MONDAY. MARCH 28. 1932.
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Hoarders are guilty of tbe sin of
idledollartry.
:o:
When three lunatics escaped from
a British asylum, posses went out
and brought in five.
:o:
When men resort to safety-razors,
about all the barbers ran do is to
shave their expenses.
:o:
Teeth are thing you have out Just
before the doctor decides it was
your tonsils, after all.
:o:
It seems that the League of Na
tions works best at stopping wars
when there ain't any.
:o:
An Ohio man who can speak six
languages recently married a woman
who can speak three. That's darn
good handicapping.
:o:
The Philippines show a treasury
surplus for 1931 of $500,000. Per
haps they had better send a Governor-General
over here.
:o:
"The only thing a banker will
lend you now is his ear," says the
Greensboro Herald - Journal. Well,
he's pretty free, too, with his noes.
:o:
A tender heart is what causes a
man to burst out crying when he
reads that a corporation president
has cut his own pay to 554.000 a
year.
:o:
A Western prison is said to De
planning a five-hole golf course for
its inmates. Come to think of it,
we'd kinda like to see a club with
a crook at both ends.
:o:
We haven't much pride left, but
such as it is, we expend a good part
of It in the fact that congress has
thus. far battled the tax question out
alone, without submitting it to the
underworld.
:o:
Why not get up a name to shame
the hoarders into emptying their
socks? Look what Scofflaw did to
the booze-hoisters, and what Book
sneaf did to the booksneaves. You'd
be surprised.
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The Philippines have been saved
from the curse of independence
again. This happened just in time
for the little brown brothers to help
us celebrate the birthday of G. Wash
ington, an authority on the subject.
:o:
Somewhat surprised to see an edi
torial statement in Senator Capper's
Topeka Capital that "Congress is
hopelessly dry," we read on, to find
that the editorial writer was con
sidering the situation from the as
sumed viewpoint of a hopeful wet.
Just for the purposes of argument.
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Easter Sunday is drawing nigh
and, depression or no depression,
every woman is planning to have a
new dress and a new hat in which
to worship on that day. Now, it
French fashion authorities would de
cree that every woman should carry
a basket of eggs, a sack of flour and
a dozen Juicy steaks in order to
complete the ensemble, think what:
a boom the farmer would experience.
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She was just temperamental 90
per cent temper and 10 per cen
mental.
:o:
The campaign managers issue the
dodgers and the candidates dodge
the issues.
:o:
Japan could rightly contend that
6he is fighting a war to end this
year's civil war in China.
:o:
This winter was the seventh in
ten years in which California has
had its first enow in fifty years.
:o:
The attitude of Japan reminds
one of the sheep-stealer whose ex
cuse was that a sheep tried to bite
him.
:o:
And it would please the spirit of
George Washington if the hoarders
would celebrate 1932 by a buy-cen
tennial.
:o:
Japan's stand for disarmament
at Geneva isn't inconsistent; no
other nation is doing as much to
prove it's a good idea.
:o:
Recent efforts to revive the Gar
ner boom seem a bit halting, even
when everybody joined in referring
to the candidate as 'Jack."
:o:
We don't want xo crab the Olym
pic Games, but sliding downhill on
a sled is our idea of nothing to give
a grown-up man a medal for.
:o:
"There is too much love in lie
tion," says a literary critic. Judg
ing by the large number of breach-
of-promise cases, the reverse is also
true.
:o:
The fact that the peach crop had
been reported ruined on several pre
vious occasions this winter makes us
all the more curious to know how
it came through the great blizzard
of March 21.
:o:
Things could easily be worse. Sup
pose, for instance, that all the meas
ures suggested for the economic situ
ation had been put into effect. Or,
if you can't stand the horror, just
imagine half of them in effect.
:o:
A good many business men not
only failed to produce incomes, but
actually showed heavy losses. Hasn't
congress considered a measure teach
ing business men that it is a serious
offense to lose money, right when
the government needs dough?
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One of the things tnat make new
revenue legislation more difficult at
thi3 time is that reduced incomes
make higher income taxes unattrac
tive. Have the congressmen, in their
desire to soak the rich, thought of
plastering stiff fines on rich men who
failed to produce incomes last year?
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Japanese soldiers who have to re
main in the Shanghai zone are or
ganizing baseball teama and are
scheduling games. A Japanese box
score, prepared by a war correspond
ent and transmitted by cable and
wireless, should be a veritable work
of art by the time it got into the
columns of an American newspaper.
