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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913. !1 BEIEF OITY NEWS SldtUty Btorage ft Tu Co, Doug. 151. Save Boot Print Xt Now Beacon Press. r. Xlnsler Brandels Theater Bldg.. None and Throat. Phono Douglas ISM. lighting TUrores repaired and refln tahed. Burgess-3randen Co.. Douglas CSL Hayden Ooea to ew Tork Joseph Zlayden, head o the firm of llayden Broth era, has gone to New York on a short business trip. rTotice Mr residence. 482S Florence Blvd. Price reasonable, terms asr. Pleased to show property. Inquire for me. Phone Douglas 2524. Rome Miller. School Exercises Friday Monmouth Park school will have field day exer cises Friday afternoon. The bora will engage In athletlo events and the girls will do "wand drills." The State Sank oX Omaha pays 4 per cent on time deposits. S per cent on sav ing accounts. The only bank in Omaha Whose depositors are protected by the depositors' guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska. 17th and Harney streets. Saloon Keeper Sued Suit against Daniel Hcdgren, saloon keeper, for 10.-, 000 damages for selling liquor to John Dunn, her husband, has been started by Mrs. Josephine Dunn In district court. Sues Neighbor tor Assault Mrs. Mary A. Brooksbitnk has brought suit for J5.000 damages In district court for an alleged beating with a broomstick In the hands of Mrs. Anna K. Rlcnardson, a neigh bor. Saloon Sobbed John Suplo's saloon, 307 South Eleventh street, was entered by thieves. They gained entrance to the place by cutting a panel from the rear door and too $3.50 In pennies and an automatic revolver. Dixon Gives Himself Up William Dixon, stopping at the Murray hotel, walked Into tho police station yesterday morning and gave himself up to the au thorities. Dixon Is wanted for working a confidence game In Salem, 111. He gave himself up thinking a civil suit had been tiled against him. Thlsves Bansaek Booms Antor. Urbar and Charles Gross, 1411 Chicago street. telephoned the police that thieves had ransacked their apartments during the night, leaving nothing but a union suit, a pair of trousers and a corduroy shirt. The men's watches, some small change and $30 in bills were Included In the hauL Orders Wells Closed Health Commis sioner Connell has ordered the follow ing wells closed on account of dlseaso germs In tho water: John Vinum, 4209 Lake street; Albert Turner, 3122 Bur dette; H. It. Kohre, SS13 North Twenty eighth avenue; J. K. Hammond, 3403 North Thirteenth: J. "W. Haman, 1410 South Fourteenth. Mrs. Pick Asks Divorce Mrs. Emma Ia. Pick, wife of Joseph Pick, manager of the American Supply company, has brought suit for separate maintenance against her husband, asking the district court to allow her $200 a month. They were married In Chicago in 1X53 and have one daughter, Janette, aged 10 yean. Cruelty and non-support are alleged. Stops Auto Xrfunp Thief A youth about 19 years of age was stopped Wednesday night by C. Haberstroh, 2783 Hamilton street, while removing the lamps from an automobile in that vicinity. Haberstroh took a shot at the boy, who fled, leaving the lamps he had secured behind him. A good description of the thief ,has ben furnished the police. Husband, Deserts Her Mm. W. C Irving' of Sioux City has reported to the police that her husband Has deserted her. She is staying with relatives at 002 North Twenty-fourth street. Mr. Irving had been rooming at IMS Webster street, but when an officer arrived at the house ho was Just five minutes too late, for Irving, with his belongings, had leii. White Slave Case to Jury Argument In the case of tho government against William Murray and Louis Grossman, charged with violating the Mann white fllave act, was completed yesterday and shortly after lunch recess the case went to the jury. The defendants are charged with' transporting Grace Addlngton of Omaha to Memphis for Immoral pur poses. Trafflo Club at Banquet Tho Omaha Passenger Traffic club, an organisation that is the outgrowth of the City Pas senger association that was active in rati road circles when tickets were bought and Bold like sugar, before the Hepburn law became operative, making it hazard ous to ride on a ticket bought of a scalper, is to banquet Saturday night. The affair will occur at the Millard hotel nd will be purely a social function; Palls to Keep Quarantine Michael Romeo, city employe, living at Twenty second and Pacific streets, was fined to and costs In police court for breaking a scarlet fever quarantine at his home. It was later found that he had m cured per mission from his physician to do so and the sentence was suspended. Romas, who Is the father of four children,' one