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FAQE FOTJX THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1941. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL The BELLEVUE Bomber! EDITOR Mrs. Hoyt Clark93-J ASSOCIATE KDITOH Mrs. Win. J. Shallcross Phone 90-J Headers asked to phone news to these numbers. A News Department sponsored by Bellevue Commercial Club for the dissemination of reliable news concerning progress made in Bellevue, and distributed to every household in Bellevue as well as appearing in the regular Thursday edition of Plattsmouth Semi-Weekly Journal. Sewer Work Going Forward at Rapid Rate Half Hundred Men on the Job and More Promised Soon Set April 1 as Completion Date. Construction of Bellevue's new city-wide sanitary sewer system got off to a good start last week and daily progress is noted. Fifty workmen practically all from Omaha "WPA rolls started work last Wednesday morning. Promise is given that the number will be gradually increased with as many as 200 from the middle of December on through the rest of the winter. April 1 has been set as the time of completion of the project, which is set up on a material and equipment basis. If. H. Ilenninffsen, Omaha engi neer, designed the system and will suporvise-its construction with John Keller on the job seeing that mater ials and equipment are available as needed and the work progresses as rapidly as possible. The system is being built progres sively anil can be used right from the start through an ingenious ar rangement that will feed its output through the existing sewer until ad ditional men are provided to dig and lay the new outlet sewer. This is ef fected by installing a lift at No. 72 manhole at 22nd and Warren, and laying two blocks of temporary out let to carry sewage from that point to the old sewer, one block west and one north. When the system is com pleted to a point where the new 15- inch outlet line to the river is open. J the entire flow w,U be routed that j way and the olu outlet closed except the section from Main street east on 10th. which will be left intact to serve existing connections. Then the lift station or pumping plant will be transferred to its per manent location on Sarpy avenue, at the alloy between Jackson and Madison streets in the southwest part of town to take care of territory be- Sanitary Fcod Market On the Boulevard Telephone 119 Open Every Day till 9 P. M. Sundays S A. M. to 9 P. M. Quality Foods at Low Prices Groceries, Fresh and Cured Keats, Canning Supplies Harding's Ice Cream ICE COLD DRINKS , FOR RENT 3-room House, Partly Modern $29 per Month Furnished Three fine Bellevue Lots offered for Quick Sale at only $300.00 New and Old Houses at Seasonable Prices W. J. Shallcross Licensed Realtor Eellevue. Nebr. Telephone 90-J ROBERTS9 Bellevue Drugs On the Boulevard, at 20th Telephone No. 1 Prescriptions Filled Sandwiches Hot Dogs - Hamburgers Beef and Pork We have installed a new Skel gas Stove and will serve Hot Lunches. Chili and Soups later. Sundaes - Sodas - Cold Drinks Robert' Home Made Ice Cream Served . . . also Sold in Bulk! Film Service - Magazines Cigars, Cigarettes Bellevue City ,st NEW HOMES! MORR SON'S IlEPOHTKRS Mrs. TI. S. Langheine S3-J Mrs. Karl Kosser 62 yond that point which is too low for normal fall drainage through the main sewer. Following is the sequence that is to be followed as closely as pos sible in the construction of the system. The mains, laterals, outlet sewer and structures are listed in their order of construction priority. 1 Lay temporary 12-inch main, starting at manhole 72, 22nd and Warren streets, west a block and north a block to manhole 5S at 21st and Main, with temporary lift at manhole 72 to carry sewage from the new into old system until outlet line is built. 2 Build main sewer, commencing at manhole 72. 22nd and Warren, thence go south two blocks to Mis sion, west on Mission blocks, thence go south two blocks to 23rd, thence west on 23rd, ZV2 blocks, west one, south one, west three, north two, west one-half and north four to the end of this main sewer at West and Mission streets. 3 As soon as practicable after the above main sewer is completed past each junction with a proposed lateral sewer, it is planned to build such lat eral sewers as there is a pressing need for. It is planned to build these laterals by starting on those at the east end of town and building them progressively to the west, or up grade along the main sewer. 4 Construct main and outlet sew er from manhole 72. 22nd and War ren streets to the Missouri river, in cluding the control manholes shown on blueprints. 5 Build sewage pumping plant (lift station) on Sarpy avenue, at the alley between Jackson and Madison streets. 6 Remove temporary sewer and build main sewer on 22nd from War ren to Main. 7 Build and rebuild main sewer on Main street from 22nd north to 16th streets. S Build and rebuild main sewer on 22nd avenue from Main street to Washington street and on Washing ton street from 22nd to 20th streets. 