleasing news to her
friends.
SHOPS HAVE VACATION
From Wednesday's Dally
The BREX shop employes were
given a half day extra holiday, the
shops closing at 11 o'clock and the
shop men all set for the Christmas
holiday. The shops had their pay
dav on Wednesday and the force of
workers from Superitnendent George
Jaeger down will have three days in
which to enjoy the festivities of the
Christmas season.
SPE2JD DAY AT WESTON
Christmas day Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Cpwell, Joe Ilendrix and Mr. and
Mrs. Chris Bulin, of this city, mo
tored to Weston, Nebraska, where
they enjoyed the day visiting at the
home cf Joseph Samek. They were
joined at Weston by Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Otredosky and family of Milli
gan, and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Turner
and family of Marquette, Nebraska.
JUDGE LIVINGSTON TMPHOVED
The many friends of District Judge
D. W. Livingston here will be pleased
to learn that the Judge is showing
improvement in his condition over
the past few weeks. Judge Living
ston is at the St. Mary's hospital at
Nebraska City taking treatment and
also recovering from the broken leg
that he suffered a few weeks ago.
HEBE FEOM THE SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kinsman
and son, Edward, Jr., of El Paso,
Texas, arrived Thursday for a fewi
days visit at the home of Mr. Kuns
man's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Kuusman. Christmas a family dinner
was enjoyed with Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Carmack and Charles Kuusmau join
ing in the pleasant family gathering.
Bird-Sii-Kand
Push Work
on the Missouri
River Channel
Stabilization About Half Completed
Between St. Joseph and Omaha
Annual Report.
Washington. Secy. Woodring
said Tuesday "Every enort w ithin the
availability of funds" would be di
rected toward early completion of
Missouri river channel stabilization
to Sioux City.
He summarized work on the river
in his annual" report to the president
cn war department activities, which
siid improvement of the nation's in
land waterways was prosecuted vigor
ously" during the fiscal year ended
June 20.
At the close of the fiscal year, a
six foot channel was available on the
Missouri from its mouth to St. Jo
seph, and channel stabilization works
were about 50 percent completed be
tween St. Joseph and Omaha.
Woodring said operations were un
der way cn the uncompleted sections,
and work would be pushed to make
completion of the channel stabiliz
ation program coincide with com
pletion of the Fort Peck, Mont., reser
voir. "This reservoir," Woodring said,
"will augment the low water flow in
the Missouri river to insure main
tenance of a navigable channel at all
times "It will also aid materially in
the flood control of the upper Mis
souri river, and with the stabilization
works will reduce the severe erosion
which now occurs." '
FLUE CAUSES ALARM
From Thursday's Laily
A chimney burning out at the
farm home of David Rutherford this
noon, caused some alarm as the
smoke spread out into the rooms of
the home and a call for assistance
was sounded. There was no damage
cUme however aside from the smoke.
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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
IIRS. MARGARET COOK
Funeral Eerviccs were held Wed
nesday. December 1G, at the U. D.
church in Mynard for Mrs. Margaret
Amelia Cook. Mrs. Cook died very
suddenly December 12 at the home
of her son, J. B. Cook at McCook,
Nebr. She was 63 years of ago.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. H. A. McKelvey. Raymond
Cook and Lawrence Leonard sang
I three of her favorite songs, "Haven
i of Rest," "No Disappointment in
; Heaven," and "The City Four
! Fruare." Mrs. Roy Cole played the
'accompaniment. Pallbtarc-rs were old
j friends of the deceased. J. A. Pitz,
j B. W. Livingston, John Wehrbein,
' Elbert Wiles, Ed Spangler, and Osc ar
j Onpen. Interment was made in the
family lot in the Horning cemetery,
j Margaret Amelia Beins was born
I December 27. 1S72, on a farm south
of Plattsmouth to Mr. and Mrs.
August Beins. She grew to woman
hood in this community and was
married to John Cook. Later she
moved to Beaver City and was re
siding at Orleans, Nebr., at the time
of her death.
She leaves to mourn her death one
son, J. B. Cook of McCook and four
daughters. Mrs. Marie Winslow cf
Brewster, Kansas; Mrs. Luella Duzen
bcrry of Oxford, Nebr.; Mrs. Gladys
Williams of Ocean Side, Calif.; and
Loraine, who lived with her mother
at Orleans, Nebraska. Two brothers,
E. W. Beins of Plattsmouth and Fred
Beins of Pekin, 111.; and two sisters,
Mrs. Minnie Hill of Pacific Beach.
