THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1917.
OMAHANS ENJOYING
FARM LIFE IN CITY
Thrifty Folks Rush From Office
to Gardens Which Yield
Profit and Pleasure.
MAKING A DOLLAR ELASTIC
By A. R. GROH.
Between the city of Omaha and the
country surrounding it there is a
large strip that partakes equally of
the qualities of both city and country.
Let's go out to the end of the Ames
avenue car line. Here we are in the
city-country. The rolling hills are
dotted with houses. Each home has
plenty of ground around it. Some are
miniature farms with little barns,
chicken houses, chicken yards, par
dens and even little fields. It is a
"homey," healthful, thrifty part of the
city.
You can just feel that "father" who
lives out here, hurries home as fast as
possible from work, eats his supper
and then hastens eagerly out to work
till dark, spading up the garden, rak
ing, planting, tinkering around, set
ling hens or building a pen for the
little chicks that are expected out as
soon as that Plymouth Rock hen
comes off the nest.
Reaping the Dollar.
Industry and thrift are the prevail
ing notes T'-- - v.te are home
builders. They may not have large
incomes, but a dollar here has a big
inlying power.
What do they care how high Dota.
toes arel They raise them themselves.
And the fruit trees, m their yards pro
vide cherries and apples and peaches
which "mother" preserves and stores
in the cellar against the winter time.
Grapes, too. There are plenty of
grape vines. And when they want a
chicken they don't have to consult the
butcher; they just go out to the
chicken oost at night (their own
chicken roost, y'understand) and pick
a tat pullet out and lead it to slauglv
ter.
This spring afternoon, while we are
wandering around this city-country
i'i urns ininfeicU with the clang of
street car bells. A woman in a blue
gingnam dress is planting seeds in a
garden. An old man, white-bearded
and in his shirt sleeves, is chopping
wood. Anotner man is plowing up
a little patch of land adjoining his
House. He nods to us in the cordial
country manner,
A woman in one yard gathers in
the "wash" from the line and then
goes over to a pen of young chicks
recently hatched and gives them water
and food. The sound of children's
voices comes from the handsome Cen
trai rarK scnoot where recess as
just started. A black dog, who as
been sleeping by the open front door
of a cottage rises and barks at us and
wags his tail as we pass.
Though there aren't many garages
in the city-country you can see that
the people have all the comforts of
life. The storm doors are still on and
many screened-in porches tell of sum
mer comfort.
There are lawn swings, too, and
flower boxes, painted green, and
placed usually on the railing of the
porch. Vines climb up trellises at
the porch sides. Flower beds have
borders of bottles with the neeks
stuck in the ground. Here is one place
with an old-fashioned well and old,
oaken bucket.
A big brindle dog is lying full length
on the lawn of a pretty home, taking
a sun bath. A roan calf is drowsing
m a pen in the back yard, .there is a
galvanized iron tub, set to catch rain
water for washing purposes.
You can just feel that these homes
are paid for or being paid for sys
tematically by their thrifty inhabi
tant! and that this is a region of quiet
contentment.
Owl Drug Store to Move
Into U. S. Bank Building
The Owl drug store at Sixteenth
and Harney streets is to move into
the United States National bank
building in the quarters vacated by
Orkin. This will be a temporary
move, as the Owl is to go back into
the new Wolf-Hiller building at Six
teenth and Harney streets after it is
built. The old Schlitz building is to
be torn down beginning May 1.
GIRL ENGAGED TO MARRY
ARCHIE ROOSEVELT.
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OMAHA STILL IS
VICTIM OFR. R. RATE
Manager McVann Pleads in
Vain for Adjustment of Dis
criminatory Tariffs.
MEN HERE THREATEN SUIT
U$3.G&A.9B.E. lOCSLWOQO'
Miss Grace E. Lockwood, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. St. John
Lockwood, of Boston, whose engage
ment to Archie Roosevelt, third son
of the former president, has been an
nounced. Miss Lockwood is a grad
uate of Miss Windsor's school, an ex
clusive Back Bay institution, and was
presented to society in 19U. Mr.
Roosevelt is a Harvard graduate and
is now in Hartford, Conn., employed
by the Bigelow Hartford Carpet com
pany. No date has been set for the
wedding.
