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A woman iu love is sentimental; a
man in Love is silly.
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Well, anyway, business tor tbe
mattress makers is vetting bedder.
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This is tbe age wbeu tbe public
iides in automobiles to see a horse
efcow.
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Tbe best driver on earth cannot
avoid a wreck when a tool is driving
tbe other ear.
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But Bobby Jones has a lot on the
politicians; most of them have re
tiieiAMtnt thrust upon them.
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A dad who won't enjoy Christmas
this year because his kid is too old
mow t. get an electric train.
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Tbe most extravagant young chap
we Inow of in this town takes twin
sister to the movies twice each week,
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Now that all the experts have
agreed that it will take time to re
store prosperity we may expect it any
day. :o:
Another pathetic case of two souls
with but a single thought is when
each thinks the other has gobs of
money.
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Today's worst pun: Kuiia should
be able to get credity among other
nations because it has so mu H redely
Dtonay.
I
lustead of trying to prove an alibi ;
each of two .-iew torn Dana leaueis , Tne action of the King ot Italy in; Bed room compartment cars, re
la claiming that he started the croon- jknighting Joe Garavelli apparently placing old-fashioned sleepers.
ig sickness. .proves the nobility of combining ham i threaten to put the upper-berth snor-
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A lot of us will be lucky enough
it we get Christmas presents large
eaoagh to stop up that hole in tne i
.1
toe of the sock
Dolly and Alice- are at it again,
leaning that the feud between Mrs.
6ann and Mrs. Longworth in Wash
ington has been renewed.
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Possibly by the end of another year ,
amateur Investors will have forgot
teu some of the cipher they added to
tleir stock of market losses.
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The people of the United States
are eating fewer cereals than former
ly, according to a government report.
Probably because they are drinking
more cereals. !
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ui ixiu . - v nut . -'iLife. w 1
instance, take the case of Mrs. Wil- j
liam Donehue, of Albany. N. Y.. who .
killed her 13-year-old son because
ae teased ner.
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wind and direct the
government can do,"
"Ride the
storm Is all a
ys Ramsay MacDonald. Our Got- j
ernoient'a problem is riding the storm
and directing the wind
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President Hoover Is opposed to any
form of a relief bill for the drouth-
strlcken area that provides food forent chief executive of New York in
tbe sufferers. He must expect the peo- jdicated that it would have to be an-
ple to live on the seed provided for
planting purposes.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCj
uravei or rave
Your Driveways and
Sidewalks
Muddy roads and walks into and around
YOUR house should be graveled or
paved. Our men will deliver and spread.
Terms Can be Arranged
Estimates Free No Obligation
We haul a distance of 25 miles from our plant. Stock
trucks returning from the yards loaded very rapidly.
Phone: Plattsmouth 21
George W. Bell Co.
Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Neb., as second-class mail matter
A year or so ago we were all show
ing off. Now is time for the show
down. : o :
Its probably all right to speak of
them as Col. Lewis' t iek led-pink
whiskers.
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Capital punishment is to be abol
ished In Mexico but mescal and te
quila are still deadly.
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Out of a thousand people only 1 per
cent are deaf, but a much larger per
cent are dumb, the Hopkins Journal
adds.
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The belief grows that the lethal
Meuse valley fog was a part of one
of Hitler's speeches blown down from
Berlin.
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When a Scotchman says Santa will
be round this year, he may only be
referring to the size of the fellow's
paunch.
President Hoover is beginning to
realize how easy it is to desert a
ruler after the loaves and fishes have
been distributed.
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Pauline Frederick, tne actress, is
being sued for divorce by lie'- fourth
husband. Too bad thai g'rl didn't
get an early start.
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An ad in a Berlin paper urges Ger
mans to buy a photograph of Hitler
for Christmas. This sounds like th
makings of a frameup.
with swiss cheese on rye.
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Achievement of the railroads in
promoting the safety of passengers j
and employees affords a fine example j
for all forms of travel and traffic.
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It is easy to deal with the wolf
when he comes howling at your door
nowadays. Just shut him up in the
; pantry and let him starve to death.
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We fully expect, when Congress
igets down to this apportionment j
problem, that some statesman will -
rise and demand a census recount.
