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Events and Persons Mrs. Ursula Hines of St. Joseph, Mo., grand treasurer of the Grand Chapter O. E. S., of Missouri and jur isdiction, en route to Lincoln, Neb., was the guest of Mrs. Alphonso Wil son, the early part of the week. Glass blowing entertainment at Mt. Moriah Baptist church August 28. Keep it in mind.—Adv. Mrs. Grace Simms and Mrs. Myrtle Lisha and son, Lothair, of Grand Rap ids, Mich., are the guests of Mrs. J. C. Donley, 2413 Erskine street. Plain sewing done. Children’s clothes a specialty. Mrs. L. Johnson, Webster 1621.—Adv. Mrs. Edna Douglas Johnson, of Kan sas City, Mo., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Cora Owens, of 2919 Erskine St. When you need a good clean shave, see P. H. Jenkins, 1313 Dodge street. —Adv. Rev. David Foston, of Chicago, pres ident of the Olivet Theological Insti tute, preached at Rev. T. A. Taggart’s church Sunday morning and at Zion church Sunday night. While in the city he was the guest of Silas John son, who had been his school chum years ago. He returned to Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. L. E. Britt left for Lincoln Wednesday evening. Ladies tailoring and dressmaking. Mrs. E. M. January, 2310 N. 26th St. Webster 1483.—Adv. Mrs. Lucy Dukes of Chicago, has been visiting Omaha for several days. She left for Chicago Thursday. Mrs. Margaret Bell of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Mattie Franklin and daugh ter, Frances, of St. Louis, Mo., are here to be with their sister, Mrs. O. G. Garrett, during her illness. Hair growing and hair preservation, ; scalp treatment, manicuring and mas sage. Smith, Chiles & Wheeler, 2414 North 24th. Webster 3024.—Adv. Mrs. Hamilton Long and Mrs. Mamie Phillips of Topeka, Kas., and Mrs. Sadie Henderson, of Salina, Kas., delegates to the Taborean Grand Lodge, were the guests of Mrs. Lindsay Smith of North 36th street. Smoke John Ruskin 6c Cigar. Big gest and Best.—Adv. Mrs. Bettie Johnson, of Los An geles, Cal., one of the high precept oresses of the Daughters of the Tab ernacle, was entertained Thursday by Mrs. William Penn and Mrs. William Walker. Mrs. Johnson left Saturday morning for Kansas City, Mo. For real estate, loans, insurance and investments, see Eugene Thomas first. Rooms 413-14 Karbach Block, 16th and Douglas. Phone Douglas 3607.—Adv. A neatly furnished house at 1414 North Twenty-sixth street, will be rented to desirable couple. References required. Phone Harney 316. Ask for Mrs. Wallace. S. H. Falls has gone to Chicago to rejoin his wife and take a position in a garage. For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan der. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927. Mrs. Martha Walker, of Kansas City Mo., is the guest of Mesdames Merryfield, Chancellor and Riddles. Elite Hair Pomade on sale at the Peoples Drug Store.—Adv. Mrs. Oletha Sanford, of Carrollton, Mo., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lydia Chancellor, 2631 Grant street. John Ruskin Cigar, 6 cents. Biggest and Best. The Phi Delta Sorority entertained the 1917 graduates of Central and Commercial high school at a picnic last week • Mrs A. Vanned and Mrs. Grant of LyA\n, were the guests of Mrs. yleiffle Banka during the grand ses sion of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston will be gin instructing a cammunity class of ladies in Sol Feggio soon. We positively grow the hair. Best care taken in saving each strand. Electrical massage, scalp and face. Manicuring a specialty. Poro Culture College, 1616 North 26th street. Anna E. Jones and Clara C. Keys. Maranello preparations.. Webster 6460.—Adv. A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. James, of 2632 Patrick avenue, Tuesday night. Mother and babe are doing well and if there is a prounder daddy to be found in Christendom than Dumas he would like to see him. The Pleasant Hour Club will hold their annual picnic at Elmwood Park Tuesday afternoon. Furnished rooms, 1817 Izard. Tyler 1609. William Gray, who was drowned at Lincoln, was buried from Banks and Wilks undertaking rooms July 12. In terment was in Mt Hope cemetery. TWILIGHT TROLLEY PARTY The young people of the Florence P. Leavitt Club of the Grove M. E. church will give a Twilight Trolley Party Tuesday evening, July 24th. Cars will leave Twenty-fourth and Blondo streets at 8:30 sharp. Adults 25 rents, children 16 cents. Don’t be late.