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f OVERFLOW DINNER
I i Gala and Hilarious Affair Exceeds
Si Promoters' Expectations in
Ak-Sar-Ben Hustling Committee All Ready for Business
h v Numbers and Spirit.
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Over 300 Rood fellows enjoyed tb
pood fellowship dinner at theCom
merrial club last night. f
They crowded the main dining
room and overflowed Into the. south
dining room and the private dining
rooms on the east.
The dinner was delayed a half
hour, because the crowd that flocked
to the lobby was greater than had
been anticipated. Plates for 290
guests had been laid, on the strength
of some 260 reservations. Many
last-minute men, however, came
crowding In, bought tickets and de
manded places. Extra tables were
soon set, and the vast army fell to.
"Head Greaadea" Thrown.
Taper hats of every color decorated
the heads of the guest i, and red balloons
of the Zeppelin type f osted about the
room, or exploded like hand grenade
bombs, when they struck the Tieads
of some of the more hald members.
O. T. Eastman, chairman of the en
tertainment committee, waa master of
ceremonies. Ceremonies, however, were
decidedly Informal, although Mr. East
man with megaphone In hand did his
hest to hold the "lawless" aggregation
In hand. The orchestra played the fastest
of rags, 1 'Galatea" tt&need the choicest
of "her" twirls, and the delegation of
cowboys and farmers from Kansas,
Utah and Iowa, stumped Into the room
demanding1 "time out" to hold a good
roads convention.
Manler ta Overalls.
Bob Manley headed the delegation In
overalls, and called the meeting to or
der. There waa a squabble about where
to locate ths "highway," alnce Tale
Holland as the bewhlskered Mormon
from Utah, favored Iowa, because three
of his wives were from 'that state.
"Galatea," with whom he was even at
that moment falling fn love, claimed a
residence in Des Moines.
"Toast" Frank Latenoer.
Frank Latenser, aa the tough cowboy
from Wyoming, forgot his part and
voted for Iowa instead of Kansas, but
no one expected the boys to give a first
class vaudeville performance, so all had
to cheer; for, were they not expected
to be good follows T
Cartoonist Bloodhart did up some of
the prominent members of the club
physlogonomlcally In cliarcoal on white
paper, and got conuiderable applause.
Among those whose faces appeared In
the cartoon work were: J. W. Gamble,
T. A. Fry, Randall K. Brown and C. E.
Tost.
E. V. Psrrleh, manager of the bureau
of publicity, showed the Omaha moving
plct&re . reels, giving en instructive lec
ture as an accompaniment.
STECHER SAVES HIMSELF
FROM FALLOT BUTTE
BUTTE, Mont, March 24.-B1U te
metral, , who terms himself the Greek
champion, lifted Joe . Stecher of Ne
braska, claimant of the world's heavy
weight championship, high In the air
here tonight and slammed him to the mat.
Stecher saved himself from a fall,' how
ever, and finally defeated Demetral.
The Copper City club, which staged the
bout, announced a bid of 160,000 for the
Gotch-Stecher match in Butte In July.
Stecher secured the first fall In six
minutes and forty-two seconds and the
second fall in four minutes and seven
J seconds. It took Frank Gotch a total
Xof fifty-seven minutes to throw Demetral
recently.
jWgeorge finds republicans
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, March 24.-(Speclal.)-W'alter
George, candidate for the republican
nomination for governor, while in Lincoln
last night, said 'that republican sentu
- ment Is running high in the North Flatt.
country. He has covered the state along
the Union Paclfio lines aa far west as
Kearney, and back over the Burlington
to Lincoln. He says there Is a strong
Hughes for president sentiment among
republicans wherever he went, and that
the principal amusement of the democrats
wss cussing Bryan.
Me was called to Omaha by a message
announcing the death of an aunt of Mrs.
George.
UNION PACIFIC PAYS
MRS. SHAW $10,000
TECTUMS EH, Neb., Mereh 24.-Speclal.)
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has settled the claim of Mrs. Minnie
Shaw of Tecumseh, growing out or the
loss of the life of her husband, Alva O.
Shaw, In the motor wreck near Ran
dolph, Kan., on October 16 last. Mlra.
Shaw Is to receive 110,000. This Is the ex
tent of the liability of the transporta
tion company for the loss of a life in
le state of Kansas. The settlement has
Just been made.
' Notee from Colambaa.
COLUMBUS, Neb., March tt-Special.)
Henry F. Brumken and Miss Anna O.
Hulsehen of Platte Center were married
here yesterday by Rev. Mlessler of ths
German Lutheran church.
Henry Melneke snd son, Jesse, of
Tomah. Wis., will! arrive here Monday
and an organisation will be perfected
Monday afternoon for the building of a
1260,000 packing plant. Local men are
taking stock.
