THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1924.
PA01 FOTJ1
PLATTSMOUTH SEMIJCLttBuLY JOUILRAI
0e plattsmouth journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at Poatufffce. Plattsmouth. Nb.. aa aecoad-class mIl matter
A. BATES, Publieher
SUBSCMFTIOW Pi'ICE $2.00
RICHES IN GLORY
Rut I have all, and abound; I am: 0:.
full. Bat my God shall supply all Omaha's population Is now esti
your need according to his riches in mated to exceed 208,000. Good.
glory by Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:18-19.
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It has also been a tough season
on weather vanes.
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House flies have never been known
tn live over winter.
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T innerament in a eirl is merely
bad temper in a boy.
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Clothes don't always make the
man, but they sometimes fake him.
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Watr. water everywhere, and it
still pours down when we don't need
it.
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From present indications this will
be one of the worst mixed-up cam
paigns in history.
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Newspapers are wonderful. They
have oven found out why Governor
Bryan wears a skull cap.
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With all the water that has fallen
tkfta month, we wonder what alibi
the watermelon can have.
Prohibition agents say it is hard j
to locate bocze selling drug stores. '.
rii, Hi ni, 11 179, I'tl llic 1 . 'uii.pi
tion agents.
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A California company has sunk a
well more than 7.000 feet deep with-
out pettinp a sign of oil. That's
pretty near hell.
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trouble
It hi airain stated that
i- hrewiiiR in Germany." Maybe it j
wouM help some if they would close
up the breweries.
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The Prime of Wales is going to
travel in the United States incog. If
you see a strange young man fall
off a horse, you have found him,'
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The Moscow government is re
ported to be preparing for war. Prob
ably it figures it will take one more
war to clinch the brotherhood of
man.
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"Dazed at Dollar Wheat" Head-lir.-.
Why so? The farmers need
the money. Give us dollar corn,
ami away we go to prosperity in
reality.
Deplorable conditions exist in six
teen jails in Missouri, says a report.
Ind ii, some of them are in such bad
shape, we are told, that they haven't
any inmates.
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The democratic state committee
will meet Thursday of this week to
name a candidate for governor. Re
member, the right man can be elect
ed, but the wrong one can't.
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We hear the burden of the bonus
taxation will b greatly lightened if
Europe pays its 11 billion dollar
deht to this country. Yes, and if
the sky falls we shall have lark pie.
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Davis, with 14" electoral votes in
the solid south tucked in his pocket
and with claims of 183 as "sure" be
in mad- by his followers, can great
ly incre.-ise hi? list by capturing a
state here and there in the west. The
total necessary for election is 200.
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('.iris of today who use paint so
1 r I y on their faces are merely fol
lowing the advice of the paint mak
ers' trust. "Save the surface and you
save all." It remains to be seen,
ho v ever. whether they can save
their souls that way.
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Nebraska offers bounty for
crows' and Kr.nsaS pays bounty
on crows" heads. One man is said
to have made a little extra money
by selling the crows' heads in Kan
sas and the feet from the same crows
in Nebraska, but the Minneapolis
Retter Way predicts he will not be
so much winner when the court gets
through with him.
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In the third party vote it is safe to
predict that many republicans and
democrats will vote for LaFollette.
And it is safe to say that many more
republicans will vote for LaFollette,
than democrats because he is a re
publican and isn't backward in say-1
ing so. If the voter prefers Davis to
Coolidge then he is going to vote for
LaFollette. To make a change in
the affairs at W ashington the demo
crats :1:11st do it. It is either that
or remain as it is.
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Looks as if this is going to be a
hard yrar for the Oihx rut ii ians.
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A lot of wealthy people have the
best of everything but manners.
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The fellow who discovered King
Tat certainly stirred up a lot of idle
gossip in this country
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j Thought we were to have a swim-
mine pool. Gone glittering like ev
erything unnecessary?
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The imaginative man who writes
seed catalogs is now busy writing
summer resort folders.
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Why not lot up on the paving
question for awhile and give the tax
payers a breathing spell?
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The last serious Indian disturb
ances were among the Chippt was at
Leech Lake in October, 1S98.
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The navy, commercial fleet, air
force and coast guards of the Rus
sian Soviet, have adopted new flags.
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Hon. John H. Morehead refuses to
become a candidate for governor.
He wants to in ngres8 at least
antncr term.
A double-crosser is almost as mean
as a bandit. He uses his tongue in
double-crossinp. and is too cowardly
to attempt to steal.
