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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1940. FLATTSMOTJTH SEMI WEEKLY JOFRNAL PAGE TERES Another Cut in Community Building Debt $700 Payment to be Made Legion to Place Flags at Registration ' Places Armistice Party More than thirty Legion members, ee vera 1 local visitors and five fellow Legionnaires from the new post at Union attended the postponed October meeting of the American Legion at the community building Thursday evening. The committee on Young Citizens contest to be held here on Saturday, October 19, reported cards had been sent to all accredited high schools of the county, also one Legionnaire in each town and they hoped to have the full quota of four contestants two boys and two girls from each of the schools. A complimentary noon-day luncheon for the contest ants and accompanying faculty mem ber and Legionnaire from each of the towns will be held at the com munity building. The committee is working with the County Superinten dent to make this year's contest the most representative of any held to date. Members are IL L. Gayer, John Turner and Raymond Larson. On sick report, two orid war veterans from here (in addition to William Reeves) are now at the Vet erans hospital in Lincoln Sebert Litle and Cliff Shaffer. To Reduce Building Debt At the regular interest paying date a few weeks hence, $700 will be paid on the principal, reducing the mort gage indebtedness on the community buildine to SS00. This is a cut of exactly $5,000 from the $3,800 in debtedness when the building was opened in 1927. For a long time, lit tle progress was made and even the interest went delinquent. Once the mortgage. holders took measurements of the building with a view to fore closing and turning it into a garage Now prospects are bright for burn ing the mortgage by the next inter est paying date. May 1st. A work room for the Legion Scout troop has been outfitted in the build ing, where they will be able to carry on various handicraft projects. Flag Display for Registration Throughout Nebraska the Legion has undertaken to see that an Amer ican flag floats in front of every reg istration polling place next "Wednes day, October 16. To Plattsmouth post falls the duty of carrying out this work in the five local wards, Platts mouth precinct and East and West Rock Bluffs. The committee named by Commander Rebal to secure the flags (where not available), see that they are put up and taken down, is composed of Leo Boynton, Gus White ley and Milo Fulton. A letter was read from Command er Walter Roberts, also numerous informative bulletins, one giving the date set for the annual district con LAND, FARM, and RANCH BARGAINS Good used Elevator. 32-foot, for sale. John A. Stander, Manley, Ne braska. ol0-2sw FOR SALE Parti colored Cocker pups. Call No. 6. Andy Robinson, 709 Av. A FAL! and wmm T hese are the Seasons for DANGEROUS FIRES Are you protected? A little insurance costs so little! Get it today! Pro tect what you have! CALL OR SEE INSURANCE- AND BONDS 0$ Platts mo utm vention at Seward Thursday, De cember 5. Plan Armistice Get-Together An Armistice night get-together of Legion and Auxiliary members and their families is being planned for Monday night, November 11. Among the entertainment features will be a Dr. I-Q and a Truth or Consequences contest, card games and dancing. A covered dish luncheon will precede the evening's program. The com mittee named to work with a like committee from the Auxiliary is com posed of A. H. Duxbury, L. S. Devoe, Don Seiver and Commander Rebal. Report on Boston Convention H. L. Gayer, who was one of the Nebraska delegates to the national convention at Boston last month, gave a report of the convention. He served on the National Defense com mittee, which was one of the most active committees at the con -tntion. Work on this committee tootc long hours and prevented seeing much of historical Boston. The Holdrege jun ior drum corps, which topped Platts mouth by only a few points at the state convention and in state fair competition, attended the convention and in competition with the nation's best, rated third place. Mr. Gayer en joyed meeting Fred Dawson, former Plattsmouth man, at the convention Fred has lived in Detroit for many vears, since leaving here in the early twenties. Invited to Union Installation County Vice Commander Scheiber and five other members of the new Union post, were present and ex tended local Legionnaires an invita tion to attend their meeting for the installation of officers next Thurs day night, October 17. Following adjournment, a luncheon was served ana some piayea caras until a late hour. Liquid refresh ments were furnished thru courtesy of the Goetz Country Club distributor for this territory. LIST OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS The list of standing committees for the year is now complete, being as follows: Americanism H. L. Gayer, Joe Capwell, Raymond Larson and John Turner. Auditing John Turner, E. G. Ofe and C. E. Ledgway. Arbor Day (Tree Planting) A. H. Duxbury and Tom Walling. Cemetery Tom Walling, Leslie Niel and Don Seiver. Child Welfare L. S. Devoe, Dr. P. T. Heineman and Joe Abrams. Community Building Club The three Trustees (Jane Rebal, secre tary). Community Service E. G. Ofe, Dr. Joe J. Stibal and L. S. Devoe. Employment Relations Leo Boyn ton and A. H. Duxbury. Entertainment and Promotions Roy Holly. Fred Herbster, E. O. Vro man and Louie Baumgart. Membership R. T. Cuthrell, Don Seiver, George Conis, Dave Pickrel and Eugene Vroman. Memorial Day Raymond Larson, John Turner and Joe Abrams. Shoe Distribution L. S. Devoe and Building Trustees. Sick Committee C. E. Ledgway, Frank Rice and A. H. Duxbury. Sponsored Activities Boy Scouts Elmer Webb, E. IL Wescott, Dr. Joe Stibal, E. G. Ofe and Fred Lugsch. Raymond Larson, Scoutmaster. Drum Corps Leslie Niel, Fred Herbster, R. T. Cuthrell, H. L. Gayer and Fred Lugsch. C. A. Marshall, director. Junior Baseball L. S. Devoe, Fred Lugsch and Clyde Jackson. POSTMASTER EXAMINATION The civil service commission is announcing an open competitive ex amination for the office of postmas ter at Weeping Water, the receipt of applications to close October 25, 1940. The examination for the office of postmaster at Weeping Water will be held at Plattsmouth, the date not being given but probably fifteen days after the close of the receipt of applications. IN SERIOUS CONDITION W. M. Rosborough, 82, Is very critically ill at his home in Omaha, suffering a severe heart attack last week and which has since made his condition very serious. The ailing man is the father of Clyde" Ros borough of this city, who has been In Omaha with the aged father for the greater part of the week, assisting in his care. PROVIDED PLACE TO MEET The Catholic Boy Scout troop has been provided with a meeting room in the Eagles hall where the Knights of Columbus hold their regular meet ings. This troop is composed of boys from St John's and Holy Rosary parishes. MURDOCH IBS Harry Dehning was an Omaha business visitor Monday. Henry Amgwert was a business visitor in Omaha Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Small and family visited friends in Avoca Sun day Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Briggs were in Z irdock for a short time Wed nesday. John Gakemeier and Wm. Bourke were business visitors in Plattsmouth Saturday. William Copple and son were in town Sunday calling on Uncle Rob ert Crawford. William Schliefert of near Manley . r was transacting Dusiness in bur dock Tuesday. R. A. Don of south of Wabash was in town Friday securing articles needed on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heineman spent Monday and Tuesday in ora. where they have property interests. Mrs. Bushnell and son Clark of near South Bend spent Monday with Mrs. Bushnell's brother, Robert Craw ford. Ed Ganaway spent the day Sun day with his daughter and family in Lincoln, and reports an enjoyable visit. Homer Polman of Johnson, Nebr., was a caller at the R. Crawford home Sunday. Mr. Polman is a cousin of Mr. Crawford. Fred L. Carsten of Avoca was In town Tuesday calling on the voters in the interest of his candidacy for the legislature. Walter R. Johnson workers were in town the fore part of the week in the interest of his candidacy for Attorney General. The McDonald store is Installing an oil burner in their large heater, hoping to find it more convenient than burning coal. Parties from Nebraska City were in town Wednesday soliciting votes for Ray C. Johnson, republican can didate for state auditor. J. A. Boyd has completed paint ing the front of his cream station and will soon have the entire build ing looking spic and span. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Tool and Mrs. Hannah McDonald returned a few days ago from their visit with the Herman Neitzel and Henry Guth- mann families In Boise, Idaho. Norman Schewe, who is in the TJ. S. air service, stationed in California, writes that he likes the training very much and has been doing a little piloting under instruction. Frank Kucera, flagman on the Rock Island extra gang lost his pock etbook Saturday night somewhere on the streets of Murdock. It contain ed a check for $25.00 and other valu able papers as well a3 some $3.00 in change. He offered all the cash for the return of the check and papers, but so far hs not had it returned. Farm Calf His Downfall Jerry Smith, who has rode in big time rodeos all the way from Mad ison Square Garden to Pendelton, Preparing Vegetable Plot This Fall's No. 1 Job The mcst important work the home gardener has to do this fall is to prepare a vegetable garden for an early start next year. Events of the winter may make every cultivated plot a factor in the national defense next spring. Pre cious time will be saved if the area where vegetables are to be grown is selected this fall, and pre pared for early planting, as soon as the frost leaves the ground. A space as small as ten by twenty feet, planted to beans, leaf crops and root crops, with careful plan ning can be made