l Woman Cuts Off
Brother in Will;
Money to Steno.
Sislrr of Dr. Jamrs S. Foolo
of Creighton Dental College
Left $60,000 Estate
to Employe.
Dr. James 5. Foote, 102 South
Fifty-second street, professor In
Creighton Dental college, receives
nothing from the estate of his sister,
Mrs. Jennie Holbrook, who died In
St. Louis last Sunday, according to
the will, which leaves her $BO,OOU
fortune to Miss Billie Edith Stanley,
22, a stenographer, formerly of Louis
iana, Mo.
Dr. Foote, a nationally famous man
In medicine and dental surgery, said
he was on good terms with his sister,
though he has not seen her for sev
eral years. He declined to state
whether he intends to file a contest.
Par Value .$181,000.
>Th# par value of the estate was
said to have been $181,000.
An effort was made Thursday In
Rt. Louis to probate an earlier will,
In which the estate was left to the
Centenary Methodist church, St.
Louis, and two women friends, and
Dr. Foote was given $1,000. The
court refused this.
Met on Street Car.
Miss Stanley says ehe met Mrs.
Holbrook first on a street car. Later
when the girl was 111 at the Y. W.
C. A. Mrs. Holbrook, who did much
^ for ths betterment of living conditions
of working girls, took her to her
own home.
Miss Stanley says she first began
to live with Mrs. Holbrook three
years ago when she wanted to adopt
her. This the girl refused because
her parents were then living. She
and Mrs. Holbrook lived at the Del
Monte hotel In Rt. Louis.
Five Divorces Granted
by Court at Madison
Madison, Nov. 21.—District court
was in session here Thursday, Judge
Chase presiding. Walter M! Rees
was granted a dlvoree from Edith A.
Rees, and Beatrice Blank a divorce
from Otto Blank, alimony being de
nied. Oscar Malm was allowed a
divorce from Violet Malm and the
question of alimony was continued.
Helen Tritten was given a divorce
from Arthur Tritten, with maiden
name restored, and permanent all
. mony awarded In sum of $200. Ra.v
I mond Hillls was granted a divorce
from Elizabeth Hillls and plaintiff
will pay the defendant permanent ali
mony In sum of $S00 and the costs
of suit. All these partlee reside at
Norfolk.
Two Women Dead at Upland.
Upland. Ncfv. 21.—Mira. F. A.
Scheets, 6S, wife of a retired farmer,
who had lived In Upland for the past
13 years, died at her home, Wednes
day, after a lingering Illness. She
had an operation about eight months
"* ago to remove a tumor on the brain.
Mrs. Charles P. Davis, who lived on
a farm between Bladen and Blue Hill,
died suddenly about noon Thursday,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Will Kile, here. She had been visit
ing at the daughter's home for the
last three days. Death Is sakl to
have l>een caused by heart failure.
Alabama Drouth Broken.
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 21—Rain fell
here today for the first time In 53
days. The last rain was on Sep
tember 2K.
I Knowing That “We Must Move” and
| That “We Must Sell,” Why Don’t YOU
Buy Christmas Gifts Now! y
Christmas looms near! Soon that
endless trudge, search and query
for choice, uncommon gifts. Why
not forestall all that? Select jewel
ed gifts now; leisurely; especially
so since we are undermining the
price of most every line in this
establishment. We "Must Move,”
“Must Sell.”
Select what you will need as Christ
mas jrifts from any department
here. Make whatever deposit you
wish and the piece will be held for
you, if necessary, until the very day
before Christmas. This sale means
much to you—if you will but look
into it—SOON.
1 Men of Now Enthuse
5; Over the Very Name
I "GRUEN”
Our Christmas showing of
g watches in general,nnd “Gruen”
H watches in particular, is re
markably complete; more hand
some than at any time in our
§ career. But, even so, an im
5 mediate DISPOSAL is in order,
i “Must Move”—"Must Sell.”
i _
GRUEr*
Here's a Man's Exquisite
“Gruen" WATCH ,
At $27.50
A white gold filled watch with
raised numbers on dial; beauti
fully engraved bezel; a watch
that may be termed EXQUIS
ITE at the money. Best of all, ^
it’s a “CJruen” and any man >
who reads knows what THAT j
means.
! Never a Better Time to Select Gleaming Loose ,j
| Diamonds Than Right NOW (Use 'em as Gifts) j
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14 Carat
$67.50
\ V2 Carat
|$ 157.50
3A Carat
$275
One Carat |
$405 *
C. B. Brown Jewelry Co.
U. S. National Bank Bldg., 16th and Famam.
Comedian Backs S. 0. S. for “IVise
Cracks” With Cash, Theater Tickets
f—-- ^
These Rules Govern
JT ise Cracks Contest
Purpose—To furnish Billy Glnsnn.
the Orpheuni comedian, with "wise
rroi-Us" for tils art.
first Prise—15 In rash for heat
"wise iTSik."
Herojiil Prize—55 In rash for second
best "wise crack."
Third Prize—si In rash for third
hcst "nlse rrark."
Ten prizes of two scats fo the
Orpheuni theater.
t lose of Contest—Friday. November
IS.
Mall vour "nlse cracks" to the Wise
Tracks Kdltor, The Omaha Bee.
In submitting "wise cracks" he aura
to enclose niur nttme and address.
