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PIATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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MONDAY. MAY 12, 1019.
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Cbe plattsmoutb journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at Fostofflce. PlattBinouth. Neb., an aecond-claM mall matter
"""""I. A. BATES, Publisher
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HOMESTEADS FOR VETERANS.
One or the subjects to be brought
forward early in the extra session of
congress is a much more liberal
homstead law for the benefit of re
turned soldiers and sailors. The
fact that the new congress is re
publican in both branches is an as
surance that the' improvements in
the law will be liberal. Legislation
Cold weather hangs on.
:o:
Old Sol trying his best to fix us.
;o:
July 4, is the day we celebrate.
:o;
Revolutions are not made they
simply come.
:o:
Ball came next Sunday. White
Sox of Omaha vs. Red Sox at IMatts
niouth. :o
It is not settled yet who started
the war, but we have a hunch about
who is going to pay for it.
:o:
It must be rather humiliating
these days for a man who considers
himself a statesman not to get a
bomb through the mails.
:o:
Now that women in most states
will get the vote, candidates for of
fice will have to pay more attention
to their personal appearance.
:o:
Mayor Miller got in Tuesday
again by the skin of his teeth. Dut
then some people don't know when
the people have had enoujrh of
them.
:o:
The Victory Loan has passed the
two billion mark, but the Platts-
mouth quota, is not prospering as it
ought to. We don't know who is to
blame for this tardiness.
:o:
Home seekers visit riattsniouth
cv ry day, some of whom buy prop
erty with the expectation cf making
their homes here. Conic on, boys!
1'lenty of room and a whole lot of
good people.
:o:
General Von Ilindcnburg, whom
readers may remember, has written
to Ilerr Ebert announcing his re
tirement to private life. A contin
uation, so to speak, of his move
ment of lat year.
The ice man hopes
weather.
:o:
for warmer
-:o.-
Keep Fourth of July In mind for
the Grand Home f'omins Celebration
of our brave hoys who acquitted
themselves so nobly in France and
Germany. Let us make arrange
ments for the biggest time ever pull
ed off in Plattsrnouth.
:o:
Scores of men are writing articles
to prove that a new standard of costs
is now in effect that the present
run of prices is here to stay, and
that conditions are not to be con
sidered abnormal any more. Condi
tions are either abnormal or a lot of
salaries are might subnormal.
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Some of the Kansas school teach
ers are to receive higher salaries
next year, but not without making
concessions of their own. A school
board in Lyon County, it is reported,
offers $100 a month, but the teach
er must be beauless, and must agree
not to marry during the school
term.
:o:
It would seem that another weak
point in the new luxury tax system
is the fact that most of the tax on
shoes will be paid by the American
working girl, whose position in mod
ern society manifestly compels her
to reject any shoe that sells for less
than $10.
tor
Singers who pronounce their
words most distinctly are most like
ly to eing popular songs, which
more properly should be sung by
liigherbrow singers who have been
trained to conceal the sound and
meaning of every word.
-:o:
About half the democratic news
papers in the country are advising
the republicans to nominate Taft
next year. This is bad for Mr. Taft.
If the republicans think the demo
crats want Taft, they won't touch
him with a forty-foot pole. They
don't want a man as conservative
as the ex-President.
The coal man don't grumble very
much about the weather.
:o:
Politics should be thrown aside
in the selection of delegates to the
constitutional convention, but how
about it?
:o:
We have heard about "the man
without a country," but Vienna
comes pretty near being a capital
without a country.
:o:
Its really funny that some of our
merchants will ship eggs to Omaha
at a price of 3 and 4 cents less per
dozen than they sell them at houi
customers.
:o:
"Four to be Vulcanized" is the
heading of a story in an exchange
announcing the approaching mar
riage of two high-falutiug' couples
of the neighborhood.
