MONDAY. NOV. 17, 1920.
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The gangsters are getting too much
gold and not enough lead.
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According to Kentucky's new elec
tion law, honesty is a tedious busi
ness. .
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One-half the world doesn't know
how the other half manages to buy
gasoline.
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Just in case nobody remembers to
mention it, there'll be an election Is
November, 1932.
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If Arizona were in South America
just now it would be putting on a
bang-up revolution.
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This year should go down in his
tory as the one in which even polish
ing the car didn't bring rain.
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What Jim Ham Lewis handed to
Ruth Hanna McCormick might be de
scribed as an elegant sufficiency.
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The Chinese-Russian situation is
easy to understand. No man has
much fight in him when he's broke.
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Eventually the time wasted in
talking about unsatisfactory condi-
tlons will be devoted to improving
them.
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Soviet canned salmon is being
dumped in the British market. This
is one of those times when red salmon
isn't best.
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A Harvard student learned to fly
and made his first solo trip after six
hours of training. Perhaps he was
a high flyer, anyway.
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By this time the conclusion has
probably percolated through the thick
skull of the G. O. P. leaders that the
Democratic donkey flings a mean
hoof.
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The bankers' association in Ne
braska has offered S3, 000 for every
bank bandit killed. Perhaps this
move is designed to relieve the de
pression. :o:
After examining the atmosphere of
a number of cities a health officer
declared: -"We are living in the
dirtiest age in the history of civil
isation." And not a theatrical pro
ducer winced.
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That dry Senator who kept his
wet goods from the bootlegger snug
lyveiled behind volumes of the Con
gressional Record probably thought
he might as well make use of that
ponderous work.
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Prance has declined to permit Am
erican dry observers to watch licuor
shipments at the islands of St. Pierre
and Miquelon. Prance is a humane
nation. It doesn't want to break any
dry observers' hearts.
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The pearl fishing industrv has been !
revived off the coast of California,
and it is said that the output this
year will amount to nearly $200.
000,000. That represents a large
number of irritated oysters.
Your Driveways and
Sidewalks
Muddy roads and walks into and around
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We haul a distance of 25 miles from our plant. Stoc k
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George W. Bell Co.
Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River
It iaKes 64 muscles to frown and
13 to smile. Pollyanne was an econ
omist. -co:
Early success swells the had.
Later on it affects only the midriff
circumference.
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The life a young man should live
depends on whether your own kids
are boys or girls.
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The successful fisherman is the one
who discards the bait he likes and
uses the one the fish like.
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Stocks move in narrow lane
Headline. And it must be a gantlet,
the way they've been spanked.
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Maybe man is boss; but it isn't
the woman that has a fellow feeling
for the kids when they're in bad.
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One man can lift Europe's smallest
car. Over here it takes a pretty
good man just to lift the mortgage
on one.
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A king and a bellhop have poise.
It is the reward of those who know
how great they are or how onery oth-
er people are.
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Being good won't make you rich.
Bootleggers still thrive, thus indi
cating that people who lost all in
Wall Street were drys.
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Ontario, Canada, has temperance
for its goal, through government con
trol of the liquor traffic. Thus tem
perance, not prohibition.
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A Frenchman, says a news i:em.
has willed his entire fortune to the
French government. It takes Gaul
to accept a gift like this.
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Germany has one airship that ha6
carried 169 persons in one load. Thus
it makes it hard to get away from
people even in an airplane.
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Commissioner Doran says poisoned
liquor is being hunted to its lairs and
being eliminated. But he does not. say
pure liquor is taking its place.
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A Pittsburgh husband and wife are
rivals in the beauty parlor business.
And the gossip is that they are doing
it merely to keep up appearance.'!.
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It is easy enough to agree with the
Yale professor who declared that 4
per cent beer was not intoxicating. It
certainly isn't if one does not get it.
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Mr. Borah having said that prohi
bition will not be repealed until we
can get something better, the Old
Rounder is today forwarding the de
tails of 18 alternatives by air poft.
