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The Omaha
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VOL. XLI NO. 9.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1911.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
BOOM DAYS jNJEW CANADA
Northwest Just Now Undergoing an
Women Who Lead the Activities of the Gentler Sex in Ontaha
Amazing Material Growth, ,
MANY NEBRASKANS ARE THERE
Frank Crawford Write from Strata
cons Concerning; What Bo lias
V Witnessed Dnrtns a Long;
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WHO'S WHO IN WOMEN'S CLUBS
Kme. President of the Various Omaha
Organizations Introduced.
BUSY WOMEN WORK FOR OTHERS
Well Kaowa Leaden la Sociology,
Cnltsrre, Philanthropy, Pntrtottlo
aad He'orm Endeavor and
Other Activities.
Th worn on' club will begin to meet
to September. The members of th differ
ent temtnm organisations will throw aside
their vacation lassitude and pick up the
thread of their activities where they
dropped them laet June. Madam President
will take up her gavel, Mrs. Secretary will
get out her not book, each member will
take her place In the doings of her partic
ular chib and all will settle down to the
serious business of carrying on club meet
ings. Many kinds of clubs are starting up this
fall etudy clubs; societies which give their
time to social work, to temperance work,
to patrlotlo Interests, and to philanthropic
activities; organisations which are carried
on to promote the interests of business
women, secret societies and last but not
least, the newly-pledged suffrage society
clamoring for the ballot.
The womsn's club movement In Omaha
has assumed huge proportions. Truly,
enough to make the masculine portion of
the community stand aside and take off its
hat. The women's clubs form a big army
numbering several thousands of women.
And If you wish to know who's who among
them Just run your eye down the line of
presidents which the different contingents
have chosen to lead them for the coming
year.
Leader of tho Host.
In the vanguard of the club movement Is
Mrs. M. D. Cameron, president of the
Omaha Women's club the most active, the
most versatile, and ons of the largest of
the women's organizations, which has
since its beginning eighteen years ago
dared anything and stopped at nothing In
the Interests of the betterment of the life
of the community. Mrs. Cameron, who is
entering her second year as president,
' manages with, a marked dsgroe of tact the
many Interests of ths club whlota are car
ried on in the different departments house
hold economics, literature, oratory, art,
current topics, music, philosophy and social
science.
Another club which carries on interests in
a number of educational lines is the Wo
men's club of the Railway Mail Service,
headed by Mrs. J. K. Blttlngor and com-
' posed of wives of members of the Bervlce.
This club is entering Its thirteenth year.
The oldest and most serious-minded of
the study clubs is Mu Sigma which means
"Little Learned." This club devotes Its
time to the study of history and will enter
its nineteenth year of work under the
leadership of Miss May Rials. Another
study club larger and younger than Mu
Sigma and Interested In another line of
work Is the Society of Fins Arts which will
be headed next season by Mrs. Warren 8.
Blackwell. Thin club meets In the publio
library to study art, and Is so popular that
the waiting list Is almost as long as ths
membership.
In addition to the study clubs there are
several classes under the tutelage of Mrs.
Ida Hanchett of Council Bluffs. On of
. these classes studies French history; an
other studies Persian history.
For the Children.
Miss Jennie Redfleld heads a study club
which has a different object than self
culture. This Is the Story Tellers' league,
which for three years has studied methods
for getting the right kind of reading mat
ter into the hands of children. Miss Red
field Is especially fitted to lead the league
slnoa she has been teacher and principal In
the public schools for many years.
At the head of an organisation whose
Interest Is In sociological problems of the
day Is Mrs. Stephen E. Davies, president
of ths Association of Collegiate Alumna,
numbering half a hundred women college
graduates. Mrs. Davies herself la an
alumnae of the University of Chicago. The
plaoe of local social work which the As
sociation of Collegiate Alumnae Is speci
ally Interested In is the social settlement on
South Thirteenth which It started.
The American Woman's league, which
has been quietly getting a large member-
L ship for the last three years. Is planning to
do things under the, leadership of Mrs. W.
B. Howard, president this season. This
society la educational In aim, carrying on
studies of many kinds by correspondence.
Mrs. Howard Is secretary of the Esperanto
society, correspondent of the V. 8. Grant
post. Women's Relief Corps, and president
of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, alumnae
chapter.
