TST&SBAY, JA2HJAEY 12, 1933
PIATT SMOUTH SEMI' WEEKLY JOURNAL
PAGE THEEB
The Plattsmeuth Journal
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After a debt is contracted it seems
to expand.
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And say this for Europe: She
sticks to her guns.
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must have been a lot of fun while
it lasted, so many are sighing for
another just like it.
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Wait till the new members of
congress begin to quack and you may
think the lame ducks were songbirds.
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The Pitt Panthers were known
to have one of the best goal line
defenses in the country, but it went
out of office at the end of the regu
lar season.
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A 1 per cent sales tax, provided
for in legislation introduced at Wash
ington, will put 2 million men back
to work, according to sponsors of
the bill. In which case they should
make it 6 per cent at once and give
work to everybody.
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In the interest of beauty, the Am
erican Institute of Architects be
lieves the American cemeteries need
a "czar." If we may believe what
the New York critics say, the archi
tect who looked after things in Ra
dio City is Just the man.
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It's fun to study geography
in
school nowadays, with all the mod- the old-time play "Ten Nights in a
ern conveniences of moving pictures. I Barrom" to "Ten Nights in a Speak
and so forth. Of course, the chil-1 easy" a distinction without a dif
dren probably don't learn any geo-j ference. It is all right so long as
graphy, but it is great fun. Nobody j they don't go to making it "Ten
knows better than we old-timers that Speaks in One Night."
lessons learned without pain are no j :o:
lessons at all. The Roxy person is very interest-
:o: ing. According to O. O. Mclntyre he
Well do we remember the slow j has a private gym, but never exer
and excruciating process by which icises in it; and according to L. L..
we learned that Illinois was bound-; he conducts an orchestra, but can't
ed on the north by Michigan, on the j read a note of music. Further in
east by Ohio and on the other sides j teresting information: He has a new
by such and such and this and that, i theater, the biggest in the world;
but when we learned it we had it j but is threatened with not giving
for keeps. any shows in it.
WINTER PLOTS A WICKED CRIME
THE VICTIMS: Those Motors
Using Ordinary Oil that Drains Away
from Heated Working Surfaces.
THE TIME: Those Cold Starting
Minutes While Precious Motor Parts
Must Run Dry at Warming Speed Until
Oil Is Pumped from Below.
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Protection for
Drip! trickle! drip! through long night
hours, ordinary oil drains away. When
the pump quits, ordinary oil quits, leaving
the motor's parts high and dry. You touch
the starter. The motor roars. The pump
strains at the sluggish oil. It is only a few
minutes till circulation is completed. But,
in the meantime, working surfaces only
partly lubricated are in contact, while the
motor makes three to five thousand revo
lutions. This causes 50 7 of all motor wear.
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After a girl "come? out," sbe
goes out. and then mother worries
because she stays out.
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The tailor who cuts out the girls'
bathing suits ought to be placed in
charge of the government budget.
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An Illinois man was placed in
prison by mistake, and a lot of others
have kept out in a similar manner.
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These varm, sunshiny days it is
pleasant to find a comfortable place
and just "set and think," and then
sometimes it's nice to just set.
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A certain peculiar expression ap
pears on the face of the driver who
is being towed in. At least the editor
believes he can detect it on most men.
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A pig with eight legs has been
born on a Canadian farm and Meth
odist ministers throughout the land
are hoping for an 8-legged brand of
chicken.
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Democratic leaders deny that Jim
my Walker will be the new ambassa-
'dor to France. Still, recalling hov.
much time he spent elsewhere while
ambassador to New York, it might
be a good way to keep him out of
Paris, if that is a desideratum.
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A modern jazz artist has modified
that Gives You
Winter's Worst
Prevent this loss. Choose not merely a
quick oil, but an oil that never leaves.
Choose the oil with the hidden quart that
penetrates and combines with die metal
surfaces of the motor itself. In the emer
gency of an empty crankcase, users have
driven many miles, without damage, on this
hidden quart alone. This proves that your
motor need never suffer while waiting upon
the pump. Don't remain in doubt. Drain
and refill with the hidden quart oil today.
MR. RATNEY IS DEAD RIGHT
"I personally believe we can bal
ance the budget without resorting
to taxation," says the democratic
floor leader of the house of repre
sentatives at Washington. To that
end he opposes the demands of 14
governors for another $100,000,000
to help the states build more roads.
And he says further: "The people
will not stand for more taxes, except
as a last resort."
Clarifying the reports as to in
come tax increases agreed upon at
the conference with Mr. Roosevelt,
he declares that "all the partici
pants in the conference viewed the
income tax proposal only as one to
be adopted as a last resort."
The leader thus quoted is Mr.
