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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944 TEE JOURNAL, PLATTSHOUTH, HEBRAEXA PAGE FIVE Subscription pavmcnrs for The riattsmoath Journal msy b paid local'y to Mrs. THeS. MUP.TEY, Representative Pvt. William Walters Parents, wives and sweethearts of our soldiers who are fighting over seas, have breathlessly watched the papers and listened to the radio watching for word froni their loved ones. "We hare tried to . steel oar selves against the first blow which might come to our community. The first definitemessage of death in action arrived here saying that. Pvt. William R. Walters, 20, of Weeping Water, was killed in action in France, August 23, 1944. This mes sage came from Adjutant General J. A. Ulio.'and was followed by a let ter which arrived in Tuesday of last week. Pvt. Walters was inducted, last January. He was in the infantry and received his training at Camp Blanding, Fla. He was at home on a f urlougrh 'from the lOtih ito the25th: of June,, visiting, his wife,, the former Marine Grubb,: and his1 parents,' Mr. and Mrs. William Walters. He arriv ed in England, July. 19th, -and land ed in France uly 28, just one month before his death. Pvt. born December ; 31, on Surviving "besides the widow are his parents, Mr.; and Mrs. William Wal ters, who live on the Wallace Philpot farm, east, of Weeping Water, two two brothers, Herman and Lawrence, who live with the parents; two half Walters was : brothers," "Alfred Davis and' Harry a farm near i Davis. Alfred Davis has recently been Syracuse. His parents moved to Cass sent home with a medical discharge county and he attended Laurel Hill after contracting malaria overseas. school and Avoca High school. Oc tober 14, he married Miss Maxine Grubb, daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Grubb, at Rockport, Mo., and they made their home in Weeping Water. w- rv &f jrmflRr m ujHsuiuutiDnHi smoi CHAPTER XI The Princess Meridel of Gratzen and her cousins arrive in Canada to visit Baron Eudi de Morpin, her uncle. He had been employed by Madame Fabre Lusignan, who turned the estate ever to the Earo in order that he could enter tain the Princess without her knowing of his reduced circumstances. Roger Fabre of the Canadian Air Force and nephew of the Madame's falls in love with the Princess. Pol Martin and Fvosine find a photograph on the Ma dame's table and learn that it is the man whom Roger has vowed to kilL They then learn that the man is Rog er's brother. The Princess learned that the Baron was not the owner of the castle, so they all left for Coq d'or where he bought an Interest in the Golden Cock. Roger returns to find the Princess gone and Madame's fortune in a bad way. He sets out with Madame to find the" Princess and have her and the chil dren return. While they were together Michel and a companion, escaping from a prison camp, appear and take me keys to the car. Roger sent out a gen eral alarm for MicheL Whiie search was in progress orders were received for Roger to report back to his com mand. "What's in the wind, Peter? Any idea?" "Ah, well!" Roger looked at the dear blue sky and thought of Men del's eyes and closed his own. It would be good to fly again, to range the heavens wide and free. "By the way," said Peter Ays cough, "I heard they found that ritzy station wagon of yours aban doned at Sainte-Barbe. not far from the border. The fugitives grabbed some farmer's truck there and took it almost to the line. And they're over, I guess. They seem to have vanished into thin air." "I thought they'd get away. Nervy beggars." "It's a devil of a note. That Kehl Captain Manfred Kehl is a big shot Nazi; the other lad, Faber, was a hell-raiser too. No end of trouble with him in the camp. I heard from a chap who did duty there. They'll find some pals in the States, you may be sure. I suppose they'll turn up next in Tc bruk." Roger, deep in his heart, did not know whether to be glad or sorry that Michel had escaped. For a while he had thought, with Tante I.Iimi, that perhaps a bullet from a pursuer's gun would be the best answer to it alL Now he did not know. His own happiness was so great, so wondrous. Perhaps the Americans, this time, would grant no bail, would take tne men and 1 hold them prisoners until the war was over. Certainly it would be foolhardy to let those two escape. Well, anyway, it wasn't bis worry any more. The children had presented Pe ter Ayscough with a huge basket of ribbon-candy, barley toys, bon bons, fruit and nuts, which he con sumed happily along the way at the constant hazard of wrecking the machine and breaking their necks. "It will be a relief to get up in the air again, Pete," said Roger as they slewed away from the edge of a gully and grazed a telephone pole on the other side of the road. "So safe up there." "It is a bit slippery, sir. Gosh, you must have had a swell time at your aunt's place, if this is a sample of it Was that pretty girl the princess?" "Yes that was the princess." "Boy! She looked it. War surely has its compensations." "Yes," said