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    GOOD WEATHER WILL SPEED UP WORK ON MODEL HOME
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Basement
Walls Near
Completion
Spring-Like Days Will See
Construction on Boom at
Site of Fire-Safe
House.
Visitors Are Welcome
By WILL M. MAUPIN.
I sincerely hope Mr. Groundhog Is
a good prophet. Unusually cold
weather, unusually heavy snows, und
now unusually sloppy weather, have
•II combined to retard the work on
my new homo. I’ve had a hard enough
time dealing with financiers, >'
architects and contractors and land
acape artists and material men,
out being called upon to scrap with
the weatherman.
So If Mr. Groundhog makes good on
his reputation I am hopeful of getting
right Into the middle of the task of
fKtlding that new home. Maybe I bore
you with constant repetitions about
that home. Hut if you were In my
place you'd keep right on. To me It
Is the most interesting suhjhct In the
world. The restoration of Hheims
cathedral doesn't Interest me h"'r
much, and I haven't time to think
•bout the proposed cathedral to Si.
John the Divine in New York. They
are very minor building projects com
pared with this one of mine.
Building Real Home.
Why? Because I am building a real
home. Not a mere dwelling place; a
home. By the way, I'm going to have
one room In It where I can throw
newspapers on the floor, spill tobacco
ashes where I blooming well please,
and where I enn hang my hat and
coat on the floor without being called
down by the female contingent of my
family. O, boy! Won't It he a grand
• nd glorjous feeling?
My frWnds, the building mechanics,
are actually at work now. They are
pushing the work on the basement
walls, and some time during the week
they will hnve that part of the build
ing well toward completion. Then
you can see things without bending
over and looking down a hole In the
ground. I wish more of you would
get the spirit and go out there. The
workmen will be delighted to answer
all questions.
,’pfore I tell you about the material
go'ng into the walls of my horns I
must tell you again how to get out
tl re.
I If you haven’t an automobile—and
T hope you have, l'or they are awfully
handy—take a Dundee car and get off
at the end of the line at Brownell
l'nlt. Then walk a block north to
"Webster, west on Webster to Flfty
f!xth, then half a block north on
Fifty-sixth. My new home will face
• ast on Fifty-sixth, right where I can
I-nk out over the boulevard and the
Imnlsnmest residence district in
Omaha.
All I latest Features.
Now this Ideal fire-safe home of
mine will embody all the latest fea
tures of Are safety, permanence and
housekeeping conveniences that have
yet been devised by modern builders.
Permanence and Are safety will he
achieved hy the use of hollow con
crete block for both basement and
upper walls. The upper walls, when
completed, will have a covering of
Portland cement stucco In one of Ita
most beautiful Anishes.
I hunted around until I found just
the kind of cement hollow block I
wanted. The Diamond Concrete
Products company will supply them.
It already has supplied a lot, and the
workmen are now setting them. I
don't know much about that sort of
thing, so I’ll let my old friend. Frank
Whippermnn, manager of the com
pany, tell you about them. Frank
talks about them ns follows:
“A permanent foundation Is a fun
damental requirement of a permanent
At Last—a <
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Keeps IJglift Hair from Darkening—
Lightens Faded Blonde Hair.
When light-haired people wash their hair
in an ordinary way. a thin film of oil Is
left on each hair, which collects dirt and
dust, causing the hair to darken. That is
why blondes should always use a suet ial
shampoo. For. while light hair is always
attractive, its beauty is lost Just as Mon
as it becomes uncertain in color, dirty
looking and streaky. Blondex, the new
(Swedish light hair ahampoo, not only
keeps blonde hair from darkening, but
actually brings back the true golden
beauty to even the dullest and most faded
blende hair. Makes hair fluffy, silky.
Highly beneficial tb both hair and scalp,
ft Is not V dye. Contains no Injurious
cheiplcalf. hioney Instantly refunded if
Slot deligMted Get Blondex today at all
good de^rs, such as Shorman *
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house. Concrete masonry Is being used
because it is strong, waterproof, fire
safe rotproof and ratproof.
"Concrete block are now in corn
man usage for foundation walls and
for walls from grade to roof lines. Be
cause of the size of these units (8x8x
16 Inches), they can be laid up quickly
and eenomlcally, producing a wall
that Is even, true and of great
strength. The air spaces in each
block will provide the ideal home with
a dry, well-insulated wall.
"Insulation in walls, as provided by
th^se air spaces, is much to be de
sired. Confined or ‘dead’ air is a
splendid insulator. It successfully re
sists changes of heat; therefore the
Ideal home will be warmer In winter
and cooler in summer than houses
which are riot bo Insulated.
