f AGE TEST ' i X) 1 V, be plattsmoutb lournal 1 FSCLZSaSS 8XXQ-WELY AT R. A. BATES, Publisher C3ZSSSXPTX0S ?2CS 2.00 PER YEAR IB AEVANCJB The brown derby was high-hatted. :o:- Talking out loud can now be re lumed. -:o:- There is many an untied knot in a cord of wood. : :o: Your wife ag well as your sins will find you out. :o: A halting speech may be the re sult of a lame excuse. The Interest you have to pay on ' borrowed trouble Is usuary. Chickens that come home to roost have more sense than some people. -:o: Senator Bruce and Edwards, both wets, were buried by the sandstorm. :o: Sneaking of fruit, the first apple caused a lot of trouble for the first pair, :o: Many a man who isn't a liar doesn't tell all the truth that he knows. :o:- A schoolboy wants to know how many square rods it takes to make a. wiseacre. :o:- We have been In several such de feats and the democrats always come back stronger and better. :o: As the election is over, it gives us time to attend to our own busi ness and become civilized. :o: The consumption of tin has in creased - enormously with the popu larity of silk and artificial silk. :o: Apparently a more expressive word than landslide. is needed to describe what happens to Democrats every four years. :o: One of the great fears we've had about these talking pictures is that Bull Montana will be revealed with a tenor voice. :o: Taking into consideration the num ber of foolish things people do, it seems strange that the number of contests is relative limited. j - ' :o: President Coolidge has proclaimed a holiday of Thanksgiving for the last Thursday in November. It was nice' of him to think of that. , We have our pesssimistic moments when we feel that the real test of the? durability of an enamel would be to put some on the can-opener. ' - :o: Scientists have discovered that butterflies recognize one another at a distance of six or eight feet. A possible explanation is that butter flies don't owe one another money. ' . : :o:- With the election over, all the people who are sorry to have the political speeches over the radio dis continued can hold a convention in some centrally located telephone booth. . For vacation trips to the popular winter re tort of Florida, Texas, the Gulf Coast, Cuba where the sunshine, the flowers, golf courses and pleasant summer climate invite vou out-of-doors to health and happiness. R. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA It won't be long now. -:o: An idle brain is the advance agent of a busy tongue.- :o: Pleasure before duty means that duty will lose out. :o: It is possible to acquire a round sum in a square deal. :o:- We are hoping for the best and not thinking of the worst.' ' ' :o: -And the whispering slanderers never did become fully vocaL' Love makes a man think almost as much of a girl as he does of him self. :o: A jack-knife is a dangerous thing, but it isn't half as dangerous ' as a Jackpot. ' . . :o: When some people tell the truth it is only for. the purpose of creating trouble. -:o: A 10-pound baby boy can make more noise than a 150-pound man can suppress. :o: What a splendid thing it would be if people who lost their tempers were unable to find them again. The South will not give up white supremacy without a struggle, and the danger we face today is real, not imaginary. : :o: A9 we view the matter in our dis interested way, the trouble with the Philadelphia plan of dispensing li quor was that Philadelphia is in the United States. -:o:- Not that it is commentary, but we notice that when Mussolini said the Italian press is free, the Italian press said that Mussolini said the Italian press is free. :o: There is a "State beautification" movement in Florida, and with our usual ability at finding the silver linging, a thing like that in Cali fornia would be superfluous. -:o: Realism extends to practically everything, and recently we saw an illustrated advertisement in which the engineer of a train was pictured on the right side of the cab. :o: From a sufficient large number of specific instances, a general conclu sion is validated, so, taking the King Business by and large, there must be dynastic in the Balkans also. A candidate for Congress in New Jersey made short speeches and sang during the greater part of his meet ings. The very man to have on hand during one of those filibusters. :o: "The birth of the earth was a quiet affair," writes Dr. Chamberlain, of the University of Chicago, author of the theory that it originated from the sun. Probably that wasn't a presidential year. LOW RATES SEEKERS OF THRILLS It is the most natural thing in the world ior youth to go looking for a thrill. It is an excellent impulse, and has done a great deal of good in the world. But, like all good im pulses, it gets oddly perverted now and then. Consider these two ways in which American youths have sought a thrill in the past few days. In Oglethorpe University, in Geor gia, were two