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PL4TTSMOUT3 SEMI - WEEKLY JOuTfJfAI MONDAY, DECEMBER L 1924. FAQS FOUR Cbc plattsmouth lournal PTJBLISHED SESfl-WESKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, MBMMI Eatarcd at Poatofflce, Plattsmoutb. Nt.. mm eooaJ-o4aB mall mattar R. A. BATES, Publisher 8UBSCWPTI0J PBICS $2.00 PEE YEAH 12? ADVANCJ WHAT A MAN HATH If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. For I mean not that other men be eased and ye be bur dened. II Corthinians 8:12-13. :o:- The poor are with us always, but often the rich are against us. :o:- It's a long lane that has no one alongside changing tires. -:o:- Thee sale of turkeys was rather slow; too high in price for common folks. Trying to buy bootleg whiskey is dangerous because you might suc ceed. :o: The great China question, as seen in most of our homes, is, "Who Will Wash the Dishes?" Charles Dickens' old home has been made into a girl's school, where they may play the dickens. :o: Harry Daugherty will write hi? memoirs. A man of more delicate f-lin.:s would try to forget. :o: They had a $500,000 fire in Scran ton. Pa., home of correspondence schools, but none burned, darn it. o:o Evidently, the American people believed the republicans when they said. "We ain' gwine steal no mo'." :o: The cleanness and purity of one's mind is never better proved than in discovering its own faults at first view. o:o Even if it did take her a long time to do it. a St. Louis woman has been going to Sunday school 90 yea re. : o: A man was beating his wife in Chicago. She pushed him off the porch, three floors up. He fell hard for her. :o: Well, statistics show soft drink drinking is declining, maybe because people are learning how to do with- 1 out chasers. :o: Well, here it is Thanksgiving, and nobody has as yet sent us a Christ mas turkey. It looks like a cheer less day ahead. :o: "We didn't lose." insists Senator Wheeler. Is that so? Well, you just wait and see who gets the political plums after March 4. :o: A St. Louis man, alarmed because his wife couldn't talk, called the doc tor. She was drunk. It's expensive, but you mighty try it. :o:- A good character, when establish ed, should not be rested in as an end but only employed as a means of do ing still further good. Chicago's murder rate has been running pretty high, but as long as gangsters contribute to it by killing off one another the situation could be worse. :o:- It is said the former kaiser some years ago contemplated suicide. He let slip the opportunity, and thus failed to render the world the only service of which he was capable. :o:- See whe' - John W. Davis set sail for Europe the other day. John will be basking beneath the sunny sk the Mediterranean while the boys back home are keeping cool with Coolidge. ro: As a man should always be upon his guard against the vices to which he Is most exposed, so should we take more than ordinary care not to lie at the mercy of the weather in our moral conduct. Notwithstanding the numerous oc casions on which he has disappoint ed us recently, we still have faith in the weather man. It is bound to rain some time. For that matter, we still believe in fairies. Santa Claus and the democratic party. -:o: Tt' pasr to be a successful wife. All in the world a young wrman has to do is to smile like Mary Pickford. save like Hetty Green, bring up children like Mate. Montesori. make her own clothes like Lady Duff-Gordon, wear them like Gloria Swanson and kiss like Pola Negri. Aside from that there's nothing else to it. The man who makes a fool out of 'hinipelf claims someone else did it -:o: Any fool can go to bed, but it takes a man to get up these morn i . nigs. :o:- Only a few more week in which to pay the bills you ran up last , Christmas. -:o:- Imagination paints the things we things we want many times brighter than they are. :o: Maybe Secretary of State Hughes can't recognize Russia because it has banned whiskers. :o: George M. Cohan recently pur chased two oil paintings for $1,700. Another scandal in oil! :o: Some men and women are never affected by flattery, they being the ones who never get any. :o: Backward. turn backward, oh rain, in your flight, and soak us real good again -soak us all night! :o: The man on the sandbox says the proper time to contest an election is before the votes have been cast. :o: A South Dakota man claims he lino a razor that has been used 65 years, but we don't know how often. :o: In looking over the income tax re turns most of us are interested in the how-come instead of the income. :o: What we can't see is how a one armed man gets married, unless he learns to steer an auto with his knees. :o: South Africa's diamond output is over two million carats yearly. But that isn't so much. We mine more coal than that. :o: It doesn't require any great pro phetic instinct to foresee that some one is going to get hurt when that stock boom bursts. :o: Old Joseph, according te the Bib lical account, masqueraded under as many colors as aiost any politician of the present day. :o: WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? The klan, says Maurace Blumen- thal, chairman of the democratic electoral delegation of New York. "As soon as the democratic conven tion