THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924.
FLATTSUOTJTH SE21T-WEEKLY
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EEPENTETH MAKING SAUL KING ;
Then came the word of the Lord
unto Samuel, saying. It repenteth ine
that I have set up Saul to he king;
for he is turned back from follow
ing me, and hath not performed uiy
commandments.
I Samuel, 15:10-11.
Jazz is music suffering from ner
vous prostration.
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While you were reading this Hen
ry Ford made $10.
Every man is entitled to a living
wage except some who get it.
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When the campaign opens in Ne
braska a red hot time is beginning.
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We have noticed that mooning
often comes before honeymooning.
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Collectors usually haunt a man
when the ghost walks at the office.
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Oive the farmer a bit of good
weather and he'll make the harvest
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Mm want the front seats in a
theatre, but the rear ones in a
church.
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Fruit juices are so contrary to
law. They had much rather ferment
than jell.
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If we keep cool with Coolidge do
we have to freeze to death with
Lodge?
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Looli out for a woman when she
gets so mad she begins to tell the
truth.
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Plans of the independent candi
date La Follette, have been com
pleted. :o:
His sweetie pronounces him
"sheik; highbrows pronounce him
an ass.
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Mixing business and pleasure is a
lot of fun if you don't run out of
business.
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One of the most discouraging
things about poverty is that It lasts
a long time.
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If Dawes is as good at swearing as
he ence was, he should poll a lot of
votes from golfers.
A reformed poet, now working at
making an honest living, tt-113 us
his poetic license expired.
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The presidential possibilities who
hurled their hats into the ring are
busy dusting them off now.
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The political millenium will ar
rive when public office becomes the
hunter rather than the hunted.
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The only thing those burglars
didn't find at Edsel Ford's home
were his army discharge papers.
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The chief trouble with being a
man is that shaving takes longer
than smearing on a little rouge.
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pe r shin k was in France during the
democratic convention, but even a
general can't fight in every war.
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A baby who fell into a Wiscon
sin river wa3 saved by six men, per
haps because she was IS years old.
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The garden that started out with
the f-logan, "Watch us grow," now
tells us the weeds must have heard
it.
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A man realizes that he is getting
old when his friends begin telling
him he is looking younger than
ever.
o:o
Another assurance of local pros
perity ahead is the amount of con
templatcd building and improvement
work.
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Think how many women have
talked that way over a backyard
fence without knowing it was "tes
timony." o:o
A Washington man who went in
swimming just after eating a big
picnic lunch was revived in only
4 5 minutes.
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Has the old-fashioned family
which kept the Bible and the photo
graph album on the parlor table
been succeeded by a generation
which can find room only for the
graphophone and the radio set?
FEB YEAH Itf ADVANCE
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LINES TO REMEMBER
The orator eats tongue, we
hear,
The sultan, turkey lunch;
The undertaker drinks his
bier,
The pugilist his punch.
The acrobats spring water
drink,
The banquet man eats toast,
Surveyors eat their stakes,
we think,
And editors a roast.
Shoemakers have filet of
sole,
The printer, pics and sweets,
The hungry actor eats his
Vole;
Policemen munch their
beats.
Washington Star.
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What annoys us during the season
of building political fences is the
constant sound of the hammer.
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Somebody asks where the old
fashioned "Sunday suit" has gone.
Possibly to join the old-fashioned
Sunday.
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College professor says long legs
indicate superior intelligence. At
lea.st, they should indicate loftier
thought.
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Now, when a man approaches you
with the proposition, "Is it hot enuf
for you?" paste him one between
the eyes.
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John W. Davis, the democratic
candidate, has expressed his inten
tion of visiting the west and speak
ing in several important places.
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Don't fail, or even try to forget
that next Wednesday is Bargain day.
Come one, come all, and revel in the
bargains that are on sale that day.
One indication that the Turks are
becoming modern is the fact that
Angora deputies have begun to dis
tribute free seed among their con
stituents. -:o:
Murray is considering a proposal
to gravel five miles cf rcadway In
Lock Bluffs town-suip, west from the
Federal highway on the new Red
Call route.
