THURSDAY. DEC. 25. 1930.
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Only two shopping days before
Christmas.
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No nnow to speak of. but the boy
with the red sled is looking tor snow.
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Full many a gem of purest ray
serene isn't reported to the tax asses
sor. :o:
A gossip is a person who can read
between the lines when there is noth
ing there.
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A $10 overcoat will keep a man
warmer than a pawn ticket tor an
OTercoat with for lining.
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The objection to Sherman's des
crip of war is that it applies to too
many other things as well.
About the only secret that has not
been shown on the New York stage
is the personal life of a goldfish.
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However, the speaker's car must
now be almost too serious a subject
for Lungworth and Garner to Joke
about.
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Who can remember when grandma
grouped S' me five or six vague a'l
.".ents unr'fr the general head of "a
misery?"
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The weak point in the Democratic
Republican truce is that it was not
signed by Senator Bruce and his fel
low insurgents.
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Of course the only way the Cov
et nment can aid the California grape
growers is to educate the country to
make more Jelly.
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Some men are born unemployed.
Some achieve unemployment and only
the willing workers have unemploy
ment thrust upon them.
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The final proof of genius is the
ability to write advertisements that
will make people y-arn for a cer
tain kind of spinach.
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A demon statistician says that
women's feet are larger than they
used to be. The figures did not come
from the shoe manufacturers.
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Lady Astor had to use male waiters
at her manless party. There never
was a party where men didn't have
to wait before, during and after.
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Some of our self-styled literary
iconoclasts are suffering so severely
from an inferiority complex that they
would be benefited by the attentions
of a psychoanalyst.
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A geographical note says that
when the Dalai Llama gets his new
automobile going Thibet, he won't
need the yok any more. Nope. What
he'll need will be the jack.
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Judging from the apparent change
for the better there seem;: reason for
believing that Amos Woodcock. Pro
hibition Commissioner, was in earn
est when he told his agent not to
shoot if they felt they were going to
trip.
Gravel or Pave
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
I George W. Bell Co.
S Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River K
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It is getting so we do not hear
anything about endurance fliers until
they fall.
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A "larger sphere of usefulness,
being translated, means a job that
pays more money.
Chicago seems unable to catch that
elusive bird Capone. Why not try
sprinkling salt on his trail?
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As a final solution. Chicago might
put ail its innocent citizens in jail
so racketeers can't get at them.
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A New York doctor who advises
against too frequent bathing in win
ter is making a strong bid for popu-
: larity.
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We shall reserve comment on Sen
lator Heflin'a plan to prohibit trading
in margins until we hear from Bishop
Cannon.
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What a grand tiling it Would he if
coal would just burn all up, like gas
oline, and leave no ashes to be toted
out of the cellar.
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There is a suspicion in some quar
ters that the adjective in "bull mar
tret" also describes the talk about
it-turning prosperity.
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Many a man who has missed the
experience of being held up by out
laws still knows how it feels to be
held down by in-laws.
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A hick town has been described as
a place where nobody feels a pain in
the neck if somebody inherits $4,000
and acts modest about it.
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Particularly timely is the release
from Hollywood of figures on the
daily wages of various members of
the animal kingdom in the movies.
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Apparently congress is to use up
most of the next three months dis
cussing whether or not there ought
to be an extra session in the spring.
Our notion of misapplied generos
ity would be the sending of a pack
age of food to a starving family with
a note "Do not open until Christ
mas." -:o:-
A free land is one in which the
government builds a Bfty-million-dol-lar
dam and a citieu whose tax is
$1.24 a year howls about "the waste
of our money."
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It's nobody's business, but
the
amazement of innocent travelers who
are fined for not declaring their Eu
ropean purchases makes you wonder
how they got rich.
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The laughter of babies has noth
ing whatever to do with their na
tural intelligence and the things they
laugb at have no humorous signi
finance whatever for adults.