9 Build lateral sewers in the sively vom east to vest. . Connections The sewer is planned to give base- ment drains mrougnoui ine cuy. iu do this requires great depth at the No. 72 manhole, which is low point of the system and from which runs the 15-inch outlet line. At some points in that vicinity, where street level is slightly rolling, the now main that runs to the south and west will' be 21 feet under ground. The average ! is not nearly that deep, however, but in most places the depth will be too j great for service lines into basements j without the use of vertical risers. ! To avoid cutting the mains in the ! future Ys will be installed opposite ! each lot. These will be capped. The filing of application before that point has been reached in construction will result in vertical risers being put in, bringing the level up to normal base ment flow fall and eliminating cost ly digging for future installations. The cost of filing application to .get these vertical risers installed is but $2.00 per installation. From that point the property owner may have his service line laid now or at such future time as he desires, but that work will not be done by the WPA construction force and owners must supply their own tile and labor cost for constructing the service line all the way from the vertical riser into their property. It has been suggested owners might effect a saving by mass purchase of tile and the other necessary mater ials to construct their service lines also contract installation in the same manner. While the city is using cement tile, owners may use either vitrified clay or cement for their service lines, as they prefer. P. T. A. MEETING The P. T. A. held its regular meet ing Wednesday evening. Robert Paige, representing the Northwest- tern Bell Telephone company, pre sented a most interesting program and showed three talking pictures, which everyone enjoyed. ' The next meeting will be held on November 25th. A0KIYA CLUB MEETS TONIGHT The Aokiya Club will meet tonight t Thursday) at the home of Mrs. Dell Johnson. Hostess will be Miss Agnes Janecek, assisted by Mrs. Richard Whitted. Flower Arrange ments by the Coca-Cola company will be featured on the program. Mrs. Herman Linneman is home now and is feeling much better. Mrs. John Frazeur is not so well and on Sunday was returned to the hospital in Omaha. The high school Library Corps Is planning a play to be given soon at the school. Miss Phyllis Clark is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Tester Griffith in Creston, Iowa. The Catholic women held a card party Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. F. J. Knobbe. Mrs. Elmer Johnson is anxious to have all Red Cross layettes turned in as soon as possible. Mrs. Shallcross had a group of knitters at her home Tuesday and a group of quilters were there Wed nesday. A Fellowship meeting of the Gos pel Tabernacle was held Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Liese. Miss L. Schafer is now directing the Presbyterian church choir. On Sunday special numbers will be sung by Mrs. F. H. Freeman and Mrs. Roy Kratz. A Cornhusker Turkey Trot with music by the Gobblers Serenaders will be given at the Starlight club November 6, sponsored by the Cath olic Men's club. Mrs. Elmer Stark and Mrs. Joe Larson were in Plattsmouth Friday selling tickets to the chicken dinner to be given October 30 at the Pres byterian church. Mr. and Mrs. G. II.. Agans were called to Humboldt, Nebr., to attend the funeral of Mrs. Agans' grand father, Andrew Samuelson. They re turned Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Covington arrived home Monday evening from Colo rado, where she spent the past six weeks caring for her sister, Mrs. Garlik, who was injured in an auto crash. The Bellevue Woman's Club will have a fard party Friday from 2 to 4 at the home of Mrs. E. C. Gorman, with Mrs. Roy Kratz assisting. The executive committee will provide table prizes. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sullivan are spending the week in Plattsmouth at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Stein, while Mr. and Mrs. Stein are pheas ant hunting. ';," Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rosser, Miss Eernice Weibel, Thomas Rosser, Lach lan Ohman, Lewis Clark, Jack and Bill Phelps and Leonard Hall were among the football fans in Lincoln at the Indiana-Nebraska game last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kinsley have had as their guests during the past week Mrs. Kinsley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Teller, of Fayette, Mo., an uncle. Jack Teller, and an aunt anil uncle. Mr. and Mrs. George Kelso of Glasco, Mo. This is open season, seemingly, on chicken dinners. St. Mary s Cath olic church is giving a benefit din ner at the German Home on South 13th street Sunday, November 2, for which tickets are now being sold Serving from 12 noon to 5 p. in. Many are planning on attending the fried chicken dinner to be given on October 3D at the Presbyterian church. The best cooks have been drafted and plenty of chickens pro vided so all may look forward to a splendid meal. Mrs. Elmer Stark is in charge of ticket distribution. Mrs. Elmer Johnson entertained nine Omaha women Thursday at a luncheon at her home. These women have been associated together in Delphian work at least nine years and several finished the fifteen years of Delphian with Mrs. Johnson this summer. START B00K-A-M0NTH CLUB A Book-a-Month Club has been organized for interested high school students and already twenty students are enrolled in the club. Through it, books may be purchased outright for 2S cents apiece and each jnember has a group of five books to select from for the month. The first of the books have