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PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917. PAGE !. Cbc plattsmouth journal rt ltLIMIKD SK.MI-VK!:KLY AT PLATTSMCHTH, NEBRASKA. Catered at rostoffice at Plattsmouth. Neb..is second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher . tCBCRirT10X PHICBi t.3 PER YKAIl IS ADVANCK THOUGHT FOR TODAY Let him who has a grievance againt his fellow descend into himself and seek whether he has nvwr heen good in the j(rc-t life of that fellow. For mj;-elf I hae neter met any one by whose side I have felt my inisibk goodness besting itself without he has become at that very instant better than mvse!f. Maeterlinck. Beautiful Winter weather. It may j-rove a weather breeder. -:o:- Why not macadamize the other ave nues. :o:- Fr.le.-s put there by the right V'.man. a man does not care for a f! i-er in his coat lapel. :o:- Wheii your conscience will not al- h-'.- you to sju-ak good of a neighbor. d-:i"t speak of them at all. :o: Experience tcr.ches that the person who is always searching for some- tri!:r better seldom finds it. :o:- Yi:; oft', n find a person who pre-fe-.- a cheerful liar to the person who ir.-i-ts on telling the plain truth. Kei y couple sk'udd have witnesses at their marriage. They come handy "u' eii the diree sidt i- instituted. If a ftllow a:i!s to m!I you a sure winner, k-ep your money in your ! k t. lie ha.-::'t get it or he would k it him .-elf. Not being aide to swat all the lit tle irritat! -ns of life, as we would .-uat a fly. it is a good idea to try to i ;-e rdnive them. yung couples. elope in onler r'it to find themselves overstalked with ak'.rm clocks following a con ventional wedding. -:o:- .t the beginning f the war every body trembled, because the financial experts e. timated that a year of light i:iT would eo.-t "l.uno,oiM. It did, and a lot more. Since some of the railroad man agers have expressed a willingness to sell their roads to the government, many of thoe who have been asking for government ownership are inclined to wonder if this is a good time to buy. That depends on whether the Moads will sell at actual or inflated v ah-iation, the writer would think. :o: It is amusing to hear some of the "protectionist" newspapers howling for investigation of the high cost of p ipe;-. So long as it wa.: high-pricvd food, fuel, rlothi :rr, etc., these papers believed in hiirh prices, but when the .-1 u" begins to pinch their own feet, they hwl for relief. Hut let us have the investigation, anyway. When the price of a commodity rrr.i'le from : j ! i;ce trees doubles in cost in one year, it is time to take an inventory. :o: Let us agitate the .matter of ma cioiamizing ( hicaco and Lincoln ave n;:es. It can be done at one-half the price' that the work can be done w ith bri' k, a nil we have the rock right hcie at home, and the men and teams to place the rock on the avenues. All w - need is a the crusher, and we can pun hare a good second-hand crusher very cheap, and guaranteed to do the work. And after the avenues have been macadamized, then we can do the work on son.e other principal thor- noghfaies. This kind of business will g'o employment to out- laborers, and those " !i" 'vi'l p"il';!p- rv'd the en -rdoyment. LINCOLN IN THE SCHOOLS. . Is it possible that our pedagogues are neglecting the memory of so im portant a personage in our national history as the revered emancipator? Most of us may have thought of such a possibility, but the allied Grand Army posts of Omaha seem to have conceived the idea that our schools put in so much time teaching the young about Caesar, Cicero and their ilk that no adequate time is given to the in spiration that lies in an intimate knowledge of the life and works of Abraham Lincoln. Pei haps the suggestion will startle the average adult. Those of us who are old enough to have been in touch with Lincoln's time and career will be hardly able to conceive that any child can have escaped a more or less elab orate comprehension of what the ven erable railsnlitter was and is in Amer ican history. His memory is so deeply ingrained in American politics and Amciican history that it must be in deed a dull child that does not en counter enough of the love that all men entertain for his memory and achievements to awaken in him