Rebr. r.ta'x Historical Society
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VOL. NO. LT7
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938.
NO. 6
1 7 J H
Arthur Copen
haver Takes Life
with Shotgun
Body Discovered by Wife in Shed at
Family Home in Southwest
Part of the City.
From "Wednesday's Daily
Arthur Copenhaver, 42, killed him
self this morning about 7:30 at the
family home on the Louisville road
near the golf course.
Mr. Copenhaver had arisen as usual
and dressed and seemed in his usual
health and spirits, going from the
house to the barn, and shortly after
this Mrs. Copenhaver heard the
sound of a shot and ran to the barn,
finding the husband lying in a small
shed attached to the barn, he being
drenched in blood from great gaping
wounds in the head.
She at once called help and Dr.
O. C. Hudson, Carl Ofe. Edward Ofe,
Robert Gray and Ray Misner of the
local Red Cross first aid staff hasten
ed to the scene. County Attorney
J. A. Capwell and Sheriff Homer
Sylvester were also notified and has
tened to the scene.
It was found that Mr. Copenhaver
had shot himself with a 12-guage
shotgun, apparently near the cheek,
it being plain that the trigger had
been pulled by means of a stick and
the discharge had badly lacerated
the head and face.
Mr. Copenhaver has been working
for the James Oil Co., of Nebraska
City for some time and on leaving
the house had worn his working
clothes as if he was ready to start
out with the truck.
It is thought that the suicide may
have been caused by financial troubles
as he was apparently enjoying ex
cellent health and had apparently no
other reason for taking his life.
The body was taken to the Sattler
funeral home to await the arrange
ments for the burial.
The deceased has made his home
in Cass county for his lifetime and
formerly resided near Union and
Murray but has lived in Plattsmoiuh
and vicinity in recent years.
He is survived by the widow and
several children.
STARTING WPA PROJECT HERE
T roni Monday's Daily
Fifty men were ordered back to
work this morning on a WPA project
that will consist of the completion of j
the road to the new river dock and
also the rock surfacing of Lincoln
avenue which was adopted as a
project several months ago by the
county and city and donalions by the
citizens to meet the government re
quirements. The dock has been ready for some
time and now the completion of the
road work will be the next step in
the procedure to complete the job.
The surfacing of Lincoln avenue will
be avery great asset to that part of
the city which has long been in need
of a surfaced road that is oue of the
main highways into the city.
HAVE INTERESTING MEETING
From Wednesday's Dally
The Catholic Daughters of America
held a very interesting business meet
ing last evening at the St. John's
school building. The council voted
to have a book or magazine donated
to the public library as a part of
Book Week.
The ladies had the privilege of a
fine address by Father Robert Sal
mon, aing pastor of the St. John's
church, who discussed "Unity and
Charity."
VISITS LOCAL COMMANDER Y
From Tuesday's Daily
William Albrecht, of Lincoln:
grand generalissimo of the KnightB
Templar of Nebraska, was a guest
here of Mt. Zion commandery No. 5
last evening.
This was an official inspection and
the inspector gave much praise to
the efficient manner in which the
local commandery is handled and
the high standard of proficiency held
by the officers.
MYNARD COMMUNITY CLUB
The Mynard Community club will
meet on Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
There will be a debate and music.
All are invited.
ATTEND NORTH PLATTE LODGE
From Tuesday's Daily
Early this morning William F.
Evers, superintendent of the Nebras
ka Masonic Home, Frank A. Cloidt,
L. O. Minor, Dr. H. G. McClusky and
Raymond C. Cook, comprising the
Masonic quartet, departed for North
Platte. They are to attend a Wash
ington birthday observance of the
North Platte Masonic lodge. Mr.
Evers is to give a talk and show pic- From "Wednesday s Daily
tures of the Home, while Mr. Cloidt j The patters ast evening dropped
will give the illustrated song, "The a 23 to 19 baEketball game to Papil
Roly City" and the quartet present i lion on the pappi() courti making the
several numbers. Uwnnf) lnrai iiofoot in tiio nc
Local People
Observe 43rd
Anniversary
jll to 10 at the half time and were
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Meisinger Are able to hold the rally of the Fiat
Surorised at Their Home iters in the last moments.