:o:
Go down in that old sock of yours
and get the money you are saving
and buy Victory Bonds with it. It
will be safer in a government bond,
than it is in that old sock.
to:
The information that Petrograd
and Moscow workmen have started
a revolutionary movement against
the Bolshevist government is the
first intimation the world has had
that anybody in Russia was work
ing. to:
Speeders have let up somewhat
since some of those who try how
fast they can speed their autos on
the streets of Plattsrnouth, have
been called to pay fines. There are
still a few more that need watch
ing. tot
The public will never know for
sure whether it was a May Day
massacre or an April fool massacre
the bomb terrorists planned. All
the public knows is that the bombs
were sent by mail, and they arrived
about May 1.
:o:
We would feel more like taking
instruction from Eastern newspap
ers on how to win the West if the
Eastern newspapers could get their
own towns to subscribe their Lib
erty bond quotas in a week, like
they do out here.
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One of our exchanges is worried
over what will be the food of the
next century. As we have been
eating some breakfast food made of
peanut hulls, our guess is that the
century will have to be satisfied with
old automobile parts.
:o:
At last a useful purpose has been
served by the German habit of men
tal goosestepping. German manu
facturers who had received the loot
from French and Belgian factories
were found to have complete lists
or the stolon property neatly enter
ed on their books.
:o:
Germans have got their peace hy
this time, and are happy. It 1 nn
nearly five years nince srtt-tl
out to add another mob dwirn' ti
to their collection, but the style jn
treaties has e.haniced so TufotxUy
since that time that they may h
somo difficulty in Xft,(,z,u.u, it
the article they weat after.
:n.
The editor of the r:puMie 'Ar,
Buren (Mo.) reports that he r en
his dek an ear of ccrn that i.
complete American Iaz. p bm th
stars and stripes Jn the red whit
and blue very plainly marked. If"
also F.ayf. with no reference to
grain of f.alt whatever, that last fall
a farmer brought him a big turnip
which also had an American flag
on one aide, where it wa? not cov
ered with earth.
of the kind was one of the thing
quickly accomplished when the re
publican party first gained control
of ronirress 60 vears ago. Numer
ous congressmen are giving the sub
ject consideration, and two mem
hers of the cabinet. Secretary of
the Interior Lane and Secretary of
Labor Wilson, are at work on plans
to aid the movement. Secretary
Wilson would oncn to the soldiers
mineral, grazing and forest land al-
. ... A . . t. .1 ..
so. lie points out mat a great uuuj
of such government property is still
unsettled and could be advantage
ously alotted on attractive terms to
former soldiers, sailors and marines
All who work on the soil are more
prosperous now than at any former
time. Farmers are making money
and increasing their capital. In var
ious ways the government is promot
ing their interests more definitely
than heretofore. Life in the coun
try has become decidedly le.ss isolat
ed, and the hardest of the drudgery
has been materially reduced.
plan urged by Secretary Lane.
which has warm advocates in con
gress, favors the formation of com
munity farm settlements with road
and various other improvements at
the start. Under the first home
stead law the settler struggled
along alone subject to many difficul
ties that sometimes resulted in fail
ure. But even under these condi
tions the successful homesteaders
numbered millions and are mainly
to be credited with peopling the
west. England and Canada are in
terested in homestead measures for
themselves, and their projects are
generous in inc lorms 01 am to no
extended. The United States should
realize th.it the competition in
home-stead laws will be lively.
Naturally, all the veterans are in
terested in this subject regardless of
other business plans. St. Louis
G lobe-Democrat .
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"Let us Spray," says the farmers.
:o:
Another clear and bright day.
:o:
The stork seems to be getting i:
some excellent work.
:o:
Omaha lias gone over the top on
the Victory Loan. How about Platts
rnouth? :o:
It is not always true that a man
out of a job is a hobo,
merely a king.
:o:
He may be
In t'ni.s country there is coming
to be too much freedom for those
who abuse it and too much restraint
upon those who deserve to be free.
:o:
A man should never be ashamed
to own up he has been in Hie wrong,
which is but saying in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.
