Lincoln News
Mrs. Loraine Dorsey is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Mary Terraine, after a pleas
ant visit with her daughter, returned
to Omaha last Friday.
The Gideon Band of the Baptist
Church was delightfully entertained
by Mrs. Virgie Clark on last Thursday
evening. The Gideons are making a
handsome quilt to be given to the one
holding the lucky number.
Miss Carrie Brown has been con
fined to her bed suffering with the
mumps.
Mrs. Olla McDaniels arrived home
from Denver last Sunday, having been
called there on account of the illness
of her mother who is now greatly im
proved.
Miss Alleyne Bell has gone to Okla
homa to make her home with her old
est brother. Miss Bell will be missed
by the girls of her class, as she was
quite a musician and a useful girl n
the Baptist Sunday School.
Mr. George W. Owens of Galveston,
Texas, is here visiting his children
with a view of remaining.
Rev. I. B. Smith preached a fine
logical sermon at the Baptist Church
Sunday evening to a good audience.
The Musical Walkers, who well de
serve the name, gave another one of
their splendid programs at the Baptis)
Church on last Monday night. They
use five or six different expensive
musical instruments and their rendi
tion of it seems perfect. Every num
ber called for an encore and every one
was delighted. The Mission Circle
served refreshments.
Brother Ben Hampton occupied the
pulpit both morning and evening at
the Newman M. E. Church last Sun
day’ in the absence of Rev. Talbot. He
preached from the text, “Works WitH
Faith” in the morning.
Rev. R. R. Powers of El Reno, Okla..
w’ill conduct a ten days’ meeting at
the Baptist Church. Hear him Easter
Sunday as he comes highly recom
mended.
Prof. Cedell Norris will conduct a
splendid Easter program at the Bap
tist Church at 2 p. m. Come and bring
your friends.
Walter Foiling, a Lincoln boy who
is with the 370th Infantry, National
Guard, at Camp Logan. Houston, Tex.,
uttered this prayer:
“Most holy, righteous and mighty
Lord God, we submit our country’s
cause to Thee and we commend us,
Thy soldiers, to Thy guidance and
keeping in the war. Protect us amid
the perils of the sea and the dangers
of battle in far lands. Keep us sound
in body, pure in heart, brave in spirit,
ever loyal to Thee and to our country.
Enable us to do valiant service for
justice and freedom. Strengthen us
while we fight for right; comfort and
succor us; if we must fall, receive us
. into eternal rest. But, oh, most merci
ful Father, we beseech Thee, bring us
back to dear old U. S. A. with victory
on our banner and with peace and love
in our hearts. Accept and bless our
sacrifices, oh, Lord, our strength and
our Redeemer.”
George Foiling, a brother of Walter,
who enlisted about Thanksgiving, is
now located in Honolulu.
The D. M. S. club gave their first
entertainment of the season. An ex
cellent program was rendered, after
which dancing was enjoyed by all. The
money cleared will go towards the Old
Folks’ home. This was the first enter
tainment since the reorganization of
D. M. S. club. The annual club play
will be announced later. You can be
sure it will be something good.
The Y. D. C. club is giving a sub
scription dance Monday night, April 1.
This will be the best stunt of the sea
son. Music by Lincoln’s best musicians
Shembeck’s jazz.
Lincoln’s, new cafeteria and soda
fountain will be open for business Sat
urday, March 30. Formal opening will
be held during the first week in April.
This was delayed because a few ship
ments of supplies were not yet on
hand. This place should be patronized
by all. as it is owned and operated by
two of Lincoln’s most respected Color
ed citizens. Everybody will be wel
come. There is to be a rest room fot
ladies, where they can come and wait
for their husbands or others, instead
of standing on street corners, as they
had to do before. Light lunches and
soda fountain drinks will be served at
reasonable prices. Let’s all get to
gether and push this enterprise, as it
is what we have long wanted. Don’t
forget the opening date, Saturday
At arch 30.—Dunbar Cafeteria, 240
! North Tenth street. I. B. Colby and
John Gal breath, proprietors.
The D. M. S. club will give an Eas
ier egg hunt Sunday afternoon at
Beck’s grove.
The A. M. E. Sunday school will hold
f its Easter program at 1 o’clock. The
choir will give its second cantata Sun
day evening. Last year's cantata was
a great success. This year’s is ex
pected to be even better.
A very pleasant meeting was heid
by the O. S. club at the residence of
Airs. Ada Holmes. Next meeting will
be at the home of Mrs. Earl McWd
liams.
It is rumored that our boys have
left Camp Funston. If so we should
read The Monitor every week that we
may know where they are.
The Juvenile Knitting club, com
posed of eight little girls, is having t
short vacation, as most of them have
to go to school Saturdays. We hope
this may not last long.
Mr. Worth Jeffers has returned io
his home in Knoxville, la.
Air. Robert Johnson of 907 S stree*
is able to be out again after a week's
illness.
Mrs. Cleveland Walker, 907 S street
is again on the sick list.
