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the Plattsmoutti Journal
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As it turned out, the wolf of Wall
Street who died the other day was
only a sheep in wolf's habiliments.
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The loce letters of Napoleon were
recently sold at auction. He wasn't
tuch a smart man, after all, because
he signed his name to them.
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The rage for standardization seems
to have reached its climax in Los
Angeles where the city council is
studying a proposal to fix the size of
doughnuts and coffee cakes.
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If Sam Insull has to spend the rest
of his life sailing the seven seas on
Greek ships because no country will
permit him to land, it is all right
with us. Instead of having a sweet
heart he will have a. summons in
every port waiting for him.
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The President honors the vice pres
ident and wife with a dinner and
there was no row about where the
wife of the vice president sat. Come
to think of it, no one cares where
the si;ter of an ex-vice president sits.
The reports indicate that there has
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Jin. Emma Bergcoll, resigned to
her son's fate through three Repub
lican administrations, has appealed j
to the new deal to bring her son,
Grover, back home from Germany:
where he has been hiding out ever
since evading the draft in the war.
Grover i3 doubtless a pretty big boy
by now.
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Frank A. Vanderlip, banker and
former assistant secretary of the
treasury, is going to become an editor.
He thus joins other brainy and weal
thy former government officials who
have become editors. We don't know
whether brains ara necessary to be
come a successful editor, but wealth
certainly is a great help. f
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The New York Times writer who
tells the story of the Maine trapper
who rode a bear to death opening
hi3 hunting knife with his teeth
whil? riding the bear downhill at
full speed doesn't take time to ex
plain what the bear was doing wan
dering arcund in the open when he
should have been hibernating. We
have learned later that the bear was
a somnambulist.
How
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sy w i I S'ml J
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Now that they have caught sev
eral of tne convicts from Lansing, the
only notables missing are Charley
Curtis, Pretty Boy Floyd, Annie and
Elmer.
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been a "definite upturn" in business
not great but something. If the
unemployed can be put back to work
without government aid, the recovery
will be complete. That state is yet
to come.
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Postmaster General Farley gave a
little girl an orchid the other day
without even inquiring her politics.
Referred to Representative Blanton
of Texas, who complains that the G.
O. P. is getting all the new deal
glory.
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"There is no legal training com
plete," says a Detroit lawyer, "with
out full knowledge of the contents of
the Bible." Full command of the
details is essential, we judge, even if
it isn't so necessary to follow the
precepts.
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Why is it that the fellow who at
tends a man at his wedding is called
the best man?" If he was really best
man. it is contrary to the adage, "the
best man wins. "Or maybe he is the
best man because he was able to keep
out of matrimony.
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If Cuban politics were conducted
in the efficient way our baseball
games are operated, a Cuban Hughey
Henry would have appeared the other
day to announce through a mega
phone, "Mendieta now pitching for
Cuba in the sixth."
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We trust that Mile. Lily Pons will
pardon a suggestion from several well
wishers that the sooner she has a
rug made from the skin of that young
jaguar she carries around as a pet,
the better her, admirers .will feel
about the future of vocal art.
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Most of the song3 the cowboys of
the long ago sang have been forgot
ten. iow ana men someooay dodsi
up with a modern version of one of
those nasal masterpieces, but rarely.
And most cf the cowboy songs folks
are humming have been changed so
in words and music that the cow
hands of forty and fifty years ago
would not recognize them.
Long Will He Keep It
WELFARE ISLAND SAID
BARES PRISON RACKET
When Sinclair Lewis, in "Ann
Vlckers," described the revolting con
ditions in a metropolitan Jail, some
of his readers thought he was draw
ing the long bow. But Mr. Lewis did
not give his prison into the keeping
or racketeers, nor invent a police dog
owned by a prisoner supposedly to
keep turnkeys at a respectful dis
tance, nor introduce a prisoner who
kept pigeons and sat in a garden con
structed by hi3 fellow-inmates. All
these discoveries, which would have
been too incredible for use in fiction,
were made in New York's municipal
prison which bears the amusing name
of Welfare Island.
From beginning to end the story
smacks of the corruption and degrad
ation which we are accustomed to as
sociate with prisons in the seven
teenth century. Lists of prisoners to
be paroled were submitted to the dom
inant racketeer for his approval. He
lived in quarters behind which a gar
den had been constructed by other
prisoners, who also acted as nis
valet? and lackeys. The dope racket
was carried on among the prisoners
with as much freedom as in the out
side world, and if a prisoner wanted
anything to eat mere than a greasy
stem he had to pay the favored thugs
for the right to get it. They had ap
propriated all the decent food in ad
vance. If a prisoner was not familiar
with racketeering before he was sent
to Welfare Island, he certainly learn
ed its technique there at the ex
pense of the city. To submit to the
racket was the one way to get decent
food, keep cut of solitary, secure a
parole.
