MOflDAY, NOV. 18, 1929.
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Tardieu's Cabinet does not prom
ise long life.
Tribute paid to memory of the
comrades -who gave their lives in
World War.
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Capital struts a mean thrust; on
verge of being dried up with Padlocks
n Everything.
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From the mud-slinging one might
think there was a political campaign
on at Latonia.
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Russia has abolished Sunday. Over
here we depend on Sunday traffic to
abolish each other.
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Some people believe in law and
order if they can lay down the law
and give the order.
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Many of those who throw stones
of centure at Bingham live in mighty
flimsy glass houses.
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We hope the first baby to be born
in an aeroplane won't be all up in
the air most of its life.
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Nobody loses by being polite, says
an etiquette expert. But it does ap
pear quite a chance to take.
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Throttling will stop engine noises
and it is said to be of no mean ef
ficiency for back-seat comments, to.
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It would seem that a professional
lobbyist is merely a public-spirited
citizen who manages to get privately
paid for it.
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Just about the time you think you
are going to make ends meet, some
one comes along and moves the ends
farther apart.
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Someone say a that to play the stock
market successfully, a man needs
vision. And, as many right now can
tell you. not rear vision.
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Of course, if the Canadian Drys
succeed in closing the liquor stores,
the Canadian thirsty can come across
the line and get all they want.
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Even a president learns some
thing from experience and there is
some doubt whether Mr. Hoover ever
again will call an extraordinary.
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You often see a girl with a mouth
you would like to kiss, but you'll also
often see a member of the gentler
sex with a mouth you'd like to slap.
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A cable dispatch says a baby born
without a brain in Prague lived two
months. For some reason the cable
editor seemed to think it was news.
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The male pajamas are now coming
in Buch gaudy colors that it looks as
if the twin beds would have to give
way to twin, sound-proof, bed rooms.
and guaranteed to give per
fect satisfaction down to the
last spoonful in the can.
You save in buying and in using
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Same
for over
Pure and
MILLIONS OF POUNDS
USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT
Wonder if Mussolini ever feels the
quivers of the lid he's so complacent
ly sitting on?
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The poverty of the girl's father has
caused many a man to remain in the
bachelor class.
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The army mule has been retained
because it is generally less balky
than a tractor.
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It's safe to assume that Senator
Brookhart will not be invited to any
more wet parties.
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We forget how many more shop
ping dayB there are until Christmas.
Anyway, too many.
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Helpful Automobile Hint: The mo
tor should be well lubricated, but
keep the driver dry.
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What with animal cargoes aboard
airships it won't be so strange some
day to see it "rain cats and dogs."
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The death of Senator Burton is the
more tragic because there are so
many Senators who never would have
been missed.
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The Wall Street crash may have
been a healthy enough reaction at
least insofar as it gave the Democrats
a great big laugh.
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Now John Coolidge has Joined his
father, his mother and his wife in
the field of literature. John is mak
ing up names for trains.
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"Sandwich was spelled almost 100
different ways by Massachusetts
school children. Evidently the rest
aurant type of hamburger was in
mind.
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And speaking of names and things.
did you notice that in the recent
liquor referendum in Nova Scotia.
Sobar Island voted wet 214 to 6?
Howzat?
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Men who earn $25,000 a year are
usually good dressers, says the Na
tional Association of Merchant Tail
ors. Wonder what they do with the
other $1000.
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Our advice to young collegians is
not to disparage Washington, Lin
coln, and Wilson. Possibly they
might have won fame in football if
given a chance.
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A salary can go about as fast as a
car, but the car has the advantage
of being equipped with brakeB that
will stop it if you have sense enough
to put them on.
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You usually can tell by a onceover
of the bride, about how much of his
time the poor groom is going to go
around with an empty stomach and
ditto pocketbook.
Price
38 years
for
Efficient
A fellow came in the other day
and asked us to define space." He
was told that whatever was inde
finable was space, and he went away
very much wiser.