About llfiO worth of colthlng. ladles' snd
men's shoe, four suit cases, fourteen
bracelets and SU In cash were stolen yes
terday morning from the store of Pave
Helphand on Keleventh street Officers
were notified and discovered that two
negroes who had left for Kansas City
were the burglars.
At the stockholders meeting of the
I'latte County Independent Telephone
company held this afternoon, it waa de
cided to expend llS.OGo In Improvements
of the lines and putting wire underground
in this city.
Between forty and fifty bushels of corn
were stolen yesterday morning from the
granary of W. W. Scott.
'fk jrt OpiortaalH-a
V ,or m" ln th northwest, whether look-
sr i ie lor ouiinru irtrannna firm ...
pleasure trips. Unexcelled train service
the Soo Line from 1. Paul and Min
neapolis. Address V. It. Harley, . P.
... Hi Filth Street. Dos Molives, Iowa.
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Lower Bow, T,eft to rtlsht L. N. Munce, George H. Helntse. .I. D. Weaver. F. W. Judsnn, . K.verett Hucklngha m. C. I.. Ss.inilprs. K. t. Potter, Mm
Moser. Joe Blxler, Col Goldatrom. iSecond Kow. left to Right M. l Griffin. George F. McKhane. Max Asor, R. '. Ilnves, N. P. Tlmrson, K. Hurkeit, A. I..
Laurence. H. K. Mahaffey. leo H. I'lers, M. fulkin. Third Row H. O. Henford. A. C. Potter, John Caldwell. A. R. M ationev, Hvron W. llart. Allen Tukev,
"Uoc" Kr-e, II. K. Htevena, L. P. Oyhrbers, J. W. Harwell. Top Row W. s. Link, Ray lor, eo Wilson, W. H. Crawfoni. F. II. Parsons. M. J. Curran,
W. E. Davis, Dan Whltnev.
SHAW TALKS PREPAREDNESS
Former Secretary of Treasury Calls
Inadequate Armament a
Crime.
A EMS SHOULD BE Of BEST
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
DF3 MOINES. la.. March 24. CPeclal
Telegram.) In an addresa here today on
preparedness, former Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M, Shew, declared the
curse of Ood will and should rest upon
any country that will call Its best blood
to colors without training them to pro
tect themselves, without lving them
arms aa good ss those they will be com
pelled to face, without furnishing them
ammunition to last until the fight la
over, without protecting their positions
and their movements with artillery as
ample In quantity and of as long range
as that of the enemy, In short without
doing anything and everything to In
sure victory.
Any preparedness less thsn sdequn'.e
Is folly, he said. War waged with anti
quated equipment Is worse thsn murder
for It subjects those who heed the
call to duty and who answer to the
call of the country to Ignominious do
feat and shameless slaughter.
Hear Taft at Ames.
Many atate officers ment to Ames yes
terday to bear William Howsrd Taft In
his lecture on "Our World's Relations."
The former president Is delivering a
series of three lectures there before the
student body. Tomorrow he speaks on
"The Military and Naval Defenses of the
United States Whst They Are and
What They Ought to Be." On Saturday
morning he will speak on "The Duties of
Cltlsenship."
More Candidates.
Byron W. Newberry of Strawberry
Point, Clayton county, a member of the
state senate for three sessions. Is again
a candidate for the senatorship. C. II.
Dickey of Keokuk has come, put ss a
candidate- for representative f from y Leo
county. ' '
Labor Shortasje,
There is a shortsge of common labor,
the state free employment bureau re
ports. With no Immigration coming ln
from the old countries and many having
returned to Europe, there Is no supply to
draw from. The bureau has many appli
cations for farm help,, a number of them
being for man and wife, the man to work
In the fields and the woman lh the
house.
Deaths Increase.
In 1915 ths total number of deaths ln
the state from alt causes was 2,836 and
ln 1914 the total waa 22.259. according to
figures Just compiled by the office of the
secretary of the Board of Health. The
state department haa no statistics on
births and Dr. Sumner, secretary of the
Board of Health. Is endeavoring to have
legislation passed which will provide for
the reporting of birth statistics.
Move to Omaha.
Ths revenue accounting department of
the Iowa Telephone company having
charge of state accounts Is being movod
from Des Moines to Omaha. The em.
ployes in that department are being
transferred to the Nebraska metropolis.
Ths northwestern group of states. In
cluding Iowa, Nebraska, North and South
Dakota will all have their revenue ac
counting departments at Omaha here
after. This department looks after state
accounts, but not local accounts.
Becomes laapoetor of Osara.
