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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1913)
THE BlflK: OMAHA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 4. 191.1 What Sort of Clothing Dees-King-Swanson Put on Sale? The very same kind that it sells ovory day In the year the best tnat brains and skill can pro duce. These garments are our own regular stock. but the lots are broken. This store doesn t use the term special sale aB somo stores use It. Half price here moans exactly what It Impllea-rhair of our regular prices. It doesn't mean that our buyer grabs up every question able garment left on the manufacturers hands marks each at an oxhorbltant figure fictitiously 1 S3 nBar Prices, and then reduces these so in t?IegU,y Fr,?e8 t0 ha,f' '8 no a Job if o ,nmnd dur,n.g .a Ha,f Pr,co Sa, t Bells Its Quality Garments In broken lots at ono half the regular all season soiling price. OMAHA'S ONLY MODERN CLOTHING STORE F.S.KING, PRES. THE HOME 9 QUALITY CLOTHES A.S.FECK SEC TRE':- The Sale of All SalesOur Grat All Hal! Prico Garments oh Plain Floor You will understand that thin sale includes all thn broken lotB and wo would not have you understand It otherwise. Staple garments which go unchanged In stylo from season to season Dress and Kvenlng Clothes, for Instance are not Included. To avoid confusion, and, as a matter of convenience, tho broken lots which arc to be sold have been assembled on our big main floor which Bpaco they fill to tho limit. Horo you can seo, In tho most satisfactory way, all tho garments arranged according to size, without having to run all over tho store. ' Think of It, Imaglno If you can, tho variety that can bo found In ono full floor of Men's and Young Men's Clothing, mercilessly reduced. of Men's, and Young, Men's Quality Suits and Overcoats Starts Saturday, Jan. 4th Almost every one recognizes in the above announcement the clarion call to bargains of unapproachable magnitude. A very great many look forward to this event with a feel ing of great economy assured. Few, if any,read the announcement with any degree of misgiving or suspicion. To the majority of men oiks of Omaha and vicinity it is the one big, bargain event of the year. It would be that to all of them if they would but heed the message. We say, without reservation, that this sale will call out the biggest crowds that have as sembled in any clothing store in a year and that the first day will see the greatest jam. Why do we say it what right have we to prophesy? Well, each time we hold one of these sales the crowds are greater than the time before they increase in exact ratio to our increasing business and wider knowledge of different sale methods. This store has grown considerably during the past year and to those people who have helped it to grow no other sale will appear worth considering. Please take your time in making selections even If a sales man should so far forget himself as to hurry you take your time and satisfy yourself we don't believe in rushing you Men of Irregular Build Amply Provided For . "Wo care not a bit how nature has formed you you can. be fitted during this sale. The fellow of regular build has no advantage over you. You may bp ex traordinarily large or extraordinarily small you may be stout, very stout, or you may be thin and tall aud find here a splendid assortment of garments, notonl to fit you but to please ytmr oveiy whim. Fellows of slender, youthful proportions are equally sure of a sat isfactory choice. " Get Here Early, if You Can While we have thousands of garments all our broken lots to dispose of during this sale yet' we advise .early buying on Satur day. Not because of any advantage in selection but for another reason. Tho majority of men work until Saturday noon and must of necessity shop in the afternoons. This results in a Ire- , mendous rush duririg'that parTof the day and you, if you can so arrange it, should buy in tho morning when tho crowd is not so great as a consequence of which our painstaking salesmen can give the best of attention witliout slighting you or the other fellow. Please try to shop early. Fancy and True Blue Serge Suits at'Half Prce Regular $10.00 Salts for. .... $5.00 Regular $20.00 Suits tor . Regular $12.50 Suits for $6.25 Regular $25.00 Suits for . Regular $15.00 Suits for ... . $7.50 Regular $30.00 Suits for. . Regular $18.00 Suits for. .... $9.00 Regular $35.00 Suits for. ' Regular $40.00 Suits for ... . $20.00 Finest Overcoats in Town Now at Half Price , $10.00 . $12.50 . $15.00 , $17.50 Regular $10.00 Overcoats for . Regular $12.50 Overcoats for . Regular $15.00 Overcoats for . Regular $20.00 Overcoats for . Regular $25.00 Overcoats for . . $5.00 . $6.25 , $7.50 . $10.00 $12.50 Regular $30.00 Overcoats for . . $15.00 Regular $35.00 Overcoats tbr . $17.50 Regular $40.00 Overcoats for . . $20.00 Regular S50.00 Overcoats for . $25.00 Regular $60.00 Overcoats for . . $30.10 Regular $75.00 Overcoats for . $37.50 v " WMigWfil 17 'ill'.. t - ' " BUTTER THE SAME AS BEFORE . . mm . ATI J luotationi Still Made weeK Aneau. and Follow Elgin. DM AHA IS TWO CENTS HIGHER Market Supposed to 11 Ilaaed on the I.urr of S apply and Demand U Still Following tho Old llulr. Despite the resolution of the ElRln but i'ter board abandoning the price fixing .committee and basing butter prices on laics, announcements of prices still come rrom there a week In -advance and the Omaha, commission men accordingly fix Omaha's butter prices 2 centsrnore a xiiind, as of old. r This week's report from Elgin says, Witter, 34 based on Kales. Forthwith Lnisha butter men announce, "Hutter, So 'wed on (faltfS." 8o, whether there Is a . 1 - , .m.l.A i , Til. n . 1 r- lli.l IHe UlUtina consumer" ami m ircamiru , . 1 I 4 I . I ..... 10 Pay ' CeillH more u. kjuiiu iur imwii uui- ( 1 .. In. irr Ulan consume iii inr i.ikiii uiduii . i 1. . . nA 1 ,. cr u , ..j, iimrv Initial 9IIU milium, nil .-.p.". In 41 A ..! A How the Elgin butter dealeis can quote a price on the commodity a week In ad vance and "base It on sales" Is a ques tion only they can answer. The ukase from there is that this coming week but ter shall sell for 31 cents a pound and, following suit, the coming week In Omaha butter will be sold for 36 cents. Sume am Ileforc. A. King, manager of llayden Hros. grocery department, declares the Elgin butter board operations are Just the same, now as before "all' the noise" was mado about abandoning the committee fixing prices and allowing the commodity to price itself through supply and demand "When Elglu announces butter at "! cents," nays he, "I ran go to all tho butter dealers In Omaha or this section of the country and have quoted to nie only one price cents. They probably hav a way of figuring out at Elgin what the supply and demand on butter will be a week ahead of time ami announce Ui- price that suits, but If their calculations aro correct tho board probably rou'd make more money setting up as a fortune telling corporation." , Egg prices are tha same thin week u last 17 cents a dosen. Kresh eggs are ?3 rent, both kinds having dropped ,i cent liolnalH Tlmrsduy Eggs are expected to make another drop within a tew days If the weather remains the same or does not get colder. Sugar Is another commodity that mutt come down In price, grocers say! It Is now selling twenty-one pounds for $1, It is said that there are more than 1,000,000 bags of sugar In storage between Omaha and Sioux City that must bj moved If the shippers do not want to pay tho ex pense ot transportation reratlng. Grocers believe some of this amount will be turned out on the market, causing the piHce to drop. 2V.IirB.Uana nt the Hotel.. E. II. GalnTel of Randolph. J. Mack of Oakland, Mrs. N. Harrisrto of Columhuu and W. It. Italuton of Alma are staying at thn Millard. Jay C. Clark of Heatrlce, IS. C. Strode of IJncoln and h. Iirldenthal of Wymore are guests of the llenxhaw. Mr. nd Mrs. Leo 8henrer of Itandolph. S. II. Goodrich of Kiilrbury, Blanche Howling of Eullerton and A. K. Agee of Valley have taken rooms at the Paxton. It. K. I-ee of Madrid, K. C. Hakrr of Tlliloti. E. M.jora of Comgtock and C. ,1. Ilt-nderson of Newport are at the Merchants. J George E. Murphy nf Central City. Roy Hendricks of Itlanrhard nd Mr- and Mrs, JE. I.. Johttoon of MiiHuti have taken qunr jtirs at the Iral. i - . Do not bu yo"r furs until you get our i prices. Julu Orkln, 1510 Duuclas til. JEROME P. MAGEE WINS POINT In Fight Over Pratt Estate His Op ponents Hake Concession. AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED Attorney, for Different