Business Womea's League.
The business and professional women are
beginning to organise. Mrs. Elizabeth
Sears, who has had considerable experience
In newspaper work and other lines of busi
ness, heads the Business Women's league,
started a year aco for the nurDOse or Dureu
Mi correspondence study for the benefit
of Us members. I. Abby Virginia Holmes
U the president of the Professional Women's
league started two years ago.
The temperance unions take up much
space In the army of club women. Mrs.
I. 8. Leavttt heads the largest and oldest
of the local bands of white rlbboners the
Omaha Women's Christian Temperance
union, which started thirty-five years ago.
Mrs. Leavttt became Interested In temper
anoe work when a school girl. She gives
a share of her time to Installing mission
ary societies throughout the state, for she
is secretary of the north Nebraska con
ference of the Women's Foreign Mission
ary society.
Four years ago some of the members
branched, off from the mother union and
formed the Frances Willard union, of
which the new president is Mrs. C. J.
Roberts. Ths youngest union is the West
iftde. headed by Mrs. T. E. Brady. It is
entering Its second year.
Another of the younger organisations is
the Woman Suffrage society, of which the
head is Mrs. Charles I. VolLmer. This bsnd
of suffragettes, whose slogan Is "Votes for
Women." has already one of the largest
societies In the state and is beginning to
show that It is In earnest.
Mrs. stabba' Record.
Mrs. J. J. Slubbs Is regent of the largest
of ths patriotio organizations th Daugh
ters of the American Revolution. She Is
amply able to stand at the head, for shs
comas from a line of ancestors who took
an active part In . getting this nation
started. Her membership in ths Daughters
of the American Revolution she holds from
ths deeds of her ancestor, Mlcajah How,
who was a Judge In Trenton, N. J., during
the revolution. Through another forebear,
Joseph Weld of Massachusetts, she is priv
ileged to belong to the National Society of
Coloutal Dames; through on John How,
who settled In America early In th sev
en leant century, she belong to th Na
tional Boclety of Daughters of Founders
rRcs.ir.'W.cjL.
and Patriots; through Captain Isaao John
son, killed at Narragansett fort In 1GT5, she
Is member of the Colonial Daughters of the
Seventeenth century; through her grand
father, Thomas Yardley How, who v.a3
military secretary to Alexander Hamilton
during the trouble with France in 17 Ji,
she Is a Daughter of 1S12. Mrs. Biubbs Is
state registrar of both the Daughters of the
American Revolution and Colonial Dames
of Nebraska.
Mrs. Kussell McKelvey is regent of the
newly organized Major Isaac Sadler chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revo
lution and Mrs. George B. Darr heads tho
Daughters of 1812. having been appointed to
complete the unfinished term of Mrs. Her
bert E. Gates, who began with the state
society several years ago. The society al
ready numbers six "real" daughters.
Head of a ilocict Order,
Mrs. Darr also heads the P. E. O. sUter-
hood, one of the secret societies for women
started in 1S89. Mrs. Darr s historian of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
and assistant leader In both the literature
and the art departments of th Woman's
club.
Mrs. George Covell Is president of the
Daughters of tho Confederacy, started six
years ago, which has for its object the
welfare of confederate soldiers and their
families. Mrs. Covell is also an ardent
tempsrance worker. She Is an organiser In
th stat Woman's Christian Temperance
union, state superintendent of temperance
work and vice president of th Frances
Willard union.
The relief corps auxiliary to the army
posts and having th welfare of the union
soldiers as thetr Interest, number about 200
women. Th largest local corps Is that of
Custr post, organised twenty-four years
ago. Mrs. Ella Tasks Is president Mrs.
R S. Wilcox heads the V. 8. Grant post
oorps and Mrs. Mary McKay the Crook post
corps. The head of the entire state organ
ization Is Mrs. George B. Eddy of Omaha.
Mrs. George Tlldcn will continue to be
president of the Women's Christian asso
ciation, which manages the affairs of the
Old People's home. She has headed this
organization so long that she cannot re
member when she first became president.
It was organised In 18X3. Mrs. TUden Is
also president of the Toung Women's Chris
tian association. She Is chairman of the
educational committee of the Woman's
club and Is president of Brownell hall
alumnae.
