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The One Great Annual Event the Women of Omaha and Surrounding Territory Have Been Waiting For
Every Garment in Our Stock at
EXACTLY HALF PRICE
no reserves whatever, Sale starts at 8 o'clock.
More Than $200,000 Worth of New, Stylish Wearing
Apparel for Women and Misses at
JUST HALF PRICE
OUR GREAT HALF PRICE CLEARANCE
Opens Thursday Morning, Dec. 26th, at Eight O'clock
More Than $200,000 Worth f High Class Wearing Apparel Women, Misses & Children
EXACTLY HALF PRICE
Seven years ago Qrkin Brothers inaugurated the policy that, regardless of sacrifice, no merchandise should be carried
from one season to another. Their first great half-price sale emphasized this policy. Omaha women were startled
at the prices quoted on the high class garments hearing Orkin Brothers labels. This remarkable method of merchan
dising caused this sale to grow to wonderful proportions year after year. This year will eclipse all previous ones
Only a few months ago Orkin Brothers acquired ownership of the Bennett Company. Every vestige of the old mer
chandise was at once disposed of at special sale. Clearance of new high class apparel, much of it in the establishment
but a few weeks. This fixed policy of Half Price with a larger assortment than ever before all new merchandise
offers to Omaha women an unprecedented opportunity to secure
STYLISH, DESIRABLE GARMENTS AT HALF PRICE
ALL OUR
TAILORED SUITS
HALF PRICE
$125 Imported
Suits Clearance
sale price. ,
$97.50 Imported!
Suits Clearance :
sale Qrice '
$85.00 Tailored i
Suits Clearance
sale price '
$75.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$69.50 Tailored,
Suits Clearance
sale prjco. . . .
$65.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$59.50 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price.
$50.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$45.(f0 Tailored,
Suits Clearance
sale price
$39.50 Tailored
Suits Ql oarance
6ale price ,
$35.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$29.75 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$27.50 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$25.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
ALL EVENING AND
STREET COATS
HALF PRICE
62.50
$125 Imported
Velour Coats
Clearance sale. . .
$95.00 Imported
Veleur Coats
Clearance sale. . . ,
$75.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$69.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$65.00 ?oats
Clearance sale
price
$59.50 Coats
Clearance sale '
price ,
Clearance sale
$55.00 Coats
price $50.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price (.....
$45.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$39.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$35.00 Coits
Clearance sale
price '.
$29.75 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$27.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price i. ..
$25.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
EVENING GOWNS
AND DRESSES
HALF PRICE
.$175.00 Evening
Gowns Clear
ance sale price. . . .
$145.00 Evening
Gowns Clear
ance sale price
$125.0Q Evening
Gowns Clearance
sale pride
$95.00 Evening
Gowns Clear
ance sale price. . .
$75.00 Evening
Gowns Clearance
sale price
$65.00 Evening
Gowns Clearancp.
sale price
$50.00 Dresses
Clearance
sale price
$39.50 Dresses
Clearance
sale price
$35.00 Dresses
Clearance sale price
$29.75 Dresses
Clearance sale price
$27.50 Dresses-.
Clearance
sale price
$25.00 Dresses (
CJearanco
sale prico
$22.50 Dresses
Clearance
sale price
$19.50 Dresses
Clearance sale price
ALL FUR COATS AT
A GREAT
SACRIFICE
$500 Fancy Hud
son Seal Coats
Clearance sale price. ,
'$300 Hudson Seal
Coats Clearance
sale price
$250 Hudson Seal
Coats Clearance
pale price
$200 Hudson Seal
Coats Clearance
sale price
$400 Persian ,
Lamb Coats '
Clearance salo price.
$300 Persian
Lamb Coats
Clearance sale prico.
$300 Beaver fc
Coats Clearance
sale price
$100 Near' Seal
Seal Coats
Clearance salo price.
$95.00 Near
Seal Coats
.Clearance sale price.
$150 Russian
Pony Coats
Clearance sale price.
