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JOURNAL
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1921.
Cbe plattemoutb journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at Postoffice, Plattemoutb. Neb., aa aecond-claaa mall matter
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00
All the bluffs are not along the
river.
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Fine Christmas stationery at the
Journal office.
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It -would be better to scrap our
nary than to scrap.
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It is the silent man that is usu
ally worth listening to.
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Success acts like moral peroxide
it turns many a head.
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Conferencially speaking, the devil
finds work for idle arms.
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A true friend is one who never
throws things up to you.
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It isn't what a man 6tands for as
much as what he falls for.
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Might may make
doesn't always make
right,
good.
but it
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Shooting stars Is" what some movie
fans would like to be doing.
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Christmas cards a specialty at the
Journal stationery department.
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Bankers predict seven years of
prosperity. Seven come eleven.
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Foch will double our French debt
by taking some cob pipes home.
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Now that Germany admits she lost
the war, let the thing stay lost.
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These other nations are not a bit
backward about coming forward.
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Xow is the time for all good ships
to sink for the aid of their country.
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Dressed turkeys are selling for
thirty-five cents in Ardmore, Okla.
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Two things are sure to make a
girl laugh dimples and good teeth.
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Germany must "say'she Is against
the Hughes plan because-., she favors
it.
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It is aa interest in fatted calves
that makes the modern son a prodi
gal. ' ' .
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They must, call 'it the .almighty
dollar because it Is almighty hard to
get. ,
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It once was used for good sham
poos, but now it's used as bad sham
booze. :o:
When writing was carved on
blocks of stone it was hard to break
the news.
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The cranberry crop is about 422,
000 barrels and now all we need is
the turkeys.
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It begins to look as if the world
intends to beat its sword into plow
shares and its jingoes into insensi
bility. "It don't take a man long to
bag his pants at the knees,
and to make a finely tailored
suit look thoroughly disrepu
table that's the man of it,?
avers Dainty Dorthy.
But she goes on to explain
that the man who is making
use of our cleaning, steaming
and pressing services is keep
ing his clothes In much more
presentable condition than
when Y.Q got acquainted with
us. And it doesn't cost much,
either.
Good Called for and Delivered
wrerci:iei7w;ii7i
pmon?:
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PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
They claim a day on the moon is
24 hours long; it is probably the one
before pay day.
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Florida has a honey week, but in
Nebraska we "honey" the girls ev
ery week in the year.
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Comfortable, two-passenger sofas
have made many a match, while on
ions have spoiled many.
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Our flaws are checked by a num
ber of laws, and our laws are check
ed by a number of Haws.
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The popular doctor's advice on
How to Keep Well" is "placed in
cellar and don't tell friends."
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Broadway chorus girls have start
ed making there own tights. It seems
they were almost out of them.
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A great many men would attend
church if they were given opportun
ity to talk back to the preacher.
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War may be a luxury, but at least
six small nations are now indulg
ing in it to their heart's content.
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The learned man who , discovered
the race is growing taller may have
been watching his small daughter.
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Dr. Stephen Smith says to live
long one must work hard but some
wouldn't want to live long then.
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Wouldn't it be nice if the child
ren could learn to spell and do the
multiplication table by going to the
movies.
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Visit the Journal stationery de
partment and you will always find
something suitable for Christmas
presents.
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A visit to the Journal stationery
department will convince you that
we are right upto-date on Christ
mas . goods.
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Moon keeps only one side turned
to the earth, and ' there is much
speculation 'as to what Is on the
other side.
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After all, a fruit jar is an appro
priate container for hootch. Most of
it will give you a jar that loosens all
your back teeth.
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It is said that the ex-Kaiser's hair
ha3 turned snow white. The frost is
on the pumpkin, a3 Jame3 Whitcomb
Riley would say.
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There's one good thing about
having one of these dust colds now
don't have to take all the advice
given you by friends.
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Dish washing. It is said, is a pro
lific source of insanity In England.
Stick 'em in the pan, dearie, and
let's go to the movies.
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Don't forget, young man, that the
broad highway of success runs right
through the school lhouse, and there
are no short cut3 or devious paths.
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A New York architect has refus
ed toaccept $20,000 due him from
the state. Other great heroes in the
i World War are Sergeant Woodfill
'and Alvin York.