to yield a sub stantial amount cf food. At the other extreme, it is esti mated that a garden half an acre in size, with reasonable manage ment, will satisfy the yearly vege table requirements for a family of five, producing all the vegetables needed for summer consumption, and a winter supply for canning. A one-man garden in a city or suburban location, which covers from five hundred to two thousr'. square feet (20x25 to 40x50 feet; can easily be planted and cultivat ed in spare time, and will produce an abundant yield of vegetables to be eaten fresh, and for canning, re ducing the list that must be pur chased to very few. In deciding the area which you can devote to the defense garden, keep in mind the errors which were made in the last world war, when flower beds, and parkways were spaded up to plant crops which had no chance of success. It is far bet ter to have a small garden, prop erly located, in which good yields may be had, than a large garden upon which labor is wasted be cause of poor conditions. mnn the first considerations 111 selecting a vegetable garden site is sunshine. Vegetables will not thrive without sunlight. Any loca tion shaded by buildings should be avoided. Stay as far as possible away from the shade and roots of trees and shrubs. Good drainage Is also Jjnportaat Oregon, and was still In first class condition is now getting around on crutches as a result of an encounter with a husky and determined farm yard calf. Corn Picking: Time Ray Gamlin and Bryan McDonald went to Burwell, Nebr., the fore part of the week and brought back a truck load of cattle for the Stock Bros. Ernest Leaver of Alvo was in town Thursday helping Ray Gamlin set up a double row corn picker that he had purchased from Mr. Gamlin. The Stock Implement company have sold three corn pickers so far this fall. It seems good, for a change, that there will really be some corn to pick this year in these parts. No doubt there are many farm ers and farm boys in central Ne braska who have lost their crops by drouth who would be glad to come to the eastern part of the state and earn some money picking corn, but who will be unable to do so on ac count of the trend of modern day farmers to machinery. If the corn that will be picked by machinery could be husked by farm ers who are compelled to accept help from the government, we are quite sure it would be appreciated by those drouth stricken farmers as well as by the taxpayers. SELLS LARGE RANCH Attorney Lloyd E. Peterson of Ne braska City, with Attorney W. A Robertson of this city, returned Thursday night from Stapleton, Ne braska, where they conducted a sale of the Philpot ranch. Mr. Robertson was the referee to handle the sale and Mr. Peterson, attorney. This is one of the large ranches of western Nebraska. 10,500 acres and where the Philpot family have in the past years conducted extensive stock feeding projects. Wallace Philpot, of near Weeping Water, was the purchaser of the ranch, at $4.60 an acre. TO VISIT IN IOWA Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Buttery are spending a short time at Sioux City, Iowa, where they are visiting at the home of their son, Elwood Buttery and family. While at Sioux City they will take in the many point of in terest in that section. HERE FROM IOWA F"rn Saturday1 Dally Mrs. Cameron Cathey and chil dren, of Waterloo, Iowa, arrived here today for a short visft with relatives and friends here and at Mynard and Murray, as well as looking after some matters of business. RETURN FROM SIOTJX CITY Rev. J. W. Taenzler, pastor of the First Christian church, and his father-in-law, John Heer of Council Bluffs, have returned from a business trip at Sioux City, Iowa. Journal Job Printrna Please. Q Q O uuuu flRlY . PEAS FOLLOWED GREEM. BEANS It LATE , - LIMA EEAHS CABBAGE FOLLOWED BY ONION SETSTT 1 FOLLOWS PARSLEY PLANTING PIAH fOR VtGETA&LE GARDEN l0'X 2O' This means that the garden site must never be under water; or re main wet on the surface long after a rain. Select a place from which the water runs away and avoid places where puddles accumulate. Sunlight and good drainage are more important in the small home garden than good soiL It is easier to correct soil conditions with mod ern treatment. A final consideration in selecting a defense garden site is design. Try to make it fit in with the gen eral layout of your homs grounds; so that you will not sacrifice the beauty which has been created in the years of peace X. 1 I SQUASH s, LETTUCE adTsmes' Westover Home One of Beauty and Every Comfort Built of Rock It Makes Striking Picture in the Main Sec tion of the City. Stone is to Pennsylvania and be coming to rebrasKa what reawooa to California the indigenous building material. For well over two hundred years now, it has been used in home construction. And so long as the supply shall last, it will con tinue to be used. For not only Is the stone strong and lasting, but it is also beautiful, a soft blue-ruble imestone. The stone houses that dotted the Pennsylvania countryside inspired the new residence at 