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Plattsmouth Public Library, 401 Ave A, Plattsmouth, NE 68048 Phone 402-296-4154 Fax 402-296-4712 Volume 19 Issue 8 August 2019 “A Universe of Stories” Summer Reading 2019 Wrap Up
The Summer Reading Program closed on Tuesday, July 9, with “Nerf Wars in Space” in the Children’s Area and Auditorium. There were nerf darts flying all over the rooms as the space soldiers took aim at the different targets. It was fun and exciting to watch!
After the targets were demolished (we are still finding darts!), we gave away the remaining prizes for the year. There were a total of 208 kids who received at least one scratch ticket for the program. A total of 449 tickets just for the Children’s Area alone were given away. 15 babies received a free board book for having 5 books read to them.
Making our own Solar Systems on Tuesday, June 25! Con nued on page 2
Page 2 Between the Pages August 2019 The Lego Wednesdays picked up popularity over the summer with all kinds of cool designs being made. There is a whole shelf on display in the Children’s Area!
Making “I Spy” Bottles, Puppet Theaters, Fridge Magnets, and homemade suncatcher paint was the focus on Thursday afternoons. It was so cool to see the different designs and ideas our artists had for their projects.
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Fic on The Lemon sisters by Shalvis, Jill A er the end by Mackintosh, Clare Never look back by Gaylin, Alison Age of legend by Sullivan, Michael J. The new girl by Silva, Daniel The apothecary's poison by Archer, C. J. One good deed by Baldacci, David Before by Todd, Anna The shameless by Atkins, Ace The bookish life of Nina Hill by Waxman, Abbi Sisters of summer's end by Foster, Lori Bowlaway by McCracken, Elizabeth Skin game by Woods, Stuart The cheater's game by Archer, C. J. Texas John Slaughter : the edge of hell by Johnstone, William The Chelsea girls by Davis, Fiona Willing to die by Jackson, Lisa The convent's secret by Archer, C. J. Window on the bay by Macomber, Debbie
The escape room by Goldin, Megan Audiobook Evvie Drake starts over by Holmes, Linda Home for erring and outcast girls by Kibler, Julie A family of strangers by Richards, Emilie Lock every door by Sager, Riley The friend by Nunez, Sigrid One good deed by Baldacci, David Girl last seen by Laurin, Nina Recursion by Crouch, Blake Girls like us by Alger, Cris na Sisters of summer's end by Foster, Lori Home for erring and outcast girls by Kibler, Julie The summer of Sunshine and Margot by Mallery, Susan The ink master's silence by Archer, C. J. Surfside sisters by Thayer, Nancy The inn by Pa erson, James Tear me apart by Ellison, J. T. Labyrinth by Coulter, Catherine Under currents by Roberts, Nora A lady's guide to e que e and murder by Freeman, Dianne Window on the bay by Macomber, Debbie The lager queen of Minnesota by Stradal, J. Ryan The last book party by Dukess, Karen Non-Fic on Audiobook Lie to me by Ellison, J. T. Unfreedom of the press by Levin, Mark R.
Lock every door by Sager, Riley Non-Fic on The magician's diary by Archer, C. J. Changing seasons by Pan, Gail The mapmaker's appren ce by Archer, C. J. Cole & Sav by LaBrant, Cole Never have I ever by Jackson, Joshilyn Crushing by Jakes, T. D. The new girl by Silva, Daniel The family next door by Gla , John One good deed by Baldacci, David The guarded gate by Okrent, Daniel The oracle by Cussler, Clive Keto diet by Axe, Josh The other Mrs. Miller by Dickson, Allison M. The man I never met by Sche er, Adam Ou ox by Brown, Sandra Natural disaster by Zee, Ginger Recursion by Crouch, Blake Signs by Jackson, Laura Lynne The right sort of man by Montclair, Allison Simply keto by Ryan, Suzanne The sentence is death by Horowitz, Anthony Songs of America by Meacham, Jon Surfside sisters by Thayer, Nancy Spying on the South by Horwitz, Tony The tale teller by Hillerman, Anne Unfreedom of the press by Levin, Mark R. Tear me apart by Ellison, J. T. Your perfect right by Alber , Robert E. The terminal list by Carr, Jack Your soul purpose by Russo, Kim True believer by Carr, Jack Teen Under currents by Roberts, Nora The fall of Crazy House by Pa erson, James Un l the mountains fall by Cosse e, Connilyn Heartwood box by Aguirre, Ann Wanderers by Wendig, Chuck Queen of Ruin by Banghart, Tracy E. Wherever she goes by Armstrong, Kelley The Scorch trials by Dashner, James Whisper network by Baker, Chandler Sorcery of thorns by Rogerson, Margaret Window on the bay by Macomber, Debbie Teen Graphic Novel Large Print Dragon Ball. 3-in-1. V. 6, 7 & 8 by Toriyama, Akira Dragonfly by Meacham, Leila My hero Academia. V. 8, Yaoyorozu rising by Horikoshi, Kohei The first mountain man: Preacher's rage by Johnstone, Wil- My hero academia. V. 9, My hero by Horikoshi, Kohei liam W. My Hero Academia. V. 10, All for one by Horikoshi, Kohei In mes gone by by Peterson, Tracie Con nued on page 4...
