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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1920
Page
6
City council debates future gas and electric rates as the lighting contract nears expiration. The Nebraska Tight & Gas company seeks a rise to cover costs while residents push for potential reductions if fuel prices fall. The council aims to fix rates to avoid further consumer burden and to match material cost changes.
Our living habits breed colds and chronic catarrh. Ninety five percent of adults may be afflicted. To avoid it, prevent and promptly treat colds. Camberlain's Cough Remedy is recommended as a dependable cure.
A Labor Day program begins with a parade at 10 o clock and runs until midnight. The piece lauds organized labor, rail shop crafts, and Samuel Gompers leadership, emphasizing the Portsmouth laboring men’s conservative, homeowning stance and the city’s pride in its labor community and national contribution to prosperity.
Feon Seturim Propst and family completed an extended auto tour through northern Iowa Nebraska and a portion of South Dakota. They visited Mitchell South Dakota at the home of Mrs Maude Test and enjoyed camping along the route. The trip featured excellent roads and abundant crops making the journey a rare delight.
Perils and comedy mark the Moreland engagement of Go and Get It. The story follows a newspaper life with a crooked publisher and brain transfer intrigue, spiced by Wesley Barry as a boy detective and supported by Agnes Ayres J Barney Sherry Noah Beery Bull Montana and Walter Long in a First National release.
Advertisement advises Chamberlain's Tablets after supper to induce a gentle movement of the bowels the next morning, promoting happiness through regularity. It emphasizes daily wellbeing and urges readers to maintain digestive health for happiness.
Dick McNurlin of Weeping Water worked on the Evangelical church parsonage site near the Preston lots north of the business district. He joked he would be 80 if he lived a few days, yet looks no older than 60 and is famed as an old-time mover who has relocated many buildings.
Miss Helen Ptak and Elmer Wetenkamp were married at 6 30 AM in Rev Michael A Shine's residence St John's Catholic church with Elizabeth Ptak as bridesmaid and Vern Brown as best man. The couple plan to reside on the groom's farm near Mynard after a brief honeymoon.
Sheriff C. D. Quinton stopped in Omaha on a return from Greenwood to visit his sister Mrs. J. M. Dunbar at St. Joseph hospital where she is recovering from an operation. Mrs. J. M. Palmer of Nehawka joined the visit. They spent the day at the hospital and Quinton returned home for a short visit. Mrs. Dunbar is doing well and hopeful for a speedy return to Avoca.
Hiram Johnson former presidential candidate will campaign across Nebraska for Harding and Coolidge. Frank A Harrison his former manager letters that Johnson will gladly speak in the state. Johnson will talk about the league and enters Nebraska around October 1, with Lincoln included. The American Independence club of Lincoln will arrange dates, not the national committee. Harrison notes the club is expanding statewide and previously secured Johnson Reed Beck Borah dates last year.
Ben Reymond, a World War I veteran, returns to farming life after service in France and marries a talented American girl. Last Monday evening a baby boy was born at their home between Murray and Union, bringing happiness to the family. May the child and parents have long, fruitful lives filled with happiness and good deeds.
Dr. G H Gilmore of Murray spent a few hours in the city handling business while traveling home from Omaha where he had been for a short time.
Friday’s item reports Frank H. Johnson arriving from Weeping Water to tend to business matters for a few hours.
The Burlington railroad has not filed freight tariffs after a 25 percent state grant and may charge 35 percent on interstate freight while retaining old state rates. It seeks a sugar beet rate to Mitchell from eastern stations and planned harvest season changes, with no reason given for noncompliance.
Dwyer of this city and colleague Matthew Gering attended the American Bar association gathering in St Louis. The event featured many distinguished jurists and heard Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, discuss questions between the United States and England. En route home he visited Kansas City.
A Plattsmouth hardware merchant Louis Kroehler testifies in 1912 and 1920 that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved back pain and kidney weaknesses. He recommends the remedy, notes long use, and urges others to try the product priced 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y manufactures.
Henry Speck of Columbus Nebraska has been in the city for several days visiting relatives and friends. He is also accompanying his mother Mrs. Claus Speck Sr to Hopkins Missouri to visit her daughter Mrs John Ewing at her home.
Rev. C. E. Chadwick of Lincoln, a Methodist minister involved with the anti saloon league, is making plans for Col. Morgan Smith to speak on the liquor question in Lincoln on October 8 at the Methodist church.
Grand Island report of Clarence Newmann and Mrs. Carl Loffelbein dying in a gas accident while excavating a cess pool at Palmer. Newmann was overcome by gas. Loffelbein attempted to rescue him and was also overcome as the wall between excavations collapsed. Her daughter, returning home, found the scene two hours later.
A woman employed at an excavation discovered both a worker and her mother dead from asphyxiation. Newmann, the worker, was single. Mrs. Loffelbein, a village cream agent, was involved in the incident as described in the report.
Omaha will not host a city float for the Pilgrim Day parade marking the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower landing. A $700 public subscription failed to attract support and Plattsmouth will be represented by another city instead. City schools will hold programs honoring the national impact of the event.
President Gompers of the AFL condemns a Nebraska constitutional amendment to create an industrial commission for employer employee disputes. He argues the provision would hamper labor and farming, benefit the few, and urges a public campaign to expose hidden aims before the September 21 vote.
Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald and her son Bradley along with nephews William and Joseph Schlater are due back tomorrow morning from Bridgeport where they have spent the summer on the Schlater ranch.
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