of whom had the disease, moved but a short time ago while the home was still finder quarantine. Corn Planting Delayed la Xowa James E. Preston, commercial agent for the Milwaukee road at Denver, but for many years connected with he Omaha offices. Is In the city, on his way from a month spent in the east. Coming through 1111 nols and Iowa he noted crop conditions and says that while small grain looks fine, everything points .to the season being very backward for corn. Fields are flooded with water, and If good weather should return, it will be several days be fore farmers will be able to get onto the t round to any work. RALSTON FUND N EARING TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND Tho Ralston relief fund Is ateadtly ap pro aching the 123.000 mark. The recent receipts amounted to 230 and are as fol lows i Previously acknowledged 12.463.00 International Land & Investment company . 3-00 Town and county of Nantucket, Mass. 45.00 A. C Groetschel 6-00 Valentine Schram, Papilllon x.OO J. Knox O'Nell S-M C. J. Fernandes : 8.00 Inland Crystal Salt Co., Salt Laks City. Utah ., 10.09 Albert Cahn 6.00 Walter Molse 4 Co., 10.00 The Pabst Co 1&.00 Farmers' Elevator Co., Sallx. Ia.. 6.00 C. H. Oulon. Hollywood, CaL ... 10.00 Chlckering Bros.. Chicago 6.00 James Richardson . 6.00 Romann & Bush, Iron and Coke Co st, Louis 10.00 National Printing Co. ., 10.00 Price A Teeplo Piano company Chicago 10.00 Best & Russell Cigar Co., Kan sas City 10.00 Leo Baroch 100 Belmont restaurant 6.00 Omaha Paint and Glass Co. .... 6.00 Thomas Kilpatrlck & Co 60.00 Total ..t23,S5.50 Key to the Situation Bee Advertising. ENTERTAIN GRADE PUPILS High Sohool Students to Show the Activities There. CADETS WILL DRILL FOR THEM Booster Clnb to Xeail In the lit fort to Induce More to Enter the Omaha Illith School In the Pall. Grade school graduates, the number of C50. wilt be entertained by tho pupils of the Omaha High school Thursday to get the eighth graders Interested In the many academto activities of the scnool. There they will be entertained the entire fore noon, the school being thrown open to them. The regiment. will form for a full dress parade on the campus In -front of tho building. After review tho visitors will be taken to tho school auditorium. Frank HlxcnbauEh, tho president of the Boosters' club, will have charge, of the program welcoming tho future high school students and Introducing the other speakers, who are students chosen to represent some definite school activity. The many advantages of taking an academic course will bo given by students representing tho twenty-two literary' or ganizations and the regiment, representing tho nine companies and band. The ath letics and manual training of the boys will be made separate topics, while gymnasium and domestlo science will be taken up for the girls. One of the regu lar debaters on the Omaha squad will show the visitors what a student may get out of the high school If he does not In tend to go to college. Reception Committer. Since most of the eighth grade puplla have not been through the budding, the reception committee will take them through the various departments domes Uo science, lunch room, gymnasium and manual training. The program as arranged la: Selection, Mandolin club. Welcome, Frank Hlxenbaugh, Boosters' club. Athletics, Leslie Burkenroad. Debates, Barney Kulakoftky. Vocal solo, Gertrude Aiken. Literary societies, Mary Haller. Register, Carlisle Allan. "How the Pupils Stand When They go to College." Luclle Dennis. Recitation, Mr. Mills. "What a Girl Who is not Going to Col lege May Get Out of This School," Edna Levlne. What a Boy Who Is Not Going to Col lege May Get Out of This School," Earl Tlchnor. "A High Sohool Freshman's Experi ence," John Sunderland. Selection, Glee club. tssssBasasMHSMsassB Visiting Nurses Make Many Calls . in Month of April Visiting Nurses received a check for 1300 from the Nebraska State purses as sociation, the money having been received from the sale of Christmas seals. At the regular meeting held at the Paxton, Mrs. lAither H'ounUe presided. It was reported that the '.uraea had made 488 visits during the month, the calls having been made on 133 patients., WEATHER' CLEARER AND SUN SHINES IN THE WEST According to railroads the weather Is clearing out in the state and there is a possibility of on era of sunshine. Tester day over the west half of the stato the sun was shlntng and temperatures ranging from 35 to GO degrees above zerd. In the South Platte country and down through the south part of the state and In Kansas It was still raining yester day. Wymore reported two and three fourths Inches; Stromsburg, Hastings and two or three others