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THE PLATTSimOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Weeping Water Mrs. Edward Van Horn Mr. and Mrs. Charles free man, Mrs. Carl Rector, Mrs Ed Freeman and Mr. and Mrs Fid ward Van Horn attended the Re viv il mi etmus at the Christian Church in Klmwood Tuesd ty t veiim R' v. Franklin Witter was the e.uest speaker. Mrs Witter Ml:? a solo. Rev. Witter past, r of the Weeping Water Christian Church fur two years following Woiid War - Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schullz and three mi. is (if Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Del Schultz of College View and Mr. aial Mrs. Ray Mayfield were Sunday guests ol Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Livingston. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lorensen -took her father, Amos Cnppen -to the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln on Wednesday after .iiccn for observation and sur gery. Mary Aiice Wood and Sandra 'Jameson attended the F'me Ar's .Festival at the University uf Nebraska, School of Fine Arts, Department of Music the pa-t Saturday. Mary Alice played an . oboe solo accompanied at the - piano by Sandra. Hruce Jameson, son of Mtv and Mrs. Robert Jameson, was one of eleven students at the Universi'y of Nebraska to take part in an Intercollegiate Live stock judging contest at Iova State University at Ames, Iowa: on Saturday Merle Cooke of Fremont spent Friday night and Saturday with; Mrs. Ella Cook and Mrs. Maude: Philpot. Friday evening guests of Mr : and Mrs. Alvin Groesser and family were Mr. and Mrs. Ras mus Lauritzen and Alice, Mr. and Mrs Rasmus Lauritzen. Sr.. Mrs. Blanche Sr.ell, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Snell and family and Mrs. Chris Snell of Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. J. E Jenkins and Mrs. Gertie Dill of 'Murray, and; Mr. and Mrs. Pete Petersen of! Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Petersen showed pictures taken of a re-1 cent trip they had taken to Den mark, i Vicky and Becky Van Horn of; Springfield spent Saturday and' Sunday with their grandparents. , Mr. and Mrs. Edward Van THOMAS WALLING CO Plattsmorrfc, Nebraska Abstracts of Title "Title Insurance" Get more from every acre WITH NORTHRUP KING I J MUM tt" - - f '..IX IU1 il v w r i - ... ORDER NOW FROM OSCAR OLSON Greenwood Phone 789-2534 LEWIS KOUTSKY Elrnwood Phone 994-2621 Monday, April 23, 1962 - - Phone 252-W Horn. Carol and John. Cindy and Laury Van Horn spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Block. Connie and Roma. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bailor and Dickie of Nehawka wt re Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Alma Bemer. Mrs. Raymond Lauritzen (I Neligh vis, till over the wiekcud with Mr. and Mrs. Rasmus Lau ritzen, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kraeeer of I'lattsmou h were Sunday eve ning guests of Mr. and Mrs. Har old Meisinger and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Free man visited from Thursday eve ning until Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Leo McCann of Grand Island and with Mr. and Mrs Robert McCann and family of' St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Michel sen and family have moved into their new home from the Wr.l lick apartment. They sold thtir former house to Frank Wade and he moved it on a lot up the Avenue. Some cf the Senior class have been picking up corn. The Jun ior Class picked up corn cn Sat urday near Manley. Mr and Mrs. Richard Nickels and Carol Nickels were Wednes day evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Upton and family, j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Olsen of; Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin McReynolds were evening din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hall of Omaha, honoring Mr.. Oisen on his birthday. Sunday dinner guests of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Baker, Sr.: were Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Rose and R. D. Wollen of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Ward of Lin coln. Mrs. Alma Berner and Mrs. Rasmus Lauritzen, Sr. were Monday callers of Mrs. Arthur Jones. Mr, and Mrs. Richard Laarit-. zen and sons and Mr. and Mrs. : Thomas Akeson were afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rasmus Lauritzen, Jr. on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Mutter of Wymore were Wednesday overnight guests and Thursday guests of .Yr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson. They ail attended the R.bekah convention on Thurs day at the Cass County Audito rium Sunday evening guests of Mr and Mrs. Fred kirchhoff were Mr. and Mrs. John Kirchhoff and Cheryl 0f Elrnwood. Michael F itzpatrick. ' son of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Barkhurst. ' underwent eye surgery at the Bryan Memorial hospital on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Reckara returned home from a visit widi Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reckard a Lookout Mountain, Tennessee Mrs. Reckard is staying at Rest Haven Home. Mrs. Fred Holt was released from the Bryan Memorial has pital in Lincoln on Monday and will stay for a week with Mr and Mrs. David Tuma and fam ily at Seward. Arnold Upton presided at tht? quarterly board meeting of the Christian church. It was voted that the church would sponsor the sending cf the Nebraska Christian into all .he church homes for another year. This is o paper published for the Christian churches The date for the annual meeting of the church has been set for July 1. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jewell and tw0 sons spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Davis at Jefferson, Iowa. They aiso visited with some friends. Seniors who attended College Day at the University of Nebras ka April 14 were Bevely Lee, TRUE BALANCE The scale of confidence balances cn your trust in your doctor and your faith in our registered phar macists. Every new product of nedical science is available here o fill Cvery prescription need! CASS DRUG Walgreen Agency Dial 21S9 : Linda Lane. Alue Lauritzen, Wayne Detmer, Ronald Gochen our, Linda Rehmeier and Steven Ci. ;n. Mrs. F lorence Paap took the girls to Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berg mann and Debbie were Tuesday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mtismger and family. Tin- Freshmen Class enter tained at a Mixer on Friday mgiu in the school gym for the inch school students and the faculty. Archie's Dischords play ed for the dance. Cooki-es and pop were served for refresh uu nt.s I);a:ie Ratliff and Aiice Mas sot h entertained at a Slumber Party following the F'reslimen Mixer oa Friday night at the Ratli If home. The girls attend ing were Shirley Upton, Carol Nickels. Georgia Ludwick, Mary Alice Wood, Janice Domingo and Beverly I'hilpot. Mr. 'and Mrs. Ray Smith of Hartington were Saturday over-, night and Sunday guests of Mr. ' and Mrs. Oscar Domingo and family. Mr. Smith went to the cioctor in Omaha on Monday! and then they returned to their home. Mis. Harold Domingo took Ken.ath Domingo, Steven Gwin and Khhard Hoiiman to Lincoln on Tuesday where they pur- : chased the coaches gifts for the Athletic banquet. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Van Horn. Cindy and Laury ot Springfield were Sunday afternoon guests ol Mrs. Roy Conley. They were evening guesLs of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Van Horn and John. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wilson en tertained at a pinochle party on Friday evening. The high score prizes went to Leroy Haveman and Mrs. Glen Kirchhoff, low ! score prizes to Elton Blaikie and j Mrs. Robert Crownover and j traveling prize to Mrs. Richard j Wilson. Mrs. Wilson served re freshments. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lane and j Martha of Millard brought din-1 ncr to the heme of Mr. and Mrs. George Bates on Sunday and i they shared it. Afternoon guests at tne Bates home were Mr. and Mrd. James York of Lincoln and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith of Hartington. Mr. and Mrs. Flar-: lan Gibson were evening lunch guests. ! Erma Kirchhoff accompanied ; Doris Carlson back to Lincoln i and they arrived in to Lincoln Saturday evening. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hy Kirchhoff met her in Lincoln and she visited until Monday evening. The girls had to be back to work at St Paul,. Minnesota on, Wednesday. Leo Kirchhoff of Omaha is ' spending the Easter Vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Hy Kirchhoff ' and was able to visit with his sister. They were all Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kirchhoff and gins. After noon guests were Mr. and Mrs. W-rnon Dettmer, Nancy and Na dir.e cf Avoca. A balloon birthday tree and candles that refused to .stay blown out along with many lovely gifts and the traditional birthday cakes and ice cream helped to ake a happy birthday for Barbara Gayle Meeske of Omaha on her third birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Gayle Meeske, Barbara and Terry were Sunday dinner guests. Guests joining them for the party and gift opening were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meeske and sons, Mr. and Mrs. o. E. Domingo and Betty, Lois Livingston of Ne hawka and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith of Hartington. Barbara had two birthday cakes. One had trick candles which kept re lighting, and after much blow ing a perplexed little girl said to her grandmother, "You blow them out." Mr. and Mrs. Harold Domingo attended the Athletic banquet Thursday evening in the Cass County Auditorium. Randall Ratliff of Omaha spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Haroid Domingo and sons. Sunday afternoon a new com bination game of baseball was played at the Domingo home with a short round gourd as the bat and a volleyball as the baseball, with the wierdest re fere ring. The boys enjoying this NEW game were Kenneth and Tom Djniingo, Randall Ratliff. Robert Domi.igo. Ronald Ratliff. enour, Steven Gwin and Rich ard Wozney. Mr. and Mrs. Hy Kirchhoff, Leo Kirchhoff of Omaha and Erma Kirchhoff of St. Paul, Minnesota visited on Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Dettmer of Avoca with Mrs. Henrietta Kirchhoff. They also called on Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ebert. Sun day evening they attended a birthday party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Minder man of Syracuse, honoring Mrs. Mmderman on her birthdav. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jacobsen of Syracuse and Henry and Minnie Grafe of Avcca. Mrs. John Lingle and Mrs. John Rii pe of Avoca were rri day afternoon euests of Mrs. Hy Kirchhoff. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Carsten of' Avoca were Friday dinner guests I - Mr- and Mrs. Louis Aligayer. tas Frosn Mrs. Frank Hurlbut Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Marvin re turned home Friday after spending the winter at Fort Pierce, Fla. Sunday evening visitors with Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Marvin were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Knolle, Neil and Janey of Sioux City, Iowa and Mr" Mary Knolle and Gor don Meldrum of Lincoln. i Tuesday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boiler and Ro bert honoring Robert's birthday were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Boiler and Emil Meisinger. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Claycomb , and Dennis visited with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kneleskamp and Mrs. Ella Claycomb at Platts mouth Sunday. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs Jack Fritch and Mrs. Dora Miller were Mrs. Miller's sister Ms. Mabel Beckman and her son and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Dan Beckman and family all of Omaha. Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O'Rourke in honor of their son Mark's second birthday were Mrs. Rose Mc Donald. Mrs. Mary Jackson, E. L. McDonald, Alaura O'Rourke and LeRoy Love. Cake and ice cream was served. Alaura O'Rourke was a Sun day dinner guest at the Roy Love home. Joe Pershing drove Mrs. Clara Pershing, Mrs. Rosa Fries and i Mrs. Wayne Rogers to Murdock ; Sunday afternoon to visit with j Mrs. Mary Streick and Miss Ly-i dia Streick. j Sunday afternoon visitors at the Virgil Barber home were ; Mr. and Mrs. Sid Hruby and family of Lincoln. Sunday evening visitors at the Charles Carpenter home were their son-in-law and daughter: Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cunning of' Lincoln. ! Mr. and Mrs. Turley Wall at-! tended the Golden Wedding An niversary honoring Mr. and Mrs. Major Roblyer of Havelock, i Sunday Friday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Haroid Pilfold were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wallen and Mrs. Urma James of Ashland. Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Grace Walradt were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Marolf and Mrs. Min nie Marolf. They ail drove to Omaha that afternoon p.nd call ed on Mr. and Mrs." Andy Wal radt. Sunday lunch guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boiler were Mr. Royal Neighbors Of State Meet LOUISVILLE (Special i Mrs. Vesta Urwin, district deputy of the Royal Neighbors of America and Mrs. Mary T h e i 1, Sr. of Murdock accompanied Mrs. Mary Larson of Lincoln to Al liance, Thursday morning to at tend the Royal Neighbors State Convention Thursday through Saturday. They returned home Sunday. The convention was held at the City Auditorium and was opened by a lariat drill put on by the various camps in north west Nebraska. Performing were 214 ladies dressed in identical checked gingham dresses of twelve different colors. Friday nocn luncheon was served by the Eagles Club with 220 members in attendance. A barbershop quartet provided the entertainment. Friday afternoon and evening sessions were highlighted by a drill by the American Legion Junior Drill team in "Presenta tion of the Flag." The banquet held Friday eve ning at the Elk's Club was at tended by 319 members of the Royal Neighbors. After the breakfasts on Sat urday, the election of new of ficers for the net state conven tion was held. It will be held in Broken Bow. Also held was the election of delegates to the Sup reme Camp which will convene in Denver, late in June of this year. Saturday's luncheo n was given by the Elk's club and was attended by 128 members. BOOT AND SPUR ! The Boot and Spur 4-H Club met April 14 at the home of Leader Mrs. Wayne Meisinger. I Meeting was called to order by President Harry Spangler. , Clarence Schmadeke, Coun ty Extension Agent, explained how to fill out our 0-10-2's. ; Mrs. Meisinger explained the: rules for riding and showing horses. Mary Ann Spangler gave a: talk on "Care of Horses." Jimmy Meisinger showed the equipment necessary to care for a horse. Marriage is a process of find ing out what kind of a guy y uir w.fe would have pi'tiened. Quonset Scout. 1 firesnwesd Phone 789-3435 i and Mrs. Fred Snyder of Fre ' mont. Mr. and Mrs. Boiler spent 'Sunday evening at the Ashley ! Boiler home of Ashland. ' Mr. and Mrs. John Gakemeier I of Faribault. Minn., are spend- ing Mr. Gakemeier's Easter vaca ' tion week from teaching with ; Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Grady and ; ether relatives. Mrs. Rose McDonald and Mrs. Mary Jackson called on Eizy 1 Winget of Ashland Saturday. Mrs. Winget, the former Hazel Hoenshell of Greenwood, is a patient at the University hos pital in Omaha. Thursday visitors w it h Mrs. i Rose Palmquist were Mr. and i Mrs. Fred Schwegman of Eagle and Sunday visitors were Mr. ' and Mrs. Martin Mashenka and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Simmons ail of Lincoln. Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Osburn were Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Osburn and family of Gretna. E. A. Landon was Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Landon and they visited with Mrs. E. A. Landon at the Bryan Memorial hospital in the afternoon. Mrs. Norma McNurlin enter tained the Deal-a-Deck pinochle club Thursday afternoon. ! Mrs. Alta Keller and Betty of Lincoln called at the Joe Kyles home Sunday. Mrs. James Voehl, Vicki and Larry and Mrs. John Grady and Colleen attended the music re cital given by Mrs. Carl Sutton at Alvo Sunday afternoon. Vicki participated in the recital. Sunaay dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bell were Mr. and Mrs. Duane Lastroh and family and August Lastroh of Lincoln and John Grady. New residents' in the E. M. Fulmer place vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradley, are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kunz ana baby formerly of Elrnwood. Mrs. Dee Card was guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Short of Lin coln both Friday evening and Saturday evening in honor of Mrs. Card's birthday which was Friday the 13th. Mrs. Short and Mrs. Card attended a play at Northeast High Friday evening and she was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Short at the C on gr ess Inn Saturday evening. Mrs. Roy Tennant and Lcnnic left for Long Pine to attend the funeral of Mrs. Tennant's uncle Clarence Bain. Mrs Tennant's parents Mr. and Mrs. John Hig gins of Beatrice accompanied Mrs Tennant and Lonnie. For BETTER LIVING ELECTRICALLY fff n you pay the 5th lowest hill J in the nation . . . Sv lust $6.26 for 250 KWH per Acc era1 in.s to the latest Federal Power Commission survey 0t residential rates for electricity, Xehraskans are amony; a fortunate low in the nation. Re.-idents of -to states - includin: all ol Nehi a-ka's lte-igl.t'oritiu sLite.