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THE OMAHA STNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 14, 1013.
Men's $1.25 to' $1.50 SHIRTS at 79c
Closing OutJMEN'S JFUR COATS
Men's fur coals, guaranteed to give service, made of carofully selected and
matched coonskln, calfskin or pony skin, $32,50 to $100 values, for
519.50, $27.50, 39.50.67.50,S87.50
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Custom tnndo dress and negligee shirts, with attached laundered and
turn-back soft cuffs; made of fine French panang, madras, gingham
and .French cord shirting; an extensive assortment of neat, dressy pat
terns, in light, medium and. dark colorings; $1.35 and $1,50 valncs, at
79c
WE ARE GOING OUT OF THE
CLOTHING
MEN'S
BUSINESS
"pVERY Suit, every overcoat, every pair of pants, must be sacrificed to make room for the enlargement of the various main floor
sections that they may take care of the demands caused by the marvelous increasing business that is daily coming to this store
Suits (& Overcoats, at About V2 Price
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It's n clothing sale of unprecedented magnitude coming ns it does at a time when you will bo benefited most nffording an opportunity to
choose from clothing that represents the pjrocluct of tho best makers of rendv-for-servico gannonts in this country, including such fanlons makes as
MICHAEL STERN, ATERBURY AND MANY OTHERS. All offered to you at prices that barely represent tho cost of making. It's indeed a cloth
ing buying opportunity of a lifetime, nnd no man with a need of this sort can afford to lot it Blip by without taking advantage of it. Take an hour
or so off Monday and come you'll find it a splendid investment. Four groat price groups:
Suits and Overcoats
Values to $12.50 for
Suits and Overcoats
Values to $17.50 for
Suits and Overcoats
Values to $25.00, for
Suits and Overcoats
Values to $35.00, for
$1085
BOYS' HIGH QUALITY SUITS AND OVERCOATS
GO INTO THIS SALE AT A GREAT SACRIFICE FOUR GROUPS
LOT 1-Boys' $
Suits & O'coats
$3.50 values for
m
LOT 2-Boys' $
Suits & O'coats
$4.50 values for
2
QC LOT 3 boys' S
WW 1 1 r ah i
suns & u'coais
$6.50 Values for
LOT 4 Boys' $
Suits & O'coats
$8.50 values for
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Iff,
Remarkable Values tor Monday in Men's Furnishings and Shoes
Men's 50c Underwear, 33c
Men's extra heavy, fancy rib
bed cotton un
der BblrtB and
drawers, best
50c val., garment. .
33c
Men's 25c Garters, 14c
Men's Boston or Paria Garters,
white, black and
colors, good web
bing elastic; 25c
values, pair
14c
Men's 75c "Workshirts 38o
Tile ramous rreomtm -r
made of heavy chambray, percale
blue, tan ana
fancy stripe pat
terns, all sizes,
per garment
ray, percaio
38c
Men's 25c Sox, lie
Choice ot tho famous Bakor
ma co box, black, ton
and gray, excellent
25c values; Bale
price, pair
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Men's $6.00 Nettleton SHOES at $445
Not all oddB and ends but; a full and completo stock of
this season's goods, comprising ovor 1,000 pair. In this
sale you will find
Every Leather, Every Staple and
All the Most Favored Styles
In this sale you have unrestricted choico of every $6.00
Nettleton Shoo in our store at
A 45
Shawknit 35o Sox, 17c
The most popular cashmoro
wool box tho Shawknit, war
rnnfrtrt fnnt. ntnln- m
loss black: Bee- 1 7C
onda of 3Co and I 1
2Kn ktnitfl. nn.lr
Men's $2.50 Hats, $1.00
Big atock of men's aoft hats, in
black and all staplo
and fancy shades
$2.60 kinds your
choico, at
$1
$3.00 Union Suitj, $1.80
89
Wright's $3.00 wool
ribbed union suits,
natural gray colon
$3.00 values
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$1.00 Underwear, 59o
Wool Toxturo and
Wright's soft, heavy CflC
flat flooco lined un
derwear, $1 values..
59'
;Orkin Bros. 16th and Harney..
;Orkin Bros. 16th and Harney.;
TALKS ON RETAIL SELLING
G. W Hopkins Gives Grocerymcn
' . Some Valuable Pointers.
SPEAKER URGES SQUARE DEAL
Tells Retailers that Cutomer Only
Star Those Merchants
i iVTto Give Tbein Kamest
' Mfunarrs.
He emphasized the value of a dealer's
window working In " eo-operatlon ,wltl
tholr other advertising, and urged the re
tailer to pay more attention to using his
window to advertise profitable goods,
taking pains to have a window that will
provo a good advertisement, and not
leave the boy to throw In Buch a display
as can be placed with the least possible
trouble. He pointed out that to take
advantage of these windows every clerk
should call the attention of the window
to overy customer who comes In to make
a purchase. It this Is done they will find
the customer has been Impressed by the
display, and when reminded, will buy.
