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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAI THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1941. 5 PAGE SIX Ueeping Hater By Journal Field Representative Rev. W. D. Lenker and wife were over to Lincoln last Tuesday look ing after business. The living room of the Methodist parsonage, which was constructed years ago, has been replastered. The road two miles north of Weep ing Water, west from Xo. 50 high way, has been given its initial treat ment of crushed rock, whic'a will make an all-weather road from farm to market. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Sudduth of near Murray were visiting Sunday afternoon at the home of the parents of Mrs. Sudduth. Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Askew, where all enjoyed a very pleasant visit. Carroll Lehman, son of Mrs. Jack Lehman, who makes his home in Los Angeles, accompanied by the family arrived in Weeping Water and have been visiting with the mother for the past few days. Jimmie Schumacher, who was at Fort Crook, and while riding in an auto was injured in a collision, has been in the hospital there since, is reported as getting along very nicely and feeling much improved. Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Lenker of the Weeping Water Methodist church are departing late this week for the western part of the state and will visit with friends and relatives in Colorado also. They expect to be away for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. G. U. Binger were in receipt of a telegram last Saturday which read as follows: "Mrs. Fern- Body and Fender KJork PAINTING and REFINISHING New and Used Cars SALES CHEVROLET SERVICE CASS COUNTY MOTOR CO. 607 First Avenue PLATTSMOUTH Telephone No. 120 Mary May Beauty Shop 416 Main Street Across from Hinky-Dinky Mary May Troop, Proprietor a, ieoeO0OaOO0COCOeC0OO5CGCO0COOOeO0COB . SPECIALS THIS WEEK lucky Tiger Hair Tonic, lucky Tiger Shampoo, $1.50 Value 69 50c Pepsodent Tooth Brush with 25c Pkg. Tooth Powder or Tooth Paste, 75c Value for only 47 2 Bottles of 100 Tablets McKessen Pure Aspiring Tablets 49p 50c San Tan Lotion only 390 Quart (Full Measure) Antiseptic Solution for only 890 MAUZY DRUG CO. The Prescription Drug Store PLATTSMOUTH 522 Main Street ASK ANYBODY IN PLATTSMOUTH THEY'LL TELL YOU THAT Tas-Tee Shop Sodas & Sundaes are the Best in Town ... at Any Price Sodas, Sundaes, Malted Milks from Tas-Tee Shop Home Made Ice Cream .Giant Cones - Frozen Bars - Cigarettes HOME MADE ICE CREAM ALL FLAVORS 426 Main Street Plattsmouth Where Evervone Goes i CONGRATULATIONS TO FAST GROWING BELLEVUE Welcome to Home Dairy Bar Plattsmouth FOUNTAIN SERVICE Home of Harding's Sealtest Ice Cream Harding's Satin in Six Delicious Flavors, 25 Quart FRESH DRESSED COUNTRY PASTEURIZED POULTRY EGGS MILK-CREAM Original Pasteurizing Plant in Plattsmouth Offering You Safe Pasteurized Dairy Products ! Conveniently Located at Corner 5th and Main Streets jbaugh and little 7U pound baby girl doing nicely." No other word from Lima, Ohio, where the M. L. Fern baugh family make their -home has I yet been received. Charles Philpot, who with ins family have been making their home at Glendale. Calif, and who return ed to Weeping Water for a visit have concluded to again make their home here and Charles Philpot jr. will be jbig crop if the rains continue and engaged in business with his father, jthe hot winds do not damage it. B. L. Philpot. j At the farm of Eugene Colbert a Mrs. Wm. Gussett who has been 'mile asd a half east of Wabash, ill for many months i.nd who un- J large trees were broken down, out went a major operation some months houses toppled over, cob houses ago and has bien compelled to re-j -moke houses and other houses were main in bed since, has of late been Mown down, machine sheds were un showing improvemtn and able to be j roofed. The rain was accompanied up part of the time and able to get outdoors some. Her many friends ; are pleased to know of her improve-1 ment. Home and Feeling Setter ! Colbert a threshing crew was at Joseph I. Corley who has ;WOrk when the storm came. To pro- kept in a Lincoln hospital for sometept haiself from the v!oence of weeks has shown enough Improve- especially the hail. ment that he was discharged from j the institution and allowed to return ! home. Having been home for a few 1 days he is now able to be down town j and visit with his friends. Mr. Cor- J ley says lie is ment.ing fairly well and expects to