BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917.
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MASONIC TEMPLE
FOR WYOMING
Bankers Realty Investment
Company to Draw Plans and
Do All the Construction
Work.
A fine new Masonic temple at Riv
erton, Wyo., which will closely ap
proximate an expenditure of $70,000,
is the latest building contract to be
announced from the offices of the
Bankers realty Investment company,
and, according to an official of this
company, this is simply another bit
of evidence if the growing popularity
of the Bankers Realty Investment
company's "single contract" system of
handling building construction, under
which this large building corporation
handles the architectural design and
entire work of erection of the build
ing complete with its own force of
architects, building engineers and
skilled and unskilled labor, has spread
beyond the confines pf Nebraska
this company's native state.
The Riverton building, which will
cover an area of fifty feet by 100 feet,
is pronounced by many who have
seen the plans to be a model of its
kind.
The ground floor is to have a suit
of modern banking rooms and three
stores, and another room for the post
office, all stores to have basement
space.
The second floor is to have twenty
one office suites which will be strict
ly modern in their every appointment,
and it is understood that even now
before the plans are finished that
every suit has been engaged by pro
fessional men and the oil companies
which are very numerous in that sec
tion of Wyoming.
The third floor is to contain a very
large and beautiful lodge room, seventy-five
feet by forty-eight feet in
size, besides paraphernalia rooms and
coat rooms and a very fine large
parlor or club room with a large
kitchen adjacent for the serving of
banquets, etc.
The basement is to have a very
fine Masonic club room and a barber
shop besides space for coal and
heating plant, which will be of the
modern vapor type.
The building, which will present a
very handsome exterior, will be of
semi-fireproof construction, the build
ing materials to be of mat brick with
terra cotta trimming.
The Bankers Realty Investment
company, which is to handle th'e de
sign and construction of this build
ing, is the big Omaha firm of archi
tects and builders which is designing
and erecting a number of very fine
modern hotel buildings in Iowa and
Nebraska at the present time having
hotels under construction at Grand
Island. Kearney and Scottsbluff and
Ogallala in Nebraska, and at Hamp
ton, la.
Hotel Men to Be Guests .
At New Fremont Hostelry
Mnnv malia lintel men will SO to
Fremont Friday night as the guests!
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The Pathfinder, for a dinner and gen
eral good time. R. D. McFadden,
manager of The Pathfinder, and for
mer manager of the Wellington in
Omaha, has invited the Omaha hotel
men to be present at the formal open
ing apd enjoy a dinner and an evening
of merrymaking.
The crowd will go on a special car
on the Union Pacific, headed by J. F.
Letton, president, and I. A. Medlar,
secretary of the Omaha Hotel Men's
association. Among those who have
already definitely decided to go are
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Letton, Mr. and
Mrs. I. A. Medlar, Harley Conant and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kenan, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Kitchen, T. J. O'Brien
and his daughters, and Ed Rothery.
Red Cross Activities
From Fairmont, Neb., comes word,
You may depend on the little city
cf Fairmont to do her bit for the
4 ' Ked Cross and do
AJLm It cheerfully."
V r -? T Three hundred
women are mem
bers of the Red
Cross auxiliary
there and the list
is growing. Each
afternoon except
Satu r d a y the
women meet in
the sewing room
of the high
school. Through their active work they
have prepared one box of supplies for
shipment and have another well under
way. '
The finished box contains fifty-four
sheets, thirty-six nightshirts, thirty
six pillowcases, twenty-seven pairs of
pajamas, nine convalescent robes,
three dozen towels, twenty-seven batn
towels, twenty-seven wash cloths,
three dozen handkerchiefs, twenty
four pairs of soeks and nine pairs of
bed slippers. They also have twenty
nine comfort bags. Several women are
knitting sweaters, mufflers and wrist
lets. Girls Work Saturdays Fifteen
firls are working every Saturday
morning at the Red Cross rooms in
the Baird building under the direction
of Mrs. J. W. Nicholson. They make
the small bags to hold watches, trink
ets and any article which wounded
soldiers wish to keep with them In the
hospitals. The Idea came from Mrs. E.
G. Preston, who has seen hospital
work abroad, and It offered an oppor
tunity for some of the younger girls to
help with Red Cross work.
Scottish Rite Women One hundred
sheets, 200 towels completed and 500
hospital outfits begun is the record of
the Scottish Rite Woman's club Red
Cross auxiliary, which now has worked
five days, that is, one day a week for
five weeks. Six sewing machines have
been provided as equipment for the
work and seventy-five women are de
voting their time each Friday from
10:30 on at the Scottish Rite cathedral.
