Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, August 19, 1917, Page 5, Image 5
THK OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: AUGUST 19. 1917. 5 A MILLION-DOLLAR TAX BOOST MADE U. S. IS POOLING RAIL EQUIPMENT New County Levies Call for In-1 Takes Over Cars and Engines Whenever They Are Needed to Expedite Trans-portation. Proud Father of Patriotic Sons in Uncle Sam's Army crease of 22.1 Per Cent Over Last Year; Road Fund Is Cut. Douglas county board of equaliza tion Saturday morning efficially voted a million dollar tax boost (or the -county when it made the levies for 1917. The net increase in taxes for all ?o5rfse. over a 'ear aS is $963. W.jis, distributed as follows: fUMIS.SO County " llty ""ro S59.1S8.48 The increase is 22.! per cent over last year. The total levy for all pur- vm 15 10628' as agaillst 9138 in The levy for couiltv purposes is 16.4, yielding $880,021.16. a cut of .2 of a mill from 1916. when the amount was only $856,098.81. Cut Road Fund. A cut was made in the road and emergency bridge fund and a slight increase made in the bond sinking iuna. rouowtng is tne table of county taxes: Mlll. Ctraaral fund ......' IM,938.44 Poor fund t. 107.81MJ fund 15 40.i44.87 Bridge fund 1.?J 9J.804.10 Bon4 ntoltln fund U.78 148.101.13 Soldier relief fund : U 1,312.38 State Levy Increased. The levy for state purposes totals 8.48 mills, as against 6.1 mi Is ast year. Items in the levy for state pur poses are: Mlllii. General j gj iDivenmy juim j I nlTnlty artlvltie 7 3 Spriiml unlTcniltr fund ?s Normal rhoo fund .85 itnT am nridffe fund 4 Stmt Institution improvement fund.. .48 Stat aid road fund 65 More than one-third of the taxes paid into the county treasury Under these figures is for state ourooses. The levy for the school board is 35 mills, as compared with 25 mills last year. The increase is due largely to the loss of revenue from saloon licenses. Omaha Levy 46.4. For the city of Omaha the levy is 46.4, distributed as follows: General fund, 31 mills. Sinking fund purposes (interest), 9 mills. Bond sinking fund purposes, 2 mills. Water fund (in lieu of hydrant ren tals), 3 mills. Fire equipment fund, 1.4 mills.- The total levy for the city and school board is 81.04 mills; as against 68.68 mills last year. Figures compiled by the board of equalization show that the total as sessed valuation for Douglas county is $53,659,827. That of Omaha is $49, 914,325, and the city of Omaha for school board purposes, $47,783,282. Separate levies were made for Ben son and Florence for eight months, which have been cousolidated into Greater Omaha. The levy for Benson is 32 mills and that of Florence, 34 mills. Neighboring Levies. The following levies were made for villages in Douglas county: Benning ton, 23 mills; Elkhorn, 16 mills; Mil lard, 30 mills; Ralston, 43 mills; Val ley, 25 mills; Wateroo, 30 mills. I he equalization board retired $180, 000 in Douglas county additional fund ing bonds. Figures on outstanding claims of the county for this year and last were read to the board by the clerk. They were: Au. 1. 1J1S, Au. 1, HIT. General 139,51S.H I 72.16.94 Poor 23,ft0.11 48,144.8 Road , .... CJ,51.J 14,756.41! Bridjs 7.736.53 5,336.28 Emergency bridge. 11,435.07 Information comes through the local war board of the Council of National Defense that the railroads of the country have practically thrown all their locomotives and pas senger equipment into a pool to aid the goternment in the handling of troops and war supplies. Several days ago the railroads placed their freight equipment at the disposal of the war board, with the result that a pool was organized to aid in the expeditious movement of freight. It worked from the date of its inception, roads commandeering ucigui cars wnerever tound, regard less of ownership, providing the com mandeering was reported to officers of the war board. Now comes the information that a similar plan has been applied to the matter of hand- inig me locomotive ana passenger equipment. Takes Entire Train. What can be done by the war board in commandeering passenger equip ment comes from Kansas City. Early this week the Santa Fe had a tourist car train of people going from Chi cago io aiuornia. when the tram reached Kansas City, it arrived just at a time when the Missouri Pacific had