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La Follette asks Senator Wheeler,
of Montana, to become his running
mate. Wheeler never was a full
fledged democrat.
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Voters have plenty of time to read
and study the conditions of matters
today and who placed such condi
tions upon the people.
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The independent voters should
ponder long and well ere they vote,
or they will be liable to get worse
conditions than they are now.
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Mr. De Valera, who is just out of
an Irish prison, seems to be a very
determined person. Rut we notice
he didn't put on a hunger strike.
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Many of our soldier boys are apt
to find when they come to draw up
their blanks for their bonus, that
they have indeed drawn blanks. The
bonus passed, satisfies nobody.
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Charley Grauf says he - -'Ultl not
accept the democratic no nination
for governor, if tendered h: n. Don't
worry, Charley! The party will not
get down to nominating su '.1 demo
crats. 0:0
One of the strange things ot life is
that hundreds of men can be in
duced to yell and parade and cheer
and fight for an hour at a stretch
when they would refuse to saw wood
for five minutes.
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The LaFollette campaign is to
start off gently and end with a
"whirlwind finish." That is the
proper strategy of every campaign,
(inly most of the candidates disap
pear in the whirlwind.
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A girl asked twenty women the
other night for a hairpin before she
found out who could furnish the de
sired article. And the girl didn't
want it for her hair, either. She
wanted it to use as a buttonhook.
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The business interests of the coun
try are undoubtedly in favor of Da
vis. WhfU we do not fear LaFol
lette as president, his policies are
Beared by those who must furnish the
i oney to rnn the government the
big taxpayers.
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A Detroit man. arrested for fast
driving, explained that his gas was
low and he wished to speed to his
destination before the gas was ex
hausted. He must be the grandson
of the painter who hurried up to fin
ish decorating the house before the
paint gave out.
Well Digging and Gleaning
We are prepared to sink
wells, clean wells or do
any kind of well work
J. W. Hobson & Son
PER YEAR 13 &DVA3CE
TARIFF REFORM TO COME
From all indications no relief from
the Fordney-McCumber tariff pro
visions can be expected for some
time. It is understood that congress
reconvening in December, will not
take up the revision ot tiie tariff un
dor any circumstances and that will
'mean a postponement of relief until
the following year and probably
such consideration will not be given
until 1926. It is a matter that has
now become of general interest, al
though the republican party would
lain have it a mystery. The pro
tective tariff is held up by the re
publicans as the reason for progress
in America, and always seeking to
hide the intimate workings of the
policy from the common people, the
results are proclaimed as most benefi
cent. The platform adopted in
Cleveland recently commits the re
publicans again to a high tariff, for
the protection of special interests.
The Fordney-McCumber tariff was
endorsed and this, bringing the pro
tected interests promptly to the front
Inthe campaign, means no protec
tion of the common people. They
are to be robbed, as usual, for the
benefit of the campaign contributors.
With a democratic victory in No
r ember, it is the plan of constructive
statesmen to revise the tariff in a
way to bn'ofit the whole people.
That the farmers of the country
have b"en suffering in the past few
years from over-production of certain
crops and bad marketing facilities, is
very well understood. Rut the rem
edy for this situation is not pre
scribed by the republicans. Giving
them tariff protection has not aided
them at all. What they need is a
fair market in which to buy as well
as to sell. Disiussing the matter of
farm relief, the New York World
recently said:
"Farm relief has become inextric
ably tied up with the high-tariif is
sue, and one can no more be kept
out of the campaign than the other.
They are together an issue of com
parative prices as between the farm
ing and the manufacturing classes
and their adjustment to prewar con
ditions.' The World goes on to say that
"there is no question about the facts.
They are to be found in the govern
ment's statistics and are of date as
late as March last. They show that
from a base of 100 for wholesale
commodity prices in 191a the weight
ed average for all commodities has
advanced to 150. The index price for
tariff-protected commodities has ad
vanced to a muih higher average
generally to above 200. often to
above 300. Rut the average index
price of eleven leading farm products
has advanced only to 107.3. while
for hides and hogs and eggs the in
dex price for March. 1924, is below
that of 1913."
Of the two ways to relief, the
one of securing a high tariff on farm
products has already been tried. The
adding to the tariff on wheat pro
duced the opposite effect from that
desired. The price went down. It
was so in many instances, and the
farmer has had ample opportunity
to observe the failure of this plan.