Last Evening.
Monday evening, February 21st, ;
a group of relatives and friends ten-
dered a pleasant surprise to Mr. and
Mrs. John P. Meisinger in honor of
their 43rd wedding anniversary.
The event was also in honor of
the tenth birthday anniversary of
their grandson, Eldon Meisinger.
The evening was spent in playing
pinochle in which prizes were award -
ed to George Fornoff and Mrs. John
P. Meisinger holding high score and j
John P. Meisinger and Esther Tritsch j
holding low score.
At a late hour delicious refresh
ments were served, after "which the
group departed wishing Mr. and Mrs.
Meisinger many more happy anni- j
versaries.
Those attending the occasion were i
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Meisinger, Eldon
and Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Mei
singer and Leon, Mx. and Mrs. Ter-
ner Meisinger, Mr. and Mrs. George ,
Pornnff. Mr and Mrs. J. E. Meisinerer i
and Leona. Mr
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and Airs, i-u lscnir - ;
ren, aiiss istner lritscn, .miss .hiu-
nie Hild. Mrs. Katie Hild, and the j
guests of honor, Mr. and Mrs. John i
P. Meisinger.
DEBATERS RETURN HOME
The Plattsmouth high scliool de
baters returned Saturday evening. County Judge A. H. Duxbury has
from a two day trip to Crete. While ;Deen notified this week of his appoint
there they engaged in forensic com-' ment to membership on the executive
petition with the representatives of ! committee of the Nebraska County
nineteen other Nebraska high schools, j jU(jges association. Other members
The larger cities, as far west as j
Holdrege and as far north as Norfolk, j
sent teams to this loane couege in-
vitation tournament.
In addition to the competition and
association with the more capable
students of the largest high schools
in Nebraska, the Plattsmouth debat
ers were given a taste of college life.
Doane college entertained the high
school debaters by letting them live
in the fine Doane dormitories and
view the beautiful Doane campus.
Doane was also host at an afternoon
tea, at the Friday evening banquet
and at the basketball game between
York college and Doane college.
The presence of Rachel Robert
son, Hariett Goos and Joe Hendrix
on the campus made the Plattsmouth
debaters feel much at home.
In actual debate competition
Plattsmouth did not do as well as j day night at the Hotel Plattsmouth
might have been expected. Woestand a very large representation of
and Barton lost three debates and J the member firms were present,
won from North high of Omaha, j Thomas Thomson, of Nebraska City,
Case and Bestor lost two debates and j the manager of the bureau, was
won from Koldrege. j present and discussed with the mem-
Previous to this tournament the bers the matters of interest on the
Plattsmouth record was 12 debates
won and 15 lost. Now it is 14 won
and 20 lost.
STILL ON SICK LIST
Prom Monday's Daily
Miss Mary Rosencrans, who has
been confined to her Lome for the
past two weeks, is still undergoing
medical treatment and which makes
it necessary for her to remain home.
It is hoped that she soon may be able
to resume her usual activity.
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
From Wednesday's Dally
This morning Mrs. Walter Eledge
and infant daughter, Shirley Ann,
were brought home from the hospital
at Omaha where they have been since
the birth of the little one. Mx.
Eledge was at Omaha to accompany
the family home.
Papiilion is
Victorious Over
the Platters
p.-.--. rw CpQcm TVfpat ihe
Score of 23 to 19 Close
Guarding Features.
they had lost to Blair on Friday.
