ItONDAY, KAJtCH 17, 1930.
PLATTSMOUTH SEHI WEEKLY JQIT&NAL
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Spring trade picking up.
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Most women seem to enjoy pitying
somebody.
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There is no "love" in the modern
"racket" game.
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Time to clean the yard and get
ready to make garden.
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It isn't the girl who fires up quick
est that makes the best match.
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March is being fairly nice so far,
hope she will continue to the end.
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What a lot of women would just
dearly love to give up during Lent
is their diets.
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You can't do a thing to the spring
poets. They'll always show some
poetic license.
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The sad part about the prohibition
debate is that it never gets to the
play in the finals.
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A decided blonde is a light-haired
woman who always insists upon hav
ing her own way.
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Prohibition would make some men
more prosperous 'if they could be in
duced to let liquor alone.
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Cal Coolidge has at last attended
a wet celebration. Yep, he dedicated
the Coolidge dam in Arizona.
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The dry barrage being laid down
in Washington is making as much
noise as did that of the wets.
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For this generation, at least, noth
ing could be more appropriate as our
national flower than the WILD ROSE.
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A horse can easily be taught to eat
out of one's hand, but an expensive
car soon is eating out of one's pock
et. :o:
It is better to be alone than in
bad company, but some people are
in bad company when they are
alone.
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What about the more than 15,000,
000 unemployed in Soviet Russia,
under the government of the prole
tariat? AnfrhfnOz.
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situation in the French Cabinet mak
ing industry.
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For the first six months or so a
traffic problem in a town is pointed
to with pride.
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Perhaps they stage those earth
quakes in jCalifornia to shake money
out of tourists.
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When a man is full of his own im
portance it usually is a sign his head
is plumb empty. .
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You never can tell. The boy who
saves old magazines may grow up to
be a dentist Eome day.
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The Premiership of France is no
place for a man who wants to devote
his life work to a career.
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the naval parley has something to
do with a certain kind of oranges.
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ing old. enough to know better. We
hear of him yes we never see him.
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we intend to preserve it, is that
we've never seen or heard Rudy
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Have you. or haven't you, noticed
that the longest skirts are being worn
by the dames with the fattest under
pinning? If this snooping continues, the
Government may have to provide the
Senate office Building with a suit
able cellar.
It is said that a tramp has taken
four years to walk from Montreal to
Quebec. What a plumber that fellow
would make.
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The New York police department
is to publish a magazine. No doubt
It will feature some travel stories by
Mayor Walker.
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who picked up Cal Coolidge's half
smoked cigar may have been only
collecting cigar bands.
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IN INDIA
India seethes with potential re
volt. The radical Reds are a men
ace, but the non-resident "pacific"
program of Ghandi and his fellow
leaders is gaining strength and is
certain to bear bitter and destructive
fruit of violence, just as Kerenski's
alturism in Russia wrought the foun
dations of the present bloody regime
in that country.
Such men, like Frankenstein,
create a monster that soon and for
ever gets beyond their control. The
meek and half-clad prophet-politician
Ghandi yet well may become the
cause of multiple death and blood
shed in the old Iranic land, which
possible fact should engage his "holy"
reflections concerning the millions he
seeks to influence.
Hindu gestures in the name of lib
erty and independence within a week
Jiave distinguished many of the great
Indian cities. There have been mon
ster parades and processions in Delhi,
Lahore, Calcutta and Amadabad. The
elements of revolution are working.
They will not long remain submis
sive to the preachments of pacifist
leaders.
England is deeply concerned over
the developing situation; she lately
has sought to increase her military
strength in the mighty land of su
perstitions and distances, of the ex
tremes of poverty and riches; the
land for which she has done so much
in the way of rescue from the deeps
of degradation of centuries of ex
ploitation and misrule, from disease
and its attendant evils. She will not
lightly give over these multiplied
millions either to the forces of vio
lent rebellion or to the dreamful ad
ministration of those who still be
lieve that holiness is most manifest
by individual nakedness of body and
taysticism of mind.
