PAGX Fom r 0e plattsmoutb jjourtiial PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT Entered at Poetofflce, Plattsmouth. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCEIKHON PL'IC: 53.C0 CHRIST AND THE PARABLES And with many 6iich parables spake lie the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. But with out a parable spake He not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disci ples. Mark 4:33-34. :o: Yes, of course, do your Valen tine shopping early. Cheer up, only six more months un til it will be too hot. :o: Don't believe living in a one-horse town is so bad if a man can be the horse. :o: The guilty must be punished, and the only way to do It is to give them what ihey deserve. :o: Don't break your New Year reso lutions. Stay with them until they quit in disgust. :o: Turn all the rascals out to an Im prisonment in the penitentiary as a rest to themselves and safety to the people. 0:0 There is evidently too much crook edness going on in the big men cir cles of this country, and they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law ere they ruin America. 0:0 A Los Angeles pastor refused to marry Erady Kline, an actor, be cause he had appeared in an improp er play. This parson evidently does not believe in marrying a man to re form him. :o: Don't grumble if your family des tiny is cast in humble places. If you never travel beyond your own precinct in the flesh, remember that thought can take you farther than electricity, steam or wings. ;o: For a while we thought it couldn't be done. Mr. Ford, however, has been crowded off the first page and second page, but it took the combin ed efforts of Edward Bok, Teapot Dome and Asa Candler to do it. :o: Our friend W. D. Wheeler is still confined to his home with a severe illness. We hope Billy will soon be himself again, and that his smiling countenance will appear upon the streets of Plattsinouth again soon. :o: Governor Bryan, in his decision to make the race again for chief execu tive, has criven ereat rourar- again to the ma:ses of the ieuiocraiio par ty, and not only that but candidates on the democratic ticket in prospect, feel much enthused. 0:0 Walter Tailing, of Greenwood, has been suggested by a great many of his friends as the democratic candi date for representative in the legis lature from Cass county. Mr. Fail ing is one of the best men in the county for the position, and we hope he will consent to make the race. :o: Our old friend. Uncle Henry Boeck whose familiar countenance beemed upon the streets of Plattsmoutb. for fo many years, but who is now at Los Angeles, California, will cele brate hi3 92nd birthday Friday, Feb ruary 15. Grand old man, may you live to celebrate your one hundredth anniversary, and more if possible. :o: The rum fleet hovering near New York has been selling its liquor to hootch smugglers at these prices Scotch. ?23 a case: gin, 1S a case; rye, 1 40 a case. Wets point to these low prices as proof that prohibition is a failure. The dry crowd retorts and truthfully, that there are plenty of interior cities where one quart costs as much as a whole case aboard the rum fleet. Secretary of the Navy Denby has given out a statement defending his part in the leasing of the oil re serves. It is not an illuminating or convincing statement. It traverses ground already worn and rutted by other parties to the affair. The threatened drainage of the reserves by private operations, which Mr. Denby mentions, is a hackneyed ex cuse which has long since lost fts plausibility from the fact that the experts who perceived this danger of drainage were refuted by other equally renowned experts. The le gality of the proceedings as submit ted In the Denby statement 13 also "old stuff." PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Neb., a ecod-cla mall matter PER YEAR IN ADVAHCE V LINES TO REMEMBER "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told. Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I should still long for more. John Quincy Adams. The hardest circle to square is a political ring. Not cettine much pay seems to make some men hard boiled. :o: This is the kind of weather that popularizes hard surfaced roads. 0:0 A man is judged by the car, not the company he keeps nowadays. :o-. Senator Reed, of Missouri, attacks Doheny as the star in the "steal." :o: Listen, bachelors: This is Leap Year, so look out for junift-up affairs. :o: One scandal produces another, is the way they are doing at Washing ton. In a Mexican revolution, the side that gets to the telegraph office first wins. -0:0 The groundhog is like the school ; board has an important job but no salary. :o: But whatever you say of February later, remember that it came in like a Iamb. :o: The severe weather did not prevent Kansas City from staging her daily holdup. - :o: Radio ha- its disadvantages because one misses the satisfaction of "cuss ing" central. :o: Very often when a man smokes a cigar with a million dollar style It costs a nickle. 