V PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL page Tinir": THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. Cbe plattsmouth loutnal FUBLISHEB SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSHOUTH, NEBRASKA Fmtered at Postofflce, Flattamouth. Neb., as MCad-clM mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PES YEAR IN ADVANCE "We do not hear as much as for merly about the fool who was said to he "high strung". -:o:- The state weather records show thnt "almost any kind of weather can come in March." -:o:- Vv'e may be sore at the Russian bolsheviki, but we are selling them good shoes at $2 a pair. :o: Tlie best way to extract the sting ers of hornets is to get a fat boy and sick the hornets on him. -:o: To run for office is the inalienable right of every American citizen, litre's hoping nobody feels slighted. : -o: The average plug citizen needs no warning against ouija boards. All he nsks is protection against ouija board fans. -:o:- In one respect the home newspa per ought to be like the Bible, it should not be necessary to borrow one in order to read it. We see where an editor has sued a subscriber for $.".000 for striking him. and we presume if he gets it he will be disabled for life. :o: All doubt as to how the south of Ireland will receive the new home rule bill seems removed. .Sir Ed ward Carson has accepted it. General Hindenburg has consent ed to run for president of Germany. Well, he ought to run well that i-eems to be the Hindenburg line. :o:- lf the young Turks are trying to start v. holy war they have got the right kind of backing in the Rus sian reds, who are just as holy as the Turks. -:o:- It would be interesting to figure, if there were any way of doing it, how much of the "wit" that U start ed over the telephone ever reaches its dt.tination. : o : We suppose every ambitious man has nt least one moment of depres sion in his harnessed life when he feels ljkc going out and eating a ripe olive and ending it all. A neighbor has a clock which he has been winding every night for over a year. The other day he dis covered it was an S-day clock and a madder man would be hard to find. :o: One reason wny the dear girls m.i dress so as to defy all the laws of health and escape pneumonia is that a good many of the health laws aie not laws, but merely resolutions. -:o: The first day or so a good many wondered what it was the reporters wished to ask Mary Tickford that they dogged her path so relentlessly. It seems that they wanted to know what she has to cry about so much -:o:- The Literary Digest offers $30 for the best reason why school teachers should get more pay. "If we don't hike their salaries another one may resicrn to become president. Could the country afford to have that hap pen?" :o: To one who has seen Hoover pre fer ihe for everything from president to the republic to conductor of a symphony orchestra and arbiter of base-ball league, it is no surprise to see a headline reading "Hoover for sheriff." We are indebted to Mr. Barney Baruch for knowing what has saved this country from profiteering: dur ing and following the war. Many people had wondered what it was Mr. Baruch says it was price fixing Los Angeles is the largest city in the United States in area. :o: In spite of all the talk about . wa ter power it doesn't taste as if it had any. :o: The Oakley Graphic says that the first man who ever swore, swore in March. -:o:- Mr. McAdoo Insists that personal ities must not control the San Fran Cisco convention. Our observation is that the clean est faces in the world belong to girls about 11 years old. :o: The fellow who married in Febru ary, never topped to think how short a time it would be until bills came due the first of March. :o: Perhaps the reason so little Is heard of Governor Coolidges boom these days is that it has gone south for a spring training trip. :o: A suit has been brought to test the powers of the federal trade com mission. We trust its power to make reports Is not threatened. -:o: It seems certain that taero must h ive been a record crop of potatoes Ksl year, since potatoes must eoc around $4 a bushel this spring. :o:- Snow storms in New Hampshire in terfered with primary election, but It is believed the opposition to Gen eral Wood would have been snowed nnder just the same if there had been no blizzard. -:o:- We saw the first robin Monday morning, but after viewing the weather since that time we are sure that instead of being a harbinger of an early spring, he was the advance agent of a late winter. -:o:- "The next number on the program. ladies and gentlemen, will be a fight to a finish between the venerable chesnut beginning 'once there was an Irishman named Tat and the mil dewed yarn commenced, "a feller that owned a second-hand Ford', for the deadly dullness championship of the world." -:o:- The congressional committee is sending out questionnaires to all newspapers for data on consumption of news-print. It is hoped the ques tionnaires will be economically printed without too much wasted white space, and it is further hoped that the findings will not be the oc casion of more than a thousand pag es of speeches in the already over burdened Congressional Record. :o: BY A SCRATCH State Senator Bloch, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has