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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1921. Farmers Bank at Springfield in ; Hands of State Kan't Make Grade SenJ : Someone to Take Charge, j, Institution Wires I J J. E. Hart Lincoln, Nov. 1. (Special) Thit ttlrgram was received thit morning ly j. E. Hart, tecretary of the ttate department of trade and commerce: 5 'Can't make the grade any longer. Sjrnd tome one to take charge of the bank. '."FARMERS STATE DANK, Springfield, Neb." h JR. O. Chase, a itate bank exam iner, waa dispatched to Springfield at onre. F. K. Dcebe is president of the bank. Elmer R. Witte it cashier.' I. ' Atkinson, recently retired from tfje vice presidency. nlhe last report from the bank, September 6, showed these figures: Deposits, $114,500; loans. $113,000; capital and surplus, $17,500; cash and money due from other banks, $27, 600; bills payable and rediscounts, W7.S00. The telegram from the bank to day waa a surprise to Mr. Hart. He slid the State department had no laea the bank was in difficulties. ."Slow loans" was given as the cause for closing the bank by Presi dent Becbe today. "We have about $20,000 of such loans due the bank from farmers.' he said. "They simply could not produce the cash. '"We tried to set relief from three Omaha banks which are our corre spondents, buf yesterday they told us they could do nothing. Then we voluntarily closed up." i 1 : 1 n T T l l jpnnson county noias ? Cancer Week Meetings TTecumseh, Neb., Nov. 1. (Spe c.) Dr. C. D. Barnes of Itcumsch, upon request of a district officer of the medical association is iif charge of the activities in John son county for "cancer week." A injecting will be held in Cook, at 3 oNclock, Wednesday afternoon with Dr. R. W. Fouts of Falls City as tH speaker. Dr. Conlee of Cook will have charge of this meeting. Wednesday evening a meeting will t( held in Tecumseh and Dr. Fouts and Dr. W. H. Orr of Lincoln will b the speakers. Thursday evening a; meeting will be held at Sterling, and Dr. F. L. Wilmeth of Lincoln vfiri be the speaker. . Pavid City Camp Fire Girls ti Entertain Their Mothers JDavid City, Neb., Nov. l.(Spe tl.) In order to earn their ranks us . fire-maker, the Tamalia Camp Fjre girls of David City entertained their mothers to a 6 o'clock dinner. All arrangements were planned, all decoratirg was done and the dinner was prepared by the - girls. The dinner, was served in three courses. Hallovye'en decorations were used. The girls are Mary Drew, Rose Fay- tjhger, Alice Etting. Ester ZinneckerJ rern Allen, Lylith Davis,' Avis Lind say, Ethel Bykerk and Ruth Brown wjth Mrs. Joe ' Endicott .as their gaardian. . ii ; District Hardware Men i , Hold Meeting at Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special.) -Group No. 1 of the Nebraska Hardware Dealers' association met in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Tuesday with members in attendance from Fairbury, Wymore, Alexandria, .Plymouth and other points. A num ber of hardware men from other parts of the state were present and appeared on the program,- including George Dietz of Lincoln, state secre tary. The local hardware men en tertained the delegates at a banquet. L . V. Decision on Fort Crook Road Fund to Be Appealed 'Lincoln. Neb.. "Nov. 1. (Special.) -iThe decision by District Judge Morning holding the $75,000 Fort Crook road appropriatioa unconstitu tignal as being special legislation for a ;local purpose will be appealed to the state supreme court, Attorney General Davie said today. The ap peal will be made to obtain an jntcr pretation to serve as precedent in fu ture legislation and also whether a dfetrict judge can hold a law uncon stitutional, the attorney general said. Work on Viaduct on State Road at Table Rock Starts Table Rock. Neb.: Nov. 1. (See- dal.) Work has been started on the new viaduct on the state highway, which passes over the. Rock Island east of Pawriee City. The construc tion has progressed far enough so that traffic in and out of Pawnee City to- the east is being routed north or south of the highway to the first intersection east. - It is understood thht the bridge will be arched with a floor C? T-osote wooden blocks. . - jfysterious Fire at Ayr t Destroys Four Stores Hastings, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special Telegram.) Fire destroyed four stores at Ayr near here. The J. F. Reader & Son Implement company, Vfeekley & Easter garage. Wilder blacksmith shop and a barber shop wire wiped out The fire is thought to) have originated in the garage. The v catase is unknown. . i . ' Tipcumseh to Hold District Convention for Ministers Tecumseh, Neb., Nov. 1. (Spe ; cil.) A district ministerial meeting of' the Methodist church is to be held in? Tecumseh, Thursday. Several counties are included ia the district J Tfce evening meeting, which will be open to the public and which will . be? on Christian education, will be addressed by Bishop Homer Stnntz. I Z '. 