MONDAY. JAN. 27. 1920.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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The latest Chicago song: "En
lighten the Coroner Where You Are."
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The rest of the country need not
tneeze just because Wall Street takes
snuff.
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At least, we don't go to sleep on
our feet strange things will hap
pen sonitimes.
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Many a small boy is kept in after
school because his father worked his
arithmetic wrong.
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'Way hack yonder the cry was the
full dinner pail. Now, everybody is
happy if the gas tank is full.
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"Decent Play About Clean People
Wins" Headline. People will pay
big prices to satisfy their curiousity.
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If the family budget could talk, it
and father could get up quite an
argument as to which was the most
ignored.
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Now that Russia has started mak
ing razors, the next inevitable step
would seem to he building a hair
mattress factory.
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Morrow, seeking a senate seat has
decreed a "bunkless campaign." And
here we had been thinking he was
going into politics.
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Whoever dreamed that the day
would come when you could speak of
girls as "bare facts" and not be very
far from stating bare facts?
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If your imagination is in good
working order try to picture a mod
ern youth ever writing one of those
"beautiful" pomes about "home."
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"I'd rather let a lobbyist become a
senator," said the Great Statesman,
the other evening, "than have him
go on pulling my lapel out of shape."
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The Crown Prince of Italy wore
his eword when married in Rome the
other day. He did not intend to en
ter the marriage state without be
ing at least partly armed for con
flict. :o:
A man out in California ha:n just
taken up golf at the age of 104 years.
Even at the risk of provoking a snort
of indignation from certain Platts
mouth citizens, we rise to remark
that he has picked just the right age
to start the game.
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"There is considerable truth," saj-s
the Milwaukee Sentinal, "in the re
mark of one of our sagacious con
temporaries who observes that the
constitutional right to make a fool of
himself is one for which most men
will fight vigorously."
IO)ejpiffi33l&M
and guaranteed to give per
fect satisfaction down to the
last spoonful in the can.
You save in buying and in using
Same
for over
ounces
Pure and
MILLIONS OF POUNDS
USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT
Milk is an essential part of the
diet of little children.
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Week-end flying trips are becom
ing popular in the East.
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Very often Nature cures the pat
ient, and the doctor gets the credit as
well as the fee.
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Chicago opera stars cook their own
stage meals. (The secret is that they
don't really eat the stuff.)
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A salad may make a hit with a
woman, but it's nothing but three
whiffs in the air to a he-man.
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About all some of us get from the
cover of a seed catalog is an idea
of what is being done elsewhere.
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The Anti-Saloon League at least is
brave. It held its celebration of
a decode of prohibition in moist De
troit. :o:
The old-fashioned man v. ho used
to get up with the lark now has a
son who about that time comes in
fro iii one.
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There would be fewer divorce law
yers sitting in the lap of luxury if
women were as good at picking hus
bands as fur coats.
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A tourist who recently returned
from Europe protests at the tyranny
of the customs officers. It's the quaint
old American customs.
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Don't raise your boy to be a presi
dent or a ball player. Bring him up
to drive a taxicab and write his per
sonal story for the magazines.
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It may be possible for a woman to
feel just as warm in a cloth coat as
she can in a fur one, but it isn't a:-
possible for her to feel as high-hat in
one.
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If a girl now gets kissed on the
back of the neck, it isn't because her
boy friend is afraid of the germs on
her lips, but of the cigarette between
'em.
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"The pedestrian's onlv hope is
heaven." remarks the Atchison Globe
in a moment of melancholy. And a i
good many of them make it in one !
jump. j
The English golf authorities re
cently removed the ban against steel
shaft clubs, but they have made a
mistake. They'll find that the wood
en shaft is much more easily broken
over the knee.
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Mayor Thompson of Chicago will
use his veto ax on a council meas
ure in which police, fire and health
department are curtailed. The kind
of politics they have in Chicago has
run the old town against a snag.
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Price
38 years
for
Efficient
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At CO miles per hour you travel SS
feet per second.
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You may hear of a woman com
plaining about having nothing to
wear, but try and find one who ever
complains that she has nothing to
say.
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Horseshoes do not bring good luck.
Just think of how many horseshoes
the old-fashioned blacksmith shop
used to carry in stock and where
are the blacksmith shops now?
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Perhaps Messers Mitchell and
Doran don't realize that every time
they say dry enforcement is getting
stricter they give the bootleggers an
argument tor tilting the prices.
