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MONDAY, JAOTAKY 11, 1937.
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of Sizes and Widths
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Life Is Sad Affair for This Little Man!
Funeral of
Tell Billion is
Held
Today
yany Old Time Friends Gather for
last Rites at Sattler Funeral
Home This Afternoon.
From Saturday's Daily
This afternoon at tue Sattler fun
eral home was held the funeral ser
vices for Tell Billion, 77, who had
passed away at the family home in
the north part of the city on Thurs
day. There was a large group of the
relatives and friends in attendance
tr share with the family the sorrow
that his passing has brought into
their lives.
Rev. V. C. Wright, pastor of the
First Methodist church, conducted
the services and brought the com
forting lessons of the scripture and
the Christian faith.
During the services Frank A. Cloidt '
five two of the beautiful old songs,
"Deautfiul Isle of Somewhere" and
"Sometime We'll Understand." Mrs.
J. R. Reedtr was the accompanist.
The interment was at the Oak Hill
cemetery in the west part of the
city.
Tell Billion was born August 23
IF 60, in Canton Neuchatel, Switzer
lpnd, and when a young man came
to flie United States and located in
Illinois, where the family resided for
a number of j-ears. His children by
his first marriage, reside in the east,
Edward Billion at Milford, Illinois,
and Mrs. Maude Frazee at Chicago.
Mr. Billion was married eighteen
years ago to Mrs. Jennie Mason of
this city, who survives his passing.
There are also several stepchildren.
Mrs. C. E. Koke, Mrs. R. IL Fitch,
Sr.. William If. Mason of this city,
C. F. Mason of Storm Lake, Iowa, and
J. E. Mason of Santa Monica, California.
Cass'county rias no bonded In
debtedness, as, like the state, we
have paid cash for our hard sur
faced roads and other improve
ments as we went.
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Dates, 2 lbs 19
Raisins, Thompson Seedless, 2 lbs 17
Pork and Beans, tall large cans, 3 for. .290
Peaberry Coffee, Santos, per lb 190
Marshmallows, Hostess, 1-lb. cello bag. 150
Crackers, Soda, 2-lb. caddy VI t
Sweet Corn, No. 2 cans, 120; 3 for 330
Olives, large size, full quart 390
Salad Dressing, full quart 250
Campbell's Tomato Juice, 14-oz., 4 for. 290
Grapefruit Juice, No. 300 cans, 3 for . . . 250
Meat Depasrtmesit
Corn fed Shoulder Beef Steak, lb 200
Fresh Calf Hearts, lb 110
1 lb. Fresh Pork Liver and Olfie
J2-lb. Coral Sliced Bacon SIG
Fresh Pork Hocks, lb .120
Heinz Dill Pickles, 3 for .100
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10 Cent Counters
Life hasn't been too kind to this little fellow and
he's expressing his resentment against fate in
highly emotional fashion. This moving camera
record presents a graphic portrayal of a human
tragedy Baby Richard, who faces the world an
orphan, abandoned by his parents and one of the
nameless waifs who are sheltered at St. Vincent's
orphanage In Chicago.
Wabash News
More Drouth in
Store, Farmers
Told by Kinger
Can't Make Rain But Can Learn
From Mistakes, Says U. S.
Weather Authority.
Feninsula
Brand
Tomatoes
No. 2 Cans
Plattsmouth, Tues., V.red., Jan. 12-13
Thompson Seedles3
2-lb. i
4-lb.
Pkg..
imiim:kk ;itni:
2 for
PEAS
Xo. 2 Cans
Maytirre Fancy Cut
BEETS
3 No. 2'2 cans . . . .
21c
29c
NECK BONES ,Iean, meaty, lb 5t
PORK LIVER, young, tender, lb 100
BOILING BEEF, choice, tender Rib, lb 10
HAMBURGER, freshly ground Beef Cuts, 2 lbs 230
STEAK, Swift's Branded Beef, Rib or Shoulder, lb. . 17 Vz
MINCED HAM, Armour's Quality, lb 1212
BACON SQUARES, fancy sugar cured, lb 210
SALMON Sable cr Fillets, 2 lbs 250
(Sliced, lb., 150)
Santa Clara
PRUNES
80-90 size
4 lbs. ...
25c
Cream of Valley
Spinach
3 cJ. 2c
Hallowee
Bulk
Bates
2 lbs. 19C
GRAPEFRUIT, med. to large, doz., 350; each 30
Trill Miirxli Sreillrxpi s,-,-t nml 1 nil of Julff.
ORANGES, 176's, doz., 45b; 216's, 290; 288's. .230
aJif.triila vu:ikll aH Juicy, Sweet, SerilleK
TANGARINES, per dozen, 150; 2 doz. for 290
Swrfl, Juicy Klorldn.
APPLES, fancy Winesaps, bu., $1.85; 5 lbs 250
Heil. .lulcj Klne fur Kalluic.
RADISHES or GREEN ONIONS, 2 lge. bchs 50
Fiiiicv, I'reuli ualll.
CAUUFLOWER, Calif. White Snowball, head 150
Flnr-xt lnallt.