Roger wryly. "It's been a great war for the Fabres. We'll all be sorry to see it end." He fell silent, thinking of that last lovely picture he had taken away with him, the bright faces of the children, madame's burning black eyes and the pride in them and the tears that were like jewels in the eyes of Meridel. Behind them the gray walls of the chateau; behind it the hills crowned with the dark green beauty of the spruce trees and the pines. Your dear, remembered face, he thought Nothing shall dim the memory of it for me not the moun tains and the seas between; not years if I should be kept away from you that long; not eternity. But I'll come back to you, MerideL I know I was not first in your heart. He came there once for a little while and possessed it, and he does not easily let go. I'm sorry the end for him had to be like this, so dark, so shamefully dark. I would rath er have bested him in fair fight or at least have had the chance to fight, even had I lost There's some thing hollow about this victory, something that robs it of its savor. Dreaming thus, he dozed off and it was not until they had rolled into the outlying districts of the city where Ayscough had a chance to do some really fancy driving, that he awakened just as their front fender grazed the mighty bumper of a truck. "Did I miss much, Pete?" "You have no idea, sir." Pete grinned cheerfully. "All men, espe cially trues drivers, will remem ber the passing of Peter Ayscough." "With a blessing, I'll bet" "Well. I did hear some of them mention names that go with bless ings, though their faces belied their words. But I do my best, xny very best, and do.it every day. Always the first to spring to arms at the "I think it's over the big lake for you, sir," said Ayscough call of duty, that's me, Pete." Gradually, quiet descended on the great house as the laughter, the busy tongues were stilled by sleep. Rudolph, the incorrigible, went to the kitchen soon after dinner, to sit in the chair he loved, to talk grave ly with Gesner and the cook and Florian and the other domestics, of wars and the aftermath of war, of his own experience in the army of France in the First World War. He spoke of the great generals of his tory, of the first great Churchill, Corporal John, Duke of Marlbor ough; of Prince Eugene, of Napole on, Wellington and Blucher. He loved kitchens, did Rudolph, were they of castles, inns or cottages. He, who was "to the manner born' found his greatest ease and happi ness in the inglenook. Madame and Meridel shared the fire in the room upstairs. It had been a good day. The events of last night had not faded, any more than the wine stain on the taupe carpet But the beauties of the day had taken some of the ugliness from them; the sweet and gentle spirit, the love that had pervaded the house had driven those dark shadows into hiding and both of them prayed, the old lady and the young girl in whose eyes the dreams refused to die, that they would not come again. "You sent Roger away happy this time," said madame. "Never be- ' fore have I seen him go so gayly. leave so much that he loved be hind and depart singing. But it was so today. I think he must have taken something very precious away with him." Meridel colored, looked at her hand that he had kissed. "Some thing very small I think, madame. He asked for my love and I told him it was freely given." The old lady looked at her shrewd ly for a moment; then at the fire. She rubbed her chin on the gleam ing knob of her stick. "Freely, yes," she said after a moment. "Sometimes, I know, it is not in our power to give as we should like to give." "And is not that selfishness, ma dame?" The thin shoulders shrugged. "Say, rather, it is human nature a perverse, stubborn, sometimes hateful thing. Logic stops at hu man nature. Why do we do the things we do, hein? Why should we cause pain to those who love us most? Roger adores you. but you know what it is in love one who loves, one who permits herself to be loved. It is like that in any match. There is no balance. One gives, the other takes. Oh, I have seen it often, often." "You think it is like that with with Roger and me?" "Isn't it?" "I " she covered her face with her hands. "I do not know. Oh, he is so fine. He is what you call a noble knight I am nothing. By accident of birth I was taught to consider myself something for a while. Not now. Where is my no bility compared with his, with that of so many thousands of men like him kings, princes, knights " "Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers," said madame. "Every man, given a chance, can be a Bay ard. If these wars prove nothing else they have shown that the heart of the peasant beats with the same stroke as the heart of a king. Well but you are going to marry Roger Fabre?" "I promised. When he returns, if he wants me still, I shall marry him." "You could not do better," said madame smugly. "Nor could he. You have my blessing, both of you. ylt's too bad there was ever a sour note in this symphony of yours." "That sour note?" "You heard it last night" The old lady's voice