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LHJAATTSM0UTH' NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL cAQE TWO Section E Thursday, April 15, 1951 nehawka EVENTS Mrs. F. O. Sand Phone 2604 Ticklers By George , , , . , , i Mr. and Mrs. Bob Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Johnson family, Mr. and Mrs. Willard and daughters were dinner ; Berghoff and family attended quests Sunday at the Mart ; the Senior class play Friday Wieckhcrst home. ' evening. Mrs. Ivan Hansen entertained j anc Mrs R. G. Yost ani he. bridge club Monday eve- , family, Lincoln, were guests for ninp. There were three tables at j lue aay Sunday at the' John Pay. ! chandler home., Dorothy Yosc i enMrMa.s; j remained to spend her spring Three Arc Honored vacation at the Chandler home tins v. cca.. Mrs. Martin Ross, Mrs. Hen- -r A .. i T-n n.-pctc nf hmmr at the. Hirti-i . ninz jonnson, ivirs. ,uueiri iw ioi, ! Hicks. Mrs. Gilbert Edmonds. Saturday night at the Fred Han- '.Mrs- Frank Warden, Mrs. George sen home were Mrs. Hansen, Mrs. Gecrge Pollard and Bryc? Hansen. There was a birthday By Birthday Club cake for each and also gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hild and Gary, Plattsmouth, were guests. Nehawka Bryce Hansen was ten April 7. Mrs. Hansen and Catherine took treats to school for Mrs. Sam Marcoe, the teacher ana the classmates of Bryce. In th? evening his dinner guests were Mrs. F. A. Hansen, Junior Nix oh and Danny Edmonds. Sharon and Carol Lemley, Omaha, are spending this week at the Jack Hines home. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Roddy, Un ion; Mr. and Mrs. Merle Zie: erich. Omaha, were dinner guests Friday at the Carl Wessel home. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hall, Oma ha; Mrs. F. A. Hansen and Mrs. Charlotte Niday were dinner guests Sunday at the Geors'i Pollard home. I IU4 AKE REM'PJr "Atta boy! Tell the boss off for me. too K. P. PENCE Bankers Life Man 222 So. 6th Phone 326! Dickman, Mrs. Albert Anderson. . Mrs. FJcyd Joerger attended fu neral ; services Thursday for Walter Brittain at Plattsmouth. Mrs. Emma Nutzman,- Mrs. Oiv en Pollard, Mrs, Arthur Johnson. Mrs. Lawrence' Gregg and Mrs. F. O. Sand attended the state Women's Convention at Lincoln Thursday. . -'. . .. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Balfour en tertained six tables at pinochio Sunday evening. High score was held by Mrs. Jack Hines and Al ber Anderson, low by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bailer i ice at the. Methodist enurci and sons were dinner guests ! Sunday a family dinner was Sunday at the home of Mrs. j held at the Ivan Hansen hom. Harlan Maple and children at I Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln ' Clarence Ross and Marion, Un- anH tvt rs TTnrVpv Rnrt- ion: Mr. ana Mrs. uon. iiansea -- 5r 6 . . T -A tr? 11 II I I Hi"3T I II I.IK.- Tr iff,' lj Junior -Women rvleet Friday The Junior Woman's club met Friday evening at the home o Mrs. Lyle Choat with Mrs. Ed Stanley, Frances Hansen and Mrs. G. W Weik as co-hostesses. Dr. Wm. E. Hall, professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska, was introduced by Mrs. ! Deane Nutzman, program chairman. His topic was 'Child Psychology." A question and an- I i r .11 swer period ionowea. family were dinner guests Sun day at the Dan Anderson home and simper guests at the Lyman Anderson home. Rickey Romans is spending his vacation with his grandparents. Robert James, Nebraska City, called at the Carl Balfour home Sunday evening. Mr. and ' Mrs. Carl Balfour were dinner guests Friday eve ning at the Dan Anderson home. ' Mr: and Mrs. Merritt Pollard and i Larry Adkins called in the eve j rims. , Mrs. Lawrence Gregg and Mrs. ,Mr. ana Mrs X?esie ' rt Johnson reported on the Murdoch, called Thursday after- Family Dinner 'A Hansen Home Following the baptismal serv- MiT iVll ttliU I'll Urn 1J.U1 V- i I tT. . -VTT A v,T.et o hdnp trin riiand Tcmmv, . Weeping Water Lincoln Friday. Their grandson, ! Mr. and Mrs. -Martin Ross Mr. Larry Fullerton, returned home j and Mrs. Elmer Ross and Dsb with them to spend'.his spring bie, Mr. ohn Hansen and Fran- vacaticn Recent callers ai the Brannon home were Mr, bert Johnson. Guests were Mr. and - Mrs. Art Gerdts, Wahoo; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peterson, Omaha; Albert Johnson and children, Mr. and Mrs. Conraa Johnson. . - . ."' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Witt, Dun bar, were dinner guests Sunday at the" Jack Hines home. Y-i''lN'ehiwka, Receives Royal Purple Degree Mr. and-Mrs. Harvey Bark- Art state convention N'ehawka Mr. and Mrs. George Dickman and sons were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charlei Harden of Omaha and while Mr. and Mrs. Dickman attended the Encamp ment and LEA meetings their sons were guests at a television party. Mrs. George McFadden re turned Tuesday-from Okarche, ncori at the Frank Dill home. Mr. and Mrs. John Eaton and family, Mrs. Charlotte Schomak- j er were guests Saturday eve hingfat the Frank Van Pool . home at Weeping Water. , W.S.CJS; will meet at the church Wednesday, April 21. Hostesses will be Mrs. Bob Wun - derliclv Mrs. Alfred Mather and Mrs. Fred Gardner. y Rev. and Mrs. Fred Gardner and daughters, Weeping Water, ! Okla., and is helping care for , Tr nnd Mrs R.nvmnnH Pnllnrri her father, Silas Munn. Mr. an.l were dinner guests Wedneday Mrs.; McFadden's new grand-: evening at the- Oren Pollard children have been named Har- I 0me 3 Ke3 BaSCJ iiSVUnd Connie Jean. Lincoln., wer? uvovj iwi iiic via j uuiiuaj v the Frank Linder home. - daughter of fMr. and Mrs. Don ald Krecklow of Okarche, Oklu. Bonita'Lacey was a guest for dinner Sunday of Sally Carsten at Avoca. It" was Sally's twelfth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pol- Mrs... Oren Pollard attendea the Lenten Season Oantata at Lincoln Friday evening given by the music department of fine arts. Her nephew, Donald,. Kit chen took part. Mr. Kitchen is 'lard received word last week th Mriiinn niawr at tv. Ttni. frcm Mr. Pollard's niece, Mrsr; versity and ;also at piym0uth D. G. Griffith of the death cf i Congregational church. He wi'l ner nuscana, ur. u. j. unnii:i of a heart attack at Long Beach, Te 1 and Nchawka Calif. Mrs. Emma Nutzman, Mrs. John Chandler, Mrs,. Oren Pol lard and Mrs. Harvey -Barkhurst attended the Omaha spring dis trict meeting at Papillion Tues- hurst, Mr. and Mrs. Frank War-, day. :- ttt ' - . . Hp nrrnmnanied Mr. and Mrs. The Weeping Water choir of Martin Ross to Omaha April 6, ! the Methodist church presented . go to Chicago this week; to give a carillon concert at the Uni versity of Chicago on Friday, April 16. UT of Guests were ' the Royal Purple Degree of the ; the church at Nehawka Sunday aska; s. Eleanor Knox, Dunbar; Mr. i tncampmen oy -iue f . FHA -famiiv i ivTrs oonro-o mvis Mrs Ar"q Encampment No. 103, of Ben-jv mere win oe ani .n.A. iamny 1 Mrs. Ueorge JJaVlS, Airs. ACd - i ,J; 'j tv, Qo, mV.Ht .'nril 91 TVio mpmhpr; VT1 . AT,. m-irl lilt"" liiUlCS ilLLCIlUCU tiiC Itn iiiw i ' I Tr Wm opt-hius George 1 uiar meermg 01 me u m auu , Guaranteed Watch Repairing Diamonds Gifts Elgin, Bulova and Hamilton Watches GREEN STAMPS . WE GIVE S & H Wiloc ot-iH crn TOoonintr Wcitor- i OrlllS 1V1I. Ud,Vli Mrs. Minnie Schrieber, P.'atts-J Mr P?rc? onH TVfarirm TTT-.irr I PTUe ivii. aiiu iviio. tuicai muyj ie- tTi,. ceived word that their son, Jed, r.iihort'wmnnHc oh t - i No. 1 and later enjoyed a social who nas been in service in Ja- la Hrry Knabe attended hour at cards. Refreshments pan fcr two years and three 'shcVer Sunday ' .afternoon 1 were served. . ' months, is on his way home. , uhnst ; Lutheran .church near . chawf Louisville honoring, Dons ? "eceni guis, , ui jFranke: Miss Franke and Clyde a shut-in; were Mr. and Mis. Er- Althouse, Eagle, wm oe -married '' T V at this church at 3 p.m. Sun- i returned, recently from Korea, day. April 25. Ayoca ; Beth rising E n - n GROVE 601 Main Jewelry and Watch Repairs Phone 228 Mr. and Mrs. Henning John- wood; Mr. and' " Mrs Cornehii enn pntPrtninfid rpppntlv at . a Jensen, oyracuae;. ivix;,. ydivi birthday . dinner honoring Ai- NOW... !NP IP bam ma fl mrnrn JV 8 LAWYER Phone 264 506 Main St. Plattsmouth i Caasten and Sally, Mrs. Nancy Carsten, Mrs.' Martha Ryge, all of Avoca: Miss Eleanor Easter, Mrs. Emma Nutzman, Mrs,. Lucy j St. John, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ni - j day and Martha, Mr. and Mrs. 