Commissioner MacCormick did a
splendid job in his raid upon the
prison before the authorities and
their underworld allies could prepare
themselves for the shock. At the same
time, he made a dramatic contribu
tion to popular education. The edu
cational valu? of the raid ought also
to be increased by the knowledge
that most cf what Commissioner Mac
Cormick found was described as long
ago as last June by Harry M. Shul
nian, former research director of the
New York state crime commission,
in a report to a former city commis
sioner of correction. Nothing hap
pened. Judge Seabury hinted at the
need of an investigation of municipal
jails, but with political protection
on all sides, the control of Welfare
Island by the ally of Dutch Schultz
and Ciro Terranova was unchalleng
ed. The clean sweep of New York's
municipal offices by the Fusion
movement has opened the way for an
airing without which every standard
of rivif. (wnPV wfl. th rf.it r-nrd The
stench is terrible, but other cities
should refrain from the reproaches
of the Pharisee until they have had
similar investigations of their own.
Baltimore Sun.
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Journal Want-Ads get results'
Up?.
PIATT3MOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY TOTTEHA1
LAWFUL PRACTICE,
BUT IS IT RIGHT?
Criticism of the mailing of pamph
lets advocating the unicameral state
legislative system, under the frank
of Senator Norris, ha3 brought from
G. W. Kline, head of the committee
in charge of the campaign in favor
of the one-house legislature, the reply
that the pamphlets were mailed by
the committee in Lincoln and that
the practice was strictly lawful.
This hardly meets the objection.
There is no question about the legal
ity of the mailing. A law of con
gress made for the benefit of con
gressmen permits such campaign
documents to be mailed without post
age, but that does not satisfy those
that believe the practice wrong. Con
gress also operates a restaurant in
the capitol which shows a deficit of
50 thousand dollars a year, which
means that the congressmen are pay
ing 50 thousand dollars less than
their meals cost, and charging the
difference to the taxpayers. It is law
ful, but is it right?
The postofi'ice department last year
ran a deficit of 155 million dollars
which the taxpayers had to pay. A
part of this was due to the tons of
franked mail carried for congressmen
and the departments.
The envelopes containing this
franked mail carried the word
"Free." What they should have said
was: "Carried at the Expense of the
Taxpayer." Perhaps if the truth
were thrust in the face of their con
stituents every time they opened a
franked envelope, congressmen would
not be quite so free with their use
and abuse of the franking privilege.
Assuming that there is a good rea
son for carrying much of the frank
ed matter at public expense, there is
still the question whether it is right
to include documents for use in a
purely local or state campaign In
the ongressional Record and then
send them through the mails at the
expense of the taxpayers of the whole
nation. This i the issue in this in
stance of Senator Norris' use of the
word frank. Norfolk News.
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HEAVY EXACTIONS
OF THE ESTATE TAX
Walter ITarnischfeger, sen and
executor of the late Henry Ilarnisch-
feger, Milwaukee industrialist, com
plains that the exactions of inheri
tar.ee taxe3 amount almost to confis
cation. Payments have drained the
heiis of cask;.and . if time for settle
ment were not allowed threatened
further hardship. The courts have
just interfered to grant the estate
additional time for final settlement.
In th3 perio:! between the ap
praisal and the date for payment the
general market has slumped so it
would take several times more col
lateral now to raise needed cash than
at the time of death.
It is a more striking proof that the
power to tax is the power to destroy
because it is not an extreme case. Al
though the sum is large it is not a
great fortune as some estates are
reckoned and the proximity of rela
tionship saves the heirs from the
highest tax penalties.
Harishchfeger built industrial ma
chinery. From his arrival as a Ger
man immigrant boy he gave all Ms
life to the growth of the business he
and one of his associates founded
His work contributed much to the
development of the nation. The sour
est fault imcier can take no excep
tion to the manner in which hi
property was accumulated. He had
a cene cf social responsibility and
before death provided a fund of
around 450 thousand dollars for the
protection of his employes.
The estate was appraised at $1,-
900,000, but the courts decided that
gifts of about two million dollars to
his children during life wera In an-
ticipation cf death and subject to
tax. Ecsinniujr at 2 per cent, the
state takes as high as 40 per cent of
that part of some estates valued at
more than 500 thousand dollars.