an order to handle several hun dred men into Fort Rile. At the time the Missouri Pacific did not have the available equipment on hand. Passengers on the Santa Fe train were told to get out of their cars and immediately the equipment was taken over by the Missouri Pacific, loaded with troops and government em ployes. A Missouri Pacific engine was attached and the train run out to a connection with the Union Pa cific, from whence it was taken to Fort Riley, the California tourists re maining in Kansas City until the Santa Fe could gather enough equip ment so that they might continue their journey. - Street Car Employe to Change Teuton Name George J. Eberlien, street car com pany employe, has filed oetition in .district court to change Jiis name, that rt hie iimI VTJh-. TTUai:.. I 1 Total 8204.S06.8G I13,423.t4 Members of the board expressed the belief the county would be on a cash basis next year. Margaret Davis Arrested On False Pretense Charge Margaret Davis, alias Dora Elwood, was arrested on complaint of Joseph Homan, 2710 South Twenty-fifth street, for obtaining money under false pretenses. The case was con tinued to Monday. Homan alleges that Margaret, in consideration for his giving her $600 with which to pay off the' mortgage on eighty acres of land, agreed to marry him. After receiving the money he learned that she was already mar ried. She had previously told him that she was single. She later gave him themortgage to the farm. of his wife, Edna Eberlien, and 2-year oia aaugnter, jorma tberlfen, to Doyle. He says the name Eberlien is "dis tinctively German and is distasteful." Eberlien. who lives at 1309 South Twenty-second street, also gives other reasons why he would rather have people call him Doyle. He says he has not cone bv his real name since 1912. "A woman amed Eberlien," the oe tition states, "who claims to tie his mother and who was the wife of his father has caused his family endless trouble and annoyance." He alleges "a certain odium" at taches to the fact of having two names. Much confusion results, he says. The court is asked to chance his name to Joseph Doyle and that of his wife and daughter to Edrla Doyle and Norrna Doyle, respectively. Judge and Mrs. Lobingier Visit Friends in Omaha Of; Left to Right Sergeant Lloyd W. Gurnaey, his father, H. W. Gurnsey, and Harold H. Gurasey, the latter just past 18 years old. Obituary GEORGE BOTELr Aced 70. Ns- braka pioneer of 1875. and resident of Omaha for the last ten years, died at his home, 5102 California, of can cer of the stomach, Friday. Mr. Boe- tei had been 111 at intervals since last winter, and when the end came his children were at his bedside. Born in Germany in 1847, he emigrated to this country at the age of 32, settling at Minard, Neb., where he marriod. The cattle business absorbed his attention. and for twenty years George Uoctel's was a prominent name in the- indus trial and community life in that ter ritory. He then rnoved to Leigh, Neb., where again the cattle and meat mar ket business claimed his energies, and with increasing success. Ten years ago Mr. Boetel came to Oimrtm to reap the fruits of his labors, and led a re tired life here during that time. The deceased Is survived by his wife, Louise, and four children, George, John, Rose and Charles. The three sons are married, the one daughter living at home. The funeral arrange ments are in charge of Hulse & Rieuen and will be held from the ffcsidence of the deceased at 2 o'clock Monday to Pleasant Hill cemetery on the West Dodge road. BAB.Y LEWSPROM The baby daughter of Gustare and Mary Lews prom, 2913 Parker, died at 2 a. m. this .morning, twenty-three hours after birth. The funeral will be from Tag gart's undertaking: parlors to Forest! Lawn at 4 p. m., today. I South Side Settlement Club to Hold Carnival The South Side Social Settlement Workers club, an organization which has been sponsoring the growing of gardens by boys and girls on the South Side will hold a carnival display Beginning Thursday in which all boys and girls of the South Side will enter their garden products for prizes. Lantern parades, boys' and girls' races and kindergarten work will fea ture the carnival, which will be held at Twenty-eighth and Q. One Saturday evening the numerous prizes will, be awarded and a band concert given. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. IOWA MAN HEADS COMMERCE SCHOOL A. C. Fuller, In Charge of Iowa State Normal Schools, Prob ably Will Be Elected Monday. A. C. Fuller, in charge of the Iowa state normal schools, will be recom mended by the teachers' committee of the Board of Education, at a regular meeting next Monday evening, to take the principalship ot the High School of Commerce, succeeding Kail F. Adams, resigned. Superintendent J. H. Beveridge knows of the work of Mr. Fuller and speaks of him in excellent terms as a high school man of ability. The prospective new principal is said to be ready to" accept the Omaha position and it is reasonably assured that he will be elected on Monday evening. He has been here this week and met members of the Board of Education who were favorably im pressed. Inspector of Iowa Schools. Mr. Fuller, previous to his present normal school administrative work, was high , school inspector for the state of Iowa, under the state super intendent of schools. He has been superintendent of the schools at Washington, la., and was graduated from the Chicago university and the University of Iowa. He is 40 years of age. This Iowa educator is receiving $2,500 and will be offered $2,750 a year to start with as principal of the Oma ha High School of Commerce. He has specialized for a period of years in high school administrative work. Frincpal Adams has planned to leave next Saturday for Seattle, Wash., where he will become principal of a commercial" high school in that city. He came to Omaha from Spring liejd, Mass., and it is with regret that the members of the Board of Educa tion of this city lose his services. Mr. Adams enters the Seattle public school system at a substantial in crease in salary. Grain Exchange Veteran To 6o to Fort Snelling Tom Mahoney, who has been chief clerk in the inspection bureau of the Omaha Grain exchange almost since the inception of the Omaha grain market, has resigned, and Tuesday leaves for Fort Snelling, where he enters the officers' training camp. In his physical examination Mahoney's standing was 100 per cent. I To Express Shippers ADAMS, AMERICAN AND WELLS-FARGO & CO.'S EXPRESS Wish to announce, effective August 25, all vehicle pick-up service and deliveries, excepting perishable foods, will be discontinued at 5 p. m. and vehicle service will be discontinued Sundays, excepting the de livery of perishable foods. Government business is excluded. This action is necessary to avoid delays in forwarding and insure efficient and expeditious handling and necessary account of heavy volume of traffic moving due to prevailing war conditions with con sequent shortage of cars and labor. ' WE ASK THE CO-OPERATION OF ALL SHIPPERS Offices Open at Uiual Mrs. C. S. Lobingier of Shanghai, China, formerly of Omaha, arrived Friday aiid is at the Fontenelle awaiting the arrival of her husband. Judge Lobingier, of the United States court in China, who stopped for a few days in Lincoln. The Lobingiers will be here until the middle of the week, when Mrs. Lobingier will go to Bay City, Mich., to visit a sister, and the judge goes on ,to Washington. Mrs. Lobingier is president of the American Women's club at Shanghai, in organization of 300 members. The women are doing Red Cross work for the American soldier boys at present. When stationed at Manila. Mrs. Lobingier organized the wcy man's club there. Mrs. Lobingier is convalescent from a serious illness, which interfered with the pleasure of the trip home, which they made on the Empress of Japan. They plan to return to China. "A A" Night and Day 1605 Leavenworth Street Douglas 9513 otice to Users of Douglas Street Bridge To facilitate the collection of tolls and minimize vehicle congestion, an additional toll house has been placed on the bridge. Commencing at midnight, Monday, August 20th, all Westbound traffic will pay toll at the east (or new)-, toll house, and all eastbound traffic will pay toll at the west (or old), toll house. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. Wb m ifirmi VVORCHARD & WILHELM HfV'Hfc" tywqwt?j It's Time To Think of Your edding Needs They Can Be Economically Supplied Here to Every Possible Advantage. From the Cheapest That's Good To the Very Best That's Made r "T m 2 . r Mattresses3 THE OSTERMOOR Is built, NOT stuffed. The filling is of cotton of select ed grade chemically treated and combed into light, airy interlacing sheets of mar velous elasticity. Covered in attractive tickings and ac curately tufted and stitched. THE SEALY Tuftlcss Mattress is made from pure long fibre cotton compressed into the regula tion thickness. It always conforms to the curve of the body and is absolutely guar anteed for -twenty years to neither hump, bump or go flat. OTHEg RELIABLE MAKES of Hair, Pure Cotton or Combinations of fibre and cotton at prices to suit all purees, and every mattress backed by our 35 years of "knowing how." Box Springs and Mattresses We build to your order to fit any bed. Our construction has proved reliable in every way through many years of usage and is delivered to you with the guarantee of absolute satisfac tion. Our charges for this work are moderate in the extreme. Hair Mattresses , Renovated and recovered at a modest cost. We call for your old mattress one day and delivery the same entirely remade, cleaned and re juvenated the following day. A Larg Assortment of Pillows, Comforts and Blankets, at Prices to Suit All Purse. Springs "The Way" A Spring that never sags or bags, never cracks or rattles, never breaks or tears the ' bedding. Is absolutely reli able, sanitary and comfort able, conforming to the shape of the body and giving restful support at every , point. Sold under a 25-year guarantee against breaking, sagging or stretching. Trice .for any Q Cfl size is ipiJ.QU We alto carry the Simmond Sagles Spring at $8.00 Other Typei of Springs As inexpensive" as they are reliable, at r $2.95, $4.50, $6.50, $8.00 nd Up. In all sizes, for double or single Wood or Metal Beds. -DRAPERY SECTION MAIN FLOOR Unusual Drapery Pricings Monday Remnants 'i Ventilating Porch Shades In the slat fabric style that per mits a cool breeze and insures privacy. In green or brown only. Special Prices 4 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. Special. $1.70 6 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. Special. $2.50 8 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. Special. $3.40 10 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. Special.$4.80 Of Cretonnes, Nets, Madras and Sunfast in fact nearly every drapery fabric is represented in this big lot. Lengths from a fraction of a yard to 5 yards. Pieces that were formerly up to $1.95, now, per piece 19c Ready Made Curtains One, two and up to six pairs of a kind, including Duchess, Arabians, Filets, Point de Gene, Marquisette, Voile, Scrim, Cluny and Quaker Craft Lace Curtains. All odd pair loli, half original prjees, as follows: $2.00 pairs, for $1.00 $3.00 pairs for $1.50 $4.00 pairs for $2.00 and so on. All two-pair JoU. at ONE THIRD OFF Pattern where three to lis pair of a kind are to be had at about 25 PER CENT OFF. STATE EXEMPTION BOARD MARKS TIME Members Return to Their Homes to Await Returns of the Local District Boards. "The local boards will have to get their work finished before we can do much," stated a member of the dis trict board. All work on the district lias been tied up because of failure to rccieve the local returns, so the board has adjourned indefinitely and the differ ent members have goie to their homes to remain until their work is in condition to go right through. Some of the local boards have sent in their certified lists but the ma jority have not even been heard from. 'It is doubtful if we can supply a third of the army for our district by September," vthe board stated. Twenty-two more men have been certified to the board by the Fourth exemption district. Several of these are aliens whose claims were not al lowed. , Join Home Guards. A little mix up has come to light in the FirSt district over men that have joined the new Home Guard battalion. When they, .were called in the second lot to take their physical examination, the men stated that they did not think they were subject to the draft. This is a mistake, as it was clearly understood when the battalion was started that no men that were drafted were to be taken in. The idea was to fill the ranks with older men and boys under the draft age. It is not known whether the men of the Home Guards will be taken into the federal army or not but several have enlisted under the im pression that they were merely for Home Guard service and would not have to join the froops at the front. In his speech regarding the formation of this regiment, Major Steele stated: "We do not want merun the Guards who are not willing to see service at the front." The lists certified Friday are as fol lows: Men Called for Service in 4th District Canton Mit-.arHo, Ml Marcy 547 Robert Mlnhkownky, 125S S. 14th 21 Paul Frna. 1111 S. 7th .211 Re Swift. 