The other way about it is a general
reduction of the duty on all the
goods that the farmer and the com
mon people of the country generally
are buying. Giving everyone the
same chance, there will be nothing
to complain of. Rut the manufac
turers who have yearly mulcted the
people in the amount of billions, be
cause of the protective tariff, will be
obliged to curtail their extravagance
and be content with fair profits.
By developing the expert trade to
the extent which it can be develop
ed, even the manufacturer who has
been allowed to add fifty per cent to
the fair price of his goods because of
the "duty" need not retire from busi
ness when this unfair advantage has
been taken away. Countries now
looking askance at us because of our
high tariff wall will be more willing
to trade when it is removed or reas
onably lowered.
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GOVERN'IT-MADE PROSPERITY
Iu order to more accurately judge
the Harding-Coolidge tariff program,
the farmers of these western states
will be interested in a preliminary
report of the manufacturing indus
tries of this country, showing that
1923 was a banner year with the pos
sible sole exception of 1919, which
marked the high tide of post war in
flation. The preliminary report includes
but a dozen groups of manufacturers.
But as the outturn of these groups
in 1023 was over 5 hundred million
dollars against but 274 million dol
lars in 1921 and 373 million dollars
in the record year of 1919, there is
every reason to expect that the com
plete returns will set a new mark or
very nearly approximate the record
established in 1919.
In no other class or group in this
country was there a degree of pros-
perity comparable to that which the
industrial states of
uie east en-
joyed. In the middlewest, where
agriculture is the principal industry,
a very different situation obtained.
The distress which was felt by the
farm classes of America has been
without a parallel in this country's
history. Hundreds of farmers have
unflinchingly and grimly faced the
hardest struggle agriculture has
known. From some of the politicians,
who presume to speak for the
farmers, came a demand tor legisla
tion, which, in effect, applied the
tariff principle to tiie farmer. The
measure was as vicious as the tariff
and should have been defeated. It
failed of passage, when the admin
istration leaders launched a fight
against it.
What is good for the manufactur
er is good to the farmers, however.
If the Coolidge administration is
to continue to extend help to the in
dustrial sections of the east through
a high protective tariff, the west will
revive the McNary-Haugen bill and
the government will plunge deeper
into business. Until the tariff is
n vised downward, to the point
where it is distinctively a revenue
ral ing measure, the west will con
tinue to be the victim of unjust dis-
rimination. The west recognizes
that the republican tariff law is
wrong but if the administration con
tinues to grant that aid to manu
facturing, the agricultural sections
will insist upon equal treatment. The
west is heartily sick of taking un
satisfactory prices for the product
of the farm, owing to the fact that
the world market fixes the value of
its crops, while the people of this
section must pay high prices for
everything they buy owing to th
fact that the government permits
foreign-manufactured goods to come
in only after an excessive dutv has
been paid.
Manufacturers enjoyed an excep
tional year in 1923.
I.- prosperity was made possible
because the government granted this
single class special privilege. Agri
culture encountered a distressing
year, primarily because the same aid
Which was given manufacturers was
refused the farmers.
The farmer cannot place any hope
in the republican program for tin
coming four years. Mr. Coolidge and
the republican platform are both
committed to the present tariff law.
11 tiie present administration re
mains in power, the tariff, with its
injustice to the west, will be con
tinned in force. Lincoln Star.
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HE'S CHANGED ENTIRELY"
To get a man's "number," check
up on his associates the people he
selects as friends. Rirds of a feath
er hock togetner. 1 ou never see a
crow traveling with wild ducks.
In judging a man by his associ
ates, though, remember that vou are
apt to be fooled by "the attraction
of opposites."
lor instance, a puny lad is apt to
cling ni the vicinity of robust, ath
letic boys. They represent what he
yearns to be strong. He admits
consciousness of his weakness by his
gravitation to the physically strong.
A boy or man of superior mental
ity always has a flock of satellites
of inferior brain power. They clus
ter around him because he represents
the intelligence they like to have.
And the superior brain gloats over
this attraction. Its vanity is pleased
by this admission of inferiority by
others. So much so, that keen in
te'igeneo tolerates considerable bore
dom of stupidity, just to have fol
lowers. But there is little "attraction of
opposite" except in matters of
strength and mentality. You rarely
find such attraction where character
i.- involved. The man who keeps the
companionship of ranks, scoundrels
or crooks is usually a rake, scoun
drel or crook at heart.
Association changes all who are
involved. The fine brain, asociating
with mediocrity to satisfy its vanity
by contrast, goes to seed deterior
ates. Assoeiati-.n with equal or su
perior mentality is less pleasing to
vnnity. but it brings improvement.
