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CAPEATNS ANP SPONSORS
Tarioua honors come to a girl through
out her hleh achool coum, but none of
1 the position a maiden In the Omaha High
M:hool can reach mean more to her than
nl y Ithe being a iponaor. ' Sponsorship carries
'with It certain responslbilltlea. but the
by one of the officers la command out
welirha by far any drawbacks the job may
bring.
' Kar back In the days when the Omaha
cadet battalion had only a few companies
the Jdea was originated of a fair young
i v"n amuisj aa sponsor lor an organisa
n v -tlon of boys struggling to win first place
''' above the rival companies. And the spon-
r. by her encouraging presence, was sup
posedly .aiding In the winning of the right
to carry the battalion fla.
Now the cadets have a regiment, and
the sponsor finds It obligatory upon her
to help the lad who has chosen her as
spopsor to..wln .the "flag !. In the annual
M. . .competitive drill. And each of the bat
talions has a sponsor also, as does the
regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Voyle Rec-
tor "having chosen Miss Harriet Parmalee
l3 , to act Jn this capacity.
r. ., In the presentation of the sponsors of
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MUSCATINE SUFFERS BIG LOSS
Strike Ha Cost Nearly Third of Mjl
, lion in Wtgei Alone.
BUTTON BARONS GROW WEALTHY
Maeeatlne Is Battoa Oittr ( Wsrle
Wltk Ramlftratloas Bzteadlns;
" ' Iao KerreraL Rtatee A Ions;
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, MUSCAT7NB, la.. April 22. Caloulated
on a per capita basis, with reference to
the slse of ths town, Muscatine has suf
fered a greater financial loss through the
strike of the button workers than any
western city that aver went through the
ordeal of a controversy between crafts
man and employer. The loss in wages
during ths eight weeks of the strike has
amounted ,to nearly $300,000. Since Musca
tine has a population scarcely more than
14.000, ' according -to the -1810 census, ths
per capita loss to the town amounts to
about 121.50 to every man, woman and
child for elKht weeks of Inactivity In the
factory. The ' thorough effect the strike
hss already had orVthe city Is equally only
by ths 'strikes of the textile working dis
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this year, always a brilliant spectacle.
Captain Edwin Carson of Company B sur
prised all ths regiment, for it had been
rumored that he had refused to choose
any young Woman to represent Company
B, and 'at the last moment he suddenly
came out In company with Miss Loa
Howard and presented her as the young
woman of his choice.
Sponsors for the yesr lDji are as follows:.
Lieutenant Colonel Voyle Rector, Miss
Harriet Parmalee; Major Mas Parkinson
First battalion, Miss Helen King; Lieuten
ant Adjutant John I.oomls, Second battal
ion, Miss Marjorle Foots; Major Ned Al
derson. Third battalion. Miss Margharetta
Burke.
Company I, Captain Moon, Miss Dorothy
Carlyle; Company O. Captain Lannon.'
Miss Nell Ryan; Company D, Captain Cahn,
Miss Elizabeth Alderson; Company B, Cap
tain Careen, Miss Loa Howard; Company
E, Captain Howes, Miss Louise Bed well;
Company C, Captain Engleman, Miss Isa
belle .Jones; Band, Captain Wavertn, Miss
Lillian Parsons; Company A, Captain Llnd
berg. Miss Elisabeth Race; Company F,
Captain Wlilrodt, Miss Alice Van burgh;
Company H, Captain Wade, Miss Allcs
West. t
tricts In New England and the mining
regions of Pennsylvania
To the average person these figures are
rather startling, but not so much so
when ths magnitude of ths button Indus
try In Muscatlnsls given full considera
tion. A compilation of statistics shows
that a total of 3,676 hands ara employed
In the mechanical departments of the fac
tories alone, when they are In full opera
tion. This by no means represents the
actual number of persons at work in the
various branches of the craft, for It
does not take Into account ths great army
of women and girls employed at the lighter
tasks of ths business. Many hundreds of
women and girls are engaged every day
in ths finishing departments and in card
ing buttons, so it is conservatively esti
mated that at least 1,000 persons, including
the cutters and other experts, are on the
pay rolls of the various concerns involved
In the strike. There is hardly a family
In the Pearl city that Is not directly af
fected by the strike, slnoo nearly one
third of its population is sngaged in some
branch of ths business.
FIsTarcs His lata Millions.
