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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1918)
BEDDEO iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THE CREDIT MAN The place where a dollar goes a long way and where you have a long time to pay it in. Choice Christmas Gifts FOR MEN: Beautiful Neckwear. Exclusive silk and linen shirts. Hosiery, gloves, hats and shoes. FOR WOMEN: Exquisitely modeled suits and dresses. _ Waists. Choice Lingerie. Hosiery. Furs. Hats and Shoes of style and quality. You can find exactly the gift here that will delight, please and make happy. BEDDEO 1417 Douglas. t f .... 4 I Practical Xmas Gifts :: 4 ! Sensible Prices 4 4 ] WOLF’S T 1121 Douglas Street. HATS AND FURNISHINGS. j T , --- « -— A Few Happy Christmas Gift Suggestions Traveling Bags and Suit Cases A great variety for men and women. Everything from the highest grade Seal ami Walrus down to the good Cowhide, and Fabrikoids, from— $35 $2.75 Toilet Traveling Sets Black, pebble leathers with fancy moire silk and leather lin ings, and ivory or ebony fit tings. Prices range from— (T*QJP Down (PH «4>£0 to <pO Brief Cases Used by salesmen, lawyers, clergymen and business men generally. Sealskin or black or brown cowhide. Hanging from— $16.50 "T $3.75 Cadies' Hand Bags are always acceptable. This season’s assortments are great er and leathers and linings more elaborate. Any price from— $10 V $1 /Purses and Card Cases Always appreciates! by a man because always useful. We have an assortment ranging from— $7.00 °Z" 25c Freling & Steinle Omaha’s Best Baggage Builders 1803 Farnain Street. * »•* ” “' ■* * Events and Persons Mr. ami Mrs. Olivia Roulette are purchasing a nice modern home at 2865 Ohio street. Sergeant Major E. W. Killings worth has been honorably discharged from Camp Pike and arrived home •Tuesday morning. He is again on the job at the popular barber shop of which he and B. F. Price are proprie tors. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big gest and Best.—Adv. Mrs. Dora McDermond of Chicago, who was called to Omaha by the fatal illness of her sister, Miss Sarah P. Jewell, left for her home Wednesday night. • Miss Ruth Seay, who is teaching at St. Joseph, is home for the holidays, the schools there having closed earlier on account of the flu. Furnished Rooms—Strictly mod em. With or without board. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. Henry C. Smith, who has been at tending the Federal Association School of Automobile Engineering, Chicago, is home to spend the holi days with his parents. He has been given a letter of recommendation from the president of the school, Mr. D. Sidaman, stating that he has made a fine student and will make good anywhere he is placed in a mechanical line. For moving, expressing and hauling call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley. —Adv. Thomas C. Hammonds, retired chief musician of the Tenth United States cavalry, is now making Omaha his home. He has purchased a nice lot adjoining that of his brother-in-law, S. L. Bush, at Forty-fifth and Burt streets, on which he will build a resi dence in the spring. Why not take a course in conversa tional French with R. T.. Desdunes, 2215 North Twenty-fifth street? Phone Webster 3300.—Adv. _ Mrs. Joseph I.aCour is recovering from a serious case of the flu. Robert T. Walker is rapidly recov ering from his serious illness, but Mrs. Walker is still ill. Attend the Helpers’ “crazy" social. , Tons of fun.—Adv. Charles Paris of North Twenty-first street, an employe of the smelter, is down with the flu. He is at St. Cath erine’s hospital. W. G. Haynes has been detained at home for the past fortnight with sick ness. Miss Madeline Roberts, who has been very ill and was given up by at tending physicians, is now convales cent. It is claimed that the constant and careful attention of Mrs. Pearl Hieronymous, formerly Miss Pearl Duncan, is the cause of Miss Roberts’ recovery. Mrs. Anna Bragg of The Monitor staff has been confined to her home with an attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. Thomas Simmons, William Bradley and wife, and Edward Adams, I recent newcomers to Omaha, are ex i porting to spend the holidays in Flor | ida. On December 29 George Wells Par j ker will deliver a lecture be fore the 1 Omaha Philosophical society. The sub ! ject is, “The Basis for a Permanent I Peace.” Subscribers are asked to please | bring in their subscriptions to The ' Monitor office, 304 Crounse block. The infant son of Mrs. John Brown, 2706 Burt street, died Monday mom | ing. K. & M. | Grocery Co. | : / Successor to Y £ H. E. YOUNG X We solicit your patronage. £ 2114-16 North 24th St. 