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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1934.
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It would be fine to be kept out
of prosperity the way a former ad
ministration kept us out of war.
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Who remembers when rural fam
ilies coming to town to do their Sat
urday shopping, always brought their
lunch along?
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The greatest trouble with Ameri
can politics is that you can't Indulge
in it without the opposition giving
you a mud bath.
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It may turn out that the motor
body industry will be asked to help
out in the construction of a 5-pas-senger
baby carriage.
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If the man who writes and illus
trates a seed catalogue is an opti
mist, what is the man who believes
it? (Don't tell us we know.)
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Life is a series, of surprises. We
do not guess today the mood, the
pleasure, the power of tomorrow,
when we are building up our being.
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It is becoming a game in the fam
ily to run for the morning paper and
be the first to see whom General
Johnson devours for breakfast each
morning.
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$5, 357, 055, 593 is the money in
circulation $42,35 per capita
whereas but a month ago it was
?42,46. Somebody has been bucking
a penny ante game.
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If this country coultf just take
congress on the road fee a tour or
the United States, making one-night
stands, the circus business certainly
would take a slump.
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The government mints have been
swamped by unprccendenteddicostinds
for siirafl"triange. Well, .Have
heard rumors for several week3 that
the slot machines were soon to come
back.
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A St. Louis editor believes George
Eliot's novel3 would , make good
movies. We understand the move
ment was set in motion some years
ago in Ilolywood, but the directors
assigned to read the novels and re
port what they are about haven't fin
ished yet.
The wild goose is said to -have a
single mate for life. Hence the ex
pression, "Silly as a goose."
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In Europe a world statesman seems
to be a man who opposes any rational
solution of a difficult problem.
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Amelia Earhart says women will
fight in the next war, and that's the
worst scare the European nations
have had since the last war.
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It seems to be the heyday for back
seat drivers, what with all this ad
vice about veering to the right and
left the administration is receiving
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A 5-year-old farm boy attended
his first circu3 and asked if there
was a large crowd said there cer
tainly was: that the roosts were
all full."
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After a feiiow has been married a
year or two. he can tell at a glance
what pieces of the fried chicken
have been held out for the Sunday
night lunch.
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The readiness with which the G.
O. P. deficit was absorbed in Chicago
last week convinces the Boston Globe
that recovery falls alike on the just
and the unjust.
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A base runner who tries to steal
with the bases full has turned up in
the American League. Yet they keep
saying that rugged individualism in
the country is dead. . t - -
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Business statisticians figure that
strikes and social disorders mark the
end of a period of depression.' Pros
perity is sure to be restored, but not
necessarily to all. who previously en
joyed it.
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:Pres!5eST "JTocsSrvclt auMsed.1Yhe
seniors of Grotcn school to adapt
themselves to the changes of a chang
ing world. Well, everybody is wait
ing to see which way the brain trust
is going to Jump.
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Our government has decided to
leave the silk cut of all new cur
rency. Perhaps with the hope that
in the near future it will become
piebeian and common like corned
Most theories look good until they
get their feet off the polished desk
and are given practical tests.
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Sharks never sleep, says an au
thority. Many a sucker wno lost his
margin in Wall Street will agree.
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"The Democrats," says the In
dianapolis News, "are limbering up
their arms, so they can point with
pride."
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It's evidently time to rave the oil
changed on your fenders. The coun
ty will begin oiling 700 miles of road
next week.
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The average mental age in Amer
ica was last computed as 16 years.
It would be higher, but a brain
truster only counts for one, like
anybody else.
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The fellow Emerson had in mind
when he wrote the paragraph about
the mousetrap and the path to your
door was a long time getting here,
but he finally arrived. His name is
Walt Disney.
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Speaking or going to the moun
tain, since it won5t come one's way,
there is Vassar, which has ruled that
Vassar girls hereafter will bo allowed
to marry during their college career
in order to avoid long engagements
and secret weddings.
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Former Kaiser Wilhelm praises
Hitler and suggests that if ever it is
desired that a monarchy be restored
he is sure that "my family will not I
fail in their duty." When Hitler
grows weary of functioning, he may
consider the suggestion. But lie is
probably going to be a very old man
when he gets that way.
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In the good old day3 when lines
were used for the steering wheel
and the buggy whip for the gas feed
and the exhaust pipe wasn't under
the buggy, we old fellows in our
younger days didn't get very far,
but we had a hell of a good time Just
the same.