got under way the republicans hod na chance of losing." Not the klan, says Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, bat intra party wrangling. It is time to let go "of selfish ambitions and fight the common enemy." Not intra-party wrangling, thinks Senator Bayard of Delaware, but isms. "The timo has come when we must swing back to first principles and refuse to be a party to the many isms for purely local conditions." Not isms, says Gov. Cameron Mor ton of North Carolina, but taxes. "The republicans were able to point out but for democratic obstruction in congress the benefits of tax reduc tion would have been more substan tial." ' taxs. .says Senator Copeland of New York, but failure to attraet the farmers. "The democratic party had the opportunity to win to its standard the great farm group of America. La Follette got the votes that Davis might have had." It is an eventful day that does not add its obituary for the lost hopes of 1924 and its interpretation of the democratic party's glaring weakness in the last election. Farm votes, klan votes, votes lost by intra-party wrangling, isms, taxes add this: Votes lost because the democratic party tried to face both ways at once. In the west it called itself pro gressive and defined progressivism as the unlimited right of the major ity to rule, the use of governmental power to curb wealth and privilege, the enlargement of federal authority at the expense of the authority of the states. In the east it called itself pro gressive and defined progre.s&'sm as decentralization of federal p..v.er and the attempt to seek solution of eco nomic and moral questions as far as practicable by voluntary co-operation, as little as possible by govern mental order. Those two points of view, over lapping here and there yet deeply at bottom, are now contesting for the leadership of the democratic party. It can stand for either one of them, but not effectively for both. :o: DANGER OF A "BOOM" The president of the Illinois Cen tral railroad utters a very reasonable warning against the danger of a boom, following the presidential election. "No one is in control of a boom," he says, "and the inevitable result is a flattening out which leaves us worse off than we were be fore we started." The comment of the Milwaukee Journal on this is right to the point: "No election can inflate the actual value of securities beyond the real business that can be done. Men and women who don't know whether a stock is selling now above or below what it is worth rush to put money in because they are sure the market will rise. And so they themselves push the market up. Naturally the insiders will sell; they can buy again when the cyclone has spent itself. And the difference from those who didn't know the ways of the stock market or the real value of stocks; who helped shove the market up and didn't stop to think who would tell them when it was going to start down." The speculative stoek market is no safe place for the inexperienced man or woman or small means, to whom Uk loss of the investment would meandisaster. Grant everything that is claimed as to the general effect of the election in bringing better times, and it still remains true that there are many securities on thet market which have no basis on which to get any share of such prosperity. And it is the venders of just insecure "securities" as these who are search ing most persistently for the inex perienced investor. :o: THE CLOTHIER'S AID The clothier finds the evening newspaper a spienaiu advertising medium. Advertising regularly in the evening newspaper Is profitable for the clothier because he directs his appeal to ALL members of the fa raily. The day when women were never een in men's clothing 6tores has passed. Today, women frequently visit men's clothiers and select, or -si t in selecting, many things which their husbands and sons wear. The clothier today must recognize that women exert a decided influence over his business. He must address his sales talks and describe his mer chandise to women as well as men. There is one best way in which he "an appeal to both men and women with the same advertisements. He must advertise in the evening newspaper, the newspaper read by all members of the family. When husband or son needs new clothing, the wife or the mother of ten is the first to call attention to the need. The need is almost al ways discovered in the evening and nothing is more natural for the fam ily to do than to inspect the adver tisements in the evening newspaper and decide upon the clothier who must be visited tomorrow. The evening newspaper sells cloth ing just as effectively as it sells hun dreds of other kinds of merchandise, and the clothier who wishes to in crease his sales volume can make this increase certain by advertising his business in the evening news paper the family newspaper, read by every member of the family. The Daily Journal is the Platts mouth HOME newspaper. :o: DEATHBED WEDDINGS Racing with death in an auto, a Boston girl arrived in Albany, N. Y., in time to marry her sweetheart four hours before he died from injuries received when he feel under a rail road train. Those deathbed marriages are not uncommou. In one case, an English woman sailed for India