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BRIEF CITY NEWS
Towasaad's for Iportlnc Ooets."
tft trtlflou Edholm Jswtlsr.
Iter Kt mat It Now PMon Prsse
Christmas Trie Xilfbtlnf OT.ft
t?urrr-3randfn company. I
Kavsstms&t . Harney and Twenty-o-ond
streets. Ante Dumont, Keeline build
ing, for particular.
Today's Mori rrorram" !'
MoUua today. It appears la Ths Bes
EXCLUSIVELY, rind out what U
(low novlnc pVatur thsatsrs offse
Iooata4 la Omaha by far tha bait
known cure for the liquor and morphine
tiabtta. It (eta results. The Furley treat
ment. 1167 Farnam, Omaha. Ftione Har-
aar fia.
paaae at TTal Cln Prof. Floyd R.
Meechera of the law college of the I'nl
enrwltr of Chicago will make an address
at the University club today at 1:16
to., following luncheon.
Appeals nne D. Kline, I10H Chl-ea-a
street was fined $10 and costs In
polioe court for selling froten apples. Ha
appealed the decision to the district court
and was released under bonds of K.
Twenty Bays Tbr stealing a fair
at gloves from the Brnndrls stores, Larl
Tagnsman. 1407 South Fourth street, was
wrested by Bpeclal Officer Finn and sen
tanoed to twenty days In the county jail.
fas state Bank of Oman a, corner Six
teenth and Harney. Pay FOUR per cent
an time deposits and THREE per cent
an sayings aooounU. All deposits In this
bank are protected by tha depositors'
guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska.
Mrs. Braka Waata Dlroroe Mm. Helen
.Drake, who has aued Jeremiah R. Drake
tor a divorce on alleged grounds of non
support, asserts that he la worth $300.0 K)
and asks tha district court to award her
(26.000 alimony. They were married March
BarveM Ooas te JopUn J. R. Barrett,
traveling freight agent tor Nebraska and
Iowa, representing the Missouri Pacific,
wtth headquarters here, goes to JopUn,
Mo., where January 1, ha will become
commercial agent. Hts successor has not
swan named.
Tampan with Showcase A five-foot
thermometer was plucked rudely from Its
moorings In front of the Browning King
at Company Monday night. The door of
one of tha outside ahowcases had been
tampered with, but tha thief evidently
Abandoned tha effort hurriedly, aa a
screwdriver was found beneath the door.
alesmsa asset Mora than a soore of
tha M. C. Peters Milling company of
this city are holulng a conference at
Hotel Fontenelle. The meeting will be re
newed Wednesday, and will close Wed
newed today, and will close In the even
ing with an elaborate entertainment,
given by ths firm for Its men. Tha latter
represent the company In all parts of the
eountry.
Be. M. T. Ieavess Kara This Week-
Rev. Robert F. Leavens of Fitch burg,
Mass.. who speaks at S:1S o'clock this
evening, December 2k, at the auditorium
of tha City National Bank building and
again at Turpln's hall, at Twenty-eighth
and Farnam, on Sunday morning, Jan-
nary S, Is one of the strong and well
known men of the younger set In the
Unitarian ministry. He graduated from
Dartmouth college, Hanover, N. H., in
jwi. Aiier leacning two years ha en
tered the Harvard Divinity school and
graduated In 1906. Ha was a Phi Beta
Kappa at Dartmouth. . . .. . .'
Ealph Leake Goes
On a Vacation and
Returns With Bride
Ralph Andrew Leake, star athlete and
assistant physical director of tha Young
Men's Christian association, surprised
other secretaries of the association Tues
day by introducing a bride upon his re
turn from a Christmas vacation. He was
married Monday at Keokuk, la., his wife
having been Miss Opel Peck Hahn
daughter of Mrs, Lewis Newton Hahn of
that city. After the first of the year tha
couple will be at home at 413 North
Twenty-fifth street
CITY LETS CONTRACTS
FOR MORE MACHINES
The city council awarded to the Sun
derland Machine and Supply company I
Contract for a atone crusher and engine,
on bida of U.S7S and 1972. This equip
ment will be used by. the department of
publio improvements next season. The
Sanitary Flushing Machine company will
furnish a flusher for the street depart
ment at a cost of $938.
