MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1931.
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One of tho most irritating exper
iences is to forget and set your alarm
clock on Saturday night.
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Reading furnishes the mind only
vita materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read
our own possession.
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Who remembers when grandma
smoked a clay pipe and knocked the
ashes in the fireplace instead of
rmoking cigarettes and dumping the
r.shes on the rug?
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Tho best way for a corporation to
get publicity these days is not to send
gifts to the White House or undergo
congressional investigations. The
best way is to raise wages.
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A subscriber to a Baltimore paper
criticizes Lawrence Stalling's war
pictures very severely because they
are "unattractive." Strange that
didn't occur to Mr. Stallings at the
time.
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What, if anything, will NKA do
r.bGut shortening the hours of base
ball players when the season cornea
r.round? Especially in those games
that are tied in the ninth and run
cn and on?
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Experiments in Ohio show that
diet directly affects scholarship. Ran
dom experiments in Kansas City in
dicate that high school freshmen who
do most of their eating between meals
test out only fair.
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The native opposition to the es
tablishment of nudist colonies in
Kansas is readily understood, but on
the ether hand, perhaps the best cure
for nudists who wr.nt to settle in
Kansas is to let them try it through
cne of Kansas's typical summers.
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There are two sehool3 of radio
listeners, the still-fishers ande-fly.T.
tasters. Tho former group turn3 on
the radio immediately after dinner
and lets it run, on the general theory
that there will be one or two good
bites through the evening on the law
cf averages. The latter group is more
sporty; if they don't get a strike in
a reasonable time they move on, or
call it a day.
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Neb., an second-class mail matter
The government is winding up the
first nine months of the fiscal year
2Ja billion in the red. It's been no
banner year for this department,
either, but we didn't do that badly.
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Another Swedish prince announces
that he will marry outside the ranks
of royalty. The taste of Swedish
princelings in wives is getting com
moner and commoner.
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The NRA will lose its teeth on
June 16, and there is much doubt
whether the administration will un
dergo the ordeal of getting new ones.
Anyhow, it was a noble experiment.
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Col. Ruby Garrett might have been
speaking for the whole machine or
ganization when he said he wasn't
seeking publicity for his part in the
election investigation. In fact, since
March 27, machine publicity seekers
have been quite conspicuous for their
absence.
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We can't avoid tne feeling that
unless the rich Mr. Vanripplo can't
avoid laughing at Popeye's discom
fiture arising from the depleted state
of tho latter's "wardrobe, he's going
to get in the way of one of Popeye's
left hooks one of these days, and then
all his millions won't do him any
good.
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Fritzi Scheff is not to lose her
heme after all, and that's good news
to all who were slaves of Victor Her
bert melodies twenty-nve or thirty
years ago. The mortgage was to
have been closed yesterday, but the
hero appeared in the nick of time to
save the old homestead. The hero's
name, by the way, was Uncle Sam,
and he arrived astride his thorough
bred steed IIOLC.
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Mr. Insull, now that the homeward
track is all greased, has graciously
consented to raturn. to the United
States for trial, and the only thing
he asks is that hi3 enemies won't;
prosecute him. Mr. Insull should be
at ease on that point. The thing to
worry about now is the sob squad all
poised ready for a sentimental cam
paign based on the supposition that
the poor man is being abused and
persecuted.
On the Spot, as Usual!
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APPROPRIAHOU
(V si,
The sexes may dress and smoke
and drink alike, but they will never
have the same opinion of a church
wedding.
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It is a good thing for any man to
remember that he can never learn
anything while he is talking, but he
can learn while listening.
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Due, no doubt, to the mild winter
through which we have just passed,
the spring poets geem a little less de
lirious than usual at this time of
the year.
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Massachusetts who hung on a rail
way trestle with her fingers to escape
death beneath a train knows how a
good many business men have felt
for the last two or three years.
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Naturally, after hearing that John
Dillinger has had his face lifted, the
detectives will all be looking for a
handsome fugitive, any maybe they'll
get Pretty Boy Floyd in the process.
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What has become of those adver
tisements one used to see occasion
ally in the classified columns for a
barber, "one preferred who can also
play third base and the slide trom
bone." :o:
A Florida news writer reports that
Mrs. Fowler McCormick appeared "in
a blu-3 bandana and thick-soled
boots." This would have given old
Bert Leston Taylor his chance to re
mark once more, "My dear, you
should have seen her!"
