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s : I , i - v - 4 i , t ; If i I Inventor of I Ice Making j Device Honored JACKSONVILLE, F 1 a. U.R) Recognition is forthcoming for Florida's Dr. John Gorrie, nearly 100 years after he invented the first machine for making ice. Thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Laura Buxton Hobbes, English teacher at a junior high school in Jacksonville, Dr. Gorrie's life story will be taught in public schools. Mrs. Hobbes has been notified that her article on "John Gor rie; an Unsung Benefactor" will be included in the next revision of "Literature and Life," text book for ninth grade students. In treating yellow fever vic tims, Dr. Gorrie found that sleeping:! cool rooms gave them Take your choice... n I TNI NOB LC MOUTH THE txCITING EftST . TMt SUNNY SOUTH E a.m WIOI tST Pick your favorite vacationland, pack your bag, and head for pleas ure unlimited by GREYHOUND. S more go one way. return another. Roomy, air-conditioned Super-Coaches provide genuine travel enjoyment and there are i no lower fares! Let your Greyhound " Agent help plan your trip today. jniN GOLD RUSH DAYS IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO THE FRONTIER DAYS CHEYENNE, WYOMING FUN! CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL FREE! Write or phone for FREE FOLDERS describing Amazing America Tours pleasure-planned vacations, including hotels, trans portation, special sightseeing all for one low cost! HOTEL PLATTSMOUTII Erna Lapitius 6th Main Dial 3200 CREYHOVSD LEADS IN COURTESY.' fl fL, yp Y7a r-ri raw iilJrjliiiLP U JLrUulJu U u l 1015 Avenue - Plattsmouth Opens Wednesday, June 15th Damp Wash Oniy 60c Per Hour SOAP AND SUPPLIES AVAILABLE WASH ON NEW MAYTAGS PLENTY DRAIN TUBS WITH EACH WASHER Clean relief. He hung a block ol ice beneath a vent in a hospital ward and thus devised the first known air conditioning system. In those days ice was brought in by schooner and costs from 50 cents to $1 a pound. Discovery Accidental Improving on the apparatus, the doctor installed a pump to force air into the room. A nurse forgot to turn off the pump one night and moisture on pipes, in to which air had been drawn by the cooling system, froze be cause of increased atmospheric pressure. Seeing what had happened, Dr. Gorrie perfected a machine that would make ice and pat ented it in 1851. Dr. Gorrie was unable to get funds to finance his invention before his death in 1855. In about 20 years, however, me chanical refrigeration was a re ality, for the doctor had left be hind the basic process that pro vides comfort for millions of people throughout the world to day. Mrs. Hobbes has been fighting for the recognition of Dr. Gorrie for 10 years. Finding nothing about the inventor in the En cyclopedia Britannica, she wrote the publishers, but they didn't seem interested. Legislature Acts She got endorsements of Dr. Gorrie from state officials and the Florida congressional dele gation, but that didn't influence the Britannica people. In 1941, she finally prepared a resolution which passed the Florida legis lature, calling on the encyclo pedia to include Gorrie's bio graphy. That did the trick. The English teacher is work ing on another honor for the discoverer of the ice-making process. She thinks he is en titled to a place in New York University's Hall of Fame and is circulating petitions endors ing such a move. Florida paid homage to Dr. Gorrie in 1914 when the state placed his statue in the Capitol in Washington. The school where Mrs. Hobbes teaches was named for the benefactor 25 years ago. $124.95 to $179.95. iiasy terms. Liberal trade-in. Come in today. REPAIR SERVICE ON ALL TYPES OF WASHERS. WRINGER ROLLS CASS COUNTY MAYTAG CO. Phone 237 Plattsmouth ' anstary A. H. RAINS, Manager 3SZ3 A monument to Dr. Gorrie is located at Apalachicola, Fla., where he invented the ice ma chine, practiced medicine and was mayor of the town for a while. OJLuo Berdlna Kueter The Alvo Ladies Aid met on Tuesday, June 1, at the home of Mrs. Clarence Bucknell of Elm wood. Marilyn Kellogg underwent an appendecliies operation Friday at the St. Elizabeth hospital. Marilyn returned home from the hospital May 31. Berdina Rueter visited at the Harold Kellogg home last week. Alvo won an 8-0 victory over Union, Sunday May 29, in a baseball game played at Alvo. The Alvo baseball team was defeated by Springfield in a Me morial Day baseball game, May 30, by a score of 17-1. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sund ling and boys, of California, re turned home recently. They had been visiting at the home of Mrs. Sundling's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rueter. Also visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rueter are their daughters, Mrs. Leona Peacock and Mrs. Lola Anderson and D ane, all of California, and Mrs. Marie Warnecke and Lynette of Texas. Miss Betty Bridges, of Lincoln, is visiting at the Fred McNeese home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kellogg and family of Ashland, visited at the Frank Eckery hftme Friday evening. Mrs. Elmer Rosenow, postmis tress at the Alvo Post Office, is now on vacation. Mrs. Marion Kellogg, assistant postmistress, is filling in for Mrs. Rosenow. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miller, and Bernice Rueter attended the C.C.C.F.A. meeting, at Mynard, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rueter I and Joy Ann, of Lincoln, and Jeanette visited Mrs. Albert Kis er, of Wabash, Monday after noon. Jeanette Rueter is visiting at the Willard Rueter home in Lin coln, for a few days. Les Doran left May 25 for Kansas, where his folks live. Les had been staying with Melvin Doran's in order to finish his schooling at Eagle. The Alvo "free" shows are scheduled to start Saturday eve ning, June 4. Methods of heating bee hives electrically are being tested by federal agricultural department technicians in an effort to pre vent bee losses during the win- ter. :fficien klmwDod MRS. TRACE PLYBON, Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fleischman of Tekamah visited relatives over the week-end and on Decoration Day they were with the many who attended the Kunz dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vogt. Rev. J. A. Adams has a beauti ful flower garden on his lots in west Elmwood and also has a variety of fruits and berries, all of which he keeps tended in the best way. John McKay spent Decoration Day in Weeping Water, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hollenbeck heard the program there in the afternoon, and went from there to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roberts, for a visit. On May 23, at the Tekamah j Baptist church, Miss Doris Curtis became the bride ot Donald Fleischman, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fleischman. Relatives from here in attendance were Minnie, Ralph, and Ervin Kunz, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fleischman, Fred Fleischman, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fleischman, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bornemeier, Air. and Mrs. Wal ter Fleischman, and from Weep ing Water Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Knotts, and from Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fleischman. I The couple visited here on their honeymoon, and will make their home at Craig, Nebraska. fhiUOJDO. tfln. Grzr, "lybon Royal Neighbors met on Fri day afternoon with Mrs. Blanche Kuchn and Miss Alice Kuehn as hostesses. After the meeting a covered dish luncheon was en joyed. Mrs. Gertrude Davis went to Lincoln on Saturday for a visit with Miss Pauline Listen. The next day she went to Burchard to spend a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stake. She is the former Patty Boyles. On Sunday the Hylton-Doug-las family picnic was held at Lincoln at Antelope Park. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lincler went to Neligh on Sunday to attend funeral services for her father, Mr. Cape. He had lived in Oregon for a number of years, but spent the last weeks of his life at the home of his son, Harold Cape, at Norfolk. Thterment was at Neligh. On Saturday evening, Mrs. Ruth Monning had a six o'clock dinner. Guests were Mrs. Dong las, Mrs. Ellen Douglas Fitts, Mrs. Cora Gerbeling, Mrs. Emily Gonzales and Mr. and Mrs. Wai ter Plybon. For the Vacation Bible school, Rev. J. A. Adams is superinten dent, and Mrs. Totman is song leader. Teachers are Mrs. Hort on. Mrs. Whittemore, Mrs. Orval Gerbeling, Mrs. Wilcox. Marlene Eidenmiller. Beth MendenhaU. Norma Schlanker and Janice Miller. They had school cn Sat urday last week, as Decroraticn Day services were on Monday. Lila Oehlerking is also a teach er. Rev. C. E. Wilcox is in atten dance atthe Methodist Confer ence at ScottsblrfY this week. All of the family of Mrs. Jen nie Tyson spent the week end of Memorial Sunday wi'h her, except one son, Floyd, who lives in Colorado, and could not be here. Hi I: . gauss-' INDUSTRY Sturdy. Spacious. Adaptable to your needs. Butler Steel-Aluminum Buildings are widely used in industry, commerce, agriculture. Inquire today for details. Sizes: 20', 32', 40', 50' and 6f tvidihs. Lengths variable. A Product of BulScr Manufacturing Coirpan Direct Inquiries To Galewny Chcmurgic Co. 3115 No. 7Cih 6 2632 LINCOLN. NEEB. d RETAIL STOKE Mr. and Mrs. Ted Larson of Holdrege were h?re for the Al umni banquet, and spent sev eral days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dorr, and with other relatives. Mrs. Esther Killen visited at the home of Mrs. Douglas for nearly a week. She is a cousin cf the late Dr. G. G. Douglas. She also spent some time in the home of a friend, Mrs. Louis Herman. On Friday she went to Lincoln where she boarded a bus to go to Manhattan, Kan sas, before returning to her home at Charleston, West Vir ginia. Mrs. Erma Ebler Sweat, of Kirwin, Kansas, visited her par ents and sisters, the Ebler fam ily, and attended