an inch during Thursday night. WASHINGTON YOUNG WOMEN ORGANIZEJJNIQUE CLUB Owing to the scarcity of available men in Washington, D. C, a number of eligi ble young women there have organized what Is to be known as "The Unique" club. It Is understood that they are be tween 20 and 20 years of age and of the best families and have organized for the purpose of corresponding with western men seeking helpmeets. The address Is given as the Unique club, general deliv ery, Washington, D. C. Players Members of -The Knight for a Day" company from the Hippodrome theater, and players from the Krug burlesque shaw house entertained ths delegates to SB NSW PREOTOF STATE DR. JAMES H. WALUCE, Omaha. Dr, Wallace Elected President of State Dental Society Dr. J. II. Wallace of Omaha waa elected president of the Nebraska Dental society at the meeting yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Rorao. Dr. W. A. McIIenry of Nel son, Neb., was elected vice president, Dr. H. J. Porter of Cambridge secretary, and Dr. 11. E. King of Omaha treasurer. Lin coln was chosen as the next meeting place of the society, to be held the third week In May of next year. Nebraska Medics Get Diplomas Here Thursday Night Nine graduates are tq receive diplomas Thursday evening from the University of Nebraska medical school. The com mencement exercises are to be held at the First Methodist church at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Dr. Frank Crane, for merly an Omaha colrgyman, now a writer and lecturer, Is to deliver the ad dress of the evening. Chancellor Samuel Avery of the University of Nebraska Is to grant tho diplomas. HIGH 'SCHOOL SOCIETIES TO HOLD A JOINT MEETING Six literary societies of the Omaha High school will hold a Joint meeting in the school auditorium Friday. An ex cellent series of topics have been pre pared for this meeting. The members of the societies were given tickets for their parents and friends. The work in each society is supervised by tho following teachers: The Elaine society, Miss Sullivan; Latin society, Miss Snyder: Pleiades society, Miss von Mansfelde; Lowell society, Miss Bon nell; Lamron society. Miss Isaacson; Demosthenlan Debating society. Mr. Bernstein. The, senior class held an important meeting Tuesday to determine whether or not to have a senior banquet this year. The class decided to give .one June 19, tho night before commencement. To lower the price per plate for the students they also decided to take tlOO from the proceeds of the senior play. This has been done by all, preceding classes. A banquet committee will be appointed to determine whore the banquet shall be held. Tho class also decided to havti Its baccalaureate sermon the 8unday after the cadets return from their encamp ment, June 15. The services will be held at the First Methodist church, with Rev. M. B. Williams as- speaker. WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS SIGNED BY JUDGE TROUP The writ of mandamus in the case' of the Water Board against the city has been signed by Judge Troup. This authorizes the city commissioners tos It at a board of equalization and tax property owners for the extension and improvement of the water system accord ing to the value accruing to suoh prop erties in the discretion of the commis sioners, i Persistent Advertising is the Road to. Big Returns. Who Delighted Ad Club Men tbe convention cf the mrtV (st division of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America at the Field club last Tuesday evening. The banquet was glvta by the AD M ffll) BANQUET Newspapers of City Give Spread at tho Field Club. WOMEN AND MEN OF STAGE AID Members of Northwest Illvlslon of Associated Qlaba Knterlnlned by Skit anil Tarns in Clever Fashion. A banquet without lectures, addresses, toasts or talks of any serious nature was given the northwest division. Associated Advertising Clubs of America at the Field club last night by tho three Omaha newspapers. There was nothing about It for the attendants to go home and ponder over, no particular thoughts to stlmulato the brain cells there was Just tun and the banqueters got the In trinsic value out of It. Almost the entire company from the Hippodrome theater gave a series of songs and responded to encores without number, an act from the lCrug theater was hilariously received and several pro fessional cabaret performers helped till tho program of Joy. Dan Desdune, whose versatility is unquestioned, loader of tho band bearing tils own naroo, as well as supervisor In tho billiard room of the Commercial club, occupied the stage for more than an hour giving violin selec tions. Toon as a climax Robert Manley, president of the Omaha Ad club, sat at the