Airs. Munro Williams of 1937 M
street is on the sick list.
Mr. J. D. Bowen of 922 S street is
quite ill.
Mr. C. Y. Corneal is in the hospital
very sick.
Air. M. Patterson of 900 U street if
also very ill.
Mr. Edward D. Lee was very sick
Tuesday.
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
(Zonotrichia leucophrya)
Length, seven inches. The only
similar sparrow, the white-throat, has
a yellow spot in front of eye.
Range: Breeds in Canada, the
mountains of New Mexico, Colorado,
Wyoming, and Montana, and thence to
the Pacific coast: winters in the south
ern half of the United States and in
northern Mexico.
Habits and economic status: This
beautiful sparrow is much more
numerous in the western than in the
eastern states, where, indeed, it is
rather rare. In the East it is shy and '
retiring, hut it is much bolder and
more conspicuous in the far West and
there often frequents gardens and
parks. Like most of its family it is
a seed eater by preference, and in- ;
sects comprise very little more than
7 per cent of its diet. Caterpillars
are the largest item, with some 1
beetles, a few ants and wasps, and ,
some bugs, among which are black
olive scales. The great bulk of food
however, consists of weed seeds,
which amount to 74 per cent of the
whole. In California this bird is ac
cused of eating the buds and blossoms
of fruit trees, but buds or blossoms
were found in only 30 out of 516 stom
achs, and probably it is only under ex
ceptional circumstances that it does
any damage in this way. Evidently
neither the farmer nor the fruit grow
er has much to fear from the white
crowned sparrow. The little fruit it
eats is mostly wild, and the grain
eaten is waste or volunteer.
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YANKEE NURSES
ARE KEPT BUSY
How American Lassies Fare on
the French Front.
THEIR WORK IS APPRECIATED
Wounded Soldier* Deeply Grateful for
Service* Rendered by These Heroic
Women—Nurses Live in Corrugated
Iron Hut* Heated by Stove*—One
Says, "Horrible, Everything, of
Course; Yet Intensely Interesting."
How fares it these days with Amer
ican Red Cross nurses serving with
the French and British uriuies? They
live in corrugated iron huts heated
with little pot-bellied stoves, and to be
comfortably warm the women wear
layers of woolen garments so that, as
one girl wrote to her folks, “we look
like Teddy bears."
Busy days and nights they are, with
these American lassies in the British
hospitals just hack of the lines in
Flanders, and vastly Interesting, too.
“I am too tired this morning, after
twelve hours of night duty, to write
much," says a recent letter. “It has
been unusually cold, and nearly the
whole night I went from patient to
patient, removing bandages and rub
bing cold feet and legs with hot oil.
The job wears me out, hot the poor
bids are so utterly grateful for the
service that I feel well repaid."
Hears Tales of War.
In anottirr letter the same young
woman wrote;
“For at lenst half my time on duty
today I've sat beside the stove In a
group of Tommies and Jocks (English
and Scotch soldiers), able to sit up and
tell stories.
“I’ve been in spirit up in the trenches
and over the top. I’ve seen deserters
shot. I’ve watched Fritz coming
across No Man's Land, with hands up
crying, ‘Kamerad! Kamerad!’ I’ve
been at the Dardanelles, seeing good
'olrliers die of dysentery like flies, and
their bodies heaped in piles and
burned.
“Then I’ve stood by, observing the
battalion doctor looking over the men ;
giving one with a sprained ankle ‘med
icine and duty;’ telling another he’s
shirking, and then an hour later find
trig his lifeless body in tlm bathhouse
“I've been across in bounie Scotland
and watcher! the mothers of lads who
will never return flocking around tin
in* who has come back, asking for in
'urination about ‘Inst words.' the bur
ial. etc., and have heard the bra "
Scotch lad lie manfully about tin
graves of his lost eomrmldk.
“I’ve admired the photos of fat ba
bies. buggnble youngsters two or thro,
rears old. and sad looking wives and
anthers. The wives are always sad
and worn-looking. Today almost ev
ery story was tragic'. Yesterday It was
all comedy.
The Mystery of It.
“Horrible, everything, of course;
vet Intensely interesting. It is a great
ivstery to me bow some men can go
brough what they do without a bump
Many of them have been In the war
since the beginning, and hove gone
over the top many times, yet they've
■ -ciiped even so much as a scratch
from wire entanglements.
“Two duys ago we received from tile
American Red Cross a big, fluffy,
bright red comfort for each patient's
ied. You cannot Imagine how much
the lively color helped to brighten
the wards and make the tnen cheery.
The gift was as effective as n wh >’r
week of sunshiny days—and in lhts
fiart of the world we don't know wli.it
a sunny duy looks like during the win
*er season.”
ONLY WOMAN ARMY OFFICER
Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee Will
Probably Retain the Distinction.
Itr. Anita Newcomb McGee of Wash
ing. D. C., probably will retain the
distinction of being the only woman
cnmjnlSRloned to serve In the United
States army.
