THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917.
Nebraska
FALLS CITY COAL
CHUTES BDRNED
Fire Starting in Mystterious
Manner Destroys Large
Amount of Missouri
Pacific Property.
Fall City, Neb., July 30. (Special
Telegram.) The coal chute of the
Missouri Pacific shops caught fire
Sunday night about 9:30 and burned
to the ground. A building containing
thirty acetylene tanks caught fire and
four of the tanks exploded. Others
had the soft plugs melted off, pre
venting explosions. The reports were
heard twenty miles distant.
The loss on the oil house and stock
win De $i,euu and on the coal chute
?iy,OUU. Twenty thousand tons ol
coal are burning slowly in the vards.
Investigations are going on by the
omciais.
Government Sends Message
To Nebraskans at State Fair
(From a Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, Neb., July 30. (Special,
The United tates government is
preparing to carry on a campaign of
eaucauon in oraer to tamiliarize the
public with the conditions during the
war. Nebraska will receive its por
tion of the instruction principally
inrougn tne state tair, which will be
in session the first week in Septem
ber. Speaking of the matter fully,
Secretary E. R. Danielson of the fair
said today:
"The work will be done under the
direction of Georire Creel, chairman
of the committee on public informa
tion, and the council of National De
fense, operating through the State
Council of Defense in this state.
"The government's plan is to have
one speaker address the crowds each
day on some specific angle .1 f the war.
The Council of National Defense and
Mr. Creel will provide the speakers
with official information to be used
in the preparation of the addresses."
Kearney Summer Normal
School Makes Record
Kearney, Neb.. Tulv 30. fSoecial.l
The summer term of 1917 of the
Kearney State Normal school, which
has just closed, leaves a record which
has never been surpassed in the his
tory of the school.
Besides being in every respect the
most successful summer school ses
sion, the school of 1917 is noteworthy
in mat u is me largest summer scnool
of higher learning ever held in Ne
braska. Thfre have been 989 stu
dents enrolled. The pupils in the
training school numbered, in addition,
113. Sixty-eight counties and ten
states have been represented. Span
ish and French "have been added to
the curriculum.
Students have had the opportunity
of observing a rural demonstration
school taught by a rural specialist.
The canning demonstrations held
tinder the supervision of the Rural
club will function far and wide in food
conservation.
DR. D. DE WALTOFF N.wly
elected vica president of the Amer
ican Medico-Pharmaceutical leaf ue
who ha discovered new explo
sive 10,000 tines powerful at
dynamite. Ho ha named the tub
tanca "TerroraU."
Dr. Tenney Commissioned
Major in Medical Section
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., July 30.-r(Special.)
Dr. Elmer S. Tenney, health com
missioner of the state under the new
law, who was recently appointed to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of the former health commis
sioner, today received a commission
from the president of the United
States appointing him major in the
medical section of the War depart
ment. This may not necessarily take him
away from his present duties unless
the call becomes especially urgent be
cause of a scarcity of medical men,
but will give him special duty here
which he can do without interfering
with his duties as health officer of the
state.
Irrigation Ditches Filled
With Sand; Farmers Suffer
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., July 30. (Special.)
Farmers along some of the irriga
tion ditches ot west Nebraska are
suffering from a failure to follow the
instructions of State Engineer John
son made a year ago to watch their
ditches and keep them clean.
As a result of the failure some of
the ditches became filled with sand
during the high waters last spring
and now lor a long distance below
the diversion dam of the Tri-State
canal there is no chance to get water
through.
This is especially true of the Bel
mont ditch near Bridgeport and the
Rainbow ditch above Scottsbluff. No
flumes or head gates were put in and
consequently the sand has filled them
up. The loss in crops may be con-,
siderable.
Miss Louise Allen Wedded
To Judge B. F. Good at Lincoln
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, July 30. (Special.) Miss
Louise XM. Allen, holding the position
of seed analyist with the pure food
commission, Saturday evening was
married to Judge B. F. Good of this
city.