Jewish Women's Work.
Mrs. J. Sonnenberg will enter her tenth
year as president of the Jewish Women's
Sewing society, which is one of the oldest
charity organizations. Mrs. Sonnenberg, in
addition to her activities at Wise Mermor
lal hospital. Is a director of the Visiting
Nurse association. Mrs. J. H. Harris will
become president of the Jewish Ladies' Re
lief society for ths fourth year. This so
ciety was started seven years ago and
numbers 200 members. The Needlework
Guild will be headed next season by Mrs.
F. A. Collins.
. The VlMtlng Nurse association will have
Miss Louis McPherson as Its president
ths coming year. Sh has been secretary
and treasurer In th association for many
years. She Is also Interested In th Nurses'
Guild, of which shs is an associated mem
ber and takes part In th activities of the
Fin Arts society and the Tuesday Morn
ing Musicals. The Social Settlement as
sociation will be headed again next season
by Mrs. W. C. Shsnnon, who does not al
low her interest In the Fin Arts society
Tuesday Morning Musical and even In the
Visiting Nurse association to interfere with
her work for the Settlement.
Headquarters for
Grain Men Chosen
Committee Alto Makes Plana for the
Visitors in Omaha Next
Octoher.
The committee appointed by th advisory
board of the Omaha Grain exchange to
make arrangements for th convention of
the National Grain Dealers' association
has selected the Rom hotel for th head
quarters, and has roughly mapped out a
program for the convention that will need
to be altered but slightly.
The convention opens Monday, October t,
snd lasts through Wednesday. The fore
part of Monday morning will be spent In
receiving registrations from the delegates,
and in the afternoon a business session will
be held. In the evening there will b some
sort of amusement for the visitors, and
on Tuesday morning the unfinished busi
ness of the day before will probably be
completed. Tuesday afternoon will either
be spent in a tour of the city or an inspec
tion of the grain elevators, and In th
evening a banquet Is being planned. Ths
program Wednesday will consist of th
election of officers and the selection of the
convention city for 1912.
Thee plans are only a rough outline of
th reception th visitors will reeeiva, and
a th committee puts more effort Into Its
task, th program will shape Itself Into on
of th best ever offered th grain man In
any city where they have over mat. Beo
retary Manchester of th Oram exchange
Is th chairman of th oommittoa.
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PRISON CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Tentative Plans Are Hade for the Big
Sleeting: to Be Held Here.
WICKERSHAM IS TO SPEAK
Will Represent President Taft on tho
Program Governor Aldrlch to
Welcome the Delesrates to
the Convention.
A tentative program for the convention
of the American Prison association has
been arranged. Arrangements . are. being
made to secure more speakers and more
accommodation for the visitors. While the
convention of the American Prison asso
ciation Is being held, a number of auxiliary
societies will also hold their meetings. The
convention will last five days, October 14,
15, 1. 17, 18.
Tentative program of the American
Prison association:
Opening; Sosnton.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14.
8 p. m. Presiding officer to be furnished
by local committee.
Invocation.
Addresses of Welcome Hon. C. H. Aid
rich, governor of Nebraska; J. C. Dahi
man, mayor of Omaha.
President's Address T. B. Patton, gen
eral superintendent Pennsylvania State
Reformatory, Hnntincton. Pa.
SUNDAY.
10:30 a. m. Annual sermon.
3 p. m. Mass meeting, ten-minute ad
dresses. SUNDAY EVENING.
8 p. m. Local pulpit to be supplied by
delegates.
8:30 p. m. The Wardens' association will
hold special session at Hotel Rome; ojn
to wardens and superintendents.
MONDAY. OCTOHER IS.
9:i a. m. The Natlonsl Wardens' asso
ciation: Josp.ph P. Scot', superintendent of
pr.sons or tne state or New yorK, Albany,
to preside. Annual address of the pres
ident, Mr. Scott. Discussion.
11 a. m. Report of the standing commit
tee on prison discipline bv the chairman.
t Henry K. W. Scott, warden New Hamp-
shire state prison. Concord, N. H. Dis
cussion.
