MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1930.
PLATTS3I0UTH SE3II-WEEKLY JOTTEITAL
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Cbe plattsmouth lournal
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"Snuff Company Insures Employes
for 11,000,000," says a headline.
Sneeze that off.
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We would like to see that smart
scientist who says nothing is impos
sible keep cool this summer.
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What's the difference? If the boat
rocker escapes, he'll soon be starting
fires In the range with gasoline.
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Some men have accidents because
bees get into their cars, and others
have a little honey in the seat beside
them.
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The parrot that fled when the tele
phone bell rang suggests that one
way conversation can annoy even the
expert.
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If they want realism in the movies,
why fire a beautiful star Just because
she seems dumb and common when
she talks?
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Now that insect proof garments
have been designed, the next war
ought not be so hard on the boys in
the trenches.
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A farmer who lives Just adjoining
the Country Club says his crop this
year will be fifteen potatoes and
eight golf balls.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Peo
ple no longer sunburn their tonsils
when a plane passes, and a knee is
Just a one-way hinge.
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Claudius H. Huston has shown such
skill in non-co-operating that it is
suspected that he took a few lessons
by mail from Mahatma Gandhi.
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A contemporary carries two editor
ials In one Issue on "Reciprocity."
That's the stuff William McKinley
was talking about way back in 1896.
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Chairman Fess predicts a Repub
lican victory in Maine and is prepared
to announce later that the prevailing
speech on the streets of Rotterdam is
Dutch.
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After Llndy's kid gets old enough
to start asking questions he'll get a
lot of experience in answering 'em,
and ought'a be easier for the news
paper boys to handle.
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Newspapers are always optimistic.
A Texas editor, telling of a lecture,
said the audience sat spellbound.
There was only four present. One
was deaf and the other three were
asleep.
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Men are getting clothes conscious,
eaya a male fashion item. They sure
ly were that way during the super
heated spell, and boy, how they en
vied the girls who didn't have on
enough to be conscious of.
Smile At
the Ache
Stop them with that modern, pleasant, mint-flavored tablet,
DSL MILES ASPIR-MINT. It's quick in action and effective.
Try it for Headache, Colds, and Neuralgia.
YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE
ut uanaaa ana loreign countries,
are payable strictly in advance.
Senator Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio,
succeeded Claudius Huston, who quit
under pressure.
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Admiral Richard Byrd says he is
looking for a quiet place where he
can retire and write his book.
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The prohibition problem will not
be solved until the bootleggers begin
to sell on the easy payment plan.
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You can plug a watermelon and
find if the stuff inside is all right,
but you can't do that with a candi
date.
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If this country wishes to retaliate
for the European corn borer it might
smuggle over a few Tom Thumb golf
courses.
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Gunmen of the modern type would
not make good soldiers unless the op
posing army could be persuaded to
turn it's back.
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Not until we hear him singing at
some luncheon club will we believe
that Henry Mencken has really be
come a babbitt.
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Even yet you can find communities
where bride is an indoor game and
rook is the only one innocent enough
to play on the front porch.
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A modern trousseau-treussou
wedding outfit consists of useful
things. No money is spent, a3 of
yore, on things that won't show.
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The unexpected happened ar-d a
radio announcer has been shot. Add-
ly enough, however, it seems to have
been over politics rather than his pro
fessional manner.
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A political economist says that
only one voter in 60 informs him
self enough to cast an intelligent bal
lot. Some will think he left a cypher
off the latter figure.
He was anxious to see how his
picture would look on the front page
of a newspaper and did not want to
break a record or kill anyone, so he
endorsed a patent medicine.
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Mrs. Thomas A. Edison: "A good
homemaker must have executive abil
ity, be a good purchasing agent, an
economist and somewhat of a chem
ist." Not a word about bridge.
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The one-room schoolhouse is pass
ing, and at a fairly rapid rate. At
the close of the 1928 school year
there were 153,306, a drop of 8,220
over the 1925-1926 school year.
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Babe Ruth will soon open a haber
dashery store on Broadway. The Eign
on the window will probably say
something to the effect that the
Babe's stuff is best in the long run.
Muscular Pains
They may attack you any
where your back, your legs,
your arms, your neck.
These Pains may be mis
taken for Neuritis, Rheuma
tism, Lumbago, Sciatica.
Two Sizes
15c and 25c
SI
Many persons have come to feel
that the United States Supreme Court
could not possibly hand down a de -
cision or approve a project unless
Justices Holmes and Brandeis and
Stone dissent, and emphatically.
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When we speak of a free country,
we mean a country whose laws and This is emphatically true of the trou
customs encourage individual citi- bles that have bronght turmoil into
zens to use their own judgment in
matters which do not directly men-
ace public safety or public decency.
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Ever and anon there appears in
the weekly press that such-and-such
a county is about to float a bond issue
for the building of gravel roads. The
amount varys. Plattsmouth needs
good roads to Rock Bluffs very much.
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Every time a paragrapher writes
the word "funereal" the linotype op
erator makes it "funeral." The for
mer means glocJiny or something like
that, while the latter means what
happens to you if you get too
gloomy.
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In Sweden they are making blood
tests of inebriated motorists to de
termine the degree of drunkenness.
What will surprise most persons un
der this ruling is that they must sub
mit to a physician though they are
feeling good.
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Just prior to an election when a
candidate sees an editor coming down
the street he hurries forward with a
smile on his face and his right hand
outstretched. After the election the
candidate hurries by like the editor
had the smallpox.
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Every year or so some calamity
howler arises to remark that big
league baseball is dead, or at least
dying. And every year, regular as
clockwork, something comes up to
prove that there is a great deal of
life in the old game yet.
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We suppose the Florida Times-
Union's advice not to kill bats be- economic life of the world. As we ap
cause they destroy so many insects proach that condition of smoothly
won't interest the girls who bunk on
the top floor of the Y. W. building.
From what we've heard, our bet is
they'd prefer the insects.
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A Paris cable says France is wor-
ried over her gold problem; that the
gold reserve has reached 50.000,000,-
000 francs, or about 12,000,000,000
in American money. Why worry
merely because you have more gold
mail you &nuw iiui lu uu v iiu :
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WHY GANGLAND EULES
A Chicago Police Judge urged cen-
tral police officials to round "P
known gangsters, hoodlums, profes-
sionai crooKs ana otner Dig bdois
of crime in that city and hale them
before his Court. Little wonder that
his dignity dissolved into indignation
when the police lined up before him
one day 56 minor culprits charged
witn arunKenness, peuy ganiDiing
and disorderly conduct.
The Judge summoned the Police
captain ana toia mm a iew super-
heated facts, inese ioxes ana ra-
bits of crime were not the game so-
ciety ought to be hunting; they cer-
tainly were not the deadly crooks
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wnose arrest me oun naa urgeu.
Why is it, the Judge asked, that
gangsters are allowed to pursue their
nefarious trades unmolested, altho what really matters is not the pub
the Courts order, and the polic licly announced and purposely high-
promise, their arrest?
The indirect, but final, answer to
the Court's question is found in "
series of estimates recently gathered
by the Chicago Daily is.ews. It is
indicated that the sale of beer and
liquor in Chicago brings to the
racketeers at least $3,500,000 a weeK,
or approximately $182,000,000 a
year. Of this staggering sum not less
man xou.uuu.uuv is umi i""-
Safe in protection, the gangsters also
1 m 1 r t A ft ftftft Zn nlAMf ft I
have "muscled in" to legitimate busi- consumer whether business is Tender
nesses and collect vast tribute to ing better service for purely selfish
Bwell their income.
This money is sufficient to pay
huge salaries to every tnug or ieaa-
er in Chicago, to "pay off" handsome-
ly to every policeman, and in addi-
tion to provide a fund of fifty or sev-
enty-nve minion aoiiars a year iui
the corruption of politicians, officials,
Judges and the like. So long as poll-
tics continues to pay such tremen-
uous returns 10 crime, gaiigsieia mi
ruie. jso local government ever nas
or ever will stand up under the pres-
sure of a hundred million in easy
money. Federal governments have
wavered for less. There is the Judge's
answer. What are we going to do
about it.
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a DaDy gin was Dorn in an in-
dianapolis taxicab while the mother
was en route to a hospital. In future
years that girl Is going to have a
hard time pointing out her birth-
Place.
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If you want to fully comprehend
just what a long drouth means, get
up in the air and take a birdseye
view of Mother Earth.
ECONOMICS AND EEVOLT
j It is idle to look about us for a
simple formula which will explain
the stirring political events of the
present age. Human relations, in any
nation, are much too complex to lend
I themselves to an easy explanation
Bolivia and Peru, into Brazil and
Argentina. It is noteworthy, how-
lever, that in the Peruvian revolt and
I in the change of government in Ar-
gentina, approximately a revolt, there
existed a trying economic condition
which laid the groundwork for the
popular uprising
Just as "hard times" in the United
States has brought changes of the
political party in power a dozen
times in our national history, so the
depression of major industries in
South America shows itself in rebel
lion or sedition, which is tantamount
to rebellion. To go as far afield as
India, the introduction of the factory
system there and the growth of ma
chine industry have had a major part
in bringing about the present im
passe between Hindu Nationalists and
British raj.
In this fashion groups of people in
sist on throwing the responsibility
upon their Governments for the
fluctuations in their economic well
being. Sometimes this is in accord
with the facts, for Governments do
stifle prosperity at times, even when
they are trying hardest to assure its
continuance. On the other hand, it
is more frequently true that the per
iodic decline of business and employ
ment and the fall of prices come
about regardless of what Govern
ments do or neglect to do.
For those who peer deeply Into the
tangled confusion of Latin-American
politics, keeping in mind the parallel
problems in North America and in
the Old World, there is revealed
simply a re-emphasis of the funda-
mental importance of stabilizing the
flowing economic activity we will
I find many of the troubles that we
glibly term "political" evaporating
I into thin air. Thus are we brought
back squarely to a problem that chal-
ienges us in every phase of life how
to tae hold of the tremendously
powerful economic mechanism which
man has created, and guide it wisely
so that it Berve us rather than
I enslave us
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BETTER BUSINESS ETHICS
It is a wholesome sign of the times
that business and professional men
are much concerned over the ethics
of their own particular occupations
Many trade associations, service clubs
etc have committees on business
standards and printed codes of ethics
guide their members. Colleges and
universities offer lecture courses on
tbe subject, books are being written
on it and there are organizations
dedicated to the improvement of the
Btandards of business conduct.
However, the public i3 not overly
impresged by mere organization or
printed codes, standards and plat-
formg. it judges the ethics of busi-
ness Dy the ethics of the individual
members of that business. It does
not buy goo3 f rom trade asg()Cia-
tions, but from individual concerns.
sounding and sonorious code of an
impers0nal association, but the actual
everyday conduct of the individual
business man, firm and corporation.
But there is not a consumer who
ha8 not convinced himself by actual
experience that merchants, especially
are doing more than talking about
8ervice. Modern business has learned
that "honesty is the best policy," and
tnat "he profits most who serves
begt." And it matters little to the
reasons or because it has become
moraiiy conscious
profits are a worthy, honorable
g0al, but if they are the only aim of
business, then the commercial system
ig doomed. And it follows naturally
that, since the commercial system
snows no evidence of decay, profits
ar not the one and onlv eoal of mod
ern business
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The weicome accorded in New
York to Capt Dieudonne, first to
make a non-stop flight from east-to-
wegt acrosa the Atlantic, was sone
what different to the reception ac-
corded William Randolph Hearst in
Pranra The two FrnrhiTiPT -or pro re
ceived with open arms. Willing Vil
lie was handed his hat and told to
hurry,
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An exchange says: A young worn-
an at Mobile, suspected of having 11
iQuor in her car, waB shot to death
by two policemen. Investigation
showed the car did not contain II
quor. And yet some folks cannot
understand the glowing unpopularity
of prohibition.
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end it's easy to refinish furni
ture, floors, woodwork, motor
car, hats and shoes too with
Fast-drying, flawless enameL
Lacquer thct"dries in no time".
Varnish that even hot water
can't harm. This store is head
quarters for paintsvarnish
lacquer enamels brushes!
H. L. Kruger
Paint and Wall Paper Store
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CURBING SPACE GRAFTERS
Recognizing the claim of news and
legitimate advertising to a lower
postal rate than veiled propaganda
and the right of the reading public
to the branding of all publicity as
publicity, the postoffice department
has laws and regulations that pro
vide that publicity matter inserted in
publication as news or editorial
matter must be plainly marked with
the word "advertisement" and bear
a higher postal rate.
These provisions are of long stand
ing but were given little attention
until recently when a number of
newspaper publishers complained to
the postoffice department that certain
advertisers and advertising agencies
were trying to get free advertising
run as "reading matter" by promising
advertising contracts or threatening
to take paid-for advertising away
from them.
The postoffice department is inves
tigating these unfair practices and
threatens prosecutions where the
facts warrant. In so doing it is act
ing for the best interests of the gov
ernment, the department itself, the
reading public and the newspapers
The practice is unfair and dishonest
The government is not without
weapons with which to wage this bat
tle. A newspaper may be fined up to
$500 for not properly marking adver
tising matter and for conspiracy
against the government the maxi
mum penalty is $10,000 fine and two
years' imprisonment.
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INNOCENCE
"Simply and in no sense officially,"
says Col. Woodcock, the new prohi
bition enforcement director, "this
would be a law-abiding nation if
people who patronize bootleggers
would abandon that practice."
Simply? One might go farther and
say innocently.
If the liquor traffic could have
been stopped by so simple a plea as
that which comes from the Colonel, it
would have disappeared years ago.
To say that if there were no law
less there would be no lawlessness
amounts to the same thing. Boot
leggers could not bootleg if there
were no buyers, but therein lies the
very kernel of prohibition enforce
ment problem. There probably al
ways will be buyers.
If this is a sample of the oracles
the country may expect from the new
enforcement czar, it might be well
to adopt the "white house spokes
man plan for his department.
Drys and wets alike are weary of
listening to platitudes and the ob
vious from those charged with the
enforcement of the liquor laws. The
Hoover enforcement.commission more
than satiated that appetite. When
Director Woodcock is in a position to
tell the world how he is going to in
duce the bootlegger's patron to de
sist, the people will sit up and take
notice. Until then It were better that
ha held his peace.
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Holding the air races at Chicago
was a tactful subterfuge to enable
the citizens of that scandalized com
munity to hold up their heads.
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ION CHANEY'S CONTRIBUTION
Lon Chaney was never one of those
movie actors who nuirken the lan
guid pulse of the high-brows. No
wordy essayist ever wrote articles for
the roughpaper magazine expatiating
on his art. Visiting novelists never
went out of their way to write him
up as they wrote up Charlie Chaplin
and Emil Jannings.
But Lon Chaney, nevertheless, was
supreme in his own field. As a char-
... , ... .. ,
acter actor he had no equal. His list
of accomplishments in the days of
the silent films was extraordinarily
long, and it had Just become evident
to make an equally good record in
the talkies.
Most important of all was the fact
that he gave good entertainment to
millions of people. He has probably
furnished more exciting thrills to
more different men and women than
any other man in America. The
movie world will miss him sincerely
His place will not be easy to fill.
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Thirteen persons were arrested in
raids on moonshine stills and just
after the stills had started up again,
have been forced to susnend oner-
ations on account of lack of water
auring me long aroutn.
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BLACK POLAND CHINA B0AB.S
I have a number of very fine black
Poland China boars readv for service,
for Bale. Can be Keen at mv store at
Fort Crook. Dude Oakley, Phone
Bellevue 138-W.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun
ty, ss.
In the county court.
In the matter of the estate of
Isaac Cecil, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notined, that I
will sit at the County Court Room
in Plattsmouth, in said county, on
October s. lysv. ana January o,
1931, at iu o ciock a, m., eacn aay,
to receive and examine all claims
aeainst said estate, with a view to
their adjustment and allowance.
The time limited for the presenta
tion of claims against said estate is
three months from the 3rd day of
October. A. D. 1930. and the time
limited for payment of debts is one
year from said 3rd day of October,
Win and testament of the said de
Witness my hand and the Beal of ceasedf may be proved and allowed,
said County Court this 5th day of and recorded as the last will and tes-
September, 19 30.
A. H. DUXBURY,
County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
t v o n noa
In the County Court of Cass coun-
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss
" V "
estate of James C. Kennedy, deceas-
On reading the petition of Nora
Kennedy Administratrix, praying a
final settlement and allowance of her
account filed in this court on the
rd day of September, 1930, and final
settlement of said estate and her dis-
charge as said Administratrix of said
estate;
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 3rd day of October, A. D.
1930. at 10 o'clock a. m., to Bhow
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 ani the hear
ing thereof be given to all persona
interested in said matter by publish
ing a copy of this order in the Platts-
mouth Journal, a Bemi-woekly 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 September, A,
D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) sS-3w County Judge
NOTICE OF SALE
In the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska
Caroline I. Baird and
Edith Estelle Baird,
Plaintiffs
VB.
NOTICE
Florence B. Jones, a Minor,
and Fred A. Jones, Guar
dian of Florence B. Jones,
Minor,
Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of the decree of the
District Court of Cass county, Ne-
braska, entered in the above entitled
action by said Court, on the 12th
day of July, A. D. 1930, the under-
signed sole referee will Bdl at pub-
lie auction to the highest bidder for
cash, on the 27th day of September,
L. 1330, at iu:uo ociock: a. m.,
at the Bouth front door of the court
house In the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska, the follow-
lng aescriDea real estate, 10-wu:
Lots four (4), five (5) and
six (6) in Block sixty-two (62)
in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass ing a copy or this order in the Platts
county. Nebraska. mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news-
Terms of Sale 10 cash of the
amount of the bid at the time of
sale, and the balance on confirma-
tion. Said Bale will be- held open fori
one hour.
