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Europe won't let us alone, for fear
they won't get a loan.
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The depression seems to have
come out of its slump again.
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Santa Claus becomes a reality
when dad has to foot the bills.
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Clothes don't make the man if bis;tjon are thinking only of the first
wife happens to be wearing them.
The merchants are all prepared
for the last minute Christmas rush.
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Only three more days to do your
Christmas shopping. Better get busy.
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Mar.y a lowly rabbit is reincar -
nated in a Hudson River seal after
death.
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Money has no value in heaven,
which goes to prove that's not where
business is going.
It begins to look as if Japan would
have to loan China ammunition so
they can have a decent war.
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Big men are those who tell you
how ornery juries are and haven't
time to accept jury service.
:o:-
America couldn't help the League
of Nations much anyway. She can't
even make her own people oby or
ders. . :o:
Where Shady Lane intersects Easy
street there are four corners. But
prosperity isn't around any one of
them.
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Maybe thev are called public ser -
vants because a servant doesn't mind
wasting things that belong to some
body else.
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We knew there must be something
praiseworthy about bridge. Both
Lenz and Culbertson say absolute
quiet is necessary.
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We are hoping that the New Year
will be a little more prosperous than
the laet one. or the last two, for
that matter, have been.
But for Edison we wouldn't have
had the moving picture, the talking
machine cr the telephone but he
was a great man nevertheless.
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Does Hoover's moratorium mean
cancellation or reduction of the war
debts owed the United States? A lot
of people think it will lead to that.
A Very Smart Pa jama
. . that has that "certain something"!
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Ladies Toggery
THE SHOP OF PERSONAL SERVICE
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
Only two more days left to do that
Christmas shopping.
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"Many a great fortune has been
made by buying from pessimists."
Also by selling to optimists.
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You understand, of course, that
experts wno Figure iiie cosi 01 au ri--
CUal.
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"A friend of ours who has had
among her guests this week a boy
and his dog. says that never again
will she be afraid of an earthquake."
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A noted French fortune teller pre-
, du.t th&t prosperitv be here by
the middle cf next summer. Don't
believe her. she may be a Republican.
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Well, it won't be long now until
the first of another year, and you
can see how many days (or hours)
!vou can keep That New Year's reso
lution.
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There's no news in the announce
ment that the independents want a
change in the house rules they
wculd'nt be honest-to-goodness inde
pendents if they didn't.
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Incidentally the big league scorers
have established the fact that Al
Simmons was the best hitter in the
American League last summer.
Which was what a good many ob
servers suspected last summer.
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A bootlegger under prison sentence
has been permitted by the court to
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!stPone ine Beginning oi ms
vice until after Christmas. We trust
his friends who wish him a Merry
Christmas will not forget to add,
"and a Happy New Year."
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Some ancient philosopher discov
ered that if you have an idea and ex
change it with another man for his
idea, you each hi.ve two ideas. How
ever, we don't think this discovery
was made with ideas. We think it
was discovered by two girls, each of
whom had a secret.
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We shouldn't wonder but what
Senator Moses of New Hampshire
isn't sorry that he ever called the
Republican Independents "Sons of
the wild jackass. It has sort of in
terfered with his re-election as presi
ident pro tem of the Senate. But
who wouldn't resent a statement like
that?
We can't tell you exactly
what it is about these
Pajamas that make them
the pet of everyone who
sees them. But they've
got it! Maybe it's the
flare of the trousers. More
than likely it's the swag
ger air of the Coat with
its wide and graceful
sleeve. Or the youthful
neckline that ends in a
loose tie . . . or . . . but we
could go on and on.
You'd better see them
yourselves. Then youll
know how smart these
Munsingwear Pajamas
of specially processed
Munsingwear Rayoa
really are.
