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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 1. 1917. 5 C REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE On an Acre in Benson Gardens Many are making $25 to $50 a month from flocks of 50 to 100 chickens. And there is no bet ter place for the chickens to run than under the FRUIT TREES One-half acre devoted to fruit and chickens (which will meet the demands of the average family) leaves half an acre for GARDEN By purchasing another acre adjoining, you would have an acre of alfalfa on which you could pasture a COW and Have fine fresh milk every day and make your own butter. ONE ACRE. . .$10 CASH $10 A MONTH TWO ACRES. .$20 CASH $15 A MONTH HALF ACRE. .$10 CASH $ 5 A MONTH PRICES $650 AND UP Salesmen will be on the ground all afternoon today, or call us up at any time and one of our salesmen with automobiles will take you out. HASTINGS & HEYDEN (REALTORS) 1614 Harney Street. Phone Tyler 50. Two Close In Apartment Houses For Sale Harney Street, east of 26th. These buildings are practically new, always rented, and are lo cated in the very best part of the city to advance in value. They Will Be Sold Immediately 'for What They Will Bring Be sure and investigate Monday. DOUGLAS 1472. For Best Service, Best Results Use The Bee Want Ads. Quick, Sure Results Is the Reason for the Great REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Buy Your Garden Land Today la on of tht torrent tracts of ground evtr platted In DouirUt County. W offer a feasible plan whert'by everybody can Reduce the high cost of living and solve the rent problem Buy a location for a home with garden, thickens, fruit, pitri and a cow. Plant Your Garden On Your Own Ground Rati potato, onions, straw berries, celery, henna, peas, radish. lettuce, cauliflower, rhubsrb, spinach, cucumbers, blackberries, gooseberries, currants and all kinds of small fruits. A Few Dollars Down and few dollars weekly or monthly will buy a tic big piece of garden land PUT A FEW DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET AND COME DOWN TO THE SALE AFTER YOU GET THROUGH WORK TONIGHT HOW TO REACH THE SALE Take any ear and transfer to the West Q street car. Get off at 4Sd and Q streets. Salesmen will be there and will tak you to the sale. Or take the Ralston or PapilUon car and get off at 66th and Q streets, the iouthei.it corner of the garden land. If you can't come on the street car, telephone Douglas 25t or Qouth 2447 and have our automobile take you to th Garden Land Sale. Come today. We sell day and night on the ground. If you can't com today, come tomorrow. Don't delay. $1,015 IN PRIZES To Ba Awarded Thrmljrh the THREE OMAHA DAILY PAPERS (Bee, New. and 'World-Herald) FOR THE BEST LETTER C.IVINO PLAN FOR A GARDEN Writ, a letter to the GARDEN CONTEST EDITOR o THE OMAHA 1IEE, WORLD HERALD or DAILY NEWS, laying out a plan and telling what kind of garden product! to ralaa on a garden tract 100x120 feet to reduce the High Coat of Living, FIRST PRIZE $485 Worth of Garden Land. SECOND PRIZE SZ0S Worth of Garden Land. THIRD PRIZE $140 Worth of Garden Land. FOURTH PRIZE 1185 Worth of Garden Land. FIFTH PRIZE f 100 In Cash. Rules of Contest Send m your letter and plan for a garden not later than June first, 101 T. Any prson oyer SI years of age may enter th contest by personally registering at th real estate office of H. H. Harper k Company at 66th and Q Streets, or if it is not convenient for you to com to our real estate ofic you may register by sending in a filled out copy of the following blank to HjH. Harper ft Company at 66th and Q streets. WILSON SUMMONS 1 7,000 MORE GUARDS i War Department Calls New ! Band of Soldiers Into I National Service. ORGANIZATIONS NAMED ENTRANCE BLANK Register my name fn the Garden Land Contest at the sales office of H. H. Harper ft Co., at 6flth and Q Streets. j Name ! Age. No contestant wilt be considered unless he has registered at the real estate office of H. H. Harper A Company at 66th and Q streets, the southeast corner of the Garden Land. This contest is free and contestants are not required to buy any property. We would like to have you come down to the sale and look over the garden land; you may be able to offer some valuable suggestions to our many prospective gardeners. H. H. HARPER & COMPANY 101S-M City National Bank Building. Telephone Douglaa 2688 or South 24(7. INVESTMENTS On West Farnam, near 33d, two new 8-room brick flats, extra well built; cost $13,000; 60x180. 