TnunscAV. November 12, ion.
PLATTSMOUTH SiSMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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'Cbz pJattsmoutb Journal
Published S e m l-W eekly at Plettemouth. Nobr.
Ecirred at. tl.e l'c'.oSice ut IIattmoutb. Nebraska, as second-class inail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Tatitr.ce and pers-uasivenes? w
art' !ea..:iful virtues in dealing: -
-I- with thiMren a::I feeble-ir.ind- --
ni a.iuit-: hut tho.-e who have --
the jrift of reason and under---
.tar. I the principles of justice,
V it is our duty to compel to act v
up to the highest lic'nt that is in -l-them,
j.'.-.'i as promptly as possi- v-
Me Elizabeth CaJy Stanton.
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The ve.-Ii-.-t aqnirift university re-rr.o-.ai
is .-imply ovenvhelminjj.
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An Omaha clergyman complains
t: t it is tiirTicuIt to pet to heaven
f;vr.i that town. See America first!
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Thousands of democrats extend con-
irratulatior.s to lien. A. C. Shallen- j
Lere-r. the new congressman from the j
Fifth.
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The rerio-.ali-ts pot it in the neck
p:etty Lai'y. They ought to have
gotten a geat deal worse,,-if it were i
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P'jssio.e.
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i.al!y" got there in great shape j
fi-om the Fifth district. Ex-Governor
Sha'k-nSercer has been in congress
before, and is nut a "new hand at the j
business.
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It w.'.i he four years before woman's !
fuff'-a.-e will u given another tussle, j
I'.y that tirr.e the voters will make t:p
t
their rr.ir. Is to give about 50,000 ma-!
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j"rity agou.st it.
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rar.K iiarn.-JM
iow out of a J
j and has perhaps made enough :
r.u. :y in riunaging Howell's cam- ;
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pa.gn to take a trip to Panama, cr I
.- n;t- other foreign country where j
peace reigns supreme. !
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While the cour.try shows a democrat
ic ls.-. Nebra-ka moie than holds her
own, with a governor. lieutenant gov
ernor ard several other state officers.
While the democrats lose a congress
man in the Fir.-t district, they gain
oe in the Fifth.
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Tr.e : l:jv.i ;g fium the Nebraska
City Daily Press contains a great deal
m re truth than poetry, and is right
to the point: "Newspapers are al
v. ays blamed by the defeated candi
dates, and very few of the successful
candidates prai.-e a newspaper for
v. hat ii. did for them during the cam-
paign. This is always the cac, and !
revspaper men long ago resolved to
r.ever have any hard feelings toward
men who speak unkindly in passion.
It is the cold-blooded declaration of
war, made duiir.g ordinary times, that
makes the editors dodge."
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Addressing an aii'denec composed
of slo-.k rais is from practically every
state in the union, at the National
Dairy Show convention in Chicago re
ee.ttly. Secretary Houston of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
Tei iarcd the short meat supply to be
t' v the most serioM. problems c -n-fro
.iting American agriculture. Mr.
Il'-unon approved the plan of cattle
i-g on 1 iree ranches and declared
tb. t r.o effort would be tpaied by the
f-.'.'c-ral government in further increas
'1 g production from this source, but
In.- sted that the proper solution of
tl:i': probler? I't oeniiod on an increaseu
j':t.rest in live stock raising by farm
ers and in a more systematic control
I eradication of ho1 cholera, cattle
i-nd tuberculosis. Figures were
ti.'otcJ from government reports,
:hr.-:ng that the production of meat
in the United States Caring the past
f.j.uleen years had fallen off o,C00,
lOt'f' pounds ar.fi that the popula
t . f.f the nii'on ng that ti-ir
had increas-d 2,0UV"0.
The winter's coal bill is the night
mare of the defeated candidate.
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Yes. Uncle Joe Cannon has come
bad:, and so has the Loxelder bug.
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It has certainly been a tecord-
breakinc endorsement cf Governor
Moiehead, and he carries his honors
very meekly.
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The majority against woman's tuf
frasre is climbing slowly as the re
turns come in, until it has reached
nearly 12.000.
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With all their piety, the various
belligerents proceed on the theory
that the Lord helps only those who
help themselves.
There is one good thing: about the
defeat of woman's suffrage in Ne
braska women in this state won't
have to serve on juries.
