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The Plattsmouth Journal
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Hell, Lafayette, you were 19 mil
lion shy in that last pot.
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Just to show how reasonable prices
are these days, Washington debutante
parties cost as little as $500 each.
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The week's most Indefinite state
ment comes from the Indianapolis
News: "Trotzky is back in exile."
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Heathens have their little faults,
but they don't stage an orgy and
then blame Providence for the head
ache.
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If you help a criminal to escape,
you are an accessory to the crime
If a professional does it, he's a great
criminal lawyer.
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The cold wave is said to have halt
ed the flu epidemic. There may be
some other good things to be said
of the cold wave, too, but it may
take several days to think of them.
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One thing about the slot machine,
is that it will teach the greatest les
son toward thrift. It will teach one
to get rich. In other words, keep all
you take in, and cough up as seldom
as possible.
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"Petite Virginia Cherrill." says a
movie magazine, "has been seen at
the bicycle races with Carey Grant,
screen star, and a budding romance
is scented." If romance can bud at a
bicycle race, let it bud.
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The father who went outside the
house last Christmas, fired a shotgun,
and then went back into the house,
telling the children Santa Claus had
been killed, is out of luck this year,
not having the price of a shell for
the gun.
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At the Chicago artists' ball the
other night Lady Godiva went into
the ballroom, but she rode on a table
instead of a horse. What a disap
pointment that must have been to
the guests, who wanted to see a
horse!
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An educator reminds us that the
greatest service we can render our
children is to keep open the "avenues
of communication between them and
ourselves." In other words, if you
can't reach your children by tele
phone, leave them a note in the car.
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Will Rogers says the Democrats
have already made good on their cam
paign promise to California. They
promised rain, and it is raining.
They promised us moisture in this
Bection, and it probably will be de
livered, but we have to wait for the
snow to melt and the beer bill to pass j
before we get it.
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aches, colds, sore throat, neuralgia
or neuritis, lumbago, rheumatism.
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It is 41 degrees below zero at Eden,
Wyo., this week, and we expect the
buds on the forbidden fruit tree are
all killed by the frost.
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We can overlook plagiarism, poly
gamy, bigamy or the fact that he
chews gum, and in a pinch we would
not fall out with him for parting his
hair in the middle, but when a sup
posedly smart man splits his name
in the center, we are off of him for
life.
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A good deal depends on the con
gressional definition of intoxicating
beer. If 4 per cent beer Is legalized,
and is defined as not intoxicating,
the bootleggers will have to stay in
business whether they want to or not.
Their public, you know their public
will demand them.
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There are today nomadic people
who never build a roof over their
heads but use only a windbreak for
protection, albino tribes that sleep
during the day and live their active
life at night, and countries in which
at least 85 per cent of the population
cannot speak the national language.
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A Chicago youth killed his step
grandmother and threw her body into
a well because she wouldn't let him
take her car on a date. The youth
has gone to prison for a year or more,
which will discourage other youths
from the crime of murder, and also
discourage a good many women from
becoming anyone's stepgrandmother.
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The Norse citizens of some of the
northern states are celebrating the
one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of BJornstJerne Bjornson, the
great Norwegian poet and statesman.
Just what form the celebrations are
taking nowadays the newspapers
don't say; a few years ago the proper
way to celebrate a Bjornson event
was to give Ibsen a kick in the slats.
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An Oklahoma editor has discovered
that those suffering from clouded eye
glass lenses on entering a warm room
from a cold out-of-doors may find re
lief by backing into the room instead
of entering in the supposedly usual
forward manner. He says he has tried
it and it works, and we have no
doubt of it. We have often thought
the same procedure would help a good
deal in the case of frosted wind
shields on motor cars, and would the
Oklahoma editor mind trying it out
some time and submitting a report?
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MENTAL HEALTH
IN DEPRESSION
In his annual message to congress,
President Hoover referred to the re-
markable fact that the rates of sick-
ness and mortality in the United
States had shown a steady decrease
since 1929, instead of the increase
which, doubtless, many expected on
purely theoretical grounds. Three
years of depression has not impaired
public health.
At the meeting of the Illinois So
ciety for Mental Hygiene the other
day, distinguished psychiatrists,
alienists and other experts comment
ed on the fact that the depression had
not affected the mental health and
stability of the American people to
a noticeable extent. While the boom
period caused a rise in the suicide
rate, the depression has had no such
effect.
