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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1909)
n A COUNCIL BLUFFS STOCK SALE MONDAY THE SECOND DAY. MONDAY THE SECOND DAY. Noth incr approaching the values offered were ever shown fl F F e history of Omaha merchandising. Watches, I The entire stock is clean, perfect, up-to-date merchan dise, and only on account of the wonderful bargain price at which we bought it and the fact that the fall goods are demanding the room could we afford to sell at the prices offered. Many new lots shown Monday. in th clocks, jewelry, cut glass and silverware, leather goods. n,J,. fancy goods, fine china, glassware and crockery, house- " ULAl furnishings, etc., are shown at i to i of actual worth. THE RELIABLE STORE COME EAltLY MONDAY PREPARED FOR THE BARGAIN FEAST OF A LIFETIME. MANY SPLENDID SPECIAL VALUES FROM OUR OWN REGULAR STOCK WILL FILL OUT ANY LOTS WHICH WERE DEPLETED BY SATURDAY'S GREAT SELLING AND ADD TO THE INTEREST. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 15, 1009. ir Irn i - WJ Vj Vsr "Fancy Goods Specials Monday from the COUNCIL BLUFFS STOCK lA t0 3 Regular Prices 35c Fancy Work Boxes . 10c 50c Fancy Work Boxes. 25c 75c Handkerchief Boxes 39c $1.00 Glove Boxes, Handkerchief and Work Boxes and Toilet Seta; on nale, choice '1Q $10.00 Toilet Sets at 83.08 $6.00 Toilet Sets at $2.98 All Fancy Toilet Sets, Manlcuro Sets, Fancy Hand Mirrors, etc., all at Half and lss Kegulnr Price. White Goods Items at Greatly Reduced Prices In our High Grade While Goods Dept. Monday Fifty pieces 45-in. French Lawns, 32-in. Per sians, 3G-in. Long Cloths and 3G-in. English Nainsook; fine sheer materials, containing values up to 35c a yard; in one lot Monday, per yard 15c Grand assortment Sheer White Walstlngs, In summer weight madras, dotted SwlsseB, figured mulls and striped dimities; values up to 30c yard; in one lot' Monday, per yard 12He Fifty full size fringed Marseilles Bedspreads, exquisite designs, good values at $6.00; Monday, ea., $2.08 Fifty Marseilles Bedspreads, full size, colored pink and blue, cut corners, worth $6.50; Monday, ea.$2.08 Mall Orders Filled. Monday, Aug. 15, We Open Our Sew Ladies' Tailoring Dept. Under the management of L LIEFF one of the best known and most experienced cutters and designers in the west, and will make 1st Skirts to Measure Style and mater ial of your own selection at the lowest pos sible price. ( i 2d -Medium Triced Tailor Suits, of any fabric, in any design, at Low Prices. 3d High Art Tailoring Exclusive de signs, the very best quality of workmanship. You may select your own or we will draft special designs. Ask about them. Every gar ment guaranteed as to fit, quality and style. r Rug Specials' Values that undoubtedly will delight every visitor to the department on Monday. $30.00 Axminster Rugs, 9x12 size, 32 patterns for selec . tlon; choice Monday. 10-98 $30 Tapestry Brussels Rugs, seamless, 10-wlre quality, 10-6xl3-G size; on sale Mon day, choice $21-08 $10 Brussels Rugs, 10-wlre quality, 6x9 size; on sale Monday $Q08 $13 Brussels Rugs, 9x12 size, 8-wire quality; on sale Mon day $0-73 $18 Brussels Rugs, seamless, 10-wlre quality, 8-3x10-0 size; on sale, choice $12-08 $80 Wilton Velvet Hugs big line of patterns, seamless at, choice $22-50 Fine China, Crockery Lamps, Glassware, at Wonderful Bargain Prices. Nothing like values Monday ever offered before. Come early. 0004COOOOOCSMMM.au. I I II- f I II I II Hundreds 0f Magnificent Bargains Monday From the Council Bluffs Stock Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glas3, Silverware, Fine China, etc., at y2 to V actual value. All specials offered Fri day evening for Saturday continue Monday with the addition of many new lots. Come early. Hundreds of other bargains too numerous to mention. Solid Gold Signet Rings; $4.00 value, in this sale at, choice, only $1.98 We will engrave free. ' Ladies' Rings, with cluster settings, baby turquoise, em eralds, etc.; greatest snap ever, at, each $1.50 $1.50 Hand Carved Combs; on sale, choice 50c $1.00 Hand Carved Barrettes; on sale Monday, at. . . .25c 50c Beauty Pins ...... 12 VaC 25c Beauty Pins 10c $1.50 Pocket Books 39c Lockets, that sold as high as $6.00; plain, engraved or fancy settings; on sale at choice $1.50 Gold Filled Beads, plain or Roman finish; great bargain Monday, at $1.50 $7.00 Rhine Stone Back Comb; Monday at $3.50 $5.00 Rhine Stone Back Comb; Monday, at $2.50 $2.00 Rhine Stone Back Comb ; Monday, at 50c and $1.00 $1.00 Dutch Collar Pins, Hat Pins and Cuff Links; choice, at 25c High grade Wash Goods dept. Opening up the new goods of this season. Flannelettes, most beautiful designs, for kimonos, waists and wrappers; on sale at, iv yard . 12laC and 10c New Outing Flannel for all pur poses, light or dark, fast colors, best made 12 and lOtf The new English 1'opllns. made vt the best Egyptian yarns, highly mercerized 500 Finest domestic Poplins made at 250 French Tissue Woven Novelties at 2oC Silk Novelties, will wash like calico 500 300 250 A great variety of fine Wash Goods not advertised. . rtl Linens Grand Assortment of Table Linens at Greatly Reduced Prices in Our High Grade Linen Department Monday. Pure Irish Table Damask, strict ly all linen, 70 Inches In width, beautiful range of patterns, worth fully J1.00 a yard; Mon day, yard Bo Good slsed Dinner' Napkins, come bleached and half bleach- 10 quality; ' for eso ed; our regular Monday, All our high grade oriental Turkish Bath Towels, large size, heavy twisted thread values up to 60c; Monday, 30 o Large sized heavy absorbent Devonshire Huck Towels, hem med and hemstitched, worth up to 23c; Monday, each 13Ho Hundred doion well made Sheets size 81xH0, heavy durable muslin, worth 76c; Monday, earl) SOo Hundred dozen Pillow Cases, both sizes, well made, heavy, strong and durable, worth 17c; Monday, each 10o Mall order receive prompt attention. . The Leading Dress Goods House of the West -35c RlbbOHS 12icl As usual we have now opened up the larg- I All the extra wide all silk est line of high grade wool dress goods in the west. See our new Tailoring department. FOR EARLY FALL Over 50 shades of all wool Batiste, fine sheer imported fabrics 59c Fine imported nil wool Poplins $1.00 Fine imported all wool Poplins $1.25 Most beautiful line of new French Prunellas, all shades, worth $1.98; to start $1.25 Beautiful line of Tailor Suitings, goods that tailors ask $2.50 for; our price will start at $1.50 The most beautiful line of French and Eng lish Broadcloths, all "this season's clorings, at, yd., $7.50, $6.50, $5.00, $4.00, $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00 See our New Tailoring ad. r Taffeta Ribbons, in all col ors; on sale, choice, lSV&C $2.50 Hand Made Scarfs 98c A beautiful line, including both scarfs and squares greatest values ever offered. f 1.00 Scarfs sviid Squares. . .490 Beautiful patterns, big assort ment for selection all are hand made. All 10c to 60c Neckwear Ladies' and Children's In four lots 2 50 70 150 All the PICTURES from the COUNCIL BLUFFS STOCK, will be closed at the most Phenomenal Bargain Prices Ever Known. For Monday's Sale We Offer Two Great Specials In the New Fall Tailor Suit Styles All our choicest new designs and materials, over 300 for your selection. Heavy Domestics, Sheets, Linens, Sheetings, Shirtings, etc. In Our Famous Domestic Itoom. 8 Vic Bleached Muslin G0 7V4c Bleached Muslin 50 8,4c Unbleached Musln G0 7c Unbleached Muslin 5 9- 4 Sheeting . . -100 10- 4 Sheeting 210 8-4 Sheeting 170 All unbleached. Flannelettes, worth 12Vic..7?iO Flannelettes, worth 15c. . . . -100 10c Outing Flannel 70 81x90 Nameless Sheets, regular price 85c, slightly soiled. . -030 72x80, same as above, Utic Cloth, slightly soiled 500 Ten other specials for all day. iWDEK Elegant Tailor Suits "Well worth $35.00 and made to sell for that price; most clever new designs for , fall. We call special attention to one of them, an Irish Tweed, with 48-inch coat;' guaranteed satin lined; a value you certainly cannot duplicate at our early sale price only $24.90 New Fall Coats, in English coverts, 54 inches long, lined yokes, up to $20.00 values; early sale price each $12.50 20d Women's Coats, best spring styles $10.00 values at . . . .$5.00 $20.00 values, at $10.00 300 Summer Waists, in the popular Dutch neck styles; to close Mon day, at 95c $3.00 Long Kimonos, in crepes and lawns; on sale, choice . . . .$1.95 50 dozen Pretty Lawn Waists, that sold regularly to $1.50; nearly all sizes; Monday 69c Long Silk Kimonos Beautiful pat terns, $5 to $6 values ....$3.95 Choice Tailor Suit Styles, in extra quality, wide wale, cheviot3 and broadcloths; garments made to sell at $25.00, 46-inch coats, lined with guaranteed satin, either semi or fitted backs; splendid assortment of rich colorings for selection; at, choice ..$14.90 Dainty Summer Dresses "Women's and misses' lawns and lingeries lace and insertion trimmed, all col ors; values up to $7.50; at, choice, each :...$1.98 Wash Suits and Dresses, that sold to $10.00; to close Monday, $2.95 Fifty Beautiful Wash Suits; colors and white, trimmed with heavy laces; values to $20.00, at $5.95 Children's Wash Dresses Sizes 6 to 14 years; white or colors; values to $3.00, at 98c Big sale on Infants' Wear in Baby Bazar, 2d Floor. Monday Is Wash Day All Hand Bags, Carriage Bags, Vanity Bags, Purses, Etc., From the Co. Bluffs Stock at I to i Regular Selling Prices $1.50 Hand Bags 49c. I . $1.00 Hand Bags 23o. All sizes and shapes in Hand I An immense lot. Including all Bags, Carriage Bags, Vanity Bags I shapes, sizes and colors. Greatest and Purses. snap ever Monday. Iligher class goods at prices far less than the actual cost of production. Don't miss them Monday. Most Remarkable Silk Bargains Monday High class silks to close at less than the actual cost to manufacture. See them Monday. Plain and Fancy Taffetas, Stripe and Check Louisines, Mes salines, Pongees, etc., a splendid collection of dressy silks, values to 85c a yard; choice, yard 39c $1.50 Black Satin Messaline, 36 ins. wide, on sale Mon $1.50 Black Taffeta 36 ins. wide, oil boiled, pure dye, day, yard, $1.10 guarant'd, $1,001 All Pongees Go Monday in One Great Lot All 2-in. Natural Shantungs, yard wide Chefoo Pongees, 27-inch Tussah Pon gees, etc; regular values $1.00 and $1.25; to close, yd., 49c $2.50 Black Peau de Soie, 36 ins. wide, double faced, soft glove fin., $1.50 STATIONERY AND BOOKS From the Council Bluffs stock. Everything must go quickly. Tablets, worth up to 26c at Ho, IH, So and lOo All the Pane? Stationer at Just half price. Tins Poet Cards lo BOo Boys' Books at 19o Children's Toy Books 2'.o Envelop, per pkg lo Copyright Books at 43o Oxford Bibles and Ail Memorandum Books at Half Prlo. SPECIALS IN DRAPERIES $6.00 Brussels Net Curtains, full size, different patterns; Monday only, pair $3.98 Cluny Curtains, best French net, linen edging and inserting; spe cial at, pair $2.25 $2.08 $3.08 $4.05 New Scrim Curtains, with beBt linen inserting; Monday for, per pair $1.75 and $1.05 Madras, white or cream, 36 inches wide, several patterns; Monday only, a yard 18 Other specials in Silks, Swisses and Net b. Monday Will Be the Big Grocery Day of the Month, Special Prices for This Special Snle. Flour Sale Extraordinary. THE RELIABLE STORE 90 large white Clothei Fins, (three cartons) 100 15c Rice Root Scrub Brushes ....5c Tfio Cotton Mops, one pound each 16c 25c heavy braided Keystone. Clothna line for 15o 25c heavy brnlded Wire Clothe Line fur 15c 25c hav I.lnen Moif. one pound K"c J5c. Parlor Broom, 4-tie 20c 46c brans, glass, enameled or zinc Wash Boards, best quality made, only -o0 Dolly Wash or Handkerchief Boards for luo 25c clean new Bread Boards, large, for lo 10c and 12 quart GaKanlzed Water Palls 15c Extra large Galvanized Tube, worth t6c, only 4lto Large Size Tubs 40o Small Tuba ' 35c Mrs. Doorman's 26c Sink Strainers for 12 He One quart Tomato or Fruit Cans BVjO Enameled Fruit Jar Funnels,.. 10c The same In tin 6e 26c cold handled Frying Pans ...10a ' 6 quart Enameled Berlin Kettles 25o Enameled Banting Spoons for Pre serving 2Hc All white Htraight Enameled Cups 10c Folding Wringer Bench or Stand for I1.3J Holds two tubs and the wringer. 14-oz. Solid Copper I.lsk Brand, the highest grade Wasli Boiler made. No. 8 size, worth S4.50. only S2.18 No. 7 size 2 4V; No 9 size, $3.25. Galvanized Wash Boiler, worth 11.50, only 75c fl .25 Food Choppers, 89c; 81.00 xtze for 7ac- tO lbs. best Pure Cane Granulated Sugar 1.00 10 bars beat brands Laundry Soap Zoo Rex Lye, per can to Eagle or Lewis Lye, per can ...,7VzO Argo, On Time or Magnetio Starch, per package 4c The best Bulk Starch, per lb ....So Bromangelon, Jellycon or Jello, per package lc t-lb. cans Golden Pumpkin, Hominy or Baked Beans 7 Ho Fancy Alaska Salmon, per can 12 He 011 or Mustard Sardines, per can Jc 6 lbs. Sago, Tapioca or Barley ..26c Batter, Cheese and Pickle Sale The best Fancy N. 1 Creamery But ter, per pound 28o The best Dairy Table Butter, lb..2Jo The best Fancy No. 1 Country But ter, per pound 26o The best Full Cream White or Col ored Cheese, per pound 20o Dill Pickles, per dozen ...,16o Fancy Chow Chow, per quart 16c Fancy Sour Pickles, per quart ..15o Fancy Nudget Sweet Pickles, qt 18o Fancy Queen Olives, per quart.. 350 Presh Vegetables at Wholesale Fancy Cooking Apples, per peck.,15o Fancy Sweet Corn, per dozen ,...5o ( bunches fresh Radishes 6c 8 bunches fresli Onions 6o 4 bunches fresh Carrots or Beets. 6o We want every housekeep omn o iry a sack of our I: Patent Flour, made from the old wheat obtainable. This grade of nour retails everywhere lor .", ror me special sale w sou it, per sack Lvery sack guaranteed or your money refunded. 8 heads fresh Cabbage 6c 3 bunches fresh I'arsloy 6c Sununer Squash for 6c Fancy Wax or Green Beans, lb. 2'o Kgg Plant, each 5c and 7 He 2 heads fresh Celery 5c Fresh Peas, per quart 6o TWO CABXOASat OP PEACHES and OlfB OP PSAXS POJt HOND1T. One carload of extra fancy Yellow Crawford, California, Freestone Peaches, 8 layers In pnx, box SBo One carload of extra fancy large California Elbnrta Freestone Peaches, the, finest grown, box 91 10 One carload extra fancy California Bartlett Pears, the finest kind for canning, per bushel box ta.SS eper in ft f Highest 11 II e finest Ml raue or 1 k I ?.'2iS u u o THE RZLIK3LE STORE M Man's Triumph Over Air (Continued from rase One.) lnenee in l!-J when ho Invented practicable acetylene gas lamps and a motor search light. Aeroplanes became a hobby with him and he completed his first full-sized model in 100. For a long time the model was suspended from the roof of bis lamp factory. Within the lust year Bleriot has per formed many startling feats. He made a specialty of croos-iouutry trips. A month ago he carried two puysengers on a short flight. His most remarkable accomplish ment previous to his flight across the Channel was a flight from Ktamp.-s to Chevllly, twenty-five miles, in forty-three minutes. He made one stop on the road to readjust the machinery. He kept from thirty to 100 feet above the earth and at one stage passed directly over a railroad while an express train thundered along un derneath him. Unlike Katherlne Wright. Mme. Bleriot Is not enthusiastic for- aeroplantng as far as her husband Is concerned. After he had crossed the Channel Bleriot said: ."The flight could easily be done again. Khali I ItT Z think not I have promised my wife that after a race for which I have metered 1 will fly no more." And yet a few days later nitrlot wai talking of vIhHIbk the Alaska-Yukon ex position and competing against the Wrights If they could be Induced to enter. It may be that Bleriot knew he was safe in talk ing this way, for the Wrights have de clared again and again thut they will not take part In rontesta. Mme. Bleriot may release her husband from his promise now that she has seen him cross the Channel. She followed the race on the French torpedo boat destroyer and was amyng the first to congratulate the aeronaut, whtch she did with a wifely kiss. Blerlot's success was a' severe blow to Hubert Latham, one of the younger French aeroplanlsts, who was considered to be the most likely one to cross the channel first. He had made an attempt on July 19 and fell into the sea after going six miles. .He blamed the motor. Two days after Blerlot's successful try Latham made- his second at tempt. He said he would go all the way to London. His machine, the Antoinette, was within two miles of the admiralty pier and close to the Dover breakwater when It fell into the sea. Latham's machine, like Blerlot's, Is a monoplane. .With it he has done some-very fast flying for short trips and has navi gated easily In very windy weather. The Wrights are by no means the only American aeroplanlsts' who have done great things. Alexander Graham Bell and I'ror. Lanpley carried on many important demon strations with heavier than air machines, and a pupil of Dr. Bell, Glenn H. Curtisa, has made rapid strides. The experiments conducted by the Aerial Experiment ossociatlon, which Dr. Hell founded in Hammondsport. N. V., In the spring and summer of liiOS brought Curtis into notice. In these trials Curtiss tried iut three machines -which he called aero dromes. Before he took to atroplunln.', by the way, Curtiss held the world's motor cycle record. Ills three machines were the Bed Wing, the White Wings and the June Buto'. The flist two were wrecked after short flights. The June Bug did better, winning on July the Scientific American trophy by flying one kilometer in one minute and fifteen seconds. At this time the Wrights wero keeping secret the fact that they had made far better flights years before. Curtiss persevered and In another year he had turned out from his factory in Ha;n mondsport a filer worth while. He gave good exhibition flights at Morris I'ark last June and then followed. them up wLU aoiue remarkable performances at Mlneola last month. On July 17 his biplane, known as the Golden Flier, made a flight of 24. 7 miles in 62 minutes 30 seconds. The flight won him three prizes, one of 2u0 offered by Cortlandt Field Bishop, the Scientific Amer ican trophy and a gold medal offered by Albert C. Triaca. Curtiss has gone abroad to compete in the International contests which are to be held at Helms, August 22-29. Mrs. Curtiss ixime down from Ilammandspor! to see him off. She has not made public her views on at loplanes. SantostDumont, the Brazilian, opened up the twentieth century by showing the world what could be done with dirigible balloons. He was a nervy voyager of the tipper regions and his narrow tsc.tpc In Paris filled many newspaper columns In 1901 and VJOi. He wrecked airships after airship, but lept on putting money, of which lie had plenty, Into them. He had a fair measure of success, even viewed In these days of Wrights and Zeppelins, sailing around the Eiffel Tower being one of his most spectacular performances. He declared about that time that the future of aerial navigation rested entirely wlUi dirigibles, lie poohpoohed the Ideas of the aeroplanlsts, who were just begin ning to be heard. But he had to come to It at last and began to build aeroplanes, to follow his love for experiments without considering the financial side. He gained prominence in ISM when ho invented practicable acetylene gas lamps and a motor searchlight. Aeroplanes be came a hobby with htm and he completed his first full sized model In l'.OO. For a long time the model was suspended from the roof of his lamp factory. His early attempts promised well, but little has been heard of him lately. Maybe he Is playing possum and will spring a surprise when the Wrlrhts and Blerlots are not expecting It. In 1,07 he tiled to combine the Ideas of the dirigible and the aeroplane In one machine and met with failure. A man named MnCurdy, who worked with Dr. Bell in Nova Scotia Tast t-pring, Is learning to fly somewhere in Canada. De la Grange, Far nam and others from time to time do a neat aerial trick In France, and still other men are trying the air In other parts of the world, but no record would be complete without mention of W. H. Martin, a farmer who abides aear Canton, O. Last February when the snow lay thick on the ground Martin hitched the family horse. Bill by name, to an aeroplane of his own contrivance and presently he flew Martin, not BUI. Bill simply acted for Martin as the starting derrick does for the Wrights. Martin made twenty or more flights that short winter day. The best he did was 250 feet. Since then Mr. Martin's accomplishments have not be come known beyond Ohio. If at all. Pos sibly Bill has gone on strike. GIVE THE BOYS A CHANCE Let Hint Hare mm Much Fmm mm He Can Get 1st B Crowded City. Hats off to the man who went to the detents of boys playing ball In a vacant lot when they were threatened with ar rest by a policeman!' Of course, we do not know all the facts In the case; but It would require a demonstration cf pretty bad behavior and a great deal of nolse maklng on the part of the boys to make us concede that they were proper sub jects for arrebt. It Is Impossible to have playgrounds enough to go around. Boys who live In a yardless town, such as this la, can't gt elbow-room now, let alone what woull happen to them If they are scared off the vacant lots. We know that they are some times noisy and mischievous, and that at times they need correction and possibly domination by the policeman on the block' but they also need the use of every vacant lot that can be found. The only way to get rid of their noise and mischief Is to gtt rid of the boys. There are people who regard boys as a nuisance who ought to be suppressed. But when It comes to choosing between their ideas of what boys should and should not do and the Ideas of the man who sought to got arrested and was arrested with them and who went to the station and fought out their case for them, we are for tha man who remembers that ha was a bor himself once.v What the policeman ought to do is to stand In with the boys and help them to play In a way that will cause as little annoyance as possible to people who don't happen to like boys. He will find that course of action a great deal better than "running them In." Baltimore News. If you have anything i sell or trade and want quick uction advertise It la The Bee Want Ad columns. y