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Ncbr. State Historical Society Vol. No. LV PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1940. NO. 103 Ordell Kennings New President of Junior C. of C. Secretary-Treasurer for the Past Year Elected to Head Young Men's Organization for 1940. From Thursday' Dally At a luncheon served in the dining rcora of the Hotel Platts mouth last evening Ordell Hennings, manager of the Hinky-Dinky grocery Etore and an active figure in com munity affairs, was elected unani mously to the post of Junior Cham ber of Commerce president. He suc ceeds Vincent Kelley, manager of Jce's New-Way grocery store. Other officers elected for the coming year were Thornton Baker. Plattsmouth State hank employee, vice-president; :ind Vincent Kelley, secretary-treasurer. A considerable amount of business was brought up and discussed before the group. Members were selected to day to work on four committees. They comprise: Membership com mittee, Randall York, chairman and Charles Walden: Promotion commit tee. Dale Bowman, chairman and John Urish; Co-Operating commit tee. Ordell Hennings, Thornton Bak er. Vincent Kelley. Lumir Cerner and Cecil Hennings. The Program chairman for the month of February is Don Cramer. The meeting opened with a review of business for 1939 and this was given by Don Cramer, who reported the organization began with a heal thy growth and climaxed with a number of new members, who joined the society during the year. The year 1939 for the Junior Chamber of Commerce ended with a happy ending that of honoring the Platts mouth High school football team at a banquet. The main issue and goal that the present officers, with the aid of the members, are striving for is to make the organization a "Bet ter and Bigger Society," one which will strive and succeed in putting over their plans for the general wel fare and betterment of the commun ity. REPORT ON CHRISTMAS TIME EXPENDITURES I At the annual Ad club meeting! Wednesday. Treasurer W. H. PulSj gave a report on the Christmas time activities sponsored by the club, in cluding the visit of Santa Claus here on Saturday, December 9. The amount collected from the merchants, professional men and or ganizations totaled $101.20. The expenditures (listed below) totaled $124. 4C. leaving a deficit of $23.20, which was paid from the treasury of the club. Expenditures Collection of contributions $ 2.00 Santa Claus. expense 5.00 Stationery, Stamps, etc. 3.95 Toys 2.00 ranav .oui Peanuts and Green Branches for Electrolier Posts 33.03 Electricity, overhead Lights and Court House Tree 35.S8 Total of $124.46 MARRIED AT CITY HALL From Friday' Dtilr This morning at the city hall, Judge C. L. Graves was called upon to perform the marriage ceremony for Edward William Grant and Mil dred Lurabelle Duncan, both of Oma ha. The bridal couple was accom panied by William Jefferson and Lil lian Duncan, sister of the bride, who witnessed the ceremony. The bridal party are among the popular young people of the colored society of Oma ha. RETURNS FROM THE WEST A. O. Moore, first trick operator Tor the Burlington at Ashland, re turned home Wednesday from an out ing on the west coast. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have been on the coast since Christmas with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Minor, enjoying a very pleasant vaca- Hon. Mrs. Moore will remain in me west with the Minors for some time. At CONTINUES TO IMPROVE Clerk of the District Court C. E. Ledgway is reported as continuing to chow improvement at the U. S. Vet erans hospital at Lincoln. He was able to sit up some twenty-five min utes Wednesday and seems to be get ting along excellently. He has had the pleasure of visits from a large number of the relatives and friends and also with Gene Nutzman, state commander of the American Legion, who is a fellow patient at the hos pital. Gene and "Chick" have en joyed many pleasant visits together. Soennichsen Named Head of Local Ad Club Well Known and Popular Merchant Selected ES the Head of Busi- ness Men's Ad Cluh. W. C. Soennichsen, well known and popular merchant was named asErnegt v Shayleri miring bishop of president of the Plattsmouth Busi ness Men's Ad club Wednesday at the regular meeting at the Hotel Platts mouth. R. W. Knorr, prominent merchant, was named to the position of vice president and W. H. Puis, who ha3 served as treasurer for the past sev eral years was again elected to that post. The secretary of the organ ization is appointive and will De named later. Mr. Soennichsen will succeed Fred P. Busch. who has served in the capacity as president several times in the past, conducting the affairs of the club very successfully, giving freely of his time and services to promote anything that might be