THURSDAY. JAN. 39. 1921 PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOTTWCAL PAGE THKEI Cbc plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. An idle brain is the advance agent of a busy tongue. What do you suppose has become of the old-time concerns that used to make laprobes? :o:- Oh. well, men may have their fail ings, but they don't kiss when they rieet on the street. :o: Perhaps the younger generation is just as juvenile but can't manage a giggle with a cigarette in its mouth. "I can only think up two lines of words," said the tired song writer. "Guess I'll have to make it a spirit ual." -:o:- Men who "point to prosperity" give us new courage, but of Infinitely more value are those who lead us there. -:o:- Chicago is said to have a fund for the investigation of "human behav ior." Than Chicago there ij no more fertile field. : o : Girls on Mars, says a scientist, have six legs. Leading millionaires of the planet must be engaged in the silk stocking industry. FORD SMOOTHNESS The new Ford has more than twenty ball and roller bearings EVIDENCE of the high quality built into the new Ford is the extensive use of ball and roller bearings. There are more than twenty in all an unusually large num ber. Each bearing is adequate in size and carefully selected for the work it has to do. At some points in the Ford chassis you will find ball bearings. At others, roller bearings are used regardless of their higher cost. The deciding factor is the per formance of the car. The extensive use of ball and roller bearings in the new Ford insures smoother operation, saves gasoline, increases speed and power, gives quicker pick-up, de creases noise, and gives greater reliability and longer life to vital moving parts. Other outstanding features that make the new Ford a value far above the price are the Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, silent, fully enclosed four-wheel brake, four Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorb ers, aluminum pistons, chrome silicon alloy valves, three-quarter floating rear axle, Rustless Steel, the ex tensive use of fine steel forgings, and unusual accuracy in manufacturing. The New Ford Town Sedan LOW PRICES OF FORD CARS 430 to $630 F. O. B. Detroit, plus freight and delivery. Bumpers and spare tire extra at small cost. You can buy a Ford for a small da sen payment mm a convenient financing plan. Sao your Ford dealer for details Publisher Some self-made men leave parts of the job unfinished. :o: The worst won't . have happened until the lame ducks start crooning their swan songs. :o:- .Almost every day the boxers de monstrate some new way to lose a fij.ht without fighting. :o: An Iowa man divorced his wife and then hired her as a cook. That's one way to make sure she'll leave him. : o : Wouldn't it be glorious to go back to those good old days when a man kissed a girl he tasted nothing but girl. :o:- Butter is said to be selling for $5 a pound in Moscow. And who will say the Russians deserve a pat on the back? :o: To paraphrase an old one. an emp ty cab drove up to the convention hall and professor Dewey's Third Party got out. : o: What we wonder about the new thinking machine is whether it gets fed up occasionally and has to take in a musical comedy. A GLOOMY PROPHET A certain Madame Fraya. who lives in Paris and who presumably understands about planets and stars jand their influences for good and !bad, has some very cheerless things :to say about this Earth's prospects for 1931. Saturnus and Mars, she 'says, will rule the world this year, jand as it happens they are planets of evil. They will bring depression, iruin and menace of war. They will I bring with their baleful magnetic powers a myriad of bankruptcies and ! revolutions, epidemics and deaths. All in all. Madame Fraya is not J the least bit encouraging. She even i allocates the source of trouble. Po land is to be the center of a strong impetus toward war. Yet war and science alike thrive under the eye !' Mais, it seems, and whether arm ed conflict breaks out or not, there will be tremendous strides in chem istry and physics, while art and liter ature slumber. Of course, we can't deny Madame's predictions. She understands these cosmic things, and we do not. But all the same it is not hard to recall a h;t of other prophets whose ac curacy has been notoriously bad. There was the gentleman who ar ranged for the end of the world one warm spring day last year. And there is the German General who has ar ranged for another World War two or three times (and an unobliging world each time has stubbornly re fused to take its cue). : o : - The way some couples settle down after marriage is to running up hills. :o:- A law to a great many people is binding only when a policeman is looking. :o:- And how does the head of the Government feel after his Wicker shampoo? :o: Next thing you know some joke- ster