The Harnischfeger heirs were re
quired to produce at once in cash
something more than 400 thousand
dollars. The Wisconsin law was en
acted in 1903 at the beginning of
the elder La Follette's second term
of governor during the early days of
radical domination in Wisconsin. The
federal inheritance tax is less de
structive only that it permit3 80 per
cent of the state tax paid to be con
sidered as an offset.
"The confiscatory inheritance tax
is a death warrant to success, jvit.
Harnischfeger said. "Industries a
which cannot escape it must die be
cause purchasers cannot be found
who will pay an adequate or honest
price at a forced sale. The govern
ment takes it3 toll in cash and with
out delay regardless of price or mar
ket. It means that in time specula
tors and rarVpteers will come into
tho final possession of industry."
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Journal Want-Ads act results!
VAST SHRINKAGE IN
AMERICAN INCOME
Treasury figures published last
week show in some detail the vast
shrinkage of American income In
1832 a year which will ia all prob
ability be found to have been the
worst of the depression. That the
number of persons reporting a "million-dollar
income" declined to 20,
compared with 75 in the preceding
year and with 513 in 1929, is only
one indication of what happened.
Large losse3 occurred in all of the
higher brackets of personal income
taxes and were still more impres
sive in the case of corporations.
The treasury's figures of corpor
ation income are classified under
eight major groups. Public utilities
made, on the whole, the best show
ing in 1932. But not in any one of
the eight classifications did the ag
gregate net income of those corpor
ations operating at a profit equal the
aggregate deficit cf those operating
at a loss. In this sense, an excess of
income ever deficit was shown only
ii two subdivisions within the man
ufacturing group including indus
tries manufacturing tobacco products
and chemicals and their allied prod
ucts. Very heavy losses occurred in
the case of industries producing tex
tiles, metals and forest products. For
the manufacturing group as a whole,
14 thousand of the most successful
companies showed an aggregate in
come of 657 million dollais; but 68
thousand less fortunate concerns re
ported an aggregate deficit of ?2
103,000,000. Fcr all corporations,
manufacturing and non-manufactur
ing, the aggregate ir.corna of those
able to operate in the black was $1,-
S52,000,000; the aggregate deficit of
those in the red was $6, 420, 000, 000
or more than three time:; as large.
These figures explain the reduced
dividends and the increa.scd unem
ployment which characterized 1932,
as well as the smaller yield to the
government of taxes paid on that
year's earnings. There is reason to
believe that when comparable data
are available for 123 3 they will show
an improvement; for in many indus
tries production showed a gain last
year. But the fact remains that a
great number cf co-porations have
experienced reverses f:ora which they
can never rcovr only gradually and
only if they find encouragement in
the policies pursued by the govern
ment. Their recovery wculd bcne3i
owners, creditors and employes.
Though ths payment c'f larger taxes
it would " greatly aid the treasury,
which is itself operating in 1934 with
a larger deficit than was shown by
all of the private corporations which
reported a loss in 1D32. New .urk
Times.
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CONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY
The importance of the construction
industry, as an employer of ordinary
and skilled labor and as a stimulator
of all manner of other industries, is
vividly illustrated in statistics pub
lished in a recent editorial in the
American Builder.
In the years between 1923 and
1926, inclusive, home construction
(which amounts to a little more than
fifty per cent of the construction in
dustry as a whole in normal times)
was a four billion dollar business. It
gavee employment to several million
men actually employed in building,
and to as many more ia favoriss,
mines and forests supplying neces
sary materials. Employment was
nicely balanced between large cities,
small and medium sizsd towns and
rural areas.
In 1929 one-tenth of all gainfully
employed workers were engaged in
construction. And in 1930, when cen
sus figures were taken, there were
167,50.0 builders a::d building con
tractors, 929,400 carpenters, and 34,-
070 lumber and building material
dealers. There were likewise 22,000
architects, 33,700 designers, 170,900
brick and stone masons, 430,000
painters and glazier.?, and 240,000
real estate agents.
The nation s normal requirement
to quote the American Builder again,
is 800,000 new homes each year. At
the moment, a tremendous housing
deficit exists, due to the almost en
tire lack of building, particularly in
the low and middle cost field, during
the past four years, and the abnor
mally high rates of depreciation and
obsolescence caused by insufficient
repair and maintenance. Aggressive
efforts are now being made to speed
home building by making financing
cheaper and easier. Success of such
movement Is essential to recovery.
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A nationally known pacifist writer
for
died in California the other day at
1
the age of 91 a 'much more ad
vanced age than pacifist3 usually at
me
tain, vhat with the strenuous life
6
they lead.
