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EDITORS IN SESSION.
Nebraska Press Association Enter
tained by Grand Island People.
The editor of The Wageworker begs
the indulgence of his readers this
week for any shortcomings. Once a
year he goes to a meeting of the
Nebraska Press Association, and this
was the week. He went out to Grand
Island, and combining business with
pleasure had one of the times of his
lite. There's a bully bunch of "good
Injuns" in Grand Island, and all of
the city should in return give them
every consideration. A fireman is a
human being, not merely a piece of
fire-fighting machinery. He loves the
companionship of his fellows, and he
doubtless has as much desire as the
average man to make a home. .The
fact that he fights fire does not nec
essarily cause him to lose the home
making instinct nor incline him to
overlook the little social pleasures' of
life. All these, however, are prac
tically denied him by the present in
human system.
The Brown bill should meet with no
patronage from a firm whose metho-1
of conducting its business is injurious
to your interests or the interests of
your fellows. Union men and women
and men and women who are not
unionists but who do believe in fair
play, ought to see the point.
Do not boycott
Just patronize your friends and
pass up your enemies.
SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCH.
THAT means putting in some new,
handsome, and economical gas fix
tures. It means a new and improved
gas range in the kitchen and that
means an emancipation proclamation
for the housewife. These things not
only mean economy, but mean
The Home Happy
The Home Beautiful
Perhaps you are among those who
believe that gas for cooking and heat
ing is expensive. If you are, and are
open to conviction, come in and let us
convince you of your error. We can
prove it by the experiences of 6,000
users of gas in Lincoln. We have ev
erything in the way of new and im
proved gas and electric fixtures, and
furnish the gas and electricity.' Open
evenings.
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them joined in making the visit of
the Nebraska editors an event , to be I opposition in the legislature, and its
remembered forever and a day. , From provisions should be acceptable t3
the time the editor man and his wife
landed in Grand Island until they
took the train for home there was
something doing and . i was some
thing that pleased and entertained.
The Elks' club room was thrown
cpen to the visiters and the sessions
were held there. Every variety of
entertainment was shown the visiting
newspaper " men and women, , and
every variety was pleasant and profit
able. A "smoker" was given the gen
tlemen at the Elks' club room on
Monday evening, a visit was paid to
the Soldiers' Home Tuesday after-
Temple Directory Seems to Have Died
from Pure Inanition,
The directors of the Labor Temple
Association have not met for months.
The time for the holding of the annual
election hag passed, and no election
noon, a reception and hall was given was called by the officers whose duty
at the Elk's club Tuesday evening it is to attend to that matter. Several
after a splendid musical entertain- hundred dollars have been paid into
ment at the Bartenbach opera house, the. treasury, yet the whole movement
The Kyrl concert company provided seems to have petered out and the
the musical entertainment, and it was 1 money is lying idle in the treasury.
one of the Tarest of musical treats. There are a few individual stock
Time and space prevent any extended holders who have paid in their hard
cominents upon this splendid feature earned money who are inclined to be-
of the week's entertainment. Suffice lieve that something should be done
it to say that the music lover who or the money returned. Two or three
fails to seize an opportunity to hear unions have paid in comparatively
this splendid musical organization large sums, and these unions are in
will have every reason to regret it. terested in knowing what the outcome
Wednesday evening a banquet, was is to be.
tendered by, the Commercial club of I It would seem that it is up to the
Grand Island. After enjoying it one duly elected officers and directors to
can understand why Grand Island is get busy and either push the project
such a good town. A live organiza- with vigor or present a final account
DEMAND THE LABEL
Are you aware
of the many uses and values of
Fmnre Tar?
A $5.00 barrel
of tar can be made pay for
itself many times over.
Tar for the preservation of
timber and iron!
Tar for road sprinkling!
Tar for the prevention of ver
min on fowls and stock!
There are hundreds of distinct
uses for tar
Lincoln Gas and
Electric Light Co.
For information, call on or write
WM. BRADFORD
every citizen of Lincoln. The Lincoln
fire department is accounted one of
the best in the country, and the men
who compose it are entitled to better
treatment at the hands of the people
than they have heretofore received.
WHAT'S THE MATTER?
tion like the Grand Island Comme.-
cial club will make a "live one" of any
old town. The banquet was a huge
success. This newspaper writer has
attended scores of banquets in his
ing and ask for a dissolution of the
corporation.
GENERAL MENTION.
Barbers' Union ball, Williams' hall,
time, but for viands, for service and March 4. Tickets one dollar.
for intellectual refreshments it was
the best ever.
Here and now The Wageworker
wants to bear witness to the fact
that the Nebraska Press Association
was never bettei entertained than by
the Grand Island people this week.
