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Do your Christmas shopping oily,
as they say in Oklahoma.
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O' Bald Knob begins to look like
it was getting a close shave.
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This is the season ah-sa hunting
dogs start out with a new leash on
life.
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In the steep climb to success a
little 'ipull" often counts as much
as considerable push.
As thin as the excuse of a man
who is going to Canada because he
likes the winter sports.
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Maybe statues of statesmen look
unnatural because they are on a ped
estal instead of a fence.
We don't believe they ever will
make a car small enough not to prove
eventually to be a big expense.
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The countess of Enroll has married
an American named Haldeman.
Strange to say, neither is wealthy.
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Some of us can remember the old
days when a racket was a tennis
weapon and a wine-sap was an apple.
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Water in the radiator, water in the
battery and. preferably, water in the
driver, makes the automobile run
well.
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We expect to walk into a place any
day for a pound of liver and have the
butcher wrap it in a couple of stock
certificates.
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"There is a racket," remarks Dis
trict Attorney Crain of New York,
"in everything from babies' nr.lk to
funeral coaches."
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Little Old New York was certain
ly given a lot of credit when Wall
Street made it a loan of a mere $G0,
000,000 the other day.
That's a great drama the Soviet is
putting on, and Stalin ought to be
congratulated for writing those re
sounding pleas of guilty.
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A sports writer deplores the fact
that the clamor is for touchdowns
instead of ethics But in football,
what team can see any point in
ethics?
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Before 1930 abdicates in favor of
1931 life insurance in force in the
United States will have reached the
staggering volume of $100,444,000,
000, according to a survey just pre
pared. :o:
Among the better class of citizens
there prevails so high a respect for
the presidency and so great a defer
ence for the man who fills it as to
cultivate a deep repugnance to de- j
grading gossip or criticism.
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Publisher
Wanted: A crooner who will sing
a song without wheezing "I Love
You."
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"It is always good policy," as the
Papa Salmon told his children, "to
look before you leap."
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Many a nation would be willing to
play ball with the Soviets if only
they'd quit their Stalin.
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Hint to men If you want a new
shaving outfit or smoking jacket give
it to your wife for Christmas.
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"Thar's gold in them tha bills."
said the husband caustically as he
locked over his wife's statements.
The nation's football season came
to its close throughout a ircod part
of the country, in a swirl ol snow.
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"I have nothing to say about any
thing." Simeon D. Fess is quoted as
saying. And that's saying a mouth
full. -:o:-
Since this business propaganda
started urging people to spend, a fel
low feels patriotic every time he fills
his gas tank.
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The death rate in London has in
creased in the last few days during
which a heavy fog has prevailed over
Southern England.
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China needs, according to a recent
estimate, at least 100,000 miles of
new railways to care for its present
transportation demands.
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Sinclair Lewis, who is learning to
say "thank you" in Swedish, is un
aware, perhaps, that "ckay" would
be understood perfectly.
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The Notre Dame boys may not
.know a thing about the fashions, but
they're ccstainly famou; U r their
o'd-fasiii'med Irish lacing.
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A South Africa scientist has dis
covered a method of making asbestos
from citrus fruits. This probably
means curtains for oranges.
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A German invented a folding
; house which can be carried on auto
mobile trips That seems to settle the
house problem in this country.
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Leaders of the G. O. P. are trying
to keep Chairman Fess from talking
any more, overlooking the fact that
he is a member of the Senate.
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We don't see any reason for
amazement that college bands can
spell the names of their schools, even
when marching down a football field.
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There are four things we can think
of at this minute that don't always go
when you want them to a car, a
block, tiresome callers and winter
SmileAt
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GOLD AND BUSINESS DEPRESSION 'short-sighted protective tariffs whicb
I have upset the normal flow of world
i The economic difficulties from!trade. can a11 rise ln their places to
I which the world suffers do not re
i main unsoived for lack of explana
j tions. One theory which is current,
'particularly in England, is that the
present situation is the result of a
gold shortage. Briefly, this argument
runs as follows: the production of
commodities has been increasing at
la more rapid rate than the gold sup
ply, this relative gold shortage has
been accentuate! by the fact that
over half the world's monetary gold
is in the United States and France,
and hence prices have fallen and de
gression and unemployment are upon
; us. In July of this year Sir Henry
Strakosch, in a memorandum on
"Gold and the Price Level," develop
ed this idea, and recently E. M. H.