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We are talking peace a great deal
in America' just now, but it is not
i thought that any other country will
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take it so seriously that it will try to
lmpose upon us
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There ig not cven Q scra) of (aper
bearing any foreigner's signature
recognizing the Monroe doctrine, Lui
Unde gam has heretofore been able
to force respect for it.
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Tedcv Roosevelt would like to have
his vignette used on some of the new j
hundred-dollar bills. Garfield, lie-!
Kinlev and Harrison were satisfied
with smaller denominations.
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The legislature is strongly demo-
cratic in both branches. The senate
sta:.ds 20 democrats to l'i reDubll-
sans. In the house the democrats
'nave 5, while the republicans have
:J5.
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If the republicans can get any con
solation in the election returns, for
.he Lord's sake, let them have it. For
months before the election they made
gieat claims that they would control
congress after the -1th of March next.
Now how do they expect to do it,
with a democratic majority of CO in
Lhe house and io majority in the sen
ate ?
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THE PUESLNT SITUATION.
The First National bank of LJoston
sends out a circular saying that steady
progress has been made toward re
establishing normal, financial and
commercial conditions. The panicky
and semi-hysterical sentiment of thir
ty days ago has largely vanished. The
war, with all its horrors, is less and
less in the public mind and gradually
breaks in the trade machine are be
;ng mended. The news from financial
London is most reassuiing, due in
part to the action of the United States
and other countries outside of the
war some in paying their obligations,
and in this respect the action of the
New York banks enabling New York
city to meet its maturing loan abroad
with a distinct public service. So,
too, was the voluntary hundred mil
lion gold pool which is now in opera
tion. Modeled somewhat after this
latter pool is the p-oje;;ted "cotton
pool," which is mentioned because its
formation is typical of the spirit and
fairness which has been evident dur
ing the whole crisis. After eliminat
ing, by almost. common consent, un
sound and unfair schemes, sane and
well considered propositions for the
relief of the industry have received
the prompt co-operation of all sec
tions of the country. Grain shipments
are heavy, wheat exports now running
about 25 per cent over last year. The
textile trades are doing a good bus
iness with Europe, while in food sup
plies and war materials record orders
are being reported.
NOT ONE SAID NAY.
Without a single dissenting vote
the 3,000 teachers participating in one
of the meetings of the state accosia
tion are reported to have approved
a series of resolutions that contained
one provision for state pensions for
teachers.
It is a little surprising that among
so many intended beneficiaries there
should not be one to protest the pen
sion proposition.
For there are many reasons why a
sense of pride should impel an Ameri
can to refuse the offer of a pension,
at least from the puh-'ic coffers.
One of tnem is that a pension for
any class of workmen that comes out
of the taxing of the people is unfair
to all other classes. It is un-American
to tax one class of workmen for
the support of another.
Another reason is that many of the
teachers who would enjoy the benefits j
of ptate pensions are much better able
to get along without them than are
half the people who pay them.
Receiving a pension from the pub
lic treasury is not exactly a thing to
be proud of. It is next door to re
ceiving public charitv. T the aver
age citizen the idea of being helped by
public charity is repugnant. Calling
such public charity a pension does
not make that sort of help much more
acceptable to the proud person who
thinks.
Perhaps a plan might be devised
whereby a tax might be levied upon
the salaries of teachers which would
go into an old age fund out of which
teachers might secure relief in the
decline of life, but that would not
be a pension. It would be a system
of annuities such as are paid by in-
surance companies. To that system
i ' VtIV V V U I V4 VOj V. .7 tut- evvt .1 j
would be taxed lor their own so
called pensions. But to tax the poor
in their own old age for the support
of superannuated teachers would be
.-o manifest an injustice and so mam -
festlv un-American that it is strange
that ?n a company of 3,000 intended
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uriiciitlttllta ui eulii .l srLejii nieie;
was not one to raise a voice against
It. Lincoln Star.
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Gentlemen, you will have to doff 1
your hats to Democratic Nebraska.
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To members-elect of the new legis
lature: Steer clear of Omaha in the
election of a speaker of the house.
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You may think you can't win with
out taking a chance, but some sure
thing games are quite prosperous.
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'"One of the saddest features of it
all," says the Fremont Tribune, '"is
to see the little gas bubbles where
Frank Harrison went down."
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There is now an education trust
in Nebraska, composed cf the mem
bers of the State Teachers' associa
tion. Where's the trust-buster?
