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I. : i 7 Society VOL. NO. LTV FLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1938. NO. 10 Nebr. Stat Debaters Do Better at Peru Tournament Make Up for Losses at Crete Geneva Only School in Lincoln District to Outlast Our 'A' Team The Flattsmouth high school de baters accompanied by Coach Milo Trice were in Peru Friday and Sat urday, where they participated in ihe annual Peru State Teachers col lege debate tournament along with twenty-three other high school teams of central and eastern Nebraska. The local debaters made a much better showing than at the Duane j college tournament at Crete a fort night ago. The Flattsmouth "R' team, com posed of Robert Woest and Homer (Jack) Barton, won from Walton 15 and by forfeit from Auburn B, hut j lost to DeWitt A and Geneva A. The Geneva A team was composed of two i very good looking girls who later i won second place in the tournament. Whether their interest in their good j looking opponents had anything to do with Robert and Jack losing this round, we do not know. At any rate, i it was a case of not ten pretty! gills, hut two very pretty girls. It was necessary to win three of the1 four qualifying rounds in order to ' advance to the fifth round, so Platts- : mouth's B team stopped there. j The Flattsmouth A team, com posed of Harriett Case and John ; Bestor. lost the first round debate to : the Lincoln B team and then quali- tied for the fifth round by winning the next three in order from Edgar F. Hastings A and Omaha South A. As Omaha South recently won the Missouri Valley debating champion ship, this latter victory was consid-j ered quite a feat ill itself. Saturday morning in the fifth j round. Miss Case and Bestor, one of! the dozen teams left in the tourna-j meiit. found themselves pitted ' against Omaha Central's five year debaters and lost. Only Geneva of the I-.ir.eoln debate district teams! oui lasted Flattsmouth. j Two-Year Ricord j This is the second year of com-1 petitive debating for these four ! Flattsmouth debaters. During the year 1 9 3 6-1 937 F. II. S. won five de-' bates and lost sixteen. So far this year the record is nineteen won and twenty-four lost. The record of wins and losses participated in by each individual is as follows: 1 tr: G-n 7 1937-3$ Total W L W L W L Barton 1 G 10 13 11 19 Bestor .111 1 1 1 '! 1G 24 Case r, C. 11 12 16 IS Woest 1 11 Iti 14 11 25 These figures give Woest a two year "batting average" of .305; Bar ton. ."70; Bestor. .400 and Case, .470. Case and Bestor will enter the official district tournament at Lin coln March IS and 19. Barton and Woest will be alternates. Lincoln Here Friday Night In order that the peode of Flatts mouth may have the opportunity of witnessing one of these high class intra-rchool debates, it has been ar ranged that Coach Kvasnicka will The flieht of the wild ducks and biing his Lincoln high school team ' Beese northward to their summer here Fridav evening. March 11. The i Ceding and breeding grounds, is he Lincoln team will take the affirma-line ahed from th southland to tive of the national question for this vear: 'Resolved, tlmt tht SPTcrali" Slates should Adopt the L'nieameral System of Legislation." Harriet Case and John Bestor will uphold the two-house system. The debate will begin at S:00 p. m. in the high1 school auditorium. The public Is urged to give these young people ! the encouragement of a large at- tendance. Admission will tie free, i SAFE FROM FLOOD From Monday's Dally Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mullen today received a letter from their daugh- ter. Mrs. Lon Henry, from Los An-j geles. They were reassured to find that the Henry family were safe from the flood as their home is on the members of the board went in a high ground altho there was high ' group to Omaha to visit C. D. Palmer, water in that section of the city j a member of the board who is in the where they make their home. The j hospital there. school attended by their son, Duane, j Those making the trip were D. C. had two inches of water on the floor Reed, E. G. Ofe, J. R. Stine, Rev. and water on the streets made itjj. W. Taenzler, M. S. Kerr, Roy necessary to postpone school until I Carey, J. II. Graves and Lester aftei the flood water receded. Thimgan. FINDS FRIEND QUITE ILL C. A. Rosencrans was at Lincoln Sunday where he visited with Charles C. Parmele, an old friend, at the St. Elizabeth's hospital where he has been for some time. Mr. Parmele is suffering from high blood pressure and a heart weakness that makes his condition very serious. Mr. Parmele enjoyed the visit very much and was quite alert and in quired of the old friends in this city. Mrs. George O. Dovey, of Peoria, Illinois, a daughter, is expected in the next few days to visit with her father and brother. Pollock Parmele and family. Flattsmouth Lady Receives a Fine Recognition Mrs. L. S. Devoe Selected as First District Chairman of Depart ment of American Homes. Mrs. John Bettem. of Douglas, j president of the First District Feder- j ation of Woman's clubs, has