Good Money for a Quilt One hun
dred dollars came Into the Red Cross
coffers from the sale at Burgess-Nash
by Miss Claire Helene Woodard of a
silk quilt last week. The quilt was do
nated by Mrs. William Kinsey, 4617
Cuming street. It contained 4,472
pieces artistically set together, which
represented the work of Mrs. Kinsey
for the last five years.
Bed Crou Xottt.
11 n. A. L. Reed leave Monday for the
tut. In her absence Mrs. Joseph Barker
will take eharse of the Red Crou first aid,
dietetic and surgical dressings classes.
Mrs. Howard Baldrlge, who returned
Monday from a week at the White Bear
Taoht elub near Minneapolis, says that there
as elsewhere the women are busy with Red
Cross work and spend three days a week
worklnt at the olub.
Omaha War Relief Workers, members of
the National Surgical Dressings committee,
have shipped their twenty-fourth box of
aurglcal dressings straight to France.
Happy Hollow Red Cross auxiliary now
has ninety-one members. ....
Kappa Kappa Gamma war relief circle
will meet with Mrs. J. C McNIsh Wednes
day at
THE BRIDGE OF SLATS ACROSS THE AISNE A tern
porary pontoon bridge of short length slats used by the
French across the Aisne river in France.
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L0D8E EOOM NEWS
OF GREATER OMAHA
Secretary of Omaha Chapter of
Clan Gordon Receives Letter
From Recruiting Mission
Asking Co-operation.
R. G. Watson, 4331 Erskine street,
secretary of Clan Gordan, has re
ceived the following letter, which ex
plains itself:
"Under authority of the v United
States government the British re
cruiting mission has come to the
United States to recruit British or
Canadian citizens, and the headquar
ters of the western division has been
established in Chicago.
"Our mission affords a channel
through which all Britons or Canad
ians who have made the United
States their home can enlist to do
'their bit' in helping Great Britain
and her allies to win the war, and at
the same time prove to their friends
who are United States citizens, sub
ject to draft, that they realize their
obligation, and to show their appre
ciation of the treatment they have re
ceived while living under the 'Stars
and Stripes.'
"I feel sure that your organization
will be willing to assist us in this
good work and I write you to help
us by making known the object of
the mission and helping us to get the
largest possible number of recruits.
(Signed) "H. Dennis, Lieutenant
Colonel. Commanding Western Di
vision, British Recruiting Mission."
Knights of Pythias.
, Nebraska Lodge, No. 1, will hold
its regular weekly meeting Monday
evening at 8 sharp, at Crounse hall.
There will be work in the rank of
knight. This work was to have been
put on last Monday, but was post
poned a week on account of the can
didate not being able to be present.
Convention of G. U. O. O. F.
The annual convention of the Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows will be
held August 7 to 10 at the Grove
Methodist church, Twenty-second
and Seward streets, at which time 500
delegates from Missouri and Ne
braska are expected. In connection
with the convention will be the en
campment of the patriots.
The address of welcome will be de
livered by Mayor Dahlman and re
sponses will be made by the grand
officers. Among the speakers will be
Attorney Huston of Kansas City. T.
B. Watkins is grand master of the
jurisdiction and Edward S. Lewis is
grand secretary.
Woodmen of the World.
alVia rnmn No. 1. will meet
Thursday evening and introduce sev
eral new candidates.
Omaha-Seymour Camp, No. 16, will
hold its regular meeting Tuesday
evening. Some sort of entertainment
will be given by the entertainment
committee. ...
Druid Camp, No. 24, will initiate
candidates Monday night. In addition
to this ceremony there will be re
freshments and a general good time.
German-American Camp, No. 4,
Henry Jensen, clerk, is making ar
rangements for a special introductory
ceremony at their next meeting.
South Omaha Camp, No. 211, is re
joicing in the fact that it has a new
captain for the drill team and are
now getting in the best of shape for
a large class introduction which will
be put on some time in August. These
members are all hustling for new
timber.
Benson Camp, No. 288, will have
its next regular meeting Tuesday, Au
gust 7, when arrangements will be
made for the large class introduc
tion on the last meeting night of the
"Members of Commercial Camp, No.
478, extend their heartfelt sympathies
to their clerk, T. Gordon Sanders, in
the loss of his little son.
Dante Camp, No. 533, will hold an
other meeting soon to introduce addi
tional candidates.
W. A. Fraser, Grove, No. 1, had
an ice cream social Friday evening
which was well attended. At the con
clusion of a musical program the re
mainder of the evening was spent
dancing.
Modern Woodmen Entertainment.