and married her lover, whom she had not seen foi three years, barely before the death rattle sounded in his throat. It is inspiring to know that, in our blase generation, there still are multitudes who believe love is eter nal, and not merely an episode this side of the gray. Are lovers re-united in the Great Beyond? A belief to this effect is the supreme comfort for countless millions who have found "the right person." In true love, men and women are closest to the spiritual. Time does not lessen affection. Tears dim the eyes of the aged as they summon in memory the mate or sweetheart who passed long ago. The unhappy married must ferv ently hope that death will be an ab solute divorce from their unfortu nate choice. Many v.ould vote for extinction in preference to eternal life if they thought they would be condemned forever to their earthly mates. Behind everything is a wise and definite reason. The reason for unhappy marriages has baffled philosophers in all cen turies. Socrates believed that when a soul enters the world it is separ ated into two beings, a male and a female. These wander the earth, seeking reunion. If a man or woman weds the "wrong half" misery fol lows. Many mystics believe that an un happy marriage is an affliction visit ed on the unfortunate a burden through this life, a problem. Appar ently agreeing with the mystics are people who "make the best of a bad bargain." Surely for them, death should be an eternal release. :o: ALL STATES FIMD VALUE IN BETTER HOMES MOVEMENT Organization Headed by Hoover Tells How Communities Joined Forces To Help Home Buyers. Communities throughout the coun try are giving increased recognition to the value of helping prospective home buyers to secure the best value for that investment, which is often the greatest in a lifetime. This is shown by a summary of the activi ties and resulats of Better Homes Week demonstrations, promoted dur ing May. 11-18. 1921. by Better Homes In America, a national edu cational organization, with head quarters at Washington. D. C, the president of which is Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. More than 300 communities have submitted detailed reports of their demon: 'rations: while incomplete re ports show that Better Homes Week was observed to some degree in 1,500 communities. Indicative of the wide spread interest in promoting this service, the report shows that demon strations of one type or another were conducted in every state in the Union uud even in Alaska. One committe in Nebraska has al ready reported activity in the 1024 campaign. This was at Fullerton. where Mrs. Anna Penny Barber was chairman. At that place programs on Better Homes were held at the Civic club and sermons on Better Home.; were preached in the churches. Of .106 committees scattered thru out the Cnited States which have al ready reported their demonstrations in detail. 86 exhibited one or more model home, or demonstration house, according to Dr. James Ford. Execu tive Director of the organization. Altogether. 110 houses were demon strated. The average (mediamt cost of these houses was $5,551. which is consistent with the aim of Better Homes in America to encourage and assist in the building and owning of homes by families with moderate incomes. In 756 communities there were local Better Homes committees, with chairmen appointed by Herbert Hoover, president of Better Homes in America. The chairmen were usually women active in club or civic work in their locality: and the other members were frequently town and city officials, bankers, building and loan associations offi'-.als. repre sentatives of Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations, and promin ent business men and women. In every case the committees served in a spirit of disinterested unselfish co operation. Prizes were awarded to the local committees reporting the best dem onstrations. The committe1 on awards divided the contesting com munities into three classes, towns of 10.000 and over, communities of less than 10.000, and those demonstrat ing school practice houses. In the first division Kalamazoo. Michigan, won the first prize of $500 ; Atlanta, Georgia, being second, winuing a $200 prize and Greenville, S. C, third, with a $100 prize. Fourth prizes of $50 each were awarded to Fairmont, Wr. Ya., Loekport, N. Y.. New Rochelle, N. Y., and West Palm Beach. Fla. Among the contestants in the rural class. Albemarle County, Ya.. won first prize of $200. Coxton. Ken tucky and Conway, Arkansas tied for second plane, and were each awarded with a $75.00 prize. Ft. Lauderdale, Lla.. and Rolay, Md.. tied for third place and each received an award of $50.00. St. Helena Island. S. C. won the special prize of $200.00 for school practice house demonstrations. FRIENDS ENJOY VISIT One of the Thanksgiving gather ings of parties far from home and the comforts of the home diners was held yesterday at Chicago, when Miss Helen Pfoutz, who is attending the Jennings seminary at Aurora, came in to the windy city and en joyed the holiday with Mason and Miss A ice Louise Wescott, who are attending Northwestern university and the occasion was one that the young folks enjoyed to the utmost. Automobile Painting! First-Class Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Repeating