LIKES CENTRALIZED
RECEIVERSHIP PLAN
That the centralized method of
handling bank receiverships now in
use Is saving money for the deposi
tors of failed banks is the opinion
of George I. Parker of Norfolk, who
has for the past five years been asso
ciated with the banking department
and has conducted the affairs of 45
closed banks in Northeast Nebraska.
"I can best illustrate this asser
tion," Mr. Parker told the News, "by
referring to two banks in the same
county and practically the same vol
ume, that is, assets and liabilities.
The general and legal expense of li
quidating Bank 'A' under the old
plan of individual receiverships and
court jurisdiction only was $25,
02C.90. The cost of liquidating Bank
'B' on the other hand, including all
general and legal expense, was only
$16, 363. OS. This was a saving to
to the creditors of Bank 'B of $8,
663. S2, or practically 34 per cent.
"The ratio to the expense to the
amount realized under the individ
ual receivership system," Mr. Parker
continued, "was much greater in the
case of Bank 'A than in that of
Bank Tl.'
"Generally speaking, the expense
per dollar of realization is about 50
per cent what it was under the in
dividual receivership method."
The centralized receivership plan
has only been functioning complete
ly for about a year, Mr. Parker
stated, and he believes that it should
be given a fair trial over a period of
years.
The plan was first originated by
the establishment of the guaranty
fund commission by the state leg
islature in 1923, he explained. This
was the first step toward the meth
od now being used. There were
seven commissioners and each was
made the receiver for all banks in
V.ic lictriPT
In 1929, however, the legislature
abolished the guaranty fund com
mission and provided that the sec
retary of the department of trade
and commerce should be ex-officio
receiver of all failed banks in the
state. This completed the central
ization of The receivership system
In the department of tradeand com
mrece.
Much of the saving accomplished
by the centralized receivership sys
tern, in Mr. Parker's opinion, is real
ized from the fact that an assistant
receiver under the trade and com
merce secretary may be placed in
charge of several failed banks at the
ame time. The expenses incurred
y him are therefore prorated among
them and no bank has to stand all
the expense of the receivership.
orfolk News.
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A REBUKE TO INTOLERANCE
In an election initiated to remove
Mayor Key from office, Atlanta has
voted to keep him on the job. While
t is Atlanta's business, and not ours.
we feel like expressing approval ot
the result.
If we are correctly informed, the
attempt to remove Mayor Key was
the result of his statement that pro
hibition was a failure. Many persons
do not agree with that statement,
and some of them appear to live in
Atlanta; but what is surprising,
even in the triviality of American
politics, is that these disagreeing
persons should seek to punish' Mayor
Key for having his own opinion
about it. To pile the expense of a
special election on a community to
determine- whether a public official
is entitled to his personal view on
a public controversy seems to De
carrying intolerance a bit far.
If there is any question in At
lanta as to whether prohibition is a
failure as there seems to be that
fact alone is sufficient proof to our
mind of Mayor Key s competence to
entertain and express his conviction
about it. The citizens of that town
who have a different conviction, and
want to make him think as they do,
can best accomplish that result, we
should think, not by coercing his
opinion, but by changing the condi
tion in the town that gave him his
opinion. Our own observation has
been that those places where prohi
bition is a failure are the places
where the citizens permit it to be.
If Mayor Key had been removed from
office for believing as he does, we
cannot suppose that result would
have made prohibition any more
successful in Atlanta. Perhaps it
would have given personal satisfac
tion to those persons who believe
everybody should think as they do,
but their personal satisfaction is not
a matter of public concern a fact
which a majority of the people of
Atlanta teem to have recognized.
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A scientist says tbe earth is 570
billion years old. Wonder if he
hasn't got the age of the earth con
fused with the figure of the war
debt?
THIS LAWLESS COUNTRY
It is not to be wondered at that
the press of Europe points to the
Lindbergh kidnaping as proof that
the United States is the most law
less nation in the world. We are.
There is no doubt about that. There
is no other country pretending to
civilization in which the machinery
of the law is so inefficient to protect
the individual, in which people gen
erally hold the law in disrespect.
It is a disgrace to the United
States that Col. Lindbergh should
have felt it necessary to call, not on
the constituted police authorities but
upon acknowledged "underworld"
characters to lead the search for his
baby. We do not blame Col. Lind
bergh; any father in his case would
do whatever he could, regardless of
the law, to get his little boy back
safely. But it is an amazing con
fession of impotence on the part ot
the police of New Jersey and of the
country at large that kidnaping can
be carried on without fear of pun
ishment, as so many recent instance:
have proved.
