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MONDAY, MAY 3, 1943 PAGE FOUS THE JOURNAL, ILATTSMOTJTH, NEBRASKA Elmwood By Journal Field Representatire Have Easter Dinner The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Bohn near Eagle was the scene of a very pleasant gathering of friends on Easter Sunday. The members of the party comprised: Albert Dehning of Weeping Water; Adolph Shrader of Palmyra; Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Winters of Eagle; Mr. and Mrs. James Mills and family of Murdock, and Martin Mills of Syracuse. Sustains Serious Injuries ' , William Grost, who has for years engaged in railroad- work,, serving as a track worker, suffered a severe injury at his home. He was walk ing around the house and slipped and fell, with the result that he fractured the upper bone in one of his legs and also a joint in the thigh. He was taken to the Bryan Memorial hospital for care. His age makes his recovery the matter of much doubt. J. A. Boyd of Murdock was a busi ness visitor in Elmwood on last Tuesday to secure supplies for his store. 1: Have Easter Services ; ; The four churches of Elmwood combined their" musical departments for an Easter night service, pre senting the cantata, "Our Risen Lord and King." The cantata was pre sented at the Methodist church that has a large seating capacity. Returns from Lincoln ' Mrs. Eva Bailey, who , has been making her home' in Lincoln, the past few months, also receiving treatment for her health, is back home. Ray Parcell recently sold his farm in this community and has made Sill SEASONED T01VQQBE0& W.M.O- DOROTHY CANFIELD features CHAPTEB V SYNOPSIS Timothy Hulme, principal of a good but Impoverished Vermont academy, lives a studious bachelor existence with only his Aunt Lavtnla for company. They take their meals at Miss Feck's. Timothy makes friends with a new teacher, Susan Barney, and her younger sister, Delia. Now Timothy has received a letter from a disagreeable trustee of the academy, Mr. Wheaton, calling him to New York. The afternoon before this trip to the city, Timothy came into the house late. Without taking off his overcoat, without turning on a light, he dropped down on the chair in the hall corner, closed his eyes and tried to relax. But the house was not quiet. From Aunt Lavinia's room over head came a disorder of sounds a young alto voice starting a scale over and over, only to be cut short at si by a querulous cry from an old soprano; The door of the room upstairs opened and closed. Timothy got to his feet, intending to meet Susan on the stairs. But the quick rush of light young feet meant two peo ple, not one. Oh. yes. the sharp little Delia was spending the Christ mas vacation with Susan and had probably come along to the music lesson. Timothy was proud of his girl. "She's got more understanding in one finger than little Delia has in all her brains." But driving to the Peck house for dinner that evening he said, "See here, Lawy, couldn't you jump down Susan's throat a little less about her music?" She flung her head up angrily. "Dinna talk about what ye know nothing aboot. I'm mild as ; violets and new milk with that gir-r-1!" Miss Peck's table was vacation small again, with only Mrs. Wash burn, Mr. Dewey, the two from the Principal's house, and the two Barney sisters. Susan, in her blue gray apron, was just filling the wa ; ter glasses. When she saw Timothy she set down the pitcher and flut ; tered toward him, crying, "Oh, Mr. Hulme! Mr. Hulme!" "That's my name," he admitted, : looking down at her glowing face, i "Delia and I've just had a letter ' from Cousin Ann in the Bronx and she says we can stay overnight with her and have a whole day in New York and we can afford to if you'd let us ride down and back on the ( back seat of your car." . f He hardly heard what she said ; for gazing at her. For an instant . he did not answer. "Now, Tim," said Aunt Lavinia, severely, "don't be so like your . father. Take the gir-r-rls along. Why not?" 1 Making a rendezvous with the Barney girls for dinner the next evening, Timothy Hulme left them far uptown at the door of Cousin Ann's ring-and-walk-up apartment house, and drove on to his own small old hotel near Washington Square. ' It was late. He went to bed, but every time he turned restlessly over he saw only two young pro vincials with hats that were un couth because they showed an amount of forehead that was right last year, not this year. But he was tired and finally fell asleep. He had meant to take at least two days, perhaps three, for his various errands, but had hastily revised his trip to suit the Barney girls, planning to do by letter or telephone many of the things he had thought to do in person. Even so, the day ahead of him was for midably full. After a . shuddering glance at the headlined news of Fascist bombing of civilians in Spain and yet more Nazi savagery in Germany, he laid down the paper to plan his comings and goings.