j . r THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. XOVKMUKR 30. 1915. t I J .1 V A V A . BRIEF CITY NEWS aainf Hinge EAholm. Jeweler. JirhUnf fixtures Bursnm-Oranilpn. Preaa property ifnMiif natures Bursfsn-Oranilpn. Kara Boot Print It Now Peacon Prei I Property Cared For To rent proper J- Duniont. Kellne IU.Ir. ' "Todaye Knrl Trvrtmrn" claoalf t ; ectlon today. It apprara In The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va rloui moving picture theaters offer. Harness and Saddle round Fin acta of single and douMr linrnese and an ex pensive riddle have been picked up by tlie police officers, who are waiting for Ilie owner to call for the property. The Stat Bank of Orntht, corner Six teenth and Harney. Taya FOUR per cent on time deposits and T1IRKK per cent on savings accounts. All deposits In thla bank are protected by the depositors guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska. Re Threatened Her Her husband lireatened her with two revolvers and a raxor, Mrs. Qeorcla Edwards allege n a suit for divorce against Edward Kdwards, whom she married September 11, 1!13. Kot Kurt in Tornado Mr. and Mrs. William Hoar were not Injured In the recent tornado at Hot Springs and came through all right, according to a tele gram Just received by W. J. Foye. Mr. Hoar Is golf professional at the Omaha ountry club. To JaU for raaatnc Worthless Check Walter Moran of Sioux by Special Officer Finn Stores, for passing a worthless $15 check at the Brandels bank, wag sentenced to thirty days In the county Jail ivhen ar raigned In police court. riynn Back from Clnol United States Marshal Flynn has returned" from Cin cinnati, O., where he went to deliver Alexander Pacala to the federal author ities. "Dave" Dickinson, private secretary of United State Attorney Allen, accom panied him aa deputy and ha not yet returned. ristd for Btealina; Glares Jennie Smith of Chicago, arraigned In police court on a charge of stealing a pair of glove from the Brandels Stores, was , fined J2.B0 and costs. A $35 hat. stolen from the store and found in her pos session, she assorted wa bought by her from a woman whom she met on the Tenth street viaduct. Special Officer Finn made the arrest. WILL INVESTIGATE FIRE ALARM PLAN City Commissioner! Delay Action for Two Weeks for Further Information. 1 Twelve Below Zero, but Still Weather Man Hands Out Joke The. temperature was 11 degrees below .Hence one would naturally smoke more CITY DADS ARE ALL AT SEA At a meeting of the. city council committee of the whole, Commission ers Ktigel, Hummel, Jardine and Butler were outspoken In contending that the council should Investigate! the new fire alarm system as pro- posed by Commissioner Withnell In a report. Upon motion by Mr. Jardine, the commissioners decided to hold a spe cial session on Monday morning, De cember 13, by which time, It is be lieved, the city officials will have un derstandable plans upon which to base Intelligent opinion. "The more I hear of this tne loss 1 know," declared Commissioner Jardine. "I am In favor of a fire alarm box In every school and would favor installing 2"0 more boxes In the business district, a proposed, but I do not favor voting to x City, arrested appropriate 160,000 for 200 fire alarm of the Brandels boxes. I think that amount is too high," was a statement made by Commissioner Kugel. fiet Retfmate of Coat. Commissioner Hummel' idea was that t' - city should first prepare a plan and get an estimated cost from an expert, in reply to which suggestion Commissioner Withnell proposed that the city advertise for bids and let bidders submit their plans. A question raised by Commissioner But ler was, "Who does E. U. Town send of Chicago represent? That Is what I would like to know." Some one ventured to say that Mr. Townsend represents the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Mr. Townsend ap peared before the city council two months ago and made an eloquent ploa In behalf of a modern fire alarm system for Omaha. For Central District. In his report to the council Commis sioner Withnell proposes to Install 200 new fire alarm boxes In the "high value business district" bounded by Lake, Pierce and Twenty-fourth streets and the river, at an estimated cost of $60,000, aero Monday morning, according to Colft nel Lucius Agulnaldo Welsh of the