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fHEBEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY S. 1917,
THOSE WITH STEADY
SMILE STILL YOUNG
"Laugh and Live Long" Is the
Idea Which Was Impressed
Upon Oroh at the Pio
neers' Picnic.
By A. R. GROH.
"Laugh and live long."
I don't know whether there is such
a proverb. If there isn't, there ought
to be, and I hereby create it.
I saw the proof of this proverb out
at the Douglas county pioneers' picnic
in Miller park last Saturday. Not a
single gloomy, glum person did I see
there. Every pioneer is a good
laugher and a born jokester.
Wherever a group was gathered to
gether there you heard mirth and
laughter. The eyes of these oldsters
twinkle with merriment. The wrin
kles on their faces are not the wrin
kles of care and sorrow, but the
good-natured wrinkles that come
from laughter.
"Billy" Kierstead, dressed in a natty
Palm Beach suit, guided me around
and introduced me to the merry
crowd. And nearly every one had
some joke to crack or at least some
pleasant and cheerful remark to make.
Here is A. Traynor, old-time bag
gage agent for the Union Pacific.
"Spell it with a y.' " h y- "H
you spell it with an T they'll think
I'm an Irishman."
It "Meanest" Man.
We meet D. B. Hines, who hands
me his card, decorated with the em
blems of the Elks, Union Pacific en
gineers and Masons.
"I may not be the oldest man here,
but I'm the meanest," he says with a
big, booming, hearty laugh.
Hello! Who's this, tuning up his
fiddle? Why this is our old friend,
J. C Green, fiddler extraordinary.
Now, Mr. Green never smiles, but
every word he utters is full of the
funniest kind of dry humor.
"I'm 86 years old," he ssys. "I
expect there's plenty-here that'll claim
they're older, but they can't prove it
Yes, I brought my fiddle along and
now I expect they won't give me a
chance to acrape it."
But Brother Green gets plenty of
chance to "scrape" his fiddle and ap
plause enough to satisfy any man.
"Three cheers for the men that got
up this picnic!" cries a white-l.aired
woman. And, waving her hand above
her head, she gives them with a will.
Another woman of at least three
score and ten is showing how to
dance on the grass.
Married Sixty Yean.
Next we meet James Cruikshatik,
a man with long white hair and white
beard. His wife it sitting with him,
They have been married sixty years
and live on a farm near DeSoto. They
have thirteen children, f
John G. Willis, white-bearded and
wearing a natty, young man'a style
traw, hat, boasts' that lie has "lived"
in the same spot for more than forty
ytarsj, 2325 North Twenty-second
street. ,
Here is John Little; a youth of 80
summers. "I came to Omaha sixty
years ago," says Mr. Little. "I bought
the first pti-ce of furniture ever sold
in Omaha. I cooked on the street at
first and slept in a dry goods box."
Next we meet "Tom" Pries, a mag
rate among the pioneers, for he owns
1200 acres of land not for from
Omaha.
"Dr. Miller ought to be out here
to picnic with us in the park named
after him," says smiling C. II, Dough
erty, who came here in '55.
"Right this way to the hot coffee
standi It's hot and good for what
ails you," spiels Moses O'Brien, who
came here in 1866.
And so goes the merry day among
these happy people. If you want to
live long, you ypung folks of 60 or
less, laugh. (
New Union State Bank to
Open Its Doors Today
The Union State bank, recently or
ganired and chartered, will open its
doors formally for business at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning at Sixteenth
and Dodge streets in the quarters for
merly occupied by the Bankers Sav
ings and Loan association. These
quarters, at the southeast corner of
the intersection, have been remodeled
at the cost of considerable labor, and
equipped for modern banking rooms.
The Union State bank is capital
ized at $200,000. It witl serve a large
district north of Farnam street. F.
C. Horacek is president, L. M. Miel
enz is cashier and Emit Kavalec is
assistant cashier.
President Horacek has extensive
banking interests in other cities, be
side interests in merchandising con
cerns and land. Mr. Mielenz has had
a broad, experience in banking. He
has been connected with banks con
trolled by W. T. Auld. well known
banker of Omaha, and Dr. P. L. Hall,
one of the best known bankers in Lincoln.
The new institution will do a gen-
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crai oanKing ousmess ana will main
tain a savings department.
The stock is owned largely by peo
ple in Omaha and by bankers through
out the state. The state banking
board granted the institution a char
ter without a protest. .
