MONDAY. JUNE 1. 1931.
PLATTSMOTTTH SEMI - WEEKLY JQTTWJAI
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Hoover fears a special session of
Congress.
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Tomorrow never made you a dol
lar. Do it today.
Hush money: The sum gangland
spends for shotgun shells.
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Argentina has ordered a survey of
itB water-power possibilities.
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No woman is allowed on Mount
Atbos with its 146 monasteries.
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More building permits are being
issued in Jamaica than a year ago.
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A $13,750,000 bridge across the
Firth of Forth, in Scotland, is pro
posed. :o:
Some people owe theii goodness to
i he fact that they have never been
tempted.
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The Netherlands has a population
of 7,938.162, according to a recent
estimate.
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Tn willing to live and let live."
says Al Capone. But he doesn't say
lor how much.
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Governor Ritchie of Maryland has
just escaped without a scratch from
a motor car accident.
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President Hoover definitely de
clares there will be no special session
of Congress this year.
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Those Wickersham wets who wrote
a dry report will come in handy in
writing the party platforms.
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Crude oil production in this coun
try has risen again, despite organ
ized efforts to hold it down.
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Five-room cottages are being built
of copper in Germany and the same
metal is being used for frames in
church walls.
The situation in the Democratic
party seems to be that the wets are
running it and the drys are telling
them how to do it.
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A mirage is due to the unequal
heating of the different parts of the
atmosphere, which bends the light
rays, and so produces distorted
images.
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One trouble with the world these
days is that there are so many people
who like to go about destroying all
of our harmless and pleasant little
illusions.
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Ordinarily we are opposed to
bloodshed, but if a war is declared
between the machine gun bandits
and radio croonerr. in this land of
ours, we are going to do some hearty
cheering on the sidelines for both
armies.
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If a man is ignorant he soon pub
lishes the fact.
Don't act foolish unless you want
a cheap reputation.
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A pretty girl can teach a man any
thing except common sense.
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It's better to discover where an
enemy is than where he was.
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Ten large steel-structural build
ings are being erected in Paris.
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Bombay, India, has added 100
busses to supplement its street car
service.
The world wheat congress has not
been able to solve the problem of the
surplus.
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Switzerland sent nearly 575.000
wrist watches to the United States
last year.
Automobile production, some eco
nomic experts contend rules the pros
perity of the country.
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The furniture manufacturing in
dustry is nearer to a turning point
than industry in general.
Soviet Government is to have 100
new military tanks. Officers must be
drinking heavy over there.
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What's the matter with the coun
try? Too many laws. Everybody
knows it. Everybody talks it. Every
body deplores it.
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Another instance of mixing char
ity pleasantly with business is when
the straw hat salesman remarks, "It
looks fine on you."
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Your wife may be the wisest wom
an in town, but you can never make
jher understand that the long collai
button goes in front.
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We have to confess, too, that we
find something stimulating in the re
port that Germany had a bumper
wine harvest last year.
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Today's fable: Once upon a time
a mother told her daughter to quit
running around with that rich guy
and marry a poor boy.
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The playing-card industry was one
of the most prosperous during 1930
And yet there's so much talk about
the twilight of the kings!
Is there any truth in the rumor
that when John J. Raskob started
for Europe he left the Demon Run.
in Mabel Willebrandt's care?
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The great English poet and essay-
list. Pope, was an epicure and lazy
lying in bed for days unless he was
told there were stewed lampreys for
dinner.
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The dawn of today has called from this world of trouble and
strife Col. M. A. Bates, editor of the Plattsmouth Journal over a
period of twenty-nine years and "thirty" has been written for this
veteran editor and newspaper man.
Since the late fifties this hardy, fearless editor has been a part
of the newspaj)er profession, pioneering as an apprentice in the
small Ohio community in which he was born and his experience has
covered the states of Indiana, Illinois. Missouri. Montana and
Nebraska.
The span of his life has covered some of the most strenuous
'ays in the newspaper business the hard-fought and merciless bat
tles that characterized the editor of the days following the Civil war
and in these conflicts he has been a man of courage anil conviction,
fighting to the last for the ideals that he had( taken as his own.
