MONDAY, JULY 21, 1924.
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THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
They that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
drown men in destruction and perdi-j
t ion. For the love of money is the
root of all evil.
I Timothy 6:9-10.
Sharp
hole.
eves will scratch a key -
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Plenty
mouth.
of prosperity in Platts-
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Mott women are window dressers
of a sort.
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People who don't look before they
leap land in disgust.
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Going: riding alone on a beautiful
night is wasting gasoline.
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A serious shortage of people with
nothing to say is reported.
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Many a pink complexion hides a
blue girl green with envy.
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Those not careful about what they
get into find it is trouble.
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Bofa leave the farm because they
hate to plow through life.
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Some politicians are just one
ilanin mistake after another.
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A burglar can open almost
any-
thing except a bank account.
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Aa antoiat should be sure he has
the right and then g ahead.
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A good looking wife is worth mor
if she is a good cooking wife.
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Ad Tertise your wares Mr. Merchant
and keep the buying ball rolling.
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How many ity youths have home
making as their ideal of happiness?
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The average man has a better av
erage than the average man thinks.
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Permanent waves and summer re
sort romances last about six months.
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Choose your words carefully, be
cause you may have to take them
bat k.
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A few of the men who married in
June admit rolling pins and dishes
bounce.
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Every man want to make the
world safe for something chiefly
himself.
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We are training for our vacation
trip !; giving dimes to everybody
we meet.
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They caught a famous Oklahoma
bandit in Missouri, possibly because
he couldn't show them.
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The established fact that opposites
attract may be why poor girls like
to marry rich husbands.
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Reading a man's palm to deter
mine his future isn't as sure a way
as asking his neighbors.
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It must be awful to be a genius
and have to sit around thinking up
new ways to act strange.
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A good shimmy dancer has the ad
vantage of being able to rock the
baby to aleep standing up.
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Lawyer claims a New York cop
It. a: a woman in a dispute, hut we
still claim it can't bo done.
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Staying up all night may make
you as vise as an owl, but owls
have no sense during the day.
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Tomatoes once were called love
appks. So this may be why they
are best taken with a grain of salt.
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Habit clings; the old timer who
worked his way through college is
now working his son's way through.
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Maybe- Jack Dempsey has lost his
punc h as one sport writer says, but
just the same no fighter has found
it-
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The formal notification of John
W. Davis of his nomination will take
place at Clarksburg. West Virginia,
his old home.
It a g ing to ta a democratic
candidate of gre?r ' trengrh to defeat
Adam Me Mullen, the republican can
didate for governor. Please put this
in your pipe and smoke it.
PES YEAR IE ADVANCE
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LINES TO REMEMBER
What Tully says of war
may be applied to disput-
ing--it should be always so
managed as to remember
that the only true end of
it is peace: but generally
true disputants are like true
La,
sportsmen their whole de- $
light is in the pursuit; and
J. a disputant no more cares
J. for the truth than the sports
,U man for the hare. J
Pope. v-
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Generally speaking, the man of the
hour requires several years to arrive.
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Two classes of people are now busy
stirring the soil plowmen and golf
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We don't need four wheel brakes
so much as we need foresighted driv
ers. 0:0
The one who gets the biggest kick
out of life is the one who puts few
est into it.
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A Music Week should be success
ful because everybody likes to blow
his own horn.
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Action speaks louder than talk,
Remember this and use more action !
and less gab.
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Therc are sermons in stones, and
a large stone in a ring gives a girl
the right 10 preach.
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"Better Days with Davis" is sug
gested as the democratic party slo
gan. -:o:-
The worst thing about running af
ter a girl is you have to run still
faster after you get her.
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Nothing looks better on a girl
than a bathing suit; but not. how
ever absolutely nothing.
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This is the season of the year
when they are busy swapping po
litical bunk for easy berths.
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People liking turtles better than
cops will be pleased to learn that a
turtle bit off a cop's toe in the
Hudson river.
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It is estimated that high water
this spring washed away several
thousand stills. And still 1. ore stills
are coming still.
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Another big sabsday is r. And
many were in from the country to
take advantage of the splendid bar
gains offered by our merchants.