- In the barber's chair he sat somberly dreading his call on Mr. Wheaton, rebuking by his inat tention the barber's urban grin over the length and odd cut of his hair. And . when, close trimmed and clipped and shaven, he stood up to go, he tipped the man, firmly, unapologetically, a dime and nick el, no more. Shrugging his over coat on absent-mindedly, he looked at his memorandum to verify the address of the chic hotel where he was to meet a mother who had writ ten to propose her son as a student. Of course the fact that Mrs. Bern stein wanted her boy to leave the expensive New Jersey prep school and enter another, even before the end of the first semester, meant that - something wasthematterwith young Jules. But it might turn out to be something which a needy rural academy could afford to overlook. The door opened, Mrs. Bernstein came in. She assumed at once the manner of friendship. He wanted just one thing from her, to know what was the matter with Jules; and as he . expected, that was the thing she had no inten tion of telling him. Had Jules passed all his examinations? "Oh, yes, indeed. Professor Hulme, you'JJ find him a yery bright stu. dent. Why, I've had teachers tell me that they never had such a" "Which ones of your last exams did you flunk?" asked the school-teacher. Professor Hulme interrupted her flatly with his request to see the boy's report card. "Oh, I have it right here. Pro fessor Hulme. I knew that with a careful person like you that would be the first thing you'd ask for." The card came out from a petit point bag on her satin lap. He gave one look at it. "But, Mrs. Bernstein, there are no marks on it for the before-vacation ex aminations." "Ah, trust your experienced eye. Professor Hulme, to see that at a glance. Ha! Ha! Ha! Anyone can see that you know all about At last he broke through by rais ing his voice to say, "Well, then I'd like to see his report card for the last year." "Oh, really! Let me see. I don't believe I have kept it. Liv ing in a hotel . . . you country people with your great roomy houses and attics, you can't imag ine how hard it is for us poor city people with no place. ..." Making no pretense that he was not interrupting her, he said, "Mrs. Bernstein, I'm afraid I'll have to telephone to Brentwood to get your son's record. I could get it in a few minutes." "Well," she said in agitation, "I'll see I might be able to fincl it." After a moment of search in the desk drawer she drew the missing card out and reluctantly showed it. It had, of course, a record of the results of examinations taken be fore the last Christmas vacation. Professor Hulme laid it down on the elegant little desk and looked at Jules' mother from the North Pole. She threw herself on his mercy. She was a widow, she cried brok enly, giving her whole life to her fatherless boy. All she wanted was his happiness. If she had tried to deceive the professor, it was as any mother would lay down her life for her child, for. . . . After a time, "What was the matter with Jules' examinations this year?" asked Mr. Hulme.. "I'll let you talk to Jules him self. But" she put both hands over her face "before you see him, I'll have to confess that . . . I've been ashamed to tell you be fore ... I simply can't pay your full tuition rates. ..." Her face still buried in her hands, she laid her head on the table. "It's abso lutely impossible, because ... the depression has wiped out . . . not a singla . . . my poor, poor boy, he is. ... Mr. Hulme reached silently for his hat and turned towards the door. "Wait! Wait!" cried the woman behind him, and ran out past him into the hall, calling "Jules! Jules!" Out of a door at the other end of the long hall a tall, thin, stooped lad of fourteen emerged and came slowly towards them over the long strip of red carpet. He held him self badly, he walked clumsily. His mother ran to meet him, envel oping him in an emotional embrace. Over her head he looked at the vis itor out of melancholy hazel eyes. He said wearily, but gently, in a little boy's treble not yet changed for all his height, "Now, Mamma, now there, Mamma . . . . "Hello, Jules. How do you do?" said Mr. Hulme in the first natural tone he had used. He stepped for ward, holding out his hand. The boy took it in a nervously taut grip. He tried for a manly bluffness with a "How do you do, Rlr. Hulme," but his eyes cried, 'Oh, rescue me! Help me to escape!" They turned back into the ex F.eve Sltting room and sat down. Which ones of your last exams did you flunk?" asked the school teacher. "All of them." "What was the matter?" "One of the kids in the dorm had a cello his mother made him take to school and I got to fooling around with ;t and never studied $-JW a wontb.