2640 8. loth til William Co nil-11, 1016 8. 34th 340 (lulnrpp Fortlno, 10:4 P. 2 1st .14S Karl A. Connoly, 2S Bancroft ....347 Arthur Krck. 1213 William 171 Cullun B. Rouers. 29S2 Popplctnn Ave.. 384 Norman H. Havorly. 21 8. 10th. ..... 893 Sum Canipagna. 1610 8. 4th 403 Frd lllebor. 3130 8. 18th 41 Edward Vernon, !331 S. 13th 414 Adolph I.aran, 24M 8. 13th 434 Irf-o B. Hsrbtrt, 102 8. 321 .....443 Santo Caonsllo, 1323 8. 20th 443 Walter Nelson, 5023 Marry 4S4 Edward M. Achlnker, 3453 8. 20th 4t .lamea Alleaandro, 2027 Plarca.. 47 Cannelo Costentlno. 1217 8. 6th 471 David Sandoval, 1035 S. 9th Sit Jamea Anhoud, 242 S. 15th 531 Prowler Fined; Judge to Release Him if Called "If he is called for examination fot the selective draft "I will give him furlough until after the examination," Judge Fitzgerald told Mrs. Sam Bohl, who asked to have her husband dis missed on a vagrancy charge. Bohl was fined $5 and costs, which he said he could not pay. He was arrested when found prowling around the rail road yards near Locuat street: "Prowling in railroad yards during war times must cease," the judge told Bohl. EE a EWEBV fs i h fc-W-v.-. Aver: Y- The Way to Keep Pace With Advanc ing Prices Is to In crease the Purchas ing Power of Money. When dollars buy less, than they formerly booriik think well before you spend one. Many a $75 month man keeps out of debt and has more than the $t50 man BECAUSE HE EMPLOYS A PURCHASING AGENT CALLED "BRAINS." Don't hoard money don't buy to excess both tend to boost prices. Avoid extravagance and bear in mind that "Cheapness" may be a form of extravagance and neglect of health is never economy. , It is not necessary to remind people of the importance of keeping their teeth in perfect condition bat it is important that they know HOW they may do so, and still supply the other necessities of life. PRICE FURNISHES NO PROOF OF EFFICIENCY OR LACK OF SAME. Some of the most inexcusable Dental work I have ever seen has been done by the high-prioed ultra-ethical , Dentists and, on the other hand, Dentists who solicit patron ag? SOLELY ON THE GROUND OF CHEAP WORK appeal :to a class who are not too exacting.in their demands, do Hot appreciate good workmanship, and seldom, get it. A Dentist who has repeatedly failed in many offices and many locations is not apt 'to make a success under Cheap Prices and a new. location. - - An INCOMPETENT ' is always an incompetent whether high-priced or low-priced. Failures are always "re peaters." Dentists should be selected with as much care ar the family physician. It would avail nothing to change Doctors after the 'patient died and likewise the best Dentists living cannot give you back teeth that have been mistreated and finally extracted to cover up bungling work. I want to emphasize again and again the fact that my reasonable prices are THE LEAST of the advantages offered by this office the fact that the VERY BEST MATERIALS are used and MY WORK IS GUARANTEED, and, above all, that I AM RESPONSIBLE, arc the REAL REASONS wh? it is true economy to have your Dental work done here. Every (foliar spent for DentaL work here is a dollar IN VESTED and back of that investment stands my personal guarantee (not a Company promise) that the work will be expertly done, prove dependable, and the material will be as good as, or better than, is used by other first-class Dentists charging two or three times my prices. - Evening hours for busy people. For the benefit of those who find it impossible to visit our office during the day, we have arranged office hours from 8:30 a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. and from 9 to 1 o'clock Sundays.- PAINLESS WITHERS, Dentist, 423 to 428 Rose Bldg. or Securities Bldg. Douglas 4604. 16th and Farnam Sts. 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