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. State Histonod Society DC Vol. No. LV PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1940. NO. 101 Rev. John H. Bishop Answers Death Summons Father of John R. Bishop of This City Passes Away at Meth odist Hospital, Omaha. From Thursday's Dally One of the well-known and pioneer Methodist ministers in the north west district, Rev. John H. Bishop, Aikinson, Nebraska, passed away at the Methodist hospital. Omaha, yes terday afternoon at 3:20 following an illness of several days. At the line of his death the deceased was sixty-five years of age and would have been sixty-six February 14. Born in Plymouth, England on February 14, 1S74. Rev. Bishop came to America in 1912 and was follow ed by his wife and only son, John R., a year and a half later. Arriving in America the Bishops came direct ly to Nebraska and first settled in Bartlett, Nebraska. During his resi dence in England Rev. Bishop was engaged in the mercantile business and had distinguished himself as a political leader. He was ordained to the Methodist ministry in America in 1922 and has served as a Methodist minister in the northwest district for twenty two years. At the time of his death he was pastor of the First Methodist church at Atkinson. Nebraska where he began his fifth year as pastor this year. The deceased was an active mem ber of the Masonic lodge at Atkin son, Nebraska. Rev. Bishop and his wife are well known in this city as they have been frequent visitors here as guests of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. nnd Mrs. John R. Bishop. The news of his death serves as a shock to those who have known Rev. Bishop personally. Rev. Bishop is survived by his wife. Ellen; son, John R. Bishop; and one brother, William Bishop, Cardiff, Wales. Several nieces and nephews, who reside in England, also survive. Funeral services were held on Saturday morning, January 20 at 10:30 at the Trinity Methodist church at Lincoln. Dr. C. Prouty, superintendent of the northwest dis trict where Rev. Bishop served as minisier, conducted the service . nnd he was assisted by Rev. Mc Caskell of Seward. Interment tcck place at the Lincoln Memorial ceme tery. VISIT AT NEBRASKA CITY Friday evening a group of Platts mouth Masons were at Nebraska City to attend the installation of the officers of Western Star lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M. The installing officer was Ray mond C. Cook, deputy grand cus todian, of this city with William F. Evera as the ceremonial marsha' and William A. Robertson, past grand master, as the ceremonial chaplain. In addition to the impressive ceremonies the members enjoyed a very delightful luncheon. The officers installed were as fol lows: Ben C. James, W. M.; W. R. Conley, SW; Harry Lisby, JW; James T. Shewell, treasurer; Charles Ott, secretary; William Wurst, SD; Ly man T. Howe, JD; H. Bowelier, chaplain; Robert R. Lloys. SS; Hugh Rich. JS; W. P. Frank, tyler. Those attending the meeting from here were: W. A. Robertson, W. F. Evers. R. C. Cook, Frank A. Cloidt, Warren Kr-harfenbers. W. A. Ben- nett. John K. Turner, and sam Gapen of Hyattville, Wyoming. MRS. HELL IMPROVED Mrs. William Heil, who has been a sufferer of pneumonia for the past several days, is showing rapid im provement at her home west of My n?rd. VISITS FRIENDS HERE Prom Saturday's Dally County Attorney and Mrs. Walter H. Smith have as their guest today, Miss Theresa Peter, of Omaha, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Val Peter. PINOCHLE SCORES LISTED From Friday's Daily Mr. and Mrs. Frank Konfrst, Jr. of Bellevue, Nebraska were pro nounced the winners at the pinochle tournament last evening. The ex treme cold weather prevented a num ber of Plattsmouth people from at tending. Mrs. Frank Konfrst, Sr. served as hostess to the group. Th3 occasion took place at the Recreation Center at Third an A Main street i The following is a list of the pinochle players and their scores: Mrs. Frank Konfrst, Jr., CO00; Mrs. Frank Kon frst, Sr.. 5350: Frank Konfrst, Jr., 3310; Jerry Konfrst, 5030; Lee Phil lips. 5000; James Clark, 4680; George W. Olsen. 