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Here's a bit of cheering news. Be
tween now and the first of the year
building and loan organizations in
the United States will pay to share
holders approximately $225,000,000.
We can come pretty close to guess
ing how a successful bridge player is
gonna solve the problem of finding
gifts for the relatives without buying
them.
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A refractory mule is taught some
times to pull by teaming it up with
three ur four tractable animals, but
we never see it work cut with a
mule.
And now that a way has been
found, and adopted, to make illegal
liquor unpalatable, but not murder
out, who is benefited, the bootlegger
or the public?
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Short detective story: Once upon
a time a man opened a day-coaeh
window with no difficulty. He was
immediately arrested and discoveied
to be a famous safe-breaker.
Since .Match 4. 1929. there has
been many an occasion when the Am
erican people would have been thrill
ed to the marrow by angry Herbert
Hoover, bitting out straight from the
si oulder.
Sinclair Lewis, American winner of
the Nobel prize, told European jour
nalists "I am only a little reporter
with a fondness for whisky and
soda." Yes. and in a pinch Lewis
can get along very well without the
soda.
Those Indianapolis Judges who
have announced they will hear no di
vorce cases after Dec. 20 because
Christmas is "the day of the child
and the home" seems to forget that
it also is a day of "peace on earth
good will to men."
JUDGE CLARK'S VIEW
It is not unnatural that the de
cision of Federal Judge Clark, of
New Jersey, which was based upon
his conclusion of the invalidity of
the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment, should have occasioned
general remark and interested atten
tion. Judge Clark is an authority on the
Constitution. He believes that an
amendment such as the Eighteenth
should be proposed and adopted by
Constitutional convention procedure
that such is the intent of Consti
tutional provision.
The opinion is not a new one, but
it baa not been passed upon by the
Supreme Court. A distinguished
member of the Wickersham Commit
tee is said to entertain the same
view. Elihu Root heretofore has
argued on its behalf. There is a
world of authorities available in its
support. Judge Clark very ably pte
Isents them.
j It was not so long ago that James
M. Beck, one of the first among Am
erican constitutionalists, in summing
lip a discussion in relation to the
Eighteenth Amendment, its present
status and its future fate, declared
something as follows: There are
many people who believe that any
I measure of restriction may be im
posed on the public, though it were
absurd, if only you can get sufficient
votes to give to it the authority of
law. organic sanction or statutory
definition. Hut. said he. the wise
know that the foolish legislation or
provision affecting the rights of states
land the living of people is a rope of
sand, which perishes in the twist
ing; that the state must follow, and
'not lead the character and progress
of the citizen.
Judge Clark's ruling and conten
tion may be reversed and denied in a
higher court, as he appears to anti
cipate, but. as he hopes, "it may at
least have the effect of focusing the
country's thought upon the neglect
ed method of considering the consti
tutional amendments in convention."
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THE VIRGIN STAR
It glistened
i In fragil loveliness.
The bleating of a lmb
Kchoed over the moonlit hills.
Through the silver shadows
The angels' voices sang
I "Peace on earth.
Good will to men."
It was Christmas Tve
In Hethlehem.
1
! , Each Advent
i j His star grows dearer,
I His purpose clearer,
I I And His coming nearer.
1 1 Many now follow His star ;
i 'Finding its beauty
j In the eyes of a It it Ie child,
'Seeing its radiance
Reflected in a sad heart.
Finding its peace
Beyond the present sorrow.
Over valley and hill.
Over hamlet and city
The Virgin Star still shines.
I Each Advent,
Pale, clear and bright.
It is brought to us,
I In the great purpose
Of those who prepare
For His coming.
Charles Bancroft in the Philadel
phia Inquirer.
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Large map of Cass county on sale
at Journal office. 50c each.
