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CHANGE IN ADDBESS-Whaa ardering a jibing tetaaaUraai,aabaeriberaitoald be aa to civa thairoJdaa wallaa than- aew address. BACK TO THE OLD HOME. The old-fashioned cylinder press that has been on duty in the Journal office for thirty years has been replaced by a modern Cottrell press. The old press has a history running back nearly seventy years, and is among the first power presses manu factured in this country. It was in 1814 that Frederick Koe ning invented the cylinder press. He wasan English inventor employed by the 'Walter family, founders of the London Times, the leading newspaper of the world at that time, and still con sidered at the head of newspaperdom by the people of England. The Times remained under control of the Walters family until about one year ago when a majority of the stock was disposed of to other parties and the paper is now printed under a new management. The first cylinder press made by Koenig did not prove satisfactory, and it was not until 1827 that his invention was perfected and put to practical use. A few months previous to the appear ance of the cylinder press in the office of the Times, rumors of its invention caused a threatened strike among the hand pressmen employed on the paper, and the manufacture of the press was carried on secretly. One night, as the hour for the forms to "come down" had passed, there was a commotion among the pressmen. They thought that news of great importance had delayed the paper, when suddenly one of the Walters appeared among them and handed out copies of the first paper ever printed on a cylinder press, and informed them that the new in vention had turned out the edition at the rate of 2,000 per hour. .The exact time the old Journal press commenced recording the news of the world is not known, but as far back as its history can be traced it was in 1839, twelve years after the cylinder press was first used on the London Times. Possibly it was on duty before 1839. Anyway it was among the first cylinder presses made in America, and has been in constant use from the date it was made until May 20, 1909. When the press first entered upon its career Martin Van Buren was president of the United States. It has printed the news and recorded the inauguration of Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fill more, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Arthur, Benjamin Harri son, McKinley, Roosevelt and Tail. It told of the great debate between Webster and Hayne, the march of Scott and Taylor through Mexico, the discovery of gold in California, the laying of the Atlantic cable and the building of the Union Pacific railway; it printed the speeches delivered in the celebrated debates between Lincoln and Douglas, add gave to the public the news that Fort Sumpter had been fired upon and a war commenced that was to shake the earth with the tread of mighty armies; it told the anxious public of Gettysburg, Shilo, Vicks barg, the Wilderness.Sberman's march to the sea and of Appomattox, and J later recorded the victory of Dewey atJ Manilla and the, destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. ' The old press has been a faithful recorder of s events for seventy years aad is entitled to a rest It has print eel its last paper, it has recorded its last item of news. And now it is going back to its old home to remain. Thirty-eight years ago the old press was used by the late Edward Bose- water for printing the first edition of the Osaaha Bee and was used by that paper until 1879, when it was pur chased by M. K. Turner and installed aeoae of the permanent fixtures of the ColuBtbas Journal, where it was used in printing the paper until the date the 20th of last month. Edward Bosewater had often ex nmscd a desire to buy the press and lace it in' a conspicuous place in the Bee building, aad Victor Bosewater will carry out the desire of his fitfker aad give the press a psraueat hoae the building which sfandsvas a lonument to the genius of his father. BAILY, THE SLUGGER. Senator Baily has demonstrated that he is a bully and a slugger as well as a grafter. Baily is a huge combina tion of conceit, bones, beef, tallow and wbisky-rsarurated meat He has a satanical hatred for newspaper re porters and newspapers in general for the publicity they have given him for his questionable deals with Standard Oil while posing as a champion of the people. Baily's vindication by his Texas, partisans is on a par with Pat Crow's vindication in the kidnapping case by a Douglas county jury; Crow acknowledged his guilt, but the jury said he was innocent Baily admits taking Standard Oil money, but in sinuated he. had as much right to it as any oiher man as long as it was in sight to be grabbed. He acted upon the theory that if he hadn't taken it some other lawyer serving the people as a United States senator would., In view of the fact that Senator Baily has been influenced in the past by corporate greed his sincerity aa a reformer is now questioned, and he should not allow his prejudices and bad temper to overpower him and re duce him to the level of a common slugger. His recent attempt to chas tise the reporter for a New York pa per that questioned his sincerity on the proposed income tax amendment to