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Secretary Davis of the department
of labor says sitting on a stool and
eating from a lunch counter is a test
of real Americanism. It is a test,
all right.
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There is one time in the year when
you hear very little about the call
of the open or the wish to have a
farm. That is when the farmers are
ailing for help from the harvest
field.
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The condition of matters in gen
eral tliroughout the country will oc
casion many to pur on their study
ing caps, ere? the dawn of election
day to ferrit out what party is the
1 able to aelminister a way out
of the dilemma.
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Cove rnor Bryan has certainly stir
red up the animals by naming four
of his choice for governor, with no
show of eithe r of them being elected.
Tom Alien might pull through. W.
H. Thomnson has tried several times
for governor and never got any
where. As to Broady and Knudson,
well, there is no use talking. Gov
ernor Bryan had just as well let the
committee name his successor and be
clone with it. Loosen the reins,
Charley, and let the committee free
to do its own selecting.
Weil Digging and Gleaning
We are prepared to sink
wells, clean wells or do
any kind of well work
J. W. Hobson & Son
"Set a thief to catch a thief for
a long time has been a more or less
popular dictum. In these latter days,
in practice, the phrase appears to
have been slightly changed to read,
"Set a crook to catch a crook." That
may account for the employment of
crooks now and then, here and there,
to ' investigate'' alleged or suspected
wrong-doing.
The trial and conviction of Gas
ton B. Means, until recently em
ployed in the United States depart
ment of justice, on charges of con
spiracy to violate the liquor laws,
and his sentence of two years in the
pe nitentiary at Atlanta, and the pay
ment of $15,000 in fines, is a case in
point, proving the fallacy of employ
ing other than the most reputable
persons to investigate alleged wrong-
I doing, with a view to bringing the
guilty to justice.
In this instance the antecedents
of Means were well known before he
was given government employ ment.
Although he had been tried and ac
quitted on serious charges, previous
ly, the court record carried evidence
that he was not, at least, above sus
picion. Being employed by the gov
ernment, his methods of operation
must have been known to his su
periors, at least to those immediate
ly responsible for his employment. If
he was employed to do "dirty work"
to "get" those against whom there
was more of prejudice than of justi
fied suspicion, then are those who
employed him censurable, their of
ficial conduct to be condemned by
all who believe in "fair and square"
dealing. and especially when the
matter deserving of condemnation
affects the character of reputable
people.
The Means case is particularly
conspicuous, because the government
was first the employer and later the
prosecutor, and because of the offi
cial prominence of those who were
more or less dragged into the pre:
eeedtnga, although the evidence was
not convincing as against those
named by the defendant as being re
sponsible for what he did, and the
jury so decided.
The Means case is not the only
one in which the government makes
bad showing in the matter of em
ploying "crooks to catch crooks."
Men may be honest when given em
ployment in the government service,
and ' go wrong'' when they se how
easy it is for others to violate the
law and escape detection and pun
ishment. In such instances those
responsible for the employment and
assignment to duty are not to blame.
But when it is known that a man
"crooked." the government serv
ice is the last place in wnicii ne
should be employed. Even honest.
reputable men, sometimes are se
verely tested in the ir contacts with
crime and criminals; "crooks" more
likely, will become their allies, aid
ers ami abettors, rather than their
detectors anel expose rs.
In reputable private business.
"crooks'" known to be such, are not
given employment. Is the govt rn
ment any less reputable than private
business? If it is, then it is time to
drive from official positions those
who employ disreputable people to
do "dirty" work, which, under no
circumstances the government is
justified in having done.
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WHERE WILL
END I
She who was Marguerite Clark,
famous stage and screen star, but
who, for six years past, has been
the wife of a mighty lucky hus
band. Harry Williams, or Patter
son, La., writes that she is playing
her greatest role; that she finds
happiness in raising chickens, work
ing among her flowers, and attend
ing to household duties. "I believe,"
she says, "I could find similar hap
piness if I had to work hard in a
smaller home."
A good many heads of city homes
are being convinced that there must
come a return of woman's ideals to
something like Marguerite Clark's,
or there will be a crash, moral and
domestic-. In such homes, the child
ren are coming to care less and less
for the home life.
