MONDAY, NOV. 21, 1932.
PLATT SLI 0 tmi SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTSNAL
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Ihe Plattsmouth Journal
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Even the motor cars are demand
ing alcohol.
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After all the relief promised in tlfe
recent campaign, the main relief
seems to be from the radio speeches.
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The quoted prices of turkeys indi
cate that they can easily replace the
corned beef on the family table this
Thanksgiving.
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If "we understand the news from
the far East, the new government of
Manchuria is not clearly recognized
by the Manchurians, either.
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Correct this sentence: "I favor
what is best for my country," said
the earnest citizen, ."regardless of
the effect on my pocketbook."
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Another difference between the ma
Jcjr parties this year is that the
Democrats are taking the oath of of
fice while the Republicans are emit
ting it.
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The election returns at least have
relieved us of one continual anxiety
and worry. We don't have to wonder
any more where Mrs. Dolly Gann is
going to sit. j
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A good way to distinguish "high
brow" magazines from the other
kind, is that they do not advertise
alarm clocks. Their readers are not
presumed to be interested in early
rising.
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President -elect Roosevelt an
nounces that he will not make any
appointments for the next two
months, thereby blasting the hopes
of the boys who were hoping they
would be taken out of their anxiety
by Christmas.
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Poldi Miliner, 17-year-old pianist
from Vienna, played several Chopin
themes at the New York port of en
try and thereby gained admittance to
this country, charming the customs
inspectors to the extent that they
were convinced she actually was an
artist. Now, how in the world do
you suppose that little Viennese miss
knew that Chopin would melt the
heart of a customs man?
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William Allen White has nomin
ated Governor Woodring for a posi
tion on the Roosevelt cabinet, notes
the Lawrence Journal-World. But
Just what weight the Emporia editor
will have as a cabinet builder under
the new deal is somewhat uncertain.
Now would be a good time for some
of the Democratic party's big shots
who were saying pleasant things
about the Kansas governor at the
Chicago convention to repeat their
remarks.
THE BED CROSS AELI OF MERCY
Behind the Red Cross appeals of
the President, the President-elect,
Chief Justice Hughes, and other
leaders, in the humanitarianism of a
nation long attuned to the call of
this agency for support. In hi3 mes
sage to the American people, Mr.
Hoover aptly' notes that "a thousand
remembered associations of its mag
nificent response to the cry of distress
in emergency cluster around the
name Red Cross." The Red Cross is
America'3 far-reaching instrument of
mercy, the co-crulnating and like
wise the reserve force of all the local
and other charitable relief nrraniz-
The bravest man we ever knew,ation3 u -3 Ixcmediately rc?Poiisive
was afraid to go out in the dark toL i , ,-., , .u i
whether it be flood, fire, famine
der the bonus act notwithstanding
what opponents, for example, the
Sun, may say to the contrary. Balti
more Sun.
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PF.0ELEM nrV'OLVllIG
TWO ADiUNISTEATIONS
President Hoover lias broken a
precedent, it is agreed, in asking the
president-elect to confer with him
about the answer to the notes of for
eign governments requesting a con
ference on debts. Mr. Hoover makes
the occasion clear. The note calls
for an answer; it seeks postponement
of payments due December 15. Pres
ident Hoover can give the answer;
lock the coal house.
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Libby Holman goes free when the
prosecutor at Winston-Salem turns
the heat off the torch singer.
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Reverting to the subject of rela
tivity, all we know about it is that
a dog trot is slow until compared
with a snail's pace.
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If the people get lonesome and
can't find anything to do since the
election they might start working
on their New Year's resolutions.
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Now that we have turned the
corner, we can see cieany anim tne
sea of troubles the road to duty. But
the path of the ship of industry is
beset with thorns and the Slough of
Despond which hangs threateningly
on the horizon has yet to be stemmed.
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SAMPLE OF TARIFF FOLLY
The United States has no mono
poly on tariff folly.
North Dakota farmers are letting
potatoes rot in the field because the
price is too low to pay for digging.
A short distance to the north, Mani
toba farmers, hit by drouth and
grasshoppers, lost their crops, and
have not even enough to eat. North
Dakota sent word that their Canadian
friends might have all the "spuds"
they wanted, just for the digging.
This is the normal, human way of
acting; for the animal called man is
a pretty decent fellow, when he gets
the chance. But Canada had a tariff
of 46 cents a bushel on potatoes;
and when asked to Euspend thi3 duty
in the present emergency, the min
ister of national revenue replied that
this is "not a proper remedy," and
that to let in free potatoes for hun
gry people would bo "unsound in
principle."