was harsh. "In this room. You know what I mean." "I will not think of him." "You can't forget him, No more can I." "But I I must forget him." You would not have me go on thinking ot him alter " "Can you help yourself?" "Please, madame, you are rnerci : less.":-:.. - - "I am a woman, and I am old." "But" "And there it is. Being a woman I know what a man, one man, the man can do to your heart when you are young: being old, I will not deny it The finest women have loved the greatest knaves who ever walked this earth." "It is wrong to love like that." "Mon Dien! Who shall say what it is wrong to love? Not I, be as sured of that, my little one." "But who is to tell me? Oh, I try not to think of him! It was only for a little while I knew him" "A moment is long enough," mur mured the SibyL "A portion of a moment It is all done by a spark, I think. The fire is lighted from that spark. Sometimes, most often, in fact the fire needs to be nursed and replenished; sometimes and here I speak of great loves the fire, untended and unfed except by dreams, burns on all through one's life." - - "You mean I shall always al ways remember him?" "You will keep what you have of him," said madame gently. "That is woman's burden. To carry with her things that can only hurt her, burn her, bring her misery. But she cannot be rid of them and she is so made that I doubt she would rid her self of them if she could." "Are we such poor things then, madame?" "I'm afraid we are, my child." "Then then I cannot, because I made some lovely image of that one, ever hope to be worthy of the love that Roger offers me? I can never really be given to him be cause there is some part of me that he can never win?" "No one can be given completely to another. It is a pity, but there is the truth of it If you can make him happy, my dear, it will be enough." "I will try. With all my heart" "Then you cannot fail. MerideL" The too-short holidays and the great feast of New Year's passed on into the steady merciless cold of the iron months of January and February. Life went on evenly enough at Philibert. Although Roger had gone, Meridel and the children did not return to the city when vacation ended, and Ru dolph spent most of his time at the mansion that he had, from long pre tense of ownership, come to look upon rather as the place where he belonged. Meridel stayed because madame needed her now and the children could have good schooling from Miss Carrick and the other teachers whom the government had provided. Roger was still in England. Nev er a great one to write letters, he contented himself now with the odd cable, a verbal message entrusted to some homing associate in the Air Force, a few lines on a post card, a letter or two to MerideL One she received in February said: , "I hope to be with you soon. In the long weeks that have passed since we said goodby at Philibert I have often wondered if I did not dream all the lovely things that happened there as well as those unlovely. You are still mine, Meri del? You did say you would marry me when I come home again did you not? "Yes, yes; I could not be such a self -deceiver. You told" me when we sat in front of the fire, while the rest of the household slept I remember so well the sweetness of your lips, the silken softness of your hair. I hear still the music of your voice, so like little bells. In the air I dream sometimes that you are at my side and I r.--r your -voice whispering to me u. ti.e ' h of the wind. And I, to whom !s ' given so much of beauty, never think of death. I have known you; what could a man ask more? I fear I have become greedy; 1 long so for the time to tome when I shall fly back to you. and I know the first glimpse of those misty shores of Canada will be to me, as to so many others, like seeing the batUe- ments of heaven. "So you will begin to think of your trousseau now. You will know that I love you always." Rosr." " : (TO BE COTn iJ?lr - : - Weeping Water American Legion will conduct memorial services in honor of Pvt. Walters, Sunday, Sep tember 24, at the Weeping Water auditorium. The sympathy of the entire com munity goes out to the bereaved young wife and to the parents and brothers of this young soldier who gave his life for his country, while J in the very prime of his youth. 1 Billy Grieb, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Binger, arrived home last week from Los Angeles, California, where he spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Jamesen and young son, Gregg, of Alton, Illinois, are expected to arrive here today for a visit with Mr. Jamesen's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jamesen. Glen is a chemist with an oil com pany at Alton. Helen Tyner, daughter of Mrs. Letha Tyner, underwent an appen dectomy at Bryan Memorial hospital a week ago Sunday. She was expect ed to return home yesterday. Thursday Afternoon Bridge club met last week at the home of Mrs. Helen Clark. Mr. aad Mrs. Merritt Pollard, Jr., of Seymore, Iowa, came last week to attend the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. Pollard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pollard