SLOW AND SLOPPY IN AN EM
ERGENCY BUT WE'RE SUITED
Americans faced with plans for
emergency financial legislation might
be ezwused for envying the methods
of other rations. We have to deal
with a serious and acute crisis, but
our sprawling democracy, represented
in congress, will require months be
fore leaching a decision. By contrast
look at Italy. A dictator cuts down
revenues and increases taxation by a
word of command, and the thing is
done. A similarly rapid piece of work
is achieved in Germany. By vote of
the reichstag, the government is au
thorized to proceed by decree. What
it has done is to issue a series of
sweeping regulations affecting offi
cial outlay, reducing salaries, deter
mining the scale of wages, levying
new taxes. The whole goes instantly
into effect. England is a democracy,
in some respects more immediately
responsive to the public will than is
the American, but its established
ways of balancing the budget and
ordering added taxation are swift
and precise by comparison with ours.
When the chancellor of the exche
quer "opens the budget," the taxes
which he announces become effective
the very next day. He tells the citi
zen not merely what he will have
to pay in the dim future, provided
parliament agrees, but what he will
have to pay beginning tomorrow.
Contrast this with the prospect be
fore Secretary Mellon! His fiscal
plans and regulations, given to the
public last week, may be enacted in
to law by the first of March, but
probably will have to wait longer
than that before being embodied in
a statute. Our system thus seems in
geniously devised for delay, uncer
tainty, wastefulness and the ludi
crous falsification of treasury esti
mates.
If we must put up with postpone
ment and wrangling where other na
tions are prompt and autocratic in
fiscal legislation, we must do the best
we can with our method, or lack of
it, and look about for the compensa
tions. These may be found partly in
the large participation of the public
in the final determination. We shall
have long and inconclusive discus
sions in congress. The press will
argue each question on both sides.
Citizens will compare notes, wher
ever they meet; indignant taxpay
ers will protest; financial authorities
will be quoted. People with griev
ances and whimsies will make them
selves heard. It is. undeniably, a pro
longed and tedius process nothing
like the rapid procedure of other
government. But at the end we may
have the satisfaction of knowing
that no opinion has been stifled, no
honest expression suppressed; no ty
rannical pressure applied to a free
citizenship.
It is true that the emergency will
not have been treated as if it were
an urgent matter of life and death.
The remedies may prove to have
been administered too late. Yet
there will be a satisfied feeling In the
country that we have at least acted
in accordance with what Jules Le
maitre called "the manners of lib
erty." They are confessedly slow and
sloppy, in the matter of urgent leg
islation, but they conform to the
temperament and practices of the
American people. A satisfied public
is sometimes more to be desired than
instant decisions which leave univer
sal grumbling behind them. New
York Times.
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SOME EJNKLESS
CRUELLERS, PLEASE!
"Yes, we have straight bananas!"
Fruit dealers the world over soon
may be voicing this fact now that
natural scientists in the botany de
partment of Cambridge University
have just announced the evolution of
a new form of the prosaic plantain,
which takes the straight banana
right out of the class of left-handed
monkey wrenches, buckets of steam,
sky-hooks and other mythical what
nots. Many may view the achievement
as more than ordinarily significant,
since the project for re-forming the
banana had its inception in the bot
anical gardens of so great a seat of
haughty culture as Cambridge Uni
versity. But the reason the good old
banana is being put into a strait
jacket is said to be based entirely on
the coldly commercial fact that the
straight banana facilitates packing.
From the viewpoint of more exped
ient packing, the new banana will
probably meet with instant favor, not
only from the shipper of boatloads
but from the stoker of the family
lunch hamper.
Now that the Cambridge botanists
have got off to so straight a start,
perhaps they soon may be induced to
turn their attention to such puzzles
a 3 seedless watermelons or pucker less
pomegranates.
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The Journal Job department is
equipped to tun out anything froa
calling cards to sale catalog.
WE ARE A MUSICAL NATION
It used to be said that America was
not a musical nation. Nobody can
say that now. Even in these hard
times people are spending money for
musical entertainment, and buying
musical instruments almost as freely
as ever. We are no longer satisfied
with poor music. First the phono
graph records, then the radio, and
latest, the excellent music which ac
companies the talking pictures, have
certainly all served to elevate the
popular musical taste.
