THURSDAY. JAIftJAEY 5, 1933.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Today's worry: What do ex-Presidents
do with their plug hats?
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"Pretty Boy" Floyd is said to have
an addiction for billiards. His pref
erence, no doubt, would be the bank
shot.
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Tropical Africa has a vine that,
when growing beside a window, will
cling to the glass and eat away the
surface.
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The depression even caused the
hash created from the leftovers of
Christmas dinner to taste exceeding- j
ly well.
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Santa Claus did not have very
large loads of presents for lack of
good roads and the depression was
lacking money.
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A compact saved a woman's life
when a stray bullet hit it. Many a
woman has saved her face with the
same little device.
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The ideal husband the last few j
days is the one who didn't spoil the i
clean, new Linen tablecloth while
carving the turkey.
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A girl with good, steady employ
ment who hasn't hooked him in the
leap year Just closed may as well
abandon the dream.
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Good way to try out moonshine is
to pour it into your gas tank. If
you can't keep the car in the road
don't drink the stuff.
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Japan's trade with China has ser
iously fallen off. Kicking the cus
tomer when he appears in the store is
not the way to encourage business.
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"Just when things began t-o seem
brighter and dealers stood a chance ;
lo sell a few radios." the Newton ;
Jolson to go on the air."
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Usually the people who are in love
are those who spend very little time I
talking about it. Protestations ofmav make us rcalize that tfce world
love are usually a disguised attempt ... ,,,. ,. n1nnr ami out
at selling somebody short
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We think it would be nice to
move the next installment date on j
the International debts forward!
about five weeks, so that the next j
French default might fal Ion Arm-L
istlce day. years have passed since peace was
:0: restored to Europe, and we still suf-
Kissing, according to a medical fer cruelly from the effects of the
Investigator, stimulates the heart ac-jwar Who knows if my son will not
tion. Where would civilization be if jone day be forced to become the eiti
lt were not for the courage of the zen D'J a republic? It makes one
medical men who dare to go and ! snuaj.r ... i would like to see my
find out things ordinary men would I
never think of searching for them
selves? :o:
A Kansas farmer sued his wife for
divorce, alleging fraud was prac
ticed djiying the courtship, which
Inspires the Clay Center Times to; Frenchman who wrote that letter in
remark: "If no guy lied to his girl 1 1832, was honored by the French
and no girl made herself up a lot Academy of Medicine, and his whim
psettier than she ever was, they'd sical, witty paper read on that occa
both be fed up on each other before I sion rocked the halls with laughters,
the second hand-holding." New York World-Telegram.
Hello! Two Sets of Twins
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Mrs. Marie Colson, 25, of 1917 Lincoln avenue, Chicago, on Thursday give birth to her sec
ond pair of twins during the year 1932. At left ar e James (left) and Jean Colson, who will be one
year old January 10. At right are the new twin s, born December 29. The boy weighed 3 pounds,
14i8 ounces; the girl 4 pounds, 1V2 ounces.
After all there is only one great
difference between France and some
of us. France has the money.
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An exchange reports that a radio
crooner was found shot to death and
says suicide is suspected. Why?
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Those old cranks that think money
is the root of all evil ought to be
happy now, since most of us are
leading a life with little or no evil.
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China balanced her budget by new
levies and new economies Japan's
idea of balancing hers is to spend
450 million dollars on new arma
ment. -:o:-
If and when we get into another
war, it is the opinion of Wallace
Crossley of the Warrensburg Star
Journal that we had better manage
to lose it.
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Instead of Idly bewailing the pub
lic antipathy toward grand opera,
why don't the operatic folks get busy
and rebuild opera to suit the public
taste"' For instance, why is the
tenor always permitted to kill the
barytone? Practically everybody in
the audience would much prefer see
ing tenors killed.
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A Russian swindler has been ar
rested by the Soviet government on
the charge of being "a well known
scoundrel." Such is life under despot
ism. They can't put you in jail for
that in this country. Under certain
circumstances you may be annoyed
for swindling, but not for being a
well known scoundrel.
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A HUJJJJRED YT-ARS FROM NOW
"It won't make any difference a
hundred years from now."