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Mebbe the police of New York
ejected Judge Ben Lindsey from that
ciurcn ngnt because he had not been
licensed by the boxing commission.
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i-'en nsy 1 van ia 3 ueei aciisun u p c 1 1 v. vi
Witn tne killing of several hunters,
Dut it-3 certainly more distinguished
lo oe mistaken for a deer than for a
rnM.it
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In his speech accepting the Nobel
prize for literature, Sinclair Lewis
performed a service by calling atten-
tion to the work of some of his con
temporaries. :o:
Recently the leading prospect of
Democracy two years hence, the pres-
other case of the office seeking the '
man.
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AT THE ROUND TABLE
The London meetings to determine
the future constitutional status of
India have taken a few decisive
steps forward, notably in approving
the separation of Burma from India
and the tentative adoption of the
Federal principle for India. More
conspicuous, however. than the
agreements reached are the diver
gences which have developed. Mo
hammedans and Hindus, the domi
nant factions from British India, are
in sharp disagreement over the na
ture of the federal system to be
worked out. The Moslems, being a
minority, seek provincial autonomy
aud a relatively weak central govern
ment. Hindus naturally favor the
opposite alignment of powers.
More basic to the work of the
conference is the gap developing be
tween British Indians generally and
native Princes. The latter, medieval
sovereigns ruling with absolute
power in their domains, refuse any
system which places them subordi
nate to a powerful Indian Govern
ment controlled by the Hindu ma
jority of British India. As is usually
the case, the British occupy the role
Of arbitrator between Indian fac
tions, and as such have an impor
tant advantage in negotiation.
Great Britain has conceded the
control of police to Indians, apparent
ly a vast abnegation of power. But
in view of the ultra-conservative tone
of the native Princes, any govern
ment established by the Round
Table Conference will be fully as
cautions as the present British rule
there. To date Britain has made no
vital concession. This is not sur
prising in the light of her opposi
tion's failure to make a united de
mand.
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President Hoover should have pub
licly staged his scolding of the sen
ate for the benefit of the unemploy
ed. :o:-
Bobby Jones may escape some
grueling competition by going into
the movies. but he'll still have his
1 gallery.
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ing champion on the shelf.
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But some day we may begin to
think from the human being to the
macnjne and the economic order in-
stead of the other way round.
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Wet and dry charges and counter
charges are scarcely to blame for
keeping the grape juice industry in
its pre-holiday state of ferment.
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What will be regarded as a set-up
for tne paragraphers is that Ohio
W(iman 75 .named Fullilove, recently
married a 25-year-old bus driver.
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Perhaps, after all, that schol of
journalism in the Maryland peniten
tiary wii ue Worth while. Maybe the
city editor will know where to find
his rpnnrtprs when needed.
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There are 2.371 tons of books in
Harvard libraries, a college catalogue
announces. And many smaller
schools will want to know, no doubt,
hew harvard got that weight.
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If you can remember the time
when mother brought on the feather
beds when the first freezing spell ar
rived, and also had hot bricks wrap
ped in flannel for you feet, then you
are getting old.
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Jack Dempsey's father-in-law was
arrested back in Pennsylvania on a
charge of possessing and transporting
liquor. Since when did it become an
offense to possess or transport liquor
in Pennsylvania.
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There are twenty-six automobiles
vlin this country to one hospital bed,
'says a statistician. Something ought
Slto be done about it. The average
'should not be greater than
' automobiles for each bed.
three
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It s a little singular, but there has
been no decrease in the number of
mar-iage licenses during this period
of depression. It takes a brave
young man to marry a girl when
there's no certainty that she will
hold her job.
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it is said that the medical profes
sion uses 3,127 terms relative to
surgical operations, few of which are
understood by the laity, and a move
ment is on foot to simplify medical
nomenclature. Very laudable, if ac
companied by a reduction In the cost
of operations.
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Christmas is primarily a time of
Joy and faith and hope. But in this
modern world it has a secondary
meaning which is not important. It
is also a testing time; a time when
it becomes evident whether the peo
ple of a community have neighborli
ness, sympathy anfl confidence In
themselves.
THE SICKNESS OF BUSINESS
If our historical perspective was
clearer and our memories longer, we
would not worry so much about the
existing business depression or in
dulge in the despairing moods. We
would have more hope and courage
if we recalled clearly the course of
other panics.
It is not worth while to compare
the panics previous to 1900 with the
present depression. The Federal re
serve system has wiped out runs on
banks and financial crises resulting
in a shortage of credit and money.
Banks at that time, standing alone,
collapsed like houses of cards, and
business men were unable to obtain
money or credit. Since the begin
ning of this century we have had
four business debacles in 1907,
1913-1914. 1921 and the present.
In 1907 the panic took place under
the old system of unprotected banks.
In the pre-war depression of 1913
1914 the Federal reserve system was
just beginning to operate. These per
iods of depression ranged from 10 to
15 months, from the decline of pros
perity to the bottom of the trough.
The present has lasted a little long
er and there is evidence that it has
reached the lowest point. The period
was 10 months in 1907; in 1913
1914 15 months. The post-war de
pression lasted 12 months.
The symptoms of all were practi
cally the same. They ran their
course like typhoid fever or pneu
monia. After a period of vigor, en
ergy, rising prosperity, expansion of
industry and speculation came lassi
tude, weakness and then the depths
of gloom and despair; then recovery,
v. ith revived hope and courage. In a
business depression the high tide of
prosperous production, commercial
activity and speculation is followed
by slackness of industry and trade,
unemployment, gloom. Then energy
and courage return and we forget
oil about the trouble in another tide
of prosperity.
We are in despair over an esti
mated 4.000.000 to 5.000.000 unem
ployed, and we do not recall that in
the post-war depression the estimate
inn as high as 6,000.000. There were
then, in the beginning of the Hard
ing administration, conferences, com
missions, with discussion of cause?
and remedies, and mean of relieving
the Jobless. We forgot also how the
country recovered, and the enormous
prosperty that followed. The period
from 1922 to 193 was marked by
high production, high prices, high
wages and prosperous business activ
ities practically unparalleled. We are
suffering now from the reaction and
the consequences of the faults of our
system, but we will recover.
The symptoms of the present de
pression are not precisely the same
as those before the Federal reserve
system was effected. There is no fi
nancial crisis. It is purely business
stagnation. Money is plentirui, dut
there is, of course, fear and timidity,
and money is hoarded. The increase
in savings accounts has been amaz
ing, indicating the fear of those who
have money and who are making
wages, instead oi Duying inej itie
hoarding, but there must come an
end to that. When the old articles
necessary for the living are used up,
the hoarders will begin to spend or
invest. Confidence will return, far-
i a a
seeing leaders or Business win nuu
ways and means of disposing of sur
plus commodities.
We do not regard lightly tbe ser
ious causes or tne present ousiness
debacle, its widespread prevalence.
nor the clouds lying on the horizon.
Hut judging from past experience.
they will be overcome. If we do not
find permanent remedies now, we
will at least muddle through and get
the machine started again, relieving
the pressure of unemployment. As
for the United States, at least, we do
not believe that 120.000.000 people
with the resources, inventive genius,
initiative energy and brains of Amer
icans can long be kept down.
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BOND-JUMPING CRIMINALS
Lawbreakers in Chicago, it is
found, forfeit more than fl, 000. 000
in bail every year. The state has
collected less than one per cent of
$10,000,000 pledged to the courts in
the past few years for the appearance
of respondents. The explanation is
that the security is inadequate. Prop
eray heavily mortgaged or worthless,
posted by professional bondsmen, is
not salable, if it is even seizable.
Here is one wrong that cannot be
held against the gangsters. The
courts, we infer, which accept incom
petent pledges must be partners, at
least by connivance, in the prevailing
system of crime.
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Despite the heavy consumption on
Thanksgiving it is said that the sup
ply of turkeys for Christmas will be
plentiful, and prices will be cheap,
due to the large crop of grasshoppers
this year. When returning thanks at
the CaxiBtmae feast please say some
thing kind about tbe grasshoppers.
