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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1906)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4, 1906. Immense Warehouses of M. E. Smith & Co. in the New Jobbing District DENTISTRY TOOTH TALK NO. 78 f f J t Ij - 4 i TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK Btuineu fsr ths Year Rum ahead ofLut Year's Record. INTEREST IN ALL SORTS OF PROPERTY rrleis Find Nitlrri (tulle I.lrelr Bud look Cur a Biiif Wln trr la tho Lin of Trndre. in looking over the rt-ootd of real estate transfers tor this year and Inst, the fact becomes prominent that they are running con.ldirably heavier thin year. . They ex ceed HS by about JJjO.tm) or a month, with the exception of May, when they were heavier than the Mime month a year ago by over Sl.Xl,0Qi). . The aggregate of October transfers waa XJS,2S5, aa com pared with l-'.,93 a year ago and 1314,411 two years ago. It la now aafe to say tliat the year will bo rounded out with the largest total for a long- while. Building permits amounted to $JiX,150, or about t.tMO more than the previous month. la October of 1306 the figures were SLM,7uQ and In 1904 they were IllS.Kie. One hundred permits were Insued last month, the ma jority of them being for the construction of homes ranging In cost from H,500 to H,ooa S. r. Boatwlck brought a copy of the Dally Read Estate Qaxette, dated May U, 1887, to the Real Estate exchange meeting last Wednesday. It la a breezy sheet of four pages, giving all the real estate news of ths day. Business was evidently lively In those days, for the transactions for May 13 were given at 1126,121, and dozens and dozen of realty agents . advertised long lists of property for sale, two or three of thorn taking each a whole column. One advertisement said George Hicks' and Beaver and Whltcomb would furnish car riages on a certain day to take prospec tive purchasers to Wcstlawn, where lots were being sold at tho phenomenally low price of WOO and $400. Lots In Lome's ad dition, which have been selling recently at $200 to 'S.KW. were advertised at 11.000. The bank clearings at Omaha for May 23 were mentioned aa $553,125. The Real Estate exchange Is to select a new set of officers two weeks from next Wednesday. The following met) have been placed In nomination: President, H. P. Bostwtck; vice president. W. L. Selby, Byron Hastings, Charles Saunders and O. M. Natttnger: treasurer. Qeors-e Mor ton, J. W. Robblns and W. It. Gates; sec x retary, Harry A. Tukey: executive com mittee of three, Byron Hastings, Charles . Saunders, 8. S. Curtis, George Wallaee and E.. A. Benson. Other nominations may be made at the next meeting. That all the bricklayers In Omaha are at work and tho contractors need twenty five to forty more shows that building activity In the city Is holding up. Some of the contractors on the larger Jobs ex pected to get men when the Byrne & Hammer and the Parlln, OrendorfV & Martin warehouses were finished, but these men were no sooner through their work on these structures than they were taken to smaller buildings scattered 'over the city stores and flats which the owners wish to complete before freezing leather. Tha Rome hotel, the Carpenter . Paper company's building, the M. E. Smith A Co. building and the United States Supply company's warehouses are the largest structures now under way. Work la to be begun soon on the Chris tian church, which Is to be of brick. Those lntereated In knowing what was paid for property In the site announced for the Union FaclHc headquarters ac quired some Information If they noted the real estate transfers recorded last week. The records say that the Ish property, which Is the west forty-four feet of lot , brought $12,000 and the east twenty-two feet of the same lot, known aa the Willis block, brought $11, 000. Friday a deed was recorded transferring the Evans home at Thirty-third and Far nam streets from Lizzie P. Kvans to Flor ence W. Hall. The consideration named was $36,000. E. Callahan will build a rpw of brick houses at the northwest corner of Twenty fourth street end Capitol avenue. He re cently paid Itj.OOO for the site and the even-room house on It, which will have to be removed. ' Franklin Banker of Boston was In Omaha a few days ago looking after his real es tate Interests. He said Omaha had come to look very metropolitan since he visited the city a number of years ago. "Omaha enjoys a steady growth which warrants investment," he said. President Green of the Real Estate ex change threatens to have Fred D. Weed, W. G. Ure and W. T. 