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A man is as old as he feels before
breakfast, and a woman is as old as
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she looks before breakfast.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons Interested In the es
r rn-tha a T.wia. deceased:
mi- Ynt a Detition nas
been filed praying for administration
of said estate and appointment ui y .
II. Coffolt as Administrator; that paid
t:0'fni hearing be-
r, f Via 2nd day or
lore cam luuh
March, 1934, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Dated January 30, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY.
f5.3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the es
r TMoiiio n Smith, deceased:
Take notice that a petition has
been filed praying for administration
r cn!ri sfnt and anDOintment of J.
t-t Tcpnnlen as Administrator; that
said petition has been set for hearing
before said Court on the 2nd day of
March. 193 4, at ten o'clock a. m.
Dated February 5, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY.
f5-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty Nebraska.
To the creditors of ths estate
of
Oline C. Johnson, deceased:
Take notice that the time limited
fnr tho fiHrsir nnfl nresentation of
claims against said estate is May 16.
1934; that a hearing will be had at
the County Court room In Plans
jrsouth on May 18, 1934, at ten
o'clock a. m., for the purpose of ex
amining, hearing, allowing and ad
justing all claims or objections duly
filed..
Dated January 19, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
j2213w County Judge.
NOTICE OF PROBATE
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Christoph Beil, deceased;
Take notice that a petition has
been filed for probate of an instru
ment purporting to be the last will
and testament of said deceased, and
for the appointment of Fred W. Beil
as executor thereof; that said petition
has been set for hearing before said
Court on the 16th day of February,
1934, at ten a. m.
Dated January 20th. 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
J:
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County Judge.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the
estate of William D. Coleman, de
ceased:
Take notice that the administrator
of said estate has filed his final report
and a petition for examination and
allowance of his administration ac
counts, determination of heirship, as
signment of residue of said estate and
for his discharge; that said petition
and report will be heard before said
Court on February 16th, 1934, at
ten a. m.
Dated January 22nd, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
J22-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Clarence W. Fleshman, de
ceased :
Take notice that the Administrator
of said estate has filed his final re
port and a petition for examination
and allowance of his administration
accounts, determination of heirship.
assignment or residue of said estate
and for his discharge; that said neti-
tion and report will be heard before
CO 1 M Paii v4- - 1 . , O O . r ii . . I
i-cuiu-iy ji, at
ten o clock a. rn
Dated January 23, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY.
32 9-3 w County Judce
NOTICE OF HEARING
Estate of Chester 11. Smith ii.-Mc
eci.
In the County Court of Cass rnnn.
iy, ieorasica.
ine btate cf Nebraska: To all nor
sons interested in said estate rrprii-
i'rs ana neirs take notice, that Tin
bie l-.. leesaraen has fiioH
. r "w
nuii aueginir mat Chester Ti
iucu niiestaie m Cass rnnntv r
cuuskh. on or about the 5th day of
IWay, 1931, being a resident and in-
i i . "-
nauuant ot Cass county, Nebraska,
and died seized of the following de-
ecuuuu real estate, to-wit:
The west one-half (WH) of
Lot ten (10) in Block twenty
eight (28) in the City of Platts
mouth, Cass county, Nebraska
law the following named persons, to-
and Tinsie L. Teanien
uutu . aueenan,
ters.
his daugh-
the above described real estate is
- f aii heir at Iaw of said de
ceased and praying for a determina
tion of the tiiro rf "L ln?
Chester H. Smith and of hVUVs
- vi iwubiun ami th..
e ris-ht
"l "--em oi tne real nronertv ha
ass. !?.&w - &
It. fa nrrTaiAi il.x .
?' hearing on tlnX
934 before the County Cour SV
uvicu i iinr tma . .
county in th rv,,.. V 1 V'ass
mrrh :"-ruu."8e at Platts
cuth Nebraska, at The hSr of lJ
noes a. rn. ' - v w
uated at Piatt
this 5th dav ; eoraska,
19S4. 1 uar't A. D.
Ar IL DUXBURY,
' County Judge.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1934.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons Interested in the
estate of George Everett, deceased:
Take notice that a petition has
been filed praying for administration
of said estate and appointment of
John Everett as Administrator; that
8aid petition has been set for hear
ing before said Court on the 16th
day of February, 1934, at ten oclock
a. m.
Dated January 15, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
J22-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To the creditors of the estate of
Jacob F. Brendel, deceased:
Take notice that the time limited
for the filing and presentation of
claims against said estate is May 23,
1934; that a hearing will be had at
the County Court room In Platts
mouth on May 25, 1934, at ten o'clock
a. m., for the purpose of examining,
hearing, allowing and adjusting all
claims or objections duly filed.
