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Well 'did the election go to suit
you ?
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Bryan put it all over Weaver last
Tuesday.
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Even In a safety zone it is advis
able to be ready to jump.
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The nation's birth rate is revealed
to be at the lowest level since 1915.
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Melody and static can never live
peacefully on the same wave length.
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The crying need of the country is to
stop crying about so-called hard
times.
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In Pennsylvania a politician can
attract no attention unless he bolts
his party.
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California has the earthquakes, but
Florida also has ways of shaking
down tourists.
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Mr. Morrow reconciled Mexico to
the United States. He's the very man
needed in the Senate.
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Butter is being quoted lower.
That's a chance to grease the skids
under the cost of living.
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Yes, the social climber was right
in claiming a family tree. Science
has found the fossil remains.
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The law inspects brakes, to sec !
whether they work quickly enough to
be safe. Now let it inspect wits.
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Never pay a whole dollar for a
bridge prize. If it was worth as much
as a dollar it wouldn't be a bridge.
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The wife who is a good cook can
forgive almost anything in a husband
except for him to have a poor appe
tite. :o:
There was no need of farm relief
before two crackers and a milkshake
became the popular notion of a noon
day meal.
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Tell them often enough and the'10 ,iave f,UI t:ir niceiy wasneu ana
people will believe anything. Even Polished. Why didn't somebody think
that the movies
and purer.
are getting better
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The Illinois Department of Public
Health says the skinny folks have a
better chance than the fat ones of
living longer.
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With most of England's doctors
and lawyers touring America, it is
surprising no cynic has congratulated t o worry about the bigness of his in- lsreat," the last of which is the ex
the British people. Icome tax. Jponent of the theory of relativity.
:o: :o: The Shaw thesis is interesting.
As a step to relieve current tie- About the only thing that can fade j Those men are "great among the
pression Government officials, we
learn from the public prints are be-
ing urged to make more joys. That's ,
sense. Those are the boys who have
the experience.
All Wrought Up Over Nothing
Didn't sleep last night; too much work; the chil
dren are fretful; the Boss is cranky; Mrs. DeVere
didn't invite you to her party.
Ordinarily you don't mind any of these things, but
today they are simply unbearable. You
are nervous, that s why.
Did you ever try Dr. Miles' Nervine?
Just two teaspoonfuls in a half glass of
water will quiet your over-taxed nerves
and bring you a feeling of calm and peace.
Dr. Miles' Nervine is now made in
two forms Liquid and Effervescent
Tablet. Both are the same thera
peutically. At all Drug Stores. Price $1.00
The voters of Alabama put the ki
bosh on Senator Tom-Tom Heflin last
Tuesday.
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Congratulations to the winners of
theyeleetSoB, as well as sympathy to
the defeated.
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We observe that President Koover
hasn't named a commission to do his
fishing for him.
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Emotional insanity is what ails a
rich man when he kills somebody. A
poor man just gets mad.
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It seems the nearer in hours the
new liners bring Europe the more re
mote it becomes in dollars.
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It is a bit difficult to say anything
nice about the devil, but it mu-t be
admitted that he Is an industrous
person.
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The way to be elected president
of the footbi.ll fans' association is
to be that unique person who admits
he is expert.
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Hoover for president in 193
. jUSt
Cool-
like Mr. Hoover
idge in 192S.
was for Mr.
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If the dry weather keeps up, it will
be in order to send our country kin
folks a tank truck of water with a
Christmas card.
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Add to the marriage vow: "And
will you understand madam, that you
are not divinely appointed as this
man's guardian?"
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"American cooking is full of sur
prises." says an English magazine.
The writer must have sampled some
boarding horse hash.
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This is a fast and snappy age in
which we live. The Daily Journal
has just received three letters ad
dressing Santa Claus.
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A sure wry to bring on a rain is
of that last summer?
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"Dancing is merely hugging set to
music," says a New York clergyman.
All right, parson, suppose we do
away with the music?
