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MONDAY, APRIL 20. 1925.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOTTRUAL
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AS TO WISDOM
Should a wise man utter vain
knowledge? Should he reason with
unprofitable talk? or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:2-3.
Spring detours are ripening fast.
-:o:
Being lucky Is often a sign of bad
luck.
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Loganberries were
crossing blackberries
lies.
:o:
produced by
and raspber-
A few peach crop scares are now
awaiting sufficient postage to get in
to circulation.
:o:
Do you think robins ever try re
ducing exercise, or blue Jays take
lessons in voice?
As a man gets older, he remains
pretty much what he always was,
only he gets more so.
:o:
Women are not men's equals. Just
try to slap one on the back and bor
row a dollar from her.
:o:
The early gardener finds the big
gest fishworms. Then he's apt to
lose interest in his gardening.
:o:
They do things different in Paris.
A thief escaped there on a bicycle
instead of in a high-powered car.
:o:
Sports are a large part of college
life, the well formed man being
more popular than the well informed
man.
:o:
They tell us there are no contra
dictions in Nature, but did you ever
notice that a blackberry is red when
It is green.
:o:
Correspondent inquires: "Will mo
lasses make a person short-winded,
and If so, why?" This is a sticker,
and we pass it along for someone
else to tackle?
:o:
How Bad it is how the big order
passeth! Take the German nobility,
for example. According to reports
from Berlin they are dying cff stead
ily; von by von.
:o:
Time brings changes. The girls
of way back yonder made their lov
ers do all the wooing. The girls of
a generation ago would meet them
half way. The girls of today go and !
get tnem. i
:o:-
With the conclusion of new anti
bootlegging treaties, Washington
expects rum smuggling to be reduced
to a "minimum." Whether this re
sult is satisfactory or not will seem
to depend on what the government
considers a minimum of rum smug
gling. :o:
Persons with the pioneer spirit
who are attracted by schemes for
colonizing distant Jungles might be
surprised to learn that there are
still a good many square miles in
the United States that await only
Irrigation and perspiration to pro
duce income and Independence.
:o:
Mr. Coolidge has in his cabinet
now a couple of six-foot, 200-pound-ers.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur
and Attorney General John Gari
baldi Sargent. If he had been as
well-heeled with bruisers a year or
so ago, he wouldn't have had to
cudgel his brains so long ever the
matter of throwing Daugherty out.
:o:
The League of Nations has decid
ed to publish a list of the 600 best
books of the year. A terrible task
that of keeping war at a safe dis
tance. We suppose President Cool
idge will appoint an unofficial ob
server to scan the list and decide if
Washington can afford to give it
recognition. All disgruntled authors
whose works are not included in the
list will be referred to the world
court for adjustment of their claims
to immortality.
:o:
We suppose that when the first
rubber-tired buggy was made all the
wearers of dark glasses said it meant
the world would ride to hell. It Is
certain that a few years ago when
women "got so bad" about stuffing j feminine, who refused to touch food
their natural hair with "rats" their prepared by women or have any con
gloomy critics were very abusive of j tact with them whatever. It is
them, and some of them, probably, gratifying, however, and not all
were sincerely alarmed. Now the ! surprising, to learn as the poem pro
former rat fans have flapper daugh-jceeds that the man in the case was
ters of their own, or are old enough insane and our women readers will
to have them, and they, too, are ajbe glad to know that he died before
bit worried about the drift of things. ' his time.
Somewhat cooler Wednesday.
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Decoration day will soon be here.
:o:
Wedding bells have begin to peal
forth in these lovely spring days.
:o:-
Things could be worse. Bills are
usually mailed Instead of sent by
wire.
:o:
An optimist is one who realizes
things can't be as bad as he thinks
they are.
:o:
A scientist claims he sees crops on
the moon, so. could it be grain for
moonshine?
to:
The Wall Street sucker's motto
seems to be, "If at first you don't
fail, try, try again."
:oi
Long dresses didn't look well with
bobbed hair. We hope the women
never shave their heads.
not
our merchants did a very fair bus
iness yesterday, notwithstanding the
busy season on the farms.
:o:
Perhaps this cut rate war among
New York taxi drivers might be
called a 10,000 meter race.
:o:
"Through with men," says a fa
mous actress. Maybe it's about time.
She has finished five of them.
:o:
Churches are being built in the
middle of the block because filling
stations have all the corners.
:o:
Well, we might have known that
the greatest vice trust in the world
would prove to be in Chicago.