- pay more or month for lioij kilowatt-hours cf fk-cU'ici'y than do NdTuikans. ir Play School May 7-11 At Weeping Water WEEPING WATER i Special t ; Homemaking s t u d e n t s ; of Weeping Water High School are looking forward to Play i School to be held in the Home making Room on May 7. 9 and 11. Due to schedule difficulties, it will be necessary to hold the I'lay School from 10 to 12 this , year. Girls will call for the youngsters who live wi'h'tn walk ing distance. The Play School will be dismissed at 12 and the girls will again return those youngsters who live within walk ing distance. Rural children and those who live boyei. d walking dis'ance are asked to have their parents bring them. Children should have cele brated their third birthday in order to bo eligible. F'lease contact Mrs. Jane rederson. office secretary, or Mrs. Arnold Detmer. Home making instructor, at the school to make reservations by Friday. April 27. Since only twelve can adequately be cared for at the j time, a second play school will be .scheduled for May 14, 16, and! 18 if there is enough demand. I Twenty-four children were en rolled in Play School in each of the last two years with two sec tions of twelve each both years. It has served as a mutual benefit for youngsters and j Homemaking girls. ' Obituary Mrs. Anna Catherine Braack LOUISVILLE (Special i Mrs ; Anna Ca herine Braack died : Sunday, April 15 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lester Mumm. 4324 Ohio St., Omaha, at the age of 7Q years. She had been in poor health for several months. Her husband preceded her in death in 10.55. She was also pre ceded in death by three sons. Survivors are three daughters. Mrs. Lester Mumm and Miss Gladys Braack both of Omaha , and Mrs. Arthur i Delia i Kuhr. Blair: four sons.. Herman, Albu querque, N. Mex., Loyd of Louisville, ILirky and Henry of Omaha; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Holline and Mrs. Louise Nolte both of Omaha; two brothers. John Logemann, Bennington, and George Locemann of Mil lard; six een grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services were Thursday at 1:33 p.m. from the Kremer Fu neral Home with interment at the riower Hill Cemetery, Om aha. PPrayer services were held. Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. at the mortuary. Synthetic from Grass how o d D it. isn't it?- Hursehair is Made Headline. That's .bbin himself made Arkansas Gazette. Obituary FK.WC IS It. AKESON Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Cald-well-Linder Chapel for Francis R. Akeson, who died April 13 at an Omaha hospital. He was born Nov. 20, 1907 at Weeping Water, son of the late Thomas and Edith Gilmore Ak eson, where he lived the earlier part of his life. On Nov. 20, 1937 he was mar ried to Emma Tigner at Union. He and his wife made their home in Plattsmouth the past 30 years. lie had worked for the Tum pa.ve Co. at Olfutt, until two ars ago when he started work at Soennichsen's. Because of ill health he retired in November. Mr. Akeson was member of the Christian Church. Survivors are the wdfe of Plattsmouth; son, Thomas E. Akeson, Omaha, two grandchil dren; three brothers, Clarence Akeson of IMatLmouh, Thomas Akeson of Weeping Wa ter and James Akeson of Lin coln; sister, Mrs. Ellen Wallick, Davenport, la., several nieces and nephews. Rev, J. W. Taenzler, pastor of the Christian Church, officiated at the services. Mrs. Twyla j jn appreciation .. . I sincerely thank the people of Plattsmouth and each City Official and Employe with whom I have worked through two terms as Mayor. No town could offer more wonderful co-operation and unfailing support than our City gave to me. I leave my office PROUD TO HAVE SERVED YOU. - Grant Roberts, Retiring Mayor 'all r0 stale;, the average monthly bill is S7.1.5. In 3,")o Nebraska communities, the source of low cost electricity is Con sumers Public Power District con stantly at work to provide you with extra electrical value ut no extra coot. CONSUMERS PUBLIC POWER mm Hodge was In charge ot music. Casket bearers were Sam Am, Ray Bourne, Howard Kennell, I Kenneth Morenead, Lee Piper ! and Floyd Sharnow. Burial was in Oakwood Cem i etery at Weeping Water w ith i Caldwell-Linder in charge. LEAVE YOUR FAMILY A iffyW.. ...NOT A MORTGAGE! Suppot .om.thtnQ hopp.nd to you. Wtvldn'l you liko la loovo your homo wort, ago froo? for at littlo at 1 por nl you ion buy aur Mortgage Cancoltation Plan. For atelailt tail or writ.: CLEM WOSTER Phone 6297 Plattsmouth, Nebr. month! rtrsma n 1