L , n THTJBSBAY, APSZL 16, 1923. FLATTSMOTJTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOTJEJAL PAGE IHKEJ Che plattsmouth lournal EHBI1SHED SEJHJKEKLY AT Bafeyq at Foatefflo, Fla ttaiaoutn. A . B.A O&EaS SI OH PEICE 2.00 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your . daughters shall prophecy, and young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Acts 2:17. -:o:- Save your dollars and they'll save JOM. :o: Good looking kinfolks seem to be Tery scarce articles. :o:- An assistant is one who is hired for the boss to help. :o: Turning over a new leaf too often makes you lose your place. :o: An optimist Is a man who buys a msed auto from an enemy. : :o: People who live in glass houses should not wash their windows. -:o:- Always close your mouth before Blaring at funny looking strangers. :o: An old heavy undershirt dyed a beautiful spring sweater. :o: With the boyish bob came that noticeable mannish ring around the neck. -:o:- The cafe works from sun to sun, but Ita doggone 6teaks are never done. :o: Sometimes we think a spinster Is one who used her sense Instead of hiding it. :o:- Love is something which makes you sorry that you did kiss her or sorry that you didn't kiss her. :o: And, one might add, in the spring a young man's fancy, lightly ,turns way from thoughts of anything. . ;o; When a man thinks a woman doesn't understand him It usually Is because she does understand him. -:o:- Moet wrongs are ignored on the principle that If you don't look' to aee if your tire is flat you won't have to Sz it. :o:- Atlantic City will fine drunks ac sording to their breaths, but one pleading bay rum may escape by a hair's breadth. :o: No matter if your love letters are oot- literary models, fame will be yours whenever the plaintiff's attor ney read9 them in court. :o: A Maryland man, arrested for be ing drunk, set up the defense that he had never heard of prohibition. He should move into a dry state. :o: ' We have our moments of depres sion when it seems as if our own great party devoted a large share of Its time to showing the need of two great parties. :o: Senator Butler's son says the fine cotton goods manufacturers have "a Just complaint as to the present tar 1H." What's the matter? Did some body sneak In a shoestring? -:o:- President Coolidge has had his last year's hat reblocked and rerib boned and his shoes half-soled. And we'll bet this Yankee wastrel has had his Bocks freshly darned. :o: Uncle Sam spends 70 cents a day educating each native Eskimo and some of them, even at that, will turn out better than some of the gradu ates of our high-brow universities. :o: Book publishers with bargains to day, we have learned, will have bar gains tomorrow. The statement that "You must hurry and buF now be fore the present lot Is sold out, as no more will be available at the present price," sounds worse than it Is. Books will always be compara tively cheap. Competition will take care of that. :o: We have Just seen a picture of At torney General John Garibaldi Sar gent, taken when that gentleman weighed 300 pounds. At the time of his entry into Washington to fill the place of high morality, lately vacat ed by Mr. Daugherty, he tipped the scales at just a little more than 200. We suppose Brother Sargent would have pined away altogether if he had not succeeded in getting his feet firmly planted in the publie trough oi the nation. ' fiXATISMOirrH, NEBBASXA Neb., m ecomd-d&ia mall matter , P uh lkh e r FEB YEAR IN ADVANCE r9 The first person to bring in a spring poem may spade the editor's garden. -:o:- Virtue is its own reward; but the naughty can sell their record to Borne magazine. :o: . The bigger the house you live in the more liable you are to move to a sanitarium. -:o:- You can never judge your neigh bors by what you see hanging on their clothesline. -:o:- The way to see how far your car will go before it needs repairs is to lend it to a friend. -:o:- A legislator may grow purple In the face with anger, but you never see one speechless. , -:o:- The husband who has a den is fortunate he doesn't have to growl all over the house. :o:- The hard part of being poor is trying to save while spending as much as the rich do. -:o:- Unlike Freud, we seem to come in contact with many more superiority than inferiority complexes. :o: Recent army tests show that shooting at airplanes is about like throwing rocks at birds. :o: A foolish man is one who Is kept from being foolish by the fear of what others would say. :o: You never know what some people think until you make them mad enough to tell the truth. :o: ' Let your little boy play in the dirt and he may be a divorce case lawyer when he grows up. :o: Grand opera was thought up by a man who had just finished mashing his fingers with a hammer. :o: A lavender hat on a grown man makes us wish we were young enough to throw rocks again. :o: Professional baseball season will start this week. It is where we hire men to take our exercise for us. :o: More farm relief is planned. Run ning a farm seems to pay about as well as sending a boy to college. :o: The bones of a mastodon have been found in New York, probably proving the ancients had taxlcabs. :o: Picnics are dangerous. Opening sardines and pickle bottles may in still the desire to become a safe blower. -:o:- When men say they want justice, what they really mean is that they want some particular case settled their way. Old fashioned spelling matches are a good thing, but who