125 feet in the same block just sold for over $300 a front foot; price, $25,000. On Dodge, Near 29th Double brick flat, well built, almost new; 6 rooms each; annual rental $840; price, $8,000, half cash. The Best West Famam Apartment Site 200x165, east frontage, short block to Farnam car line on 38th; solid ground; price, $125 a foot. Large North Omaha Home Exceptionally well finished with tiled reception hall, large living room with fireplace, dining room and kitchen on first floor; 4 bedrooms and tiled bath on second floor, attic finished complete: large cement floored porch; garage with cement drive; basement has laundry room, storage room, boiler room with hot water plant. South front lot and located near car line in Kountze Place; cost the owners $16,000; they will sacrifice and make a price of $10,000, with liberal terms to the right party. Cathedral District 8-room strictly modern brick house, priced at $5,500 for quick sale. California Street Home 7 rooms, all modern, well built, located on crest of hill west of 38th. Lot sure to increase in value: worth $3,000 now; covered with fruit, shade and shrubbery. Price, $4,000. On Webster, Near 36th Large lot, paved street; 8-room modern house; owners very anxious to sell because they want to leave the city. Price, $3,700. Vacant Lots Full lot east of 48th, south side of Davenport, $700, easy terms; chance for increase in value; joins Dundee. N. E. corner of Fontenelle blvd. and Wirt, high, sightly, 45x116; $700, cash $10, balance easy terms. O'Keefe Real Estate Co., Realtors tbuglas 2715. 1016 Omaha National Bank Building. Quick, Sure Results is the reason for the great gain made by Bee Want Ads in 1916. Washington, March 31. The War department late today called into the federal service (or purpose of police protection about 7,000 additional na tional guardsmen. The First regiment of infantry of New Mexico, rated as militia, was or dered mustered out of the federal service. Organizations Named, The organizations named in the or ders include: Oklahoma First regi ment infantry. Louisiana First regi ment infantry. Texas Second, Third and Fourth infantries and the First separate squadron of cavalry. Arkan sasFirst regiment infantry. Rhode Island Second, Fifth, Twelfth and Fifteenth companies of toast artil lery, equipped, and infantry. British Forces Take Five More Villages In Northern France London, March 31. British troops, advancing on the front in northern France in pursuit of the retreating Germans, have captured five addi tional villages. Renter's correspondent at British headquarters reports today. The villages taken are Heudicourt, St. Emilie, Marteville, Vermand and Soyecourt. "The British advance has made con siderable progress toward St. Qucn tin and are bitjng into the German defenses between Croisilles and the Bapaume-Cambrai road," says the dis patch. "The British have gained full pos session of a strip of territory north east of I'cronne, extending for about seven miles from Neuville-Bourjenval towards Villersfaucon. Within this zone we occupied the villages of Fins, Sorel, Heudicourt and St. TJmilie. The resistance which the garrisons offered was comparatively slight. "The advance west-northwest of St Qucntin gained us the villages oi Marteville, Vermand and Soyecouit Friday night's British of icial state ment reported the occupation of the villages of Sorel and Fins and indi cated a close approach of the British to Heudeciurt. Paris, March 31. French troops last night successfully attacked the German positions south of the Ailette river and made important progress eastward, the war office announced today. The French advance was scored to the east of the line running from Neuville-Sur-Margival to Vregny. northeast of Soijsons. A number of points of support were brilliantly cap tured by the French forces. In the Champagne region five vio lent counter attacks delivered by the Germans on positions recaptured yes terday by the French west of Maisons De Champagne were checked, the Germans sustaining heavy losses. Forty-Six Years With the Union Pacific, He Retires Having reached the age of 70 and after having been in the service of the Union Pacific continuously since 1871, John G. McBride, messenger to the company law department, is retired and will continue to reside in Omaha, which has been his home practically all the time during the last forty-eight years. For two years after entering the employ of the Union Pacific he was guard on the pay car and later was brakeman on one of the passenger trains. He went out on the first train that the Union Pacific ran between Omaha