Judge and Mrs. Good left that even
ing for Minnesota, where they will
visit for a time. Miss Fern Peck of
Lincoln has been appointed to fill the
place made vacant by Miss Allen's
resignation.
Commissioner Murschel
To Food Meet in Washington
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, July 30. (Special.) State
Food Commissioner Otto Murschel
has gone to Washington and New
York to meet with other commission
ers of state in a conference with the
government officials handling the food
situation. The meetings will be held
August 1, 2 and 3.
Hail Does Extended
Damage Near Aberdeen
' Aberdeen, S. D., July 30. Damage
mounting into thousands of dollars
was done to crops in northeastern
South Dakota during a severe hail
storm early last night, according to
belated advices received from the af
EfTorts to g-aee the amount of des
truction were impossible as hundreds
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of telephone and telegraph wires in
the region are down.
It is reported that one strip of
farming land two miles wide and ten
miles long between Westport and
Groton was devastated by the hail.
Another strip south of here, near
Warner, also was leveled.
Crops in Western Nebraska
Far Better Than Expected
J. M. Gilian, industrial secretary
of the Commercial club, returned yes
terday from a ten days' trip to the
western part of the state, Cheyenne
and Denver. Mr. Gilian spent two
days in Cheyenne county around Sid
ney and Dalton and thinks he saw
enough wheat in those two days to
feed half the people of the nation. "I
road over a hundred miles in one day
through almost a continuous stretch
of wheat, oats and corn. I have never
been so surprised at the development
of western Nebraska and I have been
over that country several times in the
last thirty years.
"Winter wheat that seemed to be
killed out early in the spring has
astonished the farmers by the way it
stooled out and thousands of acres
that looked almost worthless at the
opening of spring will yield twenty-
five to thirty bushels to the "acre.
There are fields that will yield forty
bushels. Farmers on the table lands
are growing rich at a rapid rate. That
country is largely settled by eastern
Nebraska farmers and they are put
ing up good houses, planting trees
and rapidly turning the country into
a vast expanse of wheat, oats and corn
and alfalfa. Next year the acreage of
wheat in Cheyenne and Kimball coun
ties will be almost doubled, for thous
ands of acres of raw land have been
plowed up this season to be seeded
this fall or next spring.
Government Regulates
Movement of Live Stock
The bureau of markets of the De
partment of Agriculture, which has a
branch ofhY.a on the South Side, has
inaugurated a telegraphic report serv
ice giving the daily loading of live
stock on all priheipal railroads east
ot the Alleghany mountains.
Three hundred railroad superin
tendents wire every night the num
ber of cars of stock loaded on their
roads during the previous twenty
four hours and the destination of the
stock. These messages go to Wash
ington, u. u, where they are assem
bled and tabulated and sent out to
branch offices at 6:30 a. m.
Not only are destinations given.
where the stock is going to live stock
market or slaughtering centers, but
loadings for the principal live stock
markets are given by state origin
The report shows the number of cars
of each species of live stock loaded.
Ihese reports will be released every
morning from the local branch of the
bureau of markets. Their aim is to
aid shippers in bringing about a more
even distribution of live stock, or, in
other words, tending to aid in the
elimination of irregularly sized runs
ot stock. t
Bossie Gives Some Advice
On the Care of Milk
Milk and Dairy Insoector Bossie
offers these suggestions to the wo
men ot Umaha:
Owing; to the shortage of milk In the
city of Omaha, I deem It advisable to ask
the publlo to conserve the milk supply
as far as possible by doing their part In
preventing the souring of milk and cream.
