THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918.
PAGE FOUR.
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Jack Sprat could eat no fat!
His wife could cat no lean;
And so he collared all the meat
And the the margarine.
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'Win the War" the slogan.
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llurrah for our boys in France.
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Now's the time to hustle.
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The Lusitania is remembered by
oiir bovs.
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It's a darn sig!it better to bo able
o laush at life than to have it
laughin' at you.
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The fourth drive may not land our
boys in Kerlin. but it will come
pretty close to it.
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And the slogans of the state board
of health are: Cover the cough and
smother the sneeze.
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The man who thinks a woman
can't fight should have seen the cx
hibtion on Main street last Friday.
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All the money in the world will do
our country no good now If there is
not the food and other things needed
for the war.
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Hot weather advice from the
Kansas Industrialist : Swat the fly.
muzzle the pup and send your wife
to the country for a month.
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There are those who are doing
their bit, and then again there are
those who are collecting their bit
like the street railway company.
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Kven if by some unforeseen piece
of luck victory should come this fall,
you would still need that supply of
coal you have been putting oil buy
ing. :o:
A good many Michigan Republi
cans seem to be of the opinion that
Henry Ford is one of the best cap
tains of war industry in the world,
and are in favor of seeing him con
tinue at it outside the Senate.
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Weeping Water never does any
thing by the half. That magnificent
demonstration yesterday is proof
sufficient to this fact. (Jod will bless
the patriotic people of Weeping
Water. They have the "pep", sure
enough.
General I.udcndorff's drive teems
to have come to a sudden end out on
a lonely road. Ami it probably will
lie useless for him to walk back for
more gasoline, for it is after fi o'clock
at the Manpower filing station and
the place is closed.
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Thesc are hard times for matri
monial slackers of all kinds. If they
don't marry the draft catches them.
If they get divorced or fail to sup
port their wives, it catches them
again. Their only escape is the
straight and narrow path of conjugal
fidelity. An't it awful?
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It is also believed that the next
German retreat will not be featured
by such complete devastation a3 the
one of the spring of 1017 unless
the Huns have equipped themeslves
with dish smashing and fruit tree
killing machines. They probably
will not have time to do these things
by hand this time.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL, APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the beat of the disease
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
fluenced by constitutional conditions. and
in order to cure it you must take an
internal remady Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine 1 taken internally and acts thru
the blood or. the mucjus surfaces of the
evstem. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
ti'reseribed by one of the best physicians
In this country for years. It is com
posed of some of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best blood
nuritfers The perfect combination n
th" Ingredients In Hall's Catarrh Merti
tin is wHat prodyos such wonderful
r-su'.ts in catarrhal conditions. s3eni for
T jThEY& CO.. Preps.. Toledo. O..
'ffiurffilr Shm for cor.UcaUoa.
The man who not a patriot is an
enemy.
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"Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys
are marching."
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People are getting so they believe
most anything.
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Fray night and day for our boys
at the front.
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C'ass county will have three women
candidates on the tickets this fall.
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Democratic state convention at
Hastings one week from today July
COth.
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The profiteers must go if the peo
ple are saved from starving. Kick
'em out.
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Happy is the individual who sees
things as they should be instead of
as they are.
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Why the rigid censorship on the
starting time of the tennis matches.
Government orders?
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This is a war of peoples as well
as of nations, and each individual
has a place and duty.
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It is not always bad cooking and
indigestible food that keeps you
awake nights. It might be well to
take something for your conscience.
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Germany has established twenty
seven prison camps for captured
Americans, though why she provides
a new camp for each American fche
captures probably only Germany
knows.
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The German soldiers who are sur
rendering in such large numbers evi
dently want a place in the sun, too,
and believe they know a better way
to get it than by waiting for the
kaiser to find it for them.
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Why not have a few seats placed
on the court house lawn, as long as
the war lasts and our boys are going
to the front. The crowd of women
and children deserved better treat
ment in this respect yesterday.
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The political field is getting to be
an interesting scene, without a
thought in many instances of the
brave boys who are doing battle in
France that we may continue to live
under the protecting wings of that
noble emblem, the Stars and Stripes.
