THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1918.
DOVE OF PEACE IS
REIGNING AT RED
CROSS QUARTERS
Women Now Think They Will
Be Able to Keep Up Omaha's
Quota of Surgical
' Dressings.
Peace promises now to settle over
Gyuaha Red Cross workers, an insur
gent branch of which has been push
ing reorganization plans for the last
few weeks. At a meeting of surgical
dressings instructors and supervisors
held Saturday at Jacobs hall, with
Gould Dietz, Randall Brown and
Mrs. Charles T. Kountre of the
Omaha board present, all the rough
spots were ironed out until the an
neal election, as one woman inti
mated. Too much censoring of surgical
dressings, not enough work being
done in proportion to other cities, un
satisfactory class work and too much
social influence being wielded in Red
Cross circles have been the rocks on
which tht insurgents threatened to
split from the main branch.
Only Two Censorships.
The hospital garments work was
separated from the surgical dressings
department recently in response to a
request from petitioners and the cen
sorship has been cut down to two
times. Four censorships prevail in
Chicago, according to Mr. Dietz,
thairman of the Omaha chapter.
The appointment of Mrs. Leigh
Leslie as special instructor of surgi
cal dressings and to assume charge
of. the reorganization of class work
is announced as a result of Satur
day' meeting. Only 80 women in
Omaha are qualified to teach surgical
dressings and no more classes have
been formed recently, was the con
tention. More new classes so that
more instructors will be available is
planned.
Omaha Banker Who Has
Been Called by Death.
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WOMAN FINALLY
TIRES OF HUBBY
WHO CUT THROAT
Grace Dimmitt Says She For
gave First Attempt on Her
Life; Describes Bloody
Attack.
GHaversbich
Funeral services for George Ege
Haverstick, vice president and direc
tor of the United States National
bank and treasurer of Ak-Sar-Ben,
who died at 10 o'clock Sunday night
at Clarkson hospital, will be held at
2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
All Saint's church. The United States
National bank will close at 2 o'clock
Wednesday.
American Aviator Killed
In Test Flight in France
Paris, Dec. 31, An American avia
tor was killed yesterday while making
a test flight at an aviation centet be
fore French and American pilots and
observation aviators. Although the
wind was blowing violently, he made
a loop successfully, but on attempt
ing to repeat the feat he fell. He was
dying when picked up, but insisted on
reporting to his American comrades
with his last breath the observations
he had made.
Grace Dimmitt, 1708 Dodge street,
who stared death in the face when
her husband, George Dimmitt, cut her
throat with a hunting knife behind
a pile ot lumber at iwentietn ana
Nicholas streets, a year ago, is suing
for divorce in district court.
She forerave him for cutting her
throat and took him back. She was
recovering from her wounds and he
returner! from Iowa, where he had
been hiding from the police, and she
lived with him again for a short
period. But when he again threatened
to cut her throat and "do away with
her," she left him "for keeps." "That
once was enough for mc," she says.
Wanted to See Her.
"I'll never forget his face when he
did it," she says in her petition. "We
had a basket of lunch and he was as
nice and loving as could be. We had
been separated and he wanted to see
me that ni,';hi, he said. So I thought,
'poor boy. I suppose he is lonesome
and maybe we can make up.' He
bought a bottle of beer and wanted to
go off into the lumber yard to eat.
"He was down on his knees spread
ing out the lunch. There was an arc
light that shone right down on him
as he was facing me. I was sitting
with my back to a lumber pile.
" 'Take off your hat,' he said. 'No,'
I said, 'I'll leave it on and the wind
won't blow my hair down.' 'Well
then, we'll knock it off,' he said, and
he hit me a biff and knocked me over.
He wanted the money I had earned
that week and was sore because I
had paid the room rent.
"I said, 'Why, George, what is the
matter with you,' and with that he
knocked me down again, men be
fore I knew what was happening he
whipped out his knife and cut my
throat I didn't know what he had
done until I felt the hot blood flow
down over my hands.
"I sat up and looked at him. His
eyes were glassy white and his face
looked blue, and crazy, on account of
the arc light. I suppose. He stared
at me and said:
"'Oh, honey, you are bleeding to
death. Come over here where it is
darker and I will finish you and then
kill myself."
"'George Dimmitt,' I said, 'I'll never
go to death with you.' Then he
raised the knife again to stab me and
when I saw that point coming at me
I grabbed his wrist with all my
strength and stopped it.
"We wrestled a while and then I
said: 'All right. Wait till I get my
hat.' He knocked it off the time he
hit me. I got my hat and we started
to go farther between the piles of
lumber, he holding my left wrist. I
let him start in between the lumber
piles and then I jerked away and ran
out on the street and down to the car
line, him after me.
Escapes From Scene.
"I got to the car line and sat down
so that I wouldn't fall if I fainted and
two young fellows saw me. I looked
around and my husband was running
away up the street. I never seen
him run so fast. They took me to a
drug store and then the doctors sewed
up my neck."