621 Main street, in which stone was used throughout. Just built by Dr. Raymond P. Westover, local physician, the house has six rooms, a bathroom, and a spacious recreation room in the base ment. Frank Latenser, Omaha, architect, and Carl Gunn, Nebraska City, stone ayer, are responsible for the de ightful effect. But their craftsmanship does not stop there. In plan, features and de tails, the house is also delightful The rooms are of comfortable size and isolated for privacy. Walls and ceilings throughout are finished in light, airy shades. Living room walls are finished In cream-colored flow ered paper: the walls in the West- over girls' room are finished In pink flowered paper with blue ceiling and alcove: the master bedroom walls are finished in tones of blue. As one enters the Westover home they first notice the library, which may be used as such or as a guest room or vestibule for receiving pa tients after office hours. The kitchen has direct access to the rear porch and to the recreation room, the lat ter having access to the garage. The bathroom is separated from all bed rooms. All the rooms have cross ventilation, light from all sides. Building Data Construction:, Blue ruble lime stone from the Partridge Quarries at Weeping Water. Foundations: Concrete blocks. Roof: Johns-Manville asbestos tile life-time shingles. Flooring: Oak. Heating: Forced draft hot air sys tem. gas-fired. Kitchen equipment: Built-in cup boards around sink. Eas range, and refrigerator. Inside trim: Yellow pine and white pine with a mixture of fir. Inside walls: Rock lath and plas ter. Insulation: Insulating boards and a blanket of balsam wool. The living room is amply propor tioned with plenty of space for fur niture. Windows open on either side of the center fireplace and there a bay window on the front wall and a doorway at the back and east side The fireplaces at the Westover home are unusual and somewhat new In Plattsmouth. The cold air goes through the bottom ventilators circulates around the fire box, and the warm air goes out at the top. The welcoming front doorway, the stone retaining wall which sets on the north side of the home, and the curved cement walk leading to the front entrance Indicate the homelike quality of this real American home which is to house the reigning king of Kornland, his wife, and two daughters, Janet Marie and Ruth SPEND SHORT TIME HERE From Saturday's Dally Mr. and Mrs. Joe Manasek of Omaha were here this morning for a short time visiting with Mrs. R. A Bates, aunt of Mrs. Manasek. They returned to their home in Omaha after the luncheon hour. RECOVERING NICELY Miss Agnes Karas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Karas of south of this city Is in St. Joseph hospital at Omaha where she is nicely recup eratlng from a recent appendectomy GUESTS VISIT HERE Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cole of Ches ter, Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cole and Mrs. A. M. Cole of Weeping Water were euests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cole of this city Tuesday evening. -I-I"H"I-M-I-M"I"M-I"!"H' Thomas Walling Company Abstracts of Title Phone 324 - Plattsmouth 4 TRAINING SCHOOL DATES Dr. J. J. Stibal, member of the district Training Program committee of the Boy Scouts has been advised of the dates set for the training school sessions. There will be five of these evening meetings, lasting from 7:30 to 9:30, all to be held at Memorial building in Nebraska City. The dates are October 16, 22 and 30, November 6 and 13. All fall on Wednesday evening, except Oct. 22, which is Tuesday. In addition to the five evening meetings, there will be a special Sun day session on November 10, from 30 to 9:30 p. m. at place to be determined, and an overnight hike at a time and place yet to be sched uled. Doc's big job right now is lining up alternating car drivers to take a load or two of local Scouters to each of these sessions. With three troops now chartered here and a fourth in the process of organization, there are a good num ber of adult leaders who will want to and should take this training. The men actively engaged in di recting the troops now in existence are: Legion Troop Raymond Larson, Scoutmaster; Wm. Schmidtmann, Jr., Frank Rice and Edgar Glaze. Methodist Troop L. J. Hutchison, chairman of troop committee; Chuck Waldon, Scoutmaster; Frank Enearl and E. H. Wescott, assistants. Catholc Troop Dr. Pucelik, chair man of troop committee; Dr. Ryan. Scoutmaster; I. L. Kocian, Theodore Ptak and Louis Svoboda, assistants. The fourth troop, being organized, will be sponsored by the Christian church, with Rev. Taenzler as Scout master. Seven boys of that troop have passed their Tenderfoot tests and! gone on hikes with the Scoutmaster. The troop will be ready for investi ture in the near future. All training sessions will be under the direction of Prof. A. B. Clay burn of Peru college, who is chair man of the Arbor Lodge district Training Program committee. The district comprises Cass, Otoe and Nemaha counties, with