Canada doesn't often make a fool
of herself; but she's a thorough soul
when she gets started. People of the
stricken region of Manitoba say that
they will have to get public relief
this winter because they haven't
money to pay duty on the potatoes
which North Dakota is more than
willing to give them.
To add to the irony, Canada sus
pended the duty on hay under sim
ilar circumstances a few years ago.
It reminds one of our own drouth
two years back, when the federal gov
ernment was willing to advance
money to feed mules but not to
feed the people.
Next time someone sco!d3 about
our tariff, you can win the argument
by admitting all he says, and then
telling him this potato story. There
are others. Labor.
he can ask congress to extend the
time of payment, cr decline to ask
or i this cf congress. But if he accedes
the ravages of unemployment in a : to the request for an international
time of economic stress. : conference, the discussions will ex-
Just now, when the annual Red; tend bevor.d his terr.i of office. The
final action will be for the new pres
ident ar.d the new congress. There
fore, Mr. Hoover asks fcr personal
with Governor Rcose-
Cros3 roll call is in progress through
out the country, it is in order to ob
serve the scope of relief which this
agency is extending. The recently j consultation
issued report of the Red Cross for itsjvclt.
last fiscal year, ending with June. I The president's motive is admir
shows that more than 12 million ' abie. Hero is a question that in-
men, women and children were the : volves two ctViinistrations. It is also
object3 of its ministrations. Among Ian American and not a party cucs-
the sufferers in the drought areas Hon. Mr. Hoover's sincerity cannot
ana tne unemployed elsewhere there ! be ouestioncd. He is acting in the
was the distribution of wheat and 'spirit of li is telegram of congratula-
other supplies. Use of grain for food.tion on Governor Roosevelt's election,
and cotton for clothing was author--in which he promised co-operation
lzed by congress, but the proper d:s- j in every possible helpful effort lo
tribution and the expense of it were ; farther the common good.
the work cf the Red Cross. Er.ier-j Moreover, by his experience during
gency relief has extended not only i the Wilson administration and as
to distribution of food and clothing, (president, Mr. Hoover is able to give
but of feed for livestock and garden I much aid to the study of foreign
seed and to provision of shelter, nurs-! questions to a president-elect who,
ins advice and care. Working thru I however deen his study mav have
275 chapters, the Red Cross gave been, has not had such experience
BAYER
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unemployment aid to nearly 'z mil-
Thc difadvantages of such a pro-
lion families over two-thirds of the : cess are not so apparent, but they
country, expending nearly 2;i mil- are great. Neither party and neither
lion dollars for that purpose. outgoing r.or incoming president has
These activities merely are repre- j defined a policy to meet this situa
sentative of the inclusive service cf:t icr.. Mr. Hoover has . suggested that
use
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this iation-wide agency. Its work is
done quietly, as becomes the r.ature
of its ministrations. But behind it
all is the silent gratitude of the mil
lions that have been reached, togeth
er with a sense of obligations dis
charged on the part of ether mil
lions who have made the work cf
mercy possible.
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UNDUE S T ANDING- NEEDED
The government of- the United
States has gone very radical in Her
bert Hoover's administration mo;e
radical than ever in its peacetime
history. We have taken immense
strides in the direction of state so
cialism or state capitalism, which
ever term one's environment may in
cline one to prefer. We have, among
other such steps, created an im
mense corporation, part of whose cap
ital of nearly four billion dollars
the whole people provide and the
other the whole people guarantee,
and we have undertaken to devote
almost the entirety of that stupend
ous sum to the financing of banks,
railroads and other enterprises which
are owned and controlled iiy private
business interests. Less than one
tenth of the huge total goes to the
direct relief of millions of poor peo
ple who are without work and with
out food.
It is an unprecedented policy, and
it makes a mockery of the conven
tional doctrines of individualism
and especially of the familiar pat
phrases about keeping government
out of business and keeping business
self-reliant. But .'"conservatives"
have justified this policy on the
ground of emergency affecting the
whole people. (The Sun has joined
in support). They have said that
when we loan the whole people's
money to a particular bank or to a
particular railroad, we do so not to
help a particular bank president or
a particular railroad president, but
to protect the whole people. For,
our leaders have argued, the emer
gency is so widespread that it is im
possible to isolate a particular bank
or a particular railroad; when one
goes down others are pulled down
and ultimately the whole structure
might go, destroying the whole peo
ple's jobs and savings.