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The announcement of a golden
wedding aniversary in Hollywood has
caused no er.d or surprise and won
der. But before there i3 too much
cheering it might bo well to find out
how the film colony reckons anniver
saries. Perhaps it means this couple
has remained wedded fifty days.
SHARING RELIEF.
When President Roosevelt faced
hs first winter in office and the
fourth winter of. the depression he
found hundreds of thousands of Am
erican families in imminent peril of
starving or freezing.
He acted promptly under emer
gency powers given him by congress
and spent federal funds almost with
out stint so that none should go with
out food and none without fuel and
shelter. It was a magnificent humani
tarian gesture and it saved countless
men, women and children, among
whom many Nebraskans.
He then laid down the principle
that local governments should bear
at least a portion of the relief ex
pense when they could. Today in
making provision for the continuance
of federal relief the counties of Ne
braska are being reminded of their
obligation to share the burden, and
are being warned that unless they
do federal funds will be withdrawn.
In northeastern Nebraska and in
the western part of the state the
counties have accepted their respon
sibilities. In southeastern Nebraska
there has been a tendency to reject
the federal co-operative plan. Sev
eral counties have flatly refused to
make the requested levies. The op
position to the relief plan has been
led by W F. Cramb, editor of the
Fairbury Journal.
Mr. Cramb believes that by asking
for county levies the federal govern
ment is atempting to regulate local
taxation. Ho fears "an abuse of fed
eral powers," "the destruction of the
right of self-government," "an at
tempt to force the states and coun
ties," and since he believes these
dangers exist and that they are bad,
he fights against them as a good edi
tor should.
Yet it would seem that Mr. Cramb
is taking a too narrow view of the
relief question, and that by follow
ing his guidance the Jefferson coun
ty taxpayers will lose a large degree
of federal aiif without strengthening
their liberties, nor are those counties
that meet the federal requirements
losing one jot or tittle of their in
dependence. The federal government has gone
further thaii ever before in sharing
a relief program. It offers its mil
lions and its trained direction of re
lief on the theory that the nation at
large is partly responsible for the
depresion and 1 that the government
" y1 " !im ua ' a. ftiiuiu Miasmi ooiigaiion iu
-a suuu -ian oi me long prison , nilnimize lU eftectB But u asks the
sentences imposed by American courts cIties and countIeg and state8 not to
surender the whole problem and cost
of relief to the nation, but to defend
SOME ONE SHOULD BE
HELD RESPONSIBLE
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beef and cabbage.
and juries are just rough estimates
One man may be given five years for
a certain offense, and another man
guilty of a crime three times as
heinous may be given ten. In Aus
tria, it is figured down to a much
nner point. A man was sentenced
there recently to "life imprisonmen
less ten months," the deduction be
ing the time he spent in jail waiting
trial
Stamps That Farley Forgot
O IfM, ICr Fcaram SrodKatc. Inc. Gmi (nui rigba
and insist upon those very rights
which MrJ Cramb mentions, the
rights and the resonsibilities as
well of self-government, of local
authority. The federal government
can state the- conditions upon which
it will go into any county and help
its poor and starving. The right to
accept or refuse remains with the
county.
The Lincoln Star explains the
situation clearly:
"Tho federal government
merely says that no more relief
funds shall be sent into a coun
ty, unless that county shows a
disposition to recognize its own
responsibility to its own people
who are out of work and who
are dependent upon relief by
raising funds. . . . . The
trouble with Brother Cramb and
with others is that they want
federal funds, but they do riot
want to do anything themselves.
They want to sit back and take
everything offered them, with
out assuming any of the tax
burdens locally." World-Herald
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Dr. Millikan, one time Ncbel prize
winner in science, advocates what
he calls a "scientific approach" to
politics. A splendid suggestion, which
machine leaders, by the way, adopt
ed many years ogo.
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A man who cooks a poor meal or
makes a poor mousetrap is usually
relieved fromi further invitations to
perform these; tasks. But apparently
the rule doesn't hold good when ap
plied to speeqh-making.
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The next: motor improvement
shculd be a device that fills the car
with the smell of burning wool when
the night driver begins to feel
drowsy. Nothing else' will bring a
person back to life so quickly.
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According to a recently completed
census, Chicago has lost 100,000 in
population since 1930. But perhaps
he missing Chicago folk merely were
over on the fair grounds while the
census was being taken.