It is go, go all the time. Dances
joyriding, theatre parties, one-piece
bathing parties, card parties, cigar
ettes, face paint, lipsticks a con
tinual urge for "thrills."
The rapidity, rush and daring of
business life in these days are noth
ing compared to the rapidity, dar
ing and sophistication of youth. A
good many fathers are anxiously
asking what will become of the ris
ing generation; where will all the
"thrill" lead to; when will the social
breakdown come?
, All that fame, public applause and
,big pay could give, Marguerite Clark
.had, bi-t she finds her greatest hap
'piness in working, in her home, and
I the home is the foundation of civi
; lization.
How many city youths have home
making as their ideal of happiness?
As a result of the nomination of
John W. Davis, business conditions
in the United States almost certain
ly will return quickly to normal.
They have been slightly below nor
mal for some time, because business
has had no means of ascertaining
who would be the choice of the de
ocratic national convention, but has
been fearful and with what seem
ed to be good reason lest its choice
be a man whose candidacy and prob
able election would be injurious to
the sound interests of the country.
"Business." in this sense does not
me an great wealth; it means every
group or individual that owns or
operates any enterprise, great or
small, whether a railroad or a small
shop and includes every man whose
living is dependent upon sound fi
nancial conditions in the country,
from corporation president to me
chanic in a car bar.
Business in this sense is very sen
sitive, and business has been afraid;
afraid or McAdoo, afraid of middle
west radicals, afraid of all ultra
progreesivism, just as it is represent
ed publicly by what used to be the
Old Guard of the republican party.
Anel although i! is afraid of ultra
ec.ns rvatlsm, which is represented
privately by the interests that still
want to centralize the money power
in New York, it would have looked
With at least a speculative and kind
ly eye upon Coolidge, who is an ultra-conservative,
rather than upon
several of the candidates who were
most prominent before the conven
tion. John W. Davis is a conservative
progressive. That is to say, he is
not an ultra-conservative, not en
tangled in the old (iuard's net; but
he is in no sense a radical progres
sive. The wild theories advanced by
the middle west radicals find him
wholly unresponsive, just as the
"predatory interests," as Mr. Roose
velt used to call them, find him
without a joint in his armor.
He is not in business in the pop
ular sense, because he is a lawyer.
But he is a modern lawyer of the?
highest attainments, which means
that he is thoroughly familiar with
business; that the business of th
nation as a whole is as important
in his eyes as is the business of a
small store important in the eyes
of its owner.
part from the many splendid
qualities which equip Mr. Davis to
serve the nation as president, he is
wholly to be trusted by business,
great or small, by employers and
employes, throughout the United
States. Therefore, a speedy revival
of business is to be expected.
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WASTEFUL FASHIONS
The chief wrong with the Ameri
can dry goods industry at present.
according to the National Wholesale
Dry Goods association, is too much
fa hlon. An association balletin ex
plains that retailers are buying from
hand to mouth because fashions
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change so rapidly that they do notmost 42 per crnt ,n thc past year
take a chance on having a large , Ra(j(j (U.serves ,arKe portion of the
stock Irt on their nanus ny inecredlt
nexl shift in public taste.
It would not be nearly so bad it',
18 taste shifted in any particular
lection, the same styles were still
saleable in other sections. The big
trouble nowadays is that fashions
change almost simultaneously thru
out the country. This is the result
of the wide-spread publicity given
them by the newspapers, fashion
magazines and other periodicals.
Consumers, no doubt, are often
slow in buying or buy In smaller
Quantities than they might for the
same reason. Th y. too, do not want
to be left with a stock of clothing
un wearable because it has sudden
ly gone out of style.
All this is natural development
from the viewpoint of both indus
try and human nature. But it cer
tainly doesn't speak any too well for
national sense.
Why change feathers so often,
When there would be enormous sav
ings anel perhaps no loss of attract
ive nesa in wearing the same kind of
plumage a little longer? Some way
should be found to accomplish such
a reform either by the clothing in
dustry or by organized consumers.
Women's clubs have done something,
ye t the situation is now more ser
ious than ever.
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FARM DRIFTERS
Discontented middle-western farm
ers used to drift from state to state,
then Into Canada, as if drawn like
.the compass needle.