:o:
So contemptuously does the clerk
refer to the ?! hat in comparison
with the 7 hat he is trying to sell
you, one wonders how his firm can
afford to keep 5 hats in stock at
all.
Lv-ry :-.fife : a hiim- of tho il
)itrhi who n-r.ide within its bord
"tk. y.t th'-re jire times when every
hMy t?)4h-'- for the moment be
"'l'Tn't head a headline, or write a
w,rd on a dotted line.
:o:
P m rep'.rf'. d that Great Britain
m very angry at what. It calls Mr.
Vilxori's interference in the Irish
affair. 1s-t us hopo (Jreat Britain
fperi't becorno so angry she will
wish an Irish mandate off on u.
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Th Hungarian Bolshevist govern
ment, hns thrown up the Job, both
the government and I he people mak
ing the surprising discovery that
paper decrees, even when backed up
by Industrious murder, do not pro
duce food.
We have seen what war is the
ghastliest, dirtiest, filthiest, deadli
est thing on earth, the vilest plague
that can afflict mankind.
It is bad enough to bring almost
anybody to the support of the league
of nations.
But what will war become if, the
league of nations failing, man's eun-
ningest ingenuities continue to
make it still more hellishly efficient?
The hints of future possibilities
conveyed by this war stagger the
imagination.
The airplane is constantly devel
oping in size, speed, carrying ca
pacity and range. It will be no
trick at all presently for a European
enemy to bombard New York, Phil
adelphia. Chicago and Duluth and
return to its base. No city, how
ever remote from the battle front,
will be safe.
Long range guns were just on the
point of new developments. The pos
sibilities of high explosives have by
no means been exhausted. The sub
marine has still ugly possibilities to
be developed by a ruthless belliger
ent. Poison gas had barely started
its development when war ceased.
Germany having started it and thus
forced its enemies to ue it, they
wire working out poisons infinitely
more deadly than anything Germany
had yet produced. America itself
had produced a gas that would lav-
out seventy-two times as many men
in a given area as the most baneful
hcmical that Germany had devised.
This gas if this deadly: An officer
had been experimenting with thl
gas. his hands protected ny gtove?.
Emerging from the gas chamber, he
placed his gloved hand on the kick
f a chair. A moment later another
ffieer sat in that chair. Twenty-
four hours later he was dead from
the contact with the slight amount
f poison that had been left on the
laik of that chair.
I oes the world want this devil-
i compel it ion to continue? If it
docs not organize against war thru
league of nations, it must con
tinue, and all must participate in it
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No mistaking Red Crown
Gasoline. It shows its colors
in the get-a-way and cn the
road. The rythmic tune of
tho exhaust milestones
slipping to the rear tell of
gingery, powerful gas.
Red Crown Gasoline is all gas.
That's why each gallon gives
most mileage. Contains no
foreign matter no sediment
to foul spark plugs and cylinders.
The Red Crown you buy at the
corner garage or service station
iz identical with that you get a
hundred miles from home. Feed
your engine a steady aist cf Red
Crown Gasoline procurable
cvoryvheie. Look for the sign.
Use Pciarirte for perfect lubri
cation to keep cylinders clean
and power at par.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(Nebraska)
Omaha
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(iiiiii:u or m:itic;
we with the rest. That is just
mother reason why every thinking
1 1 rson everywhere in her.rt and soul
for a league of nations, and' ready
to try any plan if it is the best that
'an be agreed upon new. Duluth
Herald.
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Iteal estate agents in profusion.
:o:
Frost Friday night Killed much
fruit in Missouri.
:o:
This continued prediction of un
settled" May weather reminds us
too much of our April bills to be al
together agreeable.
Isn't it terrible the rut hlesnes;:
with which prohibition crushes art?
There are no bock beer signs thi.s
year.
:o:
Our .voldier boys from America
will all see home and friends by the
!ii: t of August. That's what Secre
tary Ilaker fays.
oitin it in' m:itit;
!' on Volition fr
III tin- C"imly Court f Cass ci.im
I y. Nfiiraskn.