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Speotaoles U needed, $1 u, 213 OUTH16(b STREET LONDON OMAHA SEATTLE r. f lTl'- ' 1 llll ' - -f ' " ' I r -Til 11111 II 1.11 lllsassll i--"- - I - '- -- FARNAil STREET discussions In the exchange In the last few months, but this little Incident, though It Is treated solely as a Joke by the ma jority, promises the liveliest time yet. Mrs. F. H. Davis proposes to erect at Sixteenth and Jackson streets a two-story brick store and flat building, 75x126 feet. N. P. Dodge says he la selling many houses to people who are coming from Nebraska and Iowa towns and the coun try 'to make their homes In Omaha. Most of them, ho says, have be?n In the clas of $3,000 homes and better. Mr. Dodge also remarks a large sale of acreage prop erty. It was not long bro ha platted and placed on the market 120 acres north of Krug park, building three good residences In order to start a building movement. The last of those houses was sold the other day, and In addition forty-five acres In acreage tracts have been sold since September I. The town is growing; people find good places for homes at moderate cost In the suburbs and they go there. Miss Mary Crotty has bought from F. D. Wead a house at 2631 Charles street, pay ing $1,800. Mr. Wead sold two lots In Spring-dale reserve, Grandview addition, to A. L. Meyer for investment. The Jennings-Hyde company has leased 1,5"0 square feet of floor space In the new Baldrlge-Wead building at Twentieth and Fax nam. Among the sales reported for the week was 165 acres In Washington county at $90 per acre cash by tho banking house of A. Castotter, Blair, to B. H. J. Jungbluth. who owns the adjoining land. The sale was made through tho firm of J. H. Du mont & Son, who are closing out for the bank tha Blanchard farm of 6S0 acres. Among tho purchases of residence prop erty reported last week were the follow ing: Harry C. Miller, caahler of the South Omaha I National bank, bought the large house built by W.. B. Bell at 1134 South Twenty-ninth street; B. L. Reese of the International Harvester company bought a large brick residence built by G. N. Hicks on Pacific street between Thirty-first and Thirty-second; Joseph Krupcka secured six lota and a house In Grandview addition; Sadie L. Berheron of St. Louis purchased for Investment two houses and lots at 8X27 and 3831 Decatur street; Herbert Wills , . . . , , . , , oil. Tll,Hrt bought residence property at 34.4 Blondo street; Kate R. Wiley paid $1,800 for a res. ldence at 2505 Pierce street, W. C. Tabor $4,100 for a house at 2215 Webster street, Helen Golden $l.n"0 for a residence nt the northwest corner of Twenty-fifth and Grant streets. Conveniently located trackage property for coal and building material yards Is be- coming a scarce article In Omaha. There la no scarcity of building sites with track is no scarify in e kj facllltles, but the price puts them beyond consideration for yard purposes. This fact is lilustrated by the experience of the J. F. Swift Coal company in seeking a business site The company was organized last March and haa Just secured a location juarm n J" . a after seven months diligent search. A number of desirable locations between Wil- llam street on the south and Clark street on the north were investigated with un satisfactory results. Finally the company decided to climb the heights on South Six teenth street at the end of the viaduct and connect with the Burlington track. Here the company has secured nine city lots, an area of nearly two acres, at an average price of $2,500 a lot. The tract em bracea nearly all of block 266, original city plat, and a fractional part of adjoining Vision Lenses ! FRONT OF ONE B UILDINO. lots on the south, fronting on Sixteenth, Pierce and Fifteenth streets. The ground Is much higher than the grade of surround ing streets and some 30.000 yards of earth will have to be removed before it Is ready for business. This grading will be done with a steam shovel and the work will be gin as soon as the Burlington extends a spur track to ths site. The manager and chief stockholder of the company is Thomas F. Swift, youngest son of Omaha's pioneer, Thomas Swift, and for