The scoring punch of the Platters
was held down by the close guard
ing of the Pappio crew and who
drew fifteen fouls from Referee Iius-
!
iton, two of their guards being forced
from the game by the! foul route.
i The Papiilion team had the edge
For the Platters Wooster and Rebal i
were the only two of the team to se-
cure a field goal, Wooster making ten j
points for high and Claussen, the!
elongated center of Pappio totaled fif-j
teen to head the scoring for his team, j
j The last game of the season will j
; be played here Friday evening when;
j the Wahoo team is here and then ;
-the coming week the southeast N e- j
j braska tournament will start at
'Falls City. j
I The box score of the game: . i
Plattsmouth (19)
FG FT
f 4 2
PF
1
1
1
TF
10
4
0
1
1
1
Wooster,
Rebal, f
McCarty. f
Haves, c
0
0.
1
l
l
jac0b3t f
Miller,
C5
1 Reed, g
11
PF
19
TP
0
5
0
0
15
O
0
1
0
Papiilion (23)
FG FT
n-ietz
f
O H 0
o 2
0 0 2
0 0 0
7 13
10 4
0 0 0
0 14
0 0 0
10 3 15
Borman, f 2
Daup. f
AT ;i t cf nt r!
f
c
- ;,
Hauschild. g
Gehringer, g
Umatum, g
Chapman, g
.TTTOGE DTTXBURY APPOINTED
0f tne committee are Judges Curtis
o. Lyda, Gering, and Henry Vauck.
ciav Center. This committee, to-
gether with Judges Doane T. Kiechel,
president. Nelson, Norris Chadder
don, vice president, Holdrege, and
Robin R. Reid, secretary-treasurer,
Lincoln, forms the board of direc
tors of the organization.
Also announced at the same time
by President Kiechel is the person
nel of the legislative committee,
which consists of Judges T. Simpson
Morton, chairman. Nebraska City
A. T. McCoy, Trenton. Fred C. Laird,
Fremont, Vice-President Chadderdon,
and Secretary Reid.
CREDIT BUREAU MEETING
The first meeting of the Platts
m0uth Credit Bureau was held Mon
organization that is just starting to
function.
VETERANS TO RECEIVE
TREATMENT AT HOSPITAL
Edward Steppatt and Frank Pettit,
local World war veterans, are to en
ter the U. S. Veterans' hospital at
Lincoln where they will receive treat
ment. Mr. Steppatt has been suffer
ing since his discharge from injuries
caused by his service and Mr
Pettit
has in recent months been in
very
poor health.
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
From Wednesday's Daily
Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Ingwerson
left yesterday for Chicago where they
will attend the State Farm Mutual
convention, an insurance company
convention. They will be in Chicago
a week. ,
HOLD OPEN HOUSE
Tuesday being a holiday with the
court house closed as far as most
of the offices were concerned, some
one evidently gained entrance and
was locked in or sought entrance
anyway the locks on the south and i
west doors of the county building!
were damaged so that when John j
Kopp. one of the custodians sought j
to lock up the building the damage
was discovered.
It was necessary to provide tem
porary means of closing the county
building until the locks might
repaired.
be
Members of
Two Prominent
Families Wed
Miss Estella M. Parkening of This
City Married to Mr. Ford V.
Heim of Louisville.
Sunday afternoon at Z o'clock at
the St. Paul's Evangelical church
occurred the marriage of Miss Es
tella M. Parkening. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Parkening and Mr.
Ford V. Heim. sou of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Heim, of Louisville.
Rev. G. A. Paul, pastor of the
church celebrated the quiet and im
pressive double ring ceremony.
The bride was attended by Miss
Alyce Duff y, of Omaha and the groom : Mrs. A. Lentz and family, Michael
by Mr. Maurice Group of Louisville, j mid. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hild, Mr.
The bride wore a navy blue tailor-! and Mrs. I'. A. Hild, Mr. and Mrs.
ed suit with blue accessories and a ; Fred Hild. Mr. and Mrs. Will Fried
corsage of pink rose buds. jrich. Mrs. Katie Hild, Mr. and Mrs.
Miss Duffy, maid of honor, wore a J Jake Kraeger, Mr. and Mrs. John
black satin bolero jacke t dress with
i blue accessories and the pink rose-:
bud corsage. ; Hild and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest ', Scouts.