Milk should be placed just as clpse to
the ice as possible, Immediately upon arri
val at the homes. It is also advisable to
purchase same from a milk dealer and not
from your grocer. The average grocer deals
in milk and cream merely to accommodate
their patrons, and their profit (If any)
being very little, they are not a careful
in seeing that the same Is kept cold as it
should be. For example, if Mrs. Housewife
orders a bottle of milk from the grocer, it
generally is put in the box at the same
time that the balance of the order It, thus
the milk remains exposed to the heat prob
ably from one to two hours before leaving
tne store, while the balance of the orders
for that particular locality ire being pre
pared. It Is then loaded on to the deliv
ery wagon and probably travels from one
to two hours exposed to the dust and the
heat of the sun, making altogether about
three to four hours that the milk Is re
moved from an Icebox In the store until de
livery to your residence. Is it any wonder
that milk and cream sours T Again I re
peat, during the hot weather at least. I
would advise purchasing your milk and
cream direct from some dealer and placing
same immediately on ice and remove from
Icebox Just such quantity a you would
consume.
Local Hebrew Schools
To Be Consolidated
Consolidation of two local Hebrew
schools, one directed by Congregation
B'nai Jacob, Twenty-fourth and Nich
olas and one by B'nai Israel, Eight
eenth and Chicago, will be effected
Thursday night at a meeting to be
held at Beth Hamedrosh synagogue,
Nineteenth and Burt, Officers will be
elected.
Details of the union of the two
schools will be worked out by the fol
lowing committee, appointed at a pre
liminary meeting held Sunday: Philip
Schlaifer, Jacob Gordon, A. Weiss, A.
B. Alpirn, Esau Fleishman, Dr. Philip
Sher, Dr. A. Romm, J. L. Levison,
Louis Kneeter, Charles Leiboviti,
Sam Corenman, South Side; A. Dan
sky, Reinschriber, Shames, , I. Perl
man, Jacob Fleischer, Elihu Block,
Sol Cohen and D. Hirsch.
IOWA GUARD GOES
TENTHOF MONTH
Unofficial Word Received at
Des Moines That Troops Will
Leave About Middle
of August.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Des Moines, la., July 30. (Special
Telegram.) It is stated here unof
ficially that all Iowa goard troops
will start for Deming, N. M., about
August 10. Seven uits of guards will
leave probably Wednesday. Company
F of illisca, nuder command of Cap
tain Charles J. Casey, has been desig
nated by Colonel Bennett of the Third
Iowa as one of the advance guard
to go to Deming. ,
To Hold Patriotic Meetings.
E. M. Wentworth of Des Moines,
president general of the National So
ciety of the Sons of the American
Revolution, . sent notices to various
state presidents late today, asking
them to co-operate in the organization
ot patriotic meetings throughout the
country September 17 in observance
of the 130th anniversary of the adop
tion of the American constitution.
Patriotic sermons in all cuhrches
Sunday, September 16, were urged.
Holdup Suspect is
Captured by Buford
James Hill, giving his address as
Twenty-first and Clark streets, was
arrested Saturday night by Harry Bu
ford, chaffeur at the central police
station, and charged with carrying
concealed weapons. He was found
prowling in the neighborhood of
Twenty-first and Charles streets and,
being unable to give an account of
himself, was placed under arrest and
searched.
His description answered closely
one of the negroes who held up Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Strumfa, 3025 Bur-
dette street, of $10.25 a few hours be
fore at Thirtieth and Erskine streets.
Sunday they called at the station and
positively identified him. Additional
charges will be filed against him for
highway robbery.
Sergeant Samuelson and Emer
gency Officer Rose assisted in the ar
rest, buford is now on the trail of
the partner, who escaped by climbing
over the fence when the police car
sped down the street, and expects to
locate him within the next few days.
Cereals in Storage Are
Far Below the Last Year
Omaha elevators are practically
empty so far. as wheat is concerned,
there being but 20,000 bushels in stor
age, lhe weekly report ot the ciuet
of the inspection bureau of the Oma
ha Grain exchange shows that all told
but 271,000 bushels of grain is in
storage, as against 1,853,000 on the
corresponding date one year ago. The
figures in bushels, now and then, are:
Now.
