MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 19S3.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL
PAGE THREB
The Plattsmouth Journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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How happy modern youth could be
if a smart fellow could succeed with
out ten hard years of learning how.
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Money talks. But not when bound
and gagged and throv '1 into a vault.
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Never yet has corruption flourish
ed where decent people had the same
feeling for corrupt men and skunks.
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V.'e never stop praising the man
behind the gun. but it is the man
in front of the gun who needs sym
pathy. : o :
The next time you have hiccoughs
try sticking your tongue out as far
as possible. Repeat if necessary. This
almost always stops them.
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When your car loses $400 in value
in one year, it is hard to figure just
how much of that loss is deprecia
tion and how much is deprecation.
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A common type of leader of men
is one who first finds out which may
the crowd is headed and then hops
out in front, waves a banner and
yells, "Come on, fellers."
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We look forward to Jimmy Wal
ker's new book with a good deal of
pleasure. As he will not be under
oath, we expect him to discuss things
with a good deal of candor.
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The papers have been full of a
new word the past few days tech
nocracy. Don t be excited, tnougn.
Being a victim of technocratic un
employment is just an involved way
of saying one is out of a job.
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When all the rest of the country
trims the sails for depression, Holly
wood goes right on with its vulgar
display of wealth. Harry Languor.,
for instance, testified in an alimony
suit the other day that he still had
$40.
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Whenever we run onto one of
those headlines stating that Hoover,
Hindenburg, MaeDonald, or some
other big government head "is at a
crisis," we read no further. Those
boys have been having so many crisis
attacks in recent years, that the ne ..-s
has ceased to be of interest.
no longer
be ioUL that you hats
an expensive foot"
A AAA A to EEE
SIZES. I to 12
Fetzer Shoe Co.
Home of Quality Footwear
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The real cause of crime is about
120 million people who don't give a
darn.
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Some of the big trucks going
through town at night are lit up like
Christmas trees, but nobody would
mistake their drivers for Santa
Claus.
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When an Oklahoma man's cow be
came ill, a veterinarian was called
and il was found that the animal
had eaten a clock, which accounts
for her alarming condition.
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"Viewed from all angles," says a
local man, "about the most satisfac-
: tory and deeply appreciated gift I
(bestowed this Christmas was a ping-
ipong ball for the cat."
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Since reading of Mr. Hoover's con
tinued failuro to make the fish strike,
we're a little less afraid of techno
cracy. There still are a few things
engineers can't do.
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Most of the mystery of how they
do things in moving pictures has
been cleared up, except how people
get their telephone numbers so
quickly.
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We trust Mr. Howard Scott is not
reading all the works on technocracy
that now deluge the public. Some
bod' connected with the institution
should keep a clear head.
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If it is made possible to pay city
and county taxes in installments,
along with motor car purchases an
preachers' salaries, everybody will be
in step on an easy payment basis ex
cept the bootlegger.
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The girl of the gay '90s had great
faith in mistletoe, to bring her fu
ture happiness. However, the girl
of 1932 finds it doesn't take mistle
toe to bring the first kiss just a
likeable boy and a parked car.
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A Chinese general recently shot
another Chinese general at a din
ner. However, the victim no doubt
brought it upon himself. He prob
ably opened his after dinner remarks
by saying "Stop me if you've heard
it."
DETROIT SHARING
OFF HER DOLDRUMS
Detroit is herself again. She is
moving again in the thunderous
tempo of the "Miracle City," into
which she was transformed from a
sleepy Michigan town by the auto
mobile. The battle for the "low
priced field" is again raging .t is a
real industrial drama. The central
figures, in the order of their present
appearance, are Chrysler, General
Motors and Ford.
Chrysler has led the 1933 inva
sion with his Plymouth, which,
abandoning the four, has entered
the six-cylinder arena. It is a big
ger car, too. The specifications re
cite a long ritual of refinements. It
carries the unmistakable stylish im
print of that producer's genius. Eut
the heartening economic message is
spoken by the authentic voice of the
factory in expanding production.
Men are at work who have been idle,
and weekly pay envelopes are rout
ing desolation.
