THTJRSDA?, JANUARY 8, 1922-
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FLATTSJCOUTH SEMI-tTEEKLY JOURNAL
Cbe piattsmoutb journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at I'ostoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., aa second-class mall matter
R. A. BATES, Publisher
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James Buchanan was
the bachelor president.
known as
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Maybe it was Santa Ciaus who set
fire to two Chicago schools?
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Window shoppers think that ev
ery window needs looking into.
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A record of 37 miles an hour bus
been made "in tobogging in Switzer
land. :o:
Moon is getting nearer to the earth
at the rate of about 14 feet in 200
years.
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The average man, we suspect,
would never admit that he is just
average.
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Wipe that frown off your face.
There will be another Christnia3
next year.
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A wise man never laughs at his
wife before breakfast or kicks a
stick of dynamite.
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Don't imagine that you have great
will power because you have never
had occasion to teat it.
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Idaho robbers who got only elev
en cents found the safe wasn't what
it was cracked up to be.
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Motor driven taw blade on a V
shaped frame, for felling trees, has
been invente 1 in Europe.
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Bolsheviks have found that the
principal trouble with the soviet
idea is that it won't work.
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Some people try to console them
selves in the hour of their misfortune
by saying, "There are others."
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Swiss experts are trying to ex
tract sugar from a sweet plant which
grows aburulautly-in Pargifay.
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Conan Doyle says he saw heaven
and it was just like the earth. That
wasn't heaven you saw, Conan.
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Industrial and life insurance com-
panies in the United States had 63,-
000.000 policies out during 1920.
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It is said there are families in
Switzerland which have cheese dat
ing from the first French revolution.
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Weather men say winter gets later
every year, but it will never come
at a time when overcoats are cheap.
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Stylish girls are wearing hoops.
That's good; now they can "roll 'em"
in three senses, instead of only two.
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At Pittsburg hotel submitted to
the city council a bill for 3.017.97
for entertaining Marshal Foch, and
the noted Frenchman was in Pitts
burg less than a day. In the olden
days Jesse James used to do things
like that with a revolver.
CO
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"It don't take a man long to
bag his pants at the knees,
and to make a finely tailored
suit look thoroughly disrepu
table that's the man of It,"
avers Dainty Dorthy.
But she goes on to explain
that the man who is making
use of our cleaning, steaming
and pressing services is keep
ing his clothes In much more
presentable condition than
when be got acquainted with
us. And it doesn't cost much,
either.
Goods Called for and Delivered
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PES YEAR IN ADVANCE
Did you enjoy the holidays?
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Now, go to work, and be good.-
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Japanese workmen wear on their
caps and backs inscriptions stating
their business and their employes'
names.
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Bangkok, capitol of Siani, is a
floating city containing 70,000
houses, each of which floats on a
bamboo raft.
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Our ideas of an inconsiderate
wife is the woman who gave her
Christmas present and now won't
let him use it.
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At least one good thing can be
said in favor of the Christmas fruit
cake. It is a thorough test of your
digestive ability.
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Lots of people were happy on
Christmas day, but we know the
world too well to believe that every
body was happy.
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There are good reasons to believe
the merchant will show unusual fer
vor in sending out bills for all those
Christmas things.
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All the world loves a lover so
long as he loves legitimately, with
due respect for the proprieties and
the rights of other people.
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Don't be grouchy about it. If you
forgot to send your friends Christ
mas cards you can make up for it
by sending New Year greetings.
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Real beer for the sick was near
and yet so far, as it subsequently
i turned out. Most of 'em now will
have to worry along with near-beer
or none.
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The greatest Christmas present in
th-" -history" f the world was. when
Uncle Sam decided to feed the Rus
sians $10,000,000 worth of whole
some food.
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And now comes the kaiser who de-
nies all responsibility for the war
and says he worked twenty-six years
to establish world peace. Well, he
certainly made a bum job of it.
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Substantial proof that the people
of the United States believe in San
ta Claus is furnished by the figures
showing that $100,000,000 was
spent for Christmas toys this year.