Stiitc of Nehi'iiskii. Cass enmity.
To iill iH isiins lull rested in tin; es
t:ite nf (ins Stlitt. Sr.. ileeeiiseil:
n leii.linx tin- lieiitimi l" c.us Splitt.
I'liivill' a lillill ;--e1 1 lenient ilMll nt
I iwaTiee nf Jiis ;ieenuit file. I in this
Curt ,, !t;i lav of .May.
t'lnl for .ll.tivil.iiti.oi ami iis-U'nmciil.
It l- liereliv orilereil that you an.1
all iM-rsoiiH interested in sal.l matter
tu-iv. an, I io. appear at tlio County
Court to l.e l,el! in aii'l for saM eoun
IV, II, e 1!)tll llav of .May. A. I. lUUl.
;,t 10 oVIoefc a. tn., t- show cause, if
iinv Cere l.e, wliv tl:e prayer of tlie
F.tliioner s,,,;i!(l not le trrante-i. anI
Mat notiee of the peiulenev of t;ai't
p. til inn and tlo- liearinvr thereof.
; iven to ail pet-suns interested in paid
matter l.v pul.n.hinir h opy or thi.
order In tho 1 'la t turnout h Journal, a
semi-weekly newspaper print' d in aid
er.iinty. for one week pi lor to said day
of heuriri--r.
In witness whereof, t l.ave hereunto
s' t inv hand and the s'rul uf said court
this !Hh dav of Mav, A. I . 1 !!!.
A i.i.kn J. i:ki:soX,
CoiUitv .Indite.
i:v i- i.oi:i:nci: whit::.
(Seal Cleik.
him! Noliee uf I'ruiinlr f Will
In tiii- Conniy Court of Cass county,
i'i.i-ka.
Slate of Nebraska, County of Cass,
To H.-rina:i F. C. Kuj.ke, Ceortte J.
K. Kiipi.e, ('iui. tian W. A. Kupke,
leuisf Kupke, I 'i iefl i ili Kupke. Kimlie
Kiipke. true name. A no 1 ia Kupke, Aug
ust .1. 1 1. Knj.ko ar.d Walter U C.
Ko ke, and all other p isotis interest
ed in tiu- estate of Herman Kupke,
deeoased :
(in reading tie petition of Herman
I". C. Kupke piaviiiit that tlie instru-in-
tit tiled in t!.j- e.uirt mi tho l&th
day of Apr;!. 1 '
he the
aid d
lowed, and rei oith d as the last will
.ad ttsluinei.t of ilirman JCupke, de-
iMil: that sail insl i anient In- ad
mitted to piohate, ami the adin in ist ra -i
a. a of said (state l.e granted to
leeiiie J. I-:. Kupke. ns ( reiitor;
It is herely ordered that on. and
all fiei-ons interesteil in said matter,
may. and do, apt., ar at the County
I'omt to he held in and for said eoun
t v. on the loth day of Juno. A. P.
I'M:, at 10 o'clock a. tn., to show
cause, ii" any there he, why the grayer
of the petitioner should not he t-'rant-i
d. and that notice t,( tho pendency of
aid petition and the hearing thereof
to gien t a!l persons interested in
snid matter hv publishing- a copy of
I Ins order In the 1 "la 1 1 sniou t h Journal,
a semi-w ekl y ie-.vspaper printed in
.-aid county for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Witness tuv hand and the seal of
-aid Court, this lleih day of April, A.
1'. 19TJ.
ai.i.kn J. r.i:i:sov.
. Countv JudKC
r.v. ri.i:i:xcL: wiirn:.
(Seal! alM-lw. Clerk.
i.i:r;.i, ohck
In tho County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
To all persons interested in the es
lato of John I livelier, Sr., deceased,
Into creditors and heirs:
You, and each of you. are hereby
notified that Kli-.abetli .Mangold and
Catherine ilavvr tiled their petition in
the County Court of Cass county, Ne
braska, on tho Ith day of April. A.