would know what to do with a syzygy after he had spelled it. :o: Fifty years ago, pious mothers begged their boys to get religion, while practical fathers escorted them to the woodshed. -:o: While the democrats were trying to capture St. Louis, the republicans were trying to capture New Orleans. They all want the moon. : :o: Another professor defending the college students. If all this cham pioning keeps up we'll think thera is something wrong with college stu dents. :oi The English are adopting grape fruit as a breakfast dish, and we rather pity them for the years of training they will have to undergo before they get to the technique of eating it that we have acquired. :o: Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, an 80-year-old Arkansas man, on whose farm oil was recently struck, is now the owner- of nine automobiles. Even so, 'the" gas is said to be coming in faster than the aged motorist can burn it. :o: The German method of choosing presidential candidates is hard to understand. They don't have con ventions lasting several weeks, and what is more remarkable they don't have any platforms. We doubt if the Germans are fitted to have a presidential election at all. FRANKLIN AND THE KITE How much . of the Benjamin Franklin kite-flying story is truth and how much fiction may be the subject of a scientific investigation. Both the Academy of Arts and Sci ences and Harvard university have the question of such an Investiga tion under consideration. The revival of interest in the kite story grows out of its characteriza tion by Prof. McAdie of the Harvard department of meteorology as a myth; and the charges which fol lowed, that this characterization had done untold harm to the mem ory of Franklin. Then came the suggestion that the whole question be investigated scientifically and the truth determined. As Prof. McArdie himself de clares, such an investigation at the present time in view of modern knowledge of electricity would be futile. Certainly no one but a mov ing picture producer would think it worth while to rig up ateilk kite after the best Benjamin Franklin fashion and undertake to repeat the alleged experiment, and any investigation without the experiment would scarcely be scientific. The Franklin kite story, like that of Washington and the cherry tree, is probably no more than a tradi tion, a fairy story for grownups. But a century and a quarter after the death of the hero of the story that might be hard to prove, and is probably not worth attempting. The picture of the little old man stand ing out in the rain in a violent elec trical storm conducting a "scientlf ic" experiment is too vivid to be ef fectively denied either by scientists or historians. OUR ALLEGED PERILS A West Virginian of eminent po sition, the other day, made an ad dress in which he depicted America as standing between two great per ils. On the one hand is the red rev olutionist, despising all established guarantees of social and political or der and ever on the watch for an op portunity to cut the props from un der this order and let the structure of civilization fall where It may. On the other hand are drawn up, we are told, the greedy forces of material wealth and power, careless of the general good, regardless of the rights and feelings of those in hum bler positions, and . devoted only to the advancement of their own self ish interests. It is this latter class. the speaker said, that is doing more than any other cause to drive the masses into the acceptance of bol shevistic doctrines and action. This speaker saw two things that do unquestionably exist. We have the red revolutionist, and we have the reckless abusers of the wealth and power, which are possible under existing social and political institu tlons. But he saw both through the distorting glasses of an over-excited and not sufficiently Informed imagi nation. The power of "predatory wealth" to ride roughshod over the rights of the weak is far less today than it was a quarter of a century ago. We have made many blunders in attempts at regulation, but on the whole we are gradulaly advancing On the other hand, the danger of communistic revolution has virtual Iy passed away. The world has learned from Russia what a mingled farce and tragedy it is. Between the two perilous preci pices which this West Virginia ora tor saw Is a broad level plain of or dinary common sense, and on this plain the great bulk of the popula tion stands. And this sane major lty will neither permit predatory wealth to devour it, nor revolution to drive it down into the famine- stricken deserts of bolshevism. :o: THOSE 50,000 FEDERAL LAWS One of our contemporaries draws a very interesting picture of the law-encircled citizen of "the land of the free," standing in the midst of some 50,000 federal laws enacted since the adoption of the Constitu tion, and scarcely knowing which way he can turn, or what he can do, without danger of getting himself jailed or fined for some violation committed accidentally through ig norance, no matter how free he may be or any Intention offense. It is an interesting picture, as we have said; but, after all, it is im aginative, not real. With the great majority of all laws passed, whether federal or state, the average citizen who goes about his business in a peaceful and honest frame of mind never comes into conscious contact at all. A very large part of all laws passed have been special in their character and have passed out