many years asso ciated with the Cool Hill Coal company. The contract for the erection of the new 145,000 First Christian church at Twenty- Ixth and Harney streets Is to be let In a rcw days. This Is getting to be a neigh borhood of churches, and to this fact some f the citizens point with pride. A block touth of the Christian church site, at Twenty-sixth and St. Mary's avenue Is the tew All Saints' church, now in course of .construction, and over on Farnain street, it Twenty-sixth avenue. Is the magnificent tone structure of the Kountze Memorial church. And 1111 Rome Miller extends his In terests In hotels. Ha has bought from Ft. S. Hall a half Interest In the Murray hotel property at the northwest corner of Fourteenth and Harney streets. The other half Interest Is owned by Mrs. N. P. Brown, who operates and who will continue o operate the hotel. The lot Is 66x132 feet and the building Is six stories In height. APPEAL FOR CITY WORK HOUSE Judge Crawford Writes to County Board Asking It to Take Initiative. Police Judge Bryce Crawford ha written a letter to the county commissioners asking them to take the Initiative In establishing a work house for the correction of county and city prisoners. He calls attention to the Insufficient accommodations at tha county and city Jails and declares that no pretense of corrective or reformatory work can be done In them. They are sufficient, he said, for prisoners awaiting trial, but ought not to be used for persons under- going punishment for crime. Continuing, he says: i Set as4de ten or fifteen acres of the poor form tract; build and equip a modern house v i melton niiu umcc 11 111 1 1 1 1 1- petent ,mnd9 u wm ,upp'rt tself relleV9 the people of an expense which la not only matertal, but Is exusperatlng because ex pended to maintain criminals in Idleness and continued crime. But even more you will place In the hands of local authorities a weapon with which to protect good aud combat evil, which cannot be valued in dollars and cents. Kansas City, Denver, Peoria, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, have each a successful work house, self-supporting, doing a splendid work of reformation and warning Idle, p?tty criminals to give these cities a wide berth l'uy ' sraunea wuh me lm- provement you gentlemen have accom- p:ighed in county finances. The extent of your success Is emphasized by the fact butan"''.' nerd cftht votln(4 B bond op pledging t lie county's credit for one dollar. No public enterprise hlrh you can undertake will meet the ap- proval of so large a numlxir of your fellow ctXens. pPrn,t me, then, to commend to your consideration the moat urgent need of Omaha and Douglas county. a modern house of correction. CRUSADE AMONG THE DAIRIES Health Commissioner Conducts Cam paigns of Cleanliness Amosg Men Selling Milk. Health Comm'ssl iter Connell la on a campaign of cleunlnuorf among the large dairy companies of the city. It Is not so much the quality of the milk that Is now occupying the commissioner, but the con ditions under which It is handled. Satur day morning he wrote to the Waterloo Milk and Creamery company, stating that that company's product must show a vat Im provement, and that quickly, or he would take steps to close the Omaha plant. Part of Dr. Counell's letter reeds: "You have to make a radical change in tha way you handle your milk. You must Immedi ately remove your works from tiie base ment. Tho way you clean and send out your cans, that alone could be the cau-e of the amount of filth and bacteria which your milk contains. "It la not my duty or place to teach you how to run your business and I have no desire so to do, but from this time on, your milk must show a vast Improvement or 1 will take steps to clow your entire plant up. You have promised to make several Improvements and changes to bring about a cleaner condition of your milk, but every sample we have got and have examined ahowed no Improvement." Dr. Connell said he had been unjurtly accused of exercising particular vigilance over the smaller dairymen and letting the larger concerns go. He declared he In tended to treat all alike and look only to the health of the city. COAL TRUST SHOWS ITS HAND Waata Civil tall Postponed Vi After the Trial of Vrlaatnal Cases. til That tha policy of the alleged Coal trust will be to have the hearing of the civil suit postponed until after the trial of the criminal rases was disclosed 6uturday moralng. when County Attorney Klibauxh appeared before Judge Troup and aked that the civil cases be set for Immediate bearing. The attorneys for the accused coal dealers were present and opposed the motion, asserting It would prejudice the criminal case If the Injunction suit were to be beard first. Judge Troup took the matter under al vlatmeut and will decide it Moiiday. . 