Lloyd, a member of the British Em
pire Marketing Board, advanced the
same thesis.
Tempting as this hypothesis is,
particularly when buttressed by im
posing statistics, the factors that
make for prosperity or for depres
sion are so complex that the careful
, observer hesitates before he unloads
all the credit or all the blame at one
doorstep. Several propositions in
volved in this "gold theory" should
be clearly distinguished. The idea
that change in the gold supply have
had a great influence over world
prices is generally accepted by eco
nomic students: the rise in prices
after the Californian and Australian
gold discoveries, the fall in prices
from 1S73 to 1S96 when gold pro
duction was slowing up, and the per
iod of rising prices from 1S96 to
1913 which accompanied increased
gold production from Alaska and
South Africa, are all cases in point.
Further, many economists, both in
the United States and abroad, fear
that we are faced by another gold
shortage and a period of falling
prices as a result of the working out
of the world's gold mines. In this
matter so much depends upon tech
nical developments in mining, upon
the discovery of new mines and upon
changing in banking practices, that
dogmatic statements may be upset by
some unexpected turn. That the pos
sibility exists, however, most eco
nomists recognize.
But from the historical fact of the
effect of gold upon prices, or the re
cognition of the possibility of a fu
ture gold shortage, it is a long Jump
i io i lie proposition mai uur pieseui
troubles are exclusively, or even in
large part, due to a gold shortage.
Neither the business cycle nor price
declines are new things, nor are they
j problems to be interpreted solely in
terms of the gold supply. During the
j period of rising prices from 1S96 to
i 1 9 1 3 there were times of business
; depression when prices, particularly
of raw materials, fell sharply.
The fact that the United States
and France are holding over half of
i the world's monetary gold, and the
! implied charge that they are "hog
ging it to tne detriment of otner
countries, raises the question as to
how and why countries get gold, and
how they keep it. Neither the Unit
ed States nor France has the power
to compel other countries to ship gold
to it; they do so because under the
prevailing economic conditions gold
is the cheapest thing to ship in pay
ment of some international obliga
tion. In both the United States and
France the export of gold is unre
stricted. The present Federal Re
serve discount rates of 2 per cent
to 3 I? per cent would hardly justify
the claim that we are trying to cor
ner the world's gold, and if we can
believe reports from Paris the French
banking authorities, far from rejoic
ing over the increasing stocks of the
yellow metal, wish that other coun
tries would stop sending it. Indeed,
it is rumored in today's news that
France is arranging to balance her
rrold excess with England, which is
short of gold.
An examination of recent statistics
reveals the significant fact that
countries producing raw materials,
which have suffered particularly
sharp price declines, have been the
principal exporters of gold. Within
the past year the central banks and
Government treasuries in Argentina,
Brazil, Australia and Japan have lost
over $400,000,000 of gold, and it has
been from this gold, and from a
moderate share of the new produc
tion, and not from drains on the gold
reserves of other European countries,
that the stocks of France and the
United States have been recently in
creased. In the case of these gold
exporting countries the casual se
quence has not been from gold short
age to depression, but from depres
sion to gold shortage; that is, the
acute distress of these producers of
raw materials has shoved the gold
out upon other countries which are
in a position to receive it.
Overspeculation, political instabil
ity in some countries, the sharp de
clines in the price of silver and other
commodities that have disturbed the
world economic equilibrium, and
challenge the hegemony of the gold
shortage philosophy of bueines de
pression. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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LONDON TOWN
Dr. Raymond Unwin, technical ad
viser of the Greater London Region
al Planning Committee, admits that
New York is now the first city and
welcome to its population of 9,900,
000. Dr. Urwin claims for London a
population of only 8.500,000, and
says that it already is too big.
There remain distinctions, how
ever. According to the Doomsday
Book, Londoners of today are more
sober, healthier and better educated
and the city is a finer place'in which
to live, especially for the poorer
classes, than forty years ago.
In the forty years there 'has been
an 80 per cent increase in the cost
of living, but workers can now buy
one-third more food with one hour
less of labor a week.
It will be of interest to this land
of prohibition also to1 learn that the
present-day Londoner consumes only
half the former quantity of liquor.
There are other changes. London
citizens travel four times the former
distance and read four times as many
books. They are not inclined to
crimes of violence. Signs of class
distinction are vanishing. The elo
quent, old-time cockney attire of
chokers, derby coats and ostrich
plumes seldom is seen. The cockney
now copies his "betters." Too, his
dialect and rhyming slang are going
the way of the outworn; "but his dis
tinguishing peculiarities of speech
are spreading to other classes.