for the best interests of the business life of the community. The new president represents one of the largest business institutions in the county and is one of the ac tive leaders in the civic affairs. He was very active in the King Korn Karnival the past fall as well as in the general campaign of the Ad club. The choice of Mr. Soennichsen will be very pleasing and with the pros pect that 1940 may offer a greater and better field of activity for the community, he should find full op- 'portunity for leadership. OFFICER JOHNSON INJURED From Thursday's Dally Officer Herbert W. Johnson was injured last night while attempting to replace a light in one of the electroliers and today was confined to his home. The officer had noticed an electrolier on South 4th street as being out and securing a ladder sought to replace the burned out bulb in "the electrolier. As the officer was on the ladder the electrolier post broke off near the ground and he was hurled down but managed to save the large ornamental globe from breaking. The heavy electrolier post fell across one of his feet and in flicted painful injuries. Frank Boe- itcT, extra policeman will take the place of Johnson this evening. ROADS GRADUALLY OPENING Roads over the county which have been closed a great deal of the time since the heavy snowfall, are gradu ally being opened up and permitting the residents to reach the city to secure necessary provisions. A group of some seventeen of the residents of southwest cf Mynard were out Friday and opened the road south to connect with highway No. 1 which was open on east to high way No. 75. This was the first time in a number of days that the resi dents were able to get out from their snow bound homes. Rev. A. Lenta of the Eight Mile Grove church was also among those who had been snow bound, he coming in Friday after noon, following the snow plow that was opening up the roads. DANCE, FEBRUARY 3 The Holy Rosary church C. Y. O. will sponsor a dance on Saturday eve ning, February 3 at the American Legion hall. The Jay Kay orchestra of Omaha will play modern and Bo- i - m i .nemian music. iue puimc is luvutu. j29-2tw-fl,2d Bishop Brinker is Installed at Omaha Thursday Representatives of St. Luke's Church of This City Attend Ordina tion of Episcopal Bishop Rev. Howard Rasmus Brinker of Chicago, was consecrated fifth Epis copal bishop of Nebraska on Thurs day at the Trinity cathedral at jOmaha, the seat of the see of Neliras ika. Representatives of the St. Luke.'? Ichurch of this city to attend the very (impressive ceremony were Miss Mia lU. Gering, Mr. and Mrs. Rea F. Pat terson, Mrs. Frank L. Cummins, Mrs. j J. M. Roberts and Mrs. Perry Coff- 'man, who were much impressed with !tho ordination, rich in tradition. j Consecrctor was Most Rev. Henry ,st. George Tucker, bishop of Vir- i ginia ana presiding bishop ot tne ind church. Assisting him were Rt. Rev. Nebraska, and Rt. Rev. George Allen Beecher of Hastings, missionary bishop of western Nebraska. Ten bishops and half a hundred priests participated in service, be ginning with holy communion and ending with a luncheon for church off icia Is and laymen. The consecration ceremony open ed with a procession, led by the vested purple-capped choir. Then ! came priests and bishops in black and white. Bishop-elect Brinker wore cardinal and Avhite, with a white hood. In the procession was the chancellor of the diocese, Paul F. Good. Lincoln attorney, in robes of Oxford university, from which he was graduated. Bishop George Craig Stewart of" Chicago, tinder whom the new bishop served 17 years, preached the sermon, recalling that four of the five bishops of Nebraska had served in Chicago Bishops Clarkson. Williams. Shayler and Brinker. LOCAL BOYS SHOW WELL The Plattsmouth entries in the Falls City Golden Gloves tournament showed well in their work and two of the boys, Don McBride and Merrill Buckles, will be found in the tourna ment at Omaha as representing the Ihest of their class from the Falls City regional. Both McBride and Buckles showed class in their work and scored tech nical knockouts in the first rounds of their bouts, showing excellent work in their boxing and judgment during the fight. It was very flattering to the boys that they will lead the Falls City forces at the Omaha contest. Kid Graves, who has assisted in the training of the boys here waa very much pleased with the showing of the clever youngsters and also re ports the tournament as being very successful. Lawrence Ellingsen of this city led the fight in his bout, until a fast blow from his foe lost him the con test. AN OLD RESIDENT From Friday's Daily This morning M. M. Beal, one of the long time residents of the com munity was visiting at the court house with the old friends and ac quaintances. Mr. Beal is still