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THE OMAHA' SOT3AY BEE: MAT 25, 1911 B WOULD NOT SEE CEREMONY! lethtr Kefues to Witness Wedding , : of Daughter to Old Han. SATS HE IS KEABT-BBOKES Sec area Marriage Lleease ' Day ielm IW Arrival ol the GrMM, Wfet Was Pereaerlr SUaJdeat at Osaka. Heart-broken over the marriage of hit daughter, Hani O. Sullivan. aged 3 years, to Richmond Anderson, aged W years, former auditor of disburaementa for th Union Peclflo railroad. Jeremiah ulHvaa refused to witness the wedding ceremony. Re eald Tie could not bear to a hla daughter married to M old a man. Mr. Anderson and Miss SuUivan wort rwm ad at t a, m. yesterday by Rev. P. A. nanism at Father Flanagan's residence. The only witncaeee vara Mrs. Oris J. Tbompaon. sister of the bride Mr. Thompeoa. Mm. Gertrude Bralaard, daughter of Mr. Anderson, and Kin Mary Cavaneugh. a friend of the bride. Mr. and Mra. Anderson ft, at 1 o'clock for McMlnvtlle, Ore.. Mr. : Andcraon'l Mr. Anderson and bis young wife met far the ft ret time a Uttla more than twt years ace when ha u employed by the Union Pacific and Mies Sullivan took etorkahtp tn his office. About a rear afe Mr. Anderson retired on a pecjeioo and moved ta MeMlnvlUe. but he left alt heart In Omaha. Friday affaraooa Mist Sullivan secured marriage license. Mr. Anderson ar rived yesterday morning. "I didn't to to the wed dine." said Mr. BelUvaa. '1 enuldn t bear to tea my daughter married to luck aa eld man. I aa nearly out of rar bead They aeem to think a tot of each other and I know ah can't ha marrying him for money tor ha hss none end It may be all right They tried to convlao ma It wee, but I would not be convinced. I have urged her aev aral time to give tip tba Man of marry ing him. but aha aaia aba laved him and ho would ba unhappy, and ao unhappy ha wouM ba Mabla la da moat anything if I etoed In the way of tham marrying, ha said aha didn't kaow what aha would da If I triad ta atop tha martini a, aa I hava dona nothing. Of course, she s of at and I couldn't do anything, anyway? but I wouldn't If I could. All I eaa do la Jatt lot thorn go ahead and hope aha- eevsr wlO : tt" ,OmahaParkstoBe Shown by Motion ' Picture Machines Activities la tha parka and aa tha swale varde will ba "canned'' tomorrow end tW "preeervee" will aa apraad aver Omaha during tha Know Omaha week. Jane I ta 1 A motion picture machine win ba takaa ever tba city In tba afternoon and tha (Pier. dor of tha parka, boulevards aad beauty ipota everywhere will be photographed. I Rome Millar's automobile tha motion picture camera will leave the Kama hotel early Sunday afternoon for tha tour. Th photographer will choose the peaeaa where enough action may ba found to put Ufa lata tha pictures. The film la to be thrown on the esreent at the various motion picture theatert daring Knew Omaha week. Tea committee repreeenUng the Ai club, Commercial club aad Baal Estate ex change has mad Itself lata a permanent orgax'tatlea aad will keep up Interest la Oma .a long after thla first bunt at aa thugiasm is provoked. ' X. r. Denlson at the Toung Vlti'i Christian association has keen made president of tha committee and A, 1 Gale, president of tha Ad club, to tha secretary. Request for beakers from various organisations about the city to dissemi nata facts about Omaha hava been conk ing Into the pubuatty bureau of the Com mercial club aa fast that B. V. Fairish, meaeevr. has net been able to ansa them, A special llntup of speakers has been gathered wtth C. C. Balden In charge. The orders for speakers will be filled trea thai band Pioneer Marvels at" ; Progress in Omaha "It doesn't aeem possible that all tkts progress could be nude la eaa man's lifetime." declared Captain Henry Har rison Brown of Van Francisco after hav ing seen Omaha after aa absence of forty -six years. "All I remember of the town In Ml when I first came here were wooden aheeka, wooden sidewalks aad muddy a! rests. After serving throughout the cavil war with a Connecticut regiment I eajne west as dM many ether young men aad my principal abject waa to And a Joe. I remained here about a week and then went b Sioux City. Prom there I west across the river lata Dakota eeuaty, where I taught school for tear ycare While there I frequently wrote news let sera to the Omaha Bee." In tea Francisco Captain Brawn edits , a weekly paper devoted ta mental