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"Mac'll Do" was the slogan of his
followers at the convention. And af
ter the convention the question that
hung fire for several days was,
WhatMl he do?"
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It is going to take the ablest dem
ocrats to push this campaign to vic
tory. Little one-horse politicians may
be able to march in the procession,
but that's about all.
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Everybody for miles around from
all directions should be here early
on Wednesday morning in order to
secure the many bargains that will
be offered by our merchants.
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When we read that there are five
million adults in this country who
can neither read nor write, we are
not so surprised at some of the elec
tion results we read about.
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There are several competent men
who have been spoken of as fitted
to hold down the governorship.
Among them are Mayor Dahlman,
of Omaha, and Ex-congressman
Stephens, of Fremont.
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Republieanism in the whole north
west has been shot to fragments by
new political movements based on
agricultural necessity for relief, and
those movements never were more
resolute and aggressive than now.
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It has been a wearisome spring
for the "dirt farmer" who does most
of his farming with his mouth. The
genuine farmers with plow-handle
calluses on their hands are tired of
pledges and are pressing for per
formances. Well Digging and Cleaning
We are prepared to sink
wells, clean wells or do
any kind of well work
J. W. Hobson & Son
HER SIDE
In the old days, when woman was
uneiaancipaied, a girl's chief busi
ness in life was- to sit about and
wait for a husband. She angled, per
haps, by gentle wiles known only to
her sex. but most of her time was
occupied in waiting. A husband was
essential to her happiness and her
standing in the community. If she
did not marry, the time came when
her parents began to consider her a
burden and to feel mistreated. She
was called an old maid, and to be
an old maid was to be a failure. If
she married and obtained a "good
provider," her lot was not unpleas
ant; 'but if the man of her choice
earned very little or came upon evil
days, she was required by custom to
accept poverty as her lot and make
no effort to mend matters by getting
a job.
The modern girl need not fear
sninsterhood. She need not be a
burden, for there are numerable
places where she can earn money.
She need not fear that honest work
outside the four walls of a home will
advertise her inability to get a hus
band, for at her elbow as she works
will be other women who have hus
bands. And there is the point of
the t-tory.
The average girl dreams of a
husband who will pay the bills and
provide her a home and freedom
from drudgery. If she can obtain
one of this kind who loves her and
earns her love, she is favored of the
gods. But even though she i3 eman
cipated she has within her still some
of that age-old dread of being left
on the shelf, and this, if she is near
ing thirty, plays no small part in
her decision to marry the first pre
sentable man who offers himself.
If this fear of epinsterhood in
fluences her too much, and she has
been accustomed to earning and
spending money, and the man she
marries is poor, she discovers quick
ly that she has made a very bad
bargain. She has surrendered some
portion of her liberty; she has be
come in some measure a mendicant,
and both pride and appetite urge
her to enlist with the wage earn
ers again. If she returns to her la
bors, she findi herself in no better
case than she was in the beginning,
and the husband she acquired may
at any time, through no fault of his
own, become a burden. .
All of which serves only to intro
duce the opinion that a young wom
en who is able to take care of. her
self shows some symptoms of being
none too bright if she marrie3 with
out being forced into the contract
by an undefined something the old
timers called love.
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SENATOR LA FOLLETTE
All the conventions are over and
it is settled who the riders will be.
John W. Davis, of West Virginia, the
demicratic candidate; President Cal
vin Coolidge, republican candidate,
and Senator Robert M. La Follette,
the third party or progressive can
didate. All these will soon be on
the firing line. La Follette himself
has declared his intention to enter
the fight as an independent, and the
progressives, meeting at Cleveland,
cheered his name and indorsed the
declaration.
La Follette will appeal to every
radical in the country, of whatever
shade of political opinion. His plat
form, declaring for government ow
nership of railroads, referendum on
wars, the right of congress to over
rule supreme court decisions, pop
ular election of judges, reduction of
freight rates and "bringing the gov
ernment back to the control of the
people," will be one upon which dis
satisfied elements everywhere, par
ticularly in the northwest, may stand
with peculiar satisfaction.