very active and it was hard to believe that he will reach his ninetieth birthday in July. Despite his great age he re tains a great interest in current events and is very happy to be able to be out and mingle with the old friends. He was born in Ohio and has been a resident of Plattsmouth since 188G, he stated. For many years Mr. Beal was engaged in the paperhanging and painting business in the city. DASHERS HAVE BOY A 9 -pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Dasher on Monday, January 22. The infant was named Raymond Kecneth. The mother was the former Pearl Wagner and the child is the fourteenth grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dasher of this city and a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wagner of Ashland. CAPPENS HAVE EOY From Friday's Dally This morning at 9:10 Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cappen, Weeping Wa ter, were the happy parents of a boy born to them at the Bryan Mem- was nameu uuuni i.,ee auu iius is 1 1 T . - 1 . .. . T .1 . 1. - . ' the first grandchild for Mrs. Cleo Capper of this city and the fir.;t grandson for Mr. and Mrs. Amos Cap pen, Weeping Water. The mother was the former Thelma Capper. Mrs. Capper left this afternoon for Lin- jcoln to spend a few hours with her daughter and granddaughter. Plattsmouth State Bank Has I pi .Annual Election . . H. A. Schneider, President ; Carl A. Cloidt, Cashier. From Friday' tJatlT The board of directors of Plattsmouth State bank met last eve ning at the bank for the annual elec tion of the off jeers of the institution. The officers were re-elected for the ensuing year as follows: President H. A. Schneider. Vice-President Carl J. Schneider. Cashier Frank A. Cloidt. The above officers with Henry A. Horn of this city, comprise the board of directors for the year. The bank has had a very satisfac tory year in 1939 and shown excel lent returns in the business in the past year. CHURCH SOCIETIES ELECT From Friday's Daily Threa societies of the Holy Rosary church met at the rectory this week and elected new officers for the en suing year. Entirely new leaders marked the result of all elections. County Attorney Walter H. Smith addressed the ten members present at the C. Y. O. meeting Tuesday evening. The society also held its election of officers and this year eliminated the office of vice president. Following the custom and living according to the ideals of the club a new leader was chosen to head the group Bernard Kubicka being chosen as the new president. Mat thew Sedlak, who served as treasure during the year 1939, was elected secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Louis Svoboda was elected as president of the Altar Society at their January meeting last evening, which also was held in the rectory. Her as sistants for the coming year com prise Mrs. Hermie Svoboda, vice president; Mrs. James Zitka, secre tary; and Mrs. William Nelson, treasurer. Many members of this society were not present. Members of the B. V. M. Sodality met at the rectory Monday evening at 7:30 and Miss Lillian Sedlak was chosen to head the group duriug 1940. She will be assisted by Miss Mary Jane Kvapil as vice-president, and Miss Helen Slatinsky as secretary-treasurer. PRAISE WORK OF MAINTAINER Residents of the territory served by Floyd Fulton, highway maintain- er, are loud in tneir praise or tne work that Mr. Fulton has carried on in the past two weeks of snow and drifted roads. While he has but ?. small tractor to use on the roads, he is out from early morning until late in the night to carry on the work of opening up means of travel for the residents along his route. The snow and winds have made keeping the roads open almost an im possible task but Mr. Fulton has done his very best to see that they were open for travel. The work has required his working as late as 9 and 10 o'clock at night and one night it was midnight before he ceased the struggle against the snow bound roads. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Robert Piper are parents of a very charming little daughter which arrived at their home Monday. The little Miss weighs six and two-thirds pounds and with the mother Is showing excellent progress. Home Chapter 0. L S. Holds Installation Mrs. Ethel Thrope, Junior Past Grand j Worthy Matron Installing; Offi cer Large Attendance. Friday evening Home Chapter No. 1S9, Order of the Eastern Star, held their formal installation of the re- Icently elected officers. The attend ance was very large despite the fact 'of the intense cold and unpleasant weather conditions that made it dif ficult for those from out of the city to reach here. I Mis. Ethel Thrope, junior past i grand worthy matron, served as the inFianinB ofrkfjr f ihe evpnins and jwas assisted by Mrs. Raymond