V_/
Girls are Just about the funnies’
things on earth, If you believe every
thing Billy Glason says.
Billy has told so many Jokes about
“his girl" In the In at few years that
he can hardly thlnlt of anything new
to say about her.
But he still believes (or pretends
to) that girls are funny, so he wants
Omahans to play "turn about" and
tell him some jokes on their girls.
He wants to have these new stories
to tell when he appears at the Or
pheum theater during the week of
November 23.
He's willing to pay for his fun. For
Instance, he'd pay J5 for a Joke like
this:
"My girl's so skinny that I heard
| a man say: ‘That fellow must he go
ing to build a girl; he's got the frame
up already."
But Billy saw that one fir«t <n
don't send It In. “Think up
just as good and send It lo the
Cracks Editor of The Omah.i 1 ■
If it's the best submitted It will win
$5. Next best will get $3 and third
best J2. The 10 next best will get
a pair of ticket* each for the Or
phetim.
Billy insist* only on one thing. The
Joke* must be original. He can read
the magazines himself, *o don't clip
the cracks. And he doesn't like
jokes about “My girl Is so dumb . . .''
His girl Isn't as dumb ss some peo
ple think.
Billy will tell the jokes in his act
at the Orpheum. He wants all the
Jokes to be In the hands of the Wise
Cracks Editor by Friday, Novenv
ber 28. _
FATHER OF 11
SEEKS PARDON
Special Illepatch lo The Omaha Hee.
Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 21. Otto II.
I-angley, northern Gage county
farmer who Is serving a 20-year sen
tence for the slaying of Judge Chris
tine Pfeiffer at Cortland in 1919, has
petitioned the state board of pardons
for a commutation of sentence.
At the time of the slaying of Judge
Pfeiffer on the streets of Cortland a
lynching was threatened. The pris
oner was spirited away to Beatrice.
Langley is 62, Is married and father
of 11 children, some of whom have
attained their majority since the
tragedy occurred,
Henry Field Invited
to Coolidge Dinner
Shenandoah, Is., Nov. 21.—Henry
Field, local seedman, Is In receipt of
an invitation from the president and
the board of directors of the Interna
tional Livestock exposition to attend
a dinner given in honor of President
Calvin Coolidge, Thursday, Decem
ber 4, at Chicago.
Fliers’ Story of
Historical Value,
Savs Belle Ryan
0 0
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools Believes Narra
tive Will Equal Tales
of Jul?s Verne.
Belle Ryan, assistant superintend
ent of schools, declared Friday that
she Isn’t going to miss a word of the
narrative of the world fliers which
starts in The Omaha Bee next Mon
day,
’T think It will equal anything that
Jules Verne ever wrote," she said.
“And though I am a busy woman, 1
expect to read that from start to
finish. I consider that flight the most
thrilling adventure of our times. ’
James L. McCrory, also assistant
superintendent, said the children of
the public schools should read It.
"Here we will have an event which
made history placed before us In daily
Installments. Children should read It
and will want to read It, I believe,
because It will be thrilling as well
as Instructional. I certainly won't
miss reading it myself.”
Lowell Thomas, author and explor
er, has collaborated with the six lieu
tenants In whipping the story into
shape and The Omaha Bee has pur
chased the exclusive right to publish
the story In this territory.
Wymnrr—Loss estimated at *2,500
was caused by fire on the Tom Little
bridge farm, in the Morrowville,
Kan., vicinity, just south of here
Thursday evening. The fire la sup
posed to have started from a short
circuit in the wiring or Ignition sys
tem of an automobile, In a shed ad
joining the barn which burned.
Governor-Elect
Meets Governor
McMullen Expresses I utention
of Determining Appoint*
ments After Conference.
gperlMl Itlspntrh to The Omaha lire.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 21.—Fifteen
minutes after Governor Elect Me
Mullen arrived in Lincoln after a
short rest after his campaign, he
called on Governor Charles IV. Bry
an to receive any helpful Informa
tion that Governor Bryan might ten
der him. Governor Bryan, in a re
cent letter, offered to aid the gover
nor elect In becoming acquainted
with details of the position the same
as the former governor, Sam McKel
vie, did with Governor Bryan.
The visit between the governor
elect and the governor occupied an
hour. it was announced after the
conference that McMullen would act
as a spectator at a meeting of the
stale capitol commission and the
state pardon board, both of which
are scheduled before Adam McMul
len is Inaugurated in January.
'1 will return to my home In
Beatrice tomorrow and consider can
didates for my appointments,” Mq
Mullen said. ”1 will not have any
difficulty In finding men for the fen
jobs at my disposal. There are in
applicants for one position and near
ly as many for the remainder. A
majority of appointments probably
will he announced within a week.
During the remainder of the day
the governor elect was In conference
With Walton G. Roberts, his man
ager, and Arthur J. Weaver, of tails
City. This evening he spoke at the
22d annual reunion of the Scottish
Rite Masons.
Bee Want Ails Produce Results.
MRS. G. H. HARDEN
DIES AT SON’S HOME
Beatrice. Neb., Nov. 21. Mia.
Oenrfiia H. Harden of Liberty, Neb.,
died suddenly at the home of her
son. E E. Harden of this city, where
ahe had been visiting for a few days.
She waa 62 and the widow of the late
K. E. Harden, banker, at Liberty,
who located there In 1882. She waa
a native of Dixon, 111. Five aona sur
vive.
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