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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1916. BEEF CITY NEWS "TownMnd's for Sporting Goods." EIctrtc Fans, fi.5fh. Burgess-Gran den Co. Goodrich Garden How Morton & Son. Diamond Engagement Rings Edliotra. Have Soot Print It Now Beacon Pren. For Sale 6H and ft per cent city and farm mortgages, J.H.Dumont. Keellne bldg. "Today's Movie Program," classified amo tion today. It appears In The Bee exclu sively. Find out what the various moving picture theaters offer. Andirons, Flro Screens Sunderland's. Two New City Autos The city council awarded a contract for the purchase of a new five-passenger automobile for the mayor, the cost to be 1 ,650. Bids will be advertised for a five-passenger car for Commissioner Parks of the street cloanlng and maintenance department. Contract for Lamp Posts Paxton A Vter llng company was awarded a contract by the city for furnishing standards for a Street lighting extension on the Happy Hol low boulevard, Western avenue to Elm wood park. The bid was f 14 per standard and the contract will be in the sum of $770. Resolutions for A. D. Brandels Suitable resolutions on the death of Arthur P. Bran dels are to be adopted by the Associated Retailers of Omaha at the next meeting to be held Wednesday, June 18, A committee hag been appointed to draft the resolution. They are Robert Roaenzweig L. C. Nash and C. C. Belden. Bids for Fontenelle Park Lagoon The city will advertise for bids for excavation work for a lagoon In Fontenelle park. This Improvement will cover four and one-quarter acres and will be parked in an at tractive manner. Bathing and wading ac commodations will be provided. It Is pro posed to open the lagoon next spring. Css "Tex-TUe" Shingle Sunderland's. Judge Day Decides Hummel May Hire Bands He Chooses That the resolution passed by the city council which barred nonunion musicians from obtaining employ ment for public work concerts, is not binding, was the decision of District Judge George A. Day, at the conclu sion of the hearing on application for injunction proceedings brought by Med s. Keevcs, who sued on behalt of himself and sixty other nonunion men. Judge Day held that the resolution was not mandatory and that the ques tion of hiring bands is one that is entirely up to the judgment of the park commissioner. In his petition, Reeves declared the resolution passed by the council, be ing discriminatory, was, therefore, unconstitutional. He also alleged that an attempt was being made to give monopoly to certain interests. MAY RAISE LIMIT OF LIFE MEMBERS TO ATHLETIC CLUB President Fraser of the Omaha Athletic club says lie expects to call the directors together this week to arrange details of admitting women to membership and to determine whether or not to raise the limit on life memberships. The membership committees say the demand for the $500 life member ships is going to be larger than the 300 limit placed by the directors. Directors also plan to take up this week matters pertaining to selection of an architect. TRAVELING FREIGHT AGENT ARRIVES WITH BUT ONE SHOE George Carlson, traveling freight agent of the Chicago Great Western, surprised the employes of the com pany's local office by arriving on the scene wearing only one shoe, the other foot covered with a stocking. Carlson came in from St. Paul, and some time during the night, while in the sleeper, some person stole one of his shoes. He blames the theft upon some man with one leg, assert ing -that if the thief had been a man with two legs, he would have stolen both shoes. TO OPEN BIDS FOR WORK ON CITY HALL ON JULY 6 On July 6 the city council will open bids for remodeling the city hall ac cording to plans and specifications prepared by W. E. Stockham and now on file in the city clerk's office. The 'city council authorized advertising for the bids. The cost of this remodeling will ap proximate $35,000 and will be paid proportionately from the general city, water and school funds. From sixty to ninety days will be required to complete the work. TWO GRANTED DIVORCES: FOUR FILE PETITIONS The following decrees for divorce have been granted: Jessie teroy Cops, from Ida Copsj'Lcuise Brown, from Clayton P. Brown. Petitions filed are as follows: Abbie from Joseph Stoss; married in Coun cil Bluffs in 1893; cruelty. Francis W. Kiersey from Margaret; charges desertion. Henry A. Lee from Esther Lee, desertion. Margaret Vaughn from Jess Vaughn, desertion. Keeping 'Em Guessing Author of The End of the Trail, "Fighting In Flanders Tfeo Road to Glory." "Vte la Franca, ' etc. Copyright, ltl 8, by E. Alexander Powell. FIFTH INSTALLMENT. HYNOPSI8. Lieutenant .Tarvfn Hnno ( rlrttatlM hv the Jnited States, naval board to Investigate and report his findings on the Invention of ur, Ralph urke..whtch serves to bring the submarine to a state of perfection. The lieutenant arrives in Valdavla and Is wel comed by the Inventor and his daughter, Cleo. On the trial trip of the Inventor's boat, a Japanese helper Is surprised In the act of examining the mechanism of the ven tilating device. Hope reports favorably on the new device, but there are others inter ested In It. An attempt to burglarise Dr. Burke's laboratory falls, but later Cleo finds him murdered Irf his bedroom. Cleo sells her father's library to get money: later she finds a note, from which she learns that they con tain the secret formula. Wit Hope she races to the auctioneer's store, only to find It In flames. Olga Tvanoff and Gerald Morton, two spies In search of the formula, attempt to capture tleo when she calls at the hoUBe of Stephaneki. the anarchist. Hope rushes to her aid; Morton shoots at him. but the bullet hits a bomb. In the cellar, which ex plodes. KANSAS CITY MAN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED IN YARDS Arriving in Omaha on the "rit- Tiers, frank Lookman of Kansas City, instead of being handed the keys of the city was handed a brick on the head. The assault occurred in the rail road yards. Cookman reported the loss of $9, which he was holding in reserve for a "rainy day." he said, in stead of spending it to ride the "cush ions." He announced his intention of returning to Kansas City and never visiting Omaha again. SWEDISH SINGERS TO HAVE SPECIAL NIGHT AT DEN Sampson has issued a call for all members of the working crew to re port at the den this evening in order to provide thrills for the visiting Swedish singers, who will be the guests of honor of his majesty on mar. mgnt. NEW AUTO FIRE TRUCKS INSPECTED BY CITY DADS Mayor Dahlman and other mem bers of the city council inspected the new fire apparatus r.t Fire Station No. 3. Chief Mechanician Faulkner explained some of the points of the trucks. . The machines will be put in service this week. Stomach Troubles and Constipation. i win cneeriuuy say tnat Chamber, tain's Tablets are the most satiafar. tory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation that I have sold in thirty. four years' drug store service," writes S. H. Murphy, druggist. Wellsburg, Si. X. UDUmaOie everywhere. Adv. - The Secret SL Submarine By E. Alexander Powell (Continued from Yesterday.) So Cleo told how she had waited at the hotel until long past the hour at which Hope and Hook had pro mised to rejoin her; how, tearful or missing Stephanski and thus losing the opportunity to examine the book, she had gone to the house in the Edgemere road alone; how she had been seized, bound and gagged: how a masked woman had threatened her with torture if she did not reveal the key to the cryptogram; how, upon hearing Hone's motor, a man, also masked, had carried her into the cel lar;'how she had succeeded in ridding herself of the gag, and how Hook, orowling about at the rear of the house, had heard her screams and had dragged her from the cellar in the very nick ot time. The scoundrels, exclaimed Hope, as she concluded her amazing recital. ' And the book? inquired Hope, eagerly. "Did you have a chance to examine it before they attacked you?" Yes, said Lleo, 1 went tnrougtt it, page by page, from cover to cover. There was nothing in it." Well." said Hone, as Ueo and Hook aided him to his feet, "there's no need to be discouraged. It isn't likely that we would have found the formula in the first book we looked in, anyway. We still have eleven chances left. The thing to do now is to get in touch with the people who bought the other books. Let's see " and he took from his pocket the page from Dawson's ledger, "the next name on the list is that of an old friend of 'mine Mrs. Reginald Del- mar. She s the wife ot the British consul in San Francisco; I used to know her when her husband was at tached to the embassy at Washington. She u do anytning snc can 10 neip Little thev dreamed, as they de parted from the scattered house, that two snadowy ngures, turning Dcnmo a curtain had overheard every word of their conversation. Still less did' Morton and O m dream that the Jap anese, Satsuma, crouching in the darkness outside one of the broken windows, had overheard the conversa tion, too. The following morning Hope and Cleo motored out to the handsome residence of th"e. British consul on Ocean View avenue. Mrs. Dclmar, a handsome, gray-haired woman, gave them a cordial greeting. "It's been ages since I've seen you, Mr. Hope," she said. "The