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We propose to make a clean sweep of every dollar's worth of goods that still remains in stock All
lines of winter goods all broken lots all remnants everything must be closed out, and we
are going to name the price that will do it I Read every item, no matter how small the type it's
the only way you can be sure to catch that particular bargain in which you are mostly interested
Hundreds of odd lots, too small to advertise, will be displayed on cases and counters at most
astonishingly low prices. See them! v
For- ort ' lissom! mi m -Soad tetooaeos ttiro
on Dress Goods, Silks, Linings, Domestics, Table Linens, Knit Goods, Blankets, Comforts, Laces, Gloves, Mit
tens, Ribbons, Underwear, Shoes, Men's Furnishings, everything in Ladies9 & Children's ready-made Garments
Oi to
At Ohg- Fifth Off
On Dress Goods. Silks, "Velvets, Velveteens, Cor
sets, Veilings, Handkerchiefs, Table Linens, Nap
kins, Bed Spreads, Wool and Fleeced Hosiery,
Children's Caps, Stocking Caps, Gloves, Mittens.
ON WOOL DRESS UOOD8 ONE-HALF OFF.
A special clean up on this lot of goods, light and
dark styles In stripes, plaids and shepherd checks.
. These are great bargains, worth 50c, to close
at 25c
13ft pieces ot Woolen dress goods in plain and fancy
colors. This includes our complete line of $1.00
values. Serges, panamas, voiles, etc, worth $1.00,
now 79c
Cloak-Room
This sale means the alolute clearance of every
garment in' onr stock regardless of cost
At Reductions of from 20 to 60 per cent
and in some cases even more.
JCOATS
(Broken Size Lot.)
Cravenette Coats, Ladies and Children's Coats and
Plush Capes. Values up to $9.95, choice $2.50
Ladies Coats, Cravenette Coats and Misses Coats.
Values up to $17.50, choice $5.00
Regular line of Coats
All $13.50 $11.50 values, on sale at ....$ 7.50
All $19.50 $17.50 values, on sale at. ......... 12.50
All $22.50 $21.50 values, on sale at ,, 15.00
All $29.50 $25.00 values, on sale at 17.50
SILK RAIN COATS.
All $14.50 $13.50 values, on sale at ....:.$ 7.95
All $19.50 $15.00 values, on sale at 9.95
MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS
Our entire stock of Men's flannel shirts in blue, red,
grey, brown and tan colors, regular $1.50, $1.75
and $2.00 values, will be closed out during sale at
a very low price of, each......... 98c
Twenty Per Cent Discount on Our $2.25, $2.50,
and $3.00 Shirts.
MEN'S SHEEP LINED COATS.
Men's Corduroy Sheep Lined Coats, brown with fur
collar, double breasted, regular $8.50. Sale price
now $6.39
Sheep lined drab Corduroy Coat with fur collar, regu
lar $6.50 coat, during this sale ...$4.98
Sheep lined tan duck with fur collar, regular $5.80
coat, Sale Price $3.95
Men's Duck Coats sheep lined, tan with Corduroy
collar, regular $4.25 coat, Sale Price $3.39
And many other shep lined coats to be closed out at
cost price.
20 Per Cent Discount on all Men's and Boy's Blanket
Lined Corduroy and Duck Coats.
At Ono-Fiffth Off
On Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, BeltfJ
Bags, Wool and Outing Flannels, Knit
Goods, Dresser Scarfs, Squares, Bugs, Underw'r
WARM LINED FOOTWEAR.
Women's Kid Bals or Bluchers with Patent Tips .
(lined).
Regular $2.50, Cut Price ...$1.85'
Regular $2.00, Cut Price. .... .... .:$1.45
20 Per Cent Discount on All Our Warm Lined
Shoes and Slippers, including warm lined slippers,
felt slippers, Juliets and foxed felt shoes.
Bear in Mind that We are Giving a Special Dis
count on all Shoes, Overshoes, Wool, and Felt Boots,
.German Sox, Wanagans and Legings.
10 Per Cent Discount
On Calicos, Shirtings, Percales, Feathers, Pil
lows, Batting, Tickings, Muslin, Sheetings,
Apron and Turkey Red Ginghams, and Khaki
Cloth.
917-92 1 O.ST LINCOLN. NEB.
20 Per Cent Discount
Men's and Boy's Sweater Coats, Hats, Caps,
warm-lined Mittens, Gloves, Silk Mufflers,
Jewelry, Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases, Men's and
Boys' Pants at One-Fifth Off.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
First Meeting of New Year Held in the
New Labor Temple.