Perhaps the public indignation
arising from this domestic disclosure
of the failure of our law-enforce
ment and protective machinery may
result in an anti-crime wave which
will wipe out the shameful reputa
tion our nation has earned by pub
lie indifference to crime. Perhaps w
may see citizens taking the law into
their own hands, as in the old Vigil
ante days in San Francisco, and
hanging racketeers and gangsters
from, the most convenient lamp posts
Perhaps.
And then, perhaps, nobody will
do anything much about it. That is
more likely, in view of our past his
tory in such matters.
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IN PRAISE OF EARLY RISING
Probably too many unkind ret
erences have been made to the in
sistent and relentless clamor of the
alarm clock at crack of dawn, ind
not enough publicity given to the
salubrious benefits and pleasures as
sociated with early rising while the
rest of the household slumbers.
At six o'clock in the morning, with
the sun a bright circle against the
gray velvet of the sky, there can be
no interruption to the ordered pur
suit of one's chosen avocations. No
sudden telephone jingling comes to
snap the influence of a thought-pro
voking book, no knock sounds at the
door which requires summary an
swer. The whole house is as silent as
the woods on an August afternoon
just the proper atmosphere for the
garnering of happy recollections and
for quiet, undisturbed preparation
for the duties awaiting in the office
down town.
At six o'clock the furnace fires
have again been set going for
chilliness hovers in the awakening
light outside the window and
cozy warmth is creeping over the
house. An aroma of toast and bacon
will steal in from the kitchen, where
another, early riser with sunny
countenance makes breakfast ready.
official signal that tbe working day
Is about to begin.
Slugabeds miss much of the glory
of the dawn, the minstrelsy of vaga
and ideas unassociated with the mar-
bond birds, the easy flow of fancies
ket place. Ah, the comfortable feel
ing of the early riser that he is mas
ter of his world, at least for a few
uncrowded minutes! These are com
pensatis for deserting the blankets
and greeting the sun with early
smile for smile.
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DEMOCRACY BY LABEL
With a national election just
around the corner, the average citi
zen of the United States is sure to
find tbe customary quiet of his life
invaded by the labelmongers. For,
in the functioning of America's dem
ocratic machinery, labels seem as in
evitable as candidates. They are tbe
chief stock in trade of the cheap poli
tician. And "cheap," in this case,
is used advisedly. For it is peculiar
ly the aim of the cheap politician
to secure a maximum of public sup
port with a minimum of private re
flection. Labels admirably serve such
a purpose. They make it possible to
have opinions without knowledge;
conclusions without premises. Once
fixed, they are hard to dislodge. And
in the course of a short, Bharp poli
tical fight, success frequently rides
with the politician who does the
"fixing" first.
The last decade has witnessed the
rise of an entirely new category of
labels: "Pacifist." "Communist,
"Jingo," "International Banker"
to name but a few. In general, these
are epithets rather than descrip
tions. They represent usually an
emotional rather than an intellect
ual conviction. They are the flags
which demagogues of one school or
another have found it expedient to
wave from their platforms. Since a
demagogue on a platform looks to
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his audience not for understanding
but for a response, they serve his
purpose admirably. ,
This susceptibility of the average
citizen to the purveyors of slogans
is probably one of th9 inescapable
difficulties of democratic government
which can only very slowly be over
come. Mr. Norman Angell has point
ed out in "The Unseen Assassins"
that at the last general election in
Great Britain, John Smith, the av
erage voter, was obliged to decide
with his vote intricate questions
which ranged all the way from free
trade and taxation to coal mine acts
and prayer book reform. Small won
der that Mr. Smith was a fit subject
for the ingenious activities of the
slogan maker.
And yet, Abraham Lincoln, a
more convinced believer in democ
racy than some latter-day statesmen,
is authority for the statenfent that
"with public sentiment nothing can
fail, without it nothing can succeed."
Mr. Lincoln's appeal was for a high
er sense of responsibility for those
whose position gave them the status
of opinion makers. In the long run,
unquestionably, that is the answer.
It is to the press, the churches, the
schools that our harassed John
Smiths must look for deliverance
from the labelmongers.