2 p. m. The National Chaplains' associa
tion: Rev. Charles M. Miller, chaplain
Western penitentiary of Pennsylvania, Al
legheny, Pa. President to preside.
Auto ride about city, to be arranged by
local committee.
8 D. m. Mr. Patton. Dresident. vresidino:.
Report of standing committee on preven
tion ano probation by the chairman. Prof
Franklin H. BrlKgs. superintendent of the
aiaie Agricultural and industrial school.
Industry, N. Y.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17.
a. m The Prison Physicians' asso
ciation: Dr. Theodore Cooke. Jr., Balti
more, Md., president, to preside.
Psper "The Prison Physician," by Dr.
Theodore Cooke, Jr., Baltimore, Md. Dis
cussion. 11 a. m. Paper: "The Prevention of
Crime and Insanity." by Dr. Daniel Fris
ian, surgeon Dominion penitentiary, To
ronto, Canada.
i p. ra. Mr. Patton. president, presiding.
Address, "The Psychology of the Crim
inal," by Dr. William Healy. Chicago. Ad
dress, "Physical Defects as a Factor In the
Making of Criminals." by Dr. Wllllasn
Martin Richards. New York City.
8 p. m. Mr. Patton, president, presiding.
Report of the standing committee on
criminal law reform by the chairman,
Judge C. A. DeCourcy. Justice of the
superior court of Massachusetts. Law
rence. Mass. Address. Hon. George W.
Wlckersham, attorney general of th
United- States, Washington, D. C. Dis
cussion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18.
:90 a. m. Report of special committee
on Jails, lockups and police stations, by
ths chairman. Hon. W. H. Elchhorn. mem
ber Indiana Hoard of State Charities. Bluff
ton, Ind. "The Jails of Florida," by Hon.
A. W. Gilchrist, governor of Florida.
I p. m. Report of the standing commit
tee on reformatory work and parole by
the chairman. Frank L. Randall, superin
tendent Minnesota State reformatory, St.
Cloud. Minn.
8 p. m. Report of the special committee
on statistics of crime bv the chairman,
Hon. Eugene Smith, president Prison asso
ciation of New York. New York City. Ad
dress, "The Resolutions of the 1010 Inter
national Prison Congress in Their Applica
tion to the United States." by Prof.
Chsrles Richmond Henderson. University
of Chicago, international prison commis
sioner of th United States and president
of th comrress. Chloago. Address. Mrs.
Imogens Oakley, president National Feder
ation of Woman's Clubs.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19.
t:S0 a. ra Mr. Patton, president, presid
ing. Paper, "Results of a Recent Innutry
on the Subject of Tuberculosis In Pris
ons,' " by Rev. Thomas W. Houston, chap
lain of the Kansas Stat penitentiary.
Lansing. Kan. Discussion.
II a. m. Th Association of Governing
Boards; Address of the president. "How
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Far Should a Governing Board Govern?"
Hon. Guy H. Humphreys, president Board
of Control of the Indiana Boys' school,
Bloomfleld, Ind. DUcusslon.
2 p. m. Mr. Patton, president, presiding.
Paper, "Compensation to the Families oi
Prisoners," by Hon. William H. De Lacy,
Judge of the Juvenile court of the District
of Columbia. Washington. D. C. Paper,
"Payments to Prisoners and Their Families
in Michigan," by William H. Venn, parole
officer for Michigan, Detroit. Discussion,
opened by Rev. F. Emory Logan, superin
tendent the Central Howard association,
Chicago, and Frank L. Randall, superin
tendent Minnesota State reformatory, St.
Cloud, Minn.
8 p. m. Report of standing committee on
discharged prisoners hy the chairman.
Commissioner Eva Booth, of the Salvation
Army; report covers: (a) Tho man In prison
who wants to reform; t Caring of his fam
ily during the perior of rehabilitation: (c)
Meeting him at the prison gate: (d) Personal
study of the man in order to select con
genial occupation; (e) His spiritual cul
ture; (f) Keeping In touch. Address, "The
Work of Prisoners' Aid Association." bv
T. F. Garver. ex-Judge Kansas court of
appeals, Tcpeka, Kan.
Lockwood Returns
to Shanghai, China
Former Secretary of the Omaha Young
Men's Christian Association Now
Labors in the Orient.