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MOVING TIME
Well, it's getting toward moving
time again, and how busy a good
many folk will be! They will have
to bring in the piano box from the
back yard, where it has been either
a playhouse for the children or a
coop for the chickens. They'll have
to wrap the old comforts around the
chiffonier, and newspapers around
the chair legs. The old house will
have to be cleaned up, and so will
the new one. Something will be lost
something always Is and much
will be thrown away.
There is a great deal of waste
about moving. You remember Ben
Franklin, in his wise way, said:
"Three moves are as bad as a fire."
Yet when spring comes we see all the
disadvantages of the old place; the
landlord isn't willing to do very much
in the way of papering and painting,
and a new place looks a lot better.
What is even better than a new
house or someone's else to live in, is
a home of your own. Then when you
want something done you do it your
self and have the satisfaction of
knowing it has added a little to your
own property. You feel established
and your neighbors begin to think
you amount to something. This year
you buy new screens, and the next
year put a little hedge around the
lawn. The whole thing's yours. You
have a just pride in it.
It is a fine plan, if you must move,
move Just once more into a home
of your own.
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I believe in Democracy because it
releases the energies of every human
being. Woodrow Wilson.
P
OWDER
THE PROHIBITION DEBATE
By inviting both sides to debate
the wisdom of national prohibition
the House Judiciary Committee has
raised this issue to a decidedly high
er and more dignified plane.
Those who do not believe that na
tional prohibition is wise, or that it
is the way to temperance, were first
heard. They closed their case last
Tuesday. It was a very strong case,
and it was presented by men of such
eminence and unquestioned integrity
as to absolve them utterly from the
charge that they are tools of the li
quor interests or that their point of
view is entirely patriotic. They in
clude business men like W. W. Atter
bury, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; Pierre S. Du Pont of the
Du Pont Nemours Co., Henry B. Joy,
formerly president of the Packard
Motor Co., and Grayson F. P. Mur
phy of the New York Guarantee Trust
Co.; educators like Drs. Fabian
Franklin and Stewart Paton of Johns
Hopkins, Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University and Samuel
Harden Church of Carnegie Institute,
and lawyers like Ralph M. Shaw of
Chicago and Frederick R. Coudert of
New York.
Mr. Atterbury testified that drink
ing among the employes of the Penn
sylvania railroad is now, as it was
before prohibition, a matter of their
own self-discipline. He denied that
prohibition had been of any value to
his railroad and its personnel, as he
denied that it had decreased drink
ing among the people of the United
States. Mr. Murphy said: "I do not
know of a single leading banker in
the United States, a single leading in
dustrial executive, a single important
railway executive who does not
drink." Benedict Crowell of Cleve
land, formerly Assistant Secretary of
War, showed that there were 22,751
arrests for drunkenness in his city
in 1929, and only 2921 such arrests
in 1920. Noel B. Martin, attorney, of
Lewiston, Idaho, testified there had
been increase of juvenile criminality
in his State under prohibition. Mr.
Du Pont denied that prohibition had
made the country either more temp
erate or prosperous, asserting that it
had merely driven the liquor traffic
into the hands of the criminal classes
and so enriched them that they had
become a worse menace to the coun
try than even the saloons had been.
He urged the best minds of the coun
try upon both sides of the question
to give the present deplorable and de
moralizing situation their deepest
concern. Dr. Franklin said that had
we known 18 years ago what we
'now now we would never have at
tempted national prohibition, and he
pointed out that in Canada only the
tiny province of Prince Edward Is
land retains a prohibition law after
trying one out. Dr. Butler said: "We
must get back to the Constitution,
first by taking the eighteenth amend
ment out of it.. Then we can deal
with the liquor problem as we were
helpfully, hopefully dealing with it
when the blow struck."