Mrs. Charles B. Righter has been
se-iously ill for the past week.
One demand for the label is better
than an hour of street corner vocifera
tion about boycotting.
The bill appropriating $200,000 for
a state twine tactory at the peniten-
Gus Beuchler, W. H. Harrison, Mayer I tiary has passed the house. ' - . '
Shuff, the members of the Elks' and Mrs. P. M. Coffey has returned to
Commercial clubs, the Woman's Park the Oklahoma farm, where she and
commission, W. H. Thompson, and the children will spend the summer.
scores of others went without sleep
in order to have time to frame up
new schemes for the enterainment of
the visitors. The Grand Island peo
ple are entitled to the warmest J
words of commendation for their
, In a few weeks we'll all be hiking
tcward the- M-street park-to'harken
to , the , umpire shout with racuous
voice, "Play ball!"
A. B. Murray, bridge inspector for
Lancaster county, fell from a trestle
Rev. Charles Stelzle Discusses the
Preacher and Socialism.
Many advocates of socialism de
clare that if tAe church were to advo
cate the doctrines of this system work
ingmen would crowd into the church.
In the first place, it is not the chief
business of the church to get crowds.
Its chief business Is to preach the
truth, as it sees it. If the mere get
ting of crowds were the only criterion
of success Christ's mission was a
failure. When he was crucified, he
had a mere handful of followers.
Moreover, the arreat inass of working
men are not particularly interested in
social problems. They do not attend
their trades union meetings with any
degree of regularity. It is a well
known fact that only a small percent
age of the members of a particular
local regularly attend its meetings,
find the trades union makes a spe
cialty of the social question as it re
lates to the affairs of its members.
The average socialist meeting is also
comparatively poorly attended. If
neither trades union nor socialist
meeting can secure more than cor
poral's guard under ordinary circum
stances, why should it be expected
that the church through the preaching
of precisely the same principles, would
te crowded. Moreover, quite a good
many socialist ministers have honestly
attempted to preach socialism, but in
practically every case (their audiences
have been very small. It has been
insisted that if a minister were to
preach socialism, he would lose his
job, because the church would not
stand for the preaching of such doc
trines. It may be that in a few cases
socialist preachers have been . re
quested to resign because of the
preaching of objectionable economic
doctrines; but in nearly every case
ir has been observed that the min
ister was discredited not because he
had said too much but because he not
the ability to say much more. The
preacher or advocate of any system
should remember the law in the mak
ing of a cannon viz: that it nlust be
one hundred times heavier than the
shot that it fires. . Most of men who
have thus been discredited have been
light-weight they failed to make good.
' - - Notice -of Petition. - .-'. -
""Estate No. 57 of OrviHe W. Merrill,
deceased, ia County Court of Lancas
ter County, Nebraska."
The State of Nebraska, To fcll per-'
sons interested in said estate take
notice, that a petition has been filel
for the appointment of Burton A.
George as" administrator of said estate.
which has been set for hearing herein,
on February 23, 1909, at 1 o'clock p. m.
.Dated January 21, 1909.
P. JAS. COSGRAVE, -(Seal)
County Judge.
By Walter A. Leese, Clerk. 43-4
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Five Months of Absolute Capacity.
Best Seats, 25c.
WEEG STARTING FEB. 22,
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Drama in Four Acts by Augustus
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Next Week: "The Three of Us."
EVERY NIGHT 8:30
Matinees Wed. and Sat. 2:30.
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best counties of the best state in the
Union that's a combination hard to
beat.
THE DOUBLETS HI FT SYSTEM.
hospitality. A good town, peopled by I near Bruse'B park last Friday and
enterprising citizens, in one or tne sustained painful Injuries.
The Lindell hotel property has been
sold to a Kansas man, but Hoover
& Son have leased it and will con
tinue to conduct the hotel.
Senator' Stephenson of Wisconsin
admits having spent upwards of $100.
000 in his campaign for re-election.
A poor man would have hard work
playing up against that kind of a
political -game.
There are at least two old-time
printers in the lower house of the
legislature Cyrus Black of the Hick
man Enterprise and Col. M. A. Bates
of the Plattsmouth Journal. In the
senate there is the inimitable "Doc"
Tanner, editor of the - South Omaha
The university professor who can
not provide for his old age out of a
salary of from $2,000 to $2,500 a year
is no worse off than the wage-earners
who are expected to do so on an aver
age yearly wage of $415.
HELP THE GARMENT WORKERS.
Lincoln Firemen Entitled to a Little
Time for Themselves.
Representative Brown has intro
duced into the legislature a bill pro
viding for a double-shift system for
the firemen of Lincoln. It will not
take long for a thoughtful man to
decide that the firemen are entitled
tc the relief asked for.