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A group of Kansas City bachelor
girl;-, keeping house, have a new
fangled can opener which none of
the girls can operate. Two of them
have bravely offered to get married
in order to have a mechanic around
the house to work the can opener.
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A scientist has'spent a lot of time
determining by experiments tliat degs
are much smarter than cats. The net
result of his labors is that deg lovers
will believe him, while cat levers will
say sarcastic things about scientists
in general.
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Many Americans are finding bene
fit from the "Chinese doctor"
system, which consists in pay: rig the
dor-tor as long as he keeps you well,
and stopping his pay if you become
ill. Ti e Chinese lawyer system also
has its attractions. If you commit a
crime on a lawyer's advice, your law
yer gce3 to the block instead of you.
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The Austrian government'has ban
ned the Saturday Evening' Post and
La ie Parisienne from circulation in
Vienna as being in a group which
the authorities regard as immoral
publications. We thought we had
been detecting a certain abandoned
note in some of Mr. Lorimer's edi
torials lately, but we didn't suppose
it would be noticed in Vienna.
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FINANCING- THE BILL
FOR FARMER RELIEF
Next time some Gloomy Gus emits
a long and mournful sigh over the
agricultural adjustment bill and
wants to know, "How in heck are we
going to pay for all this?" just ask
him if he realizes that Uncle Sam
has already collected in processing
taxes about one-fifth of what the pro
gram will cost.
Up to December 31, 1033, process
ing taxes had yielded a total cf ?140,-401,19-1.
Subsequent collections have
brought the total to above 200 mil
lion dollars!
The total estimated expenditures
on existing programs for cash rent
als and surplus removal during
1933, 1934 and 1935, the life of the
program, amount to $847,176,000.
Estimated collections from process
ing taxes already levied amount to
$S72,59o,SCr.
The budget for thi3 program shows
the administrative and other costs
will absorb the difference between
income and direct benefits to farm
ers and $2,233,000 more.
In other words, the ?2, 293, COO is
all that will be required of other rev
enues to finance the entire under
taking. This looks pretty good as a
self-liquidating project.
The principle of production con
trol probably will be extended to
beef dairy products and perhaps one
or two other basic commodities. These
benefits will be financed in the same
manner, however, and will not con
stitute a direct charge o nany other
source of income.
Can anybody truthfully say that
he has felt tho payment of whatever
he may have contributed to the 200
million dollars already raised for
tho financing of this vast undertak
ing, The Tribune hasn't discovered
a single individual who could tell
when and where ho paid his part of
it. Collections to date amount to
about $1.50 per capita. The per cap
ita cost will not exceed $7 to $S to
finance the entire three-year pro
gram. If you are interested in the wel
fare of agriculture, set these figures
down in a little book for handy ref
erence in confounding the next belly
achcr who tries to tell you what a
terrible thing the government is do
ing to help pull the farm industry
cut of the hole. If it does the trick
and the Tribune believes it will
this expenditure will be forth 10
tiro 3 what it will cost. Sioux iC'ity
Tribune.
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EiPEOVEMENT SEEN
;- IN FEDERAL REVENUE
Tliough the Roosevelt administra
tion has plar.ntd the largest program
of expenditures ever undertaken by
the country in. a year cf peace, and
though the impression is common
that the national debt is mounting
at an unprecedented rate, the fact is
that for more than a month the debt
has stood practically unchanged. On
February 20 it amounted to $20,050.
000,000. On March 20, it was only
fractionally higher, at $26,0S9,000,-
00 0. This a long way from the total
of nearly 30 billion dollars which the
president forecast for the end of the
fiscal year in June. It is increasingly
probable that the estimates submitted
in the awe-inspiring budget message
with which Mr. Roosevelt greeted
t-CTiKress when it reconvened will
prove to have overshot the mark.
One reason why the debt has shown
little change in recent weeks is that
the treasury built up a strong cash
position by larj,o borrowing earlier
in the year. With the fund thus
. aisc(r it been able to bridge the
gap between expenditures anu in
come. But a more important reason
1:j th'e fact that'thc gap to be bridged
ha:; been r.arrov.cr than was foreseen
vhcn the J.ue-gct estimates were pre
pared. Between February 20 and
March 20 the government paid out
172 million dollars to meet if. rou
tine cor.ts and 370 million dollars for
various "eraurae-Ticy" purposes mci-
ntal to the president's recovery pro
gram a total cf 542 million dollars
During thi? i!ame period its revenue
amounted to 300 million dollars, or
enough to pay it'll routine cc:;ts and
cover mere than half of the emer
gency outlays.