The lure of weste rn Canada is on
the wane. Canadian government I f. 1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ok
i closes a number of land offices it!
maintained for a quarter of a cen-1 I the committee fails to place a
tury in our western states to entice popular man upon the ticket for gov
farmers north. One of these, in Om- ernor next week to succeed Governor
aha, closes its doors after sending Bryan, they had just as well shut up
50, 000 farmers across the border, shop and quit. We have heard men
They took 54 million dollars with tioned one young and able man. who
them. Where do the drifting farm- can be elected and that is Kenneth
rs land now? Cities, apparently. W. McDonald, of Bridgeport.
The famous "death ray" announc
ed by a British inventor seems to
have fizzled out. The British Air
Minister announces that it fails to
fulfill the promises made for it. In
the course of the tests, one of the
government experts placed himself
directly in the path of the ray, only
ten yards distant, and was not
Bcoroheel, withered and abolished ac
cording to specifications. In fact, he
showed no signs of injury or discom
fort. So that's that! The mysterious
death ray, blighting invisibly, re
mains a scientific nightmare of the
future.
In the meantime, there has been
demonstrated in this country a ray
that does blight and blast, without
any question. There is nothing mys
terious about it. It is merely a solar
heat ray, immensely intensified and
directed at will a sort of combined
burning glass and searchlight cap
able of carrying concentrated heat
rays to a great distance. It is cred
ited to a young California inventor.
He is said to have set fire to trees
several hundred yards away and to
have burned holes through plates of
half-inch steel and melted chunks of
iron In less than a second.
This device is limited by weather
conditions. It requires sunlight. It
should be a great defensive weapon
for the great American climate belt.
It should also have valuable com
mercial use in any section blessed
with ample sunshine. The inventor
says the application of his ray can
be perfectly controlled and used for
such homely purposes as boiling
water and cooking eggs. This is
worth while, war or no war.
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LIGHTNING AND FOREST FIRES.
Thirty-three forest fires started by
lightning in the Klamath National
Forest in California, some of which
assumed serious proportions, is an
unusual record. But it shows what
the Government Forest Service has
to fight against in its efforts to con
serve our timber. These forest fires
not only greatly reduce the area of
available timber each year, but
oftem cause loss of life and are a
heavy drain on the Forestry Depart
ment's resources.
Fires from other causes, such as
carelessness of campers and settlers,
can be prevented by education and
by watchfulness. But lightning is
different. There is but one way to
guard against it by lightning con
ductors. It might be worth while
for the Forestry department to ex
periment, with a view to finding out
what is possible along this line.
Lightning rods protect a given
area around them. The waste from
forest fires is so costly that if rods
can prevent some of it, the experi
ment would be worth trying.
RADIO HELPS YOUTHS
Radio keeps many potentially bad
boys good. The number of juYenile
1 etni't 'U ucia in A niorwoi t 1 1 itnsl I
It diverts youthful energy into
placid channels.
Crime, after all, is to a consider
able extent just a matter of misdi
rected energy. C.rownups, as well as
children. Many professional crim
inals would become good citizens if
shewn that they'd make more money
if they'd apply to legitimate work
the energy, time, brains and schem
ing they devote to trying to get
something for nothing.
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FORGET POLITICS
They forgot all about their muni
cipal election this year in Grime
land, X. C. Even the politicians
were asleep on the job and neglected
to provide candidates. It's a town
or 500.
Strange to say, things are going
along as well as ever, with former
officials continuing In office.
Be a good thing if the nation
could forget politics a bit more. Our
many months of ferment make busi
ness timid. The uncertainty that ac
companies presidential elections, is,
in effect, thc largest single item in
cost of government today.
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CATARRHAL DEAFNESS
is often caused by an inflamed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is inflamed you
have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. Unless the inflammation can
be 1 educed, your hearing may be de
stroyed forever.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment of
c"lJr,,ly. Yeara-
Go to Glacier Park this summer and re
fresh your soul. Here the Rockies surge
and toss in the wildest and grandest
confusion of mountain grandeur in
America. The mountain sheep pose at
the edge of space and the Blackfeet In
dians pitch their tepees where their fath
ers have lived for centuries.
