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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1932
Page
2
Alvo residents plan a Methodist Ladies Aid meeting this week and a Ladies Reading club session hosted by Mrs. Quick. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. George Braun of South Bend with Alvo families. Activities cover corn harvesting, tonsil surgery in Omaha, cemetery cleanup, early spring prep, and grain elevator moves by Coatman and Ekinner.
R Kirkpatrick, aged 87, recounts a Thanksgiving visit at the old homestead. He praises a roast duck dinner prepared by his niece Clara Margaret and notes a birthday cake was excellent. Glenn Lewis and family joined him for a Sunday meal with a musical program from the Lewis orchestra. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is visiting California and will return after the holidays.
Unnamed lifelong resident Uncle Phil Linch born November 29 15350 in Decatur county Indiana moved to Iowa in 1856 and Nebraska in 1869. On a warm Thursday he visited Dinges garage and returned to a crowded home where friends hosted a surprise party with a bountiful supper and gifts from a distant district.
A brief notice recalls a Thanksgiving gathering at Mrs. Lizzie Lewis home with Neal, Carl, Glen and families present. The event highlighted a warm family reunion atmosphere during the holiday.
The advertisement touts Cedas Corduroy Pants as husky warm trousers that never ride up and resist wear. It promises they endure rough use without the need for patching, presenting them as a practical solution moms have long sought.
Edna Lewis, a Pacific Junction teacher, attended with Lawrence Bell of Omaha as Carl and Neal each won a turkey in a local drawing. Bell had Neal shoot for him and another bird was won. Two birds fed the local dinner while a third went to Omaha for a Bell family feast with Miss Lewis as guest.
Mrs. Cloo Schaffer of Alvo accepts a post as a correspondent for the Eagle Beacon now operated by Charles V Seeley of Weeping Water. She has considerable experience and is regarded as a capable writer who should prove a valuable addition.
Carl Reichart found buffalo skull fragments and 24 inch horn to tip on Weeping Water Creek in a pasture near the stream. He also recovered numerous arrows spear points stone hatchets and tomahawks from the vicinity suggesting an old Indian camp. The specimen was sent to the museum at the state university in Lincoln.
L D Muller and family visited Leo Peters on Thanksgiving to save fish from drying ponds. They collected about forty pounds of fine eating fish to prevent loss. On Wednesday afternoon Lafe with C F Rosenow Carl Mosenow and Edgar Edwards used seins pitchforks and tools to seek a good catch, but the exact outcome is unknown.
Reverend and Mrs McKinzie of Algo marked Thanksgiving with a family reunion. Their sons Gordon of Lincoln Ronald at Wesleyan University University Price and Donald teaching at Palmyra joined for a fine dinner and a memorable visit with the family.
Doris and Dorothea Coatman with Lois Schulke spent three days at Aunt and Uncle M. L. Gollaher in Grand Island. They drove there by car and returned Sunday so Doris could resume teaching at Bushberry school after a Thanksgiving break with Friday off.
Phillip Coatman, who has served in the United States government air branch as a member, is set to return to the States. Details on assignment and duties accompany the transition.
A mechanic stationed in Honolulu for two and a half years plans to return to his home in Alvo, aiming to leave July 71. His three year enlistment allows three months furlough on pay, with a chance to complete service in the states. Phillip notes Hollywood stars are in Honolulu filming and using a ship as a German warship for a new picture.
In Nebraska the next legislature will feature many farmers with forty seven house members listing farming as their occupation including one agriculturist and three retired farmers. The senate also shows a strong farming presence with twelve listing farming as their job. The house party balance shows eighty two Democrats and eighteen Republicans with several counties represented.
H R Park for the Chicago live stock exchange testified at an interstate commerce commission hearing that sale in transit privileges penalize Chicago. Midwest exchanges in Chicago St Louis Kansas City St Joseph Omaha Sioux City filed the complaint alleging discrimination in reconsigning sorting consolidation and change of ownership at multiple western and mountain states. The petition cites stoppage in transit for feed water rest and sale or diversion and reconsignment by railroads at through published rates from origin to destination.
Pure bred Hereford bull three years old for sale. Gentle and in fine condition. Inquiries to T. H. Pollock Plattsmouth Nebraska. d5-2td-2tw.
The house judiciary committee failed to reach an agreement on the democratic prohibition repeal resolution at this morning’s session and plans to reconvene later. Chairman Sumners said the meeting was unofficial and authority to act was questioned, with Bachman predicting no vote and Gar er to decide Monday if the majority authorizes him to pilot the measure. Republicans plan a Monday conference likely to influence the outcome.