$100 Russian Pony i
Coats Clearance
sale price "
$75 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
sale price
$85 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
sale price
$65 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
wile price
All Fur Sets and Sep
arate Pieces at a
SACRIFICE
$350 Mink Sets
Clearance sale
price
$300 Mink Sets
Clearanco sale
price
$225 Mink Sots
Clearance sale
price ,
$195 Mink Sets
Clearanco salo
prico ,
$150 Mink Sets
Clearanco salo
prico 1
$85 Mink Sets
01earanco sale
I") n c p
$125 Fox Sots
Clearanco salo
price
$100 Fox Sets
Clearance salo
prico
$75 Fox Sets
Clearanco salo
price
$50 Fox Sets
Clearance sale
prico
$45 Fox Sets
Clearance Bale
prico
$35 Wolf Sets
Clearanco sale
price
$27.50 Wolf
Sets Clearance
salo prico
$35 Jap Mink
Sots Clearance
sale prico. ......
All Children's Cloth
Coats About
HALF PRICE
$18.50 Doublo-Faoed Johnny
Coats Clearanco 0f
m-ice $UeZu
$15.00 Zibeline
, Coats Clearance
sale price
$12.50 Corduroy
Coats Clearance
price
$2.98 Corduroy
Coats Clearanco
salo prico
$10.00 Cloth
Goats Clearance
sale prico
$7.98 Cloth Coats
Clearance
salo price
$6.50 Cloth Coats
Clearanco
salo price
$7.98 Persian
Cloth Coats-
Clearance sale price
$10.00 Crushed
Velvet Coats
Clearance salo pricoi
$7.98 Plush Coats
Clearnm o
salo price
$7.98 Chinchilla
Coats Clearance
sale price
$4.50 Chinchilla
Coats CI earance
salo prico
$5.00 Flannel
.binea coats
Clearance sale price'
$5.00 Caracul
Coats Clearance
sale prico
TERMS OF GAS COMPROMISE
City Commissioner Read Agree
ment and Defer it for Week.
BILL READY FOR LEGISLATURE
Mrnsurc Embodying; Compromise U
Drafted by Clly Legal Depart
ment for Introduction If
Council Approvea.
I'ity commissioners Tuesday referred the
proposed gas compromise to the commit
tee of the whole next Monday for dis
cussion. The report of the committee
was read, stating the basis upon which
the compromise was effected. A bill has
been drafted by the city legal department
covering the essential points of the
upreement and will be submitted to the
legislature If the compromise U endorsed
, It Trill be necessary to procure llglsla
tlon before the agreement would be
come legal.
Following Is the report of the commit
tee of city' commissioners who conferred
wiyi the gas company officials and agreed
upon a compromise.
After numerous and continued confer
ences with the representatives of the
Omaha Gas company, we have arrived
at nn understanding and agreement with
the tcts company substantially as fol
lows; One Dollar Per Thousand.
The Gas company Is to furnish gas to
the consumers of Omaha at One Dollar
per one thousand cublo feet. The gas
ompany Is to pay the city In lieu of
t'ie present occupation tax and royalty
h royalty of $45,000 per year on its present
output" of gas, which output la over seven
ii iiidr - ami fittj million cubic feet per
year and when suoh output reaches eight
million cubic feet per year, the royalty
shall be 0,000 per year, and for each
additional one hundred million cubic feet
of output of gas. the gas company shall
pay an additional $3,000 royalty.
It Is further understood and agreed be
tween your committee an J the gas com
pany that should gas b.- veil'icr-d to 93
cents per 1,000 cubic fe of then
and in that event the royalty tha'.l Vo
correspondingly reduced, in uMier word,
the royalty would be reduced to on.5
twentleth, and It U further agreed should
the price of gas be tuduc.d t- M cent
per 1,000 cublo feet, that the royalty to
be paid the -city by the gas company
should be reduced one-tenth.
From a careful computation of the In
crease of consumption of gas in this city
and in other cities similarly situated,
your committee Is satisfied thai the out
put of gas by the gas company for the
year 1913 will reach 800,000,000 cubic feet
and wll have an average Increase of
G0.OX),000 cubic feet per year for the
next ten years.
May IIII1 Ten Cents Higher.
It is further understood and agreed that
the gas company shall have the right
during the term of any of its contracts
to bill gas to 'the city and private con
sumers at rates and prices 10 oents higher
per 1,000 cubic feet than the rates and
prices fixed, and to be determined by the
contracts, and to charge and collect such
higher rates upon all bills not paid at
the office of the gas company within ten
days after the first day of the month
succeeding the expiration of the period.
In which the gas charged for was sup
plied, but upon all bills so paid, within
such ten clays a discount shall be
allowed of 10 cents per 1.000 cubic feet.
And the gas company shall have the
right to charge and collect from such
person who has a meter Installed, a
.minimum monthly bill of 60 cents, but If
the bill for gas consumed In any month
is at the rate then In force exceeding
the sum of 50 cents such person shall not
be charged any minimum bill for that
jiiontn. i
The gas company is to have the right I
and privilege and may at any time d-ir '
ing the term of any of Its contracts with
the city make rates una prices for gas
in large quantities less thun the rates
and prices fixed and determined by such
contract, but all such rutes and prices
shall be conditioned upon a quantity of
gas to be taken or paid for In some
given period of time or In some particu
lar part of the day or under some other
reasonable condition, and shall be open
and available to all consumers meeting
the conditions, and schedules of such
rate and prices and conditions shall be
filed in the offices of the .lrlc .f the
city and be open to puo'.'c inspection.
Ten-Yenr Kranchlse.
"On these terms tho gas company wants
a contract for a period of not exceeding
ten years, and wants a franchise for a
definite period.
"Your committee is informed by the
legal department that under the present
laws such a contract cannot bo made; It
Is therefore proposed to ask the legis
lature to pass it law allowing the city
of Omaha to grant a franchise by a vote
of the people for such a term of years
as the voters deem proper, but no such
franchise shall be granted In perpetuity,
providing that the charge for gas to
consumers hall never exceed tho price of
II per 1,000 cubic feet, and that a con
tract shall not be made for a period ex
ceeding ten years, and at the end of any
of such contracts tho city council shall
.have the power to fix and regulate the
price of gas for the next contract period.
"It is further agreed that the situation
of the litigation and the effort to en
force the dollar gas ordinance shall re
main In their present condition awaiting
tho outcome of the proposed legislation.
"This committee has given the subject
matter Its most careful and candid con
sideration and believes thut they hav
arrived at a reasonable and Just con
elusion, and believes further that all In
terests of the city can and will be prop
erly safe-guarded both In the legislation
and In the contract hereafter to be made
with tho gas company.
The bill drafted to cover this agree- i
ment among other things sets forth the j
following '
1,000 cubic feet. An additional 10 cents
shall be paid by the consumer for each
1,(00 feet used and not paid for until
after the 10th of the month. The mini,
mum meter rate shall bo 50 cents.
Annuities en follows shall be paid In
lieu of.the occupation taxes, licenses anil
other municipal charges; When gross
annual sales of gas Is 100,000,000 cubic
feet of less, $10,000; between 100,000,00)
and 200,000.000 cubic feet, $15,000, mid so
on, the annuity increasing st the rate of
$o,000 for each l.OOO.OCO feet of gas.
Gas sold this year amounted to about
T75,OO0,0OO and will probably be 800,000.0"0
cubic feet next year, In which case,
under the agreement the city would re
ceive an annuity of $50,000.
In case the price of gas Is reduced to
95 cents per 1,000 cublo feet the annuity
Is reduced by an equal proportionate per
cent, the amount of the city's unnulty
In case of the sale of 800,000,000 cubic
feet of gas being $12,750 Instead of $50,00).
The city Is given power by ordinance
to extend or modify the terms of the
grant. An emergency clause Is attached
to the bill. A special election Is named
as tho menus of approving the ordinance
In which the terms of the grant are embodied.
needed and requests all who have Jobs
to telephone the charities. Hhe also wants
tho publlo to donate a few records for
the graphaphone at Park Wilde, the
woman's home
NEW POSTOFFICE RECORDS
Christmas Business Beats Anything
Omaha Ever Had.
