THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. JULY 26, 1917.
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fl Root Print It New Beacon Pnu
Metal dies, presstv'k. Jubilee M tg. Co.
fclec Fans. ..50 Bureess-Granrien.
Platinum Wedding Rin;s Edholm.
Lambert Returns Corporation
Counsel Lambert has returned from
a visit with his mother at Auburn.
Try the noonday 35-cent luncheon
at the Empress Garden, amidst pleas
ant surroundings, music and entertain
ment. Advertisement.
Makes the Aviation Corps Word
tomes that Victor D. Caldwell, Oma
ha lad who is at Irort Snelling, has
made the aviation corps.
Charges Cruelty Emma Haluza is
suing Joe Haluza for divorce in dis
trict court on grounds of alleged
cruelty. They have been married
only four months.
Two Arc Given Divorces Judge
Day, sitting in divorce court, freed
Eva M. Anson from Willard F. Anson
and granted a decree to Bertha Hicks
from William Hicks.
Mrs. Vroman Charges Xonsupport
Catherine B. Vroman, suing Edward
B. Vroman for divorce in district
court, alleges nonsupport. They were
married In Omaha June 12, 1913.
Alleges Abandonment George T.
Ramsey is suing Elizabeth Ramsey for
divorce in district court on grounds of
alleged abandonment. They were mar
ried in Dallas, Tex., May 20, 1904.
Cleaners and Dyers Elect The
Cleaners and Dyers of Omaha have
elected officers as follows: Al V.
Dresher, president; Charles Anderson,
vice president;- Frank J. Carey, secre
tary; George Krouse, treasurer.
Meeting of Aububons Dr. S. R.
Towne has called a special meeting
of the Audubon society for Saturday
evening at the public library at 8
o'clock. Special plans for the incor
poration of the society so that the
scope may be enlarged will be taken
up. Arthur Palmer will address the
meeting.
Divorced Pair to Remarry Rose M.
Hagaman of College View, Neb., 45
years old, and Richard V. Hagaman
of Bennett, Neb., 46 years old, ob
tained a license to wed in county
court. They were divorced about a
year and a half ago. They told the
marriage license clerk each had been
"too hasty" in getting divorced.
To Talk to Editors Frank I. Ring
er, commissioner of the Nebraska
Manufacturers' association, will ad
dress the Northeast Nebraska Edi
torial association next Friday at
Wayne on the relation of the coun
try newspaper to the manufacturer
and the trade territory around him.
Mr. Ringer has been studying the
country newspaper recently, its field,
its function and its possibilities as an
advertising medium and a trade
builder for the community in which
it is published.
Judge Leslie Holds Omaha
Wheel Tax Is Valid
Judge Leslie, sitting in equity court,
has held the wheel tax ordinance to
be partly valid.
He sustained that part of the ordi
nance, which imposes a tax on all
vehicles, which provides for a reg
istration fee on vehicles in use on the
streets.
The city is enjoined from taxing
vehicles owned in Omaha, but not in
use on the streets.
The wheel tax ordinance should
have gone into effect last spring.
Several Omaha corporations, ex
tensive users of vehicles, both auto
mobile and horse-drawn, brought in
junction proceedings in district court
seeking to enjoin the city from en
forcing the provisions of the ordi
nance. Attorneys for the corporations an
nounced they would appeal to the
state supreme court.
One Hundred Present at
South Side Red Cross Meet
One hundred women were present
at the mass meeting of South Side
women held Tuesday afternoon in
the South Side library hall.
Mrs. O. C. Redick outlined the
work of Red Cross and explained
how the auxiliary should be organ
ized. Officers were elected and resulted
in the choice of Mrs., R. P. Falk
ner for chairman; Mrs. Bruce Mc
Cullough, secretary; Mrs. F. A. Cres
sey, treasurer, and Mrs. Jessie M.
Caughey, assistant chairman.
The South Side Red Cross auxil
iary will meet for active work Mon
day afternoon at the South Side li
brary. Various churches will form
units to meet on different days in the
week.
