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THE PLATT5MOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Monday, August 29, 1955 JS:w::w Mrs. John Fischer Correspondent AG ........... .................................................... ........ , Friday eas. 0j Elmwood. Mrs. Jesse Westlak? had the; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ger misfortune to fail and break her hard and her parents, Mr. and riant arm a week ago. She has j Mrs. George Winkler attended been "suffering considerable pain, j the 50th wedding anniversary Milf ord Axe of Omaha was an , of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brun overnight visitors at the home ! kow at Alvo. of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scat tergood last Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Art Petersen of Omaha stopped over at the home of his cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Trumble last Tuesday af ternoon enroute home from Steele City, where Mr. Petersen is taking treatments and im proving in health Mr. and Mrs. William Trumble ! went to Colorado on last Thurs day morning returning home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Morton re ,0 i nfter enjoying a couple of weeks visiting in California with their two daughters and families and stopped over enroute home at another daughter s home in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley I Allen's. The Morton's made the! trip via plane. j Mrs. Maggie Lutjemeyer of ! Lincoln, visited last weekend at the home of her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Folken. School Grass Fire The Eagle fire department, wa.s called to the Eagle school house last Tuesday afternoon, when it was noticed by a passer by that the grass was afire. It was soon extinquished and no damages reported. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. John Vickers were dinner guests at the Wil liam Ketelhut home near Wal ton, last Saturday evening. On last Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rudolph and daughter Phyllis, of Malcolm, and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Heinrich and family of Pleasant Dale, called at the Chas. Scattersood home and visited with Mrs. Belle Jack of California, who is vis iting at the home of Mrs. Laura West and other friends. The Ru dolph's farmed the Jack home place, prior to the sale and the latter moving to her present home on the West coast. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Jack son returned home from Chica go, early Thursday morning, af ter spending several days vis iting their daughter and fam ily.. , Mr. and Mrs. Herman Folken and sen, Le Rov, and Mrs. Fol ken's mother, Mrs. Maggie Lut jemever, of Lincoln attended the wedding ceremony of Arva Jo Lutjemeyer and James Herman at the Dunbar Presbyterian church, last Sunday, Aug. 21. The bride is a granddaughter of Mrs. Lutjemeyer. Mrs. Joe Clinch of Omaha and Mrs. Eer Hansen and daugh ters of Murray: Mrs. William Winkler of Dunbar spent last Tuesday at the Harry Simonds home visiting their brother, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Simonds and family who are visiting his par ents from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Arley Simonds ... KARR Cr SOCHOR Auditors & Accountants Midits Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed th. 6287 Donat Building Wheel Balancing Save Tires Save Tie Rod Ends Save Wheel Bearings Enjoy Your Summer Trip DODCE Cr PLYMOUTH SALES & SERVICE USED CARS R.V.BRYANT Motor Co. 125 North 5th St. Plattsmouth Phone 283 1MIM""'i' MOT I AM NOW EQUIPPED TO DO TREE SPRAYING WITH THE VERY LATEST TYPE HICH PRESSURE SPRAY MACHINE Also Yards - Basements - Cribs Grainaries BILL'S 601 No. 9th and family, of Huron S. D. re-1 i urned home Friday morning af j tr spending a couple of days ; at the Harry Simonds home in ! Eagle. i Mr. and Mrs. George Winkler accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Hen j ry Fleishman to the "Cottage i Hill" district school picnic on last Ead.- . Attend Banquet Mrs. Lester Frohlich. Mrs. Nina Frohlich of Lincoln and Mrs. Billy Ketelhut attended the American Legion Auxiliary Banquet at the Lincoln Hotel in Lincoln last Monday evening. Mrs. Lester Frohlich and Mrs. Ketelhut also attended the past president's banquet on Sunday evening and as they were the delegates from the Eagle legion Auxiliary to the convention, they attended many of the business sessions. Eauk- Robert Westlake, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence West- 1 lake, was taken quite ill It was found to be tonsilitis. Mrs. Arthur Adams was able' to assume her duties at the cafe weeK, aner Demg ausenu; due to an injury of her foot. Several out-of-town friends 1 and relatives attended the fun- eral services of Arthur Hand-i rock on last Tuesday at the! Eagle Methodist church. j Harold Siekman of Hastings j left for his home on last Tues-! day evening after spending the! summer at the home of his! mother, Mrs. A. H. Siekman, i near Eagle. The former's son Kenneth, came on Monday from! Hastings and both returned! home on Tuesday. The latter has ! attended the University of Ne-i braska for a couple of years and: his father is an