4 500; Frank Ka lasek, 4."30; Ed Stewart, 4520 Woman's Club is Planning for Golden Jubilee Golden Jubilee Party Planned for the Last of March in This City Will Be National Observance. The Plattsmouth Woman's clun together with the Junior club are busy making plans for their Golden Jubilee birthday party which will be held in Plattsmouth March 2Sth or 29th. Definite date will be an nounced later. These parties are being held over the entire United States with the idea of recalling club history in each club and honoring the pioneer wome i in each club. These pioneer women will be honor guests at a banquet. The women whom we will honor, rand who will be honored through out the Union, were the mothers of the club movement, that lifted the status of women in our country and spread around the world. They blazed the trails for us; they opened closed minds; they proved the worth, of the feminine contribution to civil ization as they built libraries, im proved school standards, developed sorial service work, and established adult education through club pro grams. In connection with recalling local club history Mrs. E. H. Wescott is writing the history of the Platts mouth club. There will be a program portray ing the growth of the club work showing the far reaching effect of the General Federation in these United States. MANY SECURE JOBS THRU NEB. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE A report received by the Journal states that 1.797 persons secured jobs through twenty local offices of the Nebraska State Employment Service during the month of Decem ber. Although about on a par with j the number for the same period a year ago, the figures indicate an in crease of about 40 per cent in the number of jobs in private employ ment. The private placements last month totaled 1.12S and 461 of this num ber are described as jobs of "regular duration." This is the greatest num ber of private placements for any December since the public employ ment service in Nebraska in 1933. December was the tenth month in 1939 when private job placements exceeded the number made during the same month of 1938. CARD OF THANKS To the many old friends and for mer neighbors, we wish to gratefully ATnroco mir nnnrorintiAn fnr tVip manv - kindly deeds and sympathy shown us in the death of our husband and father. We are especially appre ciative of all those taking part in the funeral services. Mrs. Pheme Cathey, Lucy Ann and Cameron Cathey, Jr. LEAVING FOR WHITE CLAY Miss Mary Solomon, who has been In this city visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Solomon since Christmas, is returning to her home in White Clay, Nebraska Sunday. Mary is the third eldest child in tho Solomon family. Death of Mrs. Mary Burnett This Morning ; Member of the Graves Family and One of the Pioneer Residents of Cass County. From Thursday's Daily This morning at 9:4 j at her home in this city, Mrs. Mary E. Burnett, 1 age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Burnett had sunerec: a paralytic stroke two months ao, i,ut t had partially recovered, but two! weeks ago suffered a second stroke ! Irrtfl. from which she failed to raliv, ' ; trowing- much worse in the last few i i . uays until death came to end her sufferings. Mary Elizabeth Burnett was bora August 15, 1855, in Missouri, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Graves, she being one of a fam ily of twelve children. The family moved to Cass county in territorial days and located at Rock Bluffs where she grew to womanhood. She was married to Joseph Byers, whoiSearl S died at Rock Bluffs in 1S98. In later years she married J. W. Burnett, who preceded her in death several years ago. Mrs. Burnett was the mother of five children by her first marriage, Will, who died at the age of two years. Mrs. Lena wyatt. who diea four years ago. The living children are Charles Byers of Walthill, Nc- braska; Lee Byers of Omaha, and Walter Byers of this city. There also survives one brother. Judge Charles L. Graves, the last of the pioneer Graves family. Mrs. Burnett has made her home it- Plattsmouth for the past thirty years. DEATH OF JULIUS 0TTNAT After an illness that has covered the past year and a half, Julius Ott nat, 44, of Nebraska City, died Fri day morning at the U. S. Veterans' hospital at Hot Springs, South Da kota. Mr. Ottnat was a son of Louis Ottnat, making his home in Platts- mouth during his childhood days where his parents were well known residents. Mr. Ottnat was born Sept. ? 189C, at David City, Neb., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ottnat. Leaving Plattsmouth in 1906 the family have since lived in Nebraska City. He was a member of the Nebraska City , fire department and served five years in the police department before he resigned in 1924 to practice his trade of electrician. He returned to the force as chief of police in 1932 and served in that capacity until June. 1938, when he entered the Veterans' hospital in Lincoln. He returned home the past year, then entered Hot Springs Veterans' hospital. His health continued to decline, how ever. He entered army service June 15, 1918, at Lincoln, Neb., and served at Camp Meade, Md., in Company C, Sixth Tr. Bn. Signal Corps. He re ceived his honorable discharge Jan. IS. 1919. In 1931 he was elected commander of Adam Schellinger post, American Legion of Nebraska City. He was also a member of the Ma sonic lodge. ; '-VrIZr! Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Faye Atha Ottnat; his father, Louis M., Nebraska City; four half-sisters; three children, Elizabeth of St. Joseph, Mo., Mary Ann and Louis Franklin, both of Nebraska City. His mother died when he was four years of age. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank our friends and neighbors who were so kind and as sisted us in any way, during the illi.rr and death of our mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Fleming. Especially do we wish to thank Mrs. Roy Dew and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stapp and the members of the "Inde pendent Church of Christ," as well as all the many old friends and rel atives in and around Riverton, Iowa. These acts of kindness will never be forgotten.; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Redd, Aulton, Mary and Phyllis. TAKEN TO PENITENTIARY Thursday afternoon Sheriff Joe iMrasek and Deputy Sheriff Emery Doody drove to Lincoln, taking with hem Marquise Thompson and Meril Keith Coble, who were sentenced I by Judge W. W. Wilson to the state penitentiary for grand larceny. The officers on their return stop- iped at the U. S. Veterans' hospital jto visit with C. E. Ledgway, clerk t of the district court, who ia there mndereoine treatment. Thev found Mr j pd y much improved in every ! respect, he is now ab;e to sit up in .bed some and feels very much bet- item appears in the county nev.s jter. 'papers. It is the suggestion of the Chamber of Commerce Hears of Year's Results way much of the misunderstanding Scarl S. Davis Presents Resnme of; about allotments on tenant farms the Various Activities in the 'may be avoided. City the Past Year. j Farmers of Cass county have put The directors of the Chamber of Commerce at their meeting Thurs day had a very interesting review by Davis of community enter- irises and financial ana business ac - Sivities during the past year and a rery fine group of suggestions for the j loans. cming year, j The progress of the 1939-40 corn Mr. Davis called the attention of ;loan pi.ograInt now jn fun swing, in the directors to the effects in city and ;ciicates that the amount of corn which county to cut down expenditures ia the economy moves. He also called "ttention to the exceptionally fine record in property movements in the past 5'ear, new homes and many re- cncdeled and placed in first class shape for the future. He also urged i greater appreciation of the pay i-oll industries of the community, abor employing sources which were making possible a great deal of pros perity in the city. He urged that the Mvic organizations make greater ef forts in bringing more meetings to the community and show the true varm welcome to those who may visit in the cit7. RECEIVE SENTENCES From Thursday's Dally This morning in the district court before Judge W. W. Wilson, the three men arrested and held in the alleged slaving and removal of a calf from lhe farm of Arthur Weiss, were ar raigned. The defendants entered pleas of jguilty to the charges preferrci 'against them by County Attorney Walter H. Smith. Judge Wilson gave sentence to the men and who will be taken to Lin coln as soon as possible to start serving their ser.te"ce. Marquise Thompson, charged with cattle steal ing was given a flat, sentence of three years in the penitentiary, Mariel Keith Goble, charged with grand lar ceny, was given one year in the peni tentiary, Richard Thompson, charged with grand larceny was paroled for two years to Sheriff Joe Mrasek, to report once a month at the office of the sheriff. SUSTAINS SPRAINED KNEE Mrs. Edith Hitt. who was at Oma ha visiting with her granddaughter. Mrs. Howard McGrath, had a very painful accident Wednesiiav. She fell on the sidewalk, injuring her knee and for a short time it was thought that possibly the cap had been frac tured. Examination however has .shown that the knee is not fractured but quite badly sprained. LEAVES FOR CHICAGO From Saturday's Daily This morning Mrs. James Ptacek and daughter, Miss Gertrude, depart oq for their home at Chicago after a visit here with relatives and friends. They were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Yelick, the latter a daughter of Mrs. Ptacek. GRANTED A DIVORCE From Thursday's Daily Judge W. W. Wilson this morn ing at the session of the district court, granted a decree of divorce to Amanda Garrison from Fred Gar rison. The plaintiff was granted ali mony of ?35 per month. Allotments in Mail for Farmers andLandlords 619.579 Bushels of 1939 Corn Crop Are Placed Under AAA Loan Since December 19th. On Januarv 20th all allotments were mailed out of the countv office and should be received bv the land- jlerds and tenants by the time this 1 county committee where a new ten lani moves on another farm