Fewer Mains to Solve
High Price of Pipe
"Omaha is to beat the increased cost
of water pipe by having fewer mains
installed," General Manager Howell
of the Metropolitan Water district
stated.
He said water pipes have gone up
almost to a prohibitive figure and
that only the most essential water
extensions will be carried out. Adde'd
to the high cost, he declared, it was
difficult to purchase much pipe at a
time.
SENDS SIX SONS
TO LIBERTY CAUSE
President Wilson Compliments
J. H. McShane on Patriotism :
Shown by Members of
His Family.
Do You Know of
Needy Babies?
Washington, July 25. In a letter
to J. H. McShane, of 1906 Chicago
street, Oraaw, Neb., expressing ad
miration for the action of Mc
Shane's six sons in enlisting, Presi
dent Wilson wrote:
"May I not turn away from the
duties of the day for a moment to
express my admiration for the ac
tion of your six sons in enlisting in
the service of the country. They
are making, and through them, you
are making a very noble contribu
tion to the fine story of patriotism
and loyalty which has always run
through the pages of American history."
j Suppose you were a widow with a
small baby, a child 13 months old, and
two other children. Suppose that, with
your utmost exertion, you couldn't
I get money to Supply pure milk to the
little ones, and that ice to keep it
pure ana coot was out ot tne question.
This in effect is exactly the condition
of doxens of families in Omaha. It is
for them that The Bee raises this
fund.
Every case is carefully investigated
by the Visiting Nurses. Not a cent is
spent except in the really needy cases.
And every single cent is spent for milk
or ice.
Don't you want a share in this work
which means life to many helpless
babies? Bring or send a contribution
to The Bee office. You can be proud
of yourself for doing it.
Previously acknowledged $169.00
Billie McCulley 2.50
Margaret McCulley 2.50
W. L. Masterman 5.00
H. E. Sloman 2.00
Conscience Money is Being
Paid by Lawyers for Client
The firm of Brogan & Raymond,
1300 First National bank building,
has payed back $1,170 to citizens of
Newton, la., for an Omaha client.
The client is an elderly man and
wishes to get the debt off his con
science before he dies. The debt was
due four citizens of that place whom
he says he got the money from by
unfair means. The four men are all
dead now, so the cash was divided
between their heirs.
Red Cross Activities
Twenty-five boxei of gauze bandages,
hospital linen, and patients' clothing are
soon to be shipped east from the Hed Croas
hospital supply department In the Batrd
building. The first fourteen boxea, which
are completely packed, contain 9.6S5 pieces.
Among these are such difficult garments as
bathrobes, pajamas and bed shirts, which
take a long time to make. Women have
been working on this shipment since May 1.
Mrs. E. L. Bridges ts in charge of the
packing of surgical dressings, and Mrs. C.
L. Burdick of the packing of hospital sup-flies'.
The state office of the Rod Cross has
lust received memberships from the Platte
county chapter at Columbus, Neb., for 1,435
members.
This does not cover their entire mem
bership, but only those secured during the
past sixty days, and is an excellent record.
Mrs. O. C. Redick talked to the Carter
Lake club women Wednesday afternoon re
garding the organization of a Red Cross
auxiliary at the lake.
The work on comfort kits for the men
t Forts Crook and Omaha will begin as
soon as possible, according to Mrs. J. T.
Stewart, 2d, who is In charge of this
branch of Red Cross work. It wu under
stood some time ago that the men here did
not car for the kits, so about 400 were
shipped to Brooklyn, N. T. Now the men
are asking for them continually, and there
ra practically none on hand.
Proud of His Boys.
A white-haired old man sat on the
porch of a beautiful old-fashioned
home yesterday beneath several large
American flags.
Few residents of Omaha have as
good a right to sit proudly beneath
the Stars and Stripes as J. II. Mc
Shane, 1906 Chicago street, whose
gift to the country is his six sons.
President Wilson has just written a
letter of commendation for the sacri
fice, but the aged father's face showed
no sorrow, only joy in the achieve
ments of his boys.