In other words, the retailer should Inter
lock his advertising with his sales.
The value of front storo display and
the value of the first fifteen or twenty
feet shelf room was emphasized, and
the suggestion made that a dealer rear
range his front store and front shelves
according to the. profit the goods show
and not particularly according to the
convenience Jn getting at the goods. In
other words, staple, goods will be asked
for where specialties that show tho most
profit have to be where people can see
them coming In aild going oU,t of the
htnrc.
Would Train the Clerks.
He also emphasized the value of train
ing clerks to intelligently talk the value
of the goods on sale, and the value ot
making them salesmen Instead of mere
clerks.
Particular attention was called to the
value of courtesy on the part of delivery
clerks, and he kajd It was of greater
value than a out price.
The changing of display in a store was
alto brtught out. The value of so chang
ing the arrangement of goods that some
thing different will attract the eye each
time the customer comes into the store.
("curtesy to salesmen, who have some
thing to sell, and a fow minutes undi
vided attention on the part of tho mer
chant was shown to be the quickest way
to dispose of a salesman. A few minutes
cf undivided attention enables the right
kind of a salesman 13 present his story
and the merchant to take advantage of
tho many offers that will prove money
making propositions to the customer.
Particular emphasis was laid on the
danger of overstocking and the value
of a quick turn over of merchandise.
Many times' a merchant will purchase a
three months' supply of goods that can
Just as well be replenished every two
weeks. By purchasing overy two weeks
tho profit on the amount Invested
doubles and trlpplea the profit on over
stock. Buying lrf sufficient quantities
you keep goods fresh, Insuring a quick
turn over, greater sales and a release
of capital to Invest In other merchan
dise. I YJrarea Square Deal..
Truth an' a square deal was also em
phasized. The possibilities of selling goods over
the telephone by calling customers at
tthelr home at a regular hour, or cer
tain days was demonstrated as being
successful In some stores. This Is par
ticularly true where the tendency Is to
order over the telephone.
Mr. Hopkins expressed the policy or
the Loose-Vlles Biscuit company In their
sale of Sunshine biscuits as being a
desire to assist the merchant In mer
chandising his goods, and called atten
tion to the study that has been placed
on retail sclUng for the last two years.
It Is Mr. Hopkln's believe tnat Instead
of W per cent of the grocers falling, Js
the present record, that proper under
standing of the possibilities of the re
tall grocery business will not only In
crease the percentage of the successful
grocers, but will demonstrate tnat the re
tall grocery business Is a profitable busi
ness to conduct.
The talk on retail selling contained a
groat many points, whleh the retail groc
ers present expressed themselves aa be
ing able to use every day lu their busi
ness. Double Murder in
Millinery Store
CHICAGO, Dec 1J. Louis F, Nleman,
proprietor of a millinery shop, and his
wife were shot b.k1 killed, and Mrs.
Bmanuel Harner was probably fatally
wounded here this afternoon by the
tatter's divorced husband, who then shot
and kllUd himself. The shooting took
place In Nleman's store. Mrs. Lena
Harner was approached by her former
husband while In the store. She refused
to talk with him and then Nelman and
h's wife Interfered to protect her Harner
became enraged and sect the three.
THIRTEEN LUCKY FOR HIM
H. E. Fredriokson Likes that Num
' ber, and Also Three.
REVIEWS HIS SUCCESS IN OMAHA
Came Here .Twenty Yenra Aeo with
J tut Six Dollars lu Ilia Jeans
nud Ilaa Climbed Ever .
Since.
"The numbers 13 and 3 havo been my
lucky dope all tho way through," says
IL K. Frederlckson, Nebraska consul for
the Lincoln highway and former automo
bile dealer of Onlaha. "Why? Well, I'll
tell you. This Is the thirteenth day of
December, 1913. Today I have been In
Omaha twenty years, and I am happy,
fl landed here from Fremont twenty
years ago on tho thirteenth of Decem
ber, 1833. 1 had 16 In my pocket, and I
mado good on that."
Fredrlckson la a pioneer in the auto
mobile business In Omaha. It was his
order that took the first tralnload of
automobiles out of Detroit. It was
Fredrlckson who brought the first traln
load of automobiles Into Omaha.
Arriving In Omaha with JU. he grabbed,
a job as shoe salesman; later he went
to work In a bicycle store. Here he got
the fever for bicycle racing, and In a
short time had grabbed both the ama
tour and the professional championship
of the state, both of which he holds to
this day. He does not announce that
he Is willing to rneU all comers at this
date, aa he Is not as young as he was
at twonty, but It happened that auto
mobiles attracted the attention of racing
enthusiasts before Fredrlckson had a.
chance to lose his plumes.
