THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1927.
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You stumble sometimes, but if into
a fortune all right.
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It is well to council provided you
have an open mind.
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Wise men may fool others but the
fool fools only himself.
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We bow to Necessity but simply
can't say "pleased to meet you!"
Some women are not . as fresh as
they are painted and some are more
so.
As there is no campaign on this
year, there is likely to be a state
tax.
lit.
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We still hear of the liberty of the
subject and the hearing continues
good.
The big town without an airport
will soon be as isolated as a seaport
city witholit a dock.
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Some fellows think that the way
to stop violation of the law is to
make everything legal.
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No dvubts rumors are flying about
in blrdland about the air monsters
which will deviur bad little birds.
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With typical scotch prodigality the
town council of Edinburgh has given
Sir Harry Lauder the freedom of the
city.
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There is a growing suspicion that
the British suspected the Geneva
conference would fail when they
agreed to attend.
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Policemen are kept so busy listen
ing to the troubles of other people,
that they have but little time to
think of their own.
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Fifi Stillman should realize that
throwing potato salar at photo
graphers will never seriously compete
.with Chaplin's custard pics
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Natives of Hawaii ar. tossing fruit
and other food into the erupting cra
ter of Kelauea. We know of nothing
Lttier Vt quiet an angry volcano.
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One fine thing about vacations is
that occasionally a person returns
from one too tired to tell his friends
about the wonderful places he has
seen.
Present-day smokers find their
sheerest enjoyment in Camels
THE people of this age spend millions for the good things
of life. And they place Camel first among cigarettes.
Modern' smokers make money, but when they spend it
they insist on quality, and more people today buy Camels
than ever bought any other cigarette.
Camel value has won the modern world. Money cannot
buy choicer tobaccos, nor a more glorious blending. That's
why increasing millions in the modern age single out this
famous smoke as their favorite. You, too, will find it
yours.
"Have a Camel!"
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The flight of time isn't any swifter
in fly time.
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Is it to national origin or national
nativity or what?
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Most family' skeletons refuse to
stay in the closet.
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.Some men seem to be happy only
J when they nave a grievance.
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I Some day there may be an immi-
! gration law devoid of politics.
Everyone has his calling, says an
alienist. However, some don't hear
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A man who is satisfied with his
Job never reaches the top cf the lad
der. -:o:
Bliss is perfect freedom from wor
ries. Do you know where to find
I this?
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Thrice is he armed who hath his
quarrel just inside the city limits of
Chicago.
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Modern expressions are better.
"Grouch" is more eloquent than
, "liver complaint."
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The Dr-ierilaticn of that cowboy
suit finds President Coolidge amply
prepared io wxt Hallowe'en.
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The Byrd flight turned out to be
news after all trans-Atlantic flight
that ended as a channel swim.
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Speaking of preparedness, the col
lege football schedules for a year
from next fall are already coming
! out.
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A New Jersey little boy cruised
five miles out to sea on an automobile
inner tube. Maybe he had heard that
Lindbergh crossed the ocean on a
sandwich.
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Another cruel prize fight is re
ported, this time the winner hit the
other in the pit of the stomach, thus
knocking him out. In the old days
this would have been called a foul.
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A prominent Mohammedan says it
is all nonsense to suppose the or
iental races are to unite to war on
! Christiandom. All this and his fellow-
religionists ask is to be let alone.
They are for peace, he says.
1927. R- I. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, Wiiutoa-Salcm, N. O
An ant-eater's nose is from eight
to twelve inches long, which reminds
us that we need a generic symbol for
reformers.
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Policemn are kept so busy listen
ing to the troubles of other people
that they have tut little to think of
their own.
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If Nebraska industries flourish, it
is not because of any friendliness of
the legislature, but because of their
own efforts.
Right now we can't imagine a
young man with fewer apparent
qualifications for his job than the
mascot of the Red Sox.
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A clergyman says that blondes are
dumb brides. Kis conclusion came
fiom watching their actions at the
altar, not what they brought to the
altar.
Word comes that Mussolini retires
worsted in his efforts to break up
the little entente, and that the new
one is stronger than before. Thus
there. are some things beyond the
dictator. "Well it is so.
It is understood the south is not
in a stew as to the choice of a presi
dential candidate by the Democrats,
and that the party is not to go smash
because of prohibition. Again, keep
this matter out of politics.