Indeed, in the opinion of some psy
chologists, the economic situation
situation ha3 been the mental and
spiritual salvation of many. It has
tapped new moral resources, called
forth fresh energies and stimulated
the sense of responsibility. Individ
uals who depend unduly on material
prosperity may collapse under finan
cial adversity, but the great number
rise above temporary difficulties and
develop stability astonishing to their
friends and associates.
These are arresting observations.
But one lesson of the facts thus in
terpreted is that pointed out by Pres
ident Hoover namely, that the main
tenance of physical and mental health
is attributable largely to the "fine
endeavor of the agencies which have
been mobilized for the care of those
in distress." The people, Mr. Hoover
asserts, have revealed a magnificent
sense of humanity, and in that way
have prevented much mental and phy
sical disturbance in the social body.
Chicago Daily News.
SURPLUSES ARE BEING USED UP
Current production plus storage
stocks indicidate available supplies of
foodstuffs. The long period of accu
mulated surpluses seems to have tak
en a turn toward reduction.
Egg stocks in storage are at the
lowest level in years, less than one
half of the normal supplies for this
period of the year. Fresh eggs are 8
to 10 cents a dozen higher than
twelve months ago. Profits have ac
cumulated to those who had suffi
cient courage to store eggs when they
were selling last summer at ruinous
ly low prices.
The butter situation is somewhat
similar although the decrease in stor
age stocks has not yet been of suffi
cient moment to be reflected in cur
rent prices. The pleading markets
show a decrease of 5 million pounds
of butter in storage compared with
last year and 32 million pounds un
der two years ago.
The December report of the federal
department of agriculture shows a de
crease of 85,808,000 pounds in all
meats in storage of 15 per cent as
compared with the 5-year average,
and 16,481,000 pounds or 35 per cent
in lard. As there has not been a cor
responding decrease in production
this indicates that more meat and
lard are being consumed than pro
duced. A similar situation prevails with
wheat. Although there is a tremen
dous surplus which has been accumu
lating for several years, there will
be a decrease in the carryover at the
end of the crop year. Domestic dis
appearance and exports will exceed
production.
Cotton shows the same tendency.
Although there was a carryover of
13 million bales from the 1931 crop
and total supplies of 25 million bales
were available at the end of the 1932
season, this is 1 million bales less
than a year ago.
Wool consumption both at home
and abroad with slackening of re
ceipts at market centers and a smaller
clip in prospect next spring have
been sustaining influences in the mar
ket and lead to rather optimistic
market reviews.
All of these reductions in sur
pluses have occurred in spite of re
duced purchasing power of the gen
eral public and during a period when
everyone is making every possible
effort to epend as little as possible.
Low prices have stimulated consump
tion. If there should be any general
recovery in the employment situation
he consumption of foodstuffs and tex
tiles would increase. There probably
never has been a time when so many
people were hungry or so many In
adequately clothed as at present
Merchants' stocks are extremely low.
All of this indicates that farm pro
duction is tending toward a balance
with consumption which is essential
for a recovery In prices.
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ON THE JOB FOR BETTER HEALTH
Surgeon General Cumming of the
United States public health service
reports a new low rate for tuber
culosis deaths in the country. For
last year the rate was 66.3 per 100,
000 of population, compared with a
rate of 68.8 In 1930, the previous
low. Early in the present century
the rate was nearly three times these
figures. The continued improvement
now shown, together with other fa
vorable health conditions, is one of
the heartening phases of a generally
depressed situation.
A recognized statistician, Dr. Louis
I. Dublin, has given the clue to
this sustained advance in American
health at a time of economic reces
sion. In a recent address before the
American Public Health Association,
he said:
I am inclined to believe that
the most important factor in
the situation is the continued
and effective functioning of the
health departments, the medical
profession and the social serv
ice agencies. They deserve our
highest praise. They have all
carried their heavy burdens
cheerfully and have performed
their tasks in a highly efficient
manner. ... I have no doubt at
all that these agencies have
helped to keep up the public
morale, have carried on essential
work and have tided many a
family over a difficult period.
For years the advance against tub
erculosis has been made possible
largely through proceeds from the an
nual offering of Christmas seals, now
in progress. It is a definitely bene
ficial service, consisting to a consid
erable extent of preventive methods.
