Silver King the Grey Mammoth Jack Foal Getter
The gray mammoth jack named Silver King stands about 15 hands high and over 1000 pounds. He is described as a sure foal getter in the record.
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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1925
Page
4
The gray mammoth jack named Silver King stands about 15 hands high and over 1000 pounds. He is described as a sure foal getter in the record.
Rowdie No 30802 a black Percheron stallion weighing about 1800 pounds is described as a sure foal getter. The two animals will season at the Oscar Gapen farm in 1925.
The notice states a price of 12.50 if paid within ten days from sealing, 15 thereafter, with insurance to stand and suck. Monares sold without service fee. Care will be taken but no liability for accidents. Oscar Gapen Jr., owner. Mynard Nebraska Platts phone 4020.
The Catholic Daughters held a well attended card party at the Knights of Columbus hall last night. Bridge and high five games ran across seventeen and eight tables respectively with prizes donated by local merchants. Winners included Mrs J A Donelan and John V Hatt in bridge and Mrs Clark Mrs Bass Meisinger and Dr H C Leopold in high five.
Dr Joe J Stibal a local chiropractor installed a patho neurometer claiming it detects energy in nerves and tissues. He offers free use with patients who follow a regular course of adjustments and says the device will guide to more proficient work in his locality.
Edward Fullerton his wife and child and Howard Fullerton depart by car for Buffalo Missouri to visit the seriously ill grandmother Mrs Mary Fullerton who is not expected to live The group hopes to reach Buffalo early Monday morning
Plattsmouth sponsors a week of music featuring a school children program under Miss Frances Fields at the public library auditorium Monday evening. The Eagle Band concert and community singing precede a Thursday program at the First Presbyterian church auditorium with local talent. The aim is to boost public interest in music across the community.
Nebraska G A R lays out details for its forty ninth annual encampment in Omaha May 6 7 8 with headquarters at the Rome hotel and Rome Hotel. Delegates register at 9 am and attend sessions at multiple venues including the Douglas county courthouse. A banquet reception and fashion show cap the events with officers elected and installed on the final day.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a long standing treatment for catarrh. It describes an Ointment for local relief and an Internal Medicine tonic that acts through the blood to reduce inflammation. Sold by all druggists I J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
The railroad commission used new powers to raise toll terminal service commissions for phone lines. The Comstock Independent Telephone Co complains from Comstock about 25 percent outgoing and 10 percent incoming. The order, effective March 1 1924, increases the outgoing rate to 25 percent. incoming remains 10 percent. The decision notes insufficient cost study but holds Comstock entitled to substantial revenue.
The Plattsmouth golf club invites Weeping Water Nebraska City Auburn Ashland and Pawnee City clubs to visit on Tuesday May 5 to play on the local course. Play starts 9 am to 11 30 am then luncheon at the Elks club. Local players expect strong guest competition and aim to defend records with veterans like Dr. R. P. Westover A. W. Cloidt and others attending.
Rev and Mrs Bradley resign from the Christian church at Weeping Water after years of service. They move to Lincoln and he will serve the National Board of Education at Hiram College. His leadership aided Cass county church growth and he spoke at the First Christian church here on several occasions.
About 10 bushels of St Charles white seed corn for sale. Picked before frost and testing 98 percent. Contact James Earhart in Murray Nebraska.
H G Hayes petitions supreme court arguing he is the son of Louis Gauger and thus entitled to a portion of the Frontier county estate. The case hinges on disputed paternity after Mary Zimmerman married Louis in Grand Island on September 6 1893 and a child born six months later.
Auction notice lists eighty acre farm thirty two miles west of Elmwood with cultivation and price of 140 dollars per acre. Also another well improved eighty near Elmwood four and a half miles west and five miles north at 114 miles southwest of Murdock, priced 19000 dollars if sold before May fifteenth. Inquiries to Arthur Bornemeier at 1829 South 28th Street Lincoln Nebraska.
A notice notes a late sowing of sweet clover seed with a shipment due at 7.50 per bushel. It cites Nebraska state analysis showing 92 percent germination and 99.5 percent purity, attributed to W. F. Nolte of Mynard.
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