Veterinarians Postpone
The Annual Convention
The Missouri Valley Veterinary as
sociation has postponed , its annual
convention, which was to have been
held in Omaha, because the Amer
ican association convention dates con
flict with it. The American associa
tion this year holds its convention
in Kansas Cilv some time in Amnut
As Kansas City is in the heart of
me territory covered by the Missouri
valley association, all the delegates
of the latter want' to attend this na
tional meeting.
Gerald Olin Still Has
A Chance to Recover
Gerald Olin, sometimes .known as
Gerald. Brant, the deaf mute shot bv
his mother,- Mrs. Mamie Olin, Friday
morning, is reported by authorities
at St Joseph hosoital to be resting
easier. His recovery 4s still in doubt,
tay aiicnaing pnysictans.
Persistent Advertising is the Road
h'to Success. , '
NEBRASKA CROPS IN
FINESTCONDITION
Railroad Reports Indicate that
Bumper Yields Are in
Store for the Corn
husker State.
Nebraska will more than do "its
bit" in the preparation plan by rais
ing a bumper crop of food stuffs, judg
ing by the optimistic crop reports of
railroads for the week ending June 30.
Reports from the Nebraska division
of the Burlington are that the ground
is in excellent condition, though some
what dry. Temperatures have been
high, the report reads, and conditions
have been favorable for the growth of
corn.
Prospects for a record spring wheat
crop are more favorable than they
have been for some time. On the
Wymore division small grains are in
excellent condition. The same is true
for the potatoes and bean crop.
On the Northwestern railroad crops
are also in the best possible condition.
Small grains never were better, the
report reads, and the pastures arc in
fine shape.
In Nebraska all stations except a
few on the Hastings branch and one
or two on the main line near Atkin
son and Valentine, report that all
crops are doing well. The weather
at Valentine has been rather cool for
crop growths.
Prospects for a bumuer oofato cmn
are the best in years. In several sec
tions tne nrst cutting of alfalfa has
taken place and has proved to be of
fine quality.
Two Classes of Recruits
Called to Greek Colors
Athens. Saturday. Tun 3n T
Stated in reliable nuarrrr tli thm.
classes of 1916 and 1917 have been
called to the colors, as they normally
wouia dc ana prooaDly will be sent
to Saloniki fnr rraintnir Nn riU
classes will be called out at present.
administrative control by repre
sentatives of the entente allies of
various services wilt he wiiMrsu-n
within the next week, except in the
cases of the telegraph and of the cen
sorship wnicn win De continued with
the co-operation of Greek officers.
Colonel Negropontes, who has
been named chief of the general staff,
is expected to arrive at Saloniki tomorrow.
Break in Levee Near
Calexico Not Dangerous
Calexica, Cal July Z. Danirerous
results were not anticipated today
from the 200-foot break yesterday in
the Saiz h 'ee, twenty-eight miles
southeast ot here. Volcano lake, into
which the Colorado flows, was within
two and a half feet of the tops of sur
rounding levees today, but little fur
ther rise was expected. I he ends of
the break in the levee are being rein
forced. ,
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
TWO SENT TO DEATH I RIYAL NEWSIES AIR
BY SPEEDING TRAIN! TROUBLES IN COURT
Mrs. R. Mncmullen and John
Jackman Instantly Killed
When Struck by Train
Near Fremont.
But After the Hearing They
Journey Down the Street
Still Threatening Dire
Vengeance.
Fremont, July 1. (Special Tele
gramsMrs. Ralph Mucmullcn, 19,
resident of Fontenellc, and John
Jackman, aged 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Jackman of Fremont,,
were killed instantly, and Ralph Muc
mullcn was badly cut and bruised
when a Northwestern passenger train
struck the automobile in which they
were riding, a mile north of Fremont
today.
The odies of Mrs. Mlirmiillen anrl
the Jackman boy were carried on the
pilot of the engine-100 feet beyond
the crossing before they were hurled
into the ditch.
Mucipullen, who was at the wheel,
fell clear of the wrecked automobile.
The train was coming at a high rate of
speed to make up time. Mucmullen
sas he did not see or hear the train,
although the view is unobstructed.
The impact was so great that one of
the wheels of the automobile was
thrown more than 200 yards into a
field. John Jackman was a member
of the freshman class of the Fremont
High school.
U-Boat Sunk by Bombs
Dropped by Hydroplane
New York, July 2. Belief that a
U-boat was sunk bv two bombs
dropped by a hydroplane in a fight
at sea with a torpedo boat, a swift
submarine chaser and the aircraft was.
expressed by passengers and officers
on an Italian steamship which arrived
here today from Mediterranean ports.
