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Ordinarily you can't find much
wheat in a straw rote.
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Vacation fish stories having been
heard, the day is almost here for
some tall corn talk.
Angel food is the proper diet for
those who dwell in air castles.
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"Early to bed and early to ri?e has
won a bad reputation for flies."
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The quiet action of the little wasp
is responsible for many loud words.
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The color movies seem 10 be hav
ing quite as much a vogue as the
off-color ones enjoyed.
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At last Lindbergh has had a real
thrill. He got a ride in the cab cf a
locomotive.
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One thing that makes the pres
ent summer more endurable is trying
to swim the channel.
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The drys think the flow of liquor
ought to be damned, and those who
drink it are damning it.
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No matter what else may be said
of a straw vote, it proves that peo
ple will cast ballots in a straw vote.
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A little learning is a dangerous
thing. It's much easier to believe
in law enforcement if you know
only one.
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It always gives us more or less of
a jolt to find out that the fashion de
signers did not work longer hours in
the old days.
This is the first time a political
issue has been defined as something
nobody likes to talk about.
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Speaking of drowning, it is well
enough to remember that nobody re
covers from a bona fide case of it.
But if a man ever tried to match
a piece of ribbon, he did not have
to be told how many different colors
are possible.
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A headline says, "Radio Voice
Lures Wife From Home." Gentle
men, this thing is getting to be a
terrible peril.
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Sometimes we wonder what a
Phillies fan has to say when the sub
ject of baseball is brought into the
conversation.
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Now that the talking pictures are
here, it's a wonder some book sales
man doesn't go out to Hollywood with
a stock of grammers.
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Ye suppose that it is only in
Utopia that the bigger and better
movements include breakfast nooks
and rumble seats.
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From the remarks we have heard,
we judge that all the self-made men
had been made before bridge became
popular as a social game.
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A western town has just ejected a
deaf and dumb man as constable.
There's one traffic officer it'll be
quite safe to talk back-to .
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When they decide whether the to
mato is a fruit or a vegetable, per
haps they will tell us whether the
cantaloupe is a melon or a myth.
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The headline, "Florida Awaits
New Storm." almost makes us won
der what kind of thrill the people
down there get out of that sort of
thing.
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There is some soul of goodness in
things evil, and so long as the ma
rines stay in Nicaragua we do not
suppose any of the presidential can
didates has to say very much about
upholding the principles of the Nica
ragua Constitution.
A toad embedded in a wall for
eleven years at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
was heard to croak the other day.
Maybe a Bryan Democrat.
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About the only thing left for the
guy who used to read the movie sub
titles aloud will be to think up
snappy comebacks for the talking
movies.
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Americanism: Using the phone to
make the grocer use at $1,200 ve
hicle to deliver a 10-cent purchase;
wondering why you gel so little for
a dime; . -
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A Chicago barber shop was wreck
ed by a bomb. The strange element
of the crime is that the barbers
weren't of the massage-and-tonic
selling variety.
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It's the old game. Every two years
the Republican party enters its old
curiosity shop and brushes the dust
off a blunt and rusty weapon called
"Tammany Hall."
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Canada spends about $7,000,000
annually for the promotion of agri
culture. This money goes for farm
ing in all the provinces and involves
the employment of an army of officials.
To keep the
children
happy
Warm days need not make
youngsters fretful. Give
them food that they are
sure to digest. Light tasty bis
cuits of Shredded Wheat
in a bowl of cool milk! They
will enjoy chewing the
toasted shreds of pure, one
hundred per cent whole
wheat. And this delicious
cereal will give them the
energy and vitality to be
active the whole day long.
Ask your grocer
for the big pack
age of 12 full size
Shredded Wheat
Biscuits.
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at Niagara Falls Visitors Welcome
The projected $12,000,000 loan to
Nicaragua, which was discussed in'
May by Secretary Kellogg, Gen. Mc
Coy and New York financiers, and
which was held over in July, now re
appears in the news. Manager L. S.
Rosenthal of the Nicaraguan Na
tional Bank the government bank
takes ship for New York, declar
ing that the sooner it is floated the
better. It is evident that the sub
ject will be taken up after the Nica
raguan elections, if not before. A
loan nvrht highly benefit the coun
try, but before definite steps are
taken the American public will wish
full information on its terms.