Although the Western Passenger
association has been in session in Chi
cago for over a week, the Commer
cial club of Omaha has had no word
of a contemplated readjustment of
tourist passenger rates for eastern
points as between Kansas City and
Omaha.
The club has for a year worked dili
gently with the railroad people in the
hope that the discrimination in favor
of Kansas City in this respect might
be eliminated. Omahans were given
to understand that the matter would
be taken up at the conference of the
Western I'assengcr association which
is now going on ill Chicago.
E. J. McVann, manager of the traf
fic bureau of the Commercial club,
was in Chicago at this conference dur
ing the early part of the week, but
it is understood here that he got no
assurance whatever that the matter
would be looked after at this time.
Omaha's Plight.
Kansas City in the matter of tour
ist passenger rates, east, has the ad
vantage over Omaha of $6.10 on
points east of Chicago in cases where
the distance is about equal as between
Kansas City and Omaha. So wide is
"Ccme On Over. See
My Corn Fill Off!"
"I Put 2 Drops of 'Gatt-It' On Last
Niiht Now Watch"
"See all you have to do U to us your
two fingers and lift the corn right off.
That's the way 'Geta-It' always works. You
just put on about 2 drops. Then the corn not
only Bhrivels, but loosens from th toe.
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the least. Why, it's amort a pleasure to
nt Was Qvlck Puneml TM
Cm Had "With Gct-ItV
have corns and see how 'Gets-It' gets them
off in a hurry and without the least pain.
I can wear tight shoes, dance and walk as
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other things not only foolish but unneces
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night. "Gett-It" If sold everywhere, 15c a bot
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Sold in Omaha and recommended as the
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Oonnell Drug Co, Stores.
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"it all depends," said a Commercial
club official, "on whether the Omaha
railroads are willing to do (or Omaha
what the Kansas City roads were
willing to do for Kansas City. They
have it within their power to do it, if
they will. Of course we can have re
course to a suit before the Interstate
Commerce commission if they don't
Rive us an equitable adjustment in the
matter, but we don't want to go that
far if we can get it without."
Wants to Reopen Jitney
Liability Bond business
City Commissioner Kugel received
from the representative of a prospec
tive jitney company an amended or
dinance which provides for new fea
tures in connection with the liabil
ity bond. This matter will he referred
to the city legal department for ex
amination. It is proposed to amend
the old jitney ordinance to provide
that damage suits may be tiled
against the owners of machines or
the bonding company, jointly or sev
erally. Frogge is Bound Over
As a Strong-Arm Artist
Ralph Frogge was hound over to
the district court Thursday charged
with robbery. He was arrested Wed
nesday evening by Officer Fleming on
complaint of William Drake, who tes
tified that Frogge was one of three
men who strong-armed and robbed
him of ?13 near Fifteenth and Dodxe
streets. The other two men got away.
Woman Chases Thief
Four Blocks Clad
In Robe de Nuit
Mrs. Mable Boyd of 258.' Harney
street reported to the police that at
3:20 a. m. she pursued a man four
blocks after he had attempted to steal
her purse.
She related that she was aroused by
noises in her rooming house. Pro
ceeding to the first floor of the build
ing, she was accosted by a man, who
had been hiding behind a radiator.
He tried to grab her purse, which con
tained $S. She grappled with, the
intruder and was knocked against the
wall, injuring her hand. Then, clad in
her robe de null, she chased the man
for four blocks in the dark and stilly
night. The culprit dropped his hat,
which the police are holding as a
clue. Mrs. Boyd told the police she
was in her bare feet when she made
this thrilling chase.
Attracted by her screams, a num
ber of drivers of Omaha Taxicab
company, which is opposite the morn
ing house, aided in the race. The
pursuing auto men fired a number
of shots after the thief.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
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Fred Behm Again In
Omaha; Greets Old Friends
Back from the Soldiers' home in
California and looking well, John F.
Behm Is greeting his friends on the
street.
"It's a beautiful place," said he,
"but I just couldn't stand it out
there seeing the flag at half-mast al
most all the time. You know, I am
one of just four survivors of the origi
nal First Nebraska, enlisted in 1861.
The other three are Adolph Burmeis
trr, now living at Benson, and Tom
Majors and his brother, Wilson Ma
jors, down at Peru."
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