The steamship left Italy on June 17.
Five hours later when ninety miles
out, a submarine appeared. The mer
chantman was accompanied by a tor.
pedo boat and a fast submarine
chaser. The torpedo boat promptly
opened fire on the submarine and a
hydroplane swooped out over the
U-boat from shore and dropped two
bombs on the. craft.
The submarine went down and was
not seen again.
Belgian Commission Tells
jts Story to Chicagoans
Chicago, July 2. The story of Bel
gium's devastation, its gratitude for
the help extended by citizens of the
United States and its hopes from the
entry of the United States into the
war was brcjght to Chicago today by
me ueigian war mission, neauea ny
Baron Ludovic Moncheur, chief of the
political bureau of the Belgian for
eign office in Havre.
The mission was greeted by Mayor
Thompson and a city committee
which had prepared a full day for the
guests, 'including a tour about the
city, a reception to the Belgian colony
and a banquet tonipht, at which the
city council will be represented.
They will leave at 2 o'clock tonior-
for Milwaukee.
HEAD COMES AS V. P. OF
THE OMAHA NATIONAL.
row morning
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Rival criers of "wuxtry," who have
been waging unrestricted warfare in
Omaha streets the last few days, de
clared an armed truce yesterday
and carried their troubles to a peace
tribunal presided over by Probation
Officer Miller.
They were an angry legion that
came trooping into the court house.
Big newsboys and little newsboys,
cripples and huskies, dirt-begrim .-d
street gamins of the Horatio Alger
type and clean-faced youths of the
new school of paper merchants. It
was a babel of tongues.
"Mickey" and "Abe" glared at "Ole"
and "Chuck." Blood lines were for
gotten. A couple of brothers were
in rival camps.
. Tear Up Papers.
With the aid of interpreters it was
learned sonic kind of a feud which
existed between two factions came
to a head when a couple of
young warriors of the knock em
down, drag 'em out" type, met ' in
"no man's land" and tore each oth
er's papers up.
Then the fight was on for fair
and newsboy leaders, unable to bring
about a settlement, persuaded the op
posing gangs to visit the court house
and weigh in on the scales of jus
tice. Did they "visit" the court house?
They burst into it, yelling and de
manding each other's blood.
"I'll beat de Mick up," "Lemme at
that kyke; he submarined me," "I'll
nioider dat boid," were a few of the
plaints arising from the tumult.
Probation Officer Miller appealed
to deputies to help quiet the mob and
then arranged a hasty court of jus
tice. The newsies all tried to talk at
once and (or a while hostilities were
on the verge ot breaking out again.
' After air all-morning session the
probation officer told the lads to
"r'ear out and stop their fighting."
tit they went down Farnam street
stiil threatening to 'beat blocks off"
and "cave in faces." .
Mrs. E. G. Polleys Dies at
Her Home in Missoula
IT. R. Gould received a telegram
early Monday morning conveying the
news of the death of his oldest daugh
ter, Mrs. E. G,' Polleys of Missoula,
Mont. She is survived by her hus
band and two small daughters.
Mrs. Gould left Saturday upon the
announcettient of the serious illness
of her daughter, but did not reach
Missoula until after her daughter's
death.
Persistent Advertising is the Road
to Success,
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Him mmmr
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SMOKING TOBACCO
Don't try to beat a fellow
at his own game. Tobacco
curin' is Nature's game,
an' Nature made
all the rules.
Real Mellowness in Tobacco Must
Be the Work of Time and Nature
A chemical process may
make tobacco look mel
low or even smell mellow.
But when it comes to tasting
mellow, that is Nature's job
and it takes time. No get
ting around that.
VELVET is cored ia Nature's way.
WE ask you to make the compari
son yourself. Because Velvet's
mild taste in your pipe is the strong
est argument we can make in favor
of the Velvet way of curing tobacco
two vears natural ageing in the
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WALTER W. HEAD.
"I am very well pleased with
Omaha what I have seen of it I
am sure I shall like it here," said
Walter W. Head, newly elected vice
president of the Omaha National
bank, when he had shaken hands with
many who came in to meet him at
the bank.
He has just arrived from St. Joseph,
Mo., and immediately took his place
at the vice president's desk . in the
Omaha institution. Mr. Head was
elected some time after the death of
First Vice President W. H. Bucholz
of the Omaha National.
