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The chief objection to an open
countenance is the noise it makes
while it's open.
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The striped pusy used to be the
most contemptible of all animals un
til the hit-skip driver came along.
Trouble is much like a hill on the
highway. It looks much worse from
an elevation than it does frcm the
bottom.
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The man who isn't entitled to a bit
of sympathy, is the one who can't
remember the courses be took in the
School of Experience.
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Pity the poor politician. He can't
stay in the middle of the road and
keep an ear to the ground these days
without getting run over.
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A thief broke into a store in In
dianapolis and stole eight corsets.
Evidently planning to combat the
slump on an extensive scale.
The city of Milwaukee has more
than 2 million in the bank and no
bills to pay. Beer or no beer, the
city is determined to be famous.
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At least every business is adver
tised sooner or later. If the owner
does not choose to do so the sheriff
will eventually get around to it.
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That chauffeur who is credited
with inventing a new and more pow
erful microscope must have got his
inspiration looking for a parking
place.
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Tax experts are perplexed whether
candy is a food, a necessity or a lux
ury. Father probably thinks its a
luxury and Mother a necessity. Lit
tle Willie would like to have it con
sidered a food.
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A sign in a Boston savings bank
says "Common Cents Build Substan
tial Savings." It might be added that
some of those substantial savings
spent now with common sense would
help to build progressive prosperity.
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When a man reaches the age
where the candles on his birthday
cake raise the temperature of the
dining room to that of the kitchen,
it is time he began pleading with
his relatives to forget his future
birthdays.
-rot-
Dispatches from Washington say,
"Dolly and Alice kiss. Fued is end
ed." When two women kiss that
doesn't mean the signing of a peace
pact. Most likely it is a subtle indi
cation that hostilities are about to
start again.
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"Get out of Europe and stay out.
says Senator Borah. The sentiment
is almost but not quite original with
the senator from Idaho. There was a
faction in the Greek army at the
siege of Troy that wanted to quit
and go home.
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"Pep" Doolittle made known to he
boys down at the grocery store the
other night that the Christmas pres
ents he gave his wife were not all
ornamental but that they were very
useful a washboard, tub and a car
ten of clothespins.
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At la?t a real use has been found
for spinach. A young woman decor
ating her home for a holiday party,
f und she was shy the usual mistle-
e. She used spinach instead, and,
us far as has been learned, the sub
stitute answered very well.
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A popular young man who lives
in a neighboring town was bringing
K.s lady friend to a movie when sud
denly his car stalled near the foot
of a large hill. "Several carloads of
Try friends drove past us." he said,
"but they wouldn't stop. I guess they
must have thought we were parked."
Finally he had to wain to a farm
house and telephone a garage man.
They missed the show.
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"Well, I go my wrist watch fixed
for 50 cents," said a small boy the
other day on his return home. And
to prove it, he reached in his trous
ers pocket and produced the watch;
then he reached again and produced
the crystal; and on a third and much
longer trip, he finally produced the
hands, which adjusted along the crys
tal. And sure enough, the watch has
been running satisfactorily ever
since.
SALARY LOOTING OF
FARM RELIEF FUNDS
Ciassus looting the temple in
Jerusalem, spoils of Warren Hastings
in India, plunder by Pizarro in Peru
can any case in history be too ex
treme for citation now in illustration
of the extent in which the American
people were mulcted through the op
erations of the federal farm board?
Yet it was all strictly legal; all
within the theory of princely reward
to princely ability; all from the no
tion during our jazz prosperity that
super-human things can be done by
men paid superaberrant salaries; all
soberly within that magnificent
scheme of putting the profits of agri
culture on a par with the profits of
manufacturing by wizardry in using
the taxpayers' supposedly bottomless
purse.