Told lllm He Was Polish.
Then he went Into the bicycle buvlncss
for himself. After a time he went Into
the buggy business. Then he made the
big jump and began selUng automobiles.
In 1901 when he received his first ship
ment of three largo automobiles, he says
many of tho then leading business men
ot Omaha stood and Viewed the big ma
chines before a hotel, and told him ho
was a very foolish man and that he
would never sell them In this city. "They
gave me a lot of fatherly advice that
morning," says Fredricksan, "telling mo
sincerely that I was making a great mis
take and that I was going into the
wrong kind of a business." But he went
ahead and soon was shipping In train-l-ads
of automobile).
Two yeara ago he was chairman of
the county roads committee of the Com
mercial club. He Is one of tho felow
that always tries to make good when
placed on a committee. Later he laid
out the roads between Omaha and Sioux
City and between Omaha and Kansas
City. It Is his hopo now that the roads
he then laid out will Boon be recognized
as feeder roads to the greatLlncoln high
way from these two points. Soon he
went west to use his Influence In devel
oping and Improving the roads between
Omaha and Salt Lake. Ha says he had
a dream then that tho ocean-to-ocenn
highway was not far In the future, and
In order to get Omaha on the map ot
the road when It should como he set to
work In advance' to so Improve the road
between Omaha and Bait Lake that It
would naturally be selected as a section
of the Oreat highway when that project
should become a tact, as It now is.
Frodrlckson retired from the automo
bile business a few years ago and has
since been devoting most of his time and
energy to good roads movements. For
the last several months he has been busy
In several states working out intricate,
details In connection with the pushing
of the Lincoln highway movement. Some
time In January he and Mrs. Frodrlck
son will make a trip to Florida nnd South
America, where they expect to spend the
winter.
Oregon Town Wefy
Judge Declares the
Elections Illegal
SALEM, Ore., Deo, U After twice hav
Ing been doclared "dry" by the majority
of the voters, this city again reverted to
tho "wet" side, by a decision of Judge
Galloway of the circuit court. The court
held both the local option measure
passed November and tho charter
amendment prohibiting tho issuance of
saloon licenses, adopted December 1, to
be invalid and primarily restrained city
officials from attemptng to enforce them.
Tho court holds that under the statutes
local option measures may be votod on
only at regular elections which fall on
even years. The amendment election was
declared Invalid because the voters had
registered under a law declared uneon
stltutlonal by the supreme court.
"In passing on these case that are so
unduly agitating our people," said Judge
Galloway, "the court cannot too strongly
condemn the prevailing mania for the
ever-recurring eleetions whleh only dis
tract the people and paralyze Industries
and business." He added that the trouble
was not due to tho Increase In the vot
ing population through woman suffrage,
but was simply a mania.
FINDS NEW PLANT A WONDER
Prank Crawford Enthusiastic About
Burbank's Spineless Caotus.
IT WILL GROW ON THE DEBERT
Produces l'rollfle and Nourishing
Crop for Man nnd l)rn, nnd
Needs Very Little Moist
ure to Mntnre It.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
Both the wonders and possibilities of tho
Burbank spineless and fruiting cactuses
are being enthusiastically narrated In
Omaha by Attorney Frank Crawford. He
has Just returnod from a month's busl
ness trip to tho Pacltlo coast, and brought
with him soma of tho fruit of the newly
dovcloped edible, In order to convince his
friends that It Is really as represented.
Mr, Crawford first saw the cactus plants
growing ut Oakland, In the grounds of
tho Luther Burbank company, and he
bought a few to take with him and plant
near the Mohave desert district, when he
went out to look over a mining matter
in Han Bernardino county. Later, when
he made a second trip to tho mine, Of
which he is part owner, ha took out 100
more plants to net out in the sand.
"As a forage crop," says Mr. Crawford,
"the spineless cactus is a wonder, and It j
will soon revolutionize tho live stock In-1
dustry. Regions where green feed and I
drinking water have sometimes failed,
with great loss of cattle as the result, will
become a psrudlse when the spineless
cactus Is extensively grown, for it fur
nishes both food and water for the ani
mals." This recent product of the wizard of
horticulture's research Is said to be tho
result of seventeen years ot work, In Its
present state of perfection, a yield of CO
to 100 tons of forage per acre each year
Is claimed for It. Because ot its desira
bility In dry regions, many ot the big
ranchers of the country are reported to
be preparing fer Its cultivation on a large
scale. In order to have a plentiful supply
with which to save their stook when a
year of extreme drouth oomos.
