MONDAY. FEB. 10. 1930.
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Bib Bill Thompson of Chicago ap
pears to have encountered a bigger
bill!
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Rivera quit, but there's a suspic
ion that only death can write the
resignation of Benito.
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The Great Wall of China is 1726
miles long, 20 feet wide at the bot
tom and 25 feet hiigh.
In the bootlegging industry there
are many big combinations, but none,
it seems, in restrains of trade.
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After the first two or three, the
thing a woman dreads most about
surgical operations is the hospital
food.
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The scientific report that efficiency
Is reduced 17 per cent by noise ex
plains at last what's wrong with
Congress.
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Secretary Mellon has many reasons
to be glad, but one of the greatest is
that they're taking enforcement away
from him.
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Trying to stop the Old Mississippi
with sacks of sand when she goes on
a bust seems to be nothing more than
dam foolishness.
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Certain varieties of tortoise and
turtles can live 400 or 500 years.
Attaining their great ages, perhaps,
because they don't speed.
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The groundhog hereabouts saw his
shadow Sunday, which means that
the weather will be exactly the same
as if he hadn't seen his shadow.
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An Ohio man run down his fifth
victim with his motor car one night
last week. That should tnake him
eligible to the Canadian Mounted.
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When an old married m:n drives
with one hand it is because the other
one is getting a light to hi cigar
that is, if the lady with him is his
wife.
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Peggy Joyce underwent an oper
ation in a New York hospital the
other day, but so far as we can learn.
all the doctors and internes escaped
unmarried.
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Anyway, the woman who has di
vorced her fifth husband has revealed
a lot of self-control in simply divorc
ing 'em when so many women are
shooting theirs.
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Nothing seems more usel?ss than
the muscles used for smiling when a
man wakes up to the fact he was just
born to earn the money for three or
four others to spend.
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Paris is firm on long skirts Head
line. It was Shakespeare, wasn't it.
who started the practice of calling
skirts "frails?" Well, it appears that
it has gone on long enough.
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Speaking of flattery, what is flat-jing
ten- we heard one man Dragging on
liis wife as a cook the other flay.
"Say," he remarked, "that woman
can cook such delicious toast that
have to screen the kitchen win- 1
we
dows to keep the quail from flying in
and lighting on it!"
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A wife may get sore at times be
cause friend hub raises such a howl
about climbing into his party scen
ery, but our bet is that the man
who feels like a fool in a plug hat
and like a waiter in a cafeteria in
a Tux isn't the kind that had his
fingers crossed during the wedding j
ceremony. j
Our Business is Picking Up
DEAD ANIMALS
Providing Hides are Let On
Under Supervision of a Licensed
Rendering Establishment
HOWARD RfiARTBW
Market 0326
Quick Service OMAHA, NEBR.
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When a movie wants a big crowd
it advertises "advance in prices."
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Bloomers are named after Ann
Bloomer, who was the first woman to
wear this type of dress
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In thugdom we have Chicago pine
apples and a Banana King; seems the
crime business is mighty fruitful.
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Congress refers
number of arrests,
meant the arrest of
to "staggerin
' No doubt he
staggering num-
bers.
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Another fool is planning to have
himself shot to the moon in a rocket.
He need not bother about a return
ticket.
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He who hesitates is old-fashioned.
Monday is as popular a day of the
week as February is as a month of
the year.
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Speaking of a wasted effort, there's
the girl who takes a domestic science
course when she expects to marry a
drug clerk.
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The manufacturer of Gilette razors
has been divorced by his wife. Per
haps he indulged in sharp and cut
ting remarks.
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At last we know why they call
the conference program an "agenda."
(All the delegates will be aged before
it's agreed upon.
The fellow who wants a house be
side the road so he can be the friend
of man. usually opens up a hot dog
stand and filling station to help pay
expenses.
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Introducing the young man who
eloped with Margaret Couzens. He is
a piominent Washington young man.
Anyhow, if he wasn't prominent be
fore, he is now.
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There may be some good reason
why hospital food is so uniformly in
edible, but all we ever could get out
of headquarters on the subject was a
lefty denial.
