1HE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1917.
Briej City News
Hut Boot Print It New Beacon Press.
For Xmas Everythins electrical
Burgeee-Granden Co.
Here is your reward for carrying
jour bundles: Sirloin, round and por
terhouse steaks a pound, 19t All
brands of creamery butter, per pound,
4 Sc. Washington Market
State Bank of Omaha, corner Six
teenth and Harney streets, pays 4 per
cent on time deposits. Three per cent
on savings accounts. AH deposits in
this bank are protected by the de
positors guarantee fund fft the state
of Nebraska. Adv.
Chicago, St. Paul., Minneapolis &
iimihi rh.mtiw in Tinio -Effective
Sunday, December 2. Chicago, St. Pau
Webster street station are changed as
follows: No. 4. northbound, will leave
at 6:20 a. m.. instead of 6:30 a. im
No. 2, northbound, will leave at 1:45
p. m., instead of 2 p. m. No. 6, Sun
rlav only, vtill leave at 7:30 a. m., in
stead of 8:25 a, m. No. 8, northbound,
will leave at 5:30 p. m., instead of
VOO p. .m. .
I Ire Fireproof Goods at Sunderland's.
COLLECT DATA ON
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Census of Commerce High
Shows 63 Per Cent of Stu
dents Fail to Receive Pre
ferred Instruction.
Superintendent Beveridge submit
ted to the Board of Education last
night a detailed statement showing
that 63 per cent of the attendants
of the High School of Commerct do
not receive instruction along the
. lines of their preferred vocations.
This information was obtained
from a vocational census taken by
Principal Porter of the school and
is used as an argument in favor of
a vibrational tiicrh school in connec
tion with the commercial training ot
, with the cc
A lis institution.
T f Some of the n
ave informally
members of the board
in favor of suhmitttine to the voters
:iext spring, a limited bond proposi
tion for erection of a new High
School of Commerce, which they
regard as a necessity. A few weeks
ago the board abandoned its proposi
tion of $2,250,000, on account of the
war situation as outlined by the
merican Chamber of Commerce,
icting in conjunction with the Coun
:il of National Defense.
Vacation Days.
Christmas holiday period for pub
lic high schools will be from Decem
ber 18 to January 2; for elementary
schools, December 21 to January 7.
Mary A. Johnson and Claire Sulli
van were placed on assigned list "of
teachers.
Resignations of Merle Hookstra,
Gretchen Boeck and Alta J. Ander
son, were accepted. Clarence E.
Kice was granted a year's leave of
ibsence. ,
Equipment was ordered for the
new Yates, Field, Bancroft, Druid
Hill and Park schools.
CANDYLESS DAYS
URGED BY WOMEN
AS WAR MEASURE
That women should give up candy
is a counter conservation concession
to smokeless days for men was urged
by Mrs. D. G. Craighead at the Mon
day meeting of the political and so
cial science department of the Omaha
Women s club.
l ping from 10 to S o'clock, a daylight
saving measure, was aavocaicu uy
Mrs. Craighheaa. it wouia save xuei,
light, strength and time," she said.
Gus Miller, speaking on the juvenile
court, Mrs. Rose Ohaus on the wel
fare board's work and Judge George
I ay on divorce laws, were the speak
ers of the afternoon.
Mrs. Benjamin ' S. Baker, depart
ment leader, will give a tea for the
members in Metropolitan club house,
December 17.
Auto Club Asks School
Board to Preach Safety
, A request that the school board
take measures to warn school chil
dren of the danger of carelessness in
crossing streets has been sent to Su-
perintendent Beveridge by Randall K.
Brown, vice president of the Omaha
Auto club.
Mr. Brown points out that motorists
are unusually careful when passing
public schools, but that even the most
expert driver cannot guard himself
against the sudden childish whim and
change of mind that so often creates
the dangerous situation. He asks that
the school teachers preach the gospel
of safety first to their pupils and espe
cially to warn against the use of the
street as a playground.
fteopen Case of Swift's
Alleged German Son-in-Uw
Washington, Dec. 4. The case of
Count James Minotto, son-in-law of
Louis Swift, Chicago packer, sus
pected of being an alien enemy, was
ordered reopened today by the bureau
of immigration and was referred back
to Chicago for the taking of additional
. a testimony.
fc A searching inquiry has been made
into the count's connection with Ger
man financial institutions and his
claim that despite long residence in
v Berlin he is a subject or Italy.
FUGITIVE GAS
BAG LANDS NEAR
TRENTON. NEB.
Cable of Runaway Balloon Be
comes Entangled in Bridge;
Another Balbon Carrying
Two Officers. Escapes.