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It no-.v seems clear that these in
vestigation commissioners to the
Philippines only develop fresh issues
to mrke trouble. Thus, the report of
Hon. Carmi Thompson recommend
ing transfer of the island govern
ment from the war to the depart
ment of the interior vill interest
congress.
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NOTHING IS "FREE"
A card on a free towel case where
the public is permitted gratuitously
to wash its hands reads, "Why use 2
when one wipes dry?"
That is a question worth consid
ering with respect to all "free"
things. The unthinking say, "Use
all you want of that, it is free." But
only the selfish and the unthinking
w ill so reason.
There are few things in this world
that are free in the sense of being
without cost. Somebody pays for
the towels; somebody pays the man
who brings the towels and puts them
into the case; somebody pays for
every service, else the servant can
not continue to serve.
And when careless people trample
the grass or raid the flower beds or
damage the benches in the parks, or
deface the walls of public buildings
or waste or misuse other things that
are offered freely for public use and
enjeyment. everybody must pay. The
wrong and injustice is not les-s be
cause the cost of the carelessness and
waste is spread widely.
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RESTORING THE NATION'S
GREAT FOREST RESOURCES
Many of the country's natural re
sources, such as coal, iron or oil, can-'
not be restored, as they are drawn
upon or after they once have been
exhausted. That condition, fortu-j
nateilly, does not apply to America's
forests. The nation's timber supply
rapidly has been disappearing; con
sumption in recent years has proceed
ed four or five times faster than the
supply was being replenished. But
repeated warnings as to the serious
ness of the situation are beginning
to bring results.
That a good part cf the country
is being aroused to the necessity of
reforestation is show:-, by a review
of legislative activities in this regard
in the present year. Charles Lathiop'
Pack, president of the American Tree j
association, gives the results of a
recent survey to the effect that only
six of the states now are without j
some type of official organization ,
for the promotion of forestry. Even'
in seme cf the six states there is pro-,
vision for care of state forest areas,
in co-operation with the national for- j
est service. Deleware, Florida, South!
Caroline. Nevada and Utah this year
and a long list of states with new or
protect or increase timber supplies. j
The activity in many instances
links itself up with general conser
vation work. But it is not restricted
to that phase. Securing and plant-
; ing of forest areas by the state direct
ly or encouragement indirectly to the
growing of timber through limita
tion of taxes on land planted and
through other means, have been re
sorted to. About one-fourth the
states have established nurseries,
from which seedlings and transplant
ings are distributed. The number of
trees planted annually is now five
times that of ten years ago.
To these effort" are to be added
those of the government, with a
broad and constructive reforestation
policy. Also, those of many private
organizations and thousands of in
dividuals who have understaken vol
untarily to help restore the nation's
resources. Cities and towns, too, have
interested themselves in the enter
prise. It is a fine example of a na
tional awakening to a national need.
It will be a work not for a year or a
decade, but for an indefinite period.
With the state that is being made,
there is promise of genuine accom
plisment. :o:
SECRETARY HOOVER'S FAUX PAS
The chief disability of Secretary
Hoover a presidential possibility
is that h" is a rotten politician and
no demagogue at all. When he has
an opportunity to say something im
portant and honest, he says it, even
if refusing to do so might be much
better politics.
He has acted in just this way in
allowing the Department of Com
merce to include in its new yearbook
an explanation of our current pros
p?rity which knocks the political one
into a cocked hat. Do the economists
of the Commerce Department find
this explanation to be the presence of
the all-wise Mr. Coolidge on the
captain's bridge, or even of the mar
velous Mr. Mellon in the pilot house?
Do they find it to be the Fordney
McCumber tariff act. or the hand-off
policy which the Federal Trade Com
mission and the Department of Jus
tice have practiced toward Big Busi
ness? Alas for the Republican, politici
ans, they find it to be nothing of the
kind. According to the department's
experts, v,e are prosperous for eco
nomic and not political reasons. We
are well off simply because of "the
increasing efficiency of both in
dustrv and trade."
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THINKING ALOUD
Why is it that people, once having
don a very foolish thing, will do the
self-same thing again, regardless of
previous bitter experience?
We are not discussing politics,
mind you merely moralizing on
things in general.
Repetition of our follies has been
characteristic of the human race
since the beginning of time, and will
no doubt continue until the end of
time.
The writer of Proverbs once phras
ed it, "As a dog returneth to hi3
vomit, so doth-a fool to his folly."
"But it has happened unto them
according to the true Proverb, the
dog is returned to his vomit again;
and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire."