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George Washington's birthday
rcmes on Saturday this year. Holi-
days shouldn't be permitted to fall on
Saturdays and do some of us out of
a half holiday.
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Still, when you see what a woman
will kiss in the way of men it isn't
so doggone surprising to hear of some
of 'em catching the parrot fever from
kissirg their pollies.
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But most of the boys we've seen
selling magazines to pay their way
through college impress us as the
kind that would rather get coonskin
coats than college educations.
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Even the old-fashioned girl now
wears short skirts, but you still can
tell her by the way she speaks of not
caring for a man instead of eom-
right out and saying he is a pain
in n:e msik,
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The discussion to give the Filipinos
independence has sprung again. We
believe in freedom for t'.'.e Filipinos.
and then fewer oppressive laws in
the United States. The Filipinos
shouldn't be the only free people on
this earth.
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It would be okay with this depa t
ment if Chicago would find some 011
er name for its indubitably G Id
Coast. We never see the express:rn
without thinking of a gargantu in
grin displaying a long row of g-!d
teeth.
HAMSTRINGING THE ARMY
President Hoover has named
commission of army officers to survey
the military establishment and re
port what economies in its conduct
may be affected.
If Mr. Hoover has :n mind a re
duction of the army, he may as well
forget it. The army has already been
reduced below the safety limit, and
common sense suggests that it not
be further reduced to the proportions
of a police force. Memories of the
enormous cost the people paid for un-
preparedness in 1916-1918 are still
too vivid to be lightly overborne. The
extra billions they paid in expanding
a skeleton army into the formidable
American expeditionary forces are yet
pressing heavily upon the national
revenues and may not be fully dis
charged by two more generations of
our posterity.
When the people know for a cer
tainty that if they will not be called
to arms to fight another war, they
will be only too glad to cut their
army down to an internal contabul
ary but not until then. Ineffaceable
experiences from those of Washington
in the great Revolution down to the
"Wilson mobilization warn thinking
Americans to use the common pru
dence of keeping their powder dry
and their guns in easy reach. Mil
lions of veterans and more millions
of taxpayers will combine to impress
upon Congress that they see more
economy in preparedness for sure de
fense than in the mere saving of dol
lars by reducing the army to ab
surd and perilous proportions.
If Mr. Hoover wants to find a real
trouble in the army he will take cog
nizance of the large number of resig
nations from its official personnel
each year resignations so frequent
that it is a matter of much worry
to those in command.
Reasons for these losses are not
hard to find. One great reason, of
course, is that with the strength of
the armv held down to where the
organization is a mere shadow of its
former self, promotion is extremely
slow for young officers. Under con
ditions as they exist, they are oblig
ed to serve for many years with no
advancement in rank or pay. In civ
ilian pursuits, men of equal educa
tion and ability with them are mov
ing upward in their business or pro
fessions. and are winning increased
compensation for their services.
The pay of the army officer has
been virtually stationary since 1908.
During that time wages and salaries
of civilians have been sharply in
creased, and in every other branch
of the Federal government the pay
has been advanced measurably in
nearlv every instance save that of
the army. Those employed in these
other branches and departments are
receiving from 25 to 175 per cent
more than they received 22 years
aeo. At the same time it is esti
mated that the cost of living has in
creased in the United States about
104 per cent.
Men well up in army command
receive smaller salaries than many of
the executives in business organiza
tions who are far down in rank. As a
matter of justice to army officers.
If to the bystander it might seem
their compensation should be raised,
incongruous, while talk is alive in
the world for reducing armies and
armament, that salaries of army offi
cers should be increased, deeper con
sideration reveals exactly the op
posite. If arms and armaments are
to be reduced, then this government
of ours cannot neglect to have first
class commanders in charge. If the
Academy men see no future ahead of
them by reason of a career filled
with stintings and denials, then they
should be induced to remain with the
organization by giving them a decent
living.
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FAR VOICES
The canyons of the city,
I've known and loved them well!
The canyons of the city,
Tve yielded to their spell! -I've
loved the towering skyline
Its artisans have drawn.
But now my heart goes up the hill.
Beyond the wood and on
The dawnlight's silent omen
Of scurrying crowds to come, .