Colonel George H. Morgan of St Paul,
who has been assigned to the work of
Inspector of cavalry of the Iowa Na
tional Guard, to take the place of Cap
tain George J. Cden, reached Des Moines
today and will begin his work of inspec
tion st once. The first place to be visited
Child Gets Sick
Cross, Feverish
If Constipated
Look at tongue! Then give
fruit laxative for stom
ach, liver, bowels.
"California Syrup of Figs"
can't harm children and
they love it.
A laxative today saves a sick child to
morrow. Children simply will not take
the time from play to empty their bowels,
which become clogged up with waste,
liver gets sluggish; stomach sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! If coated,
or your child Is restless, cross, feverish,
breath bad. restless, doesn't eat heartily,
full of cold or has sore throat or any
other children's ailment, give a teaspoon
ful of "California Syrup of Figs," then
don't worry, because It Is perfectly harm
less, and ln a few hours all this consti
pation poison, sour bile and fermenting
waste will gently move out of the bow.
els, and you havs a well, playful child
again. A thorough "Inside cleansing" Is
oftttmes all that is necessary. It should
be tbe first treatment given In any sick
ness. ,
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask
your druggist for a 60-cent bottle of
"California Syrup of Figs," which hai
full directions for bsbles, children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly printed
on ths bottle. Look carefully and
that It is mads by ths "California fcyru
Company."
will be Iowa City. Captain Oden of the
Fifth cavalry, who has been the lnspe
tor here. Is down on the Mexican border
with his regiment doing guard duty.
ew laaaraaee toiupaaj-.
A new mutual Insurance company has
just been formed with headquarters at
Mason City, which has incorporated under
the nsme of the Iowa Cttlsens' Fun Mu
tual Insurance association. The officers
are: President, A. J. Klllmer; vice, presi
dent, W. E. Olldner: secretary. Earl J.
Mewton. Articles of lncorporstlon were
filed ln the secretsry of state's office
today..
Short Welshta hared.
Short weight barrels of gasoline snd
also of rock candy syrup have been seised
by the state weights and measures de
partment the last few days and prosecu
tions may follow. Shipments of rock
candy syrup at Des Moines, Ottuniwa,
Cedar Rapids and Burlington have been
15,000
Suits
to
Choose
From
Sure! WeVe Always Had
The Best Clothes
The best styles and best fabrics. Clothes that express noth
ing but good taste and contain every attractive feature that
The World 's Best Tailors Can Provide.
There is a model for you--a style-a size--a pattern-all your
own in a "Kuppenheimer," "Society Brand" or ' Collegian" gar
ment at $18, $20, $22.50, $25 up to $40.00.
$15
Models for young men
serges, homespuns and smart
Dashing
Spring
Top Coats
In the new mix
ed fabrics, but
ton through or
fly front. Neat
black or gray
mixtures. Silk
lined, quarter or
serge as you like,
$15 to $25
Light weight
Slip-ons or Rain
Coats, new soft,
pliable f a brlcs:
mixture and
plain tan, gray
and brown. With
self and velvet
collars
$150. $3.50, $5,
$5
$7.50, $10 to
$25.00
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examined and some of the barrels found
to be as much ss five gallons short. In
asmuch aa the syrup Is sold at wholesale
at M to W cents per gallon, the shortage
on a barrel amounts to from $2.60 to $3
In value, the state department says.
Wants Reread Term.
Roy D. Nordyke of Richland. Keokuk
county, member of the Thirty-sixth gen
eral assembly. Is a candidate for re-election.
He has written to Secretary of
State W. 8. Allen asking for nomination
papers.
Department Orders.
WASHINGTON.' March 14 -(Special
Telegram.) Following rural letter car
riers appointed:
Linn Grove, Edward IS. Brick son
Perry, Westley A. T. Thornbnrg.
The Treasury department has granted
a charter to the First National bank.
Cartilage, . D. , with a capital of 2."..onn.
The First National bank of Htghmnre,
8. P., has been authorised to increase
Its capital from 3o.0W to A(t.nOft.
Mall service has been established as
BERG SUITS ME
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(Osrments thst make men look and feel young.)
If you wish to invest just Fifteen Dollars in a suit
come here and get the Best Suit $15 was ever known
to buy 1
and older ones Ascot stripes, screen checks, piping rock flannels,
mixtures. Regular f 18.00 and 120.00 values, for 815.00.
Buys a Wonderfully Good Suit
for Boys "at This Store"
We Iiatb thousands of smart styUtl suits for lxys thai
we know to be the best value u the wemt, Ix-caUNe they are
priced way below their actual worth.
ALL HI ITH are made with two pairs of full lined knlrker
borkera and some of the styles have in feasst fin
addition cap and belt to match Tbey UU
would be exceptional values at $6.60. 1 ,T
Our price
Plenty of outs Good suits from 82.50 to 812.00.