An undertaking of this nature Is a
community enterprise of far-reaching
value.
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Edna Ferber has been advised by
the government of Mexico not to visit
that country any more, having writ
ten a critical magazine article about
Mexico following a visit there last
year. Mexico and Oqlahoma are now
off Miss Ferber's calling list, but
those who read her works closely are
of the opinion she was through visit
ing those localities anyway.
HOOVER RECOMMENDS
GENERAL SALES TAX
Congress listened to a roar from a
large section of the people last ses
sion and failed to enact a sales tax.
Now President Hoover recommends a
manufacturers' sales tax even larger
than the one proposed a few months
ago.
Meanwhile, there are indications
that public sentiment has changed,
and is more favorable to the sales
tax, not that it has fallen in love
with the idea, or with the notion of
any taxes, but that it has come to
the conclusion that if further tax
ation is necessary, then the sales tax,
in amount of yield and the ease of
collection, is more feasible than other
taxes that have been or might be sug
gested. What are the alternatives? One is
a deflicit, and an increase In the
public debt, which would mean ad
ditions to the budget for many years
in the form of interest and sinking
fund charges. A second is a far heav
ier cut in expenditures than the di
rector of the budget can recommend,
or that congress, in all probability,
would be willing to approve. A third
i3 higher income taxes, highed nui
sance taxes. The former would put
a heavier burden on people already
struggling with all their might to
keep their businesses above water and
protect their home3, and would not
yield the amount required. The lat
ter have been experimented with,
and are not producing the revenue
estimated, nor is the country likely
to accept them.
An exemption of food and certaii
grades of clothing from the sales tax
would avoid laying a heavy burden
on the poor. Application of the tax
to all other manufactures would elim
inate the discrimination that now op
erates against the automobile indus
try in particular. The tax as sug
gested by the president seems to con
form to the "ability to pay" prin
ciple on which Governor Roosevelt
insisted during the recent campaign,
andand therefore may reconcile a
good many of the democrats in the
present congress whose votes defeat
ed the measure last spring. Detroit
News.
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FRANCE DEFAULTS
Now we have a default by France
on debt payment. What are we go
ing to do with it? Our brave sen
ators and congressmen have been say
ing "Let them default!" Did that
mean that they plan to make up the
money by reducing their own salaries
and perquisites?
"Well, look what a bad light it
puts the French people in!" they say.
Yes, it gives us the right to call the
French names. But does that put
any unemployed Americans to work?
"Anyway the British are a more
honest, straightforward people, and
honesty is the best policy'." Yes,
let's think about that a minute. The
British are paying $95,500,000. al
though under protest. And they have
practically told us fhat they cannot
pay the next time, six months from
now. We respect them so much for
their honesty that we reduce their
gold supply below the danger point
but do not consider reducing tariffs
so that they can sell us something.
When the Englisb pound suffers a
farther fall in value as a result of
this, the English and Scotch and
Welsh and Canadians will be able to
buy still less of what we have to sell.
Our dollar will be worth even more.
The big use for dollars these days.
however, is to pay debts contracted
when dollars were cheap, so a higher
dollar doesn't help us.
It's a good slogan, "Let them de
fault;" but what is it good for? Do
the lame ducks now going out feel
that it will be gratefully remembered
and help bring them back two years
from now? Can Mr. Roosevelt and
his party feel that they've made a
beginning of a constructive program
to put John Smith to work?
Maybe it is good for security and
the peace of the world? No. While
we put off France's payments, France
was morally bound to continue the
Lausanne agreement and let up on
Germany. Now she is technically at
least in position to demand restored
reparations and march into the Rhine
country if she isn't paid.
The Hoover moratorium doesn't
look very bright today. It looks as
though we started something we
weren't willing to finish. However,
let's not blame Mr. Hoover, at least
not Mr. Hoover alone. We all failed
to face the facts. We stood on our
rights. Now we have a default and
no mortgage to foreclose, even if any
one wanted to foreclose mortgages
these days.
All this doesn't mean that France
is smart, she isn't. It will stick In
the minds of other peoples for a
long time that France on the fifteenth
day of December, 1932, defaulted an
obligation she was able to pay. That
will mean something unpleasant and
expensive some time in the future.
Give Him
a Shirt
One more won't hurt!
He probably needs it,
too. We've a grand as
sortment in plain 'and
fancy shirts at lowest
prices ever.