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Russia's anti-kissing campaign in
eludes Warnings printed on the post
age stamps. The postal authorities
don't want the younger generation
to play postoffice.
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When a pickpocket grabs a girl's
handbag he either is mighty ignor
ant, or else is Just curious to see
what kind of Junk that particular
lass carries in hers.
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Chicago police have been put on
a diet to keep every member of the
force under 200 pounds. The new
order doesn't say anything about
pineapples, however.
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Just after the winter's, supply of
coal is paid for some gloomy cubs
comes along and suggests that it's
only a certain number of shopping
days until Christmas.
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An American, visiting in London,
says the English girl who drinks
smokes, and goes without stockings,
doesn't shock anybody. That must be
disappointing for her.
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Her mother never will be able to
make her do it with a broom, but
if the styles say so every little cutie
will be tickled pink to sweep the
floor with her long train.
We have our moments of fear
when we wonder if the dear things
are going to cut off from the top
of the waist what they are going to
tack on the bottom of the skirt.
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A lot of women have husbands no
other woman would steal on a bet.
but that doesn't prevent them from
getting fiery Jealous, and making the
poor boobs wish they were serving
life sentence in Jail instead of matri
moify.
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PROHIBITION AND THE PEOPLE
In fining Mrs. Rosie Cohen, who
had sold drinks and liquor to pro
hibition agents in the kitchen of her
St. Louis home. Judge Faris, after
listening to the woman's plea for
leniency because her husband is out
of work and her daughter a chronic
invalid, said:
I don't know what to do with
you. That is one of the trouble
with this law it corupts men,
women and children.
Judge Faris fined Mrs. Cohen
11000 and stayed $800 of the fine
upon good behavior. The case is only
such as come before every Federal
Judge almost every day while courts
are in session. Penalties vary accord
ing to the temperaments of the
Judges. In the Western District of
Arkansas several women who sold li
quor have been 6ent to the Federal
prison for women at Alderson, W.
Va. One of these women is the moth
er of 1G children.
"It corrupts men, women and chil
dren." That is what one Federal
Judge thinks of this sumptuary law.
and it Is what many other Federal
Judges in the country think of it.
They have watched its operation. For
10 years they have seen men, women
and children corrupted by a law
which was designed to make the peo
ple better. Has it made the people
better? Here is the testimony of
Franklin Chase Hoyt, Presiding Jus
tice of the New York Children's
Court:
I feel that I am conservative
in stating that today more than
50 per cent of the neglected chil
dren, with whom we have to
deal, are brought before the
court because of the intemper
ance of their parents. This per
centage. I believe, is just as
high, if not higher, than it was
when I first became conected
with the court a number of years
before the passage of the eight
eenth amendment. ... As I
have already pointed out, pro
hibition has not had the slight
est result, in my Judgment, in
reducing delinquency nor In
eliminating the causes of neg
lect. Time will no doubt rationalize this
situation. It did so when the alien
and sedition acts were passed in the
1790s, and It did so when the fugi
tive slave acts were passed In the
1850s. That folly which thinks to
make the people better by compul
sion, so "corrupts men, women and
children," and "haB not the slightest
result in reducing neglect of chil
dren by delinquent parents." will
run its course as all fevers do. When
that time comes the country, can go
back to temperance and those pow
ers of suasion which remain the only
known means of making men better.
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"Even if your imagination hits on
all six it would be hard to believe
that when a man has been getting
his own breakfast, sewing on his own
buttons and wearing his year before
last's overcoat again, that he still
thinks he was lucky to have married
the prettiest girl in town. -
ITALY AND TJ. S. CITIZENSHIP
Fear of forced service in the Ital
ian army has kept many naturalized
American citizens of Italian birth
from venturing to visit their native
land. This fear has been justified by
a long series of instances where such
persons, although trusting in their
American citizenship, have found
themselves impressed into the Italian
army, with the State Department
powerless to obtain their release. This
has been going on for many years,
but under the Mussolini Government
the cases have multiplied. The Ital
ian dictator is credited with stating
his policy thus: "My order is that
an Italian citizen must remain an
Italian citizen, no matter in what
land he lives, even to the seventh
generation." This Buper-patriotism
is a considerably bolder stand than
Italy's former view.