—Adv. ST. JOHN’S A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES Sunday is the beginning of the dol lar money roll at St. John’s. Every member and friend is asked to pay their conference dollar money Sunday. The Sunday school picnic will be August 't'.h at Rivervicw park. Mrs. Fleming Brown of Neligh, Neb., is -he house guest of Mrs. F. J. McCullough. She has been the honored guest at many social func tions while in the city, among which were breakfast at Mrs. Edward Ring’s, dinner and auto ride by Mrs. Samuel Simms. Mr. J. Andrew Singleton will sing the role of “David” in the big can tata “David, the Shepherd Boy” at the Brandeis theater Aug. 6th.—Adv. Mr. Sylvester Steward, who has been attending school in the east, is spending his vacation with his mother, Mrs. Mary Steward, 27th and Chi cago streets. Among the members of St. John’s who have been reported as having at tended the Grand Lodge of the East ern Star at Lincoln, were Mesdames Kate Wilson, Ella Watson, Martha Jackson, Lulu Rountree and Myrtle Metcalf. A beautiful silk lace evening gown, donated by Mrs. C. C. Allison, -will be one of the prizes given to the one selling the most tickets for the can tata “David, the Shepherd Boy.” An other dress, also a silk shirt, will be given as prizes. The members of the chorus are working hard to make this the largest attended affair we have yet had, because in many respects it is the best chorus cvfcr attempted by local talent. The male support is ex ceptionally good, as it also the entire chorus. Secure your seat now. SONG FOR NEBRASKA SOLDIERS Tune: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. Everybody is getting ready now to say farewell, Soon we’ll sail for Gay Faroe to give the Kaiser •t>ll, We’ll be shouting “So Long Jack,” “Good Bye, U. S. A.,” We’re getting down to business in the good old Yankee way. Chorus— It’s a long way out to the trenches, It’s a long way, that’s true, It’s a long way to dear old Faris Across the ocean blue; Goodbye to Old Nebraska, Farewell, pal of mine, We will all be eating Christmas din ners On the banks of the Rhine. —Sergt. Frank Mason, 10th Cavalry, U. S. A. ODDFELLOWS TO HOLD GRAND SESSION IN OMAHA The thirty-sixth annual session of the Grand United Order of Oddfel lows of Missouri and jurisdiction, No. 8, and their allied order, the House hold of Ruth, No. 15, will meet in Omaha August 7-10. The local com mittee of which J. C. Belcher is chair man, W. H. Payne, vice-chairman, R. L. Woodard, secretary, and T. W. Whittner, treasurer, is actively mak ing preparations for this important meeting which it is believed will be the most successful session in the his tory of the order in this jurisdiction. The business sessions are to be held at Grove M. E. and Mt. Moriah Bap tist churches, the Household of Ruth meeting in the latter. SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL DANCERS Messrs. Robert Herrington and E. W. Killingsworth wish to announce that from now on the dances given at the Alamo will be under the regula tion rules of the Omaha Board of Wel fare and that all unbecoming dances will be strictly prohibited. All per sons are asked to govern themselves accordingly. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Louise Howard and grand children want to thank their many friends for their kindness and flowers during the illness and death of daugh ter and mother, Mrs. Addic Hibbs. What of the future? Will it think us as strange and quaint as we think the past ? People lived without sugar till the thirteenth century, without coal till the fourteenth, without but ter till the fifteenth, without tobacco and potatoes till the sixteenth, with out tea, coffee and soap till the seventeenth, without lamps till the eighteenth, without trains, telegrams, gas, matches, and chloroform till the the nineteenth, without grapefruit, automobiles, wireless or aeroplanes until the twentieth. In a future age shall we Zeppelin to Paris from New York for week ends? Shall we visit Mars? Shall we talk with the de parted?