!., i:M'J. alleging thaj John P. Hecker.
Sr.. departed this life in the town of
Aliens Crove, at his home in the Coun
ty of Mason and State of Illinois, on
the llith day of Iivcvmber. A. t. 1916,
li:ivini' ! lrivt will ;inrl liiytam.nt' tli-it
Apr;!. and purporting to j f.., j(! ju an, tPstam'ent has been
last v ill and testament of the i ..,.,.,., ., i 0- ,i, i.lt.
i-.d. may bo lirovcd ;inl nl-,..;.i ...i (......,..... r.r ia" t,.i, i
iw-eker. Sr.. deceased, in the County of
Mason and Slate of Illinois; that a
.py of said will and the probate
thereof, duly authenticated, is here
with produced by, said Klizabeth Man-
Id and Catherine Mayer, persons in
Mayer in fee-simple absolute, and paid
Catherine Mayer is the owner of a
lifo estate in said last described tract;
and that the following is a copy of
the prayer of the said petition: "Your
petitioners, therefore, pray that the
court shall fix a time for hearing: up
on this petition according to law; that
notice of the time and place of Bald
hearing shall be given to all persons
interested in said estate, both credi
tors and heirs, for three weeks suc
cessively, according to law, to show
cause, if any there by, why said in
strument should not be proved, allow
ed and probated as the last will and
testament of said deceased; and that
said will may be allowed and probat
ed as the last will and testament of
said John I'. Becker, tr., deceased, and
that such other and further orders and
proceedings may be had in the prem
ises as may be required by the stat
utes in such cases made and provided."
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in the estate of
John P. Hecker, Sr., deceased, both
creditors and heirs, may, and do ap-
ti rested in said will: that the place of J pear at the county court to be held in
residence of said John I. Hecker, Sr., de- and for said county, on the 21st day
muk i: 'i tovnt ACTOIIS
Sealed bids ill be received at the
oil ice of the County Clerk of Cass
vountv, on Wednesday. May 14. I'.H!'.
until ;: . m., at I'lattsniouth. Nebraska
lor Kioding, const nut ing small cul
verts and incidental wrk on the Ne
braska City-l'lattsin.'uth Project No.
I'ederal Aid Koa.l.
Pi.ls wilt be opened at the oflice of
the Hoard of Count V Commissioners of
Cass countv. at their office in the court
house. Plattsmouih. Nebraska, prompt
ly after the time for receiving bids
has closed.
The proposed work consists or con
structing -''.l" miles of earth road.
Approximate (piantitios are:
1 t I 000 cubic vards earth excavation
l.uoi) lineal feet, 1- inch diameter
concrete pipe '
7GS lineal feet IS Inch diameter con-
iise.l was the town of Aliens (Jrove, in
the County ot Mason and state of II
Iin.iis; that said John 1. Decker, Sr.,
died seized of the following describ
ed ical properts- in Cass countv, Ne
braska: The North half (N' of Sec
tion Twenty-three (L'.l) in Township
Twelve (1' North of Range Twelve
ill' Kast of the Ctli Principal Merid
ian: that according to said will, the
Northwest ouarter (NW14) of Section
Tsveiit v-threo I 2:1 ) In Township Twelve
(1J North of liange Twelve (12) Kast
of the Htii Principal Meridian, was de
vised to Klizabeth Mangold and she
is the owner of said tract; and that
the Northeast quarter (NK'i) of Sec
tion Twenty-three Ci.-!) in Township
Tsvelvo til') North of Kange Twelve
ill't Kast of the 6th Principal Merid
ian, was devised to Catherine Mayer
for and during the term of her nat
ural life, with remainder at her death
in said land to go to and be the properts-
of tin? children of said Catherine
of May, A. 1. 1919, at ten (10) o'clock
a. m., to show cause. If any there be,
why the prayer of the petitioners
should not be granted, arid that no
tiee of the pendency of said petition
and the hearing thereof be given to
all persons interested in said estate,
both creditors and heirs, by publish
ing a copy of this order in the I'latts
niouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspa
per printed in said county for three
successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
Witness mv hand, and the seal of
said Court this IMth day of April, A.