The fighting senator from Wis
cousin does not stand a chance of
election, but he will give the old
parties a great deal to think about.
It may be that La Follette will be
in a position to dictate who shall be
the next president of the United
States.
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DECEIVING FIGURES
Some business men are wearing
long faces because the railroads have
over 300,000 idle freight cars that
are in good repair and ready for use
and about ISO, 000 other cars that
are laid up for repairs.
The total is staggering, at first
glance. But the importance of ev
erything is only by comparison. The
railroads own over two and a quar
ter million freight cars. The actual
situation is that, out of every 23
earn, IS are being used constantly
and only 5 are idle. That's not so
bad.
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A governor and various officials
in different states have been sent
to prison. The only safe place for
political malefactors seems to be in
Washington where they have con
gressional investigations.
THE CHAMPION IDIOT
If a newspaper wants to Impress
upon its friends a thing that is par
ticularly right, or particularly
wrong, there is just one way to do
it; that is, to write it over and
over again. Very often, some tow
ering mental giant says a thing once
and he need never say it again; it
is remembered and quoted for years,
generations and centuries. Well, no
reasonably intelligent newspaper
nowadays considers itself a mental
time and again what it is anxious
to have understood and accepted.
As the youngsters say, what about
the fool who keeps on blowing his
automobile horn when he is some
what down the line in a traffic de
lay? Ahead of him in the line are
many cars, sometimes five, some
times twenty-five, sometimes even
more. All the operators of these
cars are just as anxious to move as
he is. If he had a glimmer, a scin
tilla of capacity for thought, he
would know that all the drivers
ahead of him are just as anxious to
go ahead as he is. Does he know
that? lie cannot, else he couldn't,
wouldn't make such a blatant idiot
of himself.
Away back in the line of delayed
veiiicies, he sinks lower and lower
in his seat and honks and honks
and honks. For what, in the name
of everything above the level of the
low-grade moron's primitive in
stincts? For nothing on the face of
this fair and spinning earth. The
drivers in front of him know he
wants to go ahead, just as they
know they want to go ahead; the
policeman in charge of traffic regu
lation knows he and all the others
want to go ahead; even the lordly
engineer in charge of a freight train,
which dances ahead and astern on
Capital street, just for the fun of it,
knows they all want .to go ahead.
And yet this champion idiot's brain
site tells him he can help a whole
lot in clearing away the traffic if
he devotes all the mental intelligence
he possesses to the solemn task of
blowing and blowing and blowing
his silly horn.
It would be presumptuous and
blasphemous to assume that an all
wise Providence cannot extend a
sorrowing forgiveness to such a
blithering idiot; it is just and sane
and wise to understand that no hu
man being is gentle and tender enuf
to forgive this champion of cham
pions among the idiots.
HOLDERS OF H. R. SECURITIES.
Demagogues have always endeav
ored to create the impression in the
minds of the people that railroad se
curities are held by a few capital
ists and that corporations managing
transportation are soulless and in
different to the public weal. The
political orator seeking the applause
of the inexperienced and guileless,
thunders of the wickedness of those
who have a car or a train upon
which goods may be hauled and do
not offer to take the farmer's things
wherever desired, free, or nearly so.
The stuff and nonsense that is an
nually put before the country by "re
formers" who declare that rates are
too high and that the railroads
should be managed and controlled
in every detail and move by boards,
commissions, censors and dictators
named by political bosses, is enough
to disgust any intelligent man. But
the flow of talk never teases.
Something that probably few un
derstand is the fact that the stock
holders of railroads are numbered in
the hundreds of thousands. Another
thing that could well be emphasized
is that railroad securities are sought
and held by big concerns which deal
directly with the people. The life
insurance companies are among the
largest holders of such securities,
and this bring3 the matter, very close
to the millions of policyholders. The
insurance people do not buy rail
road securities for speculation. They
buy them as safe and permanent in
vestment of trust funds.
