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FLAXTZHOUTIX BELEU THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. PAGE FOUB i 1 1 Che piattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEin-WEEKLY AT PIATTS240CTH, NEBBA3KA EiUni at Port!e. nttmoutb, Netx. m too mU mttr R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PEICE $2.00 THE HEALING AT LYSTEA And there sat a certain man at Lystra. who never had walked: the same heard Taul speak: who stead fastly beholding him, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leapt and walked. Acts 14:8-10. o:o Thanksgiving next in order. . :o: The ladies (God bless them!) turned out "manfully." :o: Upon sober second thought almost everybody pleads not guilty. :o: rt-ople who sit in the back row at church belong in the front row. o:o Turkeys will soou be roosting too high too high for many pocket books, too! :o: Life amuses us. The average man pointed out as a success ha9 a frown on his face. o:o If someone would just invent a human self-starter there wouldn't be so many loafers everywhere. :o: The place where you get married is called the altar because that is where the sacrifice begins. jo: If the first broadcasting station was a woman's sewing circle, then the first amplifier was tho village gossip. :p: If, as Ilaynes says, only eighty per cent of our bootleg i3 poison, what becomes of the other twenty per cent? lOi A big apartment burned In New York. Furniture and everything was lost. Serves them right for living in that town. jo: A man In Louisville, Ky., who shot his wife, will plead Insanity, in stead of self defense, thereby, prov ing he is crazy. ICt Let Willie give out the words of J .nin- wrm Ynnr nmiislnir S efforts to spell will make him re - member the right way. q.q The richest man in Canada is ninety-eight years old and our rIch - t n i tin rhieVrn Myself . Cheer up, young fellows, there is plenty of time. -10: The ice man is still superceding the coal man in popularity here while waiting for the frost to be on the pumpkin and the corn to assem ble in the shock? :o That great American institution, soda fountain, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. And to think that we once thought It could never compete with the bar! :o: The Fcrds pay in one way and another more than $19,000,000 a year In taxes to the government, which ought to Induce a little more patience with an occasional tin llz rie ahead of one on a steep hill. I MOf, , You could run your auto with al cohol instead of gasoline, but alco hol costs an average of 75 cents a gallon. Obviously, 75 cents is the top-notch price beyond which "gas" cannot rise, since motorists would turn to alcohol. Gradually we are building up an intricate system of checks and balances. Substitutes in time may hold the cost of living within bounds. to; The 4 0.000 Americans who wear Salvation Army uniforms made 100, 000 converts In 1923. More than 40 million people were counted at the Army's indoor and outdoor meet ings. This i3 a religious achieve ment cf size. The Army's greatest results are in applied Christianity. It is one of our most valuable organ izations, in peace carrying on the tame good work that won universal admiration during the war. :o: So far this year, Americans have taken out an average of 675 million dollars of life insurance a month. A generation ago, this would have in dicated a national epidemic or pan demic of fear. Now it reflects just good horse sense. Educational ad vertising and personal sales talks liave made the people realize that insurance betting you'll die sooner than the company thinks you will is protection plus a scientific system pf savings. Hundreds of thousands would not save otherwise. PES YEAS Of AD7AXC2 The curse of the poor is starting flivvers on cold mornings. :o: "Death Is Mystery" another headline. Well, it always has been. o:o And if your barber is strangely silent he has been cutting women's hair. :o: Sometimes the only reason for di vorce is the chairs in the parlor are not comfortable. :o: Half the things you think matter don't, while half those things you think don't matter, do. :o: Winter Is coming. Those expect ing to drown themselves should do so before the water gets too cold. jo: Another good way to reduce the divorce crop is for all engaged sweeties to stay sweet after they marry. :o: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pays nearly $7,500,000 in income taxes to the federal government. No won- dor he has been driven to golf. o:o Others can do is they please, but we are never going to do our travel ing in a Zeppelin until we can run out at every other town and buy something to eat. -:o:- One interesting angle in the tax lists is the fact that Jack Dempsey's income, though sizeable, was very little larger than that of his mana ger, Jack Kearn3. Blessed are the meek, for they shall manage the fighters. :o: Among those who view with alarm the publication of Income tax returns are the publishers of "Who's Who In America." If these lists are made an annual feature they are likely to put the hitherto lndispens uble manual on a back shelf. o:o HISTORIC FAKES EXPOSED Our famous cracked Liberty Bell wa3 ever runS dramatically to cele- orate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, claims Prof. Henry jJ- tora OI '"nceton university writ- jing in American Mercury Magazine. I e Ea'8 the story of the