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ICA Homogenized Vit. D Milk 6 qts. $1.00 3-Vi Gal. $1 Firm Ripe Bananas 2 lbs. 29c Fairmont or ICA 12 Cal. Ice Cream 89c Adams or Shurfine Orange Juice 6-01. Tin 10c Hi West Whole Kernel Corn 10-ox. Pkg. Pkg. 10c Stokely Chicken Pies 2 for 45c Shurfresh Margarine Lb. 19c Shurfine Fruit Cocktail 303 Tin 2 for 45c Giant Cheer 74c Less 10c 64c Pet Milk 2 for 25c Duncan Hines Angel Food Chocolate or White 49c Jello 3 Pkgs. 19c Del Monte Oranqe Juice 46-oz. Tin 25c Heinz Catsup 14-oz. Bottle 19c Cround Be & Pork 3 lbs. 79c Open Evenings Until 9:00 P. M. Monday Thru Saturday Use Our Free Parking Lot for Customers THE PLATTSMOUTH, PAGE SIX Bowling Independent League Filth Week Teams W L P Platts. Motors 14 4 13463 BREX Office 11 7 11886' Twin Gables 10 8 13254 BREX CARMEN .10 8 12348 1 Slanders Imp. Co. .10 8 10498 Modern Woodman ..9 9 12400, Fran & Estel's Cafe 9 9 12104 Soennichsen's 9 9 12257 Smiths Men's Wear 9 9 11613 Metz Beer 8 10 12246, Lions Club 6 12 12122, Minor Pontiac ... 3 15 11417 Season Records: Hi Team Game, Plattsmouth Motors, 878. Hi Team Series, Plattsmouth Motors 2440. L Hi Ind. Game, F. Green 220. Hi Ind. Series, F. Koehler 570. Weekly Records: Hi. Team Game, Plattsmouth Motors, 878. Hi. Ind. Game, F. Green 220. Hi. Ind Series, F. Koehler 570. Community League Fifth Week Teams W L P St. Pauls Mens Cb. 13 2 11041 Babbitts Bulldozers 12 3 10422 Platts Cleaners 10 5 10412 Cass Drugs 10 5 9851 Platts. State Bank . 7 8 9064 Murray Lockers 6 9 9412 Swatek Hardware . 5 10 9094 Platts. Transfer ... 5 10 8033 Alexander Motors . 4 11 9728 Knorr's 5 & 10 3 12 9621 Season records: Hi Team Game, St. Pauls Men's club 808. Hi Team Series, St. Pauls Men's club 2361. Hi Ind. Game, P. Weyer 223. Hi Ind. Series, P. Weyer 569. Weekly Records: Hi Team Game, Babbitt's Bull dozer 722. Hi Team Series, St. Paul's Men's Club 2240. Hi Ind. Game P. Weyer 223. Hi Ind. Series, P. Weyer 569. Shrine Circus Set April 11 at Omaha Some of the nation's leading circus performers will provide thrills and entertainment when the Shrine Indoor Circus opens for a six-night stand Monday, April 11, in Omaha's new Civic Auditorium. The 60-act show produced by Rink Wright will have great variety. Aerial performers will include the Five Coronas bal ancing on the high wire, the Flying Constellations doing high jinks on their revolving plane and the Honey Girls, a quartet of acrobats. There will be the Seven Ash tons, foot jugglers; a fast and colorful skating act, and the Simru Duo, who do their adagio dancing on a glass platform. Animal performers will include Tom Peck's elephants, the fam ed Thompson White Horse troupe, and dog, horse and pony acts. "Shamrock Dare," a danc ing stallion, will be presented by Erna Rudynoff. esides the evening shows, there will be matinees Friday and Saturday. Softball Practice Set Tuesday Night Softball practice for anyone ; interested in playing on a team this summer will be held at the softball field Tuesday starting at 6 p.m., Bob Gall, team man ager has announced. Gall said anyone interested may take part in the practice. CHAMP Cr RESISTOL HATS ARROW SHIRTS WEMBLEY TIES INTERWOVEN SOX JOHNSONIAN SHOES SAMSONITE LUGGAGE CAPPS SUITS SMITH'S MEN'S WEAR 5th & Main Plattsmouth NEBRASKA, SEMI WEEKLY IOURN A! Monday. April 11. 1955 Tricky Lorcne "Butch" Moore, Cara way, Ark., greatest shot in girls basketball, fabulous trick ball handler. Fancy passer and su- j per-duper faker with Olson's All- American Red Heads, is the greatest scorer in history of girls basketball. Sixth season with Red Heads, "Butch" will be in the starting line-up for the Red Heads when they meet V. F. W. men's team Wednesday, April 13, 8:00, at Plattsmouth high school. Timms, Bryant ! Stay in First j Though Losing i Timms and Bryants lost two j of three games each in Platts- ! mouth duck pin bowling last ' week but remained tied for first place in the standings. Stander clipped Timms 2 of 3 as J. Horn rolled high series of 447 and J. Fulton had high game ! for Stander with F. Tschirren leading Timm's with 428 series : and C. Hula high game roller with 157. USAR won 2 of 3 over Bryant's with M. Bradley USAR high man With 196 and 476; C. Meisinger ; rolled 164 for Bryant high game , and G. Winscot had 443 for se- j ries. VFW swept a 3-game series from Stites to hold fourth place. Hanston was high game roller for VFW with 169 and J. Ingwer son had 471 high series; D. Wuelling had Stites high with 171 and 444. Corner Bar held to third with a 2-of-3 win effort over Ofes. L. Swoboda led Corner Bar with 173 and 457 while L. Rakow led Ofes with 172 and 441. Ernies took 2 of 3 from Feidhousen with O. Ross leading Ernies with 165 and 446. L. Forrest led Feid housen with 186 and 455. Welcome Inn won 2-of-3 over Storz with B. Loneum leading Welcome Inn with 159 and 395; J. Waydock with 174 and 406 led Storz. Paint store had a 3 straight win over Myers. P. Heil had 156 and G. Bonik 44 high series for Paint Store; T. j Tobin had high game 156 and D. i Wolf high series 396 for Myers. Firestone took a 2-of-3 series ' from Eagles with C. Thomason high game, 173, and series, 419, 1 tor Firestone and C. Styles lead i ing Eagles with the only over i 200 game oT the week and a high series score of 453. The standings: W L Timms 40 29 Bryant 49 29 Corner Bar 47 31 VFW 46 32 Stander 45 33 Feidhousen 42 36 Firestone 42 36 Paint Store 37 41 Ernies 36 42 Welcome Inn 36 42 Ofes 35 43 Stites 35 43 Eagles 34 44 Myers 32 46 USAR 31 47 Storz Zebras 28 50 McMillian Rites Were Held Here Services for James F. McMil lian. 72, of Bell. Calif., former lv of Omaha and the father of James F. McMillian of Platts mouth, were held in Plattsmouth at the Caldwell-Linder Funeral home Friday afternoon. Burial was in Forest Lawn cemetery at Omaha. Rev. Erwin Keil conducted the funeral rites with the Veterans of Foreign Wars in charge at the grave. Music Wo s by Mr. Raymond Cook and Mrs. J. Howard Davis. Bsarers were Al Huebner, Hen ry Nolting, Fred Rutherford Walter Sikora, Ray Wiysel, and Joe York. Mr. McMillian was born on June 27, 1882, at Shreveport, La., and was married to Blanche Freads who preceded him in death at Omaha in March 1920 He lived in Omaha for 30 years and then in Bell, Calif., for 18 years. He was a bank guard. A Scanish-American War vet eran Mr. McMillian was a mem ber of the Methodist church. He is' survived by two daugh- Invading Poppy Sellers Scattered By Local Citizens Plattsmouth veterans organiz ations lost several nickles, quar ters, dimes, and half dollars tc Omaha Saturday morning when five members of an Omaha chanter of the Disabled Ameri can Veterans invaded the down town streets and began selling small imitation flowers in a fund raising campaign. The Plattsmouth American Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars began a clamor over the mavor's telephone and the in vaders were asked to leave. They did so about 10 a m. The Plattsmouth Legion's pop py day is May 7 and the VFW poppy day on May 28. And that's enoungh for Platts mouth people, the organizations figure. Elmwood Election Results Announced EUVTWOOD (Special! Omer Bornemeier and Frank Turner became members of the town board here and Howard Fool and Dr. Glen Knosp were elected to the board of education in the regular April election. Here's the vote tabulation for the town board: Bornemeier 105; Turner 94; Dick Engles 89 and Claude Johnson 72. For board of education: Pool 179; Dr. Knosp 109; Sanford Clements 108; Swain Nielsen 108. Vote on the sewer system car ried 107 to 87 and the question of using water meters failed 85 to 107. Skelton Services Held Here Friday Services for John S. Skelton of La Platte were held Friday afternoon at the Sattler Funeral home in Plattsmouth. Rev Keith Delap officiated. Burial was in La Platte cemetery. Music was by Mrs. Hugh Stan der. Jr., soloist, and Mrs. George Jacobs, organist. Bearers were Albert Burton, Harry Rahn, Charles Haecke, Jess Clint, Frank Ohava, and Dan Hoschar. Mr. Skelton died April 5 at Lincoln. He had been ill for sev en years. Mr. Skelton was born on March 15, 1924, at Omaha, the son of Jeremiah and Alice Dav idson Skelton. He was not mar ried. He had lived in La Platte for a life time and was a member of the Presbyterian church there. Surviving are his father, Jer emiah; three sisters, Mrs. John Sander, San Pedro, Calif.; Mrs. Earl Fletcher, Chicago, 111.; Mrs Charles Ducker of Fort Crook: two brothers, Ellis Skelton of La Platte and Jeremiah Skelton Jr., of Kearney. ters, Marlene McMillian and Maxie McMillian of Omaha, and one son, James F. McMillian and two grandchildren, of Plattsmouth. mens and you can prove it! 625 AVENUE A Presbytery Will Be Held at Murray The spring meeting of Nebras ka Presbytery end Presbyterial will be held in the United Pres byterian Church in Murray on Tuesday and Wednesday. Aoril 12 and 13. The Presbytery meets at 1 p. m., while the women's Presbyterial will meet at 2:30 o. m., at which time there will be a joint meeting. Dr. W. J. Grossman, nastor of the Central Church, Omaha, will preach. Another joint meeting will be held in the evening at 7:45, with an address by Miss Marguerite McClellan, missionary on fur lough from the Sudan, Africa. At the women's meeting on Wednesday, Miss Wilma Mintier will speak at 10 o'clock. Mis Mintier is director of children's work in the board of Christian Education in Pittsburgh. Pa., ard is an authority on work with boys and girls. The public is these meetings. invited to all and workers with youth will be especially in terested in Miss Mintier's add ress. Approximately 50 men and women are expected to at tend these meetings from churches throughout eastern Ne braska, and they will be enter tained over night by members of the Murray Church. Cornhusker State Delegates Chosen By Eagle Group EAGLE (SDeeiali Rav Hoov er has been selected to represent Eap? at the Ccrnrmsker Bovs c-tnf? n cavities at the Univer ?ty of Nebraska in June this vear, it has been announced here. Myra Richards was the choice for Girls State. Janice Frdh lich was announced as alternate. Both girls have been honor students during their hih school years and active in school and church activities as well as 4 H club work. Turkey seeks $300,000,000 cred it from U. S. Basket Ball THE RED HEADS World Champion Cirls Basketball Team VS. Plattsmouth VFW HIGH SCHOOL GYM Wed., April 13 -8:00 p.m. Adm. 50c Students $1.00 Adults I NO Windham Rites Wednesday At Plattsmouth Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, April 6, at 2:00 p. m. at Caldwell-Linder Funeral Chapel, Plattsmouth. for Miss Hermia Elizabeth Wind ham. Reverend Keith Delap offici ated. Mrs. Robert Painter sang with Mrs. H. G. McClusky ac campanying at the organ. The pall bearers were Ciement Wost er, Vernon Waterman. Lester Dalton, Robert Walling, Dean Morrison and Herbert Minor. At Oak Hill Cemetery a grave side ceremony was conducted by the officers of the Bud of Prom ise Rebekah Lodge No. 40, Platts mouth, wjth Rev. Delap con cluding the services. Out-of-town relatives here to attend the services included Mr. and Mrs. A. H. St urges, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sturges and their son, Stephen Patterson Sturges of Omaha, and Miss Jennie Kathryn of Oak Park, 111. Mrs. Kathryn Windham of Oak Park, I 111., Mrs. Virgil Perry, cousin en tertained them at noon dinner. Hermia Elizabeth Windham ! was born at Plattsmouth, June i 8, 1880, to Robert Baxter and Jennie Patterson Windham. When three years of age, she was stricken with a severe ill ness which permanently im paired her health. She received her education in the city schools and joined the Methodist church at an early age. Her mother died when she was 16 years old, leaving her husband and eignt children. Hermia devoted her life to her father and the young er brothers and sisters, and in later years, when her brother, Robert's wife died, she also assumed the responsibility of his little girls 'Jennie. Kathryn and Lorene, whom she reared, mak ing a home for them and her father until his death in 1925. Always fond of children. Miss Hermia taught beginning music to small children and had a f class in the Methodist Sunday school for several years. A keen i x lover of music, the lmns meant ! a great deal to her and she al- I ways sang with enthusiasm, i j i R PONTIAC PLATTS MOUTH Miss Windham was a member of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution and the Re bekah Lodge. She was a faithful attendant at church and the women's so ciety meetings. In later years she transferred her letter to her mother's church the Presbyterian, which she at tended regularly and was ac tive in the Wome'ns Association. Due to increasing ill health about 1950. she removed to the 1. O. O. F. Home at York.She fell in October, 1954, and in jured her back severely, but in spite of good care her condition required hospitilization, and she was taken to Lincoln where she remained until her death April 2, 1955. 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