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SEMI - VTEEKLY MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924 rAQl FOTO PLArrSMOTJTH Cbc plattsmouth owm PUBLISHED SEMI WEEKLY AT PDATISMOWPfi, NBBftASKA Earered at Poetufflce. PUttMnsuth. Neb., aa ecod-cJa mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PKIGE $200 ELIJAH AND THE MEAL AND OIL The word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zare pnath and dwell there. And when he came to the gate of the city, be hold, the widow woman wan there gathering of sticks and he called to her. and said. Fetch me, I pray thee. a little water, and as she was going to fetch it, he called to her. and saie. Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand, and she said. As the Lord thy God liveth, I have but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse. And Eli jah said unto her. Fear not. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. I Kings 17:8-16. : o We have candldartos and klandi- dates. The sion. D. A. R. endorses Jap exclu- :o:- Forbes indicted: they do with him? :o:- now what will O spring! What rhymes are com mitted in thy name! There are some very retiring men in the present administration. A deviled egg is simply a hard boiled one with a meaner temper. :o: Many a man is at a loss to know whether to take something for his liver or conscience. ho: Every little bit added to the places you've already been bit makes life just a little bit bitter. 0:0 A hint to the summer tourist: A desert is a place where God does his best to discourage trespassers. :o: It is not polite for a girl to sit in a man's lap the first tftae he asks her. unless she is afraid he won't ask her again. Chairman Hull of the national democratic committee, says Hughes is trying to "gloss over" corruption. Wouldn't wonder. :o: The farmers would get along bet ter if they concerned themselves more about what congress does to them than for them. MK Our government prints a booklet on keeping worms out of the garden. If we could turn loose some flying fish they would help. A little more poping of the ques tion during Leap Year and a little less popping of corks would be a good thing for the nation. 0:0 Congress has been in session for four months and having been too busy to make any laws is, on that account, one of the best we ever had. 0:0 A syndicate newspaper feature now current is entitled "The Inside Story of a Bootlegger.' the sad story of the customers? :o: ' Dors he tell insides of his We are told by a naturalist that Salmon have been known to live 100 years. Maybe there's some truth in these stories about the big fellow that always gets away. :o: "These round-the-world airplane flights," says the Chicago News, "has moro leg-? than a centip d " In spit- of which, they spend most of their time hesitating to "hop off." :o: It's spring, beautiful spring and the printers are busy dusting off their "Train Strikes Auto" head lines. These headlines work hard er in summer than in winter. Oth er headlines which do the same are: "Canoe Upsets. Two Drown," "Cash ier Missing With Funds" and "Beau tiful Wedding." :o: The Jap have .had the big head ever since thay whipped poor old Russia, when that country was all torn up with home troubles. But ai war with the United States will be different. We get excited over poli tics but we are ready to protect our selves when an alarm of war comes. Our country and our flag are insep arable, and so are our people. PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 'I-H-M-! TT .T..T..T. f LINES TO REMEMBER There isno slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail. Shake speare. 'l The guilty There should race or cclor. should be punished, be no distinction in The flies and mosquitoes must be getting awfully impatient with the .veather man. Any man can fool a woman before she is married, but it takes a genius to do it afterward. 0:0 An optimist is one who does not believe all the rumors that circu late in Washington. :o: And just think of It every own er of an auto is working for Rocke feller, Doheny or Sinclair. :o: Plans are under way to enable farmers to stay in debt 16 months every year instead of only 14. : o : A Detroit man was poisoned by eating some hot dog, perhaps be cause the hot dogs went mad. :o: The departments at Washington all need more money, which is ex actly what the taxpayers need. .0 : Maybe we'll have more settled weather after Easter. But don't take down your heaters just yet. : o : Nature has a way of compensat ing. The fishing season opens when housecleaning time comes around. :o: One advantage of daylight saving is that it enables everyone to say that he has saved something during the year. 0:0 We don't know much about a bee in a bonnet, but a man usually thinks a woman with an Easter bon net got stung. :o: A lot of fellows are now finding out that being a candidate is hard on their past lives, no matter how good they have been. :o: Washington boasts that the co3t of living has been reduced 2 per cent. which would be enough to count about year after next. Thomas A. Edison will also be known to posterity