The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, June 03, 1912, Image 4
The Plattsmouth Journal - Published Semi-Weekly it R. A. BATES, Entered at the Postotfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Once more bedecked those silent graves, Where lie beneath thi' noble hravi's Who unci' willi valor I roil lln-ir beat, Lie silent in lln-ir long retreat. :o: .All h prorit.es arc sinners, and most of I lie sinners arc hypro cites. :o: The chairman at Chicago should have a trip-hammer for a fraud. -:o: It may he heller evcrcise to inow the lawn, but the average man would rather go tlshing. :o: Ouile a niiinlier of Cass coun ty democrats are arranging to at tend the llaltimorc convention. :o: From the present outlook IMaltsmoulh people will he com pelled to go elsewhere to celebrate the glorious Fourth of July. :o : The politicians an; getting so cxciled over trivial issues that, the eniivcnl ion may fail In declare themselves on the ipieslion of the national (lower. :o: . Don't lie alarmed if you see the children rolling around in the hack yard on their cars, elbows and noses. They are probably only practicing "folk dancing." :o : One of the tlrst qualifications for a president is ability to unite Jiis parly in congress enough to get things done. Neither one of the candidates for the republican nomination could do thai now. :o: There will be no show for Sen ator La Follelle in the Chicago convention. He is too honest and upright ami the tools of the trusts, a majority of whom will control the convention, know he is loo much in favor of the comnioti people lo suit. them. :o: The postmasters that are in ami want to stay in are feeling some what shakey, w hile I hero are several in every city and town who have eyes on the postotllce in case llooscvelt should be elected. There are also a few democrats who would like (lie place. :o : It is reported from Washington that Senator Hitchcock favors the parcels post. We believe Sen ator Hitchcock is right on most everything else, but must beg leave to diner with him on the parcels post proposition. We be lieve it is constructed in the in terests of (he mail order houses and will prove the ruination of many country merchants. :o: The proposed amendment to the constitution providing for di rect election of United Slates senators will not be a reality for a long lime yet. As some legis latures are not in session -and some meet biennually, it is ac cepted that two or three years must elapse before the amend ment can be acted upon by a suf ficient numfier of slates to in dicate whether it can command (he necessary three-fourths vole to make it effective. ' :o: It seems evident that neither of the rivals for the republican nomination for president are right sure of his ground, else there would he no such row as is going on over the temporary chairmanship of the Chicago con vention. Th ofllcials of the ua liona! committee, who are favor able to Tuft have selected Klihu Hoot for the position. The Roose Plattsmoutti, Nebraska Publisher. velt contingent is protesting and are proposing to put Senator (ilapp forward to oppose him. This probahly will bring the selection of a temporary chairman before the convention. Then the battle will be on good and plenty. :o: Ollire is (lie only cure for the g. (. p. itch. :o: Some people cheat, the devil by having their bodies cremated. :o: If you will get mad over politics better read only the woman's page. :o : You can yet drop a nickel in the republican slots and hear the trust organs grind. :o: The only fellow worrying about the corn crop is the one who wants the prices to go up. :o: r Our candidate for president will be a democrat whose principles will outweigh any man's money. :o: If we could see ourselves as others see us, there wouldn't be nearly so many egotists in I hi; country. :o: Considering the fact that a sucker is born every minute, the political situation is hardly to be wondered at. :o: llooscvelt can convince the peo ple of many things, but not, that he is caable of foreclosing a mortgage on the White house. :o: Taft has refused to give the senate the correspondence relat ing to Panama which this govern ment had with Columbia. Why? :o: What has Roosevelt, more than Taft, done to fill the market basket or to make it rain when rain is needed? Will someone please speak up? :o: II is said that $15,000,000 of the Panama canal appropriation will be returned unspent. Colonel (ioethals evidently is unfamiliar with the game. :o: A candidate who can "eat up his opponent alive" is called for, ann some of them have already dem onstrated their capacity therefor by eating their own words. :o: A democrat is a man who be lieves in equality of opportunity. A progressive democrat is one who wants to do something to carry that principle into effect. :o : The stale democratic conven tion will be held at drain! Island this year, for which no call has yet been made. At this meeting a new committee will be selected. :o: It is predicted that if our cantankerous soldier boys are sent to Cuba they will decline to eat the beef left over from the war of 1898. :o: Efforts are being made to in duce