In the ruling that woman .physicians
are not eligible to appointment in the
officers’ reserve corps of the army the
Judge advocate general has held that
they can serve as contract surgeons
because of the precedent set in the
Hpunlsh-Amerlcan war when Doctor
McGee wus made acting assistant
and contract surgeon of the army to
organize the army nurse corps.
The need for contract surgeons has
practically disappeared, It Is stated,
the work formerly done by them now
being performed, for the most part, by
medical officers In the reserve corps.
Doctor McGee, who Is a daughter of
the late Slrnon Newcomb, Is the only
woman member of the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United Stutes
and the Spanlsh-Arnerlcan Wur Veter
ans. At the time of the Japanese
Itusslaiwwar she was commissioned by
Jnpan to organize u nurse corps and
was of the same status In the Japanese
army as an officer.
Army Barbershop Rules.
Each customer Is entitled to a clean
towel and each barber must wash his
hands after each shave, according to
division headquarters orders, Issued
for guidance of cantonment barber
shops at Camp Sherman, O. Combs
and brushes must be thoroughly wash
ed and no soap other than powdered
soap can be used after the quan lty
now on hand Is consumed.
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Every Suit of Clothes
A^OU buy at this store must conform
to the ideals of this store. i
It must be good quality. It must be
good style. It must fit you perfectly, # ,
and it must render you satisfactory ser- )j
vice—or it is our suit. / *
Can any merchant put forward a
stronger claim for your patronage? jf
We would like to show you the new
Stein-Block, Bradford
and Fashion Park
Clothes
Ready to put on
$20 to $45
Tbo PUin-KIorb Co. 1911
John B. Stetson Hats—You Know the Quality
Daylight 'Store
LINCOLN • - - - - - NEBRASKA
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I WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD.
The 1917 wheat crop in France was
J**» than half normal, using the crop
of 1913 as a basis of comparison.
There was a shortage of 176,000,000
bushels, or 53.3 per cent The potato
crop was only within one-third of nor
mal. The sugar beet crop showed a
deficit of 67.9 per cent. Her meat
herds in the early fall showed a short
age of 1,800,000 animals.
Those are a few of the reasons
America must' feed her associates in
the war. They are no longer able to
feed themselves, and unless we come
to the rescue are face to face with
starvation. And starvation means de
feat in the war.
HASTENED RUSSIAN COLLAPSE
"We must not overlook the fact that
Russia collapsed, not because of the
Germans on her borders, but because
she failed to organize and feed her
owir citizenship,” the food administra
tion announced
"We must be warned that If we are to
emerge victorious from this war we can
not risk tlie collapse of another of our
associates In this war from this cause.
“Anybody that Is looking for the col
lapse of the German people on the food
question hud better turn nrotind and
look at the moon, because the result:)
will be the same. Germany Is In no
more danger of collapsing on that
score than we are. If ns much."
Derived From Days of Yore.
It is a u-.-.i . in niugeiueni an'
rived front the days of yore that lhi«
festival, which commemorates the an
nouncement of the religion of peace
and love, lias been made the season
for gathering together of family con
nections and drawing closer again
those bands of kindred hearts which
the cares and pleasures and sorrows Of
the world are continually operating to
cast loose, of calling back the children
of a family who have launched forth
Id life and wandered widely asunder,
once more to assemble about the pater
nal hearth, that rallying place of the
affections, there to grow young and
loving again.—Washington Irving.
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TO THE VOTERS I
OF OMAHA:
I AM A CANDIDATE FOR
CITY I
COMMISSIONER |
and want the support of all good =
citizens. I have lived in Omaha §
twenty-seven years. All I have, =
all I am, all I hope to be, I owe E
to the people of Omaha. I am E
now seeking to repay that debt E
in part by devoting the next E
three years of my life to them E
! service. Over and above all other E
considerations is the necessity of 5
winning this world war and se- E
curing for all time the blessings E
of liberty and a free govern- E
ment. E
i Some of the Things I Stand for in Omaha Are:
First—I favor the immediate acquisition by legal
E means at an honest valuation of the properties of
E the Omaha Gas Company and the reduction of the
= price of gas to consumers to the lowest possible
E figure. This will help solve the fuel problem.
= Second—The city must provide social centers
E and places of recreation for our young people in
E the winter season as well as public parks for that
E purpose in the summer.
E Third—Omaha must be made safer and cleaner.
E There should be no place in our midst for the bur
~ glar, the boodler or the bootlegger.
Fourth—All the powers of the city should be ex- E
erted to maintain at all times friendly relations ~
between the employers of labor and their em- E
ployes. Its energies should at all times be used to E
promote the prosperity and welfare of every la- =
borer and every legitimate industry in our city. E
Fifth—Waste in public affairs must be elimi- =
nated; reckless expenditures of public moneys E
must cease; public officials who would indulge in =
extravagant luxuries must pay for them with their E .
own money and not with public funds. E
Sixth—Let the slogan be, “A job for everybody, E
and everybody on the job; boost Omaha.” E
E If you agree with these principles, I want your help. E
ED. P. SMITH |
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