All cf which Is merely for your
edification and delectation, bearing j
in mind that we are not discussing
not even thinking of things po-!
litical in Nebraska or elsewhere. J
Just thinking aloud, as it were. '
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Whatever the fate of Sacco ard
Vanzetti may be, their co-defendant
in -American justice, and it remains I
on trial.
HE WILL BE DRAFTED!
President Coolidge announces that
he does not "choose to run for presi
dent in 1928." He does not say he
would not accept the nomination if
it should be offered.
Under somewhat similar circum
stances, on the night of his election
in 1904, Theodore Roosevelt gave out
a statement in very different forry
He said:
A wise custom which limits
the president to two terms re
gards the substances and not
ther form, and under no cir
cumstances will I be a candidate
for or accept another nomina
tion. The definitive words "under no cir
cumstances," are lacking in the
president's statement cf a few weeks
ago.
A reasonable interpretation is
that Mr. Coolidge has no desire to
be a candidate for another term. He
would not seek the nomination. If
notwithstanding this attitude on his
part his party should insist that he
be once more the leader, he does not
say he would refuse.
Such a position would tend to dis
arm the criticism of those who con
tend there is danger in permitting a
president to use the resources of his
ofice to procure a nomination for a
third term. It would put the question
of whether Mr. Coolidge is to be
nominated directly up to the party,
with the bars down, so that other as
pirants could freely enter the field.
There is. however, no other party
leader sufficiently outstanding to be
Mr. Coolidge's logical successor.
There is no one in sight on whom
the party could unite.
Mr. Coolidge has been a successful
president. The country in general
has confidence in his ability and his
sincerity. There is every evidence
that an overwhelming majority of his
cuntrymen desire to continue him in
office. The Star believes public sen
timent will insist that, in spite of
his personal preference, the Repub
lican party renominate him in 1928.
-Kansas City Star.
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SKULL-CRACKING CONGRESS
Indications pile up that the first
session of the Seventieth Congress,
which will convene in December if
the president does not see fit to call
it together earlier, will be as fine a
Donnybrook Fair as one would care
to witness. From the very tap of
the gong, as they say in the select
circles presided over by Mr. Tex
Rickard. the participants are going
to be at one another's throats. There
would be wonderful entertainment
for the radio audiences if congress
should adopt Tom Heflin's sugges
tion and let the proceedings go on
the air.
Anyone of a half-dozen impending
issues would be sufficient to provide
a skull-cracking melee. With these
issues combined on one program the
possibilities are boundless.
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It is unfortunate that there 19
not sufficient interest in Mississippi
in the work of preserving historic
shrines. A few days since "Briar
field," the old plantation home where
Jefferson Davis wooed and won his
first wife, the daughter of President
Zackery Taylor, and where they lived
for a number of years, was sold for
$6,000. A proposal was made sev
eral years ago that it be purchased
by the United Daughters of the Con
federacy, but nothing came of it.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
CHATTEL MORTGAGE
Notice i3 hereby given that by
virtue of a chattel mortgage execut
ed by W. F. Gillespie and C. L. Jean
on the 24th day of September, 1923,
to A. B. Wilson and duly filed for
record in the office of the County
Clerk cf Cass County, Nebraska, on
the 22nd. day of September, 192o,
which said mortgage was given to
secure the payment of the sum cf
$2,200.00 upon which there is now
due the sum of $2,885.00, default
having been made in the payment of
said sum and no suit or other pro
ceeding at law having been institut
ed to recover said debt or any part
thereof, therefore, I will sell the
property herein described, viz:
The Elevator. Office Build
ing, Scales, Machinery and all
other appurtenances thereto sit
uated on the property of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Cor
poration at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, more particularly de
scribed as part of Lot four (4),
in Block five (5), Young &
Hays' addition to the City of
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, begin
ning at the southeast corner of
said Lot 4, thence north CO feet,
thence west 31 feet, southeast
erly 63 feet and thence 47 feet
to the place of beginning, con
taining .06 of an acre
at public auction for cash, in the
presence of said property at its loca
tion on the depot grounds of the Mis
souri Faeific Railroad Corporation, at
Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Ne
braska, on the 23rd day of August,
1927, at ten o'clock a. m., of said
date.
Dated this 29th day of July, A.
D. 1927.
A. B. WILSON,
Mortgagee.
D. O. DWYER,
al-3w. Attorney.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Wil
liam Pohlman. deceased.
To the creditprs of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I
will sit at the County Court room In
Plattsmouth, in said county, on the
irth day of August, A. D. 1927,
and on the 21st day of November, A.
