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Weekly JJoor osJlo
Vol. 21 No. 21
FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1901
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
Washington, May lo, 1901.
Well, the Hanna banner has been
raised.and the Hanna boom for the re
publican nomination for president in
1904, is on the road. It will strike many
as having been very fittingly started
in London,from whence Hanna's two
administrations as brevet-president
has been so strongly endorsed.Senator
Hanna was in Washington when Perry
Heath's London inteview launching
the boom was published He denies be
ing a candidate for President.but he
does it so jovially that every one can
see that he is almost tickled to death
with the idea. No one who knows the
relations between Terry Heath and
Hanna and those between Hanna and
McKinley w ill believe that the Heath
interview was a surprise to either of
the other two men, and there is little
doubt that the full power of the ad
ministration, through the army of the
federal office holders, w ill be exercised
to push the Hauna boom along and
make his nomination possible, unless
the press attacks it so viciously that
its iinpractieabiliy will be made plain.
That is what the democrats fear. No
democrat has been found since the
boom was started who doesnot sincerely
hope that Hanna will get the nom
ination Democrats w ish him to get it,
not only because they think lie would
be easy to beat but because they would
enjoy beating hi in more tnan any other
man that could possibly be nominated.
The Heath interview is in reality a
feeler of the republican pulse.especially
of the editorial pulse.So that it depends
on how it it is received by the republi
can editors whether the Hanna boom
will be withdrawn or pushed. j
Trade has not, to a satisfactory ex
tent, followed our flag into the 1'hil
ippines.if boots and shoes may be con
cidered fairly representative of other
articles of commerce. Although it is a
fact generally admitted,both at home
and abroad, that American shoes are
the best and cheapest in the world.an
official statement from the War Ie
partement shows that Itoth Spain and
Germany sold many more boots and
shoes in the Philippines last year than
the United States, the exact figures
being, Spain T4 183, Germany 3G0 241,
and the United States $7 K&Mr. Mc
Kinley's contention is that we took
and intend to keep the Philippines
solely for commercial reasons. In view
of the tremendous amount of cash we
have put and are putting into the
Philippines it would seem that our
trade ought to n ake a better showing
than it does in boots and shoes to leave
Mr.McKinley's contention any stand
ing at all
The statement has been possitively
madeinWasington this week by those
who are believed to speak for admini
stration regards his published inter
views on matters pertaining to China
and the articles published over his sig
nature as decidedly undiplomatic, and
that he no longer has the support of
the administration in his effort to get
the republican nomination for gover
nor of Iowa.
Surprises at Reception.
Show us a woman who will not come
out of a dilemma with colors Hying
where the smartest man that ever fed
his mental fungus on piscatorial pabu
lum would swamp and keel haul him
self. And right here in Plattsmouth
we are far-famed for bright and brainy
women.
During the encampment of the G.
A. R. last week Mrs. Stouten trough
conceived the happy idea of gi ving the
W. R. C. ladies a four o'clock reception
at her home one afternoon. To assist
her in welcoming the strangers
she called on Mesdame-i Theodore Liv
ingston, Al Gass, G. M. Spurlock, W.
L, Pickett, Will Streight and Mrs. C.
D. Eades all of them past mistresses
in the art of entertaining and all
erudite in the mysteries of the four
o'clock tea.
Perhaps through extreme modesty,
ignorance of the extent to which their
fame had gone abroad, or because of
a threatening appearance of the
heavens, the ladles estimated that
probably ten or twelve women might
put in an appearance, and laying their
plans accordingly ordere 1 two small
pasteboard boxes of salinacious wafers
and a half pound of hyson of the ool
ong or soolong brand.