All these things we used to regard
with a tolerant amusement. But as
has been well said, the humor of one
day is the despair of the next. New
York and the rest of us still may
chortle over London Town and its
people and its ways, but no silly cen
sorship restricts enjoyment of Aristo
phanes or4 Horace, or of Rabelais to
the scholarly and respectable.
Our own Boston Town, and our
ports of entry, in this respect dis
close a different story. And, then,
there are barmaids oodles of them
in London Town, fine young wom
en with gifted tongues and competent
bicepts. What has New York to crow
over that could compare with a cus
tom so delectable as that? Just be
ing the biggest city in the world
doesn't mean that we have, or can
have, everything.
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MORE OR LESS TRUE
Offhand, our guess would be thai
a cornfed's feet know more about
cramped quarters than anybody else,
and the happinest moment in a fat
Jane's day is when she gets where
she can kick the dirn pumps across
the room.
The ultra modern type of flapper
wife may have her faults, but we'll
bet she'll never have a rubber plant
around the house for her husband to
tote from corner to corner.
The honeymoon has gone hay wire
when she quits crying on his shoul
der and begins jumping on his neck.
It sometimes seems as if fashion
exports find as much pleasure in
making fools of women as women do
in making fools of men.
No man is as wonderful as he
thinks he is, nor as awful as his
mother-in-law thinks he is.
It is wonderful what a girl now
can do with a box cf rouge, lipstick
and eybrow pencil, but not as won
derful as what her mother used to
be able to do with a batch of flour,
cake cf yeast and a bread pan.
Among others who once knew
what it was to live on easy street
that you now will find ending their
Jays in the poorhouse are the fellows
who manufactured corset strings and
laces for women's shoes.
The way the family rushes away
from it now, saying there is no place
like home doesn't sound as compli
mentary as it used to.
If all men proved as good as hus
bands as they do as lovers, one of 0M
big problems of the country would
be finding women to run boardiig
houses probably the old maids
would have to be drafted.
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That the world hag passed through
a period of poor business, lack of
work and suffering, no one will deny.
But the opinion now seems to pre
vail that the period is ending and
we are emerging into a new era. The
climb may be slow, but it surely is
starting.
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A headline reads: "Crime Group
Disperses." But don't rejoice prema
turely. The group is one that was
studying and not practicing crime.
WHEEE IT GOES
Most citizens are likely to regard
the budget message as a synthesis
of very impressive and essential fig
ures showing how Federal taxes and
other revenues are to be spent, but
much too technical and dreary to be
read The document introducing to
Congress the budget for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1932, perhaps
elicited wider interest because it re
commends that the temporary one
per cent income tax reduction be done
away with and warns of a possible
deficit in 1932 if the budget 's net
closely adhered to.
There is nothing alarming in the
outlook, and the President's plan to
borrow additional millions on shoit
term notes to aid business recovery
in no way threatens the soundness of
Government credit and finance. But
those who looked closely at the hud
get figures will be struck again by
the tremendous percentage nf Gov
ernment expenditures that go to pay
for past wars or for preparations for
the next one.
More than two-thirds of the larg
est budget in our history. $3,932,
842.411. will be spent on these pur
poses. There is $501,000,000 for in
terest on the war debt, $946,000,000
for veterans' administration, $464.
000,000 for the War Department and
$349,000,000 for the Navy Depart
ment, a total of $2,340,000,000. Oth
er comparatively minor items add
to the aggregate. Even in normal
times, with increase in tax revenues
anticipated and reduction in the rate
apparently possible, it is depressing
to realize what we must pay for past
wars and the possibility of future
wars.
Perhaps all that can be done about
it is being done, and one day this
financial incubus that rides heavier
and heavier in time of business de
pression in part may be shorn away.
Until then the money goes for war,
past or anticipated, and the normal
peace-time functions of the Govern
ment must be limited by the price we
pay for that luxury.
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BLACK DEATH
The reappearance of black death,
as the bubonic plague has been
known for centuries in the western
world, emphasizes the extreme value
of the quarantine measures enforced
by the public health service as one
of the nation's chief safeguards. The
landing of a regiment of enemy
troops probably would be of far less
significance than that a single rat
carrying this dread disease should
slip past quarantine.
One of the peculiar properties of
an epidemic disease is its deceptive
ness. For generations it will lie dor
mant until the world is lulled into a
false sense of security. Then the dis
ease breaks through the weakened de
fenses and appears with its old viru
lence. Mankind can never erase from its
memory the black plague which in
the fourteenth century killed 25.
000,000 persons and virtually de
populated whole states in Europe.
Sigrid Undset's "Kristin Lavansdat
ter" has preserved for posterity the
terrible fear and helplessness that
seizes a people waiting for the hand
of an invisible demon to fall upon
them. War, flood or famine cannot
duplicate the horrors of it.
Medical science today is not pow
erless against this dread disease, as
it was in the fourteenth century, but
for prevention and control it still de
pends largely upon a world quar
antine which has, with few excep
tions, prevented its spread from the
Orient where outbreaks still occur.
The four cases discovered in France
probably demonstrate the efficiency
of the quarantine rather than any in
herent weakness.
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THE VANISHING RED MAN
The United States Commissioner
cf Indian Affairs reports an Indian
population of about 360,000, and
there is now an increase of about
1.500 annually. Furthermore the
birth rate of the Indian has exceed
ed the death rate for the last fifteen
years.
There were more Indians iu this
country before the coming of the
white man about 846,000, it is es
timated. But the pressure of white
settlement caused a dwindling of
this number.
In reality, the Indian is "just get
ting started." It has been a tribute
to the hardiness of his race that his
people have survived against the
treatment suffered at the hands of
the white man. History tells of
many races that have vanished from
the face of the earth under less try
ing conditions.
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A faction in Congress will stage a
stubborn fight against the further
use of government funds for poison
ing industrial alcohol. It must be ad
mitted that present brands of alcohol
are poisonous enough without add
ing other ingredients.
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Auctioneer
C. P. BUSCHE
Louisville, Neb.
Farm and Live Stock Sales
a Specialty
Best of References by Many
Successful Sales
AH, THE HOLLY
It is about time the annual outcry
against the ravishment and cutting
of the beautiful holly was heard. Al
ready Plattsmouth merchants are in
the full tide of preparation for the
Christmas and holiday trade, and
wreaths and festoons of the glorious
greenery which has made Chrititmas
famous are beginning to appear on
the stands and in the windows, for
Christmas is "just around the cor
ner." This year, more than ever before,
the glad holiday season should be
made to reflect the rising spirits of
the people, so long crushed down and
depresed by untoward business condi
tions. The annual protest against the cut
ting of holly is one simply of senti
mental gush. The holly gatherers are
as much interested in its conserva
tion and commercial uses as those
who profit by any other crop. They
find it chiefly in places which are
almost inaccessible to other persons
and quite useless for other purposes.
It is to them what the strawberry
crop is to other folk in many places.
They are not threatening the exter
mination of the beautiful plant, fol-
liocro onH t roac far frnni it Thpv
seducusly see to it that the crop is
abundant and adequate to supply the
demand from year to year.
No artificial duplication can take
the place of this natural concomi
tant of the Christmastide. What
would the Christmas season be with
out its wreaths and decorations of
the bright holly and its vivid natural
berries like the rose withcut its
odor, like the cloud without its lining
of gold, like the face of a beautiful
woman without its expression of ani
mation and intelligence.
Bring on the holly and all the old
time joy and loveliness and sentiment
of the best season of the year, let
the bells ring in their season and the
goose sizzle and hang high until we
are ready for it!
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Alpine climbers have found a
friend in the Italian government
which has placed a railway coach on
concrete posts high in the mountains.
"There the tourists can take their
ease. Its salient position permits it
to be seen for many miles.
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Gulfport has appointed a woman to
the police force, which may be tak
en to mean that when Gulfport citi
zens want to make whoop?e they
have to journey some place else
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Residents of Linoleumville, State
Island, N. Y., have changed the name
of their town to Travia. Probably
because they felt they had been walk
ed on enough.
NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE
In the District Court of the Coun
ty of Cass, Nebraska
George K.
Petring,
Plaintiff
vs.
The County of Cass, Ne
braska et al, Defendants.