There are, fifty factories In Muscatine.
Borne of the smaller ones, of course. In
which 'only the blanks are out. give em
ployment to small forces of men, ranging
In number from forty to fifty. At ths
McKee r Bllven plant, which is the larg
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$35, $40 and $45,
ON SALE MONDAY ....
This is the greatest sale of Stylish Tailored Suits ever held in
Omaha, and it's right in the heart of the Spring Season
There Are 560 Suits to Choose From
Every one is a smart new model and perfectly tailored. The materials are
all wool worsteds, French serges, English tweeds, men's fine suitings, etc., in
scores upon scores of beautiful new styles and colors some are plain tailored or
semi-tailored others are elegantly trimmed.
$25, $30, $35, $40
and $45 High Class
Suits, on
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est concern of its kind in the world, em
bracing every department from the cutting
of blanks to finishing and carding the but
tons, more than 000 men, women and girls
are employed. The McKee Bllven pay
roll amounts to about $500,000 annually. The
Hawkeys ' Pearl Button company Is an
other of the larger concerns, employing 560
hands and paying out annually' mors than
$400.00(1. There are four other plants em
ploying more than 200 hands each. Sta
tistics show that the average wage in all
the . factories,' including the girls, and
women, is $18 a week, and many of the
girls, as welt as the men, earn as high as
$18 and $20 weekly. These of course, are
experts. '
Any Invasion one might make Into the
seemlnly Interminable recesses of Musca
tine's mammoth pearl button industry leads
ths wanderer into a mass of millions like
the antennae of a Marconi tower. A flight
Into the millions la taken when one makes
research Into the purchasing departments
of the button manufacturing concerns. Fig
ures submitted by the button barons show
that $1,600,000 are spent annually in Musca
tine for raw material used In the factories.
When in operation the craftsmen cut 823
tons of shells weekly, or 41,600 annually.
During the year ending about ths time the
strike was called the average market quo
tation on shells was $26 a ton, and using
this figure as a basis, the .manufacturers
Orltin's Douglas St.
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REGIMENTAL OmCERS AND -SP01?30B3
spent nearly $1,600,000 for shells during the
twelvemonth. Shells are soaring in price
all the time, and they never will be as
low as they have been In the pastdesplte
the efforts of the government to propogate
the clam, at which many thousands of
dollars have been spent at the experiment
station at Fairport, a few mlloa above
Muscatine.'
Maasfactnrers Store. arlla.
In anticipation of the depletion of the
clam beds along nearly the full length of
the Mississippi and Its tributaries, as well
as In the smaller streams of Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and other states, by reason
of the vast amount of buttons out In. Mus
catine, the biological station was estab
lished at Fairport. Likewise the shrewd
Muscatine manufacturers began more than
a year ago "to store away shells for emer
gencies that might arise, and IW estimated
that there are now $6,000,000 worth of shells
In the bulging warehouses along the river.
This precaution has been taken by other
manufacturers, who have their properties
strung along the river from Muscatine to
Keokuk, and even as far south as St. Louis.
All of these factories along the river
are mora or less affected by the strike,
for not half of the finished pearl buttons
turned out in this city are cut In Musca
tine, but are shipped In for the finishing
process, being brought from the plants In
Burlington, Keokuk, Oskaloosa, Caaton,
Mo,, and other manufacturing towns far-
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ther south. Nearly $.',000,000 are spent an
nually on blanks shipped In from the out.
side.
. The scope of the button Industry In Mus
catine Is tremendous, encompassed only
by the wealth It has produced for those
who have, gone Into the business. There
Is a standing caution whispered to visitors
who come here: "If you see anyone whli
tlng by In a big, red automobile, don't ask
who he Is; he Is a button manufacturer.
Jn a doten years the business has made
nearly that many millionaires, and many
others have become Independently rich.
There is an example of one man who a
few years ago was a worthless fellow
about town, cast off from society, who
braced himself and concluded to be a
man. He borrowed a few dollars, bought
up a small amount of shells and sold them
for a commission. Today he Is reputed to
be worth $60,000, all made by his shrewd
ness as a buyer.