and Sign Work! JL F. KHOFLICEK, Phone 592- W. Platttsmouth MARRIAGE OF AT TORNEY GENERAL SPILLMAN OCCURS Bride Is Comity Superintendent of Pierce County Ceremony on Thanksgiving Day. At high noon on Thanksgiving day at the home of the bride at Pierce, Miss Florence Marjorie Par minter became the wife of Attor ney General O. S. Spillman. The bride is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, heing a direct descendent of Champlain, discoverer of Lake Champlain. She is a graduate of the Randolph high school, and attended the University of Nebraska. For six years she was traveling superintendent of the Mid land Chautauqua circuit of Des Moines, Iowa, and has been county superintendent of Pierce county since 1918. She is a memher of the P. E. O. society. She is secretary of the third district of the Nebraska Teachers' association, and also secre tary of the Women's Educational club of the third district of Nebraska. Mr. Spillman is a graduate of High land Park college of Des Moines, Iowa, and of the University of Ne braska college of law. He has pract iced law at Pierce since 1907. He served two terms as county attorney of Pierce county and is a world war veteran. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1920. He was elected attorney general in 1922. and re-elected at the last election. The ceremony was per formed in the presence of only im mediate relatives, due to the recent death of Mrs. Spillman's father, T. O. Parminter. The Reverend Mr. Rowden. of the M. E. church offici ated. SUFFERING FROM SICKNESS From Friday's Dai? Mrs. Thomas Svoboda is at the present time confined to her home on the western edge of the city suffer ing from a very severe attack of cold and the flu and which became so severe Saturday that medical as sistance was called. Mrs. Svoboda was assisting in the care of a friend who was also sick, when she was taken down Saturday and had to be huried to her home, where she has since been confined. ORDER OF BEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administratrix The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty. Sff. In tire County Court. In the matter of the estate of William Nickles. deceased. On reading and filing the petition of George E. Nickles praying that administ ration of said estate may be granted to Etta M. Nickles as Ad minist ratiix: Ordered, that December 6th, A. D. 1924. at ten 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; and 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 Plattsmouth Jour nal, a semi-weekly newspaper print ed in said county, for three success ive weeks, prior to said day of hear ing. Dated November 15, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, nl7-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SUIT In the District Court of Caas coun ty, Nebraska. The Plattsmouth Loan ana tsunu ing Association, plaintiff, vs. John W. Falter et al., defendants. (App. Dock. 2. Page 165.) Notice of suit in foreclosure. To the defendants: R. A. Reed, real name unknown; Mrs. R. A. Reed, real name unknown; A. R. Rine. real name unknown, and Mrs. A. R. Rine. real name unknown, and all persons having or claiming any interest in or to Lot 5 in Block 33. in the City of Plattsmouth. in Cass county. Nebraska, real names un- j known : You are hereby notified that on the 20th day of November. 1924, The Plattsmouth Loan and Building Association, plaintiff in the forego ing entitled cause, filed its petition in the office of the Clerk of the Dis trict court of Cass county, Nebraska. against you and others, for the pur pose of "procuring a Decree in Fore closure of two certain mortgages given to plaintiff by the defend ants. John W. Falter and Catherine D. Falter, on Lot 5 in Block 33, in the City of Plattsmouth. in Cass county. Nebraska, aggregating the sum of $7,000.00. on one of which the sum of $1,000.00 was paid on October 6th, 1920, and for the sale of said premises, for thp reason that default has been made in the terms, conditions and agreements contained therein. Plaintiff demands equitable relief and that pending the sale of said premises, that a receiver be appoint ed to take charge of said premises Dd to collect the rents, issues and profits thereof to be applied on the amount adjudged to be due to plain tiff in said cause, for the reason that said property is now insufficient to discharge the mortgaged debt due to plaintiff and the taxes and special assessments due thereon. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 5th day of January. 