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...Con nued from page 3 The new ki en by Oates, Joyce Carol Video Nobody hugs a cactus by Goodrich, Carter Designated survivor. Seasons 1 & 2 Nugget and Fang go to school by Sauer, Tammi Dumbo Oink by Elliot, David How to get away with murder. Seasons 1 & 2 O o and Pio by Dubuc, Marianne Lucifer. The complete third season Pig the elf by Blabey, Aaron NCIS: Los Angeles. Season 8 Juvenile Fic on Collec on The next three days Apex predator by Anderson, M. T. Open season 2 & 3 The baby firebird by Harrison, Paula Pet sematary Birdie by Spinelli, Eileen Princess Mononoke Camp Shady Crook by Malone, Lee Gjertsen The public Coun ng Thyme by Conklin, Melanie Shazam! Deadzone by Nielsen, Jennifer A. Vikings. Season 5, volume 1 Ella unleashed by Cherry, Alison Wonder Park Horizon by Westerfeld, Sco Non-Fic on video The last boy at St. Edith's by Malone, Lee Gjertsen Balance & strength by Adams, Jane The miraculous by Redman, Jess Duck dynasty. Seasons 6, 8 The poison jungle by Sutherland, Tui
Easy The pros of cons by Cherry, Alison Albert's quiet quest by Arsenault, Isabelle Refugee by Gratz, Alan Bear came along by Morris, Richard T. Rube Goldberg's simple normal humdrum school day by Big boys cry by Howley, Jonty George, Jennifer Bilal cooks daal by Saeed, Aisha The sea pony by Harrison, Paula The Black and White Factory by Telchin, Eric She's the liar by Cherry, Alison Bunny in the middle by Denise, Anika The sky unicorn by Harrison, Paula Camp ger by Choi, Susan The star wolf by Harrison, Paula Can Cat and Bird be friends? by Muir, Coll The storm dragon by Harrison, Paula Cole e's lost pet by Arsenault, Isabelle Sweeping up the heart by Henkes, Kevin The color factory by Telchin, Eric Totally middle school A curious menagerie by Berger, Carin Transformed by Morrison, Megan Felix eats up by Wells, Rosemary A warp in me by Watson, Jude
Field trip to the moon by Hare, John Juvenile Graphic Novel A friend for Henry by Bailey, Jenn Queen of the sea by Meconis, Dylan Grumpy duck by Dunbar, Joyce This was our pact by Andrews, Ryan Henry's map by Elliot, David Juvenile Non-Fic on Henry's stars by Elliot, David Look again by Jenkins, Steve Hum and swish by Myers, Ma Mummies exposed! by Hollihan, Kerrie Logan I will not wear pink by Dunbar, Joyce Popcorn country by Peterson, Cris I'm trying to love spiders by Barton, Bethany The itchy book! by Pham, LeUyen Linus the li le yellow pencil by Magoon, Sco In Memory of Christopher Chudy
The li le guys by Brosgol, Vera The inn by Pa erson, James The magic fox by Harrison, Paula One good deed by Baldacci, David Max a acks by Appelt, Kathi Maya and the lost cat by Magerl, Caroline The most terrible of all by Van, Muon Adopt-a-Book My day is ruined! by Smith, Bryan The escape room by Goldin, Megan Labyrinth by Coulter, Catherine A complete list of new titles can be found on our web- Never have I ever by Jackson, Joshilyn site, www.plattsmouthlibrary.org, under New Titles. The other Mrs. Miller by Dickson, Allison
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But Who Was Harry Hill Really? Harlan Seyfer, Historian Plattsmouth Main Street Association
Harry Hill was a murderer, pure and simple. He was tried by a jury of his peers and found guilty. Witnesses tes fied, and his accomplice pointed a finger. He ul mately confessed. In 1893, Harry Hill shot and killed Cass County farmer Ma Akeson during a botched robbery. For that transgression against the peace and tranquility of Cass County, Harry was hanged in Pla smouth on March 1, 1895, at 9:06 am. During his trial, Harry Hill took the stand in his own defense. As quoted by the Omaha World-Herald , Hill stated, “I was born in South Carolina in 1864. I lived there un l, at the age of 19, I le home. At that me my father’s age was 68 and my mother’s 62. My real name is Ed L. Smith. I have two brothers and two sis- ters. My home was on a farm.” Harry’s story is confirmed by the 1880 federal census of Fairfield County, South Carolina which lists farmer Henry Smith, age 64, wife Martha C., age 56, daughter Jonnie, age 19, and son Edward L., age 16. If Edward (Harry Hill) le home at age 19, that would be three years later in 1883; Henry would have been 67 and Mar- tha 59 – not an exact match to Edward’s recollec on, but circumstan ally close. The census also indicates that Edward’s occupa on was “Farm Hand”, and that he was employed during the first six months of 1880. The Henry Smith family led a hardscrabble life. Henry was born in South Carolina in 1816. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry and his wife Martha were living in rural Fairfield County southeast of Columbia (no record was found of Henry serving in the War). Like his neighbors, he was a farmer but supplemented his income teaching rural school. By 1880, only the daughter and Edward remained at home. The senior Smith died in 1888 or 1889. In his will, he gave 48 acres to one of his daughters and a bed to the other. To his eldest son, Thomas, he gave five dollars, and, to his two youngest sons, Walter and Edward, he le one dollar each. Not the estate of a wealthy man. When Edward le home, he worked as a farm hand near Charlo e, North Carolina, before enlis ng in the Army in 1884. In his 1893 tes - mony, he states that he was sta oned at Fort Monroe, Virginia, overlooking Hampton Roads, where the Monitor and Merrimac had dueled 22 years earlier. He was sta oned in Ba ery K, of the Fourth Ar llery. According to Army rec- ords, Edward was later transferred to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, where he was hon- orably discharged in January 1889.
