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PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL MONDAY. MARCH 9, 1931. Alvo News George Bobbitt of Lincoln was spending a number of days in Alvo and working on the new garage of Mrs. Jennie Rouse while here. Mrs. Charles Kirkpatrick was a guest for a short time on last Satur day at the homes of her brothers wno make their home at Lincoln. Mrs. Blanche Weichel entertained the Double Four club at her home on last Wednesday and where all en joyed the occasion most pleasantly. While the roads are good, I would like to have you drop In and pass y or opinion on my $49.50 heavy concord harness. A. J. Tool, M ur d ek, Nebr. During the absence of Rev. Jack sen and the family who are spending sr me tim' away from Alvo. the Rev. Connell was preaching ai the Metho dist church here on last Sunday. S. K. Johnson and the family who have been making their home at Ben nett for the past two years, moved to Lincoln and arc making their h'me at 326 North 33rd street. Mrs. Charles Godbey was a visitor in Lincoln on last Saturday driving: over in her auto to visit with her daughter. Mrs. P. E. v lere both enjoyed much. Mrs. Mabel Winn Dickerson, ami the visit very entertained at her home on last Wednesday Mid had a number of friends at a card party which was thoroughly enjoyed by this genial housewife and her good friends. The Woman's Reading club met lest week ai the home of Mrs. A. B. Stromer where they discussed the matter of keeping home accounts, th' project lesson which was proposed by the leaders. Mrs. Lelia S. Fifer of Enid. Okla homa, who has been visiting in Alvi for the past three weeks, departed last week for Panama where she will visit with a cousin. Mrs. Irene Craig, of that place. W. L. Browne and the family mov ed to Alvo last week from Wabash and Mr. Browne will work on the farm for S. C. BoylflB this summer, they makeing their home in the east portion of Alvo. Bert Kitzell and wife of near Waverly entertained on last Sun day and had as their guests for the occasion. Mr end Mrs. E. M. Stone of Alvo and Mrs. Anna Stone of Lin coln and her daughter. Beryl. Uncle Charles H. Kirkpatrick has been kept from town and at home with a severe attack of lumbago, which so painful that he can neither lie" still and move without danger of a severe pain racking his back. George Welton and family who have been making their home near Alvo moved last week to near Green wood where they will make their home on one of the farms of L. M. Mowery and will work for Mr. Mow ery. Carl Lewis, who makes his home at Alliance, was spending the win ter Tic re a' the lionie" of his motber. Mrs. Lizzie Lewis, and as the spring time is drawing near he departed for Ins work in the northwest, leaving on last Sunday. His sister. Miss Edna Lewis, who fa teac hing school at Pai-i-fio Junction, was also home spending the Sunday. Will Serve Lincolnites. Lee Coatman. Stirling Coatman. nd F E. Dickerson. three of Alvo's hustling young men. have embarked in business in Lincoln, where thev are to serve the people of that city. They recently leased a garage at 27th and Holdrege streets and are ready to give the very best of service in t h r t line to any who may be need ing r.nytlyng that pertains to can, trucks, or tractors. Drive in anil see the boys when you are in the big town. Sustained Liht Stroke. Early Last Saturday morning Mrs. Fred M. Prouty was stricken with a stroke of paralysis, but the stroke be ng slight she has been showing some recovery since and her friend are hoping that she may soon entire ly recover from the affliction. FAIR PLAY FOR THE RAILROADS Whal may be B start toward a pol icy of "tail play" for the railroads is found in the last annual report cf the Interstate Commerce Commission which contains a number of con structive suggestions. Now the com mission offers to congress biils em bodying time of those suggestion-;. One of the bills would repeal the recapture provision of the Trans portation Act, under which one-half of any railroad's earnings in excess of 6 per cent must be paid into the public treasury. This provision, it is .lid, has proved a source of expense and litigation, and has produced lit tle cash. Another bill would allow railroads to cam more than 5 per cent profit now held a "fair return" if they can do so by more efficient and eco i tnieal management. Another would i Aitf rate making methods so that iliti as would be taken into account in