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Germany still insists that our sold
iers are merely raw cannon fodder.
A raw Yank sergeant brings in 159
of Ludendorff's best trained seals.
Were he not a raw Yank sergeant, he
might have made it an even ICO. The
raw Yanks rarely have any regard for
smooth round numbers.
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Gcorgc II. Foreman's name of Alvo,
was filed Saturday afternoon for the
position of commissioner In the Third
district. We are glad to see this,
because George Foreman is one of the
best men in Cass county and is emi
nently well fitted for this particular
position. Success to him.
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There are enemy aliens and there
arc native aliens. The American
who does not do his part toward win
ning the war, who neither fights nor
works nor lend3 for victory is as
much an alien to America's purposes
and America's cause as the rankest
Prussian interned in this country.
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Every man, woman and child in
America can help win the war. Ev
ery man, woman and child who buys
a Liberty Bond or a War Savings
Stamp does something toward win
nins the war, enlists in one division
of national service, supporting the
Government, and backing up our
fighting men in France and on the
seas.
PRUSSIAN RETROGRESSION.
The daily papers announce that a
German commission appointed to
examine the decline in the birth rate
in Germany has reported a" recom
mendation for the compulsory mar
riage of Germans before their twen
tieth year is passed, with a provi
sion of financial assistance to those
who need it and penalties for those
who refuse to comply, and penalties
also for married couples who remain
childless.
This is the latest, though it may
not to be the last, manifestation of
I russianism.
Henry Drummond has said that
love is the greatest thing in the
world. Love has mitigated the hor
rors of war, and sent the Red Cross
with its missions of mercy to tend on
the battlefields by the side of the
soldier; it has provided for the lame,
the blind, the weak-minded, and the
various handicapped in peace; it was
created within the nation the spirit
of regard for each other's rights and
of respect for each other's opinions
the spiritual basis of democracy; it
has leaped over national boundaries,
and by inspiring mutual regard and
respect among men of different races
and nationalities has begun to
create a spirit of international
Irotherhood; it has expelled the
spirit of abject fear from religion
and substituted the spirit of loyalty
ard revenge; and it has proved it
self the bond of perfectness in creat-
ug the family, the foundation of
all social civilization, and the nurs
ing place of love in all its various
forms as justice, pity and mercy.
Prussian ism has abolished human-
it from war and substituted terror
ism, veiling its cruelty by a pre
tense that the greater the terrorism
the sooner the war will be ovei ; it
has avowed its disbelief in a?d to
the handicapped, and declared that
the best service which can be rend-
ied to the unfortunate in society is
to facilitate and expedite their sui
cide; it ha proclaimed itself the in
veterate foe of liberty, equality and
fraternity, and has taken up arms to
abolish democracy from the earth;
it has denied that there is or should
be any fellowship to nations, and
declared that "Thou shall leve thy
r.eighbor as thyself" does not mean
that men of different nationalities
are to have any feeling of good will
toward each other; it has endeavored
to drive love from the pulpit and for
loyal love for a heavenly father. God
o: love; it has sought to substitute
object fear for Odin, god of force;
and now it proposes to abolish love
as the bond of perfectness from the
home life and make the family mere
ly a means for breeding oldiers for
the state. Wbat lurther step toward
o.aking barbarians of all Germans
Prussianism can take it is difficult
to see, unless it should adopt the
legislation which Plutarch attribut
es to the Spartans atd teach its
young men to murder peaceful lab-
oiers in time of peace in order to
p.tcustom them to bruifality in time
( I war. From the Outlook.
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DISCOVERING OURSELVES.
Most of us are doing things we
did not think we could do. In those
easy-going days ere the war was on
us, when life was simple and sched
ules could be kept, and the current
flowed equally through channels of
routine, the ultimate self was not
tested, and many a talent was latent.
We now discover to our astonishment
when we dig in the war-garden of
our own characters, that precious
things were hidden in a napkin and
unutilized. We find that in the soil
richer or poorer there were dor
mant capacities to which the time is
now crying deaifeningly, till they
start from slumber obedient to the
call, enlarge all-of the man or the
woman that is in us, and make the
body to do its bidding of the soul.
