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MONDAY, DEC. 7, 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THSEQ T JL TThe IPIattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAH IN FIBST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living: in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $7.60 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly In advance. The chief difficulty In levying a luxury tax will be to define luxuries. :o: Billy Sunday says that more peo ple believe in hell now than five years ago. No wonder! :o: - The dollar now buys fifteen cents more than it did two years ago that is, it could if it would. :o: Officials are investigating "unex plained wealth" of the Tammany tom-cat. Maybe they suspect pussy footing. :o: Some say it was bound to happen to the Fighting Irish, trying to get along with only one Irishman at right end. :o: . Rupert Hughes, novelist, starts off his latest serial by saying that "Love is a wonderful thing and highly de sirable in marriage." He then pro ceeds to discredit the assertion. Gosh, but Rupert is a bright boy! Ac Go BACH Quality Groceries Telephones, 18-19 So. Park Store, 110 QOeOGCOQOO'j tl. B. CoSSoc 1-lb. Can, Vacuum Pack x 2Cs Butter Nut or Advo Coffee, lb 37c J. M. Coffee, 3 lbs. 95c boooooooec-occooscscoN Jenny Wren Ready-Mix Flour, 4-lb. . . . ZOt 2-lb. box Iten Crackers 25c Dates, 2 lbs 250 Figs, per pkg. . . lOt Christmas Candy, per lb 12 We Carry a Full Line of Fresh Nuts COMBINATION SPECIAL Lg. box Sea Foam Washing Powder . 10 bars Crystal White Soap 3 bars Palmolive Soap 3 bars Camay Toilet Soap 230 36-inch Outing Flannel, per yard 160 36-inch Prints, Peter Pan fabrics, yd. . . . 130 Ladies' Silk Hose, per pair 790 Children's Black Sateen Bloomers, pair . 390 Ladies' Handkerchiefs, 3 in fancy box . . 230 Blankets, ranging in price . . . $1.75 to $3.15 We also Carry Turkish Towel Sets and Stationery in Fancy Boxes I PURE LARD 3 Pounds for FLOUR Every Sack Guaranteed Gcoch's Pest, 40-lb. bap $109 Omar Vondcr Flour, 48-lb 1.09 Halo Flour, 40-lb. sadi I09 48-lb. sacls A. C. B. Flour 1.05 40-lb. sacli Little Hatchet Flour . . 1.09 Gooch's Jubilee Laying Mash 100 lbs. for. .01.65 We may credit depression with at least one achievement. Nearly all the stores and offices have fired their half-wits. The price of cotton moves up a few points occasionally. Unfortun ately, mighty little cotton is in the hands of the men who produced it. :o:- President Hoover reports that he has saved about $70,000 on oper ation of the White House during the past nine months. Every little bit helps. :o: The trend of the stock market during the past week indicates that European securities are not worth much more than a beer check on a. busted saloon. -:o:- Another good feature of depres sion: You can now carry your own bags to and from the railway sta tion and the police won't suspect you cf being a bootlegger. u o i 8 8 Asserted 5 Cans for 45c I I 8 S 2 pkgs. None 35c leep g 8 Such" Mince Meat and one large deep i Pie Tin Free SbecccsGOOOoeoesaocccc ALL FOR 7SC ADVO JELL Per Package Sc i SOMETHING TO SHOOT AT When Representative Lewis ot Maryland, and Senator Costigan, of Colorado, join in a statement of opin iCn on American tariff policy they invest it with an expert authority which can scarcely be duplicated to day. Both men have behind them distinguished records as members of the United States tariff commission, where the making of distinguished records has been about as dare as the lowering of tariff duties, and they both continue to follow the tariff as a major subject of scientific, as op posed to partisan, study. Thus when they say that one of the most effective measures of econ omic relief that could be taken at this time would be repeal of the Smoot-Hawley bill their opinion is entitled to the most careful consid eration by those seriously interested in economic rehabilitation. And the same thing goes for their other sug gestions, including that of an inter national economic conference to con sider farm relations which Tiave be come progressively more destructive of trade during recent years, largely under the disastrously misguided tar iff "leadership" of the United States. Since the United States by its suc cessive elevations of the tariff wall to prohibitive heights has inspired many other countries to do likewise, some students of the tariff fear that any general lowering of the Amer ican wall without concurrent for eign tariff concessions would leave the country in an armed camp, but dangerously stripped of some of its armor. Hence they favor downward revision by international agreements of some kind. To them Senator Cos tigan and Representative Lewis wculd reply that with the Pordney McCumber bill still left intact re moval of the Smoot-Hawley bill would still leave the United States armed to the teeth tariffwise, but showing a disposition to turn to ward peace in international trade. Regardless of the exact steps final ly to be agreed upon as most appro priate to the crying need of a lower ed American