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FLATTSMOUTH SEMI- WEEKLY TOUSB'AL
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1924
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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and Spotted Poland-China Hogs!
Sale will be held in the V. P. Sheldon Red Barn in
the south part of
Nehawka, Nebraska
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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.
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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
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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'. !
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Ffrst-Class Work
Guaranteed!
Prices Reasonable
Mirror Replating and
Sign Work!
A. F. KflOFLICEK,
Phone 592-W, Plattsmouth