Contratnnt. Jlnrn Conference In Coant Jndfrr'a Chambrrit and Ar rlve at Coiuproraalc. Jerome P, Magee, who Is fighting with his father and his brother, Henry W Magee and Wayland V, Magec, over what Is left of the estate of the late Colonel James Ilervey Pratt, haa won a. point. Ills opponents consented to a hear ing on Henry Yf. Magce's IwJXK) claim against tho estate before hearing is hod on Jerome P. Magee's motion to extend the time for filing of additional claims. Hearing on the fX.OOO claim woa set for 1:20 this afternoon. Hen 8. Maker, attorney for Henry W, Magec and Wayland W. Mugea, and J. W. Woodrough, attorney for Jerome 1. Magee, reuched this agreement In a con ference In 'County Judge CrHuford'a r :mb'it -The Masten were preent, but took up iit in the dUcuBilon. It ta apparent that there was between tlmm little of the harmony that ordinarily ex ists between brothers and fathers ojkI sons. Wayland W. Magee and his fathe remained In one corner of the room, whllo Jerome occupied another. When the luto Colonel Pratt died it was found that before his death ho had deeded his principal possession, the J1CO.00O Hum merhlll farm, to his daughters, Mrs. HJalmar Olsson of Hweden and Mrs. Henry W. Magee of Chicago, In undivided halves, Mrs. MHgee had died, leaving her half to her husband. Colonel Pratt'o will left half hU estate to Mrs, Olsson ami thn other half to his grandsons, Wayland W. and Jerome P. Mugec, Hut thn estato Ih worth only about ISi.OQO, ac cording to the appraiser's reiort. Iouarkrji-r llua Clnlni, x Of this amount Mrs. Karla Hehn, the colonel's houstkeoper, claims $12,000, Wer claim being disputed by Wayland W. Magee as executor ot the will and special udmlnlstraur of tho estate. The buttle now Is between Jerome P. Magee on one side. Wayland W. Mugoe und Henry W. Magee on another, und Mrs. Itchu on a third. Following llinry Magee's filing of a lS.OOO claim ugulnst the estate for at torney's fees Jerome asked that the tlm for filing addltlomtl claims bo extendi!. as It will expire by operation of law next week. Wayland W. and Henry Mugeu objected," If their. objection had been sus tained Jerome would have been barred from filing any further claims against tho estate to counter Henry W, Mogee'p claim, fly the stipulation Jerome may fight Henry W. Magee's claim, aud If he loses that fight he still will havo a chance to gain an extension of time and file more claims for himself. Hearing on his motion to extend thn time was continued by stipulation until March L Jeromo P. Magee, who recently pur chased Mrs. HJalmar Olssou's halt In terest In the Huinmerhlll farm, has filed suit against Henry W. Mageo and Way land W, Magee In district court for parti tion of tho property. If it cannot be di vided he wants It sold and tho proceeds divided between him and his father. At 1:20 linker. an attorney for Henry W, nnd Wayland W. Magee asked for tutthcr postponement of hearing on the ftf.OOO claim, whorouimn Woodrough charged Wayland W. Mageo with failure to ox eeute the will of Colonel Prat atTd Svlth delaying administration of thn estate. He filed an application for an order eoin mnndlng Wayland W. Mugeo cither to take up the o5,CO claim und others and proceed with administration or show causu fur his alleged dilatory tactics. Hearing on this application will be had within a few days, sarpy county Farmers meet in papillion r PAPILMON, Neb., Jan. 8. (Special.) Tho Harpy county farmers' Institute opened Its ninth annual session here yes terday, Tho exhibits number two hun dred and ore of an oxcellent quality. The. afternoon session was opened by the ad dress of welcome by K. G. Vase, and was followed by Mr, Noyes of Waterloo who spoke on "Tho Silo In Its Relation to thn Block Industry In Nebraska." Miss Hulda Petersen of Holdrego gayes an in teresting talk on Junior clubs. The evening session was devoted to Junior work und Mr. Collins, county sup erintendent ot public Instruction, presided. Muslo was furnished by the Papilllon band, and a itumber of songs and roedta tloim were tondcred by the Papilllon high achool. 'MUs Peterson spoke on "Getting thcGlrls and Hoys Interested." Mr. 1C. V. Parrish, manager of the puo Ucity bureau oT the Omaha Commercial club, addressed the audience on '"Ch Relntlon of a City to tho Trade Terri i