will be sending the President a bonnet and hatchet. :o:- Sometimes we thnik we'd rather drink impure water that has the fla vor of a dental treatment. -:o:- We notice there's still enough money in this country to keep up the morals of bank robbers. -:o:- The pope used several thousand words to express his opinion of mar riage, but many men. as well as wom en, would use about three. :o:- Nineteen thirty-one version: And pretty soon the President will this warning sound You gotta quit a kicking my pet commissions' round. -:o:- If we didn't know Congress so well it might be we'd give it credit for being more interested in feeding the hungry than in embarrassing the President. -:o:- City folks are complaining because they have to pay income tax. and country people are grieving because they don't have enough income to pay taxes on it. -:o:- A masculine fashion note declares that the long-tailed dinner coat is coming back. This, of course, will make any peculiar bulge at the hip less noticeable. -:o:- Douglas Fairbanks is going on his first world tour alone. Doug ex plains that he plans to hunt tigers and elephants in Asia and this would be no vacation for his Mary. -:o: It is stated that American tourists t spent $325,000,000 in Canada last jyear. Yet a report is current that Panada's liquor control system is a failure. Don't you believe it. One of the most popular jokes con cerns the wife jealous of her hus band's stenographer. It is especiallj good if you know what the steno grapher thinks of the husband. -:o: Congressman Wood says that none but Republicans should be in the Re publican party, but think of the pro 1 hibition Congressmen we have had without any prohibitionist in them. :o: A flapper confides to us that she is wild about her new engagement ring He got her for Christmas, and said she made Him promise that when she gets her divorce she will still keep the ring. :o: A millionaire's daughter is hard painting sport roadsters and giving them to her friends when they are completed. There is almost always something to be thankful for. as who would want a roadster with daisies painted on it? :o: With the end of the period of sus pended instruction, arranged in the hope that an agreement might be reached, comee the threat, "a naval race" between France and Italy. The Italian government, it is reported, will now build ship for ship with Franc. RITZ THEATRE, PLATTSMOUTH KM1 Sun., Monday, Toes., Feb. 1-2-3 MR. HOOVER'S WHITE RIBBON The Wickersham report may turn out to be another bundle of loose paper blown before the rising wind of prohibition argument. Because of its collection of evidence on crime and enforcement condition, which no one but the members of the Com mission and the President has yet seen in complete form, and because ol" a partial, if far from detailed, agreement by a majority of the re searchers that revision is desirable and the presentation of the Ander son plan, which six members recom mended, it may eventually provide a base for the anti-prohibition at tack. One thing is certain. It pro pelled Mr. Hoover off the fence. After three years, during which "enforcement of the prohibition laws in the country as a whole is unsat isfactory." the noble experiment is simply and unqualifiedly nohle. Mr. Hoover took a position more dry than the driest of his appointed commis sioners, and while affirming that the study was thorough and comprehen sive and should clarify public thought, he ignored entirely the real majority opinion of the Commission and based his message almost wholly on that anomalous summary. Mr. Hoover, no doubt with 1932 not far from his attention, has put himself among prohibition extremists. The country is glad to know where the President stands, that he speaks with rigid disfavor of Constitutional re vision, even if further trial of pro hibition fails. Another thing the country would like to know. The suspicion grows that the contradictory summary of the report, announced as an encour agement to enforcement until such a time as prohibition is replaced by a more liberal plan, was not the Commission's summary at all, but the arbitrary afterthought of some one with a heavy political thumb. Has there been trickery and suppres sion in this business of making a summary of recommendations? And whose suppression is it? The out spokenness of all the Commissioners absolvo them. So the report settles at least one thing, the aridity of Mr. Hoover, and opens up a line of speculation likely to end in a very serious investiga tion. -:o: COMPETITOR OR CONSPIRATOR Is Russia America's competitor or a conspirator against our prosperity, or both? A writer in the Outlook and Independent believes her to be both; that American business men are building up sorrow and future distress by enabling the former em pire to become agriculturally and in dustriously strengthened and equip ped through their practical