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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1906)
HIDING PLACES FOR MONEY. SALE IF (doable ins This week we offer some of the most attractive values that we have ever shown. You will have to see them to fully appreciate them,k but we give you here a description and the prices. The really heavy buying for Fall and Winter will begin this week. Don't fail to be in front of the procession. Thanksgiving Linon Sale Our store has grown to prominence by keeping only dependable Linens hence these special prices are great bargains: 60-inch Bleached Union Damask, assorted patterns; 30c value; for one week 22c CO-lnch Pure Linen Damask, in as sorted choice patterns; special, this week 43c Choice of our 75c Table Linens, in widths from 60 to 72 inches, either Mercerized or pure Lin en; 15 patterns to choose from; -this week 65c 72-inch Pure Linen Damask, Un bleached or Half Bleached, Ger man or Irish finish; $1.00 value; this week, choice 79c 72-inch Best German Linen, Satin finished; choice patterns; $1.25 value 98c REMNANTS! REMNANTS! For this week we place on sale all Linen Remnants in lengths from 1 yards to 3 that have accumulated in past three months, at 1-4 to 1-3 off. NAPKIN SALE. These prices are for one week only, so take advantage of same $1.25 All Linen Napkins, size 20x20, now 95c $1.50 and $1.75 All Linen Napkins, size 22x22, now $1-25 $2.00 and $2.25 All Linen Napkins, size 22x22, now $1.75 $2.50 and $2.75 All Linen Napkins, size assorted, now $2.25 $3.00 and $3.25 All Linen Napkins, size assorted, now $2.65 $3.00 All Linen Napkins, Satin fin ish, size 24x24, now $4.30 LUNCH CLOTHS. 25 All Linen Hemstitched Lunch Cloths, size 34x34, assorted pat- terns; special E9c FINISHED TABLE LINENS. We carry a complete line of Fin ished Table Cloths at $1.50 up to $5.00 MATCHED SETS, $7.00. 10 assorted Matched Sets, in Lin en and Napkins; size of Linen 2 yards by 3 yards. Napkins 22 inch; in choice patterns; spec ial price, per set $7.00 PURE LINEN TOWELS, 25c. 20 dozen of Damask All Linen Towels, in Fringed or Hem stitched; assorted sizes and pat terns; worth 35c; special 25c Special Lot of Dress Goods Commencing Monday, November 5, we will place on sale a lot of Dress Goods at about one-half price. These are in assorted lots. LOT 1 AT 25c. 30 pieces of Wool Suiting, such as Sackings, Venetians, and Novelties; worth to 50c; closing price 25c LOT 2 AT 38c. 20 pieces of Suitings, in all colors and assort ed qualities of materials; worth to 75c; to close at 38c LOT 3 AT 50c. 20 pieces of Suitings, in assorted plain Cloths, as well as fancies; a chance to buy a Dress or Skirt at price; Cloth that sold to $1.00; now 50c Notion Specials Good Safety Pins, assirted sizes, per card 214c 10c box of assorted Hair Pins, now 5c 5c card good Pearl Buttons, assorted sizes 2zc 20c Mounted Back Combs, now 10c 25c Pearl Shirt Waist Sets, now 10c 15c Elastic Web, in colors, yard 9c 15c Children's Side Elestics, all sizes 10c 25c Ladies' Twin Anchor Supporters, to close.. 15c 15c can C. R. Bailey's Violet Talcum Powder.. .10c 8-oz. Jar of C. R. Bailey's Rexoleum 5c Ladies' Plain Hemstitched Handkerchiefs 2'2c Long Gloves We have a new lot of Ladies' Long Silk Gloves in all sizes, colors Black and White only. Double Tip, 16-Button, at $1.00 and $1.50 12-Button Black Glace Kid Gloves, special, this week $2.65 BigLace Values This Week 30 pieces of Torchon Edges and Insertlngs, in assorted widths; worth to 8c; to close. . .3c 50 pieces ot Val Lace Edges and Insertings, very fine qualities; to close, at !4 Off 20 pieces of Allover Laces, suitable for fancy work and trimmings; worth to 75c; to close this week, at 29c Corset Cover Embroideries, in width to 18 inches and worth to 40c; this week 25c Buy Fleeced Goods Now This week they all go at special prices. 50 pieces of Lerma Fleeces, in fine Dress Patterns, light and dark colors; 12c val ues 10c 36-inch Arnold Superfine Flannelettes, wide range of patterns to select from; 18c val ues ; at 12Jc 20 pieces of Alaska Velvet Flannelettes, choice Waist, Kimono and House styles; you know what others ask; our price 12!c lW.lni .In THE SHOE0FSHOES' 2? Eiderdowns at a Bargain We are out of some colors in these, but those that we have we will sell at very low prices to close. 