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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1924- fAC2 F0TT3 PLATTSUOUTH .SEMI -WEEKLY JOUJtNAI ; "Che plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Catered at Potifflc. Plattsmoutb. Neb., tt ecoatl-cla.sa mall mattei R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PIttCE $2.00 NAMES IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead, which were in them; and they were judged j.. every man according to their works. j.J. And death and hell were cast intoj.J the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lakes of fire. Revelations xx, 13-15. -:o:- Never hold a nail for your wife to strike at. :o: The world prefers hard-boiled facts to half-baked truths. Misery may love company, but not half so much as it lets on. . o:o The difference between a house and a home is an automobile. :o:- We'd like to get hold of some mon ey that is not suffering from wan derlust. :o: A woman can do just about every thing with a hair pin except fix her hair. Every time they build a new rail- J road crossing the auto dealers order more cars. :o: It takes a marriage license to get married on and an auto license to get a date on. :o: A June husband tells us she wash ed the ice and put the stuff out in the sun to dry. o:o A man wags his tongue and a dog his tail, but the dog's wag is always truthful. -o:o- Coins have treads like automobile tires. This lets .them travel faster without skidding. o:o A farmer tells us that he has re planted everything this spring ex cept his wild oats. :o:- The world might be happy if all were rich. For that matter, it might be if all weie poor. :o: On returning from a fishing trip the fish are divided while their weight is multiplied. :o: Many golfers keep their clubs at home so the neighbors will know where they are going. :o: Even hot weather has its lesson. If you don't want to go where it is hotter, start being good. -o:o- A noted astronomer says he sees the approach of lower food prices. Not all of us own telescopes. o:o When Henry begins manufactur ing fertilizers, he will make two Fords grow where one grew before. :o: You read about many formerly rich men dying poor and just as many formerly poor men dying rich. :o: We are becoming so cultured that only IS por cent of the people quote Shakespeare and credit it to the Bible. Scientists in Asia will rpond five years looking for a man. A lady of our acquaintance has beaten that record. o:o Many a woman watches pork chops on a hot stove while her husband watches the thermometer on the front porch. o : o Once upon a time there was a man who obtained satisfaction out of a postoffice pen. He hurled it out of the window. o:o A woman of our acquaintance says she i3 not going to bob her hair for the simple reason that her husband does not oppose it. :o: The elder Coolidge did a pretty good job of celebrating Independence day fifty-two years ago. Son Calvin was born to them July 4, 1872. o:o Once there was a politician who was not working with all his might, I In season and cut, solely for his own advantage. He is now dead and . buried. j . :o: Women are taking a prominent' part in drafting party platforms. It! is intimated that they are consider-j ed gifted in putting in the last'; words. PES YEAB UI ADVANCE H"2I"I"!"I"H'-H"HMK LINES TO REMEMBER I think we are tco ready with complaint in this fair world of God's. Be comfort ed; and like a cheerful trav eler take the road, singing beside the hedge. What if the bread be bitter in thine inn and thou unshod to meet the flints? At least it may be said, "Because the way is short, I thank thee, God." Mrs. Browning. o:o- An optimist is a man going fish- -:o:- Maybe the hour is darkest just be fore dawn. A complete set of silverware, with no spoon3 or anything missing, has never been on a picnic. :o: Healthy girls, getting all tanned, will find it hard looking pale and interesting next winter. :o: In some way you always pay for what you get, even if you don't al ways get what you pay for. :o: Any man who gets up early on Sunday is lazy. He does it so he will have more time to loaf. -:o:- The alacrity with which the mo torists buzzed out to fill up on IS cent gasoline doesn't indicate much faith in the rumor that the oil com panies have gone in for permanent philanthropy. :o: It just looks like when a man gets too worthless to even be a sec ond rate lounge lizard he can take up a saxophone and live happily ever after. Just as it was fading away under the glare of bigger news, comes the indictment of Doheny, Sinclair and Fall. Should Oiled Acquaintance be Forgot? :o:- C ii: we clean out tin Government jan! drive rascality to justice, or can we not? That is a question which goes to the very root3 of competent government. :o: We believe lots more persons would attempt authorship if they could but hnd a way to keep from starving to death while writing a masterpiece. :o: Still, we must say that a good many of woman's activities in her broader sphere look very much like smooth devices to sidestep the kitch en and the nursery. :o: A professor asserts the sustom of handshaking is comparatively mod ern, which seems hardly credible if we remember that politics appear in the earliest recorded history. :o: Let's not try to reach Mars by radio. We couldn't understand the Martian language and the martial noises might be distracting. Thi3 is written while the sound of the noise from the New York convention 13 coming in over the radio. -o:o- Out in the county they are still talking about the good time Platts mouth showed its guests the Fourth and the fact that all the entertain ment was free just as advertised. You were welcome, folks, and come back again. :o: We're really astonished to learn that only $17,000,000 is expended yearly for alimony. Lifelong scrut iny of the front page left the im pression that it was ten times that sum. :o:- A Jersey City evangelist announces the subject, "Souls Burning in Hades." This shows how the evan gelists are degenerating. Neither Brother Moody nor Billy Sunday would have said "Hades." Well Digging and Cleaning We are prepared to sink wells, clean wells or do any kind of well work J. W. Hobson & Son -if you can -:o:- Vacationists are taking to the tall and uncut hair. -:o:- Mosquitos are taking up bareback riding for the summer. -o : o- Golf will not replace baseball un 'til you get three strikes. :o:- Life is full of joy for those who can forget their sorrows. -o:o- Many of those who will stand for anything will help nothing. Time it gets cool enough to go to work it is time to go to bed. Entirely too many people go to the movies to talk about something. -:o:- A hero is a boy with enough mon ey to buy drinks for the crowd. :o: What can jump just out of reach quicker than a promising future? :o: Our guess at the election results is that Christmas comes next win ter. -:o:- Keep your temper. In Alabama a man broke his arm striking at a fly. -:o: What this country needs 'most is a law requiring that all bills be sent anonymously. :o: If, as a Chicago man says, the sun is having chills, we hope it nev er has a fever. -:o:- If you don't eat ten quarts of Ice cream this year, you're not getting your full share. :o:- Two can live on bread and cheese and kisses, if they don't run out of bread and cheese. There are several kinds of lies, such as white lies, patent lies and patent medicine lies. :o: There are about four fellows in the state house that need removing. They have been there some 16 years or more in one position or another. Let them step down and out and give some other fellows a chance who are just as worthy. WHAT IS PROGRESS? What is progress? "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul" The latter is a familiar inquiry. But a great many questions may be asked that open long avenues of reflection cut of which few of us come with any great satisfaction. Biit what is progress? What is the goal c f progress? It is not necessary to go beyond the goals of this world. However, the status in the next is no doubt determined by where we left off in this. There has, perhaps, been a period in the world's history when the hu man race so boldly and so frankly, or so capably contemplated its own affairs or attempted more honestly to get its bearings. There is great confusion of thought and belief and, of course, with so many thinking and writing what they think and believe they give it directly and al most immediately to the world for its considreation. Somebody wants to know wheth er or not we are making progress, and if so, what is this progress? Perhaps the world i3 being asked too many questions and all at once. The means of communication has reached such a stage that an idea given expression in any part of the world today is for the whole world's consideration tomorrow. In times past men with ideas reached the masses. But not so today. The most revolutionary idea is pitched right out for the crowds and before it is answered another comes. However, out of it will come good if the world remains sane. And human experience has withstood a great many shocks. We are making progress and it is necessary in all countries. Its ultimate goal is an understanding of how to live that we may be of service here and of service hereafter. -:o:- FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in the treatment of Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves bv local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Hlood on the Mucous Sur faces, thus reducing the Inriammat-ion. PoH by all druggists. f. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL. From Monday's Daily Mrs. Henry Mauzy, who has been at the Immanuel hospital in Omaha fcr the past few weeks returned home Saturday afternoon, having recover jed sufficiently from her recent opera I tion to permit her coming home to I more fully recuperate in the pleasant surroundings of her home. The host of friends here of Mrs. Mauzy are delighted to have her back home again and trust that her continued improvement may be rapid and re store to her former good health. Canteloupes are fine find a good one. COST OF CARELESSNESS Carelessness, according to a report of the National Fire Protection so ciety, cost the people of the United States last year more than $200,000, 000 in fire losses. Carelessness in the use of matches and in the dis position of cigar and cigarette butts is charged with more than one eighth of the total; to carelessness in connection with chimneys and flues, stoves and furnaces, the report attributes losses of 135,000,000 while open fires, hot ashes and hot coals burned up close to $5,000,000 worth of property. The lesson of exercising reason able precaution against fire is one which the American people refuse to learn. Children are taught of the dangers of playing with matches, at least once a year tho insurance com panies warn of the dangers of de fective flues, but instruction and warning apparently go for naught With the fire losses of the past year the greatest in history, with but one exception, there is considerable evi dence to show that less care is taken now to prevent losses fronj fire than formerly. Yet the exercise of every reason able precaution against the destruc tion of property by fire is the first principle of conservation. Millions of dollars are appropriated every year by federal, state and local govern ments to prevent the ravages of fire. The public pays taxes for this pur pose, willingly admitting the need for fire protection. But individual taxpayers while urging the need of better protection, carelessly drop cigarette butts in the waste paper basket or permit their flues to be ouie defective and burn down their own homes. Fire insurance, it is to be fear ed, has put a premium upon careless ness. But insurance, it must be re membered, docs not diminish fire losses. It merely distributes the cost of bearing such losses and, to the ex tent that fires are caused by care lessness, compels the careful, caut- ous property owner to share losses with his careless neighbor. :o: BUNKER HILL One hundred and forty-nine years ago the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Two months prior to that time "the shot heard 'round the world" was fired in the skirmish at Concord between the embattled farmers and the British soldiers. Whether ray, untrained troops of the colonists could' stand against the king's men with a chance of success gave cause for anxiety after Con cord. But when Bunker Hill was foucht, although the colonists were defeated, the question was answered in the affirmative. The battle was fought on Breed's Hill in Charlestown (now a part of Boston.) Hastily constructed breast works protected the twelve hundred Americans under Prescott and Put nam against the three thousand sol diers of Lord Howe. Twice the Brit ish advanced and twice were thrown back with great loss of life. At the third charge the Americans, whose j ammunition was exhausted, were; obliged to yield. They retreated to i Bunker Hill, a short distance to the north. The colonists lost 4 53 in killed and wounded and the British loss was about 11,050. A granite obelisk now marks the spot where the battle was fought. The corner stone was laid June 17, 1S25 the fiftieth anniversary of the battle by Lafayette, the French sol dier, who was then on a visit to this country, and the oration was deliv ered by Daniel Webster. The monu ment was completed in 1842, and on June 17, the following year, was dedicated in the presence of Presi dent Tyler and his cabinet. Daniel Webster r.gain delivered the oration before the fifty thousand persons as sembled. :o:- THE MOVIES There's more to the movies than glitter, entertainment and fabulous salaries for stars. The moving pic ture "game" is as much a business proposition as selling sausages or flivvers. In twenty years it has moved up until it now ranks eighth among the leading American industries. Never before in history have art and commercialism banded together on such a gigantic scale. Fifty million Americans pay ad mission to see the movies every week. There are 9,000 movie theatres open to the public six or seven days a week, and C.000 other theatres run ning from one to five days a week. Going to the movies costs Ameri cans ten million dollars a week. The average admission is 20 cents. Young ladies, who day-dream of going to Hollywood and becoming stars, will be interested in the in formation that 300,000 people are permanently employed in all the branches of movie making. Actors total into the tens of thousands, counting the habituals who never get any further than appearing In the mob. But all of these have hopes. Terrific competition for new com ers! An odd feature of this industry is that attendance at movies has be come one of the most accurate of business barometers. It shows the drift of the "trade winds" quite as accurately as pig iron production, coal output,1 commercial fires and business failures. When factories begin to run part time, movie attendance increases. The idle want diversion. But if limes continue to be quiet and de pression spreads, the public begins to watch its pennies. Movie mana gers, counting their receipts, find that attendance falls off, increasing ly so as