OAK HILL KENSINGTON CLUB GIVES CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION, when the members dressed as kids; at the
home of Hattie Gohse, 3429 South Fifteenth street. They are: Left to right: Elsa Kroupa, Clara Gohse, Hattie Gohse,
Rose Fecha, Martha Schlottau, Etta Pinnow, Ohja Starr, Libbie Kroupa, Bessie Pecha, Clara Starr, Helen Pecha.
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ST. LUKE'S IS HOY
CITY EMERGENCY
Commissioner Connell ii Authorized
to Bent an Additional Hospital
at Once.
EMERGENCY NOW EXISTING
Health CommiRBloner Connell
brought to the attention of the city
rctincll what he regards as an emer
gency In the pcarlet fever situation.
After bearing ntatenientu by Dr. Con
i1ell, the roniintr.slnnfTK authorlrerl
the rxiendltio of $2.0t'0 for maln-
t-natice of St. l,ukc's horpltal at
Twenty-second and t-ke street aa a
city Inntltutlon for the next three
months.
The commissioner believes that
emergency jirovlslona will have to be
maintained (or at leant three months.
The building to be rented by the city
ill accommodate forty patients.
There are fifty scarlet fever pntlentn
now st the City Emergency nospltftt
cn toii(tln9 street, which Is the ca
pacity. Imrrtrirr K.l.
Durlns this year Vf scarlet fever easfS
have Wen report. to the health office,
one-half recorded this month. There have
been five deaths during ths jre. which
the health commissioner regards as a
lew rate. In his remarks to the council
he said that for everr case promptly
lunlsted and cared for, there is a preven
tion of three to five other cases.
"1 lietleve It will tak from three to
four months before the situation wlU
lime b-en relieved ami normal cotvll
tinnK rrstored." said the doctor to the
l'y nvincll.
rUinnte,l the cost of maintaining
tlio a..xl,M,y hoHpltal at IS3S a month.
I'h. l' lnn ere agntn tirsed to report
enws ri-'-nntlv and psrents are advle,1
to wnti'h their ailing children with unu
sual lnterrst.
LET CONTRACT FOR NEW
MASONIC TEMPLE SCON
Tne contract for the bulldlnj of th
new Masonic Temple at Nineteenth and
Doualas trects will probably be let In
the ntxt two or three la s. The bH
went In Mondnv.
SALESMEN AND
MANAGERS GATHER
Heads of Branch House for II. E.
Smith & Co. Here for Annual
Conclave.
BANQUET THURSDAY EVENING
One of the largeat business conventions
ever held in Omaha is now in sessloo
at ths wholesale and manufacturing
plant of M. E. Bmlth sV Co., who are
among the biggest distributers of dry
goods and kindred lines In tha west.
Ths territory covered by this firm ex
tends from the Mississippi river to tne
Pacific coast; and every salesman a no
branch office manager In the employ of
tha company Is in Omaha for the con
vention, which will last three days.
All told, there are more than l men
at the meeting, the purpose' of which Is
to plan for tha greatest year's business
In WIS In the history of the house, the
business life of which la almost half a
century.
Several men of national reputation
are on ths program, among tnetn oerng
P. M.' Short of the bureau of commercial
research of the Curtis Publishing com
pany; John 19 Mahln of Chicago, presi
dent of the Mahln Advertising company
and Frank Stockdale of the editorial
force of the 'System" magaslne. who
has specialised in analysing ths problems
of the retail merchant, and in enaeavonn
to find remedies therefor.
The convention will last for three days
and will end with a banquet at ths Rome
hotel Thursday evening, at which the
entire sales force and department man
agers will be guests of the company.
INVITATIONS OUT FOR
NEW YEAR'S OPEN HOUSE
Invitations are out for the New Tear's
reception at the Young Men's Christian
association. Hundreds ars being mailed
to contributors snd friends of the associ
ation. All members snd friends are In
vlted to attend the affair, which Is an
annual one.
This year It will be held In the after
noon aa well aa the evening, the after
noon being intended especially as a re
ception for parents of boys belonging to
the association. Directors of the organ
isation, with their wives, will be In the
receiving line, and all departments of ths
association wlU be open and will glvo
demonstrations and exhibitions of their
work.