just an-! nounced a very pleasing recognition of the Flattsmouth Woman's club and one of its very active members. -Mrs. Bettem lias made the appoint-j ment of Mrs. L. S. Devoe as chairman j of tiie department of American Homes for the first Nebraska district. j Mrs. Devoe has been a very active j figure in the local club since her resi- j deuce here and is one of the leaders j in the various lines of the activities j of the organization. The department of American Homes is one of the important committees as it covers the home planning and activities that have made the Amer ican home on the highest standards of the world in living, planning and management. LEAVE FOR SOUTHLAND From Tuesday's DatTy Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Minor depart ed this morning by auto for War rensburg, Missouri, where they will join Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Dutcher. the latter formerly Miss Mathilde i jVallery of this city and aunt of Mr. i Minor. j The party will leave in the car of Mr. Dutcher for a three weeks tour of i ihe southland, motoring to Natchez. Mississippi, where they will enjoy trips through that part of the south where the annual festival of observ ance of The old south is being staged. The great stately mansions of ante bellum days are thrown open to the i public and the gracious ladies and : gentlemen of the old south appear in the costumes that were a part of the days before the blighting hand of war swept out the gentle living of the great plantations. I The party will motor on to Florida to visit at the various noted winter resorts on the east coast and return ling they will travel the gulf coast country to New Orleans where they will visit for several days and en- ie points of Interest of this I noted city of the south. PROTECT WILD GAME FLIGHT the Canadian border by United States ame wardens. The flight is very heavy and thou sands of the game birds were seen Monday headed for the north at the approach of the spring season. There were five of the federal game i wardens here Monday and with Sher- iff Homer Sylvester and Deputy Cass Sylvester were stationed along the ! Platte to see that there was no illegal shooting. Reports of shoot ing of birds along the Missouri river had been reported and if caught a severe penalty will be forthcoming. VISIT CHARLES PALMER From Tuesday's Dally j After a short business meeting held ! at the Christian church last night,; Farm Placement Program Speeded by Springtime Local Office of the Nebraska Employ ment Service Has Made Num ber of Placements. Spring activity on Cass county farms is gradually stimulating the farm placement program of the Ne braska State Employment Service ac cording to Edith Solomon of the Flattsmouth office. While placements to date have been limited in number they have in most instances been of a per manent nature. As spring work gets, under full sway the number ir; ex pected to increase. The peak in farm placements is usually not reached until harvest. An adequate supply of well quali fied farm laborers is available for Cass county farmers, according to Miss Solomon. They include tractor operators. farm couples. general farm hands, day laborers, dairy hands and orchard hands. Some who have been employed in the past year have become available recently. In referring agricultural labor to farm employers the Employment Ser vice uses the same care as in placing workers in other specialized jobn. To be classified and referred as a farm hand by the local office, an appli cant must have considerable farm experience, a definite interest in farm work and prferably to have been reared in a farm environment. For the convenience of Cass coun ty farmers the local office has ap pointed volunteer farm placement representatives in various parts of the county. These representatives either refer local laborers to farm employers or communicate the re quest to the Flattsmouth office. The volunteer representatives are: Elmer Hallstrom. Avoca; Ralph Green, Elmwood; O. E. McDonald. Greenwood; II. B. Koop. Ixiuisville; G. A. Rutledge. Nehawka; G. A. Stites. Fnion; D. D. Wainscott. Weeping Water. BABE BORN IN CAR DIES From Wednesday's Dally While August Stohlman. farmer from south of Louisville, was racing to Omaha last night with his wife to reach the hospital, their child was born just as the car arrived in Om aha and before the party, delayed, could reach the hospital. Plans had been arranged for the delivery at the Kani hospital and at J0:30 last night the expectant mother became ill and at once the party prepared to leave their home for the hospital, calling in the mean time Dr. O. "C. Hudson of this city who had been in charge of the case. Dr. Hudson advised the Stohlman family that he was leaving at once for Omaha and they also started on their race with the stork. Mr. Stohl fan drove the car at fifty, sixty and seventy miles an hour in the attempt to reach the hospital, but in less than an hour after the first sickness the child arrived. Mr. Stohlman stopped at a filling station in Omaha and attempted to secure aid. a