B. & M. Camp, No. 945, Modern
Woodmen of America, gave an en
tHifimni ar the clubrooms. in
honor of the ball team last Tuesday.
Neighfcor King ana xseignoor wooa
gave interesting talks on woodcraft.
Refreshments were served.
- Maccabee Leader Here.
Omaha Tent, No. 75. of the Macca
bees will hold a special meeting Mon
day evening at the hall, 1611 Chicago
street, for the purpose of meeting
with the new supreme organizer, A.
W. Frye of Chatham, Pa., who comes
as the personal representative of D.
P. Markey, supreme commander of
the order. Mr. Frye will have a spe
cial message for all Maccabees.
Mystic Workers of the World.
Mystic Workers of the World, Al
pha Lodge, No. 893, will give a lawn
social at the residence of Mrs. Jo
hanna Strawn, 1107 South Fifty-first
street, Tuesday night. Ice cream and
cake will be served. A platform has
been erected for dancing.
Ladies Auxiliary Meets.
Ladies Auxiliary to Clan Gordon,
No. 63, will meet at the home of
Mrs. McDougall, 2728 Burt street,
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Picture of General Manderson.
Miss Elizabeth Black has presented
to General Charles F. Manderson
Camp, Sons of Veterans, a large pic
ture of General Manderson and sev
eral other Civil War pictures from
the general's collection. At its meet
ing Thursday night the camp adopted
resolutions accepting the gift and also
thanking Miss Black.
Monthly Social.
W. A. Fraser Grove, No. 1, Wood
men Circle, gave its regular monthly
social affair Friday evening, at which
time Mrs. Bessie Middleton and some
of her pupils presented a splendid
program, the Misses Ethel Stannard
and Francis Smith rendering a piano
duet; Miss Gladys Olmsted a so
prano solo, Messrs. Ferris and Laird
Kramer a violin and piano duet, Miss
Vivian Karle a contralto solo, after
which Miss Gladys Olmsted presented
the Vampire and Butterfly dances in
a most pleasing manner. Refresh
ments were served and the remainder
of the evening was spent in dancing.
K. of L. of Security.
Omaha Council, No. 2295, will hold
a meeting Monday evening at the
Swedish auditorium. Sixteenth and
Chicago. '
J. Wirt Thompson Is Given
Army Reserve Commission
J. Wirt Thompson, 2305 South
Thirty-third street, was advised by the
War department Saturday that he suc
cessfully had passed his examinations
and had been given a commission as
captain in the quartermasters officers'
reserves corps.
Mr. Thompson has had considerable
military training. He started in as a
high school cadet in 1889 and enlisted
in the old Thurston Rifles upon his
graduation from school in 1893.
In 1895 he was a member of the vic
torious Thurston Rifles drill team,
which took first honors and the Gal
veston cup at the interstate competi
tive drill at Memphis, Tenn.
Captain Thompson was with his
company when the organization took
part in the Philippine insurrection. He
participated in the campaign and the
capture of Manila.
Captain Thompson served as wharf
inspector and chief of the boat guard
while his company was on detached
service in the United States custom
house. This was after the capture of
Manila.
Captain Thompson holds two hon
orable discharge certificates. He also
is the possessor of the congressional
medal awarded to members of the
Eighth army corps for Philippine
service.
In civil life Captain Thompson is
connected with the Omaha potofhee.
Young Couple Surprise
Friends by Quiet Marriage
Miss Anna ePters and Elmer H.
Raber were quietly married last Sat
urday by Rev. Mr. Fleming, pastor of
the Church of the Covenant. The
couple kept the secret a week and
friends were pleasantly surprised Sat
urday when they heard of the affair.
Mr. Raber is employed at Paxton &
Gallagher company, as was also Miss
ePters. They will make their home at
Dundee.
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LITTLE MOTHER IS
IN HEED OF HELP
Supporting a Family With No
Men Folks; One Boy Is
All That Is Able to
Help.
Mrs. J sat on the tiny porch of
the dilapidated little house where she
lives with her six children. One child
of about 5 years was on her lap. Two
other barefooted, poorly-clad children
played on the porch.
At the window, lying in a reclining
chair, 1 saw a boy of about 13 years,
a victim of hydrocephaly, his head
swollen to five times its normal size.
Mrs. J is a tiny woman with hair
prematurely gray. She led the way
into the bare front room. Of course,
there was no carpet. A threadbare
shade dangled from one window. A
bureau stood in one corner. On it
were a coal oil lamp, a photograph of
an old woman, Mrs. J s mother, and
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WASTE
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Bemis Omaha Bag Co.
Omaha, Neb.
Moving, Packing, Storing, Shipping
Phons Douglas 394.
