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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL "AGE POUR Thursday, June 15, 1950 . Mr. and Mrs. Will Ost were guests at dinner Monday even ing at the hime of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Anderson at Omaha. The dinner was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McCarthy. Bartles ville, Okla., who are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCarthy at Nebraska City. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wessel. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ost were din ner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. -Louis Steinhoff at Syra cuse. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wieck horst, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wieckfcorst attended the wed ding dinner -and wedding Fri day evening of Lois Anne. Con cta.ll and Duane Brokens at Be thel Evangelical church at Ne braska City. The Stone families enjoyed a picnic supper Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert Jameson in honor of Mr. ahd Mrs. Robert MeConaha and family of Ontario. Oregon. ; Mr. and Mrs. Neil Pierce drove to Omaha early Wednesday morning to meet Mrs. Robert Pierce and her daughterrin-law, Mrs. Bill Pierce and daughter, Patricia of Los Angeles. Mrs. Robert Pierce will visit her son & Nehawka and relatives at Friday Saturday Fresh Dressed ; FRYERS 3 Gooch's FLOUR ..,.290 Bulk Assorted COOKIES Pork Loin End ROAST ... Bacon SQUARES ib. 29 Ruby No. 2V2 PEACHES ..Ca "We Pay Top 505 Main ONE Lk Yes, s look will show you why it's Ford for Fashion, again for '50 ! Once again Ford's modern styling earned it the Fashion Academy's coveted medal as "Fashion Car of the Year." No other car at any price has re ceived such an honor 2 years in a row. ONE Listen You can hardly hear the '50 Ford's powerful V-S, or its companion in quality, the 95-h.p. Si both are "hushed" to a whisper! Your ride is quiet, too. because "sound-conditioning" throughout Ford's roomy and sturdy "Ufegtiard" Body keeps noise out! One "Test Drive" and you'U know the luxury comfort of Ford's "Mid Ship" Ride . . . the safety of its "Lifeguard" Body and King-Size Brakes ... its big car readability. Then check Ford's low first cost, great mileage, low upkeep and high resale value. You'U agree Ford's the "Big Economy Package" of the low-price field. TEST DJRWE JOtS ONE "Your Friendly Ford Dealer" WASHINGTON AVENUE Nebraska City. Mrs. Bill Pierce and daughter will visit relatives at Otoe. Elaine Peters accompanied her grandfather, Mr. Peters of Fairfield, Iowa. Miss Betty Had ley. Virginia Hested and Virgil Peters all of Fairfield to Aurora. Thursday, where they visited Mrs. Mary Williams. Mrs. Pe ters, who was visiting at Aurora returned home with them. They returned Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Nutzman returned Thursday from a short honeymoon to Kansas City. Janet Nutzman went to Om aha Saturday evening to serve at the wedding of Miss Wendie Corkin to Howard Blanchard. Miss Jo Hertzler returned home with her and spent Sunday at the Nutzman home. Janet drove her friend to Lincoln on Sunday from where she left for her home at Torrington, Wyo. A group of young people held a picnic at Steinhart Sunday evening honoring Mr. and Mrs. Kent Balfour on their wedding anniversary. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Vance Bal four, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd May field, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Nutz man. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wiekhorst and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wieck horst. They spent the evening socially at the Balfour home. Mrs. Carl Brown, Mrs. Helen Smith, Nebraska City, and Mrs. Herman Wieckhorst called at the Henry Ross home Tuesday e,c $1.49 50-lb. tQ A ...Bag DO.UiJ umr Rare Treat CORN Cream Style No. 2 Can 2 for 25 Kraft Velveeta CHEESE 2 Box 75 Hew-CJay MARKETS Prices for Eggs" Phone 4193 Fuhwn Car "' . 