The aggravated situation forced
the State Department to register a
complaint with Rome. The reply
came in a recent statement by the
Italian Ambassador at Washington,
in which some concessions are made.
In rather ambiguous language, the
Italian Government agrees to con
sider naturalized residents of other
countries as in "excess of the neces
sity of Italian military service in
time of peace." This, of course, by
no means surrenders any claim on
American citizens, and meanB a re
turn to the old situation it Italy en
gages In war.
This state of affairs raises at once
the question. Of what value is Amer
ican citizenship if it cannot keep
our nationals from forced service in
the army of a foreign monarch? Dis
believers in the European systems of
compulsory military service for many
years have found haven in this coun
try, and many have become leaders
here. In taking the final step for na
turalization, they solemnly repudiate
allegiance to any sovereign, naming
in particular the ruler of their na
tive land. Are they, if of Italian
birth, in spite of this to remain sub
ject to call from abroad?
The fact is. the United States has
ne naturalization treaty with Italy,
and Italo-Americans technically have
dual allegiance. Our Government is
forced to admit that some of its citi
zens may have dual nationality, even
native-born citizens. In IS 9 8 the
United States after a long diplomatic
controversy obtained the release of
a naturalized citizen from the Italian
army but only with the understand
ing that it was a special favor by
Italy and would set no precedent.
Our Government later warned all
Italo-American citizens that' If they
went to Italy between the ages of 20
and 39 they would be liable to arrest
and impression into military service.
and that the King of Itajy might par
don but the State Department could ,
not transmit a plea, to him. The cir
cular warning said: "Naturalization ,
of an Italian subject in-a foreign
country without c6nBent of the Ital
ian Government is no par to Iiabll-
ity to military service."
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Italy's doctrine goes back to feudal
days, when the: liege lord 'held fall
sway over his vassals and no transfer
of loyalty was ' possible while ' the
lord remained in power. From this
evolved the theory that the citizen
was not a free agent,- but tne prop
erty of the state. Such' was the view
of the old British law, which held
that the individual was not free to
expatriate himself, but must have
the consent of his Government. To
renounce British nationality without
such consent, Lord Grenville said in
1797, was "highly criminal."
Our Founding Fathers disagreed
with this view, and held that the
right of a man to change his nation
ality at will was one of the "certain
inalienable rights" mentioned in the
Declaration of Independence. Follow
ing their doctrine of "Once a subject,
always a subject" the British seized
men born in England who were serv
ing on American ships. This was one
cause of the War of 1812.
Great Britain did not recognize
the right of expatriation until 1870.
Meanwhile, the United States in 1868
had made its first naturalization
treaty, with the North German Con
federation, giving Germans the right
to shift their allegiance to America
without consent of the sovereign.
Treaties then were made with other
German states, and later with Aus
tria, Belgium, Denmark, Norway,
Sweden and Portugal. Other nations
have not pressed their military
claims but Italy still holds out for
its right to the military, services of
its emigrants.
The League of Nations commission
on codification or international law
has taken dual nationality as one of
four subjects for special study.
There is, of course, great need for a
uniform international code of natur
alization, but it will take time to
construct this, and meanwhile the
United States should set about reach
ing an understanding on the subject
with Italy.
Such conditions of dual allegiance
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land, 12 acres alfalfa, running wat
er, on gravel road, 3 miles west
Plattsmouth.
240 acres, splendid improvements
30 acres prairie hay. All land has
been seeded down to sweet clover and
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Three miles sonth of post office and
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purchaser.
Other Bargains in Cass
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PLATTSMOUTH, HEBB.
