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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1917)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917. BABY BRIDE GOES, TAKINGHUSBAKD Pitchforks Used on Slackers By Irate Vigilance Committee Leaves City Jail Tugging at Middle - Aged Husband, Bound on Sight-See- ' ing Trip. "Goodby, fellows, I'm glad I met you all. Come on, Jimmie." , It was thus that Mrs. J. H. Hughes, the baby bride, left the matron's quarters at pulice station after two weeks' imprisonment on the charge of forgery. Her husband had re deemed the check and the court had dismissed the charge. Her jovial farewell was flung at the police and reporters. The "come on, Jimmie," was for her sedate husband, James H. Hughes, aged 38 years, a $5-a-day mill worker at Fort Dodge, la. Mrs. Hughes, who is only 16 years old. induced her husband to announce that they were not going home till to morrow. They are going to spend one night "seeing the sights" in the city. "And then it's back to Fort Dodge for me," said the child-wife glibly. "Jimmie is going to pay more atten tion'to me and I am going to live just for him. You won't find me breaking over the traces again." Mrs. Hushes, who wears her hair bobbed, looked ridiculously childish in a modish summer suit and gaily' colored straw hat. Matron Gibbons and Mrs. Hughes have developed a strong mutual friendship. "I really don't like to leave you," paid the ba'jv bride. on have be?n verv irood to me." - "And I'll miss jou, Marie," said the matron. Thm Mrs. Hughes took her hus band by the hand and skipped down tlie stairs to the street, tugging at iif4 and urging him, "Don't be so low, Jimmie. Marlon C. Coe, Well Known Buyer, Dies in Hospital Marion C. Coe of Florence, aged 57, for over thirty years buyer and .lepartment manager for Thompson & liclden Co., died at a local hospital after an extended illnccj at 7 o'clock Sunday night. He is survived by his wife and a daughter, Miss Lulu Mae. fr 1'r0 liarl linoi, a cti-iria tjrl with Thompson & Belden Co. for several years in Youngstown and Freemont, Ohio, before that firm came to Omaha, and mitil a year ago, when his health failed, he had been actively engaged with that concern during its business life in Omaha. Funeral services will be held at 3 Vclock Tuesday afternoon from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Phil bin, 414 South Thirty-eighth street, Mrs. Pliilbin being a sister of Mrs. t oe. The services will be under the auspices of the Florence lodge of Ma sons of which Mr. Coe was a mem ber and officer, and the sermon will c preached by Rev. J. B. Butter, pastor of Florence Presbyterian church. Interment will be at Con way, la. Active pallbearers, all of whom are associated 'with Mr. Coc's late cm plovers, are: w. F. Nrgley, Harold Thompson. Harold Hhtph, Carroll R. Bejclen, John Gillespie, W'. A. Kern. Honorarv pallbearers: R. II. Olmteal, Guy LlKgelt. II. A. Thompson, J. r. Comslo-k. i'. r. Tlaldcn, A. E. Parinelee. w. A. Yodr, Council Postpones Bread Ordinance for Six Months The city council committee of the whole voted to recommend six mouths' postponement of considera tion of an ordinance to provide stand ard weights for bread. TUe proposal was to make one pound the standard and loaves weigh ing more than one pound to be of multiples of pounds. One-half and three-fourths were to be the legal weights for less than one pound. The mayor, who offered the ordw nance, said he believed it would be unwise to pass this legislation at this lime, in view of uncertain conditions of the flour market. Commissioner Humtnel took occa sion to remark that one of the causes of high cost of living is unnecessary wrappings on many food products. If there are any timorous youths in Nebraska who think to escape the grim requirements of war by hiking out for a backwoods farm, they are badly mistaken, is the declaration of Ensign John Rayley of the naval re cruiting station here. He has been informed that Nebraska municipali ties, particularly the small ones in ag ricultural districts, are organizing "vigilance committees" to weed out possible slackers. , " 'A pitchfork is a four-tined in strument sharpened to needle-efficiency,' a leading business man of Ord told me," said Rayley. "He added that the 'vigilance committee' will adopt the pitchforjc as an inspiration to laggers. He also remarked that a pitchfork, applied to the slack of a slacker's clothes, has been known to accomplish wonderful results." , Ord. Albion, Madison and half dozen other towns are arranging "yi silance committees" to inspire quit ters who are expected to become ne clretful of their dutv. "Feed a warrior or be one!" is the slogan adopted, and no half way point will be tolerated. Rayley says his tour of the state for recruits develops the fact that pa triotism is more intense as smaller communities are reached, and that in proportion to population, Madison Neb., beats Umaha tor recruits. Five recruits to the navy from Nor. folk arrived Sunday and signed up bright and early, and five more are re ported on their way. Recruiting con tinues brisk for the navy and the probabilities are, according to Kayley, that the local station will beat any other city in the same class in the matter of new men taken on. MORE FREIGHT CARS IS RAILROADS' CRY Figure Too Many Cars Con stantly in Shops f.r Repairs and a Remedy is Be ing Sought. The Committee on National De fense, through its sub-committee on railroads, has pointed out the method of adding 779,000 freight cars to the equipment of the railroads of the country and without any additional expenditure of money. Railroad