the setting of rates by the com - nton. Under the exi-ting law it i sometimes necessary to reduce rates in prosperous time.. When uo re tiuitions ere called for. and to raise them In times of depression. These suggestions, while they are s: li ng way 'from completely covering the present crucial railroad situation, uid be given lavorable consider ation. As the Chicago Daily News Kays, "It is an encouraging sign that the Interstate Commerce Commission, c f its own motion, pleads for fair play to the railroads and advises con ffrees how to.remedy ills of the trans j -ation lines without sacrificing jiny principle dictated cn behalf ot tl.e public welfare." Something else that might be fn r. riffbt now would be to know what the groundhog thinks of Ita t iictlon by this time. Assessors are Told of Income Tax Measure O'Malley Declares Is Will Solve Tax ation Problem Wherry and Metcalfe Speak. Members of the Nebraska County Assessors association convention clos ed the first day's session at the Lin coln hotel at Lincoln Wednesday night with a dinner at which Lieu- tuiaut Governor Metcalfe was a gue.-t. He addressed the organization briefly along with Senator Wherry and Rep resentative O'Malley. City Attorney Peterson made the jaddrress of welcome and an invoca tion was pronounced by Rev. A. O. Swartwood. O. C. Bell, president ot the association, presided. Speeches of Wherry and O'Malley both dealt with the income tax, Sen- iator Wherry confining his remarks jto an explanation of the bill intro 'ilnppd into the senate bv Senator An derson which specifies that the state property tax has a complete substi tute in the proposed income tax. "If the people of the state seek to reduce taxes to a minimum." Repre sentative O'Malley declared, "they must lock to the election of desirable local officials." In referring to the income tax. he prophesied that such tax would even tually prove the solution of the tax ation problem. Its enactment, how ever, he said, may not be accomplish ed this year. In the afternoon session senatoi Frush of Wahoo delved into the merits of legislation now before both houses. The income tax law no pending, he said, is dependent for favor from the citizen on its ability to effect a decrease in property tax. He pointed out that twenty of our states have an income tax law but reminded that no two are alike. A motion introduced into the after noon session providing that a request to be made to the governor for enact ment of legislation this year revalu ating real estate, was overwhelming ly defeated. A WHALE OF A DIFFERENCE Only a definite revolt on the pari of the motoring public can stop the trend toward higher gasoline taxes. The record of past years is illum inating. The tax was first introduced in Oregon in 1919, wth a rate of on" cent a gallon. New Mexico establish ed the two cent tax in 1920, am! by 1923 seven states had a three cent rate. Arkansas introduced the four cent levy the following year and in Kentucky and South. Carolina raised the ante to five cents. Then in 1929, three states joined o establish the present peak rate of six cents. Now rumblings are being heard of tax rates of eight or ten cents or more, to be levied in the future. A large percentage of the legislatures meet ing this year are giving consideration to increases. No other tax has ever increased so . and no other commodity, with the possible exception of a few lux uries, such as cigarettes, has ever had so great a tax levied against it. And high rates are not the end of the motorist's greviance. In various states his money has been used for sea walls, schools and government buildings, waterways, general tax re duction and even oyster conservation. All of these purposes may be laud able, but they certainly should not be paid out of money spent by citi zens for gasoline. No relief will ever come from our legislators of their own volition. They are thoroughly impressed with the idea that the motorist will stand for almost anything. It is up to the puhlic. to paraphrase a well-known advertisement, to show their officials what a whale of a difference just a few cents make. DAYKIN BANK GANG IS STILL AT LARGE Fairbury Two and possibly three bandits who robbed the Jefferson County bank of Daykin of $1,000 Tuesday, were still in hiding Wed nesday. County Sheriff Helvey of Jefferson county, organizer of the cordon of. officers seeking to capture the band its, believed heading southward, said Wednesday noon that he had