Cook, LMrs. Henry F. Nolting and Mrs. R. W. ;Knon. ? past Worthy matrons of Horn- j chapter. i The officers installed were as fol j lows: t,ie j . Worthy Matron Mrs. Bessie Sey- noidt. Associate Matron Miss Marie Xolting. Worthy Patron L. L. Wiles. Associate patron Howard Wiles. Secretary Miss Clara Weyrich. Treasurer Miss Mary Petersen. Conductress Mrs. Wiley Sigler. Associate conductress Miss Helen Warner. Chaplain Mrs. George Lushinsky. Marshal Mrs. Ella Xolting. Warden Mrs. Flora Scott. Sentinel Louis Friedrich. Star Points Mrs. Clara Janacek. Mrs. L. S. Devoe, Mrs. Florence Krae ?er, Mrs. Marion Minford, Mrs. Kath arine Wiles. Pianist Mrs. Roy O. Cole. A group of twelve of the past .vorthy matrons of Home chapter pre jented the pageant of the months, jiving this very impressively. Mrs. W. F. Evers. the retiring -crthy matron, was presented with a past matron's jewel, a gift of the chapter which she has served so ef ficiently in the past year. Mrs. Mariel Smith, of Omaha, dis trict supervisor, was here to take part in the installation and to visit with the local members. The initiation of several candi dates was also a part of the evening program, the degree work being very impressively given by the officers o the chapter. At the close of the evening the j (members enjoyed very dainty refresh ments that had been arranged by the committee. STATE LEGION COMMANDER RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL E. A. Nutzman, state commander of the American Legion of Nebraska, who has spent the past several weeks at the U. S. Veterans' hospital at Lin coln, undergoing treatment, was able Friday to return to his home at Na hawka. Mr. Nutzman has suffered from a very severe case of sciatic rheumatism, making a long treat ment necessary. RESUMES SCHOOL WORK Miss Anna Margaret McCarty, w ho i has been recuperating at home since her recent operation, has so far re- covered that she is to resume her j teaching work the coming week. Miss McCarty is teaching in the public schools at Westerville, Nebraska. UNDERGOES APPENDECTOMY Frank Konfrst, Jr., was taken to Omaha Thursday evening for an emergency appendectomy. The oper ation took place at the St. Joseph hospital at 10 o'clock last night. The patient was reported today as coming out of the ordeal in excellent shape. VISIT IN THE CITY Bromley Sheldon and sister, of Lexington, Nebraska, were here Fri day to visit with Searl S. Davis, local real estate broker, for a short time. They are children of the late George Sheldon, former Lincoln cap italist and real estate dealer. BIRTH OF SON On Thursday, January 18 a pound son was born to Mr. and Mra. Walter C. Davis in this city. Mother Jard son are both doing nicely. ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES From Saturday's Pally Judge and Mrs. A. H. Duxbury, with County Commissioner George L. Farley, County Assessor W. II. Puis, Attorney A. L. Tidd, were at Weeping Water today to attend the funeral of the late C. E. Tefft. Register of Deeds Ray F. Becker and Robert M. Walling also were at Weeping Water for the funeral ser vies. They later motored to Lincoln to visit C. E. Ledgway at the Veter ans' hospital. Meet Many Old Time Friends in California Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Manners Have Pleasant Time in Meeting Former Nebraskans. Plattsmouth residents will be in terested in learning that Mr. and jMrs. Charles M. Manners, who have been spending several months m the west coast, are now planning on returning to Nebraska about the first of February. They have had a most enjoyable time traveling along the coast and visiting with the old friends at many of the cities from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Long Beach. They have been making their home in an apartment at Long Beach and have as neighbors just a few blocks away. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Todd, who have been in Long Beach since their marriage here and their wedding trip to the coast. They had Mr. and Mrs. Manners as their guests on a motor trip to many of the interest ing spots along the coast. They also had a pleasant vis:t with Mr. and Mrs. George Goodman, former Plattsmouth residents and old neighbors of the Manners family. On a visit to San Jose, California, they enjoj-ed calling on Mrs. Rosj Mae Creamer and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster, also former Platts- i mouth residents. They state that almost every day they meet some old friend or resi dent of this section of Nebraska. SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTION The board of education of the Methodist church, a new feature of the church government under the rules of the last general conference, met Tuesday and selected the officers of the Sunday school for the coming l.vear. rne