In his lifetime, he has been an unshaken believer in the teach
ings of the democratic party, serving as a leader in the cause of this
great liberal organization of the American people. He has with
stood the times when his ideals marked him with scorn and has seen
these same ideals live through the dark days following the great
Civil war, in which he was himself a Union soldier, to finally tri
umph on many occasions. At the last election he was able to go to
the polls and cast his ballot, despite enfeebled health and his well
nigh four score and ten years, for the nominees t the party that he
had served so faithfully and well.
Life has been long for this veteran soldier and editor and he
has never shirked a duty as he saw it. Even now the close of life's
fitful drama found him still in the service that had been his life.
To him has come the summons to unarm to lav aside the cares
of li fe and to attain the reward that years have laid in stre for
him.
Loving and kind to those whom he knew as friend ; equally fear
less in his battles, he will l)e missed by those who had the pleasure of
knowing him and the place thai he has filled in his profession and
community will be one hard to fill.
"Green be the turf above thee
None knew thee but to love thee;
None named thee but to praise!"
SILVER IN THE VILLAIN'S BOLE
Silver has figured prominently in
recent discussions of the economic
depression. A Senate subcommittee
made an extensive report on it a tew
months ago; it played an important
part in the meetings of the Interna
tional Chamber of Commerce; and
now Senator Pittman of Nevada has
sailed for China in the hope of ac
complishing something to bolster up
the price of that metal. In a parting
statement the Senator said that "a
foolish dumping policy in India is
disrupting the monetary system of
half the people of the world. The
sudden and abnormal aepression in
the price of silver, which is the only
money that China has, is the major
cause of the world depression."
The views of Senator Pittman,
which seem to have gained wide ac
ceptance, rest upon certain alleged
facts that it might be well to consid
er. They assume that India's mone
tary policy is the cause of the fall
in the price of silver, and they fur
ther assume tnat this dec-fine, by
halving the gold value of China's
monetary unit, has cut in two the
purchasing power of that country.
What are the facts as to India?
India gave up the silver standard
in 1893, and except for a brief per
iod of very high silver prices at the
end of the World War, the value of
the Indian rupee has since then been
divorced from the price of silver. For
many years before 1926, India had
a gold exchange, or sterling ex
change, standard. That is, the rupee,
although not redeemable in gold, was
maintained at a given gold value,
and later at a given sterling value,
by redemption in drafts on London.
The much-discussed Indian monetary
reform of 1926 consisted only in a
change in the method of maintain
ing the parity of the rupee, by hav
ing redemption in gold bullion in
stead of redemption in London
drafts. In line with this new pro
gram, the Indian Government has dis
posed of part of its silver in order
to acquire a larger gold reserve.
These sales by the Indian Govern
ment have probably had some de
pressing influence on the price of
silver, but no such catastrophic ef
fect as the friends of silver would
have us believe. The fact is that less
than 10 per cent ot the silver put on
the market during the last four years
has come from the Indian Govern
ment, and during this same period
the purchase of silver by the Indian
public has far exceeded these sales.
so that India has actually been a net
purchaser of a third of the silver
production of the world during a per
iod when Senator Pittman would
have us believe that the "foolish
dumping policy" of India was flood
ing the world with silver."
A question even more important is
the effect that the decline in silver,
whatever its cause, has had on the
purchasing power of China. The pur
chasing power of China is not deter
mined by the fact that her silver dol
lar happens to be worth 60, 40 or 20
cents gold, but by the fact that her
exports bring a certain price in for
eign markets, for China, like India
or any other country, pays for her
imports with her exports. Only as the
gold prices of Chinese exports fall in
foreign markets is the purchasing
power of China reduced. The prices
of China's exports have fallen in
the United tates and other markets.
I but to have the products of all coun
tries. One need only turn to our for
eign trade figures to disabuse him
self of the idea that the purchasing
power of China has been ruined by
silver, for our exports to many other
countries which are on the gold stan-
i dard.
We hope that Senator Pittman's
trip may be instrumental in estab
lishing closer trade relations with the
Orient, and we trust that the dis
tressed silver producers, like the pro
ducers of so many other products
whose market has collapsed, may soon
find conditions taking a turn for the
better. But the facts of the case are
too strong to allow the Senator to
cast silver for the villain's role in
the world's economic tragedy.
THE SMALL CHECK
Even in circles composed of per
sons of business experience, the state
ment is frequently made with assur
ance that to draw a check for less
than one dollar is unlawful. Checks
are usually drawn for larger sums.