the Payne revenue bill, has not raised the Texas bully in the estimation of the American people. As long as Baily represents Texas in Washington, Texas will be.disgraced and the finger of shame pointed at the great state that prohibits, card playing but en dorses a man for senator whose rotten record is a stench in the nostrils of honest men. WE ARE ONE PEOPLE. The Republican knows no difference between a northern man and a south ern man. The northern man did his duty, as he saw it, under his flag, for his country. God bless' him. The southern man did .his duty, as he saw it, under his 'flag, for his state. God bless him. Now we are one people and one country. Wipe out the sec tional lines. The blood of both sections- flowed in defense of .a reunited country in the Spanish-American war. I Welcome to all measures, to all thoughts that will help us to forget the wounds of war times, and the pain of those wounds. But while we .meet in brotherly love with those who opposed our cause, we have the right to demand that .these opponents of ours forget the cause which failed at the tribunal of war, the cause which the world today acknowledges to have been wrong, and which many who supported it acknowledge to have been wrong. The supporters of the lost cause have the rightand it is their duty to hold in loving memory the deeds of those who bravely bore arms in the face of disaster, who met starva tion and hardship with the sturdy manhood of American manhood. There are many bright and beautiful things which we can remember. Let us remember them, and rejoice in them. There are many dark and damnable things which we ought to forget. Let us forget them. Two great, black spots loom up through the history of those times. If the peo ple of the north can forget those spots, the people of the south should be thankful that our memory for injury is short, and be silent. "Libby."' "Andersonville." All the after shame that can be felt for heartless, needless brutality, should gather around these names. There were many excuses for ttie hardships suffered by northern prisoners at the former place. Guards were inadequate, and hungry men' were guarding hungry enemies. At Andersonville the God of mercy alone can find excuse for things that were done, and I hope with all my heart that He will never forgive those who were responsible for them. That open stockade, exposed to a blinding south ern sun in summer, and chilling winds in winter that brought death io thous ands of halfnaked, nine-tenths starved northern, prisoners, .was,' a dastardly outrage too high, and too deep; and too broad 'for 'the shadow of the cross in its broadest sense to cover. Built over a stagnant stream that carried the sew age from the officers', quarters, -when only a short distance away a great, pure spring bubbled from the ground. Built on', a. bare hillside when only a short, distance 'away 'a heavy forest wouiu. jiave auurueu protection irotn sun in summer and fuel and protection from wind in winter. And when the unspeakable alien, the brute Wirz, was remonstrated with at the location of the human shambles, and' the ad vantages of another location shown to him, be swore that he would create there a place where the blanked, blanked Yankees would die faster than all the confederate troops could kill them in the field. That would havel been war, and patriotic of Win had I they been armed eneaues, but they were helpless prisoners. According to the laws of humanized warfare,.you do whatever you may for the discomfort or destruction of your enemy, but when he is captured, and deprived of his means of resistance humanity in tervenes to protect him from any vol untary act of cruelty on your part, aad war then ceases to be war and becomes" plain brutality. This was the case with Win, and he was arrested by the federal government and tried for mur der and executed. Everything would so far be satisfactory, had the united daughters of the confederacy permitted the sleeping dog to lie. They did not see fit to do this, and have erected at Andersonville a great monument to southern brutality embodied in the brute Wirz. It was unveiled with great ceremony, amid the blare of bands, playing the old tunes of the confederacy and the flaunting and flapping of confederate bunting. There are other republics, other countries under the sun, whose people enjoy their rights and liberties just as fully and unrestrainedly as we enjoy them in America. But the sun shines on no other country where the partici pators in the erecting of this shaft to the memory of this brute would have been permitted to complete their work, and there are many countries whose people are happy, free and prosperous where tbey would have been arrested for treason, and there are countries where the people manage to live and love and die in great comtort ana hap piness, where they would have been executed. York Republican. Nerve. He was only a tramp, but he was there with the nerve. Entering the fashionable lunch parlor he pompous ly seated himself at a table, devoured a pickle and dropped seven lumps oi sugar and two biscuits into his coat pocket Then he sampled the horse radish, drank a glass of wajer and glanced at the menu. "We'll?" snapped, the tall waiter in the low-cut waistcoat. . , . - . "Well, how'dy, pal!" called