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It is about time the mathematical
expert informs us that the Christmas
ribbon used in t lie United States
would reach to the sun and buck
with enough left over lor three state
fairs.
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A financial writer advises the peo
ple to save one-fifth of their income.
As most of them are already spend
ing about six-filths of it, saving one-
fifth would bring them out about
even.
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Senator Smoot. celebrating his
CSth birthday, says he has always
worked hard, never smoked, never
drank liquor, and always used plain
food. That chap cannot boast of
having had much fun in life.
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Another mistake Nature made was
either in not making it possible for
a wife to remember what size collar
her husband wears or fixed it so he
could reduce or enlarge his neck to
fit the collars she buys for him.
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The reason a beauty specialist
doesn't waste any tears on thoye who
are trying to enforce prohibition is
because that looks easy compared to
making something easy on the eyes
out of a map that would stop a clock.
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KNOWLEDGE OF W0RD3
A professor in the University cf
Wisconsin is quoted as having stated
that Shakespeare knew 15,000 words,
whereas the average American knows
CO. 00 0. He adds that Shakespeare
was intimately acquainted with every
one of his 15.000 words, while the
ordinary American has no such close
acquaintance.
We submit that this comparison
is really worthless, even though
emanating from a great university.
How does the professor who gave
the figures know just how many
words Shakespeare really did knew?
What he has given us in the number
he used in his writings, and it is a
fair inference that he knew many
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i'usanus ui nui.is wim.u K
no occasion to incorporate in his
Plays. If we were to treat the "aver
age American" in the same way, de-
ciding how many words he knows by
the number that he has put into some
form of writing,' the 60.000 would
shrink at once to a small fraction
of that number.
The fact is that this Wisconsin
scholar has merely given another ex
ample of that guess work which too
many college faculty men of today
mistake for scientific investigation.
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CHINA'S VAST AFFLICTION
In this blessed land of established
and orderly government and mater-
lial abundance it is difficult to con
ceive the possibility of such collos.-al
calamity as the death of millions by
starvation Yet in a single province
of China Shensi in a comparative
ly brief period two millions of peo
ple have died this frightful death,
and it is stated on indisputable au
thority that two millions more must
die within the next two or three
months from the same cause, and that
this suffering is intensified by the in
tense cold of the present season
There i3 no hope for these human
wretches who are about to die, who
raven over grass and bark and saw
dust, leather remnants, and who also
are said to be resorting to the last
resource of physical despair sheer
cannibalism
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DEPRIEST'S CADET DROPPED
Alonze Parham, 18-year-old negro
youth, appoointed to the West Point
Military Academy by Oscar DePriest
negro Congressman from Chicago, is
no longer on the cadet roll.
Parham was in Wrest Point just six
months. He failed to pass the exam
ination in mathematics and was let
out.
DePriest, of course, says he will
appoint another negro. And West
Point instructors, of course, will find
a way of putting the skids under
him within a short period.
It is a tradition at West Point that
negros are not desired as officers in
the United States army. Only one
negro ever succeeded in getting a
commission from that institution,
and, after a long period of ostracism
in the army, he committed suicide.
Farms f or Safe!
80 acres, new improvements, good
land, 12 acres alfalfa, running wat
er, on gravel road, 3 miles west cf
Plattsmouth.
240 acres, splendid improvements.
30 acres prairie hay. All land has
been seeded down to sweet clover and
timothy and clover, and now produc
ing good crops. Good small orchard.
Three miles south cf post office and
112 miles from gravel. Terms to suit
purchaser.
Other Bargains in Cass
County Farms See
una
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBR,
THE FARM BOARD SURVEY
The Federal Farm Board seems to
know what it wants to do and how
to do it. Announcement has just been
made of a survey it proposes to make
of local farmers co-operatives in the
New England states and New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,
Maryland and Virginia. It intends to
ascertain in detail the volume cf
business done hy these organizations,
their financial condition and oper
ating costs.
It is a prosaic, laborous plan of in
ventorying, so to speak, the market
ing processes of the farmers of those
ttates. Similar investigation, presum
ably, will be completed in other parts
cf the country. When the survey of
the whole country will have been
completed, the Federal Farm Board
will have accumulated a valuable
body of knowledge concerning farm
ers' co-operatives and will be able to
proceed intelligently with the work
of putting them on an efficient basis.
The Federal Farm Board has al
ready impressed itself upon public
opinion. This latest enterprise will
add to its reputation as a commis
sion of energetic, exper tspecialists.