be his old self soon. The family has been having their share of ill fortune as Mrs. Corley was kept at home for some time with a broken limb, bHt she is able to be about which is very pleasing to her and all the family 'ml friends. Have Heavy Wind. A While the farmers over the county were well pleased with the copious showers that came last Monday eve- Permanets L50 to 7.S0 Finger Waves - - 25 1 and 35 1 Complete Line of Cosmetics Catherine Anthes, Operator Oi Telephone 165 10c I ning, for it sure was fine for the corn, and put off the hot wind scare, which comes this time of year, but the rain had a bad companion in the form of a heavy wind and hail, which played havoc with shocked smai' grain' and doing damage to build ings on some farms. Corn is looking good, but critical days are ahead, and there will be a Shy hail which beat crops into tnr ground where it came, John Murphy had a field of fla i beat into the ground and but r short wavs from the home of Mn I Henry Thorns crawled 'inder the Ithreshir.e machine, still holding to the lir.es to keep the horses which lie was using from running away. when an excessively strong surge of wind fame, overturning the machine which caused Mr. Thorns to get out and as he did so, looked u.i. and an unusually large hail stone struck him squarely on the chin, but his fellow workers said Henry "took it on the chin all right." Henry Cro zicr. agent for the insurance company was out and adjusted the insurance on Tuesday morning. Visited Friends in Weeping; Water Mr. and Mrs. Kingrdey Jenkins of Milwaukee, who had a vacation. went by way of Chicago and picked up his mother. Mrs. Earl Jenkins, and .together they came to Weeping Wa ter for a visit and also in other parts of Cass county, enjoying their stay ihere verv much. They also drove jover to Lincoln for a visit with ! friends. They departed early this week for their homes. Kingsley is superintendent of thr carrier boys for a large daily paper in Milwaukee. 1 , . Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jerkins: are j former residents of Cass county, re siding in Weeping Water and near I Murray, but now make their home in Chicago. Ear-1 was unable to get away from his work to make the trip back to Nebraska. State Police Guard Trucks The Smith baking people have been having very serious difficulty in the delivery of their products, they being accompanied by state police, some times ir the trucks and sometimes in another car following, with in structions to see that order is main tained. Only about half of the em ployees went out on strike. An agree ment was reached as to wages but the strikers insisted that the ones who had worked durinsr the strike , , , 1 . 1 i ana a cioeu shop be maintained. At this time the controversy is over the discharge oi" those who struck. And the end is not yet. Mr. Smith, proprietor of the bakery was visiting the patrons last over Monday, talking with them. the matter Visited at Tekamah Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rough, liv ing northeast of town, accompanied by Miss Agnes Rough and lady friend drove to Tekamah last Sunday where they visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Rough. They tell of find ing crops in excellent condition all Uilong the way. Visited with Friends in Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Binger were over to Lincoln last Sunday, guests for the day and a very fine dinner at the home of nr. and Mrs. L. T. Waggoner and were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John Bolz and little son Rodger. A very pleasant time was enjoyed. Enjoyed Five Days' Furlough 1 Ralph Binger and Marvel Specbt, both of Weeping Water who are lo cated at Camp Robertson, with four boys from Omaha were allowed a five days furlough and renting an auto they drove to Weeping Water and Omaha where they enjoyed visiting with their families and friends. The party returned to camp last Friday, starting in the morning and were able to get to camp late that night. WE SATISFY Hungry People You won't STAY hungry very long when you visit Jacobs Cafe Located at 430 Main St. Plattsmouth Youths to be Trained for De fense Positions Resident Project at Bellevue to Give Instruction in Essential Trades for Work at Bomber Special Bellevve Kens Service. Press dispatches this week state the National Youth Administration is working toward a goal of teaching 1.900 Xebraskans sheet metal, ma chine shop and industrial sewing trades in defense work-experience projects. When