But if our patriotic conservative
groups will stop a moment to think,
they should see that it may be diffi
cult for a mechanic to understand
that when the government lends Gen
eral Dawes bank SO million dollars
it is helping him (the mechanic). If
that mechanic has been as faithful
in his station as General Dawes ha3
been in his, and yet is living on the
crusts of charity, it may require a
considerable act of faith to believe
that all is for the best and justice
reigns under our "American institu
tions." And it ought not to be. hard
for conservative groups to under
stand that a man who has fought
for his country may think that in
his distress, his actual want, the gov
ernment that can lend money to the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad could also
advance him the money pledged un-
in crchar.ge for markets we might
forgive payments tine in a particular
year. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated
that he thinks the debt question is
tied up with the whole matter of
tariffs, foreign trade, and our per
manent relations with the rest cl
the world. Eat it does not stem that
any conference on rational debt
could cis.-uss such a combination cf
foreign and domestic policies.
Ar.d there is the jealous congress
net entrusted with the power of ne
gotiatioii..but with theauXhorityto
defeat the result cf any' negotiation
Mr. Roosevelt will go into office with
p. large majority of democrats in con
:Tcss. Yet he cannot tell row how
laige a majority he will have for
hi.; policies. He cannot afford to
alielate sentiment in advance by ap-
ipen-Jng to take over too much au-
tho.ly. If he agrees to a conference,
he vl II of course have representa
tives sn the American delegation. He
mustle prepared to fight for the con
clusicts arrived at, "or to fight
again! them. It corner down to Gov
srnor lloosevelt s having a major
problei of his administration dump
ed in l3 lap three months before
the tin: .
Wha will Governor Roosevelt do?
What n he do? HI3 co-operation
is aske in a situation in which it is
to the : vantage of the country that
his co'.: f-el be given. He may ask
for por onement of the conference
propose but he cannot refuse the
counsel .at is asked of him. A situ
ation lfc come to him which he
could nj have anticipated, and it is
that peiiiarly difficult "kind of situ
ation irrhich the authority will not
be sole! his, but in which he will
be helfchiefiy responsible for the
outcomj His leadership is demand
ed soolr than he could have ex
pected. Cut it is demanded in the
Interes r-f his country and he must
give it Milwaukee Journal.
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without delay. It is many minutes
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rheumatism, periodic pains, and
other suffering, stick to the tablets
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Senator Morris
Not After
is
a
Cabinet Job
Says Would Not Accept Position If
One Oneretl Him Opposed to
Canc3llir: War Belt.
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
ma jui,
jnea
does not depress the heart.
472, giving the defeated candidate
approximately 11 per cent. Those are
overwhelming: portions. But the
popular vote in each election tc!1.3 a
different story.
Four years ago the Democrats
were "wiped out," but had 15 mil
lion votes out of a total of lc3 than
37 million. This year, with the
count still incomplete, the Republi
cans teem certain to have polled more
than 15 million out of a somewhat
arger total vote. Ia each case the
defeated candidates have received a
far greater proportion of the popular
vote than the electoral count wculd
indicate. Smith obtained about 41
per cent and President Hoover's per
centage to date is about the same. As;
the 192S election has shown, the
party that i3 "wiped out" with 15 j
million votC3 is still in fairly good
condition. ....
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C-OOD SHOWING TOR
THE C0KP0ZIATI0II
McCook, Xcb. George V.T. Norris,
insurgent republican senator from
Xebratka, will not accept a position
m the cabinet of President-eiect
Franklin D. Roocsvclt if one is of
fered.
Morris arrested rumors of his pos
sible appointment to the next cab
inet in an crrphatic statement Fri
day as he departed fcr Washington
to attend what will probably be t he-
last "lame duck" congress in the na
tion's history.
"I would not consider a position
m tne cabinet, even if one was of
fered," Xoiris declared. "But it must
be mad? elesr that no such post has
been offered me."
Since th? Nebraska senator pledg
ed his support to Roosevelt during
the recent campaign, rumors have
persisted of assorted plans of demo
cratic leader.? to reward Norris for
his service with a chance at a cabinet
posit'on.
As Norr's departed for Washing
ion, he made it clear that the incom
ing president ?nd Mr. Hoover will
fed the bite cf his criticism if in
their forthcoming conference cn in
ternational debts they decide upon
further extension cf the moratorium
on foreign debts.
g?Inst Canceling War Debt.
"Mako the foreign nations pay
their debt's cr default," Xorris said.
"And if they default. let those debt3
stand against the sky for generations
to come as a constant reminder of
the costs cf war."
Xorris expressed belief he will be
asked to surrender his high post as
chairman of the senate judiciary com
mittee when the democrats reorgan
ize congress.
Chief among the Interests of the
Xcbraskan, he raid, will be two meas
ure.! which will be presented on the
senate "cor. One of the measures
will originate with Xorris. The oth
er v, 1.1 originate v. n 11 senator liiram
Johnson of California.
AUXILIARY HOLDS KEETDTQ
The American Legion Auxiliary
held a very pleasant meeting: on Fri
day afternoon at the home of the unit
president, Mrs. H. L. Thomas on Elm
street, a large number being In at
tendance. The session was taken over with
the discussion of the plans for the
district convention of tho Auxiliary
which will be held in th'13 city on
December Cth. The local unit being
the hostesses to the representatives of
the pests of Cass, Otoe, Lancaster and
Seward counties.
The ladic-3 also held the election
of the delegates to the convention
for the local unit, Mrs. C. A. Rosen
crans. Mrs. II. L. Thomas, Mrs. Fay
McClintock. Mrs. John Falacek and
Mrs. Don Seiver3 being chosen as rep
resentatives. At the close of the afternoon Mrs.
Thomas served dainty and deliciou3
refreshments that added to the pleas
ures of the occasion.
ILL CF PiJEUMONIA,
BB.0OKHABT "BETTER"
Chicago, III., Xov. 14. senator
Smith W. Crookhart of Iowa was re
ported today to be recovering from a
slight attack of bronchial pneumonia
at the home of friends in suburban
Hinsdale.
Mrs. Zephlse M. Fope, his hostess,
said the senator had been suffering
from a cold since Friday, but was
improved.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Xebraska, County of Cas3,
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7 n
There are three noteworthy fea
tures in the Reconstruction Finance
Scliools Cut
pencitures
A S4.C0O.C00 Decrease in the Amoun
cf Honey Voted fcr the Cur
rent Year.
F$EEJT HILLICN VOTES
In c
tial el.
to saye
1 of the last two presiden-
ons it has been the fashion
at the defeated party was
confine
result
ample,
"wiped it." In 1028 the Democrats
were s osed to have been the vic
tims c this process of erasure bv
-
vote, l now the same fate is said
to ha )vcrtaken the Republicans.
For a rty that was "wiped -out"
only fc years ago, it might be sug
gested, e Democrats have made a
renuul 7 quick recovery; and the
person; ho shook their heads over
ihe ie. of the vote in 1928 and
v.-on der whether there was any fu
ture fo'ie party of Thomas Jeffer
son, rrn feel as if they had seen a
modern racle. j
The It is that whatever wiping
out thefwas in either election wa3
p the electoral vote.' As a
he 192S election, for ex
Smith polled eighty-seven
votes ir? electoral collage, as com
pared 1 44 for President Hoover,
cr onl;jout 1C per cent of the
total. 3 year President Hoover
has fftlne electoral votes, while
his op; nt apparently has won
Corporation report of loans up to the
first of this month. They are: .
The continued decline in ap
plications for loans, tho total
for October having been les3
than 40 per cent of that for
April, the high record month.
This Indicates that demands for
aid toward recovery are being
satisfied and that the critical
situation of last spring and early
summer is passing.
The progress already made in
loan repayments, about 25 per
cent of the total now having
been returned. The repayments
have been made principally by
banks and railroads, the former
returning nearly 27 per cent of
loans. This, again, is an encour
aging sign. As the loans are re
paid with interest, ft suggests
r.ot only that they have done
the work for which they were de
signed, but that the corporation
is proceeding on sound, busi
nesslike lines.
The fact that nearly three
fourths of the fund of 200 mil
lion dollars for relief loans to
the states yet remains for dis
tribution. This condition affords
evidence cf conservative policies
in the granting of this aid, also
reassurance that as money may
be needed from this source later
in the winter it will be on hand
for probable use.
Aitogemer, ini3 powertul agency
of the government is proving to be
a factor cf vast influence in stabil
ization and reconstruction. Its ca
pacity to aid further, as occasion de-
manas, 13 consiaeraDie. including re
payments, it still has available more
than S50 million of the 2,000 mil
lion dollars for loans to banks, rail
road3, insurance companies and other
corporation?, together with about S5
per cent of the 1,500-million-dollar
fund for loans on self-liquidating
projects. The latter especially are
expected to be an aid to large-scale
employment in the months ahead.
Walter H. Jurgensen, lieutenant
conceit is a rorm of ill health," governor-elect, with II. M. Wulf of
a scientist says. Xever mind the man Lincoln, were in the city Friday for
who pats himself on the back. He L ellort Tisit and whije here wcre
may Just be the victim of lumbago. luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
:o: ert m -Walling at their home on
FOR SALE Xorth Third street. While here the
Ten ton Prairie hay. Russ Todd, visitore also enjoyed visiting with
o31-tfd&wthe many friends here.
Xebraska schools reduced their ex
penditures last 3'car along with re
duced incomes but balances on hand
were reduced despite a lower aver
age education cost per pupil. The
annual report on the state schools.
compiled by the state superintendent
of public instruction, showed a slight
deerea.se In public school enrollment
last year altho high school enroll
ment increased and number of elig
ible children in the state increased
Other data shown in the report In
cluded a substantial reduction last
year in building operations, more
than $10.0GT,000 reduction In in
debtedness cf the state's schools and
a $-l,0CC,000 decrease in amount of
money voted for t!i3 current school
year. The schools last year reduced
their expenditures from 52S.114.C1C
m 1D20-31 to 25.054.743. At the
same time, income dropped from 532,-
501, Cll to 52S. 701,952. Balances
on hand dropped in city and village
schools from $3,761,952. Balances on
hand dropped in city and village
schools from $3,559,423 to $2,SS0,
200 and in rural schools from Sl.-
521.574 to 51.374,443. Attendance
in the town3 continued better than
in the country. Town attendance
was nearly 85 percent of enrollment
While it was b.irplv mnr than 7(1 S3-
percent in the rural districts.
The superintendents office said
only 17018 percent of the state's tax
able wealth was devoted to public
school education. The year before it
had been .923 percent. The number
of school districts was reduced last
year from 7,255 to 7,223 and school-
houses from 7.59S to 7,542. Fewer
women teachers were employed last
year but a slight increase was shown
in the numbjr of men teachers.
By virtus of an Order of Sale issued
by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, within and for Cass
County, Xebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said day at the south front door of
the court house, In said county, sell
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash the following real es
tate to-wit:
The north eighty-seven (87)
feet of Lots one (1), two (2),
.. three (3), and four (4), in
Block four (4) in'the1 original "
town of Plattsmoutn, Cass Coun
ty, Xebraska, as surveyed, plat
ted and recorded;
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of William A.
Weils, Flora M. Wells, Eduth Mar
tin and Becker Roofing Company,
defendants, to satisfy a Judgment of
said court recovered by Occidental
Building and Loan Association, plain
tiff, against said defendants.
Plattsraouth, Xebraska, Xovember
1st, A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAX,
Sheriff Cass County, Xebraska.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Xebraska, 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, Xebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said day at the south front door
cf the court house In said county.
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash tho following real
estate to-wit:
Lots 1 and 2 in Block 31 in
Young and Hays' Addition to
the City of Plattsmouth, Cass
County, Xebraska;
The same being levied unon and
aken as the property of James E.
Waller, Clara Waller, husband and
wife; Walt Minnear and Elizabeth
May Minnear, his wife, and M. S.
Briggs, defendants, to satisfy a Judg
ment of said court recovered by The
lattsmouth Loan and Building As-
ociation, a corporation, plaintiff.
against said defendants.
Plattoiaouth. Xebraska, Xovember
let, A. D. 1932.
Sheriff Cas.s County. Xebraska.
ED W. THIMGAX,
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Xebraska, County of Ca is.
ENJOYS VISIT HERE
By virtue cf an Order of Sale, Is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of tho
District Court, within and for Cass
County, Xebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem
ber. A. I). 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said day at the south front door
of the court house, In said county,
ell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash the following real
estate to-wlt:
Lots numbered one (1) and
two (2) in Block twenty-6even
(27) In Young and Hay's Ad
dition to the City of Platts
mouth. Cass County, Nebraska,
excepting the west thirty feet of
said Lot two (2) :
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Thomas S.
bvoboda and Anna Svoboda, husband
and wife, defendants, to satisfy a
Judgment of said court recovered by
the Plattsmouth Loan and Building
Association, a corporation, plaintiff.
against said defendants.
Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Xovember
2nd, A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff Cass County. Nebraska.
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