Nebraska City as the central point. Training certificates will be issued to all who attend the complete course. Adults will learn the fundamentals of Scouting and be better able to im part such information to the boys of their respective troops. FINE CHURCH MEETING The Nebraska Presbyterian Synod and Synodical which has been meet ing in Omaha this week at the Dun dee and the Lowe Avenue churches closed at noon Thursday. They both had an attendance that exceeded that of many years. The local church had a splendid delegation present. Those attending the entire session were Dr. and Mrs. McClusky and Mrs. V. W. Perry. Mrs. Perry was re elected to the office of treasurer of the Synodical. Others who attended were Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cloidt, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Schneider, Mesdames W. A. Robert son, H. A. Schneider, Jake Tritsch. Oliver Melslnger, L. L. Wiles, John Wolff. Wm. Schmidtmann, Jr., Glen Vallery, H. F. Gansemer, Roy Knorr, Adda Perry, James Bulin. Mrs. John Palecek, living In Oma ha, but still a member of this church, joined the Plattsmouth group. All report a very interesting and helpful meeting. ATTEND FOOTBALL GAME Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leacock and son, Darold and daughter Alma, Mrs. Ed Gable, sister of Mr. Leacock, all of Lincoln, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yelick and daughter of Oma ha, wre here Friday night for the football game. RETURNS FROM MINNESOTA Mrs. M. D. Brown, who has been visiting her sister at Mora, Minne sota, for a few days returned home last evening. roooocceccoooooocoocGCOor, To EV2en of Draft Age If you hesitate to buy your new Fall Suit or Coat ... Come in! We have something interesting for you! WE SCOTT'S I OOQCOGOOOOQOOOOOOOOOSOGOfc. Lincoln Deanery Takes First Place in Plaque Contest Plattsmouth Deanery Second in Per centage Affiliation Contest in Catholic Groups. The Lincoln deanery was awarded the percentage affiliation plaquei, with .an SO per cent record, an nounced at the meeting of the DC. C.W. diocesan board held recently at the Hotel Cornhusker ' in Lincoln, with Mrs. John Rauth, Manley, dio cesan president, presiding. Platts mouth deanery was second with 78 per cent, and Indianola was third, with 53 per cent. Twenty-two women attended the meeting. Confirmation of appointive officers and of Mrs. Edward Pecker as second vice-president and chair man of the P. T. A. was made. Re ports were made by the various offi cers. New officers appointed by Mrs. Rauth, confirmed by board action, are corresponding secretary, Miss Phyllis Straub, Avoca; historian, Mrs. William Woolcott, Plattsmouth: parliamentarian, Mrs. J. Nothomb, Aurora, and the following chair men: Publicity, Miss Marie Dugan, Lincoln; hospitality. Mrs. J. J. Gllli gan, Lincoln; farm women, Mrs. Henry Schultz, Imperial; social ser vice, Mrs. Francis Kanaly, Faljs City; National Catholic School of Social Service, Mrs. S. Dolezal, Wa hoo; shrines in the home, Mrs. K. P. Baker, Hastings; girls youth work, Mrs. J. J. Cullen. Avoca; libraries and literature. Miss Mary Roddy, Ne braska City; parents and teachers. Mrs. B. G. Clark. Lincoln. The essay contest will be held again this year. Plans were made for the interdeanery institutes to be held October IS in various sections of the Lincoln diocese. Each will consist of panel discussions. COUNTY COURT NOTES From Friday's Dally Probate day at the county court brought on a number of hearings in estates now In the process of probate and winding up a number of the estates, this occupying the time of Judge A. H. Duxbury for the day. Hearing was had on the appoint ment of administrator of the estate of George Wiles, deceased, of Weep ing Water. The court made the ap pointment of Mrs. Mary Wiles, widow, as administratrix. Final settlement was had in the estate of Alletha J. Rouse, of which Trauk G. Linch. of Lincoln, Is the executor. Hearing on claims in the follow ing estates was held: Mary Erick son, Mary Strka, Mary Wehrbeln, Martha H. Burrls, Edwin H. Schul hof, Ralph Harshman. Hearing had on the determination of heirship in the estate of William Charman, deceased, was also held. Final settlement in the estates of John Bornman, and Hilma Charlotte Berqulst, were continued until No vember 29th. WORKING AT NORTH PLATTE From Friday's Tany Joe Graves departed this morning fo. North Platte, Nebraska, where he has been engaged working In one of the leading barber shops of that cli. Mr. Graves is very much pleased wiih his new location and the fine ani thriving city where he has lo cated. N 1 Bu. Corn plus 6 Lb. 2 Bu. Corn Here is what we mean one bushel of corn fed with five or six pounds of Gooch's Best 40 Hog Fattener will make as much pork as two bush els of corn fed alone. If you are feeding little pigs to make big ones out of them, or if you axe finishing the big ones for market, we have a GOOCH'S BEST Feed that will help you do the job in less time at less cost. PLATTSMOUTH CREAMERY LOWED MAIN SI. PKOHE 94 7T