LETTUCE, fresh Calif. Iceberg, lge. 5-doz. size, head . . 60
larei-. Solid Head".
NEV CABBAGE, fancy Texas, lb.. 40
Sunlight
Margarine
BUTTER
Dinky, lb..36
CASC0
Solids, lb.. Jl c
Domestic Oil
Sardines
6&. 25c
CoCelt's
The Perfect
COFFEE
2 lbs., 45t ; 1 lb.
23'
Sliced or Half
PEACHES iQc
No. 10 Can TT5
PEARS, No. 10 can. 450
The nation's best known authority
on weather J. B. Kincer of the U. S.
Veather bureau told Nebraska peo-
p'e that much "loose" talk about hu
man activity causing changes in cli
mate is utter nonsense. He spoke at
the joint session of crop growers and
! livestock breeders at organized agri-
cultuie at the college of agriculture.
Long trend drouths have occurred
before, the farm people were told.
The basic consideration in farming
dry areas should include the practical
certainty that dry climatic phases.
at least as severe as in the past, will
recur.
Kince-r's talk was a feature of the
morning sessions, which continued to
attract large crowds despite the dis
agreeable weather. The Nebraska
State Dairymen's association opened
its meetings and the Farm Equip
ment association was also getting its
initial program started. All ether as
sociation meetings continued.
"Man i3 not responsible for drouth
or dust as sent by nature," Kincer
declared. "But it is a tragic fact that
the drier sections of the plains have
been extensively plowed and culti
vated wh?re crop farming never
should have been attempted. Much
of the one-time grassland is now un
der cultivation and has become an
aggravator of dust storms. Man can
not make it rain but he can do the
next best thing restore the original
natural conditions as far as possible
and avoid repeating mistakes of the
past.
Years with less than 15 inches of
rain are critical for crops, he said,
and more than half the years have
less than this amount and some years
far less. Examination of weather
charts emphasized "the rapidly in
ci easing risk of crop farming from
the central plains to the foothills of
the Rocky mountains."
"Many people think, because of the
recent successive drouth years, that
the climate is permanently changing,
either naturally or from some act of
men," Mr. Kincer said. "The popu
lar fallacy that man can basically
change climate or that it is changing
from some other cause i3 not a prod
uct of the 20th century. The belief
is found in the log of one of Colum
bus' voyages and in the weather
diary of Thomas Jefferson."
The notion that extensive culti
vation was the cause of the drouth
was also put forward in the rainy
years from 1900 to 1915 to describe
the excess moisture prevailing. The
"fcilly" theorlca that radio waves or
the drainage of marshes are a con
tributing factor can be disposed of,
he said, by realizing that radio waves
have no effect on atmospheric condi
tions or temperature; neither does
DO YOU KNOW
That slavery was first intro
duced in America in 1619;
when a Dutch slave ship
sold nineteen negroes to the
Virginia pbnters along the
James River. In 1760 a slave
could be bought in Africa
for 12 pounds of rum and
sold in the colonies for
35 pounds.
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Mrs. Wilson, widow of the late
Frank Wilson, who has been making
her home in Wabash, has been suf
fering from a severe illness, which
has kept her confined to her home
and bed for some time past.
Mrs. A. B. Stromer of Alvo came
over last Sunday for a visit at the
Clifton Browne home, enjoying a
rot Don pni;nT,''"v hours with her father, J. C
I T" . -. . I, 1 1. ft-
Commission
Argues Court
Lacks Power
ried visit to the Richards home to
investigate the circumstances and
endeavor to run down the culprit.
Chicken thievery is always more or
less prevalent, especially in winter,
but it seems like there has been an
unusual lot of it going on all over
the country lately.
to
Issue a Certificate
Bus Operator.
to
Browne, who has been suffering from
acute rheumatism. She was much
concerned as to how the father might
The right of the supreme court oe eeiung aiong ana maae tne trip
to hear an appeal from a legislative Particularly to find out.
or administrative order of the rail- "
way commission is challenged in a Parents Both 111
brief filed Thursday by Edwin Vail,,' Mr- and Mrs- Gu Hinds
'counsel for the commission in the ap-j fcoth sick iQ bed during the
Ireal taken by Roy J. Furstenberg ' week, suffering from the flu. Their
'from denial of a certificate to operate little daughter, who is only 12 years
ja bus line in Omaha in competition of age. shouldered the responsibility
with -he st roc t railway company. Mr.;of looking after the home, doing not
Vail rays the suprcn;? court of thejon,y tlie housework, but caring for
Tinted States has repeatedly refused: the Parents during their illness as
Were Sawing Wood
A number of the neighbors of
I Ralph Dorr were sawing wood at his
I home one day last week, getting
j things in condition to combat the cold
(weather of the winter. Fred Shelhorn
Jand William Murfin were the mov
ing spirits in the enterprise.
were
past
the amount of water in marshes andto examine the questions of fact in-
rHtr-hoa r-rmtrihnto enncri water to iililill-llcllilllve liLCiolUIlS
r.t min. the interstate commerce commission
fall.
"Drouths ia the United States may
be divided into twd general classes,"
Mr. Kincer told the crop growers.