Saving of Fuel.
As a result, the fire safe house be
ing erected by The Omaha Bee. will
require a minimum of fuel.
"To begin with, footings of mono
lithic concrete have been placed be
low the block walls. These footings
are approximately 8 Inches high and
20 inches wide and will provide a
secure base upon which to lay the
tilock. Settlement of a concrete block
wall on such concrete footings can
not occur, so the ouble which usu
ally accompanies s.ttllng In less rigid
houses, such as plaster cracks and
seepage of moisture will he prevented.
"In laying the block upon the
footings, a mortar of 1:2 mix will be
used to Insure waterproofness and per
fect bond between the block. By a 1:2
mixture is meant one that Is com
posed of one part Portland cement to
two parts of sand. The sand will be
well graded so that It Is made up of
I fine, Intermediate, and eoarse parti
cles which will pass a quarter inch
screen. Before actual block laying oc
curs, each block will be moistened
with water so It will not absorb water
from the mortar and thus decrease
the mortar’s strength. All joints will
be from one-fourth to three-eighths
inches thick and carefully pointed;
those on the outside of the wall will
bo struck flush with the wall surface.
Time .Saving on Walls.
Much time will be saved in laying
the walls of the Ideal home because
of the large sizp and comparative
light weight of the units used. Block
walls are erected much faster than
other types of masonry walls and the
saving accrued Is considerable.
"After (he walls are up to the grade
Hue, a further precaution may be
taken to Insure absolute dryness of
the basement. This precaution. If
taken, will be that of coating the ex
terior basement walls with a one-half
inch cement plaster mixed In the pro
portion of one sack of Portland ce
ment to two parts of clean, well grad
ed sand. Usually a coating of this
kind Is necessary only when the house
Is built on very wet or excessively
damp soil.”
To complete the water-proofness,
permanence and Are-safety of the
model house basement, the floor also
will be of concrete. It will be four
Inches thick and special care will be
taken to make a tight Joint between
the floor and walls. A mixture of
1:2:3 concrete will be used; by this is
meant one part Portland cement, two
parts sand, and three parts crushed
stone or pebbles. This mixture is the
same that Is used everywhere In build
ing troughs, tanks, cisterns and all
receptacles Intended to hold or with
stand water.
The excellent start given the model
house by the water-proof, permanent
basement concrete, augurs well for
the rest of the buildings. The same
careful attention to every detail will
be given, so that the finished model
house will he as nearly perfect mod
ern construction as is possible to se
cure by use of the best materials ajul .
workmanship.
Now come out and see how I sm
getting along with my home-building
stunt.
SALES BY TUKEYS
TOTAL $231,000
As an indication of the opening of
the spring business, A. P. Tukey A
Son announce sales totaling $231,000,
which their office has closed within
the last 30 days. These sales include
three business properties, one apart
ment building, and a number of small
houses.
The largest sale was that of the
Undine court at Twenty-sixth street
and Dewey avenue; owned by Traver
Brothers, who built it in 1918. In con
sists of 24 apartments and a small
store. This property was sold to Vic
tor Johnson of the T. G. Northwall
company. Mr. Johnson turned In r,
160-acre farm near Gretna, Neb., as
part of the consideration.
A business property at 1211 Howard
which Mr. Tukey bought at a judicial
sale last year from Higgins Packing
company for Walter V. Hoaglend of
North Platte, Neb., was sold to Simon
brothers.
The firm also bought for Bert Bo
guet the Alfalfa Butter building on
the corner of Eleventh street and
Capitol avenue.
Another Douglas street property
was also bought through Judicial sale.
The purchaser’s name has not yet
been announced.
W. 07W. AUDITORS
ARE BUSY HERE
Auditors of the Woodmen of the
World Life Insurance association are
In Omaha .auditing the books of the
organization. This is a semi-annual
duty of the sovereign auditors of the
Woodmen of the World and occurs
prior to the convening of the execu
tive council in the latter part of Feb
ruary.
The auditors are: J. E. Fitzgerald,
chairman, Kansas City, Mo.; Elisha
B. Lewis, Kinston, N. C.; T. E. Pat
terson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Ed D.
Campbell, Port Huron, Mich.; William
Ruess, Cleveland. O.; Rainey T. Wells,
Murray, Ky.; W. M. Crawford, Bir
mingham, Ala.