"I wanted to go to war myself
when I was young, he said. I lived
back in Ohio and I said I was either
going to war or to the west. My
mother was greatly alarmed. About
that time my uncle, Edward Creigh
ton, was coming to Omaha and got
me to come along, and my mother was
relieved. But the hardships the pio
neers endured out on the plains then
were almost as bad as war. I worked
for my uncle and then became a rail
road contractor myself after freight
ing on the plains.
"I am glad now to offer my sons
for the government," said the old man
simply.
What They Are Doing.
All the sons are Creighton college
men, except Leo, the youngest, who
is a University of Nebraska student.
They gave up good positions to enter
the army.
Arthur, the oldest, is first lieuten
and with Major Dodd of the Fourth
Nebraska. He is 31. John, 29, joined
the marines two weeks ago and is
at Fort Royal, S. C. Thomas, 27, is
a second lieutenant at Fort Snelling
in the officers' reserve corps. George,
25, is with the ambulance corps in
Omaha. Robert, 19, is at Fort Crook
with the machine gun company, and
Leo, 24, is doing extension work in
gardening for the government. His
work is of equal value to the coun
try, but he yearns for a uniform like
his brothers, so he, too, may enlist any
day.
Not one of the McSltane boys was
drafted. '
Thirty-Three Violators of
Dimmer Law Discharged
Thirty-three autoists, the first day's
toll of the new light-dimming ordi
nance, were discharged by Police
Judge Fitzgerald.
All asserted that they had some sort
of device for dimming their lights,
but the testimony of Motorcycle Of
ficers Wade and Hyatt tended to
show that all were failures.
"You'll have to use your own judg
ment in equipping your lamps with
dimmers," said the judge. "If the
devices you are now using fail to
prevent the glare of your lights you'll
have to answer to this court."
The arresting officers will keep an
account of the names of the men dis
charged and if they are arrested again
for the same offense they will be
fined, according to the judge.
Young People of Same
Ancestral Name Married
A remarkable coincidence in names
was revealed in county court when
Olaf Carlson of Albert Lea, Minn.,
31 years old, and Miss Agnes Carlson
of Omaha, 29 years old, obtained a
license to wed.
Both their fathers' names are Carl
Peterson. Their families are not re
lated. The young people were born in
Sweden within a few miles of each
other, but did not become acquainted
until they came to the United States.
Mr. Carlson got his name from his
father's given name, adding son to
Carl, the custom in Sweden.
BOARD HEARS HOT
DEBATEON ROADS
Commissioners Finally Decide
to Award Each of Two
Companies Contracts for
Stretches of Highway.
Total $181.00
NO MEDALS GIVEN
TO MANUFACTURERS
Practical Prizes Such as
Loaves of Bread, Ice Cou
pons or Butter Given
to Winners.
The knights of old at the jousts
battled for a shower of roses or a
bit of pink ribbon, but the knights
of the Omaha Manufacturers' asso
ciation will enter the golf, tennis,
base ball and other tournaments to
day for a hunk of cheese, a pound
of butter, a nock of loaves of bread,
a load of kindling wood or an ice
coupon.
Yea, these are war times, and times
of conservation. So when the Omaha
manufacturers at their annual outing
at the Field club July 26 offer prizes
of Omaha-made goods for the win
ners in the various contests they will
be practical prizes. What good
would a bronze medal or even an
iron cross be in these days?
Better far a spud.
Why sweat and toil on the field
of honor for a mere smile from the
queen of the joust or for a passion
ate rose flung by her dainty fingers?
Better far a ring of bologna.
So the prizes for the great tourna
ments of the day have been arranged
by the practical hard sense of the
Omaha manufacturers something
after this fashion: A thousand brick,
five pounds of butter, one case maca
roni, one watermelon, one furnace
smoke pipe, one ham, one bacon, one
sack of flour, 100 loaves of bread,
one brick of cheese, one spare rib,
etc.
Shelton to Be Taken Back
For Killing Chicago Man
While bidding his sweetheart eood-
by preparatory to leaving for Bull,
Wyo., Detectives Brtnkman and Bar
ta placed Jesse R. Shelton under ar
rest at the Millard hotel late Tues
day afternoon.
