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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1909)
The Omaha Daily Bee ADYXRT1SK V TKl OMAHA DEE BEST IN TILE WEST EDITORIAL PAGLS TO 11 VOL. XXXVIII XO. 2:0. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORXIXU, FEBRUARY 27, 1909. SIXOLE COPY TWO l.'KNTS. week End Corset Sale . Saturday is always Interesting to Conw borers her. I'nmmimon offrrlrura on moot desirable tjle bring a ronatan atrram of knowing shopper. Owr big special for this week li a fine, new, French Mas-gored model like cut)), either la coutll or batiste; strongly boned with aluminum non-rust- able boning, fitted with two pairs hotie any supporters and daintily trimmed with J Wf lace; never better $1.15 value; special. 5 Also a drive on low-price cornets many buy them for wear about home and to save the better ones. , Coutll and batiste, with two pairs supporters, all sizes, long back and high bust effects 50 Bust Ruffles 25t to Sl.OO Tads, forms and accessories of all kinds. Neckwear On sale Saturday ' 1,000 ruchlng strips beautiful new wide and narrow ef fect. In every good color 10 Fprlng lines of new linen stocks, fancy lace and net jabots, and dainty lace anl net bows, some rib bon trimmed, clev erest conceits shown for 1908, each 25 Tm SI' TPT 1 ivi KM i W M1M li U NEXT MONDAY A BIG SILK SALE 3 THREE PANEL SCREENS-A SALE r Floor Drapery Deportment Just for Saturday 100 Mahogany Finished Frame Screens, each panel 5 feet by 18 Inches, filled with best sllkollne In green, blue or red colorings. No need to tell you this Is a great bargain at 59c Pyro Goods Saturday Specials 0c Glor Boxes Mo 10c Handkerchief Boxes tO 0c Handkerchief Boxea 100 20c riacquea. for 10o Ac Tie Racks ...Oo $100 Steins for. BOo II 00 Collar and Cuff Boxes BOo tie Art Gloe....lSo 10c Wslnut Ptaln To tl 00 Umbrella stand for 81.00 Nut Bowls at half. Pyro Seta ti per cent off. JSc Quo rtna...lBo 'Tour Father Was a Soldier" 19c The newent, ratrhleat, moat, tnnefal and Inspiring march song in year. vj v imams auu t u . . i r, j n , t, ' ....... . ,-.... tlon; aim composers of America's frreateM hit. Their latest number "Yosr Father Was a Soldier," la now taking the east by storm. Kvery rouwlc lorer wants It, Get It at Bennett's, for C. O. D., a new college song. Flay- . males. n in juiiki ivu, nu FopUlar wiedershu Katie. Sun Bonnett Sue, To the End of the World With You, Wish I Had a Girl. Likings Not a Bit Like Living and don't forget PORK AXI BKA.NS also hundreds of others Just as good. RED HEAD the big comic opera gong 23c All the Pomilai Songs 19c Right Songs at the Right Time at the Right Price 19c Maker's Show Room Stock Sample Sails aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBanaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaanamaaaaaaaa) saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal MaaaaZZa aBaaBaaBaaaaaaanaaaaaaaaaaai aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal 100 strikingly beautiful sample suits from a prominent X. Y. manufacturer. Almost as many styles and every late color. Every one is a model suit and made with more than ordinary care. It's the sample line of the most ad vanced spring styles, closed out to us at a sharp discount now you benefit. Not one is worth less than $25.00. At our price it's the big gest suit proposition in town today. See them, com- As 3 I -few "" pare with any others. Your own intelligence will decide where the real vaules are and where it will pay you best to buy 19s2 WOMEN'S SKIRTS Strictly all wool brown Panama, fine black voile and light check worsted skirts, made In best possible manner and