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JLATTdOUTH 8130 - WEEKLY JOTTILNAL
THURSDAY, LZCEMBEE 27. 1923.
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Q?g plattsmouth lournal
PUBLISHES SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, HEERASKA
Katcred at' FmUSIc. Plttmutii. Neb, cd-cl mM.il ma.Ur
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R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PEICE $2.00 PEE YEAJR IH ADVASCE
PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED
And he said, Whereunto shall
liken the kingdom of God? It is like .2.
a grain cf mustard seed which, when
it is sown in the earih, is les than
all seeds that be in the earth. But .J.
when it is sown it gTOweth up, and
becometh greater than all herbs, and
shooteth out great branches; so that
fowls of the air may lodge under the
shadow of it. Mark iv, 30 to 32.
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The foundation of justice is good
faith.
LINES TO REMEMBER
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'Peace
to Man."
on Eearth and Good Will
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How about
Almost time.
that good resolution?
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Court has adjourned until after
Christmas.
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Leap Year is almost here. Your
Keep not standing, fixed and
rooted ;
Briskly venture, briskly
roam;
Head and hand, where'er
thou foot it.
And stout heart are still,
at home.
In what land the sun does
visit,
Brisk are we whate'er be
tide, To give space for wandering
is it
That the world wa3 ruaue
so wide.
Goethe.
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BEING CHEERFUL
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Can you be cheerful in the fac f
adversity-r-yea, even, in the face,, of
approaching death?
It is the supreme test. Not many
men can measure up. to it,
A man was telling us the other
day about calling to see a sick friend,
an old pal wo afflicted with an in
curable disease, had been reduced, in.
flesh to a mere living skeleton.
Weak and emaciated though the
patient was. he sat up in bed, with
a cheerful grin on his face, and said:
"Say, old man, I'm getting so thin
that it will take only four pallbearers
to carry me.'
Do you think you could feel that
way after the doctors, had told you
the end was a matter of but a few
days?
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THE LAMENTERS
opportunity.
girls
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If people hated wars as they do
j paying lur lutiu, perieti ytate wuuiu
i prevail.
Poverty may pinch an honest man,
but it never destroys.
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Many sections of the country re
port booziness as usual.
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The Journal wishes everyone a
very Merry and Happy Christmas.
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Los Angeles movie star's auto hit a
train. You can't always get by on
your looks.
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An apple a day is becoming so ex
pensive it is just about as cheap to
call the doctor.
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A Cincinnati (Ohio) dentist'9 cat
has a gold tooth and had better start .
staying home at night.
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Well, Coolidge announced he is
running for president, but it didn't
come as a bombshell. (
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" "If everybody is 'going to help Ger
many get back to financial and politi
cal health Tovarish Trotsky will be
disappointed.
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"Doc" Cock probably regards the
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And, if you don't know how to
tune in, your radio will always sound
like a family argument.
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It's a wise farmer who knows his
condition after reading what the
politicians say about it.
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You may criticize a man's business
methods, but never offer suggestions
when he is driving the car.
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King George is buying his first
new car since 1910. The old one
can't quite tote its accessories.
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One observation is that Christmas
isn't as noisy as it used to be, but
uses more gallons to the mile.
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Civilization is the scheme whereby
men make more complicated the bus
iness of preying on one another.
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It doesn't make much difference
from whom you are descended. What
counts most is your ability to ascend.
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An old timer is one who can re
member when Christmas was cele
brated in honor of a birth at Beth-
Hehem.
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At last the thought of his country
has come to Bergdoll. He demands
Arctic region as being quite temper
ate after his chilling experience in
federal court.
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One of the straneest thines in this I
world is how much ado is made over-hLs kidnapping damages in American
When we are lamenting about the
young people and what is to come of
them, we might bear in, mind that
these self-same young people will be
engaged in lamentations of this and
that sort thirty years hence. So why
all the worry about the question?