Spring, 1918, has found no room for
that tired feeling," and war is con-
i
temptuous of "the rest cure," The
recitation of one's symptoms as a
form of indoor sport is passes. "Cor
rupt and luxurious idleness' is on the
scrapheap for the duration of the
war.
Business as usual? Not for the
spirit of a man. We are testing and
questing restlessly, asking ourselves
if we count for all that Is possible
toward winning of the war. More
and more this seems to be the super
business the one thing that mat
tcrs. The world's affairs halted in
midcareer for these four lurid bloody
years must go on.. All this while
our most precious commodities of
youth and strength, of beauty and
of goodness, of truth and light have
been immolated on the altars of
Mammon and passed through the
fires of Moloch to satisfy the lust tor
dominion of the Beast of Berlin. Jt
cannot continue forever. But it
must last until the still small voice
of God is heard above the devil's
blatant ribaldry, his frantic, blasphe
mies, his bawling, and brawling de
fiance and holiness and purity.
Meanwhile day unto day discovers
the number of those who turn from
vanity and folly to the deeds that
stand imperishably written in men's
hearts and in the shining skies. The
red light of battle has brought out
values that the eye had never seen.
Behind the lines, among the feeders
of this fighting edge, the s'truggle
has developed constancy and chiv
alry not known aforetime. It has
taught obedience and selfdcnial on
the part of prodigal sons and daugh
ters. It has taught us to save and to
give considerably where giving
means most. It has lessoned us in
the difference between the t rival and
the vital. We have turned the key
on so many childish and unnecessary
things. Parochal and provincial in
terests have given way to those that
are international; in place of selfish
olation we have learned to think
in terms of a world-wide under
standing.
Such are the compensations, such
are the beneficient by-products from
this awfulness. The world is hideous
now. The blood of saints, martyrs
and heroes leaves it with an abolu
tion that shall make it beautiful
again. Philadelphia Ledger.
MOVE TO PLATTSMOUTH.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Detlcf, who
have resided in Glenwood and vicin
ity for several years, are planning to
move to Plattsmouth, where the for
mer has accepted a position in the
Burlington machine shops. Glenwood
regrets to lose such good people as
Mr. and Mrs. Detlef and Plattsmouth
can be assured of acquiring good res
idents in their coming. Glenwood
Tribune.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT
The following proposed amendment
to the constitution of the State of
Nebraska, as hereinafter set forth in
full, is submitted to the electors of
the State of Nebraska to be voted
upon at the general election to be
held Tuesday, November 5th, A. D.
191S:
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Section one (1) of Article seven (O
of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska.
Be it Resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That Koetlon One of Ar
ticle Seven of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska he and the same
hereby is amended by striking out the
following words:
"Second. Pptkotis of foreign birth
who shall have declared their inten
tion to become citizens comformably
to thfi laws of iht United States, on
the sublect of naturalization, at least
thirty days prior to an election."
And insArtiner in the nlace of the
words so stricken, the following
words:
"Sernnd. Psrsnns of foreien birth
who shall have become citizens of the
TTnitfid Status hv naturalization or
otherwise conformably to the laws of
the United States at least thirty days
prior to an election.
Km 2. That at the General elec-i
tion nineteen hundred and eighteen-
(1918) there shall be submittert to tne;
electors of the state for their approval;
or rejection the foregoing proposed;
amendment to the constitution relat-l
Ing to the right of suffrage. At such;
election, on the ballot of each elector
vntlnr for nr ne-ninat said DrODOSed
amendment, shall be written or printed
the words: "For proposed amend
ment to thft constitution relating to
the right of suffrage," and "Against
said proposed amendment to me con
stitution relating to the right of
suffrage."
See. 3. If such amendment shall
be approved by a majority of all
lectors voting at such election, said
amendment shall constitute Section
One (1) Article Seven (7) of the Con
titution of the State of Nebraska.
Approved, April 9. 1918.
KEITH NEVILLE,
attest: Governor.
CHARLES W. POOL
Secretary of State.
Glen Neill departed this morning
for Omaha, where he is looking af
ter some business for a short time.