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PW,or tmtMoiafinr ifArmw ic fnriwi nsht occasionally, with or with-
The man who worries about the!monplace Therefore Shaw dared
smallness of his income never wastes
any sympathy on the man who has
and die
that
' . ' 4 . ' I U 1 V f t I L.Iilll CL 1 t - -
blooms in the spring is a college club
of sweet girls eternally pledged not
to marry any man, and to send
loving oach other.
their
The big difference between prohi
bition and cider is that cider works.
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Northern farmers drink hard cider.
With Florida farmers it's cane skim
mings. j :o: 1
"What is ideal income?" asks the
New York World. Oh, about 50 per
cent more.
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It is easy to believe in all mir
acles if you grant the first miracles
of creation itself.
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When some oue treats us unusually
well we know that either he s a
j gentleman or we're a prospect.
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If the politicians talked less about
the tax problem they would have
time to do something about it.
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Mr. Einstein's theory of relativety
is as simple as rain when compared
with Mr. Hoover's recent speeches.
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If you want some dry reading, try
either the Calvin Coolidge syndicate
column or the Congressional Record.
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Cotton growers and manufacturers
will find prosperity again when hard
times put this nation-in-silk back in
cotton.
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Some men are like alarm clocks.
They ring like the duce for a min
ute, wake you up and then hush un
til rewound.
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The upward turn in business is be
in gheralded by an increasing num
ber of oily voices inviting all in on
the ground floor.
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And now Cuba joins Brazil in stag
ing a revolution. Those Latin folks
out justification.
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Miniature golf more or less ex
plains what the forefathers had in
mind when they decided on the size
of Rhode Island.
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According to Senator Fess, the peo
ple wouldn't have known anything
about the hard times if the bad Dem
ocrats hadn't told them.
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Once there was a sport writer who,
aware of the number of football stars
with foreign names, never once
thought of listing them In a "real"
Ail-American team.
SHAW ON GREAT MEN
George Bernard Shaw's intermit
tent outburst on an infinity of sub
jects are only sometimes important,
but they are always interesting. The
Shavian zest for saying the unexpect
ed leads him frequently into absurd
exaggeration or futile paradox. But
his wit invariably saves him from
the deadliest of all sins of literary
men the sin of dullness.
Shaw's latest is an introduction of
Albert Einstein at a dinner in honor
'of the German physicist. To have
I said that Einstein was a very great
'man would have been true, but com-
!not say jt instead he named a series
Jof eieht men "great among the
great" who have molded the concep
tions of the universe held by the hu
man race over extended periods of
time, he says in effect. To build na
tions or empires is a secondary
achievement by comparison. Taking
hard to accept Shaw's list of eight
men for special honors.
Euclid and Ptolemy worked out
theories of mathematics and astron
omy that dominated the thought of
mankind for many centuries. Aris
totle excelled in so many fields that
hew as great on several counts, but
he was a "builder of a universe" in
creating the theory of a dynamic uni
verse, not the static order conceived
by Plato. Copernicus, Kepler and
Galileo followed with revisions and
additions to man's understanding of
the universe. Newton in the seven
teenth century brought the concept
of gravitation to science, and the
world accept this basis of thought
for more than 200 years.
Now Einstein is finding flaws in
the Newtonian theory, and is build
ing for us a new concept of the Uni
verse, to which man must adjust his
thinking once more. Each of this ar
ray of truly great has contributed
positive knowledge of an important
character, yet each has been proved
wrong by his successors on many
points. In this we have a "relativity"
among the great, for there is a vast
dependence in each case, and none of
them could have been great without
a tremendous debt to others, pre
ceding him in history or contempor
ary with him. And if Mr. Einstein
goes much farther with his concept
of relative time, with its revision of
cause and effect, we shall be in doubt
whether Aristotle should come first
in the list or whether he "follpwed"
Einstein 2,200 years "before."
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS
Mr. Hoover's growing impatience
with the press was evidenced in his
statement on the Kelley charges. He
said that the publication of those
charges "does not represent the prac
tice of better American journalism,"
and went on to protest against the
broadcasting of "reckless, baseless
and infamous charges," the ultimate
result of which "can only be damage
to public service as a whole." Com
menting upon this phase of the state
ment, the Philadelphia Record said:
The Record would not believe
it within a (President's province
to use his powerful office as an
influence to deter editors from
exercising their best judgment
as to what is news. Carried to
its logical conclusion, Mr. Hoo
ver's petulant attitude would
finally end in a Federal censor
ship of all news.
