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.
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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
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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.
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~ Cantata in Ten Scenes
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The nation depends upon Oklahoma and Kansas for its high grade oil from which gasoline and |
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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
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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
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Almost every day you read of men, or groups of men, or companies selling their holdings for millions
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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
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