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PAGES rDTTB FLATTSMOUTH SEMI- WEEKLY TOUSB'AL MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1924 Cbc plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED SESn-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBBASKA Iittrad at PotrC!ce. Plattrmouth. Nb.. aa aecoad-daaa mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION P2ICE $2.00 THEY THAT TRUST IN THE LORD Dow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy. Pre serve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy Servant that trust eta in thee. Psalms ixxxvi, 1 and 2. o:o We usually catch liars by their tales. :o: Faint heart or complexion ne'er won a husband. :o: Bluffs are all right for rivers, but poor things for business. :o: There are too many crimes com mitted and too few criminals. :o: Whoever heard of a tire being punctured right in front of a ga rage? -o;o- We would about as soon live in a turmoil as to have it too darn quiet all the time. :o: It is easier to get the children to bed, now that they have their les sons to study. :o: We may not have profited by our mistakes, but we are blamed sure that others have. o:o A sugar surplus is reported; this time by the market editor instead of by the June husbands. o:o The campaign is warming up to a considerable extent and will be red hot in about two weeks. :o: i They are asking for another elec tion in England, but they can't have ours. It's too much fun. :o: Even though you hear a lot about self-made mon, we can't think of any men who are not that. :o: Days are getting shorter right along now, but the distance from pay day remains the same. :o: Rome, Ga., reports a man drank some new cider, and when he got home the keyhole was gone. -:o:- Did you know a rope was 10 per cent stronger when wet? Thi3 even includes the campaign, cigars. :oi The best way we can make out, what China's fighting about is a hundred years or s'uch a matter. :o: A new pocket radio device has been put on the market, but this is not needed to make money talk. :o: The homes of two Birmingham de tectives were robbed, but the detec tives were away so they escaped. :o: We hate to mention unpleasant things, but income taxes are due again 10 days before Christmas. 0:0 Farmers from various sections re port poor profits from crop pools, unless there were sharks In them. :o: A Jasper. Ala., man claims he heard a snake say "Hello," but the revenue men haven't done a thing. :o: Armenia earthquake fatality re ports have prompted Turkey to In vestigate subsidies for earthquakes. :o: Friday is considered unlucky be cause it usually comes the day be fore payday and that's when you are broke. -:o: The German cabinet i3 about to be overturned, but then that has be come a German tustonu bo don't worry. :o: The talk is now of pulling in Dawes, and some republicans want him pulled off the ticket. Ain't that awful! :o: New Hampshire has a legislature of 420 members. That isn't repre sentative government it comes close to being the pure democracy of the old time town meeting. to: A New York woman who has Just celebrated her 114th birthday says the one thing lacking to complete her happiness is a husband. It is nice, anyhow, to have something to look forward to. :o:- A business man who won't pause long enough between paragraphs to allow his stenographer to powder her nose is no gentleman. Another thing we have noticed is that the stenographer who can do ninety words per minute never has pretty finger nails. FEB YEAB IN ABVAJC2 Much Iowa corn damaged by the frost. :o: The woods will soon be turning :o: One-half the world does not know how his better half lives. ' :o: Senator Brookhart's fight on Dawes stirs Iowa standpatters. :o: Almost time for the townspeople's raid on the country people's walnut groves. w-o;o You'd think rope would be cheap in Chicago, seeing as how they never U3e any. :o: : Germany says she wasn't guilty of the war. Is this a plea of past or present insanity? :o: Betting on the New York gover norship is 8 to 5 that Al Smith will beat young Teddy. :o: When the Frince of Wales said the American girls are charming he said a royal mouthful. :o: Home folks should teach a boy how to save money. Outsiders will teach him how to spend it. :o: Hay, of Cleveland, is said to be the most popular radio announcer, but he had better not announce any politics. :o: Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, says Dawes has wrecked the chances of Coolidge in the Northwest. No doubt of that. ro. Four years more of deadlocked congress is the G. O. P. idea of a 6afe way out of a deadlock in the elector al college. :o: Over fifteen million automobiles Un the United States. Is it any won der that some people are hard up all the time? :o:- A worthless man has one right you can't take away from hi m. He can brag about belonging to the com mon people. :o: Scientists have found birds with ivory bills in Florida. Which is nothing much. We know some birds with ivory heads. :o: They say bobbed hair isn't as much rtouble as long hair, and if you have your teeth