25-inch, in plain or crimped; 30c and 40c values, yard - 22c 36-inch, most all colors, All Wool; 50c values; to close 30s SPECIAL NOTICE. Those who are interested in Underwear, Outings, Cotton Flannels, Wool Skirtings. Cotton and Wool Blankets, Wool Shawls and Fascinators, will find that we have all these marked to sell at a very small profit. Give us a chance. IN THE CLOAK ROOM IT IS EASY ENOUGH, when you stop to think of it, why our prices on ready-to-wear garments are reasonable. We buy these at the right prices and mark them with reasonable profit. New Arrivals of All Wool Plaid Tour ist Coats, 50 inches long. "Very stylish garments" $9.50 values, spe cial $7.50 $13.50 values spe cial $12.15 $17.50 values, spe cial $15.75 A variety of 50-in. Ker sey Coats, in Castor and Black, at $9.95, $13.50, $14.95, $17.50, 19.50 and $22.50. A RJ 1 FOR ALL WEATHERS is a comfortable protection against cold weather. Have a Look at Our Line of them. You will find a large assortment of all this season's styles at prices which will appeal to you. SKDRYS Just received 100 fine tailored skirts, perfect fitting in solid colors and plaid Panama cloth. Spe cial price for one week: $5.50 and $5.95 values, your choice $4.95 $9.50 and $9.95 values, your choic $8.50 $12.50 and $14.50 values, your choice $11.25 9I7-92I 0, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. Are the very best procurable. The men who work on KING QUALITY shoes know that only perfect work will be accepted. The leather is thoroughly stretched over the last, and permitted to remain until thoroughly shaped. As a result no amount of hard wear in any kind of weather can affect the shape of the shoe. It will have the same shapely appearance when it goes to the ash barrel, at the end of months of faithful service, that it had when it was first placed upon the foot. It will take but one pair of .... KING QUALITY shoes to demonstrate to you their sterling worth. Prices $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 For Sale By Fred Schmidt & Bro Shawls Women Make Banks of Most Unex pected Places. "Let's pay the waiter and get rid of him," said one of the group of women who were refreshing them selves in a tearoom after a morning, of shopping. Each woman dived for her money, and each into a different place. One pulled her purse from a hand-bag; another produced her, money from a chain coin purse which' hung around her neck; still another opened a big envelope pocketbook to get at her bills, and another blushed ever so slightly as, she surreptitiously dug into her stocking. "Funny how we all carry our money in different ways," said the woman who had spoken first. "But it's not nearly so funny as the hiding places. we have for them at home. Now, j always tuck my superfluous dollars! away in the top of the upright piano.1 I fix it so it will not interfere with; the playing, and no one dreams it's there. My sister uses teacups, and if we get out any rarely used china for especial occasions, we are sure, to 8nd a few of Jane's bills in them.' My mother insists in stowing her money away in an old gold-handled umbrella, which is too clumsy for any one to use. But some day it will be grabbed in a hurry and mother will lose all her little hoard." "I put my money under things," con fessed another of the group. "Some times it's under the paper in my chif fonier drawers, under the - silence cloth in the dining-room, or under the' spread on the library table. It de pends on where I happen to be. Half the time I can't remember where I put it, and then the whole family begins to hunt under things for it." "Our girl Bridget," began another, "had a most unsanitary habit of bury ing her savings in the tea canister, until we commanded her to desist. And now she keeps it in a broken nosed milk pitcher that we never use." "I keep mine in the toes of a pair of slippers," said another, "and when I go away lilways put my money, at night in the toe of my shoe. No burglar would ever think of looking, there lor it." "My money is safely