Wheat 20,000
Corn 201,000
Oats 60,000
Rye none
Barley none
Tear Ago
1,897,000
107,000
330,000
6,000
14,000
Totals 271,000 1,863,000
The decrease is 1,582,000 bushels
and the stocks in storage are the
smallest in the history of the Omaha
market.
Motorcycle is Donated
To Fourth Nebraska
A motorcycle, fully equipped to
carry two injured soldiers, has been
donated to the Fourth Nebraska regi
ment by the citizens of Omaha and is
now on display at the recruiting sta
tion of the Fourth. The motorcycle
is a two-decked affair with neat can
vas stretchers which rest partly over
the third wheel.
The motorcycle will be made part
of the equipment of the regiment,
which already contains several mo
torcycles with side cars for dispatch
riders and machine guns.
Where Drafted Men
Will Be Examined
First district exemption board,
Fifth and Twelfth wards: Car barn,
Twenty-second and Ames avenue;
W. C. Ure, chairman.
Second district exemption board,
Fourth and Tenth wards: City hall,
South Side. Perry Wheeler, chair
man. Third district exemption board,
Third and Eighth wards: Patterson
block, Seventeenth and Farnam
streets. C. C. Redwood, chairman.
Fourth district exemption board,
First, Second and Seventh wards:
Dr. C. W. Pollard's office, Keeline
building. Acting County Judge
Sundblad, chairman.
Fifth district exemption board,
Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh wards:
Judge Estelle's office, court house.
Charles E. Foster, charrman. -
Sixth district exemption board,
country precincts: Dr. Reed's of
fice, Benson. O. J. Pickard, chairman.
CITY REFUSES TO
BOOST UTILITIES
Votes Down Proposal to In
crease Occupation Taxes of
the Public Service Cor
porations. Six members of the city council
consigned to the limbo of rejected
proposals an ordinance designed to
raise $100,000 each year by increas
ing occupation taxes of the public
service utility companies.
Commissioner Butler, author of the
measure, stood alone in its defense.
Representatives of the public utili
ties appeared before the council and
pleaded that they are now bearing all
they can under existent conditions of
increased operating expenses.
"We are so near the danger line
tliat we cannot assume any more re
sponsibility. We may have to come
before your honorable body to ask
permission to increase our rate of
fares, as has been done in some
cities," said R. A. Leussler, vice pres
ident of the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway company. "Our wage
increase," he added, amounts to $70,
000 a year. During the first six
months of this year our operating
expenses and taxer were $103,527.56
more than for the corresponding
period last year. The coal situation
is serious. Last year we paid into
the treasury of Douglas county and
city of Omaha 8 pe- cent of our gross
revenue."
"Every utility corporation is con
fronted with increased costs without
being able to increase the price of
commodities to consumers. It is a
Jremendous proposition to meet pres
ent conditions, stated Judge W. D.
McHugh, for the Nebraska Power
company.
He added: "It will be fortunate if
our public service utilities can weather
this situation without being required
to seek remedial legislation, that
some of this increased operating ex
penses may be passed on to the con
sumers. This is a time when we
must expect increased taxation city,
state and national but these taxes
should be borne by all. The public
utility companies are now burdened as
far as it is possible to burden them
under the present condition.
"The Nebraska Telephone com
pany, like other utility companies, is
not earning a reasonable return to
day," was an observation made by
Guy C Pratt, for the telephone com
pany. Sixty-Two Lads Have
Fun at Camp Welch
Camp Welch, at Lake Quinnebaug,
is now in full life with the second
detachment of Bov Scouts under
Scout Executive English and Scout
masters Bexten, Brown, Hackett and
Leavitt. Altogether there are sixty
two in camp, everyone well, happy,
and safe. The discipline and sanita
tion of the camp is about perfect. The
commissary department has a great
abundance and variety of foods, while
the farmers supply fresh eggs and
milk.