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The world is filled with blessings
for which we have little apprecia
tion. For instance, what would a
man do without profanity waile try
ing to crank a Ford on a co'.d morn
ing. :o:
Only a few more weeks before the
annual "spring drive" in poetry
commences. In the meantime editors
are strengthening their first lines
of defense by printing an over-supply
of rejected slips.
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Bergdoll has sued the United
States for $750,000 damages. Now
it only remains for Debs to put in a
bill for a million, and the ex-kaiser
one for a billion. They are all suf
ferers in the same cause.
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As the legislative session ap
proaches Gov. McKelvie's feelings
are no doubt very much akin to
those of a man under death sentence
who--e case has been affirmed, and
all hope for a reprieve or commuta
tion has vanished.
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Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria
Hungary can now buy himself a
buck-saw and an ax and settle down
as a modest woodcutter. It's not a
very lucrative job, as the ex-kaiser
of Germany has found, but it's fine
to while away the time and keep a
deposed ruler out cf mischief.
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The North Carolina legislature
has adjourned after passing 500
bills In three weeks. Let us hope that
the Nebraska legislature does not
try to surpass the North Carolina
record. We have more laws now than
we know what to do with. The few
er bills passed the more cordial will
be public approval.
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It was admitted by attorneys for
the prooecution at the trial of a Chi
cago banker, charged with embez
zlement, that the prisoner was at
first punctual about meeting his fi
nancial obligations, but later be
came careless. The explanation is ab
surdly simple. Perhaps he became
careless because the bank ran out of
cash.
Write it 1922. Don't forget that.
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Every New Year has its good times.
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The medium should always be in
good spirits.
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Usually the louder a man talks the
less it amounts to.
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Modern electric trolly was patent
ed January 18. 1892.
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Deeds speak louder than words in
a real estate transaction.
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Whether or not you have sworn
off, be as good as you can.
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These days nobody ever finds more
than a nickel on the sidewalk.
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When it comes to getting his dues
his satanic majesty never gets left.
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First locomotive was used in the
United States on January 15, 1831.
ror
If you wish to hear a hard luck
story just ask a man for the money
i he owes you.
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These advertised asbestos gloves
must be for home brewers to wear
while pouring drink.
Politics is much'like heating sys-
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tems you graduate quickly
hot air to hot water.
from
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Sometimes it looks like Mr. Hughes,
really ought to let Warren have a
peek at bur foreign policy.
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Some people notice the days are
getting longer while others notice
the rights are getting shorter.
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The difference between deceit and
conceit, with deceit you can fool
every. With conceit odly yourself.
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Cattle growers want 20 per cent
tariff on hides. And the consumer
knows whose hide it will fall on.
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Two men can remain
.
mends lor,
life if they never have an opportun
ity to prove anything to each other.
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Something tells us if there hadn't
been so many political riots in Bel
fast there'd be fewer bread riots now.
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Harding's much touted Four-Power
treaty looks more like a promis
sory note drawn in favor of Japan.
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. After eating a . turkey wing one
readily understands where the bird
gets the strength to roost so high.
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Be good to your wife, be good to
your children, and try to be good to'
everybody else, ana you win De nap
py. :o:
This country spends more money
on face paints than on bouse paints.
Save the surface and you will save
all.
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The children nowadays have a
hard time picking the movies to
which it is safe to take their par
ents. :o:
Furthermore, there is hardly any
thing that handicaps a vampire more
than to travel with her three little
children.
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During the past year Plattsmouth
has done much better than most of
the cities of ts size. Now let's do bet
ter this year.
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Of course Santa. Claus didn't
bring us much, but we are fair en
ough to say he didn't steal anything
we already had.
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Remembering that the proverb
says there is always room at the top
any housewife can tell you, how
ever that it is the cream that gets
there.
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The feminine militants are out
again for a bill of rights to permit
married women to retain names.
Why not ask for new names entire
ly? Those maiden names are but the
badge of the mother's lost identity,
and should be scorned accordingly.