The hourarrived. The dainty little
refreshment table, beautifully decor
ated, stood in the center of the Stout
en borough parlors. Mrs. Stoutenut tr
ough with her retinue of retainers
grouped about her,waitedin readiness
at the door, w hen some one gasped
faintly and fell limply to the floor
The others following the tixed stare of
her startled gaze, looked once, then
fell as abruptly into other chairs. For
around the corner the invited guests
werecoraing, with flags flying, keeping
Wichlta."land3. it .is claimeir-fcan bo
hlped to market "by the allotted time
and . the rest , moved down to the Ki
owa crazine: lands,. which will not be
step for step, serried tile upon lile,
phalanx wedging phalanx, came the
W. R. C. ladies. 3uo strong.
In a similar contretemps men might
not have been blamed for taking pois
on or some other strong drink, even
though they showed the courage to
resist the temptation to beat an igno
minious retreat With the. ladies,
however, there was not a thought of
giving up. Their dismay was but mo
mentary. They paused merely to shud
der a single shudder, then stood by
their guns. The telephone hell jingled
jangled: the kitchen range was stoked
up until it snorted and smoked like
the boilers of an ocean liner. The la
dy assistants grablted for aprons, rolled
up their sleeves and prepared to do or
die.
Almost before the first f the guests
had responded in kind to a reception
which made each and everyone feel
that her presence gave the hostess
especial joy, the grocery wagon, driven
like an ambulance responding to an
emergency call, hacked up to the rear
door and unloaded case upon case of
wafers, uneeda biscuits, and great can
nisters of tea, from which latter a
royal brew was soon being made in the
largest wash loiler in the neighbor
hood. In the parlors, on the spacious l.ut
crowded erandah and the l-auliful,
shaded lawn. the ladies in their dainty
white aprons ilittcd with their traxs
of tea and wafers.
Finally however there came a time
when the refreshments had make their
last round ami all the ladies were free
to so enjoy the society of one another.
So after a delightful afternoon the
guests departed, but not one ever
guessed how nothing but coolness of
head, readiness of the never cl-tuded
feminine wit, and promptness of ac
tion had saved the entire dav.
F- J. MORGAN IlE-ELCCTED.
Plattsmouth Merchant He-Eklcted
A. O. U W. Grand Receiver.
Plattsmouth came proudly to the
fore in Wednesday's session of the A.
(). I. W. grand lodge of Nebraska, at
Nebraska City, when Frank J. Morgan
was re-elected to the ottiee of grand
receiver, and Frank K. White was
made a memlter of the committee on
laws.
Frank .1. Morgan will now enter up
on his third term as grand receiver of
the order cne or the most resjonsi
ble jxisitions within the Itest.iwal of
the delegates to the grand lodge. The
material success of the order largely
depends upon the manner in which
the affairs of this oflice are adminis
tered. Morgan has at all times given
the most eminent satisfaction, and it
was a foregone conclusion when the
convention was called to order that
there would be little opposition to
him when it came to the ballot ing.
Jacob Jaskalek of South Omaha,
who was elected as the new grand mas
ter, has a wide cireleof acquaintances
in Plattsmouth
Recommends Miss White.
Miss Florence White, one of Platts
mouth's very successful and excellent
vocal teachers, will soon return to Chi
cago to resume her studies with her
old teacher, Mrs. (. L. Fox, of the
Chicago Musical college.
Mrs. Fox recently in recommending
Miss White, paid her the following
high compliment.
"Miss Florence White has in ;ed a
course under my direction, ,. li.et'hi
cago Musical College, and I tal pleas
ure in testifying to her studiou: habits
and musical ability. She has an intelli
gent understanding of vocal methods,
and sings with musical feeling and in
terpretation. She should Ik-come an
excellent teacher.
Mi:s. G. L. FOX,
Chicago Musical College.
April 21, 1!MU.
Overwhelming Cordiality.
"Do your country cousins treat you
cordially when yon visit them in the
Summer?"
Do they! Say, the minute I get
there they make me take some alder
iterry cordial as a fatigue destroyer,
then I have to drink some eppermint
cordial for fear the water won't agree
with me: next day they insist that I
altsorb some snakeroot cordial, to ward
off possible chills and fever, and then
1 have to gulp clown some liverwort
corniai ior me gooi or my system g n
erally. Do they treat me cordialh?
Ry jove, there is plenty of cordialst v.
I can taste it for months
SmaVt Set for June.