In this light inevitably do the reve
lations of the inner farm board story
now appear. Through two years of
hard times and. yes, unto the pres
ent moment, the manager-in-chief of
cotton stabilization. 75 thousand dol
lars a year! Chief grain stabilizer,
30 thousand dollars a year! Assist
ants. 32 thousand. 30 thousand, 25
thousand! In cotton operations. 95
men setting 70 thousand dollars a
month an average of $735 each.
Reckon in addition a minimum
loss in the cotton specclations of 75
million dollars and, in wheat, 100
million dollars! Add losses perhaps
as large in bad loans!
Some objectives of the farm board,
particularly assisting farm products
to market through another source of
credit, were good. No doubt a case
can be made out that in that way
the board helped farmers. Neverthe
less, saving anything from such an
exhibition of treasure troye, grant
ing, under secret accounting, inor
dinate pay to scores of men, scarcely
can be possible.
We desire to be additionally clear
in that we see it as corruption re
sulting from false theory, a product
of extravagance gone mad. and not
as stealing in the ordinary sense. But
the results in public money gone are
the same and the comparisons with
ancient examples of pillage stand.
Those cases, too, were within the law
of their times or were outside the
reach cf any human law. Another
thing to get at, besides and action
that probably must wipe out the
farm board, is revision of delirious
conceptions cf the value of personal
services.
And a large new behest is laid up
on our whole people to consider the
fact that fools dominating legislation
wreak more of havoc than the
knaves, whether the letter be in or
out cf congress. Detroit News.
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IT S NOT THE LAND, BUT
THE MAN
There's a satisfying quality in the
designation as the American star
Tarmer of 1931, which is a feature
cf the Kansas City livestock show,
of a youth in the Ozark region of
Arkansas, his is the region where
the drouth struck heaviest last year.
It is the region where aid cf the
Red Cross and the government was
required more widely. In one short
year the region was able to send to
the big show at Kansas City a rep
resentative farmer whose record for
making the farm pay was adju.lged
the best in the country.
The Arkansas farmer, Glenn Far
row, whose farm is near Danvill ?, so
managed his business that it pa'.d a
profit despite low prices and a ;oor
season. He supported not only his
own family, consisting of his wife
and child, but also contributed to the
support of his mother, sisters a id a
brother.
Needless to say, the Farrow farm
is a "live-at-home" farm. It has
cows, sows and hens, as well as nelds
of this or the other crop. The man
who runs it works hard the year
round, not Just a few weeks at plant
ing time, in the cultivating season,
and at harvest. But at the end of
the year .despite adverse market con
ditions and poor crop weather, he has
something to show for his labors' be
sides debts.
The human element figures largely
in the question whether farming
shall be profitable or unprofitable.
The land and the weather art there
for all alike; the difference is in the
man. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
RADIOCASTING IN BRITAIN
Once again the British Broadcast
ing Corporation, in issuing the an
nual review of its activities, an
nounces a vast extension of its aud
ience. The owners of receiving sets
in Great Britain and Northern Ire
land who have paid the licensing
fees required by law number now
about 4.000,000, and it is calculated
that a maximum audience amounts to
at least 13,000,000 listeners. On
special occasions, then, such as that
on which the Prime Minister made
his famous appeal to the nation,
when messages are relayed to all sta
tions throughout the country, it is
possible that nearly one-third of the
whole population may be listening
to the words spoken by one man.
The sole power of using the ether
over Great Britain for the transmis
sion of sounds to this vast audience
is vested in a small semiofficial body
aided by advisory committees. Its re
sources for the instruction and enter
tainment cf the public are large; its
income derived from its share of the
licensing fees amounted last year to
1.224,000. It is entirely free from
advertising interests. Political pres
sure is not brought to bear on it.
It has no other duty and no other
interest than to provide programs
day by day which will meet with the
approval of the listening public. It
endeavors by alternative programs
transmitted on different wavelengths
to provide for a wide range of tastes,
but it has no temptation to pander to
the tastes of the vulgar.
It sends out national and local
news, opera and lighter music, lec
tures, recitations, literary and dra
matic criticism, and statements by
well-known public men. To provide
these programs week by week is to
take a responsible part in molding
the tastes and directing the judg
ment of the British nation.