The restless beat of commerce.
The city's ceaseless hum
The thrill long known seems waning,
Perhaps already gone,
For now my heart goes up the hill,
Beyond the wood and on
From distant forest pathways
That form a world apart
Come far-off, haunting voices
That echo in my heart!
I long to follow new roads.
And know a different dawn.
For now my heart goes up the hill.
Beyond the wood and on
Chicago News.
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Men are pretty inconsistent. They
would be indignant if women insisted
upon them being beautiful when they
weren't born that way, and yet
they're always insisting on women
being consistent.
MR. TAFT AND MR. HUGHES
Mr. Taft's retirement from the
chief justiceship of the United States
Supreme Court closes a public career
that is unique in the history of the
country. He has been both President
and Chief Justice, the two most dis
tinctive and powerful positions in
the republic. Ke has graced both
high places, and he has retired from
them with the affection and respect of
the American people. The historian
will hardly ascribe to him the qual
ity of greatness; but that he was
able and sincere, that he was pro
foundly devoted to his country, and
that he worked industriously for her
welfare, is the judgment of his time.
Mr. Taft served only one term in
the White House, and the rebuke he
suffered at the hands of the people
in the election of 1912 was enough
to have soured a saint. That he
emerged from it with entire good
humor and went back into the Gov
ernment service during the war with
out the slightest reluctance as co
chairman of the Arbitration Board
explains the popular esteem in which
he was held despite his weakness as
President and some of his perplex
ing decisions as Chief Justice. There
was almost no honor within the gift
of the country that he did not enjoy.
none to which he did not bring a
serenity and a judicial discrimination
that made him.as happy as he was
useful. That he was no mean prophet
is proved by his remarkable forecast
of what would happen under na
tional prohibition. It was worthy of
Jeremiah.
Mr. Hughes, who succeeds Mr.
Taft, is scarcely less remarkable for
.the variety of his public service. He
has been Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, Governor of New
York, Secretary of State and Republi
can candidate for President of the
United States. He was spokesman for
his country at the Washington Dis
armament Conference of 1921, as
well as the Pan-American Confer
ence, held at Havana in 192S. He
has been a member of the Court of
Arbitration at The Hague, and m
1928 he was elected a Justice of the
World Court by the Assembly of the
League of Nations. From the view
point of riDeness and experince in
public life the appointment could not
be surpassed.
It is in relation to the almost static
division of the court upon grave pub
lic questions that the appointment
will chiefly interest the country. It
will be interested to know if Mr
Hughes sympathizes with such views
es those expressed in the Oraiion
Railway and the wire-tapping cases,
or if his influence is to support the
consistent dissent of Justices Holmes,
Brandeis and Stone, and sometimes
Justice Butler. The latest utterance
of the court on the subject of valu
ation, that in the Baltimore Street
Railway case, has filled the country
with profound misgivings as to the
tenableness of such a position. It is
naturally wondered if Mr. Hoover,
whose mission will certainly be to
reorganize the court, feels that the
future is safe for such economic ex
travaganza as that enunciated in the
O'Fallon and Baltimore cases, and
such constitutional hersy as that en
unciated in the wire-tapping and
automobile search cases.
Mr. Hoover has a very great op
portunity in,this matter, one which
it was clearly foreseen in the last
national campaign that the next
President would have. Six of the
nine members of the court either
have passed the age of constitutional
retirement or very soon will pass it.
The importance to the country of
those replacements may be said to
constitute Mr. Hoover's greatest re
sponsibility. The Supreme Bench is
n effect the final arbiter of most of
our great public questions. Its de
cisions go further toward setting
standards of American mores and
manners than any other governmen
tal agency. The complexion of the
court, the character and attitude of
the men who compose it, is thus of
the gravest importance. A disting
uished lawer once said : "The Su
preme Court IS the Constitution."
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KEEP MEDICINE LOCKED UP
Three Indiana children played
hospital the other day. One young
ster, aged 6, took the part of the
doctor. He prescribed for the other
wo some pills he found in a medi
cine cabinet at home. The pills were
not poisonous, simply physic pills.
But one of his two playmates died
from their effects which she ate six
of them is not surprising.