UTCLE SAM AND THE RAILROADS
That the fortunes of the railroads
of the United States have been ren
dered precarious by truck and bus
competition, gas and oil pipe lines,
airplanes and business depression, is
no longer disguisable.
Mr. Hoover said in his recent mes
sage to Congress that "further legis
lation is necessary to strengthen the
railways." There are several pro
posals now before Congress to allev
iate them. The passenger revenue of
the railroads in the four years 192")
to 1929 declined 21 per cent. The
gross revenue of the railroads last
year was $414,000,000 less than in
1920. The operating income of the
carriers in the first eight months of
1930 was 14 per cent less than for
the same period of 1929. while their
net income showed a decline of 33
per cent. Interstate Commerce Com
mission reports show that for the
first eight months of this year the
operating revenues of the railroads
were nearly 12 per cent less than the
transportation of natural gas and
petroleum products are being con
structed at a rate of 12,000 miles a
year, which means a heavy loss in
coal and oil tonnage to the railroads.
The trucks have virtually destroyed
the freight business or the railroads
in less than carload lots, as the buss
es have almost totally taken away
from the railroads local passenger
business. Now the trucks and the
busses are going after the through
passenger and freight business of the
railroads.
The Couzens bill now before Con
gress proposes to lessen the disad
vantage at which the railroads find
themselves in competing with inter-
state traffic over the highways. The
highways are built with the people's
money. It was inevitable that their
construction would be followed bv a
tonsirui iiou wuum ue iuhuwcu "
tremendous automotive commercial
development; but it was not, of
course, intended that the highway
should be in disparagement of the
railroads. Their coming, like that
of the railroads themselves when the
steamboats were at their heyday, was
a chapter in human progress. The
Government and the states have
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iounu memseives luceu uj me i""""
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before thev were ready for it. That '
is, the agencies competing with the
railroads have come like an irrup
tion. Even automotive transport is
comparatively new. Air transport
may be said to be the newest thing
in the world. The pipe line for oil
is only comparatively new. but the
pipe line for gas is one of our lead -
ing industrial neveiopmenis. ii re
sults from a twofold discovery of new
gas supplies and improved transport.
It is not possible for Congress to
take the trucks and busses off the
highways, any more than it was pos
sible at another time to take the rail
roads out of competition with the
steamboats. All Congress can do, and
all the states can do, is to regulate
and license commercial automotive
transport to a point where it pro
tects both the highway and the trav
eler. It is not felt in Congress that
the advantage which the bus and the
truck have over the trains in run
ning upon a highway built at no
expense to them can be expunged by
legislation. In holding hearings over
the country in the matter of com
mercial interstate transportation by
bus and truck, the Interstate Com
merce Commission has sought to dis
cover not merely the extent of the
development but what regulatory
measures are practicable. The com
mission wants to be fair to the rail
roads, but it cannot deny the great
er facility of automotive transport.
The whole matter of Federal atti
tude toward the railroads needs over
hauling. The Transportation Act of
1920. no longer meets the needs of
the carriers of the country. The re
capture clause of that act has been a
failure. Proposed by the Association
of Railway Owners, it was designed
to strengthen the weak roads with
some of the excessive revenues of the
strong roads. The Interstate Com
merce Commission is now seeking to
have the recapture clause repealed.
Only some $11,000,000 have been
handed over to the Government un
der the clause for the uses of the j
weak roads. Many of the strong roads
have refused to abide by the agree
ment which they themselves propos
ed. They have kept all their rev
enues, and efforts upon the part of
the Government to make them live
up to their agreement failed lament-
Auctioneer
C. P. BUSCHE
Louisville, Neb.
Farm and Live Stock Sales
a Specialty
Best of References by Many
Successful Sales
All Wrought Up Over Nothing
Didn't sleep last night; too much work; the chil
dren are fretful; the Boss is cranky; Mrs. DeVere
didn't invite you to her party.
Ordinarily you don't mind any of these things, but
today they are simply unbearable. You
are nervous, that s why.
Did you ever try Dr. Miles' Nervine?
Just two teaspoonfuls in a half glass of
water will quiet your over-taxed nerves
and bring you a feeling of calm and peace.