Not everybody has the musical ear
or the natural skill to produce mu
sic either vocally or instrumentally.
but everybody can command good
music by merely turning on the ra
dio or starting up the phonograph,
cir the player piano. But this mu
sic has to be produced, is the first
pla(, by people of real musical tal
ent. We were interested to read
about the young New Jersey steno
grapher, Saida Knox, who has just
won a $5,000 cash prize for her sing
ing over the radio. We were also in
terested to read that the most popu
lar musical instrument today is the
concertina, and that some of them sell
for as high as $500 each. We heard
no long ago about a young man who
earned a quarter of a million dollars
befcre he was twenty-five composing
popular music. And we have heard
Rudy Vallee crooning over the radio.
It seems to us that it is a great
deal more important to develop our
own musical talent and bring good
music and an appreciation of it to
everybody than it is to import a lot of
foreign singers for grand opera in the
big cities. And we noticed the other
day that some of the wealthy people
who have been supporting the opera
have got tired of putting np money
for shows which nobody really un
derstands, and which are not inter
esting to the general public.
President Hoover should appoint
a commission now just a moment
please a commission of great engi
neers please, just one moment to
visit Muscle Shoals and dynamite it.
There; that's out. And it simply says
what every one believes. Muscle
Shoals should be dynamited and for
gotten about, first, because nothing
has been, is being or will be done
about it, and, secondly, because it is
boring the American people to death.
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THE THREAT OF HITLER
Adolph Hitler gets noisy with his
demagoguery and the government of
the German republic responds with
a decree limiting the liberty of in
dividuals and of business. The de
cree is a test of German popular un
derstanding of the republic's danger.
The present support of Chancellor
Bruening is greatly to the credit of
the German people. For Bruening
insists on stern and hard reality
against the glittering promises of
an irresponsible man out of office.
Hitler is the too familiar type of
a man who, to gain leadership and
power, promises anything and every
thing, but on the face of it could not
deliver what he promises. We have
seen and are seeing that type of poli
tician over here. We have an easy
way of saying that "responsibility
sobers them." but that is too gener
ous. The truth is that cut of power
they boast about what they would
do in power. In office, on the weak
plea that someone would not let them
or that conditions changed suddenly,
they do not perform.
Hitler's talk is irresponsible, but
he is not so uncomprehending of
facts, as his wild talk makes him
out. He realizes that the other na
tions distrust him and that German
credit abroad loses ground in propor
tion as he advances. Hence his re
cent reassurances to the Associated
Press that American holders of Ger
man bonds need have no fear should
he gain control of the German gov
ernment. But he still promises Ger
many that he would wipe out the
peace treaties, seiie the Polish cor
ridor, disfranchise the Jews, and so
on. The only way he could do this
would be by war, a desperate war
fought with no navy, a small army
and an empty treasury. Even to at
tempt such a thing would destroy any
hope of repaying American investors.
which he has just thought it politic
to say.
Every nation needs to be on guard
against its Hitlers. For the whole
world is up against "stern, hard nec
essity. Depression and suffering get
them a hearing for their promises.
But once they attain power, they
have to meet hard necessity. They
can plunge a nation Into debt, or
even into war, or they can take Mac
Donald's course and tell their people
the truth. Hitler could do no more
for Germany than Bruening does,
while support of Hitler would alien
ate other nations. Milwaukee Jour
nal. :o:
The California attitude seem to
be that it is very doubtful after all
whether Tom Moeney would be any
happier out of prison.
RITZ
FREE show Friday afternoon
Christmas day from 12 to 5. Ev
eryone come and bring the fam
ily. Entire change or program in
the evening and for Sat. Night:
Warner Baxter and Edmund
Lowe in
The Cisco Kid
A romantic "Bad Man" in an outdoor
action romance that will thrill you!
ALSO
1st Chapter of "Danger Island"
Comedy and News
Three Shows Saturday Xight
Adults, 30 Children, 10
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Bill Boyd, Robert Armstrong, Jas.