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The wolves in the forests of Galicia
are not giving the troops as much
trouble as those that have begun
scratching at the doors of humble
parents in several countries involved
in the war.
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Fighting from the clouds, from un
der the sea, and by powerful search
lights at night, is not adding to the
popularity cf war. The old method
was not so rapid as the modern way,
but it was more humanlike.
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Over in a strictly prohibition town
in Iowa comes a good joke on one of
the preachers of the place. He was
collecting evidence of illegal liquor
selling. He slopped a beer wagon
one day and ordered a case of beer.
It was promptly delivered and he paid
for it, the amount being $3.00. Then
he had the driver arrested and fined
for illegal iiquor selling. A few weeks
later he stopped the same driver and
asked him if he would take back the
case of beer. The driver took it back,
paid the preacher $3.00 for it, and
then had the preacher arrested for
selling beer illegally. This reads like
a foolish yarn, but it is vouched for
by a number of good residents of the
town who agree that the preacher got
just what was coming to him.
Remember do your Christmas ad
vertioing early.
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Here it is ahnost the middle o;
November, and we are still swatting
flies.
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Among the other heroes are those
who fearlessly attempt to pronounce
the var names.
An old-fashioned man is usually a ;
proud of that fact as his daughter is
of the new fall styles.
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It Ls hard for some of the repub
lican state officials tc give up, but
they must come to it.
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About every candidate that the
News supported i:i Omaha seems to
have gotten it in the neck. The de
feated will know what to do in the
future, if they happen to run again
for office.
Some of the countries resent our
talk of capturing their foreign trade
, during the war. They feel that while
it is all right for an undertaker to
make a profit on a funeral he should
act go around among the mourners
biagging about it.
If Plattsmouth light users. are pay
ing a higher rate than users of elec
tricity in other cities of the same size,
the council should not enter into a
contract with the Nebraska Lighting
compaiiy until these rates are lowered, ions ree;es in many states uist 1 ues
The members cf the council are the (day, but. except for tiie loss of Con
public servants of the citizens of j grcssman Maguire in the First dis
Plattsmouth, and it is their duty to jtiict, it met no reverses in Nebraska,
see that justice is done the patrons j The less of the First diitricL was bal-
jof the light company.
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This has been a great year for thejf t'"c
I American farmer. Not only have his
crops been bountiful, but his surplus
is in great demand at unusually hie!"
nriro. Tn XoTitr-hPi- r.rrovdlm' to
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I the figures of the treasurv denart -
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intent, the United States exported al-
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most three times as much 111 bread-
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stuffs as :i vear nro. and the exnorts
stuffs as a vpar nro. and the exnorts
cf breadstuff's for the nine months
ending October 1 were more than
i .?JU.M)0.0t'0 greater than for the cor-
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responding period last year.
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NOV KM LIEU.
Are you one of the men who think
of November as a month to be en
dured somehow, relieved only by the
occasional sale of a quart cf cran
berries and a few other staple's, and
appropriately closed with Thanksgiv-
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Or are you one who sees in Novem
ber a month for Thanksgiving indeed,
as containing as many joys and pos
sibilities as any other month of the
year, not even excepting December?
Assuming that you are one of the
latter class, lot us indulge in a little
speculation with you on the possibil
ities of the month just opened.
Talk all you want about shopping
early and Do your Christmas shopping
now," there always will be the big
gest end of the holiday business left
for December. Uuslness during the
holidays, the strictly holiday business
which means gift buying as distin
guished from buying for erne's ow-n
use, may be likened to a wedge with
the large end butting up right against
Christmas day and the small end ta
pering off to well, as far as you are
able to pull it.
Taking that illustration, as far as
the thin edge of the wedge is able to
be pulled by most merchants is about
v here we are now in November and
it takes some pulling usually to get
it to begin now.
But that is really wnat November is
for from the standpoint of a retail
merchant. It is to start the thin edge
of the holiday and winter business, to
give a good opening and a good start
up the incline so as to pull over the
sharp hill of the last week or two
with all the speed and volume possi
ble. That means that right now you have
to got busy. For the retailer who is
out for profits November is anything
but a melancholy month; it is the
month that leads up to Christmas, to
holiday buying and which pays its
own way as it goes. Omaha Trade
Exhibit.
Do not sit up nights hating your
neighbor. Go to bed, have a good rest,
cd me down in the morning and beat
him to it.