General Motors has just made its
bow with a new Chevrolet. This lat
est model means, according to the
Business Week, that the company
"has definitely outlined a policy of
expansion rather than reduction of
quality." A smart, comely girl, this
Mile. Chevrolet of '33. Her elder sis-
ters. so they say, look, in compari -
son, like laned old spinsters. And
she is accomplished as well as beau
tiful. Queen of her domain, by ver
dict of statistics, she is determined,
apparently, to defend her dynasty by
the twin title of elegance and de-
portment. Anyhow the endless chains
of the production lines are revolving,
to the sacramental obligato of em
ployment and wages.
What of Ford? He has yet to make
his next year's bow. From his con-
valescence in the hospital recently
he promised "something really new"
in automobiles. The trade is rife
with speculation and rumors. The
supremacy that was Model T is, of
course, a vanished legend, and thejtial process. His willingness to ac
triumphant renaisance of Model A, cept responsibility seems rather
electrifying though it was, was brief.
But the four bloomed into an eight,
and nerhans the Old Master will
again achieve a masterpiece.
Well, it's magnificent, anyhow,
this war of the motor giants, waged
on a truly titanic scale along the
vast front of the modezt purse and
shrewd, fashionable thrift. The strug-
gle for survival is contriving auto-j ... ,
. . M tallv and figuratively we close our
mobile values undreamed of in the -jt'-'ia
, books on the last day of the old year,
easier economic days. It is a prodi-I , m
, ,. . take account of stock and make our
gious spectacle we are witnessing. I , . ,
. . . . plans for the coming twelve-month.
And it rather shatters the COmpIa-1' , .
.1 There was more reason for hailing
cent gospel of monopoly so many of!
the new year in the old days when
us were by v. ay of accepting. The . . .
. , . .... . , the calendar began with the vernal
whole mcrcdibl story of th automo-1 . , . t
. , . , , ; equinox, la late March, and the fes-
bile is a romance which cculd be .
... tival of the years end was certain
written only in tne inK or competi-
.
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tion is beyond the compass of mon-1
, . . .... .
opoly. It is competition at its des-
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a vo ucci.
So Dotroit is shaking nfT hpr dold-
rums. Things are better there. How
long the accelerated production of
motor cars will continue we, of
course, cannot say. There is no hon
est place for mere optimistic patter
in current circumstances. 'Rut there
is something inspiring in the courage
of our motor magnates, in the gal
lant expenditure of their material,
mental and moral resources.
Theirs is the spirit that will not
see defeat. That spirit is today, we
believe, as in the past, a national
characteristic. It is an unbeatable
asset. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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During the fourteen centuries in
which the Bible was copied by hand,
so many "improvements" were made
by the copyists that at least 150,000
variations can be found today in the
existing manuscripts of the New
Testament alone.
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We suspect Mr. Insull's lawyer's
comparison of his client to Prome
theus is going to rouse some resent
ment in Greece among the old friends
of Prometheus. Prometheus stole the
lire from the gods all right, but he
didn't sell any stock to the people.
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The fish along the Florida coa3t
seem to remain obstinate in their re
fusal to bite for President Hoover.
When a feller's luck is down, there's
nothing much to do but stop and
wait. The way things are for Mr.
Hoover at this time, even if he did
get a bite, it would probably be a
turtle.
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Mr. Insull, we are informed, plans
to stay in Greece indefinitely. Greece
has a special way of making itself
attractive to visitors like Mr. Insull.
He is going to stay in Greece, we sur
mise, for reasons strongly similar to
those for which Mr. Robert Burns,
formerly of a Georgia chain gang,
plans to stay in New Jersey.
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Don't send your money away if
you want to see real prosperity In
Cass county. Plattsmouth Is the
logical "big town" shopping point
for every resident of the county.
TREASURY ESTIMATES
PRETTY BAD GUESSES
In the budget balancing effons at
the last session, congress relied up
on the estimates of the treasury on
what certain specified taxes would
generate in federal revenue. It now
develops that many of those esti
mates were almost fabulously wide
of the mark. For example, a tax on
malt, brewers' wort and grape con
centrate, which the treasury estimat
ed would yield 82 million dollars in
federal taxes for a year, has thus far
been yielding revenue at a rate
which suggests that it will not pro
duce 10 per cent of that amount.
