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i. Mrs. Thomas Murtey Mr. and Mrs. John Rieke, Mr. rind Mrs. Walter Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Klemme, attended the Cass County Farm Bureau picnic held at Louisville, Sunday. Mr. "and Mrs. C. V. Wallick, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stacey and Mr. and Mrs. C. E Nutter were Sunday evening guests at a pic nic suoper. at the Eugene Day home, Sunday evening Donna May Philpot, Ruth Ann. Hinds anH Patricia Hecbner were at Imperial, last week, to attend a meeting of the Order of Rain bow Girls, when Donna May gave a report of her trip to the meeting at Ontario, Canada. J. M. Ranney received word of the death of his brother, Milo Ranney, at hib home at Cassano va. 111., last week. Mr. Ranney has been a frequent visitor in Weeping Water, his sudden death was a great shock to his relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Groesser returned home Sunday, alter a six weeks visit with relatives" at Traverse City, and at Detroit, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shumak er and son Ronnev. spent Sun day with friends at Auburn. Mr. and Mrs. O. V. (Bud) Rec tor are spending this week at the home of Mr. Rector"s sister. Mrs. Granville Heebner, at Ne hawka. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Harris and two sons, and Miss Elvira Wyan. of Lincoln, were guests at the M. L. Fernbaugh homo, last Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, and family, of Nebraska City, and Mrs. Roy Garrens, of Union, were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs". Harold Johnson. A group of ten women, all members of the same card club, YOU'LL FIND YOUR HOME & FARM NEEDS AT ALL KINDS OF Tractor PASSENGER TIRES, TRUCK TIRES & TUBES BOYS & BICYCLES WESTINGHOUSE E ectricjteters GENERAL ELECTRIC lectric Irons Auto S H 1 ELECTRIC Room BEAUTIFUL 42 to 94 Oisli Sets Welshimer's -store- 1 gathered at the home of Mrs. Don Philpot. Monday evening, to help Mrs. Art Berthold to celebrate her birthday. Gifts were present ed to the guest of honor, and all enjoyed a most delightful even ing. Georg-3 Olive is spending this week at home. He came to take part in the wedding of his cousin, John Wolph, of Nehawka, when he will be an usher. George is located at Gothenberg, this sum mer. The Ed L'orensens had the pleasure of meeting the Ed Bob bit family, at Cassanova, N. Y., while on their eastern trip, and at the Railroad Fair, in Chicago, they met Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nor ris and Mrs. William Copple and her son Lee Copple, who were spending a week in Chicago. At a meeting held last week, Robert Renner was chosen as Cub Scout Master, and Sigveld Jensen as the assistant Cub Scout Master. Mr. Chris Rasmussi-n has been ordered by his doctor, to remain in bed to rest for a month, and his son, Howard Ras mussen has taken over his work of selling hybrid seed corn, until he is able to resume the work. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Maxfield, of Lincoln, were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. Maxfield's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ras. mussen. Week end guests' . at the Wil liam Mutter home were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Niss, of Pawnee City. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ruby of Nebraska City, visited their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ruby, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Norris, and Mrs. William Copple and her son Lee, returned home Friday, after a weeks vacation, which took them to Keokuk, Iowa, Gary, Indiana, and on to Chicago. They returned home by the way of Des Moines. One hundred fifty gues'ts are seated in the dining hall at the United Missionary Camp meet ing, at each meal, this week, and most of these are from out of town. The dormitories and. the cabins are all tilled, and the peo ple of the community will be asked to open their homes and Tires GIRLS $41 50 up eat tors warmers give rooms to about fifty guests over the week end. Plans are be ing made for an additional one hundred, who probably will re turn home at night. Meals are be ing planned for between three hundred fifty and four hundred fifty, for Sunday dinner. Mrs'. Sam Rector of Weeping Water is the head cook, and she is ably assisted by Mrs. Lola Hood, of Maryville, Missouri. Interest is growing each day, and the pastor. Rev. Burgess, and his song evangelis'ts and chil dren's workers, Rev. and Mrs. Gorden Beck, are holding the in terest of all who attend. Friday will be their Missionary Day and Saturday will be their big Youth Rally, beginning at 10 a.m. and a Recreation Hour, from 1 to 2 p.m. and another service for the young people at 2:30 p.m., with Rev. M: E. Engbrecht, of Dolton, South Dakota, in charge. Many more visitors will arrive for the week end and for the ministerial conference, which opens Monday, the twenty third, and will last for three days. The Camp meet ing will close Sunday, August the 22. Weeping Water people are de lighted