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About Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1894)
Wescott & Son, Clothiers, Hatters, Haberdashers and Hustlers. C. E. Wescott & Son. ymmtmmtmrmmmtmmrmmtmmii Jtiiiii fr-H-3 M pi Diamonds. $25 in U.S. Notes Given Away. We have had made for us a number of skeleton keys after the style used by Uncle Satn. A cabinet containing $25.00 in U. S. notes is now displayed in our show window, this cabinet has a lock and only one key will fit it. The person holding this lucky key will be presented with the $25.00 absolutely free. A key will be given free to every purchaser buying $1.00 worth of goods at our store ; $2.00 two keys, etc. To glance at these keys they all look alike, but on closer examination it will be found that they are all slightly different, and only one of those distributed will open the door ot the box. The locking and sealing of this box with the $25.00 inside was conducted by such responsible arid solid business men whose signatures appear below, and is a guarantee of the straight forwardness and genuineness which character izes all our dealings. DO you aspire to wear Diamonds? If so, WESCOTT & SON can do your "sole'' good. Diamond Soles are a new thing, a practical thing, a sensible thing, and are bought by everybody on sight. They are a rubber sole, diamond-shape, will keep your feet dry and warm. Will wear as long as a leather sole, and prevents slip ping. WESCOTT & SON are sole agents for Cass county, and put them on at 35c per pair. They are going like hot cakes on a frosty morning. Before you slip down and break your neck, you had better slip in and let WESCOTT put on the Dia mond Soles. Especially adapted to ladies' and children's wear. C. E. Weseott & Son. aaiaa ' mmm BLIC. We, the undersigned, have locked this box, containing $25.00, and placed aj the key among the other keys to be given away as stated by C. E. Wescott 0 & Son. We have also put our seal over the lock, and no living soul, not even Zp the Wescott's themselves can tell which the right kej is that will open the ag box. Signed, aO Samuel Waugh, Cashier First National Bank. W. K. Fox. Postmaster Plattsmouth. J. C. Eikexbary, Sheriff Cass County. O Geo. A. Hay, Register 0 Deeds. Everybody can't get the correct key, but everybody can take advantage of nearly a $25,000.00 stock of new and desirable Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Shoes, etc., at lower prices than was ever sold in this city cj O or any other city, and if you happen to get the right key you will not only get the best bargain you ever got in Clothing, but you will be $25.00 ahead. Get the Bargains. Get the Keys. C. Wescott dz, Son. uwiwuuuuwuiwuuuuwuuwuui? C. E. Wescott & Son. SOLE AGENTS FOR Stein Bloeh Co.'s Clothing. Most everybody wants bargains. Most everybody wants good, well-made, well fitting Clothing. Most everybody would insist upon having this kind if they could detect it from the imitations. Most every body will admit that the bargain and true economy lies in the intrinsic value and merit of the garment and not in the price. Remember, you art the safest and best protected when you are assured of prime quality and genuine goods. DON'T BE HOODOED By these Annanias Clothiers, who rake to gether a lot of Auction and bankrupt stuff, and with glaring advertisements and loud guff try to palm it off as cheap, because the price is low. There is a flood of this riff raff stuff on the market this year. DON'T YOU TOUCH IT. The dollars are too hard to get, and you ought to get more for your money. WES COTT & SON have always stayed with the better grades. We have no room, no time, no patience, no wish to try to defraud any body by putting shoddy, worthless imita tions onto them; and today WESCOTT offers FREE to any man all such goods as can be found in their store. There's something else FREE to be had m our store. It s a cabinet containing 525 in cold cash, and the lucky holder of the key picks the plum. With every purchase of 1.00 you get a key. WESCOTT is handing out scads of these keys nowadays, and he's giving genuine bargains, to boot. Join the procession and get a key. C. E. WESCOTT & SON Rockwood Block. The Pljirtmtnith lournil OA I H AND WtKKLT. C. W. SHES2IAN. Editor. TEUMS FOR DAILY. Onecopv nnsvMr. in advance, by mail.. 85 On Onecoi.'y six m ntUs in advance, by mail, 2 aO uneconv oi;e m.mtb. In advance, by mail. M On ropv, by carrier. r week 10 Published every afternoon except Sunday. "OT TOO LATE TO MENU. WEEKLY JOCnXAL. Slnstle cpy. oueyear 00 Sinirie copv. nix months - Piibiinhed every Thursday. Payable in advance Entered at the t si .tace at Plattsmonth, Se braska. a second-class matter. Official County Paper. The stock-yards aud railroads do no; quite own Nebraska yet. At IcC-.))t the Majors men ran tbe vote up to 6f0, on a possible legal vote of 43". Mr. Cleveland is making another blander by his new bond issue. Con gress ought to slop such nonsense. The b st raeaus at baud for carrying gold to a premium would be to require all customs duties to be paid in gold. Fiftei x contes'ed seats have thus far been developed for the coming con gress. The contestants are all republi cans