There is always something to la
ment, and the older people are bet
Iiter at lamentation than the younger
ones. It is doubtful if Jeremiah
41 would have left any reputation as a
lamenter if he had died young. The
5 M! fact of the case is that middle-aged
people are in a position to see both
sides whether they are drifting and
whence comest them. The young, on
the other hand, see only one side and
the very old can't see either side very
clearly. This situation puts nearly
all the mental strain on the middle
agers and they become attached to
reform. Becoming serious-minded
which is the fate of all of us when
we pass the all-day-sucker stage is a
terrible thing to do. It is disturbing,
unsettling and endless. When one
becomes serious-minded he can vis
ualize himself through a new vista
of years wrestling with problems and
leading movements, perhaps toting
the banner with his own hands. Even
the most imperious reprimander of
the young cannot expect them to be
as secure in their estate as he is in
his for he has the advantage of ob
servation and experience while they
have no more in ' their favor than
their permission to. view him as an
exemplar. .If the young were, so un
gracious as to emit the cold truth at
all times, sometime they- Would let-it
be known that they- don't want to be
like their elders. This might aston
ish the elders profoundly, for one of
the advantages in neing mature Is in
feeling like a model for the immature
to come up by.
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CAUGHT BETWEEN
n't get anyone else. Also, most wom-
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post in, the middje Qt the street while
half n rinzpn nimrter men lashed vour
back, or else I -would have you so The interstate commerce commis- raen Dut they are ony recently be-
branded. tUa a:i decent men who met'sion find3 itself caught between two ginning to admit the fact
Our idea of an over-workel
on -
you in the street would shun you." . "res, congress in the transportation
? . a m r t f J . J U AA 1 aw
en love beauty quite as ardently as wife is one who ives six bid 3 fi , :1
the bakery and five from th..- a-).
catessen grocery.
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Santa Claus and how little attention
the stork gets.
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The work of thirteenth century
locksmiths is still in existence, but
you can say that about thirteenth
century jokesmiths.
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There are more autos than houses
in New Hampshire. Many people
money.
-to
have more autos than
more autos than sense.
money, also
The Russian soviet government has
forbidden the people to ceelbrate
Christmas. It's a merry country,
isn't it!
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Even if we were
cal party, Calvin Coolidge is the man
we would ask to go on a note to pay
our taxes.
KILLING MACHINES
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-;or ! neu iwo juuns people are 111 iuic
The report that an hcnet bootleg-; with each other it would fc cruel to
ger can't make any money probably ; force them to submit to an intelli
was started by the regulars who fear gence test.
a new kind of competition.
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A Pennsylvania man cracked a nut
Prime Minister Baldwin probably fwith the butt of a loaded revolver.
understands now the force of the'but ne won-t eat it until after the
adage that a parliament in hand is SUrgeons let him out of the hospital.
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worth two in the ballot boxes
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Oklahoma jurists hold that he who
fools around the biting end of any
army mule should bandage the conse
quence and charge them up to expe
rience. :o:
In the congressional dictionary.
Senator Brookhart sets it down that
he is a champion rifle shot. And he's
no slouch at shooting off his mouth,
either.
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There's one thing about the pres-
Certain aspects of the horoscope of !cnt Mexican revolution that makes it
President Calvin Coolidge "indicate a j better than its predecessors, and that
very sudden and unexpected change :is thdt it-s farther away from the
to take place in political circles or border.
otherwise resulting in his retirement j :o:
to private life after the next presi- j It is what goes with your gift, the
dential election," according to a thing you cannot pay postage on and
study of the stars by the Rev. Arthur which does not need to be wrapped
W. Brocks, who contributes a horo-in the parcel, that makes the Christ-
scope of the president to one of the mas remembrance worth while.
current magazines. It is not neces-j 0:0
sary to study the stars to reach the' A IeSal aid society, having collect-
conclusion that Chilly Cal will be de
feated. It is plainly written in the
minds of the American people.
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The number of fatal accidents and
serious injuries caused by careless
ness in the matter of crossing rail
roads is growing so serious that it
demands attention, more than has
been given to it in the past. All the
responsibility for such accidents rea
tonably cannot be supposed, or fair
ly proved, due to the carelessness of
individuals. The public should de-
London hears that an anti-Lloyd
mand that private persons shall ex-George bloc is being formed in the
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ercise as much care as is demanded
on the part of the railroads. Then
these crossing accidents will be very
much reduced ia number, savins
lives and money.
