THE BEE: OMAHA, , THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
W. B. Tagg Elected President
of South Side Live Stock
Exchange.
POOL HALL MAN FINED
W. B. Tagg (or years one of the
leading members of the Live Stock
exchange was elected to the office of
presidency of the association at the
regular annual meeting yesterday.
William T. Cox was elected vice presi
dent with Claude Clifton, Walter J.
Dearth and A. E. Rogers as directors.
At the meeting of directors to be held
Friday the secretary-traffic manager
and treasurer of the exchange will be
elected.
An arbitration and an appeal's com
mittee was appointed by the new
president. On the appeal's committee
are: Charles F. Cox, B. B. Blanchard,
George J. MacDonald. F. F. A. Well
man and Edward Nolan; on the
arbitration committee: W. J. Perry,
R. M. Laverty, George Frances, T. A.
Jackson and A. J. Randall. Other
committees will be appointed at the
director's meeting Friday. The meet
ing was adjourned immediately afteF
the election.
Girl and Goods Gone.
Police are looking for a young
woman an employe in the Cudahy
restaurant at the Cudahy packing
plant at Thirty-third and O streets,
who made away with personal prop
erty valued at near $100 Monday eve
ning at 8:30 o'clock. Two silk dresses
valued at $25 each were included
mong the articles stolen. A $10 gold
piece and a purse with seven silver
dollars within was also taken. Other
employes in the shop were out at the
lime the alleged theft occurred.
Kallas Given Fine.
Anton Kallas, pool hall proprietor,
was fined $10 and costs yesterday
morning in police court. He was
charged with keeping a disorderly
house. Three inmates were also fined.
Pete Tcizzos, $5 and costs, and Bill
Taturos and Fred Habb, $1 and costs
each.
Detectives Allen and Zaloudek
raided the place at 2 o'clock New
Year's morning. Men were seated at
two tables playing cards. Money was
also on the table.
Burial of Misa Mahoney.
Rose Mahoney was buried at 10
o'clock Tuesday in St. Mary's ceme
tery. Hundreds gathered in the
church yard as Father James Ahem
pronounced the last words over the
flower-covered casket. The services
were- held at St. Agnes' church at 9
o'clock. Former boy friends acted as
pallbearers. They were Leo Lowry.
James Fitzgerald, Fancis and John
Barrett, William Kaufold and Herbert
Heafy.
Miss Mahoney was 23 years of age.
She.was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry J. Mahoney. 5907 South Fif
teenth street. She was born and
brought up in the South Side and
graduated from the local schools, later
becoming a school teacher here. She
attained a remarkable record in her
studies while a student. Her circle of
fricasrrs extended throughout the city.
Sent to Workhouse.
Seven men were sentenced to the
city and county workhouses on vari
ous charges Tuesday morning in po
lice court Nora and James Thomp
son drew high terms of sixty days.
Albert Delphin, a Mexican, who
claimed he was strongarmed of $47
Saturday night, was sentenced to ten
days. A.. C. Bennett, arrested for dis
turbing the peace received the same
sentence.
Three others, George Titler, J. R.
Tomlinson and Frank Kerner, picked
up as vags, were given thirty days each.
The judge also fined Marcella Paris,
Val Paris and Carl Perry, Mexicans,
who complained to the police of a
domestic mixup at the Paris home
Monday evening, $2.50 each. Mike
Kominick, held for investigation on
charge of robbery, was fined $5 and
costs.
Moose Bowling Scores.
SOUTH SIDE.
lat. Sd. 3d. Total.
Petty '. 160 179 150 479
Qnlnn 148 134 124 406
Kdmondson 124 147 152 423
Moors 169 142 127 436
Willi! 145 145 180 470
Total 736 747 733 2,316
LOTAL.
HI. Id. 3d. Total.
JnlM 125 123 136 384
Lewis 124 135 127 38
Cudd? 106 134 130 370
Hamlet 145 142 124 411
Hawkins 148 145 150 443
Total 648 679 667 1,994
ORDER.
1st. !d. 3d. Total.
Tnimmsr 80 91 143 314
HlnlU 93 123 147 363
Berry 116 91 143 350
Hammond 80 106 84 270
Ostroalc 114 133 172 418
Total 4S3 543 689 1,715'
MOOSE.
let. 2d. 3d. Total.
SkoW 116 123 143 382
Cook 93 106 84 v23
Bennett 80 91 84 255
Altman 107 160 155 D12
Dsunlson 137 161 147 445
Total 623 641 613 1,877
Celebrate New Year's Eve.
