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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. PLATTSMOUTH EVENING JOURNAL. PAGE 3. MANLEY STATE BANK MURRAY STATE BANK BANK OF CASS COUNTY PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. BANK OF COMMERCE LOUISVILLE, NEB. ;o; CAPITAL AIID SURPLUS $23,000 FIRST SECURITY BANK CEDAR CREEK, NEB. MANLEY, NEB. MURRAY, NEB. :o:- -:o:- :o:- CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $13,000 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $15,000 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $80,000 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $10,000 :o:- :o:- :o:- :o:- OFFICERS FRANK STANDER AUGUST STANDER AUGUST PAUTSCH THOMAS E. PARMELE WM. J. RAU. DIRECTORS CHAS. C. PARMELE, President. FRED NUTZMAN, Vice-President. W. GLEN BOEDEKER, Cashier. OFFICERS CHAS. C. PARMELE JACOB TRITSCH THOMAS E. PARMELE -R. F. PATTERSON. F. G. EGENBERGER OFFICERS THOMAS E. PARMELE. President. CHAS. C. PARMELE, Vice-President. PAUL FITZGERALD, Cashier. RALPH R. LARSON, Asst. Cashier. OFFICERS WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, President. W. H. LOHNES, Vice-President. THOMAS E. PARMELE, Director. Our Facilities Enable Us to Handle Your Business in this County Promptly and Economically and on this Basis We Dnvite Your Patronage. MITK E TO CREDITORS. The State of Nebraska) Cass County ) ss: In the i'onnly Court. In the Matter of the Kstate of J. Hen rv Meisinser. ieceased. To the Creditors of Said Kstate: You are herebv notified that I will sit it t tin Count v Court Koom in Platts-liK-uth. in said county, on the 21rn day i.t St-. Umber, 111, and on the 23rd iav of March. 1JUS. nt l':00 o'clock In the afternoon of each day to receive :ind examine all claims against said Kstate. with a view to their adjust ment and allowance. Th time limit ed for the presentation of claims against said Kstate is six months from Hie rlst dav of September, A. 1.. 1917, and the time limited for payment of debts is cne vear from said ".'lst day of August? 1917. , , Witt-ess mv hand and the seal of paid Countv Court, this 21st day of august. 117. allen j BKESON (Seal) County Judge. INOTICK TO CREDITORS. The Ptate of Nebraska) Cuss County ) ss: In the County Court In the matter of the Kstate of Aug ust AY. I.eins. Deceased: To the Creditors of said Kstate: You are hereby notified that 1 will sit at the County Court room In Platts mouth, in said county, on the 29tli day of September, and the 2Sth day of De cember, 1U17. at one o'clock in the af ternoon of each day, to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 2th dav of September. A. D., 1917, and the time limited for payment of debts Is one vear from said 29th day of Sep tember. A. D.. iai7. Witness niv hand and the seal of mid Count v Court, this 25th day of August, 1917. ALLEN J. BKESON, (Seal) s3-4w. County Judge, LIKES NEBRASKA BETTER. From Tuesday's Dally. S. A. Wiles, who, about a week since, departed with his family, and Mrs. Wiles mother, Mrs. Henry Spangler, and Miss Elizabeth Spang ler, for an extended visit in Ohio, in and around Hicksville, returned home this morning, evincing a pref erence for Nebraska. The remaind er of the party will remain for a more extended visit in the east. Mr. Wiles tells of much cold weather, anfl much frost in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. YIELD TO NONE IN LOYALTY SAYS RE GENT F. L. HALLER DENIES ANY WORD OR DEED OF DISLOYALTY BEFORE WE ENTERED THE WAR OR SINCE. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. The State of Nebraska) Cass County ) ss: In the County Court In the matter of the Estate of Amel ia Heins, Deceased: To the Creditors of said Estate: You are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room In Platts mmitli, in said county, on the 29th day of September, and the 29th day of De cember. 1917. at two o'clock in the af ter noun of each day. to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 29th dav of September, A. D.. 1917. and the time limited for payment of debts Is on. vear from said 29th day of Sep tember. A. D.. 1917. Witness my hand and the seal of raid Co unty Court, this 25th day of August, 1917. ALLEN J. REESON, (Seal) s3-4w. County Judge. IX THE DISTRICT COrilTiK Till: I'MTEIl ST1TES KOH THE DISTRICT OK MK1IKASKA Lincoln IMvixlon. In the matter of' Charles L. Norman, Bankrupt. Case No. 3s8. In Bank ruptcy. To creditors of the above bankrupt of Louisville, in the County of Cass the district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is herebv given that on the 21st dav of August A. D. 1917. the said bankrupt was duly adjudicated bank rupt