Nor did these employers of labor,
educators, scientists, lawyers and
executives content themselves with
pronouncing national prohibition a
failure; they all suggested that the
Government retire from this field and
leave the states to regulate the lives
of the people. In their opinion the
Federal Government should restrict
itself to seeing that if some of the
states wish to be dry their desire
shall be respected. It would be im
possible to make such a change with
out repealing the eighteenth amend
ment. Ta Mr. Taft pointed out in
his now famous letter forecasting
what would happen under national
prohibition, 13 of the states can pre
vent repeal of the amendment. To
convince so many of the states as
would be necessary to repeal the
amendment that national prohibition
is what these men say it is presents
difficulties that can hardly be imag
ined. It cannot be done, as Mr. du
Pont and some others pointed out,
without the co-operation of at least
a great segment of the prohibition
ists. To secure such co-operation it
would be necessary to convince these
people that prohibition is doing more
harm than good. They are not to be
won if their sincersity is to be at
tacked. They can be won only by
reasoning with them and proving to
them that Federal prohibition is not
merely impracticable but ahs become
a grave peril to the nation.
As Chicago is the outstanding ex
ample of what national prohibition
has done to the American people, the
testimony from that city was parti
cularly important Morgan A Collins,
a former Chicago Police Chief, testi
fied that prohibition had enriched the
criminal class and created' a reign of
terror Dr. Francis J. Gerty, in charge
of the Psycopathic Hospital of Cook
County, testified that since the first
year of prohibition there had been a
material increased in the number of
alcoholic patients of both sexes, and
that the mortality in such cases like
wise had shot upwards. The institu
tion deal only with insanity cases up
to 1920, when alcoholism reached its
lowest ebb, but since then it has been
compelled to deal also with alcoholic
cases. In 1916 these totaled 99. Last
year they totaled 1100. Dr. Gerty
testified that before, prohibition the
percentage of alcoholic cases was list
ed at 11.4. It Is now 20 per cent.
Former United States Senator
Wadsworth of New York said the
youth of the country was rebelling
against the dry laws and that where
as the people had been good humored
about prohibition they are now get
ting out of humor about it. He said
that drinking at schools and colleges
is increasing with both sexes. Dr.
Paton, a psychiatrist, said prohibi
tion was having a disastrous effect
on the young people of the country,
which is suffering from "prohibition
shock," Just as soldiers suffered from
"shell shock." As a result he said
the minds of the people are on prohi-
bition and not on the major proD
lems of the country and of human
ity. The prohibition attitude of the
Government has, in his opinion, so
impressed itself on the people as to
drive them to intemperance, a per
fectly natural consequence of compul
sion in this or any other matter re
lating to human nature.
It is often said that the women
are the backbone of prohibition, but
women who testified before the com
mittee denied that this is the case.
One of them, Mrs. May T. Norton of
New Jersey, said that prohibitionists
are against a national referendum on
the subject because they fear the re
sult. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New
York expressed resentment of the im
putation that women are less aware
than men of what is going on in the
country, and she challenged the pro
hibitionists to put that charge to a
test. She also called attention to the
immensely costly prison building pro
grams of the Government and the
states to accommodate the convictions
resulting from the approximately 75,
000 American people arrested an
nually under the dry laws.
The proponents of prohibition are
having their inning before the com
mittee now. They complain that the
anti-prohibitionists are putting on
an offensive in which the friends of
national prohibition are overwhelm
ed. What is really happening, as
Dr. Franklin says, is that the people
are in revolt. It has taken the people
10 years to realize what a dreadful
mistake we made. They have been
disposed to he tolerant of the pro
hibition movement, realizing that the
counsel of perfection is inevitable in
any civilization. There was, as there
should have been, a widespread sym
pathy for it. The saloon was no fav
orite with the people, and the politi
cal liquor interests were properly
and deeply resented. The psychology
of war operates to upset the Judg
ment of all peoples, and it was at
such a time that the eighteenth
'amendment was adopted. As the
country cooled off its plight began
to interest and amuse the rest of the
world. Winston Churchill, the for
mer British Chancellor of the Exche
quer, described us as "caught in the
rat-trap rigidity of the constitu
tion." As the fervor of the people for pro
hibition receded its proponents dis
posed more and more to put the law
on them. This balancing movement
carried the reform so far afield that
to make the eighteenth amendment
effective we found ourselves in con
tempt of almost all of the first 10
amendments to the Constitution,
popularly called the Bill of Rights.