:o:
If there is any trouble the Irish
want their share. A Dublin paper
is printing cross-word puzzles.
:o:
"We worry about posterity," re
marked, the Man on the Car, "to have
posterity come along and laugh at
us."
:o: '
The people must awaken to their
own Interests if they would live un
der a free government many years
longer.
:o:
As long as the government pays
such enormous salaries to state
! agents. Just so long will bootleggers
Burvive.
:o:
The thought that there are so few
young people in church on Sunday
night doesn't mean that they are not
loving one another.
:o:
George Washington In his day
threw a dollar across the Potomac
river. We doubt that he could toss
one across the Missouri river. You
can't make a dollar go very far in
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The power of the president to re
move a federal officeholder without
the consent of the senate is another
step, and a big one, in favor of cen
tralized government. Whither are
we drifting?
:o:
German imperialism has taken at
least one leaf from the book of re
publicanism. It is raising a $12,
500, 00Q slush fund to elcet Von Hin
denburg. :o:
The fine thing about French poli
tics i3 that if there i3 any element
in society you don't like, you can
easily make out that it is getting the
worst of it.
:o:-
Blinding lights of an approaching
auto caused the bus between Omaha
and Fremont to leave the road and
upset, injuring several. These bright,
flashy lights should be done away
with.
:o:
The almighty dollar is cutting a
greater figure in this country than
good government. There should be
more attention paid to the affairs at
Washington or the government will
be in the hands of a few leading pol
iticians. It is almost that now.
:o:
We note an amusing narrative
poem called "The Devil Is a Wom
an," which is published in a current
periodical. It is the history of a
man who decided that the devil was
A GOOD CITIZEN
A good citizen is a man whom you
like to have as your neighbor.
He does not throw tin cans, brush,
papers or rubbish in alleys or on va
cant lots.
He does not scatter lawn cuttings
in the streets or alleys.
He does not burn leaves against
the curbing or on paved streets,
knowing that this ruins cement and
asphalt and means added cost for re
pairs to himself and to you. j
A good citizen knows that un
cleanliness and carelessness are the
obsequious footmen of disease. '
He does not leave his garbage pail
uncovered to breed flies. The less
ha leaves rotting, the less he is swat
ting. He does not allow stagnant water
to stand about his place and breed
typhoid, nor invite alley-rats to be
his guests.
A good citizen knows that over 75
per cent of all fires start in the
homes that over 80 per cent of
those burned to death yearly are
women and children. The next time
it may be his wife or his child.
He does not use the roof of the ga
rage or outhouse as a Junk yard, nor
pile his basement or attic with rub
bish. These things are prolific
causes of fires.
He does not leave oily rags about
his home or garage, knowing that
they cause spontaneous combustion.
The good housewife does not keep
oil floor mops in a corner or closet,
but places them in metal containers.
She dees not clean with gasoline,
but uses non-flammable cleaners, of
which many are on the market.
A good citizen thinks of public
property and public premises as well
as his private property for he ?&
part owner of the streets, the alleys
and th? parks. He knows that he
must help pay for all damages, all
wastage.
He does not commit vandalism,
nor permit others to deface and
scratch public buildings and 6tatues,
or break and destroy benches be
cause it is his property and he must
pay the bill.
A good citizen, whether male or
female, is constructive. He knows
that every sweep of the paint brush
spreads sanitation, and makes for
beauty and contentment.
He knows that a well-kept place
attracts. But a neglected place de
tracts. He knows that paint and
varnish are the natural guardian of
property.
The good citizen plants in his gar
den and cultivates roses in the
cheeks of his children. He makes a
home out of a house by planting
shrubs .and flowers about it.
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THE BUND SPOT
Man marvels at how much he
knows, and then goes on trying to
know more. It is the best pastime
of this little life. Why call it labor?
The naturalist working a lifetime on
some special problem is doing what
he desires to do; he would be happy
in no other way. The physicist elab
orating a new theory and the chem
ist searching for new elements or
new relationships or new principles
of the structure of matter is doing
Just the one thing that is truly a
pastime. So, too, the astronomer
whose mind Journeys to suns and
worlds and unverses almost infinite
ly remote. And so, with equal truth.
tne explorer wno undergoes un
speakable hardships and welcomes
peril in the hope of finding some
thing which no one has seen.