and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held In my office In Lincoln, on the 21st day of September D. 1917, at 9 o'clock In the fore noon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, ex amine the bankrupt, appoint a trustee, and transact such other business as .may properly come before such meet ring. Dated September 6, 191 1. DANIEL H. McCLENAHAN. Keferee In bankruptcy. Says He is Doing All He Can to Up hold the Government of His Country in Its Crisis. XOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska) Cass County ) ss: lu the- County Court. In the matter of the Kstate of Mary F. Welch, Deceased: To the Creditors of said Estate: You are hereby notified that I will it at the County Court room in Platts inouth, in said county, on the 12th day of November, 1917 and the 12th day of Januarv, 1918, at 10 o'clock a. m. of each of said days to receive and ex amine all claims against said Estate, with , a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said es tate Is three months from the 11th day of. October. A. D-. 1917, and the time limited for payment of debts is one vear from said 10th day .of September, 1917. Witness my hand and the seal of said Countv Court, this rath day of Septem ber, 1917. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) sl7-4w-sw County Judge. CEMETERY. We are now prepared to make your monument, markers and lot corners right at home. Cass County Monu ment Co., W. T. Wassell, manager. Hotel Riley block, Plattsmouth, Neb. Bring your welding to us. Platts mouth Garage. Tel. 394. Omaha, Sept. IS. Frank L. Hal ler, president of. the board of regents of the Nebraska university, sent a statement to the World-Herald this morning for publication. Mr. Haller was called upon by the State vCouncil of Defense 'to resign from the board because of alleged pro-German ten dencies. Haller's Statement. Following is the statement of Mr Haller: "Omaha, Sept. 17. Not in answer to attacks made on me, but because I feel it due the citizens of this state who made me Regent of the Univer sity, I deny that either before we entered the war or after, have I in thought, word or deed been disloyal to the United States. "I will not concede to any man, whether native born as I am, or for eign born, a higher standard of Americanism than mine. I am doing all I can and will continue to do all I can to uphold the administration and the government of the United States, to which I yield absolute loy alty and alliegance. "This is no time for dissension among well wishers of our country. I consider it the duty of every citi zen to render the service for which he is best fitted. While I refuse to advertise what I have done to help the Red Cross, the Liberty Bond and other war campaigns, I may with propriety say that It has been my business for more than a quarter of a century to promote the yield of the state of Nebraska and it Is a matter of public record that as soon as war was declared, without waiting to be called, I began my active service along these lines and shall continue the same so long as the war may last, alike indifferent to praise or blame. F. L. HALLER." YANKEE OFFICERS IN VERDUN ATTACK Safe Remedy For Children. Chas. Baker, Brownsville, Tex., writes: "For years I have used Foley's Honey and Tar and found it especially efficient for bad coughs of my children. I recommend it to my friends as a safe remedy for child ren as it contains no opiates. It is certain to bring quick and lasting relief." Stops coughs. Sold every where. , UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICERS ASSISTED IN DRIVE AGAINST CROWN PRINCE. Formed An Actual Part of the French Fighting Units None Injured. Paris, Sept. 18. United States army officers assisted in the recent French drive against the crown prince to the north of Verdun when positions along a fifteen-mile front on both sides of the Meuse were wrested from the Germans. This was the first action in which Americans, as part of the United States army, figured. anU tie bril liant, smashing, rapid success of General Petain's forces in this sec tion is regarded as a happy r.ugury of future activities of the Amer ican army. The officers who were engaged were more than observers the United States army has had repre sentatives with the various forces in the field ever since the war start ed. The American officers formed an actual part of the French fight ing units that bounded over the shell-shattered parapets ten minutes after dawn broke, and strode slow ly forward toward the pulverized German positions, in the wake of the celebrated "creeping barrage" of artillery fire. Steel helmets on their heads, re volvers in hand, their field glasses slung around their necks, gas masks handy and their uniforms stripped of all marks denoting rank, the American officers accompanied the French platoon and battalion lead ers, learning at first sight and di rectly under fire how crack "shock troops" are led into action in a mod ern offensive. Although French soldiers fell dead and dying all around them, and a number of French officers were hit also, not one American was even wounded. They advanced from the original French positions south of the Mort Homme, on the left bank of the Meuse, and south of 1111 344. on the right bank, clear up to the most advanced trenches captured by the wonderful French infantry. At half past four o'clock in the morning, after waiting all night in the front line positions, they heard the word passed along the trenches by the under officers for the men to get ready. They saw the war callousd French soldiers shako them selves from slumber in the deep dugouts sometimes forty feet un der ground where they had been sleeping, unmindful of the hideous uproar occasioned both by their own and the enemy artillery. They saw the "poilus" adjust their long, slend er bayonets to their rifles and ging erly feel the hand grenades in the bits around their waists. And then they saw them line up alons the firing step of the trench. At a quarter to five the shrill whistles of the sub-officers announced- that the infantry attack was on that the soldiers mere flesh and blood had started to finish and clinch the work performed by the thousands of giant guns in the rear. Almost the first thing ths Amer icans learned was that nowadays troops do not "charge" from trench es at "double quick time." in thje first place, the condition of the ground over which the troops must advance is such that they cannot move rapidly. Pitted with shell craters one to thirty feet deep, gouged with pits caused when mon strous mines were exploded, and knee deep in the most clinging mud in the world, the ground o-i'crs ev ery obstacle to rapid moving. And with the perfection oi the "creeping barrage," troops cannot move faster than the curtain of fire which precedes them. This creep ing barrage moves forward very slowly, as fast as the average man walks when, he is not in a hurry. The first wave of attacking troops follows about forty yards in the rear of the row of bursting shells. Groping forward beside the French officers, the Americans stag gered forward until one of their guides sniffed suspiciously, and haul ed his gas mask out of its tin box strapped around his waist. The Americans followed, and none too soon, as already the German bat teries were lobbing over gas shells to try to break up the attack. Two hundred yards forward and the Americans with the first at tacking wave reached the former first line of Germa ntrenches. Little was left to differentiate the strip of convulsed earth from the rest of the terrain except that the litter of wood and accoutrements was deep er and a long, uncertain, straggled line of distorted corpses marked where the Germans on duty in the trenches had been destroyed by the bombardment. Even as the Ameri cans reached the trench a handful of German survivors crawled from the mouth of the caved in dugout. their arms extended, screaming "Mercy, Kamerad." The men were taken prisoner and directed toward the rear, as the attacking wave con tinued its advance, a certain num ber of the troops being told off to handle the underground shelters and take prisoners such Germans as might come up. IN HOSPITAL AT OMAHA. From Tuesday's Daily. Mrs. J. C. Baker returned home last evening on the late train, from Omaha, where she had been at the bedside of her son, who yesterday underwent an operation for the cor rection of hernia which had been troubling the young man for some time past. Mrs. Baker reports that Lester is doing nicely after the op eration, but says the operation it self was severe. MAY NOT FILL ARMY UNITS; SECOND DRAFT ARMY OFFICERS FEAR DEFICI ENCY WILL BE DISCLOSED WHEN REPORTS IN NO FIGURES ON SH0R1AGE YEI Another Summons Likely Unless In complete Divisions are Train ed Not Probable. OLD LADY FEELING FINE After Taking Four Bottles Of Cardui, The .Woman's Tonic Cobden, 111. ''Having used Cardui, the woman's tonic, in my family, for a number of years," writes Mrs. Kate Metz, of this town, "and always with such good results, I feel it my duty to write yow about it, so that you may publish my letter. My mother is living with me, and she is 52 years old. For the last three or four years, she has been troubled a great deal with cramping spells, and for days at a time, she would have a severe headache. She read of how much Cardui has helped other