The Jones law represented the climax
of prohibition's effort to recover by
added strictures upon the people
what it had lost in popular favor.
Meanwhile, several of the states,
'finding their people opposed to na
tional prohibition, repealed their
state dry laws and said in effect that
if the Government wanted prohibi
tion in their borders it would have
to come in and effectuate it.
The prohibitionists cannot answer
such a growing revolt with words.
They can only suggest still more
strictures upon the people, which can
in turn olny increase the revolt. The
offensive has passed from the dry side
to the wet. That is a strategical los3
to the prohibitionists, one that is
fully recognized in political as in
military science. They will have to
barter, and bartering can result only
In compromise. If they are wise they
will consent to the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and accept
Itbe protection of the Federal Govern
ment in the states that wish to be
dry. Otherwise the'next 10 years in
the United States will be the most
troubled we have had since the slav
ery debate. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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A scientific survey, giving general
approval to installment selling as
economically sound when properly
carried on, has attracted widespread
attention. It is already referred to
as a bull argument in the stock market.
THE POPE ATTACKS RUSSIA
The attitude fo the soviet govern
ment in making war on religion has
brought forth a sharp rebuke from
Pope Pius XI, who asks all of Chris
tendom to protect against such out
rageous conduct.
The pope's announcement Is couch
ed in most vigorous terms and he
especially singles out the soviet cam
paign to imbue its youth with the
strongest antagonism toward Chris
tainity. He well calls attention to his sug
gestion made in 1922 that recogni
tion of Russia by any government be
conditioned upon that country's
guaranteeing freedom of religious
worship.
NOTICE
To Harry H. Coakley, non-resident,
defendant:
You are hereby notified that on the
2nd day of AugU6t. 1929, Belle S.
Coakley 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 grounds that you have
willfully abandoned the plaintiff
without good cause for the term of
two years last past. You are requir
ed to answer said petition on or be
fore Monday, the 14th day of April,
1930.
BELLE S. COAKLEY.
Plaintiff.
By Guy L. Clements,
Her Attorney.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Ber
tha Lancaster, deceased.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in Baid es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased died leaving
no last will and testament and pray
ing for administration upon said es
tate and for such other and further
orders and proceedings in the prem
ises as may be required by- the stat
utes in such cases made and provided
to the end that said estate and all
things pertaining thereto may be
finally settled and determined, and
that a hearing will be had on said
petition before said Court on the 4th
day of April. A. D. 1930, and that if
they fail to appear at said Court on
said 4th day of April, 1930, at 9
o'clock a. m. to contest the said peti
tion, the Court may grant the same
and grant administration of said
estate to Glen Boedeker or some
other suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) ml 0-3 w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on 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 Maria G. Baird, deceased:
On reading the petition of Caro
line I. Baird, Administratrix, pray
ing a final settlement and allowance
of her account filed in this Court on
the 3rd day of March, 1930. and for
final settlement of said estate and
her discharge as said Administrat
rix;
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 coun
ty, on the 4th day of April, A. D.
1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and that notice of the pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons
interested in said matter by publish'
ing a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper 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 3rd day of March, A. D.
1930.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) ml0-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Betty A. Mostin, deceased.
On reading the petition of A. W.