I.orimer lo resign his seat, but when people are presented with expensive furniture they hale to give it up. ;o : Strangely enough, the candid ates dodged the very live issue in the New Jersey campaign as lo how applejack may best be con cocted ami preserved. ' :o: ' rpeaKer i.iark s sister has been elected delegate from Colorado to the national convention at Haiti morn. Champ is sure of one vote staying with him first, last and all the lime. The New York American says, "This is a free country and its people can turn it into an empire with Roosevelt on the throne if they choose, and if they elect him they may have taken the first step in that direction." :o : Inasmuch as a candidate must at all hazards sedulously conceal the fact that he has a third cousin who is a manufacturer, it is doubtful if the National Manu facturers' association's new party gets many votes. :o: The senate investigating com milli'c finds Captain Smith re sponsible for the Tilanic disaster. Inasmuch as Captain Smith is not able to control any delegates from his present location, Ibis seems a safe position for congress to take. :o: The students of Northwestern university have voted against the "sanitary kiss." From which one suspects that kissing as a means of expressing your sentiment is not reckoned by these young students as one of the dead lan guages. :o : Some of the Yale secret society men were locked out of their rooms at .night, but the common, experience with college men is that the only thing that would bother them would be to lock them out in the day lime when they wanted to sleep. :o: The man who becomes so radical in his opinions and be liefs that tie denies the right of ar.other to hold an opinion foreign to his own, belongs to a narrow-minded gang which ought to be relegated into everlasting oblivion. :o: Another Decoration day is past and yesterday noted a decided de crease in the ranks of the old soldiers as they filed out of the church where the services were held. Anot her year and there will still be more of a decrease. It is a sad thought, but nevertheless true, that in twenty years or less there will not he a veteran of the civil war all willl have passed over the (ireat Heyond. Cheers for the living and (lowers for the dead, but always revere the mem ory of both. :o: In the days of old Phillip Armour he bought a steer for 5 cents a pound, killed it and sold it from 5 cents to a shilling; threw away the blood, bones and offal and cleaned up millions bv the progress. His sons buy a steer from 5 to 7 cents, sell it out from 10 to 25 cents, make valuable by products of every scrap of the animal and go into court and swear that they only gel out even on the transaction. It is too bad that the younger Armours do not have some of their father's cap acity. If they had they could get rich. : :o: Now the water franchise is set tled the most important and laudable movement inaugurated by the city council is the removal of the eye-sore buildings on the north side of Main street between Fourth and Firth streets. In this respect the members of the coun cil should not show any favort ism. Most everyone can put up a plea why such buildings should not be removed, and secure sign ers to such a petition. It seems to make a difference "whose ox is being gored" in this particular in stance. At the same lime these buildings were condemned, other buildings were likewise condemn ed, and were torn down, and they were not on the main street of the city either. "What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander," in this respect, and the council should treat, everybody alike. The council cannot show partiality in their deliberations for the best interests of. the city. If they halt in one instance in carrying out I heir duty they w ill be called upon to do the same, in other similar instances. Let the council slick to its text. SEVENTIETH MILE STONE. Yesterday (Sunday) was the fecund day of June, 11)12. Seventy ears ago mi that date, Col. M. A. Males was born in London, Otiio. Fifty-eight years ago this month he entered the oilier of the Madi son County Chronicle, printed in London, to learn the printing business. Very slow progress was made in that direction on the start because he was compelled to go to school in the winter. Hut by pursuing this course for four or f... ; COL. M. A. BATES. live years he received a common school education and learned all that was to be learned in the print shops of those days, before the civil war broke out. That changed the affairs in many a .young man's life, as it did in Colonel Hates. Ik was not in the enjoyment of. the best of health when the war was proclaimed, but be went out with the boys just the same first in the 201 h O. V. I., hen in the 401 h Ohio and last in the 951 h regi ment, from all of which he was discharged on account of poor health. After being discharged from the 95th regiment he fol lowed the Star of Umpire and landed in Monticello, Illinois, where he engaged in the news paper business some time in 1801. He remained there for two or thrijo years and I hen look up the plan of establishing newspapers to dispose ot I hem w hen oppor tunity