This bit of homely philosophy you
otten quoted lo yourseif and
other, when vere a bit down.
or proposed to do and of which you
v.-pre uncertain.
hundred-
. . nmo Hfl. .hjrh
of its present depressed status just
as it has recovered from other trou
bles in the past.
A French father writing to a
friend of the birth of a son said:
"The poor infant enters the world
troubled times. Hardly 17
SOR embracing the noble career of
medicine, but I see quite well that
he cannot; oone of the heads of the
faculty has confided to me that this
profession is literally invaded. . . . "
Just the other day Dr. Alevandre
Gueiot, 100 years old, the son of the
WHAT TECHNOCRACY IS
Technocracy as we see it though,
to be candid about it, technocracy
is not something one sees, but rather
a thing one feels or senses; that is,
one cannot put one's finger on it and
yet one knows instinctively that it
is there and that life probably would
not be the same without it. Techno
cracy as we see it, then, seems to be
just the caper for those who feel that
Prof. Einstein has not gone far
enough, that something more is
needed if mankind really is to vin
dicate itself to itself though why
any vindication should be necessary
will be a mystery to many. After all,
we're here largely because we're here,
vindication or no vindication.
According to Mr. Howard Scott,
who seems to be the chief propon
ent of technocracy, the theory or
system or creed or hookup or what
ever it may ultimately turn out to
be, assumes that everything hinges
;upon the amount of energy per cap
ita after charging off all losses due
to financial strain, pneumonia, lock
jaw, bad debts and running up and
down stairs as fast as you can three
times without pausing. This is mere
ly another and technocratic way of
saying that the square of the hypot
icnuse is 2 R multiplied by pi and
divided by some silly little incident
that neither party should have taken
the slightest notice of in the first
place.
Technocracy in other words and
there are other words, hundreds of
them, and Mr. Scott knows them all
simply believes that four score and
seven years ago is to the parimeter
of the circle squared by X (the un
known ingredient but probably dis
tilled wood alcohol) and added to
the sum total of human aspirations
at the geometrical rate of two hours
work per day and nothing doing
when it comes to money, as such,
because there won't be any money,
as such, but energy per capita, and
when once you get that you've really
got something.
That, in a nut shell (which is the
best place to keep it ) is the essence
of technocracy. Eut if you don't in
tend going into it thoroughly; lay
off. A little technocracy not only is
a dangerous thing, but a little of it
no doubt would go a long way with
most people. World-Herald.
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ARMY CARE FOR HOMELESS BOYS
Senator Couzens has made an in
teresting suggestion about taking
care of the thousands of boys who are
wandering jobless about the country
during the depression. He would
provide that the war department
.temporarily open its facilities for
the care and training of these young
sters. Without becoming part of the
regular establishment they could be
given food and clothing and kept
busy under military discipline.
Social workers have repeatedly
spoken of such homeless boys as a
real problem. With no work, and
away from steadying influences they
may readily become criminals. If
they are not taken in hand, the coun
try eventually will have to pay
heavily for their demoralization.
They must be supported in some
way, and the way proposed by Sen
ator Couzens would involve only
trifling expense. In army posts they
would receive training and discip
line that would make them more
valuable workers when they can be
absorbed back into industry. The
plan is frankly temporary. But some
temporary plan is needed in the em
ergency. :o:
STILL BUYING GRAIN
The Farmers Elevator Co., at Cedar
Creek are still buying grain and pay
ing the highest market price. 2-2sw
in Year
WAR DEBTS AND TRADE
The system of reparations and war
debts is at last crumbling before
our eyes. The allies are releasing
Germany from reparations. It is per
haps true, as the French contend,
that Mr. Hoover's moratorium of
July, 1931, wrote finis on that chap
ter in world history. But that is a
mere circumstance. If Mr. Hoover
had not written finis it would have
been written by other hands and per
haps under even more desperate con
ditions. Germany was through; she
was at the end of her paying rope.
And we must release our debtors
among the allies, in major part or in
all. If we refuse to do so under
relatively orderly circumstances, such
as those inaugurated in the case of
reparations by Mr. Hoover's moratori
um, we shall see the act consummat
ed under the disorderly conditions
of general default. There is no ques
tion about the result; the question
turns on the method, which lies in
our hands.
The difference between the British
land the French attitudes at the pres
ent juncture comes down to this:
The British say the existing debts
system cannot go on, but they make
the December 15 payment in the ex
pectation that there will be a re
vision of the whole business before
the next payment is due on June 15.