Gieason and Ginger Rogers
in
Suicide Fleet
There never was a picture like this
one. Also Comedy, Fables and News.
8unday Matinee at 2:30
Matinee Prices Evening Prices
10 25 10-30
A CRITICAL PERIOD
FOR THE RAILROADS
The flroposals of the railway
unions are being considered this week
at meetings of the railroad presi
dents. The union have said they
wculd agree to a consideration of a
10 per cent wage reduction provided
other questions, notably that of a
stabilization of employment through
shorter working hours, could be tak
en up at the same time. It is those
conditions which the railroad execu
tives are now weighing.
Certain general observations are
offered here in advance of any de
cision which is reached.
It is now fairly clear that the rail
roads cannot continue to do business
much longer on the basis which has
prevailed in recent months. The loss
of earning power has resulted in the
collapse of security prices which are
simply the measure of the railroads'
credit. If railrcad stocks and bonds
are an unattractive investment to
day, the railroads tomorrow will be
unable to obtain the money to main
tain their properties in a condition
to give work to their employes. In
evitably, then, some of the business
which the railroads now have will
be lost to competitors, never to be
regained.
It is idle to pretend that the sit
uation can be saved through govern
mental action in raising rates. The
interstate commerce commission is a
powerful agency, but though it can
fix the charges which the railroads
may make for their service it cannot
compel anyone to use those services.
There are good highways now, run
ning from everywhere to everywhere
in this country, and to supplement
the highways there is, or soon will
be, a splendid system of internal-
waterways.
The railway unions have been re
luctant to limit the force of these
facts. Their attitude presents a strik
ing parallel to that prevailing in the
coal industry unT.r pressure from
the miners union. The miners
thought they had a strangle hold on
a commodity for which the demand
would grow indefinitely, year after
year. The result was that the miners
forced an increase in the industry's
wage bill and the cost of coal at the
moment when competing fuels were
making a bid for the markets. Today
the coal industry in the regions once
dominated by the union is flat. New
mines have been opened in rival
fields and competing fuels are firmly
entrenched.
It is the old story of killing the
goose which laid the golden eggs. If
the railroads and their employes
look to the government to rescue
them from their difficulties by in
creasing rates, the loss of business
to competitors and the destruction of
business will be hastened. The sal
vation of the railroads and the wel
fare of their employes lie in winning
more business through a lowering of
the costs of transportation.
The industry seems destined to set
its course for the future within the
nex few days. It is to be hoped that
the lesson of coal will not be wasted.
Chicago Tribune.
An executive of a magazine de
voted to the game makes the rather
startling statement that more than 10
million dollars was spent in the
United States during the last year for
bridge lessons and lectures. If to
this was added the sum of 1 mil
lion dollars spent for books and ar
ticles on the same subject and cash
paid for prizes, the total investment
in this popular pastime would be
swelled to still greater proportions.
Also, when the women folks acciden
tally pump their husbands full of
lead at bridge games-shouldn't the
money they pay the lawyers to de
fend them in the courts be added to
the grand total?
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Bureau Notes
Copy furnished from Office
of County Agent Wainscott
H-H-l-I-M-I-M-M-M-I-
4-H Members Get State Fair Money.
Checks are being mailed from the
Farm Bureau office this week to 4-H
club members in the county for their
winnings at the state fair. The total
of the checks is $379.75 which was
won in 142 placings. This is the
largest total of winnigs Cass county
has had. The winnings for the last
fcur years are as follows: 192S. 72;
1929, 112; 1930. 137. 1931. 142 plac
ings. The county was represented with
judging teams in livestock, dairy and
poultry, girls room, clothing, cook
ing and canning, and demonstration
teams in cooking, keep-well, cloth
ing, poultry, dairy and crops.
Demonstration and judging are the
phases of club work that train the
girls and boys to demonstrate and
explain about the things they have
learned, in other words, self develop
ment. Cass county had two judging and
two demonstration teams that repre
sented Nebraska at national contests
this year.- Every club should strive
to have either a demonstration cr a
judging team in 1932.