The swimming beach is a safe one
and the boys swim and boat only
under the eyes ot the scoutmasters.
A volley ball court and a fifty-foot
swing, with the hikes, trails, feasts,
contests and campfire stories make
the days delightful for the boys, while
daily routine, tests and talks make an
invaluable training. Altogether this is
the finest ten days vacation for $5
that a boy could possibly have. Scouts
may now registered for the third
camp. This camp ends August 6 and
the next detachment goes out Au
gust 8.
Corn Advances Three Cents,
Wheat is Sti(l Stationary
When cash corn on the Omaha mar
ket went to $2.30 a bushel there was
a new top price marked up on the
cereal. The advance was 23 cents
over the prices of last Saturday. There
was nothing that would grade that
sold under $2.24 and most of the
offerings went at around $2.262.27.
Omaha corn receipts were 201 car
loads, as against seventy-five carloads
in Chicago, seventy-two carloads in
St. Louis and thirty-seven in Kansas
City.
Wheat was unchanged from Satur
day and sold at $2.70, with six carloads
on the market, all of which was
bought by local millers.
Oats sold at 774!2 cents a bushel,
Z cents under the Saturday prices. Re
cepits were seventy-one carloads.
lessly about the streets, we feel the
clubhouse would fill a decided want."
Work of furnishing the clubhouse
with books, magazines, pianos, vic
trola and games will be done by the
social service department of the na
tional league, headed by Mrs. Lowrie
Childs.
Two clubhouses have already been
furnished by the women, co-operating
with the Young Men's Christian
association, at Fort Crook and Fort
Omaha.
Prominent Resident of
Millard :: of Old Age
Mrs. Henry Harder of Millard, Neb.,
died on July 28. Mrs. Harder was
born in Frauhm-Schleswig, Germany,
on' August 20, 1843, being 74 years
of age at the time of death. Mr. and
Mrs. Harder were among the first
settlers in this country.
She is survived by her husband,
three children, John of Millard, Mrs.
Herman Cooke of Millard and Mrs.
W. R. Patrick of South Omaha.
Eleven grandchildren and two great
grandchildren also survive her.
Mai: Given Ninety Days or
Support Wife; Chooses Latter
Guy L. Smith, 1119 Kavan street,
was tried in court for nonsupport of
his wife and two children.
Mrs. Smith testified that since their
separation two years ago, he has con
tributed only $6 to the support of the
family.
Judge Fitzgerald gave him the op
portunity of working ninety days m
the workhouse or signing a bond that
he would give his wife $20 a month.
He chose the latter.
Red Cross Books on First
Aid Come to Headquarters
Two hundred Red Cross textbooks
on first aid. home nursing and dia-
headquarters. The books will be dis
tributed to Red Cross chapters all
over the state.
Miss Lottie Klotz of Wahoo, sec
retary of the Saunders county chap
ter, called at headquarters this morn-!
ing for instructions in the work.
Three Vacation Schools "
Closed Until Fall Terms
Three public vacation schools were
closed at Farnam, Lothrop and South
Central schools following a term of
six weeks. The enrollment was 588.
Superintendent Bevcridge visited each
room last week and was impressed
with the work.
HYMENEAL
Miss Gladys Weston, daughter of
William Weston, and Mr. Don VM.
Diamond were married by Rev.
Charles W. Savidge at his residence
Saturday afternoon at 5. The bride's)
sister, Mrs. Helen Guthrie, accom
panied them.
WHEN BRAIN WEARY
Take Homford's Arid Phosphate
ant) relieve th headache due to mental
strain, worry or over-work, Non-alcohullo.
Buy a bottle. Adv.