Arlene Hull age 16 and Clare Orman age 21 wed in Omaha under Police Judge George Holmes after a night in jail. Witnesses Police Commissioner Hopkins and Matron Gibbons. Arlene traveled in male garb with wedding dress in a suitcase en route to Perry Iowa.
President von Hindenburg may appoint a presidial cabinet after Reichstag leaders failed to form a coalition. Monsignor Ludwig Kaas said Hitler's Nazis and Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists refuse to join a government with broad support. Hitler had earlier declined the chancellorship, leaving optimism but fatigue amid stalled negotiations.
Article argues Cass county should invest in Plattsmouth as the county’s main shopping center to boost local prosperity and serve all residents. It emphasizes Plattsmouth as the logical economic heart for shoppers and commerce in the area.
About 600 inmates at the Maryland Penitentiary walked off the job in the overall factory after a wage reduction. State Superintendent Donnell said the men, orderly and returning to their cells after an eight hour shift, protested a change from 80 cents per day to 60 cents for prisoners and 60 cents for the state under the new scale, versus 75 cents to the state under the old contract.
Warm Springs Ga Nov 2 President-elect Roosevelt heads to Albany after an hour long cotton talks with merchants and shippers. A special New York legislature session to cut city employee salaries prompted the sudden trip plan. Bingham of the Courier Journal conferred with Roosevelt as Senator Cutting was expected.
Ralph D. Wilson of the Babson Statistical Organization told Kansas City real estate and business leaders that employment hit a low last July and that 1934 should see a vigorous revival. He said the decline is over and a broad upswing in industry is expected, with better business for years to come.
James E. FitzGerald longtime Woodmen of the World Life Insurance chairman of the board of auditors died suddenly at his home. He was 68 and had served seventeen years in that role. Survived by widow and two stepdaughters. A former Kansas City resident, he was active in civic life and a former school board member.
Omaha representative-elect Trenmer Cone from the Twentieth district says he will not seek the speaker position in the upcoming legislative session. He states he is a candidate for chairman of the committee on finance ways and means.
President-elect Roosevelt weighs a special congressional session if farm relief fails. In Warm Springs he meets Georgians and Crusaders for Economic Liberty to discuss a wage based monetary plan and farm relief machinery for the 1933 crop.
Mrs. Molzar Hill Wescott, state regent of the Nebraska Daughters of the American Revolution, was guest of honor at a one o clock luncheon in the Hotel West Point. She spoke on DAR work and Arthur Andre with Laura Wagner played violin. Guests eligible for membership included Mrs. George Korb Mrs. Guy Thompson Mrs. Mary Ellenberger and Miss Elsie Hoy. Mrs. Wescott to stay with Mrs. Ross Hammond in Fremont.
The Catholic Daughters hosted a Tuesday night card party at the KC Hall. Joint chairmen Mrs. Joe Liberehal and Mrs. August Bach led the event with help from Anna Jirousek, Mrs. Baltz Meisinger and Antonia Vanck. Prizes went to Dr. Aran in bridge Julius Pitz in pinchle Claud Smith in rummey and Judge Graves in cribbage with other prizes to Emmett Mullen and John Bissing. Refreshments followed the games concluding the evening.
Nebraska entries topped several divisions at the Chicago show and 4 H events. J B Watson of Alvo won first in six ear yellow dent corn, with Mott of Hastings second and F Wetzel of North Loup fifth. M W Lett of Lexington took second in six ear white corn, Floyd Wetzel fourth. 4 H club participants, including Mianie Meemper of Bennet and Oliver Erskine of Lincoln, placed in canning and vegetable and fruit classes.
Northwestern president Fred W. Sargent argues universal thirty hour week with no wage cuts would bankrupt American railroads. He cites current forty five hour base and 182 percent wage comparison to 1913, urging wage reductions instead to restore rail prosperity and offset labor demands from the Cincinnati AFL convention.
Five crew members of the fishing tug Lydia drowned when the vessel capsized near the Grand Marais harbor entrance after a NW wind of sixty miles. Capt Louis Larson of Racine Wisconsin commanded the tug. engineers John Tomkiel and Alex Manilla were from Grand Marais. Fred Uaysen of Racine and Thomas Larson, the captain's adopted son, were also victims. Coast guards searched two hours for bodies as wreckage was found on shore. Earlier distressed vessels near Caribou Island were later reported safe in sheltered waters near Michipicoten Island.
Bodies of two crew members from the German sailing ship Herta Grube were found washed ashore near the lightship Urunde. Rescue teams believe the remaining two crew members perished when the ship sank during a violent storm weekend.
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