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What a terrible thin.-; tlv? inquisi
tion was.
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Iiid you enjoy your Thanksgiving
turkey? Of course- you did.
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Oar merchants are now kckhI and
ready for the Christmas shopper?.
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The only thing- that is a? source as
money around some homes is baloney.
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Courtship is merely the prelimin-
arv skirmish before
t!
real battle
begins.
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Only after h-r beauty is pone dees
the vain woman discover that brains
are useful.
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Not only are dicat ors needed, as
Mr. Mussolini say?, but a few
stenographers. :o:
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Mother Eve may
temptation, but men
have invented
have monopol-
ized it ever since.
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Marriage never crets to be really
tough until they begin to eae off
on the use cf tender expressions.
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A girl who married a man to re
form him never makes much head
way until old age steps in to give
her a life.
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When the police raid a home in
Boston these days, instead of break-
ing all the bottles, they tear up all j
the books.
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An itm says the tariff holds tie:
Senate floor. It seem to be firm!"
fastened down, but the
jon.uenie
shakes the walls.
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If the bill of Senator Van den
berg of Michigan passes to put a
curb on courts issuing contempt or
ders, the labor men will have v.ui
their point.
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Christmas comes to ' gladden
our hearts. Let there be one
outstanding practical gift... a
gift that will benefit the whole
family, and mother in particular
. . . the lifetime gift ... a Maytag.
"PT-TO""!? fr a trial Maytag washing,
x i lfit docsa.t sci, it,eif don't
keep it. Deferred payments youll never miw
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Elmwocd Gocdridge & Ccatman
Weeping Water Moritz Maytag Co.
Eagle Moritz Maytag Co.
IF -T DOESN'T SELL. ITSELF, DON'T KEEP IT
Mexico has elected a pretty good
President, if he lasts.
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The f' ost is 011 the p :niik". i and
the pumpkin's in the pie.
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Add at least SO per cent to the
good om woman says of smother.
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What this country needs is a flock
of robots to do seivice in dt mists'
chair?.
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CUmenceau in humble grave, with
out eulogy or flowers; out Paris does
not forget.
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The longer a man is married the
less he dodges when his wife throws
things at him.
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Mr. Font Wilson's daughter won
the door prize Monday night at the
Legion Festival.
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Be good, and Santa Claus may
reward you. H is always good to
those who are good.
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Corns usually are the sign that
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there was no headwork done when j
the footwear was bought. i
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There is a divinity that shapes our
end. but the tariff seems to be out of
reach. Perhaps one of these days light
may shine.
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Whenever a member of the Soviet
Union is expelled you can be sure
that another Russian has begun to j
show sense.
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An eastern scientist says if every
body would sing it would prevent
crime. Net if they sang like some
citizens we've listened to.
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Some people are always insistent
in their efforts to make children b- -lieve
there is no Santa Claus. The
stingy rarent i3 one of them.
For homes vitK
out electricity the
Maytag is ai ail
ab.eu un in-bniit
gasoitae ttwiur.
Maytag Radia PrefraoM
Boiton-WBZ. Chico
KVW. Cincitmay-WLW.
Clcvtiaad-WTAM. Draw
KLZ. Or JJ otoe-WHO.
lroie-WJK. Fort Wortb
WBAP. Kansas City-KM BC.
Lot Amrbs-kNX. Milwau-kt-WTAIJ.
Jitinneapolis
WCCO. Oklahoma City
V'KY. Omaba-wnw. Phila-drtphm-WCAl.'.
Pittsboirb
KDtA. Portland-KOW.Salt
ltr Cttv-KSL. Kan Fran-ciico-KFKC.
Toronto
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Washer
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You usually can tell by giving
her husband the once over just how
much a woman dreaded the thought
of being an old maid.
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A gold digger is a sweetie who
thinks the evening wasn't so hot if
she wasn't able to make a total wreck
of her boy friend's bank roll.
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Another thing that is sure enough
to bet on is. that many a flapper's
lips that are red with the paint on
top are blue with cold underneath.
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It's also going to seem strange to
the flappers having the men opposite
them on the street car looking at
their faces if long skirts stage a
real comeback.