of Nehawka. Mrs. Pol lard remained until Saturday, visit ing at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunt. Miss Mary Ann Pryor left for Grinnell, la., for her second year's work at Grinnell College. Two Weeping Water boys and one i Louisville boy, who had their boot training together at Farragut. Idaho J have been transferred to Treasure Island, and the three were greatly surprised on arriving at their des tination, to find that all three were on the same plane, and are together again. The three are David Scho maker, Louisville, Robert Homan and Eugene Stratton, - Mrs. R. W. Rector and daughter Conny, Mrs. Ethel Bouton and Mrs. iiaroia jonnson ana two sons were Nebraska City visitors Saturday. Mrs. Harold Domingo entertained a group of small children, Thursday afternoon, surprising her young dau ghter, Yvonne, on her fifth birthday In the year 1909 a young man by the name of Fred Rehmeier came to America irom uenmaiK. Four years later Miss Alma Frederickson ar rived here from the same country The next year, or 1914, September 5th, this couple were united in mar riage, in Omaha. Three years later they came to Weeping Water to make their home, and in 1919 they moved to the farm northwest of Weeping Water, where they have lived since that time. Three children have brought happiness to their homn iney are Vincent Rehmeier, who with his wife and young daughter live on a farm not far from the par ents, Frances, now Mrs. Arnold Dett mer, wife of a soldier who is on duty in this country, and her young son who are making their home with the parents for the duration of the war. and Lyman, who is yet at borne. Mrs. Dettmer has accepted a position as teacher in Weeping Water high 6chool this year, to aid in relieving the teacher shortage. This family have always been active in 4-H club work, and extension club work of all kinds, especially the raising of line livestock. Fred Rehmeier is president of the Cass County Fair board, a member of the State Fair board, superintendent of the sheep department at the state fair. He is prominent in the Masonic lodge and Mrs. Rehmeier is past worthy matron of the Elizabeth chapter of O. E. S., and is an active member of the Wo man's Association of the Congrega tional church. Thirty years have passed since the Itehemeier's were married at Omaha. It was not convenient to celebrate the occasion" on September 5th, so last Sunday, Sept. 10, more than a hundred of their friends arrived at ! their home with overflowing baskets of food, and spent the day at their home. It was a lay of visiting and reminiscing with friends coming from Omaha, Alvo and Avoca, for the occasion, with a fine dinner served at the noon hour, and coffee served during the afternoon. - Old -cettlers who visited in Weep iug Water last wetk were Judge and Mrs. Robert Ewart cr Wahoe, ,who visited Mrs. Joan Carter. Mrs. Ewart is the former Hiss Mamie Mills, and from Sioux Falls, S. D., came Dr. Fred Evans, and bis daughter, Mrs. Claude Watson, who visited at the home of Mrs. W. W. Davis and other relatives. Tuesday evening of this week will be a long looked for event for the Weeping Waterr group of Boy Scouts when investiture services and a court of honor will be neld at their regular meeting place, which is the gymnasium in the old high school building. Ray Arringdale, scout exe cutive, of Lincoln, will he present at the meeting. Another group which is looking forward to Tuesday, is the Woman's club group, which opens its season with a meeting at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Jones, when Mrs. W. L. Dwyer will review the book, "Yankee From Olympus," after which another of their popular swap parties will be held. Mrs. Roy Wiles, Mrs. Henry Chris- tensen, Mrs. Beryl Hansen and Bon, Larry, spent Thursday in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rector receiv ed an interesting souvenir, taken from the pocket of a Jap which was killed by their son, Ivan Rector, who is in Burma, China. It is ten cents in paper money, which the Jap plan ned to use during the invasion. Ivan Rector wa3 wounded the last of May and has been in a hospital in India ever since that time. Mrs. Fred Gorder went to Murdock Saturday evening to remain until this (Monday) evening at the home of her brother, Harold Too.e Dr. and Mrs. Ray Pool of Lincoln visited at the home of Dr. Pool's brother, Clarence Pool and Mrs. Pool, Wednesday night and Thursday They had been visiting friends at Peru before coming to Weeping Wa ter. As they had spent the summer at their summer home at Estes Park, it was their first visit here since their return. SAT CONTROL EaU were always IK NEBRASKA t' t Considered a menace and were fought before their role as vest or s. of disease wag under stood. Because of the economic losses: they cause to industry and commerce; and - the annoyance they create- -In homes, they , are objects of hatred. Today, at least six diseases "which are transmitted to man from the rat are known. These are plague, typhus, trichinosis, a form of