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and forced military service seem to
us contrary to the democratic prin
ciples on which this country was
founded. Mussolini's phase about
Italians "to the seventh generation'
probably can be dismissed as a bit of
typical bombast, but the problem of
the Italo-American citizen who fears
to visit his relatives at home is a very
real one.
To enforce this military policy and
to hold the allegiance of the 4,000,
000 persons of Italian birth in this
country, Mussolini has launched
campaign to build up what a writer
in Harper's Magazine terms his
"American Empire.' This campaign
consists of forcing membership In
the Fascist organization by pressure
in business, sometimes by violence
and often by threats against rela
Uvea of emigrants at home. Its pur
pose is to stifle criticism of Fascism
in the United States and to hold the
500,000 potential soldiers of Fascism
who live in, this country. The matter
of army service is merely one phaaa
of the campaign which is terrorizing
many Italo-American a.
Both nations would profit if this
source of misunderstanding and irri
tation were removed. The State De
partment should push vigorously the
matter of a treaty to end this im-
nosition on Amerlean liberties. St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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LIBERALISM IN MILWAUKEE
The cancellation of an Armistice
day speech on peace in Milwaukee
is disappointing news. Long the seat
of Northern German liberalism,. i?H
waukee was quick to make a political
champion or im "jrouette ana siooa
by-him through thick..and jtbjn. the
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"thin" Including thoaeharrowing
years of 1917 andl918, wblch'were
times that tried balanced men's souls
as' surely as the days of colonial, re
sistance to Great Britain. Then when
a joint patriotic service in St: Paul's
Episcopal Church in Milwaukee 'can
cels an address .by.. Miss Eleanor
Brannan of Washington. '. associate
secretary for .the -Council - for - the
Prevention rof . War,' because of pro
tests by the D. A. R. and the Amer
ican Legion, it is cause for regret.
The Milwaukee Unitarian Church
showed forthright courage in open
lng its doors to her after she had
been dropped from the patriotic pro
gram.
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THE COST OF COtfQESTCOH .
Secretary of Commerce Lamont. es
timates that traffic eongreetion in
the United States costs the country
something like 92,000.00,000 - a
year.
The sum, as he points out, is prac
tically equal to our annual expend!
tures for the construction and main
tenance of traffic facilities'.
An economio loss of this site is
something staggering to contemplate.
It indicates that trafflo congestion is
rapidly approaching the point. where
it will simply throttle our social and
economic growth. No problem that
we face is mucn more serious tnan
this one. '
Yet. Instead of solving it, we are
pouring more automobiles -on to our
highways every year. What the situ
ation may be In five more years
unless something much more drastic
than anything yet attempted is done
is a matter for pessimists to think
about.
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After he has been married to that
kind of wife for a while the only
thing as hard for a man to keep as
his money Is that grand opinion 6f
himself he used to hare.
The reason why women stay so
late at afternoon teas is because she
is afraid after she goes home the
rest of the bunch will diseusa her. '
LOWES JFRICES
A financial expert predicts a long
downward slide In commodity prices
and. interest rates during the next
20 years. Me concedes that the drop
will not be uninterrupted and does
not venture an estimate on the extent
of the drop. This expert belongs to
one school, hut there exists another
well defined school which prophesies
gradually rising prices and interest
rates during the ensuing two de
cades.
The belief that prices will drop
is based primarily upon post-war his
tory. After the Civil war the cost of
living and interest rates gradually
declined. As Boon as the nation re
turned to the plow and machine the
commodity supply began to approxi
mate the demand and prices took a
tumble. When capital was diverted
from the munitioning of armies to
the financing of farms, homes, in
dustries and railroads, money, which
during the Civil war had been ob
tainable only at extortionate inter
est, became cheap.
The foretellers of still higher liv
ing costs and money rates doubt that
a growing and expanding country
like the United States can enjoy the
felicities of cheap money and food.
And yet the nation probably grew
more rapidly during the twenty
years following the Civil war than
it will grow during the twenty years
following the World war.
- On the basis of Civil war statistics
the public can look forward with
some degree of assurance to lower
living costs and interest rates dur
ing the next two decades, although
few believe a return to pre-war lev
els is possible.
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THE CHRISTMAS SEALS
Within a short time the annual
sale of Christmas seals by the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association will
begin; and now is a good time to
remind ourselves to buy as many of
these little stickerB as we can pos
sibly manage.
The seals sell for a penny each;
yet they provide the sole support of
the association's 1,400 affiliated or
ganizations in all parts of the United
States in their fight againBt tuber
culosis.
There isn't any reason why we
should make an extended plea for the
support of the work. The prevalence
of tuberculosis Is such a major prob
lem, and the work done by these or
Sanitations la so valuable to the en
tire country, that the seals ought to
sell themselves. This editorial is Just
a reminder when you get ready to
make up your Christmas packages
lay In a good supply of these seals.
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; 4 HOT A GOOD EXCUSE
' Ajbeft BFallseptBpcedUo & year
in ppson ana -a-one qi iyu,A)ww pro
ofs that' hV waa .not jruHty of any
crime; he wte merely indiscreet and
Judicious.- ' -Vi. '.-L '
Mr JVU'i, sincerity in making this
statement, of course, la a matter con.
eefriln which tfnly 'he himself Can
BpeVkV but 7 it 'de vnqt "seem to us
thai. he, his helped'. hi case .much
evengrkntlng that he wae-perfectly
slhcersV , J w . ',' .. '. '
forHikh'tablaet officer to bor
row. ,$100,000 in -cash from a man
to whom he is extending a huge gov
ernmental favor rell.' such 'indis
cretion," if that is all It was. was
monumental, to say the least. A man
so obtuse, bo blind to all the ordinary
dictates of reason and Integrity, can
hardly protest it a skeptical public
assumes that there was an extremely
improper motive back of it all.
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The way, the folks of this gener
ation live beyond their means it looks
as If the future heirs' chance of hav
ing rich, old aunts and uncles die
and leave them the wherewithal for
life of ease is reaching the tero
point.
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We'll bet a lot of women who listen
to the high brow lecturers at the
Woman's Club discuss literature,
would rather hear them, telling how
to get more money out at their hus
bands.
KOTICB TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, .as.
In the County Court. -
In the matter of the estate of Ruth
A. C Beverage, d fee eased.
To the creditors of said estate:
Tou are hereby '.notified, that I
will ait at the County Court room In
Plattsmouth, In said county, on De
cember e. 129, and March 7. 1930,
at 19 o'clock a. m., each day, to re
ceive and examine all claims against
said estate,. with a view to their ad-
ustment and allowance. . The time
limited tor the. presentation of claims
against said estate . la three months
from the 6 th day of December, A.
.1929. and the time limited for
payment of debts is one year from
said 6th day of December, 1929.
Witness my hand and the seal of
aid County Court this 8th day of
November. 1929. .
A. H. DUXBTJRY.
(Seal) nll-3w - CXranty Judge
BEST LAND OPPORTUNITIES
WEST OF MISSOURI RIVER
High quality lands, virgin or cul
tivated, available at low prices and
en easy terms In South Pakota, front
Chamberlain to Rapid City. Tne en
tire territory la Improved with
roads, scbooli, cburchea and rail
roads, and enjoys a friendly neigh
borhood spirit. Its record is good
for production of non-perishable
crops of wide demand and dlmatlo
conditions are favorable to comfort
able family life: also for develop
ment of livestock.
Surface of this territory varies from
larre level areas or slightly roll
ing: lands suitable either for trac
tor or horse power farming to
rough or hilly lands, ideal for eras
ing. Prices vary according to loca
tion and quality, ranging from $5.00
to Its 00 per acre for unimproved,
and from 915.00 to $40.00 per acre
for improved lands.
Heal opportunities exist In this
South Dakota region for men seek
ing to engage In grain, diversified
or stock farming. Corn, wheat, flax,
eats, barley, alfalfa, sweet clover,
vegetables and small fruits profit
ably grown. Production of alfalfa
seeds extensive. Horses, cattle and
sheep thrive on the nutritious, na
tive South Dakota srraases. Poultry,
hog ud dairying Industries are suc
cessfully carried on and are rapidly
Increasing. Residents of this section
also have easy access to the scenic,
fishing and hunting advantages of
the Black Hills.
The Milwaukee Road seeks to aid
Qualified settlers; to protect them
against unfair statements about
conditions; to help secure maximum
laud values for prices paid; to ad
vise before and after locating. Write
for Illustrated booklet and detailed
Information. JLsk questions. An
swers cheerfully and carefully giv
en. Reliable Information on all parts
of this territory. Low Horneseeker
Pare every Tuesday. R "W. Rey
nolds. Commissioner. The Milwaukee
Road, 921-Q Union Station. Chicago.
It gets a wife's goat to have her
husband bored to tears every time
he has to get dolled up in his dress
suit to go out with her, then act aa
happy aa a kid with a new toy when
he gets into his lodge uniform to go
out with the boys.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the Estate of
Flora F. Sans, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified, that I
will sit at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth, in Baid county, on the
6th day of December. 1929, and the
ffth day of March, 1930, at 10 o'clock
a. m. of 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 said
estate is three months from the 6th
day of December, A. D. 1929, and
the time limited for payment of debts
is one year from said 6th day of De
cember. 1929.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 9 th day of
March. 1929.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) nll-3w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
la tie District Court of Cass
County. Nebraska
John A. King,
Plaintiff
va.
T. K. Juergens and wife,
Mrs. T. K. Juergens (first
real and true name un
known); J. A. Stark and
wife, Elizabeth Stark;
NOTICE
JohA Bachi and wife, EUisa-
vunu . rmcuj ana ne,
Elisabeth Bachi,
' ' ' , . Defendants.
To; T, K. Juergens and wife, Mrs.
T.- K. Juergens (first true and real
name unknown) and John Bachi
and wife; Elisabeth Bachi,
- : Defendants.
; You and each of you are hereby
notified that on the 23rd day of Oc
tober, 1929, the plaintiff. John A.
King, filed a petition in the District
Court of Oass county, Nebraska,
against you and eaoh of you, which
cause appears on Docket 4, page 230
of the records of the Clerk of the
District Court of Caas county, Nc-
braska, the object and prayer of
which petition is to foreclose mort
gages recorded in Book 47 at page
273 and in Book 47 at page 274 in
the Mortgage Records of the Register
of Deads office in Cass county, Ne
braska, and a decree forever barring
you and each of you of all the right,
title or Interest and equity of re
demption in and to the following de
scribed land, to-wit:
- The Bast half of the South
east quarter ( E hi SE hi, ) of Sec
tion 20 and the West half of
the Southwest quarter (W
SWVi) of Section 21, all in
Township 12, Range 10, East of
the Sixth P. M., in Cass coun
ty, Nebraska
and for the appointment of a receiv
er to take charge of the aforesaid
premises during the pendency of this
action and for equitable relief.
The plaintiff further offers Arthur
Kellogg as the Receiver and S. R.
Park aa surety for said Receiver and
the plaintiff offers Otis Richards as
his surety.
You and each of you are further
notified that the plaintiff will call up
tor hearing his application tor the
appointment of a Receiver on the
16th day of December, 1929, at ten
o'clock In the forenoon or as soon
thereafter as counsel can be heard
and that a Receiver will be appoint
ed unless good and sufficient cause
oan be shown that such Receiver
should not be appointed, and that
Arthur Kellogg will be appointed as
such Recaiver.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that you are required to an
swer said petition as aforesaid on or
before the 16th day of December,
192.
JOHN A, KINO.
Plaintiff.
By W. O. KIECK,
Hte Attorney.
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