pulled you won't have to brush them. -:&:- One of the strancnt things in this world is how rapidly winter un derwear goes to pieces when put away for the summer. :o:- And if you think you are a well informed person, call the name of eight men who are running for presi dent of the United States. :o:- Big men and women, former re publicans, are coming out every day for Davis because, they claim, he ia the best man for president. :o: Davi3 has started out on another drive and will visit the West again ere he lets up. Everybody, where he speaks, rallies to his support. - :o: "Heaven help an uneducated man with a lawyer's license." says the at torney general of Missouri. Never mind him. Heaven help his client. :o: The noise issuing from the White House is from the gestures of Mr. Coolidge while he thinks of what he is going to say if they let him do it. :o: The Prince of Wales sold his po nies in New York at a profit of $8, 000. And what with all the free meals he's getting, that ought to pay the expenses of his trip. :o: The author of "The Mirrors of Washington" says that no one knows less about how voters are going to vote than campaign managers. Two thirds of them are going to be wrong this time. :o: After forty, says a John Hopkins doctor the death rate is higher among men engaged in outdoor oc cupations "than it is among those who work inside. You get so you can't dodge the traffic so epryly. :o: Two eighteen-year-old boys have just been sentenced to be hanged, but that was in Baltimore, not Chi cago. Chicago, by the way, has just acquitted a boy bank messenger who got away with $700,000 in a mo ment of emotional insanity. LOVE'S NEW FANGLES One great thing about this news paper game is its infinite variety. Something Is doing every min ute and ofttimes so bloomin' much is going on that an editor feels like a one-eyed boy at a three-ring cir cus. Right here in the midst of a pres idential campaign, with the world series about to start and a football season even now upon us, a new fangled love affair and a double murder in Illinois forces Itself on our attention. This newest drama of human life was enacted in a town called Mount Vernon. It strikes us that Mount Vernon would be a more appropri ate name. It's a preacher this time, a par son who couldn't turn a deaf ear to the unholy rustle of a skirt, a man who couldn't or wouldn't dodge the pulpit falls of a pretty member of his flock. Stripped of all superfluities and unnecessary verbiige, the indictment charges Rev. Lawrence M. Hight with feeding his wife a little arsenic and thereby bringing about her death. As he was mixing the arsenicola highball for the Missus, it is charged that Mrs. Sweetie Sweetin was shed ding a few fake tears over the death of her husband who had been bump ed off with the same beverage. The pair wanted to do a little Lohengrining so it is alleged that they fixed up tombstone toddies for their official drawbacks. The parson is now in a 6ombre cell screeching the gospel according to St. Vitus, and when he found out that the woman wouldn't confess of her own volition, he bawled the L out of Elsie. Well, there's a moral in the story somewhere, even if the murder was committed in Illinois, where it does not seem to be especially wrong to kill human beings providing you use some cute original method. Viewing the case at this distance. it strikes us that sheik preachers should be careful as well as prayer ful. The Reverend Larry Hight is now in the depths because of social error. He tried to play a two-time tempo and failed. While making faces at the devil he was also making eye3 at his inamorate. Gee, ain't love grand! 0:0 CATTLE AND MOTORISTS Statistics show that more people than cattle were killed by railway trains in the United States during the year ending June 30th. On first though this may give you quite a jar, but it is really no cause for surprise. It is a plain common sense prop osition. The .cattle simply exercised a keener discretion and declined to race with railway trains for right-of-way over the crossings. Cattle, for one reason or another, seem to have no pride of speed. The finest milch cow in the pasture is content to lope awkwardly when re treating from hornets or amble phil osophically when homeward bound at fodder time. A man, perhaps al so a lady, geared to the steering wheel of an automobile, appears crazed a good deal of the time. Such an individual is never calm, medi tative, studious like the cloven-footed beats. Fidgetiness, speed obses sion, pride of race or racing costs many men their lives. "There she comes!" exclaims the motor moron, pointing to an approaching train. "Now watch me show the engineer how slow he is," says the motorist to his companion or to himself. And so, the automobile and the locomo tive come together with a great crash and the lesser object, together with its obsessed driver is scattered in small particles along the railroad right of way. A cow, endowed with ordinary bo vine brains would never try to com pete with a locomotive engineer. A cow has more sense. A cow doesn't want to leave