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Not all of us can buy a Lai? of cot
ton, so why not amend it to ""buy a
crate of eggs" before the hen reduces
her acreage?
There seems to be no doubt about
the election of Charley Pool as secre
tary of state. Charley has many
friends in Cass county who will re
joice in his success.
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The election result in Nebraska
winds up with :;cvc:'. state officials,
both bianchc; of the legislature dem
ocratic, with a democratic governor
elected by nearly 18,000
Pretty good for one time.
majority.
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Ju lge Co?.: ad iiollenbeck has been
elected supreme judge ly a good ma
jority over Judge Eoece. As soon as
Judge iloller.b'eek takes his :eat there
will be a vacancy in the jujdicial dis
trist where the judge has served so
ont fauhfully and efficiently. This
will necessitate the appointment of
a judge for this district, and Gee. I..
j Loom is is being pu-hed by hds friends
for the appointment. Mr. Lvomis was
the democratic candidate six years
ago against Judge Reec?, who is now
defeated by Judge IIolienb;ck.
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NEKHASKA HEADS Till: LIST.
The democratic nartv met with scri-
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janeed ny the gaming of tne 1-ifth. And
Nebraska, almost alone
les iii the union, showed
pronounced democs a.ie ga.ns.
Governor Idorehead is re-elected by
largely increased majority. Where
i two years ago tne legislature was only
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' shgntly demccrauc in the house, and
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republican m tne senate, a r.tw i-rgi--
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lature nas been chosen ovc rv. hclran::,-
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i iy democri'tie in both branches.
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;y oemocratic m both branenes. hi. 2
j the retur ns a; e not yet deci.dve, indi-
, cations are promising that at least a
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r.arl of tin; uemoeiatic state ttc.et be-
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low tr.e governor r..-.s '-een e cc.en. in
cluding a democrat for regmt of the
state university. In any event, the
republican majorities have been great
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ly reduced
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The popular vote of the state is
democratic on congressmen, thanks
notably to the surpri.-ing democratic
gains in the Second and Third dis
tricts, while two years ago it was re
publican. Nebraska, in a year when almost
ilie entire country records democratic
losses, shows distinct and gratifying
gains.
This is the outstanding fact of the
Nebraska election.
And this fact is the all-suuicieut
evidence that Nebraska democrats this
year matte no mistake. In their pri
marie. in their slate convention, in
the management of their state cam
paign, their actions were such as to
meet with the approval of the peo
ple, to sweep back the rising republi
can tide, and to enable them to send
to President Wilson the cheering
news, not merely of democratic vic
tory, but of substantial democratic
gains.
To Nebraska democrats, who have
made this splendid show ing, w ho have
pushed Nebraska clear to the top of
the democratic list in this year 1911,
the World-Herald extends compli
ments and felicitations. Only about
25 per cent of the democrats of this
state voted to nominate Woodrow Wil
son for president. Lut after two
years two years in which he and a
democratic congress had abundantly
made good they voted and worked as
one man to accord to him and to con
gress the vote of confidence and sup
port that was so richly merited.
Democratic hats, the country over,
may well be doffed to Nebraska.
World-Herald.
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Scratch! The more you scratch the
worse you itch. Try Doa i's Ointment.
For eczema, any skin itching. 50c a
box.
Painis and Oils
Phone 36.
Ctring & Co.
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LUSiMlSS IMPKOVI1M MM'.
Recent reviews of business condi
tions throughout the United States
are exceedingly optimistic as to the
prospects in eery section of the
country save in the cotton states.
That the people of these states will
i'.ct be aided by congressional action
when congress meets is-not to be
Jicught c.f, and measures looking to
relief will be vigorously pushed in
the national legislature next month,
ar.d the south will bo brought out of
its distress.
This should have been done before
ilie adjournment, but better late than
never, as ! with the routh abl to novo
forward in the expansion of trad?
with the other section, all clouds of
depression will be dispersed.
Unexampled prosperity is found in
all the agricultural districts of the
:ast, the west, and the north; large
productions of the farms have been
met by the greatest demands of all
time for such roduction.
The European war has extended
and expr-nd'jd those demand-", and will
continue to so extend and expand them
for many months ahead.
The manufacturing districts of the
country are doing far moie business
this f:r.-t week of November than they
did in tiiC first week cf October, and
they did more business in October
than was done in September, and so
from them we have this demonstra
tion of improving trade.