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Some of the Hitler defenders In
America write some very entertaining
letters to the eastern newspapers.
They nearly always follow the same
form: (a the atrocity stories are
untrue; (b- it serves the victim3
light; and (c) if the vctlm3 don't
ftcp compiaiojns, they'll got s?rae
more f the sarat. i ' " j
bome one is responsible for the
loss of seven lives in the crash of
the American air liner in the Cat
skills and, whoever that some one
Is, he should be punished for his
crime. The word is used advisedly.
The passenger who boards a plane
does so In the belief that all that
can be done to make his trip safe has
been done. He assumes that weather
conditions are favorable. He assumes
that his pilot has every instrument
at his disposal to make for safe fly
ing. He assumes that his pilot has
been carefully instructed in the rules
of safety and told to take no risks,
however slight. The passenger has
no independent judgment in these
matters. He is wholly dependent
upon the judgment of those operat
ing the plane. If his confidence has
been misplaced some one should be
held responsible.
The exemplary punishment of the
guilty will do more to promote safety
in the air than a thousand exhorta
tions. Let it be assumed that the acci
dent in question took place, as some
witnesses have suggested, because
the coluds were hanging low over the
mountains and the pilot chose to
follow the mountain passes below the
clouds. In (doing "so the plane
crashed into a mountain side. If
those were indeed the facts, some
one in a position of authority should
have prevented the plane from taking
off or ordered it to turn back.
The judgment of the pilot alone
cannot be trusted. lie is a man ac
customed to taking risks. He knows
how to use a parachute. His pas
sengers have no parachutes, and if
they had them wouldn't know how
to make use of them.
Some one, we repeat, in responsi
ble for the deaths and should be
punished for manslaughter or crim
inal negligence. That would go a long
way toward discouraging the taking
or risks or winch tno passenger is
unaware and which ho is wholly un
prepared to meet. No passenger's
life should be sacrificed on tb.3 altar
of a time table or fcr the sake of
speeding the mails to their destina
tion. As some air line officials are
not fully prepared to act upon this
principle, it is necessary to use the
criminal law to teach it to them in
a form which any one can under
stand. Theirs is a personal rrsponsi
bility -which they must be permitted
to evade. Ihicago Tribune.
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PAY-AS-YOU-GO RELIEF.
NOTICE OF PROBATE
OF FOREIGN WILL
In the County Court of Caes Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons interested in the
estate of -.George W. Homan, de
ceased: No. 3031.
Take notice that a petition has
been filed in this Court praying for
the probate of an instrument pur
porting to be an authenticated copy
of the last will and testament of said
deceased and alleging that the same
was duly admitted to probate in the
District Court of Adams County,
Iowa, and praying for the appoint
ment of Searl S. Davis, as admin
istrator with will annexed; that said
petition has been set for hearing be
for the County Court of Cass County,
Nebraska on June 29th, 1934 at ten
a. m.
Dated June 2, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY.
J4-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
Governor Ritchie cE Maryland has
been doing some plain talking about
the position the state finds Itself in
on being asked to provide 1 million
dollars for relief in the year begin
ning with the present month. Uncle
Sam having refused to contribute
further except on a 50-50 basis.
The state has financed its share of
relief thus far by a 12-niillion-dol-lar
bond isue, of which all but 2
million dollars has been expended.
The governor has declared against
further borowings by the state and
advocates instead creation of local
responsibility for relief in some way.
What that means for Baltimore,
which takes about S6 per cent of
the relief funds, is plain.
The governor insists that the
whole philosophy of the relief sys
tem has got to be changed. "When
the people once begin feeding at the
public trough it's a hard matter to
get them away from it," he is quoted
as saying. "The trouble is that when
people see a great big pool of money
within their reach they're going to
go after it and get it. It's easy money
and it's hard to keep them from
getting it."
The remedy he suggests is local re-
snonsibilitv for relief, having "the
people pay for it straight out of their
own pockets in cuch a way that
they'll nnow it and feel it them
splves" One benefit that he sees
from local responsibility is that it
will help purge tho rolls of undo
serving aplicants.
Care of the indigent is a state re
snonsibilitv before it is a federal
burden, but state revenues and rc-
Ronrppfi are limited and in the end
the cities and other local communi
ties will have to cany an increasing
part of the load. In that case they
wll have to confine relief to worthy
cases and prevent necessary help to
those who really need it from becom
ing a demoralizing dole.