and Lincoln, doing triple duty of baggageman, express messenger and mail clerk. He held this position four and one-half years. In 1879, as agent at Lexington he took, up a homestead that is now a part of the townsite. After proving up, he sold this land for $900. For a number of years he was gateman at the Union station, continuing until the comple tion of the new headquarters building as messenger to the law department. Mr. McBride was born in Scotland and came to the United States when a young man. During 1867 and 1868 he shipped from Glasgow and sailed around the world on the sailing vessel, General O'Neill. The trip consumed fifteen months and during the time he was employed as steward. Mr. and Mrs. McBride reside at 904 South Twenty-fifth street, this city. Count Czernin Says Central Powers Are Ready for Peace Amsterdam, March 31. (Via Lon don.) A Vienna dispatch quotes Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, as saying in an in terview with the Frcmdenbladt that the entente could conclude an hon orable peace with the central powers at any time and that the proposal of the central empires for a peace con ference still held good. "We are not going to be destroyed, but neither do we wish to destroy," Count Czernin is quoted as declar ing. "Our fronts are stronger than ever. Our economic situation is se cured. We must take our hats off to the millions in the trenches and to those at home on the battlefield of labor. The day will come when the peoples of the monarchy will receive the rewards of their heroism," After stating that the proposals of the central powers for a peace con ference still held good, Count Czernin added: "We occupy extensive territories of our enemies, and they occupy ex tensive districts of ours. On the seas the blockade of our enemies is fighting against our submarine war. All international treaties are being torn up. It is impossible to settle some of these questions apart from the whole subjects. If the peace con ference should show that an agree ment was impossible, the fight, which will not have been interrupted, will continue." Replying to the question as to whether it was not posible to outline the central empires' peace conditions, Count Czernin said this had already been done, adding: "We have openly declared that we are waging a war which has been forced upon us, Our aim is to gain the assurance of the free and undis turbed development of the monarchy. We nrust receive guarantees for our existence and for our means of ex istence. As soon as our enemies abandon their unrealizable ideas of smashing us up, as soon as they are ready to negotiate for a peace hon orable to them and to us, then noth ing stands in the way of negotia tions." Adams Farmers to Hear Of Sugar Beet Culture Hastings, Neb., March 31. (Spe cial Telegram.) The meeting of Adams county farmers called for this afternoon to consider planting sugar beets in fields where the winter wheat crop has failed was postponed to Monday t 2 o'clock when Superian tendent Denman of the Grand Island sugar factory will endeavor to inter est the people of this county in the project. Me Denman will also speak at the Chamber of Commerce lunch eon Monday. Information secured by the Cham ber shows that beets are bought at the cars at shipping points at $6 per ton and the factory pays the freight. It is believed that the yield here would be about ten tons per acre. In the meantime some farmers be lieve that the loss in the wheat crop is not so great as reported and a few are advising against plowing fields for sometime, arguing that if rain comes soon the fields that have the appearance of being dead will yet produce half to two-thirds of a crop, Declamatory Contest Winners. Hastings, Neb., March 31. (Spe cial Telegram.) At the conclusion of the convention of the Central Ne braska Music Teachers' association last night it was voted to hold the next annual meeting in Grand Island. The attendance passed 700 and was the largest in the history of the as sociation. In the declamatory eon test last night the winners were: Oratorical, Hugh Arnold of Aurora. Dramatic, Iva Brooks of Silver Creek, first; Gertrude Hcaton, Central City, second. Humorous, Anna Fig! of Sutton, first; Katherine Mann of Kearney, second. The winners of first place in each three classes will represent the district in the state con test. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. Mayor and Police Chief of Seattle Are Given Liberty Seattle, Wash, March 31. Mayor Hiram C. Gill, Chief of Police Charles L. Beckingham and City Detectives Meyer M. Peyser, John Poolman, James Doom and Daniel McLennan, on trial charged with conspiracy to violate federal laws by importation of liquor into the state of Washing ton, were acquitted today by a jury in the United States district court. The jury received the case at 5:30 last night. Mayor Gill was accused of taking $4,000 from Logan Billingsley for dropping suits against the Billingsley brothers, liquor sellers, returning in criminating papers and promising im munity to them. Chief of Police Beckingham was accused of taking bribes of $1,200 from Billingsley. The detectives were accused of tak ing money from the Billingsleys for letting liquor shipments to the Bil lingsleys enter the city while guard ing the water front. The Billingsleys were formally residents sof West Vir ginia and Oklahoma. ' The trial was begun March 6. The principal witnesses for the govern ment were Logan and Fred Billings ley and their former employes, con fessed liquor sellers. Nii.ety witnesses testified in the case, including the six defendants. There were seven defendants when the case opened, but at the conclusion of the presentation of evidence Judge Jere miah Neterer instructed the jury to acquit former Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, one of the defendants, saying the evidence against Hodge did not show offenses against the laws. Gill acquired considerable celebrity by being recalled from the office of mayor of Seattle in 1911 for alleged toleration of vice and by being elected mayor by enormous majorities in 19W and 1916; "Democracy Must Ever Be Keady to Protect Its Own" Philadelphia, March 31. Senator elect Hiram W. Johnson of California, speaking at a patriotic demonstration here today, declared that the United States "will suffer much, even to the very tension of honor," before going to war, but that for the nation to refuse to maintain its democratic ideals and protect its citizens would be to sow "within itself the seeds of dissolution. "Democracy to survive must ever he ready to protect its own," he said. "Every normally constituted man ab hors war. A nation such as ours, consecrated to freedom, dedicated to equality among men', determined that all of God's people must share in , God's blessings, that common folk ' may have their fair share of common happiness and a comfortable place in the sun, will suffer much, even to tha -very tension of honor, bef jre engag ing in blood strife. But nation, such as ours, dependent for its per petuity upon the character of its citi zenship, that dares not maintain its ideals and will not protect the lives of its citizens, sows within itself the seeds of dissolution. "We would have no selfish war of aggrandisement or aggression. We have no lust of conquest. We would only when imperatively compelled by the transgression of our rights, by the destruction of our lives, enter the combat, and then in the spirit of America, the spirit that took no in demnity from China and returned Cuba into its own people." Patriotic Meeting Called For Hastings Thursday Hastings, Neb., March 31. (Spe cial.) Mayor William Madgett today announced a call for a patriotic meet ing of citizens next Thursday even ing. The call is made in line with Grand Island and other cities in cen tral Nebraska. Heavy Loss In Granary Fire, Hastings, Neb., March 31. (Spe cial.) A combined implement shed and granary on the farm of Jasper Woodworth, a mile north of Ayr, caught fire from some unknown cause last night and burned to the ground. The loss was about $5,000, partially covered by insurance. An automo bile was also destroyed. , Go to the Garden Land Sale Today Get Off Car at 43d and Q Streets '7 -,iv li-i Go to the Garden Land Sale Today Get Off Carat 43d and Q Streets Don't wait until It la too late to plant your garden. Come to the sale today. J 1 n. r TH 1 efTT SI "Are You Going to Join Our Happy Crowd and be Your Own Gardener This Summer?'' COME DOWN TO THE GARDEN LAND SALE TODAY. Buy a piece of garden land in one of the largest tracts of garden land ever platted in Douglas county. A FEW DOLLARS DOWN AND A FEW DOLLARS MONTHLY OR WEEKLY will buy a nice big piece of garden land. Put a few : dollars in your pocket and come down to the sale now. Take a car to 43d and Q Streets. Salesmen will be there waiting to take you to the sale. Or, ' take the Ralston or Papillion interurban car and get off at 56th and Q Stre'ets, the southeast corner of the garden land. , : ?,. " ' , ' For More Information Telephone South 2447. 4 I It Ar. " 1 1 1 H V tfcl I .1 t