in 1940. !if he will notify the county office iat Weeping Water and give the legel ! description of the farm on which he jis moving, then the allotments will jbe mailed to the tenant for their ! particular farm go described. In thi? iC19.579 bushels of their 1939 corn crop under AAA loan since Decem ber 19, 1929 when the first loan on 1939 corn was made, according to Evan H. Armstrong, member of the pountv Agricultural Conservation 'committee in charge of commodity will be placed under seal in Cass county will exceed the amount sealed under the 1938-39 loan program. Cass county AAA co-operators sealed 334, S45 bushels of 1938 corn. Loans on 1939 corn will be avai1 able until March 31st at the rate Df 57 cents per bushel in the commer cial corn area and 43 cents in the non-commercial area. Cass county farmers 'are eligible for the 57-eent rate. The loans will be due August 1, 1940. Mr. Armstrong pointed out that the three per cent interest rat3. which is one per cent lower than the rate on 193S corn, will bring a considerable saving to farmers. He also revealed that banks and other local lending agencies have handled 100 per cent of the loans made so far. The simplified method for taking out corn loans by which a farmer may sign his note and chattel mort- jgage and obtain his insurance certi jficate in but one trip to the county office has materially speeded up the work of making loans. Mr. Armstrong said. JUDGE SUSTAINS DEMURRER Honorable W. W. Wilson, judge of the district court, sustained the demurrer filed by the county of Cass in the suit commenced by the Con solidated Chemical Laboratories com - pany against Cass county. This suit brought for the sum of $502.64 was based on a delivery of soap and dis infectants by the plaintiff company to the sheriff of Cass county, Ne braska, in 1936 and 1937. In sus taining the demurrer the court ruled in effect that the county of Cass was not liable under the alleged contract for the soap and disinfectants. i 1 ne piainun was represemeu uy Attorney Howard Saxton of Omaha and the defendant county by Attor ney Walter H. Smith. FOR SALE All furniture and equipment of the Elks Building. Consists of pool and billiard tables, piano, 6 lodge room chairs, 9 leather covered lodge room benches different lengths, 9 large upholstered rocking chairs. Also heavy arm chairs, kitch en chairs, mirrors, card room table3 and many other articles. Can be seen any afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock or by appointment at any time by calling Frank M. Bestor. j22-ltw-2td RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. Henry Timm returned home Wednesday afternoon from Omaha where she has been for the past seven weeks undergoing treatment. She has improved very much in health and it is hoped will soon be able to resume her usual activities. ATTENDS COMMITTEE MEETING From Friday' Daily II. A. Schneider, president of the Plattsmouth State bank, was at Beatrice today where the members of the republican state committee are meeting to select a candidate for the vacancy in congress caused by the death of Hon. George H. Heinke. The committee Asill endorse a nominee whose name will be voted on at the primary election on April 9th. Among those suggested are Mayor Copeland, cf Lincoln, Kenneth Wherry, Paw nee City, J. Hyde Sweet, Nebraska City, Robert Armstrong, Auburn. The democratic committee meeting ! will be at Lincoln Saturday to select their candidate for the post. J. Hyde Sweet Named by GOP for Congress Nebraska City Publisher, Secretary to Congressman George Heinke Named for Vacancy. J. H. Sweet was nominated on the second ballot over Kenneth Wherry. On the first ballot Sweet received 9; Wherry 15; with others scattered. On the second ballot Sweet received 24 Votes with the rest scattered. BEATRICE, Jan. 19 (UP) P.e- j publican delegates, assembled in con- vention here today to name a can didate for the short-term congres sional candancy in the first district, postponed action past noon awaiting a statement from State Central Com mittee Chairman Wherry as to wheth er he would be a candidate. "As the thirty-eight delegates rep- resentjns: party organizations in the first district were called to order at 11 a. m., the names mentioned often est for the candidacy were those of Wherry, Pawnee City; Mrs. Heinke, Nebraska City, wife of the congress man whose death caused the vacancy and J. Hyde Sweet, Nebraska City, Heinke's secretary and publisher of the Nebraska City News Press. Popular feeling at the convention seemed to indicate that Wherry might withdraw as a candidate Mrs. Heinke's support was attributed to the popularity of her husband as was in some degree that of Sweet. Numerous candidates for state of fices were present, including republic an gubernatorial