the objective is reached, the youths will be working in three shifts at Hastings, Lincoln. Omaha. Bellevue. Beatrice and Kearney. The projects, because of request from em-! ployers will give youths more spec ialized experience with one machine rather than a diversified experience on a number of machines. The stu dents will be assigned to machines in proportion to national demand for certain workers. The work-experience jobs will take about ICO hours a month. Of this 100 hours will be spent in produc tion and CO in instruction. The in structional work will be handled by the state vocational education de partment. Students at the resident project here in Bellevue and the one at Kearney will be paid $30 a month, from which $20 will be deducted for maintenance. Youths at nonresident projects will receive $25 a month. While there will be some variance at the several cities because of dif ference of equipment and instructors available, the work and instruction will cover besides the sheet metal, machine shop and industrial sewing, the following: Welding, forging, ioundry casting, woodworking and radio construction. Articles produced will be noncompetitive to commer cially marketed articles. This coming week, a special ar ticle on activities at the Bellevue resident project will be published. LEAVES FOR LUTY Mr. and Mrs. Pollock Parmele, son. Lieutenant Charles Calvin Par mele and daughter. Miss Tolly Par mele, of Lincoln were here Sunday for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. W. C. Soennichsen. The party has just returned from San Antonio. Texas, where they at tended the graduating exercises of the air corps at Randolph Field, at which Lieutenant Farmcle was given his wings. Lieutenant Parmele is assigned to service in the Panama Canal Zone and will report at once, sailing from Xew Orleans for the great air base. RETURNS FROM DUTY Lieutenant Burton Rishel. who has been on training duty at Fort Leon ard Wood. Rolla, Missouri, has re turned from his tour of duty and is now looking after his work at Lin coln. He was here Monday to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rishel. returning last evening to Lincoln. He his spent several weeks at the army post in special training and enjoyed very much the fine ex perience in ti e modern methods of warfare. He is still in reserve and may be called into active service at any time needed. NEW OFFICER ON FORCE Saturday evening Officer Theodore Svoboda retired as a member of the police force, having filled the posi tion of merchants police for the past several weeks. In the place of Mr. Svoboda, Willis Eaton has been named as a member of the force and will be on the job for the present at least. HERE FROM CHICAGO Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCulloch and Mrs. Mary Pickrel, of Chicago, are here for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Pickrel. Mrs. Mc Culloch is a sister of Mr. Pickrel and Mrs. Pickrel mother of David. NEW WAY LUNCH BLUE RIBBON TAVERN 3 'Miles North Plattsmouth, 3Y2 Miles South of Fort Crook on Highway 73-75 AIR CONDITIONED Free Swimming! Free Picnic Grounds ! Free Parking! MEETING ATTRACTS MANY From Tuesday's Dally-- Last evening a fine group of the young men in the community were at the Recreation Center to hear discussed the plans for the vocation al education expansion at South High school in Omaha, a move that would give an opportunity of having from twenty to thirty from this city to attend. The classes would be for training in welding and other trade lint that might be needed in the defense work and for young men in the late thirties would be given an opportun ity of learning these trades. Attorney James F. Begley, of the vocational education comjuittee of the Chamber of Commerce presided and explained the plan that has been proposed. Food Stamp Plan in Bellevue at Early Date Sarpy County Merchants Organize Schwab Chairman and Cock rel, Sec'y-Treasurer Special Bellevue Xews Service. The merchants of Sarpy county have formed an organization so they can take advantage of the federal government's food stamp plan as out lined by the State Department of Agriculture. Therecent legislative session pass ed an enabling act that sets up a state revolving fund which relieves counties of the burden of putting up stamp money and waiting for long periods for reimbursement, so now many counties that have not used the food stamp plan are beginning to take advantage of it. Mr. Schwab of Papillion was elected chairman and