Not n New I'lunt,
According to Burbank himself, he has
not oreated a spineless cactus out of ono
which was originally thorny, but he has
merely caused a onee thorny variety of
plant to revert to Us original thornless
condition, from which it was first na
turally changed by adverse cllmatlo con
ditions and the development of a dosert
where It grew. Whut Burbank claims cs-f
pe'lal cr dlt for Is his development of the .
plant to Its present perfection of feeding
jvalie and unusually large jlcll, wli'le re-1
producing true to type as regards all ab.
sence of thorns.
Each leaf, or "slab," as It Is commonly
called by horticulturists, weighs several
pounds and will keep a long time in Us
succulent condition, thereby maklnr a
feed for stock when other green feed
falls.
It Is also asserted to ho a better beat
nnd milk producer, than any otlier kind
ot forage and on account of Its being so
proline In arid regions, the prediction has
teen mado Uiat it will niako now-worthless
land as valuable as $100 per aero.
As to the fruiting varieties of cactus,
samples of which Mr. Crawford brought
heme from tho Burbank experimental
tarms, they are raid to be unusually
wholesome and better flavored than the
banana. The yield Is enormous when
properly cultivated, and the fruit Is
shipped great distances In aa good condi
tion as other deciduous fruits. Knten raw,
or made Into Jelly, Jams, syrups or con
fections, they aro a delicious and unique
delicacy.
Adaptable to Many Climes.
The Burbank cactuses are adaptable to
many climates, but cannot be successfully
grown where protracted cold weather oc
curs. They will not thrive where tho
ground freezes over an Inch In depth or
whero tho temperature for any great
period drops as low as IS degrrna
Fahrenheit. This shuts out Nebraska from
the possibility of growing tho crop for
forage on Us western ranges, but tho
wholo continents of Africa and Australia,
most of South America, the southern part
of North America, southern Europe and
Asia, and most ot the Islands of the
sea are Included In tho territory whero
the cactus may be grown. Experiments
to produce hardier specimens are now
twlng made and will probably result successfully.
German Soldiers
Stoned and Shot At
MAYKNCE, Germany, Dec 13. Senti
nels on the fortifications and the artil
lery testing ground here who have been
stoned and shot at for several nights
past, have been ordered by the military
authorities to shoot down their assail
ant on sight. It Is feared that tho autl
milltary agitation In Alsace has spread
to this city.
Retailers in Favor
of City Purchasing
the Auditorium Now
Associated Retailers of Omaha favor
the purchase of tho Auditorium by th6
city. In a resolution on this subject unanU
roously adopted at tho banquet of the re
tallcrs, they had tho following to says
Whereas, We, tho Associated Itetallers
of Omaha, brllove that an Important
problem now faces this city In the dis
position to bo made ot our Auditorium,
and
Whereas. We believe that an indis
pensable adjunct to the assots of every
city Is a large, commodious and attractive
boll or auditorium as a meeting place for
great gatherings, conventions, festivals,
expositions and the like, and
Whereas, After a long and earnest cam.
palgn on tho part of our citizens, wo suc
ceeded In having erected such an edifice,
and
Whereas, We bellevo a crisis In tho af
fairs of the Auditorium compels tho fear
that this great building must either bo
purchated by this city, und thereby tho
purpose for whloh It was built duly con
served, or that It must go Into private
hands In whloh event all the purposes for
whloh It was erected would be sub
ordinated to private ends, therefore be It
Itesulved, That wo the Associated Ite
tallers of Omaha, believe that this city
cannot afford to allow this splondld build
ing to bo destroyed or turned from the
purposes for which It was built, nor
allow It to go Into private hands over
which the city would no longer have con
trol, Hn Is further
Resolved, That we, the Associated Re
record as favoring the purchase of this
Auditorium by the city while It may bo
seoured at a flguro Insignificant compared
with what the city would have to expend
In a few years from now for the purpose
of erecting such a temple.
No Papers in England
on Christmas Day
LONDON, Dec. 13. Tho morning news
papers havo reached the unan'.moua agree
ment to suspend publication on Christ
mas day, according to announcement In
the Sheffield Telegraph. A majority of
the papers tried the plan last Christmas,
but this year all of the papers. Including
the London Times, will close up shop en
tirely, giving many thousand workers
engaged In tho publication and distribu
tion of newspapers a real Christmas holi
day. The agreement applies to both
morning and afternoon papers.
Death on the (iiillovftt
Is sharp, khort agony. The lame back of
kidney troublo Is dally misery. Take Klec
trlc Bitters for quirk relief- Mte. For sale
by yout druggist. Advertisement.
Wanted.
Live experienced salesmen to handle our
line In the states of Nebraska, South Da
kota, Missouri and Kansas. Give full In
formation In first letter. Gunther Con
fection and Chocolate Co., 736 W. Jackson
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