an in clination to know more of the savior of hi.; country. Of course every product of the pub lie schools should go out into the world with a ready speaking acquaint-, ance with Abraham Lincoln's career. If the schools do not now provide it, certainly it is time to suggest that they should. Cut in providing it the teacher must not overlook Caesar and Cicero or any of the celebrities of their kind in history. An ingrowing education is as bad as an ingrowing tovr.ail. It would be an uncouth pro duct of any school who would go forth into the world knowing everything to bo known about Mr. Lincoln and noth ing about Caesar and Cicero. Not even the veneration of the American veteran for the idolized war president must be permitted to put the heroes of. the classics out of history. Lin coln Star. -:o:- Satan, we are told in the old pro vcib, has little difficulty in finding mischief for idla hands to do. But when the hands are not idle, then it's all off. There's nothing doing for Satan. Proverbs, it is said, are the crystalized wisdom of the experience of ages. Whether this is true of all proverbs, Thomas A. Edison seems to have found it true of this one. Last Sunday a New York preacher read from his pulpit a number of answers to the question: "What are the great est safeguards against temptation?" which he received from prominent men. Here is the reply he received from EHson: "I cannot answer the question contained in your favor of the fifth instant, as I have never had any experience in such matters. I have never had the time, not even fivt minutes, to be tempted to do anything against the moral law, civil law or any law whatever. If I were to hazard a guess as to what young people should do to avoid temptation, it would be to get a job and work at it so hard that temptation would not exist for them.': :o : The banquet of the Young Men's Bible class of the Methodist church on Thursday evening, promises to be one of the most interesting social events of the se ason. The Young Men's Bible class is something that is doing much good among the young men of the city, and these annual banquets have become noted as social events of the young men. :o: There are many laws that should be stricken from the statute books be fore any new ones go on. :g: Ker since the days of Samson women have been able to make fools of strong men. THE WAREHOUSE LAW. Only a short time ago Attorney General Reed said in giving notice that he would enforce strictly the anti-gambling statute: "It is not up to me to mak the laws. I have but to enforce them as I find them. If they are wrong the leg islature should change them. I shall observe the laws of this state as they are given." But, surprisingly, we are told that Mr. Reed refuses to enforce the public warehouse act because, as he says, "the act is unconstitutional, null and Void and of no effect." We may disregard the official's in clination to pass judicially upon the soundness of the warehouse statute. But we cannot disregard the fact that Mr. Reed insisted at one time that he would enforce the laws as he found them and then at another time refused to enforce a law as he found it. The warehouse statute was passed by the 1915 session in response to a real demond. It was made the sub ject of a clear-cut democratic party pledge in 1914. Many investigators, both republican and democratic, have since testified as to its desirability and have stated that its enforcement unquestionably means the prevention of loss to farmers who store grain in elevators of the state. Until Mr. Reed obtains judicial af firmation of his opinion, would it not be better for him to accept the law at face value and endeavor to carry it out in the spirit in which he knows it was enacted? World-Herald. About all a father expects after he leaches 70 is a change in the weather. :o:- The man with a beanery appetite seldom finds fault with the table linen. And yet a lot of folk who get ex cited following some leader in a cam paign will wonder why the people in Europe are at war at the behest of kings. :o: R. O. Marnell, of Nebraska City, has been appointed by Frank Ander son, grand master workman of the Nebraska Ancient Order of United Workmen, grand treasurer of the lodge, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward L. Dodder of Omaha. Mr. Marnell is cashier of the Merchants' National bank of Nebraska City, one of the best men that could have possibly been selected for the position. :o: We hope the legislature will soon get clown to business and make things lively. A hustling legislative body al ways livens up things. There is one member of the present legislature that they all want to keep their hands off of, and that is W. J. Taylor of Custer county. He is a fine gentle man, unassuming and all that, but he will fight, and always knows what he is fighting about. A ready debator, and in almost every instance is John-ny-on-the-spot to prove that he. is right in his argument, lie is an in cessant worker, and decidedly the ab lest member of the present house. :o: That the price of wheat, which be gan to rise before winter wheat seed ing time-says the Nebraska Farmer, did not cause a stampede to wheat is shown by the government report on the winter wheat acreage. The in crease in the country-wide area this year, compared to last year, is only 2'j per cent. Winter wheat growers, therefore, are not "tearing their shirts" to ivercome the world wheat shortage. In the fall of 1911, just after the outbreak of the war in the fall of 1911, just after theout Europe, there was an increase of 11.1 per cent in the area sown to winter wheat, compared to the fall of 191'J. But in the fall of 191.1 the area dropped back to ll..'l per cent, leav ing the acreage just about where it was in the fall of 1913 before the war. The increase of 2M per cent in the area this year is not a signifi cant one All this indicates that farm ers are following rather well estab lished cropping systems, and are not inclined to jump from one thing to another with every temporary charge that occurs, (u the long run that, is the soundest policy. Considerable sickness in Platts- mouth. :o: No. no, my dear friend, we don't know everything, and neither do you. Contractors say that several new homes are already planned for early spring. :o: Governor Neville was wise in se lecting Lee Metcalfe for his private secretary. :o. There will be something doing around the capital this week with both branches of the legislature in session. :o: Unless the price of sugar drops be fore the preserving season comes, the sale of glass jars this year will not be so large as usual. ' :o: President Wilson was sixty years old last week, and Ross Hammond of Fremont, rises to remork that he ran like "sixty" last fall. :o: One reason why we know that uni versity professors know more than anyone else is that we can't under stand their explanations. :o:- You can't keep a good town down. and that's the reason our citizens are preparing to "pull together" for the eld town as soon as spring opens. :o:- There are to be three total eclipses of the moon and four partial eclipses of the sun this year. One total eclipse cf the moon has already occurred. :o:- John M. Teeling, of Hastings, will carry the electoral vote to Washing ton, after sixty ballots. John is pro prietor of the big hotel at Hastings. -:o:- Senator Howell has it within him self to make friends in the pursuit of his duties, or enemies, whichever he chooses. If lie wants to run for mayor of Omaha, he had better brace i:p, join the procession and try and be somebody in the senate. -:o: As Carranza is so anxious to get the United States troops out of Mex ico, the administration should order them out, and then watch how soon Villa licks the stuffing out of Carranza and his whole gang. Then he wilj find. out on which side his bread is but tered. -:o:- There is something quite inconsist ent with some of our elevated prices. For instance bread is sold in England for 54 cents per pound, while here it ir, S cents. And the English bread is made from American flour. Perhaps this result comes from government control of prices across the water, while here it is a purely individual matter. :o :- Hon. John Murtey has demonstrated already that the democrats of Cass county macbp no mistake in electing him to represent the county in the legislature. He seems to be making himself a very useful member, and he will make a most extraordinary mem ber if he is placed as chairman on some prominent committee like bank ing, of which he is well fitted. .o: "Gentlemen may 'cry peace," said the late Patrick Henry, "but there is no peace." So the women of Illinois may plead the single moral standard, but no such standard exists in any community. 