last time was at dinner at the Russian embassy, wasn't it or was it at the New Year's reception at the White House? What do you mean by coming to San Fran cisco and not letting me know?" Hope briefly sketched the remark able chain of events which had brought him from the nation's capital to "the shores of the Pacific, telling of the mysterious death of Dr. Burke, of the disappearance of the formula, and of the thrilling chase of the books. "Wi,v it' a reeular romance. Mrs. Delmar exclaimed, clapping her hands with excitement as through she were at a theater. "Someone ought to wfHe a play around it for the movies it's the most exciting story I ever listen ed to in my life. Two of the books you describe I bought yesterday at Dawson's auction rooms. I got them quite by accident, too. I went in there to look at some Chinese porcelains I had been told about just as the auctioneer was offering these two volumes on electricity. I don't know an earthly tKing about electricity I don't know the difference between a magneto and a volt but my nephew, Francis Leyland, is taking the course in electrical engineering at Leland Stanford, so I bought the books more as a joke than anything else, and sent them down to him." "Do you think he would let us see them it we motored down to Palo Alto?" asked Cleo eagerly. "I've a better plan than that," said Mrs. Delmar, who dearly loved a ro mance. "I am giving a reception this evening and you are both to come to it yes, you must come, Miss Burke. I simple won't take no for an answer. My nephew is coming up from Palo Alto fr the occasion and Twill tele phone him to bring the books with him. Then you can take them upstairs to the library and close the door and look at " and she smiled " at the books to your heart's content." "I shall be very glad indeed to come if Mr. Hope cares to bring me," said Cleo simply. "When I saw you shake your head I thought that you didn't want to go." said Hope as he helped Cleo into his car. "Of course I want to go, Jarvis," she answered, with a trace of embar rassment, "but J. haven't any evening gown at leasfnone that would do for Mrs. Delmar's reception. And I didn't feel that I could afford to buy one." Her lip quivered. "I haven't very much money, you know." "Bless my soul," said Hope, rum maging in an inside pocket until he found a letter, "here's something that Dawson asked me to hand you yesterday, but there was so much ex citement last night that it entirely slipped my mind." "It's the money from the sale of father's library," said Cleo, holding up a pale-green slip. "I think," she added happily, "that I'll spend this afternoon shopping. I didn't want you to be ashamed of me tonight, Jarvis." Hope and Cleo were scarcely out of sight before Satsuma, who had ob served their arrival and departure from the shelter of a drug store on the opposite side of the street, was ringing the door bell of the Delmar residence. "Mrs. Delmar is not seeing anyone today," said the butler, sizing ip the Japanese as an applicant for employ ment "But it is on a matter of importance that I wish to see her," persisted Satsuma. "Mrs. Delmar cannot see you to day," repeated the servant firmly. "She is busy preparing for a reception she is giving this evening. If you wish to see her you can call tomorrow." (To Be Continued.) PACIFIC JUNCTION MAN IS Rnc5BED OF HIS WATCH Frank Martin of Pacific Junction, la., reported to the police that his room was entered by an uninvited visitor, who stole a valuable gold watch and a considerable quantity of wearing apparel. Constipation and Sick Headache. Dr. King's New Life Pills will relieve you of both, clean out the bowels and make yon feet fine. J6c. All druggists. Adv. , RETAILERS SCORE 'RETDRNGOODS' EVIL They Contend That Publio Sentiment is Against Wearing So-Called "Second-Hand" Apparel. PROBLEM IN LARGER CITIES bud, because as the city grows and the evil spreads it becomes harder and harder to handle. In New York the women are beein- ning to take the fight up themselves, insisting that they do not want to wear garments and hats that some other woman has taken out and worn Omaha retailers are going to make a renewed effort to overcome the "send on approval" and "return goods" evil in the retail trade. They are determined that the prac-. tice of taking out so much goods and then returning them on a slight pre text must stop. The campaign against these evils is spreading rap idly all over the country and St. Louis asserts it has already reduced the evil some 50 per cent in the last year. "We want to shut off the chronic returners," said Secretary J. W. Met calfe of the Associated Retailers of Omaha. "We