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NEWS REEL
Grain of radium goes down sewer
in London hospital, and Chicago man
loses bass drum in taxicab, 300 per
sons, half on passes, attended Shearer
speech on international intrigue, and
crowd of 4500 causes near-riot try
ing to get into movie explaining Ein
stein theory; Elm Grove (W. Va.),
man sentenced to two years in prison
for selling 50 cents' worth of liquor,
and Seattle Federal Judge fines youth
2 cents for sale of home brew; Brit
ish group tries to keep out made-in-
America talkies because of actors'
pronunciation, and Chinese throng
Shanghai theaters to learn English
from sound films; County Board in
Colorado threatens to quit helping
woman unless she gets rid of her 11
dogs, and Buncombe County, N. C,
gets $2000 from estate of spinster
to care for her cat; Denver Bishop
pays janitor 50 cents to hear his
speech when no one appears at meet
ing, and 500 movie extras get $10
each for listening to songs by John
McCormack in making film; delegates
arrive in London tor peace conter-
ence, and Chicago suspends R. O. T.
C. in its schools.
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A FLORIST S WINDOW
Pale lilies there and roses red,
A few forced violets;
My heart lost all its dreariness
And all its worries, frets
Pale lilies there, carnations pink
And tulips golden-bright;
My body lost its tired and pain
Because of that fair sight
Pale lilies there, and hyacinths
Shown gaily through the snow;
That sight in chill December gave
My heart new warmth and glow
I saw it passing at a glance,
My worries slipped away;
A florist's window gave me strength
To live another day
George Elliston in the Phila
delphia Bulletin
Dr. Joe J. Stibal
Chiropractic Physican
SCHMIDTMANN BUILDING
Specialty
Nervous Liver Kidney
Sun-Ray assistance for Ton
silitis, Sinusitis, Piles.
X-RAY and LABORATORY
THE INDIAN CRISIS
The Executive Committee of the
Nationalist party of India has de
cided to adhere to the ultimatum it
presented to the British Government
in March, 1929 This ultimatum was
that the British Government must
grant a dominion status to India by
Dec. 31 or India would break away
completely from Great Britain and
declare independence. The ultimatum
was agreed to at the all-parties con
ference which met at that time.
The all-parties conference agreed
on the form of government and con
stitution which India wanted. The
Labor Government of Great Britain
has promised dominion status for In
dia. The present Viceroy, Baron Ir
win, said on Oct. 1: "I am authorized
on behalf of the Government to state
clearly that in their judgment it is
implicit in the declaration of 1917
that the natural progress, as there
contemplated, is the attainment or
dominion status," but no definite plan
has been offered. There was violent
debate in the House of Commons on
this statement between the Conserva
tives, Liberals and Laborites, but no
vote was taken either for or against
the proposal. It was generall under
stood that the Commons acquiesced
in the declaration.
Mahatma Gandhi, the bete noire of
the British Government in India, is
the author of the resolution which
was adopted by the Executive Com
mittee of the Nationalist party by an
overwhelming majority and also pass
ed overwhelmingly by the recent All-
India Congress at Lahore. The reso
lution is couched in terms which are
in complete harmony with Gandhi's
attitude of passive resistance. Inde
pendence is gradually obtained. There
is to be no armed revolution. The
weapons to be used are not guns, but
the economic and political weapons
which passive Orientals have proved
to be extremely effective. Gandhi's
resolution includes, to begin with,
non-co-operation with the British
governmental machinery and refusal
to attend the round table conference
called to meet in London to discuss
the political situation in India. There
is to be a boycott of the Central and
Provincial Legislatures, and the com
mittee is authorized to put into ecect
the program of civil disobedience and
non-payment of taxes whenever it de
cides this course to be advisable.
The program of passive resistance
through non-co-operation with and
disobedience of government is a two-
edged sword which reaches the eco
nomic and political vitals of the
British Government in India. While
Gandhi counsels peace in carrying
out his program, yet the danger of
riot and disorder is fanifest. There
is always in it the possiblity of an
other Amritsar massacre, which
shocked the civilized world. It is
sometimes more difficult to deal with
a passive people who obstruct all gov
ernmental activities and who refuse
to fight than to quell an armed re
hellion
Since under the provisions of the
resolution adopted by the All-India
Congress there will be no armed revo
lution but only a gradual progress to
ward independence, the British Gov
ernment may avert the serious con
sequence of disobedience and disorder
by acting on its progressive policy.
It may be that the granting of do
minion status would be accepted by
the National Congress as a satisfac
tory solution. All cf that has to be
tried out.