candidate Dr. A. L. Miller, Kimball. D wight Griswold, Gordon, Ed Baumann, Westpoint and Charles Warner, Waverly. A. W. Jefferies, of Omaha, United States senatorial candidate who it was re ported in Omaha today may with draw from the senate campaign to enter the congressional race, was also present. - Frank Todd, Atchison, Kansas state republican chairman, was scheduled to address the nominating meeting. ATTEND ASSISTANCE MEETING Wednesday afternoon several of the local staff of the assistance of fice were at Lincoln where they at tended a child welfare institute at which Harry Becker, director of this work was a speaker. Those from here attending were Miss Helen Porter, county assistance director, Paul Vandervoort, II, Mrs. Rimer Sundstrom, L. L. Laase and Mirs Rita Libershal. SUFFERS SERIOUS ATTACK From Saturday Daily This noon Carl Oschlager, prop rietor of Carl's Market, local grocery store, suffered a very severe heart at tack while at the store and has since been under constant care. Mr. Osch lager has had a number of these at tacks but this today seems the most serious and caused a great deal of apprehension to the family. SALE IS POSTPONED The farm sale of B. W. LivingBton & Son, which was to have been held Thursday at the farm near Cedar Creek, was postponed owing1 to the very cold weather. The sale 'will he held on Thursday, February 1st and it is hoped that the weather con dition may be better. Platters Win 41 to 30 Over N. C. Pioneers Locals Show Skill and Power Against Long Time Rivals Great De fensive Game Shown. From Saturday s Dally The Plattsmouth high school bas ketball team last evening were the winners over the Nebraska City Pio neers on the local court by the score of 41 to 30. The game was hard fought and one of the roughest that has been seen on the Plattsmouth maples for a long period. In the scoring attack of the Plat ters, Noble and Steinkamp garnered eleven apiece and Captain Ed Smith, ten. For the visitors Bob Boucher, playing his last game for the purple and gold, annexed nine points, play ing a fine game throughout. The locals suffered from the pen alties as Davis, outstanding guard. Bill Steinkamp. forward and Jim Yelick, guard were out of the game in the last period because of fouls. while Jack Ryder of the Pioneers also sought the showers. The game was just seconds in the going when Boucher dumped in the first basket for his team and the contest was off to the making. Platts mouth had time out to confer and then opened the firsworks, Noble tied the score and from then on the Platters were leading as Steinkamp scored a field goal, while Smith made good four, gift shots. Yelick and Noble one each from the foul line. The score at the quarter was 10 to 4 for the Platters. The second quarter was a continu ing march of the Platters toward vic tory with Noble and Steinkamp lead ing the way. Both teams played a hard: game., the defensive work oZ both quintets being among the best seen on the local floor this season. The half time score was 16 to 9 for the Platters. The third quarter was where the blue and white warriors really show ed their power as they swept over the visitors in the fast and furious plays that held the audience at a tense enthusiasm. Smith, Steinkamp, Noble. Davis. Martin, all carried the fight to the purple and gold bucket. For the visitors Boucher and Ryder carried the chief scoring for the visi tors. In the final quarter the Nebraska City team made a desperate bid for the victory with Ryder leading the way. the game growing rough with players well scattered over the court in the close defense plays. Noble scored the only field goal for the Platters in this stanza, free throws being two by Smith, one each by Velick and Steinkamp. Ryder made two field goals for his team in this last rally. In the game Nebraska City re ceived two technical fouls, one for a player failing to report and the second where members of the coach ing staff had talked to a player in ac tion on the floor. The arbiter of the game was C. L. Grace of the University of Nebraska. The box score of the game was a? follows: Plattsnvmtli (41) FG FT PF TP 3 10 Smith, f 2 Steinkamp, f 5 Martin, f 1 C 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 2 4 0 4 2 11 2 11 5 0 2 0 Noble, c 5 Yelick, g 1 White, g 0 Davis, g 1 York, g 0 15 11 21 41 Nebraska City (30) FG FT PF TP Sharp, r 13 15 Simpson, f 0 111 lorden, f 0 0 0 0 Weddle, c 1 3 t 5 Helm, c 1 1 0 3 Boucher, g 4 119 Lathrop, g 0 0 2 0 Ryder, g 3 14 7 10 10 13 SO t Technical foul. The second team of the Nebraska City Pioneers were the winners over the Platter reserves by the score of 34 to 30, th contest being a real battle, the Platters sparked by Don ald Martin, coming from behind to threaten an early game lead of the Nebraska City group.