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President Ebert governs German-,
undertaking all that country's prob
lems, for a salary of little more than
$2,000 a year. And yet there are
men in his own country who ques
tion his patriotism.
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This country spent 143 million
dollars for laundry in 1914 and
236U million last year, but recall
ing the comparative prices in those
two years, we must feel unduly
proud of our increased cleanliness.
GOVS
You Can Earn from $1.00
to $10.00 a Week.
Quick, easy just an hour or 'so af
ter school. Nothing to sell, and no
money required. We want two am
bitious boys In each town and com
munity. Could you use some EXTRA
MONEY? If so, send your name and
address TODAY a post card will do.
Address Oox 240,
Plattsmouth -:- Nebraska
AN A3T0tTNDINd BUNGLE
If the English language means
anything at all. President Harding's
delegates at the disarmament con
ference have
made a bad mess of
things.
It is both a mystery and a mess
that follows the adjournment of the
conference, and the more it is ex-
plained the worse it looks. The most " mu, n
h.Ht.hio ... - oir- t it .11 ia'in Sd health. In other words, the
' tnat an astounding blunder was com
am fc a a vu ' 1 C V l U lane J k a w uaa
mitted.
The Four-Power treaty, negotiat-,
a1 in oa .v V m. v imc iet
the Unittcl States, Great Britain,
jayaa. na.icu . .
I wonderful document, but it now
seems that we have induced, per-
suaded. inveigled, or flim-f lamed in-
to guaranteeing the security of Ja
pan, generally recognized as
our
aearest enemy.
The "joker" is snug as a bug in
the very first clause of the first ar
ticle of this treaty of alliance. Any
one that can read can see for one
self. Here is the first portion of Ar
ticle 1:
The high contracting parties agree
as between (among) themselves to
respect their respective sights in re-
lation to their llsllar possessions
region of the Pacific ocean.
The emphasis is ours, also the
words in parentheses, in an effort to
make, clear what even the partisan
I New York Tribune criticizes as an
Unclean and ungrammatical piece of
writing.
However, what Is meant by the
language, whatever may have been
in the "best minds" of the adminis
tration's delegates, is that we, with
England, France and Japan, propose
to guarantee among other things
the integrity of all Japanese insu
lar territory, including the main is -
land and the other chief islands of
that empire, even as against our -
!rp!vp5 .mri our niiip
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Such a nrooosition with resnect
to France was hooted at by Harding, ;us with hope.
Lodge, et al. Now they have offered After the New York community,
this guarantee to Japan, and do nbt.an.d all 'other communities.' have fin
seem to have awakened to this plain j ished building monuments to the
interpretation of their own little dogs of war, perhaps they may be
treaty of alliance until the type got ! inspired to do something for the liv
cold. ing ex-service men who played a
. It is an interesting sidelight UDon
the manner of conducting the con
ference that President Harding at
first denied that Japan herself was
included in the scope of this provis-
ion. He said as much to the corre
spondents immediately after the
adoption of the draft of the treaty.
a
bw. ihowever, the president says
that the language of the guarantee
includes Japan herself and he has
no objections!
Baron Kato, whose astuteness and
perfect mastery of the situation as
it developed at Washington has been
universally conceded, says that this
is the true interpretation of the ar
ticle -"but. he suggests "the meaning
adopted (understood) at the time of
signing might be changed in the fut
ure." But can such things be? Can we,
or the other signatories, go back up
on the word and spirit of the treaty?
Has the wily Japanese certain pre
cedents in mind?
It may be recalled that in one in
stance our treaty with Columbia, we
refuse to consider that we ourselves
were included in a clause guaran
teeing the integrity of that unhap
py country.
It may be recalled, also, that in
another instance our, treaty with
England concerning the Panama Ca
nal, we are trying to change "the
meaning" of the language of the
treaty as it was plainly understood
at the time of signing and ever -ince
except by interested "parties,"
commercial or political.