Mr. Hoover soon after he was elect
ed began to show his impatience with
the free and untrammeled newspaper
discussion to which every President
is subject. It will be recalled that
even before he entered the White
House, while he was 'on his South
American trip, the rather startling
anouncement was made that news
paper dispatches from the battleships
Utah and Maryland, on which the
party traveled, were being censored
On Jan. 8. 1929, the story was told
in the Post-Dispatch as follows:
Executives of the Hoover
party, when questioned about
the subject today, objected to
the word "censorship." They
freely admitted, however, that
all news dispatches filed from
the ship were read by Baker
(George Barr Baker), acting as
Hoover's personal representative,
and that changes were made in
the dispatches at Baker's request.
All newspaper copy had to re
ceive Baker's O. K. before it
it could be transmitted.
In April, 1929, a month after his
inauguration, Mr. Hoover made his
much-discussed speech on law en
forcement before the Associated
Press. In that speech, he politely
regretted that the press was not play
ing the particular kind of role he
would like to see it play in the in
terest of respect for law. He said:
I need not repeat that abso
lute freedom of the press to dis
cuss public questions is a foun
dation stone of American liberty.
I put the question, however, to
every individual conscience,
whether flippanee is a useful or
even legitimate device in such
discussions. I do not believ it is.
Its effect is as misleading as dis
torting of public conscience as
deliberate misrepresentation.
We do not think we do the Presi
dent an injustice in guessing that
what he meant by "flipance" is the
journalistic attitude toward prohibi
tion, and that his idea of good jour
nalism would be a unanimous, un
smiling support by the newspapers of
the eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead act. He added:
Possibly the time is at hand
for the press to systematically
demand and support the reor
ganization of our law enforce
ment machinery ... so 'that
crime may be reduced, and on
the other hand to demand that
our citizens shall awake to the
fundamental consciousness of
democracy which is . . . that
every responsible member of a
democracy has the primary duty
to obey the law.
In January, 1930, Mr. Hoover wrote
his celebrated "hair shirt" letter com
plaining of the trials and tribulations
which beset a President, in which he
said:
You well know of the wear
ing of hair shirts in the middle
ages by way of reminder of sins
and trouble. Somewhere lately I
said that every man has a few
mental hair shirts and that Pres
idents differ only by their larg
er wardrobe for certain inui
. viduals, newspapers, associations
and institutions officiate as hab
erdashers in this regard . . .
Mr. Hoover's sensitiveness to news
paper criticism, his protests against
journalistic policies which do not
agree with his, his clear impatience
with articles unfavorable to his ad
ministration, form a curious side of
his nature. Up to the present at
least, besides owing his reputation
largely to newspapers, he has fared
far better at their hands than his
predecessors, Roosevelt, Taft. Wilson.
Harding. Coolidge all of these men
underwent a hazing whose severity
Mr. Hoover has yet to appreciate.
Mr. Jefferson furnished the classical
American example in this field when
he said:
Conscious that there was not
a truth on earth which I feared
should be known, I have lent
myself willingly as the subject
of a great experiment, which was
to prove that an administration,
conducting itself with integrity
and common understanding, can
not be battered down, even by
the fasehoods of a licentious
press, and consequently still less
by the press as restrained with
in the legal and wholesome lim
its of truth. This experiment
was wanting for the world to
demonstrate the falsehood of the
pretext that freedom of the press
is incompatible with orderly
government. I have never, there
fore, even contradicted the thou-
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sands of calumnies so indus
triously propagated against my
self. The integrity and survival of our
nstitutions demands that whoever
sits in the White House be under the
closest and most critical scrutiny.
Unless a flood of light is forever turn
ed on the presidency, our liberties
are not secure. To withstand this
glare is the inevitable fate of every
President, and, though it sometimes
results in unfairness and injustice,
it is necessary concomitant of demo
cracy. To repeat Mr. Hoover's words:
"Absolute freedom of the press to dis
cuss public questions is a foundation
stone of American liberty." St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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OUR OWN AMERICA
Our own America, with all its
faults, economic, political and other
wise, is a better place in which to
live than many other lands China.