'Why? Because women themselves, swift to condemn a sister, suspected of wrong doing, are at least tolerant of the roue who is affable, dreses well and makes a good appear ance in the social whirl. Bixby in State Journal. -:o:- MRS. DICK PITMAN IMPROVING. 1'"ioiu 'el nexilji y'.s lyij W. T. Adams of this city was in Omaha yesterday for a few hours vis iting with his daughter, Mrs. Dick Pit man, of Murray, at the Presbyterian hospital in Omaha, where she was operated on a few days ago. Mrs. Pitman is doing nicely and it is thought will soon be able to be up and around and able to return to her home in a short time. This will be very pleasing news to the friends of this estimable lady throughout the county. For Sale Two fresh milk cows. John M. Meisinger, Mynard. Phone 3022. " l-2-3td2twkly IX THK IIISTKM'T ! ItT OP TUP. COl.XTV OP CAS!. XKIIUASKA. A. r.. Tula, Plaintiir. vs. Simpson Uutcher, et at, Defendants. Xoliec- of Suit to Quirt Title. To tlie defendants Simpson lSutclioi"; tin unknown lieirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other 'persons interested in tlie estate of Sinn son ISntclier. deceased: .lolm P. ( 'iiiuniitiurs also known as .lolm P. Cum mins: Mrs. John P. Ciuinniiiis also known :is Mrs. .lolm P. Cummins, first real name unknown; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives, and all other persons in terested in the estate of John P. Cum ininRs also known as John P. Cummins, deceased: the unknown lo irs, devisees, letratees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of Mrs. John" P. Ciimniiims also known as Mis. John P. Cummins, first teal name unknown, deceased; S. N. Merrium, lirst real name unknown; Mrs. S. X. Merriam, first real name un known'; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of S. N. Merriam, lirst real name unknown, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep i esental i es and all other'nersons in terested in the estate of Mrs. S. N. Mtrriani, lirst real nam - unknown, de censed: Kllen Howard: John I oe liow i'ld. first real name nnk;.own, hnshand or widower of Pllcii Howard; the un known lu-irs, devisees. I v --'a t ees. person al representatives and all other per sons interested in the estatt of K'.leu Howard, deoasod: the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal repres.- ii latives and all other persons inter cited in ihe estate of John Ie How ard, li.-st real name unknown, deceased; I.ouizsa Miles: Kichard lloe Miles, first real name unknown, hushand or wid ower of l.ouj.a Miles; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all oil.i r persons in terested in the estate of I.oniza Miles, deceased; the unknown I -iis, devisees, h i-,a tot s, personal n pii t''iit.itU'i's and all other persons l n t err.-1 e in the is- tate of IMchaid Koe Miles, tiist real, name unknown, deceased: M a r.tra re t A. IMumer: William I'lumer; John J.. Keevcs: Mrs. John I.. Keev.s, lirst real name unknown: the unknown heirs.! devisees, legatees, personal representa tives and i ll otJ.i.'f persons interested in the estate of John I.. Kcc'es. de teased: the unknown heirs. d"vi.-ees. I. L'ali ( s, .i ismial representatives Mid all other persons interested in the es tate of Mrs. John I.. Ie.-es. lirst rea! name unknown, deceased; the un known ownns Mid the unknown claim ants 1 lot seven 7), ia hlock eleven j (lit. i'lattsniouth, Cass county, ."e i raska. Vnn are !,eelv notjtiid that on t!ie) UMttT day of l'eceliil.er. -. I .. !!'l".. I'h'intitT til. d l is suit in the Pistrict Court of the County m' f'nss, N'elifaska, in I'lliot 'da i n t i f; s title to the nhovo i'.. set i 1 1 d lot. to-wit: lot seven i7. in hlo' k eleven ill'. ity of I'lattsniouth. Caf s Count t. Ned raska. hiiaose of his i dverso possession liv himself and hi planters for nioie than ' ii yean-; pi un to the commencement of said suit and t en.tojn ach am: all of you fr j.m havinv.' r claiming any rinht. title, lien or iniere-l. either ieua I or eiiiitahle. in or to s.id lot 01 any part thereof. To rcipiiie ynii to set forth your riht. title, claim, li'-n or intcies! tlarei'i. if Mi. lither hal or cqnit ihle. :m! to hae the same adjudged inferior to the tit!" of plaintiff ami for general Cui tal le relief. This i.otiee is made pur suant to the order of the court. You aie repiired to answer said petition on I ., iv helore Monday, r f-oi ua i 1!'