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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
5
Narrator plans a stealthy night raid to seize the Esmeralda in harbor. Tuttle De Nova and crew prepare silently in darkness while the narrator directs from shore, aiming to disable the vessel without triggering a gunfight.
Mise Etin DuBois shows gradual improvement after several days of illness. Mrs. Will Clineturg travels from Tecumseh to visit her mother near here. Roy Stine injures left hand at railroad coal chutes. Ray Frans leaves for Burlington Junction to seek health benefits at mineral springs. Mrs. G. S. Upton and Mrs. J. T. Reynolds head to Craig for news of Joseph Reynolds illness. A. D. Hathaway visits Lincoln to see his brother Syl recovering from a cartridge explosion. Artie McKean travels to Hamburg after learning his father’s death may be imminent. Charles Reinhart visits from Diller to see Myron Lynde. Local railroad grading crew moves to Auburn for urgent work under foreman A. H. Milbyaa and timekeeper A. E. Whitlow.
The jury returned a verdict in favor of Henry Stull against the M P Railroad Company for 147 098 dollars on a suit for 1500 lows for destruction of hay by fire caused by locomotives. The jury awarded nearly the full requested amount amid little dispute.
The Ladies Aid Society of Eight Mile Grove announces an ice cream and box social to be held Saturday evening may 29 on Watton Longs Lawn. Everyone is invited.
Helena A. Dysart files for divorce from non resident James A. Dysart and to quiet title to the northwest quarter of section ten, township ten, range twelve in Coss County Nebraska. The petition asserts abandonment over two years and requests relief including division of property and title confirmation.
Nebraska City News reports K. D. Tibbitts and Karl Dickson, Nebraska City decorators, were trapped for over two hours on a Missouri Pacific cattle guard near Nehawka. Dickson cut away clothing and shoes to free Tibbitts, who required medical aid after the ordeal. both men survived but vow never to repeat the horror.
The local team hosts Cedar Creek next Saturday afternoon at the Chicago avenue park. Cedar Creek is described as one of the country’s strongest teams, promising a hard fought game and a large crowd is urged to attend and back the locals in this opener.
Walter Plybon of University Place was elected superintendent of Louisville schools at a board meeting in Louis ville Nebraska on May 25. Agnes Kennedy of Murray was chosen as seventh and eighth grade instructor. Plybon will be paid 85 dollars monthly and is a Nebraska Wesleyan graduate class of 1908. He previously supervised Belvidere schools last year.
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