who. like Matt Daugberty, do not believe that an election elects. Dexvek has a daily sensation these days in the person of a man who strangles lewd women three have al ready fallen vict:ms to his clutch. No clew has ye: been found of his identity. lilTB knstkin, the wonderful pianist and music con poser, died very sud denly at his home in Peterhof, Russia, Tue-day. lie was a wonder in his line, and did much to awaken interest in p ano music. Ed. MuitF!N', li b Diewsedow, tbe Lincoln Jrurnal and a few other tin horn po'.iticians, pap-suckers and bangers ou are still talking of a con test in hope to count out an honest elected governor and thin continue their jobs for two more years. Even Pete Brown, it is said, has not given up all hops. -Nebraska City Iudepen- deut. The Fifty-third congress has yet one session left in which to redeem the promise of the last democratic national couventtion to coin 'both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage.''' The president called coneress to gether in extra session to carry out one part of the plank which demanded the repeal of the Sherman law, and tbe members of congress were assured that when repeal was secured steps would be taken to carry out the rest of the plank. It has been now more than a year since the Sherman law was repealed. The first effort made towards sup plying money for the people by the coinage of the seigniorage in the treasury was vetoed by the president. Eastern democrats have protested against any legislation favorable to silver lest it might injure the demo cratic party in the east. We have now reached a point where the democratic party of the east cannot be injured. The finan ciers have not shwn any apprecia tion of the efforts of the democratic party in behalf of a dearer dollar. They know that the republican party can be better trusted than the demo cratic party to secure the maintenance of tbe gold standard, and the demo cratic congress, when it meets again, ought not to be cajoled or intimidated any longer by these influences which have been hostile to the restoration of the gold and silver coinage of the constitution. Immediately upon the convening of the third session of tbe Fitty-third congress the friends of silver should make a determined effort to pass a free coinage bill and send it to the president for his signature. If he signs it, then bimetallism will be re stored. If be vetoes it. the issue for 1390 will be before us. Every reason given for the repeal of the Sherman law has failed. Tbe return of pros perity predicted has not materialized. There is no reason now why the friends of Bilver should wait any onger. Let them go to Washington prepared to act and act at once. World-Herald. Judge IJheweu decided that the frieght-rate law of Nebraska was constitutional in form but inoperative in fact, because the railway lawyers I persuaded him that the rates on the present amount of business were too low to make it pay. He may be right, but to the ordinary mind it does not seem so. According to all known eco nomic principles cheaper rates would create more business, just as cheap postage and better accommodations has brought an increase of revenues to the postal department, and the courts have not only a right but it is their duty to take that fact into account. Twenty-five years ago a commission of the London board of trade investi gated the subject thoroughly and de cided that railway fares could be cut don to an average of one-fourth of a cent per mile and still leave a good profit to the companies. Still, those companies have never tried the experiment to see it worked out. The trouble with all the railwas is that they are too heavily stocked acd bonded to permit tbe giving of fair rates te the public, and the courts are too apt to take that into account. None of the railway managers are interested in trying experiments on local freight charges. It is only when they have some other company to compete with that they figure close on rates. If they were to make a genuine effort to build up local business as well as tbe 'Jong hauls'" we have no doubt they could soon demonstrate that Judge Brewer was in error in bis guess at the justice of the rates afforded in the freight rate law of Nebraska. Those rates are identical with the local rates of Iowa, and the roads there themselves adopted them. Such decisions put j courts into ridicule. i Tinr lSCKND SCHEME. Democracy has as a leader (in the white bouse) a man who is doing bis best to lead the party into the camp of the enemy. His ideas of finance are based upon pluctocracy the right of the rich to rule by virtue of their wealth; and not upon democracy, which is based upon the equality of men. Tbe masses of the democratic party must take the reins and denounce such leadership or their party will die of dry rot. Edoak Howard was elected to the legislature on a ticket nominated by the democrats of Sarpy alone, without the aid of fusion, but still he favored fusion on the state ticket. He is a bright man, an editor with ideas aud a captivating way of stating them. He will m;ke a valuable legi-lator, or we miss our guess. Success to him. A week ago the secretary of the treasury announced bis determination