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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1920
Page
6
A shopping note promotes Union Table Damask in two widths presented as nearly all linen and hard to distinguish. It advertises special prices at 2.50 and 3.50 dollars per yard for the material.
Mr and Mrs Frank Wheeler visit Norfolk Neb for a week. Faymond Larson resigns as cashier of the Bank of Commerce in Plattsmouth and returns to work at the local port office. Herman Pautsch recovers from a serious automobile train collision. Councilman William Stohiman and wife host a family dinner with relatives from nearby towns. A seventeen month old girl fractures her arm after falling from a bed. John Schoeman reports strong wheat crop activity in Perkins and Ogallala regions with high harvest volumes. Grant grows an opera house, land sells from 60 to 100 dollars per acre.
Local notices recap residents traveling to Denver Pueblo Lincoln and Garden City. Families report health updates land purchases and upcoming events including a Greenwood picnic and Mennonite World Conference travel.
Chas Renner recovers from illness and multiple operations and is able to be out again. The Eagle Beacon notes a string of local moves and rumors as residents travel, visit Denver and Colorado Springs, and a suggestion arises for a vigilance committee amid nightly thefts and petty crimes.
Grandpa Woodruff of Stanton Nebraska visits daughter Mrs G Bailey this week. Francis Parish vacationing with aunts Mrs Glen Vallery and Mrs Jim Fill in Murray and Plattsmouth. A J Leonard of Nehawka and family occupy Grandma Beck house while he starts a blacksmith shop. Chas Peck frames a 28 by 2 foot barn for Mr Oehlerking west of town. Dr G G Douglas gardens and jokes about grafting a Kansas sunflower with a pumpkin tree.
A Victorian advert proclaims Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly successful for bowel complaints. It claims quick relief for ordinary diarrhoea and cholera morbus, noting use in nine epidemics of dysentery and recommending dilution with water and sugar for pleasant tasting dosage. It urges every family to keep the remedy on hand.
Fort Worth Texas reports a 1920 population of 100,452, up 3,170 since 1910 or 45.2 percent making it the eighteenth city over 100000 and the total rising to sixty eight. Crane county tops as the least populous county with 37 residents, thirty fewer than Cochran.
Help wanted ad from T H Pollock Auto Co seeking two first class automobile mechanics for permanent employment with good wages. Advertisement dated 4t-d 2t-w.
Mrs. Peter Herold and her children travel by the Burlington early to Omaha to visit friends and handle some business.
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