Illinois is now suing five of its
former state treasurers. Sometimes it
seems as though Illinois might have
done better if it had checked up on
its treasurers at a time as they came
along.
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German marks ' are now selling at
three for a cent. But who wants to
spend a penny that way when you
can poke it into a slot machine and
get a slab of juicy chewing gum?
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i Constance Talmadge, movie actress
announces that she must have a di
vorce from ter husband. All right,
Connie. We don't know your hus
band, haven't the slightest idea about
what he has been guilty of, but it
would be unfair to discriminate
against you in a trivial thing like a
divorce when all other movie ac
tresses are getting them.
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Taking Nebraska as a whole, the
$19,000,000 of state taxes to be col
lected under this year's levy of 3.3
mills will mean an average tax of
$9 for every man, woman and child
In the state, or $45 for every family
of five persons, that goes to support
the state government. As there are
some who pay no taxes, the, per cap
ita rate for those who do will be still
larger not less than $10 a head or
dO for an average-sized family. - j
Sing a term of six months for a
bottle full of rye.
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No matter how she' bides her age
it always tells on her. , .
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Every woman thinks she has the
right, to make a fool of some man.
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It keeps a hpocrite busy trying to
convince himself that he is honest.
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It is hard to raise money. One man
got 10 years for raising a five to
fifty.
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When wind blows and hosiery
shows, it means the blow go to the
nose.
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Rabbits are plentiful, so not many
cats will be killed to make sealskin
coats.
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The average man is always inclin
ed to look on his candid friends as
enemies.
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Fortunately, the world isn't able
to see a society matron as her maid
sees her.
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"The gun that wasn't loaded"
doesn't kill as many as "the dice
that were loaded."
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Here is cheerful news for the small
boy. Twelve schools burned in this
country each week.
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Wonder if after the hand shaking
fest of Foch in America, he wasn't
the first to disarm?
"Eskimos only bathe once a year,"
says an explorer. Lo, the poor Eski
mo and his friends.
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Backward, turn backward, O time
in your flight and teach all the na
tions why not to fight.
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It has been 1947 years since Cle
opatra killed herself and the police
have done nothing yet.
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A man around the house during
the day is useless. Every home
should be without one.
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Congressman Herrick, of Okla.,
may be sued for a breach of promise;
but then, all congressmen may be
sued for that.
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If it is true that a window glass
combine has been formed as charged
by a grand Jury In New York, it
ought to be broken.-
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A tooth, said to be 150,000 years
old, has been found near Buffalo. A
large argument over what , tooth
past he used is expected. ,
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We'll never believe art, as pictur
ed on Japanese fans, again. None of
the Jap delegates at the disarmament
conference look at all like the pic
ture on the fans.
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It is said that bathing suits will
be even scantier next year. Cheer up,
girls! Another glorious summer is
coming in 1922, and the lakes will
be
brimful of water.
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Grand opera stars don't get all the
loose change. A Spanish bullfighter
has just signed a contract for ten
exhibitions' in Mexico for which he
will receive $100,000.
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Egypt seems to be much, more in
terested Just now in politics than
pyramids. Even the sphinx is thea-
tening to say something concerning,
the fuss with England.
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Statistics show that 10,000 mur
ders are committed In this country
each year. But we are so busy wor
rying over humanity's smaller vices
that we haven't time to stop them.
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The Washington Post says that
there are 800 unoccupied houses in
Washington when the disarmament
conference delegates arrived. Does
that include the House of Represen
tatives. -:o:
Judging from the number of ar
ticles being sent out by Washington
correspondents concerning the dis
armament conference, we gravely
fear they are overlooking some oth
er good stories.
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After all, what are we going to do
with the money we save by scrapping
our navy and dismissing our army?
It is the plan of the government to
let the prohibition enforcement of
ficers have all of it?
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Senator Borah has discovered that
the proposed association of nations
is nothing but the League of Nations
under another name. Well, but Sena
tor Borah must see that no associa
tkm would want to try the plan out
unless it could have another name.
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Marshal Foch has received the
honorary degree of LL. D. from seven
American institutions of learning.
His name should now be written. Dr.
Ferdinand Foch, Princeton, Brown,
Yale, Harvard, New York, Pittsburg,
Columbia However, he
would prob -
Idn't address
ably answer if you dldn'
him with the exact number of let- J
ter.