An error of such enormous magni
tude cannot be put down to a rea
sonable miscalculation of the future
course of business in general. Nor
does it seem likely that anything
like 90 per cent of this home brew
ers' and vintners' material is being
bootlegged to avoid the tax. The
treasury has suggested that there is
some bootlegging. But the record
j suggests very forcibly that the treas-
ury, in this instance a3 well as in
many of its other estimates, did a
very bad job of forecasting. In the
j light of such a record of error it
would be appropriate for congress to
j direct some critical attention to the
treasury estimates, a new set of
1 which are now serving as the basis
or calculations ot wnat is requireu Dy
way of balancing the budget again
at this session of congress.
The job of forecasting revenue
from new taxes is very difficult, and
one in which anything approaching
: infallibility is not reasonably to be
! expected. But when the treasury
shoots 90 per cent wide of the mark
it seems a bit foolish to accept its
estimates as bench marks in budget
balancing without subjecting them
'to very close scrutiny and this even
though Secretary Mills firmly insists
on taking full responsibility for the
estimate" whose preparation by the
treasury he holds to be a confiden-
: greater, in the case of his estimates.
than his capacity to discharge it sat
isfactorily. Baltimore Sun.
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THE OUTLOOK FOR 1933
There is something about the be
ginning of a new year which tends
to rpvivp nrsnfnv hnript; Rnth lifer-
... .
. to be followed speedily by the re-
vival of vegetation and the begin-
. . .
ning afresh of the annual agricul-
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tural cycle. A great deal of the sen-
tllr-en
tal importance which we at-
to New Year's Day is a sur-
it'.cn iu rtiew i ear s d
; vival from the pastoral civilizations
of the past.
I We are no better able than any
one else to predict what will hap-
r en
in 1933. "vno Knowetn wnat
!a day may bring fortn : We are cer
tain only of one thing: that is that
the New Year will be different from
the old one. And we hope it will be
a better year.
We have, at least, put behind us
some of the things which made 1932
the hardest year in recent American
history, for most folks, and we are
closer to some of the things which
promise better for the future. The
election is over, for one thing: the
European debt situation is at least
beginning to be clarified. We seem
to have about reached the end of the
procession of bank failures. Farm
products touched new all-time low
prices in 1932 and we cannot imag
ine that they will not average higher
in 1933.
It seems to us that the coming year
will necessarily be one of thorough
readjustment, not alone in matters of
money and trade, but in people's
mental outlook. It may have been
necessary for us to go through three
terrible years of depression to purge
our minds of the fallacious notion
that the road to universal prosperity
and individual wealth is an easy one.
If it turns out by the end of 1933
that everybody has learned that he is
entitled only to what he can get by
working for it, and to be content
with that, the New Year just begin
ning will be the greatest success ever
recorded on the calendar.
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When Greece defaulted on her war
debt, we naturally supposed she in
tended to remit Mr. Insull on ac
count. But now she has refused to
pay either the interest or Insull.
Sometimes we fear we're stuck, as
far as Greece is concerned.
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See the goods you buy. (Slowing
catalog descriptions are often
misleading. The only safe way Is
to trade with your home town
merchant who stands ready to
make good any Inferiority,
CUT THOSE TAXES
The demand for lower taxes has
become well-nigh universal. Govern
ments, national, state, county and
local, went wild in the fat years be
fore the crash of 1929, in creating
new jobs and finding new ways to
spend public funds. We grant that
many of the objects for which taxes
have been steadily increased are de
sirable if we had the money. But
in these days, when individuals and
their families have to count every
penny and get along without most of
the things they would like to have,
public officials persist in extrava
gance should be summarily removed.
The difficulty in the way of get
ting taxes reduced is that the tax
eaters are organized and the taxpay
ers are not. We think it was Mr.
Cleveland who coined the phrase 'The
cohensive power of public plunder.
It is natural for those who are feed
ing at the public crib to desire to
keep their jobs, and to put every pos
sible obstacle in the way of those
who would oust them. But this is,
in theory at least, a "government of
the people by the people and for the
people," to quote another famous
president. And the indignation of
the people at this impudent defiance
of public opinion by the tax-eater is
already beginning, in some com
munities and sections, to approach
the boiling point.