1925. or such petition will be taken as true and judgment ren dered accordingly. You pre further notified that on the 6th day of January, 1 925, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as plaintiff can be heard, at the chambers of Hon. James T. Begley in the court house Reduced Rates South Round-trip winter excursion rates now in effect to to principal re sort places of Florida, Texas, the Gulf Coast and all the South. Let me assist you in planning a fine winter tour going one way, returning another, embracing all the chief points of interest and with stopovers where you wish along the way. Comfortable, modern, reliable BURLINGTON trains make con venient connections at Chicago and St. Louis with best through trains via all routes South. W. in the City of Plattsmouth in; said county, the plaintiff will J make application to Hon. James T. Begley, Judge of'the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, ! for the appointment of a receiver fof said mortgaged premises, to take charge of said property and to col , lect -the rents, issues and profits to ! be derived therefrom, to be applied under the orders of the court on the ! amount adjudged to be due to plain- tiff on its said mortgaged indebted ! ness. The plaintiff proposes the name of ' James K. Pollock as receiver and E. I . I P. Lutz and T. tl. foiiocK as sureties for such receiver, and also as sure- ties for the applicant therefor, j Date: November 22nd, 1924. THE PLATTSMOUTH LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION, By JOHN M. LEYDA, Its Solicitor and Attorney. n24-4wka ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the application of Henry M. Soennichsen, Adminis trator, for license to sell real estate. Now on this 18th day of Novem ber, A. 1). 1924, this cause came on for hearing upon the duly verified petition of Henry M. Soennichsen, Administrator of the Estate of Har-. riet L. Hunter, deceased, praying for a license to sell the following 'de scribed real estate for the purpose of paying the debts and expenses of ad ministration and costs of said estate, to-wit : Outlot sixty-four (64) in Sec tion eighteen (IS), Township twelve (12), Range fourteen (14) of Plattsmouth, Cass coun ty, Nebraska ; It is therefore ordered the all persons interested in said estate ap-1 auction to the highest bidder for pear before me in the district court l cash the following described prop room in the City of Plattsmouth, in j erty, to-wit: said county, on the 29th day of De- j ceraber, A. D. 1924, at the hour of' 10:00 a. m. of said day and show ;.use, if any there be, why a license should not be granted to the said Henry M. Soennichsen as adminis trator, to sell the above described real estate for the purposes set forth above. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be served on all persons interested in said estate by publica tion for four successive weeks in the Plattsmouth Journal, a newspap er published in and of general cir culation within Cass county, Ne braska. By the court the year and day last above written. JAMES T. BEGLEY, District Judge. J. A. CAPWELL, Attorney. n24-4w LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Alice Meisinger, deceased. Now on this 19th day of Novem ber, 1924, there was filed in this court the petition of G. G. Meising er, alleging therein that the said Alice Meisinger departed this life intestate and praying that the regu lar administration of her said estate be dispensed with, and for a decree determining the heirs of said de ceased. It is therefore ordered that a hearing be had on said petition be fore this court in the County Court room at Plattsmouth in said county, on the 15th day of December, 1924. at ten o'clock a. m., and a copy of this order be published for three weeks prior to said day of hearing in the Plattsmouth Journal, a news paper printed and published in said county. By the Court. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) n20-3w County Judge. R. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent 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 directed, I will on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at the south front door of the courthouse in Flatts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following property, to-wit: Lots seven (7) and eight (8) and sixty-seven (67) in the northeast quarter of the north west quarter (NEJ NWJ) of Section thirteen (13) Township twelve (12) North. Range thir teen (13) in the City of Platts mouth, Nebraska The same being levied upon and I taken as the property of Andrew iRabb, Jr. and Anna Rabb, defend ants, to satisfy a judgment of said : court rt covered by A. G. Bach, plain tiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, November 15th, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Caas, ss. By virtue of an Order issued by James Robertson, Clerk of the Dis trict Court within and for Cass coun ty, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at the south front door of the court house in Plattsmouth, Ne- 1 . i t - L- i in i ! . I ....it. 1 1 . . . " nun I i umil. OC'Il iA I UUD11V Lot 52 in Wise's Out Lots. an Addition to the City of Cass county, Ne- Plattsmouth, braska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Fred C. Stewart, Charles J. Slangal, and Mrs. Charles J. Slangal, his wife, real name unknown, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court re covered by The Livingston Loan and Building Association, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, November 10th, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. Goin? to Have a Sale? I am prepared to conduct sales of any kind. No mat ter what yon have for sale, I can sell it for yon and as sure yon success. See me at H. H. Shrader's, Plattsmouth, or call me by telephone. I pay long dis tance calls. CALL PHONE SO. 432-J Plattsmouth, Nebr. J. H. 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