V. L. Cockrell of Bellevue was named as secretary treasurer. LARGELY ATTENDED PICNIC Sixteen hundred people attended the Brandies store picnic held Wed nesday at Plamore park on the north side o the Platte river. It was just about the biggest thing in picnics the Journal representative haa ever seen with several hundred cars in the parking lot and a fleet of spec ially chartered buses that had been leased for the occasion. The popularity of Plamore as a picnic grounds attracts people from great distances. MANLEY SENDS ALUMINUM John Crane of Manley has sent a nice consignment of aluminum col lected there in connection with the National Defense drive to Platts mouth Chairman Don Seiver, by the Journal field man. This lot along with that collected here and in towns over the county generally will all 1 be turned over to County Chairman Norris at the conclusion of the drive about August lsf. CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH Louisville-Plattsmouth Road 9:30 a. m. Sunday school. 8:00 p. m. Services by Rev. Durr, acting pastor. On Wednesday, July 30 the ladies' aid society will meet at the church parlors. Half of the members will be the hostesses. All members and friends are invited. SUFFERS SEVERE BURNS Doris. 6, daughter of Mrs. Roy Woods, suffered second or third de gree burns on her back and around her shoulders, after her dress caught fire. She was rushed to a physician and is now slowly recovering from the painful accident. Thomas Walling Company Abstracts of Title Phane 324 - Plattsmouth T T..T .T .T .T. T T T M I I M T RECUPERATING HERE Mrs. Albert Innian, of Council Bluffs, is in the city to recuperate and rest from an operation perform ed a short time ago. Mrs. Inman is at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Bulis Karr, Seventh and Oak streets. Mrs. Wilbur Hall of this city is also a daughter and enjoying the com pany of the mother. Wm. S. Wetenkamp Real Estate and Insurance Residence Property for Sale So. 6th Plattsmouth Ph. 519-J Giles Coryell Station CORYELL PRODUCTS Washington Ave. and Avenue D PLATTSMOUTH Harris Band BoxCleaners Complete Cleaning, Pressing and Laundry Service Phone 75 318 MAIN ST. PLATTSMOUTH Bring Us Your JUNK We Pay the Best Prices! Old Iron $10 per ton up Old Tires $ 4 per ton up Rags, 100 pounds $1 and up SAM ROSKINSKY Located at 25th and U Streets Omaha, Nebr. Phillips 66 Gas &OHs Naptha Gas Expert Lubrication Service LEE TIRES HOLOUBEK '66' STATION 301 Chicago Av. Plattsmouth YOU ARE Always Welcome AT THE George Conis SHINING PARLOR Bottle Beer and Pop Ice Cream Cones Cigars, Cagarettes Also a Line of Bar and Box Candy Friendliness IS MORE THAN JUST A 'BY-WORD' AT Clyde's Tavern When You're in Plattsmouth Drop In for a Cool, Refresh ing Glass or Bottle of Your Favorite Brand of BEER! Short Order Lunch Service HOME COOKING In the Old National Bank with a Different Line of Business Summer-Time r!eeds WE HAVE YOU NEED THEM! THEM! Fancy Decorated Ice Teas 5 Glassine Straws, Pkg 10 Common Water Glasses, 3 for 10 White Dinner Plates lOp SATURDAY SPECIAL ICED CANDY JELLIES Per lb. . 10c 25c MEN'S WORK SOCKS 9$ Pair, 3 Pairs for. It Pays to Shop at KNORR'S 5c to $1.00 Store Plattsmouth, Nebr. GappeSI Electric General Electrical Work Glad to Quote You Price 126 So. 6th - Plattsmouth PLAMORE PARK 3 Miles South of Bomber! 90 Acres Picnic Grounds! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! When Your Shoes are in Need of REPAIRS THINK OF Dan Reichstadt Expert Repairman We are equipped to give you the Best Workmanship and Materials. Located on South 6th BOB'S LIQUOR STORE 116 South 6th Street THE BEST Whiskies, Wines, Gins and Mixes When You're in Plattsmouth, We Invite You to Give Us a Call! Phone 70 WHEN YOU'RE IN PLATTSMOUTH With Us Complete Master Station Service , Mobil gas - Mobiloil Goodyear Tires TIRE REPAIRING Lubrication Experts When We Do the Job You KNOW It's Done! CAES WASHED AND POLISHED BATTERIES CHARGED T Follow the Beaten Path to OFE OIL CO. Ed - Bill - Carl Located at 7th St. & Chicago Ave. We extend a hearty in vitation to everyone to come to our store and just look around. . . You will enjoy the courtesy offered as we want to ex tend the hearty welcome to all new customers as well as valued old ones. Clearance Prices on all Dresses, Coats and Suits All Millinery 59c Hosiery Specials Friday and Saturday Regular 79c Hose Three and 4 Thread.. UVC Regular $1 Hose Three thread, or 89c Duralace Hose An. $1.15 Value. Pair. VU 540 Main St. Phone 163 GAS le Shop