0:0- Of course we may be old fashioned, but we sitll believe the best candy is the kind that has to be chewed. :o: And as a general thin- when a man's wife looks like the G iddess of Liberty he hasn't much freedom. :o: And how is one to cultivate pure and unadulterated English in these days of mah jong and radio palaver. :o: Is Daugherty planning to resign? The attorney general ought to get out as soon as possible, to save in vestigation. 0:0 It speaks volumes for the new era that the 320,000 quart shortage of which Chicago complains calls for milk instead of something else. :o: . If the Pekin government can't pay us a cash reparation for the latest, bandit outrage, it might at least let us have movie rights on the next one. :o: The trouble with "propaganda" is that it either envelops you from head to foot before you know it, or else it makes you suspicious of every 6e nous article mat rails under your gaze. Hence the importance of do ing enough general reading to aid one in recognizing innocent sound ing yet pernicious argument. : o Dr. Levermore, the winner of the Bok peace prize, says he has disposed of his first $50,000 check, but will not reveal to what purpose. Not that it is particularly important, only it is generally hoped he had not bought stock in a munitions factory with it, for when the great peace goes into effect such a venture is likelv to be a loser. -:o: There is one thing to be said of the "best minds" that the late Mr Harding called to give the country the proper amount of government culture. They are more childishly innocent, If their protestations be true, than any lot of savants in the history of the world. It must have been delightful to observe at the cabinet table the wide-eyed Inno tence of Albert Bacon Fall, Harry Daugherty and Edwin Denby. :o; PLATTSMOUTH DOES WAR PURIFY! Statistics Issued by the superin tendent of. the Virginia penitentiary show that one man in every five serv ing terms in that institution is an ex-service man. In other words, twenty per cent of the prisoners now on hand are veterans of the World war. Figures are available fcr other states but there i3 no reason to be lieve that conditions in Virginia rad ically differ from those of other com monwealths. What is true in the old Dominion is not true in Nebraska. We suppose this information comes as a terrible blow to a great many people; as a matter of fact, we know it does, for the percentage of ex-service men in our prison popu lation has been made the subject of much scientific research and pseudo analysis; but the figures do not ex cite us at all. In the first place, we had thought the matter over and arrived at the conclusion that the ex-service man has as good a right to go to jail as the man, who, for one reason or an other, didn't win the war. If the race to the bastile,were con ducted on a sporting basis, the war veterans would be made to allow all non-combatants ten yards in every hundred. It seems to us he has all the advantage. His youth gives him a decided edge, for one thing and then, as a class, he is rather numer ous. Dependable statistics are not at our elbow at this very moment of time and It's entirely too late to call anyone out of bed, but it is safe to say that one-seventh of the adult male population served in some ca pacity which entitles one to the de gree of ex-service man. With four million of the virile youth of the nation in this category, the wonder is that the percentage of soldiers fellows among our convicts is so small. To us, the only remark able thing about the prison statis tics is that so many have managed to elude capture. The reason these tame figures ex cite so much comment is found in the public's insincere attitude' toward war. But insincere is a harsh word; perhaps "romantic" would be more accurate as well as more kind. The trouble is, we just can't seem to forget all that pre-war hooray stuff about the crucible of fire from which men were to emerge grade A Besemer steel if they emerged at all. Now, five years after the armistice, we actually cling to the press agents' myth that ,war ennobles and purifies. But that wouldn't be so very bad, if we did not say the very next breaththat Sherman was right and Wilson even more so, and that war is a brutalizing degenerating, destruc tive business, and that we don't want any more of it, thank you. Now one of these beliefs is wrong. If war makes better men of us, we don't want either the League of Na tions or isolation; we want a party and a president and a cabinet pledg ed to bigger and better wars, and more of 'em. And if we honestly believe that war is not a good thing for human ity, why kid ourselves with the idea that ex-service men ought to be a little better than the ruck and run of mankind, and be shocked and sur prised and mortified whenever we find one in jail. 0:0 BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION Calling attention to the total of 548,506 civilians employed by the government and to the measures pending in congress to add to the swollen functions of government still further activities, Senator Under wood of Alabama, in one of his re cent speeches, says: "It is time to call a halt. Our federal government is becoming more and more centralized: our states are becoming less and less au tonomous. Unless our steps are re traced or brought to a standstill, in few years we will find ourselves menaced by a danger from within that will be