have lists of some of the chronic returners in our files in theassociation office and with the aid of these we arc able to check the evil to some extent, but we must do more than -we have done. I talked to the head of a large dry goods house in St. Louis a few days ago, a man whose store does a $40,000,000 annual business. When I told him the evil was not so great in Omaha as it was in St. Louis, he told me not to crow, for he assured inc that the evil would grow as the town grew. He also con vinced me that the only way to han dle the situation is to nip it in the MRS, MAY'S LETTER to WOMEN More Proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com poundRelievesSuffering. lit. Ill I lluiiUl 1 I P 1 if- d k 111 Chicago, III. "I suffered from a bad case of female ills, Lydis E. Pinkham 'a vegetable Com pound was recom mended and I took about six bottles. It fixed me up all right. The common symptoms of such a condition pain when walking, irri tation, be aringdown pains and backache, nervousness and dis ordered digestion- soon passed away. I look much better now than I did before, and I recommend the Compound every time for female troubles, as it did for me all it is claimed to do. You have my permission to pub lish this letter." Mrs. J. MAY, 8548 S. Lincoln St, Chicago, 111. If you have any of the symptoms men tioned in Mrs. May's letter, remember what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for her, and try it your self. It is a good old-fashioned medi cine, made from roots and herbs, and it has helped countless numbers of women. If you need gpecial ad vice, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be onened. read and answered by a woman, and field in strict confidence. Mattress and Pillow Sale UNION OUTFITTING COMPANY 16th and Jackson Streets. SATURDAY, JUNE 24 A big special purchase of high grade mattresses and pillows, bought by us just previous to the heavy ad vance in price of cotton and cotton materials. The prices paid by us were so low compared with the manufac turers' prices of today, that we are enabled to put the entire purchase on special sale for this one day only at prieea that will mean an absolute sav ing to you of at least one-half. In cluded In this big purchase are a number of 46 and SO -pound elastic fett mattresses with beautiful art and stripe tick coverings, as well as com bination mattresses, felt tops, felt top and bottom, etc., etc., etc. Also 4 big assortment of very fine pillows, such as downs, goose, duck and mixed feathers. -Come to this big sale, expecting to find extraordinary values and you will not be disappointed and, as always, YOU MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS. to a ball or to some other function and then returned. They say it is just like wearing secondhand goods, and they are urging all women to have consideration for each other in this matter." The problem is coming up for dis cussion again at the next meeting of the Associated Retailers of Omaha. AUTO STRIKES DOWN BOY AND THEN SPEEDS AWAY Cecil Barnes, IS years old, 2717 Capitol avenue, suffered a broken right arm when he was struck in front of his home Monday evening. The driver of the machine did not stop. 0: Summertime Footwear That Answers Every Demand of Dame Fashion New ModelsEvolved Especially for the 16 Summer Cirl Whether your preference Is toward the new Pastel Shades to White or to the altogether charming new two-tone effects you have the broadest range of styles to choose from here. Colonial and severely plain high waistline, pumps are pre emlnetly the vogue and they represent the last word designers have to offer. Prices Are $3.50 and Up t3a cvDoucrtsis 0 a 1 Store Hours, 8:30 to 5 p. m. Saturdays Till 9 p. m. Burgess-Nash Company Tuo.d.y, June 20, 1916. -everybody' storb STORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY. Phone Douglas 13T. Remarkable One Day Clearaway Wednesday of WASH MATERIALS Involving the Season's Most Favored Weaves, Patterns and Colorings at Prices That Are Simply Ridiculous THE season's backwardness has prompted us to make this very unusual offer ing, which embraces practically our entire stock of imported and domestic wash goods. Five big groups: Wash Goods, Were to 49c For Wednesday at 25c Including 40-Inch printed voiles in stripes, fig ures, plaids and floral effects. 36-Inch Beed voiles in gray, blue, pink and lavender. 27-Inch tissue in stripes and plaids. 40-Inch woven stripe voiles. 36-Inch wash poplins. 