of ex istence, as laws, with the passage of the persons, or things or circum stances, to which they were inten ded to apply. . We do not mean to argue, of course, that there has been no un dule multiplicity of laws at all, and that no well-intended person is ever inconvenienced or injured by un necessary or meddlesome legal re quirements; but nothing is to be gained by exaggeration as it has an unfortunate tendency to prejudice the ignorant and the unthoughtful against law. After all, our difficul ties and dangers would be enor mously greater and more numerous if we were to array the experiment of living without laws. :o: OUT OF HARMONY There is a certain fascination about the smell of paint in the springtime. When one gets hold of a brush it is hard to put it down again. It is a magic working thing. It makes the old new and the dull beautiful. A goodly number of folks in Plattsmouth have already come be neath the spell of the paint brush. Here and there, as windows are flung wide to let in the spring breezes, and as green carpets appear on lawns, the houses have taken on a fresher look, as the brush is ap plied in the most needed spots. But painting is only a part of the task. Spring is doing her part to make the world beautiful. There is much that must be done by man and woman. During the winter time, when one is not off at work or recreation, he is sitting beside his fireside. The porches are forsaken, except on those occasions when mild days are sandwiched between the cold waves. One forgets how things look and as they should look outside. But when the early Epring comes the northern population gets out doors as quickly as possible. The house becomes largely a place to eat and sleep. Living rooms are for saken for the more pleasant porches. And sometimes one Is shocked, when he fairly looks about him, to see how shabby his premises have be come. Perhaps the step Is sagging or the garage door" 19 sadly swinging or the swing has become a creaking, dilapidated thing or the garden is demoralized. Somehow, it Is all out of harmony with the freshness of nature. Look aDout you, and If there Is need, paint up and fix and tidy up. It is worth while. :o: SPRING AMBITIONS At this season of the year. Just be fore spring fever ' becomes an epi demic, the bleached urbanite swells with longing and puffs with deter minatlon: 1. To own a little place In the country, if it weren't so far from town. 2. To raise chickens and sell the eggs, If it weren't so much trouble to feed them. 3. To have a nice little garden to grow Just enough stuff for ourselves, If weren't that spading gives one a kink In the back. 4. To walk to the office every morning and home again In the evening, if it weren't so far and the sidewalks weren't so hard, and if it were not so clearly a public duty to own an automobile. And so the bleached urbanite goes out and buys another golf club. :o: DISEASE AND ACCIDENT The supreme court of Illinois has upheld a verdict of the lower and intermediate (appellate courts, holding an accident insurance com pany liable for a claim of $1,130, based on the death of the policy holder from typhoid fever. Attor neys for the beneficiaries of the pol icy held that the disease and death came from the drinking of contami nated water, which, of course, was done accidentally, not intentionally Therefore, as the policy did not by its terms exclude "accidents" of this sort, the company must be held lia ble; and the Illinois courts, from bottom to top, accepted that argu ment as valid. If this view is generally accepted as good law, it must result in one of two things: Either accident insur ance companies must make their calculations to cover not only "acci dents" in the heretofore usual mean ing of the term, but all kinds of dis eases contracted through some act of danger of which was not at times known; or, if the company wishes to hold to the heretofore usual and more limited field, it must draw Its policy in such a form as will defi nitely exclude such diseases. In the former case, an upward revision of accident policy rates would seem to be inevitable. -:o:- SPRINGTIME Springtime is here and the man who can't be happy during dayB such as these has a brickbat for a heart and an atrophied soul. Sunday was an ideal day. Just to be alive was cause enough for re joicing. On all sides were a thou sand signs of spring, and her happy presence was made manifest by a myriad of soft and singing voices. Only a few week9 ago the trees were brown and leafless. Now they are arrayed again in their freshest of green garments. Bulbs that have lain dormant since last fall have sprouted forth and burst into bloom. The gardens where only the hardier plants remained to brighten the colder months are now becoming ra diant with color. Tender grass and clover lawns that hitherto were cheerless drab stretches. The birds are busy with their nest ing. When one wakes in the morn ing it is to hear their bust chirp and call. The air is soft and balmy. Win ter was kinder than usual this year. He gave frequent respites from his cold winds. There have been other balmy days long before it was time for spring. But, somehow, a differ ent feeling is borne in on the light breezes of late March breezes that hint of many pleasant April days to come, of sunshine and showers, of more green grass and more blossom ing plants and more singing birds and of country roads that wind and wind and of cool streams that seem to be called