Dated "this 26th day of August,
1930. I
CHARLES E. MARTIN,
Referee.
C. A. RAWLS, I
Attorney.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun-
-
ty, as.
in tne county uourt.
In the matter of the estate of Min
nie Kaffenberger, deceaned.
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
26th day of September, 1930. and
the 27th day of December, 1930, at
10 o'clock a. m., of each day, to re-
celve and examine all claims against
said estate, with a view to their ad-
,1,,tTri. ' 0.nQ
j uoi axi vut ii it v uuvw. a lie: 1111JC
nmited for the presentation of claims
against said estate is three months
from the 26th day of September, A.
u. iviv, ana tne time limited ror
navmpnt of riehtn is nnp vpnr from
sald 26th day ot September. 1930.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 29th day of
August, 1930.
(Seal) sl-3w
County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Wil
liam Shea, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I
will sit at the County Court room in
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z n i ii 1 1 n v in 1 1 1 frMiiiifr 1.1. . him:
the 27th dav of December. 1930. at
10 o'clock a. m., of each day, to re-
ceive and examine all claims against
said estate, with a view to their ad-
Justment and allowance. The time
limited for the presentation of
claims against Bald estate is three
months from the Zfcth day or heptem
ber, A. D. 1930, and the time limit
ed for payment of debts is one year
from said 26th day of September,
1930.
Witness my band and the Beal of
said County Court this 30th day of
August, 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) sl-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF TROBATE OF WILL
jn the rnuntv Court of Pass rmin-
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County 'of Cass,
ss.
To all persons Interested in the
estate of Joseph F. Tubbs, deceased:
On reading the petition of Emma
Tubbs, Millie Church and Maud Jones
praying that the instrument filed in
thiR rourt on the 29th rtnv of An runt.
1930. and purporting to be the last
tament of Joseph F. Tubbs, deceased;
that said instrument be admitted to
probate, and the administration of
Baid estate be granted to Clifford W.
Jones, as Executor;
It is hereby ordered that you, and
all persons Interested in said matter.
I ny. and" d. appear at the County
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countv. on the 26th dav of Kentem-
bef A 1930 fit 1Q &cloc & m tQ
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of tfae petltIoners Bhoul not
. on. naitf,n 0A
tfle hearI thereof be v?n t
persons Interested in Baid matter by
nM,chinB . .i I
tho piattDTT,,,tH t.i .
nr,nt , ,,
county, for three successive weeks
Inrior to said dav of hearinc
w(tnoa mv hnnrt .t.h oi
court tQl8 29th d of AugU6t A
D 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
County Judge.
(Seal) 8l-3w
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice of Final Settlement of
Guardianship Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
1 . v..k.,. t
tent 0 v
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
To Mary A. Hilfllcker, Frlederica
A. Stoehr, John M. Kaffenberger,
Adam Henry Kaffenberger, Michael
Kaffenberger, Luella L. Meisinger,
August Kaffenberger. Mabel Kauf
mann, Fredrick Kaffenberger, Mich
ael Kaffenberger, Administrator with
the will annexed of the estate of
Minnie Kaffenberger, deceased, and
to all other persons Interested in
the guardianship of the estate of
Minnie Kaffenberger, Incompetent,
now deceased:
On reading the petition of Hans
Seivers, Guardian of Minnie Kaffen
berger, an incompetent person, and
now deceased, praying for a final set
tlement and allowance of his final
account filed in this court on the
30th day of August, 1930, and for
his discharge as such guardian:
it is hereby Ordered, that you and
all other persons interested in Bald
matter may. and do. anoear at the
County Court to be held in and for
Cass county, Nebraska, on the 26th
day of September. A. D. 1930. at the
hour of nine o'clock a. m., in the
forenoon of said day, to show cause,
if any there be, why the prayer of
the petitioner 6hould not be rranted.
and said guardianship proceedings
terminated and said guardian dis-
charged, and that notice of the pen-
dency of said petition and the hear-
ing thereof be given to all Demons
interested in said matter by publish-
paper, -printed in said countv for
three week prior to said day of
hearing.
In witness whereof. I have here-
unto set my hand and the seal of
this court this 30th day of August.
A. D. 1930.
By the Court.
A. H. DUXBURY.
County Judee. Cas Coun-
(Seal) ty, Nebraska.
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