'X I ---BUY A LIEUT. JOHN BUNDRANT COMMISSIONED CHAPLAIN News has reached Omaha that Lieu tenant John Bundrant, who graduated at the officers’ training camp at Des Moines last year, and who has recent ly been attending the school for chap lains at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, re ceived his commission as a chaplain last Thursday. Lieutenant Bundrant’s friends are pleased that he has real ized his long cherished ambition. “AUNTIE” KEPT HER SEAT UP FRONT A Street Car Incident Which Shows a Change of Sentiment Caused by the War. By Madree Penn IT happened in “Ole Virginy.” Down in Richmond one day last June— when “big Bertha” was bombarding Paris and sent the reverberations clear across the Atlantic—that this old Colored “mammy” boarded the street car, on which I was a pas senger, waddled her way up front, leisurely placed her huge bundle in the seat, and sat down beside it. Soon the street car conductor came to her and said: "You’ll have to move to the back of the car.” She looked up at him and then out the window and said nothing. He repeated his statement sharply, harshly commandingly. Slowly and leisurely she replied: “I ain’t gwine to move nowhere. I’se got two sons over yonder in dem Frances now fighting to make dis yeah world safe for democracy. I’se done bought dem -tamps and one of dem bond things what vo’ gets vo’ money on way pret ty soon, and I’se done paid ma nickel for dis yeah seat, and heah I sets, so go long wid you.” Just at this juncture one of the white men who sat behind her said: “That’s right, Auntie, don’t you move you just sit still; I’ve got a son over there myself.” Red of face, the conductor looked over the car. From the expression on many faces there were many who seemed to be of the same mind as the speaker. Grumbling his disgust the conductor walked back to his post; and the old Colored woman sat and calmly continued her gaze out the window. Mis. H. W. Black and Mrs. Charles Solomon desire to thank the public through The Monitor for their gener ous donations for the coal fund of the N. W. C. A. Forty-five dollars were realized. Four tons of coal and a half ton of wood have been placed in the home. Mrs. C. H. Wilson of 1818 North Twentieth street, woh is ill with ty phoid pneumonia is slowly improving. Wanted-—Middle aged woman for general housework. No washing or ironing. Mrs. John Latenser, 3217 Poppleton avenue. Harney 1631. COLORED NURSE AT $30 A DAY Colored Woman in Nevada (lets I’rof ilahle Influenza Case. dWinnemucca, Nev.—Thirty dollars a day for waiting on a family was the wage at which a Colored woman was hired here by a Basque sheepman to go to his ranch near McDermitt, on the Oregon line, all the members of his family being ill of influenza. The sheepman had tried in vain to get help nearer home and, failing, came to Winnemucca. There were a num ber of cases of the disease here and that, together with the fact that many people are afraid of contracting in fluenza, made it difficult to find a woman to go. The Colored woman was offered $20 a day. She said it was worth $30, and without any further parleying the Basque man consented to pay it. NOTICE, COLORED ROMAN CATHOLICS All Colored Roman Catholics are requested to meet at 10 o’clock every Sunday morning at Sacred Heart Church, Twenty-second and Binney streets, for instruction. All other persons who desire instruction in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church are invited.—Adv. “THE MONITOR IN THE HOME OF EVERY COLORED FAMILY IN OMAHA BY JANUARY FIRST.” Help put it there. Is your neighbor a subscriber? HOME 2811 OHIO STREET Six-room house, modern but heat;close to school and church; one block to car line. Price, 12,100. Very easy terms. 2417 Maple St.—5-room cot tage, modem except heat, large . rooms, floored attic; large lot on paved street; % block to 24th street car line; fine neighbor hood; now vacant. Can move right in. See it today. Price $2,500. Very easy terms. C. B. ROBBINS REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, EIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Telephones: Douglas 2842; Webster 5519. NED CROSS IS LIKE A SHIP OFJESCUE Always Travels in Troubled Waters and Answers Every Cry of Distress. REST OF WIRL1) IS TOO BUSY Christmas Roll Call Gives Every Ore a Chance to Take Part in Rebuilding Our Broken World. The American fieri Cross Is perhnp* like nothing so much as a stanch and loyal ship In a storm.* It goes its way with senses tuned to catch any cry for' help. And when that cry comes. It drives instantly and with >ut fear straight to the place of distress. In flood and fire and disaster, just as the ship braves the perils of tumbling seas and hazardous rescue work. And. again, like the ship, it STANDS BY till those endangered are helped to safety. Meanwhile the r»st of the world, busy with its own problems, hurries home during these times of storm and stress, and draws down the blinds. At least that is the way It has been in the past. But now comes the Christ mas Roll Call. And it is a privilege, not a post. It hns no preferen«es. It plays no favorites. It makes no ex ceptions. Ft summons every man. woman and child in the country. IS holds out to each one the blessed op portunity to ride on every Red Cross ship of mercy, to speed with every Red Cross train of relief that encir cles the earth on their errands of mercy. Tlie only way for anyone to escape the possibility of some time having to accept CHARITY from the