INSURES SATISFACTION
Fireproof Storehouse
Enttr Block, 10th to 11th, Davenport St.
Vaults, Cesspools and Grease
Traps Cleaned
At Ordinance Rates or by contract
Tel. Douglas 1387
The City Garbage Co.
Manure and Ashes Removed
Office, 12th and Paul Sti.,
OMAHA, NEB.
Makes the Best
Halftones
On Earth
PEOPLE'S ICE &
COLD STORAGE
COMPANY
Manufacturers of Distilled
Water Ice
350 Tons Daily Capacity
Telephone Douglas 50
Telephone Douglas 6967
Western Heating and
Plumbing Co.,
Joe Johnston, Proprietor
HEATING and PLUMBING
SANITARY ENGINEERS
1810 St. Mary' Ave.,
OMAHA. NEB.
SAVE 25 PER CENT
Of Fuel Cost
Let Us Solve Your Heating
Troubles
Economy Vapor Heating
Company,
Douglas 5060.
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some other things. In another corner
was an iron bed on which a 2-year-old
child was sleeping fitfully, if s. J
pushed the reclining chair of the in
valid back so he could see us. He
smiled and tried to talk. Mrs. J sat
on the edge of the bed. Two chil
dren climbed into her lap. I sat on
the only chair.
Mrs. J is one of the women whom
The Bee's free milk and ice fund is
helping, supplying milk for the young
est child.
As I asked questions and heard her
story a strange swelling rose in my
throat. I confess it and am not
ashamed.
For I knew that I sat in the pres
ence one of the world's heroines. She
had not rushed into a burning building
and saved a child. Hers is none of
that spectacular heroism that requires
b,ut a moment. Hers is the wonderful
heroism that endures the sufferings
and privations of years without com
plaint, that meets each new blow of
fate uncomplainingly. In the presence
of the heroism of such mothers we
ordinary people can only stand in
wonder and feel our own unworthi
ness. Mrs. J does not known that she
is heroine. To her, what she has
hese
Blasting of Burned Building Is
Like Bombarding at Somme Battle
Residents in the Hanscom Park
district and the northern part of
South Omaha, have "enjoyed" a can
nonading like the bombardment on the
Somme river, during the last three
weeks. It was the blasting out of the
old foundation of the Maney Mill. For
weeks the work of clearing up the old
wreckage and getting the excavation
for the new has been in progress.
For weeks the blasting out of sec
tions of the old foundation has been
startling the residents of that section
at midday and after 6 o'clock when
the men quit work. This is perhaps
the most extensive dynamiting that
has been done on a building job in
Omaha for many years.
The construction of the new eleva
tor and concrete tanks is to be be
gun soon. The tanks will be rein
forced concrete and will have a capac
ity of 500.000 bushels.
The West Disinfecting company
has recently obtained larger quarters
at 209 South Eighteenth street which
was necessary, according to Manager
Gustave J. Blaha, in order to handle
the rapidly growing business.
The E. II. Sprague Manufacturing
company 606 South Fourteenth street,
one of the newer manufacturing con
cerns in Omaha, manufacturing a
number of new appljances for auto
mobiles, is forging rapidly to the
front. The company has recently re
ceived a letter of inquiry from the
United States Government with re
gard to a new invention it is putting
out, the irreversible worm steering
gear for Ford cars.
The manufacture of brick by con
victs of the state penitentiary is fav
ored by the public and military of
TAFT'S
DENTAL ROOMS
NEW LOCATION
318 Rote Building
16th and Farnara SU.
Douglas 2186.
H-'Suanr.-jiiSi
'Why Not Install a
i GAS WATER
HEATER?
OMAHA
GAS CO.
1509 Howard St
Use
HY-TEX BRICK
Made in Omaha by
Hydraulic Press Brick
Company
W. O. W. BLDG.
A proven success.
Combines real
Brush and Vacuum
17 Sweeper and
your rugs clean on
the floor. No dusting AFTER
sweeping. No beating or sending
rugs to cleaner3. Sanitary ALL
the time.
U. S. SALES COMPANY
R. C. Doiier, Mgr., Factory Agents
677 BrandeU Building.
Dong. 9261. Wl. 1266
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gone through is quite prosaic. Only
by close questioning did I learn what
this little mother has done. Recently
all the children had scarlet fever.
"This boy," she said, indicating the
invalid, "was so bad the doctor told
me he would die. He wanted to send
him to the hospital, but I said, no, if
he was going to die, he would die
here."
"And you pulled him through!" I
exclaimed.
"Yes," she said simply, "I pulled
him through, and all the rest, too.'
"Didnt you have any help?" I asked,
amazed.