stowed awayi in my stocking bag," chimed in an other. "And I keep mine in a match box that I bought for a Christmas present for a man, and then got mad at him before Christmas came," con fessed the girl who had gone into her stocking. N. Y. Press. in Cashmere and Beaver, Grey, Black and Brown, from $1.75 up to $8.E0 MUSEMEMTS AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS "THE THEATRE BEAUTIFUL" THE MEW LYRIC HIGH -CLASS YAUDYILLE PROGRAM CHANGED WEEKLY THE BEST ATTRACTIONS OBTAINABLE MATINEE AT 3:o-EVENINQ AT 7:30 AND 0 O'CLOCK ADMISSION 10 AND 15 CTS 15th and OSts. HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE THE BIJOU PROGRAM WEEK OF NOVEMBER 5th 15th and OSts. HENR1ETTE and FERDINAND SENSATIONAL EUROPEAN NOVELTY ARTISTS: MR. ROBBY RANKIN THE MUSICAL COHEDIAN. WOODFORD and MARLBORO Presenting "A TIMELY LESSON. PROF. O. H. M1TCHEL WORLD'S GREATEST VENTRILOQUIST MR. WILL H. SMYTHE Singing "SMILE ON ME." VOYAGE AROUND A STAR ON THE BIOQRAPH. 3-Shows-3 Daily 3'.00, 7145, 9:00 P. M. MATINEE, ALL SEATS 10c ADMISSION 10 CENTS Evenings, Reserved Seats 5 Cents Extta Grand Prize Matinee Every Tues. and Thurs. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. Where Unions Will Meet to Enact Their General Legislation. November 12, Minneapolis, Minn., American Federation of Labor. December 3, Boston, Mass., Interna tional Seamen's Union. December 3, New York City, Nation al Alliance of Bill Fosters and Billers of America. A. F. OF L. PLATFORM. 1. Compulsory education. 2. Direct legislation through the in itiative and referendum. 3. A legal workday of not more than eight hours. 4. Sanitary inspection of workshop, mine and home. 5. Liability of employers for injury to health, body and life. 6. The abolition of the contract sys tem In all public work. 7. The abolition of the sweatshop system. UNION CONTRACTORS. If You Want Building Done, Here Is a List to Patronize. The following employers and con tractors have been declared fair by Carpenters' Union, Local 1055, and we request all parties contemplating building or repairs of any kind per taining to our trade to please take notice and consider the following rep utable contractors and builders before letting your work: S. W. Baker, 2237 R street H. E. Chappell, 1624 O street. L. Drybbra, Lindell Hotel. S. R. Copeland, 110 North Twenty seventh street H. Dobbs, 329 South Twenty-seventh street T. P. Harrison, Brownell block, room 12. W. B. Hester, 820 North Twenty seventh street. Howe & Atterbury, 2025 Vine street. - Hammond & Burford, 3136 Dudley street. Alex Hutton, 1436 N street. Jewell & Marsh, 2331 South Tenth street. A. Kiewit, 1620 N street. A. L. Myers. 223 North Twenty eighth street, Mitchner. Chas. Mellor, 2149 South Fifteenth street. F. G. Odell, 1333 North Twenty fourth street. J. W. Russell, 1527 North Twenty fourth street. C. "W. Ryman, 1112 Pine street. D. A. Rush, Normal. T. K. Townsend, 1328 South Fif teenth street Turner Bros., 1401 Rose street. O. "W. Vanderveer, 154 South Eigh teenth street. S. A. Webb, 2743 W street. Lineoln Sash and Door company for mill work. This bulletin is issued by authority of Carpenters' Union, and is subject to revision at their order. Firms and contractors can have names and place of business inserted by applying to Carpenters' business agent, at 130 South Eleventh street, or by phone, Auto 3824, Bell L-1154. THE HOME INDUSTRY IDEA. If Rightfully Pushed Will Make Lin coln a Big City. The Commercial club is beginning the agitation of the "Patronize Home Industry" idea, and Secretary Whitten is forming plans for an aggressive campaign along this line. Here and now The Wageworker pledges Secre tary Whitten that the unionists of this community will back him up in a cam paign to enlarge the sale of all Lin coln made goods that are made by firms that are friendly to organized labor. As long as human nature re mains as it is, it is not to be expected that men will undertake to boost those who are unfriendly to them. There are many things made in Lin coln that deserve the attention of un ion men and women. They ought to buy Lincoln made flour. They ought to buy Lincoln made shoes. . They ought to buy