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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941. JAGE TWO Ihe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at PoBtoflice, Plattsmoutb, Neb., as second-class mail matter MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles. S3. 00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, - ... . i - a.: .... vl .frlntlv in gilnnMI. ?3.&o per year, au suDscnyuuuB ni i...vw, - town near the railroad tracks lie tenticn was attracted by some pheas Elmwood By Journal Field Representative Mrs. Louis Langhorst was report ed critically ill at her home the last few days. A son arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Abbott last Tuesday. Mother and babe are doing very well. Darlene Ilollenbeck spent the week end with home folks and had as her guest over Sunday Miss Eileen Youngberg. Mr. and Mrs. Buff Harmon of Weeping Water were visiting in Elm wood last Tuesday, coming to see Dr. O. E. Liston about a gathering in Mrs. Harmon's ear. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greene of Elmwood and Mr. and Mrs.. Ralph Keckler of Weeping Water drove to Lincoln for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Lamb. Edgar Hansen, who is located at Camp Robinson, is enjoying a visit in Elmwood. He is a cousin of Mrs. Morris Penterman and was a dinner guest at the Penterman home last Friday. Merle Lind. son of Rev. and Mrs. Lind left last week for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve and has been as signed to a medical unit at Phila delphia. Donald Kelly, who has been visit ing his mother. Mrs. Thessie Kelly, for a fortnight, left Sunday for the west to resume his duties as a mem ber of Uncle Sam's army stationed at Camp Ord, California. .Donald Gonzales left Monday for Washington, to resume his work in the nation's capital city after two weeks spent here. Mrs. Gonzales is remaining for a longer visit, as she desires to attend a 1934 class func tion after which she will return to Washington. Otto Flaischman has completed the picking of his corn, having the work done by George Bornemeier, which expedited the work greatly. The yield was very good. Now Mr. Loinemeier is picking his own field, after which he will gather that of his father, A. A. Bornemeier and will then harvest the crop of Frank E. Cook. The Bluebird club met with Mrs. Marjorie Bornemeier last Wednes day afternoon, with most of the members present. A very interesting lesson was presented on "Healthful Lunches for Home and School." heard a train coming and attempted to stop his truck' on the downhill slope leading to the tracks, but was unsuccessful and the truck reached the crossing at just about the same time the train did. As a result one wheel was stripped from the truck. The driver was not hurt, however. A good many congregated to view the wrecked truck before a wrecker arrived from Lincoln to tow it in for repairs. Brakes Failed to Work While a driver from the Wood lawn Dairy of Lincoln was coining from Weeping Water to Elmwood and was entering the east edge of Hunted in Cedar County Kenneth West, who is employed in an airplane factory at St. Louis, ar rived home late Saturday night and, with his father, C. W. West, spent the balance of the night driving to Cedar county. Arriving about sun rise, which was just the right time for hunting pheasants, they soon bagged the limit. They returned home later in the day. Got Pheasants Here at Home Mr. and Mrs. Morris Penterman and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Her man Penterman were driving in the country last Sunday and it happened that Morris had his shotgun in the ants in a nearby field. So they stop ped and Morris slipped up within range, when one started to fly and was promptly brough'down by Mor ris' unerring aim. Another took to the air and was likewise killed. So, without having to go out of his home county, Morris was able to get two fine male birds, which is strictly le gitimate since Cass county is open territory this year. Have Quite a Family Now Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Fifer, who live on the Elmwood mail route on the John Elliott farm, have had the size of their family increased quite rapidly, duo to the birth of three boys, each weighing about five pounds, at the hospital in Lincoln The children and mothers are doing nicely. They had a little girl, 18 months old, and now the family in stead of numbers three contains six. Death of Ben Swanson Ben Swanson, who has made his home in western Cass county for the past twenty-five years, residing with his daughter and son-in-law since the death of Mrs. Swanson four car. As they drove along their at-jears ago, died ast Friday. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Waverly, conducted by Rev. Mogensen and interment was in the Waverly cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rosenow came up from St. Louis, where Mr. Rose now is employed in an airplane plant, drove up to attend the fun eral. Reunion of Class Members of the class of 1934 of Elmwood high school held a get together reunion last Thursday, with a very good attendance. Mrs. Donald Gonzales, who had been here with her husband, remained to attend the reunion, while he left Monday to re sume hi3 work in the east, being en gaged in the newspaper business in Washington, D. C. A program and general good time was had, with re ports from the members as to what they have been doing since gradua tion. Delegates Home from Grand Lodge Minton V. Wood and Miss Grace Wood, delegates to the I. O. O. F grand lodge and Rebekah assembly, arrived home last week and speak very highly of the treatment accord ed them in the convention city Grand Island. The Odd Fellows had, about 250 delegates present at their meeting and the Rebekahs 500. A fine report was given on the, condition of the home at York, of which Frank E. Wood, former Weep ing Water man is superintendent and Mrs. Wood stewardess. Expenditures were listed in detail, leaving nothing to "miscellaneous." The organization is seemingly very well pleased with the manner in which the home is being conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Wood. Hand Badly Mangled While Verle Kuehn was working with his corn picker, he got his left hand in the power throw-off, re sulting in the severe mangling of two of his fingers. The injury was cared for by the local physician and unless complications arise, is expect ed to heal satisfactorily, although it will be a good long time before he is able to use the hand. Will Move Soon to East Doanie Stark and Robert Acton, who recently secured employment at Wayne, Michigan, are arranging to move their families there in the near future. ft S&SS.v . IS YOUR Property Insured? Against Loss by FIRE WINTER FIRES ARE MORE NUMEROUS AND MORE DAN GEROUS. INSURE TODAY! CALL OR SEE INSURANCE- AND BONDS by PHONt 16 PLATTSMOUTH iPSBfflnr J' I I IJ I 2 4 Vii Ul7?-'"- Jow.w;nrt 7 -miat r,'d. A '.L,au" P'ane hlTTr-f UlSln hour. 8 s,n'e 1200 i' t,ie R.A P NEWEST MILLINERY (1) Off the face hat with scalloped brim, trimmed with feathers. (2) 4-"USO" hat of Persian Lamb. (3) Black dinner hat with paradise feathers. Long Beach, Calif. Mona, the baby ele phant, gets a day oil from entertaining visi tors to the circus here. Mona consumed over fifty pounds of bon-bons fed to her by the pretty hostesses. 'A FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE Because metal is more important for cartridge shells than lipsticks, William B. Petzold, General Electric plastics designer, designed this first all-plastics lipstick to operate on a turn-out swivel for Robare DeLong, famous Hollywood make-up artist. STAMPEDE OF STAMPS At. (antic Ciiy, N. J. I Mayor lorn tTaggart of Atlan- tic City, mailing a large post-card to President Roosevelt, the card being cov. ered with defense stamps con tributed by local citizens. 1 he card reads: "Dear President, we send you with our best wishes this giant post card of National Defense Stamps. From Mayor Taggart and Atlantic City." AVW if V (U NEW MOULDED-TO-YOU FORM IS BOON TO HOME DRESSMAKER ENDS NEED FOR - TRY-ONS JxW. J--iSS' "i i. i I . . . .... 'N. J i fSW eft l ,MJ V.C KSh5 ' IFRUsSs NEW! ' Kfi(l) Born Sept "30th atl - TT S2X, 11 arsenal . . . .- 3jwar ,t i Qfifel7 J BEHIND THE i?tr4 CK-J f 1 1 & URALS- (Left) V&$2lsM$ M -JN & II r fflW A woman miner MMlSWi 11 r? ffU MmMMgmgm at work in a con- RUSSIA'S NEW ARSENAL . . . BEHIND THE URALS (Left) A woman miner at work in a cop per mine in the Sverolovsk re gion, using an automatic drill designed by a Soviet engineer. (Right) New buildings in the city of Svero lovsk, most important city in the Urals. Half a million people live in the community. (1) Born Sept. 30th at suburban Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, this 5-foot, 65-pound baby giraffe stands beside her mother, 15-foot Sadie. The father, 17-foot, horns in on the picture. (2) San Diego, Calif. This Red Luton Monkev said to be the first horn in a zoo. (3) Brookfield, 111. Trite thought it may be, Mother and Baby are doing well. First rhinoceros ever born in captivity, the 20-pound youngster is shown with its 2000 pou n d mother. Bti S SMC W-wXx.Sb, The perfect draping and sheath-like fit that distin guishes the expensive models of famous couturiers can be achieved easily this fall by any home dress maker who has one of the moulded-to-you Singer dress forms and modern sewing machine equipment. This sensational new dress form has solved the most difficult part of dressmakinghow to fit a dress on yourself. You can adjust your pattern, cut your ma terial and assemble your dress all without a single try-on session because the thermoplastic form ac tually duplicates every line and curve of your figure. Smarter clothes can be made in half the time and you can get free instruction at your local sewing center. teg WATCHDOG ADOPTS CHICKEN Detroit, Mich. Oueenie. a watchdog at-a local poultry .market, is shown with crie cf the chickens she adopted after losing her litter cf pups recently The chicken shows po fear of it strange foster-mother. Nutrition sensation -is the newly discovered process which, for the time, peels the splintery hull from the wLcat grain, but leaves in flour all wheat's natural vitamins, produc ing a delicately flavored bread known as "Staff." Dr. M. L. Wihon. (left) head cf President Roosevelt's nutrition movement, inspects the" process. 