officials admit that this can be done and that generally the roads are willing to give the plan trial. The railroads own a total of 2,575,- 000 freight cars, bnder normal con ditions, 167,000, or 6.5 per cent are al w?.vs in the shoos for repairs. A rt- duction to 4 per cent can be made if a speeding up plan is aaopiea. i ms would release 64.000 cars for service, The average daily run of a freight car is twenty-five miles. By adopting the speeding up plan, the average can be increased to thirty miles, which would be equivalent to the addition of ilaUO cars. Railroads and shippers are urged to join hands and see that all-cars are weight capacity, which would equai an addition ot JOU.UUU cars. Asks School Board to Take Free Dental Dispensary A proposition has been made to have the Omaha Free Dental Dis pensary for Children taken over by the city government or Board of Ed ucation. Failure to receive mianciai support as planned is the reason tor the situation. The executive committee of the Commercial club requested its com mittee on city health and hospitals to investigate and report. The disnensarv was started last January and to date 925 children have hern civen free dental treatment. The eed ot the work ana tne success or the dispensary have been demon strated to its founders and the prob lem now i; to arrange the finances to permit continuance of the work. Union Stock Yards Co. Raises Pay of Employes Announcement of a 10 per cent in crease in salary tor ail employes working on a monthly basis and earn- ng less than iJJUU a montn was maae in a bulletin just issued Dy ine union Stock Yards company. J. he increase was made to assist employes to meet the high cost of living and the right to suspend the advance at any time is reserved by the company. Trial of Suit Over Death When Auto Goes Into River The first of the suits filed against Sarpy county because of the death of five persons when an automobile plunged into the Missouri river the night of July 30. 1916 near La Platte, began in federal court Monday. It is that of the administrator of the estate of Grace Snyder, who asks $15,000 damages for her death. MUCH WEDDED MAN SOUGHT IN OMAHA Sioux City Woman, Who Wife No. 4, Wants Hus. band Arrested o Big amy Charge. is Omaha police are seeking Stephen A. Douglas Huntley, alleged bigamist, who has deserted six wives and nu merous children throughout the coun. try and is now supposed to be on a hdnevmoon with the seventh. Chief of Detectives Maloney has received a letter froiw lrs. S. A. Huntley, South Sioux City, la., who asserts she is wife No. 4 and that she will pay a reward for "the body ot that man, dead or alive. In her letter she says Huntley is ;4 years old and a handsome brute, the kind woman like." He married his first wife in F.lk Point, S. D., in 1887 and has two children there, she declares. He map ried his second wife in 1904 and At sertcd her to marry a woman in Bil lings, Mont., whom he deserted in turn for wife No. 4. Wife No. 4 was left in the lurch for . girl at Weffington Springs. S. D., in 1910 and No. 5 was deserted in favor of a girl in Dakota City, Neb., who married December 18. 1911 No trace can be found of No. 7. The writer says her last clue found her errant husband in Omaha last Monday with a woman and she wants tne Omaha police to locate him. Nearly One Thousand New ' Street Lights Already Set 1. v. imman. contracting rep resentative of the Omaha Electric Light and Tower company, reported to the city commissioners that 996 new street lamps have been installed under the recent hve-year contract We have seventy-five men now at work and expect to have the installa tion completed before long. We were hampered for a while on account ot delayed shipments ot material, said Mr. Zimrrmi. Posts have been set for the down town ornamental system and tops will be placed without delay. Potatoes and Onions Used for Trading Stamps New York. May 14. In sections of the city where the trading stamp was popular before the advent of war prices ine onion ana potato nave pecn substituted, in the Kidgewood sec tion of Brooklyn a small potato or onion is given with each 10-cent pur chase. Motion picture houses also have adopted the same scheme, giving an onion or potato with each adult ticket. : Waiter Gets Thirty Days For Taking One Tiny Drink Herbert Turnes, waiter in the Gates restaurant, was sharing the contents of a whisky bottle with two negroes at lenth and Lapitol avenue early Monday morning. Police saw him. He was fined $100 and costs in police court on the charge ot unlawtully hav ing intoxicatinir liquor in his posses sion and went to jail for thirty days in default of the fine. Men are Buying Spring Suits As Never Before F AITH in public appreciation of values leads us to believe that our tremendous spring business is directly traceable to the exceptional values we are offering. No other western store ever prepared for a full season's clothing business so far ahead, and, for the same reason, as a matter of sound business judgment, every man is wise in buying his full season's supply today. Think of tHe style-treat offered in a combined showing of Rochester, N. Y.'s internationally celebrated makers' finest spring suit productions. They stand unequaled at $20. $25, $30. $35. $40. YOUNG Men's Suits, in all the latest, livest lines belted backs, three quarter belted, belted all around, form fitters double and single breasteds. Every new fabric and color effect that's up to snuff. BUSINESS Suits for busy men of af fairs, who appreciate finest journey men tailored clothes. 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