This pathetic little story serves to
emphasize again the responsibility
that rests on all parents. No medi
cines of any kind, poisonous or oth
erwise should ever be left in places
where smal children can get at them.
If they cannot be put out of reach
they should be kept under lock and
key. No other way is safe.
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Just a few of the Cass county maps
eft. While they last, 50c each.
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Then In the oren
Same lee
for over 38 years
2S ounces Cor 25
Use less than of
high priced brands
MILLIONS OP POUNDS USED
BY OUR GOVERNMENT
A WOMAN READS THE FUTURE
Congressman Oldfield, of Arkansas,
was one of the beneficiaries of an
American queer conception of chiv
alry. But Mrs. Oldfield has had
enough of legislative career. She will
not be a candidate for re-election.
In giving her reason for this decision
she exemplifies a wisdom not shared
by too many of her American sister
hood. She says that "now and a hun
dred years from now the charge of
public affairs will be in the hands of
men."
We have in thiscountry witnessed
the political elevation of women to
positions of executive, judicial and
legislative distinction and honor. In
almost every instance such elevation
has been accomplished as a result of
sentimental impulse. Women Sen
ators, Representatives, Governors,
Judges, suggest an incogruity in the
administration of civil affairs quite
as pronounced as would be presented
in the activities of woman in the af
fairs of the army and navy. The
reasons chiefly are biological reasons.
They are reasons stated and affirmed
by Nature.
In all the history of the world
there is no record of independent
feminine wholly competent rulership.
Miriam does not compare with Moses.
Elizabeth of England would have
been lost but for Lord Burleigh and
her ministers. Catherine of Russia's
absolutism, capricious, unstable and
grotesque, was qualified, guided and
directed by her advisers and pro
found!' influenced by the traditions
of her masculine predecessors on the
throne of her Empire.
And there will never be a time,
in this or in any other country, when
woman will have usurped man in the
control of public affairs. Her proper
sphere of action may be wide and in
clusive of many activities beyond the
limits of the heme and fireside, but
her material divorcement from the
place provided for her by God and
Nature could spell nothing but re
tardence and calamity for the race of
humankind.
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If the family ever should pause
long enough in its yelling for things
it wants to count its blessings prob
ably nothing would surprise it more
than discovering father actually is
one of 'em. I
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FOR SALE
Three dozen pure bred Rhode Is
land Red yearling hens, $1.25 each.
also Rhode Island Red cockerels, $1
each.
MRS. ALBERT YOUNG.
Murray, Neb.
Rad th Journal Want-Ada.
Farms for Sale!
80 acres, new improvements, good
land, 12 acres alfalfa, running wat
er, on gravel road, 3 miles west of
Plattsmoutb..
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 of post office and
ly2 miles from gravel. Terms to suit
purchaser.
Other Bargains in Cass
County Farms See
t. h. pollock
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBR.
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STBISON'S PLEA
The United States doesn't do much
just to amuse itself and its people.
In this country government is taken
more seriously that it is in some of
the countries across the ocean, and
big problems going with government
are given more consideration here
than elsewhere.
Secretary of State Stimson, speak
ing at a banquet in London, only a
few hours before the opening of the
naval parley, sounded the keynote of
the purpose which will direct the
course of the American delegates in
the deliberations during the contin
uance of the sessions of the confer
ence.
Mr. Stimson urged an end to arms
secrecy. The delegates cheered his
plea for unity. The secretary told his
audience that America understood the
purpose of the conference was "to re
move the secrecy, the rivalry" that
is the natural outgrowth of competi
tive naval armaments.
While the parley may not bear the
kind of fruit it is hoped it will, its
failure to do so well may not be just
ly chargeable to America, which nev
er has and does not now seek any
advantage of any other nation, except
such advantage as right entitles it
to possess in its relation with the
nations of the world.
This being true and it is true
the American delegates to the con
ference convened in London should
guard as no doubt they will the in
terests of their country to such ex
tent as to see to it that others are
given no advantage over it in the
way of self protection on the waters
of the world.