over the fact that the City Park has again been put in order, and made ready for pic nic parties. Stationary tables and seats have been added, and there is city water in the park, as well as a stove for cooking purposes. Many people have been enjoying the park this summer, and many more probably will make use of its advantages for picnic dinners during the county fair. The unfortunate accident, at the Sunday evening soft ball game, which sent Carroll Walters to the hospital, has' poven to be less serious than was first antici pated. At first it was feared that his neck was broken but the ver dict now is that it is spasms of the muscles of the neck, and that he will be allowed to return home, this week, but that he must wear a brace on his neck. The L.C.P..V. Woman's club met at the Pleasant View school house Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. John Rieke and Mrs. Vern on Gish as hostesses. There were twelve members and eight visit ors present. Mrs. Arthur Rough" had charge of the program with her subject being "Health, Safe ty, and Sanitation", and Mrs. Ellis Lacey, of Avoca, was pres ent and gave a deomnstration of paper products. Officers for the following year were elected. They are Mrs. Wendell Hart, presi dent; Mrs. Clarence Englekeme ier, vice president and Mrs. Har old Meisinger, secretary-treasurer. Visitors present were Mrs. Rasmus Lauritzen, Jr., Mrs. Richard Lauritzen, Mrs. Philpot, Mrs. Henry Urish, Mrs. Ellis La cey, Mrs. Elmer Terry, Mrs'. Fred Schafer. Norfolk; and Mrs. Jack Heeter, Indiana. Their next meet ing will be at the home of Mrs. Raymond May field, with Mrs. Lester Shrader as co-hostess. Visitors at the James Kivett home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Forest Stock, and Mr. and Mrs. William Guss'et, of Lincoln. Cushman's of Lincoln won Sunday baseball game in a hotly contested play for top place. They finished with a score of 4 to Weeping Water's 3. Weeping Water will meet Syracuse on Wolcott's field, this coming Sunday. READ THE JOURNAL FOR THE LATEST IN NEWS. FIRST in flavor! FIRST in quality! FIRST in the Heart of America! Qua6t& OUT OUR WAY life icv, ..t orr BOM THIRTY YEARS TOO SOON Will Search For Prehistoric Nebraskans CAMBRIDGE, Neb. (U.R) A Smithsonian Institution acheolo gist is trying to solve a three fold mystery concerning the pre historic people who once inhabit ed tiny villages along Medicine Creek in south Nebraska. The archeologist, Marvin Kiv ett, is investigating remains of villag-es on the site where Medi cine Creek dam now is being built. He is trying to determine where the aborigines came from at what period they lived, and what happened to them. "It is interesting to note," Kivett said, "that remains of a similar culture have been found in the Texas Panhandle. The only difference was that the Texas villages had stone huts, while the Medicine Creek people used logs for their homes." Carving Is Puzzle Kivett also reported that a piece of s'hale, in which was carv ed a picture of a human face, was found recently. "This type of carving," he said, "usually is associated with the pre-historic inhabitants of the southeast." Now working on the remains of a third village in the dam site area, Kivett believes that each was occupied at a different per iod. All were before the coming of the white man. he s'aid. ' There is no evidence of horses, metal or glass, which were brought by the whites. Kivett would like to ascertain as defi nitely as possible the times of the settlements, but hasn't found too much in the way of clues'. As to what happened to the people, the researchers still are baffled. Kivett said he has found no evidence of warfare, or any sign that such peaceful farming folk were wiped out by invading tribes. Skeletons Missing In fact, Kivett admitted that so far he has found only one burial place, and that contained only one skeleton that of a man, with one arm mis'sing. The archeolo gist still has many people to ac count for. Kivett had expected to find that the people buried many bodies in each burial place. This one burial place, he said, was on a high hill, was dug only about 17 inches deep, and con tained a few pieces of pottery, arrowheads and some beads made from gulf coast shells'. Kivett conjectured that the shell beads must have been traded from one tribe to another, to reach Nebraska. These people kept two kinds of dogs, Kivett said. They raised corn, beans and domesticated sunflowers. They kept bees" and caught fish, mussels, crayfish and turtles in the creek. Kivett said Medicine Creek valley is receiving possibly more archeolog'ical attention this year than any other site in the United States, with three agencies' par ticipating; University of Nebras ka, Nebraska Historical Society and Smithsonian Institution. ATTEND PASSION PLAY Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vinduska returned from an outing through the Black Hills. They also saw the Passion Play presented an nually in its Mammoth amphi theatre at Spearfish, So.. Dakota. On their way home they came through the Bad Lands. Their