very definite information as to the iden tity of the men. "We just haven't been able to lay our hands on them yet," Helvey said. "Just now we think they are travel ing southward on Kansas highways or in hiding someplace In Kansas. Deputies from the state sheriff's office and former State Sheriff Con di t are here helping organize the search for the robbers. County Sheriff Helvey and Condit raided several supposed hideouts of tli" bandits in Fairburv Tuesdav night. They failed to locate any of the suspects. Another renort thai 'Iie mtn,.w?re hldm at Phlllipsburg, Kas.. failed to materialize. CONFESSION IS ATTACKED Moscow Raphael Abramoviu li, an emigre meshevik connected with the German sociai democratic party denied the "confession" of fourteen nienshiviki on trial here that he de livered instructions to them from the German party. His deposition was telegraphed from Berlin. Abramovich contradicted the testi mony of the men, who are being tried for attempting to overthrow the soviet government, that he had visited Moscow to confer with the leaders of the Moscow social demo crat leaders. After the telegram was read in court several of the defend ants, all of whom have pleaded guilty. took the stand and testified that Ab ramovich wss a "liar." They dared I m to come to Moscow and give testimony. DANCE Every Thursday Night Dowler's Hall Weeping Water GOOD MUSIC GOOD ORDER A GOOD TIME FOR ALL COME Russians Admit Sabotage; Plead Guilty at Trial Indictment Covers Charge of operating With Berlin Mensheviki Co Moscow, March 2. The trial ot 14 persons accused of consorting and cooperating with the Menshevik organization began last night in the auditorium of the Trade Union Hall, which was the scene of the trial of members of the Industrial Party. Following the precedent of the earlier trial, the defendants, after listening to the reading of a volumin ous indictment which required over three hours, pieaded guilty. The charges against them include sabotage in state institutions where they were employed, surrcptiticu a communication with Menshevik emi gres located in Berlin, receipt of al most 500,000 ruble.?, partly from this center, partly from the Industrial Party, and maintenance of connection both with the Industrial Party and with the so-called Toiling Peasant Party headed by Prof. N. D. Kon dratieff. Following the request of the prose cutor, Nikolai Krilenko l'roiessor ; Kondratieff will be summoned as aj witness together witii L. K. Kamzm and V. A. Laiioheft", sentenced to im prisonment following the trial of the Industrial Party. An ironical element of the present trial lies in the fact that ail defend ants belonged to the Social-Democratic movement befo.e the revolution and some may have shared places of exile with the Communist judges, X. M. Shvernik, V". P. Antonoff and M. K. Muranoff. who preside at the trial. They belonged to the moderate Menshevik wing of the Social Demo cratic Party Which alwr.ys disagreed with the Bolsheviki headed by Lenine. The charge against the defendants is that while accepting the Soviet regime and working in state institu tions they maintained secret com munication with emigre Menshevik: and endeavored to utilize their posts to disorganize Communist policies. The background of the trial is more understandable if one considers that the policies of sweeping indus trialization, and rapid collectiviza tion of agriculture on which th" Communist Party embarked in 1'2S excited much opposition, even in Communist ranks. Toe widespread demonstrations which occurred at the trial of the In dustrial Party are absent In the pres ent case and it is possible the sensa tional sabotage charges raised dur ing that trial leave public opinion less susceptible to similar but ra ther less spectacular- charges raised in the present case. However, there is SB obvious and vigorous effort to utilize the trial as means of discrediting the Socialist Second International, and especially the German Social Democrats, who always maintained friendly relation.