More than 100,000 men have re
turned this past week to employment
in the mills, shops and factories of
this country, and between now and
the first of December many thousands
more will be set at work through the
demands upon the industrial estab
lishments for their outputs.
The federal reserve banking system
will be ready to transact business next
week, and this will rt once remove
all tension in currency supplies, and
enable the banks to immediately ex
tend financial assistance to sound en
terpiises and legitimate and safe bus
iness affairs.
Depression is rapidly disappearing,
and with the new banking system in
augurated under the direction of Sec
retary McAdoo and Comptroller Wil
liam the business men of the United
Rtates can rest assured that, as far
as the law will permit, everything
possible will be done to facilitate and
maintain financial ease.
Amj.de cunency .supplies, large for
eign purchases, prosperity in the ag
ricultural districts, increased purchas
ing power among thre-fourths of the
people of the United States is a guar
anty of manufacturing activity and
of larger and more profitable business
to our merchants.
Throughout the union the times will
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Exact Copy of Wrapper. tmc cibmus eop. c "
For Ir.fcpts and CMIdren.
The Kind You Have
Bears the
rare
Thirty Years
be better, and the dullness of trade
locally wiii be a thing of the past by
the opening of December. Washing
ton (D. C.) Post.
For a ouiek -e'def of pains in the
muscles, ths ba:k, the chest or the
fhtoat, apply Triner's Liniment. Price
of this liniment 5Cc, by mail COc.
For baby's eioup, Willie's daily cuts
and bruise-?, mamma's sore throat,
grandma's lameness. Dr. Thomas' Ec
lectic Oil the household remedy, li-'c
and 50c.
I have for sale four fine residence
properties in Plattsmou'.h, all well lo
cated and prices right; just the thing
for retired farmers or anyone wanting
an up to date, modern harr.e in the
best town in Nebraska. T. II. Pol
lock. Plattsmouth. Tel. 215.
I have several tracts cf from 3 to
13 acres adjoining Plattsmouth, all
well improved. For sale on easy
terms. T. H. POLLOCK."
Tel. 215.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OK THE
Plattsmouth State Bank
of Plattsmouth. Nebraska
Charter No. 7-i;
Iiioorixir.-uod hit In-tato of Nel'i;t-Ka. at the
clone of husiiit'ss. OctolH-r ."!!. '.M4.
KKsOl'UcES
Loans ami dix'ount i.s:;,;i 4
Orcnii jfis " ' ' '4-0 ,,
Ifc'Tlils. securities, jatlirrinents-elairiw
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I. mi 1. 1 iii.- Iiuiisp.f ui-iiit ure and ti: 11 res
Ueal estate otlier than liuiikiii'
luv.ise
Current exiene. taxes ami interest
taio
Casli items
I Hie fnni national ami slate l.:uii,s..
("li"-lvs and oilier items of excliaiiire
Cunemw
(old (in
Mlvor, niekels and cents ...... " '. '.. '.
1.74;
1.47V CO
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Total
1-1 A 111 LIT! F!S
Catita; MorU paid in
"Miri'liis funtl
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i inn . iiiei iironis . I ' ii j ",11
Jnclivi.inal m-j.;Mis snl.jeei t.. eli'eeu". i :,"::M .:
I 'einaml e riitii-ntes of UeiKisit I -
Time cert itieatesof iieni ImTviT i'i
N;'tes ami l.ills re discounted '..m-
ills ;,:,.va!.!e Nl ,.
leiK5.tot s guaranty fund 1 4-4
Total....
:40.;':.:: -i
State ok Nkhhaska. '
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caslnerof the aln ,- named h:m!,. ,u lier-f-swenrthat
tin- aUive t ateinent I, a eoii-c't
jiml true eopy of U,e reix.rt made to the sia;e
Hanking Board. j. m. KollKKT-.
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Attest: Y L Nrn-KU.. Kireclor.
i.l. II. Ivtihtn. lt rector.
SubsL-rii.c.1 ami swot n to l.ef. ire me ti,;-. 7ili
(lay of Octol.er, HU. K. u im,avi.
. Notary I'ul.Ji.-.
.seal Jiy commission expires tet. 1'.'. i.M."..
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The Union Auctioneer
Union, Nebraska
All sale matters cutruste.il to my care
will receive prompt and care
ful attention.
Farm and Stock Sales
a Specialty!
Rates Reasonable!
Address or phone me at Union
for open dates.
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