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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
6
Prepared in the interest of the people of Murray and vicinity this Journal section invites readers to mail social events or items of local interest. Editor Jolly invites submissions to appear under this heading for community notices.
Wall Vallery visited the county seat Wednesday while G M Minford served on the jury this week. Numerous residents and visitors from Murray, Plattsmouth, Stanton, and Omaha were listed as guests, travelers, or day visitors to relatives and churches. Services at Kenosha reopen after smallpox. June 9 services planned. auto dealer J W Holmes begins canvass for Berg car.
Rich list of visits and errands across Murray Plattsmouth and Union includes Miss Pearl Dugay nursing the sick, Mrs Loughridge hosting, Alf Gansemer shipping cattle to South Omaha, and Wayne Lewis recovering from appendicitis. Community ties span Jack Shaw returning from Chanute, Robert Shrader’s injuries from a run away, medical trips to Omaha, and plans for a June 22 charity play by the Ladies Aid.
Bible school at 10 a m with topic Desire and Attainment. At 8 p m the Children s day program will be presented directed by Mrs J F Brendel. No admission charge but a free will offering for missions. Many Bible school children have rehearsed for weeks. Everyone invited to attend all services.
Our friend FE M Good has a peculiar egg from his farm near Murray. The oblong egg about two inches long and very narrow is shown at the Journal office. We suspect the hatch might yield a giraffe or snake shaped chick.
Ernest Richter has sold his Ness City Kansas farm and will move to a northeast Missouri property this fall. After a nearly total crop failure last season in Kansas the deal shifts his farming to the Show Me State.
Mrs. Julia Dwyer of Plattsmouth will open a millinery store in Murray three days weekly. The shop will be at Mrs. Joseph Cook’s lower Main Street home. All local ladies are invited to browse.
The notes and accounts due the late firm of Edmunds and Brown are left at the State Bank of Murray for those wishing to settle. The owner will not be in Murray at all times due to farming duties. J W Edmunds.
For sale. Rh I Red roots offered at 60 cents per setting or 83.00 per hundred. Contact Mrs. C. B. Schwab by phone 3-H Murray Nebraska.
Cameron Cathey owns a new motorcycle. P A Hild and Alles Bell visited Plattermouth Saturday. Herman Gainsemer made a business trip to Plattemouth Monday. Cameron Cathey and Power Young traveled to Onoda Saturday. August Bogcelkemmoir Sr. visited Weeping Water Saturday. Alfred Gansemer shipped cattle to the South Omaha market Sunday evening. Several spent Sunday at Mr and Mrs Alfred Cransemer. Mr and Mrs Olle Puls hosted an ice crew supper for Miss Gillespie of Fremont who is visiting. Cattle king Charles Philpot shipped fat cattle to the South Omaha market Tuesday. J WC Gregory shipped cattle and hogs to the South Omaha market Sunday evening. Mrs Tred Baumgarten and children visited Mr and Mrs Charles Herren. Lightning struck Louie Puls cattle barn, killing a five milek cow and damaging the building. William Sfehan, Mt Pleasant road overseer, grading roads to be finished soon.
Special Correspondence reports Owen Marshall and wife returning to Cashel on Tuesday morning. John Stradey, severely injured in an automobile accident, is improving slowly. Mr. Gether and wife move into Carl Foster's house this week. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Hayden of Wallace Neb., visit Mrs. Hayden's sister Mrs. Houston Jones. Miss Van Wie unable to travel from Waverly for music lessons last Saturday. Clay Hanson cut his hand while breaking a colt to ride and went to Lincoln to be dressed. Mr. Smith and wife of Andrews Neb., visit Lincoln. he looks after his father-in-law Mr. DeVree's property. Miss Hazel Axmaker and Mr. John Conneally wed in Lincoln. reception hosted by Mrs. Axmaker. A visiting niece of Mrs. Ashcraft died at her home. Mrs. D. K. Barr and daughter Dottie visit the former's sister Mrs. Bethel and other relatives. Miss Luella Miller visits sister Mrs. Carrie Mochenhaupt.
A church wedding took place yesterday at the Fourteenth and Pine streets Catholic church in Omaha. Miss Nellie Barry of Plattsmouth wed Mr. Ed Woborid of Omaha with over 100 guests in attendance. The reception followed at 1244 Arbor Street. Attending from Plattsmouth were A. Barry and wife and son George, Miss Ruth Melburn, and A. G. Bach and wife.
The county insanity board met this morning and heard a complaint against Dan Strate of Greenwood. Strate, about 40, a farmer, was found with disturbed mental balance by death and politics and was ordered restrained at Lincoln Hospital for the Insane. Witnesses included Paul Strate HH. D. Coleman and Mrs Dan Strate of Greenwood.
James Higgins, injured on No. 4 at Oreapolis and brought to the jail, says he came from Omaha where he completed a 30 day vagrancy sentence and rode freight trains. He recalls a mishap when his position shifted as ears bumped, then lost his shoes, claiming they were not valuable.
Wanted to buy hogs weighing 50 to 100 pounds. See J. P. Falter in Coates' Block for details.
An almost new motor coyote is offered for demonstration. Interested parties are asked to call or write G. D. Benedict at Murray Nebraska.
A Canton Spike Disc Harrow is offered for sale by Will Richardson for cultivating alfalfa stubble. The listing highlights a rugged implement suitable for field prep and soil work.
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