The improvement of federal rev
enues has been one cf the most cheer
ing aspects of the country's progress
toward recovery. Income taxes for
the first 20 clays of March were 30
per cent above those cf the same
period last year. Receipts from mis
cellaneous internal revenue taxation
for tho fiscal year which end3 in
June have passed one billion dollars.
With three months still to go this is
an impressive record. It has been 12
years since receipts from this source
reached one billion dollars and only
four times in the country's history
(1919 to 1922,: inclusive) has that
figure been attained. New o.u
Tim23.
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Journal VL'ar.t-flas gcx rcsulls! j
INQUIRY SHOULD BE
OF BROADER SCOPE
A monkeyish investigation of Dr.
Wirt's alarums about an impending
revolution in this country seeems as
sured by the vote of the house rules
committee. It has been suggested
that the inquiry should bo much
broader than a mere probe of Dr.
Wirt's specific charges against tho
so-called brain trust.
If broadened, it should investi
gate the ultimate effect on the public
mind of congress' overwhelming vote,
contrary to the president's sound ob
jections, in favor of the principle
of a wide open "presumption of dis
ability" in veterans' pension legisla
tion. The influence of the veterans'
lobby at Washington upon congres
sional elections their methods and
objectives in dictating pension laws
furnish an inviting fitld3 of in
quiry. The entire history of pension leg
islation in the United States io a
grave re flee Lion on democratic gov
ernment. One must go back many
years for the beginning of the laxity
in the laws which have given a pen
sionable status to hundreds of thou
sands cf men undcrerving of it and
with no just claim upo.i the taxpay
ers' mo. ley. The worst of '.he case is
that experience has new demon
strated, apparently, the hopeless cow
ardice of tho mass of members of
congress just when a reform of the
system of war pensions is most need
ed in order to safeguard the treasury
in '.he future frc m a continuous sack
ing and without end, if vo must
assme that new war; will periodically
turn out new crops cf veteran:'.
The peril cf dictatorship 11 -s in
tho subsidence, in prpular respect
and confidence, cf parliamentary, or
congressional institutions.' Dictator
ship may be either cf the iei't or of
the right proletarian cr fi-.ecict. A
fascist dictatorship suppressing not
only democracy but rleo the v.age
earnir.g clasres and u-i.:g a Hitler
or a Mussolini us its spearhead, has
probably a better chance cf gaining
power in America than a proletarian
obligarchy has.
digress by performances like the
one put on this week, r.ver.ling it
self in rout ur.clcr the pressure ol
the ou'riisive cf the veterans' lobby,
while only the- president could with
stand it, cases the way for the "total
itarian stale" cf Mussolini. The "to
talitarian stats" is one defined as
concentrating cue chhc.e all the
energies-, all the interests, all the
hopes cf a pecplc, i.r.d iha holder of
thatcflca serves, with to limit to
his term and is ve'rpinsible to no 'one
but his own conscience.
In his article c: "DictsAors and
Democracies" in the Virginia Quar
terly Review, Prof. Calvin B. Hoo
ver concludes in these words:
"It is difficult to escape tho con
clusion that external and internal
forces which are operative now and
are likely to be operative in the fu
ture render the survival cf the lib
eral, democratic and parliamentary
state doubtful. The wriicr believes
that the chance for its survival in
the United States is better than in
any other country. But that is an
other story."
It is another story a story by
itself. Any American, by virtue o
his natural or inherited optimism,
must believe with Prof. Hoover that
the democratic parliamentary state
will survive here longer than any
where else.
Since that article was written,
however, we have been seeing things
that cannot be laid to the brain trust.
Among them is this spectacle: Un
der the lash of the ctcrar.s' lobby
the party in power deserting its own
leader on an issue cf major public
importance the scope of the treas
ury's obligations to former soldiers
not demonstrably dir.v.bled in mili
tary service while the present op
position party in an almost solid body
lines up with the veterans' lobby, al
though the last two president fur
nished by the opposition are official
ly on record as being i:i substantial
accord with President Roosevelt on
the issue in dispute.