Two weeks or even less in Glacier will
remake you.
Your Burlington tour of Glacier may
embrace scenic Colorado without extra
cost (free side trip, Denver to Colorado
Springs and return) and for only $4.50
more may include transportation to the
gateways of the Yellowstone Geyser
land. See it the Cody Road way.
Very low summer excursion rates. Stop
overs anywhere.
Come in and let me help you plan a
wonderful vacation tour.
The National
R.
Park Line
FUNERAL OF WRECK
VICTIM IS HELD AT
OMAHA THURSDAY
Mike Freyer. One of the Men Killed
Sunday at LaPlatte is Buried
Yesterday.
From Friday's Oaily
Because of the critical condition,
the wife and daughter of Mike Frey
er. one of the victims of the auto
accident last Sunday morning at La
Platte. have had the report of his
death kept from them. The wife
and daughter are both at the Clark-j
son hospital and in very serious con-j
dition the reports from there state. 1
The daughter. Bernice. has grown,
much worse and apparently unaware'
of the fact that her father had heen
injured so seriously and suffering so
much herself has been kept from all
news of the real facts of her father's
death. The wife of Mr. Freyer,
was alro kept from the real facts of
the case anel while inquiring for her
husband was informed by the attend
ants that he had gone back to work.
The death of Mrs. Freyer was at
one time reported, but the latest re
ports states that she is still alive al
tho in critical condition.
The funeral of Mike Freyer was
held yesterday from the Immaculate
Conception church in Omaha anel the
services very largely attended by the
friends of the family who have been
greatly shocked by the death.
MINERS FORCE MEN
TO LEAVE THEIR WORK.
McAlester, Okla., July 18. About
1 hundred miners, most of whom
were armed. today overpowered
guards at the Kali Inia mine at
Cambria, on the Pittsburg-Latimer
county line, and without apparent
violence, forced a nonunion mine
crew to leave their work.
Homes of several miners were
searched and guns found were con
fiscated. No open labor trouble of serious
proportion was known to exist in
connection with the operation of the
mine. It had, however, been re
opened recently on a wage scale the
same as in 1917, in difiance to the
opposition of miners' union officials
No arrests have been made.
William 7.. Foster, head of the
Communist Workers party of Amer
ica, says Senator La Follette's mes
sage to the La Follette convention
was "the most reactionary docu
ment of the year." There is just
no pleasing some people.
LEGAL NOTICE
To
Bearling. real name un
known; John Doe. real name un
known, ami Jedin 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 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 ($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.
I HliAKl KLEMME,
J30-4W. Plaintiff.
aciet
W. CLEMENT,
Ticket Agent
GOING TO STORM LAKE.
j Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thygeson and
! family will leave Sunday or Monday
for Storm Lake, Iowa, where they ex
pect to spend a few clays. They will
make the trip in their car.- Nebraska
i City Press.
Let F. G. Egenberger figure your
life and income insurance in the
New York Life Co. 3d. 2w
SHERIFF'S SALE
Ptate of Nebraska, County of Cass,
S3.
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.
SHERIFFS SALE
State of Nohraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by James Robertson, Clerk of
the District Court, within nml for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me
directed. I will on the 16th day of
j August, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a.
im. of said day at the south front
idoor of the court house, in Platts
1 mouth, Nebraska, in said county,
sell at public auction to the highest
! bidder for cash the following prop
jerty, to-wit:
I Lots eleven (11) and twelve
I (12), in Block one hundred
I twenty-three (123) in the City
I of Plattsmouth, in Cass coun
ty, NVbraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of A. H. Shin
el lebower et al, Defendants, to satis
fy a judgment of said Court, recov
ered hy The Livingston Loan &
Luilding Assoc iation, Plaintiff again
st said Defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 16
A. D. 1924. '
E. P. STEWART,
Sheriff Cass County,
t Nebraska.
A. L. TIDD,
Attorney.
Automobile Pacing!
First-Class Work
Guaranteed!
Prices Reasonable
Mirror Replacing and
Sign Work!
A. F. KNOFLICEK,
Phone 592. W, PL.mouh
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