Compared to the French, guillotine
during the reign of terror, the Amer
ican automobile is not such a piker
after all as a handy mode of taking
life. It bumped off over 13,000 Amer
icans last year.
j In the foggy days of the world,
jwhen history was young and the
.... 'wheelbarrow regarded as a marvel of
of the fair,? pohti- J . 0
. . 'mechanical ingenuity, people died
mostly of hard living conditions,
fights with bears and bobcats and
wars with one another. Also they
often ate things they found growing
in the woods that proved poisonous,
and sometime? they got bones wedg
ed iu their throats and died of
strangulation or from the doctor's ef
forts at relief. Countless families per
ished in plagues, and half the child
ren of a family died in infancy from
the dogs they slept with. All that
was in times of the tribe and the
sort of state rights each man set up
for himself in his relation with what
ever king claimed him. Considering
that it bad to come through, it is
surprising that the human race sur
vived until the era of Calvin Cool
idge. And now another menace con
fronts civilization which threatens it
even more than ignorance of sani
tation, hygiene and cuisine threat
ened the ancients. It is the automo
bile. It is not only slaying its thou
sands, but it is changing the form
and face of cities and unsettling land
and rental values. The character of
the people is changing, and the fam
ily that used to tend a garden and
milk a cow now build3 a garage and
irrigates an automobile in the back
yard. Families that used to brag on
thefr ancestors now brag on the num
ber of miles they get to the gallon
and how fast they ran when match
ing a race with a supposed; motor
cop.
Meantime a different group of peo-r
pie are being killed by rubber tired
methods every day. The streets and
roads are road 3 are more terrible. And
the motor shortage is. eating un the
life insurance policy all over the na
tion.
ed statistics for forty-seven years,
finds that mothers-in-law are the
champion home breakers. It is sad
to discover that stale joke is true.
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The Europeans are tickled half to
death over the unofficial representa
tion of the United States on the com
mittee that will inquire into Gerr
many's ability to pay, which shows
how easy it is now to tickle Euro
peans. :o: ;
Liberal party, but It will occur to folr
lowers of British politics that there
always has been one and that it usu
ally has peen unsuccessful in keep
ing Lloyd George down.
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CONTEMPT CF COUKT
In sentencing a prisoner, eeavietet)
of wife beating a New York; sagi
fetrate said: "If I bad " my -way- I
would have you tied to a whipping' Its Attorney.
It might be a good Idea to impose
the penalty ef a sound, flogging for
soem offenses and wife beating would
be a very gocl one to begin with.
But the law in-pwes no such penalty
II ift the duty of a judge to do wtat
the law direcU--net to tell what he
would like for the law. to give him
permission to Jo. It may be taken
for granted that the, criminal .who
was lectured ieserved the severest
treatment bur -the judge had no
right to soil il e crime bjr expressing
his own passio late feelings from the
safety o( the b neb.
Men ought to respect the courts
but how can tl.ey if the judges carry
and display on the bench the passions
of men. A jude who does a thing of
this kind is sau from punishment for
contempt of ccurt because he is the
court and has the sole power of in
flicting this Banishment. But he is
really more in ' ontempt of court than
any man he f nes for contempt can
be. The court ii supposed to be with
out passion. Ii has its hold on pub
lic respect because it is supposed to
be the cold bloxled truth instrument
of the law. A judge is a man and a
man has his natural feelings but he
should keep the man and the judge
entirely separate when on the bench
If he i3 only a man while sitting on
the bench he is entitled to no more
respect than any other man. He is
entitled to respect that should be
and is acquired to the law by all good
men
A judge has no right to lecture a
prisoner and not one out of ten who,
while on the bench, does lecture a
prisoner would repeat his de
nunciation If he met him face to face
away from protection. It is an in
judicial thing and a cowardly thing.
He i3 lik.e the kid tha.t. standing on a
roof, abused a wolf that was passing
by. If he has anything to say as a
man he should say it out of court.
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"NO TAX-EXEMPT CITIZENS"
"Unless he gets a bill for di
rect taxes the avreage man
does not know how large a
share of that direct taxation he
is shouldering in his cost of liv
ing. If he did, he would sit
down and write his senators and
congressmen,, telling them to
get behind Mellons plan for
tax reductions."
This is from an advertisement of
the Saturday Evening Post. It ought
to set every taxpayer who has read it
to thinking. It. is a fact that there
are "no tax-emept citizens." Every
man and every woman pays taxes. If
in no other way, they help to pay the
taxes passed on-them by others and
reflected in excessive living costs.
