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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1917)
i ..... ... i li 3 -i H -1 !! "4 ! i OS- J, 0.: A t f '. . ' . 11- i I 1 . Ill- i 5. 31 THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1917. Nebraska RECORD CROWDS AT RED CROSS BAZAR Fremont Council Votes to Erect 150-Foot Flagpole; Installs New $60,000 Sewage Plant. Fremont, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special Telegram.) The biggest "first night" crowd in the history of fairs in Fre mont attended the opening of the Red Cross fair and bazar Monday evening. The fair will be continued through the week. The promoters expect to raise f-'.SOO for the Red Cross. A Ford automobile and other things will be given away. ' A check for $9,833, Colfax county's share of the Young Men's Christian association war work fund, has been received by Frank Hammond, district chairman of the Seventh district. In raising this amount Colfax county has taken the lead in Nebraska by obtaining nearly 10 times its quota. Colfax county's quota is $1,000. Ger ald Ehernberger of Schuyler was county chairman of the campaign committee. Erect Large Flagpole. When the city council rejected the petition from business and property owners in the vicinity pi Sixth and .JSroad streets, asking permission to erect a large flagpole at the street in tersection, pressure was brought to bear on certain members of the coun cil, who asked for a reconsideration of the question. At an sojourned meeting Monday night by a vote of 6 to 2 the council granted the request and at the same time apportioned $160. Business men and property owners will pay the other half. The flagpole will stand 150 feet high, ' ; Vote $60,000 Sewage Plant. On recommendation of thecommit tee that visited several towns where disposal plants are in operation, the council voted 'to erect a plant to care fnr t!i spwatrr from the f.itv at a cost of about $60,000. A firm of Kan sas City engineers was given tne con tract to prepare plans and specifica .ions. s '., 1 ! I ' It is expected that work on the new plant will begin early next spring. . The suit started m "Omaha by Douglas county authorities several weeks ago asking for an injunction prohibiting the city from dumpirtgjts sewage in the Rawhide creek will probably be dropped. ; , , .. i . Many Join Company of , Seventh at Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Eight recruits have joined Com pany D of the Seventh regiment the last few daysi The membership of .the company now lumbers 127. The annual show of the Beatrice Poultry association opened yesterday for a run of five days. Although the severe cold, weather interfered with "the shipment of birds from a distance, quite a number of fancy fowls were received on the opening lav. Mrs. House, mother of Mrs. Ed llauser of this city, died yesterday at Houston, Tex., of cancer. She was OS years f age and had visited here frequently. 'Carl Bell, who is visiting in the city with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Burr Bell, will leave next Saturday with a railway 1)attalion from Chi cago for France, , Mr. Bell has en tered the service as a telegraph op erator, . Jle was until recently em ployed witn the. Western Union at Omaha. s - Mrs. Christina Kesslcr, wife of Jacob Kessler, an -old resident of Be atrice died at her home in this city yesterday morning after an illness of v year, aged 32 years. She is sur vived by her, husband and five chil dren. , . ' : A number of the neighbors and friends of Mr, and Mrs.-Guy Hill gathered at their, home last evening an J assisted them in celebration their s-ilver wedding anniversary. They were presented with a silver , sugar bowl and cream pitcher. The, coldest weather in this section in 30 yeats at this season has pre vailed! the last few days. For four daya the temperature has fallen be low the zero mark. 'Funeral, services for the late J. W. Bridebtha), ifvho died at Lincoln last week, were held Sunday afternoon at his home at Wymore, Interment was in the Wymore cemetery. Richardson Farmer, Who Lived 54 Years on Homestead, Dead Stella, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Francis Withee died this week at his home near Stella at the age of 73 years. He made a record as a farmer in tne early days, spending 10 years breaking the prairie sod. On Novem ber 1, 1862, , he started out on his first trip across the plains as a freight. r from Nebraska City to Denver. The trip was made by ox team and required. 