—Every Week. The members of St. Philip’s church are going to have a Trolley Party Wednesday night, August 1st, and will be delighted to have their friends go along, too.—Adv. “THAT WHICH ABIDETH” In times of world horror, when all mankind is afflicted—especially in times of national crisis, when every day and every hour are making his tory and casual incidents may turn the whole course of the future—it stems as if life ought to be serious, not to say solemn; as if merrymaking and rejoicing, even diversions in them seives harmless, were inappropriate. It seems as if men and women should be grave, even sad—not gay, light and trivial. Nevertheless, the entire course of history proves the contrary. When nations are on the verge of rain, they are apt to seek amusement in trifles and frivolous dissipation. When men are threatened with appaling calamity, instead of giving themselves up to distress and despair, they often turn to extravagance, to folly, even to vice. One of the striking facts about great visitations of the plague in old days is that people with death at their doors flung themselves madly into feast and revelry' and dance and song. Such extremes point to an indisput able truth of human nature. Men cannot keep their souls always on the rack, nor is it desirable that they should. A serene and cheerful spirit performs all duties better. Stem tasks are more easily accomplished if the heart is allowed and even encouraged to turn from them occasionally to in different and even trivial pleasures. But ther are better things to feel our souls with than what is indiffer ent and trivial, and it is wholly worth while to keep those things before us when the fierce tumult of immediate misery threatens to shatter all delight and all hope. Foolish extravagance and riotous distraction should be avoided, but we should resort with double enthusiasm to the pure and quiet consolation of books and thought of art and music, of sweet and gra cious friendship and society. Above all there one source of di version and delight that never fails, I that costs nothing and leaves no wear iness and no satiety—the beauty of the natural world. Whatever else fails, the blue sky, the clouds, the stars, the flowers will not fail us. They will survive the struggles of man, his passions, his wickedness, even his suffering. After reading the newspapers and deluging our souls with horror, to take a quiet walk in the fields is like entering heaven. For enjoying such distractions no one can reproach us. The greatest writer of Gei < iany said many years ago, before Prussian mil itarism had become monstrous, “The fashion of this world passeth away, and I would fain occupy myself with F. D. HOUSTON 2321 Vi So. 16th Phone D. 9538 TEDDY, THE BARBER One of the Best . At the Best Barber Shop in Omaha. 1313 DODGE ST. P. H. JENKINS, Prop. We Hare a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN j Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 » u ■ m • -—■« . >• q o | Phones: Office, Douglas 3841; Res idence, Harney 2166 Reference—Any Judge of the Dis trict Court of Douglas County. E. F. Moreartv ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 640 Bee Bldg. Omaha, Neb.j that which abideth.”—Youth's Com panion. Not what you Get, but what you Give, Is that which proves your Right to Live. What a pity it is that man uses his reason much oftener to justify his conduct than to guide it!—Ex. MIDSUMMER When the grainfield lies like a lake of glass, When the strawberries dry in the longest grass, When black-eyed Susans are all ablaze, When hosts of the fireweed flush the clearing, Then you may know that the time is nearing— The height of summer, the fierce blue days. When the night breathes deep, like a worn-out sleeper. When shadows of great white clouds fall deeper, A sharper foil for the glaring sun, When out of the hush a bird sings rarely, When winds blow fitfully, brooks run sparely, You ma> know that the youth of the year is done. _ NOTES OF ST. PHILIP’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Altar Guild met with Miss Lena Paul Tuesday night. The Sunday school meets at 10 o’clock and is steadily growing. The annual Sunday school and par ish picnic will be held at Elmwood park Thursday afternoon, August 2. The hours of service during the summer are as follows: 7:30 a. m., holy communion; Sunday school at 10; holy communion and sermon at 11 and prayer at 8 o’clock. Every body is welcome at all services. Get the church-going habit. 