Dr. Miles' Nervine is now made in
two forms Liquid and Effervescent
Tablet. Both are the same thera
peutically. At all Drug Stores. Price $1.00
ably in the test case against the St.
i Lkjius &. O'Pallon. The valuation
formula insisted udoii by the United
gtates Supreme Court has made it
possible tor the Government, while
, decision remain the law of
L, ,
the land, to recover excess earnings
from any railroad, as it is impossible
for communities to lower rates for
water, electricity and gas. That
maze which has resulted from the
Supreme Court decisions is one in
which the Government found itself
as easily lost in the O'Fallon case as
the city of St. Louis finds itself lost
in the cases of the Laclede Gas Light
Co., Union Electric, the
Bell Tele
phone Co. and the street railway
company.
The consolidation plan of the In
terstate 'ommerce Commission was
designed to help the railroads by pre
serving to them the business of t.heir
localities. Thus, the commission will
not consent to let the Pennsylvania
h h Wabash because it feels
that by gm.n acquteltlon the Penn
sylvania would invade the economic
field of another railroad system. The
days in which the railroads mono
polized transportation are over. Hu
man discovery and invention have
speedily brought them to the neces
sity of asking protection from newer
forms of transportation. It is some
thing of an anomaly that while the
railroads are all-powerful in Con
gress that body is still not able to
protect them against those newer
forms of transportation which have
no influence at Washington. The
problem will have to be met in some
constrmtive way. The railroads are
essential to the national economy.
Their field will naturally be restrict
ed, but in that field they will for a
long time be indispensable. Mr. Hoo-
ver is quite rigui in sanig iiiai iney
must be strengthened, but it will tax
the best thought of our time to say
how they can be strengthened. St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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TO OUR HEIRS AND HEIRESSES
Fathers and mothers, without ex
ception, want to leave their chil
dren securely provided for. That is
the great goal of their lives. Now
that we are in a position to tell them
how to do it, our conscience would
pronounce us as "fit for treasons,
strateagoms and spoils" if we failed
to spread the glad tidings.
Mr. Hoover really has shown us
the way. Speaking about the shale
oil lands he says that they "have
little present value, and instead of
being worth billions, can be bought
from private owners for a few dol
lars per acre."
Well, there's the "master of hu
man destiny," as Ingalls defined op
portunity, trying to crash the door.
The man who buys, says, 5000 acres
of those oil shales land now will
leave his children, or his grandchil
dren a princely fortune. As soon as
the drills fail to tap new oil pools
as they inevitably must we shall
have to turn to the shale lands fot
oil. On that day the meek shalet
will inherit the earth.
Go in for shale, then, in a big way,
and the wins of parents shall be
visited upon the second or third gen
erations. That was a remarkable wedding In
Cicero, Chicago suburb. It was a
gangland weddin, the marrlaga of a
notorious gangster's sister to another
gangster of only lesser notoriety.
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THE SEA BRIDGE
Every boy and girl has visioned,
in studying geography, a land-bridge
across Bering Strait connfeting
North America and Asia. Tradition
appraise us that there once muBt
I vv
have been a crossing from South Am
erica to the Great Orient to the west
of us.
Nobody is surprised at the news
that scientists of the Carnegie insti
tution, with the co-operation of the
Smithsonian institution and the
Coast Guard cutter Northland, have
found fossils on St. Lawrence island
which indicate definitely that the
Bering Strait land-bridge did exist.
W ewere all sure that what we imag
ined had been fact, and we probably
would not accept so-called evidence
to the contrary. There are some in
deliberate conclusions to which
science cannot disagree.
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Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt is having
a hard time making satisfactory ex
planation to the militant drys about
her connection with that California
grape juice whose product carries a
lofty kick when treated Just right.
Mebbe Mabel is going on the theory
that when you can't lick your enemy,
join him.
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 Cass
county, Nebraska, and to me directed,
I will on the 29th day of December,
A. D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m.. of
said day at the south front door of
the ourt house in the City of PlattB
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 4 7 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 Platts
mouth Loan and Building Associa
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, es.
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 nocice 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 band and tbe seal of said
Court, this 2dQ day of December,
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBUBY,
(Seal) dt-Sw County Judgs.