hard times develop. The moving picture business has had a lot of rocks thrown at it in many cases, deservedly so. But when we watch a modern high grade fea ture film, and compare it with the crude pictures of fifteen and more years ago, we can't help but wonder if the movies haven't advanced more in twenty years than the so-called legitimate stage advanced in twenty centuries. The progress has been phenome nal, both mechanically and artis tically. The wonder is, that movies average as good as they do, rather than that they aren't better. :o: TOO MANY INTERRUPTERS Politeness costs nothing and pays big dividends. But no one can be polite and at the same time defend himself against imposition. Recently a talented man said to this writer: "Whenever I have work that I want to get done I have to lock my self in my office and tell the man at the door to say that I am not in. Otherwise all the time I need for my work is taken up by people who drop in, with nothing of importance. If I did not lock myself away from them. I could not earn a living." Another man who has a deep dis like for giving offense to anyone, said recently: "I wish I knew how to tell the men at the desks adjoining mine that they spoil my day's work by con tinually asking me where they left their books and papers and ques tioning me about petty details of which they could inform themselves with a little effort. "I am the kind of a man who seems born to be picked on by lazy people who want to save themselves time. "I have to stay at the office after hours in order to get my work done." In every office there are men of this kind good natured and easy going and averse to hurting the feel ings of others. Always they are im posed upon. It ought to be possible to keep in terrupters away without hurting their feelings. Unfortunately this is not always so. Each man has his own work to do and a given time in which to do it. This time is his own as much his own as is his own money and it amounts to the same thing in the end. If the interrupter cannot be kept away by a courteous statement that the man he interrupts is busy and cannot afford to be disturbed, he ought to be told in language that he will understand. Consideration for others has its limits and these limits are reached when consideration is abused. There i3 an old saying in law that he who seeks equity must do equity. This is true in business. One man has no more right to take another's business time with out invitation than he has to walk into his house and eat his food. Big business men aro careful to keep this class of persons away. They never would have become big busi ness men if they were not. The smaller man who hopes to be big some day must keep his time to himself, even if now and then he has to astonish some idle interrupter by telling him to keep out during busi ness hours. :o: DRAFTING MONEY FOR WAR In the next war, draft dollars and property as well as soldiers, urges Bernard M. Baruch, former chair man of the War Industries Board. j It is not a new idea. Many others are advocating it. Legislation along this line recently was proposed in j Congress. If dollars were drafted for the next war the same as men for the army, there wouldn't be any "next war." A war without someone cleaning up big profits is beyond the powers cf imagination. No chance of rob-' bing the government on war con tracts, cr profiteering on teh public. ' What would be the use of having such a war? I Our national war debt is big enuf but war-inflated prices have cost the public more. There was the big epidemic of profiteering, you recall. Prices are down quite a bit now (so are incomes) but the disruption of our price level will cling for at least 30 years. Baruch's plan for drafting wealth and property includes government fixing of all prices. He says: "Prices of materials, commodities and, In fact, all things, would be declared fixed as of such and such a date, and it would be illegal either to buy or sell at a different price. "The excess proportion, if any, of the profits in industry and internal revenue, would go to the prosecu tion of war. "If such an organization, which we were approaching at the end of the war, had been put into effect at the beginning, the cost of the war in my opinion, would have been not more than one-half of what it wa3, and there would not have been charges of profiteering and econom ic chaos after the war." All very true. The trouble is that the whole idea is too sensible to be put into effect. LEGAL NOTICE To Eearling, real name un known; John Doe, real name un known, and John Doe Company, a corporation, real name unknown, Defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14th day of May, A. D. 192 4. Henry Klemme filed his petition in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska, against you and each of you, the object and prayer of which petition is to recov er damages against you and each of you, in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars (J500.00) and costs of suit for damages to plaintiff's car on or about May 6, 1924. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 11th day of August, A. D. 132 4. HENRY KLEMME, j20-4w. Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Execution issued by James Robertson. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of court house, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following property to-wit: and trans script thereof filed Lots seven (7), eight (8) and nine (9), Block seventy-five (75), in the City of Platts mouth, in Cass county, Ne braska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Max Preis, defendant, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Hartman Furniture Company, a corporation, plaintiff against said defendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 7th, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cas3 coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Adam Fornoff, Sr., deceas ed : On reading the petition of Adam B. Fornoff and rhilip Fornoff pray ing that the instrument filed in this court on the 24th day of June, 1924. and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased. may be proved and allowed, and re corded as the last will and testa ment of Adam Fornoff, Sr., deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate and the administration of said estate be granted to Adam B. Fornoff and Jacob Fornoff, as execu tors ; It is hereby ordered that you, and all persons interested in said matter, may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 26th day of July, A. D. 1924, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there.be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in j the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of raid court, this 24th day of June, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) j26-3w. County Judge. 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. DIENSTB1ER 2615 Harney Street SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale Is sued by James Robertson, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di rected, I will, on the 19th day of July, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clocn a. m. of said day. at the south front door of the court house, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said county, sail at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit: Lots numbered one (1). two (2), three (3) and four (4) ex cept railroad right-of-way of the C. B. & Q. Railroad company, and except that part of Lot num bered two (2) lying south of the said railroad right-of-way; al so that part of the southwest quarter of the northwest quar ter (SW4 NWVi) described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of the south west quarter of the northwest quarter (SWU NW4) thence running east 66C feet, thence south 411 feet thence north west 666 feet, parallel with the north line of tt e C. 3. & Q. II 11. Co. right-of-way to a point 2 89 feet south of the place of beginning, thence north 289 feet to the said place of beginning, excepting however from said parcel that portion thereof conveyed to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company by Jh. Peter Keil and wife by deed dated October 7tb, 1897, and recorded October 13th, 1S97, in Book 32, at page 34 6 of the Deed Records of Cas3 County, Nebraska; also that part of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter (NEU SE14) lying north of the right-of-way of the C. B. & Q. R. R. Co., all the above described land3 being in Section thirty-six (36), Township thirteen (13), North, Range twelve (12); also ail that part of Government lot number ed six (6) in Section thirty one (31), Township thirteen (13), North, Range thirteen (13) east of the Sixth P. M., lying north of the right-of-way of the C. B. & Q. R. R. Co., con taining in all 172 acres, more or less, according to Govern ment survey, all in Cass coun ty, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Jacob P. Falter, Mary Falter, Frank E. Val lery, Waterloo Creamery Company and Herbert S. Daniel, Trustee In Bankruptcy of the Waterloo Cream ery Company, Bankrupt, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by TIip Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 11th, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Ada R. Bestor, deceased: On reading the petition of Charles K. Bestor, executor, praying a final settlement and allowance of his ac count filed in this Court on the 5th day of July, 1924, and for final set tlement of said estate and for his dis charge as said executor; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 16th day of July, A. D. 192 1, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publish ing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for one week prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said court, this 5th day of July, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) j7-lw. County Judge. Automobile Painting! First-Class Work ' Guaranteed! 'Prices Reasonable Mirror Replating and Siffn Work! A. F. KNOFLICF.K, Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth Insurance Co. J. F. McArdle, Sec'j Omaha, Nebraska