Pennsylvania's warning, reported
to have been given Governor Pinchot
by Administrator Hopkins, that the
state must do It3 Dart in the work
of relief, is in linihewt la afrdct
of relief, is in line with tho demand
on Maryland. And it is reasonable.
Sooner or later, states and munici
palities must face thi3 problem of
relief squarely. Philadelphia Bulle
tin.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
County, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed, I, will on the 24th day of July,
A. D. 1934, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day at the south front door of the
court house in said County, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
fcr cash the following real estate
to-wit:
The Southwest Quarter
(SW'4) of Section Twenty-six
(26), Township Twelve (12)
North Range Nine (9) East of
the 6th P. M. containing one
hundred sixty (1C0) acres, Gov
ernment Survey in Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska;
The same being levied upon and tak
en as the property of John C. Lemon,
ot al. defendants, to satisfy a judg
ment of said Court recovered by The
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany, plaintiff, agalnit said defend
ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 16,
A. D. 19 3 4.
H. SYLVESTER,
Sheriff Cass County,
JlS-5w Nebraska.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the
District Court within and for Cass
County, Nebraska, and to me direct
ed, I will on the 24th day of July,
A. D. 1934, at 10 o'clock a. m. of
raid day at the south front door of
the court house In said County, sell
ot public auction to the highest bid
der for cash the following real es
tate to-wit:
The South Half (Sy2) of the
Southwest Quarter (SWU ) of
Section Twenty-five (25); the
South Half (SV-t) of the South
east ' Quarter ( SE Vi ) of Section -
(26); and the Northwest Quar
ter (NWU) of the Northwest
Quarter of Section Thirty-six
(36); all in Township Twelve
(12) North Ranpre Nine (9)
East of the 6th P. M. contain
ing two hundred acres, Govern
ment Survey, Cass County, Nebraska;
The same being levied upon and
taken as the propert of John C
Lemon, et al, defendants, to satisfy
a judgment of said Court recovered
by The Mutual Benefit Life Insur
ance Company, plaintiff, against said
defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 16,
A. D. 1934.
H. SYLVESTER,
Sheriff Cass County,
J18-5w Nebraska.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To all persons Interested in the
estate of Hobard Ray Reasoner, de
ceased. No. 3035; Take notice that
a petition has been filed praying for
administration of said estate and
appointment of Elizabeth Reasoner
as administratrix; that said petition
has been set for hearing before said
Court on the 13th day of July, 1934,
at ten a. m.
Dated June 16th, 1934.
A. H. DUXBURY,
J18-3w. County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass.
ES.
By virtue of an Execution issued
by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court within and for Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska, and to me directed, I
will on the 30th day of June, A. D.
1934, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day
at the South Front Door of Court
House, In said County, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash the following real estate to-wit:
An undivided one-ninth In
terest in and to the West Half
of the Northwest Quarter of
Section Four, and an undivided
one-ninth interest in and to
East Half of the Northeast Quar
ter of Section Five, all in Town
ship Eleven, Range Ten, East of
the 6th P. M., Cass County, Nebraska;
The same being levied upon and tak
en as the property of Ralph C. Rager,
defendant, to satisfy a judgment ot
said Court recovered by Searl S.
Davis, Guardian of Evelina Rager, in
competent, plaintiff, against said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, May 23,
A. D. 1934.
H. SYLVESTER,
Sheriff Casa County,
m24-5w Nebraska.
Jnnim IT. !!-! nnr. Mlorner
t.21 First National Hnnk Uuil.'linf
1) in nli ii, lr.
NOTICE
of Hearing on Petition for
Authority to Mortgage
Real Estate
NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE
Notice of hearing on petition of
J. Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac
Wiles, Incomptent, for authority to
mortgage real estate of said ward.
The next of kin and all persons
interested in the estate of Isaac
Wiles, incompetent, are hereby noti
fied that a petition was filed In the
District Court of Cass County, by J.
Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac Wiles,
incompetent, on which the following
order was made:
OlilJKIt TO SHOW CAITSR
Now on this 23rd day f May,
1934, this matter came on for hear
ing on the petition of J. Leslie Wiles,
guardian of Isaac Wiles, an incom
petent person, for authority and' li
ceiis3 to execute a mortgage covering
certain real estate of said , ward to
secure payment of a loan to be made
for the purpose of paying debts
against the estate of said ward and
for the further purpose of mainten
ance and support of said ward and
of his family.