her calf upon the char ity of the barn lot. A cow doesn't want to be kissed into fragments b7 a cowcatcher. This is because a cow is an intelligent, responsible crea ture which has duties and obliga tions not to be lightly laid aside in order that she may get a thrill or give one. :o: We were in a crowd of democrats on the corner of Sixth and Main street Monday night and the Liter ary Digest vote on president came up. Most or them thought such straw votes amount to nothing that democrats were not voting at all. Five in the crowd pulled from their pockets cards from the Liter-J ary Digest, that they had not sent 1 In. No wonder Davis is lagging be- ! hind, if that's the way the democrats are voting all over the country. And that must be the case. Anyway, 6traw votes amount to nothing. .:: Advertise yonr wants In Gi8 Jror nal for results. WITHOUT A PRESIDENT There has been much speculation concerning the political and legal consequences in the event that no candidate for president or vice presi dent wins a majority in the electoral college in November. The La Fol lette candidacy conceivably but by no means probably may throw the election of the president into the the present house of representatives, and that body might itself be dead locked since a majority of all the states is necessary to a choice and none of the presidential candidates is certain of a majority. In that case what would follow? There are constitutional lawyers who hold that if no president ia chosen the term of President Cool- idg will end March 4, 1925; that the new house of representatives will have no authority to choose a presi dent; that the United States senate, on the other hand, has the power to elect a vice president either before or at any time after March 4; that if the senate should be deadlocked and no vice president should be chos en the country would be without a chief executive for the 'duration of the deadlock. Other lawyers maintain that in the event the voters fail to elect a president and a vice president, Mr Coolidge, under prevalent common law principles will continue in office until the election and installation of his legal successor. Still other students of constitutional and stat utory law are Inclined to believe that President Coojidge's present term must end automotically March 4th and that in the event of a sen ate deadlock on the vice presidency the secretary of state would become chief executive by virtue of the stat ute regulating the presidential sue cession. The New York Law Review edl torially argues that there is a possi bility that the country will be forced to get along for weeks or months without a president. In that event the Coolidge cabinet would remain and the federal department would continue to function, but it is doubt ful whether congress could legislate, and it is certain that no treaties could be negotiated and put into ef fect and that the army and navy would be without a commander in chief. The situation in the contingency imagined would bring confusion in business and, in administration. It may bo said that the United States supreme court would intervene and resolve the various legal doubts, but even this is far from clear. That tri bunal has ruled that it cannot deal with political matters and might de cline jurisdiction of controversies concerning the presidential succes sion. The only way for the people to avoid bewildering complications is to elect the ticket of one or the oth er of the major historic parties, since there is not the slightest prospect of La Follette's winning at the polls. A deadlock in the house on the presi dency being possible, the voters should not take any chances and should settle the question themselves in November. It should be added that tha choice of a president by the present house, which was elected two years ago, and which has not given a particu larly brilliant account of itself, would not be in any event a happy solution of the problem of the presi dency. :o: CANDIDATES ALWAYS HOPEFUL Senator La Follette is quoted in the New Republic as saying to one of its editors that he did not realize how widespread the La Follette movement was. "You don't realize," said the senator, "that we actually are going to win." It is remarkable how every candi date hypnotizes himself Into the be lief that everybody is going to vote for him. Back in 1896 Mr. Bryan told the correspondents who traveled with him that there was a popular uprising that would sweep him into offce. He really believd it. So have the defeated candidates since that time with the exception of Theodore Roosevelt, who told his intimates from the outset of the Progressive campaign that there was no hope. But it is hard to maintain an un biased judgment in the face of cheer ing crowds and assurances of sup port that flood in on the man run ning for office. MORE PRECINCT OFFICERS More precinct officers have been nominated and certified in to the county clerk to be placed on the bal lot at the coming November election and will add to the interest of the election. Two precincts have report ed as follows: South Eend Democrats Assessor B. F. Dill: Overseer, Willis Richards; Justice of the Peace, O. W. Zaar; Constable, William Cline. Center Republicans Assessor. J. L. Heebner; Justice of the Peace, O. A. ' Coon. I MAKERS OF CASS COUNTY Robert R. Nickles ... j More than a score of years before i the breaking out of the civil war there lived a family in the old state iur many years, u.iiu iu ima uuiuc ui ; James Nickles and wife, there were j two sons, Wm. and Robert, who were in the years to come to be Instrumen- tal in the making of Cass county Ne braska. September 8th 1840, Robert I R. Nickles was born In Washington j county Kentucky, when this lad was about ten years of age and had ob tained a smattering of an education, the family moved to Nodaway county Mo., where he continued in school and worked on the farm in the sum mer, and when twenty-four years of age the family removed to Nebraska, settling In Cass county and have made it their home since. The sub ject of this article has put in near to three score of years of hard work in making this the great county that it is at this time. On January 8th 1S69 Mr. Robert R. Nickles was un ited in marriage with Miss Mary Rhea, the wedding occurring on the farm of her father one of the early settlers of Cass county, and former ly of Missouri, they coming here and settling on what is now the Ora Davis farm west of Murray. In 1864, Mr. Nickles with his father settled on what is now the farms of both himself and his brother Wm. Nickles, and where the family lived for time they having purchased 40 acres of deeded land and used 240 acre3 of school lands. Later when the school lands were to be sold, he and his brother purchased the portion which ; they have at this time, and while j they could not purchase the same, ' for lack of money, they paid ten per cent on the land and also ten per cent interest in advance. There was a provision In the con tract, which made it impossible to pay a portion of the principle off at i a time, and a number of times they j had almost gotten the $1,000 requir- .J - 1 . 1 " 1 .7 . I eu ami suiiieiiiiiij; iiupit;i:.-u tu iucj had to use some of the money, and the time was put off and all the time there was the one hundred dollars a year interest, payagle in advance. One time their home burned and they lost all their furniture their farming utensils, a kit of black smith tools, and an outfit of shoe makers tools, and had to live in the basement of the house. The fire oc cured in 1877. Then they began the construction of a new house, build ing the basement in which they lived for three years before they had the house, completed. This house, built of brick still stands on the farm having been there since 1S73 lifty-one years. The union of this couple was blessed by four children all of whom are living, they being: Alfred Nick les, who is at present living at Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. George Ray, liv ing southeast of Murray; Miss Ber tha Nickles, making her home with the parents in Murray, and Mrs. D. C. Crosser, who lives on a farm near Woodriver in this state. Mr. Nickles ceased farming some four years ago. They have been residing in Murray since then. Mr. and Mrs. Nickles have worked hard all their lives and have contributed unstintingly to the upbuilding of this county, and are entitled to the rest which the advan ced years are bringing to them They should he blessed with a more robust health than is theirs at this time. However, they are well pleased with the results of their years of toil, and are honored by a host of friends. Long before the beginning of the civil war, William Young and wife were making their home near Glen wood, Iowa, and living on a farm there when on the 22nd day of March in 1851. the stork came to their house with a young man who in the after years was to do his portion in the making of a great state, Nebraska, and one of the best counties in the state, Cass county. When this young American was but 4 years of age the parents moved to Nebraska, settling on a farm between Plattsmouth and where the thriving little city of Murray now stands. and located between the highway, between Omaha and Kansas City, and the next road east, and about five miles from Plattsmouth and three miles from Murray. The elder Young, that is Wm. Young here Standard Bret! Singb Plattsmouth Phone S5C4 Mynard, Nebraska Hspair Autos! Any Make or Any Work and Guarantee Absoluts Satisfaction IVERSON GARAGE Pearl Street Roy Long. pti liSi3 fiS 61 RAIN OR SHINE! re-wf v n r ics m n 1 and Spotted Poland-China Hogs! Sale will be held in the V. P. Sheldon Red Barn in the south part of Nehawka, Nebraska n M iik Kb 15" M9 S Commencing at 1:00 P. M. 40 Head of Gows, Bulls and Gslves! 5 cows to be fresh before sale day; 7 cows to be fresh soon after sale; 9 coming 2-year old heifers, pasture bred between August 1 and September I; 5 heifers coming yearlings, ail open; 5 heifers ranging from 3 to 6 months of age; 2 matured bulls, 4 and 5 years old; 3 good bull calves. 