local weather bureau. "Yes, sir, t degrees below rero Is pretty cold." ho remarked. "You don't mean to say It waa that cold this morning." said the scribe as he put a match to the dead embers of a half-smoked rlKor. "I see you're smoking more since the snow's off the ground," said the colonel with a smiling eye on the "smoke." This Joke requires a diagram. It's really a pleasant bit of poor-room hu mor. You see, it's like this: Terson Is lighting a half-smoked cigar. I'M he pick It up out of the gutter? It's hard to pick 'em up out of the gutter when there's snow. when therw waa no snow to Interfere w ith locating the "snipes." Tho scrll-e having delivered a withering look at the colonel, resumed his query about til tenu ral'ire. "Come, conic, colonel. We know It was pretty nippy this morning, but no 12 de grees Nlow sero." "But It was Jtirt that," said the colo nel "up at l'rlnce Albert, S.ikati hewitn, Canada. iLafftcr.) Ami Th.nsa to He Thunkful ForThat we don't live In Prince Albeit Saskat chewan. Canada. Tho temperature In Omnha at 7 a. m. was 21 degrees above lero. It wouldn't have been very cold but for the wind. It was Just one degree colder than the Coldest previous temperature this winter, It having been 23 on the morning of Sun day, November 14. Omaha Gospel Team Gets Results at Its , me nver, ac an esumaiea cost or sw.uw, r TPmnnTi IVL66LlIlrithe estimated annual maintenance charge iil;UlUU iuvq being placed at 16,000, which include a Vm. central station. s Jr Four hundred person reconsecrated u e tnat the installation of the f themselves and twelve were converted m nre alarm boxes and the motorlxatlon J as the result of the work or a gospeof four of the fire houses will be ac- rteam which went from Omaha to Fre- j. . ,. ,j v-a l .1 vneetinn there II1UI1 L DUluiuaj ui'i - Sunday. The team consisted of M. C Rush, leader; T. A. Holllster, Gerald Drew, F. r tiui A Tlnapnirrpn. TL 9. Cain. P. 13. E. Zless and W. C. Nollman. " " " . cepted by the underwrite aa sufficient improvement to reduce Omaha's fire In surance rating from 2V class to I class, a reduction of about 10 per cent in pre miums. Commissioner Jardine called the atten- l' , ' V ,i. Bo,.. jOmaha'a annual fire loss Is exceptionally jney Iltm ' lnw onnMrW nnni.l.Hnn visited the Sunday schools and , ,. evening, held meetings In the Baptist and Preaby teriun churches Sunday morning. A men's rally was held at the Toung Men's Chris- area and Calls ( onip Wrong;. Misunderstanding of calls sent In by telephone waa given a another argument i luii association In the afternoon and a .In favor of the fire alarm boxes. It Is rally for young people in the Congrega stated that forty-four of the alarm sent lional church in the evening. Union ser vices were held In the Baptist church in the evening and a meeting in the Methodist church. Evangelistic services are to start in Fre mont the first of the year, by which time r. tabernacle will be built. Lane Cut-Off Put Out of Commission by Fire on a Bridge The piling of the east approach of the Union Pacific's bridge over the Little Pappio burned Sunday night, letting a ninety-foot eteel span drop to the bed of the creek, twenty feet below, resulting In Nyxloslng the Lane cut-off and sending all traffic over the Papllllon or Ox Bow line. One hundred or so men are at work and a new temporary structure will be In Iilace by tomorrow. The bridge that wa put out of com mission was on the dump of the Lane cut-off about one-half mile or so cast of the high bridge. It waa a steel span, supported by wood piling at either end. When the fire burned off the piling al most intact thaa span dropped to the bed of the creek. The fire In the bridge piling was dis covered at 5:30 this morning and is sup pored to have originated from coals that relt from the furnace of some engine pass ine over the bridge. la this year over the telephone were mis understood on account' 'of imperfect enunciation of the senders. It is explained that the telephone servioe would be nec essary with the best fire alarm box sys tem. The city now ha 113 fire alaxm boxes, most of which are said to be antlauated. In a talk to the commissioners J. W. Metcalfe emphasised the Importance of furnishing the city with efficient means communicating with the fire depart ment in times of fire. He explained