But, of course, the Japanese Ad
miral and diplomat is not suspect
ing us f committing a third offense
of this sort.
No; we have plainly undertaken
to guarantee the territorial integ
rity of the whole insular empire of
Japan, even as against California!
In return we receive a guarantee of
out regime in the Philippines, and
England obtains reassurance that her
hold upon the best harbor and rich
est port of China will not be dis
turbed for at least ten years.
No wonder that the Japanese were
so ready to scrap the Anglo-Japanese
Alliance in return for this blan
ket protection for herself from all
the world."
It is Idle now to speculate on the
motives that impelled the president
to his unprecedented blunder
whether he was ignorant of what his
agents were doing when they nego
tiated the treaty; whether he became
alarmed by the bewildered and un
favorable comment the treaty was
causing since its Japanese discrimin-
ation was discovered; whether hisof
agents made him see that the mere at
announcement of his view of the
treaty's meaning could not alter the
meaning that had been given to It
by the representatives of the four
contracting parties who drew it up,
agreed on its meaning and signed it.
The important thing is now that the
president shall see to it that there
shall be no ground for differing in
terpretations of the treaty.
That is the only way out of the
mess ne uas maae.
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The public health service of Wash
ington plans to send broadcast, by
wireless, information as to how the
! puWic heaIth service is devising
; new way of spending money. The av-
erage individual will be content to
wait and
get the information
i mail.
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OUR FORESIGHT
Traffic through the Panama Canal
this year has been nearly twice as
big as in 1915, despite depression on
ocean shipping. The total is larger
than in any of the war years.
In great ventures like building
the Panama Canal, time invariably
shows that Uncle Sam has foresight
comparable to a sixth sense.
Government makes many mistakes,
in a general way it steadily makes
progress. The United States still is a
coming country, still in its swail-
dling clothes. Like China. Uncle Sam
Is a giant that has only begun to
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GOOD FOR THE DOGS
A thriving city up in New York
is planning A monument to the
faithful dogs that served on the bat
tlefields of France and Flanders.
Fine idea!
A monument to the dogs meets
with our cordial approval.
The dog is man's best friend, and
the service rendered by the canines
carried to the battlefields of Europe
furnishes one of the most interetrt-
!inS pages in the history that is yet
to.be written of the World War.
J Ve favor building this raonu-
ment first, because the dogs deserve
ana. secona, uecause u inspires
more or less prominent part in the
greatest conflict in human history.
The movement may even extend
unto the state of Nebraska wlfere
about 50,000 of our bravest young
men went forth to die on the fields
of battle, and, up to this good mo
ment, those who stayed behind have
not erected any form of a memorial
to commemorate the part they play
ed in the great conflict.
WATERMAN'S PEN
The New York Tribune says that
Watterson's achieved fame as an edi
tor of "the reckless candor of his
writing."
This is hardly a fair estimate. It
is true that Col. Watterson was a
man of few reservations. He was
either for a thing or against it. He
did not use language to conceal
thought. When he wanted to say a
thing, he said it, when he got thru
there was no doubt as to his mean
ing. We need more writers of that
sort more terseness, vehemence
more intensity, in editorial pages,
and nowhere is that need more
strikingly exemplified than on the
editorial page of the New York Tri
bune. The turid, doubtful, complicated
form of editorial expression is be
coming too common. There can bfr
no sincereity in such writing and
very little of either inspiration or
instruction.
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WHEN WILL YOU DIE?
How long will you live? That
question silences us all. Firm in
every person is the conviction that
death is inevitable. There is no spe
cial reason for believing so, except
precedent.
We observe that all men who ever
lived have died. Hence we reason,
our own deaths are a certainty.
Not necessarily so! Is the startling
opinion of Sir Arthur Keith, of the
Royal college of Surgeons of Lon
don. Medical science some day may con
quer death enable people to live
eternally. This is not impossfble, says
Keith. .
Civilization steadily increases the
average length of human life. Is
there an end to this exteution? Why
so?