The French say the existing debts
system cannot go on; and since it
cannot go on. and since there must
be revision, they will withhold the
December 15 payment pending the
readjustment. There is no difference
in the judgment of these two of our
principal debtor nations about the
collapse of the debt agreements.
Both Britain and France hold that
the Mellon-Baldwin agreement and
the Mellon-Berenger agreement are
exhausted and must either be wiped
out or be rewritten sharply down-
1 ward. Our two principal debtors
separate only in their manner of ap
proach. It is nonsense to neglect this es
sential fact and to give ourselves over
to bawling about the mere detail of
the French attitude toward the in
stant payment. Apart from the
French claim that it was Mr. Hoo-
t rcr' hnnd whirh actuallv severed
their hold on reparations, there is,
indeed, a certain case to be made for
France. Of course, she had the gold
Jto pay the approximate 20 million
dollars due on December 15. Of
course, she was in better position to
spare that gold than Britain was to
spare 95 million dollars. But it hap
pens to be a fact that, in the uni
versal destruction of international
trade to which reparations and war
debts have made their contribution
of immense force, ordinary exchanges
between nations are disappearing
and payments must be made direct
ly in actual gold. Not even France,
with her great store, can face con
tinuance of that, and something is
to be said for the nation which flatly
says it will not start.
The part of good sense now is to
forget the details of these December
15 negotiations; to concentrate on
the fact that conditions compel dras
tic revision of the debts (if not out
right cancellation, as The Sun be
lieves), and to recognize that all of
our debtors, whether they paid on
December 15 or not, are waiting for
one last chance to talk business calm
ly as the alternative to general de
fault. The trade of the world has
been brought to a pass where they
cannot go on, even if they all were
free of the belief that the debts are
not moral obligations and none of
them, not even Great Britain, pay
ing through the nose, is free of that
belief. Tariff embargoes and quota
restrictions have practically killed
foreign trade and stripped the na
tions of trade balances. They have
not the means to ray normally. And
meantime the fall in prices has
enormously increased the real pay
ment required under the old agree
ments. The situation is impossible.
To attempt to require the debtors
to make direct payments in actual
gold is sheer lunacy. Britain's semi
annual payment called for something
like 14 per cent of her gold supply.
At that rate she would be sucked
dry of gold in about three years.
France could last longer, but it would
be only a question of prolonging the
agony. The other debtors are in the
same kind of boat. Britain and
France, of course, could theoretically
make loans, but the scope of that
kind of relief would be extremely
limited, because it would be obvious
ly a case of borrowing from Peter
to pay Paul. The great nations
among the debtors have considerable
foreign investments. But, aside from
the indecency of calling upon our
former allies to deliver capital assets
after we haughtily refused repara
tions from Germany, appropriation of
these assets would destroy their na
tional economy and their" purchasing;
power.
Payment of these debts eould be
made, in the long run, only from
balances resulting from the sale of
goods. And the very existence of the
system of reparations and debts has
been a major factor in causing trade
balances to disappear. For repar
ations and debts made all the pay
ing countries fight with extra vigor
to push their goods into foreign mar
kets, so that they could acquire extra
balances out of which the political
payments could be made. And this
led nations into which the goods
were being forced to build tariff
walls higher and to set up every
conceivable quota device to prevent
the inflow of goods. The result, of
course, has been a deadlock on the
old debts agreements is a reflection.
The one method of real payment bore
within itself its own barrier a bar
rier which, tragically enough, stop
ped normal trade at the same time
it halted the abnormal trade design
ed to yield balances for debt pay
ments. The game is up. All the old arti
ficial devices to keep it going have
played out. For example, the device
of lending to Germany to the tune
of billions, out of which she turned
over credits to the nations to whom
she owed reparations, who turned
over credits to us. We no longer
lend money to be paid back to us
after a long trip around Robin Hood's
barn. We are face to face at last
with the ultimate reality of collect
ing from trade balances or in gold,
and neither is possible. Baltimore
Sun.
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THLTfX HOOVER WILL
VETO THE BEER BILL
There is a growing feeling in
Washington that President Hoover
will veto the beer bill when it is laid
before him. The assumption seems
to rest upon what Mr. Hoover is
reported to have said to close friends
or what his political intimates say
comes directly from him.