The inferior improves by associa
tion with the superior, the same as
the superior is pulled down nearer
the level of inferiority. The two
forces tend to approach each other
strike a medium.
Many a neat, cleanly woman or
man becomes careless or slovenly
mate.
The stronger personality domi
nates. It pulls the weaker up or
down toward its level. But in pull
ing it inevitably slips more or less
to the level of the inferior.
Selection of asociates requires
caution.
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Monte Cristo thought he owned
the earth. He has many descend
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It seems as if christiania, Norway.
now that it has resumed its ancient 1
name of Oslo, ought to have a slogan.
That should be easv for certain of
our contributor? who run strongly toj
sloganeering.
LOOKS BEST AT DISTANCE
England gets ready to celebrate.
in 1932, the 300th anniversary of
the first use of forks by the Rritish.
Refore then, they ate with their fin
gers. Three centuries seems long ago.
It is. Rut in 1632 when some un
known English progressive brought
the first fork over from France, "the
good old days" were at their best.
Shakespeare had been dead 16
years. The Immortal Rard never
used a fork. He never even saw one.
It must have been a sight to watch
people eat in those "good old days."
Sewerage systems were not in use
in the "good old days." Refuse and
dishwater were tossed into the gut
ters. Small wonder plagues made
people die like flies.
No one had running water for
kitchen and bath. Carrying water
in buckets a long distance or buying
it from water carts these are not
attractive. People bathed so seldom
that they had to invent high-power
perfumes in order to get within
speaking distance of each other with
out suspecting that a regiment of
skunks was at large.
It was an age or discomforts and
inconveniences. No labor-saving de
vites had been invented for homes.
Women worked themselves into their
graves prematurely.
Ignorance and medical supersti
tion were frightful.
Morals several centuries ago were
so lax that, by comparison, the jazz
tendency of our generation is tame.
Crime was far more- prevalent
than now. No one could take a short
Stagecoach trip between towns safely
without carrying a brace of pistols.
Men were imprisoned for debt.
The "good old days" have been
painted in romantic colors by fic
tion writers. That's why they seem
attractive to people today. Rut if
you could turn the clock back a few
hundred years and live the life of
those times you'd buy a return ticket
promptly.
A fiction writer makes an old-time
dungton alluring, romantic, adven
turous. Truth is, the dungeon was
damp, cold, dark, infested with rats.
reeking with lice. Guards were
brutal. Justice was slow. Penal
ties were severe. Food was mainly
mouldly old bread and water.
Romance? Good old days? It's a
Joke:
Fine from a distance. The good
old davs are now.
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MAN-MADE FLASH
An airplane that would travel 370
miles an hour! The French gov
ernment expects this speed from its
new "rocket plane.' now being de
veloped. No engine. It'3 shot ahead
like a skyrocket, by a series of gas
explosions one after the other. Will
carry a man reason not stated.
Ten years ago. people would have
said, "Hunk!" Now they merely lift
their eyebrows and wonder how long
until a plane making 1,000 miles an
hour will be perfected.
LEGAL NOTICE
To Bearling, real name
known; John Doe, real name un -
known, and John Doe Company, a
corporation, real name uhkuuh,
real
Defendants:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that on the 14th day of
May. A. D. 1924. Henry Klemme
filed his petition in the County Court
of Cass county, Nebraska, against
you and each of you, the object and
nraver of which petition is to recov
er damages against you and each of
you. in the sum of Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) and costs of suit
for damages to plaintiff's car on or
about May G, 1924.
You are required to answer said
petition on or ueiore me niu uj
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of August, A. D. 1924.
HENRY KLEMME.
J30-4W. Plaintiff.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale
issued by James Robertson. Clerk of
the District Court, within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 23rd day of
August. A. D. 192 4, at 10 o'clock a.
m. of said day, at the south front
door of the court House in 1'iatis-
mouth. Nebraska, in said county.
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash the following prop
erty, to-wit:
Lots 31. 33, 34. 3f, 36. 37.
SS. 39. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45
and 4 6 in U. W. Wrise's Out
Lots in Government Lot number
10, in Section 18. Township 12,
North of Range 14. East of the
6th P. M.. in the City of Platts
mouth. Cass county, Nebraska,
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Margaret
Elizabeth Manspeaker, Harry Ross
Manspoalcer and wife. Mrs. Harry
Ross Manspeaker. real name un
known, and Margaret Elizabeth Man
speaker. Executor of the last will
and testament of Eli Manspeaker,
'eceased. Defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said Court recovered by
The Livingston Loan & Ruilding As
sociation. Plaintiff against said De
fendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 19th,
A. D. 1924.
E. P. STEWART.
Sheriff Cass County.