Representative government, or ma
jority rule under democratic forms,
has survived many a hard blow in
America. Perhaps this is just an
other. Our system, r.on-cver, cannot
stand, in thesa times being betrayed
overmuch within the legislative
chambers cf the capitol. Springfield
Republican.
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So far in 193 4 there seems to be
a bigger pick-up in the steal busi
ness than there has been in the steel
business.
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Important discovery of ths week,
by Gelatine Travers: That reading
lamps are best to play bridge by, and
bridge lamps are excellent for read
ing.
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HelD soeeef tf.e retrirn of pros
perity by buying tho thln9 you
need now I
INDEXES INDICATE
BUSINESS REVIVAL
All the peiiodical indexes that
measure the progress of business in
dicate unmistakably that improve
ment that started a year ago and has
continued, with one or two halts,
since then, is still under way. The
progress is going on in the face of
several handicaps, including uncer
tainty about NRA policies in Wash
ington and a continued conservative
attitude of bankers and their cus
tomers, relative to the use of some of
the large available credit resources,
in active extension of trade and in
dustry. Total industrial production, em
bracing nearly all the great manu
facturing properties, factory employ
ment, pay rolls, output of electric
current, and freight movement, the
cuptstanding factors in the business
situation, retail distribution of goods,
and foreign trade figures for the
latest recorded periods, are substan
tially ahead of two year3 ago, and
show tit ill greater gains over a year
ago, when the recovery from the
depth of tho depression had just
started. Extensive wage increases
justified by growing business, where
there had been severe reductions pre
viously, are reported.
With a large increase in purchas
ing power of farmers, the combined
result of higher prices, and of pay
ments from processing taxes, in car
rying on the agricultural adminis
tration's general agricultural outlook
seems promising.
Attention of tha public has been
centered so long on the problems of
unemployment and the distress cf the
millions of people without jobs, that
the more hopeful aspect cf the busi
ness situation has been more or less
ignored.
It seems worth while to take note
of the fact that there are nearly 55
million bank deposit accounts insured
under the government plan recently
put in operation, involving 12 bil
lion dollars, a sum that represents ac
tual or potential purchasing power.
More impressive, rtill, is a com
pilation recently made showing 78
million accounts represented in 3 8
billion dollars of savings in the form
of life insurance assets, mutual sav
ings banks and building and loan
associations.
It i.s folly not to recognize the re
sources, welfare and recuperative
power represented in these statistics.
The recovery is under v.-ay and
there are substantial reasons to be
lieve that it will continue unless it is
checked by unwise action .in Wash
ington. Kansas City Star.
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Under all speech that is good for
anything there lies a silence that is
better. Silence is deep as eternity,
speech is shallow as time.
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If ycu nave sometnTng to sell,
try a Journal Want-Ad.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of aCss Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the
estate of David C. La Rue, deceased.
No. 3007.
Take notice that a petition has
ben filed praying for administartion
of said estate and appointment of
Wayne C. Garrett as administrator;
that said petition has been set for
hearing before said Court on the
27th day of April, 1934, at ten a. m.
Dated March 2Sth. 1934.
A. II. DUXBURY.
a2-3v County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To tho creditors of the estate of
Oscar W. Zaar, deceased, No. 2991:
Take notice that the time limited
for the filing and presentation of
c-hi.ir.i3 r.gainst said estate is July 20,
1934; that a hearing will Tie had at
the County Court room in Platts
mouth on July 27. 1934, at ten
o'clock a. rn., for the purpose of ex
amining, allowing and adjusting all
claimri or objections duly filed.
Dated March 23, 193 4.
A. II. DUXBURY.
m2C-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
By virtue of an Order of Sal? issued
by C. E. Dedgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court within and for Cass
County, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 5th day of May,
A. D. 103 4, at 10:00 o'clock a. in. of
said day at the South Front poor of
the Court House in said County, eell
at public auction to the highest bid
der fcr cash the following real es
tate to-wit:
West Half of Section Nine
teen, Township Twelve, North,
Range nine. East of the 6th
P. M., in Cass County, Nebraska;
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Jamas E.
aicumiey, ei ai., aeienamis, co
satisfy a judgment of the Court re
covered by The Firat Trust Compe.ny
of Lincoln, Nebraska, a corporation,
plaintiff, against Eaid defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska April 2nd,
A. D. 193 4.
H. SYLV2STER,
Sheriff Cass County,
a3-5w Nebraska.