the. stranger affably. "What you got, to eat?" ' , r "Everything," responded the waiter in Icy tones. "On my word! Got any welsh rab bit?" v .' ",. "Yes."' "How do you serve it?" "Any way you want!" The tramp- moved his chair out a few inches. , '- "Well, give me the left hind foot old siiort. I want It for luck." And helping himself to another bis cuit the tramp dodged a saucer ano vanished into the night. Fear, of Microbe. Microbes are agents of disease and death. When they were discovered ano when their character was exposed science made a big step forward. Mi crobes taught men" not .only how ta cure disease, but how to avoid ano even how to prevent it But into life they brought a new terror! Now the question is how to guard against this terror. For all fairly healthy persons there Is just one thing to do. Ignore the existence of. microbes altogether! Qon't even stop to think of them, save In emergencies, which, to-the layman, seldom arrive. Human beings have no reason to be In continual fear oi microbes. The way to be 'immune from their influence Is by not caring a snap of the -finger about them, and by observing the ordinary rules ot wholesome living. Eat and sleep reg ularly. Take exercise. Keep in fresn air. And devote a few minutes each day to deep breathing. Microbes hate healthy people as the devil hates holy water. .Another of Lillian' Victims. He was telling of his lifeling love for Lillian Russell, "It was when 1 was two years old," he said, "that I first fell in love with her. I saw a beautiful picture vof her on a cigar box, and I have never recovered. 1 never really saw her, but I have been in love with her from that day to this." . - - ' --"..-- They looked at him earnestly, -for while he wore no beard' he" appeared I to be.somewhat past his flrstyouth at least" - - . - . V. "How old are you?" they asked him' presently. ' "I am 26," he said. . - , Seeing l eUevinfv Isaac (who has jut recovered from typhoid) "Doctor, you have charged me for four weeks' calls; I vill pay for only three weeks!" Doctor But 1 called on you every day for four greeks, Mr. Isaac! IsaacVeil, dere vas one week I was delirious and I didn't see you come in! Life. . , His Motive. A. That old' villain has gone and married his cook. I wonder at it, for her cooking is miserable. B. That's all right He has now got her out of the kitchen, and hopes she will hire a cook hat will suit him. t As the Twig I Bant There is some hope for the boy who has to be driven into the bathtub, but there Is mighty little hope for the boy who has to be driven away from the mirror. Atchison Globe. A Dud Wrote This. A woman is said to have invented a machine for darning socks, but nobody has yet devised means for mffkifg darned socks comfortable. Provi dence Tribune. Almost Perfect Timekeeper. The clock ot-the tower of Colum bia university. New York,'. Is said to he one of the most accurate in, the world, varying but six seconds a year. DOWNFALL OF THE BBITISH EMPIRE Taia article ia a textual reproduction j of a popular German pampket (Nack dam Btarss) one of innumerable efforts to inflame the German people against Great Britain which helps to explain the practical' unanimity of the German Reichstag ia indorsing the imperial nav al programme as well as the extraordin ary popular eathaaiaam in Germany for - i airships.' In form it purports bealibermtioa had last arrived. The leomnf uwuvvtm bm mot .-... university 'of Alexandria in 1911, by Arabi Pasha. On' June 12 English spies announ ced that the German-navy was man euvering in the' North Sea. Immedi ately ten engineering officers set out for Kie-and Berlin under orders to destroy the German airships 'with dy namite. ' In, the night of June 1213, 200 Enslish warships sailed to the North 8ea. c It-will ever remain a mys tery how it was possible that the plan to take .Germany unaware missed fire. The hypothesis of treachery is sup ported by the fact that the engineering officers; although" they wore Uerman airship uniforms, and were masters of the German language, were seised be fore they could carry out their enter prise, and rendered harmless. It is further borne out by the action of the German fleet, which retired to x the coast With feverish excitment the English war office awaited the message agreed upon announcing the success ful destruction of the German airships; but hours passed, and it was final ly decided to communicate with the admiral in command by wireless tele graphy, and order him to postpone the attack. Whether this .message reached the English fleet too late, or circumstances rendered it impossible to carry out the order, has never been established with certainty, as not a single being who could have given information on the subject ever saw home again. One thing, however, is certain the Ger man naval stations were informed as to the movements of the English fleet. On the morning of June 14 it met its fate. The fleet was at this time thirty miles west of Heligoland, when its out- nfwt shin sighted ereat German ar mored cruisers on the horizon. A thick fog enveloped the sky in dense gray, obscuring the- view. .The fleet was just about to carry out a change of front, when suddenly one after the' other fearful explosions oc curred on three ships. Before