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PL ATTSM O UTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1915.
Cbe plattsmoutb journal
I'l IILIMILD SLJII-UKEKLY AT PI, ATTSMOl Til, MCIIHVSKA.
Entered at I'ostolnce at IMattsniouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
THOUGHT FOB TODAY.
To persuade one soul to lcal
a lttter life is to leave the
l world happier than you found it. v
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Kverybody seems
ready for winter.
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to be petting
Carpenters and builders generally
are still very busy.
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Here's your hat. Dr. Dumba. But
what's your hurry?
:o:
The teal man will soon take the
place of the ire man.
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Public opinion is also apt to oer
ctimate wisdom from time to time.
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The Palm P.each suit is doing more
to make winter popular just now than
the corn crop.
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Jt has been a freaky year with the
weather. So the unexpected may be
expected to come to pass.
There is now talk in Washington of
a c all for a special session of congress
some time in the next month.
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Who says that the American is not
patriotic, when he gives a winning
ball team such cordial support?
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This is sure a great country. When
we are not bothered with candidates,
flies and mosquitoes come in swarms.
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Did you ever police how many men
g about with a whitewash brush in
or- hand atd a bucket of tar in the
other?
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It's not the confidence of the people,
but. their votes that makes a politician
get so familiar with yon just before
election.
Anybody hinting for trouble usual
ly has pretty good luck, but the fel
low who falls in love with another
man's wife has a cinch.
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Too many people cast their bread
upon the waters with a toothpick and
then hang around and are disappoint
ed if they can't get a two-ton truck
load in return.
With little cucumbers selling now
for at approximately a penny
apiece, it is a wonder some long-headed
picklcist doesn't go into the busi
ness and raise a few millions for the
market.
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Senator Placek of Wahoo thinks he
rati save the democratic party of Ne
braska by heading the ticket next
year for governor. Out of the candi
dates proposed yet, Placek is certain
ly the smallest toad in the puddle, so
far mentioned.
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A late discovery of the agricultural
department is Sudan grass, which is
attracting much attention from pro
gressive farmers. In the semi-arid
districts of Texas, Sudan grass has
made as high as six tons per acre, and
as a result, Texas lands are increas
ing in value. Although Sudan grass
produces more seed than any other
gruo (it has yielded 2,."00 pounds p r
a-re -t a single cutting), it sold in
VJlit t $2.25 ard the price is now SI.
Think of the setd of a hay crop sell
ing for $2.5U0 per acre for one cut
ting! Sudan is the only grass known
that will produce more hay to the. acre
than alfalfa. In Texas the discovery
of Sudan grass has caused as much
excitement as would a discovery of
oil.
SAVING THE SEED COKN.
Even if you have selected and cared
for about twice as much seed corn
from last year's crop as you think you
will need next year, none the less save
seed corn from the best and most
mature corn of the crop of 1915, ad
vises Wallace's Farmer. When we
suggested saving seed from the crop
of 1011. it was simply as an insurance
against a failure of corn fit for seed
this year. In some sections of the
country, and on some farms in many
sections, this old seed corn will be
needed. Some may say that it's rather
early to talk about seed corn. Yes, in
a normal season; but this is an abnor
mal year. We have had no real corn
weather this summer. It may change
and give us hot weather this month,
and again it may keep up its reputa
tion and be unseasonably cool. In this
case frost may come much earlier
than usual, as it has in some sections.
We don't like these cold nights. There
fore, get ready to select your seed
corn earlier than usual. Select it
from your own field, if you have a
variety of corn that is satisfactory,
suitable to your farm, your soil, your
climate. If not, get permission to se
lect it from some neighbor's field.
Wherever yoj select it, select it in the
field and make a study of the plant
its stalkines.;, its leaf structure, its
height, the location of the ear on the
stalk. You don't want an ear too high
up or too low down. Remember that
like usually bgets like, and that even
such trifling things as the location of
the car on the stalk, an exceedingly
long shank, or too short a shank, is
likely to be reproduced in the crop.
Hut suppose there comes an untimely
frost and kills the blades. Don't let
that stop you from selecting seed corn.
If instead of a frost it is a freeze that
kills the stalk itself dead, and pre
vents any further development or the
maturing of the grain, don't select
seed from this corn.
Some of you may think it strange
when we say that the killing of the
blades does not injure the seed on that
ear. Just think it over: The' stalk
itself is not frozen; neither is the car.