made a safe place in history for himself. His is the heroism of a prodigal son. What business had he in California when he must have known his vote was needed in Charleston? But that can be forgotten and for given, in view of the fact that he got there finally and in time. Close shaves are pleasant things after they are safely over. Mr. Bloch's race from California to save the suffrage amendment gives a pleasantly dra matic touch to the finish of the wo men's long pull for votes. It was not the West Virginia rati fication alone that was at stake. Things had come to pass where rat i fication by West Virginia was prob ably essential to the success of the amendment in time for the 1920 election. The suffrage clock had stopped at Oklahoma's 3.1. Two more were in sight, but without West Vir ginia where was the 36th? Echo answered where. West Virginia now makes the 34th. The Washington legislature has at last been called to meet on March 22. That will make 35. On ly one remains to get. Delaware has decided to call its legislature to gether, also on the 22nd. This tiny state may be the 36th. A poll of its legislature has so indicated. If the Delaware legislature should spurn the band wagon, there remain still Connecticut and Vermont, states with suffrage legislatures but anti suffrage governors. If it comes to a question of Vermont or Connecti cut for the 3 6th state, there will be ways of making those two governors enormously unhappy If they persist in denying their legislatures a chance to act. It is now certain, accordingly, that the amendment will be in effect in time for the November voting. This, by the way, will enable Nebraska women to vote on the adoption of the work of the constitutional con vention. State Journal. -:o:- P0RTER BUYS HOTEL Here's a 100 per cent true story about a man who started, twelve years ago, as a $25-a-month hctel porter, is today the proprietor of a prosperous hostelry and has no pat ent on his success recipe work thrift and watchfulness. The man is Harry J. Choucherie. head porter at the Hotel MeAlpin, who assumed a fifteen-year lease on the Colonial hotel at a gross rental of $250,000. He is still bossing the MeAlpin porters and intends to for some time to come, besides running the Harlem hostelry. "How did I do it? Why, i just made up my mind to do it and now Ive done it", explained Mr. Chouch- ene. "A man is nothing more t.nan he believes he Is. I believed that I would have a hotel of my own some day and now I have it. But I'm cot going to stop here. No, I want to -I'm going to make such a suc cess of this place that the Astors will build me a hotel right on this site some day. "I began life as an assistant, ex press wagon driver", continued the porter-proprietor. "I worked up to be superintendent of drivers. That was twelve years ago. I was then getting $150 a month that was a very handsome income twelve years ago. I took stock of my prospects it that line. The best I could ever do in the express wagon business would be to get the job of the man above me. That paid $195 a month. "I quit the express wagon busi ness and went to work as a porter for the Belmont "hotel at $25 a month. I worked there six years and learned a lot. Then I connect ed up with the MeAlpin and worked up to the head porter and chief of the transportation service. 1 have been there six years, but I'm not ready to quit yet. "I believe a man can be whatever he wants to be. That is, along the line of his abilities, of course. I couldn't be president of the United States nor could I push this building over with my hands but I have suc ceeded in being what I wanted to be. A man should make up his mind what he wants to be then go to it. Work, study, save and keep your eyes open and things will come your way. "Yes, I'm studying all the time. Getting the theory of the business as well as the practical side", Mr. Choucherie pointed to the rows of books that lined the wall of his apartment. Mr. Choucherie is 35 years old. :o:- . THE MAN AND HIS JOB Whiting Williams, director of per sonnel of a well known steel com pany, former secretary of the Cleve land federation for charity, author and Investigator, recently completed a unique Investigation into condi tions among the largely inarticulate members of that vast army of toilers, catalogued in the pages of American industry as "common labor". For seven months Mr. Williams, under TON 3 S3 KIT Tomorrow Alright NP Tablets stop sick fwadaehss. rc!iv bflioMS attacks, tea and reg jiato tha eliminativ organ, maka yon fast ffta "Better Than PW For Llvar Ills 11 Cat iy Tot I BmnBBViaBanBMiBBU F. G. FRICKE & CO. the alias of "Charles Hiteman", lived and worked with his foreign-born friends slept, ate and discussed the "times" with them; shivered outside the gates of employment offices with them and studied them. " 'Give us this day our daily job this", he declares, "is the thing most on the lips mind and heart of the unskilled worker in America today". Not more pay, not shorter hours, not a reorganization of government, but just a job employment that will feed "the wife and kids". "The foundation of their world", he says, "is the Job. With them the whole show starts with getting a job for every day they want It need It." He accounts in detail the trials, the discouragements, of these toilers, black, white, of every nationality, as they cluster cold, hungry, worried, about employment offices, or tramp the streets of the cities from one plant to another In their efforts to secure work. "The families of these men mean the same to them as the families of other men", he points out. and reiterates that it is "the job" upon which "the whole world turns for the working man." It goes without saying that much bitterness of feeling finds expression through the mouths of these men. particularly during those long and frequent periods of loafing that fol low a general "laying off" of the un skilled help. Mr. Williams tells us that all political parties, society in general, indeed, come in for unre strained censure at times. But with out entering into the matter of the justice or injustice of the claims and demands of these men, Mr. Williams story has a moral for many more for tunate individuals than those of whom he writes. No intelligent man will attempt or wish to deny the presence in this country of many industrial evils; no such man will dispute the claims of the toiler who asks of society a liv ing wage a right to a comfortable existence. America has ever been the haven for men who want just to live to live and be happy as God Intended they should be. The dif ficulty lies with some of us who are more fortunate. Too many men who have good jobs, who are well paid, and who know they have good jobs and are well paid, seek, for mercen ary purposes, to bring home to them selves the complaints of every dis satisfied class. For selfibh ends they endeavor to apply to their own cases the grievances of others who may with indisputable justice, demand a change in - conditions. But because John Smith is uncV-rpa;i Is not a reason In itself for Will Jones to complain. Now, if ever, is the time for men with decent lobs to ut their shoulders to the wheel and by their honest, patriotic co-operation help this government in its fight to re lieve the really needy. Now Is the time for the average man to realize the importance, the vital necessity, of his own Job. America is still America, but never In her history has she needed the honest and zealous support of her own native-born sons as now. Nev er has she turned with more appeal ing earnestness to her own citizenry than she turns today In the midst of this strife, and argument, and mis understanding that has arisen, na turally and inevitably, out of the still smouldering ashes of a world catastrophe. World Herald. Read the Dairy Journal. 1 LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court or Cass coun ty. Nebraska, Joseph A. Everett, Plaintiff, vs. Sa raantba Jamison .Long et al, Defen dants. To the defendants Belle Henderson and Henderson, her husband: Donald Nichols and Mrs. Donald Nich ols, nis wife: You and each of you are herebv no tified that on the 28th day of June. A. 1. 1S18, plaintiff filed his suit In the District Court of Cass county. Ne braska, tlte object and purpose of winch is to quiet and confirm plain tiff's title in and to the KVj of NKH of Section L'9, and the west ten acres of the NW4 of Section 28, all in Township 10 N. of Kanjre 14. east of the 6th P. M.. in Cass county, Nebras ka, and to enjoin each and all of you from having or claiming: any right, title, lien or interest, either leRal or equitable In and to said land or any part thereof, and to enjoin you and each of you from in any manner in terfering with plaintiff's possession and enjoyment of said premises and for equitable relief. This notice is given pursuant to an order of the said court. You are required to an swer said petition on or before the 19th day of April, 1920, or your de fault will be entered therein. JOSEPH A. EVEKETT. riaintiff. By A. L. TIDD, m8-4w His Attorney. LBf.tL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. F. M. Welshlmer and Company, a co-partnership, composed of F. M. Yel shimer. C. K. Welshimer and James Welshimer, Plaintiffs, vs. Peter E. liuffner et al, defendants. To the defendant, John W. liuffner You are hereby notified that on the Hist day of August. A. D. 1919, plain tiffs filed their suit in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose a mechanic s lien on the northwest quarter of Section five (5, Township 11 N. Ranjre 13, east of the 6th P. M.. in Cass county, Nebraska. in the sum of 1166.72. with Interest thereon at the rate of 7 per annum from April 9, "1918. and equitable re lief. This notice is Riven pursuant to an order of said court. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 19th day of April, 1920. or your default will be entered therein. F. M. WELSHIMErt AND COM PA N Y a co-partnership, composed of F. M. flshimer, C. E. elsmmer and James Welshimer. Plaintiffs. By A. Li. TIDD, mS-4w. Their Attorney. LEGAL NOTICE Emma Eikenbary. defendant, will take notice that on the Sth day of March, 1920, Alice Johnson, plaintiff herein, filed her petition in the Dis trict Court of Cass county, Nebraska, against said defendant, the object and inayer of which are to enlorce spe cific performance of a certain con tract for the sale by the detendant or an undivided one-third part of the fol lowing described real estate, town: The south half of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-four (24): also the north half of the northwest quarter of Section twenty-five (25, excepting1 twenty acres off the south side thereof; also the east half of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section twenty-three 23), II In Township twelve 12, ortn Kang-e thirteen 13), east of the 6th P. M.. Cass county. Nebraska: also the following described tract of land, to wit: Commencing; at the northeast corner of Section twenty-six (261 in Township twelve 1-M, Ttange thirteen (12. east or the 6th 1. Al.. lass coun ty. Nebraska; thence running west forty 40 rods; thence south sixty 60 rods: tnenee east lorty nui roos; thence north sixty (60) rods to the place of beginning, containing in all 174. 6S acres more or less, according to Government survey. You are reanired to answer paid pe tition, on or before the 26th day of April, 1920. Dated this Sth day or aiarcn. i3u. A LUCE JOHNSON. mS-4w. Plaintiff. LEGAL NOTICE John House, if livinsr. if deceased. his unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in his estate; An drew M. House, if living, if deceased, his unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in his estate: the American Freehold Land Mortgage Company of London (Limited) and all persons claiming any interest of any kind in the north half of the south east quarter of Section twenty-eight (2X. Townsnip iweive u-i. .-sunn liane nine (9) east of the 6th P. M., Cass county. Nebraska, or any part thereof. You and each or vou are nereny no tified that on the 28th day of Febru- arv, 1920. a petition was filed in the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska. In which Peter Halmes is plain tiff and John Rouse, if living. If de ceased, his unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons Interested in his estate: Andrew M. House, if living, if deceased, his unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives aid all other persons interested in his es tate: The American Freehold Land Mortgage Company of London (Limit ed! and all persons claiming any in terest of anv kind In the north half of the southeast quarter of Section twentv-eight -). uownsiup iwcim; (12), North Kange nine (9 eaft of the 6th I. M.. Cass county, Nebraska, or any part thereof, are defendants. The object and prayer of which pe tition is to quiet the title In the plain tiff Peter Halmes to the north half of the southeast quarter or section twen ty-eight, lownsnip mfivr, jjwi linnsre nine east of the 6th P. M., Cass county. Nebraska, because said plain tiff, and his grantors, nave nan me ac tual, open, notorious, exclusive and adverse possession thereof, and every part and parcel thereof, for more than ten years last past prior to the com mencement of this action, and for equitable relief. You ana eacn oi you ic luumi notified that you are required to an Kwr said petition on or before Mon day the 19th day of April, 1920. PETER, HALM EH, Flaintifi. C. A. RAWLS, ml-4w. Attorney LEUAL NOTICE ManotH Yallirv. defendant will lake notice that on the Sth day of March, 1 '. Alice Johnson, plaintiff herein. filed htr petition in the District Court fiumtv- Nebraska, against said defendant, tho object ana praer oi which are to enlorce specinc pcrxor marif of a. certain contract for the sale by the defendant of an undivided one-third part or tne louowing ac v.-rlK.H real estate. tOWit: The south half of the southwest nimrtrr of Section twenty-four (24): also the north half of the northwest quarter of Section twenty-five (2T. i. went in or twenty acres off the south side thereof; also the east half of the southeast quarter or tlie southeast tmnrter of Section twenty-three (23), all in Township twelve (12). North Range thirteen (IS), east of the 6th P M. Cass county. Nebraska; also the following dcscrioed tract oi Janu n wit: Commencing at the northeast cor ner of Section twenty-six (2fi) in Town ship twelve 4 12) Range thirteen (13) east of the 6th 1. M., Cass county. Ne braska: thence running west forty (40 rods; thence south sixty (60) rods; thence east forty t0) rods; thence north sixty 60) rods, to the place of beginning, containing in all 174. ss acres more or less according to Gov ernment survey. You are required to answer said pe tition on or before the 2Sth day of April, 1920. Dated this Sth day of March. 1920. ALICE JOHNSON. xn$-lw. riaintiff. Duster ho ff Interiors bear the distinctive mark or STYLE and QUALITY! ORIGINAL! EXCLUSIVE! They are always recognized by thoje who appreciate the BEST! We strongly urge that you book your orders for SPRING WORK with us now, so that you may be sure to have your work done well and with out any delay. Call, write or phone today. ElQax Dusterhoff, Exclusive INTERIOR DECORA TING and Practical Painting for 23 years. f Murdock. Nebraska We carry the newest and finest Wall Paper in stock! LEliAL NOTICE To the unknown heirs, devisees. legatees, personal representatives and ail other persons interested in tne estate of S. N. Merriata, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees. personal representatives and all otner persons interested in the estate of William H. Wright, deceased; Hugh Henrv. if living, if deceased, his un known heirs, devisees, legatees, per sonal representatives and all other persons interested in his estate; all persons claiming any interest or any kind in that part of lots two, three and five, in Section thirteen. Town ship twelve. Range ten. Cass county, Nebraska, lying north and east of the 11. A: M. Railroad right of way. or any part thereof, and Myrtle P. Atwood: on and eacli ot yon are ijereiv no tified that on the 3rd diiy of March, 1920. a petition was filed In the Dis trict Court f Cass county, Nebraska, In which Til s.uu; Oscar W. Xaar and Axel D. Zatif were plaintiffs, and the Villaee of South Rend; the un known heirs, devisees, legatees, per sonal representatives and all other persons interested in tlie estate of s. N. Merriam. deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all other persons in terested in the estate of 'William H. Wright, deceased; Hugh Henry. if living, if deceased, the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in his estate; Catherine H. Parmele, widow of Calvin 11. Parmele. deceased: Myrtle P. Atwood, Nellie I. Agnew, Charles C. I'armele and Thomas E. I'armele, sole heirs of Calvin H. Par mele,, deceased; that part of Lots two. three ana nve in section tnirteen. Township twelve. Range ten, Cass county, Nebraska lying north and east of the B. & M. railroad right of way. and all persons claiming any interest of any kind in said real estate, or anv part thereof, were defendants. The object and prayer of which pe tition are to quiet title in the plaintiff rillie Xaar to Lot two in that part of Section thirteen, Township twelve. Range ten, Cass county, Nebraska, ly ing north and east of the H. M. railroad right of way; To quiet the title in the plaintiff Axel D. Xaar, to Lot three in Section thirteen. Township twelve, Range ten, Cass county, Nebraska, lying north and east of the li. i M. right of way; To quiet tlie title in the plaintiff Oscar W. Xaar, to lot five in Section thirteen, township twelve. Range ten. Cass county, Nebraska. lying north and east of tlie V. t M. railroad right of way; Because said plaintiffs, and each of them, and their grantors. have had the actual, open, notorious, exclusive and adverse possession thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof, for more than ten years last past prior to the commencement of this action, and for equitable relief. lou and each of you are further notified that you are required to an swer said petition on or before Mon day the 26th day of April, 1920. T1LL1E XAAR OSCAR W. XAAR AXEL D. XAAR Plaintiffs. C. A. I ; AWLS. aiS-4w. Attorney. If it's in the book line, call at the Journal office. MEMORIAL DAY Tlie Cass County Monument Co. has a fine lot of Monuments and Headstones from which to select. The prices are right. Remem ber, there are not. many days left in which to have your work done by the 30th of May. We also cut inscriptions in the cemetery. Give Us a Trial! Cass County Monument Company H. W. SMITH, PRopr. Telephone 177 -:- -:- Plattsmouth, Neb. E:a:::giii.ani'B:jB:'l:'B::L'a;:'i:g;i::ln.:;:ig,:,a: ti(ii:it op ii i : it i ( it Petition fur ppoinl mrut of A ilmlnlalriiliir. The State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. In the County Court. t In the matter of the estate of John W. Long, deceased. On reading and tiling the petition of Alva ,. Long praying that administra tion of said estate may he granted to John W. Edmunds, as administrator; Ordered, that April 6th, A. D. 1920. at ten o'clock a. m., is assigned for hearing said petition, when all per sons interested in said matter may ap pear at u County Court to be held In ami for said county, and show cause why the prayer of petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said ietition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons in terested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order In tlie Platts moutb Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. , Dated ilarch 1. 1920. ALLEN ST TJEKSON. m 1 5-2 w. County Judge. OIIDKK OF IIEAltI.G it mtl Notice of Proltate of Mill In the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested In the es tate of Ann White, deceased: on reading the petition of Mark White praying that the Instrument filed in this court on the fcth day of March. 1920, and purporting to bo the last will and testament of the said de ceased, may be proved and allowed, and recorded as the last will and tes tament of Ann White, deceased; that said instrument be admitted to pro bate, and the administration of said estate be granted to D. J. Pit tin an as executor; It is hereby ordered that you, and all persons Interested in said matter, may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 12th dav of April. A. I . 19.0, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any theic be, why the prayer of the petitioner should r.ot be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all jnrsons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this Order in tlie Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of spid court, this Mh day ot March, A. D. l?.l. ALLEN .7 BEESO.V. (fc'ttl) mll-3w County JuJi'j. FOR SALE Four or 5 young horses, 4 to 5 years old; also a few young heifers. Dr. Hall, farm, Murray, Neb. 4tw, If it's in the stationery line, call at the Journal office. n ft li -a 1 y n a