been received and are very nice, with dark green binding, gold lettering, a good grade of paper and plain print. This plan offers an opportunity to interested young folks to start their own personal library, adding to it month by month at a very small ex pense. ATTENDED MEETING IN OMAHA Mrs. Daniel Slezinger and Mrs John Ogurek attended a meeting of the Widows of Spanish War Veter ans in Omaha Sunday. This organization was started in Omaha about seven years ago and is rapidly becoming a strong body in the United States. WONDERFUL DISPLAY OF CACTI When the Journal representative was in Bellevue Sunday, we called at the W. L. Havenridge home and were privileged to see and photograph as fine a display of cacti as we believe can be found anywhere in this part of the country. Mr. Havenridge hauled out a lot of the larger ones for a yard display that resembled scenes in the south west as some stand five and six feet in height. They have in all over a hundred different specie, many of them from the collection of Mrs. Havenridge's father, N. P. Nelson, who returned to Denmark ten years ago. Since the unsettled conditions in Europe it is almost next to imposs ible to maintain correspondence with Mr. Nelson, as it often takes two to three months to get mail through. In the collection which is marked with metal bands we find such names as cereus, tricacereus (a night bloom ing species that is alive with stick ers but which the cats will eat if left unprotected for the milk con tained in the stem), liamairecereus, selenicereus (a large round type that grows abundantly in the south and from which the tops are cut to pro vide a palatable drink). Then there is the little, low bushy fish hook one with its hundreds of sturdy hooks. said to have been used in early days by the Indians for fish hooks, and the fall blooming type that comes into bloom early in the fall with a cream colored flower that lasts a month or six weeks. At the present time this has been in bloom for three weeks. "Many people give their cacti too much moisture," says Mr. Haven ridge. He has just transplanted a large number from the yard for the winter, which is a dormant season so far as growth is concerned. The soil he uses is a mixture of sand and ordinary dirt. It takes a long time to secure such a large collection as the Havenridges have, and they are adding to same at the rate of seven to ten new specie each year. They are pleased to read the Jour nal each week and speak in highest praise of the Bomber news page we are able to provide through co-operation with the Bellevue Commercial club. SPENT WEEK-END IN . NORTHERN NEBRASKA Mi, and Mrs. F. I. Freeman and Freddy and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lar son and Marilyn spent the week-end in northern Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman spent Saturday night with the Don Hamlin family in Atkinson and the Larsons and Freddy Freeman spent Saturday night with the Ball family at Ainsworth. Sunday morning the men went hunting and Sunday! afternoon the ladies served a pheasant dinner at the Bell home. TEACHERS AT CONVENTION The Misses Carrithers, Rothert, Barber, Kruse, Pavlik, Nelson, Vance, Weibel, Megrere, Huckleberry and Marshall together with Supt. Prath er are attending the teachers' con vention in Omaha. Miss Haggard will attend in Grand Island and Miss Schaucr, Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Chinnock will attend in Lincoln. NEW AND RE-BOUND BOOKS The school library has received fifty rebound fiction hooks from the bindery, which are now available to leaders. Miss Haggard, school librarian. advises that twelve new juvenile books recently ordered have arrived and are also available at this time. These will afford seventh and eighth graders new reading , matter for their leisure time. Additional Bellevue Kews on Page 5 WANT ADS WANTED Good bathroom fixtures. Call Bellevue 148-J. I4 OIL BURNER, nearly new, $25.00. Also coal oil stove, heater and sink for sale. Phone B-14SJ. 32 FOR SALE Hot point electric range, conduit, fuse box, cable. Wittwer, 4801 Chicago. Phone, Walnut 9013. RUBBER STAMPS Journal man can supply you at prices below what you have been paying. See us when in Bellevue Thursdays. WANT-AD RATES on Bellevue news page 2J a word, first insertion, 14 a word subsequent insertions. No ad accepted less than 25 cents. See or phone Mrs. Clark, Bellevue 93-J. 63 New Homes in Bellevue; Start 100 More Soon FHA Committments Coming Through Promptly, Assuring Peak Pro duction by Next Spring "When will the boom hit Belle vue?" That's a question frequently asked of "natives" when they con verse with outstate folks at conven tions and like gatherings. Why, bless you, it isn't a boom, but an orderly expansion to meet a long-felt growing need, and it's already "hit." Sixty-three new or completely re modeled homes count 'em offer all the proof that's needed that Belle vue is on the up-swing. Not all done, but in various stages of construction, with a score or more finished. On top of that, commitments for at least a hundred more approved by FHA give assurance of a continued and expanding building program for months to come. Start of work on the new city-wide sanitary sewer system has been the magic wand to release FHA money for defense home construction. Ex tension and enlargement of water service will also be necessary, but that too is