His desk was covered with flow
ers in handsome vases. They were
the gifts of his Omaha friends who
have become acquainted with him I
during the last ten years on his oc- ;
casional business trips to this city.
Mr. Head was vice president and ;
cashier of the German-American Na- j
tional bank of St. Joseph. Mo:, a !
position he resigned to take the vice
presidency of the Omaha National
in Omaha.
Mr. Head is living at the Hotel
Fontenelle. Mrs. Head and a daugh
ter are still at the family summer
home near St. Joseph, where they
will probably remain during the hot
test part of the summer. The family
will be brought to Omaha in the
fall and a definite residence here will
i be selected when the family comes.
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Y. W. Camp on the Fourth
The fifty young business women
who are camping at the Young
Women's Christian association sum
mer camp are planning a celebration
tor the Fourth. At sunrise they will
raise a flag, at 9 o'clock Dr. R. F.
Gilder will speak on the interesting
Indian mounds on the grounds, and
at 12:30 there is to be an old-fashioned
chicken dinner. Tennis matches and
games are planned for the afternoon.
To Have Perfect Skin
Throughout the Summer
These da' the face needs special care
and attention. Flying dust and dirt, the
beating sun, are severe on any skin. Their
despoiling effects are btut overcome by the
application of pure mercollzed wax. This
keeps skin and pores In a cleanly condition,
the complexion beautifully while and spot
less. Discolored, freckled and roughened
cuticle are actually absorbed by It. One
ounce of mercolized trax, obtainable at any
drug store. Is sufficient to completely reno
vate a soiled complexion. It Is used like cold
cream, allowed to remain on over night, and
washed off In the morning. -
As the skin" tends to expand tn warm
weather, causing wrinkles to form, a good
astringent lotion should be used. Dissolve
1 oz. powdered saxollte In V, pt. witch hazel.
Bathe the face Jn thl during the heat of
the day or before going out for theatre or
social affair. It la a remarkable akin tight
ener and wrinkle eraser.
When You Eat
Bread you are entitled
to everything in the whola
wheat grain. Dr. Wiley
says: "Wheat is a complete
food containing all the ele
ments necessary for human
nutrition." But be sure you
get the whole wheat in a
digestible form. Shredded
Wheat Biscuit is whole
wheat made digestible by
steam-cooking, shredding
and baking the best pro
cess ever devised for pre
paring the whole wheat
grain for the human stom
ach. Two or three of these
crisp little loaves of baked
whole wheat with milk and
berries, make a delicious,
nourishing meal Made at
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
PWMjaj
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TOO BUSY TO QUOTE
PRICE
The Novelty Co.'s Stock Is Now On Sale.
Men, Women and Children Clothing,
Shoes and Furnishings Goods All to Go at
Less Than Manufacturers' Cost.
Come J f fjR
Don't Lose AMj TTjr
Time, u if vyiy
Sale On In
FuiiBi.,tn0Ug8S street
Bargains
For All.
Your
Neighbor
Was Here,
How about you?
THERE'S
No Time Like the Present
To Save Big Money
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Electric Light Costs Less Than Ever Before
The past 10 years have witnessed a steady decrease in rates for Elec
tric Service and the volume of light produced by a unit of current has
been more than trebled by the invention of and the improvements
made in the Mazda lamp. One dollar today buys ten times as much
Electric Service as it purchased a few years ago.
Other Necessities Cost More
In the same span of years, from
1896 to 1916, the cost of living, on
the other hand, has gone steadily
upward as illustrated in the above
chart. Food, clothing, fuel, rent,
taxes, etc., have advanced from 50
to 100 per cent or more.
It is hardly necessary to compare
this tremendous increase in the
price of these necessities of -life
with the very noticeable reduction
in the cost of Electricity through
lower rates and improved effi
ciency. Consumers of Electricity will find
that their Electric Light bills on an
average amount to only a fraction
more than one per cent of their to
tal living expenses. Bearing this
fact in mind, and recalling at the
same time that of all necessities of
life Electricity today costs least,
would it not be a good plan to en
joy Electric Service in your' home
as fully as possible?
Dozens of Electric Appliances the
Vacuum Cleaner, Iron, Washer,
Fan, Sewing Machine Motor, Range,
'Table Appliances, etc., have been
perfected for your convenience and
comfort. Why not avail yourself
of their many advantages when the
cost of Electricity is so low?
Nebraska Power Company
"Your Electric Service Company"
Successor to Omaha Electric Light and Power Company.
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