Of course, there is no further develop
ment. The corn will shrivel and dry
up. That wdl affect its looks, but it
won't affect its germinating power.
You may think very poorly of it as
you look at it in October, but it will
grow if you take care of it. There is
more corn lost through improper care
after it is husked and before it is
dried out, than there is by a light
frost that kills the leaves. Before it
has dried out. there may come a freeze
that is fatal. We once had some ex
cellent seed corn spoiled in February.
It was in a driveway between corn
cribs, and the door was open. ' That
corn absorbed moisture from the air
on a warm February day. A sharp
freeze followed, and the corn on one
side of the ear was killed. We shall
have to lc very careful in drying out
seed corn this year. Do not hesitate
to use artifcial heat if necessary.
Corn is spoiled by having too much
moisture in the grain originally, or
th rough absorption and then being
subjected to a sharp freeze which kills
the germ. We may have more to say
about this in the future, but just keep
it in mind. Although it is September,
and the proper time to select seed
corn usually is in October, keep your
eyes open this year. We are not pre
dicting an early frost, but it is just as
well to look out for it and be ready
for it if it docs come. The farmer
cannot prosper unless he keeps an eye
out for the next year, and in the case
of his rotation and some other things
for several years ahead.
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Carranza's best coup would be the
capture of Villa before the Pan
American diplomatists meet again.
Take your own advice if you have
backbone enough.
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Foot ball will soon take the place
of base ball. Then comes basket ball.
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When the straw hats go, they stand
not on the order of going, but go at
once.
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Where there are 400,000,000 people
in a nation Helpless. Look upon
China and India.
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There is some talk of Governor
Morehead as the democratic candidate
for congress in the First district next
year. He has not yet signified his in
tent ion of making the race.
If the girls are to hang fast to the
low-necked waists, as they did last
winter, then let Providence be thank
ed for the boas that have arrived to
temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
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The Kentucky girl who has brought
suit for 525,000 damages against the
tobacco company which used as an
advertisement her photograph, in
scribing, "She's a good :-port," is prov
ing that she isn't.
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An exchange wants to know what
has become of the man who used to
keep his money in a knot-hole in the
attic, because savings banks were not
safe enough? Well, he is dead, while
his son is investing his funds in war
stocks.
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A young lady is puzzled. She wants
to know when it comes time to stop
talking over the telephone, who should
say good-bye first the man or the
woman? Foolish girl and foolish
question. Everybody knows that a
woman always has the last word.
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When George Hall attempts to get
the best of Governor Morehead on
matters pertaining to the state he will
find a greater task on his hands than
he expected. The people are getting
awful tired of Hall's buldozing
proclivities. It would seem that the
two Halls Tom and George are' try
ing to be the "whole cheese."
Gossip! The very name has a nasty
sound. You'll find her sneaking into
the stores, the school room, the
churches and societies. You'll find her
masquerading under the name of
friendship. You'll find her leaning
over the back fence or edging in be
tween husband and wife. No place is
sacred to her. She blackens the char
acter of men and women and of in
nocent girls. She ruins the careers of
young men. Suppose a man or wom
an is not as you are or as you think
they should bo. Do you know you arc
right? Iet other people think as they
believe the should think, whether it
is about politics or religion or morals.
Don't gossip about them. Hell may
be paved with good intentions, but the
supporting pillars arc the gossipers.
President Wilson, through modesty
or a sense of fairness, refused to per
mit an indorsement of his candidacy
in New Jersey, for fear it might look
as if he were taking advantage of the
international situation to boost his
political chances. And yet, when the
time of picking and choosing comes,
as it will next year, President Wilson
is apt to stand or fall by the success
or failure of his international policy.
If it continues to come as nearly re
flecting national sentiment as it has
through the past trying year, there
doesn't seem a doubt but he will be his
party's choice, and probably the choice
of the nation. Whether he wants it to
be or not, there is no denying that the
international situation must be the
dominant issue until this cruel war is
over. And a situation so constantly
strained and difficult admits oppor
tunities of bad breaks that might
prove disastrous. The nation will
think , much of the. man who avoids
them. Also, so tense a situation cen
ters public attention on the govern
ment as nothing could during the pip
ing times of peace. As never before,
the president has his political fate in
his own hands, not likely to be largely
influenced by anything congress does
or doesn't do.
GETTING CALAMITY FAT.
