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4 THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Thursday, March 1, 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gregg of Murray were in Plattsmouth ! Thursday morning on business. . Subscribe to The Journal ! YOU'LL ASK: festinghouse 1 i March 1st Is Anniversary Of Execution Here It took a special invitation to be able to attend the only leeal execution ever held in Plattsmouth, Judge C. L. Graves recalled this week, as the anni versary of the event neared. As proof Judge Graves pro duced a card which entitled him to attend the execution of Harry Hill at Plattsmouth 56 years ago today. March 1. 1895. The execution card read: Admit Bearer, Mr. C. L. Graves to the EXECUTION OF HARRY HILL at Plattsmouth. Neb.. Friday, March 1st, 1895 compliments of J. C. Eikenbary, Sheriff Cass County, Nebr. Accounts of the hanging and the trial of Hill are recorded in Judge Graves collection of clippings from the Plattsmouth Journal. At the close of his trial in De cember 1894. '"The jurors in the Hill murder trial have decreed that Edward L. Smith, or Harry Hill, as he is better known, shall hang." Hill was charged with the murder of Matt Akeson of Weep ing Water, and payed for the offense with his life. II isms ... of course, it't ecfrcj TReSBRETisfoite IWLlrOUT WASH WELL Rolls Out for Easy Load ing. Rolls Back for Sparkle Clean Washing and Dry ing. Large Capacity for Washing Pots and Pans with Dishes. Finest China Is Protected from Chip ping. Leakproof. Models for Every Kitchen. Low Installation Cost. Wm. schmidtmahh 438 Main St. Phone 3165 you can 8E SURE. .if it's Wbstinghouse rW-4 4r7 We overheard a conversation here the other day that brought out a point we know few of us have ever given any thought the wording of Lincoln's Gettys burg address. With the excep tion of two or three words in the entire speech he made on that memorial day, none contain over two syllables. This person was wondering what the speech would have sounded like and if it would have been singled out as a his torical document if Lincoln had been a Harvard graduate. We doubt it. In fact, we doubt if one-third of those congregated upon that sacred battle ground would have known what he was talking about. Personally, we think half the gobblygook coming out of our nation's capitol today had its origin in those halls of lean ing. There is just no middle ground you're either befuddled by wiseacres with a Harvard or Princeton accent, or confused through the rantings of a swamp-land ignoramous. Using their language, we have been surreptiously victimized if you know what we mean. It's been an average week around this department. There's been seventeen calls by people trying to keep their name out of the paper and six doing their best to get their's in. Two suc ceeded. But the guy we're look ing for is that great personality who snafued the editorial sanc tum and fouled up the air tell ing us how this sheet should be First hearine in the Gus run. veve been on the look- Splitt estate was held Wednes-! out for a character of this type day morning. February 28. Char- i ior some lime. rranKiy, we've les H. Boedeker declined to be I been wanting to get away from At The Cass County Court House administrator. Roy Splitt and William Splitt appointed admin istrators. Begley and Peck are the attorneys. Don Crouse of Plattsmouth was fined $50 and court costs in county court Tuesday, Febru ary 27, on charges of drunken driving. His license was sus pended for six months. Arrest was made by Sheriff Tom Solo mon. Ory Kenneth Sublet, 34. and Victoria Louise Von Dollen, 37, both of Council Bluffs, la., were married in the office of the county judee by Judge Raymond J. Case Wednesday, February 28, 1951. License for marriage was issued, the same day. Darrel Nolte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Nolte was taken to the St. Catherine's hospital at Omaha Wednesday and will un dergo surgery Thursday morn ing for a spinal condition. THOMAS WALLING CO. Abstracts of Title "Title Insurance" Plattsmouiii, Nebraska QUALITY FIRST Buy Early Chicks (THEY'RE MONEY MAKERS) Better Buy 'Em While We Got 'Em M3 iarta Poultry Service it all for a few weeks and if this guy will just come in and make himself known we'll turn the whole shebang over to him. He can exercise his ability on the public to his heart's content or until some irate reader comes at him with a piddlin-elm club and runs him for the Missouri river. Everybody knows how to run the other fellows business. We recall a conversation we had one time with the Hon. Gomer T. Davies, recently deceased, edi tor and publisher of the "Kan- san, a weeKiy newspaper known the nation over and pub lished at Concordia. Gomer was known as the "peg-leg printer" ana recognizeable within hear ing distance by the termites knawing on his hickory right leg a misfortune of his early yuuin wnne a coal miner in southern Iowa. We were stuck with a small town newspaper down in that state of sunflowers, sunshine and sonsogons (with apologies to Fred Rea and our betterhalf). It was a case of selling, starv ing or moving. Being in a de pressed state and suffering from malnutrition, we sought out the fatherly advice of this saint, sinner and blistering old school editorial writer, who, at the time oi nis death had reached the ripe age of near 98 years. Gomer listened to our tale of woe and with all the dignity of an old patriarch gave us a sound lesson in newspaper sales manship. Old "Pegleg," as he was affectionately known, told us there was no one in the world that knew more about running a newspaper than a preacher or a school teacher. Thev not so greatly endowed with i this world's riches, but even the j worst of them could scrape up ! a thousand or so if the oppor- ; tunny presented lisell. A school teacher or a preach er was not too -well versed on finances, he said, but they had a story to tell and a voluptuous urge to save the world. Though the average could tell his story in the first couple of issues and be completely 'wrote' out by the third press day was of little im portance find yourself an eag er preacher or an over-educated teacher with an ulcer and your troubles are over, was his sound advice. It didn't take much scratch ing to come up with a prospect who couldn't resist the whir of presses or the smell of printer's ink. We unloaded a broken- down newspaper, got the hell out of Kansas and never looked back. But, we learned, this guy had a great time for a couple of weeks. Plattsmouth schools were at tempting to brush off a severe case of "blues" this week fol lowing the departure of Oliver C. Hudson known to every kid in school and hundreds of graduates as "Huddy" for Cali fornia where he with his good wife expects to make his home. Oliver Hudson as custodian of Plattsmouth's schools for over 40 years has played father and counsellor to more Plattsmouth kids than any man living. He has nursed their cuts, wounds i and broken hearts. Daily his advice was sought and freely given. Many a boy and girl took a new gnp on hie and faced a rosier future after a talk with "Huddy." He did his work faith fully and well. We'll all miss him. Why can't a guy like that live and work forever? 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Cuts Dish Washing Time In Half TREND Pkg. 19 SANTA ROSA SLICED PINEAPPLE No. 2 Can 29' WATIIEXA PURE APPLE BUTTER 28-oz. Jar .. 26' TASTY OR 1IILLCREST CHEESE Lb. Box 1 Black amd Whi A I n- & Telephone 25s PLENTY OF immm ON LOTS IN BACK OF OUR STORE