Dated January 26, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
j29-3w County Judge.
NOTICE
OF SHER
IFF'S SALE OF LAND
By virtue of an order of sale issued
by the Clerk of the District Court of
Cass County, Nebraska, on a decree
of foreclosure, wherein Joseph
Philipps, Barbara Philipps and Tena
Vavra, are plaintiffs, and now Glen
II. Foe is assignee of plaintiffs, and
Christian O. Schlytern, administrator
c. t. a., d. b. n., of the Estate of
John E. Casey, Deceased, et al, are
defendants, I will sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for cash
at the south front door of the court
house in Plattsmouth, Cass County,
Nebraska, on the 6th day of March,
1934, at two o'clock p. m., the follow
ing described property:
The northeast quarter (NEU )
of Section nine (9), Township
ten (10), North Range nine
(9), East of the 6th P. M., Cass
County, Nebraska, to satisfy the
judgment and costs in said ac
tion. Dated this 31st day of January,
1934.
H. SYLVESTER,
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
THOMAS E. DUNBAR,
Attorney fl-5w
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, and
by virtue of a certain chattel mort
gage dated on the 22nd day cf May,
1931, and duly filed for record in tho
office of the County Clerk of Sc-ward
County, State of Nebraska, on the
th day of May, 1931, also filed in
the office of the County Clerk of Cass
County, State of Nebraska, under
date of May 13. 1931, said chattel
mortgage executed by Marvin Larsen
to the INTERNATIONAL HAR
VESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA,
a Wisconsin Corporation, to secure
the payment of the sum of Seven
Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars and
Four Cents, ($767.04), and there is
now due the sum of $576.38, (Five
Hundred Seventy-Six Dollars and
Hhirty-Eight Cents), and default hav
ing been made in the payment of said
sum, we will, there lore, offer for aslo
the property therein described:
One Farmall Tractor number
T-124569; One McCormick
Deering Middle Buster, and one
McCormick-Deenng Tractor Cul
tivator at public auction for cash to the
highest bidder, at the farm nf FVPfi
Thimgan, known as the Millpr f.um
ty2 miles north of Murdock. Ne
braska, (NEi; of Section 3, Town
ship 11, and Range 10, Cass County,
Nebraska) on the 24th day of Febru
ary, 1934, at 1:00 o'clock p. m. on
.i ih h
Dated this
29th day of January,
1934.
INTERNATIONAL HAR
VESTER COMPANY OF
AMERICA.
HOOVER,
Collector.
By A.
LEGAL NOTICE
To Preston MidUff t,-; rM
Midrfiff. Sarah Midkiff, Matilda Eve
line Midkiff. Tnci,!,, t . t t .
famder, Samuel Midkiff. Rachel M.
flowery, Martha w-Tot. m,.,.
Rowe. L. M. T?n-.vo C1,.l ,r t,:. ,-t
Joseph Vebster. nnH oil t,c.
ing or claiming
elegit (8) in the southeast quarter of
tllG Southeast nnarta e!.. ....,
ty-nine (29): Lot fnnr t ih
southeast quarter of th north wrst.
quarter, and the southwest quarter of
ection twenty-eight (28); Lot seven
t) in the northoast nnnr'n. n.n
outheast quarter, and Lots nine (3)
?! V11 (10) in the southeast quar
ter or the southeast quarter of Sec
tion twenty-nine (29); and Lot four
J in the northwest minricp of tho
northwest miartor o o i,
v .et.(3) a" in Township ten (10)
tv, r' J1-"1116 fourteen (14), East of
tne 6th Prinri
cass county, Nebraska, real names
unknown: :
Take
L i"Ul JclUJUS l. Jll'UU.'
nas comraenrprt in h. tmi Pn.ut
V'HSS COUnty. NehrpcVa on nrtinil
against ycu as defendants' the object
anu praver of whit, i uni
aecrce of said court barring and excluding-
earh an oil e 1, , v.
aina: earh nnri nil n h n-
. VJl JUU 11U1U '-'
or claiming any right, title, lien,
interest, or estate in or to the above
described real estate, or any part
inerecf. and nuiotin, v tuu tn all
said real tnto in iiintiff
'n!n,t the 8aId WendantsT '
lou are ren tta
earn petition on or before the 26th.
day of February, 1934.
JAMES C RODDY,
c rr Plaintiff
By Tyler & Petereon.
of Nebraska City, Nebr.,
His Attorneys.
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