It would be difficult to reconcile
such a veto to the properties of the
situation. It would be an exercise of
Mr. Hoover's privilege and still be
a questionable act of executive Judg
ment. The question presented by the
bill can hardly be regarded as one
in which the president, although at
the end of his term, would feel it
necessthy for the good of the na
tion to put himself between an act
of congress and the consequences of
that act. There are, conceivably, oc
casions when a president's convic-
ition as to right and wrang might re-.
quire him to assert his own judg
ment up to the full limits of the
power still remaining with him. No
such occasion could be found with
respect to this bill.
The proposed modification of the
Volstead act pending the submission
of fhe repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment has the full sanction of
American political methods. It was
proposed in the platform of the party
which won the election. Mr. Hoover
and his party were defeated in that
election and this issue was one of
the causes. The popular vote reject
ed what Mr. Hoover stood for, along
with the whole course of his party
in maintaining the position favored
by him during his administration.
The administration and both houses
of the national legislature were tak
en from the republican party and
given to the democrats. The Vol
stead law and the Eighteenth amend
ment were deeply involved in this
decision. It is true that the conse
quences of the election are not yet
represented in full power in Wash
ington. Nevertheless, the still exist
ing congress so feels the force of the
popular decision that the house of
representatives has already passed a
beer bill and the senate is expected
to do so.
If this expectation is realized and
a bill modifying the Volstead act
reaches the president when he has,
say, only sixty days remaining in
office, it would seem that the pro
prieties require his acceptance of an
act so supported by the authentic
political process of the country.
Even his doubts, if he had any, as
to tho constitutionality of the act
could not properly lead him to veto
it. These doubts could hardly amount
to convictions. As doubts they are
properly for court determination.
The congressmen who have voted or
will vote for the bill are persuaded
that prohibition as it now exists will
permit the sale of such a malt bever
age. If there is a legal issue it is
one for the courts. A veto by the
president would only be in the line
of preventing such a decision and
would resolve itself into the express
ed determination of a man about to
leave office to have his last word on
this question and deny that anybody
else could be right.
That is not a position which any
president can afford to take. To do so
would require that Mr. Hoover ig
nore the election returns and close
his administrative record as a stub
born man, refusing to yield to forces
which are intended to prevail in the
United States when they have been
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NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
revealed and expressed as in this
connection. Chicago Tribune.
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TECHNOCRACY
A stimulating tempest of discus
sion has blown up almost overnight
about the views of a group in New
York, self-styled "technocracy," who
hold that our political system has
been obsolete by our mechanical ad
vance. Unemployment is man-made.
The theory of the technocrats is
radical, yet simple enough in its fun
damentals to be easily understood
and popular. Briefly, they say we
produce enough now so that if the
burden of debts and interest were
lifted, and a technical operation sub
stituted for our political system, each
of us would need to work only 16
hours a week. And even at that
I level each of us could live at a very
high standard possibly at the rate
of a 20 thousand dollar a year m-
come.
Such a change would mean an end
of our political system and our "price
system." We would be governed by
technicians, and our system of ex
change would be in units of energy
instead of commodities, the techno
crats suggest.
One suggestion of the technocrats
is tremendously appealing. It is that
the experts could produce a safety
razor blade which would retain its
edge, without renewal or rehoning.
for a lifetime. This they cite to
prove one of their points that pres
ent day business cannot afford to put
present day technical advances into
effect.
Critical comments on technocracy
ascribe the origin of the theory to
the late Thorstcin Veblin, noted
economist.
The attack on the idea so far has
chiefly been devoted to arguments
that the machine up to 1930 has pro
vided more jobs than it took away,
that standards of living, and there
fore consumption, have increased as
fast as machine production.
Perhaps the technocrats are ex
pecting too much if they foresee that
we will accept a government by tech
nicians, but the machine stands in
dicted and must answer. New York
World-Telegram.
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N0TICE OF MEETING
The annual meeting of "The Farm
ers Grain Co." of Cullom, Nebr.,will
be held at the Pleasant Ridge school
house in Dist. 41 on Saturday, Janu
ary 7th, 1933, at 2 o'clock p. m., for
the purpose of electing officers for
the ensuing year and transacting such
business as may come before the
meeting.