Epworth Leaguers.
Sunday night the local J'pivoi t h
league celebrated the twelfth annixer
saryof the order by rendering an in
ternational program one used on that
night by Epworth leaguers throughout
the world.
at the prisoner.- Half of the crowd
consisted of women. Despite the ef
forts of the trainmen, a large number
Nehawka
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
Finest Pollard has the completion
of his new and modernized residence
west of town well advanced. It is sit
uated near the Grace Pollard mansion
If. B. Seyltolt of Lawerence, Kas.
has ln-en installed as assistant opera
tor at the M. P. station. He has
learned the art in theory and is now
learning practical telegrapy.
II. A. Danes is tilting up the Ne
hawka house with new furniture, bed
ding, etc., and gives promise of keep
ing a commodious hotel.
The Van Court and Lemint stone
quarrv is still the basis of much busi
ness for the M. P. Gus Hood is super
intendent and forty men a re em ployed
getting out six to fifteen cars of ruble
and crushed stone per day. It seems
that the supply of stone is exhaustless.
They pay $1.T" per day for lab r.
Fred Schomaker, a farmer residing
three miles north of Nehawka, has
got out the sand and stone for the
erection of a new and com modi us barn
40x00 feet in dimensions, two stories
in height. The basement will face the
south, with walls of stone, and lie used
for a horse and cattle stable, and the
upper part of the barn for the storage
of hay. He already has plenty of crib
ind granary room.
There's no more interesting char
acter for one's study than Issac Iol-
lard. the veteran farmer and horticul
turist, who. since K'Ai has resided on
his capacious farm, adjoining the
present town site and station of "Ne
hawka. Coining here with some money
from Vermont' he purchased some
1.1(H) acres of land on the slopes and in
the valley of the Weeping Water, and
early began its improvement. Coining
from a fruit producing country, he
early ltegan the experiment of rearing
apples, pears and peaches with very
indifferent success. He knew nothing
ot the varieties of apples liest adapted
to the clin ate of Nebraska, but lie
persevered and kept on experimenting.
He wanted to raise winter apples, and
sent east and north for the best var
ities. like the Baldwin, the greering,
the ltellellower, only to learn by prac
tical test that all these apples would
either ripen earlv in the fall, or that
the trees were, too tender for our cli
mate. And he is still experimenting
in this direction, going south for his
t ress. He has now in bearing orchard
about 10 acres, and has a gang of
men, with a sprayer run by horse
power, spraying the leaves all over his
orchard, lie has a cold storage plant
in operation costing $10,000. Hut the
most interesting fact in connection
with Mr. Pollard's fruit raising is his
constant experimenting, which just
now leads to the attempt to hybridize
or cross, ami thus improve several var
ieties of fruit. With the assistance of
Prof. Kmorson of the State Univers
ity experiment station, some "00 at
tempts have l-en made, and in many
cases with apparent success. The
pollen of one blossom is cut out and
the pollen of another is delicately
handled and placed where it comes in
contact with the stamensof the other
bloom. Then a paper bag is placed
over the bloom and it is appropriately
marked on a card indicating the num
ber and character of the experiment.
Not satislied with hybridizing apples
alone Mr. Pollard is tryingtocross the
Hen Davis apple with the Hartlett
pear, in 1soms of producing an im
provement, on the tasteless and in
sipid Hen Davis apple. These exper
iments are made for the benefit of
future fruit growers as the results can
not bo known within less than tive
years, even if that soon. His peach
trees also promise well. The strange
pari of Mr. Poilard's character is the
fact that all hough he is a philanthrop
ist in a broad sense and might have
j amasse d wealth which has Iteen greatly
diminished by his experimenting, in
politics he is a voilent, bigot ted. re
publican, who imagines that the sup
Mrt of the "government" is the first
duty of all citizens, and that just now
the "government' rests in the seat of
Win. McKinley's pantaloons. It is
marvelous how liberality on one side
can le offset by biggotry and utter
want of charity on the other.
Avoca
il'ron hir Si-c'hI ( 'irresmtent.)