Detroit News.
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Adolph Hitler, the man who, as
piring to become the Mussolini of
Germany, has put Europe on edges j
by his announcement of a political i
program
that would inevitably pre-
jcipitate war
is an old-fashioned poli
tician. He has built up a par:y of
six and one-half millions by the time
honored method of making speeches.
A Pennsylvania house painter had
some of his paintings accepted ftr
an international art exhibit. Prov
ing house painters can also show
lucky streaks.
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While a scientist is harnessing the
Gulf Stream for power why not har
ness the trade winds and the aurora
borealis? Many persons would like
to invest in them.
A .Pittsburgh man, shot in error
by a policeman, complimented him
on his alertness. And there is little
doubt that the tactful cop replied
"I aim to please."
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Though Booth Tarkington, Indiana
novelist, has had a third eye oper
ation, who can say there are stronger
visioned writers better able to view
the American scene?
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It was the presence of a saloon on
every good business corner that gave
impetus to the prohibition movement
which ought to be borne in mind by
the gasoline companies.
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Somehow South American revolu
tions bring to mind the game of foot
ball which the cowboys went ahead
and played anyway in the story,
when they couldn't find the ball.
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Add embarrassing moments: The
situation which confronts the two
Japanese admirals when their cruis
ers collided in maneuvers staged es
pecially for the Mikado recently.
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It all depends on the point of view
whether the head of the Pennsylvania
railroad, in deserting the regular Re
publican nominee, merely took a
switch or jumped the track.
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Labor's answer to the challenge of
depression is a startling one to the
man who has kept in intimate touch
with the thoughts that have passed
through the minds of the more far
sighted manufacturers during the last
decade.
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The New York Times finds that of
the 67 candidates for the United
States Senate 29 did not go to col
lege. However, that shows a bigger
percentage of college men among
such candidates now than would have
been found in past times.
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PARTY CONTROL
Is party control weakening? The
nominal control of Congress appears
likely to be held by the Republicans,
but the next House and Senate will
be most closely divided bodies. The
contingencies of physical existence
at any time may make for havoc
and disturbance, for Congressmen
and Senators are men, and men are
mortal. In any event these bodies
seem destined to turDuiency ana to
be more definitely than ever placed
in the precarious charge of irregular
blocs.
The Democratic Party not long
ago went to pieces. It has come back
to partial power with the aid of
Republicans, the caprices of Nature
and the psychological reactions of
economic law. But party lines in
many instances became so involved
and completely mingled as to sug
gest a threat of descruction to this
basic essential in the scheme of
democratic government. And the evil
leaven continues to work, in village,
city, state and Nation.
The prestige of the Republican
Party sadly has been damaged; its
muitani marcn to i ac present
has degenerated into something very
like a rout. Perhaps a boom of pros
perity between now and next Presi
dential election could and would
save it. It is not impossible that this
should occur. The President has set
to work great economic and indus
trial forces. This work is beginning
to bear fruit, and the country needs
such development far more than the
success of any party.
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WOMEN PILOTS IN WAR
The news that two women on the
Pacific coast have broken into com
mercial aviation by establishing
schools to train male pilots calls to
I mind the prediction recently made
by a magazine writer that women,
in the next war, will take their
places with the men as the pilots of
combat planes.
This opens an interestiny field for
speculation interesting, and some
what depressing. Off-hand, one can
think of no logical argument for it.
When women have demonstrated
that they can make excellent pilots
they are surely as fearless as men,
if not more so. Why not let them
fighting in the air.
Of course, the last vestige of tra
ditional chivalry would vanish. But
modern war, after all, isn't very chiv
alrous any more. It would hardly
be any less chivalrous to make fight
ers out of women than it is to drop
bombs on them when they are miles
behind the line, as was done in thr
last war.
THE DEBENTURE REAPPEARS
Senator Borah has not given up his
fight for adoption of the export de
benture plan for agricultural relief,
despite two defeats in Congress and
Mr. Hoover's bitter opposition to it.