Naturally, there is much criticism
of its policy. How could there not
be? Is it fair, it is asked, to intrust
so often to the same men the task of
criticizing plays cr books? Are the
mentors of the public on matters eco
nomic wisely chosen? An example
of the formidable influence which a
single broadcaster may exercise is
given in the New Year Book. When.
J. M. Keynes had pointed out from
the B. B. C. studio the possible dan
gers of economy, the sale of National
Savings Certificates fell from 250,
000 to 170,000 a day. Hurriedly Sir
Josiah Stamp was introduced to show
the importance of buying these cer
tificates, and the sales within three
days leaped up to 450,000, and on
the fourth day to 500,000.
Such examples indicate the respon
sibility which rests on every broad
caster, and on the Broadcasting Cor
poration all the time. A lifetime of
solemn initiation would not be too
much to prepare members of the staff
for the exercise of influence on such
a scale.
The British people are quite prop
erly critical. But they have every
reason to be thankful that they have
escaped the commercial exploiter. If
anyone compares the activities of the
B. B. C. with those, say, of the cin
emas, or the music halls, or some of
the popular newspapers, he will ob
serve from how much possible infer
iority the radio has been save in
Britain. It offers an abundance of
light entertainment, but it always is
wholesome, often informative, and
sometimes stimulative of thought.
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DROPPING NEARLY THREE MILES
The hazards of the air still im
press most of us to the degree of re
straint. Yet the resources of fliers
iu the handling of impaired planes
and in storms and air pockets also
are impressive. Long before we had
airplanes we had balloons, and pro
fessional parachute jumpers thrilled
us when they took off a few hundred
feet from the ground. Perhaps be
cause this stunt had become a com
monplace in the course of time, we
are apt to be moved too little by the
remarkable feats of those who des
cend from great heights by means of
the "umbrella."
It is not so remarkable that James
Johnson, air mail pilot, should have
resorted to the parachute when his
plane became unmanageable at a
height of 14.000 feet, for he faced
an alternative of certain death in a
crash. But it is remarkable that he
took off successfully and landed with
out injury from the bewildering ele
vation of nearly three miles. As if
only a part of the day's work, he
looked after the 1,400 pounds of
Christmas mail in the plane wreck,
guarding it until assistance came. He
was much better off, no doubt, than
if he had been driving a mail truck
and had gone into a ditch. Yet the
wonder is that adventurers have the
coiirage to encounter dangers far
above the earth, with only a para
chute to save them if a crash is im
minent. -tor-
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A BAD RELIEF PROGRAM
One of the committees of the Hoo
ker relief organization headed by
Walter S. Gifford has analysed and
thoroughly punctured a proposal
much favored in medical circles, in
and out of congress, fo rthe creation
of employment and the restoration of
prosperity. The proposal is that the
federal government issue bonds in
the sum of five billion dollars, and
with the proceeds undertake a huge
program of public works highways,
river and harbor improvements, post
office construction and so on. If the
federal government could not use the
huge amount productively, champions
of the plan assert, considerable sums
could be advanced to state and mu
nicipal governments to carry out pro
grams of construction and relief.
To many the proposal has seemed
entirely feasible, but its fallacious
character is exposed by the commit
tee of the national relief organization
in a few trenchant paragraphs.
In the first place, the proposed
bond issue would depress the market
value of the government's outstand
ing obligations, and cause severe
losses to investors and financial in
stitutions. It might lead to w-as-trous
bank failures. The net effect
would be harmful, not beneficial, and
much of the capital would be wasted.
In the second place, the proceeds
of the bonds could not possibly be
used to meet the problem of current
unemployment. Legalism and bu
reaucratic red tape would postpone
the intended relief indefinitely. Hun
dreds of millions appropriated for a
building program in 1926 still lie
idle because of administrative and
legislative restrictions. And this des
pite the prolonged depression and the
repeated appeals to congress for
speed and efficiency in executing ap
proved programs.