G. YY. Ilarshmau made his annual
i v,s" ,(' ,,,(' county seat this week
! While in that city he was the guest of
j I bat whole-souled prince of good fel
i lows, Deputy Sheriff McRride. Harsh
! lean bus his corn all in, and says that
j he can tke things easy now, leaving
! ' be burden of his farm work to his
The town has leen filled with
preachers this week, called here to at
tend a memorial meeting at the Con
gregational church, consequently it
Is expected to add at leas' mts tc
the price of every brootir lie sells.
The scarcity of broom corn and the
has been a hard time for the chickens
and the apple jam and the peach pre
serves.
Floyd Ilarshman returned last week
from a trip to Chicago with several
carloads of cattle, which he marketed
for his father.
Mrs. John Marquardt's new resi
deuce in the north part of town, is
almost completed. It is a roomy
structure, built for comfort, and will
lie furnished in elegance.
Dr. Will Hrendel, late of Murray,
has bought out Dr. Thomas and re
moved to this place. He gives prom
ise of becoming a popular physician.
Rev. J. H. Andress, our Congrega
tional minister, lies resigned his pas
torate here, to accept a call to Chad-
ron, to begin his work in his new Held
about the first of .Tune.
Henry Wolf, living a mile south of
town, is erecting a large new barn on
his farm.
Robert Wilkinson, the well-known
auctioneer, has sold out bis residence
property here and removed to Weeping
Water.
Avoca has a nice.tiean and well kept
hotel the Oxford of which P. P.
Peckham is proprietor.
H. C. Marquardt, the chief general
merchant, was at Dunbar on business
Friday last. He is sending his two
daughters to the normal school at
Peru.
Farmers hereabout are well along
with their corn planting-
Orlando Tefft, the banker and erst
while statesman, went to Weeping
Water Saturday.
Weeping Water
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
David Askew had his shoulder bro
ken last Friday, the result of being
thrown from a wagon while the team
which he was driving was running
away.
Messrs. Bishop & Davis have opened
cigar manufactory, and employ a
journeyman to run it for them.
Dr. Jenson was at Nehaw ka on pro
fessional business the other day.
At 1st accounts but four of the $200.
shareson the company Belgian stallion
Knopp, the property of R. B. Otto &
Co. , of Iowa, have Iteen sold to local
buyers, namely, O. E. Chandler who
took two, and James williamsand Geo.
Miller, taking one a piece. Six more
shares are to be sold before the stallion
goes out of the hand of the owners.
The Carom club, a social organiza
tion of nineteen members, mostly of
young married people, held its last
meeting of the season Fridav evening
last, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
J. I. Corley, when the prizes for the
Ix-st playing were aw arded. Mrs. Edna
Shannon drew the ladies' prize an
elegant set of China berry dishes and
Mr. Jack Donelan drew the prize for
gentlemen a sterling silver toilet set.
As at former club meetings, delicious
refreshments were served at the com
pletion of twenty games.
Union
(From Our Siecial Correspondent.)
Mr. Pierson has purchased the
Roddy building and has opened a gen
eral merchandise store.
W. B. Banning was in Murray Wed-
ensday.
The county commissioners, accom
panied by Bridge Contractor Sheedy,
w ere here Tuesday, on a bridge i nspec
tion tour.
Mvirray
(From our Special f 'nrrespoml.-nt.)
F. W. Crosser went to Omaha on
business last Wednesday, Judge Swear
ingen taking charge of the postottice
in his absence.
Mrs. and Miss Bessie Walker were in
Omaha Tuesday.
Nearly all the farmers have done
planting corn.
The grain dealers have Iteen busy at
their elevators.
The creamery is progressing and
prospering.
E. A. Burton, the hardware man, has
sold out to A. Baker and James Root.
They will take possession about July
1st.
John Young has purchased two more
Murray Harness Co.
T. H. TOLLIF, Mjr.
Best and newest of everything
HARNESS
HMNKETS.K KTS
KOKKi, Willi's.
