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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
1
A full council session approved minutes and various reports, examined street, sewer, and sidewalk plans, and discussed lowering Main and Sixth streets to improve drainage. Officials approved bond details, fire and police reports, cemetery repairs, and open sewers considerations, with ordinances advancing to third reading.
A large gathering of friends and relatives attended the funeral for Frank W. Richey on Sunday to pay last respects. Revs Randall and Salsbury delivered the addresses, with Elks conducting cemetery rites according to their ritual.
A Sunnyside resident seeks space to correct a newspaper remark about Col McMahen organizing comfort bags for soldiers at Fort Omaha before leaving for Cuba. She recalls funds, morocco cases, needles and thread donated by merchants, and G A R and Sunday school ladies making bags and presenting them to Company B.
The Cass county teachers and school officers are invited to a three day meeting April 2 3 and 4 at South Omaha. All public school personnel are urged to attend and participate in this special Cass county gathering.
Word arrived of the death of A W Bradley 88 in Chicago from paralysis. He was father of Mrs John Geiser and grandfather of August Bradley. Mrs Geiser and August traveled to Chicago for his funeral this afternoon. Postal changes follow with mail on Burlington trains 4 and 7 between Pacific Junction and Omaha moved to pouch mail.
Peter Rauen born in Luxemburg in 1830 died aged 78 after forty four years in Plattsmouth Nebraska. He worked as a wagon maker and builder with Guthman Schafer Donnelly and McHugh. Survived by his wife three sons Frank John Rudolph and a fighter and relatives including Mrs Guthman Mrs Hempel and Mrs Egenberger.
S. G. Porter, visiting from Denver after about thirty years away, recalls his Plattsmouth youth spent at the Porter place. He toured the old home and mourned the recent cutting of the childhood swing tree. He also visited the Dead place now owned by Chas. Chok, once proved up by a Miss Porter aunt.
The Nebraska Bell Telephone seeks to block Independent Telephone from operating in South Omaha. A council meeting petition prevented the ordinance granting the Independent rights, and the Bell faction expects a three to one pro Bell vote when the matter goes to the people.
James Robertson district court clerk visited The Ledger to handle official business and to observe local interest in the red bats. The Ledger notes Plattsmouth residents show curiosity and amusement about the topic during his visit.
The Plattsmouth Democratic City Convention met in the council chamber to nominate candidates for mayor and council positions. John Lutz, Geo. N. Dodge, W. A. Mendenhall, H. J. Schluntz, J. P. Sattler, F. H. Steimker, and others were endorsed, with officers renominated for police judge M. Archer, treasurer R. W. Clement, and clerk W. B. Elster. The convention adjourned with plans to endorse at the April polls.
On March 15 1908 over one hundred friends gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Murfin in Wabash to honor their fiftieth anniversary. Henry H Murfin born 1836 in Brown township Ohio and Nancy Jane Wiandt born 1836 in Brown county Ohio married years earlier and later settled in Cass county Nebraska. They had five children and six grandchildren and received many gifts from friends near and far, reflecting the esteem held for the couple.
L. C. Curtiss of Union visited the city this morning while waiting for a Burlington train to Omaha. He told reporters the eight pound baby now living with the Curtiss family is thriving, and his wife and the child are doing well.
Last Saturday at the Hotel Manspeaker John Wagner faced police attention for intoxication and ugly conduct. He was placed on the active list of boarders with no charges filed and to serve an old offense probation. Arthur Jacobi joined the list after returning from corn husking and paying part of a one hundred dollar fine. John McQuistion seeks release and needs to prove he can be a good worker. Also on the board are Henry Burroughs Bert Ellige Sam Goldman and Leopold Brandmeir under Deputy Sheriff Manspeaker's supervision.
The article urges everyone with mortgage releases in their records or in private drawers to record them. Al essor Soennichsen aims to create an accurate county mortgage record and asks that all holders who released mortgages or had the release not filed to act now to avoid later penalties.
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