piano to give a song or two, probably of his own make. Lorn nnd nuslnms Letters. Before tho service began Charles E. Duffle made a short talk on "Letters That Bring Business." It was an ad dress he was to have delivered at the afternoon session of tho convention, but did not have tlmo because of the ad journment for the delegates to tako an automobile trip over the rebuilt tornado district. He compared the love letter with the business letter and said that If the average love letter was like the aver age business letter not one mail In fifty would get married. Three elements to be Incorporated In the business letter, he said, were attention, Interest creating a desire and persuasion to buy, These qualities, correlative In the love letter, of course, seldom were to be found In the business letter. Omaha High Plays Linooln Saturday The Omaha High school base ball team will play Lincoln High school at Lincoln. Saturday. This game will be the big game, of the season and the Omaha team Is tuning up to win. Tho team Is In ex ceptionally good condition now, and Omaha seems headed for victory. Wednesday It will play tho Blair team at Blair, and next week It will play Avoca,' Neb.i and Harlan. At the High school cadet encampment, which will be during the second week of. June, the base ball team will probably play a aeries of games with tbe Missouri Valley team, since tho encampment ia at that place. Ask Aid for Widow of Tornado Victim The relief committee has been naked to assist the widow of Dan Latferty, who died Tuesday of exposure and over ex ertion during tho tornado, immediately following an illness. His friends say that Latferty, who was an elderly man and whose home at 3309 Charles street waa destroyed by the storm, haa been over looked by the relief organizations and an appeal has been made to J. A. C. Kennedy to assist the widow and one living child. Lafterty waa' a painter. RYDER WILL ACCEPT THE RESIGNATION OF STASZAK . Resignation of Caspar Staszak, police officer charged with drunkenness 'on duty, will be accepted by Police. Commis sioner Ryder, who will report to the city commission at the Tuesday meeting and recommend acceptance. Police Commissioner Ryder will permit the affair to drop with the acceptance of the resignation, unlesa those Interested In the charges of disorderly conduct by Staszak desire to press the charges and Institute an investigation. Staszak Is charged with Intoxication Sunday while on duty. Ha proffered his resignation when the charges were made, and Police Commissioner Ryder withheld any action on the resignation until today, r.etvspaiiers or me my an-j wmi one "grand success." The accompanying photograph shows the Hippodrome play era who ware present at the Field club. BBBBBBaWBBriBBBWBaBSBaYZTKST1 The Now Stylos Woro Nover So Charming. Tho Variotioa "Woro Nover So Great as Tho so Wo Aro' Now Showing in OUR MAY SALE OF WAISTS Every week and practically ovory day brings forward fresh, crisp lots of tho season's clovorcst walsta at prices that prove again tho BUporlor power of Urandola buying system. Snppinl A Remarkable Group of Waists & VK,Ki u' in Midsummer Modols at PI Buch dainty waists might readily sell for a considerably higher prloo. The low nock offocts with tho now roll collur, tho now features In. short alcoves, tho pretty frill fronts are all foatured In this ktouu of waists. m.m I! temptingly arrayed on special mm Watch for Our Ad in Thursday Evening Papers Greatest Money-Saving Sale Ever Known in Omaha A Situational Bargain Eieit That Will Be Remembered for Y$art Files Suit for lire Insurance; House Burned Afterward Acting as attorney for Margaret EX fiulllvan, 4309 Harney streot, John O, Kuhn has filed a suit against the Fidelity Phoenix Fire Insurance company of New York to recover the face of a policy on a property which was destroyed by the tornado and bumed Immediately afterwards. Tho Insurance company argues that tho house was a total wreck before the tire broke out and that 13,000 fire Insurance covering loss did not accordingly apply under the conditions of the policy. This Is the first case of a suit being brought to recover fire Insurance on buildings destroyed during the tornado. Says His Friends Tossed Him in Air and Got His Purse Thomas K. Kinney, tfSX Lake street, reported to the police that he bad been robbed by Jack Clark and John Culver of a purso containing Its at Nineteenth and Farnam streets. Kinney stated that bo was walking east on FVirnam when he met hla two friends, who, feeling In a kittenish mood, tossed him In the aU, and when he came down he was minus the pocketbook and Its contents. It ap prehended It Is doubtful prhat charges Will be filed against the men probably high air robbery, or tossing with Intent to steal VETERAN UNDER SENTENCE FOR ARGUING WITH WIFE J, W. Walker, aged IS years, 1564 North Eleventh street, dressed In the uniform in nrlilnh tin fnuirht th rabftls In the Tear f k. r.h.lllnn waa hmuiht before JUdCo ! Altstadt charged with disturbing the peace. The old man. who was a gunner during the war, Is almost totally deaf from the noise of the cannon, which he operated, and the questions of the court hod to be shouted to him through a rub ber tubing, which, attached to a receiver, he held In his ean Walker's trouble arose from a heated argument, over somo household event, which, he carried on with his wlfo, who is li years old and his fifth spouse. He was given sixty days, suspended sentence. CHARITY WORKER TELLS OF MINNEAPOLIS ACTIVITIES Miss Marion Tebbltts. trained worker of the Associated Charities, who came 'here from Minneapolis to help in ths tornado relief work, spoke to the advisory com mittee at a meeting at the University club at noon. She praised the churohes, relief societies, dispensaries, courts, phy sicians and attorneys of her home town for the manner In which they co-operate In campaigns against poverty. It was on ih rcelrt of the reDort of Miss Tebbltts that the relief committee of Minneapolis I sent 11,000 for relief work in Omana. '31 .iAxkfumvMjaMM!iis.m m'.tluMi imw iu BaaaaaaMsrMaam' tables 2d floor, 3k I Episcopal Council Opens at Trinity Cathedral Today With thirty clerical ond sixty lay dele gates in attendance, the forty-sixth an nual council of tho Kplscopal diocese of Nebraska convened yesterday morning -it Jacobs Memorial hall. Holy , communion services opened the confofonoo. 1)1 shop A. L. Williams was celebrant, Doan Tan- cock gospeller and IUv. John Williams) epistoior. Itev. Irving P, Johnson of Minneapolis, formerly of Omaha, preached tho ser mon. Ha spoke of the three-fold revela tion. The services were held in Trinity oliunoh. William II. Moore was re-elected sec retary and rtev. John Albert Williams assistant secretary. SOCIALISTS CONDOLE WITH FAMILY OF LATE MEMBER At a meeting of the socialist party of Omaha in Its hall, Nineteenth and Far nam streets, Tuesday evening n resolu tion of condolence to the family of tho late Thomas Phillips was adopted. Mr. Phillips wom an ardent socialist and worked Incessantly In behalf of the party's welfare. Persistent Advertising is the Road to J)tg Returns. Eastern Excursion Fares Via Illinois Central Effective Juno 1st Summer Excursion tioWts will bo on sale daily to many points in the Eastern States at greatly reduced fares. Return limit sixty days from date oP sale as follows; ... rm,r 1 ATLANTIC OITY, N. BOSTON, MASS MONTREAL. P. Q QUEBEC, P. Q v, .$40.50 PORTLAND, ME $43.85 BUFFALO, N. Y. $33.50 DETROIT, MIOH , $27.50 TORONTO., ONT $31.10 Low rates jilso to many other points. Attractive tours via the Great Lakes, tho St. Lawrence Eiyer and Thous and Islands. Detailed information and rates at City Ticket Office, 407 So. 16th St., Omaha. Women's New Short Draped Silk Coat s Nonstylo has mot with qu ick or popularity. Thoso coatr j ro just unlquo onough to 'sake thorn dlfforont trom tho .coats of nny previous soason. r jraco ful, practical and ultra- inmrt, Worth up to $18. at Favorite Styles, are ths New Coats of Wool Serge and NovoUy Cloth Prom this group any 'vornan can choose a vary becoming coat in a cloyor, now stylo at a price that Is considerably 1cm than regular. Tho now color lugs of tho season. This group Included a number of e&mpla 1 of e&mpla $10 oais ignrmwiui ai oxtra value). Alado to soil up to $20, at Shoo Dept. Main Floor Women's Psmps Mow, up-to'-dato styles In .pat ent Joathor, dull calkskln, black ouedo- and white nubuck, with or without straps, perfect fitting pumps In nil dSlAQ sUeo and widths. at, pair .......... Japanese Bath Bllppers for Men and Women r- all sites, ttt lOd Thursday is Chocolate Dajr in Onr Candy Dept., .JOc Chocolates, lb Girl Breaks Away from Mother and Jumps Into Auto Mrs. Mary Kills of Plain. Kan., came to Omaha Monday for the purpose of taking home her daughter, who has been staying at the Good Shephra's Home; The mother and girl were mak ing for ths depot, when, at Thirteenth and Dodge, the daughter broke away from her parent and Jumped Into a pass ing automobile. The mother reported the Case to the polio and has instructed ihem to notify her son-in-law, William, who lives at 01T North Sixteenth street If they find htr. WATOE THURSDAY NIGHT PAPERS Branieis Stores Will Announce the Big. gest Money Saving Sale in Western History. 1 - n$46.50 $43.50 $46.00 $45.60 J. ... '. . ... . . ... . i r$46.50 $42.50 Vf ...... .$36.50