tariff wall, those pro posed by Representative Lewis and Senator Costigan are very useful in focusing on a specific course of ac tion. If the nation has any true sense of the nature of its economic woes, they are certain to receive both prompt and serious attention. Bal timore Sun. -:o:- A Wisconsin fisherman reports the finding of a ten-dollar bill in the Ftonsach of a three-pound speckled trout. Another instance of this hell ish hoarding. -:o:- Not even a jazz progam by the world's finest orchestra can make father forget the fact that the col lector will be around Monday morn ing to collect the weekly installment on the radio. -:o: It is high time for those New York bankers to wake up to a realization of the fact that the Mississippi and Ohio rivers do not constitute the cufcrmost western and southern boundaries of the universe. -:o:- As George Cohan once remarked: "Life is a funny proposition, after all. Each cf us is striving to take a dollar away from the man ahead of us. and the man behind is trying to take two dollars from us." :o:- The pastry manufacturers and bakeries inform us that this is Doughnut Month in the United States. Send a doughnut home to your dear old mother and she will wonder what it is all about. Sir Hubert Wilkins finally an nounces he has abandoned the pro posed submarine trip to the North Pole. Never mind. It looks like a hard winter is coming and Sir Hu bert won't miss the North Pole a bit. :o: Richard Denny, citizen of Indians, age 95. has obtained a license to marry his eighth bride, who has reached the age of 80. We are just wondering oh, well, what's the use of wondering about things like that? :o: There's a man in England whose nerves are so sensitive that they re act to earthquakes thousands of miles away. In the interest of science we'd like to see what would happen if he took them for a ride in an old model T. :o: The clothing interests have okeh ed the proposal of the League of Na tions to put Easter on a fixed date. That leaves nothing further except to get the churches, the people and perhaps the hens and the rabbits to come In on it. :o: Whether you like It or not, you must accept work on the best terms you can get, regardless of what you may think your services are worth. It sounds like harsh doctrine, and it is, but facts are facts and we get nowhere by refusing to face them. GENIUS OF THE DYING Muscular energy is largely a mat ter of health. Mental energy often reaches its topmost heights when the individual is afflicted wtih ill health. O. Henry, world's greatest short story writer since Edgar Allan Poe, was writing with feverish energy five minutes before the Death Angel entered his bedroom. Robert Louis Stephenson, prince of romantic adventure in the realm of fiction, wrote his best stories when slowly dying with tuberculosis. Henry Francis Lyte, humble mis sioner of the Church of England, who consecrated his life to the cause of Christianity in the slums of White chapel and Limehouse, was also a tuberculosis victim. He died, alone and unattended, in a poor cottage on the British seaside. A pencil was found clasped in his cold, dead fin gers, and on the floor was the manu script of that immortal hymn, "Abide With Me." Cardinal Newman was slowly dy ing on a pallet on the deck of "a ves sel becalmed in the Mediteranean sea when he slowly and painfully penned "Lead Kindly Light," a fun eral requiem that has softened sor row and consoled multiplied millions of mourners. Mark Twain, who left to American literature a precious heritage, died with a cigar in his mouth and an unfinished manuscript on the bed side. Edgar Allan Poe, denounced, de rided, more sinned against than sin ning, cursed by habits he could not overcome, misunderstood by his day and generation, wrote immortal poems after doctors had told him he could net live more than six months. Lafcadio Hearn, spurned and un appreciated in his home land, afflict ed with diseases from which there was no possible hope of recovery, wandered wearily to Japan and in that alien land, with scarcely suffi cient strength to push a pencil, pro duced his masterpieces. Thus the story goep. Instances innumerable could be cited. There is no affinity between mus cular energy and mental activity. Nothing is great in mankind save mind, and it often flashes its most brilliant thoughts before the dying flicker. The Grim Reaper has spoiled many a masterpiece. :o: INVOLVED WITH REST OF WORLD Congressman McFadden, speaking at Waterloo, climaxed his criticisms of our increasing financial stake in old world affairs with a declaration against American adherence to the world court or membership in the league on the general ground that we already have too many connections with the rest of the world and that every additional connection increases our jeopardy. But it is one thing to wish we had never got ourselves economically in volved with the rest of the world, and another thing to propose that we end the involvement. We are going to do no such thing. Regardless of the wisdom of any par ticular lending or