Small bills are paid in cash where it
is convenient to do so. Nevertheless
checks for sums as small as a dollar
or less may be drawn and as a mat
ter of fact such paper is constantly
passing through the clearing houses
in the large cities. Uncle Sam, who
is very particular about exact pay
ments, will draw a check for one cent
in adjusting an overpayment of dues
to him.
Nevertheless many, supposing that
educe
the Acid
stomachs, sour stomachs and
usualhr mean
The stomach nerves are aver-
Too much acid makes the
stomach and intestines sons.
Alkali kms acid instantly. The best
form is Phillips Milk of Magnesia; one
harmless, tasteless dose neutralizes
many times its volume in acid. For 50
years the standard with physicians
everywhere
Take a spoonful in water and your
rm happy condition -will probably end
in five minutes. Then you will always
know what to do. Crude and harmful
methods will never appeal to you. Go
prove this far your own sake. It may
save a great many disisgreeabfe hours.
Get the genuine Phillips Milk of
Mag in lia, the kind physicians have
prescribed for 50 years.
T mduxstion
acid.
COULDN'T EAT
"For years I could not eat rich food. They
would fill me with eaa and unbearable nna
erv 8iace takii ZINSEP I eat anything.
ZINSEP ia a wander stomach medicine.
aavs Mr. V. McPberaon. Chapman. Nehr.
Try ZINSEP today. It'a GUARANTEED. At
all druggists. IS
this old statement about less-than-a-dollar
checks is correct, avcid draw
ing such checks. It is believed that
the notion grew out of a Federal
criminal law which is still in force,
making it an offense, punishable by
a heavy fine, to issue a check of less
than a dollar with the intention of
having it circulate and be used as
currency. Uncle Sam is jealous of
the power of issuing and controlling
money.
Just why the statute was directed
against the less-than-a-dollar check
in such use, is not apparent, but pos
sibly it was found after the calling
in of the old time fractional paper
currency that was in use during the
Givil War and immediately after
ward, there was a tendency to use
small personal checks in their stead.
But do matter, you can draw all
the less-than-a-dollar checks you
want to and that your bank balance
will stand. That point will better
bear watching.
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IRELAND'S PEOPLE
Ireland's people are about to en
joy a something for which they have
striven and fought for centuries. The
Free State Dail has passed a bill,
providing for the splitting up and
dividing into small farms all big
landed estates in the commonwealth.
From landlord to tenant will go these
lands. There is to be no more ab
sentee landlordism. It is said that
70,000 tenants will become absolute
owners of their land. The Govern
ment will meet the cost some $50.
000,000 by the issue cr"Iand bonds.
These will be placed to the credit of
landlords in the National iCty Hank
of Dublin. The farmers of Ireland
will now pay their land commission
ers instead of their landlords, as
heretofore.
The Cosgrove Government has
done well in many respects, but in
perhaps no instance has it registered
a more popular achievemeut or a
potentially more important and last
ing service to Ireland and its people
than by the enactment of this law
which gives to men the fundamental
asset of freedom the opportunity to
own and build, to have and to hold
that which men since time immem
orial have desired, and for which
they have been willing to sacrifice,
fight and die; or better, to live for,
to love and labor for.
It is said that the act will be in
complete operation throughout Ire
land by the coming November, when
it is estimated that no less than
150.000 people will come into their
own as landed citizens.
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Why is it that our own manufac
turers and bankers are beginning to
suggest cancellation again? Can the
answer be possibly something like
this? Our manufacturing capacity
has been built up to enormous pro
portions and demands a protected
home market. Under Mr. Hoover it
has secured the highest tariff in his
tory, a tariff that is so nearly prohi
bitive as to bring about resentment
among the other nations and some
thing almost like dismay even among
ourselves.
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In Toronto court the otber day a
Chinese who had been giving evi
dence through an interpreter was
found to be quite fluent in English.
It is a characteristic of the oriental
mind not to reveal all it knows; and
this is not a bad plan for any other
division of the human race.
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The pacifist forces of America are
drawing themselves up in such for
midable array that a gentle and
peace-loving nation may stand.
NOTICE
Legal Voters of School District No.