and ex tensive assistance. After a profound analysis of the prospective production of major prod ucts in Russia for 1931. not includ ing lumber and furs, which will un dergo a proportionately great de velopment, another student of Rus sian affairs asserts that if the Soviets are successful in their proposed plans for 1931 it is perfectly clear that capitalitic countries cannot hope to return to normal or near-normal con ditions in 1931. and that the situ ation will become even more aggra vated as the conclusion of the Five Year plan approaches. It is his view that competition with the conscript, convict, labor system of Soviet Rus sia would mean starvation wages in America and would precipitate Com munism as successfully as unemploy ment. Either way. he says, the So viets win and we lose. He asks: "Will foreign financier and indus trialists still feel justified in their acceptance of soviet contracts if this comes to pass? Will they, indeed? Is the implicit omen an exaggeration or a clear warning to American interests to avoid any and all relationships with a government and people bent upon the destruction of all systems of gov ernment save their own? At this time may it not be well for Americans to consider most care fully these deductions made by au thorities who have at heart only the best interests of the United States and its people? :o:- Some of tbe items in the London Zoo's bill for 1930 were six tons of nuts, 50 tons of herring and white- bair, one ton of canary seed. 25,000 eggs, 20,000 pounds of condensed milk. East j stk msmmmm PUBLIC AUCTION As I am quitting farming. I will offer for sale at my home one-half mile east of Union, Nebr., on Saturday, Jan. 31 beginning at 10 o'clock a. m.. with lunch served on the premises, the fol lowing described proporty. to-wit : Horses and Mules One jack mule. 9 years old. wt. 1200: one jack mule. S years old, wt. 1200: one jack mule, smooth mouth, wt. 1250; one mare mule, smooth mouth, wt. 1150; one bay mare, 10 years old. wt. 1100: one black mare. 8 years old. wt. 1200; one sorrel mare, saddle bred. 4 years old, wt. 1100: one gray horse, 7 years old, wt. 1400. Two Jersey Cows FRESH Farm Implements, etc. One wagon with box: one truck wagon: one new hay rack; one truck body for Ford or Chevy; one hay rake: one mowing machine: one Bad ger cultivator: one John Deere riding cultivator; one new Rock Island wide tread lister: one John Deere 2-row lister: one 2-row stalk cutter: one Ifoline wide tread lister: one gang plow; one disc-. 20 discs; one disc, 16 discs: three sets 1-in. harness; one set chain tug mule harness; one Gal loway manure spreader: one 2-row machine; one 0-shovel cultivator. Household Goods of Ed Miller Included in This Sale In addition, there will be sold at the same time and place, the following Property of E. B. Chapman FOUR HEAD HORSES One bay horse, smooth mouth, wt. 1300; one black horse, smooth mouth, wt. 1400; one brown horse. 4 years old. wt. llt-0: one sorrel mare, 4 years old. wt. 1000. IMPLEMENTS One Good Enough sang plow: one walking plow; one low down Hoosier press drill, with grass seeder attachment; one 11-foot seeder; one 2-row stalk cutter: one 2-section harrow: one P & O lister, nearly new; one mowing machine: one riding cultivator: one hay rake: one? Newton wagon; one truck wagon with rack: one carriage; one set 1 inch harness, nearly new: one set 1 Mi-inch harness; one saddle. Terms of Sale On sums of $10 and under, cash in hand. On sums over $10 a credit of six months on bankable note bear ing interest at 8 per cent per annum from date. Ed Leach, Owner. REX YOUNG, Auctioneer BANK OF UNION, Clerk EIGHT MILE GROVE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sunday. February 1st. 10:30 a. m. English services. 7:30 p. m. Luther League. Verner and Arnold Meisinger. leaders. There was evidence the other day of a movement on the part of cer tain Administration leaders in and out of congress to extricate President Hoover from the position in which hiti letter to Congress transmitting the Wickersham report has placed him in the eyes of the country. RUPTURE EXPERT HERE C. F. Redlich. Minneapolis. Minn.. wJl demonstrate without charge his unequalled method in Plattsmouth FRIDAY. February 13. at the Riley Hotel from 10:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. Mr. C. F. Redlich says The "Perfect Retention Shields" held the rupture perfectly, no matter what position the body assumes or hew heavy a weight you lift. They give instant relief and contract the opening in a remarkably short time. The secret of their success is in their simplicity. An expertly adjusted device seals the opening without dis comfort or detention from work. It is practically everlasting, sanitary, comfortable and actually holds rup tures which heretofore were consid ered uncontrollable. Stomach troubles, backache and constipation, nearly always a conse quence of rupture, promptly disap pear. Bring your children. According to statistics 95 recover by our method. NOTICE: All whom we have treat ed during the past ten years are in vited to come in for a free inspection. HOME OFFICE: 535 Boston Block, Minneapolis. Minn. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska. Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of An ton Krajieek. deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will set at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 20th day of February, 1931, and on the 22nd day of May, 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m., on 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 said estate is three months from the 20th day of February, A. D. 1931, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 20th day of February, 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court .this 23rd day of Jftnuary. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j26-3w County Judge. Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Telephone 133-J Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales During 1930, Soennichsen's told 3.155 pair of TRAIN MASTER overalls. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Thomas Troop, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon his estate and for such other and fur ther orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and pro vided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 8th day of February, A. D., 1931, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 6th day of Feb ruary, A. D.. 1931, at nine o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to H. A. Schneider, or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) jl2-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition Tor Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska: State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Isaac Cecil, deceased: On reading the petition of W. A. ; Robertson. Administrator, prayirg a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 9th day of January. 1931, and for distribution of .estate and dis charge of Administrator; 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 I county on the 6th day of February, A. D. 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m., to '.show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not j be granted, and that notice of tbe ; 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 weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 9th day of January, A. D., 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal( jl2-3w County Judge. i.i-nrti- Y micer. Attorney LEGAL NOTICE In th District Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. To the heirs, devisees and legatees of John R. Sheffer and wife, Martha ; Sheffer, the heirs, devisees and le J gatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of John R. Sheffer and wife. Martha Sheffer. real names unknown, and all persons having or claiming to have an interest in Lot 8, in the Southeast Quarter (SEVi) of the Northeast Quarter (NE ) of Section Twenty (20), Township Twelve (12), in Range Nine (9), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska, more particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the Southeast (SE) corner of the Northeast Quar ter (NE) of Section Twenty (20), Township Twelve (12), in Range Nine (9), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska, thence North Thirty (30) rods, thence West 1336 feet, thence South Thirty (30) rods, thence East 1336 feet to the place of beginning, real names unknown, and L. V. Sheffer, first and real name unknown. You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 10th day of January. 1931, Catherine Coleman, Hettie G. Wright. Ella May Marshall, Ada F. Gullion, Isa O. McLeese. Mat- tie J. Bailey, Lula A. Laridon, Myron E. Coleman, and Elmer C. Coleman filed their amended petition as plain tiffs against you and each of you as defendants, the object and prayer of said petition being to quiet the title of the plaintiffs in and to the follow ing described real estate, to-wit: Lot Eight (8), in the South east Quarter (SE ) of the Northeast Quarter (NE4) of Section Twenty (20), Township Twelve (12), in Range Nine (9), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska, more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the South east (SE) corner of the North east Quarter (NE4) of Section Twenty (20), Township Twelve 12), in Range Nine (9), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County Nebraska, thence North Thirty (30) rods, thence West 15:36 feet, thence South Thirty (St) rods, thence East 1336 feet to the place of beginning. You and each of you are required to answer said petition on or before the 2nd day of March, 1931. ELLA. MAY MARSHALL, Plaintiff. By CEOE YZAGEB. jl2-4w Wm Attony. NOTICE