'Marion Tucker. . V I -. The pancake supper, sponsor iby the Methodist Youth - Fellow r jmp sauuruay tveiuug .. -..; tiis church sf$s a success, followed by a social hour. fr. 4 Nehawka Jorgcnsen Notes 78th' Birthday , 'Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jorgenson Were ' dinner guests Thursday evening 'at the home of Mrs. Jorgenson's father,, Frank Mar tin of Union, who observed his 78th birthday. Additional guests were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grun- wald and. Phyllis Jean, Mr. and ! Although the- first territorial legislature provided for free public schools in Nebraska, most Qi the territory s earliest insti ' tutions of learning- were private schools. Local governing boards sometimes .were indifferent to the problems of education, and even with an appreciation of the need, it took a rather con siderable length of. time" to -enact levies, collect taxes and provide school, facilities. In many in stances, - parents of school age 'children simply went ahead and made their own' arrangements for the education ' of their Mrs!i:George Martin, all of Un-y Frea"uentlv this took thp fnrm Ion; Mr: and Mrs. A. J. Ross.LHt xTVocirn ni,r. atvc Toie m lof holding school in the kitchen --i 5 r - 1 sS h Nebraska City: Mrs. Louis Crunk and f amily, Clarksviile, Tenn.; JMr. rind Mrs. Sterling Ross and infamy 3 Nehawka. ' Nchawka Mf s. George Martin and Mrs. jTttin and - family returned Wednesday- ' frcm Clarksviile, Tenn. Mrs. Martin spent several months taking care of the Crunk children, while their mother was t.a surgery patient at the hospi tal there. She came here to re cuperate at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Mar- 'tin. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Pollard JS vs i i i !?- U V- or in the one room that served as home with mother , teaching her own and perhaps a few of the. neighbor children as she did the housework. More frequent ly, though,,, a group of. parents bahdSdXogether ' to hire some one to - teach , their children, usually- in her (the teacher's) home. " -. - Occasionally, the parents also' built a school. In the spring of 1855, for example Miss Margaret Martin opened the first school in Nebraska City. Miss Martin was a trained and experienced Were dinner guests Sunday at , : atH"5?? se. PRICED r ili fsi - the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. JTolte at Mynard. Also there to spend the day-were Mr. and Mrs: Pollard's son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Oren Raymond Pcllard and family of Schaller, Iowa, were at the Nolte home to spend the day. '-' -1 Mrs. F. O. Sand, with Mrs. Al bert Leisle and son, Joe, of Denver, Colo., were dinner guests Saturday evening of Mrs. Laura Sand at Nebraska City. t. Nehawka nary in Vernon, Indiana, and taught m Missouri and Iowa. She opened the school at the re quest of the parents of some of the school age children of Ne braska City who built a small school house from native cot tonwood and furnished it with backless benches of the same material. Miss Martin received $1.50 per month for each of her dozen pppils. The next year a second school was opened in Nebraska City. This was located in a house on Kearny Hill. The rooms set i aside for school use . were made attractive with desks and seats Three Baptized At Church Sunday There were three baptisms at painted in contrasting colors of the Methodist church Sunday J white and blue, white' curtains morning. Rev. Fred Gardner of- at the windows, and by immacu ficiated. Baptized were Lois j late cleanliness. Miss Lucy Jean Hansen, daughter of Mr. Bowen was the teacher, and Mrs". Ivan Hansen; Joyce j In his report of the territorial Elaine Johnson, daughter of Mr. i superintendent for 1860, J. B. and Mrs. Dick Johnson; Virginia Weston, of Gage County, had Mitchell, daughter' .of Mr. and i this to say of the situation in Mrs. Sheldon Mitchell. Robin Beatrice: "Last summer a school ! and Rosie Stoll were taken into j the church by profession faith. Mr. ana. Mrs. narvey .tsarKnurst and Esther by transfer. ; Nchawka ' The following were on the six 'weeks honor roll was taugnt m tnis town in a vacant building "fitted up for that purpose by Miss Frank C. Butler. The term . continued some twelve weeks and. the av erage attendance was about 25 ! scholars. The expenses were de- Seniors Jim Bailer; Juniors ; frayed by private subscription. Janet Cook; Sophomores jThe teacher's wages were $2.00 Kay Ward, Amy Warlick: Fresh-1 per week, I think, and board, men Sharon Ehlers, Darlene The scholars were thought to Murdoch. have made tolerable advance- ' The teacher, Pegsy Sand and ment under her tuition, as she 1 rjunils of district- 26, went to : acquired the reputation gener Lincoln Friday to tour places of ally among the people of being interest. Transportation w a 8a" Holiday Coupe. A Central Motort Value. Guess again! This striking Oldsmobile '"88" Holiday Coupe brings you new "hardtop" luxury . . . at a new low price! Yet it's distinctively Oldsiuobilc with all the new'-for-'o 1 features you'd expect to find only on higher-priced models. Dramatically new panoramic windshield! Lower, sweep-cut body design! Longer more rugged chassis! Livelier, more powerful "Rocket" Engine the most spectacular pet former in its class! Come in today see and drive this smart new Holiday! Best of all, double-check its sensational low price!. Once you do, you'll want to rocket away ... in Oldsmobile's budget-priced "83". Holiday! br o o k et" ENGINE furnished by Mrs. Robert Jame son, .Mrs. Joe Dietl, and J. L. Young and the teacher. - Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Hadley and family called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Wade Satur dav evening. Mr.' and Mrs. John Eaton and famiiy, were Sunday evening callers-at the Hadlev home. Mr: and Mrs. Joy Wander, Nebraska City, were afternoon total of all that has ever bee i perpetrated in the way of schools m this county as yet." I WThen public schools were.es-! tablished. they frequently con-1 sisted of the payment of pri vate teachers with public funds and making available to all the facilities of' the private schools. As the chairman of the board of education of Nebraska Citv explained, this seemed the best and supper, euests Thursday at thing to do: "anything less than the Charles Bates home. this did not seem fair to them Mr. and" Mrs: Bates called on .(the teachers) or the taxpayers; Mrs. ' Battle Suphin Sunday ! no class in the community de Sundav afternoon. Mrs. Sut-: served consideration more than phin's son. Barton, has been a those who have, amid discour-j patient this past week at Clark- son hospital in Omaha. , Mr. and Mrs. Ted Brannon en- agements, built up schools among us, and more policy would lead us to be cautious S SEE AND DRIVE IT AT YOUR NEAREST OLDS MOBILE DEALER'S CASS COUNTY MOTOR 607 1st Avenue Plattsmouth Dial 3210 SEE US FOR "ROCKET" SPECIALS S A F ETY-TESTED USED CARS! textaihedi Mr. and Mrs. Gu about extinguishing them by Murdoch ahl Darlene': at a waf- competition until we have pub- ! fie 'supper 'Monday evening. lie . funds sufficient to make ! ; Mrs. Emma Chriswisser va..a j their places good." I guest for the day Sunday of her inus, weorasKa s educational ' daughter, Mrs. Clarence Han- beginners were a combination Dr.' and Mrs.'L. N. Kunkel of support for that initiative. As Weening Water and Mrs. Ona the territory became more set Knnkel snent Sundav afternoon tied and its financial resources i at the Howard Snodgrass home developed, organized public at Union scnoois appeared in virtually ' Mr, and Mrs. Bob Romans and every community. . Here's -the 'Rest' of Hinky-Dinky's One page just wasn't big enough to hold all Hinky Dinky's Easter Values. That's why we're using this extra ad. Big, Big Yalues in every department all through the store. E VERB EST Pure Grape fl Jam, 12-oz. Jar ......... EIna Pure Strawberry PRESERVES sin. 49c Food Club Pure Oranjre Marmelade jtr.. 39c Crystal Clear KARO 5 YHUP m-Lb? Glass .. 23C Feed Club Enriched . FLOUR let'.. 51c Assorted Flavors ' FAly OKI jS 2 F 57c 10-Lb. Qfc Gag 2?t2w SALAD CSL Pint ' Gallon 429 Ccn Quart Can 71c SAVE 5c on V SWIFT'NING 3-I.b. 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