that all fires are small at the start and the ohlef thing to be desired is quick and reliable means of notification. At the conference to be held two weeks hence representatives of the insurance companies. Commercial club, manufac turers and other organizations will be present. South Side Talent at Commercial Club Fellowship Dinner Not a single bit of professional talent is to be employed to give the cabaret features for the big fellowship dinner of ethe Commercial club this evening. laical talent, selected and hand-picked from among the membership of the club Itself, will furnish the cabaret features. Now it is up to this membership of the club to demonstrate what It has in tn way or talent, rractice ana re hearsal ha been In progress for some time, and It is promised that aome very lively features are ready to come on the boards at a moment's notice, any where between the eouroe of olives and the course of stogies. Since a big addition was made to the membership through a cyclone campaign on the South Side, the best talent on the South Side Is also to be employed In song, dance and ceremony in the varie gated cabaret. Man Charged With .Writing Insulting Notes to Mrs. Gait NEW YORK, Nov. 29. A man descrlb ing himself as Hamuel White, 27, an In ventor, was arrested here today by po lice and secret service agents charged with having written Insulting letters to Mrs. Udith B. Oalt. President Wilson's fiancee, and her mother, Mrs. Boiling. White, according to the police, admitted having written to Mrs. Ualt and Mrs. Helling concerning a patent egg carrier t.c used iu the malls, and two new ments. The prisoner said cd, that he wrote the first Kamuel Ooborue of Chicago, who had Invented one of the musual in strnmentD. White told the pulice that he met ilrj Ualt anJ her mother htru in YlU. Helling roncer I l.e used In ' fa i.tlcal inntru the police ad'l' V$ letter for a i She Made Him Buy Eivver and Ride to Big Exposition "Judge, she made me buy a Ford auto mobile and take her and her mother and brother and sister to the Panama expo sition," James J. Marecek, testified In his divorce suit against Fanehlon Clara Marecek, pretty 20-year-okl wife. Marecek is suing for divorce on grounds of cruelty. They were married June 2H, 1910. To compel him to buy a Ford and go to the exposition was both physical and mental cruelty, oe alleges. Mrs. Marecek has filed a oroas-blll in which she also asks a divorce on grounds of cruelty. BRITISH OFFICER MISSINGFOR YEAR Kelatives Finally Learn that He Wu Killed Over a Year Be fore in Belgium. HAS OMAHA CONHECTIONS "Wounded and missing." Charles E. Hochstetler, formerly of Kansas City and now a resident of England, brother of F. B. Hochstetler of this city and a cousin of Mrs. Klr kendall, who has visited in Omaha many times and la well known here, knows what the three words given above mean to the women of Europe. In April, 1914, he married a daugh ter of the late General C. M. arlffith Bombay, staff corps in the Win chester cathedral, Winchester, Eng-J land. He had five brothers-in-law In the regular British army, all officers, and since the death of Captain Lewis, has four. On October 19. 1914, Captain H. F. Lewis, Royal Queens West Surrey regi ment, a brother-in-law of Mr. Hoch atetler's wife, fell in a skirmish near the village of Ledgehem, Belgium, near Tpres. In due time he wa reported "wounded and missing" by the war of fice. After thirteen months of Indefati gable search . by his wife and relatives his fate was ascertained November 10. 1916. He had been killed, his body found and buried In the churchyard at Ledgehem. Germaa Troops Sarprlard Him. Captain LawU' regiment wa trans ferred from Bermuda to South Africa Just before the outbreak of war. Imme diately the regiment wa ordered to Eng land and went to France aa a part of General Frenoh'a expeditionary force. On October 19 cavalry rode through a vil lage near Ledgehem and reported It un occupied, but saw bicycle stacked against a building. A squad sent out to recover the bicycle did not return. Cap tain Lewi then wa directed to proceed with another squad to the village to In vestigate. Riflemen of a German bicycle troop surprised Captain Lewis' command and killed or captured all save one pri vate who, wounded, crawled ba' k to his company through a turnip paich. He