the Alumni banquet on Saturday. On Monday afternoon Mrs. Mai tin Streich of Murdock en tertained Mrs. Ellen Pitts of Columbia. South Carolina, Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Robert James and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bronn. Mrs. Cora Gerbeling received word that her granddaughter. Lynciell Gerbeling, of Nora, who is a junior at Superior high, will be in attendance at the State School at the University of Ne braska for the next three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Siege attended ihe wedding of her brother, Mr. Rudolf, at Eagle on Sunday evening, and their two little sons had part in the' cer emony. A large Elmwood picnic was held at Antelope Park, in Lin coln, on Sunday. It was the Bornemeier. Kunz. Oehlerking, Renter family reunion. They locked for around 153 to be there. Miss Ethel Langhcrst went cn Sunday to New Bremen, Ohio, tor her vacation, and a visit with relatives. Miss Alice Kuehn is staying in the Friendly Va riety store while Ethel is away. Obituary After an illness lasting four years, Lenin Parish, 81. passed away at his home here on Fri day morning. He was born No vember 8. 1(37 on a farm north of town, and he lived all of hi; life in this community. He mov ed to Elmwood thirteen years ego. His occupations were farm ing and ice work. He was an ice ! ATTENTION DEEP-FREEZE OWNERS: $ Vanilla Ice Cream O $1.40 Per Gallon Other Flavors Slightly Higher. TASTEE SHOP OUT OUR WAY 3:ru5ii;!rfc' drat vour ' CANDY KAKl AT ALL HDI 1 pat s? ;;-jf t -rot n vni a co up to CROSSlU P-Ckj THIRTY YEARS f MAYOZ, WHAT TIME WILL THE GARBAGE TRUCK GET TO MV HOU5E TOAAORKOW? l7 C AWYOR, IVHEN VVJLL THEY START 6UfLC?IN'G THE Cl TV SWIMMI.M' POOL? (3) frfi. PO YOU FAVOR. TELEVISION SETS FO THE CELLS Or OUR, CITY JAIL ? E5.' t TO . (mm dealer for twelve years. He made many friends as he help ed in garden work as his last occupation. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lucinda Brant, who lived with him and cared for him in his illness, two brothers, Lemuel, now of Lincoln, and Leonard, and several nephews and nieces. Funeral services were held at the Christian Church on Sun day afternoon, which church he joined several years ago. Rev. J. A. Adams preached the ser mon, Mrs. Opal Clements sang "Abide With Me" and "Rock of Ages," accompanied by Marlene Eidenmiller. There were many flower tributes. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery. When Leonard Parish was on his way to the depot to send word to his sister in Oregon about his brother's death, he met a messenger coming to their home with a telegram stating that their sister there had passed away the. night be fore, June 2. Lydia Parish was born at Rock Bluff, Nebr., in March. 1865. She was married to John Cox, and lived near Avoca for a number of years. They moved to western Nebraska lat er on. After his death she was united in marriage with Albert Gerber. She died at St. Helens, Oregon, and interment was at that place. MOTHER KEEPS DATE FOR FALLEN GI Bridgeport, W. Va. u.R Joe had promised to meet his Eng lish fiancee, Muriel Martin, when she arrived in New York, But his ' mother was there in stead; Joe had been killed in France in 1944. After his death, Muriel kept corresponding with Joe's moth er, Mrs. Mary Eniez, in Bridge port. Then, when plans were completed, Muriel came to visit America for an indefinite stay. "The country here is wonder- Security or Ruin? WHEN YOUR property is damaged or destroyed by fire your insurance policy is a very important document. It can mean the difference between jour security and financial ruin! Insure ade quately today with Stephen M. Davis Second Floor Plattsmouth H State Bank Bldg. g Thone 6111 By A. R. Williams I'LL TAKE IT. MRS. TANSE7- THIS m: m SUGAR ',''; I HAVEN' AMD 7A DON'T MA TISM SHOOT.' 'vie I tin -w -4 - - i , - i - y TOO SOOM i. m nto v 5 mt Off My J. Jar vis w nOATOJC, tVJW fVUUi l& THE HW POLICE CAR GOWNACOST) w tA ,..., . . ,.,., . II -A ) I MAYOR, WHO 00 I CALL &SO A At, 2,300, JUNE 30. AlPcRMAN PKyPE4 and NO THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, June 9, 1949 " PAGE FIVE ful," she said, "and different. , There is so much food and the ! people are so much kinder and friendlier than back home." But she added, "It was terrible not to meet Joe when I got off the boat. He always said he would be waiting for me." Europe's only glacier that reaches from the mountain heights directly to the sea is in far north Norway. Its name, Svartiaen Glacier, means "black ice" in Norwegian, although' act ually its color appears as deep blue. The fine-grained quartz rock called agate is harder than steel, but is much more brittle. Real Estate i LOANS! j - 4 lz Percent Interest i Charge Reduced ; for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. i FUNNY BUSINESS 'And if he hits you again, you hit him right back!' Laff of "Remember before we were win every game?" 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