Paper billions do not create em
ployment. Not even a grave eco
nomic crisis cuts through the end
less volume of bureaucracy's red tape.
Private enterprise, revivified by
growing demand, must be relied up
on to create employment at a rate im
possible to governmental agencies.
Chicago News.
THE LAST EMPIRE. PASSING
King George has signed the
statute, already passed by both houses
of parliament, conferring practical
independence on the former British
dominions. His purely perfunctory
act breaks officially the links of em
pire in a vast domain that at one
time covered nearly onefourth of the
land surface of the globe. Canada,
South Africa, the Irish Free State,
Australia and New Zealand are now
as free from legislative enactments
at Westminster as were the American
colonists after the victory at York
town. India still remains for the pres
ent in statu quo, but economic pres
sure promises before long to liberal
ize the rule in that turbulent land.
Of the once famous red line that car
ried the Union Jack around the
world, only a few scattered outposts
are left British Guiana. Britis"h
Honduras, the Falkland Isles. Jam-
acia, Trinidad, Barbadoes, the Ber
.uaa? still colonies held in the West
ern Hemisphere, some trading ports
and coaliug stations like Hong-kong
and Singapore in Asiatic waters and
one or two Mediterranean islands.
Allegiance to the British crown
yet remains, through which the Tory
diehards in England are granted the
satisfaction of still being able to talk
about the British empire. But to the
mass of the English people and to
the world at large this has now been
merged in the finer title of the Brit
ish Commonwealth of Nations. Nor
is England itself likely to lose any
thing but the tinsel of a glamorous
past by wisely taking the inevitable
step. Interdependence by peaceful
agreement is a better procedure for
ending imperial sway than independ
ence by rebellion and bloodshed.
Sentiment between the dominions
and the mother country is a power
to be reckoned with as the kaiser
found to his cost in 1914. And that
sentiment will not be weakened by
England's concession to the growing
strength of her overseas dominions.
King George has done more than of
ficialy sig a status-of-equality bill for
a new British commonwealth. He
has also signed the death warrant
for military imperialism. Never
again will world opinion permit a
Caesar or a Napoleon or an Alexan
der or a Cortez to "wade through
slaughter to a throne and shut the
gates of mercy on mankind."
The last of the empires has signed
up for democracy. From the Los
Angeles Times .
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In recent years speakers of the
house have been "Jack." "Nick
"Joe," "Tom," etc. It Is a bet that
no one ever called Henry Clay
"Hank" or "Hen."
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PROMINENCE THE PREY
OF SCANDALMONGERS
There is a sort of person who
likes to think evil of his betters.
Thinking of others as immoral, or
weak seems to excuse our own im
morality, corruption and weakness.
Our slandering tongues are what
psychologists call a defense mechan
ism. By making others evil, we make
ourselves, by contrast, good. With
:ur serpent speech we murder the
innocent in self-defense.
This weakness of human nature
is so widespread that it is some
times invoked deliberately, for prac
tical ends. Its use in politics con
stitutes one of the basest aspects of
the never too sweet and savory game.
Grover Cleveland, as Jstaunch- and
honest a public servant as this coun
try has ever had, was, to the whis
pering world, a wfie-beater and a
drunken beast. Theodore Roosevelt,
till at last he seized his chance and
won vindication in a court, passed
in the scandalmongering world a
drunken sot. When Woodrow Wil
son, with his noble plans for a Just
and peaceful world, reached a poli
tical eminence from which, by fair
means, it t-eemed he could not be
dislodged, the hissing tongues were
set at work dragging him down. For
public purposes they blackened the
private life of as pure a man as ever
lived .
These are only some conspicuous
instances of the havoc sought by
mustering this lowest quality of hu
man life and character to strike its
superior with an envious tongue. In
its universal spread, this weakness
of poor human flesh has its play in
every city and town. It has evoked,
in its widespread play, the bitter
comment of all times upon the tongue
which no man can tame. The pil
grim fathers ducked their scandal
mongering scolds. Religion pleads
with them. Justice calls to them.