Lincoln Typographical Union held
the first meeting of the new year at
the Labor Temple last Sunday after
oon. Considerable business was trans
acted. One new member was obli
gated. F M. Coffey was elected dele
isito t3 the Central Labor Union, and
a committee of five was appointed to
visit and confer with the local divi
sion of the Amalgamated Association
nf Street and Electric Railway Em
ployes. Messrs. Coffey and Ihrlnger
were appointed members of an arbt
nation board to consider the matter
of proper Investigation ot a clause in
the contract with one of the newspa
pers of the city.
r rea mringer was re-elected as a
member of the board of directors of
the- Temple Association, and was in
structed to cast the cumulative stock
voUs of the union, 3.&00 in all, for the
ie-election- of W. M. Maupin as one of
U:i directors at large.
The chairman of the annual ball
nmittee reported that at the next
mrtting full arrangements for the bal!
would bo announced. The union, by
a riKlng vote thanked Capital Auxll
in ry Tor so handsomely furnishing the
'directors' room ot the Temple. Messrs.
Coffey and Peate, delegates to the
SUite Federation of Labor were obli
gated. Arrangements were made look
ing to the discharge of several of the
Hilton's financial obligations. After
adjournment the "directors' room"
was thrown open and the printers In
vited to Inspect It. They expressed
themselves as delighted with . the work
of the Auxiliary.
Hy unanimous rising vote nu hon
orary curd was granted to Richard L.
Mvtcftlfc, whese friendship for ithe
ui:Iun printerman has boon evldeuced
u ev-ry possible occasion. In honor
ing Mr. Metcalfe Lincoln Typographi
es' Union has honored itself.
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
TAFTS PREMIER A SCRAPPER
Friday of Next Week Will Mark Be
ginning of New Year's Work.
The Central Labor Union has
changed its meeting night from Tues
day to Friday, and the next meeting
of the body will be held at Labor Tem
ple on Friday evening, January 14.
It would be well for all the delegates
to bear this date in mind and be pres
ent in order that the new year may be
started well. ' There is a lot of impor
tant work for the central body to talk
up, and It ought to do a lot better in
1910 than It did in 1909.
Rev. Mr. Batten, fraternal delegate,
will probably have an interesting re
port to make from the "Congress of
Churches." Several important commit
tees have promised to be ready with
at least partial reports.
Tuesday evening, January 11, the de
legates to the central body are invited
to attend a meeting of the Retail
Grocers' and Butchers' association at
the Commercial club rooms In Fra
ternity building. There should be a
large response to this invitation, for it
affords the unionists a splendid" oppor
tunity to get in a good "boost" for
unionism.
Manager Rudy of the Temple is in
hopes that the opera chairs will be in
stalled in all the halls before the cen
tral body meets.
Now let every delegate make ar
raugements to attend the initial meet
ing of the year, and let them start off
with a rousing good meeting.
"The big little man" is what they call Phi
lander Chase Knox, secretary of state, who
through all the 56 years of his life haa been car
rying a chip, if not on his shoulders, at least
somewhere about him. Just now it is the Nlca
raguan affair that la giving Knox a chance to
show his fighting qualities. Zelaya, In the Knox
mind, is a degenerate disturber and has become
a murderer. With quick perception the sec re'
tary seized upon the admission of Zelaya that
Cannon and Groce, the Americans killed by Ze--laya,
were officers of the revolutionary army. So
Mr. Knox haa sent ' out a police ' alarm tor the;
apprehension of a murderer. i
If the Estrada government succeeds, Zelaya
will be tried and punished for murder. If lt:
becomes necessary for the United States toestab-.
Ush a provisional government, Zelaya will be tried for murder,
As a matter of fact there is no logical reason to' suppose, that a five-foot-two
man, even a statesman, who wears his hat at a careless angle, keeps his
hands in his pockets and smokes constantly without removing the cigar for
a puff. Is belligerent.' And when one goes into the barn-like room of the sec
retary of state and, after a search, finds the secretary sitting on the back
of his neck in a chair built for a much larger man, looking up with the sleepy
eyes of P. C. Knox, any indication of force of character seems impossible.