police ambulance reach ing the scene after some delay and then it was found that the babe just born was dead. The mother and child were then taken to the Douglas coun ty hospital, it was found that life had gone from the child altho the mother was in very good shape. Dr. Hudson was finally called and rushed to the Douglas county hospital to look after the case and have Mrs. Stohlman removed to the Kani hos pital. She is reported as doing very well. DISTRICT COURT TODAY Fron! Monday's Daily- District Judge W. W. Wilson was in the city today to hold a session of the district court and hearing the case of Hilton vs. Clements, an ac tion in regard to the settlement of the George Berger estate of which Guy Clements was the executor. There was a large number of the members of the bar from outside the city to take part in the hearing, among these being Harry Gruninger, assistant attorney general, of Grand Island. H. G. Wellensiek, Grand Is land, R. H. Snell, Omaha, L. E. Peterson, Nebraska City. RETURNING FROM HOSPITAL j From Wednesday's Daily Mayor George Lushinsky was in j Omaha today w here he visited at the jCIarkson hospital and on his return i was accompanied by his grandson, j Frank Lushinsky, who has been there ' recovering from an appendectomy. Frank is now feeling much better and after recuperating at home for a 'short time will be able to resume his 'school work. ! Beryl Shanholtz, another Pl.itts- ; mouth boy. who has undergone an appendectomy at the hospital, is ex pected to be able to return home this 'afternoon or Thursday as he is now ' doing very nicely. Mrs. Sundstrom is Re-Elected as W. C President Large Attendance at Home of Mrs. I P. Y. McFetridge Frank ; Gradoville Speaker. ' From Tuesday's Pai:y The Flattsmouth Woman's club I had a very interesting and well-at- tended meeting last night at the home of Mrs. F. Y. McFetridge. Mrs. : William Heinrich gaf The devo jtionals on "Friendship. Mrs. Clark Bogcess was made an honorary mem ber of the Woman's -club in appre ciation of her work with the Girl I Scouts, which is sponsored by the club. Miss Wilhelmina lienrichsen presented two senior hi.li school visitors. Miss Winifred Ka fi'enberger and Miss Frances Minniear. Mis:; Ilenrichsen then presented Frank Gradoville who rave a very interesting talk on the Philippine Is lands, telling of the history, geo giaphy. language, climate, the Fili pino race, the diseases, and I'nited ; States influence and control of the ! islands. Of especial " interest were i the manv beautiful souvenirs which he brought back from the east. After examining the many inter jesting things of the Orient, the club 'held the election of officers. Mrs. ! Elmer Sundstrom was re-elected president; Mrs. William Heinrich i vice-president : Mrs. Frank Horsak. I secretary; Mrs. Frank Mullen, treas urer: Mrs. Don Cramer, correspond t i ing secretary. j Delicious refreshments "were served by the hostesses. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Frank Mullen. Mrs. Frank .Horsak, Mrs. Milo Farney, Mrs. I. L. : Ko; ian. CLOSE TO EXCITEMENT i George A. Ka fi'enberger. of this I city, who i? visiting at the? home of j his daughter, Mrs. C. A. Spacht and ! family at Ne Rochcll. New York, ihas had a touch of real excitement Jand thrill. The Spacht family home is just two doors irom tne i,evine home at New Rochell. which house hold was stunned by the kidnaping of their thirteen-year-old son. The Spacht family are friends of the Le vines and have shared their anxiety as the family sought to contact the kidnapers and assure the return of the boy to his home. MARRIED AT COURT HOUSE j The marriage of Miss Ella Fesser of Murdock and Ckuvnco Boyd Fran jzen, of Odell. Nebraska, occurred Sat lurday afternoon at the court house. ' The marriage lines were read by j Judge Duxbury and the ceremony witnessed by Henry ana Arthur Fesser, brothers of the bride. The party returned to Murdock follow ing the wedding services. ATTENDS MASONIC MEETING W. A. Robertson was at Lincoln Sunday to attend in his capacity as ! grand master of the A. F. & A. M.. the meeting of the Scottish Rite edu cational loan fund committee. He was accompanied back to Lincoln by his daughter. Miss Rachel, home for the week end. who resumes her work at Doane college. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Fred Bourck of this city is at the Clarkson hospital at Omaha where she was operated on Monday. She is reported as doing as well as possible and it is hoped will soon be on the highway to recovery. High School Students to Try for Scholarship Regents Scholarsliip Test Will Be Offered to Students of Platts mouth High School. From Wednesday's Daily Flattsmouth high school seniors will again have an opportunity this spring lo compete for the 2T.0 tuition scholarships to 'he University of Ne braska at Lincoln that are offered by ihe board of regents. All entries mist be received by the university : by March 14. The scholarship tests ,wiil be given in tho. high school April 1 1 and 12. Last year 18 students in 42S Nebraska high schools competed in the contest, with 22i ol the win ders now in school. More than 1,000 students have used the scholarships since the contest was first instituted. By March 1 230 schools had entered the 19"S contest. The awards, valued at approximately 570, are good for the freshman year at the University of Nebraska. The scholarships pay a!! tuition fees except matriculation, registration, medical, aiid student ' union. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of scores made in an Eng lish classification test, two psycho logical tests, an English composition 'test, and a test of reading ability. In addition to the 250 scholarships, a number of Iionoral.de mention cer tificates are given. Holders of these get the use of any unclaimed schol arships altvr September 1. Each fully accredited and each minor accredited school may enter any students in the upper fourth of the graduating class. Each school is alio ed at least two contestants even though this number may con rthcte more than the upper fourth of the graduating class in small , schools. They must be certified by ' the superintendent or principal as having graduated at mid-year or as eligible for graduation at the end of the school year or by September 1. FILE FOR COUNTY OFFICES i The list of filings for county of ficers was increased by two on Sat urday afternoon, when filings were made in the office of County Clerk George R. Sayles. for register of deeds and county attorney. , Mrs. James T. Begley was here Sat urday and entered her name as a Ci-ndidate for the democratic nom ination for county register of deeds, at the August primary. Mrs. Begley is the widow of the late Judge Begley Mid has been at Lincoln with her son. James F. Begley, a student at the University of Nebraska. Walter H. Smith, well known young attorney, filed as a candidate for the democratic nomination for county attorney at the coming pri mary election. Mr. Smith has been engaged in the practice of law here since last July and is a graduate of the Creighton university school of law. He has been very successful in his work at the bar and during his residence here has made many friends. WILL GIVE LECTURE HERE I Dr. Thomas Finley, of Omaha, will be the speaker here at a community ; meeting on Sunday evening at 7:30 at the First Methodist church, i The subject of Dr. Finley's talk Will be "Causes and Cure of Can I cer," w hich will be illustrated with i slides and will be a splendid oppor Itunity for the public to gain a greater i grasp of the menace of this disease 'which is now claiming the second ! greatest number of persons of any malady. WILL MAKE RACE County Attorney J. A. Capwell an nounces that he will be a candidate for re-election to the position that he has filled for the cast year. Mr. j Capwell stated that he did not expect ! to make the actual filing at once as j the primaries will not be held until i in August. He served as county attorney in 11923-24 and then retired to private I practice and in 193G was elected to the office to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Judge W. G. Kieck to the district bench. LEAVE FOR OHIO Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Huffer, who have recenly disposed of their farm near Mynard. departed Tuesday night for the east where they expect to make their home at Eaton, Ohio. Mr. Huffer has made his home in this locality for the past fifty-seven years and is one of our best known and highly esteemed residents. He j was for many years engaged in rail- jroad work as an engineer, but .in the j late years he has made his home on j the farm in the Mynard community. j Mr. and Mrs. Huffer will have the j 'journal accompany them to the new ' home in Ohio. i Happy Hundred Banquet for the Basketball Team Cnllen Wright, Well Known Speaker Will Give Main Address Coach Bogg-ess and Team Guests. The Happv Hundred committee the Chamber of Commerce is plan- j ning for another community banquet! to be held at the American Legion building on March 15 at C:30. As a special feature of this ban quet Coach Boggess and the 193S bas-j ketball team will be the guests of honor and will have a prominent place on the program. The speaker for the evening will be Cullen acreage of depleting crops which a Wright, the Will Rogers of the mid- farmer planted in 1937 in order to die west. Mr. Wright needs no in-j obtain the maximum payments for troduction to the business and pro-; diversion from his soil - depleting fef.sional men of Flattsmouth. A . base. number of the Rotarians and mem-j If a farmer plants an acreage of hers of the Chamber of Commerce ' soil-depleting goal in 193S and also have heard him speak at Omaha. Ne-, meets certain other provisions of the braska City and Lincoln. He is char-' farm program, he w ill receive his acterized as a humorist, tale spinner, ' maximum farm payment. The actual lecturer, inspirational talker and acreage of depleting crops planted general "pepper up.' jwith the acreage planted on parti- Dr. P. T. Heineman w ill have ; cipating farms in 193S should cor charge of the arrangements at the j resond quite closely