He is being held as a fugitive from
justice for the Chicago police, who
asked for his arrest. It is alleged
that he shot a man' in a street fight
in that city. He admits that he shot
the man, but asserts self-defense. He
will return voluntarily with the Chi
cago officers.
The young lady in whose company
he was found said that he had in
formed her of his trouble in the
Windy City, but that he did not know
the man had died.
He wns enroute to Wyoming to
start life anew, he stated.
Walls of New Hospital
Are Safe, Says Council
In connection with an article in the
papers about the safety of the Swed
ish Mission hospital, 'Rev. Mr. Ostcr
holm. the superintendent, states that
there is absolutely no truth to the
statement that the building is not
safe.
The fault is found that the walls
were made of cement blocks instead
of brick. At the time the hospital was
started bricks could not be obtained,
so the matter was brought before the
council, and cement walls O. K'd.
The weight of each of these blocks
is fifty to fifty-two pounds, and they
have been subjected to a 158,000
pound compression test to test them.
Only 2,500 pounds weight to the
foot have been put on these blocks
and this weight will not even give
them the least strain.
W NUTRITION'S
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If those greatest food grains
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lowed into the rich nourish
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Grape-Nuts
Pure, wholesome, wonder
fully nourishing, appetizing,
economical.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
Alter an all-morning eion. at
which rival paving company repre
sentatives exchanged personalities
and waxed eloquent as to the merits
of their respective "methods and sys
tems," the county board decided to
award each of two concerns contracts
for putting in one mile of "test road"
in the county.
Rids were opened for resurfacing
and improving several miles of county
roads, Bauer & Johnson submitting
the lowest figure on specifications fur
nished by the county engineer.
Callahan Construction company rep
resentative then charged his rival's
system of resurfacing was "cheaper
and inferior."
County commissioners and a crowd
of business man and taxpayers list
ened to a hot debate bet wecu the pav
ing men as to what and what not are
good road-making systems.
The Callahan company has the
"Finley method." said to be exten
sively used in Dallas and other Texas
cities. Bauer & Johnson are boost
ing another method.
The Callahan company was origi
nally awarded the contract, but it
was knocked out by a district court
decision on the grounds that the com
missioners had not advertised for
bids.
Bids were then advertised for and
opened todav, the Callahan company
and Bauer & Johnson bring the only
bidders.
The paving method oratory was
ended when the board decided to
award each company a mile of test
road to be resurfaced. Commission
ers will inspect the road when it is
finished and decide which method is
the best.
Old Street Railway Case
To Come to Court Thursday
Whether the city has an interest in
the Omaha street railway company,
according to the charter issued to
the old railway company more than
fifty years ago, will be argued Thurs-.
dav before Judges Redick, Troup ami
Day.
Ralston to Have Booth
At the Nebraska Fair
Six manufacturers at Ralston have
combined to take joint booth space
in the Manufactures building at the
state fair in Lincoln, September 3 to
8, and will make their exhibit collec
tively. They have thus effected a sav
ing in cost, have made a better ex
hibit possible, and have at the same
time arranged to bring Ralston into
the limelight as a manufacturing
center better than this could have
been done if each had taken his booth
separately.
Omaha manufacturers are also buy
ing space liberally in the building
for their exhibits. Commissioner
Frank I. Ringer of the Nebraska
Manufacturers' association arrived
from Lincoln this morning to com
plete the contracts for booth space
with some more of the Omaha manu
facturers. He says the space is prac
tically all sold and that Nebraska
manufacturers will make a good
showing this year.
Bee Want Ads produce results.
Nash tew
EVERYBODYS STORE"
Wednesday, July 25, 1917.
STORE NEWS FOR THURSDAY.
Phone D. 137.
Great End-of-the-Month Sale
Thursday in the
D
owe stairs btore
PRESENTING a series of important underprice offerings in mer?
chandise of the wanted and most favored sort. Every section
of this big Down Stairs Store, recognized as the Economy Cen
ter of Greater Omaha, contributes generously to this sale.
Women's afternoon and porch dresses, lawn, crepe, madras and voile, special, $1.00.