Muscatine Is one of the few old lumber
towns along the- river that survived the
depression following the depletion of the
northern pineries, and the button Industry
saved It from decay. It Is now a greater
town than during the palmiest days of
the lumber Industry, and Is the largest
button center In the world. The industry
had Its Inception more than a dosen years
ago In the brain of a tinkering German,
William Boepple, who knew something of
the art of button making before he left
the Fatherland, lie located In Muscatine,
and finding clam shells plentiful, invented
a saw for cutting blanks, from which the
finished button Is produced. He made
buttons on a small scale, but scarcely
made enough to pay his board. But like
many Inventors, he became Involved In
litigation, and was In the end forced out
of the business, while others with money
made use of his Ideas. At the present time
he Is employed for about $2 a day at the
biological station as a laborer, and Is a
poor man. He is so thoroughly broken up
over his plight that he utterly refuses to
be approached on any subject concerning
the manufacture of buttons.
Y. W. C.
A. Notes.
Sunday at 4:30 there will be musical ser
vice under the auspices of the domentic
arts department by Francis Potter's
Mandolin orchentrs, Mrs. Frank Welty and
Frank Mach. The following program will
be given:
in) Overture "King Midas" Kilenburg
(b) Barcarolle from "Talts of Hoffman"
Offenbach
Frsncla Potter's Mandolin Orchestra.
Mando-ceilo solo "Serenade"
v Mr. Potter.
Contralto solo "From the Depths"
Campana
Mrs. Frark Welty .
Violin solo "Oberta.i Masurka"
Wienlaskl
Frank Mach.
Ouitar duet. "A Preamlet" Odell
Miss Uoleti, Mr. Potter.
Contralto solo, "Honanna".. Jules Oranler
Mrs. Welty.
Violin solo (a) "''anconeus" Ambrosia
(b) "Humoraaka" Dvorak
Mr. Mach.
March mllltalro Boehme
Orchestra.
Men are especially Invited to attend this
service.
On Monday evening at 8 o'clock there will
be a dramatic and musical entertainment
given by the liickerman Si-hool of Acting,
ender the auspices of the Fellowship club.
This entertainment Is for the benefit of
the missionary work In t'hlna.
On Thursday the regular monthly noon
muHlrel In charge of :he membership com
mittee will I e given rom it li to 1 o'clock.
1 ne program will be as follows:
"Wedding March" Mendelssohn
Misses Ituth Han ford, Ruth Johnson,
l.urile Iievcrese.
Reading Selectel
Miss MrDonald.
Piano (a "Narcissus" Nevln
(bi Intermezzo Heller
Miss Dorothy Jones.
a Boloa muni's ow. hrdlnao
Violin, "Hungarian lisnce" KeW-Hela
Miss Kia t Aarons.
Reading Helected
l.loyd Ingraham.
Vocal solo. a "A Bowl of Roses". .Clarke
b "He Was h Prince".. l.ynes
Mrs. .Tnhn Kte, '.
Piano, valse op. S4. No. 1 Chopin
Miss Ruih JuliiiHiin.
Accompanist. MIhk MucKln
ThU program Is under the direction of
Miss Helen Mackin
on Thursday evening st T.IR. Rev. F. P.
Ramsay will deliver a lecture on the
King James Version of the Hlhle." The
year 1911 msi-Ws the three hundredth anni
versary of the piihllcstttm of the "King
James Version." and this lecture Is the
fifth In a series of "How We (lot Our
trglish Bibles."
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1" csn safely say that my thrust and
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present time, but 1 still continue to take
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find there Is nothing better.
"Words cannot express how thankful
I feel for my cure, as dl1 not know the
comfort of a good night's sleep till now.
I was continual'y bothered with my
orenthttig. I could scarcely bieathe
through my nose at all, but now 1 go to
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without any trouble. I hope my letter
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Mrs. Mary Bhanks. Marshall, Oklahoma,
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It has cured me of stomnch trouble that
1 had for seven yenrs, and I only took
six bottles. I hope Peruna may help
thousands as It has helped me."
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R Rug Hint for
Monday Morning
We invite you to come in Monday morn
ing and see the splendid Oriental rug dis
piuy on our second floor.
It w'ill be well worth your time and ef
fort to make a trip down town just to see this
magnificent collection of floor fabrics from
the Old World.
We want to nsHure you that showing
these rugs is a real pleasure. Being num
bered among the largest dealers in Oriental
rugs in tho country, and the only importers
of such ruga in Omaha, we are naturally
proud of what wo have and want discerning
women and men to enjoy the rare assortment
with us.
Please consider, then, that you have an
engagement for Monday morning, at this
store.
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