CONGRESS AND THE WAR DEBTS
The first semi-annual payments
for the fiscal year ou the war debts
owned to the United States were due
Dec. 15, when the U. S. Treasury re
ceived from 11 foreign countries in
principal and interest a total of
$122,989,450. Of the total, $30,854,-
052 was in payment of principal and
$92,185,397 for interest.
Interest payments were received as
follows: Belgium, $1,625,000; Es
tonia. $150,000; Finland. -129,885;
France. -19.325.000; Great Britain,
$06,390,000; Hungary. $28,804;
Italy. 11,260,625; Latvia. -50.000;
Lithuania. -93,804. and Poland, $3.
082.555. Those making payments on
the principal included Czecho-Slov-akia.
$1,500,000; Finland, $55,000;
Great Britain, $28,000,000; Hun
gary. $11,755, and Poland, $1,287,
297. All payments were iu gold.
The war debts totaled, before these
payments, $11,641,508,461. Over 90
per cent of the payments just made
came from Great Britain. France and
Italy. These three countries owe al
most 90 per cent of the total. Great
Britain has paid in round numbers
$1,751,000,000. Her indebtedness is
now reduced to $4,398,000,000.
France has paid $446,000,000. and
still owes $3,865,000,000. Italy has
paid $83,000,000, leaving an indebt
edness of $2,017,000,000.
The Baltimore Evening Sun re
marks of the British payment that
this is very good news for us, since it
does not come out of our own pockets.
"But what about Great Britain?"
asks the Sun, which adds: "From
the standpoint of the international
economy the transference of such a
sum is a serious matter, indeed.
France and the United States be
tween them now possess more than
60 per cent of the world's gold re
serve. France has more than two bil
lions of gold in its vaults; the Unit
ed States somewhere around four bil
lions and a half. Great Britain, on
the other hand, is struggling along
on a basis of $750,000,000. Greet
Britain is on a gold standard, and
any further drain must seriously ef
fect her fiscal position. Add the per
ilous state of her finances to British
industrial difficulties, unemployment
and overpopulation, and it isn't hard
to see why some Englishmen are call
ing for strong men to set them right
again."
Secretary Mellon has insisted that
the war debts and reparations are re
lated, on economic fiction in which
both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover
have acquiesced. Yet Germany under
the Young plan is compelled to pro
vide all of this money which the
Allies are paying on their account
with Uncle Sam. In the fiscal year
beginning next April 1. she is obli
gated to pay $400,000,000. Mean
while, Germany is not able to bal
ance her national budget. Her pres
ent deficit is about $300,000,000.
Since the war she has borrowed out
side the country some $5,000,000,000
and has paid on reparations less than
half as much, which plainly shows
that such payments have been made
out of borrowings and not out of
revenues and industrial earnings. The
whole problem of this vicious circle
must inevitably be considered by Con
gress. As pointed out recently in
the Magazine of Wall Street by Louis
T. McFadden. chairman of the House
Banking Committee, neither the Al
lies nor the American bankers who
have been lending money to Ger
many agree with our administration
t hat the war debts and reparations
are not one and the same thing. Said
Mr. McFadden: "The Allies feel that
they cannot pay us unless Germany
pays them, and our international
bankers agree with them that in fact
the two are one and inseparable."
It is the interdependence of na
tions that has brought the world to
its present economic plight. Not one
of them has been able to escape the
fate of all. If, as the Baltimore Sun
points out, the gold handed over to us
a few days ago by Great Britain is a
serious matter to the international
economy, how long we can continue
to deny that the fortunes of Great
Britain are indissolubly linked with
our own? Mr. McFadden thinks that
the whole scheme of war debts and
reparations has involved us in a mud
dle from which we may not be able to
escape except by cancellation. Wheth
er this is true or not, the spectacle
of impoverished Europe, plagued as
she is with unemployment and busi
ness depression, stepping up thin
week to make her semi-annual pay
ment to us shows that blood can be
squeezed out of a turnip.