59c - 69c - 79c
and $1
Beautiful Shirts - the
best in our stock, at
$1.65 - $1-85
If there is any future. If there is
any future, that is, for things as we
know them. Every day it gets more
doubtful, as we continue to make ad
justments to our reduced national,
state, local and personal pocketbooks,
that the ways of life we have known
are to continue.
Another default isn't anything to
be happy about. Kow long do we let
thing3 get worse before we start to
make them better? How long before
we realize that because other na
tion's troubles are so much a part of
our trouble, we will not get out of it
until we get together to try to get
everybody out?
A default by the great French re
public can be useful to us only if it
brings us closer to facing reality.
Milwaukee Journal.
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ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE
Once there was a man who wanted
to write. He felt that if he could
once get his thoughts on paper, and
get them published, he might con
tribute something worth while to the
sum of human knowledge. In other
words, the man thought he was pretty
good and yearned for a chance to
prove it. But he was quite poor. He
lived In a small, cheap, rented house
with no conveniences whatsoever, un
less you would call a semi-basement
kitchen sink with a pump in it a
convenience.
When the man took a bath he had
to carry water up three nights of
stairs and bathe in a tin tub. The
house was cold and poorly ventilated.
When he did try his hand at writing
he sometimes grew so cold sitting
there at a rickety table that he was
forced to pull a rug up over his legs.
He used to get pretty discouraged.
but he plugged away at it. He turn
ed out quite a few pieces in that old
barn-house. Perhaps you've read some
of them.
One thing he did there was a three-
volume history of the French revolu
tion. That didn't go so well at first,
either, for he had no more than fin
ished the first volume, after months
of painstaking labor, than somebody
unwittingly threw the manuscript in
to the fire and it was all to do over
aeain. He did it over again. He
was that sort. His name, in case you
haven't guessed it by now, but surely
you have, was Thomas Carlyle.
World-Herald.
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TAXES, INCOME AND
FOREIGN WAR DEBT
The British note remarks that
"the loss which both the United
kingdom and the United States tax
payers would suffer from the recon
sideration of the war debts cannot
be measured in the same scales as
the untold loss of wealth and the
human misery caused by the present
economic crisis." Let us, however,
make the attempt to measure them
in the same scales and see what re
sult we get. The total income of the
American people in 1929 was esti
mated at 185,200,000,000. Brad
street's has just estimated that this
income in 1932 has shrunk to $37,
500,000,000. This comparison, of
course, is based on a comparison of
income in terms of dollars. If we al
low for the fall of about a third in
commodity prices, we may say that
our national income In terms of goods
at the 1929 price level is about $56,
200,000,000. Here is a national loss
of at least 29 billion dollars a year.
Against this we have to balance a
loss of 280 million dollars a year, or
less than one-hundredth of that sum,
if we were to cancel outright the
foreign governmental debts owing to
our government.
Now let U3 restate these figures in
terms that apply to the individual
taxpayer. The per capita national
income in 1929 was $704 a year. In
1932 that per capita income, in terms
of dollars, has fallen to three hun
dred dollars; in terms of goods, to
approximately $450. Our federal ex
penditures in 1933 will come to about
$3,300,000,000, or $26.40 per cap
ita. If the war debts were demanded
and were paid this would be re
duced by $2.24. The problem for those
who profess to be concerned oslely
for the American taxpayer, there
fore, might be stated something like
this: Is It better for that taxpayer
to have an income of $704, and pay
$26.40 of it in taxes, or is it better
for him to pay only $24.16 of his in
come in taxes but to have an Income
of only $450? Should he lose $250
of his annual income in order to save
$2 in taxes? Should he lose 35 per
cent of his income in order to save
1-3 of 1 per cent? It may be objected
that such a comparison is grossly un
fair, because it assumes that if the
war debts were canceled we should
immediately return to prosperity.
But even if we assume that cancella
tion or reduction would take us only
one-tenth of the way back and in
our opinion, it would surely do much
more than that the gain to the Am
erican taxpayer as a result of can
cellation or drastic reduction would
still be at the rate of more than ten
to one. And we must not forget that
the slight burden of increased taxes
could be equitably distributed, while
the loss of lncomeas the result of
the world-wide depression is distri
buted with gross in equity. It has
already resulted in practically a to
tal loss of current income for a fourth
of our population. The Nation.