46 days ijoing and a trifle 'ess time in returning. He, moved. to the farm where he died May 2, 1864, and lived on this :arm continuously 54 years. He be longed to? the Ancient Order cf Unit ed Vorkmen and to the Masonic order which had charge of the ser vices at the grave. He had a wonder ful memory and had kept a diary con tinuously since 1874. i ' 'i - - Edgar Pioneer Dies Week ' - After Golden Wedding Edgar.'Neb.". Dec 11. (SneciaU Joseph Culbertson, aged pioneer of this section, died at his home in North Edgar Sunday, of kidney and blad der trouble. Mr, and Mrs,. Culbertson celebrated their golden wedding an niversary last Tuesday and he was taken ick the next day and gradually grew worse. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock af the --Methodist-church. Rev V. C Wright officiating. Interment will be :n the hdgar cemetery. . Gordon Couple Visit Their . . Son, Officer at Deming Cam'n Cot'v. Demin. N M.. Dec. If. (Special.)4lr. and Mrs. B. S. Leedom of Gordon, Neb., are visit i)g their son, Captain J. Leedom, acting major, Third battaliot, 127th field artillery (Fourth Nebraska in fantry). Mr. Gordon and- son former- I U. OFN. STUDENTS PULL BIG HONORS IN STOCK JUDGING Lincoln, Dec. ll. Members of the University of Nebraska's live stock judging team together with' members of the animal husbandry faculty have returned from the International Live Stock exposition at Chicago, bringing with them $1,100 won on the state farm's prize stock, and probably the highest honors ever awarded to a stu dent judging team. Nebraska's team stood lrst out of 12 universities and colleges that sent representatives. Nebraska was first in judging horses, first in judging hogs, and first in judging sheep. Wal ter F. Roberts, a student at the Col lege of Agriculture from O'Neill, Neb., was the highest in the entire contest out of 60 individual con testants. Earl Hogue of Crete won fourth place, A. E. Anderson of Lin coln tied for fifth place, Glen Snapp of Belleville, Kan., stood 11th, and Chester Grau of Washington, Neb., 20th. All of Nebraska's men were among the upper one-third which gave the championship of the entire exposi tion to the University of Nebraska. ' "Rarely, if ever, has any college registered so decisive a victory," said a Chicago live stock paper comment ing on the work of the Nebraska judg ing team. Farm Sells for $14,000, 'Rate of $175 an Acre Franklin, Neb-., Dec. 11. (Special.) F. P. Kent sold his 80-acre farm at the northeast corner of town last week for $14,000, or at the rate of $17S per acre. This is the highest price ever paid for a farm of that size in this vicinity, although a 24 acre tract belonging to J. W. Dyer just west of town, was sold last fall for $8,000, or at the rate of P33.33 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Doher of this place received a cable last week from their spn, Paul E. Doher, who was a member of' the Nebraska hospital corps, commanded by Major Spcal man of Lincoln, saying that he had arrived safely on the other side. BAN ON TEACHING . F0REIGNLANGDA6E State Council of Defense Re quests All instruction Be Given in English; Aimed at German. Engineer in Brick Plant ' 1 Y'- Crushed in Machinery Table Rock, Neb., Dec. 11. (Spe cial.) J. P. Carter, engineer at the Tabie Rock brick plant,' was crusTied in the machinery Saturday. It was necessary for the physicians to take 32 stitches in his hand. . Humboldt reports that seven boxes have been shipped by the Red Cross up to the present time. The latest shipment consisted of the following articles: 1,722 bandages, 2,512 gauze compress, 685 gauze rolls, 475 abr dominal binders, 168 "T" binders, 152 head bandages, 163 triangular slings, 30 many tailed abdominal binders, 342 hospital bed shirts, 166 operating room gowns. Blizzard at Deshler Destroys Skating Rink Deshler, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) -It was 12 degrees below zero in Deshler Saturday morning and snow was flying. , About midnight a bliz aansl raged for several hours. The big skating rink tent, owne by acoby &' Robinson, recently moved ere from Fairbury, was torn to rib bons, t : f Soldiers Home Notes Ornd Inland, Neb., ta, 11. Mm. Janei, lit cottage No, t, has reelvd word that her randnan hM anllaud and will leave at ones fnr a tralnln camp. Mr. Klndall, of South Hloux Cttr, Neb., haa been admitted to full memberahlp at Burkett Dan Hammond haa rquated .a 60-day furlouih. and expect to leave eoon fnr Buffalo county for a vUlt with hi chil dren. Ir, Putt lout hli medicine grip tfm where between Grand leland and the Soldiers' home. (from a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Dec. 1L (Special Tele gram.) Trie State Council of De fense has come out strong for the abolition of German in private and denominational schools and this after noon passed the following resolution: "Whereas, From investigations which have been conducted by the Nebraska State Council of Defense, it has become very apparent that the teaching of German in some of the private and denominational schools of the state has had an influence which is not conducive to a proper and full appreciation of American citizenship, tneretore, "Be it Resolved. That the Nebraska State Council of Defense earnestly re quests that no foreign language shall be taught in any of the private or denominational schools, of Nebratka, and that all instruction, whether secular or religious shall be given in the English language. "And-the council earnestly asks the cordial co-operation of all private and denominational school authorities of Nebraska in putting into effect this request, and we again urge that the public school authorities of Nebraska see to it that no foreign language shall be taught in any of the grade schools of our state." ; Rev. Mr. Kelly Fails to Draw. Crowd at York "Lecture" York, Neb., Dec. 11. Rev. Ly'n George J. Kelly of 'Villisca, Ia.,who was advertised to lecture Saturday night, in this city, did not do so, as there was no crowd present. Benjamin S. Barbee is the second man who died in tlie service from York county. . He died at Camp Fungton of pneumonia. He was one of the first six men to go from this county. His home was at Greshain. The York County Farmers' Co operative union held a meeting in the court house Saturday. They de cided to secure a county agent and a demonstrator in all lines of ad vanced agricultural ideas. In order to get assistance from the county, it will be necessary under the state law for 10 per cent of the landowners of the county to sign . petition to the coun ty board asking that the legal levy be made. , Mrs. Sophie Rolling, wife of C. Rolling, sr., died Monday after an illness of one year. She was 73 years of age; Surviving her are her hus band and three children'. They are C. II. Rolling, Mrs. S. S. Benson and Miss Freda. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. Dollar Bill Brings $40 At Hayes Center Auction Hayes Center, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) The Red Cross chapter of Hayes county held an a'uetion sale at Hayes Canter . Saturday . night Al though the weather was stormy and a .small crowd was in attendance, the proceeds were above the expectation ftf iboscwho had charge of the same. Thief, sale was preceded by an . ap propriate program., The first article offered for sale was. a , $L bill which sold for $40, The amount realized from the sale was $465, which goes to the ladies to purchase material for knitting and sewing. Child Scalded in Fall . Into Boiling Water Rosalie, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Lela, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Newton, living southeast of town, . was seriously scalded Saturday morning by falling into a boiler of scalding water. The child fell backwards into the boiler. TIAW frfrfr MARK X X. Mid T-Vm ii The theatre that identifies itself with the Paramount and Artcraft trade-marks is simply saying, in the , fewest possible words "This is the place TRAD had in mind" V jn y'ai : FAMOUS PLYYERS-LASKY CORPORATION mw ram J FIRST PRESENTATION AT THE SUPREME JUDGES CROSS SWORDS ON POINT EVIDENCE (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Judge Rose of he supreme court vigerously opposes an opinion of the court written by Judge Dean in which the latter holds that there must be corroborative testimony to sustain a conviction for criminal as sault. The case is one in which Thilip Gammel, head of a religious or ganization similar to the Satavation Army, with headquarters in Lincoln, was charged and convicted of an at tack on his adopted daughter, a girl of 16. The two lived together in a rooming house in Lincoln. Judge Dean ruled in favor of Gam mel when the case was appealed to the supreme court holding that the trial court gave , some erroneous in structions to the jury and that in structions were refused to the