1 X- WOMAN SOLVED A PROBLEM Deiien and Gonitructioi af a Horns in Which lerrants Ara Not Keedei 0NVENTI0NAL NOTIONS THROWN AWAY Six Eaaentlal Requirements Carried Oat In Spite of Architects and Builders Equipped with. Every Convenience. In spl'e of opposition on the part of architects and builders, a Mrs. William A. Glasner of Chicago, has succeeded In having built according to her plans a unique home which is to solve the servant problem. For several years she struggled with the problem of keeping good servants and was worsted, for the cook refused to wash, to scrub, or clean, and the house maid and laundress equally were unoblig ing. It was after one of these household dif ficulties that Mrs. Olasner began to plan her servantless house with the help of her husband, and these were the requirements: 1. It must be on one floor. I. There always must be plenty of hot water, summer and winter. 3. There must be the most cheerful kitchen whloli could be built . 4. There must be few rooms to take cars of. o. Kverythlng must be arranged to make work easy so there would be no need of servants. 6. There must be plenty of windows and no accommodations for servants. It whs In fact to be an ideal home for only two people, husband and wife. All Conventional Notions I pact. Th architects were In despair when they saw the requlremcnta. and the plans Mrs. Glasner had made. They upset all theories on building and were voted Im possible, but Mrs. Olasner was determined and In the end succeeded in finding an architect who carried out her plans, and the result la an Ideal home. Tho house, or rather bungalow, for It follows the plans of California bungalows and la built In a rambling sort of man ner to accommodate tho rolling ground on which It stands, Is In Gleneoe on Bher llan road, beside one of the ravine which are ho characteristic of that sub urb. The outside walls are of wide, brown 'stained, undressed boards Joined together horlxontally with projecting battens, this 'simple treatment forming a perfect har mony with the trees which surround the house. An octagonal extension on the east side Is carried to the roof and forms one of the most charming little sewing , rooms a woman could dream of, whllo another octagonal room near the entrance makes an Ideal den that, In case of vis itors, is furnished with a lounge bed so as to be used lor a bedroom. Then there , Is an octagonal summer house connected with the porch by a rustic bridge that goes across a small ravine at the back of the house. The plain roof Is broken only by a large chimney. Vnder the wide caves an almost continuous Bcrles of win dows runs around the house, giving the sunlight for which she stipulated. Tho windows ore In groups of three with a large stationary plate In the center to give an unobstructed view of the lovely sur rounding landscape, and flanked on either side by casements of decorative glass that open outward, cottage fashion. On the "west, where the sloping bank admits of it, the house la two stories, to allow basement room for the laundry and boiler room, and a large room which later Is to be turned into a billiard room, mall derorated windows light this. On entering the front door, which Is us unconventional as the house and Its own ers, one rteps at once Into the living room (-0x27 feet), with the octagonal den fifteen feot in diameter opening off of it. On one side of this living room Is a great fireplace built up to the wall, made of artistic dull brick and large enough to accommodate good sized logs. Besides this fireplace Is a built seat with n row of windows over it, while on the opposite side, under the casements with their broad sills, run lew built In bookcases rilled with the favorite , books of the owners. The walls and ceil ings are banded simply with a system of wooden strips that oerve to outline various wall surfaces, and there ure few moldings and no fancy trim to catch the dust. From this living room opens a large