S095 actual 16.00 garments for Black Voile, black taffeta, and black broadcloth skirts, choice of about twenty $15.00 models, fQ5 all beauties, for vqvo GIRLS' SPRING REEFERS A pur chase of 300 pretty all wool Box Reef era and three-quarter length Coats, In 6 to 12 year sites, plain and fancy colors, bought by our New York office $6.00 and $7.50 Coats, $Q95 PETER THOM PSON DRESSES ( 6 to 12 years) of fine wool serge and Slcilllan or Mohair, In navy, brown. and red, large sailor collars, soutache and emblems for trimming, $7.50 dresses, for . ." $350 $250 MISSES' SKIRTS Of all wool panama. in brown, navy and black, 24 to 36 loch lengths, regular $7.50 $Q9S values, for "ROYAL" LINEN WAISTS With laundered linen collar and cuffs, new tailored styles, $4.00 values, for DRESSING SACQUES A clean up of all $1.00 to $1.26 Flannelette -jir Sacques, choice of any, now. . . . I OC FLANNELETTE GOWNS Every one must go. We put out our entire stock of white and fancy Gowns; regular and extra alzes, $2.00 and $2.50 lines, for COMBINATION MUSLIN GARMENTS Values to $3.95, Including Corset Cover, Drawers and Petticoatsr Corset Cover and Petticoat, Drawers and Pet ticoat, any set In the lot, for $J00 195 BOYS' SCHOOL STOCKINGS; 20c KINDS 12 He Good, extra heavy Ribbed Stockings that will give excellent service, all sixes, buy a supply now, at pair 12W Women's Imported Lisle and Cotton Hose, usual 35c grade, at pair . -27 1 Women's Geneva Silk Hose, fine lustre and very silky, 60c grade, 3 pairs $1 Women's Seamless Mercerized Hose, fast black, 20c grade, a pair .12) KNIT UNDERWEAR Women's rib bed Balbriggan Vests and Pants, all perfect and regular 75c garments, clearing price 35 Women's ribbed Wool Vests and Pants, garments always selling at $1.25. clearing Saturday, each 79 GLOVE SPECIALS A Glove oppor tunity, women's Imported one-clasp Cape Gloves, very serviceable, for street and driving, all sizes, $1.25 quality, for jjg Women's fine two-clasp Imported Kid Gloves, $1.50 kinds, but sizes are broken, to clear, at pair ...79 WM ft V rw- - m -1 tv - . - nijuiu.i.nir,r3 t women a pure unen, 10c Handkerchiefs, each . . . .5 Men's pure linen, 20c Handkerchiefs, each ...1. ..104 We again offer double stamps on all purchases In these four' depart ments, Saturday. , 5,000 Pairs Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes Entire Floor Stocks From Well Known Makers by Our Buyers Whll In The East Saturday A verr ging 65c $ Saturday Opening the Spring season with a colossal sale. We herald today a shoe event as extraordinary as it is unusual. Bennett's prompt cash secures from eastern manufacturers bargains in new spring footwear such as all Omaha or the west has never dreamed of. Most successful shoe purchases ever made by this great store. Men's Shoes from Reynolds & Sommers and AL A. Rosenbush & Co., of Boston, and Fairfield Shoe Co., of Colum bus, Ohio. Women's Shoes from Ziegler Bros., Philadelphia; The Pingree Co., of Boston, and Fairfield Shoe Co., of Colum Mass. We cleaned up entire lots. The purchasing power of Bennett's was never more forcibly demonstrated. Thous ands of genuine bargains that are the marvel of the shoe retailing trade await you. Every pair is honestly made and strictly good style. . Men's Shoes 500 pairs $3.50 shoes, hand sewed and cork filled soles, in tans, blacks, pat ent leather, button and blucher styles including such makes as Chancel lery Star, Lawson, Frazee and Knox shoes and 50 stamps g Men's $5.00 and $6.00 Packard, J. & W. and O. & K. shoes in tans, oxbloods, gun metal patent colt; in button and blucher styles; including 12 and 16 inch tops ; a pair with 100 $0 4 