to those who would wield the rod and reel. Yes sirree, it's springtime. Won't somebody please invite us to go fish ing? :o: Learn to cook, girls. Affections are more easily alienated than an appetite. . :o: A man downtown broke feel9 like a, woman downtown without her powder puff. :o: When you are lonely and want the doorbell to ring, try to take a bath. LEGAL NOTICE John M. Henry and Minnie J. Hen ry, you and each of you, are hereby notified that on the 14th day of April, 1925, The Standard Savings and Loan Association, as plaintiff filed its petition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, and you and each of you are made parties de fendants. The object and prayer of said petition is to foreclose and can cel a certain contract in writing dated December 2S, 1922. made and executed by and between the Living ston Loan and Building Association of Plattsmouth and the said John M. Henry and Minnie J. Henry for the purchase of the following described real estate, to-wlt: The north 78 feet of Lots 7, ' 8 and 9. Block 54. in the City of Plattsmouth, according to the surveyed and recorded plat thereof. That a decree be entered by the Court foreclosing said contract. That you the said defendants and each of you be enjoined from claiming or asserting any right, title or interest in and to said real estate or any part thereof. That said real estate be quieted in said plaintiff and that said plaintiff have such other and fur ther relief in the premises as it may be entitled to and to the Court seem just. You and each of you are required to answer this petition on or before the 1st day of June, 1925. THE STANDARD SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. By O. W. JOHNSON, Its Attorney. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA P. A. McCrary, Plaintiff, vs. The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other per sons interested in the estates of Oran S. Thompson, . Rebecca B. Thompson, his wife, Joseph Mc Creary, Edmund A. Donelan and ucinda Billings, each deceased, real names unknown; and all persons having or claiming any Interest In Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eigh teen (18), Township twelve (12), Range fourteen (14), east of the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebraska, or any part thereof, real names unknown. (Notice of Suit to Quiet Title To the defendants, the heirs, devi sees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in the estates of Oran S. Thompson, Rebecca B. Thompson, his wife, Jo seph McCreary, Edmund A. Donelan and Lucinda Billings, each deceased, real names unknown; and all per sons having or claiming any interest in Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eighteen (18), Township twelve (12), Range fourteen (14) east of the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebras ka, or any part thereof, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that the above named plain tiff filed a petition and commenced an action in the District court of Cass county, Nebraska, on the 15th day of April, 1925, against you and each of you, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a decree quiet ing title to the Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eighteen (18), Town- Ehlp twelve (12), Range fourteen (14) east of the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebraska, as against you and each of you, and for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable. You and each of you are required to answer said petition Monday the 28th day of May, 1925, or the al legations of plaintiffs petition will be taken as true and a decree will be entered in favor of plaintiff and against you and each of you, accord ing to the prayer of said petition. Dated this 15th day of April, A. D. 1925. P. A. McCRARY, Plaintiff. J. A. CAP WELL, , Plaintiff's Attorney, j al6-4w. YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE GLASS IS ENTERTAINED Enjoy Social Evening at "Sunny- side,' Home of Teacher and Friend, Last Night. From Wednesday's Daily Following the custom of enjoying one evening in the year as the guests of their teacher and friend, the mem bers of the Y. M. B. C. of the Meth odist church last evening gathered at "Sunnytide," the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wescott, to spend a most pleasant time. There were some forty present and for several hours the home was the scene of the most delightful in formal pleasures, with games and contests providing many pleasant features of the occasion. The con tests in which questions were an swered by the members of the party proved unusually pleasing and taxed the knowledge of the members to solve. As a feature of the evening there was also a number of musical selec tions given, mandolin, guitar, banjo, piano and drum music adding their part in the enjoyable program of popular numbers. The members of the class also enjoyed group singing that was a part of the program and in which all joined in with the greatest cf fervor. In the course of the evening, Jesse P. Perry, for fourteen years a member of the class, who has occu pied all the offices of the class and been one of its chief workers, was elected honorary president for life and presented with a suitable cer tificate. The evening was closed by dainty refreshments of ice cream and cake being served by the Wescott family and the members of the class. CALIFORNIA TO REGULATE AERIAL TRAFFIC BY LAW Sacramento, Cal., April 