Egypt, India and all Asm seethe with
dread and trouble. Europe is an arm
ed camp. For those who are, or who
may be, intrigued by the glamour
of Fascism the spectacle is presented
of the Italian Government's 'petty
persecution of the wives and child
ren of exiled anti-Fascists. They are
made to suffer for the alleged crimes
of their husbands. These wives and
mothers do not make an easy living,
cut off from their husbands. They are
held prisoners of the Government.
They may not leave Italy.
There is violence and horror in
Russia, where shooting of eminent
men of science is charged in a strong
protest just now signed by a number
of distinguished Germans, which pro
test alleges that the facts "seem to
prove that every scientific activity
claiming even the most modest meas
ure of intellectual freedom is becom
ing impossible in the Soviet Union."
There is terror in Poland. In East
ern Galicia, whose population is over
whelmingly Ukranian, a reign of
"pacification" by Polish troops goes
merrily on, while at Warsaw the ma
jority of the opponents of Marshal
Pilsudski are either dead or are in
prison. The "punitive" expeditions
into Galicia have terrorized the in
habitantsfloggings, killings of in
nocent Ukranian peasant farmers are
said to be the rule of the hour, the
burning of private households a com
mon pastime of brutal soldiery. In
all Poland the politics of the people
are influenced, it is said, not so much
by persuasion as by intimidation. It
is stated by an English authority
that the arrest of Opposition Depu
ties have been continued recently un
til about 12 per cent of the members
of the last Parliament are now in
prison on vague or unspecified charg
es. Palestine is in turmoil. South Am
erica reeks and revels in revolution.
In the United States is peace and
swiftly coming prosperity, a steady
crushing of "enthusiastic pessimism."
The lure of foreign propaganda
should fall on deafened ears in our
America, even where citizens have
the right to complain of inept pol
icies and disrupted economic condi
tions. :o:
GO AFTER IT
If you hope to get a fair share of
business, quit growling about so
called hard times.
Fifty per cent of this co-called de
pression is mental.
The remaining fifty per cent that
is real can be dispelled by manifesta
tion of confidence.
If you want your share of busi
ness, go after it.
The best way to go after it is by
advertisings earnestly, persistently,
intelligently.
If your business is not worth ad
vertising, then advertise it for sale
get rid of it, and give some more
progressive man a chance to take
your place in the business world.
Mr. Hoover wants the navy build
ing program pushed. Yes, and before
any new contracts can be let he will
order another batch of vessels sent
out into the Atlantic to be shot full
of holes.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of John
Quinton, deceased.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased died leav
ing no last will and testament and
praying for administration upon said
estate and for such other and further
orders and proceedings in the prem
ises as may be required by the stat
utes in such cases made and provid
ed to the end that said estate and
all things pertaining thereto may
be finally settled and determined, and
that a hearing will be had on said
petition before said Court, on the
21st day of November, A. D. 1930,
and that if they fail to appear at
said Court on said 21st day of No
vember, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., to
contest the said petition, the Court
may grant the same and grant ad
ministration of said estate to C. D.
Quinton. or some other suitable per
son and proceed to a settlement
thereof.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) o27-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Adam Wolf, deceased:
On reading the petition of H. A.
Schneider, Administrator, praying
a final settlement and allowance of
his account filed in this Court on the
27th day of October, 1930, and for
final settlement of said estate and for
his discharge as said Administrator;
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said matter
may. and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said coun
ty, on the 28th day of November, A.
D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and that notice of the pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons
interested in said matter by publish
ing a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
In witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court, this 27th day of October,
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) n3-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Bertha Lancaster, deceased
On reading the petition of Glen
Boedeker, Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of
his account filed in this Court on
the 21st day of October, 1930, and
for final settlement of said estate
and his discharge as said Adminis
trator;
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 21st day of Novem
ber. A. D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m
to show cause, if any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should
not be granted, and that notice of
the pendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof 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.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court, this 21st day of October
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) o27-3w County Judge
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Robert R. Nickles, de
ceased.