AMONG THE PROPHETS
A very interesting utterance was
made on the eve of the adjournment
of congress by Representative Wood
Of, the Tenth Indiana district. It has a
peculiar significance in coming from
the lips of a member of the majority
party. As quoted in the Indianapolis
News, Representative Wood said:
"I am only speaking the truth
when .1 say that the people of this
(country employed in every vocation
and in every character of business
are giving this congress hell. They
are doing it because we have done
nothing to stimulate business. They
are doing it because we have done
nothing to give employment to the
unemployed, They are doing it be
cause we have done nothing to bene
fit the farmer and stimulate the
price of farm products."
Commenting on this statement,
the Indianapolis News declares that
"the indictment of this republican
congress by a man .of the straightest
party orthodoxy cannot be impeach
ed, for it is true."
But what about the unprecedented
program of farmer aid bills which
were designed to help the farmer?
Was not the emergency tariff bill go
ing to rectify falling prices of farm
products? Has there not been a con
ference to discuss the unemployed
situation? And will not the new tax
ation scheme stimulate business?
And the senate committee has been
working hard on a permanent tariff,
and the railroad difficulties are be
ing thrashed out.
What shall we say, therefore?
Legislation and words that do not
better conditions are "like chaff
which the wind driveth away." Rep
resentative Wood tells of a breeze
that is likely to spring into a hur
ricane. :o:
A FALLACY EXPLODED
It has come to be rather a popular
notion that if the railroads did not
pay their officers so much more
than they earn they could pay their
employes as much as they earn. Pos
sibly to win a larger clientele of this
idea, it has been expanded in to the
suspicion there would even be some
thing left over for a larger distribu
tion in the form of a rate reduction
if the salaries , of the officers werej
shrunk to the exact measure of their
deserving.
' Even the 'most modest of these
ideas appears to be somewhat exag
gerative of the fact. The Wall Steet
Journal has been consulting the rec
ords and calculating on the basis of
its ' findings. And it concludes, for
one thing, that if the Pennsylvania
railroad would run itself without of
ficers without officers above the
grade denoted by a $3,000 salary,
the sum thus saved would enable it
to add nearly 10c a month to the
wages of its unionized employes. An
other calculation taking account of
all Class 1 railroads in the country
shows that if executive offices pay
ing $3,000 and more a yiar were
abolished it would enable them to
add 10c a day to the compensation
of their wage earning employes. But
since not even the economists who
grab the Plumb plan propaganda in
it3 motley have as yet proposed that
the railroads altogether dispense
with their executive officers, but
merely that their salaries be reduc
ed, it is evident that the fund of re-
lief which labor could accumulate in
that way is much less opulent than
even that calculation indicates. If for
i executives salaries of $3,000 and
above were cut to the exact teeth
that wages have been, probably not
more than a penny a day would be
the profit which labor would derive.
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BACTERIA EATERS
Discovery of a super microbe,
which attacks and kills deadly dis
ease germs in the human blood, is
claimed by Dr.-' F. d'Herelle, of the
Pasteur Institute of Paris. He names
it the "bactriophage," or. bacteria
eate?.
The pet prey of the bacteriarphage
are the germs of typhoid fever, bu
bonic plague, dysentery and hemor
rhage septicaemia. The bacteria eat
er goes after them like a cat after a
mouse. It aids the blood's white cor
puscles, natural attacker of germs.
Greatest value of this discovery says
Dr. d'Herelle, is that it can be used
to stop epiemics. So far, his work is
experimental. Time must pass before
the .bacteria eater can be bought at
the drug store. But it, along with
Berums now in use, indicate that
man's battle with the germs will be
a successful one. Nature provides an
antidote for everything. The big Job
of the scientists is finding them.
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THE TROUBLE AHEAD
One question that seems to have
been wholly overlooked in the dis
armament conference at Washington
!. the aiitlinHtv nf the rielpcate to
pledge their respective nations to
scrapping of several billion dollars
worth of battleships.
Certain i is, the American dele-j
.
eavca uavc uu cucu yuwer. u mat
ter of fact, they have neither con
stitutional or statutory existence,
and If the program proposed by Sec
retary Hughes is to be carried out,
it can be done only with the con
sent of congress.