GERMAN OFFICER ATTACKS GIRL
Paris. The arrival today of a
number of Belgian refugees brought
more revolting stories of the treat
ment of the women and girls of Bel
gium by the German army officers
quartered in the former peaceful lit
tie villages of Belgium or passing
through them in their retreat from
the allied forces.
One young prospective bride saw
her fiancee clubbed to death with the
butt of a musket, under orders from
General von Cluck; her father shot
down while she herself was torn
from the arms of her aged grand
mother by a German officer. Captain
von Hancke, who fortunately was
unable to accomplish his evil pur
pose.
Similar stories are told daily, al
most hourly, of the depredations of
the barbarians of the Kaiser, "the
Beast of Berlin," as the German Em
peror is called.
At the Gem Saturday and Sunday,
matinee and night.
MRS. MAYFIELD SHOWS
SOME IMPROVEMENT
From Wednesday's 1 tally.
Mrs. Roy May field, who has been
at the hospital at Omaha for a long
time and who lias been improving
up to a few days ago, at which time
she suffered a relapse, is again show
ing signs of improvement. The phy
sicians discovered a pus cyst which
was the cause of her condition of
the past few days. After an oper
at ion for the later trouble the pa
tient is getting along very nicely.
Her many friends will be pleased to
learn of her improvement.
Mrs. Thomas R. Stimpson and two
children who have been visiting
here at t lie home of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl R. Stimpson, departed this af
ternoon for their homo at Norfolk.
PARCEL POST AND
THE EXPRESS BUSINESS
From Wednesday's Daily.
When the parcel post came into be
ing, and it was possible to send a
parcel by post, at the rates establish
ed, the express companies said they
must go to the wall, and that there
would soon be no express business.
The contrary lias proven to have been
the result of the experience of those
engaged in the business. There nev
er was a time covering many weeks.
when the express business was heav
ier than at this time.
Both the express companies of this
city are almost swamped in the busi
ness which is being offered to them.
The business is divided, the matter
is taken to the two railway stations
for shipment or called for by the ex
press wagons. And a trip to the two
stations by one from the country for
his express has lots of business. This
city with its over five thousand in
habitants, is entitled to a better ser
vice than they are getting. Where
will you find a city any where near
this size that has not a good wagon.
and a horse which can care for its
load and a place to do business. The
express companies feel that they need
better service, and the public know
they are entitled to better conditions
than now prevail, why cannot we
have it? - k?
OLD CRESTON IOWA PATRIOTIC
From WedncsOny's Daily.
The following we gather from the
Creston, Iowa, Plaindealer, which
shows the Iowa people, and especial
ly at Creston, treat the boys right
that are going to the front. The
people of that city and state have
their heart in the right place:
About S:00 o'clock last evening a
special train brought about five hun
dred recruits from Nebraska towns,
enroute to Camp Dodge, at Oes
Moines. They remained here about
four hours, and were given automo
bile rides about the city. The scene
when they "loaded up" was a mem
orable one. Tho people responded
generously and everyone of the men
was given a place in an automobile. '
Later they were entertained about
the city, notably at the Temple
Grand, by Manager Louis Rosenfield
and at the Willard by Manager
Tiberghein, both admitting all sol
diers who came free of chargs.
It was a big occasion, not only for
the recruits but for the people of
Creson as well.
ULYSSES H. LESLIE
DIES AT MASONIC HOME
From Wednesday's Daily.
Ulysses II. Leslie who has been
making his homo at the Nebraska
Masonic Home, here for the past
two years died at that institution
yesterday, and was buried here this
afternoon at 2:30. Mr. Leslie was
C ASTO R I A
For Infants and Children
!n Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature oi
sa
Here's a close out of Boys' Wash Pants,
sizes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Come and
born in Trumbull county, Ohio,
June 12th, 1862, and had lived in
Omaha for a number of years prior
to coming to this city to make his
home. He was engaged in the com
mission business while in Omaha.
Mr. Leslie has no friends in this part
of the county, but some in Omaha.
The burial was made in Oak Hill
cemetery.
i.i:;al notich.