Yet so prevalent still is this low wish
to think ill of our fellows that the
slime of the stabbing tongue spreads
through every street. To feed this
degenerate appetite we have in al
most every community the "scandal
sheet," carrying to perverted minds
the maundering3 of vilely menda
cious tongues.
Against the aspersions of irre
sponsible and unscrupulous tongues
and pens the persons vilified have
small defense. Assert a legal right,
the character assassin becomes a
martyr. It took years of watching
to secure the fair chance which
Roosevelt finally won to clear his
name. Cleveland, Wilson, the many
other conspicuous sufferers from a
loathsome tongue went unresisting
to their graves. There was nothing
they could do. They could only trust
to the better nature of heir country
men. It is with these facts, this hu
man weakness, in mind, that we come
to the several books, now becoming
a subject of gossip, in the defam
ation of President Hoover. They do
not concern the president's American
career. Nothing they can say can
help America and its government
through the present troubles. But
for the fatal ineptness of one of the
president's advisers in trying to make
political capital out of these tales
they would have remained unmen
tioned in the American press. Yet
they circulate. Against such scandal,
false as every word may be, the pres
ident is as helpless as if he were
bound before a firing squad. The
fairness of the American people
should be the president's defense
against such attack, as the fairness
of the people of any community
should be the defense of any decent
man or woman against the defam
ation o poisonous mouth. Dayton
News.
FOUR HURT NEAR EAGLE
Four persons were injured, one
perhaps seriously, in a head-on col
lision west of Eagle between a sedan
driven by E. Ray Farris. thirty-eight,
225 So. 18th street, Lincoln, and a
light coupe driven by Everett Ayres,
twenty, near Alvo, late Monday.
Most seriously hurt was W. E. Far
ris, sixty-four, 3140 Kleckner street.
Lincoln, father of the driver of the
sedan. He suffered a severe head in
jury and was unconscious until late
Monday night. He was taken to Lin
coln by a passing motorist, attended
by Dr. T. F. McCarthy, and later
taken to St. Elizabeth hospital.
With Mr. Farris besides his father
was his wife, who received a broken
right arm, a gash across her cheek
and severe bruises. Farris suffered
a crushing injury to his chest. After
receiving medical care, they we're
taken home.
Ayres, who was taken to Elmwood.
received a laceration across his fore
head and lost considerable blood, ac
cording to Dr. G. G. Douglas, who
attended him. '
HUNT COYOTES BY
PLANES AT EWING
Ewing Coyote hunting from air
planes has become popular with
sportsmen here. Usually the animals
are sighted thru a field glass, the
plane Is lowered to within 100 feet
of the ground, and the chase starts.
Shotguns are used when the quarry
is within range.
X Cass County Farm
J Bureau Notes
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Copy furnished from Office $
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Home Accounts.
Now is the time to start a home
account book for 1932: Homemaking
is a business and never before has
one so needed to know facts on
which to base their judgment. Many
homemakers have found it worth
while to spend a little time and
thought on household records.
What is your food cost? What
part do home products contribute?
What is the average meal cost per
person These are some of the many
questions which hove accounts will
answer.
Anyone interested in keeping home
accounts should notify the Farm Bu
reau office at once so that you may
get your account started as near
January 1st as possible.
Organized Agriculture Program.
The Horticultural program of or
ganized Agriculture, for Tuesday.
January 5th, relates to the subjects
the women's project clubs will study
at their January meeting. Follow
ing is the program for the day:
The initial program on Tuesday
morning features talks and discus
sions about beautifying the home
grounds. Earle Smiley of Beaver
Crossing is to open the program when
he talks about plants fcr the water
garden. Prof. W. A. Baleh of Kan3iis
State College will talk about arrang
ing annual flower beds while one of
the other feature talks will be given
by Prof. G. W. Longnetker of the
University of Wisconsin. He will de
scribe the rock garden.