President Harding is seemingly la
boring under the impression that!
this sweeping destruction of the
fleet, with the involved destruction
and waste of millions upon millions
of the dollars of the American peo
ple, can be carried out by a mere
wave of his hand, without any le
gal authorization beyond his mere
wish or whim.
If the agreement for partial dis
armament is made, the president is
going to find out that he is mistak
en. He is without power, despite the j
fact that he Is commander-in-chief j
of the army and navy of the United ;
States, lo scrap one solitary battle-j
ship. Congress has appropriated the
money for the construction of these J
vessels, and congress alone can or-j
der their destruction. r
Power to partially abolish the na-'
vy implies power to abolish the en- j
tire navy, and likewise our army, j
That is a bit further than the Ameii-;
can people are willing to allow any ,
president to go.
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YOUR PHILOSOPHY
You, at sometime or ether ia your
life, have sat late at night before a
fireplace with a group of friends.
Conversation drifted into an ex
change of philosophical views why
are we here on earth, why so many
fail, and what constitutes success.
Out of such discussions, like a
mocking jinni, rises a glaring truth
that every individual develops a
personal philosphy of life to fit his
degree of success or failure.
Aesop's fox who could not leap
high enough to pluck the grapes,
comforted himself with the grapes
are sour.
The man who has accumulated so
much money that it make3 him un -
easy has for his alibi: It doesn t
matter how much wealth a man has.
as long as he doesn't misuse.
Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch.
in dire poverty, hypnotized herself
into a philosophy that she was hap
pier without riches.
Socrates and his soap box orator?.
not having much material wealth.
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pauosopiiueu luai nomiug "'",
except pure intellect
The prize in this goes to the cele
brated Athenian philosopher-loafer
who, when a king heard of his wis-
dom and promised him any gift hejaftef. the capture of the two bandits.
wanted, answered, "Then step to one;
side.' You aTe obstructing my sun
light." . ,
One of the finest temperance lec -
ture3 of all time was deliv
Kansas by a speaker so drunl
vered in
lk heal -
most had to be propped up.
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s Af nil i Ii ii 1 1 4 n nt i r 1 t iitii in t am
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perance, otherwise he wouldn't have;
kept the distilleries working over-; of the posse were wounded. Bertll
jme " i lion records from Omaha enabled
V ... A. x . . i wounded men of the posse to identify
But. realizing that he was not forAdamg C3 one of the men. Four me
normal temperance he orated his were discovered by some farmers near
"don't drink" philosophy as an alibi
for his failure, and hypnotized hlm -
i, i
self into believing that he really be-
lieved it.
Similarly, vou are apt to hear a
great speech on honestv, by a man! the iNeorasua banners association
. . . ,. "f M .. OTJhad offered a reward of $3,000 for
who wouldn t hesitate at robbing an,, . . . .. ' ,.
1 Ins arrest and conviction. He was
orphan asylum. recognized .as one of the bandits in
This development of elastic phil-jthe car that sped through Palmyra
osophies, to fit personal failure, is a j following the recent bank robbery at
dangerous form of alibi.
Unless a man constantly guards
himself, he is apt to fall into a state
of auto-hypnosis in which he shoul
ders the blame, for his shortcomings,
to something other, than the real
real cause, which is himself.
Hence we have in America, an
alarming growth of fatalism.
It's a good idea, oocasoinally to i
pick your philosophy up by the nape
of the neck, and submit it to the
acid test of Emerson's Law of Com
pensation that all conditions are
the logical results of definite causes.
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STRAYED
Strayed from my pasture, south
west of Cedar Creek, one light red
muley steer. Weight about 450
or 500 lbs. Anyone seeing same
please take up and notify
A. O. AULT4
Cedar Creek, Neb.
There is no doubt but that the
line of school supplies carried by the
Journal is the most complete that can I
be found and embraces everything
that the student may need in his or
her work.
FOR SALE
Scotch and Scotch-Topped Short-;
horn Bulls, just weaned. Big Bar
gains, if taken at once. 4wks-w
SEARL S. DAVIS,
Murray, Neb.
FOR SALE
Poland China
$6 each.
Phone 3513
pigs 10 weeks old.
d&w
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BANK ROBBER GANG
Bandit Killed in Wichita Battle Re
cently Said to be Man Who
Made His Escape.