A splendid New Year's tve was
passed by friends at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. F. Brix, jr. Supper was
served at midnight. Mr. Harry Per
rin played on the piano, with the Mis
levec sisters, Mary and Anna, singing
Those present were:
Messrs. and Mesdamea
.T. Schwer, O. Schwer.
l Brlx, Jr.;
Messrs. Messrs.
Joe Hoffman, Harry Perrin.
Misses Misses
Mary Mlslever. Anna Mialevcc.
Master Robert Schwer.
Magic City Gossip.
For Rent Stores, bouses, cottages and
Sats. SOUTH OMAHA INVESTMENT CO.
Mlsa Ella Mathews of Villlsca, la., visited
with South Side relaUves over New Tear's.
MONET LOANED on vacant and Im
proved property, any amount, at lowest
rates. SOUTH OMAHA INVESTMENT CO.
Tickets are on sale for the Commerce
High school-South High basket hall game,
which will take place Friday evening In the
Sooth High gymnasium.
Mrs. J. C. Lelsenrlng of Chariton, la.,
returned home Wednesday morning after
spending the holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. I. J. Copenharve.
A meeting of the Holy Names society
Will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30
'clock to arrange for the funeral of Jerry
Fanton, well-known South Side druggist.
FIRE INSURANCE, choice of 11 leading
aempanlcs: prompt service, lowest rates.
SOUTH OMAHA INVESTMENT CO.
Mrs. Mlka Krlatch. 8104 South Thirty
first street. Is exhibiting a four-legged
chicken at her home. The freak was
hatcbed by one of the setting hens in the
Krlatch barnyard.
Special Officer Rowe of the Armour pack-Inn-
nlant. arrested Henry Same. Fortieth
and Q streets, laborer, on a charge of petit
larceny yesterday morning. He was caught
Risking away with meats from the Armour
riant.
LAD THOUGHT TO HAVE
SLIPPED INTO RIVER.
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CARL MERKER.
HAS RIVER BODY
OF CARLMERKER?
Father Enlists Police Aid in
Search for Little Son
Thinks Him Drowned.
FOOTPRINTS NEAR BRIDGE
Almost certain that his 9-ycar-okl
son, Carl, haj been drowned, although
he still clings to the faint hope that
he is still alive, William Merkcr, 317
North Twenty-first street, has en
listed the aid of police officials and
juvenile court officers in a thorough
search for the lad.
Mcrker believes that his son slipped
into the Missouri river near the Union
Pacific bridge and wsa drowned and
that his three companions at the time
have kept the matter secret through
fear.
Carl lost his sled New Year's morn
ing and at noon he started a search
for it. When he did not return in
reasonable time, Merkcr began a
search for the boy. He traced the
lad to the Union station, where he had
picked up three other boys and from
there the father followed the young
sters to the new bridge, in which his
son was very much interested.
There Merkcr saw tracks in the
snow along the river bank, such as
would have been made by a young
ster who had fallen down and slid
down the bank into the stream. As
his son has not been seen since he was
at play near the bridge, Mcrker be
lieves he haj been drowned.
When Carl disappeared he wore a
brown suit, brown stocking cap, gray
sweater and black button shoes. He
has red hair and freckles.
Santel and Lewis Go Two
And Half Hours to a Draw
San Francisco, Jan. 3. Ad Santel
Pacific coast wrestling champion, frrril
Ed "Strangler" Lewis of Kentucky
wrestled two and a half hours here
tonight to a draw, neither man secur
ing a fall. The referee decided that
the contestants broke even on points.
Santel gained a decided advantage
during the first half. A realization
that he was behind spurred Lewis to
desperate efforts and he succeeded in
evening up the lead gained earlier by
Santel.
Lewis, who weighed 228 pounds,
ovcrscaled Santel forty-three pounds.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
THE STORE OF THE TOWN
A Real Sale of
OUR
Men's and Young Men's
High Class
Suits and Overcoats
Our Regular Semi-Annual
Clearance Sale Starts
TODAY
No "Mark-Ups" or "Turned-Back" Merchandise But
All Our Regular Stock of Clothing of the Browning
King Standard Make at a
Discount of
20
Per Cent
From Our Regular
Selling Prices
OCR
BOYS' DEPARTMENT
Offers the Same Liberal
Reductions of
20 PER CENT
ON
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'3
SUITS AND OVERCOATS
Liberal Reductions
In Our ,
MEN'S EXCLUSIVE
FURNISHING GOODS DEPARTMENT
Browning-King & Co.
GEO. T. WILSON, Mgr.