Smith and T. B. Hardison praying
that the instrument filed in this court
the 25th day of February, 1930, and
purporting to be the last will and
testament of the said deceased, may
be proved and allowed and recorded
as the last will and testament of
Betty Mostin, deceased; that said in
strument be admitted to probate and
the administration of said estate be
granted to Dr. J. S. Livingston, as
executor;
It is hereby ordered that you, 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 28th day of March,
A. D. 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the prayer
of the petitioners should not be
granted, and that notice of the pend
ency of said petition and that the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by pub
lishing 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 23th day of February,
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) m3-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
on Petition for Appointment of
Administrator.
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, S3.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Fred
Hannl, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition
of Metta May Hanni praying that
administration of said estate may be
granted to Herman Rieke, as Admin
istrator; Ordered, that April 4th, A. D. 1930,
at 10 o'clock a. m., is assigned for
hearing said petition, when all per
sons interested in said matter may
appear at a County Court to be held
in and for said county, and show
cause why the prayer of petitioner
should not be granted; and that no
tice of the pendency of said petition
and 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 of hearing.
Dated March 7th, 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) ml0-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by Galdo Noble Beal, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cas9
county, Nebraska, and to me directed.
I will on the 5th day of April, 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 Platts
mouth, in said county, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash.
the following real estate, to-wit:
Lot eight (8), Block eleven
(11), City of Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, as surveyed, platted and
recorded, Cass county, Nebras
ka The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Roy L. Mc
Elwain et al. Defendants, to satisfy
a judgment of said Court recovered
by The Standard Savings and Loan
Association of Omaha, Nebraska, a
Corporation, and Southbend Watch,
Company, a corporation. Defendant
and Cross Petitioner, Plaintiff against
said Defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, February
2Sth. A. D. 1930.
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 of Sale issued
by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Casa
county, Nebraska, and to me directed,
I will on the 5th day of April, 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 fol
lowing real estate, to-wit:
Lots one (1), two (2), three
(3) and four (4), twelve (12),
thirteen (13) and fourteen (14),
Block ten (10). South Park, an
Addition to the City of Platts
mouth, as surveyed, platted and
recorded, Cass county, Nebras
ka The same being levied upon and taken
as the property of Edward W. Cotner
and Ella Cotner, Defendants, to sat
isfy a judgment of said Court recov
ered by Northwest Ready Roofing
Company, Defendant and Cross-Petitioner,
and The Standard Savings and
Loan Association, of Omaha, Nebras
ka, a Corporation, Plaintiff against
said Defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, February
2 8th. A.; D. 1930.
BERT REED.
Sheriff Cass county,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE
In the District Court of Cass County,
Nebraska
Albert Kitzel,
Plaintiff
vs.
V NOTICE
William Kitzel. et al
Defendants
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of a decree of the Dis
trict Court of Cass county, Nebraska,
entered in the above entitled cause
on the 15th day of February, 1930,
and an Order of Sale entered by sard
Court on the 15th day of February,
1930, the undersigned Referee will.
on the 22nd day of March, 1930, at
2:00 o'clock p. m., at the front door
of the Farmers and Merchants Bank,
Alvo. Nebraska, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder, the following
described real estate, to-wit:
The west half (W) of the
northwest quarter (NW) of
Section thirty-six (36), Town
ship eleven (11), N. Range nine
(9) , east of the 6th P. M., ex
cept the right of way of the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Company; and
The west half (W) of the
northeast quarter (NE4) of
Section one (1), Township ten
(10) , N. Range nine (9), east
of the 6 th P. M.
All of said lands being in Cass
county, Nebraska
upon the following terms: Ten per
cent (10) of bid in cash on date
of sale, balance in cash upon con
firmation of sale and delivery of ref
eree's deed of land free from encum
brance except lease to said lands to
March 1, 1931. Abstract to be fur
nished purchaser showing merchant
able title. Said sale will be held
open for one hour.
Dated this 15th day of February,
1930.
J. M. LEYDA,
Referee.
Carl D. Ganz,
Attorney.
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