investment and obviously some can be criticised, just as many domestic commitments can be we are not going to pull out of the world economically. Having the wealth and energy and industrial technique, we are going to get our selves more involved with every de cade that passes. It is no accident and it is not in significant that in this very period of curtailed foreign trade our federal department of commerce has reported "a new high record in foreign trade promotion" which has enabled Am erican exporters to show "dollars and cents results directly traceable to the bureau's aid amounting to 58 million dollars in the fiscal year 1931, an increase of 13 per cent over the cor responding figure of 1930." It is not insignificant that the de partment is able to show, in the breakdown of this volume, that every part of our country shared in the newly promoted business Alabama lumber to Brazil, California dried fruits to China, Connecticut hard ware to Chile, Minnesota stoves to Czechoslovakia, Ohio stump-pullers to Rumania, Illinois radios to Egypt, Massachusetts shoes to Turkey, New York wall board to Australia. It is fruitless to point out that we could recoil into economic isolation, abandon the push for expansion, and base our living standards and our hopes of profit on the business inter change that is possible within our own borders alone. We simply shan't do it. And whether it be a Congressman McFadden or some far more eminent economist who pro poses it makes no difference at all. Trade and finance both are going to be for us, as for other industrial peoples, party international. The in ternational part will increase, not decrease. That will carry with it the necessity of meeting and construe- 'inb uyinq... you save in Y7(7 BAICI NG lAvy POWDER FOR. OVER j7 0 YEARS 25 ounces for 25C I 'I .1 J.lll.l IWI-'TTT tively dealing with all the problems that Congressman McFadden would like to have us avoid. We shall even have to help the rest of the world wrestle with the problem of the in ternational standard of gold ex change, which, whether we like to admit it or not, has not been func tioning satisfactorily. And as to such instrumentalities of peace as the court and the league, to say that we should stay out of the court and refuse to collaborate with the league is to assert thatw hether the world be organized for peace or left to the anarchic destruction of war is of no interest, humanitarian or economic, to the nation with the greatest economic stake of all and as much humanitarian stake as is represented by a population that will shortly be 150 millions. Des Moines Register. :o: SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDREN Several high officials of foreign governments have visited this coun try recently in the interests of a bet ter understanding among the nations, but we suspect that none of them has produced more convincing evi dence that human nature is inter national than Dino Grandi, the Ital ian foreign minister. For Signor Grandi and his wife are returning to Italy with many gifts for their children, and how many American parents are expected to' "bring me something" from a trip. But most impressive of all, Signor Grandi un packed Franco's toy electric train and ran it for an hour on shipboard. Similar tryouts will occur in many an American home before Christmas. LET WARRIORS WAR Dr. William Mather Lewis, presi dent of Lafayette College, proposed the other day that if we ever have another war the draft should apply only to men between 40 and 60 years cf age, and that members of cabi nets, parliaments, and congresses who brought about the war should be the first to be called; and what ever objections there might be from a military standpoint, this at least ex presses a thought that a lot of people have been nourishing recently. lis Dr. Lewis points out, the men who make war never fight in it. That job is reserved for the young sters. The older ones sit safely .at home and talk about "fighting the war to the last man." Whatever else you can say about it, his plan would at least make the distribution of bur de.is a little more equitable. 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 Floyd M. Saxon, deceased. On reading the petition of Ruben B. Saxon praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 27th day of November. A. D. 1931, and pur porting to be the last will and testa ment of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed and recorded as the last will and testament of Floyd M. Saxon deceased; that said instru ment be admitted to probate and the administration of satd estate be granted to Ruben B. Saxon as execu tor; It Is hereby ordered that you, and all persons interested In said mat ter, may, and do. appear at the Coun ty Court to be held in and for said county, on the 26th day of Decem ber, A. D. 1931, at two o'clock p. 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 that the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said mat ter by publishing a copy of this or der 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 27th day of Novem ber. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) n30-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SUIT TO Joseph P. Murphy, Margaret Mur phy, his wife; Bradford J. Murphy, Margaret Murphy, his wife; Cath erine Wonder. Charles J. Wonder and Ershal Murphy: You and each of you are hereby notified that Humphrey F. Murphy filed his petition in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, against you and others for partition of the SHU and N of the NEU of Sec tion 20, Township 11, Range 12, in Cass County, Nebraska; you are here by required to answer said petition on or before the 4th day of January, 1932, or the allegations in said peti tion will be taken as true and parti tion made accordingly. HUMPHREY F. MURPHY. Plaintiff. D. O. DWYER, W. L. DWYER, Attorneys. nl6-4w NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska. F. W. Klusmire, Plaintiff. vs. Claus Speck, et al.. Defendants, NOTICE To the defendants: Claus Speck, Bess Speck, Edwin L. Scott, Freda Scott; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estates of Edwin L. Scott, and Freda Scott, each deceased, real names unknown; and all persons having or claiming any interest in and to Lot twenty-two (22), in Section twenty-eight (28). and Lot twenty-nine (29), in Sec tion thirty-three (33), all in Town ship twelve (12), north range four teen (14), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass County, Nebraska, being an Island in the Missouri River, and commonly referred to as Speck's Is land, now known as Klusmire's Is land, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that F. W. Klusmire as plain tiff, filed a petition and commenced an action in the District Court of the County of Cass, Nebraska, on the 26th day of October, 1931, against you and each of you, the object, pur pose and prayer of which is to ob tain a decree of the court quieting the title to Lot twenty-two (22), in Section twenty-eight (28), and Lot twenty-nine (29). in Section thirty three (33), all in Township twelve (12), north range fourteen (14), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass County, Ne braska, being an Island in the Mis souri River, and commonly referred to as Speck's Island, now known as Klusmire's Island, in plaintiff as against you and each of you, and for such other relief as may be just and equitable in the premises. You and each of you are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 28th day of December, 1931, or the allegations therein con tained will be taken as true and a decree will be rendered in favor of the plaintiff. F. W. Klusmire. as against you and each of you accord ing to the prayer of said petition. F. W. KLUSMIRE. Plaintiff. . W. A. ROBERTSON. Attorney for Plaintiff. nl6-4w NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska. Henry Trout, Plaintiff. vs. James Oneal, et al.. Defendant. NOTICE To the defendants: James Oneal, Mrs. James Oneal, first real name un known; James O'Neal, Mrs. James O'Neal, real name unknown; Matilda A. Con well, widow; Bell Con well, W. H. Conwell. also known as Wil liam H. Conwell, Mary E. Jones and husband, A. J. Jones; George Con well and wife, Obigaill Conwell, also known as Gilly Conwell, B. J. Con well, real name unknown and wife, Mattie Conwell, the heirs, devisees. legatees personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estates of James Oneal, Mrs. James Oneal, real name unknown; James O'Neal, Mrs. James O'Neal, real name unknown; Matilda A. Conwell, wid ow; Bell Conwell, W. H. Conwell. also known at William H. Conwell. Mary E. Jones and husband, A. J. Jones; George Conwell, and wife, Obigaill Conwell, also known as Gilly Conwell; B. J. Conwell, first real name unknown, and wife, Mattie Conwell, and G. E. Conwell, real name unknown, each deceased, real names unknown, and all persons hav ing or claiming any interest in and to Lots 5 and 6 in Block 44, in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, real names unknown. You and each of you are hereby notified that Henry Trout as plain tiff, filed a petition and commenced an action in the District Court of the County of Cass, Nebraska, on the 26th day of October, 1931, against you and each of you, the object, pur pose and prayer of which is to obtain a decree of the court quieting the title to Lots 5 and 6 in Block 44, in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass Coun ty, Nebraska, in the plaintiff as against you and each of you, and for such other relief as may be Just and equitable in the premises. You and each of you are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 28th day of December, 1931, or the allegations therein con tained will be taken as true and a decree will be rendered in favor of the plaintiff, Henry Trout, as against you and each of you acocrding to the prayer of said petition. HENRY TROUT. Plaintiff. W. A. ROBERTSON, His Attorney. nl6-4w Have yon anything to ellt TaD the world about it through the Jon nal'i Want Ad department. NOTICE of Hearing on Guardian's Report and Petition In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Guardianship; of Joseph Mauck, Incompetent. To all persons interested in said matter: Notice is hereby given that Paul F. Wolph, guardian of said Joseph: Mauck, has filed herein his report of his said guardianship and hit peti tion for an order approving said re port and previous reports filed here in July 22. 