-, with emigre Minsheviki. WATER SHORTAGE FEARED New York Nine inches of rain are needed in the Catskill country to bring New York City's water sup ply up to normal. Unless it comes firemen won't be turning on fire hydrants to cool off the youngsters of the lower east side this summer and it may be neces sary to turn off the water all over the city for a while every day. In all, about 8.000,000 persons will be affected the population of Greater New York and Westchester county. An energetic campaign by Commis sioner John J. Bietz of the depart ment of water supply, gas -,nd elec tricity, and William W. Brush, the department's chief engineer, has cut down consumption of water in New York City in the last six weeks about 50,000,000 gallons a day. Right now the Catskill system, from which all five boroughs get most of their water, contains less than 20, 000.000.000 gallons of water. Tbe normal supply for this time of the year is 110,000,000,000 gallons. PATCHED OVERALLS CAMPAIGN PICTURE Washington, March 5. The worn, stained and much patched overalls that were twice displayed in the senate to show the plight of the country's depression victims are to be recalled in celluloid on a campaign button. Senator Thomas (D. ) Oklahoma, Thursday had the garment photo graphed. He announced the would be placed on a button picture of gen- erous size to be circulated every- where. SCI0N OF WEALTH HELD ON $145,000 ROBBERY CHAB.GE Chicago, March 5. Edward 'Tod- dy Dillon, 24, scion of a wealthy St. Louis family, was held to the grand jury Thursday in bonds of $145,000 on five charges of robbery. More than 40 victims of holdups have identified Dillon, police said, as the robber who extracted sums rang ing from 90 cents to $15 from them. Cannot Sell 1 Automobiles in Omaha Sundays Supreme Court Upholds the Validity of Ordinance as Proper Exercise of Public Power The supreme court Friday upheld the ordinance of the city of Omab-i which forbids the sale or exclrmgo of automobile.:; in that, city on Sun day as a valid exercise of the po)lcfl power and is not in conflict with nnv right guaranteed bv the constitution The city derived its right to pas-, ihe ordinance from the legislature, end the court says that it is a prop er police regulation for the good gov ernment general welfare, health. safety and security of the city and its Inhabitants. The ordinance con tains no provision exempting from Its operation these who consclen ;iously observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, but the court says that is not vital, referring only to automobile dealers. it baa previously held such legislation not be dlecriminiative class legislation. The court says that if the ques tion were new, it might be more in clined to draw the lines a little more closely, but the court seems to be committed to a liberal construction to ordinances of this nature. So long as the ordinances enacted under leg islative grant are not violative of the powers given, they are not to be overruled or modified, not by the courts, but by repeal at the hands of those representing the city in their legislative council. Not being con trary to either consiitution or the laws, the ordinance will be sustain- i ed. in another action at Omaha hole! the district the ordinance ! court invalid, but no appeal was taken from that decision. Tt was claimed (v intervening Stewart Motor m'torists that the company, the appel- ; lant in ibis case, has signed a pe titiofl asking for the ordinance and that it was not prosecuting in good faith. They said that the ordinance 'attempted to restrict citizens from xc'ianging their old machines for ; new on the only day many of them . could devote to that business. NARROW ROAD MEN ACE THE MOTORIST The model rural roadway will have a paved surface at h'ast eighteen feet wide, wiU he waterproof, and will be usable at all time of the year and tinder all weather5 conditions. The National Confe-rence on Street and Highway Safety is authority for the statement that eighteen feet is the minimum safe width. In many farming seetiems there is a good deal f'f traffic, moviug at fairly high speeds. Under sujh circumstances, norrow roads become a menace to I the life and property of all who m ; them. Going off the pavement of a (country road may mean an overturn ed car, as road shoulders, particular ly in rainy seasons, are often un j trustworthy. Those communities which are j building narrow farm-to-market j roads in order to. "save" money have la mistaken idea' of economy. Full 'width. long-lived roads, of modern jasphaJio materials, can be built 'cheaply and maintenance costs are ! likewise low. Every improved farm road should he designed with a view , accommodating not only the traf- tic of the immediate present, but that of the future. Any other course of procedure causes waste and needless 'expense in the long run. STORY OF FAILURE Knoxville. Tenn. The Holston