it had been grasped what had occurred, fresh detonations followed, and now began an unbroken, murderous bombardment by an unseen foe. The brave sailors were nanic stricken. It was obvious that they found themselves immediate ly beneath the German airfleet, which, favored by the weather, bad escaped the notice of the English baloon scouts. Now followed a scene of which the few survivors cannot speak without shuddering. A gray mass plunged with furious rapidity through the air, and midst an uproar asif the end of the world were at band, the admiral s i ship was blown into atom9. Twenty or so ships in proximity were likewise blown up and sunk. What had hap pened? English ballon scouts had so damaged the chamber ot a German airship with their fire that the com mander, to prevent his ship capsizing, had no choice but to unchain the am munition car. Thus many hundred weights of explosives had been hurled from a height of 1,000 yards and had struck the unhappy admiral's ship There was now a holding back, and in wild flight such of the English fleet as were in action scattered in every direc tion. The German squadron, which had slowly approached in full strength had been awaiting this moment The retreating foe was pursued, and in the cross fire from the Heligoland fortress es, from the .guns on German battle- shiiw and from the bombardment of the airships, the pride of England sank in the flood of the North sea. On the morning of June 15 a German, army corps brought the news to Eng land of the destruction of the British fleet. Of small avail to France and Eng land were now their mutual assurance of help. The German army poured like a flood over France. Russia's promised support was not forthcoming after the catastrophe in the North sea. Japan showed herself an apt pupil of England. She had promised to put 100,000 men at England's disposal in the hour of need. On the evening of Junel5 the extent of the British de feaf was made known in Tokio, and ten days later Hongkong was in the possession of Japan, the English gar risons being unable to offer any serious resistance to such superior forces. In India there broke out a fearful insur rection which cost thousands of Eng lishmen their lives, order being only restored after the entry of the Cossack's who, as once before in the Balkans, were welcomed as delivers. In Egypt a massacre was only prevented by the landing of Italian troops, ostensibly to "the leptissate owaer." On. June 21 the united Free States of South Africa were constituted. Oa the same day the Congress of Wash ington passed a resolution that Ameri can troops ahoald march into Canada "for the preservation of law aad order" For Ireland, moreover, the hour of English functionaries were hounded out of the country, aad a republic pro claimed. , This war, which was decided by a naval battle lasting a single hour, was of only three weeks' duration hanger forced England iato peace. In her conditions Germany showed a wise moderation. Ia addition to a war in demnity ia accordance with the wealth of the two 'conquered states, she con tented herself with the acquisition pf the African colonies,' with the excep tion of the Southern states which had proclaimed their independence and these possessions were divided with the two powers of the Triple Alliance.' Nevertheless this war was the end of England. A lost battle had sufficed to manifest to the world at large the feet of day on which the dreaded Col ossus had stood. In a night the Brit ish empire had crumbled altogether; the pillars which' English diplomacy had erected after years of labor had failed at the first test. But would the course of history have been different had British arms emerg ed victorious? Let us imagine that the British plan to destroy the fleets and the oversea trade of the great powers in succession had been success fully accomplished. What would have followed? W ith its surplus population and the overproduction of its indus tries, Central Europe would have been forced, after the outlet of the seas had been barred by England, to seek new paths and fresh markets. The locus minoris resistentiae through which the foiled nations would have found an outlet would have been Southeast Europe the path to Asia. We should then have witnessed the interesting spectacle of the human deluge, which in former days had streamed from the high plateaux of Asia over Europe, pouring back with irresistible force into its ancient home. Through Asia Minor the stream would have taken its course to Syria and Persia, and England's naval supremacy being powerless to interfere, would have reached India and Egypt by land and taken possession of them. England's East Asian colonies were bound also to be lost as soon as the Mongolian peoples had awakened to their national self-consciousness. The projected destruction of the Japanese navy could only have postponed this process for one or two generations. The establishment of the independence of South Africa was a natural product of historical evolution, as was formerly the severance of North America, and as to Canada it was only a question of time as to when she would fall a victim to the imperialistic movement in the Union. From these reflections we see that England's loss of the supremacy of the world was an inexorable