It appearing that it would be for
the best interests of the estate of
said ward that said petition be
granted and the guardian of said
ward granted authority and license
to negotiate a loan for and on be
half of the estate of said ward and
to secure payment thereof by execut
ing a mortgage covering certain real
estate of said ward, as set forth in
said petition.
It Is Therefore by the Court or
dered and decreed that the next of
kin of Isaac Wiles, an incompetent
person, and all persons interested in
his estate, be and appear in the Dis
trict Court of Cass County, at Platts
mouth, Nebraska, on the 27th day
of June, 1934, at the hour of 10
o'clock in the a. m., there and then
to show cause, (f any there be, why
J. . Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac
Wiles, an Incompetent person, should
not be granted power, authority and
icense by this Court, to borrow the
sum of Five Thousand Five Hun
dred ($5500.00) Dollars from one
William Snorer, for a period of 8
per cent per
In the District Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
William L. Stine, et al, plaintiffs,
vs. Mrs. Frederick Wilks, et al, de
fendants. TO: Mrs. Frederick Wilks, first
real name unknown; Permlia Jane
Greerson, whose real, true name is
Pcrmelia Jane Grierson, Myra Evelyn
Rakes, Myra Evelyn Rakes Doe and
John Doe, her hsuband (Doe and i
John Doe being fictitious, real names years at the rate of
unknown) the unknown heirs, le- annum, and give his note therefore,
gatees and devisees of William Albin, as such guardian, and secure pay
deceased, whose real, true names are neat or said note by executing a
unknown; William Clorrence and mortgage covering the Northeast
John Clorrence; John S. Irwin and Quarter (NEU) of the Southeast
Laura Irwin, his wife, and the un-j Quarter (SEU) and the South Half
known heirs, legatees and devisees of (S) of the Northeast Quarter
John S. Irwin, real names known, and (NK A ) of Section Nineteen (19),
all persons having or claiming any Township Eleven (11) Range Twelve
right, title, interest, lien or demand (12) Cass County, Nebraska, for the
in, upon or to Lot 10 in the SW!4 purpose of paying debts due by said
of the NE',4 and Lot 12 In the JSL'i ward and by his estate and for the
of the SWV4, all in bee. b, Jwp. if further purposes of maintenance and
N R 14, E or the bth r. ai., cass support of said ward and of his fam
County, Nebraska, real names un- jiy
known: It is further ordered that notice
You and each of you ate liereoy of EUCh hearing be given the next of
notified that William L. Stine, Lena kJn of sala wanj an(I au persons in-
KaKts Mcuiain, t,etna naKes ivcmie tercsted in his estate by publication
nd Gallant KaKes, jr., piainuns, ln the Plattsmouth Journal as nrn
vided by law
By the Court.
I). W. LIVINGSTON.
m3I-3w Judee
commenced an action in the district
court of Cass County, Nebraska, on
the 8th day cf June, 1934, against
you and each of you, the object, pur
pose and prayer of which is to on-
taln a decree of the court quieting
title to Lot 10 in the SV of the
NEV4 and Lot 12 in the NEU of the
SWVi, Sec. 6, Township 10, XV it 14,
east of the Cth P. M., Cass County,
Evary penny atoent for advcrtls
Ing will yield a big return.
A girl lost her memory for eight
days, then it returned and she re
membered her name, but when they
looked it up there Jii3t wasn't any
Nebraska in the plaintiffs as against such person. Look3 liko somebody's
you and -each of you and for such in. tn hav. tn ... , ,
l. ..if- D v "WMH Wittl Kill aou
able in the premises, including costs lct lier wakc UP aaln.
of suit. --
You and each of you are further A correspondent at rort Smith.
notified that you are required to an- Ark., tells of a man who lost a 29-
swer said petition on or before Mon
day, July 30th, 1934, or the alleg
ations of said petition will bo taken
as true and a decree entered in favor
of plaintiffs against you and each of
you, according to the prayer of said
petition.
V. L. STINE, ET AL,
Plaintiffs.
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
passenger bus. and says it is a great
er feat than losing a bass drum. Not
at all. A bus straying attracts no
no attention. But let a bass drum
start off by itself, and everybody
takes notice.
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