Herzberg Buyers Baek
From Trip to New York
‘ Herzberg buyers have arrived
home from New York where they
have spent the past 10 days select
ing spring merchandise. Sophia Fay
man of the dress department, Sally
Mahoney of the coat and suit depart
ment, Madam Dahl of the corset and
infant department and Helga Peter
son of the children's department were
among those on the trig ^
29 Transfers of
$4,000 or More
Made Last Week
Biggest Deal Involves $60,000
—Many Homes Are Bought
in All Parts of the
City.
There were filed in the office of the
county register of deeds la^t week
29 real estate transfers of $4,000 or
more each. The total amount of
these W'as $259,882.37.
Following are the proportier rans*
ferred and the districts In which they
are located:
x Field Club.
A. F. Johnson to Rose E. Lite, 1310
South Thirty-fifth avenue. $8,500.
South Omaha.
Sophia Klin* to William Beebe, 2101
2107 MadHun »tr**t, $5,000.
Central.
Central Holding company to Sam
Turner, 101-11 South Thirteenth atreet,
$60,000.
The Tootle Estate to D. H. Ledwich,
2006 Izard street. $4,100.
Nathan Somberg to Madallne Lehn,
1101-3-5 North Eighteenth street, $30,000.
Hiintlieaat.
Josephina Marcuzzo to Carmelo Ros
slto. 719-21 Hickory atreet. $ 1.400.
Henson.
Blanche Brown to Western Mortgage
and Finance company, 3307 North Six
teenth street, $1.9.1
Min ne Lnaa. *
Jeppe Jeppeeen. to L. A. Rowe, on
Mary atrert between Twentieth avenue
and Thirtieth street. $8,800.
Jul Peter mkhel to Myrtle Johnson,
northeast corner of Thirtieth and New
port si reels. $8,000.
t*. W. Thornton to ^R. H. Thurston,]
2733 Bauman avenue, $7,500.
C. W Martin to H. M. Norris, on;
Twenty-seventh street between Whitmore I
and Vane streets, $9,000.
North Side.
Louis Berman to Margaret L. Corkin,
2802 North Twenty-fifth street. $4,200.
J. B. Tripp to Edna 8. Coy, 2221
Spencer atreet. $4,950.
Tlllie Treadwe! Ito Leta B. Stultz, 4112
North Twenty -thlt d street. $4,500. I
Travel- Bros, to Martha E. DuBois,
6703 North Twenty-fourth street. $6p»00.
Nellie K. Noar to Rasp Bros, 2< —6 Bln
ney street, $4,400
Dundee.
F. J. Norman to Leroy Quinlan, 809
Nrfrth Forty-ninth street. $5,7.32.3i.
K N Blazer to H. O. Cox. northeast |
corner Forty-eighth and Farnam streets,
$22,000. .„OA
E. a. Maxwell to M. P. Brogan, 4.20
Wakely street, $6,500.
Northwest.
Bryce Campbell to Mabel O. Johnson,
on Forty-fourth avenue between Spauld
ing and Pratt streets. $4,800.
Ella Berg to Anton Kubiflns, 4-35 Corby
street, $4,600.
Ifanscom Park.
Nannie F. Dowling to F. A. McFar
land. 828 South Twenty-ninth street.
$4,800.
West. Farnam.
E. R. Carae to It. M. Brownlee. 4411
Harney street. $4,100.
Martha E. DuBois to Traver Bros.,
northwest corner Thirty-seventh and
Dodge streets, vacant, $6,300.
Fannie Morgan to Ben Schlenger, 4425
Dodge atreet, $5,000.
Bemls Park.
E. E. Swanson to Frida Kdwardson,
3206 Hamilton street. $5,760.
South.
Rosa Olblllsco to Paul Oibillaco, 1903
South Thirteenth street. $4,000.
Nunzlata Pirrucello to P. F. Buerk,
1803 Ontario street, $6,000.
Cathedral.
Julia E. Farndell to O. J. Dickey, 810
North Forty-fifth avenue. $5,500.
SOMBERG SELLS
PART OF BUILDING
Nathan Somber* last week sold to
G. N. Lehn a portion of the building
at Eighteenth and Nicholas streets
which he purchased about IS months
ago. The sale was for $30,000. The
property Is known as 1101-3 5 North
Eighteenth street.
The portion of the building which
Mr. Lehn bought Includes three
stores on the ground floor, with, six
six-room flats on the second and third
floors.
The property was purchased as an
investment. Mr. Lehn owns other
Omaha property.
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/V y Girls Can Wait for Trams;
Omaha Motorists Are Afraid of ’Em
Omaha business men who live in
Fatrarres and the West Fa mam
street district, are declining to pick
up the girls they find waiting for
street cars.