13. Aerial traffic, balloon and airplane, will be regulated in California's skies if a bill passed by the state senate receives the approval of the assembly and the governor. The regulations provide that no person less than 18 years old shall operate air craft; that an aviator must volplane from 500 feet and land within 150 feet of a designated spot, and that aloft he must make three figure eights around specified objects. Balloons would have the right of NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass conn- 'in the County Court. In the matter of the estate of David J. Pitman, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the county court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 8th day of May, A. D. 1925, and on the 8th day of August, A. D. 192o at ten o'clock a, m., of each day to receive and examine all claims against Raid estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 8th day of May A. D. 1925, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 8th day of May, 1925. Witness my hand and the 6eal of said county court, this 7th day of April, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) al3-4w County Judge ORDER OF HEARING On Petition For Appointment Of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Casa eoun ty, 68. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Bar bara Klinger. deceased. On reading and filing the petition of George J. Klinger, praying that administration of said estate may be granted to petitioner as administra tor: Ordered, that May 4th, A. D 1925, at Nine o'clock a. m., is as signed 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 petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons Interested in said 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 said day of hearing.' Dated April 13th, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) &13-3wks,w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Frank Hughson, deceased. To th creditors of said estate: , You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the county court room in City of Plattsmouth in said county, on the first day of June, 1925, and the third day of August, 1925, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited tor the pre sentation of claims against said estate is three months from the first day of May, A. D. 1925, and the time limited for payment of debts Is one year from said first day of May, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court, this 7th day of Ajril, 1926. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) &9-4wks,8w County Judge. Chicks are money little fluffy puffs of gold. Not much in any one, but in a flock, well, they're a bank balance. Put up a good house for them. Make the walls and ceilings of Sheetrock this differ ent wallboard that keeps out the heat and the cold, doesn't warp, shrink, buckle or bulge, is verminproof and fireproof. I .A IhT r3 Ask your lumber dealer for it GLOIDT LUMBER &, COAL CO. way over airplanes. An airplane com ing from the right would have right of way over another. One airplane overtaken another would pass to the right and not dive beneath the other machine. Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for disease. For pure blood and sound digestion Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drug stores. Price, $1.25. 9& K2SBJ tS3 HOTICH TO ORBDITOS8 Tfcs Stat of Nebraska, Oass coun ty, u. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Rob ert B. Windham, Sr., deeeaaed. To the creditor! of said estate You are hereby .notified, that I will ait at the County Court room In Plattsmouth in aald county, on the 10th day of April, 1116. ead on the 10th day of July. Ill, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against sail estate Is three months from the 10th day of April. A. D. 1915. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from aald 10th day of April. 1925. Witness my band and the seal of aald County Court, this 18th day of March, 1125. A. H. DUXBU3VT", (Seal) m21-4w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Case ooun ty, as. In the County Court In the matter of the estate of George W. Shrader, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Homer II. Shrader prayln that administration of said estate may bo granted to Ora Davla, as Adminis trator; Ordered, that Saturday, April 30. A. D. 1925, at ten o'clock a. m. is as signed for bearing said petition, when all persons Interested in paid matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of the pe titioner should not be granted; and that notice of the pendency of aald 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 Uarch 17, 1911. A, U. DUXBUKY, (Seal) mtO-Jw Oocnay ula ORDER OF HEARING On Petition For Appointment Of Administrator. The State of Nebraska, Caas coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Wil liam Klaurens, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of J. M. KlaurenB and William H. Klaurens, praying that administra tion of said estate may be granted to Joseph Lidgett as administrator: Ordered, that April 27th, A. D. 1926, at 10 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 peti tioner should not be granted; and notice of the pendency of said peti tion and the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said mat ter by publishing a copy of this or der in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dated March 80th, 1926. A. H. DUXBURY, Coulter Jiae.