But who knows how many times
$11,000,000,000 it would probably
cost us actually to collect all that
money? St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Charges ot conditions "scarcely
distinguishable" from slavery in Li
beria, where vast American rubber
plantation projects are under way,
bring the far-off Negro Aepublican
into the public eye again and under
another unsavory light.
IF SANTA CLAUS FORGETS
Little boys are pressing their
freckled faces against the plate glass
windows where trains go round and
round on silver tracks, and little
girls are holding out their arms to
dolls that smile back understanding
ly. The magic season is here again.
All over the country children are
measuring their stockings so they
will be sure to hang the longest ones
by the bedposts where Santa Claus
can find them. And there isn't one
heart that doubts that the benevolent
tdd saint will climb down his chim
ney or use a pass-key on his door.
Perhaps he didn't come last year,
they understand. But that is all the
.nore reason that he will be 'here
this year.
Letters are going to the North
Pole every day. and switchboard
operators are telling countless chil
dren that the shining workshop
where the master toymaker lives is
too far to be reached by the longest
long distance.
But when Christmas morning
comes thousands of these same starry
eyed little boys and girls will find
that their stockings ate cold and flat,
unless the rest of us understand how
disappointed a little child can be
when he is left out of the Christmas
feast.
We accuse the inkeeper who would
not make room for Mary the night
that the Christ child was born. But
we who wound a little child by mak
ing him think that he has been for
gotten break trust with life just as
surely.
It takes such a little bit to make
a child happy. There are enough
toys which aren't being used in our
homes to make every child in the
country wake up on the magic morn
ing with a feeling in his heart that
life is good and Santa Claus still
comes.
Grown people have had experience
enough to understand the reasons un
derlying things when their di earns
don't come true. Children can't do
this. They only know that Santa
Claus has stood on the corner and in
toy shops, asked them what they
wanted him to bring . . . and then
forgotten them. They are puzzled,
and their bruised hearts don't know
how to understand a giver who can
be so generous to some children and
so thoughtless of others.
If we would keep alive the chil
dren's belief that life is good and
dreams come true, we must not fail
them.
They won't talk about the gifts
that they didn't get. these boys and
girls who are going around the
streets with such shining eyes today.
But they will have a dull little pain
in their hearts if Santa Claus breaks
trust with them. And nothing in all
the world is so pathetic its a child
who was left out.
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RELIEF FOR FARMERS
Congress is now devoting a great
deal of verbal attention, at least, to
so-called relief measures.
The greatest relief which Congress
could give the country would be to
pass the necessary appropriation
bills and adjourn.
One of the great troubles with the
country today is muddling by Con
gress through so-called "relief"
measures, trying to boost the price
of wheat and cotton and as a result
only lower the prices of these com
modities, while costing the taxpayers
'millions of dollars.
Several days ago the New Orleans
cotton situation was the muddling of
Congress with the cotton market,
I through its so-called relief measures.
When a Congressman talks of relief
measures some think of "doles," and
a handout is what a great many ap
parently think they should receive.
If Congress would get through in a
proper and efficient way with the
measures that concern it that of
governmental appropriations and
then adjourn, there would be relief.
But there is not going to eb any
permanent relief through quack
measures that place a great tax bur
den on the majority of the people,
and are supposed to get the farmer
vote in the doubtful states.
If Congress wants to relieve agri
cultural and industrial conditions, it
will pass the necessary bills for the
efficient operation of the govern
ment, and then give the people a
chance to work out their own sal
vation without muddling and inter
ference at Washington.
Auctioneer
C. P. BUSCHE
Louisville, Neb.
Farm and Live Stock Sales
a Specialty
Best of References by Many
Successful Sales
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that children make, feel
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awake half the night and paved
the way for another miserable
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Sleep and wake up ready for
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Both are the same
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NEST-CE-PAS ?
Almost 300 years ago the French
Academy began work on its standard
grammar of the French language.