He says the plan will be reintroduced
in the coming short session, and, if
unsuccessful there, in the new Con
gress which has just been elected.
The export debenture plan ie a
device which, in theory, makes xhe
tariff effective as to agricultural prod
ucts. Under it, farmers exporting
their produce would receive deben
ture certificates whose face value
would be equal to one-half of the
amount of the tariff on the produce
exported. These certificates would be
accepted by the Government at their
face value in payment of tariff duties
on goods imported from abroad. For
example, the tariff on wheat is 42
cents a bushel. The farmer who ex
ported 100 bushels of wheat would
receive 100 debenture certificates of
the face value of 21 cents each, or a
total of $21. These certificates would
be accepted by the Government as the
equivalent of 521 cash in the pay
ment of tariff duties on goods import
ed. Since few farmers import goods
themselves, they would sell the cer
tificates to persons engaged In im
porting goods. The presumption is
that the farmers would have to eell
to the importers at a discount. While
the money represented by the deben
ture certificates would not actually
be paid out of the Government Treas
ury, the effect would be exactly the
same, Decause it wouia oe paia out
of money intercepted on its way to
the Treasury.
The debenture idea first made its
appearance in the farm relief bill as
reported to the Senate by its com
mittee on agriculture on April 3,
1929. That bill gave the projected
Farm Board discretionary power to
utilize it. The House voted down the
debenture of the farm relief bill June
13, 1929, by a vote of 250 to 113. De
benture advocates explain this over
whelming defeat as due partly to the
lower house's resentment at what it
deemed the Senate's usurpation of
the right to initiate financial legis
lation, and partly to the belief that
Mr. Hoover would veto the bill if it
contained a debenture plan. On Oct.
19, 1929, the Senate inserted the de
benture plan in the Hawley-Smoot
tariff bill. On May 3, 1930. the House
again refused to concur, by a vote of
231 to 161, and a few days later the
Senate eliminated the plan from tfie
tariff bill.
Most of the strength of the deben
ture, both in House and Senate, came
from the Democrats. tOf the 43 votes
arainst it in the Senate, only six
were Democratic. Of the 161 votes
for it in the House, 112 were cast by
Democrats. Thus, advocates of the
debenture believe that the increase
in Democratic strength in both houses
as a result of the election will make
it possible to pass the plan. How
ever, it is practically certain that Mr.
Hoover will veto it, so that to put it
into effect the debenturites would
have to muster a two-thirds voi:e in
both houses. Whether this can be
done remains problematical.
Regardless of the merits of the
export debenture plan, its vitality is
due in large part to the widespread
dissatisfaction with Mr. Hoover's
farm relief program and the methods
of his Federal Farm Board. The
great promise of farm relief made in
the 1928 campaign has not been ful
filled. In fact, with wheat selling be
low a dollar, for the first time in
many years, the other agricultural
products correspondingly depressed,
agriculture is worse off than it was
in 1928. The Federal Farm Board's
effort to peg wheat prices by purchas
ing huge quantities at around SI. 20
was a lamentable failure and an ef
fort to transcend primary economic
laws. The campaign to induce farm
ers to reduce their acreage, has, we
believe, little chance of success.
Whether the co-operative movement
fostered by the Farm Board will take
hold it is as yet too early to say.
We do not mean to blame Mr.
Hoover for not working miracles in
connection with farm relief. Assur
edly, the farm problem is a monu
mental one. But his failure to make
progress leaves an opening for the
debenturites to say, "Your plan has
been unsuccessful, now let us try
ours." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Up in Elizabeth. N. J., last Sep
tember, a large brewery engaged in
making honest-to-goodness beer was
raided, and the plant placed in. cus
tody of two Federal prohibition
agents. The other day the prohibi
tion agents were caught helping
three other men turn out beer in
large quantities. That's one of the
many reasons why prohibition does
not prohibit.
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Russia sent agricultural e:cports
from all parts of the Soviet Union
to the German Eastern Fair at Koe
nigsberg. Germany, this year.