Nine-tenths of the tltpe, they say,
their offer of a ride is accepted, but
at the same time they are afraid to
pick ’em up.
One business man said that several
prominent Omohans have recently
been threatened "blackmail” by girls
whom they picked up as a matter of
courtesy.
This, they say, is a cure for polite
ness.
"It is bad enough to have to square
yourself with your wife when she
sees you with a girl in the car, but
to stand for a ‘shakednw’ is too
much for me," a prominent business
man said. •
SLATTERY SALES
IN JANUARY GOOD
0 The Edward T. Slattery Co. reports
satisfactory conditions In the sale of
Omaha residence property. In Jan
uary this company made the follow
ing sales:
The Andrew Hllsop property 4008
North Thirty-sixth street, to La Verne
Deers. $1,760; the property at $018 North
Sixty-seventh avenue, to W. J. Culkln.
$ 1,600: the Frank Pavelec property at
3328 North Forty-fourth avenue, to Dr.
M. J. Healy. $5,200: the C. C. Flack
property at 4134 North Thirty-seventh
street, to Chari** Wagner at $4,600; the
Michael Halllsey property at 6631 Bur
dette street, to Andrew Hllsop. $4,150; I
th* property of J. E. Kundtson at 2926 1
Vinton street, to Frank McCandeless at
$1,750; the Rule Young property at 2729
North Fortv-elghth street, to Anna West
ergard at $6,100.
Slattery states that Omahans are
buying with confidence that they are
making a sound investment, and
satisfying a desire which everyone
has to own a home.
CURTIS CHURCH
APPROVES PLANS'
Curtis, Neb., Feb. 8.—Members of
the First Congregational church here
have approved plan/* for a new
church building to accommodats the
Sunday school, and other growing de
partments of the organization. Work
on the new structure is awaiting th©
sale of the old buildings and suitable
weather for laying the foundation.
Schmoller & Mueller Buys
Oakford Music Stock
The purchase of the entire Oakford
Music company’s stock by the
Schmoller & Mueller Piano company
was completed this week.
W. H. Schmoller, president of the
Schmoller & Mueller Piano company,
announced that the Oakford stock
would be combined with the Burgess
Nash piano stock recently purchased
from the Brandels store, and the two
stocks would be placed oil sale Mon
day.
Mr. Oakford, founder of the Oak
ford Music company, and his em
ployes have Joined the Schmoller &
Mueller organization.
But all girls aren't like that, he
admitted.
Many of them, he said, are glad to
be given a lift down town. Others he
has asked snubbed him. In the third
class the girls smile when they get In
a car and then start to "shake dowrn."
"Talk about young fellows who
pick up girls for a Joy ride," he said.
"They have nothing on the girls who
pick up some poor unsuspecting male
motorist, find out If he is married,
and then proceed to do a little ama
teur blackmailing.
"Most of the time, the businessman
can’t say a word," he went on.
“Girls used to confplaln that they
had to bring along roller skates when
they went out riding with strange
men.
It’s All Changed Now.
"This has been all changed. Now a
man has to have a hank roll with him
if he offers some strange little miss
a lift uptown/’
This business man said he knew
of several cases where prbminent
Omahans had given up "hard cash"
to keep some girl from screaming
that he had been too fresh with her.
The rebellion has started. Will it
continue? Omaha business men say
It will.
Capt. Ed Weir to
Be Hi-Y Speaker
Other Prominent Men Will
Be Guests at Banquet for
400 Boys.
Next Thursday evening 400 mem
bers of the six HI-Y clubs will gath
er at the Y. M. C. A. for their an
nual joint meeting. On account of
lack nt room only, 400 of the 500 boys
members have been able to purchase
tickets for this meeting. The mem
bers are all high school boys from
Central, South, North, Technical and
Benson High schools.
The feature of the evening Is an
address by Capt. Edwin Weir of the
Nebraska university football team
and all-American tackle last fall, on
"Athletics and Life." At the close of
the meeting a reception will he held.
Oberlies Ton.
With Weir on the speaker's list
will be Hon. L, C. Oberlies of Lin
coln, member of the stale board of
control, who will speak on "Common
Clay and Blue Mud," in keeping with
Lincoln's birthday.
Seated at the speaker's table with
Messrs. Oberlies and Weir will be
Howard K. Gray of Omaha, pro
nounced several years ago as Prince
ton's most popular allround student,
also an all-American football player
and a leader in the Central Hi-Y
club.
Noted Guests.