j Trust company of Knoxville. wont down to failure thru operations witii i the broken Caldwell & Co.. of Nash- viile, the state affairs investigating committee was told by F. Curtis Al len, assistant trust officer of the j trust company. He said Caldwell & Co. and the Holston Trust company were interwoven by a tieup of capital I stocks and bonds purchased thru Caldwell & Co. and without a ready market. He said they made some j profits but it would not compare with the losses. The name of Col. Luke Lea. pub lisher and politician, ran steadily thru the hearing. The questions and answers linked Colonel Lea and J. Basil Ramsey, president of the trust company and its parent bank, the rlofii iirt T-I ole i 1 o ion "NX i ; ; Mine i i i vii'i . 'II I. l 1 . ' ' I I liaiKMlUI ,oir i ; i..t funds. GALE HITS EAST COAST Boston King Neptune marshalled I his allies, the snow and the gale, to smite the east coast, from New York's busy harbor to Maine's rugged fron tier, the hardest blow of the winter campaign. Supported by a wild northeaster and screened by billow ing snow, the sea advanced all along the ocean front to positions it has not occupied for twenty-two years. Water front sections of many com munities were inundated. Much dam age was caused to Hhore property, particularly summer cottages, many of which were tumbled into the sea. Traffic was interrupted by washouts and by the depth of the flood. Count less automobiles were left stalled and blocking highways as the flood roll ed back with the ebb of the tide. DAUGHTER OF AMIEE M'PHERSON MARRIES Los Angeles In far-off Singapore, near the land where she was born nineteen years ago as the daughter of a missionary, Roberta Semple Mc Pherson was married to a ship pur suer, William Bradley Smyth, twenty-three years old. Word of the wed ding came to Angelus temple here from the young wcunan's mother, Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist. SELECT SIOUX CITY FEDERAL BUILDING SITE Washington, March 5. The new federal building at oiotix City, la., will be located on the north half of Block 8, bounded by Sixth, Pearl and Douglas m reels, provided the site cstl bo secured within the amount avail able for its purchase The treasury postofhee coinn.ii tec said Thursday that the owners had asked I8tj,000 for it and Dial the amount was con- idersd lu" ,:- Pipe Lines and Power Lines at Assessors Meet New Problem in Taxation Offeied by the Natural Gns and Gasoline Pipe Lines in State. Assessors of Nebraska in their an nual convention Friday at Lincoln, i voted to have the legislative eommit ' tee of the association take up the matter of uniform valuation of pow er and light properly in the state, j Property of electrical companies i.; now valued by a hit and miss sys tem by each county and it was felt that some basis for valuation should j be fixed as in the Case of telephone ! companies. i The power companies do not list j their valuation with the railway Leomssission SS the elephone compan ies do and on that account it would be ; impossible. State Tax Commissioner Smith said, to get a uniform valu ation basis from the commission it will be necessary to get some legtsla lion. The legislative committee re - ported mat it nan ail ot lis oesireu legislation before the legislature now and no new bills could be introduced at this session. James A. Sheffield, Lancaster coun ty assessor, was elected president for the coming year and the convention voted to meet next year in Omaha. Omaha and Hastings were the only towns that extended invitations and the members selected Omaha. J. W. Yockey of Broken Bok, Custer coun ty, was named vice president anil R. W. Daggett of Falls City was re elected secretary-treasurer. O. C. Bell, who has been for four teen years president of the associa tion, was named honorary president for life and assured the assessors that 'if it is pr.ssihle he will be at their ' meeting next year. The pipe line committee made a ' preliminary report and survey and assessors from counties having pipe iines will meet in a few weeks with the state tax commissioner and, rep resentatives of the pipe line com panies to get at a uniform rate of valuation over the state. E. C. Weller of Ord who was chair man of the round table Thursday j morning declared that the pipe line jand electric line valuations arc im 'portant matters. The elective Jii.es affect about all of the counties in i the state and in a few years that will be true of the pipe lines. Real estate valuation was dis ,' cussed and it was the general opin ion that there should be a classified system for valuing real property. The assessors were not in favor of mak- ing any new valuations at the pres 'ent time. The proposed system would grade the land in first, second and ! third grades according to the value. I It was stated that real estate is bear ing too much of the taxes now and ' there should be some way worked out to reduce the real estate tax bur den by legislation providing other j types of taxation. The automobile valuations used by O. C. Bell and his associates last !year were adopted as a proper scale and it was voted that no car for which a license has been bought should be I valued at less than 916. Assessors adopted a resolution to fix the valuation of tractors, com bines, airplanes, trucks, radios, gas and steam engines, threshers and hullers at 70 per cent of delivery price for the first year, 50 per cent for the second and 30 per cent for the third year. CENSUS TAKEN OF FAMILIES Washington Facts about one of J the oldest institutions the family .will be accorded the distinction of a census monograph this year for the 'first time in history. Census director iSteuart announceel this new phase of national stock taking, explaining the data gathered was proving such an interesting composite picture of Ani 'erican family life as to merit a spec- . . - , i, ial study. One thousand census v-oi k ers are now busy on the gigantic job the j of classifying and tabulating (great American family. "The results will show whether I the American family owns its own home, or whether it lives in a rent ed house." said the census director. It will show fa mi lie-; grouped as to the value of holdings, for instance, the number having home worth 10, 000 or more, and the number living in homes worth less than a. 000. Fam ilies will be classified also according to the rents they are able to pay. And, of course, we will continue our decennial analysis of the number of persons po family." The 1850 family averaged o.b pai sons; the family 5.1 1860 family 5.3; the 180 ; the 1880 family 5.0; the 1890 family 4.9: the iioo remit? 4.7; the 1910 family 4.5; the 1920 family 4.3. WIFE OF FORMER POLICE CHIEF DIES Chicago Mrs. Catherine Hughes, sixty, wife of Capt. Michael J. Hugbes, former chief of police, died Wednesday night. She was stricken while attending church services Sun day. Besides her husband, Mrs. Hughes ia survived by three daugh ters, all of Chicago. A son died two years ago. Journal Want Ads gel results and the cost is very smalL Smith's Group May Combat Gov. Roosevelt Fcmer CanJIdatc Will Oppose Any Who Pussyfoots, Repirt; 01 -m Sure Hold. 01 life Sure Hold. New York, MarCi 6. With the lldential boon of QoVerno Frank lin D. Urjoycvelt now virtur. in tl:e open, friends and supporte. cf f ir mer Governor Alfred E. Smiiu r. u-y wen drawing up their cum:. ign plans to prevent New York state's delegates from being irrevocably pledged to the governor. It was learned on excellent author ity that if Governor Roosevelt pussy foots OH prohibition, former Gover nor Smith will oppose his nomimtion. and this opposition, it is DP will hold true for any oth--DCC tin :ndi(late who may a ! ted. iios- the same course. T'io Smith people are abs ely confident that the former geve; .or, more than any other single indi vidual, will be the one who can "dictate" the democratic party's best presidential nominee. And they add that without Smith's tuppor: any democratic presidential nonv? tee is destined to be defeated at the , lis. In effect, they say: '.There is a great mass of voters who will want to ircte for the candidate whom Smith names as his successor and who will t Smith's being deliberately thwarted. The democratic state committee. , under the leadership of James A.. Far- ley. is a united nouy, one wnicn rar- ,ley. himself, with tne most diligent co-operation of Governor Koosevett, has succeeded in building up. It is unanimously agreed that Gov ernor Roosevelt has control of the state committee. Upon assuming of fice. Roosevelt set about strengthen ing the committee. It was Smith's nolicv while governor to concentrate in the cities and ignore the rural communities. There were even strone republican counties where it was difficult to obtain democrats ;serve on the county committee of that party. Farley went through the state, can Ivassed everyone, pleaded and cajoled, and the fruits of his labors