Prof. Keith tells the London cor
respondent of the Journal of the
American Medical Association: j
"Animals" like the gorilla and an- i
thropoid apes, that are nearest to
man, are old at 40. The aborigines'
Australia and Patagonia were old
60. Human life is longer now."
We do not live more years. We
cram more into each year. In an
hour we" travel by airplane as far as
our ancestors could penetrate thru
forests in a fortnight.
Civilization has so conquered
'space and time that modern man ex-
periences more life in a year than
the prehistoric Java ape man, Hei
delburg man, or Meanderthal man
experienced in 20 years.
Still we are not satisfied. As a re
action from the nerve tension of
modern existence, we seize, with a
shout, all promises of death-evasion
held forth by the monkey gland doc
tors. While eternal' life is not impossi
ble for man, it is undesirable, says
Prof. Keith.
"TVif rioiirA fnr tViA pvfpnsion of
by.fi10 nf th i,llm!in iif form'ths state Bulletin contains the ioi
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would never entertain the idea."
Keith's theory is that nature's
to use young and vigorous lives and
kill off the old.
Therefore, says he, the problem is
not to postpone death, but to pro
long the period of vigorous life. In
other words, to double the years of
vouth and shorten the neriod of ex -
hausted, enfeebled old age. jcate plate will have a distinctive 'fer
ial number which will be shown in
A sound theory! Youth, not long-'gjg the iarge "D." Thus, if a deal
er lives, is what we all crave. It is'er orders ten plates, the serial num
doubtful if the average person could bers inside the "D" will run from
live more than two centuries with-
.ii f in-,r.iit,tnn. ; n'.l ,i rT" i - t-rv cit 1
through the same movie 10 times
and see how the show bores you.
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THE SHORTEST DAY
A few days since a prominent,
Piattsmoutb. man had a violent ar- the state motor vehicle department
gument with one of his friends as to at Lincoln.
which is the shortest day in the year.)
One insisted it was the 21st of De
cember, and the other was equally
positive that it was the 22nd of De
cember. The matter was referred to the
editor of the Daily Journal for set
tlement and after careful investiga
tion we find that both were wrong.
December the 20th was the short-
pt l:iv nf the vpar for the sun rose
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at 7:lfi a. m. and set at 4:31 p. m..
making the day nine hours and fif
teen minutes long or short. Winter
did not begin until 4:03 a. m., Dec.
21, when the sun ended its south
ward journey and begun its journey
to the north, the length of the day
increasing, but very slowly.
"When the days begin to lengthen
then the cold oegins to strengthen,"
runs the old adage, which seems ab
surd, but It is as true as the fact
that summer does not set in full
force until the days begin to short
en on June 21 that dat-3 comes
right next year when the day will
be fourteen hours and forty-two
minutes long.
The lengthening of the days, how
ever, is not noticeable in the pres
ent mornings, for it will be a whole
month before the sun rises earlier
that is, sunrise was at 7:16 Dec.
20 and 21; on Dec. 22 and 23 it" was
7:17; for the next three days it was
7:17, for the next three days it was
7:18, three more days' at 7:19 and
then from Dec. 30 to Jan. 13 the
time will be 7:20, and after Jan. 20
a minute of light be gained every
day.
By the same token the sun began
to set later on Dec. 14 and has been
going down later ever since, and by
Jan. 6 it 'will be gaining a minute
a day. So for the coming month all
the gain a day will be in the after
noon, a total of 27 minutes.
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DEPOSITORS AND CREDITORS
Notice to Depositors and Creditors of
the Bank of Cass County,.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
To all persons having money on
deposit, and to all creditors of the
Hank of Cass County, Plattsniouth,
Nebraska:
You will take notice that on the
13th day of December, 1921, the
Bank of Cass County was adjudged
insolvent by the District Court of
Cass County. Nebraska, and that
Fred E. Bodie was appointed. Re
ceiver; That on the 13th day of December,
l'JL'l.. the court entered an order
that all persons having claims
against said bank should file same on
or before the 11th dav of February.
1922.
