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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1938
Page
2
Greenwood residents share visits with relatives across towns. The local ball team beat Waverly 6 to 4. A Memorial day church service featured a program with Arlene Collins and Hon. George Santo addressing themes of unemployment and community memory.
KOIL expands racing coverage with a weekday handicapper delivering winners each race day at 12 30, plus a 1 PM Saturday slot and a track feed around 4 15 PM. The piece explains how local Omaha time and weather data are inserted via transcription fades with Ken Carpenter Bill Goodman and Bill Baldwin handling on air data.
A memorial service honor day was held with attendees paying tribute to fallen service members. Officials and veterans groups participated, with a reading of names and a moment of silence observed at the ceremony.
A 30 caliber bullet fired into a young sapling 122 years ago in Alameda California has been recovered from the heart of a mammoth oak tree that was cut down. Ring counting shows the bullet entered the tree around the late 19th century.
College of agriculture officials announce the annual crops field day at Lincoln on June 15 will include a talk by Dr. M P D Weldon of the agronomy department on what to do with the heavy straw after 1938 small grain harvests.
A lengthy Avoca column lists Memorial day guests and visits from relatives in Verdon Union Nehawka and Lincoln. Numerous residents and visitors from Cozad Plattsmouth Crete Sioux City and Peru are noted along with school changes and corn harvest activity.
A group from Avoca including John Marquardt Henry Dankliff Paul Creaurey and Sterling Baier traveled to Indianapolis for the annual board track speedway race. They observed a new record and a fatal wheel failure that killed a driver and a spectator. They noted good country en route and promising crops.
A group of Avocet ladies visited Syracuse on Tuesday for a social afternoon hosted by the Ladies Aid group, sharing hospitality with local neighbors.
Inspectors stopped a crew applying the final coat on the highway after finding the oil used did not meet the proper grade. The workers moved to Murray and Plattymouth to finish other stretches and plan to return once a supply of correct oil is secured.
Mr and Mrs Owen Reed of Sioux City enjoyed a Sunday and Memorial Day visit at the home of Mrs Florene Durlain. They spoke of visiting the Reed matron and noted her passing mother in the Synod context.
Tuesday June 7 lists a regular Eastern Star meeting at 7 20 p m followed by memorial services at 8 15 and a birthday anniversary. The note mentions a person in fair health enjoying a visit from her daughter and husband.
Farmers report an overabundance of red rust in nearby wheat, noting the grain endures it better than black rust. A farmer recalls a white dog chasing a rabbit through a field, emerging red. Clear weather and wind to stir foliage could help, and slight moisture is preferable to drought.
Wendell Burchard cousin of Fred Marquardt visited Avoca last week to see relatives and seek employment. He recently returned from Los Angeles where he worked in an airplane manufacturing plant and notes widespread demand for labor in the western states.
Memorial day services in Avoca included the Congregational church ceremony and grave decorations by local volunteers. The cemetery showed a beautiful display of flowers as relatives and friends honored fallen soldiers who carried on the custom since the Civil War era.
Former Governor Charles W. Bryan faces critique from Terry Carpenter who accuses Bryan of planning to run as an independent and of killing a $30 monthly pension. Carpenter predicts Bryan would draw votes regardless of running and taunts a primary challenge against Gov. Cochran.
Nebraska recorded 22,256 births and 13,200 deaths in 1937 raising the statewide birth excess to 9,056 according to Dr. P H Bartholomew director of the state health department A county by county tally lists Cass 185 births 178 deaths Otoe 278 births 169 deaths Richardson 322 births 158 deaths Nemaha 215 births 124 deaths and other counts
Arbor Lodge district Boy Scouts plan a two day camporee at Camp Wheeler south of Plattsmouth bringing 150 or more Scouts from Nemaha Otoe and Cass counties. Activities include council fire stunts cookcraft and competitive events with a 2255 point total potential and ratings A B or CC.
Dr William M Scholl explains modern scientific shoe fitting can accommodate diverse foot types. He lists long and thin feet, bunions, crooked toes, short stubby feet, flat feet, feet with coins or tender areas, and high arches as examples.
A Dr Scholl shoe fitting demonstration arrives in this city on Thursday June 9 at Fetzer Shoe Co. Representatives from the Chicago factory will present all sizes and widths for men women and children with 622 fittings and X ray foot displays. Prices match Scholl stores in New York Chicago and other cities. The event promises to educate on the Straight Line Principle and relief for common foot troubles and is billed as a first in this city.
Valley League standings show Plattsmouth Merchants under Ray Shafer leading the Twin Valley League with a striking 1,000 percent mark alongside Greenwood and Davey. Greenwood, coached by Jack Gribble, appears a top rival as the schedule lists June 6 Memphis and June 12 Alvo with Greenwood visiting Plattsmouth June 26.
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