SEMI - VTEEKLY
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924
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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.
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We have candldartos and klandi-
dates.
The
sion.
D. A. R. endorses Jap exclu-
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Forbes indicted:
they do with him?
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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.
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Many a man is at a loss to know
whether to take something for his
liver or conscience.
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Every little bit added to the places
you've already been bit makes life
just a little bit bitter.
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A hint to the summer tourist: A
desert is a place where God does his
best to discourage trespassers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A syndicate newspaper feature
now current is entitled "The Inside
Story of a Bootlegger.'
the sad story of the
customers?
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' 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.
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"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."
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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."
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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
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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.
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An optimist is one who does not
believe all the rumors that circu
late in Washington.
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And just think of It every own
er of an auto is working for Rocke
feller, Doheny or Sinclair.
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Plans are under way to enable
farmers to stay in debt 16 months
every year instead of only 14.
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A Detroit man was poisoned by
eating some hot dog, perhaps be
cause the hot dogs went mad.
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The departments at Washington
all need more money, which is ex
actly what the taxpayers need.
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Maybe we'll have more settled
weather after Easter. But don't
take down your heaters just yet.
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Nature has a way of compensat
ing. The fishing season opens when
housecleaning time comes around.
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One advantage of daylight saving
is that it enables everyone to say
that he has saved something during
the year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Investigations still go in Wash
ington. One ex-attorney general is
now charged with disposing property
in this country, and keeping the
money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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