NOTICE OF FINAL. SETTLEMENT
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Otto F. Peters, deceased. No.
2954.
Take notice that the administra
trix of said estate has filed her final
report and a petition for examin
ation and allowance of her admin
istration accounts, determination of
heirship, assignment of residue of
said estate and for her discharge,
that said petition and report will be
heard before said Court on April
27th, 1934, at ten a. m.
Dated March 30th, 1934.
A. II. DUX BURY,
a2-3v County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court cf Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
To the creditors of the estate of
Roy E. Melsinger, deceased:
Take notice that the time limited
for the filing and presentation of
claims against said estate is July
20th, 1034; that a hearing will be
had at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth on July 27th, 1934, at
ten o'clock a. m.. for the purpose of
examining, hearing, allowing and
adjusting all claims or objections
duly filed.
Dated March 20. 19 3 1.
A. II. DUX BURY,
ni2G-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska.
To the creditors of the estate of
Emma J. Kimcrley, deceased. No.
2970:
Take notice that the time limited
for the filing and presentation of
claims against said estate is July
20, 1934; that a hearing will be had
at the County Court room in Platts
mouth on July 27, 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 March 23, 193 1.
A. II. DUXBURY,
m26-3w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
To The Dundee Mortgage & Trust
Investment Co., Limited, of Scotland,
and all persons having or claiming
i.ny interest in the Northwest Quar
ter of Section Sixteen (16), in Town
ship Ten (10), North, of Range
Thirteen (12), East of the Sixth
Principal Meridian, in Cass County,
Nebraska, real names unknown:
Notice is hereby given that Fred
litcbner as plaintin has filed in tho
District Court of Cass County, Ne
braska, his petition against you as
defendants, the purpose of which is
to obtain a decree quieting title to
the above described real estate in
plaintiff against all claim.3 by or un
der any of the defendants and .can
celing and setting aside, as having
been paid and barred by the Statute
of Limitations of the State of Ne
braska, the . mortgage made by Eli
J. W. Pitman and wife, Anna Pit
man, to the defendant, The Dundee
Mortgage & Trust Investment Co.,
Limited, of Scotland, dated June 19,
1SS2, filed for record June 19, 1882,
recorded in Book N, Page C8 of tho
records of said county, to secure the
payment of $1000.00.
You may answer said petition in
said court on or before May 7, 193 4,
or otherwise the allegations in said
petition will be taken as true and a
decree entered accordingly.
FRED HEEBNER,
Plaintiff.
TYLER & TETERSOX,
Attorneys,
Nebraska City, Nebr. m29-4w
NOTICE
of Hearing for Determin
ation of Heirship
Estate of Ella Elsie Jessup, de
ceased. No. 300 8.
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty. Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska: To all per
sons interested in the estate, credit
ors and heirs take notice, that John
Jessup has filed his petition alleging
that Ella Elsie Jessup died intestate
in ('ass county, Nebraska, on or about
February 22nd, 1929, being a resi
dent and inhabitant of said County
and died seizeil of the following des
cribed real estate, to-wit:
Lots numbered tight (8),
(9), Twenty -one (21) and
Twenty-three (23) in the west
half of the southwest quarter
of Section seven (7) in Town- 1
ship twelve (12) North, in
Range fourteen (14) East of the
6th I'. M.. in the City of Platts
mouth, Nebraska, according to
the publish rd and recorded plat
thereof; Also all of Block three
(3) in Townsend's Addition to
the said City of Plattsmouth.
according to the published and
recorded plat thereof;
leaving as her sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to-
wit:
John Jessup, he-r husband;
George Gardner, John Gardner,
Leonard Gardner, Mary Allmon,
and Jennie Sass, brothers and
Rister3 of said deceased.
That the interest of the petitioner
in the above described real estate is
that of an heir and praying for a
determination of the time of the
death of said Ella Elsie Jessup and
of her heirs, ths degree of kindship
a tne rignt or descent of the renl
property belonging to tho said de-
(ceased, in the State of Nebraska
It i3 ordered that the earns Ptnnri
for heaiing on the 27th day of April.
1934, before the County Court oi
Cass County in the Court House at
Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at tho hour
of 10 o'clock a. rn.
Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska
this 2Sth day of March. A. D. 1934.'
A. II. DUXBURY.
County Judge.
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