Liberty !Be11 13 a mth' like many another : legend of this country's early days such as the yarn about George Washington and the cherry tree. According to Prof. Ford, the Dec- laration was adopted July 2. Its pre- amble was adopted July 4. And all without celebration in Philadelphia or anywhere else. The p?c!aration, he claims, was not signed until Aug. 2, and the signing was not completed until the following Jan. 18 in 1877. He goes on to tell how the "false legend" about the ringing of the Liberty BelMand the great celebra tion was stated 75 years later by George Lippard, a fictional ro mancer. No matter how much truth is pro duced to back up Prof. Ford's claims, Americans will continue to believe and revere the Liberty Bell story. And they should. It is absolutely necessary for a people to have thrilling traditions. The fret that these traditions may be false does no injury, as long as they are harmless. Throughout history, all great races have been spurred on by in fpiring legends that had little or no basis in fact. You recall the Norse myth about Valhalla, the hall beyond the grave, where went the souls of heroes who died In battle. Thess ghostly war riors each morning sallied forth through Valhalla's 540 gates, to fight, and returned at night to feast with the gods. The Valhalla myth was a necessity back yonder when nature was using military organiza tion to teach men how to co-operate in government and in economics. It is so with other myth3. What would childhQod be without a belief in Santa Claus, Jack Frost and the Easter Babbit? Certainly it would lose much of its glamour and charm. A race that had no harmless myths would be a race without much tradition, instinct, imagination or patriotism. Happiness is intangible. The greatest things in life are illu sions. We need our myths. Spare them, ye lemon-juice-blooded mate rialists. If there wasn't a Liberty Bell, there should have been. It is a symbol. Wise men know the need and power of symbolism. OUD SCHOOL PAYS A well known citizen writes us to suggest that the board of education enact an order prohibiting the use of rouge" and lipsticks by girl stu dents in the Plattsmouth public -schools also that girl students be required to dress simply and mod estly. This is matter quite beyond the Jurisdiction ot the school authori ties. The complainant will have to go deeper to get at the bottom of the problem. The inappropriate and elaborate attire of hundreds of simpering, frizzled, bobbed, painted and bed! zened lasses is significant of noth ing quite so much as the fact that many, if not most of them, have simpering, frizzled, bobbed, painted and bedlzoned mothers. The girls follow the fashlo- in the attempt to look older than they are, They would look like mothers. The mothers follow it to look younger than they are. They are but aping their daughters. How can we ex pect women who do not realize the dignity and appeal of mature worn anhood to have daughters who can understand that unaffected simplic ity and modesty is youth's rarest jewel? Would you have the girls of Plattsmouth go unslathered with brick-red and tomato-flaming rouge? Then let their mothers wash their own faces. On the whole the girls have been less ridiculous about It than their elders. Why- en, blame the girls? The city has. perhaps, the power so to invade the province of parental advice and enforce regulations on this subject. If it is done, the poor er girls will have less occasion to feel themselves outcountenanced by their more fortunate associates. Thi3 Is good democracy. But enforced de mocracy at best is a poor substitute for common sense and womanly gra ciousness such as only good mothers can put into the hearts and head3 of their daughters. :o: COSMETICS TOR MEN It looks like equal rights at last. The president of the Wholesale Beauty Trade association informs a skeptical world that within five years men will use cosmetics as openly as women use them now. He even breaks the humiliating news that hundreds of thousands of men use them now and he says th,ls isn't effeminacy, but good sense. ' It Is a blunder, if not a erlme, to look old, he says, and cosmetics skilfully ap plied, make a man appear young. It is a good advertisement and good propaganda for the beauty trade but a generation or two of men will have to die off before the male eex gets his cosmetic first-hand. When men use rouge and lipsticks generally, it will be about time for the apes in the jungle to rise up and deny the theory of evolution. They will have to in self respect. No, there'll not be any general use of cosmetics by men. There are. enough sensible fathers In the land who will go back to the woodshed with their sons and whale them properly if they attempt to rouge their cheeks or paint their lips. The hickory stick will come back if the HOW'S THIS? HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINB win do what we claim for It rid your system cf Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MELDPCINB con. tlsts of an Ointment which Quickly Iteliewa the catarrhal Inflammation, and in internal Medicine, a. Tonic, wnlcn ect through the Blood on the Mucous HorXaces. thus aasiatlnr to restore nor mal cdndltlona. Bold, by druggists for over 40 Year F X Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. t X Dr. H. C. Leopold Osteopathic Physician General practice. Also Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. Office hours, 8:30 to 11:30; 1:30 to 5:30. Sundays and after hours by appointment. PHONES Office, 208 Res, 20S-2R 531 Mean Street 4. i ! !