. A. 11117. or your default wiil he ilulv t at red Ihelcin. A. 1.. TI I d . ria int iff. A. I.. Tidd, Pro Se. w. a. l: if.i:i:TS' ". Attorneys for Plaint ill'. i.i;;i. mum 1:. Not'.e to mm - re i'h 11 1 s difendants, their heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all persons inter ested in their est a t e. To the unknown heirs, devisees. leU' i;ti"S. personal representatives and all persons interested in the estate of I o i i s I'm ml;, deceased, and the un known claimants of the east half of the northeast onarter of section seven teen ( IT) township eleven (111 rr.ir.'i; thirteen east tith P. M., ('ass county, .V!.i aska. Von and each of you are hereby noti fied that Charles Cotitryman as plain tiff, on the IJth day of I tecem her. hip!, tiled his petition in the IMstrict Court of Cass county, Nebraska, wherein you and all of you are defendants, the ob ject (i ril prayer of which petition, is that the claim, interest, ritht. title and estate of each and every one of you in and to the northeast nuarter of sec tion seventeen 1 7 J township eleven (111 north rane thirteen east t'.th P. M.. Cass county. Nebraska, be declared invalid, and of no force and effect. Thai the title of said plaintiff in and to said real estate, and every part thereof be ouieted as against you and each and every one of yon, and against any and all iaims of any person through or by you. and that it lie ad judged and decreed that each and all of you whose names are above set forth, if I i vin.iT. and if deceased, the heirs, devisees, legatees, and personal repre sentatives and all other persons inter ested in the estate of each and every one of you, have no ri-jrht, title, claim or interest in and to said real estate, or any part thereof and that each and all of said defendants, those named, end those whose unifies are unknown and not stated, be forever barred from claim in.!; or asertitm any riRht, title, interest or estate in and to said real estate, r any part thereof, and for nidi "other and further relief as to the court may seem just and equitable. You and each of you are further noti fied that vim are retpiired to answer said petition on or before Monday the '.th dav of".Tanoarv, PH7. CI1AKL.KS CUNTKYMAN. Plaintiff. C. A. KAVVJ.S, A t tnrncy. I weeks hegiimiiiK ll'-ls-l'!. NOTK i: TO CltlilMTOIt. Stale of Nebraska, ' ss. Cass Con rily. In i ionil fMri. In the mailer ot the estate f Harmon P.c-tor, deceased. Notice is heteby nivi-u to the credit ors of said deceased that hearings will be had upon claims tiled against said estatt-, before me. County Jude of Cass County. Nebraska, at the County Court ,...,, in I M :i 1 1 sin o 1 1 1 I in said Couutv. on the 1; f ; 1 1 1 day of 1 eceni bei , "P I , and on the jth day ol June, i:i. 111 1 i o'clock a. m., each day for elimina tion, adjustment, and allowance. AH claims must be tiled in said court on or before said last hour of hcwrinjT. Witness mv hand and seal of said County Court, at Plattsmout h. Nebras ka this 7tll dav of November, PH'i. AI.LKN J. JJKIiSON. (Seal! County ..'udC. Pirst publication 1 1 -27-l!l(i-f wks. CAKD OF THANKS. We desire to take this method of expressing to the many kind friends and neighbors our heartfelt apprecia tion of the sympathy shown us at the time of the death of our beloved daughter and sister, and especially do we -thank the friends for the beautifi'. floral remembrances. Mr. and Mrs. John Hobsheidt and Family. Farm Loans, Insurance and Ileal Estate. See J. F. Foreman. :o: First Security bank pays 3 per cent on time deposits. First Security Bank CEDAR CREEK, NEBR. Sound, Conservative and Progressive THE BANK OF THE PEOPLE THE BANK BY THE PEOPLE THE B'ANK FOR THE PEOPLE Ve are anxious to assist the farmer in feeding and handling his live stock for market Deposits In This Bank are protected by the Depositors' Guaranty Fund of the State of Nebraska, which ha3 reached nearly $1, 000,000.00 It is back of us and protects you! -OFFICERS:- WM. SCHNEIDER. President W. H. LOHNES, Vice-President T. J. SHANAHAN, Vice-President