It is evident, however, that Great
Britain faces a crisis in India preg
nant with possibilities of serious trou
ble. It seems to be the culmination
of the movement of deep discontent
ent and a&piration for self-government
which under the Readership of
Gandhi has kept the British Govern
ment of India in hot water for years.
It is forunate that the Labor Govern
ment, which is inclined to be a lib
eral and progressive policy in India,
is in power. Stubborn Toryism would
probably make a worse mess of the
Indian problem in this crisi3 than it
has of any in the past. St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
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Women may not be the wisest
members of the human family, but
they surpass man's intelligence in at
least one respect. For illustration
you never heard of a woman spend
ing her last cent buying corn liquor
for a bunch of mutts who wouldn't
turn to look as her funeral proces
sion going by.
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The unexpected revival of activity
in favor of Philippine independence
is not due to the determination of
the Philipinos; it is due to the de
termination sueh competition as
comes from the free importation of
Philippine sugar.
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The less success a wife has had in
making something out of her own
disappointment, the surer she always
is she could handle some other wom
an's husband a darn sight better
than the woman herself has.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Having decided to discontinue
farming. I will offer for sale at Pub
lic Auction on what is known as the
James Robertson farm four and one
half miles south of Cedar Creek;
four miles east and one and one
half miles south of Louisville; eleven
miles west of Plattsmouth. on the
Louisville road, and one and one
half miles south, on
Monday, Febr. 3d
commencing at 10:00 o'clock a. m.,
with lunch served at noon by the
Glendale Woman's club, the follow
ing described property:
Nine Head of Horses
One span of brown mares, 8 and
9 years old. wt. 2400; one span
mares, bJaek and brown, smooth
mouth, wt. 2400; one bay mare,
smooth mouth, wt. 14 00; one bay
mare, coming 10 years old, wt. 1500,
safe in foal; one bay colt, coming
one year old; one black marp, 10
years old. wt. 1400; one bay mare,
smooth mouth, wt. 1400.
Two Good Milk Cows
Two Holstein cows, fresh in about
60 days, extra good.
Five dozen Buff Orpington pullets,
also a few tons of extra good wild
hay.
Farm Machinery, etc.
One new T-ft. MeCormiek-Deering
binder, has cut less than 100 acres;
one new McCormick-Deei ing hay
rake; one 4-wheel single row P & O
lister; one 2-wheel single row P &
0 lister; one John Deere stalk cut
ter; one John Deere 2-row machine;
one Deering mower; one P & O disc;
two New Century riding cultivators;
one 12-inch walking plow; one Jenny
Lind walking cultivator; one 3-sec-tion
harrow; one Case 12-inch gang
plow; one Janesville 16-inch sulky
plow; one hay rack and wagon; one
Bain wagon and box, extra good; one
Sandwich feed grinder; one corn ele
vator, 34 feet long, complete with
power and jack; one press drill; two
6ets of 1-inch harness; one set of
1 Vz -inch harness and many other
articles too numerous to mention.
Terms of Sale
All sums of $25.00 and under,
cash. On sums over that amount,
ix months' time will be given on
approved notes bearing S per cent
from date. Bidders will please make
credit arrangements with their home
banks. No property to be removed
until settled for.
G. R. Rhoden,
Owner.
REX YOUNG. Auctioneer.
W. G. BOEDEKER, Clerk.
FARM FOR SALE
160 acres, six miles south of Cedar
Creek, Cass county. Good improve
ments. All under plow except ten
acres in pasture. Good running water.
Price $125 per acre. Terms reason
able. Can give possession March 1st
JAMES TERRYBERRY.
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BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS
Buff Orpington cockerels for sale
$1.50 each. C. R. Todd, Plattsmouth.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Mai
vina Coffin, 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
14th day of February, 19 30, and on
the 16th day of May, 1930, at 9:00
o'clock a. m., of each day, 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 14th day of February, A
D. 1930, and the time limited for
payment of debts is one year from
said 14th day of February. 1930.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 15th day of
January, 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j20-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF W'ILL
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass
ss.