necessity of historic evolution. The British Em pire was bound to be broken up when the hypotheses of its existence were no longer tenable, i. e., the impossibility of attacking the British colonies by land or sea, and the national inferior ity of the subjected nations. Thus the British Empire, which did not consti tute one organic whole, but had been collected together by force in the course of time, had become a psycho logical impossibility. It was unthink- afife that the exuberant nations of Europe should for all time submit to little England's requisitioning the globe, or that the fanatical nations of the East should not seize the -first opportunity to shake off the British rule, which, in spite of marvelous skill in the art of government, was felt to be a foreign yoke. But that the overthrow of England should have, taken place so rapidly finds its explanation in the psychology of this proud people. Had this nation of conquerors accommodated itself to the inevitable course of events, and had it been able to witness without envy the rise of new empires, Great Britain must have indeed sunk from her peculiar height, but the process might have stretched over centuries, and thanks to her wealth she might have remained prmw inter pares. But the arrogance of British Imperialism admitted oi no such peaceful develop ment. Accustomed to look down on the other nations of the earth, Great Britain would acquiesce in no partition of the sovereignty of the world. And so it was eventually those same psycho logical motives which had raised Eng land to such unheard of power, which now hurled her to the deepest depths of national humiliation. Bat the KvHur work of this great nation has not been in vain for human- To Bet Hie Greatest Value V For Your Money you will miss it, if you don't visit this store and look at the exceptional values wc offer in M if Maw Mjy W IWII OlsjwweYA Sack Salts at $15 $30 They are the same sort of suits your' tailor would charge $25 to $50 for. .We stand ready to prove this, jf you so wish, but you will be able to see it .for your self the moment you ex amine these splenflidly hand-fashioned suits. Not a new style nor fab ric is missing- If you want the best there is in ready-for-service iar ments, then don't fail to come here. GRE-ISEN ity. The memory of it will live on in history as a lesson for the nations. While France has sunk to the position of a rendezvous for the pleasunfseek ers of all countries. London will for ever remain the honored center where, as at the Forum Romanum, devotees assemble to worship the shades of a decayed world power. From the National Review, London. Hie Photogrannic Piatca Spoiled. A new York photographer recently learned, to, his sorrow, that the gas mantle emits a ray. He had stored away a large number of plates in a dark place and inadvertently left a gas mantle near the plates. They re mained in the place for a month; and when the photographer took, his plates out he found all of them fogged. The mantle contained thorium,- a radio active substance that penetrates a cardboard plate box as easily as it goes through glass. The man didn't know this, but now he knows better than to leave gas mantles near his plates. Servia No Hunting Ground for Cupid. Sex via retains many memories of Turkish lule. The women are kept in the background. The men marry for the qualities of the housewife rathe-; than for romantic love. It is often that young men marry women much older than themselves. The Young Idea. "Ma," said a newspaper man's son, "I know why editors call themselves we,'" "Why?" "So's the man that doesn't like the article will think there are too many people for him to tackle." Christian Work and Evan gelist. Dona For. A New York woman has used a whip Instead of the divorce courts. She has ruined her matrimonial future. Wash ington Post. Millions of Pins Dally. ' The largest pin factory in tho world is at Birmingham, England. It turns out 37,000,000 pins every day. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PLATTE COUNTY. NEBRASKA. In the matter of tbe estate of Peter P. Hietle, deceased. Order to show canse. Thin cantut cominz on to be heard ob the neti Uoa of Emma A. Riede, administratrix of the state of Peter P. Riede, deceased. prajioK for license to sell: Lot number three (3) and the andivided one-half of lot number eleven (11). all in block number twelve (12) in the village of Lindsay, in Platte county,, Nebraska, ror tne purpose of paving tbe debts and claims allowed against tbe eetate of Peter P. Riedet deceased, aad also the costs and expense of admi nistratinir his estate, there not being sufficient personal property to pay said debts and expenses. It ia therefore ordered, that all persons inter ested in said estate appear before me at the court house in Columbus. Platte county. Ne braska, on tha 10th day of July, 1909. at S o'clock p. m. of said day, to show cause why a license aboald not be granted to f aid administratrix to seU said real estate. It is further ordered, that this order be pub lished for four successive weeks in The Col um bos Journal prior to said hearing. Geo. H. Thojus, Judge. Dated May 27tb, 1909. Mapne Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in tbe book I I binding line bring your work to I I CAc I I Journal Office I I Phone 160 I in GMbos Baying nnnnnMnEP nwassssMl?nwBunwaBlnnwBSnSBf ' nrnrflBk!avV&BnPnrflffnV 0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajBvJFBpOaam KrJLRpHOflV TH "nHnnnLW anaVawaVaVaVaVaVaBiK-.. 