are now seen In a committee which bears his stamp, and which thus far has gone along with Roosevelt, and only the 'other day. before the meeting of the I national lommittee in Washington, stated the obvious by saying that it i was the convention which should ! commit the party as a whole to is isues, and not the national commit tee. orlu-tieraiet. MEXICO ATTEMPTS TO STEADY SILVER PRICE Mexico City; As a measure for Mbsbliislns: the silver neso. which in 'recent months has fallen off greatly in value. President Ortiz Rubia has I signed an order obliging banks es tablished in Mexico to convert their I reserve guarantees on silver deposits jinto silver currency It is estimated 'this wil! cause withdrawal from cir culation of 25.000.000 silver pesos land thus improve the percentage of jsilver money in the public's hands as 'compared with gold. Gold and nego tiable stocks held by the banks as guarantee for silver deposits must be changed into silver pesos, under the I terms of the order. PAN-AMERICAN UNION TO HEAR HOOVER APRIL 14 Washington, March 5. President Hoover will make a short address at the Pan-American Union on April 14 as part of the celebration of Pan- 'American dav 20 uj j and you're "Topcoat'd" in the latest 1931 model. You can buy coats for less and you can pay more but perfect satisfaction. WESCOTT'S Wilson Bros. Buffer Heel and Tor HARMER BOUND OVER D. VV. Livingston is home from Seward w'.icre he represented Frank Harmer, Otoe county farmer, charged with burglary, at his preliminarv hearing, liarmcr was bound over to the district i "urt and sent to jail in default of $"".000 bond. Living-ton said. Harms? was arrested recently and jti ken to Seward, where it is allege I ' w.ih i ri rn 1 ! ft orl Hw n former nnmfl Bl hm, who alleged Harmer droe out of his farm yard latr at night as Blu'im, and his family returned from a trip to the e'tv. niuhm aihged he f.ve ciiase to Harmer, which con 'h.ued for some time, and that the I.T83 supply of H'irmer's car became exhausted and be rtf forced 1o stop. Bluhm 'estlfied Chat Harmer alighted from his car and brandi: bed the car crank and he was unable to get the number of the license tag attached to the car. Because of the fact that he has his family with him ; at the time, Blu'.nn testified, he sought 'he aid of other persons and i returned to where the ear h'-d been leTt, secure! the number, lint made no atte-mr t to arrest Harmer. Fol- lowing the taking ot the numbers cf (the car 8 complaint was filed against ill -mur and he was arrested and re turned to Seward county. Nebraska ; city News- Press. OFFICERS ELECTED BY ELGIN SCHOOL BOARD El.in At the regular meeting of the Elgin board rf education, the following teachers were -IcjtefI: Al da V.'ylie. principal; Rose Cartnicb ael. Walter L. Maimaa, Elizabeth Gage, Grace Irwin. Mabel Carlson. Vashti Rickerscn. Mrs. J. Leifield, R. W. Wilcox. Dorothy Kennedy, Vel ma Aeler. L. M. Simms, Emma Wat scn. Salaries Will remain about the same a: for last year. A. A. Kennedy who has been superintendent for the past seven years l as been retained. NEW MEXICO SENATE FAVORS LIQUOR BILL j Santa Fe, N. M. Without debate Q j the new Mexico senate adopted a fr.v- lOraDie report on tne proposed state lt jquer dispensary bill. The measure, holding that the eighteenth amend ment and state constitution do not j prohibit the manufacture and sale Of liquor by a state, proposes to put , New Mexico into the business of dis i pausing whisky, with the products to be made m a state distillery. Phoi:e year Job Printing order to Nd Q. Prompt service. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION- In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of W. D. Wheeler, deceased. Notice of Administration. AH persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a prtitirn has been filed in SSM Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and testament and praying for ad ministration upon his estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things per taining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be hat! on said petition before said Court on the third day of April. A. D. litli and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said third day of April. 1031, at ten o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to W. A. Wheeler or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement t.iereof. A. II. nCXBURY. (Seal) m9-3w County Judge. these will grive you Sox. Per pair