The process of reducing taxes is
simple enough. Lop off the unneces
sary frills and fads with which we
have bedizened our governmental
functions. Reduce the administration
of public affairs to the bare essen
tials and see that honest men ad
minister them. We do not think we
are exaggerating when we say that
the nation would be better off if half
of the bureaus and departments at
Washington were abolished. We think
most States are in the same fix and
we are sure that there is unneces
sary waste in the operations of most
county and town governments. We
hope the new administration at
Washington will set an example for
the 6tates to follow.
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ROOSEVELT PREFERS
A SIMPLER METHOD
President Hoover's attempt to
draw Governor Roosevelt into the
debt problem at this time has again
met with the governor's refusal. Mr.
Hoover's purpose undoubtedly is to
bridge the interim, the last period of
his administration, and provide
something like a continuity of pur
pose. This apparently will not work,
and whatever the disadvantages of
the situation may be, they remain.
The president-elect professes his
willingness to be of any assistance
noslhle but is convinced that no
PossMie, uui is wnvwen mat
real team work can be had. He does
not see eye to eye with Mr. Hoover
in the matter of methods, and. such
beinS hp case he does r-ot wisn to
commit himself at this time, when
ue wouiu nnnnQ uuuiuma:
to the president s leauersnip.
It is indicated that Governor
Roosevelt distrusts the commission
and conference method of negotia-
tion, probably because it is not as
congenial to him as it has been to
Mr. Hoover. To Mr. Hoover it has
seemed the logical means of meet
ing any problem requiring inquiry,
fact finding, negotiation, and concil
iation. Governor Roosevelt makes it
apparent that he prefers a simpler
and more direct method. In the mat
ter of the debts, he would deal with
each individual debtor in the cir
cumstances in which it and the Unit
ed States find themselves and by ordi
nary government procedure come to
certain conclusions which would be
submitted to congress.
It is easy to like Mr. Roosevelt's.
idea of procedure. There has been
very little in international confer
ences of the last ten years to rec
ommend them to American liking.
American participation in them has
left Americans with a feeling not
only that they were inherently fu
tile but that they contained great
possibilities of national injury. The
American negotiators have seldom
seemed competent for the occasion,
either in resolution or in knowledge
of what their country's interests
were. Consequently, Americans have
come to think, we believe th.at not
only failure but danger is inherent
in these ponderous, highly publicized
international conferences. Frequent
ly the best press agent seems to win
the day, and Lord Riddell of Great
Britain has few equals in that ca
pacity. In the matter of the debts the Am
erican position is undoubtedly weak
ened in negotiations which by their
form unite all the debtors against
their creditor and pool all their argu
ments for joint attack upon him. This
country can feel much safer if it is
dealing with each case on its own
merits, and in a simplicity which
will have none of the extraneous ele
ments so influential to a general
gathering of the high hats of Europe.
Lumber
Commercial sawing from
your own logs lumber cut
to your specifications.
We have ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
8 ale at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
The debts are a business question.
The American side requires an Am
erican agent whose national interest
is undiluted, whose common sense is
unimpaired by extraneous matter,
and who i3 not susceptible to any
consideration other than that of the
best deal for the people he repre
sents.
To get such a deal seems beyond
the probabilities of any conference
conducted as those with which the
United States has become familiar.
Chicago Tribune.
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JAPAN DIGS IN
The program for greatly improv
ing the equipment and increasing
the size of the Japanese army in
Manchuria, as just announced by the
war department in Tokio, would
make still more obvious the absurd
ity of the government's contention
that the new state of Manchukuo
really represents the will of the Man
churian people if such a thing were
possible. Unfortunately, that is im
possible. From the day Henry Pu-yi
was installed as nominal head of the
so-called Manchukuo administration,
protected by Japanese guards and
assisted by Japanese advisers, it has
been perfectly evident that the will
of the Manchurian people, like one
of the "Mikado's" flowers, has noth
ing to do with the case.
On this point the report of the
Lytton commission, sent by the
League of Nations to investigate the
Manchurian situation, is clear. The
commission found no evidence of
any local movement to declare the in
dependence of Manchuria from China
prior to the beginning of the Japan
ese occupation in September, 1931.
And it came away convinced that the
new state could not have been form
ed without "the presence of Japan
ese troops and the activities cf Jap
anese officials, both civil and mili
tary." The strengthening of the
Japanese army in Manchuria, like
the earlier recognition of Henry Pu
yi's regime, is simply a notice served
on the world that Japan is there to
stay,, with a request that "Russian
papers please copy."
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WOMAN BLAMED IN DEATH
Chillicothe, Mo. County Prose
cutor Taylor received a telegram
from Sheriff Diehl in which the of
ficer said May Vaughn had been ac
cused of the fatal shooting of Leon
P. Neal, Chicago salesman, whose
body was found along a road near
here Dec. 15. Diehl is en route from
Pensacola with Miss Vaughn, Vir
ginia Blum and Henry Maguar, ar
rested by Florida officers as suspects
Diehl said Maguar had signed a
statement accusing Miss Vaughn and
admitting a part in the slaying.
Maguar traveled to Kansas City with
Neal as the latter was driving home
from a funeral he attended in Texas
He was in possession of the sales
man's automobile when arrested in
Florida.
Insist
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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
raid County Court this 16th day of
December, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) dl9-3w County Judge.
SALE OF ASSETS
The undersigned Receiver of the
Firrt National Bank of Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, will offer at public sale to
the highest bidder for cash, subject
to the approval of the Comptroller of
the Currency of the United States
and a court of competent jurisdiction,
without recourse and without war
ranty of any kind or character, at the
Law offices of A. L. Tidd, Attorney
in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the
seventh day of January, 1933, at
1:30 p. m., certain assets of the said
First National Bank of Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, less such items as may be
paid or otherwise disposed of prior to
the said date of sale heretofore men
tioned. The assets to be offered have a
total face value of J132.902.34. A
list thereof will be on file at the of
fice of the Receiver in Shenandoah,
Ipwa, for inspection by interested
parties, prior to this sale. The office
of such Receiver is in the First Na
tional Bank building at Shenandoah,
Iowa.
CARL S. FOSTER,
Receiver of the First National
Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebr.
d29-4sw
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Settle
ment of Account.
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 307.
To the heirs at law and all persons
nterested in the estate of Bertha
Malmes, deceased:
On reading the petition of John N.
Halmes, Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the
24th day of December, 1932, and for
assignment of the assets of said es
tate: determination of heirship; and
for his discharge as Administrator;
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 20th day of January,
A. D. 1933, at ten o'clock a. m., to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be
eranted, and that notice of the pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons In
terested in said matter by publishing
a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper 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 24th day of December, A.
D. 1932.
A. H, DUXBURY,
(Seal) J26-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF HEARING
on Petition for Determination of
Heirship
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 335.
Estate of Frances Bartek, deceased.
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska: To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Jo
seph E. Benak has filed his petition
alleging that Frances Bartek died in
testate in Cass county on or about
March 5th, 1922, being a resident and
inhabitant of Cass county, and died
seized of the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Lot five (5) of northwest
quarter of southeast quarter and
southwest quarter of southeast
quarter of Section two (2);
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter of Section' eleven (11),
all in Township twelve (12),
North. Range thirteen (13). East
of the Sixth Principal Meridian,
Cass county, Nebraska
leaving as her sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Paul Bartek, widower; Wes
ley Bartek, son; Mary Benak,
daughter; Fred Bartek, son;
Henry Bartek, son; Anna Bar
tek. daughter; Paul Bartek, son;
William Bartek, son ; George
Bartek, son; John (Bartek) Hes
ser, son ;
That the interest of the petitioner In
the above described real estate is that
of a purchaser of said real estate, and
praying for a determination of the
time of the death of said Frances
Bartek, deceased, and of her heirs.
the degree of kinship and the right
of descent of the real property be
longing to the said deceased, in the
State' of Nebraska.
It is ordered that the same stand
for hearing on the 20th day of Janu
ary, 1933. before the County Court of
Cass county in the court house at
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at the hour
of ten o'clock a. m.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
this 19th day of December, A. D.
1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) d26-3w County Judge.
Everything for school most
complete line In Cass county at
Bates Book Mora, . .
