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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
4
Local notes detail visitors and residence life in Union Nebraska including Miss Verginia Copenhaver and friends, John D Brambler delivering corn, and social visits with families from Plattsmouth, Lincoln, and Weeping Water. Readers urged to promote Union as a great place to live and support local business and schools.
A call to residents to voice why they chose Union as home and to frame Union as the ideal community. The appeal emphasizes personal sacrifice and family ties to reinforce civic loyalty and town identity.
Ira Clarke, a barber, Earl Merritt, a painter and decorator, and Leslie Everett, a farmer, camp on the river seeking festive ducks. They have landed many ducks and plan to stay about another week.
D C LaRue hosted a lively gathering last Sunday with Ellis LaRue and wife of Unicon, Mr and Mrs Garrett, Lucean LaRue and Mrs Hubert LaRue from Omaha, and Miss Ina LaRue of Lincoln. Tibbett missed the chance to join the group. Lucean, a Technical high school student in Omaha, sings at the Empress theatre and won a five dollar prize last Saturday, his third first prize and two seconds totaling twenty one dollars in prize money plus paid music.
At a special meeting the stockholders decided to sell the farmers elevator structure with the business and all that goes with it. The location is excellent and the building, though years old, remains workable and capable of handling a large volume of business. The Union elevators are noted for doing a large business.
At Union Baptist Church last Sunday they held their first homecoming a rally day for church and Bible school with large crowds at both sessions. The program committee arranged the events and Rev. W. A. Taylor delivered the discourse.
Small dairy and chicken ranch with horses three cows two chicken houses scratch pen and barn that holds 30 tons of hay. For interested buyers come and see Will wn eh Sell Chap tiw.
The article lists residents connected to Union with November birthdays including Viola Willis Straugh Plattsmouth born November 1 1896 and Jesse L Root Omaha born November 7 1860. It notes positions, origins and birth years for multiple individuals across dates from November 1 to November 30 with scattered October entries.
Classified item lists a player piano in top condition for sale with cash or terms. Contact via telephone number 645 for details.
Local Burlington employees circulated a petition in Plattsmouth urging a 100 percent shift to using Burlington trains for freight and passenger travel. They argue rail, not truck lines, sustain city revenue and jobs, calling for business houses to prioritize Burlington shipments and railway travel to support the community.
In Lincoln IL historians note one of twenty four U S cities named Lincoln began in Abraham Lincoln era. He advised the town’s location as a railroad site partner of Robert Latham Virgil Hickox and John D Gillett and helped christen the town by sharing two watermelons with the proprietors at a lot sale in 1853.
Reports from Tabasco say Bishop Pascal Diaz and 14 Catholic priests fled the state to protest a decree requiring priests to marry to exercise duties. The refugees plan to reach Mexico City to appeal to President Calles about religious persecution. Five priests in Tabasco have already been arrested for refusing marriage.
A brief classified notice invites readers to place a want ad in the Journal to obtain results. The ad seeks concise product or service requests and promises quick responses from the paper’s classifieds desk.
Lincoln reports 34 290 farm and commercial trucks use Nebraska market roads based on 1925 registrations. Farm trucks rose 62 percent in five years, livestock shipments to South Omaha up over 50 percent, with tractors up 55 percent and farm cars up to 102 164 in 1925.
Seven of twenty two indicted in Indianapolis for conspiring to steal 892 barrels of whisky from the Jack Daniel distillery warehouse in 1923 posted bond in St Louis to await arraignment in Indianapolis. Other details name Helmich Goldstein Kinney Kinney Essen Walker and Martin. arrest warrants to follow if bond not posted by 9 a m.
Funeral services will be held by the grand lodge of Nebraska Masonry for John L. Ehrhardt eighty six past grand master and oldest active member of the State Bar Association. He died Sunday at the Masonic Home in Plattsmouth and will be buried at Stanton. His son Eugene Ehrhardt of Lewiston Idaho survives. honorary pallbearers include Lincoln residents John Wright Henry H Wilson Lem S Whiting and Rev Harmon Bross.
Ohio libraries are highlighted as leaders in adult education by the American Library Association. Cleveland Cincinnati and Dayton host reader bureaus offering guidance on books and courses for independent study. The Ohio State Library plans to supply recommended reading to small libraries and individuals statewide.
The state reports a strange sight as a toothless cat with paddling forelimbs appears, following the abolition of the rim row and a noted decline in Jersey moon shine.
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