1930. and July 21. 1931, and for the order of this court di recting investment of the funds in the guardian's hands and the man ner and amount of moneys to be ex pended by the guardian for the maintenance of said ward. Said matter Is assigned for hear ing in this court on December 18th, 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m., at which time any person interested therein, may appear and be heard in refer ence thereto. By the court. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) n23-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATg OF WILLi In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate cf Florence Rosela Patterson, deceased: On reading the petition of Lillian Maude Schoeman praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 20th day of November, 1931. and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed, and recorded as the last will and testament of Florence Rosela Patterson, deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate, and the administration of said estate be granted to William Patterson as executor; 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 18th day of December, A. D. 1931, at ten 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 pend ency of said petition and that the hearing thereof should not be grant ed, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereot be given to all persons Inter ested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a aeml-weekly newspaper printed In Bald county, for three successive weeks prior to faid day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of said court, this 21st day of November, A. D. 1931. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) n23-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SALE ' By Special Master Under Decree Daniel H. McClenahan, Special Master. 626 Little Bldg.. .Lincoln, Nebraska. Public notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of bale issued out of the District Court of the United States, District of Nebraska, Lincoln Division, and in pursuance to a de cree of said court rendered and filed on the 12th day of September, 1931, in an action therein pending, to-wlt: No. 296 Equity, wherein O. W. John son, is Plaintiff, and Carl S. Foster, Receiver of First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Is defendant, whereby tax liens on the property herein after described was foreclosed, and the undersigned wa appointed Special Master of this court to sell said property and execute said decree, and by virtue of the authority in me vested, I, Daniel H. McClenahan. as such Special Master, will on the 16th day of December. 1931. at eleven o'clock In the forenoon central time, at the entrance to the Court House in Plattsmouth, the county Beat of Cass County, Nebraska, at the usual place where Sheriff's Sales are made, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the property on which said tax liens are foreclosed, and known and described as follows, to-wlt: (1) That part of Sub-lot 1 of Lot 46. an Outlot to Plattsmouth, in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SEVi of SE4) lying within a distance of 140 feet from the West line of Chicago Ave nue, and all that part of said lot, lying a distance of more than 140 feet West of the West line cf Chi cago Avenue; (2) Lot 28, an Outlot to Plattsmouth, in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE'4 of SE ); (3) Lot 33, an Out lot to Plattsmouth, in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SWi of SE4); (4) Lot 60, an Outlot of Plattsmouth, in the South west Quarter of the Southeast Quar ter (SV4 of SE'4 ) ; all of the above described property in Section Thir teen (13) Township Twelve (12) Range Thirteen (13) East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska; to satisfy first, the sum of $56.90, costs shown on order of sale, and the ac cruing costs; second, the amounts de creed to be due plaintiff with inter est as set forth In said decree, and the Order of Sale, on the first, sec ond, third and fourth cause of action, and the-surplus if any, to be paid to defendant. Said parcels of land to be sold separately to satisfy the costs, liens and fees against the same. All as provided by said decree and order of sale. Dated November 10. 1931. DANIEL H. MCCLENAHAN, Special Matter of the Unit ed States District Court, District of Nebraska. nl6-5w We note that the dove of peace is hovering over the orient once again. and we trust that it will profit by its long experience as a hunted bird and fly as high as possible. The orient is thick these days with eager young men armed with shooting Irons and not nearly so many things to shoot at as they would like.