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The husband who can be as irri
tating as a hangnail never can un
derstand why his wife dos not keep
a couple times sweeter than a but
ter scotch sundae.
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The old-fashioned idea of divorce
was to be freed from a major grief.
nowadays the big idea seems to be to
ge't one so the preacher can car.) an
other wedding fee.
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A modern girl goes out on the
streets wearing a fur coat over what
her mother, at that age, would have
stayed in the house wearing a bath
robe or kimona over.
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Some people actually do lik ' par
snips, and with tastes like that it
probably isn't so Strang that sir's
will set their caps for the kind cf
meal ticket they do.
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Modern poets, we are told, do not
receive justice. But they need not
crow too loudly about it; there are
a let of other people who have the
same cause for self-congratulation.
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The happiest homes are those
where mutual love, respect and sacri
fice are not looked upon as out-of-date
and stored up in the attic with
the rest of the old-fashioned junk.
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In. another ten or twelve years,
or maybe sooner, we old folks will
be shaking our heads sadly over the
way the college kids pile twelve or
fourteen girls into an airplane built
for four.
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Down dee; in her heart we'll rc-t
many a shivering little cutie would
rather have some nice warm undies
and a flannel nightie than the pret
tiest and most expensive hjt in the
milliner's shop.
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More men would have had more
money to have lost on the stock mar
ket if their wives had spent r3 mu.h
time trying to develop a sales re
sistance as they do in trying to de
velop a more slender figure.
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If a man uses the saucer of his
cup as an ash tray it either means
that he has an ideal wife, or else
that he is so used to being bawled
out that he doesn't mind what his
wife says about him doing it.
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TAX REDUCTION TONIC
It is not denied in Washingtcn that
Secretary Meilon's statement of a
proposed reduction of income taxes
totaling about ?1C0,000,000 annually
was prompted by the continued li
quidation of stocks. The president,
his cabinet and leaders in Congress
are aware of the futility or danger
of legislative interference with stotli
exchange operations, but naturally
they desire to do what is possible to
ward checking a trend that indirect
ly menaces the industrial and com
mercial welfare of the country.
Legitimate business has been aid
ed greatly by tax reductions in the
last decade. Business can be aided
still further by the same means. The
anticipated surplus in the treasury
makes possible another lowering cf
taxes, and excessive taxation is un
just and detrimental.
It has been said lately by busi
ness men of prominence that, if rea
sonable and well-grounded confidence
in the fundamental factors can be
maintained, and a feeling of panic
can be prevented, the violent autics
of the stock market need not effect
industry and trade seriously. The
announcement of another substantial
reduction in Federal taxation shouid
contribute toward that reassurance.
It is most opportune. Manifestly,
the government would not promise
tax reduction if it had reason to ap
prehend a recession of business in
volving curtailment of revenue. It
has no such fear, because sober con
sideration of the banking and credit
situation, the condition of industry,
the purchasing power of the nation
and the country's foreign trade pros
pect warrant full confidence in the
future.
The business community and the
investors of the country should emu
late the Federal government by re
fraining from exaggerating the sig
nificance of the readjustment in
values of stocks.
NEED FOR EDUCATION
The country normal school at Fon
Du Lac, Wis., gave an examination
on current events the other day to
citizens in that region. The examin
ation produced the usual bunch of
"howlers," anel while they bring a
smile when you read they, they are
just a little bit discouraging when
you stop to think about them a bit.
Here are a few of the contribu
tion to public knowledge made by the
Wisconsin quest ion-answere-rs:
Ramsay MacDonald is a judge at
Oshkosh.
Francis Willard was a lawn tennis
champion.
Trotsky is the world's greatest mu
sician. Jane Addams is the wife of John
Adams.
Mussolini ? the "head man cf
Russia."
Stalin is a member of President
Hoover's cabinet.
Darwin is the commander of the
Graf Zeppelin.
Einstein is the ambassador to
Czechoslovakia.
There were many more in the same
vein, out these are the most surpris
ing. They are funny, of course; but
when you stop to think, they are a
bit disquieting.
Our country is a democracy; a na
tion in which all citizens have an
equal voice in government.
It is confronted today by enormous
problems, on the correct solution of
which depend the happiness of mil
lions of people for years to come. It is
faced by complicated issues at home
and abroad things that require in
telligent discussion and serious study.