.Vow comes word from Paris That the
great work will be published in a
short time. This is too important an
announcement to lose sight of, even
in the bustle of Christmas prepara
tions and the lame duck session of
Congress. For thousands of the vol
ume's diselosures may be little short
of matters of life and death. Should
the Grammarians, for instance, ban
ish double gender nouns to St. Helena
many a distracted son and daughter
away at college would take a new
lease on life. Elimination of the
preterit indicitive and the imperfect
subjective from the speech of Mo
liere and Villon would save at least
another semester for numberless oth
ers. There is no use dreaming of out
tight emancipation from the terror
of irregular verbs, but what a great
forward step in the world'-; civiliza-
tion it would be if a program were
laid out for dropping the defectives
of the successive conjugations at
four five-year intervals? Or, since it
costs no more to aim high, a plan for
eliminating the congugations them
selves. We leave it to the class.
N-est-ce-pas?
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$1.50. Mrs. F. A. Stohlman, Louis
ville, Nebraska. n20-12tw
Phone yonr Want Ad to No. 6
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of N'ehraska. Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Ransom M. Cole, deceased.
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
16th day of January, A. D. 1931 and
on the 17th day of April. A. D. 1931
at nine o'clock in the forenoon of
each day. to receive and examine all
claims against said estate, with a
view to their adjustment and al
lowance. The time limited for the
presentation of claims against said
estate is three months from the 16th
day of January A. D. 1931 and the
time limited for payment of debts
is one year from said 1 6th day of
January A. D. 1931.
Witness my hand and the seal of
Bald County Court this 17th day of
December. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) d22 3w County Judg.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the District Court of Cass
County. Nebraska.
Daniel G. Golding,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Charles L. White, et al.
Defendants.
NOTICE
To the Defendant, Charles L.
White:
You are hereby notified that on the
16t.h day of July. 1930, the plaintiff
filed his suit in the District Court of
Cass County, Nebraska, the object
and purpose of which is to foreclose
lien of a tax sale certificate on Lots
572 and 573, in the Village of
Greenwood, in Cass County, Ne
braska, and equitable relief.
You are hereby required to an
swer said petition on or before Mon
day, February 2, 1931. And failing
so to do, your default will be enter
ed and judgment taken upon the
plaintiff's petition. This notice is
given pursuant to an order of this
Court.
DANIEL G. GOLDING.
Plaintiff.
By A. L. TIDD.
His Attorney. d22-4w
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, Pounty of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by Colda 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 court house in the City of Platts
mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash the following real es
tate, to-wit:
The south 4 7 feet of Lota "
atid 6, in Block 4.!. In the City
of Plattsmouth, in Cass county,
Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of John F.
Wolff, Edna .1. 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 d -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. Pitch, deceased:
On reading the petition of Robert
H. Fitch, praying a final settlement
and allowance of his account Bled
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 Becond 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 Plattsmouth Jourrral, 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 aid
Court, this 2nd day of December.
A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) d8-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
lement of Accounts
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Mary L. Wiley, deceased.
On reading the petition of Perry
Nickles. Administrator, praying a fi
nal settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the
20th day of December. A. D. 1930,
and for final settlement of his ac
count and discharge as such Admin
istrator ;
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 16th day of January
A. D. 1930, at ten 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
thP 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 2oth day of Decem
ber. A. D. 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) d22-3w 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 Robert Troop, deceased:
On reading the petition of Lois R.
Troop praying that the instrument
filed in this court on the 18th day of
December 1930. and purporting to
be the last will and testament of the
said deceased, may be proved and al
lowed, and recorded as the last will
and testament of Robert Troop, de
ceased; that said instrument be ad
mitted to probate, and the adminis
tration of said estate be granted to
H. A. Schneider, as Administrator
with will annexed;
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 16th day of January A. D.,
1931 at ten 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 that 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.
Witness ray hand, and seal of said
court, this 18th day of December
A. D.. 1930.
A H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) d22 3w County Judge.