. Nebraska.
A. L. T1DD.
Attorney.
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DEAF PHONES
A talkless phone for deaf mutes is
invented by William E. Shaw of
Cambridge, Mass. It's worked by a
typewriter at one end of the line
making lamps light at the other end.
There's an electric bulb for every
letter of the alphabet.
When two people who can nei
ther speak nor hear, can communi
cate by "phone," it's time to repeat
that nothing is impossible. Also that
there's no obstacle that can't be
overcome. NO problem or predica
ment that can't be solved.
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Kenneth W. McDonald will make
a good governor. He possesses all
the essentials necossarv. is pretty
well known throughout the state and
is extremely popular.
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The government has suspended the
sale of treasury savings certificates
paying per cent interest for the
reason that it can now borrow mon
ey in the open market at a much
lower rate.
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If the voters follow the slogan:
"Re sure you are right before you
vote," the American people need not
fear the final result.
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
Stephen A. Rarker, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition
of Etta Perry Rarker, Mae Rarker.
Rernice Kiser and Glenna Leonard,
praying that administration of said
estate may be granted to Etta Perry
Rarker. as Administratrix:
Ordered, that August 11th. 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 granted: ami
that notice of the pendency of said
petition and the hearing thereof be
given to all persons interested in
said matter by publishing a copy of
this order in the lattsmouth Jour
nal, a semi-weekly newspaper print
ed in said county, for three success
ive weeks, prior to said day of hear
ing. Dated. July 15. 1924.
ALLEN J. BEESON.
(Seal) j21-3w. County Judge.
SHERIFFS SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
Rv 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
directed. I will on the 16th day of
August, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a.
m. of said day at the south front
door of the court house, in Platts
mouth. Nebraska, in said county.
sell at public auction to the high' Bl
bidder for cash the following prop
erty, to-wit:
Lots eleven (11) and twelve
(12. in Dloek one hundred
twenty-three (123) in the City
of Plattsmouth, in Cass coun
ty, Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of A. H. Shin-
itllebower et al. Defendants, to satis-
Ify a judgment of said Court, recov-
un-!ered by The Livingston Loan &
Uiuil iing Association, Plaintiff again-
1st said Defendants.
Plattsmouth,
A. D. 1924.
Nebraska, July 16,
E. P. STEWART.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
A. L. TIDD,
Attorney.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the District Court of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska.
Cora Jones, Plaintiff, vs. Eli Jones,
Defendant.
To the defendant. Eli Jones:
You are hereby notified that the
plaintiff. Cora Jones, tiled her peti
tion against you In the above en
tit ltd cause of action in the District
Court of Cass county. Nebraska, on
the 14th day of April, A. D. 1!24.
the object and prayer of which is to
obtain a decree of absolute divorce
from you.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before the 2nd day of
September, A. D. 1924.
CORA JONES,
Bv Plaintiff.
J. A. CAPWELL.,
j 2 1 -? Her Attorney.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Execution issued
bv James Robertson. Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 6th day of August,
A. D. 1924. at 10 o'clock a. m. of
said day at the south front doer of
court house. Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
in said county, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash the
following property to-Wit : and trans-1
script thereof filed
Lots seven (7), eight (S) and
nine (9), Hlock seventy-five
(75). in the City of Platts
mouth. in Cass county, Ne
braska The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Max Preis,
defendant, to satisfy a judgment of
said court recovered by Hartman
Furniture Company, a corporation,
plaintifi against said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 7th,
A. D. 1924.
E. P. STEWART,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
Goodrich
SilvertoTvn
Cord
Just ask for the Low
Price on your size
Silvertown Cord
and remember it's a
Goodrich Product.
Plattsmouth
Motor Co.
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iEST Ysl THE LONG RUN'
aniitiTT aWai
A telephone magnate urges wom
en to make their telephone conversa
tions short, but it's all the telephone
company's own fault. The old-fash
ioned telephones were placed high
on the wall where the speaker had
to stand up to reach the instrument.
Long conversations might have been
expected as soon as the instruments
were set down by the easy chair.
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or
Any Work
and
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Pearl Street. Roy Lonp.
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Plattsmouth Phone 3604
Mynard, Nebraska
Automobile Painting!
First-Iass Work
Guaranteed!
Prices Reasonable
Mirror Replating and
Sign Work!
F. KNOFLICEK,
Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth
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