"No," she replied with a quiet smile.
"It was twelve weeks and in all that
time I never went to my bed."
"How long has this boy been this
way?" I whispered.
"Ever since he was 6 months old,"
said this heroine mother. "Yes, I've
taken care of him all that time and I
guess 1 can keep on taking care of
him if my health holds out. '
Wonderful mother-love I Incom
prehensible sacrifice for this little in
valid! What poor creatures are most
of us in comparison with this women.
She gets a mother's pension of $20
a month and her oldest boy, 15, is
working during vacation at $6 a week.
Omaha Firms
ficers of the Commercial club of Om
aha. The following resolution has
been adopted by the committee and
presented to the executive commit
tee: "Resolved, that such part of the
$50,000 appropriated and now avail
able as may be necessary be expended
for the purchase of a plant for the
making of brick for public roads with
in the state or getting out other road
building materials and thus conserv
ing the resources of our state, in
that this work should be done by con
victs now in the State Penitentiary
at Lincoln."
The appropriation referred to is
one that was passed at the last ses
sion of the legislature for the pur
pose of improving facilities for work
of convicts at the state penitentiary.
The resolution adopted is in the in
terest of better roads in Nebraska. It
was unanimously approved by the
executive committee.
Wheel Tax Expected to
Raise Sufficient Funds
That it would not be necessary to
raise money to continue work in the
street cleaning and maintenance de
partment by declaring an emergency
was the statement made by Assistant
City Attorney Te Poel.
"The ruling of Judge Leslie declar
ing the wheel tax ordinance valid will
put from $30,000 to $45,000 in the cof
fers of Mr. Parks' department, thus
giving him a substantial lift to con
tinue his work."
Parks recently told the council that
he must curtail his work because he
was about $55,000 short.
WASTE PAPER
IS MONEY
Save It
Don't Burn It
We Buy It
Omaha Paper Stock Co.,
Office and Warehouse
18th and Marcy St..
Phone Doug. 159. Omaha, Neb.
D. 4500
D. 4500
SAFETY FIRST '
Merchants Taw
Company
JACK HURLEY, Proprietor
HIGH GRADE
Hardwood Flooring
Omaha Hardwood
Lumber Company
Yards. 13th and California.
Douglas 1587
FIRE DOORS
SHUTTERS
FIRE
ESCAPES
Omaha Central Iron
Works, ,
Dong. 490. 10th and Dodge Stt.
"But he must go back to school,"
she said. "I want him to get all the
education he can. And that other
boy there, 9 years old, must have a
good education because he will never
be strong enough to do hard work.
He was paralyzed when he was little
and, even now, when he walks much
he drags one foot."
The mother smiled faintly. All
through my visit, I didn't hear one
word of complaint. The children
climbed on her lap and cried some
times, for the house was very hot. She
mopped the perspiration from her
brow. The 2-year-old on the bed
awoke, a pretty little child with curls.
She, too, looked, big-eyed, at the
visitor. None of them realized the
heroic drama of their lives.
And when I left I was proud to
shake hands with this mother. "I thinl
you have, done wonders and you cer
tainly deserve great credit," I said.
Reader, if you can contribute a
little from your comparative abund
ance to The Bee's free milk and ice
fund, this family can be helped to a
greater extent than one quart of milk
a day. They need ice which tl
mother is trying to buy now out ot
her scanty income.
Ride a Harley-Davidson
VICTOR H.R00S
The Motorcycle Man
2703 Leavenworth St, ,
Omaha. Phone Harney 2406.
National Printing
Company
Printers
Publishers
Binders
Printers of Ererything
la All Languages.
NATIONAL BUILDING.
12th and Harney St, Omaha.
ALL GROCERS
yjgmor comma, frwiaent. omaha.
Beit 22k Gold Crowns $4.00
Bridge Work, per tooth. ., .$4.00
Best Plates, $5.00, $8.00, $10.00
McKENNEY Dentists
1324 Farnara. Phone Doug. 872.
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A WORLD POWER
Wherever commerce goes march
ing on you will find the Electric
Motor turning the wheels of in
dustry, constantly, quietly and ef
ficiently. Electric Power Is Dependable '
and Economical.
Omaha Electric Light &
Power Co.
BOILERS SMOKESTACKS
Drake, Williams, Mount
Company,
23d and Hickory and U. P. R. R.
Phone Douglas 1043
Ozy-Acetylene Welding
STANDPIPES TANKS
WHITE PINE
SASH
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FRAMES and
WINDOW SCREENS
Manufactured in Oma
ha by JENSEN & JEN
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Sis. Walnut 1058. v
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