ENTENTE ALLIES
BULL OMAHA WHEAT
Agents of England, France and
Russia Invade Market to
Get Nebraska Grain.
TALK TWO-DOLLAR WHEAT
Kngland, France and Russia want
Nebraska wheat and their representa
tives are here to buy it, practically
regardless of price. As a result, $2-a-bushel
wheat does not seem to be
very iar distant.
liuyers representing the allies arc
on the Omaha Grain exchange taking
about everything offered in the way
of wheat and buying up a quantity of
corn.
On account of the strong foreign
demand. Omaha cash wheat srltt up
ly. to 5 cents a bushel over the prices
of Tuesday, selling at $1.87 and ?l.w,
with only twenty -five carloads on the
market.
The cash price, however, did not
represent the prices hid by the allies.
Tuesday thev took j'JO.000 bushels of
wheat and 250,000 bushels Wednas
dav, paving 20 cents over the May
Chicago option price of $175:4 and
$1.83W, and the carrying charge of
14'J cents for delivery in Baltimore,
delivery to be made at any time prior
to May.
Corn was bought on about the same
basis as wheat, 250.000 bushels being
taken during the two days.
It is asserted at the Grain exchange
that the foreign demand for the Ne
braska wheat has hardly started and
that ill the event the move (or peace
docs not materialize, the allies will
soon take all the Nebraska surplus.
.With representatives of the allies
hovering about the Omaha Grain
exchange and urging their local rep
resentatives to bid up on wheat, corn
became unusually active and advanced
1 cent to lVa cents during the ses
sion, selling at 89yi and cents a
bushel. Receipts for the day were
thirty carloads.
Oats felt the effect of the demand
for wheat and corn and were untfsu
allv strong, going up 'i to 1 cent and
selling at 53 and Si'i cents a bushel.
Receipts were light, only eleven car
loads. The Influence
of
Good Digestion
Is far reaching. It means
Better Appetite
Proper Assimila
tion -
Liver and Bowel
Regularity
Improved Health
To Aid Digestion TRY
IIOSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
It Helps Nature in Every Way
It 's Same Old Tale; Love Laughs
At Locksmiths, Also Irate Papas
Bcebe Vanderlip is an enterprising
young farmer living near Bennett,
Neb. He's a farmer, but there's noth
ing farmerish looking about him; in
fact, he looks as if he just stepped out
of a college clothes shop.
His sweetheart she's now his wife
was the daughter of a wealthy
farmer who also lives near Bennett.
Her name up until 10 o'clock Wed
nesday morning was Kmma 1.. Sid
ders, daughter of Walter Sidders.
Somehow or other, according to
young V anderlip. who isvmly 21 years
old (his bride is 18 years old), Fa
Sidders objected to him as a pros
pective son-in-law.
But it was the old, moss-eaten tale
love laughs at locksmiths and the
tougher they made it for young Van
dcrlip's courtships, the better he liked
it.
In order to show the old folks
Best and Harte File Bonds
In Their: Contest Cases
County Commissioners Frank C.
Best and August C. Harte dug one
more trench in their fight to retain
oflicc despite their recent defeat at
the polls when Judge Crawford ap
proved their bonds for $15,000 apiece.
Messrs. Best and Harte got the worst
end of the battle of ballots with
Messrs. Compton and Bedford.
"The public does not want to rrtis-
tntl'mi!' mv artin in 4 nnrn.t.n n.
...j KVt.W.I III J If 111
bonds of Messrs. Best and Harte,"
said judge Lrawtord. My judgment
was based solely on the amount of
the bond and I simply had to ap
prove.
Can't Be
cannot be driven away cannot be towed away yet is locked within the rules of the fire laws,
because it can be rolled along slowly by turning the front wheels by hand in case of fire or traf
fic obstruction.
When
Locked
In this position the
steering post and it will
30 of
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PASSED BY THE UNDERWRITERS, LABORATORY INC. ; INSURANCE COMPANIES DEMAND IT
133,000 cars were stolen last year. Yours may be the next. Don't permit it. Invest $5 in a "Perry"
Auto Lock. It is positive insurance against theft. It is put on in 15 minutes. No charge made for
installation. No upkeep. Nothing to get out of order.
The "Perry" Lock has 17 tumblers. Simply can't be picked. No two locks have keys alike. Easy to
lock and unlock, but absolutely can't be opened without the key. '
tS tWrf, -
Here's the "Perry" principle that baffles theft: The steering wheel is temporarily disconnected.
