Events and Persons
In Which You Will Be More or Less Interested.
News for This Department Must Be Received by Wednesday Night.
Dr. J. H. Williams, grand master
of the U. B. of F. and S. M. of I.’s
of Missouri and jurisdiction, was in
our city Thursday, Nevember 4, for
the purpose of organizing a new
temple.
Much credit is due Mrs. M. C.
Sands in getting the club formed
preparatory to organizing the tem
ple. To our knowledge, this is the
largest temple to be organized in
our city. The grand master was
much pleased with the work and said
he could see great things in the fu
■ ture for Omaha. At the close of the
initiation, lunch was served. At 8
p. m. there was a joint session, at
which the grand master delivered an
interesting address, which was en
joyed by all present, after which he
was presented with a beautiful
boquet of white chrysanthemums.
Mr. A. Hopkins died at his home,
21)02 Seward street, Friday, Novem
ber 5. The funeral was held from
the G, Wade Obee undertaking par
lors Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Hopkins
was a well-known waiter and was
well liked among his fellow workmen.
The waiters from the various hotels
turned out in large numbers. He
leaves a wife and two small children.
The Christian Scientists conducted
•the services.
Miss Allie B. Freeman of Lexing
ton, Mo., who has been engaged to
give a recital at the Grove M. E.
church November 18 for the benefit
of the Negro Womans’ Christian as
sociation, is a graduate of the musi
cal department of Western univer
sity, Quindaro, Kans. Come out and
hear this promising young pianist.
Boost for Omaha.—Adv.
The Y. P. V. circle of Zion Baptist
church will be entertained Monday
evening by Miss Stevens at her home
at 2423Vi Lake street. All members
are requested J.o be out. Mrs. M. D.
Marshall, president; Miss Edith
Hatcher, secretary.
Dependable dress making. Prices
reasonable. Miss Gladys Counsellor,
2128 Lake street. Webster 604.
Mrs. H. S. Price left Saturday for
Kansas City for a week’s visit with
her sister-in-law. From there she will
go to Chickashee, Okla., to visit her
aunt for three weeks.
Mr. Lee Williams, en route from
Chicago to his home in Oakland, Cal.,
stopped over Sunday in Omaha as
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Reed, 1448 South Sixteenth street,
who entertained at dinner in hiB
honor.
Prof. J. W. Bundrant, dramatic
reader, will be heard at the Grove
M. E. church November 18 for the
benefit of the Old Folks’ home.—Adv.
Mrs. H. A. Chiles, 2702 Miami
street, left Saturday for Thomaston,
Ga., where she was called by the
serious illness of her mother.
Mrs. William H. Ransom has been
called to Bairdstown, Ky., by the
death of her brother.
Banks & Wilks have remodeled
their undertaking parlors, thoroughly
renovating, repapering and painting.
Miss Irene Cochran, one of Oma
ha’s own girls, will sing at the grand
musicale November 18 at Grove M.
E. church.—Adv.
The colored members of the Oma
ha fire department will give their
first annual ball at the Alamo hall
Friday, November 19.
Mrs. Sadie Herman was taken to
Clarkson Memorial hospital Sunday,
where she underwent a serious op
eration.
The Jolly Twelve will give their
annual ball at Alamo hall Tuesday,
November 16. Visitors from Topeka,
St. Louis and St. Paul will be pres
ent. Everybody cordially invited.
Friday night, November 5, Prof. J.
W. Bundrant called together the
young pepole of Omaha for the pur
pose of organizing a literary society
to be known as the “New Era Dra
matic Club.” Mr. Bundrant outlined
the work and aim of the organiza
tion. He intends to form a stock
company which will give a play at
least once a month. The club will
have its own musicians and orches
tra. At each meeting, which is every
Friday night, a short program will
be given by the different members.
The club expects to give a play about
Christmas. They are striving for
higher principles and higher educa
tion. Have you any talent? Do you
belong to any dramatic club? Why
not send in your application now?
Mr. Rufus C. Long, popular bari
tone, will appear on the program in
support of Miss Allie B. Freeman
for the benefit of the Old Folks’
home.—Adv.
Mr. James Peoples of Minneapolis
and Mr. E. Walker of Kansas City
are having great success with their
new dancing school at Peterson’s hall.
The Owl club met Thursday night.
This is their motto: “If you can’t
pull, push; if you can’t push, get
out of the way.”
A new orchestra, to be known as
Mie “Harmony Orchestra,” has been
irganized by Frank Terry.
The “Ya-Ya” orchestra met Sun
day afternon at the band hall.
Come out November 18 and hear
Miss Darlean Duvar, mezzo-soprano,
pupil of Prof. Ben Stanley, at the
grand musicale given for the benefit
of the Negro Womans’ Christian as
sociation.—Adv.
Thanksgiving night at St. John’s
A. M. E. church, Eighteenth and
Webster streets, the Du Bois Drama
tic club will present the drama, “The
Tie That Binds.” The leads will be
handled by Misses Hazel Perry, Beat
rice Majors, and Mr. Andrew Reed.