71 TT. hii Ionian, injur ea m ran rrom fWasnn. Recoverinff Ranidlv . " C ' 1 J Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special.) fiss Grace Meints, who is in a hospital here suffering from a badly wrenched back as the result of a fall v. from a wagon while assisting her brother in gathering corn at their faii near Fickrell is improving and m! soon be able to return hame. Belle Fourche Court To Have Busy Session Belle Fourche, S, D.. Nov. 1. (Special) An unu.ual number of criminal cases and other cases will be tried at a term of circuit court for Butte county, which will con vene in Belt Fourche on Thursday, November 10, with Judge McNcnny presiding. The term promises to b a lengthy one, as there are now 21 case on the docket and more prob ably will be tiled bciora the term opens. Sixteen defendants will be tried on criminal charges. Amonsr the criminal cases is that of Fred Kenstler, charged with at suit with a deadly weapon. This is a case in which conviction was se cured at former term of court, but the case was appealed, the su preme court lending it back for re trial Cornbelt Highway Picks New Routes Two Lines Connect With K. T. and State Roads. Yankton. S. D.. Nov. 1 (Special) Routing of the Cornbelt highway was decided upon at a meeting of the route committee held at Parker. I There had been some contention as to whether there should be a road through the Irene way or the Wa konda way in the effort to connect the Meridian highway at Yankton with the King of Trails and the stretch of state road from Parker to Viborg. This was adjusted with out any trouble by deciding upon two roads, one north and south, and the other east and west. 1 he meet ing was attended by C E. Dowling. route man for Yankton, and Her bert Hanson of this city. There were delegates present from prac tically all the towns interested. The route for the east and west portion of the highway, which will connect the King of Trails and the Meridian highway, is from a point in South Dakota just outside of Ha warden, la., through Alcester, Ber esford, Ccntcrville and Irene, and west to the point the Meridian -highway is reached north of this city. The routing of the north and south road is from Yankton through Mis sion Hill. Volin, Wakonda, Viborg, up over their fine state road through Hurley to Parker, and on to Mon roe. Grand Island Taxi Driver Ends Own Life Grand Island, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special Telegram.) Debi Mcintosh, 45, taxi driver, committed suicide late yesterday in a spectacular man ner. Renting a gun from a sporting goods dealer, ostensibly to hunt chickens, he went out three miles along the Lincoln highway, left his car standing alongside the road, sat down on the embankment, tied a cord to the trigger and looped it about the gunstock in a manner to make it act like a pulley, and, with barrel close to his body, pulled the trigger. He was found by a woman passerby, who summoned help and notified the authorities. The man was dead. It is stated that he was formerly married, had separated from his first wife and was again married. He leaves no children. The direct cause is unknown. Masons Lay Cornerstone For Hastings Dormitory Hastings, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special Telegram.) Under the direction of the Masonic order, with Grand Mas ter Lewis E. Smith of Long Pine charge, the cornerstone was laid yes terday for the E. G. Taylor dormi tory of Hastings college. The build ing will cost more than $100,000. The oration was delivered by J. G. Harry S. Dungan. The building was named after E. G. Taylor of Loup City, a member of the board of trustees," in recogni tion of his gift of $40,000 and or services to the college. The shrine hand furnished music and a number of Masonic grand officers were present Gothenburg Mav Get Sugar Plant Platte Valley Irrigation Prof ret Already Attract Bunine. Gothenburg, Neb., Nor. I. (Spe ctal.) With it preliminary survey hardly started, the Platte valley irri- gallon project has already attracted outsiders. Arthur Bray of Denver was in the city all bt week con ferring with local bukineti men on the nutter of establishing sugar beet factories here. One of Gothenburg's greatest possibilities in case the big propect U carried out, is the local in i of a large sugar plant here. The project now planned will water an area of 100 miles in length and IS miles wide or about 600.000 acres. This strip of land is between North Platte and Kearney on both sides of the river and will boom all towns within its limits, especially Gothenburg and I-cxington. which are logical centers lor the beet fac tories. As to financing the preliminary survey, which is estimated to cost $30,000, the government guarantees $10,000, while the remainder is to be provided by the people within the territory affected. Toward thisre niander, Gothenburg has raised nearly $3,000 to date. A dam will be constructed across the river near North Platte with canals leading out at both ends. At flood season the water can be (taken through these canals and stored in reservoirs to be constructed at regu lar intervals along the valley. Sur veys are now being made for the first of these reservoirs northwest of Gothenburg. Plattsmoutli Man Is New Owner of Tecumseh Laundry Tecumseh, Neb., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) E. D. Jones of Plattsmoutli has bought the Tecumseh laundry, building and equipment He has moved his family to this city and will operate the laundry. Two Boys in Hallowe'en Prank Are Fired Upon Woominytoit, 1U Nov. 1. When several buys attempted t overturn! some puiuunuings as a muoweenj prank Is.t night, John Ernt, owner of the property, fired a double bar reled shotgun wounding Karl Wool sty, 1J, probably fatally and another boy terioufc.y. Home Owners Lead In Nebraska City Sixty Per Cent of Worker! Are Holder! of Property. Ncbra.ka Gty, Neb., Nov. 1 (Special.).