To Collect Farm and Home Records.
Farm and Home Account-Keepers
in Cass county will begin bringing
in their account books to have them
checked, next Monday.
There were over one hundred plac
ed this year and everyone should
strive to finish the book. Records
are more valuable in a year like the
one just past, than in better times.
The curtailing of expenses and more
economical production are two sure
ways of holding the farming busi
ness together. Records are the only
basis by which a farmer can do these
things systematically and where they
are needed.
The schedule for getting in the
books is:
Monday morning, Dec. 28 Eagle
school house.
Monday afternoon, Dec. 2S Alvo
school house.
Tuesday morning. Dec. 29 Fair
land schol house. South Bend.
Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 29 Mur
dock school house.
Wednesday. Dec. 30, all day
Farm Bureau office. Weeping Water.
Thursday. Dec. 31, all day Ne
hawka school house, and Bank of
Union.
4-H Roys Get Sows on Shares.
Eight boys and girls in the My
nard community visited D. C. Loner
gan. Spotted Poland China breeder
of Florence, Saturday. They selected
eight bred gilts out of a bunch of
twenty, to use in 4-H pig club work
next year. The club will be organ
ized within a few days with Noble
Kiser as leader.
Several boys took sows on the
share plan last year and are well sat
isfied with the results. This does not
necessitate any outlay of cash and
allows the member to get a start in
purebred animals.
Breeders of Chester White. Duroc
Jersey, Hampshire and other breeds
have signified their willingness to
help the boys out in the same way
if they wish. Anyone Interested in
thsi should get in touch with the
county agent.
Organized Agriculture.
The home economics meetings of
Organized Agriculture will be held
in the Student Activities Building.
College of Agriculture, Lincoln, Jan
uary. 5, 6, and 7.
The program seems unusually at
tractive. Mrs. Mildred Weigley Wood
of Phoenix, Arizona, who is well
known in Home Economics circles
will appear a number of times.
Professor Dwight Kirsch in his
work on color photography has re
ceived nation wide attention. A treat
is in store for all Nebraskans in his
illustrated lecture on "Beauty Spots
in Nebraska."
Mrs. Caroline King of the Country
Gentleman, on Wednesday afternoon
in "Hobbies for the Homemaker"
should be of special interest.
Mrs. Mary Hall Thomas has charge
of the music during the week.
The rcund tables will give oppor
tunity for the woman themselves to
enter the discussion and express their
views. Mrs. Wood and Mrs. King
both act as chairmen in one round
table division.
Plan now to attend as many of
these meetings as possible, January
5-7. D. D. Wainscott, Cass Co. Ex
tension Agent. Jessie H. Baldwin,
Ass't. Co. Extension Agent.
TO SPEND HOLIDAY HERE
From Tuesday's Dally
Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping
Water was in the city today and was
accompanied by his son, Sheldon
Tefft, who is home from Chicago for
the holiday season. Sheldon Tefft, is
now one of the faculty of the law de
partment of the University of Chi
cago, ranking as one of the leaders
in the college work of the west. Mr.
Tefft after graduating from the Uni
versity of Nebraska, was chosen as
one of the university graduates of
the United States for the Rhodes
scholarship at Oxford university,
England, and from which he gradu
ated. Later Mr. Tefft was with the
law college of the University of Ne
braska, resigning this position to.
take that at the University of Chi
cago.
FOR SALE
One feed grinder.
OTTO PULS.
d!0-6tw. Murray, Nebr.
Hare yon anything to sell? TeO
the world about it throuxh the Jour
nal's Want Ad department.
Death of Long
Time Resident
of Cedar Creek
Mrs. Sarah Schneider Died Sunday
at the Home of Her Daugh
ter at Blair.
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Mrs. Sarah Schivider, "4. long
time resident .of Cedar Creek and
widow of the late J. J. Schneider,
early settler in Eight Mile Grove
precinct, died Sunday at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. George Fackler,
at Blair.
The death of Mrs. Schneider fol
lowed a very critical illness of some
week's duration and in the last few
days the recovery of the aged lady
had been abandoned.