Mrs. Dimmitt has a jagged six-inch
scar running from the side of her chin
slanting across her throat.
"You'd of thought that cutting a
woman's throat that way and nearly
killing her would have made a man of
him, wouldn't you," is Mrs. Dimmitt's
sole reflection on the incidents of her
married life.
Will Not Relax Child
Labor Laws During War
Washington, Dec. 31. Efforts of
the national child labor committee to
prevent relaxation of the child labor
laws on the excuse of wartime neces
sity have the endorsement of Presi
dent Wilson. In a letter to the com
mittee made public today the presi
dent declares that strict enforcement
of the laws not only will contribute
to preservation of life and health, but
will tend to efficiency and economy of
production,
Brie) City News
lla Root Print It Nw Bncon Preet
For Eventhln" Electrical, Burgess
Granden Co.
.1. P. Palmer hai moved his law
office.to 552 Bee building.
Fire Damages Office Fire Monday
noon did slight damage to an office
in the Omaha National bank building.
Flks to Grand Island Thirty-five
Omaha Elks will participate in the
dedication of an Elks lodge building
at Grand Island Tuesday.
Y. M. H. A. to Meet Young Men's
Hebrew association will hold its
monthly meeting at its rooms in the
Taxton building next Wednesday
night. Officers will be elected.
Miss Xesbit Resign Miss Edith
Nesbit, employed in the Omaha public
library for the last four years, has
re-signed her position to continue her
education at the University of Chi
cago. I' Inter Pounds Pavements Harry
Ulmer, who has been regulating the
downtown automobile parking, will
stnrt on a beat Tuesday. He asked
Assistant Chief Dempsey for the
change.
.Soldier Is Lonesome "A lonesome
soldier of good habits would like to
correspond with some nice young
lady," writes Merrltt C. Creath, C
troop, Fourth cavalry, Schofleld Bar
racks, Hawaiian territory.
Lowry Bound Over Grover P.
I.owry of Council Bluffs, charged with
forging a check for $22 in payment
for groceries, was bound over to dis
trict court under $750 bonds In po
lice court Monday morning.
State Bank of Omaha, corner Six
teenth and Harney streets, pays 4 per
cent on time deposits. Three per cent
on savings accounts. All deposit In
this bank are protected by the de
positors' guarantee fund of the state
of Nebraska. Adv.
Edmonds Here Wednesday T. P.
Edmonds, civilian relief director for
the Red Cross Central division will
be in Omaha Wednesday. He will ad
dress a meeting of all Miss Verna El
singer's volunteer relief workers in
the Young Women'8 Christian associ
ation at 10 o'clock that morning.
Thirty Days for Drunkenness
Thomas Fay of St Joseph was hailed
into court Monday morning to answer
to a charge of drunkenness and un
lawful possession of liquor. Accord
ing to Officer Chaddock, who arrested
Fay at the Burlington station, Fay
has not only refused to work since
his marriage a year ago, but has de
prived his wife of the necessities of
life, to buy liquor.
fine fireplace Coodi at Sanderland'i.
Genuine Reductions of One
Third One-Half, and in
Many Instances LESS Than
HALF, Makes This Sale All
Interesting to You.
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Mill
1508-1510 Douglas St
Because of the Extreme Low
Prices Effective During This
Sale, All Sales Will Be Final.
No Exchanges, Refunds, Lay
Awaps, Part Pays.
Dominating all merchandising events yet announced by
this store-Wednesday morning at 8:30 we launch our
AMMJAL
ANUARY QLEAMC
Of our entire and complete stocks of
COATS,
SUITS DRESSES, SKIRTS, BLOUSES
WITH the advent of the new year arrives a period which demands
the decisive and complete clearance of all seasonable apparel. ,
This store, with stocks greater than ever before, feels the keen neces
sity of more drastic price cutting in order to assure that the clearance
will be as thorough as possible.
PULLUWiJNu our xear-una sale, our great stocks nave been re-assembled,
prices lowered to such a degree as to cause wonder to those
families with market conditions governing women's apparel. We can
not urge you too strongly to take full advantage of these remarkable
price concessions.
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SUITS
OUITS MUST GO" that's the order that
O caused such sensational reductions in
price that's the order that will send them
to the wrapping counter in quick order, start
ing Wednesday. Be one of the lucky buyers.
FORMERLY 2S, 29.50 1
January Clearance
FORMERLY 3 39 gQ
January Clearance
$U75
$1675
Hundreds of Beautiful
DRESSES
Sacrificed in This Great
JANUARY
CLEARANCE
January Clearance of
COATS
"MTEARLY 1,000 Coats, representing every
fabric, every style, every color, every
size that one might desire have been group
ed into immense lots and priced in a man
ner that borders on the sensational. Early
choosers will fare best, of course.