North of Alaska, is the great space
that lies toward the pole, is the
world's blind spot. No one knows
what is there. There are reports of
a great continent vague reports,
little more than fantastic tales, like
the old tales of Atlantis' and Estoti
land. There may be a continent, or
there may be only frozen brine or
there may be groups of islands like
the known lands of the Arctic archi
pelago. Whatever is there, a deter
mined effort to find it is to be made
MacMillan, perhaps the foremost liv
ing Arctic explorer, is to lead an ex
pedition, and from this expedition
airplanes, operated by men of the
American navy, are to fly out into
the endless day of the Arctic sum
mer. Endless day, but a region as black
and endless as night to the knowl
edge of man. The world's one blind
spot.; more man a million square
miles of the earth that might as well
be on Mars or Arcturus. No wonder
that volunteers are clamoring to be
chosen for this work. There are al
ways volunteers when any work like
this is afoot when there is hope of
doing something utterly new or see
ing something hitherto unseen.
:o:
Since the advent of radio, some
men go home and get Calgary, On
tario, and others go home and get
hell.
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Apparently what France needs is
not so much ministers and a parlia
ment as a business manager and a
board of directors.
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Women have been asserting them
selves more in the past 25 years than
in the past five centuries. The causes
of this are interesting but they in
volve a long, complicated and phil
osophical rigmarole. Just take the
effects. Woman have a vote today.
They have property rights. They
have buying power. They are the
great readers of books (mostly
trash) the great prop of retail stores
and the great, unknown quantity in
local, state and national politics.
Therefore there are many selfish
interests which find it to their ad
vantage to foster the idea of wom
an's independence.' In the language
of the poet, she finds herself
"Flattered, followed, sought
and sued,"
Schopenhauer, in his famous es
say on Women, gives two quotations
from poets which, he thinks, indi
cate the right standpoint for the ap
preciation of the sex. One is
"Without women, the beginning
of our life would be helpless; the
middle, devoid of pleasure; and the
end, of consolation."
The other is from Byron:
The very first
Of human life must spring from
womans' breast.
Your first small words are taught
you from her lips.
Your first tears quench'd by her, and
your last sighs
Too often breathed out in a woman's
hearing "
The second quotation is more sen
timental than the first. The first is
clearer, more intelligent and more
convincing.
Here is the question that is offered
for your thought:
Can women become happier thru
political, social and economic inde
pendence than they can through ac
cepting and being satisfied with the
role of nurse, companion, sweetheart
and wife of men?
There is no doubt that their inde
pendence is growing. But are they
growing happier?
Happiness is the great object of
individual life. There are no rules
for attaining it. It depends so much
upon the iron "claws which control
the mind, the temperament and the
fate of each individual. One is made
happier by this, the other by that.
What contributes most to the hap
piness? Surely not the ballot. Pro
hibition has accomplished nothing.
Many men have died and have left
their widows in indisputed control
of millions but it has not made them
any happier.
Does independence of any kind
contribute to the happiness of wom
en? What do you think?
In doing your thinking, consider
first Just what happiness means, as
distinct satisfaction or contentment
or pleasure.
Then consider the fact that some
women are queens, duchesses, count
esses, etc., some are wives of mil
lionaires, some are wives of book
keepers, chauffeurs, street cleaners,
etc., 6ome are stenographers, sales
women, models, chorus, telephone
girls, etc., and some are house
maids, elevator girls, scrub women
and laundresses.
But all of them are WOMEN. Do
they want independence of the tyr
anny of men? Or do they want the
love and care of men?
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NATIONAL DISTRUST
Diogenes more than two thousand
years ago, started with a lantern to
search the Near 'East for an honest
man. Evidently, the search still con
tinues. At least. Dr. Dodge, head of an
American college in Smyrna, now in
this country, says: "Ask any head of
government, of business or of re
form, in this, whole end of the world,
what it most needs, and the answer
will always be, 'men that can be
trusted.' "
Ages of despotic governments, of
discordant races, languages and re
ligions, of the battle of force and
guile, have bred in the Levant a
habit of mutual distrust which may
take generations to outgrow.
The Balkanized corner of the
world, made of the wrecks of the
Austrian and Ottoman empires and
intervening states, must endure this
and take its consequences. The real
problem of our generation is to keep
from Balkanizing the rest of the
world, by universal national dis
trusts. :o:
The Literary Digest is out with an
article headed: "Do Fish Smell?"
Let the Digest editor take a walk
around the markets and he'll soon
find out.
:o:
Cuba's entire war debt to the
United States has now been paid,
but of course, we helped do it by go
ing down there in the winter time to
spend our money.