Relatively the poor pay most, for
they can least afford the present cost
of living.
For some reason there are members
of congress who are not in accord
with the Mellon tax proposal. That
proposal is to cut taxes, not impose
new ones. U is to apply the present
and prospective surplus to its utmost
to relieve the people in substantial
measure of their tax burdens and to
lower the cost of living. Individual
taxpayers should let their represen
tatives in the senate and the house
know where they stand. If the peo
ple are for tax reduction, then a. lot
of their representatives ia the senate
and the house know where they
stand. If the people are for tax re
duction, then a lot of the representa
tives are wrong. They should be set
right.
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F0R SALE
act of 1920 ordered it greatly to ex- NEW VERSE P0R BANANA SONG
tend Its activities. The budget bu
reau in, line with its practices else-
Yes, we have no old ladies,
where seeks a substantial reduction We have no old ladies today.
in the appropriation for the commis-i We have flappers and young things
siou's activities. JAnd bachelor girlies
In its annual report the commis- And a" kinds of modern females;
siqn sets the problem forth clearly We have youthful grandmothers
an, wtihnnt Tirpiiiriico. It merelv And numerous others
seeks to place before president and
congress the fact that it cannot ex
pand and contract at the same time;
that congress must choose between
greater activity on the commission's
part and a reduced commission
budget
But, yes, we have no old ladies,
We have no old ladies today.
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Royalty has a hard time thee
FARM
Loans at Lowest Rates
ALSO
First Mortgages
Investors
for
democratic days. Two lovely prin -esses,
Beatrix and Marie, of Spain,
are of marriageable age and presum-
While recognizing the high char- abIy ready to take up housekeeping
acter of the work performed by the on some to be applying. In fact, roy
budget bureau since its creation, one. alty is short on all kinds of good
tan scarcely approve entirely econo- j matches and as the Spanish beauties
mies that have been affected in cer-!could not be allowed to pick a man
tain branches of teh service at the in the wav thev probably would de
cost of reduced public activity. Both,sire il i3 possible that they must do
the budget and the congress in their without or anyway wait a long
desire to reduce expenditures after time.
the war lost sight in certain cases of
SEARL S. DAVIS
Plattsmouth
the real objective to be sought in
public activity. It was so in the case
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One religious leader says the mod
ernist represents flexibility, while
of the army, postofflce
and the customs service. It is likely
to be true also in regard to the activ
ities of the interstate commerce com
mission. The commission much more direct
ly than cognress has been the public
agency of effective railroad regula
tion during recent years. Better than
congress or any individuals or groups
on the outside, it is in a position to
know both the needs of carriers and
snippers ana during an me years 01 1
its administration it has never been i
charged that the commission sought 1
to promote the interest of one group
at the expense of the other. Its ac
tivities have been in public interest,
and the public has profited from
them.
To try to save a few thousand
dollars through curtailing the com
mission's activity would be question
able economy. Every dollar saved in
public service is not necessarily a
dollar earned.
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department fundamentalist stands for fixity.
Laymen may choose sides with a
clear understanding of the issue.
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It is announced that three Ameri
cans have won heavily at Monte Car
lo. It is not announced how many
have lost heavily, but one suspects
that that is on account of Monte
Carlo's efficient press agent.
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That chain prayer nuisance has
:been started again and the postofflce
department has issued a "fraud or
der" against it. The simple minded
people who follow the directions of
.the senders and copy the inane and
'senseless message, for fear of "great
harm" deserve to be pitied, but the
, government sees nothing but trou
ble in the spread of such nonsense.
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We have about come to the con
clusion that it is not so much lack
of knowledge that keeps the people
from prospering. It is more a lack
of will power to make the best use
Automobile Painting!
First-Class Work
Guaranteed!
Prices Reasonable
Mirror Replating and
Sign Work!
A. F. KNOFLIGEK,
Phone 592-VV, Plattsmouth
Will Ssrvo Lunch!
Will serve lunch anywhere in
the county at sales.
Please notify
S. J. REGIES
Cedar Creek, Nebraska
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THE BLADE THAT WINS
of knowledge they possess. A farm- t have many sales booked and some
er was approached by an agent withlopen dates. Those wanticg dates had
The co-eds in the sociology classes a good book on better farming and: better see me before choice dates are
of the University of Minnesota were is reply was: "No use for me to i
recently the recipients of question- your book on good farming, 1
aires regarding the kind of husband am not farming now as well as I
they would like to niarrv and what know how."
qualities they deemed most essential
in the future bridegroom. It is sig
nificant that wealth was not stressed
in a single answer. Some did not
even mention it as a necessary pos
session, but one and all raised their
voices on high in favor of good looks
in a spouse.