AT
January Clearance
WOOL VELOURS
GABERDINES
SERGES
BROADCLOTHS
POIRET TWILLS
FORMERLY 45 4950- 7J
January Clearance dl
FORMERLY 55, 59.50 $0j75
January Clearance CA3
FORMERLY 65,-69.50
January Clearance
FORMERLY 5, 29.50
January Clearance .
MINGLED with hosts of serge and satin
dresses are wide varieties of bright
spring silk dresses, just unpacked; new col
ors, new styles, new patterns; all have
been placed in clearance because the order
reads: "Nothing Reserved Everything
Must Go."
formerly 19.50 22.50 i o7i;
$1775
FORMERLY 25f 29.50
January Clearance
$3175
$3675
Up to $10 SKIRTS
January Clearance Price
Serges, Silk Poplins, Wool Poplins, Taf
fetas and Plaid Mixtures; all colors;
a wonderful lot of skirts, the majority
less thaa two weeks in stock. Surely,
this is your opportunity.
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I $15.00 & $19.50 $22.50 & $25.00
I DRESSES DRESSES
j $1075 $y75 j
I
' $29.50 & $35.00 $39.50 & $45.00 I
I DRESSES DRESSES I
I $1975 $2475
: $49.50 & $52.50 $55.00 & $65.00 I
I DRESSES DRESSES i
$3J75 $3g75
a
FORMERLY 3 39.59
January Clearanca
$2275
FORMERLY 4 49.50$Oj75
January Clearanca md I
FORMERLY 55 59.5O
January Clearanca
I FORMERLY
January Clearance
$3275
$3775
BROADCLOTH
POM POMS
VELOURS
PLUSHES
VELVETS
KERSEYS
Up to $3 Silk Petticoats
January Clearance Price
All taffetas, as well as cotton tops, with
deep taffeta flounces; plain and change
able; all colors; one of the best petti
coat values we have ever offered.
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CLEARING THOUSANDS OF BEAUTIFUL BLOUSES JftS.
for beauty, quality and wide variety of its Blouses should at any time prove a great inducement to blouse buyers,
but now, with prices severely cut, the temptation should price city-wide, to become the owner of several rare styled "Julius Orkm Blouses.
rpHIS store's reputation
A hni
Taos
Priced
89c
January
in
Clearance
i Formerly Sold to $1.95
Voiles, Batistes and Organdies
white and sereral colon; lace and
embroidery trimmed; wide variety
of smart styles compose this spe
cial group. v.
Those
Priced
. at
1 00 '
P I OJ January
A Clean
earance
Formerly Sold to $2.95
Those
Priced
at
$289
m
January
Clearance
new high $1.59
trimmed f .
Drviuerir - .11.11 1 mm -r
of choici ' 11
y, Hth t
Formerly Sold to $4.00
loede chine and tailored models
I itterepe; white, flesh
Thoie
Priced
at
$389
January
Clearance
Formerly Sold to $8.75
Dainty styled blouses in georgette,
crepe de chine, taffetas and satins.
White, flesh, black and many" col
ors. Tailored and dressy models.
Values decidedly tempting.
Those
Priced
at
$489
in
nuary
Clearance
Formerly Sold to $5.95
Hundreds of blouses in this lot
fashioned from georgettes, taf
fetas, satins and crepe de chines;
every color that's wanted; styles
for every type of wear.
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tSfforns
"Eta (Store of Individual c!kofx"
Annual January
Clearance
of
Women's Suits
Women's Coats
I Women's Dresses
I Women's Skirts
Women's Blouses
Women's Furs
Girls' Apparel
Boys' Clothing
Infants' Apparel
Starting Wednesday
January 2
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BROWNING, KING & CO.
Acknowledging the generous considera
tion of their friends and customers .
throughout the past twelve months, make
this expression of their grateful apprecia
tion and offer you their best wishes for
the New Year : : : : :
Omaha, January 1st, 1918.
GEORGE T. WILSON, Manager.
The Federal Land Bank
of Omaha Offers One
Million Dollars 4V2
Federal Farm Loan Bonds
These bonds are secured by United States
Government Bonds and first mortgages on
farm lands cultivated by the owners in the
States of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Wyoming. These securities are deposited
with the Registrar, the Trustee appointed by
the Federal Farm Loan Board, a Bureau of the
Treasury Department of the United States
Government.
Exempt From U. S. Income Tax
and All Other Forms of Taxation
These bonds are declared by the Federal
Loan Act to be "Instrumentalities of the Gov
ernment of the United States, and as such they
and the income derived therefrom shall be ex
empt from Federal, State, Municipal and Local
Taxation." This includes the Federal income
tax and income from these bonds need not be
included in income tax returns.
Denominations $1000, $100, $50 and $25.
Interest four and a half per cent, payable semi
annually. Price 100i2.
Mail subscriptions, or write for further
particulars to
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Department B.
Omaha, Nebraak
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