Yet a citizen who thinks that
Ramsay MacDonald is an Oshkosh
judge has as much to say about the
course our foreign policy shall take
as an intelligent citizen who is per
fectly informed.
The vote of a man who thinks Sta
lin is in Hoover's cabinet counts just
as much as anybody else's vote.
Te be sure, these weird answers
were few in number, considering the
number of persons who took the test.
But they are disturbing, ju?t the
same. They indicate that our educa
tional program has not progressed as
far as it might. A great deal remains
to be done before cur democracy can
function as it could.
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WHEN BUSINESS MEN TALK
The Senate to date has not called
Mr. Dabson, for inquiry into his lese
majestle, though Mr. Babson strange
ly has reiterated his first disturbing
declaration and in a much more em
phatic manner. It was Banker Kent
who was haled before the modem
senatorial Cheka because he had the
rashness to say what Mr. Babson has
said, that the Senate's tariff delay
was in part responsible for the recent
stock panic.
These representative American
business men were violating no inhib
itions concerning the freedom of
speech. They were expressing a be
lief concerning a situation in the
economic financial field with which
they were most familiar.
The Senate sanhedrim calls Mr.
Babson "venal" and "dishonest." but
this proves nothing, rather it sug
gests the last resort of those who re
cognize a paucity of legitimate argu
ment, a dearth of justifying facts, in
the face of expert accusation.
The American press has been a
practical unit in its commendation of
the conservative banker and the dis
tinguished statistician who had the
courage to express their individual
belief with respect to the Senate's
dilatoriness in an hour of extreme
financial disturbance, blaming that
body for an alleged contributory part
in bringing on the stock cataclysm.
These mn are not political or so
cial radicals, called to book for rant
ing against the "tyranny of capital
ism" or a ftenzied cursing of the
American Constitution. They simply
disagreed with the Senate's view
concerning a matter proper for pub
lic discussion. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A lot of men would rather see the
kitchen apron than the long skirt
stage a comeback.
INDIAN LANDS
Thousands of acres on the Cheyenn and
Il Itiuge Indian Reservations In South
takota can be bought at low prices on
favorable terms of payment. Sales art
held frequently by the U. S. Government
Superintendents in charge of these Res
ervations. Lists of the lands offered, with
minimum prices thereon, are available.
These lands are Euitable either for agri
culture or for grazing. Wheat, corn,
other grains, alfalfa, sweet clover, small
fruits and vegetables are successfully
grown. .Many tracts are available for
leasing.
STATE LANDS
The Rural Credits Board of South Da
kota offers for sale Improved and unim
proved lands In many parts of that
state. Prices and terms of purchase are
favorable to the buyer.
Thope INDIAN and STATE lands offer
splendid locations to men desiring well
located, practical and profitable farm or
ranch homes, as well as opportunity for
safe and sound investment with likely
increases in ralues within a reasonable
time.
"Write for full Information refta.dtnr
these lands, the localities in which they
are situated and how to acquire them.
Tell me what you want. Ask questions
prompt and accurate answers. Homeseek
ers" fares. R. W. Kevnolds, Commission
er, The Milwaukee Road. 930-V Union
Station. Chicago.
WHAT IS NEWS?
"What is news?"
Frankly, we don't know.
Used to think we did, but now we
don't feel certain.
Ordinarily, news is whatever hap
pens in which the public is inter
ested. That's a fairly good definition, al
though schools of Journalism indulge
in more fancy phrasing.
Recently, however, all definitions
have been upset, and news values
seem to be topsy turvy.
It used to be that financial news
appeared only on back pages, but to
day it is being shifted to front pages
of all daily papers.
Front page news always differs
from inside page news, and lately the
average newspaper has been a radi
cally different creature in its interior
anel exterior content.
This simple truth is almost invar
iably overlooked, both by critics of
modern journalism and by defenders
of that phenomenon. Many pec pie
speak disparagingly of the "depres
sion" they feel upon glancing at the
headlines of the daily paper. They
advertise, by that statement, that
they looked only at the front page.
If the critic.m is that newspapers
"play up" human frailties and freak
erents, writing columns on a train
wreck while neglecting to mention
the hundreds of trains that ran on
schedule, the answer is the same?
the critic was feasted upon the front
page. There, true enough, the bizarre
and frequently the sensational is pre
sented. That is a natural concession
to human nature which delights in
a vicarious departure from routine.
But what of the paper's inside
pages? There is a normal and sen
sible recording of wholesome events,
news of finance and of sports and of
schools, of churches, arts, literature.
Industry and invention, science and
education, commerce and politics
have their justly allotted space
wherein developments the opposite cf
sensational are, in any balanced
newspaper, duly reported.
When this vital distinction be
tween the front and the inside pages
of a newspaper is realized, it becomes
evident that no sovereign definition
of news is possible, unless it be in
terms so general they are futile also.
Many read hurriedly, confining their
perusal only to page one. This is
their privilege, but they are, by fore
going at least a cursory glance at the
remainder of the Issue, risking a dis
torted impression of modern lifo.
It is to the Inside pages of the
daily paper that one must turn and
one does as a matter of fact turn for
a picture of the movement of basic
human interests. They are presented
either in the form of news narrative
or in the form of advertisements. It
is obvious that the advertisements
very often carry news in the tech
nical sense of novelty, and at all
times carry news of the permanent
interests of life and practice.
There is nothing depressing about
the picture of men operating rail
roads and steamship lines, buying
real estate and selling it, and offer
ing or seeking employment in the
"wan" columns. There is nothing
demoralizing in women shopping
about in the department store pagejs,
or in the school pages, or attending
the parties in the society column
Let these facts be considered by
those who feel "depressed" by some
of the news on front pages. Much
human news is actually depressing
But more of it is piquantly depress
ing, and much of it is positively en
couraging. The good newspaper of
fers news of every noteworthy sort,
and every reader can find, by the
simple expedient of turning a few
pages, the news he particularly wants
to have.
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"MAIL THEM EARLY"
There's nothing new in the ad
vice to "Mail Your Christmas Pres
ents Early" this year, but it is just
a3 sound as ever.
Human beings, it seem?, like to
procastinate. With most of us, there
is a prevailing tendency to let mat
ters wait until the last moment and
then go after them like it was a ques
tion of life and death.
And the mailing of Christmas pres
ents is no exception.
There is no sound reason why
Christmas presents cannot be posted
well in advance to avoid flooding the
maila at the last moment. At best,
the postal system has to handle a
tremendously increased volume of
mail during the holiday season and
this is all the more reason why it
should not bo flooded with the bulk
of it the last moment.
You can do your part play fair
with postmen and at the same time
insure prompt delivery of your par
cels by mailing- early.
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Governor Parks of Alaska has been
again chosen to serve as governor.
He has made an able executive and
served to satisfaction of all.
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lent recipes bread, muffins, cakes
and pastry will be mailed on request
to users of K C Baking Pcwaer.
The recipes have been prepared
especially for
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THEY ALWAYS WILL
No one who has a child can fail to
feel a surge of sympathy for that
New York mother whose baby was
kidnaped from his carriage in front
of a department store the other day.
You probably read the story. It
told how little Donald Larney, three
.moths old, required a special milk
diet a complicate formula that a
physician had prescribed. And how
the frantic mother, Mrs. Margaret
Larney, appealed to the newspapers
to publish this special formula in the
hope that the kidnaper might see it
and thus keep the child alive. Even
in her grief, her first thought was
of her child.
That's a. mother's devotion for you,
a throbbing story as old as the hu
man race itself. Mothers have al
ways been that way. And mothers al
ways will.
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Some people have to go away from
home to make a showing. Look at
Howell and Brookhart.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by Geld?. Noble Bcal. Cierk of
the District Court, within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 2 5th day of
December A. D. 1929, at 10 o'clock
a. m. cf said day at the south front
door of the court house, in the city
of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said
county, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing real estate to-wit:
The Southwest Quarter (SV.'U)
of Section (S) Township Eleven
(11), Range Thirteen (13),
East of the Cth P. M. Cass
County, Nebraeka
The same being levied and taken
as the property of George W. Rhoden
ajad Mary E. Rhoden. defendants, to
satisfy a judgment of said Court re
covered by Conservative Mortgage
Company, a corporation, plaintixf
against said defendants.
Plattsmouth. Nebraska, November
21st A. D. 1929.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE
In the District Court of Cas3
County, Nebraska
Evelyn B. Stamp.
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Plaintiff
In
V3.
OTICE
Charles E. Taylor, et al,
Defendants
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Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of a decree and order
of the District Court of Cass county.
Nebraska, entered in the above
entitled cause on the 21st day of No
vember, 1929, the undersigned ref
eree will, on the 2Sth day of De
cember, 1929, at 10:00 o'clock a. m..
at the south front door of the court
house, in the City of Plattsmouth.
Nebraska, sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, the following de
scribed real estate, to-wlt:
The southeast quarter (SEVi)
of the northeast quarter (NEU )
and the northeast quarter
(NEU) of the southeast quar
ter (SEVi). of Section six (6).
Township eleven (11), Range
fourteen (14), in Cass county,
Nebraska
upon the following terms: 10 of
bid in cash on day of sale, balance
upon confirmation of sale and deliv
ery of referee's deed.
Said sale will be held open one
hour.
Dated this 23rd day of November,
1929.
J. A. CAPWELL,
Referee.
D. O. DWYER,
Attorney.
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As a man CKmence-au was a char
acter unique; strong and vei'le
physically as mentally, he labored
to the end of hi days; no assassin's
bullet, none oi the stress of political
antagonism could daunt his daunt
less spirit. He liv- d and !' ved and
served. What more could be said of
any man who has stood in the fierce
white light cf the world's public no
tice. He wa:: great. He is gone, as
well all must go; but he leaves be
hind him a record which will long
live in the annals of t!.e world's
heroic record.
It used to be considered as dis
graceful for a woman to expose h'-r
legs as it is now .for her to expose
her ears. After all, what's right and
proper usually depends upon the
viewpoint, which, to say the least
has been improve-! by modern ap
arel. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
By virtue of a itvcjil
ord-rr of
sale on evcu'ior. of judzmer.t issued
by Golda NcMe Bcal. Clerk cf th
District Court of C:.ss o-onnty. Ne
braska, upon a d-cre-: ente red in
said court in favor of D. O. Dwyer
as Intervener of the c-ae of Emma
E. Rome vs. Charles Emery Ronne.
wherein the said D. O. Dwye r was
decreed a lien upr-n an undivided
one-seventh of the Southwr-s: Quar
ter and the South half of the North
west Quarter cf Sec. P. Tp. 11 Range
12, in Cass cunty. Nebraska: tha
varsucnt to sid writ, I will, on the
23rd. dcr of December, 192S. at ten
o'clock a. m.. of s.:id day. soil r-id
leal estate a: the south front eloor
cf the court house in th" citv cf
Plattsmouth in said Cass county. Ne
braska, at auction to the highest
hidder for cash, to sntisfy said lien,
the amour., t due therein b?ing
$250.00 with sovei; per cent inter
est from the 4th day of Fehiuiry,
1327, and costs of su't, in the sim
cf J23. S3 and als-o accruing costs.
Dated this 19th day of No"-mbr,
1929.
BERT REED.
Sheriff of Css County,
Nebraska
n21-4ws.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty. Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cnss.
S3.
To the heirs at law and to all per
sons interested in the estate of Mal
vir.a Coffin, deceased.
On reading the petition of Ruben
E. Donnelly praying that the instru
ment filed in th!s court cn the ISta
day of November, 1929. and purport
ing to be the last will and testa
ment of the said deceased, may be
proved and allowed and recorded as
the last will and testament of Mal-
vina Coffin, deceased; that said in
strument be admitted to probate and
the administration of said estate be
granted to Watson Howard as admin
istrator with the will annexed;
It i3 hereby ordered that ycu, and
all persons interested in said mat
ter, may, and do. appear at the Coun
ty Court to be held in and for said
County, on the 13th day cf Decem
ber, A. D. 19 29. at ten o'clock a. in.,
to show cause, if ary there be. why
the prayer cf the petitioner should
not be granted, and that notice of
the pendency of said petition and
that the hearing thereof be given to
all persons 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 cf hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 18th day of Novem
ber. A. D. 1929.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) nlS-3w County Judge,