daughters, Carolyn and Marilyn spent their vacation with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bierl. Second Try Succeeds EASTLAND, Tex. (U.R) Two oil wells, each rated good for around 1,000 barrels daily, were brought in on a tract near here on which a dry hole had been drilled some years previously. During World War II, trans ports of the U. S. Air Force flew more than 4,000 supply mis sions to Tito's forces in Yugo slavia. By A. R. Williams 3-Q Columbus Man Escapes Custody Of Iron Curtain COLUMBUS, Neb. (U.R) Sev-ty-year-old Ludwig Huettner and his Austrian born wife are happy that he never forfeited his American citizenship in 37 years ici Euorpe. The' couple arrived in the United States from Czechoslovak ia recently. They fled from Eu rope after conditions became in tolerable for them. After the Communists came in to control, their 80-acre farm was "nationalized." They could con tinue to live on it, temporarily at least, and could work it. But they were no longer working- for themselves. They were working for the government. They decid ed to return to Huettner's native America if they could. IT. S. Gives Aid Mr. and Mrs". Huettner applied to the United States consulate at Prague. They were told they could come to the United States under provisions made for ad mission of "displaced persons." Their travel expenses were paid by the U. S. government. They were given $115 to tide them over. That, briefly, is the story of how Ludwig Huettner returned to the land of his birth. He and his wife traveled half way across the country to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hit tner of Humphrey, Neb. Shortly afterward they found employ ment at St. Mary's Hospital in Columbus. Huettner told friends that con ditions began to get bad during the war when the Russian army came to their home community. Conditions reached a climax when the Russian-instituted Com munist regime seized power. Too Much to Stand Worst of all the nationalizing of their homes'tead, Huettner said. There were many other things that a man American born could not stand. You had to get a permit to go from one vil lage to another. You were requir ed to sign your name to a ballot in the election. It was compulsory to vote and the Communist candidates were the only names on the ballot. Huettner reported that if Red Cross aid seeped through to the villages he didn't see any of it. Huettner was born in Platte County, Neb., near where he now is' employed, in 1878. In 1911 he went to Europe with his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Huettner. There they settled on a farm in Austria. The farm later became part of Czechoslovakia when that country was formed after the first World War. Visit Relatives In Weeping Water There will be a happy family reunion at the T. Hugh Hanlan home in Weeping Water this week. A daughter, Mrs. Charles Durante, and young son, Charles Jr., of Chicago, will arrive by plane, Sunday, and Tuesday an other son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson, and son Hugh, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will arrive. Mr. Durante will come later and re turn home with his wife and sbn. Church Circles Have Delightful Picnic Circles one and three of the St. Paul's Evangelical and Re formed church had a most de lightful picnic supper at the church on Tuesday evening. After the picnic each circle divided and held a business meet ing. A devotional period was en joyed with Mrs. L. W. Egenber ger as the leader. The topic was "Greatest Letters Written." The first written history of Oklahoma was before the Pil grims landed in 1620. Casanada, historian of the famous Spanish Expedition cf Coronado, was' the author. tUn. Griee Plybon Mrs. Laura Deles Dernier started on Saturday for a vaca tion trip by car with her daugh ter and family of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Sicco, Robert and Eugene. They will journey to the Black Hills, and will also stop at Hyannis, Neb., to see Miss Marion Pratt who is em ployed there this summer. Loren Parish is now able to be on the porch in his wheelchair a part of each nice day. His brother, Leonard, is working in Lincoln at this time. Mr. and Mrs'. John Wood drove to Alvo on Monday where Mrs. Wood stayed until Tuesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Hardnock, while Mr. Wood and Mr. Jim Wade drove on to Ashland for the afternoon. Mrs. Mabel Wood enjoyed her birthday last Sunday. At noon her guests, Mrs. Lillian Zimmer Tnan, entertained her with a cafe dinner. Callers in the afternoon were Mrs. Dolly Wilson and Miss Myrtle Wood; and in the evening her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Holmes came down from Lincoln for a six o' clock dinner and evening visit. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Creamer visited friends in Richardson county on Sunday. Mrs. Pearl Gilbank visited in Omaha over the week end with her son and family. Earlier in the week she spent s'ome time with friends in Logan, Iowa. She plans to return to her Santa Monica, Calif, home in Septem ber. On Saturday evening. August 7th at 8 p. m. Miss Ardith Irene Skinnei and Harold Russell Strabel were united in marriage j at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strabel. Rev.. L. R. Chambers read the marriage lines. Miss Wilma Zima was' bridesmaid and Kenneth Haist best man. Decorations consisted of baskets of gladioli. Assisting in serving at the reception which followed were Mrs. Hazel Shel ley, Mrs'.. Maud Rheinschild and Miss Frances Ward. The" groom' served in the army in World War II. They will make their home in Lincoln. Mr. Clark, formerly of Arcad ia, Neb. began his work as pro prietor of the Elmwood Mills feed and grain work on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Cline and daughter Patsy of Kings Mills, O. visited on Thursday; with their friends Mr. and Mrs. ! Raymond Eveland. The guests' were on their homeward way af ter touring through the west and south parts of our country. On Friday afternoon, Aug. 13, the W.S.CS. group of the Meth odist church held their meeting at the home of the president. Mrs. Lucy Mendenhall. Rev. Lor ene Schacht lead the devotional exercises. Her theme being womanhood and motherhood. Piano solos were given by daugh ters of the members. Cheryl Mill er, Joyce Miller and Donna May Miller. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Emily Gonzales gave the lessbn about Porto Rico. Mrs. Reber gave a talk about the radio fav orite, Kate Smith. Mrs. Lannin reported about the child welfare meeting in Weeping Water. Committee reported that an electric clock had been purchased for the basement of the church. This is especially appreciated as it was made possible by a dona tion by friends of the late Mrs. Grace Rhoden Bornemeier, sent from Compton, Calif, for a mem orial to her. Another nice gift reported was that of Mrs. Paul Bornemeier. She gave her ice re frigerator to the society and it is now in place in the basement. Mrs. Emmett Cork made her missionary report about the W.S. C.S. saying it is now the largest Woman's organization in the Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat BIdg. - Plattsmouth 5)n)9ti FP OUR ANNIVERSARY SALE IS NOW IN PROGRESS-BARGAINS GALORE-WE ARE REPLACING ITEMS WHICH HAVE SOLD OUT AND ARE ALSO ADDING NEW BAR GAINS EVERY DAY! Free Balloons for the Saturday, August 21, When Accompaneid By Your Parents. Present Prices Good Until Saturday, August 21 Biles' Paint & Wallpaper Store Phone 3138 Frank K. Biles, Owner THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, August 19, 1948 PAGE THREE world. Contributions last year! were over 14 million dollars.' Forty ladies and ten children en- j joyed a social time and the re-! l'reshments prepared by the com mittee of which Mrs'. Mel Miller was chairman. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Huston of Osceola, Neb., were Sunday guests of their daughter and fam ily Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eveland and little Bruce. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schroedcr and children were week end guests with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Kuehn, Mrs. Schroed er and children will remain for a longer stay before returning to their home at Davenport, Iowa. On Thursday evening Raymond Eveland went to Middletown, O. tr attend the funeral of his aunt. Mrs'. Luella Eveland Miller. De- j ceased lacked only a few days of being 92 years of age. She was the last of a family who were long lived. Mr. and Mrs. George Mooney were in Dakota for a long week end. While in Yankton, they "had the pleasure of addressing their friends here, over the radio sta tion. Marvin Carr, one of the prom inent residents of the west part of Cass county, was' in Platts mouth Thursday for a few hours. He resides just east of the town of Eagle. Patronize Journal Advertisers. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE All modern 5 room house on pavement. One I6f, two bedrooms, nice location. Eight room all modern home with five lots. Four room, partly modern, with three lots. Four room, partly modern on all-weather road. Six Lots. If you are interested in buying an up-to-the-minute coffee shop and cafe, I have one for sale. WM. S. WETENKAMP Real Estate and Insurance Res. Dial 5176 Office S. 6th, St., Plattsmouth ft rt.LUrlUUoE.lN 5 GOOD NEWS REMINDER BACK TO SCHOOL SALE - NOW ON See Monday's Big Ad For SPECIAL SCHOOL SUPPLY OFFERS! 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Some fellows are squawking about the "Whisker Rule" and are determined to fight if called upon for harboring but if they'll just stop and think, of the mat ter, as part of the "!un of the day," perhaps they'll reconsider and take it as Dart of the fun and join in with the rest of Plattsmouth citizens and help with more fun. Combine Broken Up KEENE. N. H. (U.R) When two burglars broke into a Keene gar age they found another man in side already looting the garage. After a brief argument, the three men joined forces. All three later were captured by rl'ce. Aluminum weighs only about a third as much as iron. ft only 15c 'i s '4 rr