brought word that Captain Lewi had been shot through the cheek and fallen. He thought he was not killed. After av Vfr or Searching, On November 10 this year a document in Flemish wa received by relative of Captain Lewi, forwarded by the Belgian Red Cross society. Translated, it proved to be an affidavit of two Masons made before the burgomaster of Ledgehem, Oc tober 23, 1914, stating that the "body of Captain H. F. Ijewls, C. K., Queen's regi ment," was found by them on October 19 and burled in the Ledgehem church yard. The identification Is considered positive, a it apparently wa made from the metal disc which British officers year about their necks. "C. E." stand for the Church of England, each disc stating the religious preferences of the wearer. Dahlman Prepares Ordinance Defining Welfare Board Work Mayor l'ahlman has prepared for In troduction an ordinance defining the work which shall be emhrnced In the activities of the Hc Welfare board. The measure Is In line with the detailed aoroMnt which appeared In The Hoe a month aao, the only addition being mat the second alstnnt city attorney shall tmve chariie of the legal aid work. It In proposed to add to the duties of City Prosecutor McUtilre ns soon as the Welfare board shall have organUcd. .1. A. C. Kennedy, who was appointed lo the five year term n the board, has written the mayor, stating he believes he wlil be unable to devote the time necessary to the work. He fore accept ing Mr. Kennedy's resignation the mayor wishes to have a talk with this member of the board. Hauser to Be Given His Preliminary Hearing This Week' A conference between County Attorney George Magney and Captain of I'etec Uvea Maloney resulted In a decision to arraign Art Hauser on a charge of mur der either Wednesday or Thursday morning. Hauser has written hit brothers In Wichita In an effort to secure means for an attorney. If thla Is not effected he will be defended In district covin by t Public Defender Hichnrd llorton. Ho will have no lawyer when arraigned In police court. "My chief regret Is," said llivuser, "that I ever escaped from Canyon City, Colo. I had Just a short sentence to finish. Then I could have started rlKht." Hauacr was a member of a road gunn of the Colorado penitentiary, and made his getaway late In the afternoon of a day In November, He made for the Kocky mouiit.iinn mid for four days was lost, going without food or drink during this time. I'lvmUy he came out near l'vielilo mid atruliiig a pair of overalls and a sweater coat from a livery vtable caught a freight train east. Ho finally landed In Liberty, Mo., and started on the activities that was cut rhort with his arrest at Indian apolis. HOUSE ORGAN DEPARTMENT OF AD CLUB MEETS FRIDAY Chairman A. D. Peters of the house organ department of the Omaha Ad club has callod the first round table meeting of this department for Friday. A special notice has been sent to the editors of house organs whose names have been registered with Chairman Peters, but if there are any other in Omaha who are publishing a house organ, or who are contemplating doing so, (whether mem bers of the Omaha Ad club or not), who would like to attend this meeting, they will be welcome, and should telephone at once to Mr. A. D. Peters, telephone Tyler 209, so that a larger room can be reserved if necessary. The meeting will be held at the Commercial club. Earl O'Brien Has Real Tame Goldfish Earl O'Brien of the Henshaw ha an unusual pet that attracts much attention from patrons of the hotel's rathskeller, It is a tame goldfish of a rather freak ish variety, having a bright ring of gold marking at the base of It big fan-shaped tail. It is so tame that It fearlessly eats tasty morsels of food held under the sur face of the water in the ha'nd of any admirer. MRS. HETTIE SCHROEDER, HERE 35 YEARS IS DEAD Mrs. Hettle Schroeder, after a long lllneas, died Mondsy morning at the axe of 47 years. She was boru In Chicago and has had been a resident of Omaha for thirty-five years. She la survived by her husband, Henry Schroeder, who la vice president of the Willow Hprlngs Brewing association; one son, a sister, Mr. O. B. Gafford of Venango, Neb., and her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hullnheltner, who have re sided in Omaha for thirty-five years. Funeral services will be held at the resi dence, 2416 North Nineteenth street. Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, llev. E. T. Otto officiating. Burial will be In Forest Lawn cemetery. HOT TEA' BREAKS A COLD TRY THIS Get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea, or aa the German foiKs Call It "Hamburger Brust Thee." at any phar macy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon it, pour through a sieve and drink a teacup full at any time. It I the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, as It opens the pores, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking a cold at once. It Is Inexpensive and entirely vegetable, therefore harmless. Advertisement. r i i T-.WS1 ., -.,!,.! -S-J " One Safe Home Match will light all four burners. The stick is large and stronu. The flame "takes hold." We do not exaggerate when wa say that you can get as much real service from three 8afe Home Matches aa from Ave ordinary matches. They are non-poisonous, too. For that reason alone they should be in every home in America. Itc. A It grrxvrj. Ask for rnwrn fry mam. The Diamond Match Company A Smooth, White Skin That Defies Weather During the coming months of biting winds and Intense cold, you who would keep your Bkina smooth, white and vel vetv, should turn your attention to mer collsed wax. Nothing else will so ef fectively romove a chapped, roughened or discolored surface. By gradually ab sorbing the weather-beaten cutlcin, the complexion is kept la perfect condition, and even the beauty of expression ap pears more pronounced. It your skin be blotchy, pimply, freckled, coarse, Hal low or over-red, why not shed It? One ounce of ordinary mereollsed wax, to he had at any druggiat's, will completely transform the most unsightly complex Ion In less than a fortnight. Use the was nightly, like cold cream, washing It off mornings. If weather, age or poor health has marred your face with wrinkles, here's good news. You can quickly remove every line by using a harmless, refreshing face lollon prepared by dissolving 1 oa. pow dered saxollle In V4 pt. witch hasel. The firmer, smoother akin, the more youth ful appearance, even after one applica tion, will astonish you. Advertisement. BS3 laimwwgaio. Drownell Hall Downtown Studio 618 McCague Ituildinff, 1.1th and Iol(to Ms., Omnhn, Nebraska. Piano Emily Weeks Doomgoole, Sophie Nostlti-Naimska. Violin Luella Anderson. Pupils may enter at any time. Telephone, Red 449C. For terms, address, Drownell Hall, Omaha. ETCH Child's Tongue ; Becomes Coated If Constipated If cross, bilious, sick, feverish, or full of cold, take no chances. BILLY COLE, JR COMES TO HELP MANAGE THE KRUG Mrs. V. W. Cole and Billy Cole. Jr., wife and son of Manager Billy Cole of the Krug theater, have arrived here from St. Joseph, to make their permanent home In Omaha. Master Cole Is 3 years young and In nn exclusive interview expressed himself aa well pleased with Omaha. He has been Introduced to the members of the North Bros." Block company at the Krug. Mr. Cole refers to tils wife and son a 'seven-eights of the family." " Aaala. Mrs. Jennie Miner. Davidson, Ind. writes: "I can truthfully say Foley Ca thartic Tablets are the beat I ever used. They are so mild In action. I feel like I have been made over again." Good health has no greater enemy than con stipation. Foley Cathartic Tablets keep the stomach sweet, liver active, bowels regular and banish biliousness, sick headaches, soir stomach, btout peritons welcome the l.ght, fre feel.n tlity glv bold every where. Advcrtueineiit "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stom ach, liver, bowels. Children love this "fruit laxative." and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is. they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sour, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverlah, don't eat, sleep or act naturally, breath la bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomachache or diarrhoea, listen, Mather! gee If tongue Is coated, then give a teaapoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," and In a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and un digested food peases out of the system. and you have a well, playful child again. Millions of mothers give "California Syrup of Figs" because It Is perfectly harmless; children love