Mrs. Helen Field Fisher of Shen
andoah, Iowa, opens the Tuesday aft
ernoon program by speaking about
arranging the perennial border for
continuous bloom. Prof. Balch and
Prof. Longnecker are also on the
same program.
Feed Ccd Liver Oil.
Pcultrymen whose hens keep up
in health and egg production during
the winter give them cod liver oil.
The object is to insure the assimila
tion and fixation of the feeds and
minerals consumed. Cod liver oil is
cf special benefit to breeding flocks.
High percentage cf hatchability and
livatility justify the use of it.
Cod liver oil given at the rate of
one per cent in mash (one pound or
one pint to 100 pounds) lessens the
danger of hens losing weight, con
tracting colds or roup and generally
permits the hens to keep going with
out using their reserve energies.
Crops Growers Meeting.
Announcement of the corn yield
contest winners will feature the pro
gram for the Nebraska Crop Growers
Association meetings held on the
College of Agriculture campus in Lin
coln during the first week in Jan
uary in connection with Organized
Agriculture. Discussions and talks on
all phases of farm crop production
will be emphasized. Nelson Berger,
Nehawka; Carl. Day. Weeping Wa
ter; Otto Schafer, Nehawka, and
Lee Faris. Union, have brought home
the honors to Cass county by winning
the state contest in recent years, and
we hope to be among the winners
again this year.
The crops program opens Tuesday
morning. January 5. and continues
thrrugh Wednesday. C. Y. Thompson
of West Point is president of the as
sociation while P. H. Stewart of Lin
coln is secretary.
The initial program will feature a
discussion on governmental experi
ments in price control. L.. u. snyaer,
Richard Cole and J. F. Lawrence, all
of the Agricultural College, appear on
the program. Carrying the discussion
of marketing further. G. B. Nance,
extension economist of the University
of Missouri, will talk about reasons
why some cooperatives fail. O. E.
Baker of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture will also appear
on the same program.
T. A. Kiesselbach of the University
of Nebraska will lead a corn question
box on Tuesday afternoon. At the
same program, winners of the 1931
corn yield contest will be announced.
Later in the afternoo nthe men will
attend the mass meeting to hear Ar
thur Hyde, secretary of Agriculture,
speak.
Another interesting feature of the
Wednesday morning program will be
a debate on the question "Would the
substitution of other crops for 20
per cent of the winter wheat acre
age in eastern Nebraska increase the
net farm income under present eco
nomic conditions " Those on the
affirmative side include Amos Gram
lich. Fort Crook; D. S. Dalbey. Be
atrice; D. L. Cross, Lincoln. Appear
ing on the negative side will be Ira
Kindig, Holmesville; Carl Schweser,
David City, and Paul Stewart, Lin
coln. In addition to the debate the Wed
nesday morning program also in
cludes talks by J. E. Weaver and J.
C. Russell. The afternoon program
will be a joint one with the live
stock section of Organized Agricul
ture. The program features talks by
O. E. Baker, Chas. Ewing, Dan Hildo
brand. Prof. H. J. Gramlich will
conduct the pasture question box.
Ventilation and Crowding.
Apparently a good many poultry
raisers are having what they consider
ventilation problems when as a mat
ter of fact, their troubles are caused
by crowded housing. A man called
at our office this week for informa
tion on ventilating his poultry bouse.
Upon inquiry it was found that 200
hens were kept in a building large
enough to accommodate 80 hens.
Letters are received daily which de
scribe similar conditions. A letter
in this morning's mail tells of 150
Orpington hens that are not doing
satisfactorily. This Cock is shut a
16'x24' house which at the required
rate of four square feet of floor space
Der hen. will accommodate 96 hens.
D. D. Wainscott. Cass Co. Extension
Agent. Jessie 11. Baldwin. Ass't. Co.
Extension Agent.