You will therefore take notice that
all such claims must be filed with the
Receiver at his office in the banking
rooms of the Bank of Cass County,
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on or before
the Hth day of February, 1922, or
be forever barred.
FRED E. BODIE,
tf-daw. Receiver.
Blank Books at the Journal Office
LUNG AUDI A is "without a rival"
in ordinary or deep-seated Coughs
and Colds, difficult breathing, and
for the relief of whooping cough.
The wonderful results following
its use will astonish you and make
you its life-long friend. Your
money back, if you have ever used
its equal. Danger lurks where
there is a cough or cold. Safe for
all ages. 60c and $1.20 per bottle.
Manufactured by Lungardia Co.,
Dallas, Texas. For eale by
Weyrich & Hadraba
INEW SYSTEM OF
NUMBERING CARS
Each County Has Its Own Index on
Automobile Plates County
Treasurers in Charge.
Under the new system of number
ing Nebraska automobiles, an as
signment has been made to eacn
county of an index number, which
belongs exclusively to that county.
The new system begins with the
i !,,.. !,n Tho current issue
i i r';; ii i ui ivii. -
I cr linear nt inn ni ine bvbiciu
irii, nnntitv will have an lnaex
I 1 11 1. 11 LUUU1J ..... -
number and the registrations will
start with "1" and continue upwaiu
a3 far as necessary to tane in mi iu
Take for In-
t ....... - ,
stance, the cars in Douglas county,
which has the index number "1
Touring cars will be numbered 1-1
to 1-22,000. Truck numbers will run
from 1-T 1 to 1-T 5,000. Motorcycles
and trailers will carry small plates
and will run from 1-MC 1 and 1-T 1
tiDward. Dealers will be nuraoereu
' f rom 1-1D upward and each dupli
1 to iu, wniie me uumuei iu.iumuS
the "D" will be the same on all the
Plates- . . , .....
"The county treasurer in eacu
county will have complete charge of
the distribution of plates and lnior
mation relative to ine ownersmii ui
various cars can be obtained either
... . i - . : .
jfrom the county treasurer who reg
1 1'ctiKni Via m ii'fottH fkn T10 fminrl
"The key and the county:
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uougias
2 Lancaster
3 Gage
4 Custer
5 Dodge
6 Saunders
7 Madison
S Hall
9 Buffalo
10 Platte
11 Otoe
12 Knox
13 Cedar
14 Adams
15 Lincoln
1 6 Seward
17 York
18 Dawson
1 9 Richardson
20 Cass
21 Scotts Bluff
22 Saline
23 Boone
24 Cuming
25 Butler
' 26 Antelope
27 Wayne
28 Hamilton
29 Wasington
30 Clav
31 Burt
32 Thayer
33 Jefferson
3 4 Fillmore
35 Dixon
36 Holt
37 Phelps
38 Furnas
39 Cheyenne
4 0 Pierce
41 Polk
42 Nuckolls
43 Colfax
44 Nemaha
45 Webster
4 6 Merrick
47 Valley
48 Red Willow
4 9 Howard
50 Franklin.
51 Harlan
52 Kearney
53 Stanton
54 Pawnee
55 Thurston
56 Sherman
57 -Johnson
58 Nance
59 Sarpy
60 Frontier
61 Sheridan s -
62 Greeley
63 Boyd
64 Morrill
65 Box Butte
66 Cherry
67 Hitchcock
68 Keith
69 Dawes
70 Dakota
71 Kimball
72 Chase
73 Gosper '
74 Perkins
75 Brown
76 Dundv
77 Garden
78 Deuel
79 Hayes
80 Sioux
81 Rock
8 2 Keya Paha
83 Garfield
S4 Wheeler
85 Banner
86 Blaine
87 Logan
88 Loup
89 Thomas
90 McPherson
91 Arthur
92 Grant
93 Hooker
BOX SOCIAL
Box social and a program will ?
trict No. 41. on January 6th
Kood time In store for all. LaV
fcuease oring boxes. 2w
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