102, of Cass County, Nebraska
That the annual district meeting
of school district No. 102 will be
held at the high school auditorium
on June 8th at 8 p. m. Meeting win
be for the purpose of transacting al!
business to appropriate $17,500 for
general school purposes, which is in
excess of the lew.
H. L. BORNEMEIER.
m21-3tw Secretary.
NOTICE
To: Elva L. Baxter, non
resident. Defendant:
You are hereby notified that on
the 10th day of December, 1930,
Olive Baxter filed a petition against
you in the District Court of Cass
county, Nebraska, entered in Docket
5, page 95. the object and prayer of
which are to obtain an absolute di
vorce from .you and complete custody
and control of Lela M. Baxter and
Leonard E. Baxter, minor children,
on the grounds of having failed to
support the plaintiff and her child
ren. You are requested to answer
said petition on or before Monday, the
29th day of June, 1931.
OLIVE BAXTER,
ml 8-4 w Plaintiff.
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 Margaret Wehrbein, deceas
ed: On reading the petition of John F.
Wehrbein praying that the instru
ment filed in this court on the 13th
day of May, 1931. 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 Margaret Wehrbein,
deceased: that said instrument be ad
mitted to probate, and the adminis
tration of said estate be granted to
John F. Wehrbein, as Executor;
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 12th day of June, A. D.
1981, 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 pub
lishing 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 my hand, and seal of said
court, this 13th day of May, A. D.
1931.
A. H.
Dl'XBl'RY,
County Judge.
(Seal) ml 8-3 w
NOTICE OF HEARING
on Petition for Determination of
Heirship
Estate of Jacob Coffman, deceased,
in the County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska. To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Al
bert Altschaffl has filed his petition
alleging that Jacob Coffman died in
testate in Plattsmouth, Cass county,
Nebraska, on or about September 12.
1885. being a resident and inhabitant
of Cass county. Nebraska, and died
seized of the following escribed real
estate, to-wit:
All that part of Lot fifteen
(15) in the northwest quarter
(NW34) of the northwest quar
ter (NWl ) of Section nineteen
19). Township twelve (12),
North. Range fourteen (14),
east of the 6th P. M., in Cass
county, Nebraska, excepting that
pu.rt of said lot lying north and
west of the public road running
across the northwest part of
said road
leaving as his sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Eliza Coffman, widow, and
the following named children,
to-wit: Phillip S. Coffman, Green
F Coffman, Jacob W. Coffman,
Martha F. Crofford and Perry
W. Coffman :
That the interest of the petitioner
herein in the above described real es
tate is as subsequent purchaser and
warrantor: and praying for a deter
mination of the time of the death of
said Jacob Coffman and of his heirs,
the degree of kinship and the right
of descent of the real property be
longing to the said deceased in the
State of Nebraska.
It is ordered that the same stand
for hearing the 19th day of June,
A. D. 1931, before the court at the
hour of ten o'clock a. ni., in the
County Court room in Plattsmouth,
Nebraska.
Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska,
this 23rd dav of May. A. D. 1931.
A. H. Dl'XBl'RY.
(Seal m25-3w County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the application
f Searl S. Davis, Administrator of the
Estate of John Karvanek, deceased,
for license to sell real estate to pay
debts.
Now on this 8th day of May, 1931,
came Searl S. Davis, Administator of
the Estate of John Karvanek, de
ceased, and presents his petition for
license to sell real estate of the de
ceased in order to pay the claims
filed and allowed against said estate,
and expenses of administering said
estate and these proceedings; and it
appearing from said petition, that
there is an insufficient amount of
personal property in the hands of the
Administrator to pay the claims pre
sented and allowed by the County
Court of this County and the ex
penses of administration and these
proceedings; that it is necessary to
sell the whole of said real estate of
the deceased in order to pay said
claims, costs of administration and
these proceedings.
It is Therefore Considered, Order
ed and Adjudged, that all persons
interested in the Estate of John Kar
vanek. deceased, appear before me,
James T. Begley, Judge of the Dis
trict Court, at the office of the Clerk
of the District Court in the Court
House, in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass County, Nebraska, on the 27th
day of June, 1931, at the hour of
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, and
show cause, if any there be, why
such license should not be granted
to Searl S. Davis. Administrator of
the Estate of John Karvanek. de
ceased, to sell all of the real estate
of said deceased, so as to pay the
claims presented and allowed, costs
of administration and these proceed
ings. It is Further Considered, Ordered
and Adjudged, that notice be given
to all persons interested by publica
tion of this Order to Show Cause for
four successive weeks in the Platts
mouth Journal, a legal newspaper
published and of general circulation
in the County of Cass, Nebraska.