Charles Haas, senior at Central
High and oant.-dn In the cadet „regl
iv»«> • '" .t Senior
Hl-Y club, the oldest of the Omaha
c u. , . . .. Beeves. |
senior at South Utah, and president
of the South Hl-Y club and fottr
ictter man In athletics, will In
ti ixtuce Captain Weir. Karl Peter
son, senior at Technical High and
president of the Hl-Y club will In
troduce Mr. Oberlies, Technical Hl-Y
orchestra of eight pieces will play
during the dinner and the Imperial
quartet of Central Hl-Y boys will
sing several numbers.
Among the honor guests of the
Hl-Y clubs will be J. H. Beveridge,
.1. fl. Masters, Dwight K. Porter, H.
K. McMillan, It. M. Mans, W. Dale
Clark. B, A. Wilcox and leaders of
the Bible study group of the six
Hl-Y clubs.
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TURNER GETS DEED -
FOR DODGE HOTEL
The Centre! Holding company*
which alamt four yea re'ago mad# a
contract of sale to Sam Turner for
the Dodge hotel, at Thirteenth and
Dodge *1 teats, last week gave Turned
a deed to the property. Thla aale Wad
for $60,000.
The Central Holding company If ■
Kulakofsky teal estate conoertlj
owned by the same Interest* that eon*
trol ami operate the Centra! market* |
Hee Want Ads produc* result*. 1
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CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS WILL
RESTORE HEALTH TO YOU!
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Chiropractic has benefited thousands right her®
in Omaha. The results are permanent and sure.
Chiropractic is founded on scientific facts prov
en to be the Ideal Health System, by actual ex
perience.
Investigation costs you nothing and may mean
Health to you.
MEMBERS OF OMAHA ATLAS CLUB
Dr. R. W. Allen, 6104 Military
Ave. Phone WA 2263.
Dr. Felix Bevers, 302 Arthur
Bldg. Phone AT 5024.
Dr. C. N. Burgess. 1720 Mill
j tary Ave. Phone VVA 6936.
Dr. Frank F. Burhorn, 418 Se
curities Bldg. Phone JA 6347.
Dr. A. N. Carlson, Boyles Col
lege Bldg. Phone AT 9747..
| Dr. Lee W. Edwards, 306 So.
|^24thSt^^PhonejL^5445^^^
Dr. W. II. M'•Nichols, 309 Kar
bach block. Phone AT 3385.
Dr. Kthel T. Maltby, 201-S
Bankers Savins: Bids:. JA 3072.
Dr. .1. A. Markwell, 205 Paxton
block. Phone AT 9244. I
Hr. Mort Mortensen, 2412
Ames Ave. Phone KE 3800.
Dr. R. L. Sheelcr. 2421 Broad
way, Co. Bluffs, la. Tel. 4670.
Drs. Thomas, 1712 Dodge St.
Phone AT 1293.
Silk and Wool 36-lnch
Crepe Wash Radium
$1.69 $1.00
Our Greatest February Silk Sale
Offering new Spring Silks in a special selling at astonishingly low price#
—Each fabric is indicative of the new mode in texture and pattern.
A Lavish Collection Cl! 17 C
of the Newest Spring
VALUES ! ! ! EXTRAORDINARY ! ! ! ^
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SILKS ALPACA DE SOIE
Tremendous price concessions shown in ten beautiful Col
permit us to offer thousands of ors, also black, nothing
yards of fresh new silks at this smarter for the Spring
low price, $1.00 Frock or En- $1.79
yard. semble. Yard.
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large silk mill, who took a crepe, similar to roshanara, Shown in a gorgeous Fashion decrees printed
tremendous loss on those y ’ . ° . silks, vogue m ensemble '
goods, enables us to give in ten beautiful colors; also array of spring colors, suits, daytime frocks, tea or j!
you these beautiful silks in black, 40 inches wide. Spe- including the Parisian dance frocks. You wi’j
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p -1 3-Piece Jacquard
Velour Suite
s149.5l >
Luxurious 3-piece suites, davenport,
wing chair and straight chair, built upon
nebb bottom. loos< spring filled cushions,
a wonderful suite at a wonderfully low
cash price .$149.50
1 A any item at special February -—
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3 3 their great offer to eave. WjJm, Finished Dresser
Gate Leg Davenport | Oak $25.00
, _ ' I PI nlp<s Here *s y ° u r
Tables • Rockers
/f| one of vonr bed
$16.95 §13.50 $5 00 II
' 60-Inch mahogany fin- ' e°n t'e d"PA 1
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