Two United States army observation
balloons that were unleashed by ac
cident and, shot unguided into the air
were brought to the ground Monday
night.
The bag of the new French type,
which escaped from students at Fort
Omaha late Sunday, and, trailing 6,
000 feet of steel tethering cable, tra
veled a spectacular course through
Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma and
thence back into southwestern Ne
braska, where it was captured at
Trenton.
Cable Catches in Bridge.
The lanp- French type balloon took
a northerly course yesterday after
noon and hovered lowly across Hitch
cock county, Nebraska, until the drag
ging cable became entangled in the
beams, of an iron bridge and the bag
crpntlv ram to earth.
Two army officers, who had fol-
lowed the escaping monster to its
landing place, opened the outlet
gas valve of the bag and let the gas
escape. The observation balloon was
not damaged.
The ' officers wired Capftin Leo
Stevens at the Fort Omaha balloon
school, who left late last night for
Trenton, Neb.
Stevens Follows in Car.
Caatain Stevens was in the army
balloon that followed the aerial fugi
tive Sunday to a point IS miles from
its final landing place. There he lost
sight of the bag and returned, arriv
ing here yesterday noon.
"The fact that the balloon descend
ed with ease was due to the calmness
of the atmospheric breezes in that
locality," said Captain Stevens.
The fugitive bag will be returned
some time today.
Twenty-four Hours in Air.
The Fort Omaha balloon, inflated
with 35,000 cubic feet of gas, for
nearly 24 hours played a gigantic
game of hide and seek with Kansas
cities and towns as strong winds
wafted it back and forth. The thou
sands of feet of heavy cable dragged
the ground throughout the course
and left a trail of destroyed tele
phone and telegraph wires in its path.
Whole blocks of wires were torn
down and poles broken off or up
rooted. At Newton, Kan., much damage
was reported done to residences and
business b.ocks when the bag
dragged its "tail" in a criss-cross
path across the town. .
Fort Sill Fugitive.
The flight of the Fort Sill fugitive
while less spectacular than that of the
Nebraska stray, created the more ap
prehension among army officers and
others because two officers 'were
carried aloft with it.,. The officers,
however, brought the gat bag to the
ground in safety. Neither man was
injured and the balloon was . not
damaged, reports said. ' The officers
would not comment on their flight.
The balloon was of 2 smaller type
and carried two army officers when
an airplane broke its anchor line and
was brought down by the men about
thirty miles , from Fort Sill, Okla.,
where it had broken away.
The airplane that crashed into .the
cable that controlled the Fort Sill
balloon was slightly damaged and
fluttered one hundred feet to the
ground. The pilot was not seriously
injured.
Did Much Damage.
The army balloon that started out
on a joy ride, going down into Okla
homa and then turning and starting
back home, wrought considerable
havoc along the Kansas lines of the
Union Pacific.
On its out trip the balloon zig
zagged across the Union Pacific lines
at several places, and each time it did
so the long, swinging cable put the
telegraph lines out of cpmmission.
In s veral places the poles were torn
out and the cable, hooking itself to
the telegraph wires, scattered them
over the country for miles. '
During the return trip the balloon
crossed the Union Pacific no: far
from Colby, Kan. There the cable
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Direction of Special Value to Women are with Every Box.
Sold by dniggiatt throughout the world. In boxes, 10c 25c
pulled 'out,' or broke off, some thirty
poles and carried off miles of wire,
dropping tangled masses of it along
the route that was taken to the north.
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Mrs. McLaughlin Struck
And Robbed on Street
While on her way to attend a meet
ing of the St. John's Dramatic club
at Creightoii University early last
night, Mrs. McLaughlin, 115 South
Thirty-fifth street, was held up at
Thirty-fourth and Farnam streets by
an unrecognized man and struck on
the head by a blunt instrument.
The highwayman escaped with
Mrs. McL..tighlin's hand bag, a valu
able monocle and $3.
She said she saw a man sneak be
hind a signboard, near the place
where she was attacked, as she was
on her way to the car line.
She was able to give the police a
minute description of her assailant.
Sunderland Teamster
Holds Up Office'Men
While they were closing the office
of the Sunderland Brothers Coal vard.
Twentieth and Hickory streets, at 6
o clock last night, Walter vviike, sup
erintendent of the yard, Frank Talla
dino, clerk, and Charles Reed, night
watchman, were compelled to throw
up their hands at the point of a gun
by George Herrman, a teamster in
the employ of the company, while
the later rifled the cash register of
$55. Herrman escaped.
He had been employed at the south
yard during the week and was not
very well known by his employers.
Wattles Makes Plea For
Meatless Day Observance
While meatless day is becoming a
habit with the great majority of Ne
braska citizens, there are those who
haven't yet got the habit, according
to Gurdon W. Wattles, food adminis
trator for Nebraska. And there is no
time as good as the present to initiate
the habit and then to cultivate it until
it becomes an obsession.
Today is meatless day. Nebraska's
housewives and the men folks too,
for that matter, are urged to observe
meatless day.
"There is no easier way to do your
part in winning this great war than
by strictly observing meatless day,"
said Mr. Wattles last night. -"The
food serving places of the state are
conforming to the requirements in a
satisfactory way. And I'm sure that
the great body of housewives are do
ing their part. But there are those
who have not yet got the spirit of the
food administration. .Perhaps it is be
cause they have not taken the matter
seriously or perhaps they do not re
alize that there is a shortage in meats
which must be exported.
"Up to November 1, we had ex
ported all the available foodstulfs.
Now we must make more for shipment
to the other side and one of the best
ways is to get make more meats for
exportation by substituting fish and
fowl today. If everyone in Nebraska
would observe meatless day, we could
send enough across to feed every Nc
braskan in the service and a lot of
others, too."
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Bee Want Ad Produce Resul'
Special Announcement
WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT OUR PATTERN
DEPARTMENT
WEDNESDAY
TO MEET MISS J. M. BURKE
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE PICTORIAL REVIEW CO.
OF NEW YORK
MISS BURKE WILL EXPLAIN THE MANY DIS
TINCTIVE FEATURES OF
PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS
WHICH MAKE THEM SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER
PATTERNS.
THE PATENT CUTTING AND CONSTRUC
TION GUIDES FURNISHED ONLY WITH
PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS
SAVE TIME. LABOR AND MATERIAL IN EVERY
CASE, THEY SHOW JUST HOW TO LAY OUT
THE PARTS OF THE PATTERN ON THE MA
TERIAL TO CUT AND HOW TO ASSEMBLE THE
PARTS IN COMPLETING THE GARMENT.
DONT FAIL TO MEET MISS BURKE
AND LEARN OF THE MANY ADVANTAGES
CONTAINED IN
PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS
NOT FOUND IN ANY OTHER PATTERN.
Burgess-Nash Company
"EVERYBODY'S STORE"
PLAIN COMFORT IN
THESE SHOES
There are so many extreme shapes
in shoes nowadays that many men
think a natural-shaped, trim-looking,
snug-fitting, comfortable shoe
is a rarity.
If you are one of the many,
we recommend this model. ?
lnese shoes nave grown in
popularity season after season,
on account of their exceptional
merit.
See Our
Windows
7 cn niv? 5?
Specially Priced from
$5.00 up
atabbl.
Returns
Why doea Catarrh of the Head often
Bet better in the dimmer and return in
the winter? Because dry weather driven
the Catarrh germs to the interior of the
body.
The only way to permanently get rid
of Catarrh is to kill the germs that cause
it. The many widely advertised so-called
"Catarrh Cures" can not do this. Yet,
if it is not done, the coming winter will
be like the previous ones, or worse. For
the germs multiply like every other liv
ing thing. When they become too num
erous in the head they often spread down
into the chest and lungs. Their invasion
of the lungs is only a question of time.
Their increase there may mean CON
SUMPTION. Why run such a risk T
Take your Catarrh in had AT ONCE
before winter sets in. If you don't get
rid of it in the fall, you'll meet extreme
cold weather with your system terribly
weakened and undermined. Hundreds of
Canadians have been quickly but per
manently rid of their Catarrh by means
of Specialist Sproule's scientific method
of treatment. Kemember he is a Grad-
Where Catarrh Start
nate in Medicine and Surgery, Dublin University, Ireland, formerly Surgeon flritihh
Royal Mail Naval Service. Take advantage of his generous offer of
MEDICAL ADVICE FREE
Let him take it in hand now, and the
coming winter and all the following ones
may be passed in health and comfort.
You will no longer disgUBt your friends
with your hawking and blowing and
spitting. You will breathe easily you
will think clearly for your head will
not be heavy with Catarrh. You will
find yourself filled with a new energy
and ambition, and life itself will look
brighter. For all the strength that
yodr system is now wasting in fight
ing the Catarrh germs will then be yours
to use.
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Answer the questions, yes or no, write
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Are your eyes watery? the dotted lines, cut out and send to
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Ar you losing your sense ef smell?
Do you hawk up phlegm in the morning?
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Do you have pain across th front of
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s-Nash Gob
Vfie Ciristmas Store for SvevyBodif
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1917 STORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY Phone Doug. 137.
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An Extremely Important Sale of
WOMEN'S COATS
The Famous "Printzess" Brand at Better
Than a Third Under the Price at Which
They Were Intended to Sell
Mi- n v mw arJB m vwr m -a. s m. m 1111 it
TOO much stress cannot be laid on the real money-saving Importance of this very
unusual offering.
It's the surplus stock of this well-known maker, bought-at a tremendous reduc
tion from the wholesale price; and we offer you the opportunity to benefit by the
transaction now when ycAi want and need the garments most and when you can
profit most by it. There's really no need to comment on the coats, for they are
of one of the most . widely advertised brands on the market and are the very acnie
of style ana quality. Three groups:
at
$16.50
You'll find coats of zibi
lines, kerseys and ripple
cloth in the very newest
shades, variety of styles
and extreme values, at
$16.50.
at
$19.50
A wonderful selection in
such materii b as fine ve
lours, wool velours and
coatings. Wor '.erful val
ues, every one.
Burgess-Naih Co. Second Floor:
at
$25.
00
Broadcloths, velours, rip
ple cloth, burella and mixed
coatings. New shades of
blue, beetroot, green, brown
and taupe ; also black.
SHOP
gamy:
The United States gov
ernment will thank you to
SHOP NOW for Christmas
gifts, in order that man
power may be conserved
for National Purposes.
Your own advantage as well,
will then be splendidly fur
thered in leisurely choosing
from undepleted assortments
in expert service in avoidance
of the "Christmas rush."
Selection made now will be
Btored, on request, for delivery
at a future date.
A SILK PETTICOAT
for Sister
She doubtless prefers a "sen
sible" gift and will be delighted
with one of these tastefully ruf
fled taffeta pettfeoats that give
such a pleasing "set" to the
gown, and such a charming fin
ish to the outfit. (Second
Floor)
THE GIFT of the
Times
A carry-all bag for knitting,
to help her do her part of the
"Take-it-with-you" campaign.
Every woman's list of Christ
mas wishes includes one such
bag. (Third Floor)
THE INFANTS' Wear
Section
Where hovers the spirit of
Christmas to guide all the
friends of little folk right in
their choosing, suggests a spe
cial visit to see the many little
things for wee tots to wear.
(Second Floor)
INSTEAD OF A CARD
1 a Wee Bit More.
How often one seeks just
such a gift. The neckwear sec
tion holds your answer a hundred-fold.
Wide variety and
price range. (Main Floor)
CHRISTMAS Accom-
modation Desk
We have installed for the
benefit of our patrons an ac
commodation desk, where we
will wrap or pack your Christ
mas merchandise for mailing or
shipping, without charge; this
desk is located across the aisle
from the Postoffice.
We Can't Recall When
We Offered Values Like These in
Women's Silk or Serge
DRESSES
at $18.50
IF we could place these dresses in
your home just to show you the
wonderful values they represent,
we're certain that you would agree
that this is the most notable dress
offering of the entire season.
A sale which affords selection from
the newest and smartest creations at
a pri c far below that possible earlier
in the season.
Dratiat of taffela and faorgatl
Drte of atin and georgett
Dresse of fine taffeta ailk
Dress for afternoon or (treat wear
Dretse of tailored targe
The trimmings are beads and em
broidery with the newest ideas in
tunic effects.
There's a score or' more very at
tractive models from which to make
selection in a range of the most fav
ored colorings. It's really the dress
occasion of the season.
Burgess-Nssh C. Second Floor,
Holiday Slippers for Men
Women and Children
THE most acceptable of holiday gifts a comfort
able house slipper or a dainty pair of dancing or
party slippers. A great many styles to select from.
Comfortable House Slippers,
$1.65
Slippers of felt, fur and ribbon
trimmed, soft leather soles. All
Colors, best grade, at $1.65.
Comfy Slippers, at $1.65
Old rose, pink, lavender and
light blue, priced at $1.65.
Children's Puss-in-Boots
Blue and red, $1.65 and $1.35.
Don't fail to see the prettiest
stock of slippers in the city.
Bur(ss-Nb Co. Second Floor.
Artamo Sample Line of Hand Embroid
ered Art Needle Work Offered
Wednesday at Exactly Half Price
IT'S but once in a long time that we are able to secure
these famous Artamo samples. For Wednesday we
offer such pieces as scarfs, center pieces, doilies, pil
lows, nightgowns, children's dresses, lunch sets, pin
cushions, trays, etc., at exactly half the price at which
they were intended to sell.
Burfess-Nash Co. Third Floor. , .