practically assured, set up on a revenue basis, with low-interest bonds. Business expansion in zoned busi ness areas is bound to follow. Fact is, several bxisiness houses are in contemplation and beyond the dream stage. The value of new homes completed and actually under construction to date, as shown by the building per mits is slightly over $300,000. As sessed at 70 per cent of that figure, Bellevue's assessed valuation will be increased from last year's $480,000 to nearly $700,000. As assessed valuations rise, ratio of mill levy decreases, so with this comprehensive building program, of ficials say reduction in taxes may be expected despite the cost of providing sponsor's share of sewer and other necessary utilities, not including the waterworks expansion, which is to be set up on a revenue basis, payable wholly from earnings. HUNTING SEASON ATTRACTS MANY TO PHEASA1TT GROUNDS The hunting season is upon us and if the butchers in Bellevue are not having too much business it only goes to show what skill our local nimrods can display when those pretty birds fly across the gun sights. Captain and Mrs. G. W. Fleming and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruce spent the week-end hunting at Ful lerton. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Kast and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Kast spent Sunday and Monday at Niobrara. Walter Havenridge and Joe Betz spent Thursday at Leigh. The Jack Phelps family spent Sunday, at Randolph, where they en joyed hunting with the James Kim balls. James Conovan, Mr. and Mrs. John Trent, Mr. and Mrs. William Trent and Mr. Huntley spent Sunday at Ilartington. W. L. Shafer, Sr., spent the last :'of the week hunting at Ahselmo. Harry. Kinsley spent Saturday and Sunday hunting in the vicinity of Lyons. Kenneth Shriver, Mickey Huntley, II. Ilenningsen, Ernest Collins and LUGSCH K ciEAna PLATTSMOUTH PICKUP AND DELIVERY SEBVICE IN BELLEVUE MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAYS SPECIAL PLAIN $ Garments L 3 Overcoat Cleaning Time is Here Fall Housecleaning CUBTAINS - DRAPES - BUGS Leave Bundles or Advise JERRY GILBERT at the Barber Shop and Our Truck will Call R. Shultz were hunting in the vicin ity of Randolph Sunday. W. L. Shafer, Jr. and Harry Lay ton left last Saturday for points north and' west to hunt. At last re port, they were in South Dakota. Mayor F. H. Freeman and Joe Larson hunted in the northern part of the state in the vicinity of Atkin son and Ainsworth. Mr. Stark and Mr. Draper spent Thursday hunting at Laurel. SARPY COUNCIL PTA SPON SORS SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION The executive committee of the Sarpy County Council of the P. T. A. were guests at the regular meeting of District No. 5 P. T. A. at Avery Friday night. A member of the state police, a state fire inspector, Super intendent Warren of Papillion and Mrs. J. Steinberg took part in a panel discussion on Safety. The executive committee held a short meeting after the program and made arrangements for the School of Instruction which will be given at Papillion November 19, from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. by Mrs. C. E. Roe, National Field Secretary of the Parent-Teacher association. Mr. and Mrs. II. L. Clark represented Belle vue. Surrounding counties including Cass will be specially invited to at tend the school. The meeting will be held in the Methodist church at Papillion and lunch will be served during the meeting. Mrs. Basil Smith, district presi dent of the P. T. A., has charge of arrangements. Her address is South Omaha, Route 5. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY The Junior class play was given Tuesday night at the school. Charles j Sones and Helen Pearce carried the i leads. A good crowd attended. ! Four easy ways to Help PROTECT 3 Light Condition the living room. Guests will like it and so will your eyes. Try a new 100-200-300-watt bulb for your 3-light lamp. Get Handy Package for Light Conditioning 4 This package of bulbs gives you a good start toward Light Con ditioning. It contains sizes se lected for you to help bring you better light and guard your eyes. 1 Light Condition your bedroom. I Reading in bed will be more ' ffrffC') 1 fun, less tiring to eyes. Begin I VJU 8 YfE i I with a new 100-watt bulb. I OMFfcg UJfjJ Good light and enough cf it is one of the best possible safeguards against eye trouble in the future. Both old and young benefit from better light, better sight. ELECTRICITY IS SEE YOUR DEALER or NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY W L" Cockrell Agency Insurance of ALL Kinds Notary Public Bus. Phone, 25 Res. Phone, 3 Dine and Dance at Norman's New Midway Lunch Beer and Lunch So. of Child's Crossing on 73-75 BOMBER TAVERN Rose and Bill Toellner, Props.. Just North of Avery on U. S. Highway 75 Sandwiches and Chicken Dinners Bottle and Draught Beer Boulevard Service J. M. (Max) Frieler 24 Hour Road Service TOWING A SPECIALTY Full Line of Mobil Products Mobilgas and Mobiloil Telephone 116 - Bellevue, Neb. WORK CLOTHING Overalls, Jackets and Gloves Good quality Overalls, Unionalls, Carpenters Overalls, Work Gloves of all kinds and Husking Mitts. Bought Seven Months Ago and Priced Accordingly Bellevue Grocery RED & WHITE STORE EYESIGH Light Condition your kitch en. Your eyes will be hap pier if you light up with a 150-watt bulb. 3