Calif., and Mrs. Anna Sprute of
Farmington, Minn., also survive. All
were present except Loraine and
Anna Sprute who were unable to at
tend because of poor-health. She also
leaves ten grandchildren and a host
of ether relatives and friends.
ENJOY DINNER HERE
From Saturday's Daily
The home cf Mrs. Martha Wet
enkamp on West Elm street was the
scene of a gathering yesterday.
Guests brought baskets. Those at
tending were Mr. and Mrs. Mark E.
Wiles of Manley, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Ranncy and sons, John and Elwin of
Weeping Water, and Miss Agnes
Rough of Weeping Water.
EMPLOYMENT INCREASE
Washington. Secy. Perkins re
ported that both employment and pay
rolls increased in November for the
ninth consecutive month. Industrial
employment figures showed 58,000
more workers than in Octeber, while
payrolls advanced by almost $5,000,
009. The increase brought the em
ployment gains from November,
ID 35, to November, 193 G, to more
than 1,100,000, with the payrolls
up $50,500,000 a week.
Phono news items to No. 6.
MANLEY NEWS
Miss Teresa Rauth was a guest of j
friends in Omaha over the holiday :
season. !
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Mr. and Mrs. Michael Honer were j
in Omaha last Monday on a pre-1
Christmas shopping expedition. J
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haws spent j
last Sunday in Lincoln, guests at the j
home of a brother of Mrs. Haws. . j
Albert Shellhorn and family were
in Plattsmouth last Wednesday, do- j
ing some pre-Christmas shopping.
Sherman Hathajvay was called to !
Plattsmouth last Monday to look af
ter business matters a short time.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rauth were
guests on Christmas day at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bergquist,
of Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lopp of near
Nehawka visited for a short time
last Monday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hathaway
FOR SALE A Model T Ford in
good condition; also two good trail
ers, one a 2 and one a 4-wheeler.
August Krecklow, Manley, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mocken
aut anel the children enjoyed a very
pleasant Christmas visit and dinner
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Rauth.
Miss Gladys Hohmann has been
suffering for some time from an in
fected toe, which has been causing
her much trouble, but is now con
siderably improved.
Kathleen, daughter f Mr. and
Mrs. Sherman Hathaway, was visit
ing at the home of her grandmother,
Mtl. Albert Hathaway over the joy
ful Christmas holidays.
Mi. and Mrs. John F. Carper were
in Lincoln last Monday, where they
did some shopping and also visited
it the- home of Mr. Carper's parents,
James M. Carper and wife.
Father McFarland, parish priest of
the Syracuse Catholic church, was
i guest of Father Hoffman, the new
Man ley priest at the rectory of St.
Patrick's church here last Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Seiker, who
reside near Elmwood, entertained on
Chrittmas day with a fine dinner.
Among their guests were John A.
land Andrew V. Stander, brothers of
Mrs. Seiker.
Gust Krecklow and son Harold
were in Omaha last Monday, deliver
ing a truck load of mixed live stock
to the market there. When we say
! mixea, we mean exactly that, for in
cluded in the shipment were cattle,
hogs, geese and chickens.
While William Sheehan, Sr. was
doing the chores, carrying a sack of
feed for the stock, his foot slipped
and he wrenched his back so badly
that he had difficulty in getting
about for a number of days. He is
reported as improving at this writ
ing, however, and will soon be en
tirely recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Virtus Haws, of Clay
Center, Kansas, arrived the fore part
of the week to spend the Christmas
holiday season with relatives and
friends here. Christmas day, in com
pany with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Haws, they were guests at
the C. C. Murray home southwest of
Louisville, where they all enjoyed a
pleasant visit and one of the finest
of Christmas dinners.