-Sixty per cent of the workers of Nebraska City are home owners, according to the survey of the industrial and commercial enter prises of this city, as made by C. U Kelly, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, lie reports that 65 per rent of the men employed by the Norton Gregson company, pork packers, are married. ihe liurlineton. which ranks second in the number of employes, show 90 ner cent are married and of these 75 per cent own homes. ' ! wincr inuuMrm enterprises snow that 50 per cent of the men em ployed are home owners. Total. analysis shows that more than 60 per cent of the men employed tn Nebraska City industries own their homes. This is considered a remarkably good showing, and indicates sound state of affairs, especially in a com munity where its largest enterprise is a packing house, where much floating labor is found. Bandits Get $1,000. San Francisco, Nov. 1. Neptune's palace, a cafe one block from the Hall of Justice was invaded late yes terday by three bandits, who secured a money bag containing $l,OUUfroin John Valentine, an employe, and made their escape. 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Wednesday Sale of Apron Frocks Charming "Forest Maid" Frocks 1 98 Twenty-five different styles, of gingham apron frocks to select from in regular and ex tra sizes. Fancy plaids and checks trimmed in white or colors; on sale Wednesday, 1.98 Third Floor Center Wool Finished Blankets 3.45 pr. 5 cases of extra fine quality plaid blankets with well - whipped edges; size 70x80 inches; easily worth 4.50. Wednesday, while the lot lasts, per pair, 3.45 - Basement West, "We'll Tell The World" We've put on an extra suit of boosting clothes just now. We're boosting for: The International Aero Congress that meets in Omaha, Thursday, November 3, to Saturday, November 5. The Omaha Manufacturers Show that is to hold forth on the eighth floor of the Brandeis Store, Monday, November 7, up to Saturday, November 13. , The State Teachers' Association that holds its important sessions here Wednesday, November 9, to' -Friday, Novem ber 11.. ' These are great Fall-Time attractions. -The Brandeis Store, with its many conveniences for shoppers, is an All Time, as well as a Fall-Time attraction; ; Visitors and home folks alike flock to this store, for they know that here are the goods they want, sold at the prices tbey must have. Boost the Aero Congress, the Manufacturers' Show and the State Teachers' Association. Let those immediately con cerned in these affairs know that Omaha people know big things and good things when they see them. "Well tell the world" they do! : J. L. BRANDEIS .SONS. Cotton Batting 89c 3 pound roll Excellent q u a 1 ity of snow white cotton. 72x 90 inches when opened up. ' One roll is suffi cient to make a full sized comforter. Regu lar 1.25 value; Wednes day, , 89c 2,500 Yards of Comforter Covering Good quality fancy printed cretonnes in serviceable mill lengths. A great value at 10 HJ Basement North Great Sale of Women Felt 1,864 pairs of Cushion Sole Felt Slippers in all thewanted colors, plain and ribbon trimmed; 1.75 to 2.50 values; special, per pair Slippers 29 Main Floor East at Reduced Pri ces From the largest and best known, manufacturers in the east. Madam Irene, Madam Lyra, Warner's Rust-Proof, American Lady, P. & N. Practical Front Lace and Elastic Corsets. Here is a remarkable opportunity for you to secure a high-grade corset in this sale of the well-known makes. 5.00 to 6.50 Values, 4.85 Includes Madam Lyra, Madam Irene, P. & N., Practical Front Lace and American Lady Models. Mate rials of handsome broche, coutil, batiste; topless or average styles, lightly - or heavily boned. Also ' elastic corsets of satin and broche combinations. Sizes 22 to 36. Sale price, 4.85 3.50 to 4.50 Values, 2.85 Includes American Lady, P. & N., Warner's Rust-Proof and Elastic Corsets. Materials of broche, satin, coutil and novelty cloth topless or average styles, medium and long skirts. Sizes are 22 to 36. Sale price, 2.85 There are a few stout figure cor sets in this sale. Discontinued num bers of stylish stout and Nemo, at 4.85 2.00 to 3.00 Values, 1.85 Includes American Lady, P. & N.,, Warner's Rust-Proof and -Lucille (made by Treo Company). Aver-, age to stout figures, also topless' models with elastic inserts. Plain and fancy materials, all well boned. All sizes. 1.00 to 2.00 Values, 85c Includes topless and medium low bust, elastic combination. Plain and novely materials; some are discontinued models of American Lady and P. & N. corsets. Not every size in each model, but a Sale price, 1.85 large assortment. Sale price, 85c Third Floor North 1 1 t 0