Red Cross Is to become ONE with the Red Cross. For terrible calamity may come to us all. Tlie money wealth of the Belgians was as nothing when they were stripped of clothing and food. And that feel ing of oneness with the organization that our men on the other side have hud (hiring the war was not merely a great, but was the GREATEST, factor In enabling the Red Cross to give the efficient aid that It did. Let tis remember what Mrs. Mar garet I.alng. canteen worker In France. | told about our boys who came out of the hospitals without money: “Sometimes they would be able to make up a few cents between them.” she said, "and sometimes they did not have anything. They would hang be hind those who could pay. And they would look at the food so wistfully that it made one fight back the tears. The only way we could get them to take what they needed and craved was by saying: ‘You know, hoys, this was all paid for by your own people at home.’ Then Immediately their atti tude would Change and they would say: ‘Why, yes, my mother' or ‘my sis ter gives to the Red Cross.’ And then how they would pitch In.” We are proud, we Americans. We do not want something for nothing. And here Is our glorious opportunity to take the rest of our nation by the hand, and with all pride and dignity In- \ sure ourselves of our own help in time of adversity. This Christmas Roll Call gives every one a chance to be a "Dollar Man.” And most of us can be one right at ! home. For by joining the Red Cross now and paying the dollar we become ns actively engaged In the great work as If we were giving all of our time to It. We are merely making our dol lar substitute for those of us who are ; too busy to give all of our time to the I Red Cross. Some of the great achievements of the Red Cross have been told over and over, until the facts may seem old to j you. But on this occasion they are worth telling again. We should not forget, for Instance, how the women ; of this nation, like our first Colonial mothers, turned suddenly Into great manufacturers and made garments and supplies worth $.rrf),000,000 Inst year. Nor let us forget how $111,000,000 was sent Into the devastated countries dur- i |ng the time while men and women, i giving their time for nothing, went with those dollars to see that they j were used In the way they were most ; needetl. And the American Red Cross gent medicines and anesthetics to the j hospitals of France when they were j almost unobtainable, so that our boys | and their nllles might have some re lief from the torment of their wounds, j and n chance at ultimate recovery. There nre so ninny things to tell i that It Is Impossible to spread the whole story In this limited space. But each worker will know. For the let ters that have come from the hoys In the camps “over here” and from the fields “over there" have been full of the reasons. Ask the mother of any i hoy who was Imprisoned behind the cruel lines where food was scarce even for the enemy army, but who got his 20 pounds of biscuits, pork and beans, cocoa nnd other good, wholesome things, every week. The roofs are at hand everywhere. The reasons are manifest. Everyone should become a member of the widest, best und holiest crusade the world has ever kjiown. Membership In the Red Cross should he more universal than taxes; ns universal as the public school, public opinion, or our own pub Jle government. CHRISTMAS GIFTS | FOR MEN 5*5* Pease-Black Company i 1417 FARNAM STREET WHITE BORAX NAPTHA AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP 'WhHt /ior ■ , f, | ! CoyjWA-tR f \ D |L| C" 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. DV IV IV WEBSTER 1412 Women’s Dark Grey, High Cloth Top Shoes, $8.00 value, for.$5.98 Boys’ Heavy Solid School Shoes, regular $4.50 values, for.$3.50 Girls’ High Top Dark Brown Shoes, regular $5.50 values, for.$3.98 Men’s Dark Brown Shoes, regular $9.00 values, for.$6.75 Men’s Dress Pants, $3.50 values, for.$2.75 Men’s Hosiery', pair......25c Women’s Waists, at.$1.25 Boys’ Wash Suits, ages 2 to 6, at.$1.45 Men’s Arrow' Brand Shirts...—...$1.98 Men’s Monarch Shirts. . 99c Millinery, Bungalow Aprons, Children’s Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES THE CRUSADER The Greater Negro Magazine. Winning a welcome everywhere. You must have it. A Monthly. One Dollar a Year. THE CRUSADER 2299 Seventh Avenue, .... New York City I THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT f t DOES DOUBLE DUTY | {CJ Here's your chance to make your #. Christmas Gifts do double duty— % « please the one to whom they’re given .ft and give the boys in service the best W of everything. Give WAR SAV- J? a INGS STAMPS for Christmas pres p ents instead of cash both in your yg, 1jf. home and office. W | LET UNCLE SAM BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS { I THIS YEAR I £ <J He's giving you life, love and liberty, Lend him assistance. Buy War Sav % ings Stamps. It is such a little thing to do for your boy and mine—give a # twice at one price. jX § NEBRASKA WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE f