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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1912.
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Council Bluffs'
WILL OPEN J1RST AVENUE
Contract Signed for Opening of
Business Street.
APPROVED BY -CITY COUNCIL
First Payment Ordered and City Will
Be Authorised to Begin at Once
fa Means Much to Bost
neaa Men.
The contract for the opening of First
avenue from Main to Fourth street was
signed yesterday when the question of
title to all of the property required was
definitely settled. The contract was ap
proved by the city council and the mayor
and city clerk authorized to sign It The
cost of the property to be condemned
will be approximately $20,000. Property
owners and business men residing near
by have contributed enough to reduce
this amount to $11,460. which the city is
to pay in annual installments of $2,000,
the defered payments to draw 6 per
cent interest.
By the terras of the contract, titles to
the lots involved, four in number, are to
be secured by Robert W. Wallace and
placed in escrow in. the Counll Bluffs
Savings bank until the final payments
of the city are made. The, contract pro
vldes for the immediate possession by
the city of the property whenever the
first payment of $2,000 has been made to
Sir. Wallace. The council passed the
necessary resolution directing the city
auditor to draw a warrant for $2,000, and
this permits the city to begin at once
the work of demolishing the old buildings
and opening the street. Whether there
will be any trouble with tenants now
occupying part of the property to be
used for the street is not ' stated to a
certainty, but the understanding is that
the contract with Mr. Wallace covers all
contingencies.
The opening of First avenue will b. a
imw cinn Dnrl a lnno- Ana awI a
tea
! greater counu jjiuiis. u opens up a
Uarge new business area in the very
Renter of the city.
llone of tho serious objections and ob
stacles to the growth . of the town has
4tU' that its business, has been scat
ted, principally upon two long streets.
' w 4h no possibility of centralizing. The
opting of the avenue will give several
blocjia of business street frontage where
, It is ost desirable.
Vti-al Eatate .Transfers.
These transfers were reported to The
L'ee Tuesday by the Pottawattamie
County Abstract company of Council
Bluffs: I : :
John Shaw and wife to E. H. Lou
gee, land in 35-JG-75-43, v. d.... $11,200
Patrick Quinlan and wife to P. J.
Vincent, let S, block 3, Highland
Place addition to Council Bluffs,
la., w. d 300
folin' A. Steffcn und wife to Mary
Steffen, lot 1. block 3. McMahon,
Cooper and Jeffries' addition to
Council Bluffs, la., w. d 1
pftter S. Rief and wife to Almah .
Wiliton. lot 6, block 20, Hughes'
and Doniphan's addition to Council
Bluffs, la., w. d , 565
Euvings Loan and Building associa
tion to Samuel Austin, lot 1.
block T, Hall's addition to Council
duffs, la.,, w, d 71a
Five transfers.' total.'.
...$12,771
If you orily knew , what pleasure the
Victor-Victrola brings into yow home, yon
woiddn'jfc be without one for a single daye
Nothing Pown
$1 a Week
BUYS A GENUINE VICTOR
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line of Victrolas and Victrola UMICUICl 0
ttecoras in our new wivuvih FF
Parlors in connection with Piano (J
Department, Douglas Street En
trance. Call and See Us.
Council Bluffs
Minor Mention
Th. OooneU Blmlfl Ottt !
in. Omaba U
Soott BUM. Tijoa. 4.
Davie, drugs.
Victrola, $15. A. Hospe Co.
H. Borwick for wall paD-
Woodrlng Undertaking Co. Tel. 869.
Corrigans, undertakers. Ptoaea 14S.
New York Plumbing Co. J?hone 2350.
High standard printing, Morehouse & Co
FAUST BEER AT ROGERS' BUFFET.
Lewis Cutler, funeral director. Phone 9T.
For Rent- ,Todern house. 723 Sixth Ave.
TO SAVE OR BORROW, SEE C. B.
Mutual Bldg. & Loan Asa'n, 123 Pearl.
Bluff City Laundry, Dry Cleaning and
Dye Works. New phone No. 214.
BUDWEISER on draugnt-The Grand.
Anheuser on draught-S. Adrian. Bud
welser in bottles at all first class bars.
T'. Jensen. 17 years old, had his habit
of riding his bike on the sidewalk Jarred
yesterday when Police Judge Snyder said
he would try to break it up by inflicting
a $5 fine.
Excelsior lodge No. 269, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, meets this evening
in stated communication- Members are
requested to attend, as business of Im
portance is to be considered.
The Board of County Supervisor yes
terday made an order permitting Con
stables Humphrey and Baker to retain
fees collected in civil cases to the amount
of $200 for last year, the amount to be
paid in full for all claims for automobile
or hors. hire during the year.
For one week only wo offer special low
prices on our large line of lawn mowers.
Run easy, 3 knife, 18-inch mower, now
$2.95. Liberty 3-knife, 18-inch mower, now
$3.85. Electra 4-knlf, lt-inch mower, now
$5.75. Great America 5-knlfe, IB-inch
mower, now $9.25. P. C. DeVol Hdw. Co.,
504 Broadway.
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Lewla 348 Sherman
avenue, left Tuesday for Cnicago, where
they will spend the summer with their
daughter, Mrs. Harry Cavin. Dr. Claude
P. Lewis expects to make headquarters
for the ftummer in Chicago and will spend
his time doing quartet work at various
nearby places. The Lewis house will be
occupied iu their absence, by Mrs. A. O.
McCann. ...
In honor of Miss Jennie Stein of Cali
fornia, a hayrack picnic was given Sun
day at Big lake by Miss Kate Stein and
Harry Stein. Thirty-five guests rode to
the lake at i o'clock in the morning and
spent the day rowing and in games. Pic
ric lunch was served and In the evening
the party returned to the home of Miss
Kate Stein and an Informal dance was
enjoyed until 11:30 p. m.
The Fhilathea class of the Second
Presbyterian church met at the home of
the Misses Sue and Phoebe Cbeyne. Sat
urday evening. After the business meet
ing Miss Pauline Riaer , gave several
readings which were enjoyed very much
and Miss Ruth Henderson favored the
class with a vocal solo.. Miss Ruth Hen
derson, Miss Grace Gautt and Miss
Emma Hutchinson were the guests of
the club. Light refreshments were
served. The next meeting will be held
on July 18, in the church parlors.
: The financial committee of the Eaffles
were going the rounds yesterday notify
ing holders of Eagles' building stock that
$10,000 had to be paid on the architect's
estimate of work done on the new club
building. There has already been Daid
about $5,000 on similar estimates, so that
about one-fourth of the total cost of th.
buiiding has been paid. Construction
work , is progressing very nicely, and in
two months it is expected th. building
will be ready for occupancy. No other
Eagles' lodge in th. west will have a club
bouse that begins to compare with it in
beauty, size or cost.
The last of the trench dia-ginr reauired
in the streets for the undergrounding of
the Postal Telegraph company's wires
was completed yesterday wnea the work
THE
Cycle Co.
HARNEY STS.
Council Bluffs
men broke through the ground into the
basement of the Postal building on Pearl
street. The short stretch of conduit to
the west will be laid in the alley south
of Broadway and will have to cross only
one street. The extensive system in tne
eastern part of the city will be equipped
with the lead cable and in about three
more weeks the forest of poles may be
taken down. City Electrician McKlnley
has about completed the work of remov
ing the fire alarm wires from the poles
that are to be abolished. He has accom
plished the big Job in a very skillful man
ner, without once making an open circuit
or giving the central station a tap.
John Connors, 27 years old, of Newark,
N. J., and Roy Smith, 18, of Oklahoma,
were held to the grand jury, and Fred
Roberts, aged 19, of New York City, and
Thomas James, 1$ years old. of St. Louis,
were sent to Jail under $1,060 bond in the
police court yesterday morning on the
charge of breaking into boxcars in the
Northwestern railroad yards. It was
shown that the young men were led into
temptation by the revelation of a case of
beer, discernible through a barred window
of the car. The day was so hot and the
temptation so great that the little lead
and tin fixin' on the car door offered
no resistance. They drank half a case
of pints, and would have gone away more
or less refreshed If they had. not found
a case of gin in the car. This was their
undoing. They encountered Special Of
ficer F. A. Burke. All were .quipped
with legs too badly tangled to permit
escape.
Mabel Madison, the 14-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Madison, who
ran away from the Creche, where she was
Uilng detained, was found Monday after
noon at the home of Luther Clarke, the
man who has infatuated her and caused
all of hor trouble. Clarke, who Is a bIxt
foot stalwart man, ten years older and
ten times larger than th frail little girl,
was in town in company with his father
when the girl broke away from the
Creche and she says she rode to their
home with them in the farm wagon.
They live Beveral milei east of Bilver City
on a rented farm. The mother la dead
and a little 15-year-old daughter keeps
house for the father and several brothers.
Mabel was found In company with this
little girl lying on the lawn asleep, while
the father and brothers were at work in
th. fields. Th evidence showed that the
Madison girl had been enticed from her
home by the men and County Attorney
Capell filed an Information charging tne
offense against the older son and he will
be arrested today. An order was made
consigning Mabel- to the reform school,
but paroling her to the custody of uer
parents. The testimony indicated tuat
the little girl haa been working at tne
Woodward candy factory and that her
parents have been drawing all of her
money and using it. This was one of the
causes of her dissatisfaction and mad.
uer want to leave home.
Th. sever, electrical storm last evening
that mad. a terrific 'amount of noise
without Jarring loose more than a baker's
dozen of measily little drops in this vi
cinity, created considerable havoo with
telephone and other wire services. Whole
sections of telephones were knocked out
and light and telegraph wires were made
to carry fuse-bursting currents. The
lightning struck on the north side of
Broadway at the foot of Glen avenu.
somewhere, and burned off a feed wire
cut in from' the street ctr cable to sup
ply power used in the Mucci ice cream
factory. It burned the wire In two about
fifty feet from a tall telephone pole that
carried the fire alarm wires and a num
ber of others. The live end fell across
a good ground at the foot of th. pole, and
instantly there were pyrotechnics of a
brilliant order from the top to the bottom
of the pole. City Electrician McKlnley
happened to be passing, and climbed the
tall pole and cut the live wire near the
top, and undoubtedly prevented some ac
cidents for the wire was carrying th. 600
voltage of the street railway . fi-eder.
When the current flashed Into the
Mucci building It set fire to the wood
work. Muccl picked up a pall of water
and threw It on the tlames. The water
put out the fire, but It also put Muccl
out for a few minutes. The current
flashed through the stream of water and
knocked nlra clear across the room. The
fir. department was called, but 110 dam
age was done.
Key to th. Situation-Bee Advertising.
GEO. E. MICKEL, Manager
I C 1 5th and Slarney
334 Broadway,
Council Bluffs
Carmen Demand
Their Recognition
There has been a feeling of expectancy
among local labor leaders for the last
few days in connection with the threat
ened strike of the shopmen on all of the
railroads west of Chicago to, enforce
recognition by the railroad managers of
the National Brotherhood of Carmen, Th.
referendum vote that was taken in June
throughout the affected territory was so
overwhelmingly In favor of the strlko
that the conviction among the men of
a general strike Is universal. A numbe.
of the local strikers on the Harriman
lines, who have been Idle now almost a
year, yesterday expressed their conviction
that the crucial moment is near at hand.
Bert L. Sanborn, local strike manager
and member of the national board, has
received a number of Important com
munications from M. F. Ryan, general
president of the railway carmen, but
he carefully refrained from making any
statement that would indicate their
Character. All that Mr. Sanborn would
say was:
"If the Railroad Managers' association
continues to refuse a conference it means
a general strike on every railroad In the
west and south, Involving more than 350,
000 of the nine crafts of shop and yardmen-
The question of a conference must
be settled not later than July 14. If the
conference is not granted the strike will
be called. President Ryan has no option
In the matter nor have the various man
aging boards. There Is no power vested
in any of the officers of the carmen's
association to call off or 'hold up the
strike. It has got to come if the Man
agers' association refuses to meet us in
our capacity as representatives of the
national association. The only power
that can nuspend or call off the strike
Is the power that gave the order the
men themselves, and this can only be
done through another referendum vote,
requiring a month or more."
Strike Manager Sanborn Is not subsist
ing upon any pay or pension granted by
the unions he represents, but is making
an honest living by giving efficient
service as a special deputy sheriff at
Manawa. All of the Illinois Central and
Union Pacific shopmen who went out
here last year and who remained in the
city have found other employment. Not
one of them haa been guilty of an act
of Intimidation or any other offense
sufficient to attract police attention since
the strike was declared.
A marked Improvement has been re
ported In the freight handlers' strike sit
uation. Until recently stuff sent out from
Chicago reached here In deplorable shape.
Being railroad time inspector for Coun
cil Bluffs, we can employ only the most
ikljled workman In this department- Bring
your watch her. and receive satisfactory
work. Leffert'a', Jewelers. Sign of th.
clocks.
We have pleased thousands. , We can
please you. Let us do your wall papering
and painting. Jensein Wall Paoer Co..
Masonic Temple. . . '. . .
Why take chances if you are having
trouble with your eyes. See our experi
enced optician. Lefferts'.
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spioii im
Any Victor dealer in
any city in tKe
ill gladly play
lusic vou wish to
music you wish to
Victor-Victrolas
$15 to $200
Victors, $10 to $100
Victor Talking Machine Company
Camden, N. J.
Sts., Omaha
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs
ISOLATION HOSPITAL
WILL NOT BE MOVED
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The Board of County Supervisors yes
terday accepted the' advice of Mayor
Maloney and others and decided not to
consider any further the project of chang
ing the location of the contagious di
seases hospital. The council committee
that appeared before the board on th.
previous afternoon stood 2 to 1 In favor
of such removal, and conveyed a propo
sition for the appropriation of $2,000 for
Improvement of the present building.
Under the circumstances the board will
ingly listened to the suggestion to change
the location to some point where land
was Inexpensive Mayor Maloney ap
peared with the straight proposition to
accept the $1,000 originally offered by th
board, and asked that Supervisor Chil
dren be named as a member of the com
mittee to supervise the expenditure of the
money.
The board had made an examination of
the present location of- the hospital and
had looked at a sit suggested on Hunter
avenue. It became apparent that a cost
of at least $5,000 would be ontalled by
the removal, and as the present site rp-
pealeo th. board as ideal, sufficiently
isoiai,u ana commodious, in. $i,uw asicea
for was quickly appropriated, and every
thing elad asked by the mayor ei Anted.
CLUB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CONSIDERS PUBLIC MATTERS
The executive committee of the Com
mercial club held a meeting yesterday
and discussed a number of things of more
or less Importance. One matter, relating
to Improved methods of public school In
struction, was of ijreat Importance but
did not reach a point where definite plant
could be formulated.
Representatives of the Interstate Vet
erans' association were before the club
to arrange the' details for the annual
picnlo at Lake Manawa. The veterans,
comprising organizations in Iowa and
Nebraska, sent their representatives with
instructions to fix the date of th en
campment for September 24. This wai a
month later than the Commercial club
officials desired, tor the reason that It
came after the close of the Manawa sea
ton, when the band concerts and all of
the other attractions were withdrawn. It
is probable that the veterans will be In
duced to change th date fixed to the
earlier data desired for their better
amusement.
Eloper is Charged
with Horsestealing
IOWA CITT, la., July W.-(Speclal.)-While
his wife, from whom h had run
away with her sister, lay dying at Water
loo, Henry Newton was lying in the local
jail upon a charge of horse stealing.
Newton and Mrs Elsl. Hanson, who la
a younger sister of Newton's wife, had
been traveling about th. state in a cov
ered wagon. Mrs. Newton was dying of
tuberculosis at Waterloo, and th. pollc.
of that town sent word here to send
Newton back. Mrs. Hanson went to her
sister's aide at once,' but a relative with
whom she left a horse which had been
used to draw the Wagon had Newton ar
rested when he attempted to take It away.
Word haa com. that Mrs. Newton la dead.
Pooular victrola Store
world
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hear.
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Mahogany or quartered oak fSSr '
Free Concert Every Noon from
12 M. to 1:30 P. M. Hear the
world's greatest artists on the
Victrola. Spond your noon hour
with us. All are cordially in-
vited.
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Elks at Grand Lodge .
Elect Their Off icers
For Ensuing Year
PORTLAND, Ore., July 10.-Thomaa B.
Mills of Superior, Wis., chairman of th
board of grand trustees, was elected
grand exalted ruler of the Elks, by ac
clamation at the armory today to suo
ceed John P. Sullivan of New Orleans.
While It has been conceded that Mills
would be chosen unanimously, the cheer
ing which greeted casting of the unani
mous ballot by Grand Secretary Robinson
was almost unprecedented. Rochester, N.
Y., waa selected by acclamation for the
1913 convention.
Other elections by acclamation, were:
Dr. Charles H. Ward, Pasadena, grand
esteemed loyal knight. Grand Treasurer
Edward Leech, New York, was re-elected
for the sixth successive time. The other
officer! elected were: Grand esteemed
leading knight, James L. King, Topeka;
grand esteemed lecturing knight, Lloyd
R. Maxwell, Marshalltown, la.; grand
secretary, Frederick C. Robinson, Du
buque, la.; grand trustee, John J. Faulk
ner, east St. Louis, 111. ; grand Inner
guard, John Lee Clark, , Albuquerque,
N. M.; grand tiler. Patrick H. Shields,
Clarksburg, w. va. '
Tonight the principal feature of the
entertainment program was an 'illumi
nated parade.
Iowa &w. Notes.
GLENWOOD Mills county reports sev
enteen weddings In June. There were
fourteen in 190$, so that up to that time
this Is a record year-1911,10; 1910, 12; 1909,
11; 1907. ; 1908, 9.
TINGLEY A. R. Franklin, a prominent
citizen of this place, dropped dead today
while at work in a grain field. Heart
failure, brought on by the heat, is sup
posed to have been the cause.
GLENWOOD The Denver Commercial
club tourists stopped at Glenwood at 9:40.
They wer piloted from Council Bluffs
by F. J. and Robert Allen In the Glen
wood club pilot car. Three ears from
Tabor piloted them over the whit line
to Tabor.
GRAVITY Falling under the Fourth of
July excursion train here on the even
ing of the Fourth. Johnnie Pennebaker.
aged 14. was fatally Injured and died soon
after being taken from beneath- the
train In a hospital at Clarinda. The boy's
home is at Sharpsburg.
CRESTON Funeral services over the
boay or d. w. Adams, one or creston's
pioneer business men, were held here
Tuesday, the body having been brought
here , from Chariton, where Mr. Adams
had mad his home. His death occurred
Sunday morning after a prolonged Ill
ness. , , .
ORIENT-Orlent Is sending out the an
nouncement and program for the annual
pumpkin day festival. The business men
of the place put up alt the necessary
Nature in Iter wisdom and beneficence has provided, in her great vege-
table laboratory, the forest, a cure for most of the ills and ailments of ha- '
inanity. Work and study have perfected the compounding of these botani- .
cal medicines and placed them at our disposal. We rely upon them first -
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without leaving any unpleasant or injurious effects. , Book on the blood and
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funds for the various attractions and 1
liberal purses liave been offered for at-r
tractions and music, live stock, ; sports,
produce, culinary exhibits, domestic ex
hibits, base ball, etc. -, '
CRESTON The transfer of the Cres--1
ton gas and electrlo light plant her
to the Union Trust company of Detroit,
Mich., and Charles R. Dunn, trustee, was"
recorded here yesterday. The transfer
was made to secure payment of $100,000
bonds to be used In taking up outstand-
Ing bonds on the plant and the balance 3
to be expended In improvement. The.
mortgage trust deed was signed by C. B.'J
Jones and S. B. Hovey, president and
secretary, respectively, of th Crestonu
Gas and Electrlo Light company. .
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Adds to the x"Life"
of a Car
whn a car starts out lively
In the morning and then shows
signs of sluggishness later In
the da:r, it may be due to poor
compression. In that case your
lubrication probably Is wrong.
Use VOLARINE OIL and you
will avoid two-thirds of all mo
tor troubles.
Polarine is the best automo
bile oil made. It giveB the
maximum lubrication for the
amount used. It insures the
least possible friction and wear,
with full compression and,
power. It is carbon-proof.
Look for the flat, convenient
can just fits In the tool box.
Ask your dealer
Writ (or til Polaris booklat j
free, post-paid.
Standard Oil Company
Hebrasca
Oaaba
uecausc 01 weir aDniiy in curing disease, ana next uc
cause we can use them with the confidence that such
remedies do not injure the system. Among the best
of these remedies from the forest is S. S. S., a medicine :
made entirely of roots, herbs and bark. It does not I
contain a particle of harmful mineral., ' S. S. S. cures
Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores and Ulcers, Scrofula, Ma-
laria, Skin Diseases, Contagious Blood Poison and'
all other diseases dependent on impure blood. As a -i
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