SADDLES, BRIDLES ETC
as to the quality of armor. Other
claims will be made for delay in fur
nishing armor to other ships. There
tine blooded young stallions from a
breeder at Shenandoah, la.
Tuesday evening Hazel Lindsay, 4
years old, was burned to death. While
playing round a burning brush heap
her clothes caught lire. She lived less
than an hour.
CedaLr Creek
Special CorresKnilenre.
Frank lleim who is working for John
Gauer is thinking of going to Okla
homa to take up a homestead, lleim
has been in Oklahoma before and
would not Ite a tenderfoot by anv
means in the rush for homes this sum
mer.
Corn is nearly all planted.
Johnnie, the young son of Chris
Gauer fell from a fence and broke he
arm near the elbow Sunday.
By the provisions of her will Mrs
Gauer, recently deceased left the bulk
of her property to her son John.
I'lcK inrcuciikamp s nany was bap
tized into the Lutheran church this
week.
George Heil, jr., was a I'lattsmoiith
visitor Thursdav.
M"S. buzzcli. i.irs.
Mrs. Abbie Buzzell died at her home
of Blight's disease at :iA o'clock this
morning, at the age of Mi. At her led
side were her sons Stephen, of Stough-
ton, Wis , and Frank, of Omaha, and
two of her three daughters, Mrs. Mar
tin Briggs, of Michigan, and Mrs. F.
A. Blanchardof Saylesville, Montana.
Another daughter, Miss Carrie Buzzell,
resides at Cleveland, O., and was una
ble to reach here in time, when tele
graphed of the swift decline of her
mother.
Brief funeral services will be held
at the house by Rev. Dr. Bah-d this
afternoon, when the remains will be
removed to the train, to be accompa
nied by the sons and Mrs. Briggs, to
the place of interment, Turin Lake,
Michigan, the former home of Mrs.
Juzzell.
Mrs. Buzzell was ltorn at Romulus,
New York, aud for the past fourteen
years has liveI at Omaha and Platts
mouth. For some time she has been
the victim of the malady which she
and the family knew must in time
prove fatal, but with her days num
bered her sweetness of manner, her
trusting spirit and abiding faith never
for a moment forsook her.
Only a closed and bolted door- pre
vented an unusal scene at the Duulap
depot one afternoon recently, says the
Mills county Tribune. Six ladies,
armed with concealed wtapons. (hat
chets) hied themselves to the express
ottiee shortly after noon w ith a deter
mination to smash the eternal day
lights out of the boxes of boose w hich
have been piled up in countless num
bers for some time past. They were
only prevented from carrying out their
intentions because of their inability
to gain entrance to the express ottiee.
Dunlap ladies are not alone in their
indignation at the wholesa'e liquor
business carried on by express com
panies. Other towns have ladies who
are just as indignant and t hey declare
they will stop it if they have to adopt
Carrie Nation's method. We exject
developments later on.
On April loth, r.ml, the St. Louis
and North Arkansas Railroad was
completed, and first-class passenger
train service established to Harrison,
Arkansas, forming, in connection w ith
the Frisco Line at Seliguian, Mo., the
only railroad to the great and (as yet)
but partially develojted mineral fields
of Northwest Arkansas.
The richness of the territory thus
opened, both in agricultural and min
eral wealth, is so well established as
scarcely to need mention. The only ob
stacle presented heretofore to the pros
pector or hoineseeker has bf'oii the en
tire absence of railway transportation
facilities. With this barrier removed
the future of the district and the op
portunities afforded for safe return on
investments are no longer in doubt
LOCAL NEWS.
R. B. Archibald of Jacksonville, for
merly a judge on the district bench as
Jacksonville, Fla., and a lifelong friend
of Attorney II. D. Travis, has just
written tothe latter from the recently
For Rent.