science. Daring hla short etay here be la teaching a class in the science. He la a brother af J. D. Brewa of Missouri Valley, dirt, slsa paymaster af the Northwestern, Mr. Brown paid a visit la The Baa la company pith hie nephew. L. W. Brown, of Missouri Valley. TEACHERS MEET TO DISCUSS RAISE IN SALARY CHECKS A eeaumttes of school teachers mt yesterday to disease further plans for laying before the Beard of Bdeeatiea the rueiei ad grade aad Wadergartea teach era for aa Increase af salary, Schedule af wages ta other cities were discussed It la ProiaWe tket a request for specif aslntmum and maiimum waga will bt Valedidtorian of Her Class ; STOSYOriHB . WRECK OP XX. TITANIC rv Beware ee tanattiu. Complete copy of Book sent post paid en receipt of li e. ' JLE-GIIeLESPrE, :; H4 MAMmom Arm v. w. CiATXiAJtS, (J. SOCIETY. PLANS BUSY WEEK (Continued front Page Two party next Wednesday at their hall. Twenty -second and Locust streets. The Ladles' Catholic Order of foresters. at. Peter s eourt, will give a card party Tuesday at Bartght hall. Nineteenth acd Parnam aireeta. . : Engagements! Mr. and Mra. Richard Kgan announce tha angagameat of their daughter. Miss Thekla Keen, to Mr. Walter P. Draney of Lincoln!. , Mr, O. 1. Lehgy announces the engage ment af hie sister, Miss May Lehgy, to Dr. I. P. Unay. The wedding will take place Jane I at at. Fhllomsnas church. Mr. and Mra Manlsv J. Williams en. aounce the engsgsment of their daughter. miss Kathsrtns Williams, ta Mr. Albert B. Noe. The wedding will take place In June. , v - 'fr. And Mr. Clarence B. McKay an nounce the engagement of their nlscs. Mlsa Helen B. Westveer, of Schuyler ta Mr. Herbert If. Oralnger of Lincoln. The wedding will take place In June. Personal Gossip Mlaa Stella Hamilton la at Motre Dame. Ind., visiting, oa her way heme from the east. Mr. Thomas Kllpa trick has returned from a visit to hla daughter, Mrs. Oeorge Mlxter. la Mollne. Mlsa Dorothy Stevens, who has keen In Clerkeoa hospital for three weeks, to onvnleeeina at her heme. Miss Margaret Dument. wha la visiting her aunt. Mrs. I. H. Dsmont. will leave Wednesday tor her home la St, Joseph, Mr. W. B. Mslkle and Mr. P. L. Hughes af Omaha are la New Tork for a few day and are staying at the Hotel Wol Mr. and Mra. Jerome Magee left Fri day evening foe New fork and will aall next Thursday for a few weeks' stay In Europe, Mra. 1. W. RsvBolds and ehtldrea plan ta leave tha middle of June for Las Vegaa and Santa Pa, N. M., to spend tba summer. Mrs. Jack Dumont win leave Wednes day for Hannibal. Mo., to attend the wadding of Miss Myra Mclntyre, who haa vlalted her here. Mlaa Harriet Parmalee, who attenda the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, la spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mra, K. A. Parmalee. Mlsa Erdlce Baumgardner left Friday to spend the week end In Lincoln ae the guest of Mlsa Janice Morgsn. who la a keenlor at the University of Nebraska Mra. Alvtn Saunders and grandson. Wit. Ham Henry Harrison, have arrived from Washington, D. C, and are at Mng. 8aun dare' country heme en Weat Dodge street Mlaa Caroline Congdon. who graduates thla June from Vaasar, will Join a house party at East Orange. N. X, after the close of collage, and will be at home after the middle of June. Mlsa Hsnrlstta Ollmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge P. Ollmore of this city, has won a place en her class crew at Welleslsy. This la a much coveted honor at this popular girls' school. ' Mr. and Mra Herbert Wheeler and Mr. and Mra. B. U Huntley went to Lincoln yesterday to attend the opening of the country club there aa the guests of Mr, and Mra. Myron Wheeler of Lincoln. Mra. Joseph Lei eel of Falls City, who has born la Omaha several days visiting relatives and friend e, has returned home Mr. and Mrs. Lei eel resided Jn Omaha many years, leaving here a few montha ago. Mlaa Katharine Tbummel. Mlaa Bertha Dickey and Mies Daphne Patera, who are at Ely Court at school, have received invitations to visit fiienda at Anna no is during June week at the Naval academy. and will go there next Saturday. Mlaa Leo la Brandele, daughter of Mr. and Mra. A. D. Brandele, haa been chosen valedictorian of her elasa at the Charles Leete achool In New Tork City. With her mother. Mrs. Brandele, and her brother, Krvlna Brands!, this gifted young woman wlU came weat to spend