D. 1S27, at ten o'clock a. m., of each
day, to receive and examjne all claims
against said 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 19th day of August,
A. D. 1927, and the time limited for
payment of debts is one year from
said 19th day of August, 1927.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 23rd day of
July, 1927.
A. II. DUXEURY.
(Seal) j25-4w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska.
George E. Timblin et al, ")
Plaintiffs
vs. . NOTICE
Jasper M. Timbl
lin et al, I
Defendants J
Defend
To Charles Tuckett and wife, Em
ily Puckett; Maud Wilson and hus
band, James Wilson; Foster Puckett,
single: Joy Puckett and wife.
j Puckett, real name unknown; Elven
i Puckett and wife, Puckelt,
Ireal name unknown; James Puckett
and wife, Puckett, real name
' unknown :
You and each of you are hereby
notified that on the 2nd day of
August, A. D. 1927, plaintiffs in the
foregoing entitled fiction filed their
petition in the District Court of Cass
county, Nebraska, wherein you and
each of you are made defendants, for
the purpose of obtaining an order
and decree of the District Court of
said Cass county, Nebraska, determin
ing and establishing the respective
interests, right and ownership of all
parties named as plaintiffs and de
fendants in said action, including
yourselves and each of you. in and
to the northwest quarter of Section
ten (10), in Township ten (10)
North, Range eleven (11) East of
the Sixth Principal Meridian in Cass
county, Nebraska, and to partition
said real estate among the plaintiffs
and defendants named in said action.
Including each of you according to
the respective rights of each as found
by the Court, and if same can not
be partitioned to order said real es
tate sold, and the proceeds thereof
divided among plaintiffs and defend
ants, including each of you, accord
ing to the respective rights of each
as found by the Court, and for equit
able relief.
You and each of you are required
to answer said petition on or before
the 19th day of September, A. D.
1927, or your default will be entered
in said cause and decree granted as
prayed for in said petition.
George E. Timblin and
Wife. Nettle Timblin;
Ida M. Dwinell and Hus
band, Luther Dwinell,
a8-4w. Plaintiffs
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ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for
Settlement of Account.
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska:
tate of Nebraska, Cass County
To all persons interested in 'the es
tate of Paul Bajeck deceased:
On reading the petition of John
Bajeck, executor praying a final set
tlement and allowance of his account
filed in this court on the 15th day ol
August 1927 and for his discharge;
It i- hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in .said matter
may, and do, appear at the Countj
Court to b h ld in and for said coun
ty on the 27th day of August, A. n
1927 at 10 o'clock a. m., to show
cnuse, if any there be. why the prayer
of the petitioner should not be grant
ed, and that notice of the pendency
of said petition and the hearing
thereof be given to all persons inter
ested in said mitter by publishing a
copy of this ordr in The Plattsmouth
Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper
printed in said county, for one week
prior to said day of hearing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of said ceurt
this 15th day of August A. D. 1927.
A. H. Duxbury.
(Seal) County Judge-.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska.
Benjamin F. Crook,
Plaintiff.
vs.
William Ferguson, Olive
Ferguson, Fractional Lot
No. 6S In the East half of
Section 7, in Township 12,
North. Range 14, East of
the Cth P. M.. in Cass NOTICE
county, Nebraska, and all
; persons naving or claim
ing any interest In said
Fractional Lot No. 6S,
their heirs and devisees,
ireal names unknown;
Louis Thomas and Ora
Smith, '
Defendants.
The above named defendants are
hereby notified that on the 27th day
of July. 1927. the plaintiff filed suit
in the District Court of Cass county,
Nebraska, the object and purpose of
which are to quiet and confirm the
plaintiff's title in and to Fractional
Lot No. 6S in the East half of Sec
tion 7 with the accretions thereto
on the east side thereof to the chan
nel of the Missouri river in the East
half of Section 18, Township 12.
North, Range 14, East of the 6th P.
M., in Cass county, Nebraska, and to
permanently enjoin each and all of
the defendants and all defendants
having or claiming to have any right,
title or interest in and to said real
estate or any part thereof, and for
ever quieting- the title to the same in
the plaintiff. This notice is given
pursuant to an order of said court.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before the 12th day of
September, 1927, or default will be
entered thereon and a decree entered
quieting title to said land in plain
tiff. Dated this 27th day of June, A.
D. 1927.
BENJAMIN' F. CROOK.
Plaintiff.
By D. O. DWYER.
al-4w His Attorney.
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