America has led all peace move
ments of modern times. The United
States is respected by the nations of
the world. Much is expected in the
way of leadership from its delegates
in Ixmdon, and it goes without the
saying that the delegates from Eng
land. Fiance, Italy and Japan will
find much for thoughtful consider
ation in the matters offered for their
consideration by Mr. Stimson and his
! associates.
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FRANKLIN'S WISDOM
Benjamin Franklin, the anniver
sary of whose birth was recalled the
other day, said many good things
while he was active on this mundane
sphere. Franklin was born 224 years
ago. He didn't have the advantages
men now have, but he was so con
stituted that no opportunity for self-
improvement was permitted to go
to, waste. As a result he served his
country and his fellow citizens wisely
and well. Here are some gems he left
to those of his day:
"Dost thou love life? Then
do not squander time, for that
is the stuff life is made of."
More good advice is this:
"He that goes a borrowing,
goes sorrowing." And for a na
tion in which 90 old men out of
a hundred die worth less than
$100, this is valuable. "A man
may, if he knows not how to
save as he gets, keep his nose to
the grindstone."
There is material for hundreds of
good sermons in the common sense
suggestions of Mr. Franklin. It would
he a good thing for parents to call
to the attention of their children
some of the things said by Mr. Frank
lin, the wise man of his day, who
once said he sought in life no higher
reward for his services than the con
fidence of his fellow countrymen, and
in death no higher honor than to
have his resting place marked with
a common gravestone containing the
words: "Here lies a printer.
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Life is funny. Here's the older gen
eration sighing because the rising
generation hasn't as much sense as it
has, and the younger one pitying the
older one because it doesn't know a
darn thing!
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Life was sweeter when it was. the
stream rising from the corking meal
his wife was cooking instead of the
smoke rising from a cigarette she
was smoking that greeted him when
he opened the front door.
NOTICE
In
the District Court or Cass
County, Nebraska.
Charles "W. Daniel.
Plaintiff.
vs.
Orpha Daniel,
Defendant.
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OTICE
To ORPHA DANIEL,
Non-Resident Defendant:
You are hereby notified that on
the 11th day of January, 1930,
Charles W. Daniel filed a petition
against you in the District Court of
Cass county, Nebraska, the object
and prayer of which are to obtain a
divorce from you on the ground that
you have wiiruny aDanaonea tne
plaintiff without good cause, for the
term of two years last past.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before the 17th day of
March. 1930.
CHARLES W. DANIEL,
Plaintiff.
By C. A. RAWLS,
Hi3 Attorney.
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SHERIFF'S SAL 12
State of Nebraska, County of Casa,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale
issued by Golda Noble I!val, Ch-rk 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 (2D).
Township eleven (11), 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
20th, A. D. 1930.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice 011 Petition for Set
tlement of Account.
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Behrend J. Beclcma:i, de
ceased :
On reading the petition of Anna
Reinackle, Executrix, praying a final
settlement and allowance of her ac
count filed in this Court on the 2r.th
day of January, 1930, and for linal
settlement cf said estate and her dis
charge as said Executrix;
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 ii nd for said
county, on the 21st day of February,
A. D. 1930. at 9 o'clock a. m., to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer cf the petitioner should not
be granted, and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons 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.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court, this 25th day of January,
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j27-3w County Judge.
SHERIFFS SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Execution issued
by Golda Noble Real. Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 1st day of March,
A. D. 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, Nebraska, in said county, sell
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash the following real estate,
to-wit:
The undivided one-third ( '3 )
interest in the southeast quar
ter ( V4. ) of Section eleven ( 11 ) :
and the undivided one-third
( V3 ) interest in the east one
half ( E ) of the southwest
quarter (SWU) of Section
eleven (11). all in Township
twelve (12), North. Range
twelve (12) East of the 6th P.
M., in Cass county, Nebraska;
also
The west 13 feet of Lot three
(3) and all of Lot four (4), in
Block fifty-four (54), in the
City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska
all subject to the life estate of
Elizabeth Meisinger
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Carl C. Mei
singer, defendant, to satisfy a judg
ment of said Court recovered by Ed
H. Tritsch, plaintiff against said de
fendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January
24th, A. D. 1930.
BERT REED.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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