In the Northern Securities case, when Mr. Knox was attorney-general, he
made preparations that passed over all party lines and that resulted in an
uninterrupted chain of victories through the courts. He selected lawyers
everywhere in the United States whom he knew, without regard to whether
they were Republicans or Democrats. He was fighting , again. And at that
time the comment was made- that Mr. Knox was a most careless and prob
ably Ineffective official, as he lounged across Lafayette park to the White
House with his hat insecurely set at an angle and his hands in his pockets:
TO PROBE MINE DISASTERS
AGAINST EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
The law enacted at the last ses
sion of the Texas Legislature fixing
nn eight-hour workday for telegra
phers has been declared invalid in a
decision by the Court of Civil Ap
peals, sitting in Galveston. The court
contends the state law conflicts with
the national statute which provides
a nlr.e-hour day for dispatchers.
John Hays Hammond, the f 200,000 a year min
ing engineer for the Ouggenheims, near-candidate
for vice-president of the United States and the
reputed hereof Richard Harding Davis' "Soldier
of Fortune," has been appointed chairman of a
committee of the National Civic Federation
which will investigate the causes of mining dis
asters such as recently occurred at the Cherry
mine In Illinois. ,
Hammond has retired from active work at the
age of 53, but still has the benefits of his expert
ence In South Africa, South America, Alaska,
Australia and all the states of the Union to aid,
him in such work.
He has been a recognized expert in mining
affairs since he did special work for the govern
ment in the examination of California gold fields
in 1880. After the Jameson raid in South Africa Hammond, who was inter,
ested with Cecil Rhodes, was arrested, tried and sentenced to death. The
sentence, however, was afterward commuted to 15 years and finally to a Una
of $2,125,000.
O'Leary Defends Noted Chicago Cow
CHICAGO. "The real cause of the
Chicago fire has never been told
in print. It was not started by my
mother's cow kicking over a lamp.
Th origin of the blaze was spontan
eous combustion of 'green' hay. Put
that in the paper as coming from me,
and I'll give odds of 1.000 to 1 that I
can prove It."
"Big Jim" O'Leary, the stockyards
saloonkeeper and "gambling king,"
made the foregoing statement recent
ly. It was in reply to a statement
made by Rev. John D. Leek In a ser
mon in Whitney opera house that the
O'Leary cow kicked over a lamp in
resentment at three boys who were
milking the animal.'
"I don't care what anybody else
says about the fire," aaid O'Leary,
thrusting his thumbs in the ormholes
of his vest. "My parents are dead
and can't defend themselves against
this latest fake as to the origin of
the fire, but I'll speak out.
"That story about the cow kicking
over the lamp was. the monumental
fake of the last century. I know what
I'm talking about when I say that the
fire was caused by spontaneous com
bustion in the hayloft.
"You see, it was like this: , The old
man had put in a load of 'green' hay
a few days before the lire.1 Below the
hay loft were the stables where the
cows were kept. ' We had several
eows and did quite a milk business.
"It was Sunday night that the big
fire started. On that night we had
all gone to bed half an hour before
the fire broke out. I hadn't gone to
sleep yet and was the first one of the
family to hear the firemen shouting
in front of the house.
"Both my father and mother went
to their graves sad at heart over the
world wide notoriety given them in
the printed accounts of the barn lag of
Chicago. I wish to make It as em
phatic as possible ' that the O'Leary
cow did not kick over a lamp.
Dogs Eat at Tables with Banqueters
NEW YORK. An old-fashioned Eng
lish hunt dinner with hounds oc
cupying seats at the table marked
the ending in Smithtown of one of
the largest drag hunts ever held on
Long Island.
Those who partook of the feast,
which was given in the Head River
inn, represented every hunt club of
social prominence in and around New
York and from as great a distance as
Philadelphia. "v
Among the guests were noted riders
In the Rockaway, Westchester, Mem.1
owbrook, Smithtown and Staton Is
land clubs. Many Quaker City hunt
ers were present.
The bill of fare was gamy from
start to finish, but the most charac
teristic of all were the costumes of
the diners. The women were in even
ing dress. Many of them had brought
with them their full array of dia
monds and pearls for the occasion.
As for the hounds, they were treat
ed in the old-time hunt dinner way as
if they not only were human beings,
but the near companions of the club
members and the fair richly-gowned
guests.
Dogs walked up and down among
the members of the festive company,
sat at the table when courses were
served, and ate and drank tq their
heart's content. Then, unlike, the
human beings present, they lay down
and slept while the company closed
the feast with toasts, songs and other
ancient formalities used on such oc
casions. '