This was tempered down by some
to moderately good looking, but the
homely boys were passed up cold as
prospects. Athletes were the most
highly favored and a number of sa
gacious souls included good disposi
tions among the desirable character
istics that would win their hearts.
The answers proved that the hand
some lads can win in a walk over all
the worth while specimens of mascu
linity who are not endowed with an
Apollo Belvederish beauty. The rea
son is that it flatters a lady's ego to
be the proud possessor of a hand
some mate. She knows that all the
other women are envying her and re
luctantly admitting that she must be
some enchantress or she could never
have corralled him away from all
the other girls.
However sterling the qualities of
a lonely husband, his wife knows
that when the anvil chorus begins
over afternoon tea the consensus is
that he married her because he could-
all gone.
REX Y01MG, Auctioneer
R. C. Rhode Island Red cockerels
at $1.50 each. Mrs. Julius Reinke,
South Bend. Neb. dl0-2mo.w
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANT
To Albert D. Welton, non-resident
defendant:
You are hereby notified that on the
15th day of December, 1923, the
flaiBtiff,. Home Savings & Loan As
sociation, a corporation, filed in the
District Cout of Case county, its pe
tition and suit against you, impleaded
with Charles Chalfee. Ella Chalfee.
A. R. Birdsall, first real name un
known, and Bessie Birdsall, defend
ants, the object and purpose of which
is to foreclose a certain mortgage
made, executed and delivered by you
to the plaintiff on or about the 24th
day of May, 1922, covering the 'fol
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
Lots 276 and- 277 in the Vil
lage of Greenwood, Cass county.N
Nebraska j.
and for a judgment against you for
any deficiency which may remain af
ter the application of the proceeds of
sale of said above described real es
tate to the payment of plaintiff's Ji.
claim, and for general equitable re- t
lief, all of which will more fully ap- 8
pear in a petition 'filed in said court.- I
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Private Money to Loan
on Cass County Farms
T. H. POLLOCK
Farmers State Bank
Plattsmouth
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Sal!
Having decided to quit farming. I will sell at Public Auction
on the Henry Sturm farm one mile north of Nehawka, the follow
ing described property on
Wednesday, January 2nd
Commencing at 1 1 a. m. Lunch Served at Noon
10 HEAD HORSES AND MULES 10
One team sorrel mares, four and five years old, weight, 2.S00;
one black mare, nine years old, weight 1,300; one black gelding,
six years old, weight 1,300; one black mare, four years old, weight
1,250. with foal to Jack, fees paid; one bay mare four years old.
weight 1,300, with foal to Jack, fees paid; one span sorrel moliy
mules, three years old. weight 2.200; one black jack mule, three
years old, weight 1,100; one gray molly mule three years old,
weight 1,100.
20 HEAD OF HOGS 20
Twenty head of Duroc late spring shoats, weighing about
100 pound3 each.
FARM MACHINERY, ETC
Ford Truck, 1922 Model
One P. and O. 2-row cultivator; one P. and O. wide tread
lister; one Rock'Island gang plow; one John Deere two-row ma
chine; one Jenny Lind cultivator; one Sterling roller; one Sterling
disc; one Litchfield manure spreader; one 3-section harrow; one
Owatonna wheat drill; one Mitchell wagon; one fanning mill; three
sets 1 -inch work harness; one force hog feeder; one spring wagon;
one truck wagon and many other articles too numerous to mention.
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TERMS OF SALE On sums of $10 and under, cash. On amount?
over f 10. six months time with approved security will be given on
bankable note drawing S per cent interest from date of sale. No
goods to be removed from premises until settled for.
"Mimn STORftl, Ovnsr
Rex Young, Auctioneer Nehawka Bank, Clerk
esse
Sewing Machines Re
paired by
JOHN BAJECK
Unless you answer said petition on
or before the 28th day- of January, t
1924, the allegations therein contain-
ad will be taken as. true, and judg- '
Bjent nd decree rendered according-
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