Rainey of Illinois, an old-time pro
gressive democrat who was for many
years an ardent supporter and trust
ed lieutenant of William J. Bryan.
And he speaks still as a progressive.
The truest progressivism of today is
to spare an overburdened people ad
ditional taxes. It is to balance bud
gets, at Washington and everywhere,
rot by increasing taxes, but by re
ducing expenditures.
The people are paying now for the
support of government far more than
they can afford. Their own incomes
have been cut by a third, a half, or
wiped out altogether. Yet they are
compelled to pay for government as
much as in the heydey of a fictitious
prosperity when money was supposed
to grow on trees. Government has
not reduced its establishment, its
standard of living, as the taxpayers
have had to reduce theirs. It should.
-nd failure to do it will be visited
with swift and certain condemna
tion. World-Kcrald.
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There are 10.000 books on the life
of Napoleon that are worthy of in
clusion in a fairly complete Na
poleonic library. This means that
good books about him have been pub
lished on an average of one every
nir.ety-eight hours since his death
112 years ago.
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It is proposed that penal condi
tions in Georgia be federally inves
tigated. On condition, of course,
that Georgia "welcome investiga
tion." Whoever heard of anything
being investigated in this country
without an official welcome?
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It must be maddening to a wet
to start a conversation with a state
ment about beer and have him glance
off into an unimportant discussion
about economic troubles.
Perfect
Days Ahead
THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION
One of the most interesting de
velopments of the year just ended is
the increase in the attendance on
church services, and in church mem
bership. The Federated Council of
Churches of Christ in America points
to this as evidence or a revival of
the spirit of religion. We have been
told, that in the Catholic church
there has been a great growth in at
tendance. This seems to be a very hopeful
sign of the times. We went through
a period, after the war, when it look
ed as if religion had lost its hold
upon the people of America. From
the beginnings of our nation, we
have always been a profoundly re
ligious people. Religion was the
basis of our earliest colonial settle
ments. Our greatest leaders in the
earlv davs did not hesitate to pro-
! claim publicity and to practice their
belief in the guiding power of a Di
vine Providence. The picture of
Washington on his knees at Valley
Forge, when the cause of the Revo
lutionists seemed hopeless, has al
ways been one of the most inspiring
incidents in American history.
Tenets of every religion make it
a consolation in time of suffering
and need. There should be no feel
ing of shame on the part of the man
or woman who, having neglected his
religion and its call to duty when
material things were going well with
him, now feels the urge to come
back and join again the ranks of the
believers, seeking spiritual consola
tion for a bruised soul. That is w hat
religion is for. That is where its
greatest service to mankind is render
ed. We have heard men say that they
were afraid of being sneered at if
they turned back to the church now,
after staying away from it through
the fat years. We do not believe
that anyone who has felt the spirit
ual Illumination that comes from
mere contact with the inspiring
source of faith and hope that is in
the Church can ever feel other than
kindly toward ethers who, like him
self, have felt the need to refresh
their spirits and renew their faith.
"Here bring your wounded hearts;
here tell your anguish.
Earth has no sorrows that Heaven
cannot heal."
We believe, as firmly as we be
lieve anything, that the regeneration
of our national moral, impaired by
the disappointments and disillusions
of these late hard years, will come
about the more surely and the more
swiftly if, as we are told, our people
are really turning back to the re
ligion of their fathers for strength
and help.
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ROOSEVELT, THE LEADER
The governorship behind him, he
is again a private citizen de jure.
Mr. Roosevelt of Kyde Park, N. Y.,
but defacto he is distinctly some
thing else, with leaders of congress
making a beaten path to his door.
A conference called for Thursday
with a group of democratic senators
and representatives reveals the president-elect
exercising party leader
ship. His method now looks like
what President Wilson used to de
scribe as "an accommodation of:
minds," although there was never
much doubt as to who was the more
accommodating Mr. Wilson or the
gentleman on the other side of the
table.
One fact seems to be emerging with
clearness. The "Boy Scout" jibe at
the president-elect. implying the
lack of seasoned fiber in public life
and the softness of political imma
turity, has become out of date. In
the presidential campaign three was
happily no extravagant posturing of
Mr. Roosevejt before the public as
a great man, or even as a remark
able man, born through a special
providence for a grave national crisis.
The candidate in this respect was
not "oversold." He was elected with
few people expecting him to perform
miracles. If his real abilities have
been, in fact, underestimated, so
much the better for him.
That he has been underestimated
thus far will probably be proved ere
long. Whatever may be thought of
Mr. Roosevelt's case in his exchange
of views with President Hoover over
the war debts situation, it is certain
that President Hoover encountered
no weak or compliant Boy Scout when
he surprised the president-elect by
his first public telegram from the
train at Yuma, Ariz. Mr. Roosevelt
could not be bombed into a sudden
decision gravely affecting his admin
istration long before it could be or
ganized. He would "co-operate" but
on his own conditions.