To Pauline Oldham, as A1 m i nist ra-
triv of tin. i.st:iti' rf r:irrr .1 (llli;im
Lti'ceast'il : Diehard Conway Oldham:
Cnx.za J. Huker: Daeuna Connally:
Oldham: Jessie D. Snyder: Dlllson 1
Oldham: .lames ". Oidham: Vera H.
Oldham: Dolly Oldham: Mary T. Orain.
and all in-rsons interested in the estate
ttf Tflnk;nn I fWil ham ft. ..' . 1 in.
ludintr creditors and claimants.
on are hereby notified that on the
4 th .li v- f 1 i 1 S i.luli.llrr fil.l
ltftitiin In flip flivlrir't fnurt rf Viw
ounty, Noliraska, prayint? anions oth
er things for an order to he entered
hv me -mii ciireciintj tne administra
trix of th- estate of tlenrjr .T. Oldham,
dec-eased, to convey to plaintiff the
Northwest Quarter of the Northwest
Quarter of Section thirty-one
Township eleven (11) llane fourteen
till i. ass oiiniy, Acnrasxa. upon the
payment of the balance of the pur
chase price in accordance with the
contract pnlpi-pil infn li.t u.-r.,i
plaintiff and the s-aid CJeorpe .J. Odi-
n.im, mirintf ms mo and to have the
title to said land qniote.1 as auainst
the defendant time on the 1nt!i .lnv f
January litis. "All persons interested
in the estate of Jackson i. Oldham,
deceased. inclndinir i-n.iliinm a,,.!
i la Imants.
Yon are furflirt- n. ; t, ,..sn
be a hearing upon said petition a the
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
The Ford Model T One Ton Truck is really the
necessity of farmer, manufacturer, contractor and mer
chant. It has all the strong features of the Ford car made
bigger and stronger. It has the powerful worm drive,
extra large emergency brakes acting on both rear wheels
and controlled by hand lever, 124-inch wheelbase yet
turns in a 46-foot circle, and has been most thoroughly
tested.. We know it is absolutely dependable. We ad
vise giving your order without delay that you may be
supplied as soon as possible. The demand is large and
orders are filled in rotation. Leave your order today.
1
Remember that when you bring your Ford car to us for mechanical
attention that you get the genuine Ford service materials, experi
enced workmen and Ford factory prices. Your Ford is too useful, too
valuable to take chances with poor mechanics, with equally poor qual
ity materials. Hring it to us and save both time and money. We are
authorized Ford dealers, trusted by the Ford Motor Company to look
after the wants of Ford owners that's the assurance we offer.
We keep a full line of Tires, Tubes and
Automobile Supplies!
Wc also are prepared to do a general storage and repair business
for all makes of cars.
Our storage rates are reasonable and we have only reliable me
chanics in our employ. Come to us for storage and repairs.
Filling Station!
Our new Filling Station will bo completed in a few days and the
public is invited to come to us for gasoline and lubricating oils.
Car Load of Lubricants!
We have just received a car load of the best grades of lubricating
oils and greases and can make special prices in barrel lots.
Come in and let us show you our new home.
T. i Pollock Garage,
6th and Pearl St., Plattsmouth, Neb.
Telephone No. 1 .
get them while you can.
C. E. Wescott's Sons
EVERYBODY'S STORE"
District Court Doom In the Court
House, at I'lattsmout h Cass County.
Nebraska, on the Srd day of September
DJ1S. at the hour of ten o'clock A. M.
to all of which, and the allegations of
the petition, you will take due notice.
C. A. DAWDS. 1'IIANK J. L1LLIK.
Attorney. Dlaintiff.
J22-6wks
NEBRASKA LEADING IN
PER CAPITA SALES OF
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Washington, July 23. Sales of
war savings and thirft stamps havo
increased rapidly during July with
the result that the total value of
these securities placed to date has
reached $447,S20,970, the Treasury
department today announced.
Nebraska, according to the detail
ed figures, is leading in per capita
sales with a naverage of $16.64. The
District of Columbia on that date
was second with per capita sales of
$7.H2. Iowa. Kansas, Missouri and
Indiana ranked next in the order
named.
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE.
I have filed for nomination on
Democratic Ticket for Representa
tive subject to the will of the voters
at the Primaries, August 20.
I am your friend,
JOHN MUIITEY.
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