rich men's sons George Harsh and Richard Callogly. They wanted a thrill, so they took to banditry. They carried through a number of hold-ups, shooting two men to death in the process. Now they are awaiting trial for first de gree murder. That's one way of looking for a thrill. Then there was a 19-year-old cad dy at the Rye, N. Y.. Country Club, named Clarence Terhune. He also wanted a thrill. So he went to Lake hurst, N. J., hid inside the envelope J of the great dirigible Graf Zeppelin, and made the aerial trip to Europe as a stowaway. And that's another wal of look ing for a thrill. It's a queer business. Two uni versity boys are being condemned from one end of the country to the other. The least their fellow citi zens wish for them is a speedy pas sage to the electric chair. And the young caddy is something of a na tional hero; we look on him with asneaking admiration, feel that he displayed daring and ingenuity, and wish him all kinds of luck. Yet all of these young men were responding to the same natural im pulse the desire for a thrill. No impulse of that kind is good or bad in itself. The need for a thrill drives some young men into crime; but it has sent many more into positions where they could serve their fellow men. It would be interesting to know just how many of the young men who forced their way through the Argonne for est in 1918 got there, primarily, for that reason. The desire for a thrill has filled the world's armies since time immemorial. In the long run, of course, it is up to society to fill that need: In it we ignore it, as is our ties for good and for bad. If we Ignore it, as is our custom, we will see, every so often, an outbreak like this one in Georgia. If we take advantage of it, harness it and put it to work, the world will advance. Nothing gives youth a greater thrill than the call to follow some high ideal. We who have passed our youth are at fault if we cannot raise such an idea for our young people to follow. Tht material is there. If it goes to waste the fun damental blame lies, not on the shoulders of the young, but on our own. :o:- THE RADIO CAMPAIGN The presidential campaig nof 1928 will go down in history as unique; and the chief thing that made it so has been the radio. Never before have the candidates i been able to speak directly to so many of the electorate at one time. Never before have so many voters been able to listen to the voices of th candidates, weigh their pleas and ! get their arguments at first hand, i Probably every voter in the country heard the voices of the two leading contenders. This thing became most striking as the campaign came to its close. Imagine what such old-time cam paigners ' as Bryan would have thought if they could have known that on the night before election each of the candidates could make a last appeal that would be heard by citizens scattered all the way from Maine to Oregon. The radio, we believe, is a tre mendous boon to American politics. It should make for more intelligent decisions, for a more widespread dis cussion of issues. :o: AN IMPORTANT ITEM What is the important news of the day, anyway? Perhaps this lit tle item from Washington ought to qualify. The Children's Bureau of the De- ! partment of Labor announces that . a baby born in 1928 has Just twice i the chance of living his first year ; out and attaining a normal, healthy childhood than had the baby of 1912. The spread of medical care to people that formerly had to go with-! out, and the increase in skill of sur geons and nurses, are doubtless large- i yy responsible. But whatever the reason, the mere fact itself is a fact of great importance. :o: The more or less gloomy outlook is that the radio will go right back to the popular songs. - THE "LOST EATTALODI" Ever since the end of the World War Americans have cherished the story of the famous Lost Batalion. The story has been considered one of the finest tales in American mili tary history. As an example of pure heroism and endurance, it ranks with anytbing in our annals. But a disagreeable cloud has been rising about it in recent years. Strange rumors and whispers have passed back and forth. It has been hinted that the Lost .Battalion did what it did noly because of a ghast ly blunder not unlike that which sent the British Light Brigade to charge the Russian guns at Bala clava. Incompetent leadership has been charged. When Lieutenant-Colonel Whittlesey, the commander of the unit, committed suicide by jumping from the deck of an ocean liner a few years ago, there were many fur tive noddings of heads. A magazine writer not long ago wrote a short story, telling of an imaginary in cident closely parallel to the Lost Battalion, and setting forth that the commander, feted for his bravery, had really bungled the affair fright fully and caused hundreds of brave men to go to their death. So the story of the Lost Battalion has been robbed of its savor. A lot of us have not known whether to be proud of it or ashamed. Now a book. "Without Censor," written by Thomas M. Johnson, who was a war-time newspaper corres pondent with the A. E. F., has ' ap peared to clear up the whole situ ation. Johnson tells the entire story. In the battle of the Meuse-Argonne, the greatest fight American soldiers ever participated in, the 77th division was pushing forward over difficult ground against stiff resistance. Whittlesey's battalion was one of several moving forward on a wide front. Whittlesey and his men gained their objective and dug in, in a remarkably well chosen site; the flanking battalions were driven back. Whittlesey and his men found themselves left "up in the air," without support. Strict orders had been given not to retreat. The detachment dutifully held on. It was not really "lost." It knew precisely where it was, and so did the rest of the army. The only trou ble was that the supporting troops could not break through to reach it. The battalion was,, isolated with in the German lines. Time and again efforts were made to relieve it. They failed. The Germans attacked the outpost repeatedly, without success. They finally called on it to sur render. Whittlesey refused al though it happens that he did not use the words "Go to hell!" attrib uted to him. He had his orders to stick; and he and his citizen-soldiers stuck, as manfully as any soldiers in history. Finally, after five days, the Amer ican attack caught up with the Lost Battalion and relieved it. Mr. Johnson pays especial atten tion to the derogatory rumors and refutes them all. Whittlesey, he says, was brave and wise. He did exact ly what any good leader would have done, except that he did it better than some of them might have done. There was no bungling. The whole incident was what it was first re ported an untarnished episode of pure gallantry. This is splendid news. We sug gest that the American Iegion might be interested in seeing that it gets the widest kind of publicity. The Lost Battalion can remain one of the brightest spots in our military record. :o: A DIFFERENT DOG STORY The story of the faithful dog that roused members of the family when the house caught on fire, thus sav ing their lives, is an old one. Here's the reverse of it not so pleasing to dog lovers, probably, but interesting because it goes counter to one of our traditions. ' A Chicago man, passing along a street late at night, saw smoke pour ing from a house. He rushed in to arous the occupants. A police dog leaped on him in the hallway and nearly felled him. The man had to overpower the dog before he could proceed upstairs and carry out two men and a baby, all partially stupi fied by smoke. The faithful dog in this case, was undoubtedly the villain in the piece. The story, accordingly, under the old "man-bites-dog" formula, is news. :o: After all we believe Will Rogers summed up the situation pretty ac curately in his dispatch printed on election morning: "This is going to be the geratest lesson In Geography that New York City ever had. They never knew how many people live west of the Hudson River." New and Used Furniture Offered at Prices that Challenge Your Attention New domestic Sewing Machine, $55.00; Electric Sewing Machine, like new. $35.00. $155 Electric Washer, $35.00; one hand power Washer, $9.50; one good wringer, $2.00. Three combination Book Cases, $3.00 to $9.50. One oak Library Table. $5.00; one long walnut Library Table, $7.50. Three small Writing Desks, $5.00 to $10.00 each. One mahogany Settee, $5.95. Two oak Davenports, $7.50 and $10.00. 15 Rockers, $2.50 to $9.50. Seven Dining Room Tables, $5.00 to $15; Kitchen Tables, $1.00 to $3.50; 50 Kitchen Chairs, 85c to $1; Dining Room Chairs, $1 to $3.75. 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Telephone 645 South Sixth Street PROFESSOR TAKE HOPE The teacher in the American col lege or university, proverbially un derpaid, can take hope. In the not distant future his salary will be doubled and education will be sup ported on a scale more lavish than anything yet dreamed of. This is the prediction of the State of New York. American prosperity,, says Mr. Fi lene, is largely due to education. It needs nothing in the world so much as trained brains. The business world is discovering that it can best get these from the colleges and uni versities. As a result, increased bud gets for education expenses will be met cheerfully and promptly. That is Mr. Filene's view. It sounds reasonable. Commerce and Industry owe more to the realm of higher education than they realize. :o: FOR SALE Now is the time to get a home of your own. We have several good farms for sale on the crop payment plan. Also a good ranch, if sold at once. For further information write or see H. A. Hanke, Farmers Union Co-Op. Grain Co., Venango, Nebr. nl-9sw FOR SALE 240 acres, four and a half mile? from Murray, 240 acres, three miles from Manley,. $20,000 improvements; 160 acres, three miles from Manley, $4,000 improvements; two eighty acre farms; one fifty acre farm; fif teen acres; two houses not modern; two modern houses. See F. G. Egen berger. PLYMOUTH ROCK COCKERELS for sale. Full blood and extra fine. Mrs. Henry Timm, Murray. n5-3tsw; ?d Call No. 6 with your order for job printing. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale Is sued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1928, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in 6aid county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the follow ing real estate, to-wit: Lot 24 In Porter Place, an Ad dition to the City of Platts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, being in the NE1 of the NEi of Section 25, Township 12. Range 13 East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Lydia M. Walton, widow; Theo. A. Walton; Elizabeth Walton; James E. Walton; Nita Walton: James M. Bower; Grace Bower; Dorthy Legg and Theo A. Walton, Adm. of the Estate of P. T. Walton, deceased, defendants, to sat isfy a judgment of said Court recov ered by L. Irene Snead, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, November 6th. A. D. 1928. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. (Seal) nl2-5w NOTICF. TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Philip H. Melsinger, 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 No vember 30, 1928, and March 1, 1929, at 10 o'clock a. m.. each da v. to re- i , 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 30th day of November, A. D. 1928, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 30th day of November, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 26th day of October, 1928. A. H. DTJXBURY, (Seal) o29-4w . County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Sam uel H. Shumaker, 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 De jcember 14, 1928, and March 15, 1929, '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 14th day of December, A. D. 1928. and the time limited for I payment of debts is one year from said 14th day of December, 1928. j Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 9th day of November, 1928. A. H. DTJXBURY, (Seal) nl2-4w. County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Bukacek, 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 7th day of December. 1928, and the 8th day of March, 1929, at 10 o'clock a. m. of each day, to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view tb their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 7th day of December, A. D. 1928 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 7th day of De cember, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 31st day of October, 1928. A. II. DTJXBURY, (Seal) n5-4w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE To Hattie Shrider, George Shrider, Charlie Pittman, Luella Pittman, Ed ward Pittman, Lulu Pittman, and all persons having or claiming any in terest in Lot 11 in Block 1 in the Village of Union, in Cass county. Nebraska, real names unknown, de fendants: You are hereby notified that Hattie M. Eaton, as plaintiff, has filed in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, her petition against you and others as defendants, praying I for the decree of said court exclud ing you from having or claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or to said described real estate and quieting the title to said real estate in plaintiff as the owner thereof in fee simple. You may answer said petition in said court at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on or before December 3, 1928. HATTIE M. EATON, Plaintiff. By PITZER & TYLER and LLOYD E. PETERSON, Attorneys. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at the Department of Public Works in the State House at Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 30th. 1928, until 10:00 o'clock a. ni., and at that time pub licly opened and read for construct ing one concrete box culvert and in cidental work on the Nebraska City Plattsmouth Project No. 28, Federal Aid Road. The approximate quantities are: 57.4 cubic yards Reinforced Concrete, class A; 138 cubic yards Common Excavation for culverts; 5 cubic yards Wet Excava tion for culverts. Plans and specifications for the work may be seen and information secured at the office of the County Clerk at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, or at the office of the Department of Public Works at Lincoln, Nebraska. The successful bidder will be re quired to furnish bond in an amount equal to 100 per cent of his con tract. Certified checks made payable to the Department of Public Works for not less than five per cent (5) of the amount of the bid will be re quired. This work must be started prev ious to December 15th, 1928, and be completed byFebruary 1st, 1929. The right is reserved to waive all technicalities and reject any or all bids. DEPARTMENT OF PUB LIC WORKS R. L. Cochran, State Engineer. Geo. R. Sayles, Co. Clerk, Cass Co. A thoroughly well informed per son, it occurs to us. Is one who knows when, where and to what ex tent he can believe in evolution. ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of - - Administrator The State of Nebraska. Cass coun ty, ss. In th. County Court. In the matter of the estate of Hans Tarns, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Adolph (Jiese praying that ad ministration of said estate may be granted to Adolph Ciese as Adminis trator; Ordered, that December 7th, A. D. 1928, at ten o'clock a. m. la assign ed for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said mat ter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of peti tioner should not be granted; and that notice of the pendency of said petition and 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. Dated November 5th. 192S. A. H. Dl'XRURY, (Seal) nl2-3w CcAinty Judge. NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE In the District Court of the County of Cass, Nebraska C. C. McCune, substituted for Clark W. KInzie, Trus tee in Bankruptcy, in the Matter of Marion S. Davis. Voluntary Bankrupt. NOTICE Plaintiff vs. Marion S. Davis et al. Defendants Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the decree of the District Court of the County of Cass, Nebraska, entered in the above en titled cause on the 22nd day of Sep tember, 1928, and an Order of Sale entered by said Court on the 29th day of September, 1928, the under signed sole referee, will sell at pub lic auction at the south front door of the Cass County Court House in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the 19th day of November. 1928, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., for ca.ch, the following described real estate, to-wit: The east half (EVi) of the southwest quarter (SW4) of Section twenty-one (21). in Township eleven (11), North, Range thirteen (13), east of the 6th P. M.. in the County of Cass, Nebraska. Said sale will be held open for one hour. Terms of sale: Ten per cent (10) cash at time of sale, balance on confirmation. Possession to be given March 1. 1929. Dated this 15th day of October, 1928. C. E. TEFFT. Referee. W. A. ROBERTSON. Attorney. ol5-5w Dr I-aRint rr JL Drljiuialrc-, Omaha, Nrlir. ORDER In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. Doc. 4, Page 82. No. 8185. In re Application of C. W. DeLama tare to vest and transfer the real es tate of the Methodist Episcopal church at Lewiston, Nebraska, in and to "The Nebraska Annual Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church" of the United States of America. A petition having been filed in the above entitled cause by C. W. DeLa matre, asking that a Trustee be op pointed and directed to transfer the following described real estate situate in Cass county, Nebraska, to-wit: Beginning at a point five and one-half (5) chains west of the southeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township eleven (11) North, Range thir teen (13), East of the Sixth (6th) P. M., thence west four (4) chains; thence north two and one-half (2) chains; thence east four (4) chains; thence south two and one-half (2) chains to the point of be ginning from The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lewiston, Ne braska, and their successors, to "The Nebraska Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church" of the United States of America, upon the ground that the said Methodist Epis copal church at Lewiston, Nebraska, has ceased to exist and has ceased to maintain its organization, and, there fore, said The Nebraska Annual Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has the right to have said real estate transferred to, and vested in IL It is Ordered by the Court, that said petition be heard on the 26th day of November, 192 8, at 9 o'clock a. m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard; and all persons inter ested in said real estate, or in said Methodist Episcopal church at Lew iston, Nebraska, are hereby directed to appear and make objection there to, if any they have, and if they do not appear and make such objection, at that time, such Trustee may be appointed and ordered to transfer said real estate as proposed in said petition. It is further Ordered, that a copy of this notice be published in the Plattsmouth Journal for three (3) weeks prior to said time, and a copy of this notice be posted in three (3) prominent public places within the County of Cass, Nebraska, for three (3) weeks prior to said time. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, October 22, 1928. By Order of the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. 022-4.W. Judge. The South will come back to its place next election. Mississippi, tbat they worked the hardest to carry, went overwhelmingly democratic.