This public bombing is technical
ly an art in which Mr. Roosevelt
seems to be able to qualify as an ex
pert himself at least on the defense.
Speaker Garner and his lieutenants
in the house last week seem to have
tested the president-elect In this way
by having the newspapers announce
j that the sales tax was to be put
through, presumably with Mr. Roose
velt's approval. The response from
Albany was shattering. But per
haps the most significant aspect of
the incident has escaped the atten
tion it deserves.
The aspect is Mr. Roosevelt's flat
refusal to follow Mr. Garner. No de
cision will be reached by the new
administration concerning the sales
tax without the president-elect. Such
is the real meaning, it may well be,
of the announcement at Albany last
week which must have pained Mr.
Hearst that Mr. Roosevelt was
"horrified" by the report from Wash
ington that he approved of the Gar-ner-Rainey
sales tax program. The
Roosevelt leadership in the demo-i
cratic party, in brief, is asserting it- 1
self. Incidentally, the recent Gar-j
ner-Roosevelt episode is having the
effect of putting the next vice-president
in his proper place. The cam
paign bugaboo that Garner would
dominate Roosevelt the coming four
jeers has already been deflated.
The indications are that there is
a Roosevelt program shaping up,
which is not to say that the president-elect
will take no advice but
that the program adopted for the re
mainder of the "lame duck" session,
land later on lor tne special session
in the spring, will have the Roose
velt leadership stamped upon it so
that every democratic senator and
representative will know what he is
bucking against if he opposes it. The
logic is good if a policy must have
the power of the president back of
it to go through, then it must be the
president's policy. No president has
ever been a successful leader of con
gress who did not spread himself all
ove rthe program he desired to have
enacted.
Whether the Roosevelt program
proves adequate or wise in whole or
in part, time will reveal. It looks
at least as if the president-elect
wuold be a glutton for absorbing of
ficial responsibility; witness his re
ported demand to be granted full
power to reorganize the government's
departments and cut costs of admin
istration approximately in accord
with his platform's extravagant
pledges. It would be a herculean
job, but he has coming to him a job
for a Hercules. If there is the
strength and sense of direction im
plicit in great leadership latent in
the man, his exceptional opportunity
for service, with a new congress
elected ovrwhelmingly democratic,
should develop him fast. Springfield
Republican.
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BUSINESS OF KNOWING FACTS
The deeper we get into the mire
of industrial and business depres
rion the more clear it becomes that
one of the principal causes of our
present situation was the reckless
overconfidence of supposedly "big"
men in the unsupported assertions
of other "big" men.
Nothing could be more amazing
than the facts brought out in the in
quiry in New York into the affairs
of Samuel Insull and his companies.
He walks into a bank and asks for
a loan of millions. Nobody takes the
trouble to inquire whether the secur
ities he offers are any good or not:
they are being sold at a certain price
on the Stock Exchange, and that is
enough for the bankers. They lend
him the money, and now it turns out
that the securities represented noth
ing, or practically that.
Ivar Krueger, the Swedish "Match
King," likewise built up public con
fidence, until the biggest bankers and
investment houses lent him hundreds
of millions on his word alone. They
had no way of knowing, of course,
that he had turned crooked, but they
could have found out the facts about
the worthless "securiteis" he un
loaded on them.
We heard of one European repre
sentative of an American bank who
nearly lest his job when he advised
his boss to lay off loans to Krueger.
The very men who were trapped
into parting with money intrusted to
them by depositors and investors, by
reason of their own misplaced con
fidence in men like Insull and Krueg
er, are the ones who were most loud
ly demanding that the public should
have confidence in themselves and
their institutions.
We are very much in favor of a
complete reform of our banking sys
tem, which will make it more diffi
cult for men handling other people's
money to keep out of prison after
they have parted with the money
without knowing the facts. If that is
lack of confidence, we confess to it.
What this country needs is fewer
banks and more real bankers.
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Japan, although facing a huge
deficit, has adopted the largest bud
get in the history of the nation. So
here's another country that has be
come thoroughly westernized.
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Come to Plattsmouth Wednes
day night and mingle with the big
and congenial crowd. Watch the
Journal ads for real bargains. 1
PUBLIC AUCTION
Having decided to quit farming, 1
will sell at Public Auction, at the j
I Li t J 111 I - 1 . - ' 1 1 IHI U
C miles north of Nehawka, Nebraska,
on
Wednesday, Jan. 18
beginning at 10:30 o'clock sharp,
with lunch served at noon by the
Ladies of Community Center, the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
Horses, Mules and Cattle
One hay mare, 8 years old, weight
100 lbs.; one gray gelding, 9 years
old, w t. 1500 lbs.; one brown mare,
10 years old. wt. 14 50 lbs.; one team
Molly mules, 8 and 9 years old, wt.