PARK WILDE HOME TO RENEW
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT
Industrial work at Park Wlldo home,
under the ..auspices of the Associated
Charities, will be started soon, as the de
mand for work Is Increaslpg and will Jus
tify the opening of the Industrial depart
incut onoa again.
Secretary Mabel Porter of the
Vrive of caa halt inner ex eed 11.00 t ated Charities tav work for men la
Ryder Will Sit Hard
on the Lid in Omaha
on New Year's Eve
Alas! Alack' -a blank or two, and
other mild forms of expressing deep de
jection. The law will not be suspended New
Year's ove InOmaha.
Chicago set the example the Ancient
and Onery Order of Jolllfters fondly
hoped Omaha would follow. But It could
not be.
"Iaws will be strictly enforced hero
New Year's night." says Police Commis
sioner Ttyder with a determined snap of
his Jaw. "There Is no excuse for usher
ing the new year In with orgies. It will
not be tolerated here."
"Hut they tear loose something fierce
In New York, Chicago, Seattle and San
Francisco," exiostulated one, who has'
resoluted, but will aa usual take one more
Plungo Into the nether regions before
boarding the good ship I.lthta.
"What for?"
"Well, It's New Year's eve," explained
the member of the Jollification order.
All the same Ryder can't see It and
while he will put no ban on boozo before
jS o'clock, after that verycarly hour he
will permit no violation of the city or-'dlnam-es
ur the Mate laws
CLERKS SHOW TRUE COLORS
Men Voluntarily Work Overtime
Without Pay to Jet hr Ilia;
Itnsh of Mull lluiiillril
I Promptly.
Another Indication of the record-breaking
business of the Omaha postofflco for
the holidays Is the fact that $6,000 worth
of postago Btamps were sold Monday.
This, It is said at tho postofflce. Is by
far the greatest sale ever mado at the
postofflce In a single day, barring days
when the railroad companies buy thous
ands of dollars worth In a single day
It sometimes happens that one of the rail
road companies buys a supply of $5,000
worth In a single purchase. The $8,000
sale Monday, however, contained no large
Item outside of tHe regular stamping of
Christmas parcels and letters.
Clerks Ho l-'lne Work.
' The older clerics or the postofflce say
there never were such days of Incoming
and outgoing mall In the history of the
Oinaha postofflco as the last three days
have been. The great bulk of the business
Is cleaned up now, However, and tho
clerks say they are beginning to see
their way clear through tho stacks, and
stacks of mall that had accumulated
within the few days. The halls of the
jKntofdco were still quite busy Tuesdav
morning with peisons mailing pan-els and
letters, but the writhing swarm of hu
manlty had disappeared.
Although the government allows no pay
for overtime for postal clerks and al
though eight hours Is a day, the clerks
and carriers voluntarily worked ten and
eleven hours Monday In order to serve
the patrons and get the work ns nearly
cleaned up for the day as possible.
"This service of an extra two hour
from experienced men." said Postmaster
Wharton, "was worth more than to have
100 extra men give ua a whole day, and
I certainly appreciate the way these meu
were willing to co-operate with the de
partment In tills regard. By tonight I
believe we will havo all the first class
letters and packages out of the way."
Delivery on Christmas.
Two deliveries will be mad in hM,.i.
ness section of the city today and
one delivery In the residence portion.
Tho general delivery, the registry depart
ment and the stamp department will olosa
at 10;S0 this morning. The money
ordor department and the postal savings
bank will not be open at all.
Chronlo BtomarU Trouble Cored.
There la nothing more discouraging than
a chronla disorder of the Btomach. Js It
not surprising that many suffer for years
with such an ailment when a permanent
euro' Is within their reach and may be had
for a trifle? "About one year ago," says
P. II. Beck of Wakelee, Mich.. "I bought
a package of Chamberlain's Tablets, and
since using them I have felt perfectlv
well. I had previous!) used any number
of different in dlclrcs. bjt none of them
vierc of any lasting benefits." Fcr au
tiy all dealers.-. Vdxcrtlscment