1 n-r7 wr w ouivt- JMMwmvOTim. t fWiV n r-.n i M,r7 T TH AT YOUR FORD DEALERS I- u So economical to buy . . . and to own ! r 2 . J afternoon. Mrs. Henry Ross attended a party Friday afternoon given at the home of Miss Edna Wright with Mrs. Bertha Eiser as co hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benson and children, Betty Rae and Bobbie, Bancroft, arrived at the R. C. Pollard home Sunday to spend a week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Benson, Pen der, were dinner guests Sunday at the Pollard home. Mrs. Virginia Davis. St. Louis will arrive at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Poll ard Wednesday for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Angus Campbell, Van Nuys, Calif., were the guests of honor Sunday noon at a family dinner at the Paul Whipple home. Guests includ ed Mrs. Frank Wllk, Mr. and Mrs. ' Walter Bray, Syracuse; Mrs. M. E. Whipple, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hobbie and family, Mr. and Mrs. Will Seyfer, Lou Willa and Frank Whipple. Ne braska City; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bouse and family, Dunbar; Mr. and Mrs. Keith Krecklow. Weep ing Water; Wm. Brandt and son. Raymond, Nehawka. House guests at the Harvey Bailer home the past week were Albert Bailer, Marysville, Calif., Mrs. Emma Mofnt, Frank Co vert, Denver, Mr. and Mrs. Har lan Maple, and family, Seward, Nebr. They came to attend the funeral services of Fred Bailer. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Schriener and family spent the day Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schriener and family called at the Ray Schriener home Sunday evening. Ronnie Schriener observed his 12th birthday June 4 with a party including 20 guests. Re freshments included individual cakes decorated with candles. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Stone and son were dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. Nels Thoren. Mrs. T. J. Pollard and children, Fairfield, Iowa, and Mrs. J. J. Pollard cal led at the home of Mrs. Thoren Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lyman Andersen and Sonja called on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Nels Thoren was a din ner guest Wednesday of Mrs. L. E. Sappenfield at Cyracuse. Mrs. Thoren also called at the home of Mrs. John Nelson. Mrs. Ed Paasch and family, Omaha were dinner guests Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Swit zer. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Meyers and daughter and Mrs. Fred Wolph, Lincoln, were supper guests. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Schrien er and family and Mrs. Evie Schriener of Nebraska City spent the day Monday at the Ray Scnnener home. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Switzer and family called at the home of Mrs. Elsie Frans and Mrs. Will Garner at Union Sunday eve nine. Mrs. Jesse Miller, Charleston, South Carolina, visited at the heme of Mrs. Mary Wessel Fri day. Mr. Miller came to at tend the funeral services of his mother at Denton, Nebr, He is the son-in-law of Mrs. Wes sel. Mr. and Mrs. G .W. Weik and family drove to Omaha Wednes day to meet his mother, Mrs Sada Weik of Plainview, who will spend two weeks at her son s home. Alfred Warlick observed his ftUlfor!, Vfeu can badly And you qo to far neorir tortolittlt mony!' ,1 I, 1. DIAL 281 And ft eotfs ,so lirri Father of 289 Descendants Wins Dads Day Prize The week of May 22, John L. Osborn. of Wallins Creek, Ky., reached his 95th birthday. One of the gifts he received was a $100 U. S. Savings Bond, which was the prize he won, for being the father of the largest num ber of living children, grand children and great grandchild- ren. The prize was given by the National Father's Day Com mittee. The search for the dad of the largest family was nation-wide. John Osborn was feted by the community in which he lives, ior winning tms competition. tsert Vincent or the Knoxville, Tenn., News-Sentinel first dis covered the prolific Mr. Osborn and notified the Committee. The descendants include 12 child ren. 76 grand-children. 163 great grand-children and 38 great, great grandchildren totaling 289. Mr. Osborn lives on a farm and does most of the farm work himself. Newsreels of the ceremonies were taken by motion picture companies and are being shown in local theatres. The Father's Day Committee conducted this search and of fered the prize to encourage large families, a canishing phe nomena in American life. 14th birthday Sunday evening witn a dinner in his honor. Guests were his brother, Byron and Miss Donna Dickie of Mc- Cook, Bill Ross and Don War lick. Ned Ford. Ralph Betts and Jed Kropp spent the evening at tne warlick home. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Trotter, Laramie, Wyo., arived Saturday irom tne Black Hills. They vis ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Trotter and her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. John son, Eimwood. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lauritzen entertained at a picnic for Mr. and Mrs. Trotter Sunday. They left ear ly Tuesday morning for their home. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bonner arrived Tuesday from Washing ton to visit Mr. Bonner's sister, Beverly at the George Sheldon home. Beverly accompanied them to Geneva where they vis ited Mrs. Bonner's parents. Mrs. L. B. Trombla and dau ghter, Linda, Oklahoma City, came Thursday to visit her par ents, Rev. and Mrs. B. N. Kun kel. Rev. Kunkel is improving slowly from a serious illness and is able to be up a little each day. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Thacker had dinner Sunday evening witn Mr. Thacker s brother, Wendell at Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Pollard Jr., Seymour, Iowa, arrived on Thursday to spend the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Merritt Pollard, Sr., and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunt at Weeping Water. They came to attend the Rohrdanz Hunt wedding Sunday. Mrs. Merritt Pollard. Jr., was one of the hostesses at a shower given tor Janice Rohrdanz at the Me thodist church dining room at weeping Water Friday evening. Miss Evelyn Wolph drove to Lincoln to take her 4-H club members to Judging day at Ag. College Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Sloan, Geneva, spent the day Sunday with Mrs. Blaine Sloan and children and Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Sand. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wunder- lich, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wun- derlich joined Mrs. A. W. Gor don, Jr., of Spokane, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Georce Edeerly. Omaha, for dinner Saturday evening in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wunder- lich were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baker at Falls City. Mr. and Mrs. Hall Pollard at tended the wedding Saturday evening of Miss Irene Pettigrew and Mr. Merlin Bremer at Im manuel Baptist church in Oma ha. The reception was held in the church parlors. Mr. and Mrs. Bremer left for a trip to the west coast. Mrs. Bremer j lived with several of. the Pollard! families at Nehawka at one time. Mrs. A. W. Gordon, Jr., and1 daughter, Constance, and Ed ward Boyer, Omaha, spent the! day Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wunderlich. Miss Grace Ricketts, Santa1 Barbara, Calif., was the guest of honor at a dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.j Carl Balfour. Other guests in-1 cludued Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Ricketts, Nebraska City, Mrs. Helen Petersen and Maurice, Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Kent Bal four and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ross. Mrs. E. A. Nutz man called in the afternoon. Carol Balfour observed her third birthday Saturday , with a party for. her;-relatives and a few friends. A large birthday! cake and ice cream .were served and favors ' were, .balloons. ' -. i Mrs. Kent 'Balfour-and Mrs. Vance Balfour' were business visitors In Lincoln ' Monday. Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Berger Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Will Damkrpeger, Mrs. L. W. Wilkens and daughter, Allegra, Lincoln. Mrs. Nelson Berger attended the Home Demonstration Coun cil meeting at Weeping Water Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wilkens, DeWitt, announce the engage ment and approaching marriage of their daughter, Marilyn to Lawrence Owens, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. J. Owens of Lincoln. Miss Wilkens received her de gree in Home Economics at the University June 5. She was a mmhw of Karma Delta. Mr. Owens wil graduate in July. The wedding wu De an event, oi au eust 6. Miss Wilkens is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Berger. Cullom Woman's Extension Club The Cullom Women's Exten sion Club met at the home of Mrs. Otto Petereit, June 8, 1950, at 1:30 p.m. with Mrs. Marvin Petereit as associate hostess. The meeting was called to order by the president and op ened by repeating the Lords prayer in unison. Our song leader, Mrs. Mar vin Petereit, led us in singing "This is my