ths month af June at the Brandele borne. Arlena lodge. Rear Omaha. CWafaelea ef Terms. Judge who la now on ths su preme court benoa, was. wnen hs first began ths practise of law, a very blun dering speaker. On one orcailon. when ha eaa trying a ease In replevin. Involving the rlaht of property In a lot of hoge. he addressed the Jury as fol lows: "Gentlemen of the Jury, there were Just twenty-tour hoge In that drove -luet twenty-four, gentlemen-eiartly twioe aa manv ae there are In thla litrv box." Case and Comment Our Flag : What It Means i BY A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL. It waa DeeoraUoa day. Aa old antdler. In bto faded awe uniform, waa resting In the shade la a corner nf tha cemetery not far from where his deed comrades lay. He had marched In the proceealoa that awratng. and with the few aid soldiers who were left, had decorated the graves of the gallant boys bo had gone oa be fore. Memories both bitter and sweet came surging back ta him as ha leaned' his d against the tree and dosed his eyes. The day he left home ta enlist ths I. wearisome marches, tha aighta aroand the campflrea 'Say. mister.' piped a small voice close to his ear, "what are they puttln' all these flowers out here for ebdayT" Tha old captain came out of hla reverie with a Start opened Me eyes and looked dawa at the email boy at his side. "Why. sonny, this to DeeoraUoa day. didn't yon know thatr . "I en. yea. I heard ear teacher any something about It. What'a it rorT" "Why. we have thla day ta put flowers oa the gravea ef the aeidtere wha fought for our country and our nag. yon know." "Ok." said the email tnauleitor, the red. white and blue flag: we got aae at cneoL "Tbaf e right soenv." said the aid soldier, "that's the beet flag la the world. Betsy Boss mads the first red. white and bine flag in 1TX It aad six white stripes and seven red oaea aad thirteen big. white stars in the earner. These all stood for the thirteen co ton lea that were tee beginning at aw big country. Ever atace that time that flag has been aur prise, the thing we have fought and bled tor. Haven't yea ever beard year teacher ten about tba soldiers wba fought la the efrtl warr . , "Ne." said the boy at hla seas, "yea sea we poet came from England and we had a gavarneaa. 'a ana dldnt tell aa aothla- a Deut the soldiers. What'd they dor "What did they aar repeated the eM greed army maa. "Why they went aut and fought tba Johnny Beaa Just ta keep that earne od flag Coaling aver oar aountry. The people down south didn't want the Stars and Stripes tba way we Aid up north. They wanted a flag ef their awn. But wa wanted the American flag to wave ever ua all and we fought to keep ft. boy, and wan." There waa a triumphant ring In the eld man's voice aa he eald this. Tea. It bad been worth the loag marches, the poor food, and the privations, for they bad saved the flag. Tall me about s" more soldtere." tba small voice brought the narrator back ta hla story. "Oh. yea Wen one day we had beaa fighting hard and long, when right la tha thickest ef the fight ths flagstaff waa ehet right eat af the flag-bearer-s band. Hs was standing In front of me and t saw him Jump ta catch It before it fell, ebourlng 'Let ma die, but spare the flag,' and Just as ae said this a bullet bit him and be fell right there with the. flag la his hand. They wrote a song about him aad called It 'Lay Me Down, hot Save the Flag-' "There have been lots of songs written about our flag.- ha weat eav "'Wrap the Flag Around Me. Boya. ta one that touches as, especially ua eld soldiers who have beard so many of our comrades say It as they were carried from the bat Uefleld" The oM man a vote, troke hot be abook It free aad went on. "Aad then The aHar-Cpangled Banaer'Uiat'a a fine song. It was written by Francis Scott Kay walla be waa being bold en a Brlttaa warship Ha waited through tha bsng nigM for the dawa aa that he eeuld tee whether tha Start aad Stripes still floated aver the taoiparu aa tha shore. And when tha light came aad be saw the dear aid Rag ha errata this song and deeanbed hto enaetlone la It Be member thla. my boy,- said -the captain, toying kit hand aa tba bid's shealder, "tha white hi aur flag stands for purity, tha blue for truth, tha red for bravery and the start mean forever. Be pure, ba brave, be true for ever aad yea will be a true Americas. Doat ever forget