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SO HIGH HAT BROWN
GETS A NEW SEDAN
Postmaster General Brown, with a
silk top hat as tall as the postal de
ficit, finds that even a cabinet mem
ber has his worries. He needed a
new sedan in which to make those
official calls that keep the Washing
ton merry-go-round going at the
expense of the taxpayers so he trad
ed in eight old departmental cars
and what fund the department had
for automobiles in order to acquire
a low-slung model of expensive make.
But apparently he wore his old felt
on the day of purchase. To his amaze
ment, chagrin and horror, when the
time came to don the topper, he met
both the cushions and the roof. There
wasn't room in that car for "High
Hat" Brown.
So there was nothing to do but
buy a new car that would fit the top
per. And the low-slung model, now
in disgrace, was put to the menial
task of carrying departmental clerks
on errands about town. The fact that
it was such a car as a millionaire
might ride in did not disturb the
clerks. It appear.s however, to have
disturbed congress. If there is any
thing a congressman dislikes, it is
having somebody ruin his economy
gestures.
And there is reason to be disturb
ed this time. We can imagine what
the middlewestern farmer, trying to
make the old Model T do another 10
thousand against its will and me
chanical ability, will think about Mr.
Brown and his topper. He'll give an
indignant hitch to the old corduroy
trousers and decree Tnat it's time to
cut down the high hats.
What to do to avoid such unpleas
an tries in the future? We suggest
the use of open cars for cabinet mem
bers. Then the top hats can reach
Into the clouds as far as they will.
That, or buy collapsible opera hats,
which can be set at quarter or half
mast as the occasion demands. We
have a collapsible treasury, thanks
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Commercial sawing from
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to your specifications.
we have ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
sale at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTOIY
to the antics of men like Mr. Brown.
The collapsible hat would be an ap
propriate symbol. Milwaukee Jour
nal. :o:
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Chicago. The Daily News said it
had learned the Santa Pe railroad
would place an order for $1,000,000
of rails next week. The order will
lie for 27,000 tons and will be divided
among the Illinois Steel, the Inland
Steel and the Colorado Fuel and Iron
companies, the paper said.
New York. A decline of not more
than 7 percent from the first quarter
of 1932 probably will be reported in
gross revenue of clas3 one railroads
In the first three months of 1933,
Standard Statistics said. Net oper
ating income, however, could show
as much as an 18 percent gain, the
report said.
Cleveland, O. The Wheeling and
Lake Erie railway placed an order
with the Canton Car company for
fifty new style gondola cars.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 326.
In the matter of the estate of Jonas
Johnson, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
sit at the County Court room In
Plattsmouth. in said county, on the
13th day of January. A. D. 1933, and
on the 14th day of April, A. D. 1933,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each
day, to examine all claims against
said estate, with a view to their ad
justment and allowance. The time
limited for the presentation of claims
against said estate is three months
from the 13th day of January, A. D.
1933, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is one year from said
13th day of January, 1933.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 16th day of
December, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) dl9-3w County Judge.
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,
BS.
Fee Book 9, page 334.
To the heirs at law and to all per
sons Interested in the estate of Wash
Landis, deceased:
On reading the petition of Bess
Halstead praying that the instrument
filed In thi3 Court on the 9th day of
December, 1932, 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 tes
tament of Wash Landis, deceased;
that said instrument be admitted to
probate and the administration of
said estate be granted to Frank A.
Cloidt, 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 6th day of January, A. D.
1933, 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 pen
dency of said petition and that the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by pub
lishing 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.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said Court, this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) dl2-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County or uass.
ss.
Probate Fee Book 9 at page 333.
To the heirs at law and to all per
sons interested in the estate of Henry
C. L. Ofe. deceased.
On reading the petition of Carl P.
Ofe praying that the instrument filed
in this court on the 3rd day of De
cember. 1932, and purporting to be
the last will and testament of the
said deceased, may be proven and
allowed and recorded as the last will
and testament of Henry C. L. Ofe,
deceased; that said instrument be
admitteed to probate and the admin
istration of said estate be granted to
Edward G. Ofe and Henry J. Ofe aa
executors;
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 30th day of December,
A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. 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 matter by
publishing a copy of this order In the
Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weeny
newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
Witness my hand, and tne seal or
said court, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1932.
. H. DUXBURT,
(Seal). dS-Sv County Judfja,