Mrs. Schneider was formerly Miss
Sarah Clark and has made her home
in anl near Cedar Creek since the
early eighties, having a very large
circle of frfends who will learn with
sorrow of her passing.
The deceased lady was preceded in
death a number of years ago by the
husband. There are surviving two
children. Walter J. Schneider of
Ithica. Nebraska. Mrs. George Fack
ler of Blair as well as one step-son,
II. A. Schneider of this city. One
brother, Simon Clark of this city and
one sister, Mrs. Henry Mockenhaupt,
of Lincoln are also left to mourn the
death of ths estimable lady.
RIEKE-SCHIBER
A pretty wedding ceremony, per
former at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
W. A. Taylor, at 2:00 Wednesday aft
ernoon, united two more of Union's
young people for the journey through
life. The high contracting parties
were Miss Minnie M. Rieke and Mr.
Oliver A. Schiber. and they were ac
companied by Miss Rieke's sister and
brother. Miss Hattie Rieke and Mr.
George Rieke, who acted as brides
maid and best man.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Rieke, and has
spent her life in this co.nmunity, liv
ing at the beautiful country home of
her parents, three and a half miles
north of Union. She attended the
Union schol and has a wide circle of
warm friends in this vicinity.
The groom is a native of Illinois,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Schi
ber, and came west with them a few
years ago. For the last three or four
years he has been engaged in farming
near Union and has made many
friends since coming here.
The newly-weds went down to Ne
braska City today, Thursday, and
will go on to the northern part of
Nebraska, spending part of their
honeymoon with friends at Harting
ton and Coleridge. They plan to come
back to Union after their journey, be
fore they go to Glen Carbon, 111.,
where Mr. Schiber will engage in
business and where they will be at
home to their friends after the New
Year.
Every shade or crepe paper and all
the complete Dennibon line found
the newest novelties and favors in
only at the Bates Book Store.
NOTICE OF PETITION
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Ferdinand Schuelke, deceased.
The State of Nebraska. To all per
sons interested, take notice that
Richard E. Schuelke has filed a peti
tion asking that the above estate be
opened and that a supplemental de
cree be entered in said estate deter
mining the heirs of said deceased,
which petition has been set for hear
ing on the 15th day of January,
1932. at nine o'clock a. m.
Dated December 18th. 1931.
A. H. DUXBURV.
d21-3w (Seal) County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Casa
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Byron Atkinson, deceased.
Now on this 17th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1931, it being one of the
days of the regular November, A. D.
1931, term of this court, this cause
came on for hearing upon the peti
tion of Minnie Marolf and Harry F.
Marolf. executrix and executor of the
estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased,
praying for judgment and order of
Court authorizing the petitioners as
such executrix and executor of said
estate to negotiate a loan of One
Thousand Dollars and secure the
same by giving a first mortgage on
the West Half of the Southeast Quar
ter of Section Twenty-six (26) in
Township Twelve North, Range
Eight, east 61 the Sixth Principal
Meridian, in Lancaster County, Ne
braska, for the purpose of paying
expenses of last sickness and funeral
of deceased, cost of administration
and taxes on real estate, there not
being personal property with which
to meet such obligations;
It Is Therefore Ordered, that all
persons Interested in said estate ap
pear before me at the District Court
room in Plattsmouth. Cass County,
Nebraska, on the 30th day of Jan
uary, A. D. 1932, to show cause why
a judgment and order should not be
issued by the Court authorizing said
executrix and said executor to mort
gage the real estate hereinbefore
described for the sum of One Thou
sand Dollars to pay expenses of last
sickness and funeral of said deceased,
costs of administration and taxes on
real estate of said deceased.
It Is Ordered that service of this
order be made by publication thereof
for four successive weeks in the
Plattsmouth Jouranl, a newspaper
published and in general circulation
in Cass County. Nebraska.
Dated this 17 th day of December,
1931.
By the Court.
JAMES T. BEG LEY,
Judge of the District Court.
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