3aH " WaBBaawflBllV BnVanninnVrH - ' VnVPJOMawaT ammsFw -i'-w.jmW unmans &?-ikijx-v l anananBaakaVjH v aafaaasmnjaBn v anaBBBBBBBBBBBBH w copcmi io tv mmmmmmanaaaj v uoui mc & BROTHERS. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OP PLATTE COUNTY. NEBRASKA, Ia the matter of the estate of Henry H. Becher, John Lester Becher and Katherine Becher, minors. This cause came oa for hearing oa the petition ot Hasan Becher, guardian of Henry; H. Becher, John Lester Becher and Katherine Becher. minors, praying for licence to sell un undivided three forty-eighths (349) interest in all that por tion of lot number seven (7), in Section number thirty-three (33), Town seventeen (17) north of Range one (1) east of the 6th P- M. in Platte county. Nebraska, lying west ot a line beginning at a sixteen aad seventy-seven one hundredths 116.77) chains east of the section line between Sectioaa thirty-two (S3) and thirty-three (33) in the Township an Range aforesaid, and running thence north and south across said lot No. seven (7.) Also an undivided three forty-eighths (3-48) interest in all that part of lots numbered five (5) aad six (0) In Section thirty-three (33). Town seventeen (17). north of Range one (1) east of the 6th P. M. in Platte county. Nebraska, lying within the following boundaries, vis: Com mencing at a point on thefWth side of said lot six (0) thirty-one and seventy-two one hun dredths (31-72) chains east of the Section line between Sections thirty-two (X!) and thirty three (33) in the Township and Range aforesaid. Thence south to the south side of eoid lot six (6), thence east along the south boundary of raid lota six (6) and five (.r) to a point forty-seven and fifty-nine one-hnndredths 1 17-it) chains east ot the Section line between said Sections thirty two (32) and thirty-three (:). Thence north across said lot five (5) to the north boundary thereof. Thence west alon it t he nort h boundary of said lots five (5) and six (6) to the place of beginning. Also aa undivided three twenty-fourths (3-21) interest in the southwest quarter (S. W. H) of Section twenty.ee ven (27) in Township seven teen (17) north of Range two (2) west of the 6th P. M. in Platte county. Nebraska. Also an undivided threr-twelf ths (3-12) inter est ia lot number one (1) in block number one hundred and eleven (111) and lot number five (5). in block number one hundred and forty-six (16). ail in the city of Columbus. Platte county, Ne braska. Also aa undivided three forty-eights (343) in terest ia the northeast quarter ( N. K. ) of Sec tion number twelve (12) in Township oixteen (16) north of Range five (5) west in Nance coun ty, Nebraska, for the purpose of having the pro ceeds of the sale of said property put out at interest or invested in some productive stock, and was submitted to the Court. On consideration whereof, it is ordered that the next of kin of the said Henry II. Becher, John Lester Becher and Katherine Becher. and all persons interested in th estate herein de scribed appear before me at tho court house In the city of Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska. on the 10th day of July. 190U. at the honr of 2 o'clock p. m.. there to show- cause why a license should not be granted to said Susan Becher, guardian of said minora to sell tho above de B4?iib6d ppsI nut alto It is farther ordered that this order be publish ed for three successive weeks in The Columbnt Journal prior to the said day of hearing. Geo. H, ThoMs. Judge. Dated May 27, W09 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have formed a corporation under the laws of the State of Nebraska. Tho name of the corporation is "Knights of Columbus Home Association." The principal place of business is Columbus, Nebraska. The principal business of the corporation shall be the maintenance of lodge and clnb rooms and public hall aad tlie acquiring of sncli property and the erection and maintenance of sach buildings as may be necessary therefor. The capital stock of the Corporation is $25,000. In shares of $25.00 each. Of thee four hundred (400) are to be preferred and six hundred (WX) shares common stock. All stock to be issued when paid for. All subscriptions to stock to be payable when the aggregate "subscription amount to two-fifths of the authorized capital. Tbe corporation shall commence business on the first day of April, 190t, and continue for a period f twenty-five years. The highest amount of indebtedaesH to which the corporation may at any time snbject itself shall not exceed two-thirds of the paid up capi tal stock. The affairs of the corporation shall be man aged by a board of six directors. Tne officers of the corporation shall e a President. Secretary. Treasurer and Manager who will be selected by the directors. , Stkpukv J. Ryan, Alois Friscuholz, Mabk McMaiio.n, Thovah Wade, Mark BuRKaf. Dated April US. 1909. Frank Gehhabz. People who get results advertise in the Journal. I 1 Sl d& --i! iix-'r "- A..3, 5 v . - . - . . . AK ,, , rx v-rtV.r e- ;v.t fi'-lVJa(eirV,. t . Ar Vg-if.'' '-tr r -. xr- ' -j- - . S