that our Bag to the beet flag In the world and say wtth tha poet' 'Long may It wave, ' O'er the toad of the free ' ' Aad tba heme at the brave,'" What-' . Women Are Doing in the World HE moat Important event In clubdom tost week waa tba formation of a new suffrage organisation which will sleet officers and settle down to the stem buatneaa of auffragett- Ing within the next tew weeka. The new society haa already planned to bring a noted surrraga lecturer to Omaha Mrs. Fiancee Squire Potter of Chicago-June 17: Mra. K. M. Fairfield, Mlaa Belle Dewey and Mra. C. T. Kountae are ar ranging for th e lecture. Omaha haa now two suffrage organisa tions the new suffrage club, which haa not yet received i. name, and toe Omaha Woman Suffrage todety-and a number of easiness women are talking of form ing a third one. Tha officers and chalrmea ef commit tees of the Society of Fine Arts will hold a meeting Saturday afternoon at I o'clock at the public library for pre liminary discussion of the work ta be planned for next season. Tba Da ugh tare af UU of Nebraska wll have a luncheon Tuesday, June 4, at Happy Hollow club. It It expected that a number of members from out In the state will coma to Omaha to attend this, tha tost meeting of the organisation of tha year. At the meeting of the P. K. 0. sister hood Thursday at the home of Mrs. Oeorge Harvey It was reported that tha society bat raited M of the tioo which It bad pledged ta tha educational fund of 1 wt May 2s. Wto-Davld Cola, creamery magnate and president of tba Commercial club, proudly admits thirty -two yean at married life. Mies Etta E. Smith was the bride and Omaha the scene of tha cere mony, i . May M. Iar-Mr. Thomas J. Netaa and Hiao Margaret ft Flupatrick. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- John C. Fits Patrick, plighted their troth at tha church of the Holy Family. Meters. A. J. Smith and C M. Furay were the ushers and Mlaa Margaret Bark the maid at honor. The beautiful and Impressive marriage cere mony was perferraed by Father Mc Deevlue. y May M, Utt-Mr. O. N. Hypes tad Mlsa Hannah M. Plodmaa were united In wedlock at the Swedish Lutheran church. Rev. P. J. Seward pronounced the magic worda "that bind forever and forever." Tba bridesmaids aad graomsma Mr. Hypes and Mies Ida Plodman, Mr. Theodore Helgrea aad Miss Julia Berg auitt Mr. Carl Ekstrom and Miss 8ybU Sward, aad Mr. Oscar Peterson and Miss TlUte Henry. After the ceremony a grand reception waa held la the church parlort when about invited guests showered their heartfelt eongrstuiationa upon the happy couple. May M. lna-Mr. Edward D. Bird of New Tork and Mlaa Carfta Curtta, daugh ter ef Colonel and Mrs. & S. Curt la solemnised their marriage at Trinity cathedral. The wedding party Included Mlaa Lynn Curtis, wha was the maid of honor, and Mlaa Daley Doane, wha was bridesmaid. Mr. Herman Bird of New Tork served as beet man. while the ushers ware Messrs. Charles Floyd of New Tork. Claries Saunders. Z M. Fair field and W. E. Martin. tba national body. Each woman must earn U for the causa. - Tha Mathers' Culture club will meet Wednesday at the home of Mrs. W. H. Indoe. Mra. J. C Craddock win be as sisting bostsee. Mrs. William Mickel will read a paper on "The Economic aad Aaathetie Valve at Teaching; Children ta Know aad Love Birds, and How to Ae compllsh It." Mrs. F. t. Tagiart will tell "What the Government Has Done ta Protect Birds'' Mrs. M. B. Williams will speak aa "Birds from a Dooryerd." Mrs. W. W. Flahar will give tome readings.' The Clio dub will meet Wednesday with Mrs. F. M. Clark. Mra. C. F. , Shepard to. tha roll call with sayings of great man and pa pare on the Uvea of some pop alar authors will ba read. Mrs. W. D. Perdval 'will have a paper oa Victor Hugo; Mrs. F. M. Clark. Robert Louis Stevenson; Mrs. Bryee Crawford, Thomas Carlyle; Mra C. F. Sbepard. Lew Wal lace. Th directors of the Women't Christian association will meet Wednesday wlta the president Mra Oeorge Ttlden. to continue plant for the new Old People's home. The five federated Women't Christian Temperance unions of Omaha en South Omaha will hold a meeting Wednesday will Preside The members will respond afternoon, at I at tat Toung Women't Christian association. Rabbi Frederick: Conn wfll read the paper on the social evil which he read before the meeting of the state Charities and Corrections tost