0 stamps-ronly daO Men's $3.50 and $3.00 shoes, in regular and high cut box calf, vicl kid, Fairfield and Sherwood makes, a pair $1.08 Women's Shoes 1,000 pairs high grade $5.00 and $6.00 shoes for women, Pingree, Wilson and Ziegler makes, including tans, gun metals, patent leather, grey, blue, champagne and white tpps, also black suede shoes and pumps FA and 100 stamps JdUJ Evening Slippers Best $4.00 kinds; pink, blue and white, also patent leather and vici; Gibson Aft aq ties and strap slippers $JeUv Women's Shoes and Oxords smartest styles in tans, gun metal and patent leathers; button and blucher styles $3.50 and $4.00 shoes $2.29 Child's Shoes Every pair good solid leather through out. Bennett's Special A $3.00 shoe for boys, never sold for less before, cork filled and damp proof, tans Ot 4 A and blacks; Saturday Vfclelv Boys' patent leather shoes in broken sizes, regular $2.50 and $3.00 quality; also Misses' $2.50 shoes; all in big lot at, pair. V Fairfield Shoes for Bpys All solid leather counters, inner and outer soles sizes to 0V2, regular $1.75 shoes, at, rair $1.29 China Great lot French, German and Austrian China. Fancy pieces, such as sugars and creams, fancy trays, vases, plates and every con ceivable article made in rbtna, valiiAa nnrA tinwird to 83.50:' rhnire & creaiuB. iant-7 49c T ' it' t Veiling Purchase Tremendous Veiling Selling Saturday. Two extraor dinary bargains, best ever offered by an Omaha store, will be on the tables. LOT 1 Fine Russia Nets, Brusseln Nets and Tuxedo Nets, plain or dotted col ors, brown, navy, red, old rose, gray, light blue, also black and white val ues 35c a yard, at . . JJTT 3 Very choice n?r Tuxedo Nets, Brussels Nets, Chiffons, etc., bordered and chenille dot effects, colors plum, reseda, gray laven der, pink, old rose. navy, cadet Conner, also black and white, values BOo and 75r, at, yard . . Ml ft? at- - 10c 25c GROCERIES Bnntt a Capitol Flour, sack $1.35 aul r.u stamp Bennett's Beat Coffee, I Iba. ..$1.00 and 100 a tarn pa Bennett's Beat Coffee. 1 lb 360 and SO stamps Teas, assorted, pound 6So and 60 a turn pa Tea Sifting, pound lBo and 10 stamps Capitol Baking I'ow.. t lb. can $1.00 and 100 stamps Stiver Cow Milk, six cans 8 So and 10 etampa fmall Pour Pickles, per dozen.... 60 Cat Hard Olive Oil.' large bottle. TOO and 10 stamps IIUUII MAXtOtU California Seedless Raisins. lie quality, at I lba. for 16o Pure Honey, Mason Pint Jar....9So and 10 stamps Tea Garden Preaerves, assorted 30 and SO stamps Marshall's Kippered Herring, can SOo and 10 stamps Ptollwerck'a Chocolate, H-lb. 83o and 10 etampa Schepp's Cocoanut, H-lb pkg;....13o and 10 stamps Snlder'a Pork and Beans, 2 cans aoo and 10 stamps Glen Boss Seeded Ralalns, lie pack ages, special ,10o Capitol Maple Ryrup, pure, H-gal 70c. quart . .36o Pull Cream Cheese, lb BOo and 10 stamps Domestic Swiss Cheese, lb a&o and 10 stamps Burnham's Zo Clam Chowder or ItHo Premium Bulterlne, 1 lbs. 4To and 10 stamps miCB Japan Rice, 4 pounda 10c rlc for 8 So Hartley's Puro Jams, asaorted. Jar S6o Seet Pickled Peaches, quart jar SSo M eta line. 40o package for BOo and 10 stamps Blue Borax March, 1 lb. pkg lOe and 10 stamps CAJTDXXB ISc Mixed Candv for lOo, 15o chocolate creams 10c, New dates, lOo. Sunkist Oranges 1 tc size for . . 20c size for .. Juicy Lemons 20c size for ISO lie size for oo Cooking Apples, pk...40o Grape Fruit 6o Bananas, dozen 18-15o Cabbage, lb o for Saturday lOo II tic size for 16o II 38c size for 40c size for. . . .BOo .a&o Bellevue Celery, per stalk 6o Sweet Potatoes, b....4o Rutabagas, Onions, Red Beeta. Turnips Snd Carrots, lb So Freah Peanuts, roasted. quart ..So Dennett's Wonderful Ribbon Sale 3,000 Bolts from Great N. Y. Auc tion, held by Smith & Kaufman Makers of Amer ica's Finest Rib bons. This community has baa never - known .rib bon bargains such as these. Season's newest all silk 1 ribbons, used for hair bows, girdles, sashes, millinery uses, etc.. etc. All ailk 4 and 6 inch ribbons, in gorgeous dresden or floral de signs and plain taf fetas, heavy quality. worth 26c 4 s and 35c I S 3 at, yard... H e a t y all Bilk changeable moires, soft satin messa llnes and taffetas. In every desirable shade, values 60c, our price jC .. only. In the Hardware Sale Galvanised Tubs, Palls and Ash Cans. $2.25 Galvanized Ash Cans and Palls. .. .f 1.50 $1.50 Galvanized Aah Cana and Palla. . . .f 1.13 $1.25 Galvanized Ash Cans and Pails. 08c 89c Galvanized Wash Tubs 50c 79c Galvanised Wash Tuba 49c 69c Galvanized Wash Tubs 39c SOe Galvanized Water Palls.. 19c 35c Galvanized Water Palls 17c 20c Galvanised Water Palls '. 15c 85c Flour Cans. 60- lb., special 59c 73c Bread Boxes, special 49c 60-foot Banner Clothes Lines for lOo 60-foot Hemp Clothes Lines, 20c kind lOc 22c Cotton Mop Heads, special 15c 28c Linen Mop Heads, special 17c 28c Wilson Bread Toasters 19c 28c Victor Flour Sifters 17c $1.85 White Enameled Chamber Pails. .. .$1.89 $1.75 White Enameled Chamber Pails $1.29 11 lbs. rreBh Leaf Lard Sl.OO (No stamps with above offer.) Lamb Chops (loin or rib) per pound ..12'tr Porterhouse Steak, choice cuts, pound.... 15 Prime Rib Roast, rolled, all bones out, at, per pound 12H and 10 Fall Lamb Legs, per pound, Saturday ..Utt Choice Pot Roast, per pound .10S 8- 6? Pig Pork Shoulder Roast, per pound Mutton Shoulder Roast, per pound 7H? Mutton ' Stew six I Boiling Beef, six pounds for....25t I pounds for . ...25 Armonfs Bhlald California Warn a i.OOO lbs., every ham guaranteed, per pound Bta Oudaay'a max nacoa Z.000 pounda, t to I lba, aver. ace. by the strip, per pound 11 arlTTa Vresaitua sad Komll's Iowa Vrlde Kama Best grades, 4.000 Igs., choice of any 14l0 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 New Spring Hats Men's Hats in faahion'a newest shapes, dimensions and colors. The best pro duct from such renowned makers as John B. Ktetaon A Co., and Crofutt and Knapp. Smart, new soft and stiff ef fects and all these late shades. Cameo, Pastel, Mistletoe, Wal nut, Maaelle, Moofte, Nile, London, Acorn and Black. 8C Men's Suits JPJ Men's O'Coats This sale winds up our Winter stock "clean as a whistle." They will all go Saturday, heavy and medium weight suits and overcoats, entire stocks of various lines; values to $12.50, size 34 to 46. It's the last call and the price is $5 Men's Troupers The balance of the stock from our big sale of laat Saturday, all go at the same reduc tions: $5.00 Trousers for $2.05 $.1.00 Trousers for $1.63 $2.00 Troupers for O84 Spring Khlrts Wonderful assortments, new pat terna; pleated and plain, cuffs on or off. regular and coat styles Sl.OO $1.50 $2.00 S2.50 Sale Neckwear Big clearing, finer grades. 76c and $1.00 qualities, very newest shapes and colors, choice Saturday, at 50? OMAN RILLED BY S110C1 Hugh L. Packard Losei Life from Electric Bolt TRAGEDY IN SAN FBAKC1SC0 . lad? Is Brasaat Oaaaka for Banal VB. Aaaoav Nokrwoka'a Vt. rams f Asaertewa War. II. gd U Packard, aa Omalis young man. a Nebraska veteran of tho Bpanloh-Araeri-iss war and a brother of fla R. L. Robl on of Capttol arenuo. died aa tho re sult of an electric shock In Baa Francisco last Monday. The body will arrive over the Huiltngton from tho west at t o'clock this evcnuiK and tho funeral la to bo hold at tho Colo-McKay mortuary chapel. l?0S Pouslas street. Baturday atternooa si Inverment will bo In roreai uwn o'clock ceinotery oung Packard waa aora aad rearod Omaha and has many frlenda and acquaint ances here. He left Omaha six years syo for tho west and was recently made man ager of tho new Hotel Rudolph In Saa Francisco. It was while acting ia the capacity of manager of that hostelry that he met with the accident that caused his death. He was Investigating a defect In tho electric wiring and lecelved a severe shock, from tho effects of which he died. Ite was Z3 yeara of age and unmarried. Hia services as a volunteer and regular soldier during tho trouble with Epain in 1K4 aud USt. causes him to bo remembered by many fellow soldiers In Nebraska. He rent to Chattanooga with tho Omaha guards and later served In Q . company, BVcood Nebraska. 1 . ft. L. Robison. brother-in-law of the young man, ts vice president of the Bankers Reserve Life Insurance company. Hellenes Leave in Large Groups for Other Cities Greek Laborers Quit Omahai and it Looks as if Riot Will Thin Banks for Good. OrktaTa aisj Bale. Orkia Bros., 1&10 CMuglas St.. will place oa sale Baturday their wonderful purchase of over LOOS high grade new spring tailored auita. Bale starts Saturday mornlpg promptly at I o'clock. 8eo page for their advertisement. Use it or not, as your doctor says You could not please us better than to ask your doctor about Avert Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis. Thousands of families always keep It In the house. The approval of their physician and the experience of many years have Riven thrn fre at conftdenct in this cot'h medicine. fo-?"' If all tha Greek labortrs who are leaving Orr.aha for other nearby citiea remain In their new locatiora, Omaha and South Omaha will bava a much smaller Greek populatloa as a roult of the Sunday riot In the Utter city. Large groups of Greeks bought tickets Thursday evening and Friday morning for St. Paul, Blous City, Des Moinea, Davenport and Molina, sad they used their tickets, too. Ia a few of tha South Omaha atorea Greeks keep watch over their properly. In addition to the specUl police, which tho city had detailed to this work. These few men were the only Greeks in the city after nightfall. These were never la sight about the place, but stayed under cover. Most of the places have beeu securely boarded up and in a few cases tho owners are soaking repairs. Tho South Omaha truant officer, Paul MeAulay, has been Sept busy by com plaints against numerous boys who pil laged small articles from tbs lores. Tbeac 1 were cigars, candy, cans of fruit and such articles as make up a grocery stockT Most of this thieving was done Sunday night and Monday while all the stores were open. Dan Miller, the man who was shot through the stomach two months ag by a companion, waa arrested Friday morn ing on complaint. He waa charged with taking more thaa a handfuL lie and a band pillaged one of the atorea on West Q street pretty thoroughly. He got two shotguns and a quantity of groceries snd tobacco snd the usual collection of arti cles in stock. ' ' Tho information waa filed by a brother of a young woman to whom Miller ia said to be attached. The officers found the shotguns and a large part of the booty in Mlller'a poaaeesloa. VACCINATION OR NO JOB That Is What Vaelo Baaa Bays to All Civil Serrlro Candi date. Ton must have been auocessfully vacci nated within tho last five yeara U you expect to take the civil service examination for the position of a clerk la tha railway mail ear vie. A a order to this effect ha been Issued by tho Civil Service commission, and will apply to all applicants for th examination tor railway aervic at Omaha. March 16. Tho order ales: 'Th manual for exami nation for th railway mail service indi cates that th medical oertificaUs of th applicants must show that they have been successfully vaccinated within, th past fiv veais. EDITORS WANT CORN SHOW Nebraska Newspaper Hen Say Let Us Have it Sure. dured by th state. "This wealth will be of benefit to all the people of our state," ac cording to the newspaper men, who have done so much to make the National Corn exposition possible and propose to conUnue their support. ' MAKE IT PEEKtSTJrr, SAY la Jkasasl Meetlaa; at Cr4 Inland They Pas ReMliilaai Cnaaae4 . las; the Aslstla and ExltlsrO. I Nebraska editora want tha National Corn exposition and want It In tho west. Otnah seema to ault them aa th logical place for tha permanent homo of the big agricultural show. Newspaper men of Omaha who returned from Grand Island ThursJay and Friday, where they attended tha thirty-seventh an nual meeting of th Nebraska Press asso ciation, report that before adjournment th editors paased a resolution commending the movement started by th . National Corn Orowera' association and pledging their sup port to tha efforts of th association to es tablish and make permanent an annual corn exposition In tha west, educational and national in scope. Tho resolution call attention to th fact that tho average yield per acre of tho corn field of Nebraska is something liks twenty thr bushels, and that If by careful seed slactka ' snd th adopt loa of . improved methods of cultivation tha averag can be ralaad flva bushela to th acr It will mean W,AJ aa&uailjr aWtd )o Uis JjtaiUi ro- t Have Pity on the Poor Farmer He Only Get $1.11 a Baihel for Hit Wheat and Corresponding . Price for Corn. Eleven cars of No. S yellow corn sold on tho floor of tbe Omaha Grain exchange Friday for K cents per bushel, while a number of cars of NaT's whit corn sold for i cents, all other grades soiling 'in proportion, price being extremely high. The record for May wheat was made when tha price " reached ti ll la Chicago and 11 11 In Omaha, the difference to the price being th exact amount of the freight between the two citiea. Several carload a of No. t hard wheat brought tl.OJ when 1110 waa asked for No. hard. Th high prices are no barrier to sale. A large number of buyers were on the floor and thtt price kept up. Even the reuord prices (all to draw aa mu h grain from tho country aa the buyers would Uka U it waa offered. ner. Nineteenth and Laird street. ram dwelling. U.Vjo: U. W. Hatner. Ninet.ei.th and Laird strain, frame dwelling. John J. Novak. CDS Kouth Thirteenth ureet brick business t,;'id i.f. Hrfl; f.. Kric' man, Twenty-niuih and lj-.ke twt, frame dwelling. J. U Hvir.,ni, J4 Cass Twenty-fifth and Cumins, repairs and al- 1 1 .1 n T I 1' 1 m 1 .u 11 1 U...-n. ... . .- .-..i,rmn ireei ana Bt. Mary s avenue, alterations and consirjc- f inn iinHn t . I ...... .. '1. a 1 . osvaa UHUll BIUt W amis., J.lAmi. , lt Th Bee Want A,U do th work for you. BellaUaa Permit. A. Hertsbuig. Thlrty-flnit and Martha Uset Iraau (LwaUi&Cf 4W U- AV, lut- (BatabMiowS 117) An Innalatlaa for Whooplnq-Cough, Croup, Coughs, Colds, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Diphtheria, a Astam Ha. iwmmdf foe di.i. imm 04 im tr fc taea k wi tae im(1; lulo tae w ! . treealeee rm Wvatus is atr. r.i ftartt art.siy uuMpik, la ean evar iba tuiml araea l erary kraala, r1 prtMu4 u4 ewfifat irMiMMt. 14 M loaiubia t ua ail cftitfrea. tar imuM laraat taara ts iMfiUihs aur tt.aa CrrutMiatlrvU4 Srad 11SH tat auupla tMM.Ht. A1A tXtUOUISTA, Sia4 in. a. f sfcOimlm Oaa lav I altua " hi ifKhaW v''amMBVHaMnPN'