A $12,000,000 loan would place
American capital in Nicaragua on a
new scale. Present estimates of our
whole investments in the republic
seldom run above $10,000,000. The
loan of Brown Brothers and J. & W.
Seligman in 1911 was only $1,500,
000, and all that Nicaragua owed to
New York bankers was paid off last
spring. The understanding is that
the new loan would be used partly
to consolidate the Nicaraguan debt,
partly perhaps to discharge damage
claims arising from the revolution,
and largely for internal improve
ments. Betterment of communica
tions between the Atlantic and Paci
fic, both by railway and highway,
is especially needed.
Nicaragua herself, though her fi
nancial condition is good, cannot fi
nance extensive public works; Am
erica is the logical country to assist,
and such works may immeasurably
help the nation. But the bankers
involved can properly be expected to
take a more constructive interest in
the efficient use of the money than in
many Latin-American transactions
of the past. Moreover, every Amer
ican taxpayer for Nicaragua has
cost the taxpayer a good deal will
wish to know just what is promised
Nicaragua, what is asked in interest
and guarantee, and what protection
exists against future embroilment of
our own Government.
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ANOTHER VIEW OF BOULDER DAM
The Boulder dam project will come
before the Senate as unfinished busi
ness when congress convenes in De
cember. The bill was not defeated by
the filibuster in the closing hours of
the last session. The vote was only
deferred.
There is nothing obscure about
the purposes of the Boulder dam bill.
It is intended to give water to the
cities of Southern California, particu
larly to Los Angeles. Further than
that, it is intended to enhance the
value of desert land bought for next
to nothing and held for speculative
purposes in the hope that irrigation
will make the land valuable. These
results are desired for the benefit of
a few men in one corner of the coun
try at the expense of all the taxpay
ers of the United States.
The lobbyists and propagandists
have sought to conceal these ele
mentary facts. They have shouted
that the opponents of the projects
are the creatures of "the power
trust." The "power trust" is not the
issue in the fight against Boulder
dam. The "power trust" is a diver
sion intended to confuse the issue
and conceal the truth. Boulder dam
should be approved or disapproved
on its merits. The same may be said
of the power trust, if there is one.
The way to punish the power com
panies is not to enrich land specu
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ANOTHER SUBMARINE SINKS
The tragedy that sent the Italian
submarine S-14 to the bottom the
other day is instructive for us who
had our own submarine catastrophe
a few months ago.
This accident was very similar to
the one that sank the S-4. The S-14
was just coming to the surface when
a speeding destroyer crashed into it.
It sank almost at once, in 130 feet
of water.
There was a disposition in some
quarters in the United States to
blame the Navy Department for the
S-4 tragedy. The Italian incident
ought to demonstrate one thing; that
submarines are risky affairs, at best,
and that there can be tragedies in
connection with their use in all
navies. The mishaps that come seem
to arise from the nature of the sub
marines and not from official incom
petence or neglect.
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During eight years of Republican
ism, according to the Hoover speech,
the population increased eight per
cent. It is reported, however, that
some of the new ones are Demo
crats. :c:
We're not skeptics, but we're be
ginning to doubt just a little if
there's any great load of news in the1
usual Monday story headed, "Cool-
idge spend Quiet Sunday."
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The baseball season limps along to
its close. The final tennis and golf
tournaments will soon be held. Swim-,
mers still take their daily dips, but
it is not for long. Already a day of
rain brings a faint tingle to the air,
a barely preceptible harbinger of the
fall, now such a few short weeks
away.
And then football will once more
hold the boards. Not the sport of
kings. All the king's horses and all
the king's men could not get up a
game of football such as keen young
American undergraduates indulge in
purely for love of the game and de
votion to the old college. But it is
the sport oi sovereigns mightier far
than any potentates of European
courts it is the sport of the great
American people.
Soon the colleges will start their
training camps. Soon the thud of
boot will drown out the crack of the
bat. Coaches will be booming at per
spiring candidates, as they run,
tackle, hit the dirt. Inspiring stu
dents will be gathered on the side
lines, discussing with great serious
ness the possibilities of victories over
hated rivals. And the public will al
ready be pulling strings to get tick
ets to the important games.