more serious to the safe ty and preservation of our institu tions than any from without." Under the head of intolerance may be classed prohibition and its ex cesses, which attempt to destroy the rights and liberties guaranteed by the constitution. Under direction of the Anti-Saloon League, an irrespon sible organization controlling federal and state legislature and the activi ties of federal agents in all parts of the country, wholesale raids, with out warrant of law, are common Homes are invaded. Personal rights of citizens are trampled under foot Property is confiscated. law is be ing brought into contempt. Hostil ity to government is being fomented And we are rapidly becoming, from the, highest officials to the humblest citizen, a nation of law breakers Laws re being multiplied to con trol the lives and conduct of thepeo pie from the cradle to the grave. Beyocd all this, freedom of speech and assemblage is impaired by re SEMI - WEEKLY JOUENAL "?Jiii A wall board that won't burn won't warp won't buckle. Saws and nails like lumber yet makes walls and ceilings of gypsum, solid, tight jointed, fireproof, sound proof, permanent. YouH say it's a different wall board. Ma i, JWU Ea-J 107 fr I the fireproof WALLBOARD Ash. your lumber dealer for a sample strictive laws and official interfer ence. If the democratic party has ever stood for anything, it has stood for hese fundamental constitutional principles of free erovernment. It was founded upon these principles ts usefulness has been measured by ts support of these principles. It i he abandonment of them which has become a reproach to the party and has brought upon it the stigma of unprincipled politics, seeking not the welfare of the people but the poils of office. It is the abandonment of these fundamental principles that has wip ed out the distinctions of party and has made the sham battles of politi cal campaigns a mere scramble for power and pelf. All of these issues are practically embodied in the one . great issue of restoring the constitutional guaran ees of state' and individual rights nd restraining the federal govern ment within its constitutional scope. 0:0 If the horse could laugh, he'd bust his side watching the people tart their automobiles this kind of weather. :o: "Each child is burdened with $96 of public debt." We've often won donered what makes a new born in fant yell. :o: Ffletflr fnrioo 11 n 11C11 a 1 1 V Into thicti , year, and the coal problem should be pretty well out of the way before de-,for that purpose by a vote of a ma mand3 are made upon father for the?Jority of the outstanding stock. spring bonnets and things. :o4 The cost of enforcing prohibition grows heavier year by year. Presi dent Coolidge has forwarded to con gress the proposal to appropriate $13,853,989 to enable the coast guard to deal more effectively with rum runners. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 26th day of February, 1924, and on the 26th day of May, 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m., each day, to receive and examine all claims against said es tate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 26th dav of Februarj'. A. D. 1924. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 26th day of February. 1924. Witness mv hand and the seal or said County Court, this 24th day of January, 1924. ALLEN J. BEKHOIN, (Seal) J28-4w. County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun- State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss To all persons interested in the estate of Sarah Ann Hoham, deceas ed: On reading the petition of W. E. Hand, administrator of said estate, praying a final settlement and allow ance of his account filed in this ourt on the 6th day of February, 1924, and for discharge of said adminis- trator au oluer psrsuus mieresieu in nis It Is hereby ordered that you and , estate; William Wortman. if living,1 all persons interested in said matter. 'if deceased his unknown heirs, devi may, a.nd do, appear at the County sees. legatees, personal representa-' Court to be held in and for said tives and all other persons interested county, on the 23rd day of February, in his estate; the unknown heirs. A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m., to devisees, legatees, personal represen- show cauBe, if any there be, why the m . . . . . 1 1 1 A. prayer or me petitioner snoum noi be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per- sons interested In said matter by pub- lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmoutb. Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for one week prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal or said court, this 6th day of February, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Seal) fll-lw. County Judge. NOTICE OP INCORPORATION THE SHELDON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Notice is hereby given that George C. Sheldon, Roy G. Kratz, Arthur Dobson, W. G. Humphrey and A. G. Schreiber have associated together for the purpose of forming a corpora tion under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska. I The name of the corporation shall be "The Sheldon Manufacturing Com-' pany.' II Principal place of business Ne- j hawka, Nebraska. Ill General nature of manufacture and sale of concrete ' mixers and articles incidental to the making and using of concrete, the sale of machinery manufactured by others and the manufacture and sale! of other products. Corporation shall have power to acquire, own, sell and convey real and personal property. borrow money and execute its per sonal notes therefor, and secure the payment of same by pledge of its property by mortage or otherwise. IV Amount of capital stock authorized; Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00)1 Dollars, divided into shares of Onei NOTICE Ob RALE Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each. Thej In tiie District Court of Cass coun stock may be paid for either in money tv Nebraska. or personal property anu snail oe non-assessable, but shall not be is sued until paid for in full. V Time of commencement of corpora- tion shall be when tnese articles are Qf sr pass countv, made on the 31st filed in the office of the County Clerk ;dr,v of December, 1923, for the sale of Cass county. Nebraska. The cor-j0f tjie reai estate hereinafter describ porate existance shall terminate fifty; e,i, there will be sold at the south years thereafter, unless sooner dis-joor cf the court house in the City solved as herein provided. of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the 4th VI day of March, 1924. at ten o'clock a. The highest amount of indebted-; ni- at public vendue to the highest ness or liability to which the eorpo-1 bidder for cash, the fo'owin describ ration is at any one time to subject ;oti real estate, to-wit: itself, shall not exceed two-thirds ofj the capital stock. VII Affairs of corporation to be con ducted by a Board of Directors of not less than three nor more than seven members, to be elected at the annual meeting of the stock holders held at the principal office of the company on the first Monday of January in each year. Directors shall hold of fice until successors, are elected and qualified. Board of Directors shall elect a President, one or more Vice Presidents,' a Secretary and a Treas urer. r ' ' ' - - ' VIII Corporation may be dissolved by affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding stock. IX Board of Directors have power to adopt by-laws for the conduct of the business and regulation of the cor poration affairs. Stock holders may my majority vote, alter, amend or repeal said by-laws, and by-laws made by the stock holders shall not be repealed or amended by the Board of Directors. X These articles may be amended at idiij annual xucciing ui iiiv diu-a holders or any special meeting called Dated at isenawKa, reDrasKa, Aug ust 10th, 1923. GEORGE C. SHELDON ROY G. KRATZ ARTHUR DOBSON W. G. HUMPHREY A. G. SCHREIBER. J24-4w. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Carey L. Stotler, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 26th day of February, A. D. 1924. and on the 26th day of May, A. D. 1924, at ten o'clock a. m., of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 2 6th day of February, A. D. 1924. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 26th day of Feb ruary, 1924. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 26th day of January, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) j31-4w. County Judge. NOTICE In the District Court of Cass coun ty icbrs ski Leon L. McCarty, Plaintiff, vs. Cit izens Bank of Plattsmouth et al, De fendants. To T. J. Jones, if living, if deceas ed to his unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons having any interest in his estate; Jacob Tallon, if living, if deceased his unknown heirs, devi sees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in his estate; Jarius E. Neal,. if liv ing, if deceased his unknown heirs. devisees, personal representatives and ' tatives and all other persona Interest-J 1 . a . a. . a -w T J ea in me estate 01 tienry Amisuu, u- ceased; All persons having or claiming any interest, right or title or lien in, to or upon the north half of the west half of Lot ten, all of Lots eleven and twelve, and the south three and one - half feet of Lot thirteen, all in Block thirty-one, in the City of T" T - A . . V- XT.vnnl.n X'lclLLailiUULU. LilSS tUUU I V . nCUlttOaa, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby, notified that on the 28th day of January, A. D. 1924, the plaintiff in the foregoing action filed his petition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, wherein you and each of you are made parties defendant, for the purpose of obtaining a decree from said Court, quieting the title in plaintiff to the following described real estate, to-wit: The north half (N) of the west half (W) of Lot ten, (10) all of Lots eleven (11) and twelve (12) and the south three and one-half (ZVs feet of Lot thirteen, (13) all in Block thirty-one (31) in the City of Plattsmouih, Cass county, Ne braska " 1 as against you and each of you, and by such decree to wholly exclude 'ou and each of you from all estate, ria;ht, title, claim or interest therein, jand to have the title of said premises business, the;frever freed from the apparent claims ot you anu eacn or you anu 'quieted in plaintiff, and for equit able relief. 