College Leaders
Holding Annual
Conference Here
Twenty college professors attended the
opening session Tuesdsy morning of the
fourth annual conference of ths Western
Association of College Teachers at Hotel
Rome. William E. Nlcholl of Bellevue
college was acting chairman. Mora edu
cators arrived for the afternoon session,
and tha conference is to continue for two
days.
Matters of - a highly technical nature
were taken up during the morning ses
sion, particularly tha standardisation of
certain mental tests sad their correlation
with school abilities, by Prof. Irving
King, associate professor of education,
University of Iowa. By means of a chart
and the plotting of curves be Illustrated
the relative speed with which pupils in
tha several grades were able to perform
certain mental tests set before them.
Clarence W. Bcbroeder. professor of so
cial science. Tabor college, discussed the
paper and called attention to the system
already employed In New Tork City, To
peka, Kan., and. other places of employ
ing several special teachers to give their
time to helping the backward pupils in
the schools. He said that New Tork Is
getting much more efficient work now
for the money expended stnoa tha system
of mental tests has been Instituted to
find the backward children and place
them under the direct charge of teachers
specially employed to help them.
Professors from seven western states
are members of this organisation. Rep
resentatives from five ststes were pres
ent at ths first morning session. The
states represented were Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, Arkansas and Nebraska.
GIVE FAREWELL SOCIAL IN
HONOR OF JOHN ANDERSON
In honor of John Anderson, ' 2311 South
Thirty-third street, who leaves soon to
enagage in Arlsona mining business, the
Toang People's Society of Christian En
deavor of the First Presbyterian church
gave a farewell social Monday evening.
It was held at the home ot Miss Marie
Berry, 1414 North Twenty-alxth street. A
book was given Mr, Anderson as a part
ing remembrance of the Omaha En
deavors, President George Scott making
the presentation speech. Miss Grace Dud
ley and Clyde Archer won prises in
games that war played.
Missouri Pacific
, Hands Out Gifts
for the New Year
New Tear's presents In ths way af
promotions are rolling In upon tha Mis
souri Pacific officials in Omaha, and
with the promotions In all Instances
there ere substantial Increases in
salaries.
H. E. Tsylor. for fourteen years with
the Missouri Paclfto and for tba last
three years contracting freight agent
here, has received notice that January 1
he will become traveling freight agent
on tha Pacific coast, with headquarters
at Ban Francisco. He will bs under A.
R. Malcolm, assistant general freight
agent here, who was promoted to tha
position of general western freight and
passenger sgent at Ban Francisco.
J. O. Phillip!, who for several years has
been contracting freight agent here, Jan
uary 1 becomes commercial agent, with
Omaha and auburba aa his territory.
Advertiser and customer profit by the
"Classified Ad" habit.
A COLD WAVE
always brings a rush of emergency orders for coal.
It Is not possible then to eerve all customers to
the best advantage.
Don't Let Your Coal Pile Dwindle
A week of preparation is better than ten minutes
without fuel. Why not let our 70 YELL-0 WAGONS
have the chance to serve you now?
ECONOMY COAL per ton $6.50
LUMPEGG NUT Mr i ton .... . .JS3.R0
per XA ton. . ...$1.85
True to its name in fur
nace, heater or range.
PHONE DOUGLAS 252.
Sunderland Brothers Co.
Main Office Keeline Bldg., 17th and Harney Sts.
ONE OP OUR YARDtt IS NEAR YOUR HOME.
Store Hours 8:30 A. M. to 6 P. M. Saturday till 9 P. Ms
Store Hours 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturdays till 9 p. m.i
Wednesday, We Feature
An After-Christmas Clearaway Sale of
Smartly Trimmed Winter Hats
Including Values to $17.50, in
Two Lots at
$4.50
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BUY your midwinter hat here Wednesday the prices are
astonishingly low, the values extraordinarily good. Not a
hat reserved a complete clearaway "choiee-of-any" trimmed
hat worth to $17.50.