The wheel is locked free from its connection with the steering post. It will spin like a top. Yet
there is no danger of its being broken, and the minute the lock is turned with the key it slips back
into its proper position and you're ready to go.
Auto thieves are always busy $5 is a small price
to buy theft insurance for the life of your car don't
put it off, but get your "PERRY" Auto Lock at once
A Perry lock and a fire insurance policy will save you 70 on your insurance premiums.
AUTO DEVICE SALES CO, 888 Brandeis Bldg.
Dpuglas 3217.
Now on Demonstration at 1514 Farnam Street "
TOWNSEND GUN CO.
We Also Have the Perry Lock for Larger Cars
I that a triflling tiling like parental ob
jections wouldn t hinder them troni
taking a flier at the marriage mar
ket, the young couple eloped to i
umana. sure, we eloped, admit
ted the Bennett youngsters when
"Cupid" Stubbendorf was preparing
the documents for the life sentence.
"We'll show 'em they can't stop us.
They were both of legal age, had a
wlTness with them, so County Judge
Crawford had nothing to do but per
form the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderlip declared
they were going to return to their
respective homes and keep the mar
riage a secret for a couple of weeks,
"(ice," chuckled the bridegroom,
whose face beamed up like a 100-hushels-to-the-acrc
crop, "won't her
dad be mad when he finds out we're
married. He and I will probably do
a marathon over the hills when I
break the news to him."
Aged Lawyer Drops Dead
In Rear of His Home
Attorney Lucicn Hale, 77 yeafs of
age, dropped dead of heart' disease
in the yard back of his home, 720
Pierce street. He had offices in the
Creighton bldck. He is survived by
a widow and two children. Coroner
Crosby has the body.
Jefferson Square is to Be
Adorned With New Flag
Jefferson square is to be decorated
with a flag. The women of Garfield
circle, No. 11, Ladies of the Grand
Army of the Republic, have given a
flag to be hoisted in the park on Dec
oration day.
Your
FORD LOCK
$5.00
Whaal i absolutely frea from the
SPIN LIKE A TOP.
All Stolen Cars Are Fords. Make Sure
Yours Won't Be Next Get a
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NEW SCHOOL BOARD
HOLDS MEETING
C. J. Ernst Heads Educational
Body for Third Consecu
tive Time.
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
C. J. Ernst and Robert Cowcll.were
re-elected president and vice presi
dent, respectively, of the Board of
Education at a reorganization meeting
yesterday evening. Mr. Ernst enters
upon his third consecutive term as
head of this public body. These re
elections were accomplished on the
first ballot.
Being an exemplar of preparedness,
President Ernst announced that he
had his toininlttecs selected. The list
follows:
Buildings and Umund Cowsll, Warlleld,
Carpenter, Clsrk and Kslronor.
Finance and Claims Used, Carpenter.
Cowed, Hums and Talmas.
.lurilrlery Brocan and W-flla.
Purvhaalnir Fry, Heed, Falconer, Tal
matte and Clark.
Teachers and Course of Hludy Wells,
Warfleld. Brogan, Fry and Burns.
The personnel of the new board is:
C. J. Ernst, Robert Cowell, I. W.
Carpenter. Thomas A. Fry, William
E. Reed. C. V. Warfield, Thomas Fal
coner, Francis A. Brogan, Samuel
Burns, jr.; Frank E. Clark, Charles O.
Talmage and Arthur R. (Wells.
The Omaha Free Dental Dispens
ary asked co-operation and interest of
the school directors in the free clinic
which will be established this month.
The staff of school nurses will be di
rected to take cognizance of this new
activity for the betterment of the
teeth of children.
The first meeting of the new board
was brief.
Ford
Ready
to Drive
In this position tha Whaal is
ataaring post, as sacura at though
OV AUTO
IK Jl LOCK
IT LOCKS
THE
WHOLE
CAR
The United States
is Yours if you are irf
good health. The United
States spells Opportunity. .
Health comes from right
selection of food and right
habits. Two Shredded
Wheat Biscuits .for breaks
fast will supply more nutri
ment than many a two-dollar
meal, and costs only four
or five cents. A meal to
work on, to play on. Shred
ded Wheat is ready-cooked, '
and ready-to-eat,
Made at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
PIANOS FOR RENT
Twanty-throa high gratia makes
to talact from, $3.50 par month
and up. '
Rant Applied On Purchato
Schmoller & Mueller
Piano Co.,
1311-1313 Farnam St.
Pkjona Doug. 1623.
. Wheal Rlt-lrl
FORD LOCK
$5.00
absolutely (olid with
no lock was attachad.