Both the groom and best nianjiiiij and family, Mr. and Mrs. Verner i Miss Jessie Whalen was the leader
woie dark business suits. jKild, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hild and of the meeting.
The young people iire members of j Gerry, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mei- The meeting was then turned over
two of the prominent families in : singer, Eldon and Lyle. Mr. and Mrs. j to Mrs. Wm. Ileiurich. She present
the northern portion of Cass county j Verner Meisinger, Minnie Hild, Ar-j ed Mrs. P. T. Ileineman who gave a
where they have lived all their lives j thur Hild. Catherine Hild. Glen j very interesting talk on "Librarian
and have a very large circle of warm j Kraeger. Marie Lentz, Verner Fried-i ship as a Profession," telling the
friends who will learn with pleas- i rich, Hilda Friedrich, Malinda P""ried- j purpose and departments of a library,
ure of the new happiness that has I rich. Wilma Friedrich. and the host j the opportunities, duties, training
come to them.
Mrs. Heim is a graduate of the
class of 1932 of the Plattsmouth
hirh school.
CAR-TRUCE WRECK
From Tuesday's Dattv
This morning south of this city
on highway No. 75 a truck-car crash
occurred that resulted in injury of
Robert Ramge of south of this city
and damage to his car.
E. G. Weller, driving a truck was
coming south on the highway and
had just come alongside of a road
maintainor as the car driven by
Ramge came north and Weller was
unable to get around or hack of the
maintainer and the car and truck
crashed.
Ramge had several teeth broken
off and sustained minor injuries that
required medical attention and Well
er was shaken up by the impact but
not seriously.
The accident occurred when there
was considerable fog and which ob
scured the view of the drivers of
their danger until too late.
RETURNS FROM MISSOURI
V. E. Kennedy, who has with his
family been spending the winter at
Bonneville. Missouri, returned to this
city Monday afternoon. Mr. Kennedy
will resume his work here with the
engineering force engaged in looking!
after the Missouri river improvement
program. Mrs. Kennedy and the
children remained at Booneville for
the present. Mr. Kennedy reports the
child born to them a lew weeks ago
is doing nicely now.
RETURNS FROM ST. LOUIS
Alfred Gansemer, well known Mur
ray farmer, has been spending the
week end in St. Louis where he took
a carload of hogs for the market and
found an excellent price, the market
there being better than elsewhere.
On his return he stopped for a short
visit at Kansas City.
NOW RADIO ANNOUNCER
Vincent Kelley, of Plattsmouth,
who with his orchestra has been at
Enid, Oklahoma for several weeks, is
now the announcer for programs at
station KCRC.
Wedding
Anniversary
Celebrated
and Mrs. Louis FTiedricli Joined
by Relatives and Friends in
" 31 Anniversary,
l Sunday, February 20th being the
I thirty-first wedding anniversary of
; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Friedrk-h, well
j known residents of this section of
; Cass county, they invited in the rela
; tives to mark the passing of the
' happy anniversary last night.
Pinochle was the pastime, with
others of the party enjoying rummy
and the younger people of the party
1 spent the time delightfully in bingo.
With the anniversary passing many
pleasant stories of the earlier years
were related by the members of the
party to add to the interest of the
occasion.
In the pinochle contests Mrs. Edgar
Meisinger was the winner of the first
prize for the ladies and John Park
tiling for the gentlemen, while the
low score was awarded to Mrs. Ray-
mond Ilild for the ladies and Louis
Friedrich for the gentlemen.
At a late hour the members were
treated to a fine lumh that had been
prepared in honor of the occasion J
and which served as
fitting close
of a most happy event.
Those attending were
Rev. and
j parkening and family, Mr. and Mrs. ;
Raymond Hiid, Mr. and Mrs. John j
and hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Friedrich.
FOUR TEAMS SEEDED
The drawings for the class A bas- j
ketball tourney at Falls City were)
completed Saturday and four of the
, rer,utediy stronger teams were seed
ed to make the contests more inter
esting. The tournament will be from
March 2 to 5th and will be played on
the Falls City high school court.
Falls City, Beatrice and Wymore
were the four teams seeded. Pair
ings in the upper bracket for the
opening were Wymore vs. Platts
mouth, Beatrice ve. Nebraska City.
In the lower bracket Falls City will
play Tecumseh, Pawnee City vs. Fair
bury. Auburn drew a bye for the
opening round.
HAVE A FINE MEETING
From Wednesday's Dally
The community sing at the
creation Center last evening
Re
was very largely attended and much in
terest shown in the group singing j
anu me special uuuiutis aiiaii&cu.
uon l . i orK leu me &iiiiii
junior high school girls under the
leadership of Miss Lois Brandhorst,
added a very pleasing touch to the
evening of song. E. H. Wescott
j served as the accompanist,
EETURN FROM VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Thornton have
returned from their vacation of the
past several weeks in the south where
they visited the many places of in
terest along the Gulf coast and in
Florida. They had a very delightful
time and visited some fourteen states
and Mr. Thornton states the only
road trouble encountered was when
they returned home and tried to
get into their driveway.
RETURN TO HOME
From Tuesday's Dally
Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler, Jr., re
turned today to their home in the j
south part cf the city after being for ;
several months at the home of Mr. j
and Mrs. H. E. Becker, parents of!
! Mrs. Sattler. They have been at the
Becker home while Mrs. Sattler was
recovering from the injuries sus-
tained in an auto accident and Mrs.
J Becker from the injuries from a fall.
TO ENJOY OUTING
From Tuesday's Daily
Mathilda Soennichsen, Anna Pala
cek. Mrs. Frank Gobelman and Mrs.
(Jobelman's sister. Mrs. Anne Frit-
i
jchen of Decorah, Iowa, left this morn
j ing by auto for St. Louis, Missouri,
j for several days visit. Anna Palacek
will return to Plattsniouth from St.
Louis and Mrs. Jones, a former resi
dent of Plattsmoiuh, now living in
St. Louis, will join the party there.
They will go from St. Louis to San
Antonio and from there to New Or-
leans. Their itinerary has not been
arranged from there on.
Woman's Club
Has a Very
Fine Meeting
Club Will Sponsor Eenefit for Pub -
lie Library and Will Continue
Support of Girl Scouts.
From Tuesday's Daily
The Plattsmouth Woman's
club
met last night with Mrs. Edward
Rosen. The meeting was opened byjteenth century larger migrations had
j the president. Mrs. Elmer Sundstrom. i been made by the Swedish people to
j Mrs. J. C. Lowson hud charge of the ! the United States and where most of
devotionals,
reading Bible verses
from Matthew and from a very inter-1
esting article, "The Second Mile," Nebraska and the Dakotas where
the woman's column of an English they had proven valuable additions
college paper. Two new members to the population. Their native in
were welcomed into the club, and the j dustry and thrift had contributed
two high school girls. Juniors, Fran-j materially to the development of
ces Hadraba and Norma Johnson, ! these midwestern states,
were introduced. I The speaker pointed to the fact
During the business meeting the ; 'hat not in 125 years had Sweden
club voted to sponsor a benefit for the! tn engaged in warfare altho near
purchase of books for the library,
and to continue sponsoring the Girl
j status, qualities, and compensation
j of a librarian.
Co-hostesses were Mrs. Pete Carr,
Mrs. J . C. Petersen. Miss Helen
Warner, Mrs. Ellis LaRue, Mrs. Don
Cramer,
HOLLYWOOD SALON BEAUTY
SHOP OPENING SATURDAY
Advertisement in today's Journal
calls attention of readers to the
opening of the new Hollywood Beauty
Salon on Saturday. Xew, modernis
tic equipment has been received and
installed this week. The shop, located
on the second floor of the Bates Book
Store building, is to be operated by
Pauline Kelley-Yelick, a graduate
beautician and manicurist from the
Capitol Beauty school of Omaha, and
for several years owner and operator
of a shop in Omaha.
The equipment includes a 193S
model Shelton Croquignole perma
nent wave machine, a Turbinator
hair dryer and accompanying mod
ernistic furniture and furnishings.
Mrs. Yelick will be the exclusive
operator of the new shop.
"Schoolgirl Special" on finger-
specials advertised, and Plattsmouth
and Cass county ladies are invited
to call and inspect the new shop and
equipment on opening day.
MANY ENJOY DANCE
The dance given at the American
Legion hall Saturday night by the
Holy Rosary parish, proved one of
the most successful of the season.
Jim Hovorka and his dance band fur
nished the music r?id gave a number
of delightful Bohemian and German
dance numbers that are always so
much appreciated.
One of the features of the dance
was the arrival of Sheriff Yokum
Alexander, of Dismal, Nevada, who
added to the festivities of the occa
sion and kept the large crowd in sus
pense as to his identity. It was
finally revealed that the sheriff was
one of the well known and popular
gas and oil dealers, A. W. Cloidt.
JI. "W. A. DANCE AT UNION
There will be a dance given at
the M. W. A. hall at Union on Thurs-
dav. March 3rd. Old and new stvle
dances.
Rotarians
Hear Address on
Swedish Nation
Attorney A. C. R. Swenson, Vice-Consul
at Omaha for Sweden, Gives
Most Interesting Talk.
The members of the Rotary club
;Tl,(1,linv ,..,. vrv T1i.,K,,nr feature
j lor tneir 1)roRram in the appearance
here of Attorney A. C. R. Swenson,
of Omaha, the vice-consul for the
kingdom of Sweden for the middle
western states.
Mr. Swenson was presented by
Elmer Sundstrom, the leader of the
meeting and who was born in the
far off country across the sea.
Mr. Swenson discussed the nation
of Sweden and its history as well as
the migration of its sons and daugh-
lters ln the early years to the shores
of the North American continent.
He touched of the settlements in
colonial days of the Swedes in what
is now the state of Delaware, this be
ing the first settlement of these peo-
I pie in the new world. In the nine
i them had settled in the agricultural
states of Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa,
j the seat of the great World war in
I which all nations but Sweden, Den-
mark, Norway and Switzerland, had
been engaged. Sweden, the speaker
pointed out, was truly a land of
peac and the efforts of the govern
ment devoted to the economic wel
fare of the people and that by this
careful governing the nation had es
caped much of the disasters of the
depression that had swept over the
greater part of the world.
John Hughes and Roy Wilson, high
school members of Rotary for Feb
ruary gave their farewell talks and
their impressions of Rotary and its
aims and objects.
C. A. Johnson was a guest of the
club.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
From Tuesday's Dally
Today at their home in the south
west section of the city, Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Godwin are celebrating
their fifty-eighth wedding anniver
sary, a long and happy wedded life
and at the later years brings the
golden memories of many happy days
and useful contribution to the com
munity life.
Elijah M. Godwin and Sophia
Wynn were married at Dixie, Texas,
February 22, 18S0, and came to
Plattsmouth where they have since
made their home.
Here in Plattsmouth they have
lived long useful years and have the
esteem of a very large circle of
friends who rejoice that they have
the prhiiege of celebrating this an
niversary. Mr. and Mrs. Godwin are the par
ents of seven children and have
twenty grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
MAKES GUILTY PLEA
Saturday afternoon in the county
court Harris Bowdish was arraigned
on a forgery charge, he having been
brought here a few days ago by
Sheriff Homer Sylvester from Omaha
where he had been arrested. He was
charged with the forgery of a check
for ?10.
The defendant entered a plea of
guilty to the charge and was bound
over to the district court for hearing
and bond set at $500. In failure to
provide the bond he was turned over
to the custody of the sheriff.
GAR OLD H0LC0MB HOME
Word has been received here from
Mrs. Garold Holcomb saying that
Garold Holcomb, who has been un
dergoing treatment at the Veterans'
hospital In Chicago, is now at home
and is feeling very much better. He
will, however, have to rest for at
least a month or six weeks before re
turning to his work.