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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1926
Page
2
Nehawka and nearby communities saw guests from Omaha Lincoln and Nebraska City over Memorial and Decoration days with church gatherings, family visits, and local duties. Residents attended memorial services, discussed street drainage, and several graduates prepared to begin jobs in Lincoln and Omaha.
A series of short social notes records visits by Tony Sudduth Bert Willis and family Mrs W O Troop and Julia Troop in Plattsmouth and Union, Neb with mentions of Memorial services in Nebraska City Grover Hoback reporting in the county seat and Fronie Kime hosting Elmwood visitors plus Glen Rutlese the printer and potato grower preparing crops for eating.
Market notes list feed prices per ton and per hundred pounds for various products including tankage shorts bran oil meal red dog alfalfa meal chick starter chick scratch meat scraps laying mash. A ground option is available at 15e cwt with Bring in Your Feed and Get It Ground.
Last Sunday May 20 the thirty seventh birthday of Harry Nelson of Murray was celebrated by many friends. Attendees from Nebraska included Olaf Lundberg and family Verner Lundberg and family Mrs Gertrude Carper and son Lueean and daughter Fazel Gust Nelson and family R B Ingwerson and family Edward Johnson and wife Mrs Peter Johnson. Guests extended wishes for a long happy prosperous life filled with good deeds and good things to eat.
Nehawka hosted Cedar Creek in a high spirited ball game last Sunday with Lucean Carper delivering strong work as pitcher. The home team prevailed 12 to 11 in a tightly contested clash that showcased excellent playing across both sides.
Last Saturday J. H. Palmer and son Quinton and daughter Ruth with Grandfather Walker Bates went to pick strawberries. They secured about 20 quarts and shared berries with friends and neighbors, who were delighted.
Memorial Day services in Nehawka honored Mrs Josephine Reid Laid to the Last Long Rest. The obituary notes her birth in Plattsmouth December 1 1874 and marriage to Charles H Reid of St Joseph Missouri. Survived by husband five children and several siblings, with funeral at Plattsmouth First Christian Church. Interment at Horning Cemetery.
A cemetery where all soldiers from any war are buried shows graves marked by an American flag and adorned with a large bouquet of flowers.
In Plattsmouth the obituary notes that the two deceased children are laid to rest. Pallbearers consist of nephews and near relatives of the family.
William Matschullat, Plattsmouth and University of Nebraska student, chosen by state university faculty as assistant in political science for the coming year. He also selected as cadet corps member to take measurements for officer uniforms and placed sixth in university individual tests among many competitors. Designers and Delineators items at Bates Book and Gift Shop ready for pickup.
Red Oak Iowa hosts Plattsmouth delegation visiting the Murphy Calendar Co plant a major western calendar producer. Ernest Wells a former Plattsmouth printer now department head shows visitors printing and calendar assembly on the three story half block building employing hundreds. Red Oak proud of its largest industry calendar company and local news appears in the Journal.
In Chicago on June 2 1 500 structural iron workers halted work for higher wages and a closed shop. They sought $1 50 an hour from $1 37 12 and 60 percent returned to work after the raise. Plasterers also ended their strike after a wage increase from 12 to 13 dollars a day.
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