effect that the 'girl's testimony about differ ent acts of Gammel were not cor roborative. Judge Rose in his dissenting opin ion denounces the theory that it is necessary to have corroborative tes timony to secure a conviction in such casts and declares that there is no Nebraska, law to that effect and the supreme court has no power to make on. He s"ays further: "The doctrine invoked by the ma jority to set aside the conviction of a man accused of committing a rape upon a female child did not come from any legitimate source of power. It is not in the construction. It is not in the statutes of Nebraska. It is not in the common law. Obcious ly its first announcement by the court was an' error. Blind adhirance there to should be terminated by a correc tion of the error." 1 . , Town of Western Organizes , Company of Home Guards Western,, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) A company of Nebraska home guards of Western was organized at the high school auditorium. A muster roll of 107 had been signed orevious to the meeting, and of this number 56 were present to take the oath and be sworn into the service of the state and nation. The following commis sioned and non-commissioned officers were elected: Captain, W. D. Akins; first lieutenant, G. I. Carson; second lieutenant, A. J. Hill; privates, L. N. Wheeler and George Hollenberger; bugler, Fred Van Liew; color bearer, Floyd Sims. The company is organ ized under the laws of the state. Gov ernor Neville will issue commissions to the commissioned officers. Band Instruments Freeze JJp During Red Cross Concert "Araphoe, Ne"b., Dec. 11. (Special.) Although the thermometer hung around zero all day, the sale by the Arapahoe Red Cross was a success. The proceeds were $650. Before the sale the Arapahoe band played until their instruments were frozen up and they were compelled to quit. After the sale the chapter served sandwiches " 1 coffee, which netted them about $40. Peru Faculty Donates Big Sum to "Y" War Work . (From a Staff Correepondent.) Lincoln, Dec. 11. (Special.) The State Normal school faculty at Peru donates IS per cent of this month's salary to the war work of the Young Men's Christian association, according to notice of such action received by State Auditor Smith from Superin tendent Hayes of that institution. The pay roll' of the institution amounts to approximately $4,500 a month, which will' make a neat little sum ranging around $700 for the war work.' " " f 1 ( . , 1 1 r Nemaha Exemption Boards Say Work Was Voluntary Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11. Special.) Nemaha county has notified the governor that there is no expense at tached by local boards of exemption for service in that county as all work was voluntary. The governor has also received a copy of resolutions passed by the state association of county commis sioners and supervisors held in Oma ha to the effect that county clerks acting as clerks' of local exemption boards should receive no pay for their work and that in cases where extra help is required the county boards should allow bills for the pay ment of the same. Clemmons to Capital to Seek War Work Mechanics Fro ma Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln. Dec. 11. (Special.) State Superintendent W. H. Clemmons will leave for Washington on December 19 to meet with the federal vocational training board, which will take tip the problem of furnishing mechanics for war work service. Mr. Clemmons says that 20,000 me chanics are needed as soon as possib'f . for industrial lines and the federal board hopes that by the hearty co operation of state boards is the de mand may be met. District Court Finally Catches Up With Dockei District court records show that more than 40 cases have been disposed of by trial, stipulation or .-.agreement during the last two weeks. The courts are now right up to date on the current docket. .' liiliiliiliiiniiiliiliiliiliiliilMliiliiliiliiliiliiliiliiliilliil'iliiin s ; Storage Is i Cheaper ! Than Rent I and our Fireproof Warehouse affords a safe place to store your household goods, etc. they'll be protected from the t cold weather, too. ' Z : Omaha Van i I,. & Storage Co. : Phone Douglas 4163. I 806 South 16th St. I ii htiliiliiliiliiiliilt;iti!iliiliili:!iiilii!iliiiiliiiiiiulitatii:fi n il. iiVl You will want to tend tha beat pbotorrapha. Rinehart-Steffens Of Courae. 300 South 18th St Wead Bldg. 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