Funny, isn't? but it's true. This
country is becoming calamity fat
When the European war broke out the
United States was in throes of finan
cial depression. The dollar was be
coming scarcer and hard to find and
harder to keep. All Europe seemed in
a conspiracy to flood our markets with
foreign made goods at prices below
the point at which they can be manu
factured in America. Factories were
beginning to close, construction work
diminished, bankers became over-conservative,
men and women were los
ing their employment, people with
money commenced to withdraw it
from circulation and hoard it up, and
then. The war! Hard times ensued
for awhile, but soon commenced to
subside. With half the world in a
wild iind savage orgy of blood
America found little time to think of
her internal troubles. The mind of
all humanity was focussed upon the
apalling destruction of life and prop
erty abroad, upon the crucifixion of
civilization, and the shattering of the
hopes of universal peace. The Ameri
can toboggan slide was brought to an
abrupt halt. The markets of the bel
ligerent countries were opened up to
us, and insistent calls were made for
the goods that they could no longer
make. Then the wail came from the
other and neutral countries, and
everywhere the cry was, "We want
goods!" The tide turned the tobog
gan was kicked into the discard, and
the American mind turned to the more
profitable subject of supply and de
mand. Prosperity is on the rebound.
The war is the greatest calamity of
the world, yet it. is flooding America
with untold opportunities. It is de
stroying the commerce of half the
peoples of the earth, and yet on the
crest of the blood-stained waves of
disaster America rides to greater
wealth and financial and commercial
power. I he lat ot calamity comes
to us!
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Katydid may now be heard if you
know where Katydid lives.
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The assault on Belgrade indicates
that the war is to be fought all over
igain.
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Attorney General Kced is not sure
that the proposed prohibition con
stitutional amendment is legal in
form.
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It generally takes two to make
walking anything like a pleasant ex
ercise. :n:
The president must be thankful for
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Roosevelt il
lustrating the extremes that should be
avoided.
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The announcement of the Pan
American diplomatists may start
some vigorous fighting in Mexico to
settle who's who.
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An extra session of the senate
would not last long. Senators do not
generally waste time on empty gal
leries, when no record is kept.
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Don't suppose those packers who
lost ? 15,000,000 worth of meat to the
British government will turn their
bank accounts over to the billion-dollar
loan; and they have some weight
in Chicago.
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Mr. Taft's recent utterances are
characterized as extremely wise and
sensible; and for that reason, people
say, he can't be president again. In
ference: The wise and sensible are
not in the majority.
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The. former generation erectf d
monuments at the scenes of battles
and birthplaces of public men, ano
probably the text generation will be
putting up markers for famous hits
and plays in base ball.
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We do not anticipate any serious
opposition to Senator Hitchcock for
renomi nation'. We cannot see any rea
son therefor. Certainly he has filled
the position in a more able manner
than any senator Nebraska has ever
had. , .
We are still having very cool nights
and making is necessary to start the
furnace in many instances.
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Senator Jack Grace of Muscat,
and a former resident of Cass county
will be a candidate on the democratic
ticket at the primary next April for
railroad commissioner. Jack is all
right, and there is not a man in tho
state that is better qualified, and he
will fill the bill to perfection.
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No woman has ever discovered
better system or rule for getting a
husband than the old one of waiting
and insisting upon being won. In
stances are many of women trying t
reverse the order, and doing the win
ning, and in most cases the con
sequences have been disastrous. Man
undoubtedly wants the privilege of
wooing, and woman must persists in
insisting on being wooed, to keep
things balanced just right.
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western icirasKa grain growers
arc this year in high feather. They
have had such abundance of rain as
to give them an enormous yield of
wheat and oats, yet not so much as
to work injury to the crops. Forty-
bushel wheat yields are very com
mon and these mean a return in one
year equal to the price of the land
in most instances. That kind of pros.
perity will do much to settle up that
portion of the state, though of course
it cannot always be at high tide.
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FACTS A HO FT THE LOAN.
Many misstatements of fact about
the huge credit Great Britain and
France are seeking to establish in the
United States have been made by both
the advocates and the opponents of
the loan. Not a cent of money would
be taken out of the country. The loan
would" settle, at least for a time, the
foreign exchange problem. It would
insure this country selling goods of
one kind or another to the allies to the
amount of the credit The government
would in no manner be involved in the
matter, unless the comptroller should
alter the rule limiting the amount any
national bank may lend to a single
borrower to one-tenth of its capital
stock or the Federal Reserve banks
should rediscount some of the paper.