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THE ARMISTICE
The world, perhaps, throughout all
history never witnessed an event of
auch universal thanksgiving and
wildly emotional rejoicing as char
acterized the announcement of the
armistice agreed to between the
Allies and Germany and her asso
ciate nations in arms.
The days of cruelty and pain and
hatred and all the frightful compan-
ionry of war was ended; above the
wreck of empires, the ruin of mul
tiple homes, the shattered bodies of
millions slain; out of the ashes and
the blood that had drained from the
veins of Christian civilization, hu
manity saw, through yearning, teai
dimmed eyes, rise the phoenix of
Hope, bearing promise of new mortal
accords through peaceful and pros
perous coming years. Men and wom
en were mad with joy and gratitude
for their deliverance from horrors
such as Dante never dreamed or Dore
limned to picture the dreads of hell.
The years which succeeded the
armistice have been years of national
effort in the way of new adjust
ments, of reconstructions, more or
less enfeebled by the bleak reactions
of the frenzied torrent which so awe
somely had engulfed a great, and
the most progressive, part of the hu
man race. The mingled battle flags of
that Armageddon represented the
racial and national strains and sov
ereignties of the earth savage and
civilized men fought side by side, or
against each other.
But the ferocious feral days pass
ed into the twilight of the gods. A
new earth, it fondly was thought,
had emerged from the ensanguined
fields of Europe; a new era of peace
beckened to the sons of men, and
they were glad for a little space.
But soon it was discovered that hu
man nature had not been regener
ated, had not been made over that
the causes of war and the impulses
and emotions of men remained essen
tially the same as in the far begin
nings of the race.
Though some advancements on the
way toward universal peace have
been made, the sinister threat of
war remains. But. as the President
has said in his proclamation, the
agencies of peace have been strength
ened and so far as America is con
cerned, our present relations with
other countries are firmly grounded
in amity and accord. They will so
remain as long as this Nation re
mains competent to command their
respect through a maintenance of
means and agencies adequate to
guard and protect the national in
terests. No longer.
But the memory of the patriotism,
the heroisms and the sacrifices of
the men and women of the war will
never die.
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HOW MUCH LUCK?
Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago
merchant and philanthropist, is a
man. He tells an interviewer that
his business success has been about
ten per cent work, with maybe a
little common sense mixed in, and
the other 90 per cent has been luck.
On further reflection he raises the
luck factor to 95 per cent.
This is refreshing, when you con
sider how many wealthy men explain
their success, at least by implication,
as the fruit of heroic labor. Mr. Ros
enwald doesn't seem to feel either
that wisdom has made him rich or
that his riches have made him wise.
With about $300,000,000, he isn't in
terested in giving other people ad
vice. All he gives is money.
Wherefore others are all the more
Inclined to discredit his account of
his life work. For once, at least, this
multi-millionaire is caught in a gross
exaggeration. Luck is probably a
large factor in the life of any emin
ently successful person but not 95
per cent.
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Phone your news to the Journal.
TO MARCH FORWARD
Inept partisan blundering: is not to
be permitted to stay the country's
march toward economic betterment.
This is the pledge of party present
leadership. The unusual congression
al situation which has brought about
the unprecedented proposal and ac
ceptance of what Jouett Shouse cor
rectly defines to be "coalition gov
ernment" in relation to economic re
form in the interests of the entire
people, in the light of certain cir
cumstances, together with the thinly
veiled sarcasm of Senator Watson's
pledge on the part of the Republi
cans, pardonably might excite ironic
amusement. However, in view of the
inevitable vast benefits that should
accrue to the Nation from such align
ment, it should perhaps be unehiv
alrous to suggest that in this agree
ment is exemplified a parry wisdom
which reflects a degree of fine and
capable diplomacy not too citen
plainly discoverable in party mani
pulation and management.
The truth is that Democrats and
Republicans as such didn't amount to
much in the eyes of the voters in the
recent election. The Republicans
were punished, the Democrats warn
ed. The people are demanding a new
political deal. They mean to have it.