2200 lbs. A very good team.
Four first class milk cows. Holstein
and Jersey breed, 5 and 6 years old.
All fresh soon. Also two Holstein
and Shorthorn heifers, 2 years old. to
be fresh soon; three Holstein and
Jersey heifers. 1 year olJ; one Short
horn bull, 1 it years old ; one heifer
calf.
Five head stock hogs, avg. weight
about 100 pounds.
About three dozen Brown Leghorn
hens.
Also about S ton. of red clover hay
in barn.
Farm Machinery. Etc.
One S-ft. Deering binder, does good
work: one Df-ering mower; one Van
Brunt lS-hole wheat drill, new: two
John Deere riding cultivators; one P
A- O disc cultivator: one 2-row John
Deere power lift lister, nearly new;
one l-row John Deere lister; one hay
rake: one 12-in. John Deere stag gang
plow; one 14-in. walking plow; one
harrow; one John Deere "18" disc;
one John Deere corn elevator; two
farm wagons and one hay wagon: one
1000-ehick oil brooder; one John
Deere 2-row machine: three sets of
harness; one five-horse evener; one
woven wire stretcher; one dirt slip;
one garden hose and numerous other
useful articles.
Also some Household Furniture.
'-"Quite a lot of the above listed
la:m machinery is practically new,
and has been well taken care of.
Terms of Sale
All sums of $25 and under, cash in
hand. If credit is desired on sums
over $2"i, it will be necessary that
arrangements be made with the clerk
of sale. No property to be removed
from the premises until settled for.
Homer C. Campbell,
Owner.
REX YOTJNG, Auctioneer
W. G. BOEDEKER. Clerk.
Journal Want-fids get results?
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an order issued by the County
Court of Cass county, Nebraska, in
favcr of the State of Nebraska, and
against John Doe (real name un
known) and to me directed I will at
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the
21st day of January, 1933, at the
south front door of the county court
house at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, offer
for sale at public auction for cash one
Chevrolet Coupe. Model 1929. Motor
No. 134S005, taken as the property
of John Doe (real name unknown)
on said order.
Dated this 9th day of January, A.
D. 1933.
H. SYLVESTER.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
jl2-lC-19-sw
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9. at page 334.
In the matter of the estate of Wash
Lanuis. 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
3rd day of February, 1933, and on
the 5th day of May, 1933, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of each day to
examine all claims against said es
tate, with a view to their adjustment
and allowance. The time limited for
the presentation of claims against said
estate is three months from the 3rd
day of February, A. D. 1933, and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from said 3rd day of Febru
ary. 1933.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 6th day of
January, 1933.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) j9-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF HEARING
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the Guardianship
of John Warga, Mentally Incompe
tent. To all persons interested in the
jruardianship of John Warga. mental
ly incompetent:
You are hereby notified that an
application has been filed in this
Court by James E. Warga, Guardian
of said John Warga, mentally incom
petent, for an Order of Court author
izing him to lease the land belonging
to his ward and now leased to Albert
Warga and Charles Warga on a grain
rent basis, in lieu of a cash rent basis
as heretofore ordered by the Court.
It is proposed in said application to
rent said land for two-fifths of all
trrain raised upon said land and pas
ture land to be rented at such rental
as may be directed by the Court.
You are further notified that a
hearing will be had in the County
Court of Cass county, Nebraska, at
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, upon said ap
plication on the 21st day of January,
A. D. 1S33, at the hour of ten o'clock
a. m., and that you are required to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of said application should not
be granted, otherwise the prayer of
the said petitioner may be allowed
and authorised.
By the Court.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j9-2sw County Judge.
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
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an Order issued by the County
Court of Cass county, Nebraska, in
favor of the State of Nebraska, and
against Gus Whitely, and to me di
rected, I will, at 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon on the 14th day of January,
1933. at the south front door of the
County Court House, at Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, offer for Rale at public auc
tion for cash one Ford Tudor Sedan,
Model 1923, Motor No. A 1710029,
License No. 20-1112. taken as the
property of Gus Whitely on said
order.
Dated this 2nd dav of January, A.
D. 1933.
H. SYLVESTER.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9. at page 333.
In the matter of the estate of Henry
C. L. Ofe, 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
27th day of January, A. D. 1933 and
on the 28th 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 27th day of January, A. D.
1933, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is one year from said
27th day, of January, 1933.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 30th day of
December, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) J2-3w County Judge.
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
interested in the estate of Bertha
ilalmes. 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 raid
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
nrayer of the petitioner should not be
granted, 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 Baid 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. IL DUXBURY,
(Seal) d26-v County Judsjs.