Some degree of deliverance seems
already in prospect. It is likely that,
with newspapers more widely read
than ever before, and, particularly,
with the coming of the radio, the
issues of the forthcoming campaign
will be more wfuely discussed than
those of any campaign that preced
ed it. The effect of more labels is
likely to diminish before increased
discussion. Phrases, ill supported by
the facts, grow quickly threadbare
with too much use. We can only
hope that this campaign's lebels will
appear early, be intensively employ
ed and drop from mind before No
vember's poll calls the country to a
decision.
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SHERMAN LEFT NO QUESTION
"Of course I would like to be Pres
ident," said Governor Ritchie of
Maryland in his Jackson day speech.
"Who would not?" There has been
at least one person in our history
who "would not" and who took pre
cautions against what he evidently
regarded as a calamity. This was
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.
As the battle lines were forming for
the Republican national convention
of 1884 that year, as this, both the
Republican and Democratic conven
tions were to be held in Chicago
the prospect of a deadlock led to the
suggestion of General Sherman. In
response to this suggestion he made
his famous declaration that if nom
inated he would not accept and if
elected he would not serve, a declar
ation looked upon ever since as the
only formula to be used by a man
who, whatever else he may say, fs
not in reality "willin . General
Sherman did not stop there. Despite
the desire of his brother. Senator
John Shermas, that he do nothing
to interfere with the movement for
his nomination, he sent a friend to
the Chicago convention with instruc
tions, first, to discourage talk of his
nomination; secondly, if his name
was actually voted on in early bal
lots, to withdraw it, and, thirdly,
If he received the nomination, to
announce that he would not run. As
things turned out, this program prov
ed to be unnecessary, but General
Sherman had made it plain beyond
the peradventure of a doubt that he
would not" like to be President.
From the New York Evening Post.
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In reply to a question from the
Brooklyn Eagle as to why he did
not vote on the prohibition reso
lution last week, Speaker Garner
said he followed the ancient custom
of speakers in the house in refrain
ing from voting unless his vote were
decisive. And besides but Speaker
Garner wisely decided that one good i
reason would be ample. . j
A HOPEFUL RAIL SITUATION
The President's conference with
railway executives, officers of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
and the Railway Credit Corporation
and representatives of the interstate
commerce commission was timely and
its results both enlightening and en
couraging. The conference revealed
that the emergency needs of the
railroads are considerably less than
generally believed and unofficially
reported. Help from the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation, therefore
will be appreciably less than expect
ed, and this help is available. It is
not improbable that even the amount
estimated from 300 to 400 millions
may be reduced, since loans from
private sources may be enlarged.
It is significant that with the suc
cessive credit facilities set up by the
government to meet urgent demands,
the demands without exception have
been less than was expected. This
also was true as to the credit corpor
ation established by th (banking in
terests. But as to banks, the results
were quick and extensive. The re
storation of confidence was marked.
Bank failures have been checked to
a remarkable degree. The inference
is that the biggest factor was not
the available credit, but the fact
that such credit was available.
It is of national importance that
the railroads unable to meet their
interest obligations should be pro
cided for. Rail securities are widely
disturbed, as to both individuals and
institutions. A vast number of per
sons are indirectly affected by the
extensive holdings of these secur
ities by insurance companies and
kindred institutions. That the tem
porary requirements of the railroads,
are less instead of greater than ex
pected is an encouraging develop
ment. :o:
The four Iowa bank robbers who
robbed a bank, stole $100,000. got
captured, relieved of the money, and
sentenced to prison terms all in
eight hours, not only crowded a good
deal of experience into a small space
of time, but also they spread pretty
favorable reports about the solvency
of the bank.
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CNE DEATH IN WINDSTORM
Seattle. One man was killed by
the gale which struck widely sepa
rated sections of Washington. High
winds blew down a tree at Cle Elum,
sending it thru the roof of a build
ing. Roy Williams, asleep in the
building, was killed. At Kennewick
and Pasco, on the Columbia river.
a gale estimated at between fifty
and seventy miles an hour smashed
windows, and tore out power and
telephone lines. A forty-one mile an
hour wind blew thru Seattle.
"See it before you Buy it.'
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me directed.
I will on the 26th day of April, 1932,
at ten o'clock a. m. of said day at the
south door of the court house In the
City of Plattsmouth, in said county,
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash the following describ
ed real estate, to-wit:
The southeast quarter of Sec
tion eight (8), in Township
eleven (11), North, in Range
thirteen (13), East of the 6th
P. M., In Cass county, Nebras
ka, containing 160 acres,
"Subject, however, to a mort
gage in the sum of $14,000.00,
in favor of John M. Leyda, with
interest thereon at six per cent,
and due May 1st. 1934."