was afford'-d. lie estab lished papers in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas to the num ber ot 2( or 27. He is somewhat surprised that he is hearty and well today, considering the many ups and downs he has had in his newspaper career. His first vote was cast for the Hon. S. C. Cox, a member of congress from the Seventh (Ohio) district, and he has been a dyed-in-the-wool democrat and esponsiug t he cause of that party ever since, continu ing in the newspaper business with but little variation. He thinks there is more reasons today why the democrats should have control of the affairs at Wash ington than ever before in the history of this great republic. He remembers very distinctly all the campaigns since Huchanan's elec tion, and while old age conies creeping on at a rapid pace, he hopes to see another democratic president elected before he is call ed home, and that his name will be Champ Clark, whom he thinks is one of the ablest men this country ever produced and whom he has known for many years. His hat is still in the ring for the principles of democracy, the only party that fully upholds the provisions of the constitution as it w as handed dow n to us by I hose who fought that we might be a free and independent people. :o: OUTLOOK FOR THREE PARTIES. Outlook for three parties in the campaign for the presidency this year seems most probable. Roosevelt will be a candidate whether he is the party nominee or not, having expressed himself lo that purpose on several dif ferent occasions. It is settled that his hat will still be in the ring regardless of the action of the republican national conven tion. President Taft has an ex cellent chance to win the party nomination at Chicago. v 4 I On the other band, if he is not made the nominee, the anti Roosevelt sentiment in the re publican party which was started in St. Louis and which is spread ing over the country, will name a candidate to compete with Roosevelt. According to last week's Chicago papers, there is a secret understanding among twenty-live representatives in congress who have decided that if Roosevelt is the candidate of the party, they will refuse to go before the people for re-elect Ioit with the colonel's name heading the ticket. The third term pro position has not been developed a. it will be during the intervening weeks before the Chicago conven tion. It is probable that there will be the anti-third term party which will be composed of repub licans opposed to a third term for any president. The democrats will have a candidate in the Held vicing for honors, and this will make at least three leading candidates with the strength about equal. In such an event, it is possible that the electoral college will be un able lo give a majority to any one candidate, and the election of a president turned over to the house of representatives, who will nams the successor to Taft. When the selection of a president is left to the house of representatives the representation from each stale is entitled to a vole and a success ful candidates must have a ma jority of all state's votes. : o : Did you ever stop to think that the old soldiers you see today were just about the age of your 18 or 19-year-old son when they shouldered a musket and went to the front? And if this country was threatened today and its very existence in danger and your boy volunteered and went to the war and came home with an empty sleeve or with healthbroken down, do you think that anything the government would do for that boy would be too good for him? :o: The. slogan of the country if Roosevelt should bo nominated will be: "What ' Washington would not have, Roosevelt shan't have." The people of America know the great powers of the oftlce of president and they will never risk the chance of Diazing this country by having a president for more than two terms. i ;o: A Philadelphia minister de plores the fact that John Jacob Astor left so many millions. Here's where we again fall out with the ministry; we are glad that the lamented Mr. Astor left his millions, instead of taking them with him. :o: "The man who is looking for a cool place lo spend a part of the summer had better save up his dollars to attend the republican convention at Chicago. After that any place will seem cool. Thre is a possibility that every postmaster in the land will have to "walk out" after March, 1913. If Teddy is nominated and elected they will have to go, and just the same if a democrat is elected. :o: It would be a terrible thing if our great men fought duels, as in the brave and bone-headed days of old, but it might tend to take some of the mud out of the cam paign. :o : Democracy is going to skin the skunk this year, it matters not whether he smells like Taft or Teddy. C.W.CHRISWISSER THE Live Stock Dealer Nchawka, Nebraska is ready to make you the most liberal offer on anything you have for tale in the stock line. Get His Prices Before Selling OR Herman Grccder, Graduate Vetincary Surgeon (Formerly with U. S. Department Agriculture) Licensed by Nebraska State Board Calls Answered Promptly Phone 378 White, Plattsmouth NOTICE TO CREDITORS. STATE OF NEBRASKA, Cass