bed room (16x3) feet) with two great closets, one for the master and one for the mis tress, and also a beautifully tiled bathroom that also can be entered from the hall that goes from the living room to porch. The little octagon sewing mom also opt-ns from off the bedroom, and makes a charm ing little dressing room. Xo Dining Room In the Hoaae. There Is no dining room In this house. for, as its mlstreaa raid: "A dining room often is the ugliest room in a house, and It Is one more unecosaary room to keep clean. It is only convention that dictates that we must sit down In state to eat our meals. People who come here look aroui.d and aay: "Why. where Is the dining room?' They seem to think it half savage to eat on the porch as we do. In cool weather we will eat In front of tho big glowing grate fire, so you ' see we do not need a dining room. Then, too, not having a dining room does uwiy with so much work. You see I have two-deck cart, and when I wash my dishes and silver I put them on It. I also place thereon the meal entire when It Is ready to serve, s-j all go to gether to the jorcli or living ro.mi In on trip. The courses are nerved from this cart, and the dlhcs are placed on the lower shelf and all finally are wheeled back to the kitchen to be washed when t lie meal U eaten." This cart, by the way, which Is a great labor saving proposition. Is an Idea of the owner. Mia Glasner wouldn't have a dark kitchen. 8l wanted It on the souUt aiJe ... DOUGLAS STREET FRONT OF SECOND of the house. The architect didn't, but it waa her house and she had her way. Bhe says that "most kltohens have for view garbage boxes, and It Isn't any won der that women hate working In them." Her kitchens, which opens directly off the living room, "so that when she has com pany she can talk and cook at the same time," is a marvel of convenience. Kitchen Eqolpment. It haa four south windows, one on the east side and one on the west side, and Is as light, sunny and airy as It Is possible for a kitchen to be. It contains one large enameled sink with a removable drip board that eauily can be cleaned and sun dried, and the whole side Is lined with cupboards and compartments, some with gloss doors and some with wooden ones so that all the mistress has to do is to reach up over the long working table, or counter as it might be called, that Is below them and get what she desires. Then there are several bins for flour, spice boxes and the like, all built within reach so that there Is no need of extra steps. The gas range stands con veniently close to the work table. There is an office stool that Mrs. Glasner sits on when washing dishes or preparing vege tables, and near the range is a great "comfy" looking rocking chair to rest In while the cooking Is progressing. Tho kitchen fixtures are curved so there are neither fixtures nor crevasses where dirt can lodge. The big screened In porch Is back of the kitchen and opens from off that room and also from off the long hall that leads Into the living room. The Ice box stands be tween the kitchen and the porch, and from the porch leads the little rustic bridge across the ravine that takes one to the beautiful little octagonal summer house. Near the kitchen are the steps that leud Into the basement, where there la a tiny and convenient laundry with set tubs and the heater that Is used for keeping thu water hot, summer and winter, and which can be used also for boiling the clothes. The rest of the basement Is yet unfinished, and should Its owner decide there Is apace for several rooms down there besides the billiard room contemplated. Quaint Furnishings, The furnishing of the bouse Is as quaint as the house Itself, for there are in it many things that collectors delight In own ing. In the bedroom Is an old four-poster mahogany bed, and an old-Iaihoned ma hogany bureau to match. In the sewing room Is another old bureau with glass knobs which was rescued by Mrs. Glasner from several coats of yellow paint. She thus found the mahogany underneath. In the large living room are good old fashioned rockers and easy chairs, a spin ning wheel and a flax wheel, both like the other pieces heirlooms. There also Is an old-lashioned mahogany table or two and a pair of andirons that give Just the right touch to the fireplace, and old-fashioned candlesticks in abundance. There are no curtains and heavy portieres to keep