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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1919
Page
2
Next Friday evening at the Parmele theater a popular comedy, Fair and Warmers, will be staged with a metropolitan cast. The production, lauded in New York and Chicago, promises laughs and bright theatre.
Border representatives in El Paso report that American citizens employed below the border in Mexico are being instructed to prepare for immediate or precautionary withdrawal. No large exodus is expected now, but agents aim to enable a quick movement if required.
Harmand Beck and Wm Deles Dernier traveled to Lincoln for business after visiting Nehawka. The first of the month Lloyd Deles Dernier began delivering mail from the train to the post office. Don Strahan had handled deliveries before. Community efforts include wood chopping amid coal shortages and cleanup on Clapp and Cave Hill lands. A Rockwell City Iowa visitor, Mr Penterman, and family joined local relatives, with Mr Penterman noted as a department store owner. A baby boy born December 4 1919 to Clifton and Mrs Fentiman sparked celebration. The Cass County Farm Bureau met December 2 at Weeping Water with officers elected. Obituary notes recall Mable Wirth Wiles born January 12 1892 died November 24 1919 in Omaha. Funeral at Congregational church. interment Oakwood. Thanksgiving gathering at L P Wolcott home with relatives from distant places and 22 total attendees.
Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, longtime anarchists, were sent by ferry from Manhattan to Ellis Island after being ordered deported for urging government overthrow by violence. They will be held there until a ship to Russia is available.
Mr and Mrs Emil Dehninge and Mr and Mrs Conrad Dehning drove to Schuyler to spend Thanksgiving with a sister of the two ladies Mrs Ray Marlow. Miss Edith Mayfield took a post office job as assistant as Postmaster Ossenkop and wife step back. William Schwalm was badly burned tending a lantern near Manley when oil ignited his clothing. he extinguished flames in a snow bank and is expected to recover use of his left hand within a week or ten days.
A gang starts cutting trees on a twenty acre addition to Deshler park and Thayer county fair grounds to produce stove and furnace lengths for sale. The project, supported by the town board, society directors, and the Commercial club, aims to speed fuel production on the Bine river. Journal prints sale bills.
Claude Canaday and Miss Stoll spent a weekend visit with Claude’s father Henry Canaday and relatives. George Heneger sold a farm two miles southwest of town to Albert Pool of Wabash, who plans future schooling there. Gorden Heneger is emerging in real estate circles.
Next Thursday evening December 11 the Cottonwood school hosts a box supper led by Miss Elizabeth Beeson with a complete amusement program fortune telling booths and an oyster stew. Many pretty girls will bring well filled boxes of foods and the entertainment starts at o clock inviting all to attend with friends.
A Plattsmouth man Ben Brooks credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending a severe kidney and back pain from a bad cold. He describes relief after two boxes and notes no further attacks for over three years. The advertisement promotes Doan's at 60 cents from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
Big young jack a good foal getter and one eight year old black mare weight 1400 pounds set of heavy work harness plus White Plymouth Rock roosters Ira Bates Cedar Creek Nebraska swd
For sale with limited stock Light Brahma roosters priced at 2.50 each. Sold by Mrs. George Reynolds in Plattsmouth Nebraska.
Frank Gobelman offers wall paper painting glass and framing services with a focus on home interiors and finishing touches for rooms and spaces. The note highlights his trade scope and local availability.
William Jenkins the American consular agent imprisoned at Puebla was released. A 3500 bail was reportedly placed with Mexican authorities, prompting questions if release was unconditional or on bail. The State Department says diplomatic representations secured his release while President Wilson awaited evidence on Mexican propagandist activity before deciding on severing relations.
Senator Hitchcock says President Wilson will not withdraw the peace treaty from the senate for now. After a brief talk following the Mexican situation conference, Hitchcock reports the president believes the senate’s failure at the special session shifts responsibility to others and will leave the treaty as is.
New York officials suspend electric heating on subways and elevated lines during peak hours, saving about 1000 tons of coal daily. The Times reports partial eclipse of Broadway with electric signs limited to 7 30 to 8 30 p m. Coal bunkering for foreign ships will be regulated by Washington central committee amid fuel embargos.
Mexico has 24 war type airplanes mobilized not Chihuahua City alone and is obtaining additional planes from Germany, according to war department information given to the house military committee today by Brigadier General Mitchell, chief of operation of the army air service. The department also has information that former pilots in the German army participate.
General Mitchell warned arriving service personnel in Mexico that the United States has produced almost no aerial war equipment since the armistice. He said the country cannot meet a first class power in the air today while foreign nations continue wartime aircraft development. The army owns 1,000 foreign built pursuit planes, but they cannot be used in combat and are fit only for training due to outdated design.
The president sent to the senate a report from Secretary Lansing listing 27 citizens of countries other than the United States killed in Mexico since Porfirio Diaz’s overthrow. More than a third were Chinese, supplementing the earlier tally of Americans killed in Mexico.
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