jaun dice, tapeworm and food poisoning. The whole story of the role of rats as carriers of disease is yet untold. It is therefore imperative that a continuing rat control program be inaugurated in every community and especially every farmstead. Rats like other living things require food and shelter if they are to propagate and increase in numbers. Destroy either one, and the rats suffer. The destruction of the shelter appears to be the more important of the two. Thib includes the employing of rat proof design in buildings that elim inates enclosed spaces, using rat proof materials of construction,, es pecially rat proof methods of on- ptruction and installation, and pro viding for periodic inspection of buildings to insure permanent up keep. This program will force the rat out into the open when its de struction will be possible. The Fppond control measure is .o eliminate the food supply. This con- sits of storing all foods in rat proof ed buildings or in rat proof contain ers, the proper storage and disposal of garbage, the proper fencing of stock aDd chickens to prevent waste feed being picked up by the rats. The above ., measures now force the rat into the open where trap ping or killing by dogs or cats will be possible. Slowly but consistently the rat 'will be eliminated and the community .-will benefit not only in the eradication of a nuisance, butt will benefit from the standpoint of savings caused by damage done to food and buildings and will undoubt edly improve the health of the com munity. f C. A. SELBY, M. D. (Trainee), .12190 , a year including overtime f pay, for duty; in -.the fifth region of-the "Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration, are now being sought by the V. S. Civil Service Commission, Henry A. Hughson, civil service sec retary at the local post office an nounced today. - ' " 1 Interested persons should immed iately get in touch with the 9th U. S. civil service region or with the civil service secretary at any first or second class post office In this state, for full information and application blanks. Age limits (which are waiv ed for veterans) are: minimum, 18; maximum, 40. Completed applications should be filed soon as possible with the Man ager, Branch Regional Office of the 9th. U. S. Civil Service Region, 208 Mutual Building, Kansas City 6, Missouri; applications are not de sired, however, from persons engaged on war work unless the position ap plied for requires higher skills than are presently being used. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knaup and their two children, Ronald and Ro berta, were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Knaup's aunts, Miss Anns, and Mias Ida McFall, in Elm- wood. The large group of men, who went to Colorado to pick peaches, arrived home Tuesday. The large supply of peaches shipped here, as the conse quence of their work out there, has caused the housekeepers to be un usually busy, canning peaches the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Gorden Heneger re ceived a letter recently from their son Howard, who is in England, say ing that he has been promoted to the rank of technical sergeant. Howard is in the Air Corps and has been fly ing over Germany and over England. A bit of good news about another Weeping Water flyer is that Lt. Russell Van Every has been trans ferred from a hospital in England, to the new soldiers hospital at Colo rado Springs, and he has been able to talk with his wife over the tele phone. Lt. Van Every had his eyes injured and has been hospitalized in England. Miss Nina Freemon and Miss Rose Mae Livingston are again assisting with music at a series of meetings. This time it's at the Douglass Chris tian church, where the Rev. Austin J. Hollingsworth of Lincoln is the evangelist. The young ladies came home Saturday morning and remain ed until Sunday evening, when they returned to Douglass in time for the evening service. Miss Freeman leads the singing and Miss Livingston pre sides at the organ. j Miss Charlotte Rieke has enrolled ; at the State Agricultural college for a four-year home economic course. Miss Rieke has been an active mem ber of 4-H tlubs for several years, and has done outstanding work in the clubs and we predict that she will take her colloge work just as seriously, and will reach the goal which she has in view. The South Side Pinocle club had another of their enjoyable birthday parties, Monday, at the home of Mrs. Fred Wildrlck, when they honored three of their members whose birth days come this week. The honored guests were the hostess, Mrs. Fred Wildrick, Mrs. S. Ray Smith and Mrs. Robert O. Baker. A covered dish dinner was held at the noon hour and the afternoon was spent playing their favorite game of pinocle. Miss Margaret Baker and her bro ther, Charles Baker, arrived here Sunday from Rock Island, Illinois, after a years stay in that city. Charles has enrolled in school, and has affiliated himself with the Boy Scouts, so ho is husy. They are -with their mother, Mj-. Vesta Satcr. 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