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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1904)
People and Things of Public Interest V. V X 17 r ?.tf "A D DELEGATES TO THE SESSION OF THE GRAND COUNCIL OP NEBRASKA UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS, WHICH RECENTLY MET AT FREMONT. M kEN who go up and down through the length and breadth of the land and sell things find, like all others, that organization helps their guild. They are not formed together to control wages or to reg ulate hours, or anything of that sort, but to look after the manifold In tercuts of the traveling men. One of the most successful of their several so cieties is the United Commercial Travelers, Which has come to be a power in the land, both from force of numbers and owing to the character of the men who compose its membership. The Nebraska grand council of the order recently met at Fremont, where a lot of business pertaining to its .affairs was transacted, and the members and their wives and their women friends had a royal good time. The following officers were elected for the coming term: Grand senior councillor, E. W. Getten, Omaha; grand Junior councillor, O. F. Tappart, Norfolk; grand secretary, C. J. Lyons, Omaha; grand treasurer, II. H. Cherry, Hastings; grand conductor, M. Dolan, Grand Island; grand page, Louis E. May, Fremont; grand sentinel, E. A. Bailey, Lincoln; executive committee, Paul True blood, Grand Island, and W. II. Green, Omaha. Representatives to the meeting of the supreme lodge, which assembles at Columbus, O., in July, were elected as fol lows: W. II. Howland, Hastings; W. C, Brooks, Beatrice; J. M. Herschberger, Lin coln. Holdredge was chosen as the next place for the annual meeting of the Ne braska grand council. Before the dele gates left Fremont they were photographed In a group, a picture that Is reproduced In this number. One of the delightful duties of the session was to return thanks to the Fremont council for the entertainment pro vided. Fred W. Hawkins, senior councillor of the Fremont council, was in charge of the business of taking care of the visitors and did his part in a way that will never be forgotten. At the recent oratorical contest at South Bend, Ind., In which were representatives of all states included In the Interstate Col legiate Oratorical association, Mr. W. Scholl of Crelghton university, Omaha, won third place, the highest record made by a Ne braska competitor in twenty years. Mr. Scholl had won the right to represent Ne braska In open competition, and his suc cess Is very gratifying to his college mates. He was given first place on delivery. It ' Is argued by some of the colleges belonging to the association that the present method of Judging thought and composition before delivery Is unfair as applied to an oration. It might be conceded as to an jessay, or any kind of composition Independent of the speaker, but It la maintained that the words of the orator, to be fairly Judged, must be Judged as spoken. If the pro posed method had been In vogue, Mr. Bcholl's admirers contend, he would have twen given first place. Mr. Scholl will be graduated from Crelghton next month along with a class that has won much fame for Its orators and debaters, fr. Scholl gave up athletics, in which he had gained prominence, to go in for forenslo distinction. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Robertson of Ogalalla, Neb., celebrated the fiftieth an niversary of their wedding at their home on May 12, when they were the recipients of $iore than the usual congratulations on having attained the sum of happiness that has been theirs. Mr. Robertson is a native ef Ohio, being born at Coshocton on the fast day of November, 1830. He served uring the War of the Rebellion as a mem ber of the One Hundredth and Forty-eighth Illinois Infantry. His wife was born Bar bara Blerly at Johnsville, O., on August ll' 1835, and they were married at Canton, IllJ May 12, 1854. Pointed Paragraphs A brick manufacturer needs the earth in1 his business. Chronic bargain hunters soon begin to' look shopworn. It's a poor patent medicine that can't get Itself imitated. Some families keep a servant girl and several of her relations. Some men's wealth is fabulous and that of others a mere fable. Money isn't everything. Sometimes credit! answers the same purpose. "After the first kiss a young man kicks' himself for having wasted so much time. Some women are afraid in the dark and, others are more afraid of the light. Don't get gay. It Is easier to keep the lid on than it Is to put It back on ogain. Even a professor of mathematics Is sel dom able to figure a woman's ago correctly. When a girl angles in the matrimonial sea she Is apt to catch a sucker Instead of a goldfish. Young man, if you don't believe that; kissing Is unhcalthful, Just let the girl's papa catch you at it. A man thinks he knows a woman when he asks her to become his wife, but after1 marriage he discovers his mistake. There should be no objection to a man , smoking cigarettes if he is alone and hap pens to have a grudge against himself.-, Chicago News. A Bachelor's Reflections A girl can nearly always get interested in a man who has the fascinating quality of getting Interested In her. Generally the man who wants to borrow from you comes to you smoking a better cigar than you can afford. A woman has no doubt she Is economizing; ' if she can make the servants burn electrio j light Instead of gas to save matches. What a woman worries about is if it wiU I seem frivolous of her when her son gets to be president to call him by bis first name. A woman tblnks she Is coining money if she goes to a shop and gets back an allow ance of 27 cents on a ribbon that had a flaw in It, and spends 2 on cab fare doing It New York Press. Tabloid Philosophy When a man isn't Bfjuare the fact will soon get 'round. A puny little dentist can take the nerve out of his biggest patients It is impossible to lay out a base ball diamond without base designs. Whisky won't make a man drunk unless tho whisky itself Is drunk. The Jailer seriously objects when his prisoners make themselves too free. The fellow who shoots off his mouth never seems to run out of ammunition. The man with, more money than brains naturally has more dollurs than sense. The financial editor is not necessarily pe dantic, but he is apt to induge in quota tions. When somebody takes the shine off of you, remember that there are plenty of bootblacks. Philadelphia Record. I? tMR. AND MRS. JOHN Q. H OBERTSON, OGALALLA, Neb.. if VT. SCHOLL, CRKTCTrrOT UNIVERSIT ORATOR, WHO H Kl'lt BSKNTKD NE BRASKA AT NOTRE DAMti. Point Well Taken "Sophia Blatantkovllch," said the loader of the anarchists, "you have been chosen to throw the bomb. Do you accept this dangerous commission?" "Gladly," she answered. "I will throw it; and tho world will echo with Its crash. Give " "I object, I object," yelled the oldest anarchist. "Object to what?" demanded tho lender. "I object to Sophlu Illatantkovltch throw ing the bomb." "What uro tho grounds for your objec tion?" growled tho leader. "Bring a woman, ho will never hit what She throws at." Chicago Journal. A Delicate Touch While going to his work the other morn ing and meditating upon the fact that he T j a f t FRED W. HAWKINS, SENTOR COUN CILLOR. I'RKMONT COUNCIL, UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. owed a Mg ductor bill and had only 17.25 with which to pay It, Mr. Rufus Geddes, an Evanston carpenter, was accosted by a plainly dressed stranger. "You're Mr. Geddes, aren't you?" asked the stranger. "Yes, sir," ho replied. "Used to live In Milwaukee, didn't you? 1 did." "Do you remember lending $:I0 to a man up there named Humphrey Johns about nineteen years ago?" "Yes, I remembi r that distinctly." i , Ho never paid It, did he?" t "Never." "Well." rurpued tho stranger, with emo tion, "I nm Humphrey Johns. I have never forgotten that debt, and I am going t pay It with Interest some day, but I'm a little hurd up Just now. Do you suppose you could lend me a half dollar for th sako of old tImes?"-Chicago Tribune.