instructor in the Hastings high school. I Mrs. Alma Rohff of Lincoln! wras an overnight visitor at the j home of her friend Mrs. A. H. Siekman on last Tuesday and; Wednesday evenings. : Mrs. A. H. Siekman received; word on Wednesday that herj sister, Mrs. L. K. Eidenmiller, ' nnri dflrht.pr Maxinp nf T.in-I coin were leaving for California i process of moving. The lads by plane last Thursday morn-, from Plattsmouth Transfer are insr stopping over at Denver for; busy loading the glass show a short visit. Harold Siekman of 'cases into the semi, and trans Hastings accompanied them to porting them to the new loca Denver and visited his daush-: tion in the Masonic Building, ter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. ; The interior of the store has Osborne, for a few days before all been freshly redecorated and his school starts Sept. 5th at ; all of the new display cases and Hastings. Mrs. Eidenmiller and . shelving has been made by Lyle. Maxine will be gone two weeks. , He has a woodworking hobby Eacle and a romnleve set of n-ower Wulfs Return I tools. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wulf and), daughter Bethel and Mr. andKe-Pens Restaurant--Mrs? Rudolph Wulf went to vis- i Lou Beadleston has leased the it relatives in Canada. Staying! restaurant on south sixth street at the home of Fred Wulf in i from Phil Haldiman. She will j Swalwell. They also visited at the operate under the name of Lou's home of John and Herman ! Cafe, and is now open for busi Wulf. Other places of interest,! ness. visited were Banff National Park and Lake Louise. On the way Celebrating back they went through Wash- Bill Swatek is celebrating his ington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah, j 40th anniversary in business Remaining at Salt Lake City ajthis week According to statis day, and went through Temple ;tics any business that survives Square and heard two organ re-1 more than 20 years is doing citals. They left the next morn- d s0 Swateks is really ing via Wyoming and arrived; hnttino. a thousand home Tuesday night. ; battin a tnousancL Offutt Air Base Jobs Announced Civil Service examinations were announced todav for these icbs at Offutt Air Force Base: Senior Plumber and Stearrifit- ter, $1.85 per hour: Mason. $1.81 ner hour: Sheet Metal Worker, SI. 81 per hour; Onprating Engi neer (Water), $1.79 per hour; Sign Painter, $1.69 ner hour; In- sect & Rodent Exterminator, $1.57 ner hour Applicants must be cilizerts of tne unupti i&iaies. Apuncauuns must be filed with the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex aminers. Offutt Air Force Base, i 1 -r -r . i ni 1 1 : x; Room 404 Post Office, Omaha, before Sept. 15. Forms for filing may be obtained at thfU office 1 ! t, , :. -n ,n ! Blair, Plattsmouth. Nebraska or n,nti me TT0t. i Uvuiiv.il uiui ao v n-iiti lan, Missouri Valley, Red Oak, si-irl Rhptinndrah in Tnwa. and Shenandoah in Iowa. The Plattsmouth Journal Cass County's Greatest Newspaper PEST CONTROL Dial 7142 Piattsmouth, Nebr. r Miss Marilyn Mendenhall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Mendenhall, of Elmwood, first chosen "Miss Elmwood" was crowned "Miss Cass County" last Wednesday night at . 4 r e e t By Vern Waterman vv:v:.vv:.v-; New Look Feldhousen Drug has now completed the job of installing new floor covering. It looks very nice and was applied during the two evenings they were closed last week. Easy Doe! Grove Jewelry has begun the Take it Easy School has started and the children are once again crossing the street and highways. Police Chief John Hobscheidt had the ! school crossing lights in opera- I tion last week. It will take a j few days for the local motorists to get accustomed to stopping i at the avenue signs. Life of Riley Betty Sell of the Style Shop is eni ovine a vacation . . . Nor- man Ruback of the store of the same name has gone to Canada f Q fishinCT trin . . Henrv Hild ; O 1 stocked up on film from Chris- wisers and took off for the Iowa State Fair. . . . i 1 u; ? lls;, Next Monday's Journal will be published on Saturday because i of the Labor Dav weekend. All advertising should be in Fnday; noon for that edition. Your co- . i -.w--s-rt- j upeiauun aiwa,s . Nf-w Body Man- Mr. Lee Kussman is the new , body and fender man at Wiysel j auto. He comes to our commu ! nity from Auburn. His wife will i teach at the Jean School, near I Plattsmouth,-this year. Rev. George Smith Will Move to Omaha After Next Sunday About 50 persons from the Plattsmouth Communitv Church eathered for a farewell fellow ship at the home of Rev. and Mrs. George Smith last Tuesday evin?. Thf Smiths, who are transfer rin to Omah" nfter four years of ministry in Plattsmouth, wr" presented with gifts, a food shower, and a generous cash of fering. "Ten. more years in Platts mouth w?nuld have suited me inst fine." commented the re tiring pastor, "for in all my min istry I have never had the priv ilege of ministering to a more cooperative and receptive con gregation and we have made many friends in Plattsmouth whom we have come to appre ciate verv much. It has been a real challenge and a delight to Moo n Miss Cass County Crowned 'A 4 the Cass County Free Fair at Weeping Water. Herman Bornemeier, right, First District County Commissioner, crowned the new queen. She suc ceeds Susan Stone of Weeping Water. Journal Photo. a ceremony at ! bo a minister of the Gospel in ! this city." . I Rev. Smith will preach his ! farewell sermons next Sunday, exactly four years from the MJ i '" mm'w t-. XTl. T N Again . this year,.as in 1954, drouth conditions have robbed farmers in this area of an adequate corn crop. When water was needed to assure farmers of a bumper crop, there was none. No rain fell and in most: instances crop yield estimates fell, too. Total loss was reported by many. It could happen again in 1956. If it dees, why not be pre 'ri ; g ill Grove at 60th St. EXPERT OMAHA I f V - - 5 S J I I - time he preached his first ser mon here. His successor at the Plattsmouth Community church has not been named. Subscribe to The Journal Now! iujVei" ji i "i" n mjM .... ...!. , . . . . r y LET US SOLVE ANY WATER PROBLEM CONFRONTING YOU NO JOB TOO LARGE NO JOB TOO SMALL. Plattsmouth Phone 241 For Appointment CALL GLENVOOD 123 FOR INFORMATION AND APPOINTMENT Phone - Regent 0600 Omaha, Nebraska Merit Exams Will Be Given in State For Various Jobs Persons interested in a num-! ber of state jobs will be given j n ODDcrtunitv to Qualify for urch0PPemSment idnl such employment by taking Merit System examinations in t September 24. Examination ! centers - will be established throughout the Stats w7herever ; there are enough interested per ! sens in the area to justify such i a center. i These examinations will be given for positions in ti?e three State Departments of Health, i Public Welfare and Employment I Security. Many of the positions i will be in county welfare of ; fices, stata employment offices and local health departments. Most of the positions will be i clerical such as typists and : stenographers.. Others will be technical and professional posi tions such as Case Worker and County Director in Public Wel fare; Interviewers in Employ ment Offices and Nurses, X-Ray Technicians, Sanitarians and Laboratory Technicians i n Health - Departments. Several c f those who will take the examinations on Sept. 24 will be provisional employees who have ben appointed pro visionally until they can be fully qualified by examination. It is expected that many will be in terested in taking examinations for positions which they antici pate will be vacant at some fu ture date. Examinations are given on Wednesdays cf each week in the Merit System Office for all applicants who find it iu. i i.n.n n j , n n . . r . 1 f! 4 B " " , ml g ' ' -' u J L T i 5 convenient to take the examina- i tions in Lincoln. j Those interested in these po- ! sit ions should contact their J nearest State Employment Of- j fice, County Welfare Office or j mnro riof0iw infnlHnn r i Dlete inf0rmation may be se- ' u A, -I 7..ZX.'' 2ND SALK SHOT WASHINGTON More than 1. 000,000 youngsters have received their second Salk polio vaccine shots, with the South leading the way. All told, 6,500,000 first and second graders received a first shot and around 60 to 70 per cent of those children able to get a second shot have had it. A nation-wide . survey showed i me numoer oi poiio iaianues has dropped 46 per cent below i 1 1 1 t last year's level. In the key states supplying second shots, the decline has been 65 per cent. INSECTS ON FARMS Destructive insects are build- ing up tneir numoers on tne farms cf the country. Boll wee vils are increasing in the mat uring cotton fields of the South land, while grasshopper popula tions are becoming heavier in several states west of the Mis sissippi, according to the De partment of Agriculture. Euro pean corn-borers are being seen in the corn-growing states. Oth pests such as the alfalfa weevil ad the fig. wax scale are proving injurious to these crops. Federal authorities, in a series of raids, arrested eleven men and broke up what they called i one of the country's major nar- cotics rings. . El '.ME pared for it? Be equipped to give your crops water WHEN they need it through irrigation. Water can mean the difference between a bright future or one of disaster. You can insure your future NOW by investigating the possibilities of irrigating your land next year. By so doing, you can face the future with confidence. OFFER m 19 LTflWT SERVIC PORATIOH WW Indians Play at Home 6 of 9 Times vviuanwu watlk moihh Mta ! e..slx home football games nere tms year, staren? when the Indians host Table Rock on Sept. 9, according to a nine-game schedule released by Weeping Water superintendent of schools Art Thomsen. Home j games will start at 8 p. m. I About 30 boys have reported i to Coach Scott Willoughby for pj e-season practice. Waverly at Weeping Water on Oct. 21 will be homecoming. Here's the schedule. Sent. 9 Tablp Rock at Weep- fao Water J em. i6-Peru Prep at Weep- ing Water. Sept. 23 Weeping Water at Louisville. Sent. 30 Pawnee City at j Weeping Water. j Oct. 7 Syracuse at Weeping ; water. Oct. 14 Weeping Water at Adams. Oct. 21 Waverly at Weeping Water. Oct.' 28 Weeping Water at Lincoln Cathedral. Nov. 4 Humboldt at Weeping Water. Journal Want Ads Pay JIZBA&JIZBA Registered in Engineering and Architecture Design, Surveys. 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