It is peculiar, thfs tremendous in
terest in football that has sprung up
in the last few years. Elderly men
who never attended anything but a
barber college will wear college
colors, wave pennants and shout
themselves hoarse, like the most cal
low young undergraduate. Sweet
young things from select finishing
schools will sit side by side with
equally sweet young things from typ
ist's desks, and both go into an ecsta
tic frenzy as the jerseyed athletes
fight their way up and down the
field.
The football hero, during his brief
period of glory, is the greatest Am
erican hero. Presidents and prize
fighters are loEt from view during
the gridiron season. Of course, when
the crash comes, it is a severe one,
but few ever achieve the universal
adulation that goes to the outstand
ing football player during his career.
Psychologists, perhaps, could ac
count for this sudden, almost fana
tical devotion of all Americans to the
game of the American colleges. Pos
sibly it is that from no other com
mon game can the spectator get such
a vicarious thrill as from football. In
no other game available for general
public is there so much personal con
tact, personal struggle, between man
and man. In that way, although all
brutal elements have long been re
moved from the game, the spectator
experiences, in modified form, what
the ancient Roman must have felt
when witnessing the gladiatorial
contests. Strong man meets strong
man in battle, and the weak man in
the bleachers gets a big kick out of
it.
There is more to it than that, of
course. When football was a game
witnessed only by collegians, sweet
hearts, and alumni, the colleges
clothed the sport with an emotional
atmosphere that has clung to it. The
spirit of "I'd die for dear old Har
vard" prevades the bosom of the
Alexander Hamilton graduate who is
cheering the Crimson on. For many
years it has been traditional to go
into a freenzy when watching a foot
ball game, and new converts obey
the tradition and promptly become
freenzied at their first game.
But, regardless, of causes, It's a
grand old game, and many a heart
beats faster now with the thought
that the first battle is just about a
month away.
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A HARDING PRECEDENT
Mr. Hoover has asked Mr. Curtis
to sit-in at Cabinet meetings, in the
event of their election. The prece
dent was established by Mr. Harding,
who extended the courtesy to Mr.
Coolidge.
It is. in our opinion, a meaningless
amenity, unobjectionable and unim
portant. That seems to be Mr. Cool
idge's idea of it, too. Anyhow, he
did not follow the Harding example
by inviting Mr. Dawes to participate
in the official family councils. Wheth
er this was because he did not like
Mr. Dawes and was fearful lest that
assertive person might take the priv
ilege seriously and utilize it to his
political advantage; or whether he
had himself found the experience
rather futile; or whether he secretly
felt that the Harding precedents, all
and sundry, were better discontinued,
it is, of course, impossible to say.
If it were the last consideration that !
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moved him we are inclined to think j
it was a canny choice. For the Hard
ing regime, in its blunderings, fol
lies, carousal, betrayal and prece
dents, i9 an interlude to be forgot
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NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received by the
County Board of Commissioners of
Cass county, at riattsmouth. Nebras
ka, for the building of the following
bridge and approaches:
One four panel, 70-foot span,
18-foot roadway, riveted truss,
15-ton steel bridge. State Stand
ard Bridge Plan No. 1634, de
signed for concrete floor, com
plete in place, except concrete
floor, but including painting;
One set of S-in. column H pil
ing, consisting of ten piling and
four 10-in. channel caps complete
to place 70-foot span on piling.
Piling to be not less than 25
feet in length, and extra bid to
be made per foot for piling of
longer length;
One 20-foot span, I beam
bridge, lS-foot roadway, 15-ton
capacity, and designed for con
crete floor, for the north ap
proach; One 2S-foot span, I beam
bridge, 18-foot roadway, 15-ton
capacity, and designed for con
crete floor, for south approach;
One set of eight 8-inch I
beam 20-foot piling complete
with four S-inch channel caps.
The above bridges are all to be
built in place complete, except con
crete floor, at the south limits of Ne
hawka Village, across the Weeping
Water Creek, in Section 19, Town
ship 10, Range 13, Cass county, Ne
braska. Bids to be filed in the office of the
County Clerk of Cass county, Nebras
ka, on or before two o'clock p. m. on
Friday, September 7th. 1928.
Bids to be accompanied by certi
fied check in the amount of 5 per
cent of the total amount of the bid,
drawn in favor of Cass tounty clerk.
Bids will be opened at 2:10
o'clock p. m. of the same day in the
office of the Cass county Commis
sioners.
The County Board of Commission
ers reserve the right to reject any or
all bids.
GEO. R. SAYLES.
Cass County Clerk, Platts
mouth, Nebraska
in the east one-half of the south
west quarter (E SW4 ) of
Section 30, Township 10 North,
of Range 14 East of the 6th P.
M., in Cass county, Nebraska
and that Cynthia A. Freeman died
intestate in Union, Cass county, Ne
braska, on or about December 27,
1909, being a resident and inhabi
tant of Cass county, Nebraska, and
the owner of the above described
real estate.
And the said Frank Freeman leav
ing as his sole and only heirs at law
the following named person, to-wit:
Cynthia A. Freeman;
And the said Cynthia A. Freeman
leaving as her sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Ethel Saxon, Ida Freeman and
Mark M. Freeman ;
That said decedents died intestate;
that no application for administra
tion has been made and the estates
of said decedents have not been ad
ministered in the State of Nebraska,
and that the Court determine who
are the heirs of said deceased, their
degree of kinship and the right of
descent in the real property of which
the deceased died seized, which has
been set for hearing on the 21st day
of September, A. D. 1928, at 10:00
o'clock a. m.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
this 16th day of August, A. D. 1928.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) a20-4w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Maria G. Eaird, 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
21st day of September, 1928. and
the 22nd day of December, 192S, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon, to receive
and examine all claims against said
estate, with a view to their adjust
ment and allowance. The time lim
ited for the presentation of claims
against said estate is three months
from the 21st day of September, A.
D. 1928, and the time limited for
payment of debts is one year from
said 21st day of September, 1928.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 14th day of
August, 192S.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) a20-4w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF HEARING
on Petition for Determination of
Heirship.
Estate No. of Frank Freeman
and Cynthia A. Freeman, deceased,
in the County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Ida
Freeman, who is one of the heirs of
said deceased and interested in such,
has filed, her petition alleging that
Frank Freeman died intestate in the
State of California, on or about Sep
tember 6, 1907, being a resident and
inhabitant of California and thei
owner of the following described!
real estate, to-wit:
Undivided one-fourth interest
State of Nebraska, County of
Cass, ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of
the District Court, within and for
Cass County, Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 18th day of
September, A. D. 1928, at 10 o'clock
a. m. of said day at the South Front
Door of the Court House in the City
of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in eaid
County, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing real estate to-wit:
Lots One (1) and Two (2),
Block (1). White's Addition to
the City of Plattsmouth, Cass
County, Nebraska, as surveyed,
platted and recorded
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Clara A.
Owens and Orval Owens, defend
ants, to satisfy a judgment of said
Court recovered by The Standard
Savings and Loan Ass'n of Omaha,
Nebraska, plaintiff, against said de
fendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August
9th, A. D. 1928.
BERT REED.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
In the District Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To CHARLES JONES, whose place
of residence is unknown and upon
whom personal service of summons
cannot be had, Defendant:
You are hereby notified that on
the 7th day of May, 1928. Nellie
Jones, as plaintiff, filed her petition
against you in the District Court of
Cass county. Nebraska. Docket 4.
'page 21, the object and prayer of
which petition is to obtain a divorce
from you on the grounds of extreme
cruelty and non-suppcrt.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before the 1st day of
j October, 1928, or said petition
I I A. Ml V. J 1 A -
against you win lh.kcii as true.
NELLIE JONES.
Plaintiff.
L. N. BUNCE, Attorney,
Securities Bldg., Omaha
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ness may need. Everybody knows
(he catalog houses are still doing
business, but how far would they get
if they didn't persistently advertise
their goods? , . , "
A mean golfer selected a little boy
for his caddie so that he would not
have to pay the usual fee. When he
was about to drive off at the tee, one
of the regular caddies, a muscular
young man, touched his cap to the
player and said "Carry your clubs,
sir?"
The player pointed to his dimini
tlve attendant, who was not much
taller than the kit of clubs he was
holding, and said "can't you see I'm
already provided with a caddie?"
But the official bag-carrier was
not to retire so easily. Touching his
cap once more he said, eagerly,
"Carry your caddie, sir?"
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