TED MUELLER. TEKAMAH.
WILL REJOIN OLD PARTNER
Tekamah. Dec. 28. Ted Mueller,
barber in Tekamah for 1G years, ha
sold his business to George Nelson,
Craig. Mr. Mueller will move to Palo
Alto. Cal., to become a partner with
Roy Smith, with whom he was for
merly in partnership in Tekamah.
NOTICE OF PETITION
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Ferdinand Schuelke. deceased.
The State of Nebraska. To all per
sons interested, take notice that
Richard E. Schuelke has filed a peti
tion asking that the above estate be
cpened and that a supplemental de
cree be entered in said et-tate deter
mining the heirs of paid deceased,
which petition has been set for hear
ing on the 15th day of January,
1932. at nine o'clock a. in.
Dated December 18th. 1931.
A. II. Dl'XBURY.
d21-3w (Seal) County Judge.
NOTICB
of Chattel Mortgage
Sale
Notice is hereby given that on the
20th day of January. 1932, at eleven
o'clock a. m., at the Dowler Chevrolet
Company, of Weeping Water, Nebras
ka, the undersigned will sell at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder for
cash :
One Chevrolet Truck. 1929
model; Motor No. 1108531, Ser
ial No. 3LQ34743
covered by chattel mortgage in favor
of the Dowler Chevrolet Company
signed by Ed Noell and assigned to
the Universal Finance Corporation,
said mortgage being dated April 30th.
1931, and having been filed in the
office of the County Clerk of Cass
ccunty. Nebraska, on the 19th day of
May. 1931. Said sale will be for the
purpose of foreclosing said mortgage,
for costs of sale and all accruing
costs, and for the purpose of satis
fying the amount now due thereon,
to-wit: 1250.58; that no suit or other
proceedings at law have been insti
tuted to recover said debt or any part
thereof.
UNIVERSAL FINANCE
CORPORATION.
(Assignee) Mortgagee.
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 es
tate of Viola G. Smith, deceased:
On reading the petition of Frank R.
Gobehnan. Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of his
toeount filed in this Court on the
Zlt day of December, 1931. and for
assimment of the residue of said es
tate and his discharge as 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 22nd day of January,
A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. ni 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
bearing 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 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 Decem
ber, A. D. 1931.
A. H. DUX BURY.
(Seal) d28-3w County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass
County. Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Byron Atkinson, deceased.
Now on this 17th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1931, it being one of the
days of the regular November, A. D.
1931, term of this court, this cause
came on for hearing upon the peti
tion of Minnie Marolf and Harry F.
Marolf, executrix and executor of the
estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased,
praying for Judgment and order of
Court authorizing the petitioners as
such executrix and executor of said
estate to negotiate a loan of One
Thousand Dollars and secure the
same by giving a first mortgage on
the West Half of the Southeast Quar
ter of Section Twenty-six (26) in
Township Twelve North, Range
Eight, east Of the Sixth Principal
Meridian, in Lancaster County, Ne
braska, for the purpose of paying
expenses of last sickness and funeral
of deceased, cost of administration
and taxes on real estate, there not
being personal property with which
to meet such obligations;
It Is Therefore Ordered, that all
persons interested in said estate ap
pear before me at the District Court
room in Plattsmouth. Cass County,
Nebraska, on the 30th day of Jan
uarv. A. D. 1932. to show cause why
a judgment and order should not be
Issued by the Court autnonzing saia
executrix and said executor to mort
gage the real estate hereinbefore
described for the sum of One Thou
sand Dollars to pay expenses of last
sickness and funeral of said deceased,
costs of administration and taxes on
real estate of said deceased.
It Is Ordered that service of this
order be made by publication thereof
ror lour successive weens in me
Piottamrmth Jrmrnnl. a newsnacer
published and in general circulation
in Cass County, Nebraska.
Dated this 17th day or Decern Der,
1931.
By the Court.
JAMES T. BEGLEY.
Judge of the District Court.
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