On reading the petition of Mettie
Ray and A. F. Nickles, praying that
the instrument filed in this court
on the 17th day of October, 1930,
and purporting to be the last will
and testament of the said deceased,
may be proved and allowed and re
corded as the last will and testament
of Robert R. Nickles, deceased; that
said instrument be admitted to pro
bate and the administration of said
estate be granted to Mary A. Nickles
and Bertha M. Nickles as executrix;
It is hereby ordered that you, and
all persons interested in said matter,
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said coun
ty, on the 21st day of November,
A. D. 1930, at ten o'clock a. m., to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioners should not
be granted, and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and that
the hearing thereof be given to all
persons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in
the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi
weekly newspaper printed in said
county, for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 23rd day of October,
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) o27-3w
County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Ger
trude L. Morgan, 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 2l8t day of November, 1930,
and the 22nd day of February, 1931,
at 10 o'clock a. m., of each day, to
receive and examine all claims
against said estate, with a view of
their adjustment and allowance.. The
time limited for the presentation of
claims against said estate is three
months from the 21st day of Novem
ber, A. D. 1930 and the time limited
for payment of debts is one year
from said 21st day of November,
1930.
Witness my band and the seal of
said County Court this 24th day of
October. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) o27-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale
issued by Oolda Noble Beal, Clerk of
the District Court within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 15th day of
November, A. D., 1930, at 10 o'clock
a. m. of said day, at the south front
door of the court house in the City
of Plattsmoutb, Nebr., in said coun
ty, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing real estate, to-wit:
West half of Lot 8 and 9, and
the south half of the west half
of Lot 10, and the west 24 feet
of the east half of Lots 8, 9 and
10, all in Block 31, in the City
of Plattsmouth, Cass county,
Nebraska
the same being levied upon and tak
en as the property of Sybil Brqpitner,
Edward Brantner and Oscar Wilson,
defendants, to satisfy a judgment of
said court recovered by Paul H. Gil
Ian, substituted for Silas Y. Gillan,
plaintiffs against said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, October
11, A. D. 1930.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
By REX YOUNG,
Deputy Sheriff.
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ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Fred Hanni, deceased:
On reading the petition of Herman
Rleke, praying a final settlement
and allowance of his account filed
in this Court on the 24th day of
October, 1930, and for pro-rating
payment of claims, assignment of
property and discharge of the Ad
ministrator; It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons Interested in said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county on the 21st day of November,
A. D. 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., to
show cause if any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should
not be granted, and that notice of
the pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons 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 weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court this 24th day of October.
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) o27-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE
In the District Court of the Coun
ty of Cass, Nebraska
George K.
Petring,
Plaintiff
vs.
NOTICE
The County of Cass, Ne
braska et al. Defendants.
To the Defendants, Herman Neit
zel, and all persons having or claim
ing any interest in and to Lots five
(5) and six (6), in Block fifty-four
(54), in the City of Plattsmoutb,
Cass county, Nebraska, excepting
that part of Lot 6 lying within 40
feet of the center of Chicago Avenue
in said city, real names unknown:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that George K. Petring, as
plaintiff, filed a petition and com
menced an action in the District
Court of Cass county, Nebraska, on
the 1st day of November, 1930.
against you and each of you and
others; the object, purpose and pray
er of which is to obtain a decree of
the Court quieting title to Lots five
(5) and six (6). in Block fifty-four
(54), in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county. Nebraska, excepting
that part of Lot 6 lying within 40
eet of the center of Chicago avenue
in said city, in plaintiff as against
you and each of you and all persons
claiming by, through or under said
defendants, to enjoin all of said de
fendants in said suit from having or
claiming any interest in said real es
tate and for such other relief as
may be just and equitable in said
premises.
You and each of you are further
notified that you are required to
answer said petition on or before
Monday, the 15th day of December,
1930, or the allegations therein con
tained will be taken as true and a
decree rendered in favor of the plain
tiff, George K. Petring, as against
you and each of you according to the
prayer of said petition.
GEORGE K. PETRING,
Plaintiff.
W. A. ROBERTSON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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