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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1912)
Cr OUR BUYERS were called east last week by clothing manufacturers, who, becoming alarmed by the slow up of orders due to the extreme backwardness of the season, were anxious to dispose of their accumulated stocks. The manufacturers, whose products are known from coast to coast for their superiority and excell ence of aualitv. made such an attractive proposition that we bouerht and bouerht liberally. And we are prepared to hold the bargain event of the year. Your sense of thrift demands that you attend this sale Men and Young Men Will Find Enormous Bargains in Strictly High Grade Suits and Odd Tzousers From These Well Known Manufacturers HART, SCHAFFNER. & MARX J. FREIDMAN & CO., AND THE B. LIGHT COMPANY Every garment of the caliber that our customers know an article of clothing must come up to before it can possibly go into the Armstrong stock. The preparations are complete. Every possible arrangement for convenience in selection and prompt service has been made, so that while our large clothing department will be thronged in response to this announcement, the gq sale will move forward with the precision of clock h- Excellent Hand Tailored Suits at $13.50 $18.00 and $20.00 Values Hart, Schaffner & Marx Fine Suits at $16.50 $22.50 and $25.00 Values Hart, Schaffner & Marx Fine Suits at $19.50 $27.50 and $30.00 Values Hart, Schaffner & Marx High Grade Suit at $22.50 $32.50 and ($35.00 Values Lucky the man who gets one of thesn elegant suits at these sale prices! The quality of these garments is such that they would be remarkable values at the prices for which they were made to sell, namely $18 . to $35. The very last word in style is embodied in them and every thread of fabric is strictly all-wool t l ,! V f': T?F;:ht Han ScheSher & Here's a Chance to Save on Odd Trousers With a Selection From a Stock of Two Thousand Pairs $1.95 fpr Men's Odd Trousers. worth up to $3.00 01(1 pairs of men's and young men's high-grade 710 Pair8 pf men's and young men's fine worsted OSlU trousers the famous Hart, $1.75 IOw serge and cassimer trousers $Q65 Schaffner & Marx, $6.00 to $7.50 pants at worth $4.50, $5.00 and $6.00 at. . . . . . . . .'; . Ck Affmstffoiag OotMaig Company GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS $2.85 tor Men's Odd Trousers ; worth up to $4.00 DC J MEN AND MATTERS Through an oversight which we sincerely regret, we failed to make mention at the time of the death of A. B. Huckins. Mr. Huckins, because of failing health, has not been much in the 'public eye of late years, but time was when he was one of the best known men in Nebraska, and all those who knew him admired his splendid character, his devotion to high ideals and his tireless energy in every cause he espoused. The last time we met him was at Rock port, Mo., more than a decade ago, and there for the last time we heard his splendid voice as he led in the singing of the grand old songs, or rendered some solo in his own artistic way. To the cause of temperance Mr. Huckins lent his best efforts, and as a singer he exerted as great, if not greater, influence for good as any of the famous orators enlisted in that cause. A splendid man, an exem plary citizen and a staunch comrade passed on when A. B. Huckins was called to his reward. We have to chronicle the death of a very dear friend to the household of this newspaper, that of Mrs. Jennie Rawlings Rake straw, who died at San Antonio, Texas, on May 19, and was buried in Wyuka on May 27. A woman of noble character, de voted to her friends, a lover of children and a friend to those who were unfortunate, Mrs. Rakestraw exerted a wide influence for good. She spread sunshine and good cheer wherever she went. Children turned to her instinctively, for she loved them. Using the words of another, "were each deed of loving kindness she per formed for others a flower to lay upon her tomb, she would now be sleeping beneath a wilderness of flowers." Will Maupin's Weekly is of the candid opinion that the whole community will be benefited by reason of the fact that the churches and the trades unions of the city are getting together so closely and so well. Neither has understood the other, although they are work ing towards the same common end. Without reason they have been apart, often antagonistic. With a better understanding and a closer relation, we may look forward hopefully to the 'speedy coming of the time when they will be working in absolute harmony. The pulpit will be benefited by having more trades unionists occupying it, and union labor halls will be a source of greater benefit to the workers by having more ministers speaking therein. When the church knows what the average wage earner is facing every day, and helps it meet the problem, and when the wage earner knows what the church stands for and is trying to do then we may expect the results we are all seeking and which have too long been delayed. lasting, and too little given to worrying about mere partisan vic tories today. We may be mistaken, but we opine that Mr: Bryan has made the nomination of Harmon impossible. If not that, then he has made Harmon's nomination political suicide. Lincoln can illy afford to lose such a man as J. W. McDonald, who died in New York City last Monday. It is such men as he who are building the west, and making these western cities metro politan in fact. Mr. - McDonald acquired a fortune honestly and because he had unbounded faith in the future of Lincoln and of Nebraska. He never missed an opportunity to advance the material interests , of this community. He was always, foremost in every activity calculated to advance the common good. He backed up his words with his good money. Courteous, affable, genial and companionable, he was universally liked and respected. In his death the west loses a devoted champion, Nebraska a citizen who held