J. F. FOREMAN, Cashier IN PLATTSMOUTH . FORTY YEARS AGO. -I Mr. J. li. Strode of Illinois, a brother-in-law of Hon. G. S. Smith, comes to Plattsmouth to settle. He will be found at Geo. Smith's office for the present. . Wm. Wettencamp is building one of the largest and best farm houses in 'the county. Chaj les S. Twiss is the engineer (we mean carpenter) and they (io say our friend William is go imr to have a No. 1 residence when it is completed. Lewis Foltz of Weeping Water is launching forth in a good direction, lie is about to start a hennery, on a large scale. He will keep every de scription of poultry, and will be pre pared in the future to furnish the county with anything in that line. Mr. T. J. Todd and wife will start next week on a long visit east, for the first time in over liftcen years. They will vi.-dt relatives in Ohio and west c! n New York, and renew their youth. We wish them a very pleasant trip and a safe return with renewed .health and strength. An attempt was made to converse by means of the telephone between Omaha and Chicago last week, the telephone in the office of A. E. Touza lin, manager of the Burlington, at Omaha, being connected with one in the office of the Burlington at Chicago. The attempt was only partially suc cessful, and another trial will be made soon. U. V. Matthews has bought the corner lot on Main street, where Schlater's jewelry store stands, and will move his hardware store down there. Mr. Schlater moves his store west twenty-two feet and stops there. This will be a great improvement on Main street, and give us a new build ing on Mr. Matthews' bid site be sides. A son of W. A. Taylor net with a peculiar accident, Sunday week ago at Mm. Martins. He was swinging when a horse was led by the boy swung himself out and hit the horse with his toe, the horse kicked but did not hit the boy, but somehow got its foot fat in the swing rope, throwing Ihe boy out and trampling on his temple and head severely. Quite an Escapade. Sundav the wind blew a perfect n n Shoes! Our stock is complete and prices are lower than the market. Wtih hides sell ing at 18c per pound and shoes advancing every day you will not regret a visit at our store. Ve have overshoes, also a complete line of sweater coats and sheep lined coats at right prices. Get your butcher supplies of us, a car of new salt just arrived blocks and barrels. WOLFF Cedar Creek gale and the Ferry boat left this shore about 8 a. m. for Iowa. In endeavor ing to cross the head of the bar she grounded and lay there until evening,! when she at last floated off and down; stream, finally landing her passengers on the Nebraska shore about 8 p. m.; Seme twenty of our people got aboard; in the morning to go across for the fun of the thing. Among the number were Ed Buttery, Alex Schlegel, Sam Long, Harvey Sage, Joe Buttery, Thomas Thomas, John Shannon and others of our young folks. It was the longesfSunday they ever spent. About noon the crowd procured some crack-' ers and cheese from the other side; and they had a dejeuner a la fran-; caise in the pilot house. Sage and: Long finally waded to the bar and got a skiff to take them over to Iowa, when they walked down to the trans fer and thence home. The rest toughed it out. Eatables were not as "scarce as drinkables, nothing but Mis souri river water. It was the best red-ribbon crowd for that day, that Plattsmouth has seen lately. As they were floating down the river at night, it is said that one of the victims com menced a letter to his wife thus: "My Dear Wife: I am floating down the Missouri in this ferry boat and God only knows where -we may land; if I never see you again, take care of the baby. Buy a new milch cow for it and keep cool until you hear from me again. If we should perish take care of yourself and be a good girl., Yours Etc. P. S. The brindle hen comes off Tuesday and the old speckled one on' this day week. Good-bye.' First Security bank pays 5 per cent on time deposits. First Security bank pays 5 per cent on time deposits. Don't forget S. J. Reames when you are in need of paper napkins, paper plates, ice cream dishes and all kinds of crepe paper. ! M"I"M"I"M"I ! W. A. ROBERTSON. Lawyer. East of Riley Hotel. Coates' Block, Second Floor .M..I..I..I..I-I.4"!-1 I 'I"M"I"I-I' Shoes! Nebraska PES t 4 Hi ' X