Among the big industries of the
country few surpass that of insur
ance. The day has long passed when
it was considered something unus
ual for a man or a woman to carry
a fair sized or large amount of life
insurance. The average man or wom
an of today is interested in insurance
and it is regarded as something
worthy of attention. The policyhold
ers are not exclusively wealthy peo
ple; they are, to a very large extent,
provident, careful men and women
in the average walks of life. Wage
earners, salaried employes, small
merchants, farmers, workers in a
thousand fields, have insurance poli
cies, and in this way are interested
in the welfare, development and
prosperity of the railroads.
Millions of dollars are invested by
the insurance companies in the stocks
and bonds of the railroads. To re
tain these securities upon a paying
basis the roads must be given a fair
chaace. They ask only that. The
railroads are essential to the life of
the country and its growth, but they
are often hampered and hindered to
the extent that threatens their very
existence. The need for a better un
derstanding of the relation of the
roads to the people has at last been
realized. The points at which the
transportation system and the public
touch are numerous and important.
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A REAL IMPROVE
MENT TO THE CITY
BUSINESS LIFE
New Remodeling Plans of the H. M.
Soennichsen Co. Will Give Them
Fine Building and Store.
From Wednesday's Dally
The plans of the H. M.- Soen
nichsen Co., of this city, when they
are put into opperation the first of
September will give this city one of
the best department stores that can
be found in eastern Nebraska out
side of Omaha or Lincoln and that
will in excellence of service and
quality of stock be unsurpassed.
As the first steps in putting into
effect the plans of the new store the
firm is now carrying on a very ex
tensive remodeling campaign on their
building on Main street between
Fifth and Sixth street, and which at
one time was occupied by the E. G.
Dovey & Son interests. However
the building is little resembling the
old time structure and by the efforts
of the workmen is being made into a
large and up-to-date structure suit
able for the uses of a department
store of the size that will be necess
ary for the Soennichsen Company.
The front of the two store rooms
has been remodeled and large modern
windows with the popular panel
backs will be used to display the
goods of the store. Over the top of
the windows are large prisera glass
es that will make the store room
much lighter end also the rear of the
store there are large glass sections
that are provided with ventilators
and will fissure plenty of light and
fresh air in the main store room all
of the time. The vestibule en
trances will be used at the front of
the store.
The old wall that formerly parti
tioned off the two store buildings has
been swept away and instead of the
narrow connecting doors there is one
large room, the steel pillars support
ing the upper floor in place of the
former walls and making a very large
and attractive sales room. The
old floor is being replaced by one of
the most modern hardwood floors
that will fill a long felt want in the
store.
In the rear of the main store room
there will be located a large and
comfortable rest room for the ladies
that will be equipped with every
facility for the comfort and accomo
dation of the patrons of the store,
and which will be a great improve
ment in the business house ?s facili
ties of this kind are badly needed in
the stores of the city.
The business offices of the firm will
also occupy a place in the south por
tion of the building and with the
new lighting facilities will be a
bright and comfortable place to
work.
In the basement of the store there
has been several improvements made
and chief of which is a large. chute
that will operate from the concrete
loading platform in the rear of the
store, and wil convey the goods to
the unloading and assorting room
in the basement where the goods
will be prepared for display on the
i operate from the basement to the
second story of the building and will
i be ample to carry the stocks up from
.'the sorting room to the various de
partments.
The rear portion of the building on
the second floor is also receiving the
attention of the carpenters and work
men and large glass sections have
been placed in the rear of the build
ing in the part that will be used as
the rug and carpet and household
furnishings department of the store
which it is planned to locate on this
floor. A large modern stairway
will lead from the maiu store room
to the upper floor.
The front portion of the upper
floor is to be arranged into offices
and these are to be strictly modern
and alread a number of them have
been leased altho the work of re
modeling is not near completed.
The building will be equipped with
a large modern heating plant that
will be ample to supply the heat for
all parts of the building and new
sanitary plumbing will be placed all
over the building as well as new
electric wiring and electric features
that will do its part in making it
a real modern city store. The work
of remodeling is in the hands of
Herman Tiekotter and A. B. Smith
and workmen. While the heating,
plumbing and lighting of the build
ing will be looked after by J. F.