There's no bigger choice in town from which
to choose your new shirt or lighter underwear
IIAN'DHOMK NKW 8HIKTH Pleated or soft bosom; French
or laundered cuffs 81, 81.50. 82. 82.50
rXDl'.KWK.Ml A choice selection of tip ring underwear, ln
the several lengths of sleeves and legs; knit, mercerized
or checked materials 81. 81.50. 82
NLCKWKAIt Have you noticed the new neckwear in our
windows "Bwell" 50
follows: Ogallwla-Topen Hlflxe. . IV,
contract for carrying mail awarded to
Russell A Kern of Pine Rlilie: Free
land to R. A. Clark Ranch. VVyomlng.
c ' '""llrt tvird In b'rnv Ma IMP nf Vrmm
land.
. ..(office department haa accepted the
proposal of O. H. Copley to renew lease
for nreaent miartara for nnstnffleA at
Fullerton. Neb.
DEATH RECORD
Reward K, Haaloa.
Edward K. Hanlon. formerly of Fre
mont, died ln Olen, Colo. He Is survived
by his wife and two children. The body
will be brought to Omaha for funeral
services from ths home of Mrs. W. 11.
Madden, X1T Ohio street.
How to Care Colas.
Avoid exposure snd drafts. Est right.
Tske Dr. King's New Discovery. It kills
and destroys the cold germs. All drug
gists. Advertisement.
15,000
Suits
to
Choose
From
New Hats
If you want your
new hat to be In
a stylish color
and to hava both
style and color,
you will find It
ln a "MaHor y
Rain
proof," at, $3
or exactly what
you want in a
"Stetson," at
$3.50, $4
or $5.00
At $2.00
The best select
ed styles and
shades In town.
New Caps, at
$1.00
$12.50
lUx-ker or (lialr.
Mission style, golden oak finish. Golden oak, high back, genuine
genuine Spanish lesther auto leather spring seat, heavy stock.
cushion. ' ,
Orchard & Wilhelm
Offer a Carload of Attractive Rockers
in Golden Oak, Popularly Priced
$10.50, $14, $15, up to $28
EVERY ONE A BIO VALUE.
Announcing for
Monday the 27th
Sale of
COWAN
FURNITURE
Watch Sunday Papers.
Crochet Bed Spreads, $1.50 Each
87x7 S Inches excellent quality.
45-Inch Filet Net, Yard, 40c
I Comes in Itory and ecru.
40-Inch Curtain Muslin, Yard, 25c
Dotted and figured, very sheer and beautiful.
Ruffled Muslin Curtains, Pair, $1.25
In dots and small figures for bedrooms.
$1.
Jp Each for Any of These ,
Pure Aluminum Utensils
0-quart Ilerlin kettles 2-qiuirt double holler 2-qunrt percolators
6 and rV-quart preervlng kettles - ".-quart llerlln sauce pans.
A purchase made before the phenomlnal rise of aluminum articles.
Is now worth fl.60 to 12.00.
Buy a. Herrick
Refrigerator
93.00 allowed fur your old
refrigerator If applied oif
a new Herrick.
Moderately pricod per
fect dry air circulation ,
solid oak case safe guar
dian of the family's food
supply.
The New Japanese Rag Rugs
$1.25 $1.75 $2.00 $2.85 $0.00
24i48 27x54 ' ' 30x60 36x72 (4x90
llevrralble Attractive low Priced. Yon srlll like them.
Brussels
Rugs
$16.00
8-9x10-6 sue, Seamltti.
Mostly small, all-over patterns,
ib a variety of colorings.
Linoleum, Square Yard. 50c, 60c to 80c
Wide assortment of new patterna ln printed linoleums.
GOLD MEDAL HISSIX CAKPET HWKEPEKS, $3.25
A Victrola
for Every Home
A wide range of styles and prices, $15 to
$300, and convenient terms of payment
mskes It possible for every home to pos
sess a Victrola.
No More Pleasing Place to
Judge Victrola Quality Than
Our New
Victrola Gallery
Ith Floor
Newest Itecorrts and Tunjpt-.
tone Stylus for Hale.
Orchard & Wilhelm Co.
414-16-18 South 16th St.
Bqq Eivi)MoparlipGib
Dm Public
Oirpsts
its iVit E7craV&rs
81
$9.75
lUxker
Sample
Brass and Iron
BEDS
25 to 33f Off
Somewhat marred, occasion
ally one a little tarnished; full
and 4 sices. Satin brass,
white enamel. Vernls Martin
llexls from fft.OO up to $40.00.
Wool-Faced
Velvet Rugs
$21.50
9rlt $iu.
Closely woven, short nap rugs,
rich and effective colorings.
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