with the farm Legion hall. The banquet will be j acreage planted to depleting crops served by the ladies Auxiliary of the j in 1937 on the same farms if those American Legion. J. W. Holmes is ' farms were in full compliance in supervising the sale of tickets. J This banquet is county wide and 1 friends of Flattsmouth throughout Cass county are urged to attend. SHOWS IMPROVEMENT The many friends of Mrs. Frank II. Johnson, former resident here and near Weeping Water, will be pleased to learn that she is now show ing improvement at the Lincoln Gen eral hospital where she has been for the past week. Mrs. Johnson had been ill of pneumonia at home for two weeks before she was taken to the hospital and placed under an oxygen tent. She is now up and ex pects to return to her home soon, she states in a letter to Mrs. J. H. Adams. Many of the older residents will recall Mrs. Johnson as Miss Grace Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ! Ferrv Walker, pioneer residents. j Mrs. Johnson would appreciate (hearing from the old friends, her ad - dress being 2020 South 27th St., Lin I coin. CONFIRM SALE District Judgs W. W. Wilson while here Tuesday holding a session of court, confirmed the sheriff's sale in the case of Lillian F. Holferts vs. Sarah M. Wortman, et al. The sale was confirmed and deed ordered to the defendant, Sarah Wortman. The remainder of the time of the court was taken up in hearing a large number of motions and arguments of attorneys. TO RETURN HOME WT. A. Becker, in critical condition at the Clarkson hospital for several days, is so much improved that it is hoped to have him back home in a few days. It is expected that the frac tured arm and shoulder would be placed in a cast today and he would then be able tocome home to recuper ate. VISIT WITH SICK Otto Lushinsky and William H. Mason were at Omaha Saturday eve ning where they visited with rela tives and friends at the Clarkson hos pital, among these Frank Lushinsky, C. D. Palmer, Beryl Shanholtz and W. A. Becker. County Meetings to be Held on the Farm Program Precinct Committeemen to Meet on Thursday Other Meetings Later Over County. Provisions of the 193S farm pro gram as prepared for the cornhelt states or north-central region will be discussed with all precinct com mitteemen at a meeting in Weeping Water scheduled for Thursday. March 10th. Community meetings in Cass county will probably begin about March loth. The county agricultural conser vation committee composed of Ed ward Steinkamj, Henry Ragoss and Melvin Todd and the agricultural agent, made plans for the educa- tional meetings with the committee- j m-n following a district conference (at Tecumseh where they discussed de tails of the program with other coun ities in this area and representatives of of the state ACF committee. In 193G and 3 937, farmers who have taken part in the program have been accustomed to thinking of their acreages in terms of soil-depleting base and soil-conserving base. In 193S, they will make their plans around a soil-depleting goal instead i I of a soil depleting base. This soil- 1937. The amount of payment for full participation in 193S should also corerspond quite closely to the pay ment in 1937 or average higher. In the case of corn however, the corn acreage of corn limit of 1937 was intended to be the usual or cus tomary acreage of corn cn the farm. The corn goal for 1938 in the corn mere': corn producing area will be a redution from that corn limit fig ure of last year. The farmer in such area who meets this corn goal will receive an additional payment for the J'ustment of his corn acreage. The county committee and their clerks are busy at the present time tabulating figures and making ad 'ustments in order to give each farm in the county its proportionate share of the total depleting goal of corn goal established for this county. It is hoped that the county committee can give each farmer a good indication. if not the final figures, for his de- i pleting goal and corn goal by plant ing time. NOT TO TAKE VOTE ON BEER The residents of Louisville are not to have the opportunity to vote on whether or not the sale of beer shall be permitted in the town, as was first proposed. Some time ago the village board received a petition asking that the matter of the sale of beer be sub mitted to the voters at the April elec tion. The board granted the prayer of the petition and the clerk was notified to submit the proposition. Later on the village board took up the matter with the tate liquor commission and were informed that the petition was not binding on the board and accordingly the former ac tion was rescinded at the meeting of the board. The ruling of the state commission will mean that the sale of the foam ing beverage in the village will be legal and the vote denied on the proposition. HERE FROM LINCOLN William Smith, of Lincoln, is here to spend a short time visiting at the home of his brother, John Smith and family, as well as with the many old time friends in the city and vicinity. Mr. Smith has made his home in Lincoln for the past eleven years.