Prof, and Mrs. J. W. Bundrant, Mrs.
Jessie Moss and Miss Darlene Dou
vall are other popular characters on
the program. In conection will be a
Negro doll bazaar. Auspices A. M.
M. society. Admission 15c.—Adv.
Sunday, November 21, is quarterly
meeting at St. John’s. The Rev. J.
C. C. Owens will preach morning and
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ricks enter
tained at dinner Rev. and Mrs. W.
T. Osborne Friday.
The Rev. Mr. Washington of Den
ver, Colo., worshiped at St. John’s
Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Burton of Denver,
Colo., who some years ago was at
resident of Omaha, is the guest of
Mrs. J. M. Goff of 911 Forest ave
nue. She expects to remain here for
a fortnight after which she will go
to St. Joseph, Mo., to visit her moth
er, Mrs. Gray.
Dependable dress making. Prices
reasonable. Miss Gladys Counsellor,
2428 Lake street. Webster 604.
A. W. Parker has been confined to
his home for several days with sick
ness.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR.
WAS FIRST BASEBALL GLOVE
Writer in All Outdoors Believes It Ap
peared in 1867, When He
Saw It.
About 1867-68 a baseball team came
to Rockford, 111., to play our nine.
They called themselves the “Uncon
quered Clippers of Illinois,” and plas
tered our town with big posters. We
made up our minds to give them a
drubbing, and at the end of the game
the score was Rockford 76, Clippers 0.
There was a little chap playing third
oast who grabbed everything that
came near him, and held it, too. I
noticed that he wore a kind of glove.
When the game was over I went to
him and asked what it was that he
wore on his hand. He told me that
he was a machinist, and had got his
hand badly hurt the week before, and
he showed me the wound in his palm.
He paid the boys did not want him to
play in that game, but he got a piece
of thin sheet steel and made it slightly
concave, but so that it did not quite
touch the sore place. He then made a
short glove to cover all the hand ex
cepting the first joints of the fingers,
and doubled the leather in the palm so
that he could slip the plate between.
I asked him if it hurt, and he said it
did not, and that he could take a hot
one and hold it better with the glove
than without it. That is the whole
story. I don’t think that Spalding ever
talked to the little chap with the iron
fist, as the boys dubbed the third base
man, but everybody in Rockford knew
about the mitt, and he may have got
the idea from him. Anyway, that was
the first glove that any ballplayer
ever wore.—All Outdoors.
MADE SMOKING A HARDSHIP
Foolish Competitions That Should
Have Disgusted Genuine Lovers
of the Seductive Weed.
At a smoking competition held re
cently at Brighton, England, the win
ner kept an eighth of an ounce of to
bacco alight for 103 minutes. There
was a severer test at Oxford in 1723
on a scaffold over against the theater.
Thomas Hearne described the scene:
“The conditions were that anyone
(man or woman) that could smoak
out three ounces of tobacco first with
out drinking or going off the stage
should have twelve shillings. Many
tried, and it was thought that a jour
neyman taylour would have been vic
tor, he smoaking faster than, and be
ing many pipes before the rest; but at
last he was so sick that ’twas thought
he would have died, and an old man,
that had been a soldier, and smoaked
gently, came off a conqueror, smoak
ing the three ounces quite out.”
In Derbyshire there was a club
where the qualification for member
ship was the ability to smoke up a
pound of shag tobacco at one sitting.
A china pot served as pipe, and the
candidate smoked through the spout.
SATURDAY IS CANDY DAY
AT THE REXALL STORES
1 lb. box Marguerite Chocolate Cher
ries—instead of 60c, for.39c
1 lb. box Barr’s Saturday Candy—
instead of 60c, for.29c
1 lb. Nut Chocolates—instead of 60c,
for .29c
1 lb. Uncle Joshua Hoarhound Candy
for . ^..14c
Uggett’s Nut and Fruit Chocolates,
l lb. for. 80c
it pays to trade where you can
surely find every article desired and
save money on it as well.
RAZORS AND FOUNTAIN PENS
$2.00 Magnetic Steel Razor for.93c
Your choice of % dozen kinds high
grade Razors at, each.98c
60c plcg. Gillette Blades for.39c
$5.00 Gillette Razor for.$3.89
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.
4 Good Drug Stores
r A A I AT CUT
VU/1 L PRICES
FOR. CASH
Scranton Hard Nut.$10.75
Scranton Hard Egg and
Range .$10.50
Rosewood Hard Coal—From Ar
kansas, for furnace use....$9.00
Rock Springs (genuine).$8.00
White Ash Lump (smoke
less) . $7.00
Radiant—Lump, egg, nut, Frank
lin county, the best Illinois $6.50
Illinois—Good quality, lump, egg,
nut . .$6.00
Walnut Block—The genuine $5.00
Cherokee Nut—Genuine, large
size .$4.75
Specialty, Lump and Egg....$4.75
2,000 lbs. to the Ton. All coal.
Hand-Screened.
PROMPT DELIVERY.
ROSENBLATT
Cut Price Coal Co.
1223 Nicholas St. Tel. Doug. 530
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