Father's World." Our president read us a poem on Father's Day; both song and poem honored our fathers who are gvien special recognition June 18th. Cards and birthday greetings were sent to Mrs. Fritz Siemoneit who is a shut in at this time. Mrs. Walter Weiss and Mrs. Wilbur Means conducted an in teresting study on "Your Club Meeting." They also had 15 true or false questions to answer on "How to conduct a meeting on Parliamentary Law." We were very happy to have as our honored guest, the Coun ty Home Extension Agent, Miss Pearl Schultz. Twenty mem bers were present and also a visitor, Mrs. Art Sprieck. Delicious refreshments were served by our hostesses, Mrs. Otto Petereit and Mrs. Marvin Petereit. The next meeting will be held on July 13 at the home of Mrs. Wilbur Means with Mrs. Gerald Keil as associate hostess. The study wil be "Time's A Wast ing." Mrs. Emil Schmidt News Reporter cm 333 SWIG o o PLASTIC r 1 I Deluxe Fibre SEAT COVERS Coach & $r93 Sedan .. Q Most Coupes $3.95 A host of beautiful pat terns to dress up your car! Take advantage of these low sale prices today! ntt t O Davis Butyl tube NO EXTRA COST With Each DAVIS WEARVmi $9.95 Plus1 Fed. Tax . , i -.v..r ' . ; ' Davis WearweHs arc fully guaranteed 12 months. Don't take chances on worn-out tires. Get new safety today. 6 00-16 Price in- eludes old tire & tube. Sketch of Life Of Mrs. Nolte, Butler, S. D.- Butler (S. D.) Reporter Mrs. Augusta Nolte passed away at 1:45 pjn. last Thursday at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Herr west of Butler, whera she had made her home for a num ber of years. Mrs. Nolte had remained active and in fairly good health until her recent ill ness. Death came at the age of 88 years, one month and 5 days. Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Butler Lutheran church with Rev. Obert Hoven officiat ing. A quartet consisting of Ben Bonn. Henry Sveum, Donald iBohn and Olaf Bye. sang "The jOld Ruged cross" and "in The Beautiful Land." Mrs. Magnus Espeland and Ben Bohn sang "Whispering Hope," a favorite of Mrs. Noltes. Mrs. Edward Buhler was organist. Pallbearers were her grand sons, Donald and Richard Grode Lester Herr, Herbert Nolte and Howard Jensen of Butler and Oren Pollard of Schaller, Iowa. Interment was made at the Bristol cemetery. Attending from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. William Nolte and Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand ; Nolte of Plattsmouth, Neb., Mrs. Ella Blattgerste. Mrs. John Grotjohn, Mrs. Frank Grotjohn and Mr. and Mrs. Oren Pollard and daughters Kathie Rae and Barbara Sue of Schaller, Iowa. Augusta Blatteerste was born GOING For a sure, safe vacation, rely on Phillips "66" Gasoline to get you there and back. Many times on the highway if you had just a little extra power a tragedy could be prevented With Phillips "66" you are guaranteed that extra power at the time you need it first. Vacation with Phill'ps "66." You'll be glad you did. If ! i. SB Huebner's "66" Station TANK WAGON SERVICE Phone 212 Plattsmouth Hurry! Sole Seat Covers REG. $17.95 $15.95 Coaches & Sedans Coupes $8.95 Save a cool $5 over what you'd expect to pay for luxurious "plas tics" like these! Gay. assorted pat terns. Sturdy "iron-wearing" plas tic defies punishment. Built to re tain dressy fit and colorful beauty for years. 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Left to mourn her passing are two daughters, (Augusta) Mrs. Emil Herr, and' (Emma) Mrs. Joe Grode of Butler; three sons, William and Ferdinand of Plattsmouth, Nebr., and August of Butler; one brother and one sister in Iowa, 15 grandchildren 22 great grandchildren and a host of friends and relatives. Local Young Men Enjoy Trip East Robert Tritsch and Kenneth Tiebotter of this city, Dick Paul son of Omaha, and Jack Olson, of New York City, who has been attending the University of Ne braska, have returned home from an outing in the east. The boys were at New York City where they visited with Dr. Robert Kroehler, uncle of Bob, as well as the relatives of Mr. :::::x:: OR COMING Starts Friday...Come In Today KEEP COOL ALL SUMMER WIZARD $098 8" Fan . Enjoy cool summer breezes at a low cost. Streamlined lightweight fan. Chrome tnm. Brown enamel finish. Non-tip base with m a r -proof non-creep rubber feet. 10" stationery fan J1516 $6.65 10" oscillating fan J1519 $8.95 12" oscillating fan . 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