It, and it never falls to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for a SO-cent bottle of "California Byrup of F"ign." which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the hottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. iet the gtnuliie. made by the California l".i Syrup Conianv. Uetue am other kind with lonttni.t Advertisement. VIR To GINIA Is the name of the doll we will give this week Our Little Busy Bees 1 ., u ' tr r.' fi- i mm She is 24 inches high, has beautiful eyes and hair, and clothes that will make any little girl delighted. Virginia will be given Tree to the little girl under 18 years of age that bring or mails us tne largest aumber of doll's pictures out out of the Dally and Sunday Use before 4 n. m., Sat. urday, December 4. Her picture will he iu The Hee every (lay this week, (,'ut them all out uinl auk your frientls to wiv Ihe pictures in their pajer for you, too. See how many pictures of Virginia you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office be fore 4 p. m., Saturday, December 4. If you don't win this Pnllle, perhaps you ran get ono next week. Only uu Itoll will bo given to any one peron. You can see Virginia at The Bee Office t mm Jt"3 I , w urgess-Wase Everybody's store STORK XKWM FOIJ Tl'KSD.W, NOVKMUKIt 30, 1tB. Bring the Children Down to See SANTA CLAUS They'll Enjoy It and So Will You TlIlO dear old fellow is here every day in his little house, where he wants to meet all the little boys and girls. Iet them whisier in his ear what they want him to bring them for Christmas. The Great Room Making SALE OF RUGS AFFORDS very unusual savings and there is nothing that could be more appropriate as a gift for the home than one of these rugs. $1.95 VELVET RUOS, 95c Velvet nigs, mnde from all worsted yarns, heavy Jut back; very desirable, sire 27x54-inch; regularly $1.95; aale QP price JijC $1.75 AXMINSTER RUOS, $1.25 Star and Crescent Axmlnster ruga, mottled center and fancy borders, site 27x64-incn; regularly $1.75; sale d1 OP price P 1 e4J $3.95 AXMINSTER RUGS, $2.25 Kxtra quality Axmlnster rugs, a splendid selection of patterns and colorings, size 36x63-lnch; regularly $3.95; d0 OP sale prli-e pftJ $18.50 VELVET RUGS, $11.50 Velvet rugs. Oriental patterns of heavy quality, very dura-ble. We have a limited quantity, sice 9x12 feet, regu- (1 1 XZf larly $18.50; sale price. . P 1 1 iUV $37.50 WILTON RUGS, $27.50 Koyal Wilton Rugs, 8-3x10-6, very attractive new ifrQ'T tZf patterns: were $37.50; sale price 4 JJ $45.00 WILTON RUGS, $33.50 Royal Wilton Rug, including a beautiful line of the well-known Bagdad Royal Wilton, made by the BIgelow Com- dJOO Et pany, site DxJ2 feet; were $45.00; sale price vOwiuv $62.00 WILTON RUOS, $46.00 Royal Wilton Rug, 8-3x10-6; the newest designs JfG f( and colorings; were $62,00; sale price iJ)40tUU li !i v Jacket 6461 15c Skirt 6503-15c Skating is The Fashionable Fad of The Season Jacket No. 6461 and Skirt No. 6503 make a very jaunty costume for the Skater. Other smart and picturesque novelties will be found in the JANUARY PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS By all means take a glance at the nevr FASHION BOOK FOR WINTER It it mn tl&in JU W Yen a77 U MfW Costs only Ten Cents when pur chased with one Fifteen-cent Pictorial Rbvibw Pattern. Tuesday Last Day of the Month End Sewing Machine Sale IF YOU have not already secured one of these Bew inp: machines at the reduction we are making on this month-end sale, do not miss the last day. Many bargains not tafore advertised. Several machines not on the floor before today, and all at prices that will surprise you. Do not delay, but come in and get one of these machines and pay for it at Terms of $1.00 a Week Kvery Machine on the floor, formerly priced from JCft ff $55 to $70, at ipOUeUU Kvr-ry machine on the floor, formerly priced from I07 7C $40 to $55, at fd i lO Evry machine on the floor, formerly priced from lOQ C( $32 to $40, at JaSO.OU Kvory machine on the floor, formerly priced f rora J 1 Q C( $20 to $30. at iplO.Ol Every machine on the floor, formerly priced from I1 O 7C $16.50 to $20. at P lae O Kvery machine fully guaranteed and lessons and repairing free. Nearly all well known makes are here so you can have your choloa. Burffess.Ves Co. 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