County, ss. In County Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas J. Fountain, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the creditors of said deceased will meet the Administratrix of said estate, before me, County Judge of Cass County, Nebraska, at the County Court room in Platts mouth, in said County, on the 26th day of June, 1912, and on the 2Gth day of December, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, for the purpose 'of presenting their claims for examination, adjust ment and allowance. Six months are allowed for the creditors of said deceased to pre sent their claims, and one year for the Administratrix to settle said estate, from the 23rd day of June, 1912. Witness my hand and seal of said County Court, at Platts mouth, Nebraska, this 21th day of May, 1912. (Seal) ALLEN J. REESON, County Judge. D. O. DWYER, Attorney for Estate. 5-27-iwks. NOTICE. In County Court. STATE OF NEBRASKA, County of Cass, ss. In the Matter of the Estate of William E. Pull, Deceased. To All Persons Interested: You are hereby notified that there has been filed In this court an in strument, purporting to be the last will and testament of the said William E. 1 ull, deceased, together with the peti tion of Mary E. Dull, widow of said deceased, alleging therein that the said William E. Dull has departed this life, leaving; said will, and praying that said instrument be allowed and pro bated as the last will and testament of Hfllrl H t. n n u o .1 awA l.ot I . .. ........ ...... ..... .. ...uv iciicio testa mentary be Issued. mm a neanng win ne had on said petition and will before this court at the court house In the City of Platts mouth, In said County, on the 6th day of June, 1912. at 9 o'clock a. m. All objections thereto. If any, must be filed nn or hpfnrn uaiA Hov ami of hearing. witness my hand and the seal of the County Court of said County, this 15th day of May. 1912. (Senli At.l.KV T TtttwjriK' - 6-16-3wks. County Judge. NOTICR OF SUIT. Cora L. Shay, Sarah M. Hess, Wallace Hess. SVnnWIin V Craamaw Vf. Creamer, John A. Wright, Ethel Wright, John GrofT, r., Phoebe Oroff. Charles J. GrolT. Ira C. Groff, Mary A. Orofr, Clara J. Groff and Hellce E. Groff. defendants, will take notice that on the 24th day of April, 1912, Isaiah L. Creamer, plaintiff herein, filed his petition. In the District Court of Cass County. Nebraska, against said de fendants and others, the object and prayer of which are to determine the rights of all of said parties In and to the west half of the north east quarter of Section 13, Township 10, North, Range 9, East of the 6th P. M., In Cass County, Nebraska, and to partition the same according to the respective rights of the parties to said action and If the same cannot be equitably divided that said premises will be sold and the pro ceeds thereof be divided between the parties according to their respective rights. You and each of you are required to answer said petition on or before the 3rd day of June, 1912. Dated this 24th day of April, 1912. ISAIAH L. CREAMER, Plaintiff. By D. O. DVV EH, His Attorney. XOTICK OF ADMINISTRATION. All persons interested in the estate of William M. Wiley, deceased, are hereby notified that a petition has been filed In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska alleging that said de ceased died leaving no last will and praying for administration upon said estate. A hearing will be had upon said petition on the 15th day ot June. A. D., 1912, at the County Court office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, ami at said time the Court may grant administra tion of said estate to Mary L. rlley, the widow, and proceed to the settle ment of the estate. Dated this 20th dav of May, 1912. ALLEN J. HKESON. County Judge. SOTICK OF APPLICATION FOR I.Hll OR l.l F.INSIO. Notice Is hereby given to all persons Interested and to the public, that the undersigned, G. G. Williamson, has filed his petition and application with the village clerk of the village of Murdock, County of Cass, and State of Nebraska, as required by law, signed by the re quired number of resilient freeholders of the said village, setting forth that the applicant is a man of respectable character and standing and a resident of the State of Nebraska, and praying that a license may he issued to the said G. G. Williamson for the sale of malt, spirituous and vinous liquors for the municipal year, at his place ot business, sltunted on lots 2 and 3, block 18, In said Village of Murdock. G. (1. Williamson Applicant. May 20. 1912. NOTICE OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The County noard of Equaliza tion will set for the purpose of equalizing the assessment of Cass County for the year 11)12, in the Commissioners' rhamber at, the Court House in Plattsmouth, Ne braska, beginning Tuesday, June 11th, 1912, at in o'clock a. m., and continue from day to day up to noon on Saturday, June 15th, A. D. 1912. All claims for equalization must be tiled on or before Friday, the lith day of June, A. D. 1912. D. C. MORGAN, County Clerk. Don't forgetl The Journal office Is prepared to do all kind of fancy Job work. Give ua a trial.