Whether the credit is used to pur
chase munitions of war or not is im
material, except to sentimentalists.
After the big loan is made, if it be
made, another one will likely follow,
participated in by bankers or capital
ists who have no scruples as to how
the proceeds arc spent. Some of these
conditions have been misrepresented
by opopnents of the loan.
But the misrepresentation has not
been all on one side. The widely pub
lished statement that the bonds would
be "a first mortgage upon the entire
British empire and France and her
colonies" is false. It would be merely
an unsecured debt of honor, whose
payment would depend solely on
ability and disposition of the borrow
er. There are no mortgages on na
tions or states and there could be no
way to foreclose them.' A nation can-i
not be sued, except with its own con
sent, and payment of a judgment
against it, procured in its own court
of claims, depends on the willingness
of the representative body to make
the appropriation. The United States
has always paid its debts, although
the greenbackers fought resumption of
specie payment in 187D. Eleven of our
states have repudiated debts, two of
them twice. Since the adoption of the
eleventh amendment to our constitu
tion no one can collect a debt against
any state without its consent. Great
Britain and France will pay their
bonds when they fall due if the par
ticular governments then in existence
are solvent and honest. But these
bonds are legally but debts of honor.
We are asked to give a large unse
cured credit to going concerns, which
may need billions more before they
get out of their present difficulties.
"We would feel safer if Great Britain
and France traded bonds for Ameri
can securities held by their subjects
and offered such securities as a basis
of credit. Then we could sleep well,
without worrying over how the bat
tles are going. St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Children Cry
The KindYo.it I Iavo Always Bought, and vhich has born
m UMi for ovtT L.O years, lias borno the signature 'of
stif ' sr-z -fiJ"l has boon inado itudcr his por-
C&ZZ .al suiR'rvisiou since its infancy.
All Counterfeits. Imitations and Just-as-sood " are but
lixperiine.itsthat triilc with and eudant t'ho health of
Imuuts aud Children Lxperieucc against EspexiwciiU
What Is CASTOR I A
Casforia is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric-,
Drops stud hoothinjx Syrups. Jt pleasant.' It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Xa-ootic
Klibstance. ,(s a is ils guarantee. It de.s(nvs IVorni
mid allays Feverislmoss. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of t'oustipation,
1 I atuh iiey, AViud Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Iiarr!m-a. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
;;s,MU! :?;s h "od S1V"S healthy and natural fclcen!
'I ho Chxldreu's Panacea Tho mother's rrieuUU
GENUINE CASTOR I A ALWAYS
Bears the
In Use For Over 30 Years
Tho Kind You Have Always Pought
Come out Saturday evening and en
joy the dance at the German Home.
Good order and a good time assurred.
Music by the I'lattsmoulh orchestra.
LOST.
LOST On the automobile road be
tween Omaha and this city, a red
curved automobile door. Finder
please leave same at this office.
FOIt SALE.
FOIl SALE 80 acres, very choice.
half mile east and one milfc north of
Murray, $17i per acre.
T. II. BOLLOCK,
Kiley Block, Tlattsmouth.
To the 1'ublic.
"I feel that I owe the manufacturers
of Chamberlain's Colic,' Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy a word of gratit
ude," writes Mrs. T. N. Witherall,
Gowanda, X. Y. "When I began tak
ing this medicine I was in great pain
and feeling terribly sick, due to an at
tack of summer complaint. After
taking a dose of it I had not long to
wait for relief as it benefited me al
most immediately." Obtainable every
where. NOTK fc
ii th Ounly 'nrt of be County of
Chmx. briiMka.
n !: KstMto of .lames V. Barvrick.
I ' OilSC'l.
To .Ml Poi sons Interested :
You iir licifhy notified that on Sen-
emlr 4. 131.".. Selina Barwick tiled a
petition for julininistrator upon the
state r -lames . uarwicK, neeeaseu.
1 lei: ins that sai.l deceased died inte
tate, leaving liim surviving as his sole
tid milv heirs-at-law, Selina Barwiok.
widow: John K. Warwick, son. and
telen O. .Iiilyan. Hilda C'offman and
N'orali ;l!tee. da u trh t eis, and re-iuests
he appointment ot John 10. Barwick as
I m in is t rat or.
A healing will he had upon said
petition at the own e ot me i.ouni
nde, Court House. I 'la t tsinoiu n. i ass
'ontitv. Nchraska. on the istn nay oi
ictoher, A. I . I'.'l.i. at 1 1 o clncK a. ni ,
efore which hour all onjeci ions ineie-
o. if any, must ho tiled.