NOTICE
To the Defendants, Herman Neit-
zel, and all persons having or claim
ing any interest in and to Lots five
(5) and six (6), in Block lifty-four
(54), In the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska, excepting
that part of Lot 6 lying within 40
feet of the? center of Chicago Avenue
in said city, real names unkrown:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that George K. Petring. as
plaintiff, filed a petition and com
menced an action in the District
Court cf Cass county, Nebraska, on
the 1st day of November. 1930.
against you and each of you and
others: the object, purpose and pray
er of which is to obtain a decree of
the Court quieting title to Lots five
(5) and six (6). in Block fifty-four
(54), in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska, excepting
that part of Lot 6 lying within 40
feet of the center of Chicago avenue
in said city, in plaintiff as against
you and each of you and all persons
-laiming by. through or under said
defendants, to enjoin all of said de
fendants in said suit from having or
claiming any interest in said real es
tate and for such other relief as
may be just and equitable in said
premises.
You and each of you are further
notified that you are required to
answer said petition on or before
Monday, the 15th day of December,
1930, or the allegations therein con
tained will be taken as true and a
decree rendered in favor of the plain
tiff, George K. Petring, as against
you and each of you according to the
prayer of said petition.
GEORGE K. PETRING,
Malam.
W. A. ROBEBTSOV.
Attorney fbr Plaintiff.
a-4w
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
' by Gohla Noble Beal, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
county. Nebraska, and to me directed,
1 1 will on the 29th day of December,
A. D. 1930. at 10 o'clock a. m., of
I said day at the south front door of
, the court house in the City of Platts
1 mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell
'at public auction to the highest bid
! der for cash the following real es
tate, to-wit:
The south 47 feet of Lots 5
and 6, in Block 43, in the City
of Plattsmouth, in Cass county,
Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of John F.
Wolff, Edna J. Wolff and the Flatts-
mouth Loan and Building Associa
I tion. defendants, to satisfy a judg
ment of said court, recovered by Paul
H. Gillan, plaintiff against said de
fendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, November
22nd, A. D. 1930.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County.
Nebraska.
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, as.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Mary L. Fitch, deceased:
On reading the petition of Robert
H. Fitch, praying a final settlement
and allowance of his account filed
in this Court on the 2nd day of De
cember, 1930, and for discharge of
himself as administrator of said es
tate; 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 second day of Jan
uary, A. D. 1931, at 9 o'clock a. m..
to show cause, if any there be. why
the prayer of 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 Plattsmoutb 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 2nd day of December.
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) dS-3w 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 es
tate of John Cory, deceased:
On reading the petition of Sybil
Brantner, Executrix, praying a final
settlement and allowance of her ac
count filed in this Court on the 28th
day of November, A. D. 1930, and
for final settlement of said estate and
for her discharge 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 and for said
county, on the 26th day of December,
A. D. 1930. at 9 o'clock a. m., to
show cause, if any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should
not be granted, and that notice 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.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court, this 28th day of Novem
ber, A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) dl-3w County Judge.
Fraud V. Robinson, I.iwypr,
Lincoln, V rakn.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANTS
To the heirs, devisees, legatees,
personal representatives and all other
persons interested in the estate of
Owen Marshall, deceased, real names
unknown; Jason W. Hollowy; Eliza
beth Holloway; Mary E. Morgan:
Charles R. Morgan ; Minnie A. Mar
shall; Johan Guehlstorff: Barbara
Guehlstorff; Peter Witthoeft, Trus
tee; John Luetchens. Trustee; Aug
ust Bornemeyer. Trustee; Christ Mil
ler, Trustee; Emanuel Society of fhe
Evangelical Association of North
America; and all persons having or
claiming any interest in the north
west quarter (NW4) of Section
seven (7), Township eleven (11)
I Vnth D n n v a f Q I IT O o ' . f t )i a
i u , iiaiigr i i tut. j i , uuci vi i lug
Sixth Principal Meridian in Cass
county, Nebraska:
TAKE NOTICE that on the 2Cth
day of November, 1930, George Krei
ner and Sarah M. Kreiner, plaintiffs
herein, filed their petition in the
District Court of Cass county, Ne
braska, against you and each of you,
the object and prayer of which peti
tion are to quiet the title of plain
tiffs in and to the northwest quarter
(NW4 ) of Section seven (7), Town
ship eleven (11) North, Range nine
(9) Bast of the Sixth Princfpal Me
ridian, in Cass county, Nebraska, to
forever enjoin you and each of you
from in any manner or form Inter
fering with plaintiffs in their quiet
possession and enjoyment of said real
estate, to recover costs and such other
and further relief as may be just and
equitable.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before the 12th day of
January, 1931.
GEORGE KREINER and
SARAH M. KREINER,
Plaintiffs.
By rrancis V. Robin ion,
Their Attorney.
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