The same being levied upon and taken
as the property of Theonald Vallery
and Elizabeth Vallery, defendants, to
satisfy a Decree and Judgment of said
Court recovered by William Sporer,
Plaintiff against said Defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March
24th, 1932.
ED. W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale Is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me directed,
I will on the ICth day of April A. D.
1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day
at the south front door of the court
house In the City of Plattsmouth, in
said county, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash the
following real estate to-wit:
The west half of Lot 2 and
all of Lot 3 in Block 16, in
Latta's first addition to the
Village of Murray, in Cass coun
ty, Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Frances F.
Brendel and Thomas J. Brendel, de
fendants, to satisfy a judgment of
said Court recovered by John S. Val
lery, plaintiff, against said defend
ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 16,
A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
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Lumber Sawing
Commercial sawing from
your own logs lumber cut
to your specifications.
We have ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
sale at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County cf Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by C. E. Ledgway. Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, within and for Cass
County, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed. I will on the 9th day of April.
A. D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. m. of
said day at the South front door of
court house in Plattsmouth, Nebras
ka, in said County, hell at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash the following real estate to
wit: ' West half (WVi of the
southwest quarter (SW,i) of
Section twenty (20) in Town
ship twelve (12) north; Range
twelve (12) East of the sixth
principal meridian in Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska:
The same to be levied upon and
taken as the property of James Tlg
ner and Mary Tigner. defendants, to
satisfy a judgment of said court re
covered by Charles Johnson, plain
tiff, against said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 7,
A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN.
Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale, is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
County, Nebraska, and to me di
rected, I will on the 2nd day of
April A. D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said day at the south front door
of the Court House, in the City of
Plattsmeuth, in said County. Fell at
public auction to the highest bidJer
for cash the following described
real estate, to-wit.
The north eighty-seven (87)
feet of Lots one (1), two (2).
three (3) and four (4). Block
four (4). in the Original Town
of Plattsmouth. Cass County.
Nebraska, as surveyed, platted
and recorded, together with all
the appurtenance thereunto be
longing, pubject to the lien of
Occidental Building and Loan
Association;
The game being levied upon and
taken as the property of Edith Mar
tin, defendant, to satisfy a Judgment
of said Court recovered by Becker
Roofing Co.. defendant and cross
petitioner, against said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 1,
A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN.
Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska
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NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
OF LAND
Notice is hereby given that under
authority of an Order of Sale Issued
by the Clerk of the District Court of
Cass county. Nebraska, in an action
pending in said court in which Vin
cent W. Straub is plaintiff and Frank
A. Cox and Louisa M. Cox are defend
ants, commanding me to sell the real
estate hereinafter described In satis
faction of the amount adjudged by
the decree of said Court entered June
13, 1931. to be due plaintiff in the
6um cf $7. 222.57, with Interest and
costs, as in said decree provided, I.
the undersigned Sheriff of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska, will, on April 18, 1932.
at 11:00 o'clock a. m.. at the south
front door of the court house In the
City of Plattsmouth, in Cass county,
Nebraska, offer for sale at public
vendue the following described real
estate, to-wit:
South 75.40 acres of the north
west quarter of Section 2, In
Township 10, North of Range
12. East of the 6th P. M., in Cass
county, Nebraska
and will sell the same to the highest
bidder for cash.
ED W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
Wm. H. Pitter.
Attorney.
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ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATA OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested In the es
tate of Rudolph H. Ramsel, deceased.
On reading the petition of Tillie
Ramsel praying that the Instrument
filed in this court on the 7th day of
March, 1932. and purporting to ' be
the last will and testament of the
said deceased, may be proved and al-
lowed and recorded as tbe last will
and testament of Rudolph H. Ram
sel, deceased: that said instrument
be admitted to probate and the ad
ministration of said estate be grant
ed to Tillie Ramsel. as Executrix;
It is hereby ordered that you, and
all persons interested in said matter,
may, and do, appear at tbe County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 8th day of April. A.
D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. m.. to show
cause. If any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should be grant
ed., and that notice of the pendency
of said petition and that the hearing
thereof be given to all persons Inter
ested in said matter by publishing a
copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth
Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper
printed In said county, for three suc
cessive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 7th day of March, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ml4-Sw County Judge.
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