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Con nued from page 5. He somehow obtained recommenda ons from South Carolina Senator Wade Hampton and Representa ve Phillips in 1889. With those, he obtained an appointment to the Washington, D.C., Police Force, but a few months later was discharged for drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer. Edward’s military record then shows that he re-enlisted in the Army on July 23, 1889. He was assigned to Ft. Logan, Colorado (southeast of Denver), where he was dishonorably discharged in May 1891 — for what we today would call alcoholism. According to his trial tes mony, during this enlistment he was sent to Leavenworth Prison for ten months for a crime he preferred not to specify. There he received a jail-bird’s educa on. A reporter visited him in his jail cell during the 1893 trial, and observed that Smith/Hill … has evidently been in prison before, for when a representa ve of the [ Omaha Daily ] Bee called on him this evening at the county jail he remonstrated vigorously with one of the guards for objec ng to his talking to visitors, and insisted that it was any prisoner’s dis nct privilege to receive visits from reporters whenever he saw fit. A er being kicked out of the Army, Edward hung around Denver and Greeley, Colorado, for over a year working odd jobs as a general laborer. Somehow he found his way to Lincoln, where he “worked for Jensen in a steel gang for two months.” It appears, somewhere between Denver and Lincoln, Edward Smith became Harry Hill – for whatever reason, he never revealed. Con nuing his 1893 tes mony, Hill stated that he arrived in Omaha the previous April or May, where he worked briefly as a switchman in the Missouri Pacific Railroad yards, before becoming a hack (taxi) driver for Stephenson’s Stable. His favorite hangouts, Hill said, were the saloons clustered around 14 th and Dodge near his employer and around 16 th and Nicholas near Mrs. McCormick’s rundown boarding house, in which he re- sided. In September, he walked to Sarpy County where he got a job working on a road grading crew. He – being a true tramp – then walked on south to Cass County, where he worked for a John Murphy husking corn. (A brief search of census records could not conclusively iden fy this Murphy.) Hill tes fied at the trial of his accomplice, John Benwell Kearns, that the two met in a Union bar on Saturday, October 28. Four days later, farmer Ma Akeson lay dead. There is no record that Edward Smith/Harry Hill a empted to contact his family, nor – working from the other side – any record of an awareness the Smith family may have had of his fate. To them, he would simply have disappeared.
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1 Storytime 10 am 2 Friday Friends 3 Book Club 10 - 11:30 am 10 am
4 5 Cass County 6 7 Storytime 10 am 8 Storytime 10 am 9 10 Carvers 12 pm
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September 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 Storytime 10 am 5 Storytime 10 am 6 7 CLOSED CLOSED for except for Miss/ Labor Day CLOSED Master Pageant and Book Club
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We’ve shed more light on the NEW BOOKS and made the move to assist our patrons better!
New shelving unit made by Millard Carnes, funded by the Friends of the Library.
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Opera on Paperback was very successful indeed! The community really came through with books and monetary dona ons. Also, generous dona ons from the Daughters of the American Revolu on and the Pla smouth Friends of the Library helped to cover the postage. It took work, me, and effort to make this drive a success, but we can guarantee you that our troops are grateful knowing that they have people back home thinking of them. We are hoping we can make Opera on Paperback a regular community project here at the library. If you want to read some of the thank you notes that Opera on Paperback receives from the troops, check out their web page at h p://www.opera onpaperback.org/thankyou.php. We sent out 29 boxes, $105.10 was donated for postage, and $193.05 covered by the Pla smouth Friends of the Library. Thank you to everyone who par cipated.
- Karen Mier, Library Director and Yolanda Jasso, Library Supervisor