Whereas. Henry W. Miller, con victed in Caw County, on the 5th day of January, 1929, of the crime of auto theft, has made application to the board of pardons for a parole, and the board of pardons, pursuant to law have set the hour of 10 a. m. on the 10th day of February, 1931, for bearing on said application, all persons interested are hereby noti fied that they may appear at the State Penitentiary, at Lincoln, Nebraska, on said day and hour and show cause, if any there be, why said ap plication should, or should not be granted. FRANK MARSH, Secretary, Board of Pardons. N. T. HARMON. Chief State Probation Officer. NOTICE Whereas, Otis Ireland, convicted in Cass County, on the 23rd day of August, 1930, of the crime of driv ing while intoxicated, has made ap plication to the board of Pardons for restoration of driver's license, and the Board of Pardons, pursuant to law have set the hour of 10 a. m. on the 10th day of February. 1931, for bearing on said application, all persons interested are hereby noti fied that they may appear at the State Penitentiary, at Lincoln, Ne braska, on said day and hour and show cause, If any thereby, why said i application should, or should not be granted. FRANK MARSH. Secretary, Board of Pardons. N. T. HARMON. Chief State Probation Officer. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of j Viola G. Smith, deceased. ;ouce ot Auminisirauon. All persons interested in Baid es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon her estate, proof of heirship, and for such other and further orders and pro ceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things per taining thereto may be finally set tled and determined, and that a hear ing will be had on said petition be fore said Court on the 6th day of February, A. D., 1931. and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 6th day of February, A. D., 1931, at ten o'clock a. m. to contest the Baid petition, the Court may grant the Bame and grant adminis tration of said estate to Frank R. Gobelman, or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) jl2-3w County Judge. Ororfe Ynger, Attorney LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. To the heirs, devisees and legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in tbe estate of John R. Sheffer and wife Martha Sheffer, the heirs, devisees, legatees and personal representatives of all other persons interested in the estate of John R. Sheffer real names un known, Catherine Coleman, the heirs, devisees, legatees and personal rep resentatives and all other persons in terested in the estate of Catherine Coleman, Jane Coleman, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal represen tatives and all other persons inter ested in the estate of Jane Coleman; E. B. Coleman, William Coleman, J. H. Coleman. Mathilda Pearson, Lucy Garrett. M. L. Coleman. Mary Laugh lin, Amanda Cheverant, Amy Farmer and all persons having or claiming to have any Interest in the following described real estate, to-wit: Frac tional Lot Seven (7) in the Southeast Quarter (SE4 ) of the Northeast Quarter (NE hi ) of Section Twenty (20). Township Twelve (12) North. Range Nine (9 E. of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska, more par ticularly described as beginning on the East line of said Section at a point Forty (40) rods North of the Southeast corner of the Northeast Quarter (NE4) of Section Twenty (20). Township Twelve (12) North, Range Nine (9) East of the 6th P. M.; thence North 40 rods, thence west 1336 ft., thence South 40 rods, thence east to the place of begin ning, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 10th day of Janu ary, 1931, Catherine Coleman. Hettie G. Wright, Ella May Marshall, Ada F. Gullion, Isa O. McLeese Mattie J. Bailey, Lula A. Landon, Myron E. Coleman and Elmer C. Coleman, filed their amended petition as Plaintiffs -against you and each of you as de fendants, the object and prayer of said petition being to quiet the title of the plaintiffs in and to the fol lowing described real estate, to-wit: Fractional Lot Seven (7) in the Southeast Quarter SE4 ) of the Northeast Quarter (NE4) of Section Twenty (20), Town ship Twelve (12) North. Range Nine (9), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass County, Nebraska, more particularly described as begin ning on the East line of said section at a point 40 rods North of the Southeast corner of the Northeast Quarter (NEi) of Section Twenty (20). Township Twelve (12) North, Range Nine (9) East of the 6th P. M. ; thence North 40 rods, thence West 1336 ft., thence South 40 rods, thence East to the place of beginning. You and each of you are required to answer said petition on or before the 2nd day of March, 1931. ELLA MAY MARSHALL. Plaintiff. By GEORGE YEAGER. J12-4w Her Attorney. Bates Book and 8t Shop is ex elusive Dennison decorative supplies dealer is this vicinity.