Quick, Safe, Way
to Remove Hairs
(Toilet Talks)
Keep a little delatone powder on
your dressing table and when ugly,
hairy growths appear, make a paste
with a little of the powder and some
water, apply and let remain on the
hairy surface for 2 or 3 minutes, then
rub off, wash the skin and the hairs
have vanished. This treatment is quite
harmless and rarely more than one
application is required, but to avoid
disappointment care should be used
to buy the real delatone. Adv.
REWARD
We will pay 1 eent each for the return
of all our hangers in a clean and sanitary
condition. These need not be fumigated,
at we will attend to that
CAREY CLEANING CO.,
24th and Lake 6ts.. Web. 892.
"One good cleaning plant and no branch
es." 35 years in Omaha.
randeis Stores
1
Basement Summer
Wearables
At Substantial Savings
Right after stock taking we are) offering' some of the)
best values of the season. Following our policy of years
standing, we) do not carry oyer from one season to an
other, and so we have reduced the prices to' make) new
owners for this ready-to-wear quickly.
Women's, Misses', and Junior' Cloth Suit, $3.69.
Splendid Suits for Early Fall Wear, in all good
styles.
Women', Misses' and Junior' Sprjng and Summer
Coat, $3.00. Dozens of different styles, made of
Poplin, Serge, Fancy Cloths, Corduroy, Checks and
Plain Worsted. v
Women' and Misses' Dresses, at $1.95. Newest
styles Summer Porch and Street Dresses. New
straight-line effects with big collars and pockets.
Mado of good Ginghams, Japanese Crepe, Fancy
Lawns, etc. Several styles for stout women, also
sizes 39 to 53.
Woman' and Misset' House and Porch
Dresses, 69c. A big lot of House and
Porch Dresses, many different styles of
Percale In light and dark colors, Ginghams, Fancy
Lawns and Cotton Crepe materials.
Girl' Dresses, at $1.29. Dozens of pretty styles,
sizes 6 to 14 years.
Girls' White and Colored Dresses,
69c. Hundreds of Dresses and
dozens of styles, Bizes 2 to 6 and
6 to 14 years.
Girl' Wash Dresses, 39c. A big
lot of Wash Dresses, sizes 2 to 6
and 6 to 14 years. White and
colors in many different styles.
Children' Sleevelet, Washable Apron
es, 9c Several styles, 1 to 3 years.
Infants Fanet F.mhlnif
Trimntfiii Whtt Liwn
Dresses. 19c. Several styles
to choose from.
Women' Corduroy, Serge
and Novelty Cloth Drets
Skirt, $1.95. Good styles,
with big pockets, etc.
Girls' Muslin Night Gown,
23c. Sizea 2 to 8 years. Re
markable value at this price.
Women'sSummer Tub
Skirt, 69c Odd garments at a low price.
Many different styles, new pockets and belt
effects. ,
Basement
Dress-
Notions at Low Prices
Mothproof Bags, each 35c
Long Shoe Laces, 10c and 15c
values, at 3c
12 yards of Rick Rack, at, a
bolt 15c
American Maid Crochet Cot
ton, a ball 6c
Bathing Garters, a pair. . . .10c
Dressing Combs, 25c value,
at 19c
Shell Hair Pins, a box. . . ', . .3c
Knitting Needles, for Red
Cross work, a pair 7c
3-in-l Machine Oil, a bottle. 7e
Large Sanitary Aprons, each,
at 25c
Children's Waists with garters,
a pair 19c
Buckle Forms, all styles, each,
at .....2c
Main Floor
Now Try to Furnish
Down Town Soldiers' Club
A downtown clubhouse for soldier
boys of the neighboring forts will
soon be opened in Omaha. Mrs. Will
iam Archibald Smith, chairman of the
National League for Woman Service.
and Mrs. George A. Joslyn are now
looking tor a site.
"If some one would donate the use
of a suitable location it would help
a lot," said Mrs. Smith. "We see so
many soldier boys -wandering aim
t
appeals especially to
those who crave the
coffee flavor, but wish
to avoid its harmful
effects. Postom satisfies!
"There's a Reason"
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