$ t f GlllROPBAGTOR Ash Ely Patients) "THEY GET WELL" Phone No. 3. Schmidtman Building IT1II C3 Remember last winter? A lot of $l8-a-ton heat just circulated around the open basement. Also, a power oi soot filtered up through the loor,onto the wall paper and cur tains. Stop all that loss and expense by ceiling the basement with Sheetrock the different wall board It makes tight -jointed, cold-proof, sound-proof, dust-proof walls and ceilings at low cost. IB TV? the fireproof WALLBOARD Ask your lumber dialer for- a sample lipstick Is attempted by the male youths of today. The present gen eration of fathers isn't going to raise its boys to be cosmetized beauties." Not so long as there's a shining bald head or a shining nose left among the fathers of today. If men want to continue to look young, they'll exercise and eat prop erly and keep their health. If they want to keep young by the cosmetic process, they are likely to be killed bff at every street corner by every red-blocded self respecting man that weirs trousers. M0SE LIGHT ON HOME LIGHTING Having In mind the fact that vir tually the entire electrical industry is at the moment engaged enthusias tically in supporting a great educa tional campaign to teacn the school children of America to safeguard their eyesight by the proper use of electric light, there is a-curious sig nificance In a statement which ap pears in the current issue of the World's Work. In an article entitled 'The American Home and the Young er Generation," William Lyon Fhelps Lampson professor of English litera lure at Yale, writes: The electric light, with its enor mous convenience, is not so good for reading purposes as the old kerosene lamp and there are still many Eng lish men who read and write by can dlelight." Was there ever a better illustration of the urgent need for a practical in terpretation of the way to use elec tric light and the "why" of it? Though frankly admitting its con venience. Professor Phelps disposes of electric light with a wave of the hand, selecting for comparison In his mind's eye the ideal kerosene reading lamp (of doubtful memory) and the commonly ill-used electric lamp that has been thoughtlessly selected as to size and type, carelessly equipped and placed with no regard to glare or gloom. The fact that a coal oil lamp in ordinary service is dingy and clumsy and has a badly trimmed wick is entirely lost sight of, as is the fact that from the standpoint of eye conservation electric lights are commonly misused. All of which is stressed here, not in defense of the electric light against kerosene, for that needs no argument, but rather n support of the purpose behind the Lighting Educational Committee's campaign. The public frankly prefers electric light to any other illuminant, but few nousenoids seem to nave any clear understanding of how it should be used, for the good of their own eyes, mere is great need for educa tion in a simple, understandable and intelligible way and itis for this purpose that the home4ighting campaign has been organizei. Nearly three thousand communities are now ready for the local essay contests. and the movement has clearly become the greatest single co-operative edu cational adventure upon which elec trical men have ever embarked. It deserves the heartiest support from all electrical interests, both in ser vice and in the money contributions that are vital to the fulfillment of so ambitious a project. There will be no misunderstanding in America as to the effect of electric light upon eyesights once the people appreciate the importance, of using incandes cent lamps properly. The Electrical World. :o: A mind inclined to what is false rejects better things. :o:- That proffer who declares that to day's styles in women's clothing ap proximate those of the thirteenth cenury obviously meant the thir teenth, century, B. C. :o: To clear up a lot pf misinforma tion used in arguments: The govern ment reports that in 1923 about 14 per cent of American railroad bonds were owned by banks and trust companies. -X-I- FARM BUREAU NOTES Copy for this Department furnished by County Agent MM-I-M-H"!"!"!' I- I- Pyrotol Not For Ditches Pyrotol is too slow in action and also too insensitive. The Nebraska College of Agriculture recommends very strongly against using Pyrotol, the new salvage explosive, for ditch ing work. Pyrotol was not intended for that purpose and the results ob tained through using Pyrotol for ditching will be neglible and very expensive. Pyrotol is being distrib uted primarily for blasting stumps from cultivated fields and for farm uses other than ditching. In the first place Pyrotol is too In senstlve to be employed in the "propagated" method of ditching. The explosive does not contain suf ficient nitroglycerin to cause it to be exploded by shock and this ne cessitates placing an electric blast ing cap in each cartridge and firing them simultaneously with an elec tric blasting machine. Very few farmers of the state are equipped with an electric blasting machine which makes it wholly impossible to use Pyrotol for ditching. In the second place, the gases that result from the explosion are entire ly too slow to thoroughly clean the ditch. Ditching with dynamite re quires a very fast