Eddie Adams, regarded as the
west's most notorious outlaw, and
v.Iif is hplievpd to have been the
third bandit missing after the Howe
Lank robbery in May, 1919, and a
jcf c.,ltlawa i? dea1 He was killed in
battle with Wichita. Kansas, detec-
tives a few days ago, at which tiruei
iH1 - 1? Press carried a telegraphic re
port of the battle.
The slain gunman was positively
iu.'.ntlfied as Hdale Adam? through
a comparison of finger prints.
Kddie Adams was believed to have
been the missing bandit in the Howe
back robbery case, for which two of
hi3 pals, Harry Kelly and Ed Ingh
ram are now doing time in the Xe-
I braska state penitentiary. The rob-
I Lery ft(??k e May 21 1919. and
twas followed by a hot chase by ?e-
brasfca authorities and a fierce battle
at Eean Lake, Mo., where' two cf
the bandi,t3 were captured. The third
bandit, however, escaped with $2,000
worth of loot. Thirty-eight thous-
!and dollars of tho loot was recovered
Mrs. Harry Kelly, wife of the bandit
Kelly, said that Eddie Adams wa3
the third bandit.
Adams made- a snectacular escane
ifrcni tTie Lansing penitentiary six or
'eight months ago, where he was serv-
line time for a ,,ank robbery at
Platte, Kansas. He is clicked to have
: " ' . , ... ....
i been connected with the killing of
been connected with the killing of
Charles Jones, sheriff, at Murray,
Iowa, in a gun fight in which several
1 . - . ... ...
. Murray
in the planning of a bank
:aad ttore robbery. The pursuit of
authorities and gun fight followed,
. . , , . . . , tn . ,a
hP(in thP loading snirit in .1 niimhor
of recent Nebraska bank robberies
'.Vabash, Nebraska. Neb. City Press.
For Sale
White Rock cockrels, $1.50 if pur
chased soon. Mrs. Roy Stewart,
Alvo, Nebraska.
FOR SALE Pure-bred Duroc - Jer -
sey boars. Cheaper than you can
raise them. Healthy, growthy.
SEARL S. DAVIS,
3wks-w Murray, Neb.
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LEGION MAY ACT
ASINTERVENOR
Supreme Court Pays Little Atten
tion to Protest Intimidating
Court is Charged.
Without asking for arguments and
in purely perfunctory style Chief
Justice Morrissey granted the request
'of the American Legion, made thru
j its state commander, William Ritch-
the new language law made by the
German Lutheran svnod of TSTphrao-
ka.
A protest has been filed by I. L.
Albert, representing the synod, in
which he indicates his belief that
the Legicn was attempting to sub
ject the court in its decision to popu
lar clamor. He insisted that the Le
gion, which had been active in secur
ing the amendments to the Siman
law, was counting on the weight of
its influence rather than upon any
legitimate assistance it might ren
der the court in arriving at a proper
determination of the question In
volved. Mr. Albert bad further declared
that suspicion will follow the litiga
tion in the public mind and would
discredit any Judgment of the court
upholding the law. lie declared that
"This move on their part bears a sin
ister aspect and if granted is calcu
lated to impair the force of the final
decision of the court in this case and
ugly possibilities."
Apparently the court had consider-
ei the matter in private, and merely
?nnounccd its decision to permit the
intervention when the hour arrived
Ien nearing. air. itiicnie
present, and filed a motion a!
ha the various portions of the
for onen hearine
' 1 u'reu 1 irs:
Ritchie was
asking
pro
test quoted be stricken out as scan
dalous and unnecessary, calculated to
cast aspersions upon the integrity of
the court and also upon the motives
of men who had offered their serv
ices and their lives to the country.
The case will be heard in its regu
lar order. Judge Button in district
court said that the law would be un-
i ons.itutiona! ir it were to ne con
strued it prevent the instruction of
children in religion in the tongue of
1 their parents, and held it did not.
The upholders of the law assert that
it prohibits the teaching of children
below the eighth grade in any for
eijrns language save in Sunday
schools.
For Sale
Duroc Jersey boars for sale. Path
finder breeding. Herman Wohlfarth,
Murray, Nebr.
School days mean school supplies.
j .uie journal nas a large mic ui
; cils, tablets, pens ana ail necessaries
for the students. All prices. Uall
and look them over.
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