Bv the Court.
JAMES T. BEGLEY,
ml 1-4 w District Judge.
Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and
all kinds of legal blanks fcr sale at
the Journal office.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Ca?R coun
ty. Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Emma
C. Miller, 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 Baid deceased died leav
ing no last will and testament and
praying for administration upon her
estate and for sue h other and further
orders and proceedings in the prem
ises as may be required by the stat
utes in such c ases made and provided
to the end that said estate and all
things pertaining theielo may be
finally settled and determined, and
that a hearing will be had on said
petition before said Court on the 12th
day of June, A. D. 1931, and that if
they fail to appear at said Court on
said 12th day of June, A. D. 1931. at
ten o'clock a. m. to contest the said
petition, the Court may grant the
same and grant administration ot
said estate to Frank A. J. Miller, or
some other suitable person and pro
ceed to a settlement thereof.
A. H. Dl'XBl'RY.
(Sealt mlS-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Ger
trude E. Morgan, 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 her
estate and for such other and further
orders and proceedings in the prem
ises as may be required by the stat
utes 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 12th
day of June. A. D. 1931, and that if
they fail to appear at said Court on
said 12th day of Jure, A. D. 1931, at
ten o'clock a. m . to contest the said
petition, the Court may grant the
same and grant administration of said
estate to Paul C. Morgan or some
otber suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ml 8-3 w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Settle
ment 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 Anton Krajicek, deceased:
On reading the petition of Frances
Klema praying a final settlement and
allowance of her account filed in this
Court on the 23rd day of May. 1931,
and for discharge of Administratrix
and assignment of estate:
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said matter
may. and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 19th day of June. A.
D. 1931, 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
the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi
weekly newspaper printed in Baid
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 23rd day of May, A.
D. 1931.
A. H. Dl'XBl'RY.
Sealm25-3w County Judge.
ARTIIl l C. IAXOO1. A.tj.
H4C1 Omaba t. Rank Ml.lt.
Ontaba. Nrhraka.
LEGAL NOTP E
To: A. M. Snyder,
Snyder,
nis wire, first and real name un
known; Theodore H. Dodd and
Dodd. his wife, first and real
name unknown, Watson, first
and real name unknown, wife of Al
len Watson: Snyder & Dodd. a co
partnership; Mathias Snyder, Mat
thias Snyder, and Snyder, his
wife, first and real name unknown;
E. H. Eaton and Eaton, his
wife, first and real name unknown;
Mary Ellen Clark. Mary E ( lark;
S. N. Merriam; Selden N. Merriani;
J. W. Barnes: Robert T. Maxwell;
Hiliare Grfudreault : C. Kinkley; J.
H. Snell; Pronger, first and
real name unknown, wife of George
E. Pronger; Hickey. first and
real name unknown, wife of John
Hickey. Wm. H. Forbes. Trustee;
Henry S. Russell. Trustee. John N.
A. Griswold, Trustee; All persons
claiming any interest in the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit: All
of that part of the northeast quarter
of the northeast quarter (N"E
NEVi) lying south and west of the
right-of-way of the Burlington &
Missouri River Railroad Company in
Nebraska; also the southeast quarter
of the northeast quarter (SE4
NE M ) and the northeast quarter of
the southeast quarter iNE4 BE ' .
all in Section Six (6). Township
Twelve (12). north. Range Ten (10).
East of the Sixth p. m., Cass County.
Nebraska, real names unknown:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that Henry F. Raasc h. plain
tiff, has filed a petition in the Dis
trict Court of Cass County, Nebraska,
being shown at Docket 5. Page 173,
No. 8593. against you as defendants,
the object and prayer of which is to
quiet the title of the plaintiff in and
to the real estate desciibed above.
and to have you and each of you. de
fendants in said action, adjudged to
have no lien on or interest In the
above desciibed real estate.
You and each of you are required
to answer said petition on or before
the 22nd day of June. 1931.
HENRY F. RAASCH.
Plaintiff.
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