"Those of a transitory nature, fre
quently lasting onl$r a single year and
those generally drouthy conditions
that have a tendency to persist for
comparatively long periods. The few
available precipitation records, cov
ering 100 years or more, indicate
that a general dry phase, somewhat
comparable to that of 18S6 10,1895.
and the more recent one of 1930 tc
date obtained in the '30's of the last
century. Historical background warns
uf that drouths in the future may be
expected. "
Mr. Kincer sounded a more opti
n.istic note by foretasting that,
"doubtless, when the present drouth
dsfinitely comes to an end there will
be a period of years with compara
tively heavy rainfall" and little will
be heard about dust storm and the
like.
DUAL EXISTENCE IS ENDED
and reviews such devisior.
i.i
well.
Chicken Thieves Visit Wabash
Considerable excitement as well as
rightec.'.s indignation was prevalent
in Wabash last Wednesday morning
when Ralph Richards reported that
some sneak thief had raided his hen
house and made way with 3 8 of his
chickens. The authorities at Platts
mouth were notified and Deputy
hur-
January S
Pasadena, Calif. A fatal bullet
wound punctuated the final chapter
Friday in the strange life of Harry
Linton Eutler. respectable real estate
broker, and Harry Linton Butler, sus
pected bank robber. "I am glad he
was killed." said his mother, Mrs
S. B. Sullivan. 80. "I would rather
3ee him dead than behind prison
hars."
Butler, a former president of the
Pasadena realty board, was shot to
death Thursday when he drew a pis
tol from his pocket. Detective Rob
ert O'Rourke reported, as officers ap
proached him at the entrance of a
branch of the Bank of America.
O'Rourke said Butler's fingerprints
tallied with those a robber left when
the bank was robbed of $4,118 March
11.
A note on the dead man addressed
to his widow, Marie, said "In Ihe
event I die, please forgive me."
Small factories will find wel
come and the ODDortunltv to ex
pand (through river transporta
tion) in Plattsmouth.
only when
t :ey are so unreasonable i-.r.d arbi
trary as to be confi3 atory of private
P'cpcrty or otherwise in conflict with
constitutional rights.
In view of the fact that the evi
dence before the commission was con
flicting he says its decision cannot be
said to ho arbitrary. While it is true Sheriff Cass Sylvester made a
ore commissioner dissented, this wasj
because he was not convinced that ' '..' . . ', ', f.'iT.I '7"'!.!.'...i,m
V.ie street car company, the objector,
was willing and able to furnish to
date bus transportation. This leaves
for decision by the court but a single
proposition of law, whether the street
railway company was estopped to ob
jct to the issuance of the certificate
tc Furstenberg because it did not
have an exclusive franchise and to
allow it to object would render that
franchise exclusive.
Mr. Vail says the argument might
be properly made to the council were
Furstenberg applying for a permit to
us-e the streets, but the supreme court
has held that fhe authority of the
commission springs from another
source and 13 exercised for a differ
ent purpose. This was in a case where
the court held that the commission
controlled issuance of taxicab certi
ficates. It i3 also pointed out that any
oider which the court might make
would be of little or no benefit to
FurstenTerg because the court can
not usurp the administrative func
tion of the commission, substitute its
judgment for that of the commission,
and order that a certificate issue.
Troubled with Rheumatism
J. C. Browne, manager of the Wa
bash elevator, who is always ready to
greet everyone with a happy saluta
tion, has had a chang-ed expression
of late on account of being smitten
with a severe case of rheumatism that
has kept him at home and in bed a
part of the time and made it difficult
for him to get about the rest of the
time. Although slightly improved, he
is still suffering greatly from the
malady.
Entertained Friends Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hardaway
entertained relatives from over near
Murray last Sunday, they being Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie Adams and Clayton
Curl. Mrs. Adams is a cousin, and
her father, Mr. Curl, an uncle of the
hestess, Mrs. Hardaway.
TO HOLD ELECTIONS SAT
URDAY NIGHTS HEREAFTER
Due to discontinuance of Mer
chants' Gift Night program, the Com
munity Building club elections will
be held on Saturday nights, begin
ning this week, instead of Wednes
day nights as heretofore. Election
will be held promptly at 7:30 in the
east Journal room.
Improving our farm-to-market
roads will be of direct benefit to
everyone In Cass county.
Daily Joujnal, 15c per week.
Brings You These Wonderful
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We are closing out Winter merchandise right at the
time when you need it most. Cold weather is here to
stay a while, and you'll need the goods below, as well
as many other seasonable bargains now on display.
Ladies' Balbriggan Pajamas
One and 2-piece. Assorted colors and sizes.
Special January Clearance price.
Children's Balbriggan Pajamas
One piece. Assorted colors. Sizes 6 to 14. Just
the thing for cold weather. Clearance price
79c
Ladies' Felt Hats
Assorted colors. Values to $2.95. In
two groups. January Clearance price.
79c 1
Silk, Wool and Knit Dresses
Ladies, here's a real bargain. Newest Fall and
Winter styles, values to $5.95 sacrificed at
$9 qo
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