traveling gas to throw out the maximum amount of dirt and reduce the amount of shov eling to a minimum. This is not pos sible with Pyrotol unless large charges are used with the electric blasting method which adds to the cost very materially. If ditching work is to be done, a fifty or sixty per cent straight nitro glycerin dynamfle should be em ployed, tl is a waste of time, en ergy and money to attempt ditch blasting with any other explosive. The county extension agent will glady give you first hand informa tion on this subject. WITCH'S NIGHT Nearly 2,000 years ago, youth was Joyously and impishly celebrating Hallowe'en. It is one of our oldest institutions, a link connecting us with the weird superstitions of long ago. To our ancient ancestors, the witches and demons and marauding ogres were very real. The shadow of these barbaric days falls over us on Hallowe'en. Study the customs of this "night cf mischief" and you are transported back to tho time which, while barbaric, was romantic and adventurous in the extreme. We have lost a lot of the joys of life by being disillusioned as to the reality of such mystic characters as witches. Progress Is many things, Including dull. NOTICB To William W. Thomas; Thomas, first and real name un- known, wife of William W. Thomas; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of William W. Thomas, deceased, real names unknown; the heirs, devisees, lega tees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Thomas, deceased, first and real name unknown, wife of William W. Thomas, real names unknown; John E. Hazzard; Alice W. Hazzard, wife of John E. Haz zard; all persons having or claiming any interest in Section two (2), Township twelve (12), North, Range twelve (12), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that Oliver C. Dovey, Horatio N. Dovey and George O. Dovey have filed in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, a petition in which Oliver C. Dovey, Horatio N. Dovey and George O. Dovey are plaintiffs and you and each of you are defend ants, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a judgment and decree of said court that said plaintiffs are the absolute owners in fee simple of the real estate above described and appurtenances thereto and that you and each of you have no right, title, interest, lien, claim or demand what ever in or to said real estate or ap purtenances thereto or any part thereof; to quiet the title of the plaintiffs against the claims or ap parent claims of you and each of you in and to said real estate and appur tenances thereto; and to enjoin and forever bar you and each of you from naving, claiming or asserting any right, title, interest, lien, claim or demand whatever in or to said real estate or the appurtenances thereto or any part thereof You are further notified that un less you appear in said court and answer to said petition on or before the 22nd day of December, 1924, judgment and decree will be taken against you in accordance with the prayer thereof. OLIVER C. DOVEY, HORATIO N. DOVEY, GEORGE O. DOVEY, n3-4w. Plaintiffs Standard Bred Single Comb e. f. Bm Plattsmouth Pfccns 3604 mynarc, . Nebraska The synthetic gasoline they are making In France is Just as effica cious as the real thing, but It costs twice as much. That matters little, because the real thing Is going to cost twice as much, pretty soon. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship Estate No. of John Waterman, deceased, 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 Alma R. Waterman, who is one of the heirs of said deceased and interested in such, has filed her petition alleging that John Waterman died intestate in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on or about September 13th, 1921, being a resident and inhabitant of Platts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, and the owner of the following described, real estate, to-wit: Lots five (5) and six (6) In Block ten (10) in the original city of Plattsmouth, as survey ed, platted and recorded in Cass county, Nebraska leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Alma R. Waterman, daughter, and Ida W. Wagner, daughter; that said decedent died intestate; that no application for administration has been made and 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 pf rescent in the real property of which the de ceased died seized, which has been set for hearing on the 8th day of November, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 4th day of October, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cas3 coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Harry H. Kuhney, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 12th day of November, 1924, and on the 12th day of February, 1925, at ten o'clock a. m., of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 12th day of November, A. D. 1924, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 12th day of November, 1924. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 9th day of October. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) ol3-4w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Harriet L. Hunter, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 12th day of November, 1924, and on the 12th day of February, 1925, at ten o'clock a. m., each day, to re seive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view tq their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 12th day of November, A. D. 1924, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 12th day of November, 1924. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 8th day of October, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) o9-4w. County Judge. 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 directed, I will on the Sth day of November, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at tne soutn rront door of the courthouse, in Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following described property to-wit: The north thirty-eight and two-sevenths (38 2-7) feet of Lot thirteen (13), the same be ing a strip of ground off of the the north side of said lot 3 8 2-7 feet in width the entire lpngth and parallel with the south line of said lot; also Lot fourteen (14), all in Block thirty-one (31) in the City of Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Nebraska, ac cording to the amended plat of the City of Tlattsmouth The same being levied upon and tak en as the property of Jacob E. Mason, Katheryn Mason, E. P. Lutz, Trus tee, Robert L. Propst and United States Rubber Company, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by The Plattsmouth Loan and Building Association, a corpora tion, plaintiff against said defend ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, October 6, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. LEGAL NOTICE In the district court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. John Bajeck et al., piaintins, vs. Mary Rys et al.. defendants. Case No. 7638. Appearance uocKet 2, page 157. The defendant, Joe Rys, take no tice that on the 15th day of October, '1924. John Bajeck and Elizabetn Bajeck. Michael Bajeck and Pauline Bajeck and Anton Bajeck, the plain tiffs, filed their petition in the dis trict court of Cass county, Nebraska, against you and others, the object and prayer of which are to partition as provided by law the following de scribed real estate, to-wlt: Commencing at a point 3.125 chains south of the center of Section 13, Township 12, North Range 13, east; thence south 9.375 chains; thence west 20 chains to the one eighth section line; thence north on said one eighth section line 9.375 chains; thence east to the place of be ginning, all in NEVi of SWhi, of Section 13. Township 12, North Range 13, east in Cass county, Nebraska, except the right of way of the Missouri Pacific railway running through said real estate. You are required to answer the said petition on or before the 1st day of December, 1924. Dated this 16th day of October. 1924. JOHN BAJECK. ELIZABETH BAJECK, MICHAEL BAJECK, PAULINE BAJECK, ANTON BAJECK, Plaintiffs. By CHAS. E. MARTIN, Their Attorney. o20-4wks NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Hen ry Kuhnhenn. deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified that I will sit at. the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on Octo ber 14, 1924. and January 14, 1925, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, to re ceive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 14 th day of of October, A. D. 1924, and the time limited for payment of debts Is one year from said 14th day of October, 1924. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 11th day of September, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) sl5-4w-aw County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. District C-7, a school district cor poration, plaintiff, vs. The Kansas Town and Land Company, a corpora tion, and all persons having or claim ing any interest In Lots 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in Block two (2), in the Village of Murdock, in the County of Cass of the State of Nebraska, real names unknown, de fendants. To: The Kansas Town and Land Company, a corporation, and all per sons having or claiming any interest lfl Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in Block two (2), in the Vil lage of Murdock, in the County of Cass of the State of Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants: You and each of you are hereb notified that the plaintiff, Distric C-7, a school district corporatiorv filed its petition against you and each of you in the above entitled cause of action in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, on the 1st day of August, A. D. 1924, the ob ject and prayer of which is to obtain a decree quieting title in fee simple in it as against you and each of you, and praying that it be decreed to be the lawful owner of iots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in Block two (2), in the Village of Murdock, Cass county, Nebraska, in fee simple, and for equitable relief. You are re quired to answer said petition on or before the 1st day of December, A. D. 1924. DISTRICT C-7, A School District Corporation, Plaintiff. By J. A. CAPWELL, Plaintiff s Attorney. Automobile Painting! First-Class Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Replating and Sign Work! A. F. KHOFLICEK, Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth t Goint to Have a Sale? I am prepared to conduct sales of any kind. No mat ter what you haVe for sale, I can sell it f: you and as sure you succt. See me at H. H. Shrader's, Plattsmouth, or call me by telephone. I pay long dis tance calls. CALL PHONE NO. 432-J Plattsmouth, Nebr. J. H. Swainston Auctioneer t i