1 “David, The | I Shepherd Boy” J ~ Cantata in Ten Scenes 1 PRESENTED by some of the best singers in THE WEST | | Brandeis Theatre, August 6th | ~ Box Seats 50c. First Floor 50c and 35c. E — First Balcony 35c and 25c. E | j. ANDREW SINGLETON (TENOR) AS “DAVID” | 1 Benefit St. John’s A. M. E. Church | — Call Douglas 5914 for Reserved Seat as Soon as You Purchase s = Duplicate Ticket. No Seats Held. First Purchaser Gets First Choice. 5 :t ii ii 1111 mu mi iiiiini!ii ii 1111 ii i mi i ii iii 111 ii ii iiiiii i iii 111 iiiimiiiiiii i iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimmmiiimimmiimmmiiiiimimiiimiiii: E THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEGRO STAR E ! NOBLE M. JOHNSON i in = 1 “The Law of Nature” I A TREMENDOUSLY POWERFUL STORY WITH A WHOLESOME MORAL Direct From Two Weeks Run In Chicago = DON’T MISS THIS THIRD LINCOLN PRODUCTION | A Superb Race Photoplay of the Lincoln Quality. It Deals in a Gripping Way With the = = True Love of a Real Man and an Innocent Woman, Endangered by the Sinister Attentions ofan Ardent Admirer. E I GRIPPING—CLASSY—STARTLING | See the Gorgeous Ball Room Scenes, See Your Favorite Star at His Best, = E Cafe and Cabaret Scenes, Ably Supported by Beautiful Albertine E = See Your Omaha Friends, Pickens of Chicago, and Clarence Brooks E E See the Winsome Miss of the May Crisis of “Realization” Fame the Beau Brum- = E Cover. mel of the Screen. E | One Day Only--Saturday, July 28th | Continuous 2 O’clock to Midnight Adults 10c. Children 5c. E LHAMBRA THEATR E 24th and Parker Sts., Omaha, Neb. = ^iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimmmimmmmmmmmmiiiiiimmimin Kansas and Oklahoma Oil Fields Amaze the World The nation depends upon Oklahoma and Kansas for its high grade oil from which gasoline and | other light oils are refined. Oklahoma is producing over one-third (1-3) of the crudfe oil from which gasoline is made in the United States. If the Kansas and Oklahoma oil fields were to suddenly shut down, one-half of the automobiles in the United States would have to stop running. The great automo bile industry is, in a way, dependent upon Oklahoma oil fields. OKLAHOMA is producing almost twice as much oil as all of the states east of the Mississippa River — more than Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and I.ouisiana combined. Considering the above facts, is it strange that OKLAHOMA & KANSAS OIL MEANS MILLIONS, or that hundreds of Oklahoma oil companies are making fortunes for their shareholders? The wonder of it never ceases. Almost every day you read of men, or groups of men, or companies selling their holdings for millions of dollars. Recently the report was published of the McMann Oil Company, which sold out part of its production to the Magnolia Oil Company for the vast sum of $35,000,000. Just a few days ago the press and oil journals reported the sale of the B. B. Jones property in the Oklahoma field for $7,000,000. A fortnight ago the Hill Oil and Gas Company sold their holdings in Oklahoma oil fields to the Cosden Oil , and Gas Company for $12,000,000. The Farmers Oil and Gas Company has holding* in these wonderful producing oil fields. It is now selling 400 square feet lots, giving a title in fee simple, guaranteeing the title forever, to the purchaser ll of the said deed. These lots are selling now at ten dollars and will soon be doubled in price, due to the newly discovered oil wells around this property. You better get down to the ground floor and invest AT ONCE! There is no telling what a hundred dollars invested in the Farmers Oil and Gas Company will do for you. The Farmers Oil & Gas Co. 612-613 Paxton Block, Omaha, Neb. I ORDER FOR^LOTS^IN THE FARMERS OIL & GAS CO. jj! Gentlemen:—Enclosed please find $. jj II ^This Company reserves the right to refund all money received* jj | in case lots have been sold or advanced in price. jj j I " 1111 1 Street and City. jjij