J. G. MEISINGER,
President.
ALBERT HILFICKER,
j2-2sw, 2d Secretary.
General Sherman was right about
war. Take the World War, for in
stance. Germany kept the Allies busy
for four years fighting it and very
much busier for the fourteen years
in peace treaty diplomacy.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an Order issued by the County
Court of Ca3s county, Nebraska, in
favor of the State of Nebraska, and
against Gus Whitely. and to me di
rected, I will, at 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon on the 14th day of January,
1933, at the south front door of the
County Court House, at Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, offer for sale at public auc
tion for cash one Ford Tudor Sedan,
Model 1929, Motor No. A 1710029.
License No. 20-1112, taken a3 the
property of Gus Whitely on said
order.
Dated this 2nd day of January, A.
D. 1933.
H. SYLVESTER,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9, at page 333.
In the matter of the estate of Henry
C. L. Ofe, 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
27th day of January, A. D. 1933 and
on the 28th day of April, A. D. 1933,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each
day to 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 27th day of January, A. D.
1933, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is one year from said
27th day, of January, 1933.
Witness my hand and the seat of
said County Court this 30th day of
December, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seel) J2-8er County Jude.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 326.
In the matter of the estate of Jonas
Johnson, 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
ISth day of January, A. D. 1933, and
on the i4th day of April, A. D. 1933,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each
day, to 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 montha
from the 13th day of January, A. D.
1933, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is one year from said
13th day of January, 1933.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this ICth day of
December, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) dl9-3w County Judge.
SALE OF ASSETS
The undersigned Receiver of the
First National Bank of Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, will offer at public sale to
the highest bidder for cash, subject
to the approval of the Comptroller of
the Currency of the United States
and a court of competent jurisdiction,
without recourse and without war
ranty of any kind or character, at the
Law' offices of A. L. Tidd, Attorney
in Plattsmouth. Nebraska, on the
seventh day of January, 1933, at
1:30 p. m.. certain assets of the said
First National Bank of Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, less such items as may be
paid or otherwise disposed of prior to
the said date of sale heretofore men
tioned. The assets to be offered have a
total face value of 1132.902.34. A
list thereof will be on file at the of
fice of the Receiver in Shenandoah.
Ifrwa, for inspection by interested
parties, prior to this sale. The office
of such Receiver is in the First Na
tional Bank building at Shenandoah,
Iowa.
CARL. S. FOSTER,
Receiver of the First National
Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebr.
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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.
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 307.
To the heirs at law and all persons
interested in the estate of Bertha
Halmes. deceased:
On reading the petition of John N.
Halmes. Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the
24th day of December, 1932, and for
assignment of the assets of said es
tate; determination of heirship; and
for his discharge as 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
county, on the 20th day of January,
A. D. 1933. 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 pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons In
terested In said matter by publishing
a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper 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 24th day of December, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) 126-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF HEARING
on Petition for Determination of
Heirship
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 835.
Estate of Frances Bartek. deceased.
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska: To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Jo
seph E. Benak has filed his petition
alleging that Frances Bartek died in
testate in Cass county on or about
March 5th, 1922, being a resident and
inhabitant of Cass county, and died
seized of the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Lot five (5) of northwest
quarter of southeast quarter and
southwest quarter of southeast
quarter of Section two (2);
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter of Section eleven (11),
all in Township twelve (12),
North, Range thirteen (13). East
of the Sixth Principal Meridian,
Cass county, Nebraska
leaving as her sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Paul Bartek, widower; Wes
ley Bartek, son; Mary Benak,
daughter; Fred Bartek, son;
Henry Bartek, son; Anna Bar
tek, daughter; Paul Bartek, son;
William Bartek, son; George
Bartek, son; John (Bartek) Hes
ser, son ;
That the interest of the petitioner in
the above described real estate is that
of a purchaser of said real estate, and
praying for a determination of the
time of the death of said Frances
Bartek. deceased, and of her 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 bearing on the 20th day of Janu
ary, 1933, before the County Court of
Cass county in the court house at
Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at the hour
of ten o'clock a. m.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
this 19th day of December, A. D.
1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) d2-3w County Judge.
everything for achool most
oomplete line In Case county at
Bate Book tore.