out air and gather dust, and the thorough cleaning that the rooms receive once a week at the hands of the laundress who comes to do the washing and Ironing is sufficient to keep it Immaculate. Mrs. Glasner considers her housework a Joka In her new home, and frankly says she would not change places with anyone, and unselflshly desires that other women be told of the attraction of housekeeping in her way. She Is sorry for the women dependent on servants, while every woman who enters this beautiful, Ideal home longs most ardently to change places with Its mistress, and men who view It sigh re gretfully and aay: "How I'd like to live in a real home like this, but ours is such a big uncomfortable place." It may be Interesting to add that the cost of the building of the house was modi-rate, and the daily household ex penses and maintaining of the home are, as the mistress expresses It, "so small as to seem almost absurd." Chicago Tribune. Waves Advanced. HA7.EI.TON, Pa., Nov. 8 Tho wages of 2i moulders and core makers of the Weatheily Car and Foundry company have been voluntarily Increased 15 cents a day. Advice of the largest coffee dealers in in the world is always to buy the old fashioned Arbuckles' ARIOSA Coffee in the sealed packages. Don't ask for for Coifee fluctuates and you cannot unW yon ray too mix h for it Moat of the so-called Mocha and Java Colfee mAiauexadma. and is not nearly as good coffee for you as Aibuckles ARIOSA, l tk. P.rTlInn CnffM mrt suitable looks there is no dlffereace between roatted Java and Brazilian Coffees ; m?ny wople drink IWflan hut pay Java! The principal difference is that Arbuclles costs you less. It U a mkake to believe that a high price guarantees quality. ,Tien you buy Arhuckles AKIOdA Coil ce, you get a full one pound package of the leading Coffee of the world. Its tales for 37 years are greater than the combined sales of all the other packaged coffees. By fjvinj better Coffea for the money, we have built up a business exceeding the comVmfd husiuesses of the four next Largo coffee fuss) in tU whole world. If your dealer will not supply the genuine, write to arbuche wos, rWYaa BUILDING. BOARD SUGGESTS NEW MOTTO "emmistion May Adopt Don el as Canity Jail far County Priianen. PRISON NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR FOREIGNERS Members of Board Opposed to Crowd Ins; Cell with Men from Other Portions of the State. "The Douglas county Jail for Douglas county prisoners" Is the motto tho county rommlslonera are thinking of adopting with reference to the keeping of prisoners from federal court and other counties in the local bastile. A resolution asking the sheriff to report all prisoners not chargeable to Douglas county now In Jail and the num ber of days they have been there was In troduced Into the committee of the whole at a meeting Saturday. In the discussion Some Of the mmlr. rfAtut-MH In fivnf nt I barring out prisoners from other counties, Inasmuch as the Jail Is entirely Inadequate for local prisoners. Thry were suspicious, however, that under the law they would have no authority to prohibit the sheriff from taking federal and other foreign pris oners nnd postponed action until the legal aspect of the case can be looked Into. Board Soggeits New Motto. Borne information on the use of the Jail by Sarpy county was secured by the grand Jury from the three Sarpy county conunls. alonere, who were summoned before that body last week. It was found that Sarpy county hud been keeping from seven to ten prisoners in the county Jail and had been paying Sheriff McDonald In the neighbor hood of $10 a day for their board and care. For thla the county haa not been receiving a cent. Mr. Solomon's resolution forbids keeping outside prisoners In the Jail, except tem porarily as a matter of oourtesy. The board ordered the county clerk to advertise for bids for tho paving of West Q street, the Fort Calhoun road and West Leavenworth street under the permanent road provisions of the Inheritance tax law. Three miles of the first two roads will be paved and one mile of Leavenworth street. Bids on six kinds of paving were called for, brick on cement base, brick on a band base and four different thicknesses of macadam. The bids will bo opened Decem ber e and work be started within four months after the contract is let. The pave ment must be completed by September L 1807. District Clerk Broadwell was given notice to report to the board all of the fees earnrd by his office since the first of his first term, whether the fees have been collected or not. The commissioners are considering a con troversy between the Omaha Printing com. pany and the Roberts Printing company on one side and County Auditor Smith on the other over tha printing of the last primary ballots. Tho Omaha Printing company chnrged $1,994 for about 4,0 changes, due, it is claimed, by the rotation system. The Roberts company charged $1,870.60 for 2,t!6 changes. Mr. Smith contends It was neces sary for the Omaha company to make not more than 3t0 changes In order to comply with tha law and for the other company to make a still smaller number. Both com panies assert they merely followed out the directions of the county clerk under tho primary law. If Auditor Smith's conten tion Is carried out. It will reduce the two bills about $3,000. The board haa taken tho case under consideration. Mangum & Co.. LETTER SPECIALISTS. llalldlaa- Permits. Building permits Issued: W. Peterson. Thirty-fourth and Decatur, $l.iO frame building: Dr. A. C. Peterson, Nineteenth and A, $2,000 dwelling. Conarreaalonal Candidate Dlea. EL PASO, Tex., Nov. $. J. S. Kills, so cialist nominee for congress in this district, died here last night of apoplexy. a pound of Mocha and Java, of buy by the get tlie same coffee for the same price all is s the 1 to the taste and health of American people. Wlil! we all are Inclined to live our lives alonR the line of the least rosiutnnre we are practically up aaiusi an obstacle when It comes to dental work. We have Inherited unsound teeth. They must be catered to and taken cure of. If you follow the line of the leaat resistance concerning your dental work It will tuke you through my oiiictt. I work easily, deftly. I give lesa lain I hail any dentin!, anywhere. I know this and stand ready to prove It. No charge for examination. UK. FICKKS, DKNTIST, 8.18 Be Bldg. 'Phone, Douglas 637. Foolishly and imagine you cannot saveT Sow a dollar today In the Omalia Loan and Building Association and a year from now It will hare in creased 6 per cent In slee. That dollar ten years hence "U1 have grown so big and fat that you won't recognize it. Keep planting other dollars and you will have enough money to start in business or tide you over a bad spell, should hard luck befall you. We solicit small and large accounts. New loca tion S. E. Cor. 16th and Douglaa Sts. O. W. LOOMIS, Pres. G. M. KATTINGER. Secy. Shimer & Ghaso Co.' Builders of Mcdsrn Ksasss "Be it ever so humble There's no place like home." Tour means most determtM fat size of your investment. Happi ness and contentment Is quit ax often found In a cottage as a palace. Draw a pencil sketch of the house you would balld W develop ideas and relieve yoa of all the details of constmedosk SHIMER & CHASE CO. Building Sites, Suburban Acreage, Hscos 1609 Farnam. Ground Floa Douclaa 3867 GRAND JURY AWAITS BALLOTS Will Kut Adjonra In HI After the Election Tuesday to Look Oat (or Fraad. The county grand jury Saturday after noon decided to remain in session until after tha election Tuesday in' order to bo able to five a prompt hearing to any charg-es of Irregularity that may be made. This decision was reached after tha grand Jury had met to present Its final report to Judge Button. Judge Ben Baker appeared before the grand jury and urged It not to adjourn now. Owiag to the hitter fight on between the two telephone companies 1 over the granting of a franchise to the independent company It waa decided to hold on until after election. It was decided to adjourn until Thurs day, and If no charges of Irregularity ara made at that time the final report may bo ' nade then and an adjournment sine die tiiken. METZ BROS. LET CONTRACT Brewers Award Thlrty-Thoasaad-Dollar Job of Ereotlaa; Bottllnac Works. Tha Meti Bros. Brewing company let the contract to Thoma Herd Saturday t tor the construction of a new IX,- ' 000 bottling house on tha ground j where the old bottling house now stands, on the north aide of Leavenworth street. The tearing down of tho old structure will ', begin Monday, though the rear part of It ! will be left for carrying on operation ' while the new building la being constructed. I Electrical machinery la to be used exolut- J slvely In the new plant. 1 the By the imply iJ blend t