I. 1919.
ALLEN J. BEESON,
(Seat) a28-3w. County Judge.
Just Received: The new line of
Easter Greeting cards, at the Journal
office.
When you pfanf- corn
you row corn
L'l inch diameter con
inch diameter con
crete pipe.
K'O lineal feet
crete pipe.
yr. lineal feet
crete pipe.
I lineal feet iS inch diameter con-
(Iftc pipe.
U7 cubic yards of concrete
Certified ( beck for f. per cent of the
unoiint of 1 id must accompany same
Plans and specifications for the work
mav b seen and information secured
t the above oil ice. or at the olTice ot
i.,t.. Km.' in'cr. iineoin. ." "'-""
ti
the
rt-l... ( .. ( nr. if ( OI1IIIS I.-s.-l.c
rieht'to waive nil technicalities and to
reject any and !1 bids
(,KO. 11. I.Ks.
Counts- Clerk.
Gl'AK K. JOHNSON.
Slate Engineer.
NOT I ('11 TO (Ui:uitoiis
The State of Nebraska, Cas coun-
l'ln'il:e County Court. f T,irr.
1 the matter of the K.-tate of
son T. Walton. I )ecoa sen.
: ' To the 'Creditors of Said l;:tHt,,: ,
., f .,t;h('::unVcrron,,m-at
T.;iii.,ep,ha 1, til,.,,., non-rcsolent sH the i
Yo., are herd,- notified lhat on tho " .: . -v- ' J 1 ,;,13 Jlt ten 1"
Hi day ..( J.muars. V.l-K Ida (Jilbert " fV', V.,,. .on of each day. to
li'ed a pelilion against ynu in the ., v,mlno 'all claims against
. . ... . ....(.- V,. .rnt ."J . I C. .lie. . ,1,...,. nf -
t . f I I I- I I i "
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I h.- obi. (t and piavor of which is to ; s:.ni ' l' ,.,,u;u,c.-. The time
oi.iain a divorce from you on the JU:""' t .i r i i - ' e t.tj(n f claims
ground of failure to provide any siii- I ll,nM" ii ,t,te is three months
,...i l for tho plaintiff or her eh ild ren. j 'J 'a, ns !,r Mnv A. O- 1919;
..Pl ough amply able to do so, and for from Uk io" , for payment of
an or.ler lh.it the ,.l.,InliIT be given and the i mo n'l i h day
,! c,,.i...ic ,,f Iho minor debts is oi o ie.u irom
Pbnf-
your
monev
in Our Bank
and row
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(hlld.en, the issue of said marriage. , or -M,:,l hli ,.,t a n, tho seal of sa hi
You are reonlivd to air-seer said p.- A I m -ss m '"ith day of April.
Iinoi. on or before the ...id day of County Couit. tins
Juno. 1919. ' ,A. X. 191.'- ALLEN -T. BEESON.
IDA GILBERT. 1 , , ' county Judge,
mia-lw) I'laintiff. " (beal) .
WHEN YOU PLANT SOMETHING, YOU GET SOMETHING
WHEN YOU PLANT NOTHING, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET. '
IF YOU SHOULD SOW A FEW DOLLARS YOU'D GET A CROP
IN PROPORTION TO ANY OTHERCROP. YOU CAN SPARE A FEW
DOLLARS NOW AND THEN-WHY NOT FIX FOR YOUR OLD AGE
WITH THE MONEY YOU WILL HARDLY MISS NOW.
START A BANK ACCOUNT TODAY.
WE ADD 3 1-2 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVING ACCOUNTS
AND PAY 4 PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS.
COME TO OUR BANK.
Farmers State Bank
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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