Made Air Trip to West Coast
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rauth were in
Omaha last Sunday for a visit with
their daughter. Miss Anna Rauth.
who was departing via airplane for
Los Angeles, where she is visiting
with friends over the Christmas holi
day season. She will return this
week, making the round trip by plane,
which is about as cheap as any other
type of transportation and a great
deal faster. Miss Anna was looking
forward to a most pleasant visit cn
the Pacific coast and felt no concern
as to the safety of her mode of
travel, although there have been two
planes lost in the region over which
she was to pass during the past ten
days. Neither of these were United
Air Lines craft, however, this being
he line with which she booked pas
sage. Spending Holidays Here
Clarence Fredrick, a ward of Rev.
Father Hoffman, pastor of St. Pat
rick's Catholic church, who is attend
ing college at Abilene, Kansas, ar
rivtd in Manley last week to spend
his vacation, lie was accompanied
by John Kelly, who is also attending
the same school, and who came to
spend the" holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Kelley, who
reside east of Manley.
Spent Christmas at Fremont
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fleischman,
accompanied by the father of Mrs.
Fleischman, Henry Taylor, of Louis
ville, spent Christmas day at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sin
nard at Fremont. Mrs. Sinnard is
a sister of Mrs. Fleischman, both be-
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ing daughters of Uncle Henry Tay
lor. It is scarcely necessary to say
they a1 enjoyed a vtry pUafcaI;t
holiday together.
Entertained Friends Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Thco Harms enter
tained the F. I). R. Pinochle club at
their home last Sunday, all enjoying
the occasion. They played in family
units, high score honors going to
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moekeahaupt
and the consolation to Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Rauth.
Feed Loan
Regulations
are Explained
Regional Director Hakes Announce
ment of Plans of Resettle
ment Adminstration.
De-fin ite limitations o:i livei-tixi;
feed loans from the '.lesettlement Ad
ministration were announced today
in field instruction? sent to county
supervisors by Cal A. Ward, rtgioiial
director. Relationship with other
federal lending agtncit-j, re.-i nsiuil
ity of private lending agenci-., non
d'turbance agreements and livestock
limitations were enumerated in or
der for the applicant to ejualify.
Ward said the regulations were
made necessary bee-ause of the ex
tremely limited funds with v. huh to
cr;ie for feed needs of Ii svtth ni' T.t
Administration clients. In tue future
in order to secure a feed lean tiny
must comply with the following eru
ditions: (1) The total number of live-
stock must not consist ef more than
12 animal units. Such unit.- v. ill 1
d-fined by the lo-al It A ?urervi.r
when feed borrowers apply.
(2) Feed loans shall be- maoo only
fa" the maintenance' of the ne.ess-ary
subsistence live-stock and will not h-;
made to those maintaining stock f:i
exees of 12 animal units.
to) No loan will be made to any
person now indebted to either a Pro
duction Credit As-oeiation or th
Regional Agricultural Credit Corpor-
jation except where a standard re se t -itlement
client already inde-tted to
those agencies needs an emergency
feed loan to protect the interests of
the Resettlement Administration.
(4) No loans v. ill be made in the
'future without a non-disturbance
! agreement from any age ncy or pri
vate institution having chattel mort
gage against the livestock to bo main
tained. The non-di.sturl'atr e agree
ment must not expire prior to August
I, 19L7.
"We feel that iu numerous in
ftanccs," said Director Ward, "local
financial institution should be ab:.
to extend loans to those persons de
siring to feed more stock than our
regulations permit. In any event we
cannot and will not go tutside thes"
limitations."
Larger operators. Ward pointed
out, should be able to arrange credit
from other sources.
"We believe that local banks and
other private lending agencies are
willing to bear their full si. ate in
caring for the need? of farmers other
than those eligible for our fee-d loan
program."
The Resettlement feed loan, supple
mented with such roughage as the
applicant already has on hand, should
bo sufticient. Ward said, to carry the
subsistence livestock of a majority
of the drouth nrkken farmers
through the winter.
ARKANSAS CHILD IS FOUND
Hot Springs, Ark. Durable 2-year-cld
Charles Warren displayed un
usual interest in his ceieal as the hole
indication he had spent 2 4 hours,
without food or heavy clothing, in
wintry woodlands. He found hi way
to a farmhouse four mile3 from hii
h'me late Monday while note tha:
200 national guardsmen and citizens
sought him.
"I want daddy, I want mother:" the
child cried.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Warren, driven nearly frantic by
their robust son's third disappear
ance in a year. Lurried Cl.i.rles
the Army and Navy hospital.