for the fact that he attended a banquet ?n New York and did not make a speech. :o: Investigations still go in Wash ington. One ex-attorney general is now charged with disposing property in this country, and keeping the money. :o: If Senator Wheeler, of Montana, is guilty of wrong doing, puts him in the same boat with the other grafters. Politics should cut no fig ure in such investigations. :o: Now is the best time to plan the summer vacation; then when sum mer comes and you can't take it, you will have had all these months of fun planning for it, anyway. :e:- There ought to be a season of the year when the study of American history i3 as interesting to students as the season in which baseball, foot ball and basketball are interesting. :o: 1 WHY A TOWN SHOULD GROW There are towns winch do not wish to grow in population. There are other communities which are uppermost in the desire and plan ning of the leaders of the commun ity and the "fellowship" of those leaders, too, by the contagion of an enthusiastic purpose the wish to acquire larger numbers on the cen sus report pages. There are towns, and some cities, in which residents frankly, even boast ingly, r declare they "do not want more people to move in" that "they have enough, too many of many sorts, already." Why should a town have more, peop,e. work for increased popula- tion. seek to attract new families to move in and settle for permanent res idence? There are manv smnd rea sons why a community should desire to grow in population as well, of course, as in quality and consequent importance quality of ita people and its business and its influence in several lines. The reasons are easy to locate: More oeonle mean more consumers and more producers mean more var ried activity. More activity means more business. More business means more money in circulation. Almost universally more money means more profits. More profits mean more nearly a certain prosperity of the permanent sort of the growth is a continuing growth And more ma terial prosperity means more gener ally the possibility, the opportunity for develoment of the finer things of life historical surroundings, educa tional and cultural advantages, and spiritual and moral safety and pro tection. If there be real ambition, real, true aspiration there's your good reason for earnestly wishing to grow. The general rule of nature applies: That growth and vitality are compli mentary. The physical body grows to live and even when maturity of actual size measurements is attain ed, growth continues; the grown man keeps growing in other dimen sions than height and girth. The town that grows is a live town! The town that stops growing, stagnates and becomes smaller, certainly less important, less influential and of smaller power for service and use fulness. A community must not stand still: if it remains stationary -it invariably recedes; it must grow in some direction. The numerical measurement is the elementary measure and it is almost universal ly attended by the development in other directions. To be vigorously living and posi tively active the town must grow; and in numbers is the first step in growing. ;o: OUGHT TO ACCEPT Acting apparently without much authority, a woman school teacher out in Colorado has written a letter to President Coolidge, inviting him to come out there as soon as he con veniently can, and slay, or help to slay, a "lion," which for some time has been prowling about the moun tains in the vicinity of the South Platte canyon. The animal is de scribed in the letter as a "huge creature," and it is charged with "driving all other game from the forests and killing sheep, deer and pigs near homes." He is worthy game, the letter writer says, "for the men of the capital." One easily can imagine what would have been the emotional reaction of the late Theodore Roosevelt to an in vitation of this kind. As a faunal naturalist, his reply would have to begin by telling his correspondent that there are no Hons in Colorado or anywhere else in North or South America, but, this tribute to accur ate zoology made, he would tell her that he knew well the beast she meant and that as soon as it would be compatible with public interests he would be delighted to take the trail of the puma. President Coolidge is different. A? a Doy in tne v ermont hills he pre sumably did some hunting and trap ping," but it is not recorded that he was an enthusiastic sportsman even then, and in later years his atten tion has been turned in other direc tions. This, too, is his busy year: and though he has a lot of hunting to do before fall, the objects of his pursuits will be delegates to the Cleveland convention, not near-lions. In other days Invitations such as this one often were addressed to the rulers of peoples. It was a recog nized part of their business as well as of their pleasure to undertake the beneficient task of slaying beasts that were ravaging the fields of their subjects, and the king who refused to do it would have imperiled his crown by showing unworthiness to wear it. Times have changed and yet it might be the part of wisdom for President Coolidge to think twice before he sends his regrets. He has very little to do with western people, anyhow, in the past. :o: YOUR FLOWER GARDEN "To me the meanest flower that grows can giv thoughts that do of ten lie too deep for words," said William Wordsworth, that poet whose songs were so often inspired by the simple things of life. Of all the wonders of nature tfcere is perhaps none that affords such happiness as do flowers. There are the aristocrats of the hothouses and the plebian varieties of the field, and all contribute in their own way to the pleasure of the world. There are some things in tihs life which cost a sreat deal of money and to attain which the sons of men toil away their lives. There are those which are entirely free, such as the sunset, and the dew and the rainbow in the sky after the shower. and the carols of the birds. Because we may enjoy these without any cost on our part, perhaps we do not ap preciate them so much, as we do those things for which we strive. Yet were they taken away this old world would be a dreary place. While flowers are a part of God's handiwork, blooming In woodland and prairie without assistance of man, we who dwell in the cities know well that we will miss the priv ilege of their absence unless we pre pare the ground and plant them about our homes and water them and care for them. Yet, does not the pleasure of having them confpensate for the time required to tend them? There is nothing else which will beautify our homes in quite the same way. 'i ne architecture may be ever so beautiful and the furniture ex ceedingly handsome, but even thcs cannot take the place of those bright gifts of nature that we call bowers. There is nothing so beautiful, and nothing wil contribute more day by day to our happiness. "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these," said the Master of the lilies of the field. The spring has tarried long in her way. Many have hesitated to put their seeds into the ground for fear another frost would injure them. All sueh danger is apparently past now. Spring has come and with her the in evitable reawakening of the things of nature. It is time to plant, ami those who do will be richly reward ed in the riotous blooming of their gardens. After the barrenness which has marked the winter month, help make Plattsmouth a beautiful flower gar den. ANOTHER M0NARCB7Y GONE Greece, after a desperate struggle, has declared itself a republic. In solemnly deposing King George II. the deputies demanded the ex-patri- atic of all members of the royal fam ily, but Alexander Papanastaion, the premier, reiuseu. declaring tne re public should treat them generous ly and thus give proof of its magnan imity. The decision of the assembly has to be confirmed by popular verdict when more trouble is anticipated, bt cause the Royalists are determiner to miss no chance to strangle the re publican move. Difficulties began with King Con stantine, who, as a result of his pro German sympathies, kept Greece neutral during the first half of the war. Fleutherios Venizelos who bit terly opposed his pro-German king fled to Saloniki and set up a provi sional government there under thf protection of the Allies. This, ir 1917, led to the flght of Constan tine a flight which was" expedited by the British navy taking posses sion of the army and navy stores anr1 equipment and funds. Mr. Venizel os, immediately, returned to Atnem at the head of the government Greece was promised much by the Allies but received practically norh ing. The old government has been wrecked and now the people pro pose to follow the example of other ) nations of the world and do a Iittl governing themselves. : o: COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE Practical business men and busi ness methods have developed a new system of measuring the business im portance of a town or city by the ex tent and character of its automobile registrations. A locality low in registrations is either financially weak or lacking in enterprise. A locality high in registrations of high-priced passenger cars indicates a residential district inhabited by people of means. A locality high in registrations of low-priced care is a territory of Strictly utility activity. A locality high in truck registra tions and low-priced passenger cars is a mdoern industrial and mercan tile community. Automobile registration also eon; stitutes a guide to the banking bus iness and its participation in com munity development. The commun ity that still depends on old methods of transportation is decadent. We live today in a world on wheels where time is the great asset.. Ten years hence steam railroads will be considered "slow freight" and used only for that purpose. PERFORMS RARE OPERATION Baltimore, Md.. April 17. One of the rarest operations in plastic sur gery in the history of John-Hopkins hospital was performed today by Dr. William F. Reiniioff, resident sur geon, .in an attempt to restore the heel of Erie ' Hamilton, whose foot was crushed in an elevator accident. Dr. Reinhoff announced that the op eration's first stages were success ful. A tubercular condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed following the accident, and physi cians who had examined Hamilton told him he would be crippled per manent). Dr. Rflnhoff. however, suggested restoring the healthy plastic adhe sion. The operation provided first' for the removal of the tubercular part of the heel. Then the calf of Hamilton's other leg was bisected to the bone its entire length and the foreshortened heel inserted in this wound. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship. Estate No. of Anna Ptak, de ceased, in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Frank Ptak, who is one of the heirB of said deceased, and interested in such, has filed his petition alleging that Anna Ptak died intestate in Douglas coun ty, South Dakota, on or about Feb ruary 12th, 1-915, being a resident and inhabitant of Armour, Douglas county. South Dakota, and the own er of the following described real es tate, to-wit: An undivided one-half inter est in and to Lot nineteen (19) in the northeast quarter of Sec tion thirteen, (IS) Township twelve, (12) Range thirteen, (13) east of the 6th P. M.. in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, subject to the life estate of Marie Ptak, widow of Frank Ptak, Sr., deceased leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Frank Ptak, her husband; Leon Z. Ptak, a son, and Irene Ptak, a daughter. That your petitioner is one of the heirs at law of said deceased Anna Ptak, and as such is the owner of an undivided one-third interest in and to said above described real estate, subject to the said life estate of the said Marie Ptak. widow; that said decedent died intestate; that no ap plication for administration has been made ami the estate of said decedent has not been administered in the State of Nebraska, and that the Court determine who are the heirs of said deceased, their degree of kinship and the right of descent in the real prop erty of which the deceased lied seiz ed, which has been set for hearing on the 7th day of May, A. D. 1924, at 9 o'clock a. m. Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, this 4th day of April, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) County Judge. CHAS. . MARTIN, a7-3w. Attorney. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the application of Frank G. Hull, Administrator of the estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceas ed, for license to sell real estate to pay debts of said deceased. Order to Show Cause. Now, on this Bth day of April, 192 4. comes Frank G. Hull, admin istrator of the estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceased, and presents his petition for a license to sell the real state of said deceased to pay the debts and claims allowed, and it ap pearing to the Court from said peti tion that there is not sufficient per sonal estate in the hands of the Ad ministrator to pay the debts out itanding against said deceased and claims allowed by the County Court of Cass county, against said estate and the expense of administration md this proceeding, and that it is necessary to sell the whole or some lortion of the real estate of said de- :edent for the payment of such debts jr claims; It is therefore ordered and adjudg ed that all persons interested in the estate of said Samuel L. Furlong, de JAKE, 12751 Jake is a black jack with white points. Was foaled May 88, lai. Is 153,4 hands high, weight 1,150. Sired by Big Jake and his dam was Lady Elgin. He is an excellent jack, md has a good reputation as a foal getter. TEDDY R. 97686 Teddv R. is a fine Percheron Stal lion, black with white hind feet and, right front foot also white. He wasj foaled March 30, 1912, and weighs 1.900 pounds. His sire was Morton, j 67203; by Epatenr, 51836, (64389) : by Boliver, 40111 (46462) ; by Amil car, (19979) ; by Sultan, (4713) ; by Bayard, (9495)- by Estraba, 187 (736) ; by son of Jean le Blanc, (739). Teddy R. and Jake will make the season of 1924 at my home, six miles west of Murray and six miles east of Manley, every day in the week. Terms for Teddy R., $12.50 to in sure colt to stand up and suck. Terms for Jake, ? 15.00 to insure: colt to stand up and suck. When parties dispose of mares or . . a M I remove rroni tne locality service iee becomes due and must be paid imme diately; All care will be taken to prevent accidents, but owner will noti be held responsible should any occur. A. J. SOHAFFR U. . TWO MAMMOTH JACKS WHITE POINTS FOUR YEARS OLD KNOWN AS Black Oak and Rad Oak Both Fifteen and One-Half Hands High Both these jacks are eligible for registry. They were brought here by Mr. C. A. Trent of Murray, from Warrensburg, Mo., where good jacks are grown. A-1 condition; good foal getters. Black Oak and Red Oak wUJ make the season of 1924 at my home three miles northwest of Union and four miles south west of Murray. TERMS To insure colt to stand and suck, $ 1 0. When mare is traded or disposed of or is removed from vicinity, service fee becomes due and payable at once. Utmost care will be exer cised to prevent accident, but we will not be responsible in case any should occur. G. 8. UNION ceased, appear before me. James T. Begley, Judge of the District Court of said county, at the office of the Clerk of the District Court, in the Court House in the City of Platts mouth, in Cass county, Nebraska, on the 26lh day of May, 1924, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any there be, why 'Uich license should not be granted to Frank G. Hull, Administrator of said estate, to sell so much of the real estate of the deceased as may be necessary to pay the debts of said deceased and claims allowed and costs of administration and this pro ceeding. It is furthered ordered that notice be given to all persons interested by the publication of this Order to Show Cause for four successive weeks in The Plattsmouth Journal, a legal newspaper published and of general circulation in said County of Cass. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court. JOHN M. LEYDA, Attorney for Petitioner. a7-4w NOTICE OF ADMIN ISTRATOR'S SALE In the District Court of Cass conn- tv Nebrask- " In the matter of the application of Hans Sievers. Administrator rf t Vl O estate of Helene Hilbe-rt, deceased, for license to sell real estate to pay debts. Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of an order and license issued by "Hon. James T. Begley. Judge of 1 , T li n( ;t fncr. , . t Va- braska. on the 12th day of April, 1924. to me. Hans Sievers. .A dm in is-' trator. I will, on the 10th day of May. 1924. at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., at the south door of the Court House in Plattsmouth. Cass county,! Nebraska, offer for sale at public auc-! tion to tne tngtiest Didder tor ensn, the following described real estate, to-wit: The south 34 feet of Lot two (2) in Block sixteen 16) in Townsend's Addition to the City of Plattsmouth, and fractional Lots one (1), two (2) and three (3) in Block eighty-six (86) in the Original Town of Platts mouth, Nebraska subject to all liens and incumbrances. Said offer for sale will remain open for one hour for bids. Date': April 14th. 1924. HANS SIEVERS. Administrator of Estate of Helene Hilbert, Deceased. JOHN M. LEYDA, Attorney. al4-4w LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Florence G. Chalfant, deceased. Notice of Hearing. To all persons interested in the estate of said deceased. Creditors and Hoi rs at Law: You are hereby notified that on the 12th day of April. 192 4, Hazel u jm I ' State Farmers' James Walsh, President Insures Farm Property and City Dwellings Offers the best policy and contract for less money. Best and cheapest insurance company doing business in Ne braska. Pays the loss promptly. 7,200 members. Organ ized in 1895. Insurance in force, $67,000,000. Call or write TODAY tomorrow may be TOO LATE. CALL ON OR WRITE L. L. DIENSTBIER 2615 Harney Street Omaha, Nebnuka UPTON NEBRASKA F. Hendricks filed her petition in this Court in which she alleges: That Florence G. Chalfant. late a resident and inhabitant of Rock Bluff pre cinct, Cass county, Nebraska, depart ed this life, intestate, on or about the 8th day of May, 190!L leaving her surviving as her sole and only heirs at law: Jame s Chalfant, her husband. Willard F. Chalfant, a son, and Hazel F. Chalfant, the petitioner, a daugh ter, all of legal age. and that said decedent v.as seized and possessed of the fee simple title to real estate in Cass county, Nebraska, described at follows: An undivided one-half interest in and to the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Sec tion 5; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 7, and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 8, all in Township 11. North, in Range 14, east of the 6th P. M. subject to the life estate therein of AMgafl E. Smith, the mother of said decedent, which life estate is now terminated; that petitioner is the owner of an undivided one-third in- I terest in the real estate of said de- sed, by virtue of the decedent law of the State of Nebraska; that more than two years have now elapsed fl"" the f sid decedent and I that no application has been made in J2 l Xebrask ttoTt the af: IIUCII l Ul C4 11 UU 1U1 U 13L1 a Jl 'l D(MU estate, and proving for a determina tion cf the time of the death of said Florence G. Chalfant. the names of her heirs at law and the degree of kinship thereof and the right of de scent of the real property belonging to said decedent in the State of Ne- JR t" an order barring claims against said estate, and for such other orders as may be neces sary for a correct disposition of said matter. Said matter has been set down for hearing at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, for the 15th day of May, 1924, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., at which time all persons interested may appear and contest said petition. Dated: April 12th, 1924. Bv the Court: ALLEN J. BEESON. Count v Judge. JOHN M. LEYDA. al4-3w. Att'y for Petitioner. Automobile Painting! First-Glass Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Replatiag and Sign Work! A. F. KNQFU6EK, Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth Insurance Co. J. F. McArdle, Sec'j