1 You and each of you are required to answer said petition on or before the 17th day of March. A. D. 1924, or your default will be entered in said cause and a decree granted as prayed for in said petition. Dated January 2S. A. D. 1924. LEON L. McCARTY, Plaintiff. C. A. RAWLS, Atty. f4-4w Jn tne matt3r of the estate of George Hanson, deceased. Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of an order of Hon. James T. Cegley, Judge of the District Court The west half of the northeast quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter in Section 32, and the east half of the south west quarter in Section 29, all in Township 11. north. Range 9. in Cass county, Nebraska. Said sale to remain open for one hour. Dated this Sth day of February, D. 1924. THOMAS HANSON and HENRY HANSON. . Executors of the Estate of George Hanson, Deceased D. O. DWYER, Attorney. fll-3w ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the es tate of Edna Cunningham, deceased: On reading the petition of W. E. Hand, administrator of said estate, praying a final settlement and al lowance of his account filed in this Court on the 6th day of February. 1924, and for said administrator's discharge; , It is hereby ordered that you and1.?. 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 23rd day of February, A. D. 1924. at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter, by publish ing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for one week prior to said day of hear ing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the Seal of said court, this 6th day of February,1 A. u. 1"J24. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) fll-lw. County Judge. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at the Senate Chamber in the state house at Lincoln, Nebraska, on February 26. 1924, until 10:00 o'clock a. m., and at that time publicly opened and (read for Guard Rail and incidental work on the Eagle-Murdock Project No. 153-B. Federal Aid Road. The approximate quantities are: 708 lineal feet guard rail. 10 each anchors for guard rail. Certified check for five per cent State Farmers' A. E. Agee, President Offers Lest policy and contracts for lest money. Cheap est and best insurance company doing business in Ne braska. Pays all losses promptly. Over 5,000 members. Urgamzed m 1895. , Insurance in force, $60,000,000. CALL ON OR WRITE L. L. DIENSTBIER 261 S Harney Street Omaha, Nebraska THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1924. ( 5 ) of the amount of the bid will V.rt 11 I A1 uo eim nPinui Ti?Tk.J and be compTe? to April 1, l' ana UB .by August 1, 1924. ,. or the Plans and gpecincatio ns work may be seen ana iniuiu secured at the office or " ' Clerk at Plattsmoutb, at tbe onice 01 lDB '-braa. tJL . . - f L'liri in VV llrH H KL uiuvviwt - ka v The State and County reserve the right to waive all technicalities ana reject any or all bids. GEO. R. SAYLES, County Clerk, Cass County, Nebraska. R. L. COCHRAN, State Engineer. JSl-Sw. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by James Robertson, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di rected, I will on the let day of March, A. D. 1922, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house in PlatU- mouth in said county, sell at public auction to : v. hlcrhsat htdrlar fnf cash the following described prop erty, to-wit: Lots one (1) and two, (2) in Block thirty-nine. (39) in Young &' Hayes Addition to the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska-- ' The same being levied upon and tak en a3 the property of Frank Detlef and Amelia Detlef. defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court re covered by The Standard Savings & Loan Association of Omaha, Nebras ka, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, January 22nd, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff of Cass county, Nebraska. O. W. JOHNSON, Attorney. J24-5w ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administratrix The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Frank J. Lillie, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Minnie Lillie praying that admin istration of said estate may be grant ed to Minnie Lillie as Administrat rix ; Ordered, that February 25th, A. D. 1924. at 10 o'clock a. m., is assign ed for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of peti- tioner should not be cranted: and ! that notice of the pendency of said : petition and the hearing thereof be i given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this I order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in saiJ ; county for three successive weeds'," prior to said day of hearing. JJated l-'ebruary 2nd, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) f4-3w. County Judge. T T f fr.T,I..I..rl.I..Il.I.,II,.I..I,I. 35 years Experience Office Coales Block DR. C. A. MARSHALL Dentist . v f nvate money to Lean on Cass County Farms T. H. POLLOCK Farmers State Bank Plaitsiaouth t t 4 Automobile Painting! First-Qass Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable M ifror Replating and Sign Work! A. F. KNOFLICEK, Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth Insurance Co. J. F. McArdle, Sec'j 'J