24 Bsad of Spallad Poland Hogs! These gilts are from Best of All's offspring by Pickett's Marvel 92133. Bast of All 63374 and four of her gilts and Duke Lassie v 192250 are all tried sows and produce large litters. All bred to Nebraska's Spotted Giant 98795. The two boars Pickett's Marvel 92133 and Nebraska's Spotted Giant 98795 are among the best boars of the breeed. Cattle are in Perfect Health and Tuberculin Tested. Hogs Have Received Double Immune Treatment. This will be your best opportunity to secure the best strain of milch cattle and Spotted Poland Chinas to be offered in this part of the state this season. The cattle are our own raising as are most of the hogs. Come and look them over before the. sale. i jj Ml arl W- Stone Rex Young, Auct. settled on a quarter section of land, which he pre-empted, that is after a residence of six months, he was able to purchase the land by paying one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for it. Here the family was reared, and Mr. David A. Young, one of the boys, making home with the parents and farming for them, and when they had passed away purchased and kept the farm and is at present living on it and after sixty-nine years is still making this first land his home. Mr. Young has been a farmer all his life, and on March 22. 1876 was united in marriage to Miss Anna Mann. This union was blessed with seven children, they being: Lincoln, who was killed by being thrown from a horse at the age of thirteen years, Mr. D. C. Young, who now resides at Beach, South Dakota; Mrs. Ona May Lawton, who Is at this time matron at the Masonic home; Mrs. Lena Ethel Lyman, of Vale South Dakota; Arthur Albert Young, who is a farmer living a few miles south east of Murray; W. Rex Young deputy sheriff of Cass county at the present time; Mrs. Clara Lee White, living on the farm which was pre empted by her grandfather, Wm. Young in 1S55. Wm. Young was at one time coun ty commissioner of Cass county, and also surveyor, and his son David A. Young assisted in the surveying of lands and roads of Cass county years i ago. wnen tne iana was reciuiinu from the original state in which the roads took the shortest route. Mr. D A. Young never held any office with the exception that of member of a school board, which never paid salary during his time of occu pancy, he held this office for a quart er of a century and for a like period was consul of the Modern voodman lodge of Murray. He resided three years in Murray and three years in Knox county, the rcmaijiaer or nis life on the farm. 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 Frederick A. Neumann, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Catherine Neumann praying that administration of said estate may be granted to Mollie Neumann as Ad ministratrix; Ordered, that October 22, A. D. 1924, at ten o'clock a. m. is assigned 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 petitioner should not be granted; and that notice of the pendency of said peti tion and the hearing, thereof be given to all persons interested in said J matter by publishing a copy of this order In the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to Eaid day of hearing. Dated September 30, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, (Sea!) o2-3w. County Judge. -OF-Registered and Grade lifti k So Bank of Union, Clerk assssrsss NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, fs. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Hen-; ry Kuhnhenn, deceased. ? To the creditors of said estate: X You are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on Octo ber 14, 1924, and January 14, 1925, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, to re ceive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate ia three months from the 14 th day of of October, A. D. 1924. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 14th day of October, 1924. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 11th day of September, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, , (Seal) sl5-4w-sw County Judge. ORDER OP HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administrators The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate ol Aug ust W. Tanska. deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Daniel J. Panska praying that ad ministration of said estate may be granted tor Daniel J. Panska and Henry Guthmann, as Administrat ors; Ordered, that October 22, A. D. 19-1, at ten o'clock a. m. is assign ed for hearing said petition, when f tiouuo juierebteu in stun maner 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; and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof bo given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of J this order in the Plattsmouth Jour- f nal. a semi-weekly newspaper print- ed in said county, for three success- ive weeks, prior to said day of hear- h ing. Dated September 22, 1924. I ALLEN J. BEESON, i (Seal) s25-3w County Judge'. ! Automobile Painting! Ffrst-Class Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Replating and Sign Work! A. F. KflOFLICEK, Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth