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Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Minor Mention
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,. Ths Conmeil Blaffs Of no of
, M Tho Omtta la at lg Boots
treat Both rfcoaesj 3.
ravin,' drug.
Wedding silver at Leffert'a.
Corrigan's undertaker. Phonos 141.
TJr. Cleaver. Bell phone onlr. No. 147.
FAUST BEER AT ROOERA' BUFFET.
Woodring Undertaking company. Tel. .
Lewis Cutler, funeral director. PHone t7.
FtTRB OOLD WEDDING RINGS L.EF
FERTS. ricture framing la our specialty. Faubles
Art Shop, 833 Broadway.
Call HZ "tot a ease of Gund's Peerless
beer. J. J. Kieln Co.. distributors.
Bee the new summer design In wallpaper
at H. Borwlck'e, Jr-21i Bouth Main atreet.
Bora, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nlckle. Ul
Eighteenth avenue, Saturday night, a
on,
Rev. Mrs. Hanley of Bhenand-ah preached
at the 'eopte's church ftundav, whl e the
pastor supplied the pulpit of the First
Congregational church for Dr. Smith.
Dr. Mell J. Belllngen, who Buffered a
painful wrnch of hia aide and back by
making a misstep while boaidlng a car In
front of the Bno store, resumed his prac
tice on Sunday.
Rev. Father Mc.Manua left yeaterdsy for
N'w York and Canada with trie expecta
tion of being 'absent several weeks. Hla
duties at ft. Francis' church will b looked
after by otliera during his absence.
Mra. Cronln and daughter. Thelma, of
Pult Lake. City, who have born visiting
Mra. Cronln'a aunt Mrs. Elizabeth
o'Hourke; 1301 Sutli Eighth street, for the
last ihree weeks, left for Denver yester
day where they will be Joined by Mr.
Cronln and will take a trip In the Colo
rado mountains.
Joe Reynolds, who was taken to the po
lice station Caturday and charged with
larceny from the person, the pen-on being
Kill DuRgan, a nevro, waa discharged in
pt)lce court yesterday morning. It was
ahown that he had bn askrd to take
care of Dugaan' pocketbook. which con
tained SS.fifl. Duggan. who waa arrested at
the same t.me. charged with Intoxication,
was sent to Jail for flva days.
The funeral of Dr. 8prlnk, who was
found dead in his office on Sunday morning,-will
be held this morning at 8 o'clock
at St. Peter's Cathollo church, with serv
ices conducted by Rev. Father Hermann.
Requiem high mesa will be said. The pall
bearers chosen are Dr. DonaM Mao.ae,
Dr. Karle Rellinger, Dr. David Carson,
Charles F. Paschel and P. McBrlds of this
city and Dr. Bushman of Omaha, The
body waa removed from Undertaker Cut
ler's yesterday afternoon to the residence
fif his sister, Misa Helen Sprink, J 3 Park
venue. Interment will be In St. Joseph's
cemetery. ... .
The Women'a Christian Temperance union
membership prize contests are to be pushed
for the remainder of the month. The work
has been divided Into eight divisions and
reward offered to the leader of the di
vision who secures the most points. Mem
berships, collection of dues and subscrip
tions to the temperance paper count as
Ipints.' The prise Is a free ticket to and
s)Hojuoa eti.v ' Jqojoo U i)MUi uouA
eftd on August 1.
-George Loach, ths east Omahan who de
liberately disrobed and went In bathing at
Courtlund beach Saturday afternoon In
plnln view of a large numbers of cottagers,
was fined $23 . in police court yesterday
morning. Leach put up a cash bond of $:j
Patutday night, and when ha failed tj
mow up this morning, it waa forfeited
l-ach claimed that he was so nearly over
eome by the heat that he could not wait
to don a bathing ault.
Frank Armstrong, a white man who has
developed a strange fatuity for appropriat
ing the first horre and buggy he finds,
without n driver whenever he gets drunk,
took possesion of kth dog-catcher's rig
(Sunday afternoon and waa not Hopped until-
he had reached Twenty-third street.
Ths rig belonged to Ed. Burks the col
ored . poundmaster. . Armstrong waa held
under K00 bond In police court yesterday
enrrnms tor further investigation.
C. H. Overton, the big negro-whom-De
tective una Arnold took from an Omaha
cir late Saturday night, carrying a huge
.48 ciiliher revolver underneath the waiai
band . of hi.-' trousers, was sent to the
county jail for th rly days by Police Judge
Pnyoer yesterday morning. The negro
fulled to give a reasonable excuse for be
ing so heavily armed. The, bit of artillery
tt confiscated and will appear as one of
the articles to be - sold at the annual
cleanup tale of the police department next
winter.
The funeral of W. H. Beck will be held
this morning t 10:W o'clock at the Wood
i lug chapel. Rev, J. M. Williams, pastor
of the broadway Methodist church, will
have charge of the services, although the
luneral will be under the auspices of Abe
Lincoln pott. Grand Army of the Repub
lic, of which he was a member. He will
be hurled In the soldier's plat, Falrvlew
cemetery. Mr. Meek enlisted In Company
F. Twenty-third New York volunteer In
fantry, early in the war of the rebellion
and served for several years. H's younger
brother. C. G. Beck, arrived from Elralia,
N. Y., at noon yesterday.
The law firm of Howard H. Baldrlge,
William A. DeUord and J. B. Frudenburg
of Omaha began a suit In the district court
yesterday against H. Bchloss and Albert
V. Schloss, Detroit bankers, for $M at
torneys' fees for services rendered In con
nection with the negotiation for the pur
chase of the M. J. O'Connell atock of dry
goods upon the offer of O'Connell to pay
io per cent. The Detroit firm undertook
to finance the deal and deposited $21,000
In the First National bank for the purpose.
Vhe Omaha flrrq represented them at this
end. They asked for an attachment on
the money now In the Council Bluffa bank
and named. It as one of ths defendants In
the suit.
Theo. Niece Ramten began a suit in
tho district ' court yesterday for absolute
divorce from her husband. Carl R. Ramlen.
They, were married at Atlantic, la., on
October iO, 1904. ar d 1 vel fir several years
at Marne,' Cass county, removing theme
to Buffalo.' W. Y. Mrs. Raralen alleges
that her husband began to treat her cruelly
oon after their ariival at Buifalo and be
came addicted to the use of liquor and
tteglected to provide for her. Sua a'leses
Cruel and Inhuman treatment In adultlon
to drunkenness and says he compelled her
to leave their home by threats against her
life. She returned here, and says her hus
land Is supposed to still be at Buffalo.
"To arrest a man and aend him to Jail
n the charge of stealing a chunk of lea on
such day as Sunday, was the painful
duty performed by Special Watchman
llarhmiller of the Illlnos Central's local
erd force. He cama across Pete Parock,
a Greek laborer, in the act of abstracting
the chunk of comfort from a refrigerator
cur, and sent him to the station. Panock
hud nothing In his possession, but the bit
of Ice, and avers that that waa the only
thing he wanted on earth at the moment,
but he wax held under $200 bonds for fur
ther Investigation, after a hearing In po
ttce court yesteiday morning. This was
deemed necessary for fixing the re.pont
tulltv for breaking the car teal. Panock
cla'ins the car was unhealed when he
paxsrd and was halted by coolness from
the tar.
Rev. John William Jones, former rector
f St. Paul'a Episcopal church, who re-
tired to take a year's rest, has accepted
tin- app . 1'itment of general agent for the
Mutuxl Ute Insurance company of New
York. Vila territory coroprires all of Potta
wattamie county and as much more as he
ca.ea to take charge of. For the purpose
of giving hla children an opportunity to
enjoy a summer of country life Mr. Jones
took a lease of a small fruit farm ten
miles eint of Council , Bluffs, Ideally lo
cated for the - fullest ' enjoyment of the
t-lmple life. ltev. Mr. Jones has men to
assist In taring for the fruit farm, and has
eitered the insurance field to afford a
profitable out.et for h's energies. He Is
considering several calls to importint ne
fields In the ministry but will make no
change in bis present pleasant mode of
living untlKnext winter. He haa already
fnov.d his ability to aucceed in the life
nt-uranre world and may find eome tempt
ing offers tat before him before the ar
ends. ,s
To me Water Coasassere.
The present protracted dry spell, to
gether with the unusual high temperature,
has so .taxed our pumping capacity that I
would ; request ; all water consumers to
void any and every unusual waste of
water, such' as letting the hose run all
right and th4 sprinkling of lawns during
the heat of the day. .which. I believe. In
jures rather than benefits ths' lawn. '
8. I ETNYRE, Superintendent.
City Council Talks ,
of Lighting Matters
Long: Set ion DeTOed Almost Entirely
to New Rates and Matter Put
Orer Until Saturday. .
Nearly ths entire sera km of th City
council last night was devoted to the dis
cussion of the five-year lighting contract
mads with the Cltlsens Gaa and Electric
Light compsny snd President Nash of the
Omaha company which waa ordered to be
mads at the meeting of tho council last
week, called especially for the purpose.
The contract drawn by City Solicitor Kim
ball was presented and read and after con
siderable discussion by tho members wss
about to be passed when Robert B. Wal
lace, representing ths Commercial club,
asked to have the matter delayed for one
week for the purpose ofi permitting the
club and oltlcens Interested further oppor
tunity to consider It. This brought on a
warm discussion, started by Alderman
Younkerman when he reminded , ths mem
bers of the Commercial club present that
the club had consumed three months and
had only succeeded In tying up and de
laying the lighting ' matter and Inadver
tently delaying ths Broadway . repave
ment. He aald the club was unable to
determine what kind of a lighting system
It wanted at any of the time and that Its
final report left ths matter where It stood
at ths beginning.
The members of ths council manifested
some Inclination to grant the' delay of a
week when Contractor W.lckham Inter
posed an objection, declaring that it would
compel him to pull off his paving gangs at '
a time when he had 30,000 paving brick on I
trackage ready for unloading. Hs said It j
would mean a loss of $100 a dajr and hs
would expect compensation, that hla con
tract with ths lighting company1 'required
him to begin laying ths conduits for un
dergroundlng the electric wires to supply
ths gooseneck pedestals that were to carry
the new flaming aro lamps and the ma
terial for the conduit would be here on
Wednesday, The council finally agreed to
postpone completing the contract until
Thursday morning when a special meet
ing will be held beginning at 1:30 o'clock.
Ths contract presented was a duplicate
of that made with the lighting company
five years ago with tho exception that It
provided for the Installation of ths flaming
arcs and carried a reduction upon ths
prices of gas and electric current to con
form to the rates now prevailing In Omaha,
$1.15 for gas and 14 cents and cents per
kllowat for current. Emmet Tlnley
was present and 'helped to enlighten
the merrjfeers of the Commercial club and
others who objected to the approval of
the contract under the Impression that the
rates given for gas were not the same as
prevailed In Omaha. This was the im
pression of W. A. Maurer, who understood
that the flat domestic rate In Omaha was
11 per 1,000 feet. Mayor Moloney corrected
fhla by saying that ths $1 rate applied to .
the street lighting and carried the obllga- !
tlon of the city to take over the property, '
posts, lamps, etc., required for the .
service, and that a resolution In the coun- '
ell calling for a general reduction to $1 I
had been stopped by Injunction. The dis-i
cusslon also developed the fact that Mr.
Maurer at least was opposed to new giant
arc lights and preferred .the single incan
descent lamps on gooseneck pedestals.
The question of ths amount of the Broad
way paving to bo charged to each property
owner was brought up by . Alderman
Younkerman, who proposed a resolution j
fixing the limit at twenty feet, the balance''
to be paid by the city where not covered
by tho amount required by law to be aald ,
for by the street car company. Tho city
solicitor was Instructed to prepare a reso-
lutlon In accordance with the auereatlon ta '
be reported at the next meeting.
Water Board to Go
to Kansas City
Viiit of Inspection to Be Hade to
Learn About Primary Set
tling: Basim.
The Board of Water Commissioners will
go to Kansas City tomorrow, accompanied
by Superintendent Etnyre, for the purpoas
of getting some additional Information
about high duty pumps and concrete set
tling reservoirs.
While In Kansas City they . will meet
Hydraulic Engineers Wyncoop Klersted
and C. S. Burns, both of whom are thor
oughly familiar with trie water works
situation In Council Bluffs through fre
quent visits here and employment by the
city. They may engage one or both of the
engineers for consulting services of an ad
visory character. They will also make an
Intelligent Inspection of th'e Kansas City
plant for educational purposes. -
It Is ths Intention of ths board to con
struct a new concrete settling basin at the
Thirty-seventh street station and begin the
work Immediately. It has been found that
ths Thirty-seventh street pumps-have been
carrying more than a million gallons of
purs mud to ths Broadway settling reser
voirs each month, and leaving It nearly
a mile from ths river, adding- greatly to the
cost of getting rid of It. If permitted to
be deposited In primary settling basins ad
jacent to the Thirty-seventh atreet pumps
It can be washed back Into the river at
practically no cost. The new reservoirs
will bo built above ground at an elevation
that will permit the filtered water to flow
Into the reservoirs at ths Broadway feta
tion by gravity, thereby , eliminating the
friction In the supply pipe leading to the
Broadway station. It ' is believed that
equipment of this station with electric
power and the gddltlon of this new sys
tem of subsidiary basins will savs the city
at leaat $5,000 a year and add greatly to the
value and efficiency of the plant.
Chairman Jensen of the water board ssld
yesterday afternoon that no general at
tempt would be made to Install meters
In private residences this year but that a
start would be made. He said the board
would buy $4,000 or $5,000 worth of meters
during the summer and autumn and Install
them where moat needed.
Chairman Jensen also called attention to
the fact that the water. board has abso
lute control of the plant, and that the
council has nothing whatever, to do with
Its management. When the time conies to
require the general installation of meters
nc ordinance will be required to be passed
by the council legally compeU'.n- the cltl
sens to take and pay for ths meters. The
courta of this stats and many others have
upheld the wster boards In enforcing such
orders and there will be no- appeal from
their decision In Council Bluffs. The Ce.
dar Rapids commissioners 'have this year
installed more than $27,009 worth of meters
In the homes of private consumers. The
meters, as In Council Bluffs, will be In
stalled at coat and are expected to average
about $13 each. ' i
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Drink Budwelser, King of Bottled Beers. '
15 per cent discount on our. complete'
stock of lawn mowers, bsmmocks and gas
oline ottens. Now Is the time to get the .
benefit of low prices. P. C. Do Vcl Hard- j
ware Co. . - J
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