It is creditable to party leadership
that for once it is able to clearly re
cognize the signs of the times, and,
with whatever grace, bow to the pub
lic will.
Emphasis, perhaps, is added to the
present remarkable situation by the
veteran Democratic Representative of
the Sixteenth Texas) District, who
may be the successor of Mr. Long
worth as leader of the newly elected
House of Representatives. Mr. Gar
ner specifically declares that he and
his party are determined to aid Pres
ident Hoover in restoring prosperity.
To do this most certainly is the
part of wisdom. It's accompaniment
should rebound to the credit of both
parties in the proportion that both
parties are instrumental In bringing
it about. This is what the people
mean to have Partisanship will not
be permitted to stand in the way of
its fullest development. The blund
ers of the past will not be repeated.
We should be in for an era of con
structive statesmanship touching the
industrial and business well-being of
the country. There w,ll remain
enough and to spare of matters for
normal party cleavage.
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THE CALL OF THE COLORS
There is no sound and fury in the
autumnal call to the woods and fields.
The power of silence is exerted upon
the senses. Fall colors are nothing,
reassuring, healing, inspiring.
The only spots exempt from the
safe or brilliant or vari-colored pic
ture now unrolled to the sense are
those in which man has, by the most
invenerate work, supplanted nature.
In all the so-called waste spaces, in
all the shorn or neglected fields, on
every hill, by every stream, at every
roadside and far out froir the haunts
of men the splendid appeal of the
season waits in the auiumn glory.
Nature has no rival as a painter. The
tints now changed in this process.
There are no confusions, no clashes,
for the spell of fall is not rivaled
and inescapable.
If you are tired of the noise and
confusion of the city, go to the
woods!
All about Plattsmouth are hills
and fields crowned with glory.
The glory of creation in never more
finely, subtly, or eloquently expressed
than it is now.
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It is estimated that the American
people now spend $2,848,000,000
yearly on intoxicating liquor, but
how can such estimates be more than
liberal guess-work? Wao can find
out, for example, how many millions
of home brewers there are or how
much a year they spend on hops,
grapes, raisins, and sugar?
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Rich in iodine, iron, lime and man
ganese food elements essential to
health Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
merits a place in everyone's diet . . .
it adds zest to other foods.
Harold Thompson
Auctioneer
Farm and Live Stock Sales
will be given Special
Attention
My Terms are Reasonable and
I will always be found work
ing hard for the "High Dollar"
Give Me a Trial
P. O. ADDRESS
Plattsmouth
PHONE NO. 41513
SILK SALE
10.000 dress-length remnants of
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regardless. Every desired vard-
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Let us send you a piece of genuine
$6 Crepe Paris (very heavy flat
crope) on approval for your inspec
tion. If you then wish to keep it mail
us your check at only $1.90 a yard.
(Original price $6 a yd.) Or choose
printed Crepe Paris. Every wanted
combination of colors. We will glad
ly send you a piece to look at. What
colors and yardage, please? If you
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All $2 silks. $2 satins and $2 print
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NOTICE
to Stockholders. Directors. Depositors
and Claimants of Bank of Cass
County. Plattsmouth,
Nebraska.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the receiver of the above
named bank has filed his final re
port as receiver and has made appli
cation to be discharged as receiver;
that you are further notified that a
hearing on Baid application for dis
charge of said receiver will be had in
the court house at Plattsmouth. Ne
braska, on the 24th day of Novem
ber, 1930. at 10 o'clock a. m.. or as
soon thereafter as said cause may
be heard.
Objections to the discharge of said
receiver must be filed with the Clerk
of the District Court on or before the
time of hearing above named.
E. J. DEMPSTER,
Receiver, Bank of Cass County,
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
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,
. D. 1930.
A. H. Dl'XBURY,
(Seal) n3-3w 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- j
its. J
braska et al, Defendan
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 Plattsmouth,
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
feet 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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