winter. Dr. Mattie Arthur, who will give a course of sex hygiene at tha Toung Women't Christian association next year, will tprak on "Social Lurlty." Mrs. Ed nard Johnson, vice president of tha Omaha Women's Christian Temperance union bat arranged the program aad will preside at tha meeting. A business session will precede the talks and a round table dtooussloa will dost the meeting. K . i i.in Mn-tmlttae of the So- iM nenti' .. clal Settlement association It hustling for numbers. The committee met at lunooeon . with the chairman. Mrs. Phlip Potter, tost Wednesday and made plans for the campaign. Each one to trying to raise tiM n. the settlement fund. On tha committee are Mrs. J. H. Dumont Mlsa Myra Breekenbridge. Miss Qrttmn. Mlsa Helen Scobie. Mlaa Eiuaheth Plokene, Mrs. E. H. Scott Mitt Kathleen Moore- head and Mra, V. Buresa. Th. aeoriatioat Is still searching for a new settlement house ta the aelghbor hood of the present settlement but large enough ta carry on all activities uoa.r one roof. The Mother's Culture club will entertain the fathara at the home of Mrs. J. O. Detwetler Thursday evening. June 1 The Imogen club of Florence will have a picnic Thursday June at the home of Mra. A. B. Hunt Minna Lusa lodge. Tha kua hands of the members will be guests. A Kateral Student.. "In telling coffee." said a well Vnown eoffee broker recently, "you shouin ex ercise the ssms keen discretion which ths druggist showed. "A woman, you know, a woman well on la years, entered a drugglet a and said: 'Have you got any creams for re storing the complexion T " 'Reatonng. mlaa? You mean preeer ving!" said ths druggist heartily. "And. he then sold the woman JIT worth of cojiptexjon creams.' -New Tor Tribune. Owl's Ne, Formally Opened Saturday o i at.--" rTj U" J . it A J V 'i pfk I -4 tr : hr- -orsr: ei I- i M ' ' tea & j x . ' t em . , i I i , . i . , . ,J.-.A '- .. . "SX! .. V ta ' 1 I l V ' a " ' ' -er v ;, - I If V- ' 'OS. v "'; ' ' -v-' "j-1' "3s-' II yj' -ei , - -ekp.. , 4 . rv -iai-5 ' - -;-5V-r I INk.""'!' .'... - -.J1" 'lJ1jr'S(ii . t-- k I a",- r.-r V - I 'v;r" THE OWL DBCO STORE. ONE OF THE STRING OF FIVE OWNED BT THE SHERMAN gt M'CONNELL DRCO COM PANT. o MAHA'B soda drinking maids and young maa and aU the young and old people who have aa appetite for eelfoloua ices aad lea cream were members at huge crowds that were nreeent at the evening of the Owl't Neat In tha aeesment ot the Owl drug store. Sixteata and Harney streets, yesterday. It waa a gala day for the Owl Drug company; the new soda room was a place af bewitching beauty; flowers were every where, and tka large plate mirror an the weile ot tha room caught raye of tight tram tan large electrto glebes and re- fleeted them back aa myriad colored I streaks, srtnftUant aad enrascaat la the beautlea at colored mixture. This occasion i this opening af Omaha's newest soda feuntaia roam waa a de lightful ana for the visiters ta the beeu ufol place The picturea accompanying thla article shew two rtowa ef the Owl drug mora. Tha lower ptctare ta the re pTodwetioa ef a photograph ot tha Own Neat the aoda room la tba bmaiint The upper picture shows a view ef the drag store oa the main floor, with Ra fountain, which ts still to be maintained to bold the overflow from the Owfa Neat, the a pa ft sua and cool room af tfea basement A large asarble stab-way gives entrance trim tha mala floor to tha Owl'a Neat, a room that to finished la Italian aoarble tad ssnhegany. The trainee for tha large plate mirrors are mahogany. The tablet are made of rtohly eelored mahogany, aad tha chairs tight. Preach patterns are gray, with toft resting eana seats. Tba Cwra Neat to arrupiaoasly clean. The dish ee are sanitary, with every epoea and oup, glass and bawl at very pretty pattern. A targe kftehen aad an lea cream room are located la tha bssataeut The lee cream room baa a capacity for mora than K gallons of Ice cream aad Ices. Tba Owl't Neat ta alwayt coot Faaa aad a cold water pipe system unite as fur alak tool air. which la freely eiroulated throughout tha room. The locatioa af tha fountain room ta the twarment gives Omaha a soda palace in which th of drags toes not bother patrona la mak- rag ue new room the manMemcnt of tha fbermaa A McOoanen Drug eoaapaay planned to hare their aoda customers free from the annoyance at erne euaw tovoere end the odors that are aum i- a drug store- V