To all persons Interested in the
estate of Martin Steppat, deceased:
On reading the petition of William
Steppat and Wilhelmina Nolting
praying that the instrument filed in
this court on the 14th day of Janu
ary, 1930, and purporting to be the
last will and testament of the said
deceased, may be proved and allow
ed and recorded as the last will and
testament of Martin Steppat, deceas
ed; that said instrument be admit
ted to probate and the administra
tion of said estate be granted to Ed
die Steppat and Martha Meisinger as
Executors:
It is hereby ordered that you, and
all persons interested in said matter,
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 14th day of Febru
ary, A. D. 1930, at nine o ciock a.
m., to show cause, if any there be,
why the prayer of the petitioners
should not be granted, and that no
tice of the pendency of said petition
and that the hearing thereof be giv
en 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 of hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 14th day of January,
A. D. 1930.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j20-3w County Judge.
NOTICE
of Application For License to
Operate a Pool Hall
Notice is hereby givn 1ha th
undersigned will on th 5th day of
February 1930, at 11 o'clock a. in.
at the Court House in Plattsmouth,
Cass County. Nebraska, make appli
cation to the Board of County Com
missioners of Cass County, for a Li
cense to operate a Pool Hall in th
building situated cm Lot ". in H!o k
3, in the Village cf Manh-y, Cass
County. Nebraska.
Dated this 22 clay of January A.
D.. 1930.
RUDOLF BERG MANN.
Applicant.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cas?,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
hy Uolda Noble Beal, Clerk of the
Di-trict Court, within and for Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed. I will cn the 3rd day of Febru
ary, 19 30, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day at the south front door of the
Court House, in the City of Platts
mouth, in said county, sell at public
auction to the highest Lidder for
cash, the following described real es
tate, to-wit:
The east half of Lots one (1),
two (2), three (3) and four (4 ).
in Block three (3) in Stadel
man's Addition to the City cf
Plattsmouth, Cass county, Ne
braska The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of John F.
Wolff et al. defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said court recovered by
The Plattsmouth Loan and Building
Association, plaintiff, against said de
fendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, December
30th, 1P29.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass.
ss.
By virtue of an Order cf Sale
issued by Golda Noble Ial. Ch-rl: of
the District Court within and for
Cass county. Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 22nd day of
February, A. D. 1930. at 10 o'clock
a. m. of said day, at the south front
door of the Court House in the City
of Plattsmouth, in said county, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash the following real estate,
to-wit:
The southwest quarter SWJ
of the northwest quarter (NWJ
of Section twenty-nine (29).
Township eleven 711), North of
Range fourteen (14), East of
the Cth P. M., in Cass county,
Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Alma Yard
ley et al. Defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said Court recovered by
William Sporer. plaintiff against said
defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January
2Cth. A. D. 1930.
BERT REED.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE OF SUIT
In the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska
Pul II. Wohlfarth.
riair.tiff.
vs.
Kate Hobhs Fowler et al.
Defendants.
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NOTICE
To the defendants. Kate Hobbs Fow
ler, John Fowler, Anna E. Hobbs,
Grace E. Hobbs. Joseph Hobbs. Flora
Hobbs Stout. Dorr Stout, Gilbert
Hobbs, Emma Hobbs Minor, John L.
Minor, William Hobbs and the un
known heirs, devisees, legatees, per
sonal representatives and all other
persons interested in the several es
tates of Catherin L. Hobbs. deceased,
William L. Hobbs, deceased, and
Noah R. Hobbs, deceased, real names
unknown, and all other persons hav
ing or claiming any interest in or to
the following described real estate in
Cass county, Nebraska, to-wit:
The north 101 feet of Lots
one (1). two (2), three (3),
four (4), five (5) and six (6),
in Block five (5) in White's
Addition to City of Plattsmouth,
Nebraska
according to the recorded plat there
of, real names unknown:
You and each of you are notified
that on the 4th day of January,
1930, the plaintiff in the foregoing
entitled cause filed his petition in
the District Court of Cass county,
Nebraska, wherein you are made par
ties defendants, for the purpose of
obtaining a decree from said court
quieting the record title in plaintiff
to the following described real es
tate, to-wit:
The north 101 feet of Lots 1.
2. 3, 4. 5 and C, Block 5 in
White's Addition to the City of
Plattsmouth, Cass county. Ne
bzraska, according to the re
corded plat thereof, real names
unknown
as against you and each of you and
by such decree to wholly exclude you
and each of you from all estate,
right, title, claim or interest there
in or to any part thereof and have
the record title to said premises for
ever freed from the claims of said
defendants and forever quieted in
the plaintiff. You are required to
answer said petition, on or before the
17th day of February, 1930.
Dated January 4th, 1930.
PAUL II. WOHLFARTH,
Plaintiff.
By GEORGE C. PROUD,
His Attorney.
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The Journal does Iaw Brief print
ing'. Tell your lawyer you wcul
like your brief printed at home.