:o:
Cta(i!ia cVinw that ttio TlritiRh
spend three times as much for beer
as for milk. And we don't need tot
look virtuous about it maybe we'd j
do the same thing if we had the!
chance. j
iSjSiM
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Lincoln, Nebr.
LEGION AUXILIARY
HAS FINE MEETING
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Large Turnout of Members for the
Mouthy Session at Home of
Mrs, Michael Hild.
From Saturday's Daily
One of the largest turnouts of the
year was present at the monthly
meeting of the American Legion
Auxiliary held yesterday at the home
of Mrs. Michael Ilild.
The program was devoted to the
subject of "Americanization," a very
timely topic, and included several
interesting phases of conditions that
the Legion and Legion Auxiliary are
co-operating to help eradicate. The
organized "red" forces of the coun
try present a problem that must be
combatted, and while we of the
smaller communities are familiar
with their workings only thru hear
say, it is known that vast sums of
money are being expended and every
effort made to spread dissention in
the more thickly populated sections
of the United States, having as its
aim the ultimate overthrow of our
democratic government and the sub
stitution of communistic ideals. That
is why the Legion and the Legion
Auxiliary in common with other pa
triotic societies, are united behind a
plan "to foster and perpetuate a 100
per cent Americanism."
On the program, Mrs. Gobelman.
district committeewoman. read a true
story of Revolutionary war days en
titled "Soldier's Reprieve," that elic
ited applause from all.
The Auxiliary is devoting itself to
a study of proper respect to the flag
including the rules for its display,
and each member between now and
the May meeting will familiarize her
self with these matters.
The local unit is planning to take
part in Music week, May 3rd to 9th.
in the observance of which several
local organizations will unite.
A card party for the members and
their families is also a projected plan
to materialize in the near future.
At a suitable hour, the hostess
served delicious refrshment that
provided a fitting climax to the en
joyable afternoon.
The next meeting will be enter
tained by Mesdames A. II. Duxbury
and Emil Hild.
PREPARING TO RETURN HOME
From Saturday's Daily
Mra Fred Hesse, who has been
spending the past year with relatives
and old friends at Sarrbrooken, Ger
many, writes here to friends that.
while her stay in the old home has
been a very pleasant one. she is de
siring to return to the land where
she has spent so many of the years
of her life the United States and
that during the coming summer she
expects to come back to Plattsmouth
to reside amid the scenes of her lat
er life. Mrs. Hesse will join Misa
Marie Kaufmann when she visits
Europe the coming summer and ex
pects to return home with her in
late August. Miss Kaufmann was in
the old world last j'ear but was not
able to visit many of the scenes that
she desired and will take this sum
mer in reaching the sections of the
European nations that she was un
able to visit last year and will also
spend some time in Switzerland and
Germany where she has friends and
distant relatives.
SWEET CLOVER SEED
Not too late to sow strong ger
mination high quality Sweet Clover
seed. Another shipment due to ar
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Nebraska state analysis, 92 per cent
germination, purity 99.5 per cent.
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your door for 15c a week.
no YOr SAVE MOEYf Several
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ised as demonstrators. All ready to
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M'CAFFKEY MOTOR CO.
Authorized Ford and Fordson dealers
Atlantic 7711 Howard at 18th
Omaha. Nebr. j
Open Eveninsrs
Many bargains in used FORD cars and
trucks. i
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass
County, ss.
In the County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Kate Barthold. 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
ISth day of May, A. D., 1925 and on
the ISth day of August A. D., 1925.
at ten o'clock a. m.. each day to re
ceive and examine all claim3 against
said Estate, with a view to their
adjustment and allowance. The time
limited for the presentation of claims
against said Estate is three months
from the ISth day of May. A. D.,
1925, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is One Year frm said
18th day of May 1925.
Witness ray hand and the seal of
said Count j Court, this 18th day of
April, 1925.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) A20-4w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
John M. Henry and Minnie J. Hen
ry, you and each of you. are hereby
notified that on the 14th day of
April, 1925, The Standard Savings
and Loan Association, as plaintiff
filed its netition in the District Court
of Cass county, Nebraska, and you
and each of jrou are made parties de
fendants. The object and rrayer of
said petition is to foreclose and can
cel a certain contract in writing
dated December 28, 1922, made and
executed by and between the Living
ston Loan and Building Association
of Plattsmouth and the said John M.