to issue a second fifty million dollar loan at 5 per cent., with tbe intention of securing enough of a premium on the bonds to make the interest average 3 per cent. The proposition came in the first place from the New York bankers, who wanted that means or outlet for the loan of their surplus funds. Within a few days thereafter assurances were given of the sucess of the scheme. It is worth while, however, to take note of one fact while passing, and that is that already several million dollars in gold has been paid out of th treasury for the redemption of greenbacks and treasury notes with which to buy these bonds. A man takes his greenbacks to one window of the treasury and gets gold for them, and taikng that gold to another win dow, gets 5 per cent bonds for it. In such a transaction can any man figure out how the amount of gold reserve is to be increased? Isn't that the worst sort of robbery? Suppose the $5C,000.0 H) is drawn out and then paid back in that way, is Uncle Sam bene fitted V If not, who is? Simply the banker who takes this method to in crease his interest-bearing securities. Aud who pays the fiddler ? W hy, the people of this broad land who work for a living. And that one transaction will cost them, net, fifteen hundred thousand dollars a year? Do you call that good financiering? The banking fraternity of New York, who seem to be running the treasury, Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle, may call it that, but to the ordinary mind it is simply a scheme by w hich a lot of bankers are permitted to steal from the people's treasury a million five hundred thousand dollars a year with no profit to the country whatever. As democrats and as patriotic citizens we protest against it. Mr. Cleveland may sit in his office and pride himself on being an honest man, but if be did a thing like that as the agent of a private citi-' zen he would very likely wake up some fine morning and find himself wearing the garb of a common felon, and deservedly, too. That is plain speech but itstrue,and it is time that somebody told the truth in a way that it might get through the cordon of fawning sycophants whosurround him to reach his eyes. Mr. Cleveland in this bond matter ia Bimply tbe catspaw of his rich cronies in New York. When tbe former bond issue was made, and his attention was called to the $18,641 ,S55 which was drawn out of the treasury to pay for bonds it is said he simply "shrugged his shoulders and said he was glad that no more was drawn out." Such an ad ministration may masquerade as demo cratic but it isn't. It is a fraud on the people and deserves denunciation from one end of the land to the other. Mrs. J. Benson, LADIES' FTOUriSHEIL OMAHA. The scoundrels who contemplated counting Gov. Ilolcomb out have evi dently found that tbe job was too big for them, so they have given it up. With all the fraud, false counting, ballot-box stuffing, tbe "passing" in and out of the state of voters and the vot ing of every non-resident that money could buy for their side, and money to spare for more deviltry, and not a dol lar for any use on the other side, they found themselves 3,192 votes short, and the cry of "fraud' against their opponents would not stick in the pub lic ear. There is no moral deubt but that 10,000 fraudulent votes were cast or counted for Tom Majors, while it is equally true that Mr. Ilolcomb was cheated out of several thousand that were intended for him by means of the "straight" democratic swindle that was worked on the ticket. There is no sort of doubt but if an honest elec tion bad been desired by the secretary of state and the republican, party that "straight" democratic fraud would never have been allowed to go on the ticket, and if it had not it is easy to see how the whole republican ticket would have been defeated and that is just what was feared. There is one consolation, however, the scheme may come to plague the inventors some time. Congressman Holmax, the great objector, who was turned down at the last election by his Indiana constitu ents, says that the next national cam paign will be a contest between two western men for the peesidency and that the democrats will go to Illinois for their candidate. READ THESE PRICES Ladies' Skirts from 75c. to 814.40. Ladies' Waists from 50c to $3.50. Narrow Val. Laces from 15c per, doz. up. Butter Cream and Black Laces in Bordon and other styles from 10c a yard to the finest quality. Our stock is very large and no old goods on our shelves. We make a specialty of Ribbons and Handkerchiefs. Good quality Gloria Silk Sun Um brellas from 31.00 to 5.00. Specially low prices on Ladies' and Children's Hoisery and Underwear. We have many lines of Ladies' Fancy Goods, not kept in other stores. We are giving special prices in Gloves. In short, we make special prices in every department. Come in or order by MAIL. We will give your order prompt and care ful attention. MRS. J. BENSON, 1519 Douglas St., near 16th, OMAHA, NEB. Dr. Agnes V. Swetland, HOMEOPATHIST. Special attention to Obstetric, Diseases of Women and Woman's Surgeif Office: ,923TeTe?ei8it5r't,0maliaIKeb 1894. HIGH GRADE L SHIPPED . O. D. 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