Under present conditions the , fire
men are on duty constantlv. It is true
that the firemen have long hours in Daily Democrat.
which they do comparatively little
work, and again there often comes a
time when their work is the hardest
and most' dangerous that men can be Demanding Decent Treatment and a
called upon to yerf6rm. A few hours Weekly Pay Day.
cf work like that performed during the Jacob Sklover, representing the
Halter block fire more than offsets an I Ladies' Garment Worers' Union of
hundred hours of idleness around the Omaha, was in Omaha last Saturday
station.. But it is the constant con- in the interests of that organization.
finement, the dull and deadly monot- The members of this union have
cny, that is so wearisome. been locked out by the Novelty Skirt
The firemen are the only employes Co. because they demanded a weekly
cf the municipality who have to be on pay day and a decent rate of wages.
duty more than twelve hours. And This is the only union of garment
the policemen are the only employes workers in Nebraska and it should
who have to work over seven or eight I have the earnest support of every true
hours. There are clerks and stenog- unionist. These locked-out girls are be-
raphers and accountants in city offices I ing bitterly fought by the Business
who do not average eight hours' work Men's Association of Omaha. That
a day, yet draw more money than the 1 association, made up of wealthy and
firemen who belong to the rank and influential business men in Omaha, is
file. Yet the firemen must be on duty showing its yellow streak by putting
twenty-four hours a day, constantly I up the financial backing for the Nov
endanger their lives and run the risks I elty Skirt Co. in its fight against a
incident to their employment, all for bunch of girls who are asking for
less than scores of clerks receive in decent wages, fair conditions and a
positions of no danger and requiring weekly pay day. It is openly charged
only an average amount of ability, that Chief of Police Donahue has been
influenced to use the Omaha police
i force in an attempt to force the girls
to submission
The women of Lincoln have a splen
did opportunity to give these young
women a helping hand. The Novelty
This is not saying that the clerks are
overpaid or too leniently treated. It is
saying that the firemen are under
paid and unjustly treated.
The firemen are entiled to the relie!
ai.ked for under the double-shift sys
tem. But one objection can be raised. Skirt Co. has a branch store in Lin-
and that is the objection to the in
creased expense. But even this ob
jection is not well founded. . The
laborer is worthy of his hire. The
coin, managed by. O. Q. Byron. The
'Skirt Store" is located in the Little
Block.
Of course it Is illegal to boycott.
firemen are underpaid. They give the and also unfair to print an unfair list.
city the "best pobsible protection and But it is not illegal to withhold your
A Big Cut Prico
PATENT MEDICINE
SALE
50c Stuart's Dyspep. Tab 45c
$1.00 Pinkham's Remedies 83c
$1.00 Peruna '.. 83c
35c Castoria (genuine) ....... . .25c
25c Mennen's Talcum 12s
25c Chamberlain's Cough., 12c
60c Doan's Kidney Pills 45c
$1.00 Horlick's Milk .83c
25c Danderine 22c
25c Kondon's Catarrh Jell 22c
60c Denver Mud 45c
25c Humphrey's Specifics 22c
60c Swamp Root 45c
25c Ballard's Liniment ..22c
50c Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin .45c
$1.00 Beef Iron and Wine 79c
$1.00 Norwegian Cod Liver Oil. .75c
35c Jaynes' Tonic Vermifuge. . .30c
All other patents in the same
proportion.
RECTOft'S
Twelfth and O.
Havelock Car Tickets on Sale.
Notice of Petition.
Estate No. 2518 of Clem Birney, de
ceased, in County Court of Lancaster
County, Nebraska..
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, take
notice, that a petition has been filed
for the appointment of Henry C.
Bergs as administrator of said estate,
which has been set for hearing herein,
on February 24, 1909, at 9 o clock a. m
Dated January 23, 1909.
P. JAS. COSGRAVE,
(Seal) County Judge.
By Walter A. Leese, Clerk. 43-4
' Notice of Probate.
Estate No. 1826 of Adelia P. Grove''
deceased, in County Court of Lancas
ter County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, take
notice that a petition has been filel
for probate of the last will of said
deceased, and for appointment of
Peter B. Eno as administrator with
will annexed thereof, which has been
set for hearing herein, on February
23, 1909, at 9 o'clock a. m.
Dated January 21, 1909.
P. JAS. COSGRAVE,
i (Seal) County Judge
By Walter A. Leese, Clerk. 43-
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particular people.
Special inducements for photos
O for' legislative members.
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Wage workers, Attention
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on Chattels'. Plenty of it,
too. Utmost secrecy.
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tal Ulcer treated scientifically
and successfully.
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year. Excellent opportunities for young people.
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