1 ON THE GRIDIRON (Above) Berkeley, Calif. Kenny Casa nega, brilliant Santa Clara halfback, flashes through the U. of Cali fornia line for a gain in the first quarter. Santa Clara won 13 to 0. (Right) Princton. N. J. Paul Governali (low er right), Columbia left halfback, making a short gain in the first period of the game with Prince ton which Columbia won 21-0. 7 "S?i AOCA By Journal Field Representative Fred Marquardt attended the foot ball game in Lincoln last Saturday, between Indiana and Nebraska. Fritz Maney and Faul Gilford of the vicinity of Otoe were looking after business matters in Avoca on Monday. Dr. Ones Brendel and wife and Clyde Harvey and wife left the fore part of last week for their home at Zionville, Indiana, after visiting here for nearly a week.. Troy Davis of Weeping Water was looking after business matters lure this past week, securing material for the improvement of the buildings on one of his farms. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kreifel of Ne braska City were guests last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Honrv Jourgesen. Mr. Kreifel is a brother of Mr. Jourgesen. A representative of the Union Facific railroad of Omaha was lioro consulting with Fred Marquardt rela tive to shipping grain to the west coast over that railroad. The first shipment of pipe to be used in laying the natural gas line across this portion of the county ar rived in Avoca last week and will be followed by many more. Elmer Hallstrom, Clyde Rogaard and Mrs. A. Z. Thomas were visitors in riattsmouth Tuesday looking af ter business regarding the settlement of the estate of the late W. II. Dogaard. Several Avoca young ladies are finding employment with the Stock ley Seed Corn company, sorting tin corn for defective kernels and get ting it ready for planting when the time comes next spring. Martin Ross is making quite ex tensive repairs to his country home cast of Avoca, including a new shin gle roof, and was in town after ma terial the fore part of the week. Henry Franzen is doing the work. A group of the women members of Congregational church turned out en masse one day last week and set about the task of cleaning and reno vating the church building. As a re sult, the building is now spic and span. Carl O. Zaiser enjoyed his hunting trip in northern Nebraska very much, but paid the penalty for it the fol lowing day and for several there after, as he was confined to his bed part of last week with an attack of pleurisy. Osrar Zimnierer and Clarence Meyer spent last week end at Scotts bluff, where they found the pheas ants plentiful but able to conceal themselves very well in the heavy foliage that grows in that irrigated country. They were able to get their limit, and enjoyed the hunting very much. A meeting of the Anniversary club was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wolfe last Wednesday evening. The club members meet once a month, honoring members whose birthdays occur during that month. Mrs. Wolfe was the one who had a birthday during this month and was thus singled out to receive the month's honors. W. E. Huff, representative of an insurance company, was in Avoca the fore part of last week arranging for some building material to be used in the erection of a house on one of the farms recently acquired by the com pany through foreclosure proceed ings. The ody house was so badly tlelapidated it bad to be torn down and a new one will be built to re place it. Married at North Branch Last Wednesday at the North Hranch chinch Miss Ruth Wessell. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wessell became the bride of Ralph Slubendick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stubendiek. A reception and dance was given for the newlyweds at the Syracuse pavilion in the evening. Dinner and Program Thursday The Men's Club of Avoca, a live wire organization that has been re sponsible for numerous community get-togethers in years past, hns ar ranged for another of these fine af fairs on Thursday evening of this week, October 30. A splendid dinner will bo served, followed by a pro gram. Hunted in Northern Nebraska Dr. J. W. Brendel of Avoca with Dr. Ones Brendel. Pete Brendel and Clyde Harvey, who were here from Zionville, Indiana, for a visit, with Carl O. Zaiser drove to northern Ne braska for the opening of the pheas ant hunting season and found the birds quite plentiful. They soon had thtir limit. Returning home, all went to Murray Sunday to enjoy a fue pheasant supper at the home of 175 Mrs. Margaret Brendel. V