36-Inch flowered organdies. Scores of patterns, were to 49c, at 25c per yard. Wash Goods, Were 25c Wash Goods, Were to 75c . For Wednesday at 39c Including 40-in. marquisettes in floral effects. Silk mulls, neat stripes, figures, plaids English silk voiles with pretty stripes. Crepe de chine, 36-in., plain shades Silk warp skirting, stripes, plain colors Pique for sport skirt; silk stripe crepe Striped voile, new coin dot effect. Striped palm beach suitings. Were 69c to 76c, very special at 39c a yard. 39c 25c to 39c, at 9c Including wash suitings In plain shades of tan, brown, Copenhagen, light bue, also pretty stripe in pink, tan and lavender in ratine effects, all 38 inches wide, were 25c to 39c, Wednesday, yard 9c Wash Goods, Were $1 to $1.25, at 79c Including Fine embroidered voiles and crepes. - Woven silk stripe voile and marquisette. Plain marquisette, silk stripe crepes, etc. Plain whit, voile, with protty am brold.red border., light tint.. BurfM.-Na.lt Co. Mabi Floor. 79c Imported Zephyr Ginghams, Were 29c, for 19c Over 60 different styles In plaids, stripes, checks and plain colors in the range of selection beautiful new ef fects that were 29c, very special for Wednes- 1 A . day at, yard Remnant Lengths of New 1916 WHITE GOODS Formerly 25c to $1, Wednesday 9c, 19c and 29c WE have accumulated a big lot of remnants from the season's selling of long cloth, nainsook, batiste, organdie, voile, lawn, pique, shirtings, waistings, novelties, etc., for a quick, decisive clearaway. We will place them on sale Wednesday in 3 lots. WHITE GOODS, Were to 25c 9c WHITE GOODS, Were to 50c 19c 40c White Organdie, 29c Fine sheer white organdie, especially desirable for cool summer waists and dainty dresses; regular 40c value; specially priced Wednesday at yard, 29c. Burg..'Nh Co. M.ln Floor. WHITE GOODS, Were to $1.00 29c Beach Cloth, 17c White beach cloth, 84 inches wide, desirable for skirts, middies; yard, 17c 35c White Voile, 25c Fine mercerized voile, white only, full 36-in. wide. Full Size Canvas PORCH SWING Exactly Like Illustration, Wednesday. $5.95 MADE of an extra heavy canvas in the popular and easily-kept-clean khaki color steel frame and steel springs; seat with adjustable head rest and comfort able mattress; complete df AC chains; Wednesday at. . .pJoJ All-steel standards, as illustrated $2.95 This Reed Rocker, Wednesday, $7.85 Made of hand-woven imported German reed in a soft shade of brown finish, upholstered in first quality tapestry. A splendid value Wednesday at $7.85. A Variety of Odd Pieces in Reed and Fibre Furniture Reduced 25 to 33 1-3 Per Cent mmmmmmt, Burg.aa-Na.li Co. Third Floor. Individual Salt and Pepper Shakers, Like Cut, Each 9c ATTRACTIVE silver plated individual salt and pepper shakers, exactly as illustrated just the thing for auto trips, camping, fishing parties, picnics, etc., as well as being desirable for the family table. Wednesday, specially priced at each, 9c. Burs..-Na.b Co. Main Floor. To the People Going Away Don't Forget About Your F U R S THE moth family are keeping en eye on them, you may be sure. Mother Moth probably ha her mind at) made up already as to the particular piece of ermine fox ahe will camp to to aecure the richest food the rest of the summer. It Is the simplest matter In the world to keep them safe; the Burgeis-Nash Fur Vault wit) attend to It, If yon tele phone Douglaa 187 and ask to have their auto call. BURGBS3-NASH COMPANY. $2 "Hold Heat" Electric Toaster and Utility Stove Wednesday$1.59 EVERY housewife will appreci ate this utility stove, be cause it means many cool, frce-from-worry hours during the warm weather. "Hold Heet" electric toaster and utility stove will fry, broil, stew, toast and warm. Equipped with 6 feet of cord and attach ment plug to fit any light socket If you haven't time to come in and see this handy labor saver, let us send you one for a ten days' free trial and we know you'U never be without one. BurgoM-Na.li C Down-Sulr. Storo. Women's and Misses' Jaunty STRIPED SPORT SKIRTS $1.95 rp HE fashionable woman and her in separable sport skirt are to be seen everywhere this season on the street; in the car; on the golf course, etc. A new shipment of sport skirts is an interesting new feature in the Ready-to-Wear Section of the Down stairs Store Wednesday. Made of gab ardines and grass cloth, characterized with broad Roman stripes; all sizes for women and misses, in one group S1.95. New Sport Skirts at $3.95 Women's and Mliues broad Rnrrion striped silverbloom sport skirts in fast I " colors; aiso SKirrs maae oi sore nnisn corduroy in this season's best-liked sport effects. White Pique Skirts at $1.00 An entirely new assortment of women's and misses' white pique skirts; easily tubbed and very pretty. Biirfou-Naab Co, Powtaln Storo. - Fill Burgess-Nash Co. Everybody's StoredI 6th and Harney Sts.