Lincoln made mill work. Wherever an employer is fair to or ganized labor he ought to have the support or union men and women. But the enemies of organization, those- admiring friends that she in all prob- who employ convict labor, and those who prate of the Christianity and at the same time pay "sweat shop" wages they do not deserve the patronage of trades unionists, and they will not get it. The "Patronize Home Indus try' campaign ought to be pushed with diligence. But it should be pushed with discretion. THINGS TO REMEMBER. Do Not Subscribe for the Following Unfair Publications. The Saturday Evening Post and La dies' Home Journal, issued by the Cur tis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, are the product of non-union labor, and should be dealt with accordingly by trade unionists and their friends. The Curtis Company refused to concede the eight-hour day to its union printers. The Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside,, published by the Crowell Company, Springfield, Ohio, are also the product, of non-union la bor. All of the Butterick publications are produced by non-union labor. McClure's Magazine, the Century, Bookman, Smart Set, St. Nicholas, World's Work, Black Cat, Monthly Magazine, Men and Women, the Housekeeper and Lippincott's are also the product of non-union labor. The above-named publications have a general circulation. See the famous Butler dogs at the Lyric next week. Something new in this line. The Tactful Lawyer. It is not necessary that a lawyer should be eloquent to win verdicts, but he must have the tact which turns an apparent defeat to his own advan tage. One of the most successful of verdict winners was Sir James Scar lett. His skill in turning a failure into Or " V. V n o line nviiuciiuii All C. UIC.UI' ofrpromise case, the defendant, Scar lett's client, was alleged to have been cajoled into an engagement by the plaintiff's mother. . She was a witness in behalf of her daughter, and com pletely baffled Scarlett, who cross-examined her. But in his argument he exhibited his tact by this happy stroke of advocacy: "You saw, gentlemen of the jury, that I was but a child in her hands. What must my client hava been?" Advantages of Cremation. The principal advantage that crema tion has over the customary form of interment is never mentioned as an argument in its behalf. I mean the relief it affords the bereft from the duty of keeping the grass and weeds off the grave and fresh flowers upon it. A very charming widow of 39, the magic age of weeds," had her husband cremated and put his ashes in a sil ver vase. This vase was made to or der in two separate parts, the bot tom for the ashes, and the top for cut flowers. She kept it in the center of the dining-room table, always filled with roses, and used to say to ability . was the only widow in New York who decorated her husband's last resting place with fresh flowers every day. Only a few intimates were let into the secret that she loved flow ers and killed two birds with one stone by keeping them in bloom above poor George's ashes. N. Y. Press. Spoke Only "Gum Arabic." It apepars that on one occasion, not long since, Lord Cromer agreed to meet an old school-fellow near one of the pyramids; and the tourist en gaged a very old Arab as a guide to lead him to the spot As a matter of fact, Lord Cromer's friend was a, little bit proud of his ability to speak Arabic, but. to his concern he found' himself unable to understand a word of what - the guide said to him. Re sult, he kept Lord Cromer waiting a long time at the pyramid, and was quite prepared for the reprimand he received on arrival. Of course, he stated the reason of the delay.' "Well, it's your own fault," replied Lord Cromer. "You should have enw gaged a younger guide. These tooth-i less old fellows speak nothing but gum-Arabic." Heard in Chicago. Ella You have been married more times than I have. Stella Yes, but what of it? Ella I was going to ask you if mar riage licenses were any cheaper by' the dozen. His New Love. "Tom bought an auto so as te win Helen's affections." "Well?" "Well, he has become so stuck on the auto that he has quite forgotten Helen."