W. W. Lockwood, secretary of the Young
Men's Christian association In Shanghai.
China, who has been vixltlng In Omaha for
the last few days, will leave during the
coming week for San Francisco, where he
will set sail September 1 for the orient.
Mr. Lockwood was secretary of the Omaha
association in 1i0. In 13 .-3 he was trans
ferred to China.
Upon his arrival In Shanghai Mr. Loclc
wood found the association in a very bad
condition. The membership numbered less
than ot and the quarters were In a
wretched part of the town. In three years
he had the association quartered In a new
five-story building, containing the only
modern equipped gymnasium In China, and
the membership of the association up to
SOO.000 in China.
Mr. Lockwood stated the Chinese show as
much, if not more enthusiasm In the work
than Is manifested over here. Since the
beginning of the work the association over
there ten years ago the Interest shown by
the Chinese In athletics have Increased ten
fold. During -the last few years annual
athletic meets have been held by the na
tives. In which all the high officials have
entered with great Interest.
In company with Y. Y. Tsu, secretary of
th Young Men's Christian association here
for Chinese college students, Mr. Lockwood
will meet fifty-nine young Chinese students
being sent over here by the government to
attend th large colleges In th east. They
will coma through Omaha September 4. In
charge of Mr. Tsu. and a stop of a few
day will b mad at th local association.
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Election on Bonds
Not Invalidated
County Attorney Informs Commission
ers that They Ccn Proceed with
the Issue.
County Attorney James P. English and
Deputy County Attorney George A. Magney
notified lha election canvassing board and
the county commissioners Saturday that
the discrepancies in the bond election re
turns will not invalidate the election, and
the commissioners will ba absolutely safe
in going ahead with the issuance and sale
of the. bonds. The commissioners ordered
County Clerk Haverly to take the neces
sary steps to have the bonds printed and
placed on the market. Details of this work
will be taken up next week.
The attorney's office holds that the ma
jority for the bonds is sj great that the
discrepancies would make no difference in
the result, no matter how considered. In
preparing the abstract of the vole the can
vassing board was instructed to give the
total vote cast as Indicated by the poll Usui,
the total vote actually cast, and th total
votes for and against tbe proposition.
The final report of th board to th com
missioners Is as follows.
Total number of names on th poll books,
lO.&W; total vote actually cast, .16i; total
vote for th bonds, i.OA; total vote against
th bonds, S,i00.
Persistant Advertising la th Road to Big
Return.
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MiSS CONQUEST TO MARRY
SON OF AN ITALIAN ADMIRAL
NEW YORK, Aug. IS. Miss Ida Con
Quest, the actress, will be married in Oc
tober to Rlccsrdo Bertelli, oldest son of th
1st Admiral Lulgl Bertelli ot Genoa, Italy.
It 1 said that after her marriage that Miss
Conquest wUI retire permanently from th
stag. Mr. BertelU cam to this country
ten yean ago to establish an art brons
works of which he is president.
Frank Crawford, at present travertin- in
Canada Northwest, write from Strathcona,
under date of August 1L a follows.
I was glad yesterday to get hold of
Bee which I found on sal at Edmonton,
across the liver. Since leaving Omaha X
have been all over Canada west of Win
nipeg. I have been nearly 1,000 miles In
an auto with the president of the Canadian
Elevator company and Mr. En gen of Sas-
kfttoon and we found Immense crops every
where. Barring frost, there will be a
bumper crop. Mr. Engen has one farm of
2..VK) acre all In flax. It Is said to "be as
fine a crop as ever grew and Is "worth
$100,000.
I meet Nebraskans everywhere. I run
across them In hordes looking over the
country. I mt one party of thirty-four tho
other day from Lancaster and Douglas
counties. Many old settlers, so-called, are
from Nebraska. In fact, I think that Ne
braska has become a generlo name for a
good farmer and often Include Settlers
from our whole middle west. I will testify
that our emigrants have at least done us
credit.
"I am Impressed with the extent of tha
loss to our state In losing these useful and
often wealthy citizens. I think It Is up ta
our bond houses and mortgage brokers to
teach our farmers to Invest In something
besides lands. It Is land investments which
takes them out of the state.