women who were sick and ailing, and decided to give it a trial. She began taking it three times a day, and since then has been getting along simply fine. Mother only used four bottles of Cardui, but she is no longer troubled with the severe headaches, and her stomach is so much stronger that she can eat most anything. We both feel that any lady who is not strong and well, would be greatly benefited by the use of Cardui.'7 Try Card-u-L NCBI Washington. Sept. IS. With the mobilization of one-half of the 687,- 000 men of the first call under the selective service law in progress, the question arises whether that number of men will be sufficient to fill all units of the national guard and the national army. There are indica tions that a deficiency in men will be disclosed when official reports from all the thirty-two training camps are available. Seventeen divisions of the nation al guard have been organized, but with the exception of the New York, Pennsylvania and a few others, and the Forty-second division, which will soon embark for France, they are not at maximum war strength. The fighting strength of the sev enteen divisions under the new ta bles of organization would be 623,000 men, supplemented by many thous ands of auxiliary troops. Whatever deficiencies there are will be sup plied promptly from the national army as the guard will go first to the front. Signal Corps Expanded. Since the president called the first 6S7.000 men of the national army, the signal corps, including the avia tion section, has been greatly ex panded. Nearly 100,000 additional men must be transferred to this ser vice alone. The medical corps also has been increased and numerous auxiliary units for immediate duty abroad have been formed that were not thought of when the call was made. Where enlisted men of the guard or the regular army have been taken, their places will have to be filled with na tional army men. No Definite Figure Given. So far as is known no definite fig ure as to the probable total defici ency in men has been compiled nor any estimate prepared in the absence of complete reports from all guard divisions and auxiliary corps. It is not unlikely, however, that when the national army divisions are organized, many vacancies will be found at the cantonments and it will be necessary either to make a second call on the drafted forces or train in complete divisions. Divisions will go to France only at maximum strength. Difficulties at Outset. In a statement today the War de partment says that the industries of the country are expanding rapidly to meet the army supply demands, and only minor shortages are expected at the training camps. Quartermaster officials regard the food situation as satisfactory. The problem of obtaining cloth ing and other equipment, however, has presented many obstacles, most of which already have been over come. With 2,000,000 men to pro vide for and $3,000,000 to spend in the first year, the department faced a gigantic task at the outbreak of the war. "Difficulties arose from the start," the statement says. our! The Nehawka Mills are now Rolling and Manufacturing the 0 fifi n nn m nn-aa rp If "Letter Roll" Flour needs no boosting, For on the top shelf it now is roosting. The best cooks wherever you go Use this famous flour, you know. They just set their yeast and go to bed, For they know on the morrow they will have good Bread. J. M. C. D. ST. JOHN, Prop JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller. For Sale by All Dealers The Famous EL, CAR - IS NOW SOLD IN CASS COUNTY and is considered by all its users and many others who may be users sometime, as the most car for the money on the market today. It is well made, handles easy and is built for the driver who cares and likes a car that will stand the test. Prices of the Elcar on all models are as follows: $845.00 f. o. b. Factory with the exception of The Sedan Type which sells for 0995.00 f . o. b. Factory Demanstrations will be cheerfully made by writing or telephoning, Union Line, 60 A. A. UY STOKES, DEALER Agent for Cass County Sensational Auto Value of the Age! The Crow-Elkhart MULTI-POWER CAR! The most wonderful range of power you have ever known in a light car a quality of smoothness that is new. . The most car for the money on the mar ket today. Look into the wonderful performance of this car with such economy 18 to 26 miles on a gal lon of gasoline. Look into the high qualities of this car, and you will wonder how it can be sold at the popular price. A big powerful looking car that domi nates the roads, for 0845 f. o. b. Factory For Demonstration See E. CUL HOLD, Agent PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.