-- His voice cracked ludicrously from treble to bass on the last phrase. His mother flung up her hands, opened her mouth to cry out, and was cut short by Mr. Hulme say ing, "All right, Jules, come along to Vermont. If you'd like to try us, we'll give you a try." Mr. Hulme was a little late for his appointment with Mr. Wheaton but this gave him no concern, part of the Wheaton technique being to make callers wait those who were not moneyed. After rising twenty four stories in a Gothic elevator and finding his way through marble lined corridors to Mr. Wheaton's velvet carpeted Italian Renaissance outer office, he sat looking down at his hat on his knee, bracing him self for the encounter before him. "Mr. Wheaton will see you now, Mr. Hulme." ' With an inward, "Oh, he-will, will he!" Professor Hulme fol lowed the streamlined secretary into The Presence and was placed in a Louis XV armchair (which had cost, he had often calculated, as : much as two months of his salary). . The two men, silently despising ; each other, shook hands and ex- j changed greetings. i Then the Principal got to busi- j ness, began his report, and in a ; moment was being told that he had made an enormous mistake in admitting a Jewish boy as a stu- i dent ij T. C. said in a rather loud voice, to run no risk of not being heard "This particular boy I've just ac-. cepted struck me as very likable, and for a boy civilized. In my opinion it is a good thing to give our isolated Vermont young people some contact with natures that have good points different from their own." "How do you mean civilized?" Mr. Wheaton challenged him. "One of those precious, smart-aleck book worms, I suppose." "Here's where I get his goat!" thought the school-teacher, yield ing to a cheap temptation, - and aloud, with a poker face, said seri ously, "I wouldn't say he was bookish. I was referring to a cer tain sensitive fineness of personal ity he was gentler to a tiresome mother than any Yankee boy would be and he has a living perception of musical values. To come in contact with these qualities would be very wholesome for the esthetic ignorance and blunt roughness of most of our Vermont students." He sat back, smiling inwardly. To push one of the buttons which made Mr. Wheaton go into the air gave Timothy Hulme a malicious pleasure he could not resist the pleasure of contempt. "Let me tell you, T. C, let-me-tell-you, that we want no effete European party ideas corrupting our American he-boys into" But the trouble with making Mr Wheaton roar was that the sound of his voice, no matter what it said, always tuned to a higher pitch his certainty of being right. What he was shouting about the value of plain old-American-stock charac ter by God compared to the slippery superfluities of the arts, pleased him so much that by the time he stopped to pour himself a glass of water from the silver-mounted thermos bottle he felt a mellow man-of-th'i-world compassion for the poor teacher from the back woods. When the time came for the usual hand-to-hand battle over sal aries and wages, the fight was hotter even than usual, the second dip of the depression and troubles with investments serving as plain proofs of the Tightness of Mr. Wheaton's ideas of thrift. Mr. Wheaton, running his eye down the faculty names, frowned, cried, All that money for a teach er of Domestic Science" (he made the words a sneer). "That's just poppycock, T. C. The place for girls to learn homemaking is at their mother's knee. Now cut out those two salaries for that fool Manual Training and Domestic Scl- -ence and there' d be enough to pay a . real 6alary to a crackerjack ath letic coach that'd put my dear old echool on the map- ' . (TO BE CONTINUED) .MJ the' purchase of a home near Eagle The real estate market seems quite brisk. . . , ' i Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rouse are the parents of a fine. baby girl born at a Lincoln hospital. Arthur Lorenz and wife enter tained on the farm Easter, his par ents Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Lor enz and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clements. Mrs. Vance Balfour of near Ne hawka was visiting for the day, last Monday, at the home of Mrs. M. W. Waltz, they being long time friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Stanton were visiting for the week end at the home of Mrs. Stanton's mother, Mrs. Pearly Williams. AVOCA By Journal Field Reprcsentathre South Bend Special Journal Correspondence Mrs. J. F. Runge and Miss Anna Ruhge were in Weeping Water Wednesday for the funeral of Miss Maynie Hillman. The deceased, who passed away in Davenport, Howa, was a relative of Mrs. and Miss Ruhge. union ims By Journal Field Representatire Union 4-H Club The Union Feeders 4-H Swine Club met April 27, at the home of George Lutz. The lesson was on Se lection and Farrowing of Swine. The guests were Mrs. Harley Morton, Mrs. Fred Baker and Bonnie Bell, Miss Ganzel, Mr. and Mrs. Camp bell and son, Mrs. Nels Madsen and Nancy Lou,, and Anton Stratker. Re freshments were served. The next meeting will be held on May 25th, with Robert Morton. Lawrence Lutz, Reporter Greenwood Special Journal Correspondence Mrs. Henry Myers, age 71, pass ed away Friday. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, at the home and at the Greenwood Methodist church, with interment in the Green wood cemetery. Rev. Harold Newfeld and Rev. Roy Magnuson, conducted the last rites. Mrs. Edith Finley sang, accompanied by Mrs. Elizabeth Greer. The pallbearers were E. A. Landon, John Lambert, Earl Strad ley, George Schuster, Charles Dyer, and Jack Gribble. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Palm, Mrs. Ann Bellinger and Lee Fleming, of Omaha, called at the W. M. Kelly home Sunday. Mrs. Mary Talcott, mother of Ly man Marvin, fell and broke her hip, at her home in Fremont. She is in a Fremont hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Wallace. Marian and Leonard, of Friend, were supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles Tuesday evening. Perly Clymer, who is very ill at St. Elizabeth's hospital "in Lincoln, has had several blood transfusions this week. Mrs. W. M. i Kelly, and Dorothy Maher were in Lincoln Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kinney of Alvo were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles Tuesday. Pvt. Lloyd Mick is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mick, for ten days. The L. C. C. met with Mrs. Blan che Downing, Thursday, for a one o'clock desert luncheon. 'Mrs. Harold Mason and Clark, of California, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles and other relatives. A nine-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Maher, April 23. Miss Betty Ann Card returned home last Friday from a two months visit in New York. Miss Elizabeth Martin, of Brun nlng prent the week end at home. .'.'ord was received that Maniel Palling, of California, has passed away. Mr. Pailing wa? a former resi dent of Greenwood. Jolly Jokers met Friday afternoon with Mrs Dorothy Cameron. Pin ochle was played at three tables. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles, Mrs. Har old Mason and Clark, went to Have JocV Friday evening to ; help Uttie Janice Keller -eelebrate Ijer fitth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Winget were Sunday dinner guests of her motKer, Mrs. Emma Calder. The Winget children' returned to their home in Havelock after having spent their Easter vacation with their grand mother. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hoffman, Arn old and Beth were Sunday dinner guests at the Wm. Blum home. Mil ton returned home after having spent his Easter vacation with his aunt and family. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Blum of Oma ha, were Sunday dinner guests at the Martin Zaar home. Easter Sunday dinner guests at the Lem McGinnis home were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bradley and son, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mannen and family and Mr. and Mrs. Walter McGinnis. Mrs. Lucy Livers called on Mrs. Axel Zaar Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dill drove to Omaha Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long have gone to Oregon where Mr. Long will be employed. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Blum of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dill, Jamie and Janice Ann, were Sunday evening callers at the Wm. Blum home. Miss Margaret Thieman of Oma ha came Saturday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Ida Thieman. Darlene Gans of Lincoln returned to her home Sunday after having spent a few days at the Bernard Dill home. Harry Long went to Chicago to attend the graduation exercises of his grandson, Sam Long, who has completed his training at the Great Lakes Naval training center. Philip Kline, who has not been feeling so well, was enjoying a few days visit from his brother, Jake, of Fairbury. Mr. M. E. Bushnell, precinct as sessor, drove to Plattsmouth to turn in his .schedules... Mr. Bushnell, for several years has" been among the first assessors in the county to com plete his work. This year, we hear, he was No. 1. A very good record. We believe Mr. Bushnell is probably the oldest man holding the position in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blum, Herbert an Helen, attended the A. A. L., meeting at the Paul Kupke home, Monday evening. A letter was received by friends of Sgt. Glen Weaver, saying he is located somewhere in the New Heb rides Islands not far from Guadal canal. George Dill of Springfield was a supper guest at the Bernard Dill home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan and family of Manley were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Campbell, and Mrs. Cora Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Campbell spent Sunday with relatives in Elmwood. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peterson of Ash land were Sunday dinner guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Car nicle. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Haswell WEDNESDAY SPECIAL Clean & Press Mens Suits and Top Coats and Spring Coats Plain Dresses and Mannish Suits Heavy Coats and White Garments Not Included! Men's Felt HaU Cleaned and Reblocked like new Keg. Price, 75c-Save a Thirf Same high, quality work as at our rejrular pricei. No one day service. Cash and Carry ! Lugscb Gleaners 429 Main St ', JfW W Sweet Corn at Best Grown In Victory Gardens WAKE SUCCESSIVE Dl AUTIKir.S AftOUT ITEM CAYS APART TO ft ENJOY A LONG fV. f AO Wl 1 FIRST PLANTING - k . . . V ji S SECOND PUNTIHjj" XthUU PUMTINfr PLANT CORN lH S NOTE THAT EACH KERNEL HAS ITS CORRESPONDING SILK. - i ' Since we eat only the seed of sweet corn, discarding the rest of the large plant, the yield is small for the space occupied. Many gar deners are willing to make a sacri fice in order to enjoy even a small amount of this superlative food, which only home gardeners can en joy at its best. In markets, since it is impossible to get sweet corn in less than a day after it has been picked, half its sugar has been turned to starch, with correspond ing loss of flavor. 1 A patch of sweet corn in a space fifteen feet square in normal weath er should yield ten dozen ears. This is approximate, of course; each stalk bearing at least one ear, and some of them bearing two. ! For the gardener who wants the finest sweet corn rather than the largest ear or heaviest yield, suc cessive plantings of Golden Bantam will give the greatest satisfaction except in locations where disease Resistance is required. The sea son during which a sowing of this corn is at its best is ten days at post; so not more than a 10 days' supply for your family should be sown at one time. ! Hybrid sweet corn has both ad vantages and disadvantages. It gives a larger ear, and thus a heavier yield, coupled with a short er season, and not quite so deli cious a flavor. . Most hybrids are iiisease resistant, and more vigor ous than Golden Bantam, but they Require more room and richer feed ing to produce their heavier crop. J If hybrids are chosen, it is a good blan to sow three or four strains, fith differing maturity dates, at mejl same. time &nd thus prolong i the harvest. Thi3 practice alsi extends the pollinating period o) the planting and lessens the dangei of a failure to fertilize the silk, which may occur where one hybrid strain only is grown due to unfa vorable weather conditions. A sowing of sweet corn should bfl made in four short rows, rather! than in a single long row. Thi$ insures that when the pollen is ripe, a cross wind will carry it to the silk in the young ears of an adjoining row, rather than wasting it on the ground, as might be the case in at single row. Each silk must be fertilized by pollen, in order to pro duce a kernel, and many failures with corn are traceable to poor pol-i lination. i Seed should be sown when dan ger of frost is over about two inches deep either in continuous drills or hills. In drills, sow three or four seeds to a foot, later to bei thinned out to six inches apart for! dwarf growing varieties or a foot apart for tall ones. Space the hills? two to three feet apart in the rowsJ according to the size of the variety,' and for both drills and hills, space! the rows two to three feet apart. ' Deep cultivation of corn must bej avoided because the plants have? shallow roots; but all weeds should be kept down and the soil stirred,! to break its crust, until the plants are half grown. Side shoots and suckers need not be removed. Ears should be picked when they are ready, neither before or after. If you grow Golden Bantam, for the last sowing a later variety will probably do best, as the extreme heat of midsummer is not favorable to Bantam, and Artis were afternoon callers. Friends of Lloyd Towle of Lin coln have heard that he "is now sta tioned somewhere in India. Lloyd is a grandson of the late Helena Timni. Miss Ruth and Esther Kupke en tertained a group of friends at a pinochle party Friday evening. Prize winners were Mr. and Mrs. L. T. McGinnis, Mrs. Chas. Fosberg and John Cordes. A delicious lunch was served at a late hour. Lt. Allen H. Blum and flight of ficer Jarvis were in Omaha April S jandi continued to Colorado Springs the 6th. They were enroute ' from Patterson Field, Ohio, ferrying P 38 planes. Lt. Blum was sent to Hopkinsville, Ky., A. A. B., to par ticipate in Tennessee maneuvers. He is in the observation squadron. His address is: Lt. A. H. Blum, Hop kinsville, A. A. B., Camp Campbell, Kentucky, c-o 106 Observation Squadron. 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