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Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gerbeling and Sandra, and Clark Gustin of Lincoln were callers at the of Lir.co'n were callers at the Douglas - Gerbeling home Wednesday evening. Oral Kuehn has been ill for a few days and unable to go (n his mail route. His father. Herman Kuehn. of Lincoln, was tcld Stockton, day this here to see him one v.t-eK. On Monday the school dents ail went to the cemm building where a program archery demonstration was en joyed. Mr. Mrs. Don Eech- stu-tr.ity of $1,000 or Less LOAN'S "MADE ANYWHERE Write or Come in AMERIGAN LOAN PLAN 112 No 5th St. Ph. 3213 O. T. NICHOL, JK.. Mgr. Plattsmouth of were the entertainers. In his talks Mr. Bechtold gave many interesting and instructive facts. This is one of the national as sembly series of showings. The one before this was even more thrilling when the speaker had live snakes to show in his per formance. That one was at the school auditorium. Mrs. Lillian Zimmerman has been spending several weeks in Lincoln while friends of her's are on vacation, keeping their home fires burning. She is expected home soon. There was a nice family New Years day dinner at the Ray mond Eveland home. Out of istate gues's were Mr. ana Mrs. Liovd Lveiand. their cousins. from Ames. Iowa. Eastern Star Kensington met with Mrs. Blanche Eveland and Alice on Wednesday afternoon. There was n nice crowd, mem bers from Eagle. Alvo. and Mur dock being present. The host esses were assisted by Mrs. Par sell and the daughters. Eunice Stock of Murdoch, and Mary belle Cates who was visiting here but has now returned to her home. Gues'.s of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rhoden and other relatives for the past two weeks were their son and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rhoden and family of Little Rock. Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eveland. Bruce and Christin Ann have re turned from a holiday trip to Pcrtersville. California, where thev visited a sister of Mrs. Eve land. They enjoyed seeing the great New Year's Rose parade of Pasadena while in California. B. E. Sumner has been ill with pneumonia but he is better at this time. Chas. Scnulte ot her eon is acting depot agent. -Don't Let Our Polio Patients nn-.vn'" This vear's drive is to i begin Monday. January 15th and nue tne rest o: u;e iuuikh California.! chairman for this community, and containers were placed in the business places, and individ uals and societies are invited to make contributions. As usual we are sure they will respond willingly. A number of relatives and friends from here attended the funeral services for Mrs. Martin Bornemeier of Lincoln at the Callahan church on Monday aft ernoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Torkelson and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baker of Whiting, Kansas, were busi ness callers at the Walter Ply ben home on Thursday. Mrs. J. T. Jochens was the re cipient of a family birthday sur prise luncheon on January 6th, when Mr. and Mrs. Walter Oeh lerking and Mrs. Minnie Rosen koetter came with a prepared delicious menu. i LxLf LLLJLUsFlJLA, (Mrs. F. O. Sand) County Sports Reserves Topple Union Cagers 41-32 Rearing back after an early cor Ruth Mon is again SWEET CLOVER SEED Highest Grades to Medium Grades At Prices To Suit Your Needs Stop In At BARTLING SEED CO. (West Central Ave.) Nebraska City WE GIVE DOUBLE o Wednesday Green Stamps - EVERY - & 8 FELDHOUSEN DRUG "Your Friendly Drug Store" . Dial 6117 JANUARY 17 On All Purchases of $1.00 and over. Shop and Save the Green Stamp Way. Mrs. Kent Balfour was a guest at a pink and blue shower given in honor of Mrs. Donald Hobbie at the home of Mrs. Eugene Lowrey at Nebraska City Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rutledge and son. Lincoln, were guests for the dav Sundav of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rutledge. Mrs. A. B. Rut ledge accompanied them to Lin coln to help care for David, who is ill with chicken pox. A. B. Rutledge is staying at the Glen Rutledge home while his wife is in Lincoln. A six and one-half pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emery Fit-Id of Las Plumas. Calif., Wednesday, January 10. Mrs. Field is the former Virginia Pol lard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hall Pollard. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wieck horst and Judy called at the Leon Gansemer home at Mur ray Friday evening. Mrs. Kent Ealfour entertained three tables at bridge Tuesday evening. Mrs. Frank Linder presided at the meeting of the American Leaicn Auxiliary at the auditor ium Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. I Ernest Kropp announced a I membership of C3, three over the reauired quota. A thank vou letter was read from Dick Circe? cf Camn Cook. Calif. A group discussion of auxiliary ac tivities was held ana the new sonss "For God and Country" and "To the Auxiliary' were sung. Refreshments were seieu bv Mrs. Will Ost, Mrs. Faul Whipple and Mrs. Nelson Berg er. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Engleke-meic-r. Murray, were supper gutsts of Mr. and Mrs. Dan An derson Tuesday. John Anderson. Omaha, was cuest speaker at the Junior Woman's club meeting at me home of Mrs. Lyman Anderson Thursday evening. Mrs. Elmer Ross Dresided at the business meeting. A rummage and bake sale will be held February 23 and 24 The club will make a scrap bock to be entered in the state contest. Guests were the speak er Mr. Anderson and John Bo zelle, Omaha. Mr. Anderson spoke on the Social Security pro gram. Refreshments were serv ed by Mrs. Anderson and her assistants. Miss Cassye Baugh. Mrs. Glen Thacker and Mrs. Ernest Pollard. first ouarter deficit. Coach Ger aid Clayburn's Plattsmouth Re serves mastered the Union at tack to hand their intra-county rival a convincing 41-32 setback Friday night. Held to a single field goal and four free tosses during the ini tial stanza, the Blue Devils trailed 10-6 at the quarter. nineteen point second quarter gave the home town crew a con vincing 25-17 halftime lead and they were never headed. The Reserves continued to in crease their lead in the third period, leading 36-24 with eight minutes to go. Union's Rogers took scoring honors with 11 points, nine com ing during the first half. Team mates Lutz and H. Eaton hit 7 and four respectively. Plattsmouth scoring was even ly divided with Ahrens and Wcndra leading with nine. J. Schuetz hit eight, G. Wood, five, T. Conis and R. Eiserman, each four, and D. Kroug- two. C. F. Backemeyer, Former Elmwood Resident, Dies ELMWOOD i Special) Life began for Christian F. Backe meyer in an Evangelical parson age home in Fremont, Nebraska, May 14, 1876. His parents were Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Backe meyer. Ke lived m several communi ties and later assisted with the music and other Christian work, f i wherever he resided. On Sep- to Miss Dorothy Panska at Louisville, Nebr. His occupations were farming and lumber yard work. He man aged the yard here and theD went to Filley, later to Denver where he passed away on Jan uary 6th, 1951, after a period of ill health. In later life he was a member of the Methodist church at Elmwood and at Fil ley. He retained membership at the latter place. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Marie Baldwin of Denver, two brothers. Dr. Frederick Backemeyer, pastor of a church in Gary, Indiana, and Edward of Fremont, his wife, son Fran cis and three granddaughters, all of Denver. Fvceding him in death were his parents, brother Ernest and sister Emilie, a daughter Margaret, and small son, Harvey. Funeral services were held in the Elmwcod Methodist church January IGth with a friend of the family. Rev. E. F. Haist, con ducting, assisted by the pastor. Rev. Louise Ward. Organ music was played by Mrs. Guy Clem ents, and Mrs. V. G. Clements ailU ViiS. lLO.il J ill an ua"6 "Ivory Palaces" and "The Old ! Rugged Cross." Casket bearers were nephews, Edgar Backemeyer, Carl Backe meyer, Alvin Backemeyer, Eldon Panska, Ordean Panska. and Raymond Bornemeier. Floral offerings were abundant. Interment was in Elmwood i Cemetery. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, January 15, 1951 PAGE THREE Father Of Cass County Women Dies Mose Weston, 65. father of ; Mrs. Mary Pearsley and Mrs. Helen Gawart of Union and Mrs. Myrtle Whited of Louisville, died at St. Mary's hospital Friday after an illness of two years. Born at Omaha, March 15, 1885. he was married to Minnie Harrighs in October 1910. Mrs. Weston died in 1942. He had been a resident of Nebraska City since 1928. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Other survivors are three sons Edward and Thomas of Nebras ka City and Joe of Eunene. Ore.; two brothers, Sam of Omaha and Jim of Fremont, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Wright cf Arkansas City, Kans., and Mrs. Mary Rhoades of Nebraska City. LOTS OF TIRE TUBES GADSDEN, Ala. UP The newly-completed $4,000,000 tube manufacturing plant of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. here claims a production ca pacity of 30,000 automobile tubes daily. Rats destroy or damage 200, 000,000 bushels of grain annually. Mike Tritsch, O. D. Optometrist and Watch Repair Ilours: 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Saturdav-8 A..M. to 8:30 P.M. 2nd Floor Ruse Bldg. FOR Dependable Insurance Income Tax Service SEE J. Howard Davis Phone 264 Soennichsen Bldg. Murdock Cagers Nip Raymond 36-28 Murdock led all the way Thursday night as they aook a hard fought 36-28 cage decision from Raymond. The Cass county crew moved , out in front 9-6 at the end of! the first quarter and were in front 19-13 at the half. Second; half Dlav was almost even as Murdock led 26-19 going into the final quarter. Dick Kenny and Lyle Buell paced the winners with 12 points apiece. The Murdock Reserves and girl's volley bail teams were not as successful. The reserves dropped a 21-20 decision after overcoming a cne point half time deficit to lead 18-16 going into the final auarter. Oehler king led Murdock with eight points. Raymond won the volleyball tilt 43-26. Sue Colbert hit five tallies for Murdock. Auburn To Test Local Five Tuesday Coach Merle Stewart's Platts mouth cagers will be rated a sliaht favorite, when they meet Auburn on the home court Tues day night. The Blue Devils are looking for win number two. The favorite's roll is based on competitive scores of the two teams against opponents. Platts mouth. a hard luck team, in three of their four losing games, pressed highly favored Pawnee City while the Indians easily dropped Auburn.' Pawnee City hit the Blue Devils 51-44 here Friday but hold a 52-25 win over Auburn a week earlier. The Auburn tilt will end a heavy early January schedule and will be the last game for the local crew until January 31. Stewart will again rely on the scoring oi Kouoec ana uasner; with Stan Cole expected to pro vide top support. The varsity tilt will start at eight o'clock. The preliminary game is set for seven p. m. TAR Z AN TAKE NOTICE GRANTS. N. M. (UP) City Councilman Ross E. Green may not be a Tarzan, but he's a match for any bobcat when it comes to climbing trees. Green chased a bobcat up and down three trees before cornering it and clubbing it to death. Hyaanis. Neb., has the high est per capita wealth of any town in the United States. Pgs Pure Granulated Beet SUGAR 10 lbs. 93c Franco-American SPAGHETTI 2-16-oz. cans 25c Cudahy's Puritan All Meat HAM 39 LB. TIDE Lge. Pkg. 29c Omor FLOUR 10-lb. bag 75c i REMEMBER Ruback's Big Thursday Ad is Effective Through Wednesday. Shop and Save the Ruback Way. , . M ,l i rfgj Cass County Tourney Set For Jan. 24-26 Pairings for the Cass County Basketball Tournament to be held at Elmwood January 24-26 rate Eagle and Avoca the teams to beat. The three-day tourney will pit Eagle and Weeping Water and Avoca against Nehawka, as the top ceded teams open play. The top ranking teams are holding down the top two berths in the Cass County Conference. In making the pairings, coaches from the ten county schools took into account the won-lost records of the teams against county competition. Murdock and Elmwood will open the tournament against Union and Greenwood. Alvo and Louisville, with second round byes, will meet the win ners of the Eagle-Weeping Wa ter and the Avoca-Nehawka games. Trophies will be given to the first, second and third place winners. IT TOOK FOUR YEARS SNYDER, Okla. (UP) Local football fans hoped a jinx had been broken when Snyder High School beat Grandfield 21-12. It was the first victory for Snyder in four years. 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