BUILDING FOR BUCKSMITd
SHOP,
Ample room Excellent location,
on main roads east, west, south
and west through Mynard
Terms reasonable Great chance
for gctod blacksmith. For partic
ulars inquire of
J.7V. KISER,
Mynard, or Plattsmouth Journal ollice
Meanwhile it .will be translr.ted i"nto
Spanish, and be printed both in Eng
lish and Spanish. The new tariff will
Va tcc-iA no. I i .
stricken city telling him of the des
truction of his entire property, the
narrow escape with his life and the
the utter wrecking of the health of
his wife. The horror of that night of
fire, Judge Archibald says, cannot
come within the scope of spoken or
written words.
Emil Ptak and John Bajek, the two
young cigar makers who have just set
up in business for themselves in the
Schlitz building, over Hans Goos' sa
loon, have litted up a neat, cleanly
and well-lighted place in which they
have begun to turn out high grades of
cigars. Their stock is at present nec
essarily small, the demand for their
goods quite taxing the present capac
ity of the factory. They promise their
customers something good in the way
of a new brand of smokers soon.
Sunday afternoon at her home, Mrs.
John Watson passed away at the age
of 71 years. She is survived by her
husband and twochildren, Mrs. Frank
McNurlin and John Watson the lat
ter of York. The funeral was held
Monday afternoon, the services being
conducted by Rev. T. K. Surface.
Alliert Pappe has just finished
planting his !.." acres of corn. He is
interested in a case in district court
and got his seeding out of the way as
early as possible, only to lind on com
ing to town, that his case had been
continued until the November term of
court. "
William McKittrick, brother of
Charles McKittrick, the Journal fore
man, arrived in Plattsmouth from
Montreal, Canada, this week. Super
intendent Hawksworth sent him up
to Ilavelock today to apply for a place
in the shops there.
Among the Plattsmouth folk who
went to hear Mansfield at Omaha last
night were Misses Dora Fricke, Maud
Eaton, Capitola Black, Mrs. Al Gass,
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Moore, W. Jocelyn,
Carl Fricke, Dr. Roy Dtdge and Geo.
Clark.
Sunday afternoon under the aus
pices of the local Masons, the in
urned remains of the late George S.
Smith and Captain J. W. Marshall,
were laid to rest with appropriate
funeral ceremonies.
George W. Ilarshman sr. of Avoca
precinct took a lay-off from his usual
occupation of absorbing all the land
that adjoins his big farm, yesterday
and dropped into the Journal ottiee to
jolly the editor.
At the Sokol ball tomorrow night
the Bohemians and their many friends
will hold forth and make their annual
bazaar one of the notable events of
the year.
Tom Kepjtel had the misfortune to
catch his hand in one of the machines
at the shops recently. One of his fin
gers was all but amputated.
Mrs. Kate Dobney of Ilavelock, for
merly a resident of this city, was in
town Thursday looking after her bus
iness interests.
Tom E. Williams, editor the Renfro
(Okl.) Tribune was back among his
old Cass county friends this week. He
is doing well there.
George Heil jr. was a welcome caller
at the Journal oflice this week.
Annual Meeting, German Baptist.
Lincoln, My 24-31 .
Half rates to Lincoln from all points
on the B. & M. R. R.
Selling dates: May 24-31 from sta
tions within ."0 miles of Lincoln. May
2.'5-27, from stations more than 150
miles from Lincoln.
The meeting will be held on the
State Fair Grounds at Lincoln, which
are alongside the Burlington's tracks.
S. FRANCIS,
General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
To Cul furnl and Hack.
If you realized as do those who have
leen there what a delightful experi
ence a month in California is, you
would not fail to take advantage of
the low rates to San Francisco which
the Burlington offers on account of
the Epworth League meeting in that
city in July.
The cost f reaching California will
be reduced one-half. Add to this that
t he summer climate of San Francisco
is very nearly perfect, and it is easy to
understand why tens of thousands are
eagerly looking forward to what, in
their opinion, will be the holiday of a
lifetime.
Beautifully illustrated folder, givirg
full information about rates, scenery,
route, stop-over privileges, throrgh
cars, etc., mailed on request.
J. Fkancis,
G. P. A., Omaha, Neb.
' 0re K. Kranan In KtimU.
ST. PETERSBURG, July S. George
K. Kennan, the well known traveler
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