Henry and Minnie J. Henry for the
purchase cf the following described
real estate, to-wlt:
The north 78 feet of Lots 7,
8 and 9. Block 54, in the City
of Plattsmouth, according to the
survesed and recorded plat
thereof.
That a decree be entered by the
Court tore losing said contract. That
you the said defendants and each of
you be enjoined from claiming or
asserting any right, title or interest
in and to taid real estate or any part
thereof. That said real estate be
quieted in said plaintiff and that said
plaintiff have such other and fur
ther relief in the premises as it may
be entitled to and to the Court seem
just.
You and each of you are required
to answer this petition on or before
the 1st day of June, 1925.
THE STANDARD SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION.
By O. W. JOHNSON.
Its Attorney.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
P. A. McCrary, Plaintiff,
vs.
The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal
represents tives and all other per
sons interested in the estates of
Oran S. Thompson, Rebecca B.
Thompson, his wife, Joseph Mc
Creary, Edmund A. Donelan and
Lucinda Billings, each deceased, real
names ur.known; and all persons
having or claiming any Interest in
Outlot siity-four (64), Section eigh
teen (18), Township twelve (Z),
Range fourteen (14), east of the 6th
P. M., Cans county, Nebraska, or any
part thereof, real names unknown.
Notice of Suit to Quiet Title
To the defendants, the heirs, devi
sees, legatees, personal representa
tives and all other persons interested
in the estates of Oran S. Thompson,
Rebecca 13. Thompson, his wife, Jo
seph McCreary, Edmund A. Donelan
and Lucinda Billings, each deceased,
real names unknown; and all per
sons having or claiming any interest
in Outlot sixty-four (64), Section
eighteen (IS), Township twelve
(12), Range fourteen (14) east of
the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebras
ka, or any part thereof, real names
unknown:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the above named plain
tiff filed a petition and commenced
an action In the District court of
Cass county, Nebraska, on the 15th
day of April, 1925, against you and
each of you, the object and prayer
of which is to obtain a decree quiet
ing title to the Outlot sixty-four
(64), Section eighteen (18), Town
ship twelve (12), Range fourteen
(14) east of the 6th P. M., Cass
county, Nebraska, as against you and
each of you. and for such other and
further relief as may be just and
equitable.
You and each of you are required
to answer said petition. Monday the
28th day of May, 1925, or the al
legations of plaintiffs petition will
be taken as true and a decree will
be entered in favor of plaintiff and
against jrou and each of you, accord
ing to the prayer of said petition.
Dated this 15th day of April, A.
D. 1925.
P. A. McCRARY,
Plaintiff.
J. A. CAPWELL,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
al6-4w.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In th'i matter of the estate of
Frank Hughson, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified, that I
will sit at the county court room in
City of Plattsmouth in said county.
on the first day of June, 1925, and i
the third day of August. 1925, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of each of
said days to receive and examine all
ilainio acainet anisl Mlato with
view to their adjustment and allow- Q
ance. The time limited for the pre-It
sentatlon of claims against saidlV
estate is three months from the first J
day of May, A. D. 1925, and the time
limited for payment of debts is one
year from said first day of May,
1925.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said county court, this 7th day of
April. 1925.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) a9-4wks,sw County Judge.
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SOCIAL WORKERS MEETING
The regular monthly meeting of
the Social Workers' Flower club will
be entertained at the home of the
Misses Olive and Blanche Horning
on Wednesday afternoon. April 22d.
Advertising w!& pay yon.
ORDER OF HEARING
On Petition For Appointment
Of Administrator
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Bar
bara Klinger, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition
of George J. Klinger. praying that
administration of said estate may be
granted to petitioner as administra
tor: Ordered, that May 4th, A. D.
1925, at Nine o'clock a. m., is as
signed for hearing said petition,
when all person3 Interested in said
matter may appear at a County
Court to be held in and for said
county, and show cause why the
prayer of petitioner should not be
granted; and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in
the Plattsmouth Journal, a seml
weekly newspaper printed in said
county, for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Dated April 13th, 1925.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) al3-3wks,w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Case coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
David J. Pitman, 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
8th day of May, A. D. 1925, and
on the Sth day of August, A. D. 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 allowance. The
time limited for the presentation of
claims against said estate is three
months from the 8th day of May,
A. D. 1925, and the time limited for
payment of debts is one year from
said 8th day of May, 1925.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said county court, this 7th day of
April, 1925.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) al3-4w County Judge.
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Average Egg Production
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$7 per 100
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