By the Court.
AMIKN T. BKKtfO.V.
County Judge.
AV A. i;uIU;i:TSOX, Attorney.
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To
the Farmers!
uy
There 'is no better investment in
lards; buy .them before values advance,
and the present cycle of productive
Wyoming. . ,
In the Big Horn Basin and the North 1'iatte Valley, irrigated iarms are
. m i. 1 a All .. i Ln
beinv- cut in two and ofiereo tor sale
loci lilies are the heaviest on record.
;.rm near Powell, Wyo., almost a gift.
i i i i A, ..mili.. ir
ncre in iseDrasKa ano twuia ruic m .., ,
If you are not fixed to buy, even on easy terms, take a 320 acre Mondell
homestead in Wyoming, for mixed dairy farming; crops of wheat and oats on
these this year just like a settled country. Look oyer the West now, along
the' Burlington lines; you can ride all day through crops and make your own
deduction as to what this condition means to the man
WSml
for Fletcher's
Signature of
VOWK O ITY.
otici: ok m it to n ii:t titm:.
In Hi- IHxtriel Court of the Count- of
Chhh, VelirnxkH.
William t. Troop, l'laintiff,
vs.
John H. Clark, et al., I lefemlants.
To the I it-fondants. John R. Claik. the
unknown heirs, deyisees, legatees,
personal representatives and all other
persons interested in the estate of
John l:. Clark: Mrs. J. U. I'erry, wife
of J. 1.. I'erry, first real name un
known: the unknown lielrs, devisees,
legatees, personal i epresentatlve
and all other persons interested in
the estate id' John Irwin, deceased;
Sarah Frances Line: the unknown
heirs, deyisees, legatees, personal
representatives and all other persons
Interested in the estate, of S-'arali
Frances Lir e: Finery Ballou: ti e un
known heirs, devisees, legatees, per
sonal representatives and all other
persons interested in the estate of
Fmery Ballon, deceased: William K.
I'otter, lieeeiver of Omaha Loan .fc
Trust Company:
You are hereby notified that on tlm
4th day of September, A. I. 1 V 1 5. plain
tiff filed his ?iiiit in the Idstriet Court
of Cass County, Nebraska, to iui't the
title to the following described land in
said County cf Cass. Nebraska, to-wit;
The west half of the northwest
quarter, and the southeast quarter
of the northwest quarter, all in
Section thirty CiO). Township
eleven (Hi North. Ilange thirteen
(Hi Fast of the 6th p. m.
because of his adverse possession by
himself and grantors for mure than ten
years prior to the commencement of
said suit, and to enjoin each and all of
you from having or claiming any right,
title, interest or lien, either legal or
equitable, in or to said land or any
part thereof, and to require you to set
forth your right, title, interest or lien
therein, if any. either legal or equita
ble, and to have the same adjudged In
ferior to the title of plaintiff to said
land, and for general equitable relief.
This notice is made pursuant to an
order of the Court.
You .are icquireil, to answer paid
petition on or before the l.'dh d.iy of
November, A. I. 1913, or your default
will be dulv entered of record.
WILLIAM O. TKOOr, l'laintiff.
C. A. KAWLS, Attorney.
9-27-4wks
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NOTICK TO JOSKPHINE Dl'DA. Non
resident Ifendant:
YOC AKE HEKKHY NOTIFIED that
on the 12th day of May, 1 ! 1 r. Max Imda
filed a petition against you in the Dis
trict Court of Cass County, Nebraska,
the object and prayer of which are to
obtain a divorce from you upon the
grounds of cruelty, desertion and in
fidelity, and for the custody of ti e in
fant child, the Issue of said marriage.
Marie Imda, aged two years, and that
the bonds of matrimony now existing
between the plaintiff and defendant
may be dissolved, and for such other
ami further relief as may be equitable.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before Monday, the litli day
of November, 10 in.
aiAX DL'DA, Plaintiff.
9-16-4vks
Land Now!
sight right now than to buy Western
due to the high prices of products
years in Nebraska, Colorado and
on lavorame teims. in mi
You can secure a Governmnt irrigated
This years crop on thousands oi
vjlnn tlm nricrimil nriep of the land.
who will get hold of land in these localities now. Write
me. I can help you. My services are free.
S. B. HOWARD. IMMIGRATION AGT.,
1 004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.