roiiowing onicers were ! chosen: Superintendent J. A. Capwell. Assistant Superintendent Lester Hutchison. Treasurer W. L. Heinrich. Secretary Warren Lillie. Junior Dept. Mrs. V. T. Am. Primary Dept. Mrs. Edgar Glaze. Nursery Dept. Louise Rishel. Mrs. E. H. Wescott was selected as the head of the department of ; temperance and missionary. It was decided that one Sunday of each month will be "Young People's Sunday' they being in charge of the Sunday mcrning services on these j dates, with the sermon especially j dedicated to the young people of the church. HAS TONSILS REMOVED Bernard Jackson was operated on Wednesday at the office of a local physician for the removal of his ton sils. The patient came through the operation in fine shape and is now at home recuperating. He expects to later enter an Omaha hospital for a minor operation. RECOVERING FROM PNEUMONIA R. H. Patton. rormer fifth ward councilman and Burlington veteran, is now able to be up and around his home in the south part of the city following an attack of pneumonia. The many friends of Mr. Patton will be delighted to learn that he ia im proved and trust that he may fully recover from the illness. HERE FROM IOWA Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner of Red Oak, Iowa, are here to enjoy a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Vescott. Mr. Turner is a cousin of Mrs. Wescott. College View Wins Thriller by Score of 29-27 Platters Lead at Half But Crumble Against Shooting of Porter in Second Half. From Saturday's Dal!v The clash of College View and Plattsmouth high basketball teams afforded the customers at the hilltop last night plenty of thrills, but marred by the fact that the visitors garnered the win 29 to 27. In the opening of the game the Platters started strong, Yelick se curing 3 field goals and Smith one, Smith also securing a free toss. The locals showed their usual stride and the audience felt that the blue and white were once again victory bound. The score at the quarter was 9 to ! for Plattsmouth. With the second quarter of the game the Platter commenced to slip in their offense or rather the College View defense strengthened, the scoring all being iri the first part of the quarter when Steinkamp and Yelick were able to register. The score at the half tlm- was 15 to 9 but the effectiveness of the Platters' game lacked the fire of the opener. It was in the third stanza of the contest that one Bud Porter of th-j visitors took to the loose to start the rally that swept the Platters off their feet through his scoring power, which with the air tight defense of. College View, had the local basket shooters smothered in almost every effort at the hoop. Three free throws. one each by York, Smith and Stein kamp was the sum total of the blue and white scoring. The score at the end of the third period was 19 to IS with the College View quintet out in the lead. In the last quarter it was another case of Porter pacing his team whilo the tight defense plays brought many penalties on College View, the Plat ters showing their skill in making the gift shots good to keep them in the game. In the last rally for the Platters Noble and Steinkamp scored, and at one time the score drew down to 27 to 26 with the crowd roaring its encouragement to the team, but Porter again broke through the Plat ters for a side shot which was to give his team the margin of victory. Tho Platters made six free throws good in this last part of the game. The Platters found great difficulty in their passing attack and ability to retain the ball as College View was able time after time to secure th sphercid away from the passing and dribbling Platter players. The visi tors also played a bang up defense game in the last part of the struggle that blocked all chances of the blue and white. The box score of the game: College View (29) FG FT PF 0 2 1 1 4 TP 17 0 0 1 4 5 Vorhies, f 1 Porter, f 7 E. Hansen, f 0 Gottfredscn, c 0 Keller, c 0 Nyden, g 1 Copple, g 2 0 o o 0 0 1 o 11 7 Plattsmouth (27) FG FT PF 1 TP G Smith, f 1 Martin, f 0 Steinkamp, f 3 4 0 1 3 1 0 o jN'oble, c 1 0 1 o 1 5 7 0 o Yelick, g 3 Davis, g 0 York, g 0 8 11 9 27 Referee Ossian, Nebraska; Time keeper, Armstrong; Scorer, Devoe. The Varsity Reserves and the Freshman team staged the curtain raiser, with the more experienced Re serves winning 47 to 7. Don Wall did the refereeing of the game in his usual very capable manner. NEW YORK G3EST HERE Mr. and Mrs. Luke Wiles have as their guest their daughter, Mrs. Ivan Lorlin, who came to Plattsmouth Monday from Chicago. Leaving New York City Mrs. Lorlin went to Chi cago and spent some time with her friend. Miss Bernice Ault before com ing to Plattsmouth. Her husband is expected to arrive here sometime the last of this month and spend a few days.