City Bakery, Gas
Station, Is Aim
Plan to Let Voters Decide
Proposal—Council Mem
ber Hits High Prices.
Commissioner John Hopkins an
nounced yesterday that a committee
lias been appointed to investigate the
advisability of making amendment to
the city charter so a city bakery and
a city gasoline and oil station could
be operated. Such an amendment to
the city charter will be proposed at
the next election, he said.
Investigation has disclosed that
profit on the sale of gasoline in
Omaha is greater than the original
cost of refining and pumping the
gasoline, said Mr, Hopkins.
Refineries have made a reduction of
2 cents just recently but no such
reduction on gasoline has been made
here, he said. Gasoline could now
sell for t cents less in price than it
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does at present, said Mr, Hopkins.
The need fur a municipal bakery is
shown by the investigation of the
committee. Mix thousand pound and
a half loaves of bread eould sell for
9 cents a loaf and expense of opera
tion Would be covered. Bakeries in
Omaha are now selling such loaves
for l!i cents.
Crop Prospects Boost
Business at Hastings
Hastings. Neb., Oct. 10.—The cer
tainty of an unusually heavy corn
crop, together with continued rains
which have placed the ground in
ideal condition for winter wheat, have
greatly stimulate business here.
Automobile sales especially have
soared. County Treasurer Wood
worth reports that he has been re
ceiving from two to 10 applications
for licenses daily from new owners
Of cars.
Fair at Red Cloud Opens
With Large Attendance
Red Cloud, Neb.. Oct. 10.—The an
nual Red Cloud fair opened here with
a good attendance and excellent ex
hibits. The cattle show is especially
good, there lining some unusually fine
stock, among them the champion
Shorthorn hull of the Royal livestock
show of Kansas City, Marshal Joffre.
owned by Johnston & Auld of Guide
Reck. Two of his calves are also on
exhibition. The farm products depart
ment reflects the good crops in this
vicinity, especially in the exhibit of
corn. The poultry exhibit also is one
of the best in years. The'fruit ex
hibit is very light. The women report
(he exhibits in their departments as
good or better than last year.
Thursday afternoon there will be a
livestock parade and a band concert,
with a program and lecture by New
ton W. Gaines of Lincoln in the eve
ning, Friday afternoon there will be
a big school parade, with prizes for
the best floats, a band concert and a
football game between Guide Rock
and Red Cloud High school teams.
Yes, He Has No Auto Now;
He Traded for Stole* Car
Hastings, Neb., Oct. 10.—L. E. Fair
banks of Prosser is minus xx car and
$50 which he traded to Ernest Taylor
for another car. Shortly after the
trade was xxiade the car Fairbanks
received was identified as one stolen
from a garage in Lincoln. Fairbanks
promptly surrendered the car to the
owner.
Later Fairbanks discovered that the
car he had traded had been sold at
a garage at Gibbon. He attempted to
recover it, but County Attorney Suhr
of Hall county has held that the
garage is entitled to ker-p it, since
it was not stolen property.
Information has been received here
from Sheriff Koenig of Scotts Bluff
county that Taylor has been turned
over to the government, charged with
desertion from the army.
Remember?
It isn’t such a far stretch for
memory to recall the day when you
had to wait for a long, clear, cold
spell of weather before you could
have sausage.
Today?
No wait for weather or seasons.
Just telephone your meat dealer.
The delightful tang of October days
is made more zestful by a breakfast
of Brookfield sausage, made from the
choicest morsels of carefully selected
pork, blended with spices.
That is but one of the services
that Swift & Company renders —
making available to you numerous
products of the highest quality, when,
where, and as you wishf them.
This has been made possible by the
development, during more than a
half century of service, of 23 packing
plants adjacent to the best producing
centers, hundreds of branch distrib
uting houses, one of them near you,
and several thousand refrigerator cars
which carry the meat to your dealer
in the best condition. \
Volume production enables
Swift & Company to offer you this
service at an average profit from all
sources of only a fraction of a cent
a pound.
Swift & Company,
U. S. A.
Omaba Local Branch, 13th I Laavanworth Straala
J. N. Jonaa, Managar
Packing Plant, 80. Omaha,
O. W. Wallar, Managar
Farmer Killed as
Team Runs Away
m
Falls From Buggy and Horses
Driven by Sort Pass
Over Body.
Nebraska City, Neb.. Oct. 10.—Her
man Llben. farmer, residing south
west, i f Nebraska City, In the Lorton
community, was instantly killed when
he fell from f? buggy "while crossing a
field and four horses attached to n
drill and driven by his son ran away
and passed over his body.
AVhen the son discovered his father
lying on the ground he fell off the
drill and was badly Injured. Neigh
bors who witnessed the accident
carted a physician, who found that the
elder Kiben had suffered a broken
neck. "The dead man has been n resi
dent of this community for many
years. He is survived by his wife,
two daughters anil a sen.
Stolen Sugar and Shoes
Found Hidden in Culvert'
Nebraska City. Neb., Oot. 10.—A
case of shoes and a sack of sugar
stolen from a Missouri Pacific freight
car in the local yards were found
hidden in a culvert in the east part
of the city. The sheriff had been
notified of the robber .
Speeders at Hastings
Will Face Jail Terms
Hiwlings, Xfb., Oct. 10.—Jail sen
tences for nuto speeders have been
ordered by the city council, t nder
the amended ordinance the first of
fense is made punishable by a fine «>f
$2, with the added penalty of the
owner being prohibited from driving
for 10 days. For the second offense
tlie fine will Tie from $10 to $50 and
five day* 111 the City Jail. The speed
limit is 10 miles an hour in the busi
ness district and 15 miles In the resi
dence districts.
Beatrice School Girl Is
Missing Second I iine
Special Di.patcli to The Omaha Bee.
Beatrice, Neb., Oct. *10. For the
second time In the lint few weeks,
Nellie Shores, hlph school Kiri, has
disappeared. It is allowed she left
the city with Kilm Gttoler, a chum
Officer* are looking for the pair
The father of the Hhorea girl recentll
caked that she he committed to tin
state school for girls at G neva, bn
Judge Colby paroled her. Her mothei
1* dead.
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W. R. C, Convention.
Central City. Nth., Oct. 10.—The
11th annual convention of the third
district of the Woman * Kelief corps
convened in this city today.
Always stylish' always fine
fabrics ✓ always long wear
Hart Schaffner & Marx suits
and topcoats
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