Sheets, full bleached seamless, good quality, 63x99-inch, at 85c.
Sheets, seamless, 3-inch hems, extra long, full bleached, 72x99, at 89c.
Pillow slips of good quality, 42 and 45x36-inch, special, each 21c.
Cinderella cambric, for undermuslins, 42 inches wide, a bolt, 10 yards, $2.75.
White madras in stripes and checks, for shirts and waists, yard, 19c.
Men's white handkerchiefs with fancy borders, each 4c.
Men's work shirts, gray, blue, tan and fancy, Thursday, 50c.
Warner, Thompson, R & G and Burgess-Nash special corsets, per inch, 3c.
Children's dresses, white lawn, gingham and chambray, 79c.
Children's dresses, all extremely attractive models, special, 95c.
Shadow and val flouncing, 12 and 18 inches wide, good values, yard 25c.
Embroidered flouncing and corset cover embroidery, 18 inches wide, yard 25c.
Embroidered edge and finished bands, 3 to 5 inches wide, yard, 10c.
Fancy silk braid, big selection to choose from, yard 2Vzc.
Soutache ornaments in a variety of styles. Thursday, each lc.
Women's gauze union suits, low neck, sleeveless, lace trimmed, 35c.
Women's fine gauze seamless hosiery, wide hem, special at 15c.
Children's fine ribbed black cotton hose, double heels and toes, 19c.
Men's two-piece underwear, poros knit and balbriggan, 25c.
Men's union suits, balbriggan and eyelet mesh, special, 47c.
Men's sport shirts, white, ecru, or fancy, special values at 50c.
Men's sample leather belts, at exceptionally low price of 15c.
Men's straw hats, sennit sailors, good shapes, reduced to 50c.
Children's dresses, plaid ginghams, middy style, at 59c.
Children's middies, white galetea, red or blue trimmings, at 39c.
Children's middies, white or colored galetea, sizes 6 to 42, at 69c.
Women's combinations, allover embroidery, good value at 69c.
White crepe petticoats, lace ruffle, scalloped edge, 75c.
Boys' sport waists and shirts, blue chambray, checks and stripes, 29c.
Voile and batiste dress pattern, large selection of patterns, each $1.15.
Light and dark calico, blue, fancy and shirting prints, 8Vfcc.
Scotch gingham in choice patterns and good range of colors, a yard, 19c
Short lengths of 40-inch voile, your choice, yard, 9 Vic.
Light blue, pink, lavender, wash poplin, 27-inch, yard 15c.
Mill ends of percale, light colors, stripes and figures, 9c yard.
Dress ginghams, 27 inches wide, your choice, yard 12 Vic.
Cretonne porch and summer house pillows, rose, blue and yellow, each 59c.
Royal society ball floss for crochet or embroidery, ball 2 Vic.
Novelty braids, large assortment of patterns, special values, 19c.
Soldiers' comfort kits of khaki colored crash, filled with pockets, each 59c.
Children's dresses, gingham, chambray and white lawn, very special at 59c.
Children's wash dresses, plaid or check gingham, 79c.
Children's wash dresses, ginghams, chambray, lawns, 95c.
Overbrook lawn mowers, roller bearing, 16-inch size, $5.00.
Garden hose, -inch, guaranteed, 50-foot lengths, $4.95.
Polar Cub electric fans, new 1917 model, guaranteed, $4.95.
Illinois top icing type refrigerator, 90-lb. capacity, $15.00, j
Three-door side icing refrigerators, 60-lb. capacity, $17.50. 1 1
Women's pumps and oxfords, reduced to, pair $1.79.
Women's pumps, hand turned soles, covered Louis heels, $3.45.
Women's white duck sport oxfords and high shoes, at $2.85.
Infant's and children's ankle ties, white, black and bronze, $1.0f
Girls' high button shoes, tan Russia, patent colt, $2.45.
Children's and misses' white canvas pumps, now $1.45.
Men's white canvas oxfords, also tan calf shoes, $1.95.'
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Two Cakes of Cuticura
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"A rash of hard white pimples com
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face, and hard
blisters also
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tween his fin
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This business, "the largest of
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