The shapes are of beautiful Lyons' velvet, trimmed effec
tively witli flowers, fur, goura and some paradise. Our advice
to all women with a hat need, is to come early.
urgess-Mash Company.
Tunwlny, December 528, 1915.
"everybody storb"
HTORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY.
Phone Douglas 1S7.
Just as We Predicted
This Great January Clearaway of Women's
Coats, Suits, Dresses, Blouses and
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At arid 4 Under Former Price
Brought Forth a Wonderful Response
THE ready-to-wear department has been crowded continually since the opening
of the sale, Monday, with shoppers eager to share in the wonderful values of
fered. It's a sale you cannot afford to overlook if you have a ready-to-wear, need
of any sort.
The garments combine smartness and perfect fit with tremendous price reduc
tion, and have in full measure the high quality that always distinguishes BUIt-OESS-NASII
ready-to-wear.
The stock of Women's Coats, Suits, Dresses, Blouses and Skirts was practically
unlimited, and, although much buying activity was shown, the assortment is still
replete with all 6izcs and remarkable values.
All conveniently arranged for easy selection with ticket bearing original as
well as sale price. Plenty of salespeople to wait upon you. Owing to the sharp
reduction in price please do not ask us to send on approval or to lay garments away.
WINTER COATS
Half Price
Coats, were $15 OO. now fT.BO
Coats, were $19.50. now $.7S
Coat, weie 25.)Q, now I2JVO
Coats, were H..OQ, now 14.7B
Coats, were 15.00. now. 17.5Q
Coats, were 945.00, now $V5.ftO
Many others underprlce.
TAILLEUR SUITS
Half Price
Tallleiir Sulta, were $19.50, now....T5
TallU-ur Suits, were jaa.OQ. now, .f Ifl-ftO
Tiillleur Suits, were 30.QO. now.. l 4.75
Tal lleur Suits, were f.W.QO. now..fl7.oO
TiuTleur Suits, were 50.OO. now . . 3.7h
TiiTlleur Suits, were j7ft.OO. now . . 7.fti
Manr others to H underprlce.
New Winter Flowers, Worth
to 98c, Clearaway Price, 19c
Some edged with fur, others plain. In
cluding roses, French buda, etc., in all the
moat favored colorings. Worth to 98c, choice,
Wednesday, at. 19e. .
Untrimmed Shapes, Worth
to $7.50, Clearaway Price, 69c
Any untrimmed winter shape in the bouse,
. v ... . rA J IVI. 1 .at. I ' a r.
day. Including Hatters' plush, Lyons' velvets,
., worth to $7.60, at. choice, 9c.
wort
needay
etc.
urgess-Nash Company
"everybody store1
Dressy BLOUSES
Third Underprice
Hloiises. were H.9.V at 2.e
1 Ho. ines, were .VP3. at 9-1.07
lllnuvcn, were lt.BO. at 1JI4
I. louses, were W.50, at $.1.07
KIousch. were tl.H, at. . . ..Q7
UIoiis.-h, were tlsToo, at. . .1Q.Q
Many others underprlce.
Afternoon Frocks
Half Price
ock, uere 25.Q0. at. . -tia.lV)
Fr.HkH. were i-W.tH). at. . .$17.00
Frocks, mre :O.OQ, at. . .$ll.7&
Frocks, were :t.IV. at. . .$10.75
Frock, were $!.VOO. at. . .flU.M
Frock, weif 5Q.OO, at.". $24.75
Others A to k underprlce.
CHILDREN'S COATS
Half Price
Ctilklrens Coats, were $5.QO. at $2.PO
Children's Coats, were $7.50, at $.7
Children's Coats, were $10.00, at $5.QO
Children's Coats, were $12.50. at $a.aa
Child real's Coats, were SIP .SO, at $9.75
Children's Coats, were $32.50, at fll.-VI
Many others V4 to underprlce.
COATS in the Basement
Half Price
Coats, wore $3.05, now $1.98
Coats, were $1.95, now $2.48
Coats, were $5.95, now $2.98
Coals, were $7.95, now .$3.98
Coats, were $9.95, now $4.08
Coats, were $12.95, now $(I.4N
Many other Vi to H uuderprlie.
Durness-Nash Co. Every body 'i Store ICth and Harney