Warga.
When the building is completed
and ready for occupancy which it is
expected will be on or near Septem
ber 1st. the business of the store will
be divided into departments and
handled in that way in the future
so that the shopper will know just
where to go when seeking the things
they desire to purchase and will
make a store of more convenience
and comfort for the shopper.
GOES TO HOSPITAL.
The many friends here of Rev. and
Mrs. John Calvert, now in charge of
the Mother's Jewels Home at York,
will regret very much to learn that
Mrs. Calvert has been compelled to
go to the Methodist hospital at Oma
ha where she will undergo an oper
ation. The nature of the operation
Iwas not learned by the friends here.
!but it is hoped that it is not of a'
serious nature ana tnat sue may
soon be able to return home feeling
improved in health.
Business forms of all kinds print
ed ut the Journal office.
.
for Business Men!
Do you handle your body as carefully as you would a
business proposition that is, in a common sense way?
You may be passably healthy, but you know you are not
a 100 man in regard to health. You get tired easy;
you seem to have lost your "pep" entirely. These things
tend to lower your, business efficient:, and you know it,
altho, you have heretofore done nothing in the way of
prevention.
NOW at your first opportunity, call on YOUR local Chiro-.
praetor and receive consultation and examination with
out fee.
Take advantage of this privilege you owe it to your
family.
Or. Joe J. Stibal,
CHIROPRACTOR
Schmidtmann Building, Plattsmouth, Neb.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Casa coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county,
ss.
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceas
ed: On reading the petition of Frank
O. Hull, Administrator, praying a
final settiement and allowance of his
account filed in this court on the 7th
day of July, 1924, and for his dis
charge as Administrator;
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said mat
ter may, and do, appear at the Coun
ty Court to be held in and for said
county on the 18th day of July, A.
D. l.')2 4, 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 the
hearing thereof bo given to all per
sons interested in said matter, by
publishing a copy of this order in
The Plattsmouth Journal, a legal
semi-weekly newspaper 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 7th day of July, A.
D. 1S24.
ALLEN J. BEESON,
(Seal) County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
To
Bearling, 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. 1924, Henry Kleinme
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 ($500.00) 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. 1924.
HENRY KLEMME,
j30-4w. 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, J
ueienaant, to satisiy a judgment or
said court recovered by Hartman
Furniture Company, a corporation,
plaintiff against said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 7th,
A. D. 192 4.
E. P. STEWART,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate cf Adam Fornoff, Sr., deceas
ed: On reading the petition of Adam
B. Fornoff and. Philip 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 vou. anrt
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.1
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
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 said
court, this 24th day of June, A. D.
1924.
ALLEN J. BEESON.
(Seal) j2C-3w. County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by Jame3 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'cIock a. m.
of said day, at the south front door
or the court house, in Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, in said county, sail at
public auction to the highest bidder
for each 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 o.f. the, southwest
quarter of the northwest quar
ter (SWi NW4) described as
follows: Commencing at the
northwest corner of the south
west quarter of the northwest
quarter (SW4 NWi) thence
running east 66G feet, thence
south 411 feet thence north
west 6C6 feet, parallel with the
north line of tr e C. B. & Q. U
R. Co. right-of-way to a point
289 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 7th,
1S97, and recorded October
13th, 1S97, in Book 32, at page
346 of the Deed Records of Cass
County, Nebraska; also that part
of the northeast quarter of the
southeast quarter (NE4 SE14)
lying north of the right-of-way
of the C. B. & Q. R. R. Co., all
the above described lands 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 nrnnertv nf tk t
Falter, Mary Falter, Frank E Val
lery, Waterloo Creamery Company
and Herbert S. Daniel, Trustee in
auHrupicy or tne Waterloo Cream
ery Company, Bankrupt, defendants,
to satisfy a judgment of said court
recovered by The Penn Mutual Life
A.igTr111' Nebra6ka- Jue Uth.
E. P. STEWART,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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