to his faith in her through stress and storm, and Lincoln a worker for municipal betterment. The baking powder trust has increased its advertising space in the daily ' newspapers to such an alarming extent that we may now expect to see covert atacks made upon certain sections of the pure food laws. , , We rather " cotton " to Rev. Dr. W. W. Bustard of Cleveland. At a Baptist convention in Des Moines Brother Bustard suggested that we replace the motto "God bless, our home,',' with one reading, "Come in without knocking, and go out the same way." Then he remarked that the church is "long on creeds and short on deeds." Again he said that the "knockers on the inside of the church are so numerous and so loud that the knock of opportunity on the out side can not be heard." Brother Bustard seems to be a levelheaded clergyman who didn't slough off any of" his red-blooded manhood when he donned the ministerial garb. ' , ; ' .- '" There are those who profsss to see in the declaration of Ohio's democracy for Judson Harmon, a rebuke to Mr. Bryan. AN e fail to see it in that light. True that Mr. Bryan stumped the state for Wilson and against Harmon, and true that Harmon won out by a substantial majority. Nobody expected any other result, least of all Mr. Bryan. The only criticism that will lie against Bryan, from the standpoint of the "thick-and-thin" democrat is that he is too much given to building for the future and not enough interested in today; too much given to working for results worth while and You may always depend upon Nebraskans being in the lime light. A Nebraskan is chairman of the republican national com mittee, and another Nebraskan is secretary of the same committee. A Nebraskan is the biggest factor in the democratic party, and an other democrat is vice chairman of the democratic national committee, and still another. Nebraskan assistant secretary of that committee. But Nebraska women, bless their dear hearts, are also doing their share to advertise Nebraska. Miss Corinne Searle, of Omaha is stroke oar in the Wellesley crew for 1912, and not only prominent in 'varsity athletics but a leader in her class. The esteemed Wayne Democrat is mistaken in its assertion thai Will Maupin's Weekly believes the new M. .W. A. rates are all right because they are not as high as the old line rates. We have never said that the new rates were all right. .We have said, however, th?t the old rates were insufficient,' and that the M. W. A. has had to face the same condition that older fraternals have had to face an: meet. If the new rates are too high, they may be changed in i comparatively short time. But they are the rates agreed Upon by men who have been studying the matter for years. The officials of the order notified the rank and file month after month that a raise was imperative, and. it was known of all Woodmen that the Chicago convention would increase the rates. ' But the rank and file fooled away the time and did not give the matter any thought. Then, when the raise came, the raising of a commotion was coincident.' If the state insists that insurance companies doing business in' Nebraska put their reserve funds into the keeping of the state auditor, then the state should be responsible for the safeguarding of those securities, which must be negotiable to be of any use. The state auditor now gives a bond of $50,000. He would, under such , a law, hold millions of dollars' worth of negotiable securities. If an auditor should go astray and such a thing has been known in Nebraska the ' companies would lose, and so would', the policy holders. ' We know very little about life insurance, save as one who pays premiums, but if we know anything at all it is that the maintenance of a reserve in the hands of the state is not meant for anything else than to make possible the collection of judgments against a com pany. 1 . This talk about enacting laws in accord with the ripened judg ment of state auditors who have had long experience in the insur ance business is something of a joke. We elect auditors for political reasons, not for business reasons. Insurance is a business not learned in two or four years. Just about the time an auditor or his insurance deputy begin to acquire some knowledge of the insurance' business, we fire them out and put new men in who must begin all over again. The result has always been, always will be, a contin ual procession of "reform insurance bills" drawn by men who think they have learned more in two or four years than has ever been learned by men who have spent a lifetime in the insurance business. Having agreed to increase the pay of miners 5 per cent a ton ., the anthracite operators turn around and add 25 cents to the price paid by the consumer. This takes care of the wage increase and about $6,000,000 more. And God put that coal there for the use of all mankind, not for the profit of a few greedy, and. grasping men. "RIM-GRIP" SUB-CASINGS. Something of practical interest and benefit to automobile own ers and drivers is offered by the Fisher Manufacturing Co. of. Lincoln, in the shape of a sub-casing. By the use of this sub-casing old tires may be utilized until wholly worn out, instead of being only partially used and then abandoned on account of the weaken ing of the outer casing in some one spot. These sub-casings are',' made continuous, having no loose lap or splice, and hold the pres-' -x sure entirely independent of the outer casings. The continuous metal bands prevent the sub-casing from being crowded into a torn or weakened place in the outer casing. The utility of this auto accessory is so apparent as ' to at once appeal to the observant autoist. The. Fisher Manufacturing Co. is building up an immense business in Lincoln. It has on file hundreds of letters of recom mendations from autoists who have used the "rim-grip' sub-casing.'. If interested call at or address the Wisher Manufacturing Co., 1530 N street, Lincoln.