"I have met many Omahans also who are
engaged or employed In some capacity In
the building of the railroads. Peterson A
Lamereaux have headquarter at Mooso
Jaw. I ran across several of these men
whom I knew. They have two largo con
tracts with the Canadian Pacific I met
Ed Phelan at Saskatoon. He and his
partner. Mr. Shirley, have, an extensive
contract on the Grand Trunk.
Here at Strathdnna Uvea an old Omaha
lawyer whom I remember very weU, John
G. Tipton. He was the first man from the
United States who was ever admitted to
the bar of Canada. Judge Tipton Is one of
the old settlers here. He has abandoned
for some time the practice with its small
fees and out of the real estate and loaning
business has amassed a fortune. I have
been loafing a little around his office
lately and can assure his old Omaha friends
that there is no evidence of his ceasing to
make money.
"This is a beautiful country. It Is
mixed farming country where timothy
springs tip as land is cleared, a land of dew
and freshness. The soil Is very fertile and
the climate matchless, but I have a notion
that excessive freight rates make net re
turns from the land only ordinary. I was
out on the Grand Trunk to the end of steel
at the gateway of the Rookies. It Is a land
of rivers and lakes and muskeg which con
tractors have always represented as about
worthless, but it is not so. It 1 a beautiful
land needing only settlers to let In the sun
and drain It. Tbe settlers are coming, too,
in throngs bound for the Grande Prairie
and the Perce river.
"Saskatoon and Edmonton are lively
cities. They are In the throes of a terrific
boom. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, stenog
raphers, are all selling lots and getting top
notch prices. When I say selling, I speuk
advisedly.' Everything in Canada sells at
present. When the price gets so high that
no one else will buy, along comes a friendly
Englishman who keeps the ball rolling
once. A lot on Jasper avenue In Edmonton,
rather small in dimension and th counter
part of 100 others, with a brick church on
It sold for $196,000. I could not help com
paring It with Judge Neville's purchase at
Sixteenth and Harney strti." '
High Praise for Ft.
Omaha and Ft. Crook
from Col. Hatfield
Annual Report Shows Both Places to
Be in Fine Condition at the
Time of Inspection.
Fort Omaha and Fort Crook are com
mented on very flatteringly In the annual
report of Colonel Charles A. P. Hatfield
of the Thirteenth cavalry, who commanded
the Department of the Missouri during tha
time General Frederick A. Smith was on
the Mexican frontier, and to whose lot It
fill to make the annual Inspection of the
posts of the department
Speaking of the inspection of Fort
Omaha, which Colonel Hatfield made on
May 1911, in company with Major Daniel
H. Devore, the report says: "All publio
buildings at the post were In good repair,
and all affairs connected with It were ap
parently well administered. The com
manding officer was endeavoring to reduco
office work to the minimum and was ap
parently giving close and continuous at
tention to the affairs of his command."
Captain W. L. Clarke was In command at
the time.
Fort Crook was Inspected on May S3. In
company with Major Harry C. Haie, and
Colonel Hatfield uses superlatives freely
In describing the things which he saw at
the pout. The two battalions and machine
gun platoon of the Fourth Infantry, which
he found located there under Major Ben
jamin W. Atkinson, were put through a
number of practice exercises, and on tho
25th a practice march was made to Fort
Omaha, returning the next day. Ail this
work is highly pralned.
"All public buildings at Fort Crook,"
says the report, "appeared to be. in excel
lent condition. The commanding officer
attempts by every means to reduce tho
amount of paper and office work, and I be
lieve from the results obtained that bo
continuously and personally supervises tha
theoretical and practical instruction of tho
comnutnd." v
"In my opinion," th report continues,
"the command is ready or would be ready
In a very short time to take the field
under war oondi lions."
LADS WHO STEAL GROCERY
WAGON SENT TO KEARNEY-
Judge Kennedy Holds They Are In
corrigible and Bend Them to
Industrial School.
Burt and Evelyn McDonald, tha two boyn
who stole a grocery wagon and horn and
held up and robbed a popcorn stand, were
committed to th detention home, and
broke out to steal another horse, were sent
to the state Industrial school at Kearney
by Judge Kennedy In Juvenile court Sat
urday. l"h lad ar hold to ba iuoorrlglU.
